Most of the News! All The Time ' THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community The Pilot Covers Brunswick County Volume No. 21 No. 31 10-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1961 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Organize Class In Boat Building For Waccamaw This Will Be Part Of Adult Training Program Under Trades And Industries Division Twenty-six interested citizens of the Waccamaw School District at tended a meeting held at the Waccamaw school cafeteria, Wed nesday night. Where plans were completed for the first adult boat building class to be held in Brunswick County. Major H. J. McGee, of the De partment of Trades and Industries State Department of Education., C. Y. Coleman, Chairman, Bruns wick County Board of Education,! Superintendent J. G. Long and Principal R. O. Singletary were present to help work out details for putting the calss in operation. Floyd King will be the Instructor, and the class w'ill meet each Fri day for three hours, and a total of SO hours will complete the! first course. At the Wednesday meeting, a local advisory craft committe was chosen including J. F. Little, Sin gletary and Coleman. Those not present at the first meeting who wish to enroll should contact Instructor King or j a member of the advisory com mittee. This course is the second of its kind in North Carolina, as a simi lar course is now being taught in Morehead City. King and mem bers of the local advisory com mittee will travel to Morehead, this week to observe the class in operation there and to dis cuss local plans with the Instruc tor. This adult training is made pos sible through the Brunswick Coun ty Board of Education, by the De partment of Trades and industries. Vocational Education, North Caro lina State Department of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Briaf Mitt Qf lnewsj FLORIDA TRIP Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hickman spent, last weekend in Jackson ville, Fla., visiting Mr. and Mrs. Randy Grant. BOLIVIA BOOSTERS The Bolivia Boosters Club will meet Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock at the high school. Busin ess of unusual interest is due to come up at this meeting. UNDERGOES OPERATION John R. Swain, Southport plum ber, has undergone two operations at Veteran’s Hospital in Durham. He was visited over the weekend by his wife and by Mr. and Mrs. John G. Swain and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Swain. AMERICAN LEGION Southport Post No. 194-Ameri can Legion, will meet Monday night at 7:30 o'clock in the legion room at City Hall. A discussion of plans for a Legion building will take place. BENEFIT CAR WASH A car wash will be held Sat urday, February 4, from 9:30 to 5:30 p. m. at Vereens’ Ser vice Station. It is sponsored by the Christian Youth Fellowship of Southport, with all procede going to the organization. BENEFIT SUI'PER There will be a baked ham and baked bean supper served in the Henry C. Stone Cafeteria at the Shallotte School on Friday evening, February 3, from 5 until 8 p. m. This is being sponsored by the Parent-Teachers Associa tion of the Shallotte School. PRE-MEASUREMENT Ralph Price, ASC office man ager, reports that Brunswick county farmers have been unusu ally slow to sign up for pre measurement service this year. Through Monday only 38 requests had been received, not with stand ing the fact that it is anticipated that there will be from 200-250 requests. Training already has be gun for the men who will do this work. ROADBLOCK The Shallotte Jacees under the i direction of their president, J. T. I Clemmons, held a roadblock in i Shallotte Sunday for benefit of! New March of Dimes. They col lected $35.74. Those taking part were: R. C. Arnold. Harry White, Bill Gurganous, Rooney Cheers, Sam Inman, Dukes Hcwett, David Gause, Kenneth White, J. T. j Clemmons, L. B. Cheers. For Capt. Adams— Receives Army Award Capt. Charles M. Ad ams is on duty in Haw aii where he and his wife and two children, Bucky and Christy, have been living for the past 18 months, and last week came word of a recent honor received by this young West Point grad uate who married Marion Frink, a Southport girl. Capt. Adams, Assist ant S-3, 21st Inft. Gim lets, received the eighth Gen. I. D. White Award during a Battle Group review at Gimlet Field. This award is the