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Volume No. 23
No. 43
SOUTHPORT, K. C WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1964
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Curriculum Day Display
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CUTOUTS—Nope. These are not first grade students. They are cardboard
cutouts the first graders made and left seated at their desks for the Curriculum,
Day visitors to see on their visit to Southport High School Thursday night. Mrs.
W. R. Lingle, the teacher, is shown in the background. (Staff Photo by Allen)
Preyer Forces
Name Southport
Man Chairman
Kirby Sullivan, Southport at
torney, will head up Richardson
Preyer’s campaign for Governor
in Brunswick County. The an
nouncements was made this
week toy Preyer's Raleigh Head
quarters.
A native of Brunswick County,
Sullivan is a graduate of Leland
i-r- High School. He- received- both-*
his AB and law degree from the
University of North Carolina,
and now practices law in South
port.
He is a veteran of the U. S.
Army, having served two years
with the second infantry in
Korea.
Sullivan has been active in
many phases of community life.
He served as president of the
Junior Chamber of Commerce in
Southport during its first year
when it won the award for the
Outstanding First Year Yaycee
Club in North Carolina. He later
served as a State Jaycee vice
president.
Sullivan is a former chairman
of the Brunswick County Heart
Fund. He has also served as pre
sident of the Brunswick County
Historical Society.
Sullivan is a member of the
Southport Baptist Church where
he is a superintendent of the
Sunday School and a member of
the board of deacons.
Sullivan served in the General
Assembly during the 1955 term
of the legislature.
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NEWSJ
OUT OF HOSPITAL
if Mrs. Jack Hickman was able
to leave Dosher Memorial Hos
pital this week after being a
patient for two weeks while
being treated for a leg injury.
YOUNG DEMOCRATS
The -Brunswick County Young
Democratic Club will meet at
7:30 p. m. Friday night at Bo
livia high school for the purpose
of electing new officers, says
President Mercer Johnson.
Every county Democrat is urged
to attend.
NAME CONTEST
The Southport Junior Woman’s
Club is sponsoring a contest to
select a name for the cookbook
they are publishing. All entries
must be in by May 5 and may be
mailed to P. O. Box 147, South
port. Two cookbooks will be aw
arded the winner.
BENEFIT BARBECUE
The Leland Volunteer Fire De
partment will serve a benefit
barbecue Saturday from 11 a. m.
to 8 p. m. Proceeds will help buy
uniforms for the Leland Little
League baseball team.
LANDSCAPING clinic
John Harris and George
Hughes of the Extension Hort
icultural Service will conduct a
Landscaping Clinic at the ex
tension building at Supply Fri
day at 8 p. m. Everyone is in
Jrited4
Candidates File
For All Offices
Register of Deeds Durwood
Clark was the only major office
holder to escape without primary
opposition as some 50 Democrats
and Republicans filed for the pri
mary and general election this
year, says Board of Elections
Chairman H. Foster Mintz of Bo
livia.
In the Democratic primary, at
for each of the major offices, ex
cept for Register of Deeds where
Clark, the incumbent, is unop
posed. The contest with the most
candidates is for the office of
judge of recorder’s court where
four men are running.
Because only one Republican
has filed for each of the 10 ma
jor offices in the county, no GOP
primary will be needed for coun
ty offices.
Offices and candidates in the
May 30 Democratic primary in
clude: Representative, Incumbent
Odell Williamson and W. J. Mc
I^amb;
Judge of Recorder’s court,
Clinton Bellamy, Roney Cheers,
Mercer Johnson and Cortez
Ward.
County commissioners: North
west, Incumbent Dillon L. Ganey,
Homer B. Chadwick and George
T. Rourk; Town Creek, Incum
bent R. L. Rabon and George H.
Lanier, Jr.; Smithville, Incum
bent F. Herbert Swain and Thom
as S. Bowmer; Lockwood Folly,
Incumbent Ira Chadwick, Jesse
A. Bryant and Clemit Holden;
'Shallotte, Incumbent D. Bert
Frink and William Hewett; and
Waccamaw, Parley P. Formy
Duval.
Candidates for the state senate
include Incumbent Carl W.
Meares and Sankey W. Robin
son, both of Columbus county.
No one filed from Brunswick or
Bladen, the other two counties in
the district.
