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Volume 24
No. 17
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SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1964
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Marines At Sunny Point
EMBARK—Several thousand members of the Second Marine Division from
Camp Lejeune are shown here as they board ships at Sunny Point for a training
exercise that will carry them to Spain. ■ ' 7-.
Marines Board
For Exercises
With Spainards
Several thousand Marine Corps
personnel of the Second Marine
Division, Camp Lejeune, were
©utloaded through Sunny Point
Army Terminal during the period
October 7-17. They are about to
participate in Exercise Seel
Pike X.
Steel Pike I is a Navy-Marine
Corps joint amphibious assault
exercise in Spain which will see
60,000 men aboard 80 U. S. Ships
, and U Spanish warships partic
ipating in 26 October D-Day land
ings.
Going ashore will be 28,000 Ma
rines of the Second Marine Di
vision, Second Air Force units
will also participate.
The Amphibious Task Force
Commander is Vice Admiral John
S. McCain, Jr., who commands
Atlantic Fleet Amphibious Force
while L/t. General J. P. Berkeley,
Fleet Marine Force Atlantic,
Atlantic, heads the Second Ma
rine Expeditionary Force.
-NEWS-1
FLIES TO CHILE
Mrs. Otis Gamer left this week
for Iquique, Chile, to join her
husband, who is employed there.
WSCS BAZAAR
A WSCS bazaar will be held in
the Daughters of America build
ing -Friday, November 13.
REGISTRATION CLOSES
Saturday will be the last day
the registration books will be
open prior to the General Elect
ion on November 3. Registrars
will be at the poll in their res
pective predict all day Saturday.
ELECTRICAL INSPECTOR
Otto Hickman resigned as elec
trical inspector of Smithville
township and Hibert Brittain
was named to replace him at a
meeting of the Board of County
Commissioners, Monday.
CATHOLIC SUPPER
The Sacred Heart Catholic
Church will have a spaghetti sup
per on Thursday from 5:30 to 7:30
at the Sacred Heart Parish House
and tickets will be sold at the
door.
BENEFIT fish fry
The Men of the Ocean View
Methodist Church will have a fish
fry on Saturday starting at 5
o’clock,. A free will offering will
be taken.
HOMECOMING DAY
There will be a homecoming
Sunday at Elah Baptist Church.
Rev. Joe Stanley, former pastor,
will be the guest speaker for the
Ilo’clock service. Lunch will be
served and special singing will
be presented. Revival services
will begin at 7:30 the same even
ing Rev. Earl Henry, Central
Baptist Church', Kannapolis, is
visiting Minister. Rev. Bruce
i: •* Lanier, pastor, invites ail friends
and formers members.
Long Beach Post
Dan L. Walker, /w*ho has served «
for the past four years as town
manager at Long Beach, has ad
vised Mayor E. F. Middleton
that he will submit his resigna
tion at the next meeting of the
town council on November 19. He.
also requests the mayor, to ar
range to have an auditor check
him out at that time.
The concluding paragraph of
Walker’s letter follows: , r ’
‘ ‘The past four years have been
full * ones for all of us due to the
phenomenal growth of the Town'.'1
Time and hindsight,' I am- sure,
will uncover fields In which we
could have improved. I am also
more confident that the future •
will Show 'that we have laid or
planned a foundation upon which
solid healthy growth may be
built. My activities during these
four years have been challeng
ing and have been enjoyable and
well worth the sometime trying
and exhausting efforts.”
The board of commissioners
appointed a committee of two to
work with the Long Beach Vol
unteer Fire Department in plan
ning a fund-raising drive.
Funds raised by the fire depart
ment will be used to buy a site
and materials for a new fire
house, according to Fire Chief
Nick Coleman. He said members
of the department would supply
labor at no charge.
Appointed to the commission
er’s committee were the two
resident commissioners on the
board, W. W. Vennel and E. W,
Morgan.
The board also heard from a
group of builders regarding the
lack of a building code tailored
to Long Beach. Clay Jordan,
•Long Beach superintendent of
Public Works and Town Building
inspecto.. reported on a meeting
of local builders. Jordan said the
builders want a firm and specific
building code, and they want it
enforced.
C. L. Sides, Long Beach con
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Freeland Citizen
Heads Fanners
W. B. Mintz of Freeland has
been named Brunswick County
Chairman of the Rural Americans
°f JohnscnvHu mphre y. This is a
nationwide, non-partisan, educa
tional effort headed by Robert W.
Scott, Democratic nominee for
Lieutenant Governor, to inform
rural people about what the two
presidential candidates have to
say about the farm program.
