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fW The Pilot Covers ] Brunswick County! THE STATE PORT PILOT 1 A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Most of the News All The Time VOLUME 39 No. 2 3-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1967 5f A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Do It Yourself Erosion Project When continued erosion threatened the strand at Yaupon Beach members of the Barbee family, Gib, John and Frank, together with Jerry Spencer and Neil McLean be gan to fight back. The top photo shows me chanized equipment being used to load sand bags, and the bottom picture shows them being emplaced on the strand. Already the tide has begun to pay back some of the sand it had been stealing. (Spencer photo) Red Cross Is Activated In County Again The Red Cross reorganization al meeting for the Brunswick County chapter was held Tues day, June 13, in Supply. Herman Strong, acting chairman, pre sided over a group of about twen ty interested county residents. The need for Red Cross activi ty locally was presented by Mrs. Catherine Stewart, area repre sentative for Eastern North Carolina. Mrs. Stewart especial ly stressed the necessity for dis aster relief during hurricanes and aid to the families of mili tary personnel in time of illness or distress. Nominees for the Red Cross Board were selected by the group present. Persons in all town ships of the county have been nominated. The organization hopes that all areas will be rep resented. A Board meeting with new members attending is planned for Monday, June 26 at 7:30 p.m. at the Agricultural Building in Supply. SUPPER POSTPONED The Supper which was planned by the Southport woman’s Club for June 22 at the club building has been postponed. A new date will be announced later. COUNTY STILL ELIGIBLE Brunswick County will continue to be eligible to participate in the programs of the Economic Development Administration for, in all probability, at least an ad ditional year beginning July 1. PLAN RECEPTION A reception will be given for the Rev. and Mrs. E. C. Chamb lee on Tuesday night from 7;30 until 10 o’clock at the home of Mrs. Evelyn Dosher, 211 North Howe Street. Everyone Is cor dially invited to attend. DuPont Executive Is Speaker Here Murray Acker, general man ager for the DuPont multi-mil lion dollar facility being con structed in Brunswick county, was guest speaker at the regular meeting of the Southport Lion’s Club Thursday evening. In order that others might have an opportunity to hear Mr. Acker, invitations had been extended to Lion’s Club members of Shal lotte, Supply, Bolivia andLeland. Mr. Acker was accompanied by Mrs. Acker, who was greeted by wives of Lion's and local garden club members. About seventy persons attend ed the dinner meeting and heard this visitor tell “The DuPont Story”. His talk was augmented with slides showing recon structed scenes of the original DuPont plant established for the manufacture of gun powder for the colonies in 1802 and then fur nish information on the extent of their manufactuary facilities in the U. S. and also in foreign countries. Mr. Acker dwelt a great deal on the Kinston plant of DuPont, which in many respects will compare with the Brunswick (Continued on Page 4 Southport Man Gets Masters Harry Thomas Sanders, Jr., son of H. T. Sanders, Faith, N.C., and Mrs. Catherine Sanders of Southport received the Master of Science Degree from The Institute of Paper Chemistry in Appleton, Wisconsin, Sunday, June 11. The school is an independent graduate school which awards ad vanced degrees in science through Lawrence University also in Appleton. Sanders received his Bach elor’s degree from North Caro lina State University in 1965 He plans to continue study for the doctoral degree in science at The Institute of Paper Chemistry. Oak Island Golf Course Praised Tiere is an article in the June issue of the Holiday Inn maga zine concerning golf in the South ern States. Included in the article were some very favorable comments on the Oak Island Club near Southport. “One of the finest off-the beaten path courses in the Oak Island club at Southport. . . A great test, Oak Island is a must for the touring golfer.” The Holiday Inn magazine is distributed to 849 Holiday Inns and is placed in approximately 112,000 rooms each night. The publicity which this magazine has given Oak Island golf course and Southport will reach such di verse locations as Morocco, Af rica, and Grand Bahama Island, as well as many parts of Canada and the entire United States. Staff Program Set At Caswell The Training Union Depart ment of the Baptist State Con vention will sponsor a week-long conference for members of the church staff and lay