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Most of the News All The Time Volume No. 22 THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community No. 12 10-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1961 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Helped With Program HELPFUL—These are the Sunny Point employees who gave of their own time and effort during the summer months to help make possible the program of free movies which was shown twice each week at the Amuzu Theatre. Front row, left to right, Edward 11. Coley, Henry M. Fulwood, James D. Melton. Back row, W. T. Fulwood, Thomas L. Stanley, S|Sgt. A. T. Marton and Salem D. Rankin. Not shown are Marvin Congleton, R. B. Green and Jack Hickman. Continue Plans For Mass X-Ray In This County Free Chest X-Rays Will Be Available In Attempt To Control Tuberculosis In Brunswick In the first complete mass X ray survey to be held in Bruns i wick County since 1950, some 60 percent of all citizens over 15 years of age are expected to bene fit. At a meeting held in South port last Friday, representatives of the three cooperating sponsors, the State Health Department, the Brunswick County Health Depart ment, and the Southport Woman's Club, ironed out the last kinks in the ambitious project, which gets underway in Southport on October 3. Present at the meeting, were Dr. William Smith, head of the tuberculosis section of the State Board of Health, and A. G. Chis well, technical advisor in charge of arrangements. The survey will be conducted for 15 days and will reach into all sections of the county by mobile X-ray unit. The cooperat ing agencies, in an effort to re assure the public, released the following information: The survey will be completely valuatory in character, and no one will be forced to participate. The X-ray takes will require only two minutes per exposure and do not necessitate removal of cloth ing; the pictures will reveal en larged heart, spinal or rib defor mities, as well as lung-shadows (t. b.); there will be no charge whatsoever. The X-ray films will be sent to Raleigh for develop ment and reading, and people will be notified of the result within two or three weeks afterward. Many of the statistics turned up in the survey planning are interesting. For example there are 13,000 persons 15 years of age and upward in Brunswick, and, at the rate of several hundred X-rays taken each day of the survey, it is hoped that approx imately 60 percent of these will be X-rayed. If the pictures reveal anything of suspicious nature, a larger X-ray can be taken at Shallotte or through a personal physician. In 1950 and during the last mass X-ray survey, some 6,000 exposures were made in Bruns wick County. Reading of these films revealed 41 cases of sus Continued On Page 2 Brief Bite Of lnewsj REVIVAL SERVICES The Rev. Robert W. Rollins, pastor of the Supply Baptist Church, announced that Revival Services will be held nightly be ginning October 2 and extending through October 11 at 7:30 p. in. There will be Bible Centered preaching and special music each evening. The Rev. W. J. Thomp son, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Murphy, will be the guest speaker each evening. The public is cordially invited. Register P In Farn Brunswick Farmers Enter * Protest Of Certain Irregu- ■ larities Which They Char- ! ge Occurred Formal complaints charging ir regularities in the recently-held election of Community Committee men for the Brunswick County ASC 1962 farm program have been lodged with the ASC board at Shallotte. Affidavits from five of the six precincts participating in the elec tion, which incidentally resulted in a record vote turnout, were drawn up, signed, notarized and turned over to members of the Brunswick county bar, who agreed to represent the dissatisfied far mers without charge. On Monday of this week the complaints were formally laid be fore the ASC board by Southport attorney E. J. Prevatte, represent ing the plaintiffs. Lonnie Evans, chairman of the board, promised that the charges will be investi gated and that a hearing will be set. The protests came from Wac camaw township, Smithville town ship,. Shallotte township, Lock woods Folly township, and Town Creek township. The only town ship involved in the election which has not as yet protested the pro cedures as practiced during the vote is Northwest. The complaints, as outlined in the formal protests lodged, range from rewriting with two different types of pencil and opposite hand writing, to removal