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The Pilot Covers Brunswick County! THE STATE PORT PILOT VOLUME 38 No. 15 10-Pages Today A Good Newspaper In A Good Community 4U §p Most of the News All The Time SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER-^ 1966 5t A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Where North Carolina Open Will Be Played PEACEFUL — This is a pretty view of the 18th green at Oak Island Golf Course where conestants in the Second Annual North Carolina Open Golf Tournament may have their troubles next week. The tournament starts Wednesday. The clubhouse may be seen in the center of background and the lake, which protects this green, is shown in the fore ground. North Carolina Open Pros Play At Oak Island More than four score of North Carolina’s professional golfers and leading amateurs are ex pected to tee off Wednesday morning at Oak Island Golf Course near Southport in the Second Annual North Carolina Open Golf Tournament. Bill Harvey, an amateur, is the defending champion and is ex pected to be on hand to defend the title he won in a battle with Bob Spence that was settled on the 18th green. Spence was the first professional at Oak Island and this year is making the PGA tour. In fact, this may prevent him from playing here. Last week he placed in the money at Port land, Oregon. He has a com mittment for this week, and if he makes his way to the final two days, he will probably not be able to get back to North Carolina in time to compete here. Among the better known golfers who will play at Oak Island next week are Sonny Ridenhour, winner of the last two Carolinas Open Golf Tournaments. He played in the North Carolina Open last fall and made a strong bid for the winner’s purse. This should be attractive again this year. The sponsor’s share is $2,000. and with entry fees added, this promises prizes sure to attract the leading pros. Gifts of merchandise and trophies will go to winners who play as amateurs. In this latter group will be Ken Cooper of Raleigh, who has to figure as one of the favorites. He has played Oak Island many times and holds the course record with a 68. Bob Smith reports that the course is in tip-top condition. If there is little wind and if the weather otherwise is good, it might well be that this fine young course will take more of a beat ing from the pros this year than she did last fall. But regardless of the weather, Oak Island figures (Continued on Page 4) *************.* REMAINS CLOSED The Brunswick County Draft Board office in Southport will remain closed until October 24. PARTY MEETING Members of the Democratic Executive Committee and all Democratic candidates have been called the meet Tuesday at 6;30 o’clock at the office of Chair man S. B. Frink in Shallotte to map plans for the campaign lead ing to the General Election. , SUB DISTRICT WSCS The Brunswick County Sub District of the Womans Society of Christian Service will meet Sunday afternoon at 2;30 o’clock at Ocean View Methodist Church at Yaupon Beach. Registration will begin at 2 o’clock and the program will start at 2:30 o’clock. PUBLIC HEARING Members of the N. C. De partment of Conservation and Development’s Committee on Commercial and Sports Fisher ies will meet Thursday at 7:30 P.m. in Brunswick County court house, Southport. Commercial and sports fishermen are urged to attend this discussion of pro posed fishing regulations and conservation measures. * * * NEWS ief Bits Of * * * * * Signs Proclamation SIGNING — Mayor E. B. Tomlinson, right, is shown here with City Manager C. D. Pickerrell as he affixes his signature to a proclamation proclaiming September as Sight Conservation Month. Committeemen To Hold Convention The Brunswick County ASC Committee met Wednesday and counted the ballots cast in the six ASC Communities during the period between .August 30 and September 9. This election was by mall and the votes were pub licly tabulated at the ASCS Of fice in Shallotte. Community Committeemen elected are listed below with the chairman shown first followed by vice-chairman, regular member, first alternate and second alter nate. LOCKWOOD FOLLY—Aldreth Phelps, Edwin C. Sellers, Wm. McKinley Hewett, Alton Evans, L. Bailey Russ. SHALLOTTE—Curtis Hewett, Arthur W. Bellamy, Guy A. Hughes, Earl Long, Otho P. Bel lamy. NORTHWEST— Goerge H. Skipper, Paul Brown, H. O. Peterson, Jr., Forrest D. Wil liams, Refus Stewart. TOWN CREEK—Wm. Penn Gore, H. H. Simmons, Ellis H. Lewis, Hulon Flowers, A. P. Henrv. Jr. SMITHVILLE—Willie Clem mons, J. A. Chatman, Ervin Mon roe, Morris V. Crouch, Willie Smith. WACCAMAW—Roy W. Hughes, Gardner King, Gardner McCum bee, Howard Inman, Richard I. Piver. All committeemen will take office on October 3 and serve one year or until their successor has been elected and qualified. The three regular members of each of the Community Com mittees are automatically dele gates to the ASCS County Con vention which will meet at the ASCS office in Shallotte on Monday, at 10 a. m. to elect one member to the County Committee for a three