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Most Of The News All The Time THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, .1959 The Pilot Covers Brunswick County Volume No. 19 No. 46 8-Pages Today 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Bills Introduced Governing Local County Matters Measure Introduced Which Will Provide For Five Man Board Of Commissi oners, Starting With 1960 Election COMPENSATION FOR ALDERMEN CHANGED Another Bill Would Vali date Sales Of Property By Board Of Commission ers, And Will Legal ize Private Sales By JAMES C. BOWMAN On Friday afternoon, May 22, at or about 6:30 o’clock p. m., the Joint House and Senate Ap propriations Subcommittee con cluded its work insofar as appro priations from the General Fund and the Highway Fund are con cerned. On Monday night at 8 o’clock p. m., the Subcommittee will meet again to discuss the Sub stitute Capitol Improvements Bills providing for construction pro jects of the various State support ed institutions. Among one of the proposed Capitol Improvement Bond issues is an authorization for the sale of $500,000 in bonds, the proceeds of which are to be used for the establishment of such port facilities as many be needed at or near Southport, in the event any industry requiring such faci lities locates here. It is believed that this Appro priations Subcommittee will com plete its work Monday night and that the subcommittee report will be brought before the full Joint House and Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday, May 26, for final discussion. When the full committee has given its approval to the Appropriations Bill, the entire Appropriations Bill will then be ready to report to the House and Senate for debate which should occur some time during the week beginning June 1. Although a considerable debate developed in the Senate Finance Committee during the past week on the question of including cor porations within the proposed withholding tax provisions, this committee rejected the amend ment offered to acccomplish this purpose and it now appears that the withholding tax plan, with its accompanying $27%-million “windfall”, will be approved by the Joint Senate and House Fi ance Committee and reported to both houses as a part of the Revenue Bill for the coming biennium. At this point, it does not ap pear that any new taxes will be levied during this session of the General Assembly. There is a possibility, however, that in the event a small amount of new rev enue must be found, certain of the exempted items from sales tax will be eliminated to raise this tax. Additional money needed to finance the operation of the State during the coming bien nium will be raised principally from the .fin-million surplus pres ently on hand from the present biennium, the $27 y2 -million so called “windfall” resulting from withholding tax, and the estimat ed increase in revenue during the coming biennium over and above the present biennium in the present biennium in the amount of $49-million. This totals approx imately $90-million over and above the estimated expenditures Continued On Page Two Brief BH» Of lnewsj STATE OFFICER I Mrs. James M. Harper, Jr., president of Southport Woman’s Club, was elected as a member the board of trustees of the Stj*U“ Federation at Pinehurst last w%' Mrs. Harper and Mrs. E. C. B%1.' attended as delegates from th% Sjuthport club. k: Durii July ai Driver Sessomi in the in the port ea< each 1 second SCHOOL Vacation Bible School in progress all next week y Methodist Church, with itation day being held f this week in prepara the study next week, from age 4, through •s, are urged to attend. k’S HOURS he months of June, ugust the hours for ise Examiner L. E. I be from 8 to 12 ig and from 1 to 5 'ion. He is in South nday; at Shallotte ind at Bolivia each irth Friday. New Dormitory Is Named For Bragaw Ceremony Held Saturday Morning At N, C, State College Marks Dedication Of State College Building A modernistic, multi-million dol lar dormatory at N. C. State Col lege was dedicated Saturday mor ning to the memory of the late Capt. Churchill Bragaw, a resi dent of Brunswick county and manager of Orton Plantation. Capt. Bragaw was killed in ac tion during the Italian campaign in January, 1944. He was a grad uate of State College. In lauding Bragaw’s record as a student, professional man, and soldier, President William C. Friday of the Consolidated Uni versity of North Carolina said he dedicated the building “to the use of generations of State College students yet to come to this cam pus who shall seek, through edu cation, to gain knowledge and understanding, to the end that they shall also serve to enhance true meaning of freedom, liberty, and justice as did Henry Church ill Gragaw.” In responding for the family, John G. Bragaw of Washington, N. C., uncle of Churchill Bra gaw, expressed “deep, enduring, and unending gratitude and ap preciation.” Other key speakers were Su perior Court Judge Rudolph I. Mintz of Wilmington; Prof. M. E. Gardner of the State Col lege Department of Horticulture; and