Information On
Brunswick Jobs
New Issue Of County Busi
ness Patterns Has Just
Been Released And Has
Interesting Information
In mid-March 1953 about 2,589
non-farm commercial and indus
trial employees in Brunswick
county received taxable wages
under the old-age and survivors
insurance program, according to
N. A. Avera, manager of the
Wilmington Social Security dis
trict office.
During the first quarter of 1953
.272 reporting units of employees
of commercial and industrial em
ployees covered by the program
paid out some $1,247,000 in wages
taxable under social security in
the county. The largest propor
tion of employment, 1,300 em
ployes, was in Standard Major in
dustry groups, with 76 employed
in Service positions. In March 1953
Brunswick county had six em
ploying units with 100 or more
employes.
These and numerous other fig
ures on employment, payrolls,
and employing units for the coun
ty, state, and the nation, appear
in County Business Patterns, first
quarter, 1953, just released. Is
sued under joint sponsorship of
the Bureau of Old-Age and Sur
vivors Insurance and the Bureau
of the Census, the newly publish
ed edition of County Business
Patterns is the seventh in a
series showing county and indus
try statistics based on wage re
ports filed under the federal old
age and survivors insurance
group.
County Business Patterns,
Avera pointed out, is a compila
tion of statistics derived as a by
product of Bureau of Old-Age
and Survivors Insurance account
ing operations under which r ec
ords are maintained of social
security taxable earnings received
by every person covered by the
Federal insurance program.
Employment and payroll data
for more than 43 million em
ployes and 3 2-3 million reporting
units of employers covered by
the program were tabulated to
provide the figures which appear
in 'this edition.
Reference copies of CBP bulle
tins may be examined at field
offices of the U. S. Department
of Commerce, at district offices of
the Bureau of Old-Age and Sur
vivors Insurance, and at many
public and college libraries.
Visitor Impressed
With Opportunity
Interested in the recognized
need of housing in and around
Southport, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bird
of High Point and Thomasville
came to Southport the past week
with plans to spend two days
looking into the situation.
The two days stay extended
into six and they found things
so much to their liking that Mrs.
Bird said that they plan to re
turn soon and bring the children.
The children in the case happen
to be three girls 11, 13 and 15
years old. This fact should be
interesting to the patrons of the
high school here.
Bird may go into the building
business here if plans turn out
alright.
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Funeral Services
For Mrs. Hewett
Funeral services were held on
Thursday at the Chapel Hill Bap
tist Church at Shallotte for Mrs.
Addie Bennett Hewett, member
of a prominent Shallotte town
ship family, whose death accurred
in a Lumberton hospital after an
extended illness. Rev. L. H. Sher
wood of the Soldier Bay Baptist
Church, officiated.
Mrs. Hewett is survived by her
husband, Henry Hewett, of Shal
lotte; one son, Henry Hewett of
Lumberton; two daughters, Mrs.
B. F. Houston of Lumberton, and
Mrs. C. B. Combs of Weldon, Tex
as; six sisters. Mrs. Ernest Park
er, Sr., Mrs. Ed Leonard, Mrs.
Bridges Sabiston, Mrs. Mrs. Bruce
Hawes, all of Shallotte; Mrs. H.
B. Day and Mrs. Emma Saunders,
of Raleigh; three brothers, Rev.
H. B. Bennett. Shallotte; Nelson
Bennett, Ash, and General Ivan
L. Bennett, retired U.S. Army
Chaplain of Washington, D. C.
Judge Mallard
Takes His Oath
“Only by self-analysis and cor
rection can the courts and the
bar hope to hold the respect and
confidence of our people.”
This was the key sentiment
expressed by Gov. Luther Hodges,
Saturday at the swearing in cere
monies of Raymond Mallard and
14 other Superior court judges.
It was the largest such cere
mony in the state’s history.
Judge Mallard is one of 11 re
sident judges recently appointed
by the governor after the state
judiciary was enlarged. He will
serve the 13th judicial district
composed of Columbus, Brunswick
and Bladen counties.
The audience included virtually
all of the state Superior court
judges, and six of the seven jus
tices of the state Supreme court.
It is probably the largest con
gregation of the state’s judiciary.
The oaths were administered in
the hall of the House of Repre
sentatives. Judge Mallard was
sworn in by Superior Justice Jeff
D. Johnson .
Hodges said he felt the courts
could hold the “respect and confi
dence” of the people “by install
ing better procedures, by de-em
phasizing unnecessary technicali
ties, by refusing lo put up with
dilatory tactics, causing cases to
remain on dockets for months and
sometimes years, and by always
keeping in mind the fact the State
of North Carolina is an interested
party in every lawsuit and its in
terest demands expeditious settle
ment of every case."
