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VOLUME 40
No. 50
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SOUTHPORT, N. C. 'WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, ]969>
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PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
This is the famous Burlington Rotary Boys Choir
that will sing at the Southport Baptist Church 11 a,m„
Burlington Boys Choir Here Sunday
Sunday. The public is invited.
Famous Boys Choir Coming Sunday
Sixty boys between the ages of
eight and fourteen are members
of the Burlington Rotary Boys
Choir. These boys, coming from
eight elementary and two junior
high schools in Burlington City
Schools, warrant membership
because of exceptional singing
voices, high personal academic
standards, musical ability, and
conscientious application to the
choir training program.
This outstanding organization
will sing Sunday morning at the
11 o’clock hour at Southport
Baptist Church. The public is
invited.
This choir sang last year in
Southport and was well received.
Since its organization in
November 1959, approximately
175 boys have known the
discipline and hard work
required in learning a repertoire
of music literature ranging from
the early church music of
Graduation Held
A t Southport High
inirty-tnree seniors were
graduated from Southport High
School during Commencement
exercises Monday night at the
Fort Caswell Baptist Assembly.
Dr. William Wagoner, president
of Wilmington College,
presented the Commencement
address.
The graduation exercises began
Sunday afternoon at Fort
Caswell with the Baccalaureate
Service. The prelude to the
Service was by Rev. Homer
McKeithan, Jr., of Bethel Baptist
Church, and the invocation was
offered by Rev. A. S. Lamm of
the Southport Baptist Church.
Special music was provided by a
choir made up of members of
the church choirs of Southport.
The scripture was read bv the
Rev. W. S. Taylor, who also
offered a prayer. The Rev.
William Davenport of Trinity
Methodist Church gave the
message, and Father Chan Chase
of Sacred Heart Catholic Church
gave the benediction. The
postlude was by Rev.
McKeithan. Rev. McKeithan also
presented the prelude and
postlude for Commencement
exercises Monday night.
Rev. Mark Owens of Calvary
Baptist Church at Shallotte gave
the invocation for the
Commencement program. Miss
Beverly Price, marshal, presented
Mi« Zottie Carrier, who gave the
salutatory address. Dr. .Wagoner
was introduced by Miss
Jacqueline Worley,
vice-president of the senior ci»«=
Announcements of awards and
scholarships were made by
Johnie Vereen, chairman of the
Southport School Committee.
The Furpless Award, given to
the senior showing outstanding
citizenship, was awarded to Miss
Donna Crouch.
The Mary Lee Norment
Scholarship for $150 was given
to Miss Marcia Jo Batton.
The Department of Business
Education Typewriting Award
was given to Miss Gail Strong.
The $100 Beta Club
Scholarship was awarded to Miss
Jacqueline Worley for
outstanding Beta Club activities.
The Crisco Award, presented
to the outstanding home
economics senior, was given to
Miss Donna Crouch.
The Louise B. Reese
Achievement Award was
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Telephone Company Announces
Use 01 Direct Distance Dialing
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%Brief Bits Of
! NEWS
DRAWBRIDGE CLOSED
The State Highway
Commission has given notice
that the drawbridge at Holden
Beach will be closed to
intracoastal waterway traffic on
Tuesday, June 17, from the
hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
while emergency repairs are
being made to the operating
machinery. Vessels which can
pass under the closed draw will
not be affected by the proposed
work.
JONAS TO SPEAK
Charles R. Jonas, Jr., of
Charlotte will be the guest
speaker at a Dutch Banquet at
7:30 Saturday night at the
Brunswick Barbecue House
Restaurant near Leland,
according to J. Dewy Sellers,
chairman of the Brunswick
County Republican Party.
Telephone directories for the
greater Wilmington area will be
delivered to subscribers
beginning today. It is expected
that delivery will be completed
by Saturday, it was announced
by R. E. Nantz, manager for
Southern Bell in Wilmington.
At the same time, all of the
telephone exchanges within the
immediate area, with the
exception of Bolton, will have
made available to them direct
distance dialing. Dialing
instructions can be obtained in
the Call Guide section of the
new telephone directory. There
has been a slight change in the
format of the directory and we
would urge each subscriber to
look over the front pages now
called “Call Guide” which were
formerly informational pages.
Nantz said, “Since last year’s
directory was published, we
gained 200 telephones in the
Southport-Long Beach area. This
represents approximately a 11%
increase over the previous year.”
