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THE STATE PORT PILOT
Vol. No. SIXTEEN
No. 46
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Brunswick County
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SOUTHPORFT, N.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1953
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Shallotte High School Band
MARCHING The colorful Shallotte High School Band will march in the Azalea Festival Parade in Wilmii
ton Saturday. Band members and their parents are looking forward to their trip to Chicago and the Convent!
of Lions International m July. Several other programs are scheduled to take place before that trip *
Two Patrolmen
Catch Dangerous
Man On U. S. 17
Patrolman R. H. Constante
Assisted By Patrolman
Wilkins In Bringing In
Man Wanted By F.B.I.
State Highway Patrolman R.
H. Constante stopped a car on
Route 17 west of Bolivia two
weeks ago, and following a check
up by the FBI he has just learn
ed that he made a rather impor
tant capture. State Highway Pa
trolman Wilkens happened along
right after Constante had stopped
the car and assisted in bringing
tiic prisoner ad two companions
to jail at Southport.
The wanted man was Allen
Clayton West, 24-year-old white
man with a lot of addresses. His
two companions proved to be just
. hitchhikers, to whom he had
given a lift. Their rejoicing when
they were given their liberty
demonstrated the fact that they
considered it just as dangerous
to hitch a ride as it is to pick
up a hitch hiker.
West had stolen the car in
Florida, had picked up the other
two men in Charleston and had
asked one of them who had a dri
vers license to take over the
wheel. This driver was sort of
sleepy and below Bolivia he let
the car weave slightly. The pa
trolman pulled along side and
halted the vehicle.
Constante noted that there was
no key in the lock of the car, in
dicating it was straight wired.
This aroused his suspicions, which
were strengthened when he not
ed that the driver had a New
York license and that the car
had a Georgia State tag. Patrol
man Wilkins, who had just come
up, joined in the investigation,
and it developed that the car ap
parently belonged to another fel
low than the driver. The fellow
who was supposed to own the
car had neither drivers license or
car keys.
(Continued On Page Five)
Brief Newt
Flashet
■ in
HOLIDAY SATURDAY
The city offices will be closed
Saturday in order to allow em
ployees to attend the Azalea Fes
tival in Wilmington.
CONDITION UNCHANGED
Dr. Roy Daniel, Southport den
tist, remains in a critical condi
tion as a patient at Dosher Mem
orial Hospital.
SQUARE DANCE
The Daughters of America are
sponsoring a round and square
dance on Saturday night of this
week at the old gym. The mu
sic will be furnished by a string
band.
SUCCESSFUL BENEFIT
The Dosher Memorial Hospital
Auxiliary has more than $100 to
ward another special project as
a result of the donation by Mr.
and Mrs. Hargrove Bellamy of
all admission charges to Pleasant
Oaks Plantation last Sunday. De
spite the inclement weather, sev
eral cars made the trip through
the beautiful winding roads of
the plantation and visitors were
agreed that this is one of the
most beautiful spots in North
Carolina.
l jL'V.
River Road Route
Attracts Visitors
Thousands Of Tourists Will
Find This One Of Most
Interesting Localities In
North Carolina At This
Season
HISTORY ABOUNDS
ALONG CAPE FEAR
Ship Lay-Up Basin And In
stallation At Sunny Point
Add Modern Interest
To Area
The Brunswick County River
Road, more officially known as
Route 130 in State Highway Com
mission language, will be much
traveled for the remainder of
this week.
Last Sunday, with a continu
ous drizzle and an unofficial traf
fic count showed six cars per
minute as using this road. The
check extended over a half hour
period. This week the traffic
should run to several times that,
despite the fact that Route 130
is not a main highway for tour
ists.
Visitors on Route 130 in Brun
swick are attracted by the sev
eral spots of scenic and historic
interest. In this part -of Bruns
wick County they find more of
real interest than is met up with
than any other stretch of com
parable length in North Caroli
na.
At the upper end of the road
where it joins 74-76 and 17 is
the Brunswick River, one of the
few North Carolina rivers that
begins and runs its full length
all in one county. On this Brun
swick County stream is the ship
lay-up basin with its approxi
mately 400 huge freighters. Bru
nswick County can well lay claim
:o having 30 or 40 times more
nuge ships than are to be found
n any other county in North
Carolina.
