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Most of The New* All The Time VOL. NO. SIXTEEN NO. 6 THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community __ The Pilot Covers Brunswick County 4 pages today Southport, N. C., Wednesday, March 14, 1951 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY §1.50 PER Y SI Outboard Motor Races To Start Here Next Week Second_ Annual Southport To Myrtle Beach Marathon Will Be Staged Along In land Waterway Course On Next Wednesday MANY ENTRIES IN RACE THIS YEAR Starting Point Will Be Gov ernment Dock With Finish Line At Socostee Bridge Near Myrtle Beach The second annual Outboard Motor Marathon from Southport to Myrtle Beach will be staged next Wednesday with the 7 y2 h. p. boats getting underway at 10:00 a. m. Other classes will leave at 15 minute intervals thereafter. The race is sponsored by the Myrtle Beach Outboard Motor Club with Southport inter ests actively cooperating. Considerable improvements in the program relative to the dif ferent classifications have been made since last year. Six classes, based on horsepower, will com pose the entry list and rules per mit the use of almost all stock motors in one class or another. The classes, as listed by Pre sident Stanley Edgeworth of the Myrtle Beach Outboard Motor Club are as follow: 7y2 h. p. (excluding Martin CHS and Champion “Hot Rods,”) 10 hose power; 16 h. p. (excluding Mercury Hurricane); 16 h. p. (including Mercury Hurricane) ; 22 h. p. 33 h. p. (including 25 h. p. Mercury, 25 h. p. Johnson, 25 h. p. Evinrude.) Power must be strictly stock motors with the following altera tions, if desired: Speed prop may be used, cowling may be removed if desired, open exhause is opti onal. Only stock fuel (gas and oil) may be used. Only stock utility boats complying with APBA regulations may be used. The boats will againuse the Government dock as the starting point and the plans are to again use the Community Building as a club house. Allowing for the fact that quite a crowd was pre sent here at the starting point for the race last year, President Edgeworth is expecting a big turnout this year. The boats will begin arriving here early next Wednesday morning and some may arrive Tuesday. With fav orable weather Wednesday mor ning spectators may be treated to quite a show as the fast little boats warm up in the harbor, prior to starting. Approximately 50 boats entered last year. Information from Myr tle Beach today was to the ef fect that the outlook is for over jfcstutff tl*H^Uft^Jjgats Jo enter Entry blanks are available? hrough various boat clubs in 'forth and South Carolina and nay also be obtained from the state Port Pilot office. Brief Newt Flathet PASSES EXAM T. E. Gilbert has passed the State Board of Examiners and s now employed at Andrews Mortuary in Wilmington. [JHICKEN SUPPER Members of the American Le gion Auxiliary of the Shallotte Post will serve a fried chicken supper beginning at 7 o’clock Friday evening in the Legion Hut. EASTER PROGRAM "Sunrise Over Calvary’’ will be presented by the choir of South port Baptist church on Easter Sunday night at 7:30 o’clock. The program is under the direction of Paul Pittinger. HOSPITAL AUXILIARY The Dosher Memorial Hospital Auxiliary will hold its regular meeting at the home of Mrs. H. B. Smith Thursday at 3:30. Members are urged to attend. SINGING CONVENTION There will be an all day sing ing convention at Mt. Carmel Church at Shallotte Point Sun day, March 18. The public is cor dially invited to attend and take part. HEADED FOR MEXICO The 110 - foot former Coast Guard cutter purchased by Swan and Downing last fall and con verted into a shrimp trawler, left this week for Key West. It is planned that the boat will fish out in the Gulf of Mexico for the next two months. Captain Andy powing is in charge. Business For Pleasure The Meredith College business students pictured above recently visited Miller and Rhodes in Richmond, Virginia, as a project in connection with their retailing class, under Miss Martha Hill (center), front) head of the department of business at Meredith. Inur ing their visit, they toured the store from basement to attic with Mrs. Powell ( back row, right) who is in charge of the retail training division. They saw a Vogue fashion show, launched in the tea room and saw other modeling aspects, and were shown the various phases of the advertising, accounting and public relations program. Left to right, front row, they are Jeannette Atkins of Cary; Miss Hill; Evelyn Barden, Rose Hill; (back row) Beth Boggs, College Park, Ga.; Ann McRackan, Southport; Marilyn Hut, Forest City; and Mrs. Powell. Two Brunswick Girls To Teach School In State Among The Students At Meredith Who Plan To Teach Next Year Are Two From Brunswick County The teaching profession in North Carolina will