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Most Of The News All The Time THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community The Pilot Covers Brunswick County VOL. NO. SIXTEEN NO. 15 6-PAGES TODAY Southp#ort, N. C. Wednesday, August 6, 1952 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY *1.50 PER YtHK Big Attendance At Ft. Caswell For This Week Variety Of Programs At tract Workers Of All Ages From Every Section Of North Carolina To As sembly Sessions TEACHING STAFF HAS BIG NAMES Visitors Have Opportunity To Hear And Study With Outstanding Leaders Of Baptist Denomi nation Advance registration indicates an attendance of about 700 at the Caswell Baptist Church through this week and next. Interesting conferences are on the program for the various groups that make up the weekly gath efings. This week brought a big gath ering for the Sunday School as sembly and for the Christian Home Conference. The School for Pastors is in its final week. The Workers Conference is the main feature. This group is composed of Associations! Work ers, Church Secretaries, Educa tional Directors and Music Direc tors. At the same time gather ings are being held of the Junior GA State Camp and the 4-H Club camp. Last week’s program was un der the direction of L. L. Mor gan, State Sunday School Secre tary, morning, 8:30 to 12:30. Song and Praise, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Kosanke; Bible Hour, Dr. J. B. Weatherspoon; Administration Conference, Dr. T. W. Tippett; Study of Current Uniform Les sons and How to Apply Them, Rev. D. P. Brooks; Worship Ser vice, Dr. H. H. Stowbridge. The evening program was from 7:30 to 9:30, and was as follows: The Christian Home, Dr. J. B. Wea therspoon ; Inspirational Message, Dr. H. H. Stowbridge. For this week’s Educational Workers Conference Rev. L. Gra dy Burgiss, vice president of the organization, is presiding. Among those slated to appear on the program are: J. Boyd Horton, V. E. Duncan, Miss Lou ella Brown, Lee Pridgen, Miss Kittie Sullivan, Tom Walters, John T. Biddle and Miss Kath leen Frink. Outstanding person alities who will appear are Dr. M. A. Huggins and Rev. Lewis Martin of the Home (Mission Board. This is the first confer ence of this kind attempted in North Carolina. Next week, August 11, sees the beginning of two weeks of Bible Training Union. | BrUfNtmt 1 Flathtt LIONS TO MEET The regular meeting of the Southport Lions Club will be held tomorrow (Thursday) in the Ma sonic Building at 1 o'clock. NEW CARPET A new carpet recently has been laid in the pulpit and along the aisles of Southport Baptist Church. BENNETT SUPPER The Woman’s Society of Chris tian Service for Trinity Method ist Church will serve a chicken salad .supper next Thursday ev ening, August 14, the proceeds to go toward the purchase of a new rug for the parsonage. REVIVAL SERVICE A revival service will begin Sunday, August 10, at Mill Creek Baptist church with the Rev. D. D. Lewis, a native of that com munity doing the preaching. The Rev. Mr. Lewis is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar Lewis and now is a resident of Colum bia, S. C. SECONDED MOTION ~ It was Chairman Elroy King, not Member R. L.Rabon, who sec onded the motion made by Mem ber H. O. Peterson of the board of County Commissioners for the appointment of Jack E. Brown as tax collector. Commissioner Rabon voted to make it unani mous after the appointment had been made by the other two. COMMITTEE NAMED At the Saturday meeting at the Supply Baptist Church foi the purpose of organizing for the Ivan L. Bennett Day, Cecil Robbins was made general chair man; Cornelius Thomas, vice chairman and Rev. W. R. More head. secretary-treasurer. Anoth er central meeting to lay plan; for the event will be held at ar early date. It has not yet beer decided where the event will b< staged. Holmes Has Theory On Flying Saucers Shallotte Man Believes There May Be Some Connection Between Four Leading Topics Of The Day By W. R. HOLMES Flying Saucers, Sun Spots, A tom Bombs, Hot Weather. We know very little about eith er of the above captions, except hot weather — this we have first hand information, and everyone will bear us out in this, especially this Summer. You might ask, where do you get any connection with either of the above? Ours is only surmise. We are not a scientist and know very little about astronomy, and as for breaking atoms and the atom bomb we know nothing. Here of late we are reading and hearing reports of "flying sau cers" being seen in scores of places. When they were first re ported a few years ago, we recall that Phil Gibbons, well known locally, saw one near his home at Hamlet, and gave chase with his small cub plane. Since then many have been reported — the fast est planes and even jets fail to overtake them and get anything like first hand information. Whe ther it be the Martians or inhab itants of