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Most Of The News All The Time Volume No. 17 fsjQ 33 E STATE A Good Newspaper ges Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, PORT PILOT In A Good Community The Pilot Covers Brunswick County MARCH 2, 1955 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY $1.50 PER YEAR Purchase Orders Being Processed At ASC Office Farmers Who Have Made Application For Cost-Shar ing Spring Practices May Receive Purchase Orders Now ADVISE FARMERS TO HAVE SOIL TEST Farmers Stand To Lose Through Practice Of Har vesting Excess Of Any Allotment Crop This The Brunswick County ASC of fice is now issuing purchase ord ers for spring practices under the 1955 Agricultural Conservation Program and farmers who have applied for cost-sharing may call by the county office and get their purchase orders for their approved practices. A soil test is no longer man datory for any practice included in the 1955 program. However, it is still strongly recommended that every farmer obtain a soil sample and have it analyzed, if possible, before receiving cost snaring for vegetative practices. In the absence of a soil test, the farmer can only qualify for cost sharing on the vegetative prac tices and liming materials prac tice by applying the recommended amount and analysis of material approved by county agricultural workers. Farmers stand to lose more than they gain by harvesting an excess of any allotment crop. Sec retary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson removed “cross-compli ance” restrictions under which a farmer would have been required to comply with all acreage allot ment assigned his farm in order to be eligible for price support on any crop. However, farmers are reminded that certain requirements were written into the law on the pass age of the Agricultural Act of 1954 providing that a farmer who harvests in excess of any allot ment crop will be ineligible for any Federal cost-sharing the 1955 Agricultura Conlsevvation Program .This requirement still remains in effect and will remain in effect unless removed by Con gressional action. Farmers who have already re ceived some assistance under the 1955 Agricultural Conservation Program can be called on for a refund if it is later determined that they have harvested from ex cess acreage on an allotment crop. To avoid as much of this as possible, when a farmer calls at the county office for purchase ciders he is ashed to read thoroughly and sign the following statement: "I will not harvest either cot ton, wheat, corn, tobacco, or pea nuts in excess of the 1955 acre age allotment for any of those commodities on any farm in which I have an interest as land (Continued on Page 4) benefit dance The Shallotte Lions Club will sponsor a benefit dance Saturday night at the American Legion Hut. The proceeds will go to the high school athletic fund. SATURDAY DANCE Members of the Southport Li ons Club will sponsor their regu lar Saturday night square dance this week at the Community Bu ilding. t NEW FLAG POIJC HERE A new steel flag pole for use on top of the weather tower lias arrived and will be placed within a few days. The old pole was badly bent in the storm of last October. LIONS TO MELT The regular meeting of the Southport Lions Club will be held tomorrow (Thursday) at 12:30 o'clock in the Community Building. Hugh Morton of Wil mington, member of the State Board of Conservation and Deve lopment, will be the speaker and will show some of his famous co lor slides. TO PREACH HERE Rev. L,. D. Hayman will preach Sunday night at the regular 7:30 service of worship at Trinity Methodist church in the absence of the minister, Eev. R H. Jor dan. The Reverend Mr Jordan will be at Bethel Methodist Church in Bolivia assisting Rev. Clarence Warren In. reviv al serv ices. --- SouthpdjQdy Honored AWARD—Mis. C. Ed Taylor, Vol tive Observer for the U. S. Weather Bure, is shown here as she takes the daily temp™ from the official thermometer. She wa& week in Washington for her 50-years sr Weather Bureau and also for her participa ing- of tlie approach of Hurricane Hazel— Photo.) er Coopera Southport, ,ure reading inored last ce to the n in warn Newton Weather Observer Gets Recognition Mrs. Jesse S. Taylor Honor ed During Annual Pres- j entation Of Awards Of Commerce Department In! WIDE PUBLICITY FOR SOUTHPORT Feature Stories And Pictur es Appeared In Many Leading Newspapers