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mmmm The Pilot Covers Brunswick County! THE STATE PORT PILOT m A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Most of the News All The Time VOLUME 39 No. 15 10-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1967 5fl A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY | ; Auditorium At Baptist Assembly The steel framework has been erected for the new auditorium that now is under construction at the North Carolina Baptist Assembly at Fort Caswell. This modem structure is expected to be completed in time for use during the 1968 assembly sea son. (Photo by Spencer). Sale Of Loose Leaf Tobacco Ending Friday Today (Wednesday) and to morrow end the loose leaf sales for the Border Belt. Selling hours are trimmed to 2 1/2 per day for these final two days. After tomorrow, only leaf that is tied will be supported. With the coming of tied leaf sales, the congestion that has been the trademark of the selling season so far is expected to cease. The price paid for the ‘‘golden weed” dipped some Monday and . Tuesday. The cause, accord ing to reports, was the quality of leaf put on the floor. On the ChadbournmarketMon day, $207,672.75 was paid for 308,390 pounds. That’s an aver age of $67.34 per hundred. Tuesday, the average dropped even more. The market handled 306,545 pounds and paid $198,562.63 for an average of $64.77. For the year, 7,028,778 pounds have been purchased in Chad bourn for a total of $4,826,220.59. The average for the year is $68.80. Brief Bits Of SUPERIOR COURT Judge W. C. Hall of Durham is presiding over a one-week term of Brunswick County Su perior court for trial of criminal cases here this week. BIRTHDAY CALENDAR Orders are now being taken for the Southport High School PTA Community Birthday Cal endar. There is a small charge for each birthday and anniver sary listing. The deadline for this sale is October 6. If not contacted call 457-6339. PANSY PLANT SALE Anyone wishing to order pansy plants should call Dot Schmidt or Sue Jones. The plant sale is being sponsored by the Southport v y. J aycettes, who hope to make it an annual affair. Profit made •V, - from the sale last year was donated to the Library Building Fund. VISITING HOURS Since there must be a visitor i , control at Dosher Memorial Hos v pital, the board of trustees has established the following visit ing hours: 10 to 11 a.m., 2 to 4 p.m., 7 to 9 p.m. The patients are in the hospital to rest and recover therefore, only two visi ■tors allowed per patient. Visiting hours enforced. COMMUNION SERVICES Brunswick Lutheran Missior will celebrate holy communlor Thursday evening, September 28, at the home of Mrs. Marie John 'son, Howe St., Southport. Bap .tized Christians are welcome, * Pastor Ronald Welnelt of Kur< <V Beach Memorial Luthern Churcl will conduct the service. Al Lutherns are urged to be pres ent. Telephone Co-Op 10th Anniversary July 7th marked the completion of ten years of operation for At lantic Telephone Membership Corporation. Chartered in Feb ruary 1955, Atlantic Telephone officially inaugurated service with cutover of the Shallotte and Bolivia exchanges over two years later. These two exchanges ini tially served 530 members. “Thus culminated over four years of effort to bring telephone service to the greater portion of Brunswick county,” recalls Harry L. Mintz, Jr., coopera tive president. Until then the only telephone service available to most Bruns wick county residents were radio-telephone pay stations lo cated in Bolivia, Shallotte and Shallotte Point. Commercial telephone companies refrained from extending telephone service to central and western portions of the county because of low population density and the large investment required to provide service to the area. Surveys made in 1953-54 indicated a 10 year subscriber potential of only 550 subscribers. In 1954 area residents turn ed to the North Carolina Rural Electrification Administration, and assisted by interested local residents, indicated a 10-year potential of 757 subscribers. Further studies indicated such a (Continued on Page 4) Sub-District WSCS Meeting Mrs. Grover Sellers, presi dent of the Brunswick County sub-district Woman’s Society of Christian Service, presided over the fall meeting of that group on Sunday afternoon at Zion Methodist Church at Town Creek. The Rev. Fred Fordham, priest-in-charge of the Episcopal churches in Brunswick county, was the speaker of the after noon and told of his church from the time of its separation from the Church of England at the time of the American Revolution. The subject of ecumenisn is one of the studies of the Woman’s So ciety for