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Most Of The News All The Time TH STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community The Pilot Covers Brunswick County VOL. NO. SIXTEEN No. 44 6-PAGES TODAY Southport, N. C., Wednesday February 25, 1952 PUBLISHED EVERT WEDNESDAY $1.50 PER YEA* Orton Attracts Visitors ATTRACTION—With the greatest profusion of camelias ever seen at one time in these historical gardens, Orton has been attracting hundreds of visitors throughout February. On several occasions there have been threats of freezing weather that thus far have failed to arrive and cut short this spectacular display of mid-winter beauty. Southport Woman ! Is 100 Years Old Aunt Sarah Ann Cotton i Celebrated 100th Anni versary Of Her Birth On Geo. Washington’s Birth day HER FAMILY BIBLE LISTS BIRTH DATE Elderly Woman In Remark ably Good Condition Con sidering Her Advanced Years; Still Does Her i Own House Work While the rest of the nation was celebrating the birthday of George Washington Monday, Aunt Sarah Jane Cotton of Southport was celebrating her own 100th j birthday anniversary. A faded family Bible at her home here lists her birthday date as February 22, 1853. Her oldest son, George Cotton, of Wilmington, is now 80 years. The second, Jennie Colton, of New Rochelle, N. Y., is 72. An other daughter, Alice Davis, of Southport, with whom the aged woman lives, is 69 and her baby boy, Alrnet Cotton, of Southport, is 60 years old. The aged woman has seven generations of living descendants, and while her memory is remar kably clear she naturally has never seen all of them, or can she recall their names. She states she was married right after the Civil War. Her birthplace in Southport was just in the rear of Trinity Methodist Church, and the whole of her 100 years has been spent right (Continued on Page Two) Brief Newt Flasket BACK AT WORK Dr. F. M. Burdette has recov ered from a recent attack of pneumonia and has been able to resume his practice. COLLECTING CLOTHING Members of the Youth Fellow ship, Trinity Methodiist Church are collecting' clothing to be sent to residents' of the European countries recently hit by floods. Any article which will be useful to people who face the task of almost complete rehabiliation at once should be donated in order that they may be sent abroad. The clothing will be sent out un der the auspices of the General Federation of Woman’s Clubs. I Bees Make 2-Way Flight From Stand A couple of hives of bees be longing to Azia Tripp of Wac camavv township journeyed to Smberland County last week, ty to return in a couple of days to take up at their old ad dress at the Tripp Apiary. Their journey two ways result ed in the arrest of Roney Hew ett and his son, Jack Hewett, both of Lockwoods Folloy Town ship. They are awaiting trial on March 2 in Recorder’s court charged with the theft of the bees. When Mr. Tripp found the bees missing early last week, he no tified Sheriff E. V. Leonard. Fol lowing an investigation the offi cers went to Spring Lake, near Fort Bragg, and located the- bees. Following the discovery of the missing property Mr. Hewett and his son were arrested and taken back to Brunswick, where they gave bond pending their trial.. Mr. Tripp has already gone to Cumberland County and brought his bees back to Brunswick. Coast Guard To Establish Unit Coast Guard Picket Boat Will Operate At Wrights ville Beach With Men From Oak Island Visiting the Oak Island Coast Guard Station here this past week, Rear Admiral Russell E. Wood, commander of the Fifth Coast Guard District at Norfolk, ordered the establishment of a 4-man Coast Guard Unit at Wrightsville Beach for the sum mer. The immediate plans call for a pickett boat to operate from the basin in Banks Channel. The unit will be under the command of Chief Warrant Officer J. E. Johnson at Oak Island, Warrant Officer Johnson accompanied Ad miral Wood on a survey of the facilities at Wrightsville Monday. The establishment of the unit at Wrightsville for the summer ! will eliminate the frequent ne cessity of Officer Johnson send ing one of his boats to Wrights ville and Carolina Beaches. The j Wrightsville unit will operate un : der him in much the same man ner as the unit that keeps watch jat the Cape Fear lighthouse on (Bald Head