year term. They will also elect two alternate County Committeemen to serve for one year terms. In addition they will determine the position each member of the County Committee will hold, chairman, vice-chair man or member. It is the term of Edgar L. Holden of Supply which is ex piring. Lonnie Evans of Ash has one more year remaining in his term and Ira A. Potter has two more years. Nursing Glass Has Good Start The first week of the Nurses Aid course being conducted at Dosher Memorial Hospital ended Friday with a total of 22 stu dents enrolled. Mrs. Ida A. Underwood and Mrs. Carol Templon, who are teaching the course, reports an attitude or in terest from the students. The first week of the course covered routine patient care, consisting of nursing ethics, bed making, baths, taking blood pres sures, the taking of tempera tures, pulse, respiration, and a one-hour class on hospital organization by the hospital ad ministrator. The week ended with a written examination, and it is reported that all students passed with a good average. September Is Sight Month In cooperation with The Na tional Society for the Prevention of Blindness, the North Carolina Association for the Blind, the North Carolina State Commis sion for the Blind, and the South port Lions Club, Mayor E. B. Tomlinson, Jr., has designated sentember as sight saving month. “I call upon my fellow citizens of this community to conserve the vital resource of good vision by learning the habits of good eye care, and by supporting re search efforts which will help all men enjoy the blessing of healthy eyesight,” said the mayor. Following is the text of the mayor’s proclamation: WHERE AS^ Good vision is a pre cious gift bestowed by God and nature upon all mankind, and WHEREAS, Our eyes are win dows of light through which we see and understand each other and enjoy the beauty of the world in which we live, and WHEREAS, The ruthless threat (Continued on Page 4) Border Belt Tobacco Still Selling High Tobacco auctions began Monday morning In Whiteville with two sets of buyers, a reduction of one set; but Frank Gross, sales supervisor, reported that blocked sales were expected for today. Gross stated further that ware houses already have reached the half-way mark in receiving their quotas of baskets for the Tuesday sale. Last Thursday was the peak season for the Whlteville market, pricewlse, Whiteville’s average Thursday led the entire N. C. S. C. Border Belt at $70.91 per hundred. Supervisor Gross today esti mated that auctions will continue on the local market for at least two weeks. Nine markets on the belt have already closed their season. The countywide market picture for the five-day period found grades generally firm while quality of offerings declined a little from the previous week. Volume of sales was fairly light, the Market News Service report ed, but receipts placed under government loan continued ex tremely small. Standings of the four markets in Columbus County through Fri day: Chadbourn—8,614,290 lbs., $1,121,315; $71.Q6 avg. Fair Bluff—6,556,994 lbs., $4,549,402; $69.38 avg. Tabor' City—6,920,574 lbs., $4,847,208; $70.04 avg. Whlteville—23,147,902 lbs., $16,154,919; $69.79 avg. The markets on the North Carolina portion of Border Belt had a season’s average of $69.13 through Friday; while South Carolina’s markets showed a $69.57 average. Participating In Cold Training U. S. Air Force HrstLieuteft-' ant John W. Grainger, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Grainger of Long Beach, is participating in Exer cise "Bar Frost,” a joint week long maneuver of United States, United Kingdom and Norwegian armed forces. Being held in the Harsti-Nar vik region of northern Norway, the exercise is giving the tri nation forces an opportunity to work together in tactical air ground operations. The lieutenant, a navigator at Dyess AFB^ Tex., is working with personnel from other USAF, Army Strike Command and Marine Corps units selected to take part in the maneuver. A Tactical Air Command F-4C Phantom n fighter squadron is providing air support during the exercise. While in Norway, the joint forces are under the exercise control of Rear Admiral S. Stor heill of the Royal Norweigan Navy. A graduate of Williams Town ship High School, Whiteville, he received his B.S. degree in in dustrial management in 1964 from North Carolina State Uni versity, where he was com missioned upon completion of the Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps program. Lieutenant Grainger’s wife, Virginia, is the daughter ofCapt. and Mrs. W. W. Vennel of Long Beach. Gemini Rocket Cone Inspected STRANGE — An object identified as a component of a Gemini rocket was brought to the Sunny Point Army Terminal last week by a ship which had recovered the strange object at sea. A group of science students from Southport High School is shown here examining the strange object. For Building Fund Library Gets $5,000 Chech C. D. Pickerrell, chairman of the Organization Solicitation Committee of the Building Com mittee of the Southport-Bruns wick County