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Most of The New* All The Time THE STATE PORT PILOT VOL. NO. SIXTEEN --- NO. 48 A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Southport, N. C., Wednesday, January 3,1951 The Pilot Covers Brunswick County PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY *1.50 PER YEA* Director Livil Defense Gives Warning Signal Thomas B. Carr, Head Of Organization For City Of Southport, Advises That Siren Will Be Used In Southport ORGANIZATION ON NATION-WIDE BASIS Advice Given As To The Proper Procedure Under Emergency; Booklet Is Distributed To Civil ians T. B. Carr, Director of Civil Defense for the City of South port, has received instructions from headquarters in Raleigh governing warning signals which will be used in the event of an emergency brought on by enemy action. Effective at once, the two-stage public warning code will be used to announce imminent attack and the subsequent “All Clear”. The “Red Alert” public warning sig nal will be of three minutes dur ation. It will consist of fluctuat ing or warbling signals of vary ing pitch by the siren at the fire station. The “All Clear” signal will be a series of three steady one minute blasts by the siren, interrupted by silent periods- of two minutes each. The red alert is the on-the-spot final warning and requires the immediate com pliance with procedures prescrib ed for the protection of life and property. In the event the red a lert is the first alarm received, mobilization of Civil Defense force should be delayed until im mediately after the attack rath er than risking the exposure of the organized services to the haz ards of attack. The basic code was developed by a panel consisting of Repre sentatives of the Civil Defense Administration, The Department of Defense, State and City Civil Defense Authorities and Sound Engineers. The “Red Alert” pub lic warning will be sounded by I municipalities when the Key point warning stations, operated the Continental Air Command, U. S. Air Force, have received the signal that enemy air attack is imminent. When the “Red Alert” warning is sounded, the public should act immediately. 1. All persons at work in busi- j ness and industry should take cover or go to shelters previous ly designated by Civil Defense Authorities locally. Where shelt ers have not been publicily de signated, people at work and those in the streets and in vehic les should take immediate cover in the nearest modern building or in subway or other suitable underground shelters. 4. aii people in schools, homes or other dwellings should take immediate shelter. Instructions for use in finding proper shelter are contained in the official Civil Defense booklet “Survival Under Atomic Attack”, This booklet has been distributed to State and local Civil Defense Authorities and may be purchased for ten cents from the Superintendent of Documents, Washington 25, D. C. The “All Clear" signal will mean that enemy aircraft are no longer in the area. f~BrUf Ntwt | Flaihtt LIONS CLUB The regular meeting of the Southport Lions Club will be held tomorrow (Thursday) in the Commurcty Building. CHRISTMAS VISIT Max Thomas Edwards, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Edwards of Bolivia, flew home from his air force base in Louisianna to spend Christmas with his parents. He enlisted in the air force follow ing his graduation in 1948. BUSINESS TRIP J. T. Denning, superintendent of schools for Brunswick county, has an appointment with defense officials in Washington, D. C., tomorrow where he will go to seek permission to commence con struction on the Waccamaw high school gymnasium immediately. large sea bass Having to make a trip out to Frying Pan Lightship on New Years day, the crew of the Coast Guard 83-footer stopped for a shor t while at the rocks near the ship and caught over two hund red pounds of extra large sea bass in just a few minutes. They got about all their families and the ship could use in several days. Brunswick Legislators LEAVE—Senator S. B. FnnK and Representative Har ry L. Mintz, Jr., are in Raleigh for the opening of the 1951 session of the State Legislature today. This is the third term in the State Senate for Frink and is the first appear ance in the Legislature for Mintz. Dance Receipts Help Swell Blue Baby Fund Event Sponsored By The Lions Club Of Shallotte Added $50.00 To Amount Raised To Finance Opera tion HEWETT CHILD NEEDS SURGERY Dr. R. H. Holden Heads Committee Which Is Rais ing Money For This Pur pose; Help Needed The proceeds of the New Year dance given by the Shallotte Lions Club amounted to S50.00 and this sum has been turned over to the Brunswick Blue Baby fund, according to a report made Tuesday by Dr. R. H. Holden, treasurer for the fund. From someone in Wilmington who did not sign his or her name came $2.00. The sender stated he or she had read in the papers a story about the little girl who needed an operation, and wish ed to help. From G. B. Lewis of