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VOL. NO. SIXTEEN
NO. 29
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Southport, N. C.,
PORT PILOT
In A Good Community
The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
Wednesday November 12,1952
PUBLISHED EVERl WEDNESDAY
$1.50 PER YEA*
Explanation Of
Rail Operation
At Sunny Point
Plans For Connection With
Two Principal Railroads
Will Go Forward As Ori
ginally Planned
TWO RAILROADS
MAY ALTERNATE
Manner Of Handling Cars
Inside Area Described On
Basis Of Information
From The Engin
eers
By W. B. KEZIAH
With the Sunny Point Ammu
nition Depot to be served by
two railroads, some explanation
of the methods of operation may
be in order. The serving rail
roads will serve only to the end
of their own trackage, and from
there the government engines
will pick up the cars and deliv
er them to the wharves or stor
age yards inside the facility, re
turning the cars in the same
way when they are empty.
The theoretical plan is for the
Seaboard trains to leave their
main line at Eastbrook arid trav
el over their own track to the
center of the trestle that will
span the tracks of the Atlantic
Coast Line. From that center
they will be on government track.
Atlantic Coast Line trains will
leave their main line east of
Leland and their train crews will
bring the train to the pick-up
yard over the government track.
This set-off and pick-up yard
will, according to information,
have three 75-car tracks for the
Seaboard and the same number
for the Atlantic Coast Line. That
is, each of the two serving rail
roa'ds will have car capacity for
450 cars, or a total for both of
900 cars.
Trackage in and out of the
pick-up yard will be owned by
the government, but train move
ment into this yard will be made
by crews of the two railroads.
The two railroads will have in
dividual operation so far as the
pick-up yard.
From' tlie yard to the facility
it appears that the Coast Line
and Seaboard will alternate on
the job of moving cars, only one
of these railroads operating du
ring any given period. It ap
pears likely that from the yard
to the facility the Coast Line
will do all of the operating for
six months of the year and then
the Seaboard take over for a
similar period.
The present plans are that
when the trains move south to
Sunny Point from the set-off
and pick-up yard at Leland they
will travel over 100-lb. rails. Al
ong the route two well located
pass tracks or sidings will be
built. They will have 75-car ca
pacity and will be available in
the event another train is com
ing north.
When the incoming train rea
ches the main yard at the site
of the facility it will pass over
an inspection pit. Should trouble
be detected in any car of the
train the car will promptly be
switched to a special suspect
track that has an earth barri
cade on each side. The remain
der of the train will then move
onto the receiving section of the
yard. This section will consist
of six tracks, each capable of
handling an entire train of 75
cars, or with a Combined capaci
(Continued on Page i I
Brief Newt
Flashes
IN MARINE HOSPITAL
J. S. Arnold and Raleigh Wil
lis went to Baltimore, Md., this
week for treatment in the Marine
Hospital.
RETURNS HOME
Dr. R. C. Daniel has returned
home following treatment for
pneumonia at the Dosher Mem
orial Hospital. He has not yet
been able to resume his duties
at his dental office.
PREPARING TO BUILD
Mr. and Mrs. Donald S. Ty
dings of Atlanta will be here
December 1, and will begin buil
ding their new ranch type home
at Southport. Mr. Tydings is
with the International Revenue
Department in Atlanta and will
retire about the first of March.
FIRE DANGER ELIMINATED
Good drizzling rains through
out Brunswick County Monday
and Monday night had the ef
fect of giving everything a good
soaking, thereby eliminating all
immediate danger of major for
est fires. The past several weeks
with no rainfall made things ra
ther dangerous.
More Power To North Carolina
This is the seed bed on which Carolina Power & Light Company will raise a mighty Dig plant—
a 300,000-horsepower generating plant. The job started this month with formal ground-breaking cere
monies Friday along the edge of the Cape Fear River, right foreground. A boiler 17 stories high and
a 200-foot smokestack will be located within the rectangle.— (Aerial photo by John Browning.)
