Most Of The News All The Time THE STATE PORT PILOT _ A Good Newspaper i A Good Community_ The Pilot Covers Brunswick County Volume No. 17 No. 45 6-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. 4 WEDNESDAY AY 25, 1955 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY $1.50 PER YEAR New REA Building MUUtKlN 1IN DtMGN, and designed for functional efficiency, is the Brunswick Electnc Cooperative's branch office in Whiteville. The Co-op only last week occupied the *>65,000 plant, and is open now for business there. It is located at 307 South Lee Street. REA Completes New Building In Whiteville New Headquarters For Co lumbus County Patrons Of Rural Electrification Co Op Completed The Columbus county office of the Brunswick Electric Coopera tive is at home in its new Lee Street building in Whiteville. The long-awaited move of the branch office of the electric co op office into its $65,000 build ing and site was accomplished Wednesday, accoi'ding to E. D. Bishop, general manager of the two-county rural electrification operation . Plans for an open house haven’t been completed yet, Bishop said, but they will be announced later. Planned Before 1951 Completion of the modern brick and steel building, and its oc cupancy,- brings to life a plan for such a location laid out even before the cooperative opened its Whiteville office. Tt will pro vide a base of operation and headquarters for the 4,500 rural electrification members in Colum bus county. The new building, which will be utilized by forces under John C. Anderson, branch manager, contains office space for the branch manager, cashier, general office space, a lobby and demon stration kitchen, three-truck gar age with loading ramp and equipment storage space. An innovation of the building is the ‘heat pump,” a device tied in with a 135-foot well which will use temperature of the water to provide heat in the cold months and cooled air in the hot months. The year-round air conditioning system operates (Continued on Page Four; Brief Bits Of lnewsj MEMORIAL. SERVICES Everyone is invited to partici pate in Memorial Day services to be held Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock on the garrison. The Rev. R. H. Jordan will be the principal speaker. BASEBALL MEETING A meeting of the advisory council and coaches for the church league baseball program for Southport this summer will be held Monday night at 7:30 o’clock at the State Port Pilot office. NEW SCHEDULE New office hours at the Le land post office effective June 1 will be: 8 a. m. to 1 p. m.; 3 p. m. to 5:30 p. m.; 11 to 12 on all holidays. This change is neces sary due to new train schedules. NEW AMERICAN Mrs. Majorie Reta Holden of Southport ,a native of Canada, became an American citizen yes terday in a ceremony in the Fed eral Court building in Wilming ton. Mrs. Holden, the wife of Cam Holden of Southport, has resided here for several years. She is employed at Mack’s Cafe. TO BOYS STATE Charlie Splawn, member of the rising senior class at Southport high school ,has been named a delegate to Boys State, which is held each year during the month of June at the Univeisitj of North Carolina. The program lasts for one week, and the loea boy is being sponsored by tht Kouthport Post, American Legion. Weather Is Good, Fishing Is Better Sportsmen Got A Break From The Weather Dur ing Past Week-End With Some Unusually Good Cat ches Resulting SOUTHPORT FULL OF FISHERMEN Boats Able To Go Out Every Day During Fast Week And All Parties Report Satisfactory Catches This was the week end when the weather gave the fishermen a break, with the result that Southport was full of sports fish ing parties and there were plenty of fish to send them all home happy. Catches were good all last week, but no attempt was made to keep a complete record of re sults before Friday. One very pleased party aboard the Miss Margaret III, Captain Leo Dowling, this past week, in cluded Col. and Mrs. William Mc Aleer, George F. Holder of the Small Business Administration, Miss Eva Neil Thomason of the Red Cross and Attorney J. C. Bowman. Their catch, which con sisted mostly of king mackerel and Spanish mackerel, weighed 139 pounds when dressed. Mem bers of the party credit Mrs. McAleer with catching most of the king mackerel. On Friday E. L. Nichols and party landed 41 king mackerel, four amberjack and four bonita fishing off the Idle On 2nd, skip pered by Basil Watts. Thirty-three king mackerel, four homta, and two amberjack were caught by Ed Kennedy and party from Myrtle Beach aboard the Idle On, III, captained by Hoyle Dosher. On Saturday the John Elian, captained by Walter Lewis, with the Frank Owens party aboard Continued On Page Two School Closing Friday Evening Senator Ray Walton To De liver Commencement Ser mon To Southport Senior Class At Graduation The final program for the 1955 commencement exercises at