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VOLUME 40
No. 4
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SOUTHPORT, N. C.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1968
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PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
New Bank Building
This is the new building of the Waccamaw Bank and Trust Co. at Bolivia, which
will be open for business Monday. This will be the first banking service for this
community which for a long time has been a center of automobile sales in Bruns
wick county. (Photo by Spencer)
Outdoors Club Visits
Brunswick Town
This group of boys and girls paid their annual visit to Brunswick Town this
week, their tenth visit in as many years. The youths are members of the Junior Out
doors Club of Greensboro, which camps out each June at Long Beach.
Heritage House
Features New
Look This Year
The Heritage House and Hobby
Show sponsored by the Southport
Woman’s Club will be open from
10 until 6 o’clock on Wednesday
and will open immediately fol
lowing the parade on Thursday
to remain open until 6 o’clock.
Many interesting items have
been entered for exhibition,
among them a 1736 Kentucky
rifle, exhibited by David Kincaid.
Items from Southport’s historical
past are being shown and visitors
will delight in seeing the many
collections which will be dis
played for the first time.
Those members of the club who
arranged the building are Mrs.
Philip King, Mrs. Laura
Roughton, Mrs. Mary Bellows,
Mrs. Landis Brown, Mrs. Frank
Hardy, Mrs. James Wolfe, Mrs.
George Williams, and Mrs.
James M. Harper, Jr.
Arranging the Homemakers
exhibit room were Mrs. Mary
Russ and Mrs. Beth Sell.
This year during the Festival
the six Brunswick County Home
makers Clubs will have a display
at the Heritage House, in
cooperation with the Southport
Woman's Club, the clubs have
representations of work from all
the organizations in the county
and from all the workshops held
during the past two years.
There will be finished products
such as a mattress from the
mattress workshop, suits and
coats from tailoring classes,
burlap pocketbooks, knitted and
crocheted pieces, ceramics and
a table and chair from a refinish
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Brief Bits Of
NEWS
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STATE PRESIDENT COMING
The Brunswick County Board
of Realtors will have President
David Godwin and Executive
Vice-President James Blchselof
the North Carolina State Board of
Realtors as guests when they
meet on July 11 at Jones Tranquil
Harbor Restaurant.
Outdoor Club On
Annual Excursion
A large group of boys and
girls from Greensboro paid their
annual visit to Brunswick Town
this week, their tenth in as nany
years. They were members of the
Junior Outdoors Club for whom a
June camping trip in this area has
come to be an important event.
The Junior Outdoors Club, Inc.,
has as its purpose Conservation
Education-Character building for
boys and girls ages 8 through 15.
In April of 1957, 21 boys and
girls were taken on an afternoon
fishing trip to Battleground Park,
Greensboro. From this day, it
was realized that a program for
conservation education was need
ed for boys and girls.
Through the summer of 1957, a
trip of some type was arranged
for each Saturday, hiking, game
farms, museums, etc. Each
week the original group was en
larged until in September of 1957
there were approximately 60
children participating.
In November of 1957, the group
organized as the Junior Outdoors
Club with a membership of 61
boys and girls from ages 8
through 15 years and a seven
member volunteer board of adult
directors. This is an independ
ent organization that was born and
grew in Greensboro.
The directors applied for and
received our charter in January
of 1958.
The members of this Club are
participating in soil and water
conservation projects, forestry,
wildlife food and cover, trapping,
tanning, bird and fish mounting,
rocks and minerals, shells, bird
houses and feeders, dove banding,
insect world, reptiles, photo
graphy, first aid, firearm safe
ty, wild plant terrarriums, wild
life habitats, squirrel nesting
boxes, spiders, spider web col
lecting, thinning out a section
of forest, camping and many other
outdoor activities.
Each year in June, members
camp out at Long Beach for a
period of one week. During this
week, each day is spent in some
form of activity.