3-County Credit
Body Formed By
‘Duck’ Bradshaw
Association Service To Be
Made Available To Mer
chants, Doctors, Dentists
And Others
The Tri-County Credit Asso
ciation, Inc., has been formed to
make available to merchants, doc
tors, dentists and others of Co
lumbus, Bladen and Brunswick
counties a credit information serv
ice and assistance in the collec
tion of bad accounts, according: to I
an announcement by William (3. ]
(Duck) Bradshaw, manager.
Bradshaw said "a survey among
merchants in the area indicates
a definite need for such serv
ices” and pointed out that an up
to-date credit service would be
made available to merchants of
such towns as Fair Bluff, Ever
green, Cerro Gordo, Shallotte,
Supply, Southport, Bladenboro,
Chadbourn, Elizabethtown, Bolton,
Acme-Delco, Hallsboro, and Ta
bor City.
Phamplets calling attention to
the plan have been distributed in
the various trade centers of the
three counties.
Emphasis was placed on the po
int that the service will work to
the advantage of the buyer who
has good paying habits as well as
to the advantage of those affilia
ted with it. Persons who have |
unforeseen financial difficulties
will also be helped through the
laision agency. Workable plans
for easier terms will be worked
out whenever possible in hard
ship cases, Bradshaw said.
The association began function
ing today, Bradshaw having com
pleted organization details during
the past several weeks since his
arrival from Durham where he’
has been engaged in business.
W. B. KKZIAH
Our
Reporter
Through copy having been lost
after reaching this shop, the
Waccamaxv school reports have
been absent from this paper for
the past two weeks. This has i
not been through any fault of
the young ladies doing the work
for the school. They have always
been first in with their news
and their copy has ranked with
the best. It is pleasing to note
that they are back again this
week and it is hoped that neither
they or any of the other school
reporters will miss another week
during the school session.
One of the up state fellows
really interested in Long Beach
i is M. H. Waynick, owner of a
j home at the Beach for several
! years. He has always been a
j real booster of the place where
I ever he was. Recently Mr. Way
nick came into this office and
paid us for a subscription to a
prominent up-state man who lat
er, it developed, was one of the
j best friends the editor of this
paper ever had. This week, and
Mr. Waynick came in again,
bringing with him Charles J.
Hunt, one of the county commis
sioners of Guilford County. Mr.
Hunt had heard so much of
Southport and Long Beach from
Waynick that his first act af
ter meeting us was to subscribe
for the paper. He said that
from all he had heard, and he had
beared a lot from Waynick, this
county is really set to go plac
es.
We have always been credited
with being bull headed, with
with sticking to our belief in
things. For more than a quar
ter of century, since we first
knew this town, we have stead
fastly believed that something
big would come to this area, and
it would come through the broad
mouth of the Cape Fear River.
We held to this belief until long
after many of our friends had
either died or else given it up
(Continued on page 4)
Contractors Had
Much Information
U. S. Army Engineers Had
Completed All Tests In
Effort To Furnish Work
ing Data For Bidders On
Dredging
McWilliams was
SUCCESSFUL FIRM
Object Has Been To Exped
ite Project Wherever Pos
sible In Effort To Have
Operation Run Riigiit
Looking over the charts made
by the Army Engineers for the
guidance of contractors in ma
king their bids and also for
them to follow in executing the
work, one becomes impressed
with the monstrous job that the
engineers have had on their
hands for the past two years.
Hundreds of borings have been
made to determine the character
of the operations that will be
necessary. In some areas a mod
erate amount of shell rock or
soft limestone will have to be re
moved from short distances be
low the surface. At another
point there is what might be de
scribed as a "floating rock”. It
has earth above, below and all
around, and. it is fairly hard but
of comparatively limited area.
But real hard rock of the kind
where removal would present
huge engineering problems is not
found anywhere except in spots
about 52 feet below the surface
and the dredges will not go that
deep.
From the findings that result
ed from the exhaustive borings
by the engineers, it does not ap
pear that the conratcting firm
will encounter any great obstacle
(Continued on Page 2)
Dredging Outfit
No Stranger here
The McWilliams Dredging Co.,
soon to start operations on the
river at Sunny Point, is not a
stranger to work in Brunswick
County. This company had the
job of dredging the huge Bruns-1
wick River lay-up basin, Tow»|
Creek township.
