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The Pilot Covers Brunswick County VOL. NO. SIXTEEN NO. 47 THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community _ Most of The News All The Time 6-PAGES TO&AY Southport, N. C., Wednesday, January 25, 1950 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY $1.50 PER YEAR Waccamaw Bank Reports Million Dollar Structure Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars Now In Surplus Account And Two Hundr ed Thousand In Capital Stock VICE PRESIDENT TATE REVEALS 1949 RECORD K. Clyde Council Reelected President And Old Board Of Directors Is Returned To Office The Waccamaw Bank and Ti’ust Company, with its nine branches, moves into the new year with $1,154,858.15 in capital stock and surplus accounts, Vice President C. L. Tate reported to stockhold ers at their twenty-fourth annual meeting in Whiteville Friday aft ernoon. Reviewing the 1949 record of the banking institution, Vice Pre sident Tate said the bank had an “excellent year-’ and cited figures to show that “an increasing num ber of persons are using our facilities in each of the nine areas served.” The report was given by Tate, in the absence of J. N. Coburn, executive vice president, who is j ill and unable to attend the meet- I mg- | Following the officer’s general report, all of the directors and officers were reelected. The officers are: K. Clyde Council, president: Dr. R. C. Sad ler, vice president: Glenn F. Strole, vice president; C. L. Tate, vice president; and J. N. Coburn, executive vice president. Branch bank officers follow: Whiteville—Henry B. Wyche, assistant vice president; L. R. Bowers, cashier; Edna Dyer, as sistant cashier; Helen K. Lewis, assistant cashier; H. C. Woolard, assistant cashier. Chadbourn—C. L. Tate, vice president; L. V. Lowe, cashier. Fairmont—W. B. Lennon, vice president; G. W. Bowers, cashier. Tabor City—B. L. Nesmith, Jr., vice president; J. A. Hufham, cashier. Rose Hill—R. S. Troy, cashier. Clarkton — E. H. Munroe, cashier. Southport — Prince O’Brien, cashier; Mrs. Rachel Corlette, as sistant cashier. Kenansville—M. F. Allen, Jr., ! cashier. Rhallotte—J. E. Cook, cashier. The Board of Directors, as re elected, is comprised of K. Clyde Council, Dr. R. C. Sadler, J. N. Coburn, Glenn F. Strole, C. L. Tate, J. S. Bowers, \V. B. Lennon, (Continued on Page Five) Brief Newt Flasket VISITING SON Mr. and Mrs. Sasa Fodale of Boston, Mass., are spending sev eral days here with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fodale. SPLIT DOUBLEHEADER The two Southport Presbyter ian church teams divided a double bill Monday evening with visiting squads from Bolivia. The local lassies scored a 24 to 15 victory, while the boys lost to Bolivia in the second contest 37 to 24. THREE DEFECTS Superintendent J. T. Denning was advised Tuesday that only three defects were discovered among the fleet of 50 school buses operating in Brunswick county as a result of the fourth monthly inspection by the State Highway Patrol. FARM BUREAU MEET The annual membership meeting of the Brunswick County Farm Bureau will be at Shallotte high school auditorium on Friday eve ning at 7:30 o’clock. Election of officers is among the important business which will be transacted, and all members are urged to be present. CONGREGATIONAL MEETING There will be a congregational meeting Sunday evening following preaching services at Southport Presbyterian church. The pastor, the Rev. J. M. Waggette, will preach the first of a series of ser mons illustrated by navigation of ships as a guide for the Christian way of life. RECOVERING SLOWLY Following an operation for ap pendicitis and other complications in a Wilmington hospital, Mrs. Ida B. Parker of Shallotte is recovering slowly, according to a statement from Mr. Parker Mon day. He was unable to say when they could expect her home and back at her duties us postmaster at Shallotte. Officers Of Bank Gather For Meeting Attending- the annual meeting of Waccamaw Bank and Trust Company stockholders in Whiteville Friday were officers from the nine banks in the Waccamaw system as follows: Seated, left to right, W. B. Lennon, vice president of the bank in Fairmont; Edna Dyer and Helen K. Lewis, assistant cashiers in Whiteville; E. H. Munroe, cashier in Clarkton; and M. F. Allen, cashier in Kenansville. Second row, H. C. Wooland, assistant cashier in Whiteville; C. L. Tate, vice president in Chadbourn; Prince O’Brien, cashier in Southport; B. L. Nesmith, Jr., vice president in Tabor City; Henry B. Wyche, assistant, vice president in Whiteville; and Robert F. Clodfelter, trust officer of the bank. Back row, Glenn W. Bowers, cashier in Fairmont; L. V. Lowe, cashier in Chadbourn; R. S. Troy, cashier in Rose Hill; J. E. Cooke, cashier in Shallotte; and L. R. Bowers, cashier in Whiteville. (Photo by Baldwin Studio). Polio Chairman Hewett Appeals For More Help