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The Pilot Covers Brunswick County! THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Most of the News All The Time VOLUME 38 No. 44 12-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1967 5t A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Dreams Of Yesteryear William Reeves, costumed guide at Brunswick Town State Historic Site, sits and ponders the news that brown bagging again is in the news. He is seated before the fire place in the tavern, located within a stone’s throw of where the first regulations gover mg consumption of alcohol in public were passed. (Dorsey Photo) At Brunswick Town Forerunner Of Brown Bag Bill It seems that the members of the Legislature are having quite a time deciding what to do about the thorny question of brown-bagging. However, according to the re cords describing early Bruns wick Town, the legislature has an early precedent. A colonial regulation passed over two centuries ago, April 20, 1745, to be exact, is found in Section 18, Chapter 12, of the acts of the colonial assembly under King George n of England: Following the introduction, the act states, “and it is further enacted by the authority afore said, that if at any time after 20 days after the ratification of this act, any tavern-keeper, or dinary-keeper, or any person whatsoever, selling liquor or keeping a public house in the said town (Brunswick) shall after suf fer any person or persons to get drunk in his house on the Sab bath, such person or persons so offending shall forfeit and pay, for every such offense the sum of 10 shillings, proclamation money. ” It is not known how long the law remained on the statute books, but in all probabilities during the life of the town which came to an end about 1775. Russellborough, the Birthplace of Liberty in America and the former home of Governors Dobbs and Tryon, is now a part of the Brunswick Town state Historical Site complex located near South port. William G. Faulk, Jr. is the historic Site Assistant. Brunswick town is a part of the educational Schar Tour (scenic, cultural, historical, and recrea tional tour of the Lower Cape Fear), produced by the Cape Fear Technical Institute, Wil mington. % Brief Bits Of t ' NEWS ' :•: ifeiSSSSSSWSft 1 YARD OF MONTH Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Willing are choice for Yard of the Month honors given by Southport Gar den Club. CANCER CRUSADE Helping with the Cancer Cru sade Drive in Southport and the Beach areas in addition to Mrs, Richard Conrad, is A. C. Cavi ness, principal of Brunswick County High School. The South port house-to-house canvass has been set for April 19. RABIES CLINIC Goley B. Lewis will hold his last rabies clinic in Southport at the water tank on Saturday from 12 noon to 2 p. m. North Caro lina State Laws require that all dogs be vaccinated against rabies and any persons who have dogs that have not been vaccinated are encouraged to have this done. hospital auxiliary A definite date for the or ganization meeting of the Aux iliary of Dosher Memorial Hos pital will be announced on Sun day by the pastors in the various churches in the county, according to Mrs. H. B. Smith, temporary chairman. The date will be one night next week. Invitations To Dedication Sent More than 800 invitations have been mailed to out of county residents for the dedication of the Brunswick Town Visitor’s Center-Museum on Sunday, April 23. Mrs. Dan K. Moore, wife of the governor of North Carolina, will be the principal speaker. No invitations will be mailed to Brunswick county citizens, but all are urged to be present for this program, which will begin at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Unusual attractions have been planned for visitors in the Bruns wick Town Visitor Center Mu seum. Emphasizing the little known early history of the Cape Fear region will be letters and documents dating from 1525, ac Bolivia Boys Drown Monday BOLIVIA—An unfortunate ac cident, Monday, that resulted in the death of two Winnabow boys caused the postponement of a Tuesday baseball game that would have had bearing on the official standings of the Brunswick Coun ty Conference. Thomas Lee Simmons, Jr., 18, and David Carlton Simmons, 17, both of Winnabow, were the victims of a boating-fishing ex pedition on nearby Town Creek. According to Brunswick County Coroner Lowell Bennett, the two boys were in a boat with two others which capsized on Town Creek, with the Simmons boys drowning in the mishap. The others swam to safety. It was reported that a group of eight boys had been enroute to fish on Town Creek when the accident occurred. The Simmons boys were not members of the Bolivia Bear baseball club, but they were both well-liked and promi nent members of the Bolivia High School senior class. Officials of the school thought it best to postpone the Brunswick Coun ty Conference game scheduled with Southport’s neighboring Dol phins on Tuesday afternoon. Dol phin Coach Porky Mintz and SHS officials agreed. Funeral serv ices for the Simmons youths were held Wednesday at Mill Creek Baptist Church. Coach Brldgers Sabiston, Jr. of the Bears baseball club said no re-schedule date on the Bo livia-Southport game had been set. However, the Bruin men tor stated, it will be re-set soon for the Bolivia diamond. At the time of the postpone ment, Southport was in a triple tie with Leland’s Tigers and Waccamaw’s Eagles, each 2-1, for first-place in the four-school Brunswick County Conference baseball race. Bolivia was 0-3 at the bottom of the chase. Thursday’s games for the