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The Pilot Covers Brunswick County Better Schools Don’t Cost— They Pay THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Most of the News All The Time • VOLUME 38 No. 20 12* Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1966 Si A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Leadership Of Brunswick REA CURRENT BRUNSWICK REA DIRECTORS include: seated, left to right, Dennis Anderson, Cerro Gordo; Frank Inman, Ash; M. M. Ray, Nakina; J. C. Ray, Tabor City Rt 3; C. D. Branch, Evergreen; standing J. B. Ward, Jr., Longwood; Roy Swain, Winnabow R. T. Mercer, Bolivia; L. C. Batten, Whiteville Rt. 2; T. D. Lindsey, Shallotte; H. D. White, Jr., Chadbourn Rt. 1, Swain, Lindsey, M. M. Ray, and White are completing their terms of office. Branch is board chairman. The annual REA meeting is set for Friday at Smith’s warehouse, Whiteville. Lt. Gov. Bob Scott will be the guest speaker. Annual Meeting REA Stockholders Meet Set Officials of the Brunswick Electric Membership Corpora tion anticipate the largest at tendance ever at the annual meet ing to be held here at Smith’s warehouse on highway 701 begin ning at noon tomorrow, October 28. The highest state official ever to address the gathering, Lt. Gov. Robert W. Scott, (and some say the next governor of North Caro lina) will be the guest speaker. What the second man in state government will tell the gather ing is an unknown quantity at the moment but, in any event, his talk will be worth hearing, for, as all BEMC members know, Scott is a supporter of rural power co operatives and lends his weight thereto when the occasion de mands. Though no notice to the effect ' has been received, it is expected that Congressman Alton A. Len non will be present for remarks during the program. Others to be seen and heard include former General Manager Dr. C. D. Bishop who retired in 1965 for health reasons but is still able to carry a point when called on to do so. Dr. Bishop’s successor, Rob ert G. Hubbard, Sr., reports a long list of prizes have been con tributed for presentation to lucky number holders. There will be a grand prize and what it is will not be revealed until the winner is announced. BOB SCOTT l Brief * -fc * * Bits Of * NEWS ■* * * * UNICEF COLLECTIONS “Trick or Treat for UNICEF” will be sponsored this year in Southport by the Junior Woman’s Club. Collections will be made Thursday evening, starting at 6 o’clock. CLASS OFFICER Tommy Burris, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Burris, Sr., of South port, was recently elected secre tary-treasurer of the 9th grade class at Carolina Military Acade my. Class advisor is Capt. Cortez Maynor. FISH FRY The Brunswick County Soil and Water Conservation District will have their annual fish fry at the Lion’s Club Park in Shal lotte Saturday afternoon from 5 p. m. to 8 p. m. Everyone is invited to come on out and eat all they can. BENEFIT SUPPER A benefit supper will be served at Don’s Restaurant in Bolivia on Saturday, November 5, from 4:30 to 8:30, Proceeds will go to help pay the hospital and doc tor bills of a local youth. Bar becue pork and roast beef will be served. Chadwick Farm Bureau President “Farmers continue to decline in number every year,” said Ira L. Chadwick, president of the Brunswick County Farm Bureau at its annual meeting Saturday night at the Shallotte Cafeteria. “Still, Farm Bureau’s membership is increasing. It shows that farmers realize they have to work together as a team in order to get things done these days.” Approximately 200 farm families were represented at the annual dinner. ,^ Chadwick was re-elected as president of the local organi zation. Harold C. Robinson was re-elected as vice-president and Mrs. Ouida H. Hewett as sec retary-treasurer. “Farm Bureau works on many fronts in behalf of the farmer,” said Chadwick. “I feel sure that, when all farmers realize how much is being accomplished today by Farm Bureau, they will want to strengthen the effort by becoming a part of it.” Resolutions on various farm products and efforts were ap proved by the members of the Farm Bureau and will be for warded to Raleigh for the state wide discussion pro and con and approval or disapproval. Then all resolutions go to Washington for the Congressional approval or not. The local