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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 39 No. 14 10-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1967 5* A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Boat Building Operation The Gilbert Grissett Boatworks at Shallotte was a point of interest in Brunswick county visited by the food editors last week during their three-day tour. Two groups are shown here inspecting the construction operation. No More Grid Games Slated By Southport SOUTHPORT—Football, as an Interscholastic sport, has been dropped at Southport High School for the 1967 season. Ed F. (Porky) Mlntz, athletic director and head coach of boys* sports at Southport High, an nounced during tiie weekend that lack of personnel had forced the Brunswick County school to drop the gridiron sport for this sea son, at any rate, scholastically. Southport's Dolphins had been scheduled to play at North Dup lin last Friday night, but the game was cancelled when it was found that only 12 boys remained on the short-handed Dolphin squad. Earlier, Mlntz had opened drills and had found only 8 boys at his opening workouts. But, after several announcements In news media about the Dolphin lack of personnel, and appeals for more such talent, the number of candidates was upped to 15, A week before the school’s officials decided to throw In the towel on football as an Interschol astic sport, the team had Jour neyed to Midway and dropped a 30-6 verdict. That night, only 13 boys made the trip with South port to Midway, as two of their more experienced boys came down with a virus around noon on Friday, the day of the game. Then, the past week an Injury dropped the squad’s total to 12 after two boys left the squad voluntarily and another was In jured. Coach Mlntz said of the situa tion: “We have been forced to give up football as an interscholastic sport at Southport High School. We have personnel in school but (Continued On Page Four) METHODIST BAZAAR The annual bazaar sponsored by the WSCS of Trinity Metho dist Church will be held in the Daughters of America Hall on November 17, starting at 9 a.m. MAKES SERGEANT Cadet Jerry Dilsaver, son of "Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Dilsaver of Southport, has been promoted to sergeant in the cadet ranks at Frederick Military Academy in Portsmouth, Va., where he is a student. HIGH SCHOOL ANNUALS The Senior class of Southport High School has begun sale of their yearbook, the <68 Dolphin. Purchases may be made from any member of the Senior class. The deadline for the purchase of the yearbook is October 2. Food Editors Tour Points Of Interest From floundering to net making was the schedule for the group of food editors and marketing specialists who toured Bruns wick county last week according to W. A. Powell, chairman of the Resources Development Com mission for Brunswick County. The tour arranged by Lewis F. Dunn, Seafood Specialist for the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Develop ment, and coordinated locally by Roy Stevens, director of the Re sources Development Commis sion, was conducted Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. The first item on the agenda was a visit to the shrimp houses at Southport to see shrimp being headed. Wednesday evening the group went on a flounder strik ing party with Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Clemmons and Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Johnston serving as guides. The party reported a catch of six flounders which were caught at Ocean Isle Beach. Thursday morning the party went to sea aboard the state boat Neuse to see the shrimp boat Cindy in operation. Capt. Willis and the crew of the Neuse did an excellent job of maneuver ing that craft into position for the group to see Capt. Jimmy Moore and the crew of the Cindy pull in their nets and dump the catch of shrimp. Clay Nolan, photographer for the Travel and Promotion Di vision of the State Department (Continued On Page Two) Superior Court Here Next Week The following names have been drawn for jury duty at the term of Superior court scheduled to convene in Southport on Monday, September 18: Judge C. W. Hall of Durham will preside over this term, which will be for the trial of criminal cases. BOLIVIA — Norfolk Albert Monroe, James Maxwell Smith; FREELAND—N. W. King, Bar