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[Most of the News All The Time THE if-. PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community The Pilot Covers Brunswick County Volume No. 22 No. 24 IC'Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1962 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Mrs. Rourk Will Serve Again As Dimes Chairman Shallotte Resident Will Ser ve As Chairman Of The March Of Dimes Cam paign In Brunswick Dur ing January “It may shock many, as it did me, to learn that thousands of our, handicapped children are not able to get the best possible medical care. I know the Ameri can people will want to correct that situation.” This was the comment of Mrs. M. H. Rourk this week, as she accepted appointment as Cam paign Director of the 25th Anni versary March of Dimes in Brunswick County this January. Mrs. Rourk is a graduate of Woman’s College in Greensboro. She is a member of the Business and Professional Woman’s Club, PTA, and Association of Univer sity Women. Mrs. Rourk has been active in March of Dimes work for thirteen years. She and Dr. Rourk are members of the Pres byterian Church of Shallotte. “Nobody needs help more than crippled children and so many . are not able to obtain the kind of care they’re entitled to. But following the pattern of its tri umph over polio, the March of Dimes is working to solve this problem where the need is great est—in the fields of birth defects and arthritis," Mrs. Rourk de clared. In emphasizing that these con ditions are among the leading causes of disability among chil dren, she pointed out that there . are more than 250,000 American babies born each year with signi ficant birth defects—700 such children bom each day. “And there are 11 million Americans afflicted by arthritis or rheumatic disease, thousands of them children and adolescents. Millions of dollars are still need ed to aid the thousands paralyzed by polio in former years,” Mrs. Rourk said. Jfj ' “In the only program of its kind by a voluntary health agen cy,” Mrs. Rourk said, “the March of Dimes is striving to bring ex pert medical care to every com Cojitinufed On Page 4 DISTRICT GOVERNOR Lion District Governor Larry Averette will visit the Southport Lion’s club Thursday for their regular meeting at 6:30 in the Community Building. CHRISTMAS HOUSE Christmas House, an annual event featuring unusual decora tions and wrapping ideas, will be held Sunday at the Commun ity Building. The sponsors are the three garden clubs in Southport and the public is innvited. ATTENDS CONFERENCE Brunswick County Superinten dent John G. Long is attending the winter conference of The Di vision of Superintendents of the North Carolina Education Asso ciation in Durham Tuesday, Wed nesday and Thursday. SCHOOL IMPROVEMENTS Bolivia High School has pur chased a new portable public ad dress system and has installed new basketball goals and nets in the gym. The new restrooms at the school have also been com pleted. ON DEAN’S LIST Eddie Hubbard, son of War rant Officer and Mrs. Egan Hub bard, was on the Dean’s List at Hampton - Sydney College for the fall quarter. He is the grand son of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Hub bard of Southport. SERVICE BREAK Electric current will be off in Southport Sunday afternoon be tween the hours of 2 and 4:30 o’clock while workmen for Caro lina Power and Light Company work on the transmission line to Southport. TURKEY SHOOTS The Long Beach Volunteer Fire Department will be sponsoring turkey shoots every Friday and Saturday until Christmas. The shoots will be held across the road from the Tranquil Harbour restaurant or next to the Lor raine motel from noon to dark. Contestants can use their own shotguns or they may be borrow ed. All shells will be furnished. Action At Long Beach mmm PROGRESS^—These men participated in the groundbreaking ceremonies Mon - day at Long Beach where first steps were taken in the construction of a new Southern Bell exchange, designed to bring better communications service to the beach area. Left to right they are J. C. Andrews, company engineer; E. W Mor gan, city councilman; E. F. Middleton, Mayor of Long Beach; and Harold Kincaid Manager of the Wilmington office.—(Staff Photo By Allen.) 