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VOLUME 38
No. 23
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SOUTHPORT, N. C.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1966
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PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Bruin And His Masters
SHOT — Berry picking and corn gnawing season is over for this 400-pound Green
Swamp black bear and by now his quarters and loins are roasting in West Virginia
ovens or held over for family reunions Thanksgiving Day. While his tormentors, the
hounds, are resting deservedly elsewhere, Bruin’s captors are, from left, J. B. Jackson,
Jimmy Jackson, Harry Robinson and Jack Jackson, all from Clendenin, W. Virginia.
Kill was made last Friday near Exum. (Clemmons photo)
Here In Brunswick
Bear Hunting Pays Off
By STEVE WALL
It’s an art, old heads at the
game say, and no time or place
for the tenderfoot, lest he get
his comeuppance from a lightning
blow by a powerful paw.
They’ve been coming to the
Lake Waccamaw area, have the
bear hunters, for years, bring
ing their trusted hounds that
know and follow only one scent,
that of the Green Swamp bear.
In the deep rugged swamp
where food is plentiful and the
best of cover prevails, hunters
with muskets ready ply their
way as “brush busters.”
Sniffing about here and there
almost at the brush busters’
heels are the “strike” hounds.
Then when old bruin is flush
ed from his lair, the trail pack
puts him on the run and there’s
music in the air and with it a
thrill only the bear hunter knows
and enjoys.
Old bruin isn’t going to travel
too far. So he figures on the
first few laps . . . run like heck,
take to a tree or turn and have it
out with his tormentors?
Most likely, he picks out a
cypress stump, backs up and in
vites the barking pack to come and
have it out. He’d rather fight
and switch, so to speak.
Then Mayhem breaks out. The
fighter pack takes over and the
war of the swamp begins. Bruin’s
claws can sLt a dog from end to
end at one stroke. But the hounds
are wary, some snipping from
the front while others work
around from the back.
On the Friday hunt, one hound
came off with a serious bite in the
spine but he’s getting all the care
of a millionaire patient at the
Mayo clinic.
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Brief Bits Of
NEWS
YARD OF MONTH
Yard of the Month honors for
November will be shared by Col.
and Mrs. W. S. Norman of Oaks
Apartment and Mrs. J. E. Dodson,
who resides on Atlantic Avenue.
This award is made each month
by the Southport Garden Club.
PTA MEETING
There will be a P.T.A. Meet
ing at the Southport High School
auditorium Thursday night with
Mrs. Huffine, District Director
as guest speaker. President
Ray Walton urges full attend
ance.
TURKEY SHOOT
The Long Beach Fire Depart
ment is sponsoring a Turkey
Shoot Saturday, November 19,
Wednesday and Thursday, No
vember 23-24. On the Saturday
date a barbecue dinner will be
served by members of the Fire
Department Auxiliary.
Present Bird Bath
GIFT—The Oak Island Home Demonstration Club pre
sented to their president, Mrs. W. R. Price, a bird bath at
her home on Tuesday. Mrs. Price was elected as Club Wo
man of the Year at the annual achievement banquet in
October. Pictured above from left to right standing Mrs.
Alvin Staley, Mrs. Tom Reading, Mrs. Sam Edwards, Mrs.
George Reader, Mrs. L. B. Throckmorton, Mrs. C. E.
Harrelson, Mrs. Price, Mrs. Gay O’Mirty, Mrs. A. E.
Rozar, Mrs. Georgia King, Mrs. D. S. Staley; kneeling
Mrs. W. R. Dorsett, Miss Cleryl Dorsett, Mrs. Frank
Aman and Mrs. Gilbert.
Sheriff Receives
Taunting Letter
Sheriff E. V. Leonard, defeated
in his quest for reelection at the
General Election last week, has
received a taunting letter pur
portedly signed by W. P. Suggs
of Supply. It cites a refusal by
the sheriff to permit temporary
service as a backdrop for defeat.
Presumably, the letter refers
to action taken a couple of years
ago when a Klu Klux Klan rally
was scheduled between Supply and
Shallotte.
The letter shows that a carbon
copy is being mailed to “Mr.
Robert Jones”. Robert Jones is
Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan
in North Carolina.
Text of the letter to Sheriff
Leonard follows:
“Supply, N. C.
