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Volume No. 20
THE STATE PORT PILOT
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
No. 21 8-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY , NOVEMBER 25, 1959 Sc A COPY ^
The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Making Plans To
Assist Literacy
Cases Locally
Program Designed To Help
Upgrade Educational Lev
el Of North Carolina Citi
zens Will Be Pushed In
Brunswick
STATISTICS SHOW
ALARMING NEED
Plan Envisions Combined
Use Of Television Pro
grams And Personal
Instruction
By Mrs. Thelma C. Upchurch,
County Home Economics Agent
The Carolina^’ Literacy Move
ment will begin on January 4th
The counties in North Carolina
are starting a school to help
adults who have not yet learned
to read and write to learn to do
so
Perhaps you are thinking that
illiteracy is no problem in Bruns
wick County or North Carolina
These figures are from the offi
cial census studies: In North
Carolina—Adults 25 and over
number 2,000,000; functional illi
terates total 425,000; the percent
of functional illiterates is 21 per
cent and the percent with no
schooling is 3.75.
A functional illiterate is an
adult who has had less than five
years formal education. Experi
ence shows that while many of
these adults may once have been
able to write many of them have,
through lack of use, lost these
abilities.
During World War II North
Carolina had the largest per
cent of rejections of boys enter
ing service and illiteracy account
ed for a very high number of re
jections.
The literacy movement in the
Southeast today is an outgrowth
of an experiment staged last win
ter over WBTV in Charlotte by
Carolina’s Literacy Movement. In
six months, 1,000 persons in 20
counties learned to read and
write.
The general administration of
the movement is handled by the
John C. Campbell Folk School,
Brasstown. Mayes Behrman who
lives at Brasstown, is the director
of the movement.
Through this literacy movement
illiterates are given an oppor
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Brtaf BtH 0/
‘-NEWS-1
LELAND CONFERENCE
A Well Baby Conference will
be held every fourth Friday at
the Community Building, Leland
at 10 a. m.
FEARS UNFOUNDED
The Suspected case of Typhoid
at Dosher Memorial Hospital
earlier this month was found by
subsequent tests not to be ty
phoid.
TO HOLD CLINIC
Dr. L. F. Bullard, Jr., will re
place Dr. Edward Graves at the
Prenatal Clinic at Shallotte
Health Department every other
Wednesday.
HOLIDAY HOUSF
Holiday House will be sponsored
by the Southport Garden Club or
Sunday, December 6. The Junior
Choir will sing and refreshments
will be served. Mrs. F. M. Bur
dette is chairman.
BROOMS AND CAKES
Members of the Southport Lions
Club are selling brooms and fruit
cakes as a fund-raising project.
The brooms are made in a fac
tory which is operated by the
blind. Anyone wishing to contact
a salesman may call GL 7-3121.
ATTENDS SCHOOL
Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Jones and
sons have returned home after
spending a month in Alexandria,
Va. while Mr. Jones attended
school in Fort Belvoir, Va. The
school was pertaining to his job
at tunny Point.
ATTENDS COURSE
Mrs. Virginia Russ Bellamy of
the Brunswick County Health De
partment, Shallotte, attended the
Public Health Records Short
Course in Chapel Hill from No
vember 9 through 19. Affiliated
with the School of Public Health
is maintained for this course.
RECOVER MACHINES
Sheriff E. V. Leonard was ad
vised this week that two morea of
the typewriters stolen three weeks
ago from Union High School
have been recovered. They had
been pawned in Charlotte. Previ
ously another typewriter and one
electric hand saw had been re
covered.
Community Development Leaders
REPRESENTATIVES—These men
represented their Community Devel
opment Clubs at the awards night
program held Saturday night at Bo
livia : H. G. Brady, Exum; E. J. King,
Kingtown; S. D. Stanaland, Caw
Caw; J. J. Hawes, Supply; Raymond
Earp, Lebanon-Mill Creek; Carl Wil
letts, Bolivia; C. C. Dennis, Long
wood.
* * *
HAPPY—The young gentleman on
the right is Sammy Smith, 20-months
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Brian Smith
who appears to be enjoying his part
in the dinner meeting.
Draw Jury Lists
For Two Weeks
Of Court Here
Two Weeks Special Term
Of Superior Court For
Trial Of Civil Cases Sche
duled During December
A two-week special term of
Brunswick county Superior court
for trial of civil cases has been
scheduled, starting- on December
'• Judge Raymond Mallard will
preside over the two-week's ses
sion.
The jury list for December 7
is as follows: T, D. Fotter, Har
ris Skipper, C. D. Sykes, D. B.
