The Pilot Covers Brunswick County THE STATE PORT PILOT _A Good Newspaper In A Good Community_ _ Most of The News All The Time VOL. NO. SIXTEEN NO. 12 8-PAGES TODAY Southport, N. C., Wednesday, May 24, 1950 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY *1.50 PER YEA* Southport Club Stages Another Outstanding Show Mrs. Roy C. Daniel Served As Chairman Of Annual Flower Show Held Last Tuesday At Community Building JUDGES PRAISE WORK ACCOMPLISHED Recent Dry Weather Result ed In Derth Of Flowers But Women Used Them Well The annual flower show spon sored by the Southport woman's club was held on Tuesday after noon, May 16, in the Community Building, and despite the recent dry spell which had greatly re duced the supply of flowers, the ladies did their usual good job. Visiting judges were outspoken in their commendation, and ex pressed the opinion that wonder ful results had been achieved. Following are the winners in the various classifications: Class 1. Perfection of Bloom, large flower: 1st. Mrs. Harold St. George, 2nd. Mrs. Blanche Weeks. Small flower: No first place, 2nd. Mrs. Helen Bragaw. Class II. Artistic Arrangement: (a) Miniatures: 1st. Mrs. J. M. Harper, 2nd. Miss Margarette "Dozier, 3rd. Mrs. Jack Hughes. Honorable mention; Mrs. J. M. warper. (b) Living room arrangements: Large: 1st. Mrs. J. M. Harper, 2nd. Mrs. Harold St. George, 3rd. Mrs. H. B. Smith. Living room arrangement: Small: 1st. Mrs. Arther Weeks, 2nd. Mrs. Davis Herring, 3rd. Mrs. James" Pinner. Honorable mention: Mrs. Helen Bragaw. (c) Porch arrangements: 1st. Mrs. J. M. Harper, 2nd. Mrs. Davis Herring. (d) Wild flower: Ho first , prize, 2nd Mrs. Davis Herring, 3rd. Mrs. J. M. Harper. Honorable mention, Mrs. J. M. Harper. (e) In sea shells: 1st. Mrs. Davis Herring, 2nd. Mrs. J. M. Harper, 3rd. Mrs. G. Y. Watson. I Honorable mention: Mrs. G. Y. ' Watson. (f) Mantle: 1st. Mrs. J. H. Hughes, 2nd. Mrs. Fred Willing, 3rd. Mrs. H. T. St. George. Hon orable mention: Mrs. Dallas Pigott. (g) Boudoir: 1st. Mrs. J. M. Harper, 2nd. Mrs. P. M. Messick, 3rd. Mrs. Dan Harrelson. Honor able mention: Mrs. H. B. Smith. (h) In brass: 1st. Mrs. Davis Herring, 2nd. Mrs. F. M. Niernsee, 3rd. Mis. Davis Herring. (i) In silver: 1st. Mrs. Davis Herring, 2nd. Mrs. G. Y. Watson and 3rd. Mrs. G. Y. Watson. Honorable mention: Mrs. J. M. Harper. (j) Coffee table: 1st. Mrs. Davis Harrelson, 2nd. Mrs. F. M. Niernsee, 3rd. Mrs. Davis Herring. Honorable mention: Mrs. J. M. Harper. (k) Dining table: 1st. Mrs. P. Continued On Page Four BritfNtwi Flashtt - POPPY SALE DAY Saturday will be Poppy Sale Day. In Southport Mrs. Bill Kin caid is chairman of the American Legion Auxiliary, which is to handle the sales locally. PARTICIPATED IN PARADE Battery A-725, Shallotte Na tional Guard, went to Whiteville Saturday to participate in the parade for Armed Service Day. This battery now has an enlist ment of 65 men and 4 officers. Meetings are held each Friday night in the county garage at the Shallotte high school. WILDLIFE MEETING Secretary Dan Willetts of the Brunswick County Wildlife Club has called a meeting of the or ganization, to be held at Town Creek Friday night of this week. With the State Wildlife Commis sion meeting on June 6th to make the recommendations for the fish ing laws for 1950 and 1951, the local meeting is necessary, Mr. Willetts says. NEW RANGE LIGHT A complete new Southport Range Light has been installed by the Bureau of Navigation on the intracoastal waterway, a short distance below the yacht basin. The Old Bald Head Range Light is also getting a complete new construction in the same sort. Workers for the Bureau of Navigation say that they may spend some time here rebuilding damaged or destroyed lights and building new ones. Southport Youth Is Class Valedictorian Cadet Frank R. Plaxco, Jr., Will Graduate This Week From Fishmurne Military Academy WAYNESBORO, VA„ May 22 Cadet R. Frank Plaxco, Jr,, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Plaxco, Sr., Southport, will present the valedictory address at the 71st annual commencement