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VOLUME 40
No. 30
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SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1969 5$ A COPY
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Educational Media Mobile Is Visitor
This is the Educational Media Mobile of the N. C. Department of Public Instruc
tion which is in Brunswick county this week to give educators an idea about new in
structional materials. Shown at the right are Mrs. Frances Stone, ESEA Director for
Brunswick County; Mrs. Edna Gause, Library Supervisor for the county; and P R.
Hankins, in charge of the Audio-Visual Section of ESEA in Brunswick. (Photo by
Spencer). v J
Lennon Slated
For Big Role
In Program
Congressman Alton Lennon is
expected to exercise
considerable control over
significant legislation upgrading
the government’s efforts in
oceanography.
The 7th District Congressman
heads the oceanography
sub-committee of the House
Committee on Merchant Marine
and Fisheries.
For years, the unit was a
backwater of congressional
power. It held yearly hearings on
the scattered ocean-related
programs of the government, but
had no fulltime staff and
handled little legislation.
Sunday, however, an
influential study commission, of
which Lennon was a member,
proposed establishing a single
government agency, reporting
directly to the White House, to
run an expanded civilian
oceanography program, oversee
academic research in the field,
and supervise state efforts aimed
at preserving unspoiled coastal
waters.
President Johnson is expected
to endorse the proposal in his
swan song State of the Union
message.
Republican Congressman
Charlie Mosher, the ranking GOP
member on Lennon’s
subcommittee, believes Richard
Nixon will eventually adopt it.
Lennon expects that his unit
will continue to have the major
role in developing congressional
attention to the question.
He expects to hold briefings
and hearings of his unit. He has
an oceanography-trained expert
on his personal staff. Doug Jones
is both a former naval
oceanographer and a native of
Southport.
Lennon is taking a
noncommittal attitude about the
long list of commission
proposals. He feels as chairman
of the subcommittee that he
should not become a partisan of
proposals until they have been
thoroughly debated in hearings.
Mosher, however, is not
reticent. He wholeheartedly
backs the recommendations, and
feels that if the new agency is
formed the oceanography
subcommittee will become the
Capitol Hill focus of attention to
a field which is expected to rival
outer space in importance.
I Brief Bits Of
Inews
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Winners in the Southport
Christmas Lighting Contest
sponsored by the Southport
Garden Club are: prettiest living
tree, first prize went to Dr. and
Mrs. Richard Conrad; second
prize, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
Parker. Prettiest door—first
prize, Mr. and Mrs. Hubert
Livingston; second prize, Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Willing. Prettiest
overall—first prize, Mrs. Ruby
Graham; second prize, Mr. and
Mrs. Malcolm McHose. Most
original, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Oliver.
Inspector Commended
Henry Schultz, right, is being commended by Col.
Carey Kennedy, commanding officer at Sunny Point, for
his services as Ammunition Inspector at the terminal
prior to his departure for duty in Korea.
Woman Winner In
Rifle Showdown
A Southport woman took a
rifle away from a man who had
the barrel poked in her side early
Sunday morning and held him at
gunpoint with her own weapon
while members of the Southport
Police Department answered her
earlier call for assistance.
When Chief of Police Walton
Willis reached the Cratie Arnold
home at the end of Brunswick
Street he found Earl Smith,
Lumberton man, being held at
bay by Mrs. Peggy Giles whose
authority was the .22 calibre
rifle she held in her hands. Smith
was taken to jail and Mrs.' Giles
told this story of events that had
led to this bloodless ending for
what might easily have turned
into a bloody shootout.
“It was about 2 o’clock when I
heard this yelling out in front of
my mother’s house. I went out
and saw a man yelling about a
barricade being across the street.
I told him my mother was sick
and that the barricade was there
to keep ears from coming by all
hours of the night and disturbing
her. He didn’t seem to pay any
attention to what I was saying
and kept on talking in a loud
and threatening voice, so I told
him I’d go in and call the police.
“He told me ‘that’s the very
thing for you to do, but if you
go in I want you to be sure to
come back out.” I told him I
would be sure to do just that,
and I went in and phoned
Policeman Jones at his home. I
had had some trouble before
about that barricade and he had
told me to phone him any time,
day or night, if I needed him.
“Then I picked up my rifle
and went back out. This man
was standing beside his car
underneath the street light,
holding a rifle in his hand. He
still was fussing and when I came
up to him he shoved the barrel
in my side and said “ Tm going
to kill you’. I took my left hand
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REV. TOM TAYLOR
New Minister
The Rev. Willard Seymour
Taylor, Jr., has assumed duties
as Priest-in-Charge of Old St.
Philip’s Parish, comprising St.
Philip’s Episcopal Church,
Southport, and St. James
Episcopal Church, Shallotte.
Bom in Charlotte, the Rev.
Mr. Taylor considers
Rockingham his home town, as
he spent most of his life there.
He is a 1959 graduate of the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, and a 1962 graduate
of the Virginia Episcopal
Seminary in Alexandria.
