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The Pilot Covers Brunswick County VOL. NO. SIXTEEN NO. 50 THE STATE PORT PILOT Good Newspaper In A Good Community Southport, N. C., Wednesday, February 15, 1950 Most of The INews All The Time 6-PAGES TODAY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY 51.50 PER YEA* Outboard Motor Races To Start From Southport Myrtle Beach Men Visitors Here Last Week To Inves tigate Details Of Arrange ments For Starting Event At This Point RACES EXPECTED TO ATTRACT MANY Four Classifications Give Owners Of Various Types Of Equipment Oppor tunity To Enter One Event Southport will be the starting point for a marathon outboard motor race of two-state interest on March 22. At least 125 boats, arranged in 4 classes in accord ance with the power of their motors, will race the 60 miles from Southport to Myrtle Beach. Stanley Edgeworth, president of the Outboard Motor Club of Myrtle Beach, sponsors of the event, and D. Stowe Crouse, an active member of the Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce were here this week looking into the arrangement details of South port as the starting point and other matters in connection with the race. Entry blanks already printed and being supplied on re quest give Southport as the starr ing point and Socastee, S. C., as finishing point. Socastee is on the intracoastal waterway, directly back of Myrtle Beach. The starting time for the boats of different classification will be as follows: 7% hp—Leave Southport 10:00 a. m. For winners in this class there will be three trophys and two cash prizes of $10.00 and $5. 10 hp—Leave Southport at 12:15 p. m. Prizes in this class will be three trophys and two cash prizes of $15.00 and $10. 16 hp—Leave Southport at 1 p. m. Three trophys and two cash prizes of $25.00 and $15. 22 hp--Leave Southport at 1:30 p. m. Three trophys and two cash prizes of $50.00 and $25. No special built racing hull of any type will be allowed to enter these events. Boats must be a family type stock boat. All rnotors must be stock motors, same as when shipped from the factory. Mercury “lO’s" will be classed with 16hp motors and any motor between 10 hp and 16 hp will be in the 16 hp class. Boat owners and operators who desire to enter their boats in any of the four classes may obtain entry blanks from the Outboard Motor Club, Myrtle Beach, S. C., from the office of The State Port Pilot in Southport and from Pickards Sporting Goods store and the Anchor Hardwar e in Wil mington. The race will be for motor boat owners and operators all over North and South Carolina and a large crowd is expected to be on hand at Southport for the start and at Myrtle Beach for the finish. .. Brief Newt Flathet i .1, . — - i ■ SUFFERED HEART ATTACK Thompson McRackan, promin ent farmer on the River Road, suffered a heart attack last week and has since been a patient at Dosher Memorial Hospital. ONE-MAN RAH) Deputy Sheriff Gus Bland stag ed a or,e-man raid near Shallotte Point last week. He reports the capture of a large still and 800 gallons of mash. The operators were evidently set to make a run within the next day or two. RECEIVES PROMOTION Miss Marion Frink, Southport girl now stationed in Germany where she is engaged in recreation work with the Army of occupa tion, has been named director of the Hoechat Club at Frankfurt. This marks the second promotion for Miss Frink, who accepted her present assignment following ser vice on the staff of Congress F. Ertel Carlyle in Washington. RECEIVES HONORS Miss Ruby Jeane Bennett, stu dent at the Robeson County Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Lumberton, spent last weekend here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam T. Bennett. Miss Bennett, who is president of ie senior class, is now affiliating psychiatry at State Hospital, 1 eigh, and was recently chosen 1 present her group as a mem bei f the student council. Miss Bel tt will resume her studies in L berton on May 1st. Shrimp Fleet Scatters SOUTH—Several of the largest Southport Shrimp boats left last week for Key West Florida where they will operate for the next few weeks in the Gulf of Mexico. Re cent reports of good catches caused the migration southward. Census To Give Information Of Wide Interest Statistical Search Will Pro vide More Information Than Mere Population Count According To Direc tor Once every 10 years the law of the land provides for a complete | inventory of this country’s great i est resource, its people. And the business of counting the people and gathering information on their living conditions and activi ties amounts to the most am bitious single statistical operation in world history. This inventory will get under way for the 17th time in the United States on April 1, 1950. On that day, 140,000 trained ; enumerators will start their can vass of about 45,000,000 dwelling units, asking questions of the estimated 150,000,000 people who live in them. The count of population and housing is the big show of the Census Bureau, but it is no means its only job. Each month on a current basis, the bureau supplies I facts and figures on foreign trade, unemployment, manufactures and | volume of retail trade. In years | ending in 3 and 8, it conducts a complete census of business and manufacture. In years ending in 2 it investigates the revenues, expenditures and purposes of J 170,000 State and local govern j ment units. In years ending in ! 