exercises at Fishburne Military School. Cadet Plaxco w'ill make the ad dress during the final celebration of the Garnet and Gold public speaking classes on Friday eve ning, May 26, at 8 o'clock. Cadet Plaxco, who is First Lieutenant Adjutant in the corps of cadets, has been active in extracurricular activities since his entrance to Fishburne in Septem ber 1946. Military activities in clude ordance 'corporal '48, and sergeant squad leader last year. Scholastic honors include sopho more military science medal ’48, biology medal ’48, junior mathe matics ’49, junior german medal ’49. Other honors include business manager of “C.Q.”, the school newspaper, ’50, first debaters medal ’49, president of the fresh man class ’47, secretary of the second section of the Garnet Public Speaking Class ’49, stu dent council '49, chairman of stu dent council '50, and his name appears in the High School Re gister for both ’49 and ’50. Plaxco’s hobbies are flying and mechanics. Recently the Southport youth was awarded a 4-year Naval R.O.T.C. scholarship. He was one of 1,800 successful candidates named by the Bureau of Naval Personnel in competition with 25,000 high school seniors throughout the United States. The tests, both mental and phy sical, leading to one of these ap pointments is highly competitive. New Fish Factory Now In Location Plan Of Sanders Products Corporation Is Only Float ing Diesel Operated Fac tory In North Carolina LOCATED NEAR BEACH BRIDGE Equipment Situated In Float ing Structure Resembling Dredge; Was Towed Here From Norfolk The brand floating fish factory of the Sanders Products Corpora tion of Norfolk, Va., and South port, arrived here Tuesday mor ning and was shoved by its tug into its permanent mooring slip on the Inland Waterway, just below the Long Beach bridge. The factory is the only floating diesel electr.ic plant in North Car olina and William Sanders, presi dent of the corporation, says that there are very few such factories in operation anywhere. The plant represents the latest thing in fish meal production equipment. Mr. Sanders states that it has a capacity of 120 tons of fish meal daily, in addition to saving all oil found in the catches. A pumper elevator used for unload ing the fishing vessels in said to perform at three times the speed of the old-style bucket elevators. At the same time it practically eliminates labor re quired for the hard and disagree able job of unloading the fish. With three men to swing its nozzle about over the cargo of fish they are blown right into the factory. With the old type of elevators several men had to get down in the holds among the fish and shovel them towards the bucket elevators. Finals Program Friday Evening Graduation Exercises Con cluded Friday Evening With Address By Dean Guy B. Phillips Of Univer sity Members of the graduating class at Southport high school Fiiday night heard an inspiring address on "Pioneering” from Dean Guy B. Phillips of the de partment of education at Univer sity of North Carolina. Special awards went to Rebecca McRacken, salutatorian; Catherine McRacken, valedictorian; G. W. Fisher best boy athlete; Catherine McRacken. best giri athlete. On the previous night the class ay exerciser, “Senior Merry Go-Round” were held. Claire Pot ter was historian, G. W. Fisher was class president; Bobby Spen cer was class spirit; LeRoy Stan ly was class prophet, Linda Hickman was testator, Lena Ward was giftorian. Other members of the class in clude Peggy Arnold, Joan James, Dons Stevens, Robin Hood Char -les-Rohhins, Rilly^Un, cll Tom my Bowmer. The mascots were Martha Har (Coutinued of page four) Census Figures Indicate Increase I Preliminary figures reelased this week from the census bur eau office in Wilmington in dicate a sizable increase in ! population for Brunswick coun j ty during the past 10 years, j with a slight increase in the j population of Southport. The new total for Brunswick | will be close to the 19,227 figure ■ released this week. In 1940 the ! population was a little over j 18,000. The total for