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Most Of The News AH The Time THE STATI Vol. No. SIXTEEN No. 48 6-Pages Today PORT PILOT A Good Newspap< In A Good Community The Pilot Covers Brunswick County SOUTHPORFT, N. C WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1953 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY $1.50 PER YEAR I o Appear In Southport - -- —-—— ,, tXJNCERT Here are some of the performers who will appear in Southport Wednesday evening, April 15 in the high school auditorium with the North Fulton High School choral group of Atlanta, Ga. Left’above is Helen Sewell, dancer; right, above, are Diane Owen and Willabeth Peck, accordionists; left below is Mary Clarke xyl ophonist; and.right.belowjis the male quartet, Frank Davis, Noble Collins, Ed Jones and Hal Blackmarr. The bovs and girls will spend two days visiting points of interest near Southport and at the nearby beaches. Brief Newt Flathet RELIGIOUS PICTURE "Blind Beggar of Jerusalem” will be shown Sunday night af ter the regular services at the Southport Baptist Church. A 30 minute film, it dramatizes the story of the healing of a blind man by Jesus in John 9. PTA MEETING The Southport Parent-Teaclicr Association will meet on Thurs day night at 7:30 in the high school auditorium. The program will be presented by the Brownie Scouts under the direction of the leader, Mrs. Br-yant Potter. ENROLLMENT INCREASING Each week since Christmas has brought a steady increase in en rollment in the Southport school as new families move in and the children are transferred to the Southport school. Several new students appeared yesterday. MOVING TO SHALLOTTE Mr. and Mrs. Herman Stana land of Tampa, Fla., have bought the E. G. Russ home at Shallotte and are planning to move back there this summer. He was en gaged in shrimp production at Tampa, and Mr. Stanaland will carry on the same business at Shailotte Point, Lockwoods Fol ly Inlet and Southport. SUPERIOR COURT The April term of Brunswick County Superior Court for trial of civil cases convened here on Tuesday, with Judge Q. K. Nim mocks of Fayetteville presiding. The first day was spent trying divorce actions and in hearing motions. Many of the cases cal endared for trial were settled out of court before the session con vened, thus reducing the proba ble trial load. Famous Musical Group Is Coming * North Fulton High School Chorus And Special En tertainers Will Appear In Southport On Wednesday, April 15 ORGANIZATION NOW ON ANNUAL CONCERT TOUR Group Plans To Spend Two Days In Area, Spending Part Of Time Visiting Gardens And Points Of Interest An outstanding entertainment group from the North Fulton High School in Atlanta, Ga., will appear in a benefit performance in the Southport High School au ditorium Wednesday evening, Ap ril 15 at 8 o’clock, under the au spices of the Southport Woman's Club. This has been hailed as one of the outstanding groups of ama teur performers in the South and each year their tour takes them to a different section of the coun try. This year they will appear in three leading North Carolina cities and in Charleston, S. C., before coming to Southport. It was possible to get them here because they wanted to visit the coastal section of North Carolina and were anxious for a chance to «sit some of the famous gar dens. Robert S. Lowrance, Jr., is di rector of the music department of North Fulton High School. He and Mrs. Lowrance are old friends of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Arring ton of Southport, and arrange ments for the trip here by the boys and girls of the glee club were made during a recent visit which they made here. The young entertainers will pre sent a variety program, which (Continued on Page Two) Construction On Hospital Begins Work started last week on the $110,000 project to renovate and enlarge Dosher Memorial Hospital in Southport, and already work men are making a good show ing on the two new wings. The south wing extension is to provide quarters for a complete ly new kitchen and dining room which are included in plans for the project. The north wing is to provide four additional bed [ rooms. Foundations already have been j dug for these additions, and some : start also has been made on oth er phases of the hospital work. I It is impossible at this time to I get any reasonable estimate of how long this entire job will re quire for completion. Family Church Night Observed Southport Baptist Church Has Inaugurated Plan De signed To Give Greater Emphasis To Family Par ticipation In Programs Southport Baptist Church in augurated its new Family Church Night Program last Wednesday with a pot luck supper held in the social hall in the church base ment. Fifty-one persons were present tor the occasion. Fol lowing the supper there was a