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VOLUME 40
No. 3
12-Poqos Today
SOUTHPORT, N. C.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1968
Si A GOPY
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Moving Methodist Parsonage
The old Methodist parsonage which stood for many years at the corner of Nash
and Atlantic Avenue was moved Monday to a new location on the north side of Nash
St. This was done to clear the area in front of the new, educational building at Trin
ity Methodist Church. (Photo by Spencer)
Five Day Event
Art Show Features Festival
The annual Arts Festival of
the Southport Junior woman’s
Club will extend from June 30
through July 4. The show will
be located at the Cranmer House.
The schedule will be as follows;
June 30—Sunday, Registration of
paintings 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Hang
ing will begin Sunday evening at
7 o’clock. July 1—Monday, Con
tinuation of hanging from 9 a.m.
to 3 p.m.; July 2, 3, 4— Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, The show
will be open to the public during
the hours of 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.
The show will be closed during
the parade on the 4th.
The judging will take place
at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1.
Wesley Crawley of the School
of Art of East Carolina Univer
sity in Greenville will judge this
year’s show. Crawley, a profes
sional sculptor, obtained both the
bachelor’s and master’s degrees
from the University of Oregon.
Exhibiting his work all over the
continent both in one-man shows
and in group shows, this sculptor
has won acclaim by being listed in
Who’s Who in American Educa
tion and Who’s Who in American
Art. Most recently he was honor
ed with a listing in Maquis’ who’s
Who in the South and Who’s who
in International Art. After having
five years of duty in the Army Air
Force, Crawley worked at the
Davidson School of Sculpture and
at the University of Arizona. He
studied at the Art Institute of
Chicago prior to his military
service. His sculpture is rep
resented in many excellent col
lections, and he has received
many public and private commis
sions.
As in the past, the city will
have the opportunity of purchas
ing a painting chosen by the City
Purchase Committee to be added
to its collection. This year’s
committee members are Walter
Aldridge, Mrs. Dorothy Gilbert
and Hoyle Dosher.
The Southport Juniors hope all
the county will have an oppor
tunity to view the three-day show.
There will be a small fee, part of
which will go to the Fourth of
July Festival Committee to help
meet expenses incurred.
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Brief Bits Of
NEWS
BAKE SALE
The Southport Little League
will hold a bake sale on July 3,
at 10 o’clock at the pst office.
DONKEY BASEBALL
The Southport Jaycees will
sponsor a Donkey Baseball game
at Taylor Athletic Field. 8:30.
July 3. *
JULY 4TH SNACK SALE
There will be an all-day snack
sale at Corbett’s Motel, Holden
Beach, on Thursday, July 4th for
the benefit of the local fire de
partment. Anyone wishing to
donate cakes, pies, or “sand
wich makings,” please call the
following ladies, who will be
glad to pick up all such dona
tions by Wed. July 3rd. Mrs.
LaVerne Norris, 842-6514; Mrs.
Naomi Clemmons 842-6573; Mrs.
Whitesell, 842-6387; or Mrs.
Lula Corbett, 842-6460.
Heritage House To
Be Staged Again
The Heritage House, annually
sponsored by the Southport Wo
man’s Club as part of Southport’s
July Fourth celebration, will be
broadened this year to include
interesting or unusual hobbies,
according to Mrs. James M."
Harper Jr., president of the club.
Persons who have interesting
collections or items which will be
of interest are encouraged to ex
hibit them. Since space may be
limited, all exhibitors of hobbies
are asked to contact Mrs. Harper
to indicate what space they will
require.
As in previous years there will
be antiques and items of
historical interest. So that the
show may be arranged as at
tractively as possible, items will
be received on Tuesday after
noon, July 2, after 2 o’clock in the
Community Building, where the
show will be held. It will be help
ful if exhibitors can write down,
before they arrive, the pertinent
information which will be typed on
the identification cards.
The show will be open on
Wednesday and Thursday, July
3rd and 4th, from 10 a.m. until
6 p.m. Hostesses, dressed in
original period dresses, will be
on hand to answer questions and
will be directed by Mrs. Henry
Goodwin, club secretary.
It should be stressed that all
persons in Brunswick County are
invited to participate as it is not
confined to club members. Many
persons have old objects which
others are eager to see, and this
is an opportunity to share them
with others. In prior years sev
eral hundred guests have signed
the guest register each time the
Heritage House is open and this
year’s show should be larger and
better than ever.
Beauty Pageant
For Festival
The Second Miss 4th of July
Pageant will be presented Satur
day night, June 29, at 8 p.m. in
the Southport High School Audi
torium. The Pageant will be
directed by Mrs. Connie Young
and Mrs. Sue Jones. The Pageant
is sponsored by the Southport
Jaycettes. Admission is $1.00
per seat.
