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THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Volume No. 17 No. 34 6-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1955 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Most Of The News All The Time The Pilot Covers Brunswick County $1.50 PER YEAR Speaker Blasts Parks Service On Toll Charge Hugh Morton, Member Of Board Of Conservation And Development, Sees Threat For A11 Seashore Highway Project BELIEVES CHANCE OF RESCINDING GOOD Wilmington Man Followed Discussion Of Parkway Toll Proposal With The Showing Of Color Slides Of Mountains Hugh Morton of Wilmington, chairman of the State Advertis ing Committee of the Board of Conservation and Development, spoke to the Southport Lions Club Thursday and lashed out at plans to impose a toll on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Morton, vice-chairman of a meeting called by Gov. Lu ther Hodges in Hendersonville to map plans to fight the toll, scor ed what he termed “a hypocrit ical stunt like the Parkway toll under the false guise of econ omy.” The Blue Ridge Parkway toll ‘‘spotlights a poor sense of values and the failure of the Park Serv ice leadership to measure up to its responsibilities,” he declared. “The present situation on the Blue Ridge Parkway can be summed up very briefly,” Morton continued. The National Park Ser vice decided it wanted to change the toll, offered a lame assort ment of excuses to justify the toll, and now will call it off if a way can be found to save face. Morton is vice-chairman of the State Parks Committee and was one of the party that trav eled to Washington with Gov. Hodges to meet Secretary of In terior Douglas McKay. His own ership of Grandfather Mountain, near the Blue Ridge Parkway, has given him an intimate know ledge of the Parkway situation. The Wilmington man also has extensive real estate interests in New Hanover county, including a body of land at Ft. Fisher. He pointed out the fact that a dan gerous precedent will be set if the Parkway toll goes into ef fect. “It will seriously threaten the hope of success of the all seashore highway which will mean so much to Eastern North Carolina,” he declared. Following his brief summary of the highway toll situation, Mor ton showed a collection of his color slides, most of them of mountain scenes. Several ladies of the community who knew about this part of the program were present to see the pictures. Brief Bits Of lnewsj WITH WELFARE BOARD Mrs. Iris Rabon Smith who re cently graduated at East Caro lina has a position as Case Work er with the Brunswick County Board of Welfare. She has al ready entered upon her duties. BARBECUE SUPPER A benefit barbecue supper is being held tomorrow (Thursday) at the recreation hall of Trinity Methodist Church. Serving will begin at 5 o’clock and tickets may be procured at the door by those who have failed to pur chase one in advance. THURSDAY CLINIC t The regular monthly N. C. Or thopedic Clinic, serving New Hanover and surrounding coun ties, will be held at James Wal ker Memorial Hospital in Wil mington, Thursday, March 10, from 8 a. m. until noon. Nine patients from Brunswick county reported last month. TO EAST CAROLINA In the Air Forces for the past four years, Billy McDowell, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Mc Dowell of Southport, arrived home on the 27th of February. Four days later, March 1, saw him en rolled and taking up his studies at East Carolina College in Greenville. He plans to major in physical education. AT BEULAH BAPTIST Beginning Sunday, March 13, and continuing through the week revival services will be held at Beulah Missionary Baptist Chur ch near Hickman’s Crossroads, with the pastor, Rev. L. L. Bar nes, doing the preaching. The seivices will begin each night at 7:30 o’clock. The public is cordi ally invited to attend. Deserted Island ? SCENES—On the left are two pretty visitors on Bald Head Island framed by palm trees in the foreground. On the right is a familiar scene of the famous Bald Head lighthouse. Thousands of North Carolinians who have visited this tropical island near Southport will be interested in plans of the government to remove Coast Guard per sonnel to the mainland. Coast Guard Plans To Abandon Island Information Indicates That All Personnel Is To Be Removed From Tropical Island Near Southport INSTALLATION TO BE AUTOMATIC Cape Fear Light Will Be Serviced On Periodic Vis its By Men From Oak Island While Radio Direction Station Will Be Moved Populated only by three Coast Guarrimen and sometimes by their families for the past several years. Bald Head Island will soon be come completely deserted, with the Cape Fear light and Bald Head radiobeacon operating un attended, except for visits from the Coast Guard at fixed inter vals for service. The light will continue from the present Cape Fear