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THE STATE PORT PILOT
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A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
Brunswick County
Volume No. 22
No. 40
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SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1962
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PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Planning Art Exhibit
PAINTINGS One of the attractions in Southport Sunday in connection with
H^u?,e and Gfdens Tour will be the art display in Franklin Park and at the
City Hall. Here Artist Waters Thompson and his little friend, Jenny King- are
Ph^t'H*) °Vel S°me °f ^ paintings which wil1 be on exhibit.—(Dan’L Walker
St. Philips To
Be Activated In
Sunday Service
Ancient Church Walls Will
Reverberate With Sounds
Or Worship Sunday Af
eernoon At 4 O’Clock
An interdenominational worship
service will be held at 4 p. m.
Sunday in Old St. Philip’s Church
near Brunswick Town under the
sponsorship of the Religious Serv
ices Division of the North Caro
lina Azalea Festival.
The Rt. Rev. Thomas H.
Wright, bishop of the Diocese of
East Carolina, will preside at the
service.
Preacher for the occasion will
be the Rev. Cotesworth P. Lewis,
rector of historic Bruton Parish
Church at Williamsburg, Va. and
of the Tower Church at James
town, Va., where the earliest re
corded Episcopal celebration of
the Holy Communion was held in
the first permanent English set
tlement in America.
Other participants in service
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GREENSBORO TRIP
Mrs. James M. Harper, Jr. and
Mrs. Johnnie D. Duffie are in
Greensboro today (Wednesday) to
attend the state finals for the
Vogue Fashion Contest.
STATE OFFICER
Kirby Sullivan, Southport at
torney and outgoing president of
the Southport Jaycees, attended
a regional meeting of the State
Jaycees held last weekend at
Morehead City. Sullivan was
elected vice-president of the state
organization during the meet.
NEW ANNOUNCEMENT
The only formal announcement
to come from a candidate in the
May Primary Election received
this week came from Rozell Hew
ett, who will seek the Democratic
nomination for the Board of Edu
cation, representing the Shallotte
School District. L. C. Rourk is
the present board member from
that district.
House And Garden
Tour Here Sunday
Woodbine Garden Club Of
Southport Will Sponsar
This Event For Second
Year
The street banner is waving,
the guide posts are up and mem
bers of the Woodbine Garden
Club are urging Brunswick Coun
ty residents to “See Southport”
Sunday during the second annual
House and Garden tour.
Mayor Edward J. Hahn and
Miss Cheryl Rogers, Miss Bruns
wick County of 1962, will official
ly open the Second Annual South
port House and Garden Tour at
12:30 at City Hall with ribbon
cutting ceremonies.
Mrs. E. J. Prevatte, club presi
dent, and Mis. James C. Bow
man, project chairman, state that
there will be something of in
terest to everyone included in the
ten stops on the tour, which runs
from 12:30 p. m. to 5:30 p. m.
Local citizens who have not had
the opportunity before may see
an art show and U. D. C. exhibit
in the City Hall and Public Li
brary. The priceless collections of
art objects and historic mementos
in the Thompson House on Cur
lew Point will be open for view
ing. This home is now owned by
Miss May Phelps and Mrs. Mary
Lilly Fisher Brown and houses a
world-wide collection by members
of the Thompson, Fisher, Phelps
and Brown families.
The recently-renovated “Garri
son House” on Fort Johnston will
also be open, with Col. and Mrs.
Johnnie D. Duffie as hosts.
At St. Philip’s, the baptismal
tont, altar railing and linens from
His Majesty's Chapel at Bruns
wick Town will be on display.
A short drive up the old River
Road will lead to the four-acre
tidewater- gardens of Mr. and
Mrs. Ban Harrelson at “Robin’s
Nest”. With luck the visitor
might see some of Mr. Harrelson’s
collection of peacocks, pheasant,
quail, doves, ducks, geese and
other feathered specimens.
Dr. and Mrs. I^andis G. Brown
are graciously opening their
handsome new modern home for
the tour; as are Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph M. Rideout. Mr. Rideout
can offer an around-the-world
tour through objects in his home;
and Mrs. Rideout is a ceramics
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Preacher
REV. VINCENT WALL, Pastor
of Hillcrest Baptist Church,
Greensboro, will hold revival
services at the Antioch Baptist
Church, Bolivia, op April 9-15.
The public is invited to attend.
