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Most Of The News All The Time THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community The Pilot Covers Brunswick County Volume No. 17 No. 34 6-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1953 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY $1.50 PER YEAR Clifton Moore Stepped Up To Post Of Judge District Solicitor Appointed To Succeed Judge John J. Burney Who Resigned For Health Reasons JUDGE’S SON NAMED TO SUCCEED MOORE White-Haired Burgaw At torney Is Popular Choice For Bench; Local Law yers Voice Approval Clifton L. Moore, solicitor in the eighth district for the past 10 years, will become resident judge of Superior Court today. The white-haired Burgaw at torney was named Tuesday by Governor Umstead to succeed Judge John J. Burney who re tired for reasons for health. Governor Umstead also ann ounced the appointment of John J. Burney, Jr., son of the veteran judge, as Moore’s replacement. Judge Burney furnished Gover nor Umstead and the Council of State with letters from three physicians who stated that he is suffering from high blood pre ssure an d diabetes. Both Moore and young Burney promptly accepted their appoint ments and both announced their intention to run for election in the Democratic primary in May. Under the judge’s retirement law, Judge Burney will draw two-thirds of his $11,000 annual salary while in relirement. The law says a judge may retire for permanent and total disabi lity after eight years of service. As judge, Moore will receive a salary of $11,000 and $2,500 an nually for expenses. Solicitors are paid $7,150 salary and $1,500 for expenses. Moore, who is 53 years of age, was judge of Pender County Re corder’s Court for two years and moved up to the solicitor’s post in 1943. He is a native of Pender. Moore attended the University of North Carolina, where he at tained high honors, and studied law at George Washington Uni versity. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and was chosen for the Golden Fleece, highest student honor society at UNC. He was also a member of Tau Kappa Alpha Fraternity. The new judge is a Mason and a Methodist. He is married to the former Hazel Swinson of Goldsboro. They have two children, Clifton, Jr., 17, and Mary Hazel, 13. Moore achieved national promin ence for his vigorous prosecuti on of the Ku Klux Klan cases in (Continued on Page Two) Brhf N«w$ FUthu i .. CEMETERY BENEFIT There will be a singing con vention at New Life Baptist Church at Freeland Sunday, beg inning at 2:30 o’clock. Several quartets and other singing groups have been invited. A free will offering will be taken and the * proceeds will be used for the pur pose of making improvements in the New Life Church Cemetery. RAT CAMPAIGN The boys of the Vocational Agriculture Department at Wac camaw High School are waging a community-wide program of war on rats. They have a prepared poison bit available for sale at a nominal cost, and many farm ers and home owners of that community are joining in this all out effort to eradicate these. pes ts. BAPTIST WATCH NIGHT On New Year’s Eve night there will be a watch night services at the Southport Baptist Church. Beginning at 9 o’clock there will be games and stunts and re freshments served in the base ment of the church. At 11:30 there will be a prayer service held in the auditorium. All age groups are cordially invited to attend. METHODIST WATCH NIGHT Everyone is invited to attend a watch night service of worship and Holy Communion at Trinity Methodist Church Thursday night beginning at 11 o’clock. The ser vice, which will be under the direction of the minister,, is in keeping with the Quadrennial Youth Emphasis in the Methodist Church. All young people are ask ed to sit together and worship as a group. There will be a period of recreation for them prior to the service beginning at 9:30 p. m. in the recreation room, after which they will join other per sons in the New Year’s Eve ser vice in the sanctuary. Identification Of Building Asked Publication Of Albert Barden Negative In Raleigh News paper Brings Forth Information A great many Southport people got rather stirred up last Wedne day morning when a picture of the Garrison building appeared in the Ra.liegh News and Observer. Officials of the North Carolina Hall of History had found the picture among a collection of old ones and the cut lines used in the News and Observer stated that none of them were able to identify the building. It just happens that next t-o Orton Plantation the Garrison building is the