Most of The New* All The Time VOL. NO. SIXTEEN NO. 7 THE STATE PORT PILOT The Pilot Covers Brunswick County _A Good Newspaper In A Good Community 6-paces today Southport, N. C., Wednesday, March 21, 1951 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY $1.50 PER YEA* Legislature Is Filled Up With Brunswick Bills Frink Measure To Establish Port Commission At South port Draws Fire From State Ports Authority ANOTHER BILL TO ESTABLISH FERRY Other Legislation Of Less • Interest Included On Cal endar Of Activities Dur ing Past Few Days The halls of the State Legis lature in Raleigh resounded last week to debate over two contro versial measures introduced by Senator S. B. Frink of Bruns wick, with Representative Harry L. Mintz, Jr., concurring. The first of these was for the reestablishment of a port auth ority for Southport on a similar basis as that in operation prior to 1945. Senator Frink gave as his reason the thought that some important development in the way of harbor improvement for Bruns wick county, it would be well to have local machinery in operation to cooperate with agencies inter ested in proposed development. Col. George Gillette, head of the State Ports Authority, has found several articles in the pro posed bill which he considers to be in conflict with the State measure, and is opposing the Frink bill on those grounds. He has expressed a desire to confer with the Brunswick Senator in the hope of being able to reach some workable compromise. A second Frink bill expected to evoke only a little less con troversy is the one to authorize the State Highway Commission to sell bonds up to $200,000. for : the purpose of establishing and maintaining ferry service from Ft. Fisher to some point on the lower Brunswick county bank of the Cape Fear river. In this measure Senator Frink has solid legislative support from senators and representatives from nearby counties. A bill to prohibit the use of j any but commercial vehicles on the beach from Ft. Caswell to Lockwoods Folly inlet has been amended to restrict the speed of vehicles used in that area to 15 miles per hour. A similar pro vision has been offered for the restriction of speed to 15-miles per hour in the ar.ea between Lockwoods Folly and Shallotte Inlet. A Frink bill also would autho rize the mayor and board of ald ermen to convey title to certain i lots in city and would validate \ all conveyances previously made by the city of Southport. 1 Brief N*mi | Flathtt in in n i i .. — — i i i NOW IN PACIFIC"" James P. Mintz of Freeland is now serving as a seaman aboard the destroyer tender USS Bryce Canyon in the Pacific area. HOLY WEEK SERVICES A Series of holy week services are being conducted each evening before Easter by the Rev. Nor wood L. Jones at Trinity Metho dist church. Special music is a feature of each service, and the public is cordially invited. SINGING CONVENTION Lindsey Clemmons manager of a fine group of singers in the Supply community has announced that there will be an all-day Singing Convention at Cool Run Baptist church Sunday, April 1. All singers and the public are in vited to attend and take part. EASTER SERVICE The choir of Southport Baptist church will present “Sunrise Over Calvary”, an Easter cantata under the direction of Paul Pit tinger, on Sunday evening at 7:30 o’clock. There will also be special Easter music Sunday morning. The public is invited to attend both services. EASTER SERVICE A Sunrise Service will be held at Soldier Bay Baptist church at 6 o’clock Sunday morning in the church auditorium. The pastor, Rev. W. M. Ussery, will be in charge of the service. Special music has been prepared under the direction of Mis. W. M. Mat hews and Miss Doris Hamerick. GETS RENOVATION The interior of the Shallotte branch of the Waccamaw Bank and Trust Company has recently under gone considerable renova tion. The public can now be much better served. Cashier J. E. Cooke and Mrs. Cooke, who was re cently appointed assistant cash ier, are to be congratulated on the convienees of their quarters. t Sunrise Service To Open Easter Program The Reverend John Lawrence, Pastor Of Sunset Park Baptist Church, Will Deliver Message Citizens of Southport will be awakened early Sun day morning- by the chimes of the Southport Baptist church as a prelude to a community-wide sunrise service to be held at the garrison at 6:00 o’clock. Rev. Norwood