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SOUTHPORT, N C. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1970
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Sightseeing In Holy Land
Miss Annie May Woodside is shown here with E. J. Prevatte, right, as they walk
ed in the Garden at Gordon’s Calvary during their December visit to the Holy Land.
Emerge From The Pool
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Prevatte are shown as they emerge from the famous Pool of
Siloam during their recent visit to the Holy Land. They had other experiences which
were not quite this peaceful (see story).
I Brief Bits Oft
NEWS "
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BAPTIST MEETING
An organizational meeting of
the Baptist Brotherhood of the
Oak Island Baptist Church will
be held Tuesday at 7 o’clock,
according to announcement this
week by John Vereen, president.
This will be a dinner meeting.
ANNUAL MEETING
The Winnabow Volunteer Fire
Department of Winnabow will
hold its annual business meeting
and election of officers at the
Fire Department at 8 p.m.
January 10. All citizens of the
Winnabow Fire District are
urged to attend.
HOME IS BURNED
The home of Mr. and Mrs.
Lindsey Lewis on the Boones
Neck Road near Holden Beach
was completely destroyed by
fire Saturday afternoon. The
only things saves were a few
pieces of furniture from the
front room and the clothes they
were wearing. The loss was
partially covered by insurance.
MOTHER DIES
Mrs. Herman Sellers was
notified Monday that her
mother, Mrs. Henry Muller, had
died that morning in a fire which
destroyed her home in Marshall,
Mo. Mr. and Mrs. Sellers left
immediately for Marshall.
Details of the tragedy were
incomplete. Mrs. Sellers’ father
died during the past year.
DEMOCRATS TO MEET
Clinton Bellamy, chairman of
the Brunswick County
Democratic Executive
Committee, has called a meeting
of this body Saturday afternoon
at 4 o’clock at Lorraine
Restaurant at Long Beach.
Purpose of this meeting will be
to nominate two members to
serve on the Brunswick County
Board of Elections.
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Bomb Fright For
Southport Couple
A delightful holiday trip to the
Holy Land for three Southport
citizens was not without danger
for two of them, who were
eye-witnesses to a grenade killing
on the streets of Jerusalem.
The vacationers were Miss
Annie May Woodside and Mr.
and Mrs. E.J. Prevatte, who left
Christmas day for a 10-day visit
to Germany, Italy and the Holy
Land. Except for the one
incident of violence, all agreed
this trip was one of a lifetime.
On New Year’s Day, Mr. and
Mrs. Prevatte used a few minutes
of free time to walk through the
streets of Jerusalem alone. Mrs.
Prevatte said she didn’t see
anything familiar and asked her
husband to head back to their
group. They did, and when they
had walked less than 100-feet a
Elderly Man
Robbed Here
Edward Knight, better known
as “Pappy”, 70-year old
Southport man, was robbed at
gunpoint Sunday night by three
masked men who walked in the
front door of his home on
Highway 87 near Southport and
relieved him of $140 in cash.
Knight had just completed a
day’s work at the J & A Grocery
on Howe Street and was seated
in a chair in his front room when
these unexpected visitors
arrived. One of them said “Give
it to me, I know you’ve got it”.
“Pappy” said he complied
without argument. “I never even
got up out of my chair”, he said.
Following the robbery,
according to Knight, the men
jumped into an old model car
and headed in the direction of
Highway 211.
The case is under investigation,
but as of Tuesday no arrests had
been made.
hand grenade exploded on the
comer where they had been
standing. Two Arabs were killed
and others were injured.
“We were kept inside the
shops for about an hour,” Mrs.
Prevatte said, “before police
would let us back on the streets.
It was reported that this attack
was aimed at disrupting business
and discouraging tourists—and it
really did!”
The over-all impression of
their trip was one of pleasure.
While in the Holy Land they
visited Nazareth, Capernaum,
the Dead Sea, Bethlehem,
(Continued On Page Five'
Making Plans
For Meeting
The Lower Cape Fear
Christian Laymen’s Association
officers for the year 1970 are:
President, C.B. Caroon;
vice-president, Ephraim Swain;
secretary-treasurer, W.L.
