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Brunswick County
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Volume 25
No. 52
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SOUTHPORT, N. C.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8,1966
5i A OOPY
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Uncover Ruins Of Home Of Governors
EXCAVATION — James Doherty is shown here
carefully clearing the Dutch brich floor as excavation
of Russelborough, home of two Colonial governors, be
gins at Brunswick Town. These imported brick were
laid on edge and formed the first floor of this residence,
which measured 35-ft. by 45-ft. with a wide porch run
ning all the way around. Some of the most interesting
artifacts yet uncovered at the Brunswick Town project,
have been discovered in the ruins of this building, once
the home of Governor Arthur Dobbs and Governor
William Tryon.
Reynolds Foundation
Library Fund Gets $10,000
New Excavation
At Brunswick
Is Important
The challenge laid down by
Dr. Dallas Herring, chairman
of the State Board of Education,
to textbook publishers to include
North Carolina historic "firsts”
in their story of the building of
the American nation was under
scored in its meaning this week
when excavation of the ruins of
Russleborough, home of two co
lonial governors at Brunswick
Town, was started under the di
rection of Stanly South, archae
ologist with the Department of
Archives and History.
Of Immediate interest was the
discovery of a tunnel leading
from the long-abandoned ruins of
the home in which Governor Ar
thur Dobbs and later Governor
William Tryon made their resi
dence and transacted much of
their official business. Some
.historians claim that this resi
dence, in practical effect, made
Brunswick Town the unofficial
capltol of the colony, since Gov
ernors conducted much of their
business from their home.
But it is an historic fact that
it was from his residence at
Russelboro that Governor Try
on witnessed the first armed
resistance to the British Stamp
Act, which led to the famous
Boston Tea Party some seven
years later. The fact that the
first resistance was made by a
determined band of Carolina col
onists has been overshadowed
by the colorful reporting of the
New England event.
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BUILDING PLANS
The congregation of the South
port Baptist Church accepted the
recommendations of its building
committee last Sunday in a
special church conference to pro
ceed with plans to construct an
additional education unit, reno
vate the front entrance to the
sanctuary and perhaps erect a
bell tower adjacent to the present
building. Fred Smith Is chairman
of the committee with the fol
lowing serving with him. Walter
Aldridge, L. M. Pendergraph,
Dan Harrelson, Eddie Hahn, Kir
by Sullivan, Ex-officio.
City Recreation
Program Planned
For four weeks beginning June
20 there will be a recreation
program for boys and girls from
6 through 12 years of age. The
programs will be each Monday
through Friday, each day from
9-12 and 1-3. There will be no
program on July 4th.
The program will consist of a
variety of activities. There will
be some phases on health and
safety, sports, music, hiking,
and arts and crafts. Each Fri
day those in charge have lined
up a schedule of movies of edu
cational value. Registration will
be on Monday, June 20 at 9
o’clock. A meeting place will
be announced next week.
The program will be under
the supervision of Mrs. Char
lotte Hart and Vincent LeClerc.
Mrs. Hart studied recreation
while attending Sullins College.
Later she was Assistant Direc
tor at Latta Park Recreation
Center in Charlotte for almost
six years. LeClerc is now in
his final year at N. C. State at
Raleigh where he is studying
recreation.
Touring Abroad
With UNC Singers
James M. Chamblee of Chapel
Hill and Murfreesboro, a candi
date for his doctorate in Music
ology at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill will leave
this weekend from Chapel Hill
with the University Glee Club for
a six-weeks tour of Europe. The
group will sing in New York
next Sunday night on the Ed
Sullivan Show and fly from there
Tuesday, June 14, for London
where they will begin the tour
which will take them into England,
Holland, Denmark, France, East
and West Germany, Switzerland
and Wales.
Chamblee, who is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Chamblee
of Southport and a member of the
faculty of Chowan College, will
go along as assistant director
and member of the chorus. He
will return from the tour in
time to teach in the second sum
mer school term at Chowan. He
will resume his position there
next fail as chairman of the music
department. He has completed
all his resident work including his
writtens and orals towards his
PhD and will be finishing his
disertation during the winter
months next year.
