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Volume 25
No. 43
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SOUTHPORT, N. C.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1966
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PUBLISHED £VERY WEDNESDAY
FOREST FIRES BURN IN BRUNSWICK
SMOKE—This pillow of smoke arose to a height of several hundred feet Friday
afternoon as fire burned over a large tract of land near Varnumtown. This shot was
taken from the northern point of Long Beach across Lockwoods Folly Inlet and the
Intracoastal Waterway. Several hundred acres of forest land were burned over in
several fires during the weekend, one of the largest being northwest of Shallotte
opposite the fire tower on Highway No. 130. (Dan Shannon t'hoto)..
Observance Of
Easter Slated
For Southport
Brunswick county schools will
close today (Wednesday) in ob
servance of Easter, with classes
being resumed on Tuesday
morning.
Brunswick county offices and
city employees will observe
Easter Monday, and there will
be no session of Recorder’s Court
next week.
The banks and savings and loan
institutions will be closed on
Monday.
Easter is not a legal holiday
for the postoffice department,
and postal services will be un
interrupted.
In Southport Holy Week Ser
vices are being held nightly at
Southport Presbyterian Church.
A communion service will be
held on Thursday night at Trinity
Methodist Church. On Friday
at 12 o’clock Good Friday ser
vices will be held at St. Philips
Episcopal Church, with the
Methodists also participating.
There will be a community
sunrise service Sunday morning
at 6 o’clock at the Old Southport
cemetery.
Special Easter music will
feature morning worship ser
vices at each church in South
port, and members of the South
port Baptist Church Choir will
present their Easter cantata Sun
day evening.
Brief Bits Of
NEWS
HONOR STUDENT
Miss Barbara Jeanette
Knowles, a sophomore at Wil
mington College, was on the
Dean’s List for the Winter
Quarter with an “A” average.
She is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. A. S. Knowles, Bolivia.
BAKE SALE
The M.Y.F. of Trinity Metho
dist Church will sponsor a bake
sale Saturday in front of Leggetts,
beginning at 9 a. m.
OFFICE CLOSED
The office of the Drivers
License Examiner in Southport
will be closed Monday in ob
servance of Easter.
ON DEAN’S LIST
Miss Cynthia Lynn Hardy, a
freshman at Wilmington College,
was on the Dean’s list for the
Winter Quarter. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Hardy of Southport.
EASTER PROGRAM
An Easter program will be
presented at Elah Baptist church
Sunday evening at 8 o’clock. Mrs.
Ted Caudill is program chair
man.
COUNTY PHYSICIAN
Dr. Norman A, Templon has
been appointed county physician,
succeeding Dr. Fred Burdette.
His compensation will be on a
fee basis.
WMU WORKSHOP
Mrs. Margaret McRacken will
conduct a WMU Workship at
Bethel Baptist Church on April
14, starting at 9:30 a.m. Sup
plies will be available at the
church.
Sherrill Discloses
Plans For Island
The question of what to do
about Bald Head Island was de
bated at length at a public hearing
Saturday at Wrightsville Beach,
with owner Frank Sherrill
revealing for the first time plans
that are under consideration for
oceanographic research.
That was the issue put before
the board of the State Depart
ment of Conservation and De
velopment Saturday in a five
hour public hearing here,
marked by the surprise revela
tion of tentative plans to estab
lish a portion of a “World Cen
ter of Oceanography” on Bald
Head which would be a part of
the Research Triangle near Ra
leigh, Durham and Chapel Hill.
Proponents of the world cen
ter, principally the Oceano
graphic Society, Inc. of New
York City, a non-profit research
development group, pictured the
center, if established at Bald
Head, as doing economically for
southeastern North Carolina
wbat the outer space program
has done for Cape Kennedy,
Fla.
Ocean research, aimed at tap
ping the seas of the world for
their known unlimited source of
food, minerals, metals, fresh
water and living space, is the
“last frontier" for man’s ex
ploration and development they
contend.
Bald Head Island was found
after thorough investigation,
society officials said, ideally
suited for the proposed center,
primarily because the facility
there would be tied in with the
Triangle and its three univer
sity units — Duke, the Univer
sity at Chapel Hill and N. C.
State University at Raleigh.