lighthouse. The radiobeacon in Bald Head light house will be moved to Oak Is land and mounted on a 150-foot skeleton tower. Full explanation of the pending changes were received this week in a notice received from R. E. Wood Rear Admiral, U. S. Coast Guard Commander, Fifth Coast Guard District at Norfolk. This notice in full was as follows: In order to reduce operating costs, eliminate prablems of mo rale, and to realize maximum op erating efficiency through con solidation of forces and facilities, without increasing maritime haz ards, the Commander, Fifth Coast Guard District proposes to make the following improvements in aids to navation: a. Cape Fear Light: Change-to unattended automatic operation with a flashing white light every 10 seconds, flash 2 seconds, visi ble 12 miles, with no other change. Light to be exhibited from present light tower. b. Bald Head Radiobeacon: Dis continue in present location and reestablish as noted in (c) below. c. Oak Island Light and Radio beacon: Establish as a watched station in approximate Latitude 33 degrees 53’35”N, Longitude 78 degrees 02'00”W, as follows. (1) Light: Flashing white every 5 seconds, flash 1 seoond, 160 feet above water, visible 19 miles ex cept where obscured by trees from 305 degrees to 309 degrees as viewed from seaward. Light to be mounted on skeleton tower 150 feet above ground. (2) Radiobeaoon: Establish ad jacent to light described above. A class C, 111 sequence radio Deacon operaung on uuz kc, trans mitting three dashes (—) every three (3) minutes superimposed on a carrier wave the same as Bald Head Hadiobeacon, to be re placed by this aid. The purpose of this notice is to inform all who may be in terested. If there are any objec tions from the standpoint of navigation, they should be sub mitted in writing on or before 1 May 1955 to: This will probably be the first time in history that Bald Head has been with no permanent re sidents. The island was probably occupied even before Southport, these first residents being pir ates. These gave way to law abiding citizens, and some not quite so law-abiding. Regardless of how it was, there has always (Continued on Page Four) Organization Is Almost Complete The Rev. L D. Hayman, chairman of the Red Cross Fund drive, says that he has been successful in securing the support of outstanding citizens in several sections of the county as he completes his job of perfecting his or ganization. Active solicita tion of funds will begin with in a few days. The Rev. Mr. Hayman ur ges a generous response on the part of Brunswick county citizens. “The Red Cross came to our rescue when we need ed it last fail,” he reminds his fellow citizens, "and I think that we shall want to express our appreciation in a material way. This will make it possible for the Red Cross to help others when they are in need.” Traffic Cases Feature Docket Majority Of Cases Disposed Of Here Monday Before Judge Earl Bellamy Were For Traffic Violations Traffic cases once more took up most of the day in Brunswick county Recorder’s court here Monday, with the following judg ments being handed down by Judge Earl Bellamy: Arthur Edwin Glenn, speeding (65-mph) fined $10 and costs. Stella Sharpe Pickard, speed ing (70-mph) fined $15 and costs. ....David Thorpe, speeding, (65 mph) fined $10 and costs. Eliah Williams, non-support, 6 months road sentence suspended on condition that he pay to the Clerk of Court the sum of $10 each Monday for the support of his three minor children. Howard Easom, public drunk enness, 30 days on roads, sus pended on payment of a fine of $15 and costs. Otis Homer Chesnut, speeding (70-mph) fined $15 and costs. William Clayton Arrington, speeding (70-mph) fined $15 and costs. Glen Hemmingway Parker, reckless operation, nol prossed with leave. Robert Bruce Bryson, speeding (65-mph) fined $10 and costs. Charles Ray Davis, speeding (65-mph) fined $10 and costs. Wilbur Earl Bryant, speeding (65-mph) fined $10 and costs. Fine remitted because of miti grating circumstances. James Hermit Galloway, no operator’s license, fined $25 and costs. Fine remitted as defendant has acquired operator’s license. John William Brennan, pleaded guilty to driving at greater rate of speed than necessary under the circumstances, fined $15 and costs. Fred Dale Griffin, speeding (65-mph) fined $10 and costs. Joseph Henry Burton, Jr., speeding (65-mph) fined $10 and costs. W. P. Suggs, drunk and disor derly, assault and battery, ad wontinued On Page Two Jury List For April Term Of Superior Court Other Matters Of Routine Business Disposed Of By Members Of Board Of Co u n t y Commissioners Here Monday The board of county commis sioners held their regular session Monday and among their business was drawing a jury list. It was ordered that George Ra bon be given the privilege of renting the farm land and barn at the county home for the