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Brunswick County
Volume No. 22
No. 37
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SOUTHPORT, N. C
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1962
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Hospital Funds
Made Available
From Duke Gift
Trustees Of The Duke En
dowment Announce Allo
cation Of $2,0^5 To Do
sher Memorial
Trustees of The Duke Endow
ment have appropriated $290,708
to 45 North Carolina and South
Carolina hospitals on the basis of
their charity work in the fiscal
year which ended September 30,
1961.
In their latest appropriations
the Endowment trustees made an
allocation to the Dr. J. Arthur
Dosher Memorial Hospital at
Southport which amounted to
$2,065, a reduction from the 1961
figure of $2,905.
According to Thomas L. Per
kins, chairman of The Endow
ment, the appropriation brings to
$1,155,282 the funds distributed
this year to assist 182 hospitals
in operating expenses. Earlier ap
propriations, announced in Feb
ruary, amounted to $864,574 for
137 hospitals.
iwarsnaji i. i'icKens, secretary
of The Endowment and director
of the Hospital and Orphan sec
tions, added that this year’s ap
propriations represent an increase
of $159,378 over last year when
$995,904 was contributed to 178
hospitals. Those aided this year
reported that 18.7 per cent of
their days were free, which com
pares to 16.7 per cent for the fis
cal year which ended Sept., 30,
1960.
Twenty-nine North Carolina
hospitals and 16 South Caroilna
hospitals share in the current
$290,708 distribution. Those in
North Carolina are receiving
$224,615, those in South Carolina,
$66,093.
The Duke Endowment assists
non-profit hospitals of the Caro
linas at a rate of $1 a day for
free days of bed care. Founded
in 1924 by the late James B.
Duke, it is a perpetual trust with
hospitals and child care institu
tions of the two states, Duke
University, Davidson College, Fur
man University, Johnson C. Smith
University, and retired Methodist
ministers and rural Methodist
churches in North Carolina as its
principal beneficiaries.
Of
LNEWS—1
CAMP OUT
The Shallotte Boy Scout Troop
spent the weekend camping out
at the new campsite at Gause
Landing. Despite the cold, airy
weather, 27 scouts participated in
this project.
MOV E TO SOUTHPORT
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Kennedy
have sold their home in Point
Lookout, Long Island, New York,
and have moved to Southport.
They have purchased a lot here,
but plan to rent a house while
they are considering plans and are
building their new home.
VARIETY SHOW
The male members of Southport
High School faculty, aided and
abetted by local businessmen,
will put on variety acts and a
fashion show at Southport High
School on the night of March 23,
beginning at 8 o’clock. The show
is being held for the benefit of
the general school fund.
OFFICER RESIGNS
City Manager C. D. Pickerrell
has received the resignation of
Officer Sammy Rees, Jr., to be
come effective March 31. He has
been a member of the Southport
police force for about one year.
Time and place for applications
and examinations for filling this
vacancy will be announced at a
later date by the city manager.
ATTEND CONVENTION
The following Brunswick Coun
ty citizens attended the North
Carolina Republican State Con
vention held at Durham recently:
From Freeland, W. C. Wilson,
Jack King, Nelson King, Mrs.
Marie King, Sally Wilson and
L. C. Babson; from Ash, J. R.
Evans and Betty B. ■ Warren. H.
L. Willetts attended from Bolivia.
BOAT ADRIFT
Chief Burd Friquette of the
Oak Island Coast Guard Station
reports that a small skiff, empty
and in good condition, was pick
ed up by hss men adrift near
Battery Island. The chief said
that he is holding the boat at the
station for anyone who can posi
tively identify same as his proper
ty.
Sure Sign Of Spring
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DELIVERY—Business came to a halt one afternoon last week when a double
decker trailer loaded with shining new boats backed up to the Southport Marine
place of business at the corner of Moore and Howe Streets to make a delivery.
Here owner Harry Donnell is shown talking to the driver Harry Moody and
Basil Watts, probably pondering just how to get a boat down off of a high
perch.— (Cut Courtesy Bruce Roberts.)
Politics Begin
To Cause More
County Interest
Four New Announcements
This Week Increase Field
Of Announced Candidates
For Office
Two announcements for mem
ber of the board of education,
announcement by a former mem
ber of the board of county com
missioners for another term in
that office and announcement by
a candidate who wants to be
a township constable make poli
tical news in Brunswick this
week.
