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VOLUME 38
No. 46
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SOUTHPORT, N. C.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1967
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secondary Road
Program Needs
Are Outlined
By ODELL WILLIAMSON
Representative, 13th House
District
With more cars being driven
on the highways every day, and
with more gasoline being used
and more taxes being collected,
it would seem that there ought
to be more funds for secondary
road construction in the coming
biennium than there were for the
last. But this will not be true if
highway funds remain as they
are now set up in the budget.
In fact, there will be $15.2
million less for the coming bien
nium—unless the legislature re
moves some money from the allo
cation for primary roads, or
takes it from another source,
and adds it to the secondary
roads fund.
This does not mean that there
will be only about half as much
money spent on the whole secon
dary road program during the
next two years, but there will
be less money for new secon
dary road construction. As more
roads are built, more money is
required for maintenance.
Therefore, increased mainte
nance costs will take more money
during the next biennium.
Anyway, I do not like this situa
tion, and I certainly hope that
some more funds can be made
available for our secondary roads
program.
The House passed a measure
this past week known as the Am
bulance Bill.
Proponents of this piece of
legislation claim that it was need
ed so that ambulance service can
be provided by county govern
ments when it is found for a fact
that service is not beingprovided
by private business.
The bill, as passed, would al
low a board of county commis
sioners to grant a franchise to
individuals, or to subsidize an
existing service, or to get the
county into the ambulance busi
ness if proper service is not or
cannot be taken care of by private
capital.
Although the bill was permis
*»!— sivc in that it does not require
anybody to do anything, I voted
against it because I felt that in
some cases it could open up the
possibility of pressure being ap
plied to county commissioners
by special groups seeking spe
cial privileges. In the end, I
think this would be detrimental
to private business.
Now the bill goes to the Senate,
where it probably will have
smooth sailing.
On Wednesday of this past
week, the General Assembly went
down to Lee Creek in Beaufort
County, where Texas Gulf Sulfur
Co. has invested $85 million in
facilities for mining and process
ing phosphate and its byproducts
for use in fertilizers.
The size of this operation is
much bigger than most legis
lators had thought it would be.
Texas Gulf Sulfur people say
there are phosphate deposits
there that can keep them in busi
ness for more than 100 years.
Last week I made some men
tion of a piece of equipment for
cutting and trimming trees. Now
I would like to tell you about the
dragline we saw used to remove
phosphate from the pit and put it
in a place from which it can be
transferred to the plant.
This dragline cost $6,300,000.
Its bucket holds 72 cubic yards
and can lift out 100 tons of phos
phate at the time. The boom on
it is 300 feet long, and it has
two 4-inch drag cables that pull
in the bucket. It is all electri
cally powered.
When we left Beaufort Coun
ty, we went for a visit on the
campus of East Carolina Col
lege. Again, I think many mem
bers of the General Assembly
were surprised and favorably
impressed by the 300-acre cam
pus and its buildings.
East Carolina College's en
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SUPERIOR COURT
A one-week term of Superior
court for trial of civil actions is
in progress this week in South
port Judge James H. Pou Bailey
of Raleigh is presiding. The May
term will be for trial of criminal
cases.
DAYLIGHT SAVINGS
Citizens of Brunswick county
are reminded to set their clocks
ahead one hour when they go to
bed Saturday night in order to
be in step with Daylight Savings
Time, which will start Sunday.
Inquiry has failed to disclose
any local institution or organiza
tion which does not intend to abide
by the almost universal use of
this time arrangement which will
be in force until the last of Octo
ber.
MTMTS Commander Here
VISIT — General John J. Lane, MTMTS Commander, and members of his staff were
visitors at Sunny Point Army Terminal last week. Shown in photograph left to right
are Commander Robinson, Captain F. B. Grubb, Lt. Colonel Charles B. Shiveley, Execu
tive Officer, MOTSU, General Lane, Colonel Archie B. Joyner, Jr., Commander
MOTSU, and Admiral E. W. Sutherling.
