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Brunswick County
THE STATE PORT PILOT
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Volume 25
No. 44
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SOUTHPORT, N. C.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1966
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PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
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Lift Station On Waterfront
ADDITION — This is the pumping sta
tion on the waterfront at the foot of Cas
well Street in Southport, which will be an
important part of the new sewage dispo
sal sytem now being installed by Conso
lidated Construction Corporation of Fay
etteville. This station will life the sewage
load and send it on to the treatment plant
west of the Southport Boat Harbor.
V. A. CREECH, JR,
GEORGE ROURK
HOMER KING
Easter Brings
Big Business
To Brunswick
Perfect weather conditions and
the first holiday of spring com
bined to bring record crowds to
Brunswick for the Easter week
end.
At Southport and the nearby
beaches the motels were full and
the restaurants were doing big
business. Most of the cottages at
the beaches were being used.
The sunrise service in the Old
Southport cemetery was well
attended, and among the crowd
were many out-of-town visitors.
Churches in Southport were
crowded for the regular worship
services, which featured special
music.
These same conditions held
true for other sections of
Brunswick county, with large
crowds flocking to Holden Beach,
Ocean Isle Beach and Sunset
Beach and with vacation cottage
owners making use of their fa
cilities during the long weekend.
There was one charterboat trip
reported, and several owners of
private craft, particularly the
small outboards, enjoyed water
sports. The winds were a little
too brisk for good outside fishing.
Observers were pleased with
this prevue of the tourist season,
and based upon what they saw dur
ing the past weekend, are pre
dicting a banner year for
Brunswick county tourist fa
cilities.
Brief Bits Of
NEWS
IN OKINAWA
Herbert Johnson, Jr., is now
serving in Okinawa with the U. S.
Army Engineers after completing
training in the use of heavy equip
ment at Fort Leonard Wood,
Missouri.
DOG VACCINATION
All persons in Lockwoods Folly
of Highway 17 to the South Caro
lina line, please check all public
places for clinic time and place
appointment for rabies i(inocula
tion for dogs.
HEAT EXHAUSTION
Representative Odell William
son suffered from heat exhaustion
Tuesday during a session when
he was helping to bring a forest
fire near Shallotte under control.
He was given first aid at the
office of Dr. James Marshall and
was allowed to go home, under
orders to rest and take it easy.
JACK BROWN
W. J. McLAMB, SR.
More Candidates
In Political Race
With this week being the dead
line for filing for the Demo
cratic Primary, there has been
a new rush of candidates to make
formal announcement of their
intention to make the race.
Biggest news was the decision
of W. J. McLamb, Sr., to again
seek reelection as Judge of Re
corders court, a position which
he has held several times and the
one which he gave up two years
ago to make the race for House
of Representatives. He will
oppose Clinton Bellamy, who now
is serving in this capacity.
McLamb is a contractor whose
first experience in public office
was as a member of the House
of Representatives. He has
served through two stretches as
judge of the county court.
George Rourk has announced
his intention to seek reelection
to the board of county com
missioners from Northwest
township. He will be opposed by
Dillon L, Ganey, the man whom
he replaced in this office. Ganey
once served as Brunswick county
sheriff, in addition to his term
as a member of the board. Both
are in the mercantile business
at Leland.
Homer King, who operates a
restaurant at Bell Swamp, has
declared his Intention to seek
election to the Brunswick County
Board of Education from the Bo
livia District. Homer Holden now
holds this position and is a can
didate for reelection. King is
active in the American Legion
and in youth work, being closely
identified with the Little Tar
Heel League activities in Bruns
wick.
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MRS. SELLERS
Scholarship To
Bolivia Teacher
Mrs. Emily Kirby Sellers, a
member of the faculty at Bolivia
High School, has been awarded
a grant in the amount of $600 by
the University of South Carolina
to attend the University’s Mathe
matics Summer Institute for high
school teachers, according to an
announcement by Dr. W. L, Wil
liams, Institute director. In
addition to the grant, an allow
ance for dependents and for travel
will also be given.
The institute, mrde possible
by a grant from the National
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FHA Borrowers
Plan For Year
Of Operation
Parks Fields, Brunswick
County Supervisor for the Farm
ers Home Administration at
Shallotte, this week reported that
the families who use the agency’s
credit services have completed
the annual analysis of their last
year’s operations and have de
veloped 1966 plans.
