The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
V'QL. NO. SIXTEEN NO. 21
THE STATE PORT PILOT
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Southport, N. C., Wednesday, June 28, 1950
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Construction Of
Colored Schools
May Be Delayed
Bids Opened On Schedule On
Tuesday By Brunswick
County Board Of Educa
tion With Figures Below
Estimates
PROTEST ACTION
MAY CAUSE DELAY
Reported That Injunction
May Be Obtained To Pre
vent Erection Of Shal
lotte School On High
way No. 130
Members of the board of edu
cation for Brunswick county open
ed bids Tuesday for construction
of a 6 room building with central
heat and plumbing at Leland and
for a 12 room schol at Shallotte
with the same facilities, but
there appears to be a good chance
that work on the Shallotte unit
will be held up through legal
entanglements.
Both buildings are for accom
modation of colored students, and
there has been considerable dis
cussion involved in the location
of the Shallotte school. Another
round in the series of arguments
was held yesterday, and there is
a threat of an injunction to pre
vent immediate construction of
the building on the site approved
near the Shallotte fire tower on
highway No. 130.
Total figures in the low bid
were $118,806.85, which was con
sidered a good price for the
facilities under consideration. The
architects expressed satisfaction
with the interest shown in the
bidding and with the figures con
tained in them.
The firm of Rogers and De
vaughn of Wilmington were low
bidders for the general contract
ing; the A. B. Blake firm of
Wilmington bid low for electrical
work. McGirt of Maxton received
the approval for plumbing and
heating contract.
Superintendent J. T. Denning
is in Raleigh today to ask ap
proval of these bids in order that I
contracts may be let.
The big argument yesterday
was carried on between the group
favoring the highway No. 130
site and another group whp want
to see the building erected at the
site originally approved and Ideat
ed on U. S. No. 17 near Thomas
boro. W'ith the board of education
sticking by its original decision
to build near Shallotte, notice was
served that an injunction will be
asked to hold up construction. i
Brief Newt
Flashes
BUILDING STORAGE HOUSE
The Saunders Products Corpor
tion is building- a new fish meal
storage house at their factory
near the drawbridge on the Fort
Caswell and Long Beach road.
ENTERS HOSPITAL
Mrs. Lollian Caison entered
James Walker Hospital on Mon
day where she underwent an eye
operation.
VISITING RELATIVES
Mrs. Dorothy Bell Gold and
little daughter, Caroline, of Win
ston-Salem, are visiting Mrs.
Gold’s mother, Mrs. Edna Bell,
and other relatives. They will be
here until the middle of July.
ELECTRICAL STORM
During a rather severe electri
cal and rainstorm in Southport
Friday afternoon a number of
electrical street fixtures were
torn loose by the lightning. A
fairly good rain accompanied the
storm.
MADE HONOR ROLL
Miss Mary Lou Hanson of
Southport, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. E. J. Hanson, was among
the 19 students who made the
second semester honor roll in the
Woman's College « commercial
class, according to a list just re
ceived from Greensboro.
MOVE TO MONROE
Mr. and Mrs. Pearce Cranmer
and son, Bill, moved to Monroe
Monday. Mr. Cranmer recently
bought and is now operating the
Carolina Cleaners in the Piedmont
town. He. still owns the South
port Cleaners and will continue
to operate it with W. L. Ald
ridge as manager.
MOVING TO BEACH HOME
Editor and Mrs. Buck Beasley
of Troy are moving to their
newly completed home at Long
Beach this week. Mrs. Beasley
and the sons will spend the sum
mer there and Mr. Beasley will
commute down each week after
his weekly newspaper is put to
bed.
At Baptist Assembly
vianorvo—(jue oi tne most popular piaces on the Brunswick county coast during
the past few weeks has been the Baptist Assembly located at historic Ft. Caswell. Above
is shown a group of visitors on the lawn in front of the hotel, formerly the B.O.Q.—Star
News Cut.
Conference On
Christian Home
Is On Schedule
Conference On Church Music
Also On Program At Cas
well Assembly Pvsxi Week
With Outstanding Leaders
Next week Ft. Caswell Baptist
Assembly opens its gates to all
who are interested in the vitally
important matter of building
sound Christian homes in an age
when one out of four homes is
broken by divorce in America.
Under the directorship of Dr. W.
Perry Crouch, First Baptist
Church, Asheville, this conference
will provide guidance for all ages
in the making of a Christian
home.
Helping Dr. Crouch during the
week will be Mrs. Crouch, Mrs.
