The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County I
THE STATE PORT PILOT
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
VOLUME 38
No. 41
8-Pages Today
SOUTHPORT, N. C.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1967
Si A COPY
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Clean-Up, Fix-Up, Paint-Up
Pr|d® in community and tire conservation are exhibited here by Junior Gore of Lone
wood holding bottles picked up from roadside, all a part of campaign sponsored by
Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation aimed at getting urban and rural folk to
put their premises in order for the coming summer season and every season of the
Students In
Anti-Litter
Contest Here
The Southport Garden Club
sponsored a anti-litterbug con
test In grades five through eight at
Southport High School with around
sixty students participating in the
poster, essay, poem or song con
test.
m an assembly program Tues
day morning C. D. Pickerrell
spoke to the group about South
port. He stressed each persons
responsibility to make Southport
a clean and more beautiful place
for tourists to see and for resi
dents to work and live in.
Winners were named by Mrs.
J. T. Barnes and prizes were
awarded by Mrs. L. J. Hardee
to 19 students: Best poster idea—
Mary Ellen watts and Jean Ann
Chapman; most artistic poster,
Karen Williams; cartoon posters
Marvin Floyd and Bill Simmons.
Poster winners for grade five:
1st Richard Smith, 2nd Jane Bow
mer; grade six—1st Nancy Wat
kins, 2nd Stephen Helms; grade
seven—1st Catherine Ann Lewis,
2nd Mike Dosher and Jimmy
Clunk; grade eight — 1st John
Hankins and Joe Feak, 2nd Brenda
McRoy.
Yvonne Jones won for her
combination poster, essay and
song. Other essay prizes went to
Wanda Darlene Moore, Charles
Smith and George Williamson.
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1 NEWS I
ATTENDS DINNER
Mrs. A. P. Henry of Winnabow
represented Brunswick county at
the Jefferson-Jackson Day Din
ner in Raleigh Saturday night.
She also attended the meeting
Friday for North Carolinians for
Better Libraries.
EASTER CANTATA
The Southport Baptist Church
Choir will present an Easter Can
tata entitled “Our Living Lord”
by Ira B. Wilson on Sunday eve
ning at 7:30 o’clock. Everyone is
invited to attend. There will be
no sunrise services.
EASTER VACATION
Brunswick county schools
closed this (Wednesday) after
noon for the Easter vacation,
which will extend through Mon
day. All federal, state and coun
ty, except the post offices, will
be closed Monday in observance
of Easter.
PRE-SCHOOL CLINIC PIL
A pre-school clinic at South
port High school is scheduled for
9 a. m. Friday, March 31, for
children who will enroll in the
first grade at Southport school
this fall. Parents are requested
to bring the children, their birth
certificate and immunization
records to the clinic. Forms are
available at the school office or
the Health Department.
REA Sponsoring
Cleanup Campaign
neie s a way 10 laten On to
some ready cash and who couldn’t
use a few extra dollars with
spring here and commencement
time just around the corner?
Earning it can be fun and in the
earning you’ll be glad you did and
visitors to Columbus and Bruns
wick counties will sing praises
for your pride in your environ
ment.
It is a simple matter. Drop
by the Brunswick Electric Mem
bership Corporation office in
Whiteville or Shallotte and folks
there will be glad to give you the
details in a little folder.
The BEMC people call it
“Tidy-Up” time and cash prizes
of $25, $50, $75 and $100 will be
presented winners.
What is the co-operative asking
people of the two counties to do?
Nothing more than what they
should have been doing all the
time.
Just get busy and be hep to the
times . ..start fixing up, cleaning
up and painting up.
What about that pile of debris
along the highway just below your
home? That old sagging picket
fence across your front yard?
The pile of trash out back? The
rotting-down tobacco barn now
beyond use? That old jalopy out by
the smokehouse rusting- awav?
Nature is getting ready to do Its
part in making the countryside
beautiful with green foliage and
blooming flowers of multi-colors
and even the feathery folk of the
air are sporting gay colors as if
every day were a wedding day.
