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Most Of The News All The Time Volume No. 17 No. 12 _A 6-Pages Today Good Newspaper SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNEStH In A Good Community Y, OCTOBER 5, 1955 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY The Pilot Covers Brunswick County $1.50 PER YEAR Aerial View Of Dock Area SUNNY POINT—This is an aerial photograph of the waterfront at Sunny Point, where the three huge wharves are nearing completion. The dock in the foreground is the one closest to Southport, the center is dock! No. 2, the first to be completed, and the third dock is shown in the upper right of this picture. Formal dedica tion of the terminals has been set for Saturday, October 29, and finishing touches are being made on all con struction to have it completed before that date. REA Members To Hold ’55 Meeting On October 28th Membership Meeting Th's Fall Will Be Held In Co lumbus County Warehouse In Whiteville Members of the Brunswick Elec tric Membership Corporation will ■hold their annual meeting in Whiteville Friday, Oct. 28, in the Columbus County tobacco ware house, according to E. D. Bishop, general manager of the the Co operative. Date for the annual meeting was set at a recent meeting of the Board of Directors. At the annual meeting members will hear reports of officers, elect a board of directors and attend to any other business thart may proper ly come to their attention. C. D. Branch of Boardman, who was moved up to the presidency from the vice presidency to fill the unexpired term of the late J. L. Kobinson, will preside at the meeting. The vice presidency was filled by the election of Dennis Anderson of Evergreen. Bishop stated that a full day’s program is being arranged to in clude some excellent speakers and entertainment. He said more de tails of the program would be announced later. Brief Bits Of lnewsj ATTEND Y. D. C. Meet Mr. and Mrs. Ray Walton at tended the Young Democrat Con vention Friday in Durham. PTA MEETING The Southport P. T. A. will hold its regular monthly meeting at the school on Thursday night at 7:30 o’clock. It is urged that all members be present. SHRIMP SUPPER Tire Methodist Youth Fellow ship of Sharon Methodist Church at Supply is having a shrimp sup per Saturday night October 8, serving from 5 p. m. until 10 p. m. Tire supper is to be at the church. METHODIST-MEET The Board of Managers for the Methodist Christian Workers School met Monday night at Shal lotte Methodist Church and elect ed the Rev. R. D. Ricks chairman. Plans were made for holding a joint training school at Shallotte in March or April. ACTING WELFARE OFFICER Miss Dorothy Swain, with sev eral years experience in the of fice, began her duties as Acting Welfare Officer Monday. She is serving until the appointment of a regular officer. John Tulp, the former Superintendent resigned, effective Friday, September 30. 1 Another Sailfish Brought In Friday O. E. Stoner Of Charlotte Made Latest Catch While! Out With Capt. Basil Watts Aboard ldle-On II KING MACKEREL STRIKING NOW Contrary Weather Cut Short Week-End Fishing Sun day But Friday And Saturday Luck Good For Off-Shore Three good days of fishing was j climaxed Saturday when O. E. Stoner of Charlotte, fishing aboard j the Idle-On II with Capt. Basil Watts, brought in a 6-ft 3-in sail fish. The party also caught 26 king mackerel, 1 dolphin, 2 bonito and 5 amberjack. On a Friday trip Gordon Kenna j and party of Charlotte had 381 king mackerel and 2 amberjack. A. B. Cobb and party of Mt. j Holly were out Friday with Capt. j Hoyle Dosher on the Idle-On III. They had 42 king mackerel and 11 amberjack. Sam Hubbard and party were out with Capt. Hulan Watts Fri day aboard the Idle-On IV. They brought in 46 king mackerel and 4 amberjack. Other good catches were made up to and including Saturday, but bad weather put an end to fish ing Sunday and Monday. Veteran fishermen say that present signs point to good fishing here this week end, with king mackerel be ing the most likely prize. Road Work Now Being Speeded Job Of Completing Perimet er Road Being Stepped Up At Sunny Point; Grad ing Proceeding On By Pass To speed up the work of build ing the patrol road and security fence around the active part of Sunny Point, sub-contractor Pow ell has obtained the assistance of Bill Anderson of the Hertford Cecil company. Anderson has the job of moving some 20,000 cubic yards of earth for fills and in clearing the right of way for the fence. The road is 13 miles in length, running from the river at a point west of the docks, inland around the