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Most Of The News All The Time VUL. NO. SIXTEEN NO. 13 THE STATE A Good Newspaper In 6-pages today Southport. N. C., PORT PILOT A Good Community Wednesday, November 14,1951 The Pilot Covers Brunswick County 91.50 PER YEAH PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Brunswick Adds Approving Vote In State Ballot Nickels For Know-How Pro posal Given 142 To 29 Margin By Farmers In Brunswick County STATE WIDE MARGIN SET AT 10 TO 1 State Leaders Declare That Majority Of Adverse Vot es Came From People Who Didn’t Under stand North Carolina farm people gave the “Nickels for Know How" proposal almost a ten-to one vote of approval in the spec ial referendum held November 3. In Brunswick county the vote was 142 for and 29 against the pro gram. With final returns from 90 of the 100 counties plus incomplete returns from nine more the total vote “for” stood at 60,013. Those voting against totaled 6,832. Re ferendum officials expect the fin al total of votes cast will be close to 70,000. County leaders are currently in the process of certifying their vote and forwarding it to state headquarters. State Referendum Chairman E. Y. Floyd says that as soon as the official count is in, leaders of the North Carolina Grange, Farm Bureau and Agri cultural Foundation will meet to certify the state vote. The next step will probably be to notify Agricultural Commis sioner L. Y. Ballentine who will set in motion the machinery for collecting the 5-cent-per-ton con tribution on feed and fertilizer. The best estimate of when col lection will begin is January 1, 1952. The funds collected will be Foundation at State College to turned over to the Agricultural supplement agricultural research and teaching activities. “We had hoped for a larger vote,” said Floyd in commenting on the small turn-out. “But the issue did not become controver sial. Almost the only opposition we found was from people who did not understand the proposal.” Floyd indicated that the small vote certainly was not due to lack of widespread support. “I don’t recall a farm movement that has enlisted support from a wider variety of groups,” he said. “It had the active backing of fertilizer, feed and farm supply dealers, of all farm organizations, women’s groups and farm youth organizations such as 4-H Clubs, FFA and NFA. In one county, a local drug store bought a half page newspaper advertisement to call attention to the voting.” Floyd had particular praise for the state’s newspapers and radio stations, many of which literally turned their columns and micro phones over to the educational workers. Brief News Flashes FLORIDA BOUND Captain Merritt Moore left this week with the Penny for his Flor ida winter shrimping. Captain Hulan Watts with the Old Crow was already down there. TURKEY SHOOT An old fashioned turkey shoot will be staged by the Bolivia Lions Club on the school grounds Saturday from 12 to 5 o’clock. Roasted oysters also will be serv ed, with all proceeds to go to the club Christmas fund. STAGING BIG DANCE A big holiday dance with mu sic by a good orchestra will be given at the gym Wednesday, November 21st. This is a bene fit for the Dosher Memorial Hos pital. Admission at the door, SI.25. Advance tickets, which can be obtained at the Arrington Dress Shop, are $1.00. HOME FROM KOREA Sgt. and Mrs. J. Carl Ludlum who have been in Japan and Ko rea for nearly two years, are now back in the States and are spen ding some time with Sgt. Lud lum's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Ludlum, at Shallotte. Sgt. Lud lum has a 30 days leave before reporting on a new assignment. DONKEY BASKETBALL Donkey basketball played with leal live donkeys—too much alive for the comfort of the players will be put on at the Bolivia high school Tuesday night, Novembei 20. An evening of real fun is promised all spectators. The Buckeye Donkey Ball company is staging the event and furnishing the donkeys. ................•’’’i Homecoming Will Feature Contest Shallotte High School Plan ning To Observe Alumni Day Tuesday With Old Students Invited To Re turn SHALLOTTE WILL MEET SOUTHPORT Pirates Hold Advantage Over Visiting Southport Eleven With One Vic tory Already Scored Homecoming Day will be ob- j served at Shallotte High School ' Tuesday and among those for j whom a warm welcome is being j prepared are members of the : Southport high school football team, who will participate in the feature attraction of the day’s program. Principal Henry C. Stone says that 1,000 invitations have gone out to former students and teach ers, and that this is sure to be the biggest crowd ever to witness an athletic contest in Brunswick county. Adding to the throng will be the entire student body of Shallotte school which will be dismissed at 1 o'clock in order that all may see the game. Shallotte goes into this contest favored to defeat the Southport boys. In their previous meeting this fall they won by a score of 7 to 6 in a game played in Southport, and they reason that if they could take the measure of the Dolphins on their home field they ought to be able to do even better when playing at Shallotte. The season’s record also speaks in favor of Shallotte, for they go into Tuesday’s contest with a slate of five wins and two losses. ( Continued On Page Six ) 3,000 Bluegiils Are Liberated _ | Game Protector Pawnee Formy Duvall Released Small Stock In Wacca maw River