The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
Volume No. 23 No. 44
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10-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1964 5c A COPY
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Book Club Anniversary
BIRTHDAY—-These are members of the Round Table Book Club of South
port on the occasion of their 11th anniversary. Left to right, front, are Mrs. John
Swain, Mrs. Reece Swan, Mrs. Susie Carson, Mrs. Albert Bogie, Mrs. Bill Faulk,
Jr., and Mrs. Walter Aldridge. Back row are Mrs. A. E. Huntley, Mrs. Mark
Owens and Mrs. Philip King. Mrs. E. C. Blake was not in the picture.
Reject Bids
Agreement On Boat Harbor
The State Ports Authority >
asked for new bids on the pro
posed Southport Small Boat Har
bor and approved an agreement
governing the operation of the
facility at a meeting in Elizabeth
City Saturday.
On Tuesday Governor Terry
Sanford and the Council of State
took similar action.
Executive Director James W.
Davis called the low bids open
ly-.. -ed Aprit 16..for..-the., project-sutw
stantially in excess of the ad
vanced estimates and more than
the $500,000 available for the
work. The total construction cost,
as recorded by the low bids, was
$680,131.
The project will be broken
down into several parts before the
new bids are asked two-weeks
hence, he said. The administra
tion building is being removed
from the project for the present
time.
Although the agreement gov
erning the operation of the South
port Small Boat Harbor was
>'■ made between the SPA, county
and city, the SPA will have com
plete control over the project.
“It is understood and agreed
that nothing contained in this
agreement is intended or shall
be construed in any manner or
under any circumstances what
soever as creating or establishing
the relationship of co-partners,
or creating or establishing the
relationship of a joint venture or,
as constituting either party as the
agent or representative of the
other, for any purpose or in any
manner whatsoever,” the resolu
tion reads.
“It is understood and agreed
that this agreement is executed
by the Board of County Com
missioners of Brunswick County
only to the extent of agreeing
to cooperate in appointing the
two members to the Southport
Port Commission and their parti
cipation in the activities of the
Southport Port Commission.”
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•-NEWS-1
MINISTERS TO MEET
The May meeting of the Bruns
wick County Ministerial Associa
tion will be held on May 4 at
the New Hope Presbyterian
Church in Winnabow at 1:30 p. m.
MYF SUB-DISTRICT
The Brunswick County MYF
Sub-District meeting will be held
on May 4 at 7 p. m. There will
be a brief council meeting at
Camp Church.
SPECIAL POLIO CLINIC
A special oral polio vaccine
clinic will be held at Brunswick
** County Training School in South
port Sunday afternoon from 12 to
3 p. m. and from 4 to 6 p. m.
Barbecue supper
A barbecue supper will be held
at Zion Methodist Church Satur
day beginning at 6:30 p. m. The
barbecue will be pit-cooked on
the church grounds Saturday.
The church is located on High
way IT at Town Creek.
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Democrats Name |
II Precinct Officers
.Democratic precinct officers *
were elected Saturday during or
ganizational sessions, Party Chair
—Kirby. .Sullivan -, reported
Tuesday.
The precinct meetings were
held in preparation for the County
Democratic Convention May 9 at
Bolivia High School. The county
executive committee will meet
prior to the general meeting at
1:30 p. m.
During the meetings at each
of the 18 precincts in Bruns
wick county, committees consist
ing of a chairman, vice-chairman
secretary and two members were
elected. The chairman and vice
chairman automatically became
members of the county executive
committee.
All Democrates in good stand
ing were named a§ delegates to
the county convention on May 9.
The new precinct officers, listed
in order of chairman, vice-chair
man, secretary-treasurer, and
two members include:
Hood Creek, Paul Brown, Mrs.
Carol M. Carroll, Mrs. Mary E.
Brown, E. E. Medlin and Charles
Carroll.
