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Most of the News All The Time THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Volume No. 21 The Pilot Covers Brunswick County r No. 37 10-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1961 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Test Students For Eligibility For Scholarship National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test Taken Saturday By Seven South port High School Juniors Seven students in the Junior Class at Southport High School took tiie National Merit Scholar ship Qualifying Test on Saturday and these students will be consid ered for Merit Scholarships to be awarded in 1962. The qualifying test is a three hour examination of educational development. The test is the first step in the seventh annual com petition for four-year Merit Schol arships provided by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation and by sponsoring corporations, foun dations, associations and individ uals. The number of scholarships awarded in any year depends upon the extent of sponsor par ticipation. In 1960, 831 scholar ships were awarded; 514 were pro vided by 115 sponsors and 317 by the Merit Corporation. There are 3,132 Merit Scholars attending 391 colleges in the current academic year. The scores of students who took the test on March will be imported to their schools before the end of tiie spring semester in time for use by class advisers. The scores are used in many high schools to help students make decisions about college attendance and field of study. Some students who do not expect to win a scholarship took the test in order to learn more about their individual strengths and weaknesses in the areas measured by the test. Some 10,000 semifinalists, the highest scorers in each state, will be named early next fall. Names of semifinalists are published in a booklet which is distributed to all colleges and to other sources of financial aid for undergrad uates. Further, their names and test scores are sent on cards to the colleges they express an in terest in attending as their first or second choices. The order of preference is not shown. Each semifinalist will be asked to take a second examination. Those who repeat their high per formance will become finalists in the Merit Program. Winners of Merit Scholarships will be select ed from the finalist group on the basis of school records and recom mendations, test scores, extracur ricular activities, leadership abili ty, and accomplishments outside the classroom. Each finalist is awarded a certificate of merit at testing to his outstanding per formance. Continued On Page 4 Brhf Bit* Of HVEWS-1 BENEFIT BAKE SALE The Women of St. Phillip's Episcopal Church will have a bake sale on Saturday, March 25. SMORGASBORD SUPPER The Woman’s Society of Trinity Methodist Church will have a smorgasbord next Thursday, March 23, at the church. CHURCH STUDY A special study course "The Stumbling Block”, will be com menced at Trinity Methodist Church Sunday evening and will be led by the pastor, the Rev. Lawrence Bridges. BENEFIT BARBECUE There will be a barbecue supper at the County Office Building in Supply Friday, March 17, 'from 5 to 9 p. m. This supper is being sponsored by the Supply Home Demonstration club to raise money to buy a piano for the building. VARIETY SHOW A St. Patrick’s Day Variety Show will be held in the South port High School auditorium on Friday evening at 7:30 o’clock. This will be in place of the an nual Valentine Day program and will have students of all grades as participants. REVIVAL SERVICES There will be a series of revival services at Boones Neck Baptist Church, 4 miles south of Holden Beach, beginning March 19 and continuing through March 25, at 7:30 o’clock each evening. The pastor, the Rev. L. W. McKeithan, invites the public to attend. Evan glist Eugene Gaskin of Elizabeth town will be the guest speaker. Scene Of Services SERVICES—Old St. Phillips Church at Brunswick Town will be the scene of re ligious services On Sunday during the weekend of the forthcoming Alazea Festival. This event is expected to attract hundreds of additional'visitors to this historic site. Berserk Woman Kills Daughter In-Law Sunday Gerthel Frink Dies At Do sher Memorial Hospital Following Attack By Hat tie Mae McMillan Clark Gerthel Frink, young Southport Negro woman, died at noon Sun day at Dosher Memorial Hospital after being hacked to pieces by an axe wielded by her mother-in law, Hattie Mae McMillan Clark. The McMillan woman is a for mer patient at the Mental Hos pital in Goldsboro, from which she was paroled in May 1960. Re j ports of the Sunday morning killing are that she apparently went berserk, and that following this outburst of violence she has been in a dazed condition and contends that she remembers no thing about the incident. The attack was witnessed by James McMillan, father of the I Clark woman. He told law en j forcement officer that he heard | screaming, and that when he look | ed out Gerthel Frink was running from a house next door trying to get away from Hattie Mae Clark, who was coming after her with an axe, McMillan