In cluding New York Times And Others Mrs. C. Ed Taylor returned Sat urday morning from a three-day trip to Washington during which she was honored by U. S. Weath er Bureau officials for the part she played in warning residents of this 'area of the approach of Hurricane Hazel which struck the j Carolina coast with such violence on October 15. Tire occasion was the Annual Presentation of Awards for out standing service in the Depart ment of Commerce. Since the Weather Bureau’service comes un del* tms department, and Reuben Frost, head of the Weather Bureau Station in Wil mington, were invited to attend. During the course of making the award to the Southport lady for her part in warning people that a severe tropical storm was headed this way, discovery was made that she has served longer than any other woman as one of the 9000 Voluntary Cooperative Continued On Page Two Beach Building Past Fifty Mark Replacing Cottages To Ori ginal Location And Con struction Of New Build ings Making Good Prog ress At Long Beach j.,ess titan 50 days since Con tractor Donald Sneeden started the rebuilding of the Long Beach sand dunes, G. V. Barbee of Yau pon Village stated Monday after noon that he counted the homes moved back and the ones start ed, and there were 53 being bu ilt or repaired. This is an average oi more lo an one a day getting ready for the summer season, and proper ty owners stoutly maintain that the construction work going on now is nothing to what it will be in a couple of weeks. Tt is contended that the rebu ilding pace will steadily increase all through the spring and sum mer. The few property owners who say that they are not finan ' cially able to rebuild just now 1 are none the less determined to build at some early date. Another encouraging outlook, is (Continued bn page tour) [ Watecfront I A dragline, to load trucks and a bulldozer are now at work hauling earth as t’ne initial op erations in restoring the South port waterfront which was damaged in the storm. The work is being done under contract by Sneeden’s with Dis aster Funds from the Federal Government, in addition to me immediate work on the water front, another project is to re build the city dock for public use. Road Facilities Being Provided Road Building Contractor Stabilizing Roadbed To Vital Areas Inside Sunny Point Reservation To speed up operations that will enable other contractors to get to work in the administration area, the E. B. Towles Company and associated contractors began hauling crushed stone Monday. The material is being spread over the roadbed to a depth of 6 inches. Before paving, an ad ditional 6-inches will be spieau and the completed road will be able to withstand greater loads than any in .Brunswick. Dust and m some eases wei ground made it necessary to use the preliminary application of rock, if the Roy Goode Construc tion Company is to get an early start in bringing in his building material. He holds contracts_for over seven hundred thousand dol lars worth of building and it is expected that they will be need ed at an early date. With the rock put on now, na-J (Continued on Page 2) jgfl ■ Material Coming| For Fishing Pie First Large Order To Ari Expected To Be Tr Load Of Paint For C ing Structure The lirst or me laui* lage fishing pier material to arrive this week. It con 25,000 pounds of paint, m an 2,000 gallons. G. V.. developer of Yaupon Villa ted yesterday that the pi form a full trailer truck that it will come direcjp I factory. Kotics oi Continued On t irh,s Past week we felt sort of fettered at a complaint from our 'lend, Steve Wall, of the Army ngineera He wrote accusing us •scooping him. It seems he was ird at work, running down some (formation to senri nu ni,-i in >jur writing a story for the fol lowing week. He wrote, “And there you came along in The Pilot with the very story I was trying to get for you. Mr. Mr White (another good friend of ouisl said that he had just got notice to go ahead with the de signs, and here Keziah oomes out with the story, h® .trust ’'a* e tat ter sources of infomigoa 'ttoa Invitations For j Five Projects At Sunny Point Several Types Of Operation Included In Work For Which Bids Will Be Open ed On March 22 I THESE BIDS ABOUT WIND UP PROJECT However, Indications Point To-Likelihood That Other Work May Be Added To Original Plans For Sunny Point The Army Engineers issued in vitations fox- bids on five projects at Sunny Point