Jones, pastor of * Trinity Methodist Church and' chairman of the community com- j mittee in charge of planning this | special service, reports that all | the details have been worked out for an outstanding and signifi cant sunrise Easter service. Music for the service is in charge of Mrs. Estelle Swain and i the combined choirs of the color ed churches will sing the unusu ally beautiful spirituals dealing with the crucifixion and resurrec tion. The congregation will par ticipate in the service in the reading in unison of the resur rection record as reported by St. Mathew, and the Easter message will be brought by the Rev. John Lawrence, pastor of the Sunset Park Baptist Church, Wilming ton. i ne Kev. Mr. Lawrence is re cognized as one of the ablest young ministers in the State and is a man of several abilities. A graduate of Wake Forest College and the Wake Forest Law School the Rev. Mr. Lawrence practiced law with Senator Willis Smith be fore forsaking the bar to as sume new duties as Baptist Student Secretary for North Carolina. During the war he was a line officer in the Navy aboard an aircraft carrier in the Pacific, and after his discharge from the Navy he attended the Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville prior to accepting the pastorate ; of the church in Wilmington. Much credit is due the com mittee representing the several churches that are cooperating in this effort. Rev. Norwood Jones as chairman of the committee has had the chief responsibility, but he has been ably assisted by Rev. H. M. Baker; C. N. Saun ders and James Wolfe represent ing the Presbyterian Church; Joe Sam Loughlin from the Episcopal Church. R^y Walton and E. C. Blake from Trintity Methodist church; Mrs. Estelle Swain and Mrs. Jackson representing the differ ent colored churches of South port; and Dan Harrelson as re presentative of the Baptist church. Azalea Festival Is Big News Next Week - *-*-. Thousands From Brunswick' County Will Be Enjoying Events Of Annual Wil mington Attraction City Election Set or May 8 V1311UKS WILL COME TO COUNTY Orton Plantation, Now Of fering Flowers At Peak Of Beauty, Is One Of Chief Points Of In terest The great Wilmington Azalea Festival gets underway just a week from tomorrow. In the past the event has always at tracted widespread interest de spite the fact that the necessity of setting the dates months a head made it difficult of picking the same time that the peak of flowering would be on. The date of the crowning bloom nearly always varies to conform with a mild or bad winter. This year the festival officials set the date at the peak. It is now pos sible that the azaleas will not be entirely at their peak next week, but the profusion of bloom that will be showing at that time and the still more beautiful buds a bout to break will leave room for no complaints and nothing more to be desired. Brunswick county, like New Hanover, has a personal interest in the Azalea Festival. Its own Orton Gardens rival the beautiful Greenfield Lake and Arlie Gar dens of New Hanover as a spot that is always on the program. In past years Brunswick has had Continued On Page Four Revival Services Here Next Week Rev, Gordon Weekly Will Preach At Southport As Part Of Simultaneous Re vival Program Being Con ducted In East This week the Southport Bap tist Church is observing a special week of prayer in preparation for the revival services beginning next Monday night. Rev. Gordon Weekly, native of Atlanta, Ga. graduate of Furman University and the Southern Bap tist Theological Seminary, former pastor of the Simpsonville Bap tist Church in S. C. and current ly pastor of the Masonboro Bap tist Church, Wilmington, will be tne guest minister in these special services. Everyone is invited to attend these services and share in the singing an din the wor ship of the Christ, very little benefit from the Fes tival. The visitors who came to Orton over the poorly kept road l were perfectly willing to turn According to City Auditor E. R. Weeks, who has just received a copy of the new election law for Southport, a new registra tion of all voters residing in the town limits will begin on April 15 and the election will be held on May 8th. At this time both, a Mayor and six members of the board of Ald erman will be elected. Davis Herring, city attorney, is to go over the new law to day and following his review ing of the