Upon being named (Brunswick
County Chairman, Mintz said,
“Every farmer and small-town
business man who is dependent
upon agriculture for his livelihood
should study the issues and what
the candidates have to say about
them. In my opinoon,” continued
Mintz, “there should be no ques
tion as to which candidate would
be the choice of the farmer if he
will look at their voting record
and read what they have to say
concerning agriculture.”
Mintz added that the Rural
Americans for Johnson
Humpbrey effort was being wag
ed in the interest of farm and
farm-related businesses.
DAVID BLACKWELL
New Lawyer To
Practice Here
Southport attorney Kirby Sulli
van announced Monday that
David M. Blackwell will be as
sociated with him in the practice
of law and the firm’s name will
'be changed to Sullivan and Black
well.
Blackwell, 25, is a native of
'Ruffin in Rockingham county. He
graduated from the University o<
of North Carolina with an A. B.
degree in 1961 and law school in
1963. He has served in the U. S.
Navy. .
The new layer was recommend
ed to Sullivan by former UNC
Daw School Dean Henry Brandis,
who spends his summers at Hold
en Beach.
Blackwell is unmarried and
lives at 108 Atlantic avenue in
Southport.
There are 10 lawyers in South
port at the present time.
Republicans Here
In Dinner Meet
A Fayetteville man called on
Brunswick county residents to
put the interest of America first
instead of their own at a Republi
can rally at the Community
Building in Southport Saturday
night.
‘“We have been losing our free
dom in America because we think
we can vote for economic secur
ity instead of working for it”,
Morehead Stack, co-chairman of
the Goldwater for President dis
trict committee told some 127 res
idents at the supper-rally.
“We denounce government
give-a-ways when the other fel
low gets it, but not when it
comes our way”, he declared.
“The American people have had
a misplaced faith in government
al power and it has grown, ex
panded and centralized. We have
forgotten that any government
powerful enough to give away can
also take away”.
Stack said he was a strong sup
porter of Senator Barry Gold
water, Republican candidate for
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Survey Need Of
More Education
Work For Adults
An organizational meeting will
T)e held alt the Agriculture Build
ing at Supply next Wednes
day to determine the extent of in
terest in adult classes which lead
to a high school diploma.
Classes in academic areas are
a pant of the expanded adult edu
cation program. The particular
type course to be discussed next
Wednesday is of seventy-two
hours in length and is designed
primarily for persons who drop
ped out of high school in the tenth
or eleventh grades. The only age
requirement is that students must
'be over 18 years of age. Ex
ceptions may be made in the case
of students under 18 whose classes
have graduated from high school.
There is no maximum age limit.
The course consists of instruc
tion in the areas of math, Eng
lish, science, and social studies.
Upon completion of 72 clook hours
of review in these areas the stu
dents are advised by their in
structor as to whether they are
ready to be tested for the di
ploma. Experience has revealed
that 60 percent of the students
have received sufficient review
toy this time.
Adult classes in academic areas
are part of the expanded adult
education program which in
Brunswick county is co-sponsored
by the Board of Education and the
Cape Fear Technical Institute.
. Academic courses are of three
types: (1) those designed to give
instruction in basis reading and
writing, (2) those dealing with a
review of elementary school cur
riculum, (3) those leading to a
high school diploma. Although the
meeting on October 28 will be pri
marily concerned with the third
level, persons interested in either
of the cither levels are welcomed
to attend.
Adult Education courses in vo
cational subjects are stall avail
able. Last year classes were con
ducted in many areas including
welding, electrical house wiring,
small engine repair, bookkeeping,
navigation, and diesel machinics.
Persons interested in this type of
training should contact Assistant
Supertendent of Schools W. N.
Williams at the Board of Educa
tion Office in Southport. The pri
mary requirement for organizing
vocatinal classes is that at least
ten adults be interested in talking
a particular course.
Boarding Home
Off The Market
(Members of the Board of Coun
ty Commissioners met in special
session here this afternoon and
rejected the only bid received on
the Brunswick County Boarding
Home when that property was of
fered for sale at public auction
today (Wednesday) at noon.
The commissioners voted to
take the property off the market.
A. V. Phelps, Jr., of Leland
was the only bidder. His bid was
$10,000.
The sale was conducted by
County Attorney S. B. Frink,
who gave as his opinion that the
clause providing that the proper
ty must continue in use as a
boarding home is valid.
About 30 persons attended the
auction, including three members
of the present board of county
commissioners.
At Democrat Fish Fry
^ DUTY-—Paul Dennis, left and Bedford Ludlum, right foreground, seem to
be doing most of the work at the Democratic rally Saturday, with Party Chairman
.bmest E. Parker, left and Nelson Bennett, right, looking on. Several hundred per
sons were fed during the supper period. (Staff Photo by ABeti)
County Democrats
Rally At Shallotte
REV. EDWARD B. JORDAN
Jordan Resigns
At St. Phillips
Rev. Edward B. Jordan, the
only Episcopal minister in Bruns
wick, has resigned as pastor of
three county churches to accept
a call to Grifton.