1 -_ Sunday Morning Varnumtown Fire Cause Of Death Retired Seaman Perishes In Flames Which Consumed His Home Near Holden Beach SHALLOTTE—A retired sea man, a semi-invalid for some time, was burned to death when a gas-stove explosion set fire to his four-room home, Sunday, in the Varnumtown area of Bruns wick County, approximately four miles southeast of Shallotte. Raleigh Varnum, 46, was the victim, according to Brunswick Coroner Lowell Bennett, who said investigation was being continued in the death by himself and sher iff's officers. Bennett said the small frame house, which had been built only a short while, apparently caught fire from a faulty fuel line from an underground gas tank to the cook-stove. It is thought Varnum had begun to prepare himself a meal and probably started to light the stove when a semi-ex plosion occurred from gas which had leaked into the room via the faulty line. His body was found, cremated, near the stove in the kitchen. Neighbors, finding the house afire, found the underground tank still feeding fuel to the flames and cut off the flow. The flames were too intense to prevent an attempt at rescue. The house was completely destroyed. Varnum, a former seaman on both shrimp and dredge boats, had been burned twice before. He was burned in an auto acci dent and, later was ■ burned (Continued on Page 4) Swine Farmers In Short Course Series Of Special Instruc tion Sessions Scheduled For Brunswick County Next Week Farmers will be in better po sition to produce hogs more ef ficientily if they attend the five day swine school in Supply on December 10-14, said A. S. Knowles, Acting County Exten sion Chairman this -week. These daily classes will start at 2 p. m., and will cover the im portant steps needed in success ful swine farming, says Knowles. This is the first time a school of this kind has been held in Brunswick County, and it is ex pected a large number of farm ers will avail themselves of the information in order to increase their income from this enterprise. A different specialist from N. C. State College will have charge of the school each afternoon. Continued Ob Page 3 YDC President Is Banquet Speaker Shallotte BPW Helps Library The Shallotte Business and Professional Women’s Club has donated to the Shallotte Public Library the funds rais ed several years ago for this purpose and one hundred dol lars of this year’s project funds. The club has also sent a donation to the North Caro lina Federation Headquarters of B P W at Chapel Hill. This has been a thrcc-year project of the clubs of North Carolina whose united efforts have made possible the new Headquarters Building for the BPW clubs of this state. Former School Principal Dies William Rudolph Lingle In Portsmouth, Va., Hos pital Of Automobile Acci ent Injuries Funeral services for William Rudolph Lingle, former South port High School principal, who died Monday from injuries in an automobile accident, will be held Thursday at 3 p. m. at the Trin ity Methodist church with Rev. Charles Lancaster officiating. Burial will follow in Northwood cemetery. His residence was in Southport and his wife is a member of the Southport school faculty. He was born on March 18, 1906 in Gibsonville, the son of the late Rev. and Mrs. G. H. L. Lin gle. He was educated at Salisbury and Mooresville public school and Lenoir-Rhyne college and Duke University. He had taught school in Granite Quarry and China Grove and served as principal of schools in Southport and Jack sonville. He died Sunday in Mary View Hospital from injuries suffered earlier that day in an automo bile accident near Portsmouth, Va. Two other persons are re ported to have died in a two-car collision. . Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Mynette Thompson Lingle; two brothel's, Rev. George W. Lingle of Gastonia and John M. Lingle of Salisbury; and a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Lingle Farris of Lexington. Pallbearers include D. S. St. George, Jimmy Russ, W. C. Hol den, G. W. Fisher, Jr., O. W. Car rier and Bobby Jones. Brunswick County Demo* crats Hold Victory Dinner At Ebb Tide Restaurant Tuesday Night North Carolina is experiencing a political realignment and not the birth of a truly two-party system, according to President Elect David Reid of the State Young Democrat Club who spoke at the Brunswick Victory Dinner at Holden Beach Tuesday night. “The Republican gains are the results of registered Democrats realizing that their true