But at Saturday’s hearing,
there were two score scientists,
nature lovers, teachers, pub
lic park enthusiasts and others
who came to say island owner
Frank 0. Sherrill, multi-million
aire businessman of Flat Rock
shouldn t be allowed to com
mercialize Bald Head.
The 11,000-acre island, in the
south of the Cape Fear River
and forming the cape itself, is
the last remaining wilderness
of its type in North Carolina,
they pointed out, and should be
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Weather Stops
Island Visit
A strong southwest wind and
rough water In the Cape Fear
river prevented members of the
Board of Conservation and Devel
opment and a large number of
other interested persons from
visiting Bald Head Island Friday.
This was the first of a two
phase study into the feasibility
of utilizing this area for recrea
tion, with the possibility of having
the state acquire the island as a
State park.
The crowd, under the direction
of board member G. I. Horton
of Wilmington, gathered at the
Southport Boat Harbor, but it
turned out that the only persons
to see the island that day were
those who boarded one of the
C&D boats for a rough ride on
the river and those who shuttled
over the island in a light plane.
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I
Girl Scouts In j
Litterbug Battle !
Members of Girl Scout Troop
No. 353 have been conducting
an anti-litterbug campaign in
Southport for the past week.
Posters designed and made by the
girls have been placed in store
windows, and on Saturday litter
bags were placed on all cars
passing through the downtown
area.
area. The girls in the green
berets decorated the bags with
original art work and slogans.
Their campaign to help keep
Southport clean is part of the
Scouts community service pro
gram.
Bellamy Named
New Chairman
The Brunswick County Board
of Education met in regular
session Monday night and O. K.
Bellamy was elected chairman
for the next year, succeeding
James Thompson.
When the floor was opened for
nominations for the position of
chairman, Bellamy was nomi
nated by Delmas Babson. There
were no further nominations, the
nomination was closed on a
motion bv Arthur J. Dosher and
seconded by Babson. The motion
carried, the chairman took a vote
on the nomination and all votes
were in the affirmative.
The recommendations con
cerning county personnel policies
made by the C. T. A. were dis
cussed by the board. A delegation
appeared before the Board con
sisting of the following persons:
David Carmichael, President of
the C. T. A. and spokesman for
the group; Mrs. Catherine Mintz,
Mrs. Gelene Russ and Mrs. Betty
Hewett. Carmichael explained
to the board each of the
recommendations included in the
proposal by the C. T. A. These
are as follow:
1. That teachers be notified
of the school assignment upon the
signing of the contract with the
teacher, and that any changes in
this assignment be preceded by
a 30 day notice or more prior to
the opening of school.
2. That teachers be informed
of the grade or subjects to be
taught upon the signing of the
contract and that any change in
this assignment be preceded by
not less than a 30 day notice prior
to the opening of school.
3. That all teachers when re
quired, assigned or scheduled
to do after school duties be paid
hourly in proportion to their
teaching salaries. This includes
such duties as selling tickets to
athletic events or school
functions of any description,
working in concession stands or
performing any function not re
quired by the duly signed con
tract. As an alternative, it is
suggested that such duties be
carried on by Booster Clubs or
be contracted to outside inter
ests.
3a. That meetings other than
professional association meet
ings be scheduled during the
regularly scheduled school day.
These recommendations were
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Headstart Is
Planned For
This County
ELIZABETHTOWN-The
three-county unit of SENCland
Community Action, Inc., has ap
plied to the federal government
for a summer “Headstart” pro
gram in Bladen, Brunswick and
Columbus counties which would
cost $287,738.
The request was mailed in last
week by James E. Coats, newly
appointed Community Services
Consultant for the three coun
ties.
The “Headstart” program is
for under-privileged pre-school
children, also for other children
who might need training such as
they would receive in kindergar
ten in preparation for entrance
into the elementary grades.
Bladen’s request was for $54,
418 to handle 200 students at
centers at Tar Heel School, Dub
lin, Elizabethtown and Clarkton,
schools where the teacher aide
program is not in progress.
Funds would provide for 14
teachers, 18 teacher aides, a
staff director, instructional
supervisor, secretary - book
keeper, four lunchroom workers
and four janitors.
Plus, food, medicine and med
ical exams, dental exams and
dental work if absolutely neces
sary; vision exams and glasses
it absolutely necessary.