organization went on record as opposing a State tax on tobacco products. They also favored more days of loose leaf tobacco sales and a wider spread of support price between loose leaf and tied tobacco. K. Malcolm Long gave a dem onstration on the durability of tractor and automobile tires showing it is wise to purchase a different tire of the correct strength for farming, road wear or just ordinary driving. Reggie Hewett, Busy Bees 4-H Club member, and Bruns wick County Junior Public Speak ing Champion, gave a talk on North Carolina and the ad vantages of living in the prosper ous, yet adventurous and bounti ful state. He cited the many historic sites and the prospects of a vacationland second to none. Roney W. Cheers, Mayor of the town of Shallotte extended the welcome and expressed his ap preciation of the Farm Bureau now having a business office in the town of Shallotte and show (Continued On Page Four) Southport Lady Back From Trip Mrs. H. A. Livingston of South port and Miss Naomi Yopp of Wilmington have returned home after attending the Grand chapter of Quebec, Order of the Eastern Star in Montreal, Canada. Mrs. Livingston is Grand Rep resentative of Quebec in North Carolina, OES. Mrs. C. D. Pickerrell of South port accompanied them on the trip. While away they visited friends in Washington, D. C., Bloomfield, N. J., and Elkton and Salisbury, Maryland. On leaving Montreal they motored through Canada over to Niagara Falls, returning home through the mountains of New York and Pennsylvania, on to the Eastern Shore of Maryland and the Bay Bridge Tunnel. NORMAN HOLDEN Norman Holden In State Job Norman R. Holden, former Roland-Grise and New Hano ver High School teacher, has been appointed state proba tion officer for New Hanover County and began his duties supervising parolees last week. Sworn in by Superior Court Judge Henry Stevens Jr. of Warsaw on October 6, Holden is a n a t i v e of Southport where he graduated horn high school. He attended Pembroke State College, receiving the E A. degree in social sci ences in 1964. He also served in the United States Air Force. Holden Is a native of Southport and his wife, Janice, is a teach er in the Bradley Creek School. They have a son, Dean. Club Women To Meet At Beach Mrs. Mary Earp, President of the Brunswick County Council of Home Demonstration Clubs announces the Annual Fall Achievement Meeting of the Brunswick County Home Demon stration Clubs to be held Monday, October 31 at the Lorraine Res taurant in Tranquil Harbor at 6:30 p. m. Mr. W. E. Cupit, Administra tor of the Dosher Memorial Hos pital, will be the speaker for the evening. Mr. Hugh Vance, Elec trification Advisor for the Bruns wick Electric Membership Co op, will present the cup to the club chosen “Club of the Year.” Selection cf the club to receive this annual award is based on the Achievements of the club for the preceding year. Another annual award to be given at this meeting is the cup presented to the “Club Woman of the Year” by the Atlantic Telephone Co-op. Mr. Foster Mintz, representing Atlantic Telephone, will present this award. All ladies who are members of the Home Demonstration Clubs (Continued on Page 4) Saturday Is Deadline For Registration Saturday is the final day of registration for voters for the general election on November 8, according to Chairman H. Foster Mintz of the Brunswick County Board of Elections. Reg istration on the official voting records also entitles a voter to participate in the Special School Bond Election on the same date. Chairman Mintz reports that Wednesday, November 2, at 6 p.m. is the deadline for accepting civilian applications for absentee ballots must be returned to him by 12 o’clock noon on November 5 if they are to be counted. Mintz reports that only one change has occurred in voting places since the May Primary. Voters in Southport Precinct No. 2 will use the private dining room at Louis Fine Food as a vot ing place. Following is a list of registrars who will register voters at their home between now and Saturday: Hoods Creek, G. W. Lennon; Leland, L. H. Reynolds; Town Creek. Mrs. A. P. Henry; Bo livia, Royce Rabon; Southport No. 1, Mrs. Mary Bellows; South port No. 2, Miss Annie St. George; Oak Island. Sam Ed wards; Mosquito, Carl S. Ward; Supply, Mrs. Velma Robinson; Secession, Cecil Hol