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: ■¥‘H; ^ A X' I sstBmmummmmmm The Pilot Covers Brunswick County THE STATE tORT PILOT Most of the News mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm A Good Newspaper Infcv Good Community $ i All The Time f VOLUME 39 No. 39 10-Pages Today SOUTHPORT; N. C. 1 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1968 5* A COPY —-_1_ _:___:___ PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY I: Campaign Paper Work Mrs. Dallas Pigott, left confers with Mrs. blems connected with mailing information Democratic nomination for Lt. Governor of coordinated the volunteer efforts of several James M. Harper, Jr., about one of the pro concerning the latter’s campaign for the North Carolina. Mrs. Pigott this week has Southport women who are helping to get out letters in support or Mrs. Harper s campaign for this important state office. (Pho 4 to by Spencer) State Campaign For Lieutenant Governor Begins Mrs. James M. Harper, Jr., of Southport, woman candidate for the Democratic nomination for Lt. Governor of North Caro lina, is finding out this week that this is a big state and that she will have to follow a busy sched ule during the next two months in order to carry her campaign into every county. On Friday night she attended the Fourth Congressional Dis trict Rally in Chapel Hill and on Saturday night of this week she will attend the Jefferson-Jack son Day Dinner in Raleigh. In between there will be special events in Durham, Smithfieldand Raleigh in addition to newspaper, radio and television interviews, “I am grateful for the many expressions of encouragement that have come to me from all over North Carolina," Mrs. Harper said this week. "The newspapers have been particu larly kind.” She said that the only thing to which she has objected thus far was a statement in one of the upstate dailies that she is a 60-year-old grandma. "I’m a grandmother, alright,” she ad mitted, “and there is nothing I enjoy being better. But I’m a 51-year old grandmother. I can’t spare those nine years that story took away." The newspaper in question al ready has graciously given them back. During the early stages of the campaign Mrs. Harper says that she wants to establish the fact that she is running to win, and that she will be busy traveling all over the state during the next few weeks to let the voters have a look at the woman who wants to be elected to state office. “I enjoy this prospect," she said this week. "I have traveled throughout North Carolina on other occasions in the per formance of my duties in state organizations and I loved it. I hope to make my campaign travels an enjoyable as well as a rewarding experience." Brief Bits Of NEWS LIONS TO MEET E. B. Tomlinson, Jr., will be the speaker at the regular meeting of the Southport Lions Club tomorrow (Thursday). AYCOCK ANNOUNCES Elmer w. Aycock, farmer and businessman of Northwest town ship, announced this week that he will seek the Democratic nomina tion for county commissioner from that township, a position now held by George T. Rourk. SCHOOL MEETING The Brunswick County Citizens Committee for Better Schools has been invited to appear at Leland High School Monday night at 8 o’clock to explain the Special School Bond Election that is be requested of members of the Brunswick County Board of Edu cation and yje county Commis sJ°,nef,s- The time is 8 o’clock and all Brunswick county citizens are urged to attend. : . : ' ■' •• ■ i ■ a, Make Test Borings This is the drilling rig of the S. E. Diamond Drilling Co. of Asheville, now engaged in making test borings near Southport at a site where Carolina Power and Light Co. may erect a $200-million nuclear power plant. The loca tion of this test is the old Brock Farm, near Walden Creek. (Photo by Spencer) New Type Stamps Helping Revenue Brunswick County revenue will be Increased by an estimated $7,500 this year, to be collected by the Register of ueeas m the form of the new real estate excise stamp issued by the state of North Carolina. Register of Deeds Durwood Clark’s report of revenue taken In by his office for the month of February, shows that $601,00 was derived through sale of the new stamps. Total revenue from all sources for the Register of Deeds office was $1,961.30. Accrued from 215 deeds 'vas $645; from 99 deeds of trust s 297; from 83 irregular in struments $223.30; from 10 maps $45; from 59 Uniform Commer cial Code Instruments $130; and from five marriage licenses $20. The excise stamp tax en all real estate conveyances succeeds the Federal tax which was re pealed by Congress effective Jan. 1. This enabled several states* at their discretion, to enact simll lar law suitable to their respec tive needs. North Carolina’s General Assembly authorized counties to levy a $1 per $1,000 excise tax (Gaotinued On Page Sight) C. A. PRATT C. A. Pratt In Senate Race C.A. Pratt, who Is seeking the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate as an opponent for Sena tor Sam Ervin, has a strong (Continued On Page Eight) Red Cross To Conduct Fund Drive Campaign On March 12 at the annual meeting of the Brunswick County Chapter of the American Red Cross, the annual appeal for funds will be launched. The drive is for funds to support programs of community service in the year beginning July 1, and to provide local share of the costs of the services to be carried on in this country and the world by the International Red Cross organization in 1968-1969. The organization terms its help an “SOS” (Support Our Servicemen) Appeal with the slogan “Help Us Help”. This yerthe Red Cross faces a crucial financial situation. No local fund drive has been held for several years. Rapidly mounting demands for services in Vietnam have compelled the National Red Cross to increase its budget for services to the armed fordtes to $4.17 million. Two catas trophic floods, in Alaska and Texas, have forced the organiza tion to draw heavily on its disaster