"Nov. 9, 1966
"Mr. Ed Leonard
“EX-SHERIFF
“Brunswick County
“Southport, N. C.
"Dear sir:
“A temporary service can be
very expensive at times, can’t
they V
"I guess you never thought
that the destruction of just ONE
could cost you the Sheriff’s of
fice for an entire term, did you???
“Well things have a way of
taking strange turns of events.
Your NEGRO friends did all that
they could for you, they were
just simply OUTNUMBERED.
“There is one thing that you
seemed to forget Mr. Leonard
that is that the white population
in Brunswick county is larger
than the NEGRO population.
“Please accept my wishes for
a long happy retirement for you.
“Yours Truly
‘ W. P. Suggs’’
Gospel Music
At Waccamaw
ASH—The Conway Gospel
Singers and The Richardson
Family were featured at the
Waccamaw High School audi
torium, Saturday night, as a
Gospel Sing was held for the
benefit of the Special Education
Classes at WHS.
The Conway, S. C. group, heard
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Military Mail
For Overseas
Goes By Air
Acting Postmaster Marjorie
P. Livingston of Southport an
nounced this week that hence
forth all first class mall, per
sonal sound recordings (voice
letters), and parcels weighing
5 pounds or less and measuring
not more than 60 inches in length
and girth combined, will be air
lifted on a space available basis
between the United States and
all military post offices over
seas.
Also, under Public Law 89
725—The Dulski Military Mail
Act—which was signed by Presi
dent Johnson on November 2,
second class publications such
as newspapers and magazines
published weekly or more often,
and featuring current news of
interest to the military, will be
airlifted from San Francisco to
the armed forces serving in Viet
Nam.
Postmaster Livingston ex
plained that parcels weighing 5
pounds or less and not exceeding
60 inches in length and girth com
bined, paid at surface rates, will
be moved by surface transporta
tion within the United States from
the points of mailing to the port
of embarkation.
■ To speed up separation and
delivery of these smaller par
cels falling within this category,
Postmaster General Lawrence
F. O’Brien directed that all par
cels be clearly marked upon ac
ceptance at the post office with
the letters SAM (surface airlift
mail).
This will eliminate the task
of reweighing and measuring the
parcels at the San Francisco
Concentration Center prior to
dispatch to Viet Nam or other
overseas military post offices.
Postmaster Livingston also
reminded mailers that Christ
mas parcels weighing 5 pounds
and under, though they are given
airlift priority from San Fran
cisco to Viet Nam on a space
available basis, should be mailed
no later than December 1. Air
mail, she said, should be sent no
later than December 10.
Film Programs
Now Available
Several new films, especially
recommended for church and
youth groups, have been added to
the North Carolina Adult Film
Project and are now available
through the Southport-Brunswick
County Public Library. Any
group may use these 16-millime
ter films at no charge other than
postage. At least two weeks prior
request must be made before date
the film is to be shown. Films
from this cooperative statewide
library collection may not be
used in elementary or secondary
classrooms nor may they be
used where an admission is to be
charged.
THE LOSERS—A half hour
documentary on the evils of drug
addiction. This film is es
pecially recommended for youth
groups; it could be termed
“preventative medicine” in this
area where drug addiction among
the young is not yet a problem.
THE NEWCOMERS—A de
scription of the resettlement of
a mountain family in a city and of
the cooperation among churches
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Leave From Sunny Point
EMBARKATION — Shown here are elements of the Third Battalion, Eighth Regi
ment, Second Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, as they were about to outload aboard
several naval vessels for training exercises in the Mediterranean area. A total of five
Navy craft were utilized in this operation, which took place recently at the Military
Ocean Terminal, Sunny Point.
Name Knowles
Heart Chairman
For Brunswick
Stan Knowles of Shallotte has
been named president of the
Brunswick County Heart As
sociation.
Knowles, A WVCB disc jockey,
attended Bolivia High School and
the Baylor University of Texas.
He was Heart president in 1965
and received the special Heart
Award. His hobbies are music
and people in general.
As a local branch of the North
Carolina and American Heart
Association the Brunswick Heart
Association provides public in
formation on heart disease, in
forms local doctors and other
health workers of advances in the
treatment of heart disease and
operates community-wide pro
grams to prevent heart disease
or assist victims and their fami
lies.
