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VOLUME 38
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No. 37
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SOUTHPORT, N. C.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1967
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Brunswick In
Group Backing
Good Libraries
North Carolinians for Better
Libraries (NCBL) has achieved
full statewide representation—
a voting member In each of the
State’s 100 counties.
Mrs. James M. Harper of
Southport served as chairman of
the membership committee,
which sought out, Invited and con
firmed voting members, other
committee members were Dr.
Thomas Thurston of Salisbury
and Mrs. John Spears of Lilling
ton. All are NCBL directors.
Voting members act as liaison
between library-interested citi
zens in the separate counties and
Raleigh headquarters of the non
profit organization.
President David Stick of Kitty
Hawk said, "Our gaining a fUU
statewide membership of volun
teer workers in so short a time
is a good reflection of popular
support for our organization’s
aims.’’
NCBL was incorporated less
than a year ago by citizens
interested in helping improve lo
cal libraries.
The organization’s goal is
"that a public library facility,
adequately stocked, properly
Staffed, and achieving State and
national standards, will be ac
cessible to every citizen.”
Stick said plans are now being
completed for the first annual
meeting of the voting members,
which will be held in Raleigh
in March.
The NCE’j membership in
cludes several State legislators,
former legislators, local elected
officials, and members of local
library trustee boards. Most,
however, are lay citizens con
cerned with improving libraries
in their own counties and across
the State.
Farm School
On Chemicals
A Farm Chemical school will
be held In the County Extension
Office auditorium in Supply be
'**■ ginning Thursday at 7:30 p. m.
The first meeting will be on
“Chemical Weed Control” and
the featured speaker will be A, D.
Worsham, Agronomy Specialist
from N. C, State University.
Worsham will discuss weed con
trol methods on soybeans and
tobacco in particular and some
of the other crops grown In
Brunswick county. Chemical
weed control Is becoming more
important each year as labor be
comes harder to obtain.
The second meeting will be
on “Insect Control” and the
speaker will be R. L. Robertson,
Entomology Specialist fromN.C.
State University. The meeting
will be at 7:30 p. m. on March
2 in the county extension office.
Insect control measures change
every year and there are many
new measures that show promise
of controlling insects that have
been hard to control in past years
such as the flea beetle in tobacco.
The third meeting will be a
workshop on equipment at 2p. m.
March 9 at the county extension
office. The speaker will be John
Glover, Agricultural Engineering
Specialist from N. C. state
University.
One of the major problems in
the use of farm chemicals is
the method of application used by
growers. Farm chemicals will
not perform as they should un
less the grower uses the proper
equipment, the correct pres
sure on his sprayer, the correct
type nozzles, the proper pump,
the right amount of agitation,
Spaces the nozzles correctly and
calibrates his equipment cor
rectly. Glover will cover these
points in the demonstration work
shop.
; Custom operators, farm sup
ply dealers and growers are
urged to take advantage of all
these meetings. “Farm chemi
cals are necessary to the pro
duction of food and fiber and
their proper use can increase
the farm income in Brunswick
county,” said Archie Martin,
County Extension Chairman.
I Brief Bite Of l
I NEWS '
BAKE SALE
The Southport Woman's Club
will hold a “Sweettooth Sale”
at 9:30 a. m. Saturday next to
the Southport Post Office.
ON DEAN’S LIST
Some 235 students were named
on the Dean’s list released
Thursday in recognition of su
perior academic work done at
Campbell College during the fall
term. Among them are Carolyn
Sue Seagraves of Wmnabov, and
Thurston Earl Hughes of Ash.
Commander Talks To Employees
BIRTHDAY — Col. Archie B. Joyner, Jr., commanding officer at Sunny Point, is
shown here as he talks to employees at the terminal on the occasion of the second
birthday anniversary of MTMTS last Wednesday.
Sunny Point In On President Of
MTMTS Birthday fct'
On 15 February 1967,
Colonel Archie B. Joyner, Jr.,
Commander of the Military Ocean
Terminal, Sunny Point, ad
dressed the military and civilian
personnel of the terminal.
Purpose of the gathering was to
commemorate the second anni
versary of the activation of the
Military Traffic Management and
Terminal Service, of which Sunny
Point is a subordinate element.
