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Most Of The News All The Time Volume No. 17 THE STATE PORT PILOT _A Good Newspaper In A Good Community No. 30 6-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1955 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY The Pilot Covers Brunswick County $1.50 PER YEAR Rebuilding Beaches f WORKING—This aerial photo shows the work that is in progress at Long Beach as man and machinery try to speed recovery from the effects of Hurricane Hazel. On the left is a dragline which has been scooping sand from the strand near highwater mark and forming a big dike that is 20-feet at the base, about six feet high and 10-feet across the top. Upon this is being placed a cover of brush that will serve as a sand fence, and it is expected that the dunes will grow higher and higher. On the lower right a section of dike is shown with this shrubbery emplaced. The holes on the ocean side of the dike are quickly filled in by sand as the tides come up. In the upper background is the highway running west ward, and on the right is the Robert Jones residence.— (Art Newton Photo.) Discuss Manager Government For Use In Southport Members Of Board Of Al dermen Consider Possibil ities Of Change In Plan For Operating City Gov ernment Members of the Board of Ald ermen for the City of Southport at their last meeting hard a pro posal that the city government go under the city manager plan. Alderman D. C. Herring ex plained the plan, and following a discussion made a motion that the board pass an ordinance plac * ing the operation of the city government under this plan. There were other members of the board who appeared to favor the change, but who felt that this action was being taken without giving the citizens of Southport an op portunity to know about it. The concensus of opinion was that definite action should be deferred until the proposal is better under stood by the persons who will be affected. Briefly, the city manager form of government places responsibil ity for the administration of the operation of the various city de partments in the hands of one man. His responsibility is to mem bers* of the board of aldermen, who have the right to hire or fire him. (Continued on Page Four) Brief Bits Of ' LNEWSJ valentine festival The Valentine Festival will be held Friday night at the high school. On the following night the Parent-Teacher Association will sponsor a dance at the Com munity building, the profits to go to the same cause. REVIVAL MEETING A revival meeting is bmg held at Concord Methodist Church at Supply this wek. The pastor, Rev. J. T. Fisher, is being assisted by Rev. George McGill of Hamlet. The meeting will last through Sunday. BACK FROM FLORIDA Capt. T. H. Watts and the Idle On have returned from Florida where they have been engaged in sport fishing for the past 3 mon ths. It is understood they had a good season, but Skipper Watts just got homesick for Southport ON DEAN’S LIST Billy Sanders, son of Mr. anc Mrs. M. R. Sanders of Southport and Naval ROTC student at Tu lane University, made the dean’: list during the first semester. Ir order to be eligible for thi: honor the student must maintaii an average of B or better in al Subjects, Engineer Visits County Tuesday Earl E. Mader Confers With City And County Officials With Regard To Projects Pending Under Hurricane Disaster Assistance APPROVE PLANS TO CLOSE TWO INLETS City Dock To Be Rebuilt At End Of Moore Street But No New Building To Be Erected In a conference held yesterday between City and County officials and Earl E. Mader, Federal Re gional Engineer of Thomasville, Ga., approval was given to plans to rebuild the old Lewis Hardee dock, using Federal aid and with the structure to be devoted en tirely to public use. The old dock was on city prop erty. Hardee leased it and prior to the storm conducted his sea food business in a building erected on the dock. Under the rebuilding provisions there will be no build ing on the dock and it will be used entirely for the mooring of boats, fishing by the public and similar purposes. The structure will be of the same size as the old dock and like it in every way, except that there will be no buiding on it. In addition to city and county officials, representatives were present from the various beaches, and a discussion was held con cerning progress of salvage work in those areas. Mader did not have time to visit one of these projects in person, but he gave approval to