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Most Of The News All The Time Volume No. 1 7 A Good Newspape No. 40 8-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNE A Good Community The Pilot Covers Brunswick County , APRIL 20, 1955 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY $1.50 PER YEAR Detail Method Of Disposing Of Excess Acreage Farmers Will Receive Not ice Of Measured Acreage And Arrangements For Remeasurement And Che cking Must Be Made ENFORCEMENT TO BE STRICT THIS YEAR Farmers Warned That Over planting Will Draw Ex tra Penalty Under 1955 Regulations Brunswick county farmers are being reminded of the 39-percent penalty for excess tobacco this year and detailed information is being furnished as to how to check acreage and make proper disposition of any overage. The 1955 tobacco acreage will in all cases be measured and com puted in acres and hundredths of acres. Farmers will be notified of the measured acreage in acres and hundredths of acres. There will be hundredths tolerance above the allotment. Any excess acre age will be computed in hun dredths and all of the acreage in excess of the aoltment must be disposed of to avoid the market ing quota penalty on such acreage and to be eligible for price sup port. A group may request remeas urement of his 1955 tobacco acre age provided a request for re measurement is filed with the County ASC office within 5 days from the date of the notice of measured acreage and at the same time he pays the estimated cost of remeasuring the acreage. The chaige for remeasuring will be $.70 cents per acre to be remeas ured or $6.00 per farm, which ever is greater. A producer may not request remeasurement of only a part of the acreage on the farm in which he has 100-percent in terest or in which he and one other producer share a 100 per cent interest. A farmer may dispose of any excess acreage to come within his allotment provided he notifies the County ASC Office within five days from the date of the notice of measured acreage of his inten tion to dispose of the excess acre age and provided the excess acre age is disposed of within one (Continued on Page Four) Brief Bits Of LNEWSJ HOLDING REVIVAL The Rev. R. H. Jordan is out of town this week, holding a re vival at Longhurst, a church near Roxboro. IN NEW YORK Col. William A. McAleer, Com mander of SPAALT, spent part of last week in New York City on business in connection with the local installation. OPENS LAUNDRY T. R. Farmer, a laundryman and dry cleaner with several years of experience in Wilmington, has moved to Southport with his fam ily and has opened the MacRay Cleaners here in the building ad joining Bennett s Superette. NOT DREW LONG Two weeks ago there appeared in The Pilot an account of a set of faulty handcuffs, and it was reported that former Deputy Sheriff Drew Long was the vic tim. This was in error. The man who was caught in his own hand cuffs was Constable D. A. Long of Shallotte township. REVIVAL SERVICES A revival service began Mon day evening and is continuing each evening of the week through Friday at Shiloh Methodist Church near Maco .The guest minister is Rev. J. T. Fisher, pastor of the J Shallotte Circuit Methodist! Churches. Services begin each eve- j ning at 7:45 o’clock. The public' is cordially invited to attend. three generations Three generations of the same | family were represented in the three people who cam into the fellowship of Southport Baptist Church this past Sunday evening. Mrs. Helen Estelle Nichols rep resented the first generation. She is living here in Southport with her son, Herbert Nichols. Along with Mrs. Nichols there were her daughter, Mrs. D. A. Baker, and I her granddaughter, Miss Bonny Baker. To the people of the i church it was a happy occasion ' to welcome all three generations | into the membership of the church at the same time. Brunswick Girl Honored In+tP PRPMOT^?t~L«- Lu'a G‘ Freehof> native of Shal R°tte’ wh° wJVAF officer stationed at Dobbins Air Force Base, Manetta, Ga., is shown as she receives her silver oars from Major Charles O. Taylor. County Children Get Polio Shots Brunswick County Health Department Nurses Be gan Job Of Immunizing Brunswick County First And Second Graders Tues day PERMISSION OF PARENTS NEEDED More Than 600 Children For Whom Parental Per mission Was Received Being Given First Treatment Brunswick County Health De partment personnel started Tues day on the task of innoculating more than 600 Brunswick county first and second graders against polio. Southport physicians, Dr. F. M. Burdette, Dr. L. ti. Brown and Dr. N. M. Hornstein, are co j operating, with one of them being present at each clinic. Health department authorties urge that mothers of first and second graders, who have previou sly been signed for the vaccine, see that their children are in school on