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THE STATE PORT PILOT
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
Volume No. 22
No. 36
12-PAGES TODAY
SOUTHPORT, N. C
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1962
5c A COPY
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Southport Cub Scout Pack
Shown in ptoto are members of Southport Cub Scout Pack No. 238, which con
sists of the following members: Ronald Sides, Mac Adams, Dale Reece, Ronald
Shannon, Donald Shannon, Robert Jones, Gerald Sides, Michael Helms, Jerry
Dilsaver, Rodney Melton, Larry Strong, Johnnie Sloan, Joseph Feake, Charles Sel
lers, Steve Donnelly, Carl Watkins, Freddie Cammack, Jon Jones, Charles
Smith, Wade Parker, James Dowling, Kenneth Poteet, Clifford Walker, Landis
Brown, Pat Duffie, Eddie James andDickie Bellows. Also shown in photo are
Boy Scouts Anders Hoglund and Jack Duffie.
Cub Scouts In
Annual Banquet
Here Last Week
Southport Cub Pack Mem
bers Receive Various
Awards At Meeting Here
Last Week
Pack Number 238, Southport
Cub Scouts, held its annual Blue
and Gold Banquet at the Com
munity Building last Tuesday. In
attendance were approximately
sixty-five pack officials, parents,
Cubs and guests.
The evening’s program opened
with the invocation by Reverend
Drayton Cooper, following which
the National and Pack flags were
presented by the Weblos Den.
The Cubmaster then led the
Pack in reciting the Pledge of
Allegiance, after which the song,
“God Bless America”, was sung
by the entire group.
Dinner then followed, after
which the Rev. Mr. Cooper ex
tended greetings to the entire as
sembly from the sponsor of Pack
Number 238, the Southport Pres
byterian Church.
Robert Kermon, Jr., repreesnt
ing Cape Fear Area Council Boy
Scouts of America, then presented
the Pack its operating charter
for 1962, and in addition, present
ed a National Recognition Boy
Scouts of America Award, this
being the fourth consecutive year
the- local pack has won this
award.
The Bobcat Induction ceremony
then followed, at which time
Michael Helms, Robert Jones,
Gerald Sides and Ronald and Don
ald Shannon became official mem
bers of the Pack with the rank of
Bobcat.
A lengthy awards presentation
followed during which nearly all
of the twenty-seven local Cubs
received at least one award for
recent achievements.
Aldege Martin then presented
Continued On Page 4
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FLORIDA trip
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Moore
have returned home following' a
vacation trip to Florida. Among
other points of interest they visit
ed Orlando and St. Petersburg.
PTA MEETING
The Southport Parent-Teacher
Association will hold its regular
monthly meeting in the audito
rium of the Southport High
Scnool on Thursday night at 7:30.
Officers for the 1962-63 school
year will be elected, recommenda
tions for the various offices will
be presented by the nominating
committee and additional nomina
tions will be received from the
floor. The officers elected Thurs
day night will be installed during I
the April meeting. An interesting |
program has been arranged by the
program chairman.
Three Die Friday
In Highway Toll
Separate Accidents Claim1
Lives Of Three Persons
As Brunswick Highway
Figures Mount
Friday was a dark day for the
Brunswick County traffic situa
tion as three persons died in auto
accidents, almost doubling the
1962 total within a single day.
A seven-year-old Raeford boy,
in Brunswick County attending
his uncle’s funeral near Ash, died
when he walked in front of a
state dump truck, Friday morn
ing) while two Ocean Drive Beach,
S. C. Negroes were killed on US
17 just inside Brunswick County
in the early afternoon of the
same day when the station wagon
in which they were riding over
turned.
The three deaths left Bruns
wick County with a total of 7
traffic fatalities thus far in the
new year. The count had been
four prior to Friday.
State Trooper W. H. Morgan,
Jr. of Supply said that Bobby
Eugene Ward, 7-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Douglas Ward
of Raeford, was in the Ash area
for the funeral of Charles Sum
mersett of Raeford, who had died
Wednesday in a Raleigh hospital.
He was riding with his grand
father, Raleigh Ward, who park
ed his car on the shoulder of
NC 130, iy2 miles east of Ash
near the intersection with Rural
Paved Road 1331 near Ernest
Milligan’s store.
Morgan said the boy walked
from in front of the parked car
onto NC 130 and into the path of
an east-bound State Highway and
Public Works Commission dump
truck, a 1960 Ford, driven by
Vineval Jackson Holden, 48, of
Supply.
Morgan said the driver swerved
hard to his left in an effort to
avoid hitting the child, but the
right bumper and grill of the ve
hicle were in collision with the
child’s body. The boy was thrown
some 70 feet by the force of im
pact.
He was dead on arrival at
Columbus County Hospital in
Whiteville, with Coroner L. B.
