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VOLUME 40
No. 21
THE STATE PORT PILOT
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
_12-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNBSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1968 5* A COPY
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Democrat Women Meet
The Democratic Women of Brunswick county held a luncheon meeting Tuesday
at the Ebb-Tide Restaurant at Holden Beach, with Mrs. H. Pat Taylor as guest of
honor Shown here, left to right, and Mrs. Odell Williamson, Mrs. A. P. Henry, Jr.,
Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Foster Mintz, who presided. (Photo by Spencer)
Mrs. Taylor Is
Speaker Before
Women’s Group
Mrs. H. Pat Taylor, Jr., wife of
the Democratic nominee for Lt.
Governor, was the guest of
Democratic Women of
Brunswick County on Tuesday
at a luncheon at the Ebb-Tide
Restaurant at Holden Beach.
Mrs. Foster Mintz, vice-chairman
of the Brunswick Democratic
Executive Committee, planned
the meeting and presided.
A number of viators from
both Columbus and New
Hanover counties joined with
the Brunswick women to
welcome Mrs. Taylor.
Mrs. A. P. Henry, Jr., gave the
invocation and Mrs. Clinton
Bellamy welcomed the group.
Mrs. James M. Harper, Jr., state
vice-chairman, introduced Mrs.
Taylor to the women. Mrs.
Taylor was accompanied from
Wadesboro by Mrs. J. B.
Cameron.
Following Mrs. Taylor’s
remarks, Mrs. Mintz appointed
members of a nominating
committee and asked that they
call the next meeting of the
group and have a slate of officers
chosen so that an organization
could be revived.
This committee is comprised
of Mrs. Odell Williamson,
chairman, Mrs. Clinton Bellamy,
Mrs. Catherine Clark, Mrs. Dinah
E. Gore, and Mrs. Jean
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NEWS
BENEFIT BAR-B-QUE
The Leland Volunteer Fire
Dept, will sponsor their monthly
bar-b-que dinner on Saturday
from 10 in the morning at the
fire station.
FREE FISH FRY
The Brunswick County
Democratic Party will sponsor a
free fish fry at Sommersett’s
Landing Thursday, October 31.
The public is invited beginning at
5:30.
BAKE SALE
The King Daughters Circle will
hold a bake sale Tuesday
between the post office and
Leggett’s store. Proceeds will go
to the Samarcand Manor Organ
Fund. Samarcand Manor is a
girls home located near Southern
Pines.
BENEFIT SUPPER
The Adult Women’s Class of
the Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church
will sponsor a Benefit Supper, a
choice of barbecue or chicken
and pastry on Saturday, 5:30-9
p.m. at the Educational Building
of the church. Homemade cakes
and pies will also be on sale.
LEAGUE MEETING
There will be a special call
meeting of the Southport
Citizens League Monday night at
7:30 o’clock. It is important
that all citizens attend, as there
is business on the agenda that is
vital to the welfare of all
citizens. This meeting will be
held at the Masonic Hall.
Two Die Today
In Auto Crash
A former Naval Reserve
member, separated from active
duty less than a week, and his
wife both died in a two-car
traffic collision a mile south of
Bolivia on US 17 at 11:05
Wednesday morning.
State Trooper Larry Canipe
identified the victims as Herbert
C. McCarthy, Jr., 20, and his
wife, Mrs. Emily J. McCarthy,
19, of Key West, Fla. Seriously
injured was the driver of the
other auto Bobby Gerald
Johnson, 35, of 501 North
Street, Greenville, S.C.
Canipe said the head-on
collision, which demolished both
cars, occurred as one vehicle,
driven by McCarthy, the other
by Johnson, traveled in opposite
directions. Because of the death
of the Floridians and the
immediate condition of
Johnson, the trooper said it was
Chadwick Is
Farm Bureau
Head Again
farmers nave to cultivate
good laws as well as good crops
in order to be successful today,”
Ira D. Chadwick, president of
the Brunswick County Farm
Bureau, said Saturday night
during the annual
dinner-meeting at the Henry C.
