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Most Of The News All The Time Volume No. 17 No. 36 THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community The Pilot Covers Brunswick County 6-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1955 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY $1.50 PER YEAR Boyle Company Of Sumter Low Bidder On Work Latest Contract To .Be Awarded For Work At Sunny Point Goes To South Carolina Firm For $510,490.95 THREE LOWEST BIDS WERE VERY CLOSE Security Roads And Fence Enclosing Installation In cluded In Latest Let ting Yesterday The Boyle Company of Sumter, S. C., was low bidder with an offer of $510,490.95 for road and fence construction work at Sunny Point yesterday afternoon. Seven bidders were in the field for the work. The three low bidders were all pretty close. Next to Boyle J. F. Towell of Raleigh submit ted a bid of $520,837.80 and E. B. Towels of Wilmington was third with a bid of 521,368.89. The highest bidder of the 7 competiting was J. M. Thompson of Raleigh whose bid called for $793,007.13. The customery course is to award the contract to the lowest bidder and it is therefore as sumed that the Boyle Construct ion Company will be awarded the job later on this week after investigations have been made. The bids cover the building of about 13 miles of security roads, together with the construction of about the same lengh of steel wire fence, on steel poles sunk in concrete. The roads are known as security roads, built for guarua patrolling in jeeps and to the exculusion of all other traffic. The roads and fencing will extend completely around the active part of the installation with only three gates, one each at the upper and lower ends of Route 130 and the third at the Administation Head quarters. All laborers will enter and leave at the administration gate. It is understood that the gate on. Route 130 will be for emerg ency use only and for uses of a strictly military nature. The site prepartion work, storm drainage and erosion control work, going with the road and fence building contracts, cover the building of culverts, drainage, planting of grass,etc. Reverting to the road, it will not be paved but will be graded the same as all modern roads. It will be built of rock, dredge from the river in the prelimary operations. The Young Stone Company of Charlotte now has a rock crusher engaged in grind ing up this material. It is pro vided all contractors at no charge beyond the rock crushing costs. Brief Bits Of lnewsj AT EPISCOPAL CHURCH March 27 is Passion Sunday and at 7:30 o’clock evening pray er and sermon will be conducted at Phillips Episcopal Church by the Rev. William L. Hicks. NEW STORE OPENS The Town Shop, featuring ladies ready to wear, will open tomorrow (Thursday) in the busi ness district on Moore street. The proprietors are Mrs. Evelyn Thompson and Mrs. Lois Jane Herring. DOG VACCINATIONS G. B. Lewis, in charge of in noculating dogs in Town Creek and Northwest townships against rabies, will make his rounds on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. Dog owners are asked to watch out for his posted notices. TO KING’S BAY The U.S.E. Dredge Hyde is scheduled to go to King’s Bay, Ga., in six weeks or two months for two months of dredging where they are to build the ammunition depot. Several Southport and Brunswick county men are em ployed on this dredge. John O. Daniel of Southport is one of the mates. VISITED PARENTS M. Sgt. and Mrs. B. A. Maples and daughter spent the past week at Bolivia with Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Rourk, parents of Mrs. Maples. For the past three years the family has resided in New foundland, where Sgt. Maples was stationed. They are now bound for the Philippines for another tour of duty. Mrs. Maples was the former Miss Helen Rourk. Being Demolished 1 r LANDMARK—The Stuart House, located on the waterfront in Southport, was badly damaged during Hur ricane Hazel. Workmen started last week on the job of tearing dbwn this famous old building which was the home of the late Miss Kate Stuart. For many years it was the center of hospitality for this community. Name 3 Members To County Board Dr. M. H. Rourk, Roy Sel lers And Thomas W. St. George Are Appointed To Serve Four Year Terms As Members Of County Board TWO OLD MEMBERS HAVE TWO YEARS Representative Sullivan Has Introduced Bill Govern ing Removal Of Storm Borne Froperty A bill was introduced in the House of Representatives Monday to name Dr. M. H. Rourk, Roy Sellers and Thomas St. George to four year terms as members of the Brunswick County Board of Education. Corbett Coleman of Waccamaw and Herbert Long of Leland still have two years to go on their terms as members of the board. Dr. Rourk is at present a mem ber of the board as the represent ative from the Shallotte School District. Last year he engaged in a spirited race with Walter Stanaland for nomination as a member of the board. Roy Sellers, named to represent the Bilivia School District, will replace