Island. Huge Vessel Is Moored At Dock During Week-End U.S.E. Dredge Gerig In Har bor For Four Days Dur ing Holiday Week-End; Work Is Resumed Stopping her work on the bar Friday morning, the U. S. E. Dredge Gerig, came into South port and tied up at the Engin eers’ dock to spend two days tak ing on fuel and water. After wards she remained there at her mooring through Sunday and Monday, not working Monday be cause of the national observance of Washington’s Birthday. The Gerig, able to load a car go of 3,060 cubic yards of mud in 45 minutes is more than three times larger than any other dredge that has ever worked in North Cax-olina waters. Here briefly several years ago the At lantic was able to take on a cargo of 1,000 cubic yards, a little less than a third of the capacity of the Gerig. The average capacity of dred ges working here and at other points on the coast is less than a thousand cubic yards. The Gerig is 351 feet in length. She is commanded by Capt. J. W. Berg and has a crew of about 73 men for round the clock work. She belongs to the Savannah district, and was loan ed to the Wilmington District for some work on the bar. This job on the bar will be completed on March 4th and the ship is due to leave for Cuba at that time for a four months job. Some reports are that there (Continued on Page Two) funeral Today For K. Tobiasen Native Of Norway Was In U. S. Public Health Ser vice For Many Years Be fore Retirement 111 in a hospital in Raleigh for the past several months, .Knud Tobiason of Southport died there early Monday morning. Mr To biason was 86 years of age. He came to this country from Nor wty about 65 years ago, and spent most of his life in the employ of the U. S. Health Ser vice at the old Quarentine Sta tion here on the Cape Fear River. He retired from the service ab ! out 20 year s ago. Funeral services will be held j here this afternoon at 3 o’clock from Triinity Methodist church, j Rev. Norwood L. Jones, pastor of S the church, officiating. The burial is being held in the (Continued On Page Five) Plans Continue For Shallotte Band Festival Gala Program Will Start With Luncheon Honoring Participants At Noon, With Parade To Follow During Afternoon ORDER OF MARCH BEING ARRANGED Shallotte Band Recently Named To Represent East ern North Carolina At Lions Convention All of the major pirns for the Shallotte Band Day Festival on March 7th have been completed, according to an announcement ’-fr'o yesterday bv Director W. W. Jacobus, speaking,for the va rious committees. Seven high school and organi zation bands and the widespread interest that has been manifested assures the event being the larg est ever staged in Brunswick County. The afternoon events will start, off with a luncheon for all bands and this will be followed by the 15 units that will com prise the parade, including the bands, hoving out and down Shallotte Avenue to the football stadium. The parade will be headed by the Camp Lejeune Drum and Bugle Corps. The first musical unit in the narade will be the 50-piece Edwards Miilitary Institute Band from Salemburg under the direc tion of Major Dean. Following the Edwards Mili tary Institute Band will be the Southport high school band un der the direction of Mr Pittin ger. This will be the first pub lic appearance of the Southport school band. The Shallotte folks say that a lot of credit should be given the Southporters for their preparations and plans to take part in the event. The Wilmington Senior Amer ican Legion Drum and Bugle Corps under the direction of Mi; Jacobus will follow on the heels of the Southport unit. This will also be the first public appear ance of this organization since their reorganization by Mr. Ja cobus. The Mullins High School Band will be next in the line of march. This fine band, under the direc tion of Mr. Townsend, appeared in the first annual Shallotte Band (Continued on Page Two) Bowman Reports On Recent Trip ! Southport Attorney Spent Several Days Last Week In Washington Investigat | ing Status Of Sunny Point Project In Washington last week where he went in behalf of the city and county, Attorney J. C. Bowman had several contracts with the of fices of Congressman C. B. Deane and Ertel Carlyle and Senators Willis Smith and Clyde R. Hoey, relative to a critical defense