THE STATE PORT PILOT
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
VOLUME 43 NUMBER 42 10 PAGES TODAY SOUTHPORT, NORTH CAROLINA MAY 10, 1972 5 CENTS A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
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Voters Go To Polls
Brunswick County voters
went along with the restof the
state Saturday in their
choices for Presidential and
gubernatorial nominees.
The unofficial tally of votes
shows that George Wallace
soundly defeated Terry
Sanford in Brunswick
County, 3,082 votes to 1,474.
County voters favored
“Skipper” Bowles over Lt.
Gov. Pat Taylor for the
Democratic nomination for
governor, Bowles receiving
2,560 to 1,459 for Taylor. Jim
Gardner was the favorite
Republican for the state’s
number one job, receiving 442
votes to 337 for Jim
Holshouser.
Margaret Harper lost in
her bid to become the first
woman elected to high state
office, but got outstanding
support from her home
county. Mrs. Harper received
2,881 votes to easily out
distance Jim Hunt (884), Roy
Sowers (711), Reginald
Frazier (417) and Allen
Barbee (246)
OTHER VOTES
Wallace and Sanford were
Bowen, Sue
Are Elected
The first black man to
serve on the Brunswick
County Board of Education
was the leading vote-getter in
Saturday’s non-partisan
election.
W.T. Bowen, who has
served as a special minority
representative on the county
board, received 2,246 votes to
lead Bill Sue of Leland who
received 1,630votes to win the
second available seat.
The Board of Education
vote was held Saturday in
conjunction with the
Democratic and Republican
primaries and the
Presidential preference
primaries.
Others in the eight-man
race for the Board of
Education seats were Donald
White, who received 1,312
votes, Jesse Simmons (1,223),
Ted Caudill (1,125) Mrs.
Dorothy Edwards (912),
Earlie Smith (711), and Willie
Long (644).
The vote totals are unof
ficial, with the official county
vote canvass being com
pleted late Tuesday.
the only serious candidates in
the Democratic Presidential
preference primary, while
Shirley Chisholm received
313, Edward Muslde 234 and
Henry Jackson 75.
In the Democratic race for
the gubernatorial
nomination, Reginald
Hawkins received 780 votes,
Wilbur Hobby 427 (188 of
those in Leland), Gene
Leggett 60 and Zeb Vance
Kitchen Dickson 28.
On the Republican slate,
Gibson with 17 and Chappell
with ten trailed the two front
runners, who will be involved
in a second primary June 3.
COUNTY OFFICE
John W. Reeves of Lock
wood Folly Township and
W.A. Stanley of Shallotte will
join unopposed Democrats
Ernest McGee, Jr., and
Lonnie McCoy, Jr., against
the incumbent Republican
board of commissioners in
November. The other place
on the Democratic slate will
go either to Herman Strong or
Wayland Vereen.
After an unofficial tally of
votes, Vereen, with 1,602,
leads Strong (1,592). for the
Smithville Township
nomination, with a second
primary in prospect.
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Fake Robbery Scheme
Leads To County Death
Murder charges have been
filed against two Wilmington
men in connection with an
early Saturday morning
slaying at the Lockwood
Folly River bridge on NC 211
near Supply.
Robert Clayton Piver, 27,
and 16-year-old Roy Lee
Davis are being held without
bond in Brunswick County
Jail, according to Chief
Deputy Milton McCumbee.
They are charged in the death
of Bobby R. Hamilton, 19,
whose body was found on the
river bank below the bridge.
Other charges against
Piver and Davis include
kidnapping, armed robbery
and embezzlement. Ac
cording to the New Hanover
County Sheriff’s Department,
the defendants are subject to
additional charges arising
from a second service station
Campaign
Diary
; “ By MARGARET HARPER \
It’s all over and I didn’t win. When I predicted last week that
there would be a second primary and that I would be in it, I
really believed this to be true. I misread some political signs
and wound up in third place.
I have a lot of people to thank, first of all my fellow citizens of
Brunswick County. I want to express my sincere appreciation
to them for giving me their overwhelming support even though
I did not have an opportunity to conduct a personal campaign
on the local level. I wanted to represent them on the Council of
State because I feel there is much to be done for our area.
My neighbors in New Hanover and Columbus voted for me
and made it possible for me to carry those counties. In many
other sections of North Carolina I have loyal friends and hard
working supporters who did everything possible to help me. I
hate to let them down because they deserved a winner.
A couple of things I omitted mentioning in earlier columns
was the gift of a gilded horseshoe from Mrs. Plyer of Salisbury
and a good luck bluebonnet pendant from Lolo Mae Burgess
from Houston, Texas. They didn’t work, but they were an in
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“hold-up” in Wilmington.
New Hanover authorites
report that a call was
received from an unidentified
man about 2:15 a.m.
Saturday, reporting that
Hamilton, a service station
attendant, had asked that the
police be called. Hamilton
reportedly was being forced
by two men to bring money
from the station’s cash
register to them.
Based on information
received from the uniden
tified man, the New Hanover
County Sheriff’s office later
arrested Piver at his home.
About 3 a.m. Saturday,
Davis, the other defendant,
reported to authorities that
he had been kidnapped and
the abductor had killed a man
(Hamilton), and that’s when
he ran and escaped. In
vestigation revealed certain
falseness in Davis’ claim,
authorites stated. .
Hamilton’s body was found
later Saturday morning,
sprawled in the mud with one
shot under the left eye and
another in the body below the
shoulder.
Both men later told
Sheriff’s Department officers
more of their early morning
activities.
Piver reportedly went to a
Wilmington service station
where Davis worked and the
two allegedly connived in a
fake hold-up and spoke of
Hamilton doing the ' same.
Hamilton reportedly rejected
the idea, but Piver allegedly
pulled a gun on Hamilton and
instructed him to get the
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Wv-nK lb WELL UNutHW A Y on the 18-hole golf layout at Bald Head Island. This aerial photo by a
staff photographer shows the fairway closest to the old lighthouse.