6, the bureau holds a census of | all religious groups within the i country. I A report on agriculture comes ! every five years. And so along ! with the population and housing census of 1950, workers will gather information on 6,000,00C farms. The canvass that starts in April completes the census picture the bureau has been gathering foi the last decade. It will round out a comprehensive study of the effects of World War II on the population of the United States their housing and their work Indirectly, the effect of the census next year will be felt by almost every person in the country. The questions asked on the 1950 Census form have a special Continued On Page Five Southport Wins Bolivia Games Local Basketball T e air Turns Back Visiting Boli via Boys Here Lasl Night To Earn First Place Rating Southport boys last qight com pleted a successful stretch drive which gave them top spot in pit j tournament play among Bruns wick county basketball squads bj (defeating' Bolivia 42 to 24. The local lads grabbed an earlj (lead and worked it into a 16 I point margin by half-time. Coacl H. T. Sanders used his starting: I five throughout the game bul Bolivia substituted frequently ir an effort to find a winning com | bination. Spencer made 13 points to leac the scoring parade, followed bj Bowmer with 11. The entiri | Southport team played an aggi es ! sive, wide-awake floor game. Var 1 num was the best ball handle: 1 (Continued on page five* Dave Ross Goes Back On Elections Board Democratic Executive Com mittee Certifies His Name To State Board Of Elec tions For Appointment FORMERLY HELD THIS POSITION Robert Milliken And Dewey Anderson Also Included 0« List; Babson Is Re publican Member Dave Ross was certified Satur day by the Democratic Executive Committee for Brunswick county for appointment as a member of the Brunswick county board of j eelctions, for which he served as chairman for a number of years. Tiie list certified by party lead ers included also the name of Robert Milliken, a long time mem ber of the election body, and Dewey Anderson. The list was re commended in this order, and as a rule the State Board certifies the two top men. L. C. Babson is the Republican member of the board. Ross succeeds Guy C. McKeith an who recently resigned as chair man of the board of elections. The Freeland man gained a re putation for being an able and conscientious offical while serving previously as chairman of the board of elections. He had the doubtful pleasure of presiding over two of the most heated 1 election controversies in the his tory of the county but managed j at all times to keep., the discus | sion under control. | Other candidates for appoint ment to the election body Satur i day night included ElRoy King i and Bedford Ludlum. ■ Service Officer Cites Regulation Crawford L. Rourk Points Out That Age Not A Fac tor When Determining Service Connected Disabil ity In a case where the disability or disabililities are service con nected, age is not a factor in determining degree of disability, says Service Officer C. L. Rourk. "Under Parts 1 and 2. Vete rans Regulation 1 (a) a veteran may be rated totally disabled if he has one single disability at 1 least 60 percent in degree disabl ing, which renders him unemploy able. If he has more than one ser vice connected disability, at least one of which is ratable at 40 per cent or more, and is unemploy able, he may be rated totally dis abled if his combined disabilities equal or exceed 70 Der cent. the rule above as to 60 per cent, 40 per cent and 70 per cent [disability, plus unemployability, ; also applies to non-service con nected cases under Part III. If the veteran is 55 years of age and unemployable, he may be rated as permanently and totally disabled under Part III, provided he has one or more disabilities that combine to at least 60 per cent. If he is 60 years of age, ■ the requirement is only 50 per oent for one or more combined disabilities. Beginning with age 65, one disability at least 10 per ' cent in degree disabling, plus un Continued On Page Four Thompson Boosts Local Longevity Writing' W. B. Keziah of The State Port Pilot, R. D. Caldwell of Lumber-ton went into detail of how much he enjoys the Rovin’ Reporter and how he thinks