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Volume No. 22
THE STATE PORT PILOT
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
No.^T 10-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1962 5c A COPY
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
More Pageant Entries
CONTESTANTS—Julia Mae Gray, Dora Ann Hewett and Toy Lane Hewett,
all from Shallotte, are the latest entries in the Miss Brunswick County Pageant,
which will be held at Shallotte on March 10. Tickets for this event go on sale
this week by members of the sponsoring Shallotte Jaycees.
More Entries
Coming In For
New Pageant
Ranks Of Contestants In
creased This Week By
Three Entries From Shal
lotte Community
Perhaps encouraged by the en
try of three Bolivia girls, a like
number of young ladles from
Shallotte entered the Brunswick
County Pageant this week.
The pageant, sponsored by the
Shallotte Jaycees, will take place
in the Shallotte High School audi
torium on March 10. Last year
there were several contests, run
as preliminaries to a final con
test. This year only one pageant
will be held.
Toy Lane Hewett is the daugh- I
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Wal
ker Hewett. Miss Hewett, a sen
ior at Shallotte High, is just
under 5 feet, six inches, with
dark hair and fair complexion.
Her eyes are blue and she tips
the scales just under 100 pounds.
Her vital statistics read, top to
bottom, 34-22-36.
Toy Lane is a fine musician
and student, having sung and
played piano all through her
school career. A bit of a journal- I
ist, Miss Hewett has written for
the school paper and authored
the "Pirate Log” in the State
Port Pilot. She is active in
B. T. U. work, both in secretarial j
and musical fields.
Another entrant is Dora Ann I
Hewett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. |
D. L. Hewett. A petite type, Dora
Ann is 5 feet, two, and may be
described as a "brownette”, what
with brown eyes and hair and a
faintly olive complexion. She also
is a senior at Shallotte high
school. This contestant weighs in
at 105 pounds, with 34-24-35 sta
tistics. The young lady shows
thespian promise, having been in
turn May Queen, in the Valentine
Court, Sweetheart Queen, and a
member of the cast of the junior
play.
Julia Mae Gray is the daugh
Continued On Page 4
P
JW* M Of
-NEWS-1
JOINS LAW FIRM
Loius Knox Newton has join
ed the law firm of Carter, Murch
ison & Fox at it’s new offices
16 North 5th St. Wilmington.
CONDUCT SUNDAY SCHOOL
Members of the Supply Boy
Scout Troop conducted Sunday
School at Concord Methodist
Church this week. Ronald Holden,
Michael Ingram, Gary Chestnut
and Alan Holden conducted the
classes.
W ACC AM AW BENEFIT
The Parent-Teachers Associa
tion of the Waocamaw High
School at Ash is sponsoring a
barbecue supper Friday in the
school cafeteria from 5 to 7 p. m.
The public is invited and pro
ceeds will be used for equipment
needed at the school.
CONFERENCE HELD
Mrs. Myrle Swicegood, district
home economic agent, will attend
a conference, meeting with the
staff of the Brunswick farm agent
cy group Thursday evening. Mrs.
Swicegood will talk to local home
demonstration leaders and will
also discuss the possibility of a
home economic agent for Bruns
wick County.
O’Brien Retires
As Bank Cashier
Official Retires From Wac-5
carr.aw Bank & Trust Co.
After Serving For Twen
ty-Five Years
Prince O’Brien has retired as
cashier of the Southport Branch
of the Waccamaw Bank & Trust
Co. after 25 years service with
that institution.
On Monday, W. B. Garald of
Tabor City assumed the job.
’O’Brien retires following 44
years in banking service. A native
of Rockingham, he started his
banking career with the Bank of
Ellerbee. Later he worked in the
National Bank of Sanford and as
an employee of the Federal Re
serve Bank of Charlotte.
In February, 1937, he came
with the Waccamaw Bank &
Trust Co., serving first at Fair
mont, where he remained until
December of that year. That is
when he came to Southport,
where he became cashier.
The retiring banker has been
active in religious, civic and so
cial affairs of the community and
has held numerous position of
prominence. He served for several
years as chairman of the board
of trustees for Dosher Memorial
Hospital, has held numerous of
fices in the Southport Lions Club,
of which he is a member; and as
an official of Trinity Methodist
Church, where he also is a mem
ber.