hymn-sing and a brief devotional talk given by the pastor. Family Church Night incorpo (Continued on Page Twoj Red Cross Fund Drive Reports $929 Collected Chairman Ray Walton An nounces Figures Following Preliminary Check - Up Here Tuesday Evening A preliminary check-up last night by Kay Walton, chairman of the Brunswick County Keel Cross Fund Drive, revealed that a total of $929.22 has been ac counted for as a result of the campaign which extended through the month of March. The report from Shallotle shows $293.81, which leads thei li3t. Southport reported collections to taling $253.64. But by far! the (Continued on Page^Two) W. B. KJEZXAXI Our Reporter Hal] Waters, fish spottei! the Brunswick Navigation Pany, spotted a couple of w lust east of Frying Pan a the past week-end. Captain C hurch, veteran commercial erman, says that the presen a of of the whales is a sure sigi plenty of menhaden fish s >me where in the area. The prd enca of menhaden at this time o yeai is also a sure sign o presence of bluefish am game fish, say the folks are wise to the ways of fishing. Since Director W. w. Ja obus started the splendid sM lotte for om ales oals B. ish the the tiler who port High School Band we have strung right along with him and have given the neighboring boys and girls all possible publicity and they deserved a lot. The Shall otte band is on its way and it was therefore doubly pleasing that Mr. Jacobus should drop into this office the other day and >say: “I feel that your South - port band is really progressing and doing a fine job. I hope they will keep up the good work. They are a real inspiration to my children.” Appreciating the above in behalf of the Southport boys and girls, we still felt im pelled to tell Mr. Jacobus that the (Continued on Page 4) Southport Man Returns From Big Assignment Dr. Robert K. Godfrey Has Been Traveling In Turkey And South Africa Collect ing Seed Specimens WORK IMPORTANT IN PLANT DEVELOPMENT Research Of Type In Which He Is Engaged Leads To Improved Varieties And Expanded Agricul ture Program’ Dr. R. K. Godfrey. Southport man who is assistant, professor of Botany at State College.-left Monday for Beltsville, Md., where he will be until the first? of June at the Division o'f Headquarters of Plant Industry, working on mate rial which he collected in Turkey and the Union of South Africa. *On leave from State College since June of last year, the U. S. Division of Plant Industry sent him abroad to collect seeds and plants in both South Africa a.r.d Turkey. He returned from this assignment in March, and fol lowing the final touches of the task at Beltsville he will return to Southport on the first of June to be with his family for a short period before again report ing to State College, where he is assistant in the Department of Botany, headed hv Dr. W. D. Wells, who is also from South port. The long trip abroad was made for the purpose of obtaining plants ami materials of various kinds, including crop plants, or namentals, drug, etc. These are t,...ured for the use of geneticists who are engaged in breeding bet ter varieties or for the purpose of getting varieties better resis tent to drought, cold and dis ease. In Turkey Dr. Godfrey’s search was for seeds of all kinds of for age plants, of potential value to agriculture here in the United States, either for direct introduc tion or as plant breeders. This ' '•*' *r* *Jl1 purtu u( Turkey, from European Tai-ace to the west of Istanbul to the eastermost parts of Turkey on the borders of the Soviet Union, along the coast of the Black Sea in Northern Turkey in the area bordering the Mediterranean Sea, the Agean Sea and the Sea of t Continued on Page Two) Month Of April For Cancer Drive Mrs. Lee Kye Is County Commander In This Cam paign And Quota Is Set At Only $416.02 April was designated Cancer Control month by an act of Con gress on March 28th, 1953. Pres ident Dwight D. Eisenhower has issued a proclamation to the Am erican people to support the Can cer campaign in 1953. Mrs. Lee Kye, Winnabow, Coun ty Commander, is completing plans for the fund campaign in Brunswick County. She says the key to success is the volunteer worker. The list of volunteers will be announced later. The quota for Brunswick County is $516.02. “We can, with a iittie extra effort, exceed our quota,” says Mrs. Kye. “I am sure ail the residents of our county will join in this objective. “When the volunteer asks you to contribute will you say ‘An other appeal on top of all the endless appeals of this past year’ (Continued on Page Two) New Inlet May Solve Problem Suggestion Has Been Received That Cutting New Chan nel At Lockwoods Folly May Halt Shoaling Trouble There appears to be a possi bility that the only practical way of opening Lockwoods Folly In let and keeping it open is