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Brunswick County
Volume No. 1 7
No. 3
1 2-Pages Today
SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1955
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
$1.50 PER YEAR
Everything Set
For Opening Of
Tobacco Market
Bo-dor Belt Warehouses Set
For Large Offerings On
Opening Day Wednesday
With Big Crop To Be
Marketed
OPENING PRICES
ARE SATISFACTORY
Reports From South Caro
lina Markets Indicate
Price For 1955 Crop
Should Be Satisfac
tory
What may bo the biggest year j
in tobacco history for Brunswick j
county and the Border Belt will j
open at 9 a. m., Wednesday when
somewhere in the neighborhood of
tOO buyers make their first bids j
on an expected bumper crop.
With slightly over 61,000,000
pounds on record for 1954, the i
four Columbus markets are ready
to break that record, and the
one for 1953 in poundage.
At Chadbourn, Billy Nobles,
going into his second year as
sales supervisor, predicts 11 to
12.000. 000 pounds for the five
warehouses there. This is about
2.000. 000 more than 1953, and
well above the 8,227864 pounds
from last year.
Hopes On Price
Nobles, as other sales super
visors were, was cautious on
price predictions, but said the
market ought to see an equal
or possibly improvement on the
$57.75 average of 1953.
Fair Bluff’s six warehouses are
set for 8,000,000 pounds this
year, which is about two millions
more than 1954
Clyde Townsend, a sales super
visor with 20 years background,
says that maybe the market will
equal or better the $55.47 aver
age of 1954. Townsend said the
Fair Bluff market led the Bor
der Belt in price average last
year, according to government
reports.
At Tabor City, no poundage
figures were available, but mar
ket officials are expecting more
than the 10,224,418 pounds sold
there last year. Tabor City was
the only Border Belt market
which sold more leaf in 1954
than in 1953.
Prices are also expected to be
excellent. R. P. Counts will serve
his first year as sales supervisor.
Counts was recently named sec
retary of the newly formed mer
chants association, and tobacco
board of trade.
In Whiteville, hopes are high
for poundage over the 41,215,
O00 pounds sold here in 1953
Price is also expected to be
high. The Whiteville market saw
38,984,000 pounds sold in 1954
for an average of $54.76.
R. G. (Bob) Maultsby will
serve again this year, his sec
ond, as sales supervisor for the
Whiteville market.
Whiteville, as in the past, will
have three sets of buyers repre
senting all of the major domes
tic and export tobacco users.
The sales are set up for 6,600
baskets a day during the five
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Brief Bits Of
•-NEWS-1
LIONS TO MEET
The Southport Lions Club will
hold its regular meeting Thurs
day at 12:30 o’clock in the Com
munity Building.
MOVE OFFICE
Ernest Parker, Southport at
torney, has moved from the Smith
Building into new quarters in the
Dan Harrelson building across
from the Amuzu theatre.
RAINFALL REPORT
Official figures for rainfall at
Southport during the month of
July are 2.88-inches. This is in
contrast to the more than nine
inches of rain that fell in the Wil
mington area last month.
HERE ON VACATION
Dr. and Mrs. Walter Harrelson
and children have been spending
a few days here with relatives.
They will move soon to Chicago,
where Dr. Harrelson has accept
ed appointment as dean of the
school of religion.
SHO-DANCE
The second annual American
Legion Sho-Dance will be staged
on Friday night, August 12, in
the USO building. Music will be
furnished by the Melton-Shannon
Four of Wilmington from 9 to L
o’clock and there will be a home j
talent floor show. There will be
table service. Tickets are on sale
now by members of the Legion
and Auxiliary.
Mighty Pretty Crop
MONEY ON THE STALK could well be the designa
tion of these giant tobacco leaf held by Judy Thompson.
This is one example of why farmers and warehousemen
are jubilant about the prospects of this year’s flue-cured
crop. Experts predict production will exceed the 1953
crop.
Schools Will Open
On September 6
County Superintendent Urg
es Parents To Have Chil
dren Immunized Before
School Begins
CITES REGULATION
REGARDING BIRTH
In Order To Be Admitted A
Child Must Have Had His
Sixth Birthday On Or
Before October 1
At a meeting of the Brunswick
County Board of Education here
last Wednesday night Tuesday,
September 6, was set as the open
ing date of school for the 1955
56 term.
