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VOLUME 39
No. 17
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SOUTHPORT, N. C.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1967
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Loading Oyster Shells For Planting
W. R. Carter’s crew load shells on a privately-owned barge in Shallotte. Oyster
shucking house owners earn addition dividends by selling half their shells to the State
for plainting in designated oyster management areas.
Oyster Culture
Is Important
For Brunswick
Although there are nearly a
hundred different species of
oysters found throughout the
world, only a few are of economic
Importance. The American or
Eastern oyster is the oyster of
commerce in North Carolina.
Through the years it has become
the most “cultured” of all shell
fish occurring in the State’s
waters. The native Eastern oys
ter can be grown in our coastal
sounds and shallows and will
porbably continue to be North
Carolina’s most profitable
estuarine enterprise through a
rising era of marine agriculture
(the cultivation of natural produce
from the brackish and salt
waters). Just as the crop yields
from the land have increased
many times through improved
farming, so can the sea’s re
sources according to many of our
marine scientists.
Oyster culture, a single branch
of acquiculture, was initially pro
moted in Roman times when the
intense pleasure of eating oysters
depleted many natural beds. Oys
ter culture has since been pio
neered by the Japanese and
peoples of southwest Asia where
feeding an immense population
has long been a problem. To
day, such countries as France,
Holland, and the United States
have made advances in artificial
ly cultivating shellfish. It is
not known exactly where oyster
culture in America was first
attempted, but as early as 1840,
coastal bottoms were utilized in
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LIONS TO MEET
The regular meeting of the
Southport Lions Club will be held
tomorrow (Thursday) at 6:30
o’clock in the Community Build
ing.
YARD OF MONTH
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Donnell
received the October Yard of
the Month award from the South
port Garden Club for October.
RECEIVES degree
Mrs. Catherine Walton Barbee
of Y aupon Beach was among the
34 students who completed re
quirements for graduation during
the summer session at Wilming
ton College. Mrs. Barbee was
awarded the Bachelor of Arts
Degree with a major in history
and a minor in English.
COMMISSIONERS MEET
T. S. Bow me r, chairman of
the Brunswick County Jury Com
mission, reported to the Board
of County Commissioners Mon
day on progress being made.
The board agreed to payment oi
$20 per day and 7-cents per mile
travel for service on this com
mission. Clerical help neces
sary for performance of duties
will be at the rate of $1.75 per
hours. The commissioners en
dorsed participation in the Lower
Cape Fear Council of Govern
ments.
New Officer At Sunny Point
2nd Lieut. Major C. Newsom, III, recently has arrived
for duty at Sunny Point Army Terminal and will perform
duties in the engineering section at the terminal. With
him in the above photograph is his recent bride, the form
er Mary Linday Smith of Raleigh.
Contract Awarded
For New Postoffice
Representative Alton Lennon
announced this week that the
Post Office Department has
awarded a contract for the con
struction of a new post office
at Shallotte to be located on the
corner of U. S. Highway 17 and
Pine Street.
The new facility will be con
structed according to Post Office
Department specifications and
leased to the government on a
basic 10 year lease with four
5-year renewal options.
The estimated cost of the one
story, air-conditioned building
will be $55,777, and it is sched
uled to be completed in May
1968.
Safety Device
For Hospital
Watson Electrical Con
struction Co. of Wilson, has com
pleted the installation of an
ungrounded electrical system
with a warning device and isolated
transformer in the operating and
delivery rooms of Dosher Me
morial Hospital, Southport. This
system has been needed since
1962.
This system is required in all
hospital operating rooms, de
livery rooms, and other locations
where flammable anesthetic
agents are administered. This
protective warning system gives
a visible signal if a conductor
in the circuit should become
grounded due to insulation fail
ure or similar cause, thereby
creating the danger of an electri
cal spark, which would ignite
the flammable vapors present.
This system prevents an electri
cal shock hazard to both patients
and personnel, and assures fur
ther safety factors.
Planning Board
Collects Data
The overall economic devel
opment program for Brunswick
county has been completed and
filed with the Economic Devel
opment Administration according
to an announcement by William
A. Powell, chairman of the
Brunswick County Planning
Board.
Powell stated that the report
compiled by the Resources
Development Commission and the
East Carolina University Re
gional Development Institute has
been approved by E.D.A. Bruns
wick county Is now eligible for
E.D.A. loans and grants. At
the present time 29 counties and
the Cherokee Reservation are
qualified for these loans and
grants. Most of these are In the
extreme west and eastern third
of North Carolina.
