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FINER CAROLINA’ FUN—When Kingstree completed this roadside park, the proj ect chairman, Mrs. W. B. Bower, called her family and teen-age guests for the first picnic there. An old building was razed, a ditch filled and scrub oak cut to make way for the attractive park. Kingstree built three such parks with signs 1,000 feet away to invite motorists to use them. Roadside parks are a typical improvement in the “Finer Carolina’’ contest sponsored by Carolina Power & Light Co. Continued From Page One North Carolina, is casting a rath er indifferent eye on areas where tliare has been water shortages. That being true, they should take “S~Iook at one sp6t in Brunswick where there is 43 million gallons of fresh water flowing free from springs each day. (Crowded Out Last Week) The most spectacular thing about the storm in upper Bruns wick county was where three of the big freighters in the Bruns wick River basin broke loose and drifted together across the marsh on the east side of the basin. They came to rest near the highway and it has since required hercu lean efforts to get them back in the basin. It was only the efforts of tugs that prevented them from going much further and becoming impossible to move back without the cutting of a canal. We may be proven wrong aboutj it. but we believe it all the same. Next summer will see almost as many people at Long Beach and Holden Beach as were there this past summer. Ocean Isle may be j a little slower in coming around, but all of our beaches will re build. Perhaps better than they have been within two years time. This is no time to either talk or look pesimistic over the future. The past is getting further be hind us each day. We must take on new life. The fact that a huge quarter of a million dollar cement plant and seven huge cranes, mostly with booms towering 90-feet above their decks, all rode out the storm in safety is a good in dication of the safe judgment of the Army Engineers when they selected Sunny Point for the ter minals. This equipment had in complete moorings with no buf fers to protect them from the steel and concrete moorings, but there was no damage to docks or equipment. There was no assist ance to stand by and give aid if aid promised to be needed. I he old Eng ineers dock on tlie front of Fort Johnson was badly damaged by the storm. This may make it timely for the Army Engineers to go about the bus iness of building a larger and more permanent structure here. Two or more years ago a high engineer told us that a big dock woudl undoubtedly have to be built here for various uses of big ships that will be coming in to Sunny Point. That being that, with the old dock virtually des troyed. we hope the Army En gineers will find ways and mans of constructing an adequate and permanent structure. All of the coast line sections of Brunswick had their own trou ble and we expect that there are many heroes unsung for their ef forts to try and do something for themselves and their neighbors. Few in their efforts could get out side of heir own areas to help. Dr. R. H. Holden, we think, had doubie trouble. Living in Shallotte and owning much of Holden Beach, he worked untiringly there and also went afar in his efforts in behalf of his neighbors. We did not see anything of what went on in our neibhboring town and beaches, but it is definitely esta blished in our mind that Dr. Hold ! en did yeoman service. Undoubt ! edly there were many olhers. i Shallottr lost some mighty good' i citizens in Mr. and Mis. Sherman 1 Register and their son, Sherman ) Register. Jr. We have known them 1 all and had weekly contacts with . thm over a period of several I years. The news of their deaths j came as . a. persona! shock, and ! the feeling ooritinus through the } diverting maze of other troubles : that have beset us and our own | neighbor;* since tlie storm. Vaupon Village, owned and be ing developed by Barbee’s, Incor porated, came through almost in tact. The cafe was destroyed and one house badly damaged, accord ing to Mrs. Barbee. A few trees were also uprooted. It can be said with certainity that this part of Long Beach will be quickest to recover from the storm and that development will go forward with renewed dispatch. As is gen erally known, Yaupon Village is in the thickly wooded stretch near the upper end of Long Beach. It is not only high and dry, it has the added protection of the beautiful, thickly wooded ground just back of the strand. The busiest place in Southport, at least the most useful for the j past 10 days, has been the yards and office of the Blake Builders Supply. Everything seemed to be j needed at one time and the local ! firm seemed to have it The calls were for lumber and roofing, for minor repairs and for the con tinued construction of new build ings, as well as for others that have been started since the storm, j We are not a night owl, but we have seen the Blake trucks going late at night and before daylight' of a morning. Jimmie Woltz, auctioner on the Fairmont tobacco market and) owner of a nice homr on Long. Beach where he and Mrs. Woltz are permanent residents, said ! Sunday that he was ing to start off on the building- of several new homes at the beach right away. Neither he or Mrs. Woltz, who almost lost her life, are put out. They have the rebuilding spirit all of the way. Three of the old W. B. & S. Bus Lines buses have bee n sold to new contractors who are mov ing in for the road building anil other jobs at Sunny Point. The machines -will be uSed as field of fices by the E. B. Towles Com pany and other contractors who obtained sub-contracts from Tow les. Some of the companies will be in operation by the last of next week, it is said. The bus company has also sold its well lo cated lot here to the Southport Building and Loan Association. Secretary W. P. Jorgensen of the Building and Loan has not yet stated what plans the organizati on has for the use of the lot. Many wonderful letters and messages have come in this past week. Among them was one from a professional man in Moore co unty. We are omitting his name because he is still in business there. He sent his subscription to The Pilot, wrote feelingly of the hurricane and in his closing para graph he said, “Just because you have had a hurricane down there, I have not diminished my inten tion of locating in Southport.’’ Ken Stewart, construction boss for the Diamond Construction Company, was the man of the week for Southport last week. Two of his powerful cranes re stored shrimp fishing here in sho rt order by picking up 35-ton trawlers and setting them back in the water, where they prompt ly went to work, thereby provid ing work for many anxious wor kers. The T. F. Sclioles, Inc., and the Hertford-Cecil Company also played a big part in the beginn ing of the restoration of South port to its normal self. The hurricane trouble at South port, tremendous in itself, was as nothing compared to what happen ed to the beaches along our co ast. Bad as it was here, the tra ces are fading and gone as a re sult of efforts of powerful friends of the town among the contractors at. Sunny Point. Their efforts helped to inspire and energize our own people, many of whom were completely dazed and incapable of action. They are now* working and planning for other work. When, he was here Thursday we dared Noel Chancey of the As sociated Press to come back 6 months from now ami find a tia ce of the storm in and about So uthport. Much of the above can be ap plied to our beach areas. There will not be as many houses in six months as there were before the storm, but there will be houses, built and occupied and more un der construction. The Brunswick coast is not in any regular hur ricane path. The recent visitor was one of its kind in a century. There is no reason, based on his tory, to expect another anything like it within a hundred years. Florida and countless other pla-1 ces where the storms have struck j again and again, always arises to j build again. The same thing oc curs in war-tom countries, where1 thousands sometimes die along! with the destruction of property. Thursday evening, six days af ter the hurricane, the Miss Betty, owned by Otto Hewett of Supply and with Rothie Simmons of Southport as captain, came in af ter two days and nights of trawl ing and brought with he* 89 bu shels of fine quality shrimp. Mr. Hewett stated that Captain Sim mons reported that the catches jat: night were just as good or better 1 than during the uay. The Miss i Betty was up the waterway from Southport during the storm and was undamaged. A lot of us Southport folks, seeing the boats at work and thereby providing work for a lot of people, aie beginning to really appreciate what the Diamond Construction Company, T. F. Scho les, Inc., and Hertford-Cecil Com pany did for us and without any reference to being paid. With one of the Diamond's Motor Cranes here and at work Sunday, Ken Stewart, superintendent of con struction for the Diamond, came in Sunday and simply said, “We want to help Southport, and mu company will send in one of the big floating cranes to get those boats back into the water.1’ With some 40 highway patrol. | men in the county for liiree days i and a slightly smaller number since, Corporal O. H. Lynch of Southport had charge of them by day and Corporal M. S. Parvin1 of Carthage directed things at night. Before he left Corporal Parvin askgd us to tell the peo ple of Southport and Brunswick! county how much they appreciat- * ed the nice treatment that was shown them. He and all of the of- i ficers hope to be back some day ■ under less distressing conditions.' In short, many of them said they! were-coming back to spend their vacation on the beaches or to go fishing. Several hundred extra copies of this paper were printed last week | and it should have been several I thousand. One news dealer sold 200 copies over the counter before noon Thursday and could have' sold twice that many during the I one day. The demand has been tremendous. President Y. L. Bro-j wn of the Hertford Construction1 Company told us that we ought to reprint that edition, that it was as' good a paper as he had ever seen., Joe Cecil, owner of the Cecil Construction Company that is al lied with the Hertford Construc tion Company on the Sunny Po int railroad grading job, was the busiest man in town Saturday _f ternoon following the storm. He' had only two men. exclusive of himself and us, for the operation ot his dragline. He could have used half a do2en to get short i wire cables and chains around wreck a gt and trees to be in re- j adiness for the hoisting cable of the ci ane. Joe took the lead .in this himself, even when the work called for men on the roof of houses to attach to fallen trees. . i Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Crum ripe i were (called tbi Miami just befqro the storm and didn't get balk! until tiatuiday. Mr. Crmurine , ia j the General Superintendent of the Diamond Construction Company and in this office Sunday he seem ed highly pleased at what Con struction Superintendent Ken Stewart had tried to do to help Southport folks. Incidently, it was Joe Cecil's crane that pulled a big tree off the Crimrine house here. The Diamond's own crane was working nearby to get trees off of other houses. Charlie Trott, who slept the night before the hurricane at his home at Long Beach until the roof began to fall on him, had awakened enough by Monday of this week to start building a real estate office at Long Beach. The structure is right where