Library, this week received a check for $5,000 from the Sarah Graham Kennan Foun dation, Inc. This check becomes a part of the local contributor’s fund, which recently received a com mittment for another $10,000 contribution if and when all other necessary matching funds have •TSeen-raised. •*>**»■»»•*«> • ••».. The amount of this local ob ligation now is in the neighbor hood of $20,000. “I feel that this goal now is well within our grasp”, E. B. Tomlinson, chairman of the uununig l uitu vumiumcc o<uu this week. “This substantial financial assistance from outside sources is a real challenge to our Brunswick county citizens to come up with the balance necessarv to hecMn work on the library building.” Following is the text of a letter to Mr. Pickerrell ac companying the Kenan founda tion contribution: Dear Mr. Pickerrell: “I am pleased to deliver to you herewith check of The Sarah Graham Kenan F oundation, Inc., payable to the City of Southport, North Carolina, in the amount of $5,000.00, representing a contri bution approved by the Board of Directors of the Foundation at its meeting on July 28, 1966. "The contribution is made in response to the request made by you as Chairman of the Or ganization Solicitation Com mittee, The Public Library Com mission of Southport and Bruns wick County. “On behalf of the Foundation and its President, Mr. Frank Kenan, we would like to express every best wish for the success ful establishment of a Library in your fine City and County.” Time And Tide 10* «UTii4iTii(t» <«» The first special edition of The Pilot we ever attempted was the issue for September 23, 1936, and in it we made a conscious play for fall vacation visitors, believing then as now that this is one of the most delightful seasons in this area. One headline took satisfaction in the fact that a hurricane had bypassed Brunswick in its path to the mainland in another state. There was a feature story on the Cape Fear Pilots, with photos of the seven active members of the local association, Throughout the fourteen pages of this edition there were pictures of people and places of interest in the town. Scenes of fishing and of catches of fish predominated. There were ads, too; most of them proclaiming the fine natural attractions for vacationists and retirement living here in Brunswick. Five years later, in our edition for September 24, 1941, there was another headline expressing relief that another hurricane had bypass ed Brunswick. There had been a military atmosphere in the town during the past week, ■ as soldiers from Fort Bragg were at the old CCC camp site on field maneuvers. The nation was on daylight savings time, but on the following Sunday all clocks were to be moved back one hour. Homecoming services were scheduled for the following Sunday at Zion Methodist Church; a runaway barrage balloon had come to earth near Shallotte; and there has been other visits in the Southport harbor from British warships The headlines for the September 25 edition of The Pilot in the year of our Lord 1946 was about a tanker which had suffered a serious fire aboard. The ship was heading here to discharge the bodies of four dead members of the crew and to place injured seamen in the local hospital. Announcement also was made of a competitive ex amination to fill the position of postmaster at Southport. Meanwhile, nine candidates had taken the examination to fill the vacancy in the (Continued On Page Four) Accepts Check For Library CONTRIBUTION — Mrs. A. P. Henry, treasurer of the Southport-Brunswick County Library Building Fund, is shown here as she receives a check for $5,000 from the Sarah Graham Kenan Foundation, Inc., from C. D. Picker rell. Nose Cone Brought Into Sunny Point Board Seeking Federal Funds The Brunswick County Plan ning Board has selected Henry Von Osen & Associates of Wil mington to conduct a compre hensive water and sewer study for Brunswick county, according to an announcement this week by W. A. Powell, chairman. Powell reported that proposals were received from four en gineering firms and that each of the proposals was given care ful consideration. The board wvn iiibv vvukuuvi uv*vii uiv> mvb that Von Osen had done extensive work in Brunswick County and had vital information that could be used in the report. Von Osen stated that the report could be completed in approximately 200 days after the contract is signed, Powell stated. The Planning Board will make application to the Farmers Home Adminstration for a grant to finance this study. The FHA is at present making grants to county planning boards for water and sewer studies for rural areas and municipalities of less than 5,500 population while the study is underway. After it is com pleted the communities and munclpalities will be eligible for FHA grants and loans for water and sewer systems. The study is required before these grants and loans can be approved. Members of the Resources Development Commission for Brunswick county serve in a dual capacity as the members of the Planning Board and the Re sources Development Commis