The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
THE STATE PORT
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
Volume 24
No. 20
8-Pages Today
SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1964
Marineology Building Decorated
BEAUTIFIED—The Marineology building in Southport recently has been de
corated by the students. The internationa 1 flags painted across the top spell out
the name, and the numeral pennants show the date. Preston Bryant is the teach
er. (Staff photo by Allen.)
Brunswick 4-H %
Awards Program Held
A total of 46 blue ribbons were .
presented for 132 exhibitions at
the annual Brunswick county 4-H
achievement program at Supply
Tuesday night.
Miss Barbara Knowles and
Steve Hewett took top honors,
the achievement medals and cer
tificates. The junior achievement
award was presented to Lynn
Hewett.
County champions announced
at the program included Meta
'Gail McNeil, senior, and Lynn
Hewett, junior, dress revue;
Julia Hewett, public speaking,
foods and nutrition and dairy
foods; Lynn Hewett, home im
provement and home econom
ics; junior health princess, and
medal winner in foods and
nutrition; Faye Clemmons,
county health queen; Barbara
Knowles, clothing, and Linda
Cheers, Lynn Hewett and Meta
Gail McNeil, clothing medal
winners.
County champions in the agri
cultural divisions include Kelly
Reynolds, corn and garden;
Julian Bell, soybeans and fores
try; Harvey Bell, field crops,
tractor, agriculture, and district
tractor winner; Eddie Hufham,
health king with Jimmy Gray,
junior winner; Steve Hewett;
electric; with Richard Jones
as medal winner; Larry Holden
and Julian Bell, medal winners
in agriculture. Larry Holden
also won a medal in field crops.
Certificates of merit were
awarded the adult leaders of the
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POWER INTERRUPTION
The Carolina Power and Light
Company will have the current
cut off from 6 to 8 o’clock Sunday
■morning, November 15.
YARD OF MONTH
■Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Livings
ton have been selected by the
Southport Garden Club for yard
of-the-month honors for Novem
ber. They live on Moore street.
JOIN PTA NOW
Mrs. T. M. Lee, membership
chairman of Southport PTA, urg
es all parents to join between
now and Nov. 19, date of next
PTA meeting, toy contacting
grade mothers or teachers or Mrs.
Lee. The membership booth will
be set up in the hall at the
school prior to the PTA meeting.
BENEFIT SUPPER
The Shallotte Jaycees will spon
sor a pancake and sausage sup
per at Shallotte High School No
vember 21 from 5 to 9 p. m.,
says President Dempsey Hewett.
Proceeds from the event will be
used to beautify the streets of
Shallotte.
CHOIR COMING HERE
The Boy’s Home choir of Lake
Waccamaw will present a con
cert at the Southport Baptist
Church Tuesday night at 8
o clock. A silver offering will be
taken after the concert and re
ception for Boy’s Home. The
event will be sponsored toy the
Southport Junior Woman’s club.
In Southport
Garden Club To
W elcome President
Mrs. Roscoe D. McMillan of
'Red Springs, state president of
the Garden Club of North Caro
lina, Inc., will be the honored
guest at an informal luncheon on
Thursday, November 19, at the
'Boiling Spring (Lakes Country
Club. Co-hostesses for the occa
sion will be the members of the
four garden clubs of the area,
the Southport Garden Club, the
Woodbine Garden Club, the Live
Oak Garden Club and the Oak
Island Garden Club.
Mrs. MdMillan will attend a
meeting of the Brunswick Town
Committee during the morning
and will attend the luncheon be
fore going with the committee to
view the progress made on the
Brunswick Town Nature Trail,
one of four statewide projects
sponsored by the Garden Clubs.
Other who will attend the lunch
eon will be members of the state
committee and personel at the
(Brunswick Town State Historic
Site.
AH members of the four clubs
are asked to bring a covered
dish for the luncheon, which will
be held at 12 o’clock. This time
was chosen to allow members
who work to attend during their
lunch hour. Members may bring
whatever they would like to the
luncheon, but if they wish sug
gestions concerning what they
should prepare they are asked to
contact Mrs. James Barnes any
day after 5 o’clock.
