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Most Of The News AH The Time Volume No. 17 THE STATE PORT PILOT _ A Good Newspaperl In A Good Community 28 6-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. f WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1953 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY The Pilot Covers Brunswick County $1.50 PER YEAR Survey Shows Timber Facts For Brunswick More Than Ten Million Feet Of Lumber Being Produc ed From Brunswick Coun ty Forests Each Year FIGURES FROM FEDERAL SURVEY Brunswick Has 580,500 Ac res Of Which Total Of 430,300 Is Classified As Forest An average of 10,708,000 board feet of sawtimber is being taken annually from the forests of Brunswick county, according to a comprehensive survey made by the State Department of Conser vation and Developmente's foresty division in cooperation with the U. S. Forest Service’s Southeas tern Forest Experiment Station at Asheville. The first phase of a four-unit survey of the State’s forest re sources has just been completed. It covered 21 counties of the Sta te’s Southern Coastal Plain sec ton. The next phase of the sur vey will get underway next month in the northeastern section of the State. The surveyors will then go into the Piedmont and mountain areas. rne survey, lirst to be under taken of North Carolina’s forest resources since 1937, is being ma de for the purpose of finding out the volume of standing timber and the trends in growth and drain in the woodlands as they relate to the needs of the wood using industries operating in Nor th Carolina, according to State Forester Fred H. Claridge. The survey revealed, Claridge said, that forest lands total 5,500,000 acres in the 21 coun ties surveyed by State and Fede ral foresters in the first unit studied. The acreage of for est land was found to be slightly less than it was in 1937, being down 1.4 percent. Counties surveyed in the first phase of the study were: Bruns wick, New Hanover, Pender, Ons low, Jones, Lenoir, Greene, Dup lin, Sampson, Wayne, Bladen, Co lumbus, Robeson, Cumberland, Johnston, Harnett, Hoke, Scot land, Lee Moore, and Richmond. While an average of over 10 million board feet of sawtimber is being taken annually from Brunswick county forests, the forest surveyors found the net volume of sawtimber of all spe cies in the county at the end of 1952 was 775,000,000 board feet. The average annual drain on growing stock of all species of wood products, including sawtim ber in Brunswick county by cords is 37,000. The total standing volume by cords, including sawtimber, was put at 2,971,000. The total land area in Bruns wick county is 580,500 acres, of which 430,300 acres, or about 78 - percent, is classified as forest land. Wood-using industries now lo cated in the State and those seeking possible locations in Nor th Carolina should find the survey figures invaluable, according to Director Ben E. Douglas of the Department of Conservation and Development. BrlafNawa FUakaa TURKEY SHOOT Members of the Shallotte Post, American Legion, will sponsor a turkey shoot at the Legion Hut Thursday morning at 10 o’clock. Six turkeys will be available for prizes. ATTRACTICE NEW COURT Replacing the four small wood en buildings that have stood on the side for many years, Mrs. I. B. Bussells is now having a new court built of cinder blocks, to have stucco finish. Indications are that the place will be very at tractive when finished. COMPLETING STATION Dempsey Coleman of Fair Bluff is completing a very attractive new Shell Oil filling station on property he and Mrs. Coleman recently purchased opposite the Dosher Memorial hospital. They are now working on a trailer park in the rear of the station. THANKSGIVING SERVICE There will be a community Thansksgiving Day Service on Thursday 'morning, November 26, at 7:30, at the Bethel Metho dist Church, Bolivia. The message will be brought by the Rev. Ric hard McDuffy, Pastor of the Boli via Baptist Church. The public is cordially invited to attend tins service. Brunswick Man Honored PROMOTED—Marine Staff Sgt. James C. Hewitt (left) is presented his certificate by Marine Lt. Col. Rufus D. Sams upon completing a basic extension course prepar ing him for a limited officer’s commission here at an air base of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing. He is the son of James V. Hewitt who lives near Supply, and husband of the former Miss Mamie Holden now living in Wilmington. Sports Fishing Still Going On Sunday And Monday Par ties Had Some Of Best King Mackeral Catches That Have Been Report ed This Season THREE BOATS ON WAY TO FLORIDA The Cadet And Idle-On III And Idle-On IV Will Be In Florida Keys For Winter Months Three members of the Southport sports fishing fleet departed Tues day for winter fishing in Florida, but they left behind some of the I best fishing for king mackeral | that has been done here in years. Heading South were the Cadet of Captain Howard Victor and the Idle-On