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^ Pilot Covers .nsnick County THE STATE PORT PILOT NO. 10 6-PACES TODAY A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Most of The Newi All The Time Southport, N. C., Wednesday, June 15, 1949 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY 11.50 PER YEAI k Picking Blueberries Iff fhis Week 1 J With Results Of gear's Production ^AfLthis0season I i,res Coming Into Pro ^?ach Year Will In ' Output During I ^Of Next 5 Years ....... and Key blueberry I -/ ., Of Southport K;0.v road will begin i/'-V first crop and ship r^cta to Boston, New; Pammare. Thursday of | crop comes from i 25, plants that are a little ; J, two vears old. Only , jo slats will be produced | above acreage this year, j .. mother 25 acres will | ito tearing and with that i *) growth and produc- | _ '.(us year's bearing i jjxt vear's crop should; yOO slats, according to i Jr.. one of the owners. K..- next year's expected ! crop, there should be a j fci* in production each ! Ttfout 25 acres of young i "nil start to bearing each! five years. At the r the older acreage will ^T-.- its yield annually, the berries produced here jut in P'nt cellophane ? the packages bearing [ftting that the contents t on the "Graham and _>rry Farm, Southport, Ite labels will also show the berries and the ibch they were shipped ihppers number. Sa year's production It express on account of err small number of til abeberry Cooperative texiation will send trucks fiji the crop Their plans are to numatelv 200 acres of [tees here within five lt> soon as the present I r.cked from the plants ! so*- producing for the | t cutting will be made | I I nursery here to pro- j young plants for set- ! on new acreage this Thirteen hundred and fifty wquired to the acre, tie highway the plants t presented much of an up to this year owing snail size. This year the 3 the plants have under -?anformation in appear Key and his partner in farm, B. M. Graham of itaued on Page 2) lf!(sA?? ! RECOVER Rs from Winnabow in l^t crops have staged a T?e fwovery from recent p suffered from hail. CONVENTION" 111 B. Parker, postmast ?'te, attended the state of the National As Postmasters in June 2-4. I AM) PIE SALE ISwt Phillips Episcopal I Exilian- will have a pie ?* sale on Saturday at the t Building and Loan Off ing at 3 o'clock. flSHINfi J Bovd Robinson of the ?tag boat El Selma re a party he had out ? aught 37 trout and two ??ds full of sea bass while "ft Shallotle inlet. The ^ ftom Robeson county. . meeting Plowing Southport people fWing the Grand Chapter I* the Order of Eastern J5 week in Raleigh: Mra. [ Swan. Miss Lottie Mae J Mrs. James Smith and f ft- Sanders. b'1N(i motor COI'RT and White Motor '^??ned by J. d. Johnson been enlarged ?Ijhe construction of four ?"Rabins. This gives the ? 20 attractive rooms, * nine buildings. The ? to have had an 'iw patronage since ? -'Miatnicted three years ?l\ Appearance is a dis ?" Bolivia, jDr. Thor Johnson Is Recipient Of Award Conductor Of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Receives Alice M. Ditson Award "For distinguished service to American music," Dr. Thor Johnson of Cincinnati, Ohio, Winston-Salem and Southport recently received the Alice M. Ditson Award in ceremonies at Columbia University in New York. Following the making of this award Dr. Johnson directed the Colum bia Broadcasting*Symphony Orchestra in a .program over | its Nation-wide network. Cincinnati claims Dr. Johnson' by virtue "of his being the con ductor of its famous symphony orcheastra; Winston-Salem claims him by reason of the fact that his parents. Dr. and Mrs. H. B. Johnson, live in nearby Mount Airy; Southport puts in its claim to the distinguished symphony conductor by reason of the fact that, with his parents, he spends the full summer here at either Caswell Beach or Long Beach. He owns a building lot at Cas well Beach and will build a sum mer home there sometime in the future. Southport and the nearby beach claims to the residence of Dr. Johnson are perhaps stronger than those of any other place in North Carolina, as his entire summer vacation from his duties with the symphony in Cincinnati are spent here. He is distinctly American and democratic in all things. Music magazines are now speaking of him as "The American Maestro." While he is at the Brunswick beaches, he goes swimming, lis tens to boxing and baseball broad j casts, comes over to Southport and is a very pleasant average | man-on-th-street. Attending the movies is an al ] most nightly habit with him when he is on vacation. While he was |at Long Beach last summer one ' Continued On Page Four Homecoming Day Is Observed On Friday Festivities Began With Par ade In Morning And Con tinued At Fast Pace Thru Dance Friday Night DISTINGUISHED GUESTS HERE FOR OCCASION Congressman F. Ertel Car lyle Figured Prominently In Formal Program; Former Postmaster L. T. Yaskell Here A crowd estimated at more than 3,000 persons joined Friday in celebrating Homecoming Day in Southport, an event sponsored by Home Demonstration Club Women