most widely known in Brunswick. Also, next to Orton the Garrison building is the most historic in Brunswick County. Located on the river bluff acros from the court house and in the center of Southport, the Garrison building was constructed to serve as officers quarters for Fort Johnston, one of the first fortifica tions constructed by the colonists in the province of North Carolina. To many Southport citizens it was mconeievablc that the North Carolina Hall of History should fail to recognize the building from the picture. Following the publication in the News and Obse rver, personal visits and telephone calls by the dozen were made to the office -of this paper. Fort Johnston was three times built and three times destroyed by enemy action. With the state ly old officers quarters now being all that remains of the historic installation, one lady felt that officials of the Hall of History should have ben abl to recog nize a picture of it. For many years the building and 3 or 4 acres of surrounding land has been owned by the U.S. Army Engineers and it has been used by various keepers of the Cape Fear River Lights and Coast Guardsmen as a residence. Such occupants were also charged with looking after the grounds and with "keeping the building in a top state of repair and freshly painted. The most recent such occupant was the late Fra (Continued on Page Two) Babson’s Forecast Sees Good Year Noted Economist Predicts First Six Months Will Be “Fairly Good” For Na tion’s Business DISCOUNTS THEORY OF 10% DECLINE Says That If This Should Happen There May Be A Chance That Recession Will Not Stop At That Point (Complete Forecast on Page 2) American business has no more inspiring personality than Roger W. Babson, international ly-known business commentator and investment adviser. An out standing feature of his philo sophy has been his life-long in sistence on the importance of religion in business. Bom and reared in an old fashioned atmosphere of hard work and hustle on a farm in Gloucester, Babson went to the Massachusetts Institute of Te chnology. Upon graduating, he turned instinctively to financial and business activities. His exertions, however, un dermined his health; he con tracted tuberculosis and he was sent West “as good as dead”! It was while he was convalesc ing from this dread malady that he worked out some of the pos sibilities and problems of busi ness forecasting. His weekly re leases are used by over 400 newspapers and his financial reports by 20,000 corporations and estates. His research work is carried on by a large staff of workers. Babson founded Babson In stitute for Men; and, in co-op eration with Mrs. Babson, de veloped Webber College for Wo men — both nationally-known (Continued on Pagte Two) Geodetic Survey Now In Progress Representatives Of This Federal Agency Now En gaged In Work Covering Three Complete Town ships Now working at Leland and in Northwest township, a force of 10 U. S. Geodetic Survey men under Bill Elder is starting an extensive survey of Brunswick county for the purpose of making topographical maps. Three townships, Northwest, Town Creek and Smithville, come under the present scope of the work which may require 4 or 5 months to complete. Mr. Elder was not sure if the work would be extended to other than the three townships. It may and it may not be, as orders for for such come from Washington. The U. S. Geodetic Survey is about as near being world-wide in its scope as anything in the United States. It works on land and sea and its surveys are used as a guide to many things. For il lustration, it may be said that old, old records of the survey in Washington and later checkings (Continued on Page Two) Few Inmates In Jail For Christmas Only five defendents were ar rested and jailed until they could give b’ond during the period beginning Christmas Eve and run ning through the week-end, accor ding to Deputy Sheriff H.G. Rat cliffe. Intoxicants figured in all but one of the arrests. Two went to jail for just plain public drunkeness, two others were in for druken driving and the fifth was in too much of a hurry to get away from Florida and to his home in Virginia. He was charged by State Highway Patrol with speeding at the rate of 75-miles per hour. Not hoving the cash , he was jailed until he could contact a local bonds man. All others arrested during the period likewise obtained bond and were detained for only the short time it took to get it. For the holidays and follow-up week-end the scarcity of the arrests and comparatively minor charges was rather unusual, the officers