told officers that when the Frink woman tried to open a gate she was unable to do so, and that was when her moth er-in-law got within striking dis tance she hit her a blow across the head or neck with the axe. When her victim fell to the ground the older woman continued to strike her with the axe until she was restrained, McMillan said. Deputy Sheriff H. G. Ratcliffe was called to the scene, and when he arrived he found Policeman Sammy Rees there. They took the Clark woman into custody and the Frink woman was sent to the hos pital, where she died a short time later. The Clark woman is being held on a murder warrant and is in the Brunswick county jail. Funeral services for the Frink woman will be tomorrow (Thurs day) afternoon. She is the wife of Richard Frink, and one of the fears of bystranders during the commotion was that the Chirk woman might kill the 2-year old child of the Frinks’ which was locked in the house with her. Leland P.-T.A. Holds Session Several Matters Of Import ance Disposed Of At The March Meeting Of This Organization The Leland P.T.A. held its regular monthly meeting on Mon day of last week, with James Thompson presiding. He introduced the Rev. Ran dolph Graham who led the de votional by reading a passage from the book of Isaiah and closed with prayer. Mrs. Crumpler, treasurer, gave her report, with a balance of $794.89. The playground committee re ported they had completed two see-saw racks to accommodate 20 children, a swing unit to ae Contmued On Page 2 St. Phillips Will Be Scene Of Rites The Rev. Thomas C, Clark-’ son, Rector Of St. Phil lips Episcopal Church In Southport Tells Of Plans For The Azalea Festival Weekend Commemoration services at the ruins of historic St. Philip’s Church will climax the 1961 North Carolina Azalea Fe3tivai,!'Jjjs> gram. The services will be held on Sunday, April 9 at the site of the colonial church near Orton Plan tation in nearby Brunswick Coun ty. At 11 a. m. there will be cele bration of Holy Communion (Episcopal) by the Rev. Thomas S. Clarkson of Southport. From 3:30 to 4:30 p. m. there will be a general service of commemoration of the early settlement. Music for the service will be provided by the 2nd Marine Division Band and Chorus from Camp Lejeune. The band also will present a concert from 4:30 to 5 p. m. The principal speaker for the afternoon service will be announced later. Of the many historic buildings attracting tourists and visitors to the Wilmington area, the ruins of St. Philip’s Church are one of the most appealing. The massive walls remain to remind visitors that here stood one of the most hand some churches in all the Amer ican Colonies. Rev. Clarkson, a descendant of Col, Maurice Moore who laid out the town of Brunswick in 1725, is chairman of the committee on arrangements for the two special services. “During the spring, pilgrimages Continued On Page 4 Referendum On Cattle Slated Growers In Brunswick Will Have An Opportunity To Vote On Continuation Of Assessment Plan Dimes are creating new de mands for Tarheel beef. According to James O. Bellamy, Chairman of the Brunswick Coun ty Cattle for Slaughter Referen dum Committee, beef consumption has increased from 80 pounds to 83.4 pounds per person in North Carolina during the last three years. The dimes have been collected for the N. C. Cattlemen’s Associa tion through an assessment pro gram whereby farmers contribute 10c per head 'on all cattle sold for slaughter that bring more than $20.00 per head to promote North Carolina beef and beef pro ducts. Through the N. C. Cattlemen’s Association, funds collected from the asessments have been used to improve and increase produc tion, consumption and aid in mar keting of North Carolina beef and beef products. Chairman Bellamy says promotional efforts during the last three year period were carried on in 21 different ways. Newspapers, radio and T. V. as well as direct contact at all levels of the beef industry from produc i Continued On Page 2) Speaker MAJ. GEN. HOUSEMAN Houseman Will Visit In Area Brig. Gen. Evan M. House man Will Make Two Vis its To This Section With in Next Few Weeks One of the old friends of this area, Maj. Gen. Evan M. H( use man, is scheduled for a one-day visit to the Cape Fear scene next week and for an extended assign ment next May. General Houseman will cone to Wilmington Tuesday to condict a workshop concerning plans for the National Security Seminar to be Continued On Fage 4 First Steps In Organizing Golf Club In County The Developers Of Boiling Spring Lakes Have Made Offer Of Land And Fi nancial Assistance About two hundred persons, most of them from this immediate area, attended a smorgasbord din ner Monday evening at the South port Lions Club Building with the developers of Boiling Springs Lakes as hosts. Harold Greene, newly appointed sales manager for the developers of the new residential subdivision, served as master of ceremonies. First he introduced Representative S. Bunn Frink, who declared that it is his opinion that Brunswick county needs a country club and a golf course to round out its recreational facilities. Kirby Sullivan, Southport at torney who