highest honor a company grade officer can win in the Pacific Command and is a quarterly presentation. Capt. Adams received the silver tray engraved with the USARPAC em blem from Gen. White, CinC USARPAC, for his performance of duty as Commanding Officer, Co. C from September 1959 through September 1960. With the award is a certificate of achieve | ment praising Capt. Ad ! ams for his professional | ism, devotion to duty i and outstanding leader | ship while in command j of Co. C. During Capt. Adams’ i tenure the unit received Superior ratings in all field training tests and all major inspections. Capt. Adams served with the 187th Airborne RCT during the Korean Conflict. Prior to his ar rival in Hawaii in Aug ust, 1969, he had served as asso ciate professor, of English at the United States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y. Mrs. Adams is a native of Southport and her parents still live here. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina and prior to her marriage was a news paper reporter. She also worked for a time in the Washington office of the late Congressman P. Ertel Carlyle. Savings & Loan Has Favorable Report Figures Reported By Presi-* dent H. T. St, George At Annual Meeting Friday Reveals Growth Of 15 Percent Despite a general levelling off in business in 1960 Southport Sav ings and Loan Association had an excellent year, with assets in creasing to $2,567,174.27, or 15 per cent above the figure of 1959, H. T. St. George, President, j reported this week. Writing in that institution’s an I nual report, Mr. St. George said j j the year was marked by record j gains in saving and savers, with! many individuals and families i stepping up their savings pro- j grams, “in part because of cau-1 tion, but also because they have developed systematic savings hab-. its.’’ The high savings level, coupled with ever-increasing repayments on outstanding mortgages, helps to make available home mortgage money for home buyers in 1961, he said. He listed highlights of South port Savings and Loan Associat ion’s 1960 operation as follows: Net savings increased by $249, 540.82, or 13 per cent, boosting total savings capital to $2,172, 307.15 at year’s end. Savers increased by 231, and total savings account holders now stand at 1313. Dividend payments to savers j totaled $77,600.31, an all-time high. The dollar value of the home mortgage loan portfolio increased to $2,180,428.05 at year’s end. Looking ahead, St. George sug gested that the recent slowdown j in business probably contains in itself the “seeds of its own recov ery.” He listed as “plus factors’’ a continued high level of sales ! and production, employment, and personal income. Indicating that housing may be one of the bright spots in the economy, he forecast the building of between 1.2 and 1.3 millian i new homes in 1961. He predicted that with building going on at such a rapid pace, particularly at Shallotte and in the beach areas of Brunswick county, the demand for loans will be greater this year than ever before. This repoi't was made at a meeting of stockholders last Fri day, at which time St. George Continued From Page 1 fc President H. T. ST. GEORGE Superior Court Session Ends Number Of Cases Disposed Of During Three - Day Session Presided Over By Judge Heman Clark The January term of Brunswick county Superior court adjourned VVednesdaywith the following' cases being disposed of before Judge Heman Clark of Fayetteville: A. J. Servis, guilty of embezzle ment, judgement suspendend upon payment of costs. Prim Ray, Jr., breaking and entering, but not a felony, guilty and 14 months on the roads. Carl Reeves pleaded guilty to assault with a deadly weapon and was given 18 months, suspended upon payment of $140 to Dosher Memorial Haspital for the bene fit of the prosecuting witness, payment of costs and 3 years good behavior. Prayer for judgement was con tinued in the case charging Art hur Evans with assault upon a female. A motion for non-suit was granted in the case charging Mat Continued On Page 4 “Trash Fishing” Important Topic For Discussion State Conservation And De velopment Officials Con fer With Attorney Gen eral’s Office On Matter State Conservation and Develop ment officials met with an assist ant Attorney General Monday to discuss ways of regulating “trash fishing” in North Carolina's coast