Ion Milliken, K. T. Little, J. Bur ton Little, M. K. King; SOUTH PORT—W. R. Jenkins, Carl E. Willett. ASH—Billie Wade Russ, Harry Coleman, R. D. Milligan, Charlie McKeithan; WINNABOW—G. R. Hickman, John Sullivan, Oliver Bellamy, Floyd Atkinson. LELAND—L. D. Smith, Donald Hill, Thurman Harrelson, Justus J. Fuller, Dillon Watson, william Aubrey Smith, Archie Sullivan. SHALLOTTE—George Sloane, H. A. Stanland, Jr., J. P. Miller, W. D. Harrelson, Marion B. Hewett, Lacy Johnson, Cleve land Gore; SUPPLY—Hobson James Hewett, Elbert A. Kirby, Willie T, Robinson, Walter R, Sellers, Grover H. Holden, Audie O. Phelps, James McMillan; OCEAN DRIVE BEACH—Jerome Jenrette; NAVASSA — Leroy Lewis, Jr. Jury Commission For Brunswick In a joint announcement Mon day from the Board of County Commissioners Resident Judge Clark’s Office, and the Office of Clerk of Court, three men were appointed the Brunswick County Jury Commission. They are R. E. Bellamy, Sr., T. S. Bowmer, and Elmer Aycock. The commission is to set up the new jury system in Brunswick county. These appointments are effective October 1 and run for two years. Southport Girl Back In States A Southport girl who spread goodwill abroad while serving in Morocco the Foreign Agricul ture program of the Department of Agriculture, has returned to the United States after two year’s duty and brought her new husband with her. She is the former Lois Gene Gore and he is Slimane Bennou, a native of Algiers who has been in the USIA program for several years. He will teach in Washing ton where his wife will be as signed duties in the Department of Agriculture. The couple was married on Au gust 24 at Gibraltar. The Gover nor of this British possession performed the ceremony. They left for Paris, where they spent two weeks on their honeymoon. While stationed at Morocco Mrs. Bennou gave musical con certs before hundreds of people who were charmed by this North Carolina girl. “I had learned to converse in French,” she says, “but 1 sang to them in English. Most of them did not understand the words, but the music got through to them. Best of all, they liked the spirituals I sang for them.” On one occasion she performed before an audience of 3,500 per (Continued On Pag* Fouri Writes Letter Of Appreciation Mrs. Luta Rose Campbell, for many years a member of the nursing staff atDosher Memorial Hospital In Southport, has retired and has returned to her old home at Marlon, S. C. Last week, in recognition of her many years of faithful serv ice to the local Institution, L. T. Yaskell, chairman of the board of trustees for the hospital mailed a certificate of appreciation and a gift bracelet to Mrs. Campbell. Following Is copy of the letter which accompanied the certlfi <Continued on Page 4)! New Bern Site Of Hearing On Fishing Laws Petro Kulynych of North Wllkesboro, Chairman of the Commercial and Sports Fish eries Committee of the North Carolina Board of Conservation and Development, announced this week that the annual public hear ings for proposed changes In North Carolina’s coastal fishing regulations will be consolidated Into a single public hearing scheduled for Thursday, Sep tember 28 at 7:30 p. m. in the Craven County Courthouse at New Bern. In previous years, the Com mercial and Sports Fisheries Committee had held three hear ings on the coast—one In the Manteo area, one In the More head City area, and one in the Wilmington or Southport area. "We are only having one hear ing this year Instead of three," Kulynych said, "because we feel that everyone who desires to be heard on proposals to change the regulations can be heard at one meeting and save everyone a great deal of time and traveling. "We chose New Bern for this year’s hearing because we feel that anyone Interested In making a statement at the hearing would be willing to come to New Bern since it is centrally locally In the coastal area," said Kulynych. The committee will consider all testimony given at the hear ing and prepare recommenda tions which will be presented to the Board of Conservation and Development for final approval at the Board’s fall meeting In Atlantic Beach on October 8-10, 1967. The new regulations would then become effective on Janu ary 1, 1968. In addition to Kulynych, mem bers of the Commercial and Sports Fisheries Committee of the C&D Board are: William B. Carter of Washington, Vice