Winabow came another $3.00 and a letter stating Mr. Lewis had read about Shirley Ray Hewett needing an operation and he also wished he could send more to help. As mentioned in last weeks paper, the Cedar Grove negro Baptist church sent Dr. Holden $21.01 for the little white girl who needed an operation to save her life. This donation was re ported last week along with an other in the sum of $250.00 that came almost immediately after ward from the Woman’s Club of the Chapel Hill Baptist Church at Shallotte. ■ Several agencies that are thought to be at work helping to raise the needed sum of around $1,200 did not report by Sunday or Monday. Dr. Holden states that heerafter a list of all dona tions will be published in this paper each week. He and others in charge of the fund raising are planning to contact all Lions Clubs in the county and all schools and churches, women’s clubs, etc. asking their help. Shirley Ray Hewett is 10 years old, the daughter of a poor but worthy white couple of Lock woods Folly township. A Blue Baby, the the little girl must either have an operation or she will never be normal and is doomed to die within a few years. Such operations are costly and her parents just cannot pay. The need resulted in an or ganization being formed at Shal lotte to raise the fund that may save her. Principal Henry Stone of the Shallotte high school was appointed secretary of the fund committee and Dr. R. H. Holden Continued On Page Two Baptist Plan Pastors School Brunswick Baptist Associa tion Sponsoring Training School Next Week At An tioch Church Near Bolivia The Brunswick Baptists As sociation will hold its first Dea cons School on the second week in January, beginning on the evening of January 9th and run ning through January 12th at the Antioch Baptist church, near Bolivia. Sessions will begin at 7:30 each evening. Dr. Earle H. Bradley of Ral eigh of the State Baptists State Mission Program will be the prin Highway Force Paving Streets A force of State Highway road builders supervised by Charles (Buck) Parker, began the work of laying the hot mixture surfacing on Southport city streets Tuesday. This is the finishing touch to the cold mixture application put down by the same force in September. Interviewed yesterday after noon, Mr. Parker said it would take about 8 days to finish the present work. Thirty trucks are being used for hauling in the surfacing material and one of the big machine is doing the mixing and spreading. About six blocks are being paved from curb to curb, and top surfacing will be applied to a mile or more of old roadway. Recorder Hears Numerous Cases Large Number Of Cases Ac cumulated During Holiday Season And Were Up For Trial At This Week’s Ses sion This week’s session of the Re corders court turned out to be about the longest sinble day’s session of which there is any re cord. With a lot of cases con tinued; Judge W. J. McLamb and Solicitor 'Kirby Sullivan call ed it a day at 8:20 p. m. Especially lengthy was the case of James Royce Bullard, Chad bourn white youth, who was charged with reckless operation, damage to property and causing personal injuries. Bullard was the operator of * he produce truck which struck one of the Bruns wick County Training School buses three weeks ago. The bus overturned and all but three of the 39 negro students were in jured, some of them seriously. Bullard was convicted and given 90 days in jail and assigned to the roads. This sentence was suspended on the payment of a Continued on Page Two Leonard Attends Sheriff’s School j _ Head Of County Law Enfor cement Organization Will Hear Discussions On Vari ous Phases Of Sheriff’s Job Sheriff E. V. Leonard will go | to Chapel Hill on Thursday to ; attend a School for Sheriffs to be conducted under the auspices of the Institute of Government. The program will include dis cussions on the sheriff’s office, summons and complaints, sub poenas and notices, claim and delivery, attachment and garnish ment, executions, execution sales, civil arrests, evictions, court and jury duties, and other phases of ' the sheriff’s work. I The school will run from Wed nesday noon to Friday noon. Clerk of Court Sam T. Ben i nett plans to attend a similar i school for clerks of the Superior | court at Chapel Hill January 10, 111, 12th. The program in his case I covers various duties of his of ' fice. Chinese Launch Major Drive In Battle Of Korea Lines Of United Nations For ces Smashed Through At Four Different Points In New Year’s Eve Offensive VANGUARDS OF ENEMY OBLIVIOUS OF LOSSES Armor Of Red Hordes Is Streaming Across 38th Parallel And All-Out Drive Appears In Making TOKYO, Monday, Jan. 1—The Chinese Communists launched a major attack on the United Nations defense line in Korea on New Year’s eve and slashed through the Allied lines at four points. United Press Correspondent Gene Symonds reported from Seoul that the heaviest attack came directly north of Sec ,1 along the classic Invasion route used centuries ago by