Contact Seniors
On Scholarship
Brunswick County More
Head Scholarship Commit
tee Makes Preliminary
Contacts
The Brunswick County More
head Scholarship Committee is
now visiting- schools qualified to
nominate students for competition
in the statewide selection for
Morehead Scholarships to the
University of North Carolina.
Committee Chairman Ernest E.
Parker, Jr., and Kirby Sullivan,
both Southport attorneys and
UNC graduates, are scheduled to
receive nominations from school
nominating committees by Octo
ber 15. The committee will inter
view and screen each applicant in
their selection process. They will
make their recommendations to
the executive secretary of the
Morehead Foundation by Novem
ber 15. County nominations will
then be processed and forwarded
to the seven district committees
for further screening and selec
tion.
Under the procedure established
by the Morehead Foundation, a
nominating committee in each of
the schools qualified to participate
will recommend its outstanding
Social Security
Explained Here
D. W. Lambert FM>m Regi
onal Office In Charlottes
ville, Va., Is Guest Speak
er
The Southport Libn’s Ciub heard
an expert discuss Social Security,
its active and 'fringe benefits, dur
ing its last regular meeting.
The guest speaker was D. W.
Lambert, of the regional office
of the Department of Health, Edu
cation and Welfare, located at
students to the County Commit
tee. The Brunswick County com- I
mittee will select from the nom
inees one student to compete in
the district competition. Bruns- !
wick is in Morehead Scholarship |
District III.
Selection of 1962 scholars will j
be completed and announced by
trustees of the Morehead Founda
tion meeting in Chapel Hill by the
end of the first week in March.
The Morehead Scholarship, con
sidered one of the most generous
in the nation, pays all expenses
for an undergraduate education
at Chapel Hill, and constitutes
one of the highest honors awarded
to high school graduates in this
state.
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Playing Tough
Costs Ffeedom
The pernicious influence of TV
crime stories on immature minds
went to court in Southport this |
week—in this case the current
criminal term of the Brunswick
County Superior Court.
Two white youths from the
Waceamaw section of the county,
James Simmons and Rozier Milli
kin, both about 16, were brought
to trial on Tuesday morning on,
the charge of breaking and enter
ing.
Judge Hamilton H. Hobgood,
sitting on the bench, listened im
passively to evidence as presented
by the state on one hand and
Defense Attorney S. B. Frink on
the other. From time to time |
Judge Hobgood glanced sharply
at the defendants, both slim and
both blond—and very young.
It was brought out that the
pair had entered an old house
located in the lower part of the
county, where they proceeded in
wrecking the uninhabited dwelling
pretty thoroughly.
It was further revealed that
nothing had been taken from the
premises, which were said to be
Charlottesville, Va.
Clinton Bellamy, mayor of
Yaupon Beach, introduced the
guest with the statement that
“No federal aid agency in exist
ence more directly affects the
general public, than does Social
Security.” Bellamy was instru
mental in bringing the speaker
to Southport, seizing an oppor
tunity presented when Lambert
concluded a vacation spent at his
Tranquil Harbour home.
The guest speaker obligingly
broke down some very interesting
statistics Compiled on Social Se
curity benefits expended in Bruns
wick County through December
of last year.
These revealed that the total
number of Brunswick citizens re
ceiving monthly benefits in 1960,
reached 1,790. Old age and sur
vivors’ benefits accounted for the
greatest portion, with 1,676. Re
tired workers, dependent Children
and disability benefits followed,
in that order.
The total amount of benefits
paid out on monthly basis under
the Social Security Act in Bruns
wick County last year, reached
$74,574; of which $69,292 was old
age and survivors benefits, and
the balance spread among retired
workers, children, widows and dis
ability payments.
At the. conclusion of the meet
ing the civic club audience were
in unanimous agreement that
Lambert’s talk was among the
most outstanding heard here in
many weeks.
furnished “with old antiques.”
After ascertaining that neither
boy had previous criminal record,
Judge Hobgood wished to know
why, exactly, the senseless van
dalism had been practiced?
Attorney Frink answered for
his clients, revealing that the boys
had “been playing the Dalton
Gang.”
And they played it was a ven
geance.
