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Continued From Tage One Only trouble is that they are too large to get into our mouth. Any how, we believe that everybody who goes to the show at S’nallotte Friday night will be well enter tained. In a note to this paper Joe Cox of High Point was a bit out spoken after coming to Southport and seeing the TJ. S. Government terminals. Joe. a long-time friend of Southport and this are;., said 'in his note: "I think I will write a letter to the State Ports Au thority. suggesting that they move their headquarters to Southport, so they can see what they should have developed instead of More head and Wilmington. Tt took the Federal Government and Bill Keziah to overcome the Atlantic Coast Line and Wilmington politi cians." Mr. Cox may have been putting it a bit rough, but there ■was something in point in what he wrote. The State Port Autho rity would really do well to have its offices here where they can keep in touch with the U S JWmxyTi'unspnrtation Corps. 'novo __ We nearly always have trouble with Stove Worth of Fayetteville when Superior Court is in session and lie comes down to serve as court reporter. Steve asks so many outlandish questions that a fellow is sure to be caught on ■something or another, unless he remembers he has work to do somewhere else. This last week’s term we were forced to the con clusion that Steve is slipping. He asked us how many times we Would have to write the figure 9 if we were ordered to paint con secutive numbers on the doors of a 100 room hotel. We put it at 20 if there was no connecting doors or closet doors in the busi ness. Steve claimed there was only 19 “9s”. Finally getting him cornered in front of Judge Friz zelle, he finally admitted there might be 20 and to change the subject he asked how many living presidents of the United States? Of course, anybody could answer that. The hitch comes along in anybody being dumb enough to ask the question. To those who noted the slow beginning of construction on oceanfront lots at Long Beach it may he encouraging to learn that a count made Sunday showed an even 40 buildings on the front street. This number includes houses that have been moved back and are being repaired and new houses under construction. The second row has had even greater construction activity. We Haven’t counted there, but it is safe to say that I.ong Beach will have more than a hundred homes ready by the first of June. The con st motion has greatly exceeded all expectations early in the year. Just when we were planning to be the first man to catch a fish from the Yaupon Beach pier, word conies that Bus Mc-Gough eny. Red Springs mail carrier, has bought a ticket to fish on the pier. That would be disheartening if it were not for the report that somebody was out on the pier, as far as it now runs. Sunday and that they made a nice catch. This coming Sunday somebody will probably go further out and next Sunday they ran go even further out, and so on. It may be that Bus and your Rovin' Reporter will still have a chance to be the first to make a catch when the pier reaches it’s full 800-feet. We are still betting on ourself. We can watch the pier running out more closely than Bus can. Several Wilmington people and a lot of folks from elsewhere have migrated to Southport in recent weeks, some to live here and some who ate commuting for the pres ent. Among the commuters is Dr. Arnold L. Sobel. optometrist, who spends each Wednesday here. Dr. Sobol appears highly pleased at these one day trips each week in Southport and expects that he will soon have to spend more time here. On the other .side of things, there are a lot of people in the area who ar c really pleased over the fact that when their eyes or glasses go wrong they can get them attended to without having to spend a day going somewhere else. People from all about are in terested and making inquiries with regard to Yaupon Beach. This last week a New Jersey family came in to look the place over with a view of investing. They were much pleased, and during the course of their talk with Mr. Barbee he told them of another New Jersey family living only 15-minutes from them who are in terested in the same thing down here. Before leaving they told Barbee that they were going to contact this other family and that they expected the both of them would be moving in here soon. They had never heard of their interested neighbor until they j came down here. Things sort of run together sometimes'. Sunday at about 1 o’clock we were talking to Mayor J. A. Gilbert about the boat landing ramp that is to be con structed here. An hour later ve ✓'YOUR CAR NEEDS\ | SPRING ' ! ySERVICEy I el i: . remove the dirt nml grime el winter from your ear with the best WAX ami POLISH JOB IN TOWN! Wo i;>.o only tin* finest materials; drive in soon—and fill her up with KSSO ! ! BOB'S ESSO SERVICE-CENTER R. H. (BOB) CONSTANTE, Proprietor PHONE 4821 SOUTHPORT, N, C. were over at Davis Creek on Long Beach and Dr. Smith of Ramseur asked us, "Why does not South port build a boat landing ramp? It would bring a lot of business there. About all of the boats that come to Long Beach each summer would unload and load at South port." Dr. Smith, with some trou ble. had just gotten his beautiful little cabin cruiser out of Davis Creek and had loaded it on his trailer. Talking