Leland, I. D. Butler, Miss
Mary Wells Rourk, Mrs. Cath
i erine Clark, Dwight Crainshaw
and Frances McCafferty.
Town Creek, George Henry
Lanier, Jr., Mrs. Vivian Tatum,
V. A. Creach, Jr., A. P. Henry,
Jr., and Mrs. Florence Sullivan.
Bolivia, Douglas H. Hawes,
Mrs. Juanita Lewis, Mrs. Ina
Mae Mintz, Gilbert Reid and
Robert K. McKeithan, Jr.
Southport No. 1, William A.
Powell, Betty P. Smith, Sylvia
James, P. A. Fulcher, Jr., and
Kirby Sullivan.
Southport No. 2; James M.
Wolfe, Mrs. Gena G. Fullwood,
Mrs. Florence Dosher, Ivan Lud
lum, and G. W. Fisher.
Oak Island, James Kyle, Mrs.
• C.’ E. Bellamy, H. A. Templeton,
Jr.,'H. O. Clark and Mrs. Sam
■ Gairr. ■* •;
Continued On Page Four
Fulcher Leads
Young Adults
Phillip Agnew Fulcher, Jr., has
been appointed Young Adult
Chairman for Preyer in 'Bruns
wick County, Campaign Manager
Kirby Sullivan announced Mon
day.
Fulcher, owner of Carr Insur*
ance Agency at Southport and
Yaupon Beach, was bom on Oc
tober 5, 1933, the son of the late
Phillip A. Fulcher, who died in
1934, and Maxine Clemmons
Fulcher.
After graduating from South
port High School, he served for
four years in the Navy before re
ceiving an honorable discharge.
Fulcher worked with the-High
way Patrol for three years, be
ing assigned to Elizabethtown.
He returned to Southport in
January at 1962 and purchased
the insurance agency.
Honored,.
GLORIA JEAN McCOY
Scholarship For
Shallotte Girl
A Shallotte' girl has been
named the recipient of the South
port Woman Club’s third $750
nursing scholarship, Mi's. E. C.
Blake, club president, announced
Monday.
Miss Gloria Jean McCoy, 18,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mit
chell S. McCoy of Shallotte, was
selected to receive the grant
from among the four applicat
ions received by the Roman's
club.
Miss McCoy, who will gradu
ate from Shallotte High School
in May, has been accepted for
nursing training, at Southeastern
General Hospital in Lumberton.
“I want to be usiful as a cit
izen and as a person,” Miss Mc
Coy said on .her application
•blank. “I feel that being; a nurse
will be the best, way in; which I
can serve humanity.”
Mrs. Philip King, chairman of
the scholarship ' committee for
the Southport Woman’s Club,
said that four applications were
received from Brunswick county
students and the decision on the
winner was most difficult. “We
felt, however, that Miss McCoy
was outstanding and will return
to Brunswick county to work
after graduating from nursing
school,” she said.
Members of the scholarship
committee, beside Mrs. King, are
Mrs. Robert L. Jones and Mrs.
James Glore.
This is the third nurses scho
larship the club has awarded to
girls in Brunswick county. Miss
Rachel Kye, a Bolivia graduate, is
entering her third year of study
at James Walker Memorial Hos
pital. Miss Eva Bryant, a gradu
ate of BCT, is a second year stu
dent at Winston-Salem State
Teachers College.
County Winners
In Spelling Bee
Contests Named
A Southport girl and a Cedar
Grove boy were crowned Bruns
wick champions at county spell
ing bees Thursday at Bolivia and
BCT. »
Miss Jeanette Galloway, 14,
daughter of Carl Galloway of>s
Yaupon Beach, and Malcolm
Smith, 13, whose guardian is Mrs.
Maye Bellamy of Supply, ad
vanced to the regional bee in Wil
mington May 2 where they will
compete against other county
winners.