home is in the Republican party,” Presi dent-Elect Reid said in examining the latest general election.. President - Elect Reid viewed the efforts of the Republican par ty as a challenge and an oppor tunity for Democrats to do more for their party and the people it represents. Words of praise were said for the Brunswick YDC and the Woman’s group in the county. “They helped pave the way for a Democratic sweep in Brunswick," he said. President - Elect Reid suggest Continued On Page 4 Break Ground For New Phone Exchange Site Southern Bell Telephone Company Is Proceeding With Plans To Improve Long Beach Service Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph company took another step Monday to provide better telephone service to the Long Beach area with a ground break ing ceremony for a new exchange building. Long Beach Mayor E. F. Mid dleton, who came up from Char leston, S. C., thanked the tele phone company for "investing in our area.” Town Commissioner Edward W. Morgan also had words of praise for the telephone company. Harold Kincaid, Southern Bell Manager in Wilmington, accepted the thanks of the Long Beach of ficials on behalf of the telephone company. He said that the con struction of the exchange build ing was just one step in provid ing Long Beach with better tele phone service. B. B. Leazer, public relations man for Southern Bell, served as master-of-ceremonies. Rev. Mark Owens, gave the invocation. Long Beach Town Manager Dan L. Walker, and Southern Bell Telephone Engineer J. C. An drews also took part in the groundbreaking ceremonies. Veteran Driver Dies Thursday Harris Cumbee Had Twenty 1 Years Service As Mail And Passenger Bus Driv er In County Harris Cumbee, 48, died Thurs day in Dosher Memorial Hospital here. Final rites were held Sun day at 3 p. m. at Town Creek Baptist Church by the Revs. Steveti Mintz, Paul Odom and. J. M. Weaver, with burial in New Hope Cemetery. The deceased, who was affec tionately known to hundreds of persons as “Fats”, had driven the W.B.&S. mail bus for more than 20 yiars from Southport to Wil mingpton and earlier from South port ito Whiteville. He was one of the post known men in the county and had earned a reputa tion for being friendly and ac comrhclating. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Carnet Cumbee; two sons, Wil liam j Harris Cumbee of the US j Navy, and Charles Cumbee of the I home'; a daughter, Mrs. Nettie j N. Qimbee of the home; three ! brothels, Johnson, Southport, Ber- I nice 5p: Winnabow and Delmas \ Cumbet of Williamston; three sisters, Mrs. Addie Benton, Mrs. Ethel P.abon and Mrs. Julia Hick man, fall of Winnabow. Active pallbearers were Lin- 1 wood Henton, Delmas Cumbee, L. L. Bari.es, Jr., Clyde Barnes, Del bert yVilfe and Wayne Howell. ? I TIME and TIDE Twenty-five years ago this week the Waccamaw Bank and Trust Company opened a branch office here in Southport. Prince O’Brien, a former assistant cashier at Fairmont, was named head cashier. The facility was located on Moore Street. The founding of an eel smokery was to take place in South port. rhe eel, thought of as a delicacy in other areas but frown ed upon here, was believed to be in great abundance, and the demand was suspected to be large. A Norwegian tanker was aground at Battery Island in the I river at Southport. An attempt was made to free the stranded vessel at’high tide, but was unsuccessful. The tanker, Irma, was carrying a cargo of creosote oil when one of its steering engines failed. Twenty years ago this week the Christmas lighting contest was called off. The reason for this decision was the dim-out re gulations that applied to the coastal regions because of the chances of enemy vessels getting bearings from the glow of the lights. The other phases of the contest was to be held in their usual manner. Teen-age registration took place that month in the county. All boys eighteen years of age or over registered for the draft. Weather during recent days was perfect for ducks—cold, wet, and cloudy—but not toe good for other activities. Fifteen years ago this week it was discovered that the bell in the Baptist church was put there by a benefactor in 1872. The part of the old structure was being tom down to make way for new construction. The church was being renovated and modern ized. The removal of the steeple revealed the fact, and since the bell was in such good shape, it was returned for use in the newer building. A Navy LiCT was bit by heavy seas off Southport and was Contlaue6 on rage 2 Victory Dinner OFFICIALS—Kirby Sullivan, chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee for Brunswick County; David Reid of Greenville, President-Elect of the State Young Democratic.Clubs; Mrs. D. H. Mc Bride, president of the Brunswick County Democratic Women, and H. Mercer Johnson, President of the Brunswick County YDC, are shown here at the Dem ocrat Victory dinner last night at Ebb Tide Restau rant at Holden Beach.