the papers slogan of “a Good Newspaper in a Good Community,” is a good one. "But”, said Mr. Caldwell, “there are so many interesting places and people in Brunswick you have no excuse for not having a good column. For in stance, G. Butler Thompson, a resident of Robeson county in the flesh but still a resident of Southport in the spirit, is always telling me some tale of Brunswick or Southport. “No longer ago than this mor ning butler was tolling me that the people down there at South port are so healthy, that the only way they were able to start a cemetery was to knock twelve men on the head.” Production Has Major Problems Important To Maintain Bal ance Between Farm Out put And Consumer De mand Says PMA Chair man While farmers have been work ing to increase the carrying capacity of their pasture land, people in cities, in increasing numbers, are concerned about the (Continued on Page Five) Outline Program Plans Of Baptist Seaside Assembly Dr. Richard K Redwine Is Mailing Out Folders An nouncing Activities At Caswell Beginning June 12th HOTEL WILL BE OPEN TO GUESTS This Promises To Be Impor tant In Attracting Special Visitors To Attractive Ocean Vacation Spot Ten conferences or assemblies have been scheduled for the Cas well Baptist Assembly grounds at Port Caswell this summer. The first of these will be held during the week of June 12-18 and there after continuous weekly gather ings will be held through August 20. Without waiting for the assem blies to begin, present plans call for the hotel to open in the spring and along with it a cafeteria. These facilities, according to Dr. Richard K. Redwine, director, will cater to the public as well as to the Baptist gatherings. The great mineral water swimming pools and dock in the river for fishing will also be available to the public. .Operated by a religious denomination, the public can read ily1 understand that the atmos phere will be somewhat different from that found at the regular beach resorts. It has been agreed that bathing suits and shorts are suitable for wearing only at play time and should not be worn in any of the public buildings ex cept the gym. Sunday swimming in the pools and fishing is also not appropriate. In a way of speaking, Fort Caswell, now the Caswell Baptist Assembly, wil be operated much in the same order as any model little seacoast town. It will be a place' where the visitors, as well as those who form the assembly I gatherings, will be received with I courtesy and treated with con ; (detrition. I’ It' now appears that accommo dations for approximately 2000 | people may be ready by late Continued On Page Five Navy Quota For Area Increased Recent Forty Percent In crease In Quota Improves Opportunity Of Acceptan ce Of Volunteers Chief W. R. Smith, local Navy recruiter, announced today that the enlistment quota for this dis trict’s area has been increased to fifty men per month. A further increase of approximately forty percent is expected for the month of March. Chief Smith stated that enlist ment qualification have not been lowered and that the Navy will continue to enlist young men and women with high mental and moral standards. Young men be tween the ages of 17 and 18 and 31 and young ladies who are high school graduates between the ages of 20 to 31 are eligible to (Continued on page five) Our ROVING Reporter Living at Shallotte during a j few months of the early part of ! the war, Mr. and Mrs. J. W, Hob by were popular residents of Brunswick county. Mr. Hobby was engaged in the pulpwood business. Bigger fields called the 1 family away from Brunswick j County but from the time they first moved here they have been | regular subscribers to the State .Port Pilot. Now living in Wash ington, Ga., Mr. Hobby’s check for renewal comes regularly each February. Small but interesting folder mailing cards bearing three pic tures of Caswell scenes are now being sent out by the Caswell ! Baptist Assembly. While the in formation on these folders is , mostly for the Baptists who will congregate there this summer, it I is interesting to note that the general public will find the faci lities of the beautiful place avai lable in much the same manner as those of the regular well or dered towns. In addition to its Sown regular visitors the famous | old military fortification should | hereafter draw thousands of visi tors and other visitors. Many of the Southport shrimp boats are off again in quest of j the elusive shrimp. This time they are bound for Key West and Fort Myers on the gulf coast. They may be coming back in three or , four weeks and they may be ab sent for months. Practically all °f the Hardee boats left Monday with their destination more than a hundred hours away. First time either had seen the ocean, Mr. and Mrs. Peck of West Virginia spent several nights at the Ocean View Tavern at Holden Beach