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THE STATE PORT PILOT
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
VOLUME 39
No. 13
8-Pages Today
SOUTHPORT, N. C.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. 1967
5* A COPY
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
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The Pumpkin Car
This automotive cornucopia stands beside Highway No. 17 in Brunswick county be
r^f*6 r d P y. and Boi,via and ,is the ingenious advertising gimmick employed by Her
. *u- ryarij Vj sPfed pumpkin sales each fall. This is the sixth year Bryant ha
used this roadside display, which he estimates has increased sales four-fold. He sav
he never has had one stolen, although they are left out overnight. (Spencer Photo)
Former Pastor
Of Southport
At Shallotte
The Rev. Mark Owens, former
pastor of Southport Baptist
Church, has accepted a call to
serve as pastor of Calvary Bap
tist Church at Shallotte.
He is a native of the Western
Prong section of Columbus coun
ty is no stranger to Brunswick
County having served as modera
tor of the Brunswick Associa
tion 4 years recently. He is also
a member of the Bolivia High
School faculty.
Coming from Mt. Zion Baptist
Church in Hudson, Rev. Owens
has also served the Arlington
St. Church of Greenville.
The pastor is a graduate of
Mars Hill College, Carson-New
man College of Jefferson City,
Tenn., Southeastern Seminary
at Wake Forest and the School
of Pastoral Care at the Baptist
Hospital of Winston-Salem.
Presently he is a member
of the General Board of the Bap
tist State Convention of North
Carolina and a member of the
Council on Christian Education
of the North Carolina Baptist
State Convention.
He was married to the late
Emma Lou Booth Owens of
Oliver Springs, Tennessee. There
are three children, Mary, 13,
Tim, 8, and Patrick, 3.
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REV. MARK OWENS
YARD OF MONTH
Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Thomp
son received the September Yard
of the Month award in Southport.
SUBMIT REPORT
The Brunswick County Plan
ning Committee, comprised of
Roy Stevens, H. V. Thompson
and Jesse Francis, have com
pleted their study and submitted
a report Monday to the Board of
County Commissioners.
HIGHWAY WORK
Among the items placed on call
for bids by the Slate Highway
Commission Tuesday Is 9.8 miles
of sand-asphalt surface in resur
facing three sections of sec
ondary roads in the Holden Beach
area and on section of road at
Ocean Isle. Bids will be opened
on September 26.
Break Ground For
Library Sunday
Ground-breaking ceremonies
for the new $77,000 building of the
Southport - Brunswick Count]
Public Library will take place al
the Moore St. site Sunday after
noon at 3 o'clock.
Contracts were let Thursday
afternoon to C. T. Chauncey,
General Contractor of white
ville for the building; Dixon and
Waynick, Inc., of Greensboro for
the plumbing; Paul T. Turner
Electric Company of Wilming
ton for the electrical work; and
to Cannon Refrigeration Com
pany of Wilmington for the heat
ing and air conditioning. It is
expected that work will begin im
mediately. Completion is antici
pated in six months.
The brief and informal cere
mony on Sunday will begin with
the Invocation by the Rev. Rob
ert Childs of the Presbyterian
Church and will conclude wit!
a Benediction by the Rev. W. S.
Davenport of the Methodist
Church.
Officials representing the
three cooperating groups will be
Mayor E. B. Tomlinson of South
port, Chairman John Barbee of
the Brunswick County Commis
sioners and Chairman Mrs.
James M. Harper, Jr. of the
Trustees of the Library.
Present will be members of
the Board of Trustees for the
Library and the Building Com
mittee. Lewis Hardee is chair
man of the latter group. Serving
as a committee for the ceremony
are Harold Aldridge, former
chairman of the trustees, Mrs.
Philip King, and C. D. Pickerell.
Methodists To
Hold Revival
Revival services will be held
at Trinity Methodist Church ir
Southport next week, with the
Rev. Herbert Maynard, director
of New York’s Bowery Mission,
as guest preacher.
The revival will begin Sunday
morning at the 11 o’clock hour
and will continue Sunday eve
ning. Services will be held
through Friday of next week each
evening at 8 o’clock.
The Rev. Mr. Maynard is a
Baptist minister and is a former
resident of North Carolina. His
boyhood was spent in Kentucky
and west Virginia.
me uowery Mission is op
erated by the Christian Herald
Association and he is the first
Southerner in its 82-year his
tory to serve as director. Under
his leadership this hiifway house
for alcoholics has undergone
changes that have brought its
work into the national limelight.
In announcing the speaker for
the forthcoming revival, theRev.
William Davenport, pastor of
Trinity Methodist Church, said,
“We hope to make this a revival
in which people of all denomina
tions will join, we start off with
a guest minister who is not a
Methodist, so our invitation to
participate is purely undenomi
national. There are many per
sons in Southport who are without
church affiliation, but who have
a leaning or connection with some
church other than the Methodist.
