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VOLUME 41 No. 19
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SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1969
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Oyster Season In Brunswick
This is the time of year when oystering is big
business in Brunswick County. The above photo shows
the tide is iow and oysters are exposed. These people
are busy picking them up before the tide comes in
again. In the background are other persons engaged
in the same occupation on another oyster rock. Bruns
wick now is the leading oyster producing county in
North Carolina.
Research Shows
Good Fishing
Off Brunswick
From August to mid October
the DAN MOORE, Research
Vessel For North Carolina C&D,
searched for commercial
concentrations of black sea bass,
porgy, snapper, and other
bottom fish in Raleigh Bay,
Onslow Bay, and Long Bay to
the South Carolina line.
The purpose of the cruises was
threefold. Besides searching for
fish, special roller gear to keep
the net up off rough bottoms
was tested and the bottoms were
charted. Available charts were
not specific enough to tell the
roughness of the bottom of a
particular area, especially in
waters 30 fathoms and deeper.
Gear damage was minor. Very
few areas were too rough to
trawl. Ridges and areas of coral
are considered rough bottoms.
A No. 41 Yankee trawl was
used in depths of 10,15, 20, 30,
40, and 60 fathoms. At each
designated fathom station a one
hour tow was made, keeping as
near as possible the same
contour line. Sampling in a grid
system, the various fathom
stations were sampled at 10 mile
intervals. Electronic equipment
(sonar and fathometer) was used
between stations and if
concentrations of fish were
found, the trawl was put
overboard and the area was
investigated.
Sampling of Raleigh Bay,
Onslow Bay, and Long Bay to
the S.C. line was completed. A
picture of August-October
abundance can now be drawn,
but surveys during all four
seasons are necessary for the
complete picture.
The most promising results so
far have been in Long Bay,
where catches worthy of
commercial exploitations have
been made.
Small areas of good catches
were made in all Bays, however
the concentrations were spotty.
Species not normally handled
by N.C. dealers, such as grouper
and snapper, were caught along
with species commonly handled,
such as black sea bass and porgy.
The best catch for an hour pull
was 1250 pounds of grouper.
Groupers averaged 19 pounds
apiece, ranged from 5-30
pounds.
Market prices of the fish
caught are usually good,
consequently it would not take a
boat load for fishermen to show
a profit.
A detailed report including
locations of good catches and
trawlable bottoms is being
prepared. ‘Anyone interested
should write the Morehead City
office and request a copy.
Voice Opposition
To Zoning Proposal
Southport citizens met
Thursday night at the Brunswick
county courthouse to study a
proposed Comprehensive New
Zoning Plan for this town and
the surrounding area and
numerous objections were
recorded for future
consideration by members of the
board of aidermen.
For the most part, these
objections were voiced by
property owners, but there was
general agreement that to
designate Howe Street as a
predominantly residential
section would be contrary to
present trends in business
growth and would impose
unnatural restrictions upon
business expansion.
One of the specific objections
came from Ray Stubbs, who
requested that 150-ft frontage
which he owns on the old
Southport Yacht Basin be zoned
for commercial or business use
instead of residential. Having
made this request, he stalked out
of the meeting and he hadn’t
reached the door before Frank
Hutton got up to protest this
change. He wants the area kept
as it is. This sentiment was
supported by Mrs. Barbara
Smith. Both she and Hutton
reside in the area affected.
Later in the meeting Hutton
rose to inquire if zoning for
residential use would have any
adverse affect upon existing
businesses. He was told it would
not. “That’s fine,” he said, “I’d
like for Pappy to keep on with
his machine shop.”
E.J. Prevatte, county attorney,
Adult Classes
Being Formed
Adult evening classes in
typewriting, welding and home
landscaping will begin Thursday
at the Brunswick
County-Southport High School
for those out-of-school adults
who desire to develop saleable
skills in these occupational areas.
A representative from Cape
Fear Technical Institute of
Wilmington will be at the school
Thursday night at 7:30 o’clock
to meet persons interested in
enrolling in one or two of these
classes. All persons interested in
enrolling in either of these
classes should be present to help
set up dates and time schedule
for the courses.
Those who wish to enroll, but
cannot be present at the
Thursday night meeting, should
contact the principal or J. A.
Francis for class reservations.
raised an objection to having the
area near the courthouse
restricted for residential use.
“Our county government is
growing,” he said and it must
have space nearby the present
buildings for reasonable
expansion.” He asked that Davis
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JUDGE MINTZ
Judge Mintz
New President
Judge Rudolph I, Mintz, of
Wilmington, Resident Judge of
the Fifth Judicial District, was
elevated from president-elect to
president of the Conference of
Superior Court Judges of North
Carolina at a meeting held
Friday and Saturday in Chapel
Hill.
Judge Mintz is a native of
Brunswick county, the son of
Mrs. Minta Mintz and the late H.
L. Mintz of Shallotte. He
practiced law in Southport and
lived here for many years prior
to moving to Wilmington.