“Using year-end analysis as a
basis for next year’s planning is
a part of the farm and financial
management assistance that goes
with Farmers Home Adminis
tration credit,’’ Mr. Fields ex
plained. The planning session
helps the agency’s credit users
analyze their progress and
identify the weak spots in their
operations.
For example, if the borrower’s
records show that a certain crop
or livestock enterprise failed to
produce a reasonable profit, the
family and the county supervisor
look for reasons and make plans
for improvement in 1966.
Changes needed might include
planting certified seed, applying
commercial fertilizer according
to soil test recommendations,
feeding balanced rations to live
stock, and improving pasture
management by top dressing in
the spring and rotating grazing.
Emphasis is also placed on the
wise use of income and credit to
help raise the borrower’s net in
come.
Supervisor Fields explained
that recommended practices that
have been bringing good results
when correctly followed by
borrowers throughout this area
include; proper liming and ferti
lization, soil fumigation, use
of chemical weed control, sucker
control on tobacco, adaption of
labor saving equipment, time
liness of planting and harvesting,
and farm and home record
keeping.
Farm families using Farmers
Home Administration credit de
velop farm and home plans atthe
time they apply for credit to buy,
enlarge or operate their farms
or to make certain adjustments or
Improvements.___a.
Commission To
Try Barge Line
John Motts has been named
chairman of the Brunswick-New
Hanover Maritime Commission.
W.S.R. Beane has been elected
vice-chairman and C. E. Mitchell
secretary-treasurer. Colonel
George Gillette will serve with
out pay as a technical consultant
for the commission.
The commission, at its recent
meeting in Bolivia, discussed the
possibility of a barge line up the
Brunswick River carrying chem
icals or other materials.
Members decided to contact
District Highway Commissioner
Ashley Murphy to determine if
a projected bridge across the
Brunswick river will have clear
ance adequate to allow barge
traffic.
Boat Lift At Boat Harbor
HANDY — This is the boat lift at the
Southport Boat Harbor being used to haul
the shrimp trawler Leila H. The powerful
rig is being used to haul the largest ves
sels in the Southport fleet and deposit
them ashore, where they undergo paint
ing and repair. The lift is mobile, and has
deposited some of the biggest boats at
various places about the area so that
work could be carried on unimpeded. The
man on the rigging is Harold Perkins. The
Leila H. is a pare of the Pigott fleet.
Exum Accident
Claims Life Of
County Native
A White ville man was killed
and two other persons were
Injured in a one-car collision
near Exum, in Brunswick County,
Saturday night.
Coy Wilson Evans, 25, of 402
South Thompson Street, White
ville, was identified as the dead
man in the accident by State
Trooper1 Billy Day. He said
Evans died of a broken neck.
Injured, but reported in satis
factory condition in Dosher
Memorial Hospital, Southport,
was another Columbus Countian,
Henry Newkirk Wayne of Route
1, Hallsboro, and Dewey Bryant
Bennett of Freeland, Route 1.
Day identified Wayne as the
driver of the auto which rolled
and tumbled into Gum Creek,
just off Rural Paved Road 1340
about three miles east of Exum
at 6;45 p.m., Saturday.
The 1956 auto, according to
Day, left the road and overturned
several times before coming to
rest in the bed of Gum Creek,
Mr. Evans was a foreman at
National Spinning Co. at Bruns
wick, near Whiteville.
Final rites were, }ield 2 p.m,.,
Monday at Peacock’s" Chapel in
the Pines by the Revs. Anson
Smith and Jennis McLamb, with
burial in Columbus Memorial
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Time And Tide
Remember Camp Sapona, and remember Capt. Fred B. Leitzsey?
Well, on the front page of the Pilot for April 15, 1936, there was
an announcement that he was being transferred and that his relief
was Lt. John L. Malone. An appropriation had been made for locating
and marking wrecks in the Southport shrimping grounds.
The final link of the Intracoastal Waterway had been completed
and ceremonies on the previous Saturday had marked the occasion.
Blue mold was posing a threat to Brunswick county tobacco produc
tion; Easter had been fittingly observed in Southport, with the editor
taking his pen in hand for words of praise concerning local activiites
of the day.
The front page picture in our issue for April 16, 1941, showed
the USE Dredge Comstock at a Philadelphia shipyard where she was
being converted into an Army cargo vessel. There had been a
holiday Invasion of Bald Head Island by students, under the guide
of “educational field trips.” what they had learned was still in
question, but all were high in their praise of this tropical hideaway.