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Brunswick Judging Team
WINNERS — These boys comprise the Brunswick County Livestock Judging
learn which last week won first place in the district contest. Left to right, they are Rov
Hewett, Kenneth Hewett, Jerris Hewett and Richard Jones.
Name Faculty
Members For
Some Schools
The Brunswick County Board
of Education met in special ses
sion on April 17 and heard Supt.
George Williams discuss a recent
visit with Murray Ackers, Dupont
official, in which mutual under
standings were established con
cerning educational expectations
of the personnel employed by the
DuPont plant at Leland.
A special E.S.E.A. allotment
of $13,561 was discussed by the
board and approval was given
expenditures of these funds: Mo
bile unit—$6,419.70 (includes
tax and installation); Special edu
cation, Bus, $4,500.; inservice
training for elementary teach
ers $1,815; health services,
$1,000.
The board employed the fol
lowing office and professional
staff for the 1967-68 school year;
Jean Fullwood, secretary; Pris
cilla Gaskill, county bookkeeper;
Annie L. Ramseur, state book
keeper; D. L. Ganey, Jr., attend
ance counselor; Ruth T. White,
elementary supervisor; Paul
Brummett, high school super
visor; Irene B. Hankins, guid
ance counselor; Kay Barnes,
guidance counselor; Joseph
Young, and George Frink, driver
training instructors.
The board employed the fol
lowing E.S.E.A. staff for the
1967-68 school year: L. R. Big
gerstaff, Frances Stone, Edna
Gause, Phlander Hankins, Danny
Simmons, Marie Brown, Esther
G. Robinson, Carolyn Barbee,
Frankie Rogers, Evelyn Butler.
The Board established a policy
not allowing air conditioners to
be installed in any individual
classrooms due to lack of elec
trical provisions.
The following personnel were
employed for Leland High School
for the 1967-68 school year:
N. C. Phipps, principal; Mildred
B. Naylor, Ruby G. Sutton, Mar
garet Bland, Nina Cox Lane,
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Brunswick Team
Wins First Place
The Brunswick County 4-H
Livestock Judging Team walked
away with all the honors in the
Area Judging Contest held in
conjunction with the 16th Market
Stock Show and Sale held in Wil
mington last Wednesday.
The Brunswick team scored
551 points out of a possible 750
to place fii’st in the contest and
were followed by the Columbus
county team who scored 480
points. The high scoring in
dividual for tire contest with 193
points was Jeris Hewett and he
also was high scorer in judging
swine. His brother, Roy Hewett,
was only one point behind with
192 points and he was high in
dividual scorer in beef judging.
Other members of the Brunswick
team were Richard Jones with
166 points and Kenneth Hewett
with 162 points. In the judging
contests, only the three highest
scores are used to deter mine the
team score. All the boys are
members of the “Busy Bees”
4-H Club, led by Mrs. Freeman
Hewett and Fred Simmons.
Students On
Dean’s List
The following students from
Brunswick county made the Win
ter Quarter Dean’s List at Wil
mington College:
William Don Aired, son of
Mrs. G. T. Armstrong, Leland;
Margaret Luen Blake, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs, Raymond E.
Blake, Jr., Leland; PaulWishart
Grooms, son of Mrs. Margaret
A. Grooms, Longwood; Cynthia
Lynn Hardy, daughter of Mrsi
Dorothy J, Hardy, Southport.
Kathryn Dianne Joyner, daugh
ter of Colonel and Mrs. A. b.
Joyner, Southport; Barbara Jean
ette Knowles, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. A. S. Knowles, Bolivia;
James Edward Lamm, son of
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The coach of the team is Mil
ton Coleman, Assistant County
Agricultural Agent, who is ai
present serving a tour of duty
with the Army at Fort Knox,
Kentucky. He will return tc
work on June 1.
In the Wilmington contest there
were two classes of market hogs
judged and one class of beef cat
tle. Each member was scored
on his placings and also was
required to give oral reasons
for his placings and was scored
for his reasons also. This was
the first contest that has been
won by Brunswick 4-H members.
