THE STATE PORT.PILOT
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
Volume No. 17 No. 51 8-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1955 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY $1.50 PER YEAR
The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
Most Of The News
Ail The Time
Referendum On
Tobacco Quota
To Be July 23
Farmers Will Vote On De
cision To Cut 1956 Acre
age For This Crop By To
tal Of 12 Percent
FARMERS TO VOTE
ON ASSESSMENT
Farmers Will Say Whether
They Will Pay 10-Cents
Per Acre During Next
Two Years
WASHINGTON — Tobacco
farmers will vote on a 12 per
cent acreage cut for 1956's flue
cured crop, on July 23, accord
ing to the Department of Agri
culture.
The proposal calls for allot
ment of 889,000 acres for next
year’s crop as compared with
1,007,100 acres allotted for this
year's crop. State planting al
lotments will be announced later.
In addition to voting on con
trols, about 2,500 Brunswick to
bacco planters will also ballot
on a 10-cents an acre assessment
for Tobacco Associates, for
1956-58, to promote leaf market
ing
Peanut Vote
Also on July 23, about all
peanut growers will cast their
ballots on a two cents per 1001
pounds assessment for Peanut
Growers association of North
Carolina, for promotion of the
peanut industry.
The ASC office in Supply
said earlier full details on the
voting and the polling places will
be released shortly.
The national tobacco market
ing quota proclaimed for the
marketing year 1956-57 is 1,130,
000,000 pounds as compared
with the 1955-56 quota of 1,
270,000,000 pounds.
In the referendum, flue-cured
tobacco growers will have three
choices: (1) For quotas for the
1956, 1957 and 1958 crops; (2) .
for quotas for the 1956 crop I
only; or (3) against quotas.
The department stated that
in a similar referendum held
July 19, 1952, growers favored
marketing quotas for three years
(1953 through 1955) by a 97.8
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Brief Bits Of
lnewsj'
EDUCATION BUILDING
Good progress is being made
on the education building at Zion
Methodist Church at Town Creek.
AT LONGWOOD
Daily Vacation Bible School is
in session this week at Longwood
Baptist Church.
NEW HOME
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jones
have begun the construction of a
new home on the corner' of Nash
street, across from the Furpless
home.
BACK FROM VACATION
Miss Pauline Chadwick of the
office of the board of education
has returned home from Florida
where she spent a two weeks vac
ation.
LIONS TO .MEET
The regular meeting of the
Southport Lions Club will be held
tomorrow (Thursday) at 12:30
o’clock in the Community Build
ing.
CONDITION SATISFACTORY
The condition of Mrs. Howard
Victor who underwent a serious
operation in the hospital at Spar
tanburg. S. C., last week was
reported yesterday to be very
satisfactory.
MOW DENTIST HERE
Dr. J. H. Alexander, a dentist
of several years experience, has
moved to Southport and opened
offices for the practice of his;
profession in the building former- j
ly occupied by Dr. C. E. Cran- j
dall.
RECOVERING IN HOSITTAL
J. J. Loughlin, Jr., business
manager of Dosher Memorial
Hospital, is recovering nicely
from an operation that he recent
ly underwent in the Veterans
Hospital at Durham It is expect
ed that he will be able to return
home in a few days.
IN ROPER HOSPITAL
William Oberjohanan. Southport
man who has been in the employ
ment of the Army Engineers for
several years, is in the Roper
Hospital in Charleston for an op
eration. Oberjohanan underwent
a more serious operation at the
same hospital two years ago. j
Returns Home
TRAVELER—Mrs. James M. Harper, Jr., has re
turned to her home in Southport after spending the past
month visiting several European countries. While abroad
she attended the International Federation of Woman’s
Clubs Convention in Geneva, Switzerland.
Returns From 30
Day European Trip
Mrs. James M. Harper, Jr.,
Attended International
Convention In Geneva Be
fore Touring Several Eu
ropean Countries
Mrs. J. M. Harper, Jr., retii'ing
president of District Eleven, N.