Urges Citizens
To Attend Meet
All - Seashore Highway
Meeting In Morehead
City Monday Will Con
sider Matters Of Impor
Dan’L Walker, Long- Beach
city manager and vice president
of the All Seashore Highway As
sociation of N. C., Inc., this week
strongly urged all interested citi
zens of Brunswick County to at
tend a meeting of the association
scheduled for Monday at the Rex
Restaurant in Morehead City. The
meeting gets underway at 12:30
p. m.
Walker pointed out that “since
the improvement of U. S. High
way 17, N. C. Highway 87, the
Southport-Fort Fisher Ferry,
flood and erosion control meas
ures will be discussed and work
ed on at the meeting, it is ob
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Shallotte Will
Open Own Public
Library Monday
Mrs. Arthur Phillips To
Serve As Librarian Of
New Library Facility
Opening Next Week
The much-anticipated Shallotte
Public Library, will open its doors
to the reading public on Monday
afternoon and the formal opening
of this facility which combines
the best of educational and rec
reational services, will usher in
observance of National Library
Week in Brunswick.
Sponsored by the citizens of
Shallotte area and underwritten
by the Shallotte Lions Club, this
will be the first public Kbrary
there.
Located in the Bellamy Build
ing next door to the Shallotte
post office, the new library will
be open for business from 2 until
5 o’clock each afternoon next
week. It is fitting and proper
that the new facility opens during
the period nationally observed as
Library Week.
In charge of the library will be
Mrs. H. Arthur Phillips, Jr., wife
of the Rev. Mr. Phillips, pastor
of Camp Methodist Church in
Shallotte. Mrs. Phillips is a na
tive of Wytheville, Va., and a
graduate of Emory and Henry
College, Bristol, Tenn. The new
librarian also undertook postgrad
uate study at Duke University.
Following Library Week the
institution will observe the fol
lowing schedule, each Tuesday and
Thursday afternoons, two till five
o’clock.
Dr. J. D. McKnight, Shallotte
physician, worked hard and long
as chairman of the Lion’s Club
Committee which brought the
facility to Shallotte. Dr. Mc
Knight is quoted as saying that
the fact that “a public library is
indeed the university of the peo
ple” was reward enough for his
efforts and those of other com
mittee members.
Organization F$r
Cancer Crusade
Brig. General James Glore
Sets Up Fund Raising
Group Prior To Depar
ture Overseas
In a report to workers in the
Cancer Drive, Brig. Gen. James
Glore, president of the Brunswick
County Unit of the American
Cancer Society, set a 1962 goal
of $1,750. This compares with
$1,487 raised last year by the
local unit in its drive to cut down
the inroads of the nation’s num
ber two killer.
Glore pointed out that, figured
upon a per capita income, last
year’s realization was not bad,
and exceeded that of 25 other
N. C. counties. He called for re
newed efforts in the ‘‘good fight.”
President Glore is presently out
of the country, serving the U. S.
State Department in the Far
East. He is expected to return
to Brunswick during the first
week in August. In his written
report to his workers, he request
ed that the workers, as well as
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Shallotte Library
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INSIDE TRACK—Michael Hewett left and Brenda Holden, right, are shown
h.ere'as they look over some of the books which will be available at the Shallotte
Public Library; which opens Monday. They are both fifth grade students at Shal
lotte: This is a photo of the front of the library building.
Two Killed In
Nearby Wrecks
Inside An Hour
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Weekend Fatalities Bring
Highway Death Total For
Year 1 To Ten In Bruns
wick
SHAXJLiOTTE—Funeral services
were held Monday for two Bruns
wick County men, killed in sep
arate Saturday night automobile
accidents which occurred within
an hour of each other and only a
short distance apart.
According to State Trooper W.
H. Morgan, Jr. of Supply, the
victims were Augustus Otto Hew
ett, 351, of Supply and Earl Mc
Coy Canady, 23, of Ash.
Morgan said Hewett was killed
at ,9:15 p. m., Saturday and
Canady died in a 10:15 Saturday
p. m. collision. Both were one-car
accidents, and both occurred on
wet pavement.
Hewett, a former shrimp-boat
operator but more recently in the
lumber and farming industries,
was driving a pickup truck on
NC 130 between Shallotte and
Holden’s Beach which apparently
skidded on wet pavement, ran off
a straight stretch of road, and
overturned. Hewett was thrown
out and killed almost instantly.
Morgan reported that Canady
was visiting his parents at Ash
while on weekend leave from his
job in Portsmouth, Va. His fatal
accident occurred about 2% miles
west of Calabash on a rain-slick
ened rural road when his auto
skidded on a curve, ran off and
struck a utility pole.
