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A Good Newspaper In A Good Community The Pilot Covers Brunswick County Most Of The News All The Time Volume No. 17 No. 9 8-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1955 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY $1.50 PER YEAR Short Schedule Effective Today On Border Belt This Action Follows Brief Return To Normal Sales Day Last Thursday And Continuing Through Yes terday ANOTHER MEETING PLANNED FRIDAY Marketing Situat.on Will Be Reviewed A.t That Time And Plans Made For Future Market Operations Sales time for the Border Belt tobacco markets dropped back to 3% hours again Wednesday morning after a brief respite of normal 5M> hour sales. The decision was announced following a meeting of the sales committee of the Bright Belt Warehousemen's association in Raleigh, Friday night. Dial Gray, president of the Whiteville warehousemen's or ganization, and president of the Tobacco Board of Trade, said Monday he understands the sales committee will meet again Fri day to review the situation. Contact Warehouses The cut of almost 40 percent in sales time is hitting Border Belt sellers and warehousemen hard, according to local tobacco officials. Warehouses have sche duled time for Wednesday. Thursday and Friday on a 5 Vi hour basis. R. G. Maultsby, sales super visor, urges that all farmers who have scheduled time for Wednes day, Thursday and Friday to contact the warehouses to make some readjustment. “We’ve got to do something so everybody can sell a little bit of tobacco,” he said. The cutback was based on a new glut of re-drying facilities handling Stabilization purchases. Local facilities are reported to be in good condition, but mar ketwide the same condition is said not to exist. 12 Normal Days The Columbus market ended a 17-day period of 3'{> -hour sell ing last Thursday morning. The new order will cut the 5% hour selling relief to four days. The Border Market opened with an eight-day period of 5 tj hours then went into the 17 -day short schedule. At the same time the White ville tobacco market continues to reflect the expected bumper ciop of a billion pounds or wore of flue-cured leaf forecast for the state by the North Carolina Crop Reporting Service. In Whiteville sales for the year through. Friday were 1,157, 312 pounds over 1954's sales for the same period, and the $54.75 a hundred pounds price average was $1 higher than the 1954 average for the same period. In Raleigh, the crop reporting service said that reports receiv ed Sept. 1 from tobacco growers and warehousemen, indicate that the 1955 flue-cured crop will be 1,002,325,000 pounds. Billion Pounds Year This is an increase of 8,500,000 Continued On Page Two Brief Bits Of lnewsj LIONS TO MEET The regular meeting of the Southport Lions Club will be held tomorrow (Thursday) at 12:30 o’clock at the Community Building. SMORGASBORD BENEFIT The Southport Woman’s Club will have a smorgasbord supper at the Community Building on the garrison on Thursday from 5:30 until 7:30 o’clock. Mrs. F. M. Burdette, finance chairman, is in charge and tickets may be secured by calling Mrs. Hettie Arthur. GARDEN CLUB BENEFIT The Southport Garden club will hold an open house at the home of Mrs. E. C. Harrelson on Thurs day night, September 22, at eight o’clock following the supper at the Community Club. A hat and mystery package auction will be held, but no admission will be charged. HIGHWAY BIDS Among the projects advertised yesterday by the State Highway Commission is a 3.69 section of road for grading, paving and structures in Brunswick county. It is located near Hickman’s Crossroads and runs from the South Carolina line east to a junction with U. S. 17, 0.6 of a mile west of Thomasburo. Lions Officers i OFFICIALS—W. Roy Poole of Kinston, left, is Gov ernor of District 31-E of Lions International this year. He is shown with Lion Wari’en Sellers of the Bolivia Club, who is Chairman of Zone II, Region Five. This zone in cludes Bolivia, Clarkton, Lake Waccamaw, Whiteville and Shallotte. Announcement For jobs As Firemen Vacancies Will Be Filled For Openings As Mem bers Of Fire Department At Sunny Point Terminals NO WRITTEN TEST BEING REQUIRED Twa Years Firefighting Ex perience Required Either As Regular Or Volun teer Or In Armed Service A civil service examination for