Divisions will be evening gown
and swimsuit. The winner will
reign over all festivities of the
4th of July Festival celebrations.
Master of Ceremonies will be
George Deaton of the channel 6
T.V. station, Wilmington.
Judges are: Miss Pam Zollars,
past Blueberry Queen, of
Fayetteville; Mrs. Jane Fon
vielle, hostess of channel 3 T.V
Morning Show, of Wilmington;
Mrs. George Deaton, wife of
M. C. George Deaton of Wilming
ton; David Troutman, owner and
director of Troutman Beauty
School, Wilmington; and Mr
Douglas Jones of Washington*
D. C. ’
Organist for the pageant is LoU
Hardee of Southport.
(OoattniMd m Pag* 4)
Major George Marecek
Major Marecek
Parade Marshal
Major George Marecek has
accepted an Invitation to serve
as Parade Marshal for the Fourth
of July Festival Parade.
He came to America from
Czechoslovakia in 1950. After
living in this country one year
he enlisted in the United States
Army.
His first major assignment was
with the 2nd Infantry Division sta
tioned in Korea during the Korean
Conflict. Major Marecek partici
pated in the Naktong River perim
eter, Heart-Break Ridge, Old
Baldy, The Iron Triangle and
other noted battles. Upon his re
turn to the States in 1953 with
the 2nd Infantry Division Colors,
he was assigned to the 82nd Air
borne Division at Fort Bragg.
Major Marecek served with the
82nd Airborne Division for one
year before volunteering for Spe
cial Forces training.
His Special Forces training
included underwater demolition,
high altitude-low opening (HALO)
parachuting, and cold weather
mountaineering training. In 1959
the major entered Officer Candi
date School (OCS) and received
his commission in December of
that year.
Between 1962 and 1965, Major
Marecek participated in three
major missions to Southeast Asia
with the famous "Green Berets.”
While in the Republic of Viet
nam, Major Marecek received the
Silver Star for gallantry in action.
He and his Special Forces group
were actively engaged in a build
ing project when a homemade
bomb was thrown into the con
struction site. After alerting his
comrades, the major picked
up the bomb and hurled it away
from the area. Seconds later the
bomb exploded leaving a 4-foot
hole in the hill where it had
landed.
In 1964, he entered the Armor
Officers Course at Fort Knox,
Kentucky. After graduating he
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Three Brunswick
Bovs And Girls
In Washington
Three outstanding 4-H club
members left Sunday for Wash
ington, D. C., to attend the 4-H
Citizenship Short Course at the
4~H Center. The delegates are
Jeris Hewett, Kenneth Hewett
and Lynn Hewett. These mem
bers were selected on the basis
of the work and written essay of
what they expect to gain from
attending the short course.
Jeris Hewett was a recently
State delegate to the National
Youthpower Congress in Chica
go. He is also a member of the
4-H Livestock Judging Team.
Lynn Hewett was recently de
clared county winner in the Dress
Revue and Girls Public Speaking
programs. She has been out
standing in other project areas
also.
Kenneth Hewett was the Boys
Public Speaking winner recently.
A member of the Livestock Judg
ing Team, he has done outstanding
work in the Chilean Nitrate Pro
gram.
The Citizenship Short Course
program is designed to fit the
needs of young people. Numer
ous electives will allow the group
to tailor the program to fit its
interests. The program is con
ducted by staff members of the
National 4-H Club Foundation and
will include discussions on the
meaning of Citizenship, Citizen
ship Opportunities in the Atomic
Age, What It Means to be a Good
Citizen, Washington—The Nerve
Center of the world, and others.
Tours will include such phases
as the Department of Agricul
ture, the White House, the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation,
Smithsonian Institution, Mount
Vernon, National Art Gallery,
Arlington National Cemetery and
other places.
Waccamaw Bank and Trust
Company and Security Savings
and Loan Association co-sponsor
the delegates trip to Washington.
Two Attending
Tree Workshop
Two young Brunswick County
ladies recently attended the
fourth Annual Resource Con
servation workshop at North
Carolina State University in
Raleigh. A total of 136 boys
and the two girls spent the week
studying all phases of conserva
tion.
Miss Nancy Bellamy and Miss
Joyce Ann Joyner of Shallotte at
tended the classroom activities,
toured the Forestery Nursery at
Clayton, and observed soil man
agement and wildlife habitat.
Tliey also enjoyed many sports
activities, the Marine Corps Flag
Pageant, and a banquet which
rounded out the weeks activities.
The annual trip to the work
shop is sponsored by the Shal
lotte Lions Club.
A highlight of the workshop was
the group counsel on career
opportunities in conservation
fields. The counselling was con
ducted by representatives of
state and federal agencies. Many
of the workshop’s graduates are
now enrolled in college courses
leading to conservation careers
or are employed in a conserva
tion occupation.