To qualify under the E.D.A.
programs a county is notified
when it becomes eligible and
the governing board must make
application. After the applica
tion is made, an O.E.D.P. must
be compiled and filed with E.D.A.
Annually a report must be filed
on the progress made on the pro
jects listed in the O.E.D.P.
Once the O.E.D.P. has been
filed and the county qualified,
the development board of the
county is the official contact with
E.D.A. In the case of Brunswick
county this is the Resources De
velopment Commission for
Brunswick County.
Roy A. Stevens, director of the
Resources Development Com
mission, states that information
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Burning Permit
Law Effective
From October 1
County Ranger Kenneth John
son this week reminded citizens
of Brunswick county that between
October 1 and June 1 it is neces
sary to obtain a burning permit
before doing any burning within
500 feet of any woodlands.
The State Law relating to the
burning of brush reads as follows:
"Starting fires within 500 feet
of areas under protection of State
Forest Service~It shall be un
lawful for any person, firm or
corporation to start or cause
to be started any fire or ignite
any material in any of the areas
of woodland under the protection
of the State Forest Service or
within 500 feet of any such pro
tected area during the hours
starting at midnight and ending
at 4 p.m. without first obtaining
from the State Forester or one
of his duly authorized agents a
permit to start or cause to be
started any fire or ignite any
material in such above mentioned
places between the first day of
October and the first day of June,
inclusive. No charge shall be
made for the granting of said
permits.
"During periods of harzardous
forest fire conditions, the State
Forester is authorized to. cancel
all permits and prohibit the start
ing of any fires in any of the
woodlands under the protection
of the State Forest Service or
within 500 feet of any such pro
tected area. Any person, firm
or corporation violating any of
the provision of this act shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor and
upon conviction shall be fined not
more than $50.00 or imprisoned
for a period of not more than
30 days.
Burning permits may be ob
tained here in Brunswick county
by contacting any of the following:
Mrs. R. R. Bennett, Exum; M.B.
Etheridge, 2 miles west of Long
wood, Ash; J. jy. Evans, near
Myrtle Head Clairch, Freeland;
Elwood Fulford, Fulford's Gulf
Station, Supply; Gene Hewett,
Vern’s Esso Station, Shaliotte;
Asa McCimSoee, McCumbee’s
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New Officer Is
Stationed Here
Second Lieutenant Major C.
Newsom, in, of Roanoke Rapids,
has recently arreived for as
signment and duty at the Military
Ocean Terminal, Sunny Point.
LT Newsom received his
schooling in Roanoke Rapids High
School following which he
attended North Carolina State
University, graduated with a
Bachelor of Science degree in
Civil Engineering in 1966.
and received his basic training
and advanced individual training
at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.
Following this he attended the
Engineer Officer Candidate
School at Fort Belvoir, Virginia,
and was commissioned in the
U. S. Army Engineer Corps in
July 1967.
LT Newsom was recently mar
ried to the former Mary Linday
Smith of Raleigh, who is a grad
uate of Sweet Briar College, lo
cated in Sweet Briar, Virginia.
. He will perform duties in the
Engineer Division while assigned
to Sunny Point.
He and his wife wUl reside
at Yaupon Beach, during his tour
of duty at the terminal.
Dredge Enlarges Battery Island
This is the dredge Maryland of the American Dredging Co., currently operating in
the Southport harbor and pumping soil ashore at Battery Island, shown in the top pic
ture. The 18-inch dredge is cutting the river channel to a 40-foot depth. (Aerial Photo
by Spencer).
Editorial Makes
Hastie Take His
Pen In Hand
An editorial in The Charlotte
Observer last week aroused the
ire of J. Drayton Hastie, presi
dent of Reeves Broadcasting
Corporation, because it used
Boiling Spring (Lakes) as a whip
ping boy for an editorial about
disbursement of Powell Bill
funds.
Text of the editorial follows:
“North Carolina has reduced
the opportunities for a legal
shakedown of its highway fund by
real estate developers.
“Time was when a resort sub
division could be incorporated
into an instant recipient of the
state’s Powell Bill money (gaso
line tax money allocated to cities
and towns by formula for local
street work). Now incorporation
is more difficult. The sub
divisions have to function more
nearly like bona fled towns to
collect. >
“But as The Observer’s
Raleigh bureau pointed out in re
cent articles, all is still not well.
The camel’s nose is still inside
the tent.
“Boiling Springs, a specula
tive vacation and retirement sub
division near Southport, gets 10
times as much money under the
Powell bill as it does in taxes
from its corporate and indivi
dual property owners—$2,854 in
local taxes and $28,066 in state
Powell Bill money.
