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Pilot Covers LjBwick County THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Most of The News All The Time sixteen NO. 2 6-PAGES today Southport, N. C., Wednesday, April 20,1949 published every Wednesday fi.*o per yea* I jty Church Entertain Conference toiTDi?trict Confer Meet Here For Time In Quarter Of peatur^Nex1 Tuesday JSaH-end meet M Will Be Served At At Community Bu.l With Ladies Of lurch In Charge Of Meal anta^The Music of ^sented Sunday after JLwtv Methodist church, J Cross of Redemption1, I Sunday evening by the Southport Baptist church, T, soecial observances I ?,"111 Southport. Both | s we? ii'!ed completely programs. tsg is the program for ihodist cantata: jtoic of Easter", choir; Mrs. Corlette, Mrs. J w.j Havman and choir; ad Did My Saviour Mrs. Corlette, Mrs. Pigott , Hubbard: "As It Begun B ch0ir: -Echoed Voices" .^er; "The Flower Bells" durus and choir; "The if Triumph", choir; "The ?? Spring", Mrs. Corlette, ?torus and choir, The I Springtime", choir. ??as composed of the g persons: nas: Mrs. Roger demons, C. Corlette. Mrs. J. T. ; Miss Annie M. Newton s Lula M. Swan; altos: D. Havman. Mrs. G. E. id. Mrs. Dallas Pigott and W. Ruark: tenors: Pearce er, G. E. Hubbard, R. B. on Waters Thompson and Willing: basses: E. H. Ar ar.d C. R. Livingston; t Mrs. James M. Harper, recur. Mrs. Dallas Pigott. is the program for \pttt cantata: j Bells", choir, women's ffce Entry Into Jerusa- j J:.: soprano chorus, men's (ionis; "The Last Supper", *. Miss Adams; "Gethse choir and tenor solo, Mr. "The Road to Cal-! men's chorus; "At tbe mezzo-soprano solo. Miss j "Wonderful Jesus", choir, "As It Began to Dawn", ?prano solo, men's chorus, chorus, choir. Miss He soloist; "In the Cross of I Glory" bass solo, Mr. "The Lord Is Risen", unison chorus, tenor solo, Mr. Finch, soloist; "He Cs the Victory", women's 'The Eastertide Alleluia", i ?omen's chorus, men's following persons sang in fotinued on page 2) j lltfNiWi Flasha m FOR BAND s are being made for a t Rusical program to be -ere during the first week >' with all funds to go to outhport high school band, teresting program is being 1 out, and full details will need next week. lANGIXG plays Senior Class of the South ?h school will present their Tons of Trouble" at the 1 high school Thursday ?f this week at 9 o'clock, pv is credited with being the best laughs of the sea >he Bolivia school seniors to present their play here Vhport in the near future. khool clinic l<i Manning, principal of school, has announced ?hwt will be a pre-school the Leland school Fri W 22, beginning at 9 a. m. rj>r and nurse will be pre all Leland parents who ave children to enter school | first time next fall should sn in as early as possible Horning. I ^ OF EDt'CATION Omnibus bill which in-1 Provisions for a five-man J education for Brunswick I ' Passed its third reading ly mght in the State Sen ^ the bill is expected to be ? this week. Unless some change results the .*iU include Herbert Long, Foster Mintz, Bolivia; , , George, Southport; s rrink. Shallotte; and Dal Waccamaw. No More Doubt CHAMP?Waban Thomas, left, Shallotte high school boy, is shown in action against Clyde Carter of Fayetteville Thursday night in Southeastern North Carolina Boxing Tournament in Wilmington. The Brunswick county boy scored a second round technical knockout to win the light heavyweight title and wipe out any lingering doubt that he bested Carter in a Golden Gloves Tournament bout earlier this year in Raleigh.?(Star-News Cut.) Popular Public Relations Man For Standard Oil Co. Will Conduct One Of His F amous Programs For Firemen ADVANCE SALES OF TICKETS GOOD All Money Received From Any Source For This Per formance To Go To Purchase New Fire Truck Jerry Ball, public relations re presentative for the Standard Oil Company will present a program j in the Southport high schpol audi torium tomorrow (Thursday) 1 night, with the entire proceeds to go for the benefit of the fire truck fund of the Southport Vol unteer Fire Department. Ball was here Wednesday, went around to see the old truck and followed this visit up with as surance to Ormand Leggett, a member of the Volunteer Fire De partment. that he would do his bit in helping to raise the needed money. Tomorrow night he appears at the high school auditorium with a clever little program, calculated to please everyone who likes music and who like to have a good time. A couple of hours of real fun