And, remember, finny folk in
lake and stream, real ballet ar
tists, are jumping and dancing
above water’s surface bidding
you welcome with rod and reel,
while more are busy fanning oval
progeny beds below to nurture
fingerlings for better fishing
come another season.
Such is the welcome nature is
preparing for home folks and the
visitor who may come the county
way and, seeing folks have pride
in their surroundings, they will
remember to come again to stay
and spend and to enjoy visit on
visit.
Just stop by one of the BEMC
offices and you will be told what
to do to earn that ready cash.
Take Junior Gore who lives
down in the Longwood community.
Junior farms, has chores to do 13
months of every year, but he is
never too busy that he can't take
time out to keep things looking
clean around his home and the
highway that runs by his prem
ises.
With his tractor and trailer,
Junior cruises the highway every
so often picking up bottles and
the like to save you a slit tire
and generally to keep things in
viting in his area.
Don't be mislead by Junior in
his blue denim overalls and tight
fitting cap. Beneath his rugged
features and coat of tan is a
warming sense of beauty and
cleanliness.
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Easter Seals
Now In Mail
Easter Seals have been mailed
out this week to several hundred
Brunswick county citizens, Mrs.
Sue Jones, chairman for Bruns
wick county, announced Tuesday.
She had the assistance of the
Southport Jaycettes in this proj
ect this year.
Mi’s. Jones urges recipients
of these seals to return their
contribution as quickly as pos
sible. She says that 60 percent
of all funds received remain in
the county.
Mrs. Jones also Is anxious
for persons who may not have
received seals to realize that
their contributions to this fund
drive for money with which to
combat tuberculosis is impor
tant.” They may mail their
donation to P. O. Box 189, South
port,” she said.
Saturday is Lilly Day, and
young ladies will be in the South
port Business district to solicit
donations.
Seek Franchise
For Bus Route
A delegation of Southport citi
zens is in Raleigh today (Wednes
day) before the State Utilities
Commission to support the appli
cation of Southern Transportation
Co., Inc., for a franchise that will
give regular bus service from
Southport to Long Beach, Caswell
Beach and to Wilmington, via
Brunswick Town and the River
Road.
The incorporators are Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Worley and H. Town
send.
They seek a certificate to
transport passengers, their bag
gage, mail and light express over
the following routes:
“From Southport over Highway
87 and 211 to the intersection
of 211 and 133, a distance of
about three miles; thence South
on 133 to Caswell Beach, a dis
tance of about 7 miles; thence
over an unnumbered road a dis
tance of about three and one
half miles to Long Beach, and
return over the same route; and
from Southport over an unnum
bered road a distance of about
three miles to the Southport
Fort Fisher Ferry, and return
over the same route.
“From Southport over N. C.
Highways 211 and 87 to its in
tersection with N. C. Highway
133, a distance of about one and
one-half miles; thence north over
N. C. Highway 133 to its inter
section with U. S. Highways 74-76
and 17, a distance of about 23-1/2
miles; thence north on U. S. High
ways 17 and 74-76, to the City of
Wilmington, a distance of about
seven miles, and return over the
same route; and thence an un
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Easter Being
Observed In
Many Programs
Easter services are sched
uled for churches in Southport
this week, with Holy Week being
observed at Southport Presby
terian Church with preaching
each evening by the Rev. Jerome
C. Jones of Wilmington.
Communion service will be
observed on Thursday evening
at 7:30 o’clock at Trinity Metho
dist Church.
Good Friday services will be
held at St. Philips Episcopal
Church, beginning at noon.
The Rt. Rev. Thomas H.
Wright, Bishop of the Diocese
of East Carolina, will give the
first meditation. Following the
Bishop, ministers of several
Southport churches will give
meditations during the three
hour service.
Everyone is invited to join in
this community observance,
which is so arranged that those
who wish may enter and leave be
tween any of the meditations.
Special Easter music has been
prepared for presentation at each
of the churches in Southport on
Sunday morning and on Sunday
evening the choir of Southport
Baptist Church will present their
Easter cantata.
