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Volume No. 23
No. 46
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SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1964
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New Southport Jaycees Officers
OFFICERS—William Powell, Southport attorney, is shown, center, after being
inducted last night as the new president of Southport Junior Chamber of Com
merce. Bobby Jones, right, was named “Jaycee of the Year”. .Other officers are
shown in the picture. (Staff Photo by Allen.)
Install Officers
Jaycees Hold Annual Banquet
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PH*(S
The installation of new officers <
and the selection of Bobby Jones
as the "Jaycee of the Year”
highlighted a banquet meeting
of the Southport Junior Chamber
of Commerce Tuesday night at
the Lorraine Restaurant at Long
Beach.
The new officers installed dur
ing the meeting, to which the
Jaycee members brought their
wives, included President W. A.
Powell, 1st vice president W. C.
Jones, 2nd vice president Harold
Spencer, secretary Tom Ray,
treasurer W. C. Love, Jr., State
Director G. W. Fisher, Directors
Bobby Jones and Billy Dosher
Slid Jay Bird Harold Perkins.
‘ The installation "service was un*-’
der the direction of Kirby Sullt—,
■van, the first club president and
a former state vice-president.
Jones Was named “Jaycee of
the Year” because of his many
club activities. As chairman of
the building committee, he ser
ves as foreman on the contsruct
, ion of the new Jaycee Building
where he has put in long hours
of behalf 6f the club. Jones was
the vice president last year and
is a director this year.
This is the first time the
Southport Club has ever present
ed a “Jaycee of the Year” award.
Retiring President Fisher told
of the many club projects during
tbs past year. He reported that
the Southport Jaycees won five
awards at the state convention
last week, including the top
prize for community develop
ment in the state.
President Powell, who received
a “Spoke Award” for being an
outstanding first year man, said
he plans to carry on the great
tradition of the Southport club
and will try to create more in
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NEWS-1
i|' NAMED DIRECTOR
V '■ Homer King has been named
civil defense director of the Boil
mg Spring Lakes by town com
missioners. ; 1 ’
MASTERS DEGREE
Bertram Burris, Jr., of South
port has received his masters
degree in Library Science from
Florida State University and will
accept a position with the Com
ing Glass Corp. in Raleigh.
YARD OF MONTH
Tire Southport Garden Club has
started selecting the “Yard Of
The Month”, in Southport and
the first winners are Mr. and
Mrs. James C. Bowman for their
home on Moore Street.
POLIO SUNDAY
The third and final round of
the battle to knock-out polio in
Brunswick county will be con
ducted in the schools of Bruns
wick county Sunday during the
last of the three “Stop Polio
Sundays”.'
POSTPONES VISIT
The visit of gubernatorial can
didate L. Richardson Preyer to
Brunswick county on May 22 has
been postponed due to a schedul
ed statewide television program.
Judge Preyer definitely plans an
other visit to Brunswick before
the May 30 primary election.
Parker Is Named
Party Chairman
The selection of Ernest Par- *
ker as party chairman high
lighted a meeting of the Bruns
wick County Democratic Con
vention at Bolivia Saturday
afternoon attended hy about 100
persons.
Parker, a Southport lawyer,
was elected by the Democratic
•'Executive Committee, -composed **
Of the Chairman and vtee chair
man of every county precinct. He
succeeds Kirby Sullivan, another
Southport attorney, as the party
leader.
Mrs. Ina Mae Mintz of Boli
via was re-elected vice-chairman
of the party while Mrs. Ruth Mc
Bride of Waccamaw was named
secretary. Mrs. McBride succeeds
Mrs. S. B. Frink of Southport in
the office.
When only three persons an
nounced that they planned to at
tend the state convention in Ra
leigh May 20, Sullivan moved
that any Brunswick Democrat in
good standing be seated as a
county delegate at the state
meeting. The motion was un
animously carried.
