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The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
Volume No. 23 No. 40
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8-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1964 5c A COPY
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Red Cross Fund
Drive Reports
Are Encouraging
Preliminary reports from the
Red Cross fund raising drive are
beginning to come in from thro
ughout the county as other events
are being . planned during the
final stages of the 1964 cam
paign in Brunswick.
In a preliminary report, Mrs.
A. H. Cromer said the Long
Beach-Tranquil Harbour area
has gone over the top of their
quota.
A meeting to report on the pro
gress of the Southport drive has
been called by Chairman A1
Martin for Monday night at 8
o'clock in the Southport Public
Library.
In connection with the South
port drive, a basketball double
header was held at the Bruns
wick County Training school
gym Wednesday night for the
benefit of the Red Cross. In the
first contest, the Businessmen of
Wilmington played the Southport
Independents in a game involv
ing "older players”. The feature
game of the evening involved the
Wilmington Boys club versus the
BCT Lions. Admission to the
doubleheader was by contribution
to the Red Cross.
Sunday will be Red Cross Sun
day in the churches of Brunswick
county. A special collection will
be made in many of the county
churches while in other churches,
members will be urged to made
contributions to the drive.
Several new Red Cross fund
drive collectors have been re
cently added go the county cam
paign. The new workers include
Dillon Gainey and James T. Clem
mons in Leland; Mrs. W. H.
Brew and Mrs. I. D. Butler in
Phoenix; Mrs. Charlies Caroll in
Northwest and Mrs. A. P. Henry
in Winnabow.
Mrs. Phillip Ring, county Red
Cross home service chairman, re
ported that she sent nine inquires
from the county to Alaska as a
result of the weekend earthquake.
Most of the inquiries were to ser
vice men and civilian govern
ment. workers, she said.
Only one of the messages has
been answered by early Tuesday
because of lack of communicat
ions with Alaska as a result of
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MILITARY MANEUVERS
Navy and Marine maneuvers
involving 10 ships will be staged
in the Sunny Point area April 4
through April 9, it was announ
ced Tuesday.
MEET FRIDAY
The Brunswick County Repub
lican club will meet Friday
night at 8 o’clock in the Agricul
tural Building in Supply, says
Chairman H. L. Willetts.
CARD FROM JACQUELINE
Miss Lillian Collins of South
port received a card feom Mrs.
John F. Kennedy acknowledging
her sympathy note. The letter
was postmarked on St. Patrick’s
Day, Miss Collins’ birthday.
TO PRESENT PLAY
The Southport Beta Club will
present a three-act hillbilly com
edy Friday night at 8 o’clock in
the high school auditorium. The
proceeds will be used to send
Beta Club members to the state
convention to Raleigh later in the
month.
BOARD ORGANIZES
Members of the Brunswick
County Board of Elections were
sworn in Saturday before Clerk
of Court Jack Brown. H. Foster
Mintz of Bolivia remains as
chairman, Arthur Sue of Leland
remains as secretary and L. C.
Babson of Freeland is the Re
publican member of the board.
MEMBERSHIP CHAIRMAN
G. E. Henderson, Shallotte
druggidt and business man, has
been named by President J. D.
Griffin as chairman of the mem
bership committee of the Bruns
wick County Chamber of Com
merce. Active solicitation of
memberships will begin immed
iately.
LEIAND CURRICULUM
Leland High School will offer
about the same number and va
riety of high school courses next
year, says Principal Rockfellow
Venters. Civics and world geog
raphy will be added to the cur
riculum and students will be able
to substitute either home econo
mics or industrial arts for one of
the three required science
Courses*
At St. Phillips
INTEREST—Miss Alneta Dixon, member of Southport Junior Woman’s Club
which is assisting in putting on the Heritage Tea Sunday afternoon, is shown here
with Rev. E. B. Jordan examining the baptismal-font and Other objects of interest
which will be on display Sunday afternoon.
Out Of The Past
Heritage Highlights Sunday
The Southport Women’s and *
Junior Women’s Clubs, will joint
ly sponsor a heritage tea and ex
hibit at the Community Building
Sunday from 2 until 8 p. m.