Leland Girl Is
Shot By Brother
A 14 year-old Leland girl was
acidentally killed when the pistol
her older teenage brother was
playing with went off Friday in
their family’s roadside seafood
market at Leland.
No ruling has been made in the
death of Rama Morris, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. David B. Morris,
by County Coroner Lowell Ben
nett of Shallotte, who is invest
igating the incident.
Coroner Bennett said the girl’s
brother, Robert Morris, said he
was playing with a pistol when
it went off. Bennett said the girl
died of a .22 caliber gunwound in
the back of the head.
The shooting occurred about
4:15 p. m. Friday and the girl
died four hours later in James
Walker Memorial Hospial.
Funeral services were con
ducted Sunday at 3 p. m. at
Goshen Baptist Church by the
Rev. James C. Spivey. Burial will
he in the church cemetery.
She is survived by her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. David B.
Morris; one brother, Robert of
the home; one half-sister, Mrs.
Richard Cleaver of Lehigh Acres,
Ria.; and her maternal grand
mother, Mrs. Annie Crews of
Jacksonville, Fla.
*-—
Tourist
E. C. BLAKE, proprietor of
•Blake Builders Supply in South
port, is in Las Vegas on a vaca
tion trip he won in a recent Hot
point contest. This one of several
trips he has won during the past
few years.
Long Beach Case
Leads To Arrest
Two Lumberton policemen were
arrested following an investigat
ion of break-ins at Long Beach,
last weekend.
Climaxing an investigation or
dered by Police Chief W. M. Har
ris, SBI agent Max Bryan and
chief police investigator Wilbur
C. Lovette brought formal charg
es against Thomas Britt, 29 and
Aaron (Possum) Stone, 30 both
veterans of the Lumberton police
force.
An election night automobile
accident in which Stone was in
jured apparently led to the probe
that culminated in the formal
charges.
Several partially-filled bottles
of whiskey reportedly were found
in bushes alongside Riverside Dr.
where the two officers were in
volved in the accident. Britt’s car
rammed into a power pole.
An investigation was ordered
after Banker and former State
Treasurer John B. Stedman re
ported that his Long Beach cot
tage had been entered and loot
ed of items, including a quanti
ty of partially-filled liquor bot
tles from the cottage bar.
Stamps on the bottles found
near the wreck scene showed
the whiskey hed been purchas
ed In the beach area and local
officers said tonight this was
used to forge another link in
the case against Britt and Stone.
The next link of suspicion
came when investigators said
they found a witness who said
a white Oldsmobile similar to
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Mrs. Rourk Will
Head Polio Drive
Again Next Year
Mrs. M. H. Rourk of Shallotte
North Carolina, has been named
Brunswick County March of
Dimes Director for the 1965 cam
paign which will (be held in the
month of January, according to
Aubrey C. Johnston, chairman
of the 'Brunswick County Chapter
of The National Foundation
March of Dimes. In announcing
the appointment, Johnston said,
“We are fortunate in having a
woman of Mrs. (Rourk’s abilities
to direct the Brunswick County’s
efforts against birth defects
which afflict one out of every ten
American families.”
Mrs. (Rourk is a graduate of
Woman’s College in Greensboro
North Carolina. She is a membev
of the Business and Professional
■Woman’s Club, PTA, and Associ
ation of 'University Women. Mrs.
Rourk has been active in March
of Dimes work for fifteen years.
She and Dr. 'Rourk are members
of the Presbyterian Church of
Shallotte.
In. accepting the appointment,
Mrs. Rourk said, "Birth defects
kill and cripple more American
.■children than any other human
disorder. The March of Dimes is
leading the fight against birth
defects because it 'believes the
people are ready to join in an all
out ‘campaign against this tragic
waste of human life.”
Mrs. Rourk pointed out that the
March of Dimes for the past six
years has made important advan
ces in the fight against birth de
fects. Through the 50 March of
Dimes financed centers — includ
ing the Special Treatment Center
at the University of North Caro
lina in Chapel Hill — trained
medical teams are providing the
best medical care available for
birth defects children and work
ing to develop new techniques
which will enable many more of
them to live a useful life.
