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Most Of The News All The Time THE STATE A Good Newspaper Volume No. 17 No. 8 6-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESC AY, JULY 1,1953 PORT PILOT In A j Good Community PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY The Pilot Covers Brunswick County $1.50 PER YEAR Record Number In Attendance At Ft. Caswell All Accommodations Taxed To Capacity As Baptist Seaside Assembly Opens Summer Season At Histo ric Fort CHOIR PROGRAM IS SET FOR SATURDAY Sunday Expected To See A Large Crowd In Attend ance To Hear Chief Of Chaplains Ivan L. Bennett Preach With a record attendance o' well over 1100 Baptists from all parts of North Carolina, taxing accommodations at Fort Caswell to the limit, the Baptist Training Union Assembly is going full swing at the former coast artil lery post this week. The program began on Monday night with a worship service lead by Dr. J. Winston Pearce, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Durham, who is pastor of this week’s conference. Dr. Pearce is a member of the executive committee of the Southern Bap tist Convention. Mr. Pearce is the vesper leader, and the Rev. Dennis R. Hockaday, also of the First Baptist Church, Durham, is song leader for the conference. Junior pastor is the Rev. W. P. Milne of Ahoskie. Each morning at 8:45 there are methods conferences; at 10:80 there are personal interest con ferences, and at 11:45 the morn ing assembly is held. Saturday morning may find the largest crowd of the summer at Caswell. Choirs of all ages, male, female and mixed, from all over the state will participated in a hymn festival at 10:45. This is an annual non-competative event in which choirs are graded on a basis of accuracy, interpretation, tone quality and diction. The choirs which will participate here will have already participated in associations! and regional festiv als. A grade of B or above is necessary for eligibility in the State Festival. Any choir re ceiving a grade of A at Cas well will be given the gold seal of a state winner. Since it will not be possible for all choirs to participate in Saturday’s festival, another will be held the final week of the assembly. One was held last week at Fruitland As sembly, near Hendersonville. Next week will be family week. Different pastors will bring mes sages each day. Monday night, Tuesday morning and Tuesday night the speaker will be the Rev. W. P. Milne of Ahoskie. The Rev. John Wayland of North Wilkesboro will speak Wednesday morning and night and the Rev. J. Wilbur Hutchins of Sanford will speak Friday. Speaker for Thursday will be announced la ter. These messages will be on the Christian home. The Baptist Brotherhood con ference will be held from Wed nesday night to Friday noon un der the direction of Horace Ea son, executive secretary of the North Carolina Baptist Brother hood. Speakers will include F. O. Champion of Shelby, state pre sident of the Baptist Brother hood, Max Thomas, and Ernest Kluttz, Jr., of Gastonia, record ing secretary. Also in session the same week will be the Junior Royal Ambas sadors State Camp under the direction of the Rev. B. W. Jack son of Raleigh. Last Saturday over 100 reservations had already (Continued on Page 4) BrUfNtwt Flashta .. i ——mmmmmmmm—I OFFIC E C LOSED The local draft board will be closed July 3 until July 30, in clusive. Anyone becoming 18 years of age during this time should register as soon as possi ble after the office opens on July 31. LX NAVY HOSPITAL Mrs. Mildred E. Joyner, wife of Charles E. Joyner, A I-C of the 31st Air Crash Outfit, is in the Navy Hospital at Ports mouth. With a rare blood type, it was necessary to take her to a hospital where a large supply of this type is available. TO VISIT MOTHER Mrs. Henry Goodwin and son left Aruba, N. W. T., Saturday, June 27, on the Santa Rosa for New York, a four day voyage. They will visit in New York, New Jersey, Norfolk, Va., Greens boro and Chapel Hill before coming to Southport for a month's stay with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Lind. Mr. Goodwin will come in August. Kidnapping Scare Is Family Affair Mysterious Disappearance Of Eight-Year-Old Bolivia Girl Solved With Discovery That She Left With Her Aunt A reported kidnapping which esulted in a general alarm •dong the Atlantic seaboard states last week finally simmered lown to a family affair with an light-year-old Brunswick County prl safely in the hands of her ather in New Jersey. Barbara Rossi, who has been making her home with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Vin ■ent. Muncey of Bolivia, was re ported missing last Tuesday af ernoon by her 11-year-old cous n, Edward Baker. The lad said hat a Pennsylvania car stopped near the Muncey home and that a couple showed unusual inter est in his pretty little cousin. A little later he