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THE STATE PORT PILOT
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Brunswick County
Volume No. 22
No. 42
10-Pages Today
SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1962
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PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Attend Meeting
INTEREST—Indicating the interest from this part of North Carolina in the
All-Seashore Highway was this delegation wlr'ch attended the meeting last- week
in Morehead City. Across the table, left to right, are A. J. Blanton, T. L. Smith,
H. A. Templeton, E. W. Morgan, W. L. Aldridge and C. D. Pickerrell. In the fore
ground are Dan Walker, Mrs. Cliff Pugh, Mrs. A. H. Cromer and Cliff Pugh.
Aldridge was elected vice-president of the All-Seashore Highway body.
First Bluefish
Of Season Show
Up On Saturday
These Fish Show Up On
Shoals But Muddy Water
Brings About Unfavor
able Fishing Conditions
Capt. H. A. Schmidt gave the
good word Monday that the First
bluefish of the season had been
caught on Saturday on Frying
Pan shoals.
True, the catches were modest
enough; but this was credited to
the muddy condition of the wa
ter. “There was a big school of
blues out there,” Smitty declared,
“but I don’t think they could see
the lures. We managed to catch
four of them, and Hoyle Dosher
and his party got the same num
ber. I think Walter Lewis hit three
too.”
The first run of blues is the
event that all charter boatmen
look forward to in the Spring,
and. now that the first break has
occurred, it is believed that reg
ular trips will soon be order of
weekend days.
Capt. Schmidt reported that
these first blues ran to about
one-pound each.
In addition to the first blue
fish, there is a spring run of king
mackerel that is a major attrac
tion for offshore fishing parties.
Up until now, however, the
weather has been too unpredic
table to make trips of this kind
practical.
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FISH FRY
A Democratic rally and fish
fry will be held Friday night,
starting at 7:30 o’clock, at the
D. L. Ganey Service Station at
Sturgeon Creek, Leland. All can
didates and voters will be wel-'
come.
GROUNDBREAKING
Members of the St. James
Episcopal church will observe
groundbreaking ceremonies Sun
day afternoon at 4 o’clock on the
new site at Shallotte. The cele
bration of Holy Communion will
take place following the ground
breaking.
SUNRISE SERVICES
Sunrise services will be held at :
Supply Baptist Church Easter
Sunday morning, beginning at
5:20 o’clock. The sermon will be !
delivered by the Rev. H. K. Nean- j
neret, pastor of Concord Metho
dist Church. It is being sponsored I
by the Supply Development Club,
and everyone is invited.
SHALEOTTE CLINIC
A pre-school clinic will be held i
at Shallotte gymnasium Tuesday,
beginning at 9 o’clock, and all j
parents of children who will be
entering school for the first time !
next fall are urged to contact j
Principal Winfred Johnson and se- !
cure information forms which j
should be filled out and brought i
in at the time the clinic is held, i
Jet Plane Crashes
During Exercises
U.S. Coast Guard Patrol11
Boat Padticipates In Fu
tile Search For Survivors
The U. S. Coast Guard patrol
boat at Southport participated in
the off-shore search for a missing'
plane for three days last week
before abandoning hope.
The best that the crew of the
95-footer could do as they battled
rough seas and mountainous
waves in their sturdy little craft
was to retrieve two fuel tanks
and a patch of wing which could
not definitely identified as part
of the missing craft.
A supersonic Navy F4H Phan
tom jet interceptor operating off
the new nuclear-powered carrier
U. S. S. Enterprise, from which
Kennedy reviewed the A1 tan
tic Fleet Saturday, crashed in
a severe squall over coastal Car
olina.
The missing plane, with two
men aboard, last reported about
16 miles off the mouth of the
Cape Fear River here. The report
was received at 7 p. m. Wednes
day.
The 1,600 mile-per-hour inter
ceptor had been participating in
a fleet practice for the Presi
dent’s inspection along with air
craftf from two other carriers,
when it flew into the squall. Oth
er carriers in the operation were
the U. S. Forestal and the U. S.
