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Brunswick County
Volume No. 22
No. 29
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SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1962
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PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Shallotte Will
Play Host For
School Meeting
Joint Session Of NCEA And
NEA Will Be Held In
This County; Dr, A. C.
Dawson W^ill Be Speaker
The 1962 North Carolina Edu
cational Association — National
Education Association joint area
conference for New Hanover
County, Columbus County, Bruns
wick County and Whiteville City
School system, teachers and ad
ministrators, will be hlld at Shal
lotte High School on January 24.
The first session will begin at
4 p. m, with a welcome to Bruns
wick County by Superintendent of
Brunswick County Schools J. G.
Long. Following this Dr. A. C.
Dawson, Executive Secretary of
the North Carolina Education As
sociation, will be introduced and
thereafter the program will be
conducted by staff members of
the NCEA and NEA office in
Raleigh.
Among topics discussed will be
Professional Standards for Teach
ers, Merit Study, Teacher Educa
tion, Selective Membership, In
surance, Self-discipline, Personal
and Sick Leave, N. E. A. Serv
ices and other subjects important
to the continued professional
growth and welfare of the in
dividual teacher and the profes
sion.
Dinner will be served for the
group in the Shallotte School
Cafeteria at 6 p. m. The second
session will begin in the school
auditorium at 7:00 p. m. Accord
ing to Shallotte School Principal,
Mr. Winfred B. Johnson, indica
tions are that a large group of
teachers and administrators from
the school systems involved will
be present and preparations are
being made by the Shallotte
School staff and County NCEA
officials to make this meeting a
successful one in every respect.
Brunswick County NCEA offi
cials for 1961-62 are Mrs. Dorothy
Glore, President, Mrs. Jane Bow
mer, Vice President, and Mrs.
Muriel Lennon, Secretary-Treasur
er, all are teachers in Southport
High School.
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POSTMASTER ILL
Mrs. J. J. Hawes of Supply en
tered a Wilmington hospital for
surgical attention on Monday.
Mis. Hawes serves as postmaster
for Supply.
RETURN TO ALASKA
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Comeau
and their young son have return
ed to their home at Anchorage,
Alaska, following a week-long
visit with his father, J. C.
Comeau.
BOARDING HOME LEASE
At their meeting here Monday
members of the Board of County
Commissioners renewed the lease
agreement with Mr. and Mrs. Sam
Watts for operation of the Bruns
wick County Boarding Home.
ECC GRADUATE
Donald Ray Lennon of Route 1,
Leland was among the 141 stu
dents completing work at the end
of the fall quarter at East Caro
lina College, Greenville. He will
receive his diploma at the annual
commencement exercises May 27.
BENEFIT BARBECUE
The Bolivia Lion’s club will
sponsor a barbecue-chicken supper
Saturday night January 27, in the
Bqlivia School’s lunch room. Serv
ing begins at 5 o'clock and con
tinues until 8 o’clock. The club
extends a warm welcome to the
general public.
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING
The annual stockholders meet
ing of the Waecamaw Bank and
Trust Company will be held Wed
nesday, January 24. beginning at
5 p. m., in the new high school
cafeteria in Whiteville. Edmund
Harding of Washington will be
the featured speaker and will be
gin his address immediately fol
lowing the planned banquet.
DELINQUENT TAXES
James C. Bowman has been di
rected by members of the Board
of county Commissioners to in
stitute legal proceeding for the
collection of taxes due Brunswick
County for 1960 and prior years.
He will continue to do this work
under the terms of his existing
contract.
First Swimming Pool
PIONEER—C. E. Murphy and three of his men are shown here shaping the ex
cavation of the freshwater swimming pool which he is building in front of his
Oceanfront Motel at Yaupon Beach. He expects to have it ready for use before
next summer It will be the first swimming pool for any of the Brunswick Coun
ty motels.—(Walker Photo.)
January Term
Superior Court
Starts Monday
Solicitor John J. Burney,
Jr., Says That Trial Of
Three Men For Filling
Station Robbery At Le
land Will Be Continued
A one-week term of Brunswick
County Superior Court for trial
of criminal cases will convene
here Monday, with Judge Henry
McKinnon of Lumberton presid
ing.