Finals Program
For Southport
A challenging commencement
address was made to the 37
Seniors of the Southport High
School graduating class by K.D.
Raab, Director of Admissions
of North Carolina State Universi
ty at Raleigh, on May 25 before
a capacity audience of parents,
relatives and friends of the
graduates.
Following the processional, the
invocation was given by the Rev.
C. L. Turner, pastor of Bethel
Baptist Church. Miss Kathy
Joyner introduced Miss Kathryn
Carson, who made the salutatory
address. L. R. Biggerstaff,
former principal of the school
and now Brunswick County Di
rector of Federal School Pro
grams, introduced the speaker
for the occasion.
Following the address by Mr.
Raab, James M. Wolfe, chairman
of the local school committee,
made the awards. Miss Nancy
Lennon was the recipient of the
Bremen Furpless Citizenship
award, given each year by the
family of the late Mr. Fur
pless. Darrell Wilmoth
received the Louise Rees award
which is given annually by Mrs.
Susie Carson to the senior taking
the greatest advantage of the op
portunities offered in the local
high school. Miss Mary Lee
Norment, former teacher, has
this year established a scholar
ship fund, and the first recip
ient of this was Miss Robin
Greene, who plans to attend East
Carolina College. Miss Ethel
Lewis, who plans to attend
Miller-Motte Business College
was awarded the Beta Club
scholarship was presented to
Miss Kathryn Carson, who plans
to attend Wilmington College.
Following the presentation of
the awards, Miss Susan Harrel
son introduced Miss Robin
Greene, who made the valedic
tory address.
Arthur J, Dosher, member of
the Board of Education, andT.M.
Lee, principal, presented the
diplomas to the graduates. The
benediction was given by the Rev.
J. F. Fordham, pastor of St!
Philip’s Episcopal Church.
(Continued on Page 4)
The campaign for funds for a
new library building to serve
Southport and Brunswick County
received a major boost this week
from a conditional gift from the
Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation,
Inc., in the amount of $10,000.
The condition is that this gift
will be available only when the
balance needed for this project
has been raised.
Mrs. A. P. Henry, Jr., treas
urer of the Building Committee of
the Southport-Brunswick County
Library, said that other contri
butions received to date amount to
a little over $4,000 at this time.
“And this is without an all-out
effort, which we plan to get under
way during the month of July,”
she said.
Total cost of the project is ex
pected to be in the neighborhood
of $80,000. When one-half this
amount has been raised, a match
ing grant will be available from
state and federal funds. The
Reynolds grant, plus local funds
that have been raised, count to
ward the local matching money
and leaves only about $26,000
additional.
(Continued on Page 4)
Time And Tide
The week preceding our publication date for June 10, 1936,
had been almost typical in the life of a rural county: Mrs. George
Cannon of the Bolivia Home Demonstration Club was to preside at
the district meeting of that organization; there was talk of a second
primary following an election in which majorities had eluded the
leading candidates in a couple of Democratic contests; WPA workers
had been pressed into service as relief for CCC boys who were near
exhaustion from fighting forest fires; and a local girl, Miss Eleanor
Niernsee, had graduated from the Nursing School at John Hopkins in
Baltimore.
There was a story about a shell sidewalk from the business dis
trict of Southport to Dosher Memorial Hospital; and an editorial
applauded the wisdom of the project. The only trouble is that it was
never completed—and it is just as badly needed now as it was 30
years ago.
There was a front page story in The Pilot for June 11, 1941, that
called the honorable sport of flounder-striking “Catching Flounders
With Pitchforks During Low Tide.” Brothers Ed and Robert Marlowe
had pinned down 33 in this manner in a matter of a couple of hours
that week.
In fact, the front page read like a tear sheet from a wildlife maga
zine: “Big Haul of Fish Made By Party Here Last Week’ said one
headline; “best Bluefish Catch of Season Brought In Tuesday’ pro
claimed another; “Variety Very Apparent On Fishing Trip’’ was a
third. There was more: A seine 45-yards in length had been
captured and confiscated in the Waccamaw River.
June 5, 1946. and another Brunswick county girl had made the
front page of The Pilot by graduating from nursing school. This time
it was Miss Hilda Kirby, who had finished at Charlotte Memorial
Hospital.
