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VOLUME 40
No. 17
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Southport, N. C.. Wednesday, October 2, 1968
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PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
New Court 'Previewed
Bert Montague, director of the administrative office for courts, was in White
viUe Friday night to give peace officers and Clerk of Court personnel an insight on
their duties for the District Court which begins in Columbus, Brunswick and Bladen •
on December 2. Also enlightening the large gathering which hailed from the 13 Dis
trict, were the two District Judges-elect, Ray Walton and Giles Clark; and Resident
Superior Court Judge Edward B. Clark. Sitting with them in the Columbus Recorder’s
courtroom is Edward L. Williamson, White ville attorney, who presided. (Photo By
Scout Fund
Drive Begins
Here Tuesday
The annual Boy Scout Fund
Drive opens next Tuesday at
7:30 a.m. as the Southport
Lion’s Club, under president C.
D. Pickerrell, and the Junior
Chamber of Commerce, led by
C. H. (Skeeter) Trott, assemble
!*-?■** for- a Kickoff Breakfast at
Mack’s Cafe. Chairman Bill
McDougle stated that the funds
received in this campaign
provide for the Scouting
experience for the boys of the
Southport, Long Beach and
Yaupon Beach areas. With an
active Cub Scout Pack 238,
sponsored by the Jaycees,
Cubmaster W. C. Jones, and
Scout troop 238, sponsored by
the Trinity Methodist Church,
William Smith, Scoutmaster, the
boys are growing into the leaders
of tomorrow. Boys like Life
Scout Robert McCanless and
Cub Scout Bryan Caroon are
meeting the civic and business
leaders through the program of
scouting.
Harold Aldridge,
vice-chairman, Coastal District,
Cape Fear Area Council, Boy
Scouts of America, asks, “What
better way to meet the needs of
tomorrow’s leadership than by
supporting scouting with your
funds today.”
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OYSTER SEASON
Oyster season opened October
1 in the waters of Brunswick
county with oystering being
permitted during the season at
any time except at night and on
Sunday.
CITIZENS LEAGUE
1 i The Southport Citizens League
will hold its regular monthly
meeting Sunday afternoon at 4
O’clock, at the Masonic Hall.
Business of importance will be
discussed.
NEW JERSEY TRIP
Tom Milligan has returned
from a visit to New Jersey where
he visited several relatives and
former residents of Brunswick
County. A first ride on an
airplane was a high spot of his
trip.
PHONE MEETING
The Eleventh Annual Meeting
of the Atlantic Telephone
Membership Corporation will be
held Thursday evening at 8
o’clock in the Shallotte High
School auditorium. Sam D.
Bundy of Farmville will be the
principal speaker.
Recieves Reward
This pretty young miss is Suzanne Bowmer of South
port who found a bottle at Long Beach on June 26 that
contained a note that said it had been released on May
4 at Bimini, Bahama Islands. The note was signed by
Richard G. Bestick, who said he would send a reward
of $50.00 if the finder would notify him at Elkhart,
Indiana, when and were the bottle was found. Susie
sent the information, and earlier this month she received
her reward. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. S.
Bowmer of Southport.
ESEA Program Is
Help To Schools
By MRS. FRANCES B. STONE
Director
ESEA, TITLE I
On April 11,1965, a challenge
went forth throughput the
Nation into the large
metropolitan school districts and
the rural one-school systems.
American educators now had the
opportunity to realize many
long-held dreams for their
pupils.
This opportunity was the
Elementary and Secondary
Education Act, an act to
“ ... improve the education of
young Americans.”
Public Law 89-10 outlined a
five-pronged effort toward
achieving this goal. It set aside
funds to meet the special
educational needs of children of
low-income families, to improve
school libraries, to set up
supplementary educational
centers and services, to conduct
research and training, and to
strengthen State departments of
education.
The principal thrust of the
law, Title I, authorized more
than $1 billion for the children
of the poor, children who are
two, three, or even four grades
behind in their school work, and
the dropouts — the
“educationally deprived.”
Most educators throughout the
Nation are stressing reading
programs as a top priority need.
The implementation of Title I
programs requires Federal, State,
and local cooperation. The
burden of responsibility,
however, rests heavily on the
shoulders of local educators.
They must identify the
educationally deprived and their
special needs, design and
propose projects which will meet
these needs, and, following State
approval of the projects, put
their programs into effect. Local
agencies are provided with
guidelines and consultant
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Schedule For
New District
Court Is Set
With the coining of December 1,
1968, the various towns in Colum
bus, Brunswick and Bladen, which
for many years have been holding
"mayor's court”, will find that
these courts are abandoned and a
new court system, embodyingthe
new district courts, will be
inaugurated.
