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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. 51 10-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1967 Si A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Yacht On Beach At Bald Head AGROUND — This is the Bikini, 38-ft yacht which went high and dry in the eastern J beach at Bald Head Island during a storm last Tuesday night. The five men aboard were safe and were given assistance by the U. S. Coast Guard crew at Oak Island and by Reese Swan, caretaker of the island. Plane Crashes At Bald Head WRECKAGE — A Cherokee crash landed on the beach at Bald Head Island Monday afternoon. The two occupants managed to escape through an emergency hatch before the cockpit filled with water. Neither was seriously injured. The plan was a total loss. Plan Festival Features For Fourth Of July By JAMES F. HOWARD Every year the Southport Fourth of July Festival commit tee says the Festival this year is going to be the biggest ever. This year it really is! In fact, this year the festival will begin one day earlier than usual when, for the first time, a Miss Fourth of July will be se lected in a beauty pageant to be held in the Southport High School auditorium at eight o’clock on Saturday night, July 1. Miss Fourth of July will reign over the entire festival and will be the official hostess for all the festival events. Miss Fourth of July will welcome a host of other beauties to Southport also. Among the beauty queens who will take part in this year’s fes tival will be Miss North Carolina, Miss Blueberry, Miss Firebird, Miss Brunswick County (unless she is also Miss North Carolina), and several others. The festival will get into full swing on Sunday, July 2, when 2 National Guard helicopter lands at the waterfront and a Navy ship enters the Cape Fear River and drops anchor just off of the (Continued on Pace 4) AT METHODIST CHURCH Loyalty Sunday will be ob served at Trinity Methodist Church Sunday with a family type picnic dinner to be served fol lowing morning worship service. Members and friends are urged to attend. MARS HILL GRADUATE Miss Thetis Henry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Henry of Wlnnabow, graduated Sunday at Mars Hill College. In addition to her parents, her two brothers Frank and John, and Ray Walton and daughter. Libby, of South port, attended’ her graduation ex ercises. Boat W recks, Plane Crashes On Island Bible Week Is Scheduled The Sunday School Department of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina will sponsor a Bible Conference week at the North Carolina Baptist Assembly at Fort Caswell July 3-7. Paul Kesterson, Associate in the Sunday School Department, says a strong faculty has been enlisted for the week long pro gram, Bryant Cummings, Sunday School Secretary, Mississippi, will be present with other mem bers of his staff—Judd Allen, Dennis Conniff, Jr., Miss Caro lyn Madison, Mrs. Dennis Con niff, Jr. and Mrs. Bryant Cum mings—will be featured leaders. Miss Jeanette Wheatley will lead a conference for Kinder garten workers; Glynn T. Hill from the Baptist Sunday School Board will lead conference for church library workers; William C. Lamb, Associate, Division of Evangelism, Baptist State Con vention, will lead a seminar on evangelism for pastors and staff; Raymond Brown, Professor of Bible at Southeastern Semtnary, will lead the Bible study each morning; and Donald Ackland ftom the Baptists Sunday School Board will speak each day on “The Sunday School and Minis try”. Marshall Price, First Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, will direct recreation for In termediates and Young People each evening. Nathan C. Brooks, Jr., Direc tor of the Division of Church Programs, Baptist State Con vention, will lead evening ves pers on the fort overlooking the Atlantic. The activities of the day will be brought to a cli max in an evening worship serv ice led by A. Douglas Aldrich, pastor of First Baptist Church, Gastonia; assisted by Charles Storey and James D. Reich, mu sicians. Within the space of one week Bald Head Island has been the scene of a shipwreck and an air plane crash, and all of this with out loss of life. Last Tuesday night the 38-ft. yawl Bikini, enroute from Flori da to New Haven, Conn., ran aground during a storm on the eastern beach of the nearby island. All five men aboard got off safely and spent a cool night on the dunes near their crippled craft. The owner was Victor A, Mutile, who had purchased the Bikini a few days before and had employed two men to help him sail her outside to New Haven.. Two other men had come along for the ride. Last Monday they were caught in a storm which shredded the sails of the