Most Of The News All The Time VQL. NO. SIXTEEN No. 13 A Good Newspaper In A Good Community OT The Pilot Covers Brunswick County 6-PAGES TODAY SoMNfoport, N. C., Wednesday, February 18, 1953 **UBL[SHED EVERY WEDNESDAY *1.50 PER YEAN Background Painting MURAL—Art Newton, Southport artist, is shown as he surveys a r%eent painting which he was commission ed to do for use as scenic background for the Baptistry at Antioch Baptist Church. This is one of the most ambi tious assignments ever undertaken by the local man and the picture was the largest in size that he has ever put on canvas. And who takes the pictures when the photographer makes like an artist —Why, Mrs. Art Newton. Pairings Listed For “A” Tourney Bolivia Meets Fak" Biuff In 6 O’Clock Open«r At Wil liams; Dates February 26, 27 28 WILLIAMS. — Pairings for the North Carolina High School Ath letic Association’s District Two Section One Class A Basketballj Tournament, to be held here on' Feb. 26-27-28, were announced on | Sunday afternoon. M. E. Brown of Chadbourn, chairman of Section One in NC-! HSAA cage activity, released the j pairings. He will have charge of j the Williams event, along with Host Principal Vince Colombo of this school. Bolivia — seeded Number One in the tourney — will face Fair Bluff’s Bulldogs in the opener of all-boys’ event at 6 o’clock on Thursday, February 26. Four ga mes will be played on that night. At 7:15, Chadbourn’s Number Two Panthers will tangle with Ev ergreen; Leland (3) will play Ac- I Me-Delco at 8:30; and Williams! (4) is charted to go against Cer ro Gordo at 9:45 o'clock. The semi-finals will find the Bolivia-FB winner pitted against the victor in the Chadbourn-Ever green tilt at 7:30 p. m. on Friday night, February 27; and the Le land-AD winner scheduled to face the victor of the Williams-CG clash at 8:45. The finals will be played on Sat urday night, February 28 at 8:30. The winners and runners-up in tb» tourney will advance to the District 2 event to be held in Ke nansville the following week. | BriefNews Flashes i __i OYSTER ROAST Members of Sharon Methodistj church , in Lockwoods Folly town ship will sponsor an oyster roast at Boone’s Neck on Saturday j afternoon, February 28. The pub- i lie is eorially invited to attend. DAY Of prayer" Churches of Southport will un ite in a union service observing World Day of Prayer Friday. Tire services will be held at the Bap tist church at 4 p. m. World *Day of Prayer is an annual observ ance sponsored by the General Department of l/nited Women of the National Council of Churches. I LEWIS CHAIRMAN G. K. Lewis of the Eoiivia sc- ; liool district and member' of the! beard of education for several j years, has been appointed chair-1 man of the board. Mr. Lewis j succeeds Thomas St. George as I chairman. Mr. St. George resign- I ed two weeks ago and was sue- j eeeded as the Smithville town ship member by Ray H. Walton ! of Southport. * In Air Force Lt. KENKHTit JE. Swain, son of Mr. anG Mrs. G. C. Swain of Long Beach and Miami, Fla., JA. Swain attended school at Bolivia until 1936 when the family mov ed to Myrtle Beach, S. C., where he graduated from high school in the Class of 1945. He received a B. S. degree in pharmacy from the University of Sopth Carolina in June, 1950. He entered the U. S. Army Air Force January 1951 and is now taking specialized training at Lowery Air Force Base, Denvei-, Colorado, Routine Session Of County Court Variety Of Cases Disposed Of Here Monday With Most Defendants Charged With Minor Offenses A variety of cases were dis posed of here in Recorder’s court MtUkdav, with the following jud gements being handed down: John Brinson, illegal parking, fined $10.00 an costs. John Franklin Baldwin, speed ing. judgment suspended on pay ment of costs. Bernice Hill, public drunkness, carrying concealed weapon, Guil ty of public drunkness and as sault, 6 months on roads, suspe nded on payment of a fine of $50.00 and costs and placed on good behaviofr, for two years. Claude McUellan, public drunk ness, fined SI0.00 and costs. O. D. Mishoe, failure to yeild right of way, judgment suspend ed on paymenl of costs and res titution to Luther Hogge. Leroy Everette Simmons, fail ure to report accident, nol prossed with leave. Harold Linberg Bellamy, reck less operation, judgment suspend ed on payment of costs. Grover Lane