the current year. The sub-district members were welcomed by Mrs. W, W. Knox, president of the Zion So ciety, and the opening meditation was given by the pastor of the church, Rev. T. R. McKay. Special music was provided by Mrs. Evans, church organist. Mrs. Sam Russ of Shallotte is secretary of the sub-district. A special film presentation of the disposition of pledge con tributions was given by Mrs. Kenneth Farrior, district treas ■urer, and the four current studies were briefly reviewed by the following; “Man and Communi ty” by Mrs. Edward Clark of Elizabethtown; “Christ and the Faiths of Men” by Mrs. Grady Frink of Shallotte; “Ecumeni city” by Mrs. J. M. Carroll of Brunswick; and “Japan” by Mrs. W. B. Ward. An officers training session was held by district officers, ofter which the ladies of Zion Church served punch and cakes. The spring meeting of the sub district will be held at Trinity Methodist Church, Southport. State President To Be Speaker B. C. Mangum, president of the North Carolina Farm Bureau, will be the guest speaker at the annual Brunswick County Mem bership Drive Kick-Off Dinner, according to Ira L. Chadwick, president of the local organiza tion. All board members, member ship enrollment committee mem bers and their workers are in vited, Chadwick said. Time and place will be at Garland Varnam's, located in Varnamtown, Thursday at 7 p.m. The ladies committee, under the leadership of Mrs. Virginia Gilbert, will serve the dinner. Man Dies Of Rifle Wound TABOR CITY—A Tabor City, Route 3 man was dead on arrival at Loris, S. C. Community Hos pital, Sunday night from a rifle wound allegedly inflicted by a daughter. Jettie Benjamin Simmons was a native of Brunswick County and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy P. Simmons of South port. Simmons, 33, suffered a bul let wound In his chest and his 13-year-old daughter has ad mitted to Sheriff Ben Duke and Columbus Bureau of Identi fication Chief Horace Shaw that she fired the shot that caused her father's death. She said he was making threatening re marks toward her mother, who was locked in a bedroom at the Simmons home at the time. Officers say the bullet pene trated the left chest of the father, entering the heart region. The girl later told officers that her father asked her for the ri fle and that it went off acciden tally. After the shooting, the mother, Mrs. Louise Simmons, and her seven children, ages seven through 14 years, loaded the wounded husband and father into the family car and carried him to the Loris hospital, where he was dead on arrival. At present no charges have been made and no inquest had been set by Columbus County Coroner Buell Lanier, Further action is expected to be handled through juvenile channels. Final rites were held Wednes day at 3 p.m. at Dulah Baptist Church by the Revs. Pink Mc Keithan and Drew Hardee, with burial in the church cemetery. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Louise Cox Simmons; two sons, Benjamin Simmons, Jr. and William Simmons, both of the home; and five daughters, Donna, Sue, Brenda, Wanda and Cynthia Simmon, all of the home; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy P. Simmons of Southport; four brothers, Donald Mack and Ray Simmons of Supply, Roy Simmons of Southport and Richard Simmons of the Bahama Islands; two sis ters, Mrs. Jo D. Owens of Florence, S. C. and Mrs. Jane Simmons of Southport. Active pallbearers were Junior Cox, Larry Simmons, Hannle Long, Roy Suggs and Dale Hil burn. Brunswick Will Have Study Of Water-Sewage Approval of a $9,000. Farmers Home Administration grant for Brunswick county to promote ef ficient and orderly development of water and sewer systems in rural communities, was an nounced this week by William A. Powell, chairman, Brims wick County Planning Board. Powell said that the Comprehensive Water and Sewer Systems Plan ning Grant will provide informa tion to avoid overlapping, dupli cation, underdesign, or overde sign of the water and sewer facil ities that will be constructed in rural Brunswick county. The plans financed by the Farmers Home Administration grant will cover all of Brunswick county. The plans will be devel oped by an engineering firm and will project population growth with provisions for other func tions which are essential for or derly growth of the county. Projections and provisions for future growth wiU be made for the next 5 to 10 years and those for the next 20 years or more. The Comprehensive Water and Sewer Plan will be developed in har mony with future plans for roads, schools, recreational facilities, private development of land, agricultural, commercial, and industrial use. By