Clyde Baucom, Mrs. George Pen
nell, Dr. Joe Burton, secretary
of the department of Home Life,
Baptist Sunday School Board,
Nashville, Tennessee, Rev. Nathan
Brooks Jr., Earle Street Baptist
Church, Greenville, S. C., Rev.
Louis S. Gaines, First Church,
Fayetteville, and Dr. C. C. War
ren, First Baptist Church, Char
lotte.
Concurrently with the confer
ence on home life there will be a
conference on Church music un
der the directorship of Grady
Miller, minister of music, First
Baptist Church, Winston-Salem.
Friday night there will be a
sacred concert presented by a
choir to be organized and re
hearsed during the week by Mr.
Miller.
Young Attorney
Is Prosecutor
Kirby Sullivan Served As
Prosecutor In Recorder’s
Court Monday As Substi
tute For Ailing J. W. Ru
ark
The docket in Brunswick coun
ty Recorder’s court Monday was
I prosecuted by young Kirby Sulli
van, latest addition to the bar
at Southport. He filled in for
J. W. Ruark, who is recovering
jfrom an attack of food poisoning.
[The following results were obtain
ed:
Jesse Dowless speeding, fined
$10.00 and costs.
Wallace L. Brown, reckless
operation, fined $25.00 and costs.
James D. Russ, possession, fined
$10.00 and costs.
Billy Wells, speeding, motion
for jury trial.
James A. Fulford, speeding, not
guilty.
Hugh Stanley Jacobs, drunken
driving, found guilty of public
drunkness, fined $25.00 and costs.
Edwin Lee White, no operators
license, not guilty.
David Lee Fulford and Taft
{•Robinson, possession. Fulford fin
ed $10.00 and costs, nol prossed
as to Taft Robinson.
Festus Henry Herring, speed
ing, nol prossed with leave.
Thomas Boyd, public drunkness
fined $10.00 and costs.
Henry Hooyer, transporting for
sale, six months on road, car
ordered confiscated and sold.
Ralph Smith, reckless operation
bound over to Superior court’
bond set at $500.00.
Robert Lee Lewis, assault with
deadly weapon, nol prossed with
leave.
Vincent V. Voet, reckless ope
ration, costs and restitution in
amount of $87.21 for property
damage.
Earl Babson, possession, fined
$15.00 and costs.
Oakland Smith, possession, not
Continued On Pafce Four
Three Activities In
Progress At Caswell
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Pastor’s Conference, R. A.
And G. A. Camp And
Meeting Of General Board
Of Baptist State Conven
tion This Week
OUTSTANDING MEN
HEAD EACH GROUP
Indications Point To Another
Week Of Unusually Large
Attendance At Assem
bly Grounds
The third week at Caswell Bap
tist Assembly began Monday
night-with the first session of the
Pastor’s Conference. The assem
bly this week features three
separate meetings: The R. A. and
G. A. Camp for the Rocky Mount
Division of the W. M. S.; the
Pastor's Conference and the meet
ing of the General Board of the
Baptist State Convention.
Leaders in the Pastor’s Confer
ence include Dr. R. C. Campbell
one of the best known preachers
in the Southland; Dr. Dale Mod
dy and Dr. Wayne Oates from
the Southern Seminary, Louis
ville, Ky., Dr. Henry Walden
head of the department of Rural
Church Work in the School of
Religion at Wake Forest College,
Dr. M. A. Huggins, secretary of
the Baptist State Convention, and
Fon H. Scofield, head of the Vis
ual Aid department of the Foreign
Mission Board. Mr. Scofield has
recently returned from Africa
where he filmed the w^rk of
Southern Baptist on that con
tinent.
I Leaders in the R. A. Camp in
elude Rev. E. Dean Bergen, La
Grange; Rev. Howard Dawkins,
Kinston; Miss Beatrice Douglas,
Kinston; Mr. and Mrs. B. W.
Jackson, Raleigh; Mrs. Don Hales,
Pikeville; Dr. H. H. McMillan,
China; Rev. and Mrs. John Lam
bert, Burlington; Miss Lucille
Reid and Miss Marcella Reid,
Kennedy Home, Kinston; Rev.
Frank Robinson, Dover; and Rev.
and Mrs. E. Cleveland Wilkie
from Kennedy Home, Kinston.
The General Board is holding
its semi-annual meeting at Cas
well and it is expected that the
business to come before the board
will make it necessary to meet
for three days this week.
Advance registrations indicate
that Caswell will have another
week of large attendence, though
the attendence is not expected to
be as large as it was last week.
Dr. Redwine estimates that over
five hundred attended all or part
of the program last week when
the Training Union Conference
was in session at Caswell.
