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Most of The New* All The Time THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community _ The Pilot Covers Brunswick County VOL. NO. SIXTEEN NO. 34 6-pages today Southport, N. C., Wednesday, September 13,1950 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY *1.50 PER YEA* Superior Court Term Adjourns Friday Morning Docket Crowded With Un important Cases Cleared Of Congestion With Many Pending Actions Being Nol Prossed JUDGE HENRY L. STEVENS PRESIDED Another Term Gf Superior Court For Trial Of Civil Cases Will Convene On Monday, September The 18th Gilbert Faulk and Grover Faulk, principals in the shooting of Highway Patrolman J. C. Jierce, each escaped jail or road sentence when tried here last week before Judge Henry L. Stevens in Brunswick county Su perior court. Each defendant pleaded guilty to charges of assault with a dead ly weapon. Grover Faulk was given 2 years on the roads and Gilbert Faulk 12 months on the roads, judgement being suspend ed upon condition that each of the boys be under probation for a period of 5 years; that they pay the costs; and that they pay into the Clerk of Superior the sum of $1,000.00 for the bene fit of Patrolman Pierce. Grover Faulk was convicted of drunk driving and his sentence was allowed to run concurrent with the one in the above case. Willie E. Jacobs pleaded guilty to public drunkeness. Prayer for judgement was continued upon payment of costs and a fine of $50.00. The same action was taken in the case against Dayton Rhodes. Hezekiah Vaught pleaded guilty to manslaughter for the fatal shooting of a man whom evidence showed was attacking his mother. He -was given 4 months on the roads, judgement being suspend ed upon condition that the defen dant be under probation for 3 years. Lester Sharpe was found not guilty of assault. Boyd W. Mishoe pleaded guilty to drunk driving. Judgement was suspended upon condition that the defendant remain of good be havior for 2 years and pay costs and a fine of $100.00 Bernice L. Hewett was found guilty of reckless operation and was fined $25.00 and- costs. Dolan Norris and U. G. Will iamson were found guilty of as sault and general - disturbance. Their sentence of 3 years each on the roads was suspended upon condition that each defendant be under probation for 3 years and pay costs. Leonard L. McCoy was found not guilty of reckless operation. Louis Schmidt was found guilty ®f drunk driving. He was placed under good hehavior for 2 years and was fined $100.00 and costs. William E. Robinson pleaded guilty to charges of failure to support an illigitimate child. He was required to pay the sum of $300.00 now and $15.00 per month until the child reaches the age of 14. W. G. Bland was found guilty of reckless operation but judge ment was set aside and a nol pros taken. William J. Bellamy was found guilty of speeding, reckless ope ration, damage to property and failure to stop at the command of an officer of the law. Continued On Page Two f BritfNtw» j Flath«t CALIFORNIA VISITOR Miss Lucille Cole of Los Angeles, Calif., was the guest of her niece, Mrs. Mendel Norris, and her family of Hickman’s Crossroads from August 30 through September 5. ON VACATION Rev. and Mrs. Tracie Varnum and family of Stumpy Point are visiting relatives and friends in Brunswick county. All are na tives of Brunswick county and resided here until the family moved last November after the Rev. Mr. Varnum was assigned the Methodist charge at Stumpy Point. RETURN HOME Mr. and Mrs. William P. Trout man, Jr., of Gardner-Webb Col lege, Boiling Springs, have re turned to their home after spend ing the month—of - August -with Mrs. Troutman's parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Hawes, of Shallotte. Mr. Troutman, a former teacher at Shallotte, is now professor of social studies at Gardner-Webb. Shrimp Catches Good HAUL—When the shrimp boats went out Saturday after being weather-bound for several days they found large schools of shrimp and proceeded to make some of the best catches of the season in local waters. The product is small, but good catches con tinued Monday and Tuesday, and the dealers are hoping that this fall luck will last. Increase Sales Time For Weed Mart This Week The Whiteville tobacco market has been granted increased sell ing time and today began operat ing on an 18-hour schedule in stead of the thirteen and one half hours in effect last week. Each set of buyers will buy for six hours daily instead of four and one-half hours. It was also announced today that the local market definitely will remain open through Sept ember 29, and longer if the crop remains unsold by that date. Despite the curtailed selling time last week, the Whiteville market caught up with last year's dollar total and is now more tharl' $62,000 ahead of the cor responding period in 1949 in dol lars paid out. The comparative figures are as follows: 1950- 24,484,596 pounds for $13,925,630.85; average, $56.87. 1949.