S. Lake Champlain.
Riegelwood Host
District WSCS
Mrs. Albert Goldfinch Of
Tabor City Presided Over
Session Held Friday
The 1962 meeting of the Wil
mington District Woman’s Society
of Christian Service was held in
Wesley Methodist church at
Riegelwood Friday, April ]3.
The district officers made re
ports around the theme “Factors
That Confront Us.”
Pine Valley society of Wilming
ton was reported and recognized.
Mr^l M. A. Waddell is president.
This makes a total of 74 societies
in the Wilmington District, with
2,862 members.
Mrs. Albert Goldfinch, presi
dent, will represent the district
in Atlantic City, N. J. at the
quadrennial meeting of the As
sembly May 18.
The Rev. Warner Heston led in
a period of worship and the Rev.
Ed Smith, a returned missionary
from the Belgian Congo, gave
the message. He spoke on the
rapid changes that confronts Afri
can Christians. Fifty years ago
there was no written language
in the Congo, no wheels and they
had domesticated no beats of dur
den. Now they live in the jet age.
Miss Mary Nichols held a serv
ice of rememb'erance for the de
ceased members. Special music
included a solo by Mrs. James
Murdock of Wilmington and a |
quartet from the church.
Following are the sub-district 1
meetings:
Brunswick: May 20 at 2:30 p.
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Deadline For
Seeking Job
Applications for the vacan
cy in the Southport Police
Department will be accepted
until noon Saturday, April 21.
Any persons wishing to file
an application may do so by
writing a letter to the City
Manager, giving such infor
mation as age, residence, ex
perience, 3 references.
No application will.be con
sidered from persons who re
side outside of the city limits.
Each applicant will be noti
fied the date and time to take
the examination.
Durham Doctor
In Heroic Role
Searches Submerged Auto
mobile For Possible Acci
dent Victims In River
Swamp
To those doubting Thomases
who say that modern doctors
don’t have a heart like those
of the old days, the Sunday
night action of a Duke Hos
pital staff-member will be
news!
Dr. Henry Bongardt of the
Duke staff proved a real hu
manitarian when he attempt
ed an underwater rescue in
Waccamaw River swamp, just
inside Columbus County,
though he had earlier been
injured in a traffic accident
in Brunswick county.
State Trooper W. H. Mor
gan, Jr. of Shallotte said Dr.
Bongardt, his wife and young
son were all injured in a col
lision near Grissettown on
US 17, Sunday night. An
ambulance was summoned
from Shallotte to pick up
the ailing travelers.
The ambulance driver,
bringing the trio toward
W h i t e v i 11 e spotted. an
auto which had left NC 130
and plunged into the deep
canal just inside Columbus
county. Dr. Bongardt, despite
the fact he had suffered a
chest injury in the earlier ac
cident, removed his outer
clothing and plunged without
hesitation into the icy wa
ters, intending to help any
occupant of the submerged
auto.
Finding no one inside the
ca,r, the good doctor returned
to the role of a patient.
There’s more. C. R. Glis
son, mortuary employee, car
ried the three to Durham In
an ambulance.
On his return home, he
learned that during his ab
sence he had become the fath
er of a new daughter at Co
lumbus county hospital.
It was a night for doctors.
Recommends
Action Follow
Public Hearing
Brig. Gen, James Giore
Makes Specific Recom
mendations Regarding The
Pending Projects
Prior to his departure for Bur
ma on another State Department
mission, and following the public
hearing held the last of March
on proposed improvements to the
Southport waterfront, Brig. Gen
eral James Giore, who was in
charge of the presentation for the
City of Southport, has written a
letter giving some suggestions for
follow-up action.
Text of his letter follows:
“Now that the hearing of
March 30th has been concluded,
and question of improving the
City waterfront and Yacht Basin
has been publicly considered by
the U. S. Army Corps of En
gineers; I would like to point
out to the City that two im
mediate courses of action are nec
essary before the results of the
hearing can be completely suc
cessful. These are:
“1. Early action to renegotiate
the present situation with yacht
basin property owners in order
the question of existing public
access will not prevent the neces
sary maintenance dreging, which
is long overdue.