New Feature
For Festival
The Southport Fourth of July
Festival Committee announced
this week that the Winston-Salem
Police Department will send down
it’s mobile crime prevention
laboratory display unit. This unit
will be open to the public during
the three days of the Fourth of
July Festival and will be free of
charge.
The display units within the
laboratory date back as far as
law enforcement history in this
country. A mannequin is dress
ed in the same type police uni
form worn in 1894 and is placed
just inside the entrance of the
trailer in an old jail setting to tell
the story of crime prevention in
the 1800’s, and to welcome visi
tors to the display through a two
way conversation with them. As
you tour the exhibit, you see
photographs of the typical police
department from 1882 up through
the years, police transportation,
police weapons and supplies, lot
tery, dope and gambling devices,
home-made weapons and a large
assortment of confiscated wea
pons. There is also a display of
the modern police aids such as
color photography as used in
law enforcement, closed circuit
TV, modern and future communi
cations, detecting devices, crime
lab equipment and many other
items used in law enforcement
work.
Standing in the center of all
this is a mannequin, dressed in
a modern day police uniform,
who moves his head, his eyes
and mouth, and will carry on a
conversation with visitors while
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: Time And Tide
Beta Club At Waccamaw
ACTIVE — The Beta Club at Waccamaw High School recently tapped 12 new mem
bers. The club is under the direction of Miss Burnice Odom and presently is raising
funds to attend the annual convention in Asheville. Members shown above are, front
row, Vallie Redwine, Wanda Hughes, Brenda Smith, Teressa Jones, Frances Gore;
second row, Yvonne McKeithan, Linda Edwards, Legertha Stanley, Joseph Coleman;
third row, Donald Ward, Jerry Wayne Hewett, Roy Mintz, Larry Hewett, Louise Stan
ley; fourth row, Patricia Watts, Steve Evans, Douglas McKeithan, Jerry White, Mike
Hooks; fifth row. Principal John G. Long, Miss Odom and Rikki Dutton. (King Photo)
New Waccamaw
Branch Opens
Leland Office
Waccamaw Bank and Trust
Company will open its 24th of
fice Friday, March 24, in the Le
land community of Brunswick
County just west of Wilmington
on highway 74-76, President L. R.
Bowers announced today.
The new full service bank will
Vbe ti'-der toe manage ment of w. R.
Cross, former manager of toe
office at Riegelwood. He will
be assisted by Mrs. Eileen W.
Graham and Mrs. Margaret M.
Bordeaux.
Also convenient to highway 17
where it joins 74-76, the bank
will serve a wide area which
is growing rapidly industrially.
The opening of this new bank
marks the entry of waccamaw
Bank into the 17th town or com
munity. On March 20 of this week,
the bank opened its 23rd office in
Dunn which has a double drive-in
and the only banking service of
the kind in Dunn.
President Bowers said bank
officials are confident of the
rapid development and accept
ance of its new bank at Leland
and they “are pleased to have the
opportunity of serving this area.”
Jerry Dyson of the bank at
Whiteville will succeed Cross as
managing officer at the Riegel
wood office.
Sunday, April 2, from 3 to 6
P.m. will be open house at the
Leland bank.
March 24, 1937, and excitement
plane with motor trouble has 1
Station, where it remained for
repairs were made. There w:
wick, but no great damage had re;
Shad season was on, but it wa
High School had felt the touch o
tournament; and preparation ha
Southport.
On the front page of The Pilot f
an editorial endorsing the candic
of District Solicitor, for which 1
was the first and only time The
dorse ment to a political candidal
sition in this instance on the bai
citizen was involved as a candidat
The war was on, and 37 more
coast had been brought into Sout
chairman of the Brunswick Cou
Gore had been called by the u
It was March 26, 1947, and So
the forthcoming mayor’s electio
and the late John D. Eriksen as t
race. A Southport boy, Arville
bride, the young lady being a nativ
Bill Weils, Southport’s No. 1
had phoned a Wilmington radio si
directly to a broadcast of a State-;
not coming in here any other wa
Maury High, Greene County baskd
here.
