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THE STATE PORT PILOT
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Brunswick County
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Volume No. 21
No. 34
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SOUTHPORT, N. C.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1961
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PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Presented Medalion
EXCHANGE—Sondra Powell, Southport girl who is now making her home in
Juneau, Alaska, with the James T. Sanders family, is shown here with Governor Wil
liam A. Egan as they compare their Statehood Commemorative Medals which each
presented to the other.
Southport Girl |
Receives Gift
From Governor
However, The Donor Is
Governor William A. Eg
an Of Alaska, Where
Sandra Powell Is Now
Living
A former Southport girl, Sondra
Powell, recently figured in an ex
change of Statehood Commemora
tive Medals with Governor Wil
liam A. Egan in Juneau, Alaska, ]
where she now is making her
home.
The pretty North Carolina na
tive made her presentation to the
governor on behalf of the Juneau
Junior Chamber of Commerce,
and his excellency was not one
to fail to show his appreciation.
A few days after Sondra pre
sented the medallion to the Gov
ernor she met him at a dance
given in honor of the new Na
tional Guard Armory. He asked
Sondra If she herself had one of
the medallions and when she told
Continued On Page 4
Brief BUt Of
'-NEWS-'
OFFICE CLOSED
The office of the Drivers Li
cense Examiner at Bolivia will
not be open on Friday of this
week.
BAKE SALE
On Saturday at 10 a. m. at the
Amoco station on the corner there
will be a bake sale sponsored by
the sopohomore class.
ATTENDS SCHOOL
W. G. Frink Shallotte Western
Auto dealer, has returned home
after attending a two day appli
ance school at the Holiday Inn,
Greensboro.
BAKE SALE SATURDAY
The Women of WSCS Methodist
Church will have a bake sale on
Saturday at 9:30 o’clock between
the post office and Leggett's
Store.
SMORGASBORD SUPPER
The Ocean View Methodist
Church is sponsoring a smorgas
bord supper on Friday night, from
5 until 7:30 o’clock. It will be held
in the recreation rooms of the
church.
OYSTER ROAST
An oyster roast wall be held at
Norman Bellamy’s Shrimp House
at Holden’s Beach Saturdaj' night
from 5 until 9 p. m. and is being
sponsored by the Sabbath Home
Baptist church with proceeds go
ing into the building fund for a
new church.
Battleship Site
Still Undecided
Brunswick County Seems To5
Be In Running With One
Of The Locations Offered
Friday
Southport was represented at
the hearing held in Wilmington
Friday morning by the N. C. Bat
tleship Advisory Committee and
offered two sites for consideration
as the permanent berth and his
toric shrine for the famous battle
ship which bears the name of this
State.
Speaking for the local delega
tion was Eugene B. Tomlinson,
Jr., plant engineer at Sunny Point
and himself a graduate of the
United States Naval Academy. He
offered the choice of a site east
of Southport at Price Creek or a
location west of the city at Cot
tage Creek. Because of the dredg
ing cost involved, members of the
committee appeared to be more
interested in the former site.
Also appearing before the com
mittee were representatives from
Carolina Beach, the Morehead
City-Beaufort area and Wilming
ton. The latter city had five sites
to offer, with their No. 1 location
opposite the Customshouse in Wil
mington attracting the greatest
interest from the committee and
drawing the principal support
from the Wilmington delegation.
Ed Rankin, chairman of the site
committee, a group within the
committee as a whole, stated that
Continued On Page 2
Leland Firemen
Sponsor Program
Television Stars Will Ap
pear Friday Night For
Benefit Of Volunteer Fire
Department
Leland High School will be the
scene of an old time get together
this coming Friday night when
the Leland Volunteer Fire De
partment is sponsoring the Rhy
thm Range Riders composed of
Bob Hix, Freddie Hickman, Vic
tor Cox, Leslie Aman, Tex Lan
caster and ‘‘Hayseed’'.
This is the group that was
featured on TV “Over at Al’s’’ for
j so long. Also present will be the
Gospel Group, “The Silver Star
Quartet”.
