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THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Volume No. 17 No. 35 6-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1955 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Most Of The News All The Time The Pilot Covers Brunswick County $1.50 PER YEAR State Officials To Attend Meet At Mill Creek James P- Morgan, Secretary Of Training Unions For North Carolina, And His Staff Will Attend Bruns wick Meeting FIRST SESSIONS MONDAY-TUESDAY Associational Tournament Will Be Staged Friday Night With Interesting Program Being Ar ranged Three nights next week will be devoted to Brunswick County Baptist Training Union meetings at Mill Creek Baptist church. James P. Morgan, Secretary for the Training Unions of North Carolina will bring his staff of workers to teach the Training Union Manuals for all age gro ups, adults through story hour. All the churches are invited and those that have Training Union organizations are urged to have their leaders in these conferen ces. On Friday night, March 25, the Associational Tournament will follow the study. Mrs. Reba Sel lers, Training Union Director of the Association, would like for each Training Union to have a large number to participate in these classes and in the tourna ment. Members are invited to come Monday night and be a part of the following program: A Good Time Together — Mrs. Sellers; song service — led by Rothy Hickman, L. V. Walton and Mrs. R. S. Willets; devotion al period — Rev. Henry Register, Pastor Supply Baptist Church; special music — “Others”—Misses Peggy Hooks and Patricia. Mills, Town Creek Church; special mu sic — Mr. and Mrs. Hickman, L. V. and Margarie; recognition vis itors, pastors and state workers— Mrs. Margaret McRackan; an nouncements, conferences, gener al officers — James P. Morgan, State Secretary for Training Un ion; adults — Mrs. Smoot Baker, I-ancaster, S. C.; Young People— Miss Sarah Hull, Associate Train ing Union Department, Raleigh; Intermediate leadership — Mrs. Rob Smith, Stoneville; intermedi ate manual — Rev. F. W. Nay lor, pastor Mill Creek Church; junior leadership — Mrs. E. F. Continued On Page Two Brief Bits Of lnewsj THOMAS LOSES Waban Thomas, Brunswick county boy who was fighting in the Eastern Golden Gloves cham pionship last week in New York, was defeated Wednesday night in the semi-finals by Roy Bullock. BASKETBALL BENEFIT The mothers will play the daughters and the fathers will play the sons in a basketball double-header Friday night at the Southport gymnasium. Proceeds will go to the dressing room heating project for the gym. DIAMOND HEBE B. F. Diamond of Savannah, Ga., head of the big construction company that bears his name, has been spending a few days here with Mr. and Mrs. Burton L. Crumrine. Mr. Crumrine is gen eral superintendent for the Dia mond Company. BOOSTER PUMP ARRIVES The big booster pump of the Hill Dredging Company of At lantic City arrived at Sunny Point Sunday and is ready to hook up and furnished additional power to the pumps of the Ventor. The dredge itself is expected any day. PURCHASE NEW BOAT Annoncement has been made that a fourth navy minesweeper has been purchased by the Bruns wick Navigation Company for use in its menhaden feet. Three of this type vessel are in operation here, and the new boat will re place either the Anderson or the Morehead, both of which were lost during Hurricane Hazel. BAPTIST MEETING On Saturday night, March 25, at 7:30 o’clock the churches of the Brunswick Baptist Ass’n. will have their final rally in pre paration for the Evangelistic Crusade which has already start ed and will continue until every church has participated. Every one is invited to come to the Supply Baptist Church for this important meeting. Plenty Of Light For Sunny Point Floodlight System Will Be Able To Turn Night Into Day When Occasion Demands By W. B. KEZIAH The floodlights at Sunny Point, poles with lamps already affixed and ready to be hoisted by cranes, will be something spectacular for this part of the country. They will turn night into day in the area. There will be a regular lighting system in use all of the time, but the flood lights will be ready for use whenever it is necessary. In the classification yard, west of Rome 130, 9 poles will be placed, each pole 100-feet in height and standing on a concrete base 16-feet in diameter. Each of these 9-poles will have a bat tery of 12 lamps of 1500 watts each. All turned on at once, they should light up that portion of the huge railroad yards. It has not been learned yet how many of the floodlight poles and lamps will go in the other railroad yards, or in the administration area of the huge installation. On the 3 docks a total of 12 poles for floodlights already have their