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THE STATE PORT PILOT
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
Volume No. 22
No. 2
10-Pages Today
SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1962
5c A COPY
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Department Of
Health Sponsor
Of Art Program
Home Owners And Farmers
Urged To Cooperate In
Program For Eradication
Of These Pests
Effective immediately, rat pois
on will be available at the South
port and Shallotte Health Depart
ments for use in private homes,
stores, warehouses, on the farm,
etc. There will be no charge for
this material. This poison is con
centrated Warfarin in corn meal
to which lampblack or carbon
has been added so that there
should be no danger of anyone
using this material in the pre
paration of food or in feeding
farm stock. The bait is put up on
3 lb. packages for home and small
businesses, and in 5 lb. packages
for big stores, stock farms, etc.
Directions for putting the bait
out are attached to each package.
This bait works by keeping the
blood from clotting, causing the
rats to die from hemorrhage into
their lungs, intestines, etc. For
this reason extreme care should
be taken in placing this bait
where children, pets or domestic
animals will not have access to it.
Apart from the possibility of
spreading disease, rats are re
sponsible for an unbelievably
great waste of feed and food pro
ducts.
The cooperation of the general
public in using this bait con
tinually until their premises are
free from rats will be greatly
appreciate by the Health Depart
ment.
Directions for using: Bait boxes
should be used in areas accessible
to children, domestic animals, or
irresponsible persons. In com
pletely inaccessible areas, lard
trays, cigar boxes, coffee cans, or
similar receptacles may be used
> as bait containers.
Put one-half to one pound of
i the bait mixture in the manger
j area of the bait box, or from two
J- Tfi ten ounces of the bait mixture
in the other containers. Place
these containers in a dry location
against walls, in rat runs or other
places where evidence of rats is
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Water Show Is
Big Attraction
Despite Weather Conditi
ons, Large Crowd Turned
Out At Boiling Spring
Lakes For Show On Big
Lake
Officials at Boiling Spring
Lakes termed last week's big
birthday celebration a “great suc
cess".
Over 1500 people came to the
Brunswick county development to
see the sights and take in a
spectacular water show, staged
by the Charleston, S. C., Water
Ski Club.
A spokesman for Boiling Spring
Lakes said that over 500 cars
were parked for the show, and
that at least 1500 persons wit
nessed the event. Originally, two
shows had been planned, but be
cause of threatening weather, only
one show was held.
Numerous comments proclaim
ing the show even better than
last year’s were heard, and of
ficials stated they were well
pleased with the turn-out.
Plans are already underway for
an even bigger celebration next
year when Boiling Spring Lakes
will be three years old.
MV «•> Of
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BAKE SALE
The Women of St. Phillips Epis
copal Church will hold.a bake sale
Saturday morning, starting at 10
o’clock, between Leggett’s and the
post office.
SMORGASBORD SUPPER
smorgasbord supper will be
served at Ocean View Methodist
Church on July 20. Serving will
be from 5:30 to 7:30 p. m. and
no advance sale of tickets will
be held.
TO NURSING SCHOOL
Miss Patricia Gail Hewett re
ceived notice recently that she
has been accepted as a student
nurse at Hamlet School of Nurs
ing in Hamlet. She will report for
classes on September 4. Gail is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Floyd W. Hewett of Supply.
Testing The Green
PUTTING—Pro Bob Spence of Oak Island Golf Club is shown here with his
putter as he tests the No. 9 green. Looking on are Ernest E. Parker, Jr., presi
dent of Oak Island Beach & Qolf Club, and George Cobb, noted golf course archi
tect, who is in charge of construction on the new course. The first nine holes
are now in play.
Supply Boy Is
Third Victim
Of Drowning
David Allen Johnson Dies
In Intracoastal Waterway
After Falling From Dock
Monday Afternoon
An 8-year-old Brunswick coun
ty boy with a broken arm fell
into the intra-coastal waterway
at Holden Beach Monday after
noon and was drowned, Coroner
L. B. Bennett reported today,
adding that death was due to
accidental drowning.