In addition, O'Brien is a mem
ber of the Cape Fear Navigation
and Pilotage Commission to which
he has been reappointed by Gov
ernor Terry Sanford for four
years. In fact, he is in Raleigh
today being sworn in for his new
term.
He has three children. Two
sons, Frank O’Brien, editorial
writer for the Star-News, and
Eugene O’Brien, post office em
ployee, living in Wilmington. A
(Continued on Page 4)
Solicitor Files
For Re-Election
John J. Burney Gives No
tice Of His Intention To
Seek Reelection To Dis
trict Post
Solicitor John J. Burney of j
Wilmington has filed for re-elec
tion as solicitor of the eighth
solicitorial district which com
prises the counties of Brunswick,
Columbus, Pender and New Han
over.
Solicitor Burney, 37, graduate
of Wake Forest law school, and
combat veteran of the last world
war (Purple Heart with Oak Leaf
Cluster), became solicitor in 1953
by appointment of the late Gov
ernor Umstead and has served the
district since.
His x-ecord shows that he has
tried over 10,000 cases in the dis
trict’ and has never been forced
to call a special session because
of the continuing heavy load.
Burney has been active in the
Democratic party since entering
the practice of law in Wilming
ton in 1951. He is a foi'rner presi
dent of the New Hanover County
Young Democratic club, member
if that county’s Deniocratic Exe
cutive committee, and was named
one of the state’s outstanding
Young Democrats for 1959. He is
also a member of the American1
Legion, the Kiwanis club. Elks,
and a Mason and a Shriner.
He is a Baptist, married with
Lhree children, his wife being the
:ormer Catherine fivans of Dillon,
s. c.
PRINCE O’BRIEN
H. L. Willetts Is
Party Chairman
Brunswick County Republi
cans Elect Veteran Cam
paigner To Direct Activi
ties As Executive Commit
tee Leader
H. L. Willetts was elected
chairman of the Brunswick Coun
ty Republican Executive Com
mittee at a party rally Friday
night at the Shallotte Armory. He
succeeds Cleyon Evans and re
sumes a role he has held on sev
eral previous occasions.
Other officers are Mrs. Betty
Bennett Warren of Freeland, vice
chairman; Mrs. G. L. Reynolds,
Bolivia, secretary; Gilbert Gris
sett, Shallotte, treasurer.
Members of the executive com
mittee are Ira Jacobs, Northwest;
Russell Johnson, Town Creek; J.
A. Eaton, Smithville; J. T. Clem
mons, Lockwoods Folly; Gilbert
Grissett, Shallotte; and Walter C.
Wilson, Waccamaw.
Plans were made for a good
attendance by party members at
the District Republican Rally in
Whiteville on February 23. L. C.
Babson, Freeland merchant and
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Shallotte Club
District Host
Overflow Crowd Attends
District Junior Chamber
Of Commerce Meeting
Held At Calabash
Some 140 Jaycees attended the
13th District's meeting held re
cently at Calabash. Host club for I
the event was the Shallotte Jay
cees.
Principal speakers were John
McNair, Jaycec national director,
and Albert Sharpe of Lumberton,
immediate past president of the
state organization. McNair makes
his home in Laurinburg.
J. T. Clemmons . reported that
“the turnout was tremendous; wc
hadn’t expected over one-hundred
members to show up.”
The meeting was held at a
restaurant hard by the water
front and a shore dinner was en
joyed by the large crowd.
Clemmons said the speeches
made by the officials named
above "were well received”, and
that a general planning session
was held following the addresses.
Draw Jury List
February Term
Superior Court
Judge Henry McKinnon Of
Lumberton Will Preside
Over Term For Trial Of
Civil Cases
A term of Brunswick County
Superior Court devoted to the
trial of ciyil cases, is scheduled to
start Monday, February 26, with
Judge Henry McKinnon of Lum
berton, presiding.
List of jurors drawn to serve
during the term, follows:
From Southport: M. M. Hood,
George R. Clemmons, Sr., James
A. Joyner, and J. Brice Helms.
From Shallotte: E. P. Hewett, C.
A. Hewett, Lennon McLamb, G. C.
Stanley, Sr., Thomas F. Gray, J.
H. Bozeman, H. F. Milliken, and
Robert McLamb. From Ash: J. J.
White, W. L. Carlyle, D. O. Wal
ton, Richard White, and Johnnie
Cox.
