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Brunswick County
Volume No. 21
No. 51
10-Pages Today
SOUTHPORT, N. C.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1961
5c A COPY
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Certificates For
Class Attendance
By Food Handlers
Workers From Every Sec
tion Of Brunswick Atten
ded First Event Of This
Kind Held In County
Friday marked the close of a
four-day school for food-handlers
of Brunswick County, which was
conducted in the agriculture build
ing at Supply, and was the first
such ever held in the county.
Sponsored by the Brunswick
County Health Department, the
N. C. State Board of Health and
the N. C. Department of Public
Instruction, the instruction period
was attended by overflow crowds
of local food-handlers including
cafe-operators, school lunchroom
workers, cook's, waitresses, etc.
These were treated to practical
demonstrations by experts, whom
employed films, made talks and
answered questions.
The school got under way on
Tuesday. The first day's program
concerned bacteriology. On Wed
nesday practices was taken up;
Thursday’s program touched upon
dishwashing and cleaning prac-,
tices, and the concluding day’s
theme was “what the tourist dol
lars mean to you.” Morning and
afternoon sessions were held each
day. A breakdown on attendance
figures tells its own story:
louring- the morning program on
opening day, 78 food-handlers
were in evidence, with 48 attend
ing afternoon classes; on Wednes
day a whopping 88 students ap
peared in the morning, with 51
on hand in the afternoon; Thurs
day saw 76 in the morning, with
48 matinee pupils, while 68 at
tended closing day exercises in
the morning and 48 in the after
noon.
Among program participants
were Dr. C. B. Davis, county
health director; J. M. Jarrett, di
rector of the sanitary engineering
division, state board of health;
W. A. Broadway, W. C. Lackey
and J. S. Canady, all attached to
the state board of health; E. R.
Jones, county sanitarian; M. At.
Melvin, training specialist, N. C.
department of public instruction;
J. G. Long, superintendent county
schools, and others.
Local food-handlers with perfect
attendance at the school were
presented a certificate attesting
that the holder had successfully
completed this course.
* Those who received these cer
tificates are:
Mrs. Nelson Bennett, Margaret
Sherrill, Lillian Collins, Ethel But
ler. Ersell Hewett, Eleanor Jack
son, Mazie Willis, Maggie M.
Brown, Gladys Schick, James F.
Clemmons, Irvin Smith, Addie
Grissett, Edith Danford, Ethel
Benton, Geneva Williams.
Bertie Wilkens, Mrs. Paul H.
Ganey, Sarah Ridden, Mrs. J. G.
Hickman, Mrs. C. W. Knox, Vola
Skipper, Mrs. D. B. Hankins, Mrs.
M. M. King, Beatrice Hockett,
Velma Moore, Dola Phelps, Shevla
Lott, Velma F Ward, Louis David
Dixon, Mae Atkinson.
Rosa L. Johnson, Mrs. Edward
Gore, Gwendolyn Dixon, Mary S.
McGlamery, Oakland Smith,
Gladys B. Merritt, Lessie Corbett,
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Brief Bitt Of
lnewsj
BENEFIT SUPPER
A ham supper will be served
Saturday evening, starting at 6
o'clock at Bethel Methodist
Church, Bolivia, with proceeds to
go to the building fund.
ATENDS CONFERENCE
County School Superintendent
John G. Long will attend a con
ference on the legal aspects of the
school program next week at
Duke University in Durham!
BAKE SALE
The WSCS of Trinity Methodist
Church will sponsor a bake sale
Saturday morning, July 1, on the
sidewalk between Leggett’s and
the postoffice.
SKATING BENEFIT
Steve Beckey, proprietor of
Shalotte Skating Ring, has offer
ed to contribute 40-percent of all
receipts Monday evening, June 26,
to the Brunswick county contribu
tion to the N. C. Battleship fund.
BENEFIT FISH FRY
A benefit fish fry will be held
Saturday from 4 until 9 o'clock
at Dixon Chapel Methodist Church
near Holden Beach. Proceeds will
go to the building fund. In addi
tion to plenty of good food for
all, there will be gospel singing.
New Long Beach Councilmen
OATH—These are the newly elected members of the city, council at Long
Beach, who are being sworn in by Clerk of Superior Court Jack Brown, right.
The council members are E. W. Morgan of Long Beach; A. Turner Eight and
Wiley Snow, both of Fayetteville.
