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Volume No. 17
No. 2
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SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1955
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
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Attendance At
Fort Caswell Is
Good This Year
Another Successful Week In
Session At Baptist Seaside
Assembly At Ft- Caswell
With Five Groups In Con
ference
ATTENDANCE AVERAGE
ABOUT 950 PER WEEK
Assembly Program Contin
ues Through August 27;
W.M.U. Session Next
Week, Together With
Conferences For
Others
Caswell Baptist Assembly is be
ginning its fifth week of a great
summer season with five confer
ences being held.
The Associational Missionaries
Conference is being piesided over
by Rev. Tom Green of Kanna
polis. The special speakers for
this conference are Rev. Louis
Martin of the Home Mission
Board of the State Baptist Con
vention, and Dr. E. L. Spivey,
State Mission Secretary of the
Baptist State Convention.
A three weeks Preachers’
School started July 26. The teach
ers are Rev. J. C. Pipes of Ashe
ville, Rev. Robert Dyer of Gard
ner-Webb College, and Rev. J. L.
Jenkins of Boiling Springs. This
school will continue through Aug
ust 12.
The Intermediate G. A. State
Camp has an enrollment of over
200 girls from all parts of North
Carolina. This camp is being di
rected by Miss Janet Wilson,
Young People's leader of the W.
M. U., and Miss Miriam Robin
son, W. M. U. Secretary.
The Junior G. A.-R. A. Camp
for the Raleigh Division is being
led by Miss Rebecca Maness of
Oxford and Rev. Truman Smith
of Raleigh.
Week end conferences for Sun
day School workers will begin
July 29 and continue through
July 31. These conferences will
be under the direction of Rev.
Jack Bagwell, Rev. II. T. Brooks
ana Mrs. Myra S. Motley of the
Baptist State Sunday School De
partment. Other leaders include
Rev. Eugene Poston of Wallace,
John Fletcher of Charlotte, Rev.
Frank Perry of Raleigh and Joe
Stroud of Statesville.
Attendance for the first four
weeks of the assembly has total
ed more than .3800, an average
of 950 per week. The assembly
program will continue through
August 27. August 1-7 will be
W. M. U. Week ,with four con
ferences for different age groups.
Brief Bits Of
'-NEWS-'
ATTEND REUNION
The Rev. and Mrs. L. D. Hay
man attended the Hayman reunion
in Dare County during the past
week end.
ATTEND MEETING
Postmaster J. B. Russ of South
port and Postmaster Ida Parker
of Shallotte attended a confer
ence of postmasters in Greenville
last week.
OPEN MDS ’
Bids were opened Tuesday for
widening two bridges between
Supply and Bolivia on U. S. 17
in Brunswick county. The low
bidder was Wilson Construction
Co. of Salisbury with $30,048.80.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE
Game Protector Pawnee Formy
Duval is on leave of absence from
his position with the North Caro
lina Wildlife Commission until
September 1. He is busy remodel
ing his father's old home, where
he plans to live following loss of j
his own home by fire last month. ;
STILL TAKEN
ATU Officers and Deputy Sher
iff O. W. Perry captured a 400
gallon submarine type whiskey j
still on July 12. Six hundred gal- j
Ions of mash also taken and |
destroyed. For fermenting mash
the outfit had a 1300 gallon ca- ;
pacity tank. No whiskey was |
found and no operators were cap- ,
tilled.
RETURN HOME
Col. and Mrs. Earl I. Brown
have returned to Southport after
spending- several weeks at Ft.
Bragg, where Col. Brown was a
patient. He is convalescing- at his
home here.
CAMP INSTRUCTOR
The Rev. R. H Jordan is serv
ing this week as an instructor at ;
t he N. C. Conference Methodist
Youth Camp near New Bern. He
Viill return Saturday and will j
preach at both the morning and
evening services at Trinity Meth
*>dist Church Sunday.
