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VOL. NO. SIXTEEN NO. 32
THE STATE PORT PILOT
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Southport, N. C., Wednesday, January 9, 1952
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Sink Basin To
Be Included In
Harbor Project
Basin With 48-Foot Depth
Will Be Provided For
Purpose Of Being Able
To Sink Any Burning
Vessel
PART OF SAFETY
PRECAUTION PLAN
Other Information Regard
ing Anchorage Basin And
Approaches From
River Channel
By W. B. KEZIAH
Three emergency explosive an
chorage basins 48 feet deep for
sinking burning vessels are among
high priority features of the Sun
ny Point Ammunition Loading
Terminal now being planned for
construction north of Southport
on the west side of the Cape Fear
River.
These basins, according to en
gineering instructions received
from Washington headquarters of
the Wilmington District of the
Corps of Engineers, must be lo
cated at a minimum of 1,950 feet
from the three loading piers and
must be accessible by channels
sufficiently deep to accommodate
a loaded vessel.
Instructions point out further
that the piers will be serviced by
a channel 300 feet wide and dred
ged to a depth of 34 feet plus two
feet. The additional two feet is in
corporated in dredging specifica
tions to allow for dredging inac
curacies.
In addition to the explosive an
chorages and channel, plans call
for an anchorage basin large e
nough to take care of at least six
vessels at one time and a basin
at each pier for turning an out
going cargo-type ship. The six
ship anchorage basin, the District
Office said, has been tentatively
located immediately west of Corn
cae Inlet, but whether it will be
dredged there is yet to be deter
mined.
It is significant to point out,
the office added, that the current
maintenance dredging in the ocean
bar channel by the Government
Hopper Dredge Lyman and that
in the channel of the river pro
per by the Norfolk Dredging
Company has no connection with
the Sunny Point proposal. This
work is for maintenance only and
is required annually to maintain
the project depth of 32 feet in
both the river and bar channels.
A bill has passed the Congress
providing for a 34-foot channel
in the river from Wilmington and
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Fodales Moving
Home To Boston
Mr. And Mrs. Paul Fodale
And Family Will Dispose
Of Home And Business
Interests Here And Move
To Northern City
Southport will shortly lose "one
of its most popular families with
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fodale and
their three children moving to
Boston. Mr. Fodale will engage in
business there.
At the present time Mr. Fo
dale is in Florida, disposing of his
shrimp trawlers. Returning here,
it is the plan to sell the home
overlooking the yacht basin and
the fish house and other prop
erty.- The move to Boston will
probably be made with a few
weeks.
Mr. Fodale came here more
more than 15 years ago. He took
over the shrimp and fish business
established by his father, Sasa
Fodale. Marrying in Boston a few
years later he brought his wife
here and the people have become
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Brief News
Flashes
KITCHEN SHOWER
A kitchen shower will be held
in the Southport high school
lunch room Friday afternoon at
3:30 o'clock with guests being
urged to bring utensils needed in
the home economics department
of the school. The shower is
being sponsored by the Parent
Teacher Association and is in
charge of Mrs. Robert Thomp
son.
New Bridge To Be Opened
CROSSING—This is the new bridge over the Waccamaw River at Pireway,
which will afford another connection between Brunswick and Columbus counties. One
result of the new bridge will be to make travel from Brunswick to Tabor City easier
for farmers from this county seeking a market for their farm produce. It has been re
ported that the new bridge will be open for use some time this month.
Murder Warrant
Issued Tuesday
For Supply Man
E. L. Lovett Being Held Un
der Bond Of $5,000 In
Connection With Death
Of Morton Holden
E. L. Lovett, middle aged white
man of Lockwoods Follw town
ship, was arrested Monday on a
warrant sworn out and served
by State Highway Patrolman R.
H. Constante.
The warrant charges Lovett
with the death of Morton Hol
den which occurred at the home
of Buster Robinson, near supply,
early in December. At the time
Holden supposedly met his death
by being run over by a pulp
wood truck, operated by Delbert
Hewett.
Investigating the occurance,
Coroner John C. Caison postpon
ed an inquest for the time be
ii^g. It is said he found it im
possible to obtain any evidence.
