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With Men In Service JOSEPH R. GALLOWAY, sea man, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Vinton E. Galloway of Supply is serving in the Mediterranean aboard the destroyer tender USS Everglades. The Everglades sail ed April 14 for Palermo, Sicily, after a visit to Cannes, on the French Riviera. While in Cannes, tours were conducted to the French Maritime Alps, Monte Carlo, Antibes, Villefrance, Gour don and Grasse. PVT. BERNARD SMALL, 19, son of Mrs. Gertrude Mim, South port, is among 26.000 soldiers slated to participate in Exercise Apple Jack during May at the Yakima Firing Center, Wash. Apple Jack will test the efficien cy of infantry and support units in mountainous and desert ter rain. The similated use of atomic weapons will be one of the con ditions of the exercise. Private Small, an engineer in Company D of the 2d Infantry Division at Fort Lewis, Wash., entered the Army in September 1954 and re ceived basic training at Camp Gordon, Ga. Small attended Brunswick County Training School before entering the Army. Tfwo Northwest Stills Captured Another couple of Northwest township stills fell under the axe this past week. Sheriff Elbert Gray, Deputy Leon Galloway, Deputies Pike and Perry and Special Deputy Thomas raided and captured a 150-gallon sub marine type still. With this out fit they also got 3700 gallons of mash and destroyed it. Following up on this same raid they located and destroyed an other 100-gallon submarine type still and 400-ga.llons of mash. Former Resident Passes Saturday Mrs. Scott English, for a mem ber of years a resident of the Southport community, died in the James Walker Memorial Hospital at Wilmington Saturday. She was 53 years old and had been ill for only a short time. Mrs. English is survived by her husband, Scott English of Wil mington: two daughters, Mrs. Pauline Hannah, Maryville, Tenn.. and Mrs. Loraine Harris of Alex andria, Va.; two sons, George and Wilford English of Wilmington and several grandchildren. Mrs. English was a sister of Mrs. Fred Stevens of the Magnolia Dairy at Southport. Funeral services were held Sun day afternoon at 3:30 from the Oak Grove Presbyterian church near Carolina Beach with burial in the Greenlawn Cemetery. FIRE AT SUNNY POINT During a windy day last week a fire destroyed several acres of small timber near the railroad classification yard at Sunny Point. It was prevented from gaining a general spread by For estry officials and employees of contractors working in the vicin ; ity. ——— RECEIVES DISCHARGE Just home from Korea and having received his discharge from the Army, First Lieutenant and Mrs. Jefferson D. Brooks of Washington, D. C., spent the week end here with Lt. Brooks’ parents. Mr. and Mrs. Warden Lewis. Mrs. Brooks remained in Washington and continued at her work while her husband was in the service. He is now a con sulting radio engineer with the A. D. King Company in Wash ington. Read It In The State Port Pilot Our car-wash specialist will wash and re-wax ycur car to a mirror shine. Takes just a short time and the cost is moderate! Drive in today ! BOB'S ESSO SERYiCE-CENTER R. H. (BOB) CONSTANTE, Proprietor PHONE 4321 SOUTHPORT, N. C. I tOM PEf-LATlOtf PTA Benefit Proves Success Jerry Ball Show Attracted Large And Enthusiastic Audience Friday Night At Shallotte The annual P. T. A. show at Shallotte high school, featuring Jerry Ball and Archie Thornhill I of the Standard Oil public rela | tions department, drew a capacity crowd Friday night as the big auditorium did not have a vacant seat. Tire program was an excellent one in every respect and the audience was thoroughly pleased. The door prize, consisting of valuable merchandise donated for the purpose by Shallotte business houses, was won by Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Tripp of Shallotte. Many other valuable prizes, also con | tributed, were awarded to va rious contestants at the show. The P. T. A. realized $600, clear of all expenses. This came from admissions and as a result of the auction sale of various donated I articles. FIRE AT YAUPON VILLAGE A fire burned over a _ rail area on the ocean side of Yaupon Vil lage property Friday afternoon. It is said to have done little damage. MOVIE PARTY The Brownies who are selling Girl Scout cookies were given a free show this week by manager Breman Furpless. Mrs. H. A. Schmidt was in charge, with Mrs. Bryant Potter and Mrs. J. B. Warth assisting. Rend i he Want Ads i