planning tor orderly development of water and sewer systems, the entire Brunswick county population stands to gain by either direct or indirect bene fits. Mrmbers of the Brunswick County Planning Board, created by the Brunswick County Board of Commissioners, are: Chairman, Powell; Vice-Chairman, J. T. Clemmons; Secretary, J. A. Francis; Treasurer, H. V. Thompson; Roy Stevens, D. L. Mercer, O. W. Cleaton, L. H. Stanley, Pearly J. Vereen, J. R. Corbett, members. Hospital Staff Has New Nurse Miss Rebecca M. Jessup, a registered nurse, has joined the hospital staff as Dosher Me morial, Southport. This makes a total of six registered nurses who now are employed full time at the hospital. Miss Jessup Is originally from Greensboro, but has been taking her summer vacations here since 1948. She now plans to make Southport and Long Beach her home. She graduated from St. Leo’s School of Nursing in Greensboro. She worked there for 15 years at Piedmont Memorial Hospital and two years at Provident Hos pital, Anchorage, Alaska. At present she is being used as the general duty nurse on the first floor of the hospital. Loading Plane For Bombing Mission This is a scene at the Brunswick County Airport where poison bait for use in aerial treatment to eradicate the imported fire ant is being loaded aboard a plane being used to distribute this material over a 20,000-acre infested area lying between Bolivia and Boiling Spring Lakes. Treatment now in progress will complete work on all known areas of infestation in Brunswick. (Photo by Spencer). Ferry Rescues Three Men Fron River Saturday The Southport-Fort Fisher Ferry became a rescue vessel Saturday afternoon when Capt. Richie Dosher and his crevt plucked three men from the waters of the Cape Fear. Three Wilmington men identi fied as B. S. Brooks, L. E. Brooks and E. Jenkins were thrown intc the water along Horseshoe Shoals Channel Range, about five miles north of here, at 3:27 p.m. wher their boat hit a buoy. The men/told John Dosher, captain of file ferry, after th< rescue that the steering geai broke on their 21-foot inboard outboard tvfee craft and shortly thereafter crashed into Buoy 22 Dosher was watching from th< wheelhouse of the ferry on th< 3 p.m. trip and thought somethin* was wrong because of the erratii movements of the smaller boat When he saw the men grabbins lifejackets, he immediatel; maneuvered the ferry within: safe distance of the men. Life rings were thrown to then and the trio was pulled to safet; aboard the ferry. There wer< no reports of physical Injuries The boat sunk but was latei pulled up by the Coast Guar< station crew from Oak Island There were no estimates of dam ages late Saturday night. Time And Tide : i * '0*‘<*»+*<**<**0*4*»4f ii4»i Thirty years ago this week the floating prep school, Polaris stopped again for a stay In Southport. The handsome little yach which provided prep training for the Naval Academy, had severa young recruits aboard, and was enroute to its home port Charles' ton. An all out attack on the Southport sandspur crop had begun durini the past week by the city working forces; dove hunters had bee: anxiously awaiting the season’s opening, and opening of the dee: season, which was October 1; a storage shed for all Brunswici county school buses was scheduled to be erected at Shallott in the near future. Twenty-five years ago this week Brunswick county highwa; patrolmen were warned to be on the lookout for reckless motorist who exceeded the nation-wide 40-mile per hour speed limit. Patrol men were also instructed to report all taxicabs operating outsid' a radius of 25 miles from their home base. They would be deal with by the rationing board. A Southport father and his son were both in the Coast Guard Bunn Frink was assistant to the Captain of the Port of Wilming ton for the U. S. Coast Guard, and his son, Malcolm, had enliste in the same service. Twenty years ago this week the Brunswick county mullet fisher men were happy over the change in the weather. Warm weathei had been prevailing along the North Carolina coast and now that i had turned cooler, large schools are expected to be found along th< coast. A joint effort by the Brunswick county Lions Clubs from South port, Shallotte and Leland had made it possible for a White Can* drive to be conducted here. All proceeds from this project wer< to go to the North Carolina Association for the Blind. Bertram Burris, Jr. had made a fine catch recently when hi landed a 20-pound, 2 ounce red drum. Fifteen years ago this week Miss America, a Dallas Piggott-ownei shrimp trawler, was reportedly chased by a huge waterspout nea: the mouth of the Cape Fear River. Johnny Creech