The seven or eight men at the
Robinson place with Holden are
all said to have been drinking.
They engaged in a free for all
fight, it is said. When the fight
was over Holden was found in a
dying condition.
Delbert Hewett, said to have
been one of the crowd, was re
ported to have run over Holden
with his truck. Lovett, who was
arrested this week, is said to
have struck the deceased over
the head with a shotgun.
Lovett is in jail in default of
a $5,000.00 bond. Officers say
they have some hopes of getting
a statement from him that will
clear up the affair. All in the
crowd at Robinson's were white.
Commissioners In
Session Monday
Routine Business Disposea
Of Before County Board
On Monday; Draw Civil
Court Jury List
The board of county commis
sioners met Monday in their first
session of the year.
On motion of Commissioner H.
O. Peterson, seconded by R. L.
Rabon, it was ordered that the
J. C. Maultsby home tract, manag
ed by E. W. Maultsby, be relieved
of $800 valuation because of tim
ber having been cut and removed.
On motion of Peterson, secon
ded by Rabon it was ordered that
the Ellay Joyner lands in North
west township be sold to Simon
Burney for the price of $158.79,
deed to be made this date.
The State Highway Commis
sion was asked to hard surface a
section of road in Town Creek
township, approximately 8 miles
jin length and known as the New
Hope road, starting from No. 17
| at the J. W. Beck store and in
tersecting with No. 17 again at
I Winnabow.
It was ordered that the clerk
iwrite a letter to Commissioner
Wilbur Clark, urging that the two
narrow streets on each side of
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Former Resident
Killed Monday
I
The Rev. Benjamin Randall
Page Killed By Train
Near Home At Wake For
est Early Monday Morn
ing
WAS SUPERINTENDENT
OF COUNTY SCHOOLS
Was Retired Baptist Minis
ter And Had Served As
Principal At Bolivia
And Leland
'the Rev. Benjamn Randall
Page, former superintendent ol
schools for Brunswick county
who also had served as princi
pal for the Leland and Bolivia
schools, was instantly killed ear
ly Monday morning when struck
by a train near his residence ir
Wake Forest.
It is believed ‘that the accident
occurred at about 4 o'clock ir
the morning. The Rev. Mr. Page
had been in poor health recently
and it is thought that he was ir
a dazed condition when he dress
ed and wandered out in to the
path of danger.
Funeral services were held or
Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock
from the Wake Forest Baptist
Church, Dr. J. Glenn Blackburn,
pastor officiated. Burial will be
in Wake Forest cemetery. Sur
viving are his wife, the formei
Sue Thomas of Brunswick coun
ty; one son, Randall Page of
Wake Forest; three daughters,
Elizabeth Page of the home, Mrs
J. Russell Britt of Farmville, and
Sue Page of the home; one sister,
Mrs. Leona Pope, of Dunn; four
grandchildren, several nieces and
nephews.
The Rev. Mr. Page made his
home in Wake Forest for the past
several years. He was a gradu
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Shallotte Will
Extend Lighting
This Is Part Of' Proposed
Improvements Now Under
Consideration By City Of
ficials There
Considerable public improve
ments are being planned by the
Shallotte town officials in the
near future, according to Mayor
Leon Galloway who stated Satur
day that most of the plans cen
tered around streets and lighting.
Several large new street lights
will be placed, beginning at the
corner near the Dr. Henderson
Rourk home and with one at the
school, one at the intersection of
No. 130 with 17, one at the Wood
row Russ filling station and var
ious others.
The short stretch of street
known as Broadway has been pla
ced on the map and it is under
stood that it will be paved short
ly. arious other bits of street and
load work are also on the agen
da.
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Tobacco Meeting
Will Be Held
On Thursday, January 17, at
3 p. m., an important tobacco
production meeting will be held
at Shall 'tte school auditorium,
says A. S. Knowles, county ag
ent.
S. N. Hawks, tobacco special
ist, will lead the discussion—
will illustrate his talk with pic
tures on varieties, disease and in
sect control, and fertilizer and
soil requirements. “This is in
formation that will be of great
value to our growers,’’ said Coun
ty Agent Knowles in announc
ing plans for the meeting.
