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THE STATE PORT PILOT
Volume No. 22
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
No. 43
The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
10-Pages Today
SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1962
5c A COPY
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Southport Sign
NEW—This is the signboard erected on the River Road about 18 miles from
Southport, inviting travelers to visit this city while in the area. It was built and
erected by city employees and stands in a pretty pine forest beside the high
way.
First Big Catch
Of Blues Taken
Here Saturday
Capt. Basil Watts Has Party
That Did Well On The
Shoals; Capt. Hoyle Dos*
her Had Good Off-Shore
Trip
The first big; break through on
bluefish this season occurred Sat
urday when Billy Hasten and
party of Monroe, fishing aboard
the Idle-On II with Capt. Basil
Watts, came in with 122 of these
fish. They averaged about one
pound.
That same day Capt. Hoyle
Dosher was out aboard the Idle
On IV with Alex Lear and party
of Rockingham. They came in
with 15 Boston mackerel, 6
bonito, 1 tuna, 60 sea bass and 10
bluefish.
There was a general feeling
that more boats would have had
good catches to report if they
had been chartered for a Satur
day trip, but for some reason or
other there has been no early
rush for fishing trips.
One reason may be that this
is still early in the season, and
many upstate sportsmen still have
not caught the fishing fever. An
other possible explanation is that
Easter weekend is a time for
family affairs, and some of the
men may have had difficulty in
getting off for a fishing trip.
At any rate, Mrs. Hulan Watts,
who keeps up with such things,
reports that prospects are good
for fishing any time from now on
when the weather is good. She
says that advance bookings have
been good, and she advises sports
men who can fit in a middle-of
the-week trip to do so in order
to avoid the usual confestion for
Saturday and Sunday bookings.
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RECEIVES PROMOTION
R. E. Sellers, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Rifton Sellers of Supply, re
cently has been promoted to Chief
Boiler Tender in the U. S. Navy.
He is serving aboard the USS
Ellison, whose home port is Char
leston, S. C. This vessel is now
in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
SISTER KILLED
Mrs. J. D. Lavender of Pine
ville died last week of injuries
sustained when the car* in which
she was riding with her daugh- j
ter, Mrs. Spencer Raekley, was
struck by a truck and trailer. I
Mrs. Lavender is a sister of H. J.
Henson of Shallotte.
HONORED AT BANQUET
Mrs. Charlotte K. Jones, a past
president of the Mecklenburg j
County Girl Scout Council, will !
be an honor guest at the annual j
dinner of that group in Charlotte :
on Wednesday night. In observ- '
ance of the 50th Anniversary of;
Gm Scouting in the U. S. all
past presidents of the Mecklen
burg County group have been in
vited.
Scholarship Goes
To Bolivia Girl
Rachel Kye Is Winner Of
$750 Nursing Scholarship
Awarded By T. B. Asso
ciation
Rachel Kye of Winnabow,
daughter of Mrs. Ruth R. Kye, is
the winner of a nursing scholar
ship offered by the Brunswick
County Tuberculosis Association,
according to Mrs. Johnnie Duffie,
president of the Southport Wo
man's Club, the sponsoring or
ganization.
The scholarship is in the
amount of $750 and Miss Kye
will enter training in September
at James Walker School of Nurs
ing in Wilmington as a result.
Applicants for this scholarship
were interviewed and judged by
officials of the North Carolina
Tuberculosis Association from
Raleigh.
Miss Kye has attended Bruns
wick County schools throughout
her school career. She is this year
valedictorian of the Bolivia High
School where she has participated
in many activities. In her com
munity and her church she has
been a leader as well as a work
er in many activities of various
organizations.
The scholarship is one of sev
eral activities undertaken by the
Brunswick Tuberculosis Associa
tion and is made possible by con
tributions to the Christmas seal
campaign conducted each year by
the Southport Woman’s Club.
Other activities have been the
mass X-ray survey conducted in
the county during the past year
and the donation of the com
munion rail at the chapel of the
State Sanitorium at McCain.
Traffic Toll Is
Cause Of Alarm
Statistics From Last Year
Would Be Tragically Im
pressive If From Any
Other Source
In Brunswick County if a fire,
structural collapse, or bomb were
to destroy the finest building,
while filled with a congregation,
the calamity would be announced
to the world by special broadcast
and headline, particularly if the
total killed numbered 10, the
number sent to the hospital was
196, and the property loss was
estimated at $149,000.
However, that is the cost to
our country, as tabulated by a
report released last week by the
N. C. Department of Motor Vehi
cles, from motor vehicle accidents
during the year 1961. For the
state the totals were the terrible
amounts of 1,254 persons killed,
34,438 injured, and a financial
loss of $213,376,878. In the total
60,844 accidents there were 100,
923 drivers involved, or roughly 1
out of every 21 drivers in the
state.