batteries of lamps affixed and are ready to be hoisted, four poles to each dock and 12 of the 1500-watt lamps to each pole. These poles are 80-feet tall and will be bolted to the concrete. They are of tubular steel, taper ing towards the top. The of the poles, despite the tapering is 6 inches across. The Bryant Electrical Company of Wilmington has the contract for this electrical lighting system. The current for the lights will come from the Carolina Power and Light Company’s big sub station in the northwestern part of the reservation. Power Com pany employees are now working to finish this sub-station. In ad dition to supplying Sunny Point, the station will also have current for the REA’s big new sub-sta 1 tion at the junction of the Long Beach road on Route 130 west. The regular lighting system will have thousands of lamps smaller than the 15^0 watt floodlights, but still providing plenty of illum ination. And when the floods are turned on Sunny Point will be the most lit up area in this sec tion of North Carolina. Vote On Manager Plan For Southport When Voters Go To Polls On May 3 One Decision They Will Make Is Whet her To Adopt City Man ager Form Of Govern ment FILING DATES FROM APRIL 1-16 Mayor And Six Members Of Board Of Aldermen Will Be Elected By Vote Of People On May 3 Southport voters will do more than select their city officials for the ensuing two years when they go to the polls on May 3, for one of the issues that will be submitted for their choice is whether the city manager form of government shall go into op eration here. This decision was reached at a meeting of the board of aldermen Thursday night and came upon motion of D. C. Herring, second ed by Fred Spencer. The motion provides that Representative Kir by Sullivan be requested to in troduce a bill which will amend the charter for the city to make provision for the city manager form of government in Southport provided this proposal shall be approved by majority vote of the people and the municipal election in May. The registration books will be open at the homes of the regis trars from April 4 through April 23, but everyone is urged to reg ister on the Saturdays included in that period if at all convenient. Challenge day will be on April 30. Dates for filing for the election will be from April 1 through noon of April 16. The following will serve as reg istrars: 1st ward, Mrs. Riley Willis: 2nd ward, Miss Annie M. Newton; 3rd ward, Mrs. Velma Ward. Navassa Negro Shot To Death Willie James McCoy Re spected Negro Citizen Of Northwest Township, Kil led While Performing Job As Peacemaker Willie James McCoy of Navassa was shot twice and died from the effects of the wounds when he essayed the role of a peacemaker during a fight between two other negroes at Navassa at about 7 o’clock Sunday evening. McCoy was 36 years old and was highly respected. He served on the jury here at the January term of court. Lonnie Beatty, 24 year old ne gro of East Arcadia in Columbus County, is charged with the shoot ing. He fled the scene and has not yet been apprehended. According to eyewitnesses, prior to the killing, Beatty and Thomas McDonald of Navassa had engag ed in a fight and during the course of this altercation Beatty Continued On Page Two i Pre-School Clinic Now In Progress Pre-school clinics are now in progress in Brunswick coun ty, and during the next few weeks representatives of the Brunswick county health de partment, in cooperation with school officials, will work to ward having all children who will enter school next fall im munized against certain child hood diseases. Following is the pre-school clinic schedule: Leland high school, March 16, 9 a. m.; Waccamaw high school, March 18, a a. m.; Brunswick County Training school, March 18, 9 a. m.; Southport high school, April 8, 9 a. m. Traffic Cases Before Court Most Of Activity In Bruns wick County Recorder’s Court Monday Taken Up With These Matters Again this week most of the time in Brunswick county Re corder’s court was taken up in the trial of cases growing out of traffic violations. The following judgments were handed down: James Robie Potts, Jr., speed ing (70 mph) fined $15 and costs. Donnie Faye Strickland, speed ing (65 mph) fined $10 and costs. Russell Posey Smith, Jr., spee ding (70 mph) fined $15 and costs. William Morris Long, speeding (65 mph) fined $15 and costs. William DeCover, speeding (70 mph) fined $15 and costs. Edward H. Hines, public drun kenness, fined $10 and costs. Elmer C. Wills, assault on fe male, 2 to 6 months on roads, suspended on payment of costs and $10 per week to C. S. C. for the support of his wife and pla ced on good behavior for two years. Max Evans, disorderly conduct and damage to personal property, nol prossed with leave. Max Mendez, no operator’s