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SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1968
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High And Dry
The boat on the left is the Silver Bell which has been sitting high and dry in the
and th,e brid8e since the pleasure craft ran aground Satur
day™6 Idle.°n has a hne to the grounded craft, but is not attempting to haul her
off. Her mission was to chum the water near the bank of the Intra-coastal Waterway
in order to make it deep enough for a larger vessel to operate at high tide. Efforts
to float the southbound pleasure craft had failed up to Tuesday night despite some
powerfull tows that had given it a try. Fred Silver is owner of the Silve. Bell and
his only passenger was Kenneth Wallenstein. (Photo by Spencer)
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Unveil New Marker
This is the new historic marker at Brunswick Town for John La Pierre which was
unveiled with appropriate ceremonies on November 24. The Rev. Fred Fordham, left,
was the principal speaker; Harry L. Mintz, Jr., standing just to the right of the mark
er, was master of ceremonies; jand Mrs. Elizabeth Wilborn, staff historian for the
Department of Archives and History, who presented the marker, is on the right. The
program was sponsored by the Brunswick County Historical Society. (Brunswick
Town Photo)
Brief BiU Of
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LELAND P.T.A.
The Leland High School
P.T.A. will meet Monday night
at 7:45 o’clock. There will be a
special Christmas program
presented by various classes in
the school. Please make plans to
attend this annual event.
CHRISTMAS CANTATA
The Southport Baptist Church
will present a Christmas Cantata
on the evening of December 22
at 7:30 o’clock. The public is
cordially invited.
CHRISTMAS PARADE
The Annual Christmas parade
will be held in Shallottc
Saturday morning, starting al
10:30 o’clock, with televisior
personality Capt’n Gene serving
as parade marshal. As of this
morning, more than 30 units
have agreed to participate,
including Pam Poindexter, Miss
Brunswick County.
CHRISTMAS BAZAAR
The annual Christmas bazaar
and luncheon of St. Philip’s
Episcopal Church women will be
held in the Parish House Friday,
beginning at 10 a.m. Tickets for
the luncheon should be
purchased in advance. A wide
variety of baked goods, knitted
garments, sewing and surprises
will be offered for sale.
Brunswick Town
Sets New Record
The Ninety thousandth visitor
for 1968 visited Brunswick
Town during the Thanksgiving
Holiday weekend, according to
Wm. G. Faulk, site
superintendent this week. She
was Miss Debbie O’Gorman of
Hallsboro.
Annual visitation to Brunswick
Town State Historic Site has
been on the increase since 1964
when accurate records were
begun to be kept. Actual
visitation is slightly higher than
recorded by staff personnel on
duty at the sales counter as
persons enter the building as
many visitors return to enjoy the
natural beauty of the 120 acre
site and do not enter the
building on subsequent visits.
The Nature Trail, Colonial
foundations and Fort Anderson
have their own special attraction
as well as the exhibits in the
museum. In 1964 visitation was
39,012, in 1965 it was 51,358;
in 1966 it was 69,465; in 1967 it
was 73,692 and for the eleven
month period of 1968 it is
90,114.
Brunswick Town is not a one
theme site. It is an
archaeological site and visitors
may see the actual unearthing of
a Colonial foundation when
work is being done. A
Confederate Fort, Fort
Anderson, is separate and apart
from the Colonial history. A
Nature Trail, sponsored by the
Garden Clubs of North Carolina,
Inc., with plants native to
Southeastern North Carolina
being set out and identified for
Nature lovers, is another
attraction. The Visitor
Center-Museum with artifacts on
display and exhibits that tell the
story of the first permanent
settlement in the Cape Fear area
compliments the setting.
Former Leland
Citizen Killed
Ulusses Leob Rourk, native of
Brunswick county and a long
time resident of Leland, was
killed in an automobile collision
in Wilmington Sunday
afternoon.
According to police reports, an
automobile driven by the
deceased was in collision with a
pick-up truck operated by
Emanuel E. Drakeford at the
intersection of 17th and
Chestnut streets. It appeared
that each driver slowed down to
permit the other to pass, then
started again at the same time,
resulting in the fatal accident.
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Tobacco Quota
Promises To Be
About The Same
Secretary of Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman on November
25 announced a 1969 flue-cured
tobacco quota of 1,127 million
pounds, about the same as the
poundage quota in effect the
past four years. The National
average yield goal for 1969
remains unchanged at 1,854
pounds per acre, and the
National acreage allotment of
607,929 acres for 1969 is about
the same as in prior years.
Acreage allotments and
poundage quotas for individual
farms will be about the same in
1969 as in prior years except for
quota adjustments reflecting
overmarketings and
undermarketings of poundage
quotas in prior years, under
acreage-poundage marketing
quotas, if the marketings from a
farm in any year are less than
the poundage quota for the
farm, the difference is added to
the farm’s quotas (both acres
and pounds) for the following
year. Likewise, any marketings
in excess of a farm’s poundage
quota are deducted from the
farm’s quota (both acres and
pounds) for the following year.
