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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. 22 No. 11 10-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1961 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Leland Robbery Case Features Court Docket One-Week Term Of Super ior Court For Trial Of Criminal Cases Convenes Here Monday Morning Dining the one-week term of Brunswick County Superior Court devoted to the trial of criminal cases and presided over by Judge Hamilton H. Hobgood of Louis burg, which convenes on Monday, it is expected that three men charged with the bold and armed robbery of a Leland service sta tion last December will be tried. The case aroused much interest in the county, as much for the boldness of its execution as for the considerable sum of money and bonds involved in the crime. Standing accused before the bar of justice will be John Calvin Whaley of Beulahville, Virgil M. Sanderson of Wilmington, and Troy Brown of Leland. At 46, Brown is the oldest of the trio. The crime took place a few minutes before 9 o'clock on the cold night of Tuesday, December 20, 1960, when two men, one of them wearing a mask and both bandishing pistols, walked into the Willetts Service Station near Le land, -and demanded all money in the place. The 70-year-old Mrs. Alice Benton, mother of Mrs. Wil letts, was tending the station at the time of the robbery. The thieves scooped up some $14,000 in cash and a small iron safe said to contain some $18,000 in bonds. Before leaving the scene they tied up the aged woman and another woman, locking the vic tims in a bedroom before making their escape. Blown was the last apprehended, and since he was not believed to be present at the actual robbery, is charged with being an accessory both before and after the fact and a con spirator with the younger gun wielders. The defendants are said to have admitted burning the pilfered bonds, but have remained mum as to the whereabouts of the miss ing cash. Their case is scheduled to be heard on Wednesday. Other cases docketed for the term include that of Dalton R. Norton, charged with manslaugh ter as the outcome of a fatal acci dent involving an automobile, sev eral forgery cases, a number of larceny cases, female assault, and a good number of drunk driving CclS6S. P.T.A Meeting Here Thursday President J. F. Howard Will Appoint Committee Members For Year At First Meeting The Southport Parent Teacher Association will meet Thursday night in the Southport High School auditorium at 7:30 o'clock. This is a most important meeting for every parent because all of the committees will be appointed for the 1961-62 year. The meeting will be highlighted by the introduction of the new principal and all of the new Continued On Page 4 Brie/ mu Of lnewsj ART EXHIBITION The paintings and drawings of Southport artist Gilliam Horn stein will be exhibited at the Art ists Gallery in Wilmington with the work hanging for the 15-day period from September 16 through the 30. A preview and reception will mark the opening day in the Port City. SUB-DISTRICT MEET The M. Y. F. Sub-District held a retreat on Saturday at Ocean View Church, Yaupon Beach. The program began at 8:30 a. m. Everyone brought sandwiches for a picnic lunch. Each local M.Y.F. president is a member of the Sub District Council. WORK ON ANNUAL The Senior class of Southport High School is beginning its cam paign to sell ads and annuals for this year. Members of the class will be around to see local busi ness firms before next Thursday. All parents or friends who want j an annual are asked to send the i money to school with their child- j ren, or contact Carolyn Barbee, telephone 7-4232. Twin Catch ■~wam PROUD—George R. Likens of Jacksonville is shown here standing between the two sailfish which he caught Sunday while out with.Capt. Walter Lewis aboard the John Ellen. A total of 13 of these fish were brought in by parties fishing at Southport last week.—(Howard Photo.) Record Catches Of Sailfish Are Still Going On Total Of Thirteen Taken In Period Of One Week By Boats Fishing Out Of Southport Southport's offshore fishing continues excellent with large latches reported for fewer excur sions. The big fellows are much in evidence with 13 sailfish being taken in the past week. This averages out to almost two sails per fishing-day, and, if not a rec ird, comes mighty close. The George R. Likens party from Jacksonville, out Sunday on the John Ellen, Capt. Walter Lewis, brought back not one but two sailfish, one of which meas ured 6 ft. and 5 inches, the other, 5 ft. and 8 inches. Both giants were hauled in by Likens. On Saturday aboard the Eva-K, Capt. Dick Skipper, the Bill Wol ford party of Sanford went one better with three sailfish, the largest of which stretched 7 feet long; this one caught by James Galyon of Sanford; second sail landed fell to Mack Wolford of Sanford, and measured 6 ft. 8 inches, while Bill Wolford had to be content with a "baby” sail, only 6 ft. 6 inches long. On Wednesday the Idle On IV, Capt. Hoyle Dosher, carried B. J. Sain of Vale to a sailfish meas uring 6 ft. 6 inches, and Donald Adams of Hickory, to one 3 inch es longer than Sain’s. The Idle On