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VOLUME 39
No. 36
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SOUTHPORT, N. C.
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EDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1968
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PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Building Linder Construction
Elmore Motor Company of Bolivia has a new home under construction and the
above photograph taken this week shows progress being made on this spacious build
lng. In the background is shown the body shop, which has been completed and is now
occupied. (Photo by Spencer)
Accident Kills
General Guest
Here Tuesday
Brig. General Wesley T. Guest,
U. S. Army retired, was killed
late Tuesday afternoon in a fall
from the deck of his home over
looking the Cape Fear River at
Southport. Apparently fasteners
holding an aluminum railing pull
ed free, allowing him to fall to
his death.
He was rushed to Dosher Me
morial Hospital, but was dead
upon arrival. Head injuries are
believed to have caused his death.
General Guest and his wife
built a home in Deepwater Heights
several, years ago, where they
lived alone. He is survived by
Mrs. Guest, one daughter, Mrs.
Sally Danker, of Washington,
D. C.; and by one sister, Mrs.
Helen Knox, of Fullerton, Cal.
Funeral arrangements are
being handled by Gilbert Funeral
Service of Southport, with grave
side services scheduled for
Thursday afternoon at 3 o’clock
in Northwood Cemetery. The
Rev. W. S. Davenport, pastor of
Trinity Methodist Church, will
be the officiating minister.
General Guest had a distin
guished military record. During
World War II he served both in
the European and Asiatic
Theatres as a communications
specialist. Later he served in
the Korean conflict. He served
as commanding officer of the
Signal Corps Laboratory at Ft.
Monmouth, N. J., and was in
charge of the Signal Corps Sup
ply Center in Sacramento, Cal.,
prior to his retirement and
moving to Southport to make his
home.
During the Korean conflict
General Guest became a close
friend of President SigmondRhee
and from him received a special
decoration.
The retired Army man made
daily trips to points of interest
on the Southport waterfront where
he had many friends. He was a
member of the Southport Lions
Club.
LIONS CLUB
The Southport Lions Club will
meet tomorrow (Thursday) at
6:30 o’clock in the Community
Building.
CLASS PROJECT
Members of the Junior Class
at Southport High School are
sponsoring a contest for which a
Trail-90 CC Honda is first prize.
BEACH CHURCH
All persons Interested in see
ing a Presbyterian Church on
Long Beach and Yaupon Beach are
invited to attend a meeting
Monday night, Feb. 26, at 7:30.
The meeting will be at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. w. E. McDougle
on Norton St.
ADULT CLASSES
Adult education classes will be
offered by the Cape Fear Tech
nical Institute beginning Monday.
The courses scheduled to be
taught are home sewing, sec
ondary education and typing.
More courses will be offered'!!
there is a demand for them.
Interested persons are urged to
be present at 7 o’clock at the
Southport High School audi
torium. The only cost will be for
books or materials.
Duke Endowment
Helps Hospital
The Duke Endowment is dis
tributing this week $2,016,665
to Carolina hospitals and child
care institutions it assists.
James R. Felts, Jr., execu
tive director of the Hospital and
Child Care sections of The En
dowment, said 191 hospitals are
receiving $1,369,950 and 43 child
care institutions, $646,715.
North Carolina’s total in $901,
508 for hospitals and $428,991
for child care institutions; South
Carolina’s $468,442 for hospi
tals and $217,724 for child care
institutions.
One o£ the beneficiaries is
Dosher Memorial Hospital in
Southport, which will receive
$1,652.
Appropriations to hospitals in
clude $1,116,653 for operating
expenses, on the basis of $1 a
day for each free day of care in
the fiscal year which ended Sept.
30, 1967, and $253,297 as re
imbursement of the cost of parti
cipation in Hospital Administra
tive Services (HAS) of Chicago,
111., and Professional Activity
Study (PAS) of the Commission on
Professional and Hospital Activi
ties of Ann Arbor, Mich., in the
year. These national services
which compile and distribute fi
nancial and statistical informa
tion on a current monthly basis
were made available in 1966 to
hospitals assisted by The En
dowment, which is reimbursing
them for the entire cost until
Sept. 30, 1970, and then will
withdraw at the rate of 10 per
cent a year until the expense is
shared on an equal basis by The
Endowment and the hospitals.
