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VOLUME 41 No. 31
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SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1970
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Accepts Hospital Chsfck
The neyv president of the Junior Woman’s Club of Southport, Mrs. Jerry Sherrod,
left, and the outgoing president, Mrs. C. R. Conrad, center, present a check for $300
to W. F. Cupit, administrator for Dosher Memorial Hospital. This gift resulted from
the Annual Christmas Ball for the benefit of the hospital. (Photo by Spencer)
Install New Shrine Offices
Johnnie W. Vereen, Jr., center, was installed last Wednesday night as president
of the Brunswick County Shrine Club. The installing officer was Chief Rabban Luth
er Cromartie, right. Others shown are Woodrow W. Harvell, vice-president, left; Her
bert Nichols, secretary-treasurer; and at the extreme right, James R. Hood, Ambas
sador-at-large.
New Officers
Installed By
Shriners Club
The Brunswick County Shrine
Club held its regular monthly
meeting Wednesday evening in
the Jaycee Building in
Southport. Special guests for the
occasion were Potentate Ed R.
Higgins, Chief Rabban Luther M.
Cromartie, Mayor of
Wilmington, Mrs. Cromartie, and
Outer Guard, Dr. John Gore. A
total of 44 members and guests
attended.
Following a covered dish
supper prepared by the ladies, a
short business session was
conducted.
Noble Luther Cromartie was
asked to act as installing
marshall for the officers for
1970. After each officer was
instructed in his duties and
obligations, he was installed.
They were as follow: President,
Johnie W. Vereen, Jr.,
vice-president, Woodrow W.
Harvell; secretary-treasurer,
Herbert A. Nichols.
Ambassadors were: James R.
Hood, Sr. Ambassador at large,
Archie A. Dixon, Norris C. Long
and Earl R. Brooks; Greeter,
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Juniors Raise
Money For MOD
This year the Junior Woman’s
Club of Southport will fight
birth defects with a “sit-in”
which will replace the annual
door to door collection. Club
members will be at the
Waccamaw Bank in Southport
and at Kirby’s Prescription
Center on Friday, January 23, to
collect contributions. Containers
als have been distributed to local
merchants and service stations
for added convenience.
All money donated to the
March of Dimes will go help
crippled children at the Birth
Defects Center.
Good Year For
Savings & Loan
All officers and members of
the board of directors of
Security Savings and Loan
Association were reelected at the
annual meeting of the
association held Tuesday in
Southport.
President of the association is
H. T. St.George; D. C. Herring is
vice-president and D. H. Hawes
is executive vice-president and
secretary-treasurer. In addition
to these three men, members of
the board of directors are S. B.
Frink, L. J. Hardee, H. Foster
Mintz, Hobson Kirby and W. E.
Bellamy, Jr.
Albert G Trunnell, Jr., is
assistant secretary-treasurer of
the home office at Southport
and LeRoy Mintz, Jr., is
assistant secretary-treasurer and
manager of the Shallotte branch
office.
As of December 31, the assets
of Security Savings and Loan
Association totaled
$6,718,082.00. This was an
increase of $354,201.00, or
5.57% for the year.
Total savings were
$5,986,426.00, an increase of
$281,582.00, or 4.93% for the
year, with a total of 3,061
investors.
Share holders earned a total
$264,238.00 dividends.
Mortgage Loans increased
7.47%, or $414,594.00 for the
year totaling $5,961,084.00.
A total of 172 loans were
made totaling $ 1,170,718.00. Of
these 36 were construction, 30
purchase, 40 refinance, 66 to
remodel, repairs and other
purposes. The totaling at the end
of the year was 1,184 loans on
file.
The association had available
14.96% of net income for
reserves after operating expense
and income taxes. Reserves were
increased $30,282.00 for the
year.
County Farm
Land Is Sold
In December the Board of
County Commissioners directed
the county attorney to advertise
for sale at public auction
approximately 10 acres of
woods on the old Boarding
Home property. This sale was
held Monday with
approximately 50 persons
present. S.W. Clewis was the
high bidder at $ 1,600 per acre.