looked for Barba ara, he said, and she was miss ing. It was upon the return of his grandparents that he made this report. What he neglected to say was that the young lady in the out af-state car was Zilpha Muncey, an aunt of Barbara Rossi. This he admitted two days later and authorities went on the watch for the Brunswick County girl who had left home only a few days before. Following the disappearance of little Barbara Rossi her mother. Mrs. Dorothy M. Campanello of Cincinnati, Ohio, and her father William R. Rossi of Margate Ci ty, N. J. were notified. Each denied knowing anything of the whereabouts of their child. On Friday the child was de livered to her father by Zilphc Muncey and law enforcement of ficials, including the FBI, were called off the case.. Still pend ing is the question of whether kidnapping charges will be pre ferred against Zilpha Muncey and her companion, who took the child from the Muncey home at Bolivia. The Federal authorities still have the matter under ad visement. More Sailfish Are Caught Here Thirteen-Year-Old Winston-1 Salem Youngster Brought In Pretty Specimen Abo ard Cadet Friday ANOTHER SAILFISH FOR NEXT TWO DAYS All Party Boats Reported Better Than Average Re ults During Past Week With Blues And Mackeral Big news of Southport fishing during the week was the fact that sailfish were brought in for three straight days. For those fishing parties who con fined their activities to the shoals there were satisfactory catches of bluefish and mackerel. A 13-year-old boy, Norton F. Tennille, Jr., became the fourth person to catch a sailfish here this season when he brought in a 5-ft. 6-in. prize Friday while fishing with Captain Howard Victor aboard the Cadet. This party had three other sailfish hooked and there was a second sail on at the same time the Winston-Salem youngster was do ing a fine job of reeling in the big catch for the day. Also on this trip were his father and his brother, William Tennille; M. P. Lipe, Hickory; Ralph Little, Char lotte; Mrs. Julian McGlamrock, Greensboro. They also had 7 large amberjack, 22 Spanish mac kerel and 1 barracuda. The following day a party fishing aboard the Lady Lou with Capt. Leo Dowling brought in a sail, but no further information was available on the catch. The third sailfish was brought in on Sunday by a party fishing ab oard a Wilmington boat, and de tails were missing. Capt. George Gregory reported a couple of good shoal trips for Friday aand Saturday. On the first of these days the party brought in 166 Spanish macker el. In the group were M. C. Pickier, Pine Bluff; Earl Strick land, Manley; Frank Smith, Sou (Continued on Page 4) Baptist Youth Enjoy Camping Junior Royal Ambassador Chapter Of The Southport Baptist Church Spent Last Tuesday Night Sleeping On Strand The Junior Royal Ambassadors chapter of Southport Baptist Church held an overnight camp at Caswell Assembly grounds on last Tuesday night. Eleven boys and the pastor spent the night on the strand. During the outing the boys cooked their own supper and breakfast, swam and played soft ball. A camp fire service was held Tuesday night at which the pastor told the story of David Brainerd, pioneer missionary to the New England Indians in the 1740’s. The next day this group was joined by six other boys, two of l the mothers, and the counselor, Mrs. Maxine Fulcher. The noon meal was a weiner roast, after (Continued on Page 4) Holiday Schedule Set For Southport All county^ offices will be closed on Monday in observance of the 4th of July but Tues day, July 7. will take its place so far as regular activities of the County government are con cerned. The board of county commis sioners will hold its regular first of the month meeting at that time and the regular week ly session of the Brunswick county Recorder’s Court will be held at that time. The city office will be open for a half-day as usual Satur day, but will be closed all day Monday in observance of the Fourth of July holiday. Weekly Session Of Court Held Variety Of Cases Disposed Of Here Monday In Re corder’s Court Monday was a busy day in the Brunswick County Recorder's Court, with the following cases being disposed of: James C. Babson, violating fish law, nol pros with leave. Oswald Jenrette, violating fish law, nol pros with leave. Mrs. M. L. Brown, assault, ju dgement suspended on payment of $45 restitution for doctor's bill to Mrs. Margaret Whitley, and pay costs. Notice of appeal giv en. Charles White, assault, nol pros with leave. Edward Grady, assault, one year on roads. Horace Earl Ivey, expired op erator’s license, $25 fine and costs. Ralph Boyd Queensberry, ex pired operator’s license, nol pros at instance of prosecuting attor ney. Joseph Carnell Jacobs, improp er equipment, prayer for judge ment continued. Jeep Dan Milliken, reckless op eration, fined $10 and costs and placed on good behavior