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The Pilot Covers Brunswick County] THE STATE PORT PILOT mm A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Most of the News All The Time VOLUME 38 No. 10 10-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17,1966 5* A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Big Navy Ship Calls At Sunny Point IMPRESSIVE—One of the most impressive warships to enter the Southport harbor under her own power was the Navy ship shown above as she came through here Friday on her way to Sunny Point. To the landlubber she appeared to be a helicopter carrier, and her flight deck was crowded with parked, 4-wheel vehicles being returned from the Dominican Republic. The above pho to shows her stern, which is adaptable for launching landing craft. Large cranes are located just aft of her midships section. Men were playing baseball on her flight deck as she departed the Cape Fear in the late afternoon. New Principals County Schools Open Wednesday Brunswick county schools open Wednesday for the fall term with new principals at four of the five formerly predominately white schools and with the fifth man having assumed his duties as '‘"""'principal in April before school"-' was out in May of this year. As a matter of fact, selection of the principal at Bolivia High School still has not been an nounced, but the field of candi dates had been narrowed down to the point where a final selection was indicated this week. County Superintendent George Williams wishes to remind parents of all children entering first grade for the first time this fall that all regulation on im munization must be observed be fore a child may be enrolled. To be eligible, a child must be six years of age by October 15. Superintendent Williams says there has been no official accept ance of the plan submitted by the Brunswick county school system to comply with the guidelines requiring integration of faculty, The board of education has agreed to meet this requirement. Wednesday’s session will be for orientation and will last for one-half day. Starting Thursday, a full schedule will be followed. T. M. Lee at Southport is the principal who served for two months last year in this position. New school heads include Ro bert Sellers at Shallotte, a vet eran member of the faculty at that school; John G. Long at Waccamaw, a former superin tendent of Brunswick County Schools; N. C. Phipps at Le land, who comes here from Salemburg; Alvin C. Caviness, who will be starting his 34th year as principal at Brunswick County HighSchool; James Clem mons at Lincoln and Jonothan Hankins at Union, both with several years experience in their (Continued on Page 4) I Brief Bits Of* ' NEWS' MYF DRIVE The M.Y.F. of Trinity Metho dist Church will have their paper pickup campaign the last Saturday of this month. Please have any expendable papers ready. BENEFIT SUPPER The Ocean View Methodist Church will have a pancake sup per Tuesday evening starting at 5;30 o’clock, all you can eat for a $1.00. TO ENTER EAST CAROLINA Some 875 of the Freshmen who will begin their college ca reers at East Carolina College next month visited the campus for the final two of ECC’s sum mer pre-college counseling pro grams. Among these first-year college students was Paul H. Ganey, Jr., of Leland. Check For Library Fund CHECK — Pictured here is C. D. Pickerrell, City Man ager of Southport, presenting mayor E. B. Tomlinson, Jr. with a check of $50 from Johns-Manville Sales Corpora tion to be applied to the building fund of the Southport Brunswick County Library. Mayor Tomlinson is chairman of the library building committee. A door to door drive is now being conducted throughout the county by civic or ganizations and other interested groups to raise funds for the construction of the library. Southport High School Ready For First Day T. M. Lee, who served as prin cipal of Southport High School for the last two months of the 1965 66 school year, this year begins his first complete year at this position. One week prior to the opening of schools he is faced with a four teacher defi ciency. There are openings for two elementary teachers, a junior high school instructor, and a high school mathematics teacher. Southport High School has the same number of instructors as it had last year, fourteen elemen tary teachers and eight high school teachers, but there have been many changes in the faculty. Absent from last year’s list are first grade teacher Mrs. Mar garet Smith; fourth and fifth grade combination teacher, Mrs. Weeks; Mrs. Geneva White, fourth grade teacher; Mrs. Perry, sixth grade instructor; and Mrs. Bagby, a junior high school Instructor. High school faculty members no longer at Southport include Johnny Barbee, mathematics; Mrs. Fred Ford ham, commercial; and Mrs. Dorothy Glore, librarian and an English instructor. New members of the faculty include Mrs. Nora Bowman, second grade; Mrs. Joyce Jor gensen Hewett, fifth and sixth combination grade; Edward Mintz, seventh and eighth com bination grade; Mrs. J. C. Davis, high school social studies andli (Continued on Png'* 4) Everything Is In Order For BCHS Opening Brunswick County High School is ready for the opening of the fall term next Wednesday with Alvin C. Caviness beginning his thirty-fourth year as principal. There have been no changes during the past year in the number of teachers allotted to this school. There are twelve elementary and eleven high school instructors, and only a few faculty changes have been made. Mrs. Channie Ford, the librarian and an Eng lish instructor, has resigned, and Mrs. Alberta McLeod, last year’s third and fourth grade combina tion grade teacher, has retired, having reached the mandatory retirement age. To fill these va cant positions an elementary grade teacher has transferred from the discontinued Longwood Elementary School, and Mrs. Lu cille Goff has become the new librarian and will teach English. There is a resultant vacancy for an