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6-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1953 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
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Brunswick County
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Brunswick Club
Women Hostess
At Ft. Caswell
i
Interesting All-Day Pro
gram Presented By Home
Demonstration Club Wo
men Tuesday At Baptist
Assembly
MRS. KOPP PRESIDED
OVER SESSIONS
Principal Speaker Was L.
L Ray Of State College;
President Of State Fed
eration Present For
Meet
Home Demonstration Club wo
men of Brunswick County were
hostesses to the 19th District of
the North Carolina Federation in
their annual meeting on Tuesday
at Caswell Baptist Assembly.
Mrs. W. A. Kopp of Bolivia, dis
trict president, presided at the
morning and afternoon sessions.
Lunch was served by the hostess
clubs at noon to the 250 women
present.
Mrs. A. a. snowies of Bolivia
played piano preludes for each
of the sessions. Mrs. J. C. Mur
dock of Wilmington conducted
the morning devotionals and also
sang a solo at the beginning of
the afternoon session.
The club women were welcomed
to the meeting and Caswell by
Dr. R. K. Redwine, director of
the Caswell Assembly; A. S.
Knowles, county agent; Mrs. J.
M. Harper, Jr., District President,
N. C. Federation of Women’s
Clubs; and Mrs. G. E. Goodman,
President of the Brunswick Coun
ty Council. Response to the wel
comes were made by Mrs. Nor
man Wooten of Pender County.
Mrs. R. L. Yancey of Norlina,
president of the N. C. Federation
of Home Demonstration Clubs,
made a short talk on the work
of the women throughout the
State after which the following
home demonstration agents were
recognized: Miss Thelma Hinson,
Brunswick; Mrs. Verna Belle Lo
wery and Edith Rogerson, New
Hanover; and Mrs. Frances W.
Register and Miss Emily Cash
well of Pender; Mrs. Mary L. Mc
Allister, Southeastern District Ag
ent, and Mrs. J. T. Denning of
Southport were also recognized.
Reports of the three county
council presidents were given in
a pannel discussion led by Mrs.
S. W. Casey, vice president of
the federation. Participating were
Mrs. Goodman, Mrs. Herman Wal
ton of New Hanover and Mrs.
Ernest Eakins of Pender. A
health report was made by Mrs.
C. S. Womack, Pender County
Health Chairman. Mrs. Lee Key
of Winnabow is secretary of the
organization.
The speaker of the afternoon,
L. L. Ray, Director of Founda
tions at State College, was pre
sented by Mrs. Goodman.
The following committee re
ports were heard: Courtesy, Mrs.
Dan James, New Hanover; reg
istration, Mrs. Joe Stanaland,
Brunswick; resolutions, Mrs. N.
C. Magnuson, New Hanover;
nominating, Mrs. Eugene J. Kel
ly, Pender; and Time and Place,
Mrs. N. W. Barnes, Pender.
Mrs. McAllister then installed
the new officers.
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ECC GRADUATES
Among the graduates at East
Carolina College in Greenville last
week were Robert Richard Oliver
of Southport, who was awarded
his B. S. degree, and Thomas M.
Vicars, Ash, who 'received his
A. B. Degree.
LUMBER PLANT BURNS
The plaining mill and other fix
tures of the Wilmington Pine
Lumber Company were destroy
ed by fire Sunday. The plant
was located at Navassa and was
owned by Felton Garner of the
Bolivia Lumber Company.
TO ENLARGE COURT
Sam T. Bennett has announced
that he is this weeek completing
arrangements for the building of
an additional eight units to his
Franklm Square Tourist Court.
All of the new units will be air
conditioned and will be strictly
modern. Construction is expect
ed to begin immediately.
BENEFIT FISH FRY
A fish fry for the purpose of
raising funds to help defray the
expenses of sending tl)e Sliallotte
High School Band to the Inter
national Convention of Lions in
Chicago in July will be served in
the high school lunch room on
Saturday evening at from 6 to 8
o’clock.