and entertainment is promised and every cent taken in during the night will go to the fire truck fund. Ball and Mr. Tarrant, also of the Standard Oil Company, will stage the show at their own expense, and they expect to put some money of their own into the truck fund. Jerry is a slam bang good piano player, knowing and hand ling everything from boogie to Continued on page four Jerry Ball Appears In Benefit Tomorrow Funeral Sunday j For War Hero: Young Bolivia Man Was ] Killed While Serving In1 U. S. Navy In Pacific: Theatre During War Funeral services were held Sun-1 day afternoon at Bolivia for Jessie W. Bowling, M2C, who was kill ed in the Pacific theatre during the war. Burial was held at Bolivia with the Brunswick County Post, No. 188, American Legion, in charge of the rites. The body had arrived at South port from overseas earlier in the j week and was held at the Kil- j Patrick undertaking parlor pend-1 ing interment. ! Mr. Bowling is survived by nine I brothers, Darnell, Roosevelt, Brad- [ | ley,' Monos and John Bige Bowl-, | ing, all of Bolivia community; | Boone Bowling of Hyden, Ken- j tucky; Wayne R. Bowling of Wooten, Ky., Powers Bowling of i Burgaw. Two sisters also survive, I Mrs. Hannah Lewis of Burgaw I and Mrs. Orlena Maggard of Hyden, Kentucky. Jerry Ball Will Get Radio Honor Ted Malone, Westinghouse Roving Reporter, will award the title of "Good American" to Jerry Ball over his ABC nationwide coast to coast hook up at 11:30 o'clock Friday' morning. The award is for Jerry's spect ucular efforts at raising money for the March of Dimes, in which he contributed time and talent that resulted in Char lotte and Mecklenburg county giving over a hundred thou sand dollars. Jerry, the Esso Standard Oil Company, public relations man is to arrive in Southport to morrow (Thursday) at noon. Tomorrow night at the high school auditorium he will spark the efforts of the Volunteer Fire Department to raise money for their new fire truck. He will stay over in Southport Thurs day night, and Friday morning when Malone is awarding him the title of "Good American" he will be out on a fishing trip with a representative of this paper. Cancer Goal For County $500.00 Tommie Garner Assumes Ac tive Leadership Of Drive For Funds For American Cancer Society In this county and nearly 3,000 other communities through out the nation the American Can cer Society's drive for a mini mum of $14,500,000 was launched today. In Brunswick county, Tommie Garner, chairman of the local campaign committee, announced that $500.00 would be asked of people in this community as its share. "In this fight against cancer," said Mr. Garner "it is difficult to say that we have a certain share. We have been told that this com munity is expected to raise a minimum of $500.00, but no man can say this is '#ur' share. In stead I believe, in a cause such as this, only our absolute best is to be expected." The chairman said he believed that people here would meet this challenge by subscribing "much more" than the quota. At campaign headquarters, active solicitation work has al ready begun. Various committees i have been assigned to canvass such groups as fraternal, business, labor and women's clubs. ' A door to door solicitation will I be held later, it was announced. "We hope to make it possible 'for everyone in this area to have the opportunity of giving to the [cancer drive," Mr. Garner sa.d^ "There is evidence that 1949 mav well be the most important year of our lives in progress against cancer. We are fast reach ing a climax in this conflict. If (Continued on page Two) Special Easter Music Features Church Programsj "The Music Of Easter" Pre sented Sunday Afternoon By Members Of Choir Of Trinity Methodist Church BAPTIST CANTATA SUNDAY EVENING | "Easter Bells" Presented On Sunday Evening By Choir In Southport Baptist Church Southport will be the scene Tuesday of the Annual Wilming ton District Conference of the Methodist church, the first time that this meeting has been held here in more than a quarter of a century. , . The Rev. L. D. Hayman stated this week that if the weather is pretty, he will not be at all sur prised if as many as four hun dred persons attend the confer ence. A normal attendance at one of these meetings is around three hundred. The morning session will be held at Trinity Methodist church, with the opening program begin ning at 9:30 o'clock. At noon members of the Womans Society of Christian Service of the church