Mintz succeeds Judge W. K.
McLean of Asheville, and will
serve for one year as president.
Conferences of Superior Court
Judges meet in June and
October of each year, but in
more recent years the
Conference has met in Special
Sessions several times each year
in the conduct of Seminars,
programmed particularity; to
disseminate among the Judge the
effect of new decision of the
Higher courts.
Other officers elected were
Judge Henry A. McKinnon Jr.,
Lumberton, President-elect;
Judge W. Albert Cowper,
Kinston, vice president; and
Judge Eugene G. Shaw,
re-elected secretary-treasurer.
Baptists Sell
Bonds To Help
With Building
A drive to sell $100,000 first1
mortgage 6-7% church bonds for
renovation and adding on to the
educational building of the
Southport Baptist Church was
launched recently with the
selection of a steerine
committee.
This committee is compose of
Lester Lowe, general chairman;
E. J. Prevatte, vice-general
chairman; Mrs. Barbara Faulk,
publicity director; Susie Carson,
chairman of committees; Mary
L. Russ, Walter Aldridge, Kirby
Sullivan, team managers; and R.
N. Clevenger, Sr., E. B.
Tomlinson, outside prospects
chairmen.
This committee will direct the
reservation and sale of the bonds
which will be available in
denominations of $1,000, $500,
$250, and $100. They will
mature from 1 to 10 years and
will be available for reservation
on November 10. Interest will be
payable semi-annually.
A thorough explanation of
church bonds, their value,
security, and availability will be
presented to members and
friends of Southport Baptist
Church Sunday morning,
November 9, at 11 o’clock. All
interested persons are invited to
be present These first mortgage
bonds are not only purchased by
individual investors, but banks,
insurance companies, pension
funds, trust accounts
endowments and similar
investment institutions.
Sunny Point
Affected By
Army Change
Eight civilian jobs at Sunny
Point Military Ocean Terminal
will be eliminated by June 30 as
a result of a massive Defense
Department cutback announced
Monday.
The cutback of jobs at Sunny
Point, which represents a savings
of $26,000, is part of the plan to
shut down or cut back 307
military bases and save the
country $609 million. North
Carolina will lose more than
1,700 military and civilian jobs.
Just how the cutback will
affect the overall employment at
Sunny Point is not known at this
time. There is some indication
the reduction of these jobs will
coincide with a reduction in
other civilian jobs at the
terminal, one of the largest
shipping points of war materials
overseas and a major part of the
economy of Brunswick County,
especially of Southport.
When all of the shutdowns,
reductions and consolidations
are completed, the Pentagon
said, there will be 37,800 fewer
military positions and 27,000
fewer civilian jobs.
Base closings have been a
feature of Democratic and
Republican administration
economy drives for nearly 10
years.
The latest batch of actions
taken by Secretary of Defense
Melvin R. Laird follows a series
of economy cuts in the size of
the Army, the strength of the
Navy and of the Air Force, and
slashes in a number of weapons
and hardware projects.
The Pentagon is under orders
from President Nixon to And $3
billion in savings this fiscal year.
Until Monday’s base-reduction
move, Laird had been able to
uncover only about $1.7 billion
of this while reducing the ranks
of the armed forces by about
220,000 men.
It is uncertain how much of
the $609 million annual saving
from the base closings and
reductions will be realized this
fiscal year which ends next June
30.
Supervisors
May Organize
Ira Butler, tax supervisor for
Brunswick County, is
spearheading the formation of
an eight-county area into the
Cape Fear Valley Tax
Supervisors and Assessors
Association.
The group met Thursday at
the Neptune Restaurant at
Wrightsville Beach. Discussions
at the meeting centered on
mutual tax problems of the eight
counties, such as the mobile
home situation and the proposed
one percent local sales and use
tax.
Tax supervisors and assessors
attending the meeting were
Howard Holley of Pender; V.D.
Baker of Robeson; J.H. Goforth
of Cumberland; Paul Campbell
of Bladen; J.H. Justice of
Onslow; Brooks Stanley of
Columbus; Laurence O. Bowden
of New Hanover; Raymond
Blake of New Hanover; John A.
Martin of Cumberland; R.
Durham Prevatte and G.W. West
of Robeson; and Butler.
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And Tide
It was October 25, 1939, and Henry Stone, principal at Shallotte
High School, had recently completed work for his Master’s Degree at
Duke University. Formerly he had been principal at Supply. An
English sparrow, making a rest stop on Frying Pan Lightship, had
been captured some two weeks before and subsequently released
ashore in Southport. Due to the unsettled condition of the
international situation, plans for a Navy Day celebration in
Southport had been abandoned; the old, four-story hotel structure
on Bald Head Island had been destroyed by fire; and the homes of
H.S. Smith and Capt. Fred Willing were being repaired and painted.