say. EngineersDredge Gerig Returning Big Hopper Dredge Will Be Back In Southport During February For Brief Job Of Channel Maintenance The Army Engineers Dredge Gerig is to be back at Southport in February for a stay “of two or three weeks, during which time she will be working on the bar. After this year’s work the Greig or some other vessel of like power may be assigned to Southport permanently, for work on the bar and -on channels inside the river and on the harbor and other maintenance work around the government terminals. New work, such as is now be ing done and that which is on the agenda for the next year or two, is contract work, let under sealed bids t-o private contractors who have pipe line dredges. All maintenance that requires the use of hopper dredges to carry the disposal out to sea is usually done by dredges owned by Army Engineers. Once the channel to the gover nment anchorage basin and the shipping terminals is completed about all maintenance work will have to be d'one by hopper dred ges. One disturbing factor attendant on the February work of the Gerig at Southport, according to crew members, is that there are now no facilities that will enable the ship to tie up to at South port to take on water and fuel. The Army Engineers dock front ing on the Garrison lot was damaged when the vessel was here last year. Several pilings running out from one end of the dock and providing greater length for tying up were broken off when the big ship was making its final stop here. It is possible that the Army Engineers may replace these lost (Continued on Page Two) Student Night Program Held Sunday Night Boys And Girls From Vari ous Colleges In Notth And South Carolina Par ticipated In Program At Shallotte Baptist Church SERMON BROUGHT BY YOUNG STUDENT Harold Gore, Ministerial Student At Wake Forest College, Delivered The Message Students from various colleges in North and South Carolina met at the Shallotte Baptist Church, Grissettown, Sunday Night at 7:30 for their annual Student Night program. The theme of the pro gram was "Ye Shall Be My Witness”. Mrs. Margaret McRac kan, associational field-worker, asked that all college students and men from the Armed Serv ice come to the platform. They were later introduced and the names of their colleges with which they were affiliated were given. ; Then the following program was rendered: “Onward Chris tian Soldiers” was sung by the congregation with Miss Janice Edwards, a student of Mars Hill College, at the piano. In the absence of Carolina Parker, a student of E. C. College, who was to have given the welcome from her home church. Mr. M. Grisset gave a most cordial welcome to all guests and students. Then followed the response given, in unison by the McRackan twins, of Meredith College. Marion Ballard, a student at State College, gave the devotional followed by pray er. The congregation was then! favored by a piano solo rendered by Redal McLamb, a Mars Hill student, after which Doris Bogie-) and Janice Edwards, Mars Hill# students, spoke on “Why I Lika Mars Hill” and “The Importance of Putting Christ into Our Chris! tlan Education.” This was foiurtp* ed by Betty Jo Gore a student at Flora Mcdonald, who spoke for a few minutes on “Where I Go To Church.” The third Baptist College was represented by Norma Jean Lan caster, a student at Campbell Col (Continued on Page Two) Demonstration Of Equipment Slated New Earth Moving Machine Will Be Used For First Time In This Area On Sunny Point Project Sometime within the next two or three weeks the Euclid Machi nery Company of Euclid, Ohio, will bring a new piece of road building equipment to Brunswick county and demonstrate it for the first time in North Carolina. The demonstration will be in connection with the railroad build ing operations of the Hertford Construction Company at the U.S. Government Terminals. The Hertford Company already has several huge uclids on the job with capacity running up to 24-cubic yards at a load. W.T. Anderson, manager for the com pany, states that the new piece of equipment that will be demon strated is a 4-wheel earth m'over (Continued on Page 2) It’s a real pleasure for all _ associated with this firm, to extend to our many, many friends —. Our Best Wishes for Luck in ’54t Tax Listing To Begin In County On January 4th Tax Listers Will Begin Du ties In All Townships Of Brunswick County Next Monday Tax listers for each of the six townships in Brunswick county will begin their job on Monday with the objective of completing their task during the montlj of January. Mi's. Bessie Whatley, county