The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
^SIXTEEN NO. 12
THE STATE PORT PILOT
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Most of The News
All The Time
44-pages today Southport, N. C., Wednesday, June 26, 1946
91.50 PER YEAfc PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAT
)nly One Upset Results In
Second Primary Balloting
In This County Saturday
g CHinnis Noses Out L.
r Tripp For Nomination
L County Commissioner
01 f"? V?,e!
rFSSION PRECINCT
RESULTS PROTESTED |
Kite Defeated Ganey, Mc- 1
" b Won Over Purvis
,nj Williams Led
jtone; M?ntz High
Commissioner
v|r otie upset in the First I
?-V returns resulted from
-day s Second Primary bal- >
s ? Brunswick county, and
"iras in the race for com
ber where M. B. Chinnis|
5- votes ahead of L. C.
,f w become the third Demo
r, nominee for the board,
"protest charging irregulari- j
? - Secession precinct during
?^jay's balloting has been!
jw with the Brunswick coun- j
board of elections and a hear- i
has been set for Tuesday,1
r o The protest was signed
Diiion L. Ganey and L. C.
n
fc the race for nomination for
r?. John G. White piled up'
fiuvote lead over Dillon L.
ity White led Ganey by only
totes in the First Primary.
SY J McLamb held a 300-vote
id over Jesse A. Purvis in their
s Primary race, and Saturday
ujie:: this margin to 561
Eer.rv Williams defeated John
Sone in the preferential votei
r member of the Board of Edu
Uon by 273 votes.
It m s in the commissioners
r that the only close contest
r a cotcty office occurred. Steve
to was out front in first
ace by 122 votes and became
ie attoc! man assured of a
emcCTQC nomination as mem
,f ' zurd of conmiwn-.
s. The contest between Chin
bisd Tripp was nip-and-tuck,
is the former finally finishing
lai by his 5-vote margin.
Iriif Newt
Flashes
It Ok STOLEN"
?iiie they were visiting rela
ys in Asheboro this past week j
wi Mrs. Alex Fox had their
H true!; stolen from its park
place. Up to the present
ne they have been unable to
law any trace of the machine.
kbtlng pastor
k' Melvin S. Risinger, who
My graduated from the Duke
freraty Divinity School, ar
,ft! at Shaltottc Thursday. For
? remainder of this summer he
assist the pastor, Rev.
're"w H. Lewis, of the Shal
!e Methodist churches.
>ARD to meet
ginning the first Monday in
y members of the Brunswick
Ent.v board of education will
* the fjrst Monday night in
? month. The next meeting
' *' the time for naming a
Wanic to serve during the
11 fiscal year.
THVR.SU AY
I Mood dance of the sea
I be held at Long Beach
pllion tomorrow (Thursday)
J with music by Maynard
I k and his orchestra. This
I'-1 auw band that played \for
? opening dance two weeks ago
Pmade such a favorable iro
?ssion.
f AHARON
ftayer meetings arc now be
? held each Thursday night at
Ftori Methodist church in
P*W> Kolly township. The
fton chuich is on the Shallotte
ru't The pastor. Rev. Clarence
!?**?, has announce"} that bc
| Thursday night, July
I ' Mn S. Risinger will start
I ; course for teachers in
I ,ron Sunday school. This
r will <? taught each Thurs
I n af?er the prayer ser
| throughout the summer.
CONVENTION
??'?k of Court Sam T. Bennett
I yesterday for Greensboro.
lere ht is attending the annual
I "1 ot Clerks of the Su
?* He expects to be
? his office Friday after
t Duvin.g his absence the
?7' ? his office is being car
Ejf- Assistant Clerk B. J.
Official 2nd Primary Results
PRECINCTS
Hood's Creek
Leland
Town Creek .
Bolivia
Southport
Mosquito
Supply
Secession
Shallotte
Fryingpan
Grissettown ..
Shingletree ....
Longwood
Ash
Waccamaw ....
Exum
Sheriff
Rec.
