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The Pilot Covers Brunswick County | THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community VOLUME 39 No. 40 12-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1968 5* A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Campaigning In Johnston County Mrs. James M. Harper, Jr., Democratic candidate for Lt. Governor, is shown second from the right as she poses with friends during a visit to Johnston county on Friday, c ut- i is Mrs‘ Warren McCullers of Clayton; Mrs. Harper; Mayor John Dail oi Smithfield; Mrs. Paul Keller, campaign manager in Johnston; and Mrs. Denton Lee. Campaign Trail Hits Johnston County Friday The statewide campaign of Margaret Harper for Lt. Governor now is in high gear with appearances scheduled in Chapel Hill, Fuquay and Greensboro during the remainder of this week. This follows a busy weekend which included a full day spent in Johnston county on Friday and attendance Saturday at the Jefferson-Jackson Day Recep A tion and Dinner in Raleigh. Mrs. Harper says that she thoroughly „enjoyed the j-j event and Is well, pleased with the contacts she was able to make there. Mrs. A.P. Henry, Mrs. Harper and her hus band were the three persons from this county who attended. Her Chapel Hill meeting will be attendance at the World Af fairs Conference which will draw leading citizens from all sections of North Carolina. “Ihave known many of these people for several years in connection with organi zational activities and I look for ward to seeing them this week. Some of the most substantial sup port for my race for Lt. Gover nor should come from this group," Mrs. Harper said. The woman candidate has been delighted with newspaper cover age of her campaign. “I have subscribed to a press clipping service and find that news stories and pictures have appeared in almost every newspaper in North Carolina. Several have included editorial comment or coverage in column comment. Without ex ception, I have received kind (Continued On Page Four) Brief Bits Of NEWS AWARD CONTRACT Congressman Alton Lennon ad vised this week that a $2.12-mil lion contract has been awarded for the construction of a rail holding yard and support utilities at Sunny Point Army Terminal. SCHOOL SURVEY TEAM A survey team from the De partment of Public Instruction in Raleigh is in Brunswick coun ty this week to study the consoli dated school needs in order to make a recommendation for con sideration during a proposed spe cial school bond election. TALENT SHOW There will be a Talent Show Friday night in the Southport High School auditorium. The show will start at 7:30, and the admis sion is adults, 75? and students 50?. So plan to attend this show! Come one come all!! Sponsored by the Southport High School Jun ior Class. BOB SCOTT COMING Bob Scott, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of North Carolina, will be in Brunswick county Monday. He is expected to arrive at Shal lotte at 6 p.m. and will be at Lewis Shopping Center. At that point a motorcade will form and proceed to Tranquil Harbor Res taurant at Long Beach where Democrats are Invited to join him for a Dutch dinner. Kirby Sullivan Is Endorsed By Lions The Southport Lions Club has endorsed Kirby Sullivan, the only man who has served on to oc casions as its president, as a candidate for District Governor of District 31-H of Lions Inter national. This action took place at the Thursday night meeting follow ing a visit to the board of di rectors session by International Counselors Roy Sandlin and Dr. M.H. Kourk, each a former Dis trict Governor. Dr. Rourk also served a term as a member of the Board of Directors for Lions International. Lion Sullivan served as presi dent of the local club in 1957 58 and again in 1964-65. He was Zone Chairman on two occasions, 1958-59 and in 1964-65. In 1965-66 he served as Deputy District Governor. District 31-H covers 14 coun ties in eastern North Carolina and includes 40 clubs. It is a re quirement that a District Gov ernor visit each club in his dis trict at least once during his year in office. The election will take place at the Lions State Convention in Asheville on June 2-4. It is not known if Lion Sullivan will have opposition for this honor. The program for the meeting was an illustrated talk on “Better Public Schools for Brunswick County” by E.B. Tomlinson, Jr., who presided over a question and answer period following his program. County Board Hosts District The Brunswick County Com missioners will host a district meeting of county officials from six counties on Thursday, March 21. George T. Rourk, chairman, will welcome commissioners, at torneys, accountants, welfare di rectors and other county officials from Brunswick, Duplin, New Hanover, Onslow, Pender and Sampson. This meeting, the third in a