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VOLUME 412
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SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, JiULY 4, 1970
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Profitable Hobby
Capt. B. H. Bigg displays some of his bird carvings while he and his wife are
visiting this week at the Long Beach cottage of Mr. and Mrs. Graham Bell.
Carving Birds
Is Profitable
And Interesting
All his life Capt. B.H. Rigg has
been interested in birds, so a few
years ago when he retired from
the U.S. Coast and Geodetic
Service he took up wood carving
as a hobby that has turned into a
profitable business.
This week he and his wife are
visiting in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Graham Bell at Long Beach
where they stopped off en route
to the Boardwalk Art Show at
Virginia Beach where he will
display specimens of his art.
These specimens are something
to see. Life-size and painted in
natural colors, they are mounted
on wood and are so life like you
get the feeling you almost could
ruffle their feathers.
This, of course, you cannot
do, for the only thing about
them that is not wood are the
eyes and the le®, the latter
formed of fabric material that
adds to the lifelike appearance.
Capt. Rigg uses bird skins for
color patterns and has quite a
collection of them to go by. He
thinks his ability to color his
carvings is just as important as is
his talent for turning their body
shapes out wood. Incidentally,
he uses basswood for most of his
work.
Quail and sparrow hawks are
about as big as he likes to go in
the bird family. Of duck and
geese he says contemptuously,
“Everybody does them.” His
favorites are the warblers, which
he says includes about 40
varieties.
How long does it take to carve
and color a bird?
“Everybody asks me that,”
said Capt. Rigg. “I cannot
answer that question. Maybe it is
best I cannot. If I knew, maybe
I’d give up.”
But his art is not inexpensive.
Prices range from $17.50 to
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BOOKMOBILE BACK
The Brunswick County
Bookmobile will be back on the
road beginning July 21. Look
for schedule elsewhere in this
paper.
CANCER CLINIC
The New Hanover County
Cancer Clinic is held each
Tuesday in the New Hanover
Memorial Hospital.
Examinations are free to all
adults and includes the pap test.
Appointments may be made by
writing, or calling the cancer
clinic at 762-7688, Wilmington.
WINGATE GRADUATE
Linda Price, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Hugh Price of
Southport, was graduated from
Wingate Junior College on May
17 with an Associate of Science
Degree in Business. She was on
the Dean’s List for the spring
quarter with a 3.5 academic
average. Linda is employed by
the U.S. Navy at Sunny Point
Army Terminal.
Referendum On
Tobacco Vital
Brunswick County flue-cured
tobacco fanners are reminded
that Thursday, July 16, is the day
to vote. Growers will determine
if they want to continue the
acreage-poundage program and
price support in 1971,1972 and
1973. The program, which has
been in effect since 1965, will
continue if approved by
two-thirds or more of the
growers voting.
All farmers 18 years of age or
older are eligible to vote in the
referendum if they share in the
1970 flue-cured tobacco crop or
its proceeds. Where no tobacco
is produced in 1970 on a
Vets Should
Check Policy
Veterans may need to change
the beneficiaries listed on their
government life insurance to
make sure the right person gets
the money, Bill Lauer, County
Veterans Service Officer, said
this week.
The Veterans Administration
must pay the proceeds of the
insurance policy to the last
beneficiary designated by the
veteran even though it might be
a divorced wife or wealthy
parent.
In far too many cases the
status of the original beneficiary
is changed by marriage, death, or
divorce, and the veteran neglects
to make the change in his
insurance.
In a recent sampling it was
found that six out of ten
veterans probably need to
update beneficiary information
on their policies.
Forms for this change may be
obtained from Lauer at the
Veterans’ Service Office, located
in the police station, Southport,
or Thurston Formy-Duval,
District Officer, North Carolina
Department of Veterans Affairs,
Wilmington, on Wednesdays.
Headstart Is
Fun Program
The annual session of
Headstart now is in progress at
Brunswick County-Sou thport
High School in Southport.
Teachers at the Headstart
Center are Mrs. K.B. Davis, Mrs.
Mattie B. Smith, Mrs. Alice
Moore, Mrs. Marilyn Phelps, Miss
Eleanor Swain.
The Social Supervisor is T.M.
Lee and the social aide is Mrs.
H.G. Echols.
Aides are Mrs. Louise Willetts,
Mrs. Lois White, Mrs. Mary
Jackson, Mrs. Mary R. Wyley,
Mrs. David O’Neal. The nurses
are Mrs. Marie Brown and Mrs.
Ester Robinson.