Roberts, J. D. Long, W. W. Har
rel, Ray McKeithan, M. A. Sulli
van, Leland; Martin Reynolds, R.
I. Long, Joe Beck, Robert S.
King, Liston L. Babson, Ash; Joe
Lewis, John E. Smith, G. W.
Rabon, Ralph E. Phelps, Floyd
Dilsaver, Dexter Clemmons,
Southport; Seymour Benton,
Freeland: J. M. Danford, W. C.
Reid, Murray F. Tatum, H. D.
Willetts, Winnabow; Lonnie Gal
loway, J. C. Robinson, Clarence
Edward Lancaster, A. C. Phelps,
C. G. Roach, J. M. King, Supply;
Carl L. Mintz, D. C. Russ, Rob
ert McLamb, Walter Floyd, Tom
Swain, George Stocks, Shallotte.
The jury list for December 14
is as follows: Robert L. Scoggins,
Preston Watson, H. W. Paden, H.
C. Sharp, F. O. Williams, Leland;
Lonzie M. Hughes, J. A. Ward,
Sidney Phelps, Richard White,
Carl E. Wilson, T. G. Gore, Ash;
Robert McKenzie, Reece Swan,
Connie Lupton, Southport; Paul
K. Inman, J. F. Edwards, F. M.
Smith, Freeland; W. H. Sellers,
Winnabow; Carl Galloway, Levi
B. Hewett, Dewey J. Sellers,
Percy Suggs, Cova Clemmons, W.
E. Clemmons, Carl Hewett, Sup
ply; H. P. Somersette, Earl Hew
ett, |C. R. Milliken, James Walter
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Soil Committee
Vote Scheduled
Balloting Will Be In Pro
gress Throughout Bruns
wick County During The
Week Of December 7-12
One Soil Conservation super
visor for Brunswick County will
be elected by popular vote in an
election to b held during the week
December 7-12.
The Brunswick County board of
Soil Conservation Supervisors at
a recent meeting in Shallotte,
decided to nominate T. C. Lennon
of Bolivia for reelection. They are
now circulating a nominating peti
I tion for Lennon. The chairman
stated that if there are any other
interested groups in the county
that- have a candidate, he can be
nominated in such manned also.
Brunswick County is a part of
the Lower Cape Fear Soil Con
servation District, which is com
posed of Bladen, Brunswick, Co
lumbus, New Hanover and Pen
der Counties.
Development Club
At Exum Winner
General Tank To
Be Here Tuesday
Brig. Gen. Charles P. Tank,
Commanding General of U. S.
Army Transportation Termin
al Command, Atlantic, will
pay an official visit to Surmy
Point Army Terminal on De
cember 1.
According to Lt. Col. W.
S. Norman, commanding of
ficer at the terminal, General
Tank will arrive late in the
evening on November 30. He
will spend most of Tuesday
inspecting the Sunny Point
Terminal, which i$ under his
command, before continuing
his trip southward to other
activities included in his com
mand.
Grange Supports
Fire Department
This Action Taken By Mem
bers Of Town Creek
Grange At Regular Meet
ing Held Last ^Veek
Worthy Master Charles M. Tay
lor presided over the Town Creek
Grange meeting November in the
Recreation Hall of New Hope
Presbyterian Church. Twelve of
the 16 officers were present.
The membership committee pre
sented applications for Carter
Rabon, Mrs. Carter Rabon, Albert
Skipper, W. W. Knox and Ira
Flowers. Membership applicants
presented in October and balloted
on favorably in this meeting were:
Thomas Howard, W. R. Rabon,
T. B. Rabon and William Sellers.
Mrs. Ruth Kye reported on the
state youth committee on which
she served as secretary during
the N. C. Grange Convention. Mrs.
Kye announced that the State
Youth Conference will be held in
Goldsboro December 27-28. A. P.
Henry, Jr., Community Service
Chairman, asked the Town Creek
Grange to sponsor the Winnabow
Volunteer Fire Department as the
1959-60 community service pro
ject.
Town Creek Grange was award
ed 525 by the state Grange for
their work on the 1958-59 Com
munity Service project. This
check was presented to Mrs. Kye
at the State Convention and was
turned over to the local Grange
during the November meeting.
This money will be used to help
sponsor the Winnabow Volunteer
Fire Department. which was
adopted and the project this year.