proposals for closing an inlet at Long Beach and an other at Bellamy Beach. He also considered the problem that more money may be needed for certain par ts of the storm repair job, and advised the method for making j proper application. More Stills Are Taken In Raids Sheriff Elbert H. Gray And Deputies Colaborate With ATU Officers To Break Up Three More Outfits The office of Sheriff Elbert H. Gray reports that aided by ATU officers from Wilmington they raided and capptured three whis i key stills in Brunswick county du ring the past week. The Sheriff states that no arrests were made during any of the raids. All of the outfits were well guarded by watchmen who spread the alarm and disappeared along with the operators just as soon as the of ficers approached. The following stills were taker i in the week’s round-up. Near Bolivia, a submarine type ! 200-gallon still with 1100 gallons | ICoutiuued on Page 4) * Work Progresses On Legion Show “Hazel’s Poppin’ ” is scheduled for Thursday, February 17. This is not a weather fore cast. It is news of the stage show which is being produced by members of the local Ameri can Legion Post and Auxiliary. These “hamatures” have been at work on the show for sev eral weeks and it promises to bring entertainment and laughs by the bagful. Legionnaires feel that if the audience enjoys the show half as much as the actors have en joyed producing it, that they will be well rewarded for their attendance. One highlight of the show will be a contest. The audience will participate in choosing the outstanding person for unre stricted title of “Hazelbum.” The workers and cast of “Hazel’s Poppin’ ” believe that this will be a show unlike any other. Southport Man Dies In Wreck Ellis Walter Sellers Drown ed In Roadside Canal In Florida Following Acci dent Sunday Morning Ellis Walter Sellers of South port was drowned at Pompano Beach, Fla., early Sunday morn ing when his truck-trailer went off the road and into a canal. Sellers, 37, was sleeping in the cab of his truck, which was being driven by his relief operator, Carl Buxton of Bolivia. The trailer was enraute north with a load of shrimp. A few miles ahead of them two cars had been in a collision and it is re ported that both lay in the high way unmarked by lights. When they loomed suddenly ahead of the truck, Buxton made a vain attempt to avoid striking them and the trailer overturned into the canal. Buxton is said to not have been badly hurt. The body of Sellers was bro ught home and funeral services were held Tuesday at 11 o'clock from the Mill Creek Bapptist Church with Kev. Bennie Price and Rev. F. M. Naylor officiating. Burial was in the Mill Creek Cemetery. Surviving the deceased is the widow, Mrs. Othelia Willetts Sel , lers; three sons, Ellis W., Jr., [Rodger Lee and Charles Sellers; two daughters, Hilda Mae and | Lois Jean Sellers, all of the ho me; his mother, Mrs. G. W. Sel lers, Southport; two brothers, De i Continued On Page Two Hill Dredging Company Given Latest Award Low Bidder For Work Of Maintenance Dredging In Dock Area Of Sunny Point Terminals The Hill Dredgging Corp. of Atlantic City, N. J., was the low bidder on the 2,800,000 cubic yard maintenance dredging contract in the bidding opened by the Army Engineers on February 3. It is understood the contract will be awarded this corporation this week. Work will start by about March 5. The contractor can move in and start things sooner if equip ment is available. With the job going to the Hill Corporation, it is possible that the Ventor, a sturdy dredge that worked on a sub-contract with the McWilliams Dredging Com pany of New Orleans, will be ba ck here for another go at Sunny Point. This boat worked here for a year and a half, finishing in the late spring of last year. The Hill Corporation has another dredge beside the Ventor and it is possible both will come. The job is scheduled to be, finished vWthin 6 months of the start. The total for the Hill Corpora tions bid for the removal of the 2,800,000 cubic yards was $473, 760. Atkinson Dredging Company of Norfolk had a total bid of $526, 400. The Arendal Corporation of Baltimore submitted a total bid of $499,800. The bid of the Atlantic Gulf and Pacific Company, of New York City was for $482,440. This work is the first mainten ance dredging in the 34-plus-2 foot basin and channel, originally dug, much of it through rock, by the McWilliams Company. Na Continued On Page Two Bill Introduced To Create More District Judges