Parents are reminded that all
children must have the following
immunization shots before enroll
ing in school: Diphtheria, whoop
ing cough, tetanus and smallpox.
Parents are also reminded that
age requirements and time of en
rollment as set forth in Article
19. section 2 of the 1955 School
Laws is as follows:
“Children to be entitled to en
rollment in the public schools for
the school year 1955-56, and each
year thereafter, must have passed
the sixth anniversary of their
birth before October first of the
year in which they enroll and
must enroll during the first month
of the school year.”
Although most of the schools
have made good progress in lining
up a faculty for the coming term,
several vacancies exist and the
search continues for persons to
fill certain key positions.
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Noted Sculptor
Visiting Here
Sir Jacob Epstein, the
world's foremost sculpter, is
spending two weeks in South
port visiting his daughter,
Mrs. Norman Hornstein, and
her family.
While he was bom in the
United States ,it was during
his life in Britain that he
achieved recognition as a
sculptor of world renown. In
1954 he was knighted by
Queen Elizabeth.
While he may attend to
some business while in this
county, during his stay in
Southport he plans to spend
his time taking life easy and
enjoying the companionship of
his daughter, her husband
an dtheir two children.
Charges Threat
Of Independence
The Rev. B. H. Price Makes
Charges Of Dissolution
Before Brunswick Baptist
Union Saturday
The Rev. B. H. Price, Baptist
minister of Southport, spoke Sat
urday before the Brunswick Bap
tist Union at Oak Grove Baptist
Church and preached against the
Dissolution of Congregational In
dependence in North Carolina.
The Rev. Mr. Price, who is
pastor of Bethel, New Life and
Mt. Olive Baptist churches in this
county, used a recent article by
this same title, which appeared
in the Biblical Recorder, as a
background for his remarks and
backed up his points with illus
trations from the Bible.
The highly controversial article
appeared in the July 9 issue of
the Biblical Recorder. The author,
the Rev. James M. Bulman, pas
tor of East Spencer Baptist
Church, charged that Baptist
Church leaders have backed down
| from earlier positions of inde
pendence. In carrying forward
j this line of reasoning, the Rev.
Mr. Price declared that the in
dependence of the individual Bap
tist church is being destroyed,
and that this situation is being
; hastened by Baptist State offi
i cials.
Routine Session
Of Court Monday
Once More Traffic Viola
tions Consume Most Of
Time In Brunswick Coun
ty Recorder’s Court
Violations of traffic regulations
brought most of the defendents
into Brunswick county Recorder's
court Monday, with three men
being found guilty on charges of
drunk driving.
Donald William Norris pleaded
guilty to driving 70-mph and was
fined $15 and costs.
Billie M. Simms pleaded guilty
to driving 70-mph and was fined
$10 and costs.
William Turner was charged
with drunk driving and having
no operator's license. He pleaded
guilty of drunk driving and was
fined $100 and costs.
Kathleen H. Moore was charged
with refusal to produce driver’s
license, reckless operation and
driving without a license. She
pleaded guilty on the latter two
counts and was fined $35 and
costs.
French Bowen was found guil
ty of public drunkenness and was
< fined $10.
Donald St. George pleaded guil
ty to charges of public drunken
ness and possession and was
fined $25 and costs.
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The following excerpts from the
article in the Biblical Recorder
were incorporated in the sermon
delivered at the Saturday meet
ting:
“A church cooperating with the
North Carolina State and South
ern Baptist conventions does not
have to adopt the controverted
Section 4 of Article VI of the
proposed constitution which has
been offered us, in order virtually
to surrender its property to the
control of the conventions. For,
because of the recent North Caro
lina Supreme Court decision re
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Final Figures
Given For Red
Cross Program
The Rev. L. D. Hayman,
Chairman Of Red Cross
F und Drive F or Bruns
wick County, Submits
Final Report
TOTAL COLLECTION
FOR COUNTY $1,537.73
Shallotte Led Ail Other
Ccmmunities, With South
port Next; Report tiy
Communities Given
The Rev. L. D. Hayman, chair
man of tlie Red Cross Fund drivu
for Brunswick County, has re
ported the collection of $1,537.73
this year. His final report was
submitted this week to Ray Wal
ton, chapter chairman.
