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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. 35 6-paces today Southport, N. C., Wednesday, September 20, 1950 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY *1.50 PER YEA* Makes Report On Vacation Bible School Program The Associational Mission ary Shows Growth In This Phase Of Work In Bruns wick Baptist Association In Three Years VOLUNTEER WORKERS VALUABLE HELPERS Plans Already Outlined For Beginning Schedule Cov ering Every Church During Next Summer Vacation Bible Schools in Brunswick Baptist Association have come to a close for the summer with every church in the association reached for a school and the school program set for next summer. Attendance this year went over the 1,700 enrollment 'and great interest was shown in every church. There were over 600 ad ults, 100 young people and 1000 children from the Intermediate age down through the cradle roll age. It will be recalled that Brunswick in 1948 reached a total of 10 schools and in 1949 reached 24 schools. This year 27 schools were reached, raising the percentage from 1948 of 35.6 per cent to 100 per cent this year. There were many workers in the association this year who as sisted the missionary and the state worker and who contribut ed a valuable service that can not be defined by monetary value. Along with the Missionary and Miss Watkins were Mrs. Grace Greer, Miss Elizabeth Johnson, Mrs. Avon Hickman, Mrs. D. L. Potter, Mrs. Taft Hewett, Mrs. Dewey Robbins. Principals who served in churches not using as sociations] workers were; Mrs. Bennie Price, Mrs. Oliver, Mrs. Brinson, Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Stana land, Mrs. Merle Lennon, Mrs. R. S. Willetts, Jr., and others. Rev. W. R. Moorehead, as sociational Missionary, wishes to thank all who helped to make this program a success and he is looking forward to next summer’s work which is to begin at Mt. Olive church in May. The next phase of work on the agenda for the Sunday School work in the association is to be the Simultaneous Revival which is to be held East of the Missi ssippi River in all of the twenty seven hundred Baptist churches over the state and states in the Southern Baptist Convention. j BriafNawa | Flathaa ALDERMAN MEETING The board of aldermen for the City of Southport will meet to morrow (.Thursday) night at 7:30 o'clock. LIONS TO MEET The Shallotte Lions Club will hold its regular meeting Thurs day evening at the Anchor Hotel at Shallotte Point. WILDLIFE CLUB The Brunswick County Wildlife Club will meet at Town Creek bridge at 7:30 o’clock on Thurs day, October 5. A speaker from Raleigh will be present. AT PRESBYTERIAN Dr. J. M. Waggette will return to the pulpit of Southport Pres byterian church Sunday evening following a vacation. The worship service will begin at 7:30 o’clock. NEW DEPUTY Martin Herring of Shallotte has been named deputy sheriff suc ceeding W. G. Bland, who has re signed. This announcement was made this week by Sheriff Walter M. Stanaland. LIONS TO PLAY Members of the Southport Lions Club and their wives will enjoy their annual fun day program tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon with two softball games and a picnic supper on the garrison. BENEFIT PARTY The Margaret Parkhill Auxi liary of St. Phillip Episcopal church will sponsor a bridge and canasta party on Friday evening, September 22, at 8 o’clock at the Community Building. ON MINE SWEEPER Janies F. Hewett, chief boat swain's mate, USN, husband of the former Eula Leonard of Shal lotte, is serving aboard the auxi liary mine sweeper USS Tanager. which is in Charleston, S. C., home port of the Naval Atlantic Fleet Mine Force. Son Admits Beating Father And Brother Father And Son Assaulted As They Slept In Their Home Near Ash; Youth Confesses To Attack An 18-year-old Brunswick youth is held in the county jail at Southport for bludgeoning his father and brother almost to the point of death last Thursday night. Culbert Simmons is the youth who was arrested Saturday for the vicious assault. In Duke Hospital at Durham in critical condition are Corbett C. Simmons, 37, a farmer of the Ash community, and his five-year old son, Oliver Simmons. The