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THE STATE fORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In jA Good Community Volume No. 17 No. 10 8-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JUll 15, 1953 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY $1.50 PER YEAR The Pilot Covers Brunswick County Most Of The News All The Time Three Groups In Session Now At Baptist Assembly Pastors’ Conference, Inter mediate R. A. Camp At Rocky Mount Division Ju nior R.A. And G.A. In Session OUTSTANDING MEN HEADING PROGRAM Between Four And Five Hundred Persons Attend ing Programs Being Held At Caswell This Week Three separate programs, Pas tors' Conference, State Interme diate Royal Embassadors Camp, and the Rocky Mount Divisional Camp for Junior Girls’ Auxiliary and Royal Ambassadors, are in progress at Caswell Baptist As cembly this week, with a com bined attendance estimated at between 400 and 500. Faculty at the Pastors’ Con ference includes a seminary pres ident, two seminary professors, two prominent pastors and two workers of the North Carolina Baptist State Convention. The seminary president is Dr. Sanky L. Blanton of Crozer The ological Seminary in Chester, Pa., and formerly pastor of the First Baptist Church of Wilming ton. Dr. Blanton will speak on Thursday at 11:30 and 8 o’clock. Dr. Olin T. Binkley, professor of Christian Ethics at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, of Wake Forest, and Dr. Dale Moo dy, professor of theology at Sou thern Baptist Theological Semi nary, Louisville, Ky., are teach ing classes each morning. Director of the conference is the Rev. Earl L. Bradley, secre tary of promotion at the State Baptist Convention. Also speak ing Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings in the confer ence is the Rev. J. C. Canipe of Hendersonville, state secretary of evangelism for North Carolina Baptists. Dr. D. Swan Haworth, pastor of the First Baptist Church of' Lumberton, and Dr. Claud Brown, pastor of First Baptist Church of Greensboro, preached Tuesday and Wednesday. The State Intermediate R. A. Camp under the direction of the Rev. B. W. Jackson of Raleigh, and the Rocky Mount Division Junior Camp under the direction of Mrs. Gilmer Cross of Golds boro, have as speakers the Rev. E. S. Swenson of Argentina, the Rev. N. E. O’Neill of New Mex ico, and Dr. E. A. McDowell of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Next week will be the Wom an's Missionary Conference. Am ong the speakers are Marc H. Lovelace, associate professor of (Continued On Page Six) Brief News Flasket LIONS TO MEET The regular meeting of the Southport Lions Club will be held (Thursday) at 12:30 o’clock at the Masonic building. BUYS TOURIST COURT. George C. Connally of Laurin burg, who recently sold his hotel in Danville, Va., has purchased the Twilight Motor Court at Shallotte from Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Garner. Mr. Connally will take possession tomorrow, July 16. EXAMINER MOVES State Highway License Exam iner has moved his Shallotte of fice from the Williamson Motor Company to the State Prison Camp in Shallotte. Hereafter he will make examinations and is sue licenses from there each Tuesday from 8:30 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. NEW OFFICIALS The Brunswick County Post American Legion at Southport, has elected officers for the new year as follows: Art Newton, co mmander; Dave Garish, vice commander; Jack Brown, adju tant; Crawford Rourk, service of ficer; Dosher Rourk, sgt.-at-arms; Roy Robinson, post historian; Ju lian Southerland, chaplain. TOBACCO BARN BURNED Register of Deeds Amos J. Walton lost a good tobacco barn filled with a good grade of to bacco by fire Sunday night at 10:30. He had no insurance. Mr. Walton states that the fire originated from electrical wir ing running from his house by the barn to a tenant house. The wiring rubbing against the barn caused the blaze, he says. Newsman Takes Ride With Patrol 4 Finds Automobile Very Respectful Of Appearance Of Patrol Car And Patrolmen On Job By W. B. KEZIAH A more or less flexible rule governs the State Highway Pa trol in the matter of taking any one with them in their cars when they are on duty. They are not supposed to encourage such rid ing because of the danger to passengers. A patrolman never knows when or where the radio of the district office or that of some other officer will call him here of there and at what speed. Often, too, he may be called ran to do some fast and dan gerous driving of his own ac ord as a result of what he en counters on the road. So. your friends the patrolman would rather take his chances alone, regardless of how much he may like you or wish to be accommodating.. As a rule he hates to discourage your riding with him and he would rather you would not ask to ride. But this past Sunday afternoon Corporal O. tl. Lynch of South port decided that as he had to ride he would like to do some public relations