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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1967
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Homecoming Queen And Court
Couitt Hilfif Lwj * i? ’ i. wly cJowned Ho“ec°ming Queen at Brunswick
MiU L*t!ghArr ’ is shown here with members of her court. Shown standing are.
Miss Katha McCoy, princess, and Mitchel Griffin, prince. Seated beside the queen are
^er’firf r“ner:up> and Miss Gwendolyn Cause, Miss Homecoming
Afee df ° Shown standin§ m front are Miss Ginger Courtney, fairy, and Brian Me
Homecoming At
BCHS Features
Crowning Queen
Brunswick County High School
recently observed its fourth an
nual homecoming.
The B.C.H. School Band, under
the direction of Ralph H. Parker,
started the activities with the
prelude. Following the prelude
was the procession of the Home
coming Queen and her court as
all contestants participated in
- the processional. Each girl,
dressed in a gown of pastel
shades, marched in with her es
cort to form an aisle and await
the entrance of the Homecoming
Queen.
Royalty for the evening con
sisted of Elf and Fairy—Brian
McAfee and Ginger Coatney;
Prince and Princess—Mitchell
Griffin and Katha McCoy; Home
coming Queen—Angela Maureen
Gore; her attendants—Brenda
Baker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John Baker of Bolivia, junior
and runner-up for the Miss
Homecoming title; and Minnie
Parker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Willie Parker of Southport, and a
senior; Della Mae Brown, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Brown
of Southport, and a representa
tive of 9th grade-B; Marilyn
Gore, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur Gore of Bolivia and a
representative of 9th grade-A;
and Isabelle Anderson, a sopho
more and daughter of Mrs. Mary
Anderson of Southport.
Two representatives of the
kindergarten department Saun- 1
dra Raye and Vivian Denkins,
paved the way for the queen as (
they marched in dropping flower
petals from their baskets.
These little flower girls added
much to the processional. • The
queen, wearing a white floor
length gown, marched down the
aisle to her throne. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Orie
Gore of Southport. She is a
sophomore at the Brunswick
County High School where both
her parents are employed. Her
mother is the business education
instructor and her father is in
structor of Vocational Industrial
Arts. Angela is a member of the
B.C.H. School Chorus, the B.C.H.
School Band, has served as Stu
dent Council Representative, a
member of this school’s chapter
of the N.H.A., has served on
the cheering squad and is active
in most school activities.
During each quarter and at
half-time during the basketball
doubleheader special entertain
ment was planned. Dances were
presented by each department
from the kindergarten to the tenth
grade. The tapping group trained
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iji Brief Bits Of §
I NEWS !
yaupon beach vote
All six members of the Board
°f Commissioners are to be
elected this year at Yaupon
Beach. Any qualified voter can
file as a candidate and all can
didates must file not later than
April 12. Three members will
be elected for a term of four
years and three members will be
elected for a term of two years.
Long Range Farm
Objective Planned
By ARCHIE F. MARTIN
County Extension Chairman
Brunswick, along with all other
counties in North Carolina, has
just launched one of the most
ambitious agricultural programs
ever undertaken. The program
was planned by the Extension
Advisory Boards with the as
sistance of other lay leaders in
the county.
The State goal is to increase
gross farm income to nearly 2
billion dollars in 1971. Bruns
wick’s goal is an increase of 3
million dollars. This would rep
resent an increase of 23 per
cent in gross farm income in the
five year program.
While gross income will be
used to measure progress, the
major goal is to help farm peo
ple increase their net income
through more efficient use of
their resources. The income
gap between farm and non-farm
employment must be narrowed if
America is to be assured a con
tinued abundance of food and
fiber.
The program also calls for an
expanded effort by Extension
workers to double participation in
1-H club work. Projects and ac
tivities will be revamped when
lecessary to appeal to farm,
rural non-farm and urban youths’
\ concentrated effort will also
>e made to boost the number of
volunteer leaders to assist with
he 4-H program.