Southport | in 1940 was 1725. This year’s i count now stands at 1744. i These figures are subject to ! revision before official results j are reported. Retires After Half-Century Mrs. Louise Bullard Has Re signed As Member Of The Southport School Faculty After Distinguished Teach ing Career Mrs. Louise M. Bullard, 7th grade teacher in the Southport school, concluded a half century of teaching Monday' of this week when the local school closed. She plans to permanently retire from teaching with the close of this term, and much to their regret, the local school board was com pelled to accept the resignation of Mrs. Bullard when it was ten dered three weeks ago. Left a widow with two small children when she was very’ young, Mrs. Bullard turned to teaching, for' which she was well lContinued on Page Five; Regular Bus Service Soon W.B. & S. Will Make Regu lar Trips Twice Daily To Long Beach And Caswell Beginning June 1 Plans are to start regular bus service between Southport, Long Beach and Fort Caswell on the first of June, according to Man ager Hubert Livingston of the W. B. & S. Bus Lines. Tentative arrangements are un derstood to be for the buses to run from Southport to Long Beach, back to Fort Caswell and thence back to Southport. There will be two regular trips daily. It is also possible that a lot of special trips will have to be made, especially after the Baptists at Fort Caswell begin their summer convention season on June 12. Mr. Livingston is also looking into the practical side of giving Holden Beach some sort of bus service this year.' Should the pat-~ ronage appear to warrant it, bus service will also be extended to that beach. Vacation Bible School Program Begins Sunday Rally Day Program Will Mark Beginning Of Annu al Event At Trinity Meth odist Church; To End June 4th COMPETENT STAFF TO ASSIST PASTOR Arrangements Being Made To Take Care Of Children Of Nursery Age At School The outlook for a large at tendance at the Vacation Church School for Trinity Methodist church of Southport is excellent this year, assording to the Rev. L. D. Hayman, pastor. Provision is being made to include the younger groups of the nursery children as well as beginner primary, junior and intermediate groups. The program in general will begin with rally day on Sunday, May 28th at the church school hour and morning worship at 11 o’clock. The daily program will get underway Monday morning, May, 29th, 9 o’clock, and con tinue on a three-hour activity schedule, closing with recreation and other features each day. The school ends Sunday, June 4th. A full staff of competent teachers has been secured with all the necessary help as assist ants. The church school staff has been very cooperative in assisting the pastor in working out details for this work, and parents are i equested to assist in bringing the smaller children to thie church and coming for them at the end of the period these little ones are to remain. Their schedule will be gin at 9 o’clock and end at 10:30 (Continued on page five) Shallotte Boy Enters Navy Jack Robinson, Popular Shal lotte High School Athlete, Now Engaged In Recruit Training I Chief W. R. Smith announced today that Gerald Jerome (Jackl Robinson was recently enlisted in the Navy and is now undergoing recruit training at Great Lakes Naval Training Center, 111. Jack enlisted as seaman recruit for four years. He is the son, of Har ry Robinson of Southport and Mrs. Florence Robinson of Supply. Chief Smith says there will be a Navy Recruiter at the Post Of fice in Southport on the first and third Friday mornings of each week to interview all intrested ap plicants and at the Post Office In Shallotte on the first and thrid Friday afternoons. Chief Smith adds that at the present time there is no waiting list and all applicants that can meet the re quired mental and physical stan dards will be enlisted as soon as all papers are completed. All first enlistments are sent to the U. S. Naval Training' Center, Great Lakes, 111., which is locat ed on the shores of Lake Michi gan about thrity miles from