From Leland: William E. Nel
son, Allen Childs, and Daniel
Rabon. From Bolivia: W. G.
Moore, Roy E. Swain, Homer L.
Holden, and A. R. Clemmons.
From Supply: Linwood Brown,
James P. Clemmons, Olaf C. Var
nam, and Carl Bowling. From
Longwood: D.- S. Russ and D .S.
Gore. From Freeland: Weston
Evans and Otis L. Evans. From
Winnabow: W. E. Lewis and W.
C. Gore.
Feed Grain Plan
Attracts Many
ASC Officials At Shallotte
Say That Unusual Inter
est Has Been Shown In
This Program Thus Far
The 1962 feed grain sign-up
got off to a fast start in Bruns
wick County with 60 local farmers
signing agreements on the open
ing day of the-program last week.
Well over $13,000 went to early
signers on that day, in the form
of advance payments.
Ralph Price, manager of the
Brunswick ASC office, declared
himself pleased with the early
response. "Last year 577 Bruns
wick farmers signed up in all,”
stated Price, "and in the first
week this year we’ve had 193
signers. The program is running
well ahead of last year’s.”
Broken down, the first week's
sign-up shows that on 193 farms
with a feed grain base-acreage
of 3,331, there are 2,277 acres
now assigned to diversion; and at
the end of the first week $29,
546.41 has been paid by the local
ASC office in advance payments.
Price pointed out that “the pro
gram is just getting underway,
since there are 1,735 farms in the
county with base acreage.”
Important dates to local far
mers, as enumerated by the ASC
manager, follow:
"February 15: deadline for new
grower allotment applications for
tobacco, cotton and peanuts. Feb
ruary 28: deadline for returning
1961 peanut marketing cards.
March 15: deadline for making
applications for premeasurement
services. March 23: deadline for
releasing unused cotton allotment
and requesting acreage. March 30:
deadline for signing up to partici
pate in the 1962 feed grain pro
gram.
New Educational Building
ADDITION—An important addition is being made to Antioch Baptist Church
with the construction of a spacious educational building. The design ties in with
the architecture of the church and makes this one of the most complete and at
tractive church properties in Brunswick County—(Elgie Clemmons Photo.)
Fourth Highway
Death Of Year
Occurs Saturday
Infant Was Fatally Injured
When Northbound Auto
Runs Into Ditch On U. S.
Highway No. 17
The death of a three-months
old girl, killed early Saturday
morning near Shallotte when a
car went out of control and hur
tled into a ditch, was termed an
unavoidable accident after inves
tigation.
This was the fourth traffic
death on Brunswick county high
ways this year.
The infant, identified as Chari
to NUgid, daughter of a U. S.
Navy enlisted man, was riding in
the back seat of the wrecked
vehicle between her mother and
father when the accident took
place.
Driving the car was Felicisimo
D. Macamay, also a Navy man.
Macamay was the owner of the
vehicle which was headed toward
Baltimore, Md., where the men
had been assigned for duty. None
of the other occupants of the
death car wer£ seriously hurt in
the accident.
Macamay was held at Southport
Continued On Page 2
Dr. Wells Writes
Of Book Review
Retired College Professor
Expresses Pleasure at Re
cent Treatment By Eu
gene Fallon
Eugene Fallon, who conducts
the ‘‘Brunswick Between Book
ends” column each week in The
Pilot, has received the following
letter from Dr. B. W. Wells,
whose “Natural Gardens Of
North Carolina” was given a re
view last week:
“I wish to express appreciation
for your Pilot review of “The
National Gardens”. As you may
Continued On Page 6
TIME and TIDE
There were several stories of provocative interest in The Pilot
for February 17, 1937: A decision had been reached by State
Highway officials to relocate Highway No. 130 and to have it in
tersect U.S. No. 17 at G. T. Rourk Store before being hardsur
faced; Publicity about flogging cases in Brunswick was gaining
unfavorable reation from people upstate; a local doctor had
charged political favoritism with regard to admission as patients
at Brunswick County Hospital (later Dosher Memorial); and the
Southport waterfront was being cleaned up, the old Praeger
Shrimp and Fish Co. house being one of tlxc buildings to go.
In our issue for February 18, 1947, there was a headline "USO
Hut Intended To Be 'Home Away From Home’ ”. Capt. and Mrs.
