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VOLUME 40
No. 51
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SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1:1, 1969 5* COPY
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Queen Invites Governor
Miss Helen Faulk, reigning Fourth of July Festival
Queen, is shown with Governor Bob Scott. Helen was
in Raleigh to invite the Governor to the Southport festi
val July 2-4 and to present to him a woodcut of South
port’s famous Indian Trail Tree.
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DONATIONS FOR FESTIVAL
Donations for defraying the
expenses of the Fourth of July
Festival are needed and are now
being accepted by Robert
Howard at the Waccamaw Bank.
ATTENDS MEETING
James Wolfe will attend the
NCAR Board of Directors
meeting today (Wednesday) in
Chapel Hill. Wolfe is the State
Director for the Brunswick
County realtors.
UNCG GRADUATE
Miss Sandra Narine Russ,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Earl
Russ of Leland, received a
Bachelor of Arts Degree during
Commencement exercises at the
University of North Carolina at
Greensboro last week.
Last Thursday Miss Helen
Faulk, Southport’s reigning Miss
, Fourth of July, visited Governor
Robert W. Scott in his office at
the Capitol to officially invite
him to attend the 1969
Southport Fourth of July
Festival, to be held on July 2-4.
Miss Faulk also presented
Governor Scott with an original
woodcut painting of the famous
Indian Trail Tree, located in the
sideyard of the Cranmer House
at Southport. The woodcut was
’ carved by Mrs. Thelma
of Winston-Salem and
Southport.
Governor Scott will not be
able to attend , the Festival,
however, because of a pioi
commitment.
The Southport Fourth of July
Festival will officially open on
the morning of July 2 when the
Sidewalk Art Show on Moore
Street and the Southport Art
Show in the City Hall get
underway. Other events
beginning on July 2 will include
the Heritage House, located in
the Community Building; the
Cape Fear Technical Institute’s
CHAR (Cultural-Historic
Artistic- Recreational) Trail
exhibit, a color-slide
presentation to be shown at
thirty minute intervals in the
Southport-Brunswick County
Public Library; the U.S. Air
Force MARS unit will again be
on hand to send radio
messages to service men on duty
overseas for freinds and relatives;
Naval ships and Army
helicopters will be present for
public inspection and other
exhibits will include a boat show
at the Southport Small Boat
Harbor and several mobile
museums.
A donkey baseball game will
be played on July 3 at Taylor
Athletic Field, and the
world-famous Aquanaut Exhibit
will arrive in Southport after
being flown direct from the Paris
Air Show with Aquanaut
Richard Waller, who recently
lived in the diving bell for 60
days beneath the Atlantic
Ocean, on hand to explain the
scientific advances made possible
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Meow...
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals would have
been proud.
One day last week a friend of ours was walking across the street
from the post office and heard a very definite “meow,” origin
unknown. There was no cat to be seen, no trees nor bushes in which
a cat could hide and the only telephone pole nearby had no cat atop
it. Logically the sound would come from the inside of a parked
automobile, but closer inspection rendered this assumption untrue.
Another person came by about the time of the next “meow,” and
he, too, was puzzled. The sound seemed to be coming from within
the engine compartment, and the area was searched thoroughly.
Meanwhile another bystander found the driver of the car in a beauty
parlor, her hair wet and she unable to do anything about the noise in
her engine. Anyway, she didn’t even own a cat.
The Lady couldn’t have left even if she had wanted to. By this
time a sizeable group had gathered about the car, a group consisting
mostly of young girls who have this sentimental thing for cats. Even
a policeman had been summoned to the scene.
The rescuers “meowed,” and the “meows” they got in response
led to the determination that the cat was caught in the chassis itself.
it soemed as though a complete bodv iob on the automobile would
be necessary to free the cat—certainly the spectators were all for
it!—but about that time the cat—kitten, rather—was spotted in
another, less dangerous part of the engine compartment. The kitten
was pulled from behind the battery still frightened, but much safer
than it had been on its trip from Yaupon Beach.
Fire Damages
WWAY Tower j
Near Southport |
A late-morning blaze gutted 1
the transmitter of Wilmington .
television station WWAY Friday ?
forcing the station off the air. *
The transmitter is located at
Boiling Spring Lakes, about 10
miles from Southport.