This ship lay-up basin is entire
ly in Brunswick County. The
job of dredging was much small
er than the present and future
dredging operations that will
take place at Sunny point. Still,
the basin was a formidable job,
owing to the huge mass of sun
ken logs and stumps far below
the surface in the basin area. It
is said that many solid stumps,
as much as 35 feet in circumfer
ence were found far down. Logs
were everywhere. They had to
be chewed up by the^dredges.
Large Docket Is
Disposed Of Here
Variety Of Offenses Cover
ed In Long List Of Cases
Tried In Brunswick Coun
ty Recorder’s Court Mon
day
A long and varied list of cases
were up for trial Monday in
Brunswick County Recorder Court
with the following judgments
being rendered:
Betty Ann Hayes, no operat
or’s license, nol pros at the in
sistence of arresting officer.
Elmer Dempsey Ganey, speed
ing, fined $5 and costs.
Joe Hedgecock, assault, threat
en to kill, remanded to juvenile
court.
R. D. Simmons, destroying per
sonal property, 30 days, suspen- :
ded on good behavior for two
years and costs.
William Hardy, reckless oper
ation, judgment suspended on
condition that defendant make
restitution in amount of $251 for
property damage and pay costs.
James H. Todd, no operator
license, fined $25 and costs.
Donnie J. Daniels, assault with
deadly weapon, motion for jury
trial, bond set at $800.
Eunice Davis, assault with dea
dly weapon with intent to kill,
bound over to Superior Court,
bond set at $1000.
Ernest Marlowe, public drun
kenness, fined $10 and costs.
Malcolm Garland Smith, reck
less operation, fined $25, costs.
Clyde Johnson, reckless oper
ation and operating without val
id license, fined $40 and costs.
Arthur David Leach, improper
equipment, half costs.
James W. Brown, no opera
tor license, fined $25 and costs.
Austin Phelps, allowing minor
to operate, costs.
Nancy J. May, no operator li
cense, fined $25 and costs.
Alfred M. May, aiding and abet
ting in operating without li
cense, nol pros.
Garcia Butler, improper equip
ment, one-half costs.
(Continued on Page 4)
Museum People
Show Interest
In Sunny Point
Think That Some Fossils
May Be Uncovered Dur
ing Dredging Operations
At Sunny Point
CURATOR ASKS
TO BE INFORMED
Portions Of Prehistoric Ani
mals Already Have Been
Discovered In These
Parts And Hope For
More
The North Carolina State Mu
seum is credited with being much
interested in the government’s
operations at Southport involving
the dredging operations, the op
erations of drag lines and the
general construction involved in
the building of the railroad and
sidings. 1'
The interest lies in the possi
ble discovery of fossils uncover
ed in the operations. Curator
Harry T. Davis, writing W. B.
Keziah this week, pointed out
that portions of prehistoric ani
mals, such as mastodons, have
already been discovered in this
area. Some really important
.finds may be found in the work
soon to get underway here, he
says.
At the suggestion of Curator
Davis the local man will contact
|,the Army Engineers to ask that
inspectors, etc., keep a close look
out for fossils. The various con
tracting firms will also be ask
ed to have their foremen be on
the watch and report any dis
coveries. The last of this month
when things get underway, Cur
ator Davis will probably come
down and spend some days ma
king a personal search.
Artesian Flow
Very Plentiful
Boiling Springs Located In
Eastern Part Of Bruns
wick County May Have
Grgat Value
The Ancient Mariner’s plaint of
“Water, water everywhere and
not a drop to drink,” is hardly
likely to ever come true with re
gard to drinking water in the
eastern part of Brunswick Coun
ty. The boiling springs on Al
len’s Creek, even in the dryest
periods the county has ever had,
have an artesian flow of 43 mil
lions per day.
And that is a lot of water. It
would more than provide for all
purposes in the largest city in
North Carolina.
And it is pure and uncontam
inated, clear and sparkling. Com
ing of itself, from deep down in
the earth, it is ready for con
sumption as it is.