den; Shallotte, Mrs. Thurston Mintz; Frying Pan, Mrs. Leslie Chadwick; Grissettown, Dave Bennett; Shingletree, Eugene Carter; Longwood, Mrs. Eula Browning; Waccamaw, Mrs. Roberta Simmons; Ash, R. I. Long; Exum, Mrs. Mildred Ve reen. Dies Following Auto Accident SUPPLY-*. Harvey Fletcher Hewett, 72 lof Supply, died Wednesday afternoon in James Walker Memorial; Hospital, Wil mington, from injuries sustained in a traffic accident on October 10, at the Intersection of US 17 and NC 211 of Supply. He was entered in the Wil mington hospital with a reported possible concussion, a broken leg, a broken arm and chest in juries, shortly after 9:15 a. m. on the above date. Trooper Billy Day said Hewett was serious at the time he was admitted. Hewett was reported traveling north on US 17 in a 1963 Ford pickup when he was in collision with a 1964 Chevrolet driven by Gideon Henry Long, 71 of Spencer, which had been travel ing east on NC 211. Day said Long pulled into the intersection and into the path of the Hewett pickup, which glanced off, travel ed 165 feet across the highway island and plowed into an im bankment. Day said the Hewett pickup had the right-of-way at the time. Day was assisted by Trooper (Continued On Page 2) Make Donation To Hospital CHECK — I.L.A. Local 1838 recently contributed a check for almost $500 to Dosher Memorial Hospital for two new shower facilities. A committee including Theodore Bur ney, left, and Hoyle Dosher, right, together with Charles Rogers, president of the local union organization, delivered the check in person to W. F. Cupit, hospital administra tor. (Photo by Dosher). Grand Jury To Get Evidence In Rudd Case A Grand Jury will decide the fate of Wildlife Protector Jerry W. Rudd in Novemt er„ This was decided Monday night at an inquest held by Coroner J. B. Long in Whiteville. Rudd allegedly shot and killed Dosher Guy Simmons in the Green Swamp near Bolton October 8. Testimony at the i iquest in dicated that Simmons, 35, was in a soybean field with a shot gun and flashlight when he was| approached by Rudd and ordered to drop his gun. SBI Agent C. Max Bryan said that he took statements from Rudd and Protector Walter Chason the next day. Both statement were read to the six-man coroner’s jury and both say that Simmons shot at Rudd and the two officers returned the fire with their serv ice revolvers. Rudd was released under $500 bond posted by fellow Wildlife Protector Troy Sigmon of Chad bourn. Sigmon testified at the inquest and said that he was about one mile from the scene of the shoot ing. He testified that he heard the shotgun blast followed by several pistol shots. The Grand Jury convenes in Whiteville November 21. Time And Tide The Pilot for October 28, 1936, reported a meeting of Brunswick county citizens at Shallotte High School for a discussion of plans for organizing a REA coop in this area. Another mark of progress was the report that the beach road had been hardsurfaced as far as the Intercoastal Waterway bridge. A heated political campaign was drawing to a close in Brunswick and The Pilot that week was filled with ads from the various candi dates; six Brunswick county men had been convicted in federal court for shooting coot at night; and a seasonal note reported that trout were biting on the whiting grounds in the Cape Fear River. In our edition for October 29, 1941, there was a report that work had started on the USO building in the garrison. There was a front page picture showing the late Buck Devane at work at one of the Southport shrimp packing houses. The highway death toll for Bruns wick had mounted to eight for the year. Geese were already flying southward; an ancient cannon ball had been unearthed during excavation for the foundation of the USO building; and a party fishing with Capt. H. T, Bowmer had caught more than 400 bluefish. The year 1946 was another election year, with voters scheduled to go to the polls on the following Tuesday. Thus a good part of the advertising section in our October 30 issue was given over to political advertising. Southport was preparing for the annual Halloween Carnival, and the old gym was the scene of this fall festival. Fine fishing was reported at Howells Point; one of the Watts boats had reported catches of over 400 bluefish on two days that week; and yachts were moving