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Hospital Building Fund Now Totals $11,000.00 Most Of The News All The Time VOL. NO. SIXTEEN NO. 38 THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community The Pilot Covers Brunswick County 6-PAGES TODAY Wednesday, February 20, 1952 Southport, N. C. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY *1.50 PER yea!' Pair Bluff Men May Face Trial By March 17th Arrest Of Former Klansmen Brings Feeling Of Relief To Many People Through out County WORK ON 11 OTHER CASES TO CONTINUE Bond Furnished For All Of The Accused Men Follow ing Arraignment Satur day In Fayetteville u. s. uisuicl Attorney canaries P. Green will not ask the death penalty for the 10 former Klans men in the Fair Bluff area who were arrested Saturday on char ges of violating civil rights and kidnapping. Although news commentators carried the announcement that he would ask the maximum it was reported last night by the As sociated Press that Green would not place the men on trial for their lives. Since kidnapping, followed by violence, is a capital offense un der the Lindbergh law, it would have been possible to impose a death sentence in the event of conviction. Green said he hopes to bring them to trial, probably at Fay etteville, on March 17. The 10 men under indictment in the abduction and flogging of Dorothy Dillard Martin, 27, and Ben Grainger, 40, both of Fair Bluff on the night of October 6, 1951 are Early L. Brooks, 44; Brooks’ son, Bobby Brooks, 18, Horace Strickland 38; Ross En zor 43; L. C. Worley, 25; Bob Hayes, 38; Pittman Foy Strick land, 29; George Miller, 19; Sher wood Miller, 26; and Steve Ed mond, 26. The FBI agents picked up the alleged floggers in early morning raids Saturday and whisked them away to Fayetteville for arraign ment. Sheriff H. Hugh Nance and Sergeant J. R. Pridgen of the State Highway Patrol accompan ied FBI agents to Fair Bluff for the arrest of Brooks, the former police chief and reputed leader oi the Fair Bluff KKK Klavern which Grand Dragon Thos. L. Hamilton disbanded for “un klanish” activities. Special Agent in Charge Wil liam A. Murphy of the Charlotte Division of the FBI promised pro tection for flogging victims and said investigations would continue. Meanwhile, Sheriff Nance said the work of his staff would not be completed until “every case that can possibly be solved is solved.” Emotion-tom Columbus County spent a week end in a feeling of shock, deep hurt and rejoicing. There were rumors that scores of other Klansmen were “shaking in their boots” as they came face to face with the reality that the forces of law and order were in action and might call on them without warning. Apparently the present situa tion can be summed up in these words: A few weeks ago no one (Continued On Page 2) Brief Newt Flasket LIONS TO MEET The regular meeting of the Southport Lions Club will be held at the Masonic Building tomor row (Thursday) at 1 o’clock. OYSTER SUPPER The Youth Fellowship of Sha ron Methodist Church is spon soring an oyster supper at Boones Landing Saturday. Oysters will be served from 3 p. m. to 9 p. m. The public is invited. PURCHASE BUILDING The old Miller Hotel building, built many years ago by L. Miller, now of New York State, was sold the past week to Monroe Butler of Lumberton. It is understood that the building will be used for a restaurant, to open some time in June. SERMON SERIES The Retr. T. D. Toler, pastor of Southport Baptist Church, has commenced a series of Sunday evening services on marriage and the home. These sermons will continue through the month of March, the first, “When your Heart Takes a Jump”, being scheduled for Sunday evening. Superior Court To Clean Civil Docket Judge Chester Morris Serves Notice That Civil Cases Pending And Not Ready For Trial To Be Non-Suited civil court cares penning and not ready for trial when Superior Court convenes in April will be promptly non-suited, according to a ruling made by Judge Chester Morris who presided at the two hour-long session of court last week. Judge Morris will be back for the April term. In some cases civil actions have been pending for as many as 15 years. They are docketed for each court and just as regularly continued. The ruling of Judge Morris will either see the long carried cases tried or result in their being non-suited, never to come up again. If a case, Clerk of Court Sam Bennett says, has been on the docket for only three years and is non-suited in April the liti gants can renew it. The cases pending more than three years will have no such luck. They will be tried or non-suited, thereby disposed of for once and all. For years each term of Civil Court has convened with large dockets awaiting. Except in vig orously contested cases every thing has to be continued owing to