N. B. Watts, director of stu (Continued on rage Four) Another Protest Meeting In City Mayor Roy Robinson And Members Of Board Of Aldermen Express Sur prise At Monday Evening Delegation MAKE DECLARATION ON FIRING POLICY Both Mayor Robinson And City Manager Declare In tention To Retain Pres ent Employees A delegation of Southport citi zens appeared before the board of aldermen at a call meeting in the city hall Monday night, and their principal concern was a re port that Chief of Police Louis Clark would no longer be furnish ed living quarters. Mayor Roy Robinson stated Tuesday morning that the pur pose of the Monday night meeting was not to discuss the residence or the tenure in office of Chief Clark, but was for the purpose of discussing certain projects which the new administration hopes to begin. "Any concern over the intention of the new board to make a wholesale sweep of employees is completely unfounded," said May or Robinson, for this has not even been seriously discussed. "As a matter of fact, the only three persons who can be hired or fired by the board are the city auditor, the city manager and the city attorney. “X hope that as a result of the discussion Monday night the status of the chief of police and his residence has been settled once and for all .because we need to have a chance to get down to a discussion of the business of running the city.” City Manager C. D. Pickerrell echoed these sentiments and add ed, “As long as I am city man ager, any man who is doing a good job and who is conducting himself as a decent, law-abiding citizen need have no fear of fir ing. All of our present employees fulfill these requirements, and so there is absolutely no plan for any so-called sweeping changes.” Soil Testing Is Key To Success Information Gained F rom This Free Service Is Val uable In Establishment Of Planting Program The Agricultural Conservation Program for 1959 provides several instances where the government shares with the farmer the cost of conservation practices requir ing application of lime or fer :ilizer. Lonnie Evans, Chairman of the Brunswick ASC Committee, says that although a soil test is lot mandatory under any of these practices it is strongly recom nended in every case. ACP practices which should be ireceeded by a soil test include ;stablishment of permanent pas ;ure, additional vegetative cover n a crop rotation, application of iming materials on farmland, im (Continued on Page Four) |e~ Highway Forces Helping Safety Forces of the State High way Commission are busy this week ercting a traffic island at the junction of Moore street extension with the new river road. This in stallation will provide a meas ure of safety, particularly for traffic bound in the di rection of Southport. Henceforth, cars must come to a stop before making a right-angle turn into the highway. Outgoing traffic still has unbroken flow either along the street or along the highway route. Leland Native Takes Own Life Curtis Skipper Dies By Own Hand After Seriously Wounding Atlanta Wo man Curtis Skipper, native of Ice land, died Friday in Atlanta, Ga., of what officers of that city de scribed as' self-inflicted wounds. They reported that this action followed an attempt to take the life of a woman acquaintance. The officers reported they ar rived just in time to see Mrs. Bobby Ruth Morton, 38, run screaming from her home late Friday. She crumpled to the ground as a second shot was fir ed. Before they could intervene, they added, Curtis Skipper, 24, formerly of Leland, turned the gun on himself and put a bul let in his head. On the mechanic, they related, they found a note reading: “I love Bobby . . . and she has done me wrong.” The police said they were told the two were living at the same address and Skipper apparently became upset when Mrs. Morton, a restaurant employee, was an hour late getting home from work. They were summoned, they add ed, by the woman’s daughter, Donna, 10, who had seen Skipper handling a .38-caliber pistol. Mrs. Morton was shot in the face. She was reported in fair condition at Grady Memorial Hos pital Saturday. Funeral services were held at the graveside in the Ganey Ceme tery Tuesday at 11 a. m. Surviving are his father, moth er, and one brother. Pallbearers were Tate Ganey, Luther King, Waitus Mintz, James Hollis, Dillard Skipper, and Thur man Skipper. Honorary pallbearers were D. M. Mintz, Harris and P. M. Skip per, J. C. Burgess Sr., J. D. Hol lis Sr., R. O. Williams, Houston Williams, Leroy Lewis, A. V. Phelps, Lacy Dawkins, E. W. Thorpe, and Johnnie Sellers. Walton Speaker At Local School Commencement Southport Attorney Tells Members Of Graduating Class Of Some Of Things Expected Of Them SENIORS RECEIVE NUMEROUS AWARDS Harry D. Sell Receives Top Scholastic Award As Vale dictorian; Bonnie Bak er Salutatorian * Ray H. Walton, Southport at torney, spoke Friday night at the graduation exercises at Southport high school. The speaker told the seniors that "what you are, you owe to others. The cost of your educa tion to date has been borne by others. The taxpayers of