funds in order to help several thousand families re build and repair their homes and otherwise return to normal living. Brunswick county has been lucky for several'years in es caping this sort of calamity. How ever this type of aid lias been freely given here in time of hurri cane damage. More money has been spent in this county than could be raised here in a hundred hurricane free years. Other valuable services are provided by the Red Cross lo cally. Communications between servicemen and their families in time of emergency are handled by the local chapter. Gray Ladies serve in the local hospital, volun tarily helping others. Red Cross Lifesaving Courses are made available the Red Cross every summer when Mr. Kenneth Wooten comes down to teach Senior or Junior lifesaving. This service will be available again this year. N For all of these constructive' activities, the Red Cross needs the support of everyone in Bruns wick county. With its slogan of “Help Us Help”, the Brunswick County Chapter urges citizens to give generously to its drive for funds this year. Youth To Fill h City Offices Southport city officials are to be ousted from their jobs on Friday, March 15 and taking over city administration for that day will be fourteen students from Southport and Brunswick County High Schools. Purpose of the project is to familiarize young people of Southport with the city’s his tory, responsibility of each city job, and the day-by-day prob lems that must be faced. Stu dent participation in city govern ment is a joint project of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, and the recently appointed Human Relations Committee. Seven students will be select (Continued on Page 4) Receives Checks «4rs. $8,800 rf James R.i Southeast P. Henry of Brunswick county is shown here as she accepts a check for >m John L. Frailey, of the Mid-Eastern Area Office of Economic Development, out, left, is chairman and Mason Hicks, right, is vice president of the rn Development Commission. Present Check To Commission To Get Started The Southeastern Development Commission was presented its first quarterly payment of$8,800 of a federal grant at a meeting Wednesday afternoon in Eliza bethtown. * Members of the nine county organization heard congratula tory speeches from John L. Frailey, Mid Eastern Area Of fice Economic Development Ad ministration; Charles S. Edwards EDA North Carolina Coordinator, fyilllam C. Bell, associate co ordinator—State Planning Task Richard E„ Timber lake Jr., Field Coordinator—" SPTF, on the progress the com mission has made since its be ginning May 10, 1967. It was announced by James R. Fout, Fayetteville, chairman, that New Hanover county had ask ed permission to join the com mission and that only legal work and paper work now stood in the way of the tenth county. Commission members heard discussions by Fout and vice chairman Mason Hicks, Fayette ville, concerning the Cape Fear River Project, plans for hiring an executive director (procedures involved) and the Task Force Effort."* * Foutfde scribed the future oper ation? bf the Commission by say ‘ihg it would act as a screener for jobs—and projects arising in the region. It would decide wheth er state, local or federal funds f woulcf'oe necessary to handle the projects and addfed that it was hoped that through the commis sion, some of thfe goals could be reached Simmy through the efforts of localfindustries and interested persons. Un<ier the Concentrated Em ployment Program and the spe cial Impact Program the com (Continued on Pag* 4) \Campaign I Diary By Margaret Harper On Friday night I faced the first “moment of truth” in my campaign for Lt. Governor when I attended the 4th Congressional District Democratic Rally in Chapel Hill. It was the first political meeting I had ever attended as a candidate, and I honestly had worried about how I would get along. It turned out so well I wondered afterward why I had worried about it at all. One thing that made it a pleasure was my escort. He was our son, Ed, a 20-year old junior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I knew that sooner or later I would run ihto Pat Taylor, my princi pal rival for the Democratic nomination for Lt. Governor. The moment I spotted him I went' over and told him I was Margaret Harper. "Oh, you’re the one who filed against me”, he said. “I sure am,” I told him, “and I’m the one who’s going to put you to work campaigning.” Until I filed he didn’t have any opposition. Later during a picture-taking session when a photographer wanted a shot of me with someone else, : told her to wait a minute. Then I went over and got Pat and we had our picture taken together. I think we ought to be friends. After all, I will need his help this fill in the general election!, Bob Scott was the only gubernatorial candidate present, but there were several members of the Council of State and their opponents in the forthcoming primary. Congressman Nick Galifianakls was there, and I sat with him during the meeting. When my time came to speak, I didn’t try to be too long-winded. I told them I had come up all the way from Brunswick County to let them see what “that woman who is running for Lt. Governor” looked like. In his talk Pat said he hoped the race for Lt. Governor wouldn’t be decided on the basis of looks. A few minutes later David Stith, Negro (Continued on Page (7 Democrats Have New CHairmarr ^ Mrs. H. Foster Mintz, left, will fill the unexpired term of S. B. Frink, right, as chairman of the Brunswick Coun ty Democratic Executive Committee following his resig nation. This action was taken at a meeting of that body Saturday afternoon. Food Stamp Plan Starts Here April 1 Low-income families ir Brunswick county are being urged to apply to their local welfare agency in Southport for food as sistance under the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture’s food stamp program for low-income fam ilies. The new food program is scheduled