Miss Bellamy is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. James Bellamy,
Jr., and Miss Joyner is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.W.
Joyner.
Tuesday Bus Trip
Brunswick Group Visits Hartsville
Visit Nuclear Power Plant
This is the group of 38 Brunswick County representatives who visited Carolina
Power and Light Company’s nuclear power plant now under construction near Harts
ville, S. C. The visit was organized by Roy Stevens, director of theBrunswick County
Resource Development Commission. The facility shown in the left foreground is the
nuclear unit. On the right is the coal fuel unit now in operation at the Hartsville site.
Informal Notes
On Tuesday Bus
Trip To CP&L
Tuesday morning at 8:15 a
group of Southport area resi
dents boarded a chartered bus
at the Small Boat Harbor and
started on a ride to Hartsville,
S.C. _ The bus stopped at Shal
lotfe and picked *up some people'"*
from other parts of the county
and went on its way. No one
talked very much at first, may
be because it was early or,
more probably, that what was
on everyone’s mind was some
thing about which they knew very
little.
The group, 38 in all, was en
route to visit a nuclear powered
electric generating plant under
construction a few miles west
of the South Carolina town. They
were going because they wanted
to see the plant similar in de
sign to the one they hoped would
be built in Brunswick County.
No one really talked about
what they were going to see.
Whatever talk there was con
cerned corn crops and the beach
es and whether Frank Sherrill
was going to sell Bald Head Is
land. But when the bus entered
South Carolina people began to
talk.
“What is the first thing an
industry looks for when it comes
into an area?” asked one passen
ger.
“Not the site,” said the com
panion,” but the schools, the
churches, and the town in gen
eral.”
The question of schools kept
coming up. Some opined that
the power plant would bring with
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Time And Tide
It was June 22, 1938, and two anglers had somehow managed
during the past week to catch a rockfish in Town Creek. A picture
of the new county garage at Shallotte School was the pictorial
feature on page one of this week’s Pilot. The expedition from the
State Museum mentioned in The Pilot the previous week had made
a good haul of items of both natural and historial interest. Among
these, specimens of herons and egrets, their eggs and youngsters;
and an exploded cannon ball found between Southport and Ft. Caswell
by Maxie Cooker.
During the past week the menhaden boats had been making their
sets in the river and getting good results. The Dan Harrelson’s
had announced the birth of a daughter, Norma Ann; our editorial
writer was advocating a wildfowl refuge on Battery Island; and an
editorial also noted the need for a Red Cross swimming instructor.
It was June 30, 1943, and the menhaden fishing had moved out
of the river. In fact, it had moved to the South Carolina coast,
and the local fleet was making daily trips to Georgetown for its
catch. The front page photo that week was of the old Kate Stuart
house. It was mentioned that a proposal had been made to name one
of the new Liberty ships after the Southport lady, Wilmington
had voted to make illegal the sale of beer on Sunday; fathers were
now eligible for the draft; and some county tobacco farmers were
already in their third priming.
The Southport Red Cross Chapter had instituted a new service
for members of the armed forces, that of mending any damaged
apparel of locally stationed G.I.’s. The following Monday was the
Fourth of July, and all the county offices were to observe the holi
day--except Recorder’s Court; our Not Exactly editor was making
some early predictions concerning the upcoming quail season;
and Robert and Ed Marlowe had captured eight flounders and an
alligator in a striking expedition near Bald Head Island.
It was June 23, 1948, and the womanless wedding held in South
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Looking Over The CP & L Project
Members of the Brunswick county delegation visiting
the Carolina Power and Light Co. plant at Hartsville, S.
C., Tuesday are shown here during the course of their
tour. The lady in the left foreground is Mrs. Rhone Sasser
and behind her is Mrs. J. T. Clemmons. The man in full
view is her husband.
Fair Employment
Resolution Passed
At the Southport Human Rela
tions Committee meeting Thurs
day, Chairman Eugene W. Gore
reported that the resolution pre
sented by this committee to the
Board of Aldermen of the City
of Southport and Board of Coun
ty Commissioners had been unan
imously endorsed by both.
Guests for the meeting were
Robert S. Harrell, assistant to
the Chairman of the N.C, Good
Neighbor Council, Raleigh, and
Dr. Charles E. Price, Associate
Professor of Political Science
at Morris Brown College, At
lanta. Dr. Price is a former
Field Secretary for the NAACP.