has helped with the planning of this project, then had a few words of explanation re garding this phase of the develop ment. Next came Henry Von Ossen, engineer in charge of the over-all layout at Boiling Spring Lakes. He indicated that he thinks that the facilities of a clubhouse and golf course are needed to round out the needs for this growing community. Greene then explained an offer being made by the developers in an effort to devlope the country club and golf club as local pro jects. He said that his people not only will give the land, but will make a financial contribution to ward the project. Greene said that the goal is to obtain 150 local members, and during the course of the evening he received applica tions from 20 persons. Rabies Control Makes Progress Health Department Offici als Ask Cooperation In Helping Stamp Out Di sease j During the year 1960 there were 19 laboratory confirmed cases of animal rabies in North Carolina, E. R. Jones, sanitarian with the Brunswick County Health Depart ment, said this week. This is the lowest number ever recorded in I this State. “There were no laboratory con firmed cases of rabies in Bruns wick County in I960,’’, Jones stat ed. “However, there were eight [ cases in one of the adjoining j counties which chiefly involved wildlife, particularly the fox. To keep Brunswick County free of this dreaded disease, it is most important to control stray dogs and carry on an effective immuni zation program among the dog population.” During the month of March the Brunswick County Health Depart ment is conducting a rabies vac cination program. Dog owners may have their animals vaccinat ed at one of the many clinics for one dollar. Those who wait until the campaign is over will have to pay an added fee to get his animal vaccinated. “There will be a thorough ean Continued On Page 2 \ TIME and TIDE | ® x ~ ! m ■”* smsm mm Fire had destroyed the two story brick Loughlin building locat ed on the corner of Moore and Howe Streets in Southport in the early hours of Tuesday morning prior to the publication of our edition for March 18, 1936. The death of John Wescott, last Brunswick county survivor of the Confederate army, was also reported that day. A Federal appropriation had been approved for marking t wrecks on the coast of Brunswick as a protection for shippers; 1 Sam J. Frink had been appointed a member of the board of < county commissioners to succeed Kelly Milliken; and a group of 1 Southport citizens had put up money for the purchase of tilt old 1 Southport High Sciiool building in Franklin Park in order that this structure could be remodeled into a community building. The Pilot for March 19, 1941, -had a frnot page picture with ( the caption ‘'Running Water” and it showed a boy drinking from the overflow pipe of an artesian well. An invitation had been i extended to movie star Randolph Scott to attend the forthcoming ( reunion of his old Coast Artillery unit of which he was a member i when he was at Fort Caswell. There had been a 1-inch snowfall 1 the previous Thursday at several points in Brunswick. ' Bolivia girls, led by Catherine Stone, had won the Star-News * Basketball Tournament; heart diseases had been branded as 1 North Carolina’s No. 1 killer even that long ago; and the pear , trees had braved the cold snap and were blooming. ( . t J. J. Loughlin, Jr., is the only surviving member of the Bruns- < Continued On Page 4 Shallotte Girl Wins Miss Brunswick Title Miss Brunswick County -3 WINNER—Carol Lane Hewett, Shallotte High School senior, was crowned Miss Brunswick County at’the con tusion of the Jaycee Pageant Saturday evening at Shai otte High School auditorium. Aldermen Take Election Action ■ -. - ■ —3 Shallotte Sextet Sings Saturday The Shallotte Sextet, vocal group which made such a big hit Saturday night with the audience attending the Miss Brunswick County Pageant at Shallotte, will appear on the program at the Teen-Age Princess Pageant in Wilming ton Saturday night. Members of the sextet are Carol Lhne Hewett, who was crowned Miss Brunswick County Saturday night; Han nah Frink, Charlen Platt, Dora Hewett, Julia Gray and Toy Lane Hewett. Mrs. David Carmichael is the director and Mrs. Harlee Hewett is accom panist. Ocean Isle To Hold Election Candidates For Office Must File Prior To April 1st Deadline; Both Residents And Property Owners Eligible Candidates for the office of own commissioner of Ocean Isle 3each must file with the town :lcrk by April 1, it was deter nined by the commissioners at heir last meeting. With Mayor Odell Williamson iresiding, the commissioners out ined the preferential election pro :edure as prescribed by the town barter, which was granted by the 959 General Assembly. Qualified •oters, including both legal resi lents and property owners, will eceive ballots through the mail >y April 15. The completed bal ots must be returned by May 2. Counting of the ballots will be mder the supervision of the Brunswick County board of elec ions. The returns will be certified o Governor Terry Sanford, who inder the provisions of the town harter will appoint the six ean Contmucd On Page 2 [ Two Registrars Named