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Brunswick County
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VOLUME 40
No. 6
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SOUTHPORT, N. C.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1968
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PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Unusual Cargo Passes Through
Some strange cargoes pass through the Southport harbor, and among the recent
visitors was this Navy tug and barge bearing two jet planes and a helicopter. One of
the planes had folding wings, indicating that it is for use aboard a carrier. The des
tination was not known, but the cargo passed here headed east.
Rescue Squad
For Shallotte
Is Organized
A Rescue Squad has been char
tered at Shallotte and fund raising
efforts will move into high gear
Sunday with a Radiothon over Sta
tion WECB. Arrangements have
been made to pick up any donation
which may be pledged over the
phone.
One of the principal services
to be rendered by the Rescue
Squad will be to provide an am
bulance for use in emergencies.
One such vehicle already has
been donated by Russ Motors and
it is hoped to obtain a second am
bulance.
In addition, personnel will be
trained in various rescue oper
ations so that a comprehensive
rescue service can be afforded
residents of the western area of
.Brunswick county,_. .......
Officers of organization are
Dickie Powell, chairman; Merle
Hawes, captain; Bill Tripp, lieu
tenant; Thurston Mintz, secre
tary; Wilson Arnold, treasurer;
and a four man board of directors.
Headquarters for the Rescue
Squad is the Town Hall at Shal
lotte.
Curtail Service
An order has been received
from the Regional Director for
the Atlanta Region of the Post
Office Department discontinuing
all of the window service on
Saturday at all first and second
class post offices as of July 27th
and to continue until further no
tice.
The city and star routes will
continue for the present unless
further limitations are put on the
Post Office Department by Con
gress.
Brief Bits Of |
NEWS
PARENTS NIGHT
Headstart at Shallotte school
will hold a Parent-Teachers
meeting on Tuesday evening at 6
o’clock. Allparents and interest
ed patrons are invited to attend.
COMMUNITY CLUB
The Cedar Grove Community
Action Upgrade Club will hold its
monthly meeting at the Cedar
Grove School Thursday at
7:30 p.m. All ladies of the com
munity are invited to attend.
BEACH VISITORS
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bolton and
two children ITom Tampa, Fla.;
Mrs. Elneta Sutton of Newport
News, Va. and Mr. and Mrs.
Woody Giles and sons of Tabb,
Va. visited their parents, Mr.
and Mrs. B. F. Cox of Long
Beach last weekend.
LIONS TO MEET
The regular meeting of the
Southport Lions Club will be held
tomorrow (Thursday) at 6;30
o’clock at the Community Build
ing. This will be the first meet
ing presided over by C. D.
Pickerrell, incoming president
of the club.
ON DEANS LIST
Linda Carolyn Brittain, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. John C.
Davis, Southport, was named on
the Dean’s List for the Spring
quarter at King’s College in
Charlotte. She was graduated
in June, 1966, from New Hanover
High School and enrolled at King’s
College last September for the
two-year Medical Secretarial
Course.
Receives Air Medal
Capt. Wilson T. Arnold, right, is shown as he receives
the Air Medal from Col. Donald T. Smith, commander of
^the Pacifi9^jMc,„%s.aie. and.ilecoveix Center. Capt...
Arnold, a Brunswick county man, is a helicopter pilot.
Commissioners Cut
County Tax Rate
Brunswick Man
Gets Air Medal
U. S. Air Force Captain Wil
son T. Arnold, son of Mr. and
Mrs. A. W. Arnold of Supply,
has received the Air Medal at
Udorn Royal Thai AFB, Thailand,
from Colonel Donald T. Smith,
commander of the Pacific Air
Rescue and Recovery Center at
Hickman AFB, Hawaii.
Captain Arnold, an HH-43B
Helicopter pilot, was decorated
for meritorious achievement on
successful and important mis
sions under hazardous condi
tions. He is assigned to a unit
of the Aerospace Rescue and
Recovery Service in support of
the Pacific Air Forces.
The captain, a 1957 graduate
of Shallotte High School, received
his B.S. degree in 1961 from
East Carolina University where
he was commissioned through the
Air Force Reserve Officers
Training Corps program. He
is a member of Theta Chi. His
wife, Judith, is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. McDonald L. Berry
of Hampton, Va.
