Volume No. 22 A Good Newspaper In A Good Community The Pilot Covers Brunswick County No. 2Q 10-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1962 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Southport Homecoming Queen Susan Key, Southport High School senior, was crowned Homecoming Queen Friday night at a dance following the Southport-Greenwood football game. She was crowned by Judy McKeithan, last year’s Homecoming Queen. She is the daughter of Mrs. Frances Key and is head cheer leader. Attendants were Pat Bartell, Jean Gilbert, Ellen Newell, Patti Jenkins, Martha Mallison and Brenda Jordan.— (Staff Photo by Allen.) Shallotte Homecoming Queen 9& "XW' Barbara Hewett, Shallotte High School senior, was crowned Homecoming Queen at the dance Friday evening in the cafeteria. The Homecoming football j game with Wampee-Little River was cancelled be cause of the weather. The queen is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rozelle Hewett and was crowned by Brenda Norris, last year’s queen. ***• °t -NEWS CANCER MEETING The Brunswick County Cancer Society will meet Thursday, No vember 15, at Boiling Spring Lakes Country Club. Time of the meeting is 8 p. m. BANK HOLIDAY The Southport and Shallotte branches of the Waccamaw Bank & Trust Co. will be closed Mon day in observance of Armed Forces Day. pta meeting The Southport Parent-Teachers Association will hold its regular meeting on Thursday night at 7:30 o’clock in the high school auditorium. A Book Fair, inspec tion of the two new classrooms and reports on the Halloween UNICEF drive are on the agenda. HISTORICAL SOCIETY The Brunswick County Histori cal Society will meet at the Catholic Parish House in South port next Monday night at 8 o'clock. C. B. Berry of Crescent Beach will be the speaker and will talk on the history of the southeastern section of Brunswick county. Visitors are welcomed. Sewage Disposal Plan For City Is Rejected Again State Stream Sanitation Commission Turns Down Application To Reclassify Waters For the fourth time in two years, the State Stream Sanita tion Committee turned down Southport’s request to have swamp waters reclassified in or der that the city might construct a waste stabilization pond for sewage treatment. City Manager C. D. Pickerell said the city had expected the decision which the committee made at its October meeting in Banner Elk. “We have felt all along that the proposal would be turned down,” he said, “and have al ready started working on an other answer to the problem.” The rejected site for the sew age disposal system would have affected the Elizabeth river, Dutchman creek, Molasses creek and Dennis creek. The committee voted to turn down Southport’s request ■? be cause of four major points, Chairman J. V. Whitfield of Willard said, which include: Elizabeth river and Dutchman creek are valuable sources of seed oysters and thus add in come to the county. Elizabeth river and Dutchman creek are nursery areas for shrimp and provide a suitable habitat for wildlife.7 The site is largely flooded du ring normal high tides and is questionable as a proper site for such a facility. In addition, it is doubtful that a treatment plant can be protected from hurri canes and other severe storms. The prevailing southwestern summer winds would tend to carry odors from the plant to the city of Southport. With this action by the com mittee, City Manager Pickerell said the...city is looking for a new location for its sewage dis posal needs. He said the city was now considering one of three types of plants. They include a | conventional sewage disposal plant, a new type rapid oxida tion plant and a lagoon type sys tem. Consulting Engineer Henry Von Oessen of Wilmington said the city is considering building a lagoon type plant at a site which is now being studied but the site must meet the specifica tions of the State Stream Sani tation Committee and then be purchased by Southport. Von Oessen said he did not think it would affept the shellfish inter est in the county. Von Oessen also thinks that the lagoon disposal sewage sys tem is the city’s best answer to the problem. It would cost be tween $80,000 and $100,000 while the rapid oxidation one cost 25 to 35 per cent more. A conven tional type plant would cost the city about $250,000. j If the site for the lagoon plant is turned down, the city will pro-! bably consider an oxidation plant, i Although it cost more, it can be j constructed on sites that are now j available to Southport. Gray Ladies To Organize Here First Training Meeting For This Organization Is Held On Tuesday One meeting has been held and two more have been planned in order to organize a Red Cross Volunteer Gray Ladies program and a Hospital Staff Aid course for Dosher Memorial Hospital, ac cording to Mrs. Charles Blake, chairman of the programs. The first meeting was held Tuesday afternoon at the South port Communoty Building. Mrs. Philip King, chairman of the Home Improvements for the Brunswick county chapter of the Red Cross, spoke on the or ganization and its history. Mrs. Blake outlined the attribu ! tions and duties of the volunteers for those present. Another organizational meeting will be held