Wreck Victims
Leave Hospital
Last Members Of Cooker
Family Able To Leave Hos
pital Following Serious Ac
cident In South Carolina
Mrs. W. E. Cooker and John
William Potter, seriously hurt in
an automobile wreck at Mur
rells Inlet, S. C., 17 days ago.
are scheduled to be released from
the Dosher Memorial hospital
this week. Mrs. Cooker is said
to have been suffering from head
injuries and broken ribs. John
William Potter, her grandson,
suffered third degree burns by
being held against the exhaust
pipe of the overturned car that.
is reported to have been respon
sible for the wreck.
Thirteen persons were riding
in the half-ton truck and all but
Continued On Page Four
Benefit Dance
Monday Evening
Through the courtesy of Carl
Watkins, proprietor of the Long
Beach pavilion, donating the
use of the building ,the South
port Woman’s Club is sponsor
ing a big dance at the pavil
ion Monday night, July 3rd.
The proceeds, outside of pay
ing for the orchestra, will go
to the mass x-ray tuberculosis
examination fund.
Loop McGowan and his or
chestra, credited with being
among the best dance bands in
this part of the State, will .
furnish the music.
The Mass X-ray examination f
in Brunswick county is spon>
sored by the Woman’s Club at
Southport, with the general
backing of about all of the
other organizations and many
individuals in Brunswick. Funds
to underwrite the work are
coming from all sources.
Plan Improvement
For Yacht Basin
Work Scheduled To Begin
Improving 500-Ft. Section
Of Southport Yacht Basin
For Use Of Small Craft
A group of Southport boat own
ers will begin some very definite
permanent improvements on about
500 feet of the frontage of the
Southport yacht basin by next
week, it was stated this week by
Dallas Piggot, one of the interest
ed parties. Working unitedly but
with each man to have a certain
footage, they will construct a
bulkhead and slips.
The slips will permit all boats
being moored head on or stern
to shore. At the same time the
walkways will permit easy access
to all boats without having to
climb over half a dozen others.
Among the parties interested in
the improvement are Merritt
Moore, Dallas Piggot, Lewis J.
Hardee, Bill Wells, Robert Thomp
(Continued of page four)
W. B. KEZIAH
It was a hot day and we said
something to that effect. Mr.
Sexton, the new Welfare Supt.,
took us to task by quoting Mark
Twain: "Everybody talks about
the weather but nobody ever does
anything about it.” We think that
old saying is absolutely wrong,
while still talking to Mr. Sexton
Cecil Edwards passed by. He was
lugging a huge electric fan and
also had his coat off in defer
ence to the weather. Mr. Sexton
himself was coatless and tieles.
Coming on by Leggetts, the room
l was full of folks guzzling cold
drinks and most of them wearing
next to nothing, it appeared to
us that everybody was trying to
do something about it, despite
what Sexton said.
The Special Service Section at
Fort. Bragg has written us for
detailed information regarding j
Commissioners In
Session Tuesday
To Talk Budget
Joint Session Held With
Brunswick County Board
Education To Determin
Amount To Be Levied To
Cover Needs
HOLIDAYS SET FOR
MONDAY AND TUESDAY
Commissioners Will Hold
First Meeting In July Next
Thursday At Which
Time Budget Will Be
Completed
Members of the board of coun
ty commissioners met in special
session here Tuesday with mem
bers of the Brunswick county
board of education, their chief
business being consideration of the
1950 budget covering school needs.
Superintendent of schools J. T.
Denning presented a detailed list
of needs to take care of the ex
panded building program. His
report showed approximately
145,180.00 to be realized from
the present tax rate, with ad
ditional needs of $51,393.45.
The board is faced with the
prospect of raising the tax rate,
but hopes to be able to space
the additional load under a two
year plan which will make it
possible to do the job without a
major increase. At the present
time Brunswick county levies a
total of 25-cents for school pur
pose which is a full 20-cents
under the levy in any adjoining
county for schols.
The commissioners also approv
ed a fourth of july holiday for
county employees which will in
clude both Monday and Tuesday.
This will cause the postponement
■of the next meeting of the board
'.ot county commissioners until
Thursday, July 6th.
The only other matters before
Jthe board yesterday were a fur
ther consideration of matters per
taining to the budget.
Beach Hotel Is
Sold Last Week
New Owners Already In Pos
session And Are Operating
Long Beach Manor For
Benefit Of Guests
_
The small hotel across the road
from the Long Beach pavilion was
sold the past week to Mr. and
Mrs. Baker of Camden, S. C.
They opened it immediately and
are now operating it. At present
the place can sleep about 20
guests and it is understood that
Mr. and Mrs. Baker plan con
struction of a number of cabins
on the adjoining lot and in the
rear of the hotel building.