Miss Galloway downed Thomas
Barnhill, 12, in the 15th round
when the Leland student mis
pelled "bounteous”, Miss Galo
way spelled the word correctly
and the next, “magnificent” to
win the crown for the white
schools in the county.
It took Smith 33 rounds to de
feat Phyllis Williams of Leland.
She missed on "occassion” which .
Smith spelled and the next word,
"theory” for the championship of
the Negro schools of Brunswick
county. s'
Contestants in the white school
contest in the order of their dis
missal, were Terry Willetts, Bo
livia School; Lana Soles, Wacca
maw School; Norris Johnson, Bo
livia School; Byron Holden, Shal
lotte School; Gail Strong, South
port School; Patricia Diane Watts
Waccamaw School; Nellie Hewett
Shallotte School; and Pam Cor
bett. Leland School.
C. P. Willetts and H. Foster
. Mintz, both of Bolivia, and Miss
Gertrude Loughlin, county ele
mentary supervisor, served as
judges at the Bolivia contest..
■Douglas Hawes of Bolivia was the
pronouncer.
Contestants in the Negro contest
in the order of elimination in-?
elude: Linda Fullwood, Long
wood School; Wydell Evans,
Piney Grove School; Angela
Mitchell; Union High School;
and Joyce Bernard, Brunswick
. County Training School-, , .
•'■—'Assistant' superintendent''‘Vt'M!
liam N. Williams, Miss Lough
lin and James M. Harper, Jr.,
served as judges while Mrs.
Philip King of Southport was the
pronouncer.
All the contestants in the spell
ing bees were presented ball
point pens by Doyle Howard,
state-editor of the Star-News
Newspaper of Wilmington, spon
sored of the contest.
Southport Glee
Club Will Sing
The Southport High School Glee
Club will present “Spring Senti
ments In Song” in the high school
auditorium on Friday at 8 o’clock.
The program will consist of songs
by the glee club and special num
bers by several groups.
Brenda Jordan will be fea
tured in a vocal solo. The sextet,
composed of Martha Mallison,
Sandy Potter, Brenda Jordan, Di
anne Warth, Joyce Gurley, and
Martha Harrelson, will sing two
numbers. A quartet made up of
Greta Jorgensen, Brenda Crouch,
Susan Harrelson and Mary Lee
Jones will sing one number.
Miss Brunswick County of 1964,
Carolyn Minton, will do a song
and dance routine.
Following an intermission a
boys’ chorus will sing six num
bers. Members of this group are
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TIME and TIDE
It was April 29, 1959, and Senator S. Bunn Frink and
Representative James C. Bowman arranged a public hearing for
Wednesday in Raleigh, with the Highway Commission on ferry
service across the lower Cape Fear.
Roney Cheers, W. J. McLamb, Jr., Dykes Hewett and Eli
Knavitz were candidates for mayor of Shallotte. Mrs. Betty
Leggett had been the sweepstakes winner in the Southport
Flower show for the past two years. The marriage of Arliss
Willetts of Bolivia and Edna Faye Skipper of Leland was held
Saturday.
It was April 2S, 195-1, and sensational early catches of king
mackerel were being made by party boats in Southport. Miss
Joanne Brown of Southport was elected May Queen at Meredith
College in Raleigh-1
Plans were announced to extend telephone service to Long
Beach and Fort Oiswell during the summer. R. O. Lewis was
chairman of the Board of Elections. The cafeteria facilities at
Fort Caswell were, being enlarged for the summer season.
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lit was April 1949, and Hubert A. Livingston was re
nominated without: opposition for the office of mayor of South
port while Leon Galloway, E. D. Bishop and Roney W. Cheers
were running for jnayor of Shallotte. Tommy Garner was chair
man of the county Cancer drive.
North Carolina Baptists made a priority bid of $148,000
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Trio Honored
Named To Governor’s School
■ i JAMES K. BRYANT
WADE FRANKLIN BEARD, JR.
