THE STATE PORT PILOT
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
VOLUME 42 N0.28
10-PAGES TODAY JANUARY27, 1971 SOUTHPORT, N. C. 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
The Monster
wnen tne southwest winds sweep off the
Atlantic Ocean, the 18th hole at Oak Island
Golf Club can be treacherous. But at other
times the par-five hole, which has been called
“The Monster,” is as peaceful as it is here.
Play continues at the Oak Island course,
which never has been closed because of cold
weather.
Security Savings & Loan
Reports, Names Directors
At the annual meeting
Thursday the following of
ficers and directors were
elected to serve the Security
Savings and Loan Association
for the coming year:
H.T. St George, president;
D.C. Herring, 1st vice
president; Lewis J. Hardee,
2nd vice president; Douglas
H. Hawes, executive vice
president and secretary
treasurer. In addition to these,
directors elected are S.B.
Frink; W.E. Bellamy, Jr.; E.
Hobson Kirby and H. Foster
Mintz.
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.
Following is the text of the
annual report by President St.
George:
“At this time of year, it is
appropriate to give an ac
counting of the year’s ac
tivities at our annual
stockholders’ meeting. It also
anoras us an opportunity to
look ahead into next year.
“In general, 1970 was a good
year for your association.
Since last spring, when the
Federal Reserve Board
moved to an easier money
policy, savings flows have
improved. The savings in
creases in the final quarter of
the year were particularly
encouraging.
“Because of the unusually
high interest rates which
prevailed in 1969 and in early
1970, a considerable volume of
typical over-the-counter
savings dollars found their
way into the forms of in
vestments—stocks, corporate
bonds, and government
obligations. This diversion of
savings funds was in great
part responsible for the
critical shortage of housing
credit.
“But” 1970 was a poor year
for the stock market and
many small investors suffered
losses. If there is one lesson
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that was learned from 1970, it
is there is no substitute for die
safety, security, and rate of
return on a savings account in
a savings and loan
association. More and more
people come to realize this
during the year, and that is
why funds are once more
flowing into this institution in
substantial volume.
“In recent years of tight
money many families were
obliged to defer plans to buy or
build homes. In 1971, and
especially if present savings
trends continue, this situation
should be somewhat im
proved.
“As for the mortgage in
terest rate outlook, we seem to
have passed the peak, but any
dramatic turn downward may
be some time away. Most of
the interest rate reduction in
the past two months have been
in the short-term market.
Typically, long-term interest
rates (including mortgage
rates) move much more
slowly in response to money
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Frink Likes
Vet Committee
Senator S. Bunn Frink,
beginning his fifth term as a
member of the upper house of
the North Carolina General
Assembly, said this week that
he is very much pleased with
his committee assignments.
“I am particularly happy to
be named as chairman of the
Veterans and Military Affairs
Committee,” he said. Among
his qualifications is the fact
that he is the only member of
the State Senate who served
both in World War I and World
War II.
In addition to serving as
chairman of this committee,
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Oyster-Shucking Time
Big Business For County
By NANCY DUCKETT
A visit to Lloyd Milliken’s
place of business on the
Shallotte River is a mouth
watering experience for those
who like their oysters whether
they be raw, stewed, steamed
or fried.
Milliken is the proprietor of
Lloyd’s Oyster House, which
is now processing about
150,000 pints of oysters a year,
Time And Tide
Announcement was made in our edition for January 29,1936,
that George W. Bunker was to arrive later that week as the new
cashier for the People’s United Bank of Southport. U.S. Army
Engineer spokesmen said that the Intracoastal Waterway link
between Winyah Bay and Little River would be completed about
the middle of the following month, and Congressman Allard H.
Gasque of South Carolina already was sponsoring a bill to
deepen the channel of the waterway to a depth of 12-feet.
A Southport woman, Mrs. J.N. Arnold, had walked through a
plate glass window which workmen were carrying across a
Wilmington sidewalk and had escaped with only a minor bruise;
city employees were busy setting out trees in a beautification
project; and plans were being made for a President’s Birthday
Ball at Camp Sapona.
Five years later to the day and war cliuds had cast their
shadow on the front page of The Pilot; Dr. M.M. Rosenbaum of
Shallotte had been ordered to report for active duty and the
front page photo was of a group of PT boats which had passed
through here on their way south. There was one of our patented
pre-war rumors. A northern firm was interested in acquiring a
site here for a shipyard.