Hickman, regist ration, nol prossed at instance of prosecuting attorney. Continued on page lour Statewide Bills Are Introduced By Williamson ; Brunswick County Man Pro poses Popular Change In Matter Of Responsibility For Furnishing School Buses Two bills of statewide interest were introduced ■ in the lower house of the North Carolina General Assembly last week by Representative Odell Williamson of Brunswick county. The first of these measures was designed to place the burden of responsibility for furnishing orig inal school buses on the State and relieve the counties of this ob ligation. This measure has the support of the State Board of Education and Williamson was joined in this bill by 53 colleagues who signed the proposal. At present the State will re place all wornout vehicles, but it is up to the various county units to provide the first bus to be used on any given route. The second statewide measure would require the State Highway j Commission to do grading Mad paving work for towns under 1,000 population at actual cost 1 of operation. This bill is designed i to make it possible for these t small municipalities to get max imum benefit from their Powell Bill money and would relieve ! them of the necessity of pur j chasing expensive equipment if j they are permitted to rent it from ! the "State. Bolivia Citizen: Want Teachers fi Propose Plan For Selliiig Bonds For Purpose Of Constructing Home For Teachers Of Community Twenty-five representative cit izens cf Bolivia p< titionsd the Brunswick County Board of Ed ucation last week fo j- rnnssion to hold a bond election for the purpose of building a teaeherage | for that school. The present building is inadequ j ate and in addition is said to be in very bad condition. It is said that it will be a waste of money to attempt repairs and enlarge the structure to conform with present needs. Tire board of education promp tly approved the request for an election and at the Mon lay meet ing of the board of county com missioners the request was also approved by that body. The present status of the move ment is that Representative O dell Williamson is being asked to enact legislation that will per mit an election to determine whether or not the patrons of the school are in favor of the bond issue. The date for the election and amount of bonds to be voted on will be determined in the legis lation that will permit the ele tContmued on Page 4) Must Register Before Voting Walter Aldridge, auditor for the City of Southport, calls at tention to the fact that Satur day is the final day on which the registration hoo>s' will Vu open prior to the beer and wine election on Tuesday, March 3 . All persons who are regis tered to vote in a city election are already qualified to vote in this special election. The only exception is where a person has moved from one ward to anoth er. In that event it will be ne cessary to request that his name be transferred to the proper re gistration book. The city fficial warns a gainst being confused by regis tration for voting in a county election. “This is different,” he points out, "and in order to qua lify as a voter each person must register on the city books.” Cam® Mow Si FuIlBloom Unless Severe Freeze Comes Along To Clip Them These Flowers Should Provide Color Until Aza leas Bloom The folks who would see cam ellias at their best and grestest profusion should visit Orton gar dens now. Continuous mild weather has brpuctit a# of the seasonable verities of bushes into full bloom ir-.d has speeded up some others that should normally come later in S,3 season. So far there has < Gout, Hud on Page 4) Vi IJ. 1JEZIAH Our ROVING Reporter Sending this reporter his renew al to The State Port Pilot, J. A. • Jake) Ramsaur of Lumberton. took occasion to write: "The Pi lot is my favorite newspaper. Sure, it is not full of national news, I am interested in that too. but it is refreshing to get a pa per full of local news.” We be lieve Mr. Ramsaur has the right viewpoint of how this paper has to be conducted. It is a country weekly. Folks everywhere take da ily papers and a weekly cannot compete with dailies in national news. A good way of ^escribing the policy of The State Port Pilot is to say that it tries to serve the people of Brunswick county and people living outside the co* unty who are 'interested in