Packing Blueberries
SKILL — Young Southport girls are finding plenty of
work to do these days as they pack blueberries for ship
ment from the Graham-Key farms near Southport. Heavy
harvesting will continue for most of the month of June.
Shallotte District
Will Vote Saturday
Fate Of Special School Levy
Of 15-Cents Per Hundred
Will Be Decided By Re
gistered Voters
VOTING WILL BE
AGAINST BOOKS
Will Be Necessary For Over
Fifty Percent Of Voters
To Cast Ballot In Fa
vor In Order To
Carry Issue
Citizens of the Shallotte School
District who have registered for
the special election on Soturday
will go to the polls to decide
whether a 15 cents tax on the
hundred dollar valuation is to be
levied against the white' proper
ty owners of the district.
There has been an unusual
amount of interest in the com
ing election with more than one
thousand persons registering for
the right to cast their ballot. The
vote will be against the registra
tion, and in order to carry it
will be necessary for more than
50 per cent of the registered vo
ters to mark their ticket in fa
vor of the special school tax.
The special school tax has been
proposed as a means for making
possible the continued growth of
the Shallotte High School, now
one of the biggest and most pro
gressive in North Carolina.
The voting place will be the
Shallotte High School building,
where the registration books were
kept during the prescribed period
preceeding the election. Mrs. John
Chadwick has served as regis
trar. At their last session the
board of county commissioners
named Wilson Arnold and R. J.
Sommersette to serve as judges.
Fishing Piers
At Davis Creek
Three Applications For Per
mission Have Been Re
ceived During Past Three
Weeks By U. S. Army
Engineers
During the past three weeks
three different property owners
have put in their applications to
the Army engineers for permis
sion to construct fishing piers in
Davis Creek at Long Beach. The
plans as submitted to the engin
eers called for structures all six
feet wide and varying in length
from SO to 110 feet.
The first such application was
made by A. B. Weeks of South
port and it is uderstood his ap
plication has already been gran
ted.
Miss Annie B. Clapp of Raleigh
was the second such applicant,
she seeks to build a pier 110 feet
in length.
The third application was made
by J. W. Hurley of Troy and E.
W. Taylor of Winnabow. They
plan a structure 90 feet in length.
The plans of the last two ap
plicants may be seen at the post
office at Long Beach or at the
engineers' office in Wilmington.
Any objections, if there are such
from the standpoint of naviga
tion, should be submitted to the
Army engineers at the Custom
House in Wilmington before June
the 18th.
I
Begin Road Work
On New Project
Draglines and bulldozers star
ted work today constructing a
mile of new road on the east
end of Long Beach toward Fort
Caswell The road will begin at
the' Miss Lassie Thompson cot
tage and run east to Yaupon
Village.
It is said that Barbee will
probably pick up and extend
the road on through his Yau
pon Village. This will give more
than am i If of new along-the
beach road, coming out or go
ing in at Yaupon Village.
The dragline is being used to
clean out the fresh water ponds,
with the new road running close
by them. The numerous wild
ducks which hang out at the
ponds during the winter months
will find themselves unexpectedly,
and perhaps unpleasantly close
to a much travelled road when
they return this fall.
Blueberry rarm
Providing Work
Big Demand Fir Labor For
Both White And Colored
Exists During Picking
Season
This week and for the next
three or four weeks some 200
people, mostly women and girls,
are finding employment on the
two blueberry farms two miles
out of the Southport city limits.
The pickers are mostly colored
and the grading and packing is
done by white girls.
Two of the WB&S buses are
making regular trips for work
ers, bringing them to work in
the morning and returning them
at night. One of these buses
goes up Route 130 to above Or
ton and back. The other goes to
Bolivia and Supply. In addition
to this bus transportation for
workers two large and two small
trucks, and two cars owned by
the farmers are shuttling a large
group of workers back and forth
each day.
The points from where work
ers are brought in are Shallotte,
Holden Beach, Howell's Point,
Supply, Bolivia, Orton and South
port.
