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VOL. NO. SIXTEEN
No. 45
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Southport, N. C.,
PORT PILOT
In A Good Community
Wednesday, March 4, 19S3
The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
PUBLISHED EVERT WEDNESDAY
$1.50 PER YEAS
Red Cross Drive
Begins With Ray
Walton Chairman
Southport Attorney Will
Head The Annual Drive
For Funds With Which
To Continue Operation Of
Organization
COUNTY CHAPTER
HAS GOOD RECORD
Services Have Been Render
ed By Volunteer Commit
tee In Absence Of Paid
Worker For Job
The annual membership com- !
paign for the Red Cross is under- !
way in Brunswick County with j
Ray Walton, Southport attorney, j
in charge of the campaign. He!
is being assisted by capable help- J
ers throughout the county.
Holland Manning is chairman
for the Leland community; John
C. Johnson, Bolivia; Mrs. James |
M. Harper, Jr., Southport; G. C.
McKeithan, Shallotte; Lester Bab- '
son and Odell Bennett, Wacca- ,
maw.
J. T. Denning, chairman of the
Brunswick County Chapter, re
ports that since the chapter was
reorganized on March 10, 1952,
more than 120 Brunswick County
service men and their families
have been helped by the Home
Service Committee.
In the absence of a paid Red
Cross worker in this county, the
task of assisting men in service
and their families with personal
problems has been handled by a
volunteer committee, covering the
county on a geographical basis.
The committee is composed of
Mrs. Philip King, chairman, Long
Beach; Paul Pittinger, vice chair
man, Southport; Mrs. Joe Ram
seur, Orton; Mrs. Gilbert Reid,
Winnabow; Mrs. William C.
Smith, Leland; Robert H. Sellers,
Shallotte and Lester C. Babson,
Freeland.
On the average of 10 persons
a month, which this committee
has helped, the majority have
been white, the ratio running ab
out 75 per cent white to 25 per
cent Negro servicemen. While
assistance has been given to ser
vicemen from England to Korea
and from Germany to ships at
sea, the majority of these have
Involved men stationed in the
United States.
Since men in service are not
given emergency leave to come
home because of death or illness
until the need for their presence
is verified by the Red Cross, this
has been the largest request for
Red Cross help. Other services
have been; notification of death,
birth or funeral plans; assistance
with family allotments; hardship
discharges; requests for reassign
ment; help in obtaining emergen
cy leave and extension of leave;
transmittal of funds; providing
medical-social histories; home
conditions reports; health and
welfare reports; assistance with
death benefit papers; financial
assistance and locator service.
Mr. Denning says that members
of the Home Economics Commit
tee have been asked to assist in
just about every kind of person
al problem imaginable, from ef
fecting a reconciliation between
a service man and his estrang
ed wife to having a serviceman
released from jail. Although most
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LIONS TO MEET
The regular meeting of the
Southport Lions Club will be held
tomorrow (Thursday) at 12:30
o’clock at the Masonic Building.
PTA MEETING
The regular monthly meeting
of the Southport Parent-Teachers
Association will be held tomorrow
(Thursday) evening at 7:30, in
the high school auditorium.
ENTER TOURNAMENT
The Southport all-stars have
entered the Burgaw Invitational
Tournament which begins next
Wednesday at the Pender County
town.
GOOD PLANTS
V. J. Smith, tobacco grower of
the Supply community, stated
yesterday that his tobacco plants
were large enough for the leaves
to cover a silver dollar. Mr. Smith
plants eight acres in the weed in
addition to his general farming.
EPISCOPAL SERVICES
Lenten services are continuing
at St. Phillips Episcopal Church
each Wednesday night through
April 2nd. The preaching is be
ing done by Rev. D. W. Allen,
and the public is cordially invited
to worship with the congrega
tion.
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Southport Men
Own Small Dredge
Willis Brothers Plan To Use Own Equipment To Dredge
Yacht Basin On River Near Fiddlers Grain
Robert M. Willis and sons, all
of Southport, have been at work
for some time building, a small
dredge at Charleston. Now ab
out completed except for minor
details, the machine was brought
here this week and will be put
to work in about six weeks, dred
ging a yacht basin on Fiddlers
Drain, or Bonnett Creek, about
four blocks from the court house.
The dredge has an eight-inch
pipeline, just half the size of
the two that are now dredging
in the Wilmington harbor. It
is not expected to move earth
very fast, but it will serve. The
Willis say they will dredge their
yacht basin to the same depth
as the intracoastal waterway,
and they propose to use it for
yachts exclusively.