“Scientists, supported by March
of Dianes grants, are also at work
in laboratories here and abroad
seeking the causes of these fear
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Life Of Child
A two-and-a-half-year-old Win
nabow boy drowned in Harris
Swamp when he became lost aft
er trying to follow his brothers
and sisters Saturday morning.
A search party of Brunswick
county citizens discovered the
body of Curtis Jenkinson, son of
Mr. and Mrs. David Jenkinson of
Winnabow, in the water of Harris
Swamp after a three hour search.
The body was found toy Thomas
Galloway at about 3:15 p .m.
County Coroner Lowell Ben
nett of Shallotte ruled the death
of young Jenkinson accidental.
He said the child’s parents
had left the boy in custody of
friends at home, when they went
to Wilmington with another child
to see a physician.
Bennett said four other Jen
kinson children, ranging from
four to 11 years old took off
through the swamp headed for
a store.
Apparently, unknown to the
adults, Bennett continued, the
child attempted to follow the
other youngsters at a distance
but lost his way and took a
wrong path in the treacherous
area.
Cook Book Being Tested
TOO MANY COOKS?—Four members of the Southport Junior Womans Club
gather in the kitchen of Mrs. Tommy Kirby in Southport to test one of the re
cipes in the cook book they have published and which is being placed on sale
this week. They are, left to right, Mrs. Kirby, Mrs. Afton Smith, Jr., Mrs. Bobby
Jones and Miss Alneta Dixon. (Staff Photo by Allen)
Junior Womans
Club Members
Plug Cook Book
This week finds the members
of the Junior Woman’s Club start
ing the sale of their Cook Book.
The money received from sales
■will be used for various projects
undertaken by the club for the
year. Mrs. Heidi Kirby is presi
dent of the club.
Projects include not only local
community interests but work on
a state and international level.
Some of the projects for the past
year have included a Heritage
Exhibit displaying local antiques,
something new for Southport;
and an Art Show, designed to cre
ate an interest in the commun
ity in the realm of art. One of
the most rewarding projects has
been the local high school. A tea
to help fuimish the home econo
mics department was held.
The Junior Woman’s Club has
not limited its projects to a local
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School Child Is
Hit By Truck
A seven-year-old Ash boy is in
fair condition at a Columbus
county hospital after being struck
by a pick-up truck while waiting
for a school bus Friday morning
near his home.
Larry Baines, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Eugene Baines, was waiting
alongside NC 130 for the school
bus with his two brothers and a
sister about 8 a. m. when the
accident happened. Patrolman
Earl Farmer said the Baines boy
apparently ran in front of the
truck driven by Frankie L. Bab
son of Ash and was knocked
across the highway by the im
pact.
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TIME and TIDE
It was November 11, 1959, and the first service at the
new Yaupon Beach Methodist Church was scheduled for Sunday
under Rey. L. D. Hayman. Rev. Mark Owens, pastor of a Green
ville Baptist church, was called to the Southport Baptist Church
as pastor.
JThe boats of the Southport menhaden fleet landed 35,000
tons of fish in 1958, 8,678 more than in 1957. First Lt. Darrell
Fisher of Southport was appointed commanding’ officer of D
Company in the 505th Infantry. Shallotte, under Coach Gene
Winfree, won the Waccamaw Athletic Association gridiron title.
It was November 10, 1954, and D. Carl Andrews was ap
pointed mayor of Shallotte when Leon Galloway resigned from
the position by moving out of town. The State Highway Com
mission reported that 12 persons had died on the roads of
Brunswick county.
Rev. L. D. Hayman, a former Methodist pastor here, retired
and moved back to Southport. Dan Harrelson purchased the
Daniel building next to the Southport Baptist Church and pre
pared to open a grocery store after his waterfront quarters
were destroyed by Hurricane Hazel.
It was November 9, 1949, and Captain Hendrix Phelps and
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Brunswick Birthday
200th Anniversary
Celebration Sunday
Dredging Bids
Are Advertised
The Army Engineer District,
Wilmington has advertised for
bids for maintenance dredging to
be performed in Wilmington Har
bor, in the Cape (Pear River.
The site of tire work is between
the North Carolina State Ports
Authority wharf and Southport,
and in the Northeast (Cape Fear)
River, 1 y2 mile above the Hilton
Railroad Bridge at Wilmington.
