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The Pilot Covers Brunswick County Volume No. 23 No. 41 THE STATE PORT PILOT 8-Pages Today A Good Newspaper In A Good Community SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1964 Most of the News All The Time 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Loading Marines OUTLOADING—Sunny Point is teeming with activity this week as Marines were outloaded aboard ' -r Navy ships to embark for joint maneuvers that are scheduled to start next week. There has been a lot of spectacular river traffic in connection with the exercises. ..... .; Sunny Point Terminal Scene Of Embarkation sunny r-omt Army xermmai i at Southport is a scene of busy activity this week as members of the U. S. Marine Corps outload aboard Navy ships for joint maneuvers scheduled for next week. Ten of the Attack Transports (APA) and Attack Cargo ships (AKA) are scheduled to be out loaded at Sunny Point Army Ter minal during the period April 4-9. Leathernecks from the 2nd Ma rine Division and its supporting units will storm Onslow (Beach Sunday as part of a gigantic • combined forces operation. Quick Kick V. an exercise in volving major units of the U. S. Atlantic Command, will be held April 15. Lt. Gen. James P. Berkeley, CGPMPlant with head ' quarters in Norfolk, Va., will head the landing force phase of Quick Kick. In addition to the Marine Corps, . units from the Army, Navy and Air Force will participate in the mammoth operation. Among the highlights of Quick Kick V. will be a huge amphib ■:i‘. ious landing by elements of the 2nd Divison. During the exercise other infantry units from the Di vision will put the Marine Corps’ (Continued on Page 4) [ MrW ** Of lNEW8j MINISTERS TO MEET The Brunswick County Minis terial Association will meet at 10 a. m. April 13 at Southport Presbyterian Church. CURRICULUM FAIR A curriculum fair will be pre sented at Southport High School Thursday, April 16 at 7:30 o’clock and parents and friends of the school are invited to at tend. Exhibits will include work from each room in school. NCEA SPEAKErT R. B. Hellams of Clinton, South w Carolina, will deliver the main address at the Brunswick Coun ty NOEA banquet to be held at the Edd Tide restaurant at Hold er en Beach April 22, according to >: President L. A. Bruton, princi | pal at Waccamaw* '■■S'*:., Progress Made In Red Cross Drive , With a total population of 2,900 the Southport area has already raised $804 during the current Red Cross drive in 'Brunswick county, Area Chairman A1 Martin proudly reported Tuesday after a preliminary meeting Monday night. “This is the largest amount of money that has ever been raised in a fund campaign in the South port area,” Chairman Martin •said. “Without a doubt, it indi cates the interest of the Southport people in keeping the Red Cross in Brunswick county.” Campaign Consultant Walter Boyd of Myrtle Beach said only a few reports had been received from other parts of Brunswick county. “If the rest of the coun ty responds as generously as Southport, there can be no ques tion that the Red Cross will sur vive and grow in Brunswick county,” he declared upon hear ing the Southport report. A meeting, called by Chairman Martin, was held in the Southport Public Library Monday night to determine the progress being made on the drive in the South port area. The preliminary re port revealed that $804 has already been collected, with sev eral institutions and collectors yet to be heard from. The break-down of the South port area collections include Two Candidates In Announcement Two more candidates for pub lic office have made their an nouncement this week. Delmas E. Babson, Ash far mer and businessman, has en tered the race for member of the Board of Education representing the Waccamaw School District. Under the terms of the special act of tlje last session of the North Carolina General Assem bly, this will be a final election, but will be held at the time of ' the May Primary. Continued On Paco 4 Sou thport residential area, $141.46; Long Beach, $121; spec ial gilts, $86; professional men and clubs, $78; Sunny Point. $48.76; Southport businesses $45; 'BCT High School, $38; Southport High School, $25; . county em ployees $23; city employees, $11.75; Post Office employees, $7; and