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Most Of The News All The Time THE STATE A Good Newspaper VOL. NO. SIXTEEN No. 42 6-PAGES TODAY Southport. N. PORT PILOT In A Good Community The Pilot Covers Brunswick County C., Wednesday, February 11, 1952 published ever1* Wednesday $1.50 PER YEAJI Shallotte Charge Plans Services All Next Week V/eek Of Dedication To Be Observed With Services Each Evening Throughout Week, February 15-21 SEVER M. MINISTERS ARE CO-OPERATING Opening Service Of Series Scheduled For Sunday Morning With Pastor, Rev. J. T. Fish:r, Presiding The Shallotte Charge of Meth odist Churches in cooperation with the program of the Meth odist Church will join in a week of Dedication February 15-21. The Shallotte charge consists of five churches: Andrews Chap el, Concord, Sharon, Dixon Cha pel and Village Point. The ser vices will be at the now church at Village Point, but one service will be dedicated to each congre gation of the charge. On Sun day morning, February 15, at the 11 o’clock hour, the pastor. Rev. J. T. Fisher, will deliver the sermon. The other services of the week will be at 7:30 o’clock with a different preacher each evening. The program will be as follows: Monday, February 16: Andrews Chapel Night, the Rev. L. J. Bridgets, pastor of the Shallotte Methodist Church will do the preaching. Tuesday, February 17: Concord Night, the Rev. Bert Bennett, pastor of the Shallotte Baptist Church, will do the preaching. Wednesday, February 18: Dix on’s Chapel Night. The Rev. N. L. Jones, pastor of the South port Methodist Church, will do the preaching. Thursday, February 19: Sharon Church Night. The Rev. Fred Johnson, pastor of the Antioch Baptist Church, will do the preaching. Friday, February 20: Village Point Night. The Rev. E. C. Reeves, pastor of the Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church of Supply, will do the preaching. Saturday, February 21: A Night of rededication and recon secration for all. This night it is hoped that all congregations will be present. The Rev. Clar ence Warren, pastor of the Town Creek Charge of Methodist Chur ches, will do the preaching. The pastor, the Rev. Mr. Fish er, extends a welcome to all. The public is cordially invited to at tend these services each evening at 7:30 o’clock. iritfNtwi Fluthtt GflpfcS IN BUSINESS •'T5am T. Bennett, proprietor of Franklin Square Motor Court, an nounces that he is opening a real estate office in connection with that business and that he will engage in handling rentals and sales. He says that he will ar range his business schedule in order not to interfere with his duties of Clerk of Superior Court. CHICKEN SUPPER On February 27, the Wacca maw school will sponsor a chick en supper and ball game. Tickets will be sold by school children. Combination tickets include sup per and ball game. Tickets for the ball game only will be sold at the gym floor. Two door prizes will be given, one at the lunch room door and one at the gyb door. Everyone is urged to come to the chicken supper, eat, drink and be merry. SCHOOL OVERFLOW While they are getting along with things .Harry T. Saunders, principal of the Southport school and County Superintendent J. T. Denning ai'e really concerned over what will be a lack of class room and other facilities before the end of the present term of school. By the time the 1953 ’54 term opens in the fall they will really have something to worry about, according to pres ent indications. TIPES OVER ROADWAY Interviewed this past week, Don Mitchell, chief civil engineer for the McWilliams Dredging Compa ny, stated that when it comes time for the dredges to pump mud to the north side of 130 they will build a sort of trestle to carry the pipes over the high way. Traffic, except in the case of very tall vehicles, will not be inconvenienced. While the mud will be kept off the highway oc cupants of cars are likely to see plenty of it henceforth. Brunswick Teams Enter State Race Iceland And Bolivia Enter Sect’crt I, District 2. Tourna ment Scheduled For WiU.'ands Cly WILLIAMS. Kntries and eligibility lists for the full brac ket of eight teams have been fil ed for • play in the NCHSAA’s District Two Section One Class A Basketball Tournament slated for the lo-al gym on the nighls of February 28, 27, and 28. The six fop “A” teams of Co lumbus County, alone: with the leaders and runner-up of Bruns wick County will vie for honors in the three-m-dit event that is snonsored by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association, according to M. E. Brown, who is principal of Chadbourn High School and who will be in charge of the local tourney as chairman of Section One. Bolivia and Leland High Schools from Brunswick County; along with Williams. Chadbourn. Ever green, Fair Biuff, Cerro Gordo and Acme - Delco from Columbus