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The Pilot Covers Brunswick County THE STATE PORT PILOT A ^ I A ■ I A 1 • ■ A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Most of the News All The Time . -j VOLUME 40 No. 40 10-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, (MARCH 26, 1969 5* COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Disarm Civil War Shell A. C. Haney of Greenville Sound Road, Wilmington, and companion, Alfred Evans, Gehrig Spencer, Historic Site Assistant at Fort Fisher, watch preservationist for the Department of Archives & History, Leslie Bright, disarm a twenty pounder parrott shell found last week in the Masonboro Inlet area. Inset shows the detonator (Encircled), black power in foreground and the shell.—Brunswick Town photo McCallum Is Board Member At Long Beach Alvin Staley has resigned his position on the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Long Beach due to health reasons. The board accepted the resignation at the regular meeting on March 15. A. K. McCallum, a resident of Long Beach for 9 years, was appointed to serve for the remainder of Staley’s term, which ends in May, 1971. The oath of office was administered on March 17 in an informal ceremony by Mrs. Carol Willis and witnessed by Judy Sawyer and J. H. Kyle In accepting the position McCallum stated he recognizes the importance and responsibility of the office and . will dedicate himself to fulfill these responsibilities. In other action Mrs. Sanford Benfield and J. H. Barringer were reappointed to the Long Beach Planning Board for three years. Other planning board members are Norris Long, chairman and Mrs. Inez Shannon. The regular city election to (Continued On Page Seven) Cancer Drive Set For April The Brunswick County Cancer Society will begin its annual crusade with a kick-off dinner Friday evening. The month of April will be designated as cancer month. Forty percent of the money raised in the campaign will remain in Brunswick county to aid cancer patients. During the past year the Brunswick County Cancer Society has purchased a wheel chair for the loan closet, bandages for the bedridden patients and has contributed over $600 toward drug bills for cancer patients. These who have contributions for the campaign should notify one of the crusade workers. County residents are urged to buy an Easts lily and help the Brunswick County Cancer crusade. Place orders now by calling Kay Moore or Ruth Harrington. Now In Chicago Lynn and Kenneth Hewett, members of the Busy Bees 4-H Club of Supply, are now in Chicago at the National Youthpower Conference with teens from the other 49 states. They are two of the six North Carolina delegates. Kenneth was top teen boy in the state and Lynn was tied for top honors in the girl’s division. They are being accompanied by Milton Coleman, 4-H agent, on a trip received because Kenneth was top boy. The trip is sponsored by the Farm Bureau, Food and Science of N.C. State and other agencies promoting foods and nutrition among teenagers. Civil War Relic Found To Be Live Friday morning A. C. Haney of Greenville Sound Road, Wilmington, and a companion, Alfred Evans, were using a metal detector in the Masonboro Sound area when they discovered a Civil War projectile. Haney called Bill Faulk at Brunswick Town to inquire what should be done with it as it appeared to still be live. Faulk contacted preservationist Leslie Bright of the Department of Archives and History at Fort Fisher and Bright and Gehrig Spencer, Historic Site Assistant and the three men met Haney where the shell was located. The shell indeed was live and Bright disarmed it by removing the percussion cap portion of the fuze and the black powder from the projectile. He relates the following information relative to the shell: “This shell or projectile is a twenty pound Parrott projectile, measuring four inches in diameter and twelve inches in length and it had a bursting charge in it. The Ifcrrott shells were one of the most popular artillery shells of the Civil War and their sizes ranged from a three inch-ten pounder to a ten inch-three hundred pounder. They were manufactured by both Fed era Is and Confederates with many minor modifications. This particular shell was loaded with a bursting charge and a percussion fuze and upon impact would fragment Variants of the shell were solid shot, with no load of powder, that would disable a gun by the shear force of impact; case shot, used as an anti-personnel projectile were loaded with pellets of iron or lead. “Apparently this prejudice was fired from a ship of the Federal blockading fleet at a besieged blockade runner near Masonboro Inlet, due to the location of the area where it was found. These Civil War relics are dangerous and the public is cautioned about transporting or trying to disarm these projectiles. Should you find one, it would be adviseable to contact the personnel at one of the State Historic Sites in your area for advise or identification.” Purchase Of Marshland Is One Solution Brunswick county citizens met with Gilliam Horton, Chairman the Department of Conservation and Development, Dr. Tom Linton, Director of the Division of Commercial Fisheries, and three members of the General Assembly from this district Saturday to discuss possible solutions to ownership of marshlands bordering Brunswick county. The meeting was held at Ebb-Tide Restaurant at Holden Beach and the legislators were Senator Sankev Robinson and Representatives Arthur Williamson and R. C. Soles. Odell Williamson, a former member of the House of Representatives, suggested that now possible answer would be to have the State purchase certain marshland areas deemed to be critical to the oyster rehabilitation program. Dr. Linton agreed that this would be helpful and suggested that it would be well to exercise