John Stanley, 75, spoke at the
convention as the oldest Demo
crat in attendance.
Senator Carl Meares and
Sankey Robinson, both Dem
ocratic candidates from Colum
bus county for the office of state
senate, attended the Bolivia
meeting.
Meares said his one term of ex
perience in the senate would
help him greatly if he is re
elected. Because of the mag
nitude of state government, he
said the state needs businessmen
in the senate. As for the REA,
which haa become the major
issue in the campaign, Meares
said he supported REA in the
last session of the General As
sembly. “No one is more favor
able toward the REA than I
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Dedicate New
Shallotte Bank
C. L. Tate, chairman, of ■ the
Board of Waccamaw Bank and
Trust Company, announces the
opening of their new banking fac
ilities in Shallotte next Wednes
day afternoon from 4 p. m. to 8
p .m. .
The invocation will be given by
the Rev. H. Arthur Phillips, min
ister of Shallotte, welcome by
Mayor Roney Chours. Tate will
comment on the modem banking
facilities and the appreciation of
the splendid support and cooper
ation of the people of Brunswick
County, which has made this new
building possible.
Miss Brunswick County, Car
olyn Minton of Southport, will
cut the ribbon and the building
will be opened for inspection.
Refreshments will be served.
All people who visit the bank
from Monday, May 18 through
Friday, May 22 will register for
the Admiral radio-stereo com
bination and a portable stereo.
The drawing will take place on
Friday evening, May 22. “We
cordially invite all of our friends
in this area to attend." Tate said*
Rev. Lawrence Bridges
Bridges Speaker
At Dedication
The Rev. Lawrence Bridges,
Methodist minister of Franklin
ton, and former pastor of Trinity
Methodist Church here, will
preach the dedicatory sermon at
the dedication service to be held
at Shallotte Camp Methodist
Church, May 24, at 11 a. m.
Mr. Bridges was pastor of Camp
church 1951-1854.
, Plans- for the dedication are
underway, according to the Rev.
H. Arthur Phillips, Jr., pastor of
Camp Church. The church build
ing is now free of debt, culmin
ating a dream which began May
IT, 1957, when Bishop Paul N.
Gartber, resident bishop of the
Richmond area broke ground for
the present church building in
Shallotte.
The Shallotte church was a part
of the Shallotte Circuit until 1951.
At that time it became a station
appointment, with the Rev. Mr.
Bridges as its first pastor. The
Rev. Mr. Phillips says “It can
“truly be said that work which
culminated in the building and
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Art Classes To
Be Taught Here
Art classes will be conducted
during the summer in Southport,
Shallotte and' Long Beach by
artist-teacher Elizabeth Zachary.
Mrs. Zachary has taught art
in Southport High School for the
past year under the sponsorship
of the Southport Junior Woman’s
Club and St. John’s Gallery of
Wilmington. The Long Beach
artist is well known in North
Carolina art circles. She is a
member of the Associated Art
ists of North Carolina, the Wil
mington Art Association and is
the Brunswick County represent
ative for St. John’s Gallery.
Mrs. Zachary’s art background
includes study under Downing
Bamitz, head of Florida South
ern College art department; Har
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Local Jaycees
Receive Award
At State Meet
The Southport Junior Chamber
of Commerce won the top state
award for community develop
ment as well as a division plaque
for community civic improve
ments and certificates for com
munity development and intra
club relations and extension at
the North Carolina Jaycee con
vention in Greensboro Friday and
Saturday.
The state award, a 7%-in. tro
phy, was presented to the club for
work in community development
in competition with every other
club in the state. *
The Jaycees received a 7xl0-in.
plaque for work in community
improvements on the district
level. «
The Southport club won cer
tificates for placing first in the
state and in the division with
their notebook on community
development.
A second place certificate was
presented to the club for work
in intra-club relations and ex
tension activities on the division
level. The club co-sponsored the
establishment of a Jaycee organ
ization at Bolivia.