Fridolf Anderson had arrived as directors of the local installa
tion. Dwight McEwen was named chairman of a committee in
charge of obliterating all signs which might be helpful to enemy
aircraft.
A new selective service registration had added 850 eligible
names for the draft; a one-act play contest was scheduled for
Southport High School that week, with four of the consolidated
schools entered; and J. B. Sutton had resigned as business man
ager at Dosher Memorial Hospital.
A four-column layout of the buildings which comprised the
U. S. Quarantine Station dominated the front page of The Pilot
for February 19, A representative of the Public Buildings
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New Educational
Building At Antioch
Election Board
Members Named
Members of the Brunswick
County Democratic Execu
tive Committee met Monday
night in Bolivia and voted
to nominate H. Foster Mintz
of Bolivia for the post of
Chairman of the Brunswick
County Board of Elections.
Arthur Sue of Leland was
recommended for appoint
ment as a regular member,
with Dillon L. Ganey being
third on the list of recom
mendations being passed
along to the State Board of
Elections, who makes the ap
pointments.
Officers Seek
Murder Suspect
James McMillan Died Sun
day Morning In Wilming
ton Hospital Of Mysteri
ous Injuries
The death of a middleaged
Town Creek Negro under myste
rious circumstances early Satur
day morning has resulted in the
arrest of one man and a search
for another by the Brunswick
County sheriff’s department.
Deputy Sheriff Charlie Skipper
was called to the home of James
McMillan, located in the Snow
Field section of the county, where
he found McMillan lying uncon
scious in his yard near the porch
of the small house. The victim, a
man about 50, had been discover
ed by a married daughter who
lived nearby.
Taken to a Wilmington hospital,
McMillan died without regaining
consciousness. A thorough inves
tigation by Deputy Skipper led to
Archie Allen, a 35-year-old Negro,
who gave a Wilmington address.
Allen told the lawman that he had
carried McMillan home from a
“party” held in the vicinity the
night before, and that he had left
him lying on his porch, before
driving away. The victim, Allen
told Skipper, “had been drinking
a little,” and that he (Allen)
thought McMillan would “sleep it
off.”
Not satisfied with the story,
Deputy Skipper continued his in
vestigation of the case and came
up with Willie McMillan, a 24
year-old Negro, who is said to be
no relation to the dead man. The
suspect had in his possession some
of the deceased's effects—includ
ing a pocket knife. The suspect,
was jailed for safekeeping until
the investigation of the death is
complete.
An autopsy was ordered by
Brunswick County Coroner Loweil
Bennett, to be conducted at Wil
mington.
Sheriff Ed Leonard said on
Tuesday morning that his depart
ment is searchig for another fig
ure believed connected with this
case. “It might well be murder,”
he added.
On Wednesday morning (today)
two county offiicals brought the
case up to date with the follow
ing information.
Sheriff Ed V. Leonard said that
his department had located sev
ConUuued On Pa^e 4
I5 Spacious Addition Nearing
Completion At This Rural
Baptist Church Between
Southport And Bolivia
An impressive new addition to
Antioch Baptist Church is being
completed and soon the members
of that congregation will be able
to use their spacious educational
building.
The Work is' being done by
Hines Construction Co. of Caro
lina Beach, which built Ocean
View Methodist Church at Yau
pon Beach and Bethel Baptist
Church in Southport.
» With t&e completion of this
building Antibdh will have one of
the most complete church plants
to be • found in any rural area,
and this is possible beacuse their
big, brick sanctuary was built
and paid for almost twenty years
ago.
Back in 1942, Fred W. Spencer,
member of the Southport Board
of Aldermen but still a member
of the church he joined 60 years
ago, took the lead in a building
program which led to the con
struction of the new building. An
active building contractor, he used
his knowledge and his contacts
to secure scarce materials back
in the early days of World War
II, and when the new church
was completed it was possible
to hold a dedication service. The
work had been accomplished
without going into debt.
The Southport contractor is
modest about the part he played
in that project, and freely admits
that he could not have accom
| plished it alone. He mentions sev
; eral names of members, both liv
| ing and deceased, who donated
generously of their time and
money to make it possible.
There is one thing about the
church building, however, in
which Mr. Spencer does take a
peculiar pride. That is the steeple,
which he admits he designed and
built himself.