of ballots from the polling place without count, and their “transfer to sec ret and unknown designations.” Listed below are the new Com mittees, with the chairman shown first, followed by vice-chairman, regular member, 1st. alternate and 2nd alternate: Lockwood Folly: Stanton Brown, Aidreth Phelps, Ishmel Chadwick, (Continued On Page 2) Examination At Shallotte Set Notice Given That Compete tive Exam For Postmaster Will Be Held To Fill Vac ancy The U. S. Civil Service Com mission announces that an exam ination for the position of post master at Shallotte will be con ducted, and applications will be accepted until October 10. The position pays $5,790 annually. Applicants must have at least 3 years of experience, or a college education, and must possess an unreproachable reputation for honesty and general ability to deal with the public. Other requirements are that a i written test be undertaken; that applicants must have resided ] within the delivery area for at | least a year, and must be 18 years of age and under 70 years. Further information may be ob tained at the Shallotte post of fice. E. V. Gore presently is serving as acting postmaster for Shal lotte. rotest i Election Safety Meeting At Sunny Point The quarterly meeting of the Federal Safety Council for Southeastern North Caro lina will meet Friday at Sun ny Point Army Terminal and Lt. Col. Johnnie D. Duffie, commanding officer of the terminal, has invited Col. James B. McVumber of Wilmington as principal speaker. Col. McCumber is a retired Army officer and heads the Civil Defense Organization in Wilmington. The meeting will include an orientation tour of the terminal and also a radiological demonstration, with group participation. Central theme, however, will be how to prevent acci dents on Federal projects. Representatives from Fort Bragg, Seymore Johnson, Myrtle Beach Air Force Base, Wilmington Postoffice and Customs House have been in vited. Telephone Coop Meeting Planned Fourth Annual Meeting To Be Held September 28th At Shallotte High School Auditorium The fourth annual meeting of the members of the Atlantic Tele phone Corporation will be held in the auditorium of Shallotte High School at 8- o’clock next Thurday night, September 28. Fred L. Brown, manager of the corporation, said that he "hopes a substantial part of the 1,300 members attend the meet, where they will have the oppor tunity to elect seven directors, to listen to reports, and to partici pate in the transaction of any other business which might ap pear on the agenda.” The cooperative telephone cor poration, presently serving the greater portion of Brunswick County has two exchanges the main plant at Shallotte and one situated at Bolivia. Officials re cently awarded contract to T. L. Dysard and Sons, a Statesville concern, in the amount of nearly a quarter million dollars, for the addition and strengthening of lines strung by the cooperative. The contract hinges upon the ap proval of the Rural Electrification Administration. A third exchange, at Longwood in the southweastern part of the county, is being readied and is expected soon to be in operation. The Atlantic Telephone Mem bership Corporation, starting op erations only a few years ago, al most as a desperation move to institute rural telephone service in one of North Carolina's most rural counties, has flourished. According to Manager Brown, "This membership corporation is a good example of what can be accomplished when a group of de Continued On Page 2 Shallotte Hosts District Meeting Of B&PW Clubs Women Of District 8 At tend Meeting Held At Sunset Beach Restaurant The Shallotte Business and Pro fessional Woman’s Club played hostess for the Pistrict 8 Fall Meeting, September 10, at the Sunset Terrace Restaurant at Sunset Beach. Forty-four members and guests were registered by the local club president, Miss Ruth Galloway, and each lady was presented a lovely rose corsage, compliments of Shallotte Florist. Mrs. Stella Spencer, special guest, was pre sented a beautiful mum corsage. The program was opened with the invocation, given by Mrs. Althea Canady of the Wilming ton Club. Miss Galloway, repre senting the local club, gave the welcome address and in return, Mrs. Beth Batten of Whiteville gave the response. The ladies were entertained with special music by Miss Rachel Robbins of Supply. After the solo by Miss Robbins, a delicious sea food dinner was enjoyed by all. Following lunch came the busi ness on the program, led by Mrs. Johnsie Schuler, the district di rector