The Southport club’s project in
community development will re
present the state in its field in
national competition. The state
organization will pay the expen
ses of one of the Southport Jay
cees to attend the national Com
munity Development Siminar in
Norman, Oklahoma, July 19-21.
During the meetings, the judging
of the national winners will take
place.
Former State Jaycee Presid
ent Bill Suttle of Marion has
indicated that the Southport club
has a very good chance of win
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Three Southport
Ladies To Europe
Mis. James M. Harper, ' Jr.,
.of Southport, immediate pas^S
president of the North Caroliife
Federation of Women’s Clubs,
will lead 21 Tar Heels on the first
Federation sponsored tour , to
Western Europe, departing New
York City on Thursday, May 14.
Two other Southport women,
Mrs. Jack Hickman and Mrs.
Grace Ruark, are making (Hie
trip.
The 21-day tour to nine
European countries will climax
Mrs. Harper’s two-year term as
Federation president which end
ed April 30. In keeping with her
Federation theme on the impor
tance of heritage, the tour will
emphasize America’s close histori
cal ties with the Old World.
First stop on the flying trip will
be Scotland where the group will
visit Glasgow and Edinburgh be
fore moving to London and a full
day excursion to Oxford and
Stratford-on-Avon where the 400th
anniversary of Shakespeare’s
birth is being observed.
Other highlights of the tour will
include attending tile Internation
al Horticultural Exhibition in
Vienna and the Opera at Berlin.
Major European cities to be visit
' ed will include Paris, Geneva,
Lucerne, Venice, Florence, Rome,
Munich, Copenhagen and Amster
dam.
The touring Tar Heels will de
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Mrs. Richardson Preyer
Mrs. Preyer To
Visit Brunswick
Mrs. Emily Preyer will visit
Brunswick County Tuesday in
quest of votes for her husband,
Richardson Preyer, Democratic
candidate for governor.
The announcement of Mrs.
Preyer’s trip to the oounty was
made by Mrs. Jean Fullwood of
Southport, Mrs. Nelson Bennett
of Shallotte and Mrs. R. C. Hol
- mes of Leland, co-chairmen of
the Women for Preyer movement
in Brunswick.
Mrs. Preyer will arrive in the
county Tuesday afternoon about
4:15 and meet ladies from the
Leland area at Home’s restau
rant at the intersection of high
ways 17, 74 and 76
She will be honored at a dinner,
at the Ebb Tide restaurant at
Holden Beach at 5:30 p. m.. All
interested ladies are invited to at
tend the dinner meeting with
Mrs. Preyer. Reservations can
be made with Mrs. Bennett in
Shallotte.
On the way to tne restaurant
from Leland, the party will stop
at the various shopping centers
■ on ^highway 17.
Mrs. Preyer will be honored
at an open house at the Southport
Community Building Tuesday
night from 8 p. m. until 9:30
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Annual March
Of Dimes Has
Raised $1,270
The 1964 March of Dimes Drive
in Brunswick county raised some
$1,270.86, reports Mrs. M. H.
Rourk of Shallotte, county chair
man of the drive.
Deducting $66.50 for expenses,
the drive collected $1,204.36 to
fight polio on the national and
county levels.
Mrs. Rourk said 25 percent of
the amount, $308.80, will be1 used
for research work. The rest of
the money will be divided equally
between the national office and
the Brunswick chapter.
The communities and chairmen
collecting money for the March
of Dimes during the drive in
Brunswick county include:
Riegal Paper Co-, $74.85, Ash,
Mrs. Wm. Mathews, $37.17; Bo
livia, Mrs. Paul Huffoms, $26,68;
Coon’ Neck and Vamumtown,
Mrs. Norman Bellamy, $32.58;
Calabash, Mrs. Harry Bennett,
$11.00; Exum, Mrs. Toddy Ben
nett, $218; Freeland, Mrs. Anson
Smith, $25.00; Gissettown, Mrs.
