The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County]
THE STATE PORT PILOT
No. 38
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SOUTHPORT, N. C.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1967
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PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Committee At
Work Planning
Big Festival
■ The Southport Fourth of July
Festival Committee is already
hard at work some five months
before the big event will actually
occur and last year’s festival is
being rehashed in the smallest
detail so that all of its good points
can be preserved and improved
upon while the faults and mis
takes can be eliminated.
For instance, a minor detail
that has already been discussed
concerns the signs on the con
vertibles carrying the celeb
rities—this year they will be
larger and easier to read. One
of the more important details,
at least to the many spectators
who stood in the broiling-hot
sun last year to listen to the
concert given by the Fifth Naval
District Band in front of the post
office, will be the relocation of
the band concert to Franklin
Square Park where the specta
tors can enjoy the shade of the
tall oaks while they listen to the
music.
ine second meeting of the
festival committee was held on
Monday night at the Southport City
Hall, where 21 committee chair
men and members of the various
committees were present to help
with the preliminary details.
This is indicative of the spirit
that prevails in the planning of
this, one of the oldest patriotic
festivals in the Nation. Nobody
says no when asked to perform
some duty.
• The 1967 Fourth of July Festi
val will again be a three-day
affair and will be held on Sunday,
Monday and Tuesday, July 2-4.
The festival will begin with the
opening of the Arts Show in the
Park and the Heritage House in
the Community building, will
continue with another highlight
on Monday night when a street
dance will be held, and will wind
up on Tuesday night with one of
the biggest and loudest fireworks
displays ever staged in this area.
Again the fireworks display will
be over the waters of the Cape
Fear River at the city dock where
the reflections of the aerial dis
plays in the water makes the dis
play twice as beautiful and spec
tacular. Hundreds of visitors
from all of the surrounding States
are expected to attend the Festi
val again this year.
Harold Aldridge and H. A.
Schmidt are co-chairman of the
year’s festival with the following
committees to back them up:
Transportation—w. C. Jones,
chairman; Deloris Swan, Afton
Smith, Evelyn Gilbert, Jimmy
Moore.
Invitation — Gene Tomlinson,
chairman; C. D. Pickerrell,
J ames Bowman, Col. A. B. Joy
ner.
Publicity — Foxie Howard,
chairman, Connie Young, Roy
Stevens, Sr.
Special Events—Bill Faulk,
chairman, Afton Smith, Joe Wal
ton, Sue Jones, Ralph Parker.
Floats—Betty Smith, chair
man; Lela Pigott, Marie Brown,
Doris Harrelson, Col. w. S.
Norman.
Line Parade—Billy Dosher,
chairman, Charles Trott.
Food—Daughters of America,
Delores Fortiscue. Program
—Live Oak Garden Club, South
port Garden Club, woodbine
Garden Club.
Finance—John Bray, chair
man; Dempsey Hewett, Frank
Hardy, Walter Aldridge, Jimmy
Russ, Lester Lowe.
1 Brief Bits Of l
I NEWS 1
BAKE SALE
The Junior G.A.’s of the South
port Baptist Church will hold a
bake sale on Saturday, March 11
between Leggett’s and the Post
Office. The sale will begin at
9:30.
BENEFIT SUPPER
The WSCS of Shiloh Methodist
Church, Leland, will sponsor a
baked ham and fried chicken sup
per at the church Saturday, be
ginning at 6 o’clock. Proceeds
will go to the building fund.
'Homemade pies and cakes will
also be on sale.
SCHOLARSHIP FINALIST
Miss Leonne Jeanette Arntsen,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Arntsen, formerly of Southport,
was a finalist in the Katherine
Smith Reynolds Scholarship
awards competition rriaay anu
Saturday in Greensboro.
WEEK OF PRAYER
The Womans Missionary So
ciety of Oak Island Baptist church
will observe the week of prayer
March 6-10 at 2 o’clock every day
with the exception of Wednesday,
when the meeting will be held
at 7:30 p. m. Everyone is in
vited.
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Planning 4th Of July Festival
.. H.E ^PSu . Festiv£il Co-Chairmen Harold Aldridge and H. A. Schmidt at the head of
tne table bracketed by Mrs. Joy Gregory, secretary, and Mrs. Connie Young of the
committee. In the background left to right are Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Komegay,
wei*J°nf?j Ke,la Frank Hardy, Dorothy Hardee, Ruby Bow
an, Betty Smith, Walter Aldridge, W. C. Jones, Jimmy Russ and Foxy Howard.
