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Volume No. 17
No. 6
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SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1955
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
$1.50 PER YEAR
Salk Vaccine
Available For
Ages Up To 19
First Shots Must Be Receiv
ed Before September 1,
And Vvill Be Given From
National Foundation Spon
sored derum
HEALTH DF.PARTMENT
ADMINISTER SHOTS
Clinic Being Held In South
port On Tuesday And On
Friday ASternoon At
Shallotte
The polio vaccine program in
Brunswick and other North Car
olina counties has been thrown
open to children up through 19
years of age by the State Health
Department.
Dr. C. B. Davis, Brunswick
health officer, said late last week
end, that the shots will be avail
able to children up to 19 years
old, free of charge, providing the
shots are received by August 31.
This program applies only to
the first of the three-series Salk
shots, and will utilize only Nat
ional Infantile Polio foundation
sponsored serum. According to
information from Raleigh, it is
anticipated that serum under the
federal program now being orga
nized will provide additional ser
um for the series of innocuialions.
Dr. Davis emphasized that
the shots to be given under the
new state health department di
rective are to be given free of
charge. Those who desire to take
advantage of the snots must get
them before the end of the
month.
These shots will be available at
the clinic at Southport on Tues
day from 9 to 11 a. m. and from
1 to 3 p. m. Tlie Shallotte clinic
will also handle these shots on
Friday from 1:30 to 3:30 p. m.
The polio shots were given pre
viously only to first and second
grade students in an emergency
program earlier in the year.
Brief Bits Of
lnewsj
RETURNS HERE
J. J. Loughlin, Jr., has return
ed to Southport from Durham,
where he was a patient for sev
eral weeks at the Veterans Hos
pital. He is now a patient at
Doslier Memorial Hospital.
MEETING POSTPONED
Last Thursday was the time for
the regular meeting of the South
port Lions Club, but this session
was cancelled because of the aft
er-effects of Hurricane Diane. The
next meeting will be Thursday,
September 1.
VISITING RELATIVES
Miss Emma Lou Harrelson, for
merly receptionist at Orton Plan
tation Gardens, now with one of
the large florist shops in Wash
ington, D. C., is spending her two
weeks vacation with relatives here
and friends at Long Beach.
LIGHTNING STRIKES
Two bolts of lightning hit here
Friday afternoon, one striking the
Flaxco home on Moore street and
the other striking the Dan Harrel
son Grocery building. The bolt on
Moore street also caused damage
to the Burdette home. Nobody
was hurt in either instance, and
property damage was slight.
SERVING IN AZORES
Norman Gore, Brunswick coun
ty boy who is serving with the
Air Force in the Azores, write
this paper that he expects to
shortly be transferred to some
other area. He commented that
it is always a pleasure to receive
and read his home town news
paper. He is an Airman 2nd class.
TRUCK TURNED OVER
A White Ice Cream Company
truck turned over on Route 17
three and a half miles north of
Bolivia Saturday morning at 6:30.
The machine was fully loaded and
was headed out for a day’s de
livery. Highway Patrolman H. F.
Deal who investigated the acci
dent cited the driver for driving
on the wrong side of the road.
OUT OF HOSPITAL
Harry Robinson of Clinton,
formerly of Southport, spent yes
terday here. His little son is just
out of the hospital after four
weeks of confinement after being
run over by an automobile that
was being operated in the front
yard of the Robinson home. The
boy received a fracture of the
spine but has completely recov
ered.
Inspects Installation
VISITOR—Major General Paul F. Yount, Chief of Transportation, Department
of the Army, is shown second from the right soon after his arrival here from Wash
ington, D. C., for a visit to the Sunny Point Army Ammunition Loading Terminals.
On the extreme right is Col. Charles C. Peterson, who accompanied him here. Others
shown talking to General Yount are James C. Bowman, Mayor Roy Robinson and Col.
Wm. A. McAleer, commanding officer of SPAALT.
General Glore
Inspects Loss
From Hurricane
Commander Of New York
Port Of Embarkation Here
This Week To See Effect
Of Storms Upon Sunny
Point Terminals
General James Glore, command
ing officer of the New York Port
of Embarkation, arrived here
yesterday to inspect damage sus
tained at Sunny Point during the
recent hurricanes and to make
plans for the activation of the
government terminals.
Accompanying General Glore
were Col. C. H. Elges and Lt.