Genghis Khan. He did not say how far back the Allies were pushed. The Chinese—vanguards of 1, 250,000 enemy troops—preceded the attacks with blowing of bu gles and then surged forward in a human sea, oblivious of losses. Symonds said the Chinese drove a wedge into the Allied lines along the invasion route to the north and made two other penetrations immediately to the east. At least one other penetra tion was still farther to the east. An all-olt offensive had been expected for days with the van guard of a 1,250,000-man enemy force massing below the 38th parallel near Seoul with heavy artillery and armor. Reports from the Korean capi tal said the firing was by medi um artillery, as the Chinese moved heavy guns and tanks in to final positions for their big drive. It was concentrated in the area 12-miles northwest of Chunchon and 50 miles northeast of Seoul. xunemy armor streamed souu ward to the 38th parallel, £0 miles above the capital, and i(i some places poured across it. The massive buildup went on despite American air blows through snow and clouds. Lt. Gen George E. Stratemey er, commander of the Far East Air Forces, told United Press President Hugh Baillie in a ca bled interview that Americen planes were ready to hunt down enemy troops and supply centers wherever they could be found in Korea, Stratemeyer said 39, 031 enemy troops had been killed or wounded in air attacks in the first 30 days of December, while thousands of targets had been damaged or destroyed. Brunswick Man Dies Suddenly Ben Gray, Prominent Resi dent Of Makatoka Com munity, Dropped Dead Thursday Morning J. Ben Gray, 68, a resident of Freeland, died suddenly of a heart attack in the living room of his home about 5 o’clock Thursday morning. A native of Brunswick Coun (Continued on page 4) Pastor REV. W. M. USSERY, pastor of Soldier Bay Baptist church and Friendship Baptist church in this county. State Leading Way In Program To Get Industry 3,250 Small Towns Offer Many Advantages To Those Seeking Locations Outside Congested Areas RALEIGH — North Carolina further diversified its position of industrial leadership in the South east in 1950. • Already the leading cotton tex tile producer in the nation, im portant new entries in the fields of woolens and synthetic fibres and the finishing industry during the year added diversity to the State’s huge spinning and weav ing industry. Other new industries established in 1950 ranged from electronics to wood pulp. Both these new industries, which com pleted or planned investment of more than $100 millions in the State during the year, and ad ditions to already established manufacturing plants reflected the trend toward rural and subur ban locations. The number of plants located outside cities directs attention to Nortn Caroline s - accessible isola tion"—a slogan first used by Gov ernor Scott in summing up the State’s unique attraction to in dustry in the atomic era. With overnight access to the most con centrated markets in the nation, but with its own population of more than four millions dispersed I in more than 3,500 towns, villages and rural areas, North Carolina represents accessibility to mar kets, materials and labor, but isolation from the disadvantages of congested cities. Typical of industry’s utilization of rural and suburban plant sites in North Carolina are the $24 million duPont plant for the manufacture of the new “Fibre V" near Kinston, the $20 million Olin Industries plant for the ! manufacture of cellophane at | Pisgah Forest, and the $3-% ; million plant of Woonsocket Falls ' Mills for making upholstering | materials near the port city of Wilmington. j These are all large textile and j chemical establishments, but over ! all industrial expansion of 1950 j covered a much broader field. The Continued On Page Two W. B. KEZIAH Our ROVING Reporter When it comes to bad weather, Saturday about copped the prize for anything in Brunswick dur ing 1950. At least we felt that way. It was cold enough to be disagreeable and topped off a a continuous rain. Polks who live on loads that have been graded the past year (and there are many miles of such roads) will agree that the day was a bad one. The roads became almost impassable and none were safe to venture out on in a car with out the risk of bogging down. Four of the Shallotte Point fishermen had right good luck Saturday. Perhaps al of them did—we only contacted the four in question. These four, Lawrence Stanley, Allen Stanley, Marvin Stanley and William Gurganus, got 1500 lbs. of nice mullets from one haul with their net. They brought 10 cents per pound, nqt a bad days work for four men As a matter of fact, the makinj: of the catch only took a short i fwhile. >mnx About every place of business in Shallotte has from one to half a dozen pretty girl employees. They are all nice, but looking back on the way we recall only one place we entered where the girls did not jump on us and give us a piece of their mind. Even the men folks