Brunswick Would Be Inclu ded in New Judicial Dist rict; Bill Has Strong Leg islative Backing BILL WOULD BE STATEWIDE IN SCOPE Thirty Judicial Districts Would Be Provided For Instead Of The Present Twenty-One Aojudicial redistricting bill now before the State Legislature, bear ing the approval of the State Su preme Court and the Judicial Co uncil, would create 30 judicial dis tricts in place of the present 21. It is generally believed the bill will pass with a minimum of op position. Among the new districts to be established if the bill passes wo uld be one , In which Columbus County would be combined with Brunswick, and Bladen to form District 13. Presently Bladen is not in the same district with Co lumbus and Brunswick. The measure, for which Chief Justice M. V. Barnhill has work ed long and tirelessly, would create 30 districts in place of tlje present 21. Mecklenburg and Gu ilford counties each a district, would have two judges apiece. Wake, Durham, Forsythe and Buncombe counties would each be a one-judge district. Judges of newly created dis tricts would be named by the go vernor to serve until the 1956 general election when they, or their successors, would be named by the people for regular eight year terms. Present solicitorial districts wo uld remain the same. Name St. George To County Board Former Member Of Bruns wick County Board Of Education Named To Fill Unexpired Term Of Sen ator Ray Walton Thomas St. George has been appointed to fill the unexpired term of Senator Ray Walton as a member of the Brunswick Coun ty Board of Education. This action was taken Thurs day, when Senator Walton intro duced a bill in the Senate to amend Chapter 788 of the Session Laws of 1953 so as to appoint St. George. In introducing this measure, Senator Walton was making provision for filling his own unexpired term. St. George is no stranger on the board, and it was Senator Walton who filled out an unexpir ed term for St. George two years ago when the latter resigned be cause it appeared likely that he would be out of the county much of the time during the coming season. Upon receipt of news of the appointment of St. George, mem bers of the focal school committee at Southport have tendered their resignation. One member of that group explained this action this morning by giving assurance that this is by no means to be inter preted as a protest against St. George. Rather it is an effort to give the new board member an opportunity to name a new local committee in time to handle prob lems which usually come up at the end of each school year. It was the feeling of the local com mittee that the interests of the school will be better served by a new group. W. B. K£Z1AU Our ROVING Reporter Three Hewett’s in a row from j Supply and Shallotte came in last |wek to subscribe foe this paper. They did not come together, they were just one after another and the coincidence caused us to refer to our mailing list for informa tion. There we found Hewett list ed as paid subscribers at points j all over the U. S. Supply took | the lead with 27 Hewetts, and ■ there were just about as many at other points in Brunswick. The Smiths, usually regarded as hav ] ing the most generally used name i in the U. S., are not in it wlipir it comes to the Hewetts in Bruns wick county. The plans of the city officials to rebuild the dock that was leased by Lewis Hardee for many years appear to be very good. The structure will be needed by num erous small boats, as well as many lar ger ones. We understand that the public will be allowed to use all or a portion of it as a fishing pier and in addition to the public use some ways and means < an be found to make the struc ture financially self sustaining, i once it is erected. It extends to deep water in a fairly accessible area of the river and should be made strong enough for large i (Continued on l'age Four) Reclamation Of The Lady Lou Local Sports Fishing Vessel Rebuilt Following Damage Sustained During Hurricane On October 15 The Lady Lou, worst damaged sport fishing boat in the October storm, is riding again. Now re paired and with a new engine in stalled, she is ready to go to sea igain at any time when her new iwners have a yen to go and are pot busy with their work. The boat was left ashore, high ind dry, with much of her plank ng torn off and otherwise dam aged. Her pre-storm owner, Ed Vtallison, had too much other ■vork to do to bother with mak ng repairs. He salvaged the en gine and some other