The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
Volume 24
No. 19
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SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1964
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Southport Homecoming Queen
MISS BRENDA JORDAN was crowned 1964
Homecoming Queen for Southport High School Friday
night during haiftime festivities at the football game.
She is a senior and is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Clay Jordan of Long Beach. (Staff Photo by Allen)
Shallotte Homecoming Queen
MISS YVONNE CHADWICK was crowned Home
coming Queen during halftime ceremonies Friday night
at the Whiteville-Shallotte football game. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Chadwick of Shal
lotte Point. (Staff Photo by Allen)
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HISTORICAL, SOCIETY
The Brunswick County Histor
ical Society will meet Monday
evening Southport in quarterly
session. Plans will be completed
for the 200th Anniversary cele
bration for Brunswick county on
November 15 at Brunswick Town.
HOLIDAY WEDNESDAY
The Waccamaw Bank and Trust
Company at Southport and Shal
Jotte and the security Savings
and Loan at Southport and Shal
lotte will be closed all day Wed
nesday in observation of Vet
eran’s Day.
BOARD MEETING CHANGED
The Brunswick County Board of
Education will hold its regular
meeting on Tuesday, November
10th. The change was necessary
due to Election Day on Novem
ber 3.
PLANS VISITS
Congressman Alton Lennon has
announced that he will visit
■Brunswick county in December.
He will tour the county December
16 and be in the Courthouse in
(Southport December 17»
4
Adult Education
Program Expands
Interest in adult education is
once again on the upswing, says
Assistant Superintendent of
County Schools Bill Williams who
has six courses underway and at
least four more due to start with
in the next two weeks.
Commercial courses in typing,
bookkeeping, and related areas
have to this point been in greatest
demand Williams declared. “Two
vocational courses, welding and
bricklaying, are currently operat
ing. One academic course is oper
ating and another is scheduled to
begin this week.
“We have been a little surpris
ed that there have not been more
requests for academic courses,
he said. “Perhaps it is because
the public has not become suf
ficiently aware of what is avail
able.’’
The acadmemic program for
adults consists of three major
types of courses; literacy courses
for those wishing to learn to read
and write or to gain proficiency
in reading and writing; pre-sec
ondary courses for those wishing
to review the grammar school
curriculum; and secondary edu
cation courses for adults wishing
to obtain a high school diploma.
“Other types of adult courses
are virtually the same as they
have been in the past and offer a
wide variety of training,” he add
ed
“A survey of the Adult Edu
cation Program in Brunswick
County, school district by school
district indicates that the major-*
ity have at least one course cur
rently operating,” he pointed out.
“Some districts have already est
ablished starting dates for future
course while others are present
ly in the planning stages."
SHALLOTTE
Principal Winfred B. Johnson
has announced that a course in
Secondary Education I will begin
a 7:30 Thursday at Shallotte High
School. The class was organized
at a general meeting held at
Supply on Wednesday and is
scheduled to meet for two hours
each Tuesday and Thursday until
a total of 72 clock hours have
been completed, which will mean
a duration of approximately 18
weeks. William Simon will be the
Continued On Page Four
4-H Achievement
Night Tuesday
Final plans have heen made
made for the 1984 Annual 4-H
achievement Program to be held
at the Extension Service Building
in Supply on November 10, begin
ning at 7:30 p. m. During the pro
gram the 4-H members will be
awarded for the accomplishments
that they made during the year.
•Leaders and merchants will also
be recognized for a job well done
of leading 4-H’ers and backing
the program.
The following committee as
signments have been made:
Chairman and co-chairman of
•over-all program, A. S. Knowles
and Mrs. Knowles; Program
committee, Miss Billie F. Hamil
ton, chairman, and Mrs. Early
•Smith; arrangements and decor
ating committee, Burnett Cole
man, chairman, Mrs. Betty Cheer
and Mrs. Eva Gray; recreation
committee, A. S. Knowles, Mrs.
A. S. Knowles and Bolivia Senior
Club members. Refreshment
•committee, Miss Hamilton, chair
man, Mrs. Estelle Hewett and
Mrs. Betty Galloway; publicity
Committee, Mrs. Freeman He
wett, chairman, and Burnett
Coleman; clean-up committee,
Continued On Page Four
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Governor Dan K. Moore
Security Savings & Loan
Office At Shallotte
The Savings & Loan Associa- *
tion founded in Southport 53
years ago by a group of thrift
minded, development conscious
local citizens takes a drastic new
step this week with the opening
of a second office at Shallotte.
