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VOLUME 39
No. 22
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SOUTHPORT, N. C.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1967
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High Tide On Southport Waterfront
This was the scene Friday morning at the old Southport Yacht Basin when an ex
tremely high tide caused water to overflow the besin and fill the street in front of the
shrimp packing houses of Merritt Moore, Dallas Pigott and L. J. Hardee. This picture
was taken from the corner of Lewis Restaurant. (Photo by Spencer)
Resort Town
Boards Hold
Joint Session
The officials of the town of Yau
pon Beach were the guests on
October 24 of the board of com
missioners of the Town of Long
Beach at a dinner meeting held
at the Tranquil Harbour Restau
rant.
Davis Herring presided over
the informal gathering and an ex
tended discussion concerning
mutual problems led to better
understanding between the two
towns.
The purpose of the meeting was
to point out matters in which joint
action could bring more direct
results.
Those attending the meeting
from Yaupon were Clarence E.
Murphy, mayor; Gib Barbee; J. C.
Newman; Wayland Vereen; L. B,
Throckmorton, town clerk; and
Kirby Sullivan, town attorney.
Those from Long Beach were
Mayor J. H. Kyle; O. J. Coleman,
Jr.; L. D. Jones; R. Sam Edwards;
Alvin Staley; E. W. Morgan; Carol
Willis, town clerk; and Davis C.
Herring, town attorney.
Private Room
For Hospital
Mrs. Luta Campbell, formerly
the operating room nurse at
Dosher Memorial Hospital, has
retired after 35 years employ
ment. She occupied roo m number
4 on the first floor of the hos
pital, which was very convenient,
since she was subject to call 24
hours a day.
Upon her retirement this room
has been converted into a private
patient room, making a total
of five private rooms now avail
able at the hospital. Four are
located on the second floor.
FIRE ALARM
The early morning fire alarm
in Southport was a call to a house
trailer situated behind the Pines
Drive-In. There appeared to be
no major damage.
RECEPTION PLANNED
A reception will be given by
Mrs. Mary Coleman for Mrs.
Laura Roughton, who will soon
retire on Friday night from 7;30
to 10 o’clock at the Daughters
of America Building. Her friends
and customers are invited to
attend.
GOSPEL SING
A big gospel sing will be held
at Waccamaw High School audi
torium Friday night, starting at
7:45. Featured will be the Sabers
Quartet and the Klaudt Indian
Family. The sponsoring organi
zation will be the School Activity
Association.
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
The regular meeting of the
Brunswick County Historical
Society will be held Monday eve
ning at 8 o’clock at the Visitor
Center-Museum at Brunswick
Town. The guest speaker will
be Dr. Isobel Tipton, professor
of physics, University of Ten
nessee.
Donate Wheel Chair
This wheel chair recently was donated to the Home
Care Group for the Chonically 111 of Brunswick County
by members of the local union of the ILA. Shown above
are Mrs. Frances Stanley, Charles Rogers, president of
the local union, and Mrs. Mary Bellows, of the local
organization. (Photo by Spencer)
New Registration
Being Considered
H. Foster Mintz, chairman of
the Brunswick County Board of
Elections, appeared Monday be
fore the Board of County
Commissioners to discuss plans
for a new registration which must
be completed before January.
1970.
Mintz explained that since this
must be completed before that
date, the commissioners might
wish to go ahead and have it done
next year during the time when the
books are open for registration
for the primary election. He es
timated the added cost for a
complete new registration will
be in the neighborhood of $5,000
and estimated that the cost will
be about twice that amount if it is
done independent of the primary
of general election period.
Mintz proposed that the regu
lar registrars be used, together
with necessary, competent steno
graphic help, to get this job
done. He explained that regis
tration will be a little more in
depth than now is the case and
said that records will be main
tained in a looseleaf binder which
will permit ready transfer of
voters from one precinct to
another.
The commissioners asked var
ious questions, amongthembeing
how to absorb this added cost.
Money appropriated for the pri
mary and general election next
year will not cover this expense,
they pointed out. However, they
expressed interest in saving
money for the county in com
bining the operations if possi
ble.
There also was concern ex
pressed over the confusion which
might result from the require
ment for a complete new regis
tration.
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County Board
Holds Meeting
The Brunswick County Board
of Education met Monday in the
Board of Education office.
Members present were Del
mas Babson, chairman, Norman
Bellamy, Arthur J. Dosher,
Homer Holden and James G.
Thompson. Superinten
dent, George Williams and Assis
tant Superintendent Ralph King
also were in attendance.
The board approved the fol
lowing teacher contracts for the
1967-68 school year: Leland—
Allie Lee Peterson; Shallotte—
Martha B, Gorges; Union—Ida
E. Jones; Waccamaw — Mary
Saleeby.
The board endorsed the opera
tion of the Headstart program
in Brunswick county during the
summer of 1968.
May 29 or May 30, were desig
nated as graduation dates which
all schools will follow in plan
ning graduation exercises.
The Board accepted the
resignation of Joyce Dutton,
E.S.E.A. secretary.