Farmers in the Freeland section were complaining that deer were
destroying crops; someone had stolen a speedboat belonging to Gene
Russ of Siallotte; and there has been assurances received from high
officials that the cutback at Oak island Coast Guard station an
nounced the week before was just a temporary measure.
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4- ..
A-P Tobacco
Program Now
In Good Shape
“The acreage-poundage pro
gram for flue-cured tobacco -
the program with built-in pro
tection against crop failures or
other disasters - is off to a
running start this year” said ASC
Office Manager Ralph Price this
week. “Growers will be able to
market an additional 69 million
pounds this year because of under
-production last year. The in
surance feature of the acreage
poundage program permits a
grower who fails to market the
full quantity allotted to him by
his marketing quota to make up
the deficit the following year.
Flue-cured tobacco is the only
commodity that enjoys this pro
tection, although other types of
tobacco may join the acreage
poundage program if more than
two-third of growers request it.
“The acreage-poundage pro
gram has other valuable features
besides the protection against
disaster” Price pointed out. “It
makes it economically possible
for growers to reproduce better
quality tobacco rather than
placing so much emphasis on
quantity, too often the case under
the old tobacco program. It
helps assure an adequate supply
of flue-cured with the aroma and
flavor which has made our to
bacco famous around the world
since Colonial days.”
The National marketing quota
and individual farm quotas for
1966 are the same as for 1965,
except for adjustments for
“under marketings” and "over
marketings” of 1965 farm quotas.
Overmarketings of farm quotas
for 1965 totaled about 27 million
pounds, and undermarketings to
taled about 96 million pounds.
Thus, the National marketing
quota of 1,126 million pounds
was, in effect, increased by 69
million pounds for 1966—the dif
ference between undermar
ketings and overmarketings in
1965.
"The year 1966 looks like
another good year financially for
the growers, as well as a good
(Continued on Page 4)
Schedule For
School Nurses
The ESEA summer school pro
gram will have the dally super
vision of registered nurses and
the following schedule has been
worked out:
Mrs. Marie S. Brown: Monday,
B.C.H.S., 8-12 noon; office or
home. Visiting 1-4:30. Tuesday,
Staff conference 9:30 a, m.; office
or home visiting 1-4:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Lincoln 8-12 noon;
office or home visiting 1-4:30.
Thursday, Lincoln 8-12 noon;
office or home visiting 1-4:30.
Friday, B.C.H.S. 8-12 noon; of
fice or home visiting 1-4:30.
Mrs. Virginia C. Walton: Mon
day, Shallotte, 8-12 noon; office
or home visiting 1-4:30. Tues
day, Shallotte, 8-12 noon; office
or home visiting 1-4:30. Wednes
day, Shallotte 8-12 noon; office
or visiting, 1-4:30. Thursday,
Shallotte 8-12 noon; office or
home visiting 1-4:30. Friday,
office on call to Shallotte or
union 8-12 noon; office or home
visiting, l-4;30.
In Second Primary
OPPONENTS — Sheriff Ed V. Leonard, left, and David
R. Swain will fight it out for the Democratic nomination
for sheriff in a Second Primary battle on June 25. A race
for constable of Lockwoods Folly Township also will be
settled on that date between Johnnie Delmore Smith and
Ernest Hewett.
Second Primary
Election Called
Food Service
School Planned
Dr. John R. Black, Health
Director of Brunswick county,
urges all employees of restau
rants in Brunswick county to take
advantage of the Food Service
Sanitation School which will be
held in the Agriculture Building
at Supply on June 28 - 30.
There will be a morning ses
sion from 9:15 to 10:45 and an
afternoon session from 3 to 4:30
o’clock. The program will be
the same at both sessions but
each day will be different. This
arrangement is made for the con
venience of all employees.
The programs will deal with
good food handling practices,
housekeeping and personal hy
giene.
individual certificates will be
given each food service worker
who attends one session for each
of the three days.
Fishing Guide
For Brunswick
Brunswick County’s fishing in
dustry is being advertised
through a Fishing Guide com
piled and distributed by the
Resources Development Com
mission.