YAUPON BEACH BUILDING LOTS NOW READY FOR SALE! AH Lots Face Streets running from Atlantic Ocean to Elizabeth River. Nine hemes have been built. They went thru the storm safely, and all now &re occupied. Blueprint of entire Development now avail able. Discount of $100 on any lot provided build ing Is started within 6 months from date of pur chase. For Map and Prices - - - Contact-” Barbee's Incorporated or S. T. BENNETT-SOUTHPORT. N. C. AT ST. PHILLIP’S At St. Phillip’s Episc Church Sunday, May 8, at 8 a Holy communion will be celet ed and at 11 o’clock mor: prayer and sermon will be lec the Rev. William R. Hicks. Sub-Contractor Assigned Tasl Boyle Construction Corpt tion Sub-Lets Projects Guard Roads And Er< ion Of Fence About I ject | Making: good progress froni start, the L. H. Simkins Coni of Augusta, Ga., will finish cjl ing the 13 miles for the sec| roads at Sunny Point in an® three weeks, according to H “Buddy” Davantt, superinteB for the Simkins Company. The overall contract for job went to the Boyle Consi tion Company of Sumter, S Boyle let the entire job to | contractors, Simkins getting] clearing of the right of way the road and the steel fence ning parallel to the road. The contract for the tench sub-let to the Cyclone Fence C pany of Savannah, Ga. and Po of Rocky Mount got the : contract for all earth and si moving work and also for bridges. The 13 miles of road will 1 a 10-inch deep crushed rock 1 and there are quite a lot of to be made before rutting in rock. The Powell Company also the fence people will be their job for quite a while yet Except for being narrow, tended only for the use of pat ling jeeps, the road is b< built according to standard r specifications as to grading, The fence will be 7-feet h IllUUIltCU UU SLCCi J'UOUI be set in concrete. State YDC Meet Slated May 2 The Young Democratic Clul of North Carolina will hold State wide meeting and rally ( Saturday, May 21, in Concor Principal speaker will be tl chairman of the Democratic N; \ tional Committee, Paul M. Butle i making his first official visit North Carolina. The State YDC office in R; leigh, headed by president Jot R. Jordan, Jr., announced th meeting will be one of the higl lights of the year and 1000 men bers and guests from North Car lina and Washington are expec ed. Samuel H. Johnson, YDC D rector of Public Relations stat “that based upon the intere shown to date and the preseni 1 of such a distinguished speak as Chairman Butler, the Conco: meeting will be of real nation interest.” Invitations are extendt to the Governor and Council State, to State officials and ; the North Carolina delegation Washington. All members of t! North Carolina YDC are invit* to attend. The program will commence i j 2:00 p. m. with an Execute Committee meeting which is op< to the members-at-large and gel eral public. At 4:30 p. m. tl Cabarrus County Young Denn | crats will honor Chairman Butli and other distinguished guests : a reception in the Hotel Concor Mr. Butler will be the princip speaker at a dinner meeting b I ginning at 7:00 p. m at tl | Armory in Concord. —1_ BUILDING NEW HOME I Congressman F. Ertel Carly of Lumberton was among tl j several who started new horn at Long Beach this past wee He is rebuilding on the Site the old one. Read The Want Ad John Sikes Resigns As Editor Of Star WILMINGTON — John Sikes, who has been managing editor of the Wilmington Star and the Sunday Star-News for the past three years, has resigned to be come editor and publisher of The Field in Conway, S. C. Sikes’ resignation became ef fective Sunday and he assumed |his new duties Monday, May 2. The Field, published twice [Weekly, is a publication of the [Atlantic Publishing Co., owned | by Horace Carter, Tabor City, land Mark Garner, Myrtle Beach, !S. C. i Sikes, a veteran newspaper- | s man, will be in charge of the [full operation of The Field. He 'was former editor and publisher! of the Northwestern Press, North j Wilkesboro, and the Edenton [Daily News. NEW DEVELOPMENT Continued From Page One by the new company it is under stood that another organization is planning an airport a little fur ther west on the same tract. It is said that this field will have 1a runway 500-feet wide and 2,500- ! feet in length. Although part of this landing area is very fertile and capable of developing a good .sod runway in time, it is planned for the runway will have an asphalt sur facing for all-weather ‘use. } Both the new sub-division area (for residental purposes and the ; proposed airport will add to the 'present interest in development of Long Beach. Meanwhile it should not be for 1 gotten that the developed beach strand area is pluging ahead with I the rebuilding of old homes and building of new ones. ASPHALT PLANT Continued FVom Page One A great deal of the crushed rock base on the 30-miles of road that Howies has under contract has already been placed and is about ready for the asphalt cover ing. Some of the sand for the asphalt is being secured near the river. A full train load of gravel for the mixing arrived this week. it COLONEL McALEER Continued From Page One ; Transportation. 