Leland Citizen
Dies Thursday
In Auto Crash
Paul H. Ganey Apparently
Died Instantly Of Injuries
Received Near State Line;
Another Man Killed
A Leland businessman and a
national sales representative died
shortly after their autos collided
just inside the N. C.-S. C. boun
dary. some 10 miles southwest of
Shallotte, late Thursday.
Paul Ganey, about 40 of Leland,
and Raymond Norlack, 46, Fon
tana, Calif, were victims of the
wreck which happened in a blind
ing Brunswick County rainstorm
on US 17, according to Coroner
Lowell Bennett.
The collision occurred some 200
feet inside the Caroiinas boundary
near Long’s Shell Service Station.
Norlack's watch stopped at 6:58
o’clock, giving a good indication
of the accident time.
Investigation showed the Nor
lack auto was moving south,
Ganey’s going north at the time
of the collision. Bennett also indi
cated that the Ganey vehicle ap
parently went into a skid before
the collision.
The autos stopped in the edge
of a wooded area beside the busy
north-south highway. Ganey’s
body is said to have been thrown
from his car into the edge of the
woods and he died while being
placed in an ambulance shortly
afterward. His death was said
caused by multiple injuries, in
cluding head and chest ailments.
Norlack was a traveling repre
sentative for National Pysiological
Corp. of America, Pleasantville, N.
J. His wife, a survivor, lives in
Miami, Fla. He died of chest in
juries.
The Norlack body was prepared
for burial at Peacock Funeral
Home in Whiteville. It was sent
from Whiteville to Miami, Fla.,
Friday on the 6:12 p. m. train for
final rites.
Ganey was a professional bonds
man and also operated Paul’s
Truck Stop and an adjoining
motel, located near Leland.
Final rites for the Brunswick
Countian were held Saturday at
3 p. m. at Coble Funeral Home
in Wilmington by the Rev. J. C.
Shaw, with burial in Oakdale
Cemetery.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
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Real Traveler
When Raymond Norlack,
46-year-old sales representa
tive, was killed near Shal
lotte, Thursday night, it
brought about some real
work tor Whiteville mortician
A. D. Peacock in finding just
where he was from.
Peacock finally used his
driver’s license to determine
Norlack was from Fontana,
Calif., but not before he also
found that he worked for a
firm out of Pleasantville, N.
•1.; had auto license from
Louisiana; his wife lived in
Miami, Fla. (where the body
was later sent); and his auto
insurance was issued out of
Bismark, N. A real
traveler!
Washington Man
Chess Champion
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Succumbs
A. A. WHIT E
Former Principal
Passes Suddenly
A. A. White Was Former
Principal At Shallotte And
Waccamaw High Schools
In This:County
Allison Almon White, one of
Eastern North Carolina's well
known educators for much of the
past 33 years, died at his summer
home at Gause's Landing, near
Shallotte, Friday. He was 59 years
old.
Principal of Manteo High School
In Dare County at the time of
his death, Mr. White was a for
mer principal of both Waccamaw
and Shallotte schools in. Bruns
wich County, but a majority of
his life was spent as a Columbus
County educator.
A graduate of Guilford College
and with post-graduate study at
both the University of North Car
olina and Duke University, the
well-liked school leader served as
principal at Fair Bluff for a year
in the late 1920s.
He later accepted tne Hallsboro
principalship and remained there
for five years, then headed the
growing Tabor City High School
as its principal for five years. He
was offered the top position in
Bladenboro High School, at the
time the largest consolidated
school in existence, xn 1940 and,
accepting, remained there as prin
cipal for some eight years.
Mr. White temporarily retired
from the educational field in 1948,
returning to Tabor City and Co
lumbus County, where he’d always
felt he was among ‘‘home folks”.
He established White Motor Sales,
an auto dealership, and operated
it for approximately seven years,
1948-1955.
But, he always had a yearning
to get back into the field which
he loved most that of educating
young people for better lives
ahead. So, he returned as principal
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Professor George Myer Of
ONI College Is Winner In
Carolinas Open Chess
Tournament Here Last
Weekend
George Meyer, a professor at
the Naval Intelligence Institute in
Washington, and Oliver Hutaff, of
Wilmington, thought their way to
a draw for first and second place
wins during the Carolinas’ Open
Chess Championship tournament
which came to a climax Sunday
night at Southport.