Nirman Grisste, $2.00; Holden’s
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| TIME and TIDE
It was May 13, 1959, and Mrs. Mary Lou McCracken re
ceived a Carnegie medal for her husband, Ernest F. McCracken,
who lost his life while attempting to save a woman after pull
ing a man to safety. J. P. Russ was named mayor-pro tern of
Shallotte.
Dykes Hewett of Shallotte won second place in the heavy
weight division of the North and South Carolina Weight Lifting
championship. The marriage of Gilliam McMahon and Dr. Nor
man Homstein was announced.
It was May 12, 1954, and Mrs. Thomas St. George was the
sweepstakes winner at 'the Southport Flower Show. Mrs. Bryiant
Potter was re-elected president of the Southport PTA. Ray
Walton and S. Bunn Frink were in a hot race for the State
Senate.
Mrs. Worth Ward was installed as president of the South
port Woman’s Club, succeeding Mrs. H. T. St. George. Blue fish
were showing up in large numbers after catches of king mack
erel had been made for several weeks.
It was May 11, 1949, and four separate accidents resulted
in four fatalities during the last week on Brunswick county
highways. Otto Hickman received a 90-day leave as police
chief of Southport to become a watchman for the Menhaden
fleet.
Odell Blanton, Ulyses Grainger and Gus Bland were named
deputies by Sheriff Walter Stanaland. Miss Sammie Lane Mer
cer was the May Queen at Bolivia High School. Atlantic High
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Superior Court Here
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Southport Soldier
Helps In Rescue
Flying low over the Pacific at
6:30 a. m. April 11, S-Sgt. Leon
Fullwood took a last look out the
open door of an Air Force HC-54
rescue plane, jumped, and rode
his parachute into the water.
He was the first of a three-man
team of paramedics from the
76th Air Rescue Squadron to de
scend to the two men stranded
in a life raft after their plane
crashed 105 miles northeast of
Hilo, Hawaii.'
After Fullwood came S-Sgt.
Philemon S. Reses. At 6:55 a. m.
the other two men safely joined
the downed flyers. The HC-54’s
jumpmaster, A-lc Harvey Randy
Pickelsimer, himself jumped
from the plane.
All three paramedics landed
less than 60 yards from the men.
Before he jumped, Pickelsimer
dumped overboard a MA-1 res
cue. kit containing two 6-man life
rafts, three survival packets and
assorted rescue gear.
For two hours, these three com
bination parachutists - frogmen
bobbed around in rafts in the
ocean, keeping the downed men
company until the Coast Guard
cutter Cape Small picked them
all up.
Any rescue operation for these
paramedics is hair-raising. They
Sgt. Leon Fulwood
are dropped at low altitudes and
have only a few seconds to de
ploy their rescue parachutes if
their main backpacks fail to in
flate.
Once in the water they must
free themselves of the canopy
and the heavy harnessing.
On their back, uiey also carry
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Friends Greet
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CANDIDATE—A. H. Gainey, Jr., Southport at
torney, is shown, left, as he greets Dr. I. Beverly Lake,
candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor,
when he visited Brunswick county Friday. Gainey ac
companied his old friend and former law professor on
his tour of the county. (Staff Photo by Allen)
Shallotte Getting
Full-Time Office
Parks C. Fields, 26, of Pleas- >
ant 'Grove, has been named su
pervisor of the new Farmers
Home Administration office
which opened Monday at Shal
lotte, it was announced this week
by Melvin H. Hearn, State Di
rector for North Carolina.
As FHA county supervisor,
Fields will be responsible for the
agency’s loan activity and tech
nical assistance to rural people
in Brunswick County.
Fields was an assistant county
supervisor in Duplin County prior
to his appointment as county su
pervisor. He is a 1961 graduate
from N. C. State College and
has been employed by the Farm
ers Home Administration for two
years.