Youth Program
Receives Funds
SENCland Community Action,
Inc., of whiteville, North Caro
lina, has received a federal grant
of $54,009 for a two-month
Summer Youth Program. The
announcement was made today by
Leveo V. Sanchez, Director,
Mid-Atlantic Region of the Office
of Economic Opportunity.
The local share to match the
federal grant is $16,347.
More than 600 low-income
youth will be involved in this
program through six already
existing neighborhood centers,
with 13 more areas to be de
veloped through the program.
The main thrust of the pro
gram will be the building and in
suring of youth participation in
the direction and in the decision
making of said program.
Three counties will be in
volved—Bladen, Columbus, and
Brunswick.
Four professional employees
will Include a project director
and three assistants.
Members of the board of coun
ty commissioners have adopted a
tentative budget for 1968-69 call
ing for a reduction in the tax rate
from $1.60 to $1.55 and at the
same time making provision for
increasing the school fund by 6
cents per hundred during the
coming year.
The budget now lies open for
public inspection for 20 days
before final adoption.
A public hearing has been set
for July 29 on the matter of
holding the special school bond
election. That hearing will be
held at 8 o’clock in the commis
sioners room unless it is over
crowded. In that event the meet
ing will be held in the court
room.
The county attorney was di
rected to proceed with condemna
tion proceedings necessary to
provide right of way and ease
ments for the Upper Cape Fear
dredging project.
A delegation from Northwest
Township appeared before the
board asking that additional law
protection be provided for their
area and asked specifically that
a deputy sheriff be employed.
Sheriff Harold Willetts was call
ed into the conference and
said that he was aware of con
ditions in that section of the coun
ty but that he was unable to pro
vide additional protection with
no more deputy force than he has.
He suggested that if the com
missioners will authorize more
deputies he will be able to give
better coverage.
The matter was brought out that
the Sheriffs Department has been
operating for several months with
one less deputy than already has
been authorized and for whom a
salary has been provided. Sheriff
Willetts said that he plans to
name a man right away, but said
he did not want to be pinned
down to selecting a man from
Northwest township. He said
he also was a petition for deputy
service from Shallotte township.
Commissioner V. A. Creech
asked point blank when he plans
to fill his staff to authorized
strength and Sheriff Willetts said
he will make the appointment
by August 1.
The trouble in Northwest
seems to be that crowds congre
gate at certain Joints during the
weekend and that some rural
roads have become virtually im
passable because of persons who
walk along the road and refuse
to give way to automotive traf
fic. It was generally ageed that
an explosive situation exists and
that additional law enforcement
is needed to combat it.
Heart Fund Is
Ahead Of Quota
For Brunswick
A total of $2558.24 was col
lected during the Heart Fund
Drive In Brunswick County this
year, according to Mrs. Shelby
Rourk, chairman, and Edwin
Clemmons, president of the local
association.
Recently the Heart Association
began work on two Community
Service Programs. The two pro
grams are stroke and External
Heart Massage, or as it is more
accurately known, Cardiopul
monary Resuscitation. “These
are just two of the vital neces
sities that the Heart Association
does for the public,’* says Presi
dent Clemmons.
Reporting communities are:
Mrs. Ed Varnam--Varnamtown,
$15; Antioch Church, $45.52;
Mrs. Homer Holden—Bolivia,
$68.85; Junior Women’s Club
Long Beach-Yaupon and Cas
well, $176.17; Kingtown-Ash
and Freeland—Mrs. Bobby Piver
and Corbett Coleman, $109.60,
Longwood - Grissettown — Mrs.
Janie Wilson, $88.22; Mrs. Dot
Bennett-Hickman’s Crossroads,
$3.24; Thomasboro— Mrs. w. J.
Smith and Mrs. Ann Causey,
$38.10; Sunset, Saucepan, Gause
Landing, Ocean Isle, Mrs. Odell
Hughes, $84.82; Shallotte Point,
Mrs. Lillie Williams, $17; Oak
Grove-Shell Point—Mrs. Donnie
McCall and Mrs. Luree Chad
wick — $23.15; Holden Beach,
Jimmy Elliot and Mrs. Shirley
Babson7-$25; Red . Bug—Mrs.
