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Volume No. 22 No. 30 THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community The Pilot Covers Brunswick County f. P 10-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1962 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Talented Trlio VISITORS—J. M. Rideout, Southport resident who until his retirement was film editor for the National Geographic Society, is shown here with Win Parks, ace photographer for that publication on the left and Ollie Atkins, right, of the Saturday Evening Post. In the current issue of National Geo graphic is a big color spread of the arrival of the Battleship North Carolina, taken by Parks on the day the above photograph was made on the South port waterfront. First Pageant Scheduled For Year Postponed Arrangements For First Preliminary Pageant At Waccamaw Is Incomplete Causing Delay Time for all Brunswick County girls who possess talents, poise and good looks out of the ordin ary to come forth in honest com petition with other lovelies and enter one of the Jaycee-sponsored pageants. Last year was the first year that such pageants were held in, Brunswick and these were con ducted successfully by the Shal lotte Jaycees in all five school districts. This year, in four of the five districts, the Shallotte Jaycees will steer the pretty girls to the stage, leaving Southport’s beauties to their own Jaycees. The first of the pageants gets underway Saturday evening, Feb ruary 3, at Leland, and will be under the wing of the Shallotte group. The same sponsoring group originally planned to open its series of pageants this week at Waccamaw, but delays were en countered and the Waccamaw trials had to be postponed. J. T. Clemmons, publicist for the Shallotte Jaycees, went on Continued On Page 2 **• <¥ lnewsh BENEFIT BARBECUE A benefit supper will be served at Ocean View Methodist Church Yaupon Beach on Friday from 5 until 7:30 o’clock. TIME FOR REPORT Those who rceived Christmas Seals through the mail from the Southport Woman's Club and who have not yet sent in their money are urged to do so this week. Mrs. Johnnie D. Duffie, club president, said this week that it is necessary to close this business in order that a final report may be rendered. ARTISTS DRAWING Art Newton, Southport artist, recently prepared a drawing of a proposed fallout Shopping center at Biltmore, near Asheville for the promoter, Thomas Wheeler, who has formed a company to proceed with this mammoth un dertaking. The Newton drawing was used as a 7-column illustration on the front page of their Jan uary 16 edition yof the Ashe ville Times. The Southport man spent three days last week in Asheville conferring with Wheeler on other art work he has agreed to do for him. Governor Sanford On Hunting Trip Chief Executive Spending* Day At Long Beach With Fox Hunters From Cum* berland County Down on the lower precincts of Long Beach, in the lovely wooded section known as Tranquil Har bour, the first citizen of North | Carolina, the Hon. Terry Sanford, governor of Tarheelia, chased fox | es afoot and by jeep today (Wed nesday). By 1 p. m. the party ! counted three foxes down and a dozen more going ’round and ’round. It is a humane hunt, and pits animals against animals—the ani mals of the first part being the sea-bred reynards and the animals of the second part being the pro duct of E. S. Bosher’s Fayette ville kennels. There are 37 of the fox hounds and perhaps ten times that many foxes roaming the crepe myrtles. The hunt club, all from Fay etteville, arose at 5:30 in the mor ing. At 6:30 they had turned out their pack and the chase was on. Dan’L. Walker, city manager for Long Beach, dropped out of the hunt long enough to give a blow by-blow account of the beach hunt. “Terry told me he is thoroughly enjoying the chase,” he reported. The hunt is expected to end when darkness comes to the aid i of the embattled foxes of Long j Beach-Tranquil Harbour. If two 1 recent hunts on the same terrain 1 are any criterion, a dozen or more foxes will be in the Gover nor’s bag before hounds, men and varmints call it a day. Grand Jury In Routine Report Nothing Out Of Ordinary Reported By Grand Jury As It Concluded Delibera tions Here Tuesday The report made by the grand jwry of the January term of Brunswick County Superior Court to Judge Henry A. McKinnon, Jr., follows: "We the Grand Jury, being in j session two days, beginning Jan ] uary 22, examined 24 bills and .returned 22 true bills and two | not true bills. We examined the returns of the following Justices of Peace: E. O. Rabon of Winabow, Lela Os . borne of Shallotte, E. F. Gore of | Southport and D. A. Long of I Leland. We inspected the reports i of guardians, administrators and | executors and found them all in order. “We found the Boarding Home m good condition and found the iContinuea On Page 2) Service Dentist In Mobile Unit Lt. Edward Hersey, doctor of dentistry, employed by the Public Health Service, is in Brunswick County for a stay of several weeks. The doctor is touring Coast Guard installations in a mobile