North Carolina have paid until it hurts that you' could graduate from this high school...Your teachers have worked for much less than they could have made elsewhere be cause they believed in you. Your parents have gone without neces sities that you might have the comforts and luxuries you have enjoyed. “The taxpayers are expecting, in return, that you become use ful citizens and help us make this a better place in which to live; your teachers expect you to so live that they can, in the fu ture, look at you and point with pride to the fact that they once taught you; your parents do not think of what they have done for you as a sacrifice and do not feel that you owe them any thing. You do, however, owe them the duty of living a life that is clean, wholesome and useful so that in their declining years they can point with pride and tell the world ‘That’s My son or That’s My daughter’.” The valedictorian was Harry D. Sell, who delivered original ad dresses on both class night and at graduation. Bonnie Baker was salutatorian. Each received sc\l (Continued on Page S) Routine Cases Heard In Court Regular Session Of Bruns wick County Recorder’s Court Held Here Last Week In Brunswick county Recorder’s court Monday James Lewis was convicted of carrying a conceal ed weapon and theft. Sentence of 6 months on the roads was sus pended upon payment of restitu tion to the prosecuting witness, agreement to be of good behavior for 3 years, pay costs and sur render pistol for confiscation. Leaman Smith was charged with assault upon a female, the case being nol prossed with leave. Gerthel Bellamy was charged with fornication and adultery, the case being nol prossed with leave. J. S. Mangum asked for a jury trial of the charge of trespass. Wm. S. Mitchell was fined $10 and costs for improper equipment. James McCoy was fined $25 and costs for no operator’s license and expired registration. The following cases for speed ing were handed: James T. Brown, 65-mph, $10 and costs (fine remitted); Arthur LeClerc, too fast for conditions, $10 and (Continued on Page 8) Honored MBS. FOSTER MINTZ, of Bo livia, was selected as Woman of the Year by the County Council of Home Demonstration Clubs, and was recognized for this achievement at the recent dis trict meeting held in Southport. Graduation Held Friday Evening At Leland High Dr. C. E. Hartford Of Rieg el Paper Company Deliv ers Commencement Ad dress Monday Evening; Awards Made Dr. C. E. Hartford of Riegel Paper Co. was the speaker Mon day evening at graduation exer cises held at Deland high school. He was introduced by Principal W. W. West, who also presented diplomas to members of the grad uating class. Norman Best, high school teach er, presented a number of special awards with the following stu dents sharing these honors: Vale dictorian, Rose King, who received a savings bond in addition to her award; Eugene Evans, salutato rfan; home economics, Carolyn Faye Williams; commercial, Palma Sue Rinaldi; senior cheer I leader, Shirley Medlin; outstand ing girl basketball players, Hilda Lynch and Rose King; outstand ing boy basketball player, Roger Ganey; outstanding baseball play er, David Mintz. Annual staff medals were awarded to Rose King „nd Eugene Evans, editor in chief and business manager; and a library medal went to Frances Ganey, editor of the Library Scrapbook. Members of the graduating class of 1959 are Robert Lane Clemmons, Eugene Odell Evans, Continued On Page Four Local Students ECC Graduates One Man Receives Master’s Degree, With Bachelor Of Science Degrees Going To Several Others East Carolina College’s largest graduating class, made up of 905 men and women, received degrees Sunday afternoon at the 50th Annual Commencement Exercises held on the campus. A special feature of the pro gram was a ceremony in which eleven cadets of the college Air Force ROTC were commissioned ( Continued on page 6) TIME and TIDE By JIMMIE HARDER Back in 1939, Superior Court Judge Rudolph Mintz was serv ing as Register of Deeds of Brunswick county. In our May 24 publication for that year he was explaining that the new N. C. Marriage License Law was running prospective customers away in droves. It was the physical examination requirement that was doing it, that plus the waiting period. And the result was boom business for border towns in South Carolina. Another change was reported in the offing, this one affecting pensions being paid widows of Confederate veterans. After June 1, checks were to be paid monthly rather than on a semi-annual basis. A baby show was being planned, with a popularity contest al ready in progress. Heroic work on the part of John Lancaster and son, John Lancaster, Jr., prevented a drowning at Lock woods Folly. Baseball prospects for the town team were expect ing a boost with the return of David Watson and Lawrence Will ing from Louisburg college. A Washington, D. C., party had re turned home from a successful fishing trip to Southport, with Capt. H. T. Bowmer doing the honors; a coral snake, one of the rare poisonous varieties, had been killed at Orton; and