are the tourney entries. All filed lists at the Chapel Hill office of NCHSAA Secretary L. J Perry before the deadline on February 3, said Chairman Brown. Four games will be plaved here in the onening round on Thursday night, February 26, beginning at 6 o’clock. The semi-finals are set for Fridav the 27 and the finals will be held on Saturday the 28. It is likely that a consolation ga me will also be played on Satur day night, Brown stated. The winner and runner-up of the Section One Tournament will advance to the District Two tour ney to be held in Kenansville on March 4-S-6-7 and the D-2 champ will go on the State cage classic. Tournament To Start Wednesday Annual Brunswick County Basketball Tournament Will Be Held This Year In Southport High School Gym LELAND AND BOLIVIA ARE FAVORED TEAMS Preliminary Doubleheader Scheduled For Wednesday, With Semi-Finals Set For Thursday After noon And Night The annual Brunswick County Basketball Tournament will get underway Wednesday night of next week in the Southport high school gymnasius with fourth and fith rated teams scheduled to play for" the right to enter semi finals play, beginning Thursday afternoon. The program calls for a dou ble-header Wednesday night, a twin-bill program Thursday af ternoon and Thursday night. Fi nals in the above division will be played on Friday night, with the girls’ consolation game as the other half of the program. On Saturday night the finals for the girls will be played off, with the consolation game for the boys as the added attraction. The undefeated Leland girls will be top-seeded in their division, with the second spot a tie be tween Bolivia and Waccamaw. Southport, whose only victory has come over Shallotte, and the luck less Lady Pirates will be battling in the first round game Wednes day for the right to continue in the tournament. In the boys’ bracket Leland and Bolivia are tied for the first spot, with each holding a victory over the other. Southport can sew up the third place by win ning their second pre-tourna ment game from Shallotte. On the other hand, Shallotte could complicate matters no end by beating Southport and throwing three teams into a tie. Wacca maw, who has broken even with both Shallotte and Southport, (Continued on Page 4) Mrs. McRacken Installed Sunday Southport Woman Assumes Duties As Missionary For Brunswick Baptist Asso ciation Mrs. Margaret MeRackan was installed as associational mission ary of Brunswick Baptist Asso ciation at a ceremony held on Sunday afternoon at Supply Bap tist Church. The Rev. John Lawrence, pas tor of Sunset Park Baptist church in Wilmington, was principal ! speaker for the occasion. He spoke on the text, "Sir, we would see Jesus.1’ Mrs. MeRackan spoke briefly on the opportunities for advancement of work in the Association. The Rev. Fred Johnson, pastor of Antioch Bap tist Church and moderator of the Association, presided. Others on the program were the Rev. Elwood Gore, the Rev. T. D. To ler, Mrs. Ressie Whatley and the Rev. Odell Blanton. One item of business was ap proved, a resolution urging that the bill for state-wide referen dum on liquor be given a fa vorable report by the commit ted on Propositions and Griev (Continued on Page 4) Benefit Basketball Program Friday A triple-header basketball program will be staged in the Southport High School Gym Friday night under the auspic es of the Parent-Teacher Asso ciation. The first of these contests will pit the high school girls against their mothers in a game that may include some surpris ingly good basketball as well as a lot of comedy. The second affair will match boys high school reserves ag ainst their fathers, and it is likely that the youngsters will have their parents over the barrel after a few minutes of a running game. The third engagement of the evening will see a serious game between the high school varsi ty and the Southport indepen dents, an outfit that is plenty strong. Already this year they have defeated the high school boys on two occasions, and in this Friday night affair they in tend to make it a clean sweep. Officers Find Strange Cargo Routine Check-Up Reveals Load Of Non-Tax-Paid Liquor On Highway One Night Recently Cruising the highway south of Shallotte this past week, Depu ty Sheriffs Alex Williams and Drew Long overtook a 1941 Ford that was devoid of tail lights. Drawing alongside they stopped the car and advised the driver, | a 17 year old boy, to have the lights fixed. Looking into the car in a routine manner, their interest was kindled when they found three cases of non-taxpaid whiskey forming the cargo. The driver, Evans L. Collins, stated that the car and whiskey belonged to Henry Platt, a white man of Hickman’s Cross Roads commu nity. The officers placed Collins un der arrest, charging him with possession of no-tax-paid whis