j The Pilot Covers |
j Brunswick County
1 |
STATE PORT
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
Most of the News
II
| All The Time
I
1
Volume 24
No. 2
SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1964
5c A COPY
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Heading For Raleigh
DEPARTURE—Carolyn Minton, right, Miss Brunswick County, is shown Tues
day as she left for Raleigh where the first preliminaries in the State Pageant
are being held tonight (Wednesday). Others shown are left to right, Dempsey
Hewett, president of Shallotte Jaycees, Kay Minton, official chaperone, and Donald
McKeithan, official escort. (Staff Photo by Allen)
For State Pageant
Carolyn Goes To Raleigh
■Miss Brunswick, Carolyn Min
ton of Southport, arrived in Ra
leigh Tuesday morning to repre
sent the county in the annual Miss
North Carolina pageant which
w Will be staged in the Capital city
this week.
Miss Minton, daughter of Mr.'-'
and Mrs. Allen Minton, left
Southport Tuesday morning for
the trip to Raleigh. She was ac
companied by her sister, Kay
.Minton who will serve as her
chaperon, Donald McKeithan of
Shallotte, her escort, and Shal
lotte Jaycee President Dempsey
Hewett who went along to in
troduce her to officials at the
/ event. Two automobiles were
used to transport Miss Minton’s
clothes and other effects to the
state beauty competition.
After moving her luggage into
•the Sir Walter Hotel, Miss Bruns
wick registered for the pageant
Tuesday afternoon. She attended
a banquet that night with the th
er 89 contestants vying in the
contest for Miss North Carolina
honors and a chance to represent
the state in the Miss America
event.
Miss Minton presented her ta
lent portion of the contest tonight
(Wednesday). Her song and dance
act consisted of singing “Five
•Foot Two” and finishing up with
the Charleston. It is basically the
same act she used in winning
the county crown.
Miss Brunswick will appear in
her swimsuit Thursday night and
in her evening dress Friday night.
Her mother left for the pageant
in Raleigh Wednesday morning
with Mrs. C. A. Graham of South
port, who will accompany Miss
Brunswick on the piano. Her
father will attend the event later
in the week.
The Shallotte Jaycees, who
sponsored the Miss Brunswick
Continued On Page Four
Mfc Of
lnewsj
YARD OF MONTH
The yard of Mr. and Mrs. A. L.
Phelps on the old River Road
has been selected by the South
port Garden Club as “Yard of
the Month” in Southport.
OFFICE IMPROVEMENTS
The Brunswick county ASCS of
fice in Shallotte is being replaster
ed and repainted. A tile floor is
being put down. The work should
lbe completed in about two weeks.
Manager R. L. Price says.
TO ATTEND CONFERENCE
County Committee Chairman
Lonnie Evans, ASCS Manager
Ralph Price, Chief Clerk Ada Var
num and Adjustment Clerk Sarah
Knox will attend an area ASCS
conference in Goldsboro Monday
and Tuesday. One of the events
on the program will be a discus
sion of the feed grain, wheat and
cottona payments.
* KJ
Her Mother Was A J'i
:~~~"Pageant Winner
New Man
CHARLES B. COLEMAN
Columbus Man
New Assistant
Charles B. Coleman, a 1963
graduate of N. C. State College
with a degree in Animal Hus
bandry, assumed his duties as
assistant county agent for Bruns
wick County July 1.
The new extension worker is
a native of Columbus county. He
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Hosea
Coleman of Tabor City and a
graduate of Cerro Gordo High
School.
His duties in Brunswick will
center in 4-H Club activities
where he will work with Miss
Billie Hamilton to help revitalize
this phase of youth training.
Coleman is unmarried.
Distribution Of
Food Stopped
The Board of commissioners
ordered that the distribution of
free surplus food under the Com
modity Food Program be halted
in Brunswick, at least until fall,
at a regular meeting in South
port Monday.
The distribution of free surplus
food in Brunswick county will be
discontinued on July 31. The
board said it was their present
intention to resume the service
beginning October 1.
The board gave no reason for
discontinuing the program which
they okeyed in the fall of 1963.
The board hired Clyde Newton
Continued On Page Four
Miss Brunswick County, Car
olyn, is not the only beauty queen
in the Allen Minton family. For
Mrs. Minton herself was Mis3
Hardeman County Tennessee in
1938.