dental unit serving the dental needs of officers and personnel who man remote units not readily accessible to public health service facilities. Lt. Hersey is a native New Yorker and a graduate of Co lumbia University. Shallotte Will Get New Bank President C. Lacy Tate Of W accamaw Bank And Trust Co. Tells Of Plans In Annual Report Net earnings of the Waccamaw Bank and Trust company for 1961 were 20 percent higher than in 1960 C. Lacy Tate, bank presi dent, told stockholders tonight at the annual meeting held at the Whiteville high school cafeteria. Tate, making his 12th annual and consecutive report, told stock holders gathered that the bank located in 12 southeastern com munities with 17 offices had its best year, to date in 1961. Tate noted that increased income from industry helped balance the area’s economy when a decline in farm income resulted in 1961 from an excessive amount of rain dur ing the prime growing season. His report indicated that the bank had a total of $700,000 in earnings last year before taxes. Some $350,000 was paid in taxes last year. The bank has 702 stockholders and for each share of stock held net earnings of $4.40 was earned. This was an increase of $1.04 over the 1960 earnings per share | of $3.36. The report on loans made dur ing the year showed that as of Dec. 31, 1961 $12 million were outstanding, an increase of $1 mil lion over the 1960 outstanding fig ure. During the past tobacco sea son the bank, in its 12 locations, collected over 9,750 individual loans totaling $9 million. Tate gave credit to the growth of the trust department to Henry Wyche, trust officer. He said, "Our trust department continues to grow in total resources which (Continued on Page 4) Young Lady And Her Dog Capture Fox Off Beach Pet Dog Forces Fox To Take To Sea, Then Pur sues And Drowns Animal In Sight Of Mistress Last week when he left the Baptist Assembly to attend the General Board meeting in Raleigh, Fred Smith, Superin tendent of the local recreation area, left his pretty young secretary, Mrs. Linda Garner Smith in charge of the office. Monday when she ' went to work Linda decided to take along her pet German Shep ard for company, also for protection, if needs be. But as the day wore on and the weather outside turned spring-like, the young lady decided to go for a stroll across the beautiful assembly grounds. She headed for one of the batteries, which af fords a view of the ocean nearby. The big dog ran ahead, and in the process jumped a fox. The chase was on, and in stead of running a short dis tance and losing sight of his quarry, the dog pressed the fox so closely that the latter - decided that he’d better head for the water in hopes of Continued On Page 4 County Survey For Fallout Is Being Planned I Wilmington Firm Will Be gin Immediately On Study To Determine Mass Shel ter Facilities A. S. Knowles, Civil Defense Director for Brunswick County, announced this week that the firm of FOSCO, incorporated, archi tects and engineers of Wilming- i ton, has advised him that they plan to begin a survey to locate and mark public fallout shelter space in Brunswick County im mediately. Similar surveys are being con ducted throughout the country in a nationwide effort to locate and mark existing facilities which will provide adequate protection against radioactive fallout. Pre liminary estimates indicate that suitable shelter will be found for approximately one-fourth of our population, or 50 million people. The National Fallout Shelter Survey Program is under the di rection of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Civil Defense, Steuart L. Pittman, with the re sponsibility for direct supervision of the surveys resting with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks. FOSCO, Inc., are under contract to the U. S. Army Engineer Dis trict, Wilmington, to do the field work of the fallout shelter survey in the counties of Brunswick, New Hanover, Cumberland and others. To qualify before obtaining this government contract several mem bers of the firm received inten sive specialized training in struc tural analysis of fallout shelters at a school sponsored by the De partment of Defense. Their initial job will be to fill out a form which will describe the structural components of each building which appears to offer a BubsHtnjriai .degree of protection from W UWKctive tfrlfe/.it for gfc least 50 people. The completed forms will be processed through the District Engineer’s Office and sent to the data processing center of the Bureau of Census. Here a film optical sensing device for Continued On Page 2 Historical Group Discusses Plans Fitting Observance Of Ter centenary Period Is Topic For Consideration At Southport Meeting The Brunswick County Histori cal Society held its regular quar terly meeting Tuesday night in the Parish House of St. Phillip’s Episcopal Church, Southport. Mrs. M. H. Rourk, president of the society, opened the meeting, and gave the floor to the Rev. H. Arthur Phillips, Jr., secretary, who read a brief report before Treasurer Helen F. Taylor report ed on finances. A