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The Pilot Covers Brunswick County STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Most of the News All The Time SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1969 Si A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WFDKiF£n▲ v Wins New Automobile « iMfu- u°rt Davis- Southport school teacher, is shown with the new Ford Mav Mmit™ WOn during the r?cent Founder’s Day observance of Belk-Beery in nnrtmtn8w +i!eL neW*C5r comea io handy for daily trips from her home in South port to her teaching station at the N. C. Baptist Assembly. ( Photo by Spencer) W State President Visits Brunswick Town Mrs John M . Reichard, State President of the Garden Club of North Carolina Inc., is shown right unlocking the donation box in the Visitor Center at Brunswick Town State Historic Site. The onlookers are Mrs. James T. Barnes, Southport, and photo)^neSt Par^er’ c^airman °f the Nature Trail Committee (Brunswick Town Murder Charge Entered Against Brunswick Man Brunswick county authorities have charged Nathan Wayne Hewitt, 19, Supply, with killing his uncle Sidney H. Hewitt, of Supply, with a blast from a 12-gauge shotgun Saturday afternoon. The charge against Hewitt by Brunswick County Deputy Melton McCumbee of Ash. Deputy McCumbee said a preliminary hearing on a murder charge today for Hewitt was slated (Wednesday) in District Court in Southport. Deputy McCumbee said his investigation of Sidney’s Hewitt’s death revealed Hewitt was shot about 6 p.m. Saturday as he stood in the front lawn of his home about five miles from Shallotte. Brunswick County Coroner Lowell Bennett said an autopsy showed Hewitt died of a blast from a 12-guage shotgun. Sidney Hewitt was dead-on-arrival at New Hanover Memorial Hospital. Deputy McCumbee said both Hewitts were employed on dredge boats. 1 Brief Bits Of I NEWS I BAKE SALE There will be a bake-sale Saturday morning between Leggetts and the Post Office. Proceeds from the sale will be used to help defray some of the general expenses of the Lower Cape Fear Christian Crusade. Interested citizens are urged to contribute baked goods for this cause. Christian To Start LARRY WOLFE Young Man Is Death Victim James Lawrence (Larry) Wolfe, Sr., 28, died Tuesday morning in New Hanover Memorial Hospital, Wilmington, after a long illness. He was a native of Southport, and was a 1959 graduate of Southport High School and graduated from Wilmington College in 1961 and from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1963. He was noted for his athletic prowess while attending Southport High School. Mr. Wolfe had been associated with Integron Corporation since his graduation from UNC-CH. At the time of death he was agency sales managers for the Wilmington Branch of Integon, Inc. In addition, he had held (Continued On Pa*e Six) Crusade Sunday Planning for the Lower Cape Fear Christian Crusade is now in the final stages and the committee has announced a varied and interesting program for each night of the evangelistic effort, which begins Sunday and continues through Saturday night of next week. The Rev. Drummond Thom of Louisville, Kentucky, and Cape Town, South Africa, will bring the main message of each service. In addition, on Monday night Judge Allen W. Harrell of Wilson will speak and on Wednesday night H. F. “Chub” Sewell of Carthage will speak. Testimonies by other equally interesting personages, including men from the U. S. Marine Corps, will be included on the nightly programs. Special emphasis is being given to features on Friday and Saturday which will be meaningful to the young people of the area. A teen-age group from the “Coffee House” at Virginia Beach will appear on these nights. Miss Debbie Richardson, a nationally known “new generation” witness for Christ from Love-In, Freeville, New York, will be in Southport for the entire week. Crusade planners also expect Mrs. Sherry Cheston of Wilmington to appear as a vocal soloist during the meetings. Every effort is being made by the Crusade Planning Committee < to insure a week of spiritually 1 uplifting programs that will be s doctrinally acceptable to all i denominations in the area. The i rusade theme is “God Is Love-Jesus Saves”. ] Contributions to the Lower i ”ape Fear Christian Crusade are | (Continued On Page Six) Board Fails To Take Action On School Sites The Brunswick County Boarr of Education met in regulai session on Monday and grantee approval of the teachers contracts for Deon W. McKeithan, Bolivia, and Troy Allen Kelly, Leland. Kirby Sullivan, attorney, gavi a progress report on acquisitioi of property for the western ant northern area school sites Superintendent Ralph King, it the absence of Thomas Home attorney, gave a progress report on the southern area school site the Ripley and Georgia-Pacifk properties. Dosher made a motion that the board accept terms offered by said properties. The motion was tabled due tc the absence of one board member until the next meeting. The following substitute teachers were approved: Bolivia—Mrs. Martha Hewett, Mrs. Alta Lewis; Leland—Bonnie R anbury, Mrs. Jessie Best: Lincoln—Mrs. Mary Hooper, Mrs. Geraldine McCoy, Mrs. John Sellars,' .Mrs. Joyce Harriston, Miss Edna Beatty, Mrs. Juanita Robinson, Mrs. Vina Mae Benton, Mrs. Bernice Morrill, Mrs. Mary Jacobs, Mrs. Odessa