C. Federation of Women's Clubs,
and incoming president of the
Southport Woman’s Club, return
ed Thursday night after a 30
day tour of seven European coun
tries.
The tour was made following
the annual convention of the Gen
eral Federation in Philadelphia
and Geneva, Switzerland. With
349 other clubwomen from all
parts of the United States, Mrs.
Harper attended the Geneva Ses
sion in the United Nations Head
quarters where delegates from
clubs in Europe, the Middle East,
Asia and the Pacific Islands join
ed in the first international con
vention held outside the United
States.
Following the convention, - the
group of women boarded eleven
buses for a sightseeing tour of
Switzerland, Austria, Italy,
France, Belgium, and England.
In addition, Mrs. Harper visited
Oberammagau in Germany and
two principalities, Monaco and
Lichtenstein. She also was in Ire
Continued On Page Two
Leland Citizen
Is Electrocuted
Morris Eldridgd Ganey Kil
led While Erecting Tele
vision Antenna At His
Home At Lanvale Mon
day
Morris E. Ganey, 29, was elec
trocuted late Monday afternoon
when a TV antenna that he was
erecting on the roof of his home
at Lanvale came into contact
with an electric wire. Rushed to
the Janies Walker Memorial Hos
pital in Wilmington, he was dead
on arrival there.
The deceased is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Burnette Carroll
Ganey, and two daughters, Wan
da and Delynn Ganey; by his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ganey,
Sr., Leland; a brother, Roy
Ganey, Jr.; four sisters, Mrs.
Evelyn Hannah and Mrs. Mar
garet Nelson, Lanvale; Mrs. lone
Lewis of Wilmington and Miss
Barbara Jean Ganey of1 Lanvale.
Funeral services are being held
today at 3:30 o’clock from the
graveside in the Ganey Cemetery
at Leland with the Rev. Joe
Stanley officiating. The pallbear
ers are Carl Williams, Odell Lee
Williams, Johnnie Sellers, Ira
Continued On Rage Two
Quiet Holiday Is
Observed In City
With two policemen now on
duty and covering the town
day and night in the new po
lice car recently bought by
South, the 4th of July
casualties for law infringe
ments was limited to 3 ar
rests among the colored citi
zens for dunkness and one
white man for ignoring the
stop light.
All were tried before Mayor
Roy Robinson and given
light fines.
The police car is used alter
nately by the two officers,
Jack Hickman and Skeets
Gore. They also alternate be
tween day and night duty,
one taking the day shift for
a week while the other goes
on for the night.
Record Throngs
Visit Beaches
Housing Accommodations
Taxed To Capacity By
Visitors Intent Upon Es
caping From Heat Up
State During The Holiday
Week-End
Although a lot of people had
to cut their stay short due to
the lack of accommodations,
more people have visiting the
Brunswick beaches this past
week than in any previous week
in history.
With most of the visitors
coming for two days and a night,
both Saturday and Sunday nights
found folks by the hundreds us
ing improvised sleeping quar
ters. They tucked themselves up
in cars, on floors of houses be
ing built and not yet furnished
and many slept on the beaches.
The overflow from the beaches
near Southport extended through
the town, and everybody who
had a spare bed, couch or was
able to provide a shakedown
found plenty of takers. A Jot of
younger and more hardy folks
did not get any sleep at all,
unless it was a catnap when
nature’s demands got too strong
for them to resist.
With this summer holiday
over, a lot of beach property
owners were saying yesterday
that they are very much pleased
at the way things are going
this summer. They are confident
that another 4 th of July will
find all beach communities fully
built back and going ahead from
all effects of last year's stoim.
Training Union
Conference Now
At Ft. Caswell
One Of Largest Assembly
Gatherings Of Summer
Attending First Of Two
Weeks Baptist Training
Union Sessions
SIMILAR PROGRAM
FOR NEXT WEEK
Cool Breezes Bring Relief
To Up-State Visitors Who
Are Attending Session
At Seaside Assembly
This Week
Better than a thousand B. T.
