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VOLUME 39
No. 3
10-Pages Today
SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1967
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PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
State Ports Authority Here
Members of the State Port Authority met Friday morning in the administration
building of the Southport Boat Harbor. They are shown here, front row, left to right
Lamar Gudger, E. G. Anderson, William Pharr, E. N. Richards, chairman, and Henry
Weathers. On the back row L. C. Bruce, director of public relations; R. A. DeVane,
comptroller; James W. Davis, director; Joseph Foil, George Purvis and F. H. Ross, Jr.
Road Building
Federal Funds
Are Restricted
By ODELL WILLIAMSON
Representative
13th House District
The old law of home rule is
getting to be more and more a
thing of the past. The people
are so eager to get a few extra
dollars that they are willing to
forego their rights.
Pointing up this fact are the
three highway beautification bills
passed by the House last week.
The argument behind the bills
was simple: Unless they were
passed, our State would lose
one-tenth of our federal highway
matching funds.
Of course, members of the
General Assembly know full well
the need for additional road funds
in North Carolina, so it was the
feeling of most representatives
that we ought to go along with the
bills.
One of the measures would re
quire the State Highway Com
mission, with the aid of the
federal government, to screen
existing junkyards from the view
of motorists on the highway.
Anyone building a junkyard in the
future would have to screen his
own property.
(Continued On Page Six,
Brief Bits Of
NEWS
Tower On The Courthouse
Workmen were busy Saturday erecting a radio tower
on top of the Brunswick County courthouse in Southport.
This is part of the new radio equipment being installed in
the office of the sheriff in order to give him an oppor
tunity to maintain contact with his deputies wherever
they are in Brunswick County. Sheriff Harold Willetts is
shown at the left, surveying the job. (Spencer Photo)
CHURCH NURSERY
Officials of Southport Presby
terian Church wish to remind
summer visitors that a nursery
is in operation at the church each
Sunday during the morning wor
ship hour.
BAKE SALE
The Young People Sunday
School Class of Sabbath Home
Baptist Church will sponsor a
homemade cake bake sale Satur
day, July 1, at O’neil’s Service
Station at Holden Beach. All pro
ceeds will go to the Church Build
ing Fund.
DEAN'S LIST
Two Brunswick County resi
dents were among the 261 Camp
bell College students who made
the Dean's List during the spring
semester.
The two were Parley P.
FormyDuval, a senior from Ash,
and Carolyn Sue Segraves, a jun
ior from Winnabow.
SCOUTS ORGANIZE
A new Boys Scout Troop is
being organized under the aus
pices of Trinity Methodist Church
with openings still available for
youngsters from 11 to 13 years
of age. Ralph Kornegay is
the scoutmaster. The troop
meets each Thursday night at the
educational building of the
church.
REVIVAL SPEAKER
Rev. J. W. Collison, pastor
of the First Baptist Church of
Annapolis, Maryland, will be the
guest speaker for the revival
at Goshen Baptist Church in the
Leland-Acme area. Services
will be held each evening at 8
o’clock, July 3-8, and at 11 a. m.
Sunday, July 9. The public is
invited to attend.
State Ports Group
Meets In Southport
The State Ports Authority held
a regular meeting at the adminis
tration building oi the Southport
Boat Harbor Friday and heard
Manager H. A. Schmidt give an
optimistic report of activities at
this installation. James W.
Davis, director of the State Ports
Authority, later collaborated with
Schmidt to outline an optimistic
projection for the future of this
facility.
Among the items of local in
terest was a report on repairs
to the bulkhead, including the
report that repairs have been
completed and assurance that the
excavation near the docks soon
will be filled.
A second item of major interest
that was brought up by Davis and
Schmidt was the proposal to pro
vided covered berths at the boat
harbor. They reported that plans
call for 24 slips covered slips,
together with a berth for the Coast
Guard patrol boat. They report
ed that already they have more
than enough applications In
writing to take up these covered
berths, once they become avail
able.
Members of the ports authority
apparently were impressed with
these reports and there were
statements that early action must
be taken to furnish this type
of service at Southport. “The
covered shed must come”, said
George Purvis, upon whose yacht
authority members made the trip
from Wrightsville Beach to
Southport for the meeting.
Schmidt reported that during
1966, the first hill year of oper
ation, the harbor had 32-percent
occupancy. Thus far during 1967
he reports 57-percent occupancy.
As for use by transient boats,
scnmidt reported that there were
521 transient users during 1966.
During April of this year he
reported 189 boats used the facil
ities here and during May there
were 191 transient customers.
Davis and Schmidt commend!
ed the harbor restaurant for j
maintaining high standards!
(Continued On Page Six)
CAPT. TENNIS CARTER
Festival Program
SATURDAY, JULY 1
8 p.m. - Miss Fourth Of July Pageant.
Southport High School Auditorium
SUNDAY, JULY 2
11 a.m. - Special Worship Services in all Local Churches.
Evening Services - 8:30 p.m.