During the ceremony, Colonel
Joyner read congratulatory mes
sages 'rum Major General John
J. Lane, Commander of the Mili
tary Traffic Management and
Terminal Service, and Brigadier
General A. J. Montgomery, Com
mander of the Eastern Area
MTMTS which exercises direct
command over Sunny Point.
Eastern Area, Military Traffic
Management and Terminal Serv
ice (EAMTMTS), under the com
mand of Brigadier General A. J.
Montgomery, USA is the traffic
manager for over 800 military
installations, activities and De
partment of Defense contractors
in the Eastern United States for
shipments of 10,000 lbs. or more.
Export routings and other traf
fic management support is given
military shippers in 34 states
east of the Rockies and the Dis
trict of Columbia, while domes
tic routings and traffic manage
ment support is given military
shippers in 22 Eastern states
and the District of Columbia.
EAMTMTS also controls the
movement of export cargo and
passengers to and through ocean
facilities, and to air terminals
on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts
and Great Lakes, and maintains
operational control of 9 over
seas water terminals which sup
port U. S. Air Force missions
in such far-flung outposts as
Pakistan, Greece, Spain, Ethi
opia and Turkey.
EAMTMTS is jointly staffed by
officers of the Army, Navy and
Air Force.
Electrician Is
Needed At Base
An examination announcement
for the position of Electrical
Worker, W-2805-11, $3.12 per
hour has been issued by Mrs.
Griffin, executive secretary*
board of U. S. Civil Service Ex
aminers, Wilmington District,
Corps of Engineers. The reg
ister established from this ex
amination will be used to fill
vacancies at the Military ocean
Terminal, Sunny Point, and may
also be used to fill vacancies in
other Federal agencies in North
Carolina.
Application forms and further
information in connection with
the examination may be obtained
from the local post office or from
the Board of Ur S. Civil Service
Examiners, Wilmington. All
qualified applicants will re
ceive consideration without re
gard to race, religion, color,
national origin, sex, political af
filiations, or any other nonmerit
factor.
Applications will be accepted
until March 3. Applications post
marked after that date will be
returned.
GENE JOHNSON & JACK
Heart Dance
On Saturday
Gene Johnson of WWAY-TV
will host the annual Heart-O
Rama Dance at the National Guard
Armory in Shallotte, Saturday at
8 p. m., according to Mrs. Harvey
Evans, Heart Dance Chairman.
The television favorite with
the younger set is seen daily on
WWAY as Capt. Gene with his
friend, Sailor Jack.
“The Aragons and the Clos
tonians will furnish the music
which promises to be a dance for
all ages,” says Mrs. Evans.
“We will have shindig girls
performing also. Refreshments
will be available, she said.
The Aragons include Steve
Evans, rhythm guitar; Dickie
Gray, lead guitar; Mitchell Turn
er, lead and rhythm; Landis
Phelps, bass; and Richard
Jones and Jeep Taylor, drums.
The Clostonians are Ricky
Hickman, rhythm; Michael
Thomas, rhythm; John Worrell,
lead; joe Cox, bass; Freddie
Hickman, bass and Tripp Sloan,
piano and the vocalist of
the group.
The Aragons were at Mace’s
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Panel Leads
Poverty Talk
Frank Hardy and Mrs. Ed
Royal were in charge of an Inter
denominational panel who dis
cussed the poverty aspect of
Church-Community Relationship
during a two-hour session spon
sored by the WSCS at Trinity
Methodist Church Tuesday eve
ning.
Participating as panelists were
C. D. Pickerrell, E. B.'Tomlin
son, Jr., Mrs. Susan Carson,
James M. Harper, Jr./ Mrs.
Royal and Ray H. Walton.
There was lively participation
by the audience during the dis
cussion period following each
presentation.
Special music for this pro
gram was furnished by Miss Cin
dy Hardy, soloist, and by a trio
comprised of Miss Hardy, Mrs.
Henry Goodwin and Mrs. Frank
Hardy.
At the conclusion of the meet
ing refreshments were served
in the fellowship hall of the
church.
On February 28, the Southport
Jaycees will host a district meet
ing for all clubs in the “Able 8”
Jaycee District at the Jaycee
Community Building. A “Speak
Up Jaycee” program is sched
uled to begin at 6:30 p.m. and
will be judged by three prominent
businessmen from Southport.