lawyers, litigants or somebody else not being ready for trial. This goes on for years until a litigant often forgets what he is suing his neighbor for. Great numbers of cases pend ing in Civil Court are not often docketed for trial at an approach ing term, officials knowing full well that they will not be called. Even with careful selection of the pending cases in order to form a docket for trial at an approaching term it often hap pens that few of these cases are ready when court convenes. At last week’s term, after a large docket had been prepared, court convened and found only a single divorce case ready and waiting. This was disposed of within a few minutes, but at a cost of three or four hundred dollars. Tax payers see nothing funny in paying for a whole term of civil court, just for the ' dis position of an uncontested di vorce case. Tournament Games In Waccamaw Gym Southport And Shallotte Teams Meet Tonight In Double - Header To De termine Who Stays In Tournament DOUBLE - HEADERS SET FOR THURSDAY Championship Game For Boys On Friday Night With Girls Finals Com ing Up Saturday Shallotte and Southport teams meet tonight in a double header, to fight it out for a place in the semi-finals at the annual Bruns wick county basketball tourna ment which is being held at Wac camaw gymnasium. In the boys’ division the win ner of the Shallotte-Southport fracas must face top-seeded Bo livia tomorrow (Thursday) night at 8 o’clock. In a preliminary game on the evening session of the semi-finals, the top-seeded Leland girls play the winners of the Southport-Shallotte girls game. Tomorrow afternoon the first session of the semi-finals will see the Bolivia girls meeting the Waccamaw home team at 3:00 o’clock followed by the Leland Waccamaw boys game at 4:00 o’clock. The championship game for the boys will be played on Friday night following the girls conso lation contest. The champion ship game for the girls will be played on Saturday night, with the boys consolation providing the other half of the double-bill. Features of the Friday and Saturday evening sessions will be the annual free throw contest, being held for the fifth consecu tive year under the sponsorship of Stanley’s Jewelers of Wil mington and The State Port Pi ( Continued on page Five ) Waccamaw Bank Big Institution Notification Received That This Bank Rates Among Top Six Percent In Point Of Size In United States According to a telegram to Dr. R. C. Sadler, president of the Waccamaw Bank and Trust Company from the American Banker, daily publication of the American Bankers Association, the Waccamaw Bank now stands in 854th place in size among the 14,754 banks in the United States. The American Banker congratu lated the local institution on its “spectacular advance” fro 941st to 854th place during the year. Prince O’Brien and J. E. Cook, Southport and Shallotte cashiers of the offices of the bank point ed out that the Waccamaw bank now stands among the top 6 per cent of banks in the country in size. The bank showed total re sources of more than $23,000, 000.00 on December 31, 1951, an increase of more than $3,500,000. 00 during the preceding year. --- Bird Club Plans Visit To Area The North Carolina Bird Club is scheduled to hold its spring meeting at Southport on April 18-19. Owing to the lack of loding facilities at Southport ar rangements have been made for the party being accommodated at the Caswell Baptist Assembly grounds. Reports received here indicate an attendance of about 100 mem bers. Most of these will be adult men and women. The planned activities include a visit to Bald Head Island, where the party is expected to spend several hours. Points up the river will also be visited. Reports from Durham and Greensboro point to the attend ance of quite a number of out standing men and women. It is expected that the program will be ready in a short time for distri bution to the club members throughout the State and to guests of the club who will at tend. Numerous Cases Tried In Court Total Of Thirty Cases Dis posed Of Here In Bruns wick County Recorder’s Court Monday Out of the large number of cases that came up in Recorder’s Court here Monday an even 30 of them were disposed of by Judge W. J. McLamb and Solicitor Ray Walton. About a dozen of the ca ses grew out of the overloading of trucks on the highway. The 30 cases handled were as follow: John A. Derrick, overloading, costs. Anthony Aaron Hobbs, Jr., speeding, fined $10.00 and costs. Ray E. McCombs, speeding, fined $10.00 and costs. Archie R. Parrish, reckless op eration, prayer for judgment con tinued on condition that defendant make restitution for property da mage in amount of $50.00. Horace I. Williamson, reckless operation, $25.00 fine and costs. Dan Miller, public drunkenness, $5.00 fine and costs. James Owens, drunken