to cut a new channel across the lower end of Long Beach and at a point directly opposite to where the river empties into the inter coastal watei'Wav. The present troublesome inlet is about a mile or more west of where the river runs into the waterway. By cutting an inlet between waterway and ocean di rectly across from the river in let into the waterway, it is thought that much, if not all, of the shoaling trouble will be elim inated. Some sources have said that jettying at the present waterway to ocean inlet would not be prar. | tical. It is contended that jet ties would not stand up under the poundings of the seas. In addition the cost would be pro hibitive. To prevent shoaling of the inlet, it is said, the jetty would have to be of great length and it would be difficult to di rectly determine the results of such a structure. Instead of pre venting shoaling of the inlet and erosion on the beach, it might have an opposite effect and turn seas against the upper end of Holden Beach with such force as .o cause irreparable damage. It is believed that further stu :ly by the engineers will reveal the need of a new channel oppo site the mouth of Lockwoods Fol ly and the filling up of the pres ent channel. Such work would cut off a con siderable area of lower Long Beach. On the other hand, it might speed up the building of a highway bridge. In fact, there seems a possibility df Federal aid towards construction of a bridge across the new inlet, if such an inlet is decided on. If a new inlet is decided on both this inlet and the bridge, when it is built, will be on Long Beach, about a mile above the present inlet. In other words, if a new inlet is built Long Beach will extend about a mile west of this inlet to the center location of the present inlet, which will be filled up. Community Chorus Presents Cantata -* Paving Projects Now In Process Three paving operations are in progress in Brunswick County at the present time, two of them in side the city limits at Shallotte and at Southport. .in the former town Highway No. 17 is being widened through the business district and an area in front of the Camp Methodist Church is being provided for par king. At Southport work began to day on a project to widen Howe Street from the Baptist Church to the hospital by adding a 10 foot strip of paving on the north side of the road. The third project is widening highway 130 between the Sawdust Trail &nd Midway. The paving contractor has added a 3-foot strip on each side of the road and will follow up by applying a new surface to both the old and new paving. Congressman Is Easter Visitor Congressman C. B. Deane And Family Spent Easter Week-End At Cottage At Long Beach; Praises Pro gress With Congress now recessed for a brief spring holiday, Con gressman Charles B. Deane of the 8th District is at his home in Rockingham. Saturday, with Mrs. Deane and their son, Charles Junior, they came to the Dear.e summer home at Long Beach and remained there until today. When they are returning to Ro ckingham for Charles, Jr., to continue with his high school school studies. Calling at this office Monday Congressman Deane was high in his praise of Col. R. C. Brown and the Corps of Army Engineers of this District. Expressing a full knowledge of how the en gineers’ office has been swamped with work, the Congressman sta ted he had the highest admira tion for and confidence in Col. Brown. Colonel Brown and his office has handled the mass of Sunny Point details in a way that merits the highest praise of all who know something of the ex tent of the installation, he said. Congressman Deane continued, And I want to commend Bill Keziah on his store of knowledge of the gigantic installation that will be the gift of Brunswick County and Southport to Nation al Defense. I have heard that some Southport people do not ap preciate Bill for what he has done to cooperate with the en gineers and the government. I think that they will some day and soon, look to him with grat itude and thankfulness. I per sonally admire his knowledge of the project and his loyalty to his government.” The Congressman declared that Sunny Point is one of the soun (Continued on Page 2) “The Empty Tomb,” Beau tiful Easter Cantata, Is Presented Sunday After noon At Trinity Method ist Church ALL CHURCH CHOIRS WERE REPRESENTED One Visitor And One Mem ber Of Armed Service Added Their Voices^To Help Make This Pro gram Successful An Easter Cantata was presen ted by members of the Commu nity Chorus under the direction of Paul Pittinger Sunday after noon at Trinity Methodist Church as one of the most enjoyable fea tures of the day. Name of the cantata was "The Empty Tomb", by Rob Roy Pee ry. It was a beautiful musical naration of the Easter story, and was given splendiid treatment by the choral group which was