The Heart Association also
leads the annual Brunswick Heart
Fund drive to support local pro
grams and those of the state and
national organizations. Knowles
reports that plans for the 1967
campaign, to be conducted next
February, are now being drawn.
A major Heart Association
goal, support of research to elim
inate diseases of the heart and
blood vessels, will receive direct
benefit from local groups, Presi
dent Knowles said. Since 1948,
the American Heart Association
has spent more than $110
million on heart research. The
state and national associations
have invested more than $2.7
million in research projects at
North Carolina’s three major
heart research center—UNC,
Duke and Bowman Gray schools
of Medicine. Forty-four scien
tists in North Carolina are now
receiving Heart Association sup
port for research on cardio
vascular disease.
Time And Tide
A headline in The Pilot for November 18, 1936, stated: “Hog
Killing Based on The Weather.” It is easy to see that this was
30-years ago—well before the day of the modern facilities of the
cold storage plant. The second floor of the city hall was being
converted into a recreation room, with preparations already under
way for a formal dedication.
Basketball practice had started at the CCC Camp, and leading
contenders for first team berths were G. W. McGlamery and Tom
Hunt; the Southport Baptists were holding a congregational meet
ing to decided upon a successor for the Rev. T. H. Biles, who
had resigned; and the Rev. E. M. Hall, pastor of Trinity Methodist
Church, was attending annual conference in New Bern and waiting
to find out if he would be back here.
We think 1941 must have been a good year, because quail season
opened on November 20. But fishing also was in the news, Ray
Martin of Winnabow had landed 27 red drum and puppy drum while
surf casting at Long Beach.
Commander Haskell had taken charge of Fort Caswell, which was
to become a Navy Section Base; Mrs. L. C. Fergus had begun
teaching a Nurses Aid Course for the Red Cross; and Lt. L. G.
Brown had been assigned to the Section Base at Southport as medi
cal officer. There were sure signs that the war was closing in.
The time was November 20, 1946, and the first 4-mile stretch of
the River Road—at the other end—was being paved. The Acme
Fertilizer Plant had suffered a $200,000 fire loss.
W. P. Jorgensen, Brunswick county tax collector, was making
his annual fall rounds; it was potato digging time in Brunswicl
with a large yam crop in prospect; and sportsmen had been making
good use of the facilities at Anchor Hotel at Shallotte Point during
the fall fishing season.
Mail delivery six days per week had been approved for Long
Beach; homecoming festivities were slated to be a feature of the
Southport-Shallotte football game on the coming Friday; and a sure
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Check For Library
DONATION — J. A. Stewman, Jr., president of Consoli
dation Construction Co., Inc., makes a donation of $500
to the Brunswick County Library Building Fund. He is
shown here making the presentation to City Manager C.
C. Pickerrell. Stewman, whose company has build the
new sewage disposal plant for Southport, says that citi
zens of the town have been so cooperative in the local
project that it has been a pleasure to work here. He has
made many friends here. Incidentally, he made the gift to
the Library Building Fund on his own birthday.
“Nickels” Election
Set Next Tuesday
Parsonage At
Shallotte Burns
Fire of undetermined origin
destroyed the parsonage of First
Baptist Church at Shallotte early
Tuesday evening when The Volun
teer Fire Department arrived at
the scene about 7:3.0 and dis
covered the flames out of con
trol.
The building and all of its con
tents was destroyed. It was the
home of the Rev. and Mrs, James
P. Lanier, who were away from
home at the time. All of their
personal belongings were de
stroyed.
Uutsides runds
Help Library
Of the $12,000 now on hand
toward erection of a library
building for Brunswick county,
more than one-half, or $8,000,
has been contributed by non
residents of the county.
Grants from foundations ac
count for $5,500. The additional
$2,500 has come from business
firms In adjoining counties; from
up-state owners of beach
property; and from individuals
Interested in having a library
which can keep pace with other
progress in Brunswick county.
Residents of Southport and the
adjoining beaches have given
more than $3,000. Donations
from all the rest of Brunswick
county are slightly under $1,000.
Solicitation of business firms
in the county is to begin next
week. It is hoped that after all
businesses have been contacted,
the requirements for local funds
will be met, and construction can
begin early in 1967.