Unusual and historical items
not usually viewed by the general
public will be featured during the
open house Sunday. Authentic
costume dresses will be worn by
■the hostesses.
At 4:30 p. m. entertainment,
•consisting of demonstrations of .
the minuet and songs from a
choral group composed of high
school students, will be presented.
In addition, St. Phillips church
will be open to the public during
heritage Sunday. The church’s
linens which date from old St.
Phillips at Brunswick Town, will
be on display.
The heritage tea and exhibit
event is presented by the women’s
clubs in keeping with the 1964
theme of the State Federation:
“Of the past mindful, of the pre
sent faithful, of the future hope
ful’’. This has been the theme
during the two years Mrs. James
M. Harper Jr., has served as the
federation president.
Williamson In
House Contest
Two more candidates for pub
lic office in Brunswick county
have announced their entry in
the Democratic primary this
week. . ..
One of these is Representative
Odell Williamson, who is being
opposed for reelection by W. J.
McLamb, who currently is serv
ing as Judge of Recorder's court.
Williamson has served for four
terms as a members of the house
and during the last session was
chairman of the committee oh
commercial fisheries.
He is a Shallotite business man
and real estate developer.
The second candidate to an
nounce this week is Williams
Hewett, who is seeking the Dem
ocratic nomination for member
of the board of commissioners
from Shallotte township. This
is his first quest for public
office, but he has been active in
the affairs of the Democrat
party for a number of years.
H. , Foster Mintz, chairman of
the Brunswick County Board of
Elections, .reminds all prospect
ive candidates that the deadline
for filing- is noon on April 17.
He says that to dat$ there have
“ been 24 persons to file.
Students Given
Advice On Jobs
Principal Rockfellow Venters
has initiated a special program
at Leland High School designed
to decrease the number of drop
outs at the school.
At the beginning of the year,
students in grades 6, 7 and 8 were
asked to indicate the vocational
fields they desired to enter as
adults.
Principal Venters tabulated the
results of the survey to deter
mine the main fields of interest
of students in the three grades.
Qualified persons in the fields
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8 Is Being Planned
The Southport Public Library
will receive the Book-of-the
Month - f 1,000 State- Library
Award on Sunday afternoon,
April 12, at 3 o’clock in the
Southport High School auditor
ium. The award was established
as a memorial to Dorothy Can
field Fisher and is given to one
deserving small community libr
ary in each state upon the re
commendation of the American
Library Association.
The speaker for the occasion
will be Thad Stem, Jr. of Ox
ford, well-known North Carolina
author and presently chairman
of the N. C. State Library Board.
Stem has a book, “Light and
Rest”, which will be published
the same day as the awards cere
mony, which is also the first day
of National Library Week.
The speaker will be introduced
by John V. Hunter, III, a Raleigh
attorney who is chairman of the
Governor’s Commission on Libr
ary Resources.
Also present will be Rep Alton
Lennon, who will speak on the
national aspect of library ser
vices; Neal Austin of High Point,.
Executive Director of National
Library Week in N. C.; Mrs.
Elizabeth Hughey, State Libr
arian, who will make the 'pre-'
sentation; Paul S. Ballance, Dir
ector of Libraries in Winston
Salem and a member of the State
Library Board: Miss Margaret
Kalp, president of the N. C. Libr
ary Association; Miss Cora Paul
Bomar, supervisor of Libraries
for the Dept.' of Public Instruct
ion; and Jerrold Ome, Univer
sity of North Carolina librarian
and member of the State Library
Board.
Local participants will be Har
old Aldridge, chairman of the
Southport Library Board, who
will accept the award; Rev. Art
hur Phillips; Senator Ray Wal
ton; William N. Williams, Bruns
wick County chairman of Libr
False Alarms
Turned In Here
Two false alarms and two
brush fires kept the Southport
Volunteer Fire Department busy
this past weekend.
The false alarms were both
'turned in after midnight, the
first one on Thursday night at
1 a. m. and the second on Sun
day morning at 5:30 a. m.