Aldridge. Members of the Board
of Directors are E.C. Blake,
Theodore Burney, W. Frank
Cox, A.C. Caviness, Donald
Dixon, James M. Harper, Jr.,
C.T. Harvell, Conley Koontz,
George W. Parker, Dr. J.L.
Sampson, E.B. Tomlinson. Jr.,
and Ray Walton.
Regular dinner meetings are
planned at which outstanding
clergymen and laymen will be
invited to speak. The first such
meeting is scheduled for
Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in the
Community Building.
Reservations for dinner are being
accepted through Saturday.
The Laymen’s Association is
the official sponsor for the
Christian Youth Center now
being established in the Cranmer
House.
Students Vie
For College
Financial Aid
Alumnae committees
appointed for every county in
North Carolina are this month
interviewing the 278 nominees
for the Katharine Smith
Reynolds Scholarships at the
University of North Carolina at
Greensboro.
Serving on the Committee
Brunswick county are Miss
Cheryl Blackburn, chairman,
Mrs. Barbara Smith and Mrs.
Carol Roycroft.
Nominees from the county,
each an outstanding member of
her high school graduating class,
are Betty Louise Bogie, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bogie and
a student at Bolivia High School.
Ester Earlene Hardy,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James
Hardy, and a student at
Shallotte High School.
Deanna Lynn Lewis, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lewis, and
a student at Leland High School.
Rebecca Jean Long, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Otha Long, and
a student at Waccamaw High
Continued On Page Four
Theft Ring Is '
Broken Here
Chief of Police Aubrey
Hickman of Long Beach' and
Chief of Police Ed Leonard of
Yaupon Beach put the heat on a
pair of young men engaged in
breaking into a filling station
Friday bight, and the result was *
the arrest of the men charged
with this crime and the
implication of several others in a
series of burglaries that have
taken place recently in this area.
Chief Hickman received a call
about midnight Friday that
thieves were attempting to break
into Tommy’s Esso at Yaupon
Beach. When he found where the
trouble was, he called Chief
Leonard. Apparently the thieves
still were inside the station, but
when they heard the officer they
broke out the other side of the
building.
In their haste, they left their
automobile and one of the
intruders lost his shoe. The two
lawmen spent the next few
hours trying to locate their
suspects, but to no avail.
Saturday morning Chief
Hickman went to the home of
Ennis Weeks on the Beach Road,
where one of the suspects was
reported to be staying. As he
arrived, someone ran off into the
woods. He called the Brunswick
County Sheriffs Department
with the request that blood
hounds be brought in to help
with the search. This was done,
and late that afternoon the dogs
took the officers to two men on
Highway 211 about one mile
west of the blueberry farm.
They were Willie Caison and
Randy Williams, who admitted
to officers that they had broken
into the service station. They
also admitted that they had
burglarized Louise Fine Foods in
Southport and Williams said he
had helped snatch a vending
maching at Boiling Spring Lakes.
They implicated George
Thomas in the restaurant
break-in and Joe Griffin in the
Boiling Spring Lakes theft.
All four have been placed
under arrest. Investigation
continues, and there is a chance
that other arrests involving other
thefts may follow.
}: Prospective Purchasers?
The latest rumor about Bald Head Island is that a group of businessmen, includ
ing Arthur Smith, famous television personality, may purchase this property from
Frank Sherrill. During the past weekend Smith visited the island for a personal in
spection. He is shown here in the left foreground, shaking hands with Reece Swan,
island^caretaker. In the background at the left is Ed Spainhour and in the center is
Fred roster, owner of Monument Record Co. (Photo by Spencer).
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Little Change
In Feed-Grain
Farm Program
Secretary of Agriculture
Clifford M. Hardin has
announced a 1970 feed grain
program similar in most respects
to that in effect for 1969.
However, in 1970 there will be
no advance voluntary diversion
payments under the feed grain
program.