We hope this will not prove a
barrier in their decision to parti
cipate with us in this revival. I
have great hopes that this will
be a meeting with lasting good
effects on our community."
M/SGT. KING
Brunswick Man
Now Retired
Senior Master Sgt. James F.
King, son of Mrs. W. M. King
and the late W. M. King of Bo
livia, retired from the Air Force
on Sept. 1, and ended a military
career that included over ten
years devoted to the recruiting
mission of the Air Force.
For the past five years he has
been stationed in Rocky Mount,
where he supervised Air Force
recruiters operating in 32 east
ern counties. He also served as
a recruiter in Salisbury from
Mar. 1954 to Mar. 1960.
Sgt. King first entered the
service in May 1947 after gradu
ating from Southport High School.
He served with the 82nd Air
borne Division until he re
enlisted in the U. S. Air Force.
Mingled with his ten years on
recruiting duty were assign
ments to Korea and France. In
Korea he was awarded the Ko
rean Service Medal with three
battle stars, the United Nations
Service Medal and the Korean
Presidential Unit Citation.
Sgt. King has been decorated
three times with the Air Force
Commendation Medal for out
standing performance of duty.
He will remain in Rocky Mount
where he has accepted a position
with Carolina Enterprises as
Personnel Director and Public
Relations Manager.
Another Nurse
For Hospital
Mrs. Patricia F. Huggins has
Joined the nursing staff at Dosh
er Memorial Hospital. She is the
wife of William Huggins, director
of nursing.
Mrs. Huggins graduated from
Seacrest High School in Delray
Florida in 1961. she attended
Memorial Mission Hospital
School of Nursing, Asheville*
where she met and married Mr*
Huggins in 1963. She dropped out
one year in order to have a
baby daughter, but graduated in
1965. She worked at James
Walker Memorial Hospital for
a year and at St. Francis Xavier
Hospital in Charleston, S. C
for one year, then New Hanover
Memorial Hospital for a short
time before joining her husband
at Dosher Memorial Hospital.
At present she and their two
daughters are residing in Wil
mington with Mr. Huggins’ par
ents.
Weed Markets
Sales Holiday
Now In Effect
As far as tobacco is concerned,
Chadbourn this morning was real
quiet, as the sales holiday con
tinues along the North Carolina
and South Carolina Markets.
Sales will begin again Monday
morning, but at the present all
“prize houses” here have been
cleaned of tobacco, which was
sent on to processing plants,
| Warehouse doors this morning
| were also closed.
The sales holiday was called
| last week by the Flue-Cured
| Marketing Committee in an ef
fort to give tobacco companies
! a chance to catch up on process
| ing of the millions of pounds of
tobacco already sold on the
1 markets in this record season.
The committee said, however,
that middle belt markets should
continue with their plans to open
adn hold sales Thursday and
Friday.
Brunswick Men
At Moose Meet
Roney W. Cheers, Horace E.
Reaves, Billy Cheers and W. R.
Carter, of Shallotte Moose Lodge
710; and Simon Cohen of South
port/Oak Island Moose Lodge
2059, attended the 41st annual
No C. Moose Association Conven
tion Aug. 24-27, at the Battery
Park Hotel in Asheville.
Over 1000 Moose from the 14
Districts of the N. C. Moose As
sociation attended this annual
gathering of Moose.
Featured speakers at the con
vention included Elmer E. Harter
of Harrisburg, Pa„ past Supreme
Governor; Frank Ray of Savan
nah, Ga., regional director; Wil
liam A. Moon of Pffl£fto*>>W<o„,
State director; and Cecil Webster
of Burlington, N. C„ Jr. Supreme
Governor of the National As
sociation of Loyal Order Of
Moose.
Highlights of the convention in
cluded the Fellowship Breakfast
and Conferral of Degrees Satur
day Morning, and the President’s
Banquet and Ball Saturday night.
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James Cox, executive director
of the Community Action Pro
gram In Brunswick, Columbus
and Bladen counties, will be the
speaker at the regular meeting
of the Southport Lions Club to
morrow (Thursday) evening at
6:30 o’clock at the Community
Building. ,
Aid To Congressman
Douglas Jones, Southport native, is shown here with Congressman Alton A. Lennor
for whom he recently went to work in Washington. His mother, Mrs. Lundy F. Jones
still resides in Southport.
Southport Man
On Lennon Staff
Barbee Heads
Insurance Firm
John L. Barbee has been ap
pointed a representative here of
Security Insurance Companies.
As a family insurance coun
selor of the companies’ Multi -
line Sales Division, he will serve
the residents of this area in as
sociation with Douglas A. Eng
lish, district sales manager of
Security’s Goldsboro offices.