An influenza epidemic had forced the closing of Southport
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in season. To do the job, he
employs 18 to 24 shuckers,
plus a few other employees
who do such work as steam,
wash and pack the oysters for
shipping.
Lloyd Milliken has had a
good business all along, but it
has picked up considerably in
the last three years since he
has been utilizing training for
his employees made possible
through the technical in
stitute—community college
system. The training at
Milliken's is administered by
Cape Fear Technical In
stitute, located just a county
away.
Milliken said, “The training
has been a big help to my
business; we are turning out
twice as many pints of oysters
as we did before.”
The way he keeps tab on the
number they shuck is by a
marking chart located in a
tiny hall, just off of the
processing room. Each time a
shucker opens a pint of
oysters, the individual marks
it on the chart. "They work on
the honor system,” says
Milliken, “and it works out
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Interest Swells Building
Funds For New Schools
Maximum return for
unobligated school funds is
being sought by the Brunswick
County Board of Education.
The board has authorized
the reinvestment of $2,645,417
which is earmarked for
construction of three con
solidated high schools, located
in the Leland, Shallotte and
Bolivia-Southport area. Site
preparation is underway.
The Board of Education has
been given custody of the
funds by the county Board of
Commissioners. Thus, the
Board of Education has
resumed the responsibility of
investing a portion of these
funds for the highest possible
return rate of interest, ac
cording to a news release from
the county board.
“After determining the cash
flow requirements by the
various building contractors
for the three schools on a
monthly basis,” the release
continued, “an investment
schedule was developed as to
the amounts of the
unobligated building funds
which could be invested and
Summer Headstart Same
As Last Year’s Prograi
n
The Headstart program
appears ready for some
changes, but probably not
before this year’s summer
session in Bladen, Brunswick
and Columbus counties.
The six-week summer
Shallotte Boy
Third Victim
Roy Robin Hewett, 17 of
Supply, died as a result of an
automobile accident Friday
night.
The car veered off the road,
traveled about 75 feet, hitting
a guide wire to a utility pole
and coming to rest against a
house.
The car turned over 1%
times. Roy was thrown from
the car and immediately
adjacent to the vehicle after it
came to rest on its side.
He was manager of Var
nam’s Gas Service Station at
Supply.
Funeral services were held
at 2 p.m. Sunday from the
Powell Funeral Chapel with
the Rev. Emery R. hewett
and the Rev. Leo Cannon
officiating. Burial was in the
Hewett family cemetery.
Surviving are his mother,
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program, which is ad
ministered by the three county
boards of education and the
Whiteville City School system,
receives its money through
the Sencland community
action agency. Members of
the Sencland board of
directors were told Tuesday
night that the program could
expect the same federal funds
as last year, and no more.
It had appeared that the
program would receive less
money than befca.
A.P. Worley, deputy
director of Sencland Com
munity Action, Inc., who
supervises agency work with
the Headstart program, said
the current funding level is
$285,568 federal share with an
additional $72,316 provided by
the local school units as “in
kind” services.
The program will involve
1,300 pre-school children, all of
whom supposedly are from
low-income families. The
number of children, as well as
the amount of federal money,
is the same as during the past
two summer sessions.
According to Worley,
previous information from the
regional office of the
Department of Health,
Education and Welfare in
dicated that during the next
program year, funds would be
substantially reduced.
$100,000 Goal
--Credit Union
Sometimes, when you want
something done you have to do
it yourself.
That’s what Sencland
Community Action, Inc., has
done with the Credit union.
The community action agency
and another of its offspring,
Tri-County Farmers
Association, are co-sponsors
of a credit union to serve
Columbus, Brunswick and
Bladen counties. The
organizational meeting was
held December 17 but little
progress was made until
January 8, when Sencland
executive director Charles
Mumford decided something
had to be done.
And it was. In the next ten
days, employees of the agency
worked to collect money for
the credit union. By the close
of business on Tuesday, funds
on deposit for the credit union
totalled $11,450 and Sencland
employees were speaking of a
$100,000 goal for the end of the
program year in November.