All the members of this group
are Brunswick County boys ex
cept one. The quartet is composed
of Garland Bordeaux, Wilton
Lynch, Floyd Sellers and Jiggs
Skipper.
The Volunteer Firemen think
this will be for a mighty gooc
j cause, as the members are work
| ing hard to have a first class
volunteer fire department,
j The show will begin at 8 o’clock
i and there will be a door prize.
Memorial Books
Given Library
The Southport Public Library
has recently been the recipient
of memorial books in memory of
Mrs. Ida May O'Brien, donated by
Mr. and Mrs. James T. Barnes,
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Parker, Mr.
and Mrs. A. D. Harrelson and
Mr. and Mrs. Philip King. Mrs.
O'Brien was the wife of Prince
O’Brien, popular cashier of the
Southport branch of the Waeca
maw Bank and Trust Co.
Another substantial gift is a
subscription to the Raleigh News
and Observer given by Captain
James B. Church. This subscrip
tion has already started coming
in, and the newspapers will be
come a permanent part of the li
brary files.
Girl Scouts In
First Meeting
Both The Brownie Troops
And Girl Scouts Hold
First Sessions Under New
Organization
First meeting's of Brownie and
Girl Scout Troops were held in
the recreation hall of Trinity
Methodist Church this week.
Brownie Scouts enrolled were
Debra Arntsen, Jinny Lee Aus
tin, Cornelia Bowman, Troy Dav
enport, Jeanne Donnell, Clare
Margaret Glore, Hose Marie Greg
ory, Jenny King, Sara Pigott,
Marie Ryne, Jo-Ellen Smith, Ann
Southerland, Jean Styron, Patti
Gail Swan, Helen Walker, Sarah
Barnes, Jean Burdette, Sandy
Donnell, Helen Faulk, Rachel Ann
Harrelson, Linda McGowan, Vicky
Smith, Betty Strong, Margaret
| Toler and Sallie Tomlinson.
! These groups fill the quota for
the two present Patrol leaders. If
other girls desire to become
Brownies, their names will be
placed on a waiting list. When
l there are ten or more names on
| the waiting list, efforts will be
made to secure an additional Pa
■ trol Leader, probably from the
ranks of the mothers of prospec
tive Brownies.
Girl Scouts enrolled at their
I first meeting were: Sherry Thom
i as, Harriet Simmons, Susan Bell
i amy, Joyce Ward, Harriet St.
George, Carolyn Styron, Frances
Jorgenson, Marilyn Aldridge, Patti
j Key, Scarlette Price, Susan Har
i relson, Greta Jorgenson, Jo Ann
j Gregory, Leonne Arntsen, Lynn
| Ruark, Cora Pigott, Jeanne
Brown, Lorry Smith and Kyra
■ Parker.
Fifty Million Is
Made Available
In Farm Loans
Farmers Home Administra
tion Office At Shallotte
Now In Position To Help
With Loan
An additional $50 million has
been made available to the
Farmers Home Administration for
farm housing loans, T. D. An
derson, the agency’s county super
visor announced today.
He said that the now loan
funds assure an adequate sup
ply of this type of credit for
eligible farm families during the
balance of the fiscal year. Loans
made so far this year plus those
being processed had practically
exhausted the funds previously
available.
Farm housing loans are made
throughout the rural areas of
the United States. The loans pro
vide farm families with an op
portunity to acquire an adequate
house and efficient service build
ings.
Applications for farm housing
loans may be made at the local
office of the Farmers Home Ad
ministration. The office serving
Columbus county is located in
the agricultural building on West
Smith street.
The loans bear four percent in
terest and are repayable over
periods up to 33 years.
The major demand in Columbus
county for loans is to construct
and modernize farm houses.
uc ciigiuie a larmer must
produce for sale or home use at
h ast $400 worth of commodities
based on 1944 prices and be of
sufficient value to adequately se
cure the loan. In addition, he
must lack the resources needed
to obtain credit elsewhere and
own a farm that will annually
have sufficient income to pay
farm operating and family living
expenses and meet payments
when due on his debts.
