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VOLUME 38
No. 25
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SOUTHPORT, N. C.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1966
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Promoted To Captain
PROMOTED — First Lieutenant John P. Boylin, Jr., Assistant to the Director, Mili
tary Ocean Terminal, Sunny Point, has recently been promoted to the rank of Captain
Photograph shows Mrs. Boylin and Lt. Colonel Charles B. Shiveley, terminal executive
officer, each pinning bars on the shoulders of the new captain.
Raise Deposit
For Maternity
Hospital Care
The board of trustees of Dosh
er Hospital approved an increase
from $50 to $100 for the ad
mission of all maternity patients
at their regular monthly meet
ing Wednesday night.
The board also approved plans
for the laboratory to purchase
some new equipment to include
a binocular microscope, steri
lizer, centerifuge, incubator and
smaller items. The new equip
ment will increase the accuracy
of all lab work done and de
crease the amount of lab work
that has to be sent to other
laboratories for testing that it
has been unable to do. Request
for routine lab work by the physi
cian for the patient will increase.
The installation of the sterilizer
and incubator will establish a
department of bacteriology with
in the laboratory.
Donations for improvement
of Dosher Hospital continue to
come in. Pictures for the hall
ways and rooms have been con
tributed by Mrs. Holly A. Dut
ton, Southport, Mr. and Mrs.
H. O. Clark, Long Beach, and
the Ocean View Methodist
Church, Long Beach. Mrs. Dutton
also has contributed curtains
for the hospital rooms. Pawnee
FormyDuval has donated two
chairs for room number 30. Mrs.
Dan Harrelson donated enough
paint to repaint room number 11.
More curtains for the second
floor patient rooms have been
contributed by the Oak Island
Home Demonstration Club. Baby
blankets, sheets, shirts, baby
basket and baby crib have been
donated by the Live Oak Garden
club of Southport.
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HOSPITAL PATIENT
Edward Lindner is con
valescing from an operation per
formed last week at Memorial
Hospital in Chapel Hill.
CHURCH BAZAAR
The annual bazaar of the women
of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church,
Southport, will be held on Friday
from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. in
the Parish House.
SCOTCH FOURSOME
A Scotch Foursome will be
played at Oak Island Golf Club
Sunday, followed by a dinner
Sunday evening. Trophies will be
awarded winners in the recent
club tournament.
BENEFIT DINNER
The WSCS of Shiloh Methodist
Church, Leland, will sponsor a
benefit dinner at the church on
Saturday. The menu will consist
of either turkey and dressing or
baked ham, and a variety of
vegetables. Homemade pies and
cakes will also be on sale. Pro
ceeds will go to the building fund.
Serving will begin at 6 o’clock.
The public is invited.
Shallotte Plans
Christmas Parade
Final plans are being made
for the annual parade and Christ
mas opening by the merchants
and businessmen of Shallotte
which is schedule for Thursday
afternoon at 4:30 o’clock.
Twenty units have already been
entered and others are expected
to come according to Thomas
Batson, chairman of the float
committee. Commercial floats
with pretty girls, Smokey The
Bear, Holsum and other at
tractive units are included in
the parade which promises to be
‘the biggest and best yet.’
Included in the bands already
secured for the parade are
the Columbus County High School
Band, the Brunswick County
High School Band and the ROTC
Drill Team and Color Guard
which will carry colors.
Santa will arrive in traditional
style, probably aboard the big
red fire truck which will parade
the full length of town along U. S.
17, beginning at the Northern
city limits.
Decorations are being in
stalled in the stores to make
ready for the gala event. The
shelves of the stores are being
stocked with gift items and
most all merchandise has taken
on a Christmas glow.
“Uncle Charlie’, the popular
personality who has been heard
many times on WVCB Radio, but
never seen, will make the first
appearance in public and serve
as parade marshal.
Christmas Ball
Helps Library
On the night of December 9 the
Southport Junior Womens Club
will hold a gala Christmas Ball
at the Boiling spring Lakes Coun
try Club. Music will be provided
by the 16-piece Wilmington Com
munity Orchestra and proceeds
will be donated to the Southport
Brunswick County Library Build
ing Fund.
Tickets will be sold by all
Southport Junior Womens Club
members or reservations may
be made by calling Mrs. Afton
Smith, Jr., Mrs. Richard Con
rad, Mrs. A. R. Turner, Jr.,
or Mrs. Norman Hornstein.
As the Country Club will
accommodate only 400 people,
those planning on attending are
urged to make their reserva
tions as soon as possible.
The Boiling Spring Lakes
Country Club has been made
available for the Christmas Ball
by Arthur Greene, who wrote
that the future residents of Boil
ing Spring Lakes will certainly
benefit from the new library.
The Wilmington Community
Orchestra is being provided for
the occasion by the American
Federation of Musicians.
