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VOLUME 38
No. 1
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SOUTHPORT, N. C.
WEDNEDAY, JUNE 15, 1966
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PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Board Approves
Raise For Men
Of Maintenance
An across the board 10-percent
raise in salary for maintenance
personnel was granted by the
Brunswick County Board of
Education at Its last meeting.
Maintenance personnel poli
cies were discussed and the fol
lowing were adopted:
Work-Day - All maintenance
workers will work a full 8 hour
day. The work day will begin
when the worker reaches the job
and/or when worker arrives at
designated meeting place. The
work day will end as of the time
the worker leaves the job.
The following daily schedule
will be observed by all main
tenance workers: 8:00 a.m. -
Arrive on job or designated meet
ing place, 12-12:30 p.m. - Lunch
period, 4:30 p.m. - End of work
day. Depart from job or desig
nated meeting place.
Holidays—The following holi
days will be observed by the coun
ty maintenance workers, subject
to call any time: Thanksgiving -
2 days; Christmas - 3 days;
Easter - 2 days; Memorial Day
1 day; July 4th - 1 day; Labor
Day - 1 day; New Yr’s Day -
1 day.
Annual Leave—All full time
regularly employed county main
tenance workers will be allowed
two weeks (10 work days) annually
for vacation purposes. This time
will be scheduled for each
employee so as not to disrupt
the school maintenance work.
Annual leave accumulation—
Annual leave may accumulate
from year to year providing that
not more than one week (5 work
days) may be carried to the next
fiscal year.
Sick leave—All full time, regu
larly employed county main
tenance workers will be granted
five (5) days annual sick leave
with pay.
Definition of sick leave—Leave
from work with pay may be
charged as sick leave if the
absence is due to sickness, bodily
injury, quarantine, required
physical or dental examinations
or treatment, exposure to a con
tagious disease when continued
work might jeopardize the health
of others, illness in the employ
ee’s family which requires the
care of the employee, or the
funeral of the employee’s im
mediate family. All such ab
sences with pay shall be charged
against the sick leave credit of
the employee.
Sick leave may be accumulated
from year to year, but not to
exceed a total of 30 days.
On a motion by Arthur J. Dosh
er, the Board approved the audi
tor’s contract with the W. C.
Ranes Co., Auditing firm, for
closing out the year’s audit and
a contract for the 1966-67 school
year audit.
The 1966-67 school calendar
was discussed by the board. Supt.
George Williams reviewed the
various holidays, included in the
schedule. This schedule was
approved by unanimous action of
the board.
Due to lack of student request
for attendance at Longwood ele
mentary school, the board voted
to close this facility for the 1966
67 school year. This action was
taken by a unanimous decision of
the board.
The board entered a discussion
on various aspects of the school
consolidation program noting the
importance and necessity for a
county-wide bond issue, for
school construction. No action
was taken on this matter.
Brief Bits Of
NEWS
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BAKE SALE
A bake sale will be held Satur
day next door to the post office
beginning at 9:30 o’clock. Pro
ceeds will go to help finance the
Southport Little League program.
TO INSTALL OFFICERS
Dr. M. H. Rourk, member
of the board of directors for
Lions International, will be the
speaker and will induct the new
officers of Southport Lions Club
at a Ladies Night Program to
morrow (Thursday) at the Lor
raine Restaurant.
ADULT CLASSES
The Cape Fear Technical In
stitute will hold classes Monday
and Thursday at 7:30 at the South
port High School. Secondary Edu
cation I, Instructor, Norman Hol
den will be the instructor. The
purpose of this course is to pre
pare for general education test to
receive diploma.
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Beginning Swimmers
SWIM CLASS—Mrs. Ken Wooten is shown here with a group of beginning
swimmers with whom she has-been working for the past few days in daily sessions
at the Yellow Banks at Long Beach. The swimming class is sponsored jointly by the
Southport Junior Woman’s Club - and .the Brunswick County Chapter, American
Red Cross. (Shannon Photo).
