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VOLUME 41 No. 9
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SOUTHPORT, N. C.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1969
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Wreck Blocks Road Near Leland
A tanker filled with flammable liquid overturned near Leland Friday afternoon.
No one was injured, and the Leland Volunteer Fire Department was on hand in case
the Cylinder-shaped tanker erupter in flames. A highway patrolman reported the
tanker was beside the road, unhooked from its truck and resting on its braces. The
pavement beneath one of the braces gave way, the patrolman said, and the tanker
swayed, then overturned onto the edge of highway 74-76. Wreckers from the Le
land area righted the tanker, while volunteers stood by in case of fire and steered
passers-by clear of the scene. (Harper photo)
Tobacco Price
Remains High
On Markets
The daily average on the North
Carolina Border Belt and South
Carolina tobacco auction
markets on Monday soared to
$76.04 per hundredweight for
the highest level in history. Six
markets in the belt average over
$77 a hundred, with five others
topping $76.
According to the Federal-State
Market News Service, gross sales
amounted to 9,606,352 pounds
for he record average of $76.04
per hundred. This average
exceeded last Thursday’s by
$2.54 and was $1.38 above the
previous high on Monday,
August 11.
“I hope the local price and
volume trend continue on,” said
Chadboum Sales Supervisor
Buell Lanier Tuesday evening, as
he posted figures for the day’s
sale.
Lanier pointed up the fact that
on Monday, the local markets
sold 335,998 pounds of tobacco,
and that it brought farmers
$225,847 in money, and the
market had a record high of
$76.15.
On Tuesday, he pointed out
that both the volume and the
quality of offerings declined
somewhat, as was the story all
along the belt. “On Tuesday, we
sold 271,972 pounds of tobacco,
paid out $205,821, for a healthy
$75.68 average.
Sales for the season, on
Monday, on the Belt were raised
to 146,180,552 pounds and the
season’s belt average was quoted
as $72.82. Lanier said that
Chadboum’s season’s sales at
Monday’s close amounted to
4,057,768, and that the local
average was posted for the
season at $73.10, well above the
belt average.
The News Service also
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Brief Bits Of
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NEWS
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METHODIST BAZAAR
The Annual WSCS Bazaar at
Trinity United Methodist
Church will be held this year on
November 14. A special feature
will be a Country Store.
YARD OF MONTH
Yard of the Month honors for
August have been awarded by
the Southport Garden Club to
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Prevatte for
their home at the comer of Bay
Street and Caswell Avenue.
SWIMMING CLASSES *
Swimming classes sponsored
by the Junior Woman’s Club of
Southport, are in progress now
at the swimming pool at the
N.C. Baptist Assembly. The
instructor is Mrs. Ken Wooten,
and a total of 46 children signed
up for the course. A class for
adults, mostly mothers, started
Tuesday.
Another Alligator
This is a 5-foot alligator which was captured alive
Monday afternoon over on Caswell Beach by A1 Dosher,
above, and Coast Guardsman Ken Smith. The gator ap
parently was headed for salt water, but he was given an
involuntary detour to the ferry slip at Price’s Creek.
(Photo by Spencer)
River Dredging
Will End In Fall
Work on deepening the Cape
Fear River channel to a depth of
38 feet from Wilmington to
Southport will be completed
early this fall, according to Col.
School Meet
Here Sunday
A meeting of parents of
children of school age who
reside in the Southport School
District has been called for
Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock at
the gymtorium at Brunswick
County High School. School
officials plan a frank discussion
of some of the problems which
must be faced when school
opens one week later.
Expected to be present for this
meeting are A. C. Caviness, T. M.
Lee, Arthur J. Dosher, members
of the local school committee at
Southport High School and
Brunswick County High School
and the counselors for the public
and school system. Ralph C.
King, superintendent of
Brunswick County Schools, also
has been invited.
School officials have been
busy working on plans which
will allow for total integration of
the student bodies of the two
local schools, taking into
account the fact that there will
be a shortage of physical
facilities due to the January fire.
It is felt that parents can find
the answers to most of their
questions pertaining to school
opening by attending this
Sunday afternoon session.