series of fourteen district meet ings scheduled by the North Caro lina Association of County Com missioners, will begin at 1 p.m. at the Tradewinds Restaurant on Yaupon Beach. Members of the association staff will be available at the meeting place from 10 a.m. to 12 noon for individual consul tation. Association President R„ M. Fountain of Edgecombe County urges all county officials to attend the district meeting of their dis trict. Discussion leaders John Mor risey, Association Executive Secretary and General Counsel, and L. P. Zachary, Assistant Executive Secretary, will pre sent the topics for discussion. These will Include reports on meetings of association commit tees and selected topics such as ambulance services, central state bank account for welfare payments, community relations, War on Poverty and the Greene Amendment, and other matters of interest to county officials. Officials of the third district will nominate a candidate for a (Continued on Page 4) KIRBY SULLIVAN Wake Forest Man To Preach M.H. Garrity, Director of De velopment and Alumni Affairs of Wake Forest University, will be the guest speaker at the worship service Sunday morning at 11 o’clock at the Bethel Baptist Church. In announcing the coming of Garrity, The Rev. Lee Prid gen, interim minister of the church, stated that there were many supporters and graduates of Wake Forest in this area and a special invitation is extended to them. He stated that the con gregation of Bethel is looking for ward to the coming of this Wake Forest official, and they open their church to all visitors for the occasion. Besides directing the affairs of the Alumni of the University, Mr. Garrity directs the Develop ment Program. This concerns the raising of $67 million over the next few years to enable the university to enlarge and ex pand every area of work. Garrity’s wife, Pam, is. the (Continued On Pngs Pour) Prominent Man Passes Monday Robert Leslie Thompson, 90, died at Ocean Trail Rest Home Monday, after a short illness. The deceased was a prominent citizen of this community for many ,yearsi ln civic, fraternal and church capacities. He and his son, the late Waters Thomp son, operated a Marina on the Southport waterfront for many years. He was a member of the South port Lions club, a Methodist and a Mason. Final rites were held Wednes day,3 p.m. at Trinity Metho dist Church by the Revs. Wil liam Davenport and Fred Porter, with burial in old Southport Cemetery. Survivors include a son, Rob ert B. Thompson of Southport and a granddaughter, Mrs E T Poole of Clarksville, Tenn. * * Members of the Pythagoras Lodge of Southport were pall bearers. Republicans In County Rally Monday Night Dr. T.C. Needham, chairman of the 7th District of the Repub lican Party, was the keynote speaker at a meeting of the Brunswick County Republican Party held Monday evening at the Agriculture Building in Supply. Dr. Needham stressed party unity and urged voters to unite behind the winner of the Gardner Sickley primary for Governor. Needham, addressing an enthu siastic assemblage, urged each individual to use his own particu lar talents to best serve the Republican party. He urged qual ified people to run for office, adding that a must in politics is to elect a good government. J. Dewey Sellers, county chair man, urged each individual to work toward a common good, that of making a better county organization, and also stressed unity. Gilbert Grissett, Shallotte Township chairman, stated the aim of the county party was unity, harmony and victory urg ing the cooperation of each indi vidual. Lester Babson, member of the County Board of Elections, an nounced that everyone must re register in order to vote. Regis tration books will be open March 30 and on three Saturdays there •after. C.B, Caroon, Southport busi nessman, announced his candi dacy as County Commissioner of Smithville Township. Also announcing his candidacy as County Commissioner of Lock wood Folly was J.T. Clemmons, owner and operator of Clem’s Texaco in Shallotte. V.A. Fish, Finance and Pro motional Chairman, of South port announced that plans are being formulated for a fund raising dinner within the next thirty days. An enthusiastic group of Young Teen-Age Republicans served refreshments. Officials Hold 4 Board Meeting' The Brunswick County Board of Education met March 4 in the Board of Education office. The board approved the fol lowing employment contracts for the remainder of the 1967-68 school year at Union High School: Homer D. Singleton, teacher, and Janice K. Bryant, teacher’s aid. Superintendent George Wil liams discussed with the Board regulations concerning the Stu dent Freedom of Choice for school attendance for the 1968-69 school year. Few changes were noted from the previous year. The board designated March 15 April 15- as the official choice