general discussion followed, and it was agreed that a mem bership drive was in order, to be gin as soon as a committee has been formed for the purpose. Harry Mintz moved that the so ciety meet every other month in Continued On Page 2 January 28, 1937, and Coast Guardsmen from Oak Island Sta tion had departed for Louisville, Ky., to engage in rescue work as a result of severe flood conditions. They carried with them their own unsinkable boats for rescue operations in one of the worst floods in history. W. H. Barnett, then a Warrant Officer, was in charge. Those were the days fon low-scoring basketball games. South port during the past week j had defeated Bolivia boys by a score of 22-19. In the girls gam a the Southport attack really had bog-, ged down in the second lfclf when they managed to score one point. Bolivia won, 33-9. 1 Depositors for the defunct Bank of Southport had received thlir final dividend checks, ranging from 1-cent to 52,500. The war was on, and 1942, edition of The Pih men, S. V. Russ and L their ship off the east o open and had been stafi Miss Annie May W< Brunswick County Cha of Oak Island Coast strikes—but with rubbe| Sellers of Town Creek ing championship after] an even half-dozen in big, black headline in the January 28, told of the survival of two Southport Garrett, when a submarine torpedoed -st. In Southport, the USO building was i temporarily by local volunteers. Iside had been made chairman of the American Red Cross; A. E. Huntley lard Station had bowled 12 consecutive ■banded duckpins on short alleys. Charlie >wnship had laid claim to the coon hunt he and his dogs had treed and captured single night of hunting. Eastern truck gro"jt were leasing land here m Brunswick cued On Fagfe 4 Shallotte Farmer Is State Officer James D. Bellamy Elected Second Vice-President Of N. C. Association Of Con servation Districts James D. Bellamy, Shallotte farmer and business man, has been elected second vice president of the North Carolina Association of Soil Conservation Districts arid thus is in line to become presi dent of that organization at its annual meeting two years hence. This most recent honor came to the Brunswick county man at the state meeting in Goldsboro, and the prediction regarding his future honors is based upon the established custom of the Soil AsT sociation to advance their presi dential candidates through the ranks. For the past year Bellamy has served as chairman of the Edu cation Committee. Last fall he received the Gover nor's Award, the top state award in the conservation category at the State Wildlife Federation JAMES D. BELLAMY meeting in Greensboro. Governor Terry Sanford was present and made the presentation personally to the Brunswick county winner. Ferry Hearing In Session Here Today Candidate F. HERBERT SWAIN First Candidate To County Board F. Herbert Swain Of South* port Is First To Announce As Candidate For This Office F. Herbert Swain this week be came the first man to announce his candidacy for the Democratic nomination as county commission er. He is currently serving his eighth year as a member of that body, and for five of those years he has served as chairman. At present Brunswick is served by a five-mari board, which means that more candidates are sure to be forthcoming in this race. There are six townships in the county, and each is entitled to only one member. This still leaves one township unrepresented on the county board. This time it is Town Creek that has not had a resident member. There have been no other an nouncements thus far, although during court week there has been an unusual amount of political talk and prognostication. January Term Superior Court Numerous Cases Of Minor Interest Disposed Of Be fore Judge Henry Mc Kinnon During First Two Days A one-week term of Brunswick County Superior Court devoted to the trial of criminal cases is in session here this week with Judge Henry A. McKinnon of Lumber ton presiding, and District Solici tor John J. Burney, Jr., of Wil mington prosecuting. Lewis Faber, charged with breaking, entering and larceny, received the stiffest sentence handed out by Judge McKinnon in the two days, when he was sent to state prison for a term of not less than four, and not more than eight years. i In the case of Madeline Faulk i Continued On Page 2 Special Committee From State Highway Commis sion Hears Mountain Of Evidence Supporting Pro ject An overflow crowd was on hand here this afternoon for a public hearing- scheduled by the State Highway Commission to hear evi dence favoring the establishment pf ferry service’ across the Cape Pear River between Southport and Fort Fisher. Presiding' Was former State Senator Viyian Whitffeld of Bur gaw, anjd present for the hearing was the four-man special com mittee representing the full com mission. These were Lauch Fair cloth of Clinton, D. G. Bell of Morehead City, Graham Elliott of Washington and Gilliam Wood of Edenton. In addition, there were several other State Highway of ficials. Among these were Cameron Lee, Highway Engineer; Roger R. Jackson, Jr., in charge of pub lic