The Wilmington Community
Orchestra is under the direction
of Prof. William F. Adcock of
the Wilmington College Music
Department. Dr. Richard Con
rad, Southport dentist, will be
featured on the saxophone.
Dress will be formal or semi
formal.
Adult Classes
At Waccamaw
ASH—Waccamaw High School,
in cooperation with the Cape
Fear Technical Institute, is plan
ning to provide adult education
opportunities for residents of the
Waccamaw area.
Waccamaw Principal John G.
Long has said that past par-1
ticipation in these courses has
been so great and interest has
been expressed for more of the
same is the cause of the con
tinuation of the program.
A meeting was held the past
Tuesday night at the school and
another is set for Thursday night
Dec. 1, at 7 o’clock, also at the
school. Any person desiring to
enter classes are urged by Prin
cipal Long to come on out to the
school at this time.
Long said courses would be
offered in the following subjects,
interested:
Basic Education I, for adults
who need to improve reading,
writing and math skills, no cost;
Basic Education II, for those
who wish similar instruction on
the upper elementary level, no
cost; Secondary Education ], for
adults who dropped out of high
school in the 9th or 10th grade
and wish to work toward high
school equivalency, Cost, $4.25
for books; Secondary Education
H, for those who wish to review
the 11th and 12th grades work in
preparation for high school
equivalency, cost, $4.75 for
books.
Modern Math for Parents, brief
introductory course for the bene
fit of parents who want more in
formation about the new method
of teaching math in the public
schools Business Education,
to include typing, shorthand and
bookkeeping; Arc Welding, a be
ginning course for those interest
ed in learning the fundamentals
of welding.
Financing Is
Student Topic
The guidance committee of
Union High School has planned
a series of meetings with the
parents of juniors and seniors in
the school district to acquaint
them with procedures and re
sponsibilities relative to college
attendance.
An introduction to these meet
ings was given by Mrs. I. B.
Hankins, coordinator of guid
ance, at the regular Parent
Teachers Association meeting on
November 22.
The first meeting of the series
will be held Friday evening, at
6:30 p.m. at the school. Topic
for discussion at this time will
be “Financing A College Educa
tion For Your Child”. Consul
tant for the occasion will be
Aubry Johnston, vice president,
Waccamaw Bank and Trust Com
pany, Shallotte. All parents
with children in the junior or
senior class as well as those
with children already in college
are asked to be present. It
is necessary that this meeting
begin promptly at 6;30 as another
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Meeting Should
Help Map Plans
For Agriculture
Brunswick County farmers and
others interested ii agriculture
will meet with officials from
North Carolina State University
tomorrow (Thursday) to discuss
current developments in agricul
ture and the School of Agri
culture and Life Sciences atN.C.
State.
The meeting in Supply will be
held for people from New Han
over, Pender and Columbus coun
ties. Starting time is 7:30 p. m.
in the County Extension Service
Building. County Extension
Chairman Archie F. Martin, said
the meeting will be part of a
series of similar meetings
scheduled across North Caro
lina this winter. The series is
sponsored by the School of Agri
culture and Life Sciences and the
Agricultural Foundation.
Objectives of the meetings are
to let the local people share their
ideas with the university of
ficials and to report on the
university’s agricultural activi
ties.
Those appearing on the pro
gram from the university include
Dr. Brooks James, Dean of the
School of Agriculture, Dr.
-George Hyatt, Director of Ex
tension, and Dr. E. w. Glazener,
Dean of Instruction.
Similar meetings were held
throughout the state in 1964 and
were termed a “huge success”
by both local people who attend
ed and by those representing N.C.
State. “It offers us a wonder
ful opportunity to exchange ideas
and to become better informed
about problems and concerns at
the grass roots level,” university
officials said in announcing the
meetings.
Invited to attend the meeting
are farm, business and legis
lative leaders; members of
extension advisory boards; rep
resentatives of agricultural
agencies; vocational agriculture
teachers and their students; and
other people interested in agri
culture or N. C. State.
Contributes To
New Handbook
The School of Education at
East Carolina College, in co
operation with various school
officials, mainly from Eastern
North Carolina, has prepared a
new handbook of maintenance and
operational procedures for
school administrators.
The school officials who wrote
the articles in he handbook have
all completed or are enrolled in
the sixth-year graduate program
in ECC’s School of Education.
The articles cover various
phases in the maintenance of
public school property.
Ralph King, assistant super
intendent of Brunswick County
Schools, contributed an article
on “The School Heating Plant—
The Boiler.”
Dr. Ralph Brimley, professor
in the School of Education, direct
ed the preparation of the hand
book. Ronald T. Chuchola of
Goldey Beacom Junior College
in Wilmington, Del., served as
editor and John W. Moore of New
Bern High School as assistant
editor.