All of these figures are conser
vative and show data on the “re
portable or serious mishappen
ings. They make no allowance for
the pain, the sorrow and the dis
grace that follows catastrophes
an the highways.
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Spelling Bee At
Bolivia School
Representatives Of 5 Con
solidated Schools Will Par
ticipate In County Con
test Thursday
The finals for the Brunswick
County Spelling Bee will be held
tomorrow (Thursday) morning at
Bolivia and the winner will have
a hard pair of shoes to fill. The
reason for that is the fact that
last year’s winner in the Star
News Southeastern North Caro
lina Spelling Championship was
Brenda Gail Tripp of Shallotte.
Competing for the honor of be
ing her successor as Brunswick
county representative will be ten
eelmentary students, representing
the five consolidated schools of
Brunswick county.
Within the next two weeks,
similar bees are scheduled in 10
other SENCland county and city
school systems.
Waiting the winner of each
county and city bee is a two
year scholarship (worth $450) to j
Wilmington College. Ready for !
each participant in the various
county-level bees is a Paper Mate
pen.
The 1962 SENCland spelling
champion, to be selected in a re
gional spelloff set for Brogden
Hall May 11, will represent the
area in the National Bee in
Washington, D. C. June 4-9.
The Star-News Newspapers will
pay the expenses of the SENC
land spelling champion and one
parent during a week’s stay in
Washington for the National Bee.
Following is a list of contest
ants:
Waccamaw—Kathy Ward, win
ner, 8th grade, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Luther Ward; Phillip
Hewett, runner-up, 8th grade, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Hewett.
Shallotte—Karen Johnson, win
ner, 6th grade, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Aubrey C. Johnson, Roy
Gray, runner-up, 7th grade, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Gray.
Bolivia—Harvey Bell, winner,
8th grade, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Bell; Timothy McKeithan,
runner-up, 6th grade, son of Mr.
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Department To
Alter Drainage
Project Policy
v/uicr ncuons taxen oy
Board Of Health Mem
bers At Regular Quarter
ly Session
At a meeting of the Brunswick
County Board of Health earlier
this month members were briefed
on the present status of the In
sect and Rodent Control Program,
with special reference to the
dragline operation. The dragline
is undergoing major repairs, and
when this is done the program
will be changed from inland
drainage, done with hurricane re
habilitation funds, to salt marsh
drainage, paid for with State
Board of Health and Brunswick
County funds.
The continuation of the drain
age program has been uncertain
for several months because of an
order from the Federal Depart
ment of Health, Educational and
Welfare discontinuing the use of
surplus property heavy equipment
by county health departments
throughout the country. It is hop
ed that the' federal government
may work out a plan whereby
counties may be permitted to
purchase this equipment for a
nominal amount. In the meantime
Brunswick officials will proceed
with the salt marsh drainage
work wherever apparatus can be
used.
The Health Director, Dr. A. H.
Elliot, requested and received the
board’s approval to present to
the press essential actions taken
during quarterly meetings, the
employing of new personnel, etc.
A copy of the 1962-63 Budget,
based on Merit System salary
scale effective July 1, 1962, was
presented to the board. After
some discussion the budget as
presented, subject to the appro
priating authorities finding the
necessary funds, was approved by
the Board.
Board members accepted the
audit on the Insect and Rodent
Control Program and authorized
the payment of the auditor’s bill
of $344.85.
Board members present were
Dr. Fred M. Burdette, chairman;
Ira D. Butler, J. Edward Hahn,
Dr. R. H. Holden and R. L. Ra
bon.
Area Code Key
To Quicker Call
This Is Part Of New Con
cept For Streamlined
Long Distance Service For
Phone Customers
Want a quicker way to place
long distance calls?
A number known as an “area
code” can speed long distance
calls now, according to H. F.
Kincaid, Southern Bell manager,
while here on a visit last week.
The area code is the three
digit number identifying certain
calling areas in the TJ. S. and
Canada. When the telephone com
pany designed a system to enable
telephone users to dial their own
long distance calls, no two tele
phone numbers could be the same
if the new system was to work,
according to Kincaid.
To avoid duplication of tele
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Building New Motel
CONSTRUCTION—Rapid progress is being made on the construction of the
new motel at Boiling Spring Lakes. It is located on the bluff overlooking the
big lake and is expected to be completed this summer.
Docket - Clearing
Court Term Here
-i,
Lecturer
ERNEST E. PARKER, JR.