Town Creek Grange voted to
ask State Master Harry B. Cald
well to deliver an address in an
open meeting in the near future,
and will join the Waccamaw
Grange in the invitation and plans
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Wins First Place In County
Competition For Second
Straight Year; Kingtown
Club Is Second, Long
wood Third
AUBREY C, JOHNSON
SPEAKS TO GROUP
Annual Dinner And Awards
Program Held Saturday
Afternoon And Evening
At Bolivia School
For the second year in succes
sion the Exum Community Devel
opment Club was declared winner
in the Brunswick county contest,
the announcement coming during
the awards night program Satur
day evening at Bolivia.
Second place winner was the
Kingtown Club, a newcomer this
year, and third prize went to the
Longwood Club, which also is in
its first year of organization.
Bolivia was the scene of the
Annual Community Development
Association Awards program,
with festivities beginning in the
afternoon with a horse shoe pitch
ing contest, continuing in the
school cafeteria for the dinner, at
which sponsors were guests, and
concluding with the awards pro
gram in the high school audito
rium.
In addition to the report of
Development Club activities and
the announcement of winners,
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Bridges Heads
Group Next Year
Southport Minister Reelect
ed At Meeting Of Bruns
wick County Historical
Society Tuesday night
DISCUSS PLANS TO
ADOPT PROJECT
Publication And Distribut
ion Of Some Kind Of His
torical Information Is
The Rev. L. A. Bridges, pastor)
of Trinity Methodist Church in
Southport, was reelected president
of the Brunswick County Histor
ical Society at a meeting held in
the Southport high school audi
torium Tuesday evening.
Miss Mae Phelps was reelected
secretary, Miss Helen Taylor was
elected treasurer, and Mrs. Harry
Mintz and James M. Harper, Jr.,
were elected as joint historians.
A discussion was held concern
ing suitable projects that might
be adopted by the members of the
historical group. The president ex
pressed the idea that there should
be some definite connection with
the excavation project now being
carried on at Old Brunswick by
the State Department of Archives
and History. He called this one
of the most important historical
projects now going on in the
United States and declared that
it deserves a greater degree of
local appreciation and support.
Another reason for having a
positive program, according to the
president, is in order to give vital
ity to the local organization. “All
of us will have more enthusiam
of we are doing something,’’ he
said.
Considered
One plan for fund raising was
to serve barbecue at the site of
Old Brunswick during the forth
coming Azalea Festival. Another
was to prepare some booklets,
or possibly some note paper, with
suitable illustrations of local his
toric sites, and offer them for
sale. This would solve the two
fold purpose of publicizing Bruns
wick county’s historic attractions
and lat the same time might raise
some money with which to fi
nance other work.
Following the business meeting,
a social hour was enjoyed.
Cash Awards To
Civilian Workers
Cash Awards Ranging Up
To $250 For Outstanding
Performance Made Re
cently By Col. W. S. Nor
man
Lt. Colonel W. S. Norman,
Commanding Officer, U. S. Army
Transportation Terminal Sunny
Point recently presented certifi
cates and awards to civilian em
ployees as follows:
Sustained Superior Performance
Awards: Edward H. Coley, Se
curity Division, $100; Herbert A.
Nichols, Security Division, $150;
Clarence K. McNeill, Security Di
vision, $100; Eugene B. Tomlin
son, Jr., Engineer Division, $250;
Carzet Creech, Signal Division,
$100; Claude B. Jones, Security
Division, $100.
Suggestion Awards: William T.
Fullwood, Jr., Equipment Division,
$10; Mrs. Peggy Hood, Adminis
trative Directorate, $10; William
J. Smith, Safety Directorate, $15.
TIME and TIDE
By JIMMIE HARPER
It was November 22, 1939, and there were only 26 shopping
days left before Christmas. Southport was to be included in a
proposed air mail route branching out from Greensboro. The new
plan would not necessitate landing facilities, for the incoming
mail would be air-dropped, the outgoing snatched into the air by
a fishing line type affair. Six young Wilmington ladies had spent
an afternoon bathing at Long Beach recently, and had pro
nounced the water fully as warm as the surrounding air; some
one had passed off a plug nickle on Bill Wells; and Richard
Brendle, ’ Jack Swan and Jimmy Cox were on the Southport third
grade honor role.
J. J. Loughlin had resigned as alderman from the first ward
in Southport; Frank Sherrill had been featured in an article by
Dale Carnegie; Rivers Wescott was the current bowling champ
of Southport, having just deposed Capt. W. H. Barnette; Hob
son Kirby had just completed construction of a new storehouse
in Shallotte; and the Town Creek W. M. U. had just finished a
colorful quilt to be given to the Baptist Orphanage at Thomas
ville.