Letter Brings
News Of Family
Southport Family Now Liv
ing In Juneau And Enjoy
ing Mild Winter In North
ern Clime
A letter this week from the
James T. Sanders family in
Juneau, Alaska, not only brought
word of Sandra Powell, but of
the Sanders family as well.
All are - former Southport resi
dents. Sanders is a retired Coast
Guardsman and his wife is a for
mer member of the Southport
High School facult yand a for
mer president of the Southport
Woman’s Club.
Excerpts from their letter fol
low:
“We have had a very mild win
ter so far and the boys have not
been able to get in much ice
skating, but everyone is proud of
our temperatures being above that
of the Southern States during the
past several weeks.
“A group of Japanese scientist^
spent several weeks here last sum#
mer studying Mendenhall Glacier!
and they shipped tons of the ic|
back to Japan by refrigerat efl
ship for further study. Their pre
diction is that next winter will ®i:
the
beginning of the return of tl.
(Continued On Page 2) '
I
Steel Goes Up
CONSTRUCTION Steel girders for the roof of the Shallotte Armory were go
ing up when this picture was taken several days ago. Although bad weather for the
past few days have hampered construction operations, good progress is being made.
Schedule Seminar
On Defense Data
Southport Tour
Being Planned
The Woodbine Garden Club
of Southport is organizing a
Home and Garden Tour to
coincide with the Azalea Fes
tival April 6-9. The club has
tentative plans for making
this tour an annual event.
inasmuch as the^are wtfh
its environs many homes "ol
histor c interest and beauty,
it is hoped that this project
will be received enthusiastical
ly
Members of the committee
plan to announce a definite
schedule for this tour in the
State Port Pilot of March 1.
Regulations For
Hospital Care
Veterans Eligible Under
Certain Conditions For
Private Hospital Care
Says Service Officer
Cost of emerbecy treatment of
veterans in private hospitals may
be paid by the Veterans Administ
ration only if the medical care
was for service-connected cond
ition, Crawford Rourk, Brunswick
County Veterans Service officer
stated this week.
Rourk said the medical emer
gency must have been such that
an attempt to secure admission
to VA Hospital would have been
hazardous to the veteran.
The VA may assume full med
cal respondaibility in such cases
mly if the emergency treatment
s reported to the nearer VA
dospital or Regional Office with
Continued On Page 2
TIME And TIDE
The Pilot for February
occurred the week before,
small boat in which they
to a ship anchored in th
Southport man. Another
had been the arrival of
afternoon.
A light snow had falle,
Friday; Southport was t
Basketball Tournament:
to the steel rail on the
spite upon the onconiir
to amputate his paw.
1936, reported a tragedy that had
our men had been drowned when the
N traveling from a waterfront dock
Inver capsized. One was Bill Creech,
(inusual occurance on the waterfront
old French minesweeper on Sunday
in Brunswick county on the previous
be the scene of the Brunswick County
d a skunk whose foot had been frozen
&S. railroad track had taken out his
locomotive as it bore down upon him
An editorial in a Ch
development of milith]
that made headlines 1
hunters were disturb
ite sport limited to tl
son by virtue of a
Bolivia boys and
favorites in the Bru
was being held that
late George R. Foil!]
Whitevilie automob
50 used cars.
Coi
leston, S. C„ newspaper had urged the
'defense installations at Southport, and
pie Pilot for February 26, 3941. Quail
ber the prospects of having their favor
days per week during the coming sea
>efore the Legislature,
camaw girls had been established as
|ck County Basketball Tournament which
* in the Shallotte high school gym; the
Jr., had moved from Winnabow; and a
taler was making a frantic appeal for
led Ob Page 4
* Wilmington Will Be Scene
Of Two-Weeks Program
Officially Designated Na
tional Defense Seminar
A seminar to provide the citi
zens of Eastern North and South
Carolina with the latest informa
tion on the nation’s position of
security readiness will be held
here May 8-19 at the Roland
Grise Junior High School audito
rium.