Lunchroom personnel includes
Mrs. Louise Moore, Mrs. Ethel
Butler, Mrs. Ena Varnam. The
bus drivers are: Mrs. Louise
Willetts and Dale Brown. The
maintenance man is Ben
Fullwood.
tobacco allotment farm, only
the owner and operator are
eligible to vote.
Edgar L. Holden, Chairman of
the County Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
(ASC) Committee, urges growers
to consider carefully the facts
about the acreage-poundage
program before voting.
The acreage-poundage program
for flue-cured tobacco allows for
carrying forward
undermarketings from a short
crop to the next year. Growers
may also market up to 110
percent of the farm’s poundage
quota—without penalty—by
borrowing from their next year’s
quota.
Price support under the
acreage-poundage program is
available on up to 110 percent
of the farm’s poundage quota if
the harvested acreage is within
the farm’s acreage allotment. A
marketing quota penalty applies
to any tobacco marketed above
110 percent of the farm’s
poundage quota. If growers do
not approve the acreage
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Builders May
Step Up Pace
Builders in Brunswick County
and vicinity may build more
homes for rural families because
of a new program of the Farmers
Home Administration, County
Supervisor Parks Fields
announced this week.
Under the plan, Fields said,
FHA, the rural credit agency of
the Department of Agriculture,
can issue a conditional
commitment agreeing to finance
new or substantially
rehabilitated homes for as many
as 15 families at a time.
Previously, he noted, home
financing could be assured only
as individual families applied and
were approved. With the
conditional commitment,
builders can proceed with the
construction of up to 15 homes
in an area, with reasonable
assurance that financing will be
available to qualified purchasers.
The conditional commitment
does not reserve funds for a loan
nor does it provide for
construction financing. Fields
pointed out, “but with the
growth of the rural housing
individual loan program from
$486 million in fiscal 1969 to
$821 million this year, and with
more than $1.4 billion projected
for 1971, expansion of rural
housing opportunities is assured.
“FHA’s National
Administrator, James V’. Smith,
has called an contractors,
developers and realtors to engage
in a stepped-up program to
improve low-and-moderate cost
housing in rural America,”
Fields reported. “It is one step
in our effort to eliminate the
many housing inadequacies that
plague rural people.”
Details may be obtained from
Brunswick County Farmers
Home Administration office in
Shallotte.
Chasing Fogging
Machine May
Be Dangerous
Once again the City of
Southport would like to warn
parents to restrain their children
from following the mosquito
spray equipment and caution
motorists to be careful in
approaching and passing the
equipment.
“The insecticides used in
spraying for mosquitoes consist
of 44.7% Malathion and 19.8%
Lethane,” says City Manager
C.D. Pickerrell, “The fumes
from this material should not be
inhaled in their concentrated
form as it leaves the apparatus.
Furthermore, a child running
behind the fogging machine can
not be seen by approaching
motoists.”
The North Carolina State
Board of Health who subsidizes
this program is at present quite
concerned about the number of
accidents resulting from the
operation of this program in
1969. The State is so concerned
that they are considering
discontinuing the program on
roads within the state which
have a speed limit in excess of
35 miles an hour.
“The city can not afford to
operate this program at the
expense of a life or a serious
accident,” declared the city
manager. “Therefore, we appeal
to the parents to instruct their
children of the danger in
following the spraying
equipment.”
Young Mother
Dies Suddenly
Mis. Mary Katherine Blake of
Wilmington, formerly of
Southport, died Saturday at
Memorial Hospital in Chapel
Hill. She was 32 years of age.
Mrs. Blake was a former active
member of Trinity Methodist
Church of Southport; a member
of Wesley Memorial United
Church of Wilmington, a
graduate of Virginia Intermont
College and an honor student at
the University of North Carolina
at Wilmington; a former member
of the Southport Junior
Woman’s Club and a former
Woman of the Year; the
originator of the Grey Ladies at
Dosher Memorial Hospital at
Southport; and secretary of the
Woodbine Garden Club of
Southport.
Funeral services were held at 4
p.m. Tuesday at St. James
United Methodist Church in
Churchville, Va. Burial followed
in Green Hill Cemetery.
Pallbearers were: Jack Newton,
Greg Futch, Jim Tolliver, Ben
Blake, William Blake and
Thomas Blake.
Survivors include her husband,
Charles E. Blake; two sons,
Charles, Jr. and John
Christopher Blake; her mother,
Mrs. John D. Hevner of
Roanoke, Va.; a brother, Marvin
D. Hevner of the home; and two
sisters, Mrs. Ellen Tishman of
Richmond. Va.; and Mrs.
Johnnie Johnson of
Williamsburg, Va.
Session For Head Start
The annual Headstart summer program now is in progress at Brunswick
County-Southport High School and it is a time for fun and learning. Above is a
group of students playing “Supermarket”. .