“No other “paper town” does
quite as well by the Powell Bill
as Boiling Springs. It benefits
from the fact that its developers
cut more than 50 miles
of “roads” through their land
where 25 houses now stand. So
despite the fact that Boiling
Springs has no official population
at all, the mileage factor brings
it a fat dividend from the Powell
Bill’s allocation formula.
“If other developers turn bull
dozers loose in their empty
acreage, they can approach this
bonanza, too. Whether they do
or do not, the situation is still
bad.
“Shutting off this unintended
state subsidy for real estate pro
moters and vacation home owners
is difficult. Town and city repre
sentatives would rather tolerate
the leakage of their funds than
give up the allocation of Powell
Bill money strictly by formula.
They don’t want anyone in Raleigh
arbitrarily making decisions that
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Time And Tide
Thirty years ago this week 25-tons of shrimp were caught by the
local fleet. Some 125 boats from various ports along the North Caro
lina coast were here to take advantage of the big run of shrimp In
the area.
In regard to the proposed yacht basin for Southport it was an
nounced that the local citizens were to pay for the bulkhead which
would cost an estimated $12,000.
As evidence of the fine fishing of all kinds, Capt. J. B. Church
skipper of the menhaden boat John M. Morehead, was excused from
jury duty by Judge E. H. Cranmer. The reason was that if Capt.
Church were confined in the court for a week, the boat and its crew
would miss out on a whole week of fishing.
Twenty-five years ago this week a Wilmington taxi driver was
fatally burned in a mysterious explosion at The Pines near Leland.
The blaze was apparently caused by a faulty gas jet. His woman*
companion remained in serious condition at the local hospital.
Charles Newton, a Southport man, escaped death when he sur
vived the crash of a bus on which eleven other lives were lost near
Lumberton. The guns of Fort Fisher that were never surrendered
had been given to the United States Government; 5,917 surgical
bandages were made by 76 Southport women putting in a total of 594
work hours during the month of September.
Twenty years ago this week, converted Navy minesweepers were
to be used as menhaden boats here at the Brunswick Navigation
Company. The 137-foot vessels are powered by the two 500-hp
engines and traveled in excess of 18 knots per hour. The new boats
doubled the load capacity over the smaller boats in use.
A beautiful 72-pound, 8-ounce sailfish had been caught here that
week. The fish was entered in the Fall Fishing Rodeo with a chance
to be worth a total of $5,000 to the lucky angler, Dr. Elliot Motley of
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Lemon Tree Bears Fruit
This is a lemon tree in the yard of the W. F. Ferrell
home at Long Beach and it is loaded with fruit. The Fer
rell home is shown in the background.
Accreditation Is
Concern Of P. T. A.
George Williams, superintend
ent of Brunswick County Schools,
was the speaker at the meet
ing of the Southport Parent
Teachers Association Thursday
night and the theme of his talk
and of the discussion which fol
lowed was accreditation.
Williams explained that South
port High School is accredited
under the old standards used by
the State Board of Education
but said that there are de
ficiencies which will prevent ac
creditation under the new rules
unless these are corrected. He
reported that this year has been
granted as a time during which
these deficiencies can be elimi
nated.
Eventually, the talk drifted into
a discussion of whether it is wise
to spend money for major changes
at existing schools when the ap
parent need is for consolidation.
Williams expressed the con
viction that the erection of one,
two or three modern, consoli
dated high school holds the an
swer for the future of good edu
cational opportunities in Bruns
wick county. He said he favors
the two school plan.
The meeting was presided over
by William Powell, and during the
course of the Question and answer
period questions were asked by
E. B. Tomlinson, Jr., Phil King,
Dr. N. M. Hornstein, Sanford
Lee and Arthur j. Dosher, the
latter a member of the Brunswick
County Board of Education.
Also participating in the pre
sentation, and helping to field the
questions, were Ralph King, as
sistant superintendent of schools
and Paul Brummett, supervisor!
Since most of the questions had
to do with the present status
of Southport High School its de
ficiencies and the things that
will be necessary to correct
them, a letter received by Princi
pal Tancel M. Lee on June 21
is printed below for the purpose
of providing factual answers:
"The desire and effort to have
this school meet current State
standards for accreditation are
commendable indications of the
dedication of the patrons, school
board, school staff and ad minis
tration to provide Improved edu
cational opportunities for the
youth of this community.
“We would like to express the
appreciation of our subject su
pervisors, consultants and gen
eral supervisors to all members
of the administration, faculty and
student body for the courtesies
and consideration shown us
during the period of evaluation.