Seven clubs, Acme-Delco
Riegelwood, Carolina Beach, Og
den, Leland, Shallotte, Wilming
ton and Wrightsville Beach, will
attend this meeting.
Irvin Aldridge, president of the
North Carolina Jemcees, will also
be in attendance and will address
the clubs.
The program speaker will be
William G. Faulk, Jr., Historic
Site Assistant at Brunswick
Town.
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IRVIN ALDRIDGE
Time And Tide
A front page article in The Pilot for February 24, 1937, not only
reported steps being taken in an effort to secure a yacht basin at
Southport, but related that this movement dated back to 1930
when the National Association of Engine and Boat Manufactures had
conducted a study and had recommended such an improvement here,
factures had conducted a study and had recommended such an
improvement here.
Orton gardens were in bloom—about six weeks earlier than usual;
the USE Dredge Comstock had stopped over in Southport; and death
had removed one of Southport’s all-time colorful characters, the
late Pack Tharp.
There was front page photo in The Pilot for February 25, 1942,
showing some snow scenes in Southport: The cutlines said this
was the heaviest snowfall here in five years. Bids for construction
of the new bridge over the inland waterway on the Fort Caswell
road were being advertised.
A Southport boy, Teddy Lewis, was in flight training with the
Army Air Corps; a “bond” fire had been held by county officials,
who had destroyed $120,500 of redeemed bonds in a public display;
and Miss Louise Lewis had become the first full-time clerk-typist
with the Brunswick County Rationing Board.
The date was February 26, 1947, the war was over and there
was agitation to have the state of North Carolina take over Fort
Caswell for operation as a state Park. David W. Watson, princi
pal of Southport High School, was resigning to become a Special
Agent with the F.B.L
Southport Lions had sponsored an old time fiddlers convention;
a young lady from Guatemala was a “summer” visitor in town—
during the month of February; and Southport boys and Bolivia
girls had won in their respective divisions of the Brunswick County
Basketball Tournament.
There was good news in The Pilot for February 20, 1952: A
decision had been made to exclude St. Phillips Church and Bruns
wick Town from the land being acquired for Sunny Point Army
Terminal, thus leaving these shrines available to the public at
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Deadline To
Enter Pageant
Drawing Near
Two more entries have been
received this week for the Miss
Brunswick County Pageant, which
will be held at Shallotte High
School on the evening of March
11 under the auspices of the Shal
lotte Jaycees. This brings the
number of contestants to 11.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Shirley ward
is completing plans for the gala
presentation. This will be di
recting the event again this year
and hopes to make this the best
in a long series of successful
pageants.
This year all seats in the audi
torium will be reserved and ad
vance tickets now are on sale at
Clem's Texaco.
Mrs. ward points out that the
deadline is near for entries for
the pageant and urges all girls
who have not yet made up their
mind to do so this week. The
new girls are: Sarah Carol
'Hickman, the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. P. Hickman of Shal
lotte who is attending the South
eastern Community College
School of Nursing. She is 5-8,
weighs 125 pounds, has auburn
hair and green eyes. This will be
her second try for the Miss
Brunswick title, and last year she
was first runner-up. She is 18
years of age and graduated at
Shallotte High School. She will
do a comedy skit in talent
competition.
Priscilla Gaye Hewett is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Coble
Hewett of Supply. She is 18
years of age and a freshman at
East Carolina College. She grad
uated from Shallotte High School
and her talent is singing. She
is 5-4, weighs 122 pounds, has
blond hair and green eyes.
Nearing Close
Of Operation
The Employment Service
Mobile Te|m which has been
engaged im providing Employ
ment Services in Brunswick
county fo\ the past six weeks
announces that in conjunction with
its Manpower Resources Study
it will distribute, luring the next
lew days, a questionnaire re
garding present w>rk status and
work history of those persons
currently employed and living in
Brunswick county. It is very im
portant that each working per
son, who receives one of these
questionnaires complete the 11
items on the form and return in
the postage paid envelope pro
vided as soon as possible.
The mobile team will close
its office in the National Guard
Armory in Shallotte on Friday of
this week and will close the South
port office Friday, March 3, to
end its efforts in Brunswick coun
ty.
The trailer unit is now at
Winnabow and will move to the
school in Leland for the final
week of the program. Anyone
age 16 and over, who is available
for work in Brunswick County,
is urged to visit one of the offices
before 5:30 p. m. on Friday,
March 3 in order that a true
picture of the available manpower
in the county may be obtained.
