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THE STATE PORT PILOT
SIXTEEN
NO. 33
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
Most of The New*
All The Time
6-PAGES today Southport, N. C., Wednesday, October 19, 1949
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
$1.50 PER YEA*
$ Revealed
, Outstanding
development
? jJfeton And Son Are
?#?., Upon P~
Which Will Develop
^Between Two Beach
, aN^OTHER
Movements seen
Organization Being S-st
S Idea To Prov.de
L Facilit.es For
Jswell Overflow
been completed for
1 believed to be the big
' development ever un
Brunswick county.
Lopment is "ntKerinf
640 acres of beach
I. lands, purchased ^hree
from the Caswell Reach
J?,n bv E. F. Middleton
. of Charleston.
oart of the Long Beach
-ent. covering lands, much
j. is on high wooded eleva
te have never before been
public. The Middle
mght the land with year
ipelopment in mind. That
tbe angle.
HO acres with roadways
r cleared by bulldozers, has
Landed into 175 residen
j business blocks. These in
been subdivided into
Us deeds will prohibit the
don of residences costing
C $5,000.00. Likewise no
s or development building
^ than $10,000.00 will be
[it the development sector.
restrictions are aim
pv at protecting the
t of the citizens that the
By expects to have. The
tracts also stipulate that
jr. of all money received
development corporation
K sale of lots and blocks,
nt into public improve
fcmelv a 60 room hotel,
tot airstrip, golf course,
Ifishing pier, 1000x1000
t basin with a minimum
(feet and a new amuse
iriton.
permanently connected
e Middletons is Mr. Frede
rttaald. an industrial and
cent engineer of Charles
C. and Atlanta, Ga., he
( full time to development
fcr.nai anglee. Art archi
[ firm tn Charleston has
c retained and all struc
Etruction within the new
ten: sector will have to
(approval of the architect,
for the general protection
55 class community.
5 at development the
i Long Beach will go for
t the same time as the
eat of the new sector,
? to E. F. Middleton. Sr.
land his son, E. F. Middle
are now free to devote
* to the development of
? old and new sectors.
? Middleton, Jr., will be
Bsager and he is already
8 ali of North and South
1 contacting and setting
' "ganizations. Blocks and
new sector and lots in
f sector of the huge Long
"-eveloprnent are on sale
?w, according to E. F.
k Sr.
to? the maps and plans
jeterday, Mr. Middleton
? course, with the new
knt as large as it is, 640
?toiued on page four
Iri if Stmt
Hatha
10 MEET
Southport Lions Club will
borrow (Thursday) at 1
1 ? the Community Build
to CONFERENCE
L A. Potter, instructor
at the Southport school,
14 fte State Music Teach
tesrence in Greensboro
f.
tR SIPPKR
Wwnen of Southport Pres- I
r- church will have an I
'^PPet on Thursday, Octo
!' 5;30 o'clock at the ,
Muter. '
lf?R STOCKING
Ronton of Supply recent- j
r '?'! a nice fishing pond
and filling station.
F" he is stocking it with
bream that were
PJy the Soil Conservation i
of the U. S. Depart
^'culture. The pondj
J? - an additional stock- j
I ^ fingerlings in the
Shrimp On Deck
CATCH ? Shown in the foreground is a basket of large shrimp, the kind that every
trawler hopes to catch when he goes to work each morning. One of the other baskets
contains some flounders and other large fish taken in the trawl, while in the other bas
ket is a collection of smaller fish which also can be used for food. ? (Cut Courtesy Wil
mington News.)
Guard Unit To
Show Movie At
Mass Meeting
Shallotte Unit Of Recently
\nnounced Unit Of Nat
ional Guard To Hold Meet
And See Movie On Next
Thursday
SHALLOTTE. Oct. 18? The re
cently announced organization of
a National Guard unit at Shal
lotte will be further explained to
those persons interested at a mass
meeting to be held in the Shal
lotte American Legion Hut at 8
P. M. Thursday October 27th. A
free movie pertinent to the occa
sion will be shown.
All able bodied men between
17 and 35 are urged to attend
and all persons interested are in
vited.'
This unit needs at least 30 en
listed men and 3 officers in order
to be federally recognized. All
eligible men and all reserve officers
of the Army, Air Force, Marine
Corps, and Navy should contact
Bill Sellers or John Burns at the
Legion Hut on Tuesday or Thurs
day night any week. This or
ganization with 6 officers and 140
men will mean an annual income
of approximately $35,000 in feder
I al and state funds for this coun
ty in pay to the men who enlist
in the National Guard.