the foresight to make this land purchase. Williamson warned that quick action is important since land values continue to advance According to comments from Sole6 and fisheries officials, much of the marshland now sought by the state was sold by the State Board of Education in the 1920’s. f Continued on Page 4) Arts Festival Plans Begin “By the sea, by the beautiful sea,” will be the theme for the Ninth Annual Arts Festival in picturesque Southport this yeat. The festival, sponsored by thq,' Junior Woman’s Club ot Southport, will be held July 3-5 and is part of an old fashioned 4th of July celebration held by the city each year. Four hundred dollars in purchase awards, silver cups and ribbons will be offered to artists both professional and amateur in five categories, oils, water colors, graphics and crafts in the Adult Division snd a Junior Division. The purchase awards will be chosen from the ribbon winners in oils, water colors, and graphics. These will be added to the City’s Municipal Art Collection now hanging in the new Southport-Brunswick County Library. Twenty thousand visitors are expected in Southport for the gala events of the Fourth of July Festival. Artists should plan now to register their work on Tuesday, July 1, for the Arts Festival. An entry fee of $2.00 will be charged in the Adult Division and will allow a maximum of six works to be submitted (two in each category). In the Junior Division (under 18 years of age) the entry fee is 50-cents. All work must be ready to hang. A letter is being sent now to interested persons telling of the festival particulars with a follow-up letter to go out in May. Those who wish this information to be sent to a friend or acquaintance should send the address to Arts Festival Chairman, Mrs. D. G. McHose or Mrs. J. S. Sherrod, Southport. The Brunswick Count} girls in the nursing field to Brown left, a student at A of Leland; and Marilyn Kay ter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Ru right, president of the Brur Missing Men Alarm Proves To Be False Last Thursday four leaders of Scout Troop No. 590 of Jacksonville were reported missing or overdue on a trip from near Burgaw down the Northeast Cape Fear River to Anderson’s Landing located at Brunswick Town State Historic Site. The four men left a point near Burgaw around 9 a.m. in two aluminum 12-foot boats and .their estimated time of arrival at Anderson’s Landing was between two and four p.m. The object of the trip was to locate likely camping places for a canoe trip down the same route by some 40 Boy Scouts of the Jacksonville area as part of an achievement badge requirement. They were using a 1958 chart that showed Anderson’s Landing and ruins but did not recognize the place on the river bank as such and ended up below Brunswick at the north wharf at Sunny Point. When they failed to arrive by 6 o’clock the leader that was to have picked them up reported them missing or overdue on the river to the U.S. Coast Guard at Oak Island. Bill Faulk was working late at Brunswick Town and saw the men walking down the Fort Anderson mounds near the museum. They told them about their trouble and he called the Coast Guard to see if they had been reported missing and if so to see if the whereabouts of the person that reported them was know. They had been reported and the person expected to pick them up had returned to Jacksonville. They called their wives and had them contact the pickup driver, who returned to Brunswick Town to get them. The boats were loaded and they departed for the return trip to Jacksonville around 9:30 p.m. This week Faulk received a letter of appreciation from L. S. Johnson, one of the men involved in the scout exploration (Continued On Page Fbu»l Time And Tide It was March 22,1939, and historic Prices Creek lighthouse was to be sold by the government. The structure had stood since Civil War times, and had guided Confederate blockade runners through Corncake Inlet. The hulk of a barge sunk off Battery Island, directly opposite Southport, had been ruled by the Corps of Engineers as a non-menace to navigation and would remain where it was, barely peeping out of the water. Brunswick county would be well represented in the upcoming C&D booklet “Variety Vacationland”; a group of artists from the Wilmington colony had been canvassing Bald Head Island; and the Rev. Paul Fields of Rose Hill was to preach a revival series at Trinity Methodist Church. Another cut on page one that week showed a before and after woodland scene in which the rapid growth of pines was the central figure. Southport grammar grades were to appear on WMFD on the following Saturday; all county school children had been invited to enter the upcoming Southport Woman’s Club Flower Show; and a Southport dry cleaner had adopted the slogan “We Clean Everything Expect Fish.” It was March 22, 1944, and Willie Potter of Bolivia had a Russian Wolfhound. Capt. J. M. Parker had a hen that worked overtime: She produced normally during the week, laid one large and one small egg on Saturday, and observed the Sabbath with a double yolker. This is necessarily undocumented. The County Red Cross was selling Orton (Continued On Page Four) Receive Scholarship Aid Cancer Society has given a $200 scholarship to two help further their education. They are Patricia Faye St T State University, the daughter of Mrs. Janie Smith Russ, center, a student at N.C. Baptist Hospital, daugh >s of Leland. Making the presentation is Mrs. Jim Kirby, swick County Cancer Society. Load For Return Trip : Boats are shown here being loaded at Brunswick Town after search had been called off for four men overdue on river trip from Burgaw to Anderson’s Land ing, Brunswick Town, Thursday night.