teams find Southport at Wacca maw; Leland at Bolivia, both at 4 p. m. Next Tuesday, South port is at Leland, Bolivia at Waccamaw, also both at 4 p. m. fJIGGS POWERS). cording to William Faulk, state historic site specialist. This exhibit will contain bills of fare and letters from settlers who came down from the Massa chusetts Bay Colony In 1662 who tried to settle along the Cape “ Fear River. John D. Ellington, exhibit cura tor, announces that there will also be a group of documents on display from the Barbados Is land in 1663, pertaining to the people who built Charles Town, which was eventually renamed Charleston, along the Cape Fear River. The town was in existence for eight years. The visitor center will have a large gallery of six sections containing history on the site and also covering three distinct phases; the colonial Brunswick, or The Town; the Civil War at Fort Anderson; and the physical site and the Indians. The theme will travel from the 20th century to a time before the white man and Indians entered the Cape Fear region. Other parts of the center will explain what happened to early explorers. Another outstanding feature, Ellington said, will be the display of a 20 by 100 foot enlargement of a 1769 survey map which con tains a sight-sound system and will orientate the visitors to the time of colonial Brunswick. Faulk said that this will be the an early history of the Cape Fear Region has been em phasized. Special music will be provided for the dedication ceremony by the Second Marine Division Drum and Bugle Corps of Camp Le jeune under the leadership of Sgt. R. A. Ettinger. The center will change its regular Sunday schedule to the following hours; 9 a, m. until 5:30 p. m. No Arrest In Local Robbery Burglars entered the Dan Har relson Grocery Store in Southport Wednesday night and hauled off the company safe and all its con tents. The two cash registers also were ripped open and their contents removed. The safe later was found in Walden Creek where it apparent ly had been thrown after it had been beat open. In addition to its cash contents, amounting to several hundred dollars, many valuable papers pertaining to the operation of the Harrelson busi ness were missing. One other important item of loss was a collection of unusual coins that members of the Har relson family had collected over the years. It was in a small metal strong box Inside the safe. It, too, was missing. Agents of the State Bureau of Investigation have been assisting local law enforcement officers in an effort to solve the crime, but thus far there have been no arrests. More Persons Eligible For Housing Loans Applications for insured housing loans are now being ac cepted from families in all in come groups, Brunswick County Supervisor, Parks C. Fields, of the Farmers Home Administra tion said this week. Until recently funds were only available for families with low and moderate Incomes. Fields said home financing for families of above-moderate in come, can be resumed by the agency under a new allocation of lending authority granted by President Johnson. A Presiden tial order March 17 authorized the agency to Insure $25 million more in housing loans to families of the upper income group be tween now and June 30. Action on new applications from persons in the above-mod erate Income group had been at a virtual standstill since fall of 1966. The agency had taken all applications it could meet under the previous $25 million alloca tion of loan authority for the cur rent fiscal year. There has been no interruption of the rural housing loan pro gram for low and moderate in come families, which has an allo cation of $300 million for fiscal 1967. Fields said applications from families in all groups are being accepted at the Farmers Home Administration office at Lewis' Shopping Center in Shallotte, which serves Brunswick County. The county supervisor re ported that insured housing loans in the county to date this fiscal year have totaled $140,000. The Farmers Home Adminis tration, a part of the Department of Agriculture, is the u. S. government agency for insuring home-ownership loans both for farm and non-farm families in rural areas, including towns of not more than 5,500 popula tion. "The service is available to rural people who are unable to (Continued on Page 4) Activities For Vo-Ag Classes Michael Russ and his Vo-Ag classes at waccamaw High School have been busy in recent weeks. There are 48 Vo-Ag members and 70 F.F.A. Chapter members. The Vo-Ag students have been pruning shrubbery, have planted new shrubbery , have done some landscaping, have made picnic tables and have also poured some concrete sidewalks. The F. F. A. members have made a field trip to Riegel Paper Corp. and enjoyed a tour of the plant. Last fall the students went on a trip to the State Fair and at tended many educational exhibits. They made a tour through the farming equipment building and also attended a cattle judging con test. They were accompanied by Mr. Russ and Linwood King. The F. F. A. members had a project to gather pine cones and sold them to Riegel Paper Corp, to raise money for their chapter. Waccamaw Vo ■ Ag Class BUSY — Shown left to right in the picture above are the following Vo-Ag students at Waccamaw High School: Charles Fowler, Medford Mintz, Harry Inman, Mitchael Smith, Jack Simmons, Jerry White, Jerry Little. These students are shown making needed repairs. (King Photo) Leland Voters Against Plan To Incorporate LELAND — A proposal to form a steering committee to study possible incorporation of this community was downed by 1 an emphatic