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VQL. NO. SIXTEEN No. 13
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
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The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
6-PAGES TODAY
SoMNfoport, N. C., Wednesday, February 18, 1953
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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| Tide 1
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Following is tli. liii.-j <ablo
for Southport cluri’ ;he next'
week. These hours are approxi
mately correct uiul were furn
ished T-'se State Fort l’ilot
through the courtesy of the
Cape r ear I’ilot’s Association.
ii>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.
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