the Brunswick area. Mr. and Mis. Sam J. Frink of u Longwood and Mr. and Mrs. Bob by Sommersette of Thomasboro have recently been doing some bargaining. As a result Mr. and Mrs. Frink are now residents of Thomasboro and Mr. and Mrs. Sommersette are owners of the 250 acre Frink farm near Bong wood. Mrs. Frink says she and Sam have retired with little to do outside of looking after the former Sommersette home and store. They have no farm land at their new home. Mr. and Mrs. Sommersette, on the other hand, have acquired one of the most productive farms in the county, along with all of the trouble that .goes with extensive farming, in fcftiding a 16.8 acre tobacco allots ment. “Naturally, the plans to incor (Continued on Page Two) Arrangement For Shailotte Band Day Progressing Student Committees Are Set Up To Take Care Of Every Phase Of Program Scheduled For March 7 3en McDonald to SERVE AGAIN AS M.C. This Year’s Band Day Ex pected To Be One Of Out standing Events Of The Year For Brunswick C - unty Director W. W. Jacobus of the Shailotte High Sct^ol Band stat ed Saturday that plans for the Band Day Festival at Shailotte on March 7 are now complete and final touches are now be ing put to make the occasion a big event for Brunswick county. The band nour in its second year of training and with more than a hundred students in the two units, put on an impressive program last * year. With- the knowledge that came with the previous experience anti the add ed band training the students have received, a 'really big event can be looked forward to this year. , The committee to complete ar rangements met this past Thurs day and organized ; to handle all final details. Lanier Roach was appointed general chairman and he is being assisted by the fol lowing other uni^s^ Marion Galloway and Carol Sellers, tickets; Jacky Leonard and Marion Ballard, programs; Marie Rourk, trophies; Ida Ruth Galloway, refreshments for the dance; DeWayne Tripp, parade; Betty Ann Hewett, dance chair man; Nina Bell Sellers, dance reservations; Marion Galloway and DeWayne Tripp, dance super visors; Carol Sellers and Betty Hewett, hostesses; Lanier Roach, master of ceremonies. The d-j ove arrangements are for the semi-formal dance on the evening of the 7t,h. For the par ade the several bands and other events quite a number of out standing guest have signified their acceptance of invitations. Ben McDonald, master of cere monies for the band activities last Spring, will again serve this year. Mr. McDonald, a well known radio commentator, made quite (Continued on Page 4) Dredge Forced To Stop Work High Winds During The Week-End Caused Inter ruption In Operation Of U.S.E. Dredge Gerig Twice since she arrived here Wednesday morning of last week and began work on the bar the strong spring gales outside have forced the dredge Gerig to come into the quieter waters of the harbor. The boat itself could stand almost any sea but her dragging pipes through which the mud is sucked up would fare badly in very rough water. On the occasion when she has had to stop operations briefly she simply took on a couple of thousand cubic yards of mud and came in and anchored. The load of mud serves as ballast and the vessel rides at ease, even in lough waters. With three crews, each of (Couunued on Page 4) Whammy Seen As •• Aid To Patrolmen •# Demonstration Here Last Week Convinces Rovin Repor ter That Mechanical Eye Sees All, Knows All if. --- By W. B. KEZIAH The Whammy is undoubtedly in' North Carolina to stay, judg ing by the general press comment and the enthuasistic manner in which it is being received by law enforcement officers. For several weeks six of the machines have been under test or demonstration throughout the State. Thus far there has been no dispute as to their reliabilty in correctly guaging the speed of all passing cars. It is a form of rqdar and its unfailing eye picks you out and tells the watch ing officer just how fast you are going. When it conies into general use one patrol car will have the whammy apd will be somewhere beside the road. You will pass at somewhere above the speed limit of 55-miles per hour and the whammy will pick you out. The whammy car will have a walkie talkie and when your speed has been clocked the officer at the machine will call to another car 300-feet down the road. You will be picked