The boy was David Allen John
son, son of Mr. and Mrs. John C.
Johnson of Supply. He had gone
with his mother to a fish packing
house where she works, and ap
parently fell off the dock.
When he was missed, first sign
of his plight was discovery of bub
bles coming from the water near
the dock. His uncle, Ed Caison, div
ed in and recovered his body and he
was rushed to Shallotte. There a
physician discovered that the boy
already was dead.
Coroner Bennett reported that
the little fellow had suffered a
broken arm a few days prior to
the accident, but he was unable
to say whether this could have
been the principal cause of the
drowning.
It was the third death from
drowning in Brunswick county
this summer.
Final rites were held Wednes
day at 2 p. m. from Sabbath
Home Baptist Church by the
Revs. Elbert Rogers and Weston
Varnum, with burial in the church
cemetery.
Survivors include his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Johnson,
Holden’s Beach; a brother, Phil;
and a sister, Gale, both of the
home; the paternal grandmother,
| Mrs. D. R. Johnson of Bolivia;
| and the maternal grandparents,
j Mr. and Mrs. Troy Caison of
j Supply.
Jaycees Give
Winner List
Mrs. Ivan Ludlum Is Win
ner In Boat Sweepstakes
Conducted By Local Or
ganization
Dr. and Mrs. Ivan Ludlum of
Southport will soon be crusing
about local waters in their new
17-foot runabout. Mrs. Ludlum
was the winner of the boat, motor
and trailer given away by the
Southport Junior Chamber of
Commerce at their 2nd Annual
Boat Sweepstakes ending July 4.
The drawing was by 8-year-old
Debbie Johnson of Sanford, the
name was called by the M. C.,
and the Ludlums were happy
owners of the new boat, valued
at $2100.
The 17-foot M. F. G. boat is
powered by a 40-H. P. Evinrude
outboard. The boat, motor and
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Tentative County
Tax Rate Is $1.35
*
President
GEORGE WHATLEY
George Whatley
Lions President
Assumes Position As Head
Of Southport Lions Club
For Coming Year; Other
Officers Named
George Whatley, a man who
has spent many years as secre
tary-treasurer of the Southport
Lions Club, has assumed the role
of president of that organization.
Elected to serve as first vice
president in the new year is
James M. Wolfe; James F. How
ard is second vice-president; H.
G. Ratcliffe is third vice-presi
dent; Prince O’Brien is secretary
treasurer.
The Lion Tamer is Horace Dun
can; Morris Cramner is tail
twister; and the board of direc
tors are Roy Robinson, Ray Wal
ton. Joe Rideout, E. J. Prevatte
and R. L. Thompson.
Appointed by the president to
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Two Injured In
Auto Collision
Two Southport Persons Hos
pitalizde Following Satur
day Wreck
A two-car collision at 8th and
Howe Streets in Southport Satur
day night sent two persons to
Dosher Memorial Hospital and re
sulted in a total loss to both auto
mobiles involved.
Mrs. Robert Ruaik, Sr., of
Southport, has been charged with
driving while operator’s license is
suspended and driving on the
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This Would Be Same As
Last Year With Scholls
Receiving Additional 5
Cents Of Tax Dollar /
Members of the board of coun
ty commissioners approved a ten
tative budget and adopted a tax
rate of $1.35 Monday. The pro
poled rate is the same as was set
last year.
There is one change in the
breakdown of the tax dollar. Last
year 35-cents was allocated for
school purposes; this year the
schools will receive 40-cents, if
the proposed budget is finally
adopted. This will bring about a
decrease of 5-cents in funds for
general county purposes, reducing
it from $1.00 to 95-cents for next
year.
A breakdown of the latter
fund shows that 30-cents goes for
debt service; 20 cents for gen
eral fund purposes; 17-cents for
Public Welfare; 11-cents for
health and hospital; 1-cent for
revaluation; 5-cents for farma
gent; 5-cents for county account
ant; 5-cents for outside poor.
The budget is figured upon the
basis of $30-million valuation.
