' Most Of The News All The Time Volume No. 17 No. 1 THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community 8-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1955 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY The Pilot Covers Brunswick Comity $1.50 PER YEAR Outlines Plan ' Necessary For Armory Project Representative Kirby Sulli van Receives Communica tion From North Carolina Adjutant General About Prospects For Shallotte Armory NEED FOR ARMORY ADMITTED RY MANNING Prospects Not Good For Early Solution To This Need Cut First Steps Are Outlined By State Official Representative Kirby Sullivan has undertaken the proposition of trying to get Shallotte on the eligible list for a new armory, and to that end recently wrote to Adjutant General John Hall Manning with regard to the pro ject. He received a letter from General Manning expressing in terest in the project and out lining steps that will be necessary to have it approved. Following is the text of his letter to Representative Sullivan: “I am very glad to know that the good people of Brunswick County are interested in this armory. We have not yet been requested to make an inspection of a suitable site. We did inspect one site which we did not con sider to be suitable. We think that a $100,000 armory in the Town of Shallotte merits a very desirable site, which should con tain approximately 160,000 square feet on a hard-surfaced street or highway or very easily accessible thereto. We must have utilities available—water and electricity (preferably three-phase)—and if sewer connection is not available, a septic tank must be provided without expense to the Federal Government or State. I will be very glad to have out Engineer visit Shallotte to inspect an ar mory site whenever one is avail able and request is made. 1 he federal Government will contribute 75 percent of the cost of construction of this armory, and I believe the North Carolina Armory Commission would feel that the State should contribute 17'/i percent. However, priorities have been set up for the con struction of armories 18 through 34, and the most we can hope to do out of the appropriation for the next biennium is to construct 10. It requires approximately six months for an application to build an armory to be processed through the required pipeline. Among other things, the project has to be approved by the Joint Armed Services Committee of the Congress. I do not see any pros pect, therefore, of an armory for Shallotte during the next bien nium. We have some 20 armory sites which have already been conveyed to the State over and above those required for the 10 armories we hope to build duiing the two years period beginning today. I am well aware of the need .for an armory for Battery A, 130th AAA Bn. and, of course, I would like to see this armory con structed as early as it can be accomplished.” Brief Bits Of lnewsj LIONS TO MKKT The regular meeting of the Southport Lions Club will be held tomorrow (Thursday) at 12:30 o’clock in the Community Build ing. OPENS STATION R. L. Ingram has opened a service station in the Hawes building at the junction of high way No. 130 with U. S. 17 at Supply. MRS. WEEKS DIES Mrs. Emily Mae Weeks, wife of M-Sgt. Ennis E. Weeks of Southport, died in Oceanside, California, Friday, July 15. Fu neral services are incomplete pending the arrival of the remains here for burial. PAUL FODALE DIES Word was received here yester day of the sudden death Monday night of Paul Fodale, former resi dent of Southport. According to reports, death was due to a cere bral hemorrhage. He was 44 years of age. .METHODIST CHURCH J. T. Denning, superintendent of schools in Sampson county and a former resident of this county, will fill the pulpit Sunday mor ning at Trinity Methodist Church in Southport in the absence of the pastor, the Rev. R. H. Jordan, Studies His Route ... ...w.»v-^.-.v.