during the past week and the bids received will be opened on March 22. The mat ters to come up at this letting are Site Preparation, Storm Dra inage, Dust and Erosion Control, Security Roads and Fencing. No information is available re-j garding the site preparation j work and storm drainage. But the secui’ity roads involve the grad ing and paving of 16% miles, the| paving is understood to be of crushed rock. The fencing also involves coverage of a 16%-miles stretch, the fencing to be 7-feet high. The dust and erosion con trol matter involves the plant ing of a great deal of grass or grain on baricades and other (exposed places. These five jobs embrace about everything in the original start ing plans for which no contract has as yet been let. However, it is also understood that there may be a great deal of new work to come up this year and next. Re ports from reliable sources indi cate that the finish of the pres ent undertakings does not mean a complete cessation of construc tion work. Some very important matters about which little or nothing has been said are understood to be still in the planning stage, with an apparent certainty that they will develop. A compilation of informaapn Lommissioners Fill New Duties Three Days This Month To Be Devoted ^o Service As Board Of. Equalization And Reviev Mrs. Ressic (’■ Whatley and members of tU< board of county commissioners ip-tended a one-day school in Fay teville last week for instructiJ regarding duties as a board t equalization and review, whiol is due to be in session in $<thport on March 14-15-16. For thos*iU'ee days the bo ard membf step down from their dutiqps county commissi oners andpume for three days their roles nienibers of the bo ard of e<J‘zation and review. It is fted out that this is the only me during the year when it fc.wful to have any re duction jp® in the valuation of property:cePt where there has been ap or other disaster to materia affect its valuation. For UJiraMXMi u is important for all -payers who are seeking relief reasons other than loss throuf'-saster or for relief fr om ijities which have result ed ft clerical errors to plan to the board. qjpnday, March 14, persons fftjprtftwest and Town Creek toW,s wiU be received. On Tu<1 March 15, those from! S#lle alu! Lockwoods Folly ntinued On Page Two Speaker LYLE W. PETERSON Missionary Will Speak Tomorrow At Presbyterian The Rev. Lyle W. Peterson, Missionary On Furlough From Japan, Will Speak In Southport Presbyterian Church The Rev. Lyle W. Peterson, Presbyterian, U. S., missionary on furlough from Japan will speak at the Southport Presbyterian Church tomorrow (Thursday) eve ning at 7:30 o’clock. Peterson has been serving as an evangelistic missionary in Japan since 1949. Most of his time is devoted to traveling about the countryside developing new work and encouraging old. Peter son is a native of Michigan. He graduated from Wheaton College and Columbia Theological Semin ary and is a member of Meridian Presbytery. His wife is the form er -Catherine Campbell McLauch !:n, the daughter of veteran China v. and Mrs. Peter University before going to the l field.. They have three children hanging in age from ten to four [years. While on furlough the . etersons will be at Mission Court :n Richmond, Virginia. They will return to the field in the mer of 1955. sum Wreck Victims Enjoying Stay Two Elderly New Jersey Citizens Injured In Acci dent On U. S- No. 17 Last Week Now Convalescing At Southport Following a wreck on Route 17 last week, two prominent elder ly New Jersey men are having an unscheduled stay in Southport at the Dosher Memorial Hospital. Neither is said to have been seri ously hurt and both are credited with finding their surroundings here very congenial. Going north on 17 last week their car, driven by Carlton Str on& ot Camden, N. J„ ran off the pavement on the shoulder and in cutting back Strong lost control. The machine turned ov er on the pavement and was com pletely demolished. Strong's com panion, was Dr. Albert H. Com. tort, D. S., of Collingsworth, N. J. Both received minor cuts and bruises. Strong: is 72 years old and his companion was 73 on the day of Continued On Page Two W. K. kikub Giu* ROVING Reporter "e have. It its sort of understood that we will have a. general as the Commanding Officer at Sunny I’oint. We will be amply satisfied 11 he is half as congenial as Colonel Gregg 'C. McLeod. He is to be Director