sum of $150 for the year 1955. Ordered that G. E. Lewis be allowed to pay $75 this date on his delinquent taxes and the bal ance of $176.99 and penalty^ cft' November 1, 1955. By motion of Leo Medlin, sec onded by F. Herbert Swain and being duly carried, the T. Hoyle (Continued on Page 4) Shallotte Man Keeping Busy R. I. Canady, Former U. S. Army Man, Finds Keep ing Flock Of Laying Hens Ijs No Easy Task R. I. Canady, Waccamaw town ship man who spent something like 20 years in the army before retiring to get married and take life easy, is working harder than ever in an effort to keep up with his laying hens on his poultry farm near Shallotte. Canady bought a home and land near Shallotte Village Point. There he set himself up in the business of producing eggs, a job that now keeps him going for more hours each day than he had to put in while he was in the serv ice. During the October storm lost over a hundred of his laying hens when two of his p< try houses blew away. Likevfi; some of the feathers were from some of the chickens were not killed outright. Now with things back at normal he has some 400 la$j hens that are at the present producing about 275 eggs per Continued On Page Two he dne ri se \ ost t lat ab 3i >ut t me < ay. W. B. KG21AU Our Roving Reporter or . i is the One of our chief personal ries, if we have any worrie! our inability to remember name of Dr. C. Sylvester Gi ien, formerly of Chapel Hill, t ore recently of Wake Forest. We and talk to Dr. Green on an erage of 8 or 10 times a ; ear, yet when that energetic and genial fellow bobs up to s hands our mind becomes a plete blank as to who the Hill he is. It may be thr his splitting his name in middle, anyhow the C. Sylv Green just won't stick. Dr. 0 evidently recognizes that we these memory black-outs. ;on <ike Om ni l|gh the iter ten ave iy way, he always introduces him self the very first thing. He did that last night at Mack’s when he came over to speak to us. We suppose he will have to do it again today as we have in ap pointment with him. So, this squib is just to impress on our forgetful mind that if a well built, well appealing genial visi tor hurries up to us, it will pro bably be Dr. C. Sylvester Green. Our idea of the best possible future usage for the Garrison property, since it is no longer of any use to the Army Engineers, (Continued on 1'age Four) Survey To Show Practical Route For Highway 17 Engineers Now Engaged In Working Up Data From Which Decision As To Possible By-Pass Will Be Made NEW WORK SLATED FOR NEXT YEAR Next Project For Improve ment Of Highway No. 17 Will Go From Grisset town To 1 Mile North Of Town Of Shal lotte ‘Engineers of the State High way Department are at work this week making a survey which will afford a basis f6t deciding whether U. S. Highway No. 17 will be widened and routed thro ugh the center of Shallotte or will be rerouted west of the pres ent business district. Among the plans recently an nounced by the State Highway Commission for primary roads improvement for next year is the widening and modernization of U. S. 17 from Grissettown to a point one mile North of Shal lotte. In order for the highway to follow its present route it will be necessary to move many of the business buildings in the bus iness district at Shallotte. If the road is re-routed so as to by-pass the central part of town much of this type of expense will be eli minated although some of this advantage will be off-set in the matter of relocating the roadway in rather rough terrain. When the highway was im proved and widened from the South Carolina line to Grisset town three years ago a general face-lifting resulted all along the route, particularly at Grissettown. A thriving business district at that point was wiped out, altho ugh several places have since built back. At Shallotte there are several points of view about the possible change. One group clings to the notion that the prosperity of a town is dependent upon the flow of traffic through its business district, and they look with mis givings on any plan which will route people around the town. There are others who believe that re-routing thfe highway will not hurt business in Shallotte, and that on the contrary it will open up additional territory for grow th and expansion. If the by-pass plan is followed, the new section would leave the present highway near the Herb ert Russ home and going north, would pass to the west of the business district, re-entering the (Continued on Page Four) Award Contract For River Work Coast - Wide Construction Company Low Bidder On Snagging Project For Waccamaw River The Coastwide Construction Company of Wilmington, now engaged in waterfront restoration at Southport, was low bidder in a field of five contractors for the Waccamaw River snag and raft work. The bids were opened by the Charleston District Corps of Army Engineers. The