KAREN NIELSEN
Adult Education
STUDENTS—Pete Worsley, instructor in bookkeeping- and shorthand at the
adult education class in Southport is shown here observing work being done by
his students this week. Classes meet twice each week in a three-hour session.
(Staff Photo by Allen). . i
Post Office Will
Change Schedule
The limited adjustments in
some postal services ordered in
Washington March 10 by Post
master General John A. Gro
nouski to save $12.7 million an
nually will begin to “take effect
in Southport and other cities May
4, Postmaster Neil Jorgensen said
today.
Service changes planned loc
ally include new window ser
vice hours on Saturdays, begin
ning May 9, from 9:30 a. m. to
1 p. m. This is hot a curtailment
of service but an adjustment in
hours -made necessary by the
limited number of employees who
will be on duty.
Patrons are urged to transact
as much of their postal business
as possible on week days due to
the curtailment of the following
services which will not be avail
able on Saturdays, beginning May
9: money orders, inquiries and
claims, meter settings, trust fund
deposits, box rent collections.
One consolidated window will
be maintained on Saturdays for
general. delivery, sale , of stamps, ,
acceptance and delivery of par
cel post, delivery of COD mail,
and registered mail will, be ac
cepted.
Normal delivery of parcel post
will not be affected for the pres
ent time. The mounted carrier
and star route carrier will con
tinue to make deliveries as usual.
The postmaster emphasized
that no essential major services
are affected under the orders.
There will be no change in home
delivery or special delivery, for
Continued On Page Four
Install Venters
NCEA President
The installation of new officers
highlighted the annual banquet
meeting of the Brunswick Coun
ty unit of the North Carolina Edu
cational Associaton at the Ebb
Tide Restaurant Wednesday night
which was attended by 184 school
personnel.
The newly installed officers, all
unanimously elected at a pre
vious meeting, include President
Rockfellow Venters, Vice-Presi
dent Donald Sellers and Mrs.
Mina Lane, secretary, all of Le
land.
Plaques were given to Mrs.
Abba Crumpler, who retired at
Leland last year, and to Miss
Gertrude Loughlin, who will re
tire as county elementary su
pervisor this year, by Superin
tendent A. W. Taylor. The awards
for outstanding service were
presented from the county NCEA
unit and the Brunswick Board of
Continued On Page Four
Extension Group
Plans Tour For
50th Anniversary
The Extension Advisory Board
is sponsoring a tour of Supply
and Shallotte areas on Friday
afternoon, May 8, to see and
study several extension activities
in recognition of the 50th Anni
versary of the Cooperative Ex
tension Service in the United
States. On May 8, 1914, President
Wilson signed the bill authorizing
the Agricultural Extension Ser
vice.
The tour will begin at 1 p. m.
at the Extension Service Office in
Supply where the Home Demon
stration members will display
some of their project work learn
ed through extension’s teachings.
The display will include suits,
hats, refinished furniture, etc.
The tour will move at 1:45 p. m.
to Fred Mintz’s farm in Shallotte
to observe chemical weed control
in tobacco and bulk curing bam;
2:15 at Harry White’s home in
Shallotte’ to observe home built
by Extension Service Plan 55A,
and observe landscape of Fred
Mintz lawn. The tour will be at
Donald Frink’s farm at 3 p. m.,
on Shallotte Point road to observe
broiler operation and swine farm
ing. At 3:45 the tour will stop at
Mrs. Herbert Russ’ farm (2 miles
west of Shallotte on U. S. 17) to
observe the Forestry Demonstra
tion and see James Bellamy’s
new tobacco variety and week
pnnfrnl 'ripmnnstraHnn
The tour will be at Dewey Gris
sett’s farm near Grissettown at
4:15 p. m. to see a tobacco dem
onstration. The group will go on
to Gause Landing at 5 p. m. at
the home of Mrs. Eva Gray to
see 4-H Club Work. The tour will
then go over on Ocean Isle Beach
at 5:30 p. m., to observe Ameri
can Beach Grass Demonstration
which shows good potential for
holding sand in place.