some other planets, or perhaps the scientific work of someone of our enemies spying on our war installations, we do not know. Many have come lorwara with their suggestions as to what they are — yet the solution is a mystery. Neither Robert J. Tay lor, Drew Pearson or other prom inent news analysts have given anything definite or tangible as their solution. A few years ago we were hear ing much about “sun spots”, the cause of our winters getting cold er and our summers very mild. Here of late we do not recall reading or hearing of sun spots— | evidently they have about disap | peared. Now here is our surmise i — not at all authentic, far from 1 it. The sun spots were a forma tion of some kind of substance | that had located somewhere in I space between the earth and the | sun, hence making it appear as ; spots or shaded areas on the sun. If they had formed themsel ves in an orbit, even not fixed, something has upset them, caused them to move, and Old Sol is giv ing us everything he has without interruption. Possibly in some of our atom explosions and experi ments the "spots” were up-set, set about in space similar to meteo rites, but with different form and (Continued on Page 4) Sports Fishermen Having Good Luck - ate-' -- ■ ■ - —. Parties Fishing From Here During Past Week Have Had Variety Of Catches Ranging From Blues And Mackerel To Big Fellows SATURDAY CALLED UNUSUALLY GOOD Catches That Day Ran As High As 300 Bluefish And Mackerel To Boat; Mon day Proved Another Outstanding Day This has been a week of ex tremes for sports fishing, with Saturday being one of the best days of the year for blues . and mackerel. One of the best catches that day was reported by Capt. Fred Fulford. Fishing with him ab ard the Davis Brothers were T. M. Stilwell, John Floyd, J. S. Fain, W. E. Thomas, G. C. Free man, B. J. Hoover and Parks Hoover. They had 244 bluefish which ranged in weight from 1% pounds to 3 pounds each. Following Saturday’s bonanza for all of the boats which were out, Sunday proved to be just an ordinary day. Then Monday bus iness picked up again. Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Johnson of Albermarle were out with Capt. Leon McKeithan aboard the bot fly and caught 160 Spanish mac kerel and 2 bonita. Captain Howard Victor had F. W. Warrington and daughter and Mrs. M. Moore with him aboard the Cadet for his Monday trip. They had 182 bluefish, 12 mack erel, 2 albacore, 1 barracuda and 2 dolphin. Aboard the JohnEllan with Capt. Walter Lewis were C. R. Williams of Gastonia, Sgt. Ray Ward and Pfc. Keith W^rd of (Coutinued on Page 4) Vacation Bible School To Begin St. Phillips Episcopal Chur ch In Southport Will Hold One-Week Session Begin ning Monday Morning A one-week session of Daily Vacation Bible School will begin Monday morning at 9 o’clock at St. Phillip’s Episcopal Church in Southport. Miss Jettie Odell, di ocesan missionary to Tar Land ing and Calabash, will be in charge. This announcement is made by Rev. John Ormond, student pas tor and seminarian, who is serv ing this parrish during the months of July and August. He is a student at Virginia Theolog ical Seminary, Alexandria, Va. The staff for the school in cludes Mrs. R. K. Godfrey and Mrs. Alex Fox, nursery-begin ners; Mrs. Neils Jorgensen, pri mary department; Miss Odell and the Rev. Mr. Ormond, intermedi ; ate (department. An invitation has been extend ed to all children between the i ages of four years and 12 years are invited to attend. Open Air Dance Next Wednesday Plans are being made for an open air dance on the parking strip on the Shallotte school grounds next Wednesday night the proceeds to go for the ben efit of the Shallotte High School Band. Music will be furnished by the Smoky Valley boys who play every Saturday night at Long Beach. Tickets will be placed on sale throughout the county this week-end, and it is hoped that a large crowd will attend and help this worth while cause. Dancing will begin at 8:30 o’clock and the date is August 13. Education Board Asks For Action Body Foresees Danger From Overcrowded Conditions At Southport School And Asks Government Assist ance At the regular meeting of the Brunswick County board of ed ucation here Monday night the first definite action regarding the establishment of a critical defense area was taken with the passage of a resolution request ing this action. It was called to the attention of the Board of Education by J. T. Denning, superintendent of schools, local school committee of Southport School District and to city officials that the U. S. Air Force has set up a permanent base at Old Fort Johnson in the City of Southport. The comman ding officer of the unit assigned to this base has informed the board that among his personnel were currently 28 married persons with families. Under present conditions in Southport at this time the City of Southport is without adequate