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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 Southport, N. C., Wednesday, November 22, 1950 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY $1.50 PER YEA* Wilmington Entertains Guest HONORED.—Mrs. Mae Bamber, center, was honored Friday evening at a dinner at the Cape Fear Club by [avor Royce McClelland and other Wilmington officials. Seated left to right above are Mayor H. A. Livingston of outhport, Mayor McClelland, Mrs. Bamber, John Fox, president of the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce, and • B. Keziah, newspaper man of Southport.—(Star-News Cut.) ishing Prizes To Be Presented Tuesday Night nnUal SENCBA Fishing Dodeo Banquet Will Be Held At Famous Club In Wilmington Next Tuesday Evening The Fifth Annual Fishing odeo conducted each year by outh Eastern North Carolina each Association in coastal reas from Swansboro to the outh Carolina line ended October 1st and grand prizes are to be warded at the annual banquet i November 28. The contestants will receive eautiful metal fish trophies in jdition to their U. S. Savings onus. First prizes are 5250.00 ®ds, second prizes $150.00 rods and third prizes $100.00 ffids. This informal banquet will e held at the Famous Club, hrolina Beach road, Wilmington, ith festivities beginning at 7:30 . m. All contestants are expected »be on hand for the awarding [ these prizes. Also to be award d will be engraved metal plaques »all of the winners who caught he largest fish of each 22 pecies during the entire season, 'laques will be awarded in three ivisions: Men’s, women’s and 1 hildren’s. The program will have enter ainment provided by the Belcher j ttool of the dance with four ®beis arranged appropriately w this fishing banquet. Gen. lOuis A. Pick, Chief of Corps of Engineers, US Army, Wasington, C., has been asked to give the Bain address and George Ross, ^ad of the State of North Car •ma Department of Conservation ad Development, Raleigh, will Resent the grand prizes. Besides “■e delightful banquet, there will f other entertainment and many Continued on page four 1 r Brief Ne ws Flashes iroom sale Members of the Bolivia Lions 'Ub are engaged in a house-to Uije broom sale which is slated feekHSt ^roughout the coming frXAS VISIT Raiph Clemmons and Eugene mmons have returned from £faS ?risti’ Texas- where they Eloi«e King. While L .visited across the f°rdei’ m Mexico. feKThGl\ING SERVICE Vice f Tbanks?lving Union Ser Lor°1" SoulhP°rt will be held Cl - (Thursday) at 10 Church / Trinity Methodist h tho . e^sa£e will be delivered L. Jone.PaS °r’ bkc Rcv- Norwood 'LNLs neck Cn,chb- of lhe Boone’s Neck f°ast ru ''P°n'S01'ing an oyster fine’s Lanrt-S81Vinff day at ktil 8 ovi ? g’. from 3 o’clock 'V'five eelt. ' Jlckets are seven #be dollar V f°r children and thurch mom 01' adulls and the &Sters an\v,1SeS to suPPly all the "Oat thi<- ’ n° Can cat- Proceeds hr lh* roast will be ^ its Program. °f ^ ChUrCh Mrs. Bamber Etijoyes Exciting Visit Here -* _ New Partnership For Law Practice Ray H. Walton ,young attor- ’ ney who has been practicing law here since early this fall, has gone into partnership with . E. J. Prevatte under the firm ‘ Prevatte & Walton. Both of these attorneys are graduates of the law school at Wake Forest. Prevatte has been a resident of Southport for the past 12 years, and for several years was a law part- ] ner of the late C. Ed Taylor. < The new law firm will use the ' suite of offices in the Taylor ] building which recently have 1 been completely renovated. ^ Lumberton Man i Dies In Wreck; James McMillan Killed In stantly Thursday When His Auto Was Struck By j Another At Intersection At Ash , James McMillan, Lumberton 1 white man, died instantly Thurs- , day when his car was struck by ’ a machine driven by Davis L. ■ Williams, 18 year old youth of - Hemmingway, S. C., at the in- ' tersection at Ash post office. According to State Highway ] Patrolman J. C. Pierce and De- \ puty Sheriff Odell Blanton, Me- , Millan accompanied by William Johnson and Harris Floyd, all . employees of the Meritt Dredging \ company, at Ocean Drive, S. C., were on their way home, travel ing Route 130. This is a main highway and travel over it is not required to stop for that | coming in from side roads. Williams, on the Hickman’s Cross Roads to 130, disregarded the stop sign at the entrance to 130 and crashed straight into Mc Millan’s car, knocking it com pletely over, Patrolman Pierce reported. Two men riding with Williams were not injured, ac cording to the officers, but the Continued On Page Four Eye Clinic Held In This County Dr. Floyd Johnson, Bruns wick County Health Offi- ‘ cer Makes