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SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 196?
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Jungle Growth Saved His Life
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An Army Sergeant with 23 years experience owes his life to the dense, tropical
growth on Bald Head Island. He is shown at the right, looking up at his parachute
harness dangling from a tree. A few moments before he had scrambled out uninjured
even though his chute had fouled and he had plummeted to earth much too fast for
safety. With him on the left is Capt. Dennington, who also was involved in jump
maneuvers. (Photo by Spencer)
Brunswick Has
First Segment
014-Lane Road
A section of U.S. 74-76 fron
Leland to the Columbus Count;
line should be completed abou
August 29 with traffic allowet
on the four-lane as early a
August 18.
Jim Medlin, resident enginee
of the N.C. High wa;
Department in Wilmington, sak
the two weeks from August 11
to August 29 will be used fo:
planting of grass and genera
clean-up operations.
This particular section of rao.
was scheduled to be complete
on July 1. Bad weathei
especially rain, could have be®
the cause of the delay ii
completion, Medlin speculated
This link of the “Port to
Piedmont” highway is 8.3 miles
in length and when completed
will be the first section of
four-lane highway to be
constructed in SENCland
outside of New Hanover County.
Presently, traffic is being
carried on the old section of
highway except for short
temporary detours. A
45-mile-per-hour speed limit is
being maintained throughout the
construction area.
This is one of many projects
designed to eventually link the
area with the Piedmont section
of the state.
A section of U.S. 74-76 from
Bolton to Delco is also being
shaped into a four-lance
highway. Completion of this 9.9
mile section is scheduled for
Dec. 1,1970.
Construction is taking place on
sections of N.C. 87 and U.S.
74-76 for 2.76 miles from
Riegelwood to Maco. Traffic is
maintained except for a short
temporary detour at
Riegelwood.
Other highway work reported
by the N.C. Highway
Commission includes work on
U.S. 17 north of Jacksonville.
Completion is slated for
December 1,1970.
Check For Hospital
William T. Watkins, right, is shown here as he pre
sents a check for $200 to W. F. Cupit, administrator at
Dosher Memorial Hospital. The gift was made on behalf
of Brunswick Coastal Properties, owners of Long Beach
Fishing Pier, where Hospital Days were observed earlier
this season. (Beacon Photo)
Market Opening
Is Called Off
Border Belt Tobacco Markets,
plagued with a shortage of
buyers on opening day
Wednesday, have taken a sales
recess until Monday, July 28.
At most of the towns in the
Border Belt sales did not extend
through the day. Only at
Whiteville was a full sale’s day
completed, with a high
percentage of sales going to the
Stabilization Corporation.
P.R. Floyd, president of the
Border Belt Tobacco Marketing
Association, announced plans
for postponing sales until
Monday and expressed the hope
that all major buyers will be
represented at warehouses for
(Continued On Page Five)
Brunswick To
Be Represented
At Conference
Some 1,400 Tar Heel 4-H
members, their adult leaders and
extension agents will gather in
Raleigh July 28-Aug. 1, for the
1969 North Carolina 4-H
Congress.
Brunswick will have 2 4-H
members as delegates to the
North Carolina 4-H Congress in
Raleigh this week, Lynn and
Kenneth Hewett, members of
the Busy Bees 4-H Club.
Kenneth already has been
declared Public Speaking winner
and will be awarded a plaque
and a $50 Savings Bond. He will
participate in the State Health
Pageant with high hopes of
winning in this project. He is
also a member of the 4-H
Congress Newspaper Staff.
Lynn will be participating in
several activities and among
those to which she is looking
forward is the Radio-Television
programs for the congress.
Mrs. Mary L. Russ, home
agent, will accompany them.
Delegates from the state’s 100
counties will participate in
activities on the North Carolina
State University campus
climaxing another year of
project work for the 4-H’ers.
Dr. T.C. Blalock, state 4-H
leader, said the delegates will
throw their youthful enthusiasm
into a tight schedule of classes,
contests, recreation, fellowship,
(Oondonad On Page Poor)
Trees Cushion '
Parachute Fall
The tropical growth at Bald
Head Island probably saved the
life of an Army Sergeant
Thursday when his parachute
failed to open properly during’
jump exercises being carried out
over the island and allowed him
to plummet to earth much too
fast for normal safety.
One observer described it: “He
was the last man out and the
first one down.” He estimated
that the faulty parachute opened
to not more than two-thirds its
normal size and shape.