of Services, which means a sort of executive officer. ' olonel McLeod took to South hot t the first, time he came here several weeks ago. He ‘lowed tight off that this was the place 'e "anted to live and he w'ould tike to wire his wife, "Pack up •^-d cinlires. I'-wtay (Continued- on. Dage . four t ■ - Leland Girls, Shallotte Boys Win County Championships In Brunswick T ournament Reconstruction Of Beaches Going On Project Extends Along Greater Part Of Coast Of North Carolina; Brunswick Leads Way More than 23 miles of sand dunes have been completed on southeastern North Carolina beaches that were damaged so severely last October by Hurricane Hazel, Director Ben E. Douglas of the Department of Conservation and Development said this week. Douglas said a report from B. C. Snow, chief engineer of the C&D Department’s division of wa ter resources, stated that 124,950 feet, or 23.7 miles, of sand dunes have been completed at the fol lowing beaches in Brunswick, Pender and New Hanover coun ties: Ocean Isle, 11,000 feet; Robin son Beach, 7,000 feet; Holden Beach, 17,000 feet; Dong Beach, 32,000 feet; Caswell Beach, 10,880 feet; Fort Fisher, 8,900; Wilming ton Beach, 7,200; Freeman Beach, 6,950; and Topsail Beach, 24,000 feet. Sand fences totaling 75,000 feet have been completed at Ocean Isle, Holden Beach, Long Beach and Topsail Beach. Snow said figures compiled by the State Disaster Relief Office at Wilmington, which was estab lished by the C&D Department and which is now manned by W. H. Riley, a hydrologic engineer with the department’s water re sources division, show Federal grants for disaster relief approved through February 25 total $1, 150,709.10. The following cash payments have been made to the following local governments: New Hanover county, $11,349; Wrightsville Beach, $21,606.41; Brunswick oounty, $67,309.88; and Pender county, $10,030.75. Hayman Will Head Red Cross Drive I m nesday The Shallotte high school bas ketball team has qualified for the Class A District Tourna ment at Kenansville next week wil meet Deep Run, Lenoir county champions, • next Wed nesday night. This tournament this year is for county champions in the Class A group, and will be com pleted next week. The winner will advance to the semi-finals round in State Class A cham pionship play. Evergreen will represent Co lumbus county and will play theii first game Thursday night of next week. Varied Docket Tried In Court Monday Session Of Bruns wick County Recorder’s Court Concluded During Early Afternoon For A Change -A varied docket was disposed of here in Brunswick county Re corder s court Monday, with the clay's session coming to a close during the middle of the after noon. The following iude-ninnts [were Handed down: Mike L. Davis, assault, 30 days in jail, after serving half tliis time he is to be allowed his lib erty on payment of $15 to the prosecuting witness. Ethel Mae Robinson, no oper ator's license, fined $25 and co sts. fine remitted on payment of costs. Henry Brown, Willie (Son) Nelson, possession for purpose of sale, nol pros in case of Henry Brown, Willie (Son) Nelson sen tenced to one year in jail, sus pended on payment of a fine of $50 and costs. Defendenl to be of good behavior for two years. Milo Thomas Clayton, reckless operation, fined $25 and costs, j name mcKtnan, public drun kenness, and possession, fined $25 and costs. Kills Jackson Turner, loaning operator's license, fined $25 and costs. Wilbur Henry Barron, speed ing, having no operator’s license, fined $30 and costs. William Stewart Hickman, fa lling to stop at stop sign, fined $10 and costs. W illiam Casteen Memory, spee ding (65-mph) fined $10 and co sts. Jacky Allen Haney, speed"'? fae4 $i5 a;:d oo.ts. I c-onuntied On Pag© Two i Retired Methodist Minister I Will Direct Fund Raising Activities In Brunswick County This Year 1 SERVED IN THIS ROLE ONCE BEFORE First Efforts Will Be In Lin ing Up County-Wide Rep resentation On Board Of Directors Of Chapter The Rev.. L. D. Hayman will head the Red Cross fund drive in Brunswick county this year, and he is busy this week lining up his organization on a county-wide ! basis. The Rev. Mr. Hayman retired | last fall as an active Methodist j minister and he and Mrs. Hay man moved back to their home Iin Southport. Several years ago l he served as pastor of Trinity -Methodist Church, and it was during that period that he on one other occasion headed the Red Cross