The next goal for the Bruns
wick team is the State contest
which will be held in Raleigh in
June.
Officers Visit
Sunny Point
On Wednesday
Major General John J. Lane,
commander, Military Traffic
Management and Terminal Serv
ice (MTMTS), accompanied by
his staff, Rear Admiral E. W.
Sutherling, USN, Deputy Com
mander for Operations; Captain
F. B. Grubb, USN, Director of
Directorate of Freight Traffic;
and Commander Robinson, also
of Directorate of Freight Traffic,
last week paid a visit to the
Military Ocean Terminal, Sunny
Point.
Military Traffic Management
and Terminal Service was acti
vated on February 15, 1965 with
the Secretary of the Army desig
nating General Lane as its com
mander.
MTMTS consolidated the man
agement and operation of mili
tary traffic, land transportation
and common-user ocean termi
nals under the Secretary of the
Army as a single manager.
MTMTS combined the Defense
Traffic Management Service, the
Army Terminal Commands, the
Army and Navy common-user
ocean terminals, the Air Traffic
Coordinating Offices of the Ar my,
Navy, and Air Force, and certain
other key traffic management
functions previously performed
by the Military Services.
Its mission includes manage
ment of the procurement and use
of commercial freight and pas
senger transportation service
movement control of traffic into
ocean and air terminals—com
mand of ocean terminal sand pro
vision of services for movement
of passengers and manifested
cargo through other ocean termi
nals— worldwide traffic manage
ment support for the Department
of Defense household goods mov
ing and storage program—and
operation of military-owned rail
road rolling stock registered for
interchange service.
Eastern Area, Military Traffic
Management and Terminal Serv
ice (EAMTMTS) with headquar
ters in Brooklyn, N. Y., is a
subordinate command of General
Lane’s headquarters, and
EAMTMTS is the intermediate
higher headquarters of the Mili
tary Ocean Terminal, Sunny
Point.
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Florida-Gets
ESSA Laboratory
Sov. Claude Kirk Monday called
|e nation's multi-million dollar
ntcanographic laboratory—to be
Ideated in Miami—a ‘'bi-parti
san" victory for Florida that
would one day equal the signif
icance of Cape Kennedy.
Kirk, in a news conference
after the site was announced hv
tlie Commerce Department, said
the laboratory ‘'may well dwarf
anythinj? we have achieved in
the past.”
The laboratory, to be built on
an eight-acre tract on Virginia
Key. will have about Juo em
ployes and an expected annual
payroll of >3 million.
Kirk singled out John II.
Perry Jr., chairman of the
governor’s Advisory Council on
Oceanography and Congressman
Paul R. Rogers Jr., of Palm
Reach, for praise in their
work toward bringing the proj
ect to Florida.
"Many, m a n y Floridians
worked with me virtually round
the-clock for months on end,”
Kirk said. "Our entire congress
ional delegation joined in this
effort.”
He said it would make Miami
a ' financial hub” and Florida
“truly a scientific center of the
free world.”
Time And Tide
Allen C.. Ewing had purchased an option on Bald Head Island
from the board of County Commissioners. That fact was an
nounced in Tiie Pilot for April 28, 1937. There was a front page
picture showing the beauty of the azaleas in Franklin Park.
A group of local men had caught some squirrels and had turned
them loose in the park; one of our advertisers was a place called
“Honky-Tonk”, which announced squire and round dances for every
Friday night; and visiting yachtmen—of which a total of 52 had
visited Southport during the preceeding week—voiced their approval
of the basing of a Coast Guard patrol boat here.
Twenty-five years ago this week the USO building at Southport
was dedicated. That was in April 1942, and that was a war year.
One headlined evidence, was “Restrictions On New Automobile
Sales Now.”
A big harvest w'as being made of cornflowers and bachelor
buttons which were being cut and shipped from Eastbrook Nursery
at Piuenlx to points in the north, commencement programs were
in full swing in Brunswick; and there was a sample application
for a War Ration Book across the bottom of the front page.