These services provide date
useful to hospitals in comparing
their operations with those of like
category in all parts of the coun
try as they consider ways of
improving patient care. Marshall
I. Pickens, vice chairman of the
Trustees of The Endowment, de
scribes the provision of these
(Continued On Page Four)
Planning Funds
For Southport
Secretary Robert C. Weaver of
the U. S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development has an
nounced approval of a grant of
$53,265 under the Urban Planning
Assistance Program to help pay
for the comprehensive planning
for growth and development of
Beaufort, Burnsville, Marshall,
Newport, Southport, Stantons
burg, and Carteret county.
They are an officially desig
nated redevelopment area.
The HUD grant, payable to the
state, will cover three-fourths
of the total cost of planning work.
Supplemented by $17,755 in non
Federal funds the grant will
finance planning activities for
two years.
Grants under the Urban Plan
ning Assistance Program are au
thorized by Section 701 of the
Housing Act of 1954, as amended.
These grants may be used in
counties and small cities to help
pay for planning work such as
preparation of base maps,
analysis of land use, population
and economic conditions, prep
aration of a comprehensive
development plan, and measures
to Implement this planning, such
as zoning and subdivision regula
tions.
C. S. RUARK
Southport Man
Gets Promotion
Two key staff promotions for
Monsanto’s Decatur Plant are
announced today by C. E. Hieser
man, plant manager. Charles
S. Ruark is promoted to gen
eral manufacturing superinten
dent, Polyester Manufacturing,
and Robert L. Rose is promoted
to superintendent, Nylon Inter
mediates Manufacturing, Hieser
man said. The promotions are
effective Immediately, and both
will report directly to Hieser
man.
Ruark succeeds John Lomar
tire who has been appointed Poly
ester Commercial Development
Director.
Rose succeeds Robert M.
Adams who has been appointed
plant manager for Monsanto’s ny
lon manufacturing plant at
Echternach, Luxembourg. He
will assume his new position in
mid-summer.
Ruark has been serving as
intermediates superintendent lor
Acrilan Manufacturing since
, 1965. He joined Monsanto in 1956
as a chemical engineer and has
served in positions of increas
ing responsibility. Prior to join
ing the company he was asso
ciated with Riegel Paper Co.,
Acme. A native of Southport,
Ruark earned B.S. and ,M.S. de
(Continued on Pag* t,
Seek Bids On
New Rail Yard
A 350-rallcar barricaded rail
holding yard is to be built at
the Sunny Point Military Ocean
Terminal near Southport. Bids
on the contract, estimated to cost
over a million dollars, will be
opened by the Savannah District
Army Engineers at their office In
Savannah, Ga., on Feb. 28 at 2
p* m.
The job calls for site prepa
ration and drainage of the area.
To be constructed are earth
barricades, laying access tracks
and 35 spur tracks, along with
constructing access roads and a
small smoking room/toilet build
ing. All work is to be completed
within 150 calendar days.
Plans and specifications may
be obtained by writing the Savan
nah District Engineer.
Project Needs
Matching Funds
And Spoil Area
■•wnere ao we go irom here”
was the theme of a meeting held
In Elizabethtown Tuesday morn
ing to develop plans for proceed
ing with improvements of the
Cape Fear River between Navas
sa and Riegel.
The project to deepen and im
prove the channel of the river
has been approved and funded,
but requires local participation
in acquiring right-of-way and
areas for depositing the spoil
from the dredging.
The project would increase the
depth of the channel to 12-feet
and would eliminate the several
sharp curves that are a hazard
to navigation.
The meeting called by the Cape
Fear River Basin Development
Association was attended by rep
resentatives from Brunswick,
New Hanover, Pender, Columbus,
Bladen and Cumberland counties,
plus representatives from the
U. S. Corps of Engineers, North
Carolina Water and Air Re
sources Commission and other
interested individuals.
The group agreed that one
representative from each of the
four counties involved would be
responsible for contacting the
property owners in an effort to
secure spoil areas and right-of
way for the project.
It was also agreed that a rep
resentative of^the board of com
missioners from Brunswick,
Pender, New Hanover, Columbus,
Bladen and Cumberland counties
would meet, to' agree on ways of
providing the $58,000. required
for diking the spoil areas.
Representing Brunswick coun
ty at the meeting were George T.
Rourk, chairman of the board of
commissioners, V. A. Creech,
Jr., commissioner, Roy A.
Stevens, director of the Re
sources Development Commis
sion for Brunswick County, Mrs.;i
A. P. Henry, Jr., secretary, and .
T. S. Bowmer of SENCland Devel
opment Commission, and A. H.