Burning Permit
Law Effective
In The County
Brunswick County Ranger Ken
neth Johnson of the North Caro
lina Division of Forestry
requests that citizens of Bruns
wick county obtain a burning per
mit before doing any burning
within 500 feet of any woodlands
before 4 p. m.
The North Carolina Burning
Permit Law is necessary to pro
tect the citizens’ valuable tim
ber land of Brunswick county.
Fire destroys thousands of
dollars of valuable timber each
year due to the carelessness of
fire in burning brush, grass
fields, corn stalks, and other
debris.
The state law relating to the
burning of brush reads as fol
lows: “Starting fires within
500 feet of areas under pro
tection of State Forest Service -
It shall be unlawful for any per
son, firm or corporation to start
or cause to be started any fire
or ignite any material in any of
the areas of woodland under the
protection of the State Forest
Service or within 500 feet of
any such protected area during
the hours starting at midnight
and ending at 4 p. m. without
first obtaining from the state
Forester or one of his duly au
thorized agents a permit to
start or cause to be started any
fire or ignite any material in
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Meetings For
Farm Program
Farmers, custom operators
and farm supply dealers are re
minded of the schools that are
being conducted in the County
Extension Office in Supply.
On Thursday there will be
another meeting on farm
chemicals at 7:30 p. m. The
speaker for this meeting will be
R. L. Robertson, Extension En
tomologist from N. C. State
University. He will discuss in
sect problems in tobacco and
soybeans and the best ways of
controlling them. There are new
developments in insect control
and methods change from one
year to the next.
On Monday, there will be anoth
er meeting on swine. This meet
ing will be on Swine Buildings
and Equipment. There are
several new developments in con
struction of buildings for swine.
The speaker for this meeting will
be David Spruill, Extension Ani
mal Husbandry Specialist.
“Make an extra effort to at
tend these meetings and bring
your neighbor,” County Ex
tension Chairman Archie f.
Martin urged this week.
Stanley Death
In Shallotte
SHALLOTTE—James A. Stan
ley, 59, of Shallotte, died here
suddenly, Monday. He was the
fattier of Robert Stanley, editor
of the Brunswick Beacon.
Final rites were held Wednes
day at 2 p.m. at Powell’s Funeral
Home chapel by the Rev. Murray
DeHart, with burial in Chapel
Hill Cemetery near Shallotte.
Survivors include two sons,
Robert B. Stanley of Shallotte
and Major David l. Stanley of
Fort Monroe, Va.; and six grand
Active pallbearers were Her
cules Stanley, Harry white t t
Kinlaw, Lloyd HeweTt, Horton
Milliken and Walter w. Anthony.
Wife Of (
Dedicatio
Mrs. Dan K. Moore, wife of the
Governor of North Carolina, will
be the principal speaker at the
dedication on Sunday, April 23,
of the new Visitor Center-Mu
seum at Brunswick Town State
Historic Site. Plans are now
being made to have an outstand
ing ceremony to mark this im
portant occasion in Brunswick
county. Former Senator Ray
Walton will serve as master of
ceremonies.
A dedication committee, made
up of the presidents and one
representative from a number
of active civic organizations in
cooperation with county and city
officials, met on Friday night.
Their plans include a luncheon
at Boiling Spring Lakes Country
Club for Mrs. Moore prior to the
ceremony.
Members of the committee, and
their organizational affiliations
are as follow: Brunswick Coun
ty—'John L. Barbee, chairman of
the Board of County Commis
sioners, and George T. Rourk;
Brunswick County Historical So
ciety—Mrs. M. H. Rourk, presi
dent, and Grover Gore; City of
Southport—E. B. Tomlinson, Jr.,
mayor, and C. D. Pickerrell;
Live Oak Garden Club— Mrs.
D. F. St. George, president; Re
sources Development Commis
sion—Roy Stevens; Southport
Jaycettes—Mrs. Bobby Jones,
president, and Mrs. G. W. Fish
er; Southport Garden Club—Mrs.
L. J. Hardee, president, and
Mrs. Dallas Pigott; Southport
Junior Chamber of Commerce—
W. C. Jones, president, and Har
old Aldridge; Southport Junior
Woman's Club—Mrs. Gib Bar
bee, president, and Mrs. Jerry
S. Sherrod; Southport Lion’s Club
—Frank Hardy, president, and
Lester Lowe; Southport Woman’s
Club—Mrs. Bryant Potter,
president, and Mrs. James
Barnes; woodbine Garden Club
—Mrs. James C, Bo-vman, presi
dent.