measure a formal notice of the election will ap pear next week. The contest for the office of Mayor may become a triangu lar one, according to street rumors. Captain Roy Robinson, retired Coast Guardsman, has stated to friends that he may run. H. W. Hood is also rum mored as a candidate. No statement has come thus far from Mayor Hubert Livingston, but it is said that he has not eliminated himself from the possibility of running. Another Group For Induction Thirteen Brunswick County Men Reported To Fott Bragg For Induction Fri day; Four White Men And Nine Negroes Included Thirteen Brunswick county men left Friday for Ft. Bragg for in duction into the Army. Four were [white men, nine were negroes. The following white men were inducted: Theo Woodard Smith and Ear lie Junior Smith, Ash; James Conrad Pigott, Shallotte; Forrest Worley, Bolivia. * Tlie following negro men were inducted: Lofton McMillan and Adolph Fullwood, Supply. Joe Robert Everett, Charles Emmence Brown, Benjamin Franklin Scott, Charlie James Troy and Bennie Lee James, Leland; Frank Bul lock, Jr., Longwood; William Junior Rourk, Bolivia. Young men, as they become 18 years of age, have 5 days after their birthday in which to re gister. It will simplify things if the public will bear this in mind, and register at the proper time, say selective service officials. Luther Anderson, negro, for merly of Leland has been listed as a delinquent. Anyone with in formation leading to his present address will please contact the Brunswick County Selective Ser vice office. Baptist Churches Now Engaged In Revival Effort Southern Baptist Convention Has Plans For Conducting Revival In All Churches East Of Mississippi SERVICES BEGIN IN SOME CHURCHES Revivals In Progress In Sev eral Places In The Coun ty This Week With More To Follw Next Week And Later In some sections the Baptist Simultaneous Revivals are already in progress, but reports from most of the churches in Bruns wick county indicate that the majority of the Brunswick churches are planning to h^ve their revival services during the two weeks proposed by the South ern Baptist Convention. Reports made at the mass meeting held at Mt. Pisgah Sun day afternoon indicate a one hundred percent cooperation on the part of all the Churches in the Brunswick Baptist Associa tion, making this undoubtedly the largest evangelistic campaign ever undertaken in this area. Revival services will begin Easter Sunday in the following churches: Antioch, with the Rev. Arbin Harper, Associational Mis sionary from Sulphur Springs, Texas, as the guest minister; Town Creek Baptist Church, the Rev. Jack McDuffie, Elizabeth town, as the evangelist; Mt. Pisgah, the Rev. Mr. Myers from Lumberton as visiting preacher; Prospect, the Rev. B. F. Price, pastor of the church conducting the services; Ellah the Rev. Wai ter Phelps; Mill Creek, the Rev. Continued On rage Four Varied Docket Heard In Court Cases Covering Wide Vari-. ety Of Offenses Disposed Of Before Judge W. J. McLamb Here Monday A varied docket was disposed of here in Recorder’s court Mon day before Judge W. ’J. McLamb, with the following judgements being meted out: Herman Nelson, no operator license, fined $25.00 and costs. Titus Damon, improper auto registration, costs. Garland S. Smith, no operators license, fined $25.00 and costs. Abel Chancey drunk driving and leaving scene of accident, fined $100.00 and costs and to make restitution to E. T. Far row in amount of $92.39. Floyd McDonald, posessing ap paratus for manufacturing whis key, two years on roads, suspend ed on good behavior for five years. Don H. Gausey, speeding, fined $5.00 and costs. Henry Platt, assault, not guil ty. Edell Rich, public drunkness, fined $10.00 and costs. Herman L. Rich, public drunk- ; ness fined $10.00 and costs. Leroy Plenty, assault with deadly weapon, nol prossed with leave. Blake Carlisle, drunken driving, not guilty. Willie James Newkirk, drunk driving, fine $100.00 and costs. On Committee HAKKY L. MUNTZ, JK. Brunswick Man Gets Important Committee Job Representative Harry L. Mintz, Jr., Serving On Sub - Committee Working On Appropriations Bill Representative Harry L. Mintz; Jr., of Brunswick county is a new man among the law-makers at the North Carolina General Assembly in Raleigh, but cur rently he is engaged in an as signment of gieat responsibility. The young Supply merchant and World War II veteran