He is single and has been mak
ing his home at Warsaw.
The Shallotte office will offer
improved services to farmers and
rural residents of Brunswick
County. Brunswick County was
previously served by the Farm
ers Home Administration office
in Whiteville.
The new office is located in the
bank building and, in addition to
Fields, will be staffed by a full
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Sunny Point To
Hold Open House
Sunny Point Army Terminal
will hold Open House for the pub
lic from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. on
Armed Forces Day Saturday.
During the day, visitors will be
permitted to tour the terminal
and visit the north wharf
On display at nortn wharf will
be such items of equipment as
the combination Tug-Fireboat; a
locomotive; fire fighting tank
cars; and a fire truck.
Rail motor cars will be avail
able on which visitors will be
permitted to ride about the area.
A brochure indicating the his
tory, mission, and physical cap
ability of the terminal will be
issued to individuals desiring full
details on the operation of the
Installation.
Vehicles arriving at Sunny
Point may enter or depart at
either the main gate or the north
gate.
Several cases have been tried
during the first two day of the
criminal term of Brunswick >
County Superior court now being
conducted in Southport.
Barry Crawford and Bobby
Futrell both pleaded guilty to
charges of breaking and enter
ing and were sentenced to not
less than 2 years nor more then
three years on the road. The
sentences were suspended upon
the conditions that they pay $50
fines, be of good behavior and
not violate any laws for three
years and pay cost.
William Stevenson pleaded
guilty to charges of possession of
burglarly tools, breaking and en
tering and larceny and receiving
and was given a work term of
not less than three years new
more than five years.
Stevenson pleaded guilty to
another charge of breaking and
entering and larceny and receiv- •
ing and was given a work term '
of not less than seven years npr •
more than 10 years. The sentence
was suspended for five years up- '
on his release from prison from
serving the first sentence.
George Gore pleaded guilty to ■
charges of breaking and entering
and larceny and receiving and -
was given a sentence of not less *
than two years nor more than -
three years on the roads. The •
sentence was suspended upon the I
conditions that he be of good be- -
hayior and not violate any laws ‘
for five years, be on probation, •
pay a $75 fine and pay cost. *
David Earl Robbins pleaded -
guilty to charges of breaking *
and entering and larcency and re- ■
ceiving and was given a sentence '
of not less than four years n<>r '
more than 5 years on the roads. •
The sentence was suspended up- ]
on the conditions that he be of •
good behavior and not violate '
any laws, pay a $100 fine and
cost and be placed on probation*
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Z^Scholarshmfz
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A Bolivia senior girl has been
awarded one of the 600 North
Carolina Prospective Teachers’
Scholarship for the year 1964-65,
Principal Thomas L. Davis an
nounced Monday.
Miss Carolyn Segraves, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs- W. H. Se
graves, plants to attend Camp
bell College in the fall. She
will teach either music or chem
istry after graduation.
The scholarship pays $350 per
year and is renewable at the end
of each school year. The only stip
ulation is that the recipent teach
in the schools of North Carolina
for. four years after graduation.
Only 600 teachers’ scholarships
are awarded annually in the state
to high school seniors.
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 DOW
Thursday, May 14
9:55 A. M. 4:02 A. M.
10:20 P. M. 4:07 P. M.
Friday, May 15
10:53 A. M. 4:56 A. M.
11:17 P. M. 5:02 P. M.
Saturday, May 16
11:55 A. M. 5:52 A. M.
6:01 P. M.
Sunday, May 17
0:15 A. M. 6:52 A. M.
12:57 P. M. 7:05 P. M.
Monday, May 18
1:15 A.M. 7:51P.M.
1:59 P. M. 8:09 P. M.
Tuesday, May 19
2:14 A. M. 8:49 A. M.
2:59 P. M. 9:13 P. M.
Wednesday, May 20
3:11 A. M. 9:43 A. M.
3:54 P. M. 10:11 P. M.