work. The day was cool and the rush to and from the beaches or to get here or there was not going at a fast pace. He dropped around and asked us to go with him. It happens that Brunswick County has a bunch of officers so diligent in the discharge of their duties and withal so cour teous to the public that an op portunity to ride with one of them and see the works is not to be passed up. These officers are Corporal Lynch at South port; Patrolman L. H. Wilkins at Shallotte; Ft. H. Constante at Bolivia and Seth Thomas at Le land. Climbing into the Corporal’s car the passenger was told that a routine cruise out. on the Fort Caswell roa.d and down to the lower end of Long Beach was on the agenda. All went smoothly on this round, nobody was speed ing and no cars on the highway were in trouble. Likewise the radio did not bring any calls from other cars or from the dis patcher’s office in Wilmington. On this trip the Corporal cas ually stated he had been on the road the previous night until 1:30 a. m., and that he went sack on duty for a while at 8 Continued On Page Four) Drainage District Officers Named * Three-Man Commission Will Administer The Work Of Brunswick County Drain age District No. 1 TO RECLAIM SEVERAL THOUSAND ACRES Demonstration Of Value Of Drainage Being Furnish ed By The Rice Gwynn Farms At Long wood The election for officials of the newly formed Brunswick County Drainage District No. 1 was held at Thomasboro last week and re sulted in the election of Sam Joe Frink, Adrian D. Long and Rice Gwyn, Jr., as drainage board members. At a subsequent meeting of these officials Mr. Frink was el ected chairman, Long vice chair man and Gwyn will serve as a member. James C. * Bowman, Southport attorney, who was in strumental in the formation of the organization, will serve as secretary of the board and attor ney. Nineteen thousand acres are embraced in the drainage area that the organization plans to reclaim by drainage. The esti mated cost is said to run between 60 and 70 thousand dollars. The report of engineers indicates that some 18 miles of main canal and much in the Way of lateral dit ches will have to be cut. The land lies around Thomas j boro and embraces much of the Big and Little Caw Caw swamps and other swampy areas. Practi cally all of it is said to be nat urally rich; at present the only C Continued On Page Five ) Shallotte Post Office Raised Post Master Ida B. Parker Notified That Office Be came Second Class Effec tive July 1 Patrons of the Shallotte post office are very much gratified with the receipt of a notice from Washington, advising Mrs. Ida B. Parker, the post master, that the Shallotte office was advanc ed to second class rating as of July 1. The receipts of the office were well over the requirements for the advancement in rating, it was stated. Mrs. Parker states that the office hours will be from 8 a. m, to 5 p. m. The windows will be j open continuously during that time, except on Thursdays when they will be closed, along with the office at 1 p. m. Credit for* the greatly increased volume of receipts _ is given the Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation. This corporation, along with new comers to the Shallotte area, has been the basis for the greatly increased gross receipts of the Shallotte of fice duringg the past few years, Postmaster Parker says. Yacht Involved In Hit And Run John Potter, Southport fish erman and one of the pioneers at shrimping off Southport, happened to what his friends think was a bit of wholly un deserved bad luck to his boat recently. Mr. Potter was returning from a fishing trip and was passing throught the yacht ba sin. A transient yacht that had spent the night here, came backing out of a slip and crash ed its stern into the side of the Potter boat. The yacht did not even stop to investigate the damage. Coast Guard la ter identified the offending craft, but it is doubtful if Mr. Potter will be able to collect for the damage to his boat. Brief Session Of Court Held Brunswick County Record er’s Court Confined To Morning Session Here This Week It was possible to complete all necessary business of Bruns wick County Recorder’s Court be fore noon Monday, and the fol lowing judgments were handed down: James N. Clark and Robert H. Younger, larceny, nol pros at in stance of prosecuting attorney. E. W. Joyner, raising disturb ance, fined $10 and costs, and placed on good behavior for two years. Irvin Elwood Clayton, reckless operation, fined $50 and costs. Jolly Jacobs, speeding, fined $15 and' costs. Charlie Summersett, pub lie drunkenness, fined $10 and costs. George A. Hughes, reckless op eration, fined $40 and costs. Johnnie Anderson, reckless op (Continued on Page 4) Begin Grading New Playground Site For New Recreation Park Will Be Only Two Blocks From Southport High School With a bulldozer coming in Thursday morning to begin clear ing and grading Southport's new recreation center two blocks from the ^school building, the 