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VOLUME 39
No. 33
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SOUTHPORt N. C.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1968
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Operation Tidy - Up 1968
William and John White, Terris Kelly, Jerry and Bennie King of Ash are shown
here as they kick off the contest sponsored by the Brunswick Electric Membership
Corporation to clean up the highways this year. Big cash prizes are being offered in
this competition.
Brunswick REA
Will Sponsor
Cleanup Drive
Operation Tidy-Up, a coopera
tive effort of the Brunswick Elec
trical Membership Corporation,
the agricultural workers and va
rious nurserymen in the Bruns
wick-Columbus County area, will
be held again this year, according
to Hugh D. Vance, electrical ad
visor of the Co-op.
Vance said that because of the
increased amount of travel, the
widespread use of disposable
packaging, the increased number
of tourists in our area and the
lasting impact of first impres
sions make it necessary to pro
mote such a concerted effort to
enhance the natural beauty of the
two counties.
“In essence, it is simply a
community clean-up, square-up,
tidy-up contest supported by pic-,
toral proof of the before and after
conditions,” said Vance.
“Therefore, the originality and
content of a scrap book will
weigh heavily in the selection of
the contest winner. However,
it is hoped that in the process of
carrying out the project, a new
sense of vision, a greater feel
ing of community fellowship, an
increased idea of the value of co
operative effort, a pleasure in
active participation, and a feeling
of civic responsibility and pride
wiU have been generated that far
out-weighs and outlasts any other
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Brief Bits Of
NEWS
MOTHERS MARCH
The Brunswick County Moth
er's March of Dimes will be held
next Wednesday night from 6:30
to 8:30 o’clock. Everyone is
asked to cooperate.
FERRY SERVICE
The Southport-Fort Fisher
Ferry will go back in service to
morrow (Thursday) on its regular
winter schedule. This calls for
trips from the Southport side at
8, 11, 1:30 and 3;30. Return
trips will be made at 9:30,12; 30.
2:30 and 4:30.
P.T.A. SPEAKER
F. Murray Acker, general
manager of the DuPont Plant in
Brunswick coast, will be guest
speaker at P.T.A. meeting at
Southport High School Thursday
night at 7:30 o’clock. Everyone
is urged to attend, regardless of
whether he or she is a P.T.A.
member.
It. (jg) Meekins Promoted
Lt. (jg) Les Meekins, commanding officer of the Cape
Upright, U. S. Coast Guard boat stationed at Southport,
recently received a promotion from rank of ensign. He
is a native of Dare county, North Carolina, where his
family has been identified with this branch of the ser
vice for many years. (Photo by Spencer)
Record Resources
Reported By S & L
Assets of Security Savings and
Loan Association as of December
31, 1967 total $5,985,565., up
13.75 percent from the $5,261,
847. reported a year ago, the
association’s annual report re
vealed this week.
All officers of the association
were reelected as follow: H.T.
St. George, president; D. C. Her
ring, vice-president; W.P. Jer
gensen, secretary-treasurer.
The report, issued by presi
dent St. George, showed that sav
ings balances held by the associa
tion now amount to $5,530,912 as
compared to $4,747,761 a year
ago. St George noted that com
pared to the 1966 gain in savings
1967 had been an excellent sav
ings year for the association.
Record dividends totalling
$222,204 were paid to the 2536
account holders of the associa
tion during 1967. Mortgage loans
put on the books during the year
amount to $1,253,739 bringing
total loans to $5,106,711.
In looking ahead to 1968, the
annual report indicated that
there is a possibility that next
year might see another round of
tight money. This would, of
course, present challenges for
the savings and loan business and
the real estate and housing indus
try. Mr. St George said:
“The savings and loan busi
ness profited very much from the
lessons it learned during the
tight money year of 1966. I
predict that even with a return
to tight money next year that
the business will be able to weath
er whatever economic storm
might come along.
“From the way things look now,
I think that savings inflows will
continue to be good. There is
evidence that the demand for
single-family homes is picking
up. We anticipate that mortgage
interest rates will be somewhat
higher than those prevailing dur
ing 1967.