In accordance with previously approved "plans, the Wildlife Re sources Commission has released stocking of 3,000 bluegiils aver aging two inches in length, in the waters of Waccamaw river. These fish were produced at the State Fish Hatchery located near Fayetteville. District Game and Fish Protector Painee Duvall di . rented the release of the fish. The Wildlife Resources Com mission points out that the co ■ operative effort of all those in i terested in the State Fish and ■ Game Resources will be required : ! to bring about better fishing, the ; favorite outdoor recreation of so jrnany Americans. Making Plans For Christmas Preliminary plans have been made for a community Christ mas Tree for Southport this year, featuring a manger scene with live animals on Friday night before Christmas. Following this on the afternoon before Christmas Santa Claus will come to town and will dis tribute gifts and goodies to the kids at the community tree near the Baptist Church. Following this visit the jolly old gentleman will pay a visit to the Bruns wick County Training School, where" he will be greeted by the Negro children. Mrs. Pete Hickman is serving as Chairman of the event this year and heads a committee com prised of a representattive from each of the churches in South port. Taking Chance On Farm Plans Owners Of Tomato Plant Farm Near Sunny Point Project Will Take A Chance On Being Able To Harvest Crop Plowing operations are start ing up this week on the 60 or more acres at Sunny Point where Everett H. Shepherd and Joe Cochran produced their tomato plants last spring. The land is owned by Sheppard and imme diately after the harvesting of the tomato plants it was sown in crotalaria as a soil conserva tion project. Plowing this growth under is required under the conservation program if recovery of the price of the seed is to be made. Shep pard and Cochran have an addi tional purpose in plowing under. The land has been made exceed ingly fertile from commercial fer tilization for the plants and the immediate planting of cover crops after each harvest. The rank growth of the crotalaria, now as iiigh as a man’s head, is proof of this fertility. The plan producers hope that some of the 80 acres of cleared land, part of which was*in wa termelons this year, will escape the Sunny Point construction work for some time and that they may use such fields until they are needed to bear their part of the construction.. It is ! 'mped to have an interview this week with Col. Roland C. Brown, ; Dhief of the District Corps of ] Army Engineers, for the purpose iof seeing if some of the fields | Continued on Page Five Soil Service Election Will Be Conducted Corbett GaSeman N Ror Reelection To Mem bership On County Com mittee For Brunswick The brimswiek County Board of Soil Conservation Supervisors, al ong with a group of interested citizens recently met at Shallotte high school with J. D. Bellamy, Jr., of Shallotte, chairman of the local county board, and a mem ber of the District Board of the Lower Cape Fear District, pre siding. The first item of business was the setting up of goals for the coming year. It was decided that ail phases of drainage, better management of old pastures, and protection of woodland would be stressed in 1952. It was called to the attention of the group that a member of the county board of supervisiors would have to be elected in an election to be held during the first week in December. The term of Supervisor Corbett Coleman of Ash expires at the end of the present calendar year. After a discussion as to procedure in hold ding the election, the group ag reed to circulate a nominating petition for Mr. Coleman, so that ( Continued on page Five ) Long Beach To Have Six-Day Mail Delivery New Service Will Become Effective November 15 Following Period During Which Mail Came Only Three Days Per Week MANY YEAR-ROUND RESIDENTS NOW Mrs. Gilmore Will Continue To Serve .Office As _Post master In Harrelson Store At Lpng ■ Beach Beginning tomorrow, Novem ber 15, service at the Long Beach Post Office will be on a six day basis. This replaces the three lays per-week service that has been in effect since the first of October. ' There will be no de livery of mail on Sunday, for the present. The Long Beach office was established four years ago, start ing with summer service only. The first year it was only for a three-month period. The next year the growing need arising from the increasing number of! year-round residents. The ser vice was extended to make four months. This year at the end of the regular four months, the service X'as not discontinued for the win ter. Instead it was cut to three deliveries per week. This was not satisfactory to the patrons and as the place is filling up fast with year-round residents, Con gressman F. Ertel Carlyle secur ed a 6-day week service. Deliveries to the office will be made by the regular WB&S mail truck operating between South port and Wilmington, pouches for Long Beach being made up here. The postmaster is Mrs. Gilmore and the office remains in the Har relson store at Long Beach. Mr. and Mrs. Phil King, new perma aent year-round residents of the beach, were instrumental in get ting Congressman Carlyle to have the service extended for six days in the week. Retired Rural Carrier Dies R. F. Lewis Died Friday At Salisbury; Was Resident Of Brunswick County Most Of His Life R. F. Lewis, mail carrier on Route 1 from Bolivia