from Rockingham, and Mrs. Stella Spencer, the state presi dent, from Lenier. Programming and business for the coming year was discussed. The meeting was adjourned and a social hour was enjoyed by all. Mrs. Eva Gray, of the Shallotte club presided over a table of de licious punch and cookies. Each lady left expressing her enjoyment of the meeting and her appreciation for the many souvenirs donated by the local firms. Dr. M. H. Rourk In Heart Post Shallotte Physician Accepts Appointment As Medical Representative For Bruns wick County Heart Coun cil Dr. M. H. Rourk of Shallotte has accepted the responsibility of acting- as Medical Representative for the Brunswick Heart Council, it was announced this week. Dr. Rourk, in taking the post is joining many of the nation’s leading heart specialists and phy sicians now working closely with the heart program. In accepting his volunteer post, Dr. Rourk pointed out that through the North Carolina Heart Association, an affiliate of Amer ican Heart, he can provide mem bers of local health professions with research reports and other medical materials designed to help diagnose and treat the car diovascular diseases. Physicians may also receive printed informa tion to give their heart patients. “These booklets”, Dr. Rourk said, “deal in simple term with various heart and blood vessel diseases and are written to reassure the patient and help him cooperate with his physician for his own improvement.” “One of the things most needed by Brunswick County”, continued Continued Oi: page 2 j TIME and TIDE mssmmaH»avsffml The first special edition of The Pilot we ever attempted was the issue for September 23, 1936, and in it we made a consious play for fall vacation visitors, believing then as now that this is one of the most delightful seasons in this area. One headline took satisfaction in the fact that a hurricane had bypassed Brunswick in its path to the mainland in another state. There was a fea ture story on the Cape Fear Pilots, with photos of the seven ac tive members of the local association, Throughout the fourteen pages of this edition there were pictures of people and places of interest in the town. Scenes of fishing and of catches of fish pre dominated. There were ads, too; most of them proclaiming the fine natural attractions for vacationists and retirement living here in Brunswick. Five years later, in our edition for September 24, 1941, there was another headline expressing relief that another hurricane had bypassed Brunswick. There had been a military atmosphere in the town during the past week, as soldiers from Fort Bragg were at the old CCC camp site on field maneuvers. The nation was on daylight savings time, but on the following Sunday all clocks were to be moved back one hour. Homecoming services were scheduled for the following Sunday at Zion Method ist Church; a runaway barrage balloon had come to earth near Shallotte; and there had been other visits in the Southport har bor from British warships. The headlines for the September 25 edition of The Pilot in the Continued On Page 1 At Boiling Spring Lakes » • - » SPEAKER—Congressman Alton A. Lennon is shown here addressing the throng of people who attended the dedication ceremonies of the new dam at Boiling Spring Lakes Sunday. The new installation was named in honor of Gov ernor Terry Sanford. State Industrial Education Folks Meet At Beach Assistant Directors Of N.C. Industrial Education Cen ters In Yaupon Beach Meeting A statewide conference of As sociate Directors of North Caro lina Industrial Education Centers was held Sunday through Tues day noon at Yaupon Beach. This was a quarterly meeting and was attended by 22 of these men, who were accompanied here by their wives. Charles D. Bates, State Super intendent of Industrial Education, was in charge and also present for the meeting was Paul Weath erly, Assistant State Superinten dent of Industrial Education. The latter is well-known in Brunswick county, having formerly been a member of the faculty at Shal lotte High Schooi. One of the most interesting side-trips during this meeting was a Monday afternoon visit to the Marinology Department at South port High School. Here they heard instructor Thomas C. Bowmer ex plain the objectives of his course and had an opportunity to inspect the classroom and shop. The visitors were intrigued by this pioneering effort in industrial education, and asked many ques tions regarding the interest and progress. Several of them declar ed that they were favorably im