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VOLUME 38
No. 29
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SOUTHPORT, N. C.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1966
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Commanding Officer Gets Promotion
PINNING — Lt. Col. Archie B. Joyner, Jr., Commanding Officer of the Sunny Point
Military Ocean Terminal, was promoted to full Colonel, effective December 23. Lt Col
Charles B. Shiveley, Terminal Executive Officer, and Mrs. Joyner are shown pinning a
set of Eagles on the new Colonel.
Du Pont Asks
For Dredging
On Cape Fear
The Du Pont Co. has applied
for a permit to excavate in the
Cape Fear River, Maj. Leon E.
McKinney, acting district engi
neer of the Corps of Engineers
announced Saturday.
Purpose of the excavation,
which would be upstream from
the mouth of the Black River in
Brunswick County, is for con
struction of a river water inlet
and pump house.
Plans submitted show that ap
proximately 1,500 cubic yards of
material are to be removed from
the south side of the river to an
elevation of eight feet below mean
low water.
Excavated material is to be
deposited on shore in a soil bank
about 500 feet from the river's
edge.
Riprap is to be placed along
the mouth of the inlet to pre
vent erosion. Plans showing the
proposed work may be seen in the
corps of Engineers office and in
Hie Post Offices at Wilmington
and Leland.
Maj, McKinney has requested
that in order for an accurate and
complete record, all data in
support of or in opposition to the
proposed work should be sub
mitted in writing setting forth
sufficient detail to furnish a
clear understanding of the rea
sons for support or opposition.
The determination as to
whether a permit will be issued
must rest primarily upon the
effect of the work on navigation,
Maj. McKinney said.
He added that other pertinent
factors, including fish and wild
life conservation aspects, will be
accepted and made part of the
record and will be considered in
determining whether it would be
in the best public interest to
grant a permit.
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CORRECTION
Last week we carried an
announcement in our advertising
section to the effect that privi
lege licenses now are due at
Yaupon Beach. This should have
been for Long Beach, and ap
propriate corrections have been
made in the advertisement which
appears today.
VISITOR FROM PARIS
Mrs. Peggy King, from Paris,
France, is visiting her sister,
Mrs. Jo Norman, for the Christ
mas holidays. Mrs. King has
been with the Defense Depart
ment, NATO, for the past eleven
years.
HOLIDAY VISITORS
Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Bur
gess of Durham were the guests
of Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Gore over
the holidays. Mr. Burgess will
receive his Masters Degree in
Forestry Business Administra
tion in January from Duke Uni
versity and has accepted a posi
tion with Kirby Lumber Corpora
tion in Houston, Texas. Mrs.
Burgess is the former Lola Mae
Gore.
Homecoming Queen
CROWNED — Miss Patricia Watts, member of the
Junior Class, is crowned Homecoming Queen at Wacca
maw High School by Principal John G. Long.
Two Deer Hunters
Struck By Train
Two Brunswick county deer
hunters feel like Santa Claus
came to see them one day late
this year as they escaped with
minor injuries Monday morning
when their car was hit by a rail
road locomotive.
But this gift of a second chance
at life is deeply appreciated by
James L. Bullard of Winnabow,
father of three, and by Dexter
Robbins, jr. At Dosher Me
morial Hospital in Southport,
Tuesday, they had trouble trying
to describe their emotions, but
there was no doubt that they both
felt lucky to be alive.
The accident occurred about
8;30 o’clock when they turned
off the road crossing the dam
at Boiling Spring Lakes to go to
the Big Boiling Spring and their
car was struck by a diesel loco
motive heading from Sunny Point
to the railroad junction near
Leland. Their car, a late model
Ford, was knocked clear of the
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Miss Watts Is
Chosen Queen
Patricia Watts, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Watts of Ash,
N. c., was recently selected
Homecoming Queen of Waccamaw
High School, she is a junior
and intends to become a class
room teacher.
Miss Watts was chosen from
a group of 11 contestants on the
basis of beauty, poise and talent.
The queen was crowned by prin
cipal John G. Long.
Other contestants were Wanda
Duncan, Wanda Hughes, Olive
Inman, Rickie Dutton, Brenda
Milligan, Vallie Redwine, Jean
Ward, Barbara Faulk, Cathy
Russ and Jeanette Mintz,
Judges were Hugh David Vance
of whiteville, Mrs. Lola Rose
Hogg of Bolivia and Mrs. Michel
Russ of Shallotte,
Schedule For
New Years Day j
All city and county offices
will be closed Monday In ob
servance of New Year’s day.