<-j>x^-:v:^M«^wm4«W9M6K»»WS»B8)j8888888n TRAVELER—Delmas Fulcher is shown looking at a j globe tracing the route he will follow in traveling from : here to Soeul, Korea. He is spending a few days at his | home in Soutport awaiting orders which will transfer him j to his new station from Bangkok, Thailand. ' Farmers To Vote On Weed Quotas Important Decision Left To Vote Of Man Who Pro duce Crop In Saturday Referendum TWO OTHER ISSUES TO BE DECIDED List Of Voting Places In Brunswick County An nounced By ASC Chair man Evans There will be 6 voting places in Brunswick County where Flue Cured Tobacco growers can cast their ballots on Referendum Day, Saturday, July 23, according to Lonnie Evans, Chairman of the Brunswick County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee. The polls will be open from 7 a. m. to 7 p. m. Following is a list of polling i places: Northwest, W. H. Brew Store ;Town Creek, Harold Wil letts' Store; Smithville, Midway Station; Lockwoods Folly, J. E. Kirby Store; Shallotte, L. L. Hewett’s Store ;Waccamaw, Wac camaw School Agriculture Build ing. All flue-cured tobacco glowers of record have been notified of what their 1956 acreage allot ments will be if marketing quotas continue in effect and the location of the polling place for their community. The vote will determine whether the program which has been in continuous operation since 1940, will be in effect for the crops of 1956, 1957, and 1958; for the 1956 crop only; or discontinued in 1956. If at least two-thirds of the growers voting approve quotas, price support at 90 per cent of parity will be available to growers who comply with their farm acreage allotment. If more than one-third of the votes are opposed to marketing quotas, price support and quotas will not be in effect for the 1956 crop. In a similar referendum in 1952 when a total of 260,163 flue cured tobacco growers voted, 254,317 or 97.8 percent favored continued On Page Two Middleton Is Named Mayor City Government Of Long Beach Organized Last Week With Original De veloper Named Mayor In accordance with the pro visions of the bill of incorpora tion passed by the legislature this spring, officials of the Town of hong Beach who were named in the bill were sworn in this past week by Jack Brown, Clerk of Brunswick County Superior Court. E. F. Middleton of Charleston, S. C , and Long Beach was sworn in as Mayor and C. C. Carr, a i member of the board of alder I men and permanent resident of [ the beach, was named Mayor Pro tein and Clerk to the Board. In addition to these two, the | official body is composed of John Baines of Lumberton and Long Beach; J. A. Woltz of Long Beach, L. P. McLendon. Jr., of Greensboro an Long Beach, Roney | Underwood of Lumberton. D C. Herring of Southport was named city attorney and a city clerk will be named at the first regular meeting. This meeting may be called this week, as an official from the Institute of Gov ernment at Chapel Hill is due to arrive and assist in setting' up ; the form of government, Administer Polio Shots In County Second Salk vaccine shots for first and second grade children who had the first shot before school was out are being given by the Brunswick county Health De partment this week. The program got underway Tuesday when students of Southport, Bolivia and Bruns wick County Training School were given their shots at the health department office in Southport. Today students from Shallotte and Cedar Grove are receiving their shots at Shallotte Health De partment. On Thursday stu dents from Leland, Lincoln, Phoenix, Navassa, Chapel Road and Piney Grove will receive their shots at South port. On Friday the second round treatments will be con cluded at Shallotte when stu dents from Waccamaw, Union and Longwood receive their shots. Dr. F. M. Burdett is as sisting with the clinics at Southport and Dr. Graves with the vaccination program at Shallotte. Comeback Made Following Storm Amazing Pace Being Fol lowed In Rebuilding' Pro gram At Long Beach And Other Brunswick Resorts By W. B. KEZIAH With nothing but wreckage of homes and in scores of cases not even wreckage left after the storm of last October, the folks who are spending the summer there and hundreds of visitors are finding a wonderful change exist ing now at both Long Beach and Yaupon Beach. About half of the houses are back. In many cases the former homes are replaced by entirely new ones. In still other cases the old buildings have been brought back and carpenters and masons have restored them to the point where a rebuilt home presents little difference in appearance from a brand new one. After the storm many pessi mistic persons freely predicted that it would take Long Beach and other beaches in Brunswick 50 years to where they had been before the