Final rites for Hewett were
held Monday at 3 p. m. at Oak
Grove Baptist Church under the
direction of Powell Funeral Home
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TIME and TIDE
In our edition for April 7, 1937, announcement was made of
the reappointment of Mies Annie-May Woodside as Superinten
dent of Brunswick County Schools. The late Charles E. Gause
was made chairman of the Brunswick County Board of Educa
tion. Announcement was also made of the retirement of the late
Capt. M. T. Craig: as a Cape Fear River pilot.
“Northwood” had been selected as the name for the new South
port Cemetery; John Holden had been named the handsomest
boy in the Shallotte High School senior class; and there was one
headline that later was to come back to haunt the county: "This
Section Of Coast Safe From Tropical Storms.”
The big news in The Pilot for April 8, 1942, was the renova
tion and modernization of Shallotte Trading Co. (Kirby’s). On
the front page was a photo of Orton, which showed banks of
blooming azaleas, and an accompanying story said: “Orton Gar
dens Approaching Height of Beauty.”
There was a complaint that several books were missing from
the Southport Public Library; freshwater fishermen had found a
huge osprey trapped in a splintered cypress stump, victim of na
ture’s own cruel traps; and the Rev. Cecil Alligood, then rector
of St. Phillips Episcopal Church in Southport, was shown wear
ing a gas mask, a rumored piece of survival equipment for civil
ian in this, the war year of 1942.
April 9, 1947, and Orton was back on the front page of The
Pilot. This time the headline said: Orton Gardens Approach Peak
of Blooming Season.” Easter was coming, and special programs
were being prepared for this occasion, starting with thet pre
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Engineers Receive
Data On Proieets
Public Hearing Held On Im-’
provements To Southport
Waterfront And Yacht
Basin
A public hearing by the U. S.
Army Engineers was held Friday
morning in the Southport Com
munity Building on the feasibility
of enlarging the local yacht basin
and the erection of a breakwater
along the Southport waterfront.
Presiding at the hearing was
Captain R. L. Rappaport, W. C.
Magnuson also was present and
opened the hearing with an out
line of the problem and the prop
er procedure with which to take
it under advisement.
The hearing was well attended
and in addition to a sizable
Southport contingent of officials
and interested citizens, a fairly
large group of Wilmington
people were on hand. Congress
man Alton Lennon addressed the
gathering.
Alton Lennon, member of the
U. S. Congress, Seventh District,
was present at the hearing fol
lowing a strenuous 24-hours dur
ing which he had attended legis
lative session at Washington un
til 7 p. m. the previous evening
and then driven to Southport in
order to lend support to the city’s
bid for improved waterfront faci
lities. Among the pertinent state
ments made by the lawnmaker
at the hearing were the following:
“Problems involving our water
ways have often been the subject
of discussions between friends and
myself in this area, and I am
therefore familiar with the water
front situation in Southport. One
of my first acts as a member of
Congress was to make a formal
request that the House Public
Works committee adopt a resolu
tion authorizing a review of all
previous reports on the Intra
coastal Waterway, including the
waterfront at Southport. The
Public. Works committee adopted
the resolution, and funds for this
study were included in the ap
propriation bill for the fiscal year
Lennon went on to point out
that “the burden of proof for the
economic justification of the pro
ject” rested with the U. S. Corps
of Army Engineers. The Con
gressman continued, “A recent
survey by the Army Transporta
tion Corps of their property, at
Sunny Point Terminal, disclosed
that more than 50 feet of the
shore-frontage area has dis
appeared into the main channel
of the Cape Fear River,” proving,
said the solon, "that what has
happened to Southport harbor and
yacht-basin, is not peculiar only
to that area.”
James C. Bowman, Southport
attorney, took the floor to express
the regrets of I. D. Butler, chair
man of the Brunswick County
Commissioners, for his enforced
absence because of family illness.
Bowman officially welcomed the
Engineers and out-of-town visi
tors, and Commissioner F. H.
Swain joined in this welcome.
Following this Southport City
Manager C. D. Pickerrell read the
city’s brief.
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Honored
MRS. IRA D. BUTLER
Mrs. Butler Is
Woman Of Year
Member Of Leland High
School Faculty Receives
Home Demonstration Club
Honor
Mrs. Ira Butler of Leland, a
teacher at Leland High School,
was selected as Clubwoman of the
Year during a recent meeting of
the Brunswick County Home
Demonstration clubs.
Mrs. Butler has served as presi
dent of the Leland Home Dem
onstration club for the past 18
months, and holds the enviable
record of having attended every
meeting of that organization since
its inception. She helped organize
the club and was instrumental in
securing new members for it.
