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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 11 Volume No. 22 No. 3 12-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1961 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Miss Brunswick Has Best Wishes Of 1S60 Winner Miss Carol Lane Hewett Of Shallotte Receives Mes sage Of Encouragement From Ann Farrington Her ring Carol Lane Hewett, Miss Bruns wick County, is in Greensboro for the rest of this week where she will compete in the Miss North Carolina Pageant as the first offi cial entry Brunswick has ever furnished. Her escort will be Donald B. McKeithan and her chaperone will be Mrs. Lillian Hewett. The Brunswick County contest was sponsored this year by the Shallotte Jaycees, and through a series of preliminary contests a tremendous interest was develop ed in the competition. As a result, the Shallotte High School grad uate goes to Greensboro with the best wishes of her home county. It has been announced that the finals Saturday night will be shown live on WECT, and one of the sponsors is the Southport Sav ings & Loan Association. A good lnck message came to day to Carol Lane Hewett, Bruns wick County’s representative in the Miss North Carolina Pageant, from Ann Farrington Herring, reigning state titlist. The Winston-Salem beauty, who finished third in last year's Miss America Pageant, expressed her appreciation to the people of Brunswick County and to the Shallotte Jaycees for selecting Miss Hewett as the local entry in the North Carolina pageant, again this year the largest single state preliminary to the Miss America contest. I wish to otter Carol my best Wishes, and I hope for her all the best of luck as she competes for the title I’ll be giving up,” Queen Ann said. "I know everybody in Bruns wick County will be right behind Carol all the way, encouraging her and hoping for her every minute of the Pageant.” Miss Hewett leaves here Tues day, July 18, for Greensboro, where the 1961-62 state pageant will be presented by the Guilford College Jayces in the city's new air-conditioned War Memorial Auditorium. "Becoming Miss North Carolina is the finest thing that can hap pen to a girl,” the retiring Miss North Carolina said, “and I'm sure every Tar Heel will be cheer ing for Carol all the way if she’s the winner!” Brief Bit§ Of lnewsj RETURN VISIT Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Hornsby and their daughter, Mes. Jean Collins, and grandchildren, Joyce, Diane, Earl and Tommy, of Greeley, Col., are on a vacation visit to Long Beach. BACK AT WORK Woodrow Smith, bridge-tender at the inland waterway bridge join ing Oak Island with the main land, has returned to his job fol lowing a six-months absence due to illness. Smith, reported to be fully recovered, resides in Supply. ANOTHER YOU NAME IT The Rev. P. Jenret, pastor of Bethel Methodist Church in Bo livia, has accepted a call to serve • the Concord Methodist Church in Supply. The pastor will con tinue his service to Bethel, as well as tend his new charge each Sunday, it is reported. AROUND THE WORLD Mrs. Mille Smith of Holly Ridge, a former teacher in the Southport school, left Wilming ton last week on the first leg of a round-the-world trip which will carry her to Portugal, Spain, Greece, Turkey, India, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, Hong Kong, Macao, Japan and Hawaii. HERE ON VISIT Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Gray and family are currently^'enjoying a visit with Mrs. Clarence Var num of Southport. Mrs. Varnum is Mrs. Gray's mother. Gray is Chief Boatswain Mate in the U. S. Coast Guard, and was formerly stationed at Oak Island Lifeboat Station. The visitors will return to Rockland, Maine, on July 2'i, where C. B. M. Gray is now sta tioned. Seining For Specimens SCIENTISTS—Summer school students at Duke University are shown in action last week in a swamp area of Brunswick county where they were seeking specimens for use in their zoological research. The group was well pleased with what they found in this area. Summer Students Collect Specimens iiology Students From Duke^ University Find Bruns wick Abounding In Labo ratory Material Southport played host all last week to a small body of scientists intent on turning up choice geo [ logical and zoological specimens. The party, 13 in number, are all : high school teachers with the ex I ception of their leader, Dr. A. W. ' Sharer, a professor at North Car olina Wesleyan College in Rocky Mount. Dr. Sharer explained that the ] group are students in a special i six-weeks summer course held at Duke University in the twin sub jects of geology and zoology. Three weeks of the course are ! spent in the field, according to Dr. Sharer, one week in the Pied mont near Durham; one in the mountains of Western N. C.; and the final week down near the sea. And how did the week at Southport shape up? Dr. Sharer waved a hand about the room, cluttered with speci mens, some still alive. There were snakes, lizards, frogs