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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. 36 10-Pages Today SOUTHPORT N. C. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1961 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Southport Cub Scouts irWMWHHBWmnTr* m These are the members of the Southport Cub Scout Pack who were honored Thursday night at the annual banquet at the Lions Club Building. Left to right, front row, they are: Charlie Johnson, Poland Sides, Dickie Bellows, Andrew Hoglung, Jack Duffie, Clifford Walker, Jo Jo Feak, Johnnie Sloan, Tommy Dosher, Johnnie Bellamy. Second row, Elvin Long, Pat Duffie, Tommy Gilbert, Steve Parker, Charles Sellers, Dale Reese, Dan Jervis. Top row, Steve Donnelly, Carl Watkins, Dale Southerland, Eddie James, Pat Parker, Mike Park er, Larry Strong, Thomas Parker and Jerry Dilsaver. Britt/ Bit, <y I L-NEWS-1 HONOR STUDENT Miss Penny Moore, who is at tending Flora Macdonald College was on the Dean’s list for the past semester. I*. T. A. POSTPONED The regular monthly meeting of the Southport Parent-Teachers Association has been postponed from Thursday evening to Mon day night at 8 o’clock. SMORGASBORD SUPPER The Southport Woman’s Club will sponsor a smorgasbord sup per on Thursday night from 5:30 to 7:30 o'clock. It will be served at the Community Building. BENEFIT SUPPER The Bolivia Lions Club is spon soring a barbecue chicken supper at the Bolivia lunchroom Satur day night from 5:30 to 7 o’clock. Proceeds will go to the Boys Home at Lake Waccamaw. DONKEY BASKETBALL The Bolivia High School Boost ers Club is sponsoring a donkey basketball game at Bolivia gym nasium on Thursday night at 7:30 o’clock. Proceeds will go toward payment for the lighted football field. SEEK INFORMATION The Thomas Mann Thompson Chapter U. D. C. would like to have the names and location of graves, in all Southport ceme teries, of veterans of the Con federacy. Please call Mrs. E. I. Brown, rhone 7-2892, Southport. CHESS TOURNAMENT Anyone wishes to enter the Southport Tournament is still eli gible to do so. First prize will be $50, second prize will be a United States Chess Federation Member ship or Chess Federation members and third prize will be a North Carolina Association membership. FLORIDA TRIP The following item appeared in '."lie News and Observer Thursday morning in the society page col umn, Passing Scene: “Rep. and Mis. Bunn Frink of Southport, who are staying at the Sir Walter Hotel here during sessions of the State Legislature, left last night for M'arni, Fia., to spend the rest ol' the week on their boat, which is docked there.” ST. PATRICK’S FESTIVAL A St. Patrick's Day Festival 'till be held in the Southport High School auditorium Friday, March 17. at 7:30 p. m. This will be a ' triety musical program in which students of all age groups will participate. It is being sponsored hv the P. T. A. and is to take the place of the usual Valentine i ' Anal which was not held this ys-ar. Development Clubs To Assist 4-H Work v^oumy /agricultural Agent' Announces Plans For Shifting 4-H Club Respon sibility I * By A. S. KNOWLES County Agricultural Agent As the nation recognizes and observes National 4-H Club Week, the 1,000 4-H Club boys and girls in Brunswick County join hands with the 167,000 other members in North Carolina and the more than 2 million in the United States in reviewing the pi ogress made during the past year and in setting up goals for the year 1961. Great progress has been made in molding the youth for useful citizens through the 4-H Clubs of Brunswick County as well as the State and Nation. A variety of activities has contributed to this growth and development. Project work has taught by doing. Recrea tion has helped develop the social side and 4-H Camp, and State 4-H Week has given members a broader vision and scope. 4-H club leaders have played a prominent role in the growth and development of 4-H club work during the past 50 years of its existance. It is anticipated that adult 4-H club leaders will occupy an even more prominent part of 4-H club work during the coming years. Brunswick County will join the other counties of North Carolina during the next few months in organizing and placing emphasis on Community 4-H Clubs guided by local volunteer 4-H leaders. This will be a major change of emphasis as the bulk of 4-H club work has been done in clubs or ganized in schools. The new ob jectives of community clubs should prove highly satisfactory in progress, growth and development of more boys and girls. Boys and girls who participate in the Community 4-H Program will benefit in that they will re ceive a far greater amount of in dividual time and attention. Cur rently, about one out of three of the rural boys and girls in Bruns wick County between the ages of 10 and 20 are enrolled in the 4-H Program. It is the hope and the objective with the completion of the community organization and the securing and training of ade quate leaders that every boy and girl in the county between the ages of 10 and 20 may participate in the 4-H Program and share in its teachings of training youth in the art of better living. In the development of the 4-H Club program around the train ing and use of adult 4-H leaders, not only will the club member profit from this type of organiza tion and leadership, but at the same time, the local leader who Continued On P«£e 4 Pack