heads of the father and son were bashed in with a blunt i instrument, believed to be eith er a hammer or a hatchet. Although young Simmons con fessed to the attack, it was not learned here immediately what instrument was used. Sheriff Walter M. Stanaland told newsmen Monday that Culbert Simmons admitted he brutally1 beat the two members of his family. Reports said that the youth’s watch was “hocked" for $5 and that he asked his father for money to pay the debt. When he was not given the money, it was reprorted that he waited until his father and broth er went to sleep and then as saulted them about midnight. Mrs. Simmons was in the hospital in Whiteville on the night of the attack. The farmer and the boy were brought to Whiteville for an examination but their condi tion was so grave that they were rushed to Durham by plane. The lad’s skull was cracked “all the way around,” with holes, similar to that which would be made by the peen of a hammer, in the back and on the right side. Holes of the same type were, found on the right side of the man’s head. It was reported unofficially here Monday that the confessed as sailant took $10 from his father’s pocket after bludgeoning the pair into unconsciousness. Will Let Contract For Woccamaw Span - Ji' State Highway Commission Asks For Bids On Project To Open New Route Be tween Columbus And Brunswick Counties ROAD TO ORIGINATE AT PIREWAY CHURCH Bridge Will Provide Crossing For First Time On 20 Miles Stretch Of River; Letting Slated Sept. 29 The State Highway Commis sion will ask for bids on a new road project in Brunswick and Columbus counties on September 26. The project, to be financed un der the $200,000,000 bond issue program, calls for a bridge over Waceamaw River on a county road between Pireway and Regan. The bridge will orovide a river crossing for the first time on a 20-mile stretch which has been without bridge facilities. The nearest crossing above the site of the proposed bridge is about eight miles up the river, while the nearest crossing south of the site is about 12 miles away in South Carolina. The project involves the build ing of a new access road which will leave the present Pireway road at a point near Pireway Methodist Church. This point is about a mile from the river. The bridge and road will inter sect with a dead-end county road in Brunswick County. This will tie in with Regan, about one and one-half miles from the bridge. Although specifications were not available here today, the river is about 300 feet wide at the point where the new bridge will be built. I Specifications also have been advertised on 44 other road jobs throughout the state, many of them financed by the $200,000,000 bond issue program. If satisfac tory bids are reecived, the State Highway Commission will award contracts for the 45 projects at its next regular meeting on Sep tember 29. Ray Walton Is New Pdesident __ Southport Attorney Named President Of Brunswick County Young Democrat ic Organization At Shal lotte Meeting — fyiy Walton, young Southport attorney, was elected president of the Brunswick County Young Democratic Club at a meeting held in Shallotte last night. He succeeds Edward H. Redwine. Elected to serve with him were Miss Annie Merle Pigott, vice pi esident, and Kirby Sullivan, an other young Southport attorney, secretary-treasurer. There was no formal speaker, but four of the Democratic can didates were present and were given an opportunity to say a few words. These were Harry L. Mintz, candidate for house of rep 1 esentatives; John G. Cgison, can didate for coroner; Ed V. Leon ard, candidate for sheriff; and R. X. Rabon, candidate for county commissioner. Enlow Boy Is Seriously Hurt H. A. Enlow has been advised in a telegram from the War Department that his son, Pfc. Robert Floyd Enlow, was ser iously wounded in action in Korea on September 2. No fur ther word of the seriousness of the injuries sustained by the former Southport boy had been received this week. Pfc. Enlow enlisted in the Army in January a short time after his 18th birthday. After a few months basic training in the United States he was shipped, to'Japan, but remained there only a matter bf hours before going on to the fighting