Not only that, but as the move
is made the name will be changed
* fP&fh - Southpcfei vKat^nga^ & Loan
Association to Security Savings &
Loan Association, probably in or
der to diminish any sales resist
ance that might be involved in
having the word Southport as a
part of the firm name of a Shal
lotte business. As a matter of
fact, it is the second time within
the past 10 years that the name
of the association has been chang
ed, for it started out in life as
the Southport Building & Loan.
The Shallotte office will be
quartered in the building form
erly occupied by the Waccamajw
Bank & Trust Co. D. H. Hawes,
Bolivia merchant and former
Brunswick county tax collector,
is the new assistant secretary
treasurer and will be in charge
of the Shallotte office.
The new branch will be open '
for business tomorrow (Thurs
day) and registration will be ih
progress for a period of 10 days
before awarding prizes in con
nection with the formal opening
on November 11.
Current assets of the associa
tion are $3,800,000 as compared
with assets totaling about $240,000
in 1946.
H. T. St. George is president
of the association; D. C. Herring
is vice-president; W. P. Jorgen
sen, secretary-treasurer; E. H.
Kirby, H. Foster Mintz, L. J. Har
dee and S. B. Frink, directors.
There have been just five pres-,
idents in the 53-year history of
the association. They were M. C.
Guthrie, J. A. Northrop, J. N.
Daniel, R. C. Daniel and St.
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Time To Justify,
REA Members Told
Southport Trawler
Sinks In Florida
The Dusty, 60-foot trawler of
the Southport shrimping fleet
owned by Merrit Moore, ran
around on a reef at the entrance
of the inlet at New Smyrna Beach
Friday and was lost. With the
heavy seas subsiding, salvage
operations were being undertaken
Monday.
Two members of the crew, Ben
Garrett and another Southport
man, got off without injury.
The Dusty left Southport about
two weeks ago and had stopped
at Fernandino before proceeding
outside to New Smyrna, where
the Moore boats were to work
until Christmas.
The vessel was valued at more!
than $20,000 and was not insured.
Letter Thanks
Crash Rescuers
Joe Mickey of High ,Point is
recovering in a hospital in his
home city from injuries sustained
in an airplane crash near South
port on the evening of October 9.
He has dictated the following let
ter of appreciation to his wife:
“On Friday evening, October 9,
just after the sun had set X was
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TIME and TIDE
It was November 4, 1959, and Brunswick county citizens
supported all nine bond proposals for state improvements, in
cluding port development for Southport, but two were rejected
state wide. Plans were announced to lay the cornerstone at
the proposed Yaupon Beach Methodist Church Sunday. >
Old age, survivor’s and disability insurance coming into
Brunswick county each year amounted to $714,000, the Social
Security Commission announced. The State Highway Commis
sion said $373,468.42 would be spent on secondary roads in
Brunswick county by June 30, 1960.
It was November 3, 1954, and all Democrats swept into
office in the general election Tuesday with majorities ranging
from 600 to 11 votes. It was announced that federal disaster
funds would be made available to Hurricane Hazel victims,
recover from the storm. Good catches of king mackerel were
recover from the storm. Good catches of king macherel were
being made by party boats. Misses Sallie and Margaret Tom
linson of Fayetteville, who were among the first to build water
front cottages at Long Beach, were rebuilding.
It was November 2, 1944, and W. S. Wells, Southport sea
food dealer, announced he was changing his three blade pro
Continued On Page Four
a. cnauenge aemanamg jusun
cation for another 25 years off ser
vice marked the annual meeting
Friday of the Brunswick Elec
tric Membership Corporation.
The REA, declared William T.
Crisp, general counsel for the
state association of electric co
ops, was founded by legislation
and it will die by legislation.
Accordingly, Crisp emphasized,
the continued existence of BEMC
iepends on how hard you work
to maintain the co-op that start
ed out with 150 members and
about 150 miles of lines 25 years
ago and now has grown to 2,000
miles of lines with over 11,000
members.
The guest speaker pointed out
that private power is moving into
REA territory and “they intend
to take you over for they are big
and they have plenty of money to
spend and they wall spend it.’*
The occasoin was dubbled as
the Silver Anniversary, 25 years
since the co-op was originally es
tablished with Dr. E. D. Bishop
as the first and continuing exe
cutive director.
Congressman Alton Lennon, In
brief remarks, reminded the
4,000-plus members present that
25 years ago there was darkness
and silence in rural America. -
Today, Lennon declared, there
is light and power and the hum
of contented voices in ' rural
America. And REA, he said, is
Continued On Page Four
Southport Man
Takes Own Life
A Southport man entered a
local grocery store-service stat
ion early Friday night, sat down
and shot himself in the head.