Harrell said the former image
of the Good Neighbor Council was
putting out brush fires in race
relations, but he said he wants
this image to be changed to pre
venting the fires from breaking
out. Objectives of Good Neigh
bor Council are to study prob
lems in human relations; pro
mote equality of opportunity for
all; promote understanding,
respect, and good will; promote
channels of communication; en
courage employment of qualified
people without regard to race:
encourage youth to become better
trained and qualified for em
ployment; and enlist the cooper
ation of all state and local gov
ernmental officials in attaining
these objectives.
Dr. Price said that the NAACP
is trying to accomplish the same
things Harrell had set forth for
the Good Neighbor Council. It
is his feeling that the Negro
race will save America, as it
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Pace Program
Aids Students
PACE, Inc., a program to aid
students with college expenses,
has placed 117 students for the
summer with public and private
non-profit agencies and organi
zations throughout the three
county area served bySENCland,
Inc., anti-poverty agency. There
are 34 students employed in Bla
den County, 26 in Brunswick, and
57 in Columbus.
James E. Coats, community
services consultant, was overall
Coordinator of the PACE Pro
gram. Chairman of the Place
ment Committees in the separate
counties were Rev. Robert John
son, Columbus; Thomas Bow
mer, Brunswick; and Robert
Clark, Bladen.
Participating agencies em
ploying PACE students for the
summer of 1968 are health
departments, welfare depart
ments, the CAP agency, Neigh
borhood Youth Corps, county
school systems, city school sys
tems, the Boys’ Home, recrea
tion programs, school libra
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A delegation of 38 Brunswick
county residents Journeyed by
bus to Hartsville, s. C. Tuesday
and heard Carolina Power' and
Light Company assistant vice
president Arthur Jones say if
everything goes well construc
tion on the proposed Brunswick
County nuclear power plant will
begin the first of 1969. Plans
call for the installation to be
located a few miles north of
Southport on the Cape Fear River.
"There are a lot of hurdles
involved before construction be
gins at the Brunswick County
site," said Jones, "but we are
working on them."
Jones, former supervisor of
the Sutton power plant near Wil
mington, outlined for the group
exactly what the construction of
the facility near Southport would
involve. As a basis of compari
son, Jones used the H. B. Robin
son electric generating plant at
Hartsville. The group had earlier
been given a guided tour of the
installation, scheduled to begin
operation in May, 1970.
The nuclear plant at the Robin
son complex serves as a supple
ment for a "fossil fuel", coal
steam generating plant already
in operation there.
Jones spoke optimistically that
the proposed generating plant
near Southport would soon be a
reality. The local plant calls
fbr two units, each one 15% larger
than the one now under construc
tion at the Robinson location.
These two generating units,
scheduled for completion in 1973
and 1974, would later be join
ed by two more similar units,
if the cooling water obtained from
the Cape Fear River is of suf
ficient quantity to handle all four
units.
The Robinson unit will be of the
outdoor type while the turbine
and generator of the Brunswick
facility are to be enclosed. The
reason is the type of turbine used,
and not the weather. “Theweath- j
er conditions at the Brunswick I
site are at least as good as they i
are here at Hartsville,” Jones ’
The great size of the nuclear
power plant is reflected by the
jsize of the vessel in which the
reactor itself is contained. The
Robinson reactor vessel, which
should be on the site in August
according to Jones, weighs 300
tons empty and is 40 feet tall.
The units planned for the site
near Southport are each to
weigh 530 tons and measure "O
feet in height.
The cost of construction of the
Brunswick County facility will be
more than double that of the
Robinson plant, close $200 mil
lion. Peak manpower used in
the construction of the units
should reach 700-1,000.
“The availlbillty of cooling
water is the most critical factor
in the Iocs‘ion of these nuclear
generating plants,” said Jones.
He said that this is the rea
son the one coal fuel unit and
the nuclear unit represent all
the facilities to be constructed
at Hartsville. The reason is the
“shortage" of water to cool the
heat-producing units. The water
for the Robinson plant is pro
vided by a man-made reservoir,
2250 acres and seven miles
long, with an average depth of
fifteen feet. One and a quar
ter million gallons of water per
minute are to be used for the
two units at the Brunswick County
site.
Jones said that CP&L was
working as hard as it can and
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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 Cape Fear
Pilot’s Association.
HIGH LOW
Thursday, June 27,
8:39 AM 2:68 AM
8:67 PM 2:62 PM
Friday, June 28,
9:15 AM 3:40 AM
9:33 PM 3:34 PM
Saturday, June 29,
9:67 AM 4:16 AM
10:15 PM 4:16 PM
Sunday, June SO,
10:39 AM 4:52 AM
10:57 PM 5:04 PM
Monday, My t.
11:27 AM
11:39 PM
5:40 AM
5:52 PM
Tuesday. July 2,
12:27 AM
6:22 AM
6:52 PM
Wednesday, July S,
0:33 AM
1:27 PM
7:16 AM
7:52 PM
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