Fort Caswell, $5. Reports have not been received from Dosher Memorial Hospital and the Coast Guard, as well as from several collectors. Negro Chairman James W. Smith said the Red Cross raised $66.75 from the benefit basket ball games played last Wednes day night. “Our committee has Continued On Page 4 Ship Sinks Tug At Sunny Point A 65-foot U. S. Army tugboat submerged some 25-feet from the wharf at Sunny Point Army Ter minal Sunday morning but the five-man crew escaped with only minor injuries. The tug turned over and sank about 11:20 o’clock while pushing a large U. S. Navy ship from the Sunny Point Dock, Says Public Information Officer Les lie Bellows. Navy and Marine Corps maneuvers were in prog- • ress at the time of the accident. The 450-foot Naval ship was leaving, the extreme southern end of the south wharf when the accident occurred. The exact cause of the sinking was not known, but it is believed the tug was pulled under by suction from the ship’s propellers, observers report. The five man crew, all from Southport, dove off the tug and escaped with only slight injuries. They were taken to Dosher Me morial Hospital for treatment for bruises and exposure. Military personnel and Naval officials are currently investi gating the incident. Plans call for trying to salvage the tug which completely submerged in the Cape Fear Rivera Brunswick LAr Hopes To Enlist Additional Men The Brunswick County Squad ron of the Civil Air Patrol is accepting applications for mem bership, according to Captain Henry Carter of Shallotte and 1st Lt. Woodrow Formy-Duval, commanding officer of the local unit, who state that the squadron is espicially interested in build ing up it’s cadet program. At present there are 17 senior members of the unit and 15 members in the cadet program. In order to qualify for the cadet program a youth must be be tween the ages of thirteen and one- half and eighteen years of age, and have passing grades in school. Civil Air Patrol’s mission is to “employ voluntarily its resour ces of manpower and equipment in search and rescue ... to ful fill its role of readiness to meet local and national emergencies . . . to motivate the youth of America to the highest ideals of Continued On Page Four Honoring Library Award Ceremony Here Sunday Celebration of National Li brary Week in Brunswick County will be highlighted by the bestow ing of the Book-Of-The-Month $1,000 State Library award to the Southport Public Library Sunday afternoon. The award, given in memory of Dorothy Canfield Fisher to one deserving small community li brary in each state upon the rec ommendation of the American Li brary Association, will be pre sented at 3 o’clock Sunday dur ing elaborate ceremonies. A well known North Carolina author and chairman of the State Library Board, Thad Stem, Jr., of Oxford, Will deliver the main address Sunday. Incidentally, Stem’s latest book, “Light and Rest” will be published that day. John V. Hunter, m, a Raleigh attorney who is chairman of the Governor’s Commission on Li brary Resources, will introduce Stem. Dignitaries in the field of Li brary science from throughout North Carolina will appear on the program. The guests include Rep. Alton Lennon, who will speak on the national aspect of library services; Neal Austin of High Point, Executive Director of Na tional Library Week in N. C.; Mrs. Elizabeth Hughey, State Li brarian, who will make the pre sentation; Paul S. Ballance, Di rector of Libraries in Winston Salem and a member of the State Library Board: Miss Mar garet Kalp, president of the N. C. Library Association; Miss Cora Paul Bomar, supervisor of Libraries for the Dept, of Public Instruction; and Jerrold Ome, University of North Carolina Li brarian and member of the State Library Board. Chairman Harold Aldridge of the Southport Library Board will accept the award while Rev. Ar thur Pfiillips, Senator Ray Wal ton, William N. Williams, Brnns wick.Oounty chairman of Library Weekvwhq will "ifi'esent prizes to the winner of the Library Poster Contest and Mayor E. B. Tomlin son will take part ik the cere monies. ■ Out-of-town guests and mem bers of the local govering boards will be entertained at a luncheon at Boiling Spring Lakes County Club prior to the ceremony. AH motels in Southport and