Purpose of the session, over
which Edward L. Williamson of
Whiteville, vice-president of the
district Bar, presided, was to
familiarize lawmen and others
concerned with the working of
the new court system which will
commence here on December
2. Appearing before the large
gathering in the Recorder’s
courtroom were District
Judges-elect Ray Walton of
Southport and Giles Clark of
Elizabethtown, and Resident
Superior court judge Edward B.
Clark.
Main speaker for the
orientation session was Bert
Montague, director of the
administrative office of the
courts in Raleigh.
Judge Walton announced that
criminal trials in District court
will initially be scheduled for
Columbus in Whiteville every
Monday starting December 2.
District criminal court will be
held in Brunswick the first and
third Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday, while Bladen county will
have criminal session each 2nd
and fourth Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday.
Said Judge Walton, “This
schedule is tentative, subject to
correction by the Bar, with final
decisions to be made with the
chief judge.
Judge Clark explained that a
schedule will be made up for
each month so that law officers
may set their cases so as not to
conflict with their days off.
Administrator Montague said
hi; feels that Clark and Walton
“will be the best District judges,
to be found in North Carolina.”
Montague pointed out that,
two additional seats for District
court were approved by the
Legislature. In his opinion,
District courts in Tabor City and
Chadbourn would be
conomically unfeasible unless
the municipalities build
courtrooms with their own
funds. The facilities fees
assessed in court costs will not
be sufficient for such
construction, he said.
“If the two towns, for sake of
civic pride, want to make this
investment, the chief judge will
assign cases there,” he said. “If
they want to pay the price, they
have their own courts.”
(Continued On Page Four)
Dwight McEwen
Dies Wednesday
Henry Dwight McEwen, 83,
died Wednesday in Dosher
Memorial Hospital after a long
illness. Mr. McEwen was court
stenographer for Pender, New
Hanover and Columbus Counties
for many years and was an
attorney.
Final rites were held Friday at
3 p.m. at the graveside in
Northwood Cemetery by the
Revs. W. S. Davenport and Fred
Fordham.
Survivors include a son,
Dwight McEwen, Jr. of West
Palm Beach, Fla.; three^
daughters, Mrs. Percy Liles of
Huntington, W. Va., Mrs. Harry
Hosack and Mrs. Jack
Schoenberg of Denver, Colo.
nemcopter bkyiitt
This was the scene at Oak Island Coast Guard Station Friday morning as two
U. S. Marine Corps Hellicopters ferried cargo to and from the U. S. Coast Guard
Light Station situated at the tip of Frying Pan Shoals. The packages weighed 1,500-lbs
each and were carried at the end of a cable suspended beneath the aircraft. It was a
17-minute run to the seabound station and there was return cargo consisting of mach
inery which was being replaced. (Photo by Spencer)
Farm Bureau
Holding Drive
For Members
“Fanners have to cultivate
good laws as well as good crops
in order to be successful today,”
the president of the Brunswick
County Farm Bureau said last
night at the annual Membership
Kick-Off Fish Fry held at
Garland Vamam’s Landing.
The local farm leader, Ira L.
Chadwick of Shallotte, noted
that cmmty, state and national
laws “can either help farmers or
hurt them. It’s up to the farmer
to see that legislation beneficial
to agriculture is written into the
books.”
Chadwick said that farm land
in North Carolina should be
appraised and taxed on the basis
of its value for farming purposes
according to Farm Bureau
members throughout the sites.
Farm Bureau has worked with
past sessions of the North
Carolina General Assembly to
get such legislative authority and
an all-out effort will be made
again this year.
Chadwick said that the most
effective way for the farmer to
be heard is “by raising his voice
in unison with his fellow
farmers. This is the kind of
group action which Farm Bureau
uses, and it gets results.”
Chadwick issued an appeal to
Brunswick county farmers “to
join Farm Bureau during the
^ current membership enrollment,
and let people know that
farmers are determined to solve
their own problems, and that
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Time And Tide
It was September 28, 1938, and the Oak Island Coast Guard
Station had received some new improvements. A new storage
warehouse was being built, a canal had been dredged to give access
to the river, and a new hardtop road had been laid to facilitate
approach by land. Some wild swamp hogs had assisted law
enforcement officers in capturing a moonshine still; the Southport
Whittlers Park had attracted artists in search of local atmosphere;
and shrimp prices were down to $6 per hundred-weight.
