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Most of the News: ii [' All The Time THE STATE PORT PILOT The Pilot Covt % M 84 %£$& M gjNMMMMetK A Good Newspaper in A Good Community Brunswick Coun Volume No. 21 No. 48 10-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. % WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1961 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Off For Washington PACKING—Brenda Gail Tripp, shown above with her mother, Mrs. Pauline l ripp, as they packed to go to Washington to represent this area in the National opening Bee, was eliminated today. She remained in the national contest longer than any other contestant from North or South Carolina.—(Cut Courtesy Star News.) Youth Shot In Escape Attempt From Road Gang Julian Kennedy Was On Road Following Convic tion Here Early This Month On Charge Of Armed Robbery Julian Kennedy, 18, Florida youth, is recovering in Central Prison hospital in Raleigh from buckshot wounds inflicted by a guard when Kennedy and two others attempted to escape from a road gang near Kerr Lake Mon day. A report from the hospital Tuesday said Kennedy was get ting along satisfactorily. Kennedy, it will be recalled, was sentenced in Brunswick coun ty court about two weeks ago for armed robbery. His accom plice in the robbery was John Paul Baker. They were charged with robbing Andy's Esso station hoar Leland and also for attempt Continued On Page 4 Brief Bit* Of lnewsj BARBECUE SUPPER There will be a barbecue supper at Zion Methodist Church on Sat urday, June 3rd, the proceeds to go to the building fund. COLLEGE GRADUATE Miss Penny Moore, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Merrit Moore of Southport, graduated Monday at Flora Macdonald College, Red Springs. ACCEPTS POSITION T. M. Lee, Southport high school coach, will operate the Yaupon Beach Motel on the Wa terfront at that; Brunswick county resort this summer. HOSPITAL PATIENT Capt. Bertram Burris, member of the Cape Fear Pilots Associa tion, has been a patient at a Wil mington Hospital for the past week following an operation. MENHADEN CATCHES Menhaden boats of Brunswick Navagation Co. and Southport Fisheries loaded Monday, and dur 1 ing the late afternoon the sound of fishboat whistles was carried on almost continuously. COLD SNAP Saturday was one of the coldest days ever experienced in South port for this late in the season, with the temperature down into the low forties. The cold spell continued through Sunday. UNDERGOES OPERATION K. D. St. George of Southport has been a patient for the past week at a Wilmington hospital following surgery performed there. He is making satisfactory recov er-v* .... .«utfui4Luyb Shallotte Girl Is Carolina Champion Brenda Gail Tripp Was Last’ Entrant From North And South Carolina To Be Eliminated Today Brenda Gail Tripp of Shallotte is the 1961 spelling- champion of the Carolinas. Although the pretty little Brunswick county lady finished 42nd among the 73 contestants the National Spelling Bee held in Washington, D. C., this morning, she placed higher than any of the other three contestants from the two Carolinas. She was 31st among the 73 contestants to be eliminated; the South Carolina entrant was No. 28th among the survivors; the entrant from Winston-Salem was the 26th contestant to go out; and the Charlotte representative was the 22nd casualty. The word on which Brenda Gail stumbled was “peregrinate”, which means to travel from place to place or from country to country. Brenda Gail and her mother, Mrs. Pauline Tripp, took her elimination in good spirits and perhaps took satisfaction from the fact that this is the best showing ever made by an entrant from Brunswick county in the Sectional Spelling Bee that is sponsored each year by the Star-News news papers . of Wilmington. They have spent all of this week in the Nation’s capital, after fly ing there in the private plane owned by the Wilmington news paper firm. Busy days of sight seeing and a round of exciting ex periences have made this an un forgettable time in their lives. Brenda Gail, who says that she wants to be a dancing instructor when she grows up, has frequent ly been in the spotlight before (Continued on Page 4) Final Round Of Chess Tourney Dr. N. M. Hornstein In Lead, With Spirited Com petition For Other Posi tions The final round of the chess championship of the City of Southport will take place Thurs day night at 7:30 in St. Phillips Episcopal Church. Prizes will be distributed to the winners. At the present time Dr. Norman Hornstein seems tc have a stranglehold on first place with Dale Swain coming in second. There will be a match between Lieut. Rusty Norton and Craig Castor for third. Other decisive games will be between Tommy McGlamery and Richie Fullwood for the boy’s championship and between Troye Davenport and Dickie Bellows tov the cub prize. | At the end of the match, Dr.! , Hornstein will play all comers simultaneously with a $5 USCF^ membership prize to anyone who i Continued On Page 5 1 Honored ELLA MAE GORE I Receives High Memorial Award Ella Mae Gore Is Recipient Of Louise Rees Award At Commencement Exercises Here