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THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Volume No. 22 No. 34 10-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1962 5c A COPY |Most of the News ! All The Time $ rnv> I#* ' PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Southport Club Has Scholarship Aid For Nurses Southport Woman’s Club Offering Scholarship To High School Senior Girl Who Seeks Nursing Car eer The Brunswick County Tuber culosis association plans to give a scholarship to a high school senior girl in Brunswick county who wishes and plans to pursue a training course to become a registered nurse. The association, a division of the Southport Woman’s Club, con tinues its fight to eradicate the dreaded disease of tuberculosis, and this scholarship is1 a part of that overall program. The scholarship award will pro vide the complete costs for tuition, uniforms and books at one of 23 selected North Carolina accredited schools of nursing. The recipient of the scholarship may choose either of these 23 institu tions, depending of course, upon otherwise meeting the require ments for entry at that school. Each high school senior girl in Brunswick County will be pro vided an information sheet, the list of selected schools of nursing, and the scholarship application form which is to be used. The application form includes specific instructions as to what must be done by each applicant for the scholarship and when it must be done. Those girls who seek the schol arship must have their completed applications in the hands of the scholarship committee not later than April 10. It is required that completed applications be mailed to Chairman, Scholarship Com mittee, Brunswick County Tuber culosis Association, Southport. The winner of the scholarship will be announced on April 25. The Association hopes that the winner of the scholarship will graduate as a registered nurse and that she will seriously con sider returning to Brunswick County to work and serve, thus furthering their efforts toward Continued On Page 3 More Signers For Feed Grain ASC Officials Report Con tinued High Interest In This Phase Of Farm Pro gram Ralph Price, manager of the Brunswick County ASC office, had nothing but praise for the cooperation shown by local far mers with the feed grain pro gram. "Three hundred Brunswick far mers,” said Price, "have diverted 3.183 acres from feed grains. For this they have already received in advance payments the sum of $41,019.82. This is somewhat less than one-half the amount which will be paid out.” The purpose of the program is to keep stocks of feed-grains at a reasonable level. In 1961, de spite a record yield, the total grain stocks were reduced by some 200 million bushels under the program, which pays farmers to divert land formerly used for feed grains to soil conservation uses. Within the next few years it is expected that taxpayers will be saved some 500 million dollars in storage, handling and trans Continued On Page 4 Mrhf Bit* Of lnewsj BOOSTERS CLUB The Southport Boosters club will hold its regular meeting Thursday night at 8 o'clock in the home of C. I). Pickerrell. All members are' urged to attend. HOLIDAY ROUTINE All offices in the Brunswick County coirthouse with the ex ception of the sheriff’s depart ment will be closed for one day. Thursday, in observance of Wash ington’s Birthday. ATTENDS CONFERENCE J. G. Long, superintendent of Brunswick County Schools, is cur rently attending a four-day con ference of school superintendents and school administrators at At lantic City, N. J. The conference began Saturday and Long is ex pected to return to Brunswick Thursday. Self - Explanatory Sign FOX FOX HOUNDS HUNTERS HAVE RIGHT OF POLICE DEPT LONG BEACH, NORTH CAROLINA vCkv^v\oL. Fox Round Up • FEB. 22,23.24 WARNING—The only comment on the above sign is that it was ordered and put up at a good time by City Manager Dan Walker of. Long Beach, what with the woods full of fox dogs and fox hunters this week. Southport Man Dies Today In Local Hospital B. L. Furpless Dies Follow ing Stroke Suffered At Home Here On Saturday Morning; Funeral Arran gements Incomplete Bertram Lanier Furpless, owner and proprietor of the Amuzu Theatre and for the past four years advertising manager for The State Port Pilot, died this afternoon at Dosher Memorial Hospital in Southport. He had been in a critical con dition since Saturday morning, when he was admitted as a pa tient following a stroke suffered at his home. This came