Southport Boy
Dies Wednesday
James Worth Fullwood Dies
From Bullet Wound In
Temple, Believed To Be
Self-Inflicted
Funeral services were conduct
ed here Friday afternoon for
James Worth Fullwood, Southport
boy who died Wednesday of a bul
let wound in his temple.
The funeral rites were held at
Southport Baptist church, with
the pastor, the Rev. T. D. Toler,
in charge. Assisting was Dr. J.
M. Waggette, pastor of Southport
Presbyterian Church. The body
was laid to rest in Northwood
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Polio Drive Is
Now In Progress
In This County
Chairman Edward H, Red
wine Reports That Work
ers In All Sections Are
Busy Collecting Funds For
This Cause
HOPES FOR QUICK
END TO CAMPAIGN
Goal For This County Has
Been Established At $2,
000 For This Year, Ac
cording To Chairman
With the first week of the Mar
ch of Dimes drive in Brunswick
county now approaching its end,
County Chairman Ed Redwine
stated yesterday, that he had not
yet been able to get out among
the 'workers and get a report of
the progress -that has been made.
The quota for Brunswick is $2,
000. The drive is supposed to
end on January 31. "I hope to
have a good report on what the
workers have been doing for pub
lication in next week’s paper,”
said Chairman Redwine.
"There is no question,” he ad
ded, “Brunswick must make good.
And the better way to make
good is to do it right now. I
hope that we can put it over
quickly.”
Since the list of March of Dimes
workers was published last week
Mrs. Clement Holden has been
added to the number. She will
take care of the Boones Neck
community.
A list of the other workers
was published last week and is
again being published below in
order that all prospective contri
butors may know to whom to
make their donations.
Shallotte—Mrs. M. H. Rourk.
Waccamaw — Principal M. B.
Crawford.
- Winnabow—Mr. R. D. Sullivan.
Leland—Principal Holland Man
ning and Mrs. Mack Jones.
Supply—A. S. Knowles.
Southport—Lions Club and the
Southport Woman’s Club.
A. C. Caviness, principal of
the Brunswick County Training
School, is serving as chairman
for collections among the colored
citizens.
Deacons School
Set Next Week
Three-Day Session Will Be
Held In Two Sections This
Year To Better Serve All
Churches
The three-day session of the
Deacons School, January 15-17,
is giving promise of being well
attended, according to Rev. W. R.
Morehead of the Brunswick Bap
tist Association.
For this school the county is
being divided. All delegates
from west of the Mount Olive
Church will attend at the Old
Shallotte church. FroVn east of
Mt. Olive they will go to An
tioch Church between Southport
and Bolivia..
At both of these centers the
session will begin at 7 o’clock
each evening. In charge of the
Old Shallotte School will be the
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W. B. KEZlAli
Our
ROVING
Reporter
A few weeks back we coined
“Sunny Point of the USA” as
the future slogan of Southpbrt.
Since the quib was ■ published
friends on all sides have been
telling us that nothing could
sound more approp. iate. Some
have since takeft the trouble to
write and tell us so. It is really
a rather catchy wording, illus
trating more than just the plann
ed military installation. South
port is really a great point of
land running out into thd ocean.
The climate, too, is deserving of
the term Sunny Point. Before
long, according to our reasoning,
automobile tags and other things
can be heralding Southport —
“Sunny Point of U. S. A.”
The Caswell Baptist Assembly
schedule, published in this paper
last week, shows indications that
Director R. K. Redwine and his
co-workers are planning much
the biggest of summer activities
of any yet held at Fort Cas
well. After all, this was the log
ical thing to expect. Each sum
mer has been seeing a great en
larging of the scope of activities.
1951 saw about double the at
tendance of 1950. Using the
many splendid buildings that can
be adapted to future expansion
with little effort, the Baptists
have facilities for taking care of
future increases. They should
have a big year at Caswell this
year.