to Mr .and Mrs. A. Leon Capel of Troy Sunday, Mr. Capel said that the cold got ail of his peaches that were in bloom. There will be very few this year, he said. As for apples, things are a little brighter. Apples bloom just a little later than peaches and not so many were out when the cold came along. The late blooming apples are giving some promise but he is afraid that some of them will fall from the trees without maturing. Apple is a big word with the Troy man. He is said to be the biggest apple grow er in North Carolina. He is said to have fifty thousand apple trees and plenty of peaches. The Capel home on the Big Hills at Long Beach sustained litte damage from the storm. To add to the immediate and generally cheerful outlook locally, it appears that another week or ten days will see the beginning of steady employment to around 200 men at the fish factories and on the boats. This is more or less seasonal work, but in a good year t turns loose a lot of monev in this area. A really good year creates something: tike a neigh borhood boom. Talks with various fishermen gives the idea that this will be a real good fishing year. Don't ask me how those fellows know. We don't know. * ar.d we doubt if they do. But the fact re mains that when they predict a good year we generally have one. The skippers are now predicting a good year, so that must be what is coming up. Shrimpers are predicting the same for their sort of business. Sport fishermen ap pear equally as confident. Maybe there is a lot of wishful thinking in it, but anyhow there is think ing. If will be nothing like as long in coming as Sunny Point was, but Deepwater Point, partly in and partly out of the Southport rity limits, has attention attract ed it again. Something will some day come there and we believe it | will be big. The term again is used without any reservation. At tempts have been made to devel ppe at Deepwater Point and the attempts were politically blocked. Early in World War II the United States Navy spent thousands of dollars there making tests with | the intent of building a great | drydock there. The tests showed ! everything that could be desired. The place was ideal, but the pio ject was killed. The Navy still knows of that area, and even if their plans are still blocked other interests also know of it. We be lieve that before the year is out Deepwater Point will be very much heard from. I Thoughts of those freshwater springs that create Allen Creek cannot be obliterated from the mental picture .There in a 5-mile stretch of stream enough fresh, pure water comes out of the ground each day to float a fleet of battleships. Forty-six million gallons, according to Pat Riley of the State Division of Water Resources. That water, with plen ty more in reserve underground, is wasted, so far as human use is concerned. Now for the first time in history the area of the springs is reached by a railroad. Certainly, it is a military railroad, but that makes little difference. Washington and other sources told us months ago that this military railroad can also be used by pri vate industry in the development of natural resources. The water boiling out of these springs and also found elsewhere in Bruns wick is a great State and Nation al resource. I.ast week a Lumberton banker told us that the beaches in Bruns wick county are coming back, and fast .He was referring specifically to Long Beach, with which he is well acquainted .But his re marks can be applied to any and We Are Now Prepcr!*ig A Plat Cf The YAUPON REACH DEVELOPMENT Which will show the s.zq c:nd location cr c;’i lots, together with the Price of ecch lei. Cci.ne sea this becutirul development, end let us show you how reesonchse eur prices recliy ere. S. T. Bennett, Agent, YAUPON BEACH DEVELOPMENT SOUTHPORT, H. C. INCOME TAX time doesn't worry Jennie E. Lefler. 50. a Salisbury, stonecutter. With 18 de ductions to list, filling out the April 1 due tux form is just a formality. Having such a laige family is a ble-sing in many other ays. too, the I.efters say, and they highly recommend it. The family was eligible for and ro a group rate on hospitalization. all of our bearin'- Figuratively speaking, they are pulling them selves up by their bootstraps from the havoc that the storm sur rounded them with. A few days and for weeks after the storm people who were supposed to be intelligent and w- 11-informed were telling us daily that it would take 50 years for the beaches to come back. We said ‘phooey' to that and we don’t mind saying it again. In a few months our beaches have come back, not yet as big as they were, but by the summer of 1956 they will be bigger than ever before. One thing that has pleased us j a great deal during the past week ; was the number of Brunswick1 farmer friends who stopped us or came to the office to remark on how fast their tobacco plants have been growing undei the impetus of good rains early last week. Thse rains were followed by warm j and growing weather for tobacco j and ali sorts of crops that are lip out of the ground. The last week has been really wonderful for setting out tobacco and doing everything that has to be done on the farms at this season of the year. Like the beach residents after the storm, the farmers have been both been busy and happy.. Having' been raised on a farm, we I can readily guess at the time when