Miss Ella Mae Gore, foster daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Spencer of Southport, was the recipient of the Louise Rees Award last Friday night at the annual High School Commence ment exercises. This award was established dur ing the 1959-1960 school year by Mrs. Susie S. Carson of Southport in memory of Miss Rees, and is given each year to the junior or senior, who, in the opinion of the faculty, has made the best appli cation of his or her opportunities as afforded by the local high school. Miss Gore has been active in all Continued On Page 5 Office Worker Dies Suddenly Mrs. Frances D. Young Was Valuable Member Of The Clerical Staff At Board Of Education Funeral services were held on Wednesday afternoon at St. Phil lips Episcopal Church for Mrs. Frances Davis Young, 51, who died on Tuesday morning at Dosh er Memorial Hospital after sufr fering a cerebral hemorrhage on Monday. Mrs. Young was born in South- ! I>0‘1, the daughter of William D. Lavis and the late Annie Pearce Continued On Page 5 Fatal Accident Claims Life Of Brunswick Man Carl Farrell Burk Of Yau pon Beach Instantly Kil led In Truck Accident Monday Afternoon Carl Farrell Burke, resident of Yaupon Beach, was instantly kill ed Monday afternoon at Oneonta, Alabama, when the freight truck which he was driving hit an oak tree beside the highway. Reports of the accident are that an automobile suddenly stopped ahead of the truck, and that Burke pulled around it to the right, but lost control. The heavy vehicle plunged off the road and into a tree, causing fatal injuries to the driver and serious injuries to his young son, who was making the trip with him. The body was returned to Southport late Tuesday night by Tom Gilbert, and funeral arrange ments still were incomplete this morning. Burke was driving a truck load ed with fish scrap and was mak ing delivery for Brunswick Navi gation Co. to Culman, Alabama. He had left Sunday and his young son had gone along with him for the trip following the close of the school term last week. Burke had been employed as driver for the local firm for the past three years. Surviving are his widow; three sons, David, Tom Eugene, and James Kenneth, all of the home; three daughters, Carol Ann, Eva Lynn, and Linda Lea Burke, all of the home; his parents, Mr. and Mrs.'Tom W. Burke of Clarksville, Ga.; and two sisters, Mrs. Venson Moore and Mrs. Pauline Morton, both of Gastonia. Clarkson Resigns At Saint Phillips Chaplain Thomas S. Clark son Has Been Serving As Rector At The Episcopal Church Here For Two Years Chaplain Thomas C. Clarkson, (Maj.) USAR, has resigned his cures in St. Phillips Episcopal Church, Southport, St. Marys Church, Burgaw and All Souls Church, Northwest, effective June 1. Chaplain and Mrs. Clarkson will spend the month of June and July visiting friends and relatives in Smithfield, Fort Bragg, Cis mont, Virginia Beach and Fort Belvoir before he enters upon a two weeks tour of active duty at Fort Bragg. After that he will give consideration to work in a new field. Whne serving work in this area Chaplain and Mrs. Clarkson have made their home in Southport. He has been actively interested in the history of Brunswick coun ty and during the last Azalea Festival he planned and carried out two Sunday services at Old St. Phillips at Brunswick Town to which several hundred interest ed spectators were attracted. He has discussed other long Continued On Page 5 Admiral H. FOSTER MINTZ Brunswick Will Join In Drive For Ship Fund Active Solicitation Is Being Made For Funds With Which To Finance USS North Carolina Project The statewide drive to raise $250,000.00 to bring the Battle ship North Carolina back to the state for which it is named was launched on Monday night with a television broadcast featuring well-known personalities from the state to urge cooperation in the drive. H. Foster Mintz is Brunswick's first “Admiral” and will serve as county chairman of the drive. Others may acquire the rank if they either contribute $100 to the drive or successfully solicit $500 in donations. Assisting Mintz will be L. E. Sessons at Leland, J. T. Snipes at Bolivia, Lt. Col. W. S. Norman and Mrs. Clinton Bellamy at Southport, Ennis Long at Supply, Hubert Bellamy at Shallotte, E. Y. Hickman at Hickman’s Crossroads and L. C. Babson at Freeland. On the statewide telecast -on Monday night Gov. Terry Sanford urged all citizens to back the drive to bring the Battleship to its final berth across the Cape Fear from the customs house in Wilmington. David Brinkley, noted news commentator, interviewed former governor Luther Hodges, now Secretary of Commerce, who commended the Wilmington group for inaugurating the drive. Jane Morgan, who adopted North Caro lina as her home when she mar ried a New Bern native, sang two songs. Andy Griffith, a Mt. Airy native now in Hollywood making a picture, allowed that being as how they couldn’t get it up the Ararat River to Mt. Airy he thought it ought to be brought to Wilmington. Dick Groat, base ball great and former Duke bas ketball star, also urged coopera tion. The North Carolina Battleship Commission, headed by Hugh Morton of