Both Shallotte High School debating teams had emerged victorious
in preliminary triangular competition and the members were going
to Chapel Hill for the State finals. Members were: Burgwin Hewette
and Betty Lancaster, affirmative; Ernest Parker, Jr., and Virginia
Russ, negative.
The year was 1946, and there was a political campaign in progress.
The Republicans were planning to nominate their ticket in the
primary and servicemen’s voting was being explained by the late
Dave Ross, who was chairman of the Brunswick County Board of
Elections. There was talk, too, of a bank building at Shallotte.
Glenn M. Tucker was chairman of the Brunswick County Cancer
Crusade; farming operations were in full swing; and fifteen Brunswick
County men had left for Ft. Bragg to be inducted into the Army.
The issue for April 11, 1951, showed two pictures, taken during
the Azalea Festival at Orton Plantation. One showed J. Lawrence
Sprunt, owner of Orton Plantation, talking to Movie Actress Margaret
Sherridan. There had been a spectacular fire on the Southport
waterfront on the day prior to publication when the Hardee Shrimp
House had been destroyed.
Progress was being made on the bill to establish ferry service
across the lower Cape Fear'Riygr; E. F. Middleton and associates
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Boat Lift Bringing
Business To Habor
DR. CARLTON S. PRICKETT
Revival Service
All Next Week
A week of revival services
will begin at the Southport Bap
tist Church Monday night and
continue through Sunday night,
April 24. The guest preacher
is Dr. Carlton S. Prickett, pastor
of the First Baptist Church of
Burlington.
Services will be held each
evening at 7:30 o’clock, including
Saturday evening. There will be
two breakfasts at the church for
the business men on Tuesday
and Thursday mornings beginning
at 6:30 a.m. Dr. Prickett will
speak both mornings and on
Wednesday morning at 10:30 a.m.
there will be a service at the
church for everyone.
Dr. Prickett has been pastor
in Burlington since December
1, 1947, going there from Wood
lawn Baptist Church, Birming
ham, Alabama. He has served
other pastorates in Kentucky and
Virginia. He is a graduate of
Mercer University. He is a
native of Commerce, Georgia.
Dr. Prickett has served as
Baptist Student Union President
of both Georgia and Kentucky
State Student Conventions while
a student, President of Baptist
Pastors’ Conferences of Alabama
and Virginia, Served as member
of Foreign Mission Board; Home
Mission Board, and is now a
member of the Annuity Board
of the Southern Baptist Conven
tion. He has also served as a
member of the State Mission
Boards of Virginia and North
Carolina; as a member of the
Annuity Board of the Southern
Baptist Convention. He has also
served as a member of the State
Mission Boards of Virginia and
North Carolina; as a member
of the Board of Trustees of
Meredith College and president
for two years, and is now a
trustee of Wake Forest College.
He has been active in Baptist
denominational life for many
years. Burlington, First Baptist
Church, where he now serves
has a membership of 1,700 with
a Sunday School enrollment of
1,100 and operated on a budget
of $123,000 last year. His church
gave to all mission causes last
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The big boat lift at the South
port Boat Harbor has been busy
during the past few weeks as it
has brought most of the vessels
in the charterboat fleet and the
shrimping fleet out of the water
and to high and dry places ashore
where they can be inspected,
overhauled and repainted.
The big piece of equipment is
capable of handling weights up
to 36,000-lbs. but even so it is
awesome to see some of the big
trawlers emerge from the boat
basin as the big cradle lifts them
and transports them to various
places about the harbor complex.
Boat owners have been pleased
with this service and have been
making good use of it. As a
matter of fact, the word is
spreading and boats and trawlers
from other places have been
coming to Southport for the first
time for this kind of work.
Manager H. A. Schmidt says
that many of the yachts that have
been spending the winter months
in Florida are now heading north
and that he is pleased with the
number that have been stopping
here. Some of these itinerant
craft also have made use of the
lift facilities.
Schmidt also is pleased that
several North Carolina boat
owners have moved their yachts
to Southport.. “This is what we
want,” he said this week. “With
the type of facilities we have
here we hope that many more
State-owned boats will be based
here during the next few months.
We surely will go all-out to please
the owners”.
Former Police
Chief Is Dead
O. Hollis Holden of George
town, S. C., died at his residence
early Sunday morning. He had
been in ill health for several
years.