The cooperative effort,
which is intended to help
people save money, was
thought of last year but not
until representatives of North
Carolina Rural Fund for
Development contributed
their knowledge did chances
for the union look good. The
North Carolina RFD, which
had worked with other credit
unions, has loaned technical
assistance to make the local
cooperative successful,
Mumford said.
During the organizational
meeting in December about
$600 was collected and there
were pledges for several
thousand dollars more, but on
January 8 the total was only
$900.
“We were determined we
would do something about it,”
the executive director said.
“We set a goal of $1,000 for
each center and urged each
employee of the agency to
make a deposit in the credit
union.” •
The six Neighborhood
Centers contributed well: Oak
Forest, $2,500, and Chad
bourn, $1,531, led the way,
while Longwood contributed
$1,169; Leland, $1,122; New
Light, $724; and Baltimore,
$593.
Neighborhood Youth Corps
contributed $612 and the
Elizabethtown office $200.
All soliciting vas done by
Sencland staff members, and
Mumford said the effort
showed good cooperation from
the poor, the public sector and
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“However,” he stated, “the
funds recently allocated by
Congress were enough to
enable Headstart to continue
with the same funding level.”
The program year begins
April 1.
“We have received no of
ficial confirmation of this but
the application for refunding
is due and we propose to
submit it with the same
funding level,” Worley
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for what periods of time.”
The investment schedule
was released by the county
Board of Education: $138,650
will be invested with a
maturity date of 30 days;
$249,600 will be invested with a
maturity date of 60 days;
$970,025 invested for 90 days;
$639,700 for 180 days; $547,442
for 270 days and another
$100,000 with date of maturity
one year from date of deposit.
Formal bids were received
from Waccamaw Bank and
Trust Company and Bank of
North Carolina, N.A., at
Shallotte. The Waccamaw
system, which is headquar
tered in Whiteville, has offices
throughout the county.
The funds were invested at a
return rate of interest ranging
from 5.6 percent for funds
invested for 30 days to 6.25
percent for funds invested for
rane full-year. Based on these
rates, the county will receive
an additional $68,156.96 to be
used for school construction.
All bids by Bank of North
Carolina, N.A., exceeded bids
by Waccamaw, so the board
decided to deposit money with
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Girl Gets Note
-5 Years Later
Anita Kyle was 13-years old when she put her name and ad
dress inside a whiskey bottle she found lying on the sand at
Holden Beach.
That was more than five years ago.
She paddled out into the ocean on a surf board and released
the bottle. . ........
This weekend, she received a letter from a German girl,
Barbara Williger, who said she found the bottle on a resort
island in the Baltic Sea on December 22.
The bottle had traveled approximately 7,000 miles through the
Atlantic, across the North Sea and then washed ashore on Rugen
Island off the coast of Germany in the Baltic Sea.
Anita, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Kyle of Fayetteville, is
now a freshman at St. Mary’s College in Raleigh.
$14,710 Salary Sought
For Association Manager
Tri-County Farmers
Association is asking for
almost $30,000, half of which
will support the cost of a
manager.
Representatives of the
association have asked ap
proval by the board of
directors of Sencland Com
munity Action, Inc. The
money will not come from the
community action agency,
however; approval is
necessary because the two
organizations are active in the
Brunswick, Bladen and
Columbus county area.
Don Gehres, who spoke for
TCFA at the Sencland board
meeting Tuesday night, said
his organization is seeking the
money from North Carolina
Rural Fund for Development,
a federally-sponsored agency
in the eastern part of the state
to help with credit unions and
cooperatives.
Gehres told the board that
$15,000 would be used for
operational costs while $14,710
would be used to pay the
annual salary, travel, and
other personnel costs of the
manager. Funds to pay other
employees would come
directly from TCFA com
mission charges, he added.
TCFA is a cooperative
originally formed by Sencland
with low-income farmers to
help increase their net in
come, and consequently to
improve living standards,
through vegetable production
and marketing. Membership
is from the counties. More
than 90 percent of those
participating in the
cooperative are classified as
low-income. There are now 164
fully-paid members.
The association was in
corporated by the state in
1969. The first business as a
cooperative was the
marketing of stored sweet
potatoes in early 1970. This
was followed by the marketing
of pickles, cabbage, and sweet
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