Solicitor John J. Burney, Jr.,
said last night that the Leland
robbery case will not come up for
trial at this term. The defendants
are Troy Brown Vex-gil Sander
son and John Whaley, all of whom
are free on bail.
This case attracted widespread
attention last year when two men
held up a service station near
Leland and made off with cash
and bonds variously reported at
from $18,000 to $30,000. Two wo
men were present at the station
at the time of the robbery.
Later Sanderson and Whaley
confessed that they were the men
who robbed the station at gun
point, but they implicated Brown.
He has maintained that he is not
guilty.
The case was not tried during
the January term one year ago
because investigation still was in
progress. At the May term the
case was continued because S.
Bunn Frink, attorney for one of
the defendants, was in the Legis
lature. There was a third con
tinuance in September when it
was reported that one of the de
fendants was a patient in a Wil
mington Hospital with apendicitis.
There is a wide variety of other
cases on the docket for next
week, but it is expected that the
session will be concluded before
the end of the week.
Postponement In
Public Hearing
Mayor Eddie Hahn Asks U.
S. Engineers For Exten
sion In Time For Compil
ing Date
Members of the Southport
Board of Aldermen in session
Thursday night heard Brig. Gen.
James Glore and James M. Har
per, Jr., report on a conference
held earlier in the week with of
ficials of the U. S. Engineers
Department.
Upon the recommendation of
these two men, the board asked
Mayor Eddie Hahn to request a
postponement of the public hear
ing for three improvements at
Southport from January 22 to
March 30.
General Glore pointed out that
the three projects: Improvement
to the Southport Yacht Basin,
erection of bulkheads along the
Southport waterfront and provi
sion of a small boat refuge, are
projects which must have con
siderable work done on them be
fore they can be properly pre
sented.
The aldermen are now consider
ing the advisability of employing
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District School
Boards Will Meet
Brunswick County Will Play
Host To Annual Meeting
Of District School Board
Association At Wacca
maw February 7
The 1962 District Five State
School Boards Association annual
meeting will be held at Wacca
maw High School on February 7.
The program will bp divided
into two sessions, with registra
tion beginning at 3:30 p. m. and
the first session starting at 4
p. m. C. Y. Coleman, Brunswick
County Board of Education chair
man, is president of the District
Five State School Boards Associa
tion, which includes New Hanover,
Brunswick. Pender, Duplin, Samp
son, and Wayne Counties; Golds
boro, Clinton, and Fremont City
units. He will preside over both
sessions.
Main speaker for the first gen
eral meeting will be Howard Holly
of Burgaw, who is past president
of the District Five Association
and former Chairman of the Pen
der County Board of Education.
He recently resigned that posi
tion to become auditor of Pender
County.
Following this session the group
will divide and attend classroom
lecture and discussion periods, af
ter which a banquet will be held
in the Waecamaw School lunch
room at 6:15 p. m.
The second general session will
begin immediately afterward and
the main address of the evening
will be delivered by J. E. Miller,
Assistant State Superintendent of
Public Instruction, Raleigh.
According to Coleman all details
have not been completed for the
program, but will be released
sometime this week. Meanwhile,
a 11 superintendents, principals,
school board members and local
committeemen in each of the nine
school systems has been notified
or contacted and indications are
that interest in this event is high
and a large number of school peo
ple and patrons is expected to be
present.
This will be the first time that
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Shallotte Plans
Industry Survey
Group Of Citizens Meet
Tuesday Night To Discuss
Plans For Development
Corporation
A meeting of 30 citizens from
the Shallotte area of Brunswick
was held on Tuesday night, and
out of this meeting a new or
ganization, called the Shallotte
Development Enterprise, was
formed.
The group elected a chairman,
G. E. Hehderson, and a treasurer,
A. C. Johnson, during the initial
meeting. Other area men signed
as members, wex'e Eli Kravitz,
Gene Blair, Odell Williamson, Le
Roy Mintz and R. D. White, Jr.
Also present at the meeting
was Harold Greene, who recently |
resigned as general manager for |
the yaat Boding Spring Lakes |
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Brunswick Gets
Perfect Rating
Hanging in the Brunswick
County agriculture building at
Supply is a newly-framed certifi
cate which proclaims that Bruns
wick has been certified as an
Brucellosis-free area.