Shark Stages Hard
Fight For Freedom
Several Persons Have Made Some Unusual And Interest
ing Catches From Municipal Dock In City
A shark is a bit unpredictable
about what he will do when you
get him on the end of a stout
line. As likely as not he will
head straight for the equator or
some such place. Now and then
he is disposed to be more reason
able and course up and down in
front of the dock from which he
got hooked.
In these later cases he pro
vides some real sport for the'
man handling him and for a big
gallery of spectators.
O. B. Kinsley of the Army
Signal Corps, with his headquar
ters in Atlanta, is in Southport
right much and his off duty
time finds him fishing for sharks
from the municipal dock. At
this task he usually gets one
or more of the big fellows each
trip, but not without having a
hard time bringing them to the
dock, where they can be gaffed.
Sunday Kinsley got two of
the sharks, one weighing about
200 pounds. The other was esti
mated at 170 pounds. This I
slightly smaller shark provided
a thrill for Kinsley and about
50 spectators.
Tobacco Farmers
Continue Control
Only 3-Percent Of Voters
Opposed Continuation Of
Quotas In Tobacco Pro
gram In Saturday Vote
TWO ASSESSMENT
PROGRAMS FAVORED
Both Tobacco Associates
And Peanuts Promotion
Program Receive Con
tinued Support
Marketing controls, quotas and
price supports for the next three
years got the nod of approval
from 97. percent of the 988
farmers who voted in Brunswick
Saturday.
Assessments for market pro
motion for both tobacco and pea
nuts also won overwhelming sup
port in the county, according to
the ASC tabulation.
In the five-state flue-cured
area, more than 95 percent of the
nearly 200,000 voting farmers ap
proved controls for three years.
The vote means that in 1956,
1957 and 3958, there will be
quotas on flue-cured tobacco pro
duction, stiff penalties for vio
lators, and price support at 90
percent of parity.
The peanut assessment also
won a whopping majority in
Brunswick county as 95 percent of
the 996 voters approved it. The
peanut assessment was for two
cents per hundred pounds, or
double the last approved assess
(Continued On P age I? our>
Man Bound Over
On Rape Charge
Numerous Other Matters
Disposed Of Here In
Brunswick County Recor
der’s Court Monday Be- j
fore Judge Earl Bellamy
At the hearing held here in
Recorder’s Court Monday Judge
Earl Bellamy found probable
cause against Liston Barnhill,
white man of the Bolivia com
munity, who is charged with rape
involving two small colored girls.
Barnhill was held for Superior
court without bond. Judge Bell
amy also ordered that he be
carried to State Prison in Raleigh
for medical observation.
Barnhill was out under bond on a
like charge in New Hanover
county, the victim in this case
being his sister-in-law.
Other matters disposed of Mon
day were as follow:
Frederic McDaniel Collins, |
reckless operation, fined $10 and
costs.
Willie T. Stoney, public drunk
ness, disorderly conduct, resisting
arrest, six months on the roads,
suspended on payment of a fine
of $50 and costs and good be
havior for two years.
John Edward Maddox, speeding
(70-mph) fined $15 and costs.
Robert Edward Sanders, speed
ing 165-mph) fined $10 and costs.
James Earl Boswell, speeding
(70-mph) fined $15 and costs. |
Norman Seales, speeding (70- 1
mph) fined $15 and costs.
(Couunued on Rage 4)
Getting out two or three hun
dred yards in the river, far
enough to cause a tinge of worry
about the bit of line that was
left on the big reel, the shark
began to be a bit reasonable. He
would run up the river for a
hundred yards or so and then
turn to go back over the same
course. By using plenty of mus
cle, Kinsley was able to gradual
ly work him just a little closer
as he was making these up and
down runs.
At the end of 25 minutes, the
shark half floating on its side
was near enough for a long
handled gaff to reach down, stab
him near the gills. His resultant
leap broke the wooden handle
from the gaff but the line on
the gaff held and the flounder
ing shark was drawn safely to
the dock.
In this landing on the dock
Jim Cuthrell and Roy Arnsten,
provided some able assistance on
the gaff line.
