Most Of The News All The Time THE STATE PORT PILOT Vol. No. SIXTEEN No. 46 A Good Newspaper jin A Good Community The Pilot Covers Brunswick County 6-Pages Today SOUTHPORFT, N. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1953 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY $1.50 PER YEAR 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) *--— 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 Pae 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.