The movement of the berries
to market is being handled by the
Produce Growers Association, us
ing large vans. Shipments are
going to Philadelphia, New York,
Boston and this week some will
go to Chicago, Detroit and Indian
apolis, Ind.
A wonderful crop was produc
ed last year, but it is said that
this year’s production will triple
that of any previous year. The
crop is large and the quality is
of the best. M. B. Graham of
the Graharn-Key farm stated this
week that the bushes are literally
loaded down. He added that this
area, in his opinion, is the best
anywhere for the production of
blueberries. Near the ocean, the
salt air seems to benefit both
berries and bushes, keeping the
bushes free from disease and al
so adding to the normally expec
ted yearly growth - of the bushes.
Graham-Key now have forty
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Change Design
Causes Delay
For Building
Alterations In Specifications
For Administration Buil
ding For Sunny Point
Causes Delay In Opening
Bids
OTHER PHASES OF
WORK TO CONTINUE
Dredges Concentrating On
Preparation Of Area In
Vicinity Of First
Scheduled Pier
With the bids for construction
originally set to be opened on
Junes 5 by the Army engineers,
major changes in construction
have forced postponement of the
letting of the contract for the
administration building of Sunny
Point for about 30 days, the Ar
my engineers reported.
The location of this construc
tion is about two miles from the
Southport city limits and is near
State Highway 303. The chang
es in design involve the control
tower, heating system and other
installations in the main admin
istration building. And as the
serious need for the structure will
not arise until after much other
construction is finished, the slight
delay in starting this job will not
have any bearing on other phas
es of installation construction.
The opening of bids for dock
and wharf construction are still
scheduled to take place on June
9. This, involving the building of
three huge docks, all to be fin
ished within a 21 month peri
od after the bidder gets the
goahead signal, is the major con
struction of the installation.
Plans at the present time are
to start construction of Dock No.
2 first. Superdredges have been
working separately on each of
the three dock areas until very
recently. At the present time the
G. A. McWilliams and the Dredge'
No. 5 are both working at the
No. 2 Dock area in order to have
the dredging sufficiently advanc
ed to permit dock work at that
point. At the beginning of can-*
struction on the dock both dredg
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Routine Matters
Tried In Court
Variety Of Cases Tried In
Brunswick County Recor
der’s Court Here Monday
A variety of cases were dis
posed of here Monday in Bruns
wick County Recorder’s ' Court,
with the following judgements
being handed down:
William L. Hewett, drunken
driviing, nol pros.
David Ray Bellamy, improper
equipment, assessed with $8.00
court cost.
David Earl Hannah, reckless op
eration, not guilty.
Rupert E: Rich, public drunk
enness, fined $10 and costs.
John Howard Johnson, public
drunkenness, fined $10 and costs.
Vincient Maiscana, speeding,
fined $10 and costs.
Goldie Thornton, assault with
deadly weapon, nol pros with
leave.
A. G. Green, assault, motion by
prosecuting attorney for jury tri
al.
Bobby Ann Long, assault, mo
tion by prosecuting attorney for
jury trial.
Charles Edward Fredere, spee
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Heads Bankers
-JOHN P. STEDMAN, president
of the Scottish Bank of Lumber
ton, was elected president of the
North Carolina Bankers Associ
ation at the annual meeting of
bank executives in Pinehurst on
Friday. Mr. Steadman is well
known in Brunswick. He owns a
cottage at Long Beach and spends
considerable time here each sum
mer.
Coast Guard To
Tighten Rules
About Safety
Word From Office Of 5th
District Commander In
dicates Inspection Will
Be Increased
In a letter to this paper Rear
Admiral Coast Guard Command
er, Fifth Coast Guard District,
expresses the intention of the
service to lessen the extent of
the loss of life and property
through requiring more efficient
operation of boats. Admiral
Wood says:
"During the 1953 boating sea
son, the Coast Guard will increase
its annual motorboat boarding
program. It will stress safety
ideas by providing owners and
operators with technical and prac
tical advice. However, even tho
safety is stressed, negilent and
reckless operation by some per
; sons will result in very serious
j danger to life, limb and proper
ty. The assistance of all citizens
is desired in combatting this nui
sance, a violation of Federal Law
(46 USC 526L.) which states:
“No person shall operate any
motorboat or any vessel in a rec
kless or negligent manner so as
to endanger the life, limb or
property of any person.”