south through the inland waterway. Fifteen years ago this week there was a picture of Anchor Hotel at Shallotte on the front page of The Pilot. The caption was “Haven For Sportsmen.” There was an article, too, about the large weekend crowds of fishermen at that resort area. The Lindner Brothers were shipping late season cucumbers and snap beans from their farm near Southport. A couple of strange sports stories: A three-legged buck had been killed by a party of Bolivia deer hunters; and a Southport lady angler had made a mighty cast—and had hooked herself in the (Continued on Page 4) More Meetings On School Bonds Ferry Service Gets Holiday Assistant Engineer Ivan Har desty said Tuesday the South port-Ft. Fisher ferry will dis continue service for about one month while it is undergoing annual maintenance and repairs in dry dock beginning Oct. 30. Hardesty said the Southport Ft. Fisher ferry will make its last trip Saturday, Oct. 29 at 4:30 p. m. before leaving for drydock. He said plans call for the ferry to resume normal op erations about Nov. 30 at which time the public will be notified. Sale Of Stock Encouraging Stock in the Brunswick Devel opment Corporation has been sold to meet the minimum require ment of the charter according to an announcement this week by H. A. Templeton, president of the new corporation. Templeton reported that 32 Brunswick county citizens and one Mecklenburg county citizen had subscribed and paid for stock in the corporation. The drive to secure additional stockholders will continue. The present goal that has been set (Continued On Page Pour) Fatal Wreck Sunday Morning Harvey liichard Hinson Sr., 4t>, of 5045 Wrightsville Avenue, was killed instantly early Sun day morning in an automobile accident 3 miles south of Winn abow on Highway 17. Patrolman J. C. Howell re ported that Hinson apparently fell asleep as his automobile left the road and travelled 115 feet before hitting a tree. The accident occurred at 6:10 a m. Sunday 18 miles south of Wilmington on US 17 near Win nabow. A native of Wilmington, he was born April 22, 1920. and was the son of Harvey Reedy and Mattie Elizabeth Beck Hin son who survive. Mr. Hinson was a member of Pearsall Memorial Presbyterian Church, a member of Lodge No. 343, Loyal Order of Moose, and was an employe of the Hanover Construction Company. Surviving other than his par ents of Wilmington, are his wife; Mrs. Nannie Jordan Hin son of the home: three sons. Harvey Richard Hinson. Jr. of Cambridge, England. Thomas Stephen Hinson and Ellery Dean Hinson, both of Wilmington; one daughter. Mrs. Mary Ann Bru ner of Shreveport. La : two sis ters, Mrs. Lola Oliver of Chevy Chase, Md.. and Mrs. Elizabeth Dorton of Clarksville, Ind.; and three grandchildren. Informational meetings are being held in all parts of Bruns wick county relative to the $1,500,000 proposed school bond issue in order that citizens may be informed and enlightened as to the bond issue proposal, accord ing to Ralph C. King, Assistant Superintendent of Brunswick County Schools. These meetings provide an op portunity for the bond issue pro posal to be presented by a rep resentative from the Board of Education, which is followed by question and answer period. These meetings can be very beneficial to citizens interested in ways and means of school im provement in Brunswick county and all citizens are urged to at tend these meetings in their re spective areas. Meetings that are now sched uled include the following: Waccamaw High School — P.T.A., 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oc tober 27; Bolivia High School — Winnabow Grange meeting, 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, November 2; Brunswick County High School gym, Civic League Meeting. 