Numerous Cases
Tried In Court
Variety Of Charges Included
In Docket Disposed Of
Here On Monday Before
Judge McLamb
A variety of cases were dis
posed of before Judge W. J. Mc
Lamb in Recorder's court here
Monday with the following judge
ments being meted out:
C. E. Robbins, drunk driving,
reckless operation, found guilty
of reckless operation, fined $100.00
and costs.
James Lance, no operator's li
cense, fined $25.00 and costs.
John L. Harrison, damage to
j property, nol pros.
John L. Harrison, assault with
Continued On Page Four
Auxiliary Now
After Members
Shallotte American Legion
Auxiliary Determined To
Enrol] Record Member
ship This Fall
The Shallotte Unit of the
American Legion Auxiliary met
Wednesday for their regular
monthly meeting with nineteen
members present. Another year
of continued growth was predict
ed by Mrs. Virginia Williamson,
membership chairman, as first re
turns from the current member
ship campaign came in.
Early enrollment of members
for 1950 indicates that the auxili
ary will continue to expand dur
ing the coming year. Already the
largest women's organization in
America, the Auxiliary has hard
ly begun to exhaust its possibili
ties for growth. More and more
of the wives, mothers, sisters, and
daughters of men who served
Continued on page four
Plans Approved For
School Expenditures
Superintendent J. T. Denn
ing Receives Notice Of Ap- 1
proval From State Pannel
In Raleigh Tuesday
PLANS HAD PRIOR
APPROVAL OF BOARD
Improvements Included Pro
vision For Changes In Set- |
Up For Colored Schools !
Of County
A pannel representing the North
Carolina Education Department
yesterday approve.: for im
pair and expansion of the Bruns
wick county school plants in con
nection with the Better Schools
program.
The recommendations submitted
to the pannel by J. T. Denning,
superintendent of Brunswick coun
ty schools, had previously been
approved unanimously by mem
bers of the Brunswick county
board of education. This means
that everything is ready now for
architect drawings and actual
plans for specific projects.
The recommendations were com
plied by Guy Phillips following a
two-day inspection tour of the
county early this month, with
one addition based upon the find
ings of a Mr. Duff, member of the
State Department of School Sur
veys.
The recommendations take note
of the lack of adequate facilities
for the colored students of the
county, and included in the pro
gram are plans for erection of
two additional consolidated units,
one at Grissettown, the other at
Phoenix.
Following are the recommenda
tions for each school:
Leland: Four additional class
( Continued on page five)
Veterans Slow
In Applications
Veterans Service Officer]
Urges Eligible Men To
Make Early Application
For Dividend On National j
Service Life Insurance
Veterans Administration reports j
that its central office in Wash- 1
ington has received applications j
for the National Service Life In-|
surance special dividend from ap- 1
proximately two-thirds of the vet
erans who are eligible for the I
payments. This means that some- 1
thing in the neighborhood of
5,000,000 veterans have yet to
mail in their applications.
In Brunswick county Veterans
Service Officer C. L. Rourk re
ports that applicants have been
slow to submit their applications
for these payments and he urges
all eligible men to complete this
job immediately.
VA urges World War II veter
ans to give this matter their at
tention, as dividends will be paid
only to those who make applica
tion. According to VA, the large
volume of appfications must be
processed before they can write
the checks and mail them, com
mencing in January, 1950.
The central offioe reports that
some 50,000 applications have
been received unsigned. Veterans
are cautioned that to be valid the
applications must bear the vet
Continued On Page Four
Sixth Big Boat
To Be Launched
The Sea Wanderer, the sixth
big trawler to be built here for
Lewis Hardee by Lewis Spauld
ing, is ready for launching and
will hit the water some time
this week, perhaps this after
noon. The whole fleet of six
boats are exactly the same size
and were built along the same
lines. Five of them have been
?"worKing for' a year or more'i
and have beeh giving splendid
'service.
Asked if he planned to build
any more boats after the pre
sent craft was launched Mr.
Hardee said, "Not just at pre
sent."
Two Robberies
Sunday Night
Leland High School And
George Pivar's Store Near
Ash Both Entered By Rob
bers
Thieves broke into two places
at widely separated points in
Brunswick county Sunday nigtit
and Sheriff Walter M. Stanaland
has called in S. B. I. agents to
help discover if there is any
connection between the two and to
help solve the clues which will
lead to ' the capture of the guilty
parties.