“All in all I think 1968 is going
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Hospital Room
Rate Advances
Hospital room rates will be
increased on March 1, at Dosher
Memorial Hospital as follow;
Private room, $21.50; semi
private, $17.50; 3-bed ward, $16;
and 4-bed ward $13.
The Hospital Board of Trustees
were compelled to increase the
rate of rooms since the Federal
Wage Law requires another
salary increase to all employees
now under the minimum wage re
quirements on February 1. This
will increase the monthly pay
roll of the hospital approximately
$2,000. The steady climbofhos
pital operational costs is also a
contribution factor in Increased
room rates, a spokesman for the
trustees said.
Farm Bureau
Holds Meeting
At Shallotte
“It appears the path of agri
cultural production is seldom
illumined by economic consist
ency. For, each year, some
of problems requiring the farm
er to cut, increase, dump, or
quit”, said Harold c. Robinson,
vice-president of the Brunswick
County Farm Bureau, at the
January meeting held at Schick’s
Restaurant in Shallotte. Robin
son acted as host due to illness
of President Ira Chadwick.
“Prices received by farmers
declined most of 1967. The re
sult was a drop of 13 percent
In net farm income from the
first half of 1966 when com
posed to the same period of
1967,” said Robinson.
“We need to join together with
Farm Bureau and find methods
to combat these decreases in
prices received by the farmers
when all the time prices we are
ravins' are Emins skv-Mo+i Wo
favor keeping our present al
lottments in Brunswick County
tor the future benefit of our coun
ty economy to help combat
these decreases in prices
received by the farmers when all
the time prices we are paying
are going sky-high, we favor
keeping our present allotments
in Brunswick County tor the fu
ture benefit of our county econ
omy to help combat some of
these drastic decreases in our in
crease," Robinson said.
“Adjustments for overplant
ings of flue-cured tobacco in 1967
shows a possibility that perhaps
we will have one of the smallest
crops to be produced in several
years. Sale and transfer to other
counties and states will not help
this Situation either. Domestic
use is expected to increase alon"
with exports and price support
level, but we still do not need
to give someone else our OWN
economy out the back door,"
Robinson stated.
The following committees were
appointed: National Legislative:
F. Herbert Swain Sr., Southport,
James D. Bellamy, Jr., Shallotte,
Homer Holden of Bolivia, fta fil
Chadwick of Shallotte. •
Special Projects: Mr. and Mrs.
Henry c. Williams of Shallotte,
Mrs. Jackie LongofSupply, Mrs.
Joyce Russ of Ash, and Mrs. Vir
ginia Gilbert of Bolivia.
Service Committee: Mr. and
Mrs. T. J. Gilbert of Bolivia
and Murphy L. Hewett of Supply.
Seals Receipts
Set New Record
Hugh A. Ragsdale, chairman
for the SENC Tuberculosis As
sociation Seal Sale reported that
the Total raised through January
19th was slightly over $21,000.
Of the six counties involved,
Brunswick reached $1,000, New
Hanover, $9,485, Onslow $5,
285.25, Pender $858, in each
case the highest amount raised
since the area association was
formed.
Bladen and Columbus counties
are still short of last year’s
total amount, while no set goal
was made, the Association needs
$23,000 to carry out the year
round program of education,
medical research, patient serv
ice, and community service.
Because of the number of pa
tients from these counties, the
drain on patient service funds
has been particularly heavy.
The Association is sending a
third reminder to those contri
butors who have not been heard
from, according to our records.
If there have been duplications,
the Association would appreciate
knowing, so that the permanent
records can be corrected.
v f Lightship At New Berth
The Frying Pan Lightship, destined to eventually wind up as a nautical museum
in Southport, was moved Monday from one temporary berth at the Baptist Assembly
dock in the Cape Fear River to the Standard Products dock on the intracoastal
waterway west of the bridge on the beach road. Towing the lightship was Capt.