The total quantity of material to
•be removed is estimated at ap
proximately 900,000 cubic yards,
including allowable overdepth.
Bids are scheduled to toe open
ed at 2:30 p. m„ BST, Thursday
December 4,. in Room 313 Cus
tomhouse.
County Historical
Society Meeting
(Mrs. M. H. Rourk was re-elect
ed president of the Brunswick
County Historical Society at its
meeting Monday night at the
recreation room of Sacred Heart
Catholic Church in Southport.
Also re-elected for another term
as officers of the society were
Mrs. 'Ed Driscoll of Southport,
vice-president; and Miss Helen
Taylor of Winnabow, secretary
treasurer. Mrs. Blake of Shallotte
was elected a member of the
board of directors, replacing Rev.
A. H. Phillips.
Plans for the program at
•Brunswick Town Sunday in com
memoration of the 200th anniver
ary of the founding of Brunswick
county were discussed. Acknow
ledgement was made of two gifts
of money which will help ma- *
terially in staging this celebra
tion. One for $200 came from the
Brunswick County Chamber of
Commerce. Another for $100
came from the board of county
commissioners.
'R. V. Asbury reported on plans
for publishing an historical book
let in connection with this signif
icant date in the records of Bruns
wick county. He invited the con
tribution of worthwhile material
and January l was set a dead
line for acceptance of informa
tion to be included.
Mrs. Harry L. Mintz, chairman
of the program committee, intro
duced William Faulk, assistant
to the historic site manager at
Brunswick Town, who made a
brief report on activities at this
project before showing a movie
“The First 100 Years of North
Carolina”.
Faulk announced that bids for
the construction of a visitors
center and museum at Brunswick
Town will be opened next Wed
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* Judge R. I. Mintz of Wilming
ton will deliver the principal ad
dress Sunday afternoon during a
program at Brunswick Town for
the Bicentennial Celebration
of Brunswick County.
Activities will get underway at
2 o’clock at the site of the frist
courthouse in this county. Stan
ley South, archaeolegiest i n
charge of the Brunswick Town
project of the State Department
of Archives and History, will help
paint in an authentic historical
background for this occasion.
The entire program has been
arranged by the Brunswick Coun
ty Historical Society of which
Mrs. M. H. Rourk is the presid
ent. On the Welcoming committee
with her will be Miss Helen Tay
lor, Mrs. Ida Kellam, Mrs. Ed
Driscoll and Mrs. Harry Mintz.
Co-sponsors of the event will be
the Brunswick County Chamber
of Commerce, which made a sub
stantial financial contribution to
help defray the expenses of the
prcgarm. Another contribution
came from the Brunswick coun
ty board of commissioners.
Judge Muntz, the speaker, is a
native of Brunswick county and
is familiar with the early records
in the courthouse, having served
for several years as Register of
Deeds.
The 200th anniversary was act
ually on March 8, but the group
decided to delay the celebration
in order to have a fall program
at the historic site, where State
Arehaelogist Stanley South, has
promised to have underway the
excavation of the courthouse
ruins. The court house, it is be
lieved, was the first in New Han
over County, serving both New
Hanover and Brunswick Counties
in the mild 1700’s, according to
R. V. Asbury, Jr., guide at the .
historic site, and also a director
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ChiidDiesOT
Truck Injuries
A 16-month-old Thomastooro girl
was critically injured Thursday
afternoon when she was run over
by a truck in the driveway of her
home.
Marily Rene Smith daughter
of Windell Smith of Thomastooro,
was dead on arrival at Dosher
Memorial Hospital in Southport,
County Coroner Lowell Bennett
said it was the ninth highway
death of year in Brunswick.
She was killed when a gas
truck, driven by Jimmy White,
25, of Shallotte, was making a
delivery at her Thomasboro home
and backed over her.
Her sister, Verna Smith, 12,
saw Manly's body after the truck
had passed over it and picked it
up and carried it into the house.
An inquest into the death was
called by Coroner Bennett for
Friday night in the Courthouse in
Southport. —
Congressman Is
High Vote Man
In This County
Although the numiber of votes
For each candidate increased
some, no important changes in
relative positions were made in
the Democratic sweep of Bruns
wick county in the general elec
tion after the Board of Elections
canvassed the vote Thursday in
Southport.