and members of the American Legion. The day's festivities began with a parade at 10:30 o'clock in the morning and concluded with a dance in the evening at the Com munity Building. In between there was a program in the park, a band concert and a steady stream of visitors to the USS Jeffers, destroyer-minesweeper, which was anchored in the harbor for this occasion. Floats for the parade were planned under the direction of Mrs. B. J. Holden, and J. T. Den ning directed its arrangement for the march through the town. The, parade formed beyond the rail road tracks on the new hardsur face, then followed a course down Moore street to Caswell Avenue, where it turned right for one block and came back up Nash street to in front of the high school building. First came the distinguished visitors, including Admiral J. F. Farley and his aide riding in a convertible. These were followed bythe 5th Infantry Division band and a company of men from the visiting naval craft. The came the floats, a colorful array of pagentry which gave ex pression to some of the interests of this community. One of the most colorful entries was the float on which the Homecoming (Continued on Page 2) Shallotte Tax Rate 30-Cents Raised From 16-Cent Levy Of Past Year To Give Anticipated Revenue Of About $1,100.00 Per Year At a meeting of the Shallotte Councilmen last week the tax rate for Shallotte was raised from 16 cents to 30 cents on the hundred dollar valuation. Mayor R. W. Cheers stated Monday night this this would, with privileged taxes, give Shallotte operating funds of about J1.100 per year. "Not much to pay expenses and do anything with", he said. Former Mayor Leon Galloway, defeated by Mayor Cheers in May, was even more outspoken. He said that with everything' held down to the lowest minimum Shallotte Continued On Page Four Chop Down Tree With Eagle Nest Apparently the old song.. of "Woodman, Spare That Tree," did not apply to a cypress on Beaver Dam, four miles from Southport. Two great Bald Eagles, the American Bird, have made their home in this tree for many years, rearing succes sive brood? of young, one Shortly after Christmas, Quin cey Scarborough, Long Beach and Fayetteville boy who is a student at the University, visit ed the tree and climbed an adjoining one to look into the nest to see if the eagles had started another family. They had not, but at the time they were making preparations by re novating the nest. Quincey visited the scene a few days ago and found that Lumbermen had cut down the tree, nest and all. ! Recorder Hears Routine Cases Weekly Session of Brunswick County Recorder's Court Included Variety Of De fendants A long and varied docket was disposed of here in Recorder's court Wednesday, with the follow ing disposition being made by Judge W. J. McLamb: Lydon Bryan, speeding, fined $50.00 and costs. Clifford Perham, speeding, Cap ias. William Norcan Collins, speed ing, 525.00 and costs. Raymond G. Oldham, speeding, capias. Jean Douglas McKee, speeding, capias. James Paddison Pretlow speed ing, fined $25.00 and costs. Henry Larsen, speeding, $25.00 and costs. Thomas Galloway, no operators license, fined $25.00 and costs. Harry Lee Varnum, speeding, costs. Joseph Anthony Murphy, speed ing, capias. J. H. Cook, speeding, capias. Robert Lee Dailey, carrying (Continued on page 2) State College Crowd At Beach % Kappa Sigma Fraternity Bunch On Annual House party At Long Beach; I Using Danford Apart ments With part of the crowd wait ing until 8 of them finished their graduation exercises at State College Sunday night, daylight Monday morning found a large (Continued on Page 2 ) Rossini's Great "Stabet Mater" Here Thursday Wilmington Choral Society; To Present Program On Thursday Evening, June 23, In High School Audi torium HENRI EMURIAN TO DIRECT ORGANIZATION All Lovers Of Great Music Invited To Hear Visiting Musicians In Program Beginning At 8:00 Gioacchino Rossini's "Stabet Mater" will be presented by the Wilmington Choral Society in Southport High School Auditorium Thursday evening, June 23, at 8 o'clock. An announcement of the pro gram was made this week by members of the Choral Club of Southport, who will sponsor this appearance here. Henri Emurian, minister of music at the First Baptist Church of Wilmington, will direct the choral group. Emurian has studied under some of the great teachers and sang one season with the Cecilia Society of Boston, during which time the group sang Mozart's "Requiem" under the direction of Serge Koussevitsky. In featured roles will be John McDougall, tenor; Mary Eunice Troy, first soprano, and Yynn Du Rant, mezzo-soprano; Middleton Norris, bass-baritone; Esther Carswell, soprano; Arthur John, bass; Orma Jean Willis, soprano; Ruth Paterson, alto; Ben C. Stevenson, tenor; Jack Carswell, baritone; and Mildred Murdock, contralto. Many of the singers will be supported by the chorus. Those who enjoy great music capably performed will do well to remember that the School Audi torium has a limited seating cap acity. However, every effort will be made to take care of