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VOLUME 40
No. 41
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SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, APR3L 2, 1969
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Boatmen Hold
Protest Meet
Southport boat owners met
Friday night at the Boat Harbor
to discuss plans for protesting
removal of the Coast Guard
Patrol Craft Cape Upright from
its present base to Wrightsville
Beach.
It was deckled that letters
should be written to
Representative Alton Lennon
and to Senators B. Everett
Jordan and Sam Erwin, urging
that the area about the mouth of
the Cape Fear River not be left
without the protection of the
95-foot patrol craft.
During the discussion it was
brought out that during the past
two years two-thirds of the
rescue missions performed by
the Cape Upright have been on
the west side of the Cape Fear
shoals and that if this craft is
based at Wrightsville Beach it
will take two hours running time
to reach the shoals at a point
where it can cross over to the
westward.
Another point brought out is
that Charleston, S.C., is the next
location southward where a
, Coast Guard patrol boat is
available.
Much was made of the fact
that Coast Guard protection
always has been available in the
Cape Fear River area, this to
protect not only the large
commercial operations that are
based here, but for the
protection of the every
increasing number of sports
fishermen.
Several persons who have been
personally involved in rescue
missions performed by the Coast
Guard spoke out in favor of
■keeping the patrol craft on duty
in this area.
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Brief BUe Of
NEWS
EASTER CONCERT
The Southport Elementary
Glee Club will present a concert
of Easter music Thursday
evening at 8 o’clock in the
chapel at the Baptist Assembly.
There will be no admission
charge.
HOSPITAL PROJECT
L. T. Yaskell, chairman of the
board of trustees for Dosher
Memorial Hospital, says that
contributions are coming in for
the fund to purchase air
condition units. One out of state
contributor sent a check for
$100 and one local organization
gave $50. Most of the donations
have been smaller. The fund now
stands at $265.
GRAY LADIES
The Southport Junior
Woman’s Club is planning
another Gray Lady Course for
women who wish to do
volunteer work at Dosher
Memorial Hospital. The courses
are to be taught by Mrs. Mae
Barbee the last week in A&ril
and the first week in May. A
time and place will be
announced at a later date.
Anyone interested in being a
Gray Lady can contact Mrs.
Emily Blake or Mrs. Trudy
Hufham.
(bpt. Ronald N. Hood, center, is shown here as he receives
congratulations from Col. Richard R Eddleman, right, after the
latter had presented him the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious
service in connection with military operations against a hostile force
in the Republic of Vietnam during the period from December, 1967
to December, 1968. CSapt. Hood is attending the AMED Officer
Advanced Course at the U.S. Army Medical Field Service School at
Fort Sam Houston, Tex. At the left is Major Peter S. Loizeaux, class
section leader. Capt. Hood is the son of Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Hood of
Southport and is married to the former Miss Peggy Thomas of
Leland. They have three daughters.
Citizens Organize
For School Vote
The local school committees
for Southport High School and
Brunswick County High Schools
have asked Mayor E. B.
Tomlinson to head the
committee for this school
district to drum up support for
the Special School Bond
Election which will be held on
April 26.
A meeting of interested
citizens was held Monday
evening in the Brunswick county
courthouse and preliminary
plans ware laid, involving the
membership of clubs and
organizations throughout this
school district. Church groups
were not exempt as discussions
centered around the importance
of being able to get the facts
about the forthcoming election
before the people.
Chairman Tomlinson said that
he will be disappointed if the
vote in the Southport school
district is not at least 5 to 1 in
favor of the bond issue.
Arthur J. Dosher, member of
the Brunswick County Board of
Education, warned that there is
danger that the bond election
may not carry on a countywide
basis. “That makes it more
important than ever to have a
strong, favorable vote from this
district,” he said, explaining that
“it may be necessary to ask the
General Assembly for enabling
legislation for a special school
district. If that is the case, we
must have a strong vote hare in
favor of better schools or the
men in the legislature will not
introduce the bill we may need.”
Suggestions were heard that
factual information sheets or
brochures be prepared for
distribution prior to the
election. A report was made that
one individual has agreed to
purchase a supply of bumper
stickers for use during the
campaign.
