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July Festival Parade next Tuesday.
Art Huntley of Southport, who will
be 84 on July 15. retired in 1955 as a
lieutenant after 30 years in the U.S.
Coast Guard. He had served as commander
of the C,oast Guard Station on
Oak Island from 1932 until 1943.
The parade begins at 11 a.m. Tuesday,
with a route that takes it
through downtown Southport.
Dave Kelly, president of the
festival, said that "often we overlook
people who are very worthy of
recognition in a desire to honor
established celebrities."
However, he continued, this year
the festival is pleased to be honoring
"one of our neighbors who epitomizes
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Huntley is a native of Est Killingly.
Conn., who joined the (.'oast Guard in
1925. Before coming to Oak Island,
tours of duty took him to Cuttyhunt,
Mass.. I*ike Erie, Elizabeth City and
Ocracoke.
During World War II he served as
ensign at the Wilmington Port in
1944. ran a joint military firing range
at Fcrnandina Beach, Fla., and captained
an oil tanker in the Pacific
during the Battle of Iwo Jima. He
returned to the states after war and
held command posts at San Clemente
and Point Aguello. Calif., Maine and
Baltimore, Md.
Huntley served aboard the Frying
Pan Shoal Lightship during 195:1-54,
riding out Hazel aboardship in October
1954.
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Following retirement from his station
in Baltimore, he settled in
Southport. In 1956 he married Eunice
Daniel.
Locally he worked part time for 12
years as comptroller and office
manager at Boiling Spring I^akes
development and he coached one of
Southport's first official Little
League teams in 1956.
He recently received his 25-year
membership pin from the Southport
Lions Club, in which he has held
every office except president.
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Something for every member of
the family is promised at the 11)89
North Carolina Fourth of July
Festival in Southport which runs
Saturday through Tuesday, July 1-4.
Throughout the four-day festival, 1
arts and crafts will be displayed at ;
Franklin Square Park and the c
Southport Woman's Club will sponsor '
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The Southport Historical Society 1
will also sponsor a program at the old
Brunswick County Jail all four days \
as well as an antique show in the old 1
Brunswick Community College gym- 1
nasium on Lord Street. 1
Special festival activities begin
Saturday morning when the
Southport Parks and Recreation
Department sponsors children's field
events at Garrison Lawn from 10
a.m. until noon.
The day ends with a street dance
featuring "North Tower." It is
scheduled to run from 6 p.m. to 10
p.m.
On Sunday, a lineup featuring the
Brunswick County Band, Dixieland
Society of Ix>wer Cape Fear and
Cedar Grove Choir will entertain
crowds at the waterfront from 1 p.m.
until 6 p.m.
The annual firemen's competition
gets under way at 2 p.m. with
members of local volunteer fire
departments competing in a number
of fun events. The contest is sponsored
by Slagle's Fire Equipment
Company.
A community church service sponsored
by the Interchurch Council will
be held at 7 p.m. in Southport Baptist
Church.
Monday's activities include a
beach day competition which will run
from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. at the Long
Beach Cabana. Events include surfing,
horseshoes, kite flying, sand castle
building, volleyball and tug-ofwar.
Entertainment for kids and kids at
heart will be on tap Monday from 1
p.m. until 5:30 p.m. at Franklin
Square Park. Performers will in- ,
elude a ventriloquist, country singer,
doggers and a magician.
The flotilla along the Atlantic In- ,
tracoastal Waterway and Cape Fear
River begins at 7 p.m., and the "Fantastic
Shakers" will entertain at the
waterfront from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m.
The festival will wrap up Tuesday
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with a long list of activities
highlighted by the annual parade at
11 a.m. It will be televised live on
WWAY TV-II.
The VIP reception will be held at
Ship's Chandler Restaurant at in
a.m. The official flag-raising
ceremony will follow at Southporl's
waterfront park.
The Seanotes Choral Society will
hold a concert at 3 p.m. in Trinity
United Methodist Church.
Following the performance, the
world's largest ice cream sundae will
ae on display in the Southport City
rlall parking lot. It is being sponsored
>y Pine State Creamery.
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For the first time in 16 years, the
N.C. Fourth of July Festival
fireworks will be set off from a barge
in the Cape Fear River.
But this time extra efforts are bo
ing taken to prevent an accident and
explosion such as the one that occurred
in 1973.
This year's pyrotechnical display,
by the Zambelli Family of Pennsylvania,
begins Tuesday, July 4, at
9:05 p.m., and will be choreographed
to patriotic music broadcast over
WDZD (93.5 FM) Radio Station at
Ocean Isle Beach.
The 90 feet by 40 feet barge, provided
by Bald Head Island Corporation,
is to be anchored from pilings north
of Southport City Pier. The middle of
it will be covered with five tons of
sand, according to Hill Goodman, the
corporation's transportation director.
In 1973, the barge was borrowed
from Sunny Point Military Ocean
Terminal and the show was to be
fired by a nine-member committee of
volunteers.
Newspaper accounts of the accident
indicate the explosion occurred
when "some of the rocket fuses were
lit by a piece of burning magnesium
coming from a 'dud' rocket and hitting
the steel deck and sliding under
the canvas (covering the rockets to
be fired."
The late Harold Aldridge, festival
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At the waterfront, there will be
entertainment from 1 p.m. until 0
p.m. Scheduled performers include
calvary tsaptisi Uhurcn, the "Ink
Spots," "The Classic Touch" and
"Backside" featuring A1 Watkins.
Special children's entertainment
will once again be offered at Franklin
Square Park from 1 p.m. until 6 p.m.
The Southport Lions Club will give
away a new boat after all of the
entertainers have performed Tuesday.
The festival concludes with the
annual fireworks display at the
waterfront which begins at about !)
p.m.
'?works
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earlier this year, described the result
this way: "The deck of the barge
turned into a mass of white fire about
1G inches off the deck."
Aldridge, Jimmy Kuss, James F.
Howard Jr. and Dempsey Hewett
were reported to have stayed on the
uargu. rive omer voiunleers?Billy
Dosher, Tommy Gilbert, Stephen E.
Dixon, Charles "Skeeter" Trott and
Ir\'in Smith, jumped into the water.
To the relief of anxious onlookers, no
one was injured as the festival
literally ended with a bang.
Two other area fireworks are planned
this Fourth of July holiday. On
Sunday evening a display is planned
at a Holden Beach campground on
the west end of the beach, while on
Tuesday, fireworks are also planned
at the USS North Carolina Battleship
Memorial near Leland.
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