This week Mrs. Minton will
be in Raleigh to see her daugh
ter represent Brunswick county
in the Miss North Carolina pag
eant, an opportunity she was
denied.
“Back in 1938, we didn’t have
a chance to compete in a state
pageant”, she said. “Winning was
like being queen for a day in the
county.”
Even so, Mrs. Minton represent
ed her county at a sectional fair
for the mid-south region of Ten
nessee. While she did not win the
top prize, whe was selected the
first alternate.
In some ways 'beauty pageants
have changed with the times but
in other they have remain
the same, Mrs. Minton says.
Instead of one county pageant,
the contest in 1938 started on the
school level. Each of the four
high school classes of the various
school in the county had contests
to select the top four beauties.
The class winners competed in a
second contest to determine the
school victor. The schools then
sent their winners to the county
event.
The county pageants were dif
ferent then, too, because there
was no talent or swim suit judg
Continued On Page Four
Big Week For
State Baptists
At Ft. Caswell
More than 700 Baptists are
participating in Junior Music
Camp and Sunday School and
Brotherhood weeks at the North
Carolina Baptist Assembly at
Fort Caswell, according to Man
ager Fred Smith.
The highlight of the week’s
activities will occur Friday night
at 8 o’clock when the three
groups will sponsor a festival
concert. The junior campers will
sing a sacred cantata, "Lord,
Most Holy”.
Manager Smith announced that
Church Music Week will be held
at the assembly, which is located
at the mouth of the Cape Fear
River across from Southport,
next week. Quality music will
be provided nightly at 8:15 p. m.
and the public is invited to at
tend the concerts.
Some 400 campers are current
ly attending the Junior Music
Camp under the direction of
State Music Secretary Joseph O.
Stroud of the Baptist State Con
vention. The boys and girls, who
range in age from 9 to 12, are
studying church music under de
dicated music teachers. Instruct
ion in theory, voice, hymnology,
music history and choral singing
constitute toe major part of the
week’s activities.
■ The sacred cantata for juniors,
“Lord," Most Holy”, will be per
formed Friday night at 8 p. m.
The cantata was composed by
Mrs. Rose Marie Cooper Jordan
of Greensboro, who is the wife
of toe week’s guest conductor,
William H. Jordan. Mrs. Jordon
is helping with the rehearsals
and toe preformance of her
works.
Some 300 Baptists from thro
ughout North Carolina are at
tending toe joint Sunday Schbol
and Christain Life Conference’of
Brotherhood week at the assem
bly.
In the Sunday School portion
ok • work4 teachers and of*-;
ficials in the various churches of
the itate are receiving additional
training under Sunday School:
Secretary Herman Ihley,:
of the Baptist State Convention.
Secretary Clyde Davis of toe;
BSC is conducting the Brother-!
hood section of toe joint confer|
ence. He is assisted by Dr. Al
bert ; Meiburg of the School of
Pastoral Care at the North Caro
lina Baptist Hospital in Winston
Continued On Page 4
School Budget :
Asking Increase
The Brunswick County Board of
Education has scheduled a joint
meeting Friday night with mem
bers of :he board of county com
missioners to urge that their bud
get be granted a greater share of
the tax iollar than the 35-cents
allowed last year.
The se.iool budget calls for a
total of fi.5-cents based upon 90
percent eollction of a $34-million
valuation Of this amount, 30.5
cents world go into toe Current
Expense ifund, total expenditures
for which are estimated at
$244,837.H, with 594,230 of this
amount anticipated from ad
valorum .axes.
A total of 10-cents is being ask
ed to retire the indebtedness due
the State Literary Fund in the
amount 'of $21,500 borrowed to
meet operational expenses for the
Continued on Page Two
TIME and TIDE
r
It was July 8, 1959, and Irie Leonard of Southern Pines was
appointed principal of Shallotte High School. The first hurri
cane of the 1959 season, Cindy, was east of the South Carolina
coast Wednesday. Former County Sheriff Jasper A. Russ of
Shallotte died Thursday.
Senator Everett B. Jordan visited Representative and Mrs.
James C. Bowman in Souithport Sunday and Monday. Shallotte
citizens voted overwhelmingly to establish an ABC store in
their town. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Rideout of Virginia were in
Southport over the weekend to purchase a retirement home.
