Most Of The News All The Time A Good Newspaper In A Good Community The Pilot Covers Brunswick County Volume No. 17 No. 6 6-Pages Today 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, Continued On Page Two l 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.

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