Children would be given a mid
morning snack and a hot meal
at lunch, stay in class five days
a week for 4 1/2 hours a day.
hi Columbus County, the money
for the Whiteville City system
would be $32,580 with centers
at Whiteville Elementary and
Central School, for 150 students
expected, a director, 10 teachers,
12 aides, two janitors, a dieti
cian, four lunchroom workers
and a typist.
In the Columbus County sys
tme, the funds would be $113,
188, good for 534 students with
centers at Acme-Delco, Fair
Bluff, Cerro Gordo Elementary,
Hallsboro, Carver-Moore, Mt.
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County Group
Seeking Help
Brunswick County is now
making progress in setting up
organization to promote aid to
the mentally retarded, reports
J. J. Hawes, county chairman
of the Mental Retardation Plan
ning Council. Other officers
of the council are, Mrs. Eli
Kravits, vice-chairman and Mrs.
Aubrey Johnston, secretary.
Assisting the council with
various promotion aids are these
committee chairman: Publicity,
Earl Milliken; Community
Health, Mrs. Ruth Harrington;
Fact Finding, Mrs. Boyd Robin
son; Parents and Associations,
Mrs. Kravits; Community Ser
vices, Rev. Robert Childs; and
Education, Mrs. A. A. White.
According to Chairman Hawes,
the federal government has set
up machinery and funds to help
the mentally retarded of this
nation and the State of North
Carolina is cooperating by pro
moting the aid program and has
$2,025,000 to assist various
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NEW BUSINESS FOR BRUNSWICK
ANNOUNCEMENT—Officers of Regional Development Research Limited announced
at a meeting Monday night at Tranquil Harbor Restaurant, Long Beach, that they
plan to locate their center on a large tract of land . near Bolivia in Brunswick
county. Shown here, left to right, are George T. Rourk, chairman, Board of County
Commissioners, Paul Smith, design engineer, Regional Development Research limit
ed, W. A. Powell chairman, Resources Development Commission for Brunswick
county, Keith Morrison president, RDR, W. J. Griffin, ass’t director, North Carolina
Department of Conservation and Development.
Spelling Bee
Winners For
County Named
SOUTHPORT — Nine Bruns
wick County spellers, each a
school champion, battled
through 85 words here Tuesday
with the winners Roger Shew
and Teresa Faircloth gaining
entry in the Regional Spelling
Bee in Wilmington on May 14.
The two winners will reprev -v
sent Brunswick County at the
Regional Bee, sponsored by the
Star-News Newspapers, with the
Brunswick County student stay
ing in the contest the longest
being declared Brunswick Coun
ty Spelling Bee Champion.
The Brunswick spellers went
through' 15 rounds before the two
winners could be determined.
Delane Holmes of Shallotte High
School correctly spelled such
words as "sickle”, “frugal” and
"facial” before being spelled out
with “loneliest” in the 15th
round, giving the two winning
slots to Roger and Teresa.
Three contestants were left on
the Southport High School plat
form when Lois Wyley, repre
senting the Brunswick County
High School, misspelled “frec
kles”. She had previously spell
ed such words as “fragile” and
"harpoon” before being counted
out in the 15th round.
Doris Beatty of Lincoln High
School tripped out in the 10th
round when she left the last
"g” out of “leggings”.
Other contestants were Gloria'
Stevens of Bolivia School. Cor
nelia Bowman of Southport
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Time And Tide
Back in 1936, before Orton Gardens were formally opened to
public admission, Mr. and Mrs. J. Lawrence Sprunt, the owners,
set aside a Saturday afternoon on which admission would be charged,
with all proceeds to go for the benefit of the hospital at Southport.
That was reported in our edition for April 8, 1936.
A local seafood dealer had gone to Wilmington, purchased four
boxes of fish and had sold them out almost immediately to a fish
starved Southport population. Bolivia girls had defeated Waccamiw
in a play-off for the county basketball championship; and citizens
of Southport were being urged by Mayor John D. Eriksen to make
the most of a clean-up campaign which was in progress.
There was a pretty picture of Orton Plantation on the front page
of our publication for April 9, 1941. Miss Annie May Woodside had
been re-elected County Superintendent of Schools and a list of
local school board appointments had been announced.