“This law may be enforced by:
“a. A Federal Law Enforce
ment Officer (Coast Guard) who
sees the actual offense, or
“b. Through the assistance of
any citizen who sees the actual
offense and reports the facts to
the Coast Guard.
In either case the following is
considered the mimimum possi
ble evidence that will enable fin
al prosecutibn of the case in a
Federal Court.
"a. An eyewitness description
of the reckless or negligent oper
ation of the boat, giving date,
time and place of the incident.
"b. Accurate information of the
boat, including number on bow,
name, color and other distinctive
markings.
"c. Description, name and home
address of the person operating
the boat at the time. (This is
very important in final prosecu
tion of the case).
(Continued on Page Two)
W. B. KWil*M
Our
ROVING
Reporter
Last year in the outboard mar
athon from Southport to Myrtle
Beach, a slip up occurred some
where, and it is hoped that such
will be avoided in the annual
event next week. There was an
absolute lack of information along
the 60 mile course as to the
hour the boats might be expected.
Many people did not even know
the* day the races were to take
place. At the Holden Beach Fer
ry the operator was not even
expecting or looking for anything
making 50 or 60 miles an hour.
The lead boat with a full half
mile ahead of the pack was seen
too late to lower the ferry ca
ble. The cable was still a foot
above the water when the bow
of the speeding boat shot over.
The boat and its driver were
thrown into the air for a back
ward somersault. Providence
took care of the pilot, he was not
badly hurt, but the boat was
completely wrecked. Had the ca
ble been just a little higher, the
boat would have passed under
it but the pilot would probably
have been killed.
This week we had a letter from
Rice Gwyn, Jr., from Longwood.
Mr. Gwyn is a great hunter and
fisherman. He does not appear
to be satisfied over a recent chal
lenge to us. In the letter he
says: “You will recall I caught
quite a few fish more than you
did during the morning. Then
you and Carl Long went off to
get some more bait and you
gave me one special can full of
■worms that were as big as rat
tlesnakes. The fish simply could
not bite the worms out of that
(Continued on Page 4)
Dredging Material
Is Good For Roads
Indications Are That Some Of Rock And Marl May Be
Made Available After Government Needs
The amount of rock being pil
ed up inside the dikes at Sunny
Point is becoming astonishing.
When the dock area dredging is
completed about the first of next
year, there will be around two
million highway truck loads of
rock and marl awaiting to be
used in the building of roads
or road foundations.
It is understood that the gov
ernment will grind up this dis
posal that is forming in great
piles in front of the advancing
pipe lines.
The dredging contract calls for I
the pumping of 18 million cubic
yards of disposal from the Cape
Fear River into Brunswick Coun
ty. Pumped into dikes, the sur
plus water that comes up with
the disposal flows four or five
miles before it gets out of the
dikes and finds its way back into
the river. By that time all of
the mud and ground up marl
in the water has settled and a
fairly clear stream goes back in
to the rever.
An engineering source recently
stated that the rock which forms
in a great area of its own, will
be ground lip and used for build
ing. Presumably this road buil
ding by the government will be
done right here in Brunswick
County, inside the installation
and connecting the installation
with State highways. The ground
up rock will form a perfect foun
dation for a black top surfacing.
In fact, the amount of marl in
the disposal is such that the
ground up stuff would make a
nearly perfect road in itself.
It is possible that in a year or
so from now private interests
will be able to get a lot of this
material for use in various pub
lic and private road work.
Such matter will be a godsend
to beach property owners for
roads and driveways and it may
be of interest that a representa
tive of this paper has already
(Continued on page four!
