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THE STATE PORT PILOT
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
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Brunswick County
Volume No. 21
No. 27
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SOUTHPORT, N. C.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1961
5c A COPY
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Committees For
March Of Dimes
Are Announced
Mrs. M. H, Rourk Of Shal
lotte Once More Will Be
County Chairman For This
Fund Drive
Mrs. M. R. Rourk of Shallotte
is serving; this year as March of
Dimes chairman for Brunswick
county, and this week she has
announced her list of community
workers.
Mrs. Rourk reminds Brunswick
county citizens who will be called
upon for contrinutions that this
county has received more money
from National Foundation through
the years than has been con
tributed. “For this and many
other reasons we cannot fail to
again do our part,” she said this
week.
“The New March of Dimes al
ready has made a substantial be
ginning in its expanded program
of seeking to prevent birth de
fects and arthritis in addition to
continuing to seek total control
of paralytic polio.
“The people of Brunswick coun
ty, through their splendid sup
port of the March of Dimes for
more than 20 years, have con
tributed substantially to a great
health program that resulted in
the Salk vaccine.
“The 1961 New March of
Dimes offers opportunity for all
of us to be a part of work aimed
at prevention of still more of the
great cripplers that afflict so
many millions of Americans to
day.
“I am confident that the peo
ple of this county will continue to
fight for better health for them
selves and their children through
the New March of Dimes, both as
volunteer workers and through
their cotribution," said Mrs. Rourk.
The following community chair
man have been named: Mrs. Wil
liam Mathews, Ash; Mrs. Foster
Mintz and Mrs. A. S. Knowles,
Bolivia; Mrs. Norman Bellamy,
Holden Beach, Varn'umtown and
Boones Neck; Mrs. Roddy Bennett
Exum; Mrs. Anson Smith, Free- ,
land; Mrs. Harry Bennett, Cal- ]
abash; Mrs. Rufus Williams and
Mrs. Woodbury Benton, Leland;
Mrs. W. A. Long, Longwood; Mrs.
Ernest Stunaland, Hickmans
Crossroads; Mrs. Norman Gris
sett, Grissettown; Mrs. Garland
Clemmons, Supply; Mrs. Harry
White. Shallotte; Mrs. Guy Gar
rett and Mrs. S. T. Bennett,
Southport; Mrs. F. C. Osborne,
Thomasboro; Mrs. Gilbert Irvin,
Winnabow; Fred Edwards, Shall
otte Point; and A.C . Caviness,
colored schools.
Brief BiU Of
-NEWSJ
LIONS TO MEET
The regular meeting of the
Southport Lions Club will be held
tomorrow (Thursday) at 6:30
o'clock at the Lions Club building.
NO BARBECUE
There will not be a barbecue
supper at 2ion Methodist Church
during the month of January. The
next benefit of this kind is sched
uled for Febraury 4.
ATTORNEY PASSES
Charles W. Muldrow, 74, well
known Florence, S. C. attorney,
died Saturday. He was the son
of the late James F. and Ema
Lee Hudgins Muldrow, formerly
of Southport.
FORMER PASTOR DIES
The Rev. Eugene Black Carr,
82-year-old retired Presbyterian
minister of Rose Hill, died M!- n
day in Raleigh. He was e fotir.tr
pastor of Southport Presbyterian
Church. Final rites were held
Wednesday at Wallace.
BUSINESS TRIP
W. G. Frink, of Shallotte,
owner and operator of the West
ern Auto Associate Store for the
past month will attend a Western
Auto Merchandise Show at Green
sboro, North Carolina, January
8-9.. He will be accompanied by
Mrs. W. G. Frink.
IN SERVICE
Army Pvt. James P. Culpepper,
18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Guy H.
Culpepper, Shallotte, completed
the final phase of six months
active military training under the
Reserve Forces Act program at
Fort Bliss, Tex., Dec. 20. During
this final phase, Culpepper re-1
ceived training in the duities of a
90 millimeter gun crewman. He is
a 1960 graduate of Shallotte High
School.
Project Entrance
GATE '.^is *s new entrance to the Boiling Spring Lakes development near
Southport, with the portable business office being shown in the right center. The re
tirement home sub-division is located about 10 miles from Southport on Highway No.
St and includes 15,000 acres. Within the boundaries of this property are more than
fifty natural lakes, and a part of the present operations is to add to this number.