Judge John J. Burney was presiding over a team of Superior
court for trial of criminal cases, and in the absence of Solicitor
Dave Sinclair, local attorneys were taking turn-about in serving
as prosecutor. On the society page there was a write-up of the
third birthday party for little Miss Betty MeGlamery in Southport.
April 3, 1946, and there was a half-page advertisement announcing
the opening of Mac’s Home Supply at Leland, with Mac F. Jones and
his father, Dawson L. Jones, the proprietors. There was a business
announcement from Shallotte, too, where a new ice plant had been
opened for operation.
Capt. J. I. Davis had driven up to Trinity Methodist Church on the
preceeding Sunday night with a chicken riding on the automobile
bumper; Dr. Wingate Swain was opening an office for the practice
of medicine at Shallotte; and there was talk that Waccamaw Bank
and Trust Co. would open a branch at Shallotte.
The time was April 4, 1951, and Senator S. Bunn Frink and Re
presentative Harry L. Mintz,Jr., of Brunswick were much encouraged
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New Business To
Locate In County
LT. COL. LEWIS
Southport Man
Has Promotion
Major Richmond R. Lewis, son
of Mrs. Bradie E. Lewis of South
port, has been selected for pro
motion to lieutenant colonel in
the U. S. Air Force.
Major Lewis is chief of plans
branch at Headquarters, U. S.
Air Force Security Service at
San Antonio.
A graduate of Southport High
School, he received his B. S.
degree from the University ofi
Maryland. He was commissioned
in 1942 through the aviation cadet
program.
Major Lewis’ wife, Elizabeth,
is the daughter of Mrs. Bessie
Hastings of Wattsvtlle, Va.
Consultant To
Help Program
James E. Coats has been
assigned as Community Services
Consultant in Bladen, Brunswick,
and Columbus Counties, effective
April 1. He is employed by the
Community Services Division
of the North Carolina State Board
of Welfare and will work closely
with the Director of Sencland
Community Action, Inc. who nas
not yet been named. Sencland
Community Action, Inc. is a tri
county organization formed re
cently in Bladen, Brunswick, and
Columbus counties to participate
in the war on poverty.
Coats has been working with the
Community Services Division of
the North Carolina State Board
of Welfare in Elizabethtown. He
is a native of Michigan, a graduate
of Belmont College, Nashville,
Tennessee, and is married to the
former Doris Herndon of Park
ton. The Coats have four children
and presently reside in
Elizabethtown.
Coats will continue to maintain
an office in the Bladen County
Courthouse in Elizabethtown. He
will continue to serve all types
of community organizations in
the tri-county area in their
efforts to improve the lot of
lower income groups and the
general public as well.
K'-jith N. Morrison, President
of Regional Development Re
search Limited of New York,
announced at a dinner meeting
of county and state officials Mon
day night that the firm would
locate an experiment station
on substantial acreage in the
Bolivia area of Brunswick Coun
ty.
- The work of the experiment
station will consist of inter
national, national and com
mercial projects. RDR is con
sultant for International Re
sources and Geotechnics (I.R.G.),
which is doing aerial surveying
and mapping for under-developed
countries supported by A.I.D. In
the national field, Paul Smith,
project engineer for RDR, ex
plained the design and evaluation
study of an equal dose syringe to
be used in testing cattie for tuber
culosis. Smith also described a
new program for the breeding and
production of laboratory animals
for use in schools and colleges
throughout the country.
RDR is consultant for a number
of other firms including Olson
Aircraft presently located at the
New Hanover County Airport.
Morrison disclosed that he had
made a proposal on behalf of
Olson to the Brunswick County
Airport Commission for the base
operation of the new airport,
slated to open June 1st.
Morrison expressed his grati
tude to William A. Powell, chair
man of the Resources Develop
ment Commission for Brunswick
County, “for the extensive aid
which has been given to our
organization in locating in
oiuiiiwiuK uuuiiiy ,
Brunswick county”. Morrison
further stated that ‘‘the friendli
ness and acceptance by the com
munity has been a large
determining factor in our
location”.
Jury List For
Criminal Term
Following is a jury list for
the May term of Brunswick
county Superior Court for trial
of criminal cases, convening here
on May 9:
Leland-Tom Everett, Norman
B. Kimbrough, John Joseph Child,
W. E. Benton, Floyd Ganey,
Lorenzo Williams, Wayne Lewis,
Morris B. Watkins, J. R. Shaw,
V. A. Creech, Sr.
Supply-John Albert Norris, L.