This not only affected the rate
of decent, it caused a landing in
a dense, wooded area. This
proved to be the life-saving
factor.
As the spine tingling incident
unfolded, a rescue team rushed
through the jungle-like growth,
expecting to And a dead body or
a badly injured man. Instead
they came upon the sergeant
already free of his harness,
standing on the ground
uninjured and looking up into
the tree from which his rigging
still dangled. He was smoking a
cigarette.
“That’s it,” he said. “That’s
my last jump. I’m through. I’m
never going up again.” These
were the words that tumbled out
as he evaluated his miraculous
escape from death.
But as they gathered up his
parachute and got aboard a Jeep
to return to his outfit, the
veteran of 23 years with the
paratroopers seemed to relent a
little. There seemed to be a
possibility there would be other
days and other jumps.
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Demonstrate Demand For Dock
If there is any doubt about the need for a pier on the Southport waterfront it
should have been dispelled Saturday when during the afternoon as many as 20 per
sons at a time crowded onto the stubby remains of the old launching ramp at the
foot of Howe Street. This included several fishermen and some who merely were in
terested in trying to get cool. (Photo by Spencer) ■ t
Sunday School In The Shade %
This was the scene last Sunday morning at the Southport Baptist Church while
the electric power was off for a changeover to a higher voltage. The Beginner class
room is located in the basement Of the Educational Building and with no electric
power for lights and cooling the class was moved outside during Sunday School.
Teachers are (L-R) Mrs. Becky Howard, Miss Helen Faulk and Mrs. Bernice Troll.
September 2
Is First Day
Of Fall Term
Brunswick County Schools
will open for the fall term with
Orientation Day on Tuesday,
September 2, followed by a full
schedule on the following day.
The first group of principals
report for work on August 7,
with the second group to begin
work on August 14.
Following is a complete
schedule for the year:
Principals’ meeting, 10 a.m.
August 26; janitors begin work,
August 26; county-wide teachers
meeting, Bolivia, 9:30 a.m.
August 28; pick up buses, 9
a.m., Shallotte School Bus
(OonUnuad On Pag* Four)
e And Tide
It was July 19, 1939 and the USS Anderson, a destroyer named
after a Wilmington native, had spent the weekend in that river port.
Her upriver pilot had been Capt. H.T. St. George. It was alligator
season. This time a small one had been cornered and dispatched in a
Southport garage. A Wilmington executive had been in Southport,
discussing the possibilities of an airport to serve the community; it
had been learned that there was an abundant supply of fresh water
near Southport; and New Hope Presbyterian Church was to celebrate
its 45th anniversary on the following Sunday.
Our Not Exactly newsman, back from a two-week vacation in
New York, had written long on observation made on his trip and
return; “A good two hours were spent in the Central Park Zoo
visiting friends and relatives”... “Metropolitan movie patrons hiss
lustily whenever a Nazi or Communist is mentioned or
shown”... “John D. O’Daniel in Charlotte and Jack and Brother
Christian in Georgia are having extended vacations”... “P.S. Arrived
just in time to see Jesse James.”
It was July 19, 1944, and Southport contractor Fred Spencer
was soon to begin work on the new Antioch Baptist Church. The
building was to be the most modem of its kind in the county.
Rice Gwyn, a person who should have known, had observed that
the current tobacco crop was the county’s best in ten years;
Cornelius Thomas had recently purchased Clarendon Plantation; and
our editorial writer had likened a tobacco barn fire to the war in
Europe.
Shallotte servicemen had comprised a large part of the news that
week. Harold M. Holmes had been a crew member on one of the
(Continued On Pag* Four)
Name Ralph King
As Superintendent
CAPT. ARNOLD
Captain Arnold
Is Decorated
U.S. Air Force Captain Wilson
T. Arnold, son of Mr. and Mrs.
A. W. Arnold of Supply, has
been decorated with the
Distinguished Flying Cross
(DFC) for his bold action in
Southeast Asia.
Captain Arnold was cited for
heroism as an HH-43 Huskie
helicopter rescue crew
commander at Udom Royal
Thai AFB, Thailand.
The veteran pilot braved the
intense weapons fire of
infiltrators attempting to
sabotage a C-141 Starlifter and
flew into the center of the
action. By using his rotor’s
downwash, he aided in
extinguishing the infiltrator’s
positions with his landing and
flood lights.
(OoottaMMd On Pigi Dour)
At a meeting of the Brunswick
County Board of Education
Thursday right Ralph King was
elected Superintendent of
Brunswick County Schools for a
four year term. For the past four
years he has served as Associate
Superintendent of Schools and
during one period as Acting
Superintendent.