6as, water and other servicing
facilities will be provided and
the basin with these facilities
should be ready for operation by
next fall when the first of the
southbound yachts come through.
The location is the same place
where similar work was planned
some five or six years ago.
This small dredge will be the
first ever owned here. It is said
that after completing the basin
it will be used for public dredg
ing. Its small size should make
it available at low cost at many
points where the larger dredging
craft cannot operate to advan
tage.
It is said that folks at Long
Beach are watching the locgl en
terprise with a great deal of
interest. For a long time their
interests have had their minds
set on dredging out Davis Creek
in the rear of the lower end of
the beach.
Beach Association
Expands Services
John H, Farrell Will Serve!
As Executive Secretary
Of Organization This
Year And Will Work On
Broad Program
SECRETARY HAS
GOOD EXPERIENCE
New Head Of Organization
Hopes 1|o Work On In
dustrial Expansion For
Southeastern North
Carolina Area
Spending Saturday here John
H. Ferrell, executive secretary of
the southeastern North Carolina
Beach Association and formerly
executive secretary of the Wiil
mington Chamber of Commerce,
showed a very broad minded
viewpoint of what he feels should
be the aims of the association.
Mr. Farrell was accompanied
to Southport by his young son,
Jimmy Farrell. About 12 years
old, Jimmy confided to a rep
resentative this paper while re
turniing from Sunny Point, that
he was going to talk about Sou
thport and Sunny Point to his
schoolmates and teacher.
As executive secretary of the
SNCBA Mr. Farrell stated that
it was really his intention to get
about among all of the counties
that the association will serve—
! and he means that the associa
I tion will really serve them from
an economic angle as well as
from the promoting of sport fish
ing and beach development.
In other words, the association
will try and do its best by inter
ior counties in Eastern North
Carolina, such as Columbus, Bla
den and others that do not have
a coast line, along with those
counties that do have a coast
line.
Serving the Wilmington Cham
ber of Commerce for a decade,
not including his four-year leave
of absence in the service, it
would be hard to find a better
man than John Farrell for the
wider field of Executive Secreta
ry of the Beach Association. His
ability to meet and mix with the
public to mix with the know how
of getting results in what he
undertakes. He should be able
to cement the counties of SEN
CBA with the unity that they
have not heretofore felt.
Extending Beach
Road One Mile
Developers Are Footing Bill
For Paving Extension
Which Will Reach Almost
To Lockwoods Folly Inlet
The road down North Caroli
na’s straightest and longest
unbroked beach strand at Long
Beach, is growing longer and
longer. Charles Trott, Davis Her
ring and John B. Ward, owners
and developers of the lower two
miles of beach frontage, are
building a new road almost all
! the way down to Lockwoods Fol
ly Inlet. Ultimately both Long
Beach and Holden Beach hope
to see the inlet spanned by a
bridge that will contribute great
ly by still faster expansion by
two of North Carolina’s fastest
growing beach areas.
Last year the above interests
built about a mile of new road
extending the old Long Beach
road. A good foundation was
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Opening Hospitai
Bids Here Today*
Members of the board of trus
tees of Dosher Memorial Hos
pital are meeting today at
noon to open bids for making
additions to the hospital build
ing and for a general renova
tion of plant facilities.
Manager J. J. Loughlin says
that there has been much in
terest in the proposed construc
tion and he anticipates at least
10 bids on the general contract.
He says that there also has
been considerable interest on the
part of electrical and plumb
ing contractors.
A total of $110,000 is avail
able to complete the various
improvements agreed upon by
the Medical Care Commission
and the hospital trustees. It is
hoped that the bids will come
within these figures.
Shallotte Man
At Ft. Campbell
Second Lieutenant Herman
J. Hale On Duty With
11th Airborne At Ken
tucky Installation
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky., Mar.
1.—Second Lt. Herman J. Hale,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Alton B.
Hale, of Shallotte, has been plac
ed on duty with thellth Air
borne Division Replacement Trai
ning Faculty at Fort Campbell,'
Kentucky.
Lieutenant Hale enlisted in the
Army in June of 1946, after com
pletion of high school at Shallotte.
He volunteered for parachute
training immediately after com
pleting basic Infantry training at
Fort McClelland, Ala., and was
transferred to Fort Benning, Ga.,
for the Airborne Course.
Qualify as a parachutist and
gliderman in November of the
same year, he was assigned to
the 82nd Airborne Division at
Fort Bragg.
After a rather uneventful three
years at the station, he accepted
an honorable discharge in May
of 1949.
He re-enlisted during the fol
lowing month and was initially
assigned to the 82nd again. In
November of the following year
he was selected to undergo Ran
ger training.