will serve lunch at the Com munity Center Building. Mrs. E. H. Arrington heads the committee charged with the responsibility of serving this meal, and J. T. Den ning heads a committee of the men of the church who will at tend to other local details of the conference. The Tuesday meeting will at tract many prominent church leaders from throughout the State and the members of Trinity Meth odist church have embarked upon an ambitious undertaking as they lay their plans to entertain dele gates and other visitors. Passing Motorist Saves Man's Life! Charles William Gore Pul led W. H. Vandergrift From Wrecked Auto Just As It Burst Into Flames According to Patrolman C. M. Cummings of Bolivia a thirty second delay on the part of Charles William Gore would have resulted in W. H. Vandergrift being burned to death in the wreckage of his car Wednesday night. Gore dragged Vandergrift from his 1946 5-passenger Lin coln coupe just as it burst into flames. Vandergrift was uncon scious and remained so for fif teen minutes after being rescued. His car was completely destroyed. Gore, a resident of Lake Vil lage in Wilmington, was headed toward Supply and was about 9 miles out of Southport at about 8 o'clock Wednesday night. He overtook the Lincoln and started to pass. The Vandergrift car swerved towards him, forced him out of the road and into the ditch. A few yards further on the Vandergrift car left the road jumped the ditch and crashed into a pine tree, Vandergrift be ing knocked unconscious. With no idea of just what was wrong Gore sprung out of . his car, rushed to the other machine and dragged Vandergrit out, just as the Lincoln burst into flames. Vandergrift resides at the Riv erside appartments in Wilming ton. He was brought here to the Continued On Page Four OUTING?This is a picture taken of Girl Scouts of the Cape Fear Area and other visitors recently as they celebrated the birthday of their organization at Pretty Pond in Brunswick County, where they are erecting a permanent camp. The girls are shown enjoying a picnic on the shore of their beautiful lake.?(Star-News Cut.) Alderman Candidates Named For Two Wards Fire Trucks Were Cheap Back Then FIRETRUCK Southport's old Model-T Fire Truck, soon to be replaced by a modern and efficent fire fighting machine that can real ly get to fires in town and whereever it is needed in the surrounding area, cost $1,800 when it was bought in 1922. The Perry Motor company of Southport sold the machine to the Volunteer Fire Department. W. T. Fullwood, Sr., now a Southport business man, was the salesman who negoitated > the sale of the truck to the de partment. The machine is still in top mechanical condition. Moja Returns To Carry Parties Popular Sports Fishing Crui ser Of Captain Victor P. Lance Is Back At South port For Season All in readiness for the fish ing season, the Moja, Captain j Victor P. Lance, pulled in from Stuart, Fla., Saturday afternoon. Captain Lance already has sev eral charter parties on his books and he states he expects a con tinuous stream of fishing parties for the Gulf and just off-shore when the weather permits. The Moja did well with sail fishing at Stuart during the win ter months, catching a total of 49 of these prized fish. He hopes that this summer and the fall will produce some real sailfishing at Southport. One of the original believers that there are plenty of marlin to be found at some point off Southport, Captain Lance says that the most exciting moments for any party he had at Stuart was when they ran into a school of white marlin. Three of these fish were on lines from the Moja at one time and all three went in flifferent directions. All three Continued On Page Four Our YV. B. KEZIAH We like to hear of good places for fishing, but our friend Daw-1 son Jones of Leland comes out j and tells us something in regular, fisherman style. It is just too good to believe and sounds sus-! piciously like our former fishing! companion, L. T. Yaskell. That! fellow could tell the most un believable fishing lie and make i it sound like it was gospel truth. I Jones is in the same box. He: writes us from down on the j Florida Keys and says: "You can, cast from the back yard -of the' place where I am staying and | catch amberjack, barracuda and, red snapper." We honestly doubt { if this fellow would know a barracuda if he. saw one. It is really beginning to sound like old before-the-war fishing, those times when Bob Wilson of the Washington Times-Herald, Hammond