key and also with operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license. The whiskey and car was (Continued on Page 4) Minister Gives Talk For Lions The Rev. Clarence Warren, Pastor Of Town Creek Methodist Church, Was Speaker Before The Local Lions Club Thursday The Rev. Clarence Warren, j pastor of Zion Methodist Church, was speaker Thursday before the Southport Lions Club, talk ing on the work of the State Commission for the Blind. The speaker told his listeners of some of his personal experi ences with the training program for the visually handicapped, and traced the normal program of re lrabiliation. "You may wonder what your own role is in connection with (Couunued on Page 4) Mrs. Lee Key Is Named To Head Caiacer Program Winnabow Lady Will Be. v—Coii»mand-;i* And Will Be In Charge Of Fund Campaign A> Weil As Educational Program PART OF FUNDS GO TO RESEARCH Various Services Included For Needy Persons Found i’o Be Suffering From This Disease Mrs. Lee Kve of Winnabow lias been named commander of the Brunswick County Unit of the American Cancer Society, it was announced today by Mrs. George Marshall, of Mount Airy, state commander of the organization. Mrs. Kye will supervise the educational and campaign pro gram of the local unit, securing volunteer workers in all commu nities. Prominent in Home demonstra tion Chib work in the county, Mrs. Kye reported on Brunswick County activities at the state wide Rural Health Conference in Raleigh last October. • The North Carolina Division Of the American Cancer Society has units in all counties of the State. The state-wide cancer control program includes: Education of the lay people as to cancer dan ger signals and what to do about them; information for the doctors as to latest information on diag nosis and treatment: financial aid to needy cancer patients re quiring hospitalization and treat ment; support of the cancer de tection centers where everyone over 35 may come for free ex amination for cancer: support of the North Carolina Cancer Insti tite at Lumberton, a nursing home for needy, terminal concer cancer patients; making of surgi cal dressings, loan closets and comfort kits for cancer patients; rehabiliation. One fourth of all funds received in the State goes into research, a high proportion of the amount returning to NoK» (Continued on Page 4) Faces Trial In Superior Court Fred W. Thompson Bound Over Under Bond Of $3 000 Following Hearing Before Recorder Given a hearing Monday before Judge W. J. McLamb and charg ed with about everything in the book, Fred W. Thompson, mid dle aged Bolivia white man, was held for Superior court under a $3,000 bond. The specific charg es against him were larceny, drunken driving, assault with in tent to kill and highway robbery. Other cases listed on the Mon day docket are as follows: Lloyd Ray Milliken, failing to report accident, fined $10 and costs. Lennie Van Roberts, improper registration, nol pros with leave. Lillian Hewett, expired regis tration, nol pros. Clair Miller, assault, 60 days in jail, suspended on good behav ior for two years. Mary Elizabeth Ray, assault, not guilty. Max A. Barnes, speeding, $10 fine and costs. James William Evans, improp (Continued on page four) Preparing Dikes DIGGING—-*One of the huge dragline^ is shown at work on the Sunny Point pro ject as it prepares restraining walls of earth to impound the mud and water that will be pumped ashorte by the big dredges.—(Fulcher Photo.—Star-News Cut ) Power Company Submits Proposal Walton Replaces Thomas St. George Thomas St. George has re signed as a member of the Brunswick County Board of Education representing South port school district and has been replaced by Ray H. Wal ton, Southport attorney. St. George was nearing the end of his fourth year as mem ber of the board and had serv ed for the past two years as its chairman. A pending bus iness proposition influenced his decision to resign, he stated this week. The appointment of Walton to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of the retiring chairman came through the Democratic Executive Commit tee at a session here Monday night. James Wolfe, Southport citizen, was the only other can didate. Construction Of Trailer Location Intersection Of Two River Roads Near Magnolia Dairy To Be Scene Of Modern Trailer Park Roscoe Bellamy, Little River, S. C., man is making fine head way on his new trailer park near the Magnolia Dairy. He ex pects to have it ready to handle trailers by the last of this week. In addition to having a modern court for trailer owners, Mr. Bellamy will have four large trai lers of his own that will be av (Continued on Page 4) W. B. KEZIAH Our ROVING Reporter Speaking of, private homes Mr. and Mrs. Donald S. Tydings formerly of Atlanta, will soon have a very attractive 3-bedroom stucco residence