He joined the Eighth Airborne
Infantry Ranger Company at Ft.
Benning the same month, and af
ter two months of strenuous sur
vival and cambat training, went
with his company to Camp Car
son, Colo., for, snow and winter
warfare indoctrination.
With his unit, he arrived in
Korea on the 27th day of March,
1951, to join the 24th Infantry
Division. The replacement prob
lem soon proved to be the death
knell of the Rangers, which were
disbanded on the last day of Ju
ly of the same year. Hale, then
a sergeant, was transferred to the
187th Airborne Regimental Com
bat team in Japan.
Nine months of very pleasant
duty followed, during which he
was appointed as Intelligence
Sergeant of the 187th, a position
authorizing the grade of Master
Sergeant and requiring a vast
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Test Piling Bids
Being Opened By
Enginerrs Today
Necessary To Drive Test |
Shaft In Each Location In
Order To Determine Prop
er Depth For Permanent
Piling
CAN USE SAME ONES 4
OVER AND OVER
Other Operations In Con
nection With Sunny Point
Project Progressing Ac
cording To Plan
By W. B. KEZIAH
The only development during
the week with regard to the Sun
ny Point construction is that bids
were opened by the Army Engi
neers Monday for the driving of
test piling for the docks at Sunny
Point. It has not yet been announ
ced who was the successful bid
der for this work.
‘As a matter of public informa
tion, it may be said that the driv
ing of the test piling is to de
termine how long each of the per-'
manent pilings will have to be
for bearing and strength capa
city. Solid bottoms are at differ
ent levels and each piling will be
constructed of a length in accor
dance with the depth to which it
will have to be driven.
The permanent pilings will be
of concrete, similar to those of
the State Port dock in Wilming
ton. The fact that three docks
are to be built, each more than
1500 feet in length, points to the
fact that an enormous number of
test pilings will have to be driven.
It is understood that the same
test pilings will be used over and
over, as long as they are usable,
the measurements at each point
of driving being used to ascer
tain the length of the permanent
piling to be used at that spot.
Washington usually gives the
nod to the successful bidder for
contracts such as the driving of
the test pilings, especially on sich
large jobs as the above. In ;his
case they will probably do j*Lin,
a few days and following"
work Engineers will be able t<} fi
gure out specifications for ' the
dock itself and call for bids for
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Numerous Cases
Tried In Court
Variety Of Offenses Dispos
ed Of Monday With Traf
fic Offenses Being Most
Numerous
A variety of cases were dis
posed of here in Brunswick Coun
ty Recorder’s Court Monday with
the following judgments being
handed down:
James Conrad Pigott, allowing
unlicensed person to operate car,
nol pros.
Doris Stephen Pigott, no op
erators license, $25 fine and
costs.
Claude Norris, Jr., reckless op
eration and no operators license,
fined $25 and costs, 10 days stay.
Richard E. Owens, overloading,
costs.
Livingston Pat Hunt, overload
ing, costs.
Edward Earl Carroll, overload
ing, fined $20 and costs.
Earl Ernest Collins, overload
ing, costs.
Daisy Moody, possession, 90
days in jail, suspended on pay
ment of a fine of $25 and costs
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W. & KEZIAH
Our i
ROVING
Reporter
Our stage of development is
such that we only have to shave
every other day. Lately we have
I been noticing that some bunch
of girls will show up on the oth
er day, to be taken to Sunny
Point. Likewise that applies to
more important visitors. Plain
bums show up when we are fresh
out of whiskers. It all seems to
be one of the contraries of life
and apparently there is no help
for it unless we get around to
shaving every day. Something
we do not aim to do.
Hundreds of free copies of the
Raleigh News and Observer were
delivered house to house through
out Southport Sunday morning
at 6:30. The work was prelim
inary to regular house to house
distribution daily to all subscri
bers by carrier boys. Payments
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to them can be made on a week
ly, monthly or yearly basis and
assurance is given that deliveries
will be made at the homes or
designated places at approximate
ly 6:30 each morning. The News
and Observer is the first of the
big dailies to recognize the rapid
development of Brunswick Coun
ty and its beaches by giving this
early house to house service. It
also extends to Shallotte and Sup
ply, and will later include Long
Beach and other points.
The visit here last week of
Herman Leder from Whiteville
may and may not have a signif
icance for future development in
the Southport area. Mr. Leder
owns a chain of widely known
and progressive Dept. Stores.