front. The! father said that the ad dress of the wounded boy is Hospital Directory Sect.., APO 503, Care Postmaster, San Franei'sco, Cal. his ' service number is RA14339761. Many Brunswick Members Of 1950 Graduat ing Classes Of Consolidat ed High Schools Of Coun ty Are Attending College, Taking Training Students A check of the Brunswick county boys and girls who grad uated from the consolidated high schools last spring reveals that an unusual number are now en rolled in college, and that a good number of the girls have entered training for nurses. Following is a partial list of what the seniors are doing this fall: Waccamaw graduates entering college this fall include: Edward Gore, Dudley King and Lacy Tripp, Campbell College; Wood row Long, Pineland Junior Col lege; Mary Joyce Purvis, James Walker Hospital school of Nurs ing, Wilmington; Avis Evans and Beatrice Simmons, Baker Thomp son Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, Lumberton. The following Bolivia seniors are in college: Charles Leonard, Wilmington College; Nora Mae Mills, W.C.U.N.C.; Verna Willetts, Meredith; Worth Mercer, State College. Shallotte seniors who are in college this year are: Audrey Milligan, Flora Macdonald; W. J. McLamb, Wake Forest; Ruth Galloway, Meredith; Floyd Kirby, Jr., High Point; Alfrieda Mc Lamb, Wilmington College; Gladys Floyd, in training. Billie Kate Leonard and Jessie Mae Clemmons are working in the telephone office; Winifred Register, Christine Carter and Joyce Hewett are in Nursing training; Marian Williams is working with the Health Depart ment. Southport seniors who entered college this fall are: Catherine McRackan and Rebecca McRack an, Meredith; Bobby Spencer and G. W. Fisher, Campbell; Lena Ward, Louisburg; Billy McDowell, University of North Carolina; Robin Hood; E.C.T.C.; Tommy Bowmer, Leroy Stanley and Char les Robbins. U. S, Navy. No Leland high school seniors Continued On Page Four Presiding JUDGE CLAWSON WILLIAMS Big Damage Suit Entering Third Day Of Trial Action Brought By Miss Mary Lou Mintz Against Atlantic Coastline Has Consumed' Superior Court Time Thus Far This Week The September term of Superior Court in session here this week has been tied up thus far with trial of the $100,000.00 damage suit of Miss Mary Lou Mintz vs the Atlantic Coastline Railroad to recover damages which she alleges resulted from a fall which occurred in one of their Wilming ton office buildings. The plaintiff rested at noon Tuesday after put ting on a parade of witnesses, and Judge Clawson L. Williams, who is presiding, denied a motion for dismissal. It appears likely that all of today and tomorrow may be consumed in the com pletion of this trial. The plaintiff elected to bring suit in Brunswick county, even though the accident occurred in New Hanover. This is possible under the law which provides that! a case may be heard in any county where the defendant owns property. Poultry Show Winners Named 4-H Poultry Show And Sale Saturday Was Outstand ingEvent For Young Farm Boys And Girls The 4-H Club poultry show and sale held at Shallotte Satur day was reported a success by A. S. Knowles, county agent, and Miss Corinne Greene, home dem onstration agent. The general quality of the pullets was im proved over those in the sale last year, it was reported. The twelve projects represent ed were sponsored by Sears, Roebuck Foundation in coopera tion with the county agent and home agent who supervised the projects. The Shallotte Lion’s Club has been cooperating by assisting in putting on the show for the last two years. Their cooperation Continued on page four Telephone Group Attends Meeting With Commission Brunswick County Citizens Carried Story Of Need For Telephone Service Be fore State Utilities Com mission * COMMITTEE NOW SELLING STOCK Group Seeking Action On Proposal To Give Depend able Service To Large Area Of This County A delegation of Brunswick county citizens, two-score strong, appeared Thursday before the North Carolina Utilities Commis sion to present their cause for a better rural telephone system. The immediate purpose of the meeting was to show the State officials the need for rural tele phone service over a thickly pop ulated area of Brunswick county