The tentative figures were ar
rived at following a series of
meetings by members of the
board. They are scheduled to meet
again Monday with the board of
education.
TIME and TIDE
Twenty-five years ago this week interest was mounting con
cerning the regatta to be held in the Southport harbor by the
Carolina Yacht Club. It was to be held the middle of August and
entries from all over the state were expected.
A “floating prep school” stopped at Southport during the week.
It was actually a sailing schooner used as a school, owned by a
man and woman who also served as teachers.
Lights and water were now available to the residents of Ft.
Caswell. This was made possible by the construction of a 70,00
gallon water tower and the installation of a diesel engine to pro
vide the electricity.
The Board of Aldermen approved the Sunday sale of liquor in
Southport; a Southport attorney, the late R. E. Sentrelle, an
nounced that he was going to move his practice to Newton
where he would be a member of a law firm; Bill Wells, local
shrimp fleet owner, was trying to find a name for a new shrimp
trawler. It was suggested that he use Summer Girl III to continue
that namesake. He immediately dismissed this idea because he
thought that it was unlucky. The first Summer Girl sank off
Wrightsville Beach and the second burned while in South Caro
lina.
Twenty years ago this week a canvass was made throughout
Brunswick county for recruits to make surgical bandages for the
wounded soldiers overseas. Brunswick was one of twenty coun
ties in North Carolina asked to ease the strain on the Red Cross
workers, who were making 90 per cent of all surgical bandages.
Complete reorganization of the Southport Civilian Defense
organization was to take place as a result of a meeting here dur
ing the past week; crops throughout Brunswick county were
expected to be outstanding; school was to reopen September 7
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Conference On
Church Music
All Next Week
Period From July 16-21
Will Find Leading Church
Musicians At N. C. Bap
tist Assembly At Caswell
July 16-21 is the week for the
Church Music Conference at the
North Carolina Baptist Assembly
at Southport. The conference is
sponsored by the Church Music
Department, Joseph O. Stroud,
secretary.
Classes will be offered in
theory, voice, organ, piano, hymn
ology, conducting, phonetics,
Church Music Manual, and Asso
ciational Music Program.
One of the highlights of the
conference will be the concert on
Wednesday evening, July 18, by
Beverly Wolff, a mezzo-soprano.
Since making her brilliant debut
with the Philadelphia Orchestra
a few seasons ago, this lovely
young Atlanta-born artist has
complemented her recital appear
ances with coast-to-coast TV for
the NBC Opera Company, the
solo engagements with the or
chestras of Buffalo, Atlanta, Bir
mingham, Charlotte, Savannah,
Philadelphia, at the Brevard Mu
sic Festival and at the National
Cathedral in Washington.
Dupre’Rhame, Professor of Mu
sic at Furman University, will
conduct the Conference Choir in
its rehearsals of the oratorio
ELIJAH and in its concert per
formance on Friday night.
Verl Capps of First Baptist
Church, Greensboro, will be the
Director of the Intermediate
Choral Workshop. This group will
sing at some of the worship serv
ices during the week. Harvey
Woodruff of Charlotte will con
duct his Anthem Repertoire Class
again.
Reservations for this week
should be made with Fred Smith,
North Carolina Baptist Assem
bly, Southport.
Will Be Guests
At Workshop
Southport Will Be Repre
sented At The Leadership
Training Course Next
Week
Mrs. James M. Harper, Jr. of
Southport will attend the Leader
ship Training Workshop of the
N. C. Council of Women’s Or
ganizations to be held at the Uni
versity of North Carolina July
16-19.
Mrs. Harper will represent the
N. C. Federation of Women’s
Clubs, the 17,000-member organi
zation of which she is president.
More than 200 women leaders
of the state, members of the 33
women's organizations participat
ing, are expected to convene in
Chapel Hill to discuss and have
instruction in major areas of lo
cal, state, and national thought.
This marks the 11th annual
workshop. It is sponsored in co
operation with the University Ex
tension Division.