Just a few years ago a visit
ing doctor to Southport went out
to one of the half-dozen huge
springs that provide the big flow.
He is said to have drunk of that
water, tested it and to have af
terwards said that if he lived in
Southport he would drink no
water except that which came
from the boiling springs.
With 43 million gallons avail
able daily from the flow to the
surface, it is purely problematical
how much could be obtained by
pumping. But good sources have
said that with the aid of pumping
a hundred million gallons could
be obtained daily, without hav
ing to go very deep.
The springs are just a couple
of miles or so beyond the Sunny
Point reservation. The new gov
ernment railroad will pass with
in a couple of hundred feet of
one of the big springs. That
spot can be counted on as a point
(Continued on Page 2)
PRECINCTS
Hoods Creek .
Leland .
Town Creek .
Bolivia .
Southport No. 1
Southport No. 2
Mosquito .
Supply ..
Secession .
Shallotte .
Prying Pan .
Grissettown .
Shingletree .
Longwood .
Ash .
Waccamaw .
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Republicans Protest
Returns In Brunswick
As Democrats Win
Story Of Father
Appears In Life
Jacob Epstein, Father Of Mrs. Norman Hornstein, Re
cognized As England’s Greatest Living Sculptor
Life Magazine last week de
voted one full page and half
of three other pages to featuring
criticsJacob Epstein,, who is hail
ed by critics in the United States
and England as being England’s
greatest living sculptor.
The pay-off conies from the
fact that the distinguished, often
criticised, often praised sculptor
is the father of Mrs. Norman
Hornstein of Southport.
Jacob Epstein, the subject of
the life feature story, war born
in New York City, the son of
Russian-Polish immigrants. He
made his way through his studies
by selling drawings to magazines.
In 1902 he went to Paris,
France, and three years later he
settled in London for good.
His four-story brick home in
Kensington, 'England, is now a
gathering place of notables and
near - notables. Epstein is at
the peak of his fame and enjoys
a steady flow of guests, rather
than going out and visiting am
ong kindred artistic spirits.
Mrs. Epstein died in 1947. Four
of the couple’s five children live
in England and are often visit
ors at the Kensington home.
Mrs. Hornstein, here in South
port, i3 a long way from being
able to make frequent visits to
her distinguished father. Her
marriage to Dr. Hornstein came
about when he was finishing his
medical studies in England, just
before World War II.
The Doctor, Mr s. Hornstein and
their two children passed through
all of the blitz on Londan. At
the very start of the war he had
turned his skill as a physician
and surgeon to the aid of the
suffering Briitish subjects work
king with the British Medical
Corps in London. When the Am
ericans came, he transferred to
the home country forces, and
when the war was over he came
back to his native America,
bringing his wife and children
with him.
November Fishing
Brings Good Luck
One-Day Ban On
Hunting Lifted
A ban against hunting up
land game in North Carolina
was lifted Tuesday morning by
the State Wildlife Commission
after being in effect only one
day. The ban was imposed be
cause of the forest fire dan
ger and with rains coining the
day it became effective it was
lifted the following morning.
“It is felt that the apparent
ly general rains of Monday had
the effect of reducing the dan
ger,” said the Wildlife Com
mission in a report from Ral
eigh yesterday.
Youths Arrested
After Wild Ride
Out - Of - State Pair Found
Justice Swift And Sure
As They Crossed Into
North Carolina For Car
Thefts
Arrested Sunday night by Cpl.
O. H. Lynch and Patrolman M.
S. Wilkins after a wild 95-mile
an hour chase, James Harris
Wicher, a 16-year-old Augusta,
Ga., youth, and Arthur W. Smith,
17, of Langley, S. C., vv^-e each
given two years for car theft
when they were tried in the
(Continued on Page 2)
King Mackerel Continue To
Be Big Attraction For
Sportsmen Who Are,
Keeping Southport Boats
Busy
WEEK-END TRIPS
VERY PROFITABLE
With Many More Good Days
In Prospect During This
Month The Outlook Is
Good For Sportsmen
Pishing continued good off
Southport during the past week,
with king mackerel again fea
turing the catches.