up by this second car and told just how fast you were going. In other words, the whammy will get you if you don’t watch out and govern your speed ac cording to the state law. Out on Route 17 this past week Corporal O. H. Lynch, Patrolman Horace S. Wilkins and Patrolman Edward Worrell tried out a whammy. The speed limit is 155 miles per hour. Out of each 3 j cars that passed one was exceed- I ing 60 miles per hour and more, : I Ooncir'iiiul on [ up 1) Cage Tournament Starts Tonight; Monday Holiday In County Offices Sunday, February 22, Wash ington’s Birthday is a national holiday, and as the date falls on Sunday it will be observed in most places on Monday. Register of Deeds Amos J. Walton, clerk ex-officio to the the Board of County Commis sioners, stated last night that while_the order was not on this week’s minutes of the board meeting, all county offices will be closed Monday. Freak Accident Causes Death Daniel Elwood Sellers, Resi dent Of Winnabow Com munity, Killed Instantly By Falling Tree Daniel Elwood Sellers, 44-year old resident of the Winnabow community was instantly killed by a falling pine tree that was blown over by the wind Thursday. There was no storm, just high winds. Mr. Sellers, according to Coroner John Caison, and his uncle, 82-year old Hubert Sellers, were at the potaitp hohse on the Sellers farm and aboqfc 4 ''hund red yards from '■ ,tfif h^nie.l 'A sudden gust of ■wind'snapped off the pine tree at a height of about 4 feet from, the ground. The younger man ,was f truck on the back of the vhead «and was in stantly killed. t*e was endeavor ing to get out of the way when struck. The tree was about 12 or 14 inches thick at the point where it broke. Hubert Sellers, the older man, is said to have been in feeble health and could not move quick ly. This is believed to have saved his life. The tree fell directly at his feet and he would have been struck if he had been able to get to his feet quicker than he did. The deceased was buried Sat urday afternoon at 2 o’clock with services at the Mill Creek Bap tist church, Rev. Fred Gore of ficiating. Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Sellers of Winna bow; a sister, Mrs. Jewell Dan ford of Bolivia; three brothers, L. O. Sellers of Bolivia and W. R. and R. E. Sellers of Belmont. Commissioners In Session Monday | Major Business Disposed Of Before Board In Regular Session Here This Week Considerable more business than usual came up Monday at the meeting of the Board of County Commissioners. A petition was presented by County Supt. of Schools J. T. Denning, asking for an election for a bond issue for the construction of a teacherage for the Bolivia school, amount to be specified when the election is called. Mo tion of approval was made by Commissioner R. L. Rabon, sec onded by Chairman Elroy King. A request was received from the Shallotte and Waccamaw (Continued on Page 4) Opening Round Gaines Send Southport Girls Against Shallotte Followed By Waccamaw-Shallotte Con test FOUR GAMES SET FOR PLAY THURSDAY Championship Contest For Boys Will Be Played Fri day; Finals For Girls Saturday Play gets underway at 7:30 to night in Southport in the Bruns wick county basketball tourna ment, with Leland and Bolivia ex pected to fight it out in both di visions for the championship. Given the best bets to elbow their way into this select group are the Wac'camaw girls and the Southport boys. The Waccamaw sextet has been hard to handle all season, and have appeared to be particularly sharp in recent en counters. The record of the South port five is not impressive, but this team has shown steady im provement and may upset one of the favorites before the champion is crowned Friday night. In tonight’s games Shallotte girls meet Southport in the first! half of a twin-bill, with the Shai-1 lotte boys meeting Waccamaw in the afterpiece. These contests will determine participants in Thurs day’s semi-finals. . Thursday afternoon one of the best girls games is , on tap, with •Bolivia meeting, W-aCcamaw. This game will start at ’3 o’clock and will be followed one hour later by the boys game in which Le land meets the winner of the; Shallotte-Waccamaw contest. At 7:30 o'clock Thursday evening the Le.land girls will meet the winaer of the Southport-Shallotte elimina tion. The second game of the eve (Continued on