Republican candidates for the
major offices include A. Lindburg
King, representative; Mrs. Betty
Warren, Register of Deeds; D.
Carl Andrews, Recorder’s judge,
and commissioners, Thomas S.
Gillis, Northwest, James W. Huf
ham, Town Creek, Claude Har
relson, Smithville, Martin, Niel
sen, Lockwood Folly, and Rudaw
Russ, Shallotte.
In a non-partisan election,
Board of Education candidates
include Incumbent Ernest M. Mc
Gee, Jr., and James Thompson,
of Northwest and Delmas E. Bab
son and Odell Jenrette of Wac
camaw.
The only two candidates for
justices of the peace are D. A.
Long and Dave Morris, both
Democrats of Northwest town
ship.
Democrats in the race for con
stable include F. O. Williams,
George Britt, Johnie Lee Lewis,
Golden Thorton and W. H. Rob
bins. all of Northwest; Robert
L. Yarborough and E. G. Mintz,
both of Town Creek; James S.
Davis of Smithville; Ernest Hew
ett, Thomas L. Long, Luke Ful
ford, and Lessie L. Lyles; all of
Lockwood Folly; and A. D. Me
Lamb and H. B. Usher, both of
Shallotte.
The only two Republicans run
ning for constable are Robert
Clemmons of Lockwood Folly
and Nelson Babson of Wacca
Continued On Page Four
Unopposed
DURWOOD CLARK
Planning Board
For Long Beach
The Long Beach City Commis
sion voted at their April meeting
to rezone a strip of property near
the Long Beach Pier for commer
cial use. The action was taken to
allow Fayetteville businessman
Harvey Ratcliff to build a Camp
Trailer site.
Ratcliff, also the owner of the
1,040 Long Beach Pier, plans to
construct a modem camp trailer
facility with all necessary sani
tary and health appurtenances.
The Confmission also voted an
exception to the town zoning code
which specifically outlaws camp
trailer parks in business areas.
Another major action of the
Board was the appointment of a
Planning and Zoning Commission
to work with state community
planers in laying out future
growth of the town. Named to
Continued On Page 4
Jury List For
Superior Court
Some 36 county residents have
been selected for jury duty during
the May term of Brunswick Su
perior Court which convenes May
11 for trial of criminal cases.
Citizens named by the board of
county commissioners Monday in
clude :
Grimes Willetts, James Rich
and Otha Bell, all of Winnabow;
Norman Grissett, L. C. Rourk,
R. F. Rogers, Raleigh Floyd, Jr.
Odell Hardee, James Edwards
and Hal J. Martin, all of Shal
lotte.
Albert Clemmons, Bert Edward
Robinson, Robert Clemmons, Joe
B. Kirby, J. Herbert Evans, C. C.
McCall and L. Edgar Holden, all
of Supply; Charlie E. Garst,
Homer Mintz, L. C. Millioner,
William K. Smith, Edward Cole
man Mize and Kenneth Thomp
Continued on Page 4)
Spelling Bees In
County Schools
To Find Champ
Spelling bees will be held in
Brunswick county Thursday, one
in the morning at BCT and the
other in the afternoon at Bolivia.
The contest at BCT will be
gin at 10 a. m. and will ’feature
the school winners from the Ne
gro schools of the county. Mrs.
Philip King will serve as the pro
nouncer while Miss Gertrude
Loughlin, William N. Williams
and James M. Harper, Jr., will
be judges.
The Bolivia bee, which will be
gin at 1:30 p. m., has the winners
at the white schools competing.
Miss Loughlin is the only judge
who has been selected thus far.
The students in the county
schools have been spelling on the
classroom, grade and school level
for the past few weeks. The
school winners will be featured,
at the county bee. The white and
Negro county winners from
Brunswick, along with the other
county champs, will advance to
the Regional Bee in Wilmington
May 2.
• The winner of the regional
event will represent SENCland in
the National Spelling Bee in
Washington, D. C.,v during the
first week of June.
This is the ninth year the Star
News newspapers in Wilmington
has sponsored the spelling bees
in SENCland.