driving, fined $100.00 and costs. John Dago, speeding, costs in sum of $16.95. William Roger Phelps, overload ing, half the costs. Harold Dean Gilmore, overload ing, costs. Roe Everette Pearce overload ing, half costs. Alma Prayer Peterson, expired operator’s license, $25.00 fine and costs. Ervin V. Altiman overloading, costs. Woodrow Wilson Harvell, drun ken driving amended to reckless operation, fined $50.00 and costs, license suspended for six months, ( Continued On Page Five ) March of Dimes Collection Near Quota In County Chairman Edward H. Red wine Announces Collec tions 'totaling $1,961.33 With More Money Expec ted To Come In 3HALLOTTE LEADS OTHER SECTIONS Reports Have Come In From Ail Sections Of County In dicating General Parti cipation In Drive Edward H. Redwine, chairman of the March of Dimes for Brun swick county this year, reports collections totaling $1961.33 with scattered funds still to come in. The county quota for this year was set at $2,000. Leading all other communities in the matter of contributions to this cause is Shallotte \^ith a to tal of $778.11. Mrs. M. H. Rourk was chairman for that section. The leading school effort for the county was turned in at Le land, where collections totaled $266.84. Principal Holland Man ning was in charge of this ef fort. Another noteworthy effort was that of Principal A. C. Caviness of the Brunswick County Train ing School, who reported total collections of $228 from the col ored schools of the county and from '■"'ored citizens. Chairman Redwine says that he desires to express his sincere appreciation to all who have help ed with this drive. “The fight against polio is one that all of our people can understand, and is a program with which all of us are in full sympathy. With the splendid support we have received from National Founda tion during the past few years I am mighty proud that we have been able to come so close to our quota this year. I sincere ly believe that sMiHilotnentary ( Continued on page Five ) ’ Landscape Is Being Planned Meeting of Brunswick Coun ty Schoil Board Associa tion Devoted To This Pro ject . Principals, coaches and voca tional agriculture teachers met with members of the Brunswick county school board association Wednesday evening at Bolivia to discuss plans for beautification of school grounds. An agreement was reached to inaugurate a program of planting and cultivation which will bring about a marked difference in the appearance of the school build ings throughout the county. The proposed plan is to get some quick growing plants out in or der to make a showing as soon as possible and to fix hotbeds for rooting plants of more un usual varieties. O. D. Hiatt, horticulturist at Orton Plantation, and Joe Ram seur, manager of Pleasant Oaks Plantation, were present and dis cussed some of their experiences in matters of this kind. Other items of business includ ed a discussion of final plans for the Brunswick County Basketball (Continued on page four) Shrine To Be Spared ""■■■■. ...—. ^.. .... . ..-U^—:,-^..i EXCLUDED—The ruins of old St. Phillips church near Orton will not be disrubt- , ed by new construction in connection with the Army Ammunition Outloading Depot at . Sunny Point. Word comes that it will lie just outside the area and will continue as an historic shrine. Hospital Funds Stop With $11,000 -.-* - Silver Dollars Circulate Here Silver dollars have invaded Southeastern North Carolina in quantity for the first time in many years. To dramatize where its portion of the $60,000 spent last week for pulpwood by Riegel Carolina Corporation goes, Acme Wood Corporation paid out $6, 000 in silver dollars Friday to its wood producers. Riegel Carolina’s purchases of pulpwood this week totaled over $60,000. Over $25,000 was spent for payroll. With other buying Riegel Carolina’s total purchases were over $100,000 this week. The flow of the 6,000 silver dol lars through this area will be a small evidence of the effect of these purchases on Southeastern North Carolina. Brunswick Man Mate On Bacon John E. Robinson Of Supply Is Mate Aboard Dredge On Which Many Men From This County Have Worked The U. S. Engineer’s dredge Henry Bacon, which for many years did maintenance work on the Cape Fear River under the Wilmington District with Capt. W. E. Bellamy in charge, will soon leave Savannah, Ga. for work on a defense project in the North Atlantic. That was the official word out of Washington last week. One Brunswick man still with the dredge is John E. Robinson of the Silver Hill community near Supply. Mr. Robinson is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Robinson of Supply. He has been employed Continued on Page Five W. B. KBZ1AU Our ROVING Reporter Letters and other messages re ceived by various other folks and called to our attention are