Bikini. The men estimated they were about 150 miles offshore when this oc curred. They used their auxiliary motor to reach land, which they did with a sudden scrapping noise about 10:30 last Tuesday night. They said they first sighted the Oak Island Lighthouse and steered in that direction. When the lights of Southport loomed upon the horizon, they headed straight for them, not knowing that an island intervened. The boat came ashore on a full moon high tide so that when the waters receded she was left stranded. Salvage crews are working on her this week in at tempt to get her off the beach. Apparently there is no structural damage to her hull. The Oak Island Coast Guard Station took three of the men off the island on Wednesday and the other two came ashore with Reece Swan, caretaker at the island. On Monday afternoon about 4:30 o’clock a single engine Cherokee made a simulated landing on the strand of the east beach. The motor stalled, the plane plunged, then caught up just as it touched the ground, pitched up and flipped into the waves. Three men who were on the island to examine the wrecked yacht were eyewitnesses as the (Continued On Page Four; Final Report Received On County Labor The report on Brunswick Coun ty’s Manpower Resources Re port, which was conducted by the Employment Security Commis sion of North Carolina, was de livered Friday to William A. Powell, Chairman of the Re sources Development Com mission for Brunswick County. The report was compiled from a survey taken during January, February and March, by the Smaller Communities section of the Employment Security Com mission. The report was delivered by Ben Johnson, manager of the Smaller Communities Depart ment, and Don Hudson, mana ger of the Wilmington office of E mployment Security Com mission. During the survey the Mobile Team interviewed 1,088 Bruns wick county citizens who were unemployed and who were actively seeking employment. All information compiled dur ing the survey is now stored in the computer of the Employment Security Commission direct to Industrial Firms. Roy A. * Stevens, director of the Re sources Development Commis sion for Brunswick County, re ported that a follow-up will be made with each industrial firm that receives the report from the Employment Security Com mission. Included as information in the special Employment Security Commission report are statistics on* the availability of respondents, educational level, age, work ex perience and commuting distance from various points throughout Brunswick county. Also included are estimates of recruitable labor which were based on the response to the survey. Powell and Stevens, in re viewing the report with Johnson and Hudson, commented on the amount of information that was included in the report and other Information that is now avail able for use in promoting the economic growth of Brunswick County. “The industrial promotion field is highly competitive and without factual information to provide to our prospects we can not be successful,” Stevens stated. Industrial prospects con sider many factors in deciding where to locate and they require up-to-date information that must be correct. “No two prospects ask for the same Information with the excep tion of statistics on available labor, and this will vary ac cording to the requirements of the firm and the general area that the firm is considering,” Stevens declared. Several industrial prospects that are considering sites in Brunswick county have compli mented the Resources Develop ment Commission on the infor mation which had been prepared on Brunswick county and is pro vided to each industrial pros pect. Special information is compiled for each prospect to meet the needs of the particular prospect. r> BEAUTIFUL W* BOUNTIFUL ' BRUNSWICK County Float In Blueberry Festival Parade READY — Mrs. Shirley Ward, right, making some last minute-adjustments in the gown worn by Miss Sharon Bradsher just prior to the Blueberry Festival Parade at White Lake Saturday. Mrs. Ward was chaperone and coach for the Brunswick county entry in the Blueberry Festival Pageant on Friday night. Five Brunswick Men Graduate AtN. C. State Degrees were conferred on 5 students from Brunswick county at the 78th annual North Caro lina State University commence ment Saturday, Chancellor John T. Caldwell has announced. The Brunswick county gradu ating seniors were among 1,300 to receive bachelors and pro fessional degrees at commence ment ceremonies at Reynolds Coliseum. Also awarded were 123 doc tors degrees and 335 masters degrees. Chancellor Caldwell pointed out that this year’s Brunswick county students represent an In crease over last year’s single graduate from the county. Faculty, students, relatives