Border Belt
Markets Will
Open July 28
Following several weeks of
hemming and hawing, the
Monday meeting of the tobacco
marketing committee, with a
minimum of discord, adopted
the 1970 sales schedule, which
included partial early openings
in the Old Belt.
The Border Belt and South
Carolina markets have
tentatively accepted an opening
date of July 28. A meeting of
the Border Belt warehousemen is
set for this noon at the Holiday
Inn, during which the final
decision will be made.
The Monday meeting on the
opening dates, was held at
Raleigh, and it approved a
compromise plan for the 1970
season opening dates and the
marketing selling schedules for
the 90-some auction marts of
the bright leaf centers of the
South acclaimed as
“Tobacco-Land.”
Considerable give-and-take
occurred in a lenghty closed
meeting held by a study
subcommittee before action by
the full 35-member committee.
When the plan, known as “No.
205,” finally was presented, the
only votes against it were cast by
grower members James R. Oliver
and Graham Smith, both of the
North Carolina Border Belt.
The opening dates approved
for the various belts, with last
year’s starting dates in
parentheses:
Georgia-Florida, July 22 (July
23); South Carolina, July 28
(July 23) and North Carolina
Border, July 28 (July 28);
Eastern, Aug. 18 (Aug. 19);
Middle, Sept. 1 (Sept. 2); Old,
Sept. 15 (Sept. 16).
The Old Belt will open on a
partial basis, with nine of its 26
sets of buyers, on the same day
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e And Tide
The Naugatuck, Coast Guard patrol boat stationed at Southport,
had been called out the night before our edition of July 10,1935, to
rescue a yacht off Wrightsville Beach. Mrs. E. H. Cranmer, member
of the local school committee at Southport, was not the only
woman school committee member in Brunswick, because Mrs. J. E.
Dodson had been named to a similar position for Waccamaw High
School. A survey was begun to determine the most suitable route to
be followed by N.C. Highway 130 for a proposed paving project.
The Amuzu theatre in Southport had been closed for repairs;
“knee-action” had been introduced as a feature on one of the
popular new automobiles; and Miss Marion Ruark had become the
bride of Kenneth McDonald in a ceremony performed at Trinity
Methodist Church, with the Rev. Henry Ruark, cousin of the bride,
officiat.
The year was 1940, the date July 10, and the Democrats were off
to Chicago for their National Convention. With the North Carolina
delegation was S. B. Frink, who was heading west to help nominate
F. D. R. for a third term. Shrimp were late arriving, but finally they
had appeared in good number. Sports fishing was reported to be
good.
Jack, the town’s pet pointer, had attracted attention to himself by
walking a second story ledge after being locked up in the local law
office of attorney R. I. Mintz; Mrs. F. Mollycheck had landed a cat
(feline) on a fishing rig she had left baited after pulling it from the
water; and a new and short-lived column showed up in The Pilot that
wee, “Sport Stuff’, by David Watson.
The war years, July 11, 1945, and the allies were going allout to
force the Japanese to surrender. John B. Ward, Waccamaw township
farmer, said that his tobacco crop was the best he had ever grown.
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Retired Couple
Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Hayman recently moved from
their home in Southport into an apartment at Methodist
Retirement Home in Durham. The Rev. Hayman is a
former pastor at Trinity Methodist Church in South
port and Ocean View Methodist Church at Yaupon
Beach.
Southport Couple
Moves To Durham
On Pilot Board
Governor Bob Scott today
announced the appointment of
John C. Drewry of Wrightsville
Beach to the Board of
Commissioners of Navigation
and Pilotage for the Cape Fear
River. Drewry succeeds Ralph T.
Horton of Wilmington, who
resigned.
Captains To
Help Planning
A group of men who fish for a
living will be getting together
soon to discuss the future work
of the State’s exploratory fishing
vessel DAN MOORE.
The 12-member Captains
Committee was formed July 7
by Dr. Thomas Linton, N.C.
Fisheries Commissioner.
Members of the Committee are
captains of large trawler boats.
The captains represent the
north, central, and southern
sections of the coast: Capt.
Willie Etheridge, Wanchese;
Capt. Walter O’Neal, Belhaven;
Capt. Gordon Meekins,
Englehard; Capt. Hildred
Golden, Stumpy Point; Capt.
Clarence Rose, Beaufort; Capt.
Ernest Mayo, Mesic; Capt.
Charlie Gilgo, Atlantic; Capt.
Virgil M. Potter, Bayboro; Capt.
Jimmy Moore, Southport; Capt.
Kenneth Rose, Swansboro; Capt.