Merrit Moore’s Cindy and following along behind with a line out to prevent the
larger vessel from ‘fish-tailing’ is Capt. Dick Skipper’s Eva K. (Photo by Spencer)
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Powell also stated that reso
lutions of endorsement and sup
port are being requested from
all municipalities, civic clubs
and organized groups of Bruns
wick county.
The response to date has been
very gratifying, but he urges
citizens to prepare their letters
and resolutions as soon as possi
ble in order that time can be al
lowed to prepare the portfolio
for presentation.
The first resolution in support
of the project was adopted by the
Junior woman’s Club of South
port. This resolution was adopted
by the club shortly after the an
nouncement was made at the Boil
ing Spring Lakes Country Club.
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Time And Tide
It was January 19, 1938, and the campaign against free-roaming
felines that had been announced by the Southport Civil Club on
the previous week was getting hearty approval from local upland
game hunters. H. B. Smith had recently been appointed Chief
Boiler Inspector for the State; and the late Clifton Moore had entered
the race for district Superior Court Judge.
The Southport Independents had recently won a basketball contest
from the crew of the cutter Modoc, 48-24. High scorer: willing, 13
points. H. M. S. Apollo, an English gunboat, had made a brief ap
pearance in Southport harbor earlier in the week, being piloted to
Wilmington by Capt. Harold St. George. The occasion had war
ranted a recess for the local school. The new Fords had just come
out and were advertised at around $650. With 22 to 27 miles per
gallon too! And a Whiteville firm was offering competition with
good mules and Hackney Wagons.
It was January 20, 1943, a war year, and Americans everywhere
were working furiously at providing food for their forces over
seas. Locally, clam-digging had began to boom again, and some serv
ice men were soon due for a good mess of clam chowder. The re
cent cut in auto travel was noted to have Increased wear on shoe
leather a good deal. The editors of both The Lighter Side and Not
Exactly News had noted the unique birth announcement sent out by
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Ferger; and two Northwest township establish
ments had been visited by a group of law enforcement officers on
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Power Planning
Long Term Job
RAYMOND S. TALTON
First Highway
Fatality Listed
SUPPLY — A Wilmington
man was killed and another in
jured in a two-car collision near
here Monday afternoon, ac
cording to J. E. Farmer, in
vestigating Highway Patrolman.
Robert Lee Gainey, 45, 2201
Dexter St., Wilmington, was
killed instantly when his 1959
car, moving south off U. S. 17
about two miles north of here,
went out of control and struck a
car driven by Hayden Hill, 73
Bonedan lAve., East Patchoque,
N. Y., Farmer said.
Gainey's car apparently went
off the road on the right side
when entering a curve, came
back onto the road and hit the
Hill car in the front, Farmer
reported.
Hill, 59, driving a 1967 car,
was carried to a Shallotte doctor
in a private car and later
transfered by ambulance to New
Hanover Memorial Hospital,
where he was listed in satisfac
tory condition. He suffered
facial cuts and bruises, ac
cording to hospital officials.
Both cars were a total loss.
Gainey was born in Rock
ingham, August 20, 1923, the son
of Mrs. Ada Viola Long Gainey
and the late Arthur Leon
Gainey.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Mavis Briggman Gainey of
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While most Brunswick citizens
are making plans for this month
or this year, five men at Carolina
Power and Light Company are
making plans as far ahead as
1976.
Included In these plans is the
construction of a 1,600,000 kilo
watt nuclear generating plant and
also the possibility that it will
be located in Brunswick county.
The planning engineers at
CP&L are headed by Raymond S.
Talton, a Smithfield native and
a 1936 graduate of N. C. State
University in mechanical en
gineering. Talton was one of
the speakers last week at the
meeting for the announcement
of Brunswick county as a site
under consideration for the huge
nuclear plant.
The planning engineers at
CP&L comprise the "System
Planning and General Engineer
ing Section” of the Operating and
Engineering Department. Their
job is to plan for new facilities
that will insure plenty of elec
tricity in the coining years for
the company’s growing number of
customers and the growing needs
of present customers.
Working seven or eight years
in advance, the men are presently
planning for the specific elec
trical needs of CP&L’s 30,000
square mile area through 1975.