the days the shots are scheduled to be given. Health department teams, with cooperation of the county board of education will get the children to the immunization centers. Full cooperation is urged by school and health officials to facilitate effective operation of the vacc inations. Hopes for immunization against the dreaded crippling disease were culminated April 12, the 10th anniversary of the death of President Franklin Roosevelt, by the announcement that the vac cine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk of the University of Pittsburgh, was 80 to 90 percent effective. Previously, health centers thro ughout the nation, including Brun swick county, had obtained per missions from parents of first and second graders to give the shots in the event the serum was found successful and was licensed by the National Institutes of Health. The serum was developed under a grant from the National Found ation for Infantile Paralysis. The foundation, financed largely by the annual March of Dimes, was dramatically led by President Continued On Page Four) New Construction Firm Moving In Boyle Construction Com pany Will Build Guard Roads And Erect Fence ; About Reservation iWth their grading and earth | moving equipment due to arrive ! here the later part of this week, | the Boyle Construction Corpora- | tion of Sumter, S. C., is planning to launch full scale operations on their 13 miles of Sunny Point , road building Monday of next week. Clearing the right of way in ad- j: vance of the equipment, a force ! of men has been at work this j week. They started just above and j . opposite the administration head- ; quarters. The first building opera- j tions will be from there towards j j where Walden Creek empties into ! I the Cape Fear'. This road will be for patrol j cars only. It will not be paved i but a heavy base of cr ushed stone j i Continued On Page Two I McLean Company Seeks Franchise Columbus and Brunswick counties have been among the few in which the McLean Trucking Company of Win ston-Salem has had no fran chise to do trucking business. There is now a possibility of this condition being remedied soon. At a meeting of the State Utilities Commission in Ra leigh last week the company made application for franchise in both counties. Officials of Leder Brothers at Whiteville appeared before the commis sion in behalf of granting the franchise and from Southport E. C. Blake, Dan Harrelson and Ormand Leggett made up the representation for Bruns wick. It is supposed the peti tions will be granted in due course. Baptist Women Meet At Goshen Annual Associational Meet ing Of Brunswick Baptist Missionary Union Held At Leland Church Last Week The Brunswick Baptist Woman’s j Missionary Union held its annual associational meeting at Goshen Baptist Church, Leland, on Wed nesday, with Mrs. M. T. Mc Rackan, Associational Missionary, in charge due to the absence of ) Mrs. Ivey Gore, superintendent. After a period-of soft music by Mrs. Dick Sanders, pianist of the Goshen Church, and the singing of the hymn “I Love To Tell the Story”, the Rev. Joe Stanley, Pas tor of the Goshen Church, and Mrs. Leonard, president of the Goshen W. M. U., brought greet ings. The Rev. Henry Register of the Supply Church brought the Bible meditation and Mt. Olive Baptist Church presented special music, which was followed by a prayer. Mrs. McRackan then appointed the various committees for the day and recognized the visitors, among whom were Mrs. J. D. Freeman of Wilmington and her guest, Mrs. English; Miss Dorothy Troast of New Jersey, Mrs J. D. Franks of Zurich, Switzerland, and Miss Janet Wilson, State Young Peoples Secretary from Ra leigh. Mrs. McRackan then presented the W. M. U. pin which had been awarded to the Superintendent of the Brunswick W. M. U. at the State meeting in Asheville in March because the association had met the Standard of Excellence and had reached its goals. The theme of the meeting was ■‘Telling the Story” and this theme was explained by Mrs. 1 Odessa Stanley telling about W. ’ M. U. work as a whole in the Association: by Mrs. M. T. Me- 1 Rackan reporting on Mission i Study; Mrs. Odell Blanton re porting on Community Missions; and Mrs. Ruby Reaves on Stew ardship. Posters and charts were used by these ladies to help the < members better visualize the wor k ,; being accomplished, and the needs ; yet to be met. After the singing of “We’ve A < Story To Tell”, Mrs. Lindsey1 < Clemmons and Mis. L. J. Me- ; (Continued On Page Four) ' < Baptists Plan Vacation Bifc School Giles Two Sessions Will B# eld For Purpose Of Trang Daily Vacation 1 blc School Workers Fofc >b MATERIALS WILL BE DISTRIBIED 'f Leaders Point Out Im>rt ance Of Preparation® ir Tra:-t;rnr Program \Wh Will Follow This Year All the churches of the Bns wick Baptist Association are sh ed to participate