and insects galore, including the black widow spider. Represented in the group were teachers from Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia, as well ; as North Carolina. A sedate mem I ber of the scientists, was Sister j Jerome, who teaches at Bishop England Parochial high school in Charleston, S. C. Her severe black habit contrasted greatly with the loose and light-colored clothing of the other teachers, who on the whole were fairly young and about I evenly divided as to gender. ! Dr. Sharer said that the ex Continued Cu Page 4 Bellamy Is Still Mayor At Beach Southport Building Contrac tor Re-Elected Monday Night By Fellow Council men I C. E. Bellamy was reelected Mayor of Yaupon Beach Monday evening by vote of his fellow members of the city council who | had received their appointments from Governor Terry Sanford only one week previously. C. E. Murphy was named may ■ or pro-tem. Other members of the council are E. G. Sinclair, E. E. Wesley, G. V. Barbee, Jr., and E. L. Champion. The latter, who re places Wesley Garner on the j hoard, is the only new member. The board voted to employ Mrs. Horace Duncan to serve as city (Continued on Page 4) Border Markets Open August 3 The Border Belt Tobacco market sale opening date has been set for August 3. The action to begin sales August 3 was taken Tuesday night at the annual meeting of the Border Belt Warehouse association. This is the same day the South Carolina tobacco selling season opens. The Warehousemen reelect ed P. R. Floyd of Fairmont as president and C. B. Stafford, also of Fairmont, secretary and treasurer. Sport Fishing Has Good Week I Good Weather And Plenty Of Fish Is Story of This Activity During The Past Week At Southport The hot weather of the past week brought large numbers of both sportsmen and sports fish to i Southport waters and fish and : fishermen fought it out under a ! blazing sun. The biggest catch reported at press time was the 396 blues and Spanish mackerel, bagged on Tuesday by a party aboard the Davis Brothers with Capt. Fred Fulford. The boat was chartered by Irving Nichols of Belmont. The Idle On II, with Capt. Basil Watts at the helm and bearing E. A. Clement of Charlotte and ! party, wound up on Tuesday with i 286 blues and Spanish mackerel. | The Idle On IV. Capt. Hoyle | Dosher, chartered by the Caribaldi ! party of Charlotte, captured 260 blues and Spanish mackerel, also on Tuesday. On the same day the Riptide, , Oapt. Glen Trunnell, and carrying Dr. T. A. Hewittson of Pomeroy, Ohio, took 250 blues and Spanish , mackerel. Dr. Pomeroy was out here in May. This marks his sec ond week of fishing on this, his second, trip from the Midwest I within three months. The fishing • Physician goes out again on Fri J day of this week. On Sunday, Dick Hart and par ! ty of Fayetteville, aboard the Rip : tide, Capt. Trunnell, came ashore with 90 blues and Spanish mack erel, 3 dolphin, 5 bonito, 6 king l mackerel and 2 baracuda. I On the same day, Capt. Basil Watts steered the Idle On II, Continued On Fage 4 l Headquarters Of Boiling Springs Move To County New Administration Build ing Will Be Constructed On Property To House Business Activities Harold Greene, general manager of the Boiling Spring Lakes De velopment in Brunswick county, said Monday afternoon that fol lowing a conference that morning on the property with the owners, Hazard Reeves and Drayton Has tey, the decision had been reached to transfer the business office up here from Charleston, S. C. Work will begin immediately on the construction of an administra tion building, which will be con structed of brick and will be air conditioned. It will be located near the main entrance on Highway No. 87. Miller Construction Co. of Wilmington has the contract for this building. Work also has begun on the first of a series of model homes which are being erected on a pav ed street, and for which a central water supply will be available. This is for the purpose of making FHA and VA financing available for lot owners who wish to build. “We hope to be able to offer a $10,000 home to a veteran for as little as $20 down,” Greene said this week. There is new, too, about the golf course, with the developers deciding to finance the construc tion and to begin on it right away. They have engaged the services of a golf architect to build the first nine holes, and he has promised to have it ready for play by next spring. There is also some discussion of plans to begin immediately on the construction of a culb house. Movie Program For Youngsters Free Movies Friday After noon Attracted Big Crowd Of Southport Boys And Girls The summer program of free movies for boys and girls under twenty years of age got under way Friday afternoon with about 250 young people taking advan tage of this new recreational at traction for the Southport area. The program is being sponsor ed by the employees of Sunny Point Army Terminal in coopera tion with Manager B. L. Furpless of the Amuzu theatre. Lt. J. L. Norton, who repre sented