U. members had arrived at the
Caswell Baptist Assembly by
Monday afternoon for this week's
training program. Another group
that is expected to be even lar
ger is expected next Monday and
will also be composed of B. T. U.
members.
About 500 were registered for
the Music Week program which
ended Saturday.
The visitors this week are get
ting a break from the heat wave
that has extended all over the
State. Water creates winds and
the assembly grounds are prac
tically surrounded by water.
With the ocean on one side and
the Cape Fear on the other, the
place always has a lively breeze
even in the hoLtest kind of weath
er.
Good Progress
On Dredge Job
Venter Far Ahead Of Sche
dule In Dredging Area
About The Docks At Sun
ny Point
The Hill Dredging Company of
Atlantic City, which started the
middle of April on what was^Rsti
mated to be an 8-months job of
dredging in the dock area at Sun
ny Point, is now credited with be
ing far ahead of its schedule. The
work will be completed ahead of
the stipulated time if the present
rate of progress is maintained.
The District Army Engineers
office announced this past week
that the Ventor of the Hill Com
pany has already finished 63 per
cent of the work, more than half
of the job which involves the re
moval of nearly 3 million cubic
yards of disposal. Prior to this
job the Ventor worked here at
Sunny Point for nearly two years
on the 18-million cubic yard dred
ging job of the McWilliams Dred
ging Company of New Orleans.
Dan A. Gardner, Army Engin
eers Chief of Operations, thought
this week that the operations of
the Ventor on this job was excep
tionally good. He disclosed that
the operations of the ship in June
removed almost 800,000 cubic
yards, as against an expected
400,000 cubic yards, which was
the amount called for to be re
moved each month in the $473,
000.00 contract. At the rate at
which the vessel is going, she will
finish much ahead of schedule,
said Gardner.
The Ventor, dredging immed
iately around the terminals, is go
ing 34-feet, plus 2-feet, for a
total of 36 feet at mean low wa
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I
State Resident
Is Local Visitor
Mrs. T. W. Young of Durham,
state president of the King’s
Daughters, and Mrs. Fred Sav
age, treasurer of the organization,
were honored guests at a meet
ing of Endeavor Circle on Fri
day, June 24, at the home of
Mrs. C. Ed Taylor, president of
the local circle.
Mrs. Young’s talk to the ladies
concerned the work completed by
the state group since its organi
zation in 1886. Plans were dis
cussed for the state meeting to
be held in Durham on October
4, 5, and 6.
At the close of the meeting
gifts were presented to Mrs.
Young and $Trs. Savage.
Ice cream and cake were serv
ed to members present.
Improvement In
Highway Despite
Greater Distance
Re-Routing Highway No.
130 Will Increase Distan
ce To Wilmington By One
IViile But Travel Will Be
Over Improved Roadway
By W. B. KEZIAII
Road construction in Bruns
wick during the last decade has
seen the traveling distance be
tween Southport and Wilming
ton cut from 31 miles to 28
miles. It is now getting back to
29 miles and no one at South
port has been heard to voice
any kick about it.
For many years the shortest
paved road between Wilmington
and Southport was what is now
highway 87 to Bell Swamp and
up Highway 17 to 74-76. This
distance was 31 miles between
the two cities. Then after many
years of hard effort on the
part of Southport residents
route 130 from Supply and on
up the State was extended up
the Cape Fear, marking the dis
tance 28 miles between the two
places.
It was not until late in World
War 11 stages that Highway
Commissioner J. A. Bridget- of
| Bladenboro recognized the rights
| of the Southport people and be
gan construction of Route 130
between Southport and Wilming
ton.
It was a long drawn out pro
ject, 4 miles built at this end
and 4 miles at that end. The
whole thing was completed late
in 1949 or thereabouts and the
130 stretch between Southport
and Wilmington immediately be
came very popular. In addition
to being much shorter, it saved
traveling over a road that had
numerous dangerous curves.