(Continued On Page Five)
School Matters
Before Board
The Brunswick County Board
of Education met and in the
absence of Chairman O. K.
Bellamy, the board appointed
Arthur J, Dosher as temporary
chairman.
L. R. Biggerstaff, E.S.E.A.
director, discussed with the
bord recent changes and regu
lations of the Title I Program.
Supt. Williams discussed with
the Board plans for the Head
Start Program for 1967. The
Board Head Start Advisory Com
mittee requested Supt. Williams
contact the following people to
see if they would serve on the
Head Start Advisory Committee;
Mrs. John Lewis, Sr., Mrs."
Velma Moore, Mrs. Dora Long*
Mrs. George Lockamy, Mrs.
Clarence Fullwood.
Supt. Williams discussed with
the board the freedom of choice
plan to be followed for the 1967
38 school year.
The Board discussed the con
struction of a gir’s bathroom
and storage room at the Union
High School and approved this
ouilding project.
The Board accepted the resig
nation of Robert L. Height of
the union High School faculty.
The Board approved the sale
of school cars from Waccamaw
and Bolivia schools.
There was a discussion of
various aspects of the proposed
Board of Education budget for the
1967-68 school year but no ac
tion was taken on this matter.
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MISS LOIS GORE
Southport Girl
Is Entertainer
On February 16, Miss Lois
Gore, Southport girl, made her
farewell TV appearance in Mo
rocco. Quoted from a letter
from Ambassador Tasca to
Secretary Orville Freeman re
garding Lois’ concerts is the
following:
"Gifted with an attractive per
sonality, vibrant voice and a
unique singing style, she has
become one of the most popular
Americans in our official family
here. Miss Gore appeared at the
"Salle des Fetes’ . Since Lois’
group, (The American Jewells)
have gone back to the U. S., she
gave the complete 1 hour concert
alone in two parts with a 15
minute intermission.
"Lois sang to more than 1,200
foreigners and they loved her
spiritual songs. She even let them
sing a few lines of two of her
well known songs, "Down by the
Riverside’’ and "He’s Got the
Whole World In His Hands’’. The
audience clapped and cheered for
more when Lois ended her pro
gram. Of the 16 concerts she
has given since her arrival in
Rabat, Morocco, in August 1965,
this was one of her best.
"I wish to express to you my
admiration for Miss Gore, both
as a loyal and efficient member
of our Embassy family here and
as an outstanding example of
the right type of American to
represent her country over
seas.”
She is the daughter of Eugene
W. Gore of Southport.
Seek Advice
About Erosion
A group of interested Bruns
wick county citizens met Friday
with Col. Beverly C. Snow, Wil
mington District Engineer, to
discuss plans for beach erosion
control along the shoreline bor
dering the Atlantic Ocean.
In this group were John Bar
bee, chairman of the board of
county commissioners, M. C.
Gore, Ed Gore, Gib Barbee*and
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Gifts Continue
For Building
New Library
Gifts ranging from 10$ to
$1,000 were made to the South
port-Brunswick County Library
Building Fund this week, bringing
the amount still needed to less
than $3,000.
An unidentified Negro woman
gave 10? to Mrs. Esther Robin
son, Bookmobile librarian, with
the statement that she wanted
to have a part In building a county
library, and the dime was aU
she could afford.
Mr. and Mrs. James p. Fur
pless of Raleigh gave $1,000,
the largest Individual contribu
tion to be received. Mr. Fur
pless, son of the late Price Fur
pless, Is a native of Southport.
He has made his home In Raleigh
for many years but maintains a
keen interest in Brunswick coun
ty. He and his wife, Rachel,
have been generous donors to
other projects in the Southport
community.
Miss Gertrude Y. Loughlin,
retired school supervisor, leads
the list in memorial gifts with a
$150 donation in memory of her
brothers, James Albert and
Joseph j. Loughlin, and her
nephew, James D. Loughlin. Mr.
and Mrs. E. C. Harrelson also
made a gift in memory of James
Albert Loughlin.