Participate In
ated in the record-shatering polio
Sunday program this past week
when 13,468 took the Sabin
oral vaccine. This was an increase
of 2,269 over the first Sunday,
Included in the list of credits
should be Harold Aldridge and
David Buckner, employees of the
Brunswick ' County Hea|tly De
s^)artment,--wJao., were 386^
of the central polio supply depot.;
Listed below are other persons
who previously had not been
credited for their volunteer work
in this program:
B. C. T.: Douglas Bogie, Mrs. '
Alberta McLeod, Mrs. Alice 5
Price, Mrs. Fred Burdette, Mrs.
Channie Ford, Jessie Francis,
Mrs. Elizabeth Young, Mrs. An
nie Francis, Mrs. Irene Hankins.
Southport High School: Mar
tha Harrelson, George Savage,
Dianne Warth, Bill Furpless,
Ileene Jones, Robert Clevenger,
Kathy Carson, Sandy Potter,
Lynn Ruark, Val Swain, Carolyn
Minton, Darrell Wilmoth, Bar
bara Melton, Nancy Lee, Ethel
Lewis, Robin Green, Brenda Jor
dan, Kenneth Phelps.
Union High School: F. G. Me- .
Conneaughey, Mrs Carolyn Mar
lowe, Mrs. M. K. Dubar, Mrs.
Mary Lee Todd, Mrs. O. W. Mor
gan, P. Edward Livingston, Miss
Virginia McMillian, Mrs. M. W.
Hickman, Kathell Stanley, Miss
Snowree Gause.
Bolivia High School: Dianne
Willetts, Barbara Knowles, Jane
Bogie, Carolyn Seagraves, Win
fred Lesh, Jr. Morry Watkins,
Elizabeth Wescott, Carltoh Sel
lers.
Piney Grove School: Mrs. Wil
lie Mae Evans, Mrs. Irene John
son, Mrs. Rosa Lee Johnson,
Mrs. Mabel Evans, Mrs. Ver
ona Mitchell, Mrs. Gerrand Ran
dolph, Mrs. Noncie Johnson, Mrs.
Vagie Smith, Miss Gertrude Wil
liams, Mrs. Katherine Randolph
Mrs. Evelena Randolph, Mrs. Pat
tie Belle Evans..
Continued On Page Four
A long list of persons particip
Republican Speaker
TRIO—Robert L. Gavin, candidate for the Republican nomination for gover
nor, is shown here with J. T. Clemmons, left, and H. L. Willetts, right, at the
party fund-raising rally Firday night at Calabash. (Staff Photo by Allen)
Calabash Supper
| Republicans Hear Gavin >
Coast Guard
Cracks Down
On Inspection
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The Coast Guard Mobile Boat-d
ing team Number 2 will conduct
motorboat boarding duties in the
Cape Pear river from Carolina
Beach to' Little River from Thurs
day until Monday, according to
Chief Norwood Gaskill, officer in
charge of the operation.
“All boatmen are advised and
urged to have the required equip
ment aboard at all time when
ope rating, their boats,’’ Chief Gas
kill said. “The Coast Guard is not
out to issue citations, but if all
equipment is not aboard, cita
tions, will be issued accord
ingly.
“With the advent of the boat
ing season now getting under a
full head of steam, we may do
well to pause a moment to con
sider the sometimes forgotten
word “Safety,” he continued.
“There is every evidence that
more and more people will make
use of thg waterways in the
months ahead. There is every
evidence that with increased use
of pleasure- boating, there will be
an increased need for motorboat
safety.”
“Too many people today
are shoving off for a spin in their
powerboats with only the sketch
iest of information concerning
the proper operation of a motor
boat, the Rules of the Road,
overloading, lights, safety equip
ment, effects of the weather,
and so on. Equipping the motor
boat in accordance with Feder
al and State regulations is by no
means the boatman’s final
duty. He is responsible for its
safe operation.”
Continued On Page Four
TIME and TIDE
It was April 22, 1959, and G. V. Woolfender, city councilor
of Southport, England, presented a book on Winston Churchill
ito the Southport (N. O.) Public Library. Robert Tharp announc
ed he was a candidate for mayor of Southport.
Two members of the Amish faith had spent the past week
in the county looking at land for a proposed colony in Bruns
wick. Doug Watts of Southport was co-captain of the East
Carolina baseball team. Don Cyphers threw a no-hitter at Ice
land for Bolivia.