li cense, fined $25 and costs. Wilbur F. Hammond, aiding and abetting in operation without license, taxed with the costs. Leon Frink, assault with dead ly weapon, nol pros. Glen Parker, aiding and abet ting in reckless operation, nol pros with leave. Dr. Franklin Wright, speeding (65 mph) fined $10 and costs. George Lewis Graham, no op erators’ license, fined $25 and costs. James Odell Cothern speeding (65 mph) fined $10 and costs. Glenn C. Wills, no operators li cense, fined $25 and costs. $5 of fine remitted as he has since ac quired operators license. (Continued on Page 2) Incorporation Of Yaupon Village Sought In Bill Unique Brunswick County Beach Resort Seeking To Be Incorporated Through Special Act Of Legislat ure PROVISION MADE FOR OFFICIALS Mayor And First Board Of Town Commissioners To Be Named In Act, With First Election Propos ed In 1957 Yaupon Village, a 400 acre tract of former Long Beach land, now owned by Barbee's Incor porated, was in the news Monday when its residents had Senator Hay Walton introduce a bill pro viding for its incorporation as the town of Yaupon Beach. According to the provisions of the bill W. C. Norton will be come mayor of the town for a term of two years. The first board of town commissioners will be G. V. Barbee, John L, Barbee, Robert Sellers, Adolph Mercer and G. W. McGlamery. These of ficials will take over the first Monday in June, 1955. The first biennial election will be held on Tuesday following the first Mon day in May, 1957. The bill provides that a tax rate of not more than $2.00 per $100 valuation may be imposed at any time. Informed sources have been saying that some interesting dis closures relative to the develop ment of the new town will follow passage of the bill. Beautifully located in a wooded area, the property appears to be ideal for development. Started by Barbee’s Incorporated, it was formerly sur rounded on two sides by Long Beach lands. With 200 additional acres purchased the first of the year it is now located between Long Beach and Caswell Beach. Shrimp Industry In Good Shape Best Facilities In History Ready For Operation Of This Business In South port During Coming Sea son So far as the shrimp fishing industry is concerned, Southport is now much better equipped tp take care of this business than it has ever been in the past. Ever though there are now only S houses, the fact is that all 3 arje larger than those that operate# here in the past, and all are bel r ter equipped and more conven - ently located than such building s used to be. The only thing not entirely sf - tisfactory is that the yacht basi 1 on which two of the houses ai • located, is badly in need of dre< - ging to permit the sometime 5 heavily-laden boats to get up t > the houses at low tide. It is believed that this short ■ coming will be corrected sometim i during the summer. The basin a i a harbor of refuge for workin ; boats was built under provisior i that entailed maintenance by tli s Army Engineers. In other word , there are provisions for its bein ; kept to the needed depths an I the Army Engineers will probat ly get around to the periodic! I dredging out this summer. Starting out directly after th 1 October storm, Dallas Pigott coi ■ structed a large and moder i shrimp and fish house on the b! ■ sin and equipped it with all fi ■ Continued On Page Two Floating Fish Factory .-,'r AFLOAT—The.-floating fish factory, which broke free from its moorings during the storm on October 15 and went high aground is shown here as she is being brought back to the vyater-^-or rather as the water is being extended to her. In the foreground is a dragline, which has dug away the bank on which the huge steel hull came to rest. The barge was floated yesterday. Later this week it will be towed South by her new owners.—(Art Newton Photo.) Youth Killed Automobile Dealer Steel Arrives For New Pier The steel for the Yaupon Beach fishing pier is here. One solid carload was unload ed Monday and another ar rived and was unloaded yes terday. All of the rest will be in before the end of the week . according to the Bethlehem Steel company, makers of the steel. Meanwhile, construction of the pier has already started and will be pushed right along until the structure is com pleted. The contractors, Tenn esse, Tarboro and Southport people, are under bond to complete the structure within 60 days after the arrival of the steel. It is blieved they will be able to do it in less time than that. Rites Tomorrow For Mrs. Davis Mrs. John Carr Davis Died Tuesday Afternoon At Dosher Memorial Hospital Following Serious Illness Following a month of illness in the Dosher Memorial Hospital, Mrs. John Carr Davis died Tues day afternoon. Mrs. Davis, the former Miss Mary Elizabeth Lup