Minimum qualifying diversion
for program participation in
1970, at 20 percent of a farm’s
base acreage, is unchanged. The
maximum total possible
diversion for the three feed
grains—corn, grain sorghum and
barley—continues at 50 percent
of a participating farm’s base
acreage.
As in 1969, producers of corn,
sorghum or barley can qualify
for participation in the program
by diverting to conserving uses
20 percent of their farm’s base
acreage. Except for small farms
no diversion payment will be
made on this first 20 percent
reduction.
Payment rates for additional
diversion are based on 40
percent of the total county price
support (loan plus support
payment) times the farm’s
projected yield of the crops
involved. The 40 percent
payment rate compares with 45
percent in 1969.
(Continued On Page 8)
Time And Tide
It was January 3, 1940, and a portion of the gory past was spread
over the front page that week. The story of Stede Bonnet’s capture in
Southport harbor (in 1718) was recounted in an excerpt from a state
publication. The New Year’s dance had been “cracking good,”
according to a news account. The entertaining orchestra had
featured Lawrence Willing and John Boyd Finch on saxophone, and
Robert Willing on “a string instrument that is a cross between a
ukulele and a guitar.” It was noted that several homes in the
community had observed the incoming New Year in traditional
fashion, serving “Hopping John”—boiled peas and hog jowl—for the
first dinner.
Glenn Martin, airplane builder, had been through Southport on his
100-ft. yacht and had not expressed interest in locating a plant in
Brunswick; college students, reported home two weeks before, were
reported back in school again; husbands of three of the twelve
members of the Thursday Afternoon Bridge Club were named
Rudolph; and a poem concerning the local postmaster, run in Just
Among the Fishermen, concluded, “.. .may his tribute increase.
Let’s hope the century passes by before his tall tales cease.”
It was January 3, 1945, and Joel Moore, Jr., had entered the
Merchant Marine Academy at King’s Point. Miss Ellie Ford Hinson
had entertained young folks of Trinity Methodist Church at the
(Continued On Page Flour)
Board Urged To
Settle On Site
A group of Brunswick County
citizens, principally from the
Southport School District, met
with the Board of Education
Monday night to urge that a site
for the Southern Area School be
selected as soon as possible in
order that construction of a new
building to house a consolidated
high school to serve the
Southport-Bolivia area might
begin.
E. B. Tomlinson, Jr., served as
spokesman for the group and
declared “we did not come here
to cause a hang-up over a choice
of location. That decision is up
Editor Of State
Magazine Dies
William P. Sharpe, editor of
The State Magazine and long a
well-known figure in press circles
of North Carolina, died Tuesday
in Raleigh.
He and his family were
well-known in Brunswick, where
they have a summer home at
Yaupon Beach. In fact, he and
Mrs. Sharpe remained at the
beach last fall until early
November before returning to
Raleigh to spend the winter.
In addition to his work with
The State Magazine, Sharpe
formerly was in the- public
relation department of Carolina
Power and Light Co. Prior to
that time he had organized and
had served as the first director of
the Advertising Division of the
Department of Conservation and
Development.
He spent his boyhood in
Winston-Salem and began his
newspaper career on the
Winston-Salem Journal. Later he
founded a weekly of his own.
called Thursday.
One of his most lasting
contributions to the literary
record of this state was his “New
Geography of North Carolina,” a
four-volume work that includes
little-known information about
every one of the counties.
He is survived by his wife and
four daughters.
Funeral services will be
conducted tomorrow (Thursday)
at 11 o’clock, Brown-Wynn
Funeral Home in Raleigh.
to you. Make it, and we will
back you up.”
Superintendent Ralph King
and Chairman Norman Bellamy
explained that a total of 14
separate sites have been
inspected and investigated in an
effort to locate a suitable ate
which also will be
centrally-located. Arthur J.
Dosher and Homer Holden also
told of efforts that have been
made to obtain a building site
which will be usable and
acceptable to the majority of the
school patrons.
There were many expressions
from the crowd, but the
overwhelming sentiment was
agreement that any site will be
acceptable if it is made quickly.