The Rev. Taft Hewett Asks Citizens Of Brunswick To Give Promptly And To Give Generously To The March Of Dimes In a special appeal to all of the churches and interested people in Brunswick, Rev. Taft Hewett, di rector of the March of Dimes Drive in Brunswick county, has this to say: "I do not have to tell you What the March of Dimes is, because you are all acquainted with this program after the outbreak of polio in our section during 1948. There were 2,516 cases reported in our State that year. “Brunswick county did a splen did job in the 1949 campaign to fight polio. Now we look forward toward another year, and the need is great. We must do our best this time. “I feel that every church in the county wants a part in this cam paign to fight this dreadful dis ease. I take pleasure in asking the churches to give to this cause, because there is a command from the Lord to give to the ones that are in need. We could be the ones in need this year. Let us do our Christian duty by taking part in this campaign through our churches until the goal has been reached. "May I suggest that the church es take a special offering for this worthwhile cause on the Sunday that is best suited, and give everyone an opportunity to make an offering. “Chairmen have been named for each community in the county. This local committee may contact you but if for some reason you are not contacted you should send your contributions to your local chairman. These chairmen are as follows: Bolivia, H. Foster Mintz; Shallotte, Mrs M. H. Rourk; Southport, Rev. H. M. Baker; Supply, Mrs. Floyd Kirby; Wac eamaw, Mrs. W. C. Stephenson; Winnabow, Mrs. R. L. Sullivan. “A. C. Caviness, principal of the Brunswick County Training School at Southport, is director for the colored people of Bruns wick.’’ Executive Group Discusses Youth Members Of Executive Com mittee Of Brunswick Bap tist Association Met Wed n e s d a y To Formulate Plans Members of the executive com mittee of the Brunswick Baptist Youth Association met Wednesday at Bolivia to discuss the work already undertaken and to for mulate plans for further work. At the invitation of J. H. Hold en, Moderator of the Youth Asso ciation, Rev. W. R. Morehead and Rev. H. M. Baker met with the young people that night. Among the plans discussed was an ef fort to have a B. T. U. in every Baptist church in the county; to promote a vacation bible school immediately after the close of the county schools; to ask the (Continued On Page 5> Brunswick County Has Blue Baby Case Investigation Reveals That Lockwoods Folly Child Suffers From Dangerous Ccndition At Age Of 10 Years NOTHING NOW IN PROSPECT FOR CURE Neither Child Nor Parents Appear To Be Interested In Operation, Expense Of Which Will Be Considerable Brunswick county has a real “blue baby’’, but from all in formation available at the pre sent time it does not seem that anything will be done about it in the near future. The victim is Shirley Hewett, 10-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Hewett of Lockwoods Folly township. A resident of the community in which the family lives, reported the case to this newspaper early last week and asked if something could not be done to help. The paper was perfectly willing to try and do something, but it was felt any effort should be defered until a statement of the child's condition could be obtain ed from a doctor or other offical source. Miss Frances Coble, case worker with the Welfare Depart ment, was asked to look into the matter and get a report from a doctor of possible. Miss Coble reports that Dr. Floyd Johnson, county health officer, has investigated the case. With the child not wanting the operations and the parents not in (Continued on Page Five) Menhaden Boats Continue Work Small Daily Catches Con tinue To Come In And Boats Have Been Fish ing Through Month Of January Although bad weather has cut down the number • of days each week during which they could work, Southport menhaden boats have continued steadily at their operations. The men are said to have made at least a reasonable average wage during the month of January. The January operations of the boats is very unusual. The com bination of bad weather and ab sence of fish unusually results in the boats being tied up by the first week in January. Most of the men get employment at over hauling the boats and various im provements about the factory. For a good many years it has been the practice to put most of the earnings back in factory im provements and the purchase of new boats and equipment. This year the factory seems to be well provided with boats, so well that it is said that the need is for greater capacity at the factory in order to permit the boats to produce all that they are capable of producing without any bottle neck resulting. In addition to the annual prac (Continued on page 2, Southport Boy May Get Honor Cadet John Richard