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VOLUME 41
No. 15
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SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1969
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Put 'Em On The Beach
Everybody got in on the act down at Ocean Isle
Beach Sunday afternoon when this haul of mullets
was made. Rarely has a crew received more voluntary
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assistance. They put on a good show and it drew well,
for in the background is the large crowd of spectators
who gathered. (Photo by Clemmons) %
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County School
Enrollment Up
For Fall Term
Schools in Brunswick county
enrolled a total of 5,987
students for the 1969-70 school
year, an increase of eleven
students over the first month’s
enrollment of the 1968-69
school year and an increase of
53 students over the enrollment
at the close of the 1968-69
school year, according to Ralph
C. King superintendent of
Brunswick County Schools.
The following shows the
enrollment for each of the eight
county schools and the grades
served by each: Bolivia (grades
1-12) 677, Brunswick County
High School (grades 8-12) 466,
Leland (grades 6-12) 804,
Lincoln (grades 1-5) 601,
Shallotte (grades 6-12) 1,221,
Southport (grades 1-7) 645,
Union (grades 1-5) 902, and
Waccamaw (grades 1-12) 671.
“A small but continuous
increase is expected in the
Southport area schools during
the school year due to the
anticipated influx of families in
connection with the
construction phase of Carolina
Power and Light Company
Nuclear Power facility in the
Southport area,” King further
stated.
According to preliminary
reports, 34 county students are
currently enrolled in private
schools. Thirty-two at the
Lockwood Academy in Shallotte
and two in the Cape Fear
Academy in Wilmington.
! Brief Bits Of l
(NEWS I
BENEFIT OYSTER ROAST
A benefit oyster roads, the
first of the season, will be held
at Dixon’s Chapel near Holden
Beach Saturday afternoon,
beginning at 3 o’clock. Guests
are guaranteed all they can eat.
Proceeds will go to the church
building fund.
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Sencland Budget
Adopted By Board
Despite the dissenting vote of
Brunswick County Board
member A.H. Gainey Jr.,
Sencland Community Action,
Inc., Tuesday night approved a
working agreement with
Tri-County Farmers Association,
a group to promote iruck
farming and develr - markets for
various crops.
Terms of the agreement state
that Sencland Community
Action, Inc., will provide $6,181
a year for bookkeeping and
clerical services and office space
and equipment, along with a
liaison workers for the two
organizations.
Also, Sencland Community
Action, Inc., holds $15,000
given to the farmers’ co-op by
the Rockefeller Foundation. The
board of directors of the
Tri-County group said it did not
need to use the money at this
Revival Plans
Taking Shape J
Plans continue for the
Christian Crusade which will be
held in the gymtorium of
3c -.t'.-port-Brunswick County
High School gymtorium
beginning October 12, with the
Rev. Drummond R. Thom as
guest evangelist.
This crusade is interdenomi
national and will extend through
October 18.
During the past week the
planning committees have been
busy, and one of their projects
has been a house to house
visitation for the purpose of
extending personal invitations to
all residents of the community
to attend.
The guest speaker is a native of
Cape Town, South Africa, and
has been active on an
international scale in the field of
evangelism. The program being
planned for Southport is
comparable to one of the Billy
Graham Crusades, with people
of all churches and races
cooperating.
time.
Gainey objected to the
non-profit Sencland Community
Action, Inc., organiztion
handling the money for
Tri-County Farmers Association.
The farmers’ co-op is a
profitable organization.
Reason given for this
transferrence of money is that
many charitable organizations
will not donate money to
profitable organizations.
Therefore, this Rockefeller
money is channelled through
Sencland Community Action,
Inc.
In return for the services
rendered by Sencland
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P.T.A. Meeting
Set Thursday
An important meeting of the
Southport-Brunswick County
High School Parent-Teachers
Association has been scheduled
for tomorrow (Thursday) night
at 7:30 o’clock at the
gymtorium.
The most important matter on
the agenda will be election of
officers. This will be necessary
since the old officers of both the
Southport High School PTA and
of Brunswick County High
School PTA resigned. A.H.
Ganey had been elected
president of the former group
and Mrs. Lurevia Swain of the
latter group.
At the Thursday night meeting
in addition to the election of
new officers, committees will be
named and projects will be
discussed as tentative plans for
the year’s activities will be
considered.
Principal A.C. Caviness said
this week that he hopes for a
large attendance. “We have
much work to do that needs the
help and cooperation of parents
and patrons,” he said. Among
the projects he cited was the
formation of a Boosters Club for
support of the athletic program.
Holden Again
Chairman Of
ASC Committee
Edgar L. Holden ot Supply
was re-elected to a three-year
term on the Brunswick County
ASC Committee at the county
convention held Thursday.