The Leland high school building
was burglarized during the week
end, presumably on Sunday. No
CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
County Taking
Steps To Comply
With Bus Rules
i
Overloaded Buses Will Ba
Required To Make Two
Trips In Ordor To Avoid
Risk Arising From Crowd
ing
PATROLMEN WILL
CONDUCT CHECK
Rule Of Not Hauling Child
ren Living In One Mile
And One-Half of School
To B? Enforced
A bulletin has gone out from
th? office of County Superiitend
ent of Schools J. T. Denning to
all school principals warning that
no school bus should be permitted
to exceed the load limit allowed
under existing board of education
regulations.
At present the buses are per
mitted to carry 25-percent above
the seating capacity of the vehi
cle. Colonel Tolar of the Highway
Patrol has warned that patrol
men will spot-check school buses,
and that where this load limit
has been exceeded the children in
excess of the proper number will
be unloaded and the bus ordered
to proceed to school without them.
In order to avoid any compli
cations of this kind Superinten
dent Denning has directed that
second trips be arranged for
buses where necessary to correct
the overloaded condition. It also
has been pointed out that a rigid
enforcement of the regulation
providing that children living
within one-mile and one-half of
the school must walk.
Of the 46 school buses now
operating in Brunswick county
only 11 are carrying an average
daily passenger load in excess of
the State allowed capacity. A
sheet showing the complete
figures has been mailed to each
school principal in order to assist
in adjusting bus travel condi
tions in order to comply with
safety regulations.
Big Dredge Here
Over Week-End
Following ? Completion Of
Job At Cape May U.S.E.
Dredge Hyde Will Return
Here For Work
The big U. S. Engineers dump
dredge Hyde, Captain Fred Tor
rible, Jr., came in Saurday and
remained over until Tuesday. The
vessel was enroute to Cape May,
N. J., where she will work for
about a month, according to Cap
tain Torrible. Finishing there she
will return to Southport for sev
eral months work on the Cape
Fear river and bar.
The Hyde is a sister ship of
the Lyman, now working in South
America. One of the objects of
the stop here enroute from Char
leston to Cape May was to enable
members of the crew to secure
homes for their families for the
several months the ship is to re
main here.
Captain Torrible said that the
Hyde will have the work of deep
ening the channel in the river
from a point between Southport
Continued On Page Four
Our
ROVING
Reporter
W. B. KEZIAH
Recently a visiting friend from
up-state had us glowing by tell-"
ing us we did not look to be 50.
He layed on still further by ad
ding that we got around like a
man much less than 50 years old.
The flattery was all spoiled when
as an afterthought, he asked,
"Have you felt any weakening of
the mind yet?"
Folks who have gotten up in
the world are always big enough
to stop and pay some attention
to the youngsters who still have
to climb. We met Kipp Harring
ton, saltwater fishing editor of
Field, and Stream, in New York
about four years ago and liked
him. That liking Was recently in
creased in a roundabout way.
Our young friend, Jimmy Har
per, Jr., had become interested
in the catch of a 122-pound tar
pon by Captain Bill Styron. Jim
my took some dippings from
newspapers and sent them with a
short letter to Mr. Farrington,
whom he has not met but admir
es very much. In short order Jim
my received a very nice personal
letter from Kipp, thanking him
for thinking of sending the clip
pings and sending his regards.
Recently at a steak dinner
Herman Phelps, who comes form
a family of bear hunters out at
Supply, was sitting next to a
party who was having trouble
with his steak and a dull knife.
This party with the tired arm
and an inquistive mind, finally
leaned over and asked Herman,
"Have any of your relatives kill
ed an old bear recently?"
Villijlums Gurtmandsion. a
North Iceland seafood producer,
spent part of the past week here
looking into the local fishing set
up. He was traveling in his pri
vate plane and landed on the
field of the Brunswick Navigation
Company. Mr. Gurtmandsion said
that when he left Iceland there
was two feet of new fallen snow
on the ground.
Thanks to John W. Garner of
Continued On Page Four
Colonel Ivan Bennett
On The Move Again
Distinguished U. S. Army Chaplain Going To Japan As
Staff Chaplain For MacArthur
During the closing days of the
war in the Pacific and for many
months thereafter, Colonel Ivan
Bennett was chief of chaplains in
the Pacific theatre.
Now with more than 30 years
of service behind him as an army
chaplain he is eligible to retire
and return to his native Bruns
wick county to make his home.
Spending his vacation here last
spring he confided to friends that
he might retire this year and I
make his home in Southport.
His plans in this direction ap
| pear to have been deferred. This
I week W. B. Keziah of Southport
received a letter from the colonel.