Linwooff Gray—$9.16; Supply
Mt. Plsgah—Mrs. Josie Holden
$29.02; Cedar. Grqve-Herman
Grissett—$62.65 and Riegel
Paper Employees $205.60.
City Chairman reports: Shal
lotte—Mrs. Leland Masslngale
$585.09; Southport Mrs. Ronald
Hood $643.19; and Leland-Wood
j burn Mrs. James G. Thomp
I son $328.96.
The Heart-O-Rama at Shallotte
High School, included in the total
funds, brought in $214.79.
The three city chairmen and
Mrs. Rourk received the Found
ers Award for their outstanding
work In-the Heart Association
this year.
Trailer Blast
Proves Fatal
Tom Hewett, Sr., 64, of Sup
ply, died Wednesday morning,
July 10, at Blowing Rock Hos
pital In Blowing Rock. Injuries
were caused fromburns received
in a trailer fire were said to
have brought about his death.
He and his wife were vaca
tioning at Blowing Rock In a
travel trailer and reports say
a gas leakage caused a fire and
explosion with the fatal injuries
resulting. Mr. Hewett was a
Brunswick County native, the son
of Mrs. Rebecca Arnold Hewett
of Supply and the late Dempsey
Hewett. He was a retired em
ployee of the Corps of Engineers
and was a commercial fisher
man.
Final rites were held Thurs
day, July 11, at 2 p.m. at Coble’s
Oleander Chapel in wilmlnton
by the Revs. Dennis Weaver and
Tracy Varnum, with burial In
Silent Grove Cemetery.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Mamie David Hewett; two
sons, Tom Hewett, Jr of Supply
and Harold Hewett of Key West,
Fla.; a daughter, Mrs. G. T.
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Erecting Library Furniture
Lt. Col. Herbert A. Franck is shown here as he puts together a piece of furniture at
the new Southport-Brunswick County Library. The retired officer has been a one man
gang in helping get wooden furniture and shelving ready for use at the local build
ing. This talent dates from his youth and the fact that his family was engaged in the
manufacture of furniture.
Board Requests
Resignation Of
Chief Of Police
By unanimous action of the
board of aldermen at their regu
lar meeting Thursday night Chief
of Police Louis Clark was asked
to resign*) , -..
The motion was made by W.P.
Horne, seconded by C.L.
Rourk, that the board ask
Clark for his resignation as Chief
of Police and from the police de
partment for specific reasons
enumerated in public hearing
March 28, and general dissatis
faction on the part of the board
for services rendered. The
resignation is to be effective on
or before August 9. Effective
this date with respect of authori
ty of the police department of
Southport, C.D. Pickerrell is to
have full control of the police
department as specified in N.C.
Statutes chapter 379-1955 ses
sion laws of North Carolina.
In' other action the board gave
final approval to the 1968 budget,
which calls for a tax rate of $1.30,
the same rate that has been in
effect since 1957.
In the matter of the request
from William L. Smith for a
franchise to engage in taxi ser
vice in Southport, action was
postponed until the next meeting,
with the provision that a public
hearing be held on the matter at
that time.
A discussion was held concern
ing the erection of a city pier
at the end of Davis Street and
the engineering firm of Henry Von
Osen has been employed to make
soundings for sinking piling at
this location.
A.B. Troll was reappointed a
member of the ABC board and
R.A. Jones was elevated to the
position of chairman of this body.
Time And Tide
l'
There was a front page piece in The Pilot of July 13, 1938,
saying that dial telephones might be installed for use in South
port, and S.H. Youngblood, Raleigh district manager, had been
here to see about the change. There was a front page portrait
of an 11-foot alligator, with 22-months old Charlene Newton sitting
astride the back of the dead water monster.
A new kind of circuit riding had been introduced by the Rev.
A.H. Marshall, pastor of St. Phillips Episcopal Church, who used
a house boat for travel to a mission appointment at Calabash each
week. Frank Sherrill of Charlotte was down for a look at Bald
Head island, a piece of property he had recently purchased; there
was talk that motorboat races might be held to take the place of the
cancelled sailboat regatta; and the editor had something to say
about the reaction of local people to this cancellation.