Public Hearings
On Highways To
Be Held Tuesday
Division Engineer J. T. Mc
Kim And Other Highway
Officials Will Attend
Southport Meeting
Residents of Brunswick county
will have an opportunity to pre
sent road requests, petitions and
problems to representatives of
the Third Highway Division at
a public hearing here Tuesday of
next week. Announcement of the
hearing was made by Division
Manager T. J. McKim.
City and county officials, along
with the general public, are in
vited to attend the hearing if
they have road requests which
they feel should receive attention.
The hearing will be held at
the Brunswick county courthouse
in Southport, between the hours
of 2 and 4 p. m.
This is one in a series of public
hearings being held in the Third
Division, which is composed of
Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender,
Onslow, Duplin and Sampson
counties.
Grain Bins Are
Help To Bennett
Brunswick County Farmer
Has Been Able To Put
Storage To Good Use For
Three Crops
In the fall of 1959 Bill Benn
ett of the Exum community of
Brunswick county had a fine corn
crop but to his dismay the mar
ket price of corn was only 95
cents per bushel. To sell at this
price would mean little or no pro
fit at all for a fine crop. Space
to store the estimated 2000 bus
hels of corn was not available on
the farm. This was quite a pro
blem for Bill but not for long.
He remembered hearing- some
thing about ASC having a facility
loan program and decided to in
vestigate, so off to Shallotte he
went. At the ASC Counter he
was told that he could borrow
up to 90 percent of the unerrect
ed cost of the bins at 4 per cent
interest, with four years to pay.
"What about a dryer?” “Yes, we
can loan 75 per cent of the cost
of a dryer at 4 per cent interest
with 3 years to pay.” This sound
ed like the answer to Bill’s pro
blem.
He made application for faci
lity and dryer loans and as soon
as they were approved he pur
chased and errected two 1000 bus
hed bins and dryer. The next
job was harvesting and storing
his corn.
A total of 2165 bushels of corn
was stored which sold the next1
spring for $1.39 per bushel, or
$952.60 more than it would have
brought if it had been sold at
harvest time. If he had kept his
corn until July he could have sold
it for $1.50 per bushel but it was
wheat harvesting time and one of
the bins was needed to store his
wheat in. His 582 bushels of
wheat, worth $1.62 at harvest 1
time was sold later for $1.85 pei
bushel for a gain of $133.86 over
Continued Oa Page £
Plan Early Start
On Fishing Reef
Clearance Has Been Given3
By Three Agencies With
Jurisdiction Over Project;
Plan For Markers An
nounced
C. D. Pickerrell, secretary of
the committee in charge of build
ing an artifical fishing reef off
j Bald Head Island, said Tuesday
that permission has been granted
for this work by the U. S. Navy,
the Department of Conservation
and Development and the Corps
of Engineers.
“We are ready to go to work
right away on the first steps
of this construction,” he said.
Pickerrell declared that the big
obstacle posed by the necessity
for furnishing a permanent warn
ing light at each end of the in
stallation will be liked by sinking
a single piling 60-feet in length.
This will go 20-feet into the
ocean bed. will be located in 19
feet of water and will leave ap
proximately 20-feet showing. Spec
ifications call for a flashing red
light to be affixed on top of
each pole.
Pockerrell says that the main
construction will be of old auto
mobile bodies. "The less that has
been taken off them, the better,”
he said. He added that these will
be chained, or wired together with
steel cable, in clusters of four
before they are transported to the
reef area.
He ask that persons who have
materials of this kind, including old
boat hulls, contact H. A. Living
ston here in Southport. He says
that it has been found to be impr
actical to include old refriger
tators and washing machines in
materials for use in constructing
the reef.
Arrangements are being made
for transportation of construct
ing material to the site of the the
reef, those in charge feel that all
that remains now is a lot of
hard work and determination to
get the .job done.
The location of the proposed
Continued On Page 4
Bible Study In
Session Monday
Dr. Trotter Of Southeastern
Baptist Seminary Will
Teach Bible Course
The Southport Baptist Church
will hold its annual Bible Study
Emphasis next week, January
8-13.
The study this year will be the
Book of First Corinthians, and
Dr. Carroll Trotter, head of the
Department of Homelitics at the
Southeastern Baptist Seminary,
Wake Forest, will be the teacher.