According to a headline, the Venus Flytrap was the strangest form
of plant life known to man. Whether this plant deserved this highest
honor is not known, but there was an interesting feature on those
botanical carnivores that week. The lady hypnotist-swindlers
reported the week before had moved on to Columbus County; Harry
Sells had been chased by a wild boar and black bear, alternately,
through most of the woods (a lot) north and east of town; and
Robert Willis had gone to work with a Chadbourn drug concern.
It was October 25,1944, and over two hundred persons had
attended the 50th anniversary homecoming at New Hope
Presbyterian Church; Harold Aldridge was serving with an artillery
outfit in England; the Southport school was planning a Hallowe’en
Carnival; the hurricane of the preceeding week had failed to reach
the Brunswick area; Dr. and Mrs. E.G. Goodman had announced the
birth of a son; and a Home Demonstration Club was to be set up in
the Funston section.
County Democratic leaders were closing oui. their campaign with a
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Pre-Fab Motel Units
This is the new motel complex at Tranquil Harbour Marina at Long Beach. It
was erected in record time, because it was assembled from pre-fab units construct
ed by one of the leading motel chains in the country. Owner Fred Williams was an
xious to get it ready in time for fall fishermen and for Intracoastal Waterway traffic
which passes his marina this time of year. (Photo by Spencer)
Wreck Near Southport
Edwin Creech was not injured early Sunday morning when the car he was driv
ing failed to make the turn at the junction of Highway 211-87 and mowed down a
telephone pole. The front of the car was not damaged from this impact, but a sign
post smashed the windshield. Creech was charged with reckless operation of a motor
vehicle. (Photo by Spencer)
Annual REA Meet
Scheduled Friday
MRS. WHITE
Supervisor Is
New Officer
Mrs. Ruth T. White, general
elementary supervisor for
Brunswick County Schools, was
elected secretary-treasurer for
the Southeastern Division of
Supervisors of the North
Carolina Education Association
last week. The Southeastern
Division includes the following
ten counties: Bladen, Brunswick,
Columbus, Cumberland, Hoke,
New Hanover, Pender, Robeson,
Sampson, and Scotland.
The election was held at a
luncheon in Fayetteville on
Friday. Jerry Beaver of New
Hanover was elected president
and Mrs. Henrietta R. Fox,
Lumberton City Schools, was
elected vice-president.
Dr. Jerome H. Melton,
Assistant Superintendent, State
Department of Public
Instruction, was the speaker at
the luncheon. He spoke on
“Education: An Open Door to
Understanding for Directors of
Instruction and Supervisors.”
Officials of the Brunswick
Electric Membership Corp., are
busily making plans for the 30th
annual meeting of that
organization, which will be held
on next Friday, October 31, at
the Columbus County
Warehouse, Highway 74-76, in
Whiteville.
Registration will be started at
11 a.m., it is announced, with
the meeting to get underway in
early afternoon.
Henry Schriver will be the
featured speaker at the meeting,
and Hugh Vance, the
cooperative says: “Don’t miss
Henry.”
He is said to be one of
America’s foremost
farmer-philosophers, and seasons
his talks with plenty of food for
thought, along with a generous
dash of wit and rhyme.
Schriver is a dairy farmer in
Grafton, Ohio, but, said Vance,
“His gift of gab has carried him
into some of the largest
convention halls in America.”
He has a solid background of
many accomplishments, ranging
from his local church to the
Ohio General Assembly, and he
thus has been able to put
together first hand information
over a broad area and apply it
with a well-trained and mature
mind.
Labeled the “Grandma Moses”
of poetry, he brings humor,
inspiration and common sense to
his listeners.
Also on the afternoon’s
program are the Musical Four, a
family teenage group of Gospel
Singers from Godwin. This
group has traveled from Florida
to Canada, and from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, and have
won wide acclaim for their
singing.
The big meet will open at 11
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Achievement Of
4-H Highlighted
Brunswick County 4-H club
members will have their night
Thursday.
Those young people who have
put forth an extra effort will be
rewarded as the annual 4-H
Achievement program is held.
The awards program will begin
at 7 p.m. at the Extension
Service Building in Supply.
During the program outstanding
accomplishments will be
recognized and county
champion awards will be given in
the various project areas.
The public is invited to come
and see these young people
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Tide Table
Following Is the tide table
(or Sooth port daring the
week. These hoars are ap
proximately correct and
were famished Ike State:
Port Pilot through the
courtesy of the Cope Fear
Pilot's Association.
Thursday, October SO
11:03 AM 4:46 AM
11:21 PM 5:34 PM
Friday, October 31
11:46 AM 5:34 AM
6:22 PM
Saturday, November 1
0:09 AM 6:22 AM
12:39 PM 7:16 PM
Sunday, November 2
1:03 AM 7:22 AM
1:27 PM 8:10 PM
Monday, November 8
2:03 AM 8:22 AM
2:27 PM 0:04 PM
Tuesday, November 4 /
3:03 AM 8:22 AM
3:15 PM 9:58 PM
Wednesday, November J
3:57 AM 10:22 AM
4:09 PM 10:46 PM