One day is spent on an annual
trip to Brunswick town and Fort
Anderson. This year was the 9th
visit. For the same period of
years, the club has visited Town
Creek Indian Mound, Mt. Gil lead,
and Fort Fisher.
James A. Crutcher Is new
contractor for the Star Route
handling mail out of Southport
to Yaupon Village, Long Beach
and Boiling Spring Lakes.
Open House At
Local Hospital
Dosher Memorial Hospital will
observe open house between the
hours of 8 and 11 on the morning
of the Fourth of July.
The public is invited to visit
the hospital at this time and
see for themselves the progress
that has been made. The first
floor hallway has been paneled
and painted. The business office
and lounge have also been paint
ed. New furniture has been placed
in the lounge. Visitors will be
able to see the new processor in
the X-ray department and the
new office that has been added
for the radiologist, plus the youth
and childrens room that has
been recently set up on the first
floor.
An oxygen room for all inhala
tion equipment has been opened
up next to the childrens room.
The office of the administrator
has been completely renovated.
A private room is now located
on the first floor. On the sec
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Festival Program
ALL DAY:
Tuesday, July 2
JUNIOR WOMAN’S CLUB ART SHOW
Cranmer House on Moore street
SIDEWALK ART SHOW
Next to Leggett’s
HERITAGE HOUSE
Community Building
MOBILE MARS STATION (USAF)
Howe Street
MOBILE MUSEUM OF HISTORY
Front of Daughters of America Building
N. C. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE MOBILE DISPLAY
Front of Daughters of America Building
ALL DAY:
Wednesday, July 3
JUNIOR WOMAN’S CLUB ART SHOW
Cranmer House on Moore street
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SIDEWALK ART SHOW
Next to Leggett’s
HERITAGE HOUSE
Community Building
MOBILE MARS STATION (USAF)
Howe Street
MOBILE MUSEUM OF HISTORY
Front of Daughters of America Building
N. C. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE MOBILE DISPLAY
Front of Daughters of America Building
8:00 P.M.:
JAYCEE DONKEY BASEBALL GAME
Taylor Field
Thursday, July 4
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11:00 a. m,—FOURTH OF JULY PARADE
12:30 p.m.—CHANGE OF COMMAND CEREMONIES
The Garrison Lawn
2:00 p.m.—BAND CONCERT AT FRANKLIN SQUARE PARK
3:00 p.m.--CHILDRENS FIELD EVENTS
Foot of Howe Street
4:00 p.m.—THE GOLDEN KNIGHTS
The Garrison Lawn
6:30 P.m.—CALIOPE CONCERT AT FOOT OF HOWE ST.
8:30 p.m.—JAYCEE BOAT DRAWING
Foot of Howe Street
9:00 p.m.—GIANT FIREWORKS DISPLAY
ALL DAY:
Friday, July 5
JUNIOR WOMAN’S CLUB ART SHOW
Cranmer House on Moore Street
SIDEWALK ART SHOW
Next to Leggett's
HERITAGE HOUSE
Community Building
MOBILE MARS STATION (USAF)
Howe Street
MOBILE MUSEUM OF HISTORY
Front of Daughters of America Building
N. C. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE MOBILE DISPLAY
Front of Daughters of America Building
U.S.C.G. CUTTER CAPE UPRIGHT
Open For Visitors—Boat Harbor
Winners Chosen
In Art Contest
One hundred and fifty-two
paintings were presented for
registration on June 30 In the
Southport Junior woman’s Club
Art Show. The exhibit this year
has a fine selection in five
mediums. The winners in each
medium are as follow:
Graphics — “The Strength of
Years”, (a Dry Point), Robert
C. McAdams; “Pier Series No.
7”, Claude Howell; “Florida
Sketch’*, Eleanor Davis.
Water Color—“Signals—Go”,
Dean Barber; "Moontide”, Dixie
B. Browning; “Rocks and
Weeds”, Lamarr Brigman.
Oils—“After Clarence Died”,
Dixie B. Browning; “Landscape
V’*, Keith Lambert; “Contem
plation”, Mary Jane McKnight.