ConimisMonerH
B. Ed.
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TOTALS
25
73
32
30
125
12
50
174
198
137
69
110
49
103
34
50
31 49
194 | 163
260 155
38 1 54
195 j 83
3 12
18 51
14 141
14 142
24 100
38 70
, 79 169
10
70
8
5
1271 1001
48
71
31
35
1374
31 17
781 128
104 | 135
161 22
228
/ 3
16
63
57
46
35
25
11
101
12
15
234
7
41
1C6
91
75
53
82
36
64
19
13
813 1123
44
153
98
37
43
9
31
141
89
48
56
134
31
43
21
23
1001
8
84
70
18
198
7
33
40
130
111
64
34
21
129
19
30
996
11
107
196
56
85
0
10
10
25
17
20
64
11
29
10
6
20
102
122
30
191
12
45
121
161
137
49
24
14
120
15
22
657 j 1185
27
134
lis
3E
113
3
2C
6J
38
21
54
151
43
35
23
17
892
Court Adjourns Monday
Until Wednesday Morning
Trial Of Fergus-Wells Case
Will Begin This Morning
As Final Case Of Major
Importance Up For Hear
ing
JUDGE HAMILTON
PRESIDING JURIST
rS**graf Divorce Cases Set
tled And Docket Cleared
Of Compromises And
Continuances Mon
day
A special term of Brunswick
county Superior court convened
here Monday for trial of civil
cases, and after several matters
had been disposed of before Judge
Luther Hamilton, he took a re
cess until this (Wednesday morn
ing.
Scheduled to begin this morn
ing is the case of Fergus vs.
Wells, a suit for possession of a
local seafood packing house on
the Southport waterfront.
Hie matter of Hildebrandt vs.
Reynolds was reported to the
court Monday as having been
compromised. The case of Sim
mons vs. Scott was continued.
Six divorces were granted Mon
day. These were to Lillie Mae
Williamson vs. Hollis Williamson;
Eleanor McKeithan vs. B. L. Mc
Keithan; Joseph Malone vs. Min
nie Malone; Edith L. Thompkins
vs. Franklin W. Thompkins; Lula
Faulk vs. Herbert Faulk; John
L. Galloway vs. Lillie Galloway.
Southport Club
Loses To Comets
Whiteville Nine Slaughter
ed Southport Pitching
Sunday Afternoon To
Win Second Straight Vic
tory
Southport was snowed under
by a score of 20 to 6 Sunday af
ternoon by the Whiteville Red
Comets in a game played on the
former team's home diamond.
Cheshire started on the mound
for Southport, and although he
was tagged for a run in the
opening round, it looked like a
good ball game when the home
team shoved over a tying mark
er in their half of the first inn
ing.
In the second the Cbmets
really teed off, scoring 5 runs
before the side was returned.
Jack Hughes. Southport's leading
hurler. came in and got through
one scoreless inning, only to have
the Whiteville boys start bang
ing away again in the fourth. He
gave way to Nelson, who finally
was replaced by Billy Hardison,
who turned out to b? the most
effective Southport pitcher for
the day.
Meanwhile, Roger Harwood was
holding the Southport hitters
safely in check to score his se
cond consecutive victory. Not
only did he enjoy a 26-hit batt
ing attack for support, but his
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! Paving Contract
Let For County
I The first Brunswick county
1 road paving contract let by the
State Highway Commission,
since before the war,
awarded to the Towtes^Otoe
Construction company Moiwlaj.
The contract is for 3.86 miles
?f paving, beginning at IfcjUte
17 near the Brunswick River
bridge and running down the
River Road. It win serve the
area in which the new slup
lay-in basin is located. Tht
) contract price was $o4,444.
_
State Convention
Scheduled Here
Court Reporters Will Hold
Nineteenth Annual Con
! vention At Southport
I July 5th And 6th
The North Carolina Shorthand
Reporters will hold their nine
teenth annual convention here
Friday and Saturday of next
week July 5th and 6th. About
50 delegates will be present, ac
I cording to Spurgeon Baxley
Wilmington, president of the as ,
sociation.
