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( i The Pilot Covers | Brunswick County! THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community I | Most of the News i All The Time VOLUME 40 No. 52 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY : ‘ '" '^v Aguanaul Display_Ai Festival ir<v,rfh ^ uChard.A- W,aller* neht> will be a guest at the Southport rourth or July festival. He is shown here with oceanographer Conrad V. W Mah nken and a model of the underwater laboratory-home in which they and two other x?A1eI^auts spent days recently. The underwater research is associated with the NASA space program and is conducted to test man’s reactions to prolonged con finement. Waller, the team leader, will be in Southport with the model to explain the JJl UJvvlt County Board Has Important Meet Monday Members of the Board of County Commissioners met Monday and disposed of several matters of important business. The board received a request from the State Highway Commission that the following action be concurred in: That S. R. 1117 does not exist and should be deleted from the system. Road opposite S. R. 1170 which the State is maintaining at the present time is not shown on the County map. The commission requests that this road be added to the system. Road to Yacht Basin is also being maintained at the present time yet it is not shown on the map. It is requested that it be added to the system. The board concurred in the above requests. The board received a request from Eugene B. Tomlinson, Jr., Director of Services, Military Ocean Terminal, Sunny Point, that the board request the State Highway Commission to take over and maintain a road leading off the Leland-Lanvale road to the Department of Army Interchange Yard at Leland. The board concurred in this request and directed it be referred to the State Highway Commission. It was brought to the attention of the board that the annual convention of the N.C. Association of County Commissioners would be held July 5-8 and upon authority of an amendment to G.S. 153-8 authorizing Boards of County Commissioners to fix a date other than the first Monday as the day of their regular meeting went on record and ordered the following: “BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Commissioners of Brunswick County that July 1st is hereby fixed as the date of the regular meeting of the Board of Commissioners of Brunswick (Obodnued On pFour) Famous Aquanaut Here For Festival One of the featured guests during this years Fourth of July Festival in Southport will be Scientist-Aquanaut Richard A. Waller who recently, with three other scientists assigned to the NASA-Aquanaut program, spent 60 days beneath the ocean near the Virgin Islands. Waller, 34, was the team leader and is an oceanographer with the Department of the Interior. He holds a master of science degree in marine biology from Florida State University. On April 16, immediately after the teams’ ascent from the ocean floor, President Richard Nixon sent the following message to Waller: “Your record breaking venture into inner space is another milestone in human achievements. The aquanauts joined the astronauts as space pioneers. Congratulations!” The aquanauts lived in a 23-foot high habitat, designed, built and furnished to the program by G. E.’s Missile and Space Technology Division. The habitat consists of two vertical cylinders mounted on a base and connected in the center by a tube four and a half feet in diameter. Each cylinder is about 18 feet high and 12V2 feet in diameter and contains two compartments, one above the other. On top of the right-hand Strange Creature Boyd Lee Smith of Ash was in Shallotte this (Wednesday) morning with two small fish with feet. He thought they were unusual enough to preserve them in alcohol, and through this clear liquid and the sides of the glass jar it was possible to examine them. The strange sea creatures were about 4-inches in length and were shaped like freshwater bream. They obviously were not of this family, since they were caught in salt water by Smith when he was fishing one day last week near Ocean Isle Beach. cylinder is a five-foot high cupola for observation purposes. The left side houses the crew quarters on the lower deck and the control room above. The right cylinder contains the engine room just below the observation cupola and, below that, the wet room which is continually left open to the sea for easy access in entering and leaving the habitat. The crew quarters contain a small galley, bunks, storage for personal gear, and entertainment equipment consisting of radio and TV facilities. An emergency exit hatch and scuba equipment are located in the crew quarters. The control room, or bridge, serves a dual purpose: (1) as the control center for the habitat system and (2) as a laboratory for the scientists. i ne engine room contains the larger items of the environmental control system, the primary transformers, switch gear, and the large freezer for the 60-day food supply the four aquanaut-scientists took to the ocean floor with them. Although the scientists were under continual observation by closed circuit television, no one from the surface support crew descended to the habitat during the 60-day mission, nor did any of the aquanauts surface until the mission was completed. General Electric will ship a 1/5 scale model of the aquanauts habitat