It is requested that all who do
not receive their directories
contact the business office so a
copy can be mailed to them.
Palestrina to the contemporary
music of the twentieth century.
Rehearsals are held throughout
the year at least three times
weekly. All boys, during the
summer, also attend two weeks
of camp, one at the seashore and
the other in Western North
Carolina, where professional,
experienced teachers prepare
them for the year ahead. Words
and notes to more than 40
pieces of music are taught at the
camps, with emphasis upon the
Christmas and spring programs
The Choir will arrive at Fort
Caswell Baptist Assembly
Saturday for their first week of
camp.
Boys work in a training choir
for at least one year before they
may become members of the
performing choir.
Two separate programs are
prepared each year—one
primarily for Christmas, and one
for the spring. Biannually, the
Choir presents a full concert,
consisting of a wide range of
sacred and secular pieces.
-.Sustaining the choir through
the years are the Burlington
Rotary Club, whose members
provide financial assistance,
Patrons of the Boys Choir,
whose gifts make possible an
enlargement of the program, and
parents of choir boys who work
vigorously on various
committees in meeting many
needs of the performers.
Quality of performance by the
Burlington Rotary Choir Boys
compares quite favorably with
that of professional choirs. The
Burlington Boys Choir is the
only organization of its kind in a
North Carolina. »
During the past nine years, the
boys have sung throughout
North Carolina and the Eastern
Seaboard States to an estimated
audience of more than 50,000
people.
Guardsman Killed
In Caswell Wreck
A L-oast uuard seaman was
killed Thursday afternoon in a
three-vehicle crash that also
injured two other people. The
accident occurred on secondary
road 1100 between Yaupon
Beach and Fort Caswell, a short
distance from the Oak Island
Coast Guard Station.
Seaman Eugene Francis
Broderick, Jr., of Baltimore, a
crew member of the Coast
Guard Cutter Cape Upright, died
when the 1964 Chevrolet
convertible which he was driving
at high speed went out of
ABC Store At !
Sunset Beach
Legislation authorizing Sunset
Beach to hold an election on the
establishment of municipal ABC
stores was passed Friday by the
Senate and sent to the House.
The measure provides that an
election may be called either
upon motion by the Sunset
Beach Board of Commissioners
or upon petition to the board
signed by at least fifteen per
cent of the town’s qualified
voters, with the election to be
held on or before November 1.
1969.
If a majority of the votes cast
in the election are in favor of the
establishment of ABC stores, the
Board of Commissioners is
directed to appoint a three-man
town ABC board and set the
compensation of its members.
Out of the gross profits of
ABC sales, five to ten per cent
would be designated for law
enforcement purposes, and the
net profits would be distributed
with sixty-five per cent going to
the town’s general fund, twenty
per cent to the Brunswick
County Board of Education and
fifteen Volunteer Rescue Squad.
Other Brunswick County
municipalities which have
already established ABC stores
include Southport, Long Beach,
Shallotte and Ocean Isle Beach.
control and skidded into a Ford
Falcon and a pick-up truck.
Charles D. Rowland, also a
crewman on the Coast Guard
cutter, was a passenger in the car
driven by Broderick. He was
thrown from the automobile but
received no serious injury.
Rowland was treated and
released.
Robert Arthur Jones of
Southport, the driver of the
other automobile, was taken to
Dosher Memorial Hospital and
was later transferred to Cape
Fear Memorial Hospital in
Wilmington, where he is
reported to be in satisfactory
condition. He sustained a head
injury.
Jones fether, Robert Lewis
Jones, was not injured when
Broderick’s automobile hit his
pick-up truck.
According to investigating
Highway Patrolman Kenneth
Jones, the crash occurred at
5:45 p.m. Broderick was
traveling eastward on the
narrow, undulating road, but
there are no curves near the
scene of the crash. Robert
Arthur Jones was also traveling
east, while his Father was
traveling westward toward
Yaupon Beach. Broderick was
unable to slow his car to avoid a
collision, lost control and slid
for approximately 150 feet
before slamming into the rear
end of the automobile driven by
the younger Jones.
e And Tide
It was May 31,1939, and it was alligator season. Featured on the
front page of The Pilot for that week were three pictures of an
alligator the same reptile in each case. Also featured in one of the
photos was G. T. Bullard, a Columbus County man, who had
“brought ’im back alive”. The mysterious lights of Maco are always
interesting reading, and were so that week. The current theory had it
that the light came from some natural gas, and an intriguing twist
was that several scientists were currently trying to capture one (or
some). The Pilot Tower in Southport (the old, wooden one) was
being painted; the season’s baby show had been indefinitely
postponed; and a summer school for swimming instruction was being
planned. 6
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Board Of Education Submits
School Desegregation Plan |
A plan calling for the total
desegregation of all Brunswick
County schools has been
submitted by Superintendent
George F. Williams following
unanimous action by the
Brunswick County Board of
Education at a called meeting
Thursday night.