indic ative that a lot of people who left Brunswick county in previ ous years are anxious to return. With little in the way of indus try, few ways in which to make i living, they had to go away, but they never have forgotten. The huge military facility being planned for this area is now giving them hopes that they will be able to return here and make a living. The indications are that the construction of the huge military facility will bring along with it a big home-coming of former residents of Brunswick. The twenty-five hundred or so folks who watched the Shallotte school band parading and play ing in the rain at the Christ mas celebration last year are looking forward to something in teresting on March 1st. At the Christmas event the young folks '■ acquitted themselves in a won- ' derful manner despite the adverse i conditions. Now, better trained, they can be depended on to put , on a great show on the 1st of ] March. Backing them up to ] make a big day for Shallotte will j be four other high school bands. . If it happens that the weather ( goes against them and it rains on the first the event will be moved up to March 8. Both , date and substitute date are on Saturdays. There should be a huge crowd out to see the young folks. The annual Southport to Myr tle Beach marathon outboard mo- 1 (Continued on Page 4) 1 Application To Duke Foun dation Will Be Based Upon This Amount Which Was Final Report To The Board Of Trustees Mon day ADDITIONAL MONEY CAME THIS WEEK Resolution Outlining Needs Of Hospital Adopted For Presentation To Duke Board Members At Feb. Meeting An application has been made by the trustees of Dosher Mem orial Hospital to the trustees of the Duke Endowment for match ing funds for the $11,000 which has been raised during a build ing fund drive for the institu tion. Collections during the final tveek totaled $424.20. If this body approves the re quest, this will make the sum of $22,000 available in making ap plication to the Medical Care Commission for an additional $88,000. This will give a total 3f $110,000 for the job of reno vation and modernization of the Brunswick county hospital. Most of this is a formality, since assurance already has been given that these requests will be looked upon with favor. In fact, the Medical Care Commis sion has earmarked up to $160, 300 for this purpose, contingent upon a 20 per cent sponsor’s share being available. Donation continued to come in during the past week right up to the time for making formal Application. D. C. Andrews, Shal lotte merchant, sent in $25.00. Hie biggest addition was a check for $200 from a Southport man .vho already had contributed $100. The Winnabow Home Dem mstration Club sent in their do lation totaling $38 and there was me Southport donor who con .ributed a check for $50. When -ime came to make the final ad lition it was discovered that a sum of $85.20 would be neces sary to make the local contribu tions an even $11,000 and that ( Continued On Page Five ) Commissioners In Session Monday Routine Business Disposed Of Before Board In Re gular Session; Friday Will Be Holiday The Board of County Commis iioners were in session Monday vith routine business being dis :ussed. On motion of H. O. Peterson, leconded by R. L. Rabon, H. O. tobinson is permitted to after ist his property in Lockwoods i'olly township for five years, his •eal estate not having been list id during that time. Dr. R. H. Holden was appoint ed a director for this area for the southeastern North Carolina Be lch Association to recommend and lelp work out the needs on cer ain projects that should be star ed and completed. County offices will close Fri iay, February 22, in observance >f George Washington’s birthday. Red Cross Will Meet Next Week To Make Plans Tuesday Night Meeting Cal led For Purpose Of Dis cussing Plans For County Wide Organization A meeting of Brunswick coun ty citizens has been called for Tuesday night, February 26, at 8 o’clock in the Southport high school library for the purpose of : reorganizing and revitalizing the local American Red Cross chap ter. J. Allen Carter of Atlanta, re- 1 gional director of the southeas tern area, American Red Cross, 1 will speak to the group. 