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Brunswick County
THE STATE PORT PILOT
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
VOLUME 41 No. 49
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SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1970
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PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Busy Season Ai Crab Plant
This is a normal scene at Caroon Crab Company plant in Southport these
days as production has reached its peak. The influx of thousands of vacation visit
ors to the coast in the summertime creates an added demand for crab meat and its
products.
Art Show To
Be Held Here
During Fourth
The tenth annual Southport
Arts Festival committee
announces that the juror for this
year’s show is Edwin F.
Shewmake, head of the Art
Department of Salem-College in
Winston-Salem.
Shewmake received his B.S.
degree from Davidson College
and his M.A. degree from the
University of North Carolina.
His professional training includes
the study of Life Drawing at
Ringling School of Art, Sarasota,
Florida; Art Appreciation at
Corcoran School of Art, George
Washington University,
Washington, D.C. and Portrait
Painting at the Cleveland Art
Institute.
The Arts Festival, sponsored
by the Junior Woman’s Club of
Southport, will be open on July
4. Purchase Awards, silver cups
and ribbons amounting to $400
will be offered to artists, both
professional and amateur. Silver
cups and ribbons will be
awarded to the first place winner
in each category of the general
show, one junior, and the
“Best-in-Show.” Second and
third place winners will receive
ribbons. There are five categories
in the show: Oils, water colors,
graphics and crafts in the general
show and a junior show.
The club has received
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Rescue Squad
Has Birthday
The Town Creek Township
Volunteer Rescue Squad has
been in service for two years and
during that time has served
many people.
This help has ranged from
transfers (which is carrying a
patient from one hospital to
another) to heart attacks,
strokes, accident victims, and
even to rescuing a parrot from a
tree.
Members of the squad donate
their time, money, and their
sleep to the saving of lives.
Squad members started out by
taking Standard and Advanced
First Aid through the American
Red Cross. Now the State Board
of Health requires that all
qualified members going on the
ambulance calls have an
additional EO-3 Course. This
makes a total of 64 hours of
training on the part of the
qualified member.
The squad has only one
ambulance at its disposal and at
times this can be unfortunate.
When this one ambulance is out
on call neighboring squads must
take incoming calls. At times
this could make a dangerous
difference in the amount of time
it takes to get a patient to the
hospital.
This is the main reason for a
fund raising drive during the
week of June 14-20 to hope in
acquiring a new ambulance.
Crab Plant Is Busy
During This Season
By ALLAN SLOAN
Charlotte Observer
SOUTHPORT—It is nearing
lunchtime at the C.B. Caroon
Crab Co. and the company’s
owner, C.B. (Cash) Caroon, is
standing next to his automatic
crab processor and waxing
philosophical:
The smell of crabs—raw ones,
cooked ones, live ones, frozen
ones—pervades the atmosphere
■ as Caroon lets out a little sigh.
“Well,” he says, after
discussing the unpredictable
ways of his main source of meat,
the blue crab, “I guess you got
to be about half crazy to run
this business.”
“Do you really think you’re
crazy?” asks Caroon’s visitor.
“No,” Caroon answers, then
says, as an afterthought, “I’m a
little nutty, maybe.”
' If Caroon is nutty, it must run
in the family. There are three
Caroon Crab companies in North
Carolina, run independently by
Cashwell Beverly (“That’s not a
name, it’s a collection of
leftovers”) and two of his
brothers.
Sometimes, C.B. says, suplies
intended for one of the
companies end up at the wrong
place, giving the whole Caroon
clan a good laugh.
C.B.’s company is located on
the waterfront in Southport,
giving crab boats an easy way to
deliver their catch and giving
Caroon a place to dump his
leftover crab parts.
On a good day, Caroon says,
his company will handle
30,000-35,000 pounds of crabs,
which means about 3,000-3,500
pounds of meat and about
65,000 individual crabs.
The company—which began in
1965—produces deviled crabs,
crab meat and crab cakes, and
turns out a few tons of shrimp
on the side.