31st Air Force Crash Outfit made an of fer yesterday to assist in every way they can. Workers will be needed along with the builders. Warrant Of ficer JG, William A. Norris and Sergeant Budden went out to the field yesterday, looked it over, learned it was a civic undertak (Continued On Page Five) Railroad Work Being Speeded By Contractor Good Progress Being Mads In Construction Of Ap proach Railroad To Sun ny Point Installation HEAVY MACHINERY WORKING ON JOB Clearing Right-Of-Way And Ditching Crosses Highway No. 17 From Direction , Of Leland By XV. B. KEZIAH With few people in' Southport knowing about it, the Green Con* struction Company of Indian^ is doing some fast railroad build* ! ing at Walden Creek, only four miles from Southport. An out fit was moved in to the north side of the creek the past week and is workin g toward Leland to meet another outfit there that works towards Southport. On the Leland end of things clearing the right of way and ditching has reached and crossed State Highway 17. The , right of way is 175 feet wide and is being cleared of all growth. In addition to the clearing and ditching . some grading is in progress at that end. At the bridge being built at Moore’s Creek to work to the Allen Creek bridge are 5 bulldo zers, 4 huge scrapers and trac tors, 6 turnpulls and 3 push tractors. All of this stuff is about the heaviest in road build ing equipment yet seen in Brun swick County. In addition to the machinery operators some 40 men are at work- at various tasks. Three draglines are at work along with other mechinery on the Leland end. Supt. Fred Trakes of the Green Construction Company stated on Thursday morning that another outfit might start in at Sunny < Point end at any time. This out fit will work toward the bridge at Moore’s Creek. It is understood that, Ihe Grs4n Construction Company has a bid in with the engineers today on the 50 miles of access railroad or sidings at Sunny Point. Should they be awarded the contract, the job will probably be suffi cient to justify their bringing in the whole of their gigantic road building out fit from the Savan nah River project immediately. The W. A. Smith Construction Company of Houston, Tex., has not yet brought in its railroad building outfit. Smith has the contract for the entire 25 miles of road from Leland to Sunny Point. He sub-let the clearing and grading to the Green Con struction Company and is wait ing for this company to make sufficient headway before he starts in with his own task of the ties, ballasting and placing the rails. The contracts for bridges or trestles for the railroad is held by a Brunswick County concern, the Port Construction Company of Northwest Township. Their job embraces the building of three main bridges, these struc tures crossing Town Creek, Al len Creek and Moore’s Creek. Reports indicate that good prog ress is being made in all of these. As the bridges will not be adapt ed for crossing by road building machinery, the Green Company has to move this equipment down Route 303 and thence through woodland roads to reach points of operations between the bridg es. Bushels 01 Shrimp i CATCH—Among the more interesting scenes along the Southport, waterfront these days are the unloading operations of the shrimp trawlers as they come in with their catches. The shrimp are loaded into baskets in which they are hoisted on the docks. Later they are headed, washed and iced for shipment. _ Shrimp Operation Interests Visitors Fishing Again Weather Victim Once more the week-end wea ther put the skids under the Southport sports fishing fleet with a brisk northeaster blow ing, starting Friday. The first let-up came Tues day, with several of the boats getting out again today. Need less to say, scores of cancella tions were made necessary and hundreds of sportsmen were disappointed. On Sunday the party boat skippers held a meeting to discuss the use of an advertis ing fund which they have rais ed. It was decided to place some display advertising in up state newspapers in an effort to let more fishermen know about Southport fishing and the accommodations which are at their service here. i Dredge Officials Visit Project Representatives Of McWil liams Dredging Co. Were At Sunny Point Last Week On Inspection Trip A. Gilbert, president of the G. A. McWilliams Dredging Compa ny of New Orleans, accompanied by L. R. Thompson, vice presi dent, spent last week on an in spection of the Sunny Point dred ging operations being done by their firm. The project here is only one of several being han dled by the McWilliams Dredging Company. They have several large dredge in Venezuela, wor king on contracts for oil com (Continued on Page 4) W. B. «nai*H Our ROVING Reporter Attorney J. C. Bowman is hav ing to take a 3-week vacation with work. His father owns a large peach orchard and farm in Anson County near Wadesboro and owing to a death in the family of the farm manager the harvesting of a big peach crop was getting badly held