for two years. James Grady, aiding and abet ting in operating without license, judgment suspended on payment of costs. Luther Jenkin, improper equip ment, judgment suspended on payment of costs. Gertrude Robinson Grady, no operator’s license, $25 fine and costs. Donald M. Hines, drunken dri ving, not guilty. Veneval Jackson Holden, aid ing and abetting in operating without license, costs. Orin Holden, no operator’s li cense, fined $25. , James Hewett, no operator’s liense, fined $25. Bob Gregg, improper registra tion, fined $10 and costs. George Walker Hewett, follow ing too close, $13.50 restitution for property damage and pay costs. George F. Harrington, reckless operation, not guilty.' Border Market:; To Begin Sales Monday, Aug,, 3 Announcement Made By Board Of Governors; Of Bright Belt Warehouse Association GEORGIA-FLOR1DA MARTS OPEN JULY! 16 Representatives From Bor der Belt Favored Later Opening Date For Markets Tobacco markets in Whiteville, Chadbourn, Tabor -lity, Fair Bluff, Clarkton and elsewhere in the Border Belt will open Au gust 3 under a schedule set Mon day by the board of governors of the Blight Belt Warehouse As sociation. The leaf auction season will start July 16 in the Georgia Florida Belt. Dates for the various belts are as follows: Georgia-Florida, July 16; Border Belt, August 3; Eas tern Belt, August 20; Middle Belt, Sept. 1; Old Belt, Sept. 14. The sales season will open with | daily sales of five and a half hours. , Opening dates were recommend/ ed this year for the first tim/e by a 15-man industry-wide ad visory committee representing growers, buyers and warehouse men. President Fred S. Royster, presiding at Monday’s board ses sion, praised the work of the committee and termed its estab lishment a great forward step. Tobacconists from the Border Belt were less enthusiastic than Royster. A. Dial Gray and other representatives of the Border Belt area favored a later opening for belts all along the line. Gray said his opposition was based on the fact that the Geor gia-Florida opening is so much earlier than last year and recall ed that Border Belt leaf was not ready during the first wee if of last season. V ' Dates were set by a vote of 19 to 6, the opposing votes being cast by Border Belt members of the board of governors. A slight opening for a change in dates was given when the bo ard of governors adopted a reso lution authorizing the sales com mittee of the warehouse organi zation to change the hours of sa les or the dates if it becomes necessary. The sales committee, however, was directed to seek the recommendations of the advisory committee before any changes are made. Two “flies in the ointment” are (Continued On Page Four) Dedicate Library At Local Church New Facility At Southport Baptist Church Will Be Opened And Dedicated At Sunday Night Service The newly organized library of the Southport Baptist Church will be opened and dedicated at the evening worship service on Sunday night, July 5, with Mrs. Kittie Sullivan, Baptist State Li brary Consultant, as guest speak er. Following the service the library will be open and members will be allowed, to withdraw books if they desire. A reception will also be held at this time. Continued On Page Four) Shrimp Fleet Back At Home RETURN—Visitors to the Southport yacht basin during the late afternoon or on Sunday will-see the slips filled with the boats of the Southport shrimping fleet. Most of these vessels spent the winter in Florida, but now they are back at home and are off to a good season’s operation in local waters. Completing Plans For Celebration Conditions Good For Farm Crops Occasional showers continued to give the necessary tonic to growing crops through most of Brunswick county during the past week, with the Southport area about the only section where it is noticably dry. In traveling through the coun ty today everything gave the impression of being green and growing, and along a good part of the route puddles of water were standing beside the road. In Southport there has been no relief from the drought, and yesterday thfe mercury climbed to the 93 degree mark, a new high for the season. Acid Throwers Damage Netting Nets On Two Menhaden Boats Owned By South port Fisheries Ruined On Sunday Night When Van dals Poured Acid On Them The Southport Fisheries Com pany suffered damages estimat ed at being around $12,000.00 on Sunday night when some per son or persons unknown poured acid on the nets and roping of two of its menhaden boats. The new nets each cost seven thousand dollars and in use only this spring, are said to have lit erally fallen to pieces in folds when the boats Elenor M. and Charlotte T. started out Monday Morning for their day’s work. Even the heavy boat lines, used to hoist and lower the purse boats, were so eaten by the acid that they broke. Here and there were many (Coutinued on