Volurne No. 22 No. 38 8-Poges Today
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1963
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Home Demonstration Workshop
BUSY—The Furniture Refinishing Workshop, sponsored by the Brunswick
County Council of Home Demonstration Clubs, was in session today at the extension
building at Supply. Among the early arrivals were Mrs. Ina Mae Mintz, Mrs. Sarah
Kopp Mrs Daisy Mercer, Mrs. Annie Mae Mercer, Mrs. Mary W. Earp and Mrs.
Mabel Reid. (Staff Photo by Allen)
Saturday Night
Miss Brunswick Pageant
Everything Set For Third |
Annual Brunswick Coun
ty Pageant At Shallotte
High School
Nine girls will compete for the
title of Miss Brunswick County
in the auditorium of Shallotte
High School Saturday night be
gining at 8 p. m. This pageant is
sponsored by the Shallotte Junior
Chamber of Commerce.
The contestants include Bar
bara Gail Sellers, Jacqueline
Dare Pigott, Jean Alton Gilbert,
Lois Jeanette Smith, Hanna
Frink; Amelia Jean Holden, €5ar«-i
olyn Johnson, Linda Long and
Pat Bartells.
The new Miss Brunswick Coun
ty will receive a $500 scholar
ship, sponsored by the Waccu
maw Bank and Trust Company
and the Southport Savings and
princess ring, a two week vaca
princess ring, a two week voca
tion, at Sunset Beach, sponsor
ed by M. C. Gore, a trophy and a
wardrobe of clothes, sponsored by
the Shallotte Jaycees. She will
also represent Brunswick county
at the Miss North Carolina Pag
eant in Greensboro during July.
. The first runner-up will re
ceive a $200 scholarship and a
trophy and the second runner-up
a trophy. A trophy will also be
presented to the girl voted
Miss Congeniality by the other
girls.
Gil Burnett, a Wilmington at
torney, will again serve as mas
ter-of-cermonies of the Miss
Brunswick pageant. Mrs. Peggy
Hood of Southport is the director
Of the contest while Waters
Thompson and Mrs. Early Smith
are in charge of the decorations.
Sparkie Davis of Harrell’s Music
Store in Wilmington will furnish
the music for the pageant.
Miss North Carolina Janice
Elizabeth Barron of Morganton,
will be guest' of honor at the
pageant.
A dance will be held immedi
ately following the contest at the
Armory to honor the new Miss
Brunswick County.
Judges for the pageant will be
Helen Osteen McBride, Barbara
Rogers and Faye Taylor, Myrtle
Beach; Robert L. Triplett, Wil
mington; and Albert Sharpe,
Lumberton.
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‘-NEWS-1
BOARD TO MEET
Members of the board of coun
ty commissioners will meet next
week as a Board of Equalization
and Review.
BENEFIT SUPPER
An old fashion chicken and
dumplin supper will be served at
Ocean View Methodist church at
Yaupon Beach Friday between
5:30 and 7 o’clock.
OYSTER ROAST
An end of- the season oyster
roast, sponsored by Sharon Meth
odist Church, will be served Sat
urday from 5 to 8:30 p. m. at
W. E. Bellamy’s Store. Since this
will be the last oyster roast until
next fall everyone is urged to
take advantage of it> and bring a
friend.
LOIS JEANETTE SMITH
Williamson In
Favor Of High
Bridge Project
| Brunswick County Repre
i sentative Explains His
| Action In Connection
I With County Manager
i Bill
By ODELL WILLIAMSON
Last week your representative
! in the General Assembly introduc
ed a bill to set forth the profes
sional qualifications for a Bruns
wick county manager, if the
county commissioners should de
cide that it is feasible for us to
employ one. The county already
has the authority to fill such a
position; my bill simply insures
■ that the person employed would
have a college degree with a
minimum of one year’s courses
■ (or the equivalent) in business
administration. The bill has al
ready passed the House, and I
foresee no difficulty in getting
Senate approval also.
Last Thursday I was happy to
see about 28 prominent Bruns
wick citizens among the 700 peo
ple, mostly from Wilmington, who
came to Raleigh for a Highway
Commission hearing on the pro
posed new bridge over the Cape
Fear River at Wilmington.
Among the group were our coun
ty commissioners. After several
years of debate, confusion and in
decision about the kind of bridge
needed, the determined crowd de
scended on Raleigh to present
a united front in favor of a high
level four-lane bridge and an ear
ly beginning on construction. I
predict that the Highway Com
mission will render a favorable
decision within a few days—if it
has not already done so by the
time you read this.
With a four-lane bridge as a
beginning, we can start thinking
about four-laning Highway 17, of
which the bridge is a section.