in the vkeion Bible School Clinics to be eld Thursday, April 28, at 'wn Creek Baptist Church and Sur day, April 30, at Supply Ba'Jst Church, both beginning at 1 a. m. The clinic at Town C3ek will be over not later than :30 p. m. and the one at Supplynot later than 1 p. m. Everyon is asked to bring a lunch, and dnks will be served by the host chich. The principal's package ind other important materials wi be available at these clinics. The program is as follows: ;eg istration at 10 o’clock. COi er snees as follows: General Off ers —Mrs. Margaret McRackanr Tur sery workers—Mrs. Juanita Ves cott; Beginner Workers —|jiiss Anita Sellers, Mrs. A. W. C ni mons and Mrs. Gola McKeitTin; Primary Workers — Mrs. Auos Splawn; Junior Workers —Kirs. Leroy Hooks; and Intermed te Workers- Mrs. Linnie Hufham Pastors leading in the devotion al and character stories are the Rev. Richard McDuffie, Rev. I.ec Hawkins and Rev. Henry Register, The pianist will be Mrs. Wahl and song leader will be L. V. Walton, Local churches will save a lot of time later by taking time now n getting workers enlisted and pres ent to be trained in one of these Long Beach To Be Incorporated Action Will Take Place B] Act Of Legislature Thii Week Unless Some Unfor seen Opposition Develops Following a course on whicl there appears to be completi unity on the part of the property owners, Representative Kirby Sul livan will introduce a bill thii .veek incorporating the Town of Long Beach and appointing 6 commissioners to serve two years each. This board of commissioners vill elect a mayor. At the expiration of the terms of these officials the vacancies ■vill be filled at a regular munici pal election. Representative Sullivan express ed no doubt of the bill quickly going through the House. Senator Ray Walton was equally confident of a speedy passage through the) Senate. The measure is said to be aH most identical with the bill that; incorporated Yaupon Beach. Tins bill was first introduced in the; Senate by Senator Ray Waltonj and quickly passed both Senate) and House. Yaupon Beach is some 400 acres of beach and wooded land bark of it on the eastern side of Long Beach. It was formerly a part of the Caswell Carolina lands and was sold to E. F. Middleton and E. P, Middleton, Jr., of Long Beach. Later it was purchased from the Long Beach owners by Barbee's Incorporated. (Continued on page fourl Preacher mm KEV. H. M. BAKER, former pastor of Southport Baptist Church, now of Warsaw, will be gin a series of revival services Monday evening, April 25* at Shallotte Baptist Church. Services will continue each evening at 7:30 o'clock through Sunday, May 1. There will be no service on Sat urday night. First Bluefish Of Season Are Big 2-Pounders Capt. Basil Watts Reports First Catch Of These Choice Game Fish On Saturday Trip And Again Monday The first li)55 bluefish are here and Captain Basil Watts of the Idle-On II made the first strike Saturday. His party brought in 51 of the fighting fish that are esteemed for both the battle they put up and for their food value. Monday Captain Watts with an other party brought in 45 more tjIueE*. along with other fish. r The Botfly, Captain Leon Mc Kt'ithan, and Captain Hulan Watts of the Idle-On IV also made good catches Saturday and Monday. All of these catches were made | under unfavorable bluefishing con : ditions. Saturday through Monday ! the wind was from the northeast. Tuesday, for the first time in re cent days, the wind veered around to the south and brought ideal ^conditions for fishing. As luck would have it, not a single boat had parties to take out yesterday. Captain Leon McKeithan said i yesterday that the indications point to there being a lot of the Continued On Page Four? Dredge Bought By Local Man Small Pipeline Dredge Is Launched At Davis Creek After Being Brought In From Plant On Truck Launched on Davis Creek with ease after being unloaded from a huge machine carrier, a small but powerful dredge was delivered I to Davis Herring, Southport at ] torney, this week. Another motor | carrier brought in 1500-feet, of disposal piping at the same time. Monday was the first time the boat had ever touched water but it was on an even keel this mor ning and a close examination re vealed that not a drop of water had seeped in. She is slightly down at the bow as a result of the heavy digger boom. The load ing of equipment at the stern will remedy that. Herring bought the dredge di i Continued on page four) W. B. KK/JAH Our ROVING The Brunswick County Training School Band is giving its annual tand concert in its school auditor um tonight (Wednesday). This rand organized and directed by S. S. Higgs, Jr., last year has a ot of excellent young performers. Kolks wlio have seen and heard :he young folks in action say that :hose attending tonight’s event ue in for some good