There was a preference for a
location on Highway 211 at
Beaver Dam, but most of those
people present said they would
be satisfied with a location on
Highway 87 at Clear Pond if that
site is found to be suitable and if
it can be obtained quickly, and
at a fair price.
Chairman Bellamy told the
(Continued On Page 8)
Adult Driver
Course Here
Plans are being completed to
offer a course in Driver Training
and Safety Education for adult
citizens in Brunswick county.
This course is designed for
individuals over 18 years of age
and who are not enrolled in the
county schools.
Individuals who wish to learn
to drive and those who wish to
improve their driving ability may
enroll. Approximately
thirty-nine hours of classroom
instruction and eighteen hours
of behind the wheel instruction
will be offered. A minimum of
twelve students will be needed
to offer the course and a fee to
cover expenses will be charged.
This fee will mainly cover the
operational cost which includes
supplies and vehicle expense.
Those wishing to enroll should
contact the Brunswick County
Board of Education Office either
by phone, letter, or by coming
by the Board of Education
office in Southport.
Schools May
Get Fall-Out
Shelter Plan
The possibility that the new
Brunswick County schools will
house fall-out shelters was
discussed by school and Civil
Defense officials during the
regular meeting of the
Brunswick County Board of
Commissioners Monday.
Superintendent of Schools
Ralph King and his assistant,
Robert Elkins, conferred with
county Civil Defense Director
Colonel Francis Moffitt. The
commissioners requested that
Supt. King explore the
possibility of having the three
proposed new county schools
built so they would meet the
requirements for fall-out
shelters.
Supt. King said his office
would investigate the possibility
and would include it in the plans
if it could be done reasonably
and at low cost.
The county attorney was
directed to draw a deed from the
county to Mrs. Peart Leonard for
the W. C. Leonard heirs estate
property in Shallotte Township
which had been foreclosed on
last year for taxes. This property
is to be sold for the amount of
$172.07.
It was brought to the attention
of the board that G. T. Reid had
recently resigned as a member of
the Board of Trustees at Dosher
Memorial Hospital, making it
necessary to appoint a
replacement. V. A. Creech, Jr.,
nomin»i,ea Tom B. Rabon to fill
this unexpired term and
commissioner A. C. Holden
nominated Mrs. A. P. Henry, Jr.,
for this same position.
Upon a roll call vote Rabon
received the majority vote and
was declared elected to fill the
unexpired term of Reid.
Colonel Moffitt, County
Electrical Inspector, came before
the board, and the board was
reminded that his appointment
had expired. The Chairman of
the board was directed to
execute the proper form
qualifying Moffitt as inspector
for this year.
Several persons came before
the board to discuss tax matters
and they were all referred to the
tax department for corrections,
(Continued On Pngn Four)
Lennon Will
Visit County
Congressman Alton Lennon
will visit in the seventh district
during the congressional recess,
and will be in each of the district
counties for conferences with his
constituency.
“The late adjournment of the
first session of the 91st Congress
has limited the amount of time 1
have for my annual visits in our
Congressional district,”
Congressman Lennon remarked.
“I hope that I may assist
individuals in matters relating to
the federal government while I
am in their area,” the
congressman also stated.
Congressman Lennon will be at
the courthouse in Southport on
Thursday, January 15, from 9
a.m. to p.m.
Tide Table
Following is the tide table
for Southport during die
week. These hours aret ap
proximately correct and
were furnished The State,
Port Pilot through the'
oourtesy of the Gape Fear
Pilot's Association.
Thursday, January g
8:16 AM 1:82 AM
8:27 PM 2:40 PM
Friday, January 9
9:03 AM 2:46 AM
9:21 PM 3:28 PM
Saturday, January 10
9:67 AM 3:40 AM
10:16 PM . 4:18 PM
Sunday, January 11
10:46 AM 4:28 AM
11:0® PM 5:04 PM
Monday, January 12
11:33 AM 5:28 AM
5:58 PM
Tuesday, January 18
0:03 AM 6:22 AM
12:27 PM 6:46 PM
Wednesday, January 14
1:03 AM 7:22 AM
1:21 PM 7:40 PM