and friends heard talks by Gov. Dan K. Moore, University Presi dent William C. Friday, and Chancellor Caldwell at com mencement exercises on Satur day morning. The Brunswick county students who received degrees, their par ents and their fields of study are: Jesse s. Clemmons, Ag ricultural Education, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin S. Clemmons, Supply; Thomas M. McLamb, me chanclal engineering, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jennis M. McLamb, Shallotte; Leroy Mintz Jr., agronomy, son of Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Mintz, Shallotte; Asa D. Ruark, aerospace engineering, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Ruark Jr., Southport; Samuel w. Russ, (Continued on Page * Time And Tide There was a front page picture of the late Dorothy Bell (Mrs. W. W. Kaufman) on the front page of The Pilot for June 2, 1937, announcing that she was valedictorian of her graduating class at High Point College. There was another picture, this one of the new Cape Fear Pilot Association boat, christened the R. R. Stone. Ambassador and Mrs. Josephus Daniels had visited Southport and had been guests of honor at a reception at the horn? of Judge and Mrs. E, H. Cranmer; Bingo the Irish setter owned by the late Mayor John D. Erickson, had been returned home after being missing for three months; and there was a cigarette advertisement quoting an endorse ment from the late Lou Gehrig. World War n was going on back in 1942, but most of the front page news in The Pilot for June 3, was about politics. The late j. w. Ruark had defeated the late Walter Stanaland for the nomination for State Senate; W. J. McLamb had gained the nomination for House of Repre sentatives and Dillon L. Ganey had been nominated for the office of sheriff on the Democrat ticket. One front page headline called Plane Spotters the “Minute Men of War”; beach-combers were being urged to save significant objects they might find washed up on the shore during the summer vacation season; and a Shallotte youth, Wingate Swain, was planning to enter medical school in the fall. The year was 1947 and the war was over. “Many Brunswick Vet- ' erans Due Terminal Leave Pay” stated one headline. The Shallotte youth mentioned in the paragraph above apparently had done well, for there was a front page story saying that Dr. Wingate Swain was • to open an office for the practice of medicine at Shallotte. < On the society page was a picture of the late Mr. and Mrs. R. will • Davis, taken on the occasion of their first wedding anniversary; a baby show was slated to be held on the following Friday afternoon; and a Southport man, Fred w. Spencer, had clamped down on a clam that had a human tooth already embedded in its meat. Fifteen years ago this week R. L. Rabon was one of the three ' candidates for county commissioner to win nomination in the Democratic Primary. That was front page news in our edition for June 4, 1952. Mrs, Ressie Wnatley had been named County Auditor to succeed W, P. Jorgensen; Ray Walton had resigned as solicitor of Recorder s court and had been succeeded by Ernest E. (Continued On Page ihour) - Honor Students John Donald Ward, left, was valedictorian and Linda Yvonne McKeithan, right, was salutatarian of the grad uating class of 41 who received their diplomas at Wacca maw High School Wednesday night. Fire Causes Great Damage At Navassa EDISON H. CROWE, Jr. Bolivia Has New Principal Edison H. Crowe, Jr., has seen elected principal of Bolivia High School for the 1967-68 school year. He comes to Brunswick County from Boiling Springs in Cleveland County where he has been con nected with Gardner Webb Col lege. He has had prior experi ence as principal at Catawba School at Catawba and Sunshine School at Bostic. He also taught at Hildebran School. Crowe is a graduate of Lenoir ?hyne where he received his B.S. legree. He received his Master's degree from Appalachian State reachers College. The new principal is married to the former Evelyn Bandy of Catawba and they have two chil Iren, Oneida, 12, and Theada, 6. Crowe is a veteran of World War H and has been active in Lions Club, Schoolmasters Club and Woodmen of the world. Mr. and Mrs. Crowe plan to move to Bolivia in August. A storage-manufacturing shed ■ at the Armour agricultural l Chemical Company at Navassa 1 in northeast Brunswick county was heavily damaged by fire 1 Monday. No injuries were re- 1 ported and the cause of the blaze i has not been determined. It took approximately 75 fire- 1 men from area fire departments 1 about two and one half hours '■ to bring the fire under control. 