Wilmington, is hopeful that the entire amount may be raised before June 15 as the Bat tleship is scheduled for the scrap heap July 1 if arrangements are not made before that time to* save her. TIME and TIDE Back in 1936 Vacation Bible School in Southport was a coope rative venture, with all Protestant Churches cooperating. Our June 3 issue reported that the Rev. J. D. Withrow was serving as superintendent that year. May had been a dry month with just • 12-inches of rainfall reported. The following Saturday was the date for the Democratic primary election. Register of Deeds R I. Mintz was at a loss to explain the drop in the number of divorce actions and marriages in Brunswick during the first five months of the year; on the society page there appeared a lengthy writeup of the Kopp-Johnson wedding; and the editor was praising the efforts of his staff of country correspondents—in the obvious hope of adding to their number. June 4, 1941. and the menhaden boats were in operation here. In fact, a headline in The Pilot called the “Fish Boat Whistles Music In The Air.' A group of Greensboro fishermen, taking ad vantage of the fishing fee plan at Orton pond, had come away with record catches of crappie and goggle-eye perch. Joe Leighton had played for the Southport Flower Show Ball during the past week and had made such a big hit that he and his orchestra had been booked for an engagement at Long Eeach Pavilion. Marrying was in the news, with a headline pointing out that “No Advantage For Couples To Leave State To Marry.” And once more May had been a hot, dry month. There was distressing news on the front page of The Pilot for May 29, 1946: Oak Island Coast Guard Station had gone on care taker status, with only two men in the crew. However, there was an added word that this move possibly was only temporary. Continued On Page 4 Dairy Princess Will Be Selected Eight Contestants In Run ning For Title This Year; Contest Slated For Sup ply Eight beautiful girls will corp pete in the Dairy Princess contest Friday night at the County Office building in Supply. The contest will be the big fea- 1 ture in this year’s June Dairy; Month Promotion meeting that will get underway at 8 p. m. The dairymen will have dairy products, milk, ice cream and cheese spreads for everybody attending. The speech making will be held to a minimum with introductions of guests and short remarks by two or three leaders present. The dairymen picked the new building at Supply that houses the Extension Service as the scene of this year's Dairy Princess Con test. This will afford all who come a comfortable place for fellow ship and to see girls in the prin cess contest. The entries in this contest rep . resent several sections of the i county and a large following is . expected to support them by their presence. , The contestants are Miss June White of Shallotte and Miss Marie . McDowell of Bolivia, sponsored by j the county 4-H clubs; Miss Tonda L Willis of Winnabow, sponsored by i the Town Creek Grange; Miss , i Rachael Kye of Winnabow, Miss . Zona Rogers of Southport, and Miss Dora Hewett of Supply, , sponsored by the Home Demon . stration Club in their respective communities; Miss Ida Lee King , sponsored by the Kingtown Com JUNE WHITE munity Development Club; Miss Jackie Lewis of Winnabow, spon sored by the County Dairy Asso ciation. Everyone is invited to attend and take part in the fun. fellow ship and refreshments of dairy products. I Hail Called Most Destructive Force President DR. STUART WILLIS National Honor For Dr. Willis Authority In Field Of Tu berculosis Care And Pre vention Is Well Known In Southport Dr. Stuart Willis, Superinten dent and Medical Director of the North Carolina Sanatorium Sys tem, was installed as President of the National Tuberculosis As sociation at the organization's An nual Meeting in Cincinnati last week. Dr. Willis has served on the Board of Directors of the National Association for many years and has headed several of its most important committees. In addition to his responsibili ties with the Sanatorium System, Dr. Willis is Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina Medical School. He is a past President of the American Thoracic Society and the North Carolina Tuberculosis Association. In 1956 he received the Southern Conference Medal Awarded annually to an outstand ing individual in the South for distinguished service in' the cause of tuberculosis control. Dr. Willis’ research work con ducted over the past twenty-five years has brought him interna tional acclaim. Several years ago traveling as a member of a high ranking medical group, Dr. Willis toured Great Britain, Belgium, France, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. He gained first-hand knowledge on what was being Continued On Page 1 ^Recovery Continues On *Lo-! cal Scene As Roof And Automobile Damages Con-! tinue To Mount Even though residents of South port take comfort in the know ledge that the hail storm which hit here two weeks ago is the only one of its kind in the memory of the oldest inhabitant of this com munity, the fact is that each year, hail causes greater havoc