Those on the tour and others
that cannot make the tour are
invited to meet at Dockside Res
taurant in Calabash for supper
(dutch) and a short program that
should be of interest.
Everyone is invited to make the
tour.
Three Brunswick County stu
ients have been selected to at
:end the Governor’s School for
Gifted Children this summer at
Salem College in Winston-Salem.
Wade Franklin Beard, Jr., of
Southport, Karen Nielsen of the
State School for the Blind in Ra
leigh, and James K. Bryant of
Union, were named from Bruns
W. F. Beard, Sr., of Southport,
subjects at the school.
They are the first students from
Brunswick county ever named to
attend the Governor’s School,
which was established last year.
Beard, son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. F. Beard, Sr., of Southport
will study social studies this sum
mer. He has a high academic"
average at Southport High School
and is a member of the Beta
Club.
Miss Nielsen, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Martin Nielsen of Shal
lotte, will be enrolled in the soc
ial science section of the school.
A sophomore at the State School..
for the Blind, she has a 95.5
average while taking 12 subjects '
this year.
Bryant, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Jesse Bryant of Supply, is a jun
ior at Union High School. He
is a member of the National
Honor Society, Crown and Scep
ter Honor Society and the Science
Club. Bryant will study science
this summer.
Superintendent A. W. Taylor
said no announcements have
been made concerning students
accepted in the fine arts at the
Governor’s School.
The school was set up last year
by Governor Terry Sanford as a
pilot educational program offer
ing specialized instruction at Sa
lem College at Winston-Salem for
gifted children in the summer. .
Students are selected for the
Governor's School because of out
standing talents in the perform
ing arts or academic rating along
with grade averages recommen
dation by teachers and other staff
members. ..-•. j
"■§ o m e 3,000 students from
throughout North Carolina were
nominated by the various
schools in the state to attend the
honor school, but only 400 were
selected. They will be furnished
free room, board, tuition and
laundry during the school term,
which runs from June 10 til July
31.
Anniversary Of
Book Club Here
The Round Table Book Club’
celebrated its eleventh anniver
sary with a luncheon meeting at
the Southport Public Library dur- -
ing National Library Week with
Mrs. Susie Carson, one of the
club’s charter members, as hos
tess. Other charter member
present were Mrs. Albert Bogie
and Mrs. John Swain. Mrs.
Swain cut the birthday cake.
The discussion for the meeting
centered around a study made by
the club of new countries formed
in the past fifteen years. Plans
were made to read and report on
books about Communism at the
June meeting of the club which
is to be held at the home of Mrs.
Swain. Those present for the
meeting, in addition to the char
ter members, were Mrs. E. G.
Blake, Mrs. A. E. Huntley, Mrs.
Phil King, Mrs. W. L. Aldridge,
Mrs. Mark Owens, Mrs. Reese
Swan and Mrs. Bill Faulk, Jr. A
new members, Mrs. O. W. Car
rier, was welcomed to the club.
Tide Table
Following Is the tide
table tor 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 30,
9:58 A. M. 4:22 A. M.
10:26 P. M. 4:16 P. M.
Friday, May 1,
10:35 A. M. 5:03 A. M.
11:04 P. M. 4:54 P. M.
Saturday, May 2,
11:17 A. M. 5:46 A. M.
11:48 P. M. 5:37 P. M.
Sunday, May 3,
12:06 A. M. 6:34 A. M.
6:28 P. M.
Monday, May 4,
0:39 A. M. 7:27 A. M.
1:03 P. M. 7:28 P. M.
Tuesday, May 5,
1:35 A. M. 8:24 A. M.
2:04 P. M. 8:34 P M.
Wednesday, May 6,
2:34 A. M. 9:21 A. M.
3:06 P. M. 9:39 P. M.