Stone Cafeteria of Shallotte
School.
The farm leader pointed out
that farm prices are lower at the
present time than they have
been since depression days. “At
the same time,” Chadwick said,
“the cost for farm equipment
and supplies is higher than ever
before. It is high time the
farmers took the bull by the
horns and joined together to
fight this bad situation.”
“ B r u nswick County Farm
Bureau has grown 35 per-cent
over the past year and we have
hopes of having 700 members by
the North Carolina Farm Bureau
Convention. Only by uniting
solidly in Farm Bureau can
farmer make their voices
effectively heard in our North
Carolina legislature and
Congress.”
Don Shackleford, North
Carolina Farm Bureau Field
Representative, was guest
speaker. He noted that
practically every piece of
meaningful farm legislation that
has passed in recent years did so
with the full force of Farm
Bureau behind it. “Farm Bureau
is fast becoming a strong
organization,” he said. “With
only 6 per cent farmers and 94
per cent consumers, the farmers
must realize that organization is
the only way to demand
attention.”
The welcome address was
given by Roney W. Cheers,
mayor of Shallotte. Rev. C. L.
Turner, pastor of Shallotte First
Baptist, gave the invocation.
Ira L. Chadwick was again
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difficult to determine which of
the cars was traveling south,
which north on the through
highway. The mass of twisted
wreckage, made up of parts of
both cars, lay in the
north-bound lane, he said.
The 1964 Chevrolet in which
the McCarthys were riding was
left in one-piece, said Canipe,
“But it was just a mass of
twisted metal. The late model
Oldsmobiie driven by Johnson
was towed away in pieces, the
front-end being separated from
the hood out.”
McCarthy was originally of
Massachusetts, his wife from
Maryland, according to the
trooper. It is thought that they
had been visiting in the Camp
Lejeune area and were returning
home. However, Canipe said,
this had been verified late
Wednesday. He said McCarthy
had been separated from the
active Naval Reserve on Oct. 26.
Johnson suffered multiple
fractures and lacerations and was
in a semi-conscious state at New
Hanover Memorial Hospital in
Wilmington, where he was to
undergo surgery.
Brunswick County Coroner
Lowell Bennett had made no
announcement concerning an
inquest into the deaths, pending
the outcome of the
investigation. —(JIGGS
POWERS).
Rider Fatally
Injured Here
Robert Donald Maggard, 28,
died Thursday in New Hanover
Memorial Hospital, Wilmington,
after an accident on Wednesday
night He was the son of Robert
and Grace Maggard of Bolivia.
Death resulted from an
unusual accident which occurred
last Wednesday afternoon when
two horses collided while a
group of local riders were out
exercising their mounts. Reports
are that Maggard fell from his
horse, and struck another before
hitting the ground. His death
was ascribed to head injuries.
Final rites were held Saturday
at 2 p.m. at Bethel Baptist
Church by the Revs. Homer
McKeithan, Jr. and A. W.
Huggins, Jr., with burial in
Northwood Cemetery.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Diana Stidham Maggard; two
sons, Robert D., Jr. and Timmy
Maggard; a daughter, Julie Ann
Maggard, all of the home; his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Maggard of Southport; six
brothers, Jack, E. G., Jimmy
Lee, Jerry and Alfred Earl
Maggard, all of Bolivia and
Windell Maggard of Atlanta, Ga.;
five sisters, Mrs. J. E. Cardell,
Mrs. Guy Wescott, Mrs. Gene
Caison, all of Bolivia, Mrs. John
Bowling of Holden Beach and
Mrs. Ted Patti of Buffalo, N.Y.
Active pallbearers were A. T.
Lewis, J. C. Miller, Jerry Jones,
Billy Drew, Cart Stidham, and
Tex Gainev.