III and Idle-On IV of Capt. Hulan Watts. These boats will base in the Florida keys and will spend a busy win ter. The day before they left Capt. Basil Watts carried out a party on the Idle-On II for their first deep-sea trip. They came in with 48 king mackeral, 8 bonito and 6 amberjack. In the group were H. Honkle and J. Anderson of L/Owesville. On Sunday this same boat had 42 king mackeral for R.E.L. Brown and party from Myrtle Beach. The Sunday trip for J. C. Tate and party of Salisbury fishing aboard the John-Ellen with Capt. Walter Lewis resulted in 41 king mackeral 3 bonito and 4 am berjack. The day before the Bar kley party from Sanford caught 40 king mackeral. There still' are eight or ten party boats at Southport avai lable for charter, and when the weather is good there is every prospect for good catches. Routine Cases Tried In Court Traffic Violations Once More Take Up Greatest Amount Of Time In Weekly Court Session Traffic violators took up most of the time in the regular weekly session of Brunswick county Re corder’s court Monday. Tire foll ow judgments were handed down: Hoyal Varnum, Jr., reckless op eration, judgment suspended on payment of costs. Jerry Cogsdell, Jr., speeding, fi ned $10.00 and costs. James Edward Brown, reckless operation, fined $35.00 and costs Raymond Peterson, speeding, fi ned $10.00 and eosts. Robert Franklin Gantt, speed ing, fined $15.00 and costs. Clayton Burkley Bennett, car rying concealed weapon, fined $50.00 and cost. Homer Franklin Long, speeding, fined $15.00 and costs. Archie O’Brien Holden, reckless operation, fined $15.00 and costs. James Robert Milliken, follow ing too close, judgment suspend ed on payment of costs. Samuel Grissett, improper left turn, judgment suspended on pay ment of costs. Ernest Douglas Holden, speed ing, fined $15.00 and costs. Johnnie Preston Varnum, reck less operation, fined $25.00 and costs. Thirteen other cases, all invol ving speeding, brought in by Sta te Highway Patrol were continu ed, the defendants being under bond. Russ Returns To Postmaster Duties Postmaster J. B. Russ who has been on leave of absence for the past three years while serving with the navy after being called in as a reserve officer, ahs resumed his duties at Southport the Southport post office. He recently received his discharge from the Navy. Mrs. Majorie Livington, who has been serving as acting postmaster during his absence, continuing with the office as assistant. Brunswick Has Men At Meeting Nine Messengers From The Churches In This County Attended Baptist State Convention Last Week In Greensboro Brunswick Baptist churches were represented by ten mess engers at the State Baptist Con vention which was held at the First Baptist Church of Greens boro last week. Those attending were the Rev. Richard McDuffie, pastor of Boones Neck and Boli via; the Rev. E. S. Lingle, pas tor of Antioch; the Rev. F. W. Naylor, pastor of Mill Creek; the Rev. H. W. Crainshaw, pas tor of Leland; the Rev. and Mrs. T. D. Toler, Dr. and Mrs. R. K. Redwine of Southport; Rev. Joe Stanley pastor of Elah and Gos her; and Stephen Frink of Chapel Hill. During the convention Woodrow Russ of Shallotte was elected to represent Brunswick association on the State Board. The Rev. T. D. Toler was chosen on a com mittee to cooperate with the Alli ed Church League. The convention passed a resolu tion commending Round Hill Bap tist Church and its pastor, the Rev. H. M. Baker, formerly of Southport, for winning the “Ru ral Church of the Year” plaque awarded by the State Grange. Continue Big Dredging Job Contract For Preliminary Work At Sunny Point Called For Removal Of Vast Quantities Of Mud And Rock Eighteen million cubic yards of dredging disposal is a lot of mud and rock. As a matter of fact, to remove eighteen million yards of mud from a given area may ac tually require the removal of a round 20,000,000 yards. This is accounted for by seepage. A dredging contract usually re quires the removal of everything in a given area to a certain depth. Digging straight down it is a natural result that the banks or edge of the dredged area will not remain steep. Great quantities of mud slide in from the side and this also has to be pumped out. With three dredges starting at Sunny Point the first of the year the dredge G. A. McWilliams had an allotment of 5,850,000 cubic yards to pump from Dock No. 1 A lot of plus had to come out j .