directly from the Paris Air Show in Paris, France, to Southport for the Fourth of July Festival. Aquanaut Waller will be with the display on July 3 and 4 to describe his mission to the bottom of the sea and to hand out literature containing pictures of the interior of the diving bell along with a report from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA’s interest in the TEKTITE I mission is related to their requirements to man space stations for long periods of time in virtual isolation. Gives Advice On Control Of Water Damage Recent heavy rains in many areas of Brunswick County have leached out much of the fertilizer under the tobacco crop, said Archie F. Martin, County Extension Chairman, this week. Many farmers would profit by adding additional nitrogen and potash as a side-dressing, he says. This is especially true for tobacco that has been partially drowned or for young tobacco that is showing a yellow color. Nitrogen added at this season of the year should be in the nitrate form so that it will be quickly available to the plants, said Martin. The best materials to use are: 15-0-14, nitrate of soda, or 8-0-24 with the nitrogen from a nitrate source. The amount to add would depend on several factors. “In our area on sandy soils it usually takes about 65 pounds of actual nitrogen to produce a crop,” Martin said. “At this time of year if you have already put 60 to 65 pounds of nitrogen it would probably pay to add about 20 percent more nitrogen or 12 pounds of actual nitrogen. This amount would take care of one inch of water passing through the soil. You would not (Continued On Page Pour) MTAMTS Jobs Are Attractive The May 1969 issue of Transportation Proceedings, the official magazine of the Military Traffic Management and Terminal Service (MTMTS) contains an article which may be of interest to U.S. Arqiy Reserve Officers not on active duty who disire a mobilization assignment. The article reads as follows: “Challenging opportunities are available to U.S. Army Reserve Officers within the Military Traffic Management and Terminal Service Mobilization Designee Program. Current vacancies existing in North Carolina are listed below. Applications for the positions may be submitted to the Commanding Officer, U.S. Army Administration Center (USAAC), ATTN: AGUZ-RA-SM, 9700 Page Blvd., St. Louis, Mo., 63132, on DA Form 2976, Application for Mobilization Designation Assignment. These forms may be obtained from Army Reserve Centers, USAAC, or Headquarters, MTMTS.” Military Ocean Terminal, Sunny Point, Southport: Chief Medical Officer, Major, 3100, MC; Transportation Movement Officer, Major 0694, TC; Transportation Movement Officers, three Captains, 0694, TC; Staff Logistics Officer, Major, 2625, TC; Staff Engineer Officer, major, 7010, EN; Equipment Specialist, Major, 0694, TC; Division Chief, Colonel, 0692, TC; Division Chief, Colonel, 2624, TC; Transportation Staff Officer, Major, 0692, TC; Staff Transportation Officers, two Colonels, 0692, TC; Staff Transportation Officers, two Majors, 0692, TC; Staff Transportation Officer, Captain, 0692, TC. e And Tide It was June 14, 1939 and “a company recognized for many successful efforts in locating buried treasure” was soon to descend on Bald Head Island. Our newswriter waxed romantic in reporting this project, saying “popular local supposition is that pirates, who once strongly peopled Bald Head Island, buried much of their plunder on the west end of the huge property.” A bit more realistic but equally romantic was the report that Annis Jean and Barbara’ Weeks, departed the week before for Washington, had seen England’s king and queen there. A new menhaden fisherman, the R. B. Hawley, had been pressed into service at Brunswick Navigation Co • pelicans had been seen in the vicinity; and another reptile, this one a Mexican horned toad, had been found in Southport, and subsequently on the front page of The Pilot. Our Not Exactly newsman had noticed that there were two sundials in service locally. One belonged to Mark Ferguson, and the ather was in the yard of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Hewett. This same column had noted a good crop of young sailors, among them Donnie st. George, Jack Christian, Lenhardt Davis, and Johnnie Simmons; cut the most not exactly of news that week appeared as an editorial Clurb, to wit: “We don t know what the temperature was on Friday jut it was meanest around 12 o’clock.” It was June 14,1944, and The Pilot’s front page was again carrying lews of the European invasion campaign. BUI Wells had recently (Continued On Fag* Five) But No One Was Injured Rain-slick pavement can be blamed for the wreck and good luck for no serious ac^dent that occurred Monday afternoon between Southport and Long Beach. The automobile from West Virginia swerved, went into the ditch “fomSem(Phote1b^nS?) “ te'eph0ne POle- There were three occuPants Horse Show Festival Attraction , „ ft takes a pretty young lady like Helen Faulk to make any logic out of having a of.aJ?ar^er commemorating the deeds of Stede Bonnet. The con r asrsjsz ZS°TP^Z irlTSp*banks of c"& Navassa Fire Destroys Big Lumber Mill The Bolivia Lumber Company at Navassa was heavily damaged by fire early Saturday morning. Owner Tommy Garner, a former resident of Southport, gave no estimate of the dollar loss in the blaze which destroyed approximately 85 per cent of the plant. The