wind and waves swept in and devasted the areas. Others did not think anything like 50 years would be required, but it did them little good to say so in face of the generally depressive attitude of the public. But their faith was inspiring, especially when their belief was backed by personal action. John P. Stedman, Lumberton banker, president of the Scottish Banks, was one of the first to start re building his home. Quickly fol lowing him in his efforts were C. C. and Sam Carr, J. D. Devane of Fayetteville; Robert Jones, the Cromer's, Jesse White of Oxford and many others. This paper is read by hundreds of property owners at Long Beach. It goes to their homes throughout North Carolina and a dozen other states. Those folks, at first hesitating, saw and were inspired by the reports of what others were doing in the way of Continued On Page Two Garrison Title Surrendered By Engineer Corps Property Now Owned By U. S. Army Transportation Corps; Plan To Use For Construction Of Dwellings EMBRACES AREA IN CENTER OF TOWN History Of Ownership Of This Square Traced In .. -iituig op New Title Of Ownership Through the simple procedure of transferring from one branch of the service to another, the Fort Johnston property, including the Garrison Building, is now owned by the Army Transporta tion Corps, having been trans ferred to the Transportation Corps by the Army Engineers for use in connection with the ter minals four miles above South port. Records In the office of the District Army Engineers office at Wilmington reveal a confusing angle with regard to the Fort Johnston property. These deeds or records say that the property was deeded to the U. S. Government by the State of North Carolina, as a site for a fortification in 1782. On the otherhand, the Gar rison Building, still standing and in excellent condition, is credited with having been built about 1748. This would make the Garrison Building some 34-years older than the Government’s title to the land on which it stands. As far back as can be traced locally, the building has been known as the Garrison officers quarters, with time abbrevating this name to the Garrison Building. The building stands almost squarely in front of the Bruns wick county court house, at a distance of less than 300 feet. Next to Orton Mansion the struc ture is the most widely known building in Brunswick county. The building and land on wl ch i it is situated has been in the I hands of the Army, the U. S | Health Department and Army En gineers since the original deed was received from the State, except (Continued on Page 2) I hieves fcnter Stand Sunday Concession Building At Ya ucon Beach Robbed Of Valuable Merchandise The concession stand building at the fishing pier on Yaupon Beach was broken into Sunday night, entrance being gained by using a ladder to the roof of the building and thence down through the dressing rooms. Some money was taken from the cash register and juke box and a quantity of rods and reels and other fishing tackle was stol en along with towels and two floats or mats. Gibson Barbee, owner of the property, stated yesterday that the robbery appeared to be the work of local parties. He pointed out that during the past several months residents of the adjoining Long Beach have lost consider able property to thieves, this ap plying especially to plumbing and material just installed in incom pleted homes. Officers are inves tigating the concession stand rob bery. Loan Approved For Waterworks The Long Beach Water Com pany has obtained a loan of $39, 000 from the Small Business Ad ministration, the money is to be used for the construction of wa ter mains down the full length of the property from the John P. Stedman residence to Lock woods Folly Inlet. The money is now available and contractors are being asked to submit bids. The company has already run 5,200 feet of piping, and payment for this distance is not involved in the proposed additional mile age. The company has two tanks that afford 60-pounds pressure and it is understood that addi tional tanks will be installed along with the new piping. Good Luck For Fishing Boats Continues Here Results Particularly Good For Parties Fishing On Shoals During Past Week End Weather was good during the past week end, and outstanding catches were continued by parties going out aboard sports