river run ning into South Carolina made the work their responsibility, al though it is said that most of Continued On Page Two Shows Interest In Rock Formations Samples Of Rock Pumped From River At Sunny Point Being Sent Away For Further Study Thousands of visitors to Sunny Point have been more than mildly curious regarding the rocks, full of holes, that were dug up by dredges two years ago. These rocks, marl in some cases and limestone in others, are full of holes that range in size from about as large around as a penny to that of a silver dollar. All of the holes are perfectly round, some of them crossing each other as they proceed thro ugh the rock. In many cases the original holes have been filled up with a natural cement. All of this rock is now being ground up in the rock crusher of the Young Stone Company of Charlotte. Grinding away on the rock at the rate of 250 tons per hour, they have a contract that E. B. Young states will last sev eral months. The ground-up material is be ing used as a base for highways being built for the Army Engi neers, hard stands for machinery and materials. At one place a parking space is being built that will hold 140 truck-trailers. At various other places are also parking places for lesser numbers of trailers. In building both the roads and the parking places the areas are graded over and the ground-up rock is laid to a depth of 12 in ches. It is then packed down and two inches of asphalt will pro vide the surfacing. Thirty miles pf such roads, all within the Government reserva tion, are now being built in addi tion to the parking spaces. An almost unbelievable amount of the ground-up rock has to be us ed for the base for roads, etc. Recently some specimens of the (Continued on page four) / Dredge Yentor May Return Next Week Considerable Work Goes On In Town There is plenty of activity in Southport as the work of making repairs and im provements following the storm continues. During the past week considerable earth moving has been in progress on Bay street and about the yacht basin. In addition, there has been some repair work on the power lines, some of which have been out of commission since October. Work of restoring the city dock at the foot of Howe street is expected to begin within a few days. John G. Caison Dies At Home Funeral Services Conducted Tuesday Afternoon For Southport Man Who Ser ved As Coroner For Many Years John G. Caison, Coroner for Brunswick County for many ye ars, a position that he resigned only two weeks ago because of failing health, died at his home here Sunday shortly after noon. A few days after he resigned his office Caison returned to the Veterans Hospital in Fay etteville. There, realizing his con dition and that he had but a short time to live, he returned to Southport where he died four days after his arrival. He was suffering from heart trouble com bined with asthma. He was 66 years old. Funeral services were conducted here at the Southport Methodist Church Tuesday afternoon at 2 p. m., with Rev. R. H. Jordan officiating. Burial followed in the Southport Cemetery with the members of the American Legion serving as active and honorary pallbearers. Assisting the Rev. Mr. Jordan were the Rev. Leo Hawkins, pastor o f Southport Baptist Continued On Page Two Beach Building Gains Momentum Several New Houses Have Been Started At Long Beach During Past Week And Others Restored To Old Location Without stopping to check and ascertain the owners of all new construction started in the last few days on Long Beach, it was observed Sunday that quite a number have started up during the past week. Among the known new build ings seen to be underway was that of Fred Hedrick of States ville; E. F. Middleton of Charles ton, Dr. Smith of Fayetteville, T. L. Smith of Siler City, Mrs. Tom Smith of St. Pauls, J. A. Woltz of Long Beach, W. P. Elane of Lumberton and Mr. Fer l Continued on Page 2) Vessel Of Hill Dredging Company Expected To Complete Present Project At Georgetown, S. C., This Week MANY CREW MEMBERS WELL-KNOWN HERE This Same Dredge Worked At Sunny Point For Per iod Of 18 Months On Sub - Contract Under McWilliams Co. With it still not definitely sure that she will finish on time, the dredge Ventor of the Hill Dredg ing Company of Atlantic City, N. J., is scheduled to get through at Georgetown Saturday of this week. She will then come directly to Southport and embark on an 8 month maintenance dredging job at Sunny Point. At the latest she should arrive here the middle of next week. If she gets through with her job at Georgetown Saturday as sche duled, she may be showing up here Monday. The crew of the Ventor is said to be practically the same unit that manned her for the 18 mon ths that she was working here under a sub-contract with the McWilliams Dredging Company of New Orleans. There is one ex ception. Edward Hone, an em