Tim Millis, Sneads Ferry; and
Capt. Larry Holden, Shallotte.
The purpose of the committee
will be to step-up the
interchange of ideas and
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The Rev. and Mrs. L. D.
Hay man have sold their home in
Southport and have taken up
residence at the Methodist
Retirement Home in Durham
where they have an apartment.
That change took place late in
June, but on the Sunday before
their departure for their new
home the Rev. Hayman
preached at the morning worship
service at Trinity Methodist
Church which he served for
several years as pastor during the
late forties. He came to
Southport from Whiteville,
where he had served as pastor of
the Methodist Church.
When he left Southport the
Rev. Hayman accepted
appointment as pastor at
Carolina Beach Methodist
Church, where he served for
several years prior to his first
retirement. He and Mrs. Hayman
returned to their home on the
outskirts of Southport prepared
to enjoy life in a state of
retirement, but this didn’t last
very long.
In June, 1957, the District
Superintendent talked Rev.
Hayman into coming out of
retirement to help with a
building project he envisioned at
Yaupon Beach, where the late G.
V. Barbee had donated a block
of land in his resort area as the
site for a Methodist Church.
Dr. Garlington could not have
found a better man, for
throughout his ministry the Rev.
Hayman was what is known as a
“building preacher”. He still
was, and two years later the
congregation moved into a new
brick building. He stayed with
this project until 1962, when he
retired for a second time.
When he ceased to be the
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Library Group
Seeking Funds
For Service
Friends of The Library
meeting was held at the home of
the president, Mrs. A.P. Henry
Thursday night.
Discussion of the bookmobile
revealed the following facts: The
bookmobile has been delivered
and made ready for operation
with the total cost of
approximately $4,300. Money
was borrowed from the bank to
pay for the bookmobile. Jaycees
along with other interested
organizations are planning a
fund-raising campaign to defray
the cost of the bookmobile.
Suggestions were made as to
how to initiate an immediate
plan to raise the money to pay
for the cost of the bookmobile.
Telephone calls and door to
door solicitations seemed
acceptable.
It was suggested that the group
ask for an increased amount from
the county budget because
operation funds of the library
have been exhausted.
Mrs. Henry appointed a
committee to present the needs
of the library to the county
commissioners. This committee
includes: Mrs. Bobby Jones, Mrs.
James F. Clemmons and Mrs.
Mary Hughes Bliss.
Robert Howard gave some
interesting and encouraging
remarks concerning the
continued effort to support the
library program throughout the
county. He stated that friends of
the library should ask that two
representatives from each
organized group be selected to
work with the Library Support
Campaign. Brunswick County
should designate a “Help Your
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New Contractor
For Terminal
Stevedoring activities at
Military Ocean Terminal, Sunny
Point, have been assumed by the
International Terminal
Operating Co., Inc., as the result
of a new contract awarded by
the Eastern Area Military Traffic
Management and Terminal
Service (EAMTMTS).
MOT Sunny Point is a field
operation of EAMTMTS, the
tri-service staffed agency
responsible for operating
military ocean terminals and
controlling passenger and cargo
movements for all military
services in the Eastern and
Midwestern portions of the
United States.
The two-year, $20,758,758
contract (estimated amount for
the life of the contract) for
stevedoring and related terminal
services at MOTSU, was awarded
to International Terminal
Operating after the Director of
Procurement, Headquarters,
EAMTMTS, has solicited 10
terminal services for bids on the
contract. Five bids were
submitted and considered before
the contract was awarded.
The two-year contract went
into effect on June 22, and is to
be financed by Army Industrial
Funds.
Tide Table
Folio wing: b the tide (able
for' Southport daring die
week. These boon are ap
proximately correct and
were furnished The State
Port Pilot through the
courtesy of the Gspe Fear
Pilot's Association.
TIDE TABLE
Thursday, July 16,
6:03 A.M. 12:34 A.M.
6:57 P.M. 12:00 P.M.
Friday, July 17,
7:03 A.M. 12:34 A.M.
7:51P.M. 1:28 P.M.
Saturday, July 18,
8:03 A.M. 2:28 A.M.
8:45 P.M. 2:28 P.M.
Sunday, July 19,
8:57 A.M. 3:16 A.M.
9:33 P.M. 3:16 P.M.
Monday, July 20,
9:51A.M. 4:04 A.M.
10:27 P.M. 4:10 P.M.
Tuesday, July 21,
10:51A.M. 4:52 A.M.
11:15 P.M. 5:04 P.M.
Wednesday, July 22,
11:45 A.M. 5:40 A.M.
12:09 P.M. 5:58 P.M.