Production Of
Commerical Fish
For 1965 Given
4th Of July Plans
Are Taking Shape
commercial tisti catches In
Brunswick county amounted to
34,999,837 pounds during the year
1965 according to information
complied by the Resources
Development Commission for
Brunswick county.
Shellfish amounted to 1,849,332
pounds compared to 33,150,505
pounds of fish.
Sirimp represented 1,070,849
pounds and crabs 395,300 pounds
during the year.
Menhaden accounted for 31,
871,900 pounds of the 33 million
pounds of fish landed in Bruns
wick county.
June recorded the largest catch
of any single month with 18,012,
538 pounds of fish and shellfish.
The information was compiled
from monthly reports distributed
by the U. S. Bureau of Com
mercial Fisheries.
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Plan Program
Of Recreation
The city recreation program
for the boys and girls between
ages 6-12 years will begin Mon
day at 9 o’clock at Southport
High School gymnasium.
Each day these will be a sched
ule of group or team play, sports,
quiet activities, crafts and music.
Each Wednesday will be
special events day. On June 22,
the first special event will be a
bubble gum contest. Everyone
in this age group should be sure
to come. Bubble gum will be
provided.
On Friday, June 24, there will
be two movies shown. The first
is “Audubon and the Birds of
America,” a 16 minute color
feature of the life and works of
Audubon, the foremost painter
of birds. It shows his youthful
travels in the American wilder
ness, his business failures, the
ultimate dedication of his life to
painting and eventual triumph
in the publication of "The Birds
of America.”
The second is an 11-minute
color film “Loon’s Necklace”.
This film brings to life a charm
ing Indian legend of how the
loon, a water bird, received his
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New Directory
For Telephones
The new telephone directory
for Southport-Long Beach has
been mailed to each telephone
subscriber. This year the new
book features a full-color picture
on the front and back covers of
the directory.
H. F. Kincaid, Manager for
Southern Bell, said "Many people
will find our new calendars on
the back page interesting.’ "The
calendars cover a 250-year
period from 1800 to 2050.” "You
can select the year you were born
and look at the appropriate calen
dar and tell what day of the week
you were born, in case you can’t
remember,” he said.
He asks that anyone who has
not received their new directory
call the Telephone Company
Business Office and their service
representative will mall them a
book. This year 1450 directories
will be distributed in the
Southport-Long Beach area.
Plans for the biggest 4th of
July Festival in history at South
port are shaping up and Inde
pendence Day will be a time of
busy activity here this year.
The parade will almost double
the size of the one held last
year, with 32 units already com
mitted. Some units are coming
from as far away as Hopewell.
Virginia, and the youngsters along
the parade route will delight to
the antics of the nationally-known
Dunn Clowns. There will be two
bands in addition to the Shrine
Drum and Bugle Corps, tlie cal
liope that was so popular last
year will be back again and
several antique autos including a
1904 Reo will be feature. The
parade marshals will be a pair
of Green Beret soldiers Just
returned from combat duty in
Vietnam, and who were just re
cently decorated for bravery in
action in that country.
The three-day festival will be
gin on Saturday, July 2, and will
be climaxed on the evening of
July 4th with a gigantic fire
works display over the waters
of the Cape Fear River. The
fireworks this year will double
those of previous years. Events
during the three-day festival will
include two art shows, one on
the sidewalk between Leggett’s
Variety Store and the post office,
and the other sponsored by the
Junior Women’s Club at the City
Hall. The Heritage House An
tique show is another popular
event that will be repeated this
year.
There will be a boat show at
the Boat Harbor and a musical
interlude of popular songs by
me court comets, also at the
Small Boat Harbor. Sky Divers
will ball out of their plane high
over the Cape Fear River and
will land In the water offshore
near the city dock.
The U. S. Marine Corps will
present their colorful and
stirring Pageant of the American
Flag; the Sixth Naval District
Band will present a concert in the
grove under the spreading limbs
of the moss-covered oaks that
have provided shade for 4th of
July festivities for many genera
tions; the Jaycees will sponsor
a donkey baseball game.