usually had something to say, and as a rule, it was not very flattering. It all came about through something in the paper and the further fact that since Adam was created the man has never been born who could please everybody. Shallotte and Southport high school boys and girls, always rivals for sport honors, are to meet at the Shallotte gym Friday night of this week. It seems to be generally conceded that the Shal lotte girls will win as they have J a good str ing of victor ies behind i them for this season. About the J (Continued on page Twoj. Families Following Fishermen To Florida General Exodus To Key West During Holidays Indicates That Local Boats Will Stay Several Months Around here it is figured to be bad enough to have all of the shrimp fleet and the crews of the boats to desert Southport for Florida during the winter mon ths, but during the holidays mat ters became worse when several of the men engaged in the shrim ping business decided to take a long their entire family. When Capt. Merritt Moore left to return to his boat, the Penny, he took along his wife and their three children, and plans are to spend the balance of the school year at Key West. W. G. Wells also took along Mrs. Wells and their daughter when he returned. Dallas Pigott, whose boats were operating in the St. Augus tine area before Christmas, was accompanied by Mrs. Pigott when he returned to Florida last week, with Key West his ultimate des tination. L. J. Hardee left last week for Key West with the object of locating housing accommodations suitable for his wife and family, and when he has made the neces sary arrangements, he plans to send for them to join him in the Florida shrimping capitol. Mrs. W. S. Wells was with her husband in Flordia before Christ mas, and plans to return with him for at least a part of the period during which he in engag ed In shrimping operations in that area. At the moment, there is no as surance just where this trend will end, but the prospect is that the extent of the exodus will de pend pretty much upon the avail ability of houses in the crowded Florida shrimping centers. Shallotte Business Boomed During 1950 ■ — --* Normal Routine Has Been Resumed Brunswick county was back on its regular work schedule Tuesday after the holiday per iod which included a long week end for Christmas and another for New Years. The schools of the county re sumes their operation Tuesday after being closed since Dec ember 22. All city and county offices were open for business as usual on Tuesday, and the board of county commissioners and Recorder’s court held their regular sessions one day late this week. Local Couple Hit Bad Weather Mr. And Mrs. George W. Rappleyea Found That Unusually Cold Weather Has Not Been Confined To Southport Area George M. Rapplyea declared Monday that he had not missed out on any bad December weather by going to Louisiana, Florida and Cuba. He said it was as bad there as he ever saw it here at home. He wore his overcoat every day of the trip, even during the days he was in Cuba. Mr. and Mrs. Rapplyea left for Louisiana by car on the first of December, driving on from there to various points in Florida and leaving from Miami by plane for Cuba. The couple were in Florida when the first cold spell struck and the damage to the citrus crop, he says, was worse than the folks here learned about. Very little publicity was put out about the cold in Florida be cause of the tourist season. Still everybody had to turn to heavy clothing and heat of some sort in all homes. By not being pre pared for it, many Florida people Continued on page four Many Applicants For Carrier Job At Least Eleven Will Stand Examination To Fill Vaca ncy In Position From Shal lotte Office Reports indicate that at least eleven applicants will take the examination for the position of rural letter carrier from the i Shallotte office. All applicants for the examination must be filed by tomorrow, January 4. Practically all of those known to have applied are said to be ex-service men. It is understood that one or two women are also among the applicants. The route is a long one, formed several years ago by the combining of ! routes 1 and 2. Most of the dis tance is or will be over paved roads, with the completion of the highway commissioners paving porgram. Ted Bennett is now serving as acting carrier and has held that position for the past two or three months. He is understood to be among the number applying for j the permanent job. The usual | course in making the selection is j from the three applicants who make the highest ratings. Sentiment Of Leading Mer chants And Business Men Of That Community Defi nitely Encouraging KIRBY STORE HIT ALL-TIME RECORD Community Is Looking For ward To Continued Pros perity During 1951, Ac cording To Optimistic Statements Business must have been pretty good at Shallotte during 1950, judging by comments made by various business men this week. Cashier J. E. Cooke of the Shal lotte branch of the