Kinsley also caught a sizable
stingaree and Cuthrell got a 60
pound sea turtle, which was
thrown back in the water.
* —
Mosquito Work
Being Conducted
Mayor Roy Robinson is
urging all owners of vacant
lots to clean up their prem
ises or he warns that this
will be done with city labor
and the -bill - will added to
taxes.
One reason for this is to
cut down on the mosquito
menace in Southport. These
insect pests take cover in
high weeds and undergrowth,
| and they find breeding places
! in empty cans and containers
which may catch and hold
water.
As a further measure in the
local war against mosquitoes,
Mayor Robinson urges this
same attention about yards in
the city, and perhaps some
spraying with insecticides
about the premises.
Vets Are Eligible
For Some Medals
j Brunswick County Veterans
Service Officer Calls At
tention To Prospect Of
Eligibility
Crawford L. Rourk, Veterans
Service Officer for Brunswick
County, stated today that there
are many veterans who did not
receive service medals due them
during World War II and that
these medals are now available
to these veterans.
If a man is entitled to wear
a service ribbon there is probaby
, a medal that corresponds to it.
| The medals were not given along
with the ribbons because of war
time shortages, but these short
ages no longer exist and the
medals have now been made and
are awaiting World War II
claimants.
There will be some delay in
issuing the medals in order to
check the files. Final authority
for entitlement is based on each
individual's service record and the
exact regulations governing each
medal.
Rourk refers only to service
medals, which are available to all
persons who meet the require
ments of the regulations and not
to the many medals for which
a person must be cited by name,
and which are classed as decora
tions, not service medals.
Some of the service medals are
American Defense Service Medal,
Women’s Army Corp Service
Medal, American Campaign
Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
Medal, European-Afi ican-Middle
Eastern Campaign Medal, World
War II Victory Medal, etc. Some
decorations are Congressional
Medal of Honor, the Distinguish
ed Service Cross, the Silver Star,
the Degion of Merit, the Distin
guished Flying Cross, the Soldier’s j
Medal, the Bronze Star Medal,
the Purple Heart, the Navy Cross,
etc.
There are also some medals
l Continued on Page Four)
Housing Needed
Here According
To Gen. Glore
Commanding Officer Of
New York Port Of Em
barkation Says That Hous
ing Has Bearing Upon
Working Personnel
EXPRESSES IDEA
TIME FOR BUILDING
Indications Point To Increa
se In Interest In Problem
With Early Relief In
Prospect
A matter of concern to Gen
eral James Glore, commander of
the New York Port of Embarka
tion, during his visit here last
week was the lack of suitable
housing facilities available for the
increasing number of employees
at Sunny Point Army Ammuni
tion Loading Terminal.
He expressed satisfaction with
the progress that is being made
in the construction phase, but he
had the following to say with
regard to housing:
“The place grows more im
pressive every time I see it. I am
looking forward to the beginning
of operations this fall. I feel it
will provide a pattern of exper
ience and economical performance
in the handling of a dangerous
commodity which will be refected
in subsequent terminals of its
kind.
“The only concern I have is not
with the installation itself. My
concern is with suitable housing
for the working force. It does not
seem to be fully appreciated by
investment capital available in
this area.
“I can easily understand why
sufficient housing has not been
built up to the present time. Now
that the FederaJ Government is
completing its investment of ap
proximately $25 million, it would
seem that there should be more
evidence of an increase in new
(Continued on Page 4)
Work Curtails N
Terminal Tour
Paving Company Busy This
Week Connecting Paved
Highway With Deck Of
Huge Wharves
This week and probably through
part of next week cars of work
men and others can only get in
and out at one end of the three
wharves being finished by the
Diamond Construction Company.
The E. B. Towles Company is
now connecting its asphalt roads
with the concrete floors of the
wharves. This entails the moving
in of a lot of crushed stone for
base and also a lot of hot asphalt
for the surface. Working at one
end of a wharf ,the company
leaves the.other end open for traf
fic and this traffic has to turn
around at some point on the
wharf and come back the way
it went in.