On southward on Route 130 is
:he beautiful Clarendon Planta
ion, with its grounds and state
y old 17-room red brick home
hat was built two years after
he Civil War, replacing the or
ginal one destroyed during the
(Continued On Page Four)
Box Supper Will
End Fund Drive
Old Fashioned Box Supper
Will Be Held Saturday
Night At Lester Babson
Store At Freeland
Plans are underway to put the
finishing touch on the Brunswick
County Bed Cross drive by hav
ing an honest-to-goodness, old
fashioned box supper at the Les
ter Babson store at Freeland on
Saturday night at 7:30 o’clock.
This will be the climax to the
county-wide drive for funds, and
everyone is invited to attend
and take part with all of the
proceeds going to the Red Cross.
Ladies from far and near are
invited to prepare a lunch or
supper for two, put it in a pretty
box, wrapped up neatly, with a
bow on it, after first putting
her name inside.
The. boxes—and it is hoped
there will be a pile of them—will
be stacked up and Ed Kedwine,
rural mail carrier from Shallotte,
will auction them off.
The men folks will bid on the
.(Continued On Page Four)
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Blueberries Bloom
Early This Year
Here for the past sevei’al days
fertilizing, cultivating and ditch
ing at his blueberry farm near
Southport, owner T. P. Key and
Carroll Loving of Mooresville, N.
J., said yesterday that the bush
es are beginning to bloom. Mr.
Key added that the bloom is two
weeks earlier than last year, or
the average date for flower.
Following the bloom the crop
is a quick growing one. Pick
ing this year should begin in
May. The early blooming this
year is indicative of good prices.
With the North Carolina berries
reaching the eastern markets
well ahead of the New Jersey
crop the early blooming this
spring means a longer marketing
season before the crop begins to
flood in from other sections.
Winnabow Girl
BSU President
Nora Mills Holds This Hon
or At East Carolina Col
lege At Greenville For
Next Year
Nora Mills of Winnabow has
been elected president of the
East Carolina Baptist Student
Union for the school year 1953
’54. The new president will not
only serve as BSU president but
also will represent the organiza
tion on the Inter-religious Coun
cil of the college, which is com
posed of student officers chosen
from religious groups on the
campus.
The BSU is an organization
coordinating student activities at
Immanuel and Memorial Baptist
Churches at Greenville. It spon
sors various activities and pro
grams at the Baptist Student
Center on East Eighth Street near
the campus.
During the past year Miss
Mills, a junior at East Carolina,
has served as Sunday School rep
resentative on the BSU Council,
Sunday School president of the
Clark class of Memorial Baptist
Church, and secretary to Gloria
Blanton, BSU secretary in charge
(Coutmued on Page 4)
Floating Nets
Create Hazard
Warning Given To Fisher
men To Properly Attend
Their Fishing Rigs When
Operating In Navigable
Water
Col H. C. Brown of the Corps
of Engineers says that it is be
ing brought to his attention that
fishermen engaged in drift net
fishing on the Cape Fear River
from Lock and Dam No. 1 to
Southport aye not properly at
tending their nets and are not
properly marking the locations in
which such nets are placed. He
calls attention to the following
rules which must be observed:
“The rights of navigation are
paramount and the Federal law
requires that a clear channel shall
Continued on Page Five
Azalea Festive
Begins Thursd;
For Full Progn
Week-End Will Be Pa<i
Full Of Activities
Make This The Outsti:
ing Festival Attractic
History Of State
In
What appears to be the laj
and most colorful parade ,
held in North Carolina is talj
shape for the sixth annual
lea Festival Saturday.
The gala parade has beet j
sured of 51 floats, 25 bands,
drum and bugle corps, and
marching units... .fasfchr^'W**
announced today. The trj
growing daily as the mafmoth
event nears.
High school bands whic i have
accepted invitations are Eliza
beth City, Morehead- City, Parm
ville, Jacksonville, Rocki ftham,
Beaufort, Laurinburg, P ;t and
Duplin Counties, Mineral £ brings,
Cary, Tarboro, Shallotte, Dunn,
Goldsboro, Southport, Eli abeth
fown; New Bern and Lak< View,
S. C.
Three Wilmington school bands
will participate, along wi h the
Sudan Temple, and Amerk in Le
gion Drum and Bugle Coras, and
the Sudan Oriental Bandt frorr
Fayetteville.
Edwards Military Institute at
Salemburg 'will be represented by
its band and crack drill platoons.
A group of hofsemen and qlowns,
participating in the four-div Az
alea Championship Rodio wfil per
form in the parade. The local
liigh school ROTC units will
march.
Military units will include the
32nd Airborne Division Band from
Fort Bragg and the Camp Leje
une Drum and Bugle Corps, col
or guard, and a battalion df Ma
rines. Cherry Point will be rep
resented by the 2nd Marine Air
Wing Band, color guard, and a
detachment of Women Marines.