Classes for all age groups will
be provided each evening at 7:30
o'clock, and a nursery will be pro
vided for the babies. There will
be no morning period at 10 o’clock
Tuesday through Friday.
The Rev. Mark Owen, pastor
of Southport Baptist Church','"ur- {
ges a good attendance dring this I
period of study.
Heart Troubles
Cause Deaths
Mrs. W. R. Jervis, educa
tional representative of the
Brunswick County Heart
Council, announces the 1959
statistics on deaths of this
county.
The source of information
is the Resident Death and
Births, North Carolina Board
of Health, Public Health Sta
tistics Section. They are list
ed as the six leaders of death
and are as follows:
Cardiouascular (heart dis
ease), 88; cancer, 11; in
fluenza and pneumonia, 7;
miscellaneous accidents, 6;
home and farm accidents, 3;
nephritis, 3; total 160.
Students Get
Practice Work
Practice Teaching Assign
ments Given To Two
Brunswick Students At
East Carolina
East Carolina College's stud
dent teaching program for the
winter quarter includes 233 sen
iors who are conducting classes
in more than thirty-three public
schools in Eastern North Carolina.
Eighty are doing work in the pri- ,
mary and grammar grades, 140 '
in high schools, and thirteen are i -
Continued On Page 2
Collection Of
Charity Funds
Held At Riegel
Brunswick County Organi
zations Will Share In Dis
tribution Of Money Col
lected
The employees of Riegel Paper
lorporation contributed a total
3f $12,577 in the recent charity
Irive conducted at the Carolina
Division in Riegelwood. These
lonations will be given to chan
ges in Southeastern North Caro
ina.
This money was pledged to be
leducted through a payroll de
letion plan, and will be dis- ,
ributed by a contributions com
nittee. This committee consists of
i representative from each of
our counties, a representative
Torn the company, and a repre
>entative from the union. Elected
:ommittee member for Columbus
bounty is Robert Carroll. Delray
3abson of Acme represents the
anion and R. H. Aranow of Rie
jelwood represents the company.
In last year’s campaign, which
resulted in a total of $12,313,
donations were distributed as fol
lows:
Columbus County, $7,107.00;
New Hanover county, 3,238.00;
Brunswick county, 1,042.00; Bla
den county, 718.00; Pender coun
ty, 78.00; Craven county, 130.00.
The contributions committee
will meet early in 1961 to decide
on the contributions to be made
in each county. Announcement
will be made at a future date of
the exact amounts contributed for
each county and of the charities
receiving this money.
Pine Seedlings
Now Available
4-H Club Boys And Girls In
vited To Take Advantage
Of Offer For Free Pine
^Seedlings This Year
i The N. C. ’ t>ulp Co. will give
free pine seedlings to 4-H and
PFA boys in Eastern North Caro
lina beginning January 1 and con
tinuing through the remainder of
the planting season, according to
an announcement made by E. K.
Pitman, Conservation Forester for
the Company. The area in which
seedlings will be available is the
general area in which the com
pany buys wood and extends from
the coast westward to and in
cluding Scotland, Moore, Mont
gomery, Chatham, Durham,
Franklin and Vance Counties.
The seedlings are given to the
toys to encourage them to start
planting idle land on their farms
and to impress upon them the
importance of proper care of all
forest land.
During the 1959-60 planting
reason N. C. Pulp Company gave
762,500 seedlings to 712 boys. 421
FFA boys and 291 4-H boys par
ticipated in the program.
Applications for seedlings should
be for either 500, 100, or the
maximum of 1500.
County agents and teachers of
vocational agriculture have in
formation as to how to secure ap
ilication blanks.
The Company purchases the
leedlings for distribution from the
Vorth Carolina State Forest Ser
vice nurseries and delivery is made
>y the nursery.
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In our issue of January 8, 1936, announcement was made of
the Supreme Court decision bringing an end to the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration. Announcement from the office of the
U. S. Army District Engineers in Wilmington reported that the
final link of the Interacoastal Waterway was nearing completion.
One pf the pioneer President’s Birthday Dances was scheduled
for the recreation hall at the CCC Camp; arrangements had been
made for the sale of automobile license plates here in Southport;
and Southport had been excited over the false report of the pres
ence in a local barber shop of one of the ten most wanted crimi
nals in the United States.