Gainey, Jr.
Roy Stevens reported that a
meeting
Is being
of the property owners
set for February 21
Measles Clinics
Are Scheduled
Brunswick County has declared
war on red measles and on Sunday
teams of physicians, nurses,
Grey Ladies and other volunteer
helpers will undertake to admin
ister measles vaccine to every
boy and girl under the age of 13
who has not had red measles or
has not already been immunized
against this disease.
This program is sponsored by
the Brunswick county physicians
in cooperation with the Brunswick
County Health Department.
Brunswick county is one of
many to carry on this type of
campaign in North Carolina.
Success is predicted because
parents have demonstrated in the
past their cooperation with im
munization programs, and clinic
sites are situated so that the
campaign can be carried on with
minimum transportation prob
lems.
There will be supervision by a
physician at each clinic. All im
munizations will be given free
of charge. However, a donation
of 25? will help defray the cost
of the campaign.
I Letters And Resolutions
FoaiiBrunswick county men were in Raleigh Thursday to present four files filled
with liters of welcome and copies of resolutions favoring the establishment of a
nuclean power plant near Southport to President Shearon Harris of Carolina Power
Light A. Shown here, left to right, are John Barbee, county commissioner, W. A.
PowellTchairman of the Resources Development Commission for Brunswick County;
Raymond S. Talton, engineering consultant for CP&L, President Harris, and Mayor
E. B. Tomlinson, Jr., of Southport.
—I
PCA Loans Key
To Profit For
Many Farmers
“The use of large amounts of
Capital by farmers is contribu
ting to agriculture’s Increased
efficiency and production,” ac
cording to Garland P. King, gen
eral manager of the Coastal Pro
duction Credit Association,
i King has': just returned from
«ilson where he and directors
i the Coastal Production Credit
ssociation have been participat
ing in an Advanced Management
Institute sponsored by the
Federal Intermediate Credit Bank
of Columbia for directors and
gf;B6ral managers of production
effing Institute is
designed to keep production
credit officials abreast of
the latest developments in mod
ern management in order that
production credit association
may stove farmers’ needs for
operates and capital investment
credit Op an intermediate-term
basis iiore effectively and
economically.”
Instructors were Gus W.
Campbell, management con
sultant of New York, and offi
cers of the bank including R. A.
Darr, president, J. C. Moore,
senior vice president and John
L. Marshall, vice president and
secretary. Subjects presented
were Principles of a PCA Man
agement Analysis, Responsibili
ties of PCA Boards of Di
rectors, Changing Responsibili
ties of Management and other
management topics.
King states, “The farmer
owned and operated Coastal PCA
has 2278 farmer-members and
is extending $10,564,812.29 to
these farmer-members in Dup
lin, Pender, New Hanover and
Brunswick counties for their
needs for operating and capital
investment credit on an inter
mediate-term basis.”
Officers and directors of the
association are Arthur Kennedy
(Continued On Page Two)
Time And Tide
It was Wednesday, February 9, 1938, and two Southport misses
had been pictured in the Philadelphia Inquirer, inspecting a Treasure
Chest recently unearthed at Fort Caswell. The same cut appeared
on the initial sheet ol The Pilot that week. (Photo by Bill Sharpe).
Brunswick county currently had 717 unemployed person, but at the
same time some 75 power boats were engaged in some sort of
commercial fishing out of Southport any time the weather allowed.
In 1938 The Pilot was fortunate to have a number of first rate
correspondents at points in the county, and regular items were
submitted specifically concerning Bolivia, Freeland, Winnabow and
Makatoka. Vincent Stevens, editor of the old Southport newspaper,
The Southport Leader, had been a visitor in The Pilot offices; the
Civic Club was investigating early ship-building sites; and the
Waccamaw 4-H Club had met.
We don’t know whether there was a shortage of news or of news
print (paper) in 1943, but the ’43 volume of our back issues is
definitely the lightest of the five we are currently working with.
The edition of The Pilot datellned February 19, 1943, was corres
pondingly small—four pages—but there certainly wasn’t a shortage
of news that week. For instance:
Douglas Jones had recently! become the first Eagle Scout in the
local history of scouting. National Boy Scout week had commenced
Sunday with the local troop members attending church enmasse.