It was written while he was pas
[sing through Arizona, from Fort
| Sam Houston, Texas, to Califor
nia, thence to Japan. In part his
letter said:
"I am moving again. This time J
to Japan, where I will be Staff
Chaplain in General Douglas Mc
Arthur's headquarters again. As
youu know, I was with him from
1942 to 1946 on the long trek
from Melbourne, Australia, to
Tokyo, Japan.
"I feel quite flattered that the
General has asked for my return,
and I look forward to a pleas
ant tour of duty over there. I
shall fly across the Pacific from
the Fairfield Airport in Cali
fornia. Ruby (Mrs. Bennett) will
go East to visit Ivan, Jr., who
is at John Hopkins University,
and John Charles, our second son,
who is teaching In the Depart
ment of English at the U. S. Mili
tary Academy at West Point.
Richard, our youngest son, is in
Trinity University at San An
tonia, Texas. He will probably
come to Japan to join us in 1950. ?
Ruby expects to come in about
two months.
"I have sent notice of the
change in my address to the
State Port Pilot, and I shall be
very much interested in getting
the paper in my new home.
"With very best wishes and
pleasant memories of a grand
fishing trip with you. ? Ivan L.
Bennett."
Highway Engineers
Check Creek Bridge
Local Surgeon j
Receives Honor
Dr. Landis G. Brown and
family are spending this week
in Chicago where Dr. Brown
is attending the Clinical Con
gress of the American College
or Surgeons as an initiate.
The American College of Sur
geons was founded in 1913 by
surgeons of the United States
and Canada. The object of this
association of surgeons is to
benefit humanity by advancing
the science of surgery and the
ethical and competent practice
of its art; by establishing stan
dards of hospital construction
administration, and equipment;
by engaging in scientific re
search; by aiding in the in
struction of doctors; by formu
lating standards of medicine;
and by methods for the im
provement of all adverse condi
tions surrounding the ill and
injured wherever found. Fellow
ship in the College is based
on training and experience.
Board Approves
Highway Plans
County Commissioners Go On
Record Approving Loca
tion Of Project# Set For
Brunswick; Endorse Ma
chinery Purchase
Members of the board of coun
ty commissioners have given un
animous approval to the paving
projects proposed by Commission
er Wilbur Clark for the first
one-third of the better roads pro
gram.
In passing this resolution, the
commissioners went one step fur- J
ther and expressed their approval |
of the decision made by the State ,
Highway Commission to purchase
a considerable quantity of mac- 1
hinery and equipment with which I
to complete this work in Bruns
wick and other counties.
In their meetings this month ;
the board has approved the fol
Continued On Page Four
Church Honors
Southport Man
Officials And Membership
Of Southport Presbyterian
Church Celebrate 50 Years
Service Of Price Furple??
As Elder
Of unusual interest was the re
ception held last Tuesday evening
at the Youth Center of the South
port Presbyterian church cele
brating the 50th anniversairy of
the ordination of Ruling Elder
Price Furpless. The congregation
assembled to honor and congra
tulate him on this unique occas
ion.
The guests were greeted Infor
mally by the officials of the vari
ous church organizations and pre
sented to the guest of honor. Dr.
J. M. Waggett, pastor of the
church, gave a brief history of
the founding of the church, and
the ordination and early service
of Mr. Furpless, its only elder.
Dr. William Crowe, Jr., of the
Continued On Page Four
Inspection Monday Reveal*
No Immediate Cause For
I Concern With Regard To
Walden Creek Span
BRIDGE DUE TO
BE REPLACED
Slow Speed Advised On Ap
proaches And Warning
Given Concerning Over
loading Vehicles
j State highway engineers In
spect the Walden Creek bridge
Monday and found it o.k. for
ordinary loads. However, they
warn that care should be taken
crossing with unusually iwvv
loads. I
' In all cases the bridge should
I be crossed at a moderate speed,
lowing to the high center which
does not permit operations of cars
and trucks approaching at either
end to see each other. This source
of danger cannot be eliminated
except by the building of a new
bridge and the building up of the
causeway leading to the ends.
Authentic information is that
the whole bridge is to be replaced
as soon as possible. Things are
working out to that end. Outsid*
of the need of exercising care
for a few months, there is no
reason for public worry, accord
ing to highway engineers.
Urges Support
Of Mission Fund
Associational Missionary W.
R. Moorehead Points Out
That This Is Time Of Year
For These Contributions
The churches of the Brunswick |
Baptist Association are urged byj
the Rev. W. R. Moorehead to I
stress the need for the offerings i
for the next two or three Sun
days in an effort to reach their i
goals for State Missions offerings |
for this year. A call has gone
out through the churches recent
ly to put special emphasis on this
matter as there is much involved
in State Mission program that
draws the attention of those con
cerned in its promulgation.