The board of county commis
sioners will hold their regular
first of the month meeting on
Tuesday. The banks, savings
and loan offices and many busi
ness places also will be closed
Monday.
Schools of Brunswick county
will reopen Tuesday morning fol
lowing the Christmas holidays.
Southport Man
Now Captain
Captain Fred J. Smith, Jr., of
Southport, has just completed an
Intensive ten-week military law
course at the United States Army
Judge Advocate General’s School,
School Commandant, Colonel
Lewis F, Shull, announced this
week.
Captain Smith, a lawyer on ac
tive duty in the Army Judge Ad
vocate General’s Corps, was
commissioned an officer in the
Army’s legal corps after being
selected on the basis of his out
standing college and law school
record.
Lawyers newly commissioned
into the Army’s legal corps come
from all fifty states to the Judge
Advocate General’s School,
where they undertake Intensive
instruction In military law. Fa
vorably located on the Grounds
of the University of Virginia In
Charlottesville, Virginia, this
U. S. Army School is an approved
law school rated by the American
Bar Association inspectors as
having the outstanding
specialized graduate law pro
gram in the country. The only
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Good Housing
In Prospect
For Brunswick
The U. S. Department of
Agriculture’s Farmers Home
Administration is better equipped
to handle the housing credit needs
of low and moderate Income
Brunswick County families as a
result of legislation recently
signed Into law, according to
Parks c. Fields, Farmers Home
Administration county super
visor.
Fields said the Demonstra
tion Cities and Metropolitan De
velopment Act, signed last
month by President Johnson,
makes It possible for a broad
er range of Brunswick county
families to qualify for housing
credit under expanded housing
loan authorities of the Farmers
Home Administration.
The new legislation Fields con
tinued, makes more mortgage
credit available to low and mod
erate Income families In Bruns
wick county by increasing the
level of activity of the agency’s
rural housing loan program.
Here are some of the other
changes in the rural housing loan
program administered by Bruns
wick County Farmers Home
Administration;
—Many Brunswick county fam
ilies who had to go the long route
of planning, contracting and
building a house can now buy
newly constructed buildings. Be
fore the new legislation, these
families could only purchase pre
viously occupied buildings.
—Qualified low-income fami
lies can now obtain housing credit
from Farmers Home Ad
ministration on the basis of a
cosigner. Previously, only those
rural persons 62 years and older
qualified for this assistance.
—The new legislation In
creases from $1,000 to $1,500
the maximum amount of as
sistance the agency can make for
emergency repairs or improve
ments to owner-occupied rural
housing or farm service build
ings. This credit is not | de
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Wage & HourV
Law Applicable
The application of the amend
ed Fair Labor Standards Act to
1,471,000 employees of hospitals
and nursing homes is highlighted
In a new pamphlet just issued by
the United States Department of
Labor’s Wage and Hour and
Public Contracts Divisions.
Beginning February 1, 1967,
the amended Act will apply for
the first time to hospitals and
nursing homes, whether public or
private, except hospitals ope
rated by the Federal government.
Employees of such Institutions,
unless specifically exempt, will
be entitled to a minimum wage
of at least $1 an hour. The
minimum wage advances by an
nual steps of 15 cents each year
to a $1.60 an hour starting Feb
ruary 1, 1971.
Hospital employees may be
entitled to overtime pay of one
and one-half times the employees
regular rate of pay after 44 hours,
effective February 1, 1967, 42
hours beginning February 1,
1968, and 40 hours on and after
February 1, 1969. The Act has a
special provision for hospital
employees who have an agree
ment for a fixed work period of
14 consecutive days which allows
the payment of overtime over 8
hours In a workday and In excess
of 80 hours In the 14 day period.
Employees of nursing homes
are exempt from the overtime
provisions of the Act If paid at
least one and one-half times their
regular rate of pay for all hours
worked over 48 In a workweek.
The new pamphlet sets forth
in some detail these require
ments as well as the equal day,
child labor and record-keeping
provisions of the Act.