two days atfer being released as a patient at the local hospital where he had been for more than two weeks. The deceased was born and reared in Southport, the son of the late Price and Lillie Drew Furpless. He was graduated from Southport High School and later attended Davidson College. He was active in business and civic affairs of his home com munity and had held numerous positions of honor and responsibil ity .He was a past president of the Southport Lions Club and in past years had been active in Sunday School and Church work. He is survived by his wife, the former Cora Lee Walker; by two children, William and Amy; and by one brothel-, James Furpless, of Raleigh. Funeral services will be held tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon at 3 o’clock at Trinity Methodist Church with the Rev. Charles Lancaster, the Rev. Drayton Cooper and the Rev. Homer Mc Keithan officiating. Board Proclaims 4 - H Club Week Boys And Girls Of Bruns wick Wll Join In Observ ance Of This Event On March 3-10 The Brunswick County Com missioners in a Monday session passed a resolution approving the week of March 3-10, for 4-H Club observance. That week will be observed throughout the United States to focus attention on the many help ful activities of the 4-H organiza tion, according to James Goff, as sistant county farm agent and lo cal 4-H club mentor. ‘The 4-H Club is the largest organization of rural boys and girls in the world,” pointed out Goff, “and for the past several years we have had nearly 1,000 boys and girls enrolled in Bruns wick.” The assistant farm agent called attention to the fact that “4-H in this county has been recently shifted from school clubs to com munity clubs, and the active en rollment is presently at the low est figure in years. (Continued on Page 4) Holiday Fox Hunt For Long Beach Republicans To Meet On Friday The Republican District con vention, encompassing eight counties will be held in Whiteville Friday night at the county courthouse start ing at 7:30. Lester C. Babson of Free land is the District chairman. Included in the convention will be the selection of a dis trict chairman to serve for two years and the delegates to the state convention set for March 3 in Durham. The eight counties included in the district are Columbus, Bladen, New Hanover, Pen der, Brunswick, Robeson, Scotland and Cumberland. Templeton Heads Long Beach Sales Charleston, S. C., Man Is j General Manager For Na-j tional Development In Big Project The appointment of Hanon A. Templeton, Jr., as general man ager of the National Development Corporation of Long Beach was recently announced by officials of that organization. Templeton, a pleasant, dark haired young man, is already set tled in his combination office and living quarters, situated near the Tranquil Harbour restaurant on Long Beach's Ocean Highway. The new manager is no stran ger to these precincts, having long been associated with E. F. Middleton in supervisory position with Carolina Lands, Inc. A na tive of Savannah, Ga., Templeton is married and the father of two young sons. His wife, Florence, and sons Phillip and Al, present ly reside at Charleston, but plan to join him here upon the con clusion of this school year. As general manager, Templeton will have charge of the large ocean-front development in its en tirety. including the subdivisions of Tranquil Harbour and King's Lynn. A sales office, separate from the administration offices, is located within the Tranquil Harbour portion of Long Beach. Templeton was poring over some corporation records and sta tistics when The Pilot represent ative interviewed hint on Friday. Proudly he showed some fig ures proving an amazing fact— that sales cancellations affecting the vast seaside properties cur rently run less than one-half of one percent. This is an unheard of record in land promotion any where. Asked of the corporation's im j mediate plans, the new manager Continued On Page 4 Hunters And Packs Of Hounds From All Sec tions Of State Expected Here For Washington Birthday Hunt The foxes of Long Beach, 'jCraa tjuil Harbour and Oak Island are today (Wednesday) enjoying a last reprieve for beginning to morrow and extending through Saturday the big push to rid them from the island will be on. Dan’ L. Walker, town manager of Long Beach, revealed the lat est battle plans on Wednesday. Hinkle Schilling, of Centre, Texas, a man known as “Mr. Foxhunter”, is even now flying from Texas to act as Master of the Hopnds (all 500 of them). He will