throughout the world than all the tornadoes, cyclones, floods and hurricanes combined. Southport residents continue to clear up the mess and to repair the damage caused by the storm here two weeks ago, and as in surance adjusters continue their j work it becomes more and more i apparent that this will prove to be one of the most costly storms ever to hit the City of Southport. Even as physical damage is be- ; ing repaired, nature has proved1 to be slow in healing damages to trees and shrubbery, and it may j be years before the last signs of! the freak May hail storm are gone ! from this locality. Even a moderate rain of hail can smash windows, ruin neon signs, smack down telephone wires and wreck fields of wheat, oats and corn. At times, hail can chalk up some truly staggering losses. A $65,000,000 bill in in surance claims for hail damage in a single year is not uncommon in the United States. No state and few nations are immune to hail damage. Indis criminately, the ice bombs from the sky lay waste fields, wreck i orchards, splinter roofs and make sieves of awnings. Airline pilots despise the stuff. \\ hat is hail ? Meteorologists say I it is composed of pellets or lumps ! formed of alternating layers of ice and snow. Hail may be formed during violent or prolonged thun derstorms, but never when the ground temperature is below 32 degrees. The phenomenon is common in 1 the middle latitudes, occurring usually in the spring and summer months. Coastal areas rarely see I hail, but the interior's of con tinents suffer heavily. Exactly how a cloud manufac tures hail is not known, but most scientists agree that the upward and downward bobbing of rain drops—caught in drafts and freez- j in& layers of the upper atrnos- | phere—is responsible for the for mation of ice pellets of any size. Swooping up and down like a yo-yo in the clouds, the raindrops or snowdrops build up successive sheaths of ice until they plummet to earth because of their weight, j The really big hailstorms fall j Continued On Page 4 [ < Reginald Turne Resigns Positio As School Hea I Has Served As Principal A Southport For Past Tvi Years; Several Other cancies In Faculty Reginald Turner, principal ol Southport High School for Lhl past two years, has resigned anl stated this week that he plans to give up school administrative re sponsibilities. He stated that there i is a possibility that he will con tinue in school work in another capacity. The present tenure is the third as a school man in Brunswick county for Mr. Turner, who pre viously had taught in the South port school many years ago and who later served as principal of Shallotte High School prior to re signing in 1935 to go to Ashboro as principal. Also resigning from the local faculty is Mrs. Marie Turner, his wife, who last year was one of the first grade teachers in the local school. She will teach next year in New Hanover County. The Turner’s own a home at Carolina Beach, and after spend ing the summer in Southport they will move there this fall. In addition to the resignations from Mr. and Mrs. Turner, there have been resignations from other teachers, which leave the ranks of the Southport High School faculty depleted. Among those who have indicat ed that they will not return for another year are Miss Gertrude Loughlin, Mrs! Iris R. Smith. Mrs. Emma Lou Owens, Mrs. Rachel B. McNeil and Mrs. Flangie F„ Huckaby. Art Association Plans Continue Committees Are Named To Work Out Arrangements For Forthcoming Festival Event The Southport Art Association met in the Southport Public Li brary on Monday night to set up committees for the coming Arts Festival July 1-4. Committees and chairmen are as follow: Poster committee Art Newton, chairman, Mrs. Marie ftyne, Mrs. Lucille Newton and Mrs. Gilliam Hornstein; radio and television—C. D. Pickerrell, chair man, Mrs. Marie Ryne and Art Newton; newspaper chairman_ Mrs. Gilliam Hornstein; entertain ment committee—Miss Kay Shel by, chairman, Mrs. Bette Leggett and Mrs. Hornstein; decoration and hanging committee—-Waters Thompson, chairman, Neil Lewis, Gene Tomlinson, Lt. Darrell Smith, Joe Ryne and Mrs. Susan King; concessions chairman- Mrs. Jinx Rideout; invitation committee_ Mrs. Hazel Smith, chairman, Mrs. Bette Leggett and Mrs. Alice Ar rington. It was decided to hold the Fes tival in the Franklin Park • area.' Paintings will be hung in the City Hall and .ibrarv, out side in the park, and possibly in the gymnasium. Art Newton, promineht local artist, has agreed to emcee the entertainment. So far, an orches tra led by David Ray Garrish has been secured and Miss Rachel Rollins has agreed to sing. Any (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, June 1, 9:19 A. M. 3:39 A. M. 9:53 P. M. 3:43 P. M. Friday, June 3, 10:15 A. M. 4:30 A. M. 10:48 P. M. 4:36 P. m! Saturday, June 3, 11:14 A. M.. 5:22 A. M. 11:46 P .M. 5:33 P. M. Sunday, June 4, 12:15 A. M. 6:16 A. At. 6:33 P. M. Monday, June 5, 0:45 A. M. 7:15 A. M. 1:17 P. M. 7:39 P. M. Tuesday, June 6, 1:45 A. M. 8:14 A M 2:20 P. M. 8:44 P. M. Wednesday, June 7, 2:44 A. M. 9:13 A. M. 3:20 P. M. 9:47 p
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