Caroon’s pride and joy-and
the company’s specialty—is
deviled crabs, made according to
a secret recipe concocted by
Caroon and his wife. “We’ve
been offered quite a bit of
money for the recipe, but we
won’t sell,” he says.
Caroon’s products are used
in seafood restaurants along the
Carolinas coasts, and make their
way inland and northward, too.
The company has just opened a
retail department, and wooden
pilings next to the crab
processing plant are the
precursors of an oceanfront
restaurant that Caroon is
planning.
Although the automatic crab
cleaner does some of the work,
the main burden of extracting
meat from the crabs is done by
about two dozen women, sitting
at two long tables.
The crabs—bought from
independent crab fishermen-are
first put in carts that hold a ton
each. The carts are then rolled
into a cooker, and the cooker
crabs are taken into the room
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Lt. (j.g.) MacWhinny
Navy Nurse Is
Parade Marshal
Lt. (j.g.) Gale G. MacWhinny,
USNNC, is to be the parade
marshall for the 1970 Southport
Fourth of July Festival parade.
Lt. MacWhinny was born in
Summett, N.J. and made her
home there prior to assuming
active duty in the U.S. Navy in
May, 1969. She received her
R.N. degree from Boston
University, Boston, Mass. Lt.
MacWhinny, who is 23, would
like to continue her career
serving on board a hospital ship.
In previous years the military
has furnished male parade
marshals, but this year the
Southport Festival is unique in
having a woman in this role.
Help Requested
To House Band
The Southport Lions Club is
sponsoring a community project
to aid the Fourth of July
Festival committee in obtaining
bands for this year’s event.
Area high schools do not
continue band work during the
summer and the task becomes
increasingly difficult in
obtaining these units.
Two bands have agreed to
participate: one from
Winston-Salem and one from
Forest City. Transportation and
lodging must be provided for
these units. Lodging
arrangements have been made at
a very reasonable price of $2 per
member each night.
These bands have a total of
235 members and will be in
Southport for two nights, July 3
and 4.
Any person wishing to aid in
this project by sponsoring a
band member at a cost of $2 per
night is urged to contact any
member of the Lions Club or the
secretary, Harold Aldridge.
Fourteen From
Brunswick Are
Given Degrees
Fourteen Brunswick County
residents received degrees in
commencement exercises
Sunday at the University of
North Carolina at Wilmington.
Governor Robert Scott
addressed the 240-member
graduating class in the 4 p.m.
services, and graduates and their
guests were feted at a reception
at the home of Chancellor and
Mrs. William H. Wagoner
immediately following the
services.
Candidates for the bachelor of
arts degree in English were
Kathryn E. Carson, daughter of
Mrs. Susan S. Carson of
Southport; William Henry
Cranford, Jr., of Shallotte; and
Sue Wescott Sellers, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Wescott of
Bolivia.
Ralph Lee Gatlin, Jr., of
Leland received his bachelor of
arts degree in history; and
Robert Neal Clevenger, Jr., and
Franklin Pierce Barbee, son of
Mrs. G.V. Barbee, Sr., of
Yaupon Beach, received degrees
in business administration.
Clevenger is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Clevenger, Sr., of
Southport.
Marsha Dale Hickman,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G.R.
Hickman of Winnabow, received
a degree in physical education.
wiiuam inorDome Haraee, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Fred H. Hardee
of Shallotte, received his degree
in biology.
Six Brunswick county
residents were among the
December and March graduates
of the University of North
Carolina at Wilmington received
degrees Sunday.
December graduates awarded
their degrees were Edson Delbert
Norris, son of Mr. and Mrs.
F.Mendel Norris of Ash; and
Barbara Melton Ciewis, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. James D. Melton
of Southport. Both Norris and
Mrs. Ciewis majored in English.
James Aaron Swain of
Southport was graduated in
December with a major in
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Delay Reported
In Certification
With the June 20 deadline for
certifying crop and land use
acreages only a little more than a
week away almost a thousand
Brunswick county fanners are
still waiting, said Ralph Price,
ASC manager, this week.
“We cannot understand why
they are waiting so long unless it
is with the expectation of
meeting a lot of friends and
neighbors while standing in line
at the ASCS Office during the
last days of the signup period,”
Price said. “If this is true it
appears now that there will be
plenty of time to talk.