Rev. Jordan will take over his
new duties as pastor of St. John’s
Episcopal Church in this town
located in Pitt county on Novem
ber 1.
He will prech his last sermon
Sunday at St. Phillips in South
port, St. James in Shallotte and
All Souls in Northwest.
“I have enjoyed Brunswick
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TIME and TIDE
It was October 21, 1959, and two county doctors, Dr. N. M.
Hornstedn of Southport and Dr. E. M. Graves of Shallotte, an
nounced plans to leave Brunswick soon. Miss Ann Cumbee was
honored as the first queen of the Brunswick Baptist Association.
Children and young people were making good use of the
Southport Public Library, a report revealed. Donnie Hewett,
Linda Gore and Don Marie Fulford were writing the Shallotte
school news column in The State Port Pilot. The State Highway
Department was erecting rural road number signs in the
county.
It was October 20, 1954, and Hurricane Hazel had hit
Brunswick County early Friday morning, killing at least 12
persons and causing six to eight million dollars in property
damage. Seventeen pictures of the damage were printed in The
State Port Pilot that week.
County Welfare Superintendent Edward Sexton, trying
to determine the damage to the courthouse roof fell 18 feet to
the flooring at the head of the stairway, breaking his arm.
Kenneth Hardee and Kendall Hardee, both of Shallotte, and
Joe Cochran of Southport, were members of the State College
Freshman football squad.
It was October 19, 1949, and Colonel Ivan Bennett, a
Brunswick county man, was serving as the staff chaplain in
General Douglas McAuthur’s headquarters in Japan. Four of
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f One of the. most enthusiastic
Democratic party rallies of re
cent years was held Saturday
night at Shallotte High School, ’
Where a fish fry in the cafeteria
was followed by a series of f
speeches to an open-air audience •
estimated at about 350 persons.
Judge Raymond Mallars spoke
of the history of being a Demo
crat and related the progress that ■
has come to the State of North
Carolina and this area of the
State during 64 consecutive
years of Democratic administra
tion on that level.’He urged that
the trend be continued for anoth
er four years.
He was joined on the speaker’s
platform by Emedt E. Parker,
Jr., chairman of the Brunswick
County Democratic Executive
Committee, who served as mas
ter of ceremonies for the occa
sion.
Other speakers included Sena
tor Ray H. Walton and former
Senator and Representative S.
Bunn Frink, who urged Bruns
wick county Democrats to get to
work to insure a sweeping party
victory this fall “from the Court
House to the White House”.
Judge R. I. Mintz, who had
another engagement in an adjoin
ing county, made a brief appear
ance at the Shallotte rally.
The Democrat Candidates
were introduced by the party
chairman and made brief appear
ances before the crowd.
Everyone was urged to attend
the Seventh District Rally which
was held in Whiteville on Mon
day night of this week.
Shiloh Church
Homecoming Set
Shiloh Methodist Church, will
hold its Homecoming service on
Sunday beginning at 11 a. m. The
Rev. Trade Varnum, of Mar
shallburg, will deliver the morn
ing sermon. He is a native of
Supply, and served his first pas
torage at the Shiloh Church from
1947-49.
Shiloh Church was organized
in the year 1900. Serving as the
first trustees of the Church were
the late G. W. Benton, J. W.
Mintz, and A. S. Benton. The
first pastor was the late Rev.
J. T. (Tam) Browning. Since
most of the building was done lo
cally by the men of the com
munity, it was necessary to hold
S e r v i c es in the community
school house which was located
approximately one mile from the
present site. It took almost 2
years to complete the church.
Services were held for the first
time in the church on the 2nd
Sunday in June of the year 1902.
At the time the church was or
ganized, there were ten mem
bers. Today the membership is
72. A new educational building to
serve the growing needs of the
community was completed in
1960.
Lunch will be served in the
Fellowship Hall of the church im
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LETA POUTING
Art Treasures
From Southport
Go On Exhibit
St. John’s Art Gallery opened
its 1964-05 Season with an ex
hibition, “Treasures of Southeast
ern North Carolina,” a collection
of over 150 privately owned pieces
from homes in the counties of
Brunswick, Duplin, Columbus,
New Hanover, Onslow, Pender
and Robeson. The exhibition in
cludes paintings, sculpture, fur
niture and decorative objects.
Paintings and sculpture range
from the early Flemish and
Italian to the contemporary.
Furniture in the collection in
cludes fine examples of English,
French and Early American
tables, desks, lowboys and chairs.
Among the decorative items
are a 13th century Chinese Budda,
17 pieces of 18th century pewter
and a Dresden coffee service.