pressed with the local teaching effort in this field. Two consultants at this meet ing, at which program planning was the prime cdnsideration, was Dr. Durwyn Hard, professor of Industrial Education at N. C. State, and Anthony J. Bouvacqua, coordinator of the materials labra Continued On Page 2 New Lake Honors Governor Sanford ■si Home Delivery Of Mail Coming Home delivery of mail will begin in Southport and cer tain areas immediately ad joining the city limits within the near future, according to announcement this week from acting-Postmaster Neils Jor genson. Tentative plans call for the erection of pick-up boxes on the corner of Rhett and Moore streets; Nash and Cas well streets; St. George and If owe streets; and Owens and Caswell streets. This new service cannot be gin until streets are marked and houses are numbered, a project being carried out jointly by the City of South port and members of the lo cal Jaycee organization. Two new men will be em ployed, one a foot carrier and the other a motor carrier. There will be more details la ter. Hurricane Gives Residents Thrill Precautions Taken Against Possibility Of Visit From Hurricane Esther Tues day Night A feeling of great relief came over the town last night shortly after 9 o’clock when Mrs. C. Ed Taylor, local observer for the U. S. Weather Bureau received a telephone call from the Wilming ton station saying that gale warn ings could come down from the local display tower and that all danger to this area from Hurri cane Esther had passed. A few minutes later this word was flashed from Wilmington television and radio stations, and Brunswick county residents were able to come off their hurricane watch and to go to bed in peace. For three days the citizens of Southport had been listening to the grim warning: “Esther is a very dangerous storm, with winds to 150-mph and gusts up to 200 . . . last located so-many miles from Savannah and headed in a northeasterly direction which should bring it in to shore some where along the North Carolina Coast . . .” They had wondered if the first shore onslaught would be expended at and near South port, and what would be left of human endeavor along the Cape of Fear. In little knots, shrimpers and commercial fishermen conversed I of former storms rode out in years gone by, and there were those who shook their heads and, j after a bit of mental arithmetic, dolefully prophesized that Esther might come in at high tide and wash everything away. One old timer was overheard to blame it all on the splitting and the fusion of the atom. “In my honest time,” Continued On Page 2 Congressman Alton A. Len non Principal Speaker At Boiling Springs Dedica tion Program Sunday A crowd estimated at from 2, 500 to 3,000 persons was on hand Sunday afternoon to hear Con gressman Alton A. Lennon dedi cate the newly constructed dam at Boiling Spring Lake and name it the Terry Sanford Dam, in honor of the Governor of North Carolina. Representing the governor was Ernest E. Parker, Jr., of South port, who is a member of the Board of Conservation and De velopment. He expressed regrets on behalf of the governor that he was unable to be present for this occasion, and Parker assured the developers of Boiling Spring Lakes that Governor Sanford will visit the site at his earliest possi ble convenience to see the dam which was named in his honor. Vieing for interest in the Sun day afternoon proceedings was a colorful ski show, staged by mem bers of the Charleston Ski Club and the Southport Ski Club; and a real, live elephant, Suzy Q, who held a magic attraction for the youngsters in the vast throng of people who literally covered the embankment of the dam and many points of vantage about this beautiful man-made lake. James M. Harper, Jr., served as master of ceremonies for the occasion, and following the in vocation called upon J. Drayton Hastie, president of Boiling Spring Lakes, Inc., for a welcome. He gave a brief summary of efforts that have been made during the past year to create a big, attrac tive residential development; and he outlined plans for the future. These include the construction of an 18-hole golf course, site of which already has been designated and donated by the corporation. Frederick Willetts, Sr., was next introduced. He is vice-presi dent of Boiling Spring Lakes, Inc., a member of the board of direc tors and also a member of the board of directors for Reaves Broadcasting Corporation. He pointed out some of the accom pishments of the development during its early stages, and