What is Brucellosis? According
to A. S. Knowles, county farm
agent, it is a grave disorder pe
culiar to cattle and is, perhaps,
better known as Bang’s Disease.
Knowles said that Brunswick
was certified as clear of the dis
ease during a county-wide inspec
tion concluded some time ago by
federal inspectors attached to the
U. S. Department of Agriculture.
Knowles further stated that he
was informed by the inspectors
that Brunswick is one of the first
few counties to receive such cer
tification.
Prominent Lady
Passes Friday
Mrs. Thomas B. Carr Dies
At Dosher Memorial Hos
pital; Funeral Services
Here Saturday
Mrs. Thomas B. Carr, 58, well
known Southport businesswoman,
died Friday morning at Dosher
Memorial Hospital.
Mrs. Carr, the former Georgia
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Two Candidates
Announce Plans
For Nomination
S. B. Frink, Southport At
torney, Seeks Democratic
Nomination For Senate,
Jack Brown For Clerk
Two new names were added to
the list of candidates in the Pri
mary Election in May with the
announcement Monday by S. Bunn
Frink, Southport attorney for the
State Senate and by Jack Brown
for Clerk of Superior Court.
Frink is a Southport attorney
and veteran legislator. After serv
ing for several terms in the State
Senate, he ran for the Demo
cratic nomination for House of
Representatives two years ago,
was nominated and was elected.
Before entering the practice of
law, he served during the early
thirties for one term as Clerk of
Superior Court.
Brown is completing his second
term as Clerk of Court and is
seeking reelection. Prior to enter
ing this office he had served for
two years as tax collector for
Brunswick county.
There is a growing amount of
political talk, but only these two
men and Sheriff E. V. Leonard
have made formal announcement
of their candidacy. The latter
made it known two weeks ago
that he will seek reelection.
Brunswick Has
New Businesses
Dun & Bradstreet Report
Indicates 17.4-Per Cent
Increase In This Category
Since 1955
The number of businesses in
Brunswick County has increased
by 17.4 per cent since 1955 ac
cording to figures just released
by Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.
In forty-three Eastern North
CaroWtf» counties located between
Chapel Hill and the coast the
number of businesses increased
from 24,186 to 24,799 during the
same period. This represented an
over-all increase of 2.5 per cent.
J. D. Harris, Jr., Manager of
the Raleigh office of Dun & Brad
street, Inc., reports that during
1961 13,703 changes occurred in
the Reference Book listings for
Eastern North Carolina. These in
cluded 3.593 names added, 4,297
names deleted and 5,813 changes
in credit ratings of continuing
businesses.
The Reference Book, which is
published every sixty days, con
tains approximately 3,000,000 bus
iness listings for over 50,000 com
munities in the United States.
Each of the businesses listed is
assigned a credit rating which is
used as a guide by the business’s
suppliers. The cerdit rating is ob
tained from the Dun & Brad
street credit report. This report
contains a complete history of the
business, a description of its op
eration. and an explanation of its
financial condition, which usually
includes a financial statement.
When the owner or officer of
a business enterprise (or his ac
countant) fills in and mails his
financial statement to Dun & j
Bradstreet, it becomes part of the j
credit report on his business and '
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TIME and TIDE
Remember the strange looking wood tower which stood near
the marsh in the vicinity of Oak Island Coast Guard Station?
There was a front page picture on the front page of our issue
for January 20, 1937. There was as much mystery then as now
as to the original use of that structure. The U.S. Navy Submar
ine Perch had spent an enjoyable two days in Southport, and the
crew had departed the town with expressed regret.
“Yachting,” national publication, had carried a story about the
sailboat races held at Southport the previous summer; a case of
whooping cough (how long since you heard of anybody having
whooping cough?) had been reported by the Brunswick County
Health Department; and the weather for the previous few days
had smacked of summertime.
Back in 1912 the annual meeting of REA stockholders was
held in January. Our issue for January 21 reported the session
held on the previous weekend at Waccamaw High School. The
front page still had a strong wartime flavor, what with rationing
news, news of men volunteering for service and a column headed
"Late War Bulletins.”