O. K. Bellamy, a resident of the
Hickmans Crossroads community,
will seek the Democratic nomina
tion for member of the Board of
Education for the Shallotte School
District, a post now held by
Chandler Rourk.
Leroy Hooks of Winnabow is
a candidate for the Democratic
nomination for member of the
Board of Education for Bolivia
School District, a job now held
by Roy Sellers.
R. L. Rabon, a veteran mem
ber of the Board of County Com
missioners and former chairman
of this body, will once more seek
this office. He is from Town
Creek township.
James C. Carroll has announced
that he is a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for Con
stable for Northwest Township.
Injuries Fatal
For Mrs. Parker
Prominent Shallotte Lady
Died Thursday Morning
Of Injuries Sustained In
Highway Accident
Mrs. Ida Bennett Parker, widow
of the late Ernest E. Parker,
Sr., of Shallotte, died Thursday
morning- at Dosher Memorial Hos
pital of injuries received in an
automobile accident at Shallotte
on the previous Sunday evening.
She was 63 years old.
Mrs. Parker was a member of a
prominent Brunswick county fam
ily and was a former postmaster
for the town of Shallotte. She
was a member of the T.ive Oak
Chapter, O. E. S., and was a
member of the First Baptist
Church of Shallotte.
She was the mother of Ernest
E. Parker, Jr., Southport attorney
and member of the N. c. Board
of Conservation and Development.
Other survivors include four
sisters, Mrs. Bridger Sabiston and
Mrs. Bruce Hawes of Shallotte,
Mrs. E. V. Leonard of Southport
and Mrs. Emma Saunders of Ra
leigh; three brothers. Gen. Ivan
L. Bennett of Alexandria, Va.,
Nelson and Burt Bennett of Shal
lotte.
Funeral services were conduct
ed at 3 o’clock Friday afternoon
from First Baptist Church of
Shallotte with the Rev. J. C.
(Continued on Page 4)
Rescued Mariners
Had Visited Here
Miraculous Rescue Probably *
Due To Repairs Made To !
Electrical Equipment At
Southport
Because a 40-foot yawl with
auxiliary engines had her electri
cal equipment, including radio,
overhauled in Southport, seven
mariners in two vessels, six men
and a woman, were plucked from
a watery grave last Friday.
The dramatic rescue, effected
by two separate vessels, was made
200 miles out in the Atlantic off
Jacksonville, Fla., in wild seas
and with only minutes to spare.
The story really starts here a
few days ago when O. R. (Pappy)
Stubbs, a Southport man, received
a call to Frazer's Dock on the
local waterfront. There Stubbs
found two boats tied up along
side each other. One was the
Guinevere, powered yawl of 40
foot length, the other a smaller
sailing vessel without engines.
Stubbs said he repaired the
electrical equipment on the larger
boat, including the installation of
new coils, etc., and learning that
the Guinevere was to be sailed to
St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, a port
located the other side of Puerto
Rico, advised its captain to have
his batteries charged.
Operating the Guinevere was
the husband and wife team of
Rodney and Heather Straulo, of
London, England. The couple told
Stubbs, who operates a party boat
out of Southport and who owns
a dock here, that they had sailed
their own vessel from England
to the West Indies; had then
boarded a ship bound for New
York and set out to sail the
Guinevere to St. Thomas, via the
Inland Waterway to Florida and
thence across the ocean to the
West Indian port. Stubbs describ
ed the English couple as “in their
thirties.”
While working on the Guine
vere Stubbs was introduced to
the lone occupant of the smaller
boat, a 25-year-old man named
Luke Murtagh, from Milford, New
Jersey. The Straulos and Mur
tagh had struck up acquaintance
ship along the waterway before
reaching Southport. According to
Stubbs, Murtagh on the spur of
the moment decided to leave his
boat at the Stubbs dock and ac
company the couple to St. Thorn
las.
“I felt somehow,” said Stubbs,
"that they were taking a needless
chance, but it wasn't my place to
give ’em advice.” .
The last Stubbs saw of the
party was the Guinevere chugging
merrily out of Southport with hex
sail furled.