share this honor with Clarence R. Gil more of Siler City. Gilmore is the immediate past secretary of the N. C. Foxhunters Association, while Schilling formerly held the same position in the National Foxhunters Association. That takes care of the dogs pretty thoroughly. Walker revealed that “more than 300 invitations to the hunt have already been accepted. They will come from near and far in answer to our appeal for eradi cation of varmints from the most beautiful beach in the world.” Walker, armed with the heavi est caliber weapon allowed on this particular hunt—a club two inches through the middle—took a whack at an imaginary skulker and only succeeded in raising a lump on his shin and a loud howl before resuming his diatribe: “I hate foxes," he said, "and Continued On Page 4 Shallotte Lions Observe Charter Night Thursday The Rev. Arthur Phillips, Sr., Is Principal Speaker At Annual Observance Held By Shallotte Lions The 15th anniversary of the Shallotte Lions Club was celebrat ed Thursday evening at the club house on Sunset Terrace with an overflow crowd of 64 Lions and their guests in attendance. Pointing out that for a club comprised of 25 members, such attendance was most commend able, Robert G. Hubbard, presi dent of the club, said that special recognition was accorded the fol lowing five charter members of the organization present at the celebration: Dr. R. H. Holden, E. D. Bishop, LeRoy Mintz, E. H. Kirby and Henry Stone. The meeting was called to order by the president, following which the Rev. Arthur Phillips, Jr., pas tor of Camp Methodist Church, gave the invocation. President Hubbard then intro duced the guests, who numbered Wallace West an international di rector of Lions, and wife; Roy Sandlin and wife and Joe Hood and wife, both of whom are coun selors for Lions International. Other guests were Gordon Weeks of Goldsboro, district governor for Lion’s International, and R. N. McCray, director of Boys Home at Lake Waccamaw. It fell to the Rev. Arthur Phil lips, to introduce the featured speaker, who was none other than the Rev. Arthur Phillips, Sr., father of the local minister. The senior Phillips is pastor of the Rockwood Methodist Church at Rockwood, Tenn. Making his address follow the toastmaster approach, the featur ed speaker kept the crowd laugh ing at his droll stories, only turning serious at the end of his remarks. President Hubbard imported that the meeting was "one of the Continued On Page 4 Southport Boy Receives Honor Cadet Fred M. Burdette, Jr. Of Southport Is Gold Star Student At The Cita del In Charleston, S. C. .Cadet Fred M. Burdette, son of Dr. and Mrs. F. M. Burdette, Southport, was among 31 cadets at The Citadel who won the coveted Gold Stars for academic achievement for the semester end ing January 26, 1962. At The Citadel a Gold Star, symbol of the highest scholastic rating, is worn on either side of the collar of the dress and full dress blouses of the cadet uniform during the semester following the one for which the award is made. Gold Stars are awarded to those cadets who made grade point ratios of 3.6 or higher the previous semester. This is the approximate equivalent of four A’s and two B's. The highly-prized stars are one inch in diameter and are made from gold-plated metal. Recipients of Gold Stars are also automati cally entitled to wear the Dean’s List Medal. TIME and TIDE A front page article in The Pilot for February 24, 1937, not only reported steps being taken in an effort to secure a yacht basin at Southport, but related that this movement dated back to 1930 when the National Association of Engine and Boat Manu facturers had conducted a study and had recommended such an improvement here. Orton gardens were in bloom.—about six weeks earlier than usual; the USE Dredge Comstock had stopped over in Southport; and death had removed one of Southport's all-time colorful char acters, the late Pack Tharp. There was front page photo in The Pilot for February 25, 1942, showing some snow scenes in Southport. The cutlines said this was the heaviest snowfall here in five years. Bids for construc tion of the new bridge over the inland waterway on the Fort Caswell road were being advertised. A Southport boy, Teddy Lewis, was in flight training with the Army Air Corps; a 'bond'’ fire had been held by county offi cials, who had destroyed $120,500 of redeemed bonds in a public display; and Miss Louise Lewis had become the first full-time clerk-typist with the Brunswick County Rationing Board. The date