Other members of the
committee are Ira A. Potter of
Winnabow and Curtis Hewett of
Shallotte.
ASC county committeemen
serve three-year terms, and one
committeeman is elected
annually by delegates to the
county convention. Community
committeemen from each
community serve as delegates to
the county convention.
Holden, who was elected
chairman of the county
committee, said that ASC
county and community
committees are responsible for
the local administration of ASCS
programs. In Brunswick county
these programs include acreage
allotments and marketing quotas
on flue-cured and burley
tobacco, cotton, and peanuts;
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Brunswick Has
Super Highway
Work Completec
A nine-mile segment of
four-lane highway connecting
the seashore with the mountains
of western North Carolina was
opened Wednesday. This
included 8.314-miles of limited
access in Brunswick, the first
four-lane highway ever
constructed in this county. The
project was Highway 74-76
between Leland and Delco.
Floyd Bass, assistant division
engineer of the State Highway
office in Wilmington, said the
nine-mile stretch was officially
opened about 11:30 a.m.
Wednesday when work crews
switched traffic from the old
route onto the brand new four
lane highway.
The four-lane stretch of US
74-76 takes in sections of the
Third and Sixth Highway
Divisions. Bass said most of the
work—some 8.314 miles—was in
the Third District headquarters
in Wilmington. The rest of the
work is in Columbus county
which is included in the Sixth
District which has headquarters
in Fayetteville.
The four-lane highway project
from Leland to Delco was let
out for bids on December 12,
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State Library
Meeting Friday
The annual meeting of North
Carolinians for Better Libraries
will be held Friday in the Sir
Walter Hotel in Raleigh,
according to an announcement
this week by Senator Hector
Mac Lean, president of the
association.
Mrs. James M. Harper, Jr., of
Southport is vice-president of
this organization and Mrs. A.P.
Henry of Win na bow is a
representative from Brunswick
County.
Voting members, other
interested persons and librarians
from each of North Carolina’s
100 counties are expected to
attend the one-day meeting and
hear the reports which will be
given by those who were
instrumental in presenting the
needs of North Carolina’s
libraries to the last General
Assembly. The success of these
efforts will be discussed by
David Stick, Chairman of the
Legislative Commission to Study
Library Support, and the plans
for the allocation of the funds
secured will be given by State
Librarian, Philip Ogilvie. A full
discussion of the future goals
will be one of the prime topics
of the meeting. Registration
begins at 10.
An inL esting and challenging
incentive to secure new
memberships in North
Carolinians for Better Libraries
will be presented to the county
system reporting the largest
number of new members at the
meeting. Approximately 75
volumes, forming a basic
collection of North Carolina
books, will be awarded. Many of
these volumes are now out of
print and therefore valuable.
Reservations for the luncheon
are to be made with Mrs. Evalyn
H. Allen, Executive Secretary,
NCBL, P.O. Box 2414, Raleigh.
Time And Tide
It was September 27, 1939, am
Louisburg College, had been electe
there. Three slot machir a had 1
Department; the Sea Owl, a yacht
port on the proceeding weekend
visitors; and daily shrimp catches
boat. And in a front page item,
reported that a breathless lady
churches on Sunday evening to s
benediction pronounced. She had
evening services had been upped an
Our Not Exactly editor that we
space to the canine citizens of
surprise the number of water
nominations for the most beautifu
H. B. Smith. The Larsen service s
opened for business; there were
courts at Leland High School; an
constructing a fishing pier at Long
It was September 27, 1944, am
that Lt. Cdr. M. R. Sanders would
set up a Naval repair base. One i
school attendance laws would be <
Prof. Glen Tucker was quite well f
Ottis Garner was home on lea\
Normandy invasion forces; teacher
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1 Elwood Mintz, a sophomore at
1 vice-president of the Y. M. C. A.
teen confiscated by the Sheriffs
well known locally, had been in
and had entertained Southport
were running from 12-24 bushels
vith no names mentioned, it was
had arrived at one of the local
ing the final hymn and hear the
been unaware that the time for
hour.
;k devoted considerable time and
Southport. He noted with some
spaniels in town, and made
1 dog, an Irish setter belonging to
tation at Sawdust Trail had been
plans for construction of tennis
1 there was some serious talk of
Beach.