entertain nent. Jerry Ball, Archie Thornton, oH Charlotte and B. P. Meglaughliitj if New York are the entertainei s it the Shallotte High School Fiv iay night. The school gets every thing that comes through the gate. The performers get nothing except to go fishing with us while they are down here. The Esso Company even pays for the prizes at the show. They are all three j mighty fine public relations men. | Meglaughlin was attracted all the way from New York by the good I work that Ball and Thornton have done down here on previous visits, j He is described to us as especially | wanting to see Sunny Point. Ball has already partially prepared for Meglaughlin’s visit with us. We have received from him a huge box of 15-cent cigars to smoke. Continued On Page Two Two Flags Flying Above Garrison U. S. Flag; And Flag Of U. S. Army Transporta tion Corps Now Being Dis played Daily in South port Monday morning marked an epoch in the history of the aged Garrison House at Fort Johnston when, for the first time in his tory, the Stars and Stripes flew over this historic building. His torically the Flag of Great Britain most probably has been flown over this building and perhaps the Stars and Bars of the Confedera cy, but it is believed that the only times that the American Flag was flown at Fort Johnston was on a pole erected on the lawn in front of the building. The Garrison House, from which both the American Flag and the Flag of the Transportation Corps of' the U. S. Army are now fly ing, is all that remains of his toric Fort Johnston, built in 1748, burned in 1775, rebuilt in 1794. The only physical property now remaining is the site and the garrison house which is said to have been officers quarters. The building, constructed of brick and with walls about two feet thick, is in an excellent state of pre servation. It is not known defin itely whether it was a part of the original Fort or whether it originated in the rebuilding in 1794. On April 1st, 1955 the garrison COL. W.M. A. Me A LEER house was occupied as a tem porary headquarters of the Sunny Point Army Ammunition Loading Terminal under the Command of Colonel William A. McAleer, TC, U. S. Army. Occupation of the (Continued on Page 4) Mass Meeting Is Scheduled Here First Ship Docks 1 At Sunny Point Late Tuesday afternoon the Heishburg, a German-owned freighter, achieved the dis tinction of becoming the first ship ever to dock at the Sun ny Point Terminal. Her cargo of greenheart timbers, consigned to the Dia mond Construction Company, is being unloaded today. One of the Diamond’s big floating cranes is assisting the ship’s winches in the unloading op erations. Captain John D. Swan of the Cape Fear Pilots Asso ciation piloted the Heisburg to the dock, the trip in and mooring being made without incident. It is understood the ship will be unloaded and ready for departure early Thursday morning. Lengthy Session Of Court Held Cases That Had Piled Up From Last Week When Superior Court Was In Session Heard Monday There was a big back log of cases that piled up for Recorder's court last week when Superior court was in session. The follow ing judgements were handed down: Sidney Hewett, nol prossed with leave upon argrement that de fendant would pay $20 per month to the support of his fourth child, the mother to assume custody of all 4 children and the $20 being in addition to the $60 that the defendant is already paying for the support of his other 3 minor i children each month. Glenn T. Hampton, speeding (70-mph) fined $15 and costs. Paul Price, speeding (70-mph) I fined $15 and costs, $5 of fine i being remitted because of mitigat- ! ing circumstances. Donald Hulan Huffham, failing to secure load properly, fined $10 : and costs. Eddie Thomas Brown, carrying concealed weapon, fined $10 and costs. ; James McLean Hall, possession, : fined $10 and costs. < Thomas Eugene Ausion, speed- : ing (65-mph) fined $10 and costs, i Willie Quentin Etheridge, speed ing (75-mpli) fined $25 and costs. 1 Elisha Simpson, speeding (55- : mph) fined $10 and costs. Costs i remitted on evidence of incorrect i speedometer reading. Richard Carlton Patterson, 1 speeding (65-mph) fined $10 and costs. James Franklin Binnerman, speeding (70-mph) fined $15 and < (Continued on Page 4) Representative Of Local Government Commission Will Explain City Manag er Plan Of Government Thursday Night BOOKS CLOSE IN RACE FOR OFFICE Robinson Will Oppose Gil bert For Mayor; Contest Develops For Aider man In Third Ward Citizens of Southport are urged to attend a mass meeting that has been scheduled for 7:30 o’clock Thursday night in the courthouse. Leigh H. Wilson, of the N. C. League of municipalities, will be present to explain the City Manager Form of Govern ment, an issue that will be voted upon by the voters of this town at the city election on May 