Chic ago. YV. B. KEZIAH We have frequently commented on the number of doctors, law yers, judges and bankers who own homes on various Brunswick beaches. This item might be de scribed as having been borrowed from a regular news corner in the paper. But, that is not the case, we just decided not to loan it to the news columns: Louis V. Sutton, of Raleigh, president of the Carolina Light and Power Company, about y»e largest such organization in North Carolina, is to spend this week-end at Long Beach with John Stedman, presi dent of the Scottish Bank of Lumberton. Banker Stedman owns a nice home at Long Beach. While we are vigorously disputing his claim as not having a foundation, it was very nice to have our fellow townsman, Captain Harrv LeheW, come into +hv "You are the best friend that Southport and Brunswick county ever had.” Talking with the very pretty chaperone of a Long Beach houseparty the other night, some thing about her kept reminding us of some one, we could not think who. But it all came out in the *wash when we asked and were told where her home is. The young lady and your column ist claim the same old town as home, and her mother was one of our very good friends some 35 years ago. We still are, for that matter, but we had never seen tlie daughter who reminded us of her. Accidents will happen but they do not happen often to any of the Southport sport fishing boats. Something did happen to one last Friday with regretable but not serious results. In fact, it had some amusing angles. A Char lotte party had chartered the I'uabalj of Captain James Arnold. A few hours before the trip was to be started Mrs. Arnold was (Continued On Page 5] Shallotte Athletic Field PLAYGROUND:—This is the new athletic field which has been cleared and sodded in order to have it in good condition for use this fall. A carpet of green now covers the area, and in the background is a wooded section now being thinned out for a park. Intense Interest In Saturday Primary ----* _ Halstead Holden Conference Champ Halstead Holden successfully defended his title as Southern Conference champion in the 880-yard race Saturday after noon in the annual track and field meet between athletes rep resenting the sixteen schools comprising the group. Holden ran the race in 1:55.6, which was more than a full sec ond better than his winning time of last year. Now he is training to compete this week end with a group of Southern Conference champions against the best athletes in the South eastern Conference. Holden is a senior at Univer sity of North Carolina and is the son of Dr. and Mrs. R. H. f Holden of Shallotte. County Farmers Try Practices PM A Chairman S. L. Purvis Says 626 Brunswick Farms Involving 16,822 Acres In cluded In Program Of Con servation Soil and water conservation practices were carried out on 626 of Brunswick county farms un der the 1949 Agricultudal Con_ servation program, according to S. L. Purvis, chairman of the Brunswick PMA Committee. A total of 16,822 acres of crop land in Brunswick county was on farms participating in the pro gram. This is about 41 percent of the total cropland in the county. Stressing tne significance of these conservation accomplish ments the chairman says: ‘‘Not only is the agriculture in Bruns wick county in beter condiion be cause of hese conservaion praclces but the business enterprises de pending on the county’s agricuj (Continued on page fiv«> Three-Man Race For Nomi nation For State Senator Holds Spotlight With Four Man Race For Sheriff Next REPUBLICANS TO NAME CANDIDATES Voters Also Interested In Race For United States Senate And For Con gressional Nomina tion Great interest centers in the primary election which will be held throughout North Carolina Saturday, but as usual Brunswick county voters are more interest ed in local contests than they are in the ones on a district and State level. Perhaps the greatest amount of interest is centered in the contest between S. B. Frink, Sheriff Walter M. Stanaland and Odell Williamson for the Democrat nomination for State senate. A