Continued On Page 4
Judge Mallard
To Run Again
Tabor City Man Will Run
For Re-Election As Super
ior Court Jurist
Judge Raymond B. Mallard of
Tabor City has announced that
he will be a candidate for re
election as judge of the 13th judi
cial district which comprises the
counties of Columbus, Bladen and
Brunswick.
Judge Mallard, former practic
ing attorney of Tabor City and
Columbus county, has achieved a
record of distinction since he was
appointed to the bench in 1954
by Governor Luther Hodges.
One of his more imposing as
signments v/as as the presiding
judge in the Henderson cotton
mills strike trial a few years age
which resulted in the sentencing
to jail of the top labor leader in
North Carolina.
Judge Mallard is a member of
the Baptist church, a Rotarian
and a Mason.
Me is not only popular as a
jurist but also his services as a
leader in civic affairs has been
and continue to be much in de
mand.
He. is a Democrat and his bid
for re-election is subject to the
wishes of that party.
Waccamaw Site
For Educational
Meet Wednesday
Large Crowd Attended An
nual Session Of Fifth Dis
trict Of The State School
Board Association
The annual meeting of District
Five of the State School Board
Association, with more than 400
educators in attendance, was held
last Wednesday at the Wacca
maw High School in Ash.
The District president is C. Y,
Coleman of Ash, and L. A. Bur
ton is principal of the host school.
Supt. John G. Long said that he
was ‘‘particularly proud” of the
Brunswick turnout, which con
stituted roughly about one-third
of the gathering. District Five
includes six counties, plus the
towns of Goldsboro, Clinton and
Fremont.
The main speaker was Dr.
Everett Miller, assistant state su
perintendent of Public Instruction.
Whereas the speaker expressed
conviction that N. C. education
has progressed steadily, he went
on to warn that much remained
to be accomplished before ‘‘we
can rest on our laurels.”
"On the debit side of the
ledger are the dropout figures
in our state” said Dr. Miller. “In
1949 118,668 children entered
schools in this state for the first
time. In 1961, (12 years later)
only 50,187 graduate dfrom our
public school system, leaving 68,
481 students who dropped out
before graduation.”
Dr. Miller brought the problem
closer to home by giving Bruns
wick student statistics over the
same period. In 1949 in this
county 652 entered the first ele
mentary grade. Twelve years
later only 228 took high school
diplomas, said Miller.
In regard to these distressing
figures, Superintendent Long
pointed out that transfers to
other school units outside this
county undoubtedly account for
part of this poor record.
The Fifth c.atjrjct includes
Brunswick, Pender, Duplin, Samp
son, Wayne and New Hanover
counties, and the town units men
tioned above.
Girl Scouts In
Sale Of Cookies
Annual Fund Raising Ef
forts Will Help Defray
Expenses Of Operating
Troop In Southport
Southport residents will have
the opportunity, beginning Thurs
day, to indulge in some of the
famous ‘'Girl Scout Cookies'1,
when local troops start their an
nual sale.
Profit from the sale goes direct
ly toward maintaining and estab
lishing qualified camping for Girl
Scouts, and members of the local
intermediate troop are already
packing their bags in anticipation
of a stay at Camp Pretty Pond
this summer.
The cookies come in three de
licious flavors; the regular sand
wich-creame, a new Round-up
cake, and the ever popular mint.'
They are stamped with the Girl
Scout Insignia and will sell for
fifty cents per box.
Members of the two Brownie
Troops are to confine their sales
to relatives, friends and telephone
sales. The Intermediate Troop
may make door-to-door sales.
Continued On Page 4
Tide Table
Following Is the tide
table tor 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, February 15
4:52 A. M. 11:24 A. M.
5:19 P. M. 11:31 P. M.
Friday, February 16
5:42 A. M. 12:12 A. M.
6:07 P. M.
Saturday, February 17
6:28 A. M. 0:17 A. M.
6:52 P. M. 12:55 P. M.
Sunday, February 18
7:09 A. M. 1:02 A. M.
7:34 P. M. 1:35 P. M.
Monday, February 19
7:47 A. M. 1:43 A. M.
8:11 P. M. 2:13 P. M.
, Tuesday, February 20
8:22 A. M. 2:23 A. M.
8:46 P. M. 2:50 A. M.
Wednesday, February 21
8:55 A. M. 3:01 A. M.
9:18 P. M. 3.25 P. M.