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Most Of The News All The Time Volume No. 17 No. 50 THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community 6-Poges Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1955 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY The Pilot Covers Brunswick County $1.50 PER YEAR Inspection Of Railroad Leads To Acceptance Army Officers, Representa tives Of U. S. Army En gineers And Officials Of T. F. Scholes, Inc., Com plete First Phase Friday OTHER INSPECTIONS TO FOLLOW LATER The Connections Have Been Made With Site Railroad To All Docks: Confact Of T. F. Scholes Co. Nears Completion With Lt. Col. Virgil M. Lan caster, Post Engineer at SPA ALT, and Paul M. Snell of the Corps of Army Engineers doing the inspection, approximately 18 miles of Sunny Point railroad was accepted from the contract ing firm of T. F. Scholes, Inc., of Reading, Pa., Friday. This trackage all lies along the river on the southeast side of Route 130. In effect it is the finishing end of the Scholes pro ject and trains can now go all of the way from Leland to any of the docks. The tracks are now connected at both ends of each of the three docks with the three track lins of the Diamond Con struction Company on the docks. This Friday Colonel Lancaster, Mr. Snell and other officials plan to inspect the North Yards, sev eral miles of trackage that runs northward to the immediate vici nity of Orton Pond. It is expect ed that this trackage will be taken over following this inspec tion. Scholes, Inc., is still working at various points about the big classification yards, finishing up on side trackage and variously cleaning up. It is expected that final inspection and acceptance by the Engineers will take place on Friday, July 8. Acceptance of any and all parts of the project by Colonel Lan caster and Mr. Snell means that the Scholes Corporation is fin ished with the area and is entitled to payment in full for the mile age accepted. The building are not obligated for further main tenance of that mileage. For the inspection trip an or dinary flat railroad car was fitt ed up to serve as an observation car. With the single heavy freight engine at the installation in con stant use hauling material for various other contractors, one of the Scholes donkey engines pro vided the motive power for the observation car and hauled it and the officials over all of the track age inspected and accepted. The same procedure will be fol lowed in going over additional trackage this week and next. Officials of T. F. Scholes, Inc., are especially gratified that on the Friday inspection the En gineers did not take a single ex ception to any of the work that their company has done. All trackage lying southeast of the highway passed without a single request being made for any ad justment. Gregg Abernathy, Su perintendent of Construction for Scholes, and all of the men work ing under him were highly grati fied. Brief Bits Of lnewsj NEAR WATERMELON TIME Growers say that they will be gin marketing eantelopes and wa termelons during the coming week. April cold killed the early plants, hence the crop is coming on a few days later than usual. HOLIDAY SCHEDULE County offices, the bank and many places of business will be closed Monday, July 4th. The post office here will observe Sunday hours. With the present condition of tobacco and other crops, farm ers will be too busy to observe the holiday. AT CONFERENCE The Rev. R. H. Jordan is at tending the Annual Conference of the Methodist Church this week in Fayetteville. Ray H. Walton is delegate from Trinity Methodist Church and will attend several sessions. Capt. James B. Church is alternate delegate. AT BAPTIST CHURCH Donald Farrow of the South side Baptist Church in Wilming ton was guest speaker Sunday morning at tile Southport Baptist Church in the absence of the pastor, the Rev. Leo Hawkins, who is away on his vacation. The pulpit will be supplied by a guest speaker Sunday, July 3, but the pastor will be back again tile following Sunday. Peak Production TWINS—It is rare for a cow to have twin calves, but it is rarer still for the same cow to have twin calves twice within the period of one year. This is a member of the herd out at Magnolia Dairy who gave birth to twins a few days ago, duplicating her effort of July, 1954.