The main attraction for
thousands will be a U. S. Navy
destroyer that will put into the
harbor from active duty in the
Atlantic for the long holiday
weekend. Tours will be provided
through the ship.
The parade will, start at 11
a.m. on Monday, July 4th, and
the band concert in the park will
begin at 2:30 p.m. according to
the present tentative plans.
Honored guests will include Ad
miral Rhonke of the 5th Coast
Guard District, Congressman Al
ton A. Lennon, Mayor o O
Allsbrook of Wilmington, ail of
the mayors of all of the towns
in Brunswick county, the Bruns
wick county commissioners and
many more well-known person
alities of this area.
And, once again this year a
deluxe boat and motor, complete
with a boat-full of extra equip
ment, will be given away by the
Southport Jaycees.
YARD OF MONTH
The yard of the month for June
goes to Phillip McKeithan of 114
Howe St. This selection is spon
sored by the Southport Garden
Club.
GROVER GORE
New Attorney
Joins Old Firm
Grover A. Gore has joined the
law firm of Frink and Prevatte
and is working with them in their
offices in Southport and Shallotte.
Gore is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Grover R. Gore of the Grisset
town community. He is agraduate
of Shallotte High School and ob
tained his B.S. degree from the
then North Carolina State Col
lege, in Animal Industry. For
sometime afterward, he served
as County Farm Agent in Anson
county. He then made his decision
to study law and entered Wake
Forest College School of Law
from which he graduated and he
was licensed to practice law in
1965.
Prior to joining the local law
firm, Gore had extensive cor
porate experience with a cor
poration that operated out of
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Time And Tide
Thirty years ago this week lights were being Installed on the tennis
courts at Southport. That information came from a front page story
in The Pilot for June 17. Two Southport youths, Tommy Thompson
and Harris Sentelle, had sailed from Southport to Wrightsville
Beach the hard way-outside.
Charlie Dosher of Southport had been the first World War I
veteran in Brunswick to receive his bonus bonds; on the society
page there was an account of the wedding of Miss Virginia Dodson
to Colon Mintz; and in the advertising section there was a descrip
tion of a kerosene-burning refrigerator, a real luxury for people
who lived where there was no electric current available. This was
the year 1936,
On the front page of The Pilot for June 18, 1951, there was a
photo of the graduating class from the School of Nursing at James
Walker Memorial Hospital. Two girls from Brunswick County were
Included: Ada Marie Bennett oi snauotte and Mucille Alberta King of
Freeland. Capt. W. H. Barnett and 10 men of the crew of Oak Island
Coast Guard Station had been transferred, leaving A. E. Huntley in
charge of the local unit.
A party fishing with Capt. Victor Lance aboard the Moja had brought
in the first sailflsh of the season; the Southport Volunteer Fire
Department had run into a perplexing problem when called to put
out a fire in a privy; and J. j. Hawes had a special on “E. V. Stock
& Cattle Powder” at his store in Supply: You could get a l-l/2-Lb.
package for 35-cents.
The newly completed Soldier Bay Baptist Church was pictured
on the front page of The Pilot for June 12, 1946. Lawyer Davis
Herring of Southport had been elected Commander of the American
Legion Post No. 194.
Tobacco curing already was in progress in some section of
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George Gold
Has Job With
C & D Office
George Gold has resigned as
secretary of the Whiteville Mer
chants Association to accept a po
sition with the North Carolina
Department of Conservation and
Development.
Gold will become regional
division representative of the
department July 1. His base of
operations will be in Lumber
ton.
He tendered his resignation
as Merchants Association Sec
retary, a post he has occupied
for the past eight years, at a
Monday meeting of the Board of
Directors.
Board members accepted the
resignation with regret. They
pointed out that the appointment
to the new post was a promotion,
well deserved, and that Gold is
weU qualified by experience and
knowledge for success in the new
venture.
The board expressed thanks
for a job well done during the
past eight years.