The board approved the dis
tribution of janitorial supplies
by the E.S.E.A. delivery truck.
On a motion by Dosher, sec
onded by Bellamy the board ap
proved a new heating unit for
the agricultural classroom at the
Waccamaw High School.
The *oard awarded pest con
trol contract to the Spirittine
Chemical Company of Wilming
ton, for the year ending October
31, 1968.
The board approved expen
diture of $7.50 per school per
month for outside service light.
Brunswick Has
Benefit From
Two Colleges
The 1963 North Carolina
General Assembly established a
system of Industrial education
centers, technical institutes,
community colleges and exten
sion units throughout the state.
These institutions and units ex
tend educational opportunity be
yond the high school to any high
school graduate or to any per
son who is 18 years old or older
who is not a high school grad
uate.
The State of North Carolina
has endeavored to locate one
of these centers within com
muting distance of everyone of
its citizens. Located in the vi
cinity of Brunswick County grad
uates are Cape Fear Technical
Institute and Southeastern Com
munity College. „
Cape Fear Technical Institute
of Wilmington reports a record
enrollment of Brunswick students
from the 1967 graduating class.
A breakdown of the 1967 coun
ty graduates by curriculum and
former school are as follows:
Qeorge H. Bryant, auto me
chanics, B.C.H.S.; Foster L.
McKoy, auto mechanics, Lincoln;
William H. James, chemical
technology, Lincoln; James Bal
lard, machine trades, Lincoln;
Willie D. David, machine trades;
Lincoln; John W. Graham, ma
chine trades, Lincoln; W1
chine trades, Lincoln; Edward
McKinnon, Jr., machine trades,
Lincoln; Donnie Alton Joyner,
drafting and design, B.C.H.S.;
Marion Reaves, drafting and de
sign. B.C.H.S.; Arthur Brown,
electronics, B.C.H.S.; Roger
Robinson, welding, B.C.H.S.; Ro
land E. Clark, business adminis
tration, Southport; George Lee
King, business administration,
port; Hilton L. Conyers, ehcmical
technology, Southport; Glenn Dale
Long, business administration,
Shallotte; Tony Hare, marine
technology, Shallotte; Charles
Southport; Hilton L. Conyers,
chemical technology, Southport;
Glenn Dale Long, business ad
ministration, Shallotte; Tony
Hare, marine technology, Shal
lotte; Charles Child, machine
trades, Leland High; Kathy Ann
Potter, secretarial, Bolivia.
Alice F. Stanley, secretarial,
Union; Lena Mae Stanley, secre-1
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Project Wins
Twin Awards
The Busy Bees 4-H Club came
In with first place recently in the
Brunswick Electric Membership
Corporation Tidy-Up Campaign
for Columbus and Brunswick
counties.
The Busy Bees, under the spon
sorship of the Busy Bees Com
munity Sponsoring Committee,
received a cash prize of $100,
and $25 in plants from five dif
ferent nurseries.
The club painted mail boxes
and mail box posts in their com
munity under the direction of
Mrs. Freeman Hewett, adult
4-H leader.
The paint for their tidy-up
project was donated by theSENC
land Community Action Program
in Brunswick county with head
quarters at Longwood. This is
only one of the many things that
Community Action has to offer
the communities to help with im
provement projects.
Nurseries of the area donating
the plants each were Prince's
Nursery of Tabor City; Elmore's
Nursery of Bolivia; Holly Bay
Nursery of Tabor City; Mc
Queen’s Nursery of Whiteville
and Shallotte; and Orton Planta
tion Nursery and Gardens of Win
nabow.
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Woman Of The Year
Mrs. C. E. Harrelson of the Oak Island Extension Homemakers Club as she receives
the cup designating her Woman of the Year at the County Council meeting Friday
night. The cup was donated by Atlantic Telephone Membership Corporation and pre
sentation was made by Harry L. Mintz, Jr., president. (Photo by Hugh Vance)
Prize For Outstanding Club
Mrs. R. G. Spencer is shown accepting the cup for the Outstanding Extension
Homemakers Club from Hugh Vance, who made the presentation on behalf of the
Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation. The recipient was the Cape Fear Club
of Southport.
Director Assures
Improvement Here
James Davis, executive di
rector of the state Ports Au
thority, was speaker Thursday
night before the Southport Lions
Club and assured members that
Time And Tide
Thirty years ago this week visiting boatmen in the Southport
area expressed interest in the future of big game fishing here.
One of the visitors when asked if he believed there were any marlin
off shore, laughed at the question.
Yacht club officials met to decide on the plans for the 1938 yacht
regatta to be held here; two school children were hurt in a bus
accident in the county; plans were being roughed out for the fishing
rodeo to be held the next spring; city officials announced that they
were unable to sponsor a yacht basin in Southport; and a yacht
visiting here from New York was damaged when a local trawler
crashed into her side.
Twenty-five years ago this week a total of 200,000 pounds of
scrap metal was turned in by the Naval Section Ease located at
Fort Caswell. This was easily the largest contribution in the
county-wide scrap metal drive.