—(Staff Photo by Allen.) Swain Chairman As ^ Board Organizes ■a Strange Request Made For Book A young man came into the Southport Public Library one day last week and in quired if a copy of Haw •thome’s “The Scarlet Letter” was available. The librarian found there was a copy on the shelves and asked if the prospective borrower had a library card. He had not. When handed an application card to fill in, the young man stated that he was not a resident of Brunswick County, but lived in Wilming ton. It seems that a large num ber of students at New Han over had been given "The Scarlet Letter” as a required reading assignment; and ‘all copies in both the school and public library were checked out. So — The Wilmingtonian had driven down to Southport to borrow the book. Southport Girls Choir Will Sing Carol Choir, Under Direc tion Of Mrs. Drayton Cooper, Will Present Pro gram On Wednesday, December 12 The-Carol Choir, made up of 18 Southport girls, and directed by Mrs. Drayton Cooper, will pre sent a sacred concert of Christ mas music at the Trinity Metho dist Church on Wednesday night, December 12, at 7:30 o’clock. The choir, originally a project of the Junior Woman’s Club of Southport, will sing its repertoire of carols from around the world. Included in the program will be selections from seven nations, representing all the major con tinents. The girls in the choral group, all between the ages of eight through 13, are daughters of members of both the senior and junior Woman’s Clubs. Mrs. Coop er, chairman of the junior club's Fine Arts Committee, organized the choir and has directed the entire program. The theme of the concert, “Christmas Around the World”, centers on music from other lands, and narration describing Yuletide customs in the nations whose music is used. The narra tion was written by Rev. Dray ton Cooper, pastor of the South port Presbyterian Church. The presentation at the Metho dist Church is sponsored by the Women’s Society of Christian Service and will be open to the public. The program will be given in the sanctuary of the church. Members of the choir are Deb bie Arntsen, Sarah Barnes, Susan Bellamy, Cornelia Bowman, Troy Davenport, Claire Glore, Rachel Continued On rage « S. Bunn Frink Named Coun ty Attorney And A. H. Ganey, Jr. Reappointed Solicitor Newly elected Brunswick county officials were sworn in Monday, after which the board of county commissioners organized and elected F. Herbert Swain as chairman. Those being administered the oath of office Monday included Sheriff E. V. Leonard, Clerk of Court J. E. Brown, Recorder W. J. McLamb, Coroner L. B. Ben nett, and commissioners Swain, D. B. Frink, R. L. Rabon, D. L. Ganey and Ira L. Chadwick. The motion to make Swain chairman, a position he has held on three previous boards, was made by Frink, seconded by Ra bon. Ganey placed the name of Chadwick in nomination, and when it received no second, it was withdrawn and Swain was .elected by unanimous vote. When the time came to ap point a county attorney, Ganey made a motion for S. Bunn Frink and Chadwick seconded the mo tion. Frink voted for the motion and Rabon abstained from voting. Durwood Clark was unanimous ly reappointed as clerk to the board. Chadwick made .the mo tion and Rabon seconded. A. H. Gainey, Jr., was reap pointed solicitor of Recorder’s court, with Frink making the motion and Ganey seconding. The vote was unanimous. Upon the recommendation that a purchasing agent be employed for the county, Frink made the motion for the appointment of Mrs. Ressie R. ■ Whatley, Ganey seconded, and the vote was un animous. mlM.W Guy Culpepper Dies Suddenly Prominent Shallotte Man Dies In Wilmington Hos pital Of Heart Attack SHALLOTTE—Guy Henry Cul pepper, former Columbus County resident but more recently of Shallotte the past several years, died Saturday afternoon in the emergency room of James Wal ker Memorial Hospital in Wil mington, following a heart at tack. Mr. Culpepper lived for many years in Brunswick and White ville but, several years ago, mov ed to Shallotte where he was manager of Shallotte Lumber Co. He was a member of St. James Episcopal Church, was its senior warden for 20 years and was a member of Shallotte Lions Club. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Alice Culpepper; a son, Jim Cul pepper, Savannah, Ga.; his moth er, Mrs. J. E. Culpepper of Shal lotte; a brother, Edward S. Cul pepper of Whiteville; and a sis ter, Mrs. W. P. Pearsall of Ridge ford, N. J. The funeral ioek place at St. James Church at 3 p. m. Monday with the Rev. Nelson Hodgkins (Continued On Page 4) Reduction In Tobacco Quota For Next Year Secretary Of Agriculture Orders Cut Of 5-Percent In Acreage For This Crop Secretary of Agriculture Free man cut the 1963 flue-cured to bacco allotment five per cent Fri day and indicated some more changes may be made in the growing of tobacco. Along with the five per cent reduction, Coker 316 and Reams 64 will be placed on the discount list and supported at 50 per cent of other varieties. In making the cut and adding the two varieties to the discount list, Secretary Freeman . followed the advice of the 40-man National Tobacco Industry Advisory com mittee which met in Washington November 19-20. Ralph L. Price, manager of the ASC office in Shallotte, was gloomy about what the reductions will mean to Brunswick county tobacco growers. “The cut is a little more than the tobacco increase this year,” Manager Price said. “Unless the cut results in a price increase, Brunswick county farmers will loose money this year,” he stated pessimistly. Manager Price was also upset over the loss of Coker 316 and Reams 64 and the prospects of MH-30. “This will mean a loss of money for the farmers,” he stat ed emphatically. Although the committee recom mended that MH-30 be outlawed, the Secretary said he would taka no action on that until after public hearings on the sucker preventing chemical are held in tobacco growing areas. Hearings are scheduled to begin in mid December and are to cover other quality factors in the growing of flue-cured leaf. Horace D. Godfrey, administra tor of the Agricultural Stabiliza tion and Conservation Service, ad vised that a sub-committee would be appointed to study grade standard and procedures. It is probable that this group will meet before the public hearings get started. There is a general hope among Agriculture Department officials that recommendation will be made on the grading of tobacco accord ing to its market value on the warehouse floor, Godfrey said. The five per cent reduction will just about wipe out the 4.3 per cent increase granted early this year. It will reduce acreage from 747,262 this year to 710,190 acres for 1963. North Carolina's share of the national allotment amounts to about two thirds of the entire flue-cured production. The Coker seed company of Hartsville, S. C. objected to Free man’s action in withdrawing 316 and Reams 64 saying that "this J tobacco showed up as well or bet ter than other varieties in quality, lower percentage of Stabilization takings, and overall performance.” The Coker firm said further that, “We do not believe that it will be in the interest of the to bacco program to discount a to bacco variety which has con tributed so much to profits of tobacco growers and has proven to be so acceptable to buying companies.” Coker earlier had agreed to withhold 316 and the Agriculture Department said both 316 and Reams 64 were discounted to in sure that seed on hand now would not be planted this year. Secretary Freeman said the Continued On Page 4 Tide Table Following la 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, December 6, 2:45 A. M. 9:21 A. M. 3:18 P. M. 9:52 P. M. Friday, December 7, 3:49 A. M. 10:26 A. M. 4:20 P. M. 10:49 P. M. Saturday, December 8, 4:50 A. M. 11:26 A. M. 5:18 P. M. 11:43 P. M. Sunday, December 9, 5:47 A. M. 12:22 A. M. 6:14 P. M. Monday, December 10, 8:41 A. M. 0:34 A. M. 7:07 P. M. 1:14 P. M. Tuesday, December 11, 7:33 A. M. 1:23 A. M. 7:59 P. M. 2:04 P. M. Wednesday, December 12, 8:23 A. M. 2:11 A. M. 8:48 P. M. 2:53 P. M.
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