Southport Man
Chief Judge
For District
Ray H. Walton of Southport,
judge-nominate of District court
which will become active in
Brunswick on December 2, has
been appointed chief judge of
the Thirteenth Judicial District.
The district is composed of the
counties of Brunswick, Bladen
and Columbus. Sharing judicial
duties with Walton will be Giles
R. Clark of Elizabethtown.
Chief Judge Walton, subject to
the general supervision of the
Chief Justice.
—The chief district judge,
subject to the general
supervision of the Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court, has
administrative supervision and
authority' over the operation of
the district courts and
magistrates in his district. These
powers and duties include, but
are not limited to, the following:
(1) Arranging schedules and
assigning district judges for
sessions of district courts;
(2) Arranging or supervising
the calendaring of matters
for trial or hearing;
(3) Supervising the clerk of
superior court in the
discharge of the clerical
functions of the district
court;
(4) Assigning matters to
magistrates, and prescribing
times and places at which
magistrates shall be available
for the performance of their
duties;
(5) Making arrangements with
proper authorities for the
drawing of civil court jury
panels and determining
which sessions of district
court shall be jury sessions;
(6) Arranging for the reporting
of civil cases by court
reporters or other
authorized means;
(7) Arranging sessions, to the
.extent' ’practicable for the
trial of specialized cases,
_including traffic, domestic
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Dealers Take
Another Step
A five-man board of directors
was elected for the Lockwoods
Folly Farm and Seafood
Freezing-Processing Plant Friday
night at the Cedar Grove
Satallite Center.
Harry L. Varnam of Supply
was named chairman of the
group with Lee Hewett, Miles
Hewett, Herman Grissett and
John H. Johnson as members.
Another two-man team will be
elected at a later date.
Roy Stevens, Director of the
Resources Development
Commission, and the State
Seafood Specialist are on the
program for November 12,
beginning at 7:30 p.m. at the
center, said Varnam.
“I beg and urge all farmers,
commercial fishermen and other
interested persons to be at the
center and let’s get together for
this industry. Everything looks
in our favor, the chairman said.
“We are gathering information
pertinent to the farm and
seafood co-op in order to have
information and facts to present
to the SENCLand Board of
Directors”, Varnam said.
“We have the potential, the
resources, and the labor force.
We need a plant and then we
have more jobs, more money,
and a better economy in
Brunswick County,” he said.
Library Dedication
Congressman Alton Lennon is shown here as he speaks at the dedication of the
Southport-Brunswick County Library dedication ceremony Sunday. Behind him is
Mrs. James M. Harper, Jr., who presided, and seated is David Stick, who was the
speaker. (Photo by Spencer)
State Beauty Contest Winner
Jeanne Brown of Southport crowned last Thursday night in Charlotte as Miss
Student Nurse of North Carolina, still holds a bouquet of roses presented her fol
lowing competition in Ovens Auditorium. Members of the Hamlet Jaycees and other
student nurses crowd around to offer congratulations.
Southport Girl
Wins Beauty
Title In State
Richmond County, for several
years a center of beauty
pageants, had a new queen,
crowned last Thursday night in
Charlotte. She is Jeanne Marie
Brown of Southport, a student
at Hamlet Hospital School of
Nursing.
Miss Brown, whose parents
were on hand at Ovens
Auditorium when Jeanne was
picked as fairest of them all, is
now holder of the North
Carolina Miss Student Nurse
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It was October 26, 1938, and the winner of the first (annual)
Southport-Wilmington outboard marathon was pictured on page one
of that week s issue of The Pilot. With his boat, the Typhoon, Fred
Goldston of Lake Waccamaw had covered the 25-mile course in 53
minutes. And on the same page a story which obviously wasn’t
concluded bore, this note at the bottom of the column; “Continued
from page one.” Two Shailotte boys, Cornelius Thomas and Harry
Mintz, were enrolled at the University in Chapel Hill; Southport
shrimpers had come off strike just in time to catch the current run
off Little River; and a local dog had trailed his master 30 miles in
one day.