—27,882,898 pounds for $13,863,325.46; average, $49.07. Sales Supervisor Dave S. Neil son reported the sale of 3,555,596 pounds last week for $2,021, 666.78. The average was $57.13 per hundred pounds. SENCBA Officials In Dinner Meet Review Work Of Promotion al Organization In This, Area During Season And Set Plans To Follow Up Thirty directors and their wives and guests of the Southeastern N. C. Beach Association met last night for a dinner meeting at 8 p. m. at the City Hall at Car olina Beach. A delicious seafood dinner was served by the Carter Bible Class of the St. Paul’s Methodist church of Carolina Beach. Highlighting the event over which President Hal Love presid ed, was a brief business session which followed. Due to the stress of this year’s business, first-vice president W. E. Jenkins submitt ed his resignation leaving this office vacant. J. J. Laughlin of Southport was moved forward from second vice-president to first vice-president and J. G. An derson, Sr. to second vice-presi dent. By unanimous vote, Admiral Joseph F. Farley was elected to the office of third vice-president. Glenn Tucker welcomed the di rectors and their guests in be half of Carolina Beach and gave a summary of the growth of the organization during his presi dency. The first President, L. B. Orrell, spoke on the early strug gles of the organization which has now grown to become in tricate and important part of the financial structure of Southeast ern North Carolina. President Love covered the pro gram for the last few weeks. He pointed out that the publicity and advertising program is covering the entire United States this year with 400 news releases emanating j from the office each week and advei-tising throughout the season going into many papers and over radio stations including the Knox ville News-Sentinel, News and | Observer, Charlotte Observer, Continued on page 3 Brunswick Furnishes Fishing Rodeo Winners August Prize List For The Southeastern Fishing Ro deo Include Several Fish ermen From This County WASHAM DRUM IS WORLD’S RECORD Sailfish Entries Were Caught By Boats Working Out Of Southport; Contest Ex tends Through October Announcement Is made by the Southeastern ' North Carolina Beach Association of the winners for the month of August in the fifth annual fishing rodeo. The fact that this is the most success ful year of the entire five since the contest has been in existance is proven by the thousands of registrations from seventeen states, the District of Columbia and 142 towns in North Carolina. | The press and radio continue, to ! give this event wide publicity and another world record, has been chalked up in .this area. . • j A letter from the American Museum of Natural history in forms the association that the 64-pound black drum, -caught by Otis L. Washam of Whiteville at the quarantine station in South port, if caught v on a 30-pound test line (which it was), will establish a world record for that fish on that test line. The fish was caught in July and makes the second world record establish ed in this area. This month saw the SENCBA record for the past five years for bonita broken by R. Jesse Lewis of Wilmington, with his 17 pound 2-ounch fish caught off Continued on page four Commissioners In Session Monday Tax Matters And Road Peti tions Took Up Most Of Time During Regular Ses sion Members of the board of coun ty commissioners held their reg ular first of the month meeting here Monday with most of the business of routine nature. The board approved having a section of road in Town Creek known as the bridge road and running from highway No. 17 to highway No. 74 and 76 graded and paved. Among the tax matters settled were the following: L. B. Skipper was relieved of $100.00 valuation and $1,000.00 valuation was or dered transferred from the L. B. Skipper listing to L. B. and G. H. Skipper; D. Holden was relieved of $750.00 valuation on the Tom Long property for the 1949-50 listing; A. B. Meares was re lieved of $16.35 taxes on a lot on Moore street. The land owned by D. A. and Ruth Caison in Town Creek town ship was ordered reconveyed to Ruth Caison; the Mandy White lands on Town Creek were or dered conveyed to Queen Ann White; the Calvin Brinson land in Smithville was ordered sold to Edith Brinson; the Georgianna Brown property was ordered sold to A. F. Perry for $100.00. y ■ ■ - — Lance Party Gets Another Sailfish Steve Hara of Fayetteville made the most spectacular catch of the week reported by parties aboard Southport boats when he came in Tuesday with a 6-foot, 6-in. sailfish that weighed 30 pounds. He was fishing aboard the Moja with Captain Victor Lance and they also raised another big sail, which refused to stroke. Other members of the Fayetteville party included Kirk Bennett, Mrs. J. F. Conniffe and Mrs. Addie Cain. Sport fishing has been 'at a virtual standstill of the past week due to bad weather, a by-product of tropical storms that have hit other sections. This has left the weather great ly disturbed and has resulted in poor fishing luck in