be richer by at least 97 new prospective tea chers by June of this year, two of them from Brunswick County, when Meredith College will grad uate approximately that number of seniors who have completed requirements for A-grade teach ing certificates. Among this semester’s student teachers is Ann McRacken of Southport, who is teaching busi ness at Needham Broughton in Raleigh; and Crystal Stanley of Ash, who is teaching fourth grade at Ravenscroft School in Raleigh. A total of 66 seniors are en gaged in student teaching in __^^Wake County schools during this semester, and '!?? -others complet ea that phase or their fol. v u training in various fields during* the fall term. Operating on the theory that students learn best by "doing,” prospective teachers at Meredith spend several hours each day dur ing half their senior year actual ly teaching, under the supervision of teachers in the Wake County schools, their major professors, and the Meredith department of education. Baptists Rally At Mt. Pisgah Evangelistic Rally Will Be Held Sunday Afternoon At 2:30 O’Clock With Sermon By The Rev. R. F Foster The Brunswick Association will meet at Mt. Pisgah Baptist chur near Supply Sunday March 18 at 2:30 o’clock for an Evange listic Rally, according to A. S. Knowles, chairman of the com mittee on rallies. An outstanding program has been arranged by the committee. This includes an inspirational message from Rev. R. C. Foster pastor of the First Baptist church of Whiteville. Special music will be rendered by two ladies from the Sunnlv Baptist church. The host church will serve refresh ments at the end of the program. All churches in the association are cooperating in holding simul taneous revivals during the week of March 25-31. This rally is de signed to coordinate the efforts of all churches and to make the series of services more effective. Every church is expected to send members of the Sunday school, B. T. U. and W. M. U. These groups can do much in advancing the work in every l community where a church is i located, says Mr. Knowles. Every 1 one is invited. Southport Boys Go To Semi-Final Game - ------ -- Local Cagers Lost To Beau fort 36 To 26 On Saturday Night For Best Showing Of Brunswick Team In Tour ney NINE BRUNSWICK TEAMS ENTER EVENT Girls And Boys From This County Gave Good Ac count Of Themselves In Annual Star-News Tournament Southport, last survivor among the Brunswick county entries in the Star-News-Y. M. C. A. Tourn ament in Wilmington, lost in the semi-finals on Saturday night to Beaufort 36 to 26. The night before the local quint had nosed out the Bolivia 47 to 46 in a renewal of their season’s rivalry. Bolivia had de feated Southport for the Bruns wick county championship last month, and prior to that the two had divided a pair of games. I pftbl T*ie Shallotte girls were re Tirroenjtgpients of the sportsmanship trophy ■>. Want4& their division. Southpoiv no.' drained the quar ter-finals by virtue c ' ' of a lopsided win over Burgaw, 61 tu- -> 31. Boli via gained its place with 43 to da victory over wmte (Jak, last year’s champions in this tourna ment. All other Brunswick entries in the boys division lost in the first round. Warsaw eliminated Shal lotte 67 to 41. Leland lost to , Elizabethtown in a 48 to 45 thriller; and Waccamaw forfeited to Rose Hill. In the girls division Wacca maw defeated White Oak 47 to 46; Shallotte topped Bladenboro 38 to 33; Long Creek swamped Bolivia 75 to 50; and Leland drew a bye in opening round games. The three Brunswick sur vivors went out in the quarter finals. Penderlea beat Waccamaw 83 to 62 in a high-scoring con test; Shallotte fell before Clark ton 74 to 50; and Rose Hill took the measure of Leland, Brunswick county champs, 54 to 46. Additional Road Work Completed Surfacing of Road From Hin -souls—Store_To_Varaum Point Completed Undei Bond Program The State Highway Commis sion has completed two and one half additional miles of roac work in Brunswick County un der the $200,000,000 bond issui program. The new segment finished dur ing February was the hardsur facing from Hinson’s Store tc Varnum Point. More than 27 miles of new road work was completed in th< Third Highway Division during February. Surprise Visit Is Complete Surprise Last week Mrs. Charles Trott of Long Beach suddenly decid ed she would go to Hagers town, Maryland, and pay a surprise viist to her mother, Mrs. G. B. Alexander. She left here at 4 o’clock the next morning. The same morning at 10 o’ clock, 6 hours after Mrs. Trott left here, a telephone call from Wilmington advised that Mrs. G. B. Alexander of Hagerstown was there in Wilmington, on her way down to pay a sur prise visit to her daughter, Mrs. Trott. Plan Services All Next Week Series Of Holy Week Ser vices Will Be Held At Trin ity Methodist Church Pro ceeding Easter Special services will be held in Trinity Methodist church each ef» 'gening at 7:30 o’clock during Holy Wei?.