One of the main things I hope
to accomplish while in Raleigh is
to get the State to spend the
$500,000 authorized in the state
wide bond election for any worth
while project toward port devel
opment at Southport. To see what
could be done to speed up this
project, I was able last week to
meet with E. G. Anderson, mem
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MRS. PEGGY HOOD
Bruton Elected
NCEA President
Principal Of Waccamaw
High School Elected
Head Of Brunswick Edu
cation Forces For Next
Year
The election of new officers
highlighted the meeting of the
Brunswick county division of the
North Carolina Educational As
sociation which was held Wednes
day afternoon at Waccamaw.
The new officers, all from Wac
camaw, include President L. A.
Binton, school principal, Vice
President R. C. King and Mrs.
Mary Dawson, secretary-treasur
er. They were named by a nom
inating committee, were unani
mously elected, and will take of
fice next year.
‘ The feature speaker for the
meeting was Mrs. Phoebe Em
mons of Raleigh, field consultant
of the North Carolina Education
al Association.
She had words of praise for
the members of the General As
sembly for “going to work for
education”. She said this was
the first time bills affecting edu
cation had been introduced early
in the session.
Along the same line, Mrs. Em>
mons spoke kind words for Re
publicans introducing educational
bills. She said the Republicans
were making the Democrats con
scious of the needs of schools.
As for education itself, Mrs.
Emmons said the responsibilities
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Set Examination
For Postmaster
:f| Job At Leland
Civil Service Commission
Announces Closing Date
For Applications To Fill
Existing Vacancy
An examination for Postmaster
at Leland at a salary of $5,365 a
year will be open for acceptance
of applications until April 2, the
Commission announced this week.
This examination has been an
nounced under revised qualifica
tions standards agreed upon be
tween the Commission and the
Post Office Department.
Competitors for the - postmaster
vacancy in this city must have
at least 1 year of experience
(education above high school level
may be substituted for 6 months
of experience) showing that they
have the ability to maintain sim
ple records of accounts or that
it has given them a knowledge of
postal procedures.
Competitors must also show
that they are of good reputation
and that they can meet and deal
with the 'public agreeably and ef
fectively.
Applicants must take a written
test. Those who pass will be as
signed final ratings on the basis
of this test and on their experi
ence, and fitness for the poistion.
They must have resided within
the delivery of the office for one
year immediately preceding the
closing of . the examination. In
addition, they must have reached
the(r 18th birthday on the clos
ihg date fqr acceptance of appli
cations. Persons over 70 years of
age cannot be appointed.
Complete information about the
examination requirements and in
structions for filing applications
may be obtained at the post of
fice for which this examination
is being announced. Application
forms must be filed with the
U. S. Civil Service Commission,
Washington 25, D. C., and must
be.received or postmarked not
later than the closing date. • : ■
New Registration
For Long Beach
Blanks Being Mailed This
Week To Property Own
ers Who Are Eligible To
Vote In Coming Election
This week, registration forms
will be mailed to all residents
and property owners of record
of Long Beach in preparation
for the municipal election in May.
Special legislation permits not
only residents, but also freehold
ers, or property owners, who have
registered to vote in municipal
election of commissioners. The
five commissioners elect the may
or.
Under the General Statues a
resident is described as one
“whose residence is in the Town
of Long Beach six months or
more out of the year, and thirty
days of which immediately pre
cede the day fixed for election
of town officers”. The election
every two years is set for the
Tuesday following the first Mon
day in May.
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Southport Man
State Official
In Blind Work
Lt. Col. William O. Beasley
Has Been Named State
Representative Of Nation
al Society For Prevention
Of Blindness
. s?it. Col. William O. Beasley of
Caswell Beach has recently been
appointed North Carolina State
Representative of the National So
ciety for the Prevention of Blind
ness. Col. Beasley retired in 1962
from the Army to his home on
Caswell Beach, and has been ac
tively working with the Society.
The National Society for the
Prevention of Blindness is the
only national voluntary health
agency engaged in the prevention
of . blindness through a total pro
gram of research, service, and
education. The Society’s research
has shown that half of all blind
ness can be prevented if current
scientific causes of eye diseases
and injuries can be applied for
the benefit of the community.
Nationwide screenings show
that about 10 per cent of pre
school children have eye trouble
requiring corrective treatment,
and it is estimated that one
fourth of school age children, or
approximately' ten million chil
dren, need eye care. There remain
at least 122,000 eye accidents
among children each year in spite
of the progress which has been
made in this field.
Among adults, glaucoma, an
eye disease which leads to blind
ness if untreated, has been found
in about one out of every fifty
persons over age forty. Blindness
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Twenty-five years ago this week a front page photo of Capt.
