The Pilot Covers Brunswick County THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community VOLUME 41 No. 49 10-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1970 5* A COPY 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 (OoattoMd On Pag* Two) 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 Ob Page Tm) 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 COmttamd On Png* Two) 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 (Continued On Pag* Tout) 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 Continued on page 2 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 (Continued On Pag* Ibur) 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.

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