General manager Paul A. j
Brissette, Jr., said that damage
to the transmitter would
probably be between “$200,000
to $300,000 and possibly
more.”
“An RCA expert from New
York is flying here to check the
damage and make a more
definite estimate,” Brissette
added.
The blaze, which began at
11:45 a.m., was started when
electrical circuits running into
the building malfunctioned and
overheated. The insulation on
the wires caught Are and flames
spread to a wooden wall panel,
according to WWAY’s chief
engineer, Art Madeley.
Company officials were unable
to get into the control room of®
the transmitter late Friday to
- check the damage there.
Three fire fighting units were
called to battle the blaze, but
firemen had to wait an hour and
a half until a crew from Carolina
Power and Light Company could
turn off the power to the
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Jonas Speaks
To Republicans
A state Republican leader
warned the Democratic
leadership Saturday night at the
Brunswick House in Leland to
wake up to the realities of
politics in North Carolina today
or face the consquences in the
future.
Charles R. Jonas Jr. told a
group at a Brunswick County
Republican rally that the
Democratic party still tries to
run state government as though
North Carolina were a one-party
state.
“They treat our state agencies,
commissions and boards as
though they were a private club
for members of the Democratic
Party,” said Jonas.
Jonas told Eastern
Republicans that the GOP would
control the 1971 congressional
delegation. But he said the
highest priority for the GOP was
the governor’s chair in 1972.
“I know what it takes to win a
state level race in North
Carolina,” said Jonas, son of the
Republican Congressman,
Charles R. Jonas, Sr. “I have
been studying last fall’s election
results for some months now,
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Herring Gets
Highest Award
R. McPhail Herring, Jr., of
Clinton, a member of the
graduating class of the Bowman
Gray School of Medicine, last
week was awarded the highest
honor that can be bestowed on a
student by the faculty of the
medical school. He was
presented the Faculty Award at
the medical school’s annual
student awards ceremony.
Herring’s family has a summer
home at Yaupon Beach. He is
married to the former Ann
Denning, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. T. Denning of Clinton
and Long Beach. Denning is a
former Superintendent of
Brunswick County Schools.
The Faculty Award, and
engraved plaque, has been
presented annually for 12 years
to a member of the graduating
class who has demonstrated
outstanding scholarship and
character during four years of
medical school.
Herring was one of 54
members of the senior class who
received the Doctor of Medicine
degree Monday in graduation
exercises on the Wake Forest
Univeristy campus.
Last month he was presented
the $1,000 Senior Reynolds
Scholar Award by the Z. Smith
Reynolds Foundation. This
award is presented annually to
the outstanding Reynolds
Scholar in the Bowman Gray
graduating class.
380-Pound Marlin At Southport
A 380-pound Blue Marlin, the first landed by a Southport charter boat this sea
son, was caught Monday by Ralph Pitts of Newton, N. C. He was fishing aboard
Capt. Rob Austin’s Douglas. The gaint game fish, which measured eleven and one
half feet in length, was hooked about 80 miles- offshore near the Continental Shelf
and was boated two hours and 45 minutes later. The fishing party, from Left to
Right, included: Jim Newsome, Dudley Locke, Hugh Bumgardner, Pitts, Capt. Aus
tin (kneeling), J. D. Earnhardt and Joe Sigmoif— all of Newton. (Photo by Spencer)
DuPont Plans Larger
Plant For Brunswick
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Construction of new facilities
for manufacturing Dacron
polyester filament which will
double the present work force
and oavroll has started at
DuPont’s Cape Fear plant.
Announcement of expansion
for the Brunswick County plant
near Phoenix was made Monday
by F. Murray Acker, plant
manager.
Additon of the filament plant
next to the Dacron staple
producing plant is expected to
create about 400 more jobs
while doubling the Cape Fear
plant’s annual $4.5 million
payroll.
Acker said start-up operations
for the new filament plant are
slated during 1970. Doubling of
the present 400 employee work
force is expected within a year
and one-half.
Production of Dacron filament
yam at the Cape Fear plant is a
departure from original
manufacturing plans for the
plant.
“Our original plans for Cape
Fear indicated that production
here would be of Dacron staple
only,” said Acker.