With a 22-foot truck lane and i
3 railroad tracks and space be- j
tween, there is no trouble in
turning around on the docks. W. |
B. Keziah of the State Port
Pilot is taking a party, using1
half-dozen cars, from the Caswell j
Baptist Assembly over the in
stallation today.
w. a KKZ1AH
In view of General Glore's
statement regarding the need of
houses, remarks that applied di
; rectly to the Southport area,
; Southport people no longer have
i justified excuses for not engag
j ing in the building of homes that
will permit, Sunny Point workers
j living here, as they will want to
i fi°- The fact may not be general
ly known, but workers residing
j in Wilmington, even when they
live just across the Northeast
Cape Fear bridge, will have to j
drive a round trip distance of
64 miles daily to and from j
Sunny Point. The workers will
have good pay. Most of them
will be able to build or buy
homes soon after they get settled
but the immediate needs, as we
see them, are for a lot of new,
substantial 3-bedroom homes for
the workers who will soon be
coming in.
Something of interest to con- j
Admiral Wood Here
On Inspection Trip
Admiral R. H. Wood, comman
der of the 5th Coast Guard Dis
trict, Norfolk, spent Thursday in
Brunswick county on a routine
inspection of Coast Guard in
stallations.
In the morning Adminal Wood
made a tour of the Sunny Point
installation of the Army Trans
portation Corps and apparently
was greatly interested. The after
noon was spent on inspection at
the Oak Island Station and the
Coast Guard rescue boat, based
at Southport .
Ports Authority
Members Visit
At Sunny Point
Tour Of Installation Made
Thursday Afternoon With
General James Glore, Col.
Wm. A McAleer And Col.
R. L. Hill In Charge
Members of the State Ports
Authority joined General James
Glore, Col. Wm. A. McAleer, Col.
Ft. L. Hill and other ranking TJ.
S. Army officials for a tour of
the Sunny Point Terminals
Thursday.
These men appeared to be im
pressed with what they saw and
some of them were in hearty
agreement that the installation
will cut down the time for real
development on the Cape Fear
by many years.
From the office of the authori
ty in Wilmington the officials
were brought down the Cape
Fear on the Army patrol boat
from Sunny Point.
The boat trip enabled the
visitors to see the water side of
Wharf No. 3. Coming aboard
Dock No. 2 at the upper end; 9
waiting automobiles carried them
the length of No. 2 and thence
(Coutinued on Page 41
Two Crownings
In The County
One Negro Man Drowned
In Waccamaw River Fri
day Afternoon; Another
Yesterday Ait Town Creek
Two drownings have occured in
Brunswick county during the past
week at widely separated points.
William Frink, 21 year old
Negro man of Ash, drowned Fri
day afternoon while in swimming
at New Britian Bridge. Accord
ing to reports, he had gone in
swimming with a group after
working in a tobacco patch all
day and had started to swim
across the river. He went down
and was drowned.
Tuesday morning about 10:30
o’clock, Romeo Peterson, 19-year
old Negro youth of Florence, S.
C., was drowned in Town Creek.
According to report, he was work
ing with a crew on the new
bridge on Highway No. 130 when
he fell into the water. His body
was seen to rise to surface twice,
and two men who were working
with him sought to pull him
from the stream. When he sank
the second time he was not seen
again until the Coast Guard lo
cated his body two hours later.
Coroner Sam T. Bennett ruled
that death in each instance was
due to accidental drowning.
Our
ROVING
Reporter
tractors and others interested in
the terminals is scheduled to ap
pear in the next issue of Con
struction Magazine of Roanoke,
Va., due to be out the end of
this week. Eddie C. Reid, man
aging editor of the magazine,
was at the terminals early this
month and made a lot of pic
tures of work in progress. Con
tractors who met up with Reid
are interested in seeing what he
comes up with in story and pic
tures when the issue is out.