Women from about the state
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Off For Charlotte
DEPARTURE—Cheryl Rogers, left, and Mrs. Peggy
Hood, right, are faced with the perplexing problem
of packing as the pair gets ready to leave Tuesday
morning for Charlotte where Miss Rogers will repre
sent Brunswick County in the Miss North Carolina
pageant. Mrs. Hood is her chaperone.
Miss Brunswick Is
Off For Charlotte
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Failed To Find
Wrong Tobacco
No evidence of the planting
of discount varieties of to
bacco was discovered in
Brunswick county last week
by eight visiting Tobacco
Discount Variety Specialists
who spot-checked throughout
the area.
On the list of discount va
rieties are Coker 139, 130,
Dixie Bright 244 and Coker
189 Golden Wilt “or any va
riety with similar characteris
tics”.
The ASC office at Shallotte
reports that a clean bill of
health in this respect was
given Brunswick county far
mers.
Shopping Center
Is Being Built
Boiling Spring Lakes Shop
ping Center Will Be Ope
rated By James Hufham,
Bolton Merchant
Construction was started this
week on Brunswick county’s new
est shopping center.
Janies Hufham, a merchant
from Bolton, announced that the
new Boiling Spring Lakes Shop
ping Center, which he owns and
will operate, should be open for
business around the first of Sep
tember.
The one-stop store is being
built directly across highway 87
from the sales office of the real
estate development. It will be of
modern brick construction.
“We plan to carry a complete
line of groceries and meats, as
well as hardware and other sun
dry supplies,” Hufham said Mon
day. The store will contain 4000
square feet of floor space.
A complete service station for1
motorists will also be a feature of
the center. Hufham's present
plans call for affiliating the serv
ice station with the Texaco chain.
In addition, a repair shop for
automobiles will be included.
"Our prices will be competitive,
I can assure you, and we will
stock a complete line of both
staple and fancy groceries,” Huf
ham stated. He said that he was
undecided at this time as to
whether or not his store will be
come part of a grocery-store
chain. “In the past I have op
erated Red and White and Thrift
way stores, but this decision will
be made later.”
The owner said that a limited
line of drug products will also be
stocked in the new store.
Hufham, who presently lives in
Bolton, is moving to Boiling j
Springs in the very near future.
This will be his fourth entry into :
the merchandising business.
: Cheryl Rogers Will Repre
sent Brunswick County In
Miss North Carolina Pag
eant
Cheryl Rogers is in Charlotte
today on the eve of the Miss
North Carolina Pageant in which
she will compete as Miss Bruns
wick County.
The pretty blond left Southport
early Tuesday morning with Mrs.
Peggy Hood, who will serve as
her companion and chaperone dur
ing the days of competition for
the coveted title of Miss North
Carolina.
Cheryl, who until recently was
employed in the business office at
Dosher Memorial Hospital, won
her Miss Brunswick County title
in the county pageant at Shallotte
early this year. Last year she was
first runner-up in the first Miss
Brunswick County pageant.
Both of these events were spon
sored by the Shallotte Junior
Chamber of Commerce, whose
members are backing their can
didate to the limit. Not only
have they provided funds for a
suitable wardrobe for a contest
ant, but several members and
their wives plan to attend the
program in Charlotte.
Included in this group are Bob
by Ray Russ, who will escort
Miss Brunswick County; Mr. and
Mrs. J. T. Clemmons, Mr. and
Mrs. Sam Inman, Mr. and Mrs.
Gene Blair and Mr. and Mrs. Billy
Gurganus.
Arrangements have been made
by Wilmington television station
WETCT to telecast the finals of
the pageant Saturday evening.
Gets First Blue
Marlin Of Year
Capt. Rob Austin And Par
ty Of High Point Bring In
Prize Catch And Other
Fish Saturday
The first blue marlin of the
present fishing season was
brought in Saturday afternoon by
Capt. Rob Austin and party
aboard the Douglas charter boat.
The marlin weighed 210-pounds
and . measured 9’8” in length.
Capt. Austin caught the fish
while taking a High Point party
to the Gulf Stream.