area. The local man and the North Carolina representatives also had conferences with several of the top ranking officials. To summarize the situation all contacted were found to be fully conversant with the Sunny Point installation and the need of ex pediting the work. It was stated (Continued on Page 2) W. B. KK/JAH Our ROVING Reporter Compliments to Capt. J. W. Berg and his quartermasters and crew on the U. S. E. Dredge Gerig for their skill in dockiing the vessel here on Friday morn ing. The dock is a small one. The ship is 351 feet in length and to have just .run in against the dock would have resulted in the dock crumbling like a match box. As it was the huge ship, three times the largest of any dredge that has ever worked in North Carolina waters, just eas ed herself in so gently that the few persons on the dock would not have been aware of the moo ring, if they had not actually seen it. Our reputation for retiring ear ly each night was shattered Sat urday night when we loafed ar ound at Mack’s Cafe with three S. & W. Cafeteria men from Charlotte and Greensboro. The talk was mostly about such in teresting things as Bald Head Island and the Gohst of Theodo sia Burr; of Long Beach, South port and Sunny Point, U.' S. A. One of the men is a son-in-law of owner Frank O Sherrill of the S. & W. Cafeteria, who also owns Bald Head Island. This is a part of Brunswick, despite of the fact that it is often claimed by Wil mington. Glenn M. Tucker, prominent Carolina Beach realtor, served as principal of the Bolivia school for seven years, going to Leland in 1945 for one year and then quitting as an educator to launch j completely into the real estate ; business. The business took him (Continued on page four) Bolivia Boys And Leland Girls Winners In Annual Basketball Tournament Largest Pipeline Dredge Operating 1st Time Today McWilliams Had Everything Set For Commencing Work On Sunny Point Dredging Project This Morning The G. A. McWilliams, liuge pipeline dredge of the McWiil liams Construction Company of New Orleans, goes into operation at Sunny Point today with her 29-inch " pipes aiding the drag lines by building dikes on the river side of the operations. Dike building with pipeline dredger; is accomplished by the digger going deep and thereby permittiirig less water to mix with the mud. The mud can be sent out of the pipes in a sort of pasty condition by digging deep and reducing the power of the pump. When pumping for a considerable distance more wa ter has to be worked in and 'more power put on the pumps to carry the load along. The Mc Williams has 5,500 horse power to put on her pumps when neces sary. Don Mitchell, chief civil en gineer for the McWlilliams Com pany, was very much pleased when he advised that the Mc Wiilliams would get into opera tion today. She was delayed in getting here from the west coast and after her arrival she met with still further delay as result of the tugs and barges with pipe being held up by bad weather. The McWilliams, the No. 5 and the Ventor will all hereafter be making round-the-clock opera j tions, seven days of the week, according to Mr. Mitchell. Streams of cars carrying in terested people are at the scene of the dredging operations al most daily. The McWilliams is at Dock No. 1, nearest to South port; the No. 5 has the Dock No. 2 area and the Ventor is at the old St. Phillips fish factory. With around the clock work on the part of all three dredges it will "take them 11 months, at the very least, to do the 18 million cubic yards dock area contract. Mrs. Brown Dies Here Thursday Wife Of Col. Earl I. Brown Was Daughter Of Late Captain. And Mrs. Thom as M. Thompson; Burial In Arlington Cemetery Mrs. Annie Thompson Brown j died suddenly at her home here early Thursday morning. She was a daughter of the late Capt. and Mrs. Thomas M. Thompson of Southport and was in her 80th year. Surviving is her husband, Col. Earl I. Brown, retired Chief of Army Engineers for the Rich mond Division; one sister, Mrs. (Continued on Page Two} Ordinance Men To Investigate Shell Strange Projectile Comes Up During Drcd.;iag Dock Area At Sunny Point Last Week Experienced ordinance person- ■ nel have been requested to in vestigate and explain just what sort of projectile was dredged out of the Cape Fear River