close second from point of interest is the race between four candidates for the Democrat nomination for sheriff. These con testants are Ed V. Leonard, Waynsie Evans. O. W. Perry and M. R. Tripp. Two men are contesting for the Democrat nomination for house of representatives. They are T. T. Ward and Harry L. Mintz, Jr. The race for Democrat nomin ation for Judge of Recorder's court is a three-way battle be tween W. J. McLamb, incumbent, J. W. Ruark and George B. Ward. Two men seek the Democrat nomination for clerk Superior court. One is the present office holder, Sam T. Bennett, the other is Eldrich Y. Hickman. Another three-way race shapes up for Democrat nomination for coroner. John G. Caison, the pres ent official, has Joe Wilson and Dave Garrish for opponents. It is not until the field of candidates for county commission er is counted that the big list is* reached. There are 10 men seeking the three places on the (Continued on page four) Young Students Show Art Work Feature Of Annual Flower Show Was Exhibit Featur ing School Students Study ing With Art Newton Among the more interesting features of the Woman's Club Flower Show last week was the art exhibit, showing the work ac complished during the present school term by students of Art Newton. The first prize winner in color was a small oil painting by Kay Moore. Though small, it is a de lightful painting, rich in color and a very good sense of com position. Competition was close in all divisions, making it difficult for the judges to arrive at de cisions. First division (up tp 4 th grade): 1st, prize, Kay Coltrane: honorable mention Charles Trott i Jr. Second division (black and white): 5th to 10th grades: 1st Boyce Specer; 2nd, Charles Blake; honorable mention Lewis Hardee Jr. Third division (color); 5th to 10th grades: 1st, Kay Moore; 2nd. Lewis Hardee, Jr.; honorable mention, Joan Ramseur. The judges were Mr. and G. W. Rappleyea. According to Mr. Rap pleyea. ''The pictures judged them selves” One third each was scor ed, for perspective, for light and 6had6 and for technique. ’ Kemp Holden Is Spotter Plane Pilot Of Plant Kemp R. Holden, young Holden Beach man, has been engaged as pilot of the fish spotting plane for the Sanders Products Cor poration here. He will operate his own plane and will keep it based on the field owned by the Holdens at Holden Beach. In this work it is not necessary for the spotter plane to be licated at the factory. In touch with both factory and boats through ship to shore and ship to ship phones, the plane only has to go out, locate the fish, call the boats in for the take and return to its own base after they are loaded. Holden, a lieutenant in the Air Corps during the war, has about 2,200 hours flying time to his credit. In his work with the San ders Products Corporation he will use a two-place plane and will be in contact with boats and factory at all times by phone. His method of operation will be similar to that of Hall Walters, pilot for the Brunswick Naviga tion Company. Walters, however, uses a four-place plane. With this machine he was able to add not ably to the production of the Brunswick Navigation Company in 1949. Beach Visitors During Week-end Bad Weather Failed To Dis courage Many Persons Who Headed To Favorite Ocean Resorts For Recrea tion Holden Beach, Shallotte Village Point and Howell's Point have all reported unexpectedly big crowds over the wfeek-end. The number of people and activities have been likened to those of full summer time. The unusually large crowds for this season of the year were all the more remarkable because of the cold, rainy weather of Satur day and Sunday. It appears to be a poor time to visit either beaches or favorite fishing spot. Kemp R. Holden, of Holden Beach, said that the number of Saturday and Sunday visitors was several times the number he had expected. He believers that this week-end crowd indicates that Holden Beach will have much the greatest summer season in its history. The same view is taken by Dr. K. H. Holden, of Shallotte. (Continued on page six) Farm