Gold’s district will encompass
13 counties in the south
east running from Scotland,
Hoke, Cumberland, Sampson,
Duplin, Jones and Onslow.
His immediate task will con
cern the coordinating of indus
trial development in the 13 coun
ties, as well as other tasks, and
working with industrial repre
sentatives in counties that have
such representatives and lending
assistance to counties that do not
have industry hunters.
Gold said that he andhisfamily
will move their residence to
Lumberton later in the summer.
Southport Man
Gets Masters
Bobby Spencer of Pinehurst
was awarded a Master of Arts
in Teaching in the Biological
Sciences from Duke University
June 6. Spencer attended Duke
under a National Science Foun
dation Scholarship four consecu
tive summers to complete most of
the requirements for his
Master’s Degree.
This summer he is seeking his
administrative Certificate at
Appalachian State Teachers Col
lege. This fall he has accepted
employment as principal of Park
ton High School in Parkton.
Spencer is the son of Mrs. Joe
Spencer of Southport. He is
married to Dickey Pickerrell,
formerly of Southport, and they
have two children.
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New Anesthesia Machine
INSTALLED — This new and modern anesthesia
machine has been installed in the operating room at
Dosher Memorial Hospital in Southport. Mrs. E. H. Ar
rington, who played a prominent role in the Hospital
Auxiliary drive for funds with which to purchase this
equipment, listens as Mrs. Thomas St. George, registered
nurse, explains some of the features of the machine. A
little over $1,500 of the purchase price was contributed by
citizens from every section of Brunswick county. (Stanley
photo)
First Session Of
Baptist Assembly
KENNETH HEWETT
Brunswick Boy
Going To Camp
KENNETH HEWETT has been
selected as the 4-H Club repre
sentative from Brunswick county
to attend the annual 4-H Forestry
Camp at Camp Millstone near
Rockingham. He is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Freman Hewett of
Shallotte.
One-hundred boys — each a
4-H Club forestry leader in his
county — will converge on Camp
Millstone in Richmond county for
the annual 4-H Forestry Awards
Camp during the week of June 13.
Southern Bell will again
sponsor the camp in cooperation
with the Extension Forestry De
partment and 4-H Club Depart
ment of the North Carolina State
College Extension Service. The
purpose of the camp program is
to further develop, among the
young people of our state, fores
try knowhow and leadership in the
conservation and development of
one of our priceless natural re
sources — our forest.
Special features of the camp
program are training in forestry
skills such as planting and caring
for trees, identifying trees,
proper cutting of forest for
timber purposes, proper use and
care of forestry equipment, and
other forestry skills.
In many respects the camp
resembles a “lumber jack, on
the-job training camp.” It’s a
"working” camp — where the
boys learn by doing. There are
a few lectures, but most of the
learning takes place in outdoors
as experts skillfully guide the
boys in actual forestry skills.
Citizenship and character
development are stressed
throughout the week’s program.
But it is not "all work and no
play.’ Any time you get a hundred
healthy, energetic boys together
it is necessary to program an
outlet for the tremendous energy
such a group generates. This is
channeled into such recreational
activities as baseball, swimming,
and other sports. 1
The 4-H Forestry Camp is held
annually at Camp Millstone ir
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nit! norui t^aioiina eapusi
Assembly opened its summer
season this week with a camp
for members of the Girls
Auxiliary from throughout the
state. From 250 to 300 persons
are attending the sessions.
Miss Nancy Cousins, state GA
Director, is in charge of the pro
gram for this week and several
visiting missionaries are assist
ing with the instruction. Included
in this group are the Rev. and
Mrs. Earl Martin of East Africa
and Miss Marjorie Spence.
The girls attend classes during
the morning, engage in recrea
tional activities during the after
noon and attend outdoor vesper
services on the battery over
looking the Atlantic Ocean in the
evening.
Next week will the first Train
ing Union session, with a large
attendance expected to come from
all over North Carolina. The
assembly program will continue
through July.
Hunting Rules
Are Approved
State hunting, trapping and
fishing regulations for the 1966
67 season have been approved at
a regular meeting of the North
Carolina Wildlife Resources
Commission.
