South Carolina's Oldest Newspaper 9 Zitnm IN COUNTY $3.50 Georgetown, S. C. 29440 Thursday, November 16, 1967 Price 10c Per Copy Vol. No. 172 - No. 1 SUBSCRIPTIONS: IN STATE $4.00 OUT OF STATE $4.50 IXX:-. Service 9 Industry New Coast Guard Station Providing New Jobs Projected Here For 1970 (Special to the Times) Construction of a Coast Guard With each passing year, more station on Winyah Bay for search and more workers are needed in and rescue work in adjoining wa­ Georgetown County to provide ters and in the Atlantic Ocean local residents with the various has been progammed for 1970. kinds of service that go with The project, still in the plan­ modern living. ning stage, would accommodate The demand is for more 21 men and an officer, a Coast beauticians, more plumbers, more Guard spokesman said. It was teachers and more electricians, as estimated the facility would cost well, as more bus drivers, nurses, in excess of a million dollars. bank clerks and other service The Coast Guard station would workers. be equipped with various patrol <* As a result, the number of boats and support vessels, coni- people in these fields, and the | munication equipment, a helicop­ pavrolls for them, have been- ter pad, office facilities and quar­ rising steadily. ters for the families of men sta­ So notes the Census Bureau tioned here. HEFTY VISITOR—One of the largest yachts to be repaired on a railway in Georgetown after gathering data relating to Uncertainty about funds pre­ the labor force from all parts o£ clude a definite decision as to was this 68-foot long Canadian craft weighingl 50 tons Qiat was pulled on the ways at R. Y. the country. when the station would be con­ Cathou ani Sons on the Sampit River. A bent shaft and propeller were repaired. The figures show that the structed. A site survey board has number of men and women in studied the area, and approval ot Georgetown County who were the Coast Guard commandant is employed in the service sector of being awaited. 0 the economy in the past year A steady increase, in the num­ Port Of Georgetown reached 2,287. This is exclusive ber of boats and yachts in South of government employees and of Carolina coupled with growing those engaged in domestic service activity on the Inland Waterway and agriculture. ] and commercial shipping at sea They constituted no less tliaa. DIVISION OFFICERS—Among Coast Guard officers present for ja weekend, three state have underscored the need for a Nears New Record 37.5 per cent of the total numbet' conference were (left to right) Melvin Lesser, of Charleston. Div. fe Training Officer; Harry new station somewhere between of local workers—service and' T. McGee. of Columbia. Div. Vice Capt.; Cmdr. W. J. Donnay. Director ot Auxiliary 7th CG the two existing ones at Charles­ production combined—covered in Dist., of Miami, and Perry Moses, Jr.. of Sumter. Div. 12 Captain. ton and in North Carolina. There The Port of Georgetown, bus If the pace of shipping con- , crossed the port's docks at Pier are now some 18,000 boats regis­ tling with activity, appears head ! tinues in December, the Port of 31 of the State Ports Authority the report. The service industries listed in­ tered in just the State of South ed tor a new record for the num- j Georgetown may top the I960 and the facility of Internati( nal • Carolina. ber of large ships docking here in record this year by about 10 Paper Company. clude such diverse types of busi­ a year's time. | ships. nesses as advertising agencies, Proposed plans call for the new The growing use of the Port banks, barber shops, laundries, Coast Guard Auxiliary Urged station to be provided a 40 foot With 146 ships calling here so The month of November start­ of Georgetown and the resulting far in 1967, the port is only nine restaurants and automobile serv­ patrol boat capable of speeds ot ed with a whirlwind of shipping congestion of shipping has up to 25 knots; a 17 foot mobile, ships shy of equalling thc 155 for the two berth port. An aver­ ice stations. prompted the State Ports Au­ Also: covered are motels, re­ boating unit with speeds of about vessels that docked in 196(1. age of a ship a -day dockari here thority to build other facilities Four more ships are scheduled tail stores, movie theatres and 40 knots and various support ves­ during the first 10 days of No­ for docking tankers so as to leave sels for working buoys and chan­ to call this month, and perhaps vember. Pier 31 more available for other places providing personal services To Further Education Work ranging from shoe repair to body nel lights. others will arrive during the re­ Of the 10 ships, only one was ships. Coast Guard Auxiliary units that saw members of Coast Guard • Georgetown is now part of Di- maining half of November. massage. were challenged at a divisional Building the facility on IOWT an American yessel, the President. Bulk shipments ol fuel oil aiv Auxiliaries from SoutH Carolina, vision 12 \hafc eoo>jj ise- flotillas Winyah Bay is being considered In Georgetown County, the meeting here to make u greater Arthur. Five ot the other vessel; 'made Into Georgetown for ttte Georgia ami Florida. W«^ liB^Jtjjfc C4tt£&?