It was July, 1943, and once more the W.B.&S. Railroad had gone
under the hammer. This time the high bidder was a New York
salvage firm, and the successful bid had been $48,500. The South
port Volunteer Fire Department had held a banquet, and there
was talk of trying to replace the faithful model-T. The late Harry
Aldridge was fire chief.
Folks up in the Green Swamp were being troubled by bears that
had developed a taste for beef; the Navy Department was making
a bid for men with experience in handling boats; and Mr. and Mrs.
John Potter had received word that their son, Bryant, was safe
following the sinking of the U. S. Cruiser Helena. There still was no
word of his brother, Frank.
The year was 1948, the month was July, and Mayor John D.
Ericksen had resigned as head of the City government in South
port after serving since 1935, Hubert A. Livingston, alderman
from the third ward, had been named to serve out his term. Lay
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Sunny Point Has
New Commander
COL. KENNEDY
til
Training Unit
At Sunny Point
The Military Ocean Terminal,
Sunny Point, is the training site
for the annual active duty for
training of two U. S. Army Re
serve terminal units this sum
mer. Colonel Cary A. Kennedy,
Jr., commander of the Sunny
Point terminal, welcomed' the
members of U. S. Army Terminal
Unit (1181), Meridian, Missis
sippi last week. The Mississippi
unit will be succeeded by the
1184th from Mobile, Alabama,
for the next two weeks.
While at Sunny Point the mem
bers of the units undergo exten
sive on-the-job training that en
ables them to put into practice
knowledge attained during eleven
and a half months of training at
home station. Both units train
two days (one weekend) monthly;
and in addition place a great deal
of emphasis on the schooling of
the individual by correspondence
work or active duty periods at
the U. S. Army Transportation
School, u. S. Army Command
and General Staff College and
other military schools.
The Mississippi unit is com
posed of reserve personnel from
various communities within the
state stretching from the Missis
sippi Gulf coast to the northern
state boundary.
In discussing the training pro
gram, the unit commander stated:
"The cooperation of every mem
ber of the Sunny Point staff is
the finest we have ever en
countered, and the training pro
vided leaves nothing to be
desired. This two-week period,
when held at this site, furnishes
the best opportunity provided for
training offered during the year.
The emphasis on military schools
and the realistic armory training
form the background; but it is the
training period at the terminal
where theory becomes practice,
where there is no simulation, that
gives the members of the reserve
unit a working knowledge of their
responsibilities and helps fully
determine their effectiveness to
the military program for which
the unit is organized.”
Colonel Cary A. Kennedy, Jr.,
of Memphis, Tennessee, has as
sumed command of the Military
.Ocean Terminal, Sunny Point,
effective July 8.
Colonel Kennedy is a graduate
of the University of Tennessee,
where he majored in accounting
as an undergraduate and in
Transportation Economics as a
graduate student.
The new commanding officer
received his commission in the
United States Army as an infantry
officer in 1941 and while in the
infantry served as a platoon lead
er and company commander. In
1944 he transferred to the U. S.
Army Transportation Corps and
has served with that branch of
service since that time.
Following world War n he re
ceived a commission in the regu
lar army and first served as a
Railway and Motor Transport
Staff Officer in Europe and on the
staff of the Transportation School
at Fort Eustis, Virginia. During
the Korean conflict, Colonel
Kennedy was commanding officer
of the 55th Truck Battalion and
later joined I Corps as the Corps
Transportation Officer. He then
served a tour of duty in Japan on
the staff of Headquarters Army
Forces, Far East.
From 1956 to 1959 he com
manded the 6th Truck Battalion
and during this period ac
complished the movement of his
entire unit, including dependents,
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Pace Students
In Summer Jobs
Twenty-two Brunswick County
students are participating in the
Planning Assured College Educa
tion program, a federal aid proj
ect to help college age boys and
girls to go to or stay in college.
They are given employment for
the summer in non-profit or
ganizations.
Listed below are the Brunswick
county students and their places
of employment.
Delphia Brown, Sencland Cen
ter, Longwood; Patricia D.