general. Delay Opening Bids One Month Contractors Interested In Project Request More Time To Assure Availabil ity Of Critical Supplies Bids for the construction of gymnasium at Southport and ! Waccamaw which were advertised to be opened on September 4 ' have been continued to Optober 10 in order to give some of the interested contractors an oppor tunity to make contacts to obtain citical materials with which to do the work. i The two buildings are a part of the Better Schools building pro gram but were relegated to last place in the order of contract letting by the State panel in Ra leigh. Now that all school build ings and additions have been contracted, the way is open for letting the work on the two gym nasiums. Southport is the only high school in the county without a gymnasium, while the existing building at Waccamaw was con demned last winter. Grand Jury Has Good Report On Jail Condition ri. Body Calls Special Attention To Improvements In That Institution Since January Report And Makes Few Recommendations PRAISE CONDITION OF COUNTY HOME Report Commends Custodian And Personal Interest ^ak en In Comfort Of In mates Of This Insti tution Following is the report turned in by the Brunswick county grand jury last week during the Sept ember term of Superior court. C. C. Carr was foreman and D. R. Johnson was secretary: “To the Honorable Henry L. Stevens, Jr., Judge of Superior Court: “The grand jury was in session three days, beginning September 5th and ending September 8th. "We have passed on all bills presented and returned 24 true bills and 1 not true bill. There were no presentments. “The grand jury visited and in spected the county jail, county home, county schools and prison camp. “We have checked the reports of the following justices of peace and mayors and they have turn ed in to the county school funds the amounts opposite their names’. “J. C. Tucker, $430.00, J. H. Cannady, $25.00; E. F. Gore, $15.00; Coy Duval, $120.00, E. O. Rabon, $30.00; A. W. Smith, $25.00; Leo Medlin; total, $645.00. “The following have rendered no report: G. F. Ganey, Earl Long, H. A. Livingston R. S. Cheers, J. W. Stanley and Elliott Tripp. “County jail: We find the con ditions at the county jail greatly improved since our last session. The sanitary conditions are much .better. The jail is clean and well kept, also a night jailer installed as recommended in our January report. There are several toilets in very bad shape and should be repaired immediately. We also recommend that the windows and doors be properly screened. We feel that a telephone should be installed, especially for night emergencies. “County home: There are nine inmates in the home and all stated that they were well cared for in every way. The building is in good condition and very well kept. We wish to commend the custodians fo rtheir interest in welfare of the inmates. We re commend that a hot water sys tem with capacity • sufficient to care for the needs of the home be installed immediately. There are several toilets without seats and needing other repairs that Continued On Page Two Parent-Teachers Meet Tomorrow First Session Of Fall Will Be Held In High School Audi torium On Thursday Eve ning The initial meeting of the Southport Parent-Teacher Assoc iation for the 1950-51 school year will be in the school auditorium here tomorrow (Thursday) eve ning at 7:30 o'clock. “All parents in the Southport school area are urged to attend this meeting,” President Mrs. Dan Harrelson said today. “We want to make this year outstand ing one in PTA, and this can be done only through a good Not Mrs. Maggie Adams was talk ing to us Monday about the giant liveoak trees in Southport. “They are 400 years old”, she declared. When we timorously inquired how she could be so certain she re plied, “My grandfather always told me they were 400 years old, my father said the same thing and with the span of my own life thrown in I think there can be very little reason to doubt their age”! Ralph Varnum writes in to fuss with us a little for neglect of his home community, Varnam town. “This is one place in Bruns wick X think you never tell any thing about,” he said; But then he was kind enough to furnish us the following information, which we pass along to you: “Varnamtown, located two miles west of Holden Beach, two miles from Howell’s Point by water I and six miles from Supply, has sixty-two homes, two Churches, one Baptist and one Methodist, two stores, two fish and shrimp houses and the population is 240. Lockwood Folly Kiver is on the east and can not be beat for good oysters, clams and fish ing. These oysters have been sold to people over North Carolina, i South Carolina and Virginia. Up state folks are coming here to 1 live and buy homes and land. They say the fishing and the (place are the best any where on the coast, because people from North Carolina and nearby states come here every day from May until January to fish and hunt. One reason for this is because we are near the two beaches, Long Beach and