(Continued on Page Two) Joe Stanalaiu Heading Fai Bureau Ai tin leld Membership Meeting At Bolivia With Rkre sentative From Stati Of fice As Principal Spfker MEMBERSHIP QUOT^ EXCEEDED FOR 1953 Announcement Made New Members Electee Serve On Board Of rectors Of Organi zation Of To Joe C. Stanaland was re-efeted president of the Brunswick Coun ty Farm Bureau at a megwer ship meeting held at Bolivia J. E. Gilbert is the new vice-presi dent and Bailey Russ wap re elected secretary-treasurer. ‘ Walter Lowery, field supervi sor for Farm Bureau, was the principal speaker and made an interesting talk. Announcement was made that this year Bruns wick county exceeded its quota in the membership drive. Several resolutions were prepared to be presented during the State Con vention in Raleigh this week. New members of the boari of directors for the Brunswick Coun ty Farm Bureau are C. W. Har vell, S. L. Purvis, F. H. Swain, J. J. Hawes, A. W. Bradsher and Lonnie Evans. Other members of the board whose tearm has one more year to run are D. G. Clark, D. Russell Johnson, Clarence Len non, Hamilton O. Robinson, Joe C. Wilson and Roddie R. Bennett. Change Made In Building Site The Administration Build ing Will Not Be At En trance To Sunny Point On Highway No. 303, But Two Miles Inside Reser vation Although the mttln entram-S^j the government terminal reserva tion will be where originally plan ned on 303-87 just above Bethel Church, the administration buil ding will be two miles or more further down in the reservation. Moving the location for the administration building was, ac cording to Colonel Raymond L. Hill, for the purpose of placing the administration building and mess hall nearer the scene of ac tivities. Workers will get their noon lunches in the administrati on building area, the Colonel said. The original plans would have required many of the workers to go five and six miles for their lunches, and would have removed them from danger areas at such times when ammunition was be ing handled. However, ammunit ion will not compose everything that is shipped. In fact, all information receiv ed now from high sources indicate that the installation will simply be U. S. Terminals to handle ev erything the government needs to have shipped. There will be no depot or storage buildings. When ammunition is to form an outgo ing cargo the railroad trains brin ging it in will, when they have to wait, be shuttled into the bar ricaded sidings in an isolated sec tor. Some sources say that for the main part and except in cases of emergency only one dock may be (Continued on Page Four) W. B. KKMAH After some eleven or twelve years with the Elmore Motor Company at Bolivia, Douglas Ha wes has decided to branch out for himself. Accordingly, he bou ght out the grocery store and filling station of C. A. Rourk at Bolivia. Thinking he would need help, lie took along to his new quarters Warren Sellers, who has also been with Elmore Motors for seven or eight years. Warren decided that before he went to work for another fellow, he should get married. Accordingly, he and his wife, the former Miss Polly Lewis of the Mill Creek comm unity, are returning from tlieir honeymoon this week and War ren should be working again juit as soon as he can settel down. Things are moving in at a faster clip each day preparatory to general work at the terminals Pastor E. O. REEVES, pastor, is con ducting a series of revival serv ices this week at Chapel Hill Baptist Church near Shallotte. Everyone is invited to attend, Speculation As To Appearance Of Hole In Road Mysterious Excavation Dis covered On Old Beach Road; Theory Advanced That May Be Meteor Cra ter BY W. B. KEZ/AH Take it form us, Brother, there has been some kind of an explo sion the past week, on the Cas sion the past week on the Cas hundred feet from where the Long Beach road turns off from the highway. Monday morning, Mrs. Grace Ruark asked us if we had seen the meteor hole ? We had seen no hole, Mrs. Rourk had not heard the meteor falling and she had not seen the hole. We paid the question no mind. uut aiong about dusk Ormond Leggett intercepted us and did some further interrogating about the hole. Not having any satis f actor answer, we were told: “Get in this pickup truck.” In short order we parked on tht shoulders of the highway and walked for 150-feet down the old road that leads to the Fort Cas well pumpirig station. There was the hole, all of 30 feet across, apparently about 8 or 10-feet deep. No mortal man had dug it. The dirt was piled up perfectly, circling the rim; small trees were uprooted out ward; a heavy sprinkling of sand was scattered for 75 or 100-feet around. “Is that a meteor hole”, asked Ormond? “It ‘aint,” we said. "It was made by some sort of an explosion, but no charge of dyna mite ever made such a perfect hold as that.” A charge of dynamite ranges downward. This hole was dug from the bottom upward and in one long, strong heave. The hole was shaped like the hole that forms in the sand that runs from an hour glass. Still, sand does not run “upward. This hole was formed by something coming up ward—and in haste. “Looks like a monsterous dood le hole,” said Ormand, who was seeking to throw soma sort of explaining light on the situation. “If that is a doddle hole it was Continued On Page Four) Our ROVING Reporter by the first of the year. Satur day morning at 5 o’clock we were starting across the street when a huge fourteen wheeler, loaded with cluverts for railroad and highway work, pulled up for the driver to ask the way to