Following is the text of
Superintendent Williams letter
to Dr. Lloyd R. Henderson,
chief of the Education Branch,
Office of Ciyil Rights,
Washington:
“Please be advised that the
Brunswick County Board of
Education in session on
Heritage House Is
Festival Feature
The Southport Woman’s Club
will hold its annual Heritage
House again this year during the
Fourth of July holiday,
according to Mrs. E. R. Perry,
dub president, and Mrs. James
M. Harper, Jr., who will be
chairman of the show.
Committee heads are now
being selected, some of them
already at work, and the show
promises to be another drawing
card for the festivities. It will be
held in the Community Building
and admission will be free. A
silver offering will be taken to
defray expenses of the show.
Mrs. Thomas Thompson is
chairman of hostesses, and plans
to have club members in
authentic dresses of bygone
periods on hand to make viators
feel welcome and to explain
some of the exhibits.
Heritage House will be open to
the public from one until five on
July 3, from 9 until 5 on the
fourth, except for the time of
the parade, and will be open
from 10 until 5 on July 5th. t
Mrs. Eugene Tomlinson and
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Boatswain's Mate First Class Medlin (right) receiv
es retirement orders.
Coast Guardsman
Plans Retirement
Boatswain’s Mate First Class
Tom Medlin, stationed at Oak
Island Coast Guard Station,
retired from the Coast Guard
Thursday after completing 26
years of service.
Ceremonies were held at the
Oak Island Station. There was a
general muster, during which
Medlin’s retirement orders were
read to him by the officer in
charge. Medlin was presented a
framed retirement certificate,
and after, the ceremony a
surprise dinner and party was
held for Medlin at the Pines
Restaurant by the crews of Oak
Island, the cutter Cape Upright
and the cutter Blackberry.
. During his 26 years in the
service Medlin served with the
following units: Boat training at
St. Augustine, Florida, USS
Bayfield, USS Samuel Chase,
USCG Currier, USCG 83312,
USCG 95312, Windmill Light
Station, Sandy Point Light
Station, C.O.P.T. Baltimore,
Md., USCG Mistletoe, USCG
Mendota, C.O.P.T. Berkeley
Base Norfolk, USCG Raraton,
CG Loran Station Cape Sarichef,
Cape Spencer Station, Cape
Upright 95303, and Oak Island
Coast Guard Station.
Mrs. Norman Templon will be in
charge of placement and will
also arrange to display
collections which are on display.
Mrs. Cash Caroon will be
transportation chairman for
those items which are too large
to be brought in automobiles.
Mrs. Howard Laonhardt is in
charge of signs to advertise the
show as well as directional signs
so the public will know how to
reach the Community Building.
Mrs. Jeannette Driscoll is busy
calling persons who have
exhibited in the past and will
also be glad to contact persons
who have never exhibited. It is
hoped that a good number of
people throughout the county
will respond to the appeal to
display interesting and unusual
items as well as antiques so that
visitors may see some of the
treasured items which are not
usually on display in the
Southport area.
Other committee Chairmen
will be announced later as plans
for the Heritage House progress.
Thursday, May 29, 1969,
unanimously approved and
adopted the enclosed plan of
school desegregation of the
county schools for the 1969-70
school year. This action was
taken for compliance with the
regulations and guidelines as
stipulated by your office.
“This plan involves, basically,
the total desegregation of all
county schools and staff.
Information included herein sets
forth the basic framework under
which the desegregation of all
schools will be accomplished.
“It is our assumption that
there would be no question of
acceptability of this plan by
your office and that all
enforcement proceedings against
the Brunswick County Board of
Education would be no question
of acceptability of this plan by
your office and that all
enforcement proceedings against
Mrs. Ann Sherer
Woman To Give
Desegregation
Speech Sunday
Mrs. Ann B. Sherer of the
North Carolina Good Neighbor
Council will speak Sunday at
2:30 in Trinity Methodist
Church. Her talk will be
“Community Involvement in
School Desegregation.” Mrs.