equipment »nd left her where she was. About the middle of January Sen Stewart, Bob Hunter, Joe Stewart and other officials of the Diamond Construction Compapny it Sunny Point, became interest id in the hull. They bought it for $100. From then on with James Chadwick of Shallotte as their chief carpenter Hunter and the two Stewarts, who are not relat ed, have been putting in their Saturday’s working on the Lady Lou. Last Saturday they launched her, installed another engine and are now prepared to go fishing. Most of this fishing will natural ly be on Saturday and Sunday when they are not employed at their construction jobs. Frank King, another employee of the Diamond, has also been putting in his days off from the dock construction work. He 'in stalled the engine Saturday, as sisted by all of the owners. All of them are rather proud of the trim little sport fishing boat that they have reconstructed. itadio Equipment Being Installed Legion Sponsors Boy Scout Troop Members of the Southport Post of the American Legion voted at a regular meeting Mon day night to continue sponsor ing the local Boy Scout troops. Seven adults were appointed as the new committee for this ye ar. Some of these were retain ed from the 1954 list while ot hers are new. The new sponsoring commit tee members are as follow: chairman, Charles M. Trott; secretary, C. L. Sellers; treas urer, C. L. Rourk; outdoorsman, Robert A. Jones; advancement, W. R. Bomberger; health and safety, M. R. Sanders; training, William L. Smith The instituti onal representative is Art New ton and scoutmaster is Alex Fox as last year. Another Lengthy Term Of Court Long List Of Cases Disposed Of Here Monday Beefore Judge Earl Bellamy In Recorder’s Court Another lengthy session of Brunswick county Recorder’s co urt was held here Monday, with the following cases being dispos ed of: John Bright Funnell, speeding (65-mph) fined $10 and costs. Alden Bradford Freeman, speed ing (55-mph in truck) fined $10 and costs. James Albert Murphy, speeding (70-mph) and driving after revo cation of license fined $40 and costs. John Wendell Wendburg, speed ing (70-mph) fined $15 and costs. Badon Grainger, public drunk enness, fined $10 and costs. Elmo Elvin Dubose, speeding (55-mph in truck) fined $10 and costs. Isaac Martin, sppeeding (70 mph) fined $15 and costs. Howard Norris, speeding (65 mph) fined $10 and costs. Furney Wright Roberts, speed ing, (70-mph) fined $15 and costs. Betty Lou Long, no opperator’s license, fined $25 and costs. Grover Cleveland Singletary, speeding (65-mph) fined $10 and ;osts. Carl Leroy Kye, speeding (65 mph) fined $10 and costs. Liston Ellis Gore, possession, fined $10 and costs. John Cecil Taylor, public drun kenness, fined $10 and costs. Richard Mathew Jackson, spee iing (65-mph) fined $10 and costs. Charles Bert Hansett, speeding (65-mph) fined $10 and costs. Jack Hewett, common nuisance, .respassing, fined $10 and costs. Herbert M. Brown, speeding (65-mph) fined $10 and costs. Howard Allen Perry, drunk dri ving, fined $100 and costs. Jack Ray Clendenin, speeding (55-mph in 45-mph zone) taxed A'ith costs. Phillip Clayton Townsend, spee iingg (65-mph) fined $10 and costs. Roland Winthrop Hardison,! speeding (50-mph in 35-mph zone) i fined $15 and costs. Richard Spencer Barnhill, reck Continued On Page Two Three Units Being Installed In Automobiles Operated By Deputies, Bringing Total To Four DONATIONS BEING MADE TO PROJECT Sheriff Explains Some Of Difficulties Of Surprising Operators While At tending Still Sheriff Elbert H. Gray reported Monday that funds for placing portable radio equipment in the automobiles of three of his dep uties are being raised by public donation and declared that there has been an enthusiastic response to this effort to modernize the equipment of the sheriff’s depart ment. Sheriff Gray appeared before the county commissioners Monday and asked if they would accept this equipment as county property if it is purchased in this manner. They declared that will accept it, and will make provision for its upkeep. Sheriff Gray already has a two way phone in his automobile, so this will give his department a total of four units. In addition, special communications equipment includes two walkie-talkies. For the present, these sets will operate on the same frequency as that of the New Hanover Sheriff’s Department. It may be that sometime in the future a separate frequency may be as signed for use in Brunswick. Sheriff Gray says that