A spokesman for the combined
clubs stated that Mrs. Butler was
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Good Response
For Feed Grain
ASC Office Manager Re*
ports 5,880 Acres Taken
Out Of Production This
Year In County
With the deadline past for the
feed grain sign-up Brunswick
County ASC office manager
Ralph Price reported Monday that
an increase of 61 Brunswick
County farmers signed up this
year to divert corn and grain
sorghums.
Price said he was quite satis
fied with the response to the gov
ernment’s farm program in feed
grains, evidenced locally. Not only
did more farmers agree to co
operate, pointed out Price, but
“more than 1,000 additional acres
were diverted than last year.”
These farmer's have pledged 5,880
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Name Registrars
And Judges For
Coming Primary
Brunswick County Board Of
Elections Announces Ap
pointments Following A
Long Session Tuesday
The Brunswick County Board
of Elections was in a lengthy
session here Tuesday afternoon,
and Chairman H. Foster Mintz
announced the appointment of the
following persons to serve as reg
istrars and judges in the May
Primary Election:
Hoods Creek: Mrs. Alma Med
lin, registrar: Mrs. Mabel Wil
liams Democrat Judge, Harry Al
len, alternate; L. C. Millinor, Re
publican judge.
Leland: R. H. Constante, regis
trar; Elmer Aycock, Democrat
judge, Mrs. Mildred Holmes, al
ternate; Henry M. Bordeaux, Re
publican judge.
Town Creek: Mrs. A. P. Henry,
Jr., registrar; Elmer Skipper,
Democrat judge, Roy Swain, al
ternate; Mrs. Christine Potter,
Republican judge.
Bolivia: Royce Rabon, regis- .
trar; Gerald Mercer, Democrat
judge, L. J. McKeithan, alternate;
R. S. Willetts, Republican judge.
Southport No. 1: Mrs. Velma
Ward, registrar; Mrs. Margaret
Hood, Democrat judge, Mrs. Ella
Lee Swan, alternate; Mrs. Vera
McKeithan, Republican judge.
Southport No. 2: Miss Annie
Louise St. George, registrar; Miss
Carrie Harker, Democrat judge,
Miss Marion St. George, alter
nate; Mrs. Eleanor Potter, Re
publican judge.
Mosquito: Carl Ward, registrar;
C. F. Lennon, Democrat judge,
Hoyt Lancaster, alternate; Mrs.
Willie Clemmons, Republican
judge.
Supply: Mrs. Velma Robinson,
registrar; Stanton Brown, Demo
crat judge, Edgebert Tripp, alter
: nate; Edwin Clemmons, Republi
j can judge.
Secession: Mrs. Lena Robinson,
j registrar; Cecil Holden, Democrat
judge, Charles Roach, alternate;
J. Albert Norris, Jr., Republican •
judge.
Shallotte: Mrs. Pauline Tripp,
registrar; Mrs. Gaston Hewett,
Democrat judge, Curtis Tripp, al
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Book Fair Plan
At High School
1
Part Of Observance Of Na
tional Library Week In
Southport On April 11-12
Southport High School is spon
soring a Book Fair on Wednes
day and Thursday of next week
at the school.
This will provide an opportunity
for students, parents and interest
ed townspeople to see a fine col
lection of books and to order
copies for their children, grand
children and young friends.
Prices will range from 50c to
$6. All books ordered should be
delivered within two weeks.
Elementary school children will
have an opportunity to browse
during school hours on Wednes-.
day and Thursday.
The school library will remain
open until 8:00 p. m. on Wednes
day in order that parents and
townspeople may visit at their
convenience. The exhibit will be
open through the social hour fol
lowing the PTA meeting on
Thursday.
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, April 5,
8:17 A. M. 2:15 A. M.
8:37 P. M. 2:35 P. M.
Friday, April 6,
9:07 A. M. 3:06 A. M.
9:28 P. M. 3:23 P. M.
Saturday, April 7,
9:58 A. M. 3:56 A. M.
10:18 P. M. 4:11 P. M.
Sunday, April 8,
10:48 A. M. 4:46 A. M.
11:19 P. M. 4:59 P. M.
Monday, April 9,
11:40 A. M. 5:38 A. M.
5:50 P. M.
Tuesday, April 10
6:32 A. M.
12:35 P. M. 6:45 P. M.
Wednesday, April 11,
0:56 A. M. 7:29 A. M.
1:32 P. M. 7:43 p.