the large audlepee expected ^or (.he visit of the Wilmington groups. The appearance here will be f jfcanted ' partfell? by k silVer off ering. Church School 1 Begins Sunday One - Week Session Of Vaca tion Church School Will1 Begin Next Week At Trin- 1 ity Methodist Church The annual vacation church schiil will begin at Trinity Meth- 1 odist church Sunday, June 19 and continue daily through Sun-' day, June 26. Classes will be held daily starting at 9 o'clock and i ending at 11:45. There will be classes for every one including nursery, beginner, primary and intermediate groups.! Credits will be given for perfeot I attendance and diplomas awarded to each pupil attending the full J six days of classroom work. Since! the school has been shortened to one week only, and in order ! to meet standard requirements, | all pupils must attend the full, six days to receive diplomas. The staff of instructors and helpers is nearly completed and the following compose the facul Continued on page four Band Instruct ?n Now Available With 50 music students, in cluding those who are training for the school band, Director jBen C. Stevenson is very anxious | to have town and country stu | dents of the school see him at once and sign up for band les sons during the summer. He points out that with the "crowded condition that will exist in the fall he will not be able to devote as much attention to the individual band students as he would like. Training during the summer will give a prospective band member an advantage. Complete Survey Of School Needs For Brunswick Architect Who Was In Charge Of Construction Of Four Of County Schools Is Serving As Consultant Feeling the need of something authentic regarding the needs of the Brunswick county schools, the board of education through Superintendent J. T. Denning arid Archietct L. N. Boney of Wilming ton have been making a survey of conditions this week. Supt. Denning, Mr. Boney and his son, L. N. Boney, Jr., have personally visited each of the five white consolidated schools in the county during the week. Joined by the local school board at each school, they have gone over the buildings and heard testimony as to conditions and needs. Mr. Boney was the architect in charge of the construction of the school biuldings at Leland, Bolivia, Shallotte and Waccamaw in 1927. At this time the late N. C. Galloway was chairman of the board of education and R. E. Sentelle was superintendent of schools. In an interview Monday night Mr. Boney said: "The board of (Continued on page Two) Municipalities To Receive Funds According To Announcement Bolivia Will Receive Al most Five Thousand Dol lars For This Purpose it Bolivia will get $4949.00 from the municipal fund of the State Highway and Public Works Com mission for work on streets in side that community during the next fiscal year. I This is more than the combined funds allocated to Southport and Shallotte. The former was grant ed $2003.00 and the latter $783.00 for street work during this fiscal year. ' The recent session of the North Carolina legislature authorized an increase in the municipal funds from one million to two and one half millions annually. The general statutes require that the municipal fund shall be expended first on streets inside cities and towns which form a part of the state highway system, and secondly on "streets which form important connecting links" to the state highway system, or the county highway system, or farm to market roads. The funds were allocated upon the basis of population, mileage and engineer's recommendation. Our ROVING Reporter W. B. KEZIAH From his son, Sgt. Egan Hub bard, now stationed in Germany, G. E. Hubbard, Sr., of Southport, has received a present that sort of tickles his heart. It is a Dutch pipe with one of those long "S" shape stems and of the pipe has been to be shown around. He has not yet got around to smok ing it, so. far as we have noticed. One of the most useful men to North Carolina stepped out last week when Bill Sharpe resigned as director of the State News and Advertising Division. He leaves the department on August 1 and goes with the Carolina Light and Power Company. We have known Bill pretty intimate ly since he first became head of the State Publicity agency. With out reflecting on whoever may succeed him, it may be said -right here that it will be hard to find a man to take his place who will carry on as ably. Cuban newspapers, printed in English apparently have a hard time with their Latin American reporters and editors. George M. Rapplyea, Southport man who is in Cuba for several months, has sent us a batch of clippings from a Habana newspaper. Mr. Rap plyea warned us that before we read the clippings and laughed, we should think what might hap pen to the composition if we tried to do some reporting for this paper in Spanish. Congressman Chas. B. Deane should be down to his summer home at Long Beach fairly soon. The last time he went fishing with us, about two months ago, he made an appointment for an other go at it in June, and this is well along In the