In Anticipation Of Passage Of Legislation Governing Ward Arrangement The Southport city election will be held on May 2, and candidates for mayor and for the vacancies to be filled on the board of aider men may file during the period from April 10-22. This matter was discussed at the regular meeting of the board of aldermen Thursday night. Reg istration books will be opened on April 1, and on the assumption that there will be a bill passed by the legislature in time to gov ern the forthcoming election, pro vision is being made to vote in two wards. Mrs. Velma Ward and Miss Annie St. George have been designated as registrars. A discussion was held regard ing financial assistance being ask ed by members of the board of trustees of Dosher Memorial Hos pital from the city and from the county. Figures covering these needs will be taken before the commissioners for a discussion of the matter. Mrs. Phil King, librarian in charge of the Southport Public Library, reported that during the month of February more than 3,000 books had been circuited. Tour Of Homes Being Planned This Will Be Project Of Woodbine Garden Club On Sunday During Week end Of Azalea Festival The Woodbine Garden Club of Southport has announced that there will be a Home and Garden Tour in Southport on Sunday, April D, from 12:30 until 5:30 p. m. An Art Show at Franklin Park is scheduled as an added attrac tion to this tour. A number of homes in South port will be opened on this date and several gardens and a church will also be featured. Admission to the homes and ^Continued On Page 2± 5 Miss Carol Lane Hewett Is Winner In Finals Of Jay cee-Sponsored Event Sat urday Evening Carol Lane Hewett, pretty | Shallotte High School senior, was ! crowned Miss Brunswick County i Saturday night at the climax of the pageant held at Shallotte un der the auspicies of the Jaycees j of that town. Miss Brunswick County won her i title after first winning the crown as Miss Shallotte in competition j with 10 other contestants for this honor. Her victory Saturday night I came over four other winners in local pageants, with each of the five Brunswick county school dis tricts being represented. The winner is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Hewett of Supply. She is one .of five children, and when the program was con cluded a happy family reunion took place right there on the stage. j Competing in the three required ' categories, the Shallotte girl made a particularly strong showing in : the talent division where she sang i a semi-classical number. Singing is a favorite hobby with her, for she is a member of the Shallotte Sextet, a musical group which was reduced to the status of a quintet for a special performance during the pageant program. First runner-up in the Saturday night finals was Cheryl Rogers, Miss Southport, who sang “There Is Nothing Like A Dame” in her talent number. She is a senior at Southport High School and is the daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Her man Rogers. Second runner-up was Hilda King, Miss Waccamaw. She has had two years at East Carolina and currently is employed in Greensboro as a legal stenograph er. She graduated from Waeea ! maw High School and is Uwr daughter of Mrs. Smithy King and of the late Elroy King. The third runner-up was Delores Hufham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hufham of Bolivia. She won the title of Miss Bolivia in the first preliminary contest of the year. She is a blue-eyed, redhead and did a vocal number in the talent division. The fourth runner-up was Eliza beth Ann Johnson, Miss Leland. She is a high school senior and is the daughter of Mr. aird Mrs. J. L. Johnson. In her talent cate gory she did a comedy skit, “The First Breakfast.” This is the first year that a pageant has been held in Bruns wick county and Miss Hewett thui becomes the first representative from this county in the Miss North Carolina Pageant. That event will be held in Greensboro next summer under the auspicies of the Guildird College Jaycees. The plan followed in this county this year was to give every eligi ble girl a chance at the title. This was accomplished through the five preliminary pageants held in each of the five consolidated school districts. The Shallotte Jaycees had cooperation of citizens throughout the county, particular ly from school personnel. Few events in recent years have attracted more interest, and capa city audiences attended each of the preliminary events. Special seating arrangements at Shallotte made it possible to seat the larg est audience ever present rn that auditorium. Continued On Page 4 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, March 16 7:32 A. M. 1:27 A. M. f 7:51 P. M. 1:54 P. M. Friday, March 17 8:22 A. M. 2:14 A. M. 8:40 P. M. 2:41 P. M. Saturday, March 18 9:09 A. M. 3:04 A. M. 9:27 P. M. 3:27 P. M. Sunday, March 19 9:56 A. M. 3:51 A. M. 10:14 P. M. 4:12 P. M. Monday, March 20 10:42 A. M. 4:38 A. M. 11:01 P. M. 4:55 P. M. Tuesday, March 31 11:29 A. M. 5:26 A. M. 11:48 P. M. 5:42 P. M. Wednesday, March 22 12:17 A. M. 6:15 A. M. 6:30 P. U.
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