The department responded to
an alarm at James Ward's home
on Howe Monday at 12:30 p. m.
to extinguish a grass fire. Ward
was burning trash when the fire
got away from him, Chief Or
mond Leggett reported.
About one-half acre behind W.
T. Fulwood Jr’s, home on NC 211
burned before the department ex
tinguished the blaze of unknown
origin at 2 p. m. Monday.
The amount of damage was
not know by Chief Leggett.
THAD STEM
ary Week, who will present prizes
to the winners of the Library
Poster Contest now toeing con
ducted in the schools; and Mayor
E. B. Tomlinson.
„ Out-of-town guest3 and mem
bers of the local govering boards
' will be entertained at a luncheon
at Boiling Spring Lakes County
■ Club prior to the ceremony.
Following the awards cere
mony the public is invited to
open house at the library, where
a display of books purchased with
. the $1,000 award money will be
shown. Tlie Southport Woman’s
Club, Mrs. E. C. Blake pres&stent,
will serve refreshments atjiiet
library. _ if:
The Girl Scouts will serve as
ushers and guides and the glee
club of Southport High School,
under the direction of Mrs. Dal
las Piggott, will present special
music.
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Opening Bids For
Small Boat Basin
Construction bids for the
Southport small boat harbor
will be opened April 9 at 2:30
p. m. at the State Ports Au
thority office in Wilmington.
The bids will cover dredging,
wave and Storm barriers, bulk
heads, piers, catwalks, admin
istration building, paving, drain
age and utilities.
Henry Von Oesen and Asso
ciates of Wilmington designed
the small boat harbor.
Farmers Use To
Facing Hazards
Of Many Kinds
By A. S. KNOWLES, Director
Our farmers are accustomed
to hazards. Gambling, as they do,
with nature each planting season,
they should see little reason to
gamble with something they can
do something about.
Today, in a guessing
game much more serious, any
one of us could surely lose his
life on hazarding where the
bombs will hit in a nuclear war.
Thermonuclear warfare, should
it come, will be aimed at key
military, metropolitan, and in
dustrial targets. But a large
scale attack—and can we im
agine the enemy likely to hit only
one or two if he starts a war?—
will produce radioactive fallout
sufficient to pin down thousands
of the small-town and farm in
habitants within hours.
We know what it would mean
to be exposed to fallout—a lethal
cloud of radioactive dust. With
out proper shelter the casualties
■ would be enormous.
The Office of Civil and Defense
Mobilization has launched a Ru
lil Civil Defense Program. It
Was designed by farmers and ex
i iarnuHn*, • who kmw wtaw;, rT**T<ifiii
: cigar problSihs. Their jobis k>
\;in»rm us and our families how
‘to survive so as to carry on our
traditional role of feeding the na
tion if .it is attacked.
First off, rural people must
know how to build a fallout shel
ter to protect themselves and
their loved ones for as long as
two weeks after a nuclear attack.
This acturally is simple.
Next, they must be prepared
to see that, somehow, their live
stock and stored crops can be
given some protection from fall
out so that they will he avail
able to help feed the surviving
nation. There will be survivors,
no matter how severe any enemy
attack may be.
Rural people of Brunswick
County should not be found want
ing in this preparation against
disaster, any more than they
should be found without wind
breaks for their livestock, farm
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Easter Card Shower
For Southport Man
Eugene Guthrie, Southport
man who is a patient at the U.
S. Public Health Hospital in
New Orleans, La., was the re
cipient of a flood of Easter cards
last week as dozens of his friends
here remembered him on this
holiday.
Guthrie has been a patient at
the hospital for several months.
Officials of the hospital were
greatly impressed by the volume
of cards and other Easter mes
sages. The honoree himself was
very much moved, and was part
icularly grateful for the personal
notes that were made a part of
these greetings.
TIME and TIDE
It was A-Pril 1, 1959. and Governor Luther H. Hodges said
he ' had no knowledge of any immediate possibility for develop
ment in Brunswick. Former Southport Mayor Roy Robinson
filed fear that office against incumbent Mayor E. B. Tomlinson.