Paul S. Denison, Wilmington
District Engineer of the Army
Corps of Engineers.
All that remains to be
accomplished on the project,
Col. Denison reported, is hard
rock removal.
The dredges Pittsburg and
Carolina are now working in the
river; the Pittsburg will continue
dredging in the anchorage basin
and the Carolina will be dredging
in lower and upper Brunswick
channels.
The dredges are removing
blasted rock; Col. Denison
reports they are having fairly
good success in operations in the
rock areas.
After completing work in the
channel, operations will be
moved to upper Lilliput, Big
Island channel, and Keg Island.
All other dredging has been
completed to a depth of 38 feet.
A new contract for $3,875,
172 was awarded last September
10 by the Corps to Atlantic Gulf
and Pacific Company of New
York to complete the dredging
and deepening of the Cape Fear
River from the Atlantic Ocean
Bar at Southport to Wilmington
Harbor at Castle Street.
The new contractor replaced
the American Dredging
Company, whose $3.8 million
contract was cancelled in June,
1968, for failure to meet terms
of the contract.
At the time the contract was
cancelled, Col. Beverly C. Snow
Jr., then Wilmington District
Engineer, said the work was
about 60 per cent completed,
with approximately 4 million
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Board Hears
Plan Outlined
For Bald Head
Hilton Head Island Developer
Charles Fraser and several
members of his staff met with
the board of county
commissioners here Monday.
Among the local people who had
interest in Fraser’s visit were
Ernest Parker, attorney for
Fraser and a member of the
North Carolina Board of
Conservation and Development,
Roy Stevens, director of the
Brunswick County Resource
Development Commission, and
County Attorney E. J. Prevatte.
Fraser, who is interested in the
purchase of Bald Head Island
near Southport for the purpose
of development, gave a detailed
explanation of the step-by-step
development of the Hilton Head
Island resort complex. He
presented a collection of slides.
Fraser explained to the board
his proposed plan for the
long-range development of Bald
Head Island, if his bid to
purchase the island is successful.
The state is now interested in
buying the island from owner
Frank Sherrill and preserving it
as a park.
Following Fraser’s
presentation, Parker asked the
board of commissioners for an
endorsement of his plan.
The board, although “very
impressed” by Fraser’s
presentation, declined to
endorse the plan outright. They
said they wanted more time to
study it in detail.
In other matters of business
brought before the board,
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Four Students
Get Degrees
Appalachian State University’s
summer graduation exercises
Saturday, held special interest
for residents of Southport. Of
the 282 advanced degrees
awarded, four were earned by
students having local
connections.
Stuart L. Goodwin, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Goodwin,
former residents, was awarded
his Master of Arts degree in
Industrial Arts. He was selected
by the faculty of the Graduate
School to lead the procession of
this group of graduates, and to
receive his diploma from
President W. H. Plemmons.
Reception of his diploma
symbolized the awarding of all
the advanced degrees to those
who had successfully completed
their graduate studies.
Stuart will teach and do
additional graduate work at the
university next year.
His wife, Mrs. Lyndia
Goodwin, has been accepted by
the Library Institute at
Appalachian, and will be a
Candidate for her Master’s
Degree in Library Science at the
completion of her studies next
June. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Joel Windham of Durham, have
a cottage at Yaupon Beach.
Mrs. Betty Davenport Tesh
and her husband, Samuel Lee
Tesh, III, were both awarded
their Master of Arts degree in
Education, and will continue to
teach at Banner Elk, where they
have their home.
Mrs. Tesh is the daughter of
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Ancient Bottles Recovered Here
This collection of old bottles and jugs belongs to Jimmy Brown, Southport man,
for whom the collection of these containers has come to be a profitable hobby. None
of the bottles shown here is dated later than 1750. (Photo by Spencer)
Ancient Jugs
And Bottles
Bring Profit
Jimmy Brown spends his spare
time hunting for old bottles and
jugs, and he has discovered this
to be a rewarding and profitable
hobby. It is rewarding because
he gets a thrill out of every new
find he makes; and it is
profitable because there is a
growing demand on the part of
collectors for the kind of relics
he has been uncovering around
here.