As in the past, a small acreage
will be reserved in 1969 for
establishing allotments for farms
having no flue-cured tobacco
acreage history during the past 5
years, for correcting errors, and
for adjusting inequities.
Cotton Vote :
Now Going On
In Brunswick
Farm operators in Brunswick
coijnty were reminded Safi&tf
that applications for the transfer,
of cotton allotments for the
1969 crop should be filed no
later than December 31.
Edgar L. Holden, chairman,
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation County
Committee, explains that notices
of the cotton allotment and the
projected yield for individual
farms have already been mailed
to county farmers, so farm
operators now are in position to
make their production plans for
next season.
In Brunswick county, growers
voting in a special referendum
earlier this year approved
transfer of acreage allotments,
by sale or lease, out of the
county, so the transfer of
allotments locally may be made
from one farm to another within
the State. In no case may
allotments be transferred to
another farm outside the State.
Transfers of allotments
between farms within the
county and from a farm owned
to a farm operated by the same
individual are not subject to
approval in a referendum.
However, it is necessary that
such transfers of allotments be
filed with the county ASCS
Office before the December 31
deadline.
The December 31, deadline,
therefore, applies to all transfers
of 1969 cotton allotments for
Brunswick county
farms—whether by sale, lease or
the owner.
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Swearing In Officials
Judge Edward B. Clark of Elizabethtown is shown here as he talks to Brunswick
county officials after they had been administered the oath of office in the courtroom
in Southport Monday morning. Left to right, they are Roney Creers and E. F. Gore,
magistrates; D. B. Frink, commissioner; Mrs. Leila Osborne, magistrate; Ray H. Wal
ton, district judge; V. A. Creech, Jr., commissioner; Arthur Sue, magistrate; Giles R.
Clark, district judge; Clemit Holden, commissioner; Durwood Clark, Register of
Deeds; and Willie Ward, commissioner. (Photo by Spencer)
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District Court Convenes
. Judge Ray H. Walton, center, is shown here as he convened the first session
of District Court in Brunswick county Monday morning. He is Chief District Judge.
On the left is District Judge Giles R. Clark and on the right is Superior Court Judge
Edward B. Clark, who earlier in the day had administered the oath of office to the
two new judges. (Photo by John Henry)
Final Session
Of Southport
P.T.A. Is Held
The final meeting of the
Southport Parent Teachers
Association was held Thursday,
November 21st at the high
school auditorium. President Bill
McDougle presided.
John Barbee gave an
interesting and informative talk
about the consolidated school
situation and brought up-to-date
information on the purposed
School Bond issue.
At the previous meeting of the
PTA, a committee was
appointed to study the pros and
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Time And Tide
It was November 30,1938, and the Christmas lights were up along
the streets of Southport. There had been no word of a lighting
contest for the homes, but it was expected that an announcement
would be forthcoming. Life saving classes were to be conducted in
Southport the next summer under Red Cross supervision; new
county officers were to be sworn in on the following Monday; and
the Southport PTA was sponsoring a Tag Day to raise funds for
playground equipment.
The fame of the Rev. A. H. Mar-*' !! and his church-boat had
spread, and a request had come from Newsweek magazine for
pictures of the parson and some of his charges. On the front page
that week The Pilot announced the arrival of a new batch of upstate
fox hunters and the editorial column welcomed them; the editor of
“Just Among the Fishermen” had observed that, though they
sometimes are a bit irrational, fishermen couldn’t hold a candle to
the 52,000 fans who sat through the snow covered Duke-Pitt game
on the preceeding Saturday; and another item listed the Southportejr
residents who were crazy enough to do it.
It was December 8, 1943, and the front page pictures that week
showed one of the men involved in the mechanics of putting out The
Pilot each week. The man was the late Willie Hammonds, and the
accompanying story was an interesting account of his thirty-three
years as a linotype opeiator.
A noteworthy headline that week announced, “Southport Women
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Officials Sworn In
Before Judge Clark
Oath-taking by officers, mag
istrates, and judges Monday
morning inaugurated the new Dis
trict Court and Magistrate Court
System in Columbus, Bladen and
Brunswick counties. The new
courts will eliminate the re
corder's courts and the mayor's
court in the various towns, which
have been in operation for al
most a half century in this area.
It was a step up the judicial
ladder for the office holders
involved with the new court:
—Attorney Ray H. Walton of
Southport through successful
election moved into one of the
district’s two judgeship slots,
then was further elevated as
chief District judge;
— Giles R. Clark of
Elizabethtown, attorney and
judge of the new defunct
Recorder’s court, was the other
District judge-elect;
—Lee J. Greer of Whiteville,
veteran clerk of court, was
appointed as District prosecutor;
Also taking office Monday was
Mrs. Nancy Sigmon of Lake
Waccamaw former secretary of a
Whiteville law firm, who became
District court reporter.