Gloria DeHaven had been ann
(although she subsequently failei
the front page of The Pilot for ;
Wilmington had filed for the Den
Governor declaring that he was tf
little people.”
All five Brunswick County Hi
ball teams for the first time d
Shallotte High School marching ban(
neighbor visit; and A. S. Knowle:
drive Brunswick.
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had prevailed when a 4-passenger
anded at Oak Island Coast Guard
several hours while mechanical
is a report of blue mold in Bruns
ulted up to that time,
s a poor one; students at Southport
' spring and had organized a tennis
■i begun on a folder advertising
Dr March 25, 1941, there appeared
acy of S. Bunn Frink for the post
e had filed one week before. This
Pilot has ever given editorial en
e, and the editor explained his po
ds that no other Brunswick county
survivors of a ship sinking off the
iport. Dave Ross had been named
lty Board of Elections, and E. F.
S. Marine Corps for active duty.
ithport citizens were interested in
n with the late Charles M. Trott
vo of the candidates already in the
Cottrell, had taken unto himself a
e of Iceland.
fan for the N. C. State Wolfpack,
ation and had his phone plugged in
Kentucky basketball game that was
y; and Southport boys had defeated
tball champions, in a game played
aunced as Azalea Festival Queen
1 to show up) and her photo was on
darch 19, 1952. Ben McDonald of
locratic nomination for Lieutenant
e champion of the “interest of the
fh Schools planned to field base
aring the forthcoming season; the
I was co ming to Southport on a good
; was heading the Red Cross fund
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AWARD — Photo shows Geo. W. Parker receiving a
certificate of completion from Colonel F. A. Quint, Com
manding Officer, Marine Corps Supply School, Camp Le
jeune, where he and Clarence E. Royal, also of Sunny
Point, recently completed a Supervisor’s Safety Course.
Dosher 3
Hospital
Southport Men
Get Certificate
George w. Parker, Deputy Di
rector of Terminal, Military
Ocean Terminal, Sunny Point,
and Mr. Clarence E. Royal, Sur
veillance Office, Sunny Point,
recently completed a Super
visor’s Safety Course, which was
conducted at Camp Lejeune.
This course was given by the
Department of Labor, Bureau
of Labor Standards.
Presenting the course was
F, H. Valentino, Safety Consul
tant with the Office of Occupa
tional Safety, Department of
Labor in Baltimore, Maryland.
The two day course was held at
the Marine Corps Supply School
Montford Point, and covered su
pervisor responsibility, hazard
recognition and control, and cau
sation factors.
Delegation In
Hospital Bid
Members of the board of county
commissioners in their regular
session here Monday heard a
delegation request the creation
of a special hospital district
which would embrace Lock
woods Folly, Shallotte and Wac
camaw townships. Aubrey C.
Johnston was spokesman for the
group.
A formal resolution setting
forth their aims had not been
drawn, and pending the presenta
tion of that document, nor formal
action was taken.
A delegation of Negro citizens
came before the board to request
that body to pass a resolution re
questing Representative Odell
Williamson to appoint two ad
ditional members to the Board
of Education. The commis
sioners declined to take this ac
tion.
lemorial
Listed
Appropriations of $578,655 to
assist Carolina hospitals in fi
nancing services to the needy sick
were announced this week by
Trustees of The Duke Endow
ment.
Among those was Dr. J. A.
Dosher Memorial Hospital,
Southport, with 48 beds, ap
propriation, $1,763 vs. $2,133
last year.
These funds are in addition to
contributions of $907,963 to 141
hospitals and $558,056 to 43
child-caring institutions in Feb
ruary and bring to $2,044,674
the amount given this year to
help these institutions meet their
operating costs. Hospitals re
ceived $1,486,618 of the total.
Thomas L. Perkins, Chairman
of the Trustees, explained that
appropriations to hospitals were
based on $1 a day for each day
of free care in the fiscal year
which ended Sept. 30, 1966. Pay
ments to child-caring institutions
were approximately 80 cents a
day for each day of free care of
orphans and half orphans in the
fiscal year.