sewers, schools, hospitalization and general facilities to take care of or otherwise provide for any influx of population brought about by the location of an Armed Services base in this area and that neither the town nor the county has any finances with which to expand or maintain ad ditional increases in said facili ties. In view of the foregoing infor mation related to the board of education, upon motion of J. C. Stanaland and seconded by Her bert Long, it was resolved that Superintendent J. T. Denning furnish the proper authorities a copy of these minutes and peti tion said authorities to make an immediate survey of the existing situation and pursuant thereto have the Southport area declar ed a critical defense area pursu ant to Public Daw 139-82nd Con gress, Chapter 378, First Session (Coutinued on Page 4) Complete Plans For Conducting Church Program Churches Of The Brunswick Baptist Association Will Participate In Rural Chur ch Enlargement Program Next Month THIRTEEN CHURCHES PLAN TO PARTICIPATE Any Others Who Desire To Have A Part In This Pro gram Of Church Ex pansion Should Noti fy Moorehead Plans have been completed for the Brunswick Baptist Rural Church Enlargement Crusade, which will be carried on in 13 Dr more churches during the pe riod from September 25 through October 3. The Baptist Associa tion will have for this crusade the best qualified teachers, prea chers and workers that can be found anywhere. Some of the churches plan to have their regular fall revival during the crusade. A list of the visiting workers, all of whom are pastors with the exception of two who are associ ational missionaries, is as fol lows: Rev. Frank Robinson, Sea board; J. Wayne Levant, High Point; Gilmer Beck, Henderson; George Reynolds, Aulander; El liott Stewart, Teachey; J. V. Cass, Rose Hill; J. H. Mauney, Smith field; Joe Sumner, Jacksohville; Raymond E. Moore, Lake View, S. C.; Roger Williams, Oxford; Lewis Ludlum, Winston Salem; John R. Blanchard, Creedmore; Oliver C. Price, Smithfield; Gra ham Brooks, Andrews; E. U. Hoover, Rocky Point; John R. Searcy, Wilmington. These wor kers have already been assigned to fields. Others will be secured and assigned to fields later on. Rev. W. R. Moorehead and Mr. Walden, rural church department head, are urging that any church not already in this crusade and wishing to take part, contact either of them immediately in or der that arrangements may be made for their participation. These officials state that they feel the crusade is much needed among the churches and people of Brunswick and that untold good will be accomplished. Firemen Express Thanks To Ladies Members Southport Volun teer Fire Department Writes Letter To Home Demonstrati on Club Thanking The Memberi For Donation Members of the Southport Vol unteer Fire Department have written a letter of appreciatior to members of the Southport Home Demonstration Club foi their generous donation of the proceeds of the Fourth of Jul) celebration to the fire true! fund. A copy of this letter, writ ten by Harold F. Aldridge, fol lows: "We,” the members of the Southport Fire Department, wish to use the medium of your papei to express our sincere apprecia tion to the Home Demonstratior Club for donating the proceeds of this year’s Live Oak Festiva to the Fire Truck Fund. "We would also like to expres: our deepest gratitude to th< (Coutinued on Page 4) Tobacco Opens With Price Average Ranging $56~$57 Three Menhaden Boats Break Away T^ed abreast and moored to dolphins in the river in front of the Grimes House, the three big menhaden boats of the Southport Fisheries broke lose Tuesday af ternoon. Several men were on the boats which drifted several hundred feet before engines could be started and their progress halt ,ed. When they first started their runaway they drifted near the W..S. Wells shrimp house. It is said that if they had struck the structure" would ha ve crumbled like an egg shell. Rivermen say it was fortunate that the dolphins gave way when they did, because had it happened during a real storm much damage might have resulted. R. L. Thompson Moves Dock To New Location After 28 Years Operation On Riverfront, Veteran Standard Oil Employee Will Move To Site On Southport Yacht Basin After 27 years of marine ser vice station operation directly on the river, R. L. Thompson is moving the scene of his opera tions to the more sheltered inter coastal waterway and yacht ba sin area. In March 1950 Mr. Rob was given a 25-year Service Card by the Standard Esso Oil Compa ny. Next March will make his 28th year. <A-His new place at the entrance of the yacht basin is all complet ed and is in use, but the road up to it is still giving trouble to the big tank trucks that supply him. As a result, he is still car rying on at the old stand for a Short time longer. With his son, Waters Thompson, who is asso ciated with him in the opera tion of the business, he is di