Bennett saying death came of
head injuries. The boy also suf
fered a broken hip, and left arm,
and a severe laceration over the
eye.
Coroner Bennett said the acci
dent was unavoidable and that
no inquest would be held.
Final rites for Bobby Eugene
Ward were held Sunday at 2 p.
m. at Aberdeen Pentecostal Holi
ness Church by the Rev. C. E.
Hester, with burial in Montrose
Cemetery.
Survivors include his parents;
three brothers, Michael, Ricky
and Glenn Ward; a sister, Pa
tricia Sue Ward, all of Wilming- 1
ton; his paternal grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. Raleigh Ward of
Raeford, Route 3; and his ma
ternal grandmother, Mrs. Florence
Cummings of Aberdeen.
State Trooper Roscoe Edwards 1
said that two other Brunswick j
fatalities occurred about 2:30 p.
Continued On Page 4
i
Numbering
FULWOOD and ALDREDGE
House Numbers
Being Affixed
Southport Jaycees Near End
Of This Project Which
Will Help Home Mail De
livery
The project of numbering
houses in Southport in preparation
for home mail delivery has almost
been completed by the Southport
Jaycees, who volunteered to carry
out this project.
James Wolfe has served as
chairman of the committee in
charge, with Joe Walton, Bobby
Jones and Afton Smith as other
members.
One of the first steps was to
map out the town and surround
ing area. Once this had been
done, actual measurement was
necessary to assign the proper
number to each house and at the
same time make provision for
leaving vacant numbers of vacant
lots.
A spokesman for the Jaycees
said Monday that the job is about
95-percent complete, and with
members working in their spare
time they should be able to fin
ish the work this weekend.
The Jaycees have been meeting
at the Southport Fire station,
have received their assignments,
then have made house to house I
calls. They have had brass num-;
bers for sale at a nominal cost !
and whenever the home owner
has desired this service, they have
put up the numbers while mak- j
ing their call.
The Jaycees also have home!
mail boxes for sale.
(Continued on Page 1)
Third Session
Workshop Will
Be In Bolivia
Second In Series Of Teacher
Improvement Programs
Came To Close Monday;
Next Session Begins On
March 19
The second in a series of Teach
er Workshops was concluded Mon
day. evening at Bolivia when 57
persons completed the five ses
sions program.
The subject was “State and
Local Government” and the in
structor was Dr. John Howell of
the faculty at East Carolina Col
lege. Each of the five consolidated
schools in the county was repre
sented at this workshop.
Plans already are underway
for the third workshop, which is
to be on "Geography and World
Problems”. The first session will
be held or^ March 19, and Bolivia
once more will be the scene for
these classes. Classes are from
4 to 7 o’clock each Monday.
The instructor for the forth
coming series will be Charles F.
Gritzner of the Department of
Geography at East Carolina Col
lege. In his outline for the course,
the instructor will follow his in
troduction with a Systematic An
alysis of Several Underlying
Causes of Political Instability.
Next- he will treat with the Com
munism and- the Soviet Threat;
then the Neutral Camp; and final
ly The Free World.
Those who have attended these
workshop periods have been high
in their praise for the benefit
derived from these sessions, and
it is significant that many teach
ers have attended both of the
first two courses.
Local Boosters
Elect Officers
Foxy Howard New Presi
dent Of Southport High
School Boosters Organi
zation
The Southport Boosters Club
met Thursday evening at the
home of C. D. Pickerrell. Officers
for 1962 were elected as follow:
President—Foxy Howard, vice
president—Ronnie Hood, secretary
—Agnew Fulcher, and treasurer—
Tommy Bowmer.
During the past year the South
port Boosters Club completed the
lighting facilities at Taylor Ath
letic Field and reduced the debt
from $4,482.00 to it’s present bal
ance of $1,200. Other activities in
cluded the annual athletic ban
quet given by the Boosters Club
for all local high school athletic
teams, the 2nd Annual Booster
Bowl Football Game, and the 1st
Annual Turkey Shoot. Work has
also progressed on other facilities
at Taylor Field including the
snack bar which is completed, and
the new grandstand and backstop
which is nearing completion and
will be dedicated with appropriate
ceremonies during one of the ear
ly baseball games this season.
Activities for the coming year
will include completion of the
grandstand and backstop, visitors
and hometeam dugouts, a fence
Continued On Page 4
j TIME and TIDE
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The most significant news in the March 9, 1937, issue of The
Pilot was not on the front page, but was a legal notice announc
ing the sale on the following Monday of Bald Head Island. It was
being foreclosed for taxes.
A headline said: “Good Prices Get Shrimpers Busy,” and the
story went on to say that payment of 15-cents per pound at the
dock had local fishermen out earlier than usual. There was a rumor
that Cape Fear Coast Guard Station was to be abandoned; a hear
ing had been held on the question of constructing a yacht basin
at Southport; and the editor had raised the question of “Why did
the first man who ate an oyster eat it.”