Chairman Tomlinson was
blunt about the fact that less
than one month remains before
the election and warned that
everybody who wants better
schools for the children of
Brunswick county must get out
and work for them in the days
and weeks ahead.
Disaster Drill
Held Tuesday
With sirens screaming, ten
simulated casualties were
brought into the hospital as part
of a disaster drill that was
conducted Tuesday morning at 9
o’clock at Dosher Memorial
Hospital.
This drill is required twice
annually by the Joint
Commission on Accreditation.
Five casualties were brought in
by the local ambulance service
with Tom Gilbert the driver, and
the remainder were brought in
by Chief of Police Aubrey
Hickman of Long Beach.
The participating casnnlH^
were Dot Cupit, Pat Clemmons,
Ruby Mintz, Mildred Miller,
Luedelphia Rogers, Leavon
Davis, Wanda Davis, students
attending the nursing assistant
course, Mrs. Ida Underwood,
student teacher, and Mr. and
Mrs. Mike Rose from Long
Beach who are visiting from
Ohio.
All casualties were taged as to
type of injury they had, i.e.
b urns, compound fractures,
heart failure, overcome by
smoke, broken limbs, and other
injuries that could be caused by
a disaster. To makt it more
realistic, each participant dressed
according to the type of injury
he had. Upon arrival at the
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Board Given
Twenty Days
To Set Plan
The Brunswick County Board
of Education has received
warning from the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare
in Washington that unless an
acceptable plan for school
integration has been submitted
within 20 days all federal funds
for school programs in this
county will be cut off.
Superintendent George
Williams called a special meeting
of the Board of Education last
(Tuesday) night, and after a full
discussion of problems involved
a letter has been sent requesting
additional time to work out
problems involved.
It has been pointed out to the
officials in Washington that the
fire which destroyed Southport
High School has created
problems which cannot be
resolved in a routine manner and
that additional time is necessary
to arrive at some workable
solution.
Youthpower
Is Explained
By KENNETH HEWETT AND
LYNN HEWETT
Youthpower—a program aimed
at the growing teenage food
market—is moving into its 12th
year of operation under the
sponsorship of the National
Food Conference Association,
Inc.
We just had the privilege of
attending as your county and
state delegates to this
Youthpower Congress in
Chicago, Illinois. While there we
met teenagers from all over the
United States and shared their
views and ideas of promoting
better foods and nutrition
among teenagers.
During 1957, under.th#,
leadership of Charles B. Shuman,
president, American Farm
Bureau Federation, and Homer
R. Davidson, then president of
the American Meat Institute,
preliminary meetings were
arranged with representatives of
nationwide food industry groups
to explore the idea of whether
those engaged in the growing,
processing and moving of food
from farm to table could unite
in a promotional and
educational program for the
good of all.
A decision developed from
these meetings that a National
Food Conference should be held
on February 24, 1958, in
Washington, D.C., at the Hotel
Statler, to which professional,
educational, governmental, food
and other business leaders could
be invited. Almost 1,000
attended the meeting. Highlight
of the session was the
appearance of both President
Dwight D. Eisenhower and
Vice-president Richard M.
Nixon. Each addressed the
session and seldom has a
domestic meeting achieved the
distinction of having both the
president and vice-president in
attendance.
At our recent meeting Charles
B. Shuman was there and we
were his special guests. In
Raleigh before the trip we were
the guests of B. C. Mangum,
N.C. Farm Bureau president, and
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Brunswick Town Visitors
This group of students from Goldsboro Junior High School visited Brunswick
H,fto"c Sit® Monday afternoon. They are shown examining the rains
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' Philips Church was m use it was one of the finest churches in the
colonies and the largest in North Carolina. One hundred students were in
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Kick-Off Held
Friday Night
The 1969 Brunswick County
Cancer Campaign was begun
Friday night with a kick-off
dinner at the Ebb-Tide
restaurant at Holden Beach.
Mrs. James Kirby, president of
the Brunswick Cancer Society,
opened the meeting by
welcoming the guests and
crusade workers and explained
that the goal this year is $2,500.