relations for the State High way Commission; and-T. J. Me Kimm, Division Engineer. At the conclusion of the hear ing at 4 o’clock Faircloth issued the following statement: “I am pleased that the other members of the State Highway Commission were present and had an oppor tunity to hear the evidence of need as presented here today. I am thoroughly convinced of that need and will do all in my power to see this ferry service establish ed.” Following a welcome from Mayor J. Edward Hahn of South port, Chairman Whitfield gave a brief background of the project Continued On Page 6 School Boards Meeting Plans Waccamaw High School Will Be Host To District Meeting Wednesday, Feb ruary 7 The annual meeting of District Five, State School Boards Asso ciation, will be Jield February 7 at the Waccamaw high school in Ash. The District is comprised of Brunswick, Duplin, Pender, Samp son, Wayne and New Hanover counties, and includes the towns of Goldsboro, Clinton and Fre mont. President of the district Asso ciation is C. Y. Coleman of Ash. Principal speakers at the two separate sessions to be held at the meeting will be Howard Holly, past district president, and Dr. Everett Miller, assistant State Superintendent of Public Instruc tion. Educators and guests from the far-flung district will register, be ginning at 3:30 p. m„ and the program starts at 4 o’clock. Dinner will be served at 6:15, and will serve as intermission be fore the second session gets un derway. The meeting will ad journ sometime after 8 o’clock, “the purpose of this meeting is not only to compare notes, but to bring all interested parties, including P.T.A. officers, county commissioners, county auditors, Officials of the Better Schools Premdtrtt Cokatirt stated that Sunny Point Is Important Part In Area Economy Report From Commanding Officer Col. Johnnie D. Duffie Reveals Scope Of Business Operation The Sunny Point Army Termin al located in Brunswick County on the west side of the Cape Fear River, approximately 24 miles south of the city of Wilmington and six miles north of the city of Southport continued as an integral part of the overall eco nomy of New HanoVer and Bruns wick Counties in 1961, according to Colonel Johnnie D. Duffie, the Commanding Officer. Sunny Point is a Class II Transportation Corps facility and is a subordinate Installation of the U. S. Army Transportation Terminal Command, Atlantic which has its headquarters in Brooklyn, New York. Sunny Points' primary mission is to load and|or discharge ammunition andj or discharge ammunition andjor explosive cargo. The Terminal is commanded by a Transportation Corps Colonel and has a complement of seven military personnel and one hun dred and eighty six full time Civil Service civilian employees, the annual payroll for which is more than one million dollars. In addition to the regularly assigned personnel, the loading and unloading of vessels is ac complished by longshoremen from both Wilmington and Southport Locals of the International Long shoremen Association (ILA). Dur ing 1961 the payroll for accom plishing stevedoring services amounted to over one million dol lars during which time a total of more than 120,000 tons of car go was loaded and|or discharged. The Terminal is organized into four Directorates; the Comptroller Directorate which advises and as sists the Commanding Officer on financial and management mat ters affecting the Terminal; the Administrative Directorate which formulates plans, policies and procedures pertaining to adminis trative and personnel management matters, and directs, supervises (Continued On rage 2) Contestants And Parents Meeting Mrs. Hannah Block Of Wil* mington Will Be Here Sunday To Talk To Local Group About Pageant The mayor pro-tem of Wilming I ton will visit Southport Sunday, i where she will be guest of honor | at a tea given for girls eligible to participate in the Miss South ! port contest to be conducted here next month. Mrs. Hannah Block of Wilming ton, who is ascociated with both the Miss North Carolina and the Miss America pageants, will talk informally to hopeful local aspir ! ants and their parents, over tea I and cakes at the home of Dr. and Mrs. C. A. Graham, Jr. The tea starts at three in the afternoon, and is sponsored by the South port Junior Chamber of Com merce. Jaycee offiicals wish to make it clear that there still is time for contestants to enter the local pageant, and they urge any eligi ble young ladies who still are un decided to attend the Sunday af ternoon tea. Tide Table Following is the ttde 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 25, 10:31 A. M. 4:43 A. M. 11:00 P. M. 5:09 P. M. Friday, January 26, 11:07 A. M. 5:25 A. M. 11:41 P. M. 5:48 P. M. Saturday, January 27, 11:47 A. M. 6:11 A. M. 6:31 P. M. Sunday, January 28, 0:30 A. M. 7:03 A. M. 12:35 P. M. 7:19 P. M. Monday, January 29, 1:24 A. M. 8:03 A. M. 1:30 P. M. 8:15 P. M. Tuesday, January 30. 2:23 A. M. 9:07 A. M. 2:32 P. M. 9:17 P. M. Wednesday, January 31, 3:26 A. M. 10:10 A. M. 3:35 P. M. 10:17 P. M, I
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