Report Of Ex aminations Held At Boli- ( via Dr. Floyd Johnson, Brunswick . County Health Officer has an- , nounced the results of. an eye • clinic which was held on October , 17 at Bolivia in the school gym nassium under the direction of ( Mrs. Betty West, social medical , worker from the Commission for ! the Blind, Mrs. Esther Robinson and Mrs. Ella Aldridge, Public Health Nurses, and Edward Sex ton, Superintendent of the Bruns wick County Welfare Department. Dr. E. C. Anderson of Wilming ton examined 52 school children of which 44 were fitted with glasses. No surgery was recbm mended. Plans are being made for an other eye clinic to be held in December. Visiting Council Woman I From Southport, England, ! Completely Captivated Res idents Of This Commun ity During Her Stay 1 iVAS ENTERTAINED 1 IN WILMINGTON J _ ] ^ound Of Activities Also In- 1 eluded Radio Appearan- 1 ces, Talk With Gover- * nor And Trip To Foot ball Games _ ] Saying: “I am being killed with ( cindness here, it is a glorious ( leath.” Mrs. Mae Bamber a mem- * per trf the city council of South- < )ort, England, left late Sunday i ifternoon for a short visit in ( Florida before returning to 3 rarrytown, N. Y. from there she ( vill return.'to her own South port in England. ] Accompanying’ her to Southport 3 Wednesday afternoon were her ] prother-in-law and sister, Mr. and , Vlrs. Fred Daniels of Tarrytown, \ 'L Y. Mr. Daniels, an English- } nan, is chief engineer for the i Sagle Pencil Company with of- j ’ices in half-dozen countries. , One of the chief objects of i Council woman Bamber’s coming , ;o America and Tarrytown was i o come on to Southport. From Southport, England, she brought ; greetings, from Mayor Roger j rieetwood-Hesketh to Mayor Hubert Livingston of the Ameri- 1 :an Southport. She also brought ' :he official greetings of the Eng- ] ish Southport’s Board of Trade J o W. B. Keziah. Both of these - meetings were accompanied by ]. mutations to be guests in South- 1 port, England, next year during ! ;he Festival of Britain. i An interesting fact revealed af- 1 Continued On Page Six ] lommissioners In i Session Monday j *- ] Final Meeting For Two Re- - tiring Members Of Bruns wick County Governing Body Members of the board of coun ,y commissioners held their final nesting for two of the retiring nembers here Monday, with only . Chairman R. L. Rabon slated to serve on the newly elected boai d. B. C. Williams and George B. Ward have completed their ser vice as commissioners, as neither >f them were candidate for re jection. The board wrote the highway livision giving their preference to ) i site near Acme for locating ' he bridges across the Cape Fear i -iver. This followed a prior en- ] iorsement for a site at Elwell ! J'erry and was intended to super- < ;ede that endorsement. M. D. Anderson was releived I >f $600 valuation on his Beck ] md J. A. Stone property due to : umber being removed. The board approved a $5,000.00 3ond submitted by Ed V. Leon- : ird, sheriff elect. At a special session last week ; he board had approved a .3 : nile addition to the paving at Long Beach and had agreed to reimburse Sam Watts for the cost < >f seeding permanent pasture on .he County Home farm in the jvent hi? contact for its opera* ; don is not renewed. Fisheries Group Schedules Meet For Southport Commercial Fisheries laws and egulations will be discussed at l number of public hearings to )e conducted by the Commercial •’isheries Committee of the State Soard of Conservation and Deve opment planned for next week iccording to Mr. Roy Hampton, Chairman of the Commercial fisheries Committee. The Attorney Generals Office las recently completed the job >f assembling and bringing up to late all state laws as related o commercial fisheries In so loing, it was found that there are ibuot 3,000 local county laws lealing with commercial fishing, nany of which appear to have >utlived their usefulness. George R. Ross, Director of the Department of Conservation and Development, says that an effort ias been made to study and bring ip to date these local conflict ng laws and that a series of neetings have been planned, at vhich time county legislative ■epresentatives, commercial fish ;ries interests, and county of icials from counties of the area ire invited to attend and discuss vith the Board the repeal of con flicting, obsolete, or unnecessary statues. Public hearings have )een arranged for 11:00 a. m. in he following order, and with the :xception of Morehead City, all neetings will be held in the Court louse (if available); November !7, Southport; November 28, racksonville; November 29, More lead City (Commercial Fisheries section Base); December 