viding his time between the old and new places. During his many years on the river, Mr. Rob has become known (Continued on Page 4) Commissioners In Session Monday Dr. F, M. Burdett Resigns As County Physician And Is Succeeded By Dr. Nor man M. Hornstein The board of county commis sioners was in regular session Monday. By motion of Commissioner H. O. Peterson, seconded by Com missioner R. I. Rabon and duly carried, it was ordered that Man gum Williams of Shallotte be re relieved from poll tax for the year 1950 and from there on. This for the reason that he was i medically discharged from the : Navy. Continued on Page Five Our ROVING Reporter a year on me weeK pre ceeding the opening of the tobac co market your paper may be late as it was last week. This was due to the Tobacco Edition. In the fu ture if your paper does not show up on time with the issue just prior to the market opening you will know that the delay is due to the annual Tobacco Edition. At other times when it does not show up on time the delay may be laid to your having neglected to renew your subscription. Now doing his chant on the Fairmont tobacco market, where he has been an auctioneer for many years, Jimmy Woltz of Long Beach is said to have con tracts for the building of four or five new homes at Long Beach. He will start up just as soon as the tobacco marketing ends, a oout the last of September. All of these houses are at West Long Beach, and the .new two-mile development area owned by John B. Ward of Longwood and Char les Trott and Davis Herring of Southport. Located on the most scenic part of the long strand, West Long Beach can be watched with a lot of assurance that it will become a bee-hive of build ing within the next few months. Until a dozen years ago Long Beach was as little known as was Hip Vanwinkle until he awoke from after his 40 year sleep in the Catskill mountains. Now it is widely known and a lot of new people are learning of it every day. They are really building homes and preparing to build over there. This summer (Continued on page four) •S| All - Crop Dryer DEMONSTRATION—An all-crop dryer will be de monstrated Friday afternoon at 2 o’Clock at the Claude Gore farm two miles west of Shallotte. This demonstra tion is being sponsored by the Brunswick Rural Electric Membership Corporation. The man standing next to the machine in the above picture is John W. Weaver, Jr., agriculture engineer at N. C. State College. Long Beach Name Over 150 Years Old New Post Office Equipment Coming The Southport F*oSt office will be completely - ^y^T-vt.ed fall, including rearrangement of the lobby, installation of new lock boxes, and new furniture for both the business office and the lobby. This announcement was made this week by Mrs. Marjorie Livingston, acting post master, who reports that the first ship ment of this new equipment already has arrived. She has been advised that the remainder of the new fur niture will be shipped about the middle of September and that the new boxes will be shipped the last of that month. When they arrive a postoffice special ist will come here to supervise the installation of this new equipment. Numerous Cases Tried In Court Afternoon Session Required To Dispos) Of Matters Before Recorder In Regu lar Weekly Session Here Monday Monday was a busy day in Brunswick County Record er's Court with an afternoon session being necessary to dispose of all matters ■ of business. The fol lowing cases were disposed of: William D. Hassins, reckless operation, fined $50 and costs. Alfonso C. Green, speeding, fin ed $10 and costs. Bill Lewis, public drunkenness, fined $10 and costs. James Allen Scott, overload ing, fined $10 and costs. Sam Fletcher Frink, overload ing, not guilty. James Grady, Jr., making turn in front of incoming traffic, no operators license, nol pros with leave. James Grady allowing minor to operate, fined $25 and costs. Clem Nathaniel Lewis, reckless operation, fined $25 and costs and ordered to make restitution to Elliott Ganey in amount of $13.80. John W. Hewett, Jr, non-sup port, ordered to pay $25 this date and $30 per month hereaf ter for support of his minor child. Sam D. Hilburn, no operators license, fined $25. Costs remitted. Hoyet M. Britt, speeding, or dered to pay costs. J. P. Newton, no operators li cense, fined $25 and costs. James H. Seymour, reckless op eration, fined $100 and costs. David Stazel Baker, operating unmarked vehicle for hire, pray er for judgment, suspended on payment of $7.20 costs. James E. Livingston, reckless Continued on page four Brunswick County Resort Called Longest Unbroken Expanse Of Beach On Coast Of North Carolina BEACH HOLDS NAME FOR 150 YEARS Mild Uproar Caused When Developers Proposed To Change Name When Long Beach Proper ty Purchased “You may think that Long Beach is only 14 years old. In reality the name dates back for more than 160 years. Long Beach has had