1 The fire was contained in the 1 storage area. One fire official < said the fire probably originated i from the spontaneous combustion i of chemicals inside the shed. ( Fire units from Wilmington, South Wilmington, winter Park, < Leland, Acme-Delco, Wrights- : boro and Ogden answered the 1 alarm. In addition, Air Force foam units from the 444th Fight er Intercepter Squadron at New Hanover Airport were on the scene, Leland Fire Chief D.A. Long, who was in charge of the firefighters, requested assist ance from all area units to fight the blaze. The Wilmington fire department provided two units and the fire boat, Atlantic IV. "We couldn’t have stopped this fire without their help,” Chief Long said of the other fire units. Despite the danger with 250 tons of sodium nitrate inside the burning shed, firefighters plung ed into the area using foam and water in an effort to contain the fire and save millions of dollars in equipment and property. Just 30 feet from the storage area firemen kept a steady stream of water on three 20,000 gallon drums of ammonia solu tion. Explosions inside the shed shot flames 100 feet into the air. Columns of white smoke rose to great heights and could be seen across the Cape Fear River in Wilmington. Water splashing on the nitrate compounds created deafening ex nlnsions and threatened to bring the shed down on the firemen battling the blaze from inside. Intense heat generated by the fire twisted and melted the steel beams supporting the shed. Seeking Funds . For Covering Harbor Slips By ODELL WILLIAMSON The appropriations commit tee, of which I am a member, re ceived a final estimate last week of the money we can figure on spending for the next two years. We were informed that we will have $28.4 million more than the Advisory Budget Commission had taken Into consideration at the time the proposed budget was made up. Of course, along with the an nouncement that this new money would be available came the Governor’s recommendation for spending it, which we, as mem bers of the General Assembly, may or may not follow. I for one was certainly pleased to learn that we will be able to provide at least a 20 per cent salary Increase for school teach ers. At the same time, I want to add that I personally would like to have seen the teachers get the full 30 per cent Increase proposed by the United Forces for Education. But we cannot spend money that we do not have. After the Governor made his recommendations about where the new money might go, there was just a little more than $5 million left to take care of the many worthwhile appropriations requests that were not consider ed by the Advisory Budget Com-' mission. For Instance, one such re quest was for $190,000 to provide covers for part of the boat slips in the small boat harbor at South port. I certainly hope to be able to get most of this money, if not all of it. I feel that it is ab solutely necessary that we put this facility on a paying basis for the taxpayers. I also be lieve the facility will help bring in more businesses and jobs for my district. When the General Assembly finished its work in Raleigh two years ago, we were considered by most people to have done a fair job with the appropriations bill and to have satisfied almost everybody. Eut the State’s economy has certainly grown a lot in tvp years. Just to give you an idea, let me point out that this time we will appropriate over $425 million more money than we did the last session. This amounts to an increase of about 20 per cent in the total biennial budget. (Continued on Page 4, Lions Planning | Ladies Night Former District Governor for ll-H, Gordon Weeks of Golds- - loro, will be the speaker for the jadies Night program tomorrow Thursday) at 7 o’clock in the Community Building. Lion Weeks aiso will induct he following new officers: Presi lent, W. E. McDougle; 1st vice resident, C. D. Pickerrell; 2nd dee-president, William A, Pow *11; 3rd vice-president, C. R. Conrad; secretary-treasurer, tester V. Lowe; ass’t secretary res surer, Harold Aldridge; tail wister, Joseph M. Rideout, Jr.; issistant tail twister, C. B. Ca •oon; lion tamer, H. A. Liv ngston; directors, C. William Jreene and William P. Stearns. The following will also serve m the Board of Directors: James 1. Kyle andj. Fred Fordham and he immediate past president, V. Frank Hardy. 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 'nmrsday, gone l, 2:33 A M 8:68 A M 3:09 P M 8:28 P M Friday, gone 2, 3:27 AM 9:46 A M 3:87 P M 10:22 P M Saturday, gone 8, 4:16 A M 10:34 A M 4:45 P M U:10 P M» Sunday, gate 4, 5:03 A M 11:18 A M 5:27 P M 11:58 p M Monday, dune 5, 5:45 A M 12:04 A M 6:09 P M "Jtaouday, gate 6, 6:27 A M 0:46 A M 6:51 P M 12:40 P M Wednesday, gune 7, 7:09 A M 1:28 A M 7:33 P M 1:22 P M
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