D. L Watson had just graduated from an Army technical school
in Amarillo, Texas. Clarence Simmons had captured some six
bushels of shrimp and 300 pounds of whiting in one recent day’s
trawling. And the Hospital 4biliary was raising funds with which
to purchase a new, much needed sterilizer.
Gasoline, tires, even bicycles had been rationed due to the inter
national situation, but now the last straw seemed to have come up.
Shoes were being rationed. iCaptain T. J. Tobiasen, USA, had re
cently been promoted to the rank of Major, Joy Arnold had become
the bride of George Gregory^ and the Coast Guardsmen had avenged
(Continued On Pag* Four)
CP&L Project Is
Given Endorsement
Judging Team
Places Second
Brunswick County’s 4-H live
stock judging team placed sec
ond in a contest held in Smith
field, Tuesday. The judging con
test was held in conjunction with
the North Carolina Barrow Show,
one of the leading barrow shows
in the state.
Richard Jones placed the team
with 140 points out of a possible
150. He tied for second high in
dividual score of the contest.
Jeris Hewett was next with 134
point* and tied for fifth high
score. Kenneth Hewett scored
121 while Roy Hewett had 101.
The three top scores make up
the team total which was 395.
The winning team scored 405.
Classes included boars, bar
rows and gilts. Eighteen 4-H
and FFA teams participated.
Caseworker Is
Forum Speaker
Mrs. Grace Ruark, a case
worker for the Brunswick Coun
ty Welfare Department, spoke
at Southport Presbyterian Church
Sunday night on the public affairs
forum and answered questions.
“We are bound both morally
and by the state constitution to
relieve human need where we
find it,” Mrs. Ruark stated. “The
public ought to know and is
entitled to know how welfare
money is spent, for it is their
money we are using.” The pub
lic welfare system operates
roughly under four categories,
according to Mrs. Ruark, aid to
the blind, old age assistance
(OAA), aid to families with de
pendent children (AFDC), and
aid to the permanent and totally
disabled (APTD).
Mrs. Ruark pointed out that
the welfare department offers
many services other than mone
tary add, or without cash outlay.
There are psychological ser
vices, referrals to health de
partments, help in getting needy
people into institutions, aid to
hospitalizations, etc. The de
partment works with schools,
law enforcement officers, the
courts, health departments, and
other agencies.
Information in all cases of
flnamcial assistance is verified
by the department before aid is
given, she said. “Further, it is
not generally known that we aire
getting many people off of the
welfare rolls. We are not sub
sidizing illigetimate children, but
where there are illigitimate chil
dren they themselves are not to
blame for their situation and
should be helped. We try to help
them so that they will not grow up
and have illigitimate children who
will need welfare assistance.”
There are now about 500 fami
lies receiving assistance from
the Brunswick county depart
ment. For these 500 cases, there
are only four caseworkers to
handle the load. This naturally
results in an inability to keep
close check on cases, she said.
“If we had the caseworkers we
need we could get more people
off the welfare rolls.” Mrs.
Ruark cited low salaries as the
main cause of the shortage of
caseworkers.
“Poverty is the cause of
crime, ignorance, and illigitl
(Continued On Page Two)
Residents of Brunswick county
have compiled into four volumes
evidence of their enthusiasm for
the possibility that Carolina Pow
er & Light Company will build
a $200 million nuclear electric
generating plant in their county.
The four volumes of letters,
resolutions and newspaper com
ment in support of the idea were
presented Thursday in Raleigh to
Shearon Harris, president of
CP&L. The resolutions came
from official bodies, churches,
civic clubs, community clubs, and
business corporations. Letters
were also included from indi
viduals who endorse the pros
pect.
Speaking of public response,
Roy Stevens, director of the Re
sources Development Com
mission for Brunswick County,
told Harris that the “Brunswick
people would be delighted to be a
part of future nuclear develop
ment” as indicated by the con
struction of North Carolina’s
first nuclear plant.
Presenting the volumes to Har
ris were Stevens; William Pow
ell, chairman of the Brunswick
Development Commission; John
Barbee, county commissioner;
and Eugene Tomlinson, mayor
of Southport.
In expressing his pleasure with
the support, Harris told the group
that his company should know
in six months whether the Bruns
wick site is suitable and in an
additional twelve months whether
the site meets the requirements
(Continued On Page Two)
Southport Lady
On Commission
Governor Dan K. Moore this
week appointed the North Caro
lina American Revolution Bicen
tennial Commission which was
authorized by the General As
sembly in the 1967 session. In
cluded in the appointments was
Mrs. James M. Harper, Jr., of
Southport.