1, Jwansquarter; December 2, Man ,eo; December 3, Edenton. Serving on the Conservation board’s Commercial Fisheries Committee are Roy Hampton of Plymouth, Chairman; Mrs. Roland vfcClamroch of Chapel Hill; Fred ?. Lathan of Belhaven; Eric W. dodgers of Scotland Neck; and Dr. Sylvester Green of Chapel dill. Directors Make Major Decisions For Local Co-Op Board Is Chosen From Area Served By Brunswick Elec tric Membership Corpora tion And Must Be Consum ers POLICIES ESTABLISHED AT MONTHLY MEETINGS Farm And Civil Leaders 1 From Eleven Different Com munities Direct Two And One-Half Million Dol- j lar Corporation Without Pay By HUGH B. CHERRY (Brunswick Electric Corporation Advisor) Who are the directors of the ( Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation, local REA co-op ? ] Little is heard of them though they perform a most important 1 function in the operation of the organization. It is their duty to ' meet with the manager each ' month and approve or disapprove, ' make suggestions and set policies ! for the future operations of the ' REA co-op. It is through this board that all major decisions ' concerning the operation of the Brunswick Electric' Membership Corporation are made. These men are chosen from the ; area covered by the cooperative ' and must be members receiving . its service. In most cases these ' are men whose interest in the ! prospect of electrical service has ' lasted through the years from 1935 when they made their first attempt at securing government loans for the establishment of a rural electrical cooperative. These men are farm and civil leaders from eleven different com munities who receive no salary . for attending these meetings, though they direct the policies of a two and one-half million dollar organization. Interest in t Continued on page five) No Change Due In Red Cross Rev. L. D. Hayman Will Continue To Serve In Ca pacity Of Chairman Of Brunswick County Chap ter There will be no change in the set-up of the Brunswick county Red Cross work for the present, according to announcement this ( week by Rev. L. D. Hayman, county chairman. He states that he will retain the office work as needed at Southport and can be reached by telephone 2791 Southport, or 2657 Carolina Beach. Any calls coming to either telephone will be attend ed to promptly. The board of directors thus far , secured are Mrs. Frances Stone, Shallotte, Mrs. Galloway and Mrs. Evans, Leland-Winnabow area; Mrs. L. D. Hayman and Mrs. Clyde Newton, Southport area; Mrs. Ed. Newton, Southport area Junior Red Cross; Miss Louise Rees, treasurer, Southport; Mrs. W. A. Kopp, Bolivia area. Others will be announced as the chairman can make the necessary interviews. In the meantime, every call affecting Red Cross needs in the county will be met promptly , as they have been met since the present chairman accepted the of fice. Address all mail to South port, Box F. j I R. B. Babington *of Gastonia nust like this column. He ad rises us that when he got home Torn the post office Friday he lad with him the Charlotte Ob server, Time, Life, etc. He called >ut to Mrs. Babington: “Helen! rhe biggest news of all is in the state Port Pilot. Our Rovin’ Re porter is back.” “Hooray!” said Mrs. Babington. The Tidewater Power Company n Wilmington got a good man 'ecently. During the days of Bill Sharpe as director of the State Slews Bureau, Carl Sink was a rood workhorse at the side of Bill. When Bill went to the Car ina Light and Power Company Bari soon went to* Western, N. B., where he did a wdnderful job jf' publicizing “Unto These Hills.” rhe pageant is now over and Carl has with the Tidewater pretty much the same kind of job that Bill has with the Car olina Light and Power Company. We sort of got out of touch with a. great many people in re cent { months. Many, friends have been telling us how this and that old friend who is now away from the state, or distant from Southport, has been asking if we were dead. The other night in Wilmington Mrs. Hugh Morton told us that her father, Dr. Wesley Taylor, of Greensboro, was often asking about us. We haven’t seen Dr. Taylor in a long time and this is to assure him and others that we expect we are still a long ways from being dead. Incidently, Mrs. Morton has promised to bring Dr. Taylor's Continued on page four. Six Southport Residents Die In Train- Automobile Wreck Friday Afternoon Schools And Churches Receiving Benefits From Expansior Of REA Vdvaptages To Rural Residents From Rural Electrification Are Far-Reaching a iic x wui <xi iiiuatiuii au* ninistration is an agency of the J. S. Department of Agriculture. :t was established on May 11, L935, by Executive Order of the President. The Rural Electrifica ;ion Act of 1936 gave REA per nanent status and authorized a LO-year lending program. In 1944 Congress extended this lending program indefinitely. Congress uinually determines the amount >f funds REA may lend. REA is headed by an Admin strator who is appointed by the President for a 10-year term. His ippointment is confirmed by the Senate, and in his official actions le is responsible to the Secre ;ary of Agriculture. The present idministrator, Claude R. Wick ird, of Indiana, took office in luly, 1945. In the field of rural electri fication, REA is empowered to nake loans to qualified borrow ers, with preference to nonpro fit and cooperative organizations uid to public bodies. Loans are nade to cover the full cost of construe Ling power nr*5" ana other electric facility r’’e persons in rural ar._, ..no are without central station electric service. The loans bear 2 percent interest and are repaid over a maximum period of 35 years. REA itself' operates no rural electric facilities, and its program involves no grants or subsidies. REA loans are repaid from the operating revenues of locally ownea, ^ally-managed systems it finanr'vs. Part of each con sumers monthly payment for electricity goes to pay off the Government loans. REA serves principally as a banker to local systems. Its main functions are to lend money and give technical | advice and counsel where needed in the construction and operation of the borrower’s facilities. Fai i electrification had ad vanced very slowly in the United States during the 53-year period from 1882, when the first central generating system went into ser vice to 1935, when REA was •ontinued On Page Five Brunswick Baptists Honor Retiring Clerk —-* - Finds Deer While Looking For Dog It was beginning’ to look like a lean season for the deer hunting Hickman clan of Southport, for not only had they gone for almost a month without success, but had lost a good dog in the bargain. Former Police Chief Otto Hickman set out last Tuesday to find the lost hound, and just happened to take his gain along. He slipped in a couple pf shells, No. 6 shot. Then all of a sudden things began to happen. A big buck :ame loaping up for a perfect shot, and Otto blazed away vith his light load. To his surprise the deer tumbled, and he had his first vension of the season in hand. And before he got out of the woods he re covered his dog—making it a grand slam trip. Farmers Advised About Fertilizer County Agent A. S. Knowles Points Out Advantages Of Making Purchases In The Fall And Of Buying Prop er Analysis Many farmers annually get the iulk of their fertilizer in the fall and this is considered a good Dractice where there is adequate storage space, according to Coun ty Agent A. S. Knowles. The im aortant point to remember other ,han storage is to get the right rind or analysis when buying. Hte points out that farmers can save money when they buy re commended grades. It may cost nore per ton, he says, but con tains much more plant food per ton. "In general, the higher analysis fertilizer cost more per ton be cause it contains more nitrogen, iotash, or phosphate. Nitrogen costs more per unit than any ather material in the fertilizer, rhe crops require more nitrogen and therefore more emphasis should be placed upon the amount if nitrogen as well as the kind >r source of nitrogen. The next most important materials in fer cilizer is potash. Most soils in Brunswick county are low in pot ash and therefore must be added to get best results from crops. Most fertilizers have been com pounded for balance for particular crops. We should consider several factors when buying fertilizers, says the county agent. Among the factors to consider are: type if land, kind of crop ,and the use to be made of the crop. “The recommended fertilizers are as follows: For tobacco 700 to 900 pounds of 4-12-8. This is 3, new analysis but haa the same Continued On Page Four John Jenrette Presented A Watch As Token Of His Years Of Faithful Service To Brunswick Baptist As sociation HELD POSITION FOR 28 SESSIONS Has Been Ardent Supporter Of Mission Program And Pressed For Employing Associational Mis sionary John Jenrette, retiring clerk of the Brunswick Baptist Associa tion, was presented a twenty-one jewel Bulova watch as a token of appreciation for his twenty eight years of service t<L the Association at a special sJfvice last Sunday at the Fri^pship Baptist Church. Rev. H. M. Baker, Moderator of the Asso ciation, was the guest minister at Friendship for this service, and at the close of the service he recognized H. L. Clemmons, chairman of the executive com mittee, to present the watch to Mr. Jenrette. Mr. Jenrette has been a mem