Hodges also told the judges “it
is imperative” that by time the
1957 Legislature convenes “we
shall be able to tell them that
court dockets are up to date and
are being kept up to date.”
Later, the Superior Court judges
met with Chief Justice M. V.
Barnhill of the State Supreme
Court and outlined plans to clear
clogged court dockets.
New Vocational
Field Opening
If Proposed Legislation Goes
Through Congress, Voca
tional Training In Fishing
Would Become Available
A dispatch to this paper from
Washington indicates that the
commercial fishing industry is due
to get a good break under a bill
that is sponsored by Senator W.
Kerr Scott with 27 other senators
joining in.
The measure provides for the
eral grants for the purpose of
training fishery technicians and
teachers for a program that will
carry out fishery vocational edu
cation in the schools and colleges.
Senator Scott stated that this
program would mean as much to
the coastal counties as the voca
tional agriculture work means in
the farm areas.
The feasure provides for the
federal government to make
grants, totaling $375,000 to high
schools in coastal areas next year
and $55,000 to colleges and uni
versites for the purpose of train
ing teachers and technicians in
the field.
TOM THUMB WINNERS
Miss Janet Leigh Shuler was
crowned Tonr Thumb queen and
Landis Brown was crowned Tom
Thumb king at the Fourth of
July Ball Monday night in the old
g'.vm.
Long Trips For
Menhaden Catch
Local Boats Have Been
Bringing In Good Catches
Of These Fish Caught
Georgetown, S. C.
Despite the long daily trips to
the Georgetown area menhaden
boats of the two Southport fac
tories have been bringing in big
catches this week. Two boats
brought in half a million fish
each last night. Other catches
ran from 250 to 400 thousand.
Captain J. B. Church, long iden
tified with the menhaden indus
try, said this morning that the
product in the coming run was
not so very large, and there is
little oil. What is lacked in qual
ity is made up for in quantity
and with the fish moving slowly
onward this way it is possible that
big production will be in order
for some time.
A lot of blue fish and Spanish
mackerel are following the schools
of menhaden and that is indica
tive of continued good sport fish
ing in this area.
Two Docks Near
Completion Point
Diamond Construction Com
pany Expects To Be Able
To Turn Over Dock No. 1
And Dock No. 2 By End
Of Month
Ken Stewart, construction su
perintendent for the Diamond
Construction Company, of Savanh
nah, Ga., stated Monday that he
hoped to have docks No 1 and 2
ready for final inspection of the
Army Engineers by the 29 of
this month. If inspection is held
then and the structures, are ac
cepted by the Army Engineers
they will turn these two docks
over to the Army Transportat
ion Corps in short order.
The Diamond Company still has
about two months to go on dock
No. 3. Its completion will mark
the last stage of work by the
Diamond Construction Company
on their eight million dollar dock
construction Job. The company
already has a contract for another
big dock at St. Mary’s S. C. as
well as a half-dozen other big
projects at various points. A
State job in Virginia on which the
Diamond and the Bethlehem Steel
Company are jointly engaged runs
to twelve million dollars.
Southport Man
Named To Board
Lewis J. Hardee Named By
Governor As Member Of
The Commercial Fisheries
Board; Will Serve In Ad
visory Capacity
Lewis J. Hardee of Southport,
was last week named to the com
mercial fisheries group by Gov
ernor Luther H. Hodges. The
group serves in an advisory cap
acity to the Department of Con
servation and Development.
Other named to the group at
the same time were Kenneth
Meadows, Swansboro; Bill Mason.
Orinental; Dick O’Neal, Swan
Quarter; Monroe Gaskill, Cedar
Island; George Wise, Stumpy
Point; and Winfield Daniels, Cedar
Island and Charlotte.
Hardee, a native of Florida and
from a family always identified
with the seafood industry, has
been a resident of Southport more
than 20 years and has always
taken an active interest in com
mercial fishing.
ROVING REPORTER
Continued From Page Four
Just home from Thailand for
two weeks before he leaves again
for Korea, Delmas Fulcher,
Southport man who worked many
years with the Army Engineers
before the U. S. Government
picked him out for some special
service in foreign countries, went
over Sunny Point with us Satur
day. Fulcher said he was very
much impressed with the con
struction progress made by the
Army Engineers and contractors.