* WC' k. The subjects of the meditations wfu- ’’V be: Monday: “Jesus Cleanses th^ Bl Temple”. Tuesday: “Faith as Pow* ** r”; Wed nesday: “What are You b, Continued On Page Two Salary Bill Is Amended Before Going To House Representative Harry L. Mintz, Jr., Makes Several Important Changes In Bill As Originally Presented By Senator Frink *> COMMISSIONERS TO HAVE DISCRETION Representative Sets Salary Figure In Bill But Provides Ten Percent Adjustment By Commiss ioners > Representative Harry L. Mintz, Jr., has prepared a committee substitute bill for Senate Bill No. 45 governing pay raises for Brunswick ' county officials. It contains the following provisions: Payment at the rate of $10.00 per day for the coroner, plus 7 cents per mile for necessary tra vel. A salary of $3,000.00 per year for the Register of Deeds and $1,700.00 for the deputy Register of Deeds. A salary of $3,300.00 per year for the Clerk of Court .this to include his services as Juvenile Judge and clerk to the Record er’s court. A salary of $1,900.00 per year is provided for the as sistant clerk. A salary of $3,000.00 per year for the Tax Collector and a sal ary of $1,700.00 for the assistant tax collector. A salary of $3,200.00 per year for the county auditor, which al so shall include his services as tax supervisor and ex-officio clerk to the board of county com missioners. A salary of $1,600.00 per year for Judge of Recorder’s court. A salary of $1,500.00 per year for the solicitor of the Recorder’s court. A salary of $3,300.00 for the Sheriff of Brunswick county. In addition he shall draw a travel allowance of $600.00 per year for travel within the county and tra vel expenses at the rate of 7 cents per mile for outside the county while on official business. The sheriff is authorized to employ two full-time deputies at (Continued on page Two) Sunrise Service Plans Continue Arrangements Being Made For Service On River Bank At Sunrise On Easter Morning Plans are progressing for the sunrise service on Easter Sun day morning in which members of all churches in Southport will unite. The speaker will be the Rev. John Lawrence, pastor of Sun set Baptist church in Wilming ton. Music will be furnished by the combined choirs of the color ed churches of the community. Plans are to hold the service on the banks of the Cape Fear river in the area opposite the garrision if the weather permits. Facilities for a speaker platform and rough seating will be provid ed. Further details of the program will be announced next week. I —. W. B. KJEZIAH Our ROVING Reporter Sidney G. Osborne and Robert Cummings of St. Davids, Ont., Canada, have been spending the past week here and have ap ! parently found things very inter esting. A lot of folks in various parts of Canada have recently found the Brunswick area a very interesting place. Prof. Bridger, an instructor in the Royal Mili tary College at Kingston, is to come here early in April to look for a home for himself and Mrs. Bridger during next winter. Although there is some doubt as to its being worth anything, good will on the part of ourself and clerk of Court Sam T. Ben nett towards Game Protector H. T. Bowmer has resulted in Sam and your columnist getting a fishing boat for the summer. It might be said that Bowmer do nated the boat free gratis for nothing. Sam’s idea about it is very much like our own. We are going to use that boat to catch all of the blue gills and large mouth bass we want to eaten during the spring and summer. And we have entered into an agreement to dig and dig alike for the necessary fishing worms. Pat Pretlow, operator of the Hamme Marine Railway on the Brunswick side of the river at Wilmington, dropped in to see us one afternoon this week. Some years ago Pat, along with Bob Ruark, set out to be a newspaper man. Robert began as sports editor of the Washington Daily News and Pat was drama critic and a few other things on the same paper. Pat came home to Brunswick while Robert kept go ing. We guess that if everything was known it would be revealed that Pat is just about as well satisfied with life as Robert is. The source of the fish appeared to us to be rather doubtful, even if the source of the story was to be depended on as authentic. {Continued on page 2) Large Area In County Under Consideration For Defense Project Crippled Children Seals Now On Sale Sale Of Cripple Children Seals In Brunswick May Mean Opportunity For Some Unfortunate Child riunarecis ot worth Carolina’s 250,000 handicapped children will receive benefits under a three point program of the North Caro lina League for Cripple Children this year, but the extent of this aid will depend on the generosity of citizens in the Easter Seal campaign now underway