Next word came from the U.
S. Coast Guai-d, via AP wires, and
told of the U. S. S. Pawpaw, an
1180-foot buoy-tender, battling 25
i foot seas and wind guests up to
75-mph in search of the Guineveie,
| from which craft weak radio
! messages had been received stat
I ing she was sinking. The Pawpaw
I (Continued on Page 4)
More Progress
On New Library
Progress is being made in
getting the new library room
ready to open the Shallotte
Branch of the Brunswick
County Library during the
first week in April.
The Shallotte Lions Club is
the sponsoring organization,
and this week members are
spending their spare time put
ting up shelving and re
decorating the library room.
It is located next door to the
Shallotte Postoffice, in the
Bellamy Building.
Local Students
Honor Furpless
Southport High School Stu
dent Council Names Citi
zenship Award In His
Honor
The Student Council of South
port High School has named the
citizenship award, which has been
given for the past several years,
the Bertram Lanier Furpless
Memorial Citizenship Award. This
has been done to recognize the
(Continued on Page 4)
Much Activity
In Farm Office
For This Month
Important Plans For Farm
Program Being Discussed
At Joint Meeting At Sup
ply Today
With county ASC officials
closeted with farmers and busi
nessmen today (Wednesday) in
the county agriculture building at
Supply in an important meeting
relative to the new federal farm
programs, spot news is naturally
held in abeyance until that meet
ing closes. There are recent de
velopments of interest to farmers,
however.
Until recently, only 63 of the
282 cotton farmers in Brunswick
county have contacted the ASC
office, to either release their cot
ton allotment or to request addi
tional acreage. Allotments of cot
ton not planted and not released
in 1962 will be drastically reduced
in 1963. Cotton producers want
ing higher allotment for 1962
should file their request now. The
deadline for releasing or request
ing additional acreage is March
23.
Also lagging badly at deadline
Thursday (tomorrow), is the pre
measurement sign-up. Less than
125 farmers have requested this
important service.
Office Manager Ralph Price re
ports that the feed grain pro
gram which got off to a rousing
start last month now has fallen
upon slack times. He thinks there
are a good many more Brunswick
county farmers who plan to par
ticipate in this program, and he
issues the warning not to wait
until too late to make application.
Price says that his office is be
ing called upon daily for decisions
regarding combining tobacco acre
age where it has been acquired
either by purchase or by lease.
“Where there is any doubt as to
the proper steps to be taken”, he
cautions, “it is a good plan to
come to this office so we can.
quote the regulations covering the
specific problem. We find it easier
to help keep people out of trou
ble than it is to try to help them
get out, once they already are in,”
he added.
Joint Quarterly
Conference Here
Trinity Methodist Church
And Ocean View Will
Hold Joint Conference
Thursday Evening
Joint sessions of the fourth
quarterly conference for Trinity
Methodist Church of Southport
and Ocean View Methodist Church
of Yaupon Beach will be convened
on Thursday, March 15, at 7:30
o’clock at Trinity Methodist
Church in Southport. The Rev. C.
S. Boggs, Superintendent of the
Wilmington District will preside.
The pastors of the two churchs,
the Rev. Charles Lancaster and
the Rev. L. D. Hayman, together
with their official board members,
are busy this week compiling the
reports for this conference, which
will reflect the amount of work
done in each charge financially
and otherwise, and also fore
shadow the final three and one
(Continued on Page 4)
| TIME and TIDE
The week prior to our edition for March 17, 1937, had been
filled with some interesting and unusual incidents: A wreck in
Wilmington had resulted in 100 dozen egggs being delivered by
a Brunswick county farmer, L. C. Sellers, being smashed; a Shal
lotte girl, member of a visiting group at the State Capitol in
Raleigh, had the poise to shake hands with the late Governor
Hoey while standing on tip-toe and holding the heel from a dam
aged slipper in the other hand; and it took double overtime for
Bolivia to roll up the 23 points it required to defeat Chinquapin
by a margin of two points in the finals of the Star-News Tour
nament.
A group of seasmen who had been rescued from a torpedoed
tanker off the coast of Brunswick had been landed in Southport.
That story, and a front page picture, was in The Pilot for March
18, 1942. Forest Protection Week was being observed in Bruns
wick, and there were pictures and stories in the Pilot.