Grover Gore, crusade chairman,
*intr«wlaced the speaker of the
evening, Dr. J. C. Paul, industrial
physician at DuPont, who was
formerly associated with the
Cancer Society in South
Carolina.
Dr. Paul gave an enlightening
talk on cancer. He spoke briefly
on the seven danger signals and
stressed the importance of an
annual check-up.
At the close of the meeting the
crusade workers received their
crusade material. Area workers
participating in the crusade are:
Mrs. Narene Russ, Leland; Mrs.
Rachel Kye, Winnabow; Mr. and
Mrs. Wilbur Rabon, Winnabow;
Mrs. Velma Richardson, Bolivia;
Mrs. Vara Tatum, Bolivia; P. R.
Hankins, Bolivia; Mrs.
Jeanette Galloway, Supply; Mrs.
Elaine Sellers, Supply; Mrs. John
Holden, Holden Beach; Mrs. Roy
Sloane, Ocean Isle; Mrs. Ken
Milligan, Bolivia; Mrs. Jack
Allen, Long Beach; Mrs. Marie
Leonard, Shallotte Point; Mrs.
Bobby Golden, Supply; Mrs.
Alease Gore, Longwood; Mrs.
Early Smith, Ash; Mrs. Irvin
Milligan, Ash; Mrs. Ruth
Harrington, Southport; Miss Kay
Moore, Southport; Mrs. Nancy
Crouch, Bolivia; Mrs. Marvin
Hickman, Hickman’s Crossroads;
Mrs. Willie Marlowe, Ash; Mrs.
Grover Holden, Shallotte; Mrs.
Pat Cobb, Shallotte; Mrs. Estelle
Hewett, Shell Point; Mrs. Gladys
Lewis, Boiling Spring Lakes;
Mrs. Johnnie Thomas, Calabash;
Mrs. Doug Roycroft, Shallotte.
Time And Tide
It was March 29,1939,and Andrew’s Chapel was holding its annual
homecoming on the following Sunday. Bald Head Island, descended
upon the previous week by artists, this week was recorded in every
aspect by a group of Wilmington photographers. There had been
fighting galore in Southport the night before, but the whole business
had been supervised by a referee. The affair had been organized to
raise funds for a local Boy Scout troop, and no less than 25 local
pugilists had paired off to box. (One must have had a box twice.}
Johnnie Simmons and Walter Jones had fought in the main event,
with Simmons taking a close decision.
Theodosia Burr, or her ghost, had been raising havoc with Bald
Head tourists; a photo of Evelyn Loughlin had been featured in a
large daily; and the Caswell Beach road was being surfaced from the
waterway to the strand.
It was March 29, 1944, and Mayor John Ericksen had announced
that the annual spring cleaning in Southport was due, and urged
residents to “begin in your own backyards.” Heavy rains had halted
all farm work, and county agrarians were falling behind in their
planting schedules. Expiration dates on all ration stamps had been
cancelled for the duration; people were cautioned against molesting
nesting fowl on Battery Island; and all weapons, shotguns to school
buses, had been brought to bear on the now hated (mad) fox.
Principal W. R. Lingle had announced that Southport High School
would close on May 19. The Rev. Cecil Alligood was to deliver the
baccalaurette sermon on the preceeding Sunday. Around fifteen
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New License Plate
Roy Stevens, retiring president of the North Caro
lina Travel Council, is shown here as he presents one
of the new Welcome To North Carolina auto tags to
Governor Bob Scott. The presentation took place during
the annual convention held last week in Raleigh
Ferry Service Is
Resumed Saturday
The Southport-Fort Fisher
ferry which has been out of
operation since January 6
resumed operations again
Saturday morning.
The vessel had been in
drydock at New B?rn for its
annual overhaul and
maintenance
The ferry made its first run
Saturday at 8 a.m. from
Southport. The schedule calls
for the ferry to make four
round-trips a day between
Southport and Fort Fisher.
The schedule from now until
Twin Deaths
Hit Haymans
The family of the Rev. and
Mrs. L. D. Hayman of Southport
was twice touched by the hand
of death during the past week
when their daughter and his
sister died within the space of 48
hours.