Best-in-Show — “Explana
tion”, Grace Freund.
Crafts—“Bowe”, Keith Lam
bert; “Guitar Strip”, Mary Jane
Funston; “Untitled”, John
Malion.
Junior Division — “Lonely
Drifter”, Sandy Gottlieb; “Un
titled”, Timmy Bell; “Untitled
I” Alison G. Beasley.
“After Clarence Died” by
Dixie B. Browning won the junior
Woman’s Club $175 purchase
award in Oils and "Signals—Go”
by Dean Barber won the club’s'
$75 purchase award in the water
color medium.
Judge Wesley Crawley of the
East Carolina University School
of Art completed making his de
cision on the winners Monday.
The exhibit will be open each
day during the festival until five
o’clock. There are many paint
ings remaining for sale. This
show affords an opportunity to
see representation of work by lo
cal and area artists and per
haps purchase a painting for
home decorating.
Time And Tide
For a long time it has taken a poor alligator to miss making the
front page of The Pilot. That is the case now, and it held true during
the last days of June, 1938. It even went back 30-years before that
time, for Postmaster W. R. Holmes reported having taken measure
ments that long ago of a 14-foot gator that still is rated to be the
largest ever taken in Brunswick county, w. A. Frink had been the
captor. There was grim news that on the following Friday Bill Payne
and wash Turner were to be two of the three victims of the electric
chair at the State penitentiary in Raleigh.
The front page cut was of Ft. Johnston, the occasion being the
emplacement of a highway marker; the editor was charging his
readers to become more history-minded and cited the wealth of
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Everything Ready
Festival Program
1968 Festival Queen
Miss Helen Faulk, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William
Faulk of Southport, was selected Saturday night to reign
over all activities at this year’s Fourth of July Festival
in Southport. Miss Sarah Barnes and Miss Pat Brown
tied for first runner-up honors, (photo by Spencer)
The Fourth of July Festival
already Is In progress, heading
for the climax which will come
Thursday evening with the fire
works display on the waterfront.
The first event was the Miss
Fourth of July Pageant on Satur
day night when Helen Faulk was
chosen to reign over this year's
events. It continued Sunday when
entries were received for the
Junior Woman's Club Art Show,
which was open all day today
(Tuesday) and will be through
Thursday.
The Heritage House, featuring
hobbies and craft In this year’s
production, gets In on the act to
morrow (Wednesday) when it will
be open to the public for the first
time. It will be open Thursday
following the parade.
Already here are the Mobile
Museum of the Department of
Archives and History; the N. C.
Department of Agriculture Mo
bile Display; and the Mobile
'MARS Station, a unique attrac
tion which features sending mes
sages to men In services. \
The most dramatic arrival is
scheduled for the Drum and Bugle
Corps of the 2nd Marine Division,
slated for early Thursday
morning, in time for the parade*
Immediately following lunch this
outfit will get back aboard their
troop carrying helicopters and
take off for another city where
they are scheduled to perform
that afternoon.
Another colorful musical or-,
ganization scheduled to arrive
here for the festival will be the
Pipe Band’of the U. S. Air Force*'
It will appear in the parade.
The 6th Naval District Band will
march in the parade and at 2
o’clock on Thursday will present
a concert at Franklin Square.
The caliope will be back, both
for the parade and for a concert
Thursday afternoon.
This morning the Sidewalk Art
Show, featuring the work of local
artists, was being set up be
tween Leggett’s and the post of
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Helen Faulk Is
Festival Queen
Helen Faulk, 18-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. wil
liam G. Faulk of Southport, was
crowned Miss Fourth of July at
the pageant held Saturday eve
ning at Southport High School
auditorium. This was the first
event of the 1968 Fourth of July
Festival and got this year’s cele
bration off to a successful start.
Competition for this year’s
pageant was unusually keen, with
a tie developing for the position
of first runner-up. Pat Brown
and Sarah Barnes were dead
locked for this honor in the
opinion of the judges.