Following is the complete state
ment of Fund Raising Campaign
for this year during the period
March 1 to June 15, inclusive:
Bolivia, Mrs. Earley Danford,
$62.41; Brunswick County Negro j
School, Mrs. A. Montgomery, •
$174.79; Leland, Mrs. Doris Wess- '
ell, $20.60; Long Beach. Mrs. Sam
Carr, $91.50; Oak Island Coast
Guard, Capt. Johnson, $33.00;
Orton Road Area, Mrs. Joe Ram
seur, $31.00; Freeland, L. C. Bab
son, $20.00; Town Creek, Mrs.
Elizabeth Goodman, $35.00; South
port, Mrs. Egan Hubbard, $434.32;
Shallotte, G. C. McKeithan,
$439.07; Supply, Mrs. Irma Hold
en, $71.00; Hickman’s Cross Road,
Mrs. Joyce L. Long, $22.06; Vill
age Point, Mrs. Lottie Chadwick,
$103.00. Total $1,537.73.
In making every possible ef
fort to carry the Red Cross Fund
drive into every community of the
county, it was the purpose of
The Rev. Mr. Hayman to set up
an organization which not only
would be effective during the
money-raising drive, but which
would serve as an effective
nucleus for administrative organi
zation. That accounts for the fact
that the work this year extended
well beyond the usual time allot
ed for the fund campaign.
During the emergency which
existed in Brunswick county - fol
lowing Hurricane Hazel last fall
the Red Cross sent in Disaster
Workers who gave tangible as
sistance to hundreds of persons
who had sustained losses. More
than $225,000 has been disbursed
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Commissioners In
Session Monday
Routine Matters Taken Up
By Board In Regular
First Monday Meet Here
This Week
At the regular meeting of the
board of county commissioners^
here Monday W. G. Adams was
granted a leave of absence as
electrical inspector for Northwest
and Town Creek townships and
F. O. Simmons was named to
take his place.
The board requested that a
1700-foot stretch of road on Ocean
Isle be graded and given a clay
surface.
It also was requested that a
road leading from the Midway
Bolivia road be graded and im
proved.
W. B. KBBAH
Watermelons have been serving
a good purpose at many a tobacco
curing barn in Brunswick this
year. The crop is said to have
been a good one and to the per
spiring workers in the tobacco
fields and at the barns a big and
juicy melon that has been kept
on ice or in a cool spot is about
the mostest thing they can de
sire. The melons are grown on
almost every farm and on some
farms they are produced commer
cially. Joe Cochran of Southport
has produced a lot of them this
year and Robert McRackan of
Walden Creek has been handling
them by the truck load since
the first of July. McRackan tells
us that he has 20 acres more of
: watermelons that are to begin
ripening the 20th of August.
What’s more, he says that the
present outlook for these melons
indicate that he will have some
1 that will weigh a hundred pounds.
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Warehouse Scene
THIS IS THE PAY-OFF ! Company buyers vie with each other, and warehouse acutioneers do
their best to get the most from the flue-cured tobacco piles for the farmers at market. Begin
ning Wednesday this scene from a prevous market season will be the rule the next several weeks.
•—(Photo by Baldwin.)
City Manager On
Duty In Southport
Board Of Health
In Session Here
At a meeting of the Bruns
wick County Board of Health
here this morning the matter
of working out a budget for
the present fiscal year offer
ed perplexities which had
members of this body baffled.
As matters now stand, the
new county budget lacks be
tween $700 and $800 of pro
viding the amount necessary
to match funds provided by -
the State. The suggestion was
made that an effort be made
to hold a meeting at which
the Health Officer, Dr. Davis,
and the chairman of the
board of county commission
ers, R. L. Rabon, could be
present in order that differ
ences may be reconciled.
Ocean Isle Has
New Pavilion
Grand Opening Set For Sat
urday Night, With Public
Invited For Free Enter
tainment
The new pavilion at Ocean Isle
will have its formal opening Sat
urday night and the management
invites everyone to attend the
dance that has been planned as
a part of the celebration. A dance
orchestra has been engaged for
this occasion .
The new building is located on
the oceanfront and is of cinder
block construction. It has 7,000
ft of floor space, and included in
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Our.