ber of the Baptist Church sixty sevetl years, and for forty-two of these sixty-seven years he has been a church leader. He was ordained as a deacon in the Southport Baptist Church in 1908 and when he moved his member ship to the Friendship Church he continued to serve as a dea con. He has taught every class in the Sunday School organiza tion, served as Sunday School secretary several terms, has been Sunday School Superintendent several years, treasurer of his home church for many years as well as church clerk for several terms. During his twenty-eight years of service as clerk of the Bruns Continued On Page Twp Breakdown Gives Cost Of Service Wilmington Man Has Com piled Preliminary Figures Showing Cost Of Provid ing Ferry Service Across Cape Fear Hugh Morton of Wilmington appears to have things sized up the matter of the cost of a ferry between Carolina Beach to the Brunswick side near Walden Creek. He says that thousands of New Hanover and Brunswick people want such service. “I figured it up with some folks who know costs,” said Mr. Morton. “Here’s how it goes,” he continued: “Ferry slip, New Han over side—$10,000; ferry slip, Brunswick Side—$10,000; ferry barge, stripped down—$10,000; improvements on barge—$25,000; paving Route 130 to Brunswick ferry slip ‘ not over—$25,000; Continued On Page Four Mr. And Mrs. William Br&g aw, Their Two Children, Mrs. Helen G. Bragaw And Mrs. F. M. Niernsee Killed Instantly FUNERAL SERVICES HELD HERE MONDAY Group Had Been Visiting Relatives In Arkansas And Tennessee And Were On Way Back To Southport Six Southport residents were killed Friday when their auto mobile skidded into the path of a Southern Railway freight train at Belle Mina, Ala. The victims were identified as William Bragaw, 28; Mrs. Wil-. liam Bragaw, 25; Mrs. Helen G. Bragaw, 59, mother of Mr. Bra-' gaw; Mrs. Frank M. Niemsse, 60, mother of Mrs. Bragaw; and Mr. and Mrs. Bragaw’s only two children, Lulie, five, and Mar- • garet, four. The six-member party died in stantly at 2 p. m. when the big' freight engine struck their 1950' Plymouth sedan broadside and dragged it about half a mile be fore coming to a stop. While the car was being drag ged, it was scraping part of the^ distance against a string of I freight cars parked on a siding and Mr. Bragaw, one of the worn- [ en and a child were spilled from - the automobile. The other three * occupants were crushed to death I in the twisted wreckage. Witnesses told State Highway * Patrolman Carl Edgemon of the. State of Alabama that the blink er traffic signal at the crossing “ was working perfectly at the time of the tragedy. Following the arrival of th* ” bodies here from Alabama Mon day afternoon, joint funeral ser vices were held for the six at St. Phillips Episcopal church. The services were in charge of Bishop Thomas H. Wright, Rev. Stephen Gardner and Rev. Richard Stur gis. ’ , The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Bragaw and their two children were laid to rest in • Northwood Cemetery. On Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock Mrs. Niernsee was hurried in the family plot itr Oakdale Cemtery in Wilmington. At 3 o’clock that same afternoon the body of Mrs. Bragaw was intered in the family plot a& Oakdale Cemetery in Washing-? ton. Left a widow many years ago, Mrs. Helen Grist Gragaw .brought up her family of two sons and . four daughters. Of these, the eldest son, Captain Henry Churchhill Bragaw, was killed in the Rapido River battle in Italy. The younger son, William Bra gaw, whose entire family was. wiped out Friday, served as a fighter pilot in the Navy during the war in the Pacific. The four* daughters of Mrs. Helen Bragaw, are Mrs. William Studdert of Midland, Texas, Mrs. J. O. Keefe* Bloomfield, N. J., Mrs. E. G.' Mallison, of Wilmington and Mrs; Jack Lane of Wrightsville Beach. Mrs. Nellie Sprunt Niernsee, whose husband, Frank M. Niem see, Sr., has spent much of the past two decades in South Ame rica as civil engineer, devoted her life to her son and two dau ghters, Frank M. Niernsee, Jr.r Continued On Page Four r Tide Table Following Is the tide table for Southport during the next week. These hours are appro^* 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, November 23, 7:00 A. M. 0:38 A. M. 7:14 P. M. 1:17 P. M. Friday, November 24, 7:37 A. M. 1:16 A. M. 7:51 P. M. 1:57 P. M. Saturday, November 25, 8:14 A. M. 1:53 A. M. 8:27 P. M. 2:35 P. M. Sunday, November 26, 8:50 A. M. 2:31 A. M. 9:02 P. M. 3:13 P. M. Monday, November 27, 9:25 A. M. 3:07 A. M. 9:37 P. M. 3:51 P. M. Tuesday, November 28, 10:01 A. M. 3:44 A. M. 10:15 P. M. 4:30 P. M, Wednesday, November 29, 10:40 A. M. 4:24 A. M. 10:59 P. M. 5:10 P. M.