ROVIN’ REPORTER
The Army Engoneers are to
open bids today for the construc
tion of officers homes on the
Fort Johnston property. If any
of these bids are within reason
it is supposed that construction
will begin immediately. This pro
ject was originally scheduled for
action more than a month ago.
All bids at that time were eluss
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Fishing Party
LUCK—This is an example of the kind of luck that
parties fishing out of Southport have had recently. These
men are from Columbus County and are shown with
bluefish and mackerel caught while out with Capt. Leon
McKeithan aboard the Botfly.
Good Fishing Is
Still Going On
Schedule For
Vaccine Shots
Salk vaccine shots will be
given on the same schedule
as last week, Tuesday and
Thursday at Southport Health
Department at 9 o'clock and
on Wednesday and Friday at
Shallotte Health Center from
9 to 12 o'clock.
i ms is to enable children
who have had the first in
jection to receive the second
shot. First and second grad
ers only are eligible. Children
vacationing around the
beaches may receive these
shots also. The effective date
of this vaccine expires Sept
ember 1. Therefore, it is im
portant that use be made of
it now.
Ask Voluntary
Aid In Survey
Effort Being Made To De
termine Extent Edible
Finfish And Shellfish Us
ing North Carolina Waters
Members of the State’s com
mercial fishing: industry are be
ing urged to cooperate with the
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
in the program now underway
to determine the extent of edible
finfish and shellfish using North
Carolina waters.
Director Ben E. Douglas of
the Department of Conservation
and Development announced in
Raleigh that he has written com
mercial fishermen and fish deal
ers urging them to give their
full cooperation to the program
of reporting their seafood catches
in the State’s coastal waters.
“It is my belief,’’ Douglas said,
"that we can accomplish a great
deal for the commercial fishing
industry if we have accurate sta
tistics which will reveal our
weakness and our strength with
regard to the presence and mi
gratory habits of seafood.’’
uougias, whose department in
cludes overall supervision of the
division of commercial fisheries,
urged commercial fishermen to
give the Fish and Wildlife Ser
vice their full cooperation in
furnishing information on catches
they make.
All such information will be
kept in the strictest confidence,
the C&D director added, an i at
Continued On Page Four)
-mod Weather Held During
Week-End But Wind On
Monday Prevented Sports
Writers And Sportcasters
From Going Out
SHOAI.S CATCHES
STILL OUTSTANDING
Parties Making Trip Off
Shore Also Having Good
Luck With Larger Vari
eties Of Fish
The best fishing season in his
tory is still being reeled off by
charter boat operators from
Southport, and the only break in
tlie luck during the passed week
was caused by the weather.
That was on Monday, and the
chief victims were the men who
ha.ve been writing and talking
about fishing developments here
for several years. During' the
week end the weather was good,
and so was the fishing.
On Saturday Capt. George
Gregory had David Rother and
a Sanford party out aboard the
Joan and got 168 blues and mack
erel. The next day Dr. Creighton
Wrenn an 1 party of Mooresville
(Continued on Page Four)
V aupon Beach
Lots Moving
Demand For Building Sites
At Yaunon Beach Contin
ues, With Early Building
In Prospect
Over the past week end 9 fam
ilies from various parts of the
state bought residential lots at
Yaupon Beach. Several of them
are said to be planning' immed
iate construction of homes.
The facilities for entertainment
I at Yaupon Beach are apparently
adding greatly to the desirability
as a place of residence. The
beach, in addition to the bathing
; facilities and big concession stand,
has a modern steel ocean pier,
a large building for an indoor
skating rink is just being com
I pleted, a miniature golf course is
1 also being completed and the
beautiful wooded area adds to the
charm of ocean honiesites.
More than a hundred fine lots
for residences and other build
ings have been sold within less
than three months. Several new
homes have been built to add to
those already there, and prepara
tions are underway for other new
structures to start up immed
iately.