G. K. Lewis, current chairman of the board. In last year’s primary election Sellers was the only man from his school district to file for this office. St. George, named to represent Southport School District, is serv ing at present as a member of the board having been named to succeed Ray H. Walton, who re signed when he went to Raleigh as Senator from this district. Walton had succeeded him on the board when St. George resigned two years ago. This was before his business made it necessary for him to be absent from the county for several months. Prior to that he had served for four years as a board member. Ralph Phelps of Southport was the only man from Smithville township to file for the board of education last spring. Another house bill in which there was particular interest dur ing the past week was one in troduced by Representative Kirby Sullivan dealing with the dis posal of px-operty that washed or was blown on the premises of other owners, particularly during Continued On' Page Two Methodist Youth Launch Program Christian Witness Mission For Brunswick Sub-Dis trict Will Be Held During Coming Week-End Young people of four Methodist churches in Brunswick county will participate in Christian Wit ness Mission this week end, with Trinity Methodist Church in Southport being the center of op erations. Other churches participating are Bethel Methodist Church of Bo livia, Town Creek Methodist Church and Shiloh. The plan of visitation is to have one local youth and one visitor in each visitation team. The young people may also have the assist ance of their adult counselors. Purpose of the mission is find unchurched youth in the com munities of the participating churches ;to enroll them in the 1 youth fellowship; lead them to a commitment to Christ and help them to witness, according to the : | Rev. R. H. Jordan, pastor of the •j Southport church. He said the i, program is part of a nation-wide I effort of Methodist churches. |C Waccamaw Work Delayed By Water D. W. Sneeder of the Coast wide Construction Company stated this week that he will begin work on the Waccamaw snag and debris removal job just as soon as the water in the stream falls enough to permit locating some of the snags, logs and rafts that are to be removed. If this work is attempted during a period of high water, he pointed out, the workmen will be unable to locate a lot of obstructions. The water is not abnormally high now, but Sneeden thinks it will have to go down about three feet lower than it is before the required work can be done. Schedule Revival For Mill Creek The Rev. McKenney Cobble Will Be Guest Minister At Revival Beginning On Sunday, March 27 Rev. W. F. Naylor, pastor of Mill Creek Baptist church has an nounced that beginning Sunday morning, March 27, and con tinuing through April 1, Rev. Mc Kenney Cobble will be guest preacher at the series of services to be held at the church. The Rev. Mr. Cobble is pastor of Gillespie Avenue Baptist Church at Knoxville, Tenn. He re ceived his education at the Car son-Newman College at Jefferson City, Tenn. He was with the Home Mission Board for 6 years, working in Kentucky and Tennes see. He has several churches in (Continued on page four) Trash Dumping May Be Serious Southport Residents Who Have Been Dumping Gar bage On Highway Right Of-Way And Private Pro perty May Be In Trouble It is a violation of the State laws to dump garbage anywhere on the shoulders or on the right of-way of any highway, and this week Corporal O. H. Lynch of the State Highway Patrol called at this office to ask the coope ration of the public in this mat ter. He stated that at several places on the old River Road, in the Southport city limits and out as far as the Magnolia Dairy, people have been dumping garbage on the shoulders of the road. To prove his point, he carried a newsman around on this stretch of River. Road ana pointed out 11 different places where garbage had been dumped. “This looks bad,” said the of ficer, “and I am being compelled to take action against such of fenders if they can be caught.” He asked that law abiding resi dents and people traveling the road report any instance where they see anyone dumping garbage on the shoulders of this and other roads. I Town and county officers are also being asked to assist in .curbing this practice of dumping ; garbage by arresting or report ing anyone they see dumping on any highways shoulders or right Continued On Page Two Closing Dates For Cotton And Peanut Farmers Final Date For Releasing Peanut Allotment Is Now April 25; Farmers Urged To Release If Not Plant ing THE SAME PRINCIPLE APPLIES TO COTTON Brunswifck ASC Leaders Urge Growers Either To Grow Acreage Or Re lease It Fbr Benefit Of Others On March 3, the N. C, State ASC Cpmmittee changed the pre viously established closing date for release and reapportionment of peanut acreage for the state. The closing date for accepting released allotments from Bruns wick county peanut growers is, April 25,. The final date for applying for reapportionment if released allotments