In other action, the Commis
sion decided to abandon a pro
posed project to convert a part
of the old Wright Memorial
Bridge across Currituck Sound
into a fishing pier. The pier
plan was dropped after a Com
mission investigation disclosed
that adequate parking facilities
would not be available for public
use.
In establishing statewide hunt
ing regulations at today’s meet
ing, the Commission made
several minor changes in season
dates. These changes had
previously been discussed at pub
lic hearings.
As approved, all major hunt
ing seasons will open one day
earlier this year than they did
for the 1965-66 season. The
Commission established October
14 as the new opening date for
bear, boar, squirrel, raccoon,
grouse and deer (in eastern coun
ties where dogs are used on
deer hunts). November 19 was
set as the opening date for rab
bits, quail, pheasant and turkey.
November 21 was declared
opening date for deer in western
counties where hunters are not
allowed to use dogs. September
21 in the east and October 14 in
the west were established as
opening dates for archers.
In addition to opening the sea
son earlier, the Commission also
decided to extend this year’s sea
son on rabbit, quail, pheasant
and turkey by three days, making
the closing date on these animals
February 18. The raccoon sea
son was also extended to this date
in the west.
The Commissioners also acted
to permit shooting of raccoon at
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Summer Month:
Library Hours
For Shallotte
Effective June 13, patrons o;
the Shallotte Library will receive
an additional 12 hours of service
per week. This expanded summer
schedule is to permit wider use
of the library facilities by sum
mer visitors to the beaches, anc
oy out-of-school students.
Hours of service at Shallotte
throughout the summer will be;
Monday, Wednesday, Friday from
9:30 to 12:30 and from 1;30 tc
5:30. Saturday hours will remair
from 9 a. m. to 12 noon.
Miss Linda Cheers, acting
librarian, will be assisted during
June, July and August by Miss
Gail McBride of Waccamaw.
Gail, a student of the Univer
sity of North Carolina at Greens
boro, will also assist Mrs. Esther
Robinson on the Brunswick
County Bookmobile. To take care
of the tremendous increase in
bookmobile use during the sum
mer months, Mrs. Robinson
has added one and one-half days
to the winter schedule. The extra
hours of service provide longer
stops in the Maco, Northwest,
Phoenix areas, and at the
beaches.
During the 3 summer months
of 1965, county residents bor
rowed from the Shallotte Branch
during the same period, with the
library open only 12 hours
weekly. It is expected that with
the increased hours of service,
book borrowing at Shallotte will
probably double this year.
Patrons of both the bookmobile
and the Shallotte Library have
access to the main book collec
tion housed in Southport.
The county headquarters
library is open every day except
Thursday. *
Shallotte Boy
Off To School
Pearson Emmanuel Dubar, Jr.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Dubar,
Sr.f of Shallotte has been accepted
to the school of Humanities at
Bennett College In Greensboro.
He was also accepted for the
Special School for gifted students
at Western Carolina College in
Cullowhee, but has elected to
attend tne lormer.
He will leave Sunday to study
the courses directed in the
Humanities. The session will
last for six weeks. Students
are selected on the basis of
aptitude, achievement and I.Q.
Dubar is an honor student and
rising senior at Shallotte High
School. He is a member of the
national Beta Club, the track
team and served as a marshal
for commencement.
He holds office in various
organizations: Pastor’s secre
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PEARSON DUBAR, JR.
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HIGH LOW
Thursday, June 16,
5:39 A M 12:04 A M
6:09 P M
Friday, June 17,
6:27 A M 0:46 A M
6:57 P M 12:46 P M
Saturday, June 18,
7:15 A M 1:34 A M
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Sunday, June 19,
8:03 A M 2:22 A M
8:33 P M 2:22 P M
Monday, June 20,
8:57 A M 3:10 A M
9:21 P M 3:10 P M
Tuesday, June 21,
9:51 A M 3:58 A M
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Wednesday, June 22,
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