Mrs. Beryl Hayman Draper
died Friday at her home in
Conway. She was the Hayman’s
only daughter and was well
known here, having spent many
vacations here with her parents.
Her funeral services were held
Sunday afternoon from Conway
Methodist Church with services
in charge of the Rev. Hoyt
Cheek.
In addition to her parents, She
is survived by her husband, G L.
Draper, and one brother, Dr.
Louis D. Hayrnan, Jr.,
Jacksonville.
The second death was that of
Mrs. Carrie Hayman Penn of
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May 15 follows:
Leave Southport at 8 a.m., 11
a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. It
will leave Fort Fisher at 9:30
a.m., 12:30 p.m., 2:30 p.m. and
4:30 p.m.
The ferry now has been in
service for just over three years
and during that time it has been
inactive about one-fourth of the
time due to overhaul or while
maintenance dredging was being
done in the slips on each side of
the river.
Even though service was
resumed without much notice
on Saturday, on Sunday there
was such a demand for travel
that on one crossing it was
necessary to leave seven vehicles
behind.
Delay Granted
In CP&L Case
A special hearing was held h«e
Tuesday before Clerk of Court
Jack Brown which Carolina
Bower and Light Co. had
requested for the purpose of
having commissioners appointed
to serve in the condemnation
proceedings in the acquisition of
the Jame6 Johnson lands for a
site for the proposed nuclear
power plant.
Attorneys for the defendant
objected on the grounds that at
■his time CP&L does not know
he location of the canal which
will carry water from the plant
site.
Brown granted a two weeks
oostponement in naming the
xommissioners.
Seeking Funds:
For Research <
For Fisheries |
Congressman Alton Lennon
this week was joined by
Representatives David N.
Henderson and Walter B. Jones .
in a statement before the House
Appropriations Subcommittee
on Interior calling for increased
funding for comma-cial fisheries
research and development. These
Congressmen represent the
coastal counties of North
Carolina and presented a united
view on the necessity for
research to bring about a more
viable national commercial
fishing industry.
Under Public Law 88-309,
enacted in May, 1964, federal
funds were authorized to be
advanced to the states to assist
in carrying out fishery research.
This Act authorized an annual
expenditure of $5 million for
five years to carry on this
program.
i ne Representatives said,
“During the past ten years, the
United States has become the
world’s most lucrative market
for Ashing products with a
two-fold increase in demand.
The per capita use (about 70
pounds per year) is now among
the highest in the world. This
large demand is not supplied by
our fishermen alone but
increasingly by foreign
fishermen in the form of
imports.
, “In 1950, foreign fishermen
provided 25.1 per cent of the •
market; and in 1967, 71.1 per
cent. It is no secret that Ashing
grounds just off our coast are
being Ashed by foreign Aeets.
“Domestic Ash production was
2.3 million tons in 1938, rose tp ;
2.8 million tons in 1957 and
dropped to 2.1 million tons in
1967. The annual United States
fishery market requires about
5.6 million tons which means
that 3.5 million tons were
imported in 1967. These imports
werevaluedat $727 million. Tbe-,
annual retail market is valued
well over $2 billion.
“Fish is an important resource
to our national economy. This
resource is available along our
shores but we are not utilizing :
and exploiting its full potential.
The demand for Ashery products
will grow; and unless the trend is>
reversed, these demands will "y
continue to be supplied by 1
ever-growing imports.
“One of the saddest aspects of
this situation is that we have a *
domestic market which could
support a Ashing Aeet twice the
size of the present Aeet. This
market could also provide jobs
in the boat building industry and
in many other related businesses*.
“The State of North Carolina
received a total of $224,800
under PL 88-309 during the
fiscal years 1966-69. The State is
currently carrying out three
research and development
projects dealing with oyster
culture experiments in Ave
coastal estuaries; population
dynamics of shrimp; and studies
on the effects of processing on -•
sea food products with emphasis
on calico scallop. These projects .
have obligated the entire fiscal1,
year 1969 apportionment of
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Tide Table
Following to Ac tide table
lor Southport during the ,
I week. These boon are ap- ■
I proxlmately correct and !
■ were famished The State j
I Port Pilot through the |
1 courtesy of the Gape Fear
I Pilot's Association.
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