■ '■ ..- - '
It was July 7, 1954, and Captain Leo Dowling landed the
first sailfish of the season Saturday by performing piscatorial
surgery on a barracuda and discovering a 6-inch sailfish inside.
Several hundred persons attended the Fifth Annual Live Oak
Festival in Southport Monday.
County Forest Ranger D. L. Mercer reported that 99 fires
were reported in 1953 and the average loss was only 38.1 acres
per fire. The Shallotte branch of the Waccamaw Bank and Trust
Company moved into its new quarters in the Stanaland Build
ing.
It was July 6, 1949, and Halstead Holden of Shallotte, a
student ait the University of North Carolina, was the Southern
Continued On Page Four
Huge Success
mm
Southport Citizens Celebrate
Glorious Fourth In Many Ways
PRESENTATION-—Mayor E. B. Tomlinson, Jr. of Southport is shown present
ing a key to the city to Commander R. E. Adams, captain of the USS Murray, upon
the arrival of the warship here Thursday morning. City Manager C. D. Pickerrell
is shown at the left of Tomlinson. The three men on the right are Jaycee President
William Powell, G. W. Fisher, a former member of the crew of the Murray, and
Lt. Col. Carl Manis, executive officer at Sunny Point Army Terminal. Men in the
left background are members of the crew of the visiting destroyer.
Mermaids On Parade
*««* immr’
»SBs
COLORFUL EVENT IN SUNDAY'S SKI SHOW
Big Water Show
Schedule For
Boiling Spring
Thousands of spectators are
expected to line the shores of
Boiling Spring Lakes Sunday for
the Southeastern United States
motorboat races and water ski
show sponsored by the Shriners.
The events will get underway
at 11 a. m. Sunday for the time
trials for the 1 p. m. race. A
water ski show will follow the
main program at 3 p. m.
The annual event is sponsored
by Shriners of Columbus and
Brunswiok and New Hanover
counties for benefit of the Shrin
ers endowed hospital in Green
ville, S. C.
Last year’s affair, held at Lake
Waccamaw had an attendance in
excess of 5,000 with the Shriners
turning over proceeds to their
Crippled Children’s Hospital in
the amount of $3,000.
A spokesman for the club said
this year’s race has been sanct
ioned by the National Outboard
Racing Association, with the
winners to be qualified to run for
the national championships.
Buck Horton of Whiteville,
coordinator of the production,
said the race is expected to have
the participation of top racers of
the country.
The Charlotte Water Ski Club
members will make a return en
gagement to provide another
thrilling exhibition of the variat
ions of their sport, he said. In
cluded will be skiers who will
soar high above the water while
clinging to mammouth kites.
Continued On Page Four
Art Festival Is
Successful Event
Elizabeth Zachery of Long
Beach took top honors in the 1964
Annual Southport Arts Festival,
July 3-5. Mrs. Zachery received
the Berman Cup awarded for
overall Best In Show for a large
oil painting on titled “Composit
ion In Blue".
The show was judged by Dr.
Senta Dieteel Bier of Raleigh,
critic and art writer, whose back
ground includes work as Art Li
brarian with the United States
School for Fine Arts in Berlin,
the Bavarian National Museum
in Munich and the Residene
Museum in Munich.
Mrs. Bier has also lectured in
art history in Germany and the
University of Louisville and Bel
lermine College in this country.
She served as art editor of the
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Other top prizes in the 1964
Southport Arts Festival went to
artists from Winston-Salem;
Washington, D. C.; Mt, Holly;
Wilmington and Southport.
In the oil painting division first
prize went to Edith Saunders
('Mrs. H. K.) of Winston-Salem;
Second Prize, Dean Barber of Mt.
Holly; Third Prize, Gilliam Horn
stein of Southport; Honorable
Mention, C. D. Pickerrell of
Southport.
Marion Taylor (Mrs. R. H.) of
Winston-Salem won first in the
water color division; second prize
Allen Evry of Washington, D. C.)
Third prize, Regina Parrish of
Winston-Salem; Honorable Men
tion, Peggy Jean Lewis of Long
Beach. Mrs. Taylor received the
Bragaw Cup, awarded by Dr. and
Mrs. Norman Hornstein of South
port.