It was April 21, 1954, and E. V. Leonard filed and then
with drew at the last minute in the race for sheriff leaving
seven men running for the office. Captain Hulan Watts and
Basil Watts had landed 74 large king mackerel Tuesday. C. II.
Caison was elected president of the Shallotte PTA.
E. J. Prevatte was named county campaign manager for
W. Kerr Scott’s senatorial campaign. Rails were being put in
for the Sunny Point Railroad. A new stop light was in operat
ion in the town of Shallotte.
It was April 20, 1949, and Waban Thomas of Shallotte won
the light heavyweight championship of the SENC boxing tourna
ment held in Wilmington. The Southport prowler struck again
Continued On Page Four
Democrat Women
Meet At Supply
The election of new officers
with Mrs. Ruth McBride of Ash
^l^^^i^tj^mighteda
meeting of the Bruns wick Cotfnry
Democratic Woman’s Club at the
Agriculture Building in Supply
Tuesday night.
The new officers, all unanim
ously elected, include Mrs. Mc
Bride, president, Mrs. Pat Mer
cer of Bolivia, vice-president,
Mrs. Virginia Williamson of Shal
lotte, secretary, and Mrs. Jean
Fullwood of Southport, publicity
chairman.
The next meeting of the club
will be held May 21 at 8 p. m.
in Supply.
Precincts Will
Name Officials
Democratic precinct meetings
will be held at each county voting
unit Saturday to establish an or
ganization, select delegates to the
county convention and conduct
general business, according to
•Party Chairman Kirby Sullivan.
1 The chairman of each county
precinct will set-up the time and
place for his precinct to meet
Saturday. “The polling place is
recommended if feasible,” Chair
man Sullivan stated.
Southport No. 1 will meet at the
court house at noon while South
port No. 2 will be at the Robert
Ruark home on the southwest
comer of Nash and Lord streets
at 7:30 p. m. Oak Island precinct
will meet at the office of the Lor
raine Motel at 3 p. m. The pre
cinct at Leland will meet at the
school at 6:30 p. m.
Chairman Sullivan said most of
the other precincts in the county
■will meet at the polling place.
During the meetings, precinct
committees consisting of at least
two men and two women on the
five person group will be elected.
The committee will select a chair
Continued On Page Four
Wilmington Man
To Preach Here
This Sunday for the morning
worship service at the Southport
Baptist Church Claude O’Shields
of Wilmington will be the guest
speaker.
The Rev. Mark Owens, pastor
of the Southport Church, is away
at a revival service at the Mc
Donald Baptist Church in Rock
ingham.
O’Shields is a well-known layman
in this area and throughout the
state. He is now serving as Mod
erator of the Wilmington Bap
tist Association. He also serves in
official capacity in the North
Carolina Baptist State Conven
tion and also in the Southern
Baptist Convention. He is a
Continued On Page A
Gubernatorial candidate Rob
ert L. Gavin charged Friday
night that the state administra
tion has faded to provide the
necessary leadership for Bruns
wick to develop. His attack was
made at a county Republican
fund raising dinner and rally at
Calabash.
“'If you fine a governor who
;gives. ,.ope Brunswick
county, you will see some im
portant changes made,” Gavin
told some 110 persons jammed
into the restaurant for the rally.
“If you are satisfied with what
you have got now, just sit back
and let the Democratic party win
again in November,” he de
clared.
Gavin said he had visited
Brunswick county many times in
the past. He has fished in Lock
wood Folly Inlet and at South
port. Last summer the Gavin
family vacationed at Ocean Isle
Beach. He said he had eaten at
Calabash on numerous occa
sions.
From his many visits to the
county, he observed that “Bruns
wick has some of the finest soil,
rivers, beaches and natural re
sources in the state. If you don’t
do something about it, it is your
own fault,” he declared.
“People must show that they
are free and independent if they
are to receive help from Ra
leigh,” he stated.
“I have taken it into my heart
and mind to see that Brunswick
county goes Republican in 1964,”
he said. “If I am nominated, and
I feel certain that I will be, I
plan to come back to Brunswick
county in the fall to do what I
can for the Republican ticket.”
Gavin is the first of the three
announced candidates seeking the
Republican nomination for gover
nor to visit Brunswick county.
Donald Badgley and Charles
Strong, both of Greensboro, the
other two candidates, have not
been here yet.