Motorboat Races
Set For Wednesday
Coast Guard To
Protect Racers
H. E. Johnson, Commander of
Oak Island Group, USCG, has
advised this paper that three
boats from his group will assist
in next Wednesday’s marathon
race from Southport to Socas
tee. The boats and the posi
tions they will fill are as out
lined in the following paragraph
from a letter received last night
from Commander Johnson:
“Present plans are to have
the CG-83427 off Southport du
ring the trial and warm-up
runs and to sweep the course
to Little River, S. C., immedia
tely after the last group of
boats leave Southport. It is al
so planned to have the CG-303
60 stationed between Southport
and Little River before the
first group departs Southport;
after the last group passes the
position of the CG-30360, he
will sweep southward to Little
River. It is planned to station
the CG-30360 in the vicinity
of Holden’s Beach so that he
can "check-off” the entrants
as they pass his position. Ad
tionally it is planned to use
the CG-25665 to assist the
CG-83427 in keeping the craft
under observation prior to and
during the beginning of the ra
ces.”
Presents List
Of Acquisition
Representative Of Real Es
tate Project Office Ap
pears Before Commission
ers Regarding Sunny Po
int Land
At the last meeting of the
board of county commissioners,
Tilden B. Lane, Realty Assistant,
Real Estate Project Office, U. S.
Corps of Engineers, presented a
certificate showing that the U.
S. Government has been in pos
session of a number of tracts in
Brunswick County, since or be
fore January 1, 1953.
The various former owners of
the property are listed as fol
lows: Nannie Sue Blalock, Her
bert Parker, International Paper
Company, James Edgar Jones,
John Parker Estate, Clara Mc
Millan, Dr. E. C. Anderson, James
A. White, Carrie Hanson Wassen,
J. R. Ganey, et. al. Herbert M.
Perry, James Edgar Jones, H. B.
Price, Roy G. Sellers, Charlie
Sellers, International Paper Com
pany, International Paper Com
pany, Frank D. Inman, Lila G.
Bellamy, et al., Joel L. Moore,
John Parker Estate, B. F. Pear
sall, E. Dillard Price, Herbert
Parker, Sr., International Paper
Company, Bruce Williams, Et.
Ux., Hugh W. Morton, Trustee;
F. Dillard Price, F. Dillard Price,
Roland F. Lewis, International
Paper Company, J. Dillard Bella
my, Et. Ux., Dr. E. C. Anderson,
Lila C. Bellamy, et al.
The names of some owners oc
cur more than once in the above
list, indicating more than one
tract. Because of bad titles, etc.,
some of the above tracts were
(Continued on Page 2)
Indications Are That As
Many As One Hundred
Boats May Enter South
port-Myrtle Beach Classic
SOUTHPORT HARBOR
IS STARTING POINT
Plenty Of Excitement Is
Promised On This End Of
Course As Boats Pre
pare For Start
Reports received today from
Myrtle Beach indicate that gen
eral interest is being taken
throughout six states in the 4th
Annual Marathon outboard mo
tor race from Southport to Soo
astee at Myrtle Beach next Wed
nesday. Entries have been re
ceived from sportsmen in Georgia,
Florida, South Carolina, Tennes
see, North Carolina and Virginia.
The expectations of more than
a hundred boats taking part
seem to be more than justified.
Previous races, without advance
publicity, have always drawn
more than 50 of the speedy little
boats.
The boats will assemble at
Southport next Wednesday mor
ning, be launched and will tune
up on the harbor. In line with
previous races, they will present
a thrilling spectacle here, racing
about the horbor and maneuver
ing just before the starting gun.
The start will be made at 2 p.
m. and it is expected that the
faster boats in several of the
classes will reach Socastee with
in an hour of the start. This
fast going does not mean that
slower boats in some of the class
es cannot win. The skill of the
drivers and their ability at the
wheel and handling their motors
may count for a lot at the
end.
Ten classes of boats will be in
the race. Each boat will be class
ed according to the horse power
of its motor. The three top
boats in each class will be awar
ded a trophy in addition to the
trophy going to the winner.