Long Beach have donated rooms for the use of out-of-town digni taries. The Holiday, Riverside and Southport in Southport and the Ocean Crest, Lorraine, Coast al, Yaupon and Murphy Ocean Front at the beaches are coop erating in furnishing rooms free of charge. Following the awards cere mony the public will be invited to an open house at the library, where a display of books pur chased with the $1,000 award money will be shown. The South port Woman’s Club, Mrs. E. C. Blake president, will serve re freshments at the library. The Girl Scouts will serve as ushers and guides and the glee club of Southport High School, under the direction of Mrs. Dal las Figgott, will present special music. The Live Oak Garden Club 'will be in charge of decorations at the school, the Southport Garden Club at the library, and the Woodbine Garden Club is deco rating the club house at Boiling Spring Lakes for the luncheon. Mrs. Jaimes M. Harper, Jr., is chairman of the Awards Day Planning Committee. Other com mittee members include Mrs. M. H. Rourk C. D. Pickerrell, and Continued On Page Four TIME and TIDE It was April 8, 1959, and John G. Long was reappointed superintendent of schools by the Board of Education. Ballots were mailed out for the municipal elections at Yaupon Beach and Long Beach. Miss Pat Hammond and Joe Long, both of Waccamaw, were appointed to serve as marshals aA the state Beta Club con vention in Asheville. John H. Stevenson of Shallotte was elected commander of the County Barracks 1744, World War I Veterans. It was April 7, 1954, and Russian-born Ben Gold, president of the Fur and Leather Workers Union, who attempted to organize Brunswick fishermen several years before, was con victed in federal court of falsely denying he was a Communist party member. Mrs. Eleanor Potter was re-elected president of the South port PTA. W. J. McLamb announced he was a candidate for re-election as Recorder’s court judge. Miss Janice Swan was selected as an attendant to the May Queen at Spartenburg Junior College. It was April 16, 1949, and Captain Basil Watts had landed Continued On Pag® Four Library Week Posters WINNERS—William N. Williams, left, and Miss Gertrude Loughlin, right, are ; shown here with winning entries in the poster contest held in Brunswick county -. in observance of National Library Week. (Staff Photo by Allen). ,'r Successful Event Heritage Tea Is Held Here ; Antique articles of interest, 3 ranging from mustache cups to cannon balls, from fragile china to copper kettles, from faded family portraits to pieces sculp tured by Sir Jacob Epstein—all these helped set the stage for the Heritage Tea held Sunday aftemodn in the Community Building at Southport. Sponsors of the event were the Southport Woman’s Club and the Southport Junior Woman’s Club, whose members were dressed in a variety of period costumes. Participants came from near and far, as did visitors to this un usual exhibit of reminders of life in other years. During the afternoon tea was served and a program of mus ical numbers was presented by the Glee Club of Southport High School under the direction of Mrs. Dallas Pigott. The Minuet was danced by students from the school, and added up to a de lightful afternoon for those who attended. Mrs. Ruth Hood was in charge of the dancers. Children who were there were delighted to see the old Bisque doll displayed by Mr. Jan Eaton, and the hand-carvil animals, two of each, in the ark exhibited by Miss May Phelps which belonged to her grandfather. And young men of all ages were fascinated with the displays of firearms and swords. Outstanding was a rifle exhitbited by Police Chief Her man Strong and pistols, powder horns and a bullet mold dis played by Mrs. Lee Caster. Beautiful glassware and china was gathered from all parts of town. One set, a handblown pit cher and bowl, the property of Mayor and Mrs. E. B. Tomlinson showed not a -scratch though the pitcher was found following Hur ricane Hazel on a Yaupon tree and the bowl was disinterred from the sand. Mrs. Wilmer Kemper showed a copper luster pitcher which was brought here in 1864 aboard a blockade runner, and John J. Swain exhibited a Victorian lamp on a marble-top table. Busts by Sir Jacob Epst ein were shown by his daughter, Mrs. Peggie Lewis. Mrs. C. D. Pickerrell