Other sculpture by Epstein in
cluded in the exhibit are
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Beach Grass Is
Now Available
A beach grass, that has proven
quite effective in stopping ero
sion is being grown and offered
for sale by the Division of For
estry of the State Department of
Conservation and Development.
Known as American Beach
Grass, it has been used rather
extensively on the New Jersey
coast for control of wind and wa
ter erosion, according to Phillip
A. Griffiths, Assistant State For
ester in charge of Forest Manage
ment and Nurseries for the C & D
Department.
Griffiths said that the grass has
proven so effective in experi
mental plantings last year on the
North Carolina coast that the Di
vision of Forestry stepped up its
production of this grass for the
next planting season this fall and
winter.
Orders for American Beach
Grass, which costs $7.50 per 1,000
FOB the State Nursery at Clay
ton, can be placed through the of
fice of the County Forester or
from the County Farm Agents of- j
fice in Brunswick County. ,i
Department Of
On Quarter Work
The Brunswick County Health
Department has been extremely
active during the months of July,
August and September in all
phases of its activities, says Dr.
Black, county health director.
The department made 287
immunizations against dipththe
ria, whooping cough and tetanus
combined, 104 for diphtheria and
tetanus combined, 7 for tetanus,
102 for polio, 37 for typhoid and
130 other shots.
No new cases of tuberculosis
were reported. The department
made 214 x-rays. They gave 48
tuberculosis tests and 43 .. were
negative.
Same 56 expectant mothers vis
ited the maternity clinics and the
nurses visited 36 other mothers
to-be. The nurses checked one
midwife.
During the three months, 66 in
fants and 183 children took part
in clinics. The nurses visited 22
other infants and 129 other chil
dren.
The department examined 143
school age children and
referred 79 far addition medical
or dental care. On this number,
■three children received medical
care and 10 dental work.
Some 50 county residents are
receiving attention under the
chronical disease program. Nine
new patients were added and four
released from the program. The
department made 436 visits to
patients.
The Health department proces
sed 71 births and 39 death cer
tificates. Two infant deaths under
one month old were reported.
The department found two new
cassea of syphilis and three of
gonorrhea in Brunswick county.
All five dairies under supervi
sion of the department were vis
ited once and 22 milk samples
were made.
The Department made 129 vis
its to the 119 food handling es
tablishments in the county. One
permit was revolked.
: The department inspec '“"ftnd
Okayed two water supj#, 'but
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Health
Jury List For
October Term
Some 40 county residents have
been selected to serve on the jury
for the civil term of Brunswick
County Superior Court beginning
October 26.
The names chosen by the Board
of County Commissioners include
Jackie J. Vamum, Freeman
Kirby, Charles M. Roach, Ben
Hewett, William H. Royals, Jam
es W. Bellamy, R. W. Holden and
Elbert Sprunt Clemmorj all of
Supply;
Ralph Potter, Roscoe Rogers,
Jr., Oraig M. Caster, John W.
Lancaster, Jr., Elmer B. Sellers,
Dallas Pigott, and Robert McKen
zie, all of Southport;
Philip L. Thomas, C. A. Reaves,
Robert E. Smith, Alonzo Holden,
Jr., G. E. Henderson, Joseph K.
Smith, Allen Stanley, Jr., and
Thomas Calvin Batson, all of
Shallotte;
Thomas Grant Gore and T.tetr»n
L. Babson, both of Ash;
J. W. Lewis, Herbert F. Wil
liams, E. S. Skipper, R. E. Ward,
Lee Sullivan and J. O. Moore,
all of Leland;
Horace M. Johnson, C. S. Faulk,
L. W. Willetts, and Arthur Gore’
All of Bolivia;
J. W. Willetts of Winnabow;
and Luther M. Stephenson of
Longwood.
Tide Table
Following in the tide
table for Southport during
the week. These hours are
approximately correct «»d
were furnished The State
Port Pilot through the
courtesy of the Cape Fear
Pilot’s Association.
HIGH LOW
Thursday, October 23
8:19 A.M. 2:20 A.M.
8:42 P. M. 2:55 P. M.
Friday, October 23
9:08 A. M. 3:0« a. M.
9:31 P. M. 3;45 p M
Saturday, October 24
10:00 A. M. 3:54 a. M.
10:25 P. M. 4:38 p. M.
Sunday, October 25
10:57 A. M. 4:45 A. M.
11:25 P. M. 5:35 P. M.
Monday, October 26
11:58 A. M. 5:42 A. M
6:37 P. M.
Tuesday, October 27
0*31 A. M. 6:45 A. M.
1:02 P. M 7:43 P. M.
Wednesday, October 28
1:38 A. M. 7:53 A. M.
2:07 P. M. 8:47 P. M