fund drive in Brunswick county. "the fund Chairman believes that a board of directors repre senting every section of the coun ty is a prerequisite for a success ful campaign, and he is working uns ween on uiat phase of or ganization. “We must have the work and support of these re sponsible community leaders if we hope to be successful”, lie de clared this week .adding "I hope to complete this organization within a few days so that our actual eanvassimr mav hoe-in ” Chapter officials anticipate that this will be a record year for contributions to the Red Cross program from Brunswick county, Continued On Page Two Saturday Work At Sunny Point Contractors Take Advan tage Of Good Weather To Speed Progress On Their Various Jobs At Termin als The 5-day work week received very little attention at the ter minals tills past Saturday as two phases of construction went steadily forward and some others had necessary operations in pro grtsa. The highway grading, a con tract that is held by George Tal man of Wilmington, under the E- B Towles Company, also of Wilmington, went steadily for ward with earth movers, bull dozers and other equipment clank- i ing away. It was the 13th con secutive day during which weath tr «T-~-:or~ permitted steady '.Cotturned ojj Fag* 2j | Leland Lassies Repeat As Champions In Their Di vision But. Shallotte Win Brings First Title Since 1940 SHALLOTTE SCENE OF THIS YEAR’S PLAY Waccamaw Boys, Bolivia | Girls Consolation Win ners; Waccamaw Curls, Southport Boys Win Sportsmanship Leland girls and the Shallottc boys are Brunswick county bas ketball champions for 1955. The high sooting Pirates, hosts to this year’s county tournament, defeated Bolivia in the finals of their division Friday night 75 to 55 and the Leland lassies triumph ed over Waccamaw 80 to 56 Sat urday night to retain their title. In their championship victory Friday night the Shallotte five once more proved that the best defense is a good offense. David Owen led the way with 28 points, followed by Royce Woodyard with 22. Raymond Earp, towering Bo livia center, led the losers with 18 points. The floor play of Lloyd Owen featured for Shallotte while Thomas Howard arul Carter Ra bon were the best *ball handlers for the losers. Ann Allen was at her best Sat urday night as she accounted for 50 points in the title game with Waccamaw. Donnie Babson led the losers with 24 points, with Marie Inman close behind with 21. Lizzie Lynch and Shirley Skip per were the play-makers for the winners, with Ann Williams and Lois Smith playing outstanding ball for the losers. Consolation Games Consolation winner for the boys was Waccamaw. -who turned back I-eianci 88 to sir jn a free scoring fracas to decide third place in the tournament. Harmon Smith, one of the outstanding basketball players to be developed in Bruns wick county, scored 43 points, with Leaman Smith adding an other 25. Lon Skipper was high man for Leland with 24 points, while Stacy Wells was good for Third place in the girls' division went to Bolivia, who eked out a spine-tingling 84-82 decision over Shallotte for consolation hon ors on Friday night. Polly Lanier led the scoring with 48 points for Bolivia, with Emma Lou Gore hitting 41 for Shallotte. Scmi-Finuls VVinnnpu Sliallotte w<jn their way to the finals the hard way. Their semi finals opponent was a red hot Waccamaw five that led them most of the game and held an 8-point lead at half-time, only to succumb in the late minutes of this free-scoring ball game by a score of 75-71. Again David Owen was the shooting star for the Pirates, this time with 33 points. His brother, Lloyd, made 18, and Gerald Lambert was then defensive player. Harmon Smith made 27 points for the losers and this time his principal help came from Thellon Smith with 20 points. The Bolivia-Leland encounter for the other berth in the finals (Coutinued on Page 4) Tide Table Following la 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, March 3 3:20 A. M. 9:44 a. M. 3:51 P. M. 9:59 P. M. Friday. March 4 4:25 A. M. 10:45 A. M. 4:54 P. M. 11:00 P. M. Saturday, March 5 5:24 A. M. 11:39 A. M. 5:52 P. M. 11:56 P. M. Sunday, March 6 . 6:17 A. M. 0:00 A. M. 6:43 P. M. 12:28 P. M. Monday, March 7 7.06 A. M. 0:46 A. M. 7:30 P. M. 1:12 P. M. Tuesday, March 8 7:19 A. M. 1:33 a M. 8:14 P. M. 1:54 p M Wednesday,- March 9 8:30 A. M. 2:16 A. M. P. -’t. ■> 32 e »»
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