ROVING
Reporter
T. C. Barefoot of the Barefoot
Mattress Company of Leland does
not often get to stop in this
office. For one thing he is al
ways too busy with his matteress
factory, where he is the fastest
and most efficient worker. This
week, however, he dropped in
with reference to changing his
advertising, making the call a
part of a regular business trip
to Southport. We may be wrong,
but we doubt if there has been
an issue of this paper in the past
two years when Mr. Barefoot
failed to have an advertisement in
it. During that time his business
outgrew the small wooden build
ing in which he started to a large
masonry structure. During the
past few months his cinder block
building has doubled in size and
he now has a real mattress fac
tory. He has also added delivery
trucks for the handling of his
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i
John F. West, Jr., Named
To This Position At Meet
ing Of Board Of Aider
men Here Monday Night
EXPRESSES FAiTH IN
THIS COMMUNITY
Declares That Door To His
Office Remains Open, And
Urges Cooperation Of
Entire Citizenship
John F. West, Jr., of Roanoke
Rapids has been hired as city
manager of Southport.
The Board of Aldermen decided
on West Monday night after re- j
viewing numerous applications i
and personally interviewing quali- j
fied applicants. His salary was'
set at $4,800 per year, and he ;
began work this morning.
The new city manager’s ex
perience includes service as dis
trict representative of Virginia
Electric and Power Co., transmis
sion and distribution of electrical
contracting and city engineer of j
Wray, Colo
The son of Dr. and Mrs. J.
Frank West of Roanoke Rapids,
West is 39 years of age. He is
married to the former Elizabeth
Aldia Gopfert of Charlotte, and
they have two children.
West attended the University
of North Carolina, and was grad
uated from the University of
Illinois with a degree in civil
engineering.
He served as a pilot in the U.
S. Air Force in both the European
and Pacific theatres of operation I
during World War II, and was
wounded in action. He received an |
honorable discharge.
In accepting the post, West
said, “My office shall always be
open to the grievances and ad
vice of the citizens of Southport.
It is my firm conviction that the
possibilities for the growth of
Southport are unlimited, and once
this office has been properly es
tablished and a systematic mode
of operation has been perfected, j
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Garrison To Be
Used By Army
Southport Public Library
Must Vacate The Present
Quarters By August 10
Col. Win. A. McAleer has noti
fied trustees of the Southport
Public Library that the east wing
of the garrison building in which
the library has been housed for
many years is needed for office
space by the U. S. Army Trans
portation Corps after August 10.
As a result, library officials
are busy this week making plans
for removing the library from
the Ft. Johnston building into
the Community Building, which
is the property of the Southport
Lions Club.
Through arrangements with
that organization, one of the
j rooms of that building will be
: converted for use as a library,
and an outside door will be cut.
It is understood that contracts
' have been let for the construc
tion of homes for officers on
j the garrison grounds, but no an
' nouncement has been made as to
I when this work wall begin.
Weather Hurts
Week-End Luck
For Fishermen
Poor Catches Made By The
Boats Saturday, With Lit
tle Improvement For Sun
day Parties
Adverse weather during the
week-end interferred with the
annual fishing party arranged by
Roy H. Wood of Baltimore, who
chartered three boats for two
days and reserved one of the
local motels for the entertain
ment of his guests.
On Saturday the weather was
so bad that fishing on the shoals
was uncomfortable, and off
shore trips were not very pro
ductive. The next day business
picked up a little, with the party
aboard the Cadet with Capt.
Howard Victor bringing in 40
blues and Spanish mackerel.
The Friday catch on this boat
was 175 blues and mackerel,
brought in by J. J. Tucker and
party of Durham.
On Sunday Capt. George Gre
gory had Geo. H. Stone and
party of Greensboro out and they
caught 52 blues and mackerel.
On Saturday Cleo Fields and
party of Greensboro out with
Capt. Fred Fulford aboard t he
Davis Bros. V caught 18 Spanish
mackerel. On Sunday Richard
Musselwhite and party of Wil
mington brought in 43 mackerel.
E. A. Clement and party of
Raleigh were out Saturday with
Capt. Walter Lewis aboard the
John Ellen and caught 200
mackerel. S. A. Gray and party
of Charlotte were out Sunday
and had 61 blues and mackerel.
Two Fishermen
Drown In Storm
Reports From Louisiana In
dicate That Two Men I
From Brunswick Died Sat
urday
Two Brunswick county men
and another from Wampee, S. C.
were drowned during a violent
squall of the Gulf Coast town
of Empire, La., Saturday.