made his biggest jump in the legislative whirl with his appointment to the all-important Appropriations sub committee, which is charged with writting the bill for the Appro priations group. He is one of the three fresh men House members named to the sub-committee, considered a signal honor on Capitol Hill. Older members of the Senate and House have been congratulating the young Brunswick Representa tives on ms appointment to on® of the Legislature’s top bodies Representative Mintz serves as a member of 10 other committee, but this latest appointment car ries considerable more prestige. Mintz was register of deeds for Brunswick county in 1939 and 1940, and followed that with four years in the Air Force. The Appropriations sub-com mittee membership includes sev en lawmakers from the Senate and House. The two other fresh men serving with Mintz are Re presentative O’Herron from Meck lenburg and Representative Little from Anson. Field Trip On Oaks Plantation Seniors From Southport And Some From Wilmington Invited For Day Of Study On Brunswick Farm Fifteen New Hanover high school boys and 13 from South port, all scheduled to graduate this spring, are to meet at the Hargrove Bellamy Pleasant Oaks Plantation on the Cape Fear Thursday for a day outing that will include a lunch on the plan tation. A short visit may be Continued On Page Four Our ROVING W. B. KEZIAH An interesting little visitor to ! this office the past week was 4 year-old Ella Ruth Brown, dau ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Lauder Brown of Columbus county. Nei ther of Ella Ruth’s parents can hear nor talk and the little girl has learned to be adept at talk ing to them in the sign language. She also has an uncle and an aunt who are unable to hear or talk. She is a niece of Mrs. Buck King of Supply and was visiting Mrs. King when it was decided to bring her to Southport to see the dentist. To follow the example of "Not Exactly News” and occasionally say a few words about dogs, Mrs. D. M. Davis of Southport has a German police dog that is note worthy for his size and intelli gence. gmart as it is, Mrs. Davis outsmarted him in one thing. Taken about town on a leash this dog had one rather bad failing. When he saw a cat running noth ing could stop him from breaking I away from its Mistress and tak ing out after the feline. Mrs. Davis finally discovered that when the dog felt he was on duty he would pay no attention at all to cats. One of his duties is to carry a package or something in his month. Nowadays when Mrs. Davis starts anywhere she gets a newspaper, puts it in the mouth of the dog and cats can run be tween his legs without his drop ping the paper to give chase. We had not known that planes from Miami to Wilmington pass ed directly over Southport until one afternoon recently. At least the late evening runs are made directly over the town. It was a very foggy afternoon and our neighbor, R. F. Plaxco, was out in his yard, trying to look up thr ough the fog. He explained his actions by stating that the Miami to Wilmington plane was passing over somewhere up there, t .(Continued on page 2) i 1 Show More Respect For Your Yuca Plant Experiments Now Being Co Valuable Sourc A lot of people regard the | sharp-spined yuca as a curosity. Many others class them as be ing just a plain nuisance, without any value and taking up a lot of space on the coast that might be used for other purposes. Only the fishermen see the shary leav es as having any value, for they are excellent mediums on which to string fish. Now comes the possibility that they may ultimately prove to be very valuable. At the present time the U. S. D. A. is testing certain kinds of plants from all over the World with the object of seeing if the “wonder drug” Cortisone can be made from Ahem. Foremost of the plants be nducted May Prove This A : For Cortisone ing tested is the yuca, which is believed to be a possible source. Both leaves and roots are tested chemically at the Introduction Garden in Savannah, Ha. Grow ing experiments are also being made there. Bob Godfrey, assistant to Dr. B. W. Wells, head of the Depart ment of Botany at State Col lege, spent last week at his home here. During his stay he collect ed hundreds of small yuca plants and roots for these experiments to ascertain the usefulness of the plants. He says that there are three species of yuca in the Brunswick