the position of Fire-fighter (Gen eral), GS-4, $3175 per annum is now open for career-conditional appointment at the Sunny Point Army Ammunition Loading Terminal, Southport. No written test is required. Applicants will be rated on a scale of 100 on the basis of their training and experience as described in their application. Two years of firefighting ex perience as an active and regular member of an organized city or volunteer fire department using motorized equipment, or as a firefighter in a military or in dustrial establishment or com parable plant or institution utiliz ing motorized equipment is re quired. Persons appointed as a result of this examination will be as signed to 24-hour rotating shifts and will be required to purchase and wear uniforms. A rigid phy sical examination will be re quired before appointment. Complete information and ap plication blanks may be obtain ed from the local Post Office, any office of the U. S. Civil Ser vice Commission or the Execu tive Secretary, Board of U. S. Civil Service Examiners, Wil mington District, Corps of En gineers, Room 229, Customhouse, Wilmington. Applications will be accepted by the Executive Secretary, Board of U. S. Civil Service Ex aminers, Wilmington District, Corps of Engineers, 229 Custom house, Wilmington, until 19 September, 1955. Applications re ceived after that date will not be accepted unless they are receiv ed by mail and bear a postmark on or before 19 September, f95o. Deputy Sheriff Suffers Attack O. W. Perry Is Patient At James Walker Memorial Hospital Following Stroke On his way to Lumberton Sat urday to return to Brunswick County a man wanted here on a capias, Deputy Sheriff O. W. Per ■ ry who resides in Northwest township suffered a stroke of par ! alysis. He is now a patient in the James Walker Memorial Hospital in Wilmington his right side af fected. He is said to be doing as well as could be expected, but no visitors wTill be allowed for some ten days. Deputy Sheriff Perry was driv ing and was accompanied by his son-in-law, J. E. Lewis, who took over at the wheel of the car and I rushed the sick man to the hos i pital. The attack came while they were on the highway near Delco. Mr. Lewis was just going along j with the officer for the ride. Sunday Deputy Sheriff Henry Pike and Highway Patrolman Seth Thomas went to Lumberton i and brought the wanted man here. Guilty Conscience Causes Downfall At least one Wilmington bootlegger evidently reads his Bible. At least he was familiar with the passage in the Good Book about how "The wicked flee when no man persueth. Thursday night this know ledge got him in trouble. Corporal O. H. Lynch was ■on U. S. 17, near the Bruns wick River Lay-Up Basin in upper Brunswick county. He had stopped a car that was heavily loaded with pulpwood workers and was checking as to the safety of the vehicle. While thus ^engaged an other car came along and passed, the officer noticing nothing unusual about it. However, when the passing car had gone ahead less than a hundred feet it stopped and the driver got out and ran. Occupants of another car approaching just as he stopp ed went on and asked the Corporal why the man in the car back there had stopped and run. Lynch walked up to the abandoned car and found it contained 4 cases of boot leg whiskey. Papers left in the car identified the driver, who by that time was over the hills and far away somewhere. Part- lime Office For Employment Four Part - Time Workers Will Be Employed To Fill Jobs When Needed Thru Southport Office In order to better serve the public in this area the North Carolina Employment Security Commission is endeavoring to get 4 part - time employee at South port for the position of Inter mitent Interviewer, a position for which there is part-time em ployment at a salary of $1.60 per hour. To fill the position an ex amination will be held on October 14, 1955. All applicants for the positions must be submitted by September 21 and parties appointed for the position will work at Southport and may be called upon to work some part days, full days or full week, depending on the needs. They will work on Thurs days, assisting Employment Se curity personnel, in serving ap plicants. Director William H. Powell, of fice manageh. pointed out this week that for the above position [they want someone who is not seeking permanent