Searchers recovered tne noay of
Otis Bellamy, about 21, of Shal
lotte, and the Coast Guard hunt
ed for the bodies of Mayo Bell
amy, about 20, of Shallotte, and
Thomas Harper Jr., of Wampee,
S. C.
The three were lust when the
squall struck a fleet of menhaden
boats. Witnesses said the fisher
men leaped into the water which
was only waist deep, but that
high waves swept them under1.
Ironically, their boats did not
capsize.
The storm which took the lives
of these fishermen was described
as a prelude to Hurricane Brenda, ;
which lashed the Louisiana coast1
during the week end before mov- j
ing inland in the Pearl River area
of eastern part of that state.
Outer winds of the gathering
disturbance created a jam yester
day at LaFitte, La., where 110
shrimping boats gathered on
Barataria Bayou for annual color
■ fill rites of "blessing the fleet.”
Choppy waters jostled the gaily
decorated boats as they tried to
maneuver into formation to re
ceive the blessing of the Roman
; Catholic Church.
Many of the small craft were
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I Subscribers For
Telephone Stock
Must Pay Deposit
Harry L. Mintz, Jr., Presi
dent Of Atlantic Tele
phone Cooperative, Has
, Made Trip To Raleigh
With Reports
DRIVE ON NOW
FOR SUBSCRIBERS
| More Than 500 Persons De
posited $10 When Project
First Started; Balance
Of $40 Is Due For
Payment
Harry L. Mintz, Jr., president
of the Atlantic Telephone Co
operative, went to Raleigh last
week to present the engineer’s
report and brief to the State Au
thority. This is the final step in
making formal application for a
loan for the establishment of
communications facilities through
out a large area of rural Bruns
wick county.
Officials of the cooperative say
that the only thing now standing
in the way of final approval ara
collections from subscribers. When
the first steps were taken in the
formation of the cooperative, each
interested party was asked to
make a deposit of $10, with the
understanding that an additional
payment of $40 would be required
before construction could begin.
Now the drive is on for the col
lection of these $40-payments.
More than 500 persons indicated
their interest in the formation of
a telephone cooperative by pay
ing their original $10-deposit. It
is felt that practically all of these
people, plus a good many others,
! will now be anxious to make
their additional membership pay
ment in order to speed construc
tion.
It has been pointed out that the
only purpose for which this $40
payment can be used is final in
stallation of telephones ,thus as
suring those who make this pay
ment that they will have tele
phone service.
With the opening of the tobacco
market this week it is believed
that little difficulty will be ex
perienced in making these collec
tions.
District WSCS
Planning Meet
Executive Committee Of
This Organization Makes
Plans For Coming Year’s
Activities
Members of the executive com
mittee of the District Woman’s
Society of Christian Service of
the Methodist church met recent
ly with Mrs. Jack Glisson on
Harbor Island. Mrs. W. C. Davis,
president, presided.
A timely devotional was giver)
by Mrs. James M. Harper, Jr.,
vice-president. Having recently
been in Geneva at the Palace of
Nations and having attended
church services in Geneva, she
used verses from 12 chapter of
Romans on ’’Love”. She quoted
i from President Eisenhower’s ad
dress, mentioning Peace and
Friendship; and quoted from daily
papers and Time.
Miss Ida Hankins, Spiritual
Life Secretary, had the group in
prayer for peace and remembered
especially the leaders of the
Geneva Conference.
Mrs. James Ferger, secretary
of Missionary Education, gave re
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Fide 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, August 4
7:62 A. M. 2:09 A. M.
8:30 P. M. 2:11 P. M.
Friday, August 5
8:40 A. M. 2:46 A. M.
9:05 P. M. 2:51 P. M.
Saturday, August 6
9:21 A. M. 3:23 A. M.
9:41 P. M. 3:32 P. M.
Sunday, August 7
10:03 A. M. 4:00 A. M.
10:20 P. M. 4:16 P. M.
Monday, August 8
10:49 A. M. 4:41 a. M.
11:04 P. M 5:04 P. M.
Tuesday, August 9
11:42 A. M. 5:27 A. M.
11:56 P. M. 5:59 P. M.
Wednesday, August 10
0:00 A. M. ' 6:19 A. M.
12:42 P. M. 7:02 P. M.