There was plenty of political news on the front page of The
Pilot for March 11, 1942. Among the announcements was one
from Attorney S. Bunn Frink, who said that he would be a can
didate for District Solicitor. The April term of civil court had
been cancelled by action of the Board of County Commissioners.
There were signs that the war was on: A campaign was being
conducted for the collection of scrap metal; Mrs. Ressie Whatley
was collecting clothing for the Red Cross Emergency closet; and
supplies had been received to commence rationing of sugar. The
Bolivia boys and the Waccamaw girls were county basketball
champions following the annual tournament.
Robert White and F. M. White, Jr., of Whiteville had caught a
string of 14 beautiful rockfish while fishing in Lockwoods Folly,
and a picture of their catch was on the front page of The Pilot j
for March 12, 1947. Edward H. Redwine of Shallotte was chair
man of the Red Cross fund drive in Brunswick.
(Continued on Page 4)
ABC Board Members
MEETING—These are members of the Long Beach ABC Board, which met
Friday. T. L. Smith, center, is chairman. Other members are Mrs. A. K. McCal
lom and A. J .Blanton. From all available information, Mrs. McCallom holds
the distinction of being the only woman ABC board member in North Carolina.
Two Candidates
Announce This
Week In County
Elrich Hickman Will Op
pose Jack Brown For
Clerk Nomination; D. B.
Frink Will Run
Elrich Hickman, chairman of
the Brunswick County Board of
Elections and business man of
the Hickman’s Crossroads com
munity, today announced that he
.is a candidate for the Democratic
nomination for Clerk of Superior
Court, a position now held by
Jack Brown.
Brown is now completing- his
fourth year in this office and four
years ago he was unopposed in
the Democratic Primray. He al
ready has announced.
Another anouncement this week
(Continued on Page 41
Important Farm
Meeting Planned
Farmers, Business Men And
County Officials Urged
To Attend Meeting At
Supply Wednesday
There will be an important
farm meeting Wednesday, March
14, beginning at 9:30 a. m„ at
the County Agriculture Building
in Supply, according to Ralph
Price, manager of the Brunswick
County ASC office.
Price said that all of the ASC
committeemen will be present,
and added that “it would be the
best interests of every Bruns
wick farmer, businessman and in
terested citizen,” also to attend
the meeting. The proposed ASC
Agriculture Act for 1962 in its
entirety will be explained and
Continued On Page 4
Miss Brunswick
Pageant Saturday
Candidates
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DELOKES HTJF1IAM
CHERYL ROGERS
Home & Garden
Tour To Repeat
Woodbine Garden Club Of
Southport Will Sponsor
Event Again During The
Azalea Festival
The second annual House and
Garden Tour to be held in South
port will take place on Sunday,
April 8, it was announced today
by Mrs. James C. Bowman, chair
man.
The tour, under the auspices of
the Woodbine Garden Club, will
give visitors the opportunity to
see some of the more historic
spots in one of the oldest settle
ments in North Carolina. Contem
porary homes and tidewater gar
dens will also be on display from
12:30 until 5:30 o’clock.
A period of more than 200
years will be covered in the tour J
—from the days when this settle- j
ment at the mouth of the Cape
Fear was a haven for pirates, to
the latest in modern American
living.
Exhibits by members of the
Southport Art Association, and a j
special display by the Thomas
Mann Thompson Chapter U. D. C. j
will also be included.
''Ten Beautiful And Talented
Young Ladies Will Com
pete For Title Of Miss
Brunswick County
Everything is in readiness for
| the Miss Brunswick County Pag
eant, sponsored by the Shallotte
' Jaycees, which will be held Sat
urday night at 6 o’clock at Shal
lotte High School auditorium.
It now appears that there will
be 10 contestants, representing
every school district in Bruns
. wick county. Among them will be
Miss Delores Huff ham, winner of
the preliminary pageant at Bo
livia last year; and Miss Cheryl
Rogers, winner of the preliminary
’ pageant at Southport. The latter
was also runner-upi in the Miss
Brunswick County pageant.
Mrs. Hilda Rooks of Wilming
ton will direct this year’s pageant,
and Gil Burnett, Wilmington at
torney, once more will be on hand
to serve as master of ceremonies.
Waters Thompson of Southport is
assisting Sam Inman and mem
bers of his committee with stage
appointments.
There will be special events to
round out the evening’s entertain
ment program. Homer and Jethro
of Tabor City will be back by
popular demand. A musical group,
the Cruisers, will play; and a
girls chorus from Wilmington also
will appear on the program.