Memorials for Mrs. F. M.
Burdette, Sr., Mrs. Paul Mason,
Mrs. Bessie Swan and Jack Kyle
White were given by Mr. and
Mrs. Dan Harrelson.
Robert Bernard Davis, late
teacher In Southport High School,
was remembered in memorial
gifts from the Brunswick County
Unit, NCEA; Mr. and Mrs. James
T. Barnes; Mr. and Mrs. Gordon
Davis and Mr. and Mrs. Philip
King.
Personal contributions have
been made recently by Mr. and
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Winnabow Girl
Teaches Music. .
. I
Miss Carolyn Segraves, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. w. H.
Segraves of Winnabow, has Just
completed a teaching project in
connection with the North Caro
lina Little Symphony Orchestra.
Miss Segraves, a junior Music
Education Major at Campbell
College, taught the fifth grade at
Buie’s Creek High School, Buie’s
Creek. The project, presented
in cooperation with the Music De
partment at Campbell, was to
acquaint the children with the
music to be presented at the North
Carolina Little Symphony Con
cert in Erwin. Concerts of this
type are presented throughout
the state each year for children
in the fourth through the seventh
grades.
A dean’s list student and presi
dent of the student chapter of
the Music Educator’s National
Conference, Miss Segraves will
accompany Mrs. Pearl West of
Mt. Olive in a junior Voice
Recital March 15 at 4 o'clock.
Miss Segraves will present a
junior Piano Recital on April
19 at 4 o’clock in J. Clyde
Turner Chapel, on the Campbell
campus. She will play pieces
by composers of the classical
and romantic periods. Friends
are invited to attend.
Time And Tide
The most significant news In the March 9, 1937, issue of The
Pilot was not on the front page, but was a legal notice announcing
the sale on the following Monday of Bald Head Island. It was being
foreclosed for taxes.
A headline said: "Good Prices Get Shrimpers Busy," and the
story went on to say that payment of 15-cents per pound at the
dock had local fishermen out earlier than usual. There was a
rumor that Cape Fear Coast Guard Station was to be abandoned; a
hearing had been held on the question of constructing a yacht
basin at Southport; and the editor has raised the question of "Why
did the first man who ate an oyster eat it.”
■ There was plenty of political news on the front page of The Pilot
for March 11,1942. Amongthe announcements was one from Attorney
S. Bunn Frink, who said that he would be a candidate for District
Solicitor. The April term of civil court had been cancelled by action
of the Board of County Commissioners.
There were signs that the war was out; A campaign was being
conducted for the collection of scrap metal; Mrs. Ressie Whatley
was collecting clothing for the Red Cross Emergency closet; and
supplies had been received to commence rationing of sugar. The
Bolivia boys and the Waccamaw girls were county basketball cham
pions following the annual tournament.
Robert White and F. M. white, Jr., of whiteville had caught
a string of 14 beautiful rockfish while fishing in Lockwoods Folly, and
a picture of their catch was on the front page of The Pilot for March
12, 1947. Edward H. Redwlne of Shallotte was chairman of the Red
Cross fund drive in Brunswick.
The Shallotte girls had won the championship in their division
in the annual Wilmington Star-News Tournament; O. M. Holden of
Supply had killed the first rattlesnake of the season; and the carnival
(R&S) was coming to town the following week.
Fifteen years ago this week The Pilot carried the announcement
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Brunswick Man Decorated
. Major William A. Stanaland of Ash is shown here as he receives the Le
Mrs W ^^Skanaland13^ General J- J‘ Tolson- Major Stanaland is the son of Mr. and
Junior Womans
Club Competes
In Education
Tlie Southport Junior Woman's
CIt$ Is one of 35 North Carolina
women’s clubs competing for
hoqprs in the General Federation
of Women’s Clubs/Shell oil Com
Fjfiy Education Awards Program.
/Now In its fifth year, Hie
G.F.W.C. - Shell education pro
gram presents three awards In
each state to women’s clubs
judged to be conducting the best
programs to further the education
of young people in their communi
ties.