Sat urday morning by the dredge Ventor of the Hill Dredging Co., of Hew Jersey. According to Harry E. Johnson, chief boatswain at the Oak Island Coast Guard Station, the thing is shaped hike an oversized bullet, minus any shell. It is 6 inches in diameter and has an overall length of 16 inches. It appears to be loaded and bears a stamped date or number of 1864. This number cays Boatswain Johnson, may be either a. num ber of the manufacturer or it may be the year in which the projectile was manufactured. Ab out four inches of the shank is brass and the forward part ap pears to be of steel. Boatswain Johnson estimated its weight at 35 pounds. So ta* a., is known projectiles of this ,.o t were not in use as far bn as '.ha date 1864. Plain canon baby were mostly in vogue at that, time and they were inserted tli '-;gh the muzzle of cannon r ;t. the preliiminary charges of powder had been loa ded. A pipeline tender for the Ven Ventor found the apparently dead ly missle on the dump pile at the end of the pipeline. It has been dislodged from the muddy depths of the river by the digger that makes 300 revolutions per min ute. It was sucked up into the ship, went through the pump, and on cut and through 2,300 feet of pipeline to the dumping point. Timekeeper Billy of the Ven tor took no chances when the find was reported to him. He came to town and got the Coast Guard. Boettswain Mate R .L. Aus (Continued on Page 2) Brunswick Teams In Class “A” Play Thumbs Failed But Legs Worked While the Gerig was here at at the Engineers dock for four days, taking on water and fu el and afterwards observing Sunday and Washington’s birth day. James M. Luker, skipper of the service launch, conclud ed to get off and go to his home in Savannah. He got there alright and al so got back, but he was com plaining yesterday of his legs being sore. He got off of an east-bound bus at Supply at 11 o’clock Monday night and there was no bus from there to Southport at that hour. Un daunted, he set out to walk the 16 miles to Southport, hoping to get a lift somewhere enroute. The lift did not materialize, as nobody was picking up hitch hikers at that hour. Cars pass ed but the more he waved his thumb at them the faster they went. He finally arrived here about 2 a. m., and crawled in to his bunk. Men Interested In Bald Head Group Of Three Up-State Men Were Here During Week-End To Investigate Possibilities For Develop ment Newton D. Angier of Charlotte; Joseph Albright and Arthur Johnson of Greensboro spent the week end here and on Bald Head Island, the object being to look around and see if they could cre ate any ideas for at least a mod est development of the beautiful seventeen thousand acres of land that forms the intriguing semi tropical island. The island is owned by Frank O. Sherrill of Charlotte, owner of the chain of famous S. & W. Ca feterias with establishments at Washington, D. C., Charlotte, As heville, Greensboro, Raleigh, in this state; Chattanooga, Tenn., Knoxville, Tenn., Roanoke, Va., and Atlanta, Ga. The Atlanta establishment a lone feeds up to 10,000 people da ily. Greensboro in this state and opened in 1951, is 3rd, in business and sometimes feeds as many as 5,000 daily. All of the others come just under that. The nine places combined serve over twelve mil lion meals a year. Mr. Angier is the son-in-law of Mr. Sherrill. His visit here in com pany with the other S. &W. (Continued on Page 2) Bolivia, Brunswick County Champions, Seeded First In Tournament Which Be gins Tomorrow At Willi ams TOURNEY WINNERS ADVANCE IN RACE Leland Is Only Other Bruns wick County Entry In Dis trict 2, Section I Play WILLIAMS, Feb. 23. — Bo livia’s Bears, 190a cnanvpions of Brunswick County basketball, will meet Fair Bluff’s Bulldogs in the opening gfune of the NCHSAA District Two Section One Class A Tournament here Thursday night, February 26, at 6 o’clock. Three other games between Brunswick and Columbus boys’ teams will be played on Thursday night, with the semi-finals of the 3-day tourney slated for Fri day night, February 27, and the finals to be held on Saturday ni ght, February 28. The entire ev ent will be reeled off in the Wil liams gymnasium. Sanctioned by the North Caro lina High School Athletic Assoc iation, the classic will be in char THE SCHEDULE Thursday Night 6:00 p. m.