3 This gives Colonel McAleer [command of all Army Transpor tation on the coast of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida to Miami. Included r in \he Sunnv Point Command are " f~ -- such ports as Cocoa Beach, Fla., Savannah, C.a., Charleston. S. C., Wilmington ami Morehead City in North Carolina. Tliis gives the terminals at Southport an extremely high rat ing in Army matters. A report1 made several months ago indi cates that the position here may eventually get a higher rating through other branches of the service using SPAALT. GOOD PROGRESS Continued From Page One urally, he knew in advance what it would do. Nevertheless, he has spent two weeks here check ing on everything under actual working conditions. The Georgia Iron Works Com pany builds a large number of these small vessels and they j have been found satisfactory un der all conditions, except on rock ground. With no rocks here the dredge should be able to execute a lot of badly needed work at the beach and also here around Southport. With 1500-feet of piping, the j dredge is able to move its dis posal for quite a distance. This may result in the elimination of a lot of sandy places on the beach by pumping earth over the j sand from Davis Creek. This will also serve the good purpose of deepening the creek and creating facilities for boats. The machine will dig to a depth of 12-feet. BAND WILL PLAY Continued From Page One some other features of the day will be personally directed by Prof. S. S. Riggs who organized the band two years ago and has developed it into an extremely creditable musical organization. NEGRO FACING Continued From Page One by Beatty. The other man in the row was also shot through the hand. It is understood that Beatty will be tried at the May term of court. He has employed the law firm of Frink and Herring to defend him. BRIEF SESSION Continued From Page One James O'Neal Watts, speeding (65-mph) fined $10 and costs. Mary Louise Mosteler, speed ing (65-mph) fined $10 and costs. William Jennings Justice, pub lic drunkness, fined $13.33 and costs. NAME COMMITTEES Continued From Page One Earl Johnson. William K. Johnson. Union: Sandy Stanley, H. C. Stanley, J. B. Brown, Elijah Gore, Tampa Gore. Cedar Grove: Elijah Gore, J. IT. Johnson, T. Ft. Hankins. I.ongwood: Sandy S. mley, Rev. Benme Stevenson, Rev. Dave Flowers. Lincoln: Dixie Mapson, L. C. McCoy, George Beatty, Oliver Bellamy, John Thomas. Navassa: Edies Davis, James Graham, Walter Moore. Phoenix: George Beatty, Acie Ballard, Josh Hooper. Chapel Road: John Mailette, Oliver Bellamy, Pressilene Bell. SPECIAL PRICES ON Innerspring and Box Mattresses Exchange Price from $17.50 up Barefoot Mattress Co. Established and Reliable Phone 9909 Letand. N. C. THANK YOU \ - i I want to express my deep appreciation to the citizens of Southport for the honor they have bestow ed upon me by electing me to the high office of Mayor. I shall do everything in my power to serve you well. ROY ROBINSON I AS LONG AS YOU BRING YOUR OLD TIRES-WHAT YOU SAY GOES! Now—whatever your budget—you can start to experience the amazing difference the U. S. Royal 8 makes in your driving comfort, pleasure and safety. Because now—provided you turn in your present tires for our generous allowances—you can name your own terms per week! the totally new tire 7. Totally New RIDE-NO BOUNCE, NO JOUNCE! 2. Totally New STEERING-EASIER HANDLING AND CONTROL! 3. Totally New TRACTION —STOPS FASTER, STRAIGHTER! 4. Totally New MILEAGE-250 EXTRA MILES PER 1,000! 5. Totally New SAFETY-AGAINST BLOWOUTS, PUNCTURES! 6. Totally New SILENCE-SQUEAL AND HUM ARE HUSHED! 7. Totally New STYLING-STREAMLINED "CONTINENTAL" LOOK! 8. Totally New VALUE-NO PREMIUM IN PRICE! See W. CROWELL BLACK or E. W. WILLIAMSON - “THE MEN WHO KNOW TIRES BEST” _ BLACK'S TIRE SERVICE SOUTH WHITEVILLE PHONE 3191
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