W. A. Powell, chairman of the
commission, announced this week
that the special publication had
been mailed to 230 different lo
cations for further distribution.
These included 35 Chambers of
Commerce in North Carolina,
21 Chambers of Commerce in
South Carolina, 36 Mayors, 75
Chairmen of County Commis
sioners, 33 motels and hotels,
29 pier and charter boat owners
and operators, plus the Ad
vertising and Pro motion Division
of the NorthCarolinaDepartment
of Conservation and Develop
ment.
The publication includes a
listing of all fishing piers and
charter .boats operating in Bruns
wick county along with in
formation on the various species
of fish that are caueht here.
Several fishing trips have been
booked as a result of the dis
tribution of the publications and
several individuals have re
quested additional copies of the
publication.
Powell stated that the com
mission is very pleased with
the acceptance of the publication
and believe that it will add to the
economy of Brunswick county.
Headstart To
Operate Soon
An announcement was made
Monday by the office of Econom
ic Opportunity that a grant has
been approved to assist Sencland
Community Action, Inc., in oper
ating a Summer Headstart Pro
gram in Bladen, Brunswick and
Columbus counties.
The grant of $215,608 is au
thorized under Title HA of the
Economic Opportunity Act of
1964.
The Brunswick County Board
of Education will receive $37,285;
the Bladen Board of Education
will receive $48,625; the Colum
bus County Board of Education
will receive $101,551, and the
Whiteville City Schools will re
ceive $28,147.
Project Headstart is a pro
gram for pre-school age children
focused on child develop
(Continued on Page 4)
A Second Primary will be held
In Brunswick county on Saturday,
June 25, to nominate the Demo
cratic candidate for sheriff.
David R. Swain, who finished
second in the five-man race in
the First Primary, notified H.
Foster Mintz, chairman of the
Brunswick County Board of Elec
tions, of his intentions on Friday.
The only other race will occur
in the three precincts of Lock
woods Folly township where
Ernest Hewett has called for a
run-off with Johnnie Delmore
Smith for the Democratic nomi
nation for constable. In the
First Primary Smith led a
three-man race with 462 votes.
Hewett polled 425 votes and Hen
ry C. Williams finished third with
161.
In the race for sheriff Ed V.
Leonard, incumbent, received
1973 votes for a commanding
lead over Swain, who polled 972
votes. But two other candidates
received a substantial vote, with
Daught Tripp having 864 and
Woodrow Russ 820. Johnnie Cor
bett was low man with 90 votes.
A Second Primary for the nom
ination of a sheriff is not with
out recent precedent, for in 1958
Leonard called for a run-off
against Sheriff Elbert H. Gray
and won the nomination which
led to his election for a second
term.
Leonard also was involved in
a Second Primary race the year
he first won nomination as sher
iff on the Democrat ticket. He
had led a First Primary race
against O. W. Perry, who called
him back. Leonard came out
the winner the second time.
Brunswick Gets
National Note
Brunswick County has been
given special note in a set of
recently published travel guides
of the United States. The series
of eight regional guidebooks,
entitled “Fodor - Shell Travel
Guides, USA”, will soon be on
sale at all book stores and Shell
Oil service stations. For the
first printing, 500,000 copies
were produced.
In a section devoted to “Ex
ploring North Carolina”, South
port is referred to as a city
possessing a “casual pattern of
comfortable dwellings and tree
lined streets edged by a pictur
esque waterfront.” After visiting
Cape Fear and Fort Caswell, the
traveler is directed west through
Yaupon Beach, Long Beach, Hol
den Beach, and Ocean Isle Beach,
then north through the inland
Communities of Shallotte and
Boiling Spring Lakes.
Eugene Fodor, general editor
of the series, describes the books
as the greatest undertaking of
his career. In the past 16 years,
he has edited and published 24
prize winning travel books on
Europe, Asia, Hawaii and the
Caribbean.
Each region and each state
contains an introduction which
traces the history of the region
and captures the mood of the
people, thereby enabling the
traveler to understand better
and feel a kinship with the local
people.
For each state, and for 30
major cities, there is a
very descriptive tour which
serves as a personally guided
trip.