“2. The compilation of boat
owner questionnaires within the
next 30-60 days in order the
Corps of Engineers will have a
sound basis for establishing def
initive cost|benefit ratios to con
sider the questions of improve
ment and|or expansion of the
existing yacht basin.
“A third course of action should
be considered by the Board of
Aldermen—and that is the adop
tion of a long range improve
ment program for the basin (as
outlined in the statement read at
the public hearing). Complete ac
complishment of this program
could involve:
“1. The adoption of a city or
dinance requiring the maintenance
of a suitable standard of con
struction and operation in the
Yacht Basin.
“2. The establishment of a right
by the City to exercise condem
nation of any condition or prop
erty which would interfere with
the accomplishment of the City
program of improvement for the
Yacht Basin.
Federation To
Meet At Bolivia
Demonstration Clubs Of
Brunswick Will Entertain
Delegates From New Han
over And Pender
A seaport theme will prevail
at the Spring Federation of Home
Demonstration Clubs in Bolivia on
April 24. The Brunswick County
clubs are hostess for the district
meeting for Home Demonstration
club women from Pender, New j
Hanover and Brunswick counties.
The meeting will begin at 10
o’clock in the Bolivia High School
gymnasium. All business, reports,
etc. will be first on the agenda
and will be followed by a talk by
C. D. Pickerrell, City Manager
from Southport. Immediately fol
Contlnued On Page 4
Shallotte Library Opens
_j'j.. LfSS -*v aV
CEREMONY—This was the scene at the Shallotte Public Library Thursday af
ternoon at the formal opening of this facility. On the left, is Lion Club President
Robert T. Hubbard, who is handing the key to the building to Mayor R W.
Cheers. In the background are Dr. R. B. McKnight, Mrs. M. H. Rourk, Leroy
Mintz, Dr. M. H. Rourk and Hobson Kirby. In accepting the key to the building,
Mayor Cheei’s said, “This is another milestone in the growth and development of
Shallotte.” Mrs. Arthur Phillips is librarian.
Brunswick Man
Gets Promotion
In Big Company
Curtis A. Cox Named Vice
President Of Virginia
Carolina Chemical Com
pany In Florida Move
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Cor
poration announced this week the
appointment of Curtis A. Cox as
vice-president of its combined
phosphate mining and concentrat
ed superphosphate operations in
Florida.
Cox, formerly vice-president in
charge of fertilizer manufacturing
with offices in the Company’s
headquarters in Richmond, Va.,
will move to Polk County, Flori
da, with headquarters at Nichols.
In making the announcement,
V-C’s president Charles T. Hard
ing said the creation of a vice
presidency for the Company’s
Florida mining and production
facilities was “brought about by
the rapid expansion of these op
erations in recent years.”
"V-C’s largest capital invest
ment is in this area and more
than one third of our employees
work in these operations,” Hard
ing said.
“Equally as important,” he add
ed, “are our increasing respon
sibilities as a corporate citizen of
Florida. We feel it vital to our
progress both as a citizen and as
a company to have a resident
vice-president in the area.”
Cox has been associated with
Virginia-Carolina for 26 years. He
started in 1936 as a shipping clerk
in Selma, N. C. and later served
as assistant superintendent at
V-C’s plant in Charleston, S. C.
and as superintendent at Augusta,
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TIME and TIDE
There was a front page picture of Dr. M. H. Rourk in The
Pilot for April 21, 1937, and with it a story saying that he had
been made chief of staff at Dosher Memorial Hospital. Schools
got out early in those days, and graduation exercises for South
port were scheduled for the following week.
Paul Green had written a play for presentation of the 350th
anniversary of the founding of The Lost Colony—and few people
would have believed that this outdoor pageant would still be run
ning in the year 1962. Dr. Frank p. Graham was to be the corfi
mencement speaker at Shallotte High School.
Twenty years ago this week preparations were being made for
the dedication ceremonies at the Southport USO Building. The
late Congressman J. Bayard Clark was to be the principal speak
er. The war was on, and registration had begun for men from
45-65 years of age.