Newton, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. New ton of Southport, has been notified by the Office of Naval Procurement in Atlanta, Ga., that he is one of ten cadets of Georgia Military Academy's who has qualified on the Navy aptitude test for further con sideration for a N. R. O. T. C. scholarship. If Cadet Newton qualifies phy sically and if he is selected by the interviewing board, he will be awarded a full four year scholarship to any one'of the 52 colleges and universities which have Naval R. O. T. C. units. Cadet Newton is in his second year at G. M. A. and a Cadet Sergeant in the Army R. O. T. C. unit. Ferry Service Much Improved 24-Hour Service At Holden Beach Seen As Distinct Asset; Lights Needed For Barge And Installation Mr. and Mrs. Bill Grady who operate a store and lunchroom at the ferry at Holden Beach are very much pleased over the re cent orders of State Highway (Continued on page five) W. B. KKZIAH Our ROVING A long; scries of arguments brought up at almost every place we visited during the past week, is beginning to shake our faith in R. D. White being the cham pion checker player in Bruns wick, Longwood and Freeland folks insisted Hickman’s Cross roads has some guys who can beat him. Hickman’s Crossroads folks told us of somebody some where else. Mr. White himself says he is perfectly willing to have a tournament and let the disputants prove their claims. Although we made inquiries we were not able to locate anyone in Brunswick who murdered his mother-in-law this past week. What started us was Harry Rob inson. He hurried up just as our bus was leaving and asked if we had heard of anybody doing that. We guess he was just trying to find out for himself how the thing w'as done. Just to show how innocent and trusting we are and how we get stung at every turn, it may be mentioned that out in the county this week a lady asked us if we had a dime to donate- to a wor thy cause? We had, and promptly donated. She then said: “This money is to buy a saddle for the mule train. Don’t be a jackass and ask for your money back. Get yours like I got mine.” Believe it or not, there is a ditch in Stanberry Bay in Lock woods Folly township where you could hold an umbrella during a rainstorm, and the water that ran off of one side would flow in to Lockwoods Folly River while that which ran off the other side would go west into Sha'llotte Riv er. The land at this point is own ed by J. M. Roach, former coun ty commissioner. Without any invitation, we dropped around to see the chicken 'coop'’ of Mr. and Mrs. Riley Clemmons near Supply this week. They keep some 400 white rock hens that make an announcement of some sort, in relays ,all thro Continued On Rage Four Committee Will Continue Study Over Cemetery Committee Appointed By Southport Lions Club Working On Problems Relating To Permanent Operation REPORT MADE ON NECESSARY STEPS Suggestion Made That Cem tral Authority Be Proper ly Constituted Before Going Further At the regular meeting of the Southport Lions Club Thursday the committee appointed several weeks prior to make a study of cemetery development and to sug gest a plan for the permanent up-keep and development made its report. The committee was in structed to include provision for the old cemetery and also for the new cemetery. * - It was found that the old ceme tery is without ownership so far as the town is concerned, and investigations so far do not re veal that any other corporate body holds title thereto. In the case of the new cemetery, the .title is vested in the Town of Southport. The committee's report presented the following, which was unanamiously approved, and the committee continued to com plete the plan as outlined. The main points are: 1. That an organization be formed to be known as the South port Memorial Association com | posed of one member from each of the churches (white) in the town of Southport, one each from the civic and fraternal organiza tions and two members appointed by the Town Board, these mem bers to receive appointment from the several organization after ap proval from the governing board •of these organizations. 2. The persons so elected will i become the Board of Managers of the herein named organization, and shall organize by efelcting a i president, vice-president, secre tary, treasurer and a' financial secretary, these officers to com (Continued on page 2) Southport Club Honors Founder D. C. Herring In Charge Of Program On Melvin Jones; Club Agrees To Sponsor Local Campaign For Polio Funds , Lion D. C. Herring made a re port Thursday on the significance of the Melvin Jones Birthday ob servance for the iformation of members of Southport Lions Club. Lion Herring explained that Melvin Jones is founder of Lions International and that at the pre sent time he is serving as general ■ secretary of the organization. He j pointed out that one of the ways j by which