Thursday at the Com munity Building from 3:30 to 5:30 in the afternoon. On Tuesday, November 13, a third organizational meeting wi# be held at the Hospital from 3:30 to 5:30 in the afternoon. “All interested persons are in vited to attend one of the meet ings,” Mrs. Blake said. Tre Red Cross Volunteer Gray Ladies program and the Hospital (Continued On Page 4) Democrats Sweep Back Into Office As Results Of General Election Voting Winners In Key Contests Tuesday E. V. LEONARD JACK BROWN W .J. McLAMB ODELL WILLIAMSON Complete, Unofficial General Election Returns H3 O W a w Sheriff Clerk Recorder ■g 2 g O S3 3 £ - G g 9 2 g n £ 03 4J I House Hoods 1 Creek. Leland. Town Creek. Bolivia... Southport No. 1. Southport No. 2. Mosquito... Supply.... Secession...,... Shallotte... Frying Pan... Grissettown . Shingletree... Longwood... Ash... Waccamaw. Exum. TOTALS....... 54 224 229 295 87 67 73 233 158 202 123 132 125 75 152 307 325 209 320 401 51 142 208 270 231 170 256 132 230! 168 162 57 69 65 32<712810 j 3422125263476 41 192 197 274 120 116 73 332 144 195 108 137 105 73 240 164 61 fl o m § co cO I Coroner m ■a s a > c e £ O 345012330 151 293 283 184 284 369 50 128 176 241 194 143 202 129 159 52 57 3095 132 250 266 178 296 365 52 128 189 234 198 151 195 129 158 59 57 County Commissioners a O g % 2 a 8 x O m G o & X <3 s ’S 1 w bo Senate v 03 be 2 2 39 229 217 159 353 367 284( 226 1361 407 1321 478 72 62 238| 165 116 71 223 159 58 120 72 224 163 55 136|' 1571 147 115 39 226 158 55 141| 241 206 J 279 110 250 1351 180 73 226 159 54 121 71 236 184 53 247 138 185 66 72 125 268 324 196 302 372 53 124 182 234 201 144 189' 129 156 49 55 41 178 190 Sol. a 141 30: 31i 2671 20 881 38£ 781 45: 64 j 5f 218] 14< 1181 215 179 24! 96 221 1141 159 97 66 216 157 52 20' 13' 16( 5( 5! 303712868131281308012742 j 28371257012623! 260413875! 31031221913452 Bolivia Host To School Seniors Annual Career Day Will Be Observed At That Bruns wick County High School Nov. 16 Representatives from eight col leges, five armed services, and thirteen professions or occupations will take to juniors and seniors of the five Brunswick county consolidated high schools about their future Friday, November 16, at Bolivia high school, acording to Principal J. P. Snipes, who is in charge of the College and Career Day program. J All the students will gather in the Bolivia Auditoriuih at 9:30 for the opening phraie of Col lege and Career Day. New Han over County Superintendent W. H. Wagoner will talk to them about their future opportunities. The program has been divided into the morning college section and the afternoon career section. Each student will attend any two groups in each section that he is interested in. (Continued on Page 4) New Administrator For Local Hospital Miss Frances R. Tillit As sumes Duties As Head Of Business Department At Dosher Memorial Following the recent resigna tion of William A. Mace as ad ministrator of Dosher Memorial Hospital in Southport, the Board of Directors have secured as new administrator, Miss Frances R. Tillitt. Miss Tillitt was born in Norfolk, Va., but has lived and worked in North Carolina the greatest part of her life. Her schooling was completed in Win ston-Salem and she has had ex tensive experience in hospital ad ministration and other related fields. For nine years, she was asso ciated with the Albemarle Hos pital, Elizabeth City. In the Chowan Hospital, Edenton, she served as administrator for ten and one-half years. During her tenure there a new hospital and nurses home was constructed. She TIME and TIDE By ED HARPER Twenty-five years ago this week visiting boatmen in the South port area expressed interest in the future of big game fishing here. One of the visitors when asked if he believed there were any marlin off shore, laughed at the statement. Yache club officials met to decide on the plans for the 1938 yacht regatta to be held here;two school children were hurt in a bus accident in the county; plans were being roughed out for the fishing rodeo to be held the next spring; city officials an nounced that they were unable to sponsor a yacht basin in Southport, and a yacht visiting here from New York was dam aged when a local trawler crashed into her side. Twenty years ago this week a total of 200,000 pounds of scrap metal was turned in by the Naval Section Base located at Fort Caswell. This was easily the largest contribution in the county wide scrap metal drive. A schooner went down offshore with one crew member being Continued On Page 2 a MISS FRANCES R. TILLITX directed the building program and : the purchasing of equipment and , supplies as well as all furnishings. : She was responsible for the em- ■ ployment of all personnel and purchased all medical supplies, , drugs and linens. After her serv- , ice here, she returned to the place of her former employment, \ Albemarle Hospital, Elizabeth ; City. J In this 150 bed hospital she < (Continued On Page 4) 1 -—- ] Aspirin Causes > Child’s Death i Coroner Rules That Death j Of Shipman Child Was ( Accidental And No In quest Will Be Held t c Final rites were held in White- \ ville, Wednesday for a 2-year-old c Southport boy who died, Monday I night from an