Col. I. D. Austin of the Army
Transportation Corps and K. C.
Harwood of the Corps of Army
Engineers in New York.
Erosion is said to have been
a matter of concern for several
weeks. Recent heavy rains made
this matter worse. Inspection of
this trouble and various operation
plans which are to start soon
made a consultation necssary be
tween General Glore and Colonel
Wm. A. McAleer of the SPAALT
staff. Col. Virgil Lancaster, the
Sunny Point Post Engineer, also
accompanied the officers on their
inspection tour.
Piers number 1 and 2 at Sunny
Point are now virtually ready for
use, especially number 2. High
ways and ail railway tracks in
the yards are also ready for use
or can be made availble at once.
One matter that is of some
concern to the public is that the
by-pass being built by the State
from Orton to 8" has made little
progress. With several school bus
es scheduled to use this by-pass
to and from the Southport schools,
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Inlet Project
Makes Progress
Last Week’s Storm Tides
Helped Fill New Inlet
Cutting Through Lower
End Of Long Beach
Working right through seven
days of the week and only stopp- j
ed by the few days of rough
weather last week, Contractor
Bordeaux of Wilmington is mak
ing slow but steady progress on
his job of closing the inlet on
the lower end of Long Beach.
Aside from causing a brief
stoppage of the work, both Connie
and Diane have given a very
substantial assist in closing the
inlet. Sands swept in by the seas
piled lip against the piilngs that
had been driven. This not only
strengthened the pilings, it will
effect a big saving when the mat
ter of building the fill comes up.
Continued On Page Two
i
Property Damage
Light From Storm
Elderly Skipper
Drowns In Erie
Capt. Harvey Hecker, 78
year-old skipper of an out
board motorboat on which he
and his 70-year-old bride pass
ed through here on a honey
moon cruise a few weeks
ago, was drowned Monday in
the storm-swept waters of
Lake Erie.
Hecker, who didn’t make
his first boat trip until he
was 75-years-of-age, had vis
ited Southport once before on
one of his lengthy small boat
cruises. When he and his
bride arrived here early this
summer they spent the night
at the home of Mrs. Blanch
W*eks, then headed north in
the inland waterway on their
way to their home base at
Cleveland.
Neither Hecker nor his
bride could swim, but she was
rescued. She is a patient in a
hospital at Erie, Penn.
Bolivia Citizens
Operate Shelter
Report Of Operation Of
Red Cross Shelter At Bo
livia School Indicates
Good Work Done
Information from Bolivia indi
cates that of the most successful
operations conducted during the
recent hurricane emergency was
the Red Cross shelter in the high
school building last Tuesday
night.
The Bolivia Shelter Committee
included: Douglas H. Hawes, Har
old Willetts and S. H. Hilburn,
Jr. They divided their duties, with
Hilburn taking care of lights,
Hawes being responsible for wa
terand Willetts providing cooking
facilities.
Those in charge of preparing >
food were: Mrs. A.S. Knowles,
Mrs. N. C. Darnell, Mrs. Ina Mae
Mintz, Mrs. Esther Gray, Mrs.
Ruby Mercer, and Mrs. Helen Huf
ham.
Distribution of cots and blan
kets and first aid and safety
was in charge of Frederick H.
McClure.
All these details were carried
out satisfactorily. The ladies were
on hand all night with hot coffee
and sandiwches and served bacon
and eggs for breakfast.
A Red Cross nurse, Miss Annie
Lou Davis, was on duty all night
Continued On Page Two
* Several Hundred Homes
And Buildings Sustained
Damage, But Few Of
Them Were Of Serious
Nature
EROSION DAMAGE
AT RESORT AREAS
No Definite Program In
Prospect Up To This Time
For Restoration Of The
Sand Dunes Along
Brunswick Coast
Brunswick county escaped dam
age comparable to that of last
October as a result of the one
two punch of hurricane sisters,
Connie and Diane, but literally
hundreds of homes and buildings
suffered roof damage and other
minor losses.
Much of this damage is covered
by insurance, and a check this
week of agencies doing business
in Brunswick indicate that where
as the average loss is light, the
total number of claims is about
as heavy as it was last fall.