was February 26, 1947, the war was over and there was agitation to have the State of North Carolina take over Fort Caswell for operation as a State Park. David W. Watson, princ ipal of Southport High School, was resigning to become a Special (Continued on Pago 4) New Contestants iMlfflfWfllillli I Hmi I! IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHI—limmilllllWIHIillliilllllll III ill ll ' III ■■ I II rrm]nr»|-irnrr«ini TWO—Mary Frances Browning, left, of Long wood, and Velma Lora Ganey of Leland, right, are the latest entries in the Brunswick County Pageant, which will be held on March 10 at Shallotte. Floating Lab Here On Way To Haiti Williamson In Race For House Speculation regarding a Democratic candidate for House of Representatives came to a head this week with the announcement by Odell Williamson that he will seek election to that office for the fourth time. Williamson is a successful Shallotte business man and real estate developer. He was first elected in 1946, repeated in 1948 and was elected again in 1952. He has made two unsuccessful races for nomi nation to the State Senate. This is the only formal an nouncement to be made this week, but there are rumors of other announcements which will affect several county of fices. More Entrants Being Received Plans Developing For Inter esting Event In Shallotte High School Auditorium March 10 More entries for the Miss Brunswick County Pageant were received this week by the Shal lotte Jaycees, and a meeting of pageant officials with all contest i ants and the man who will serve | as master of ceremonies is slated ! for tomorrow (Thursday) night at Bolivia. In making a progress report on pageant plans, Shallotte Jay cees announce that Waccamaw Bank & Trust Co., through their Southport and Shallotte branches, in cooperation with the Southport Savings & Loan Association, are giving a $350 college scholarship as first prize for the pageant winner. Pepsi Cola Bottling Co. of Wil mington is donating $100 worth of ! trophies. Among the new contestants are two young ladies from distant | points in Brunswick. Mary Fran ces Browning is from Longwood, near the South Carolina line; and Velma Lora Ganey is from Le land. * Mary Frances is the brown haired, blue-eyed daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Travis Browning. A senior at Waccamaw High School, she stands 5 feet, six inches, with 120 pounds nicely distributed over 35-22-36 figures. A well-rounded girl in other ways, Mary Frances writes for a hobby, sings for glee club, plays basketball and cheers for the Waccamaw male athletes. She still finds time for the happy and healthful 4-H Club activities. Writing seems more than a mere hobby, since the pride of Wacca maw is a district winner in essay. Velma Lora is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Ganey and is a statuesque type at five feet, eight inches, and 130 pounds. Velma has haze) eyes and brown hair, and as to be expected at her height, a basketball player at Leland high. Her vital statistics arc 37-25-37, and she is a mem ber of the F. H. A., an actress in school dramatics and a former contestant tor Homecoming Queen. ‘ Unique Vessel And Crew Of Volunteer Workers On Way To Island For Cam paign Against Tubercu losis The sleek white vessel which slid in to Thompson’s Esso Dock on the Southport waterfront Sat urday morning had an official air about it, as well it should, having once served the U. S. Navy as YP boat, and presently being used as a floating laboratory for HATI (Haitian-American Tuber culosis Institute). Southport was next to the last stop this side of the West Indian island of Haiti. The Hait gleamed antiseptically white On the Cape Fear. From her disembarked two men and six young .ladies. A trim young man, Dr. H. .Mac .Vandiviere, was in charge of all but the maritime duties. An interview followed on the dock, with gulls wheeling overhead. The HATI, said Dr. Vandiviere, has recently acquired a home port—Washington, N. C. She is intended to transport trained medical personnel between the city on the Pamlico River and the tiny port of Jeremie, Haiti. The purpose is to help fight tuber culosis in the island once referred to as “The Black Kingdom.” Dr. Vandiviere said that tuber culosis is “seventy to eighty times as prevalent in Haiti as it is in the United States. Down there”, said the doctor, "it ranks as num ber one killer.” Jeremi is roughly 1,500 sea miles from Washington. The ship will take about 12 to 14 days, weather permitting, to