—Brunswick Town photo. Board Members To Lead Bond Drive The Brunswick County Board of Education met Monday night in Bolivia High School with the Local School Committees and several interested citizens from each school district. The purpose of the meeting was to establish a steering committee to actively conduct the campaign for three consolidated high schools. Chairman Norman Bellamy announced the site for Shallotte school had been chosen, pending approval of the state. It is on Highway 130 about 1 mile out from Shallotte just north of the International Paper Co. station. A possible site for the Leland School is on the Fayetteville Road in the Lanvaie area. The site for the Southport-Bolivia School is less definite, being a possible choice between a site east of Midway on Highway 211 or east of Allens Creek at Boiling Spring Lakes. AH of these sites must be tested by the state committees as to foundation, drainage, sewage, soil, etc. All sites will be 50 acres or more in area. The Shallotte school will cost approximately $1.3 million and accommodate 950 students. The other two schools will cost $1.1-million and provide for 750 to 800 students. Chairman Bellamy reiterated the board’s policy to phase out only the oldest sections of present schools and stressed that there would be an even greater need for teachers and that present faculty members will not be without jobs. Kirby Sullivan, attorney for the Board of Education, reported that the tax increase could not be specified at this time. However, he has been in contact with the Local Government Commission and will have the figures on the repayment program by next week. The tax valuation for the forthcoming year will have been estimated and a figure of possible tax increase will be available prior to the election on April 26. Steering Committee Co-Chairman were elected. They are Johnny Vereen, Southport, Dr, John Madison, Shallotte, and William Paris, Leland. Local School Board Chairmen make up the committee along with members from their respective communities whom they choose to serve. A meeting of this committee was set for next Wednesday night at Bolivia High School. Meanwhile community meetings will be held in each school district to make plans. (Continued On Page Four) Board Visits School Sites Following an on-site inspection tour of possible school sites in the Southern area of the county, the Board met in a called session on Thursday, in the Board of Education Office. J. J. Croft, Jr., and Ronald Biddle, architects, appeared before the board and discussed various modem school building designs and systems. Croft indicated his interest in doing the architectural work for the Board of Education should the proposed bond issue be approved. Superintendent Cooper Williams read a proposed policy statement which would govern the administering of free and reduced lunches in the county schools. The Board made plans to visit other possible school sites in the western and northern sections of the county for this week. Shrimpers Ask That Shrimping At Night Stop At a metting of Brunswick county shrimpers with State officials here Saturday afternoon in the Brunswick county courthouse a unanimous request was made that waters from Topsail Beach to the South Carolina line be closed to night shrimping. In attendance were Chairman Gilliam Horton of the Department of Conservation and Development, Dr. Tom Linton, Director of the Division of Commercial Fisheries, and the three legislators from this district, Senator Sankey Robinson and Representatives R. C. Soles and Arthur Williamson. The latter from the shrimpers was presented by Jimmie Moore, Southport man, and when a vote was taken he had the solid support of all the shrimp producers in attendance. Following is the text of the letter: “We the undersigned fishermen of the coastal waters between Topsail Inlet and the South Carolina line, had, on August 3, 1968, hoped to initiate proceedings for the enactment of a new regulation, or perhaps—in due time-a general statute, which we feel will not only protect our limited shrimping grounds but also be beneficial to our personal welfare as family men of limited physical endurance. As long as it remains le^al to shrimp at night, there wifi always be some persons who will trawl around the clock so long as they manage to show even marginal profit. For this reason, these of us who would, of our own volition, aUow both ourselves and our shrimping grounds to rest at night must set our trawls beside those of the golddiggers in order to stay in the race. “On the above mentioned date, we undertook to bring :r. (Continued On Page Seven) Pageant Will Be Saturday The Miss Brunswick County Pageant, sponsored by the Shallotte Jaycees, will be held Saturday night at Shallotte High School auditorium when a successor will be named for Miss - Pam Poindexter, reigning queen - of this event She will crown the new Miss Brunswick. Directing the event again this year will be Mrs. Shirley Ward, who will be assisted by Miss Sharon Bradsher. In all there will be nine contestants competing for this coveted crown, with a college scholarship and many other prizes going to the winner who also will represent Brunswick county in the Miss North Carolina pageant next summer. Bill Rogers, television personality from Wilmington, will serve as master of ceremonies. 1 - ■ ■ — —■ Tide Table Following to the tide table lor Southport during the week. These hours are ap proximately correct and were furnished The State Port Pilot through the eourteey of the Chpe Fear Pilot's Association. HIGH LOW xnunday, March 27 1 2:27 "AM 6:10 AM? 3:03 FM 9:22 PM Friday, March 28 ■ 3:27 AM 10:10 AM? 3:57 PM 10:22 PM Saturday, March 29 4:21 AM 10:58 AM; 4:51 FM 11:16 PM Sunday, March SO [ 5:15 AM 11:46 AMj 6:39 PM 12:04 PM Monday, March 31 6:57 AM 12:28 AM, 6:27 PM Tuesday, April 1 . 6:39 AM 0:52 AM. 7:03 PM 1:04 PM Wednesday, April 2 7:21 AM 1:34 AM1 TtfIFM _ l;46 PM' !