the first Long Beach real estate office used to be, east of the pavilion in a wooden building that was destroyed by fire. While small, the structure now going up will be substantial and attractive. People with homes damaged but still usable are naturally anxious to get them repaired as soon as possible, but we think that it is a ease where some care should be taken. There are a lot of known and reputable carpenters and workmen in Brunswick coun ty. Other reputable builders will appear in a short time. It is ten times better to wait a short time and have your work done by such builders than it is to enter into contracts with a fly-by-night worker. In cases like this many such alleged carpenters swoop down upon communities like buz zards swooping down on a dead dog. They offer to do your work quickly and at a low price. The work, when finished leaves the place in little better condition than it was before. The price turns out to be sky high and before you realize this the work er is gone, leaving no trace. It is better not to deal with roving workers. _ i From Greensboro this week comes a letter from Mrs. J. V. Morgan, one of the folks who lost i their homes at Long Beach. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan had to leave Long Beach Thursday night as the storm approached. She said very little of the loss of their home, but expressed her deepest sym pathy with others who went through a like experience and she says that she will always have a keen interest in the welfare of the folks on the Brunswick coast. She hopes some day to own an other home on Long Beach. Some sources tell us that the telephones came to Southport years ago as a result of a vital need of communications with Fort Caswell when it was a very ac tive status. We understand that Wilmington and Southport - in terests constructed the line as far as Southport and that the gov ernment took on here with a cable to Caswell. Later on the Southern Bell Company acquired the lines and the Southport fran chise and has since given consis tently good service. Some 500 phones are now in use and facili ties are now in to take care of a great many more. Climate, weather, as well as geographical and safety features were large factors in the select ing of the mouth of the Cape Fear for terminal^, according to a speech by Col. K. L. Hill before a Wilmington civic organizati in recently. Bearing out the Colonel’s assertion with regard to the weather, one of the contrac tors remarked to us this week that weather has only held up work for five days since he start ed operations early in the spring. Practically all of the work has been outdoors and th loss of less than a day a month from work, due to weather, is an especially good tribute to local weather. The woods south of Orton pond are full of deer, a considerable number of wild turkey and many small animals. By early in the year they will be surrounded by a 7 foot wire fence that will have only two or three entrances and all of them guarded. We suppose the turkeys can fly in and out over the fence whenever they want to. Some of the small ani mals can also get in and out over the fence. Just what the deer will do will probably be left up to them. It will be theirs to come and go unmolested. No firearms will be allowed in the reservation, except those of guards at the en trances and they will be prohibit ed from using them except in case of necessity. Lately we have seen large numbers of big deer tracks within the reservation and we would guess the number of those that will be penned up by the fence at close to a hundred. It is about time for Rice Gwynn of Longwood to begin to make some approaches regarding a fall fishing trip with us. The last time we went it was in the middle qf the hottest part of the summer; Various delays resulted in both the morning and tlig .sun being, well advanced before Vc finally’ got our lines wet. Rice .was under the handicap of having to managed the outboard and also a paddle on occasion. Not a breath of air was stirring, there was only heat waves. Rice finally delivered him self of, "The next time I go fish ing with you it is going to be early in the morning or in the* cool of an evening.” We had made a fair catch, tHe trophic was that., it was just too danced hot. All our life we have followed a rule not to sign petitions for any thing unless we were completely familiar with both sides of the matter and were convinced that the' paper spoke for a worthy thing. We followed this course because we learned long ago that the average man and woman will sign a paper wihout giving a darn to what it represents. This week brought one of the rare occasion when we cheerfully sign d a petition asking for the parole of Ernest Singletary, an under priviliged youth who lived near Southport. Five years ago the boy cut the throat of his step father, following abuse of the boy's mother. For this offense against society the boy got 17 years in State Prison. The belief has become strongly established in our minds that the Navy has some plans to do some thing at Southport and it will not be long before such intentions become clearly established to the satisfaction of the general public. Sunny Point, forming the only installation of its kind in the world, calls for great harbor im provement between it and the ocean. Improvements, forced by the terminals on what has been termed the safest harbor, best adapted for military use on the coast, constitute an open-handed invitation for the Navy to come in and make full use of the Southport harbor. Bill Sharpe, who inscribed our volume to “One of my oldest anti best, friends”, has taken up the publication of A New Geography of North Carolina. Volume 1 cov ers 21 North Carolina counties in various sections of the State. The rest