Sherer is a well-known speaker
on the subject.
The program is being
sponsored by the Southport
Human Relations Committee
and the City of Southport. A
Youth Council of Southport and
Brunswick County High Schools,
organized by the Human
Relation Committee, is actively
engaged in planning for the
desegregation of area schools
this fall.
Parents, students and
interested citizens of Southport
and Brunswick County are urged
to attend.
Campaign For
March Of Dimes
The 1969 Brunswick County
March of Dimes campaign netted
$1849.70 to be used in activities
on both the local and the
national leveL Part of the funds
will go to the Research Division
of the National Foundation, part
to the National Foundation and
the remainder to the Brunswick
County Chapter. The chapter
funds take care of local needs
and each year contribute to the
Birth Defect Clinic at North
Carolina Memorial Hospital in
Chapel Hill.
Following is a list of
communities and the chairmen
in each area, indicating their
contributions to the campaign:
Ash, Mrs. William Mathews
(chairman), $42.90; Bolivia, Mrs.
I. H. Williams, $71.06; Boone’s
Meek, Mrs. N. C. Bellamy,
$17.77; Brunswick County High
School, C. A. Caveness, $61.53;
Calabash, Mrs. Harry Bennett,
$42.40; Grissettown, Mrs.
Morman Grissett, $10.70;
Holdens Beach, Mrs. Hugh
Dutton, $12.63; Hickman’s
Crossroad, Mrs. Ernest Stanaland
ind Mrs. Leob Hickman, $39.72;
Leland, Mrs. T. J. Moore,
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the Brunswick County Board of
Education would be dismissed
and the administrative unit
would be removed from the
present “deferred status”
position.
“We shall appreciate your
consideration in his matter.”
Following are the details of
the desegregation plan
submitted:
“The Brunswick County Board -
of Education submits the:
following as a plan for school!
desegregation in accordance and ',
compliance with the Department
of Health, Education, and.
Welfare guidelines and;
regulations. The plan as
approved by the Board involves
the pairing of schools in three
areas, zoning of districts for!
school attendance in two areas.
“The plan involves and!
provides for the total
desegregation of all existing
county schools. The?
organizational structure for the
county schools for the 1969-70.
school year would be as follows:!
“The Shallotte and Union
School will involve a pairing;
arrangement of schools,’
whereby, grades 6-12 that
formerly attended the Union
School are assigned to the
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School Board {
Holds Meeting \
The Brunswick County Board'
of Education met in a special'
session on Thursday. «
The board approved the
following teacher contracts:
David Holden, Leland; Marion L.
Bum, Southport.
The board accepted the
resignations of the following
personnel: Peggy Owens, Sandra
Brewer, Gelene Russ, J. W.
Howard and Dudley Howard,
Shallotte; Harold Ellison, n,
Evangeline Ellison and Jerline
Lucas, Union.
The board studied the
proposed budget for the
1969-70 school year. On a
motion by Delmas Babson and a
second by Arthur J. Dosher they
approved the proposed budget.
Approval was given a proposed
list for the Summer Head Start
program, subject to approval by
the Office of Economic ,.
Opportunity. >•
The board approved the
proposed school calendar for the
1969-70 school year.
The board discussed a plan for
school desegregation for the
county schools for the 1969-70
school year. Joe Gainey made a.
motion to postpone the
approving of a desegregation
plan until the following week,
but this motion died due to a
lack of a second.
By unanimous action the
board approved a plan for school
desegregation for the 1969-70
school year. The details of such
a plan appear above in a separate
article.
Tide Table
Following Is the tide table
for Southport daring the
week. These hoars are ap
proximately correct and
were famished Use State
Port Pilot through the
courtesy off the Gape Fear
Pilot's Association.
Thursday, June fi
1:09 AM 7:10 AM
7:16 PM
Friday, June 6
1:39 AM 8:04 AM
2:09 IPM 8:22 PM
Saturday, June 7
2:33 AM 8:58 AM
3:09 PM 9:28 PM
Sunday, June 8
3:27 AM 9:52 AM
4:03 PM - 10:28 PM
Monday, June 9
4:27 AM 10:40 AM
5:03 PM 11:28 PM
Tuesday, June 10
5:15 AM 11:84 AM
5:51 PM 12:22 PM
Wednesday, June 11
6:03 AM 12:16 AM
6:39 PM 1:04 PM