com posed of members of the various church choirs of the community. One visitor, Mrs. Marshall Guth rie of Washington, D. C., and one member of the U. S. Air Force group, Rick Silver, also partici pated and each sang a solo. Full membership of, the choir was as follows: First sopranos: Mrs. Marshall Guthrie, Mrs. Leon Rich, Mrs. T. D. Tolar, Jr., Miss Alberta Gallo way, Mrs. M. M. Hood, Miss Pau line Chadwick, Mrs. John Swan, Hiss Trudy McNeil. Second so pranos: Miss Kathleen Edwards, Mrs. Ray Walton, Mrs. George Whatley, Miss Betsy Carr, Miss Brookie Newton, Mrs. Lunda Jones, Mrs. E. C. Blake, Mrs. An nie M. Newton. Altos: Mrs. Dan Harr dson, Miss Jean Thompson, Mrs. Olive Newton, Mrs. Homer McKeithan, Mrs. Lewis Chapman. Tenors: Tommy Blake, Rick Sil vers, Edgar Finch, William Rob bins, G. E. Hubbard. Basses Paul Pittinger, Jr., C. R. Livingston, Jimmy Harper, 111, Alex Fox, Dan Harrelson, Sam Newton. The organist was Mrs. James M. Harper, Jr. Test Piling To Check New Site This Work Completed At Town Creek But Contin ues At Allen Crook; Is Preliminary To Trestle Building Finished with its test pilings at Town Creek, the Port Con struction Company of Wilming ton is now doing the same work at Allen Creek above McKenzie Pond. From the relatively small job there they will come on to Moore’s Creek, the stream above Orton Pond. Only the Town Creek trestle will be of note worthy size for the Sunny Point railroad from Leland to the installation just above Southport. It is understood that with the completion of the test piling the Port Construction Company will begin immediately with the actual bridge building. (Continued on Page Two), Brief Delay In Construction Of Right - Of - Way Company Holding Sub-Con tract For Clearing Rail road Right-Of-Way At Sunny Point Has Been Held Up By Weather At ■ Aiken MAY 5TH SET AS DATE FOR STARTING Belief Expressed That This Phase Of Construction Will Be Rushed Thru To Completion Information this week is that the Green Construction Company of Indiana, working on the Sa vannah River project at Aiken for the past two years, will not be able to get its full railroad building equipment here until the 5th of May. Continued rain's during the winter delayed them with keeping up the schedule at the South Carolina project. Tire William A. Smith Compa ny of Houston, Texas, with whom Green holds a sub-contract for clearing the right of way and grading for the Brunswick Coun ty railroad, was notified by • Green the first of 'last week of his inability to get all equip ment here bofer the 5th. It is understood that the contractor and sub contractor made arrange ments for right-of-way clearing to begin immediately and for the grading equipment to be here not later than the above mentioned date. The Smith Company, with the entire job of laying the ties, rails and placing the rock ballast, is expected to be here right after the Green equipment gets in and • the entire job will be pushed. A letter from Col. R. C. Brown, chief of the Washington Dis trict Army Engineers office, last week advised that the same rainy - conditions that delayed schedule on the Savannah River project" have created unfavorable condi tions thus far for operations here. At the upper end of the road, where it is necessary to start, the ground has been too wet and soft for the use of heavy equip ment. Portions of the route have been under water. Near the river the ground has been dry and hard enough, but as already sta ted it is necessary to start at the upper end. Col. Brown sta ted that it is now just a matter of a few days. Veteran River Man Dies Here Funeral Services Conducted On Friday Afternoon For Capt. Fred Dosher Who Died In Southport Thurs day Captain Frederick Dosher, na tive of Southport and a river man all of his life until declin ing health forced his retirement, died Thursday. He was a form er employee of the Stone Tow ing Company and for a num ber of years he was a docking pilot on a tug at Wilmington. Funeral services were held at Triinity Methodist Church Friday afternoon with the Rev. Nor wood L. Jones officiating, assist ed by Rev. T. D. Tolar of the Southport Baptist church. The burial was in the old Southport cemetery. Surviving Captain Dosher is his wife, Mrs. Kula Dosher; one (Continued on Page 2) Tide Table Following: Is the tide Sable 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, April 0 3:38 a. m. 10:06 a. m. 4:05 p m. 10:29 p. m. Friday, April 10 4:40 a. m. 11:03 a. m. 5:07 p. m. 11:30 p. m; Saturday, April 11 5:38 a. m. 11:54 a. m. 6:05 p. m. 0:00 p. m. Sunday, April 13 6:33 a. m. 0:27 a. m. 659 p. m. 12:45 p. m. Monday, April 13 7:26 a. m. 1:20 a. m. 7:50 p. m. 1:33 p. m. Tuesday, April 14 8;16 a. m. 2:11 a. m. 8:40 P- m. 2:20 p. m. Wednesday, April 15 9:06 a. m. 3:00 a. m. 9:30 p. m. 3:07 p. m.