Away out in Thailand, more than
half way around the world, he
has been keeping up with the
project through the weekly visits
of The State Port Pilot. But he
said, "One just has to see this
installation to get any real idea
of its scope. The Transportation
Corps should be very much pleas
ed with the facilities they are
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going to have for shipping here and greater Brunswick county,
in Brunswick county.” I -
There is a general trend of
things. On birthdays and Christ
mas and often sandwitched in
between we receive boxes of ci
gars, some as strong as a mule,
from friends everywhere. We
mind the time when General Ivan
Bennett, on his way to Japan and
Korea, stopped off somewhere and
bought and shipped us a box of
long, deadly looking, black cigahs.
We smoked’em all up but every
time we smoked one its effects
lingered for two weeks. Now, as
we were saying, there is a general
trend of things. The fellows are
trying to keep us provided with
something that will keep alight
all of the cigars they have given
us at previous times. Last Friday
U. S. Navy Chief, Adrain Sellers
came back from Europe and
brought with him a cigar lighter
for our benefit. It was only the
next day that Delmas Fulcher
showed up from far away Thai
land, bfinging for our benefit
another cigar lighter, a real Silver
one, hand made and all. It was
not so long ago that Buck Bucha
nan, Southern Superintendent for
the T. F. Scholes, Inc., gave us
30 cigar lighters to give to news
paper friends of ours.
Ira Butler, mail carrier at Row
land and a frequent visitor to
Southport and Long Beach, wond
ers how much the terminals of
the Army Transportation Corps
will help things at Southport, the
beaches and throughout Bruns
wick county. Tile answer to this
inquiry is that the help will be
beyond the scope of the average
person’s realization. Construction
has been mostly by machinery.
Operations will require a lot more
labor and at good pay. The pay
rolls when operations set in wiil
be a big beest to the economic
lift of the entire oounty. In addit
ion to the activities and payrolls
from the installation, Sunny Point
will attract widespread attention
and assist in drawing industries
to Brunswick county. We don't
mind saying that the terminals
will be the spark plug for a new
Recently we had a story where
in Mrs. E. T. McConnell, daughter
of General James VanFleet, com
mander of the 8th Army in Korea
spoke very complimentary of the
terminals of the Transportation
Corps at Southport. In addition
to being General VanFleet’s
daughter, Mrs. McConnell is the
wife of a Colonel commanding in
Formosa. She had told us that
the Army Engineers were to be
greatly commended for designing
and supervising the construction
of the terminals and that the
Transportation Corps were to be
congratulated on having such a
wonderful facility. A good many
of the Army Engineers have
spoken to us of their appreciation
of Mrs. McConnell's interst in
their work. Col. R. L. Hill stated
last week that the construction
here had brought the Engineers
more fine publicity and express
in than had any other work done
in the district.
When Bill Sharpe, now co-pub
lisher with Carl Goerch of The
State magazine, was appointed
North Carolina’s first News Bur
eau Director, one of the first trips
he made anywhere was down here
to see us. That was sometime in
the middle or late thirties. Nat
urally, he had a camera along
and did a lot of practice with it.
When we picked up our last
week’s copy of The State we
were sort of surprised to note
that the cover was one of Bill's
first pictures made in this area.
It was a picture of the old Price
| Creek lighthouse, with us standing
j in the doorway craneing our neck
I to look upward. We believe that
; the picture on the cover of last
week's State was about 18 years
old.
The Raleigh News and Observer
and the Charlotte Observer get to
Southport every morning at about
7 o'clock, an hour and a half be
fore the first regular mail. The
explanantion is that each of these
papers is brought in by carriers.
The Greensboro Daily News, re
lying on the mails, does not arrive
CASH
on the line
That’s the way
to talk to your
dealer about a
new car. We
»i
can save you j
some more ’j
money when 'j
we help with
the financing.
W A C C A M A W
BANK AN# [IIIIST COMPANY
member f.d.i.c.
until 3:30 p.m. What we sort of
wonder at is how does the Wall
Street Journal, published in New
York, get here through the mail
at the same time as the Greens
boro Daily News. We subscribe
to the Daily News but the Wall
Street Journal is almost outside
the province of our pocket book.
It cost $29.00 per year. Neverthe
less a big business interest is
having it sent to us, in the hope
we will learn more than we now
know.