last week. Mr. Pock is a big cattle raiser in West Virginia and it Is under stood he was looking over land in this county. While at the tav ern Mr. Peck and his wife both learned how to fish for drum and it is understood they caught sev eral. Both of the West Virginia people were very much pleased Continued On Page Four Basketball Tournament Begins With Double Bill Tonight At Shallotte j-iif Top Army Engineers * V isit W accamaw Area Col. Robinson, Divisional Engineer, And Lt. Col. Lampert Of Charleston District Tour River Territory In Com pany of Avery Thompson, Henry B. Wyche And Joe P. Quinerly I Sponsors of the Waecamaw I River flood control project re I ceived additional encouragement [ this week when top-flight engi | neers of the U. S. Army Corps i of . Engineers visited the affected area. Col. B. L. Robinson, engineer of the South Atlantic Division, Atlanta, Ga. visited Columbus | and Brunswick counties in the i company of Lt. Col. James B. Lampert, district engineer of the ! Charleston district, Col. George W. Gillette executive director of the North Carolina Ports Auth ority, and several others. Col. Robinson first made an air trip over the Waecamaw Riv er area and then went on a ground inspection tour. Accompanying the party on the ground tour and explaining vari ous points in connection with the proposed development were Henry B. Wyche, J. P. Quinerly, and W. Avery Thom'pson. The latter is a member of the State Ports Authority. Col. Robinson, Lt. Lampert and Col. • Gillette had B. Blackmon of the division’s civil works de partment and James W. Blair of the Charleston district’s report section in their party. Although non-committal with respect to the future of the Wac camaw River proposal ,the of ficials were reported to be great ly impressed. Columbus County members of the inspection party believed Col. Robinson’s visit to be a good omen and expressed the opinion that headway had been made. It was explained by local spon sors that it will not be necessary for Columbus and Brunswick counties to send large delegations to the Conway hearing, Feb. 16, with respect to the Buck Creek project. Stanaland Will Not Seek Sheriff Post Hen Puts End To Dog Fighting In a triangular affray at the Holden Beach Ferry a few days | ago it was noticed that one i little red hen defeated and put I to flight two belligerent chow | dogs. The hen was acting pure j ly in the capacity of peace i maker, an undertaking that us | ually gets the average man into trouble of his own. Without notice or apparent reason the two dogs engaged in a fierce combat. The hen was going about her own business two hundred feet away. It did not take her long to negotiate the intervening distance. She came flying onto the scene, lit into both dogs with such sur prising effect that they forgot their mutual grievances and took off, one going one way and the other another. The ruffled hen went in hot pursuit of one of them and when last seen they were flying around the coner of a building with the hen hard astern of the dog. Indict Officer In Traffice Case Jennings Bellamy Swears Out Warrant Here And In South Carolina For Dep uty Sheriff Gus Bland Charged with speeding, reckless operation, failure to stop for officer, damage to property, Wil liam Jennings Bellamy, young Shallotte white farmer, was con victed of reckless operation and fined $50.00 and costs in Record er’s court here Monday. Bellamy promptly swore out warrants charging Deputy Sheriff Gus Bland with reckless operation and damage to property. The warrant was served in the court room by Deputy Sheriff O. W.Perry and Bland is sche duled to be tried in Recorder’s court here next Monday. After securing the local indictments Mr. Bellamy, according to his brother, Clinton Bellamy, went to South Carolina and swore out another warrant charging the offier with assault with deadly weapon. The cases have a rather strange link of circumstances. Bellamy in order to get to his home from Hickman’s Cross Roads had to drive over South Carolina high ways for part of the distance. The officer was / chasing for speeding, although Bellamy claim ed he was unaware the officer was behind him. Witnesses said Bellamy was traveling at about 50 miles per hour when he passed their house. The officer some di stance behind was credited with going much faster, i When Bellamy slowed down I suddenly for a bad place in the I road the speeding car behind him (Continued on Page Five) - Sheriff Stanaland Makes Statement Concerning In tentions, Declaring Decis ion Based Upon Doctor’s Orders THREE MEN ARE AFTER NOMINATION Field Of Candidates Expec ted To Be Enlarged With Entry Of Several Other Men Predicted For Race Sheriff Walter M. Stanaland re moved himself as a possible can | didate for reelection to the office he now holds when he declared I Monday that he has been advised