Sun ny Point. Looking up after giv ing him directions, we found that the whole 4-Iane block behind the first truck was filled with other big machines, waiting for the lead machine to go on. Talking with former Bruns wick Representative Cornelius Thomas last week, the subject of Fredal housing came up. Mr. Thomas was unable to see how Brunswick county will be able to come in for anything under the present set-up. He was, however, encouraged by the fact that the Office of Defense Mobilization (Continued on Page 4). Reporter Visits With Patrolmen Has Opportunity To Get Firsthand Information On Speed Clock, Plus Reaction Of Some Of Its Victims By W. B. KEZIAH With not enough of the high way speed clocks available thus far the State Highway Patrol now passes the machines it has about from county to county. Pa trolmen in eacfy county are able to get the machines at least once each week. The first of last week Patrol man R. H. Constante was telling us how the machines worked. He wound up by saying the next time they got one he would pick us up and take us around to the set-up. It happened that the machine got around to the patrolmen in Brunswick again Thursday. That was Constante’s day off from du ty. but Corporal O. H. Lynch stepped into the breach. He car ried us up to Route 17 above Winnabow and then had to go on into Wilmington. Sergeant A. H. Clark was elsewhere for the day and Cpl. Lynch had to spend so me time in the office in his stead. With both Cpl. Lynch and Pa Air Force Will Inactivate Group ^_ Southport Boy Wins Promotion The Army ROTC Department at North Carolina State College announced today that Cadet Ed ward Josephus Hanson, Jr., of Southport has been promoted to Sergant, first class, of “B” Com pany. The promotion was made on the basis of outstanding drill perfor mance in the Army ROTC, accor ding to Col. Richard R. Middle brooks, professor of military sci ence and tactics at State College. Cadet Hanson is the son of Mrs. Mary Louise Hanson of Southport. He has been active in the ex tra-curricular activity of Presh ing Rifles. Parker Resigns As Solicitor The Commissioners Name J. C. Bowman To Assume These Duties In Bruns wick County Recorder’s Court Stating that the duties of the office interfere with his regu lar law practice, Attorney Ernest Parker, Jr., tendered his resig nation as solicitor of the Record er’s Court Monday, the resignati on to be effective November 30. On motion by Commissioner Leo Medlin, seconded by Chairman El roy King, James C. Bowman, So uthport attorney, was named to succeed Parker. Other business transacted by the board of county commission ers included the relieving of Hen ry McDaniel of $200.00 valuation of an old home that was torn down and removed from the pre mises before the 1953 tax listing was done. It was ordered that K. B. Britt be relieved of poll tax in the a mount of $4.00 for the years 1949-1950. It was shown that Britt was dead at the time and the sum was charged to his es tate. Highway Makes Road Additions Grading And Draining Work Completed By State Highway Commission For ces In Brunswick —Commissioner C. Heide Trask of Wilmington today said that the State Highway Commission has completed 11.5 miles of road im provements and built three brid ges in the Third Highway Divi sion during October. The Third, with headquarters in Wilmington, is composed of Brunswick, Duplin, New Hanover, Onslow, Pender, and Sampson counties. C. E. Brown is division engineer. In Brunswick County, State forces graded, drained and soiled two roads: McCoy Road, from (Continued on Page Four). trolman Constante unable to be at the clock, Patrolman Seth Tho mas of Leland and Patrolman Wil kins of Shallotte were in charge of things. The check lines for the clock were across the road at the brow of a small hill. From these check lines two mercury switches were the cables that ran down the shoulder of the road for about 400 feet to the clock in the Thomas car. Thomas was operating the clo ck and Wilkins did the stopping duty. A car would come whizzing along and the clock would uner ringly point to the speed at which it was going while passing over the 150 feet between the two che ck lines across the road. If found traveling 2 or 3 miles over the speed limit Patrolman Wilkins would halt the car or truck and warn the operator he was speeding. If they were tra veling more than 3 miles above the legal rate they were cited in Continued On Page Four) 31st Crash Rescue Boat Flight Receives Orders That Local Activity Will Be Discontinued As Of Today MOVE COMES AS SURPRISE LOCALLY Prospects Of Greater Aerial Activity . In This Section Had Given Hope That This Group Might Be Expanded According to orders received Monday by Warrant Officer Wil liam A. Norris, the 31st Crash Rescue Boat Flight is being in activated as of today (Wednes day) November 18th. The orders came from the 9th Air Force and so far no details have been re ceived regarding the disposition of the men and