Jaycee offiicals in charge of
tickets said this week that ad
vance sales have been moving at
a brisk pace. They point out the
savings that can be made through
purchasing tickets ahead of time.
In entering into the spirit of
the event, members of the board
of county commissioners this week
passed a resolution proclaiming
Saturday, March 10 as “Miss
Brunswick County Day”.
Gheryl Rogers, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Herman Rogers of
Southport, was last year’s Miss
Southport and brings the follow
ing qualifications to this year’s
contest: blue eyes, light brown
hair and a fair complexion top
ping off 5 feet, five inches and
118 pounds. Cheryl measures
36-24-37, and is a 1961 graduate
of Southport high. She is now em
ployed as a secretary at Dosher
Memorial Hospital.
Cheryl plans to perform a dance
routine, to the tune “Brazil”, at
Saturday’s big contest to pick
1962’s "Miss Brunswick County.”
Two Injured In
Sunday Accident
Prominent Ladies Of Supply
And Shailotte Injured In
Automobile Accident
Two Brunswick county ladies,
both members of prominent fam
ilies, were critically injured in an
automobile-truck collision early
Sunday evening at the' intersection
of U. S. Highway No. 17 and
Highway No. 130 at Shailotte.
A pickup truck being driven by
Mrs. Rifton E. Sellers of Supply
was in collision with an auto- !
mobile being operated by Mis.
Ida B. Parker, of Shailotte, a for
mer postmasater of that town.
Mrs. Sellers was returning home
(Continued on Page 1)
Brunswick Jury
Finds Verdict
Against Doctor
Plaintiffs Win Verdict In
Action Brought Against
Dr. Lubin F, Bullard, Jr.,
To Set Aside Deed
A civil action aired in last
week’s session of Brunswick
County Superior Court, presided
over by Judge McKinnon of Lum
berton, and brought against a
well-known Shallotte physician,
lasted for three days and aroused
much local interest.
The plaintiffs in the action,
Peter Hewett, France Hewett,
Goldie Hewett, Esso Clemmons
and Emma C. Hall, charged that
Dr. Lubin F. Bullard, Jr., and
wife, Lona W. Bullard, the de
fendants in the action, had pro
cured “by fraud or undue influ
ence” a deed to valuable proper
ty.
There were three issues raised
in the action. These were set
forth as (1) Are the plaintiffs
herein named the sole and right
ful heirs at law of Laura Lam
bro, as alleged? (2) Was the deed
from Laura Lambro to Lubin F.
Bullard, Jr., and wife, Lona W.
Bullard, procured by fraud or
undue influence, as alleged in the
complaint? (3) Did Laura Lam
bro lack mental capacity to ex
ecute the said deed, on January
22, 1960, as alleged?
After many hours testimony the
case was given to a jury, which
brought in a verdict of yes to all
three questions. Judge McKinnon
therefore ordered that the deed in
question was adjudged to be null
and void.
It was further ordered that th®
defendants, pay the costs of the
action.
The defendants posted $100 ap
peal bond and were given 90 days
to bring their appeal to higher
court.
Beta Club Being
Organized Here
Clive Dosher President Of
This Organization, Which
Is Reactivated At South*
port High
After an absence of several
years, the National Beta club has
been brought back to Southport
High School.
Heading National Beta at
Southport this year are Cliva
Dosher, president; Annie Lewis,
vice president; Judy McKeithan,
secretary, and Patricia Caster,
treasurer. Mrs. Irene Davis, Eng
lish and French teacher, was ap
pointed as faculty sponsor for the
social organization.
William N. Williams, principal
of Southport high school, gave
the following information rela
tive to the organization:
National Beta Club has over
2,600 chapters in 23 states, with
about 85,000 members. It is 28
years old. The objectives of the
organization is to encourage ef
fort, to promote character, to
stimulate achievement among its
members, and to encourage and
assist students to continue their
education past the high school
level.
Besides the officers named
above, the following students of
Southport high have already ful
filled the requirements necessary
for membership in the Beta Club.
Linda Potter, Mike Patterson,
Continued On Page 4
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.
Thursday, March 8,
9:29 A. M. 3:23 A. M.
9:48 P. M. 3:48 P. M.
Friday, March 9,
10:20 A. M. 4:14 A. M.
10:41 P. M. 4:37 P. M.
Saturday, March 10,
11:12 A. M. 5:07 A. M.
11:35 P. M. 5:27 P. M.
Sunday, March 11,
12:05 A. M. 6:01 A. M.
6:20 P. M.
Monday, March 12,
0:30 A. M. 6:59 A. M
1:01 P. M. 7:17 P. M.
Tuesday, March 13,
1:28 A. M. 8:01 A. M
2:00 P. M. 8:16 P. M.
Wednesday, March 14,
2:27 A. M. 9:02 A. M.
3:01 P. M. 9:15 p. M