reported the inci dent and verification was made by his crew. Creech said that thi spout was moving slowly to the rear of the boat sucking millions o gallons of water high into the air and then releasing it. Action was being sought for the improvement of Lockwoods Foil; Inlet; three sailfish were caught here during the preceding week. On of these was a 3-3/4 pounder, the smallestrof $jie year. Ten years ago this week fishing on Frying Pan Shoals was a the season’s peak, with several bo<ws bringing in large catches o (Continued on Page 4) Powell Bill Brings Money For Streets New Stevedoring Contract Signed A contract for stevedoring and related terminal services to be performed at Military Ocean Terminal, Sunny Point, South port, has been awarded to the Ryan Stevedoring Company, Inc., of Mobile, Alabama, according to an announcement by Eastern Area, Military Traffic Manage ment and Terminal Service. The contract, valued at an es ' i. timated $6,578,244. per year, is for the period October 1, 1967 through September 30, 1969. Nine firms were solicited and three ' bids were received. : Hospital Plans ; Discussed Here Members of the Hospital Com mittee from Shallotte met Mon day night In Southport with mem t bers of the board of trustees for ' Dosher Memorial Hospital and i members of the board of county commissioners to discuss plans for future expansion of hospital 1 facilities in this county. William Henderson, executive . secretary of the Medical Care Commission, met with this group. He spoke In favor of working k toward the construction of a mod | ern, new hospital at some cen | tral point in the county, and the i appointment of a feasibility study | commission now is under con s sideration. [ A report was made of the prog I ress that has been achieved by Shallotte citizens In trying to > establish a hospital district, t which will embrace the town t ships of Waccamaw, Shallotte ■ and Lockwoods Folly. The plan p (Continued On Page Pour) i ; Southport Boy , At The Citadel 5 Roy Eugene Batton, son of Mr. ■ and Mrs. Joseph H. Batton, Boil J ing Spring Lakes, was among 1 some 600 freshmen who com pleted “Plebe week*’ at TheCit • adel. Classes began on Septem * ber 14. 1 Following traditions evolved at the military 'college since its founding in 1842, fresh men cadets are indoctrinated during a week of concentrated training prior to the return of upperclassmen. | This enables the new cadets to take their places as members of the South Carolina Corps of , Cadets when it forms upon the | arrival of the cadets of the upper classes. , During “Plebe Week” the freshmen underwent instruction in drill, college regulations, ! honor system, traditions of The . Citadel, and other training neces , sary to assist each new cadet in , acquitting himself well in class f room or on the parade ground. A graduate of Southport High r School, Batton held membership , in the Pep Club, the Student Coun cil, the Mixed Chorus, the Drama Club, the Science Club, the Var . sity Club, and played on the foot f ball, basketball, baseball and golf teams. He plans to major in Eng lish at The Citadel. The seven incorporated towns in Brunswick county are sched uled to receive $96,219.52 as their share of Powell Bill funds ac cruing from half a penny of the six-cent per gallon gasoline tax, according to figures released by the State Highway Commission. The distribution for towns in Brunswick county: Bolivia, $1, 020.52; Bolling Spring Lakes, $28,066.04; Long Beach, $40, 710.83; Ocean Isle Beach, $4, 619.02; ShaUotte, $4,689.79; Southport, $13,371.84; Sunset Beach, $3,741.48. , The distribution is made on the basis of population and street mileage—one half of the half penny for population and the other half for street mileage. There are 424 towns and cities in the states participating In the total distribution of $9,959,054 and this sum is more than twice the $4,543,096 distributed in 1951, the first year the distri bution was made after the General Assembly of that year passed the enabling act. In that year only 386 town and cities were eligible for participating In the distribu tion. Some municipalities In the state, however, do not receive a share of the distribution in that they do not perform certain necessary functions to qualify under the law. During the 17-year history ol the program, a total of $118, 260,817 has been returned to state municipalities for street maintenance, reconstruction and construction of new streets. The Powell Bill takes Its name from former State Senator J. K. Powell who was a member of the Senate In 1951. At that time, and even now, state municipalities were hard pressed for funds to meet grow