4 p.m. - Baseball Game - Taylor Field
ALL DAY
National Guard Helicopter - waterfront
Heritage House - Community Building
Junior woman's Club Art Show - Cranmer House
Mobile Museum of History - Howe St.
Crime Prevention Display - Howe St.
USS “Sarsfield” - U. S. Navy Destroyer - open For Visitors,
Board from Boat Harbor
MONDAY, JULY 3
8 p.m. - Coast Guard -vs- Navy Baseball Game - Taylor Field
9:30 p.m. - Street Dance Under The Stoplight
ALL DAY
National Guard Helicopter - Waterfront
Heritage House - Community Building
Junior Woman’s Club Art Show - Cranmer House
Mobile Museum of History - Howe St.
Crime Prevention Display - Howe St.
USS “Sarsfield” - u. S. Navy Destroyer - Open For Visitors,
Board from Boat Harbor
US Coast Guard Cutter “Cape Upright” - Open For Visitors at
Boat Harbor
Sidewalk Art Show - Next To Leggett’s
TUESDAY, JULY 4
11 a. m. - FOURTH OF JULY PARADE
2 p. m. - U. S. Navy Band - City Hall
3p. m. - Sky Divers Bail Out Over The Boat Harbor
6 p. m. - Calliope Concert on the waterfront
8:30 p.m. - Jaycee Boat Drawing-Foot of Howe St. at Whittier’s
Bench
9 p.m. - Giant Fireworks Display - Foot of Howe Street Over The
Cape Fear River
ALL DAY
National Guard Helicopter - waterfront
Heritage House - Community Building
Junior Woman’s Club Art Show - Cranmer House
Sidewalk Art Show - Next To Leggett’s
Mobile Museum of History - Howe St.
Crime Prevention Display - Howe St.
USS “Sarsfield” - u. S. Navy Destroyer - Open For Visitors,
Board from Boat Harbor
USS Coast Guard Cutter “Cape Upright” - Open For Visitors at
Boat Harbor.
Brunswick Has
4-H Candidates
Brunswick County 4-H Club
members traveled to North Le
noir High School, Lagrange, to
compete in the Southeastern Dis
trict 4-H Demonstration Day.
Nine 4-H’ers made the trip. Mrs.
Mary Russ, Home Economics Ex
tension Agent, and Milton Cole
man, Assistant Agricultural Ex
tension Agent, accompanied the
group.
In the Dress Revue Division,
Linda Cheers of the Better Youth
4-H Club won a blue award for her
garment. For this, she has the
right to compete during State
4-H Club Week in the State 4-H
Dress Revue. Winner of the
State event wins an all-expense
paid trip to National 4-H Con
gress in Chicago. Linda returned
Iasi week from Washington, D. C.,
wh<;re she attended the Citizen
ship Short Course.
Jeris Hewett of the Busy Bees
4-H Club represented the county
in the Tractor Operators Pro
gram. He won a white award.
Kenneth Hewett of the same club
won a white award in the Boys
Public Speaking Contest. Reggie
Hewett won a white award in
Boys Electric Demonstrations.
Anne Smith, another member
of the Busy Bees 4-H Club, com
peted in the Egg Cookery Demon
stration. She won a white award.
Gayle Clemmons and Dlone
Potter, both members of the
Busy Bees club, competed in the
talent division. Only blue awards
were announced.
Pageant Will
Open Festival
Saturday Nite
Treasures of Bonnetts Coi
will be the theme for the fir:
Miss 4th of July pageant. T«
local beauties will compete :
evening, gowns and bathing suil
for the coveted title.
The pageant will get its sta
about 3 o’clock Saturday aftei
noon with a motorcade throug
the town to show off all tt
lovely contestants and with Mis
Sara Carol Hickman, Mis
Brunswick County 1967, as gue:
celebrity.
Contestants for the pagear
are: Patricia Carol Allen, 1'
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. 1
Spencer; Susan Edge Bellamy
17, daughter of Mr. and Mri
C. E. Bellamy; Frances Dian
Carrier, 18, daughter of Mr. an
Mrs. O. W. Carrier; Barbar
Teresa Gottlieb, 17, daughter <
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gottlieb; Cyn
thia Lynn Hardy, 18, daughter c
Mr. and Mrs. W. Frank Hardj
Kathryn Dianne Joyner, 11
daughter of Col. and Mrs. A. E
Joyner; Barbara Ann Melton
20, daughter of Mr. and Mrs
James D. Melton; Jane Caroly
Styron, 17, daughter of Mr. an
Mrs. William Styron; Joyc
Elaine ward, 18, daughter of Mr
and Mrs. James D. ward, an
Whitney Leigh Zachary, 18
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hug
Zachary.
(Continued on Page 4)
Time And Tide
Thirty years ago the ferry boat John Knox was caught on a piling
and sank on the Brunswick county side of the Cape Fear River near
Wilmington. Plans were to raise the sunken hull during the coming
week. This boat was an important link in the transportation to and
from Wilmington but had recently been replaced by bridges.