Coast Guardsmen from the Me
ndota, cutter based her, will take
oart in the parade along with the
nuge 70-piece U. S. Air Force
Drum and Bugle Corps which will
oe flown to Wilmington direct
(Continued on Page 4)
W. B. KEZ1AH
Our
ROVING
Reporter
I
Should fair weather prevail ov
er the coming week-end, South
port area should probobly see
more visitors than it- has ever
before seen at any one time The
Azalea Festival at Wilmington
will draw its thousands of visit
ors to this part of the {State.
Practically all of these visitors
will, of course, come dawn into
Brunswick to visit the Clarendon
Plantation, Pleasant Oaks Plan
tation and Orton Gardens* Of
those visitors many hundreds will
make a point to come on down
Route 130 below Orton Gardens
to see the huge Sunny Point
dredging operations that are now
being carried on. The flowers in
Franklin Park at Southport will
also have their share of vit.tors.
A very pleasing thing iccally
is the awakening on the part
of patrons of the Southport school
towards the school band. The
youngsters are only beginners,
but through the efforts of
Director Paul Pittinger and their
own interest, they have clearly
demonstrated that the school can
have a creditable band, provided
proper support is given by the
parents and friends of the school.
Another year and the organiza
tion should really begin to go
places. The school patrons
should go along with them in
their efforts.
A young Southport resident,
rated as one of the prettiest girls
in town, has been away at Col
lege and we haven't seen her in
some time. A young newcomer
to Southport bears a close re
semblence to this girl at College
(Continued on page four)
Shallotte Band
Goes To Chicago
For Convention
Brunswick County Group
Invited To Represent Eas
tern North Carolina At
International Convention
For Lions
WAYNESVILLE IS
ALSO INVITED
Trip Will Be Lpng, Hard
And Expensive, But Home
Folks Have Shown Wil
lingness To Back
Organization
The Shallotte High School Band
is now definitely Chicago-bound,
where they will attend the great
Lions International Convention,
July 8-11, representing the eas
tern part of North Carolina. The
Waynesville High School Band
will represent the western part
of the St&te.
The-final decision to accept the
invitation and make the trip as
the guests of the Lions Intema
tiohal was made at a meeting of
the parents of the children at
the Shallotte school last night.
Arrangements were set in motion
at that time for all details of the
trip.
Six Greyhound buses will leave
on July 6th, carrying 60 members
of the band and the additional
officials. The other four buses
will carry Lions Club members
from all over this section of
North Carolina.
The first day out from Sball
otte the buses are scheduled to
make 600 miles, stopping in Ken
tucky that night and making the
final lap to Chicago on the night
of July 7th.
Only the two bands from North
Carolina will go, Shallotte repre
senting eastern N. C., and Way
nesville western North Carolina.
Director W. W. Jacobus of the
band was in Southport this week
and he advised that the 60 mem
bers who are to make the trip
are already preparing special mu
w me. Chicago. trip and that
this training' will extend straight
through until the time of depart
ure in July.
The band won high praise in
the St. Patrick’s Day parade at
Savannah, Ga., Tuesday of last
week. Twenty-five bands partic
(Continued on page four)
Great Demand
For Lock Boxes
Southport Post Office Has
No Boxes Available And
Will Install 27 Additional
Units At Early Date
Early this year the Post Office
Department supplied new equip
ment, including 488 new lock
boxes and drawers, to the South
port office. This nearly doubled
the number of boxes previously
available.
Mrs. Marjorie Livingston, act
ing post master, says that all of
the 488 boxes are rented and
that she is constantly receiving
requests from patrons for boxes
that are not available. She es
timates that one hundred more
boxes are needed now.
Partly relieving the situa
tion, the Department is now sen
ding on 27 additional new boxes.
This is all that can be installed
in the present post office build
ing without material changes be
ing made in the present arrange
(Continued On Page Four)
Dredging Material
Disturbing Snakes
Workmen In Sunny Point Area Are Keeping Their Eyes
Open For Reptiles Crawling To Safety
Some 20 or more snakes were
found and killed inside of one of
the dikes at Sunny Point this
week, according to the workmen.
The reptiles were mostly large
ones and of all sorts, ranging
from rattlers and copperheads on
down.