At Long Beach two houses were
blown over from their founda
tions, and on Robinson Beach one
house was demolished by the
Continued On Page Two
Farm Crops Hit
By Million And
County Agent A. S. Know
le.s Compiles Figures Show
ing Heavy Losses Su. tain
ed Because Of Hurricane
Visits
TOBACCO CROP IS
HIT THE HARDEST
Estimated Loss For This
Crop Placed At Million,
With Other Heavy Loss
From Various Other
Farm CropS
County Agent A. S. Knowles
and a committee of farmers have
made a thorough check on crops
damaged in the recent storms and
estimate losses of one and one
half million dollars. As was to
have been expected, crop losses
were much greater than during
Hurricane Hazel last year since
the recent storms came two
months earlier, during the grow
ing and harvesting season.
The estimates male by the agent
show tobacco to have been dam
aged to the extent of a million
dollars, or 30 percent of the
Brunswick crop. The loss, says
County Agent Knowles, was to
the tobacco in the fields, in the
barns and packhouses.
Other crops suffered proportion
ately. Corn loss was placed at
$200,000 or 30 percent of the crop;
cotton, of which there is a com
paratively small acreage, lost
$10,000 or 40 percent.
About $1,500, or 15 percent,
was lost in the peanut crop; soy
beans fared worse by suffering
an estimated loss of $60,000, or
50 percent of the crop.
The damage to milo was placed
at $11,000, or 50 percent of the
crop; lepedza damage was placed
at $60,000, or 10 percent; sweet
potatoes apparently received a bad
blow, the estimate of the loss be
ing $120,000, or 40 percent of the
crop. Excessive rains contributed
to tills loss.
The damage to home gardens
was placed at $6,500, or 10 per
Continued On Page Two"
1-Half
Contractor Now
On Road Work
By-Pass Route From High
way No. 130 To Junction
With Route No. 87 At
Entrance To Sunny Point
Being Constructed
Starting work of clearing the
right of way some wreeks ago
Grannis and Sloan, Fayetteville
contractors, are now at work in
ernest on grading and preparing
the by-pass from Orton to high
way No. 87 for paving.
Clearing and grading of the 8
mile stretch of road is being done
by the contracting company. For
the paving they let a sub-con
tract to the E. B. Towles Con
structiin of Wilmington. With a
hot asphalt plant at Sunny Point
the Towles company will be able
to dp this portion of the by-pass
work just as soon as the grading
is finished without having to
bring in an asphalt plant.
As in the case of the Sunny
Point road system, the by-pass
will have a rock base under the
continued On Page Two
W. a tUSZAAH
Our
ROVING
Reporter
Mr. and Mrs. Phil King, Who
now live in Miami, Fla., still have
their hearts very much on Dong
Beach. In a letter received this
week Mr. King spoke of making
an extended visit back here in the
fall. He said that outside of Day
tona Beach he had not seen a
single Florida beach that could
compare with our beaches hack
here. Reports from this area rel
ative to the storms last week gave
him and Mrs. King considerable
concern. These reports, he says,
seemed to pinpoint much damage
to this area. He hoped that these
reports were not true. Some day
the family hope to be back here
to stay.
Some time ago Col. R. c. Brown
wrote from Rome, Italy, where
he is stationed with the Ai'my
Engineers. Col. Brown pointed'out
that this paper was well situated
to get out a special edition coher
ing the Sunny Point terminals.
Plans for such an edition are now
in the making and the paper is
hoping to have the cooperation
of the Army Engineers and all
contractors who have been en
gaged in tne construction. The aim
is not so much to have something
big as it is to have a compact,
well printed edition with a large
number of illustrations.
We have no financial interest
in Yaupon Beach nor in any oth
er beach. That fact did not keep
us from feeling a lot of elation
when we saw G. V. Barbee leav
ing the post office Saturday mor
ning with several newly received
checks for the purchase of build
ing lots at Yaupon Beach. All of
the checks had been written since
the storm. To us they indicated
more strongly than anything else
could have done that folks have
a lot of confidence in Brunswick
beach property.
(Continued on Page i)
Music Leaders
MUSICIANS—Dr. Lara Hoggard, left, former choral
director of the Fred Waring Pennsylvanians and conduc
tor of the famous “Festival Of Song” Chorale, is at Cas
well Baptist Assembly this week for a workshop of choral
directors and high school students of music. Dr. Charles
C. Taylor, of: the city schools of High Point, is president
of the choral directors and has been active in organizing
these choral workshops.