First From This End
Four-Lane Project For Highway 74
Ashley Morphy
Carl Meares
Cteoife StenbMk
Honors Gray Ladies
AWARDS — Mrs. May Barbee is shown presenting badges to Gray Lady Volunteer
Hospital Workers Mrs. Evelyn Dosher, Mrs. Jo Norman. Mrs. Mary Bellows and Mrs.
Lavada Bevel.
Receive Bids
For Dredging
On Waterway
Colonel Beverly c. Snow, Jr.,
has opened bids submitted by six
dredging contractors for main
tenance dredging of the Atlantic
Intracoastal waterway between
the Neuse River and Little
River, S. C.
The apparent low bidder was
J. A. LaPorte, Inc., of Arlington,
Virginia, with a low bid of $201,
800, and the bids received ranged
as high as $322,159. The govern
ment estimate was $202,980,
based on a unit price of 27.8?
per cubic yard, as compared with
LaPorte’s bid of 28? per cubic
yard. The work will consist of
removing an estimated 710,000
cubic yards of material to afford
tiie authorized 12-feet depth to
sports and commercial craft
using the Waterway. The au
thorized channel width is 90 feet
in land cuts and ranges up to
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Time And Tide
When you live beside the sea there are tales of shipwreck and
rescue, and such a story was going the rounds In Southport during
the week following Christmas In 1936. A Greek freighter, the Mount
Dlrfeys, had run aground and had broken In two on Frying Pan
Shoals. Her crew had abandoned ship, had been rescued and were
being quartered at the U. S. Quarantine Station in Southport.
All if this was reported in our edition for December 30, which
also had reported that otherwise the Christmas in Southport had been
uneventful. Another group of visitors for whom preparations were
being made was the crew of the submarine Perch, which was due here
in two weeks on a shake-down cruise. Also on a nautical note, there
was encouragement for a project to dig a yacht basin at Southport.
Blackout drills were being carried out in Southport during Christ
mas week of 1941, for World war n was not then three weeks old.
That was reported in our December 31 issue of The Pilot. Peacetime
pyrotechnics also were causing their troubles, and a firecracker
had shattered the windshield of the Prince O’Brien family car on a
trip from Wilmington late at night. (The Banker’s first thought
was that he was being bombed!)
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Mrs. Connie Young
Woman Of Year
Light Contest
Winners Named
Winners of the annual South
port Christmas lighting contest
were announced this week by
the Southport Women’s Club,
sponsors of the event. Winners
were:
Frettiest overall decoration,
first place, Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Oliver; second place, Mr. and
Mrs. Lewis Hardee; honorable
mention, Mr. and Mrs, w. P.
Lee and Mr. and Mr» T ii"l Ross.
Prettiest door, first place, Dr.
and Mrs. Landis Brown; second
place, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Smith;
honorable mention, Mrs. w. B.
Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Potter and Mr. and Mrs. Hubert
Livingston.
Living tree, first place, Mr.
and Mrs. W. A. Russ; second
place, Rev. and Mrs. R. R. Childs;
honorable mention, Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Donnell and Mr. and Mrs.
James Harper.
Most unusual decoration, first
place, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Young;
second place, Mr. and Mrs.
James Bowman; honorable men
tion, Mr. George Swain and Mr.
and Mrs. G. E. Hubbard.
Retail Sales
Still Advance
Retail sales in Brunswick
county for the month of October
exceeded 2 million dollars, ac
cording to a report received this
week by the Resources Develop
ment commission.
October was the fourth month
In 1966 to exceed the 2 million
mark compared to only one month
In 1965, Sales in the months of
June, July and August In addition
to October set records for the
year. Only July In 1965 was In
excess of the two million mark.
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The end of the year meeting
of the Junior Woman’s Club of
Southport was held December
21 with a varied and Interesting
program.
Mrs. Mary Bellows, Mrs.
Lavada Bevel, Mrs. Evelyn Dosh
er and Mrs. Jo Norman were
special guests. These are Gray
Lady Volunteer Hospital Work
ers. Mrs. Dosher and Mrs. Nor
man were presented badges for
one year required hours served
and Mrs. Bellows and Mrs. Bevel
were presented their tldrd year
bars. Dr. Norman Hornsteln
congratulated the ladles and ex
pressed his appreciation for the
excellent service they have given
the local hospital.
One of the highlights of the
evening was the presentation of
the Club Woman of the Year
Award, K ~ Duffle Pewter Bowl,
to Mrs. Connie Young by retiring
president Mrs. Edythe Smith.