ton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Connie Lupton, was 20 years old and had been married to John Carr Davis less than two years when stricken with her fatal ill ness. Funeral services will be held from the Southport Baptist church Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock with the pastor, the Rev. Leo Hawkins, officating. He will be assisted by the Rev. William Continued On Page Two W. B. KKMAH On* ROVING Reporter It was mentioned a couple ( weeks ago that it seemed oc to see fire plugs sprouting i numerously around Sunny Poin The oddity was a result of tl fact that nobody ever expected I see such things at such a plac Going over the terminals Frida with Bob Wilson of the Rain Chevrolet Company in Wilmini ton, we were still more impress* when we met a big street sprii kler of the Hertford Constructs Co. busy buying dust, or tr ing to, by sprinkling roads. Win we first noticed the sprinkler a proaching we took it for an ( tanker with the biggest kind a leak. Skipper Hulan Watts says that he already has a dozen fishing parties booked to use his sport fishing boats in April. Naturally, there will be a lot more of them signed up before April comes. Should good weather prevail there ought to be several parties mak ing the outside trip later on this month. There have been days good enough for the fishing, but with weather still on the bad side it just happened that the couple of parties that have elected to try things have picked bad days. With (Continued on Fage Four) New York City Teem-Ager Fatally Injured Early This Morning By R. E. Crisp At Used Car Lot Near Brunswick River BOY DIES AFTER REACHING HOSPITAL Seventeen-Year-Old Janies Anthony Ferrere Shot In Head After Being Sur prised With 2 Others In Car Lot A New York City teen-ager, trapped with two companions in a used car lot near the Bruns wick River bridge early this mor ning, was shot and fatally injured by R. E. Crisp, owner, of Crisp Motor Co. The dead man is James An thony Ferrere, 17-year-old youth who was on his way to Florida with two other young white boys, Michael J. Pollok and Robert Hopper. According to information given Coroner Sam T. Bennett, Crisp was called about 12:40 o’clock this morning by a neighbor who had observed someone in the used car lot. Crisp, who lives next door, picked up his .25-calibre automatic pistol and went out to investigate. According to his ac count of the trouble, he found the three boys in a car and fired over the top of the vehicle to frighten them away. When he did, he says that Ferrere reached out and grabbed him, pulling him into the back seat. He says that he then fired his pistol again and this time the bullet struck Ferrere in the temple. As soon as help arrived, the wounded boy was carried to James Walker Memorial Hospital, where he died a, short time after being admitted. Crisp is being held under $2,500 bond for appearance at a coron Continued On Page Two Big Attendance Now In Prospect Buildings And Other Facili ties At Caswell Baptist Assembly Being Made Ready For Biggest Crowds In History Of This Activ ity From Dr. Richard K. Redwine, director of the Caswell Baptist Assembly, this week comes the information that this year’s pro gram is expected to exceed any previous year in point of attend ance. Undamaged by the October storm beyond the loss of a few shingles and 75 of the shade trees, more of the buildings are being readied for use this year. I With coming of June, first of j the three months of gathering, everything will be spick and span in addition to enlargement of the facilities for accommodations. It is understood that in addi tion to accommodations for the I Baptists attending the various ! gatherings there will also be pro Continued On Page Two Sullivan Gets Attention For Four Measures State Press Gives Big Play To Bill Requesting State Insurance Commissioner To Investigate Progress Of Settlements Representative Kirby Sullivan of Brunswick county got into the limelight of the North Carolina General Assembly last week when he authored a bill requesting the State Commissioner of Insurance to make a full investigation into the manner that insurance claims growing out of losses sustained dur ing Hurricane Hazel are being settled. It further provided that a report shall be made to the General Assembly on this matter. There were several co-singners of the bill, which met with popular approval. One local bill was introduced to provide payment of a fee of $1 to justices of the peace for bonds that are forfeited by motor ists who are caught for minor violations of traffic laws. This will be retroactive to January 1, 1954, and fees will be paid from the funds that normally are turn ed over to the board of education. This act was necessary in order to get these officials to agree