A front page story in our issue for April 30, 1947, reported
that Attorney R. I. Mf.ntz would move his law office from South
port to Wilmington. This was in the days before it was an everyday
thing to see a big boat or cabin cruiser on a trailer, so the front
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A t Brunswick Town
Mrs. Moore Is Speaker
Speaker In The Rain
POISE —- Mrs. Dan K. Moore was unperturbed by the
shower which fell during dedication ceremonies Sunday
afternoon for the Visitor Center-Museum at Brunswick
Town. Patrol Sgt. L. H. Baker is shown holding an um
brella over the First Lady while she spoke.
College Teacher
In Grant Honor
Robert L. King, biology in
structor at Southeastern Com
munity College, is one of only
16 junior college teachers in the
nation to be awarded a summer
study grant in the field of radia
tion biology.
His award covers tuition and
room and board at the 1967 sum
mer institute at the University
of New Mexico in Albuquerque. „
The major courses will cover
an introduction to nuclear and
atomic physics, and radiation
biology.
The institute is sponsored by
the Atomic Energy Commission
and the National Science Foun
dation. King's summer study
begins June 19 and ends August
18.
This will be the second con
secutive year the Southeastern
Community College faculty
member has won special sum
mer study grants. Last year,
King studied desert biology at the
University of Arizona at Tempe
in a program sponsored by the
National Science Foundation.
King teaches anatomy and
physiology, as well as a general
biological science course, at
Southeastern.
He became the first biology
instructor in the community col
lege system in North Carolina
when he taught at the College of
the Albemarle in Elizabeth City.
He was there four years before
coming to Southeastern Com
munity College in 1965.
He is a native of Supply in
Brunswick county, and resides
now in Whlteville. He is married
and father of two children.
This summer’s course is
designed for teachers of biology
in small colleges, and is limited
to 16 members. He expressed
delight that he was one of those
chosen for the institute.
“I learned much in my study
of desert biology last year,”
he said, "and I feel this is
another splendid opportunity.”
He said one of the objectives
of the institute is to stimulate
young people for careers in
science.
"If science teachers them
selves are enthusiastic and bet
ter informed, then young people
will be more inclined toward
similar careers,” he said.
King said he returned to
Southeastern North Carolina to
work and teach among his own
people. "I feel very strongly
about this,” he said. "I believe
I can do some good here, and it
is a challenge for me.”
King has a BS degree from Elon
College and an MA degree from
Appalachian State. He has fur
thered his graduate work at N.C.
State University and the Uni
versity of Arizona at Tempe.
Union Service
Union services of the South
port churches will be held in the
Southport Baptist Church Sunday
night at 8 o’clock (DLST). Spe
cial music will be furnished by
the adult choir and junior choir
of the Baptist church.
The preacher will be the Rev.
Fred Fordham of St. Philips
Episcopal Church with the Rev.
Robert Childs, the Rev. William
Davenport and the Rev. E, C..
Chamblee, host Church pastor,
sharing in the service.
Bank Shows Big
Gain For Year
Officers of the Waccamaw Bank
arid Trust Company, with admin
istrative offices in Whiteville,
have reported sharp first quarter
gains in Us 1967 operations
against the January-March
period of 1966.
President Lawrence R. Bowers
said that the bank system's re
sources were up a record 39%,
deposits up 40% and earnings in
creased 31% during the first
quarter of 1967.
Total resources of the 25
office Waccamaw Bank opera
tion were $68,569,609, an in
crease of $19,133,250 over the
first three months of 1966.
Deposits totaled $59,925,278
against $42,897,691 on March
31, 1966.
Earnings after taxes came to
$189,884, equal to 42 cents per
share on the bank’s stock. Earn
ings for the first three months
of 1966, after adjusting for the
10'’? and lOO^ stock dividends
that Waccamaw Bank issued to
stockholders in 1366, amounted to
32 cents per share.