—Bolivia vs Fair Bluff. 7:15 p. m.—Chadbourn vs Ev ergreen. 8:30 p. m.—Leland vs Aeme Delco. 9:45 p. m.—Williams vs Cerro Gordo. FRIDAY NIGHT (Semi-Finals) 7:30 p. m.—Bolivia-FB win ner vs Chadbourn-Evergreen winner. 8:45 p. m.—Leland-AD win ner vs Williams-CG winner. Finals are slated Saturday night at 8:30 o’clock. ge of M. E. Brown, Chadbourn principal who has been named chairman of District One in “A” cage activity. He will be assisted by Vince J. Colombo, Williams principal. The winner and runner-up of the Section One tourney will ad vance to the District Two drib ble-derby to be held in Kenans ville on the following week-end. The winner of the D-2 champion ship will move into the Class A State Title Tournament at Hanes High gym in Winston-Salem on the week end of March 12. A trophy will be awarded to the winner of the local tourna ment by the NCHSAA, which body will also furnish the offici als for the event. Other games set for the open ing round finds Chadbourn’s Pan thers, seeded Number 2 in the (Continued on Page 2) Bolivia Extended To Limit By Surprising Shallotte Quintet Before Winning In Overtime Battle Friday Night LELAND TRIUMPHS OVER BOLIVIA Leland Boys And Wacca maw Girls Are Consola tion Winners; Sports manship Awards To Waccamaw Girls, Leland Boys The Leland girls and the Bo livia boys are the new basketball champions of Brunswick county, but the Shallotte boys came with in one-point of staging a rank up set in their division of the annuat Brunswick county tournament which was concluded here Satur day night. The Leland lassies tucked away their title Saturday night with a hard-fought 60-57 victory over Bo livia. Ann Allen paced the win ners with 33 points, followed by Claudia Raynor with 17. For Bo livia Elena Tharp tossed in '24 points and Polly Lanier hit for 15. Defensive honors went to Vina, Mae King and Molly Lynch of Leland and to Barla May Gore and Mary Jo Swain of Bolivia. Bolivia had to battle from be-' hind to gain a last-minute tie with Shallotte and force the champion ship game for boys into an over-, time peripd Friday night. The Shallotte five had led by 2-points at the three-quarter mark and were ahead with seconds to go when a field goal knotted the co unt at 42-42. In the overtime peri od Bolivia popped in 5 points whi le holding Shallotte to 1, thus gaining their 47-43 win. Wilbur Kabon lea tne victors with 22 points, followed by H. D. Willetts with 14. James Varnum was high man for Shallotte with 14 points, with Cletis Clemmons adding 10. Bobby Leonard and Louis Hickman were the defen sive standouts for the winners, with Deon Stanaland and Ken wood Royals playing the best de fensive ball for Shallotte. In the consolation game for boys Saturday night Leland won third place in the tournament with 48-37 victory over Southport^ Ray Scott was good for 20 points for the winners, closely followed by James Benton with 19. Harold Messer led Southport with 13 po ints, with Jerry Spencer and Nor man Holden hitting for 8 points. Consolation winners in the girls division were the Waccamaw las sies, who had an easy time with Shallotte Friday night 81-63. Bob by Vereen made 36 points for the winners, with Mearlie Hughes ad ding 20. Barbara Murden had 32 points for Shallotte, trailed by Betty Gray with 19. The Shallotte boys earned their place in the finals Thursday afr ternoon with an upset victory over first-seeded Leland by a 49-43 score. Cletis Clemmons led the Pirates with 16 points, while Ja mes Varnum and Kenwood Royals added 11-points each. Ray Scott led Leland’s attack. In the other Thursday after noon contest Bolivia girls took a thrilling 67-66 verdict from the de (Continued on Page 2) Tide Table Following Is the tide viable 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, February 36 6:32 a. m. 0:12 a. m. 6:54 p. m. 12:47 p. ill Friday, February 27 7:12 a. m 0:55 a. hi. I 7:33 p. m. 1:24 p. m. Saturday, February 28 7:48 a. m. 1:36 a. m. j 8:08 p. m. 1:59 p. m. Sunday, March 1 8:21 a. m. 2:15 a. m. 8:42 p. m. 2:33 p. m. -Monday, -March 2 8:52 a. m. 2:51 a. m. 9:13 p. m. 3:05 p. m. Tuesday, March 3 9:21 a. m. 3:28 a. m. 9:44 p. m. 3:38 p. m. Wednesday, March 4 9:50 a. m. 4:05 a. m. 10:18 p. m. 4:10 p. m. 1
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