Price, Mrs. Shirley Freeman, Miss Gwendolyn Jones. Nancy J. Vereen was approved as teacher aide at Bolivia. The board gave its approval of Statement of Policies for Selection of Instructional Materials. (See attached Statement of Policy). It also granted request for the sale of a 1957 Chevrolet four door car located at Union School; and (Continued On Pafre Six) -v President Holds Meeting The Brunswick Town Nature Trail Committee of the Garden Club of North Carolina, Inc. held its annual meeting at the Visitor Center at Brunswick Town State Historic Site October 1. Mrs. John M. Reichard of High Point, State Garden Club President, Mrs. James T. Barnes, Southport, Mrs. Ernest Parker, chairman of the committee, and Wm.G. Faulk, Jr., Historic Site Manager, attending the meeting. Plans were made for further development and improvement of the Nature Trail which was adopted by the state organization as one of its projects in 1963. The committee plans to begin work soon on the construction of a new foot bridge across one of the “fingers” of Brunswick Pond. The nature lover can then walk among the cypress knees and see more closely the water plants and flowers. Additional benches will soon be built and placed around the pond. A highlight of the meeting for the committee was the opening of the donation box for the first time. The donation box was placed in the Visitor Center last February. The contents of the box, counted by the committee, gave much encouragement for future improvement of the Nature Trail. (Continued On Page Six) Covered Slips In Use imnnTJln? oHrH-,-he "^covered slips at the Southport Boat Harbor which are an important addition to this new facility. These new slips, which afford maximum by l^n°cner)r0m ^ weather> were spoken for before they were completed. (Photo Charlotte Lady Writes Again About Island Another letter this week from Mrs. Earl Napier, daughter of the late T.F. Boyd, offers additional background information on Bald Head Island, which at one time was owned by this Hamlet businessman. Following is the text of her letter: “The Southport paper said my father ower' a debt of around $62,000 dollars and that was tone reason he lost the island. “I wrote the Wilmington Morning Star telling them the reason why;’ and for the men that are so opposed to the developing of the island to ride out to New Hanover High School and take a good look. My father, T.F. Boyd, was bondsman for the Liberty Engineering Construction Company. They went broke long before it was finished. He was also bondsman for the Indian School in Pembroke. It went broke. In a desperate effort to save something he transferred all property and proved in court he had borrowed the money from my mother. He sold Sunset Park in Wilmington, a large farm at Rocky Point called the French Farm, land around Greenville Park and much more in a vain effort to save the island and other property and to pay the amount of $181,000 on Hanover High School. “He died the night Wrightsville Beach burned. We were land poor, and did not have money enough to bury him. Mayor Cooper of Wilmington wired us. Papa’s hotel and cottage burned, so he did not have to die in debt He died at the age of seventy years. A few days before his death, he told me, “Every man I have ever helped has knifed me in the back”. Many of those people lived in Brunswick county. “Mr. Sherrill said he demolished the hotel on the island. He did not. A hurricane washed it away. Before it was washed away I went down there and went through it. It had been (Continued On Page Pour) Time And Tide It was October 4, 1939, and there was a photograph of a painting by R.O. Johnson on page one that week. A bit of interpretative reporting announced that the painting was a realistic representation :)f “Zero.” The work was on display at the Wilmington Art Museum. Three new lawyers, Dwight McEwen, R.I. Mintz, and E.J. a Prevatte, had opened law offices in Southport in recent weeks; the I Elev. and Mrs. E.M. Hall and Col. and Mrs. Earl I. Brown had been C ;he most recent donors to the Southport Public Library; and county c officials continued to crack down on what apparently was a large t 'ambling ring. 5 County citizens were pleased to read that week that the new Sears 0 ind Roebuck of Wilmington, advertising “wonderful charges”, was B o open on the morrow. Featured for the opening were 10-cent rag ugs, 2-cent paring knives, and auto heaters for only $6.45. E -- o It was October 4, 1944, and the county was swarming with armed b nen, and any deer seen was in peril. Sportsmen from all over the d ■tate had come down for the opening day of the big game season, t rhe salt water areas were also getting much attention from those d portsmen with Waltonian tendencies. Edwin Milligan, serving with & he Air Crops in England, was shown that week inspecting an aircraft tl vith actor Edward G. Robinson, there on a USO tour. 4 Cecil Alligood, deacon for several years at St. Phillips in Southport, *< tad been ordained priest in Episcopal Church. Tools were soon to be a emoved from the rationing list; Bobby Thorson and Hoyle Dosher tad enlisted in the Navy; and someone (Box 265, Southport) was 'r (Continued On Page FYnir) I Solo Flight hie Se£rf.,Lr^ !el\*of Wlnnabow' is shown getting his shirt-tail bobbed off by Jimmy Smith, instructor after he made his first solo flight