Some $2,036 was collected during the March of Dimes drive
in the county. Lt. Col. and Mrs. W. S. Norman moved into the
Garrison house. Nellie B. Craven of Leland and Annie H. Phelps
graduated from East Carolina College.
It was March 31, 1953, and $2,826 was raised during the
March of Dimes drive In the county. It was believed that Mrs.
Hixie Cox, 99, of Bolivia, was the oldest white woman in Bruns
wick.
wick. Dr. Norman Hornstein was elected president of the State
Chess Association.
Concrete mixing equipment valued at $250,000 arrived in
the county for work at Sunny Point. Henderson Rourk of Shal
latte was a student at Culver Military Academy in Indiana.
It was March 30, 1949, and Miss Sammie Lane Mercer of
Bolivia was selected to reprenent Brunswick in the Teen
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Represents Brunswick
HONORED—Miss Leslie Bellows, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie R. Bellows of Southport, will ride
on the Miller-Motte float in the Azalea Festival par
ade in Wilmington Saturday as representative from
Brunswick county. Her classmates selected her for
this honor. . > ...
New Law Affects
. Board Nominees
f^rwainiir i . -
Honored r
CHARLES A. TATE, JR., son
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Tate,
Sr., of Boiling Spring Lakes, is
one of only six ROTC members
at N. C. State College to be de
signated Military Student for the
school year 1963-64. This order
was signed by Col. Robert R.
Summers.. Following his gradu
ation at State College, he plans
to enter the school of Dentistry
at University of North Carolina.
Fire Chief At
Training School
Randolph C. Grant, Chief of
the Sunny Point Fire Depart
ment, attended the 36th annual
Fire Department Instructors Con
ference in Memphis, Tennessee,
March 24-27, for four days of
study and discussion of latest fire
prevention and fire control met
hods.
One of the principal subjects
on this year’s program was dis
cussion of fire control problems
posed by three recent fire dis
aster occuring in an Indiana Col
osseum, an Ohio nursing home,
and a Florida hotel in each of
which there was a high loss in
lives.
Maryland’s Governor Millard
Tawes was the keynote speaker
on this four day program which,
among its 40-odd program items,
plant protection, personal safety
plant porection, personal safety
of firemen in attacking fires, new
firemen’s training procedures,
and new fire fighting methods,
the latter was shown in number
of outdoor demonstrations.
Over 3500 persons from 49
states, Canada, and several for
eign conutries, registered at this
international fire service gather
A new statue governing prima
ries for both the Democratic and
Republican parties for county
commissioner in Brunswick will
be in - effect for the May 30 pri
mary.
The new law, adopted by the
1963 General Assembly, provides
that the five candidates from dif
ferent townships who receive the
highest number of votes will be
nominated.
Five candidates from the six
townships will be nominated in
the Democratic and Republican
primaries, but only one candi
date can be nominated from a
township.
“If there are candidates from
more than five townships, the five
from different townships
receiving the highest number of
votes shall be declared the nom
inees,” the law reads.
If any of the five candidates
from different townships re
ceiving the highest number of
votes cast in his township, the
second high candidate can call
for a second primary.
The complete statue reads as
follows: “In primary elections to
■be held in Brunswick county in
1964 and biennially thereafter,
five candidates shall be selected
as nominees for membership on
the board of county commissions.
Not more than one candidate
shall be deemed to be nominated
from any one township.
“If there are candidates from
more than five townships, those
five candidates from the different
townships receiving the highest
number of votes shall be de
clard the nominees; provided,
however, that should any of the
five candidates from different
townships receiving the highest
number of votes shall not have
received a majority of the votes
cast for candidates in his parti
cular township, then the candi
date from that township receiving
the second highest number of
vote for candidates from that
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Dog Vaccination
Schedule Change
Schedules of rabies vaccination
clinics have been posted in Wac
eamaw and Shallotte townships,
but since the posting of these
schedules there has been a
change in the appointment of the
Rabies Inspector. These clinic
dates will be met by L. F. Jones
instead of by Goley B. Lewis.