Oscar Sellers had made the “Just Among The Fishermen” column with a 9 lb. flounder. Judge John J. Burney had accepted an invitation to be the principal speaker at a special Memorial Day service, and his picture appeared on the front page on May 24, 1944. The head line writer suggested that an upset might take place in the Pri Oontinued On Page Four Native Scotsman Is Lions Speaker The Rev. G. Scott Turner, Pastor Of Southport Bap tist Church, Tells Of Early Days In U. S. Two men who were born in oth er countries sent members of the Southport Lions Club home from their Thursday night meeting with words of praise for the United States ringing in their ears. The Rev. G. Scott Turner, in terim-pastor of Southport Baptist Church, was the speaker. A na tive of Scotland, he chose to tell of his early days in this country, declaring that one of the first things that made an impression upon him was the complete demo cracy enjoyed by citizens of the United States. He told of going to Fayette ville with the man for whom he worked on a Cumberland county farm, and of being introduced to one of the bankers in that city. “He actually came over and shook hands with me,” he said, as though it was the cause of some amazement. “Then he invited me to call at his home some time, and to have a meal there.” The speaker then explained that even though his beloved Scotland is one of the most pleasant places in Europe to live, the class sys tem is so positively a part of its life and customs that not in a liftime can the average man rise from the class into which he has been born. “In this country, a man can make of himself what he will”, he declared, then spoke briefly of how he had received an edu cation, and finally had entered the ministery. No sooner had he concluded than K. A. Hoglund, a native of Sweden and a former resident of (Continued on page four) Dairy Princess Will Be Crowned Southport Man Named Trustee Ernest E. Parker, Jr., Southport attorney, was elect ed last week as a member of the board of trustees of the Greater University of North Carolina. He is a graduate of Carolina, and received his law degree from that institution. The Southport man spent Monday in Chapel Hill, at tending his first meeting of the board. This was the first session since the election of ’ new members. Other Uses For March Of Dimes Local Funds May Be Made Available For Use In Con nection With Certain Oth er Diseases The Brunswick County Chapter of The National Foundation has launched preparations to put into effect in the county a broadened new program of patient aid which has been in the making since last summer, Aubrey Johnson, chapter chairman, announced this week. The revised program will offer assistance not only to polio vic tims but also to certain young patients with arthritis or birth defects, Mr. Johnson said. The new targets were first announced last July; since then National Foundation leaders have been studying the best possible ap proach to the patient aid aspects of the program. Under the broadened policy, he said, March of Dimes help will be offered to local children under 19 with certain defects of the brain and spinal cord, with juvenile arthristis, and—as in the past—with paralytic polio. How ever, he added, payments no lon ger will be made for nonparalytic polio. “We would like to make it very clear at the outset of this broad ened program that we will con tinue to fulfill our basic obliga tions to polio patients needing assistance,” Johnson said. The birrn detects covered under the new program are known tech nically as spina bifida (open spine), encephalocele (open skull) and hydrocephalus (water on the brain). These conditions some times cause paralysis and crip pling. Juvenile rheumatoid arth ritis also causes crippling and sometimes deformity in children. The chairman said that The National Foundation has selected these areas for its broadened pro gram because not enough is be ing done at present for patients with arthritis or birth defects; further, much of the treatment and therapy needed in the new fields is similar to that used in polio, and thus facilities and per sonnel already created by March of Dimes funds can be applied in (Continued on Page Four) This Will Be Part Of Na tional Dairy Month Kick Off Program In Bruns wick Saturday BOLIVIA BREAKFAST STARTS FESTIVITIES Group Will Make Tour Of Brunswick County Dair ies And Will Hear Story Of Industry Final plans have been made and everything is in readiness for staging the June Dairy Month kick-off breakfast at Bolivia school cafeteria Saturday morning at 8 o’clock, reports A. S. Knowl es, chairman of June Dairy Month Committee for Brunswick county. A number of leaders for Brunswick and New Hanover counties will be present, and Ad dison Hewlett, Speaker of the House, will be the principal speak er. The Dairy Princess Contest promises to be one of the outstand ing events of the year. Several or ganizations are participating in furnishing nominees for the con test. The 4-H Culb representative in the final contest Saturday will be Miss Joyce Sullivan