On the front page of The Pilot for January 8, 1941, there was
a full length picture of Mr. and Mrs. J. Melville Broughton, and
the caption announced plans for his inauguration on the following
Tuesday as chief erecutive of North Carolina. A landmark in the
Town Creek section had been lost when fire destroyed the Lind
sey Walker home. Bald Head Lighthouse was back in use, this
time as the location for radio signals.
An upstate visitor got bored while on a deer stand and climbed
a tree to gather some pine cones for his wife. He was interrup
ted in this harvest by the appearance of a big buck passing near
the base' of his tree. He tried to jump on top of the animal, but
missed. A few moments later, at the next stand, the hunter— |
who was not collecting pine cones'—used his gun and didn’t miss.
Then all the hunters pitched in to help their friend collect mater
Continued On Page 1
Pageant Entries
CONTESTANTS—Jackie Lewis, left, and Marion
Reynolds, right, are two of the three entries received
thus far in the Bolivia High School Beauty Pageant,
scheduled to be held on Saturday, January 21.
Sponsor’s Check
Mailed For Armory
Chairman
E. M. PEARSALL
Some Disabled
Workers Gain
Change In Social Security
Law Brings Financial Re
lief To Category Hereto
fore Ineligible
This month 104,3X8 disabled per
sons -workers under age 50 and
their dependents -received their
first monthly social security
checks, Williams L. Mitchell, Com
missioner of Social Security, an
nounced.
Thses are the first of an esti
mated 250,000 persons made eli
gible for payments under 1960
changes in the law. Commissioner
Mitchell pointed out that before
the recently enacted amendments
to the social security law, disabled
workers and their dependents
were not eligible for cash disab
ility benefits while the workers
was under age 50.
Now these disabled workers and
their depentents have the same
kind of income protection that
is provided for retired workers.
Under the provisions of the
law before the 1960 social security
amendments, the younger disabled
worker could apply to have his
social security record frozen so
that the years when he was un
able to work because of his dis
ablity would not be counted
against him in figuring any future
benefits payable to him and his
family.
About 100,000 disabled workers
under 50 years of age had ap
plied to have their social securty
records frozen under the old law.
One such disabled worker, Homer
Phillips, 20, Johnstown, Pennsy
lvania, this week received his
first monthly disability bcnefjt
check of $77. A polio victim at 19,
Phillips is the youngest disabled
worker in the country to profit
from this new protection. His
Monthly benefit is based on his
earning from part-time work
ifter school and on Saturdays and
later from full-time employment
n a lumber mill and bowling
dley. At the present time he is
so severly paralyzed that he is
enable to work. He is currently
learning a trade and receiving
physical therapy through the Pen- {
lsylvania Vocational Rehabilitat
on Agency. (The social security
aw requires that all applicants j
Continued On Page 4
^Contractor Alrecidy Moving
Equipment To Site In Pre
paration To Beginning
Construction Immediately
A check for the sponsor’s share
1 of the cost of construction of a
I National Guard Armory at Shall
otte was mailed Tuesday, and
the official word to proceed with
the project is expected to be re
i ceived this week.
Total cost of the project will
be $153,026.78, and the local con
tribution totals $24,695.82. This
j is addition to the site, which
I is a 5-acre tract on U. S. High
way that was donated by Dr.
M. H. Rourk; and a lot of labor
that has gone into grading and
filling the site of the building.
The Glazier Company of Wilm
ington was the low bidder on the
general contra gt and these people
already are moving in machinery
and material in preparation of co
nstruction activity.
The biggest boost in the matter
of local funds has come first from
the Town of Shallotte, whose
councilmen voted to contribute
$5,000 to the project; later when
the board of commissioners voted
to make a contribution of $5,000
now, with a similar amount to be
contributed this fall; and last
week when the board of directors
for the Brunswick Rural Electric
Membership Corporation voted
to contributed $3,000 toward the
costs of the project.
E. M. Pearsall has headed
the committee in charge of funds
raising for this project and has
remained tireless in his efforts
to put the project over. The dif
ference between these major con
trinutions and the amount needed
has come in the form of many
smaller donations, and Pearsall
has most of these contacts.
Some of the best contributions
have come from National Guard •
piembers themselves, and others
who could not make cash have
given time and labor on the fill
ing and hauling project, with local
Continued On Page 2
Royal Oak Club
Has Anniversary
Good Progress Reported As
Result Of First Year’3
Activity For This Organi
zation
The Royal Oak Community Im
provement club elimaxteci its
years activities with a program
and exhibit held at the Ceder
Grove School December 19,. The
club was organized 1959, under
the guidance of P. E. Dubar and
Mrs. E. G. Sowells.