Competition among the various
clubs Is not broken down into
population categories. All North
Carolina clubs, regardless ofthe
size of their memberships, have
the same chance of winning. En
tries are evaluated taking Into
consideration need, imagination,
approach and the number of club
members actively participating
in the club’s education program in
relation to the work accom
plished.
Awards consist of a first
prize of $500, a second prize of
$300, and $200 for third place.
North Carolina award winners
in last year’s competition were
the North Carolina Junior Sorosls
of Wilmington, first place; the
Washington Woman’s Club, sec
ond; and the Clinton Woman’s
Club, third.
Entries from North Carolina
are judged by a three-member
panel of judges. This year’s
panel consists of Dr. Lois Edin
ger, Assistant Professor of Edu
cation, University of North Caro
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Brunswick Man
Receives Medal
Dr. Robert B. Downs
State Meeting
For Libraries
North Carolinians for Better
Libraries (NCBL) will hold their
first annual meeting at the new
Voyager Inn here on March 17th
and hear a keynote address by Dr.
Robert B. Downs, a native Tar
Heel who has won international
renown as a library administra
tor.
Downs, dean of library admin
istration at the University of Illi
nois and former librarian at the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hiu, will speak at the
noon luncheon session of the one
day meeting.
President David Stick of Kitty
Hawk announced plans for the
meeting and said it will bring
together for the first time the
NCBL voting membership, made
up of 100 local representatives—
one In each county In the State—
and a 16-member board of di
rectors.
Mrs. a. p. Henry, Jr., of
Winnabow is voting members
from Brunswick county and Mrs.
James M. Harper, Jr., is a
director of the state organiza
tion. Mrs. Phil King and Miss
Dorothy Dickey plan to attend
the first annual meeting In Ra
leigh.
NCBL members act as liaison
between library-interested peo
ple In their counties and Raleigh
headquarters of the statewide
nonprofit organization, Incorpo
rated last June to work for im
proved library facilities and
services.
Stick said the meeting is also
expected to attract legislators,
professional library workers,
local library trustees, and priv
ate citizens from across the
State.
Delegates will participate In
afternoon discussions to coor
linate plans for local action on
three fronts—expanding library
services, library support, and
ocal groups of citizens for better
lbrarles.
The luncheon will also include
i business session, at which time
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An Ash, major has received the
Legion of Merit from Major Gen
eral J, j. Tolson, commanding
general of the Army Aviation
School at Ft. Rucker, Ala.
Major William A. stanaland,
son of Mr. and Mrs. William E.
Stan aland, received the award
for outstanding meritorious
service from June to December
1966, while serving as plans of
ficer In the aviation special staff
section, u. S. Army, Vietnam
Headquarters.
The citation accompanying the
medal reads in part: “Major
Stanaland developed a stationing
plan for all Incoming aviation
units which has been largely
responsible for the smooth flow
of aviation units Into the combat
zone.”
Major Stanaland, chief of the
Flight Training Analysis Branch,
Headquarters and Service Com
pany, Army Aviation School, en
tered on active duty In 1952.
He received his commission
through the Reserve Officers’
Training Corps program at
Clemson University, where he
received his B. S. degree in 1952.
He is a member of Pershing
Rifles and Scabbard and Blade
societies.
His wife, Margaret, lives at
Enterprise, Ala.
Home Medical
Care Covered
Many elderly citizens of
Brunswick county could benefit
from one of the hidden features
of the Medicare law reports Al
bert P. Mason, District Manager
of the Social Security Adminis
tration. The insurance will pay
for home visits by nurses, physi
cal therapists, and certain other
health workers employed by a
home health agency that is
participating in the program.
Payment can be made for part
time nursing care, physical ther
apy, some medical supplies, use
of special equipment, etc. Mason
emphasized that neither full-time
nursing care nor general house
keeping services are covered
under this provision.