The place was owned by Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Boatwright of
Troy and Long Beach. Mr. Boat
wright, a large property owner
at the beach, suffered a stroke
this past summer and his health
has since been such that he de
cided to sell the hotel to save
himself the time and worry of
operation.
He stated to a newsman the
past week that, he plans to build
another permanent home imme
diately on one of the numerous
lots he owns at the beach. He
has built and sold a large num
ber of homes over there and is
understood to still own eighty of
ninety building lots.
Our
ROVING
fishing- all along the Brunswick
coast. The office stated that
numerous requests were being re
ceived from the men at Fort
Bragg regarding places to fish
and what sort of fish were to be
caught. They expected quite a
lot of the personnel to be com
ing down in Brunswick this sum
mer and fall. The requested in
formation has been furnished.
It appears to us that in some
"ay the residents of Brunswick
county have discovered a lot a
bout fishing for both speckled
trout and flounder during the past
few years. Up to three or four
years ago very few speckled
trout were caught and then us
ually by accident. Now fishermen
get them the year-round in con
siderable numbers. They are beau
tiful fish and their size adds to
Continued On Page Four
Leonard Leads Brunswick
Voting To Capture Honor
Of Sheriff *s Nomination
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Sport Fishing At
Its Best This Week
This Is Season
For Turtle Eggs
From now on through the full
moon period the folks who like
to hunt for turtle eggs on the
sandy beaches should be well
rewarded for their efforts.
Maxie Cooker, Southport fish
erman with a lifetime know
ledge of turtles and their lay
ing habits, says that the tur
tles are laying now and that
great piles' of the eggs can
easily be found during early
morning hours.
The turtles, huge specimens,
crawl out to the dry sand of
the beaches on moonlight
nights. Finding the right places
in the sand, they dig holes by
turning around and around. In
the cavaties they lay great
numbers of eggs and cover
them with the warm dry sand.
The laying completed they wad
dle back into the ocean, leaving
a well defined trail behind them.
A few hours of the winds that
blow during daylight hours
usually obliterates the trail. For
this reason it is best to hunt
the eggs during early hours.
Record Throng
Come To Beach
Brunswick County Beaches
Attracted Huge Crowds
During Past Week-End;
Holiday Crowds To Be
Larger
Despite the fact that the pri
mary runoff election was in pro
gress Saturday and calling for
a huge turnout of voters, the
Brunswick county beaches broke
all records for the number of
visitors both Saturday and Sun
day.
The heat wave covering up
state points drew visitors to the
beaches in great waves. Long
Beach was not exactly crowded.
Its 13 miles of ocean frontage
precluded that. It can only be
said that there was great num
bers of people along every mile
and at some points there were
gathering approaching real
crowds in size. The pavilion was
jammed with dancers for the
third consecutive Saturday night.
The past three Saturday night
dances have all drawn crowds
that exceeded the capacity of the
floor. It is said that serious con
sideration is being given to the
enlargement of the pavilion or
the building of a much bigger and
entirely new structure.
Holden Beach is also said to be
seriously considering the con
struction of a big dance pavilion.
The present floor at that place is
only a very small one, not large
enough to handle the crowd that
would be necessary to make the
employment of a good dance or
chestra profitable. Like Long
Beach, Holden Beach is said to
have drawn big crowds Saturday
and Sunday.
The demand for reservations at
Long Beach. Holden Beach and
Shallotte Point for the coming
week-end is said to point to all
three places being swamped.
With the 4th of July coming on
Continued on page tour
Recent Parties Have Report
ed Unusually Fine Catches
Following Trips OutOn
Sport Fishing Boats Dur
ing Past Few Days
FISH RUNNING
UNUSUALLY LARGE
All Party Boats Busy During
Past Week-End With The
Weather Conditions
Favorable For
Operations
Some real records for early
summer sport fishing off South
port are being set this week and
it is not so much in the number
of the fish being taken, as in the
size. All sorts of fish, from blues
and Spanish mackerel on the
larger game fish on the gulf are
of unusually large average size.
The king mackerel are running
to as much as 20 pounds; bonita
go about the same, dolphin, am
berjack and everything else aver
age about twice the weight oi
fish usually taken at this seasor
of the year.
It would take more a book tc
cover all of the catches made
since the last issue of this paper
Only a brief coverage is being
given of catches made Sunday and
since then.