Chairman, william P. Saunders of Southern Pines; J. O. Bishop of Rocky Mount; T. Max Watson of Spindale; and w. H. McDonald of Tryon. Methodists To Meet Sunday ii The Brunswick County Wom an's Society of Christian Service Sub-District will hold Its fall meeting Sunday at 3 p. m. at Zion Methodist Church, Leland. Rev. Fred Fordham, rector of the Episcopal Churches In Bruns wick, will speak on the Beliefs of “the Episcopal Church and the Ecumenical Movement”. Medi tation will be led by Rev. T. R. McKay, Town Creek Charge of the Methodist Church, on “Christ and the Faiths of Men.” There will be a brief review of the mission studios for the year, and a training session for all lo cal officers will be conducted by the district officers, followed by refreshments and fellowship. All societies are asked to bring new and good usable clothing for projects In Pembroke and the Sa lem areas. All the women from Methodist Churches In Brunswick county and their ministers are urged to •be present. Ground Breaking Ceremony This is the ground breaking ceremony held Sunday afternoon for the new home of the Southport-Brunswick County Library. In the foreground John L. Barbee, chairman of the board of county commissioners, Mrs. James M. Harper, Jr., chairman of the board of trustees for the library, and E. B. Tomlinson, Jr., mayor of Southport, are shown turning the first shovel full of earth. (Photo by Spencer) Ground Breaking For New Library Building Sunday Ground breaking ceremonies lor the Southport-Brunswick County Library were held Sun day afternoon at the building site and construction began this week on the new building. Mrs. James M. Harper, Jr., chairman of the board of trustees for the library, presided over the brief, informal program which was opened with the invocation by the Rev. Robert Childs. She then gave a resume of the history of the library effort in Southport, starting with a lending library in 1913 '«nd continuing with the join ing sponsorship of the project by the Southport Woman’s Club and twTclty of' Southport. Mrs. Harper recalled that It was the participation by Bruns wick county a few years ago that made possible the bookmobile service which covers the entire county. It also resulted in the establishnent of a branch library at Shallotie. She informed the audience that bids on the new building had amounted tof more than the origi nal estimates, but said that rath er than to cut out any of the facil ities provided in plans for the library tne decision nau Deen made to undertake the project or raising another $6,000 in match ing funds 01 a local level. “A good start already has been made on this undertaking,” she re ported. "However, we do need participation by good citizens in every section of Brunswick county so that we may continue to improve library facilities for all the people,” she said. John L. Barbee, chairman of the board of county commission ers, and Mayor E. B. Tomlinson, Jr., made brief remarks, then joined Mrs. Harper in the for mality of turning the first spade of dirt. The benediction was pro nounced by the Rev. Mr. Childs. Time And Tide | Thirty years ago this week a 69 year old veteran canoeist from Philadelphia stopped here. C. T. Beach wood was traveling through the Intracoastal waterway on the way to his summer home in West Palm Beach, Florida. He did things like this for exercise, having been a fine athlete at the University of Pennsylvania, and once holding the national pole vault record. C. Ed. Taylor, a local attorney, was named to an important State Junior Order committee dealing with the mortality and life insurance statistics; a nautical preparatory school was considering the possibility of moving to Southport; the shrimpers reported their best catch of the season; the decision was made to change the name of the local high school sports teams to the Southport Dolphins. Twenty-five years ago this week it was announced that there would be no more truck tires issued in Brunswick county that month, be cause the quota had been reached. Bill Wells resigned his position as Register of Deeds and S. Bunn Frink resigned his position of county attorney, each to go in service. The government asked that phone calls kept to a minimum; rigid restrictions were placed on use of hardwood lumber; a strong demand was found to exist for dogwood, a growth that exists in large