1 Since the resignation of the 1 Rev. L. D. Hayman, several months ago the chapter has been without a head. County Super- : intendent J. T. Denning is serv- 1 ing as temporary chairman until 1 a permanent chairman can be el- 1 ected. . '< Miss Antoinette Beasley, field representative, was in the coun- 1 ty Tuesday making arrangements ' for the meeting. She expressed the hope that a large number of persons will attend the meeting. Another Band Added For Day Total Of Six Bands Expec ted To Participate In Band Day Program At Shallotte On Saturday, March 1 Prospects for the Shallotte Band Day Festival are becoming brigh- 1 ter each day. It was originally planned that five high school bands would take part in the 1 event. The present arrangements call for the participation of six bands with a total of 282 mem bers. The latest band entry in the ' event is the Wampee-Little River J organization. Other participants j as announced last week were . Shallotte band, 72 members; Lor- j is, S. C., band 50 members; Myr- < tie Beach band 40 members; Mul lins S. C., band 40 members; Ay nor S. C. band, 40 members. No information is available as to the number in the Wampee-Little Ri ver band. The playing and marching of these bands is expected to draw crowds from all over the county and the two states of North and South Carolina. Shallotte folks are getting ready for a really big event. W. W. Jacobus, director of the Shallotte band, states that among the features put on by his own organization will be a combination “West Point Drill.” This, he says, is something seldom seen in the south. Mr. Jacobus anticipates that this will be one of the most attractive features of the day. The bands from the various schools will begin arriving at Shallotte early Saturday morning and much in the way of entertain ment may be found in their prac ticing and drilling before the big parade gets underway at 2 o’clock. At that time all bands will march through town to the high school athletic grounds, where the events will take place. Director Jacobus says that there is plenty of parking space on the school grounds and the specta tors are advised to assemble Continued on Page Five Expect Railroad To Cross Route With Overpass Dverpass Expected To Cross Coastline Railroad And And Highway 74 And 76 Near Leland On Way To Eastbrook JTILL UNDECIDED ABOUT ROUTING fhe Railroad Serving Sunfty Point May Follow Old Route Or May Make Di rect Line To New Project By W. B. KEZIAH The proposed government rail ■oad from Eastbrook on the V. L. will cross U. S. Highway '4 and 76 and the Atlantic Coast jine tracks with a long overpass it Leland. The exact spot of the crossing vill be several hundred feet east >f the Mills Filling Station on J. S. 74 and 76. With the road jroceeding toward Lanvale a ipur track will be built back rom the Sunny Point railroad or the connections with the At antic Coast Line. The sidings 'or the Atlantic Coast Line's .hipping will be along the south side of the line and on the straight stretch between the Wills place and Leland. From Lanvale the course of he Sunny Point railroad to its lestination had still not been de eded up to early this week, ac lording to available information. Dne of these routes leads paral el to the course of the Cape ?ear river, but some distance jack. The other course follows .he bed of the old WB&S Rail •oad to the county boardinghome Jroperty near Southport. Both routes have been thor jughly surveyed. It is under itood that the Corps of Engin eers, Wilmington district, was not villing to make the decision as :o which route the road would ollow. Accordingly they referr ed the matter to top officials, md the selection of the route on rom Lanvale is now awaiting lecision from these officials. In such matters as this railroad ind other like projects the gdv imment usually follows a proced lre that is likely to result in :he most general public benefit 'or the future. That is the pres et situation. No decision has jeen made as to which of the •wo routes for the railroad will je the most generally helpful n the future, as well as serving :he present. U. S. 17 likewise appears to je slated to have an overpass by -he railroad. Where this over >ass shall be is, of course, de« jendent on which way the rail -oad runs from Lahvale. Although early action is looked :or the status of the serving rail •oad is very much like that which' existed the first of October, 1950, vith respect to the ammunition jutloading depot. At that time i man with a little “satchel” ap peared at engineers' offices on he full length of the Atlantic -oast. He asked what facilities -hey all had for a big terminal; h all engineers’ offices he is .aid to have been shown just vhat they had. He traveled the ull length of the Atlantic Coast nd the first and only place that eeeived any great attention was iunny Point. 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, February 21 4:10 a. m.10:38 a. m. 4:25 p. m. 10:46 p. m. Friday, February 22 5:14 a. m. 11:37 a. m. 5:30 p. m. 11:48 p. m. Saturday, February 23 6:14 a. m. 0:00 a. m. 6:29 p. m. 12:31 p. m. Sunday, February 24 7:08 a. m. 0:45 a. m. 7:24 p. m. 1:20 p. m. Monday, February 25 7:59 a. m. 1:38 a. m. 8:16 p. m. 2:08 p. m. Tuesday, February 26 8:47 a. m. 2:28 a. m. 9:05 p. m. 2:53 p. m. Wednesday, February 27 9:33 a. m. 3:16 a. m. 9:53 p. m. 3:37 p. m.
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