work. It is a part time job, the number of hours being contingent upon the needs for serving employment. Application blanks for the the above position of interviewer I may be obtained from the com mission's representative at the court house on Thursday from 1 to 2:30 o’clock, or they can be I obtained from this office. Referring to the nature of the work required of the accepted [ applicant, Mr. Powell pointed ! out: “An individual in this class [orally elicits information from j applicants for work pertaining to their employment qualifications and evaluates the occupationally Continued On Page Two Planning Drive For Membership In Farm Bureau Officials Discuss Plan* For 1955 Membership Drive, YVhich Wiil Get Under way Within Next Few Days EXCEEDED QUOTA FOR PAST YEAR President Joe Sianaland Outlines Some Of Reasons Why Brunswick Coun ty Farmers Should Join Organization The annual Brunswick County Farm Bureau membership drive is again near at hand and work ers will be soliciting member ships in a few days, President Joe Stanaland announced this week. “The fact that the Brunswick County Farm Bureau member ship exceeded its quota last year is gratifying,’’ he declared, more especially so since Hurricane Hazel has just paid her unwel come and devastating visit. Many Brunswick County farm ers have from year to year re tained their membership in this great farm organization because they have been able to see and experience many of the good things that have been accom plished by working together co operatively.” Farm Bureau has sponsored and members have seen the origin and growth of many or ganizations of both short and long durations, including the Flue Cured Tobacco Stabilization Or ganization, that have put money in the farmers pockets. The Farm Bureau has representatives that are ever on the alert striv ing to prohibit the passage of laws that will handicap the farmer and effect the enactment of laws that will curtail his ex pense and increase his profits. “The North Carolina Farm Bureau is a big spoke in tjje wheel of the American Farm Continued On Page Two Re-Routing Plan Shown On Map Highway Engineers Post Map Showing Proposed Change In Highway No. 17 At Shallotte A state highway map showing a proposed relocation of a por tion of U. S. Highway No. 17 in the vicinity of Shallotte was post ed at the courthouse in South port yesterday. The route shown runs across the following property lines: Going west the road leaves U. S. 17 at the Dennis Bozeman place, passes through the lands of A. Holden, R. B. Hawes, L. B. Russ, H. B. Bennett, State Pris on Camp, B. F. Goley Estate, B. W. Hewett, Mintz Brothers Cor poration and others. It emerges again into the present route of U. S. 17 at the Mrs. C. A. Bu$s farm. An appended notice states thit those who oppose this plan of re routing have 30 days in whicli tc make an appeal. I Bad Month For This Kind Of Business Losing' two cars and 30 gallons of whiskey all in a week and now under a $1,300 bond is the un happy business venture of Vir ginia Porter Ford, a colored wo man of the Bolivia community. Sheriff Elbert Gray helped bring about her downfall. Last week’s prize taken by the I officer was a 1950 Ford and the whiskey. Just the week before he had taken Virginia and another 1950 Ford, also a quantity of whiskey. In court she is due to lose both : cars via the confiscation route, i The whiskey will go to swell the | sewer flow and the court will de cide what is to be done with Vir | ginia. Fogging Machine Gets First Trial I Delivery Of New Machine Made Last Wednesday And Town Was Given Mosquito Control Treat ment Before Bedtime With the purchase and delivery ! of a mosquito f ogging machine i last week, Southport is now well prepared to cope with the visits | of the pests when they invade the j town following stiff north or ; northeast winds, as has been the case recently. City Manager John F. West and city employees tried out the machine Wednesday night and re ' ported that it worked perfectly, j It was purchased at a cost of $1200 and is operated from a I truck. The Salt Water Mosquito I Control Commission and the State Board of Health provide the I spray mixture, composed of DDT and fuel oil. The machine is most Continued On Page Two County Entries In Cattle Show ' Brunswick County 4-H Club Members Planning To Ex hibit In