The board re-convened at 2
p.m. at the regular meeting place
at which time W.D. Ward made a
motion, seconded by Paul
Dennis, that Clewis’s bid be
accepted. Clewis issued a check
in the amount of $3200 to the
county as a deposit on this
property. The county attorney
was directed to draw a proper
deed to be executed by the
chairman and clerk to the board
to be presented within 10 days,
at which time the balance of the
purchase price will be paid.
David L. Pugh, project
planner, N.C. Department of
Local Affairs of Raleigh and
Jackie Stevenson, director of
Resource Development
Commission, and members of his
board came before the Board of
Commissioners to present a
report and plan recently
compiled by his department.
This report shows the present
and the projected housing
situation in the county. Pags
requested endorsement of this
report and its recommendations.
The board requested time to
study the report and promised
action on this request within the
near future.
A delegation of citizens from
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Discount Plan
To Continue
During 1970
The flue-cured tobacco
discount variety program will be
continued for the 1970 crop. As
in past years, fanners will be
required to execute and file with
the local County ASCS Office a
report certifying whether or not
discount variety tobacco was
planted on the farm during the
current year.
The purpose of the discount
variety program is to discourage
production of certain flue-cured
varieties which tend to produce
tobacco with low flavor and
aroma. Clyde Wayne, chairman
of the Columbus County ASCS
Committee said the program was
developed effective for the 1957
crop after serious threat to the
industry which reslulted from a
high production of the discount
varieties in 1955 and 1956. The
program has been in effect since
'that time.
The price support loan value
of the discount varieties is set at
50 percent of the loan value for
comparable grades of other
varieties. The discount varieties
are Coker 139, Coker 140, Dixie
Bright 244, Reams 64, Coker
316, 187-Golden Wilt, and any
breeding line having the quality
and chemical characteristics of
the discount varieties.
" The discount varieties named
are in line with recommenda
tions by the tobacco industry,
and federal and state research
agencies.
Attend School
State Meeting
Mrs. Muriel Lennon, Reading
Coordinator, and Mrs. Frances
B. Stone, Director, Title 1,
ESEA, of the Brunswick County
Schools, were among the eight
hundred reading teachers who
conferred with top reading
consultants from across the
nation on January 15-17 in
Durham to learn how to best
utilize the new textbooks
adopted by the state for
teaching reading in the public
schools.
The conferences highlighted
the annual meeting of the North
Carolina Council of the
International Reading
Association. The theme for the
three-day event was “Reading:
Challange for North Carolina.”
At the opening session of the
conference Dr. Ralph C. Staiger,
executive secretary of the
International Reading
Association, told the reading
teachers that methods are not as
important as teachers and that
teachers should use the methods
that suit them best and prove to
be the most profitable for their
students. Dr. Staiger spoke on
“New Directions in Reading”.
James R. Layton, President of
the North Carolina Council of
the IRA, and a staff member of
the Reading Center of the
College of Education at
Appalachian State University,
told teachers that “children are
natural learners” and that
teachers should “be very
careful" about what goes on in
the classroom. Correspondingly,
Layton said the responsibility of
training good teachers presents a
challenge to colleges and
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New Masonic Officers
New officers for Pythagoras Lodge recently were installed, and are shown above.
Front row, left to right, James H. Russ, treasurer; Preston Bryant, senior warden;
Afton Smith, Jr., master; John R. Dosher, junior warden; James R. Hood, Sr., sec
retary; Anson Lewis, junior deacon. Back row, left to right, Clifton B. White, senior
deacon; James W. Smith, junior steward; Herman Strong, tyler; Wm. McDowell, chap
lain.
Annual Heart
Fund Banquet
Held Monday
“The heart and blood vessel
diseases are a family problem.
Some 27 million Americans,
from newborn to the aged, are
menaced by a complex of
diseases that includes heart
attack,, stroke, other
complications of hardening*of
the arteries, high blood pressure,
rheumatic fever and rheumatic
heart diseases, congential heart
and congestive heart failure. No
one is immune,” said Dr. Henry
S. Miller, Jr., of the Bowman
Gray School of Medicine,
Winston-Salem, Monday night at
Bennett’s Seafood Kitchen
during the annual Brunswick
County Heart Fund Kickoff
Dinner.
Approximately 50 people,
some workers and some just
visiting, attended the annual
affair.
Dr. Miller was introduced by
Dr. B. B. Ward of Shallotte,
Brunswick's Medical
Representative who is in charge
of getting speakers like Dr.