Rabies inspectors for the coun
ty have been appointed as fol
lows: Goley B. Lewis—Smith
vine, Town Creek, North West;
L. F. Jones—Shallotte and Wac
camaw; Lindsey Clemmons—
Lockwoods Folly.
According to plans, vaccination
of dogs will start in all of the
townships shortly after April L
County Has 70
Percent Taking
Polio Vaccide
Some 70 percent of the residents
of Brunswick county took the oral
Sabin polio vaccine during the
first round of the “Stop Polio
Sunday” campaign last week, Dr.
A. H. Elliot, county health dir
ector, reported Tuesday.
“All of us are real happy over
Brunswick’s participation irt thd
county-wide Stop Polio Sunday
clinics on April 22,” Dr. Elliot
said. "I want to personally ex
press to the public the health de
partment’s appreciation and
commendation for their partici
pation.”
He said 14,000 Brunswick
county residents popped sugar
cubes loaded with the vaccine
into their mouths at 11 clinics
throughout Brunswick.
Brunswick’s percentage was
seventh in the 28 counties where
the vaccine was given. She top
ped all surrounding conuties, in
cluding New Hanover, Pender,
Bladen, Columbus and Onslow.
The second and third “Stop
Polio Sundays” will be on April
19 and May 17 at the schools in
the county. “We believe if this
effort is carried on through the
next two Sunday clinics, it will
go a long way to stop polio in
Brunswick county,” Dr. Elliott
said.
State figures show that more
then 133,000 people in eastern
North Carolina took the vaccine
on March 22.
wata Schedule :
Spring Meetings!
The Wilmington District Wo- •
man’s Society of Christian Ser- !
vice has planned a special series •
of “spring cleaning” institutes '
throughout April and May.
April 9 at Fifth Avenue Metho- ■
dist Church in Wilmington, 10
a. m., Dr. Thor Hall, a former
■crusade scholar and ..,^goc»tft^,:,^
professor of theology and! preach
ing at Duke University will speak
to WSCS members.
Sub-district meetings have been
scheduled as follow: Bladen
County, Carver’s Creek Church
on May 5 at 10 a. m. In Bruns
wick County, the site has not
been announced yet, , but the ses
sion will be held May 3 at 2:30.
Columbus WSCS members will
hold their sub-district meeting in
Fair Bluff May 7 at 10 a. m.
Bethesda Church will host the
Robeson group on May 12 at 10
a. m. The New Hanover meeting
Church May 14 at 10 a. m.
A special WSCS session will be <
held June 3-4 at Douisburg Col- -
lege with Mrs. Milton Randolph ;
as speaker. S’
Dr. Hall, guest speaker at the ,
April 9 session in Wilmington,
was bom in Norway and has
studied there and in England. He
received the MRE degree from |
Duke Divinity School in 1959 and
the Fh. D degree from Duke
Graduate School of Religion in
1962. He has held several pas
torates in Norway and in North *
Carolina. He has been the recip- J
ient of five scholarships, includ- :i
ing the James B. Duke Fellow- |
ship in 1961-62.
He is a former editor of a
monthly Methodist youth maga-1
zine in Oslo, Norway and has ;
contributed generously to other '
publications in his native coun
try. He has several religious ’
songs on records and in print. j
Dr. Hall is married to a na-|
tive Norwegian, the former Gerd
Hellstrom of Skien, Norway and %
they have a son, Jan Tore bom
in 1951.
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, April 2,
11:10 A. M. 5:32 A. M.
11:42 P. M. 5:31 P. M.
Friday, April 3,
11:54 A.M. 6:17 A.M.
6:16 P. M.
Saturday, April 4,
0:29 A. M. 7:10 A. M.
12:44 P. M. 7:09 P. M.
Sunday, April 5,
1:23 A. M. 8:08 A. M.
1:42 P. M. 8:10 P. M;.
Monday, April 6
2:22 A. M. 9:07 A. M.
2:43 P. M. 9:14 P. M.
Tuesday, April 7,
3:21 A. M. 10:03 A. M.
3:42 P. M. 10:15 P. M.
Wednesday, April 8,
4:18 A. M. 10:56 A. M.
4:39 P. M. 11:11 P. M.