4:30 p.m. Sunday, November 6. Explains Way Ballot Worded Many questions have been ask ed concerning the various as pects of the school bond issue that will be voted on by the peo ple of Brunswick County on November the 8th, according to George Williams, Superintendent of the Brunswick County Schools. In an effort to inform the peo ple and answer as many questions as possible, meetings are being held in the various parts of the county and weekly news items are placed in the county newspapers. The following information, as it relates to the school bond issue reflects some of the more im portant questions that are being asked,” stated Williams. “The wording of the bond issue ballot seems to be of great con cern to many people in that the ballot does not state the exact proposal by the Board of Educa tion as to school construction. However it should be pointed out that wording of the ballot is in accordance with the North Caro lina State Law and local officials had not part in the wording of the ballot, stated Williams. Another important concernex pressed by many people about the bond issue proposal is that of insufficient funds to construct the schools as proposed. It is true that it is likely that the gym toriums will be left off initially for the schools proposed, however, it should be noted that school construction costs are increasing at approximately the rate of 10% per year and there fore, the problem of funds will be a continuous one and if school construction is delayed one year, the increased cost would repre sent funds more than sufficient to construct a gymtorium at one of the proposed schools. Winnabow Lady Named Member Of State Body Mrs. Naomi Gortney Henry of Winnabow has accepted appoint ment as Brunswick County’s voting member in the newly in corporated statewide organiza tion, North Carolinians for Bet ter Libraries, Inc. Author David Stick, president, said Mrs. Henry will be liaison between library-interested citi zens in the county and Raleigh headquarters of the organization, and will attend the first annual meeting in Raleigh early in 1967. Plans for local action to im prove libraries in the State’s 100 counties will be coordinated at the meeting. Workshop ses sions will discuss resources, financing, and organizing or reactivating county-wide groups of citizens to improve their own library facilities and services. North Carolinians for Better Libraries is a non-profit organi zation of citizens whose purpose is to help each other help local libraries. The goal is for adequately staffed and stocked libraries meeting national and State standards accessible to every citizen in North Carolina. Surveys show that most counties fall far short of ideal conditions. There is in Brunswick county at this time no countywide or ganization of citizens for better libraries. Mrs. Henry has an nounced plans to form one soon. Mrs. Henry, wife of A. P. Henry, Jr., and mother of three children, is treasurer of South port-Brunswick County Demo cratic Executive Committee and vice-chairman of the Red Cross. A native of Yancey county and graduate of Lees-McRae College, Banner Elk, she also is a direc tor of the Brunswick County Can cer Society and regional director of the TB Association for South eastern North Carolina. Mrs. Henry, who came to Win nabow in 1944, is a member of the Methodist Church. * Carnival Here Friday Night By JIGGS POWERS Added emphasis is being placed on the annual Halloween Carni val to be held at Southport High School on the afternoon and night of Friday, October 28. The Carnival receipts will be used for the Southport High School activity bus fund, according to Principal Pete Lee and Sports Coach Porky Mintz. Principal Lee said today that the Halloween Carnival is being sponsored, as usual, by the South port Parent-Teacher Associa tion, with all funds going into the drive to procure a new bus for sports and other activities in, and around, Southport School. Coach Mintz has already an nounced, too, that his Southport Dolphin football team’s game with Union in Sampson County, will be played on Thursday night. This is a move from the usual Friday night date so that members of the Dolphin club can be at home and join others in enjoying and help ing with the annual Halloween Carnival on Friday night. Principal Lee said the Carni val program will begin at 2 p. m., Friday afternoon and run (Continued on Page 4) 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, October 27, 6:15 A M 0:16 A M 6:39 P M 12:40 P M Friday, October 28, 6:67 A M 0:58 A M 7.15 P M 1:22 P M Saturday, October 29, 7:33 A M 1:34 A M 7:45 P M 2:04 P M Sunday, October SO, 8:09 A M 2:10 A M 8:21 P M 2:40 P M Monday, October SI, 8:45 A M 2:46 A M 8:57 P M 3:22 P M Tuesday, November 1, 9:21 A M 3:22 A M 9:33 P M 4:04 P M Wednesday, November 2, 10:03 A M 4:04 A M 11:15 P M 4:46 P M
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