Hewett, ASC Office; Brenda Jean
Robbins, Brunswick Town; Wen
dell M. Watson, Brunswick Town;
George E. Price, ESC, Wilming
ton; Catherine D. Clemmons,
Sencland Center, Southport; Meta
Gail McNeil, Sencland Center,
Longwood; Hazel Marlow, Health
Department; Joanne L. Martin,
Brunswick Town; Linda S. Cheers
and LaVerna L. Joyner, Bruns
wick County Library System; Es
ther J. Hankins and Nellie L.
Hewett, City of Southport; Kath
ryn E. Carson, Brunswick Coun
ty Auditor; Brenda K. Baker,
Tax Department; Gwendolyn D.
Troy, ESC Office; Judy E. Hewett,
ASC Office; Arnold Jackson
Canady, Board of Education;
Glenn A. Varnum, Board of Edu
cation Garage; Karen Johnston,
Town Hall, Ocean Isle; Mary C.
Hardie Hardie, Health Depart
ment; Robert E. Pigott, Jr.,
Ocean Isle Beach.
Auditorium At
Assembly Being
Dedicated Today
The first major permanent
building on the site of the North
Carolina Baptist Assembly at
Fort Caswell near here will be
dedicated Wednesday In cere
monies that will begin at 10:45
a.m.
Named the Rachel E. Hatch
Memorial Auditorium in honor
of the principal donor, the
1,000-seat auditorium was
designed by Haskins and Rice,
Raleigh architects, and con
structed by contractor J. W.
Cook and Sons of Whiteville at
a cost of approximately
$350,000.
Dr. E. Perry Crouch of
Raleigh, executive secretary
of the N. C. Baptist State Con
vention, will be one of the
principal speakers His
daughter, Janice Crouch, will
unveil a portrait she painted
of Miss Hatch.
A native of Duplin County,
Miss Hatch was reared on a
farm between Kenansville and
Pink Hill. For the past 40 or so
years, she had lived in Rich
mond, Va., where she died last
October at the age of 86.
According to Mrs. L. D.
Huie of Warsaw, a close
friend, Miss Hatch once said,
“Baptists seem to have their
hand on the pulse of humanity
and seek to touch the needs of
the people.”
She bequeathed to the N. C.
Baptist State Convention the
bulk of her estate — $55,000 in
cash, stocks and bonds and
I, 493 acres of land in Duplin
County. She had no living
relatives. The convention
recently sold the land for
$158,000.
Miss Hatch was buried on
the family property near
Kenansville and the con
vention’s general hoard voted
to place a marker on her
grave and to name for her the
new auditorium at the Fort
Caswell Assembly.
Of contemporary design, the
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New Principal
For Shallotte
Members of the Brunswick
County Board of Education met
Monday and failed to come up
with a proposal for acceleration
of school desegregation.
In an effort to devise a plan
to meet the requirements of the
Department of Health, Education
and Welfare in desegregating the
county schools, board members
and Superintendent George Wil
liams discussed and reviewed
various plans that would result
in further school desegregation.
No action was taken on this mat
ter pending an expected directive
from the Civil Rights Office of
the Department of Health, Educa
tion and Welfare.
The board accepted the
resignation of Mrs. Helen G.
Frazier as a teacher at Union
High School.
J. T. Keziah was approved as
principal of the Shallotte School.
The board approved the follow
ing personnel for the 1968-69
school year: B.C.H.S., Ivory
Shird Parker; Southport, Ernest
J. Banner, Frances D. Lara,
James Shew; Union, Jerelene Lu
cas; waccamaw, Sandra C. Ward.
The board approved the final
draft of the 1968-69 Board of
Education Budget as approved by
the county commissioners.
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 tOW
Thursday, July 18,
2:57 AM 9:22 AM
3:39 PM 10:04 PM
Friday, July 19,
3:51 AM 10:10 AM
4:27 PM 11:04 PM
Saturday, July 20,
4:45 AM 11:04 AM
5:21 PM 11:52 PM
Sunday , July 21,
5:33 AM 11:52 AM
6:09 PM 12:46 PM
Monday, July 22,
6:27 AM 12:40 AM
6:57 PM
Tuesday, July 28,
7:09 AM 1:34 AM
7:39 PM 1:28 PM
Wednesday, July 24,
7:57 AM 2:16 AM
8:21 PM 2:10 PM