Show Being Held 1 In Wilmington Thursday And Friday The Sixth Annual Southeastern ! North Carolina Junior Dairy Cat tle Show will be held September 15 and 16 at Wilmington. Again this year the animals will be housed in the Exhibit Hall at Le gion Stadium. Plans are made to make this the best show that has ever been held. We have several 4-H boys and girls from Brunswick County who are entering dairy calves in this show. They are Jimmie Albright of Bolivia, Betty Rabon, William Earnest Rabon, Eleanor Rabon, and Gail Lewis of Winnabow. For some of them, it will be the first time to enter into this show. Pro gress is being made very fast in fitting out these calves; but the weather has been a very serious problem. Hay is one of the neces sary foods to fit out these ani mals, and it has been impossible to harvest. Together with the sponsors of this show, the Agricultural Com mittee of the Wilmington Cham ber of Commerce, we are looking forward to seeing a large num ber of people turn out for this event. W. B. KEMAH Oiiu* ROVING Reporter From Box 418, Lamberto i, came a package that caused I s to check our mailing list. The: e we discovered that the rent c i Box 418 is paid by J. O. Brow' i, with the State Highway Commi - Sion for many years. Mr. Brow i is evidently alergic to doit j much writing when other meal s will serve. He addressed the M t with the one word, “Southport ’ Over the word he cut out at :1 pasted the picture that appear s at tiie head of this colum i. Carefully unwrapping the par - age, we discovered that it off - tained a pipe with a four-im a deep bowl and four differ*: t brands of smoking tobacco i their original package. Ea< i package was labeled with neat v typewritten directions for usm In an also unsigned note, “B< x 418” protested the efforts - f other friends to wean us fro n smoking a pipe by continual y sending us boxes of cigars. j A rattlesnake measuring s n even six feet in length and as large around as a man’s arm was killed by some of the construc tion workers at Sunny Point this past week. The snake had lost all of its rattles within the past year and was starting to grow a new set. Up to the time of its death six new buzzers had become visible. It is said that a lot of rattlers have been kill ed out there. The party who killed this one apparently did not think enough of the inci dent to identify himself when he brought it to town and hung it up at a filling station. In a story last week stressing the need of citizens cleaning up their yards and vacant premises, some few residents may have gained the impression that the city will clean up if the property owners would. To make things clearer, it is understood that the city hopes the property own ers will feel enough civic pride (.Continued on Page Four) Copy Of Ancient Chart Is Received Change In Marking Indicate This May Of North Carolina Coast Is Long Out Of Date BY W. B. KEZIAH Thousands of people have ask ed how the town of Shallotte got its name. These interested people have included Carl Goerch and Bill Sharpe of the State Magazine. And they have in cluded us, we believe we are get ting near the answer through matter that Goerch and Sharpe are publishing. In 1775 the Mouzon Map was published. We have been know ing only about them through the fact that copies are preserved in the Archives at the Hall of History in Raleigh. Recently The State Magazine began making photographs of this map and republishing it in The.State. This week Mr. Goerch sent us a two-foot square photo graph of the chart or map, cov ering the coast from Charleston, S. C., to Rich Inlet. Incidentally, Rich Inlet in New Hanover and I Lockwoods Folly Inlet in Bruns ! wick are the only two that now I still have their original names. Eagle Island, which is that Brunswick County area lying be tween the ship lay-in basin and Wilmington, is indicated on the old chart simply as “Dr. Eagle.” What is now Orton bore the name of Brunswick. “Governor’s House" close to Brunswick, evi dently referred to the home of Governor Tryon. Southport was not on the map as such nor as Smithville. It was Fort Johnston. The river between Southport and Wilmington did not have suf ficient water to be noted. Just inside the harbor the present day Southport the greatest depth of water was 6 feet. Outside the bar the approach at one point showed 