reach the Island of Espanol, of which Haiti is approximately one-half. The ! other half is the Dominican Re public. The trained crew of the ship—North Carolinians all—will remain in Haiti for about four months. While there they will work in association with the | Haitian Ministry of Health, and (Continued on Page 4) Last Chance For Property Listing | I Tax Supervisor D. H. Hawes Cites Responsibility Of Owner To List New Buil dings And Improvements D. H. Hawes, Brunswick Coun ty Supervisor, said this week that there are an unusually large num ber of property owners who have not yet listed their property for taxes. “These people are now delin quent in this respect,” he said this week, ‘a'nd are subject to penality and fine. However, we are much more anxious to get the job completed and urge all who have not done so to come in and list before the end of this month. There will be no penalty if they will do this.” Hawes says that his department has run into considerable con fusion regarding responsibility for reporting new building and other improvements made to real prop erty. “It is the responsibility of the property owner to take care of this,” he said. “Where con fusion exists, we are inviting the owners to come and discuss the problem with us. We want to get a fair and equitible listing, and we must do it right away. We want to make a fair appeal to these people to cooperate with us in this matter.” Progress Being Made In Library For Shallotte New Quarters Being Made Ready And Supplies Are On Hand For Placing Shallotte .Unit In Opera tion The physical appointments nec essary to setting up a public li brary in Shallotte • for 1 the first time in its long history are mov ing right along, according to G. E. Henderson, Shallotte pharma cist. Henderson, member of a com mittee delegated by the Shallotte Lions Club to aid and abet in the worthwhile project, reported that the construction of shelves is now underway in his home workshop, and that painting will follow the installation in the Bellamy Build ing, located next door to the post office in Shallotte. Dr. R. B. McKnight, a member of the State Library board, is the chairman for the committee. Oth er members of the group are Mrs. M. H. Rourk and the Rev. Arthur Phillips, Jr. Mrs. Rourk is in charge of the decorations, and Phillips was named as publicity man. The Shallotte Lions all will donate their labor to the project. To Mrs. Rourk was entrusted the task of locating a qualified person to supervise the lending of books and the cataloging of same. In Southport, Mrs. Philip King, librarian, said on Tuesday that “all necessary reference books, library supplies, etc., are on hand to start the Shallotte branch.’’ These only await the readying of the building. The Shallotte library will receive books via a rotation system from the Southport Publia Library. The addition of library facilities at Shallotte will not af fect the bookmobile schedule, it was reported. New Operation For Building Community Building In Southport Will Be Under The Supervision Of Joint Board Of Governors The Community Building in Southport henceforth will be op erated by a board of governors comprised of five members from the So'uthportLibns Club and five members from the Southport Woman’s Club. There will be two custodians, one for the building proper and the other for Utensils- and fur nishings. A close inventory of equipment has been made and will be maintained. There will be a new schedule, of charges, with a minimum fee for community related projects. A schedule of appointments will be maintained, and it will be wise for organizations and individuals who wish to use these facilities to make their requests well in advance. The board of governors includes Clinton Bellamy, president of the Lions Club; E. C. Blake, L. R. Bellows, H. A. Livingston and Ray Walton. From the Womans Club it includes Mrs. Johnnie D. Duffie, the president; Mrs. Fran ces Key, Mrs. H. T. St. George, Mrs. Dallas Pigott and Mrs. James Barnes. 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, February 22, 9:26 A. M. 3:39 A. M. 9:50 P. M. 3:58 P. M. Friday, February 23, 9:57 A. M. 4:16 A. M. 10:23 P. M. 4:32 P. M. Saturday, February 24, 10:30 A. M. 4:56 A. M. 11:00 P. M. 5:07 P. M. Sunday, February 25, 11:09 A. M. 5:39 P. M. 11:45 P. M. 5:47 P. M. Monday, February 26, 11:56 A. M. 6:28 A. M. 6:35 P. M. Tuesday, February 27, 0:40 A. M. 7:27 A. M. 12:52 P. M. 7:34 P. M. Wednesday, February 28, 1:42 A. M. 1 8:32 A. M, 1:57 P. M. S.10 P. M.