the founder may be honored during his birthday month is through the enlistment of new club members. Among the important business which came up before the meet (Continued on page 2) Judge Tells Jurors That ! Their Duty Important Judge J. Paul Frizzelle Stresses Importance Of Having Dependable Citizens Serve On Jury in ms cnarge to me grand jury here Monday morning Judge J. Paul Frizzelle praised the system of using the same jury for a 12 months period and declared that it has been his observation that the ends of justice are better met where this system is employed. C. C. Carr was named fore man of the jury which will serve during 1950. The following were chosen to serve with him: C. N. Swan, W. H. Benton, J. D. Meares, L. H. Harrison, W. I. He wett, F. M. Hollis, D. R. John son, J. I. Johnson, H. W. Kirby, A. B. Chesnut, Curtis Hewett, Jr., G. H. Skipper, Hans Ander son, Walter Stocks, Murdick P. Holden, Early Hewett and W. L. Bellamy. "Too many of our citizens fail to appreciate the duty and re sponsibility devolving upon mem bers of the grand jury,” stated Judge Frizzelle in seeking to im press the jurors with the serious ness of the task which they were assuming. “Everyone in this court room has observed that the first step in the transaction of busi ness has been the selection of a grand jury. This suggests that it is an indespensible branch and arm of the court.” Judge Frizelle went more fully into the grave responsibility which rests upon a jurors, particularly MBN with regard to their job of help ing to route thecourse of justice ■ without fear or favor. He under | lined, too, the duty of the jurors j as a supervisory body, pointing to j the fact that in this role they j help guarantee good government | to their fellow citizens who have | a right to expect from them an exhuastive inspection and investi gation not only of criminal actions, but of the operation and condition of public offices and 1 buildings as well. Trio Rescued After Dangerous Experience Purvis Crowned Checker Champ R. D. White of Shallotte, the heretofore self - asknowledged checker champion of Brunswick, met his Waterloo Surjday after noon. Jesse A. Purvis, formerly of Ash but now of Leland, is wearing the crown. Hearing that Mr. White was some checker player, Mr. Purvis drove down to Shallotte Sun day afternoon. Seven games were decided on between the Leland and Shallotte man. Mr. White took the first two, then Jesse got a tighter grip on his cigar and took five in a row. Mr. White, who is said to have been runing a high temperature at the start of the match in sisted on another game or two, this to see how Jesse had done it. In two extra games one was tied and White won the other. The final standing was Purvis 5 and White 3, with one game tied. Mr. Purvis thereby won the one year’s subscription to The State Port Pilot offered to the first man who would give White a licking at checkers. However, he insisted on just renewing his subscription, saying he had enough fun out of beating White without taking pay for it. Elderly Citizen Heads Big Family Mr. And Mrs. I. D. Fulford Of Lockwoods Folly Township Have Reared Thirteen Children And Have Big Bunch Of De cendents One of the most remarkable re sidents of Brunswick county is I. D. Fulford of Lockwoods Folly township. He is 78 years old but looks hardly more than 65 and is hale and hearty, enjoys a joke and is keenly alive to everything going on around him. Attracted by his flowing iron gray mustache, a newsman ask ed Mr. Fulford how old he was this week. After stating that he was 78, Mr. Fulford went on to say that he is still living with Mrs. Fulford in the home to which they went when married more than 50 years ago. They still cultivate a nice garden and do all the work about the home, but no longer engage in farming. They are well fixed without that. An interesting fact is that Mr. Fulford and his wife raised 13 children, all of whom are living and married. Asked how many grandchildren he had, he could only count offhand to about 50 and said that there are 13 great grandchildren, the same number as his own children. Descendants and other relatives of Mr. and Mrs. Fulford form a large number of the residents of lower Lockwoods Folly township. Coast Guard Rescued Three! Persons Stranded In Is-1 land Near Lockwoods Fol-| ly Near Midnight Satur day PLEASURE TRIP ALMOST FATAL! Small Boat Had Come To Rest On Last Point Of j Land Before Sweeping Out To Open Ocean —— ! Considerable alarm was felt by i a number of people on Long ! Beach Saturday night and there was some rather trying discom- ! fort as the result of a small boat making a right turn instead of a left turn. The three occu-: pants of the boat became lost and were not found by the Coast Guard until 12:30 o’clock Sunday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Shelton Bullard of Lumberton own a home at Long Beach