With the above thought in
mind the ASCS office will be
open Monday through Friday
next week from 8 a.m. to 6
p.m., and Saturday from 8 a.m.
to 12 noon.
“This will not eliminate the
waiting lines but perhaps it will
help,” said Price. “Anyway,
we hope so because the
penalties for not timely
certifying are drastic.”
Yacht At Anchor
The Kakkim, 104 foot luxury yacht, put into
Southport Friday and anchored in the harbor for
three days before moving to the Southport Boat
Harbor, where she was moored until this (Wednes
day) morning. She is owned by Twist Dial and Tool
Co. of Rochester, N. Y., and had been making her
way north on an ocean voyage that was interrupted
by bad weather. A small fishing boat is shown in
the left foreground and another passing yacht in the
background. (Ed Harper Photo)
Youth Killed
On Highway 17 •
By Automobile
A 14-year old Leland youth
was killed Monday afternoon
when the bicycle he was riding
was struck by an automobile on
Highway 17.
Joseph Lee McMillan died
instantly when struck by the
automobile, operated by Edward
Lee Lewis, 18, of Winnabow.
According to a report Tiled by
investigating Highway Patrol
Trooper W.C. Fulghum,
McMillan and a companion,
Jerry Brown, swerved their
bicycles in front of the Lewis
automobile.
Fulghum said the automobile
was traveling northward when
the wreck occurred
approximately 3 p.m. The
cyclists were riding in the left
lane, approaching Lewis’ car
from the front. Unexpectedly to
Lewis, both boys swerved their
bicycles into the right-hand lane,
in which the automobile was
traveling.
To avoid a collision, Lewis
swerved the car to the left lane,
but the McMillan youth traveled
back into the left lane where the
head-on collision occurred.
The Town Creek Rescue
Squad carried McMillan to New
Hanover Memorial Hospital
where he was pronounced dead
on arrival. Fulghum said no
charges would be filed.
e And Tide
It was June 5, 1935., and Miss Annie May Woodside had just been
elected Superintendent of Brunswick County Schools, succeeding
R.E. Sentelle. Members of the Board of County Commissioners had
voted to discontinue the office of Home Demonstration Agent, and
in so doing had called down the wrath of club women and 4-H Club
members. It was good news that State Highway forces were
resurfacing a portion of the Southport Wilmington road.
Something of a record must have been set in Recorder’s court that
week, for although a session had been held, there had been no
convictions. Wilhelm Schmidt, who had been fishing here for several
months, was back in port after spending two days and nights at sea
in a boat with a disabled motor. In the advertising section there
appeared an eye-catching illustration for lingerie, with nightgowns a
specialty of the house at Ruark’s, 49 cents and 89 cents.
The time was June 5, 1940, and the late R.C. St. George had been
endorsed for the post of District Commander. American Legion; and
his picture was on the front page. Also on page 1 was a photo of the
late Governor J. Melville Broughton, who had received official word
of his nomination. The new 76-foot yacht of Frank O. Sherrill,
owner of Bald Head Island, was due here, and there was a suggestion
that he might be persuaded to base the craft at Southport.
Local tennis players were making daily pilgrimages over to Caswell
to use the cement court, one of three hard playing surfaces in
Brunswick; it was reported that the finger that had been completely
severed from the hand of Dudley Sutton, Southport youngster, had
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Statement Issued
Concerning Schools
At the regular meeting of the
Brunswick County Board of
Education last week members
reviewed the statement of facts
about construction of their new
KENNETH HEWETT
Hewett Attends
4-H Convention
Kenneth Hewett, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Freeman Hewett of
Shallotte, has been selected to
represent the North Carolina 4-H
clubs at the Georgia State 4-H
Council, June 22-24.
Only six 4-H’ers are chosen to
represent the 4-H clubs at this
out-of-state event—three boys
and three girls.
A rising senior at Shallotte
High School, Kenneth has been
recognized for a number of
outstanding accomplishments.