ing demands for more and better streets. The gas tax was used In major part for state highways, but town people paid the tax just as others did but they shared only slightly in the program. The law was passed to rectify, at least in part, the slight. Workshop For Audio-Visual The Brunswick County ESEA program sponsored Its first in service workshop for the 1967 68 school term on September 14 when a group of 40 persons, con sisting of principals, supervisors and teachers representing seven of the county schools, met at the Audiovisual Center of Bruns wick County Schools. The A-v Center is located in the former Plney Grove School at Bolivia. The workshop was a Transparency Making Work shop designed to help the in structional staff gain confidence and skill in using the overhead projector as an aid or tool to improve classroom instruction. Johnny m. Shaver, Supervisor of Audiovisual Education, from the State Department of Public Instruction, along with Mrs. Clara Carter, also from the State Department, conducted the work shop. The four hour period fol lowed an alternate pattern oi presentation. The consultants minimized their lecturing and (Continued On Page Four) County Hospital Gets Help From Duke Endowment j The needs served by The Duke Endowment In health, education, j child care, and religion are “so | basic that they will always be with us” and are not likely to diminish in the foreseeable future, Thomas L. Perkins, chairman of The Trustees, said in the forty-second annual report i of The Endowment, which was re leased here Monday. . Beneficiaries are hospital, educational and child care insti tutions in the Carollnas, and re- f ligious causes in North Carolina. Covering activities of The En dowment in 1966, the report in cludes comments on develop ments in the tour areas of its philanthropy, a listing of assist ance to beneficiaries, financial statements, and hospital and child care statistics. Allocations and appropriations in the year amounted to $15,566, 691, bringing to $250,040,836 the 42-year total. Approximate market value of assets at the close of 1966 is listed at $656, 991,592 with Duke Power Com pany stock representing the larg est single holding among these assets. Dividends on this stock have accounted for 60.73 per cent of the total Income of The Endowment from investments since its establishment on December 11, 1924. Brunswick county’s Dr. J. Ar thur Dosher Memorial hospital received $107,310 from Endow ment funds through 1966, for operation and for construction. An amount of $33,650 was allo cated for construction projects and $73,660 was appropriated to it to help defray costs of chari ty expenditures. Allocations for , - (Continued on Page 4): Board Rehires Tax Collector Homer McKeithan was reap pointed tax collector for Bruns wick county by the board of com- , mlssioners during their session here Monday. He had held this position for the past year and had been authorized by the board to accept pre-payments. Roy Stevens was appointed as a director for the SENCland Devel opment Corporation and James F. Clemmons was named a mem ber of the advisory committee. The board also drew a jury list to serve during the October term of Superior Court for trial of civil actions. They are as fol low: ASH—Eugene Milliken, Malcolm Carl Formyduval, Jack Stout, David Lee Long, Henry Elton Hewett, Vertis C. Cause, Tom King; OCEAN DRIVE BEACH—Lay D. Long, L. N. Hickman, Henry M. Jenrette. SUPPLY — Charlie Caison, James H. Bryant, Edsel Ford Norris, Bobby L. Norton, Gafford Hewett, Wilson w. Mitchell, Har dee H. Roberts, w. R. Brown; FREELAND—J. B. King,HilbUTO Evans, Elwood J. King, Wilbert Lee Evans. LELAND — Leroy Lewis, James Waitus Mintz, Wright Lof ton, T. M. Corbett, Cecil G. Thompson, D. B. Morris, Eu gene F. Bing, Colon Mintz; SOUTHPORT — Connie Lupton, Charles H. Swan. SHALLOTTE — Henry W. Hewett, T. M. Hickman, Jr., W. L Hewett, Fred w. Edwards, W. Grady Frink, R. R. Best; WINNABOW—D. A. Caison, Roy E. Swain. Tide Table Following la the tide table for Southport during the week. These hours are ap proximately correct and were furnished The State Fort Pilot through the courtesy of the Gape Fear Pilot's Association. HIGH LOW Thursday, September 21, 9:16 A M 3:16 A M 9:27 P M 3:40 P M Friday, September 22, 9:61 A M 3:62 A M 9:57 PM 4:16 PM Saturday, September 23, 10:21 A M 4-22 A M 10:33 P M 4:58 P M Sunday, September 24, 1:03 A M 5:04 A M 11:09 P M 5:40 P M Monday, September 28, 11:61 A M 5:46 A M 6:34 P M Tuesday, September 2% 0:00 A M 6:34 A fcf 12:45 P M 7:34 P M Wednesday, September 27, 12:57 A M 7:40 A M 1:51 P M 8:40 P M
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