and to show the willingness on the part of the citizens to make any reasonable sacrifice to get this facility. Spokesmen for the Brunswick group included E. D. Bishop, Odell Williamson, A. S. Knowles, Dr. R. H. Holden, Chas. M. Trott and others. The organization meeting of the Brunswick Rural Telephone Committee met at the R.E.A. of fice in Shallotte on Friday night, September 8. Sixty interested citizens from all communities were present. T. T. Ward acted as chairman and Chas. M. Trott acted as secretary. A motion by Odel Williamson second by G. T. McKeithan that the Brunswick Rural Telephone Committee be organized was car ried unanimously. Hobson Kirby, Shallotte business man, was elect ed treasurer and was bonded to handle all finances. It was agreed to sell 200 or more shares of stock at $50.00 each at once. All interested citizens were invited to go to Raleigh and meet with the committee and the State Utilities Commission. The following were elected to serve on the committee: T. T. Ward, Chairman, Mannon C. Gore, Longwood; E. Hobson Kirby, treasurer, C. Elliott Tripp, sec retary, Odell Williamson, J. W. Gamer, E. D. Bishop, Shallotte; R. H. Holden, Holdens Beach; A. S. Knowles, Harry D. Mintz, Supply; Elroy King, ASh; Henry Hickman, Hickmans Cross Roads; B. A. Russ, Grissettown; H. Fos ter Mintz, Felton Garner, Bolivia; 'Cecil Robbins, Wlnnabow; Chas. M. Trott, Long Beach. Waccamaw Boy Helps Win “E” Caldwell Ross Helps Win Coveted “E” Award For USS Mindoro Of Which He Is Member Of Crew A member of Anti-Submarine Squadron 22, based aboard the escort aircraft carrier USS Min dore, Atlantic Fleet, which has been awarded the coveted Navy Battle Efficiency Pennant for the 1950 fiscal year is Caldwell Ross, ship’s serviceman, third class, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Continued On Page Four Not Exactly News Former County Agent J. E. Dodson has bought a home in Southport and Is going to move here as soon as he can make some satisfactory arrangement about his farm. “My legs have gone back on me”, he explained, "and I can’t get about over the place like I need to. I just simp ly don’t like to have farming go ing on and I can't see it, so I’m going to get out.” This marks the end of the ac tive farming career of a man who made a model stock and poultry farm out of an ordinary piece of bay land. It also offers an opportunity for some enter prising young man who wants to get into this kind of operation, because the retired county agent would prefer to sell out complete ly and devote his remaining years to fishing and philosophizing. We, have no idea what kind of fish erman he will make, but his phi losophy is strictly first-class. Over the week-end we visited the territory over behind Bethel Baptist church and ware im pressed with several things: A number of interesting little stre ams converge to make up Walden Creek, ’which is comparatively short; Dillard Price has a beau tiful location for a duck pond, and the Wildlife Resources people have been after him for it; Lt. Commander and Mrs. W. R. Bomberger have a delightful home on a bluff overlooking Nancy’s creek; an unusually large number of Southport people attend church and Sunday school at Bethel; and the citizens of the community deserve a paved road. A. W. Bradsher of the Grisset town community is one young farmer who is taking full advant age of his permanent pasture. Not only does he have a good family milk cow, but he has sev eral nursing cows for which he buys calves when he can find them. Early in the spring he purchased several thin feeders, fattened them on his pasture and sold them at a nice profit. LeRoy Mintz, president of the Shallotte Lions Club, the sponsor ing organization for the 4-H Poultry Show and Sale held* Sat urday at Shallotte, was talking up the bidding. “Go ahead and huy a pen of these chickens for $2.50," he counseled. “You can heep them until they get through laying this time and eat them if you want to. They’re worth that much as eating chickens — and you’ll get the eggs free.” It made Continued On Page Four i One Thousand Boy Scouts From This Area Expected At Caswell This Week-End Ash Polio Victim Now Walking With Braces Bennie Manon Register, Two