completed and ready for occupancy. The new home is situated in large grounds that are already being landscap ed. Bill Maxwell of Fort Cas well is the contractor and it is understood that just as soon as he finishes the Tydings home he will start work on another home for parties who will shortly be moving here from New York. Contractors and carpenters are now having their inning in this area and it is very satisfying that the builders are all setting substantial structures as their goal. A pretty little tabby kitten, evidently someone’s pet, as it had been well fed and was wearing a red collar, took up its quar ters at the Southport post office last week. It remained there for a night and a day and was evi dently growing hungry when one 3f the Mallison girls found it and took it home to care for it intil the owner came around to -laim it. So far no one has claim ed and if the owner wants it ie or she can get it back by ailing for it at the Camellia Inn n Southport. Contractor Corbett of Holden Jeach has been doing a fast and )ang-up good job in his construc ion of the Bowman apartments, ['he expectations are to have them eady, all but the furnishings, >y the end of this week. In the vay of frame structures the (Continued on Page Two) Carolina Power & Light Company Interested In Outright Purchase Of Power Equipment And Franchise MAKE OFFER FOR WHOLESALE POWER Officials Expected To Be Here Tomorrow Evening For Meeting With The Board Of Aldermen Carolina Power & Light Com pany still is interested in ob taining the franchise and phys ical equipment of the Southport Power Plant, a municipally own ed utility, and will have repre sentatives here Thursday even ing for a third meeting with City officials. The power company has also tendered an offer to furnish el ectric power 1.2 cent per kw, for the purpose of resale by the city. However, in order to take advantage of this service, it will be necessary for the city to share in the cost of erecting a transmission line from the Sun ny Point facility. Power company officials made an offer several weeks ago to purchase the municipal plant, dis tribution lines and franchise for $104,000. They pressed for an immediate answer, but since they were involved in negotiations with the government for bonds sold to help finance the power plant during the early days of World War II, city officials de layed their decision. As a re sult, they have been able since that time to save the sum of $38,000 in principal and interest by retiring these bonds at a frac tion of their face value. Carolina Power and Light Com pany officials once more are in sisting upon an immediate ans wer, as they contend that they (Continued on Page 4) Tropical Fruit Trees Thriving Trees Set Out Last Fall Over Near Long Beach Living And Doing Well In New Location The tropical fruit and other trees planted last fall by Bar bee’s Incorporated on their Long Beach property are all living and apparently doing well accord ing to Mr. Barbee who was in terviewed this past week. Nat urally, the trees have not made any growth, as it is winter time. The growth will start soon, it is said. Beginning work just before Christmas, Barbee's Inc., now have nice homes completed and under construction. They will step up the building tempo with the coming of spring and the availability of more workers. Reports from other sections of Long Beach and owners of de velopment property are indica tive of a surprising amount of interest on the part of the pub lic towards the beach. People from a long distance as well as (Continued on page 4) Incorporation Of Beach Discussed For And Against Develops That Plan To In corporate Long Beach Has Some For And Some Against This Idea Long Beach folks are definite ly talking incorporation of their town, and they are talking it both ways. That means that some are talking in favor and some oppose the plan. The one certain thing is that they are talking and the present session of the legislature will undoubted ly be asked to do something. Advocates of the incorporation point out that the town is grow ing as a year round community. One illustration of this is the bus load of children from the beach to the Southport school each day. Another illustration can be had by making a trip down the beach and seeing the large number of people engaged in building of permanent homes and in various other pursuits. Garbage has to be disposed of daily and the only present meth od of disposal is to dump it wherever a truck driver chooses to dump it. And this said to usually be on the property of some absentee landowner who does not know what is going on. There it becomes a menace to health as well as eye sore to the community. It is also contend ed that the town needs sewerage, policing, etc. Opponents of the measure ap pear to be slightly in the mi