Other regular members are
Mrs. Mary Jane McCrary of
Brevard; Ernie w. Greup of
Durham; William A. Creech of
Raleigh; State Senator Hec
tor McLean of Lumberton;
State Senator Don S. Mathe
son of Hillsborough; James
A. Gray of Winston-Salem; Mc
Daniel Lewis of Greensboro;
State Senator Herman A. Moore
of Charlotte; and Armlstead Mau
pin of Raleigh.
In addition to the regular
members of the Commission,
Governor Moore appointed 13
ex-officio members. These are
the Director of the Department
of Archives and History; the
Director of the Department of
Conservation and Development;
the Superintendent of Public In
struction; the heads of the history
departments of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
North Carolina State University,
North Carolina College at Dur
ham, East Carolina University,
Western Carolina University,
Appalachian State Teachers Col
lege, wake Forest College, Duke
University and Davidson College;
and the state regent of the DAR,
Duties of the Commission will
be to make plans and develop
programs for the celebration of
the bicentennial of the Ameri
can Revolution and to endeavor to
make the people of North Caro
lina conscious of the importance
of their heritage.
■unds Used To J
Support Family
Farm Program
“A total of $222,730. in loan .
inds was used by Brunswick
ounty to support family farms
urlng the past year”, Parks C.
ields, local supervisor for the
ural credit agency said this
reek.
Currently 96 farmers In
Srunswick county are using the
upervlsed credit services of
le Farmers Home Admlnistra
lon.
The supply of Farmers Home
.dmlnlstration credit, which
upplements the credit supplied
y banks and other private credit
ources Is one of the measures
ecommended by President John
son to provide family farmers an
ipportunity to earn parity of
ncome.
“These loans have enabled
Armers to stay in business
vho would otherwise have had
o give up and go to the city,
rhey have helped young farmers
jet established. They have en
ibled farmers to keep going after
severe weather conditions”,
Fields noted.
Farmers Home Adminis
:ration loans can be used to buy
land, refinance debts, acquire
livestock and equipment, pay
fertilizer and fuel bills and pay
other expenses connected with
acquiring, improving and oper
ating farms.
The incomes of farmers using
Farmers Home Administration
credit in Brunswick county in
1967 totaled approximately
$500,000.
Loans are made only to fami
lies who are unable to obtain
adequate credit from other
sources. The program is tailor
ed to individual family needs and
loans are accompanied by tech
nical assistance in farm and
money management.
More Information may be ob
tained from the Farmers Home
Administration office in Shal
lotte.
Church Group
On School Job
A group of Presbyterians met
at Southport High School Satur
day and left it better than they
found it. Finding the girls*
restroom on the first floor in
poor condition, they went to work,
installing some new equipment,
repairing doors, painting com
modes, walls, and stalls.
There were no locks on doors,
no provision for drying hands,
no toilet paper or towels. The
walls were dirty and showed the
works of many bathroom poets
and artists.
"We can't fix up the whole
building,” one school patron said,
"but we have to start some
where and we can do something.
People have talked enough and we
figured it was time somebody
did something. We did.”
A stall door that was lying on
the floor was put back on hinges
and mounted properly, locks were
put on the doors, paper towel
holders and paper towels were
installed, toilet paper holders
and toilet paper were put In.
Walls and stalls as well as com
modes got a fresh paint job.
Participating in the paint and
repair jobs were Mr. and Mrs.
W.B» McDougle, Mrs. C. R. Con
rad, Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Mc
Hose, Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Mc
Hose and the Rev. Robert Childs.
Tide Table
Following Is 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 Gape Fear
Pilot’s Association.
HIGH LOW
Thursday, February 15,
8:33 A M 2:31 A M
8:57 A M 3:04 P M
Friday, February 16,
9:15 A M 3:22 A M
9:39 P M 3:46 P M
Saturday, February 17,
9:57 A M 4:04 A M.
10:27 P M 4:28 P M
Sunday, February 18,
10:45 A M 4:48 A M
11:21 P M 5:10 P M
Monday, February 19,
11:39 AM 5:52 AM
6:04 P M
Tuesday, February 20,
0:21AM 6:52 AM
12:33 P M 7:04 P M
Wednesday, February 21,
1:27 A M 7:58 A M
1:39 P M 8:04 P M