3. It will not be the purpose of the speaker to attempt to sell the citizens on the idea of adopt ing the new play of government. He will explain its operation and will give an account of exper iences in other communities where the change has been made. There will be a period for questions and answers. With the deadline for filing for eity offices last Saturday a race developed for aldermen in the third ward. G. E. Hubbard filed to succeed himself, and others to file are Boyd Moore, Ernest Parker and Clinton Bellamy. Only two men filed in the first ward, incumbent Harold Aldridge and Charles Aldridge. There also were two candidates in the second ward. G. C. Kilpatrick and Or nond Leggett. Promotion For Brunswick Girl Lula G, Freehof Advanced To Rank Of First Lieu tenant In WAF; Now Stationed At Marietta, Ga. The promotion of Lula G. Free hof, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arren T .Cox, Shallotte, to the rank of First Lieutenant was an nounced recently by Colonel Irby V. Tedder, Base Commander. Lieutenant Freehof, the former Lula Cox, attended Shallotte High School, graduating with the class of 1950. Soon after her graduation she entered the Air Force and re ceived basic training at Lackland AF Base, Texas. Following a brief but full career as an airman, she attended Air Force ACS school j and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant . Upon her arrival at Dobbins, j home of the Dixie Wing, Geor gia's only active Air Force Re serve Training Wing, she was as- j signed as military personnel offi- j cer of the 2589th Air Rerserve (Coutinued on Rage 4) Red Cross Fund Drive Extended Through Month Survey Made Of Campaign Progress Monday Indica ted General Response To Appeal For 1955 Fund Drive SOLICITATION IN SOUTHPORT BEGINS 1 he Rev. L. D Hayman, Chairman Of Campaign, Sees Good Prospect That County Quota Will Be Attained The last days of April will be devoted to a round-up of contribu tions to the Red Cross Drive in an effort to reach the Brunswick County quota of $1,900, said the Rev. L. D. Hayman, chairman of the campaign, this week. He thinks that all reports will be in by April 29. The chairman made a tour of Brunswick county Monday in Company with District Field Di rector Frank Hollowell and he was well pleased with response that has been reported in several areas. One of the best, he says, is at Bolivia, where Mrs. Lottie Danford has collected $64.40, a sum that is more than has pre viously been raised from that community. The Rev. Mr. Hayman also reports increased interest at Shallotte Village Point and in other coastal sections of Bruns WICK. Of the $1,900-quota, the chair man estimated that he had final reports that total about $500 on Monday. The Rev. Mr. Hayman reports that he is pleased with the coun ty-wide organization that has been set up. Its function, he says, is to bring to the attention of the public the obligation citizens of this area have to show their appreciation for the unselfish service that Red Cross Disaster i headquarters provided following Hurricane Hazel on last October 15. Expenditures in Brunswick totaled $270,000 during that per iod, he recalls. The chairman asks that any person who has not been contact ed and who desires to make a contribution simply place a check in an envelope and address it to him at Southport. Record Raids Made On Stills Brunswick County Officers Cooperate With ATU Men To Bring Destruction To 10 Outfits Bootleggers in Northwest town ship and probably in some other parts of the county, may have gotten one of the big scares of their lives Monday. If they didn’t they should have at thinking that the same thing may happen to them. Sheriff Gray, his deputies and ATU officers from New Hanover county made a wholesale raid or raids in Northwest. The close of the day’s work showed them with 10 whiskey stills taken and de stroyed; 3,400 gallons of mash destroyed and 1 gallon of whis key. In addition they seized a 1947 Ford and captured two men, John J. Murphy and Jesse Coe, both negroes of the Leland com munity. The ATU men took both ne (Continued on Page Four) Following Is the tide &ble for Southport during the next week. These hours are approxi mately correct and were furn ished The State Fort Pilot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot’s Association. High Tide Low Till* Thursday, April 21, 6:42 A. M. 0:42 P. M. 7:09 P. M. 12:55 P. M. Friday, April 22, 7:34 A. M.' 1:33 A. M. 8:00 P. M. 1:43 P. M. Saturday, April 23, 8:26 A. M. 2:24 A. 8:52 P. M. 2:32 P. Sunday, April 24, 9:20 A. M. 3:15 A. 9:46 P. M. 3:21 P. Monday, April 25, 10:15 A. M. ' 4:0S A. 10:41 P. M. 4:14 P. Tuesday, April 26, 11:13 A. M. 5:03 A. 11:39 P. M. 5:10 P. Wednesday, April 27, 0:00 A. M. 6:00 A. M 12:15 P. M. 6:10 P. it, ss ss 23: jss
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