For over a hundred years now
the churches of the Baptists have
been making special offerings dur
ing the months of September and
October for this worthy cause
points out the association mis
missary. Most churches have been
reaching their goals, but there
has been some slackness in this
endeavor for the last year.
"The great objective of this
worthy endeavor", according to
the Rev. Mr. Moorehead, "is to
take North Carolina for Christ
and to reach this object includes
going through eighteen separate
channels such as Training Union,
unday school, summer assemblies,
teaching activities, evangelism,
mission pastors, work among the
Indians, schools for ministers,
work among the silent people,
student work among fifteen thou
sand Baptist students in schools,
work among neglected areas
where mission work is need badly.
"If each Baptist would pay only
five cents for each activity
(which are eighteen activities of
state missions) then 500,000 Bap
tist in Southern Baptist Conven
tion would only have to pay I
ninety cents each but would give
a total gain of *450,000 with
(Continued On Pag* Four) '
Prominent State
Official Coming
To Farm Meeting
Lt. -Governor Pat Taylor Of
Wadesboro Scheduled Tp
Be Principal Speaker At
Brunswick County Farm
Bureau Meet
MEMBERSHIP RALLY
SET FOR SATURDAY
Final Round-Up Of Member*
Will Be Climaxed With
Drawing For Valuable
Prizes Saturday
Evening
The Brunswick County Farm
Bureau rally, highlighted by the
address of Lieutenant-Governor
Pat Taylor, at Shallotte Saturday
night promises to be one of the
outstanding: events of the year in
Brunswick county.
Lieut-Governor Taylor, whose
home is at Wadesboro, is a Bruns
wick county taxpayer. He owns
property at Holden Beach and
plans to build a summer home
there in the near future. Having
spent several summer vacations
there, he is already well known
and generally liked in Brunswick
county.
The rally, intended to close the
Farm Bureau drive for members,
gives indications of being quite
an event in itself. Several hun
dred dollars in cash prizes and
valuable merchandise will be
awarded to Farm Bureau mem
bers. These will go impartially
to those who are already mem
bers and to those who may be-;
come eligible to receive them be
fore the actual time Saturday
night.
All of this week, continuing
their efforts until the rally gets
underway, nearly forty interested
members of the Farm Buread
have turned voluntary solicitors
for new members of the organi
zation. Some of these solicitors
are doing exceptionally good work
according to President T. T.
Ward.
"There is no doubt that the
| Farm Bureau is the most valuable
I organization in which either the
| farmer or business man can hold
membership," says President
Ward, who is urging continued
efforts on the part of all solicitors
through Saturday nights rally.
Spotter Plane
Assists Boats
Good Menhaden Catches
Made In Murky Weather
Off South Carolina Coast
Monday With Aid Of
Plane
Monday brought one of the best
illustrations of the value of fish
spotting planes in connection with
the menhaden industry. The day
was cloudy, sometimes drizzling
rain. Despite this handicap, four
of the Brunswick Navigation Co.
boats brought in catches totaling
a million fish.
Two of the boats in the fleet
did not go out at all, thinking
it useless to try and find fish
with the existing weather condi
tions. It probably would have been
useless for any of them to go
and try under the old methods
of spotting from the crows nest.
Some of the captains of the
boats out credited the day's catch
entirely to the plane, which call
ed them in for a total of eight
sets, two to each boat. Plane and
boats had gone far down the
Continued On Page Four
Tide Table
Following Is the Ude table
for Southport during the next
week. These hours are approxi
mately correct and were fura
ished The State Port Pilot
through the courtesy of the
Cape Fear Pilot's Association.
High Tide Low Tide
Thursday Oct 20,
6:15 A. M. 0:00 A. M.
6:36 P. M. 12:83 P. M.
Friday Oct. 21,
7:07 A. M. 0:52 A. M.
7:28 P. M. 1:25 P. M.
Saturday Oct 22,
8:01 A. M. 1:40 A. M.
8:18 P. M. 2:17 P. M.
Sunday Oct 23, I
8:52 A. M. 2:27 A. M.
9:08 P. M. 3:08 P. M.
Monday Oct 24,
0:45 A. M. 8:14 A. M.
10:00 P. M. 3:58 P. M.
Tuesday Oct 25,
10:41 A. M. 4:04 A. M.
10:55 P. M. 4:58 P. M.
Wednesday Oct 28,
11:35 A. M. 4:55 A. M.
11:52 P. M. 5:49 P. Jfc