Tommy St. George appeared. Despite being seventy years of age,
he was still an active member of the Cape Fear Pilots Associat
ion.
A photographer from Fox Movietone Newsreels was to visit
here to photograph interesting sites in the area, especially Ft
Caswell.
In the interest of area publicity, the Southport Civic Club
was mailing out over 5,000 post cards with picture and infor
mation of Southport to interested people across the country.
Twenty years ago this week it was announced that farmers
must have permits to deliver meats. The purpose of the stamp
ing was to halt black market operations.
County Red Cross funds were approaching the goal set for
the year; $1,300 of the goal of $4,000 was already deposited in
the bank.
Representatives from the State News Bureau visited here
and were taken on a survey of the county’s agricultural activities
by Bill Keziah and County Agent J. E. Dodson.
Fifteen years ago this week vegetable plants were almost
ready for shipment to the Long Island region of New York. The
transporting of the plants was to be done by the Lindner Broth
ers, truck farmers from Southport.
Contributions totaling $2358 were given by members of the
Southport Baptist Church congregation to go in their building
fund. This raised the total to approximately $15,000 with anoth
er $15,000 necessary for the completion of the brick veneering
work on the sanctuary and completion of the educational build
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Shallotte Meeting
SESSION The first session of the Tour-Arama program for Brunswick and
New Hanover counties was held in Shall otte Tuesday night. Shown discussing the
program are from left to right, Brunswick Sponsor G. E. Henderson, Shallotte
Chairman M. H. Ruark, Shallotte Mayor R. W. Cheers, SENCland Travel Council
Chairman Glenn Tucker and Director W. K. Dorsey of Distributive Education at
Wilmington College. (Staff Photo by Allen.)
Area Attr,
Given
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Water Lines To
Be Extended Soon
Two thousand feet of six-inch
water main will, be installed in
Deepwater . Heights ' within the
next eight weeks at virtually no
cost to the Southport tax-payers,
according to City Manager C. D.
Pickerrell.
The greater proportion of the
money to be used for the project
was paid by the property owners
of the area.
“I want to personally thank the
property owners for their splen
did cooperation in connection
with the project,” City Manager
Pickerrell stated.
The pipe for the Deepwater
Heights project will be ordered
Thursday.
Arthur Greene
Gets Sales Job
Charleston Man Becomes
Sales And Promotion
Manager At Boiling Spr
ing Lakes
Arthur M. Greene of Charles
ton,' S. C., has been named to
succeed Hal Reeves as Sales and
Promotion Manager of Boiling
Spring Lakes, local resort and
retirement development, it was
announced this week by officials
of Reeves Broadcasting and De
velopment Corp., developers of
Boiling Spring Lakes.
Reeves, who' has headed up the
development since February, 1962,
will remain at Boiling Spring
Lakes for the next several months
to assist Mr. Greene in becoming
familiar with the operation of the
development.
The new manager joined the
company several months ago as
regional sales coordinator and has
been engaged in establishing
broker-dealer sales forces in va
rious cities throughout the Caro
linas. He has been in the land
development field for many years,
having represented two of the
largest companies developing new
communities in South Florida.
A native of New York City,
Greene has lived in the South
since 1941. having been assigned
'he Southeastern territory for the
A.merican Lending Libraries, a
:oast-to-coast library chain, as an
analyst. Prior to coming to the
South, he was associated with the
foreign service bureau of the Chi
cago Daily News and was a dis
trict manager of the Automobile
Jlub of New York (AAA).
Returning to the newspaper
'ield in 194”, Greene was a fea
ture writer for the Charlotte Ob
server until entering the J. S.
laval Air Corps in 1943. He was
i member of the Public: Informa
ion staff at the Jacksonville
'laval Air Station until May,
946, when he received a civil
ervice appointment as Public In
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actions
Spotlight
: First Of Three Sessions In
Tour - Arama Program
Conducted Tuesday
Night} Second Session
Thursday - *
An invitatioiii to join in an all
out effort to further the economy
| of Brunswick and New Hanover
i counties through the development
of the historic, recreational and
travel aspects in the two coun
ties and to join with the other
four counties in the SENCland
area in a total program was ex
tended at the first session of the
Tour-Arama program held in
Shallotte Tuesday night.
The value of the sessions, two
more of which are to be held in
Shallotte Thursday and next
Tuesday, in stirring community
leaders of SENCland into a reali
zation of the travel industry po
tential' was stressed by Chairman
Glenn Tucker of the SENCland
Travel Council, the feature speak
er of the meeting.
He pointed out the work being
done on the national, state and
area level to influence the travel
industry.