Dwieht McEween. Southport j
attorney and shorthand reporter,
is now awaiting complete m
formation as to how many mem
bers will attend. Like President
Baxley. his best information *
that there will be around 50. He
expects to have a complete list
of all who are to attend by Fn j
day of this week, and when be ,
receives that information he will
STSut U.C u* Ot UW
rooms for all in homes in South
II The meeting is scheduled to
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Rufus E. Sellers
Is Laid To Rest
At Veterans Hospital in
Fayetteville
Rufus Earl Sellers. 61. for many
years employed as engineer by
' the U. S Army Engineers office
I in Wilmington, died in the Vete-.
rans Hospital in Fayetteville bun
day. He had been in failnig health
for some time. J
Mr Sellers is survived by his
widow Mrs. Opie Sellers; three
sons and one daughter, Burwin
I Sellers. John Paul Sellers. Bail
t or Sellers and Miss Ccllic Sel
llers all of Supply. In addition
two brothers and three sisters
survive. They are Willie Selleis
of New York, Charlie and Oscar
'Seller8, of Supply. Mrs. Homer
Peterson, of Wilmington and
;Mrs. Annie Belle Fullwood of
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Vacation Bible
Schools Going
On In County
Baptist State Convention
Assisting With Program
Of Bible Training Schools
For Brunswick Baptist
Association
SCHEDULE WILL
COVER COUNTY
Trained Workers Available
For Conducting Bible
Schools In Various
Communities This
Summer
L. L. Morgan, State Sunday
School Secretary of the North
Carolina Baptist Convention, is
helping churches of the Bruns
wick Baptist Association this
summer with their Daily Vaca
tion Bible Schools. Through ar
rangements with the state head
quarters Mrs. Margaret Biggs,
of Wilmington, has been engaged
to help with this program in
! Brunswick county.
1 Last week, assisted by Miss
Minnie Creech, die held a Bible
school at Bolivia. Next week Mrs.
Biggs will be at Mill Creek.
This week, also working under
j the State Board, Firman Hall
and Harry Mason are teaching a
Bible school at Mt. Pisgah Bap
tist church, Supply. Mr. Hall
has finished his freshman year
;at Wake Forest and will be a
sophomore next fall. Mr. Mason
is a student at Bob Jones Col
lege, Cleveland, Tenn. These two
young men are serving in the
place of a worker that was to
be sent to county and the Bruns
wick Association by -M. T. Hug
gins in the place of a worker as
! an Associational Missionary.
These Bible schools will con
| tinue through the summer. Isaac
Willetts, of Lebanon Baptist
? church, is the Associational Sun
day School Superintendent of the
j Brunswick Association, and is
(heading up the Daily Vacation
: Bible Schools in Association. If
| there is any Baptist church in
' Brunswick that would like to
have a worker for a week of
Bible school it should get in touch
with Mr. Willetts as soon as
possible.
Following is the schedule as it
is now: Bolivia Baptist church,
Bolivia, June 9-16 (already held);
Mt. Pisgah Baptist church, Sup
ply, June 17-30 (now in pro
gress); Mill Creek Baptist
church, Winnabow, June 24-July
7; Jennings Branch, Shallotte,]
July 8-21; Elah Baptist church,)
Leland, August 5-18; Bethel Bap
tist church, Southport, August
19-September I,
These churches are expected to
have Bible Schools, but the dates
have not been set: Lebanon Bap
tist church, Winnabow; Leland
Baptist church, Leland; South
part Baptist church, Southport.
Soldier Bay Baptist church had
their school last week, led by
three girls, Miss Florine Evans,
superintendent, student at Mere-I
dith College; Miss Wilma Phelps, |
student at ECTC, Greenville; Miss
Robbie Purvis, who has been at
tending school at Rocky Mount.