1 news had come across country
shortly go to the South Pacific to
ews article that week stated that
ibeyed, while another stated that
leased with attendance at Bolivia,
e after having served with the
s throughout the county were to
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Steel Goes Up At Lackey Building
Construction is well underway on the building being constructed for Lackey
industries, Inc., in Northwest Township as steel was being placed this week for this
200,000 square foot building. It will be 200 feet wide and 1,000 feet long and will
contain 5,200,000 cubic feet of storage space. The contractor is Ethridge and Long
Construction Co. (Photo by Spencer)
Four Lane Highway Open In Brunswick
This is the first segment of four-laning to be completed on the eastern end of
Highway 74. This picture was taken near Leland and shows the type of road which
eventually will extend from the seashore to the mountains. This nine-mile section
went into use last week. (Photo by Spencer)
Telephone Meet
Scheduled Oct. 12
Atlantic Telephone
Membeiship Corporation will
hold its Twelfth Annual Meeting
Friday night, October 10, at 8
o’clock in the Shallotte High
School auditorium. Charles L.
McCullers, Public Relations
Director of Methodist College at
Fayetteville, will be guest
speaker for the occasion.
McCullers, a graduate of N.C.
State University, with a 25 year
career in public relations and
community development, has
served as executive head of
chambers of commerce in four
North Carolina cities, and as
president and secretary of the
N.C. Association of Chamber of
Commerce Executives, before
assuming his present public
relations post with Methodist
College. He has served as
chairman of his local Salvation
Army Advisory Board; United
Community Fund; U.S.O.
Operating Committee, as a
member of the Nursing School
Advisory Council, and in other
civic-service capacities, including
Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and
Totals Given
On Donations
A total of $803.70 has been
contributed to the Brunswick
County Chapter of the American
Red Cross in its drive for funds
to aid victims of Hurricane
Camille in Louisiana, Mississippi
and Virginia.
Grover A. Gore, chapter
treasurer, reports that the funds
came from these sources: Beach
area $215.46; Dosher Memorial
Hospital, $17.40; Shallotte,
$145.50; International Paper Co.
$50.; Bolivia, $1.00; Southport
$374.34.
Mrs. Douglas Roycroft, Mrs.
Emilv Blake and Mrs. Mae
Barbee were among those
organizing the drive.
Y.M.C.A. He presently serves as
Conference Director of
Stewardship Education in the
N.C. Conference of the United
Methodist Church and is a
Mason, American Legionnaire
and an Honorary Ruritan. An
active Rotarian, he has served as
president of two Rotary clubs
and as district governor and
committee member of Rotary
International.
McCullers has broad speaking
experience before business,
professional, fraternal, civic,
church and school groups
throughout the United States
and Canada.
Reports reviewing growth and
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Oyster Season
Opens Today
Oyster season opened on for
all public bottoms south of the
Surf City Bridge except for one
area in Shallotte River
(Wednesday) according to Roy
Sowers, Jr., director of the
Department of Conservation and
Development.
The area closed in the
Shallotte River is the southern
side of Gibbs Creek. This area
will be used for oyster growth
experiments to find how long
public areas should be closed to
obtain maximum benefits for
oystermen.
Sowers stated the area would
be reopened as the experiment is
completed.
Public bottoms north of the
Surf City Bridge will open at
sunrise October 15 except for
the seed oyster management area
in the White Oak River, Onslow
County, and Cedar Bush Bay,
Dare County.
No oystering will be allowed
on Sundays and an area in
Turnagain Bay will be closed
until further notice.
Mount Pisgah
Observes Day
The Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church
near Supply will observe its
207th Anniversary with Harvest
Day and Homecoming Sunday.
The program will begin with
Sunday School at 10 a.m.
followed by morning worship at
11 o’clock. The Rev. J.D. Hales, 1
Jr., former pastor, will deliver . -
the homecoming message/,'
followed by dinner on thef
grounds. The afternoon program
will include special music by
visiting groups.
The Rev. S.W. Jolly, pastor,
and the Harvest Day Committee
composed of Mrs. Ethel Hewett,
chairman, Mrs. Reba Sellers,
Mrs. Mollie Holden, Mrs. Irene
Cumbee and Mrs. Sarah Sellers,
extend a cordial welcome to
friends, relatives, former
members and pastors to attend
this special day of fellowship.
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Tide Table > j
Folltwtng Is the tide table
for Southport daring the
week. These hoars are ap
proximately correct and
were furnished The State
Port Pilot through the
courtesy of the Gape Fear
Pilot's Association.
Thursday, October 2
1:00 AM 7:10 AM
1:27 PM 7:58 PM
Friday, October 3
1:51 AM 8:04 AM
2:27 PM 8:58 PM
Saturday, October 4
2:51 AM 9:04 AM
3:21 PM 9:58 PM
Sunday, October 5
3:51 AM 10:04 AM
4:15 PM 10:52 PM
Monday, October 6
4:45 AM 11:04 AM
5:09 PM 11:46 PM
Tuesday, October 7
5:39 AM 11:58 AM
5:57 PM 12:28 PM
Wednesday, October 8
3:21 AM 12:46 AM
6:39 PM