“The United States Travel
Service of the Department of
Commerce is making an all-out
effort to attract foreign visitors
to our country,” he stated. “On
the state level, the Travel Coun
cil of North Carolina, the Division
of Advertising of the Department
of Conservation and Development
and the Department of Public In
struction are all at work to de
velop the travel industry in the
state. The - SENCland Develop
ment Corporation is concerned
with the problem on an area level.”
"But on a local level, it is
up to you,” he stated strongly.
Chairman Tucker, a resident of
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Livestock Men
Form Association
Preliminary Meeting Is Held
Monday Night At Supply
.j With Wilbur Earp Nam
ed President
A representative group of forty
farmers met at the Extension
Service Office Building in Supply
Monday night and organized a
County Livestock Association.
The purpose of the association
is to promote all phases of the
livestock industry to increase in
come, reports A. S. Knowles, Act
ing County Extension Chairman.
Wilbur Earp was elected presi
dent, Worth Mercer was elected
vice-president and Ennis Swain
was elected secretary and treas
urer. Six directors were electd,
one from each township as fol
lows: Northwest, H. O. Peterson,
Jr.; Town Creek, Roy Swain;
Smithville, George Lindner; Lock
wood Folly, Harold Robinson;
Shallotte, James D. Bellamy; and
Waccamaw, Ernest Stanaland.
The officers and directors will j
meet again on Monday at 7:30 !
p. m., in Supply to plan a pro- j
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Brunswick Now
In Accelerated
Projects Area
Two Municipal Groups Plan
Meetings To Discuss Plans
For Sponsoring Projects
In This Program
In order to take advantage of
the fact that Brunswick county
has been' made eligible for federal
issistance under the Accelerated
Public Works Program, the
Southport Board of Aldermen will
meet Thursday night to discuss
the matter, City Manager C. D.
Pickerrell said Tuesday.
City Manager Pickerrell was
informed Thursday by Congress
man Alton Lennon via telegram
that the county has been declared
i disaster area by the Secretary
3f Labor on account of the high
rate of unemployment.
Although the city manager ad
mitted that he was “somewhat
dense on the matter”, he said he
was making every effort to in
form himself about the federal
issistance program.
The disaster designation makes
Brunswick eligible for matching
federal funds for public works
projects on a 50-50 basis. But
there can be only one project
?oing per community at a time.
City Manager Pickerrell said
some of the projects to be dis
cussed by the Board Thursday
nclude drainage, an extension of
the water lines and street paving.
He said that he does not have
iny idea how the federal pro
gram will effect the proposed
small boat harbor here.
Besides Brunswick, New Han
iver was also declared eligible
for the funds because the two
counties are tied together as a
abor market due to the fact
chat a large number of Bruns
wick residents are employed in
Wilmington.
Each month the Secretary of
Labor designates areas having
substantial unemployment for at
east nine of the preceding twelve
months or which the Secretary of
Commerce declares as redevelop
ment areas under the Area Re
ievelopment Act.
In order to be designated as a
lisaster area, the state Employ
ment Security Commission must
make a labor survey. That survey
was made in January and results
showed that Brunswick county
lad an unemployment rate of ap
proximately 16 per cent. When
chat rate was coupled with New
Hanover’s, the combined rate for
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Presbyterian
Minister Arrives
The Rev. Robert Childs, Jr.,
Pastor At Southport And
New Hope Presbyterian
Churches
A man who graduated from a
Baptist Seminary is the new min
ister of the Southport Presby
terian church and the New Hope
Presbyterian Church at Winna
bow.
Rev. Robert Childs, Jr., 27, na
tive of Jacksonville, Texas, took
over the pulpit of the two Bruns
wick county churches this month.
He is a graduate of the South
eastern Baptist Seminary at
Wake Forest and was employed
as a chaplain at Camp Butler,
a youth offenders camp, and as
assistant minister of the Presby
terian church in Jacksonville, be
fore coming to Brunswick county.
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.
HIGH LOW
Thursday, March 14,
10:27 A. M. 4:20 A. M.
10:56 P. M. 4:29 P. M.
Friday, March 15,
11:02 A. M. 5:00 A. M.
11:35 P. M. 5:05 P. M.
Saturday,, March 16,
11:41 A. M. 5:45 A. M.
5:46 P. M.
Sunday, March 17,
0:19 A. M. 6:36 A. M.
12:30 P. M. 6:36 P. M.
Monday, March 18,
1:13 A. M. 7:34 A. M.
1:27 P. M. 7:36 P. M.
Tuesday, March 19,
2:13 A. M. 8.38 A. M.
2:33 P. M. 8:44 P. M.
Wednesday, March 20,
3:18 A. M. 9:39 A. M.
3:38 P. M. 9:49 P. M.