quantity on Bald Head Island; and the campaign to make surgical bandages was in full swing. Twenty years ago this week a specially made shark fishing boat was brought to Southport to catch some of the species for special purposes. In the course of a normal day, the trained crew could catch thirty or more sharks and remove the liver from each. Oil extracted from the liver was sold to manufacturers for a high price. It was suspected that there would be drilling for oil in Bruns wick county as a result of a lease involving this area by the Standard Oil Company; a malaria prevention crew was at work in the county; a lady angler caught a 7’6” sailfish here that week; and w. P. Jor gensen was renamed county tax collector. Fifteen years ago this week final reports showed that over 6,000 (Continued on Page 4)' Sale Of Surplus Storage Bins Here REV. HERBERT MAYNARD Methodists In Revival Session The Reverend Herbert May nard is preaching each evening this week at Trinity Methodist Church in Southport where the annual revival is in progress. Services are at 8 o’clock. The visiting minister is di rector of the Bowery Mission in New York, a project which has gained national attention for some of the revolutionary methods em ployed in the treatment of dere licts and alcoholics. The Rev. Mr. Maynard, who is an ordained Baptist minister, is a former resident of North Caro lina. His wife, Libby, is with him and she, too, is engaged in social "service in New York. On Monday the Rev. Mr. May nard appeared on the Jim Burns Show on WECT. Tomorrow (Thursday) he and Mrs. Maynard both will be on that program. The Thursday evening session at Trinity Methodist Church will include slides, followed by a panel session. The Rev. William Davenport, pastor of Trinity Methodist Church, has stressed the fact that members of all denominations are invited to attend the serv ices at his church this week. “This is an opportunity for spiri tual reawakening,” he said this week. “We are not concerned with denominationalism.” The revival services will con clude with the Friday evening program. On Sunday morning at the 11 o'clock hour the Rev. Mr. Maynard will preach at Ocean View Methodist Church. New Patrolman For Brunswick William C. Fulghum, a recent graduate of the Highway Patrol School at the Institute of Govern ment in Chapel Hill, has been assigned to tills district and will be stationed at Leland. He takes the place of Patrol man S. L. Thomas, who now is stationed in Lumberton. Patrolman Larry Canipe is stationed at Shallotte, replacing Patrolman Billy Day, who has been transferred to Greenville. Patrolman J. C. Farmer is sta tioned at Southport and Patrol man Craig Howell is stationed at Bolivia, rounding out the Highway Patrol complement for Bruns wick county. Thirty grain storage bins from the Midwest will be put up for sale at auction Friday at 2 p.m. by the Brunswick county office of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, Three truck loads of bins arrived here on the weekend from Illinois, one of the areas where grain surpluses have been reduced so much that storage facilities have become empty. Feed grain and wheat programs have been in ef fect since 1961. The used bins, for sale to farm ers and grain storage companies, were obtained by the ASC in an ef fort to relieve a shortage of stor age space in this county. Corn production in Brunswick this year is estimated at 1,000,000 bushels. The soybean harvest is estimated at 300,000 bushels. Storage facilities—both com mercial and on-farm—are less than 100,000 bushels. The steel bins are of 3,250 bushel capacity each and are 10 to 12 years old. Minimum ac ceptable bidding starts at $458— about one-third of original cost. Details and conditions of the sale are given in an advertisement published in this issue. Lonnie Evans, chairman of the Brunswick ASC committee, said the “surplus of grain storage bins in the midwest and some parts of the southwest is working to a real advantage for farmers and tradesmen of North Carolina, who have fewer bins than necessary.” For lack of storage facilities, North Carolina farmers sell much of their corn each year, then buy it back as needed. In this transaction, involving transpor tation charges to and from distant storage points, they lose an es timated $25 million a year. The sale of the first 30 bins Friday is expected