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THE STATE PORT PILOT
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VOLUME 4!
No. 17
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SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1969
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PUBLISHED EVERY WEDI
'Storm Tide Here
This was the unusually high tide which occurred along the Carolina
day morning and shows the walkways at the Southport Boat Harbor
under water. The tide resulted from action of Hurricane Kara offshore in
tic. (Photo by Spencer)
coast Mon
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Farm Bureau
Membership
Drive Begins
The annual membership drive
kickoff dinner for the Brunswick
County Farm Bureau was held
Monday night at Garland
Varnum’s Fish House in
Varnumtown.
The invocation was given by
Farm Bureau president Ira
Chadwick.
Chadwick reported that the
quota for membership during
the year was 1,000 and that the
Bureau had gained 200 new
members since June, 1969.
B.C. Mangum, North Carolina
Farm Bureau president, stated
that the Farm Bureau is the
largest organization of its kind
today and is set up for the
farmer by the farmer. Statistics
show that 5*/2 per cent of the
people are farmers and 941/2 per
cent are the consumers. He said
he would like to see 10,000
farmers present when the
legislature is in session and
acting on Farm Bureau
legislation at sometime in the
future.
Mangum wants the cost of
farm products to start with the
farmer, and the farmer to strive
for quality, quantity, and prices,
and this can be done by the
farmer. Mangum said he is
working for 100 per cent
participation and not just 75 per
cent participation the Farm
Bureau is now receiving.
He stated that Brunswick
County has 95 per cent of its
members participating in the tire
and battery program, which is
above all other counties in the
state. Farm Bureau membership
in North Carolina has risen over
the 100,000 mark, as of 1969.
Mangum urged farmers to be a
part of Farm Bureau work.
Ira Wolf, field representative
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I NEWS I
REVIVAL SERVICES
Revival services are in process
this week at Elah Baptist Church
near Leland with Rev. Alton
Williams as guest minister.
Services continue through
Sunday and are being held
nightly at 7:30 o’clock.
BRIDGE DEDICATION
Plans are underway for the
dedication of the new Cape Fear
River bridge Monday afternoon
with several prominent state
officials participating in the
ceremonies. Following this, the
new structure will be open to
traffic.
CROWNING CEREMONY
The public is cordially invited
to attend the official
presentation and crowning of
Miss Fourth of July 1969, Miss
Cheryl Johnson, Sunday
afternoon at 4 o’clock at the
Southport Jaycee Building.
There will be a reception from 3
to 5 p-m. Hostesses for the event
are the Southport Jaycettes, and
it is being held in order for the
Jaycees to present Miss Fourth
of July with the crown and
scepter they have provided for
her.
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Two Presidents
Ira Chadwick, president of the Brunswick County
Farm Bureau, left, is shown here with B. C. Mangum,
N. C. Farm Bureau president, at the membership drive
kick-off dinner Monday night at Garland Varnum’s At
Varnumtown.
If Issue Is Passed
Brunswick Profits
$33,000 From Tax
No one in Brunswick County
is eager to pay additional taxes,
but everyone wants progress.
There is a conflict here—a
financial one—and county voters
will go to the polls November 4
to decide what should be done
about it.
The issue on which county
voters will cast ballots in
whether or not Brunswick
County should levy a one
percent sales and use tax.
Proponents of the tax say the
income derived from this source
will benefit the county and
municipal governments, in
particular, and will rob from the
state a source of taxation next
year.
Advocates of the proposed
taxation ciaim this is why
Governor Bob Scott is against
the tax levy: the money will be
distributed among the counties
and municipalities and not go
into state government coffers.
Legislation calling for a local
option on the one percent sales
and use tax was passed by the
last session of the North
Carolina General Assemble. If
the tax is passed, a considerable
amount of money will be
collected for use in the county
and municipal governments.
The tax, if okayed, would
become effective March 1,1970.
The one percent sales tax
would be added to the three
percent tax the public now pays
directly to the state government.
The extra tax would be collected
with the other three percent tax,
but this is where the revenue
diverges from the other.
One-half of the tax is returned
to the county or municipality
from which it was collected. For
instance, Brunswick County and
the municipalities in the county,
according to statistics based on
sales in recent years, will collect
$192,000 through the one
percent tax. $96,000 of that will
be returned immediately to the
county or municipality from
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Crusade Draws
Large Crowds
The Christian Crusade which
has been in progress in
Southport this week will
continue though Saturday night
with the Rev. Drummond Thom,
noted evangelist, in charge.
Other featured speakers will
continue to appear each night.
Attendance has been very
good, and on Sunday evening
the gymtorium at
Southport-Brunswick County
High School was comfortably
well filled. Attendance was off a
little Monday night but was up
again Tuesday.
Tonight (Wednesday) Chub
Seawell, Carthage attorney, is
scheduled to appear and he is
expected to attract some who
have not been in regular
attendance.