Page 4) Our ROVING Reporter With her parents separated it is said to have been no great surprise to officers that 8-year old Barbara Rossi, missing for four days from the home of her grandpartents near Bolivia should be found at the home of her fa ther in New Jersey. The puzzling feature is that the aunt of the child and a member of the family with whom she has been living, should be charged with the re sponsibility for the "kidnapping” for the other side of the split up family. Although it is already giving service, the REA is looking to the future and preparing to con struct power lines across the in tracoastal waterway at Long Beach and Holden Beach. This is to take care of the greater demand the organization fore sees. To us and probably to a great many more people it is a little hard to see how the REA can keep up with such over-the waterway needs while the tel ephone company does not even seem to be able to make a start. The first 1953 load of Brun swick County watermelons went on sale here Saturday morning, June 26. The load consisted of 250 melons, weighing on an av erage of about 40 pounds each and finding a good sale at an average price of about $1. Rob ert McRackan, the producer, sta ted that he has 23 acres in the crop now being maketed. Before the 23 acres are all sold, other fields will be coming on and delivery should be continuous un til late September Continued On Page Four) Colorful Parade Expected To Get Day’s Festivities Off To Successful Start With Two Bands Partici pating CONGRESSMAN TO DELIVER ADDRESS Celebration Will Carry Over Into Evening Wit.t Danc ing And Fire Works Display On Water front Residents of Southport are completing plans for a gala cele bration here Saturday in what has been romantically termed "The Liveoak Festival,” but what is for all' practical purposes an old fashioned observance of the Fourth of July, complete with pa rade, patriotic address and fire works. In between there will be nu merous other features which promise a full day of fun and ex citement for residents and vis itors alike. The parade will start things off, beginning at 11 o'clock. A corps of volunteer workers has been busy for several days pre paring floats for this event, which promises to be even more col orful than last year. The U. S. Air Force band is expected to be a feature of the parade. Immediately following, the spot light of interest will be focused on the porch of the Masonic building, where Congressman F. Ertel Carlyle will make a brief patriotic address and the queen of the day’s festivities will be crowned. A contest has been in prog ress here this week to select the young lady to reign over the festival and about a dozen of the most attractive girls of the com munity are competing. A lunch will be served at the old high school gymnasium and proceeds from the sale of tick ets to this affair will go to help | remodel the building in a project being pushed by the Southport Home Demonstration Club. In the afternoon there will be a band concert at 2 o’clock fol lowing which interest will be cen tered in athletic contests and in (Continued on Page 4) Seek Permission For Power Line Overhead Crossing Of In land Waterway At Two Points Being Sought By Brunswick Rural Electric Corporation In order to be in a position to meet the constantly increasing demand for more current for the fast growing towns of Long Beach and the Holden Beach the REA has applied to the U. S. Army Engineers for permission to construct power lines across the waterway at two points in Brunswick County. The formal notices of the request are dis tributed from the Army engineers this • week, and they are as fol lows. You are hereby notified that the Brunswick Electric Member ship Corporation, Shallotte, has made application for permits for construction of the following ov Continued On Page Four) Superintendent Already At Work On New Position Henry C. Stone Accepts Ele tion By Board Of Educa tion As Superintendent Of Schools For Brunswick County Henry C. Stone has resigned as principal of the Shallotte High School and has assumed the du ties of county superintendent of schools, succeeding J. T. Den ning in that office. The new superintendent is 51 years of age and is a native of Brunswick County. For the last 18 years he has served as prin cipal of SKallotte" HigH-School. Stone graduated from high school at Ferrum, Va., and re ceived his B. S. degree from N. C. State College; his M. A. de gree in secondary school adminis tration at Duke University and has done some work on his doc tor’s degree in school administra tion at the University of North Carolina. He is married to the former Miss Frances Baker of Newber ry, S. C. Stone has served as a mem ber of the board of trustees of the Shallotte Camp Methodist Church for a number of years. He was a charter member of the Shallotte Lions Club and served