standing vote at the close of a public meeting called for the purpose at the ! school here Wednesday night. Slightly more than 100 per sons attended the session with ; E. Sessoms acting as chairman, j Discussion of questions per i taining to incorporation t was i led by Kerby Sullivan, South i port city attorney, Mayor Konie - Cheers of Shallotte and Harold Aldridge', mayor pro-tem of Southport, who were invited by a group supporting the public I meeting to look into the matter. ! Sharp dissent to the idea of incorporation became evident in the biting questions asked from the floor, principally by Mike Mitchell and Ross McGee. Sessoms opened the session with the comment, “The purpose of this meeting is to find out if the people of the community are interested in incorporation. If they are we will take steps in that direc tion and petition our legislator to allow the people to vote on the question. If they do not favor any further action we well drop the matter now.” Persons who have shown in terest in incorporation the area by informally discussing the matter and planning the public meeting, according to Sessoms were V. A. Creech and George Rourk, county commissioners, Howard Williamson, Ezra Dale, Joe Ganey, O. W. Cleaton, Dur wood Clark. Joe Kiser, Herbert Long, Roy Martin, John Coker, Dillon Ganey, James Thompson, Elmer Aycock and Sessoms. Time And Tide This was a headline In The Pilot thirty years ago this week: “Grand Jury Decrees Prevalence of Crime Among Young People”—so they have been going to the dogs at least for a quarter-century! Many upstate persons were showing interest in the possibility of acquiring Bald Head Island foreclosed by Brunswick County for delinquent taxes. There was a headline saying “Many Yachts Stop Over On Way North”—and there was an editorial saying that there should be a general tidying-up of the local waterfront so that these people might get a better impression of what they saw here. Edward Taylor had been named chief marshal for the forthcoming commencement exer cises at Southport High School. The year was 1942, and the USE Dredge Comstock, on which so many Southport men had served, had been converted into an army supply ship. There was a front page picture of the vessel in The Pilot for April 16 of that year. Douglas Hawes was acting post master at Supply, and an examination had been called to obtain a permanent employee for this position. Fort Lauderdale was still just a place for the idle rich back in the early forties when group after group of college classes were making springtime field trips to Bald Head Island. On the Shallotte High School debating team which was going to Chapel Hill to compete in the state finals were Burgwyn Hewett, Betty Lancaster, Virginia Russ and Ernest E. Parker, Jr. The second week in April, 1947, Brunswick county farmers were getting ready to plant tobacco. It had been a late spring, for Orton Gardens were just at their peak beauty. These facts came out in The Pilot for April 18. Brunswick shrimpers were protesting a South Carolina tax which appeared to be aimed at them; Miss Mary Milliken had won a popularity contest at Shallotte, which had netted $1,440 for a local church. April 16, 1952, and it was an election year. There was a front page picture of Amos J. Walton, who was seekingthe Democratic nomina tion for Register of Deeds. Robert Milliken had been elected chair man of the Brunswick County Board 0f Elections. (Continued on Page 4 Seeking Bids For Ash Post Office J. EARL FREEMAN Freeman Public Relations Man J. Earl Freeman of Charlotte has been appointed Public Re lations Manager for Southern Bell in Wilmington. His new duties will include all customer as well as employee public relations ac tivities for the Wilmington Dis trict, which includes the South port-Long Beach area, Burgaw, Hamlet, Rockingham, Laurin burg, Lumberton, Fairmont, Rowland, and Wilmington. He joined Southern Bell in 1951 as a salesman traveling out of Charlotte and has since held vari ous positions in directory sales with the Marketing Department of Southern Bell in Charotte. Just prior to his recent ap pointment, Freeman held the po sition of Directory Sales Man ager in Charlotte. After graduation from Hamlet High School, he served during World war II in the U. S. Navy aboard the destroyer U. S. S. Osborne. After discharge from the service, he attended Coker College at Hartsville, S. C., and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a Mason and a member of the Park Road Baptist Church of Charlotte. Upon completion of their move to Wilmington, Freeman, his wife Martha, and their children Jef, Mary Ailcey and Nannette, will make their home on Mallard Drive. Seek Damages For City Dock The Southport City Dock was badly damaged during a wind storm one week ago Thursday night when the weight of three U. S. Army tugs that were moored to the structure caused it to crash into the water. All of the T-section was car ried away so that the remaining walkway runs out to open water that covers the stumps of the broken piling. This creates a menace to navigation in that area of the Cape Fear river. What will be done about re pairing the dock still is unset tled. Contact has been made with the U. S. Army to deter mine the degree of responsibility they will accept for the damage. City officials are said to favor (Continued On Page Four) The Post Office Department Is seeking competitive bids for an improved building to house its postal operations at Ash, Postmaster General Lawrence F, O'Brien has announced. Under the Department’s Con struction program, a