On Tuesday Debbie
Richardson from “Love-In” was
the special guest and gave her
personal testimony. She said
that her Christian experience has
resulted in a complete
change-about for her from a
thrill-seeking teen-ager.
The Monday night guest was
Judge Allen W. Harrell of
Wilson, who told of his
experiences as a Christian
layman. The special guest
Sunday night was Dr. William A.
McMillan, president of Rust
(Continued On Pag* Three)
Progress Is
Reported In
Phone Figures
A record breaking crowd was
in attendance for a
record-making report of affairs
of the Atlantic Telephone
Membership Corporation in the
annual meeting of this
organization Friday night at
Shallotte High School
auditorium.
The program was a good
balance between fun and figures,
with Charlie McCullers, noted
after dinner speaker colaborating
with the “Twilighters” for
entertainment, and with the
facts doming from President
Harry Mintz and Manager Earl
Bellamy during reports to the
membership.
President Mintz, said ATMC
plans to extend one party service
might take three years instead of
the eighteen months normally
required for systems
improvement.
The corporation had slashed
party lines from eight to four
subscribers in 1962. The three
years expected to be required
for the revamping to a one party
telephone system was traced to
the tightness of obtaining
Federal REA funds.
Bellamy, Manager, said REA
had, readjusted its policy for
loans. Instead of lending the
entire amount sought in the
application, REA’s new policy is
to lend one-half of the applied
for funds.
Bellamy said REA had taken
this splitting policy so loan
needs could be met for one half
of the construction project
necessary during the next five to
seven years.
Bellamy pointed out telephone
service with less than one party
service could be first class
service, pledging one party of
first class service to corporation
members. Bellamy estimated the
costs for each subscriber would
be less than the amount new
charged for one party service in
a base area, plus ten percent.
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Supply Youth
Shot To Death
Dewey Lovitt, 23, and Bobby
Wayne Lovitt, 19, of Supply,
were charged with murdering
Ralph Clemmons, 19, also of
Supply, with a blast from a
16-gauge shotgun Sunday
afternoon following an
investigation by Brunswick
County Deputies Melton
McCumbee and Walter Moore.
Deputy McCumbee said
investigation revealed Clemmons
was shot in a wooded area near
the Lovitt home. Both Lovitts
are being held without privilege
of bond for a preliminary
hearing Nov. 11 in Brunswick
District Court in Southport.
Funeral services were held
2:30 p.m. Tuesday at Sharon
Methodist Church by the Rev.
Weston Varnum. Burial was in
the church cemetery.
Survivors include his father,
Ralph B. Clemmons of Supply;
his mother, Mrs. Anges H.
Hilburn of Loris, S.C.; two
sisters, Mrs. Helen Kirby and
Mrs. Nellie Dixon, both of
Supply; a brother, Bobbie Ray
Clemmons of Supply.
Pallbearers were Bennie and
John A. Hewett, Benny Ludlum,
David Clemmons, Benny
Johnson and Benny Robinson.
Information For Telephone
Manager W. Earl Bellamy, Jr., of the Atlantic Telephone Membership Corp., is
shown here explaining a chart showing the prospective use by customers of long dis
tance connections. In his report, Manager Bellamy indicated a healthy financial sit
uation for this co-op.
Sells Bonds For Shrine Building
Don Willetts, president of the Brunswick County Shrine Club, is shown
he sells the first $100 bond for the construction of the Shrine Club Building
Rabban Luther Cromartie, mayor of Wilmington. The new building will be
two miles South of Bolivia on the Midway road.
here as
to Chief
located
Shriners Now
Selling Bonds
For Building
Don Willetts, president of
Brunswick County Shrine Club,
recently sold to Chief Rabban
Luther Cromartie, mayor of
Wilmington, the first bond in the
amount of $100 for the new
Shrine Building, located 2 miles
south of Bolivia on Midway road
and scheduled for completion in
May, 1970.
Cromartie will be Potentate of
Sudan Temple, consisting of
over 8,000 Shriners in eastern
N.C.
Noble Cromartie stated he was
pleased to have the opportunity
to purchase the first bond. The
fact that he did this showed his
faith in this young club, now in
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Time And Tide
The N.C. Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy had
met at Brunswick Town and had dedicated three bridges at Fort
Anderson which they had helped to finance. That report together
with a front page photo, appeared in The Pilot for October 14,
1964. The contract had been let for construction of the gymtorium
at Lincoln High School.
Quick work on the part of several Southport men had resulted in a
spectacular, successful rescue operation for passengers of an airplane
which crashed in a marsh near the inland waterway; the editor had
taken note of National Newspaper Week; and Marvin Watson was
leaving Boiling Spring Lakes to accept the position of golf
professional at Duplin County Club, Kenansville.
It was October 14, 1959, and Butch Lennon, son of Congressman
and Mrs. Alton Lennon, landed a 34-pound red drum while fishing at
Bald Head Island. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Blake of Southport were on an
eight day cruise to Bermuda.