Practical information is of
fered concerning the things most
travelers need to know about
hotels, motels, resorts, camp
sites, restaurants, historic sites,
museums, national and state
parks, tourist information serv
ices, etc. Hotels and restau
rants are not rated or given a
recommendation. Instead, they
are grouped according to price
range.
Summer School
Program Starts
Next Tuesday
The summer school program
of the Elementary Secondary
Education Act, which is the Title
I project of the Federal edu
cation program In the Brunswick
county school system, will begin
June 15 and will be in session at
three centers. These are Shal
lotte High School, Lincoln High
School and Brunswick County
High School.
This Is a part of Operation Up
grade and will be conducted
during a 6-weeks summer school
program. Other phases of Opera
tion Upgrade were Inaugurated
during the regular school
session.
Emphasis during the summer
school program will be on the im
provement of communicative
skills. Classes will be offered
in remedial elementary subjects;
enriched elementary subjects;
remedial reading, grades 1
through 12, remedial and enrich
ment courses in English and
social studies in high school.
This program is not limited
to school students, but Is open
to adults and non-graduates.
These students have already pre
registered and officials expect
approximately 500 persons to
participate during this first sum
mer school program under the
ESEA program.
Each school will operate under
the direction of a principal and
about 30 teachers and 15 teacher
aides will be involved. New
teaching methods will be em
ployed, with major emphasis upon
taking the student where he 16
academically and attempting to
advance him to where he should
be.
Classes will begin each
morning at 8 o’clock and will
run through 12 noon. No lunches
will be served. Transportation
will be provided by the county
bus system and a schedule of
bus operations appears else
where in today’s paper.
The following bus schedule will
be observed in serving the stu
dents who attend one of these
summer schools:
Shallotte—Bus No. 25, Driver
Bill Simmons. Route—Sunset
Beach to Bonaparte Road to Cala
bash, South to road 1168, thence
road 1300 to Hickman’s Cross
roads to Thomas boro thence
Highway 17 to Shallotte.
Bus No. 10, Driver Jeanne
Crawford. Leave home in Supply
and go to Bolivia High School
and return to Shallotte by High
way No. 17.
Bus No. 46, Driver Donald
Hewett. Leave home near Mt.
Pisgah Church, proceed on road
1128 to Supply-Holden Beach road
1120 and Highway No. 130 to
Oxpen Swamp and road 1130 to
Cedar Grove School and proceed
to Civie Town road 1132 left
to Highway No. 130 and right
to Shallotte.
Bus No. 35, Driver Rufus Ar
nold. Leave Shallotte to Gris set
town by Highway No. 17 and right
on 904 to Longwood School and
reverse to Grissettown, on to
Seaside, turn left to Ocean Isle
to 1/2 mile past Jenny's Branch
Church, turn right to Shallotte
Point road, and left to school.
Brunswick County High
School—Bus No. 29, Driver Don
ald Sellers. Leave home on Beach
road to Highway No. 211 left to
Midway, right to Highway No. 17
by Antioch Church road, by road
1500, left on Highway No. 17 to
Supply, left on Highway No. 211 to
Southport.
Bus No. 52, Driver Stephen
Clemmons. Leave Southport by
Highway No. 133 to intersection
(Continued on Page 4)
Tide Table
Following is the tide table
for Southport during the
week. These hoqrs are ap
proximately correct and wave
furnished Hie State Fort
Pilot through the eourtesgr
of the Cape Fear PUotfe Ae
sontattoa.
HIGH LOW
®*mr«day, Jane 8,
12:15 A. M «:22 A M
6:22 P M
Friday, dune 10,
0:33 A M 7:10 a M
1:03 P M 7:18 p m
Saturday, June 11,
1:21 A M 7:58 A M
1:57 P M 8:16 P M
Sonday, June 12,
2:15 A M 8:45 A M
2:51PM 9:16 PM
Monday, June 18,
3:03 A M 0:40 a M
3:39 P M 10:16 P M
Tuesday, June 14,
3:57 A M 10:28 A M
1:33 P M 11:10 P M
Wednesday, June 15,
4:45 A M U:16 A M
5:21 P M 11:58 P M