waters. C&D Director Hargrove Bowles said the problem facing his de 1 partment is to come up with a regulation that will penalize only those fishermen who willfully de stroy undersized fish. “Commercial shrimpers acci dentally catch a certain amount of trash fish in their nets,” said Bowles. “They can|t help it ar.d we don’t want a regulation that would keep them from earning their living.” Continued On Page 4 Jury Fails To Find Cause For Frink True Bill Grand Jury Makes Report To Judge Heman Clark After Being In Session Two Days Last Week Members of the Brunswick! county grand jury which was sworn in last week to serve for the next 12 months, reported to I Judge Heman Clark that they ! were unable to find probable cause for a true bill of indictment against Malcolm Frink in the traffic death of two children here last fall. The jury reported that a re quest to make an investigation into the case had come from Mr. and Mrs. Jake Stidman, parents of one of the deceased children. Mrs. Stidman, Robert Poindexter and and Steve Cooker were ques tioned before the decision was reached not to find a true bill. The jury examined 23 bills, found 20 ture bills and 3 non-true bill3. The jury examined the report of the following justices of the peace with the following returns: E. O. Rabon, Winnabow, $74; Mayor R. W. Cheers, Shallotte, $26; E. F. Gore, Southport, $30; Paul Brown, Leland, $4; Lela Osborne, Shallotte, $16; D. A. Long, Le land, $12. Gene H. Russ is foreman of the grand jury and Kenneth Hewett is secretary. Funeral Monday For Mrs. O’Brien Wife Of Cashier Of Wacca maw Bank & Trust Co. Died Sunday Morning Following Stroke Mrs. Ida May O'Brien, 64, wife of Prince O'Brien, Sr., died Sun day morning at 7 o'clock in the J. Arthur Dosher Memorial Hos pitai here. She had been in declining health for the past few years and her condition became critical a few days ago. She was born in Duplin county on April 25, 1896, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Richard Andrew Matthews. She was educa ted in the public schools and was graduted from the James Sprunt Institute in Kenansville. She taught school for several years before her marriage to Mr. O'Brien. Afterwards she lived in Ellerbe, Charlotte and Fairmont and came to Southport, where her husband is cashier of the Waccamaw Bank and Trust company, about 22 years ago. She was a member of Trinity Methodist church and had been active in women’s club work un til a few yers ago. Surviving are her husband; two sons. Frank Prince O’Brien, Jr., and Eugene M. O’Brien, of Wil mington; one daughter, Mrs. Libby Keith, of Suothport; one brother, Col. Jackson Matthews, of New York City, and five grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock at Thriity Methodist church here. Continued On Page 4 mmm ^ s- ' TIME and TIDE The big news in The Pilot for February 5, 1936, was that Jesse C. Walker, the man who escaped from prison after being convic ted of the murder of Brunswick County Sheriff Jackson Stan land had been recaptured at Gulfport, Miss., where he had been living a model life for many years. S. K. Milliken had been nam ed to succeed Brooks Benton, who had died the week before, as member of the board of county commissioners. B. J. Holden was clerk of court and made the appointment. Southport had had a sample of ice and snow with the deepest snow since 1917; Bill Wells was in Charlotte, where there had been a big snow, so he bought a tub and brought some back to Southport to show the folks; And an upstate fox hunting party had had good luck on a hunt in this vicinity. Our front page picture for February 5, 1941, showed the Sim mons brothers. Johnnie and Rothwell, getting in shape for the forthcoming Wilmington Golden Gloves boxing tournament. Navy PT boats had tied up overnight at the government dock on their way South. A National Youth Association project had begun in Brunswick with the object of providing employment and training for young ladies. A summary of the weather for January brought on the head line “January Brought On Winter Weather”; preparations were being made for the county-wide Recitation-Declamation contest at Bolivia; and new and colorful Orton folders were being dis tributed. ! — - , Time had marched on, to the date of January 30, 1946, to be 1 exact. The political pot had begun to boil, with familiar names 