the farmer is feeling happy or sad. They are pretty happy row. There may and may not be an opening- here at Southport for a stevedoring- firm. The fact is that several weeks prior to the be ginning of operations SPAAyr will call for bids on the stevedor ing work, and existing or new firms will bid on such work in much the same manner that con tractors bid on construction. The contract, so far as anyone know; may be won by interests a lon. distance from here, or it may b> won by someone here or in Wil mington. One thing that apparent ly balances things as much i:. favor of a new concern as an o one is the seeming fact that tt established firm cannot alterrnt his working force between thi place and that. The terminal he. will have a priority on the serv ices. Even if he is just starting on a job at another place 1 ■ would have to drop it and come here whenever there is a call re loading here. That may be often. It looks doubtful if the s n> stevedoring force can serve nvo places. With the T. F. Scholes, Inc., having approximately two months longer to go -on the railroad job here, some of the families are leaving for other jobs with lire company elsewhere or to go with other companies. Among the fam ilies to leave this week or soon are Mr. and Mis. Fred Duncan. Mr. Duncan, a foreman with Scholes, has a position with the A and D Railroad at Clarksville, Va., and has already left for hi.s new work. The children have been in school here during the year and a half they have lived here. Mrs. Duncan stopped us on the street this week to say how much the entire family has enjoyed liv ing in Southport and that they hope to return here some time. "It was a great trip for U3 and we are still marveling at the vast ness of Sunny Point,” wrote Rev. W. T. Albright of Greensboro in a note of thanks for having pilot ed him and some companions over the installation recently. Rev. Mr. Albright went on to say that it was mighty unselfish of us to give our time so freely to showing folks over the installation. Shucks, showing people about Sunny Point gives us a lot of satisfaction. In the first place, just a few year ago a lot of people thought the giant terminals would never be built. We get a lot of satisfaction in showing the place to such folks now. At the same time we get even more pleasure from showing it to folks who have always be lieved in it. In short, we get some fun from all sides about these guiding tr ips that we make daily. The other day Attorney Wwight MeEwen met us on the street and asked if we had been to Sunny Pjai; lately? “Not since I was up tljei two hours ago,” we told hjni nrars ago when Captain Bill Si. George put out his almost un dfc. ted Southport baseball team, vili ing 3 Oout of 32 games that sJb n, every small boy in town be< me adept at some form of hki ling the ball. But the town t^a dropped out of the picture ij year or so. Since then we ;iu had only medicore high sfcli >1 baseball teams .The school bp; just did not have any high er- lal to aim at and they could riot ceep up their interest in play ijiL .Things are changing now. It Irts that we are getting more r more husty young men here, r. some of them are said to be i 1 players. We hope that South ( will again form a high class 5 n team and thereby get both i rtainment and encouragement : the school teams. The new ’ lor Park field is both con sent and much better for base thnn the old one was. Whether they go by day or by ht the commercial ships that • .'after pass between Southport d Wilmington will wonder at ■ ir loping subject to a cost of bundled dollai'S each move han it would cost them to load ir unload their cargoes here. They will wonder at all of the Govern ment ships unloading or loading iere and why the same thing ,s not fo; them. The answer to 1 heir wonder lies simply in the fact that the political minded State of North Carolina has sim oly nevei recognized, as did the \rmy Transportation Corps the existing of the greatest deepwater harbor on the coast of North Car olina. iWth the State Ports Au thority functioning for years ,it s still a regret.able fact that there lias never been an official visit here by the authority nor its members. Some of them appear to be disinclined to even take a look and see the possibilities here. NEW rONSTPUCTION Continued From Page One will be put in, 12 feet in width and with dirt shoulders on each side. The entire width will be 24 feet. With the base material all hav ing to be moved from the rock crusher near Dock No. 2, a lot of hauling is involved along with much grading and fills. Passing down near Orton Pond on the north the terrain is rather un even. The same condition applies to Walden Creek on the South. On the operations here are A. D. McCoy, representing the Boyle Company, and James F. Powell, a sub-contractor, and Scctt Smith a foreman for Boyle. The Boyle Construction Corporation is said to be one of the largest in South Carolina. They also have the con tract for 13 miles of wire fencing here, for which a sub-contract has been let to another contractor who will probably arrive next week. Th home town of the Boyle Com pany is Sumter, S. C. SCHOOL DAZE Reba Duncan After Easter holidays we start ed on a short schedule, with school taking in at 7:45 and get ting out at 1 so the girls and boys can get home early enough to work on the farms. The banquet