Funeral services were held
Monday afternoon at three
o’clock in the Chapel of the Mayer
Funeral Home. Officiating was
the Rev. Franklin Gillian. Burial
followed in the Elmwood Ceme
tery.
Serving as pallbearers were:
Louis Holden, Clement Holden,
Wilber Holden, Carl Holden,
Quentin Holden and A. Holden.
The deceased was the son of
the late Eudoris Holden and Mrs.
Frances Hewett Holden and was
born in Supply on September 3,
1882. He lived for many years in
Brunswick county where he was
a carpenter and a farmer. He
had also served as police chief
of Southport for several years.
He moved to Georgetown with
his family to make his home in
1940, and had owned and operated
the Friendly Fish Market.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Ada Lee Davis Holden of the
home; three sons, the Rev. James
Carlton Holden of Columbia, S. C.
Milton D. Holden and Marvin D.
Holden both of Georgetown; one
daughter, Mrs. Raymond Taylor
of Georgetown; eight grand
children; three great-grand
children; and several nephews
and nieces.
Ferry Service
Holiday Rush
Big Business
Captain Preston Bryant re
ported Tuesday that last week
was the best thus far for the
Southport-Fort Fisher Ferry,
with a total of 323 vehicles being
transported across the Cape Fear
River.
The period extended from
Tuesday of last week through
Monday.
Capt. Bryant said that in addi
tion to the vehicles, there had
been 1,182 passengers during
this period. There were 107
persons aboard for a single trip.
The ferry still is. operating
on a short schedule, with four
round trips daily. This is ex
pected to be Increased to at
least six round trip crossings
before the tourist season begins.
There is even the possibility
that there may be night trips
during the peak of summer busi
ness.
There is no pattern to indicate
that traffic thus far is princi
pally for curiosity seekers, for
many of the cars are from out
of-state. Many upstate persons
have made use of the ferry serv
ice on weekend trips.
There have been several trips
when the craft has been loaded
to its 22-car capacity, and there
have been trips when some cars
were unable to get aboard. On
the otherhand, there have also
been a few times when the ferry
made the trip with no cars.
The actual time in crossing
takes just under 30-minutes.
This means that it will be possible
to step up the frequency of trips
when it is deemed advisable
because of the probable demand.
Already there is talk of the
possibility that a second ferry
will be needed to help handle
the flow of traffic once the public
gets accustomed to this new serv
ice, which connects two of South
eastern North Carolina’s most
popular vacation areas.
Waccamaw Is
Showing Gains
Waccamaw Bank and Trust
Company today reported the re
sults of the first quarter of 1966’s
operations with gains registered
in all departments over the first
three months of 1965.
Total resources were up as
follows: 7.4% or $3,440,000 and
totaled $49,770,000 March 31.
Deposits increased $2,817,000
to $42,898,000 for a 7% gain.
The increase in deposits was
almost equally divided between
demand or checking and time
or savings deposits.
Operating costs, and particu
larly the cost of money - in
terest paid on savings deposits -
show sharp rises over 1965;
however, net operating earnings
for the three month period are
up over 1965.
B. L. Nesmith, Jr., Chairman
of the bank, stated that loan
demand was extremely strong
throughout the area served by
the bank’s 14 offices. In fact,
the continuance of the strong
loan requirements over the past
several months has forced us
to restrict certain types of
lending.
Nesmith said that the economy
in this area continues to expand
and prospects for business for
the remainder of 1966 appears
good.
Tide Table
Following is the tide table
for Southport during' the
week. These hoqrs are ap
proximately correct and wan
famished The State Port
Pilot through the oonrteay
of the Cape Fear Pilot’s As
sociation.
HIGH LOW
Thursday, April 14,
3:03 A M 9:34 A M
3:27 P M 9:46 P M
Friday, April 15,
3:57 A M 10:22 A M
4:21 P M 10:40 P M
Saturday, April 16,
4:51 A M 11:10 A M
5:09 P M 11:34 P M
Sunday, April 17,
5:33 A M 11:52 A M
5:51 P M
Monday, April 18,
S’15 A M 0:16 A M
6:33 P M 12:34 P M
Tuesday, April 19,
6:57 A M 1:08 A M
7:09 P M 1:10 P M
Wednesday, April 20.
7:33 AM 1:40 A M
7:45 P M 1:52 P M