to get underway in Brunswick on Monday, April 1, Applications are now being taken by the welfare office in Southport, according to Mrs. Emma B. Chadwick, director of the Brunswick County Depart ment of Public'Welfare. The food stamp program in North Carolina is administered Jointly by the North Carolina Department of Public Welfare and U.S.D.A.’s Consumer and Marketing Service. The North Carolina Depart ment of Public Welfare points out that families do not have to be receiving welfare assistance to be eligible for food stamp help. Food coupons are issued to fami lies determined by their local welfare agency to be in need of food assistance. This includes a number of persons in the “sen ior citizens’’ group. Many persons who, after re tirement, are forced to live on reduced incomes, are often eligi ble to take part in the food stamp program. Other low-income families also may receive food coupons provided their family income is not over specified amounts. The amount of income permitted to such families is worked out by the North Carolina Department oi Public Welfare with the Con sumer and Marketing Service. Persons who are already re ceiving checks from the welfare department are usually eligible for food stamp assistance. These persons may take part in the food stamp program and still receive all of their monthly welfare check, and are urged to apply as soon as possible for food stamp assistance. The Welfare Department is responsible for interviews and certification of eligible needy families. Authorization of food merchants to handle USDA food coupons is handled by the Con (Continued On Page Four) l TERESA SHATTERLY Southport Girl Club Nominee Teresa Shatterly, a student at Southport High School, has been selected as their applicant for the Sallie Southhall Cotten Scholar ship Award by the Junior Woman’s Club of Southport. The scholarship is given to an out standing girl who plans to attend a state supported school. The award amounts to $750 a year and is renewable for the entire four year period. An honor roll student, Teresa plans to attend East Carolina University and prepare to become a teacher. She moved here from Mobile, Alabama, before entering the tenth grade. In Mobile she was active in the Glee Club and the Junior Honor Society. Since matriculating at Southport, she has been a member of the FHA, FTA, Pep Club, and Beta Club. Last year she was Secretary of the FTA. This year she was elected to be President of the Beta Club. On March 16, Teresa will go to Clinton to compete for the scholarship at the district level. Over Hundred 1 Residents Get FHA Home Loan Credit programs of the U.S. Farmers Home Administration helped more than 115 people in * Brunswick County improve their homes, family farms and com munities during 1967, Supervisor Parks C. Fields of Hie agency’s county office in Shallotte said today. Farmers Home Administration loans and grants in the county totaled more than $500,000. in 1967, a new record. Gains were especially note-worthy in rural housing loans. In 1966, twenty three housing loans were made totaling $ 136,110. In 1967, a total of $271,170 was loaned to 33 resi dents to improve their housing. Fields reported that the Farm ers Home Administration, which supplements all other credit available to rural people, has added more than a mil: ioi dollars to the county’s resources with loans and grants the past three years through a range of pro grams increased under the leadership of President Johnson. Fields said that 361,000 of the 1967 lending total through his office was accounted for by Farmers Home Administration insurance of loans funded by pri vate lenders. Family farmers who lacked other sources of credit turned to Farmers Home Administration tor $99,750 in loans to secure farm ownership and improve their farms, and $77,250 in loans for operating purposes during 1967. “Many of the 50 farm fami lies served by FHA might have been forced off the land except for this last-resort source of financing,’’ Fields said. The agency also loaned $46, 610 to 27 farmers in the county to overcome losses suffered in natural disasters. Economic opportunity loans, which enable low-income fami lies to equip themselves tor in come-producing small enter prises—either farming, or non (Continued on Pago 4) ' V” 8***- V /.* Southport Lady Named Officer At an organizational meeting of the North Carolina Ameri can Revolution Bicentennial Commission In Raleigh Friday Mrs. James M. Harper, Jr., of Southport was named vice-chair man and president at this open ing session in the absence of State Senator Hector McLean, who had been elected chairman. Dr. C.C. Crittenden, Director of the State Department of Archives and History, will serve as secretary. Dr. Crlttendon opened the first meeting of the commission which Governor Moore appointed last month and suggested it “con centrate on matters of enduring value. . .rather than devote too much time to more ephemeral work and activities.'* “I think we should have a serious observance,” said com mission member McDaniel Lewis of Greensboro. “I’m happy to observe there are no beards around this board,” he added, alluding to the proliferation of whiskers that marked the re cent Civil War centennial. The commission authorized the executive committee composed of three officers, too look for a full-time salaried executive secretary to formulate plans for (Continued On Page Eight) Tide Table Following fat 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 Oape Fear Pilot's Association. HIGH LOW Thursday, March 7, 1:03 A M 7:46 A M 1:21 PM 7:82 P M Friday, March 8, 2:03 A M 8:52 A M 2:27 PM 8:68 P M Saturday, March' 8, 3:03 A M 9:52 A M 3:33 P M 9:58 P M Sunday, March 10, 4:03 A M 10:48 A M 4:33 P M 10:58 P M Monday, March 11, 5:03 A M 11:40 A M 5:27 P M 11:52 A M Tuesday, March 12, 5:51 A M 12:28 A M 8:16 P M Wednesday, March IS, 8:39 A M 0:40 A M 7:03 P M 1:10 P M
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