as its first president. He was formerly president of the Brun swick County Education Asso ciation, and is past president of the Southeastern District of the Principal Association of the N. C. Education Association. During his term as prinipal of the Shalloctte High School the number of teachers has increas ed from 18 to 41. Under his su pervision a nmuber of new de partments have been added to the school. Among these are the commerce, home economics, agri cultural, athletic and music de partments. The last named in cludes a full time school band and glee club. Officers Crack Down On Liquor Still Is Raided, Automobile Loaded With Liquor Is Captured And Carload Of Raw Materials Is Inter cepted Brunswick County officers and members of the State Highway Patrol in this area have been giving bootleggers a hard time during the past few days. Last Tuesday night Sheriff E. V. Leonard, Deputy Alex Wil liams and Deputy Drew Long raided a still in the Longwood section. They captured a 500 gallon steam-type outfit but got no men and no whiskey. They destroyed a quantity of mash. A few days prior to this Dep uty Charlie Skipper and Patrol man S. H. Thomas captured a car carrying 12 cases of non-tax paid liquor. The driver was Cor nell Lewis, colored, and his car go and his automibile were con fiscated by the officers. Last week Patrolman Thom as and Patrolman R. H. Constan te stopped a car at the intersec tion of U. S. No. 17-74-76. The driver was James C. Spears, a Wilmington Negro, and loaded on his trailer which he was pulling behind his car were 24 one hun dred-pound bags of sugar and 18 cases of % -gallon fruit jars. (Continued On Page Four) Will Open Bids On Construction Of Three Docks This Is Expected To Be Big gest Part Of Present Plans For Improvements At U. S. Army Ammunition Outloading Depot MUCH OF WORK WILL „ BE BY MACHINERY Other Phases Of Operation Will Be In Progress At Same Time, Probably Swelling Total Em ployment This week the Army engineers announced that the bids for the three wharves scheduled for Sun— I ny Point, will be onened and canvassed in the Custom House at Wilmington at 2:30 on the afternoon of July 15. It is un derstood that the successful bid der will have 30 days in which to move in his equipment and start construction work. Although the dock construc tion is one of the major phase's of the installation it is figured that only a few hundred men will be employed in that work, mostly in the handling of pile driving and other machinery. Reports from the engineers' of fice indicate, however, that at the same time the dock construction is underway, there will be a size able number of other construe- . tion projects going on. This will include the building of the rail road spur lines or side tracks, electrical work, wells, and wa- . ter lines, road, protective fence work, guards and so one. A pretty large force of workmen should be employed by August. It is estimated that from 18 months to two years will be re quired to complete the work: al ready planned. As a further il lustration of the size of the pro ject it may be pointed out th^.t the three docks, each 2,400 feefc in length, will have more docking space than any State or Corpo ration-owned dock in North Car olina. The docks will be half a mile apart but if they were end to end they would have a total ship docking fronfage of 7,200 feet with plenty of addi total ship dokeing. frontage of mooring of sanitary boats, fire boats and tugs. Shrimp Season Has Good Start Boats Report Good Catches During First Week Of Stepped - Up Operation! And Headers Have Been Busy The shrimping season at South port is apparently getting away to a good start with all of the locally owned boats moving right out to work just as soon as they get in from Florida. All but two or three of the boats are now in. The shrimp are medium in size, something like 50 to the pound count. Offsetting this small size is their firmness and hard condition when arriving at the picking houses. Usually during such hot weather as has been prevailing they are rather soft and a rather high percent is lost in the heading operation. The packing house operators stated yesterday that several boats have been making catches running to 100 bushels per week. The sudden start of good pro Continued on page four Tide Table Following Is the tide table 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, July 2 0:00 a. m. 5:59 a. m.~ 12:11 p. m. 6:21 p. m. Friday, July 3 0:33 a. m. 6:52 a. m. 1:11 p. m. 7:25 p. rn. Saturday, July 4 1:31 a. m. 7:48 p. m. 2:13 8:32 p. ra, ' Sunday, July 5 2:21 a. m. 8:48 a. m. 3:15 p. m. 9:39 p. irl. Monday, July 6 3:31 a. m. 9:46 a. nt. 4:16 p. m. 10:42 p. m. Tuesday, July 7 4:33 a. m. 10:43 a. m. 5:13 p. m. 11:30 p. m. Wednesday, July 8 5:32 a. m. 11:37 a. m. 6:08 p. m. 0:00 p. m. h
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