A schooner went down off shore with one crew member being
killed. There was no apparent enemy action involved in the in
cident. Motorists were instructed to dispose of all extra auto
mobile tires; there were plenty of wild ducks in the area, but the
bad weather prevented the hunters from taking advantage of this.
Twenty years ago this week a proposal had been made for shrimp
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the covered shed improvement
for the Southport Boat Harbor is
in the advance planning stage.
“Our engineer now is working
on these plans”, he said, “we
expect to have them ready before
the end of the year so the project
may be let to contract sometime
early in 1968.” Davis predicted
that this improvement will be the
factor which will change the lo
cal operation from a red ink
project into a money maker for
the State Ports complex.
Davis also said that port devel
opment both at Wilmington and
Morehead City has been seriously
hampered through lack of modern
highway facilities, “we handle
a large volume of shipping which
comes to our sites in trucks”,
he said. “Each year we lose
cargo to competing ports because
road connections are better to
some out-of-state ports than to
our own.”
Davis told of the great expan
sion at Morehead City in the mat
ter of handling bulk cargo, spe
cializing in transporting the
products of Texas Gulf Sulphur.
This has come about with such
impact that he hesitated to guess
what the future may hold. “The
port of Wilmington is developing
along more conventional lines”,
he said. He predicted growth at
about a 10-percent per year rate
for the next few years.
County Council
In Achievement
Night Program
Mrs. C. E. Harrelson was
named Woman of the Year and
the Cape Fear Club was named
Club of the Year Friday night
during Achievement Night cere
monies for the County Council
of the Extension Homemakers
organization. The meeting was
held in the Extension Building at
Supply.
Mrs. Harrelson received a
loving cup donated by the Atlantic
Telephone Membership Corpora
tion and presentation was made by
President Harry L. Mintz, Jr.
Mrs. R. G. Spencer accepted the
award for the Cape Fear Club
from Hugh Vance, representing
the Brunswick Electric Mem
bership Corporation.
New officers for the coming
year are Mrs. A. D. Johnson,
president; Mrs. Thomas Robin
son, vice-president; and Mrs.
R. G. Spencer, secretary-treas
urer.
The business session was pre
sided over by Mrs. Wilbur Earl
Earp, outgoing president. a
covered dish supper was a feature
of the program and the group
was entertained with Music by
Mrs. James Dellert.
Board Reviews
Addition Plans
For Courthouse
Frank Ballard of the archi
tectural firm of Ballard, McKim
and Sawyer appeared before the
Board of County Commissioners
Monday to show plans he had
prepared at their request to pro
vide additional needed space In
the Brunswick County Court
house. He showed two sets of
drawings, both of which included
facilities for a new jail.
One plan would call for en
larging the existing offices of
Clerk of Court and Register of
Deeds, together with an annex to
be erected behind the existing
building. That space would be
used for the office of sheriff and
probation officer on the first
floor and on the second floor
space for jury rooms, restrooms
and a cell block for prisoners.
Ballard estimated the additions
to the downstair offices would run
about $25,000 and that the addi
tional building space would come
to $200,000. He had an alter
nate plan which would leave the
old building as it now is, pro
viding all additional space re
quired in the new addition and
estimated the cost of this proj
ect to be $320,000.
He suggested that if either of
these proposals are followed the
time may come when the old part
of the courthouse will be de
molished and the new portion
then will become a part of a
new and modern building. He
estimated the entire complex can
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New Lieutenant
At Terminal
Second Lieut. Tho mas J. Turn
er of Texarkana, Arkansas, has
recently reported for assignment
and duty at the Military Ocean
Terminal, Sunny Point.
Lt. Turner attended North
Texas State University andgrad
uated from that institution in
,J£§§. with a. degree in. Business?
Administration. He entered the
military service in July of 1966
and following basic training at
Fort Dix, New Jersey, was sent to
Fort Ord, California, for ad
vanced individual training, where
upon being selected for Officer
Candidate School he attained the
rank of sergeant.
Following graduation from Of
ficer Candidate School at Fort
Eustis, Virginia, he was commis
sioned as a second lieutenant in
the United States Army and re
ceived orders assigning him to
Sunny Point.
Lt. Turner is unmarried. He
• will reside in the Southport area
during his tour ofdutyatMOTSU.
LIEUT. TURNER
Tide Table
Following U 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 Cape Fear
Pilot's Association.
HKJH LOW
Thursday, November 0,
1:33 A M 7;46 A M
•09 P M 8:34 P M
FHday, November 10,
2:33 A M 8:62 A M
3:03 P M 9:28 P M
Saturday, November u,
3:33 A M 9:43 A M
3:57 P M 10:16 P
Sunday, November 12,
4:®. A M 10:40
4:45 P M 11:04
Monday, November
5:09 A M 11
5:27 PM 11
Tuesday, Novi
5:51 AM /
8:09 P M /
Wednesday, 7
6:33 A M / / /
6:45 PM '