Check For Library
BIG — Mrs. A. P. Henry, Jr., of Winnabow is shown
here as she accepts the check for $10,000 received by C.
D. Pickerrell, left, this week from the Z. Smith Reynolds
Foundation, Inc., for the Southport-Brunswick County
Library Building Fund.
SARAH CAROL HICKMAN
PRISCILLA GAYE HEWETT
Care Explained
Here At Luncheon
Heart Sunday
Drive Sunday
The Heart Sunday Volunteer
Corps will be on the march be
ginning at 12:00 Sunday to give
every resident of Brunswick
county a personal opportunity to
fight the Nation’s No. 1 health
enemy—the heart and blood ves
sel diseases. The residential
canvass will continue through
February and it is anticipated
that all kits will be turned in
by March 15 to Aubery C, John
ston, treasurer of the Brunswick
County Heart Association.
Scores of local residents
will visit homes in every section
of Brunswick to accept contribu
tions to the 1967 Heart Fund Cam
paign, and, as education am
bassadors, to distribute litera
ture telling how to reduce the
risk of heart attack and
what to do in case of a heart
attack.
“In addition to distributing
this heart saving information,”
says Mrs. Freeman Hewett,
Brunswick County Heart Chair
man, “the Heart Fund volunteer
will present a Heart Sunday en
velope which the resident can use
to strike a blow at the diseases
which took more than 900,000
lives last year—54 per cent
of the total number of deaths
in this country.”
Where the volunteer finds no
one at home, he or she will leave
a pre-addressed mail-in en
velope in which a contribution
may be sent conveniently to Heart
Fund headquarters during the
next few days. Heart Sunday
marks the high point in the Bruns
wick Heart Association’s annual
Heart Fund drive which makes
possible the crusade against
the heart and blood vessel dis
eases.
Community Heart Chairman
for Brunswick are Corbett Cole
man, Kingtown and Exum; Mrs.
Richard Fiver, Ash; Mrs. W. J.
Smith, Longwood; Mrs. W. J.
Smith. Calabash- Thomasboro;
Mrs. Odell Hughes, Sunset-Ocean
Isle; Mrs. Bill Leadford, Gris
settown; Mrs. Lillie williams,
Shallotte Point; Miss Pat Kirby,
Holden Beach; Mrs. Curtis Mc
Call, Oak Grove; Mrs. H. L
Chadwick, Shell Point; Mrs. Lin
wood Gray, Redbug; Edwin Clem
mons, Supply; Mrs. Stanton
Brown, Mt. Pisgah; Herman
Grissett, Cedar Grove; Mrs.
Edd Varnam, Varnamtown; Mrs.
WillJ. Faircloth, Howells Polnt
Lennons Crossroads; Mrs. Lind
say M. Clemmons, Mt. Olive;
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Bee H. Brown, southeastern
field director for CARE in Puerto
Rico and six states including
North Carolina, spoke at a lunch
eon Friday sponsored by the Pub
lic Affairs Department of the
Southport Junior Woman’s Club.
Support of the CARE program
is one of the projects of Junior
Woman’s clubs on a national
level.
He explained that CARE was
organized following world war
II by persons who wished to assist
in the rehabilitation of the free
countries of Europe. The pri
mary concern was to have an or
ganization which would deliver
packages to people who needed
them, without excess costs, po
litical intervention or graft.
The first need, he said, was for
anything usable. “We adopted
the slogan of ‘buy what is most
needed and deliver it to the most
needy’ ’’. Later there came a
need for tools and materials with
which to begin the rebuilding of
devastated areas, and this
provided an opportunity for
skilled workmen to go back to
doing what they were trained to
do.
The program has spread
throughout the world, Brown
pointed out, showing that the
CARE program has pulled out of
29 countries, 27 of which had
become self-sufficent. The pro
gram still is in 40 countries
around the globe.
Brown spoke of the influence
that CARE has had in South Viet
nam, where its participation has
been encouraged by the govern
ment. He pointed out that not
only is necessary to provide the
tools and provisions which will
make it possible for them to be
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Waccamaw Is
Up In Standing
The Waccamaw Bank and Trust
Company of Whiteville, which re
ported deposits of $59,690,014 on
December 31st, gained 154places
in its standing among the 700
largest commercial banks in the
United States during 1966 and now
ranks as 652nd largest in size
compared with 806th place at the
end of 1965.