nority or else composed largely (Continued on page four) Sanford Men To Erect Building Sprott Brothers Plan Con struction Of Modern Brick Building In Southport For Use As Furniture Store Sprott Brothers of Sanford have purchased the Arrington house and lot on Howe Street, and within the near future they will begin construction of a modern brick building for use as a furniture store. “'The sooner we can get going here the better it will be for us,” said one of the brothers while commenting to a newsman regarding their pur chase of property here. Further than that it would be of brick and modern in every re spect they had not completely determined on the size. It may be either one or two stories in height. When told that there was considerable demand for of fice space, and if they built two stories and used the upper floor for offices they would find plen ty of tenants, one of the brothers remarked, “We will need both stories for furniture.” In addition to their large fur niture store at Sanfoxd the Sprotts have another store in Concord. They are old at the business and are also engaged in other businesses. Coming here last week with plans already formed to buy property, build and open a store here, they seem ed even more impressed during their two days stay.- They say that with their local store they will carry lines of furniture that will attract buyers to Southport. Dredge Operation Now In Progress At Sunny Point Ventor Busy Working On 24-Hour Basis As Dredg ing Operations Head Into r ml i>wmg On Project OTHER UNITS TO START THIS WEEK Work On Various Phases Of Kailroad Assigned And Work Now In Progress On This Part Of In stallation By W. B. IiEZIAH Checking on operations at Sunny Point yesterday revealed that the dredge Ventor is on three 8-hour shifts, that is to say she is pumping day and night and has piled up a sizeable lake of mud near the old A^enhaden Products Company plant. The No. $ dredge of the Han bv Corporation is standing by at Dock No. 2. She has been awaiting pipelines barges. Some of the needed pipe arrived Mon day night and it is said that the No. 5 will also be pumping mud by the end of this week. The superdredge G. A. McWil liams is in Wilmington awaiting the arrival of her spuds, anchor boome and pipeline. Tugs towing barges with this equipment and also towing a 3-58-foot LST for a quarterboat are reported to have left Mort Myers, Fla., Mon day of last week. This outfit is now due to arrive at any time and the McWilliams should be adding her powerful pumps to the dredging sometime next week. Accepting a jump ahead of the dredging already being done and at the same time preparing for the redoubling of the operations, draglines aand heavy duty bull dozers are building dikes. The bulldozers are used mainly for clearing the path for the dikes. But where the dikes have to be built unusually high, they give the draglines an assist bu push ing dirt up to within reach of the boom and buckets. The drag lines work on a 16 hour per day basis. A report from Col. Brown’s of fice yesterday was to the effect that the USAE dredge Gerig is due to arrive from Savannah, Ga., at any time now. This huge hopper dredge will work on the bar and will obtain her fuel oil and water at the engin eers dock on the Garrison lot. Also from the Engineers’ office comes the report that the sub contractor from Indiana, who will do all railroad right of way clea ring and grading, is now busy with the clearing of the right of way and grading will start up at any time. The contract for the building of bridges and trestles has been let to, the Port Construction <3om pany of Wilmington and this company is also at work at Town Creek and Allen Creek. The railroad will skirt the up per end of Orton Pond and on ly a comparatively small bridge or trestle will be needed to span Moore’s Creek, which feeds the pond. The W. A. Smith Company of Houston, Texas, contractor for therailroad, will do all of the tie and track laying. The Smith Company equipment is said to be already on its way in from the west coast and serious road building operations should be un derway sometime within the next 10 days. Meantime the time for letting of additional Sunny Point con tracts is scheduled for this month . (Coutinued on Page 4) 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, February 13 6:28 a. m. 0:06 a. m. 6:43 p. m. 12:51 p. m. Friday, February 13 7:22 a. m. 1:01 a. m. 7:38 p. m. 1:40 p. m. Saturday, February 14 8:13 a. m. 1:53 a. m. 8:50 p. m. 2:26 p. m. Sunday, February 15 9:01 a. m. 2:45 a. m. 9:21 p. m. 3:12 p.^m. Monday, February 16 9:51 a. m. 3:35 a. m. 10:13 p. m. 3:59 p. m. Tuesday, February 17 10:41 a. m. 4:26 a. m. 11:06 p. m. 4:47 p. m. Wednesday, February 18 11:30 a. m. 5:20 a. m. 12:00 p. m. 5:36 p. m.
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