The Rev. Mr. Taylor was
ordained to the Priesthood in
1963 at St. John’s Church,
Fayetteville. He comes to his
new charge from Emmanuel
Church in Farmville.
His wife is the former Ora
Elizabeth Matthews of
Farmville. They were married on
Thanksgiving Day, 1967.
Tom, as he prefers to be
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Arrives
Media Mobile
Visits County
For Education
The North CArolina
Department of Public
Instruction sponsors the
Educational Media Mobile, an
extension of the services of the
Center for Learning Resources,
and it is in Brunswick County
this week.
The Educational Media Mobile
came to this county with its
services and resources in an
effort to familarize educators
with various media suitable for
use in elementary and secondary
schools; to help them identify
the sources from which these
materials may be obtained; to
upgrade competencies of school
personnel in the selection of
educational media; and to
stimulate effective use of these
resources im teaching-learning
situations.
The Educational Media Mobile
is available to provide support
for workshops and in-service
training programs and to aid in
demonstrating good library and
teaching practices.
An exhibit of North Carolina
materials has been selected as
the first collection to be housed
in the Media Mobile. For the
first time North Carolina
materials of all types appropriate
for elementary and secondary
school use have been brought
together in one collection for
examination. An attempt was
made for teachers and other
personnel tomake full use of this
opportunity to preview these
materials.
A tour was taken through the
Educational Media Mobile to
acquaint them with its resources.
A card catalog indexing
audiovisual materials was
provided for their use. A
collection of aids for evaluating
and selecting both printed and
audiovisua-l materials is, a
permanent part of the Media
Mobile’s holdings. There are
three or four hundred books
which are books of poetry
written by North Carolinians.
Magazines concerned with
various aspects of North
Carolina industry, government,
social services, art, recreation
and sports are brought together
for examination. An information
file containing pamphlets,
clippings, and illustrative
materials is displayed.
This file is not comprehensive
in its coverage but demonstrates
the variety of formats in which
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Charles A. Tate
Heart Victim
Charles Alexander Tate, Sr. of
Boiling Spring Lakes, died
Friday afternoon in New
Hanover Memorial Hospital after
a short illness.
Tate was born in Wilmington
on September 24,1909 and was
the son of the late Thomas
Hunter and Mary Edwards Tate.
Tate was land development
manager for Boiling Spring
Lakes, Inc.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Katherine (Kitty) Reeves Tate,
of the home; a son, Clearies A.
Tate, Jr. of New York City; a
sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Tate
Mathews of Wilmington and a
brother, Robert H. Tate, of
Greenville Sound.
Funeral services were
Sunday at 3 p.m. in Chapel of
Andrews Mortuary by the Rev.
William L. Dols assisted by the
Rev. W. Pegram Johnson, III.
Burial followed in Oakdale
Cemetery.
Church Al Boiling Spring Lakes
This is the church building now under construction at Boiling Spring Lakes, the
first to be built in this new residential development. This is the First Baptist Church
and the Rev. Tom Williams of Supply is pastor. Work is progressing on the structure,
but its completion date is not certain. (Photo by Spencer)
;! New Alderman Sworn In
The Rev. N. H. Daniels, pastor of St. Janies Methodist Church, was sworn in as
a member of the Board of Aldermen for the City of Southport during the regular
meeting of that body Thursday evening. Magistrate E. F. Gore, left, is shown adminis
tering the oath, the new alderman is shown in the center, and at the right is Mayor
E. B. Tomlinson, Jr. (Photo by Spencer)
First Traffic
Death Occurs
At Longwood
William Edward Hill, 27,
Shallotte, was killed early
Saturday when he was thrown
from his wrecked convertible
about two miles east of
Longwood on N.C. 904 in
western Brunswick county.
The 1963 model car, driven by
Hill, failed to make a turn, ran
off the road and traveled 390
feet before turning over,
according to State Highway
Patrolman G. K. Jones. Jones
said the car traveled another 94
feet after hitting some trees. He
said Hill was thrown from the
tumbling vehicle.
The car appeared to be
traveling toward Grissettown
where N.C. 904 intersects with
U.S. 17.
Coroner Lowell Bennett
reports that this is the first
traffic fatality of the new year
on the highways of Brunswick
county.
Time And Tide
It was January 11, 1939, and L. T. Yaskell had officially opened
the freshwater fishing season. On the preceeding Monday he had
caught five large bass and several nice perch. The atmosphere of the
Southport “Whittier’s Park” had been captured on canvas and was
soon to be exhibited at the World Fair in New York. The fishing
boat Maude and Mable had caught some 10 thousand pounds of fish
off Frying Pan shoals; Senator Bunn Frink was busy in Raleigh, and
was mentioned in two news stories that week; and Superior Court
had run only two days during the recent session.
Otto Hickman and Herbert Rogers had executed a rescue of a bird
from the coils of a cold weather rattlesnake while coon hunting that
week. The new community bowling standings had been posted; our
editorial writer had spoken out against under-emphasis of high
school athletics; and there was some manner of a want ad concerning
a lost fox hound on the front page of The Pilot.