Garners formerly were in the lumber business in Bolivia. The cause and source of the fire are undetermined. The first :all for assistance was received t>y the Leland Volunteer Fire Department at 2:20 Saturday morning and the department (Continued On Pag* Pour) Marine Corps Hero Is Parade Marshal First Sergeant Raymond G. Rogers who was presented the Navy Cross, the nation’s second highest combat award, will be the parade marshal for the Southport Fourth of July celebration this year. Sergeant Rogers is stationed at Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base as coach of the Marine Corps boxing team. Sergeant Rogers was assistant coach of the United States Olympic boxing team which competed at Mexico City last year. Sergeant Rogers and his wife Vivian have five children: Angela 15, Raymond 13, Randy 12, Janice 10, and Kim Renee 4. Since 1965 the parade marshal for the Southport Fourth of July Festival each year has been a recently-returned veteran of the Vietnam conflict who was decorated for acts of heroism. Sergeant Rogers’ decoration, second only to the Congressional Medal of Honor, was presented to him in April for action with “I” Company, 3rd battalion, 9th Marines, 3rd Marine divison in Quang Tri Province during operation “Prairie III”. When Sergeant Rogers’ commanding officer was killed and the only other officer was severely wounded, Sergeant Rogers went to his aid and at the Lieutenant’s request propped him into a firing position. Shortly thereafter Sergeant Rogers was severely wounded and the Lieutenant died. Disregarding the pain of his wounds, Sergeant Rogers crawled through an exposed area to a discarded radio and re-established contact with battalion headquarters. A “Huev” PlinGhin arrivpH nnH SGT. ROGERS Rogers established contact with the pilot. He stood exposed to enemy fire while directing the firepower of the helicopter gunship on the enemy positions. When the enemy positions were finally knocked out Sergeant Rogers and the six other survivors of his company were evacuated from the area and returned to their battalion. This is the spirit of patriotism upon which the Southport Fourth of July Festival was founded and which it honors each year. The 1969 festival will also feature the world premier of “The Incredible Star-Spangled Banner,” a twenty-minute film produced by the Cape Fear Technical Institute of Wilmington and the U.S. Marine Corps. “The Incredible Star-Spangled Banner”, (CSontiniiMf Hn Pmcm EYhi*> ! ESEA Program Continues In Summer Months Already in progress and continuing through July 31, Title 1 of the Elementary and 1 Secondary Educational Act will make available to any Brunswick County school child or parent the following services: Pro grammed reading and audiovisual aids, June 9 through July 18, 8:30 A.M. to 5:00 P.M., Monday through Friday, at Audiovisual and Instructional Materials Center, Bolivia. Contact P. R. Hankins, Director, Bolivia, car Mrs. Edna Gause, Library Supervisor, Supply-speech therapy, June 9-July 25, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, Leland School, Brunswick County High School, Shallotte School, Bolivia School. Contact Miss Sharon Bradsher, therapist, Shallotte, or principal of schools listed. neaitn services, June 2-July 31, 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at schools listed, 1:30 to 5:00 p.m. home visiting, Monday through Friday, Locations, Leland School, Brunswick County High School, Shallotte School, Contact Mrs. Marie Brown, RN, Southport, or Mrs. Esther Robinson, RN, Shallotte. A course, Education 312 b, Improvement of Reading Instruction in the Elementary Grades, will be offered for Brunswick Countv teachers who have previously enrolled. This course win be taught by Mrs. Peggy Denton, East Carolina University, Greenville, July 7-18, from 8:30 a.m. ;o 11:30 a.m. at Audiovisual and Instructional Materials Center, Bolivia- Contact Mrs. Murid Lennon, Reading Coordinator, Bolivia, or Mrs. Fances B. Stone. Director, Title 1, ESEA, Brunswick County Board of Education, Southport. '***#> -MSsI Students Earn High Honors One of the few women at North Carolina State University studying in the School of Engineering and three men from Brunswick county were honored for their academic achievement during the spring semester. Chancellor John T. Caldwell announced that the four Brunswick students were among 2,114 scholars at NCSU who earned averages of “B” or better among the total student body of 11,153. Catherine Clemmons, daughter of Mis. Mary C. Royal, Supply, mastered demanding subjects in the chemical engineering curriculum to earn a place on the Dean’s List. She is studying in a field which few women enter, but which places a high premium on technical training. Engineering graduates are in heavy demand throughout industry, and beginning engineers earn average salaries in excess of $9,000 a year. (Oonttnued On Page Pour) Tide Table 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 Gape Fear Pilot's Association. Thursday, June 19 11:33 AM 5:46 AM 11:39 PM 5:46 PM Friday, June SO 12:15 AM 6:28 AM 12:21 PM 6:28 PM Saturday, June 21 1257 AM 7:04 AM 7:22 PM Sunday, dune 22 1:03 AM 7:52 AM 1:51 FM 8:16 PM Monday, June 28 1:57 AM 8:40 AM 2:51 PM 9:22 PM Tuesday, June 24 2:51 AM 9:34 AM 3:51 PM 10:28 PM Wednesday, June 23 3:81 AM 10:28 AM 4:51 PM 11:34 PM
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