Their appearance early in the
year is accounted for by the fact
that the dirt used in building the
dikes was taken from inside the
walls. The first pumping from
the dredges formed a sort of moat
all around inside the dikes. As
the pumping progressed the wa
ter and mud covered more and
more of the land and finally got
all of the snakes out of their
holes and on the highest spots of
land inside the 60 to 100 acre
enclosure. }
Murdick Simmons, Southport
man, who is working with one of
the dredgeline crews, says that
they now find snakes everywhere
on the remaining patch of ground.
They are also up trees. The
night shift of workers patroling
the pipeline and dumps feel com
forted by the fact that all have
flashlights and that a crowbar
is a standard part of their equip
ment.
Of the snakes killed only a
couple have been reported as be
ing rattlesnakes and a like num
ber copperheads. The rest are
harmless except to the nerves of
folks who are alergic to snakes.
Their seemingly large number is
accounted for by the fact that
the rising water and mud is roun
ding them up. At no point can
they escape from the dike with
out swimming, or coming out di
rectly where the pipeline runs in
and where the men work.
One of the dikes that is still
under construction will surround
more than 200 acres, it is said.
It will probably surround a con
siderable number of deer, quail,
squirrel aand other animals.
Some wild turkey are also in the
area. They will all be able to
escape by swimming or flying.
But it can be put down that
when the land area decreases in
size from the water that comes
with the mud, there will be a
whole lot of snakes in that. area.
This filling up will not be for
some months yet.
Williamson Will
Appoint Board
4-H Club Pullets
Again In Order
Four-H Club members in
Brunswick County are beginning
the fifth year of growing out
day old pullets sponsored by
Sears, Roebuck Foundation. The
club members carrying this pro
ject this year are Avis Sellers
and Benny Ludlum of the Shall
otte 4-H Club; Henderson Gore
and Roy Inman of the Wacca
maw 4-H Club; Hilda Clemmons
of Southport 4-H Club; and Peg
gy Hooks, Betty Rabon, Barbara
Sullivan and Emagean Lanier of
Bolivia 4-H Club.
According to County Agent A.
S. Knowles the cub members
have made definite progress in
feeding and management each
year.
Hazardous Shoal
Causes Trouble
Dredge And Yacht Both
Into Trouble In Water
way At Lockwoods Folly
Inlet
Enroute from Galesville, Md.,
to Miami, the 53-foot yacht
Fifty-Fifty owned by H. H. Bro
die of Bethesanda, Md., went
aground on the shoals that have
formed in the International wat
erway at Lockwoods Folly Friday,
just two days after a tug and
barge had suffered the same mis
hap at the same spot.
The boat was in charge of
Capt. Alex Foltz and Gabe Bro
die, son of the owner, was aboard.
The boat went aground at 3:30
p. m., and Coast Guard from
Oak Island, with other help, had
her afloat at 8:40 p. m. The
Raven, a Holden Beach shrimp
trawler, called the Coast Guard
by radio and gave other assist
ance.
The Fifty-Fifty remained at
Holden Beach for the night and
Chief Warrant Officer, of Oak
Island, says that it apparently
suffered no damage. The acci
dent to boats on this shoal oc
curring so close together, stresses
Continued on page tour
Varied Docket
Is Disposed Of
Cases Covering Variety Of
Offenses Tried In Bruns
wick County Recorder’s
Court Here Monday
A variety of cases were dis
posed of here in Brunswick
county Recorder’s Court Monday
with the following judgmets be
ing haded down:
King Perkins and Leon Ripley,
assault with deadly weapon, 12
months on the roads, suspended
on good behavior for two years
and payment of costs.
Penn Clark, expired registra
(Continued on Page 4)
C __ '
Brunswick County Represen
tative Stated Monday
That Four Members Of
Present Board And Cor
bett Coleman Will Serve
LONG AND COLEMAN
* GET 4-YEAR TERMS
G. K. Lewis, Dr. M. H. Rou
rk And Ray Walton Will
Be Appointed To Serve
For Two Years
Representative Odell William
son stated Monday that he will
reappoint four members of the
present board of education and
will name as the fifth member a
man who received a majority in
the preferential vote in the Dem
ocratic Primary.
Williamson said that he will
name Herbert Long of the Leland
School District and Corbett Cole
man of the Waccamaw School
District each for a 4-year term.
G. K. Lewis of the Bolivia School
District, Ray Walton of the Sou
thport School District and Dr.
H. M. Rourk of the Shallotte
School District will each receive
a 2-year appointment.
“While I believe that it would
be possible for me to name oth
er men who would serve well as
members of the Board of Educa
tion,” said Williamson, “I am fol
lowing the mandate of the peo
ple and it is my hope that this
will establish a precedent that
will be followed in the future.”