Southport Man
Is Bar Speaker
Ernest E. Parker, Jr., Is On
Program At Institute Held
During Past Weekend At
Chapel Hill
Ernest E. Parker, Jr., South
port attorney, was one of the
speaker's at the Institute on Tax
ation and Real Estate Transac
tions held in Chapel Hill Friday
and Saturday of last week.
This institute is sponsored
jointly by the three law schools
of North Carolina, Duke, Wake
Forest and University of North
Carolina, and only men recognized
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TIME and TIDE
Ellen C. Ewing had purchased an option on Bald Head Island
from the board of county commissioners. That fact was announ
ced in The Pilot for April 28, 1937. There was a front page pic
ture showing the beauty of the azaleas in Franklin Park.
A group of local men had caught some squirrels and had turn
ed them loose in the park; one of our advertisers was a place
called Honky-Tonk”, which announced square and round dances
for every Frday night; and visiting yachtmen—of which a total
of 52 had visited Southport during the preceeding week—voiced
their approval of the basing of a Coast Guard patrol boat here.
Twenty years ago this week the USO building at Southport
was dedicated. That was in April, 1942, and that was a war year.
One headlined evidence was "Restrictions On New Automobile
Sales Now.”
A big harvest was bejng made of cornflowers and bachelor
buttons which were being cut and shipped from Eastbrook Nurs
eiy at Phoenix to points in the north; commencement programs
were in full swing in Brunswick; and there was a sample appli
cation form for a War Ration Book across the botton of the
front page.
A front page story in our issue for April 30, 1947, reported
that Attorney R. I. Miniz would move his law office from South
port of Wilmington. This was in the days before it was an every
day thing to see a big boat or cabin cruiser on a trailer so the
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! Effort Will Be Made Next
Week To Clear Up Some
Old Records In Civil Case
Docket
Judge Henry A. McKinnon of
Lumberton will preside over an
important session of Brunswick
County Superior Court for trial
of civil cases which will convene
here Monday.
Among the more interesting
cases which may come to trial
are two suits being brought
against National Airlines to re
cover damages alleged to have
resulted from the crash of an
airliner in the Bolivia area two
years ago this January.
Richard Randolph and the
Johnson family are the plantiffs
in this suit, in which the com
plaint alleges that damage result
ed from the crash and from the
resulting search operations which
followed at the scene.
Perhaps the greatest import
ance of the term is the fact that
it. will be a sort of docket-clear
ing session. The object is to in
vestigate the status of all of the
cases now pending on the civil
docket, and to drop from the
record all of those in which there
no longer appears to be any in
terest.
There are several hundred of
these, and a full list has been
published in today’s issue of The
Pilot as an effort to place any
interested litigants on notice of
the impending action.
Benefit Dinner
Here Thursday
Fried Chicken Supper To Be
Served To Raise Money
For Painting Community
Building
The Southport Woman’s Club
and Southport Lion's Club are
having a fried chicken supper to
morrow night (Thursday) at the
Community Building at 6:45 for
the purpose of raising sufficient
funds for painting the building.
Admiral William S. Maxwell, in
charge of the Battleship North
Carolina War Memorial, will be
speaker for this occasion, and
several other interesting features
will be included on the program.
Among these will be selections
by the Southport Choral Society,
who will sing the selections they
will use in the State contest in
Raleigh on Friday of this week.
Another interesting event on
the program will be the an
nouncement of the name of the
winner of the television set, first
prize in the contest being spon
sored by the Southport Woman’s
-li'b and the Southport Lions
31ub in the joint effort to raise
■unds to finance the painting of
:he Community Building.
Southern fired chicken will fea
:ure the menu for the dinner
ind arrangements have been
made to call for plates to be
aken out. However, it is urged
hat everyone who possibly can !
lo so make plans to enjoy dinner j
md the program at the Com-1
nunity Building.
Registration To
Begin Saturday
In All Precincts
The Registrars Met Tuesday
With Election Board Mem
bers To Receive Instruc
tions And Supplies
Registration books will be at
the 17 county polling places Sat
urday for the first time for the
May 26 primary election.
Also, the books will be open
at the polling places May 5 and
12 for registration and at the
polls May 19 for challenge.
H. Foster Mintz of Bo
livia and board of elections
chairman, has urged citizens that
have attained age 21, new resi
dents, and those changing their
places of residence within the
county to take advantage and
register.
Mintz noted that during every
election persons go to the polls
to vote only to find that they
have not registered and are there
fore unable to exercise their right.
Mintz advises that the books
will be at the polling places on
the three Saturdays and also stat
ed that during the week the reg
istrars will have the books at
their homes and prospective vot
ers may register there.
When the registration books are
in the precincts citizens may reg
ister at any time.