III, Capt. H. A. Schmidt, carried the L. A. Car well party from Camden, S. C., to mastery over 11 kingfish, 50 bluefish, 2 barracuda and 9 bonito, on Monday. On the same day the Idle On II, Capt. Basil Watts, chartered by the R. W. Bryan party of Char lotte, brought in 10 kingfish, 25 blues, 10 bonito and 2 barracuda. Also on the same day, the Idle On IV, Capt. Dosher, carrying the J. N. Nesbitt party from Kan napolis, brought in 50 blues, 4 king mackerel, 4 bonito, 2 amber jack and 3 barracuda. CD Meeting Held At Varnumtown A. S. Knowles County Di rector Explains Program And Help That Is Avail able About fifty Varnumtown men and women gathered in Dixon Chapel Methodist church last Tuesday night to learn more about the grave World situation, and more particularly to learn about radio-active fallout and survival shelters. A. S. Knowles, Director of Civil Defense for Brunswick County, supplied the information on the world situation and how the Civil Defense program will operate in case of an emergency. Knowles showed a motion picture on fall out, and what to do in case fall out becomes a problem. Plans for building fallout shel ters were distributed to those at Continued Or; Page 4 Count Incomplete In Farm Election Record Vote Is Cast Mon-5* day And Ballots Are Be ing Counted Today At ASC Office Ballots from the ASC Com munity Committee election on Monday are being counted today at the office in Shallotte, and at 3 o'clock this afternoon the re sults from four of the six town ships were made public by Ralph Price, office manager. In Northwest township Paul Brown was high man, chairman and delegate; Elmer Aycock and Rufus Stewart are other members, j with Willie Peterson and John Smith, alternates. In Smithville the high man was Willie Clemmons, chairman and j delegate; Alvie Clemmons and i Marvin Carterett are other mem- j bers. Alternates are Clarence ( Lennon and Hoyd Lancaster. The Lockwoods Folly voting re sulted in election of Stanton Brown as chairman and delegate. Members are Aldreth Phelps and Ishmel Chadwick. Floyd Hewett and McKinley Hewett are alter nates. In Shallotte township Horry Jenrett came off the winner and will serve as chairman and dele gate. John H. Gore and Grover Hickman are members. Rufus Sommersett and Fred Watts are alternates. Price said that ballot counting would continue this afternoon un til completed, but he said that this w'as turning out to be quite a job since a total of 1,857 votes were cast. High man from each communi ty will serve as delegate to the county convention which is to be held Thursday, September 21, for the purpose of electing the coun ty committee for the coming year. ; Negro Killed In Auto Wreck Youth Is Fatally Injured When One Car Side swipes Another Near His Home An automobile collision in the early hours of Sunday morning brought death to a 13-year-old Negro boy and hospitalized five other Negroes, all occupants of the death car. Brunswick Coroner L. B. Ben nett said that the youthful vic tim, identified as Earl Lindberg Frink, Jr., died instantly when the car in which he was a passenger sideswiped another in a passing attempt. The accident occurred about 1:30 a. m. on the Thomas boro-Hickman's Crossroad high way. Driver of the death car was identified as Henderson Stanley, 35-year-old Brunswick native. Stanley is hospitalized at Dosher Memorial Hospital in Southport along with the surviving passen gers, some of whom are reported on the critical list. (Continued on Page 4) Student LINDA PHELPS Brunswick Girl At New College Linda Phelps, Shallotte Hi School Graduate, Mem ber Of First Freshman Class At St. Andrews Linda Phelps, 1961 graduate of Shallotte High School, will be a member of the first freshman class in history at St. Andrews Presbyterian College in Laurin burg this fall. Among the awards she received Continued On Page 4 Several Towns Share In Money From Powell Bill Long Beach And Boiling Spring Lakes Receive Big gest Share Due To Great Street Mileage Brunswick County has come in for the sum of $68,238.49, out of almost 7 Vi million dollars Powell Bill Funds allocated participating municipalities for 1961. Of this sum the town of Long Beach gets the lion’s share, with $32,023.34, and Shallotte receives the smallest county allocation, with $2,174.15. Six Brunswick towns participate in the plan wherein the state al locates funds derived from gaso line taxes to qualified cities and towns for use in non-highway system street work within the corporate limits. Size of the allo cations is determined by popula tion and number and length of streets. It is not surprising, then, to find that in Brunswick County such municipalities as Boiling Spring Lakes, a spawling de velopment of 15,000 acres and more than 37 miles of streets, receives $16,892.28, in comparison with Southport’s allocation of $10,964.03, for use on 15 Vs miles of streets. Long Beach’s alloca tion surpasses that bestowed upon the larger Boiling Spring Lakes only because of the population difference. Other participating Brunswick municipalities and their alloca tions, are Yaupon Beach, $3, 841.51, and Ocean Isle Beach, $2,343.18. Brunswick Gets Road Fatality Second Victim Of Labor Day