In his new position with the
Winston-Salem companies, Bar
bee will offer counseling on all
forms of life, health, home, fire
and casualty insurance.
Prior to joining Security, Bar
bee was employed by Fidelity
Union Life Insurance Company.
A native of Southport, Bar
bee attended Southport and New
Hanover High Schools and gradu
ated from N. C. State University
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Time And Tide
Thirty years ago this week the season’s second deep sea expe
dition had departed from Southport. Those on the trip were members
of the Dolphin Club, comprised mostly of New Hanover County fisher
men. The first expedition two weeks earlier had proved to be a
worthwhile venture as some sixty fishermen took part in the Gulf
Stream Trip.
Battery Island, located in the Southport harbor, was recognized
as a bird rookery and it was felt that the island should be made into a
preserve because of the rare birds that exist there.
Waterspouts appeared near the mouth of the Cape Fear River.
Capt. Robert Thompson, piloting a tanker less than a mile away, said
that the spout lasted about 10 minutes and caused great disturbance
on an otherwise smooth sea.
Twenty-five years ago this week anticipation of a forestry company
moving into this county was mounting. The Army had expressed
interest in a sawmill located in the area to aid in the supply of the
raw materials to the armed services overseas.
Materials for the surgical dressings had finally arrived and work
was to begin by the local ladies on the project; a salvage campaign
of household products was underway; a _trial blackout in Southport
led to the changing of some Civil Defense #ules; hunting licenses
were now being issued.
Twenty years ago this-'week the annual North Carolina fishing
rodeo was underway and the top catches were expected to be taken
here. The cash prizes in the event totaled $15,000.
A U. S. Navy P.T. boat being taken through the inland waterway for
delivery to the government of the Dominican Republic struck a sunk
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Congressman Alton Lenno:
recently added a Brunswicl
County man, Doug Jones, to hi!
staff. Jones was born in Wil
mington, reared in Southport, at
tended Southport High School
served two years in the Army
and graduated from Duke Uni
versity in 1951.
For the past sixteen years,
Jones had been employed by th<
U. S. Naval Oceanographic Office
as a scientist, gathering and pro
cessing oceanographic data, anc
as a training officer. The Con
gressman first met Jones when he
introduced a class of foreign
naval officers toMr. Lennon, whe
is Chairman of the House Sub
committee on Oceanography.
“The national importance cd
oceanography will continue tc
grow,” Mr, Lennon predicts,
“for the oceans can provide the
additional food, energy, and min
erals necessary for the world’s
exploding population. The in
terest in marine science is evi
denced by the heavy volume of
mail my office receives on the
subject. I am glad to have Mr.
Jones to help in this vital field
and to assist in other staff du
ties,” Lennon continued,
Jones is married to Eleanor
Reese, daughter of Mrs. Reecie
Reese of Southport, and the late
Sam Reese. Jones’mother, Mrs.
W. F. Jones, and his sister,Mrs.
Dorothy Bogie, also reside in
Southport.
Concern Over
Interest Lag
Albert P. Mason, District Man
ager of Social Security, has
voiced concern that some per
sons currently reaching 65 are
failing to establish Medicare eli
gibility.
In this country, almost 150,000
Americans reach 65 each month.
Many continue to work full time,
and would not ordinarily apply for
Social Security. Medicare, how
ever, requires that a claim be
filed, even though monthly re
tirement payments may not be
possible. Medicare is available
to nearly all 65 year olds—even
while fully employed.
The right time for signing up is
the three-monthperiodbeforethe
month you reach age 65. A delay
past the month of 65 may result
in the loss of some benefits.
Hospitalization is the basic
benefit and requires no special
payment, except regular Social
Security taxes. Supplementary
benefits--doctor bills, ambu
lance, splints and braces--cost
$3 a month; and will be deducted
from Social Security benefits, at
retirement. Before retirement.
Social Security sends a bill every
three months--for $9.
The local Social Security of
fice is now open on Thursday eve
nings from 5:15 p.m. to 8:15p.m.
especially to assist people who
work. No appointment is neces
sary.
New Equipment
Speeds Service
For Hospital
A Pixamatic I automatic filn
« processor with automatic filn
■ loader has been Installed in the
• X-ray Department at Doshei
( Memorial Hospital.
The Pixamatic takes over the
whole X-ray film processing jol
by simply placing film into the
autoloader at one end and picking
up the thoroughly dry completec
developed Him at the other enc
3 minutes later. This increase:
the output of x-rays in the de
partment and reduces the time
involved tor each Him. Also, the
finished film will be readllj
available to the staff physician:
without delay. This dry state
permits prompt interpretatioi
of all x-rays by the Radiologist,
eliminating delay in patient care
and prolongation of hospitaliza
tion.
In addition to the new X-raj
machine, an office for the Radi
ologist has been established
which includes a view box capa
ble of handling four films simul
taneously, and shelving to store
x-ray fils and films. The office
is located adjoining the film
processor room.