Dr. Brimley says the publi
cation starts a series to be con
tinued during the coming years.
It is hoped, he adds, that the
series will be “useful and prac
tical to school administrators
because of the lack of printed
material on school operation and
maintenance.”
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Brunswick In Running For Site
Of Oceanography Experiments
Study Development Commission
VISIT — Four persons were in Southport Tuesday to make a study of the plan and
operation of the Brunswick County Resources Development Commission. They were
left to right — seated: Dr. R. G. Townsend, chairman of Hoke County Planning & De
velopment Commission, and Jim Fout, director, with George Gold, Regional Represen
tative for North Carolina Department of Conservation & Development, standing left,
and W. A. Powell, chairman of Resources Development Commission for Brunswick
.County, ^ ...
Congressman To
Visit County
For Two Days
Congressman Alton A. Lennon
has been making the rounds of
the Seventh Congressional Dis
trict during the past few weeks
during the adjournment period
of the second session of the 89th
Congress, and next week he will
be in Brunswick county.
On Monday and Tuesday he
will be in the District office to
fill appointments and to attend
to his mall.
Next Wednesday he will be
visiting throughout Brunswick
County and on next Thursday he
will be at the courthouse from
9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. He will be
back in his Wilmington office
on Friday.
“While I was able to fulfill
numerous speaking engagements
in the District during the first
six months of the Session,” said
Congressman Lennon, “the ex
tremely heavy legislative calen
dar, as well as the late Congres
sional adjournment, limited my
visits in recent months."
“In traveling throughout each
county, I shall continue my ef
forts to learn, by personal dis
cussion with our people, some
of their problems in connection
with our National Government,”
he said.
Time And Tide
i
Announcement was made in The Pilot for December 2, 1936
that the submarine Perch would visit Southport on her shakedown
cruise. There was news, too, of another vessel. The menhaden
boat “Captain” had run aground during a storm and had sunk with
all hands aboard being saved.
A “hot Sulphur spring” promised to speed development for Fort
Caswell as a resort; a Shell oil tanker was stranded in the Southport
harbor due to shortages in her crew; and Southport had just had its
first taste of real winter weather for the season as the temperature
dropped to 25-degrees on November 28.
Five years later there was a front page weather report which
classified the November just past as being “warm and dry”. The
lowest reading for the month was 31-degrees. This and other news
was recorded in our publication for December 3, 1941.
There was a front page piece which declared “Bolivia Automobile
Man Has Interesting Hobby.” That was J. A. Elmore, and the “hobby”
referred to was a nursery for growing azaleas and camellias—some
thing that later developed into a very profitable venture for him.
There also was a front page story telling that tobacco graders—those
with a true talent for the business of separating the good weed from
the bad—were much in demand.
The time was December 4, 1946, and officials at Shallotte had
placed a ban on the use of fireworks in that town. Bill Wells had
begun construction of a marine railway at his seafood packing house in
Southport.
Book covers were being distributed to school children, and the
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New Industry Will
Start At Shallotte
Brunswick county’s newest in
dustry, Highlander, Ltd., will be
in operation shortly before the
end of the year, it was announced
by company officials yesterday.
Highlander, a leading manu
facturer of ladies’ knit sports
wear, will initially employ about
50 workers in Shallotte, where
stretch slacks will be cut and
sewn. By late spring it is ex
pected to have over 300 em
ployees in a new, modern build
ing in the center of the county.
President of Highlander, Ltd.
is Herbert Rounick, who at age
35 was President of Spartans
Industries and one of the youngest
company presidents of a New
York Stock Exchange listed cor
poration. Rounick’s entire busi
ness experience was with Maro
Industries, a manufacturer and
distributor of men’s and women’s
apparel, which had a volume of
approximately $50,000,000 a
year. In 1965, after merging his
company with Spartans, he as
sumed the presidency of a com
pany which has an annual volume
of $250,000,000 and employs 10,
000 people in 19 plants. He re
signed from Spartans to form
Highlander.
Highlander is a completely
vertical operation. It knits its
own fabrics and makes a finished
garment. Other Highlander
plants are located in Morganton,
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Moose Lodge
In Operation
Oak Island Moose Lodge 2059
was instituted in October with
102 charter members, and as of
this date has increased to 155
members.
The following officers were
appointed by the State Supreme
Lodge; Governor, L. D. Jones;
Junior Governor, Carl Watkins,
Jr.; Prelate, James M. John
son; Secretary, Harold H.
Bird; Treasurer, Dan Shan
non; Sergeant-At-Arms, James
F. Howard; Inner Guard, H. R.
Duncan; Outer Guard, Koscoe
Rogers, Jr., Trustees, E. W.
Morgan, Archie A. Dixon and Gib
son V. Barbee.