Sunday the Moja of Captair
Victor P. Lance brought in one
of the largest catches of the
week. It consisted of 20 king
mackerel; I amberjack; I bonita;
5 barracuda; 3 dolphin; II blues
and 5 Spanish mackerel. The
party was composed of A. W
Dugan, R. E. Wood, Blanche
Kirby, of Fayetteville; R. A
Davidson and R. E. Fishburn of
Camp Lejeune. The total weight
was estimated to be 350 pounds.
The Botfly with Dr. Ed Ben
bow, C. Benbow, Andy Troxler
and Harold Draper of Greensboro
brought in 13 king mackerel,
averaging 12 to 20 pounds each;
six dolphin, 10 to 16 pounds; six
amberjack, 10 to 35 pounds; six
bonita, 12 to 20 pounds. With
another party, on Monday, the
Botfly got 23 king mackerel.
Continued on page four
Southport Man
Badly Injured
J. B. Cochran Sustained Frac
ture Of Both Legs When
Struck By Auto Saturday
Afternoon
J. B. Cochran, Southport mer
chant and businessman, sustained
serious and painful injuries Sat
urday afternoon when he was
pinned between two automobiles
as one was backed from a park
ing place on the corner of Moore
and Howe streets.
Driver of the backing car was
Price Furpless, Southport theatre
owner. Cochran was standing be
hind another parked vehicle, and
his legs were pinned between two
bumpers.
Both legs were fractured, one a
compound fracture. Cochran was
in great pain, and an attempt
was made to give him first aid
before he was taken to Dosher
Memorial Hospital.
He is reported to be in satis
factory condition.
K -
McLamb Won Nomination
For Judge Of Recorder’s
Court Over J. W. Ruark In
Close Battle
KING LEADS FIELD
FOR COMMISSIONERS
Waccamaw Man And H. O.
Peterson Two Successful
Candidates For Board;
Brunswick Gave Ma
jority To Willis
Smith
Ed V. Leonard, high man in
the race for Democratic nomina
tion for Sheriff in the first pri
mary, led all candidates in the
second primary election Saturday
when he compiled 2155 votes for
a convincing victory over O. W.
Perry, who had 1237 votes.
In the race for Judge of Re
corder’s court the high man in
the first race also came out on
top in the second primary. W. J.
McLamb received 1753 votes to
1549 for J. W. Ruark, Southport
attorney.
In the contest for the Demo
cratic nomination for county com
missioner ElRoy King led the
other candidate with a total of
1984 votes. The second high man,
who becomes one of the three
nominees, was H. O. Peterson,
who polled 1681 votes. John B.
Ward, one of the three high men
in the first primary, again fin
ished third, but this time out of
the money. His vote was 1632.
BrunswicK county followed the
state-wide trend which swept
Willis Smith into the victory
column in the race for United
States senator over Dr. Frank
P. Graham. Smith received 1738
votes in Brunswick county to
1536 for Graham. In the state
Smith received a majority of
about 20,000 votes to win the
Democratic nomination.
Brunswick Man
Will Go Abroad
Rev. Walter Harrelson Will
Leave This Summer For
Switzerland And Year Of
Study Under Fellowship
Rev. Walter Harrelson, in
structor at the Baptist Union
Seminary in New York, will sail
on August 15th o nthe Queen
Mary for a year of study at Ba
sel, Switzerland. This year of
study is under a scholarship, won
last year by the young Bruns
wick man for his outstanding
record as a seminary student.
Mrs. Harrelson and their child
ren will accompany him to
Switzerland and remain there for
the year.
Returning to the United States
at the expiration of the year a
broad, Rev. Mr. Harrelson will
take a position in the Old Testa
ment Department of Andover
Newton Theological Seminary in
Boston, Mass. At the outset of his
duties with this seminary he will
be sent to Jerusalem in Pales
tine for six weeks of study.
From this study in Palestine he
will be due to be back in Boston
and in active work at the semi
nary in late September, 1951.
Spending last summer at South
port after graduating at the sem
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.
I
High Tide Low Tide
Thursday, June 29th,
7:14 A. -M. 1:23 A. M.
7:56 P. M. 1:22 P. M.
Friday, June 30,
8:11 A. M. 2:15 A. M.
8:48 P. M. 2:14 P. M.
Saturday, July 1,
9:06 A. M. 3:04 A. M.
9:39 P. M. 3:04 P. M.
Sunday, July 2,
9:58 A. M. 3:52 A. M.
10:26 P. M. 3:53 P. M.
Monday, July 3,
10:49 A. M. 4:37 A. M.
11:13 P. M. 4:42 P. M.
Tuesday, July 4,
11:39 A. M. 5:23 A. M.
11:57 P. Mi 5:32 P. M.
Wednesday, July 5,
0:00 A. M. 6:09 A. M.
12:28 P. M. 6:24 P. M.