The death of Maness Garfield
Cole, 57, was ruled a suicide by
County Coroner Lowell Bennett
of Shallatte. He added that no
inquest would be held.
Police Chief Herman Strong
said Cole entered Lee’s Grocery,
located at the edge of the South
port city limits, about 7:45 p. m.
Friday, sat down, told everyone
good-bye and committed suicide
by shooting himself in the head
with a .32 calibre pistol. Mrs.
Mozele Lee and Mrs. Nancy
Davis witnessed the shooting but
were helpless to prevent it.
Chief Strong said he could give
no reason why Cole would take
his own life. Earlier Friday, he
had been involved in a minor
automobile accident and had been
cited to court for following too
closely, the chief said. Cole also
had trouble with his legs, he
added.
Cole lived in rented room in a
house on Moore street in South
port. He was employed by the
State Highway Commission as a
bridge tender.
'Brunswick county went along
with the State of North Carolina
and the nation in the general elec
tion Tuesday to give a convinc
ing majority to Democratic can
didates.
The Johnson-Humphrey ticket
scored a 4,214 to 3,708 victory in
this county to go along with their
victory in North Carolina and
their sweep of votes throughout
the United States.
Dan K. Moore polled 4,192 votes
to 3,751 for Robert Gavin in
■Brunswick county voting as
Moore won easily on the state
level. Robert Scott, Democratic
■candidate for lieutenant gover
nr, led all contestants with 4,334
votes to 3,311 for Cecil Bell, his
Republican opponent.
All Democrat candidates for
county office were elected by a
convincing majority, ranging
from a 1,057 plurality for Regis
ter of Deeds Durwood Clark over
Betty Warren to a 446-vote ma
jority for Clinton Bellamy over
Carl Andrews.
It was a record vote for Bruns
wick county, with almost 8,000
voters going to the polls.
The School Improvement Bond
plan received about a 4 to 1 vote
of approval in Brunswick county
and also gained approval through
out the state.
Because of the size of the vote,
the count carried on info the
■morning hours, and some of the
returns are incomplete, including
a complete tally on the state tick
et and some of the precinct re
turns on the bond election. No
township election returns are in
cluded.
■In the race for House of Rep
resentatives Odell Williamson
polled 4,129 votes to 3,419 for
Harold Willetts.
Clark polled 4,294 votes for Reg
ister of Deeds to 3,237 for Mrs.
Warren.
Bellamy had 4,032 votes for Re
corder’s judge to 3,586 for An
drews.
In the race for county commis
sioner in Northwest township
G. T. Gourk 4,117, T. J. Gillis
3,170; Town Creek, James T. Huff
'ham, 3,388; Smithville, T. S. Bow
mer, 4,103, Claude Harrelson
3,009; Lockwoods Folly, Clemit
Holden 4,208, Martin Nielsen,
2,992; Shallotte, D. B. Frink
3,956, Rudaiw Russ 3,266; Wacca
maw, Parley Formyduval 4,034.
Registrars will meet tomorrow
(Thursday) at the court house in
Southport to canvas the returns
and to turn in the registration
books to the board of elections.
Southport Lady
New Coordinator
A Southport woman has re
cently been appointed guidance
coordinator for the white schools
of Brunswick county, says Su
perintendent A. W. Taylor.
Mrs. Irene Mankins serves in
the same capacity in the Negro
schools.
Mrs. James T. Barnes will visit
the five white high schools to
coordinate the work of the coun
selor in each school, the supervis
ing of testing programs in high
school and the college and train
ing entrance requirements.
“•Students need help in analyz
ing their educational and voca
tional potentialities and in learn
ing about opportunities for full
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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, November 5
8:26 A. M. 2:12 A. M.
8:34 P. M. 2:48 P. M.
Friday, November 6
9:30 A. M. 2:50 A. M.
9:10 P. M. 3:29 P. M.
Saturday, November 7
9:40 A. M. 3:28 A. M.
10:45 P. M. 4:08 P. M.
Sunday, November 8
10:17 A. M. 4:03 A. M.
11:22 P. M. 4:50 P. M.
Monday, November 9
11:00 A. M. 4:42 A. M.
11:04 P. M. 5:33 P. M.
Tuesday, November 10
11:40 A. M. 5:24 A. M.
11: 51 P. M. 6:21 P. M.
Wednesday, November 11
12:29 A. M. 6:11 A. M.
7:14 P. M.