to continue to serve, and it repre sents their only remuneration for their services in these cases. , Another local measure would place the matter of regulating salaries of all non-elective offi cials in the hands of county com missioners. The measure also pro vides that the salaries of elective officers may be regulated by as much as 15-percent, but that if a change is made affecting one Continued On Page Two Highway Force Work On Roads Additional Mileage Being Put Back Into Condition By Highway Forces On Lower End Of Long Beach A force of State Highway employees started up last week rebuilding the Long Beach road from the washed out inlet thro ugh the big hills and on through the beach and Yaupon Village. The stretch beyond the inlet will wait until the inlet is filled up. The application for funds with which to fill the inlet and also the inlet at Robinson Beach, ap proved by both the Board of Co unty Commissioners and the of fice of the District Army Engi neers, was carried to Raleigh Thursday by Davis Herring. Af ter being approved in Raleigh, the papers will go on to Wash ington for final action. There is said to be very little doubt that the application will be granted. When the highway forces com plete the Long Beach road to the upper end, it is said that they will move right along to Caswell Beach and rebuild the road thro ugh there to Fort Caswell. Part of this stretch of road through [ Caswell Beach has been closed since the storm. However, a de tour of about one mile length has carried traffic around the damaged section of the road. Ceremony Marks Junction Of Big Rail Projects Col. R. L. Hill Officiates At Gilded Spike Driving Rit ual Tuesday Morning As First Dock Receives Rail road Connection OTHER LEADING OFFICIALS ATTEND , Marks Culmination Of Mon ths Of Work On Part Of Railroad Contractors As Well As Dock Con struction Workers By W. B. KEZIAH Yesterday Col. Raymond L. Hill, head of the Army Engineers District office in Wilmington, drove a golden spike (in color onyl) that linked together the results of more than two years of continuous work on the part of two railroad building firms and other contractors working with them. The spike joined up the work of the Wm. A. Smith Company of Houston, Texas and that of the T. F. Scholes, Inc., of Read ing, Pa., with that of the Dia mond Construction Company of Savannah, Ga. there were a lot of other sub-contractors in be tween. Smith and Scholes, Inc., are essentially railroad builders. Smith got a turnkey job on the 22 mile access railroad from Leland to the government installation and sublet the grading to the Greene Construction Company of Indiana. Smith and Green finish ed up over a year ago and from their end of the operations the T. F. Scholes, Inc., of Reading, Pa., came in with their contract. Like Smith, Scholes, Inc., let a sub-contract for their clearing and grading, this contract going to the Hertford Construction Com pany of Hertford and to the J. K. Cecil Company of Lexington, two North Carolina firms. They will have 3 months to go before the Scholes, Hertford-Cecil combina tion finish all of their 48 miles of grading and track, but they have brought main lines to the point where the next man takes over. This next man is the Diamond (Continued on page four) Building Pace Still Increasing Up-State Property Owners Going About Business Of Restoring Houses Or Buil ding New Ones At Long Beach While the loss of their homes is still a matter of concern to Long Beach property owners and their friends, the folks who now visit the place are not concerned over whether things will be re built or not. They are rebuilding and Long Beach is growing back faster than it ever grew before. An illustration is that there were only 60 homes at the beach at the end of the second world war. Further construction at that time was very slow .owing to buidingl material restrictions. The town just grew steadily year after year. The storm came last October and left only half-dozen homes where 300 had stood the night before. A few homes not com pletely destroyed were several Continued On Page Two Tide Table Following Is the tide table (or Southport during the next week. These hours are approxi mately correct and were furn ished The State Port Pilot through the courtesy of the Gape Fear Pilot’s Association. High Tide Low Tide Thursday, March 17 1:59 A. M. 8:24 A. M. 2:13 P. M. 8:29 P. M. Friday, March 18 2:58 A. M. 9:23 A. M. 3:14 P. M. 9:32 P. M. Saturday, March 19 3:55 A. M. 10:19 A. M. 4:11 P. M. 10:31 P. M. Sunday, March 20 4:49 A. M. 11:09 A. M. 5:05 P. M. 11:25 P. M. Monday, March 21 5:40 A. M. 11:56 A. M. 5:56 P. M. 0:00 P. M. Tuesday, March 22 6:28 A. M. 0:16 A. M. 6:44 P. M. 12:41 P. M. Wednesday, March 23 7:14 A. M. 1:04 A. M. 7:31 P. M. 1:25 P. M.