The two-weeks program, known
officially as the National Security
V*rin Vio nnn of O SPY*! PS
of 14 such meetings to be held in
key cities of the nation during
the ensuing year.
Announcement that the seminar
would be conducted in Wilming
ton this year was made today
(Wednesday) by Commander John
Van B. Metts, Jr., General Chair
man.
“We have been working on this
for over six years”, Metts ob
served, “and we are happy to be
host to such an able gathering.”
He said the seminar is based on
the 10-months resident course of
the Industrial College of the Arm
ed Forces in Washington. It is
designed to insure a wider and a
more thorough understanding of
how civilian and military efforts
are to be coordinated in periods
of national stress under all con
ditions.
^The visiting faculty will consist
of eight speakers selected by the
Industrial College and represent
ing the Army, Navy and Air
Force.
Over 150 military personnel and
an estimated 500 to 600 leading
citizens in economic, cultural and
spiritual fields are expected here
to participate in the discussions.
Metts pointed out that the meet
ings are open to both men and
women and, he emphasized,
thinking people and particularly
those responsible for shaping
young minds will find the dis
cussions highly beneficial.”
Assisting the general chairman
in developing the program are:
George Alper and Kenneth Sprunt,
businessmen, R. H. Tate, banker!
and A. E. Jones, power company
executive. Alper will head the Ar
Continued On Page 2
Heart Disease
Leads Killers
A. H. Gainey, Jr., Chairman
Of Brunswick County j
Heart Council, Gives Lat
est Stastics
Disease of the heart and blood i
vessels cause more deaths in i
Brunswick County than any other i
disease, according to A. H. Gainey,
Jr. Chairman of the Brunswick
County Heart Council.
Quoung latest statistics from
the North Carolina State Board :
of Health, he listed the five lead- i
ing killers of this county for the i
period July, Aug., Sept. 1960 as: i
Heart and blood vessel disease, 22; ;
cancer, 4; accidents, 2; miscel- '
laneous, 2. ,
For the state as a whole, heart 1
and blood vessels diseases ac- <
count for 52.2 percent of all
deaths, with cancer second, acci- i 1
dents third. Nationally, heart j 1
diseases causes 54 percent of all i
deaths. 1
Sewing Contest
Being Sponsored
By Woman’s Club
Local Contest Will Be Judg
ed Next Wednesday Af
ternoon, With Winner In
District Contest
All members of the Southport
Woman’s Club who have entered
the Vogue Fashion Sewing Con
test are requested to have all
finished garments at the home of
Mrs. Grace Ruark by 2 o’clock on
Wednesday afternoon so that the
judges may inspect them and
grade them according to work
manship prior to the 3:30 meet
ing.
Information must be given to
Mrs. James Harper, chairman of
the program, on Monday so that
she may prepare descriptions for
the show. This information should
include the pattern number, cost
of the costume, description of the
material, and some details con
cerning the occasions when it may
be worn. If it is suitable for sev
eral different occasions with a
change of accessories, these facts
should be given.
Out of town judges will judge
the costumes which will be model
ed at the meeting by those who
made them. The winner of the lo
cal contest will be entered in the
District contest which will be held
in Faison on March 17. The Dis
trict winner will be entered in
the state contest. The state win
ner will compete with winners
from each of the states. The na
tional winner will be given a trip
to General Federation Convention
in Miami and a two weeks trip
to Europe as her prize.
This is the first time the South
port club has competed in this
contest, and it is understood that
there are around 10 contestants in
the local contest.
Priority Given
For Lock Trips
Traffic Between Wilming
ton And Fayetteville Ad
vised Of Regulations Gov- ,
erning Use
Boat pilots and other people
who ply the Cape Fear River
between Wilmington and Fayette
ville are advised that passage
through the locks is subject to
certain priorities which locktend
ers are bound to enforce.
A notice from the Jackson
ville- District office of the Corps
of Engineers says the locktend-1
er on duty is not only res-!
ponsible for the govenment pro
perty involved but also for the
actions of users of the locks and,
therefore, it is mandatory that his
instructions be obeyed.