Southport High School will occur Friday night at 8 o’clock when Senator Ray Walton will make the graduating address before the senior class. The first feature of the commencement program was ' the baccalaureate sermon Sunday morning. The program for the bacca laureate service included Prelude, j Mrs. James M. Harper, pianist; processional, “God Of Our Fath er”, members of senior class; in vocation, Rev. R. H. Jordan; doxology, congregation; holy scripture and prayer, Rev. R. H. Jordan; “The Holy City", church | choirs; sermon, Rev. J. B. Mac | L.eod; “Holy, Holy, Holy”, con gregation: benediction. Rev. R. H. Jordan; recessional, "God Of Our i Fathers” members of the senior class. | Following is the program for i the graduation exercises Friday [evening at 8 o’clock: Prelude, Mrs. Dallas Pigott: processional, “Pomp and Circumstance”, Senior Class; invocation, Rev. R. H. Jor j dan; welcome address, Frank Watts, salutatorian; “America j The Beautiful”, in unison; intro duction of speaker. H. T. Sanders; address, Senator Ray H. Walton; i presentation of awards ant | Continued On Page rwo Waccamaw Swamp Has Many Snakes Donald Sneeden of the Coastvvide Construction Com pany stated Monday that he was not aware that there were so many snakes any where until he started work on the Waccamaw River snagging project. The first day he was out there to see how the work was getting on he stepped on a huge moccasin that was sunning itself. His next step was taken very much quicker, and Sneeden jump beat the snake in its strike. tie says that further on in the swamp the men working with the equipment are com plaining of the snakes ,all kinds of them, being literally everywhere, on stumps, fallen logs and treetops and coiled up sunning themselves on the ground, where it is often dif ficult to see them. Most of these workers being from along the coast where snakes are more or less rare, they don’t like the reptiles they are now having to associate with. Unfriendly terms seem to exist on both sides. Crowded Docket In Court Monday No Session Of Recorder’s Court Held Last Week With Result That This Week’s Docket Was Len- j gthy No session of Brunswick coun ty Recorder’s court was held last week since Superior court was in session, and Monday a big back-log of cases greeted Judge Earl Bellamy and other court officials. The following cases were settled: Clara Miller,- trespass, lar ceny, using profane language, nol pros. Joe Larry Rhodes, drunk and disorderly, fined $10 and costs. Jessie O. Simmons, 15 cases charged with failure to display Board of Health Sanitary cards, defendant asked for jury trial and all cases sent to Superior court. Bond set at $1,500. Andre Charles Lacroix, speed ing (65 mph) fined $10 and costs. i Joe Larry Rhodes, breaking entering with intent to rape. Nol pros on recommendation of Sheriff Gray, Deputy Perry and Solicitor Bowman. Delmas Eugene Bradshaw, speeding (70 mph) fined $15 and costs. James Darcy Parker, reckless operation, possession, fined $15 and costs on reckless operation charge, not guilty as to posess ion. Davis Simmons, cruelty to ani mals, asked for jury trial, bond set at $300. James Edward Rogers, speed ing (65-mph) fined $10 and I costs. Clyde Milligan, drunk driving, ! no operator’s license, possession, 5 fined $100 and costs. John B. Vereen, failing to give ] proper signal before passing, i fined $10 and costs. Terry Hankins Evans, failure : to give proper signal before passing, fined $10 and costs. John Henry Hartman, speed Continued On Page Two Several Phases Of Work Nearin Completion Noi Both Railroad Construct^ And Work On Docli Reach Final Stage O Sunny Point Project ALL CONTRACTORS ARE STILL BUS Several Are In Midst d Their Contracts, While! Others Are Winding Up Lose Ends Of Ope ration With its working area narrow! ed down to finishing touches her! and there about the huge yarc it has been building, the T. I Scholes, Inc., said to be the se< ond largest railroad building con pany in the United States, i moving some of its equipmer and sending some of its men her i and to other jobs. For a 3-mil j new railroad job and some rt | building at St. Mary’s, S. C., small amount of equipment lei Monday. Other equipment ha gone to Newr Jersey for a jo there. Consider able machinery wil be here for some time to come. The Diamond Construction Com pany of Savannah, Ca., with its eight million dollar dock con struction job here also getting into the completion stage, is) sending some of its equipment and men to a big Rappcnock River bridge building job in Vir ginia. A lot of equipment and workers will remain here on the job until late summer. Tire Hertford-Cecil company, still working away on unfinished ends of its job in connection with Scholes, Inc., will be here for some weks to come. Unexpected lContinued on page four) Forty-Three Will Receive Diplomas graduation Exercises Frici-