area. All three of them have been checked on and continued research is going on with two of the varieties. Hayman Reports Red Cross Drive Now In Progress Chapter Chairman Also Ser ving As Director Of Drive For Funds During Current Campaign FULL ORGANIZATION COVERS BRUNSWICK Chairman Hayman Offers Explanation Of Where Funds Raised From Drive Are Being Used In Work Large Field Of Entries Arrive For Race Today ■n Parents Study - School Insurance Parents of Brunswick county school children are being asked this week to decide whether they desire to continue to car ry insurance which covers the students for accidents which may occur during their school day. On last March 23 a plan went into effect for every child in the county under a policy which covered injury sustained while in the school building or on the grounds. In the light of death and injuries suffered a rriong the boys and girls of school age during the past year, it has been deemed wise to increase the scope of protec tion to include coverage from the moment the child leaves home in the morning until he returns in the afternoon. This will call for a substantial in crease in premium, at the rate of $1.25 per year. Arrange ments are being made to put this coverage in force for the remainder of this school year for only 35-cents. Acceptance is on a purely vol untary basis, but only those students who pay the premium will be covered after Friday at noon. * - Racing Craft Began to Show Up In Southport Early This Morning Despite The Rainy Weather And Over cast Sky CROWD EXPECTED TO BE AFFECTED Indications Point To Larger Field Of Entries Than Participated In First Event Last March Despite the rain, trim looking motor boats were pouring into town early this morning for the second annual outboard marathon from Southport to Socastee, S. C. The event is sponsored each year by the Myrtle Beach Outboard Motor Club. President Stanley Edgeworth and other officials of the club are here today attending to final arrangements for the start. H. J. Payne of Columbia, S. C., arriving early this morning with his 25 h. p. Mercury for the 33-horsepower class, stated that six more Columbia boats were on their way. Charleston is reported to be sending a large number of boats and Wilmington is slated to put in fourteen. Others are coming from Myrtle Beach and other sections of North and South Carolina. It is expected that the rain will cut down on the crowd to witness the start. Nevertheless, the boys who will pilot the speedy boats and who could be interviewed early this morning all say that they are going thr ough to the finish. At 8 o’clock there were already more than twenty boat trailers parked at various points along the waterfront, and on the trip to Shallotte as many more were met on their way to Southport. The last two contestants sighted on their way were two South Carolina entries coming up by Whiteville, encountered between Shallotte and the Columbus coun ty seat. The first event was scheduled to get started at 10 o’clock, with other classes to follow1 at regular intenwls until 1 o’clock. The last of the group meetings setting up the work of fund raising for the Brunswick county. Chapter for 1951 was held in the law office of Ray Walton Thurs day. The following directors from Southport were present: Mrs. George Whatley, chairman of the Southport group; Mrs. L. D. Hay man, Mrs. Phillip King, Mrs. - Clyde Newton, Miss Alberta Galloway, Ray Walton and Paul Podale. Miss Annie W. Alston, who represents the colored pop ulation for the entire County, was absent. Her helpers are Mrs. O. B. Parker and Prof. Alvin C. Caviness. Rev. L. D. Hayman, Chairman of the Chapter, and who is also directing the fund raising work, was also present. Previously he met with representative groups and directors at Leland, Town- ' Creek, Winnabow, Bolivia, Supply, Shallotte and Ash in similar meetings. With the meeting In Southport, the entire county got undez-way for the big and final drive for funds to carry on the work of Red Cross. One question that arises a mong supporters of the Red Cross Continued On Page Four Board Reviews Tax Complaints Commissioners In Session Monday Devoted Greater Part Of Day Serving As Board Of Equalization And Review With most of their time being taken up with work of board of equalization and review, only a few other minor matters were disposed of by the county com