The hospital insurance part of
the law and the voluntary sup
plementary section each pro
vides for up to 100 visits per
year by home health workers.
Under the hospital provision, the
beneficiary must have been hos
pitalized for at least three days
before payment for home visits
can begin. Under the voluntary
plan, he does not have to be hos
pitalized first to get the serv
ices. In either case, his doctor
decides whether he needs the
services and sets up the plan.
Providing skilled services in
the home is one of the newest
developments in medical care.
According to Mason, many com
munities have limited or no
facilities for furnishing these
services but the prospects of
Medicare revenues should speed
their development. “Brunswick
County is fortunate," he said,
that the Health Department in
Southport is equipped to pro
vide a wide range of services to
the home bound residents."
Williamson In
Second Report
Of Legislature
By ODELL WILLIAMSON
Two years ago the State Legis
lature authorized the Depart
ment of Motor Vehicles to have
all vehicles license plates reflec
torized on a trial basis in 1967,
Evidently the trial has been a
big success. Already, in this ses
sion, a bill authorizing the de
partment to continue the new
plates has passed both the House
and the Senate.
Of course, the money for future
reflectorlzed plates will still
have to be appropriated by the
legislature. I understand the
amount required will be in excess
of $500,000.
While on the subject of money,
I would like to point out that the
“A” budget includes specific
recommendations for equipment
at the Southeastern Community
College in Columbus County.
I would like to point out that
the “A” budget includes specific
recommendations for equipment
at the Southeastern Community
College in Columbus County.
The college will be authorized
to spend $299,779 in the fiscal
year 1967-68 and $36,923 in the
fiscal year 1968-69. This is a
total of $336,702 for the biennium.
Of course, there will be other
funds that the college will share
in. A total of 43 different schools
and technical institutions, in
cluding Southeastern, will share
in an overall appropriation for
salaries and operating expenses.
But, unlike the appropriation'
for equipment. Southeastern’s
share of these funds is not by
lined in the budget. Each school’s
share of the overall appropria
tion will be determined by its
fulltime student enrollment.
A bill was introduced in the
House this past week to elimi
nate a provision in the general
statutes that allows the state
to lease state-owned lands to
individuals for oyster gardens.
At this time, 1 anticipate that
the bill will pass both the com
mittee on commercial fisheries
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Board Names
New Inspector :
At their regular meeting here
Monday members of the Bruns
wick county board of commis
sioners named Col. F. G. Moffitt
as county electrical inspector.
Col. Moffitt recently passed
the State electrical examination
and is licensed.
John Dawson has been named
assistant electrical inspector.
Col. Moffitt agreed to fill the
position on a fee basis. He al
ready is employed part time as
Director of Civil Defense for
Brunswick.
In other action members of
the board heard a request from'
Mayor Roney Cheers that con
sideration be given to the con
struction of a second courthouse
at Shallotte. He cited the incon
venient location of Southport as a
principal reason and pointed to
the probable need for additional
facilities under the new court
reform act.
No official action was taken
on a request for a resolution
from the board for the appoint-,
ment of two additional members
of the Brunswick County Board
of Education.
Tide Table
Following' is the tide table
for Southport during1 the
week. These hours are ap
proximately correct and
were furnished The State
Port Pilot through the
courtesy of the Gape Fear
Pilot’s Association.
HIGH LOW
Thursday, March 9,
6:57 A M 0:40 A M
7:09 P M 1:10 P M
Friday, March 10,
7:38 A M 1:22 A M
7:45 P M 1:46 P fa
Saturday, March 11,
8:09 A M 2:04 A M
8:21 P M 2:22 P M
Sunday, March 12,
8:46 A M 2:40 A M
8:51 P M 2:58 P M
Monday, March 18,
9:15 A M 3:16 A M
9:27 P M 3:34 EM
Tuesday, March 14,
9:45 A M 3:52 A M
9:58 P M 4:04 p M
Wednesday, March 15,
10:15 A M 4:28 A M
10:33 PM 4:40 P M