A Brunswick county girl, Miss Emma Lou Harrelson, had cap
tured a live alligator; A Century-Fox Movietone News camera
man had been in the county taking pictures of pretty girls riding
bikes; and bids had been opened for construction of the new
drawbridge over the inland waterway near Southport. Registra
tion had begun for the beginning 0f sugar rationing in the Unit
ed States.
There was a front page photo of Orton Plantation on the front
age of ^he Pilot in our edition for April 23, 1947. The word
Continued Ob Page 4
Spirited Contests
Now In Prospect
Easter Holiday
Period Begins
Schools of Brunswick coun
ty will dismiss at noon Friday
for Easter, and preparations
are being made throughout
the county for the observance
of this religious period.
Here in Southport pre-dawn
singing by the choristers
from among the colored pop
ulation of the community will
usher in the day. There will
be a community sunrise serv
ice; and at the morning wor
ship hour special music will
feature the programs.
Monday will be observed
as a holiday by the financial
institutions and some of the
business firms.
Brunswick Group
Attends Meeting
Leland Delegation Attends
State Convention Of FHA
Organization Held In Ral
eigh
Two delegates, Yvonne Con
stante and Lynda Benton, along
with Mrs. Jessie Best, Leland
FHA Advisor and one of the
chapter mothers, Mrs. Vera
Ganey represented the Leland
High School PHA Club at the
State Convention in Raleigh.
A very enjoyable talk was pre
sented by Governor Terry Sanford
converning the “Responsibilities of
the Youth Today” during the mor
ning session of the Convention.
After lunch the evening session
dealt with the election of a dele
gate from North Carolina to run
for national reporter at the Na
tional Convention in Utah. Also
there was the installation of the
new state officers for 1962-63.
There were many reports concern
ing the past progress of the or
ganization and future plans of the
State FHA Club.
On Thursday, April 5, in honor
of National FHA week the Le
land FHA Club presented to the
school two beautiful rose bushes
that were planted during the dedi
cation ceremony. On the same I
day, each FHA member did a !
good deed for a teacher in the
school.
Plans in the future for liic Le
land High School FHA Club are j
to attend FHA Camp at White I
Lake, May 28-June 2, to partici- j
pate in Mother-Daughter Banquet
given by the Home Economics |
Students and FHA club of Le- I
land and to work on the different I
degrees of achievement within the i
club.
At the April meeting the Le- j
land club will elect the officers :
for next year. I
Filing Deadline Finds Only
Coroner L. B. Bennett
Without Opposition In
Primary Election
There is a contest in the May
Primary for each office on the
Democrat ticket with the except
of coroner, where Lowell B. Ben
nett is without opposition; and
the Republicans filed a full list
of candidates a short time before
the deadline Friday.
Among the late developments
was the addition of two new can
didates in the race for Democratic
nomination for House of Repre
sentatives. Odell Williamson had
announced several weeks ago, and
it became a three-man race when
O. W. Thorsen of Shallotte and
A. H. Gainey, Jr., of Leland filed
for this office. Thorsen is a plum
ber and Gainey is a Southport
lawyer who is currently serving
as solicitor of Brunswick County
Recorder’s Court.
E. C. Blake filed as a candidate
for the board of county commis
sioners from Smithville township,
giving opposition to F. H. Swam.
Odell Jenrette was the only man
to file from Waccamaw township,
but he must be on the ballot,
since there are five places on the
Democrat ticket to be filled and
there are six townships eligible
for representation.
Other commissioner candidates
are Ira D. Butler and Dillon L.
Ganey, Northwest; R. L. Rabon
and E. C. Mize, Town Creek; R.
E. Bellamy and Ira L. Chadwick,
Lockwoods Folly; D. B. Frink
and Ivey High, Shallotte.
There was great interest in the
vacancy in the position of Judge
of Recorders Court, created when
Earl Bellamy resigned. Those
seeking nomination for this office
are W. J. McLamb, Congreve
Jackson. Mercer Johnson and
Clinton Bellamy.
Sheriff E. V. Leonard is being
opposed for renomination by Mil
ton Bowen, a man who once serv
ed as deputy sheriff and jailer in
his department.