Deposits of the bank totaled
$44,945,996 a year ago. This is
revealed in the 1967 Annual Roll
Call of the 700 largest banks in
the United States published by the
daily American Banker of New
York, which is the trade news
paper of the banking business.
There are approximately
13,500 banks in the United States.
Employees Of
Local Hospital
Are Graduated
The final week of the Nurses
Assistant Course which began
on January 9 atDosher Memorial
Hospital was completed Friday
with 18 employees who took the
course graduating.
L. T. Yaskell, chairman of the
Hospital Board of Trustees, pre
sented the certificates and Dr.
Norman Hornstein, chief of the
Hospital Board of Trustees, ore
sented the certificates and Dr.
Norman Hornstein, chief of the
Hospital Medical Staff, gave a
short orientation as to how each
graduating student could apply
what she or he had learned in
the course in treating the sick
and injured.
Mrs. Carol Templon and Mrs.
Ida underwood were the instruc
tors for the course. The Ad
ministrator w. F. Cupit reports
all nurses aids employed by the
hospital have completed the 120
hour course required by the Med
ical Care Commission.
Guest speakers who gave lec
tures to the nurses aide class
were “Care of The Newborn",
by Mrs. James Loughlin, R. N.,
“The Religious Needs of Pa
tients", by Rev. Wm, Davenport;
“Prevention and Rehabilitation
of Muscle Deformity”, by Mrs.
Ruth Dixon, physical therapist;
movies were provided through
the Health Department of Bruns
wick County by Mrs. Ruth Har
rington, R. N.
Employees graduating were:
Fannie Robbins, Olive H. Jor
gensen, Nancy Crouch, Ruth
Hinson, Elena Gore, Ruth Potter,
Ruby King, Kendall Bruno, Mable
Joyner, Edward A. Hankins, Carl
E. Cooker, Bobby James Smith,
Ophilia W. Sellers, Delma R.
Varnum, Geneva Floyd, Gertha
Ward , Wilburg L. Moore and
Zettle R. Simmons.
Gifts Helping
Local Hospital
Donations for improvement !•
of Dosher Memorial Hospital ‘ ■
continue to come in, W. F. Cupit
Administrator, reported this!
week. J. F. Fordham presented
a check for $60 to the ad minis- -
trator on behalf of the County
Ministerial Association to pur
chase ten bed lamps for patients
bed. The Churchwomen of St.
Philips Church donated $37.50
to purchase seven bed lamps and
because of these donations, each
patient bed will have a bed lamp.
Mrs. Claudia Wells gave $15
to paint a room in the hospital.
Mrs. Maryland Minns of South
port donated curtains for win
dows which were so badly needed.
Dr. Richard Corbett of Wil
mington has donated $100 toward
erection of a storage building for
the hospital. Mrs. Walter Lewis,
business manager of the hospital,
has contributed $10 toward this
much needed building. Since
storage space is such a problem'
at the hospital, the completion
of this building is most important
at this time.
Due to the contributions of
money to buy paint, all rooms
except five have been repainted.
When all rooms have been re
painted, every effort will be
made to repaint the hallways on
both floors.
“I would like to publicly thank
each person or organization, club
or church for the “contribu
tions that have been made to
ward making this a better and
more efficient hospital,” Cupit
said this week.
Tide Table
Following is the tide table
for Southport during the
week. These hours are ap
proximately correct and
were furnished The State
Port Pilot through the
courtesy of the Cape Fear
Pilot’s Association.
high low
Thu™d*y. February 23,
6:39 A M 0:34 A M
7:30 P M 1:16 p m
Friday, February 24,
7:33 A M 1:28 A M
7:51 P M 1.S8 P M
Saturday, February 25,
8:21 A M 2:16 A M
8:45 P M 2:46 P M
Sunday, February 25,
9:09 A M 3:04 A M
9:33 P M 3:28 P M
Monday, Febraury 27,
9:57 AM 3:58 A M
10:27 P M 4 •1f; P M
Toewtay, Febrauarv
10:45 A M 4:52 A M
11:21 P M 5:04 P M
Wednesday, February 29,
11:39 A M 5:46 A M
5:58 P M