Holden Beach, i They also form here, but the fish 1 Continued On Page Four Ask Help In Locating Organ In Brunswick Touching Story Behind Search For Old-Fashioned Organ Said To Be Owned By County Resident Folks in Wilmington are1 anxious to locate an old-fashioned organ that reportedly was pur chased by a Brunswick county family. They want it for a little crippled boy, David Caison, who is 12 years of age who holds it as his most prized possession. That is, he did until he lost it. When David was a small boy h# had infantile paralysis. He didn't get proper treatment. As a result he wears a six-inch sole on one foot. "I own two things in this world”, he used to say. "My bad leg and my organ”. The organ used to belong to David’s grandmother. It .was one of the flat, foot-operated sort formerly used in cnurches. After his illness, David couldn’t play with the other boys, so he spent most of the time at the organ picking out tunes. He got to be pretty god at it. Once when the family needed money, they sold the organ for $15. David would not be parted from it. He mowed lawns, cleaned yards, took odd jobs until he got enough money together. Then he bought the organ back. Then it belonged to him. Several months ago, after a train of domestic difficulties, the juvenile authorities decided to take charge of David and the other Caison children. Mrs. Sarah Layton and Judge Hardie Fer guson tried to find David a home with relatives or others, but they failed. They decided to send him to a training home for boys. David went to the training home. He was a bright happy boy, and he became the pet of the place. Whenever the people in charge wanted to show visitors around, they always picked David to be the guide. Later the Caisons moved to Seagate. They didn't have the money to pay for the transfer of the furniture. Mrs. Caison gave the movers the organ to cover $5 of the charges. "We’ll buy David a piano”, she said. About that time Elmer Caison shot a Wrightsville causeway storeowner and attempted to shoot his wife. The lost organ was submerged under graver issues. (Continued on Page Five) Late Registrations Increase Enrollment Flyers To Return To Holden Beach The mass flight to Holden Beach on Sunday, August 20, was such an outstanding suc ces that Carl Goerch, editor of The State Magazine, has written to make arrangements for a repeat performance this week-end. This time the plans call for a Saturday afternoon arrival at the Holden Beach landing field and an overnight stay. There is a possibility that other fly ers will join the group on Sun day just for the day. Arrangements are being made to take care of the visitors and to show them a good time dur ing their flying visit. Recorder Holds Lengthy Session One Of Longest Sessions Of Brunswick County Recor der’s Court Held Here On Monday Before Judge W. J. McLamb One of the longest sessions of recent months was held Monday in Brunswick county Recorder’s court, with more than thirty cases being disposed of. James E. Bell was found guilty of operating with improper equip ment and was fined $10.00 and costs. Cur sell* Robinson was found guilty of driving without opera tors license and was fined $25.00 and costs. Charles Green was convicted of passing on-coming traffic and was taxed with costs. The case charging Horace J. Ward with improper equipment and no operators license was nol prossed. Prayer for judgement was con- I tinued in the case charging Ross Kennerly with drunk driving. Charles H. Brinage waived ap pearance and pleaded guilty to charges of failure to stop at an intersection. He was taxed with costs. Othelia C. Jones was found guilty of speeding and was fined $10.00 and costs. Ernest Reaves waived appear ance and pleaded guilty to charges of public drunkeness. He was fined $10.00 and costs. Lacy Wise waived appearance and pleaded guilty to charges of public drunkeness and was fined $10.00 and costs. Harold W. Shelly pleaded guilty to charges of reckless ope ration and was fined $15.00 and costs. Lindberg F. Holden faced charges of drunk driving but was convicted of reckless operation and was fined $50.00 and costs. Woodrow Wooten waived ap pearance and pleaded guilty to charges of speeding. He was tax ed with costs. The case against George W. Kelly for speeding was nol pross ed with leave. Charlie H. Cox waived appear ance and pleaded guilty to charges of reckless operation. He Continued On Page Four Revised Figures Released By Office Of County Superin tendent Show Increase In Both High School And Elementary SHALLOTTE HAS GREATEST GAIN County Superintendent Once More Stresses Importance Of Regular Attendance By Pupils Attendance figures ' supplied County Superintendent of Schools J. T. Denning at the end of the first 10 days show that late reg istrations have brought enrollment in the five consolidated schools of the county to an all-time high 3,014, a gain of 64 over last year’s 2,95C. The greatest change is at Shal lotte where there are 861 elemen tary students as compared to 817 last year