yards and back to the river northeast of the No. 3 dock. Crushed marl rock is being used for surfacing. The road is intend ed mainly for the use of jeeps and other patrolling cars. It is supposed that the Boyle equip ment brought in last week and this week will be sufficient to complete the road this month. (Continued on Page Four) Solicit Funds In Scout Drive Twenty-one persons are at work this week in the South port area soliciting funds for the Boy Scouts, with the Rev. Joe McLeod, Ernest Parker and Walter Aldridge in charge. Assisting with collections are J. C. Bowman, Kirby Sullivan, D. C. Herring, E. J. Prevatte, Alex Fox, James Wolfe, Bobby Jones, Chas. M. Trott, Capt. J. X. Davis, Roy Robinson, Ray Walton, H. G. Ratcliffe, Rev. R. H. Jordan, Rev. W. H. Hicks, Rev. Leo Hawkins, W. P. Jorgensen and James M. Harper, Jr. It is hoped to complete col lections this week. Dock Damaged By Passing Tug Quick Work On Part Of Southport Policeman Ap parently Pinned Blame for Monday Accident Shortly before 3 o’clock Mon day afternoon the Southport City Dock was discovered to have a quantity of pulpwood on the deck. The dock itself was damaged and the pulpwood gave a clue to the offender. Assistant Chief of Police Skeet Gore had no way of knowing which way the tug was bound, although it was naturally assumed it was headed west. He first went to Sunny Point and one of the watchmen told him definitely that the tug with a string of loaded barges was headed west. The watch for the Coast Guard repeat ed the same information and the officer then went to the water way bridge, where the keeper told him that Southern Craft tug, No. 6 had gone through there with loaded pulpwood barges. Hitting a dock with loaded barges does not constitute hit and run. It is practically impossible for the barges to be stopped without creating further damage in such cases. So the tug moved right on to its destination at Georgetown, where the captain reported the accident. In this instances was not able to give the company anything new in the way of information when he arrived there. Before his tug and barges had gotten as far down the waterway as Holden Beach the officer had already called the mill at Georgetown and reported the damage to the dock. It is supposed that the mill com pany will pay all damages. To Close Route No. 130 Through Sunny Point Area This Action Will Take **la ce On Or About October 30; Alternate Route Un der Construction Col. Wm. A. McAleer announced this week that highway No. 130 through the Sunny Point reserva tion will be closed on or about October 31. An alternate route now is under construction, but there appears little liklihood that it will be completed before that date. Most likely to be effected are school buses, which bring children from beyond the Sunny Point area to schools in Southport. Just what plans will be made to take care of this situation remains to be seen. Col. McAleer reports that Capt. Glenn R. Durbin has reported for duty as signal officer and that Major Herman J. Schwartz will arrive about October 15 to assume duties of director of administra tion. Col. McAleer also declares that there is immediate need for two clerk-stenographers. Those inter ested should file applications with the Civil Service Board of Ex aminers in Wilmington. The salary range is from $3175 to $3414. I~~ 1 " > Whiteville Weed Sales Ahead Of Those For 1954 Sales During Past Week Averaged About Three Quarter Million Pounds Per Day For $52.86 Ave rage QUALITY TOBACCO IN GOOD DEMAND Several North Carolina Mar kets Still In Operation, But Only Mullins In South Carolina Total season’s sales of tobacco ■ on the Whiteville market last ! week moved ahead of last year's total for the same number of ! sales days, according to R. G. Maultsby, sales supervisor. Season sales through last week totaled 34,226,646 pounds, compared with 33,940,488 pounds for the same number of days in 1954. As a whole volume for last j week was maintained with better than three quarters of a million pounds being sold each day. The market opened strong last Mon day with an average of $57.33 but declined to a low of $50.75 on | Wednesday then climbed back to J a $51.75 average on Friday. Qual j ity of the leaf was poor with iuuun wcl turn uitiimgtu L uuauaj appearing throughout the week, it was reported. Sales for the week amounted to 3,764,428 pounds for $1,989, 943.01, for an average of $52.86. Average for the season’s 34,226, 646 pounds is $54.62. Sales to Stabilization Corporation for the week amounted to 16.80 per cent. “Quality tobacco that is prop erly graded and