He also caught a six-foot sand
shark that weighed an estimated
100 pounds. The party also caught
25 dolphin, with the largest one
scaling over 20-pounds.
Bad weather continued to ham
per sports charter boat fishing
in Southport during the week.
Only two other catches were re
ported but there were other fine
ones despite the rough weather.
Saturday aboard the Davis
Bros. Capt. Fred Fulford had
Mrs. J. F. Connife and party of
Fayetteville caught 35 blues, 8
king mackerel and 4 dolphin.
Sunday aboard the same boat,
Bryan Frank of Myrtle Beach
caught 24 king mackerel, 1 bonito
and 16 bluefish.
Annual Report
From ASC Made
In New Booklet
All Phases Of Farm Agency
Activity In Brunswick Is
Covered In Attractive
Booklet Just Released
“All the news that’s fit to
print” is the slogan of one of
America’s great newspapers. It
also could well be the motto of
Brunswick county’s new ASCS re
port issued last week by Ralph
Price, manager of the local of
fice.
The ASCS report runs the
gamut on farming in the county,
including everything from a geo
graphical survey of the county to
a list of "who’s who” in farming
in this area.
For instance, a whole page is
devoted to statistics on participa
tion in the soil bank program, or
Agricultural Conservation Pro
gram as it is officially known.
There were nearly 600 farms par
ticipating in the plan last year,
with a total of 71,745 acres in
the bank.
A breakdown on the various
crops planted in the county shows
that only 413 acres of land is
allotted for cotton production
while tobacco, the king of Bruns
wick crops, accounts for nearly
3300 acres. Tobacco was harvest
ed from 1709 farms in the county
last year.
Perhaps the most interesting
statistics in the booklet prepared
by Price’s office deals with the
planting of rice in this county.
For years rice was one of the
leading commodities planted here,
but as time passed, it faded from
sight. However, surprisingly
enough, there were three rice
producers in the county last year.
A total of 4.9 acres of rice
were harvested with an estimated
yield of 1700 pounds per acre.
The booklet is obtainable from
the Shallotte office of the ASCS.
Deputy And Dogs .
Track Down Man \
Deputy Sheriff Drew Long
Calls For Bloodhounds To
Help Catch James Dorsey
Benton
James Dorsey Benton, free on
$1000 bond from Brunswick coun
ty court on a breaking and en
tering charge was arrested and
charged with larceny over the
weekend in connection with the
theft of $40 and several cartons
of cigarettes from a Waecamaw
man.
Benton, who had spent the
night with his victim, was miss
ing early Sunday morning, to
gether with the money and cigar
ettes. Officials of the sheriff’s de
partment were notified, and Dep
uty Sheriff Drew Long was sent
to investigate.
Long’s quick-thinking and fast
work resulted in the capture of
the desperado. Tracing him to a
swampy area, Long contacted the
State Prison Camp at Whitevilje
and requested that bloodhounds
be sent to aid in the search.
The dogs were dispatched from
the Whiteville kennels, arriving
on the scene at Shallotte swamp
within 45 minutes. In less than
an hour, Benton was flushed from
; his hideaway deep in the swamp
and was in the toiis of the law.
He is presently residing in the
Brunswick county jail in South
port.
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, July 12,
2:52 A. M. 9:36 A. M.
3:51 P. M. 10:25 P. M.
Friday, July 13,
3:48 A. M. 10:28 A. M.
4:43 P. M. 11:19 P. M.
Saturday, July 14,
4:43 A.' M. 11:19 A. M.
5:33 P. M.
Sunday, July 15,
5:36 A. M. 0:11 A. M.
6:35 P. M. 12:09 P. M.
Monday, July 16,
6:28 A. M. 12:00 A. M.
7:24 P. M. 12:58 P. M.
Tuesday, July 17,
7:20 A. M. 1:46 A. M.
7:59 P. M. 1:46 P. M.
Wednesday, July 18,
8:11 A. M. 2:33 A. M.
9:00 P. M. 2:36 P. M.