Waccamaw Bank and Trust Company says that his annual report shows that the 1950 business of the bank was 20 percent better than that of 1949, and 1949 was a good year. • Hobson Kirby, owner of the Shallotte Trading Company, is also speaking of an extra good business during 1950. “In fact,” says Mr. Kirby, “the Saturday before Christmas was the great est single day’s business our store has ever had.” Sherman Register of the Shal lotte Hardware Company has been in business at Shallotte less than six months. He has no prior years to compare with 1950. Still he said "things have been very good and I am much pleased, with this, our first year.” D. Carl Andrews. R. E. Bellamy & Sons, the Shallotte Soda Shop, Coast Road Service Station, M. W. Hewett, King’s Electrical Supply company, Jim Davis of the Columbus Trading Company, Charles Russ of Russ Food Cen ter, J. H. Henson & Son and about every place of business in Shallotte that has been contacted spoke of the good business of 1950. All are looking frward to still better business in 1951. They point out that severe winters are always followed by fine crops. December certainly brought a severe winter, although there was no snow. A lot Qf insects that usually prey on crops following a mild winter have undoubtedly been killed or their numbers greatly lessened. The 1951 pro spect for crops is excellent and Shallotte is right in the middle of a good farming section. Commissioners In Session Tuesday County Board Held Meeting Here Yesterday Following One-Day Delay Due To Holiday With the first Monday falling on New Years Day, the board of county commissioners met Tues day. The minutes show the fol lowing matters as having come up: On motion of Commissioner H. O. Peterson, seconded by Commis sioner E. L. Rabon, it was order ed that financial statements, showing all receipts and disburse ments, be published in the county newspaper each six months, or twice yearly. On motion of. Commissioner Rabon, seconded by Commissioner Peterson, E. H. Gray was re vived of $166.00 valuation on 15 acres of land in Lockwood6 Folly rownship, due to an error in list ng. On motion of Commissioner Continued On Page Two Pre-Tournament Scheduled Will Begin Friday PRE-TOURNAMENT Southport Will Play Host To Visiting Shallotte Teams While Waccamaw Will In vade Bolivia COMPLETE SCHEDULE OF GAMES LISTED Waccamaw Teams Will Play i All Games Away From I Home Pending Comple tion Of New Gymnas ium The pre-tournament schedule for Brunswick county basketball teams gets underway Friday night with Southport playing host to Shallotte and Waccamaw playing at Bolivia. Throughout the following mon th games are scheduled on Tues day and Friday nights of each week, with the exception that Friday games scheduled for Le la.nd will be played on Thursday night. All games are on a home and home basis except for Wac camaw, who must play all of their games as a visiting team until • the new gybnasium is completed. All meetings are for double headers, with the girls game to begin at 7:30 o’clock in each in stance. It will be the responsibili ty of the home team to furnish two officials. As the official league season gets underway it appears that. Shallotte girls have the best team in the county, although they drop ped a pre-Christmas tilt to an aroused bunch of Waccamaw players. Little is known of the comparative strength of the boy3* teams. Following is the schedule of games leading up to the tourna ment: January o, waccamaw at Boli via ; Shallotte at Southport. January 9, Bolivia at Shallotte; Leland at Southport. January 11, Waccamaw at Ice land; January 12, Southport at Bolivia. January 16, Leland at Bolivia; Waccamaw at Shallotte. January 18, Southport at Le land; January 19, Shallotte at Bolivia. January 23, Waccamaw at Boli via; Southport at Shallotte. January 26, Leland at Shallotte; Waccamaw at Southport. January 30, Bolivia at South port; Waccamaw at Leland. February 1, Bolivia at Leland; February 2, Waccamaw at Shal lotte. February 6, Shallotte at Le» land; Waccamaw at Southport. Southport Men In War Zone Letter From Sgt. James Me Keithan Indicates Gravity Of Situation In Korea A letter received this week by Southport friends of Master Ser geant James McKeithan, who is with the army in Korea, spoke of the fighting there as “policing” but for those who could read be tween the lines it was evident that the Southport man, who has been in the army about 11 years, considers the situation as really serious. At one point he spoke of things as being “shameful” with out specifying what. Sergeant McKeithan is one of two Southport sergeants serving with the forces in Korea. Ser Continued On Page Two 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, December 28 10:17 A. M. 4:06 A. M. 10:38 P. M. 4:44 P. M. Friday, December 29, 10:58 A. M. 4:49 A. M. 11:25 P. M. 5:23 P. M. Saturday, December 30, 11:43 A. M. 5:38 A. M. 0:00 P. M. 6:08 P. M. Sunday, December 31, 0:16 A. M. 6:34 A. M. 12:34 P. M. 6:59 P. M.