In the current distribution, 34
North Carolina hospitals are re
ceiving $398,782 and 16 in South
Carolina, $179,873. These in
stitutions had 7,381 beds in use
and averaged 5,796 patients per
day, and increase of 384 over the
average for 1965. They had a
total of 2,257,075 days of care,
and their free days, 578,655, were
25.6 per cent of the total, 1,4
per cent fewer than in 1965.
James R. Felts, Jr., executive
director of the Hospital and Child
Care Sections, attributed this
decrease to Medicare, which was
in operation the last quarter of
the fiscal year.
Along with helping hospitals
and child-caring institutions fi
nance the care of the needy sick
and of orphans, The Endowment
provides funds for capital and
special purposes, and its field
staff counsels Institutions re
questing advice on administra
tive problems and plans for fa
cilities and services.
Other beneficiaries of The
Endowment are Duke University,
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Williamson Is
Paid Visit By
Columbus Men
By ODELL WILLIAMSON
One of the finest examples of
cooperation I have seen happened
this past Thursday when an entire
busload of public officials and
businessmen from Columbus
County appeared In Raleigh to join
their representatives in the
House and Senate for a luncheon
hosted by the Waccamaw Bank
and Trust Co. at the Voyager Inn.
Besides the members of the
General Assembly from their
County, they had as guests the
chairman and other employees
of the Department of Conserv
ation and Development. These
are the people who have the job
of helping locate new Industry
In North Carolina.
With this fine spirit of coopera
tion between the various politi
cal and business leaders from
different parts of the county, I
am sure that Columbus County
will continue to grow industrially
as well as agriculturally.
I was told that the visit to
Raleigh was billed as a way of
honoring the Columbus County
representatives in the General
Assembly, whether this was the
case or not, speaking for my
self—and, I am sure, for the
other two representatives—we
are always glad to have consti
tuents from our district visit us.
During this session of the Gen
eral Assembly, mall has been
running about 50-50 between
greater Increases In teacher’s
salaries and the so-called
“brown-bagging” bill. One of
these issues was debated at length
this past week before the Propo
sitions and Grievances Commit
tee, of which your representative
Is a member. Of course, this
was the brown-bagging Issue.
The debate brought several hun
dred people to Raleigh to express
their views on the subject.
One lady who spoke was very
interesting to me because she
referred to a particular place
in my district. Using the name
of our committee, she said she
had some “propositions” and
some “grievances” to put forth.
One of her propositions was
that Instead of whiskey, we pro
mote fine foods like that served
at Calabash to attract tourists to
our State.
One of her grievances was that
she was tired of hearing how
North Carolina had to sell liquor
by the drink, as New York and
other states do, In or to attract
tourists.
The hearing was conducted in
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School Board
Holds Session
The Brunswick County Board
of Education held a called meet
ing Monday night and In the
absence of Chairman O. R. Bel
lamy the board appointed Arthur
J. Dosher as acting chairman.
The Board authorized the pur
chase of a maintenance service,
truck. It also approved the
teacher contract of Jack Daniels
at Union High School.
The board approved travel al
lowances in the amount of $50.
per month for guidance person
nel.
Board members authorized the
purchase of a school bus as orig
inal equipment. The vocational
education plan for the 1967-68
school year was approved.
The board approved the sale of
the Lincoln High School car.
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 23,
5:21 AM 11:52 A M
5:45 P M
Friday, March 24,
6:15 A M 0:16 A M
6:39 P M 12:46 P M
Saturday. March 25,
7:09 A M 1:10 A M
7:33 P M 1:34 p M
Sunday, March 26,
7:57 A M i:58 A M
8:21 P M 5:1,; p m
Monday, March 27,
8:45 A M 2:52 A M
9:15 P M 3.04 p m
Tuesday, March 28,
.9:33 AM 3:4C A M
10:03 P M 3:52 p m
Wednesday, March 29,
10:27 A M 4.34 A M
11:03 P M_4:40 p M