But withirf the past two years
it has become apparent that
about 9 miles of 130 at the
Southport end will be cut off
as a result of Army Engineers
building terminals for the Army
Transportation Corps. There will
be a dead-end to 130 at Walden
Creek, 3 miles east of South
port. The stretch between Or
ton on one side and Walden
Creek on the other will be closed
to traffic.
The U. S. Government agreed
to provide money with which the
State Highway Commission can
build a substantial new route
from Orton westward to 87, con
necting at a point 4 miles from
the Southport City limits at the
same place where the “A” road
from the terminals enters that
highway.
This road is now being built.
Continued On Page Two
W. B. &E20AH
Our
ROVING
Reporter
On her return from a six weeks
tour of Europe this week Mrs.
J. M. Harper brought us a per
sonal message from Colonel and
Mrs. Roland C. Brown, whom
she contacted while in Rome,
Italy, where Col. Brown is now
on a tour of duty. The couple
told her that they could hardly
wait to get back to Eastern North
Carolina. Colonel Brown was in
charge of the Wilmington Ihs
trict of the Corps of Army En
gineers when the matter of the
great terminals for the Army
Transportation Corps first came
up. He carried through until ac
tual construction work was Well
on its way.
Mr. and Mrs. Hooper Sellers
and Hooper II are on a 10-day
visit to his parents at Supply
and other relatives here. Mr.
Sellers, enlisting before world war
II, has 17 years service credit
and states that he plans to live
at Southport when he becomes
eligible for retirement in another
three years. He has just returned
with his ship from a cruise to
Europe. Officially he is Adrain D.
Sellers, but year's ago the late
Commodore Charles Cause of
Southport nick-named hin “Hoop
er” and the name has stuck ever
since among Southport folks.
Just 29 days until tobacco
market open. Deduct 4 of these
days for Sundays and that leaves
only 25 working days until a lot
of tobacco begins to be piled on
the sales warehouses floors. For
the tobacce growers, Sundays are
not too generally expected from
the working days. When workers
t Continued on page four.)
From Thailand
To Seoul, Korea
Delmas Fulcher Has Week Lay-Over In Southport Before
Going To Washington For Briefing On New Job
Delmas Fulcher spent the week
in Southport with members of his
family between assignments in
Bangkok, Thailand, and Seoul,
Korea, on missions for the Inter
national Cooperation Administra
tion, an agency of the U. S.
State Department.
Fulcher was stationed in Bang
kok for three and one-half years.
Following his first two years tour
he came home for a 90-day fur
lough. He had been back at that
post since December, 1953, when
orders came through for him to
go to Seoul. Since his new assign
ment necessitated some important
conferences in Washington, he
made the trip by way of the
United States and was able to
get a few days at home.
Fulcher, who was employed in
the offices of the U. S. Army
Engineers in Wilmington for
many years, has been handling
general administrative duties in
his overseas assignments. These
include hotel management, hous
ing, transportation and motor
pool.
There are four members of the
Fulcher family .In addition to the
head of the house, there is Mrs.
Fulcher, their daughter, Miss
Mary Sue Fulcher, and son, Jerry.
Tlie first year all of them were
in Bangkok. The second year their
daughter returned to the United
States to finish high school in
Wilmington. Jerry went to school
at Darjieling, India; and for the
past two years he has been in
school at Edwards Military in
stitute in Salemburg.
There have been many interest
ing experience for the Fulchers
during their overseas assignment.
They say that their housing ac
commodations have been satisfac
tory and that for the most part
their food has been good. There
have been some dangerous mis
sions for Fulcher, as his organi
zation continued business as us
ual in French Indo-China during
the time when fighting was so
heavy over there and some of
his duties involved travel into
the war zone.