10 feet. There were, of course, no beaches along the coast of either. New Hanover or Brunswick in 1775. The rivers and inlets were shown, however. Lockwoods Folly Inlet was listed as it is today, but the water depth was not shown, except that there was 6 feet listed in the ocean at some distance offshore. If there was a settlement at Supply up the Lockwood Folly Inlet, it did not appear on the chart. What is now Shallotte Inlet Continued On Page Two Superior Court Convenes Monday * Vacation Visit Has Sad Ending Coming home from Florida to spend the Labor Day holidays, Howard Yopp, white man of the Supply community, has gone in stead to serve 2 years at hard labor with the State Prison Camp. Yopp was tried at the May term of Superior court. He drew a fine of $750 or a two year sen tence on the roads for a series of crimes. Profiting by a moment when he was not under observa tion, Yopp lit out for Florida but without leaving that state as his forwarding address. His where abouts have been unknown. Early last week State Highway Patrolman H. S. Wilkins had a day off from duty and had been marsh hen hunting. He was dress ed in civilian clothes and driving his own private car. On Route 17 Yopp flagged down the unrecog nized officer with pleasant an ticipations of hitching a ride. The car stopped, and as Yopp started to get in he recognized Wilkins. At the same time Wil kins recognized him. Without pausing to exchange greetings, Yopp about faced and lit out through a muddy cornfield. Wil kins abandoned his car and took off after htim. He caught the fleeing man, handcuffed him and brought him to jail. School Band In Prospect Here ■ Virgil West, Well Known Teacher And Band Direc tor, May Take Over Band Program At Southport The formation of the “Band Booster’s Club,” Monday night in dicates that Southport High School will have a band this year, if the interest and enthuasism of the parents and the school chil dren counts for anything. Heading the club as president is Mrs. Ft. L. Jones of Long Beach. Mrs. Miles White of Southport is vice-president; S. C. Carr of Long Beach is secretary and Mrs. S. C. Carr is treasurer. Membership in the club is one dollar. This, to- j gether with other funds that the club raises, will go for expenses of the band. Virgil West, formerly of Wil-; mington now teaching music at Southport, will be director of the band. Mr. West, as conductor of an orchestra in Wilmington for many years, is well known in this and surrounding counties. He and the “Band Boosters Club” are planning to get things going right away. Carr, secretary of the club, stated yesterday that anyone in- ■ terested in seeing the school have a real band can join the club.; It is hoped to have the member- j ship to over one hundred by next1 week. Membership cards will be available within a few days. Whether or not they become club members, the organization hopes Continued On Page Two Judge Raymond Mallard Of Tabor City Will Hold First Term Of Court In Brunswick County Next Week NUMEROUS CASES BEING CONTINUED All Matters For Which S. B. Frink Is Defense Coun sel Being Continued Be cause Of His Injudy A one-weeks term of Brunswick county Superior court for trial of criminal cases will convene here Monday with Judge Raymond Mallard of Tabor City presiding. This will be his first appearance in Brunswick since his appoint ment to the bench. One factor that promises to play an important part in dis position of the criminal docket next week is the injury sustained 10-days ago by S. B. Frink, South port attorney. When the calendar of cases was prepared during a meeting of the Brunswick County Bar Saturday with Solicitor John J. Burney, Jr., it was agreed to continue all cases in which Frink was scheduled to appear for the defense. This eliminates the necessity of calling a special vinire of 100 men from Sampson county from which to choose a jury to hear the Crisp case. As matters now stand, the most important case scheduled for trial is that in which Liston Barnhill, white, faces charges of rape. This case has been set for Thursday, thus indicating that court will last through the entire week. Coast Guard Is Asked To Assist Boat Owners Met Here Yes terday With Representa tive From U.S. Engineers Department About Lock woods Folly River A representative from the U. S. Army Engineers office in Wil