Before Gavin’s talk, County
Chairman H. L. Willetts of Boliv
ia introduced the candidates on
the Republican ticket in the fall.
Commissioner candidates include
Thomas L. Gillis, Northwest;
James Hufham, Town Creek;
Claude Harrelson, Smithville;
Martin Nielsn, Lockwood Folly
and Rudolph A. Russ of Shallotte.
Carl Andrews is the candidate
for judge of Recorder’s Court
while Mrs. Betty Warren is run
ning for Register of Deeds and
Lindburg King for representa
tive.
“There is interest as never be
fore in the Republican party in
Brunswick county,” Chairman
Willetts declared. “If the interest
continues, we will have represen
tation in the court house at South
port after the election.”
Gavin, who received 46 per
cent of the vote in the governors
race in 1960, said he was in
Brunswick seeking Republican
votes in the May 30 primary. “I
am asking for your vote in the
primary because I want to be
governor and knew the Republican
candidate will win,” he declared.
Gavin said one of his oppon
ents was charging he was the
hand-picked candidate of the state
organization. “Yes, I was hand
Continued On Page A
Career Day At
Union School
Helps Students
Career Day was held at Union
Friday, in cooperation with Lin
coln High and Brunswick County
Training School. This year’s
theme was “The Need and the
Challenge”.
At 10 a. m., Mrs. I. B. Hankins,
Guidance Counselor of Brunswick
County, presided over a pro
gram that was held in the gym
torium. A. C. Caviness, principal
of BCT, gave the invocation, and
Covia L. Stanley, preisdent of th
Union Student Council gave a
welcome address.
Special music was furnished by
the Union Glee Club, under di
rector F. G. McConneaughey.
The chorus and “This Is My
Country” followed by “When
April Comes” by the senior en
semble.
J. Clemmons, principal of Lin
coln High School, introduced A.
W. Taylor, superintendent of
Brunswick County Schools, who
delivered an inspirational ad
dress. He compared the student’s
life to a loaf of bread. He
stated that every child in school
should strive to obtain the fol
lowing: (1) Cover—Get firm edu*
(23 Dough—Learn the technique
of getting along with others plus
some means of making a liveli
hood—money; (3) Slices—Secure
a piece of everything that will
contribute to education and cul
ture, be versatile; (4) Crust—
Try hard to get the knowledge
necessary in holding together his
educational career so that he
might be a success in tomorrow’s
world. “If a student has good
cover, dough, slices and crust, he
is bound to be a success,” he
concluded.
Principal Jonathan Hankins in
troduced the consultants: Techni
cal trades, R. L. Porter and M.
J. McLeod; Library Science, Mrs.
Susan T. King; Teaching, Mrs.
Estelle Swain; Beauty Culture:
Beautician, Miss Gloria Hankins,
Cosmetalogy, Miss Ester Mitch
ell; Bricklaying, H. Orie Gore;
. U. S. Army, Master Sergeant
''Richard' F. Handf’ U. 'Sv Navyv‘*®»
C. E. Bowden, and H. J. York;
Auto Mechanics, Cornelius G.
Stanley; apd Health Careers,
Mrs. Julian Sessoms.
The students assembled in the
various discussion groups of their
interest. Later, the consultants
set up individual conferences
which terminated the Career Day
activities.
Southport Man
Attends Meeting
Lt. Col. William O. Beasley,
executive director of the North
Carolina Society for the Preven
tion of Blindness, will attend the
1964 Sight-Saving Conference of
the National Society for the Pre
vention of Blindness, Inc., to b«
held from May 6-8 at the Deau
ville Hotel at Miami Beach.
Director Beasley, who is from
Caswell Beach, will also partici
pate in a three day pre-confer
ence in-service training program
for personnel of the National
Society and its state affiliates
from May 2-4 at the Deauville.
Organizational development, age
ncy administration, and program
activities and development will
be reviewed at the pre-conference
sessions.
More than 300 volunteers and
professional workers in the field
of preventing blindness are ex
pected to attend the NSPB con
ference. Theme of the 1964 meet
Continued On Page Four
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 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.
i:21 P. M.
Saturday, April 11,
6:49 A.M. 0:54 A.M.
7:10 P. M. 1:16 P. M.
Sunday, April 12
’:37 A. M. 1:43 A. M.
7:59 P. M. 2:01 P. 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.