period for the 1968-69 school year. All students will be re quired to submit a choice form indicating his preference of school for the 1968-69 school year during this prescribed period. This action also included the distribution of choice forms and other Information through the schools as provided by revised regulations by the United States Office of Education. By unanimous action the board voted to extend the school year (Continued On Pag* Pour) New Town Clock Presented „,ThitwaS the scene Sunday at noon when Mrs. W. E. McDougle, president of the Woodbine Garden Club, presided at a ceremony at which Mrs. James C. Bowman formerly presented the new town clock to the city of Southport. Mayor E. B. Tom linson, Jr., made the formal acceptance. He is shown in the left center foreground with a large key to the new timepiece, which stands at the southwest corner of the inter section of Moore and Howe streets and is shown in the left foreground (Photo bv Spencer) N J Miss Brunswick Pageant To Be Held Saturday Shallotte High School audi torium will be the scene on Sat urday night of the Annual Miss Brunswick Pageant, an event sponsored by the Shallotte Jay cees. The winner will win an armfull of trophies and a college scholarship, and she also will be eligible to compete in the Miss North Carolina Pageant next summer. Gil Huguley of the staff of WECT-TV Wilmington will serve as ^master of ceremonies forthis year’s eyent. He is an old hand at thfcr sort of tiling, having served in * similar capacity for pageants at Burgaw, Cerro Gor do, West CoXumlas High School, Fountain Inn, and Clinton, the Ihtter two being in South Caro lina. Directing the pageant again this year will be Mrs. Shirley /Ward. There are eight contestants, representing all areas of Bruns (Continued on Peg* 4) GIL HUGULEY Campaign Diary By Margaret Harper This morning I’m in my office in Southport after a busy week and before starting out again on the campaign trail to meet as many people as I can and to urge them to vote for me for Lt. Governor. Thursday night I was the guest of a friend, Mrs. Sam Freedman! at a meeting of the Durham board of Hadassah, Jewish woman's organization. This was at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mutt Evans. He was mayor of Durham for 12 years, and in talking with him I found he was interested in Brunswick County and a little surprised that a woman would have the courage to run for the second highest office in State government. He wished me well. Whatever inhibitions I ever may have had about meeting persons face to face and asking them to vote for me went down the drain Friday when I spent most of the day in Johnston county. Arrange ments were made by Mrs. Paul Keller, who had planned a coffee hour at Holiday Inn at 11 o'clock, followed by a luncheon at 1 o’clock. In the afternoon I contacted voters in Smithfield, including a round of the offices in the Johnston County Courthouse. At 4 o’clock we were at the gates of the Burlington Industries plant when the day shift was getting off. I had a chance to me et many people, most of them women. It was a busy day well spent. In between these engagements I taped 2 radio conversations which will be used at intervals to spread the word about my candidacy. During the afternoon a TV cameraman stayed with me and I saw the results of his coverage over WRAL-TV that night while in Durham. Over and over people kept telling me they couldn’t vote because they (Continued on Pag, 4, State Youthpower Winner Ira L. Chadwick, president of Brunswick County Farm Bureau, left, congratulates Jeris Hewett, State Youth power winner, on being one of the nation’s 200 Top Teens during National Youthpower Week, beginning March 27 in Chicago, Illinois. Brunswick Youth Goes To Chicago Waccamaw Plans Bolivia Branch Approval by the Federal De posit Insurance Corporation of an application of the Waccamaw Bank and Trust Company to es tablish a tellers window branch at the corner of Mintz Street and U. S. Highway #17, in the Town of Bolivia has been received, according to announement made this week by Lester V. Lowe, vice president of the bank’s Southport office. Lowe further stated that plans were under way for an early start on the building to house the branch, with an early summer opening anticipated. Three More In Political Race Three more Democratic can didates announced for office this week, two Of them for the Bruns wick County Board of Education. James Thompson, member of the present board as representa tive from the Leland School Dis trict, has given notice that he will seek reelection. He now is com pleting his third year as a board member, during two of which he served as chairman. Opposition loomed for him with the announcement by joe N. Gainey that he will be a candi date from the Leland School Dis trict. The other