Third and fourth place in the
two-state tournament champion
ship play went to Jack Pince of
New York City and John Wallen
burg, of Columbia, S. C. Winding
up a disappointing fifth in the
tournament was Dr. Norman
Hornstein, pre-tournament favor
ite, and president of the N. C.
Chess Association, which, along
with the S. C. Chess Association,
sponsored the event.
The three-day tournament at
tracted 26 players from a wide
section of the Atlantic seaboard,
and was played out in the South
port Lion’s clubhouse, writh the
wide and swirling waters of the
Cape Pear river practically lap
ping beneath the chessmen’s feet.
The knotty-pine paneling of the
Lion's banquet room, was reminis
cent of an English manor hall
and the nearby river could have
easily been a moat barring un
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Special Term Of
Civil Court Will
Begin July 17th
Judge J. B. Craven Of Mor
ganton Will Preside Over
Special Two-Weeks Term
For Civil Actions
Judge J. B. Craven of Mongan
ton will preside over a two weeks
special term of Brunswick county
Superior court for trial of civil
cases beginning July 17. The sec
ond week will convene on the fol
lowing Monday.
Judge Earl Bellamy of the
Brunswick county Recorder’s
court said Monday there will be
no court held on Monday, July
3, nor on either Monday, July 17
nor Monday, July 24. He says
that he anticipates a busy time of
it on Monday, July 10 and on
Monday, July 31.
At their meeting here Monday
the county commissioners drew
names for jury duty. Following
are the names for the first week:
Marvin Watts, Martin M. Gore,
W. D. Evans, James Lewis Todd,
Hercules Stanley, Robert E.
Pigott, Lennon Todd, H. M. Fuli
wood, Shallotte; Lee Coleman, D.
B. Simmons, James Redwine, S.
L. Smith, Pawnee Formyduval,
Eugene Coleman, H. C. Smith, A.
R. Russ, Ash; Charles F. Bell,
B. N. McKeithan, Dave Galloway,
R. F. Parker, Bolivia; F. K. Hen
ry, F. W. Ganey, James Thomp
son, James M. Skipper, F. W.
Wooten, Leland; Leroy Lewis,
Navassa; John C. Johnson, Elbert
T. Galloway, D. E. Long, Cordie
Smith, Supply; Odell Milliken,
Jack King, Freeland; Noah Jones,
Wesley D. Brown, C. E. Royal,
Southport: Charles Elbert Knox,
Winnabow.
Those whoso names were drawn
for jury during the second week
are as follow:
A. B. Willis, Floyd Inman, An
drew B. Gray, Robert Lee Cheers,
R. B. Stanley, Grover Hickman,
B. B. Milligan, D. C. Benton, Glen
Continued On Page 4
Lions Hold Zone
Meet Thursday
Charlie McCullers Is Prin
cipal Speaker;; New Of
ficers Inducted By Dr. M.
H. Rourk Of Shallotte
Charlie McCullers of Kinston
was the principal speaker at the
Lions Club Zone meeting and
ladies night program here Thurs
day evening.
McCullers, who is one of the
best-known humorists in Eastern
North Carolina, kept his audience
in a happy mood throughout the
early portion of his talk, then be
came more serious to drive home
some serious thoughts near the
close of his part on the program.
McCullers is a former secretary
of the Chamber of Commerce at
Kinston and is a former District
Givernor of Rotary.
One of the highlights of the
meeting was the induction of of
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June 24, 1936: A Southport woman, Mrs. H. T. St. George, had
been honored by election as Grand Adah for the State organization
for the Order of Eastern Star. Her picture appeared on Page 1
There was another photo on the front page, this one of the giant
oak at Supply, standing in front of the old McKeithan home. (It
since has been blown down during a storm.)
Semi-annual pension checks had been received for the one re
maining Confederate veteran and for widows of Confederate vet
erans in Brunswick: Ormond Leggett and’Mrs. George Whatley
had won cartons of cigarettes for rightly predicting the top
songs on “The Hit Parade”; and “Showboat,” starring Irene
Dunn, was coming to the local moving picture emporium.
June 25, 1941: There was a front page picture of a 52-lb. sail
fish caught by a Bladenboro man while fishing off Southport.