1 Continued On Fage 4 Turns On Water WATERWORKS—Mayor Roy Robinson, right, is shown here as he turns the valve to start the flow ox water from the new municipal water tank into the water mains supplying the City of Southport. On the left and observing this operation is Alderman Crawford Rourk. Southport Citizens Using New Tank Cancer Society Sponsors Clinics Officials of the American Cancer Society wish to re mind the public of the Cancer Detection Diagnostic Center, open each Tuesday morning at James Walker Memorial Hospital, Wilming ton, under the supervision of the New Hanover County So ciety. Examinations are free to all North Carolinians; (child ren by doctor’s certificate). Persons are urged to avail themselves af the opportunuty for early detection and dia gnosis of cancer by calling for appointment Phone R 2 4277 or write P. O. Box 1382, Wilmington. Leafets will be mailed on request. Southport Man Dies Suddenly Capt. Harry Lehew Died Monday Afternoon While Making Application For Renewal Of Driving Li cense Capt. Harry Gordon Lehew, 65, died here at the license examiner’s office as he was applying for a renewal of his driver’s license, Monday afternoon. Death came from a heart at tack. He had been in declining health for several years. He was a former captain in the U. S. Corps of Engineers and had been in retirement at Southport for the past 12 years. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary Virginia Lehew of the home; a son, Harry Gordon Lehew Jr. of Hollywood, S. C.; and a sis ter, Mrs. Norman Sheppard, Jack sonville, Fla, Final rites were held Wednes day at 3 p. m. at Southport Meth odist Church by the Rev. Law rence Bridges, with burial in Nor thwood Cemetery. Active pallbearers were Harold St. George, Kenneth Stiller, W. J. Dosher, W. R. Jenkins, Dan Har relson and Watters Thompson. Honorary Pallbearers were Alex Lind, W. S. Davis, Capt. Ike Dav Continued On Page 4 :Water Supply Now Coming From A 150,000 Gallon Capacity Tank Erected At Cost Of $45,000 Residents of Southport now are using water from the new 150,000 gallon tank which was erected before Christmas. This was an improvement made possible by a special vote of the people earlier last year in which they authorized the sale of $40, 000 worth of water bonds with which to finance the project. This action was taken after engineers had examined the old tank and had determined that the cost of putting it in a good state of re pair would be prohibitive. The tank was purchased from and was erected by R. D. Cole Co. of Newman, Ga. The work of putting up the structure was com pleted in a period of about 6 weeks and the change over from the old tank to the new was ac complished with only one brief interruption in service. The entire cost of the pro ject came to $45,000, but a con siderable savings was made when the concrete footings were put in by the city employees and with certain other non- technical parts of the operation being performed by these workmen. The Cole company has the re sponsibility of dismanteling the old tank, and this they will do as soon as the weather1 permits. They will have custody of the material in that structure. Father Of Local Citizen Honored W. T. Horne Of Whiteville Receives Award For 40 Years Service On Railroad Job W. T. Horne of Whiteville was awarded the forty-year service pin in the Atlantic Coast Line office in Chadbourn last Saturday morn ing and also received a certifi caate. The award was presented by the Supenintendent of the Wilming ton and Richmond, Va., Division, i with headquarters in Rocky Mount, and was pinned on the la-; pel of his coat by his wife. She! is the former Lena Avant, daugh ter of the late Rev. Dadus Avant of Cerragorda. Also present were two grand-children, Tommie and Continued Gu Fage 4 Hilda King Wins Miss Waccamaw Title Saturday Phoebe Russ Is First Run ner-Up In Pageant Con ducted As Preliminary To Miss Brunswick County Contest Hilda King will represent the 1 Waccamaw school district in the Miss Brunswick County pageant to be hold in Shallotte on March 11. Miss King, 19-year-old daughter of Mrs. Smith E. King and the late Elroy King, won the Miss ; Waccamaw contest held at Wac camaw High School auditorium Saturday evening, over a field of five contestants. The tall, brown-eyed brunette wore a white, floor-length even ing dress and biac