Registrars met in Southport
yesterday (Tuesday) with mem
bers of the Brunswick County
Board of Elections and received
their supplies and special instruc
tions.
Other members of the board
are Arthur Sue and L. C. Babson.
Issues Warning
On Forest Fires
Extremely Dry Conditions
Now Prevailing Creates
Dangerous Situation In
This County
The North Carolina Forest Ser
vice reports that evtreme forest
fire hazards exist all over the
state and a ban on any burning
woods has been extended to the
state’s 100 counties.
Brunswick Forester Kenneth
Johnson states that at the pres
ent time this county is not faced
with any major fires but he
added that there are several !
blazes throughout the state that
are detsroying hundreds of acres
of valuable timber.
Johnson observed that the
weather forecast does not call for
rain in the next several days and
be called Brunswick forests "dan
gerously dry".
“The local fire fighting organi- i
sation is in a state of emergency
with the present conditions pre
vailing. I would like to urge all
citizens to exercise precautions!
and avoid all use of fire in and
lear woods until after the present
critical period,” said Johnson.
He noted that the past several
lays have been classed as num
ber 5 forest fire days which
■neans that the danger of fire is
extreme and the worst possible
jurning conditions exist.
Johnson said that Brunswick
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District Club
Women Meet In
County Tuesday
Bolivia Scene Of Meeting
Of District Home Demon
stration Club Women In
Annual Convention
C. D. Pickerrell, City Manager
of Southport, was the principal
speaker at the District Meeting
of Home Demonstration Club
Women Tuesday at Bolivia,
speaking on “Seaports”, a topic
which fitted in well with the
nautical motif carried out in dec
orations and favors.
The Southport man spoke of
the value of waterborne com
merce and of the important func
tion that rivers played in the
early history of this nation as
transportation arteries.
He diverged somewhat to dis
cuss the proposed ferry service
from Fort Fisher to Southport
and pointed out the fact that this
will make at least some of the
members of the tri-county 19th
District of Home Demonstration
Clubs nearer neighbors.
The Bolivia High School gym
nasium was the scene of the
meeting, and lunch was served
in the same building at the noon
hour. Fish netting was used
prominently in decorations along
with seaoats and driftwood, and
seashells of various shapes and
sizes were used as favors and
for serving appetizers.
Presiding at the meeting was
Mrs. James E. Kirby of Supply,
chairman of the District. Special
music was furnished by the Bo
livia High School Glee Club, un
der the direction of Mrs. A. S.
Knowles. The Rev. Robert W.
Rollins gave the invocation and
the welcome was extended by Ira
D. Butler, chairman of the board
of county commissioners; J. P.
Snipes, principal of Bolivia High
School; and Mrs. H. Foster
Mintz, vice-president of the
Brunswick County Council.
Response was made by Mrs.
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Dedication Is
Slated Sunday
Dignitaries Will Participate
In Ceremonies At Battle
ship North Carolina Sun
day
Admiral Arleigh A. Burke,
colorful and respected Naval lead
er, will be principal speaker at
dedication ceremonies of the
U. S. S. North Carolina Battle
ship Memorial Sunday afternoon.
Admiral Burke, who earned the
nickname “31-knot Burke” for his
lightning thrusts at the Japanese
Navy during World War XI, is
former Chief of Naval Operations,
serving as head of the Navy from
1955 until his retirement in 1961.
He was instrumental in helping
North Carolinians save the fam
ous ship named for their State.
Governor Terry Sanford said
it is significant that both the
U. S. S. North Carolina and Ad
miral Burke took part in every
major offensive engagement in
the Pacific Theatre during World
War II.
Admiral Burke, a native of
Colorado, graduated from the
Naval Academy in 1923, and dur
ing World War II commanded
various destroyer forces under
Admiral William Halsey. Later he
served as Chief of Staff on the
famous Task Force 58 under Ad
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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 througfh the
courtesy of the Cape Fear
Pilot’s Association.
Thursday, April 26,
12:18 A. M. * 6:43 A. M.
6:47 P. M.
Friday, April 27,
12:57 A. M. 7:44 A. M.
1:25 P. M. 7:57 P. M.
Saturday, April 28,
2:03 A. M. 8:48 A. M.
2:33 P. M. 9:09 P. M.»
Sunday, April 29,
3:09 A. M. 9:49 A. M.
3:40 P. M. 10:14 P. M.
Monday, April 30,
4:13 A. M. 10:47 A. M.
4:42 P. M. 11:17 P. M.
Tuesday, May 1,
5:13 A. M. 11:41 A. M.
5:40 P. M.
Wednesday, May 2,
6:09 A. M. ' 12:13 A. M.
6:35 P. M. 12:33 P. M.