Last year, he was state winner in
the 4-H Public Speaking project
and was selected as the “Top
Teen Boy” in the Youthpower
Program. Last fall he was
honored as being the “Most
Outstanding Boy” in the
Star-News 4-H Honor Piogram.
This week, Kenneth is
attending the 4-H Leadership
Camp at Mitchell 4-H Camp.
This is the first such camp held
for 4-H’ers in this district. He is
the only 4-H’er attending from
Brunswick County.
“The selection of Kenneth to
represent North Carolina at this
function is indeed an
outstanding honor and a tribute
to his outstanding work,”
declared Milton Coleman,
Assistant Agricultural Extension
Agent.
consolidated high schools. After
making some modifications in
the statement the board agreed
to release this information to the
public. Following is the text of
this statement:
“Progress toward beginning
construction on the new
consolidated high schools has
been delayed for a period of
time by two major problems.
The Board of Education wants
to place these problems before
the people so that they can be
understood and the best answer
for the county be found.
“The bids received by the
Board of Education for
construction of three
consolidated high schools were
$4,354,832.24 or
$613,938.49 more than the
available money for the schools
at the time bids were taken.
Funds available for the three
schools include: $2,585,000.00
county bonds, $506,473.79
state bonds, $165,429.96
insurance funds from Southport
School, $100,000.00 federal
matching funds, $35,000.00
literary fund loan, $150,000.00
1969-70 Board of Education
capital outlay fund, and
$198,990.00 1970-71 Board of
Education capital outlay fund.
The available funds as indicated
would provide a total of
$3,740,893.75.
“With the highrate of inflation
last year, construction costs have
gone up. Three complete schools
cannot be built with the money
we have. Extra funds have been
looked for to reach the needed
total. A portion of the above
funds were taken from the
regular Board of Education
Budget, which will exhaust the
school system’s resources and
leaves our budget at the
minimum.
“The building program is still
lacking $613,938.49. There are
four main alternatives to solve
, this problem.
“1. Come up with the
additional funds needed to build
three complete high schools.
(According to the County
Commissioners, no additional
funds are available.)
“2. Cut cost by omitting items
from building until the money
available would equal the cost of
construction. In order to
complete the high schools, school
money for new building will
have to be spent on the new high
schools. This will mean that little
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Elect Precinct
Officers For IS
This County
Brunswick county Democrats
held their precinct meetings on
Saturday, electing a 10-member
committee whose chairman and
vice-chairman will automatically
serve on the Brunswick County
Executive Committee.
For the first time in history in
Brunswick County, a member of
the Negro race was elected to a
post of precinct chairman. He
was Franklin Randolph, who led
the first primary race for the
Democratic nomination for
sheriff, and he heads the
precinct delegation from Supply.
Mrs. Nelva Brown is
vice-chairman.
When the Democratic County
Convention is held on June 20,
delegates will discover that for
the first time they will cast votes
related to the number of votes
cast in their precinct for '
governor in the last general
election. The ration is one vote
for each 50-votes cast.
This and other new regulations
in the plan of organization for
the Democrat party will be
explained to precinct chairman
before the convention is held.
A complete roster of precinct
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Tide Table
Following Is the tide table
for Southport during (he
week. These hours are ap
proximately correct and
were furnished The State
Port Pilot through the
courtesy of the Oape Fear
Pilot's Asaodattoa.
Thurday, June 11,
1:15 A.M. 7:58 A.M.
2:03 P.M. 8:16 P.M.
Friday, June 12,
2:03 A.M. 8:46 A.M.
2:57 P.M. 9:16 P.M.
Saturday, June 13,
2:57 A.M. 9:34 A.M.
3:51P.M. 10:16 P.M.
Sunday, June 14,
3:51A.M. 10:28 A.M.
4:39 P.M. 11:16 P.M.
Monday, June 15,
4:39 A.M. 11:16 A.M.
5:33 P.M. 12:10 P.M.
Tuesday, June 16,
5:39 A.M. 12:10 A.M.
6:27 P.M. 1:04 P.M.
Wednesday, June 17,
6:33 A.M. 12:58 A.M.
7:15 P.M. 1:00 P.M.