Forester Tells Of Loss Cautions Farmers Against Being In A Panic To Sell Timber Just Because Fire Has Burned Over Area Although this has been a bad fire season in this section and there have been many more large severe fires than usual, most of the trees will come out again this spring advises Farm Foster Tho mas S. Rhyne. “Don’t sell your timber just to get rid of it, be cause probably it is not damaged as much as it appears to be,” he continues. “True all the trees In the burn ed area were damaged. Some were killed where 'a head fire went through the stand. But on the flanks of the fire and the back there wrH be—Httle—or—no loss of timber. Growth on all the trees in the burn will be slowed (Continued on page six) List Of Faculty Members Given For All Schools Vacancies Still Exist At Each Of The Five Consolidated Schools With Several Re signations Taking Effect NO PRINCIPAL t FOR BOLIVIA Resignation Of T, O, Page Followed By Resignation Of Man Named To Suc ceed Him In Bolivia At a meeting of the Brunswick county board of education last week the teacher elections as re ported by the school committee men representing the various con solidated schools was adopted. The following teachers have been named for the next year: Southport school—H. T. San ders, principal; C. N. Sanders, Mrs. Verna T. Denning, Orville Robinson, Mrs. Ruth Hood, Miss Gertrude Y. Loughlin, Mrs. Muriel D. Lennon, Mrs. Anne R. Weeks, Mrs. Lucille S. Williamson, Mrs. Thelma S. Willis and Miss Mary Lee Norment. Shallotte chool—H. C. Stone, principal; David Carmichael, Gene Reese, Mrs. Katie McKeithan, Miss Tencie Frye, Mrs. Betty Lee Nevill Hewett, Miss Mildred C. Newton, Mrs. S. T. Russ, Miss Betty Clement, LeRoy Mintz, Miss Musette W. Arnold, Miss Carolyn Farris, Mrs. Cathryn C. Mintz, Miss Margaret Brewer, Mis. Beatrice Bennett Sabiston, Mrs. Gelene Coomes Russ, Miss Amerett S. Butler, Miss Elneda Mae Stanaland, Mrs. Louise Bell Formyduval, Mrs. Dorothy Sasser Sellers, Miss Earline Keaton, Miss Brightie Gertha Holden, Miss Jeanne K. Johnson, Mrs. Edna Wilson Russ, Mrs. Ruth Heath Galloway, Mrs. Clara M. Milligan Russ, Miss Edna Earle Platt, Mrs. Ottice Holden Russ, Miss Carrie Lee Ward, Mrs. Katherine R. White, Mrs. Frances Baker Stone, Miss Vernie Hewett, Mis* Frances Galloway, Mrs. Lillian C. Hewett. Waccamaw school: Mr. W. C. Stephenson, principal; Mr. Paul Kermit Inman, Miss Patricia Mintz, Miss Linda Wilson, Martin P, Baker, Mrs. Wilma P. Baker, Miss Mary Lillian Watts, Miss Pauline Callahan, Mrs. Mamie Coker, Miss Judith Gosnell, Mrs. Muriel D. Bennett, Mrs. Doris W. Ward, Mrs. Louise K. Walton, Miss Mary Ann Fussell, Mrs. Irene J. Stephenson, Miss Lua W. B. Shay, Mrs. Daisy R. Long, Mrs. Mildred M. Lewis, Mrs. Zelma Hewett. Bolivia school: Mrs. Reba S. Rogers Rourk, Mrs. Ora G. Mc Keithan, Mrs. Anna Mary Mc Dowell, Mrs. Mildred Louise Sauls, Mrs. Emma C. Herring, Continued on page tour Park Commission Here For Survey Representatives Of State Ag ency Investigates Possibil ities For Establishment Of Ocean Side Playground j Two members of the North Carolina State Parks Commission spent Monday night and Tuesday in Southport and at Long Beach. Their mission was to look over Long Beach, especially that part where the Parks Commission has tentative plans to take over and Continued On Page Four Tide Table Following is the tide table for Southport during the next week. These hours are approxi mately correct and were furn ished The State Port Pilot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot’s Association. High Tide Low Tide Thursday, May 25, 1:33 A. M. 8:06 A. M. 2:18 P. M. 8:38 P. Mi. Friday, May 26, 2:34 A. M. 9:04 A, M. 3:21 P. M. 9:45 P. M. Saturday, May 27, 3:35 A. M. 10:0,2 A. M. 4:21 P. M. 10:48 P. M. Sunday, May 28, 4:35 A. M. 10:58 A. M 5:20 P. M. 11:48 P. M. Monday, May 29, 5:34 A. M. 11:53 A. M. 6:18 P. M, 0:00 P. *4. Tuesday, May 30, 6:31 A. M. 0:44 A. M. 7:14 P. M. 12:45 P. M. _Wednesday, May 31. 7:29 A. M. 1:38 A. M. 8:09 P M. 1:38 P, M. i i—

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