Lunches For Kenansville A smorgasbord supper will be served tomorrow (Thurs day) night at the Lions Club building by members of the Southport Woman's Club. These ladies realize that they may be bucking some strong competition in the bas ketball tournament tomorrow night at Kenansville, so they have made arrangements to put up box suppers for all who wish to take a lunch with them. Those who desire this serv ice are asked to contact Mrs. Chancey Stana] and, and the lunches may be picked up at 4 p. m. On Grain Plan Information Being Gathered In Brunswick In Connec tion With Proposed New Program A survey of farms in Bruns wick County which produce feed grains got under way last week, in a study being conducted throughout the major feed grain producing area as an advance step in connection with proposed feed grain programs now under dis cussion. The proposed program is as follows: Each producer will be asked to shift to a soil conserving use 20 percent of the acreage he had planted during the base period 1959-1960, to corn, grain sorgh ums, or otner feed grains. The Secretary will prescribe the use of these diverted acres for con servation purposes. Producers co operating in the program w'ill re ceive payments under the special conservation program equal to 60 percent of the gross value of a year’s normal production on the diverted acres. A corn grower in an area where the corn support price is the proposed national average of $1.20 would compute his payment by multiplying 60 percent of the support price, 72 cents, by his normal corn yield. If his yield was 50 bushels an acre, his payment for shifting 20 percent of his corn acreage would be 50 times 72 cents, or $36 per acre. The cooperating producer will be eligible, at his option, to divert I additional fed grain acreage into I a soil-conserving use. For this he i Gonuaued On Page 4 Conduct CAP Squadron To Extend Air Cover Of Area Southport Flight Has Been Advised That This Added Safety Factor Will Be In Force This Season In a recent communication from the Wilmington Composite Squad ron of the Civil Air Patrol James F. Howard, Flight Leader of the Southport CAP Flight, was noti fied that the Civil Air Patrol in this area is making plans to in clude the Southport and Long Beach fishing and boating areas in their coastal patrol flights dur ing the 1961 boating season. The coastal patrol was started in May of 1960 and continued through August of that year. Thirty-three missions were flown on Sunday mornings and evenings during this period and, indirectly, the coastal patrol is credited to alerting boaters to the availability of aerial assistance in the event they run into trouble. Several boaters were rescued by the coas tal patrol during the 1960 season. CAP plans for the coming year Call for the coastal patrol to be operative on Saturdays, Sundays, and all holidays. The flights are flown by CAP pilots in their own aircraft and at either their own, or CAP’S, expense. Prior to this year the coastal patrol was forced to turn back toward Federal Point and Carolina Beach when they Continued On Page 4 Annual Banquet For Cub Scouts Here Thursday Numerous Awards Made And Special Recognition Given For Outstanding Work During Past Year Pack Number 238,, Southport Cub Scouts, held its Annual Blue and Gold Banquet at the Lion's Building Tuesday evening of last week with about eighty-five Cubs, parents, officials and guests in at tendance. The program opened with the invocation by the Reverend Mark Owens, after which a delicious chicken dinner was served. Harold Aldridge then welcomed the Cubs and guests and A1 Mar tin introduced William Wall of the Cape Fear Area Council, Boy Scouts of America, who comment ed on the splendid performance record of the Southport Pack dur ing 1960. Wall then presented the Pack Charter for 1961 to the South. port Presbyterian Church, spon sor, and in addition, presented a special plaque entitled, “Award for God and Country.” This plaque was awarded for the outstanding record compiled by the local pack during 1960 for achievements such as membership, weekly meetings by dens and awards earned by the Cubs. The pack then received a special re-registration streamer for its flag, this being the third consecu tive year pack Number 238 has been awarded this streamer. Leslie Bellows, the Cubmaster, assisted by Karl Hoglund, then in ducted new Bobcats into the Southport Pack. This was follow ed by the awards ceremony and the presentation of registration certificates. Den Mothers Mrs. Charles John son, Mrs. Herman Strong, Mrs. Johnnie Duffie and Mrs. Karl Hoglund, fcrid WKBtO Leader Captain Ralph I. Cammack were then presented with certificates of appreciation from the Cubs, The proceedings were closed with the benediction by the Rev. Lawrence Bridges. The program was sponsored by the Southport Presbyterian Church with ' financial assistance provided by the Southport Lion’s Club. Superior Court Comes To Close Session Of Superior Court Ended Thursday With Several Cases Settled The one week term of Superior court for trial of civil cases came to a sputtering halt Thursday after court had been recessed most of opening day on Monday when cases in which Represent ative S. Bunn Frink appeared as counsel were continued at his re quest in order that he might go back to his legislative duties in Raleigh. In the case of Kenneth Long against Pauline Gaskin a verdict