leaders with special interest conferences for all other age groups at the North Carolina Baptist Assembly at Fort Caswell June 26-July l. Serving as pastor of the week at the Assembly will be Nathan C. Brooks, Jr., Baptist State Convention, Raleigh. A special conference on Church Drama at the North Carolina Baptist Assembly, Southport will be led by Mrs. Dorothy Murphree, Church Recreation Department, Baptist Sunday School Board, Nashville, Tenn. Other interest conferences will include Family Living, Christian Daily Life and Church Recreation, together with conferences dealing with the latest concepts and methods in Training Union work. Brunswick Men Recognized On Corps Birthday Members of the U. S. Army Engineer District, Wilmington, were joined by friends of the Corps Friday to commemorate the 192nd birthday of the largest engineering agency in the world— the Army Corps of Engineers. Ceremonies were held at 11 a.m. in the courtyard of the Customs House, overlooking the Cape Fear River and Wilmington Harbor. E. G. Long, jr.t the District’s Engineering Division Chief, pre sided and recognized some of the distinguished guests. These in cluded the principal speaker, Senator J. Vivian Whitfield of Wallace, and Mrs. Whitfield; Glenn Tucker, member of the North Carolina Board of water Resources; Honorable o. O.Alls brook, mayor of Wilmington; Charles M. Harrington, mayor pro-tem; James Marshall, New Hanover county manager; Rye B. Page, owner and publisher of the Wilmington Star-News; and Lloyd Moore, vice-president of the Greater Wilmington Chamber of Commerce. Also seated on the platform were Major Leon E. Mc Kinney, Deputy District En gineer, and Virgil M. Lancaster. Long then introduced Wilming ton’s 38th District Engineer since 1884, Colonel Beverly C. Snow, Jr. Mr. Long remarked that during the two years Colonel Snow had served in Wilmington he has accomplished many goals, Including the establishment of such working relationships with State and Federal agencies that national recognition has resulted for the District. Colonel Snow (Continued On Page Two) Judging Team Places High Members of Brunswick Coun ty's 4-H Livestock Judging Team represented their county well In the State Livestock Judging held Friday in Raleigh. The con test was conducted on the swine farm at N. C. State University. - With 26 teams participating in both junior and senior divisions, Brunswick’s team placed 6th. Recently the team was winner in a contest held in Wilmington. The top four teams in the contest will compete again during State 4-H Club Week in July. From these teams, a state team will be named. The state team will participate in several con tests before leaving for Chicago, Illinois, to participate in the national contest. "The team also made the grade,” said Mil ton Coleman, Assistant Agricul tural Extension Agent proudly. "The boys showed that they were capable of doing some good judging. It generally takes sev eral years to develop a team so it can be a winning team. These boys are young and have several more years. They can be a winning team with a little more practice and determination.” The 4-H members making up the team are Jerls Hewett, Ken neth Hewett, Roy Hewett and Richard Jones. All are members of the Busy Bees 4-H Club. Mrs. Freeman Hewett and Fred Sim mons are the adult leaders. High scorer on the team was Richard Jones with 462, jerls Hewett followed with 439, Roy Hewett scored 431 while alternate Kenneth Hewett had 418. The lowest score is always the al ternate member. The team score was 1332. Leading teams and their scores (Continued on Page i, Time And Tide Thirty years ago tins week sports fishing was just beginning to show promises of some day being a big business in the area. The local civic club became interested in the idea, and was thinking of ways to develop it. Small gamefish were caught around Frying Pan Shoals and even larger fish were thought to exist farther offshore. Local citizens and representatives of the Army Engineers were discussing plans for a yacht basin at one end of the town or the other, forest fires were raging in various parts of the county until the rains came; steel-trapping of rattlesnakes was thought of as a coming sport in Brunswick county; and Adrian Galloway of Bolivia had received his pharmacists degree from the University of North Carolina. Twenty-five years ago this week 35,200 pounds of scrap rubber was collected during the first week of the campaign in Brunswick county to aid the nation’s surplus goods. R. D. White, county chair man, reported that Coast Road Service Station and Elmore Motor Company had contributed 9,000 and 8,500 pounds respectively. Elbert Kirby’s store in Supply reported an additional 4,900 