A two-man race is on for State
Senate with Ray H. Walton op
posing S. Bunn Frink for the
third straight time for this office. |
in 1954 Walton was the winner, i
ind in 1958 Frink won in a three- !
man race.
Jack Brown is being opposed :
for the Democratic nomination I
for Clerk of Court by Elrich!
Hickman, a former member of
;he Board of Elections.
There were a couple of late
mtries in the race for member
Df the Board of Education when
Homer Holden filed for the Bo
ivia School District, Philip King
became a candidate from the
Southport School District. Holden
lad Roy Swain and Leroy Hooks
for opponents and King is oppos
ed by Arthur J. Dosher, who is |
low serving by appointment.
Three men seek the preferential
/ote from Shallotte School Dis
trict. They are O. K. Bellamy,
Rozell Hewett and L. C. Rourk,
the incumbent.
Continued on Page 4
Final Teachers
Workshop Comes
To Close Monday
rhird In Series Of In-Ser
vice Education Program
For Brunswick County
Teachers Highly Success
ful
The third in a series of three
special In-Service Teacher Edu
cation Workshops to be held this
year in Brunswick county came
to a close Monday evening. This
course, which met from 7 to
9:30 o'clock each Monday eve
ning for the past 5 weeks, was
"Geography Of World Problems”,
and was taught by Dr. Charles
Gritxned, member of the faculty
at East Carolina College.
Teachers and principals from
each of the five consolidated
schools have participated in these
workshops for a total attendance
of 163, involving 104 individuals.
This means that some of the
teachers attended more than one
workshop session.
It is planned that this program
will be continued during the 1962
63 school term.
In the “B” Budget for 1961-63,
the State Board of Education
requested funds in the amount of
£150,000 annually to provide for
the professional improvement of
teachers now teaching in the
public schools.
The General Assembly provided
funds in the amount of $300,000
for the biennium for purpose ol
developing and carrying out a
State-wide program of in-service
education for teachers.
The basic objective of the pro
gram is to modernize the con
test and up-grade the teaching
in the various areas of the curri
culum. Recognizing that the
achievement of this objective de
pends to a great degree upon the
work of the teachers, the in
service program calls for a plan
that will make it possible for
teachers to gain a greater depth
of knoweldge and understanding
in the subject matter areas. Edu
cation and methods courses are
excluded from the program.
To be eligible to participate in
the program, a person must be
a teacher under contract with a
North Carolina school board. His
participation must be upon rec
ommendation of his superinten
dent.
Superintendents in cooperation
with the Division of Professional
Services arrange with institutions
of higher learning or other
sources to provide instructions for
programs. All in-service programs
must be conducted by instructors
approved by the Division of Pro
fessional services.
funeral today
For Mrs. Walton
Mrs. Carrie B. Walton Dies
At Home Following A
Stroke Suffered Several
Weeks Ago
Mrs. Carrie Bennett Walton. 68,
tlied at her home near Hickmans
Crossroads Monday night after an
extended illness. She was a life
long member of the Andrews
Chapel Methodist Church.
Survivors include her husband,
Amos J. Walton, Sr., former Reg
ister of Deeds of Brunswick Coun
ty; two daughters, Mrs. Leob
Hickman of Hickman Crossroads,
Mrs. T. V. Bessent of Little
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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 19,
7:18 A. M. 1:34 a. M.
7:48 P. M. 1:44 P. M.
Friday, April 20,
7:55 A. M. 2:13 A. M.
8:22 P. M. 2:19 P. M.
Saturday, April 21,
8:28 A. M. 2:53 A. M.
8:56 P. M. 2:55 P. M.
Sunday, April 22,
9:02 A. M. 3:33 A. M.
9:31 P. M. 3:31 p. m.
Monday, April 23,
9:40 A. M. 4:J3 A. M.
10:11 P. M. 4:10 P. M.
Tuesday, April 24,
10:24 A. M. 4:58 A. M.
10:59 P. M. 4:53 P. M.
Wednesday, April 25,
11:17 A. M. 5:47 A. M.
11:54 P. M. 5:45 P. M.