Representing the North Caro
lina Department of Archives and
History on the committee is Wil
liam G. Faulk, Jr.; representing
the Sunny Point Army Terminal
is Colonel A. B. Joyner, Jr.;
and serving as general chairman
will be Mrs. James M. Harper,
Jr.
The Visitor Center-Museum
has been completed and the ex
hibits are being installed after
being designed and constructed
by the Museums Division in Ra
leigh.
Two separate audio-visual aids
will be included in the exhibits
area, one of them will be a 9 ft.
by 20 ft. reproduction of a 1769
map .if colonial Brunswicktown.
At the entrance to the ex
hibits area is a scene depict
ing the 20th century undevel
oped archaeological site with the
theme moving backward in time
and history to the Confederate
Fort Anderson, 1862-1865; im
portant seaport of Brunswick; the
armed defiance to the Stamp Act
of 1765, the living customs of the
colonists who inhabited the early
town of Brunswick; the Spanish
attack and capture of the town in
1748; the founding of the town by
Col. Maurice Moore in 1726
and also depicted is the early
attempts to settle the lower Cape
Fear area in the 17th century and
other early explorations of the
region; at the exit will be a story
of the Cape Fear Indians Uid
their culture while they inhabited
the forests along the banks of the
river.
Artifacts unearthed through
archaeology will be exhibited.
Emphasis is on the two periods
of North Carolina history, colo
nial and Confederate.
Governor
i
n Speaker
I Missionary To ;
Speak Sunday | ‘
The Rev. Ralph W. Harrell ]
from the Rocky Hock Baptist, ‘
Edenton, will be at Mill Creek (
Baptist Church for both serv
ices Sunday. ’
He is a graduate of Wake For- ,
est College, has a B.D. from
Southern Seminary, Louisville,
Ky. and was appointed mission
ary to East Africa in 1958, where
he served from 1958-1961. He
served as superintendent of Dar
es Salaam Baptist Center and
Dar es Salaam Evangelistic Mis
sionary.
From 1963-1966 he was Tscsr
urer of Baptist Mission of East '
Africa and did evangelistic work 1
in Nairobi. In 1964-1966 he was
manager of East Africa Baptist ;
Assembly, and also did evange
listic work in Limuru area. 1
Shallotte Man
Dies Tuesday
SHALLOTTE — Jack Kyle j
White, 40, well-known Shallotte ,
businessman and civic leader, -
died at home here, Tuesday night, j
after a short illness. He was a ,
native of Shallotte, the son of j
Mrs. Minnie Russ White of Shal- ,
lotte and the late R. D. White, t
Sr.
Mr. White was a partner in t
the R. D, White and Sons Com- c
pany of Shallotte; was a mem- t
ber of Camp Methodist Church; j
affiliated with Shallotte Masonic t
Lodge No. 727 A F& AM, was man- a
ager of the Shallotte Little League r
baseball team and was a World r
War n U.S. Naval veteran. p
Final rites will be held Thurs- j
day at 11 a.m. at Camp Methodist a
Church by the Rev. M. L. DeHart, h
with burial in Brooks Cemetery. s
Visitation will be from Coble’s ;
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PACE Program
Affects Many
Students Here
The Brunswick County PACE
Committee is anxious that all
eligible students participate in
the PACE work study program.
College students should contact
the Financial Aid Office of their
college for application blanks and
approval to work in PACE.
PACE headquarters in Raleigh
has released the following list
of participating colleges:
Atlantic Christian College,
Agricultural and Technical Col
lege, Campbell College, David
son College, Elon College Em
manuel College, High Point Col
lege, King College, Lees Mc
Rae College, Meredith College,
Montreat- Anderson College,
Mount Olive Junior College,
sandhills Community College, St.
Andrews Presbyterian College,
University of North Carolina at
Uhapel Hill and Greensboro,
barren Wilson College, Living
stone College, Duke University,
rohnson C. Smith, Central Pied
mont Community College and Le
loir County Community College.
Other colleges that partici
>ated in the PACE Program last
rear are expected to participate
his summer. These listed below:
Appalachian State Teachers Col
ege, Bennett College, College
>f the Albemarle, East Caro
ina College, Elizabeth City State,
Fayetteville State College, Mich
gan State University, North
Carolina College, North Carolina
Itate College, Pembroke State
College, Pfeiffer College, Sacred
leart College, Shaw University,
Ipelman College, St. Augustine
College, University of North
Carolina at Charlotte, University
if Wisconsin, western Carolina
College and Winston Salem Col
ege.