The major areas of improve
ment are increasing income, com
munity projects, youth, and home
improvement.
Dubar spoke from the subject.
“The meaning of a Comunity
Club.” Jonathan Hankins, pricial
of Union High School, noted the
progress and future possibilitis of
the club, and praised the club’s
exhibit.
Dinner was prepared by mem
bers, assisted by Mrs. E. G. Sow- j
ells, home econmics teacher.
Gaston Burney, president, stated
that the progress made has only
pointed to the big job that lies
ahead. “We must work more
diligently for the improvement of i
our community,” he said.
More than $200. from the
Christmas Saving Club was issued
Continued On Page 2
First Entries
Coming In For
Beauty Pageant
Bolivia Will Be First To
Hold Local Competition,
With Event Set For Sat
urday, January 21
Plans are progressing accord
ing to schedule for the Brunswick
I County Beauty Pageant, which
I will be held in March under the
auspicies of the Shallotte Juunior
Chamber of Commerce.
Contestants for this event
will be furnished from five pre
liminary contests to be held at the
local schools. The first of these
will be held on Saturday, January
21, at Bolivia.
This far there have been only
there entries for the pageant at
Bolivia. These contestants include:
Delores Hufham. daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hufham. She is
a former member of the Bolivia
girls basketball squad and was
a conesteant in the 1960 Daily
Priness Contest. She is a mem
ber of Bolivia Baptist Church.
A second contestant is Juanna
Jacqueline (Jackiej Lewis, the 18
year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
J. N. Lewis of Winnabow. She
lives on a dairy farm with her
four sisters and one brother.
Jackie loves all kinds of sports
and has played basketball for
the past four years. She was co
captain of the girls squad at
Bolivia High School for the past
three years.
I Among ner extracurricular act
ivities are Mongram Club, Future
Homemakers of America Club,
Science Club, Glee Club, Library
Club and 4-H club. She is a Beta
Club member and is treasurer of
the local chapter and is typist on
the annual staff.
S n e represented Brunswick
County 4-H Clubs in the Dairy
Princess Contest last year and
was Homecoming Queen at Bol
ivia last fall. She is a member
of the New Hope Presbyterian
Church at Winnabow.
Marion Reynolds, a senior of
Bolivia High School, is the 18
year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
M. B. Reynioltis of Winnabow. SMi
is president of her class; treat
surser of the Future Homemakers
of America Club and the Science
Club; and secretary of Brunswick
County subdistrict Methodist You
th Fellowship. Also, Marion is a
member of the 4-H Club, Mono
gram Club, Bus Drivers Club, Lib
rary Club and Glee Club. This
Continued On Page 2
Overweight Is
Threat To Heart
Heart Association Officials
Urge That Consideration
Be Given To Keeping
Weight Down
Pointing out that overweight
overworks the heart, the Bruns
wick County Heart Council this
week urged the public to adopt
the following New Year’s resolu
tion:
“Resolved, that during 1961 X
will do everything within my
power to keep my weight at a
reasonably normal level to safe
guard my heart and my health.”
“What is reasonably normal
weight for an individual is a mat
ter for him and his physician to
determine,” according to A. H.
Gainey, Jr. Chairman of the Heart
Council. “But it seems to be
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Tide Table
Following Is the tine table
for Southport during the next
week. These hours are ap
proximately correct and were
furnished The State Port Pilot
through the courtesy o 1 the
Cape Fear Pilot’s Association.
High Tide fiw Tl*
Thursday, January 5
9:42 a. m. 3:48 a. m.
10:02 p. m. 4:23 p. m.
Friday, January 6
10:16 a. m. 4:27 a. m.
10:41 p. m. 4:59 p. m.
Saturday, January 7
11:52 a .m. 5:08 a. m.
11:23 p. m. 5:38 p. m.
Sunday, January 8
11:35 a. m. 5:54 a. m.
0:00 p. m. 5:21 p. m.
Monday, January !
0:13 a. m. 6:47
12:25 p. m. 7:12
Tuesday, January 1
1:10 a. m. 7:49
1:23 p. m. 8:0S
Wednesday, January
2:13 a. m. 8:55
2:25 p. m. 9:10