Local Fishing
Skippers Hosts
To Sport Group
Twenty-Eight Sports Writ
ers, Radio And Television
Announcers Here For Day
Of Fishing With Local
Boatmen
WEATHER RUINED
DAY FOR FISHING
However, Trip Made To
Wrightsville And Visitors
Entertained At Dinner
At Mack’s Cafe Fol
lowing Cocktail
Party
Twenty-eight North Carolina,
South Carolina and West Virginia
men. widely known for their
radio, tv, sports writing and
photographic work of a sport
ing nature, gathered at South
port the first of the week as
guests of the Southport Charter
Boatmen's Association.
As a fishing trip for the vis
itors the occasion was a flop.
For the creating of friendship
and interest in the sport fishing
off Southport it was one of the
best events yet staged here.
Eight boats were scheduled to
handle the visitors in what was
hoped to be a productive fishing
trip. These boats did their part,
but the elements were all against
them in producing things. A stiff
wind from the southwest had
created such choppy seas west
of the shoals that going out from
here and staying was voted out
by both boatmen and visitors.
They went just for an hour,
turned back in here and ran up
tiie river to Wrightsville through
the river and canal, thinking that
things were less rough there, only
to find conditions there about the
same as here. They returned
shortly before 5 o'clock with five
mackerel for the 28 men.
Boats handling the visitors
were the Cadet, Capt. Howard
Victor; Margrace, Capt. James
Arnold; Miss Margaret III, Capt.
: Leo Dowling; Jo-Ann, Capt.
George Gregory; John Ellen,
Capt. Walter Lewis; Patricia,
Capt. David Adams; Beth, Capt.
Glenn Trunnel,
Everyone of the above boat
men can be given credit for the
success of this show of hospital
ity. Likewise, credit can be given
to Mrs. Ruth Hood and other
ladies for their efforts in making
the gathering a big success, in
spite of no fish.
The guests were Chester Davis,
Winston-Salem Journal; Bill
Rone, The State, Columbia, S. C.,
Ray Reeves, WRAL, Raleigh; L.
C. Bruce, WWCA, Siler City;
Bill Currie, WNOS, High Point;
Bill Gentery, WCHV, Charlottes
ville, Va.; Bob Walker, WCHV,
Charlottesville, Va.; Chris Cram
er, Daily Progress, Charlottes
ville, Va.
Rod Amundsen, N. C. Wildlife
Commission, Raleigh; Jim Leo,
Wildlife Commission, Raleigh;
Marvin Frances, Durham Morning
Herald; Bill Hammond and Jack
Dermid, Wildlife Commission, Ra
leigh; Mr. and Mrs. Allen Alex
ander, (AP) Raleigh; Mac Mc
Duffie, sports Department, News
and Observer, Raleigh; Henry
Schoolfield, Winston-Salem Jour
nal; Jim Jefferies, Sports Pho
tographer, Greensboro Daily Rec
ord, Greensboro.
Bob Brooks, Secretary Sports
Writers Association, Raleigh; Mr.
and Mrs. Bill Henely, Wake For
est Sports Publicists, Wake For
est; Ray Reeves, WRAL Raleigh;
James E. Lee, Durham; Tom
(Continued on Page 4)
'title Table
Following is the tide table
for Southport during (he 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
I.«w Tldf
Thursday, July 28
2:30 A. M. 8:44 A. M.
3:33 P. M. 9:35 P. M.
Friday, July 2!)
3:22 A. M. ' 9:38 A. M.
4:14 P. M. 10:29 P. M.
Saturday, July 30
4:16 A. M. 10:30 A. M.
5:04 P, M. 11:19 P. M.
Sunday, July 31
5:07 A. M. 11:20 A. M.
5:50 P. M. 0:00 P. M.
Monday, August 1
5:57 A. M. 0:06 A. M
6:35 P. M. 12:06 P. M.
Tuesday, August 2
6:40 A. M. 0:50 A. M.
7:15 P. M. 12:49 P. M.
Wednesday, August 3
7:23 A. M. 1:31 A. M.
7:53 P. M. 1:31 P. M.