auditor who doubles in the role of tax supervisior, advises all property owners to list as early in the month as they conveniently can in order to prevent a late rush. There are two points that Mrs. Whatley wishes to empha size. The first of these is that all persons must list their property with the lister in his own town ship. In the past many persons have come to Southport for this purpose, but this is unnecessary except for property owners in Smithville township. The other point being stressed by Mrs. Whatley is the necessity to list all real and personal pro perty owned as of January 1, 1954. Failure to do so subjects the taxpayer to a 10-percent penalty, she points out. W. R. KEZIAH Our ROVING Reporter Monday a couple of Virginia ladies, both originally from New England, made a short visit to Southport and were shown around town, Fort Johnston, the oaks in Frinklin Park, the Indian Trail Tree at Mrs. Cranmer’s and otlj er things. Mentioning the Wiv< Watch atop of the home of Col Earl I. Brown, one of the laditis said that in New England thf call them Widows Walk. She was frankly told that the names Wi ves Watch was the more approp riate. A widow would have so^Uit reason to climb to the cupo a and watch for the husband th. would never return. On the oth hand a wife would do that aga and again in the old days of sai ing ships and scanty means communication. pS Tire staff of the Raleigh Nev and Obeserver get out “T1 ve Old Reliable.” It comes out on :e a month and goes to all corres pondents of the News and Obser ver in addition to the actual staff members. In the December issue two Southport and Fort Caswell girls were honored by getting front page space for their pictures in “The Old Reliable.” The girls are Rebecca and Cath erine McRackan, twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Thompson McRa ckan. They got in the paper by virtue of being distributors for the News and Observer at Mere dith College, where they are students. The twins are to grad uate in the spring and they plan to embark on teaching careers next fall. . Ope of our new residents of Southport, Donald F. Tydings, must have already acquired a lot of confidence in the South port Post Office force. Here t Continued on Page Four) Shallotte Has Fire Loss Sunday -* Friday Will Be Official Holiday All county offices will close Thursday afternoon and will not reopen for business until Monday, January 4. This is be ing done because New Years day falls on Friday, and Sat urday is not a work day for county employees. The Southport and Shallotte branches of the Waccamaw Bank And Trust Co. will be closed on Friday, as will the post offices in the county. In Southport the city employees will observe Friday as a holi day and the Southport Build ing & Loan will be closed on that day. All Brunswick county busine sses and offices, as well as all schools, will be back on regular schedule Monday. Numerous Cases Heard In Court Regular Weekly Session Was Held On Tuesday In stead Of On Monday Of This Week The regular weekly session of Brunswick County Recorder’s court was held Tuesday, with a variety of cases coming before the court. The following judg ments were handed down: Fred Hooper, tresspass, nol pro ssed with leave. James L. Hooper, tresspass, nol prossed with leave. Bill Gause, violating game law, fined $100 and costs. Willis Thomas, public drunk ness, fined $10 and costs. David Carl Britian, speeding, posession, fined $20 and costs. Fred Storey, reckless operation, not guilty. Robert Horrath, reckless ope ration fined $25 and costs. Charles Lee Justice, speeding, fined $10 and costs. E. R. Thomas, reckless opera tion fined $25 and costs. Henry Floyd Coleman, speed ing, fined $10 and costs. Tom Hewett, Jr., failing to yeild right of way, judgment sus pended on payment of costs. Kelly Edwards, assault with deadly weapon resulting in death, probable cause found and defen dent held without bond for Sup erior court. David Taft Galloway, poses sion and transporting, fined $20 and costs. Jasper Pellum, larceny, held (Continued on Page Two) Combination Of Old Fash ioned Bucket Brigade And Modern Fire Engine Man aged To Prevent Spread Of Blaze SOUTHPORT TRUCK RUSHED TO SCENE Two 2-Story Buildings Own ed By R. D. White Were Destroyed In Early Eve ning Conflagration The cooperation of Shallotta citizens and the Southport Volun teer Fire Department Sunday fli ght managed to prevent flames from two burning buildings from sweeping the North side of High way No. 17 through the principal business district of Shallotte. When he discovered no source