last week at the Bruns bwhi^FMri AlJP2-t oTh.e plane was a Cessna owned by the SENCland Air Park. (Photo by Spencer) Telephone Meet Set For Friday CHARLES McCULIERS River Funds H Over Hurdle Representative Alton Lennon nnou.iced this week that the louse Appropriations ommittee had approved a total f $2,122,000 for improvement 3 the Cape Fear River and 32,000 for a navigation study f the upper North East Cape ear River. Lennon said the Corps of ngineers had advised him that f this amount $1,765,000 had een approved to complete the eepening of the channel from le ocean bar to natural sep-water opposite Southport om 40 to 42 feet, widening Lis section of the channel from )0 to 500 feet, and additional nprovements to increase ivigation safety. The remaining $357,000 for iprovements will be used to Oontlnuad On Par* six) October is National Co-op Month. For telephone cooperatives financed by the Rural Electrification Administration, this year’s celebration holds a special significance. It marks the 20th anniversary of the REA i telephone program. On October j 28, 1949, the telephone j amendment to the Rural Electrification Act was signed ] into law. " 1 Atlantic Telephone will note s this 20th anniversary at its annual meeting, October 10, at the Shallotte High School auditorium. Charles L. McCullers, public relations director, Methodist College, Fayetteville, will deliver the principal address. Atlantic Telephone is one of the 233 telephone cooperatives financed by REA. Chartered in .1955 and initiating service in 1957, the Atlantic Telephone Membership Corporation serves 3300 members in Brunswick County. Today, rural telephone people enjoy a quality of service almost undreamed of two decades ago. The magneto crank telephone with its whoop and holler mode of operation has all but been replaced in rural homes. Modern dial telephones provide instant communications anywhere in the world at a minimum of inconvenience; color instruments, embodying the finer points of modem design, add to the attractiveness of the housewife’s decor; and modern radio telephones give tiie rural dweller the necessary communications link to run a ' modern farming operation or 3 business while working in the field or driving his car. - Twenty years ago, telephone 1 (Continued On Pf Ms) L SEDC Meeting Thursday In Elizabethtown r The Southeastern Economic Development Commission will hold a meeting in' Elizabethtown, Thursday. “This meeting,” says Mason Hicks, the commission chairman, “will be one of the more important ones “ ever to be held in the area.” He added, “We will evaluate our problems! in light of our potential and attempt to shape, through existing governments, the future of the District.” The SEDC is an organization representing the ten counties from Hoke, Cumberland, and Scotland to the Atlantic Ocean:; - ; It is maintained by the counties ' and by grant funds from the Economic Development Administration. Mrs. A.P. Henry of Winnabow is th$ representative from Brunswick county and is secretary of the organization. David W. Alexander, the Executive Director of the Commission, made the following information available^' “Dignitaries from private industry and public offices wil| be on hand to lead the discussions. Approximately 150 people are expected to attend^ some visitors coming from as far as Atlanta, Georgia, and Washington, D.C. Th$ conference will begin promptly at 9:00 a.m. in Bladen County Superior Courtroom. Interested observers will be welcome to. attend.” v “Among the local dignitaires (Continued On Page Pour) * County Board Holds Meeting The Board of County Commissioners met in regular session on October 6, 1969. All members present except G.T. ' Rourk, Chairman. Commissioner V.A. Creech, Jr., was designated to serve as acting chairman due to the absence of Rourk. % Farm Extension Agent Archie Martin came before the board and gave his regular monthly! report Several persons appeared whq was directed to investigate these t matters and to make proper , adjustments when found out of line. Commissioner Paul Dennis made a motion, which was seconded by A.C. Holden, that Homer G. McKeithan be re-appointed tax collector to collect the 1969 tax levy, and any delinquent taxes that may be due the county. The motion was unanimously carried. Tax Collector McKeithan gave i detailed report to the board on r tax collection for the past 3 /ears. The report showed that lis department had collected £283,622.53 delinquent taxes luring this 3 year period and tlso that he had collected 94.67 >er cent of the 1968 tax levy. . The board commended JcKeithan for the improvement tas been made in tax collections ince he assumed this position 3 (Continued On Page Six) Tide Table Following Is flu tide table for Southport during die week. These hours am ap proximately correct a n d were furnished The State Fort Pilot through the courtesy of the CUpe Fear Pilot's Association. Thursday, October 8, 7:08 AM. 1:00 AM 7:21 PM 1:28 PM Friday, October 10, 7:46 AM 1:46 AM 7:67 PM 2:10 PM Saturday, October 11, 8:27 AM 2:28 AM 8:39 PM 2:68 PM fitanday, October 12, 9:09 AM 3:04 AM 9:16 PM 3:40 PM Monday, October IS, 9*1 AM 3:46 AM 9*7 PM 4:28 PM Tuesday, October 14, 0:39 AM 4:22 AM 0r89 PM 8:16 PM Wednesday, October 16, 1:27 AM 5:10 AM 2:89 PM 6:0* PM
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