paint ed a rosy picture for the future. He then introduced a number of distinguished visitors from Wil mington, including Mayor O. O. Alsbrook and Mrs. Hannah Block, mayor pro-tem. The master of ceremonies then introduced a number of Bruns wick county guests, most of them county and municipal officials. James C. Bowman, former Brunswick county Rcpreesntative to the N. C. General Assembly, introduced the speaker, Congress man Lennon. The congressman re called that early efforts toward I development in Brunswick had faced the impediments of lack of highways, lack of electric current and lack of communications. "These all have been licked,” he said, "for today we have a splen did network of highways through out this county, REA provides electricity for homes and busi nesses in every section; and the residents of Brunswick are en joying the services of Lheir co Continued On Page 2 Superior Court Adjourns Early Due To Storm Trial Of Leland Robbery Case Continued Again Due To Alleged Illness Of One Defendant A one-week criminal term of Brunswick County Superior Court was adjourned in early afternoon on Tuesday with over fifty per cent of scheduled cases in a heavy docket tried, well in advance of a threatened hurricane. The case of John Whalev, Vir gil Sanderson and Troy Brown, charged with the armed robbery of a service station near Leland during last December, was con tinued until the January term of Superior Court, due to one of the defendants, Sanderson, being a pa tient at a Wilmington hospital following a reported emergency operation for ruptured appendix. The case had aroused great in terest in the county and undoubt edly contributed to the overflow crowds of spectators which had thronged the courtroom during Monday and Tuesday sessions. As it now shapes up, the trio will not be tried until more than a year has elapsed since the crime with which they are charged. The following cases were dis posed of in the abbreviated term: Carl M. Barefoot, charged with robbery, entered a plea of forcible trespass and was fined $50 and costs. Charlie F. Bell, charged with drunken driving was found guilty of careless and reckless operation and was fined $50 and costs. Agnes Clemmons, charged with fornication and adultery and sec ond count of vagrancy, received a nol pros on both charges. George E. Lovette, charged with iuuucij, icueiveu couri-curectea verdict of not guilty. E. L. Lovette, charged with two separate counts of fornication and adultery and vagrancy was found guilty and fined $50 and costs. George E. Lovett and William R. Lovett, charged with public j drunkenness, were both fined $25 and costs. Roland E. Lerschall, charged with reckless operation of a motor vehicle, was found guilty of driv ing too fast for road conditions and paid $25 and the costs. Ance Nelson drew a nol pros on a whiskey charge. The case against Dalton R. Nor ton, charged with manslaughter as a result of an automobile wreck, was continued. Frank Prevatte was found not guilty of public drunkenness. Gertrude Richardson, charged with vagrancy and fornication j and adultery, drew a nol pros on both counts. Hilton Robinson, charged with robbery, was found guilty of forci ble trespass and fined $50 and i costs. The case of James H. Bernard, charged with breaking and enter ing and larceny and receiving, was continued. The case of Roland Brinston, charged with assault with deadly w-eapon with intent to kill, was continued. Earl Lee Clemmons was found guilty of drunk driving and fined $100 and costs. The case of James G. Frink, charged with drunk driving, was continued. The case of Sherwood Gore, charged with careless and reckless driving, was continued. The grand jury returned no true bill against Harlee Hewett, charged with speeding. Continued On Page 2 I Tide Table Following is the tide table for Southport during the week. These hours are approximately correct and were furnished The State Fort Pilot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot’s Association. HIGH LOW Thursday, September 21, 4:25 A. M. 11:04 A. M. 5:12 P. M. 11:44 P. M. Friday, September 22, 5:27 A. M. 12:03 A. M 6:07 P. M. Saturday, September 23, 6:25 A. M. 0:38 A. M. 7:01 P. M. 12:57 P. M. Sunday, September 24, 7:19 A. IVI. 1:26 A. M. 7:52 P. M. 1:49 P. M. Monday, September 2o, 8:12 A. M. 2:12 a! M. 8:41 P. M. 2:40 P. M. Tuesday, September 26, 9:02 A. M. 2:56 A. M. 9:29 P. M. 3:29 P. M. Wednesday, September 27, 9:51 A. M. 3:41 A. M. 10:18 P. M. 4:18 P. M.
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