The operating schedule for the
X-Ray Department is 7;30-5
daily, Monday - Friday and 8; 30
1: P. m. Saturday. An x-ray
technician is kept on call for
emergencies only.
Food Editors
In Brunswick
Food editors from several
leading publications will be in
Southport for the next three days
making a close-up, personal
study of the culinary skills of
Brunswick county chefs and
housewives.
The program has been planned
by Roy Stevens, director of the
Brunswick Resources Develop
ment Commission, and Louis
Dunn of the Department of Con
servation and Development and it
is designed to give these visitors
a sampling of many Brunswick
county menus. There is little
doubt that seafood will take a
place of prominence.
A flounder-gigging expedition
has been planned to let the visi
tors see one of the methods for
procuring these fish. A tripout
side to the shrimping grounds
also has been planned, and there
is a chance some of the visitors
may go aboard a working trawler.
There will beavisittotheCaroon
Crab Co. plant in Southport,
where crabs not only are picked,
but where this meat is imme
diately put to use in the prepara
tion of deviled crabs and crab
cakes.
In addition to meals at local
restaurants, a trip to Calabash
has been included on the
itinerary and a seafood luncheon
at the Community Building in
Southport at noon Friday also is
on the agenda.
There is a demand for favorite
family recipes, particularly tor
those dealing with the prepara
tion of seafood dishes, because
the visit here by these food spe
cialists affords an opportunity to
spread the word about Bruns
wick county seafood.
Rescind Order
Creating Area
For Anchorage
An order creating an anchor
age for ships loaded with am
munition offshore from the
Brunswick county beaches has
been rescinded, according to ad
vice from Lt. Commander E. S.
Davis, Jr., captain of the Port
of Wilmington.
This means that ships loaded
with ammunition henceforth must
lie at their berth at Sunny Point
Army Terminal until they have
taken on a crew and can depart
this port for their destination.
Heretofore, some ships, failing
to round up a full crew, had lain
at anchor near the sea bouy off
Southport. Last week an order
was issued creating an anchor
age area west of the sea bouy,
and this is the one that has been
changed.
A three-and-a-half square
mile area, two miles south of
Holden Beach had been desig
nated an explosive anchorage and
closed to navigation, according to
Coast Guard officials.
An order creating the anchor
age was signed by Rear Admiral
E. C. Allen Jr., commander of
the Fifth Coast Guard District
> in Portsmouth, Va.
, The area lies two miles south
of Holden Beach, between Lock
wood Folly Inlet and Shallotte
Inlet. It is three and a half
miles long by a mile wide and
parallels the coast.
There had been protests from
shrimpers and fishermen who
had been ruled out of this area.
Armyworm Has
Shown Up Here
By MILTON COLEMAN
Assistant Agrl. Extension Agent
Outbreaks of the true army
i worm are occurring in scattered
areas from wake County to the
Coast. They are attacking and
severely damaging coastal Ber
muda, fescue, summer annual "i
grass pastures and grassy corn
fields. Some caterpillars of the
fall armyworm and yellow
i striped armyworm have also been
found.
The true armyworm resem
i bles the fall armyworm, but can
i be distinguished from it by both
appearance and habits. It does
not have the wide Inverted “Y”
on the front of the head of the
fall armyworm. It prefers
grasses and feeds mostly at night,
unlike the fall armyworm which
attacks a variety of crop plants
and is usually found on the plant
throughout the day.
Pastures and late-planted
grassy corn fields should be
Inspected carefully. Cater
pillars may be hard to find be
cause they hide on the soil sur
face during the day. Feeding
signs are indicators of numbers
and distribution, but a search
for worms should be made.
If infestations are uniformly
heavy, the entire field should
be treated. Because moths pre
fer to lay eggs in moist, shady
spots such as in rank vegetation
along fence rows, infestations
are often concentrated along field
margins. Limited or strip treat
ment might be used to advantage
here. The armyworms are at
tacked by many parasites and
predators plus several diseases,
which can knock out an Infesta
tion quickly. Be sure worms
are still present before treating.
The worms feed three to four
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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.
HWH LOW
Thursday, September 7,
9:57 A M 3:52 A M
10:09 P M 4:22 P M
Friday, September 8,
10:51 A M 4:34 A M
11:03 P M 5:16 P M
Saturday, September 9,
11:45 A M 5:28 A M
6:10 P M
Sunday, September 10,
0:03 A M 6:22 A M
12:51 P M 7:16 P M
Monday, September 11,
1:03 A M 7:22'%. M
1:57 P M 8:22 p M
Tuesday, September 12,
2:09 A M 8:28 A M
30:3 P M 9:28 P M
Wednesday, September 13,
3M5 A M 9:34 A M
4:03 P M 10:28 P M