The Cape Fear plant was
selected by DuPoint as the best
site for expansion when plans
were made to increase
production capacity for filament
yarns,
“Our experience since we
started construction work back
in 1966 has been most
satisfactory,” Acker said, “and
we believe that expansion is the
best proof that DuPont and this
area are indeed compatible.” ,
The filament plant will be next
to the present Dacron staple
producing plant. Acker said
51,000 Visitors At
Brunswick Town
More than 51,000 persons
visited Brunswick Town State
Historic Site between January 1
and May 31, an average of
slightly more than 10,000 a
month. If visitation continues at
the present rate, the total for the
year will be 120,000, compared
to 93,000 in 1968. During April
and May over 100 school groups
visited the site.
Time And Tide
It was June 7, 1939, and the front page of The Pilot that week
carried an interesting account of the long history of the St. Phillips
Church at Old Brunswick. Another news item announced that the
Gr. en Swamp was being “whittled down to size” by a Riegel Paper
Company dragline. Bill Sharpe, North Carolina’s chief tub-thumper
of the time had made the prediction that che State’s biggest treasure
find would be made someday on Bald Head Island. (He has not yet
been proved wrong). Capt. Robert Thompson had piloted the tanker
Pan Massachusetts up-river to Wilmington for a new draft record of
31 feet, 5 inches; our Not Exactly Newsman noted that both
Calendar Newton and M. R. Sanders held unlimited licenses for
marine engineering; and while this column missed the item, a front
page story mentioned that a 26-foot python had escaped from the
New York World’s Fairgrounds.
Tom Gilbert, John D. O’Daniel, and Buster Northrop had figured
heroically in a near-tragedy on the Oak Island beach; the menhaden
fisherman Alert had lived up to her name, catching some 20C
thousand fish between Ft. Caswell and Bald Head Island; and
Ramona and Her Men of Music were playing at the WhitevilU
armory.
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there would be some additions
to the construction force at the
site.
Dick Day, in charge of
DuPoint Construction at the
Cape Fear plant, said about 260
men were working on the
construction force now.
“We have had as high as 1,000
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Fred M. Burdette, Jr.
Southport Man
Gets MD Degree
Fred McP. Burdette of
Southport has received the
Doctor of Medicine degree from
the Bowman Gray School of
Medicine.
He was one of 54 members of
the senior class graduated June 9
in ceremonies on the campus of
Wake Forest University.
Burdette is the son of Dr. and
Mrs. Fred M. Burdette of
Southport. He attended The
Citadel and the University ol
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He will take internship training
in surgery at Roosevelt Hospital
in New York City. Th(
appointment is effective July 1
Burdette is married to th<
former Patricia Bryant o
Wilmington.
Appeal Expected
New Price Set
For CP&L Land
Clerk of Court J. E. Brown
this week reported the amount
he considered fair for Carolina
Power and Light Company to
pay for the land on which the
company proposes to build a
nuclear power plant. Brown,
after conferring with
representatives of CP&L and
landowner James E. Johnson,
Jr., of Lumberton, set the value
of the 842-acre tract at
$542,100, over one million
dollars lesfc than the majority
report submitted by
commissioners in May.
Attorneys for Johnson have
given notice of appeal in
Superior Court.
The majority report submitted
in May amounted to
$1,701,100. This report
represents payment for the land
at the rate of over $2,000 an
acre. This report was signed by
E. W. Morgan and Horace
Duncan, Jr.
Brown’s report represents
County farmers
Slow To Report
With only 6 more work days at
the ASCS Office before the June
20 deadline for farmers to
certify to their 1969 crop and
land use acreage, there are still
1100 farmers who have not
certified. This means that there
will be waiting lines of farmers
at the office each of the
remaining days with the lines
getting longer after each day.
All farmers who have an
allotment crop or are
participating in the feed grain,
wheat or cotton programs are
required to certify to their
acreage. They are also required
to furnish other information
such as: (1) other farms in which
they have an interest, (2) other
producers on the farm and the
farms in which they have an
interest, (3) whether or not a
discount variety of tobacco is
planted, (4) how many tobacco
marketing cards will be needed
for the farm and the amount of
pounds to go on each one if
more than one is requested.
Failure to certify will result in
loss of history credit and all
price support eligibility. Also,
for those farmers participating in
the feed grain, wheat or cotton
program, it will result in a loss of
all payment including a refund
of the payment already received,
plus interest. This is a very high
price to pay for a little
carelessness.