Brown of the Balti more News-Post and Don Car penter of the Washington Daily News would bob up anytime with parties. Last week Don sent a friend down to look over the situation. This week we got a re quest to make reservations for three boats to accommodate 12 Washington sportsmen in May. They propose to spend a full week out on the gulf, except for com ihg in at night. Good old Bob Wilson is somewhere mixed in this as tftey wrote about talking with him about it. It sort of rained newspaper Continued On Page Four G. W. McGlamery And Ral-| ph Cataldo Nominated i Monday Night By Citizens Of Third Ward; Light Vote NO CONVENTION SET FOR TONIGHT Tuesday Night's Voting Re sulted In Nomination Of J. A. Gilbert And Or mond Leggett To Board Candidates for member of the board of aldermen fo Vthe City of Southport have been named by the voters for Ward I and Ward II, and after taking a recess to night in deference to Wednesday night prayer meeting services other nominating conventions will be held on Thursday and Friday nights. The latter will be for the purpose of naming a candidate for mayor. On Monday night only a few voters showed up to help nomin ate G. W. McGlamery and Ralph Cataldo for the board. Victor Bartells was the only other citi zen whose name was mentioned as a candidate. McGlamery is a member of the present board but this is the first time that Cataldo, who is a Navy veteran who married a Southport girl and settled here since the war, has sought public office. Last night voters of the second ward lost little time in nominat ing J. A. Gilbert and Ormand Leggett as their candidates for aldermen. The vote for Gilbert, a member of the present board, was practically unanimous, while Leg gett scored a one-sided victory over James Piner, the only other man nominated. Lengthy Docket Heard In Court Numerous Cases Covering Variety Of Offenses Dis posed Of Before Judge W. J. McLamb Wednesday An unusually long docket was disposed of here in Brunswick county Recorder's court Wednes day with the following disposi tion being made of cases heard: Zadock Vereen, speeding, no operators license, reckless oper ation, fined $35.00 and costs. John Moore Gore, assault, con tinued. Lindsey Miller, possion and drunk on highway, fined $15.00 and costs. Thomas Fields, assault with deadly weapon, continued. Isadoe Dunbar, no operators license, capias. Emanuel Roderick, reckless op eration, capias. Albert Jackson Ellis, drunk driving, continued to June 1st. John Mills, assault with dead ly weapon. Helen Parker, no operators license, fined $25.00 and costs. Emanuel Roderick, reckless op eration, capias. '"R. C. Russ, possion, fined $10. 00 and costs. Norma Lanier, reckless opera tion, no operators license, fined $25.00 and costs. J. F. Bland, possession, capias. Carl H. Holden, reckless oper ation, fined $15.00 and costs. James Oscar Grissett, speeding, continued. Elbert Clemmons, possession, fined $15.00 and costs. Arthur Reaves, drunk and dis (Continued on page Two) Record Catch ' Of Bluefish Made Monday Monday brought what was pro bably the two biggest catches of bluefish ever made here by troll ing during the spring months. At that the sportsmen could only put out half a day fishing be fore a regular gale and heavy seas forced them back to port by noon. One boat was the Idle-On, Cap tain H. T. Watts. He had a par ty from Salisbury and when they returned at noon they brought In 300 large bluefish, said to weigh up to 2-pounds each. "Hie sports men said that during the time they were out they did not have an idle minute. It was a case of reeling in bluefish just as fast as they could be taken from the lures and the lures put back in the water. , The Botfly, Captain Basil Watts, with a party from the Chrystal Cafe in Wilmington, had the same * luck, getting 300 large blues before weather forc ed the boat In. A third boat piloted by Captain James Arnold did not get away from port until late in the morn ing, and by that time the seas were running so rough they had to turn about and come in with out making a catch. Negro Is Killed Following Row Luther Gause Died Sunday As Result# Of Blow On Head; John Harris Gris sett Being Held Without Bond Luther Gause, 29-year old Shal lotte negro was killed in an argu ment with John Harris Grissett, negro, also of Shallotte, Sunday afternoon. Grissett is alleged to have struck Gause over the head with an axe. Arrested soon after the crime, Grissett has been held in jail without