— (Art Newton Photo.) Inspection Party Praises Progress Civil Defense Officials Un-5* der Whose Supervision Restoration Work At The Beaches Was Conducted Inspect Results ENCOURAGED BY PROGRESS MADE Tour Carried These Men To All Areas Affected By Storm Damage; Visited All Brunswick Coun ty Beaches Starting at Morehead City Wednesday and completing their tour at Ocean Isle Friday, a group of Federal and State of ficials were surprised and de scribed themselves as very much pleased at the restoration work that has been carried on at all points that were struck by the October storm. Judge Thomas H. Goodman, di rector of the regional Civil De fense office in Thomasville, Ga., headed the group and with him was General Edward F. Griffin, North Carolina Civil Defense di rector; Earl Madar, regional fed eral defense engineer for this area; G. H. Brook of the State Budget Bureau, in charge of dis bursements of government funds in the area and W. H. Riley who represents the Department of Conservation and Development. Colin McKinne, assistant to Gen eral Griffin, joined the party when it reached Southport. The group arrived here on the afternoon of their second day out from Morehead. Stopping and gathering up half a dozen local citizens, they proceeded immed iately to Caswell Beach, where federal funds were used in re storing the sand dunes. From there they returned to Long Beach where construction of like dunes was inspected. The more than 130 new homes and old one reconstructed were Continued On Page Two Stills Reported Being Captured Summary After Six Months In Office Shows Record Number Of Manufactur ing Units Being Destroy ed Sheriff's and ATU officers, |frequently working together, have done right well since Sheriff El bert H .Gray went into office | the first of last December. ] Up to June 1, a period of 6 months, a total of 95 stills were seized and destroyed in Bruns wick county by the two forces. Along with the above number of stills, 42,550 gallons of mash were seized and destroyed and 432 gallons of liquor was seized and 17 arrests were made. Three cars and 1 truck were seized. The total capacity of the stills ' seized was 77,800 gallons. The j value of the 95 outfits is placed at $9,500.00; the mash, which in cluded great quantities of sugar, .vas worth $11,914.00 and the whiskey seized was worth $4, 320.00. The valuation of the three j cars ajid the truck seized is placed at $1,200.00. continued On Page Two High Bids Cause Another Letting Bids opened by the Army Engineers last week for the construction of four housing units on the Garrison in Southport for the officers of SPAALT were all rejected. All were so far above the en gineers estimates of the that new bids are being called for. The average offer for each building was about $31,500.00. Recent bids on dredging clear the ship lay-up basin in upper Brunswick County have also been found to be so far above the engineers’ estimates that new bids are being call ed for. Traffic Cases Tried In Court Recorder’s Court Officials Will Take Vacation From Regular Duties Next Week Because Of The Fourth Of July Judge Earl Bellamy and other Recorder’s court officials will have a vacation from their duties next week, as they postpone their next session to Monday, July 11, but this week's session was fairly busy. Most of the cases grew out of traffic violations, and the fol lowing judgments were handed down: Ernest Dixon Pridgen, speeding (70-mph) fined $15 and costs. Lance Roland Horney .reckless operation, fined $25 and costs, fine remitted because of mitiga ting circumstances. Herman Franklin Dizon, speed ing (55-mph in truck) fined $10 and costs. Benjamin Franklin Newell, speeding (55-mph in truck) fined $10 and costs. William Carmel Wescott, speed ing (65-mph) fined $10 and costs, fine remitted because of mitigat ing circumstances. Wyatt Bradshaw Partridge, Jr., speeding, (70-mph) fined $15 and costs. James Oldham Mitchell, speed ing (65-mph) fined $10 and costs. Howard Allan Bland, failing to yield right of way, fined $10 and costs. Pickett Meares Shipman, allow ing unlicensed person to operate, prayer for judgment continued to July 11. Mae Skipper, no operator’s li cense, prayer for judgment con tinued to July 11. Pauline Nichols Myers, speed ing (65-mph) fined $10 and costs. Carlie Osborne Fach, speeding (70-mph) fined $15 and costs. Callie Lee Stackhouse, no op erator’s license, fined $25 and costs. Caldwell Critsbery Potter, im proper equipment, fined $10 and costs. James Guy Shuler, Jr., speed ing (70-mph) fined $15 and costs. Dr. Norman Mark Hornstein, allowing minor to operate tar, taxed with costs. Rudolph Caison and Rosa Grif fin were found guilty of fornica Continued On Page Two Music Week In Progress Over At Ft. Caswell Opening Week Of Annual Summer Assembly Pro gram Secs Small Group Of About 500 Delegates In Attendance LARGE GATHERING SET NEXT WEEK Next Week And One Fol lowing Will Be Devoted To B.T.U. Conference With 1,500 Persons Expected This is Music Week at the Cas well Baptist Assembly and about 500 delegates are attending ac cording to reports received Mon day. Music Week is generally re garded as the smallest of any of the convention weeks and it was placed first on the program to allow a bit of training for the workers before the big rush comes. For next week, according to Dr. R. K. Redwine, the director there will be a full house .Probably delegates will attend that ses sion and the week thereafter. The periods are for