It is very important that farm
operators visit the County Office
to file these reports. A LETTER
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Leland Death
Ruled Suicide
A Leland man was found dead
late Thursday evening after he
apparently committed suicide
Tuesday. According to
Brunswick County Coroner
Lowell Bennett.
Samuel Evernice Johnson, 33,
of Leland, was found dead
floating in a tub of water by his
brother.
Johnson, according to
Bennett, wrote two notes, took
an overdose of sleeping pills,
climbed into the bath tub, fell
asleep and drowned.
Bennett ruled the death
self-inflicted and said no inquest
will be held.
Graveside services will be
conducted Saturday at 3 p.m. in
the Winter Park Cemetery with
the Rev. A. L. McGee,
officiating.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Irene Davis Johnson of the
home; one son, Samuel E.
Johnson Jr., also of the home:
his mother, Mrs. Lessie Smith
Johnson, White Lake; foui
brothers, Eugene Johnson.
Graphard Johnson, Lennit
Johnson, and Ernest Johnson, all
of White Lake; three
half-brothers, Tommy Johnson
Clinton and Charley and Johnny
Johnson, both of White Lake
: two sisters, Mrs. Eula Belle Pate
’ Whiteville, and Mrs. Lessie Mae
Norris of White Lake.
payment, for the land at the rate
if $650 an acre.
A minority report was made
by T. S. Bowmer, whose figure
was $233,820, or almost $1.5
million less than that of the
other two commissioners. All
three are realtors engaged in
business in the Southport-Long
Beach area.
These three men were
appointed by Clerk of Court
Brown to conduct a hearing on
May 1 at which time they heard
Johnson, principal owner of the
property in question, estimate
the present value of his property
to be $1,840,800, the value after
taking to be $8,600, with a total
damage of $1,832,200.
At the hearing he produced
three witnesses, whose
valuations were as follow:
Gerrit Greer—present value,
$1,386,054; value after taking,
$10,000; damage $1,376,054.
J. B. Cochran—present value,
$1,380,000; value after taking,
$8,600; damage, $1,371,400.
F. Herbert Swain—present
value, $1,380,000; value after
taking, $9,500; damage,
$1,370,000.
The amount allowed in the
commissioner’s majority report
is greater than the damage
estimate of either of the above
three witnesses for the plaintiff.
At the hearing, CP&L offered
the testimony of three witnesses,
whose valuations were as follow:
Robert C. Cantwell, III, whose
estimate of value of land being
taken amounted to $185,000;
Murdoch M. Dunn, whose
estimate of value of land being
taken amounted to $188,762; V.
W. Herlivich, whose estimate of
value of land being taken
amounted to $182,500.
Education Board
In Two Sessions
The Brunswick County Board
of Education met in a special ,*;!
called meeting last Wednesday. -
Mrs. Frances Stone, E.S.E.A. -..I;;
Director, met with the board ,;!
and discussed the proposed ^
budget for the Federal Program ’>•
for the 1969-70 school year. The -
board approved the proposed
budget.
The board interviewed the
following applicants for the
position of Superintendent of
Brunswick County Schools:
Kenneth Brinson of Sanford and
Ernest Sutton of Raeford. ->
The board discussed the
projected Leland School site and
recent developments involving
the exact location of the site.
The board accepted the
following teacher resignations:
from Shallotte, Betty N. Hewett
and Gay B. White; from
Waccamaw, John G. Long,
Hobson Bennett and Gerald
Ellen. v
The board approved the
following teacher contract: for
Waccamaw, Diana Ward Hughes.
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Tide Table
Following Is the tide table
for Southport during the
week. These boon am ap
proximately correct and
were furnished The State
Port Pilot through the
courtesy of the Gape Fear
Pilot's Association.
Thursday, June 12,
6:01 A M 1:04 A M
7:21 P M
Friday, June IS,
7:36 A M 1:52 A M
8:03 P M 1:46 P M
Saturday, June 14,
8:21 AM 2:34 A M
8:39 P M 2:28 P M
Sunday, June 15,
9:03 A M 3:16 A M
9:21 P M 3:10 P M
Monday, June 16,
9:39 A M 3:52 A M
9:57 P M 3:46 P M
Tuesday, June 17,
10:15 A M 4:34 A M
10:33 P M 4:22 P M
Wednesday, June 18,
10:51 AM 5:10 A M
11:03 P M 5:04 P M