announced Demo cratic candidate is Early Smith, resident of Waccamaw township, who says he will be a candidate for me mber of the board of county commissioners as a representa tive from his township. Wacca maw township is not represented on the present board of commis sioners. The filing deadline is Friday, March 22. Jeris Hewett, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Hewett, Supply, has been selected as a delegate to the ninth annual Youthpower Congress, March 27-30. Jeris will travel to Raleigh on March 26 to join four other boys and five girls and fly to Chicago for the national meet ing. His Youthpower projects in cluded a study of the poultry industry—production to con sumption; improvements made in pork production—producer to consumer; and a study of the Hog Cholera Eradication Program from the local to national level and its value to the swine in dustry. Selection of State Youthpower delegates were based on the fol lowing criteria: Evaluation of the Youthpower project, Education al follow-up activities on the Youthpower project, leadership qualifications, and other food re lated project activities. County officials and Youth power leaders are happy with Jeris’ selection as this is only the second year that the county has participated in the program. He will join nearly 200 other farm youngsters from 18 states on a round of meetings, confer ences, and tours while in the midwest metropolis. In addi tion, there’ll be social affairs and talks with food industry executives. Delegates were chosen mainly on the basis of outstanding proj ect work in the areas of food nu trition and leadership qualities. Project activities ranged from high school diet studies to inter views with leaders in the food industry. Expenses for the three-day stay in the Windy City are paid each year by the N. C. food and food-related businesses. The Youthpower program in the state is coordinated by the N. C. Farm Bureau and the N. C. Board of Farm Organizations and Agricultural Agencies. Students To Take Over In Office Friday Women will have their day in office in Southport Friday. Eleven of the fourteen students named by their respective stu dent councils at Southport High School and Brunswick County High School to participate in stu dent Day in City Government are boys. It starts off with the top job, that of mayor for the day, which went to Cheryl Johnson of South port High School when lots were drawn. The job of city manager went to Donna Parker from Brunswick County High School. Mike Sellers of SHS drew the assignment as city auditor; Wydell Evans of BCHS will be superintendent of water .and elec trical services; Tim Johnson of SHS will serve as chief ofpolice; Debbie Holden of SHS will be city attorney; Franklin Randolph of BCHS will be superintendent of streets; Isabella Anderson of BCHS will serve as librarian and the following students, all of them girls, will serve as members of the board of aldermen: Donna Crouch, SHS; Feborah Jones, BCHS; Helen Hope, SHS; Valeria Mims, BCHS; Jean Donnell, SHS; and Felicia McAdama, BCHS. Purpose of the project is to familiarize young people of Southport with the city’s his tory, responsibility of each city job, and the day-by-day prob lems that must be faced. Stu dent participation in city govern ment is a joint project of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, and the recently appointed Human Relations Committee. City officials are expected to put forth every effort to make this a meaningful experience for the students, with explanations of revenue and expenditures; codes and regulations, as well as routine work. Mrs. Elizabeth Young of Brunswick County High, and Don McNeil of Southport High, Student Council Sponsors, will assist in the project. Clemmons In * ' - Board Contest J.T. Clemmons, Shallottebusi nessman has announced that he will seek the Republican nomina tion for County Commissioner of Lockwood Folly Township. Clemmons, owner and operator of Clem’s Texaco in Shallotte, is a lifetime resident of Brunswick county. Ha has served on the Re sources Development Commis sion since its inception; is an honorary member of the Shal (Continued on Pag* 4) J. T. CLEMMONS Tide Table Following is the tide table for Southport during the week. These Jhours are ap proximately correct and were furnished The State Port Pilot through the courtesy of the Gape Fear Pilot’s Association. HIGH LOW Diunday, March 14, 7:21 AM 1:28 A M 7:51 P M 1:562 P M Friday, March 15, 8:09 A M 2:10 A M 8:33 P M 2:34 P M Saturday, March 16, 8:67 A M 3:04 A M 9:21 P M 3:16 P M March 17, 9:39 A M 3:62 A M 10:16 P M 4:04 p jg Monday, March 18, 10:33 AM 4:46 A M 11:09 P M 4:62 P M Tuesday, March 19, 11:27 A M 8:40 A M 5:46 P M Wednesday, March 20, 0:09 A M 6:40 A M 12:27 P if 6:46 P M
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