David ^ Watson and Donald Brock, both former East Carolina
stars, were here to join forces with the town team as they squar
ed off against the combined forces of the local Naval and Coast
Guard units in a benefit basketball game. Word came from Orton
that Camellias were in full bloom.
March 19, 194., and the District American Legion meeting was
to be held in Southport on Friday of that week. A new organ
had been dedicated at St. Phillips Episcopal Church in honor of
tlie late Capt. Churchill Bragaw.
Continued Oa Page 4
Miss Brunswick County
MISS CHERYL ROGERS
Cheryl Rogers Is
Miss Brunswick
Miss SENCLand
Contest Friday
Miss SENCland of Brunswick
County will be selected in a
county-wide contest Friday night
at 7:30 o’clock at the Agriculture
Building in Supply. Each active
Community Development Club
will enter one girl in the county
contest.
The Miss SENCland of Bruns
wick County will ride a Communi
ty Development Float in the
Azalea Festival Parade in Wil
mington along with five other
Miss SENCland girls from Colum
bus, Bladen, Pender, Duplin and
New Hanover Counties. The area
Community Development Float is
sponsored by the Acme Fertilizer
Company.
Funeral Sunday
For Mrs. Watson
Highly Respected Southport
Lady Died Wednesday
While Visiting Children
In Florida
Funeral services for Mrs. Ida
Fotter Watson were held Sunday
afternoon from Trinity Methodist
Church with the Rev. Charles
Lancaster and the Rev. Russell
Harrison in charge. Interment was
in the Southport cemetery.
Active pallbearers were Davis
Herring, Ray Walton, James
Loughlin, Lewis Hardee, Dan
Harrelson and James M. Harper,
Jr.
Honorary pallbearers were Dr.
L. G. Brown, Capt. J. B. Church,
Joel Moore, Capt. J. I. Davis, R.
D. St. George, Stacy Wade, A. W.
Moore, Prince O’Brien, H. T. St.
George, W. P. Jorgensen, Judge
R. I. Mintz, Capt. C. N. Swan.
Mrs. Watson was 84 years of
age and died Wednesday night
at St. Petersburg, Fla., where
she was spending the winter with
her daughter, Miss Marion Wat
son, and with a son, George Wat
son, and his family. She had been
in poor health part of this win
ter, but her final illness was
brief, and news of her death
came as a shock to friends here.
Other surviving children are
Harold Watson of eGorgetown, S.
C.; David Watson of Raleigh;
and Mrs. John Griffin of Spring
Hill, La. in addition to one sis
ter, Mrs. J. A. Loughlin, and one
brother, W. C. Manson, both of
Wilmington.
Mrs. Watson was one of the
Continued On Page 4
'Southport Girl Wins Title In
Second Annual Pageant
Held Saturday Night At
Shallotte High School
C h e r yl Rogers, 19-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. H.
Rogers of Southport, was selected
winner of the second annual Miss
Brunswick County Pageant on
Saturday night before an enthusi
astic assemblage of more than
one thousand persons. First run
ner-up was Dora Hewett of Shal
lotte; second runner-up was De
lores Hufham of Bolivia, and
reaching the final-judging stage
with this trio were Hannah Frink
and Julia Gray, both of Shallotte.
There were ten contestants in
the pageant representing every
section of the county, and the
brilliant affair was sponsored
throughout by the Shallotte Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce.
When the decision of the five
out-of-county judged was an
nounced, the striking brownette
winner was misty-eyed. The new
Miss Brunswick County is five
feet, five-inches tall, has green
eyes and weighs 118-pounds. She
will enter the Miss North Caro
lina Pageant, scheduled in July at
Charlotte, under the same spon
sorship.
Along wun me crown placed
on her head by Carol Hewett of
Shallotte, last year’s pageant win
ner, Cheryl won a beautiful tro
phy, a $350 college scholarship,
a diamond princess ring, a week's
vacation at Sunset Beach, help
with the wardrobe she will wear
at the state pageant, and her ex
penses while carrying the hopes
of Brunswick to the Queen City
of the South, not to mention a
dozen American Beauty roses.