Choral W orkshop
At Fort Caswell
Fishing Ready
To Resume Here
Sport fishing off Southport
appears to be ready to pick
up right where it lctft off be
fore the recent hurricane per
iod, and boats that were out
Sunday and Monday report
good luck. All of these suc
cessful trips were for off
shore fishing.
One was made by Dr. Green
burg and party of Florence,
S. C., with Capt. Walter Lew
is. They had 5 king mackerel,
6 barracuda, 2 amberjack and
3 bonito.
No report was avaialble
from several other boats that
made trips, but all of them
made satisfactory catches.
No trips were made either
Tuesday nor today, but when
the weather settles down, par
ty boat skippers perdict the
best fishing of the season off
Southport.
Driver Bound
Over For Wreck
Edward James Walker Will
■ Face Trial In Brunswick
County Superior Court On
Manslaughter Charge
Edward James Walker, a mem
ber of the U. S. Marine Corps,
was bound over to Superior court
Monday following' a hearing in
Recorder’s court on charges of
manslaughter and drunk driving.
Walker is charged with being the
driver of an automobile involved
in a fatal accident in this county
on August 5, when Mrs. Sarah
Davis Hancock was fatally in
jured near Leland. She was the
second highway fatality for
Brunswick county this year. Bond
for Walker was set at $1,000.
John David Barnhardt, speed
ing (90-mph) fined $75 and costs.
Joyce Specketer, speeding (70
mph) fined $15 an dcosts.
Robert E. Bailey, vagrancy, 60
days on roads, suspended on con
dition that defendent will leave
Brunswick county not later than
August 23rd.
James Micheless Corbet, speed
ing (65-mph) fined $10 and costs.
Herbert Alexander Salter,
speeding (65-mph) fined $10 and
costs.
Robert James Pauli, speeding
(65-mph) fined $10 and costs.
Corbett Kennedy, no operator’s
license, fined $25 and costs.
David M. Smith, reckless opera
tion, fined $15 and costs.
Benjamin Harrison Stanley, vio
lating restrictive operator's li
cense, taxed with the costs.
Jasper Bellamy, assault with
deadly weapon with intent to kill,
bound over to Superior court un
der $500 bond.
James Lee Haddock, expired op
erator’s license, nol pros.
David Bishop Vereen, reckless
operation, no operator’s license, j
fined $35 and costs.
Sadie Blown, assault with dead
ly weapon, not guilty.
Esther Council Williamson, j
drunk driving, reckless operation,
fined $100 and costs .notice of
appeal given.
Hugh Spencer, assault with i
deadly weapon, nol pros.
Obie Godwin, drunk driving,
Continued On Page Kourf 1
Activity Being Sponsored By
Choral Section Of North
Carolina Music Education
Association
DR. LARA HOGGARD
DIRECTS STUDENTS
High School And College
Music Students From All
Over North Carolina
Attending Workshop
Session
The third annual Choral Work
shop sponsored by the choral sec
tion of the North Carolina Music
Education Association is now in
| progress at Caswell Baptist As
j sembly, near Southport, with ap
proximately 200 students and di
rectors from all parts of North
Carolina having enrolled for the
five-day session.
Dr. Lara Hoggard, noted choral
director, is in charge of directing,
and the workshop is under the
leadership of Dr. Charles Taylor,
president of the choral section.
Miss Nora Bryant is secretary of
the group.
Dr. Hoggard comes to the
workshop for the third year as
Guest Director. For seven years
choral director for Fred Waring's
"Pennsylvanians”, Dr. Hoggard is
well qualified to teach the young
people who last year met at Ap
palachian State Teachers College
and the year before at Catawba
College. Many of the group also
had the benefit of his instruction
in Greensboro in the spring dur
ing the N. C. State Music Festi
val where he trained 1,000 voices.
Dr. Hoggard’s musical career
began while he was choral direc-:
tor at a high school in Oklahoma, 1
where he led an outstanding group
of young people and was offered I
a position at the University of I
Oklahoma. While there, his men’s ;
chorus won a nation-wide com
petition at Carnegie Hall spon- i
sored by Fred Waring. Following
service with the Navy during the
war, Dr. Hoggard accepted the j
position of choral director with
Fred Waring and in addition serv
ed as Dean of the Summer Work
shop at Shawnee.
During the season 1952-53 Dr.