Next Tuesday is referendum
day for the “Nickels For Know
How Program.” By law, a vote
on this program must be
held every three years. The
program has been in effect since
it received a favorable vote on
November 3, 1951 and this year
will make the sixth time that
users of fertilizer and feed have
had the opportunity to vote. In
the five previous elections 246,
861 votes have been cast in favor
of the program and 22,106 have
been against it. This is a total
vote of approval of 12 to one.
The referendum will seek
to determine whether users of
feed and fertilizer in North Caro
lina wish to continue the assess
ment of 5 cents for each ton of
feed and fertilizer purchased.
The assessment is collected from
the manufacturer by the N. C.
Department of Agriculture and
the cost is added to the price of
feed and fertilizer. All per
sons who use feed or fertilizer
and their wives or husbands are
eligible to vote in this referen
dum, including members of youth
organizations who have crop or
livestock projects.
Funds from this program are
used to promote Agricultural Re
search, Education and Extension
at the School of Agriculture and
Life Sciences at N. C. State Uni
versity.
Some of the activities that have
been paid for through the Nickels
Program include: Research as
sistants in genetics, dairy cattle
breeding, animal nutrition, vege
tables, tobacco, insects, black
shank, blueberries, poultry,
physiology, nematodes, witch
weed, soil fertility, corn breed
ing, cotton marketing, milk pro
duction, soybeans and forage
crops. In addition to these re
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Plan Study Of
Resources Of
County Labor
Representatives of the Em
ployment Security Commission
of North Carolina met Monday
night with the Resources Devel
opment Commission for Bruns
wick county to explain the Smaller
Communities Program, accord
ing to an announcement this week
by W, A. Powell.
The Smaller Communities
Program is a service of the Em
ployment Security Commission
of North Carolina designed to as
sist rural counties in their devel
opment programs, Powell stated.
Ben E. Johnson, Smaller Com
munities Program Supervisor,
from Raleigh outlined the
program and the advantages of
such a program for rural coun
ties. Attending the meeting with
Johnson representing the Em
ployment Security Commission
were Henry I. Shepherd, Field
Supervisor of the Wilmington
Fayetteville ESC Administra
tive Area, and Don P. Hudson,
manager of the Wilmington of
fice of the ESC.
Other guests at the meeting
were Archie Martin, Brunswick
County Extension Agent, T. S.
Bowmer, Brunswick County Co
ordinator SENCland Community
Action Program, and Marshall
Shepard, Commerce and Industry
Division, N. C. Department Con
servation and Development.
Johnson explained that the
ESC program will compile a
report on the county’s manpower
resources along with assisting
in finding suitable employment,
referring applicants to voca
tional training and employment
counseling. The program will
also test applicants to determine
their suitability for industrial
employment.
Powell reports that the Re
sources Development Commis
sion voted to make every effort
to secure the services of the
ESC mobile team to make this
study of Brunswick county early
in 1967.
Many Duties
Of Draft Board *
It is a local draft board’s
responsibility, under law and
regulations, to decide, subject
to appeal, the class in which each
man registered with it shall be
placed.
Each man is considered as
available for military service
until his eligibility for defer
ment or exemption from mili
tary service is clearly estab
lished to the satisfaction of the
local board.
The board is obligated to
receive all pertinent informa
tion on classification presented
it, says H. A. Livingston, chair
man. Other members are Edgar
Finch and Clifton White.
Mailing by the local board of a
classification questionnaire to
the latest address furnished by a
man is notice to him that he will
be classified in I-A, unless in
formation is presented to the
local board, with the time speci
fied for return of the question
naire, which will justify his de
ferment or exemption.
Unless the local board gives
him added time, the man must
return the questionnaire filled
out within 10 days from date it
was mailed. Livingston points
to this paragraph in the Selective
Service regulations which the
board must always keep in mind:
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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, November 17,
11:27 A M 5:04 A M
11:45 P M 5:52 P M
Friday, November 18,
12:21 A M 5:52 A M
6:46 P M
Saturday, November 19,
0:39 A M 6:46 A M
1:09 P M 7:40 P M
Sunday, November 20,
1:33 A M 7:46 A M
2:03 P M 8:34 P M
Monday, November 21,
2:33 A M 8:46 A M
2:57 P M 9:22 P M
Tuesday, November 22,
3:27 A M 9:46 A M
3:45 P M 10:10 P M
Wednesday, November 23,
4:15 A M 10:40 A M
4:33 P M 10:58 P M