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Two Brunswick
Students Teach
Two Campbell College seniors
from this area are now doing their
undergraduate student teaching.
They are Earl Hughes of Ash and
Diana Ward of Longwood.
Earl is teaching biology and
and physical science at Buies
Creek High School under the
supervision of Mrs. Mary Lee
Maxwell. An honor student and
a biology major, he is a member
of the Walker Group. He is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Macy Thurs
ton Hughes of Ash.
Miss Ward, an English major,
is teaching ninth and eleventh
grade English at Four Osiks High
School under the supervision of
Mrs. Juanita Matthews. An honor
student, she is the president of
Powell Dormitory. After gradua
tion in August, she and Earl
Hughes plan to be married. She
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
J. R. Ward, Jr. of Longwood.
Mrs. Dan K Moore, wife of
the Governor of North Carolina,
was the speaker Sunday after
noon at the dedication of the
Visitor Center-Museum at
Brunswick Town. The occasion
was marred by a light rainfall
during the ceremony, but even
this development was taken in
stride by the First Lady as she
did the honors for the new in
stallation at the State Historic
Site.
Ray H. Walton, former State
Senator, presided as master of
ceremonies at this event. The
invocation was by the Rev. Fred
Fordham, Rector of St. Philips
Episcopal Church in Southport.
Dr. Christopher Crittenden, di
rector of the State Department
of Archives and History, wel
comed guests for the dedication
ceremony and Mrs. James M,
Harper, Jr., introduced the
speaker. At the conclusion of
Mrs. Moore’s talk the audience
was led by Mrs. Bryant Potter
and Lester Lowe in singing The
Star Spangled Banner, followed
by the benediction by the Rev.
William Davenport, pastor of
Trinity Methodist Church.
Mrs. Moore then led members
of the assemblage to the new
building where she cut the ribbon
and led the way around the ex
hibit area.
In her speech Mrs. Moore
spoke of the resurgance of in
terest in North Carolina history.
“More of us are realizing
the heritage that is ours. More
of us are discovering the events
and places where North Caro
linians made history, she said.
Mrs. Moore explained that for
a “long time’’ efforts were not
made to preserve North Carolina
history.
“Largely as a result, other
states could and did lay claim
to achievements in history that
rightly belong to North Caro
lina,” Mrs. Moore said.
For example, the first armed
resistance to the Stamp Act
was here in Brunswick Town
rather than in Boston, and many
similar examples could be given
to indicate that we have not made
our history known, either to our
own people or to the nation at
large,” she said.
Mrs. Moore praised the work
of Dr. Christopher Crittenden,
director of the State Department
of Archives and History, who
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King Mackerel
Now Showing Up
King mackerel showed up in
big numbers here Sunday as the
three Watts boats of the Idle
On fleet averaged more than 100
fish per boat.
Capt. Basil watts with the
S. R. Hux party of Charlotte on
the Idle On n had 110 king
mackerel; Capt. Albert Dosher
aboard the Idle On in had a
party from Fayetteville headed
by Mr. Parker and Mr. Verne
and they brought in 102 fish; and
Capt. Larry Stubbs with A. M.
Brown and another FayetteviUe
party aboard the Idle On IV had
99 fish.
Capt. Jerry Giles made good
luck on the shoals when a party
he had aboard the Capt. Disk
landed 60 bluefish.
The king mackerel weighed
from 5 to 10 lbs. and the blues
were of good size.
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, April 37,
10:09 A M 4:16 A M
10:39 P M 4:16 P M
Friday, April 28,
11:03 A M 5:10 A M
11:33 P M 5:10 P M
Saturday, April 28,
11:57 A M 6:04 A M
6:04 P M
Sunday, April SO,
0:33 A M 6:58 A M
0:57 P M 7:04 P M
Monday, May 1,
1:33 A M 7:58 A M
1:57 P M 8:10 P M
Tuesday, May 2,
2:27 A M 8:52 A
2:57 P M 9:10 P
Wednesday, May S,
3:21 A M 9:46 A
3:51 P M 10:10 P
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