Jimmy came in the other day
with a collection of perfectly
preserved, odd shaped bottles
the newest of which had been
made more than 200 years ago.
When you see them, there is no
doubt about their authenticity,
but if there is, he has the book
to prove the era from which
they date.
Most of the bottles being made
back in those days were hand
blown and there were tell-tale
tricks for strengthening these
containers at strategic points and
for inverting their bottoms.
There is no machine-like
sameness to their shapes, and
some of their modest
imperfections make them ail the
more highly prized by present
day collectors.
One bottle Brown recently
recovered had a seal on the side
and was square shaped. Another
was so precious in the eyes of a
beholder that he offered to swap
a Confederate musket for the
bottle. Jimmy accepted.
In addition to the assortment
of ancient bottles, his
explorations have turned up
several interesting pieces of
pottery. These, too, were hand
turned and show signs of expert
worksmanship.
Brown says that Southport is
an unusually fertile field for
search for relics of this kind.
Most of the bottles and jugs held
rum and other alcoholic
beverages; much of their
contents were consumed by
members of the crew of visiting
vessels; and being unconcerned
for the future value of these
empty containers, usually they
were heaved over the side.
Recently Brown found 17 of his
best bottles in one small area on
the Southport waterfront.
And if there is any doubt as to
whether this is a money-making
hobby, Jimmy finds a ready
market for most of his wares at
from fifty to on? hundred
dollars each.
e And Tide
The Pilot of August 16, 1939, announced that a “mass fleet” of
three charter boats was preparing for an invasion of Gulf Stream
waters lying off Southport. The quest: Big game fish—barracuda,
amberjack and dolphin. W.R. McAuley was in charge of a State
Highway crew which was widening the street out to the Sawdust
Trail intersection, but rain had interferred more than a little.
Arrangements were complete for the merger of the Northern
Columbus area with the Brunswick Electric Membership
Corportation.
These were the days when the Vanderbilt yacht Alva stopped
over in Southport each year, and two local men, R.I. Mintz and W.B.
Keziah, had been invited aboard this palatial craft. Six twin-motor
seaplanes were based here that week during bombing practice
offshore, as Southport took on a pre-war military look. J.M.
Davidson of Greensboro nad caught a West Indies carrier shark while
fishing off Bald Head; the “Marvelous Midget with the Mighty
Midriff’ had put on a free show on a downtown street corner; and a
society page item reported a recent session of the Pinochle Club.
It was August, 1944, and an aftermath of the recent storm (of
hurricane force) was that a big tree blew down in the yard at the
home of Charlie Sellers near Winnabow, then when the wind shifted
it blew it back up again! A longer duck hunting season was promised
for the coming fall, 80 days, in fact; but this held little promise for
the nimrods, who in those days were having trouble rounding up
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Finds Perfect Jug.
Among the most spectacular finds for Jimmy Brown
is his quest for old bottles was this earthen jug, estimated
to be more than 150 years old. It is in perfect condition.
(Photo by Spencer)
School Opening
Plans Being Made
Brunswick County School are
scheduled to open for the
1969-70 school year on
Tuesday, September 2 as
Student Orientation Day.
Teachers will begin duties on
August 28, at 9:30 a.m. with a
countywide teacher’s meeting to
be held at the N.C. Baptist
Assembly auditorium at Fort
Caswell, according to Ralph C.
King, superintendent.
Principles, secretaries, and
janitors are currently on duty in
preparation for the new year.
Reorganization of the schools
has necessitated extra effort on
the part of personnel in the
transfer of records, books,
furniture, equipment, and
mobile instructional spaces.
Emphasis is being given to the
matter of human relations in the
various schools as principals,
teachers, students, and patrons
have activities scheduled for the
purpose of establishing lines of
communication and
Speeding Laws
To Be Enforced
A new ordinance covering
speed limits within the town of
Boiling Spring Lakes was passed
by the town commissioners at
their August meeting.
Effective immediately, a
maximum speed limit of 45
miles an hour is set for all main
or through streets, whether
paved or not. The speed limit for
all other streets in the Brunswick
County development is set at 35
miles per hour.