fishing boats from Southport. On Saturday the Rev. L. D. Hayman had a Charlotte party aboard the Silver Spray and brought in 153 bluefish and mack erel. On Saturday Capt. Fred Ful foru had Clyde Griffin and party of Marshville out aboard the Davis Brothers V. They caught 246 blues and mackerel. On Sun day Mr. Elmore and party of Bladenboro had 1 king mackerel and 54 Spanish mackerel. On Monday Wade Campbell and par ty of Whiteville had 88 Spanish mackerel and blues. One of the best catches of the week was reported by Capt. George Gregory, who caught 428 blues and mackerel Saturday for Jon Hall and party of Southern Pines. C. B. Phillips and party of Rutherfordton were out with him on Sunday and caught 8 dolphin, 4 barracuda, 5 bonilo, 1 king mackerel and 5 Spanish mackerel. On Monday Doc Hen derson and party of Maxton had 63 blues and mackerel, 4 barra cuda and 1 king mackerel. The Thursday party aboard the Cadet with Capt. Howard Victor was headed by P. R. Rankin and party of Mt. Gilead. They had 250 blues and mackerel and 1 barracuda. L. S. Swepston and party of Greensboro were out Sunday and caught 103 bluefish and mackerel. Capt. Hulan Watts had Mr. Taylor and party «f Richmond, Va., out Sunday and caught 120 blues and mackerel. The next day six girls from Wilmington brought i in 66 blues and mackerel. Capt. Leon McKeithan hit the jackpot for his Saturday party | when they caught 426 blues and mackerel. C. M. Usher of Raleigh \ headed the group. On Sunday Fred Wall and party of Raleigh [ brought in 186 blues and mack eral. Top report for the week was the 525 fish caught Saturday by James R. Eudy and party of Charlotte aboard the John-Ellan with Capt. Walter Lewis. The following day M. H. Stillwell and party of Charlotte had 16 dolphin, 3 amberjack, 5 king mackerel, 4 bonito and 38 Spanish mack erel. On Monday Mr. and Mrs. Churbirko of Concord caught 7 Continued On Page Two Our ROVING Reporter Commissioner Heide Trask is getting a lot of commendation I from the Long Beach, Yaupon Beach and Caswell Beach folks for the fine roads the highway commission has built since the storm. To quote A. H. Comer, Long Beach resident, “We now have the best roads that we ever have had." The work has involved rebuilding practically all of a 10 ! or 12 mile stretch of main road and a good bit of addition later- j al roads running into the main j road. Rebuilding across the inlet | washed out during the storm is j held in abeyance until the inlet J | itself is blocked. The praisej for | the rebuilt loads is well deserved, j Usually there are spring - and fall runs of bluefish and Spanish j mackerel, with less of these fish j during the hot months of sum mer. This year things seem to be very exceptional. Sport fishing boats have been and still are making the greatest catches of blues and mackerel that they have ever made out on the shoals. This may partly account for the fact that only one sailfish has been caught off Southport this year. Visiting sport fishermen have apparently been more at tracted by the choice game fish near shore than by the big fel lows in the Gulf Stream. There should be plenty of sailfish brought in soon, but while the food fish are so abundant the sportsmen are mostly interested in them. The Frying Pan Shoals, jutting (Continued on Page Four) Strange Object Identified 1 fere Considerable Uncertainty As To Identity Of Paravane Existed Before Arrival Of Expert While gathering- clams in shal low water between Southport and Fort Caswell Monday H. L. Pow el came across an elongated ob ject that he took to be a 10-foot gas tank. Although the thing weighed several hundred pounds it was easy to float and he tow ed it pver to Southport and beached it. Various persons connected with the Coast Guard and other branches of the armed service went around and inspected the strange object, only to admit they could not identify it. Ray Arnsten, civilian employee of SPAALT, gave it a look over and announced that he seen nothing like it in Brooklyn. So he went after William A. Hough ton, chief • ammunition inspector. It took the inspector only a glance to identify the whaleish looking thing. He announced that it was a paravane, used to cut the anchors of mines, permitting them to rise to the surface, where marksmen stationed on the deck of the distant minesweeper