Weekend Accident In This County Dies In ;, Sjt^'apital Friday Brunswick County had its sec ond Labor Day weekend traffic victim chalked up on Friday, as John Hilton Hall, 41 of Clark ton, died at Columbus County Hospital in Whiteville. Hall was critically injured in an accident which occurred on Sept 3 at the intersection of NC 904 and the Ash-Hickman’s Cross Hoads highway. Albert Ellis, 30, also' of Clarkton, died instantly in the accident, which happened at about 6:50 p. in., at the Regan crossing, near Longwood in Bruns wick County. Two other persons are still hos pitalized from the two-car crash which Patrolman H. F. Deal said investigation indicated that an auto driven by W. J. Piver, for merly of Chadbourn but now of Asheville, came from the Ash Hickman’s Crossing road onto NC 904—which is a through road— and collided with the car bearing the Clarkton men. Reports from the local hospital indicate that Piver and Anson Nelson, 45, of Ash, are both in satisfactory condition at present, after being injured in the acci dent. Hall died early Friday mor ning. Final rites were held at 4 p. m., Saturday, from Clarkton Presbyterian Church by the Rev. J. W. Miller, with burial in Clark (Continued on Page 4) TIME and TIDE In our edition for September 16, 1936, there was a front page picture of a new silo at Hillcrest Dairy near Southport, now the Lindner Brothers Farm. Robert Jones was the manager. There was another picture, showing Eleanor Howey (McAuley), Han nah and Carey Reece, all double winners in the Southport Tennis tournament. There was talk of holding a sailing regatta at Southport the following summer; sports fishing was good again here in the lower Cape Fear after muddy water caused by up-state rains had cleared; and although several tobacco warehouse advertisements said that prices were high and that selling was brisk, nowhere could there be found a statement of the average price being paid. Must have been pretty bad! September 17, 1941, and the most interesting story on the front page of The Pilot that week was about a couple of youngs ters who had locked themselves inside an abandoned hearse, then had frightened off their would-be rescuers with unearthly noises. But the story came off with a happy ending. This might well have been dubbed “Crazy Week,” for another front page piece told of an embarrassing mix-up in clothing at the local dry cleaners: A well known man about town had to go to a Saturday night dance in a suit that fitted like a straight jacket; while the next morning in a local church a Southport minister had filled the pulpit dressed in baggy britches and with a drape-shape jacket. But in a more serious vein, a British traw Continued On Page 4 Fallout Shelter £ C REFUGE—Mrs. Leigh Tomlinson is shown here standing on the floor of the fallout shelter being ‘ constructed at the Tomlinson home in Deepwater heights. Standing by on the sleeping shelf are dau ghter Mary and son Johnny. ] Tomlinson Family ; Building Shelter: In Training Miss Evelyn Jane Newell, daughter of Mrs. Laura Lee St. George, entered Hamlet School of Nursing at Hamlet Hospital on September 1. She is a 1960 grad uate of Southport High School. During and after her high school career she was employed at Dosh er Memorial Hospital. Schedule For Mobile X-Ray Arrangements Being Com pleted By A Committee From Woman’s Club For Coiming Visit The mass survey to detect ac tive or incipient cases of tuber culosis will soon be rolling, via mobile X-ray - unit, throughout Brunswick County. First stop for the unit will be Southport, where citizens will have three days in which to avail themselves of free X-rays. The survey is sponsored by the Southport Woman's Club under the auspices of the State Health Department, and is open, free of charge, to all citizens of Bruns wick County 15 years of age or over. Free chest X-rays will be made at Southport for all comers on October 3-5. Second stop in the important service is scheduled for October 6 and 7 at Bolivia; in Shallotte October 11-14; Varnum town on October 10; Ash on Oc tober 17 and 18, and the survey will terminate at Leland with a three-day stand beginning on Oc tober 19. Mrs. W. S. Norman, chairman lor the tuberculosis committee of the Southport Woman’s Club, urged that “all citizens avail themselves of this free opportuni- | ty to have their lungs checked by the miracle of X-ray.” The com mittee chairman pointed out that a "stitch in time can save more than nine stitches- it can save your life.” In the interval before the sur (Continued on Page 4) Ureat Local Interest In Sen- £ ous Consideration To This j 1 Problem By Southport ’ Citizens i Eugene B. Tomlinson, recently ippointed Director of Civil De- , :ense for Southport, has set an ; . jxample for other citizens in the ; natter of providing protection for ; lis family against the threat of j luclear warfare with the con- j , itruction of a fallout shelter at ! sis home located in Deepwater heights. Excavation has been completed ; ind walls now are up to ground evel, leaving only the work of : providing a roof for the shelter. : Incidentally, the entire installa tion will provide a foundation for i dining area which comes as a