up. This resulted in the Southport lawyer getting the S. O. S. Mrs. Bow man is with him, and from our last Christmas dinner with the couple .we feel assured that the Bowman ranch folks are in for some three weeks of extra fine cooking, that is if she also helps out during the emergency, as she probably will. Incidentally, Mr. Bowman’s father has bought a lot of property here during the past year and has constructed a nice 4-apartment-building. Being pretty well acquainted with the Great Caw Caw and Little Caw Caw areas results in our belief that in tne organiza tion of the Brunswick Drainage District No. 1 the farmers of that section have done a big thing for farming. On his own, Rice Gwyn, one of the members of the drainage board, has been doing a wonderful work in dra inage and farm development in that section over a long period of years. By drainage he has taken lands that were rich in their soils but practically worth less because of wetness and built them up to form about the most productive area in the county. It has probably been largely through what he has accomplished that other farmers have become inter (Continued On Page Six) Southport Visitors Take A Great Interest In After noon Activities On Docks On Southport Waterfront WATCH PROCESSES IN PACKING SHRIMP Interesting Cycle Involved From Time Boats Are Un loaded Until Product Is Iced And Put In Boxes When they are working the big Southport shrimp trawlers draw quite a crowd of interested spectators when they return with their catches in the afternoon. Many of the interested folks are from the beaches and still more come over from the Baptist As sembly at Caswell. Most of the assembly attendants, with a new crowd each week, come from in land points. To them the big fishing craft with their basket after basket full of shrimp is all new and strange. Lest the term basket cause a misconception in the minds of some people- who regard a bas ket as something to pack a pic nic dinner in, it should be said that a shrimp basket holds over two bushels of the product and it takes a couple of husky boys to rush it to the weighingg scales after the winch has brought it up out of the> hold in the boat. It is an interesting process to the visitors the unloading of the boats and the dumping of the great baskets on the picking ta bles after they have been weigh ed. Still more interesting is the process of “picking”, which means heading the shrimp. This is done by a big crowd of colored wom en and girls at each of the hous es. These workers are wedged in side by side, standing beside the long tables on which the shrimp are piled. All have buckets in a row on top of the pile of shrimp. * With just about one movement, they snatch up a shrimp in each hand. A flick of the thumb and the head if off and sliding down a chute into the river. The body, and that is the edible part of the shrimp, in flung into the waiting bucket. In less time than an onlooker could think possible the bucket is filled with shrimp and is then carried to the washing and chill ing vat. There it is dumped in to icy water and the picker is handed her money and hurries back to her place at the table to pick another bucket. Good workers amass quite a pile of nickles and dimes during an af ternoon's work. The shrimp in the washing vat are stirred around with a long hand bailer. They become thor oughly cleaned and chilled. The same bailer is then used to dip them out of the vat and pour them into another weighing scale. When the scale is loaded \yith 100 pounds of shrimp they are dumped into a box built to hold a hundred pounds of shrimp and about an equal weight of ice. As fast as a box is filled it is drag ged away and stacked until the processing of the day’s catch is finished. The boxes are then loaded on huge transport trucks and some (Continued On Page Five) Alton A. Lennon Appointed Last Week To Senate Wilmington Attorney Is Well Known In Brunswick And Citizens Of This Co unty Are Well Pleased With Appointment North Carolina’s new United States Senator is Alton A. Len non of Wilmington. Governor William B. Umstead appointed the New Hanover law yer Friday after a 14-day press ure campaign in which just about everybody of any prominence in politics had been suggested as successor to the late Willis Smith. The 47-year-old State Senator and former judge of Recorder’s Court in New Hanover was chos en over such political luminaries as Representative Harold Cooley, State Senator Fred Royster, State Senator John Larkins and many other big name hopefuls, includ ing Supreme Court Justice Jeff Johnson. The appointment was even more of a surprise than the selection of Dr. Frank P. Graham by Governor Scott when Senator Broughton died. Dr. Graham was a national figure and the sur prise came from his lack of po litical background. Almost unknown outside of Wilmington until catapulted intc fame Friday afternoon, Lennon is generally regarded as a middle of-the-road thinker, leaning slight ly