It was November 22. 1944, and Reece Swan, recently of the
South Pacific, was home on leave, a teen-age club had been
formed in Southport. Its officers were Douglas Jones, Louis
Newton, Blanche Weeks and Ann McRacken. The seniors of
Waccamaw High School were to present "Bringing Home the
Bacon” on the first of December; W. P. Jorgensen had again
been named County Tax Supervisor; and the Amuzu was to have
a special War Bond show, admittance being gained with the
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Thanksgiving
Holiday Schedule
For Thanksgiving
*
Important Tobacco
Meeting Scheduled
There will be a county-wide
tobacco production meeting at
Waccamaw School on Wednes
day evening, December 9, at
7:30 o’clock. Roy R. Bennett,
Agronomy Extension Specialist
in Tobacco, will be the
speaker for this occasion, re
ports A. S. Knowles, County
Agricultural Agent.
Bennett has been tobacco spe
cialist for the N. C. State Col
lege Extension Service for sev
eral years and is well qualified
to lead a discussion on latest
production practices. This meet
ing is being held early in Dec
ember to give tobacco growers
the benefit of getting the newest
information available before time
to plant their tobacco seed. Only
this one meeting will be held in
the county by Bennett.
Everyone is urged to attend.
Complete First
College Classes
Seafood Dinner At Double
“B” Restaurant In Shal
lotte Monday Night Winds
Up Work For First Cour
ses
The fall college credit courses
that have been taught in Bruns
wick county during the past few
weeks came to a close Monday
night, with the students and the
two instructors celebrating the
occasion with a seafood dinner at
the Double-B restaurant at Shal
lotte.
A course in mental hygeine was
taught by Talmadge O. Page,
high school supervisor, of Wil
mington; and John G. Long, su
perintendent of Brunswick coun
ty schools, taught a course in
procedures of physical education
in the elementary grades.
College credit was earned which
may apply for renewing certifi
cates, raising certificates, work
toward earning a college degree,
a master’s degree or for teacher
improvement.
An organizational meeting will
be held at Shallotte on December
7 to consider plans for further
courses to be offered during the
winter quarter. These classes are
not limited to teachers, and all
who are interested are urged to
attend the session.
Another Lengthy
Court Session
Variety Of Cases Disposed
Of Before Judge Earl Bel
lamy During All-Day Ses
sion Monday
It required a full day Monday
to dispose of the large number
of cases on Recorder’s court doc
ket, with the following decisions
being handed down by Judge Earl
Bellamy:
James E Miller, pleaded guilty
to drunk driving and possession.
Hit’ sentence of 90 days on the
roads was suspended upon pay
ment of costs and a fine of $100.
Notice of appeal was given and
bond was set at $300.
Irvin B. Smith asked for a jury
trial on charges of drunk driving.
Louis D. Gore was found guilty
of assault upon an officer and
was given 6 months, suspended
upon condition the defendant re
main under supervision of a pa
role officer for 2 years, be of
good behavior and pay a fine of
$50 and costs. A similar sentence
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All Schools Getting Out To
day In Observance Of
This Seasonal Holiday;
Students Go Back Mon
day
OFFICES CLOSE ON
THANKSGIVING DAY
All Business Activity Expec
ted To Come To Halt As
Citizens Throughout The
County Observe
Thanksgiving
Brunswick county schools are
closing today (Wednesday) at
noon for Thanksgiving holidays
and students and teachers will
not be back in the classrooms
again until Monday morning.
Preparations are being made
for a complete business standstill
in the county tomorrow (Thurs
day) as all city and county of
fices, the post offices, banks and
the Savings & Loan will be
closed in observance of Thanks
giving.
Practically all of the stores in
the county will follow suit. Some
of these which have been clos
ing on Wednesday afternoons are
remaining open all day today
(Wednesday).
Here in Southport a Union
Thanksgiving Service is being
held this (Wednesday) evening
at 7:30 o’clock at Trinity Metho
dist Church. The message will be
delivered by the Rev. William K.
Pauley, pastor of Southport Pres
byterian Church.
The first celebration of Thanks
giving came on Sunday evening
when a worship service and
social hour were held at the
new Yaupon Beach Methodist
Church.
Former County
Citizen Is Shot
E. Elmer Long Accidentally
Killed Last Week By Hun
ter Near Georgetown
GEORGETOWN, S. C.—Fun
eral services for E. Elmer Long,
whose wife hails from Brunswick
County, N. C.. were held Friday
at 3:30 p. m. at Screven Baptist
Church, with burial in Elmwood
Cemetery annex.
Mr. Long, who was 44, was
killed instantly, Tuesday after
noon, when struck in the region
of the heart by a load of buck
shot fired by an employee of his.