month. Think Continued On Page Six Patrolmen Cracking Down On Speedsters State Highway Patrolmen Bearing Down On Motorists Who Speed Along Highways According to reports picked up; from officers, a mass of speeding! cases will feature today's session of the Recorder's court. After today such offenders will explain where the fire was on Mondays, the day for holding the weekly session of the court having been changed, effective June 20th. Patrolman C. M. Cummingsa stated early Monday afternoon taht he had arrested 14 speeders at Bolovia during the preceeding 48 hour period. And he had not been idle the rest of the time since last week's session of court. According to Mayor Roney Cheers of Shallotte, Patrolman J. C. Pierce who is stationed there, had stopped 19-fire-bound cars during the w^ek. As in the case of Cummings at Bolivia, they were clocked at speeds ranging from 70 to 85 miles per hour. Chief of Police Coleman, who works only part time at Shallotte, is also credited with the arrest of several speeders on Route 17. Patrolman J. C. Taylor of Le land stated Monday that he had run down only a small number of speeders this wetk. His work is in the area near Wilmington and It is the general rule of speeders to wait until they get further down the line before they open things up wide. All three of the Patrolmen stationed in this county point out the fact that in the Memorial Holiday wreck in which seven per sons were killed and three others badly injured, th'e speedometer | of one of the cars involved was Ijammd with the needle pointing at 82 miles per hour. Judge W. J. McLamb of the Recorder court appears to be con curring with the efforts of the officers to check the speeding. Recently the run of the fines as sessed has been ranging to around $25.00 and costs in all cases. Producing Plants May Become Big Business Beer-Wine Vote Set For July 13 Members of the board of ald ermen for the City of South port have ordered a special beer and wine election to be held on Saturday, August 13. The board found that a proper petition has been legally pre sented, with the required num ber of registered voters. The election books for the city of Southport will be opened on the 16th day of July and again on the 23rd and 30th day of the month for the purpose of per mitting new registration. Sat urday August 6, will be chal lenge day. In the county-wide beer-wine election on January 29 voters cast their ballots 1813 to 970 to discontinue legal sale of beer and 1734 to 963 to discontinue legal sale of wine. In Southport the vote was 354 in favor of legal sale of beer to 116 op posed while the ' vote on wine was 357 for and 115 against. Good Luck On Trip To Gulf First Trip To These Waters Monday Revealed Pres ence Of Plenty Of Big Fish The main thing brought to light from this first real trip is the fact that the big fish are out there and apparently hungry for what the sportsmen have to of fer. The Idle-On, Captain Hulan Watts, with Mike Zezefelis and a party pf Crystal Cafe employees from Wilmington, made an in teresting catch in the shape of 38 dolphin, an amberjack, three bonita and 200 sea bass and snap pers. The sea bass and snappers are not game fish, but are taken from bottom operations and the Crystal Cafe people usually make Continued On Page Six Ordination Is Set For Sunday Interesting Program Has Been Arranged For Leland Baptist Church Sunday Afternoon There will be ordination services at the Leland Baptist church on Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock for Brother Hickman, Brother Wilkins, Brother Gainey and Brother Peterson, deacons. A good program has been ar ranged and special quartets have been secured for the program. The charge to the church will be given by the Rev. C. E. Bris son of Mill Creek church, the charge to the candidates will be delivered by Rev. W. R. Moore- 1 head, associational Missionary, and the ordination sermon will be delivered by Rev. Carl A. Talley, pastor of the Bolivia, Supply, Lebanon churches. The ordination prayer will be given by Rev. Harry J. Moore of Currie, the welcoming into the deaconship by. Rod Sellars of Mill Creek church and the benediction by the Rev. Fred Hintz of the Goshen Bap ( Continued on page tlx) I __ Success Of Everett H. Shep pard Farm Near Southport May Result In Transfer ring Part Of Industry - Here RESULTS THIS SPRING HOPEFUL River Road Area Appears To Be Well Adapted To This Particular Type Of Farming Operation Tifton county, Georgia, grew and sold six million dollars worth of tomato plants this spring ac cording to trade reports. These plants were produced for canning companies alL through the north and east, and Tifton was only one of dozens of Georgia counties where plant growing Is carried on commercially. The freight cost from southern Georgia is about two thirds more than from here in lower North Carolina. There is the added fac tor that the plants grown in Brunswick county arrive at their destination in New Jersey after one overnight haul of about 16 hours. TTiey arrive fresh and In perfect condition for