instructor in science and mathematics, subjects formerly taught by Mrs. Goff. The curriculum at BCHS is divided into three main areas. The school has a complete field of studies for those students choosing to pursue a college education, a vocational division for those who choose to do work which will not require a college education, and activities that as sist in the promotion of good student relationships. The library building at the (Continued on Page 4) New Principal Begins Job At ^ Leland School N. C. Phipps, first year prin cipal of Leland High School, join ed the Brunswick county school system after nine years as prin cipal of the Salemburg Elemen tary School in Sampson county. Prior to his employment in Samp son county (J. T. Denning, form er superintendent of Brunswick County schools, is the present superintendent in that county’s school system, he served as principal of Battleboro High School in Edgecombe county for one year, of Macclesfield Ele mentary School, also in Edge combe county, for three years, and of Mary Hill High School in Bertie county for one year. Leland has the same num ber of teachers, sixteen ele mentary teachers and eight high school teachers, as it had last year. Mrs. Mildred Naylor and Mrs. Ruby G. Sutton are first grade teachers; Mrs. Nina Lane and Mrs. Margaret Bland, second grade; Mrs. Kathleen Sut ton and Miss Anna Rogers, third grade; Mrs. Addie M. Butler, fourth grade; Mrs. Claire Con way and Mrs. Jewel Phipps, the wife of the principal and a new comer to the Leland High School faculty, fifth grade; Mrs. Grace Payne and Mrs. Jacqueline G. (Continued On Page Pour) Stevens Will Be In Canada Travel Show Brunswick county will be represented at the Canadian Na tional Exhibition during the period August 18-25, according to an announcement this week by W. A. Powell, chairman of the Resources Development Com mission. Powell stated that Roy A. Stev ens, director of the commission, will be working at the exhibition during this period, promoting tourist travel to Southeastern North Carolina. Stevens will be working in the North Carolina Travel Booth in efforts to attract tourists to the State and particularly to Bruns wick county and Southeastern North Carolina. The Advertising and Promotion Division of the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development requested the serv ices of Stevens for this period in order to provide potential tourists with the best informa tion possible. Powell also reported that in addition to his work at the ex hibition, Stevens will be calling on industrial prospects during the period. Definite plans have been made to call on a number of firms who are looking for sites for expansion. The majority of these calls will be made in the New York area and Stevens will stop off on his return trip to make these contacts. Powell in commenting on the industrial promotion activities of the commission, stated that it is working with a number of firms but information on the names or types of industries cajuiot now be divulged. “This part of our work must be con fidential and is highly competi tive, but we are making every effort to attract new businesses to Brunswick county,'’ Powell stated. "An industry who is looking for an expansion site will normal ly select a large general area and then make a detailed study of the markets, available labor, sites and many other items be fore a particular site is selected," Powell said. “This study in most cases requires several months or years to com plete. We provide all informa tion that is requested and pres ent information on sites that meet the requirements of the prospect. Each prospect has different requirements and it is amazing the vast amoung of in formation that is required." Water Problems Are Considered The Brunswick County Plan ning Board is studying proposals submitted by engineering firms for a comprehensive water and sewer study of Brunswick coun ty according to W. A. Powell, chairman of the board. Powell reported that proposals for this comprehensive study had been received from three firms and that a fourth proposal is ex pected prior to the next meet ing, which is scheduled for Sep tember 12. The study will be financed by a Farmers Home Administration grant. By securing this compre hensive study the municipalities and communities of the county wiU be eligible for F.H.A. grants (Continued On Page Two) Time And Tide A front-page story in The Pilot for August 19, 1936, told of a feature story in a Wilkes-Barre newspaper about the Southport postmaster, L, T. Yaskell, native of that city. There was a story, too, about a Shallotte student-Stanley Smith-who had not been late nor absent during his school year. The last of the one-teacher schools in Brunswick was about to be set up for the fall, with Miss Bertha Reid going to Bald Head Island to handle a one-grade unit for the families of Coast Guard personnel and Lighthouse Service workers on the island. A mixed doubles tennis tournament was in progress here; only two cases had come to trial at the weekly session of Recorder’s court; and farmers were reported to be well-pleased with the prices being received for tobacco~$24.42 per hundred. Five years later, and the Border Belt Tobacco Market once more was in full swing, with the price averaging $26.72, although one town claimed a Monday average of better than $31 on Monday of that week. There was talk of acquiring a site near Gause Landing as a recreation area for Fort Bragg troops. Owner Frank Sherrill had imported some registered Hamshire hogs as foundation breeding stock on Bald Head Island. The late C. Ed Taylor had delivered his bound volumes of old Southport newspapers to the state Library; an engineer for one of the big water companies had determined that there was a bountiful supply of fresh water available in the earth beneath Southport; and children of pre-school age were undergoing their conditioning innoculations. Dr. B. W. Wells, head of the department of