equipment. It is assumed, however, that the men will be ordered back to Shaw Air Field, near Sumter, S. C., as all of the 30 or more of ficers and men were assigned to the crash outfit from there. Owing to the possibility of the ^farines taking over Bluenthenthal Air Field at Wilmington and us ing it as an auxiliary training ground for its planes and pilots, the news that the Crash Rescue Boat Flight was being inactiviat ed came as a surprise. While the men have had little to do this far, it was thought that an air force at Bluenthenthal would cre ate a real need for an air-sea res cue outfit here. Warrant Officer Norris had no information as to whether the Air Force would retain or aban don its lease on the old U. S. O. Building, now owned by the City of Southport. Training School Closes Session Methodists Of Town Creek Charge Cooperate With Southport In This Activi ty Members of Trinity Methodist Church are cooperating this week with members of Town Creek Methodist Church in sponsoring a. Leadership Training School. Dr. Elbert Wethington of Duke University is teaching a class in “Christian Stewardship” in which be is seeking to broaden the base af the thinking of the average layman about this subject. He places particular emphasis upon the thought that stewardship en compasses more than oversight of material things. Mrs. D. S. Coltrane of Raleigh is conducting classes in “Missio nary Education in the Local Church” and is seeking to en large the scope of thinking in connection with this important subject by pointing out that mis sionary effort is not necessarily restricted to foreign fields. Mrs. P. M. Camak of Wilming ton has a group of Sunday School teachers with whom she is work ing in her class “Teaching Child ren in the Small Church.” This .s a program which is designed (Continued on Page Four) Ducks Flocking To New Refuge On Orton Land Wildfowl Sanctuary A.t Or ton Attracting More: And More Hungry Visitors Every Day PLENTY OF FOOD READY FOR BIRDS Fields Of Buckwheat Have Been Flooded And Ducks Delight In Eating Food Under Water During the past week some 160 acres of the State Wildlife Sanc tuary at Orton have became a wild duck haven, and a lot of the birds are going right there, ac cording to Norman Sutton who has been looking after the sanc tuary lands. Fifty acres of the old time rice fields were planted in buck wheat late last summer, 00 acres more were seeded to millet and 50 to rye and wheat. The water was kept off the growing grain until last week and was then turned on. The grain was then 4 or 5 inches high and about 5 inches of water was allowed to cover the entire area. In some places the grain is just even with the surface of the water and at others it is four or five inches from the surface. Your wild duck likes his buck wheat and grain and he likes it best of all in a place where he can reach down in the water and guzzle for it. The birds are catch ing on to the prepared food in great numbers. Mr. Sutton says that every bird that comes there for breakfast one day brings a friend with him for lunch when he returns. The buckwheat and grain will remain green under the water all winter, Mr. Sutton says. It will take quite a few ducks to harvest the whole 160 acres. Hunting the birds or anything in the sanctuary is, of course, strictly prohibited. It is seen that the birds are not molested in any way. It should be mentioned that wild geese that are not so par tial to feeding under the water are also being looked after. Up land fields have been sown for them in grain and the first small flocks are taking possession. It is expected there will be a lot of geese and ducks at home in the sancturay before the win ter is over. Phone Cable To Add Phones Area Lying Along River Road Near Southport Will Receive Service From Lines About one mile of new tele phone cable with enough units to take care of 400 telephones will be strung here in the next two weeks, according to information received yesterday, i The cable will run out Route 130 to just beyond Fodale Avenue and will then follow Fodale Ave nue to the old River Road be yond the Northwood Cemetery. An employee of the Bell Tele phone company - stated yesterday that he understood the company already has applications for some 25 or 30 new phones to be served by the cable and extension wires. The placing of a cable that will care for 400 new phones may be taken as an indication that the (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, November 19 6:10 A. M. 0:00 A. M. 6:33 P. M. 12:35 P. M. Friday, November 20 7:04 A. M. 0:42 A. M. 7:26 P. M. 1:27 P. M. Saturday, November 21 7:57 A. M. 1:32 A. M. 8:18 P. M. 2:18 P. M. Sunday, November 22 8:47 A. M. 2:21 A. M. 9:09 P. M. 3:07 P. M. Monday, November 23 9:37 A. M. 3:08 A. M. 10<01 P. M. 3:55 P. M. Tuesday, November 24 10:24 A. M. 3:56 A. M. 10:51 P. M. 4:43 P. M. Wednesday, November 25 11:13 A. M. 4:45 A. M. 11:42 P. M. 5:30 P. M.
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