awarding $10,000 to the plaintiff was set aside by Judge William Y. Bickett, who was presiding at the term. Survey orders were issued in cases involving Sherwood John Continued On Page 4 am_ a TIME and TIDE In The Pilot for March 11, 1936, there was a picture of Joe Jelks, Southport boy, who had just been selected Best All-Round boy in the senior class at Wake Forest College. The late Kelly JVIilliken had been appointed Brunswick County Tax Collector, re placing the late L. C. Brown who had resigned that post. Bingo Burris was repairing the old Abrams dock at the foot of Davis street preparatory to opening a seafood house; another nautical note was that "City Alderman Sam Watts is busy these days getting a Hudson (automobile) motor in shape to put in a big party boat. Bolivia boys and Waccamaw girls were tournament winners in the 1941 play-offs in Brunswick. That was front page news in The Pilot for March 12. An interesting front page feature had , quoted a Philadelphia radio announcer as referring to Bald Head Island as tropical paradist.” The entire script for the show was i quoted. Capt. Victor P. Lance had indicated his intention of basing his sports fishing vessel here during the coming season. i There was a local discussion over lay days for quail hunting ' during the coming season, with Brunswick having been exempted from a bill introduced in the State Legislature. 1 Ihe old R.&.S. Amusement Co. of Leland had a new attraction ] for the coming season a couple of lion clubs—and their picture < was on the front page of our edition for Marcli 6, 1946. Charlie i Swan and Andy Downing had begun work on a new shrimp dock s Continued On Page i Dinner Monday To Launch Golf Drive The Developers Of Boiling | Spring Lakes Will Be j Hosts To Brunswick Coun ty Neighbors Harold Green of Charleston, S. C., has replaced Charles Pratt as general manager of the Boiling Spring Lakes Development project of the Reeves Broadcasting Cor poration, Inc. and on Monday evening he and other officials of | the development group will be hosts to their Brunswick county neighbors at a smorgasbord sup per at the Lions Club Building at Southport. It is no secret that the main purpose of this meeting will be to launch the project of the con struction of a championship golf course and Green has made it clear that he hopes to have the i enthusiastic support and coopera tion of Southport and Brunswick county citizens in this undertak ing. "More than any other recrea tional facility, Brunswick county needs a golf course,” he said this week. "We need it to make this area an all-sports, year-round playground. We want to be able to attract the man of the family who wants to play golf while other members of his family go to the beaches, go fishing, water ski HAROLD GREEN ing or just visit places of historic interest. "We at Boling Spring Lakes have a lot at stake in seeing that a golf course is constructed”, Green continued, “but no more than do the folks who live in this area and who make their living here. Not only will a golf course afford a pleasant form of relax ation for them, it will attracL Continued On Page 4 Neils Jorgensen Acting Postmaster ■i Health Clinics Being Conducted Three outstanding physi cians are now holding Pedia tric Clinics (Child Health Conference) in Brunswick County. The clinics are con ducted once a month by the Brunswick County Health De partment at Leland, Shallotte and Southport. These pediatricians are Dr. Rowena Hall and Dr. Robert Melton from Wilmington, and Dr. Ursula Anderson from the Maternal and Child Health Division, State Board of Health, Raleigh. Clinic schedule may be ob tained from thp Health De partment. Battleship Site Still Undecided Southport Location Believed To Be Strong In The Run ning, With Wilmington Site Also Favored No announcement has been made regarding the choice of a site for a permanent berth for the Battleship North Carolina by members of the N. C. Battleship Advisory Committee. One reason for this delay is that at least three members of the committee are spending this week in Cincinnati where they are attending a Travel Show. Chair man Orville Campbell is expected to call a meeting next week at which time the committee will make its recommendations to Gov ernor Terry Sanford. Chairman Campbell said Satur day that he had received a report from Cyril Adams, marine en gineer who flew to North Caro lina from Texas to inspect sites last week. He stated that copies of these reports were being, mailed to other committee members, but as of yesterday James C. Bowman of Southport, one of the members, had not received his. From unofficial sources it now appears that the choice of sites lies between Wilmington and Southport. The former is favored because of the high traffic count which runs near the proposed lo cation; but there is sentiment on the committee favoring the site at Southport, largely because of its natural setting and its possibilities for control beyond the boundaries | Df the ship installation. Governor Sanford is due to ap pear in Wilmington Friday night, and this morning Ernest E. Par ker, member of 'the Southport Battleship Committee, visited the governor and extended a personal nvitation for him to visit both sites while he is in this area. Continued On Page 4 'Sworn In Monday To Be In Charge Of Southport Of fice, Replacing Mrs. Elea nor Potter Neils Jorgensen was sworn in