Sunny Point employees at the initial showing, said that he was well pleased both with the attendance and the deportment of the audience. There appeared to be more than usual amount of aisle traffic, but this no doubt was brought about by the fact that in the absence of any admission charge, there was more money for cold drinks and pop corn. It was observed that those in charge of these con cessions were flooded with buyers most of the time the show was in progress. (Continued on Page 4) Free Movie Matinee CROWD—This is a part of the crowd of youngsters who crowded into the Amuzu Theatre here Friday afternoon for the free movie program, sponsored as v a Recreation feature by theiemployees of Sunny Point, in cooperation with Man ager fi. L. Furpless of the'Amuzu Theatre. The programs, which are for persons under 20-years-of-age, will1 continue through August and will be shown on Wed nesday and Friday afternoons. Brunswick Will Be Represented In Crab Derby i Dan’l Walker, City Man ager Of Long Beach, Will Serve As Manager And Trainer For Entry Let Calveras County, California, have its jumping frog contest, and Atlantic City and Myrtle Beach their interminable beauty con tests; North Carolina will hold a crab derby next month, at More head City. Dan Walker, city manager for Long Beach, and no stranger to the Morehead City area of East Carolina, claims “it’s in the net for Brunswick County’’. Dan rav ed and raved up at Morehead, declaring that Brunswick will Continued On Page 4 TIME and TIDE There were a couple of interesting front page pictures in The Pilot for July 22, 1936. One showed a fine catch of sheephead which had been caught at Holden Beach; the other showed the Southport-Wilmington mail bus, with driver Rollie Walton stand ing beside his vehicle with a mail pouch in his hand. Southport had been the scene of a summer session of the N. C. Fisheries Commission with members of the Board of Conserva tion and Development present. Homecoming Day had been obser ved at New Hope Presbyterian Church at Winnobow on the prev ious Sunday; and Shirley Temple was playing little girl roles, her current hit being “The Princess Comes Across.” — July 23, 1941, and the front page picture showed small grain | harvest in progress in Waccamaw township. Shallotte was the scene of a school bus drivers training program for that week. Both the City of Southport and Brunswick county had levied their new tax rates, each set at $160 per hundred. Dan Gregory and his orchestra were to play for a dance at Long Beach; State Highway officials had promised to investigote the condition of ; the pontoon bridge over the intracoastal waterway near South | port; and another anniversary had been celebrated at New Hope. Preliminary clearing had started at the site of two blueberry farms near Southport. That was fifteen years ago this week. Havy rains had caused considerable damage to crops on Bruns ; wick county farms during the past few days. In fact, rains had hurt more than farming: Residents of the ! Waccamaw section were complaining that high water had pre vented their normal harvest of redbreast ond blue bream. A good crop of honey was in the process of being harvested in the coun (Continued on Page 4) Tentative Rate Is Now Set At $1.47 Superior Court In Session Here Judge J. B. Craven of Mor ganton is presiding over a two-weeks term of Superior court for trial of civil cases and good progress is being made in disposing of a num ber of cases for which trial has long been pending. Several accident cases are set for trial and the first case set for Monday is an other in the suits against the State Highway Commission for right-of-way takings on U. S. No. 17. This time the plaintiff is Sam J. Frink. Court is expected to con tinue through next week. Car Hits Cow, Causing Wreck Mrs. Sam Fletcher Frink And Baby Daughter Both Are Hospitalized Follow ing Friday Accident A Shallotte family returning to their home from a trip to White ville had the misfortune to en counter a stray cow on U. S. Highway 17. about 11:15 last Fri day night. Net results of the colli | sion were one dead cow, two hos i pitalized patients and one badly : wrecked compact car. Sam Fletcher Frink, Jr., was at the wheel of a Volkswagon rolling along at moderate speed only one mile south of Shallotte and home, when a cow loomed out of the night directly ahead. Frink said he had no chance to avoid striking the animal, which ran directly into the path of the small car which was headed north. The crash threw the heavy ani mal atop the hood of the Frink vehicle. Flying glass did most of the damage to the occupants, who, 1 besides the driver included Mrs. Maisie Frink and three small daughters. None of the Frinks escaped injury. Mrs. Frink and Continued On Page \ Board Of Commissioners In Lengthy Sessions Here This Week Reduce Pro posed Rate Of $1.63 Following two days of serious study and discussions of the pro posed budget and tentative tax rate announced two weeks ago, members of the board of com