It is generally admitted that
the service men’s column in this
paper is very interesting. A
lot of people have gone out of
their way to write or tell us of
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Conference Expected
To Result In Setting
Date To Begin Work
Southport Lady
Gets Radio Check
Mrs. Otto Hickman Received Check For Correctly Identi
fying Tune On “Mystery Melody”
A musical memory that flashed
back twenty years to a literary
society program during her sen
ior year in high school won a
check for $100 for Mrs. Otto
Hickman from the sponsors of
"Mystery Melody” on Christmas
Eve.
Mrs. Hickman was listening
when one of the mystery tunes
was played, and immediately it
struck a responsive chord. “It
was Roses of Picardy,” said Mrs.
Hickman, "and the reason I re
membered it so well was because
Margaret Farmer and I learned
it as a duet when we were mem
bers of the Jeffersonian Literary
Society during our senior year
in high school."
Mrs. Hickman wrote in her an
swer, but since she never had
won anything before she wasn’t
too excited about her prospects
for a prize. In fact, she did not
even tune in the program the
following week. Last Wednesday
she received a letter from New
York that looked like a piece of
routine advertising. She thought
so little of it that she allowed it
to remain on the table unopened
until Saturday. Then, during a
cleaning spree, she decided that
she should open it before throw
ing it away. To her great sur
prise and extreme delight she dis
covered the check for 5100, to
gether with an offer to qualify
for further honors if she could go
to New York.
“I don’t think I can work out
that trip to New York,” said
Mrs. Hickman, “but I am sure
that I can find a use for the
check.”
Bolivia Adds To
Building Fund
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Tax Collector
To Make Rounds
Tax Collector Edward Red
wine will make his rounds of
the county next week, stopping
at various points for the col
lection of taxes. The trips are
made as a matter of conveni
ence to tax payers who are sel
dom able to come to town, ow
ing to distance, age or owing to
their employment. The best il
lustration of these calls through
the county is found in North
west and upper Town Creek
townships. In those sections
workers at the fertilizer fac
tories are always busy during
the winter months and the mat
ter of paying taxes is left to
the wives. They usually meet
the collectors on his infrequent
rounds.
Following his usual custom,
the Rovin Reporter plans to
make these trips with the tax
collector, for this gives him an
excellent opportunity to get a
line on new developments in ev
ery section of Brunswick county.
O’Quinn Carried
To State Prison
Brunswick County Man Be
gins Serving Sentence For
Murder Of His Wife Last
Summer
J. G. (Pat) O’Quinn, the stormy
petrel of Brunswick county so far
as law enforcement officers were
concerned, left here Monday morn
ing for State prison in Raleigh in
charge of Sheriff E. V. Leonard
and a deputy.
The commitment for O’Quinn to
begih serving his sentence of 17
to 20 years for the murder of his
wife was issued early Monday
morning by Clerk of Court Sam
T. Bennett. The clerk acted in
accordance with an order from
Solicitor Clifton Moore, who sta
ted he thought it best that the
prisoner be taken to Raleigh now,
instead of waiting until the Jan
uary 21 term of court when he
will probably face charges of as
sault with a deadly weapon and
escape.
Solicitor Moore will draw bills
for these charges and present
them to the grand jury. If that
body finds true bills, O'Quinn will
be returned here for trial, either
at the January term, or later.
Contributions F rom That
Community Made It Pos
sible To Maintain $500
Per Week Pace For Hos
pital Building Fund
COLLECTIONS NOW
TOTAL $8,062.50
Hope Expressed That Goal
Of $10,000 May Be At
tained Before End Of
This Month; Freeland
Helps Again
Bolivia was the precinct heard
from in this week’s report on
the Dosher Memorial Hospital
Fund and the $225 total from
that community is what made it
possible for the goal of at least
$500 per week to be met. The
grand total ‘'now stands at
$8,062.50.
Lester Babson reported addi
tional collections from the Free
land community sufficient to
bring the total from that imme
diate section to $525. This un
usual record has been made pos
sible through the wholehearted
cooperation of the citizens of the
Freeland-Exum community rang
ing from the ladies and their
box supper to the children and
t^ieir ‘thimble party.’