Dormitory Project Started By N. C. State College
RALEIGH. ? Chancellor J. W. Harrelson, of N. C. State College is pictured here as he dug the
first spade of soil in the construction of two new State College dormitories which will cost $1,100,000
and will have a capacity of 400 rooms with facilities for 1,200 students. The dormitories are being
constructed from funds borrowed by the State College Foundation, Inc., from the Wachovia Bank
and Trust Company. Permission was granted to the foundation to do the work by the Council of State
and the Board of Trustees of" the Consolidated University of North Carolina. Looking on as Chancel
lor Harrelson, who is president of the foundation, digs the soil are, left to right, Mrs. Mary Beasley,
secretary of the foundation; Wilzer Z. Betts of Raleigh, a director of the foundation and head of the
State Division of Purchase and Contract; K. CLYDE COUNCIL, OF WANANISH, a director of the
foundation and a prominent farmer and industrialist; and R. D. Beam of Raleigh, executive secretary
of the State College Foundaiton.
25 Men From
County Army
Casualties
Brunswick county lost 25 men
in the U. S. Army during World
War II. Of these 13 were killed
in battle and the remainder met
death in various ways. The list
is being made public today by
the War-Department ? In' booklets
covering each state. In releas
ing the list the War Department
stressed the fact that another
and final report will be issued
later and that it may contain
some correction.
Brunswick's honored dead
are listed below, together with
their rating.
Clyde T. Angel, Sgt.; Ellis
Bellamy, Pvt.; Henry C. Bragaw,
Capt.; Edward M. Brew, Sgt.;
Norwood O. Brooks, Pfc.; LeRoy
D. Burkett, Sgt.; Jacob L. Cai
son, Cpl.; J. Harvey Cliff, Tec.
4; Charles M. Cox, Sgt.; Emilio
Farioo, Pvt.; Clarence H. Hayes,
Tec. 4; Edward L. King, Sgt.;
Kenneth L. Kinsler, Colonel; May
Ion M. Leonard, Pfc.; Barney J.
Lewis, Pvt.; Joseph C. Lewis,
Sgt.; William C. McGinnis, Sgt.;
Roscoe S. Long, Pvt.; Albert L.
Moore, Pvt.; Robert W. Ramsey,
Sgt.; Calder B. Robinson, Cpl.;
Edward Stanley, Cpl.; James C.
Stanley, Pfc.; Bobart L. Sutton,
Tech. 5.; Solomon I. Willetts,
Pvt.
Our
ROVING
9 Reporter
We will have to go fishing
with L. C. Brown of Longwood.
We were around his way the
other day and the former county
commissioner was showing us a
part of a catch of 38-beautiful
red breasts that he was keeping
on ice. He had caught them the
day before. We hesitated in the
matter of saying anything in the
paper about his catch, as 38 fish,
all of one kind, is a rather large
number for any game warden to
hear about. The limit is only
20. While we were hesitating Mr.
Brown explained that there was
another fellow with him. The 38
fish were well under the 20 per
day limit for two men.
We had a big frog-leg supper
the other night, about 60 pairs
of them, and with 11 people sit
ting in on the feast at the Camel
lia Inn. If you have never eaten
frog legs, this is to advise you
here and now that they are jump
ing good. Fried they taste like
spring chicken and something
better. A fully grown frog is
four years old and they are usuaJ
ly pretty big at that age. The
60-pairs of legs bagged by MlUl
son and your reporter would run
to about three years old. It may
please the folks who like frog
legs to know that there is an
unusually large crop of the croak
ers this year.