was held Wednes day night at the Hotel Whiteville and everyone seemed to enjoy it tremendously. The girls looked beautiful in their gay colored eve ning dresses and different kinds i of flowers and the boys were handsome in suits and bow ties 1 with their boutonniere of white and red carnations. The night might have looked gloomy out side (rain) but inside the heart | of every boy and girl was a feel ing of warmth and happiness as they left the banquet. The theme for the banquet was moonlight and roses and when entering the r.oom guests walked through a white gate covered with moss, npses and ivy. Each table was lecorated with rose in the center rrched with smilax. On each side of the table a white candle flick ered and served as the light. In the background a moon was half ridden in some pines. We extend our thanks to Miss Galloway for such a wonderful banquet; to Mr. White for helping out, and to Miss Hewett for her help in decorating. Mitchel Pike acted as photo graphr, along with the help of Harmon Smith. Thanks to you two. Dr. Trench, the dentist from the State Board of Health, was with us Wednesday and Thursday doing dental work on the gram mar grade children. We were glad to have a former student, Avis Formy Duvall, who is now at Meredith College, visit ing with us last week. Others home for Easter holidays were Billie June Hewett, Pat Purvis, Belton Babson, Bonnie Rae Ben nett and Wayne King. The playground and ball fields in the back have been disked up and are going to sowed in grass and the girls ballfield is to be measured off and bases fixed. Seen around: Juniors working hard Wednesday morning prepar ing for the banquet Wednesday night . . . Katie Smith attending the banquet . . . Ruby Jane Long burning her arm cooking in home economics . . . Evelyn Walton be Praises Boat Launching Ramp Southport Native Sees This As Boon To Water Sports! Development Along South port Waterfront A news story in last weeks paper told of the proposed boat loading ramp that the City Offi cials of Southport are preparing to build. Among a great many other expressions relative to the matter, the following letter was received yesterday from G. Butler Thompson, Lumberton Attorney who is here frequently with friends on fishing trips. Mr. Thompson’s letter speaks for it ing the best speller in high school. . . . Mercedes Smith dying her hair black . . . Thelbert Smith, Reba Duncan and Joyce Parker keeping classes for Miss Galloway to decorate Wednesday . . • Mary Lou Duvall having a cold alter the banquet . . . Judy Duvall and Christian Etheridge hiding behind the stage . . . Melton MeCombee having to drive a bus Wednesday. . . . Everybody liking the new schedule . . . Mr. Warren engag ed .. . Everyone liking to go to school Saturday . . . Joyce Park er got exhausted Wednesday night and couldn’t come to school Thursday . . . Richard Piver thinking he is as pretty as any body . . . Margie Smith visiting Tuesday. So Long, Folks. See you next week. self: “I note, with much inteerst, that the new city dock now under construction will also provide a loading ramp to be used by fish ermen who bring their boats with them on trailers when they go to the coast fishing. “I, personally know of several fishermen who have had to pass up Southport for such fishing trips when they specifically want ed to go there but due to the difficulty in launching their boats have had to go elsewhere. These people would naturally be repeat ers had there been any means of launching their boats. “On one occasion, last summer and before hurricane Hazel paid her disasterous visit, I guided a party of friends to Long Beach and to a hard surfaced road that ran almost to the water’s edge at low tide and they, with some difficulty, launched from that site. However the trip down the Water way to Southport and from there to the fishing grounds and the return trip consumed so much time that they did not return, al though they had fine luck, caught l many speckled trout and other I varieties of fish. I feel certain that this facility will result in a large number of such parties mak ing Southport their fishing head quarters.” | NOW LOW-COST PROTECTION Against Big Hospital-Surgical Medical Bills New remarkable deductible plan gives you up to $5000 protection per case — in or out of hospital. Costs less than most “regular” plans. Phone or fill in and mail coupon today. The facts are yours—no obligation. CLEON EVANS ASH, N. C. ItftRftt BUREAU HOME OFFICE ] COLUMBUS, OHIO^ mutual automobile insurance co. Name Address City_State. 1 CITY ELECTION Tuesday May 3, 1955 Challenge Day Will Be Saturday, April 23 1955. The following are serving as Registrars: 1st Ward 2nd Ward 3rd Ward Mrs. Riley Willis Mess Annie M. Newton Mrs. Velma Ward Any person who has been a resident of North Carolina for a period of one year and a resident of Southport for a period of 30 days, and who is otherwise qualified to vote, may register. Persons who have moved from the ward in which they are regist ered to another ward are urged to see the registrar in their old ward and arrange to have their name transferred to the books of the ward in which they now reside. THE QUESTION OF INSTALLING THE CITY MANAGER FORM OF GOVERNMENT WILL BE VOTED ON AT THIS ELECTION. W. L. Aldridge, Auditor, City Of Southport
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