for many years before retiring about 15 years ago and moving to Wood leaf, died in Salisbury Friday. Mr. Lewis was 79 years old. Funeral and burial services were held Monday afternoon at 1 o'clock from the Sharon Meth odist Church at Supply, the Rev. J. D. Withrow of Leland offici ating. Active pallbearers were O. T. Lewis, Jr., W. Kirk Lewis, Har old W. Lewis, Aubrey E. Lewis, Jack Stone and William R. Stone. Honorary pallbearers were John Henry, A. P. Henry, Sr., Daniel R. Johnson, S. Peter Cox, W. A. Kopp, Charles Reid, Gilbert Reid, Early M. Danford, C. P. Willets ( Continued On Page Five ) W. B. KK/.IAH Our ROVING Reporter Here this week on one of her i regular inspection trips Mrs. An ■ nie Pemberton of the State de partment of Public Welfare, su perintendent of special service !to the aged, stated that when allfof the alterations are completed, Brunswick county will have tlie second best home for the a{ ed in the State. On her inspect :m of the home Mrs. Pemberton w as accompanied by Edward Sext n, county superintendent of put ic j welfare. With interior improve ment first on the agenda, JS Sexton states that landscapes the grounds and the planting trees will be done during winter. 0! I lie I Frequent calls regarding o struction employment are com is in relative to Sunny Point. I far as we can see, the plans \ ill 1 not have progressed to the pc nt j of hiring anyone until n Christmas. The job is a big | and involves a lot of pree j struction work on the part ! engineers and architects bef j the ground work can start. I J [condition may not apply to w| on the river. The present indi cations all point to dredging in the river beginning immediately. It may seem a strange time of the year to talk about beach de velopment. but a reliable source has advised us that deeds will be signed this week for the sale of a large ocean frontage at Long Beach and that plans are un derway to develop this property. Pending the start of the develop ment of the area, it is interesting to note that all available builders are being kept busy, constructing or repairing homes for individual property owners at the , beach. The place has already become a year-round residential town with many homes now open and more to fill up shortly. Our personal appreciation to Col. R. C. Brown, of the Wil mington District, Corps of Ar my Engineers. . In a way and in accordance with regulations now existing he is restrained from giving out information that might be used damagingly against (Continued on page 4) Telephone Service To Be Inaugurated From Shallotle Tomorrow Banker Will Head Hospital Board Prince O’Brien Named Chairman Of Board Of Trustees For Dosher Memorial Hospital This Week Prince O’Brien, cashier of the Southport branch of the Waccamaw Bank and Trust Co., has been elected chairman of the board of trustees for Dosher Memorial Hospital. This action was taken rues-> day as newly appointed members of the board were sworn in be fore Clerk of Court Sam T. Ben nett. O’Brien succeeds E. J. Pre vatte, Southport attorney, in this capacity. The new board includes Fred Mintz, L. C. Rabon, G. T. Reid, W. P. Jorgensen and S. B. Frink, appointees from the county; and O’Brien, J. E. Carr, G. E. Hub bard and James M. Harper, Jr., appointees from the city. The new members re-appointed J. J. Laughlin, Jr., as business manager of the hospital and as secretary-treasurer of the board. The trustees discussed the cur rent drive for contributions to the hospital building fund, and stressed the importance of bring ing to a close the campaign for $10,000 which will result in re pairs and modernization of the local institution. The latest addition to this fund was $130 which was raised by members of the Southport Wo man’s club at a smorgasbord sup per Sunday evenig at the home of Mrs. D. C. Herring. This is the second in a series of events being sponsored for this purpose by this local organization. Railroad Plans For Sunny Point Jersey Heifers For 4-H Members Three purebred Jersey heifers have been added to the live stock population of Brunswick county through the efforts of County Agent A. S. Knowles, who purchased these animals for 4-H Club members at a re cent sale at Goldsboro. The club members who have acquired new calves with which to work for next year’s Junior Dairy Cattle Show are James Albright and Eleanor Rabon of the Bolivia club; and Larry Knowles of the Shallotte club. The calves are from 6 to 8 months of age and all are ex cellent show prospects, says the county agent. Enters Protest On Termination Local Man Wishes To See Railway Express Wait For Further Developments Be fore Pulling Out Of South port The Railway Express Compa ny posted notices here on No vember 1, stating that within 10 days from that date they would ask the North Carolina Utilities Commission for permission to discontinue the express office at Southport. A representative of this paper promptly lodged a protest with the Utilities Commission against the planned closing. It was poin ted out that pending activities in this area would make the of fice an essential need and that the express company was evi dently not aware of these devel opments. This protest would au tomatically result in the commis sion holding a public hearing if the express company carried out its plans to ask for a discon tinuance of the office. The paper was advised by the Commission Friday that no re quest for discontinuance had