If anybody wants a perfectly
good (sound in body and limb,
4 and a half foot alligator? we
do not know what sort of a dis
position the critter has. except
by guesswork) Ervin Brookq, one
of our colored subscribers at
Shallotte,- is prepared to sell the
said alligator. Ervin tells us that
he caught the saurian by lassoing
him with a line. He is keeping
him in good shape and uninjured
for whoever comes along in the
market for alligators, "rtiis is not
exactly a free advertisement to
assist Ervin in selling his alliga
tor. He has a paid advertisement
somewhere in the paper, offering
to dispose of the critter. On se
cond thought, we are not sure |
whether Ervin's alligator is a
hins or her or he or she ? which
ever is correct
Jenrette Farm Becoming
Model For Modern Methods
BULLETIN
Announcement was made to- j
day by Miss Annie May Wood
side, county superintendent of '
schools, that David Watson ha-s
been elected principal of South- |
port high school for U?r> com- j
ing; year- )
Watson is a native of South- I
port and is a graduate of j
Southport high school. He later '
graduated from Louisburg Col- |
lege and East Carolina Teach- |
ers College. He was prominent I
in athletics at all three insti
tutions, being a star basketball
and tennis player.
Watson was discharged early
this year from the Navy with
rank of lieutenant. He receiv
ed his commission after enter
ing service as an enlisted man,
and served for more than four I
years.
He Is now employed in Ra- !
lelgh, but is planning to resign j
and attend summer school at
East Carolina Teachers Col
lege.
Tricky Fishing
Off S. C. Coast
Brunswick County Boatmen
Cease Operations In Or-j
der To Be Sure They Do i
Not Fall Prey To Fisher
ies Officials
Many Brunswick county boats]
that have been fishing in South |
Carolina at Georgetown and j
Rockville have laid off from work '
and returned home until after
the first of July.
"Jt is not due to the abscnce
of shrimp," said one of the local
boatmen last night, "it is just
because wc arc liable to be ar
rested and fined anywhere from
$50.00 to $500.00. The way that
things now arc the South Caro
lina Fisheries people have a good
business."
They have a closed season
which ends the first of July. At
that time fishing licenses may be
bought and boats operate with
out molestation. At the present
time while the closed season is
on the boats may only operate
outside of the three mile limit
from shore, in what is known as
known as United States waters
and not subject to control by the
State.
The catch to this is that the
fisheries officials use airplanes to
sfiout around, and boatmen who
firmly believe they are operating j
well outside the three-mile limit
have their names and numbers
taken and find themselves charg
ed with fishing inside the limit. I
They may get off with anywhere j
between $50.00 and $500.00 in
fines.
As there are no markers on
the' South Carolina grounds or
nearby the boatmen simply have
no way of proving that they were
not tresspassing. They pay up to'
avoid the loss of their boats and1
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Kimball Jenrette In Charge
Of Operations On Fath
er'# Farm Near Long
wood And Has Made Big
Improvements
PUREBRED CATTLE
ANB HOGS RAISED
Practically All Work Being
Done By Machinery With
Diversification Being
Feature Of Farm
Program
The John Jenrette farm in
Waccamaw township has always
been just about the average for
Brunswick county, but during re
cent years, with Kimball Jenrette,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Jenrette,
actively in charge, the farm has
risen to far above the average in
production and net returns.
Kimball is a graduate of the
Southport high school, where he
was handicapped in his studies
by increasing deafness. Never
theless, he went through with
honors and having got through
he was faced with the realization
that .his deafness was too great
a handicap for him to make his
way through one of the regular
agricultural colleges.
But there was another school
from which he was not disbarred
??the collcgc of practical ex
perience and hard work, And
there was the farm on which he
was born.
One day this past week The
Pilot's representative visited the
Jenrette farm. With the power
of a modern farm tractor Kim
ball had just brought a modern,
large-type grain combine to the
yard for the purpose of oiling
it up tfofore completing the task
of harvesting this year's crop
of grain. The job of oiling the
combine was turned over to a
younger hired helper while he
took an hour off to show us
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Longwood Citizen
Passes At Home
Julius B. Hickman, Lifelong
Resident Of Waccamaw
Township, Died Monday;
Funeral Held Tuesday
Julius B. Hickman, 67, lifelong
resident of Waccamaw township,
died Monday afternoon at his
home near Longwood. He had
been ill for only a short time.
