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VOLUME 39
No. 15
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SOUTHPORT, N. C.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1967
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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
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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 :
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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
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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
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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
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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 , -
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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