The Lodge will meet each
Wednesday night at 8 o’clock
at the Yaupon Beach bingo build
ing, which will serve as a lodge
hall until May at which time
members hope to move into their
own building.
Visitors Study
County Program
The operation of the Resources
Development Commission for
Brunswick county was outlined
to a representative group from
Hoke county Tuesday, according
to W. A. Powell, chairman of the
commission.
Powell stated that Dr. R. G.
Townsend, chairman, and Jim
Fout, director, of the newly or
ganized Hoke County Planning
and Development Commission
met with Roy A. Stevens, director
of the Resources Development
Commission for Brunswick coun
ty, to discuss the local operation
to guide them in setting up the
Hoke county organization.
The Resources Development
Commission is considered a
model operation in Eastern North
Carolina. Other county rep
resentatives have visited the area
to see first hand what Brunswick
is doing in the promotion of
economic development.
George Gold, regional rep
resentative of the North Caro
lina Department of Conservation
and Development, joined the
group in the discussion.
Powell stated that itisapleas
ure to have other counties use
Brunswick county as a model.
“We meet with these delegations
to advertise Brunswick county,”
he said. “Each delegation has
its own questions, and we attempt
to give them the best information
that is available.”
Gospel Sing At
Ash To Benefit
Special Classes
ASH--A Country and Gospel
Jamboree will be held at Wac
camaw School auditorium, Satur
day night, Dec. 3 at 8 o’clock.
Mrs. Myrle Evans, an instruc
tor of special education at the
school said that the proceeds
from the Jamboree will be used
to benefit the special education
classes at the school.
Among the personalities in lo
cal and area country and gospel
music that are scheduled to ap
pear to entertain those attending
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W. A. Powell, Chairman of
the Resources Development
Commission for Brunswick coun
ty said today that information
has been received that Dr. Harris
Stewart and representatives Of
the Environmental Science Serv
ices Administration's evaluation
team will visit Brunswick coun
ty on J anuary 6.
Powell stated thatthe commis
sion has worked with the North
Carolina Department of Con
servation and Development for
several months in preparing in
formation which was presented
to ESSA in Rockville, Maryland,
on October 31.
The presentation was made by
the Department of Conservation
and Development on behalf of
North Carolina and the two areas
of the state that are being con
sidered by ESSA. These are
Carteret county and the Cape
Fear Area of Brunswick and New
Hanover counties.
Carteret and New Hanover
counties each have one site and
Brunswick county has five sites
that will be shown to the evalu
ation team headed by Dr.
Stewart.
ESSA has a fou-teen point
criteria which was provided to
each area of the state by Marshall
L. Sheppard of the Department
of Conservation and Development
staff. Roy A. Stevens, Director
of the Resources Development
Commission for Brunswick
county, and representatives of
Carteret and New Hanover coun
ties worked with Sheppard and
the Technical Studies Depart
ment of C & D in the preparation
of the material that has been
presented to ESSA.
Dan E. Stewart, Director of
the Department of Conservation
and Development, headed up
the North Carolina delegation
that presented the state’s pro
posal to ESSA.
It is reported that the Oceano
graphic Center to be established
by ESSA will have an annual!
budget of approximately three
million dollars and will employ
approximately 350 people. Essa
now has three research vessel
and plans for additional ships in
the future.
Powell declared that the com
mission is at present preparing
additional information to be pre
sented to the ESSA representa
tives when they visit Brunswick
county in January.
“We have provided detailed
Information one each of the
fourteen points of the ESSA cri
teria and Brunswick county caii
meet the requirements,” Powell
stated. "There are several
states competing for this proj
ect, but we feel that Brunswick
county has many advantages to
offer this particular project.”
“ESSA has allocated only one
day to look over the sites in the
Cape Fear Area and we will
have an extremely tight sched
ule to cover the many points
that are on the agenda for the
day,” Powell said.
Several local representatives
will join the delegation while they
are in Brunswick county, but the
complete list cannot be determin
ed until further information is
received from ESSA.
A copy of the North Carolina
Proposal was reviewed by mem
bers of the Resources Develop
ment Commission for Brunswick
county at their November meet
ing.
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, December i,
9:57 A M 3:46 A M
10:15 P M 4:34 P M
Friday, December 2,
10:45 A M 4:34 A M
11:09 P M 5:28 P M
Saturday, December S,
11:39 A M 5:28 A M
6:22 P M
Sunday, December 4,
0:15 A M 6:34 A M
12:39 P M 7:16 P M
Monday, December 5,
1:21 A M 7:40 A M
1:39 P M 8:16 P M
Tuesday, December 6,
2:21 A M 8:46 A M
2:45 P M 9:16 P M
Wednesday, December 7,
3:27 A M 9:52 A M
3^45 P M 10:16 P M