Increase In
Hospital Rate
Atie board of trustees for Dosh
r Memorial Hospital at their
•egular monthly meeting in Feb
tuary approved an increase In
"com rates effective March 1.
rhis increase Is due to the steady
:llmb of operational costs and
iharges per day will be: Private
•oom $18,50; Semi-private
>15.50; 3 bed ward $14.; and 4
>ed ward $11.50.
The board approved a write-off
if $34,000 of uncollectible ac
counts for the hospital. Tills
luge amount has accumulated
iver the years through non-pay
ng patients for in-patient and
ut-patient service. Tills is only
. small portion of a total of
125,000 that will eventually be
written off as uncollectible.
Ivery reasonable effort has been
nade to collect these accounts,
ut without success.
There are many reasons as
0 why the hospital was unable to
ollect, such as patient unable
5 pay, patient would not pay,
ospitallzatlon policy held bypa
ient denied for one reason or
nother, and various other
easons. Due to these facts, a
lore stringent collection and de
osit requirement will be en
irced. The board of trustees
nd the Administrator feel the
ope for continued good hospital
ervice to the community lUs
1 the settling of all accounts as
ley become due.
Time And Tide
On the front page of The Pilot for March 3, 1937, was the an
nouncement that the Cape Fear Pilots Association had purchased a
new pilot boat and had christened her the “R. R. Stone.’* She re
placed the old “D. H. Penton.*’ A public meeting was slated to be
held here the following day on the question of a yacht basin for
Southport.
The Carolina Puppeteers had made a tour of Brunswick County
Schools, teaching their object lesson of oral hygiene; prospects for
an unusually early spring had been literally nipped in the bud when
sub-freezing temperatures followed a few days of kidding around
with warm weather during the month of February; and Waccamaw’s
old log gym was to be the site for the Brunswick County Basketball
Tournament starting the next day.
There was a prophetic headline on the front page of The Pilot
for March 4, 1942; “State Begins Preparing for Rationing of Sugar."
Registration was to be conducted through the schools, the story said.
A sub-station of the Southport Post office was being set up at
t e<ilaKa!i^Ctlon Base at, Fort Caswell; Highway Patrolman James
Smith had discussed driving safety for school bus drivers at a meet
ing of the Brunswick Schoolmasters Club; and there was an ominous
front page column: “The War At A Glance.”
During the first week in March back in 1947 Capt. Rudy Gray,
a Brunswick county native, was in the international news spotlight
with his ship, the SS Martin Behrman, being held by the Dutch in
their row with Indonesia. February of that year had earned the
distinction of being a cold month, with the mercury hitting the 15
degree mark one morning.
The Shallotte Lions Club was slated to receive its charter at a
special meeting upcoming; Odell Bennett had resigned as Chairman
of the Brunswick AAA Committee; and the Southport boys basket
ball squad, Brunswick County Champions, appeared in a front page
photo.
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At Music Festival
PRACTICE — Mrs. Betty Smith and Miss Priscilla
Hewett are shown here practicing for the Music Festival
which will be held Friday night at Waccamaw High
School at 7:30. There will be a variety of musical enter
tainment, including numbers by the glee clubs from
Southport, Leland and Waccamaw. The Cresette Dancers
from Wilmington will appear in a specialty number. (Pho
to by King)
Pageant Specialty
PERFORMERS — These six-year-old beauties will be
performing at the Miss Brunswick Pageant Saturday,
March 11 at Shallotte High School along with a group of
youngsters called the Midgerettes, under the direction of
Janis Burris. Misses Angelia Bell and Allison Ellis have
won various awards in baton twirling contests through
out the southeast.
Pageant Details
Fall Into Place
Nominees For
Avance School
For the fifth summer the
Governor’s School of North Caro
lina, a summer program for
gifted high school students, will
accept 400 students to study in one
of five academic areas or six
areas of the performing arts.
The school will be open only to
rising juniors and seniors who
meet specific qualifications.
To meet the criteria for nomi
nation to the Governor 's School,
a student must present superior
scores of standardized mental
ability tests, rank in the upper
20 per cent of his class, have an
acceptable over-all grade aver
age on all subjects taken in high
school (A’s and B’s) and be
nominated by the local superin
tendent upon approval of the prin
cipal.
During the month of February
all sophomore and junior records
were examined and the following
top ranking students were nomi
nated:
Joyce Lene Bernard, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Bernard,
Bolivia; Rosetta Bryant, sopho
more, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Bryant Jr., Leland; Zet
tie Marie Carrier, sophomore,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. W.