The Southport school had gained another teacher for its faculty; '
a Columbus county man had run down a live doe deer and was in
some doubt as to what was to become of his new acquisition; and
our editorial writer had spoken out against swing music.
It was November 3, 1943 and our “Not Exactly” editor had
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Carolina Power
And Light Files
Carolina Power & Light
Company has filed with the
North Carolina Utilities
Commission an application for a
“certificate of convenience and
necessity” for the construction
of two nuclear-fueled generating
units at a site to be acquired
near Southport, N.C. Each unit
will have a net generating
capability of 821,000 kilowatts.
In the application, the cost of
the new Brunswick County
facility is estimated at
$290,000,000.
Pauk Colby, senior
vice-president of the company,
said that the first unit is
scheduled for completion by
March 1973 and the second unit
by March 1974.
The application to the
Commission states that the new
units are needed to meet the
estimated increased
requirements of CP& L’s
customers. The company’s
present total system capability is
2,907,800 kilowatts. Peak
demand during this past summer
was 24.8 percent greater than
the year before.
The company is presently
constructing a nuclear-fueled
generating unit at Hartsville,
S.C., with an initial capability of
700,000 kilowatts. It is
scheduled for completion in
1970. In May of this year, the
company completed a 650,000
kilowatt coal-fired unit at
Roxboro.
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COL. EDWIN OWEN
Colonel Owen
Given Command
Col. Edwin B. Owen, United
States Army, who assumed
command of the Eastern Area,
Military Traffic Management and
Terminal Service (EAMTMTS)
on 4 October was a recent visitor
to the Military Ocean Terminal,
Sunny Point. Sunny Point is a
subordinate installation in Col.
Owen’s command.
Formerly Deputy Assistant
Commandant of the Army
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Dedication Of
New Library
Held Sunday
The new Southport-Brunswick
county library was dedicated
Sunday afternoon in 2:30
ceremonies.
The building, a tribute to both
Southport and Brunswick
County people working together
has been proclaimed as an
example for other small
communities to follow.
Architects for the structure was
the firm of Ballard, McKim and
Sawyer of Wilmington and the
general contractor was C. T.
Chauncey of Lake Waccamaw.
The library, modem in all
respect, is capable of handling
40,000 volumns with areas for
leisure reading, browsing and
studying.
In his dedicatory address,
Stick said that North Carolinians
had not been getting the kind
and quality of library service to
which they were entitled, and
this led to the appointment of a
committee to study library
resources. The principal cause,
he said, was that not enough
money has been available for
these services.
It was discovered, he said, that
the principal support for
libraries has come from local
sources and he expressed the
thought that the State must help
to a greater degree before the
desired standard can be attained
in North Carolina.
Stick says that he believes
important gains have been made,
and he says that he [dans to
hand-deliver a summary of the
findings of the Library Study
Commission to every member of
the next State Legislature.
The speaker then mentioned
briefly a trend in library
administration which he believes
will be important to future
growth. This is the creation of
regional library staffs, with three
or more counties joining in this
effort He says that a similar
effort involving his own county
of Dare is proving to be
successful.
Greetings and tributes of
accomplishments were brought
by Rep. Alton A. Lennon who
pointed out that federal funds of
over $50,000 from the U.S.
Library Services and
constitution act had been a
dominant factor as well as an
inspiration in making the dream
a reality.
Guest speaker for the
occasion, however, was David
Stick of Kitty Hawk who is
chairman of the North Carolina
Legislative Commission To
Study Library Support.
Chairman Stick, an author of
note and authority of history of
the Outer Banks, outlined the
value of the center and how it
will serve all ages in their search
for diversion and knowledge.
Mrs. James M. Harper, Jr.
presided and these additional
persons spoke on various phases
of the library:
The invocation was offered by
Rev. Mark Owens, pastor of
Calvary Baptist church of
Shallot te.
The welcome was tendered by
Eugene B. Tomlinson, Southport
mayor.
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