Genrette Brown, Jack Self,
O’Brien Holden, Cecil Fulford,
J. Rudolph Robinson, David H.
Sellers, Vander H. Clemmons.
Shallotte-Ernest Holden, W. B.
Grissett, William Marlow, Jr.,
Schyler Stanaland, Alton Milli
ken, R. B. McKnight, Rudolph
Stevens, A.C. Johnston, Robert
Gore, Woodrow Formyduval,
Alvin B. Willis, Jr., Larry R.
Russ.
Bolivia-Joseph Monroe, H. M.
Long, J. T. Gardner.
Southport-Sarn Rees, Jr.,
Tommy Walker St. George.
Ash-Ausborne Cox, Nelson
W. Babson, Ozie Tripp, Pink
White, Clarence Harrelson.
Freeland-Asa Ray Brady.
Longwood-Orbie Stanley.
Ocean Drive Beach, S. C.
Jackie Thomas.
Study Made Of
Hospital And
Medical Need
A professional consultant em
ployed by a group of Shallotte
citizens to conduct a survey of the
needs for adequate medical and
hospital services for Brunswick
county has recommended con
struction of a new county-wide
hospital, centrally located.
Recognizing the need for
greater medical services than
were then available in lower
Brunswick county, a group of
interested residents met in
Shallotte in the summer of 1965
to discuss the possibilities of
securing additional medical fa
cilities for the area. From
this group meeting a seven
member Medical Committee was
formed and given the re
sponsibility of determining the
services and facilities needed
and ways and means of securing
them.
The Medical Committee, with
A. C. Johnston as chairman, went
to the North Carolina Medical
Care Commission for advice and
assistance and was referred to
The Sears Foundation makes
funds available to finance the
education of medical students who
will agree to practice in rural
areas for a specified period of
time after entering into medical
practice. The local Medical
Committee, under the direction
of the Sears, Roebuck Foundation,
then made a survey of the area
to determine the medical ser
vices needed.
On completion of the survey,
consulting again with the N. C.
Medical Care Commission, the
Medical Committee was advised
that the survey indicated more
medical services were needed
than would be available under
the Sears, Roebuck Foundation
plan. The Medical Care Com
mission also recommended that
a qualified professional con
sultant be retained to make both
a survey, to determine the medi
cal services needed, and a feasi
bility study, to determine how
to provide the medical services
indicated teyfete survey.
The Mijgf*jl Committee then
retained thV-iervices of a pro
fessional consultant who made
a survey and feasibility of the
area. The consultant recom
mended:
First, the construction of one
hospital large enough to serve
the entire county population. This
hospital would be a 60-bed unit
with provisions for an additional
30-40 beds as needed.
Second, should it prove im
possible to arrange a county
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Newman Named
As Councilman
J. C. Newman has been named
to replace Andy Burgess as a
member of the town council for
Yaupon Beach.
Other action taking place at
the Monday night meeting was
a discussion of plans and prog
ress on the new town hall. A
large number of palm trees have
been purchased and will be sold,
with profits to go to the building
fund.
Col. Frank Moffit, director of
Civil Defense for Brunswick
county, attended the meeting and
presented a program for the
benefit of the town councilmen.
There is a feeling of optimism
over prospects for the season,
with a total of 15 building permits
having been issued since Jan
uary 1.
Tide Table
Following !• the tide table
tor Southport the
week. These hoqrs are ap
proximately correct and were
furnished The State Port
Pilot through the oourteoy
at the Cape Fear Pilot's Am
aodatton.
HIGH LOW
Thursday, April 7
9:15 A M 3:22 A M
9:45 P M 3:34 P M
Friday, April 8
10:30 A M 4:10 A M
10:39 PM 4:16 P M
Saturday, April 9
10:51 AM 4:58 A M
11:27 P M 5:04 P M
Sunday, April 10
11:39 A M 5:52 A M
5:52 P M
Monday, April 11
0:15 A M 6:46 A M
12f33 P M 6:46 P M
Tuesday, April 12
1:15 A M 7:40 A M
1:33 P M 7:46 P M
Wednesday, April 13
2:09 A M 8:34 A M
2:33 P M 8:46 P M