Meeting these needs will require
more generating plants and
more transmission lines and
substations at places that are yet
to be determined.
The main reason for the neces
sity of planning so far ahead is
the time it takes to build a power
plant. Although a conventional
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Candidate For
Governor Here
Dr. Reginald A. Hawkins, Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor
of North Carolina, has accepted
an Invitation to attend the mass
meeting of the Southport branch
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo
ple at the Bimswick County High
School gymtorium.
The speaker for this meeting
is Kelly Alexander of Charlotte,
who is president of the North
Carolina Branches. The pro
gram will be held at 4 p.m. and
presidents of both branches In
Brunswick county are asking the
public to attend this first mass
meeting of the year.
School Study
Featured In
Jury Report
The Grand Jury was called
to order on January 15 by Wil
liam O. Beasley, foreman, Kath
leen C. Parker, secretary.
The jury was In session 3
days examined 15 bills and re
turned 15 true bills.
Members inspected the jails,
schools, court house, health de
partment and other county build
ings and found the following
conditions:
Southport Jail—we recom
mend a new jail to be built.
Shallotte Jail—Good condition.
Southport High School—Needs
numerous broken window and
door glasses replaced, need one
new exterior door, needs repairs
on wall plaster, needs commode
tank lid in boy's bath, needs fire
extinguishers upstairs, needs
new heating system in Ma
rineology building, needs new
water fountain in gym.
Brunswick County High School
—Needs lavatory In first grade
room, needs back exterior door,
needs broken window and door
glasses, replaced, steps need
to be strengthened on mobile
class unit, plumbing repairs
needed, fire extinguishers need
ed, roof needs repairs to prevent
leaking in vocation building, and
gym, walls need repairing, ven
tilation should be checked in cafe
teria, screen doors need re
placing in cafeteria, heater needs
repair In classroom building, be
hind school.
Bolivia High school — jseeas
numerous window and door
glasses replaced, needs door
knobs, needs wall plaster re
paired, cabinet and book shelves
needed in classrooms, window
in projection room needs repair
ing, fire extinquishers needed,
exhaust fan needed in kitchen
roof needs repairing in shower
room of gym. Bolivia school
was found clean. The poor con
dition of this school indicated that
proper maintenance has not been
carried out in the past. We
recommend that the Brunswick
County Supt. of Schools investi
gate this condition and determine
if corrective action should be
taken.
Leland High School — Needs
window and door glasses re
placed, new seats needed in audi
torium, needs plaster job on wall,
repair halls, elementary library
requested, fire extinguishers
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Kindegarten Is
Topic For Class
Final plans for the kinder
garden training classes are now
being completed as the Cape
Fear Technical Institute plans to
offer “The Nature and Scope of
Day Care for Young Children”
sometime in early February.
The course will consist of
two meetings a week for twelve
weeks. The only cost will be
for textbooks. Two different
classes will be taught, one in
Southport and one in Bolivia. At
the completion of this course a
certificate will be given, and if
called for a follow up course will
be taught in the foil. This
course may be used towards a
one year trade degree or a two
year technical degree if desired.
Letters will be sent to those
who have phoned in their names
when final plans are completed.
Others who wish to take the
course may do so by attending
the first meeting, which will
be announced later.
Tide Table
Following is the tUe table
for Southport during the
week. These hours are ap
proximately correct and
were burnished Tile State
Port Pilot through the
courtesy of the Gape Fear
Pilot’s Association.
HIGH LOW
Thursday, January U,
3:67 A M 10:28 A M
4:06 P M 10:34 P M
Friday, January 26,
6:03 A M 11:34 A M
5:15 P M 11:34 P M
Saturday, January 21,
6:03 A M 12:28 A M
6:15 P M
Sunday, January 28,
6:57 A M 0:34 A M
7:09 P M 1:22 P M
Monday, January 29,
7:45 A M 1:22 A M
7:67 P M 2:04 P M
Tuesday, January SO,
8:33 A M 2:10 A M
8:45 P M 2:52 P M
Wednesday, January SI,
9:15 A M 2:68 A M
9:27 P M 3:28 P M