«fc; J$P*t^ '-Mannine ! hi cause of the easy access to tin; payroll for the yea. fo*- these effort to educate the public an were German; two were Norwe­ terminal of Hess Oil Company it was decided lo make th-™* dfa^CwmWwS^Jbflrtie Beach 1 net^n and IK -miess to the waters * service workers amounted to safe boating practices. gian; one Dutch and one Swedish. adjacent to the docks of the Ports $6,572,000. visions. Elected *vx otfi*jar> (,| trie i. -v otti'ii used in the Georgetown division W*re Perry Moses. Jr.. These ships sailed f r o i.i Authority and International Pa­ As a proportion of the payroll Speakers at the meeting of a area. About Georgetown for such next ports per on the Sampit River. three state Coast Guard Auxiliary of Sumter, division captain; Ha?« Location ol a new station here fur all local workers covered in One Mem Injured ry T. McGee, of Columbia, vise- of call as the Antilles, Canai Hess Oil recently received au­ the report, those in the service division noted that many trage­ could affect the light station now Zone, Ecuador, Guadeloupe, thority from the Department >f category received some 24.7 per*' dies -could be averted if boaters In Trofftc Accident captain; Melvin Lesser, of on North Island, although this is training •>f- Town Honduras, Charleston, Baltimore Interior to import 15,000 barrels cent of the total. exercised greater caution. On County Highways Charleston, division now 'under study, a spokesman • and Wilmington. of petroleum products daily into The National Bureau of Eco­ Georgetown Auxiliarists are ficer. said. While tonnage figures are not. the United States in exchange for nomic Research finds that "the planning a new educational ap- A relatively accident-free week The present North Island light P available, it appears that the Port development of $35,000,000 refin­ United States is now a service oroach holding public classes in has been enjoyed by Georgetown -tation could be retained with ST. CYPRIANS DINNER of Georgetown will account for a ing and petrochemical facilities in economy in that it is the first the future on safe boating and County with only one injury re­ New Photographic the same number of men now boat handling. stationed there. There could be a Saint Cyprian's Catholic School sizable tonnage increase in 1967. the Virgin Islands. Part of th.; nation in the history of the woyld ported in highway accidents since 1 Studio Opens Here ft reduction in equipment and the will hold its annual turkey dinner Shipment of ration boxes in hug'- approval agreement requires the in which more than half of the Details of the classes will last Wednesday. j number of men assigned; or tho Saturday to raise funds for school amounts were added to the cus­ company to help fund develop­ employed people are not involved announced later. Greg Duffy, William Roberts, Jr., of Route ] A new photographic Studio to light could be fully automated purposes. Dinners will be avail­ tomary large > | umes of paper ment and preservation of the Is­ in the production of food, cloth- j commander of the local unit, said.- 2, Georgetown, was injured Mon­ be know as Polloek-Harrelson : with maintenance provided by able from 11:80 A. M. until 7 and petroleum products that lands' natural resources. ing, housing and other tangible The Georgetown unit has con- day when his car collided with , Studio is opening at 713 Front the new station with men now P. M. and reservations for take goods." I ducted a courtesy boat examina- a truck diven by Lenue Green of Street under the management of at the light assigned elsewhere. outs may be made by calling The shift to services, it holds, | tion program for some time and Cerro Gordo. N. C, near a South James F. Pollock and Elma Har­ 546-7519 or 546-5747. has had a stabilizing effect on the now has 10 examiners available, Fraser Street service station. relson, of Georgetown. Actually, the North Island light Dredging Contract economy as a whole. It has help- Free boat inspections may be oh- The on-coming truck turned a- The studio being opened by station was sharply upgraded by ed to cushion the decline In man- i tained by contacting any member cross the highway to a service two Georgetown photographers is the Coast Guard within the past FELLOWSHIP MEETING ufacturing employment caused by of the unit, Duffy said.