The deceased was superintendent
of Yeymouth Plantation near
Georgetown. He was the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel T. Long of
Conway.
His wife is the former Kath
ryn Hewett of Supply, where he
also has a brother, Ennis, now
living. Long was bom in the
Bethel community of Columbus
county, N. C. He is a cousin of
Columbus County Coroner J. B.
Long, Jr.
Coroner Long explained that
Elmer Long let an employee on
Weymouth Plantation off to go
deer hunting on the property.
Long went about his work, using
a bulldozer on the plantation.
About 5 p. m., Long dismounted
from the machine and was walk
ing around over the property
when he was mistaken by the
hunter, who shot him.
Survivors include his wife; his
father and stepmother; three
daughters, Misses Geraldine, Kay
and Mary Jane Long, all of the
home; a son, E. Elmer Long, Jr.,
also of the home; a brother, En
nis, Supply, N. C.; and three
sisters, Mrs. Eula Mae Ropp,
Myrtle Beach, Mrs. Aradella Fos
ter, Washington, D. C. and Mrs.
Vera Bell Swain, Fayetteville,
N. C.
Census Workers
Complete Course
Before Starting
Enumerators For Work In
Brunswick County Have
Been Attending Training
Sessions At Bolivia
FARM FIGURES DUE
TO SHOW CHANGE
Growth And Development
Of Brunswick County
During Past Five Years
Should Be Reflected
The 1959 Census of Agriculture,
now under way in Brunswick
County, will bring up to date farm
statistics last collected in 1954,
when the farm census revealed
the following facts:
The value of products sold in
1954 by farm operators was
$3 963,052.
The value of all crops sold was
$3,388,374 and included $3,228,787
for field crops, $45,229 for vege
tables, $23,558 for fruits and nuts,
and $90,800 for horticultural spe
cialties.
The value of all livestock and
livestock products sold was $538,
912 and including $63,767 for
dairy products, $70,600 for poultry
and poultry products, and $404,545
for livestock and livestock pro
ducts.
The value of forest products
sold from county’s farms was
$35,766.
Census takers for the local area
in the 1959 Census of Agriculture
have been appointed and began an
intensive training course last
Wednesday in preparation for the
start of the field canvass on Mon
day of this week.
The trainfng session was held
at Bolivia High School and was
conducted by the crew leader
who recently attended a five day
census training course.
The training course will cover
| the use of the Census question
j naire, Census definitions, inter
! viewing, and map reading. Em
phasis will be placed on the im
portance of locating every farm
and obtaining coreplete and ac
curate informal:'. L>, The census
takers will conduct some actual
interviews as part of the train
Hear Proposal
For New X-Ray
Members Of Hospital Staff
Met With City And Coun»
ty Officials Tuesday Night
To Hear Expression Of
Need
The pressing need for a new
X-ray machine at Dosher Memo
rial Hospital was explained by
Di. Parrott, member of the staff
at James Walker Memorial Hos
pital, at a meeting held at the
City Hall Tuesday night.
Dr. Parrott is a specialist in
this department at the Wilming
ton institution and expressed his
opinion that new equipment of
this kind at the hospital in South
port would materially increase the
patient load.
Also talking in behalf of the
need for this equipment were J.
J. Loughlin, Jr., hospital admin
istrator; Dr. L. G. Brown, Dr. P.
M. Burdette and Dr. M. H. Rourk.
Of the models described as de
sirable for use at Dosher Memo
rial Hospital, the prices ranged
from $7,000 to $13,000 a rental
plar also was discussed.
Present for the meeting were
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Tide Table
Following la the tide table
tor Southport during the next
week. These hours are ap
proximately correct and were
furnished The State Port Pilot
through the courtesy of tbs
Cape Fear Pilot’s Association.
Hugh Tide Low Tide
Thursday, .November 26,
3:49 A. M. 10:11 A. M.
4:04 P. M. 10:30 P. M.
Friday, November 27,
4:47 A. M. 11:10 A. M.
5:02 P. M. 11:25 P. M.
Saturday, November 28,
5:45 A. M. 0:00 A. M.
6:00 P. M. 12:06 P. M.
Sunday, November 29,
6:40 A. M. 0:17 A. M.
6:55 P. M. 1:00 P. M. .*
Monday, November 80, f
:34 A. M. 1:10 A. M.
Tuesday, December 1,
:28 A. M. 2:01 A.
:44 P. M. 2:44 P.
:50 P. M. 1:53 P.
Wednesday, December 2,
:22 A. M. 2:53 A. 7
:22 A. M.
:40 P. M.
:40 P. M. 3:37 P.