Witn respect to what boats and
the like may be privileged to
"go first,” the notice points out
that if, for example, a govern
ment boat and a commercial
craft arrive at the lock at the
same time, the government boat
is privileged to pass through first
and the commercial craft next.
This situation may vary be
cause the pilot of the govern
ment may yield to the commer
cial boat if he wishes.
Concerning pleasure craft, this
type of traffic is, as a rule, re
legated to third place in the nor
mal boating activities. Pleasure
^Continued On Page 2)
Cheryl Rogers Is
Winner In Local
Beauty Pageant
Southport High School Sen
ior Completes List Of
Five Finalists Who Will
Seek Title Of Miss Bruns
wick County
Cheryl Rogers, pretty South
port High School senior, was
crowned Miss Southport Saturday
night in the fifth and last of the
preliminary pageants leading up
to the Miss Brunswick County
Pageant which will be staged at
Shallotte on March 11.
The pretty, blue-eyed brunette
won in the finals over Sona
Raye Rogers, who was first run
ner-up, and Evelyn Newell, sec
ond runner-up.
The winner is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Rogers. In
her talent routine she did a cute
rendition of “There Is Nothing
Like A Dame”. She scored a hit
with her sober answer to her
questions posed by Master of
Ceremonies Jim Burns to test her
poise and ability to think for
herself.
-I he first runner-up, Sona Raye
Rogers, is no relation to the win
ner and is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Herbert Rogers. In her
talent category did a difficult
monologue from “Riders From
The Sea”.
The second runner-up, Evelyn
Newell, did a pantomine of “Am
brose” as her talent skit, and this
proved to be one of the most
popular numbers on the well
rounded program of the evening.
She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Russell St. George.
In their talent skits Rachel Rol
lins sang “My Funny Valentine”
and Ella Mae Gore sang “Side
By Side”.
The meeting was opened by
Principal Reginald Turner, who
extended a welcome and then in
troduced J. T. Clemmons, presi
dent of the sponsoring organiza
tion, the Shallotte Jaycees. He
made several announcements be
fore turning the program, over
Continued On Page 4
Local Hospital
Receives Funds
Dosher Memorial One Of
North Carolina Hospital
On List For Duke Endow
ment
Dosher Memorial hospital,
Southport, will receive $2,905
from the Duke Endowment fund
at a very early date reports that
body.
The trustees have voted an
propriations of $1,111,302 for 137
hospitals and 43 child care insti
tutions in North and South Caro
lina on the basis of their chari
table work during the fiscal year
ending Sept. 30, 1960.
The latest appropriation, mak
ing the 36th consecutive year that
the endowment has provided such
hospitals and child care aid, bring
to a total of $31,689,374 the fund
furnished by the endowment for
these purposes alone since its
creation in 1924.
The latest appropriations are
for 96 hospitals and 29 child care
institutions in North Carolina.
Hospitals are aided at the rate
of one dollar for each free bed
day of care rendered and child
caring institutions receive assist
ance at the rate of approximate
ly 47 cents per day for each day
of care rendered orphan and half
orphan children.
Tide Table
Following is the tide table
for Southport during the next
week. These hours are ap
proximately correct and were
furnished The State Port Pilot
through the courtesy of the
Cape Fear Pilot's Association,
High Tide Low Tide
Thursday, February 23
2:14 A. M. 8:46 A. M.
2:43 P. M. 9:00 P. M.
Friday, February 24
3:08 A. M. 9:45 A. M.
3:39 P. M. 9:55 p. m.
Saturday, February 25
4:02 A. M. 10:39 A. M.
4:33 P. M. 10:48 P. M.
Sunday, February 26
4:53 A. M. 11:30 A. M.
5:22 P. M. 12:37 P. M.
Monday, February 27 ’
5:41 A. M. 12:15 A. M.
6:06 P. M.
Tuesday, February 28
6:23 A. M. 0:23 A. M.
6:49 P. M. 12:57 P. M.
Wednesday, March 1
7:02 A. M. 1:06 A. M
7:28 P. M. 1:35 P. M.