George Deaton served as mas
ter of ceremonies and at the
conclusion of the competition the
new queen was crowned by Kathy
Joyner, who won this honor last
year. The pageant director was
Mrs. Connie Young.
Competition was in evening
gown and bathing suit, with a
final appearance in which the
candidates for the coveted crown
were given an opportunity to
answer a question posed by the
master of ceremonies.
The question asked Queen
Helen was “If a visitor to the
Fourth of July Festival asks you
what is interesting to see or do
around Southport, what will you
tell him”?
“I’d tell him to go to Bruns
wick Town”, was her quick re
ply, and it brought down the
house. Her father is in charge
of this historic site.
Contestants and their parents
are as follows: Pamela Ann
Floyd, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas C. Floyd; Barbara Helen
Faulk, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
William G. Faulk; Kathy Louise
Dudney, Mr. and Mrs. TroyDud
ney Jr.; Harriett Ann St. George,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald
F. St. George Jr.; Patricia Ann
Garner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Wesley T. Garner; Patricia Ann
Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James Edgar Brown; Sarah Jane
Barnes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James T. Barnes; Frances Jor
gensen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Neils Jorgensen; Jane Carolyn
Styron, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
William L. Styron; Marilyn Vic
toria Aldridge, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Harold F. Aldridge;
and Ruth Ann McHose, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Mac McHose.
Fourteen On
Honors List
Fourteen Brunswick county
students have been named to the
spring quarter Dean's List for
maintaining a 3.0 quality point
average on their studies during
the quarter at Wilmington Col
lege.
Five Southport residents were
cited for their scholastic
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Change In Chairmen
At a meeting of the Brunswick County Board of Ed
ucation Monday night Delmas Babson resigned as chair
man and was succeeded by Norman Bellamy, who prev
iously had served as vice-chairman. Homer Holden was
elected to fill the vacancy as vice-chairman. Babson re
mains as a member of the board.
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Bolivia Man
Dies Suddenly
BOLIVIA — William A.
Kopp, Sr., 63, of Bolivia, died
in New Hanover Memorial
Hospital, Wilmington, Satur
day. He was a native of South- ■>'
port, the son of the late Albert
Henry and Daisy Rourk Kopp.
Mr. Kopp was a member of the
New Hope Presbyterian
Church and a member of the
Pythagoras Lodge, No. 249 AF
and AM.
Final rites were held Mon
day at 10 a.m. at New Hope
Presbyterian Church by the '
Rev. R, R. Childs with burial
in the Church cemetery. Ac- '
tive pallbearers were Charlie
Taylor, William Harris, Jr.,
Malcolm Knox, Allen Maults
by, Jr., Joe Savage and Harold
Willetts.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Sarah Johnson Kopp; two
sons, William Albert Kopp, Jr. I
of Raleigh and John Richard
Kopp of Bolivia; two daugh
ters, Mrs. Robert p. Sneed of
Durham and Mrs. Douglas G. s
Reynolds of Wilmington; two
half-brothers, Robert H. *’
Maultsby of Arlington, Va. and
Rustic Maultsby of Bolivia; a
half-sister, Mrs. WlUiam J. ;
Harris of Durham; and two *'
grandchildren.
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 Gape Fear
Pilot’s Association.
HIGH LOW
Thursday, July 4,
1:33 AM 8:10 AM
2:27 PM 9:04 PM
Friday, July 5,
2:33 AM 9:10 AM _
33:33 PM 10:10 PM I
Saturday, July 8, I
3:39 AM 10:16 AM I
4:39 PM 11:16 PM I
Sunday, July 7, I
4:45 AM 11:16 AM I
5:39 PM I
Monday, July 8, J
5:51 AM 0:16 AM |
6:39 PM 12:10 PM
Tuesday, July 9,
6:15 AM 1:10 AM
7:33 PM 1:10 PM
Wednesday, July 10,
7:51 AM 2:04 AM
8:27 PM
2:04 PM