He came to Southport of his own
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Everything Ready For Band
Day Festival At Shallotte
Host Organization
READY.—This is t^e Shallotte High School Band, which will compete against
several of the outstanding musical organizations of this area at the Band Day Festival
Saturday afternoon. The parade will begin at 2 o’clock. Incidentally, the Shallotte
band is one of two North Carolina high school bands wrho have been invited to go to
the Lions Club International Convention in Chicago in July.
Williamson Bill
Aimed At Movies
Beer-Wine Sales
Are Made Legal
Citizens of Southport voted
•“yesterday in favor of the legal
sale of beer by a margin of
373 to 78. Approval also was gi
ven the legal sale of wine by
a vote of 362 to 81. .
By wards the vote for and
against legal sales was as fol
lows:
Ward 1 — For beer, 182, a
gainst beer, 28; for wine 178,
against wine 29.
Ward 2 —• For beer, 72; a
gainst beer, 26; for wine, 70,
against wine 25.
Ward 3 — For beer, 119, a
gainst beer, 24; for wine, 114;
against wine, 27.
Big Dredge Will
Dock On Friday
Hopper Dredge Gerig Will
Tie Up At Engineer Dock
And Visitors Will Be Per
mitted Aboard
The powerful USB Dredge
Gerig, Captain J. W. Berg, will
be at the Engineers dock here
Friday of this week through
Monday. On Saturday, March
14, she will leave for a four
months job in Cuba.
The matter of her return is
not definite, but the scuttlebut
has it that she may—and it seems
definite—that either the Gerig or I
some other big hopper dredge,
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Measure Would Prohibit
Showing Non-Educational
Movies With Admission
Charge During School
Hours
BILL DESIGNED TO
MAINTAIN EQUALITY
Reports Indicate That This
Entertainment Has Not
Been Made Available
To Ones Who Can
Not Pay
A bill introduced in the legis
lature yesterday by Representa
tive Odell Williamson provides
that no motion pictures be sho
wn in the schools of Brunswick
County, during school hours, un
less for educational or instructi
onal purposes. If shown for that
purpose no admission can be
charged.
Representative Williamson sta
ted that the folks in Brunswick
are getting tired of movies ev
ery week and the children hav
ing to pay 15 cents each to go.
Those without money have to
stay in classes, he said.
One teacher, whose pupils of
ten have to remain in classes be
cause they are unable to dig up
the 15 cents each, is credited with
saying that her pupils might as
well stay at home on Fridays,
the days on which the pictures
are shown.
The bill is obviously aimed at
the monetary angle in the use in
the picture and at eliminating
the discontent on the part of the
pupils who have to remain in
classes because they do not have
the money to pay for- admission
to see the pictures.
If the act passes the board of
education will have the authority
to dismiss school officials who vi
olate it.
Commissioners In
Session Monday
Matters Of Routine Impor
tance Disposed Of At Re
gular Meeting Of County
Board
The board of county comm
issioner; were in session Monday
with roads and tax matters the
only things to come up.
By motion of Ft. L. Rabon, sec
onded by Leo F. Medlin, it was
ordered that the clerk write a let
ter to Commissioner Wilbur Clark,
asking that the State Highway
Commission investigate a section
of road, intersecting the Soldiers
Bay and Grissettown roads, near
the James Long home and run
ning easterly for about one mile
and known as the Russtown
Road. The request is that this
load be graded and drained.
It was ordered that W. C. Gore
of Town Creek Township be al
lowed to pay his taxes, $100.00
down now and $50.00 on January,
1954. Thereafter $100.00 annual
ly until the full amount of $425.
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Experienced Man
Declares Safety
Factor Foremost
John H. Farrell Recalls Ex
treme Caution Prevalent
At Installation Similar To
Sunny Point During War
John H. Farrell, executive sec
retary of the Southeastern North
Carolina Beach Association, does
not , take the view that a few
people take regarding there be
ing danger of explosion at Sun
ny Point. Here this week, he
said: “From my experience I
would feel much safer working at
an ammunition plant or depot
than in a lot of industrial plac
es.’’
Mr. Farrell elatborated on this
statement by recalling that du
ring the war he was in charge
of personnel at the Ravenna
Shell Loading plant of the Atlas
Powder Company at Ravenna, O.
This plant covers 30,000 acres
and at peak employed 13,000 wor
kers. He had a lot to do with
the safety angle, and it is his
pride that there was never a
major accident or explosion.
“They were so strict,” he said,
“that any person caught in the
area with a match on his per
son was suspended from work for
a week. Two such offenses and
they were fired. Even the gener
al manager drew a suspension for
violating a minor safety rule.”