overdose of aspirin. C Michael Ray Shipman, son of 1 Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Shipman 1 of Southport, died Monday night, a Coroner Lowell Bennett of Bruns- t wick County said death came from swallowing aspirin. The of- I fleer said the child apparently s took an overdose of the medicine, s (Continued On Page 4) Local Guardsmen Get Promotions Announcement Made Of Advancement For Several Members Of Shallotte National Guard Unit By M SGT. HUGH D. VANCE Training NCO Battery "C”, 2nd Automatic Weapons Battalion (SP), Nortl Carolina Army National Guard -ecently passed their 13th Annua! Armory General Inspection with 'lying colors. The local Nationa luard Unit was organized undei he direction of Captain John K 3urns of Whiteville in November L949. Jn keeping with a promise tc ;he enlisted men of Battery “C” ipon assuming command of the Shallotte National Guard Unit leveral months ago, Captain Wil on K. Allen, commander, . re narked that he believed in giving :redit where credit was due. Anc n keeping with that promise the tallowing Enlisted Men of the Shallotte Guard Unit were re :ently promoted to grades indi :ated: SFC. Sam F. Frink promoted o Platoon Sergeant (Grade E-7) 5gt. James A. Chestnut promotec o Staff Sergeant (Grade E-6) 2pl. William R. Hewett promotec o Sergeant (Grade E-5); Cpl lenry R. Taylor promoted to Ser reant (Grade E-5); Cpl. David j. Simmons promoted Specialist nive (Grade E-5); PFC. William I. Bland promoted to Specialist 'our (Grade E-4); PFC. Jimmy McLamb promoted to Special 3t Four (Grade E-4); PFC. Wil iam O. Suggs promoted to Spe ialist Four (Grade E-4). The ranking enlisted men of he Shallotte National Guard in lude M Sgt. Hugh D. Vance, nth 1814 years service to in lude U. S. Army in World War I, Army Reserve and North Carolina National Guard. M Sgt. ’ance was also instrumental in elping to organize the local unit nd worked two years as its full me administrative assistant. Next on the roll include P Sgt. lenry L. Carter with 17 years ervice. Sgt. Carter has been erving with the local unit for Continued On page 4 ■ Party Candidates Remain In Control Of All Brunswick County Offices Following Tuesday Vote Brunswick county Democrats held on to all county offices as a result of voting in Tuesday’s general election, with margins ranging from a scant 31-votes to a majority of 1120 piled, up by Lowell Bennett over Els worth Reynolds in their race for coroner. The closest of these contests _ developed right here in South- ■ port where F. Herbert Swain, * veteran member of the board of county commissioners and for mer chairman of that body, de- I feated Dan Harrelson, Republican - standard-bearer, by a majority of only 31-votes. This was another all-out effort' on the part of ' the Republican party, whose members campaign ed actively for a full slate of officers. Sheriff E. V. Leonard scored a convincing victory over Harold Willetts when he collected 3247 votes to 2810 for his Republican opponent. Jack Brown won his third term as clerk of Superior court,. polling 3422 votes to 2526 for L. V. Walton. W. J. McLamb piled up 3476 votes to 2572 for Thurston Hugh es to win the race for Judge of Recorder’s court, a post in which he will be no stranger. I Odell Williamson goes back to I the State Legislature as repre , sentative from Brunswick coun [ ty by polling 3347 votes to 25371 • for J. Rogie Evans, the Republi can candidate. In the race for county com missioner high man was Ira l Chadwick with 3128 votes. Next was D. L. Ganey with 3095; D.' , B, Frink with 3080; R. L. Rabon , with 3037; and Swain With 2868. Totals for Republican commis sioner candidates were Harrelson 2868, high for this race for his party; C. W. Knox, 2742; A. W.* 1 Bradsher, 2623; Floyd King, 2604; . 1 and J. B. Sermons, 2570, \*‘ Leading the entire Democrat ticket was Ray Walton, who poll ed 3875 votes. Carl Meares had 3103 for the other Democrat post and Warren H. Coolidge polled 2219 as the only Reublicapn op ponent for these two. James C. Bowman polled 3452 votes in his race for District Solicitor. No other returns were available at last night’s informal canvas. improvements On Streets Of City City Manager C. D. Picker* rell Reports Completion Of Several Projects In This Department The city of Southport has re cently spent approximately SB thousand to complete a consider able amount of street improve ment, according to City Manager C. D. Pickerrell. Atlantic avenue has been pav ed from Leonard street to Fodale avenue. Fodale itself has been paved ' from Leonard to Howe street or Highway 211. ■ (Continued On Page 4) Tide Table Following is the tide table for Southport during tbe week. These hours are approximately correct and were furnished The State Port Pilot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot's Association. ‘ HIGH LOW Thursday, November 8, 4:06 A. M. 10:43 A. M. 4:42 P. M. 11:13 P. M. Friday, November 9, 5:06 A. M. 5:39 P. M. Saturday, 6:02 A. M. 6:33 P. M. Sunday, 6:57 A. M. 7:26 P. M. Monday, 7:50 A. M. 8:17 P. M. Tuesday, 8:41 A. M. 9:07 P. M. Wednesday, 9:31 A. M. 9:59 P. M. 11:43 12:05 November 12:38 November J 0:55 1:30 November 1:41 2:21 November A. P. 10, A.