of supply for water with which to fight the blaze, which already was well undeway, acting Fire Chief Ormond Leggett called for an old fashioned bucket bridgade to replentish the storage tank on the fire truck. With that the bo oster pump went to work, and a stream of water was played on adjoining buildings which were being seriously threatened by heat and flames and flying spa rks. The plan worked and when the pump was cut off, there still was water in the tank with plen ty of buckets, tubs and cans full and on hand. Two two-story houses, both owned by R. D. White, were destroyed in a fire that broke out at about 9:30 o’clock. The (Continued on Page Two) Farm Bureau In Safety Meeting President Joe Stanaland Calls Special Meeting For This Purpose And Asks For Speaker From Head puarters J.C. Stanaland, president of the Brunswick County Farm Bureau, has announced that there will be a county-wide safe ty meeting at the Shallotte high school Tuesday night, Jan uary 5, at 7 O’clock. This meeting is being called by the Farm Bureau in order to discuss and form plans for cooperating in the Highway Safety Progarm that is now being put into effect through out North Carolina. Mr. Stana land says it is the expectation to have a speaker frqm the Farm Bureau headquarters to explain things at the meeting. It is hoped that farmers and (Continued on Page 2) Methodists Now Preparing For Contact Work Attendance Crusade Into Which Church Is Embar king Will Stress Program Of Visitation By Member ship BETTER ATTENDANCE GOAL OF CAMPAIGN Minister Will Preach Series Of Sermons Which Tie In With Nation-Wide At tendance Program Trinity Methodist Church, Sou thport, will officially lunch its Church Attendance Crusade Sun day morning, the first Sunday of the new year. Letters are be ing sent out to every member of the church this week urging at tendance during the nationwide crusade from January through Easter. Sunday morning at the 11:00 o’clock worship service the minis ter will preach on the theme of the crusade, “Give God A Chance —Now!” Next week and a few weeks following every church fa mily will be visited by laymen from the church. This visitation will be followed by visitation in the homes of non-affiliated fami lies to invite them to attend wor ship services, as well as the church school and other organi zations of Trinity Methodist Chu rch. The following persons will serve on committees which will func tion throughout the crusade: Pub licity and Promotion Committee, Ray Walton chairman, M. R. San ders, J. M. Harper, Jr., Mrs. Ray Walton, Miss Ann 'Brooks New ton and Charles Lester. Visitation Committee, Mrs. J. M. Harper, Jr. chairman and Mrs. Davis Herr ing secretary. Fellowship Commi tee Capt. J. I. Davis, chairman, Joe Ramseur, Mrs. Leon Rich, Mrs. C. Ed Taylor, J. B. Church. Registration and Follow-up Com mittee, Mrs. M. R. Sanders chairman and Miss kottie M. Newton, secretary. National statistics indicate that only thirty percent of the church members attend Sunday services regularly. The Church Atten dance Crusade has been planned not only to change this situation, but to revitalize the spiritual life of those who attend during this period. i Fishermen Have Poor Season Only The Good Results Of Operations Up Near More head City During Past Few Weeks Managed To Help Fishermen A fairly good season while op erating at Beaufort during the past five week is all that has stood in the way of the local menhaden boats from having the worst season in years. The boats are now back at Southport and during the past week they have been making fair catches here. However, the fish found here now are very small and of little oil content. Talks with various boat captains this week brought the informati on that no one can say at this time how much longer the men haden fishing will continue before the boats tie up until spring. That seems dependent on the weather and on fish showing up. Shrimp fishing here was even (Continued on Page Two) Tide Table Following is the tide Sable (or 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, December 24 10:40 A. M. 4:19 A. M. 11:08 P. M. 4:55 P. M. Friday, December 25 11:21 A. M. 5:05 A. M. 11:52 P. M. 5:37 P. M. Saturday, December 26 12:01 A. M. 5:52 A. M. 0:00 P. M. 6:21 P. M. Sunday, December 27 0:39 A. M. 6:42 A. M. 12:45 P. M. 7:08 P. M. Monday, December 28 1:28 A. M. 7:38 A. M. 1:32 P. M. 7:58 P. At Tuesday, December 29 2:22 A. M. 8:35 A. M. 2:23 P. M. 8:49 P. At Wednesday, December 30 3:15 A. M. 9:35 A. At 3:16 P. M. 9:43 P. At
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