bond. Luther Gause was a brother of Scooper Gause, who shot and kill ed Jim Williamson, a white man, from ambush four years ago. In this crime Luther Gause was also arrested, charged with giving aid to his brother. He was subse quently acquitted of this charge. Scooper Gause was at first sen tenced to death for the murder of Williamson. Winning a new trial, the verdict was changed to life imprisonment which he is now serving. Scooper Gause narrowly escaped lynching ^vhen captured following the murder of Williamson. Prowler Has A Narrow Escape Two Shots Fired After Flee ing Figure Monday Night Without Apparent Injury Southport's prowler had another brush with death Monday night when he was spotted trying to gain entrance to the John Creech home. The discovery was made by J. S. Walton, who lives next door, and only the fact that he failed to release the safety on his shotgun as he attempted to fire after the fleeing figure saved the midnight marauder. When Mr. Walton's gun failed to discharge, his son, Joe Walton, took up the chase and fired two Continued on p&?e two Lions Hold Zone Meet Thursday In Southport Local Choral Group Presen ted Musical Program As Feature Of Ladies Night Observance MEETING WAS WELL ATTENDED Representatives From All Clubs In Zone Present; Informal Business Meet ing Led By Chairman Girl Scouts In Southport Busy Mrs. J. M. Waggette It Lead er Of Troop Which Now Numbers Twenty Young Girl* Mrs. J. M. Waggette and sever al other Southport ladies are de serving of much credit for their recent successful efforts in or ganizing a full troop of Girl Scouts. Starting out only a' little over a month ago, they have a full troop of 20 young girls and several more who are on Uie waiting list until another troop can be organized to absorb them. The organization of the troop is composed of Mrs. Waggette, leader; Mrs. R. F. Plaxco, as sistant-leader; Mrs. J. P. Cran mer, troop committee chairman;' Mrs. Ed Hanson, publicity chair man; Mrs. James Wolfe, camping, hiking and recreation chairman; Mrs. Jack Hickman, assistant to Mrs. Wolfe, and Mrs. James Pin ner, loan promotion chairman. Last week Mrs. Wolfe took eleven of the girls on a hike up the River Road. They left South port at 10 o'clock and were back at 2 o'clock that afternoon. They had their lunch on the bank of the river. In the recent cookie sale the girls took a very active part. They sold 240 boxes, earning a net sum of $84.00. This money goes into the building fund of (Continued of page four) Tide Table Following is the tide table for Southport during the next week. These hours are approxi mately correct and were furn ished The State Port PUot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot's Association. High Tide Low Tide Thursday, April 21,. 2:50 A. M. 9:08 A M. 3:20 P. M. 9:23 P. M. Friday, April 22, 3:45 A. M. 10:01 A. M. 4:14 P. M. 10:20 P. M. Saturday, April 23, 4:35 A. M. 10:4? A M. 5:02 P. M. 11:11 P. M. Sunday, April 24, 5:21 A. M. 11:30 A. M. 5:46 P. M. 11:58 P. M. Monday, April 25, 6:05 A. M. 0:00 6:27 P. M. 12:11 P. MI Tuesday, April 26, 6:42 A. M. 0:39 A. M. 7:03 P. M. 12:48 P. M. Wednesday, April 27, 7:20 A. M. 1:19 A. M. 7:39 P. M. 1:25 P. at Birthday Picnic Southport Lions Club was host Thursday night at a zone meet ing attended by representees from Whitevtlle, Shallotte and Waccamaw. Local club members combined this event with Ladies Night, and around one-hundred fifty persons were present. Hie program for this occasion was presented by the Woman's Club Chorus, who for this ap perance only became known as the "Lions Club Choir". Four selections were sung by the full group, with vocal solos by Mrs. H. C. Corlette, Miss Ruth Pat terson and Mrs. Bryant Potter. Hie music was directed by Mrs. Dallas Pigott, with Mrs. James M. Harpei, Jr., at the piano. Following the program, E. D. Bishop, zone president, conducted an informal business meeting dur ing which there was considerable emphasis upon better performa nce by club members in the dis charge of their duties in the or ganization. During the program Deputy District Governor H. B. Barbee was recognized, and his remarks were directed chiefly toward hav ing a good attendance at the State Convention at Wrightsville Beach. At the conclusion of the meet ing those present sang "Happy Birthday" to Lion R. L. Thomp son of the Southport club, and the meeting adjourned with the sing ing of "Good Night, Ladies".
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