and at 5 o’clock Sat I urday afternoon he decided to bring his little 14-foot outboard powered boat from the intra coastal waterway bridge to Davis Creek at Long Beach. Mrs. Bul lard drove him and their 14 year old daughter, Miss Joann Bullard and Mrs. Bullard's sister to the bridge to get the boat, and it was after five o’clock and nearing darkness when the three started down the waterway. Mrs. Bullard drove back to the beach and went to the landing on the creek to meet them at 6:30 'o’clock. When the boat and its three occupants did not show up at 6:30 Mrs. Bullard became alarmed and her concern increased as time went by. Shortly before nine she went to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Trott. At 9:30, with the boat and occupants still miss ing, Mr. Trott took her to the Oak Island Coast Guard station and the Pickett boat, carrying B:M Bill Kincaid and two surf men and with Trott aboard, (Continued on page five) Bolivia Lions Enjoy Singers Five Gospel Singers Present ed Musical Program; In teresting Film Shown On Fertilizer Needs The Bolivia Lions Club held its regular dinner meeting Wednes day evening in the school lunch room. A delicious chicken dinner was served by the Missionary Circle No. 1 of the Bolivia Bap tist church. Three new members were ad mitted to the club: Lions Roy Sellers, Cecil Robbins and Arthur Knox. The program under the super vision of Lion Kenny McKeithan consisted of several selections from "The Five Gospel Singers". The community is fortunate to have these boys of. exceptional talent. Lion President J. M. King pre- i sented Robert Boaz, affiliated! (Continued on ‘ page five* January Term Superior Court Nearing Close Deputy Gus Bland Found Deadly Weapon This Morning But Sentence Has Not Been Past JUDGE J. PAUL FRIZZELLE HERE Several Criminal Cases Dis posed Of During First Two Days; Divorce Decrees Are Granted A Brunswick county jury this morning returned a verdict of guilty against Deputy Sheriff Gus Bland, charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Sentence had not been passed in this case at noon. There had been a great amount of interest in this case, and the court room was crowded Tuesday afternoon and this morning while the trial was in progress. Palmer Bellamy and W. H. Hewett were the prosecuting witnesses. The next trial in Which there is a great amount of public in terest is the case charging Vic tor Stanly with incest. A true bill was returned this morning, and unless the case is continued trial may begin this afternoon. There is a strong suggestion that all the business of this court term will be completed by tomor row (Thursday) night. Considerable interest centered in the case charging James B. Hewett, attorney and insurance man from Shallotte, with forgery. Following the evidence the court allowed a motion for non-suit, then directed a verdict of not guilty. Burris Bozeman was given 3 sentence of from 8 to 10 years after he had pleaded guilty to breaking and entering and lar ceny. Liston Burriss was found guilty of drunk driving, damage to pro perty and operating without a license. Sentence of 6 months on the roads was suspended upon payment of costs and the sum of $200.00 to Harry L. Perkins, this amount to be paid in month ly installments of $20.00 each. The following cases- were con tinued: Paul Fields, forgery; Jack Robinson, non-support; James Johnson, manufacturing and as sault with a deadly weapon; Leo ‘Continued on page zj Big Shipments Leaving County Bolivia Lumber Company Making Big Shipments Of Finished Lumber To Con sumers In Northern Cities Each Week Trucking and shipping lumber regularly by rail to northern markets, the Bolivia Lumber Com pany with its plants at Bolivia and Navassa, is carrying on ex tensive operations that gives em ployment to a large number of men at the mills and in the woods. Operating several ground, mills in addition to the two big plants, the company also buys the output of several more ground mills and puts it through its kilns and plaining mills. Asking the destination of a big trailor truck load of lumber that was being covered with a tar paulin at the mill this week, the information was that it was (Continued on Page 2) 01 Of 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 Pilot through tlie courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot’s Association. High Tide Low Tide Thursday, January 26, 1:29 A. M. 7:43 A. M. 1:42 P. M. 7:59 P. M. Friday, January 27, 2:21 A. M. 8:44 A. M. 2:36 P. M. 8:54 P. M. • Saturday, January 28, 3:16 A. M. 9:46 A. M. 3:82 P. M. 9:50 P. M. Sunday, January 29, 4:11 A. M. 10:44 A. M. 4:28 P. M. 10:45 J\ ,M. Monday, January 30, :04 A. M. 11:87 A. M, :28 P. M. 11:37 P. >L Tuesday, January 31 5:55 A. M. 0:00 A. M. 6:15 P. M. 12:26 P. M. Wednesday, January 1, 6:43 A. M. 0:27 A. M. 1:02 P. M. 1:11 p. *.
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