during the past month 12 stills and four operators have been captured in Brunswick county. “We have co operated with A. T. U. officers on all but two of these raids,” he said. “One they made by them selves when a check revealed the opportunity to catch two men in the process; and on one ocasion we staged one raid without them.” Asked about his avowed pur pose of trying to capture the op erators as well as the equipment on these raids, Sheriff Gray de clared that there are many and unforseen difficulties in this con nection. “There are many plans for warning operators of an im pending raid,” he declared. "They have a way of stretching strings across woods paths a system of arranging the> leaves so any dis turbance can be detected; and some even have a lookout patrol ing the highways to give warning. We still want to get them when possible, but it is not always' easy.” Power To Soon Be Restored Repair Being Rushed On Electric Power Line From Southport To Baptist As sembly Work started last week on re storing the power lines to the North Carolina Baptist Assem bly at Fort Caswell. According to Mayor Gilbert power will be back to normal over there sometime next week. During the October storm about all oft he poles and lines across the wateiway and marsh from Southport to the assembly gro unds were destroyed and the sev eral year-round families at Cas continued On Page Two Progress Report On Hi way Work In 3rd District Resurfacing Of 22.52 Miles Of Primary Highways Ira Brunswick County Was Part Of 1954 Operation OTHER IMPORTANT ROAD WORK DONE Construction And Mainten ance Of Highways In. Brunswick Under 3rd Highway Division In Wilmington C. Heide Trask, Commissioner af the Third State Highway Di vision, this week reported on the construction progress made by the State Highway Commission in the Third during 1954. Division - wide, Commessioner Trask said, a total of 54.75 miles of primary highways had been improved by wideningg, relocation and paving. In 1954, a total tf 126.35 miles of secondary or cc jnty roads were also improved oy grading, widening, paving, and drag sealing. A total of 23.1 mi les of county roads int he divi sion were stabilized for all-wea ther driving. With division headquarters in Wilmington, the Third Division is composed of Brunswick, Duplin, New Hanover, Onslow, Pender and Sampson counties. As divi sion engineer, C. E. Brown directs and coordinates all State road work in these six eastern Caro lina counties. R. V. Biberstein is assistant division engineer in charge of construction. R. A. Ashworth at Burgaw is district engineer in charge of maintenance in Brunswick, New Hanover, Ons low and Pender, while B. White sides at Clinton is district engi neer in charge of maintenance in Duplin and Sampson. These veter an highway engineers have had many years of roadbuilding ex perience. Commissioner Trask commend ed the contractor and highway forces on the fine work completed in 1954. In Brunswick, a total of 22.52 miles of primary highways were resurfaced. By contract, the fol lowing highways, with their len gths and widths, were resurfaced with sand asphalt: US 17, 74 and 76, 1.86 miles, 24-feet wide; from (Continued on page four) Sullivan Named On Committees Brunswick County Repre sentative Holds Member ship On Ten Committees Of House Of Representa tives Representative Kirby Sullivan has been named to membership on 10 committes of the House of Representatives. Last week it was reported that he has been named on Judiciary No. 1, the Appropriations Com mittee, and the Education Com mittee. During the past week Speaker Larry Moore has completed com mittee assignments and Sullivan gained membership on the Con servation and Development Com mittee, the committee of Com mercial Fisheries and Oyster In dustry, the committee on Courts and Judicial Districts, Elections and Election Laws Committee, the committee on Mental In Continued On Fage Two 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, February 10 10:18 A. M. 4:06 A. M. 10:47 P. M. 4:23 P. M. Friday, February 11 10:57A. M. 4:48 A. M. 11:30 P. M. 5:02 P. M. Saturday, February 12 11:36 A. M. 5:32 A. M. 0:00 P. M. 5:43 P. M. Sunday .February 13 0:14 A. M. 6:19 A. M. 12:19 P. M. 6:28 P. M. Monday, February 14 1:01 A. M. 7:11 A. M. 1:06 P. M. 7:19 P. M. Tuesday, February 15 1:54 A. M. 8:08 A. M. 2:00 P.. M. 8:15 P. M. Wednesday, February 16 2:50 A. M. 9:08 A. M. 2:57 P. M. 9:14 P. M
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