ployee on the Hill Dredging Com pany for 35 years, died suddenly of a heart attack while working on the vessel at Georgetown late in January. Mrs. Hone, writing this paper from Fernandina, Fla., where she is now residing, stated that she and her husband made a lot of friends during their residence here. Prior to Mr. Hone’s death the couple were looking eagerly forward to their return here and again seeing the people they came to know and like so much. Four Stills Are Out Of Business Brunswick County Sheriff Department Coopei ates With ATU Officials In Continuation Of Wai On Bootleggers During the first five days of March 4 whiskey stills were taken and destroyed by Sheriff Elbert Gray and his deputies, assisted by A. T. U. officers. Considerable beer was also taken in the raids, but no operators were captured. On March 1 the officers got a 250-gallon steam outfit near the Herring Crossroads in North west township. Two-thousand-five hundred gallons of beer were de stroyed along with the still . On the 3rd another raid in Northwest in the Cedar Hill sec tion resutled in the taking of a 250-gallon, submarine type still, together with 400-gallons of beer. On the 4 th in the Leland sec tion a 250-gallon steam outfit was taken, along with 600-gallons of beer. The 5th of March the Chapel Hill Road community in Town Creek township was visited and the production there was a 60 gallon still and 50-gallons of beer. Officers believe the apparatus in Continued On Page Four) Safety Stressed By Contractors On All Projects With Construction At Sun ny Point Now Well With in Its t hird Year Not A Single h atal Accident Ha* Occurred REMARKABLE IN VIEW OF HAZARDS However, Safety Engineer Expresses Hope That Few er Man-Hours Will Be Lost In Future By W. B. KEZIAH Construction work at the Sunny Point Terminal is well into it* third year of progress without a single fatal accident being charg ed against the project’s surety record. i "This is a record within itself when we consider the size of the job and the diversified types of construction,” says George F. Tienken, safety engineer for the Wilmington District of the Corps of Engineers. Even though there have been several minor accidents which caused the loss of a minimum number of days of work, Tienken says the several contractors and their respective superintendents and foremen are to be compli mented for the excellent way they have carried out the safety pro gram. He said the achievement is all the more amazing because a great portion of the work has been over water, working on scaffolding and under giant hoists. These con ditions made it necessary for practically all workers to wear metal hats for protection from above and kapok jackets to keep a man afloat in case he falls into the water. Discussing the district as a whole, Tienken said all contrac tors in the state working on con struction projects for the Army and Air Force went through 1954 without a fatal accident. During the year ending December 31, government and contractor em ployees worked a total of 4,089, 982 hours with only 37 loss time accidents for an average of only 9.05 accidents for each million man hours worked. The national average for construction workers was 16.58 in 1953. The national average for 1954 is not immed iately available. In the severity rate category, the Wilmington District had a record of .35 days lost because of accidents for every 1,000 hours work. The national average for 1954 in the severity rate was 2.06 days. The number of hours of work performed by Sunny Point work ers was not revealed. However, it is a matter of record that the Sunny Point performance made a notable contribution to the over all district standing in comparison with the national record. As good as it is, Tienken feels that the record could have been much better. Who’s to blame? He says too many employers fail to plan a good, sound safety pro gram and, good plan or poor plan, there is laxness in executing the program. “I am convinced,” he asserts, “that accidents could be greatly reduced if supervisors were more alert, on their toes.” He says 95 per cent of accidents result from human failure and the remaining five percent is at tributed to physical weaknesses. “For this reason,” he emphasizes, “our record will improve when every man practices eternal vigil ance.” 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, March 10 9:08 A. M. 2:57 A. M. 9:33 P. M. 3:10 P. M Friday, March IT 9:45 A. M. 3:38 A. M. 10:12 P. M. 3:46 P. M. Saturday, March 12 10:20 A. M. 4:18 A. M. 10:49 P. M. 4:23 P. M. Sunday, March 13 10:56 A. M. 4:58 A. M. 11:30 P. M. 5:02 P. M. Monday, March 14 11:35 A. M. 5:43 A. M. 0:00 P. M. 5:43 P. M. Tuesday, March 15 0:14 A. M. 6:30 A. M. 12:21 P. M. 6:30 P. M. Wednesday, .March 16 1:04 A. M. 7:25 A. M. 1:14 P. M. 7:26 P. M.
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