mington met here yesterday with a group of small boat owners who have been seeking to have the entrance channel to Lockw'oods Folly inlet marked in order that the upper reaches of this stream may be used for refuge during storms. A Mr. Leonard appeared here, and following the discussion it was decided that the engineers will make a formal request to the Coast Guard to install appropriate markers. It is believed that these mark ings will be necessary only for the first 3-miles of the channel. Above that point there is a clear line of demarkation for the channel, and there is about 6 miles of space which provides safe anchor age. The Rev. L. D. Hayman was the first to call attention to this need ,and negotiations w'ere open ed by him through communica tions addressed to Congressman F. Ertel Carlyle. Powell Money Allotted For Use In County Southport, Yaupon Beach And Shallotte Each Re. ceive Allotment Under Powell Bill Plan ALLOTMENT BASED ON TWO FACTORS One-Half Total Allocation Based Upon Population While Other One-Half Is Based Upon Mile age In Streets Three incorporated towns in Brunswick county, including one incorporated and organized this past spring, are getting a share of the Powell Bill Funds, ac cording to announcement made this week by the State Highway and Public Works Commission. Long Beach, also incorporated but failing to organize and ap ply in time, failed to get its papers through this year in time to obtain its allocation. The Brunswick towns and their allocations are, Shallotte, $1,832. 48; Yaupon Beach (incorporated this year), $2,469.66; Southport, $7,750.98. According to the announce ment of the allocations, checks to cover the total allocations of $5,711,817.71 are to be mailed to the 398 incorporated, active, eligible and qualified municipali ties this week The money is to be used for improvements on non-highway system streets. Chairman A. H. Graham stated. Graham said this was the larg est amount ever distrubuted since the Powell Bill Act was passed in 1951, when a total of $4,543, 096.20 was divided among 386 towns. In 1952, a total of $4, 948,842.30 was shared by 388 towns. In 1953, a total of $5, 244.203.40 was divided among 394 Tar Heel towns. Last year, $5, 391.717.41 was shared by 398 towns. This year’s allocation brings the total five-year alloca tion of Powell Bill funds to $25, 839,677.02. Graham pointed to the increased gasoline revenue which upped the Powell bill figure this year. The fund comes from a % cent per gallon of the total or gross 6 cents gasoline tax (less refunds) during fiscal 1954-55, when the I gross State gasoline tax totalled $68,594,600.40. Half of the total allocation is divided among all qualified mun icipalities on the basis of popu lation. The per capita rate is $1.88 this year. The other half of the total al location is divided among all the qualified municipalities on the basis of relative mileage of non state system or local streets which comply with the Act. The mileage rate this year is $472.65 per mile. Graham said, “Allocations may be made only to legally incor porated cities and towns which are active and eligible and whose officials have qualified the mun icipality by submitting certified statements and maps prior to the limiting date, the third Monday in July. “Many legally incorporated towns are non-active and do not perform those municipal functions necessary to qualify under the law. A few active incorporated towns were not eligible due to some technicality. There are also many populous communities which have never chosen to incorporate and function as municipalities.’’ As of July 1, 1955, the 398 par ticipating towns had 6,041.94 miles 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 j furnished The State Fort Pilot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot’s Association. High Tide Low Tide 7:04 A. M. 0:48 A. M. 7:24 P. M. 1:08 P. M. Friday, September 16 7:50 A. M. 1:31 A. M. 8:07 P. M. 1:54 P. M. Saturday, September 17 8:35 A. M. 2 12 A. M. 8:47 P. M. 2:38 P. M. Sunday, September 18 9:17 A. M. 2:52 A. M. 9:27 P. M. 3:20 P. M. Monday, September 19 9:59 A. M. 3:30 A. M. 10:06 P. M. 4:42 P. M. Tuesday, September 20 10:40 A. M. 4:09 A. M. 10:44 P. M. 4:45 P. M. Wednesday, September 21 11:23 A. M. 4:50 A. M. 11:26 P. M. 5:30 P. M. I
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