Perhaps the most trilling exper
ience of all occurred in December,
1953, when the family was on
the way back to Bangkok. When
the plane in which they were
traveling was about 1,000 miles
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Record Catches
Made This Week
--*
Many Cottage
Owners Exempt
Following a conference in
Raleigh last week between
Eugene G. Shaw, commission
er of revenue, and a dele
gation of beach property own
ers, including several from
Brunswick county, Senator
Ray Walton received the fol
lowing clarification of the
law governing taxes on beach
accommodations:
"Private residences or cot
tages designed for single
family occupancy located in
resort areas and occupied
during a part of the season
by the owners thereof but
rented for the remainder of
the season to others for sin
gle family occupancy do not
come within the purview of
this directive. Such use and
occupancy by such tenants
is regarded as occasional or
incidental and does not re
quire the owner to procure a
privilege license under the
above selection or to collect
or pay the gross receipts
tax.”
Scholarships To
Brunswick Girls
Miss Betty Julian of South
port And Miss Mary Wil
letts Of Bolivia Receive
Full Four-Year Scholar
ship Awards
Crawford Rourk, Veterans Serv
ice Officer for Brunswick Coun
ty, has just been advised by the
North Carolina Veterans Commis
sion that two Brunswick girls
have been designated to receive
scholarships this year.
Miss Betty Lou Julian of
Southport has been designated for
four years at the Woman’s Col
lege of the University of North
Carolina and Miss Mary Annette
Willetts of Leland will likewise
have four years at East Carolina.
Miss Julian graduated from the
Southport high school this spring
and Miss Willetts from Bolivia
high school. The scholarships are
based on the average of both
young ladies in their studies.
In each case the scholarship
entitles the receiptant to free
tuition, a reasonable room and
board allowance and such other
items of institutional services as
are embraced within the institu
tional matriculation fees, except
ing books.
The North Carolina Veterans
Commission is awarding these
scholarships to children of de
ceased or disabled veterans. The
selection of the Brunswick girls
was made through the recom
mendation of Rourk, the local
veterans service officer.
This brings to a total of six
the number of full scholarships
he has been able to obtain from
this source for Brunswick county
boys and girls who are eligible.
Spanish Mackerel And tilue
fish Comprise Principal
Part Of Big Catches Re
ported During Holiday
Week-End
WEATHER PERFECT
FOR GOOD FISHING
Some Of Most Successful
Fishing Of Season Repor
ted By Parties Fishing
At Southport This
Week
The past week lias broken all
records of spring and summer
mackerel and bluefish catches at
Southport. A regular parade of
i some 20 regular sport fishing
boats have been going out daily
and returning with ice boxes full
and the sportsmen tired out, but
happy.
In addition to the regular
charter boats there have been
numbers of outboard craft,
brought in from up-state points
on trailers and also making the
outside trips for the blues and
mackerel.
The top catch of the week, so
far as regular boats were con
cerned, was made by a Virginia
party aboard the John Ellen Fri
day. This party reeled in over
seven hundred blue fish and
mackerel.
Prospects are good continued
wonderful fishing for the blues
and mackerel, if the weather holds
out. A lot of menhaden are re
ported all along the coast below
Southport. The blues and mack
erel move along feasting on these
masses of menhaden and a plug
or spoon offers them a bit of
variety that they seem-unable to
resist. At any rate, they are
striking at anything they see
moving through the water.
Here are some of the catches
that were reported:
On Saturday a party aboard
the Bessie Hay, Capt. Stubbs, had j
322 fish; Sunday his party
brought in 412; and Monday his
party had 140 fish. These catches
were made up of blues and mack
erel.
The Sunday party for Capt.
Fred Fulford was headed by Willie
Taylor from Lenoir. They caught
314 blues and mackerel. The Mon
day party did even better. Mr.
McHam and party of Charlotte
had 468 mackerel.
Out Saturday with Capt. Leon
McKeithan aboard the Botfly,
Frank Bullock and party of Fay
etteville caught 635 blues and
mackerel, 20 blue runners, 23 sea
roe, 3 king mackerel and 1 dolph
in. G. S. Cook and party of
Charlotte were out with him on
Sunday and caught 325 blues and
Spanish mackerel and 2 king
mackerel. The Monday trip nett
ed 216 bules and mackerel for
E. C. Blake and party of South
port.