sort of extra bonus, and is a de ight to Mrs. Tomlinson. The shelter is being construct id in accordance with Office of -ivil Defense specifications. The 'loor is a six-inch thick reinforced concrete slab, side walls are block construction with the cores filled vith concrete and reinforcing rods imbedded therein to protect again- - st ground shock wave, roof will be i “sandwich" consisting of one six nch reinforced concrete slab, twelve inches of earth and an other reinforced concrete slab four nches thick. The floor area is 120-square feet providing twice the recom mended area of 10 square feet per person to be housed. Sufficient water-free excavation depth was obtained to place the entire living area underground and still provide a headroom or ceiling height of seven and one-half feet. Water will be obtained from a hand pump mounted on a well point system driven below the bottom of the shelter. Provision for sewage disposal is planned. A handcrank blower similar to that used on blacksmith forges con Continued On Page 4 Supper Meeting Is 4-H Kick-Off; Super Session Friday Night Will Launch Drive To Raise Sponsoring Funds A supper meeting to kick-off the 4-H Development Fund Drive has been called for Friday night at the Agricultural Building in Supply, according to Brunswick Farm Agent A. S. Knowles. Some thirty communities will participate in the ten-day drive, i during which it is hoped the financial goal of $3,549, will be raised. Chairman from each par ticipating community, headed by Wilton Harrelson, county drive chairman, will hear an address by Robert Wood, specialist in devel opment and attached to the State College extension service. Aubrey C. Johnson, county treasurer for the fund, will also attend the meeting. Both Harrelson and Johnson are from Shallotte. The banquet-meeting will get underway at 7:30 o’clock. Battleship Will Not Arrive Here Until October 1 County Fund Chairman H. Foster Mintz Reports Col lections Totaling $1,500 From Brunswick The long-awaited arrival of the mighty warship U. S. S. North Carolina, originally scheduled to leave Bayonne, N. J., yesterday, and expected to glide past South port and into the Cape Fear' River under tow on Monday, Sep tember 18, has been delayed due to the series of tropical disturb ances churning the South Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. Both the navy and the N. C. Battleship Commission are agreed on the feasibility of a “wait and watch" plan, before sending the great ship home to North Carolina and a berth at Wilmington. With such a floating prize at stake, the wishes of the insurance under writers also must be taken into consideration. The ship, completely repainted, scoured and refitted by a small army of regular Navy personnel during the past several months, according to Hugh Morton, chair man of the battleship commission, "is ready for visitors, just as soon as a parking area and foot ramp have been constructed.” The vessel will be berthed on the Cape Fear across from the U. S. Cus toms House. If all goes well and weather permitting, the first Tar Heel visitors will walk her decks about October 1. Morton, recently returned from Bayonne and the ceremonies at tendant upon the transfer of the dreadnaught from the Navy to the State Battleship Commission, said that “although the fund drive has reached the considerable fig ure of $240,000, nearly $50,000 more is needed for the construc tion costs of a parking area and ramp.” In this connection, Brunswick County may take great pride in a report just issued by H. Foster Mintz, county chairman for the battleship fund. Mintz poirited out in his report that “Brunswick County thus far has forwarded to the state commission a sum of money that is more than 300 per cent of what was set as our goal”. The following eight Brunswick men are newly-commissioned Ad mirals in the North Carolina (Continued on Page 4) Good News From Brunswick Folks Mrs. William Carrier Talk ed Tuesday Night To Father At Freeport, Tex as A telephone call from Freeport, Tex., for Mrs. William Carrier Tuesday night brought good news from her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Simmons, who reported that they were safe following the devastation of Hurricane Carla. Simmons reported that he knew 3f the whereabouts of Johnnie, Murdock, Rothie and David Sim mons, his brothers, and all were safe. Other cheering news was given concerning the Billy Wells family and of Donnie Watts and Flop Sellers. Simmons told his daughter that all had sought safety inland, and at the time the call was made they were waiting at a bridge (Continued on Page 4) 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 low Thursday, September 14, 10:08 A. M. 4:13 A. M. 10:15 P. M. 4:48 P. M. Friday, September 15, 10:53 A. M. 4:49 A. M. 11:00 P. M. 5:35 P. M. Saturday, September 16, 11:46 A. M. 5:37 A. M. 11:54 P. M. 6:31 P. M. Sunday, September 17, 12:49 A. M. 6:43 A. M. 7:34 P. M. Monday, September 18, 1:00 A. M. 7:39 A. M. 1:57 P. M. 8:41 P. M. Tuesday, September 19, 2:08 A. M. 8:51 A. M. 3:05 P. M. 9:33 P. M. Wednesday, September 20, 3:2u A. M. 10:00 A M. 4:11 P. M. 10:48 P. M.
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