Miss Annie May woodside was reported to be the only woman
superintendent of county schools in North Carolina; representatives
of the Carolina Yacht Club were maping plans for a sailing regatta
to be held in the Southport harbor in August; and an article about
Southport appeared in the Esso Road News Publication.
Twenty-five years ago this week a gala Fourth of July celebration
was to take place in Southport. Included in the program were dances,
picnics and musical presentations.
The F.B.L had recently solved a sabotage mystery and found that
two of the saboteurs had spent several weeks on the elaborate yawl
Lekala in Southport harbor three years before. They were charged
with intending to destory industrial plants involved in the manufac
ture o! ammunition. There were eight men in the group.
There was talk of organizing car pools because of the rationing of
gas to citizens; an oil painting of Dr. J. Arthur Dosher was pre
sented to the hospital in Southport which bears his name; Charles
M. Trott was elected commander of the Southport Post, American
Legion; and a story was written by W. B. Keziah concerning the
outstanding future of salt water sports fishing in this area in the
years following the war.
There was a possibility that group of prominent New York busi
nessmen were interested in purchasing Bald Head Island that
was 20 years ago this week, it was suspected that they wanted
it to develop and the present owner said that he was willing to co
operate if the men wanted to buy it.
There was a front page picture and story about the late Cratie
Arnold, a physically handicapped man who operated a boat building
establishment here.
The shrimp were beginning to show and increase in size and
would reach full growth soon; the program that stopped shrimping
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Fourth Of July
Gala Celebration Here
MBS PAT ALLEN MBS KATHY JOYNER
MISS CINDY HARDY MBS JOYCE WARD
MISS SUSAN BELLAMY
MISS WHITNEY ZACHERY
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MISS DIANE CARRIER MISS BARBARA MELTON
Norris C. Long
New Postmaster
Norris C. Long, a career em
ployee of the Post Office Depart
ment, has assumed the duties of
postmaster for Southport, a po
sition to which he was appointed
by President Lyndon B. Johnson
on March 3 of this year.
His confirmation by the U. S.
Senate took place on May 8 and
he began work on June 3 after
being installed the previous day
NORRIS C. LONG
by Inspector w. M, Stanley.
Long entered the postal serv
ice in 1937 as a railway mail
clerk and has spent most of his
career In the mobile mail serv
ice. During most of this time
his headquarters have been in
Greensboro, although at one time
he worked out of Wilmington.
Seven years ago he built a
home at Long Beach, and this
has been his residence since
that time. He is chairman of the
Zoning Commission at Long
Beach.
“When they established the
post office at Long Beach,” he
said, “I thought how nice it would
be to become postmaster there
one day. I never got around to
that job but last year when they
announced examinations for the
vacancy at Southport I was one
of the candidates. I am very
much pleased to have this ap
pointment, and I am sure that I
will enjoy a continuation of my
service to the post office de
partment here.”
With the arrival of the new
postmaster Mrs. Marjorie Liv
ingston, who had been acting
postmaster, resumes her role
as assistant postmaster. Mrs.
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A Fourth of July Festival pro
gram which begins Saturday night
with a beauty pageant and con
cludes Tuesday evening with a
giant fireworks display Is all set
and ready to go after planning
and cooperation that has Involved
scores of public officials and
community leaders.
In between the opening and
closing events will be art shows,
the Heritage House, street dance,
band concert, baseball games,
historical displays and conducted
tours of a Navy destroyer and a
Coast Guard patrol craft.
There will be many dis
tinguished guests, including an
admiral and a general, and South
port citizens will be prepared
to extend the brand of hospitality
that has helped to make these
Fourth of July celebrations fa
mous.
It is expected that this year’s
program will attract the greatest
number of visitors in the history
of this event.
Mayor E. B. Tomlinson, Jr.
said today that it is hope that
Southport and Brunswick county
citizens will not feel that this
celebration is merely to attract
and entertain visitors from dis
tant places. "I hope our home
folks from Southport and other
parts of Brunswick county will
attend as many of the events as
possible,” he said. “There is no
more effective way we can show
our genuine hospitality than to
have our people share our role as
hosts.”
Mayor Tomlinson also urged
Southport residents to display the
American flag on Tuesday. "X
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MISS TERRY GOTTLIEB
MESS CAROLYN STYRON
PAGEANT MOTORCADE
There will be a motorcade of
the Festival Beauty Pageant con
testants through the streets of
Southport at 3 o’clock Saturday
afternoon.
Tide Table
Following la 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, June 29,
12:57 A M 7:22 A M
1:27 P M 7:46 P M
Friday, June SO,
1:39 A M 8:10 A M
2:21 P M 8:40 P M
Saturday, July 1,
2:33 AM 8:58 A M
3:09 PM 9:40 P M
Sunday, July 2,
3:21 A M 9:45 A M
4:03 P M 10:34 P M
Monday, July 8,
4:15 A M 10:40 A M
4:51 PM 11:28 P M
Tuesday, July 4,
5:03 AM 11:28 A M
5:39 P M
Wednesday, July 5,
5:51 A M 0:16 A M
6:27 P M 12:10 P M