Miller to better inform of the
nation’s number one
killer-heart disease.
“An estimated 25,000 babies
will be bom this year with heart
defects. More than 350,000
youngsters in this age group have
rheumatic heart disease of
congenital heart defects. The
majority of the 21 million
homemakers have high blood
pressure, said Dr. Miller.
“The wage earner-in 1967,
the latest year for which
complete figures are available,
more than 158,000 men and
women from 25 through 64
years old-the most productive
years—died of heart attack, he
said.
“The Senior Citizen-heart
attack and stroke are the major
health problems of older men
and women. In 1967, heart
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Time And Tide
A front page picture in The Pilot for January 20, 1960, showed
the Brunswick County Bookmobile making its first rounds. There
were follow-up stories that week of the National Airlines crash at
Bolivia, and one story reported the suspicion that a bomb had
played a part in that tragedy. The N.C. State Ports Authority had
held a meeting that week in Southport.
On the society page there was a writeup of the wedding of Janice
Kay Swan to Norman Ray Holden; and two outstanding banquet
speakers were to appear here that week: Edmund Harding for the
SRNCBA Banquet and Rube McCray for Ladies Night at Southport
Lions Club.
In The Pilot for January 20, 1965, there was a front page story
reporting a public meeting to discuss problems of beach erosion.
Members of the Southport Board of Aldermen had written to former
Governor Terry Sanford to thank him for the Southport Boat
Harbor, the Visitor Center-Museum at Brunswick Town and the
Southport-Fort Fisher Ferry, the latter not yet an accomplished
fact.
Judge William Y. Bickett had been snowboudrt in Raleigh Monday,
necessitating a one-day postponement in opening the January term
of Superior Court; and three Southport golfers had played at Oak
Island on Sunday afternoon on the only golf course open for play in
North Carolina that day.
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MRS. IN A MAE MINTZ
CLINTON BELLAMY
Bellamy Resigns
As Party Chairman
Clinton E. Bellamy resigned as
chairman of the Brunswick
County Democratic Executive
Committee at a meeting of that
organization Saturday and for a
second time within two years
responsibility for heading party
activity in this county has fallen
upon the shoulders of Mrs. Ina
Mae Mintz, vice chairman.
Bellamy took this action when
he decided to file as a candidate
for the Democrat nomination
for Sheriff. His official
announcement appears in
today’s paper. Previously he has
served for four years Judge of
Recorder’s Court and eight years
Census Leader
Is Appointed
Appointment of Stephen R.
Hooks of Chadbourn, as district
manager of the 1970 U.S.
Census of Population and
Housing in this area was
announced by Joseph R.
Norwood of the Census Bureau’s
Regional Office in Charlotte.
A native of Columbus County,
Hooks is a graduate of
Chadbourn High School, and
will receive this month the B. S.
degree in Business
Administration from the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. His major at Chapel
Hill was accounting.
From the district office
located in Fayetteville, Hooks
will supervise all phases of the
census in the counties of Bladen,
Brunswick, Columbus,
Cumberland, New Hanover,
Pender and Robeson.
On January 26, following
several days of intensive training
in the regional office, Hooks will
go on duty and begin setting up
the district office. He will direct
a force of about 424 field
workers throughout the area.
Taking the census nationally
will require the services of
172,000 field workers, 393
district managers, and 13,000
office personnel.
ago he was one of the candidates
in a hot race for the sheriff’s
nomination. He is a motel and
restaurant owner at Long Beach
and is a building contractor.
Another important matter ol
business disposed of at the
Saturday meeting was
certification of persons foi
appointment to the Brunswick
County Board of Elections. As i
result of close balloting, the
following three names were
forwarded to Raleigh, with twc
men to be named as Democral
representatives on the board
They are Hubert Bellamy, H
Foster Mintz and Allen Ward
Both Bellamy and Mints
presently are serving as memben
of this board.
Another vacancy in the officia
family of the Democrat party
occurred when Mrs. Ruth
McBride moved from Brunswick
county. She had been serving as
secretary-treasurer of the party
and her place has been filled by
Mrs. Freeman Hewett.
In other political
developments, V. A. Creech, Jr.
has announced that he will noi
seek reelection as a member o:
the Board of County
Commissioners on which he now
is serving his second term.