to show how much local demand there is for them. Each bin will be sold in dividually. The main restriction is that the bins must be used for storage of agricultural commod ities. Speculative purchase of Dins for resale is ruled out. Although the extent of demand for storage bins in this area has yet to be determined, it is expected to exceed the first ship ment. ‘ ‘Additional bins have been ordered for Brunswick county.” Evans said. “When received they also will be sold at public auc tion and an announcement of the sale will be made.” Installation Of Boiler Complete Springer Coal and Oil Com pany of Wilmington has completed the installation of a WhirlPower heating system at Dosher Me morial Hospital. The new system is a Model 35-5-20, 64hp boiler burner equipped with standard controls including low water cutoff and water feeder, extra water feeder and designed to burn No. 2 fuel. It will use less fuel and the output of heat will be in creased. The old system was 50hp and could not heat the hospital prop erly, thereby affecting the comfort of the patient. Insula tion of the attic and downstairs heat pipes in the hospital will add to the output of the new sys tem also, therefore alleviating heat problems of the past. Weed Markets Swamped With Sales Backlog Tobacco sales on Columbus County and other Border Belt markets resumed on Monday after shutdown which began at the end of selling on August 31. Volume this morning on White vllle floors was extremely heavy and is expected to continue until the untied selling period ends. The N. C. Farm Bureau's to bacco advisory committee Thursday requested the U. S. Department of Agriculture to ex tend loose-leaf tobacco sales on all belts for the remainder of the 1967 season. Present regulations limit loose-leaf sales to the first 95 hours of sales, which on most belts extends for about six weeks. In a statement released after a specially-called meeting in Ra leigh, the committee expressed alarm at the "chaotic conditions that have developed in the marketing of the 1967 flue-cured tobacco crop.” Committee members, the statement continued, "felt that extension of loose-leaf sales be yond 95 hours was necessary to help relieve congestion in the marketing system.” Season’s sales to date in Co lumbus markts: TIED Chadboum, 13,958 lbs., 10,318, $73.92. Fair Bluff, (none). Tabor City, 4,470 lbs., 3,105, $69.46. Whiteville, 48,014 lbs., 35,226, $73.37. UNTIED Chadboum, 5,088,999 lbs., 3, 538,312, $69.53. Fair Bluff, 5,301,141 lbs., 3, 646,036, $68.78. Tabor City, 4,690,809 lbs,, 3, 207,445, $68.38. Whiteville, 15,053,552 lbs., 10,340,932, $68.69. County Border Fatality Scene A farm tractor accident Just inside the Brunswick County ; Northwest section, east of the Columbus County-Brunswick boundary, Friday, claimed the life of a 12-year-old boy. Harold Stephens of the Acme Delco-Riegelwood Rescue Squad, said the victim was Billy Fields, the son of Charles Fields and Mrs. Nancy Fields of Northwest, Leland RFD. ^ The fatal accident occured " while the boy was driving the farm tractor along the Old Wil mington-Acme road just east of the county boundary, Stephens said. The tractor overturned when it was upset by an em bankment beside the road, he said. The A-D-R Rescue Squad was called and they removed the boy from under the tractor. He was dead on arrival at New Hanover Memorial Hospital in Wilmington. The accident oc curred about 5:45 p.m., Friday, Stephens reported. Final rites for the boy will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Bethel AME Church, at North west by the Rev. Horace Halsey, with burial in New Northwest Cemetery. Survivors Include the parents, six brothers, Charles, Jr., James, Lester, Rudolph, Anthony and Melvin Fields; four sisters, Carleen, Annette, Barbara and Elsie Fields; and two half sisters, Misses Linda Fields and Florence Fields. 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, September i«, 4:21 A. M 10:34 A M 4:57 P M 11:22 P M Friday, September 15, 5:15 AM 11:34 A M 5:51 P M Saturday, September 16, 6:03 A M 6:33 P M 12:22PP M Sunday, September 17, 6:51 A M 0:52 A M 7rl5 P M 1:04 P M Monday, September 18, 7:27 A M 1:28 A M 7:51 P M 1:46 P M Tuesday, September 19, 8:09 A M 2:10 A M 8:27 P M 2:22 P M Wednesday, September 20, 8:39 A M 2:40 A M 8:57 P M 3:04 P M J
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