The pageant got underway
promptly at 8 p. m. with a stir
ring clash of cymbals and horns
as the ten beauties came on stage
in the auditorium of Shallotte
high school singly. The backdrop
was a huge seascape painted by
Waters Thompson, Southport art
ist, and it was a scene which was
; most appropriate, providing the
j perfect setting for the pride of
a coastal county. Each girl was
I accorded heavy applause as she
| came out in swim suit, beach
: hat and beach jacket.
The hard-pressed judges, get
| ting their first look at what was
in store for them during the eve
ning, . were Mrs. Hannah Block,
mayor pro-tem of Wilmington,
Mrs. Faye Taylor of the Myrtle
Beach (S. C.) Sun-News, Cecil
Brandon of Myrtle Beach, Ben
McDonald of WECT-TV, Wilming
ton, and Everett Henry of Lum
berton.
A specialty act followed as the
; girls changed costumes for the
’ second round, and the “Five
Continued On Page S
More Progress
In New Service
From Post off ice
Home Delivery Service For
Southport Draws Nearer
With Arrival Of New
Equipment
With home mail delivery only a
few weeks away from Southport,
U. S. Postal regulations applying
to this service should be studied
and observed to speed up what
to Southport will be a new serv
ice.
Mailboxes must be provided by
the homeowners, not only to fa
cilitate delivery and make things
more simple for the carrier, but
to insure against loss of mail due
to the wind, etc., and also to
keep the mail out of rain and
dampness which might make
same illegible. The rules here are
simple: as long as the boxes are
large enough to accommodate let
ters, circulars and other printed
matter and are easly accesible
to the carrier, most types will do.
Those who prefer door slots to
boxes, must furnish slots at least
30 inches from the floor line, and
the opening of slot must be at
least one and one-half inches, by
seven inches. The slot must have
a flap opening inwardly.
Business places are not requir
ed to provide either mail boxes or
door slots if they are open and
someone is on hand to receive
mail. Some provision must be
made to receive mail, however,
when the business places are clos
ed.
One phase ot home mail de
livery which perhaps has caused
mail carriers as much grief as
viscious dogs is the collection of
mail from residences by carrier.
First off, mail collected from
homes by carrier must be fully
prepaid and postage affixed. Car
riers are forbidden to accept
money in lieu of stamps.
Pickup boxes and relay boxes
(sometimes called “drop” boxes)
will be placed at intersections for
the convenience of the patrons.
Collection times will be posted
on each box.
One delivery a day will be made
in Southport, Monday through
Saturday. There will be no Sun
day deliveries. •
Spring Program
At Ocean View
The Rev. L. D. Hayman
Speaks Of Renewed In
terest On Part Of Con
gregation In Recent Days
The month of March will keep
members of Ocean View Metho
dist Church busy making prepara
tions for the spring and summer
months ahead, the Rev. L. D.
Hayman said this week. Already
there has been a noticable pick
up in church service attendance,
and the various groups, like the
WSCS, MYP and other organiza
tions are showing enthusiasm
with the arrival of warmer days
and more daylight in which to
do things.
One new commission taking
form the past two weeks is the
Comission on Recreation and En
tertainment. This organization has
for its work to provide in a lar
ger and more orderly manner a
place and a program for young
people, children and adults. Both
the pastor and members of this
group see the need for this ex
panded program for the coming
Continued On Page 5
Tide Table
Following is the tide
table for Southport during
the week. These hours are
approximately eorrect and
were furnished The State
Fort Pilot through the
eourtesy of the Cape Fear
Pilot’s Association.
Thursday, March 15,
3:25 A. M. 10:01 A.
4:00 P. M. 10:13 P.
Friday, March 16,
4:21 A. M. 10:54 A.
4:54 P. M. 11:06 P.
Saturday, March 17,
5:11 A. M. 11:42 A. M.
5:42 P. M. 11:53 P. M.
Sunday, March 18,
5:57 A. M. 12:25 A. M.
6:26 P. M.
Monday, .March 19,
| 6:38 A. M. 0:38 A. M.
7:06 P. M. 1:05 P. M.
Tuesday, March 20,
7:16 A. M. 1:20 A. M.
7:43 P. M. 1:42 P. M.
Wednesday, March 21,
7:52 A. M. 1:59 A. M.
8:17 P. M. 2:17 P. M.
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