The races and the dance, to
(Continued on Page 2)
Couple Charged
In Morals Case
Supply Negro Man And
White Woman Being
Held For Trial On Char
ge Of Fornication And
Adultery
Acting on a warrant sworn out
early Sunday morning, Sheriff E.
V. Leonard and SBI agents Wil
liam O'Daniel and Bob Pope ar
rested Holly Johnson, Supply
Negro and Mrs. A. C. Hewett,
white resident of the same com
munity. They are charged with
fornication and adultery and both
are being held in jail in default
of bond in the sum of $1,500
each.
Judge W. J. McLamb of the
Recorder Court set next Monday
for a healing of the charges.
Johnson is married and has
three small children. The Hewett
woman is also married and has
two children, the oldest said to
be two years and the younger
only a few months old. The hus
band is employed at the Sunny
(Continued on Page Two)
School Officials
Speakers Before
Board Members
A. B. Combs And Miss Pat
sy Montague Attended
Meeting Of Brunswick
County School Board As
sociation Last Night
COMMEND EFFORTS
MADE IN COUNTY
D. C. Herring Elected
President Of Group, Suc
ceeding Dr. M. H. Ro
urk In This Post
Members of the Brunswick
County Association of School Co
rnitteemen held a dinner meeting
last night at the Anchor Hotel
at Shallotte Point and heard
talks by A. B. Combs and Miss
Patsy Montague of the North
Carolina Department of Public In
struction.
Mr. Combs declared that one
of the most important services
being rendered by school com
mitteemen is to serve as a me
dium through which a proper re
lationship is maintained between
the school and community. He
particularly praised the effort
that has been made on the part
of local school committeemen,
members of the county board of
education and members of the
board of county commissioners
to be come acquainted with the
schools of Brunswick County.
Mi-. Combs spoke of the efforts
that have been made to increase
the effectiveness of the science
departments of the schools in this
county. “It is important that we
maintain the proper emphasis on
the training we give our boys and
girls in this important field,” de
clared the speaker, “for it is
our duty to train them for life
in this scientific age.”
Miss Montague, whose work is
with elementary school teachers
and students stressed the impor
tance of small teacher loads in
the lower grades. Give a goo3
teacher a reasonable number of
pupils and she will set in motion
a program of instruction which
will make the boys and girls ea
ger to learn and will keep them
in school, she said.
Miss Montague declared that to
the original three R’s has been
added a fourth, radiation. “If
we see that our boys and girls
have a good today, this will in
sure a good tomorrow,” she said,
. J. T. Denning, superintendent of
schools, presided over the meet
ing.
The following new officers
were elected for the coming twa
years: President, D. C. Herring;
vice president, Homer Holden;
secretary, Mrs. F. M. Burdette.
Pavilion Sold
To New Owner
F. L. Shealy Of Camden, S.
C., Has Purchased Long
Beach Property From
Carl Watkins
F. L. Shealy of Camden, S. C.,
purchased the Long Beach Pavil
ion Sunday from Carl Watkins
who has been operating it the
past few years. Mr. Shealy will
take over the property on June
1st, and he has announced that
he will make extensive improve
ments.
He states that he will remod
el the whole building and will
Immediately install a first class
cafe. Of still greater interest are
his plans to immediately construct
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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, May ‘18
7:21 a. m. 1:43 a. m.
7:58 p. m. 1:34 p. m.
Friday, May 29
8:05 a. m. 2:26 a. m,.
8:41 p. m. 2:17 p. m.
Saturday, May 30
8:49 a. m. 3:10 a. m.
9:25 p. m. 3:00 p. m.
Sunday, May 31
9:38 a. m. 3:54 a. m.
10:12 p. m. 3:47 p. m.
Monday, June 1
10:29 a. m. 4:41 a. m.
11:01 p. m. 4:38 p. m.
Tuesday, June 2
11:25 a. rn. 5:29 a. in.
11:54 p. m. 5:33 p, ni.
6 Wednesday, June 3
0:00 a. m. 6:21 a. m.
12:24 p. m. 6:35 p. m.