According to a headline, a hog had been “kept on cold storage
for two years as evidence.” Said hog had been in cold storage at the
Southport Ice and Coal Company for the past 24-months and was
now to be thawed as “Exhibit ‘A’” in a larceny case upcoming in the
Brunswick County Superior Court. And in a brief item under the
head “Little Bits of Big News” it was reported that British Prime
Minister Chamberlain had gone to Munich to a conference, and that
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Farm Bureau Leaders
Ira L. Chadwick, left, is president of the Brunswick
County Farm Bureau, which this week has launched its
annual membership drive. Don Shackleford, right, is
field representative for this organization.
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New /Industry For
Brunswick County
The Economic Development
Administration Monday
approved a $986,880 loan to
Lackey Industries of
Winston-Salem to help finance
the construction and operation
of a public warehouse and
distribution center to be located
in the Navassa vicinity of
Brunswick county.
The total cost of the project is
estimated at $1,644,800.
The Brunswick Development
Corporation will make a
$82,240 loan for the project.
Private sources will add
$411,200, according to the
release from Senator B. Everett
Jordan’s office Monday.
The development is expected
to create 105 new jobs within a
year.
Among other activities such a
warehouse and distribution
center could enable merchants
and manufacturers to build up
greater inventories in the area.
Roy A. Stevens of the
Brunswick County Resources
Development Commission said
Monday he had been waiting for
the announcement for several
weeks.
Stevens said many persons
including Congressman Alton
Lennon and Senator Sam Ervin
had assisted in developing the
project. Bruce Strickland
financial advisor with the State
Department of Conservation and
Development helped with the
planning.
The announcement was made
Monday morning by the
assistant Secretary of Commerce
for Economic Development,
Ross D. Davis.
Stevens said details of the
project will be released through
a press conference later in the
week or as soon as he can confer
with E. G. Lackey, head of
Lackey Industries.
Burning Permit
Law Effective
In Brunswick
The fall fire season has arrived
again. With the cooler
temperatures and the early frost,
the forest fuels are becoming
extremely dry and flammable, so
the Forest Service is requesting
that people be extremely careful
with the use of fire due to the
dry and flammable fuels.
Last year in Brunswick County
there was a total of 190 forest
fires which burned 3,386 acres
of forest land valued at
$118,510. The vast majority of
these fires were caused by
people who neglected some
simple precautions which could
have been taken that would have
prevented a forest fire.
County Ranger Kenneth
Johnson would like to take this
opportunity to remind citizens
of Brunswick County that
between October 1 and June 1 it
is necessary to obtain a burning
permit before doing any burning
within 500 feet of any
woodlands.
The State Law relating to the
burning of brush reads as
follows: “Starting fires within
five hundred (500) feet of areas
under protection of State Forest
Service—It shall be unlawful for
any person, firm or corporation
to start or cause to be started
any fire or ignite any material in
any of the areas of woodland
under the protection of the
State Forest Service or within
five hundred (500) feet of any
such protected area during the
hours starting at midnight and
ending at 4:00 p.m. without first
obtaining from the State
Forester or one of his duly
authorized agents a permit to
start or cause to be started any
fire or ignite any material in
such above mentioned places
between the first day of October
and the first day of June,
inclusive. No charge shall be
made for the.granting of said,
permits. _ ;;
“During periods of hazardous
forest fire conditions, the State
Forester is authorized to cancel
all permits and prohibit the
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Blood Donor ;
Family Aided f
It has been asked “what does
the volunteer blood donor get”
when they donate their blood to
the blood bank at Dosher
Memorial Hospital.
One, they get the satisfaction >
of knowing that their blood may
save a life, possibly the life of a
loved one. Second, should any '»■
member of the donor’s
immediate family need blood
within one year after the donor f
has given blood, they may ^
receive up to four pints without
charge.
The hospital is seeking
volunteer blood donors to
participate in the blood donor
program in order to keep a level
of blood on hand in the blood
bank. For further information
contact the laboratory
department at the hospital.
[Tide Table?
I Following is the tide table
lor Southport during the
I week. These hours are ap
proximately correct and
I were furnished The State:
I Port Pilot through the
I courtesy of the Cape Fear
I Pilot's Association.
j HIGH LOW
I Thursday, October 8,
I 6:21 AM 12:40 AM
( 6:51 PM 1:00 PM
I Friday, October 4,
I 7:00 AM 1:00 AM
I 7:33 PM 1:28 PM
j Saturday, October 5,
I 7:51 AM 1:52 AM
I 8:15 PM 2:10 PM J
> Sunday, October 6, j
8:33 AM 2:28 AM J
8:57 PM 2:52 PM J
Monday, October 7, 1
9:75 AM 3:10 AM !
9:33 PM 3:34 PM|
Tuesday, October 8, *
9:51 AM 3:46 AM
10:03 PM 4:16 PM
Wednesday, October 9,
10:27 AM 4:22 AM
10:39 PM 4:52 PM
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