“Observations made by indivi
dual members of our Department
concerning their area of parti
cular concern have been mailed
to this school and to the superin
tendent. Each such report al
ready sent to the school as well
as this report is a part of the
total evaluation of this school.
Information contained in the
school preliminary and annual
reports is also considered in de
termining the effectiveness and
quality of learning in a school.
"Observations by the general
supervisors are contained in this
report. References may also be
made to all, part or none of a
subject supervisor’s evaluation.
A number of our comments may
be general and others more spe
cific. Recommendations are
made in some cases. We hope
that these will be helpful to
the school in immediate and fu
ture planning.
OBSERVATIONS:
The central staff is commend
ed for the coordination that is
being provided to the schools.
The school staff is commended
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Bishop Garber
Coming Sunday
Zion Methodist church will ob
serve Homecoming on Sunday
with Bishop Paul N. Garber as
speaker at the 11 o'clock wor
ship service. This will be fol
lowed by lunch on the grounds.
A short program in the after
noon has been planned, including
special music and the consecra
tion of the new parsonage by
Bishop Garber, Rev. Clyde Mc
Carver, District Superintendent,
and Rev. T. R. McKay, pastor.
All members, friends and for
mer pastors are invited to attend.
Better Library
Annual Meeting
Set For Friday ,
Upwards of 300 persons!
expected to attend the se/
annual meeting of North „
llnians for Better Libraries
(NCBL) at the Statler Hilt
In Raleigh Friday.
Mrs. A. P. Henry,
Winnabow Is voting member
Brunswick county.
David Stick of Kitty
NCBL president, will pr4
over a noon luncheon, which)
open the one-day program, a
will install new officers, who\
be elected by the board of\
rectors that morning.
Featured speaker at the lunch
eon will be Dorothy D. Cor
rigan of Rockford, HI., trustee
consultant to the Hllnols State
Library and a past president of
the American Library Trustee
Association. Her topic will be
“Help for the world of Pea
nuts.”
FoUowing the luncheon, dele
gates wUl attend workshops which
will pursue the topics: (1) How
to Organize a Local Group of
Citizens for Better Libraries;
(2) Activities for Local Groups;
and (3) Public Library Fi
nancing. Mrs. James M. Har
per, Jr., of Southport will par
ticipate on a panel discussion
in this latter group.
NCBL is a statewide or
ganization of library-interested
citizens formed in June 1966 to
work for imporved public library
facilities and services through
out the State. Membership is
made up of representatives in
each of the 100 counties.
The organization’s goal is that
every Tar Heel eventually have
access to an adequately stocked,
properly staffed public library
meeting minimum standards.
The first annual meeting—held
last March after being postponed
from the preceding October
attracted 340 persons, including
48 members of the General
Assembly, which was in session
at the time.
Board Meeting %
Monday Night
The Brunswick County Board
of Education met Monday evening
in the Board of Education office,
and in the absence of Chairman
Delmas Bab son, vice-chairman
Arthur J. Dosher presided.
The board approved the teacher
contracts for the 1967-1968.
school year tor Diana S. Mintz,
Southport, and Thomas J. Curry,
Jr., Union.
The Board approved the 1967
1968 school budget in its final
and complete form. The Leland
School District Budget also was
approved by the Board.
The Board accepted the resig
nation of Carolyn Hornstein as
E.S.E.A bookkeeper, and Pa
tricia Carter was employed as
her replacement.
Extension of the shop building
at Brunswick County High School
and painting of the Southport
High School auditorium were ap
proved.
Norman Bellamy and James G.
Thompson were named official
delegates to the North Carolina
School Boards Association meet
ing to be held in Chapel Hill
on October 26.
The board approved the attend
ance of D. L. Ganey, Jr. at an
Attendance Counselor workshop
in Chapel Hill.
The purchase of a refrigeration
unit for the Leland School was
authorized.
Tide Table
Following Is the tide table
lor 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, October 5,
8:45 A M 2:40 A M
9:03 P M 3:10 P M
Friday, October .6,
9:39 A M 3:22 A M
9:51 P M 4:04 P M
Saturday October 7,
10:33 AM 4:10 A M
10:45 P M 4:58 P M
Sunday, October..8,
11:27 A M 5:04 A M
11:45 P M 5:58 P M
Monday, October 9,
12:33 A M 6:04 A M:
6:58 P M
Tuesday, October 10,
0:51 AM 7:04 A M'
1:33 PM 8:04 P M
Wednesday. October 11
1:57 A M 8:10 A M
2:39 P M 9:04 P M