will be portrayed in follow ing editions at intervals of about two years or more. The first; volume is embraced in 533 pages, clothe bound. To our mind it is a valuable source of reference concerning matters in North Caro lina. The boys of Mr. Stouts' South ern Mapping Company from Lex ington tell us that it will prob ably take them 3 or 4 weeks to | run the lines and maps for the, approximately 16 miles of security j roads and the 7-foot wire fence, j the two to r un entirely around ] the Government reservation. It is i understood the road will follow' the edge of the reservation, all | away around, up hills and down and cross streams. The fence will be just a few feet inside the road j and both will follow the river to the docks and along between the docks. The Mapping Company has been working here for the T. F. Scholes, Inc., for nearly a year. The company was recently awarded the contract for survey- ; ing of 600-miles of pipe line route in Nevada and now has a force at work there. Right now the air is filled with more potentialities regarding the Southport area than have ever before been observed. In a way of speaking it may be observed that things are just getting close to the hatching stage. We believe that more than one important announcement will come by the first of 1955. One thing sure, Southport is not only unprepared to get the full benefit of what is coming, it is unprepared to take care of what we already have as a result of the terminal construction. All information in dicates that the first of the huge docks will begin operation as soon as it is completed. Against, that operation both homes and busi ness places should be here for the workers. To this end nothing; is being done. A couple of the men in the! home office of the T. F. Scholes, Inc., of Reading, Pa., were here a few days ago and they in cidently mentioned to Buck Buch anan, the Southern Superintendent of the company, that all of the folks in the office read the Pilot every wek. There happens to be some 20 or more men and women working in the office and if all read The Pilot, as was indicated, they are probbaly able to keep a close check on what Buck is doing down here. “In fact,” said Buck, “they probably learn more about this job from you than they do from me. They never learn much from me about what I am doing unless I start to losing money.” Going Right To Rebuild The Thing Parker D. Phillips of Greens boro was at Long Beach Satur day to ’ see what was left of the three homes and furnishings that he had owned there prior to last week. All he found, he said, was one frying pan. But Mr. Phillips had the re building spirit strong. In this of fice to renew his subscription, he said he was going to rebuild, using the frying pan for a start. He was enthusiastic about the re building spirit that he found exist ing among other Long Beach j property owners. These Folks Got On The Spot View Mrs. Jimmie Woltz, her daugh- j ter, Mrs. Gilbert Medlin of Laur inburg and Mrs. Medlin’ nine year old daughter, Ann, got an on-the-: spot view of all of the hurricane at Long Beach, although the visibility was not good and they were not interested in what was going on. Mr. Medlin, Laurinburg attor-1 ney, had brought his wife and daughter over to stay with Mrs. Woltz while he was in New Or- j leans. Mr. Woltz, an auctioneer on the Fairmont tobacco market, IN NORTH CAROLINA TV THE HIGHEST RD/NT EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI. A NORTH CAROLINA STATE PARJC IS AT THE OZEST. land ofikgugff There ere 223 mountains 6,000ft. or higher in North Cardinals "Variety Vacation, lend" A book bythatnane tells more about them. 1 It is fag u|»n request to the Dept.Comervation & O&Yslopnent, Ralegli,ft.fi. Kings/Mountain, rising out op the piedmont PLATEAU NEAR GASTONIA AND CHARLOTTE", MARKS THE SITE OP A FAMOUS BATTLE" Otr THE REVOUrriONARV WAR. AND A NATIONAL MILITAR.V PARK, t was also away. The storm came along: and when the substantial two-story home began to be threatened Mrs. Woltz, Mrs. Med lin and Ann fled to nearby hills. There they lay down to keep from bing blown away. They re mained there from S o'clock in the morning until 5:30 p. m., when they were found and taken off thfe beach. Both Mr. and Mrs. Woltz declare that they will build a new home on the beach. Supply Youth Is College YDC Head With a membership of approxi mately ninety members, the East Carolina College Young Demo crats Club has completed organi sation for the 1954-55 term and s now planning a series of acti vities for the school year. Kenneth T. Bellamy of Supply, i junior at the college, heads the student political organization as president. With a delegation of members, he represented the eam jus group at the Democratic Ral y in Elizabeth City Thursday of his week. Carol Ann Sellers of Shallotte s secretary. Waccamaw Man. Buried Monday Andrew Jackson Russ, 94, said to be one of the oldest residents of Brunswick, died at his home at T-ongwood Saturday night, fol lowing a long illness. Funeral services were held Mon day afternoon at 3 o’clock from the Friendship Baptist Church, Kev. R. W. Strickland officiating. Burial took place in the Jenrette Cemetery. Mr. Russ was a native of Brunswick and a lifelong resident of Waccamaw township. He was a member of the Mt. Zion Bap tist Church. He is survived by five sons, John, Dennis and Charlie Russ, all of Longwood; George Russ of Loris, S. C.; and Hiram Russ of Burlington; 16 grandchildren and 30 great-grandchildren. APPRECIATION’ We wish to express our deepest appreciation for the many acts of kindness and the help that has been given to us following the hurridane in which we lost our home and all of our belongings. We shall be forever grateful. THE J. B. 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