Orton Gardens had survived a cold snap in good shape; there
was a call for the location of privately-owned binoculars, needed
for use by aircraft spotters; and Maxie Cooker had used his
trusty gill net to rack up a pretty good score against red drum
in nearby waters.
In the front page of The Pilot for January 22, 1917, there was
a photo of Bill Sharpe, who was then director of the State Ad
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Two Candidates
RUNNING—S. Bunn Frink, left, and Jack Brown,
right, have announced their candidacy for Demo
cratic nominations in the May Primary Election.
Frink will seek nomination as State Senator, Brown
nomination for re-election as Clerk of Court.
Highway Hearing
Set For Wednesday
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SENGland Group
Meets At Supply
The Brunswick County di
rectors for the SENCland De
velopment Association will
hold a meeting Monday at
the County Agricultural
Building in Supply.
The purpose of the meet
ing, according to A. S.
Knowles, Brunswick farm
agent, is to complete plans
for a report to be made by
the local directors at the an
nual meeting of the associa
tion set' for JaTroary 2& at -1
Wilmington. The plans con
cern general improvement in
the area, including roads,
farming methods, etc.
Brunswick directors are O.
P. Bellamy, Aubrey C. John
son, J. J. Hawes, James C.
Bowman, Mrs. G. T. Reid and
Mrs. Foster Mintz.
More Telephones
On Local System
Southern Bell Reports Ad
dition Of 48 Telephones
To Southport Exchange
During Past Year
Southport gained 46 telephones
In 1961, H. F. Kincaid, Manager
for Southern Bell announced this
week.
To keep pace with the state’s
continued growth and progress,
over $100,000 was spent every
working day of the year on new
telephone construction in North
Carolina, Kincaid said.
On a statewide basis, the com
pany added approximately 36,000
telephones in 1961, an increase of
over five per cent over 1960.
To improve and expand service,
Southern Bell spent $26-million on
construction in its 86 North Caro
lina exchanges dining 1961. The
payroll for its approximately 5,
650 employees in the state
amounted to over $29-million.
In the Southport area new cable
construction towards Long Beach
resulted in an expenditure of $33,
000. This construction was done
for the betterment of service in
this area.
During the year the company
paid over $20-million in taxes on
its North Carolina operations.
Over $7-million of this total was
paid locally to the state, cities,
and counties with the balance be
ing paid, to the Federal Govern
ment in • income taxes.
The company also collected
from telephone users an addition
al $7-million for the Federal Gov
ernment in excise taxes on tele
phone service in North Carolina.
The telephone plays an increas- j
ingly important role for North |
Carolinians. On an average busi
ness day,, over four million calls '■
were placed over Southern Bell i
telephones in the state. Nearly
142,000 of these were long dis- [
tance calls, an increase of about
44 per cent.
The growing trend among Tar
heel families to have one or more
| extension telephones in their
homes is evidenced bv the fact
| that today about 31 per cent of
I all homes have extension phones
[compared to 10 per cent m 19b3.
Committee From The State
Highway Commission Will
Be Here To Make Study
Regarding Ferry Service
Preparations are being made for
a full dress hearing on the South
port-Fort Fisher ferry project in
Southport next Wednesday after
noon.
On hand for this meeting will
be a special committee from the
State Highway Commission, which
has been asked to make a
thorough study of the needs for
this facility.
Also present will be Vivian
Whitfield of Burgaw, president of
the All-Seashore Highway Asso
ciation. He also heads a com
mittee appointed by Governor
Terry Sanford for the purpose of
developing the use of Seashore
highways.
City offiicals are meeting this
week with representatives from
Carolina Beach and Fort Fisher
in an effort to compile data nec
essary to make out a strong case
for the ferry project. There is
just as much interest in the
ferry on the part of the residents
on the other side of the river as
on the part of the residents of
Brunswick county.
Governor Sanford has been in
vited to attend this hearing, but
there has been no indication thus
far that he plans to be here.
Trouble Report
Still Unverified
Spanish Ship Arrived Here
Monday After Rumor
Had Circulated Of Trou
ble Abroad.
It was impossible to verify this
week reports that the Spanish
ship Guadalupe had trouble brew
ing- aboard when she put in at
Southport early Monday morning.