by peanut growers wishing to harvest more acreage in 1955 is May 5. Lonnie Evans, chairman, urges all Brunswick county peanut pro ducers to release their acreage if they are not going to plant it, so as to keep the county’s acre age up as well as their own. March 25 has been set as the date for releasing cotton acreage for use by other farmers in Brunswick county. In Narth Carolina, 74,819 acres of cotton allotment were not planted last year, and were not released for planting by other farwers. This is definitely money out of the farmer’s pocket, and income lost to the county and state that is needed at this time. Farmers are urged to put to this practice that is costing North Carolina future acreage in its traditionally important money crop. Under the law individual al lotment are made on the basis The law providing for release of cotton acreage, however, permits the farmer to retain his fu4 planting history for the refesSSw, providing he has planted as much as one-tenth of an acre during one of the previous two year. For this reason underplanting this year can cost the farmer up to one-third of this planting history unless he releases all acreage that will not be used. This can also cost him considerably in lost in come. Beach Building Nearing Hundred Census Taken Sunday Indi cates That Building Has Reached Three - Quarters Mark Toward This Goal E. F. Middleton of Charleston, S. C., and Long Beach made the statement this past week that there will be more than a hundred homes ready for use at Long Beach by the first of June. His statement sounded some thing in the order of optimism, despite the fact that it is known that rebuilding is at something of a boom stage. Just to see for themselves, a representative of the State Port Pilot and Tommy Thompson of T. F. Scholes, Inc., went down the beach Sunday aft ernoon and checked on develop ments. Putting things in several cater gories: The half a dozen homes that were left by the storm; houses that were swept away from their original locations and Continued On Page Two Preacher REV. FRANK ROBINSON will be visiting evangelist for the serv ices at the Bqiivia Baptist Church, March 27 through April 3. Rev. Mr. Robinson was pastor near Roanoake Rapids for several years. He is now pastor of the Oxley Baptist Church near Ashe ville. He attended Southwestern Seminary and was the first man to graduate from the Seminary Extension Department. Rev. Rich ard McDuffie, pastor of the church, invites the public to at tend. Sanitary Rules Affect Building In The County Regulations Governing In stallation Of Plumbing And Sepitic Tanks Partic ularly Important On All Brunswick Beaches The Brunswick County Health Department has drawn up the fol lowing set of regulations govern ing installation of plumbing and septic tanks; and they are ex pected to be of particular interest to owners of beach property who are now rebuilding: “It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to install or build any residential or other type of sewage disposal plant or plumbing at any resi dence, storehouse, factory, or other place of residence or busi ness in the county of Brunswick without first obtaining a permit from the Health Officer of Brunswick County or his duly au thorized agent, provided that this section shall not apply to any sewage treatment plant which will or may treat sewage from more than 15 persons . . . “It shall be unlawful for any plumber or other person to in stall any plumbing fixture of any nature in any residence, store house, factory, or other building in any unsewered area within the City of Southport, or the Coun ty of Brunswick, unless written permission be obtained from the County Health Officer or his duly authorizzed agent. Permits for the installation of kitchen sinks, lavatories, commodes, and bath tubs which are to be installed in buildings in unsewered areas shall in no case be granted unless it is clearly shown that the discharge from such fixtures will be hand led in such a manner as not to cause a nuisance, or to become offensive or annoying to the nei ghboring citizen, or in any man ner jeopardize the health and comfort of the community in which the installation is made. “Any residential sewage dis posal plant installed in the Co unty of Brunswick, shall be con structed under the supervision of the County Health officer or his duly authorized agent. “Any septic tank installed in (Continued on Page 2) W. B. KESOAH 0111* ROVING Reporter Senator Ray Walton is not very optimistic about an early adjourn ment of the legislature. He thinks it will be about the middle of May before they get away from Raleigh. A long stay there does not hold out a pleasing prospect to either him or his colleagues To make matters worse in his case his legal business here is piling up on him at such a rate that he is compelled to put in all of his week end time at home including Sundays, attending to the things that accumulate during the five days he spends in Ra leigh each week. The Connie Sue, Long Beach summer home of Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Smith of Siler City, was among those destroyed in the storm. The couple was among the first starting to build themselves a new home, and they have been building right where the old one was. For the past few weeks Mrs. Smith has been here and at the beach most of the time, sort of supervising the construction busi ness, while Mr. Smith remained at Siler City with his undertaking business. Last Wednesday at one o’clock Mrs. Smith decided to drive to Siler City to see how things were getting along there (Continued on Page Four) Better Hurry Up To Sunny Point Official Word From U. S. Engineers Office Indicates That Period For Unrestricted Visiting May End Soon Word from Colonel R. L. Hill Monday of this week, was to re mind the public that they can visit and see Sunny Point now but that it will soon be closed to the general run of visitors. In fact ,it appears likely that guards will be placed at Dock 2 by the first of April. This is in dicative that the public will not be allowed on No. 2 after that date. At the present time no part of the huge installation is closed to the public, except there on the docks. The docks are only open to workmen .officials and visitors acompanied by some authorized person. These restricted visits on the docks were created by the Dia mond Construction Company and are intended to prevent possible injury to visitors and interfer ence with workmen on the dock. The Army Engineers are perfect ly willing for visitors to inspect the terminals. At the same time the engineers have rigid safety rules for the contractors doing the work and the contractors in turn have to maintain a measure of safety rules for visitors. Since the start of operations the Diamond Company and all other contractors at the installa tion have been showing the vis itors the utmost consideration, but the Diamond folks have had to exercise reasonable safety pre cautions by seeing that unescorted and unauthorized persons do not drive or walk over the big docks. Authorized to take interested visitors anywhere, W. B. Keziah of the The Pilot office will be glad to accompany and show in terested visitors over the docks and other places. He says, how ever .that he does not know how long he will be allowed to con tinue escorting these visitors to some points of installation. Crisp Not Held By Coroner Jury -1 Polio Vaccine May Be Given Children enrolled in the first and second grades of schools in Brunswick county will have an opportunity to be innoculated against infantile paralsis if present plans of the Brunswick County Health Department materialize. This work will not be done without the written consent of the parents, and slips already have been sent out by the students for their signature. The other uncertain factor is the supply of vaccine, and if this is available the treat ment will be given to children for whom permission has been granted. The health department has changed the day for the clinic in Southport to Tuesday after noon each week .beginning at 1 o’clock. The Shallotte plinic is held each Friday, starting at 1:30 o’clock. Recorder Hears Traffic Cases Another Busy Day Spent In Brunswick County Recor der’s Court Monday With Traffic Cases Predominat ing Another full day was required to dispose of the cases in Bruns wick county Recorder’s court here Monday, with the following judge ments being rendered: Roy McMillan .operating truck of excessive height, fined $10 and costs. Boyd Haward Harris, speeding (65-mph) fined $10 and costs. Tom Griffin Gunn, speeding (65-mph) fined $10 and costs. Willard Clifton Lewis, allowing minor to operate car, taxed with costs. William King, assault on fe male, 30 days on roads, previous judgment of 30 days invoked to run consecutively with this sen tence. Clara Miller, assault with dead i ly weapon, 30 days in jail. Walter McCrae, assault on fe male, 30 days in jail, suspended on good behavior for two years and payment of costs. James H. Faircloth, speeding (55-mph with truck) fined $10 and costs. Cecil Overton Pickett, reckless operation, speeding, fined $25 and costs. Joseph Taylor, expired opera tor’s license, fined $25 and costs, fine remitted as defendant has acquired operators license. William Franklin Bird, speed ing (70-mph) fined $15 and costs. Eloise Todd, no operator’s li cense, fined $25 and costs. Albert Coolidge Hughes, allow ing unlicensed person to operate car, costs. Sarah James Randall, no opera tors license, fined $25 and costs. Arthur Berritt Thompson, speeding (65-mph) fined $10 and costs. Raymond Gause, drunk and dis continued On Page Two Following Hearing Friday Night At Leland Verdict Rendered Freeing Defen dant For Fatal Shooting Wednesday Morning SOLICITOR BURNEY MAY PRESENT BILL He Indicates That He Will Present Bill Of Indict ment Before Grand Jury At May Term Of Court A Brunswick county coroner’s jury Friday night voted to free R. E, Crisp, Leland automobile dealer, of criminal responsibility for the fatal shooting last Wed nesday morning of James