been received up to that time. Should the application be received a date | for a hearing will be assigned ind interests here will be noti fied. Railroad Experts Have Been Debating The Compara tive Benefits Of Follow ing Old Roadbed Or Of Blazing New Route IMPORTANT TO HAVE TWO LINES Information Also Made Available Regarding Rate Of Pay Which Will Prevail At Ammuni tion Depot By W. B. KEZIAH A release today from Col. R. C. Brown, District Engineer of the Wilmington District, of the Corps of Engineers, gives another phase of the proposed activities at the Sunny Point Ammunition Depot at Southport. What route will the railroad follow and at what point will it join the Atlantic Coast Line and the Seaboard Air Line Railways to afford the greatest efficiency in handling high priority mate rials ? It is well to note in the first place that the railroad from the two private systems to the Sun ny Point area will be built by the government and will be used by government owned power units of the oil burning type. Coal burners will not be allowed in the area. It would be a natural assump tion to conclude that the old road bed of the abandoned Wilming ton, Southport and Brunswick line would be the logical route, but engineers think a new right of-way would be more economical both from the point of view of distance as well as cost of con struction. There are several rea- ! sons to be considered. The old WB&S line track bed | is washed away in many stretch es, bridges and culverts are gone, 1 trees have grown up on the bed for many miles and, a major fac tor, the distance is some six miles greater than a direct route a short distance west of the Riv er Road would be. Engineers point out tl^it it would be cheaper to start the new line at a point neaV Leland and follow a general route by Lanvalle southward along a ridge to Lebana Church on the Fun ston road, across the western tip of Orton Pond and then eastward to the Sunny Point area. It rs generally understood that the cost of building a railroad in this section of the coastal , area aggr egates about $55,000 ’ per mile. Assuming that the line ( Continued On Page Five ) ‘ Officials Of Southern Bell Telephone Company And State Utilities Commission Will Attend Ceremony NEW SYSTEM IS RADIO-TELEPHONE This Equipment Is New Ex periment With Southern Bell In This Area; For Long Distance Ser vice Only Members of the State Utilities Commission and officials of the Southern Bell Telephone Company will join with citizens of Shallotte Thursday evening in celebrating the inauguration of long distance communication facilities over the newly-installed radio-t e 1 e p h one system. These officials and other guests will attend a barbecue supper be ing served by Shallotte Lions Club and will participate in a brief, informal program celebrat ing the event. The first call scheduled to be placed over the new communica tions system will go from Com missioner Joshua James to Gov ernor Kerr Scott in Raleigh. This will be followed by a message from Judge P. C. Henderson of the Utilities Commission to J. G. Bradbury, vice president of Sou thern Bell, in Atlanta, Ga. During the local program H. T. Booth, North Carolina man ager for Southern Bell, will make a brief talk for the company and other short talks will be made by Brunswick county of ficials and local civic leaders. The radio - telephone system at Shallotte is the first of its kind to be installed in the south eastern part of the United States by Southern Bell. It consists of two circuits, each of which car ries six telephones. Calls go from the individual phones to one of the two 70-foot towers which have been erected at Shallotte, and messages are relayed by ra dio wave to two more 70-foot antenae erected on the Leland road near Wilmington. From these towers the message travels by wire to the central office in Wilmington, and connections can be made with any telephone in the United States. Since all calls are cleared through the Wilmington office all are long distance, and while it is possible for a party on one cir cuit of the Shallotte system to communicate with someone on the other circuit, this call, too, would have to make the round trip to Wilmington and would therefore be classed as a long distance call. Paul Woodson, manager of the Wilmington office, stated Tues day that the 12 telephones had been placed with the thought of providing service for the greatest number of persons dur ing the greatest number of hours each day. They are located at the following plactes: Verne’s Ser vice Station, Williams Motor Co., Ramsula Restaurant, Brunswick Rural Electric Membership Cor poration, Shallotte High School, Coastal Drug Store, R. D. White Garage, North Carolina Prison Camp, Waccamaw Bank & Trust (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 Fort Pilot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot’s Association. High Tide Low Tide Thursday, November 15 8:50 a. m. 2:27 a. m. 9:05 P- m. 3.08 p. m. Friday, November 16 9:28 a. m. 3:06 a. m. 9:42 p. m. 3:48 p. m. Saturday, November 17 10:06 a. m. 3:45 a, m 10:22 p. m. 4:28 p. m. Sunday, November 18 10:44 a. m. 4:25 a. m. 11:04 p. m. 5:10 p. m. -Monday, November IS) 11:25 a. m. 5:08 a. m. 11:52 p. m. 5:53 p. m. Tuesday, November 20 0:00 a. m. 5:55 a. in. 12:10 p. m. 6:41 p. m. Wednesday, November 21 0:43 a. m. 6:49 a. m. 12:58 p. m. 7:32 p. m. -----
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