It was January 12, 1944, and an Army pilot had made a safe
though inconvenient forced landing in the Green Swamp ten miles
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Southport Minister
Is New Alderman
2ND LT. MALSEED
New Officer
Assigned Here
Second Lieut. Charles Malseed
of Huntington Beach, California,
has recently reported for
assignment and duty at the
Military Ocean Terminal, Sunny
Point.
Lieut. Malseed attended
Eastern Michigan University in
Ypsilanti, Michigan, graduating
in June 1968 with a Bachelor of
Science degree in Literature and
a reserve commission as a second
lieutenant in the United States
Army through the Reserve
Officer Training Corps program.
Following graduation he came
on active duty and attended the
Transportation Corps Basic
Course at Fort Eustis, Virginia.
His duty assignment while at
the terminal will be as a cargo
officer in the Cargo Operations
Division.
The Rev. N. H. Daniels, pastor
of St. James Methodist Church
in Southport, was sworn in as a
member of the Board of
Aldermen for the City of
Southport at a meeting of that
body Thursday night. He fills
the unexpired term of Dr. N. M.
Homstein who resigned when he
moved to New York State.
The appointment was made by
the two aldermen from the
second ward, W. P. Horne and C.
L. Rourk. The terms for new
alderman and Horne will expire
in May as will that of Hoyle
Dosher from the first ward.
A discussion was held
regarding the forthcoming
special bond election and a
decision was made to hold a
public tomorrow (Thursday)
night at the courthouse at 8
o’clock. Each of the issues will
be handled separate in an effort
to inform the public about the
intent and purpose of the
proposed bond election.
A decision was reached by the
board to locate the proposed
city pier at the foot of Davis St.
City Attorney Kirby Sullivan
was directed by the board to
take appropriate action to
acquire by condemnation
proceedings the property on the
waterfront between Howe St.
and Moore St. The purpose is to
use this for a recreation area.
Permission was granted the
Holiness Church to maintain a
trailer adjacent to their
sanctuary as a mobile classroom
for Sunday School purposes.
The clerk was directed to
inform the Coast Guard that the
City has no plans to proceed
with converting the old Frying
Pan Lightship into a nautical
museum.
Pace Program
Aids Students
During Summer
Last summer, 18 college
students from Brunswick county
worked in local public or private
non-profit agencies or
organizations under the
PACE-I.N.C. program.
PACE-I.N.C. is acronym for Plan
Assuring College Education—In
North Carolina. This program is
administered by the Division of
Special Services, North Carolina
State Department of Public
Welfare.
PACE is a coordinating effort
between the local high school
guidance counselor, the local
student’s individual college, the
local agency working the
student, and the local volunteer
PACE coordinating committee
which places the student.
Through PACE, these young
men and women were able to
work and perform a service to
this county in local agencies and
earn a large portion of their
expenses to begin or continue
their higher education.
During the summer of 1968,
through PACE, students of
Brunswick county earned
approximately $9,756 towards
their education. Jim Coats,
Community Services Consultant,
Elizabethtown, is serving as the
local county coordinator.
Inquiries from interested
agencies who would want to
place students, or students
interested in summer work
under PACE, should contact the
local coordinator for further
information. Application blanks
for PACE may be obtained
through the local coordinator’s
office, the local County
Department of Public Welfare.
This past summer 1,999 North
Carolina students from 60
colleges and universities,
working in 7 58 different
• agencies, earned over 1.2 million
dollars towards their higher
education under PACE.
Plans Complete
For New Plant
“All farmers and commercial
fisherman of the area are urged
to attend a special meeting at
the Cedar Grove Satellite Center
Friday night, January 24,
beginning at 7:30” announced
Harry L. Varnam of Supply,
board chairman, this week.
“We are now organized with a
board, committee and members
and we need your help. We need
to know how and what the
community as a whole needs and
wants for the Seafood and Farm
Supply Plant,” stated Varnam.
“We feel like we have the
supply and the labor to operate
the plant, but we need to know
more facts and figures. The plans
for incentive grant have been
sent to SENCland and now it is
up to them,” said Varnam.
“So far interest has been
wonderful. The folks see the
need and have expressed their
interest. We have had great
cooperation from Roy Stevens
of the Brunswick Resources
Development Commission and
the Seafood Commisr'm of
Raleigh. They will help us all
they can,” Varnam added.
Tide""Table1
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 Oape Fear
Pilot’s Association.
HIGH LOW
Thursday, January 16
6:09 AM 12:40 AM
6:21 PM
Friday, January 17
7:09 AM 0:46 AM
INr. PM 1:34 PM
Saturday, January 18
8:03 AM 1:40 AM
8:15 PM 2:28 PM
Sunday, January 19
8:51 AM 2:34 AM
9:09 PM 3:16 PM
Monday, January 20
9:39 AM 3:22 AM
9:57 PM 3:58 PM
Tuesday, January 21
1037 AM 4:10 AM
10:45 PM 4:46 PM
Wednesday, January 22
11:15 AM 6:04 AM j.
11:39 PM 5:28 PM 1