The desperadoes, swaggering
around the “ranch-house" imagin
ed themselves in various dire
straits. Said one to the other:
“Supposing we were locked in
this here bunkhouse, with the
sheriff cornin’ hell-fer-leather to
lock us up. What’ll we do, pod
ner?”
The other outlaw picked up
something heavy and proceeded to
literally smash his way to free
dom through a wall ... It was
that sort of thing, explained
Frink, which all boys go through
at certain times.
The judge agreed to a certain
extent; an extent large enough to
allow the charge to be reduced
to forcible trespass. The defend
ants were then sentenced to 2
years in a camp for youthful of
fenders, with such sentence sus
pended on the payment of repera
tions of $250 each to Herman L.
White, owner of the damaged
property, probation for 3 years,
and the costs of the action.
Said his honor in summation:
“Crime is always sordid and dis
heartening, but it is doubly so
when the perpetrators are of ten
der years. I am able, because this
case is one of first offense, to
give you boys one chance to
straighten up and become useful
citizens. The parole officer is re
quested to explain fully to the
defendants the gravity of the posi
tion they have placed themselves
within.”
Long Beach Reports
That All Is Well
Long Beach, like many other
ocean communities in North Caro
lina, is hurricane-conscious. On
Wednesday afternoon of this
week, a report from the town
manager and the police depart
ment of Long Beach was most
reassuring.
City Manager Dan'l Walker said
that no rain had fallen, and
proudly elaborated that “the
strand is enjoying calm weather,
the ocean is docile, the wind has
either retreated or never arrived,
I am not sure which—and all’s
right with the world.”
Walker took time to thank “all
beach residents in our limits" for
cooperating so swiftly, thorough
ly and sensibly with the evacua
tion suggested by the Coast
Guard and Chief of Police Clay
Jordan.
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'CLOSING THE LID7—A 65-ton steel dome is hoisted into
place fright' to form a vapor-tight cap for the Carolinas
Virginia Nuclear Power Associates' reactor at Parr, South Caro
lina. Once in place (below), the cap of quarter-inch steel will
be covered with two feet of reinforced concrete. Sidewalls of
similar strength will make the building radiation-proof. Heat
from the uranium fired reactor will produce steam for the
otherwise conventional generation of electricity. First nuclear
power plant in the Southeast, the unit is scheduled to "go
critical" in 1962. The* Parr facility is a $29,000,000 research
and development venture of Carolina Power Cr Light, South
Carolina Electric Cr Gas, Duke Power and Virginia Electric
and Power cnmoanirs
Soybean Forecast^
Baaed on condition and vie\
reports from growers, as of Sept\
ember 1, soybean production in
North Carolina is forecast at a
record 13,708,000 bushels by the
North Carolina crop reporting
service.
The expected production, if
realized, would be 15 percent
above the previous record 1960
| crop of 11,902.000 bushels and
i more than double the 1950-59
average production of 6,556,000
bushels.
Yield per acre from the cur
rent crop is estimated at 23.0 bu
shels. This equals the previous
record yield per acre set in 1958
and exceeds the 1950-59 average
by 4.6 bushels.
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SHALLOTTE. N, C.
WE INVITE YOU TO ATTEND THE
THIRD ANNUAL
MEMBERSHIP MEETING
ATLANTIC TELEPHONE
Membership Corporation
HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
SHALLOTTE, N. C.
8 P. M. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1961
You are invited to attend the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Telephone Membership Corpora
tion and to hear a report of progress that has been made during the past twelve months.
At present we have outside plant construction totaling 160-miles in progress at a cost of $247,000.
which will make possible telephone service for an additional 900 subscribers.
This will mark the fifth anniversary of the cutover, at which time we had 537 subscribers. By last year
we had reached the 1,000-subscriber mark, and at present we have 1,300. We think that these figures in
dicate a steady and healthy g owth.
We hope that you will consider this to be a personal invitation to you to attend this meeting. You
will mingle with a cross-section of some of the finest citizens of Brunswick county—men and women who
have helped to organize and to bring about the development of our cooperative, which is playing a major
role in providing convenient, modern communication facilities for a growing county.
ATLANTIC TELEPHONE MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION
FRED L. BROWN, Manager