in Brunswick and most other coun ties throughout the state. This statement was made by Mrs. James M. Harper, Jr., pre sident of the Southport Woman’s Club, county chairman this year for the Easter Seal appeal. The three-point program, Mrs. Harper said, "calls for increased facilities and trained personnel for the care, treatment and train ing of the ceredral palsied; an expansion cf the Special Educa tion program for the handicapped child being directed by the State Department of Public Instruction, and direct financial or other as sistance for individual cases ned ing help and for the promotion of local projects. "During the past year individu al services were given to 3,200 of the State’s handicapped children through the State-Wide program of the League, which is support ed entirely by the Easter Seal contributions, and there is a de sperate need for the Expansion of these services,” the chairman said. ‘‘The League works closely with the existing agencies both public. and private in its effort to meet the unmet needs of the handicapped children,” she point ed out. ‘‘We have approximately 25,000 orthopedically crippled, i 34,000 in each of the sight and ! mentally retarded groups, 25,000 with hearing defects, 119,000 with speech defects, 3,400 with epilepsy and 42,000 with emotional or be havior problems. ‘‘I want to appeal to every person in Brunswick to give, and give generously to the Easter Seal appeal. Your gifts will bring you ten-fold satisfaction in the knowledge you have made some child’s chance for happiness 100 percent greater. Handicapped people, children and adults, don’t want pity. All they want is a chance,” Mrs. Harper said. National Guard Unit Puts On Demonstration Southport Men Sight Big Whale Captain J. I. Davis of the Wil mington Cape Fear Pilots As sociation reported sighting a whale i nthe waters off the bar Friday. The mammal ap peared to be unusually gentle, permitting he pilot boat to draw alongside in close proxim ity. Captain Davis expressed the opinion that the whale may have been sick, thus accounting for hs priesence near the shore and for his willingness to come into close contact with a power boat. However, no report has been received of the big fish beaching at any point in the county, a usual result when they become sick and head for shallow water. Captain Davis said the fish was about 35-feet in length. Bridge May Be Ready For Use Some Prospect Now For Having Walden Creek Open For Light Traffic During Azalea Festival Concrete flooring for the last of the eight spans of the bridge across Walden Creek, on Route 130 was poured yesterday, Tues day. An inspector of the State Highway Commission has stated bad weather *• ahead it is hoped that the bridgjoJj /;e can be opened to light traffic 1 1 py March 29, when the Azalea Fe’' e“Jstival is in progress at Wilmingtorgd an, and Orton. Trucks air _ , d machines other than passenge»I uar cars will not be permitted to i Pgjjise the bridge until a week later, it is said. Normally they do not fOa<\0pen this type of bridge to tra: ffic untii 21 days after the last cement has been poured. The f act that a lot of tourists are cc^^^i)ming in and that there will be great numbers of them at the ti ime of the festival is leading to : a decision to open it for passej^ nger cars a week sooner than fcflBB Jl>r trucks. Although it v js possible that the bridge will origga K>en the day before or the first ‘§HPi|.lay of the festival, the further grading and hard surfacing of Whe fill at each end will not be i Started until after the festival. I Vlthough not com pleted, the fill : s are in good con dition for tr; iveling. Tlie Spots to be messingw. - Up the fills with lose dirt while”* H a lot of tourists if there is no continuous Construction C tors for the g has stated tha’ Company, contrac •rading and paving, jfc they do not wish and festival vi through. Thej finish up their tract sometime work will not [vel so badly. sitors are passing V will start and 1 part of the con in April when the effect tourist tra Men Of Brunswick County Unit At Shallotte Put On Interesting Show With New Anti-Aircraft Weapon NEW ATTACHMENT USED IN DRILL Firing By Remote Control Is New Wrinkle For Mem bers Of Unit Who Made Unusual Record At Camp Last Summer Using its remote control for the handling of the new 40 MM Anti-Aircraft gun the first time at a public demonstration Sat urday afternoon, the toys of the Brunswick county unit of the North Carolina National Guard put on an interesting show. Some of the men in the unit had never seen a field gun for Anti-Aircraft much less handled one until they trained at Camp Stewart, Ga., this past summer. The remote control was likewise new and still is, but the men are learning and should be able to handle this attachment like vet erans within a few