missioners voted Tuesday after noon to make a downward ad justment in the new rate from $1.63 to $1.47. Four members of the board voted in favor of this motion, with R. E. Bellamy abstaining from voting. The action leaves the 11-cent increase granted the Board of Education intact and provides an additional 5-cents with which to pay the raises granted to elected county officials and for specified travel allowances by legislative act passed during the recent ses sion of the General Assembly. Members of the board of com missioners voted to refuse the raise in their per diem allowance provided in the General Assembly bill on salaries. There was an earlier vote taken to determine if there could be a cut made in the 11-cent allowance being made for the school fund, and on this motion Commissioner I. D. Butler to make such a cut, Commissioner Bellamy abstained from voting and the other three commissioners voted to leave this allowance as it had been approved earlier as a part of the tentative budget. As matters now stand, the pro posed budget will lie open until July 28 and is subject to change up to that time. If no alterations have been made, it will be for mally adopted and the new rate will be $1.41, an increase of 16 cents over the $1.31 rate of last year. There was notice that this would be a stormy session when Ray H. Walton appeared before the board Monday morning anc asked to have made available tc him certain financial records which he said clients had instruct ed him to examine in the thought that any raise in the tax rate at this time is unnecessary. The following letter was pre sented to the board: (Continued on Page 4) Crowds Attend Music Week At Nearby Assembly Inspirational Programs At Baptist Assembly Draw Audience Members Other Than Students Music Week at the Baptist As sembly near Southport is attract ing larger numbers of guests and visitors than was expected, ac cording to Fred Smith, manager of the Assembly Grounds. Smith said that 559 guests had register ed by Monday night and predicted that “the number will exceed 600 before the week closes.” Some 500 had been expected to attend the week’s program. The guests were treated on Monday night to a stirring recital by one of the country’s leading singers, Walter Carringer, lyric tenor of great range and fame. Carringer, a New Yorker, directs the Boy's Choir at Greenwich Village in the big city. Carrington opened his recital with “Comfort Ye”, and continued with “Every Valley Shall be Ex alted", both selections from Han del’s Messiah, before switching to Mendelsohn and an aria from "Elijah.” The acoustics at the main auditorium left nothing to be desired, and the large audience expressed themselves in such ad jectives as “thrilling”, “stupen dous” and “exalted.” On Friday night of this week the guests will hear a concert of choirs under the direction of Paul Peterson, head of the voice department of Salem College, Winston-Salem. More than 500 voices will blend in selections from “The Beatitudes” by Van Hulse, and songs from the work of Bustehude and other composers. Soloists heard during the choir concert, set for 8 p. m. in the main auditorium, include Mrs. Kay Phillips, soprano; Miss Jean Saunders, alto; Bill Sutter, tenor; and James Berry, bass. All solo ists are ministers of music, at Baptist churches in their Boma towns, whittt- include ^Chafiotfe and Winston-SaleVn. / Next week will usher in th/ ' second Baptist Training TJtijf Week held this summer at the as sembly. Some 800 persons are ex pected to attend, and the third week of the same program will (Continued on Page 4) Heart Attacks Strike Twice i Coroner L, B, Bennett Re ports Two Deaths From This Cause Thursday In This County ! I 1 Coroner L. B. Bennett of Shal lotte had two calls Thursday, each for a death due to heart at tack and both in the vicinity of Gause Landing. The first victim was the Rev. Harold Andrew Pruyn, Methodist minister of Winston-ralem. He was at Ocean Isle on vacation, and about noon while fishing in the sound near Gause Landing he was stricken with a heart attack and died. He was 60 years of age. The second occurance was dur ing the early evening when James Lawson Gore, 55-year-old fisher man of Gause Landing, died en route to Shallotte where he was being taken for medical attention following a sudden illness. Coroner Bennett, who viewed the body, expressed the opinion that this death was due to heart attack. Tide Table Following is the tide table tor 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. Thursday, July 20, 6:35 A. M. 12:15 A. M. 7:14 P. M. 1:06 P. M. Friday, July 21, 7:28 A. M. 1:05 A. i 8:15 P. M. 2:04 P. Saturday, July 22, 8:25 A. M. 2:03 A. M. 9:19 P. M. 3:04 P. M. Sunday, July 23, 9:26 A. M. 3:05 A. M. | 10:21 P. M. 4:05 P. M. Monday, July 24, 10:26 A. M. 4:10 A. M. 11:20 P. M. 5:05 P. M. Tuesday, July 25, 11:25 A. M. 5:12 A. M. 6:03 P. M. Wednesday, July 26, ! 0:16 A. M. 6:12 A. M. 12:21 P, M. 6:59 P. M.
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