The big shake-up in the personnel at Oak Island Coast Guard
Station had lasted just one week: Capt. Bill Barnett was back
as skipper. «
A group of Boy Scouts from Greensboro had visited Bald Head
Island in quest of buried treasure, but had returned empty-hand
ed. War clouds were looming, for in The Pilot that issue was a
new column: "This Week In DEFENSE”; and the editor touched
heavily upon the possibility of war involving the United States.
June 18, 1946: Southport had been flooded by an unusually
heavy rainfall during the past weekend when 7.85-inches had
fallen in a period of 24-hours. This was the time when kerosene
burning tobacco curers were first coming into vogue, and the
county agent had issued a warning for farmers not to allow
fumes to ruin the aroma of tobacco.
Southport was the scene of the District Home Demonstration
Club convention on the same day the paper came out; the county
commissioners had named Mrs. Lou H. Smith to continue as
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At Brunswick Town
VISITOR—Norman Larson, right, was a recent
visitor at Brunswick Town where he is shown talking
to R. V. Asbury , costumed guide, with one of the
explanatory bulletin boards in the background. Lar
sen is executive secretary of the N. C. Confederate
Centenniel Commission and was impressed with the
work that has been accomplished in connection with
exposing the remains of the breastworks of Fort
Anderson, which occupied a portion of the limits of
Brunswick Town.
Exceed Quota In
Cancer Crusade
si
Scholarship
JEAN ADAIR PIGOTT
Scholarship For
Shaliotte Girl
Jean Adair Pigott Will Re
ceive $600 Grant During
Her Third Year At Flora
Macdonald College
Jean Adair. Pigott, 20-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. L.
Pigott of Shaliotte, enters St. An
drews Presbyterian College at
Laurinburg in September with as
enviable a record as any rising
senior at that school.
In the first place, Miss Pigott
received a scholastic grant
amounting to 5600 during her
third year as a student of Flora
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Sub-Stations In
Use This Month
The Brunswick Rural Elec
tric Membership Corpora
tion Improves Facilities
To Furnish Energy
Two new substations were en
ergized recently by the Brunswick
Electric Membership Corporation
and more than 42 miles of trans
mission line installed, including a
new switching station, in an ef
fort to better serve the more
than 10,400 member-subscribers.
One of the substations is located
at Midway and the second, and
largest, in upper Brunswick Coun
ty near Wilmington. The Mid
way station is of the 2,500 KVA
class, while the other comes un
der the 10,000 KVA rating. Both
were activated on Friday, June 9. j
The Brunswick Electric Mem
bership Corporation has made
great strides since it was formed
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Bill Smith Of Southport
Headed Drive For Funds
Which Set New Reoord
For Collections
The Brunswick County Unit of
the American Cancer Society has
collected a. total of $1,386.55 dur
ing the period from September
1960 to date. Most of this was
collected during the recent Cancer
Crusade conducted under the
leadership of Bill Smith, attorney
of Southport. The receipts for this
crusade exceed those of any pre
vious Cancer Fund drive and ex
ceed the quota for this year.
Memorial gifts since September
1960 have totaled $11.50. Memo
rial contributions may be given at
any time to the area represent
ative or mailed to Mrs. J. Barnes
or Mrs. C. A. Graham, Southport.
The society will notify the family
of the deceased of the gift in his
memory.
Other contributions include:
Riegel Paper Co., $78.54; Shallotte
and Shallotte Point, Mrs. Virginia
Mintz, $305.71; Southport, Mrs.
Johnnie Duffie, $286.68; Holden
Beach, Mrs. John Holden, $34.78;
Calabash, Mrs. Ivey High, $55.00;
Tranquil Harbour, Mrs. Virginia
Kepley, $5; Bolivia, Mrs. Foster
Mintz, $60.95; Midway, Mrs. Doro
thy Brittian, $21.50; Leland, Mrs.
Robert Butler, $151.32; Yaupon
Beach, Mrs. Alice Henry, $3.85;
Supply, Mrs. Kathleen Parker,
$52.66; Ocean Isle Beach, Mrs.
O. K. Bellamy, $20; Longwood,
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Shallotte Gets
Emergency Unit
Arrangements Are Complet
ed Through Civil Defense
Director A. S. Knowles
For Storage Of Hospital
Shallotte High School will
house $100,000 worth of emer
gency hospital equipment furnish
ed by the Civil Defense depart
ment by July 1, according to
A. S. Knowles, Brunswick Coun
ty director of Civil Defense.