Among the contributions this
week is a donation from the
Elah Baptist Church at Leland.
Although this community is close
to Wilmington, several of the
people of that section have been
patients at their county hospi
tal and wanted to help in rais
ing funds for its improvement.
The New Britain Baptist church,
which is located at Freeland, is
another church congregation ma
king a donation this week.
A Raleigh lady who works for
a former Southport man, has
been keeping up with the hospi
tal fund drive through The Pi
lot and this week sent a check
for $10 to help the cause. Her
employer is James P. Furpless,
of Carolina Rim and Wheel Co.
With less than $2,000 to go on
the goal of $10,000, for which
matching funds of $90,000 are
available, officials in charge of
the drive urge that those plan
ning to make donations do so
this month. Checks should be
made payable to the treasurer of
the Dosher Memorial Hospital
Auxiliary, the sponsoring organ
ization for this campaign for
building funds.
Following is a report of col
lections during the past week:
Bit. Forward .$7,559.62
Supply doner (withheld) 10.00
James A. Pinner . 25.00
Bruce Atkinson . 1.00
Southport donor (name
withheld) . 35.00
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Top Officials Engaged In
Series Of Conferences Ex
tending Over Period Of
Five Days To Decide Sun
ny Point Problems
DISCUSSION TO
COVER ALL ANGLES
Series Of Meetings Expec
ted To End With Announ
cement Of Beginning
For Work On Ammu
nition Depot
By W. B. KEZIAH
A five-day series of conferenc
es revolving about the Sunny
Point ammunition loading ter
minal and attended by high of
ficials of the Defense Depart
ment and Coast Guard opened
here yesterday morning in the
Wilmington District office of the
Corps of Engineers.
Topics under discussion, accor
ding to Col. R. C. Brown, District
engineer, include the design of
piers, route and yard layout of
the railroad system to connect
with the Atlantic Coast Line and
the seaboard, and necessary real
estate requirements.
Objectives of the conferences,
Col. Brown said, is to weed out
extraneous details and to arrive
at specific definite conclusions re
lating to the multi-million dol
lar installation which has been
under study and in the design
stage since October 1950.
Practically all of yesterday
morning was devoted to getting
the group acquainted with the
local situation. In the afternoon
representatives of the various
branches of the service broke
up into similar parties for con
tinued studies.
Today’s schedule includes a vis
it to the Sunny Point site by
all members of the delegation.
From there they will proceed to
Southport and return. This af
ternoon they are to consult with
representatives of the several
utilities companies in Wilming
ton. These include the Tide Wa
ter Power Company, Southern
Bell Telephone and Telegraph
Company and the railroad sys
tems which serve this area.
Harry Robert of the Robert
and Company, Atlanta, retained
by the District office to design
the piers, is scheduled to join the
group this afternoon for a re*
P?rt on progress of pier design.
Beginning tomorrow and run
ning through Friday additional
discussions will center about the
railroad with particular atten
tion to the point or points it will
join the two local lines and the
most practical route for the line
to follow from these lines to the
terminal area. These three days
will be taken up also with any
matters still requiring attention
by the local office and the sev
eral members of the visiting del
egation.
Tlie delegation is com. ,,sed o£
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Tide Table
Following Is the tide table
for Southport during the next
week. Theae 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, January 10
6:42 a. m. 0:14 a. m.
6:58 p. m. 1:02 p. m.
Friday, January 11
7:22 a. m. 0:58 a. m.
7:39 p. m. 1:42 p. m.
Saturday, January 12
8:01 a. m. 1:39 a. m.
8:18 p. m. 2:20 p. m.
Sunday, January IS
8:36 a. m. 2:18 a. m.
8:54 p. m. 2:57 p. m.
Monday, January 14
0:10 a. m. 2:57 a. m.
9:29 p. m. 3:31 p. m.
Tuesdayy, January 15
9:42 a. m. 3:36 a. m.
10:09 p. m. 4:05 p. iq.
Wednesday, January ifi
10:15 a. m. 4:14 a. ni.
10:39 p. m. 4:40 p. m.
Hospital Building Fund Now Totals $8,062.50