of Winna bow. She is a member of the Bolivia senior 4-H Club. The Home Demonstration Clubs ran off their contest Tuesday of this week to determine the finalist. Emily Kirby is the first place win ner in this division and Alice Mills is the runner-up. Both of these lovely girls will participate in the final contest at Bolivia Saturday. The Community Development Clubs will decide their represent ative in the Dairy Princess final on Thursday night. The Farm Bureau and Grange are also par ticipating. The tour will be the highlight of the event. The group will tell the story of June Dairy Month on stops at Winnabow, South port, Supply and Shallotte. The Dairy Princess will be announced and the crowning will take place at Shallotte. Captain Howard Honored Guest Man Who Served As Rector Of St. Phillips Episcopal Church For Two Years Going To New York Captain and Mrs. Henry How ard of the Episcopal Church Army will leave Southport about June 1 for missionary service on the Onondaga Indian Reservation near Syracuse, N. Y. Their speci fic assignment is to the Church of the Good Shepherd, while their mission is to the 600 families liv ing on the Indian Reservation. The Episcopal Church Army is composed of laymen and lay women trained and dedicated to missionary work within the church. Duties are usually to small churches unable to support a full-time ordained priest. For the past two years Captain How (Continued on Page 8) World Mission Session To Be Important Week Early Preparations Being Made For Gathering Of 1,000 Persons At Baptist Assembly Second Week In July PART OF THE SUMMER PROGRAM AT CASWELL World Mission Week Will Be Sponsored By Brother hood Department Of Baptist State Con vention World missions in an age when the world draws nearer to the homes of every American every day will be studied and discussed • when 1,000 North Carolina Bap-, tists gather at the Baptist As- - sembly, Southport, July 6-11. World Mission Week, sponsored - by the Brotherhood Department' of the Baptist State Convention, - will be a combination inspiration- * al, educational, recreational ses-. sion with special emphasis on - foreign, home and state mission ^ fields, Rev. B. W. Jackson, asso- - ciate Brotherhood secretary, said * this week. ju>r. nj. Li. opivey, secretary 01 the State Missions Division of the Convention, will be general direc tor of World Mission Week. The week’s activities will show how Baptist mission ministry ha* doubled in size in the last ten years. Baptists everywhere are making it increasingly clear that they are determined to project a vastly enlarged world missions ministry in keeping with the needs and the resources entrusted to them. Never before has there been such an unprecedented num ber of foreign mission volunteers, many of whom have already re ceived full educational prepara tion. There has, also, been a steady growth of financial sup port through the churches which is another indication that Bap tists intend to extend their world mission program “to the utter most part of the earth”. World Mission Week will bring speakers that include mission aries, a Southeastern Seminary student from Shanghai and offi cials of the Foreign and Home Mission Boards and the Brother hood Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. Mornings will be devoted to conferences and discussions on Bible study and denominational classes plus meetings on commun ity, associational, state, home and foreign missions. Feature messages and discus sion periods will be held each day at noon and night. After noons will be left for recreation and fellowship. Boating, swim ming and deep sea fishing accom modations will be available. Reservations for entire families are available and may be ob tained by writing the North Caro lina Baptist Assembly, Southport. Among those expected to attend are associational missionaries, as sociational Royal Ambassador leaders, and regional and associ ational officers of the Brother hood. A Royal Ambassador camp will be held simultaneously. Con ferences are planned for every member of the family. Dr. M. A. Huggins, retiring general secretary-treasurer of the Baptist State Convention, will open the session Tuesday mor ning with a discussion period on the Convention’s Cooperative Pro gram. Dr. Douglas M. Branch, newly elected general secretary-treasur ( Continued On Page Six ) Tide Table Following; Is the tide table for Southport during the nest week. These hours are ap proximately correct and were furnished The State Port Pilot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear High Tide Thursday, 0:34 A. M. 1:04 P. M. Friday, 1:28 A. M. 2:01 P. M. Saturday, 2:23 A. M. 2:56 P. M. Sunday, 3:15 A. M. 3:48 P. M. Monday, 4:06 A. M. 4:37 P. M. Tuesday, 4:54 A. M. 5:23 P. M. Wednesdav. 5:41 A. M. 6:05 P. M. < • Association. Low IW* May 28, 6:44 A. M. 7:02 P. M. May 29, 7:38 A. M. 8:02 P. M. May 30, 8:3l A. M. 9 OO P. M. Mav 81, i):23 A. M. : :56 P. M. June 1, 10:12 A. M. 10:48 P. M. June 2, 10:58 A. M. 11:36 P. M. June 3, 11:41 A. 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