Page 4) Good Progress On Road Work Most Of Grading Complet ed And Preparations Be ing Made To Lay Addi tional Har ^surface Most of the grading has been completed on highwd^ No. 130 between Southport a.id midway and the matter of laying a found ation for the new paving has been started this week by the contractors. Not only will the new roadbed be much wider, but a 4-foot strip is to be added to the width of paving. A trench has been dug next to the present paving and is being filled with clay as a solid base for the additional hard surface. The matter of widening the bridge over Bever Dam creek has been accomplished without the necessity of electing u by-pass, but at Dutchman's Creek near Southport a temporary bridge has been erected to take the place of the old concrete structure, which will • be completely rebuilt. Most of the heavy equipment, including four big draglines, have been moved off this project. Th ese machines dug deep canals parallel to the highway, using the dirt to widen the shoulders and providing adequate r|rainage for the entire roadbed. This oper ation was accomplished with a remarkably small amount of interruption to traffic. Complication Is Holding Up Work On New Railroad Seaboard Refused Permis sion To Cross Atlantic Co^st Line Tracks; Chan ge May Result In Track Laying Plans CONTRACTOR READY TO BEGN WORK Next Major Development Expected To Be Award ing Contracts For Work On Docks By VV. B. Ke/.iah Although some right of way clearing for the rai’-oad. has been done and the t stle con tractors have also ■ e some work, the matter of >%vn to earth efforts towards holding the railroad to Sonny v int is said to still be mee. ~ tacles. The contract was -u j d late last year to the rr. A., Smith Construction Comp v of Hous ton, Texas. Mr. Sm_: is said to be ready to move in ■- full force on short notice. But it appears that so far he has not been able to get ihe go ahead signal and wdl not get. these orders un til some technicalities are ironed out. Last fail the ICC failed to grant a permit for the Seaboard Air Line to run its tracks across these of the Atlantic Coast Line at Leland. This is said to have forced a change of plans for the railroad at the set-off and pick-up point near Leland. As a result, considerable time is involved in getting plans right ed again. There are some reports to the effect that the Seaboard has fil ed an appeal on the decision of the I.C.C. and that this appeal is to come up right away. If it results in a decision in favor of the Seaboard, work may be gin in the near future. However, it has been pointed out that titles to a small area of the required land have not yet been cleared. That it will have to be cleared through court procedure. This may cause a slight delay, but it is believed that both of the present hurdles will be cleared in a short time. It is not'known definitely what progress is being made towards asking for bids for the 3 fifteen hundred foot docks on the river. Progress is said to be being matte (Continued on Page 41 ' Former Citizens j= Hurt In Wreck Mrs. Masie Hyatt Reported In Critical Condition Fol lowing Accident In Loui siana On their way to Tues day morning of last week Mi', aad Mrs. O. D, Hyatt of *ake Charles, La., were in an auto mobile wreck that resulted in serious head injuries to Mrs. Hyatt. Sunday night she was still unconscious in a Lake Char les hospital but had begun ta move a little in her bed and i**#. was thought she was improving. The report received here in dicated that Mr. and Mrs. Hyatt were on their way to work Tues day morning. Mrs. Hyatt is a registered nurse and Mr. Hyatt teadbos at Lake Charles College. Complete details have not been received here but it is t u!ex«tood their car was in col' with another machine. Mr.. K '-"ct was (Continued on page our I | Tide 1 a Following is tli. liii.-j Kh Tide Low Tide Thursday, February 10. 0:00 a. m. 6:13 a. m. 12:25 p. m. 6:29 p. m. Friday, February !0, 0:57 a. m. 7:17 a. m. 1:23 p. m. 7:27 p. m. Saturday, February 21, 1:57 a. m. 8:22 a. m. 2:25 p. m. 8:29 p. ra, Sunday, February 22, 3:90 a. m. 9:27 a. m. 3:29^1. m. 9:32 *. m. Monday, February 23 4:01 a. m. 10:27 a m. 4:29 p. m. 10:31 p. m. Tuesday, February 24, 4:58 a. m. 11:19 a. m. 5:24 p. m. 11:24 p. m. Wednesday, February 25, 5:48 a. m. 0:00 a. m. 6:12 p. m. 12:05 p. m. i