the Baptist Training Unions. Reservations have been made for groups of delegates from all over the State. The summer convention of the Assembly extend over a period of ten weeks, with new groups of Baptists workers coming in each week. In addition to the dele gates, Caswell also gets a large number of visitors of other de nominations during the Conven tion period. The hotel and cafe terias provide meals for all. Urges Continued Safety Practices Corporal O. H. Lynch Of State Highway Patrol Asks Cooperation Of Pub lic In Safety Program During Holiday Week End Proud of the record of only one death on the highways of Brunswick during the year 195o and fearful that they cannot keep it much longer with the long 4th of July week end holiday coming up this week, Corporal O. H. Lynch and Patrolmen Thomas, Deal and Wilkins will be doubly on the alert for speeders and drunks at the wheel of cars for the next several days. Corporal Lynch pointed out Monday that as against the splendid record held by Bruns wick of only having had one death on the highways this year, the adjoining county of Colum bus has already had 17 deaths. It has been good luck combined with activity on the part of the oficers and some caution exercised by many o fthe motorists that has prevented Brunswick from having a higher death toll. With the holidays here, some driver or his passengers may be marked for death or crippling in juries before another week, but this will not be if the officers can prevent it by pulling in driv ers who are in an unfit condition to use the roads. They feel that such action is necessary, both for the safety of the drivers in question and for the general pub lic. Continued On Page Two National Paper May Get Story Of Freshwater Representative Of Wall St. Journal Shows Keen In terest In Strange Under ground Flow Of Fresh water In Brunswick Abroad JOHN PLAXCO, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Plaxco of South port, who left this week for a t'wo-rhonths tour of European countries. He is a cadet at Fish burn Military Academy, and one of the members of the faculty of that school will have five boys on this trip. By W. B. KEZIAH The mighty river that flows deep underground through Bruns wick county, with some 47 mil lion gallons of the water escap ing daily and rising to create Allen Creek, is beginning to at tract some widespread attention. So Is Sunny Point, the giant terminals of the Army Trans portation Corps. Looking in at the office one day this week, following the third trip of the day showing visitors over Sunny Point, we found a fourth interested party waiting for us. It was Walter M. Thompson of the Field Staff of the Wall Street Journal in New York. Thompson lost no time in tell ing us that he came down to see Sunny Point and wanted, al so, to know about that water that we have written so much about. His visit was only a pre liminary one. He was merely scouting out things, with plans to come again in about a month with another member of the staff of the Wall Street Journal. Thompson went with us to Sunny Point and got a good look that apparently impressed him. He also got an ample ear full about that water and its value to industry, once industry finds that it exists. The trip brought him ai-ound to the full determination to return in about a month for at least two stories that will give Brunswick county national publicity. He did not say anything a bout it, but it happens that the Wall Street Journal is a sort of Bible to the financial and in dustrial world. A story in it draws the attention of people who are capable of really doing things. W. & USZUfl Our ROVING Reporter The ramp for launching cut boards adjoining the city dci k, is proving a boon to a lot of! up state boat owners who came, in bringing their own boats. I&iuy of the boats coming in range to 28-f t. or 30-ft. cabin cruisers land it is very difficult to get Wiem in and out of the water witjimit the aid of a ramp. A dozen tli .es ! in the past few days we h t ve seen the value of the ram# il lustrated when we happened1 to be down on the waterfront a boat came in. Sometimes 1 h> are 3 to 5 passengers for of these good sized boats. (I n there are only two and number can easily back the trailer down the ramp and loat the boat off. Going by thi reverse, when they end ! fishing trip they only hav< back the trailer into the ' nd Mie tills m iifir o :r trouble. At low tide the larger the boat up on it. There is one boats have to wait until the! water rises over the end of the ramp. With nearly a score of crack sports fishing boats operating out from Southport, one hears very little if anything regarding safe ty for either boats or the hun dreds of sportsmen who go out i on the boats each week. One rea- I son for this is that practically all of the boats are owned by the operators and these operators are thoroughly experienced seamen and sport fishermen. In