the name of Long Beach about as long as Wrightsville has borne the name of Wrights ville.” So claims E. P. (Middleton of Charleston and Long Beach, pres ident of Carolina Lands, Inc. Mr. Middleton and his associ ates, all from Charleston, ac quired the Long Beach strand back in 1939. “At that time,” says Mr. Mid dleton, “the place was totally undeveloped and inaccessable. We did not know it had a name and we organized as the Blue Wa ter Corporation and named the place Blue Water Beach. “You personally gave some pub -licity to the start of the Blue Water Corporation and Blue Wa ter Beach and we immediately began to get indignant letters from old people in Raleigh, Ashe ville, Charlotte and Fayetteville. “Most of them indignantly Continued on Page Five Forest Fires Cause Damage During Past 12 Months Per iod Total Of 6,151 Acres Burned Over At Loss Of 20,787 To Landowners According to County Forest Ranger D. L. Mercer, from July 1, 1951, through June 30, 1952, 6,151 acres of forest land burned as a result of wild, uncontrolled forest fires. Seventy-nine forest fires burned during this period doing a damage of $20,787.00 to the woodland of Brunswick Coun ty Nine out of every ten of these fires were man caused and could have been prevented. Not only did woodland burn, people’s homes, barns and livestock also burned when in the path of the raging fires. On 14 of the 79 fires the re sponsible parties were determin ed and law enforcement action was taken resulting in collection of court cost and fines and re imbursement of fire fighting cost. The people of Brunswick Coun ty are urged to help in every way possible to prevent forest fires and the destruction of the timberland in an effort to pro duce enough wood products for the increasing demands of the people. Sales Comparatively Light On Markets In This Area But Prices On Various Grades Are Satisfactory PRACTICAL TOP PRICE WAS $70.00 PER 100 Farmers Expected To Ob tain Prices Slightly High er Than Last Year On Same Quality Leaf Tobacco opened on Columbus markets Monday at better than $56 per hundred pounds. Prices ranged up to $73, b it the practical top was $72. Greenbacks began to trickle in to trade channels soon after the first golden weed was offered for sale, but it appeared unlikely that warehouses would operate anywhere close to capacity for several days. Dave S. Neilson, supervisor of sales on the Whiteville market, estimated the Whiteville average at some point between $57 and $58. He said the demand was strong and that the practical top of $72 was three dollars above the prac tical top in effect during the fir st two weeks of last season. The volume was far below last year’s first day. Neilson estimated the total at slightly less than 600,000 pounds, contrasted with the first day’s sales of 988,000 in 1951. Sales were light on all five markets in' this immediate area. The unofficial estimate was an average of between $56 and $57. W. P. Hedrick, tobacco market ing specialist with the North Car olina Department of Agriculture, had forecast that opening day prices would be as good, if not better, than the opening day av erage of $56.25 set last week on the South Carolina markets. Although the hot, dry weather has proved costly to tobacco growers in many sections of Nor th Carolina, the Border Belt crop is in “fairly good” condition, ac cording to Hedrick. He said the 3order Belt crop was helped by early season rains which did not (Coutinued on Page 4) Boarding Home To Have Piano Baptist Ladies Of Bruns wick County Have Raised Funds With Which To Furnish This Instrument Mrs. Lindsey Clemmons of Sup ply, chairman for the committee of arrangements, has announced that the Baptist churches of Brunswick will present a piano to the inmates of the Brunswick County Boarding Home Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. The instrument has been pur chased by the Baptist churches of Brunswick and will be pre sented during an inspirational program which will be in charge of various church workers, in-* ' eluding Mrs. Margaret McRaek an, Southport; Mrs. Dennis Hew lett, Shallotte; 'Mrs. Leroy Hooks, ILeland; Mrs. Ernest Gilbert, An tioch Church; Mrs. Jarvis Sel lers, Mt. Pisgah; Mrs. Janie Bo gie, Lebanon; Misses Betty and Bett Rogers, Town Creek Church; (Coutinued on Page 4) | j I Tide Table Following Is the tide -able 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, August 7 ):01 a. m. 2:54 a. m. 9:31 p. m. 3:10 p. m. Friday, August 8 9:53 a. m. 3:42 a. m. 10:20 p. m. 4:01 p. m. Saturday, August 9 10:45 a. m. 4:28 a. m. 11:09 p. m. 4:52 p. m. Sunday, August 10 11:38 a. m. 5:16 a. m. 11:59 p. m. 5:46 p. m. Monday, August 11 0:00 a. m. 6:05 a. m. 12:33 p. m. 6:41V p. m. Tuesday, August 12 0:51 a. m. 6:37 a. m. 1:30 p. m. 7:44 p. m. Wednesday, August IS 1:46 a. m. 7:53 a. m. 2:2S p. m. 8:47 p. m. 11 — ■ ia.
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