exploded them with high power rifles. Houghton went on to explain that floating mines were usually anchored several feet below the surface, completely out of sight and held in position by an anchor chain or cable with anchor at tached. The paravane, dragged along beneath the surface, would find the cables and cut them off, allowing the mine to shoot to the surface. At a distance the thing looks like a dead whale, belly up. The head is rather blunt, with the tail tapering to a point and with the cable cutting instrument at tached to the tail. The whole thing is about 12-feet long and looks something like a torpedo. Houghton was unable to say how it came to be floating half submerged in this area, far from where such things have been used. He did, however, admit that it might have floated all of the way from some of the European countries, where they were, used extensively in clearing the wa ters of mines following the war. Ports Authority Visits Tomorrow Highway Work In This County The State Highway Commis sion completed 9.9 miles of road work and built one new bridge in the Third Highway Division during May, Commissioner C. Heide Trask reported last week. Brunswick, New Hanover, Ons low, Pender, Duplin, and Samp son Counties compose the Third. Division headquarters are in Wil mington. C. E. Brown is division engineer; R. V. Biberstein is as sistant division engineer. In Brunswick, a dual-laned road at Yaupon Beach from Long Beach road to ocean was graded, drained and paved by State forces for 0.3 of a mile. Most Of Day Required To Hear Long Docket In Brunswick County Recor der’s Court Monday The Recorder's court docket was jammed again Monday with defendants in traffic violation cases. The following judgments were handed down by Judge Earl Bellamy: Kathleen L. Pigott, speeding (70-mph) fined $15 and costs. Donald Walker Marrow, speed ing (65-mph) fined $10 and costs. Elbert Shelly, speeding (65 mph) fined $10 and costs. John A. Jenkins, aiding and abetting in tzansporting, not guilty. Traffic Aired In Court Charlie Hill, aiding and abetting in transporting, not guilty. John Penson Robinson, trans porting, not guilty. Harry Lee McRae, reckless op eration, ordered to pay G. W. Brown the sum of $125 in month ly installments and T. J. Gilbert the sum of $500, also, in month ly installments. Failure to com ply with the judgment will in voke execution of a six months road sentence. John James Williams, speeding (65-mph) fined $10 and costs. Janies Melvin Lea, speeding (55-mph in truck) fined $10 and costs. Leslie May Smith .operating on wrong side of highway, fined $10 and costs, fine remitted because cf mitigating circumstances. James Ward, seduction, nol prossed with leave. James Solomon Fullwood, pos session, fined $10 and costs. Michael Kenneth Fasee. speed ing (70-mph) fined $15 and costs. Johnnie Franklin Robbins, al lowing minor to operate, taxed with costs. Bessie Everett Lewis, no op ; erator’s license, fined $25 and costs. Earnest Ballard, no operator’s license, fined $25 and costs. Herman Benjamin Jackson, speeding (75-mph) fined $15 and | costs. Charles Cohen, speeding, nol prossed. Continued On Page Pwo 1 ■ State Ports Authority Offi cials Will Accompany General James Glore On Tour Of Sunny Point TO MAKE TRIP DOWN THE RIVER Following Inspection Of Docks, Highway System And Railroads, Party May Continue To Scruthport The State Ports Authority, now in session at its office in Wil mington, will meet at the State Terminals at noon tomorrow 1 (Thursday) and join SPA ALT of ficials aboard an Army boat for a trip down the river and in ; spection of the Sunny Point ter minals. Plans are for cars to pick up the party at the docks of the Army Transportation Corps and carry the visitors over highway and railroad facilities that are a I part of the installation. Brigadier General James Glore 1 of the U. S. Army Transportation Corps will direct the tour of the installation. He will be joined by Brigadier General Alkire of the Air Force, Col. Michael of the New York Port of Embarkation; Lt. Col. Moss, Staff Engineer at the NYPE; Lt. Col. Pleworth, office of Comptroller at the NYPE; Admiral R. H. Woods, Commandant 5th Coast Guard District; Col. Raymond L. Hill, Corps of Army Engineers, and Col. Wm. A. McAleer, Commander of the Sunny Point terminals. Col. McAleer, stated