He is a native of Brunswick
county, a graduate of Waccamaw
High School and of N.C. State
College and formerly was a
Vocational Agriculture Teacher.
He has completed graduate work
during the past four years.
Named to serve with King as
Associate Superintendent is
Robert Elkins, who also was
employed for a four year term.
In another matter of
important business William
Nelson Best was elected
principal of Leland High School.
He is a former successful athletic
coach at that schtr 1.
The contract for LaVeraa
Joyner as a member of the
faculty at Shallotte High School
was approved. The resignation of
Betty L. Atkinson as a member
of the faculty at Union High
School was accepted.
The board discussed the
personnel and teacher allocation
for the 1969-70 school year.
The employment of a speech
therapist as a special education
position and travel for same was
given approval.
A salary subsidy for two
principals for two weeks of
employment lost due to school
reorganization was granted.
The board discussed the
current status of Title I,
E.S.E.A. as presented in a memo
from Mrs. Frances Stone,
Federal Projects Director.
Board members discussed at
(Continued On Page Five)
Workshop For
Choral Music
All Next Week
A choral workshop for youth
and adults will begin Monday at
Fort Caswell Baptist Assembly,
according to Fred Smith,
assembly superintendent.
This is the fourteenth year this
workshop has been held at Fort
Caswell.
Joseph O. Stroud is director of
the program, which will
continue until Saturday. Charles
Gatwood is his associate and
Joan Bullard is the secretary. All
are from Raleigh.
George Dowdy of Jacksonville
is chief counselor and bugler.
Mrs. J.F. Thompson of the First
Baptist Church in Graham is the
girls counselor, and the boys
counselors are Avery Lumsden
of the Ogden Baptist Church,
Wilmington, and Albert Leath of
the First Baptist Church in
Graham.
The choirs are divided into five
sections: Junior High I, Junior
High II, Senior High I, Senior
High II and Adult.
Director of the Junior High I
section is Mrs. Gerald Helms of
McClintock Junior High School
in Charlotte, and the assistant
director is Walter Jessup of the
First Baptist Church in
Waynesville. The accompanist is
James Reich of the First Baptist
Church, Monroe, and his
assistant is Mrs. Jessup.
The Junior High II group is
under the* direction of C.L.
Huling of the Central Baptist
Church in Knoxville, Tennessee.
His assistant is Charles Storey of
the First Baptist Church in
Kannapolis and the accompanist
is Mrs. James Clyburn of
Meredith College, Raleigh. Mrs.
Clyburn’s assistant is Mrs. Phillip
Young of Henderson.
The Senior High I choir is
directed by Dr. Milburn Price of
(OouHnued On Page Five)
■■
Case Against
Schools Off
Hie Brunswick County Board
of Education has been advised
by the U.S. Department of
Health, Education and Welfare
that the case against this school
district has been dismissed.
Following is the text of the ;
Motion to Dismiss:
“The General Counsel,
Department of Health,
Education and Welfare,
respectfully moves the Hearing
Examiner to dismiss the above
styled caused for the reason that
the Respondent School District
has submitted a desegregation
plan which the responsible
Department Official has deemed
adequate to accomplish the
purposes of Title VI of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964.
“Attached hereto and made a
part hereof is a copy of the
submitted plan, a copy of the
letter from Leon E. Panetta,
Director of the Office for Civil
Rights, to the Superintendent of
the Brunswick County Schools,
and a copy of the letter from
Mr. Panetta to the State
Superintendent of Schools, upon **
which this Motion is r
predicated.”
Tide Table
Followiag Is the tide table
(or Southport during the
week. These hoars are ap
proximately correct and
w«e furnished Hie State
Port Pilot through the
courtesy of the Gape Fear
Pilot's Association,
HIGH LOW
Thursday, July M
3:21 AM 10:04 AM
4:27 PM 11:10 PM
Friday, July 28
4:33 AM 11:10 AM
6:33 PM 12:16 PM
Saturday, July 26
6:38 AM 12:10 AM
6:39 PM
Sunday, July 27
6:46 AM 1:16 AM
7:33 PM 1:10 PM
Monday, July 28
7:51 AM 2:10 AM
6:33 PM 2:10 PM
Tuesday, July 29
8:46 AM 2:58 AM
9:21 PM 3:04 PM
Wednesday, July SO
9:99 AM 3:46 AM
10:16 PM 3r66 PM