The high vote getter in Bruns
wick county was Alton Len
non who was reelected to another
term in Congress with 4,440
votes. He had no Republican op
position.
Robert W. (Bob) Scott was the
high man on the state ticket with
4,338 votes for lieutenant gover
nor while his Republican oppon
ent, Clifford Lee Bell, polled
3,314.
Durwood T. Clark, who was re
elected register of deeds with
4,311 votes, was the high man on
the county ticket. Mrs. Betty T.
Warren, his Republican opponent,
had 3,264. Clemit Holden, a can
didate for the board of commis*
sioners from Lockwoods Polly,
topped the vote for a seat on the
board with 4,240.
For the Republicans, guberna
torial candidate Robert; L. Gavin
was the high man in the county
with 3,769. He edged GOP presi
dential candidate Barry Goldiwa
ter, who polled 3,721 votes, by 43
for the honor. D. Carl Andrews,
a candidate for judge, led the
county ticket with 3,609.
The complete official vote totals
as compiled by the Board of
Elections in Brunswick county
are as follows:
Carl Meares, a Democrat who
was unopposed for the seat in
the state senate, had 4,276 votes.
Odell Williamson was re-elect
ed representative by a vote of
4,155 to 3,444 for Harold Willetts.
Clark, the high vote getter in
the county ticket, polled 4,311 in
defeating his Republican oppon
ent, Mrs. Warren, who had 3,264.
In the race for judge, Clinton *;
Bellamy rolled up 4,049 to defeat
Andrews, the high man for the
Republicans in the county with
3,609.
The Democrats won all five
seats on the Board of Commis
sioners with majorities ranging
from 1,228 to 561. The winners
Included A. Clemit Holden in
Lockwoods Folly with 4,240 Geo
rge T. Rourk in Northwest with
4,134, Thomas S. Bowmer in
Smithville with 4,068, Parley P.
FormyDuval in Waccamaw with
4,052 and incumbent D. Bert
Frink in Shallotte with 3,972.
For the Republicans, James W.
Hufham in Town Creek was high
with 3,411 while Rudaw A. Russ
inShallotte har 3,309, Thomas L.
Gilles in Northwest 3,195, Claude
E. Harrelson in Smithville 3,086
and Martin Nielsen m Lockwoods
Folly 3,012.
Lyndon B. Johnson received the
presidential votes of Brunswick
county with 4,240 while Barry M.
Goldwater had 3,721.
Dan K. Moore defeated Robert
L. Gavin, the high Republican in
the county for governor by
4,187 to 3,769. Scott, the high
vote getter on the state ticked
dropped Clifford L. Bell 4,338 to
3,314 for lieutenant governor.
The vote for council of state of
fices included secretary of state,
Thad Eure (D) 4,222, Edwin E.
Butler, (R) 3,241; state auditor,
Henry L. Bridges (D) 4,207, Ever
ett L. Peterson (R) 3,233; state
treasurer, Edwin Gill (D) 4,231,
Charles J. Mitchell (R) 3,217;
superintendent of public educa
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Tide Table
Following is the tide
table for Southpirt during
the week. These hours are
approximately correct and
were furnished The State
Port Pilot through the
courtesy ef the Cape Fear
Pilot’s Association.
HIGH LOW
Thursday, November 12
0:46 A. M. 7:10 A. M.
1:23 P. M. 8:08 P. M.
Friday, November 13
1:45 A. M. 8:12 A. M.
2:20 P. M. 9:04 P. M.
Saturday, November 14,
2:44 A. M. 9:16 A. M.
3:15 P. M. 9:56 P. M.
Sunday, November 15
3:42 A .M. 10:16 A. M.
4:09 P. M. 10:47 P. M.
Monday, November 16
4:36 A. M. , 11:12 A. M.
4:01 P. M. 11:36 P. M.
Tuesday, November 17
5:28 A. M. 12:06 A. M.
5:52 P. M.
Wednesday, November 18
6:20 A. M. 0:23 A. M.
6:43 P. M. 12:57 P. M.