to the conservative philosophy. Most of his friends and a major ity of political observers place him close to Governor Umstead in his views in government. A handsome, vigorous man, Lennon is one of the younger men to represent the State in the past half century. Reaction in southeastern North Carolina was favorable when the news spread that Lennon had re ceived the plum. State Park On Highway No. 17 One And Via-Acre Plot- On Busy Thoroughfare Being Used For Picnic Area And Roadside Rest Sta tion U. S. 17 is getting a very pret ty lt-a-acre state Park for trav elers near the fire tower between Bolivia and Supply. The loca tion is a beautiful wooded spot and has already been fenced in from each entrance around the rear, leaving the highway .fron tage open. The area has already been cleared of undergrowth, leaving only trees intended to be perma nent. Grass and grain will be ! sown and tables for picnickers and tired motorists will be built. A brick fireplace for cooking will also be built. A deep well for water has already been sunk but the pump has not yet arrived. With attractive appearances and conveniences the little park will be a boon to travelers and oth ers. It is understood that there will be no attendants, but the State Highway Patrol in their cover age of No. 17 will make fre quent checks at the park to see that all is well. It will require only a couple of minutes from their regular, route to go through the park. Opening Bids On Major Projects At Sunny Point Several Million Dollars Ex pected To Be Involved In Contracts Being Awarded Today By U. S. Army En gineers BIGGEST PROJECT IS DOCK CONSTRUCTION Huge Stock Of Materials Will Be Needed For Com pletion Of Three Big Wharves On Cape Fear River By VV. B. KEZIAII Bids on the biggest construc tion job ever let in Brunswick County are being opened today J at the Custom House in Wilming ton by Col. Roland C. Brown, • district engineer for the Corps of Army Engineers. It is understood that at least! six nationally known construction ■ firms have bids in for the main job. In addition there is a large A change in labor rates im posed by the Department of La bor has forced a postponement to July 22 of the bid opening for wharves and allied facili ties at Sonny Point. A protest lias been filed by the C'-aroli nas Branch of the Associated General Contractors of Ameri ca, and the delay was decided upon in order to give time for a hearing and to give contrac tors an opportunity to rework their bids. Telegrams were sent Monday night to all bidders, giving the. new date for open ing and the reason for the de lay. number or other construction peo ple who are hopeful of getting sub-contracts from the success-, ful bidder. The main jobs for which bids, are being opened are for the three huge wharves which will be' reinforced concrete buildings and reinforced concrete decking, also the approach trestles going on | and off of each wharf and the service building atop each wharf where the deck master's lookout will be placed. The piling job for this wharf construction will require over 9600 concrete piles, each rein forced with steel and varying from 35 to 65 feet in length. If these pilings were placed end to end they would extend for a fraction over 88 miles, almost the distance from Sunny Point to New Bern. The estimates show that for the docks and pilings 2,000 car loads of gravel will be required; 1,000 car loads of sand and 4,000 car loads of cement. Nearly 6,000 tons of steel will be required. This does not include steel for steel railroads on deck. It ia estimated about 540 days, about a year and a half, will be requir ed to complete the job. It is assumed that all concrete for the pilings and decking, in fact for all concrete work, will be poured right at the site of each dock. It is believed that the weight of pilings will preclude their being brought in by barge, rail or road. It is said that nei ther railroad nor bridges on Rt. 130 could withstand the loads. Bringing in by barges will also be difficult. Reports indicate that there may be an early speeding up of the access railroad construction from Leland to the reservation boun dary. This may provide a solu tion for the problem of transpor tation of much of the heavy ma terial. needed in construction with the dock contractor building a Continued on page tour 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 Fort Pilot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot’s Association. High Tide Low Tide Thursday, July IK 11:28 a. m. 5:14 a. m. 11:27 p. m. 5:30 p. m. Friday, July 17 0:00 a. m. 5:53 a. m. 12:10 p. m. 6:17 p. m. Saturday, July 18 0:00 a. m. 6:35 a. m. 12:57 p. m. 7:10 p. m. Sunday, July 19 0:50 a. m. 7:22 a. m. 1:49 p. m. 8:09 p. m. Monday, July 20 1:41 a. m. 8:14 a. m. 2:45 p. m. 9:11 p. m. Tuesday, July 21 2:38 a. m. 9:11 a. m. 3:43 p. m. 10:13 p. m. Wednesday, July 22 3:39 a. m. 10:09 a. m. 4:39 p. m. 11:11 p. ^
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