Williamson expressed the be
lief that adjournment of the
present session of the legislature
may come on April 11. “We
will have a lot of work to do,”
he said, “but things are really
humming now.”
Williamson joined last week
with Representative Bill Floyd of
Columbus in introducing a bill
which will close the waters of
the Waccamaw river between the
New Britain Bridge and Pireway
Bridge for motorboats and fish
(Continued on page 4)
Plan Services
All Next Week
Holy Week Services Will
Be Held At Trinity Meth
odist Church By Pastor,
Rev. N. L. Jones
The Rev. Norwood L. Jones will
hold special Holy Week Services
at Trinity Methodist Church at
7:30 o’clock each evening next
week. The theme will be “The
Cross of Jesus ’. Monday evening
the subject will be “The Mystery
of the Cross’’; Tuesday, “The Ag
ony of the Cross’’; Wednesday,
"The Challenge of the Cross”;
Thursday, “The Glory of the
Cross”.
These services are a prelude to
the United Evangelistic Mission
which begins throughout the en
tire conference on April 18.
These services are being held
is a celebration of a sacred sea
son which belongs to church life;
Cor the mutual fellowship of
Christians and for the strength
ening of church attendance.
Rail Contractor
Given Permission
To Start Work
Word Goes Out T ,Mih
Construction Cor To
Begin Operation —’
road To Sunn'
stallation
SUB-CONTRA"
TO W
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Indications "fO'
Phase Of Do, /J°f
Will Be Speeded 5 in
Make Way For's,,^,
■ Antoaof
By W. B. KJEZIAH
Serious construction operations
on the Leland to Sunny PoJiSlfc
railroad will be underway with
in a very short time, and some
of the sub-contractors for the
25-mile line will probably |>e
moving their equipment this week
especially those who hold right
of-way clearing and grading con
tracts. The work is expected to
be going good by the end of next
week.
. ..The W. A. Smith Construction
Company of Houston, Texas, hol
ders of the more than two million
dollar railroad building contract,
was sent its orders Friday to
proceed with the work at onoe.
The company has been ready to
proceed since last fall, and the
delay in starting has been due
to failure to get final orders.
...The company has let several
sub-contracts., for clearing., the
right of way, building bridges,
grading, etc These sub-contrac
tors, all of whom are said to
have their equipment nearby, will
be moving in at once to begin
their operations. The bridge
builders are already at work on
Town Creek.
....The Smith Company will prob
ably have to move its equipment
from Texas or some other far
western state. This will not en
tail any delay. Their job will be
to lay the ties and rails and the
sub-contractors will need a little
bit of head start at clearing and
grading before Smith throws the
big outfit into operation. It Is
understood that the contractor
for the heavy duty lines of the
Carolina Light and Power Com
pany will follow right behind the
clearing and grading contract
ors and without waiting for the
ties and railroad to be laid.
Two railroads will provide ser
vice to the receiving yards near
Leland. From there a single
track with two long sidings to
facilitate the passing of train*
will run to Sunny Point. This is
the extent of the present contract
but plans are now being drawn
by the Army Engineers for the
letting of the contract for ap
proximately 50 miles of state
railroad or sidings inside the res
ervation.
The construction of the main
line, access railroad by the Tex
as Company, a work that will be
vigorously pushed, will open the
way for the letting of contracts
for various other installations.
The way is now open for the
speedy beginning of all angles
of the Sunny Point construction
operations and reliable sources -in
Washington say that there is no
possibility of any future slack
ing up in construction. The plan
ning of details has been an enor
mous task for the engineers and
much work still lies ahead. Per
manancy and adequate facilities
for handling ammunition has
been the watchword for the past
two years of planning.
Tide Table
Following Is the tide table,
for Southport (luring the neat
week. These hours are approkl*
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 26
5:12 a. m. 11:29 a. m.
5:42 p. m. 11:46 p. m.
Friday, March 27
5:57 a. m. 0:00 a. m.
6:42 p. m. 12:11 p.
Saturday, March 28
6:37 a. m. 0:30 a. m.
7:02 p. m. 12:49 p. m.
Sunday, March 29
7:14 a. m.
7:39 p. m.
1:11 a. m.
1:25 p. m.
Monday, March 30
7:49 a. m.
8:13 p. m.
1:51 a. m,
1:59 p. ni.
Tuesday, March 31
8:21 a. m.
8:45 p. m.
2:28 a. in,
2:32 p. m.
Wednesday, April 1
8:52 a. m.
9:18 p. m.
3:06 a. m.
3:05 p, m.