Mrs. Young has participated In
every project the club has had
this year, In addition to being one
of the club’s publicity directors.
She helped with the March of
Dimes Campaign and the door to
door Library Building Fund
drive. Connie was a member of
the cast In a play presented by the
club In May. In June, she gave two
weeks time to the swimming
classes sponsored by the club.
She helped with the Club’s Sixth
Annual Arts Festival held over
the Fourth of July weekend. She
styled the models hair for a
fashion show sponsored by die
club In November and helped with
decorations and clean-up for
the Christmas Ball Benefit for
the Southport-Brunswick County
Public Library Building Fund
held at the Bolling Spring Lakes
Country Club In December. Con
nie is a member of Southport
Baptist Church, she has three
children, owns and operates Con
nie’s Coiffures and works part
time at Kirby’s Prescription
Center.
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By STEVE WALL
Endorsements from the im
mediate and remote sections
were voiced Wednesday after
noon at Delco in support of ex
panding and modernizing high
way 74 to four lanes from Bolton
to Leland with no objections but
questions about the effect on
business mouses and homes along
tite way.
Several citizens of the Delco
section and farther west wanted
to know how much of their pro
perty would be absorbed by the
expansion, how their businesses
would be affected during the con
struction period and would there
be compensation, for one, for the
loss of business while the building
of the new link is in progress.
Sixth District Highway Com
missioner Carl Meares of Fair
Bluff told the gathering of nearly
100 that highway people would see
to it that every property owner
and others Involved would be
treated fairly and justly but,
“I want you to know we are going
to build this road.”
Representatives were present,
and spoke, from New Hanover
county, Brunswick county, Anson
county and at least a third of the
assembly was from Columbus
county.
Facts pertaining to the im
provement are these:
The 20-mile section from Le
land to Bolton at the intersec
tion with N. C. 211 wUl be four
lane with each lane being 24
feet wide and a median ranging
in width from 30 feet to 66
feet depending on the final design.
Plans for the lower section,
in Brunswick county, are sched
uled to be ready February 1 and
March 1 for the second section
from the county line to Bolton.
Each property owner abutting
on tiie new highway will have ac
cess to the road but crossovers
from one lane to the other will
vary and thus no assurance was
given that a crossover will be op
posite each entrance to the high
way.
The new lane will parallel the
existing lane in its entirety on the
north side except in the Maco
section where it will switch to
the south side.
The eastern terminus of the
new sections will end at the At
lantic Coast Line railroad cross
ing at Leland, and It was reported
that discussions are underway
now pertaining to improving the
remainder of the highway to Wil
mington.
Highway Commissioner Ap
praisers will be In the area in
coming weeks to consult with
respective property owners about
the necessary relocating of va
rious buildings.
The median will be 30 feet wide
all Hie way through Delco.
Commissioner Meares told the
group that "we hope to build
a tour lane highway on 74 all
Hie way to the mountains,” add
ing, "In a few months we will haw
something to tell you about ex >
tending the tour-lane road t )
Hallsboro and in about a year
something about carrying it on
to Lumberton.”
Mrs. Betty Lee of the Delco
community posed numerous
questions concerning how much
land the expansion would require,
where the right-of-way stakes
would be driven and how near the
new lane would come to houses
and businesses along the route
She asked If the road came with
in 10 feet of a home, would ap
praisers give consideration to
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Tide Table
Following: is tiie tide table
for Southport during' the |
week. These hours are up-1
proximotely correct and
were furnished The State
Port Pilot through the
courtesy of the Cape Fear
Pilot’s Association.
HIGH LOW
'.Thursday, December 20,
8:57 A M 2:46 A M
9:15 P M 3:34 P M
Friday, December 80,
9:45 A Id 3:34 a M
i.09 P M 4:22 P M
Saturday, December 81,
10:33 A Id 4:28 A M
11:03 P M 5:10 P M
Sunday, January 1,
11:91 A M 5:16 A M
5:58 P M
Monday, January 3,
6:16 A M
12:15 P M 6:46 P M
Tuesday, January 8,
0:57 A M 7:16 A M
1:15 P M 7:46 P M
Wednesday, January 4,
2:03 A M 8:22 A M
2:15 P M 8:46 P M