Mr. Farrell stated that “at
Sunny Point all employees who
are subject to static electricity
will be required to touch steel
or copper grounded posts all ov
er the area. No fruit will be al
lowed in lunch boxes or grounds
where ammunition is in storage.
, Fruit, like apples, oranges and
! bananas, ozidizes quickly and
! could form the source of sponta
neous combustion if thrown in a
tight spot.”
Repeating that he would feel
safer working in an ammunition
depot than in many industrial
plants, Mr. Farrell also pointed to
the fact that at Sunny Point all
live ammunition that will be
stored for any length of time will
be in railroad cars, on sidetracks
that will be flanked by earth
walls, 19 feet high. The danger
of explosion is practically negli
gible. And should such occur
the earthen walls will confine it
to a very limited area.
Begin Work On
Drive-In Here
Sanford Men Working On
Area Across From Dr.
Dosher Home On High
way No. 130 Near South
port
E. P. McSwain, Sanford florist,
and Joe Brannon, Sanford build
ing constructor, have cleared a
portion of the land for a new
Drive-In theatre on Route 130,
one mile northwest of Southport.
They will open directly after Eas
ter. Mr. McSwain’s business will
not permit him to leave Sanford
until after that time.
Tlie location is across the road
and almost directly opposite the
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Shallotte Will Be Host To
Outstanding Musical Ey
ent In History Of Bruns
wick County On Saturday
PARADE BEGINS
AT 2 O’CLOCK
Outstanding Musical Orga
nizations Scheduled To
Appear, Including Unit
From Camp Lejeune
Shallotte is all set for th9“
Band Day Festival which will be
held Saturday afternoon with a
parade which starts at 2 o’clock.
Events scheduled for the follow
in two hours promise to make
this the outstanding musical ev
ent in the history of Brunswick
County. (
The actual festival will take
place at the Shallotte football
field, where part of the cost of the
event will be defrayed from 500
admission for school children an4
$1 per person for adults. Pro
grams will carry pictures of the
different bands and the names of
the students composing them will
.be on sale. A camplete outline
of the day’s events will also be
found in the programs, as will
be a score sheet on which . the
holders of the program can list
the results of the events.
The field events will be headed
by Ben MacDonald, master of cer
emonies. The Shallotte Band will
put on a 15-minute show of their
own. Followiing this there will
will be a band competition be
tween the Edwards Military Band
and tliQ Mullins, S. C., Band. Five
judges will do the scoring on this
competition.
Next in order the Edwards Mil
itary Institute Drill unit w'ill pre
sent a close order drill exhibi
tion.
i following the above the For
I mal Retreat Drill will take
place with the Camp Lejeune
Drum Corps leading the music
Lt. David Carmichael of the Shal
lotte National Guard will act as
Commander in Charge. All of
the bands will line up, side by
side, with the drum corps,
while an address is being made
by Wally Kirschner, who has pro
ven himself a very special friend
of the Shallotte Band. Mr. Kir
schner helped sponsor the Shall
otte Band trip to New Jersey
and New York last year, and hp
stayed with the organization all
of the time while it was in New
Jersey. I
Crowning of the Queen will
be next on the program and this
feature will also be handled by
Mr. Kirschner. The awarding of
first and second prizes to bands
will follow in order.
The spectacular Passing-in Re
view will close the afternoon ev
ents.
During the evening a semi
formal dance at the gymnasium
will wind up the festival. Indi
cations are that this colorful af
fair will be a highlight of the
day’s events. Only couples will
be admitted and they must be
in semi-formal dress. Tom Boyd
and his orchestra will supply the
music from 8 p. m., until mid
night. The gym is being beauti
fully decorated with colored lights
and moss and tables and chairs
will be placed advantegously on
the floor and refreshments will
be served during the evening.
During the dance the Queen
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Tide Table
Following is the tide iable
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, March 5
10:23 a. m. 4:43 a. ra.
10:56 p. m. 4:44 p. m.
Friday, March 6
11:01 a. m. 5:26 a. nv,
11:43 p. m. 5:23 p. m.
Saturday-, March 7
11:48 a. m. 6:16 a. ml
0:00 p. m. 6:13 p. m.
Sunday, March 8
0:39 a. m. 7:16 a. m.
12:48 p. m. 7:15 p. m.
Monday, March 9
1:45 a. m. 8:25 a. m.
1:58 p. m. 8:26 p. m.
Tuesday, March 10
2:55 a. m. 9:32 a. m.
3:12 p. m. 9:40 p. m.
Wednesday, March 11
4:03 a. m. 10:34 a. rr>.
4:22 p. m. 10:47 p. ra.