Years And Four Months Of Age, Explores New World After Being Laid Low With Infantile Paralysis At Six Months; Now Needs Set Of Adjustable Crutches By WILLABU U. WJLE 1 ASH, Sept. 20 - Bennie Mar ion Register never had a chance to learn to walk as normal child ren do, but his first faltering steps with braces and crutches have been succeeded by surprising agility. Now two years and four mon ths of age, he is an overweight youngster who is fighting his way out of the handicap of a polio affliction which left him with his right leg paralyzed and his left leg stiff and virtually useless. The little man of Ash, Bruns wick County, was laid low With infantile paralysis when he was only six months of age. Sent to the polio center in Wilmington, he was discharged after only three weeks when the doctors had ac complished all they could in his case. The job of rehabilitation was begun by the Brunswick County Chapter of the National Found ation for Infantile Paralysis just as soon as practical. At 18 mon ths, the chapter supplied him with braces for both legs and a sympathetic family, whose little girl had outgrown her crutches, left a pair of crutches for his use. Then began the long and some times discouraging task of in troducing Bennie Marion to the strange and mysterious art of walking. The infinite patience of his mother and the words of en couragement from his sister and BENNIE MARION REGISTER three brothers mark a bright page in the story of his progress. Today, just 10 months later, he is no bother; he goes practically anywhere he pleases. Bennie Marion is the son of Continued On Page Four Brunswick Receives 59.8 Miles Paving -:-* . Captain Church Retires From Boats Captain Jaines B. Church, dean of menhaden boat .skip , pers ‘along this section of the coast, has retired from active service and has given up hjs vessel, the Gifford of the Brunswick iSfavigation Com pany, to Captain Thomas St. George. Captain St. George has been skipper of the John M. More head this summer, and com mand of that craft now passes into the hands of Captain Homer McKeithan, another Southport man. Planning Meet Monday Evening Sunday School Officials Of Brunswick Baptist Associ ation Will Hold Planning Session At Mt. Pisgah An Associational Sunday School planning meeting will be held at the Mount Pisgah Baptist church on Holden’s Beach Road on Mon day evening at 7:30 o'clock and all Sunday School officers and teachers of the Brunswick As sociation are requested to be pre sent. This meeting is an annual af fair and concerns plans and ways to introduce the 1950-'51 Sunday School program before the church people of the Bruns wick Baptist Association. Every officer and teacher of! every church is asked to be at ! this meeting and also every teach- j er who helped in the Vacation1 Bible School work this summer. A State-planning- meeting of like manner was held at Raleigh at the First Baptist Church on this past Friday which was at- ! tended by A. S. Knowles, As- ! sociational Sunday School Super intendent, Rev. Taft W. Hewett i and W. R. Moorehead, Associa- : tional Missionary. The Rev. Mr. Moorehead urges. that every member of the Youth i Association, which has John Her-j bert' Holden as its moderator, to ‘ attend this important meeting as1 there will be some teams select- j ed at this time from the Youth J Association which will be of great1 assistance to the Senior Associa-1 tion’s program. * This Amount Of Work Has Been Completed On Sec ondary Roads Since Begin ning Of Accelerated Pro gram THIS REPRESENTS ONLY PART OF WORK Highway Commissioner A. Wilbur Clark Says That Improvements Will Con tinue At Same Pace Through 1951 The State Highway Commission has paved 59.8 mile’s of secon dary roads in Brunswick County since the start of the accelerat ed road program last summer. Funds from the $200,000,000 bond issue financed most of this mileage along with regular secon dary road money. This represents only part of the total program planned for Brunswick Couny during he remainder of his year and in 1951, according o A. Wil bur Clark, Third Division high way commissioner. Newly paved secondary roads opened to the public during the last 12 months In Brunswick County are as follows: From Ash on NC 130 via Re gan toward Hickman’s Cross roads, 5.7 miles; From US 17 near Bolivia toward Smith’s, 4; From Soldier Bay Church on NC 130 via Longwood to US 17 at Continued On Page Four Lance Boat Has ! Another Sail Mcja Had Two Fruitful Trips To Gulf Stream Wat ers During Past Week;! Weather Mak^-s Fishing Prospects Brighter FISHING A woman joined the coveted list of fishermen who have caught sailfish this season Sunday while outside as a member of a party aboard the Moja of Captain Victor Lance. . j The successful angler was Mrs. ’ C. Hallman of Batesburg, S. C. Also in the party were her hus- j band and Mr. and Mrs. L. Garber and Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Sandifer. The sailfish was 6-ft, 6-inches long and weighed 35-pounds. The party also had 20 bluefish, 10 mackerel. The Tuesday party aboard the i Continued on page four 1 Victory Round-Up Program Will Feature Encompment At Historic Ft. Caswell Friday Through Sunday Of This Week FULL PROGRAM OF ACTIVITIES District Solicitor Clifton L. Moore And Assembly Di rector Richard K. Red wine Will Participate In Program Wallace I. West, Scout Com missioner of the Cape Fear Area Council, Boy Scouts of America, and Director of the 1950 Victory Round-Up Program announced that registrations are pouring in for the big week-end camp activi ty to take place at Fort Caswell on September 22, 23, and 24. Nearly 1,000 Scouts and Leaders are already signed up and every District in the Council Area is represented. Units will start registering at the historic site on Friday after noon and by late Saturday night, it is expected that nearly all of the 122 Troops in the Council will have checked in. The pro gram for Friday night calls for District Campfires under leader ship of the six District Com missioners: George Tenuta, Coas tal District: Beverly Paul, Pen der District; J. N. Gibson, Jr., Western District; Luther Clark, Bladen. District; Paul Blake, Cen tral District; and J. A. Maultsby, Sr., South Central District. Saturday morning- will see the Scouts sprucing up their camp sites and getting ready for the Inspection Contest, to be follow ed by a soft-ball game between the Scout Leaders of the Eastern half of the Council versus those of the Western end. The U. S. Coast Guard will stage a mam moth demonstration of Sea re scue operations in the afternoon and at 6:30 Saturday, an im pressive retreat parade and cere mony will take place. Highlight of the entire program will come Saturday night when Solicitor Clifton L. Moore, ardent Scouter and member of the Area Executive Board, leads a beauti ful Indian Pageant in the induc tion of all new Scouts coming In to the Movement since June 36. Scoutmaster Rufus Page of Eli zabethtown will serve as Director of the Council Fire Program and member of the Order of Arro\y Lodge, National Honor Camp group, will participate as the In dian braves. Dr. Richard K. Redwine, Sup erintendent of the Fort Caswell Baptist Assembly, will be speaker at the Scout Worship Service oh Sunday morning and a special program of music will be furn ished by a Scout Quartet. While all of the Scouts and most of the adult leaders will camp in tents during the Round Up, provision has been made, West said, for dormitory facilities for those men who prefer them, and many Troop Committeemen, District Committeemen, and par ents are already signed up for those accomodations. The 1950 Victory Round-Up will come to a close following lunch on Saturday and the Scouts will start their trek homeward to their own communities to carry on the Crusade to Strengthen the Arm of Liberty, the theme of their 40th Anniversary. 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, September 21, 3:42 A. M. 9:54 A. M. 4:28 P. M, 10:44 P. M. Friday, September 22, 4:45 A. M. 10:56 A. M. 5:24 P. M. 11:37 P. M. Saturday, September 23, 5:42 A. M. 11:50 A. M. 6:14 P. M. 0:00 P. M. Sunday, September 24, 6:31 A. M. 0:22 A. M. 7:00 P. M, 12:38 P. M. Monday, September 25, 7:16 A. M. 1:03 A, M. 7:39 P. M. 1:22 P. M. Tuesday, September 26, 7:57 A. M. 1:42 A. M. 8:16 P. M. 2:03 P. M. Wednesday, September 27, 8:34 A. M. 2:19 A. M. 8:50 P. M. 2:43 P. M.
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