and 242 high school students as compared with the last year enrollment of 227. Southport gained 12 high school students with 108 this year as compared to 96 last fall. The ele mentary enrollment remained stationary at 277. Bolivia gained 4 high school students with 94 for this year as compared to 90 last year, but the elementary enrollment is off 6, with 352 this year as compared to 358 last fall. Leland picked up 5 elementory students with 348 this year as compared to 343 last fall. How ever, high school enrollment is off 2, with 75 students this fall as compared to 77 last year. Waccamaw has 15 fewer ele mentary pupils this fall than were enrolled last year but has added 7 high school students will 141 as compared to 134 last year. Poultry Show Is Slated Saturday 4-H Club Boys And Girls Will Offer Best Birds In Twelve Poultry Projects For Competition And For Sale The second annual 4-H Culb poultry show and sale will be j held at Shallotte Saturday mor ning from 9 o’clock to 12 noon, according to an announcement by A. S. Knowles, county agent, and Miss Corinne Greene, home agent. The show will start at 9 o’clock. Judging will be done by poultry specialists at 10 o’clock and the auction will start at 11 o’clock I with Ed Redwine doing the sell ing. This second show should ex ceed the one last year which was considered a success from every angle. The twelve boys and girls carrying projects have done ex ceedingly well in feeding and management, reports the county agent. ' Again this year the Shallotte Lion’s Club is sponsoring the show at Shallotte and officials call upon all citizens to back the 4-H boys and girls by attending the show and sale Saturday and buy ing some of the 144 New Hamp shire pullets. The project is sponsored by Sears Roebuck Foundation in co operation with the Extension Service. Survey Total Is 6,320 According To Tabulation Health Department Officials Had Hoped For At Least 8,000 Persons To Have Chest X-Ray Made During Program ONE UNIT STILL IN THIS COUNTY Group Of Persons Who Had X-Ray Made On First Day At Peter Robinson’s Store Back For Second Shot With 2,234 persons receiving their chest x-ray during the final four days of the program in Brunswick county last week, the mass survey handled a total of 6,230 pictures. While this fell about 2,000 short of the goal set by public health authorities, the figure is consider ed good when some of the obr stacles are brought to light. For one thing, the power was off in Southport all of one day during the survey and at inter vals during two other days, cut ting short the amount or work done locally. It also is true that Brunswick is a large county in which the population is scattered and bad weather conspired to make travel difficult during a good part of the period. The hardest-working unit was the one stationed at Shallotte, where 1,349 x-rays were made. The Southport unit made 1,323 pictures. The biggest day for any unit in the county was at Win nabow last Saturday when 237 persons were x-rayed. One unit is remaining in the county for a part of this week to retake some pictures that were made at the Peter Robinson Store location during the first days of the survey. These were taken on. faulty film, and the patients have been notified to appear for another x-ray. Each person will receive a re port within the next few days. If his picture is negative, he will be told and there is nothing more to worry about. If for any reason it is deemed wise to have a fur ther examination or a large x-ray made, the person also will tie given this information. Farmers Keeping Equipment Right Southport Banker Reports That Trend In Borrowing Indicates That Brunswick County Farmers Are In Sound Condition The plant and equipment of North Carolina farms have never been in better condition, and the state’s farmers are prepared to meet any emergency that may lie ahead, according to Prince O’Brien, cashier, Waccamaw Bank & Trust Co., Southport, who rep resents the North Carolina Bank ers Association as a county key banker. “One~.of the best indications of this is the large amount of bank credit which North Carolina farm ers have put into new equipment and other improvements during the postwar year,” O'Brien said. Reporting on the results of the ninth national survey of agricul tural lending made by the Agri cultural Commission of the Ame 1 Continued on Page Five) Tide Table Following is the tide table for Southport during tho 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, September 14, 9:2! A. M. 3:07 A. M. 9:37 P. M. 3:38 P. M. Friday, September 15, 10:11 A. M. 3:50 A. M. 10:26 P. M. 4:28 P. M. Saturday, September 16, 11:05 A. M. 4:37 A. M. 11:18 P. M. 5:22 P. M. Sunday, September 17, 0:00 A. M. 5:28 A. M. 12:05 P. M. 6:22 P. M. Monday, Septenil>er 18, 0:17 A. M. 6:27 A. M. 1:09 P. M. 7:28 P. M. Tuesday, September 19, 1:22 A. M. 7:34 A. M. 2:18 P. M.-8tS* P. M. Wednesday, September 20, 2:33 A. M. 8:45 A. M. 3:25 P. M. 9:45 P. M.
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