sion. Powell emphasied that all funds for the study will come from the grant from FHA and not from Brunswick county tax funds. (Continued on Page 4) Photograph shows students of a Science Class of the Southport High school gathered about an ob ject which was identified by its markings as a component of a Gemini rocket. This object was found floating at sea, by a vessel enroute to the Military Ocean Terminal, Sunny Point, approximately two hundred miles Southeast of Cape Kennedy on the same date that Gemini XI was fired aloft. How ever, from its appearance this component had apparently been in the water for some time and in all probability was not part of Gemini XI. After a determination that the rocket element was in no way classified the students were per mitted to examine it at close hand. Recovery officials later re moved the element fromMOTSP. Vessel in background is not the ship which found the Gemini fragment. Board Approves Bond Election Members of the board of coun ty commissioners have called for a Special School Bond Election to be held on November 8, the date for the general election this year. The amount involved will be $1.5-million and will be for school construction. In response to a written re quest from R. W. Cheers from Shallotte the commissioners have called a public hearing on the school bond issue for October 3. Highway Commissioner Ashley Murphy and Division Engineer Paul Dupree met with the board to discuss road matters. The commissioners directed the county attorney to prepare a quit claim deed from the coun (Continued On Pag* Pour) Shrimp Marking Project Now In Progress Southport is the scene this week of a shrimp marking project sponsored by the Division of Commercial and Sport Fisheries of the Department of Conserva tion and Development. E. G. McCoy is the biologist in charge and his assistant is Mike Taylor, Roma Salter is captain of the converted patrol craft the party is using to take specimens for marking and re lease. Thus far they have worked the waters of Dutchman’s Creek and Elizabeth River near South port. Next week they will operate in the waters bordering Bald Head island. They are catching and marking white shrimp. One of the principal purposes of the project is to determine the migratory habits of shrimp, and in this connection the de partment is solicitiner the co operation of commercial and private shrimpers. Posters have been put up at shrimp buying houses along the coast, with pro vision being made for returning marked shrimp that have been caught. Blank forms are provided to give information as to where and when the catch was made. Also a part of the experiment is a study to determine the role of growth of the shrimp that are marked and released. McCoy said this week that in terest and cooperation in this project thus far has been most encouraging. One shrimp mark ed in the Beaufort-Morehead City areas was caught five weeks later off Ocean Drive, S. C., by a Brunswick county trawler, whose captain reported the catch. The distance traveled in that time was 150 miles. "We have noted that all catches or marked shrimp that have been reported indicate a southward movement,” McCoy said this week. "There is much we do not know about shrimp and their habits,” he said, "but the purpose of this study is to discover some of their secrets with the hope that we may be able to do some thing to regulate and improve their reproduction habits.” McCoy says this study will continue locally for another four weeks. The Hardee Seafood House at the old yacht basin in Southport is their land-based headquarters. Three Robbers Plead Guilty Three Cubans who were In volved in armed robbery at a Bolivia motel several months ago pleaded guilty Tuesday and were given long prison sentences by Judge Leo Carr of Burlington, who is presiding over Superior Court here this week. Segundo Avilla Garcia and Pablo Paez each was given from 7 to 10 years and Edwin Mar tinez received a sentence of 10 to 15 years in prison. Victor Stanley went on trial today for the fatal shooting of his brother. He claims self defense. Trial of Richard Thomas Jack son will go on trial Thursday for the murder of Raphael Taledo. a merchant seaman, on August 1, 1965. The victim, a native of Peru, was found dead with a bullet hole in his forehead. His body was beside a rural road near the Green Swamp in Brunswick county. Tide Table Following is the tide table for Southport during the week. These hours are ap proximately correct and were furnished The State Port Pilot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot’s Association. HIGH LOW Thursday, September 22, 1:45 A M 7:58 A M 2:33 P M 8:58 P M Friday, September 23, 2:45 A M 9:04 A M 3:27 P M 9:58 P M Saturday, September 24, 3:45 A M 9:58 A M 4:27 P M 10:46 P M Sunday, September 25, 4:39 A M 10:58 A M 5:15 P M 11:34 P M Monday, September 26, 5:27 AM 11:46 A M 5:57 P M Tuesday, September 27, 6:09 A M 0:16 A M 6:39 P M 12:28 P M Wednesday, September 28, 6:51 A M 0:52 A M 7:15 P M 12:10 P M
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