being tran splanted to the fields. Three years ago Everett H. Sheppard of Shiloh, N. J. decid ed in his own mind that it was an unneccessarily long and costly haul for plants from Georgia to New Jersey. He had been growing plants down . there for several years, using them on his own New Jersey tomato farm and selling the surplus to canning companies who placed them among their tomato growing farmers. Mr. Sheppard investigated the soil and climate of Brunswick county. He came to the conclusion he could grow as good or better plants here than he could grow in Georgia, that he could save the excessive freight resulting from long hauls and get his plants to the farms in tip-top condition. He leased 20 acres to start with made a fine crop that first year despite the fact that he was us ing rather worm out land. The second year, also using leased land, he did a little better. That year, 1948, Sheppard bought a 145 acre tract on the River Road near Southport. It was all in woods. He cleared 20 acrcs and planted it all in water melons last year. The ground was too fresh for growing tomato plants. This year the 20 acres of 1948 Continued On Page Four Colonel Bennett To Washington Former Chief Of Chaplain* In Pacific Theatre During War May Retire Soon From Service Colonel and Mrs. Ivan Bennett returned to Washington, D. C., Tuesday after spending a month here with Mrs. Bennett's sister. Mrs. S. T. Bennett. Colonel Ben nett will round out his 30 years of service as a Chaplain id the Army in July. He is considering retiring then and returning to Brunswick, possibly to Southport, to make his future home. During the war in the Pacific Colonel Bennett was the ranking Army Chaplain in that area. Only two American Chaplains . now outrank him, one of JLhese being a Continued On Page Pour County Baptists Urge Action Od Ft. Caswell Deal Resolution A d o p te d To "Welcome, Favor And Urge The Purchase Of This Property" Passed At Meeting MISSIONARY IN REPORT ON CHINA Likens Present War With Communists To Boxer Re bellion, Citing Certain Gains Of Christianity With delegates from the Bap tist churches present the Bruns wick Baptist Association met In Supply Sunday afternoon to hear reports of progress from the several churches and to discuss matters of interest. The Associa tion officially took notice of the proposed purchase of Caswell by the Baptist State Convention and . the moderator was Instructed to notify the secretary of the' con vention that the Baptist churches of Brunswick county "welcome, favor and urge the purchase of this property". The churches also recommend that the convention pay the asking price for this pro perty and pledge their support of this action. In another resolution the As sociation instructed the moderat or to communicate with the sheriff of the county to assure him and his deputies of full cooperation in the enforcement of law in Brunswick county, especial ly the enforcement of the laws against alcoholic beverages. The moderator in his report as sured the Soldier Bay Church of a welcome into this Association should that church desire to be admitted at the October meeting of the Association. He also com mended the developing program of fellowship and recreation that several of the churches are spon soring and spoke of the whole some effects of he baseball teams now being sponsored by some of the churches in Brunswick county. Dr. Charles Leonard was the inspirational speaker at this meet ing. He said that missionaries are disappointed in the Communist advance through China, but that they are not discouraged. Ho likened the present crises to the Boxer Rebellion when thirty thousand Christians were perse cuted and killed for their fatth, but the effect of the persecution was not the destruction of the 'Continued on pige 2) Flower Show To Be Held Here, _ I Annual Flower Show Spon sored By Brunswick Coun ty Home Demonstration Clubs Scheduled June 23 The annual flower show of trie Home Demonstration Clubs will be held in the Community Build ing in Southport on Thursday, June 23. All entries must be . in by 2:30 o'clock so the judges can begin judging. All flowers must be grown J?y exhibitor. The following are the classed to be judged: Class I, Perfection of bloom. ? (One specimen grown by exhibit or). Class II, artistic arrangement: (a) miniature (not over 3, inches); (b) 1. living room Continued On Page Four 1 Tide Table Following is the tide tabif, (or Southport during the next week. These hours are approxi mately correct and were furn ished The State Port Pilot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot's Association. High Tide Low Tld* Thursday, June 16 0:00 A. M. 5:59 A. M. 12:02 P. M. 6:05 P. M. Friday, June, 17 0:26 A. M. 6:45 A. M. 1:01 P. M. 6:56 P. M. Saturday, June 18 1:12 A. M. 7:33 A. M. 1:52 P. M. 7:53 P. M.' Sunday, June 10 2:01 A. M. 8:21 A. M. 2:43 P. M. 8:52 P. M. Monday, June 20 2:51 A. M. 9:12 A. M. 3:35 P. M. 9:51 P. M. Tuesday, June 21 3:43 A. M. 10:02 A. M. 4:22 P. M. 10:47 P. M. Wednesday, June 22 4:35 A. M. 10:48 A. M. 5:11 P. M. 11:40 P. M.