NC Police Tops
In Road Control
RALEIGH North Carolina and
Virginia finished in a tie for first
place honors among southern
states in police traffic supervis
ion during 1954, and were among
five states in the entire country
whose achievements were recog
nized as especially noteworthy,
the others being delaware, Wash
ington and California.
Word of the award reached
Motor Vehicle Commissioner Ed
Scheidt in a letter from Irvin
Bruce, president of the Internat
ional Association of Chiefs of Po
lice.
The IACP annually honors se
lected law enforcement agencies
for outstanding work in traffic
supervision. The awards are bas
ed on comparisons of performance
with that of other states accord
ing to Bruce’s letter.
In commenting on the award
Scheidt said "Recognition by the
IACP, the nation’s leading orga
nization of law enforcement exe
cptives, is indeed an honor for the
state. This is a real tribute to
the State Highway Patrol and its
achievements in traffic safety
last year.”
A plaque will be awarded the
state in mid-July at appropriate
formal ceremonies according to
Commissioner Scheidt. A repre
sentative of the IACP will make
the presentation.
Blame Drivers
For Death Toll
RALEIGH — “What’s the an
swer to the vacation traffic prob
lem ? You are Mr. Motorist!”
In those words Major D. T.
Lambert of the State Highway
Patrol this week pinned respon
sibility for the heavy annual toll
of vacation traffic deaths on the
drivers themselves.
“It is my firm belief that most
vacation-time auto accidents can
be laid at the door of impatient
and discourteous drivers,” said
Major Lambert.
“These Hurry Bugs are so in
tent on cramming their vaca
tions full of activity and pleasure
that they don’t take time to
drive safely.”
The major suggested a more
relaxed attitude as a safe guard
for the driver. He pointed out
that a vacation is a time to take
it easy and enjoy a little fun.
“There’s very little fun in mak
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“HAD LUNCH HERE”—First Lt. John M. Conroy, hero of Opera-'
tion Boomerang, uses map on the side of his North American F-86
to show course he flew on Armed Forces Day. The California Air
Guardsman became the first man in history to fly from Los Angeles
to New York and return between sunrise and sunset of the same
day. The 11:26:33 required for the trip included the time it took
Air Guard refueling crews at six different stops to service his Sabre
Jet fighter. With him is project officer Maj. James F. Reid.
Polio Care Still Necessary
The use of Salk polio 'vaccine
may not materially influence inci
dence rates of the disease in
North Carolina this year, State
Health officials warn.
Parents of children who receive
the vaccine must-continue to ex
ercise common sense precautions
to guard against the disease in
the coming months of expected
high incidence, the report added.
The two-fold warning came in
a report on a study conducted
by Dr. Bernard G. Greenberg
of the University of North Caro
lina School of Public Health and
Dr. Charles M. Cameron of the
State Board of Health.
The study was conducted to
predict the influence of the Salk
vaccine in North Carolina. It was
based on the official results of
the Salk vaccine evaluation study
by the University of Michigan
and on the past history of polio
outbreaks in this State.
The report cited figures which
show that in an average year
North Carolina may expect aboutj
630 cases of poliomyelitis to be
reported. The Michigan study in
dicated a 49 per cent effective
ness for the Salk vaccine against
reported cases of all types of
polio.
Based on this, if every Tar
Heel received the vaccine the
State would still have 321 cases
reported, the study said. The use'
of vaccine among first and second?
grade school children under the"
program sponsored by the Nation-,
al Foundation for Infantile Par-j
alysis will have even less effectj
it pointed out.
The study said a warning toj|
parents is necessary because of'
‘‘the continuing need for close ob
servation of children during thei
season from July to September}
when poliomyelitis is expected to!
be most prevalent.”
ing an over-ambitious schedule
and trying to keep up with it
no matter what happens,” Major
Lambert went on. He advised mo
torists to get an early start each
day and to cover just as much
territory as they can manage
without strain. These two things,
he pointed out, will remove the
pressure to drive at a speed too
fast for conditions, to disregard
traffic signs and signals and to
ignore the ordinary rules of cour
tesy on the road.
He also warned drivers to be
especially careful at night be
cause danger is increased after
dark and the driver is likely tc
be fatigued.
“I guess my whole message
can be summed up in the familial
slogan from the National Safetj
Council: ‘Drive to Arrive Alive—
Slow Down and Live!’”
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To handle record breaking auto
traffic across the English chan
nel, a terminal has been built
at Dover which can handle 240
cars an hour. > u
Announcement
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chat he has opened offices in Southport for the practice of
Dentistry. His office is in the building formerly occupied by i
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