Capt. Hoyle Dosher doubled up
Saturday with the Idle-On III.
In the morning his party had 475
blues and mackerel He went back
that afternoon and brought in
170 of these two varieties. His
Sunday party was T B. Lundy
and friends from Clinton. They
had a variety of fish including 5
king mackerel, 2 dolphin, 2 am
berjack, 25 Spanish mackerel and
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Methodists Make
Two Changes In
County Churches
The Rev. R. D. Ricks Re
places The Rev. Lawrence
Bridges As Pastor At
Shallctte Camp; The Rev.
Travis Owens Will Serve
Shaliotte Circuit
THE REV. R. H JORDAN
RETURNED BACK HERE
The Rev. Clarence War
ren One More To Serve
Zion Methodist Church;
The Rev. V. E. Queen
District Superin
tendent
Two changes were made in as
signment -of Methodist ministers
to charges in Brunswick county
during the annual session of the
North Carolina Conference last
week in Fayetteville, both of
them at Shallotte.
The Rev. R. H. Jordan returns
as minister of Trinity Methodist
Church in Southport and the Rev.
C. L. Warren retains as minister
of Zion Methodist Church at
Town Creek and of Bethel Meth
odist Church in Bolivia.
The Rev. R. D. Ricks was as
signed Shallotte Camp Methodist
Church succeeding the Rev. Law
rence Bridges. The Rev. Travis
Owen goes to Shallotte Circuit,
replacing the Rev. J. T. Fisher.
The Rev. V. E. Queen will con
tinue to serve the Wilmington
Dictrict as Superintendent.
Action by the Methodist Con
ference if accepted by the Metho
dist General Conference, would
delay integration in Methodism
for four years, or until 1960.
In other action at concluding
sessions of the 1955 Annual Con
ference the delegates voted to:
Ask the General Conference to
pass a resolution urging the Con
gress of the United States to en
act a law forbidding the adver
tisement of alcoholic beverages
in any manner whatsoever.
Ask thp General Conference to
eliminate the requirement that
ministers promise not to use to
bacco.
Ask the General Conference to
grant full clerical rights to guali
fied women.
Holiday Liquor
Supply Captured
Brunswick County Sheriff
And Deputies Colaborate
With ATU Agents In Cap
ture Of Still And Opera
tor
Seventy-five gallons of whiskey,
probably intended to quench 4th
of July thirst, fell into the hands
of ATU and Sheriff's officers in
a raid on Hoods Creek in Town
Creek township on July 1.
With the whiskey the officers
also got a double-worm, 100 gal
lon, steam-type still. 100 gallons
of mash, seven 300-gallon vats
and 15 fifty-gallon barrels.
Not the least of the haul was
one of the operators, Ted Jordan,
a white man who will be tried
in Federal court. Several other
men were working about the still
and all except Jordan got away
when the officers swooped dow-n
on the outfit.
Sheriff Elbert H. Gray and
Deputies O. W. Perry and Leon
Galloway assisted the ATU men
in the raid.
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
tape Fear Pilot's Association.
High Tide I.ow Tide
Thursday, July 7,
9:06 A. M. 3:16 A. M.
9:31 P. M. 3:11 P. M.
Friday, July 8,
9:43 A. M. ‘3:52 A. M.
10:05 P. M. 3:50 P. M.
Saturday, July 9,
10:24 A. M. 4:29 A. M.
10:42 P. M. 4:33 P. M.
Sunday, July 10,
11:10 A. M. 5:10 A. M.
11:25 P. M. 5:20 P. M.
Monday, July II,
12:02 A. M. 5:54 A .M.
0:00 P. M. 6:15 P. M.
Tuesday, July 12,
0:15 A. M. 6:44 A. M.
1:01 P. M. 7:18 P. M.
Wednesday, July 13,
1:13 A. M. 7*41 A. M.
2:05 P. M. 8:27 P. M.