Profit From
Tree Farming
Many landowners in
Brunswick county are missing
the opportunity to earn more
money from their farms,
according to Kenneth Johnson,
Brunswick County Forest
Ranger.
“Many of our farms have old
fields, brushy areas or
understocked stands of timber
that are actually costing more
than they produce,” he says,
“Why leave these areas in this
condition? Trees can provide an
additional income.”
The cost of placing these
unproductive areas in trees
probably is not as expensive as it
seems. Many farmers are eligible
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Board Hears f
Students At |
Monday Meet 1
Members of the Brunswick
County Board of Education met
in special session Monday night
with approximately 25 students
from Brunswick County-South
port High School and 10 parents
from the Southport School
District. Miss Cheryl Johnson
acted as spokesman for the
student group.
“We are here tonight
representing a group of students,
black and white,” she said. “All
of us are interested in the new
school to be built. We realize
that you are confronted with
many problems in selecting a site
and getting underway the
construction of a new school.
“It is our understanding that
you have chosen the Sprunt
Property as the site,” she
continued. “There are good
features to this property as well
as the Beaver Dam site, and we
are pleased that a site has been
chosen.
“Please understand that our
purpose is a worthwhile one, not
a protest, not a demonstration;
nor are we accusing anyone of
delinquency. We simply want
you to know how eager we are
to get the ‘ball rolling’ for a new
school,” Miss Johnson said.
“Having attended both schools
located in Southport, I am aware
of the lack of facilities,” she
said. “Our students furthering
their educations in colleges and
universities do well, but could
do much better if provided with
courses that are offered in other
schools. £
“We, as present seniors and
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March Of Dimes
Chairmen Named
The following persons have
been appointed community
chairmen to work during the
month of January in the annual
March of Dimes campaign: Ash,
Mrs. William Mathews; Bolivia,
Mrs. Douglas Hawes; Boons
Neck, Mrs. Norman Bellamy;
Calabash, Mrs. Harry Bennett;
Cedar Grove, Mrs. Henry
Randolph; Exum, Mrs. James D. ;
Vereen; Freeland, Mrs. Nelson
King; Grissettown, Mrs. Carlton
Hughes; Holden’s Beach, Mrs.
Hugh Dutton; Hickman’s Cr.
Rd., Mrs. Ernest Stanaland and
Mrs. Leob Hickman.
Leland, Mrs. S. L. Thomas;
Little Prong Church, Mrs. Leon
Ripley; Longwood, Mrs. W. A.
Long; Myrtle Head, Mrs. Lloyd
Parker; Shallotte, Mrs. Edward
Thomas; Shallotte Point, Mrs.
Harry Williams; Southport and
Beaches, Mrs. Jercy Sherod;
Boiling Springs Lakes, Mrs.
Anson Smith; Ocean Isle, Sunset
Beach, Twin Lakes, Brick
Landing, Mrs. Parker Phillips;
Supply, Mrs. Chandler Rourk;
Thomasboro, Mrs. Grant Gore;
Winnabow, Mrs. Tom Rabon;
Riegel Paper Corp., Fred
Simmons.
The Mother’s March will be
held Monday, January 26, at 7
p.m. The Drive will be
concluded on January 31.
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Tide Table
Folkmlng to tile tide table
for Southport during the
week. These boon am ap
proximately correct and
were fumtohed Hie State
Fort Pilot through the
courtesy of the dope Fear
Pilot's Association.
TIDE TABLE
Thursday, January 22,
7:45 a.m. 1:34 a.m.
8:03 p.m. 2:10 p.m.
Friday, January 23,
8:21 a.m. 2:16 a.m.
8:39 p.m. 2:46 p.m.
Saturday, January 24,
8:57 a.m. 2:52 a.m.
9:15 p.m. 3:22 p.m.
Sunday, January 25,
9:27 a.m. 3:28 a.m.
9:45 p.m. 3:58 p.m.
Monday, January 26,
9:57 a.m. 4:04 a.m.
10:21 p.m. 4:28 p.m.
Tuesday, January 27,
10:27 a.m. 4:46 a.m. "
10:57 p.m. 5:04 p.m. '
Wednesday, January 28,
11:09 a.m. 5:34 a.m.
11:45 p.m. 5:40 p.m.