Knowles reported that equip
ment to set up a 200-bed hos- j
pital will “be shipped to Shal
lotte from a New Jersey ware
house about the last of this
month by the U. S. government.
The school was chosen as
storage place for the emergency
medical center, said Knowles,
“because it was about the best
public property large enough to
furnish the 15,000 square feet
which would be needed in emer
gency.”
The State Port Pilot carried a
story last week that Shallotte’s
chances of getting the hospital
storage-unit wert good, and
quoted Shallotte’s Mayor Roney
Cheers to that effect. Now it has
been officially made known that
Brunswick’s Civil Defense or
ganization has signed an agree
Continuea On Page 5
Training Union
Session Coming
Up Next Week
Facilities Of Baptist Assem
bly Will Be Taxed To
Capacity When Delegates
Arrive At Caswell
The third week of the summer
season at the Baptist Assembly
at Fort Caswell, beginning this
coming Monday, will see some 700
registered guests on hand to ush
er in Training Union week.
Baptist Training Union, direct
ed equally toward adults and
youth, is an important phase, of
Baptistry, and an outstanding pro
gram has been set up.
Fred Smith, manager of the
assembly grounds surrounded by
river and sea, said that the desig
nated paster-in-charge of the
week, will be Dr. Jack Noffsinger,
pastor of Knollwood Baptist
Church at Winston-Salem.
He is a native-born Virginian
who came to Winston-Salem in
the fall of 1957, and whose work
transformed that church from a
mission to an institution with up
ward of 1,000 active members.
In charge of the overall Train
ing Union Week activities will be
James P. Morgan, secretary of
T. U. departments for the N. C.
Baptist State Convention; while
John Laverty, minister of music
for the First Baptist Church of
Durham will direct the week's
musical activities.
Another distinguished visitor
will he Dr. Perry Langston of
Nashville, Tenn., Southwide work
er, who will lead the conferences
during Training Union Week.
Services begin on Monday eve
ning.
The Assembly will utilize its
Union Outdoor Worship Center for
the first time this season, when
a vesper-by-the-sea will be con
ducted, beginning at 7 o’clock
Tuesday evening. In charge of this
star-studded activity will be Mrs.
S. C. Ray. Mrs. Ray is the wife
of the minister of education for
the First Baptist Church of
Greensboro.
On Tuesday of this week the
Assembly was a beehive of activi
ty. Workers were everywhere in
evidence; scouring, sweeping away
the gently-drifting sands; mowing
the surprisingly-aboundant grass
which covers the 286 acres like a
velvet carpet. A snack-bar was
doing good business.
College Course
Being Arranged
New Off-Campus College
Course \yill Be Taught
At Shallotte, Beginning
Next Week
An off campus college course
will be held at Shallotte High
School beginning at 9:00 a. m.,
Monday, and will meet for four
hours each day through Saturday,
July 1.
The course will be 316GA (Ap
plied Phonics in Reading and
Spelling) and will offer 3 quarter
hours graduate or undergraduate
college credit. This course can
also be used for certificate re
newal.
Those taking this course must
have college senior or graduate
certification. It will be taught by
Mrs. Mildred Pate, professor of
English, at East Carolina College.
‘‘Of all the opportunities we
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Tide Table
Following is the tide
table, for Southport during
the week. These hours are
approximately correct and
were furnished The State
Port Pilot through the
courtesy of the Cape Fear
Pilot’s Association.
High Tide Low Tide
Thursday, June 22,
1:38 A. M. 8:28 A. M.
2:36 P. M. 9:06 P. M.
Friday, June 23,
2:33 A. M. 9:22 A. M.
3:31 P. M. 10:06 P. M.
Saturday, June 24,
3:30 A. M. 10:15 A. M.
4:26 P. M. 11:03 P. M.
Sunday, June 25,
4:27 A. M. 11:09 A. M.
5:19 P. M. 11:59 P. M.
Monday, June 26,
5:23 A. M. 12:02 A. M.
6:12 P. M.
Tuesday, June 27,
6:19 A. M. 0:51 A. M.
7:03 P. M. 12:54 P. M.
Wednesday, June 28,
7:16 A. M. 1:42 A. M.
7:55 P. M. 1:45 P. M