i by doctors not to engage in fur ther activity as strenuous and ex citing as the duties of the office of sheriff demand. “If I followed his advice com pletely,” said Sheriff Stanaland, “I would get out of politics al together. However, I will not say at this time that I plan to do this. There have been many people to come to me asking me to run for the State Senate. I have not yet decided what I will do about that.” Thus removed from the sheriff’s race, there appears to be good reason to believe that Sheriff Stanaland may oppose S. Bun Frink, Southport attorney, for the Senate, with the strong possibility that Representative Odell William son may make it a three'-man race. Williamson refused to commit himself Monday, “I’ll just keep the folks guessing awhile longer,” he laughed in response to a ques tion of whether he wished to (Continued of page rour) Advance Dates Of Club Tour Wilmington Council Of Gar den Clubs Advances Date Of Annual Pilgrimage From March 25-26 To February 25-26 Illustrating the earliness of the flower blooming season, the Wil mington Council of Garden Clubs has moved up its annual garden pilgrimage from March 25 and 26 to February 25 and 26th. It is understood that this rescheduling was done in accord with the be lief that azaleas will be at or about their peak by the later part of this month. The tour or pilgrimage attracts hundreds of North Carolina flower lovers. The event is in charge of Mrs. Q. B. Snipes of Wilming ton. From Orton comes reports of more and more of the azaleas bursting into bloom each day. Continued warm weather will bring out a huge display by the end of this week. Barring cold weather, the rest of February and early March will bring out a georgeous display of both came llias and azaleas, it is said. Waccamaw And Shallotte To Open Hostilities With Doubleheader To Decide Which Teams Will Enter Semi-Finals DOUBLE PROGRAM ON THURSDAY AFTERNOON Finals In Girls Division Set For Saturday Night With The Boys Championship Game Scheduled For Friday Night Play bgins tonight in the an nual Brunswick County Basket ball Tournament with Shallotte teams meeting the two squads from Waccamaw for the right to engage in semi-final contests scheduled for Thursday afternoon and evening. The Shallotte gym nasium is scene of the tourna ment. On the basis of their pre-tour nament records the Shallotte teams should survive tonight’s games, although a fast-improving Waccamaw sextet managed to up set Shallotte girls last week. At any rate, winners of to night’s encounters are slated to play the two Southport teams in Thursday games. This matching results from the seeding plan which sends first place winners against the fourth place teams. Southport boys and girls compiled the best record in their respective brackets in pre-tournament con tests and earned top seeding. Other Thursday games will send' Bolivia boys and girls against the two Leland squads. The pro gram will be arranged so that one of these games will be on the afternoon program and the other on the evening bill. On Friday night the boys will play their championship game and the consolation contest for the girls will be run off as a part of the double header. The fcoumameniiwMidg, Saturday, night with the championship game for the girls, with the boys' conso lation providing the second feature of Lhe program. This year as for the past two years there will be a free throw contest sponsored by Stanley Jewelers of Wilmington, who will present handsome silver loving cups to the winners in the boys and girls division. Another Lengthy Session Of Court Numerous Cases, Many Of Them Growing Out Of Traffic Violations, Dispos ! ed Of Before Judge W. J. j McLamb Monday Another lengthy docket greeted Judge W. J. McLamb when he opened court here Monday and the entire day was consumed in dis posing of a variety of cases. The following entries were made: William Lee Wilkins, possession, fined $12.00 and costs. Shirly Colston Woodard, reck less operation, fined $35.00 and costs, fine remitted on condition that the defendant make restitu tion for damage. Sarah Lilly Jones, assault, 60 idays in jail, suspended on pay ment of costs and good behavior Continued On Page Five 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 Tort Pilot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot’s Association. High Tide Low Tide Thursday, February 16, 7:47 A. M. ' 1:18 A. M. 7:59 P. M. 1:53 P. M. Friday, February 17, 8:28 A. M. 2:02 A. 51. 8:41 P. M. 2:32 P. M. Saturday, February 18, 9:06 A. M. 2.43 A. M. 9:18 P. M. 3:09 P. 31. Sunday, February 19, 9:41 A. 31. 3:28 A. 31. 9:55 P. 31. 3:44 P. 31. 3Ionday, February 20, 10:14 A. 31. 4:01 A. 31. 10:31 P. 31. 4:20 I\ 31. Tuesday, February 21, 10:47 A. 31. 4:40 A. 31. 11:09 P. 31. 4:55 P. 31. Wednesday, February 22, 11:22 A. 31. 5:20 A. 31. 11:50 P. 31. 5:35 P. 31.