botony at N. C. State, was spending a working vacation at his'home here, the old Stuart House. That was a story on the front page of The Pilot for August 21, 1946. Five years and a World War had taken place since the above-quoted prices* were being paid for tobacco, and the average during the first days of 1946 season had been $57 (Continued On Page Pour) Those One * Way Streets! CONFUSING — These one way signs pointing in the opposite direction didn’t seem to bother any motorists in Southport. Just take your choice. (Photo by Bugs Barringer of Rocky Mount) Will Not Close Board Rescinds Jail Action § New Buildings At Two Post Offices Need Trailer To Haul Fish Home A fishing party comprised o: a distinguished group of upstate visitors who spent the weekend at Long Beach had such good luck Sunday that they sent to Wilming ton in search of a U-Haul trailer to carry their catch home. In the group were Len Gari baldi, president of the N. C. Telephone Co.; Senator Lacy Thornburg; Senator Voit Gil more; former House Speaker Pat Taylor; Former Congressman Paul Kitchen; and John Gilmore, Ren Crawford, John Cooper and Charlie McCuistan, telephone ex ecutives; Jim Beatty, candidate for the legislature from Mecklen burg county. They were out aboard the Idle On boats and had their head quarters at Lorraine Motel and Restaurant at Long Beach. Mrs. Annie May Watts reports that fishing has been good for the past several days, particularly for Spanish mackerel and blue fish. One party Sunday caught 38 mackerel, which is unusual for this time of year. Southport Has State Officers The State Council of the North Carolina Daughters of America and the Junior Order United Me chanics held their annual con vention in Durham last week. Those attending from Southport were Mrs. Walter Aldridge, Mrs. Louis Dixon, Mrs. Nick Cole man, Mrs. Bill Fortiscue, Mrs. J. B. Ward, Mrs. Vera Mc Keithan, Mrs. T. E. Gilbert and Mrs. G. W. Fisher, Jr. On Thursday night a reception was held honoring the State Coun cilors of the Junior Order United American Mechanics and the Daughters of America, along with their state officers. Friendship Council 18 of Southport honored these councilors with a surprise program called “Hawaii Call ing". During the business session on Friday and Saturday, Mrs. Walter Aldridge was elected to serve as State Outside Sentinel (Continued On Page Two) Representative Alton Lennon announced this week that the Postmaster General has ap proved the construction of new post office facilities in Shallotte and Ash. The proposed new facilities will be constructed according to the department’s specifications and will be under the lease con struction program. The new building at Shallotte will have an interior floor space of 2,898 square feet, platform area of 216 square feet, and a parking and maneuvering area of 7,700 square feet. The new building at Ash will have an interior floor space of 1,374 square feet, platform area of 108 square feet, and a parking and maneuvering area of 3,350 square feet. The Post Office Department will advertise for bids at a future date, at which time more specific rental details will be announced, Congressman Lennon further stated. Soybean Meet In Whiteville By ARCHIE F. MARTIN County Extension Chairman There will be a meeting for soybean growers from Bruns wick in Whiteville, Thursday at 8 p. m., in the auditorium of the Agricultural Building, located on West Smith Street, one block from the courthouse. This meet ing is for growers from Bladen, Columbus, New Hanover and Brunswick counties. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss with the growers ques tions that they might have in re gard to the referendum on Sep tember 9. The referendum will be de termine whether or not soybean producers will assess them selves one-half cent per bushel for each bushel of soybeans sold on the market. A two-thirds majority vote is necessary be fore the assessment will go in effect. If the program is voted on favorably the funds collected will be used to: Promote basic and applied research, looking toward higher yields, better grading and marketing procedures and more consumption; to protect the in (Continued On Page Two) Members of the board of county commissioners in session here Monday resigned their earlier action directing Sheriff Ed V. Leonard to cease operation of the Brunswick county jail by September 1. The problem was discussed at length and various plans and possibilities were discussed for improving and modernizing jail facilities, but there will be no period when prisoners from Brunswick will be boarded out in neighboring county jails. County Superintendent George Williams and Kirby Sullivan, at torney for the Brunswick County Board of Education, appeared before the board to discuss the matter of a special School Bond Election. It was agreed that pertinent information must be received from the office of the Local Government Commission before definite action as to the date of the election and the amount of bonds can be determined. The crisis with the jail situa tion was brought on by the recent report from Leslie Smith, state jail inspector, who recommended that the Brunswick county jail be condemned. He has been doing investigative research for -he Legislative Research Com mission. (Continued On Page Twoj Tide Table Following Is the tide table for Southport during tat week. These hoqrs are ap proximately correct and wan furnished The State Port Pilot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot's As soriatton. HIGH LOW Thursday, August 18, 9:15 A M 3:16 A M 9:39 P M 3:34 P M Friday, August 19, 10:09 A M 4:04 A M 10:27 P M 4:28 P‘ M Saturday, August 20, 11:03 A M 4:52 A M 11:21 P M 5:22 P M Sunday, August 21, 11:57 A M 5:40 A M 6:16 P M Monday, August 22, '% 0:15 A M 6:34 A M 12:57 P M 7:16 PM Tuesday, August 23, 1:09 A M 7:28 AM 1:57 P M 8:22 P M Wednesday, August 24, 2:09 A M 8:28 A M 2:57 P M 9:22 P. M
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