pounds. Preston Bryant was captain of the cargo carrier Comstock, George Watson had been named chief engineer and his brother, Harold, was assistant engineer. All were citizens of Southport. D. I. Watson was awakened during the night by a slamming screen door, when he went to shut it he tried to turn on the overhead light. Instead of grabbing the pull cord he caught hold of a 2-foot snake, it took little time to get the light on, and the reptile was im mediately disposed of. (Continued on Page Coming Here For Festival This is the USS Sarsfield (DD-837) which will visit Southport for three days during the Fourth of July Festival. The vessel will be moored in the Southport Harbor and visitors will be given an opportunity to visit her on each of the three days she is in port. Heritage Show Will Feature 4th Festival Plans are being completed for the Heritage Show, a display of antiques and articles of his toric Interest, during the week of July fourth in the Community Building at Southport. The altar linens of St. Phil lips Episcopal Church will again be on display at the church, which is across the street from the Community building. Mrs. James Loughlin will be in charge of the display. These altar linens, which are almost three hundred years old, were originally in St. Phillips Church at Brunswick Town and were a gift from “Queen Anne's (Continued on Page 41 Art Instruction Starts Thursday Mrs. Thelma Bennett of win ston-Salem and Caswell Beach will hold art classes in Southport this summer, beginning Thurs day evening. Classes will include Graphics —Thursday night 7-9:30; Intro duction to Scratchboard, wood cuts and Etchings, press avail able for printing copper plates. Sculpture—Friday morning 9 11; an Approach to Sculpture, use of plastilina-casting tech nique fromplastilina model—will use live model if possible. Painting—Friday night from 7:30-9:30. Introduction to media, form and color; demonstrations on techniques in various medias, for beginning and advanced pupils. Mrs. Bennett studied at the University of Alabama, Salem College, Bowman Grey School of Medicine. She has also studied art with Frederick Toubes of New York, John Whacton of Flat Rock, J ohn Brady of Blowing Rock, Anne Shields and Frank Tolar. She has won awards in the graphics and water color division of the Southport Art Festival and has a woodcut in the South port permanent collection, she has works in permanent col lections of the Asheville Museum of Art and the North Carolina Mu (Oontlnued on Page «) Off To Washington Linda Cheers, left, receives a check for one-half her ex penses for her trip to Washington, D. C., to attend the 4-H Citizenship Conference. The man on the right is Hugh Vance, making the presentation on behalf of the Bruns wick REA. Festival Program Now Taking Shape By JAMES F. HOWARD The U. S. Navy Destroyer USS Sarsfield, known In official cir cles as the DD837, will be the Southport Fourth of July Fes tival's most honored guest. An estimated five to ten thousand visitors will board the Sarsfield and be given a guided tour of in spection of the ship by the Deck Officer and his Command. The Sarsfield will enter the Cape Fear River just after dawn on Saturday, July 1. She will be met by the pilot boat and a wel coming committee from the City of Southport and the Fourth of Shallotte Girl In Washington Linda Cheers, one of Bruns wick county’s outstanding 4-H club members, is in the Nation’s Capitol this week attending the 4-h Citizenship Short Course. She left the state Sunday with a group of 4-H’ers from the South eastern District for Washington, D. C. Linda is a member of the Better Youth 4-H Club. Mrs. Nell Brame and Mrs. Betty Cheers are adult leaders. The 4-H Citizenship Short Course program is a varied se lection of citizenship studies. Assembly and discussion pro grams are given in the aspects of citizenship, the nature of freedom, confidence for leader ship and world horizons of 4-H citizenship. Many historic shrines and points of interest will be seen by the group. These include the Capitol, Washington Monument, Jefferson Me mortal, snutnsoman Institute, Mount Vernon, Lincoln Memorial, Arlington National Cemetary, Supreme Court, Lib rary of Congress, white House, U. S. Department of State and National Gallery of Art. Club members will also visit their re spective congressmen. Brunswick Electric Member ship Corporation is sponsoring one-half the expenses for the trip. Delegates pay one-half of the expense themselves. Linda will return home Satur day. July Festival and will be es corted to drop anchor just oft of the foot of Howe Street. The Sarsfleld will leave Southport on the morning of July 5th, and like the other Navy ships that have visited