It was also announced that
violators of these limits will be
given citations by the town
policeman, Timothy Rivenbark,
and would have to appear before
magistrate E.O. Rabon in
Winnabow.
understanding prior to the
opening of school.
The office of the
Superintendent of Schools
announced this week that few
teacher vacancies exist in the
county school system as the
opening of the 1969-70 school
year approaches. Eight positions
are unfilled, but applicants are
being processed for most of
these. They include five primary
or elementary positions, one
Introduction to Vocations
position, one Business Education
position, and one English
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Emergency Fund
For Red Cross
The Brunswick County
Chapter of the American Red
Cross is starting an emergency
fund campaign, as of press time
this week, so local residents can
help victims of hurricane Camille
in Mississippi and Louisiana.
Contributions may be mailed
at once to Brunswick County
Chapter, American Red Cross,
c/o Grover A. Gore, treasurer,
Southport.
It is expected that a
full-fledged solicitation of
businesses, industry and
concerned citizens will be in
effect next week.
The Red Cross spent more
than $250,000 in Brunswick
County following hurricane
Hazel. Judging from preliminary
estimates of damage to the gulf
coast, many times this amount
will be necessary to provide
food, clothing and shelter for
the some 200,000 left homeless.
Gore asks that contributors
forget the old “Give a dollar to
the Red Cross” and suggests that
“everybody try to make it
$10.00.”
Meet Problems
In Selecting
School Sites
The Brunswick County Board
of Education met and approved
teachers contracts for W. B.
Komegay, Jr., Beverly Smith,
Lynda Anderson, Leland; Eva M.
Smith, Mollie Willis, Union; T.
A. Price, Jr., Waccamaw;
Elizabeth Kelley, Shallotte; and
Martha Russ, speech therapist.
The following teacher
resignations were accepted:
Martha Russ, Shallotte; Mary C.
Alexander, Southport.
The board declined to revise
the present health program for
ninth grade home economic
students.
Approval was given to sell'at
public auction the old frame
building on the Lincoln School
site.
The board appproved
substitute teacher’s policies for
this school system. Approval was
made to transfer money from
budget code 641 to budget code
627 for purposes of assisting
local schools in meeting school
secretary salary allocations for
the last two months of school,
based on state allocations for
secretary. The board also
authorized funds for the purpose
of allowing schools to hire
janitors an additional week prior
to opening of schools, this work
to begin on August 19.
A discussion was held on the
progress in acquiring school sites
for the three proposed
consolidated high schools. A
letter from International Paper
Company with regard to the
Midway Site was read and the
board agreed to meet with
Superintendent Ralph King
Saturday morning to investigate
another site around the Midway
area. The board approved the
“block-unit” approach to
instruction in grades 3-8.
Acceptance was made of the
resignation of Allen Plenty as
local school committeeman at
Lincoln High School.
Plans were discussed whereby
the county school maintenance
department could be
strengthened for efficiency
purposes. No final action was
taken by the Board.
Raising Funds
At Town Creek
Members of the Town Creek
Township Volunteer Rescue
Squad wish to thank the people
in their area who have helped to
support their activities.
A fund raising drive is being
held during the week of August
18-22. Members of the squad
and their friends are calling on
neighbors and friends, as the
squad can operate only on the
donations of the people in the
community. Through this help
and support with donations and
cooperation, members hope to
be able to save many lives.
All the work done by the
members is strickly voluntary.
Each qualified member must
have forty hours of Standard
and Advanced First Aid. Several
members have as many as 80 and
90 hours in this course and are
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Tide Table
Following la the tide table
tor 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, August 21
1:57 AM 8:34 AM
3:03 PM . 9:40 PM
Friday, August 22
3:03 AM 9:40 AM
4:16 PM 10:52 PM
Saturday, August 23
4:21 AM 10:52 AM
5:21 PM 11:58 PM
Sunday, August 24
5:33 AM 11:58 AM
6:21 PM 12:58 PM
Monday, August 25
6:39 AM 1:04 AM
7:21 PM 1:00 PM
Tuesday, August 26
7:39 AM 1:46 AM
8:16 PM 1:58 PM
Wednesday, August 27
8:33 AM 2:34 AM
9:03 PM 2:52 PM