weeks. Odell Williamson, Shallotte business man and a captain in the Army Artillery during the war, piloted his private plane as a target on which the men kept the gun centered while simulat ing firing. With the target com ing in from all angles the dif ferent firing squads demonstrat ed that they will soon be adept at keeping the 40 MM trained on it. The company has 60 men and is very anxious for more good men from throughout Brunswick county. At present both Captain John Burns and Lt. Kemp Hol den are away taking an 8-weeks course in active training. The gun and its remote control has arrived at Shallotte since they left. During their absence Lt. David B. Carmichael, Sgt. Mitc hell McCoy, Sgt. Harold Hick man, Sgt. Lindberg Gore and oth ers are looking after things. During the past summer the Brunswick county organization took first honors in the firing practice at Camp Stewart, win ning out against the competition offered by B. Battery at Fair Bluff; C. Battery, Bladenboro and Headquarters Battery of White ville. From their present eager efforts at training it is apparent that they plan to hold to this re cord. Sgt. McCoy stated this week that the organization with its 60 men could and would welcome quite a number of additional good men. The limited training periods interfere very little with regular operations. Most of the training is carried on during Sat urday afternoons, 'me present or ganization is made up of men from all sections of the county, with the largest number of them from Lockwoods Folly, Shallotte and Waccamaw township. r ueacner ' ■ ■■■ Government Surveyors Have Been Working On Area Between Walden Creek And Orton For Several Weeks OWNERSHIP OF PROPERTY CHECKED Congressman F. Ertel Car* lyle Draws Admission That Area Is Under Consider ation A land survey of great magni tude i nthe area lying between Walden Creek and Orton Planta tion on the Cape Fear river has been identified by Army spokes men in communication with fte presentative F. Ertel Carlyle a$* “preliminary planning” in con nection with proposed military activities. I For several weeks government - survey parties have bean at work' on the area of land fronting on! the Cape Fear river, and con-* siderable testing also has been* done in the marsh and along the river opposite this location. Re-' ports indicate that many test ’ piling have been sunk in an ef- - fort to determine the nature of' the foundoation along the shore, Z There has been much specula— tion as to the nature of the pro-' posed project, and the rumor per sists that a port of embarkation' is at least one phase of the pro- 1 jected plans. However, official ju- - formation from defense leaders * has been withheld pending a de? - finite decision. In the meantime, a representa- Z tive o fthe government has beep - busy i nthe office of the Register ' of Deds during the past few days checking ownership of land lying - in the general area. T. A. Young, assistant to th£ chief of the Army’s legislative liaison, has assured the con gressman that no land for the installation will be acquired until Congress authorizes the project and appropriates money for it...' Young sent Carlyle this an swer to his queries: ■•£,; “In response to your inquiry concerning proposed military ac tivities in your district and the possible taking of lands in con nection therewith, I wish to ad Continued On Page Two Regular Session : Of County Court Routine Matters Disposed Of During Weekly Session Of Brunswick County Record ders Court Monday A routine session of Brunswick county Recorder’s court was held here Monday with the following judgements resulting: Lank Watson, overloading truck fined $10.00 and costs. Wilson Tifton Slaughter, over** loading truck, fined $10.00 akd costs. K. Clyde Anderson, no operate^ license, fined $25.00 and costs, t John C. Sommersett, reckless operation, fined $25.00 and costs* William Lawrence Davis, speed* ing, fined $10.00 and costs. Arthur Sheeden, possession) fined $25.00 and costs. Curtis Coleman and Dalton Coleman, public drunkness, fined (continued on page two) Tide Table Following Is the tide table for Southport during the next week. These hours are approxl-, mutely correct and were furn ished The State Port Pilot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot’s Association. High Tide Low Tide, Thursday, March 15, 0:57 A. M. 7:24 A. M. 1:20 P. M. 7:29 P. M. Friday, March 16, 1:52 A. M. 8:25 A. M. 2:20 P. M. 8:31 P. M. Saturday, March 17 2:51 A. M. 9:27 A. M. 3:22 P. M. 9:34 P. M. Sunday, March 18, 3:49 A. M. 10:23 A. M. 4:19 P. M. 10:32 P. M. Monday, March 19, 4:42 A. M. 11:13 A. M. 5:11 P. M. 11:25 P. M. Tuesday, March 20, 5:32 A. M. 11:58 A. M. 5:59 P. M. 0:00 P. M. Wednesday, March 21, 6:17 A. M. 0:13 A. M. 6:42 P. M. 12:39 P. M.
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