here during previ ous festivals, lasting friendships will have been made. The USS Sarsfleld is one ofthe ships that compose the cruiser destroyer force, U. S. Atlantic Fleet, and is commanded by Com mander James E. Myrick, a native of Littleton, N. C. The keel of the Sarsfleld was laid on January 5, 1945, at the Bath Iron works at Bath, Me. The Sarsfleld displaces 2250 tons, is 390 feet in length and has abeam of 41 feet. She is propelled by twin screws with an effective horsepower of 60,000 and is cap able of speeds in excess of 30 (Continued On Page Five; Festival Parade Marshal Named Captain Tennis H. Carter, Chief of the Operations and In telligence Committee, John F. Kennedy Center for Special war fare (Airborne) at Fort Bragg, has been invited to act as Grand Marshal for the Southport 4th of July parade. Captain Carter, a native of Milton, w. Va., is a holder of the Distinguished Service Cross and the Bronze Star Medal. He was commissioned De cember 17, 1957 after serving nine years as an enlisted man. Prior to commission he served with the 187th Airborne Regi mental Combat Team and the 185th Combat Engineer Battalion As an officer he has served in Vietnam and the Dominican Re public. Other decorations the Captain has received Include the Air Medal, the Purple Heart, the Korean Service Medal, the Viet namese Cross of Gallantry with Silver Star, the Master Para chutist Badge and the Combat Infantryman’s Bade with Star. A color guard unit from the XVIH Airborne Corps will also attend the festivities. Legislature In Final Stages Of This Term By ODELL WILLIAMSON Some newsmen say the best sign of all that the General As sembly Is drawing to a close Is the “love feast.” The House held its love feast last Thursday night. Love feasts are held each ses sion In both the House and the Senate. They have become a happy tradition, and I anticipate that they will continue in years to come. The House love feast provides an occasion for good fellowship, fun, and entertainment put on by talented representatives them selves. During my years as a legislator, the Speaker of the House has always been given a silver service, other gifts have been presented to House officers. The General Assembly Is now geared for adjournment with the naming of calendar committees in the House and the Senate. This means that all new bills that are Introduced will be sent to this one committee from here on out. Adjournment does seem to be in sight now, and at this time 1 am predicting that the session will end Thursday, June 29. Despite the rush for adjourn ment, several bills have been introduced that have generated right much debate on their way to a vote. One such bill was the one to require a child to stay in school until his 17th birthday. This bill has been passed into law. Under the old law, a child had to stay in school until he was 16. It seems that as the years go by, it is the thinking of the people that more and more schooling is required. In 1913 the State of North Caro lina required that a person at tend school from the time he was 8 until he was 12. Four years later, in 1917, the law was amend ed to reach from 8 to 14. In 1921 the law was amended again so that even more school time was mandatory—from 7 to 14. And in 1945, another change In the law set the age limits for required school attendance at 7-16. Now, in 1967, as of last week, the law requires a person to at tend school until the age of 17. This measure was debated at (Continued On Page Five) Burglars Enter Beach ABC Store The ABC store at Long Beach was broken into Friday night but officials reported that nothing was taken. Business resumed as usual Saturday. It was reported that the bur glar, or perhaps burglars, first attempted to enter the front door but were unable to open it. The door, however, was damage to the extent that a new one had to be installed. After the burglar found that the front door could not be open ed, he went to the rear of the store and broke down the door there. The safe was the only thing within the building that was tam pered with. The combination lock had been damaged but was not opened. Officials said that it is now necessary to have a “safe cracker” open the safe. None of the stock was taken from the store. 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, dune 22, 7:46 A M 1:58 A M 8:21 P M i;58 P M Friday, June 28, 8:39 A M 2:52 A M 9:09 P M 2:46 P M Saturday, June 24, 9:27 A M 3:34 A M 9:57 P M 3:34 P M Sunday, June 25, 10:15 AM 4:22 A M 10:45 P M 4:22 P M Monday, June 26, 11:03 A M 5:04 A M 11:27 P M 5:10 P M Tuesday, June 27, 11:51 A M 5:52 A M 5:58 P M. Wednesday, June 28, 0:09 A. M. 6:34 A M 12:39 P M 6:52 P M
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