this mor ning that Chairman Edwin Pate of the State Ports Authority; Vice-Chairman Raymond A. Bry Continued On Page Two Extend Contract For Towles Co, Firm Will Surface Large Holding Area For Truck Trailers At Sunny Point Terminals The E. B. Towles Construction Company of Wilmington has been given an additional contract for a truck parking area for Sunny Point. The area covers several acres and lies back of the Towles i Company office, north of where the railroad is crossed by Route 130. The Towles Company has al 1 ready received orders to proceed with this work, which embraces j grading, crushed rockbase and asphalt surfacing. The building of baracades is also involved as it is | understood that trucks loaded with dangerous caigoes will he held in this area, apart from oth er cargoes. The Towles Company has made fine progress on its contract for the building of 30 miles of heavy I duty highway within the yards and the construction of hard i stands for trucks at various points. With a supply of crushed rock for base on hand and a big asphalt plant for surfacing, it is expected that the matter of the parking yard for trucks can be j finished in short order. i Five Different Conferences In Progress Now j Another Busy Session At Baptist Seaside Assembly At Ft. Caswell Attracts j Folks From All Sections GENERA! BOARD HOLDING MEETING [ I Able Church l eaders In Charge Of Varied Pro gram This Week, W ith Another Large At tendance The fourth week of activities at Caswell Baptist Assembly is now in full swing after the two big Training Union weeks regis tered an attendance of more than 2500 people. All sections of the state were represented in these two large meetings. Five groups are now holding sessions at the assembly. The Pastors’ Conference, Intermediate R. A. State Camp, G. A.-R. A. Camp (Rocky Mount Division), and the General Board of the Baptist State Convention with some seventy members is holding its summer meeting at the as sembly. The total attendance for this week will probably run to over a thousand. Conference leaders and speakers for the Pastors’ Conference this week include Dr. W. C. Strick land, Professor of New Testa ment Survey and Greek at South eastern Theological Seminary; Dr. O. T. Binkley, Professor of Chris tian Sociology and Ethics at Southeastern Theological Semin ary, Wake Forest; Dr. Swan Ha worth, Pastor of First Baptist Church of Lumberton; Dr. M. A. Huggins, General Secretary, Bap tist State Convention; Dr. E. L. Spivey, Secretary of State Mis sions, and Ken Freeman, Presi dent, State Baptist Student Union. Rev. J. C. Pipes, Associate Secretary of Promotion, and Dr. Continued On Page Two Wilmington Firm Is Low Bidder Star Electric Company Gets Contract To Erect Speak er System On Sunny Point Reservation 'Die Star Electric Company of Wilmington was the low bidder Friday for the Public Address System at Sunny Point. In a field of six bidders this company stood low with a bid of $23,290 for the work. Other bidders were the French Radio Company, Wilmington, $26, 755; Talley Electric Company, Greensboro, $27,388; J. A. Jones Electric Co., Wilmington, $27,564; Long Engineering Company, Win ston-Salem, $27,990: Brawley Construction Company, Charlotte, $28,060.24. It is interesting to note that the private estimate of the cost of the installaion by the Army Engineers was $27,459. Bids of fered by the contractors ran 3 above and below the Engineers estimate. The installation calls for loud speakers that can be heard ap proximately two miles from any of several areas. They provide extensive coverage and con stitute a warning, as well as for operations. There will be speakers at the top of flood light poles on the wharves, at the adminis tration building, at railroad mas ters office, fire house, etc. I’ide 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, July 21, 9:27 A. M. 3:U A. M. 9:46 P. M. 3:23 P. M. Friday, July 22, 10:17 A. M. 3:56 A. M. 10:33 P. M. 4:13 P. M. Saturday, July 28, 11:07 A. M. 4:40 A. M. 11:17 P. M. 5:02 P. M. Sunday, July 24, 11:56 A. M. 5:27 A. M. 12:03 P. M. 5:53 P. M. Monday, July 25, 0:00 A. M. 6:13 A. M. 12:46 P. M. 6:45 P, M. Tuesday, July 26, 0:48 A. M. 7:00 A. M. 1:38 P, M, 7:41 P. M. Wednesday, July 27, 1:38 A. M. 7:51 A, M. 2:30 P. M. 8:37 P. M.

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