Carrier, Southport; Diane ClemI
mons. daughter of Mrs. Marv
Catherine Clemmons, Supply;
James F. Clemmons in, son of
Mr. and Mrs. James F. Clem
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a StROO scholarship from the
Waccamaw Bank and Trust Co.
ana security savings and Loan
Association heads the prize list
for contestants in the Miss
Brunswick County Pageant which
will be staged in Shallotte High
School auditorium on the evening
of March 11. The Shallotte Jay
cees are the sponsoring organi
zation again this year and Mrs.
Shirley Ward once more is
serving as pageant director.
The Waters Thompson trophy
will go to the most talented non
finalist. In addition to the winning
trophy, similar awards will goto
the first and second runners-up
and to the winner of the Miss
Congeniality title.
To the winner will go a $250
wardrobe and an all-expense trip
for her, an escort and a chape
rone to the Miss North Carolina
Pageant.
The entry list has been com
plete and Mrs. Ward is working
with the girls In planning a pro
gram that will come up to the
standards of previous perform
ances. in addition to the talent
acts from the contestants, there
will be a variety of specialty acts
that will round out a full even
ing’s entertainment.
Tickets will be numbered and
reserve seats already are on
sale at Clem’s Texaco. The
jaycees advise all interested
persons to get their tickets in
advance in order to be sure of
getting a good seat and in inusre
against the disappointment of
being unable to get into see
being unable to get in to see the
pageant if the event is a sell-out,
as is expected.
Reports First
Week's Activity
In Legislature
By ODELL WILLIAMSON
Last week I mentioned that
members of the General As
sembly had received copies of
the budget books containing ex
penditures recommended by the
Advisory Budget Commission for
the next biennium.
Now that I have had a little
time to study the books, I find
that I am happy about some of
the recommendations, but disap
pointed that certain other items
which I had thought might be
recommended had not been re
quested and, therefore, were not
mentioned in the budget.
One of the items that I am
happy about is a $75,000 appro
priation for additions to buildings
at the Whiteville Forestry head
quarters. I will work to see
that this item remains in the bud
get. The money will be spent for
a 2,088-square-foot addition to
the equipment repair shop, a
new 6,720-square-foot open
type equipment storage shelter,
and a new 2,176-square-foot han
ger to take care of two air
planes.
I was disappointed to learn
that the Advisory Budget Com
mission had not even been asked
to allocate $190,000 for covering
part of the boat slips at the
small boat harbor in Southport.
This past Wednesday, the di
rector of the State Ports Au
thority, Mr. Davis, appeared be
fore toe joint Senate-House ap
propriations committee, ofwhich
I am a member, to request funds
for toe ports of Wilmington and
Morehead City over and above toe
amounts recommended by toe Ad
visory Budget Commission. Dur
ing his appearance, Mr. Davis—
representing toe Ports Authority
—again did not ask for toe $190,
000.
In answer to questions about
his reasons for not requesting the
money from toe Advisory Budget
Commission, Mr. Davis said
that toe Ports Authority has in
mind a plan to finance improve
ments ai Southport through toe.,,
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Mobile Team
Closing Work
There are only two days left
In the program being conducted
by the Employment Security
Commission’s Mobile Team in
Brunswick County. Offices of
the Mobile Unit will close at
5:30 p.m. Friday to end the
Brunswick County Smaller Com
munities Program. The effort,
sponsored by the Brunswick Re
sources Development Commis
sion, began on January 16 and
has attempted to provide com
plete Employment Services tothe
residents of the county and to
compile information for a Man
power Resources Report, to be
used in conjunction with efforts
to attract new industry to Bruns
wick county.
Survey forms to employed
workers in the county were dis
tributed last week and it is very
important to the effort that they
be returned at once.
There are two offices open
for the final week, the Southport
office, in the old Randy’s Sand
wich Shop, and the Trailer Unit,
located at the high school in
Leland. Both offices are open
8:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m.
Everyone age 16 and over and
available for work should apply
before 5:30 Friday.
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
Thursday, March 2,
0:15 A M 6:40 A M
12:33 P M 6:52 P M
Friday, March 3,
1:21 A M 7:45 A M
1:33 P M 7:52 P M
Saturday, March 4,
2:21 A M 8:52 A M
2:39 P M 8:58 P M
Sunday, March 5,
3:33 A M 9:58 A M
3:45 P M 10:04 P M
Monday, March 6,
4:33 A M 10:52 A M
4:51 P M 11:04 P M
Tuesday, March 7,
5:27 A M 11:45 A M
5:39 PM 11:58 P M
Wednesday, March 8,
6:15 A M 12:30 A M
6:27 P M