Governor Luther H. Hodges had appointed General James Glore of
Southport as a delegate from North Carolina to the National Rivers
and Harbors Congress in Washington, D.C. Kendall Lay Hardee of
Shallotte was promoted to second lieutenant in the North Carolina
National Guard.
It was October 13, 1954, and Game Protector H.T. Bowmer
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CP&L Application
Sent To Engineers
W. FRANK HARDY
W. Frank Hardy
Dies Thursday
W. Frank Hardy, 44, of
Southport, formerly of High
Point, died at 7 a.m. Thursday in
New Hanover Memorial
Hospital, Wilmington, where he
had been a patient for three
weeks. He had been ill two
years.
He was born December 7,
1924 in Lincolnton, Ga., a son
of Frank Aaron and Katie Davis
Hardy. On November 16, 1947,
he was married to Dorothy
Jones.
■ When a resident in High Point,
he was employed by Lyles
Chevrolet for 18 years. He
moved to Southport five years
ago and was .a partner,
vice-president and secretary, of
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The Carolina Power and Light
Company, Raleigh, has made
application for a Department of
the Army permit to construct
within the navigable waters of
the Cape Fear River, the
Atlantic Intracostal Waterway,
and Atlantic Ocean the canals
and structures associated with
the circulating water system at
their Brunswick Steam Electric
Plant approximately 2'A miles
north of Southport.
Plans submitted show that the
circulating water system will
start at the Cape Fear River ship
channel near Snows Marsh and
terminate in the Atlantic Ocean
southwest of Fort Caswell on
Oak Island. The system will
consist of an intake canal from
the river to the plant area, an
intake from which the water will
be pumped through the plant
condensers, a discharge canal
from the plant to the Atlantic
Intracoastal Waterway, an
inverted siphon under the
waterway channel, a canal from
the waterway to a point near the
beach, and a pumping station
near the beach to discharge the
water 2,000 feet from shore.
Plans may be seen in the district
engineer office and at the post
office in Southport.
The determination as to
whether a permit will be issued
will be based on an evaluation of
all relevant factors including the
effect of the proposed work on
navigation, fish and wildlife,
conservation, pollution, and the
general public interest.
Comments on these factors will
be accepted and made part of
the record and will be
considered in determining
whether it would be in the best
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Makes
On Study Of
Fog Condition
The State Department of
Water and Air Resources has
solved the mystery of the thick
haze that occasionally stops
traffic along U. S. 74 in the
Acme-Delco region.
The department reported
Friday that although the
low-lying coastal region is
naturally foggy, under certain
weather conditions smog from
five nearby industries is tunneled
through the thick pine forests
down railway and country road
right of ways into the highway.
A special team of investigators
sent to the community near the
Brunswick-Columbus county
line also discovered that a huge
open field beside one
accident-prone section of the
highway collects the haze.
The study is the first
investigation into air pollution in
North Carolina. The pollution
control committee of the State
Board of Water and Air
Resources received the report
Friday and authorized staff
members to immediately begin
working with area industries to
correct the situation.
The report was presented by
W. E. Knight, chief of the air
pollution control division of the
State Department of Water and
Air Resources, and Jim
McColman, staff engineer. They
used color slides and 4-by-6-foot
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NAACP Meeting
Is Held Here
On October 12, at the
Brunswick County-Southport
High gymnasium the Brunswick
County Chapter of the NAACP
held its annual mass meeting.
Dr. William A. McMillan,
president of Rust College, Miss,
was the guest speaker. He is a
native of Brunswick county and
he recognized members of his
high school graduation class and
members of his family before
beginning his talk. To his
classmates he stated an
uncertainty as to whether he
could speak to them because
they knew what he did or didn’t
do during his high school years.
“Some Problems We Face As
People Today” was the title of
his speech. Included were three
main ideas of which he spoke
when he was valedictorian of his
high school class. These were:
“Sacrifice is necessary for
success”, “Perseverance is
important for success (the
struggle makes a person
happy),” “Labor is a need for
success.” He gave examples of
each one in order to show
success as a result of them.
Dr. McMillan also cited
changes that have taken place
that all have had a part in,
beginning with the 1952 sit-in at
Greensboro. His speech was an
informative and forceful one and
everyone present seemed to have
enjoyed it.
Appearing on the program
with Dr. McMillan were the
Melodaires and Mrs. Ora B.
Clemmons, who gave musical
selections.
Tide Table
Following Is the tide table
for Southport during the
week. These hours an ap
proximately correct and
were furnished The State
Port Pilot through the
courtesy of the Oape Fear
Pilot's Association.
Thursday, October 16
12:27 AM 6:01 AM
7:04 PM
October 17
7:04
8:10 PJ
October 18,
■3:10i
12:38 PM
Friday,
1:33 AM
1:00 PM
Saturday,
1:51 AM
2:38 PM 9:hffl
Sunday, October 19
3:03 AM
3:45 PM
Monday,
4:15 AM
4:51 PM
Tuesday,
5:15 AM
5:46 PM
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6:09 AM
6:39 PM