Hoggard was in charge of the
famous touring group "Festival of
Song”. At present he is editor
of the Shawnee Press, music pub
lishers, and is professor at the
University of Utah.
Dr. Taylor is musical super
t Continued on Page Four)
Area Protected
From Northeast
Recent Hurricane Loss Held
To Minimum Because
Wind Was From This Di
rection
The direction of the wind last
week was a tremendous factor
in preventing the loss of property
at Long Beach and other Bruns
wick county beaches last week.
Last fall the winds of Hazel
blew in directly from the ocean
at something like 130 miles per
hour. With these winds came
great waves sweeping inward
from far out in the ocean. Wind
direction and its velocity account
ed for the tremendous damage.
During both of the recent
storms the winds on this part of
the coast blew steadily from the
Continued On Page Two
Red Cross Helps
Citizens During
Recent Storms
Trained Personnel On Duty
During Storm And Rehab
ilitation Worker Here Un
til Today Assisting Vic
tims
SHELTERS WERE
GREATEST TASK
Estimated 3,509 Persons
Found Refuge In Eight
Shelters During Two
Recent Hurricanes
The Red Cross Rehabilitation
office closed in Southport today
after being in operation since the
day after Hurricane Connie, and
personnel in charge left for disas
ter areas in New England, where
relief activities of this organiza
tion are centered following disas
terous floods that accompanied
Hurricane Diane.
The office was opened by Mrs.
Alice deMoya of West Palm
Beach, Fla., who handled a total
of 35 rehabilitation cases and set
tled all accounts incurred by the
operation of Red Cross shelters
at the eight consolidated schools
in the county.
The rehabilitation cases consist
ed chiefly of purchasing roofing
materials for repairs to dwellings,
and in no case was labor paid
for. Expenses to rthe entire op
eration in Brunswick county, in
cluding necessary supplies at the
storm shelters, were $1,700.50.
The Red Cross had its eye on
the Brunswick county coastal
area even while Hurricane Con
nie was aborning, and Miss Dor
othy Perkins was assigned to
Southport and Howard Walters to
Shallotte in making preparations
for the season's first hurricane
threat.
Both of these workers left im
mediately following Connie’s visit,
and Mrs. deMoya came in to open
a Rehabilitation office in Bruns
wick. She had hardly got in the
office when news of the approach
of Hurricane Diane was spread,
and once more disaster prepara
tions were in order. Later she
was joined in Brunswick county
by Harold Ross of the Atlanta
office, a field service man who has
just returned from overseas duty.
In addition, Miss Annie Lou Dar
vis, Red Cross nurse, was on duty
at the Bolivia shelter.
Fresh Water Is
Affecting Shrimp
‘ . i
Heavy Rains Up-State Are
Sending Torrents Into
Spawning Areas And The
Shrimp Are Moving Out
To Sea
Salt water is the natural habi
tat of shrimp, but the young are
spawned in the brackish and
semi-brackish waters between sea
water and freshwater. One result
is that in times of flood the
shrimp move out to sea as the
brackish waters begin to take on
a high percentage of freshwater.
The shrimpers say that one re
sult of the flooding of all major
streams on the coast east of
Southport last week is that they
expect great quantities of shrimp
to go out into the ocean. Before
the end of this week great masses
of these shrimp will probably
reach Southport as they move
down the coast toward tropical
waters.
The life of a shrimp is a short
Continued On Page Two
Tide Table
Following is the tide table
for Southport during the next
week. These hours are ap
proximately correct and were,
furnished The State Port Pilot
through the courtesy of the
Cape Fear Pilot’s Association.
High Tide Low Tide
Thursday, August 25,
0.54 A. M. 7:06 A. M.
1:44 P. M. 7:56 P. M.
Friday, August 36,
1:47 A. M. 8:00 A. M.
2:39 P. M. 8:54 P. M.
Saturday, August 27,
2:43 A. M. 8:58 A. M.
3:33 P. M. 9:51 A. M.
Sunday, August 28,
3:40 A. M. 9:55 A. M.
4:26 P. M. 10:44 P. M.
Monday, August 29,
4:35 A. M. 10:48 A. M.
5:15 P. M. 11:32 P. M.
Tuesday, August 30,
5:23 A. M. 11:37 A. M.
6:00 P. M. 0:00 P. M.
Wednesday, August 31,
6:10 A. M. 0:16 A. M.
6:42 P. M. 12:23 P. M.