contract will be awarded to the bidder who designates a building suit able to the Department’s needs and agrees to improve it (or provide a new building) according to Departmental specifications and then rent it to the Depart ment for a basic period of five years, with three 5-year renewal options. The Department’s capital in vestment will be limited sub stantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership, with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Bidding documents may be ob tained from Lloyd C. Loomis, Real Estate Officer, P. O. Box 4786, Atlanta, Georgia 30302. The Real Estate Officer will sup ply bidding forms, specifications, rent provisions and other in formation. Bids must be sub mitted to the Real Estate Officer by May 12, 1967. Boys Camp To Operate Again A new scene of activity in Southeastern North Carolina this summer will be the first full season of operation for Camp Atlantic, a boys camp on Ocean Isle, near Shallotte. Attracting campers between 10 and 15 years of age from along the east coast, Camp Atlantic is operated by Richard w. Jen nings of Greensboro. A special feature of the camp will be the employment of Euro pean students as additions to the staff of counselors. The students will be visiting the United States and their parti cipation is being arranged by Jennings through a North Caro lina foundation. Other unique aspects of Camp Atlantic come from its being the only such camp in the nation located on an island directly on the Atlantic Ocean. There is also a guarantee that a camper can learn to water ski in a day. Surrounded by water, on the east by the ocean and on the west by a fresh-water sound, Camp Atlantic stresses water sports, games, skills and safety. Instruction is provided in ocean swimming, water skiing, small boat operations, canoeing, surf and sound fishing, exploration, deep sea fishing, SCUBA and surfing. Field trips in southeastern North Carolina, including one to Wilmington and the Battleship USS North Carolina, and one to Myrtle Beach, S. C„ are part of the scheduled activities. Jennings is Camp Atlantic’s president and director. At age 30, the Greensboro man also owns his own mortgage brokerage business in New York. He spent six summers in supervisory ca pacities at Camp Pacific at Carlsbad, Calif., and served as a Scoutmaster in Greensboro for five years. Turtle Nests Get Attention In Legislature I By ODELL WILLIAMSON Every year, after high water on the night of the full moon in June, I generally see a group of people strolling along the beach with a definite purpose in mind. And if I don’t see them, 1 hear about them later. These people are trying to find a turtle’s nest, where the sea turtle has come up out of the ocean and laid her eggs to be hatched. I have heard of some people eating these eggs. This past week, a bill passed the House ; ..at would make it a misdemeanor for a person to de stroy either the eggs or the tur tle. People who are supposed to know about such things say that these species of turtle are getting to be very rare. The idea behind the bill is to preserve the spe cies so that generations to come might also be able to see the turtle laying her eggs, and the little turtles hatching, then mak ing their way back to the water. The Senate passed a bill last Friday authorizing the State Highway Patrol to use airplanes in enforcing traffic laws. This past fall, well before the General Assembly convened, pa trol officials waged a strong campaign to sell legislators on the need for using airplanes. Evidently they did a good selling job as far as the Senate is con cerned. Now the bill comes to the House. I personally favor the measure, for I know that air planes can be used to good ad vantage in such circumstances as helping control the flow of vehicles at football games and other places where there is heavy traffic congestion. I also feel that patrol planes serve as a good deterrent to speeding because of the psychological effect on drivers, who never know when a flying patrolman might be over head. One of the real big Issues facing the General Assembly was practically resolved this past week when the House of Repre sentatives came up with a brown bagging bill authorizing con trolled, legalized sale and use of (Continued on Page 4) Crusade Seeks ; Memorial Gifts Memorial gifts to the American Cancer Society to commemorate a loved one have become a thoughtful way of striking back at the dread disease of cancer, so that others may be spared. When a memorial contribution is made, the family of the de ceased is notified with a me morial card naming the person in whose memory the gift was given and the name of the person making the contribution. An ac knowledgement is also sent to the donor. Contributions should always be accompanied by the full name of deceased, the name and the address of the family member to whom memorial card should be sent and the donor's full name and address. Memorial gifts may be sent to Mrs. Herman Strong, South port, Memorial gifts Chairman for the Brunswick County Chap ter. 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 Gape Fear Pilot’s Association. high low Thursday, April 18, 9:45 A M 4:10 A M 10:03 PM 4:10 P M Friday, April 14, 10:15 A M 4:46 A M 10:45 P M 4:46 P M Saturday, April 15, 10:57 A. M. 5:34 A M 11:33 P M 6:34 P M Sunday, April 16, 11:57 AM 6:22 AM 6:28 P M Monday, April 17, 0:33 A M 7:22 A M 1:03 P M 7:34 P M Tuesday, April 18, 1:39 A M 8:28 A M 2:15 PM 8:46 PM Wednesday, April 19, 2:45 A M 9:34 A M 3:27 P M 9:52 P M
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