missioners Monday. Ordered that D. A. Phelps be given job of painting and mend ing leaks on the roof of the county home at a price of $65.90. Ordered that county offices ba closed on Monday, March 26th, for Easter holiday. Ordered that the State High way Commission be requested to take over and put in all-weath er condition a section of road 2 miles in length from S. B. Skip per’s on Routes 74-76 to H. O. Peterson’s in Northwest township. Ordered that the State High way Commission be requested to take over and put in all-weather condition a section of road in Town Creek township from Route 17 to Old Georgetown road known as Potter road. Ordered that the State High way Commission be requested to take over and put in all-weather condition a section of road in Waccamaw township from El mer Smith’s to D. D. Inman's, known as the old New Brittian l’oad. Visitor Turns Out To Be Lord Canadian Gentleman Who Spent Few Days In South port Identified As Mem ber Of British Peerage Lord Sidney G. Osborne of the. British Peerage, a cousin of An thony Eden and also related to Winston Churchill, has returned to Canada after spending 10 days here at the Camellia Inn. With Lord Osborne was Robert Cum mings, a friend of the titled En glishman. They were, it was said, just visiting up and down the coast and came here to call on Miss Susan Greenhill of St. Catheri ness, Ont., who is spending the winter in Southport. Lord Os borne, although his true idenity was not known at the time, evi denced a lively interest in the Southport area and in the rumors of a defense project that is said to be planned for the area. He stated to W. B. Keziah Sunday that he expects to return here. A rather funny thing is that Keziah thought his Lordship was just another country boy, like himself. So, Britisher was amus ed with all sorts of stories and jokes. It was not until the con vertible with the Canadian tag had rolled away from Southport that Keziah’s suspicions began to prickle him. The suspicions originated when he saw a picture in which Lord Osborne appeared at a railroad station in company with the King and Queen of En gland. His Lordship is under stood to be distantly related to the Queen. Other visitors with British ac cent to be here shortly are Pro fessor and Mrs. Bridger of the Royal Military College at St. Davids, Ont., Canada. The Royal Military College is the same thing to Canada that West Point is to the United States. Professor Bridger, who will be coming the first week in April to find a home in which he and Mrs. Brid ger can live next winter, will be accompanied by Mrs. Bridger. They say they want to get away from the climate in Canada next winter. Blue Mold May Show Up Soon County Agent A. S. Knowles Advises Farmers To Be On Look-Out For Dread Disease And Recommends Treatment Tobacco blue mold was dis covered on the farm of Jack Blackburn in Orrum section of Robeson county on March 10, ac cording to Howard R. Garriss, Extension Plant Pathologist. The appearance of this dread tobacco disease came after a few days of favorable weather. In an interview with County Agent A. S. Knowles, he pointed out that farmers in Brunswick county can expect this disease any day. Most tobacco plants are the size of a dime or nickle or larger, but are yet so small that a severe case of blue mold would greatly cut down the supply of good plants. “We are now having the kind of weather that favors the spread of blue mold,” says the county agent. He recommends the following treatment: “Treatment: Farmers can keep this disease under control by spraying Dithane Z-78 or Parzate, 12 ounces to 25 gallons water (2% level tablespoonfuls per gal.) or Fermate, 1 pound to 25 gallons water (5 level tablespoon fuls per gal.). The tobacco plants may be dusted with these same materials. Be sure to get dusting Continued on page four 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, March 22, 7:06 A. M. 0:59 A. M. 7:25 P. M. 1:19 P. M. Friday, March 23, 7:42 A. M. 1:44 A. M. 8:07 P. M. 1:59 P. M. Saturday, March 24, 8:25 A. M.' 2:29 A. M. 8:51 P. M. 2:39 P. M. Sunday, March 25, 9:08 A. M. 3:14 A. M. 9:39 P. M. 3:21 P. M. Monday, March 26, 9:55 A. M. 4:02 A. M. 10:30 P. M. 4:06 P. M." Tuesday, March 27, 10:46 A. M. 4:53 A. M. 11:27 P. M. 4:55 P. M. Wednesday, March 28, 11:45 A. M. 5:50 A. M. 0:00 P. M. 5:52 P. M.

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