the 20 year's that spor t fishing has been carried on here only one boat that was for charter lias sus tained ser ious damage. Tire pas- j sengers of that cr aft were not ] iContrnued on page four; Woman Visitor Knows Answers i Official Guide To Sunny Point Surprised To Learn Visitor Has Impressive Military Background By W. B. KEZIAH We have taken a lot of charm ing families over SPAALT, the great terminals of the Army Transportation Corps. Included among such visitors who have accompanied us have been Sena tors, Governors, Congressmen and a lot of other folks who are very high ups. But getting down to families, we doubt if we have had more friendly, congenial people with us at any time than were with us one day this last week in Mrs. Catherine McConnell and her two daughters, Helen and Mary McConnell, of McConnell's, S. C. Mrs. McConnell had personal reasons in feeling deeply in terested in what the government is building at Sunny Point. She is the daughter of General James VanFleet, Commander of the 8th Army in Korea. Her husband, Cclonel E. T. McConnell, is serv ing in Formosa. Her brother, Captain James VanFleet, Jr., crashed in a fog in enemy coun try three years ago last April 2. Officially, he is dead, but no trace of either he or his body has ever been found. He was flying over South Korea at the time. Visiting the railroad yards and seeing the highway sys tem before going onto one of the big docks, Mrs. McConnell stated, “This reminds me of another great engineering feat, the building of the Panama Canal. I thought of the canal just now when we came out here on the dock. This terminal is something that the Army En gineers may well be proud of having built. And the Transpor tation Corps may well be proud that it is their's to handle.” (Continued on Page 2) Sports Fishing Continues Good -* Brunswick Men Protest Taxes Senator Ray Walton of Bruns wick was in Raleigh Monday with a group of Brunswick and New Hanover beach property owners. They went for a hearing on the matter of the new beach property rental taxes that may work a great hardship on proper ty owners who rent cottages and apartments during the short sum mer seasons. Rooms, apartments and houses rented for only brief periods are all said to be subject to the tax. Property owners were not aware of the tax until recently. Plans Complete For Two Dances Fourth Of July Celebration In Southport This Year Will Center About These Two Programs A spirited contests, the results of which will determine who shall reign over Fourth of July Fes tivities here this year ,are in their final stages this week. The winners will be crowned by Col. Wm. A. McAleer at the holiday dance Monday night in the old gymnasium. Leading the race for queen at the present time is Rita Cullis, with Sylvia Hewett, Virginia Phillips and Jean Ganey still in challenging positions. Norma Harrelson is heading the race for princess, followed by Jean Thompson, Betsy Carr and Betty McGlamery. The tom-thumb king and queen will be chosen from the follow ing list of candidates, and there is plenty of interest in this con test: Marilyn Aldridge, Greta Jorgensen, Frances Jorgensen, Susan Bellamy, John Jordan, (Continued On Page Six) Clerks Positions Are Now Open Civil Service Positions Open At Sunny Point And Oth er Offices In Wilmington Area Civil Service Examinations for the positions of Clerk-Typist and Clerk-Stenographer are now open for Career-Conditional Appoint ment at the Wilmington District, Corps of Engineers, 308 Custom house, Wilmington, the Sunny Point Army Ammunition Loading Terminal, Southport, the Wilming ton Reserve Fleet, U. S. Mari time Administration, Wilmington, and the Wilmington Reserve Shipyard, U. S. Maritime Admin istration, Wilmington Positions in other Federal agencies may also be filled as a result of these ex aminations. Salaries range from Grade GS-1, $2500 per annum to Grade GS-4, $3175 per annum. Applicants will be required to take written tests and will be rated on a scale of 100. The ex aminations will be held in Wil mington. Competitors will be re Continued On Page Two Once More The Week-End Weather Was Favorable For Parties Going Out From Southport On Party Boats i SHOALS FISHING UNUSUALLY GOOD Parties Out The Latter Part Of Last Week Had Big Catches Of Spanish Mackerel And Bluefish The past week end was another time when good fishing and good weather hit in here at the same time, and as a result most of the boats had a party, and all of the parties had good luck. On Saturday Leonard Ward and party caught 244 blues and mackerel aboard the Cadet with Capt. Howard Victor. There was no report for the Sunday party, but on Monday Ed Mann and friends of Chapel Hill caught 54 mackerel and blues. A Mr. Finchel and party of Wilmington fished with Capt. Leon McKeithan Saturday aboard the Botfly and brought in 95 blues and mackerel .On Sunday Mr. Taylor and party of Wilming ton