Anthony Ferreri. The inquest was held at Crisp Motor Co., near the scene of the shooting. Prior to the hearing Crisp had been held under a $2,500 bond. Since the trial Solicitor J. J Burney, Jr., has been quoted as saying that he will send a bill be fore the Brunswick county grand jury at the May-term asking that Crisp be indicted for murder. Evidence presented at the hear ing Friday night came from Sher iff Elbert H. Gray, D. M. Parker, Patrolman Seth Thomas and Mike Poliak. Gray gave a report of his in vestigation into the fatal shooting. Parker, who was with Crisp as he went into his used car lot to search for intruders and who was an eye-witness to the shoot ing, gave a detailed report of the occurance. Patrolman Thomas re ported his activities following his arrival upon the scene of the shooting. The longest account was given by the 16-year-old Poliak, who Continued On Page Two Solons Working On Water Need Critical Situation Looms For Long Beach Development Unless Help Comes From Federal Source Information is to the effect that Senator Sam Erwin, Senator Kerr Scott, Congressmen Ertel Carlyle and Congressman C. B. Deane are working on a Disaster Relief project that is intendend to relieve the Long Beach water problem created by the storm in October. The Long Beach Water Com pany had several miles of 2-inch water mains given to the operat ing company and the beach in 1947. There were also two good wells that provided an abundant supply of water. The projects is one for new piping and this will cost about 90 cents per foot or $5,000 per mile. The project is to obtain about 6 miles of piping, or about $35,000 in cost. The water from the beach well is said to be etirely o. k., but further use of the 2-ich pipe is called out of the question when the matter of the need is to be n^et. An effort is being made to obtain 6-inch pipe of the same Continued On Page Two Name Workers In Red Cross Fund Campaign The Rev. L. D. Hayman, Chairman Of The Annual Fund Drive In Brunswick County This Year DIRECTORS FROM EVER YSECTION These People Who Have Assumed Responsibility For Drive To Remain As Permanent Direc tors The Rev. L. D. Hayman, Direc tor of the Red Cross fund raising campaign for Brunswick County, has completed the organization and the workers are out in their respective areas making house-to house calls for membership enroll ment in the Brunswick Chapter. The membership enrollment card goes to exeryone making a con tribution of one dollar or more. According to announcement of the Rev. Mr. Hayman, a repre sentative group of citizens has been secured as directors in the program and will continue as di rectors of the chapter, composing the governing board, and will be confirmed at the annual meeting which takes place at the end of the fund raising drive. Ray Walton is president of the chapter and Mrs. J. M. Harper, vice-president. Mrs. Robert Will ing is treasurer, Mrs. Donald Ty dings is Home Service Director, the Rev. Mr. Hayman is acting chapter secretary and director of the Fund Raising Program. The full board of directors in addition the officers just named are as follow: L. C. Babson, Free land: Mrs. Davis Herring, South port; Cleon Evans, Ash; Mrs. Ed ward Wessel, Leland; Mrs. E. G. Goodman, Town Creek Area; Mrs. Early Danford, Bolivia; Mrs. Irma Holden, Supply; Mrs. Joe Ram seur, Ortan-Pleasant Oaks; Guy McKeithan, Shallotte-Grissettown; Mrs. Lottie Chadwick, Village Point-Gause Landing Road; Mrs. Joyce Young, Hickman Cross roads; Mrs. Annie A. Montgomery, Negro population of tl>e county. These directors have been given the power to name their respec tive local helpers for the fund raising effort. As soon as these persons are secured, their name* Continued On Page Two Southport Man Gets New Post Joel Moore, Jr., Has Accep ted Position As Executiva Director Of Orlando, Fla., Convention Bureau Joel L. Moore, Jr., son of Mr, and Mrs. Joel Moore of South port, has been appointed Exe cutive Director of the Orlando (Fla) Convention Burea. Until his appointment to this position he was with the Miami Beach Convention Bureau, where he was assistant to the director. Mr. Moore is 28-years old and is a graduate of the Southport High School and of the Citadel at Charleston, S. C. He served in the Merchant Marine as an engineering officer during World War II. Following his graduation from college he entered the Army and was a company commander in Korea where he was decorated with the Bronze Star for meri orioas service. Continued On Page 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, March 24 7:59 A. M. 1:52 A. M. 8:19 P. M. 2:08 P. M. Friday, March 25 8:45 A.M. 2:40 A M. 9:08 P. M. 2:54 P. M. Saturday, March 26 9:34 A. M. 3:28 A. M. 9:59 P. M. 3:39 P. M. Sunday, March 27 .... 10:25 A. M. 4:19 A. M. 10:53 P. M. 4:29 P. M. Monday, March 2K 11:21 A. M. 5:14 A. M. 11:50 P. M. 5:23 P. M. Tuesday, March 29 00:00 A. M. 6:12 A. M. 12:23 P. M. 6:23 P. M. Wednesday, March 30 0:53 A. M. 7:15 A. M. 1:28 P. M. 7:29 P. M.
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