A Monday trip aboard the
Idle-On II netted Harold Lance
and party of China Grove 26
king mackerel and 11 bonita. On
the same day P. Barringer and
party of Sanford were out ab
oard the Botfly and reported
20 bonita, 2 amberjack and 12
king mackerel.
Tom Britt and party of Lum
berton were out aboard the Ca
det of Capt. Howard Victor and
came in with 12 king mackerel,
12 bonita and 3 amberjack. On
board the Patricia were Charles
Ferris and Alex Huben, both
from Connecticutt. They had
12 king mackerel, 9 bonita and
4 amberjack and reported that
this is the best place along the
coast that they had found to
fish.
Clyde Alexander and party
from Landis were out with Capt.
Walter Lewis aboard the John
Ellen and had 27 king mackerel,
(Coutinued on Page 4)
Final Vote Shows Odell
Williamson To Be Winner
Over W. A. Kopp By
Only 57 Votes For Repre
sentative
EISENHOWER GETS
COUNTY MAJORITY
The Next President Carries
Brunswick County By A
Margin Of 7 Votes;
Hewett Is Only Coun
ty Winner
Official returns from last
Tuesday’s general election have
failed to make sufficient differ-"
ence to upset any of the Demo
crat candidates on the county
ticket, but the final count show
ed Dwight D. Eisenhower get
ting a majority of seven votes
in Brunswick.
With their margin cut to a
57-vote majority for Odell Wil
liamson over W. A. Kopp in
the race for House of Represen
tatives, the Republicans on Mon
day lodged a protest against the
certification of Williamson as
the winner and called for a re
count. The protest was brought
by Irving Tucker, Whiteville at
torney, in behalf of Kopp. He
also represented Cecil Robbins,
who trailed W. J. McLamb in ■
the race for Judge of Record
er's Court by only 124 votes.
The act under which the re
count was called for Williamson
is tile law which gives the right
to any candidate who trails in
a primary or general election by
not more than one per cent of
the total vote. Tucker pointed
out that there was exactly this
difference in the Williamson
Kopp vote.
The board of elections, which
began its canvassing duties on
Thursday and held adjourned ses
sions on Friday and again on
Monday, turned down the request
for a recount on the grounds
that the returns had been filed
with the clerk of court on Fri
day. Tucker said this morn
ing in Whiteville that he is awa
iting word from John Wilkinson,
Washington lawyer, as to wheth
er a writ of mandamus will be
sought in an effort to compel a
recount.
The protest charged numerous
irregularities in the conduct of*
the election, as follows: That]]
in Northwest township the pre
cinct officials issued no township *
ballots after 1:30 o’clock, al
though they had a supply of
these ballots; that in the count
of township ballots, no actual
tally was taken, but that an es
timate was made to arrive at the
totals; that D. L. Gainey re
mained inside the polling place
at Leland precinct; that *'
vote for D. R. Johnsc
gress was estimated
counted in this precin
Hoods Creek the to
of votes was altered^HBi
returns had been signecT by
ection officials; that only oii^Z
tally sheet was kept in this prefc
cinct; that the ballot boxes for”,
Hoods Creek precinct were re
moved from the polling place to
the home of Leo Medlin, a Dem
ocrat candidate for county com
missioner, for counting; that
Medlin entered the polling place
12 or more times the day of
(Continued on page four)
Tide Table
Following is the tide viable
tor 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, November 13
4:32 a. m. 10:46 a. m.
4:38 p. m. 11:01 p. m.
Friday, November 14
5:18 a. m. Jl:36 a. m.
,,5:24 p. m. 11:45 p. m.
Saturday, November 15
6:02 a. m. 0:00 a. m.
6:08 p. m. 12:24 p. m.
Sunday, November 16
6:46 a. m. 0:26 a. m.
6:51 p. m. 1:10 p. m.
Monday, November 17
7:29 a. m. 1:08 a. m.
7:35 p. m. 1:54 p. m,
Tuesday, November 18
8:14 a. m. 1:51 a. m.
8:20 p. m. 2:39 p. m.
Wednesday, November 19
9:00 a. m. 2:34 a. m.
9:08 p. m. 3:26 p. m.