The Oliver Cup for Best in Craft
•went to John P. Lewis for a wood
carving. Second prize in crafts
was won by 14 year old John
Garrett of Raleigh for a free form
in wood. Betty Murrell’s mosiac
won third prize. Mrs. Murrell is
from Wilmington. Honorable
Mention in Crafts went to Jinx
Continued On Page Four
Mail Notices
Of Measurement
All measurement acreage crop
notices have been mailed, Man
ager Ralph Price of the Agricul
tural Stabilization and Conserva
tion Service in Shallotte said
Tuesday.
“We finished mailing out all
notices on measured acreage
crops in the county Tuesday,”
Manager Price said. “The first
notices were sent out on June 29,
so you can see what a big job it
was.”
He urged all farmers in the
county to look at their notices
closely. “If a farmer, is in
excess he should contact the of
fice not later than the date list
ed on the notice,” Manager Price
added.
A team of discount tobacco spe
cialists was in Brunswick last
week and could not find any. “I
am proud of the fact that our
county farmers did not plant any
of the discount variety of tobacco
this year,” he declared.
more man iu,uuu people jomeu
the crew of the USS Murray to
help celebrate an old fashioned
Fourth of July in Southport last
weekend.
The festivities which drew the
large crowd included tours, food,
art, fireworks, solfball and prizes.
The project was sponsored by the
Southport Junior Chamber of
Commerce and the City of South
port.
Jaycee President William Pp- _
well said the crew members qf.
the Murray enjoyed their stay iij. -
Southport so much that they *
would like to return next year ijf -
possible. '
Southport city officials ar- -
ranged with Congressman Alton *
Lennon to have the ship sent tq.
Southport for the famous Amer-'
ican holiday period. The Jaycees I
joined in the sponsorship of the -
project to help make it a success. ’
The Murray arrived in South- -
port Thursday morning and wap *
greeted by Jaycee and city ojfi*
ficials. Southport Mayor E. B. -
Tomlinson welcomed Command^ *
Robert E. Adams and the crew..
Wilmington Mayor O. O. Alls- -
brook came down Friday to wel- *
come the party.
Friday noon the Jaycee and *
city officials attended a lunch-1
eon aboard the ship with the of- ■
ficers. Commander Adams pre-1
sented Mayor Tomlinson a plaque -
in appreciation to the two spon-*
soring groups.
The public was allowed to visit"
the destroyer Saturday afternoon,
and all day Sunday. The Army*
recreation boats were on duty to I
transport some 2,000 spectators*
to the boat and back. *
The personnel of the Murray
was taken on bus tours of points'
of interest in Brunswick county,.
Saturday afternoon and Sunday.
The ship’s crew and the public
had dinner at the Community
Building Saturday,, with the sail
ors as guests. The Daughters of
America provided, prepared, and
arranged the food. , i
All day Saturday the Jaycees
and the city provided music and ■
announcement service our loud
speakers at Whittier’s Bench.
Before the awarding of the.
prizes Saturday night, some 72
(Continued on Page *) .
Must Apply For -•
Gas Tax Refund;
I
Cash in the form of refunds
from taxes paid on gasoline used
for non-highway purposes is rest
ing in state and federal coffers,,
waiting to be claimed by Bruns
wick county farmers.
Farmers are permitted by law
to claim a six-cent refund from
the state and a four-cent refund
from the federal government on
each gallon of gasoline they utee
in farm tractors and other farm
equipment.
Last year refunds were applied
for from only 155 of Brunswick
County’s 526 farms, represent
ing a sizeable loss in net income
to these farmers who did not file
a claim.
To receive the refund, a farm
er must file applications with the
U. S. and N. C. Department of
Internal Revenue between July 1
and September 30, points out Jim
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, July 9
7:32 A. M. 1:44 A. M.
8:02 P. M. 1:48 P. M.
Friday, July 10,
8:29 A. M. 2:36 A, M.
8:55 P. M. 2:41 P. M.,
Saturday, July 11,
9:24 A. M. 3:27 A. M,
10:47 P. M. 3:34 P. M.
Sunday, July 12,
10:19 A. M. 4:16 A. M.,
11:37 P. M. 4:26 P. M.
Monday, July 13,
11:13 A. M. 5:05 A. M.
12:27 P. M. 5:19 P. M.
Tuesday, July 14,
12:06 A. M. 5:54 A. M.
6 :13 P. Mi
Wednesday, July 15, t
0:16 A. M. 6:43 A. M.
12:59 P. M. 7:10 P. M.
VH.,:, >■