displayed a brass ship lamp which when hung on the wall of a ship, was not bothered by the tossing of the waves because though it tilted many ways it remained level. Mrs. John Erikson exhi bited a Norwegian brass tea kettle among other interesting things, and Mrs. M. M. Hood showed a pewter liquor pitcher. A vase belonging to Mrs. E. B. Brunson is 230 years old and is fashioned in the shape of a hand holding a shell. A pewter syrup pitcher was William Powell’s ad dition to the show and many silver table items were show, among them a vinegar cruet by Mrs. G. E. Hubbard, a silver sugar and spoon holder by the W. L. Wiggs of Long Beach, and a silver candelabra from Hol land by Mrs. Allen Graham. Mrs. Walter Lewis showed bone-handled silver pieces and mustache cups were exhibited Continued on Page Two _ Bolivia Student State Candidate A junior at 'Bolivia High SoJioJa , has been nominated for president of the state Beta Clubs and be comes the first student from Brunswick county ever to run for a state office in the honor group. Morry Watkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Morrison Watkins, is one of the three candidates from throughout the state running for .the presidency of the state or ganization. The three students will be voted on at the state ■convention in Raleigh Friday and Saturday. Watkins’ nomination has been highly endorsed by Bolivia Prin ciapl Thomas Davis. “I vigorous ly recommend Morry for the po sition of president of the state Beta clubs,” he said. “He is by far the best qualified student in the state for the office.” Watkins has been an active member of the Bolivia Beta Club for two years. He is serving as the reporter for the group this year. He has Been a member of the FFA for three years and has served as treasurer and president. He is the treasurer of the Science club, a group he has been a member of for three years. He has served two terms as president and one as vice-presi dent of his classes at Bolivia. Beside his school activities, Watkins still has time to parti cipate in varsity sports at the Brunswick county school. He is an end of the football team and made all-conference his fresh man years. Last year, he was elected co-captain of the team. He has also been a member of the basketball and baseball teams for three years, being se lected all-conference each year. Railroad Day Is Being Planned Sunny Point Army Terminal will be host for the Annual Cub Scout Railroad Day which will be held at Hie terminal on Sat urday commencing at 9:30 a. mi. Cub Scouts desiring to partici pate in this event are requested to report at the Terminal Main Gate not later than 9 a. m. on that date. It is recommended that the Cubs be warmly dressed, and that each Cub Scout bring a lunch. Pack officials, Den Mothers, Den Chiefs, and parents are in vited to participate in this pro gram, which will consist of a train ride from Sunny Point to Leland and return. Terminal per sonnel have volunteered their ser vices for this event. Other Cub Scout Packs in the area may participate by calling GD 7-6215 on or before April 10. MORRY WATKINS "" i j-'i He is an active member * of the Zion Methodist Church at Winnabow. jj '• Watkins will have the support of some 12 delegates from Bolivia and 19 from Leland . who will i travel together to the state con- ‘ vention in Raleigh abroad the Le- - land Activity Bus. Lynda Benton and Freddie > Bo,.„on from Leland and Dianne i Willetts and Barbara Knowles from Bolivia will serve as mar shals at the state meeting. The two delegations will be ac companied to Raleigh by Mrs. Lila Rose Hogg, Bolivia Beta Club advisor, Leland Principal Rockfellow Venters and Mrs. Hilda Council, Leland Beta Club Continued On Page 1 Tide Table Following Is the tide table lor 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 9, 5:10 A. M. 11:45 A. M. 5:31P.M. 12:04 P.M. Friday, April 10, 5:59 A.M. 12:31A.M. 1:21 P. M. Saturday, April 11, 6:49 A. M. 0:54 A. M. 7:10 P.M. 1:16 P.M. Sunday, April 13 ’:37 A. M. 1:43 A. M. 7:59 P.M. 2:01P.M. Monday, April 13, 8:24 A. M. 2:32 A. M. 8:48 P. M. 2:48 P. M. Tuesday, April 14, 9:14 A. M. 3:22 A. M. 9:38 P.M. 3:35 P.M. Wednesday, April 15, 10:06 A.M. 4:13 A.M. 10:32 P. M. 4:24 P. M.
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