Sunday evening there had been
a rumor in Southport that there
was a possibility of mutiny aboard
a Spanish vessel off the coast.
The ship docked in Wilming
ton early Monday morning and
departed Tuesday afternoon. Coast
Guard officials declined to make '
any comment regarding any pos- j
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Civil Service Is
Being Honored
National Civil Service Week
Is Being' Observed During
Period From January 14
To 20
This week, Southport. Mayer J.
Edward Hahn signed a document
proclaiming the week. of January
14-20 as Civil Service Week. The
proejaamtion urges all citizens to !
unite in observance of the 79th An
niversary of the signing of the
Civil Service Act. The Act was
initially signed on January 16,
1883, and brought into being a
law which stands today as one
of the great foundation stones of
responsive and responsible govern- j
ment.
For about half a century before
1883, the slogan “to the victor
belong the spoils,” described the
accepted practice in filling gov
ernment jobs. It even became the j
custom to stop all regular ac
tivities for a month after a
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Local Jaycees
Will Celebrate
National Week
Object Of This Special Ob
servance Is To Focus At
tention Upon Members
And Their Achievements
Southport’s 40-odd Jaycees join
with some 250,000 others next
week in celebration of National
Jaycee Week. The local chapter,
organized just a year ago, has al
ready become a permanent fixture
in the community.
National Jaycee Week, to be ob
served January 21-26, will focus
attention on the young men both
in Southport and throughout the
country who make up the Junior
Chamber of Commerce. It will
also spotlight the work they are
doing in over 4,000 communities
in America.
As a part of National Jaycee
Week, Bob Conger, president of
the United States Junior Cham- -
ber of Commerce, will recognize
the Ten Most Outstanding Young
Men of 1961 next week in special'
ceremonies to be held in Santa
Monica, California.
Mayor Eddie Hahn, himself a
Jaycee, is expected to sign an
official proclamation setting next
week aside as Jaycee Week hero
in Southport.
The local Jaycees have already
contributed several projects to
wards the betterment of South
port. An industrial brochure, de-'
signed and written by members
of the local chapter, is already in
the hands of the printer. This
brochure will point up Southport's
attractiveness as a potential site
for industrial development.
In addition, street and house
numbering plans are moving to
ward completion, and it is expect
ed that all houses will have re
ceived their numbers in the very
near future. This program, begun
by the Jaycees to spur interest in
house-to-house mail delivery, has
already resulted in the assurance
from the Post Office Department
that home mail delivery will be
gin as soon as all homes are
numbered.
The local chapter is headed by
Kirby Sullivan, Southport attor
ney.
Baptist Sunday
School Honored
Southport Baptist Church
Organization Gets Award
For Training Of Officers
The Southport Baptist Church
has been given a special recogni
tion award by the Baptist Sun
day School Board of the Southern
Baptist Convention for its out
standing record ot Sunday School
training during the church year
October 1, 1960, through Septem
ber 30, 1961.
During that period there wer*
89 awards issued in Category 17
of the Church Study Course and
166 awards in all other categories.
Category 17, for which the award
was made, is the category deal
ing with Sunday school methods,
administration and principals.
These 89 awards in Category 17
have placed the church in 24th
place among the 1,746 North Caro
lina churches earning awards in
this category.
E. B. Tomlinson, Jr., is general
superintendent of the Sunday
School and Mrs. Susie S. Carson
is superintendent of training.
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, January IX,
6:06 A. M. 12:36 A. M.
6:29 P. M.
Friday, January 19,
6:53 A. M. 0:40 A. M.
7:15 P. M. 1:20 P. M.
Saturday, January 20,
7:35 A. M. 1:24 A. M.
8:10 P. M. 2:02 P. M.
Sunday, January 31,
8:13 A. M. 2:05 A. M.
8:36 P. M. 2:41 P. M.
Monday, January 32,
8:50 A. M. 2:45 A. M.
9:13 P. M. 3:19 P. M.
Tuesday, January 23,
9:24 A. M. 3:24 A. M.
9:48 P. M. 3:56 P. M.
Wednesday, January 24,
9:57 A. M. 4:04 A. M.
10:24 P. M, 4 33 P. M