Monday afternoon as acting post master for the office at Southport and entered upon his new duties on Tuesday. He was sworn in by W. M. Stanley, postal inspector. Jorgensen is a native of South port and is a Navy veteran of World War II. For the past sev eral years he has been a civil service employee at Sunny Point Army Terminal, where he has been employed on the fire boat. He also worked as a clerk at the Southport ABC store. Prior to Iiis duty. at Sunny Point, Jorgensen had been em ployed for a number of years as office manager at Bolivia Lumber Co. Being in the post office is not new for the acting postmaster, for during the early forties he served for two years as a postal clerk under Postmaster L. T. Yaskell. That duty extended from 1940 to 1942, when he entered service. Jorgensen replaces Mrs. Eleanor Potter as acting postmaster. She had held that position since Jan uary 6 of this year. Operating Fund Helping Farmers Farmers Home Administra tion Advancing Money To Help With Farm Ope rations Additional funds have been made available to help meet the needs of eligible farmers who need operating money to carry out their farming operations, said T. D. Anderson, county su pervisor for the Farmers Home administration. Anderson said that a $35 mil lion contingency fund provided by the 1961 agricultural appro priations act has just been re leased to the FHA to meet the growing demand for credit. This move was taken by the US Department of Agriculture i in an effort to make certain, i within the authorities and funds available, that no qualified fam ily-type farmer will be required to give up farming because of his inability to finance his 1961 operations. Because of high operating costs and unfavorable margins of prof its many farmers have exhausted their regular sources of farm operating credit. The amount of operating loans made so far this year by the FHA totals 20 per cent higher than last year. The credit agency’s biggest lending season lies just ahead as farmers prepare to start their spring work. Most of the applications so far this year are for loans to buy j Continued On Page 4 1 Miss Brunswick Pageant Details Being Completed Well-Rounded Program Is In Prospect On Saturday Night At Finals Of This Jaycee Sponsored Event The Miss Brunswick County pageant, sponsored by the Shal lotte Jaycees, is holding the spot light of public interest this week as preparations are being made for the finals Saturday evening at 8 o’clock in the Shallotte High School auditorium. Five beautiful and talented young ladies, winners in the pre liminary pageants in their respec tive school districts, will vie for the honor of being the first Bruns wick county represented in the Miss North Carolina contest. Representing Bolivia will be Delores Huffham, who was win ner in the first preliminary con test. Hilda King, winner at VVac camaw, will represent her school district. Next to be named was Carol Lane Hewett of Shallotte, who will be making her second appearance of the season before a home audience in this important competition. Elizabeth Ann John son will carry the hopes of the Leland people when she steps upon the stage Saturday night. Southport will have Cheryl Rog ers as its representative in the Miss Brunswick County contest. Special arrangements are being made at Shallotte in an effort to accommodate an audience of 1,000 persons for the Saturday night finals. Tickets are now on sale throughout the county, or they may be obtained from members of the Jaycee organization at Shal lotte. Mrs. Hannah Block of Wilming ton is directing the finals, and was on hand for a Sunday after noon rehearsal with the young contestants. Mrs. Block has had much experience in staging af fairs of this kind, and she thinks that she has material with which to put on a good pageant in Brunswick county. Presiding as master of cere monies Saturday night will be Gil Burnett of Wilmington, a Jaycee who has served in this capacity on numberous other oc casions. , In addition to the personal ap pearance of the young beauties, Continued On Page 4 Registration At Shallotte Now Young Men May Register For Draft At Shallotte Postoffice And Avoid Trip To Board Office H. A. Livingston, Chairman ot the Local Draft Board, has an nounced that there are now two registrars located in the Shallotte area for the convenience of those who live in that vicinity to as sist in registering men for Se lective Service. The registrars are William Cur tis Tripp and Edward Vance Gore, Jr., the postmaster and assistant-postmaster of the Shal lotte post office. The hours for registering for Selective Service in that area are the same as the post office hours; and anyone desiring to register there should go to the Shallotte post office and advise either Tripp or Gore of their desire to register for Selec Continued On Page 4 Tide Table Following b 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 TMa Thursday, March 9 0:15 A. M. 6:59 A. M. 12:32 P. M. 7:08 P. M. Friday, March 10, 1:20 A. M. 8:06 A. M. 1:39 P. M. 8:17 P. M. Saturday, March 11, 2:30 A. M. 9:14 A. M. 2:52 P. M. 9:29 P. M. Sunday, March 12, 3:39 A. M. 10:18 A. M. 4:02 P. M. 10:36 P. M. Monday, March 13, 4:44 A. M. 11:18 A. M. 4:04 P. M. 11:37 P. M. Tuesday, March 14, 5:44 A. M. 12:14 A, M. 5:04 P. M. Wednesday, March 15, 6:39 A. M. 0:34 A. M. 6:00 P. M. 1:06 P. M.
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