had 45 blues and mackerel. George Stone and party of Greensboro were out Sunday with Capt. George Gregory aboard the Jo-Ann, and brought in 222 blues and mackerel. The next day the same party had 88 blues and mackerel. Mr. Johnson and party of Hickory were out with Capt. Gregory Monday and caught 30 blues and mackerel. Mr. Helms and party of Gas tonia were out with Capt. James Arnold Sunday and caught 100 blues and mackerel. The John Elian, captained by Walter Lewis sailed all three days. Friday W. H. Rummage, Ellerbe, and party caught 340 blues and Spanish mackerel. Sat urday, Lanier Benson, Charlotte, landed 160 Spanish mackerel, six king mackerel and one amber jack. Yesterday Benson went out again and came home with 12 king mackerel and a pair of dolphin. Another boat sailed three days was the Davis Brothers V, under Captain Fred Fulford. Friday L. T. Campbell, Fairmont, landed 95 blues and Spanish mackerel. W. P. Ledbetter, Mt. Gilliad, caught Continued On Rage Two Returning Body For Funeral Memorial Service Slated Sunday Afternoon At Philadelphia Methodist Church Near Longwood The body of A2c Clyde H. Bellamy, who died on .Tune 7, 1951, while serving in Korea as a member of the armed services, will arrive in Whiteville Friday and funeral services will be con ducted Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock from the Philadelphia Methodist Church near Longwood. The Rev. Paul Von Cannon will officiate. The military honors will be in charge of members of the Am erican Legion Post No. 247, Shal lotte, and the body will be laid to rest in the Manley Bennett ceme- | Continued On Page Two New Man Takes Job Of Welfare Superintendent John Tulp, Who Has Been Employed In Welfare De partment Of Halifax Co unty, Begins Work July 1 SUCCEEDS SEXTON IN THIS COUNTY M. B. Chinnis Named To Brunswick County Board Of Public Welfare, Suc ceeding Carl Ward John Tulp takes over the duties as Superintendent of Public Wel fare for Brunswick county on July 1, succeeding Ed Sexton, who resigned several weeks ago to take a simlar position in Ons low county. In the meantime Miss Dorothy Swain has served as act ing-superintendent. Tulp comes here from Halifax county, where he has served for the past three years as child welfare worker. His home is in New York City, and his graduate work in Social Studies was taken at the University of North Caro lina. The new head of the welfare department is married and has three children. Another recent development in the Welfare Department organ ization is the appointment of M. B. Chinnis of Northwest a.s a member of the Brunswick County Board of Public Welfare. He was named by the other members of the board, M. R. Sanders and R. E. Bellamy. Under the plan of organization one member of the welfare board is named by the county commis sioners. That is Bellamy. A sec ond is named by the State De partment of Public Welfare. That is Sanders. The third member is named by the first two and Chinnis replaces Carl Ward on the board in this capacity. Bellamy is the new chairman of the group. Begin Work On By-Pass Route Grannis And Sloan Success ful Bidders For Contract To Construct 8-Mile Route From Highway No. 87 To Highway No. 130 Near Orton One mile south of Moore’s Creek on Route 87, going toward Southport there is a rather sharp curve and then a long straight stretch coming on towards town. This straight stretch will soon be much longer. Grannis and Sloan of Fayetteville are now at work at this end of the curve continuing the straight stretch to Moore’s Creek, where a modern bridge will be built and beyond there the toad will continue straight for a distance before it curves and runs in an easterly direction between Orton Pond and Allen Creek until it reaches Or ton. This toad, a trifle over 8-miles in length ,is being paid for by the U. S. Government and is be ing built by the State Highway Commission with Grannis and Sloan as the contractors. The contract price was $400,766.20. This by-pass route enters 87 at exactly the same point where the “A” road from Sunny Point enters. The building of a medern bridge across Moore’s Creek about a mile below the present struc Continued On Page Two Tide Table Following is the tide table for Southport during the next week. These hours are ap proximately correct and were furnished The State Port Pilot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot’s Association. High Tide Low Tide Thursday, June 30, 4:03 A. M. 10:17 A. M. 4:50 P. M. 11:04 P. M. Friday, July 1, 4:54 A. M. il:04 A. M. 5:38 P. M. 11:52 P. M. Saturday, July 2, 5:41 A. M. 11:50 A. M. 6:23, P. M. 0:00 P. M. Sunday, July 3, 6:28 A. M. 0:37 A. M. 7:04 P, M. 12:33 P. M. Monday, July 4, 7:10 A. M. 1:20 A. M. 7:45 P. M. 1:14 P. M. Tuesday, July 5, 7:50 A. M. 2:00 A. M. 8:22 P. M. 1:54 P. M. Wednesday, July 0, 8:29 A. M. 2:39 A. M. 8:56 P. M. 2:33 P. M.
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