The ceremonies for
administering oaths of office
began in Elizabethtown at 9 a.m.
where the Resident Superior
court Judge Edward B. Clark
swore to office the two District
judges.
The three judges moved over
to the Columbus County
courthouse for 10:15
ceremonies.
When the session was declared
open, Judge Edward B. Clark
advised those present that the
new District court is the first
major change made in the state’s
courts in more than 100 years.
The new system, he said, would
bring uniformity in costs and
procedures, . would be more
convenient for the people, and
would be more efficient.
“There will be some kinks,” he
promised, “but let’s don’t lose
our cool.”
He said he is pleased with the
two District judges, and with the
District Prosecutor Lee J. Greer.
The resident judge said he has
already promised N.C. Chief
Justice R. Hunt Parker that “our
district is going to have the best
court system in North Carolina.”
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Death Ruled
As Accident
The body of Melvin R.
Godwin, 49 year old resident of
Shailotte, was found Monday in
an automobile partially
submerged in the inland
waterway near Gause Landing.
Coroner L. B. Bennett, who
investigated, pronounced that
death was due to accidental
drowning.
Mr. Godwin was a veteran of
World War II.
Final services were held
Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Powell
Funeral Chapel by the Rev.
Raymond Whitfield with burial
in Bennett Cemetery at
Hickman’s Crossroads.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Mable Stanaland Godwin; a
stepson, George Edward Long,
Tampa, Fla.; three
stepdaughters, Mrs. Edith Long,
Calabash, Mrs. Catherine
Coleman, Tampa, Fla. and Mrs.
Rebecca Hewett of Shailotte; a
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Final Payment
On New Library
Building Made
When word came through
Monday morning that the audit
of funds for the construction of
the Southport-Brunswick
County Library showed that
only $92.90 was needed to pay
all the bills and bring to a
successful conclusion the drive
for funds for the Library, it was
only a matter of a few hours
before citizens had wiped out
this last remaining obligation.
L. J. Hardee, chairman of the
Building Committee, secured
from Walter Aldridge, treasurer
of the project, the information
that final figures showed that
less than one hundred dollars
was needed and he went to the
chairman of the board, Mrs.
James M. Harper, Jr. The two
agreed that it should be raised
immediately, and before noon it
had been raised.
Several persons were contacted
during the swearing-in
ceremonies at the Court House
and on the street. One
contributor, L. T. Yaskell, not
only gave but in his enthusiasm
solicited from several persons of
his acquaintance.
“On a project as large as this,
one of almost $100,000., it
would be impossible to come
out to the penny with
contributions,” said Mrs. Harper.
“The Board of Trustees has been
awaiting with fear and trembling
the auditor’s report, knowing
that the difference could have
been considerably more because
of several changes which were
made after the contract was
signed. We are grateful that the
difference was this small and we
appreciate the contributions of
the fine citizens who helped in
this last roundup.”
Those who contributed are L.
J. Hardee, Hanan Templeton, J.
F. Howard, Norris Long, L. T.
Yaskell, Durwood Clark,'
Clement Holden, V. A. Creech,
Bert Frink, Mrs. A. P. Henry, Jr.,
Grover Gore, Cash Caroon and
Herring, Parker and Powell,
Attys.
Young Pastor
Is Ordained
The ordination of the Rev.
Homer G. McKeithan, Jr., to the
gospel ministry, took place at
Bethel Baptist Church Sunday
evening at 7 o’clock. The Rev.
A. L. Brown, grandfather of
Rev. Mr. McKeithan, delivered
the ordination sermon.
The charge to the church was
given by Rev. Albert S. Lamm,
pastor of Southport Baptist
Church. The Rev. Mark Owens,
pastor of Calvary Baptist
Church, Shailotte, and a former
pastor of the Rev. Mr.
McKeithan, delivered the charge
to the candidate.
A Bible was presented to the
candidate by Hugh Price,
chairman of the Board of
Deacons, on behalf of the
church.
Special music was rendered by
the Youth Choir, under the
direction of Mrs. Homer
McKeithan, Jr.
A reception was held in the
fellowship hall of the church
following the service.
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
oourtesy of the Cbpe Fear
Pilot’s Association.
KIOH LOW
Thursday, December 5,
7:57 AM 1:46 AM
8:09 PM 2:28 PM
Friday, December 6,
8:33 AM 2:22 AM
8:45 PM 3:04 PM
Saturday, December 7,
9:09 AM 3:04 AM
9:21 PM 3:46 PM
Sunday, December 8,
9:45 AM 3:40 AM
9:57 PM 4:22 PM
Monday, December 9,
10:21 AM 4:16 AM
10:39 PM 5:04 PM
Tuesday, December 10,
11:03 AM 5:04 AM
11:27 PM 5:46 PM
Wednesday, December 11,
11:45 AM 5:52 AM
6:28 PM
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