Funeral services were held yes
terday afternoon at the graveside
in the Butler cemetery, at 4
o'clock. Rev. J. I. Milligan had
charge of the services.
Mr. Hickman was the son of
the late Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hick
man. He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. -isadore Piver Hickman,
Longwood: two daughters, Mrs.
Bessie H. Smith, of Longwood,
and Mrs. Edna H. Long, of Bla
denboro; two brothers, John
Hickman, of Longwood. and
Forney Hickraan, of Bolivia, and
one sister, Mrs. Minnie Long, of
Ash.
Development All
Along Atlantic
Coast In County
Beginning at Caswell Beach
And Extending To South
Carolina Line, Marked
Progress Being Made
COASTAL POINTS
ALL ARE GROWING
Shortage Of Building Ma
terials Appears To Be
Only Factor That Is
Holding Back Big
Building Boom
Things are now well filled up
at all of the Brunswick county
beaches, both those that are be
ing developed and others that are
in the raw and which still have
roonl for a trailer.
At Fort Caswell Beach all of
the houses are said to be taken
for both the summer and fall.
This beach is now receiving con
siderable advertising and Mana
ger R. W. Powell says that
everything is going fine with the
sale of lots. As at other places
development has been retarded
by building restrictions, but Mr.
Powell says that another year
will see Caswell Beach blooming:.
Long Beach, directly west of
Caswell Beach, has suffered less
from the building restrictions and
inability to get building mater
ials. Many nice homes have
been built this year and these
are all filled up as well as those
that were built before the war.
Even with more favorable build
ing conditions there than else
where, somewhere around a hun
dred people who own lots and
want to build have been unable
to get material. Long Beach is
on the books for big growth just
as soon as folks find material
with which to build homes.
At Howell's Point everything -
is also filled up. They are ex
pecting a big season there, de
spite the limited number of
houses. For the first time in the
history of the place they have a
store and a small hotel.
Holden's Beach, a long-time
favorite for summer and fall
vacationists, Is forging ahead this
year with all homes In use b;
owners or rented. Many new
houses have been built there this
year, many more are under con
struction and still more arc being
planned.
The Shallotte Point section is
getting a new road. It is like
wise getting much in the way
of new buildings and has need
for still more. The Point is one
of the Brunswick county coastal
sections that is bound to develop.
The Pilots representative has
not seen or heard much of Gause
| Beach lately. That is not to be
taken to mean that things are
not keeping up there. Just re
cently Mrs. Guy Culpepper said
th^t section was getting a great
number of new homes and they
expect real development there se
cond to no other placc in Bruns
wick.
Seaside, Calabash and other
points all along the coast are
very much alive with people who
can find no summer homes liv
ing in trailers or whatever else
they can find.
Harry Aldridge
Dies At Home
Popular Southport Resident
Died Monday Morning
At His Home Following
Extended Illness: Funeral
Today
Harry Bert Aldridge, 59-year
old and lifelong resident of
Southport. died at his homo here
Monday morning following sev
eral months of failing health.
Mr. Aldridge had been an em
ployee of the city for the past
30 years, serving as dty electri
cian for the greater part of that
lime. He was a faithful worker
and was well known and was
highly esteemed In practically
every home in Southport and the
surrounding county.
Surviving are his widow. Mrs.
Mamie Fisher Aldridge; one son,
Harold F. Aldridge; a step-son,
Charles C. Poole, a slep-daugtj
ter, Mrs. P. W. Larsen: one
brother, J. S. Aldridge. of South
port. and a sister, Mrs. C. N.
Phillips, of Wilmington.
He was a member of the Ma
sons and Junior Order.
Funeral services are being
held this afternoon at 3 o'clock
from the Southport Baptist
church. Rev. A. L. Brown and
Rev. H. B. Baker are In charge
of the services. The burial Vtll
follow in Northwood cemetery
with members of Pythogoraa
Lodge serving as pallbearer* .
Use honorary pallbearer* win
be the members of the Juatat
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