handled and is not damaged is selling good”, said Mr. Maultsby. To prove his point he quoted a sale made this (Mon day) morning by W. C. McRacken and Ford. According to Maultsby, who quoted from the warehouse sales bill, they sold 1,488 pounds for a total of $997.22, making an average of 67c a pound. There l Couunued on f'age 4) Homecoming Day Observance Here Southport High School Stu dents Making Special Plans For Thursday Eve ning And Friday The homecoming celebration for Southport High School will begin I Thursday night with a bonfire at 8 o’clock. Football fans will meet in front of the school building and then parade down the street, around to the ball field. Everyone that can do so is urged to bring a torch or sign to carry during the parade. Friday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock Southport will play North Duplin High School in the homecoming game. Everyone is looking for ward to this contest. Friday night at 8 o’clock the Homecoming dance will be held in the Community Building, down on the garrison. During this dance the Homecoming Queen will be crowned. Everyone is invited to attend these events and help to make this Homecoming the greatest ever. W. B. KIMAH Our ROVING Reporter Naturally, we were ver r much intrigued this week at r ieeiving a letter from the head of i, Holly wood moving picture pi Mucing company. The contents we re even more pleasing. The latti i indi cated that the company is Serious ly interested in making i , movie on the Brunswick coast, hetails as to essentials needed for the setting also indicated t iat the forthcoming picture is sa lathing important. If the compan r really comes here to go on loca [ion, we believe that it will prove'a won derful source of publqi y to Brunswick beaches. The fe that the letter stated that 15$ artists and technicians would be?) ought here indicates a major pile ire of some sort. We are not |s ire of things yet, and until we ,re we feel that the company inf rested should remain unidentified When the early exp§< ations were for getting the Sl’A/l.T in stallation in operation la^e in the summer, Captain MauriOe Ivory and 20 of the crack military po lice at the Port of Embarkation in New York City were sent here to train Armed Guards for the installation. At that time it was planned to get a considerable force of men ready for duty in short order. Weather began to interfere with construction it be came obvious that opening would be delayed. Sixteen of the M. P.s were sent back, leaving Captain Ivory and 4 of the men here. They started out training groups of 20 men, and the first groups turned around and assisted in some of the training. A fine force has been built up and Captain Ivory and his squad are to re turn to New York in a few weeks. The point of this is that Captain Ivory and his men, Sgt. Fred Hoskinson, Corporal Luther Gib son, Privates Joseph Wilson and Frank Griffin, have all been fine citizens of Southport while they are here and the townsfolks will regret to see them go. (Continued on Page Four) i Ferry Service To Bald Head Island New Development In Getting Fishermen And Equipment On And Off Island Near Southport Each year hundreds of people write and ask how to get to Bald Head Island from Southport. Such visitors have their choice between using a boat, flying or swimming the 4 miles between here and the island. Several people in times past have swam the distance, thou sands have gone by boat. A rela tively few have traveled it in light planes that could land on the beach at low tide. Instead of swimming, using the conventional boat or airplane, A1 Chrysler, head of the Piedmont Airlines, inaugurated a new if temporary service this past week for himself and some fishing com panions. Chrysler brought down a 3 passenger Helicopter, with some of his companions traveling along with him as he piloted the ma chine. Others in the party came in their cars. The 'copter’s passengers were deposited on the island and Chry sler hopped back over here for loads from the cars, making other trip for supplies that were in the cars and purchased in stores. They got set up on the island for camping and fishing in no time at all. All is reported to have gone well with the fishing. When they needed anything, whether it was shrimp for the table or to use as bait, or some mosquito spray, Chrysler would hop into his flying machine and come to Southport and get it in short order. He could land here where he pleased, provided there was no power or telephone wires in the way. Only one slight accident marr ed the camping and fishing trip. While giving two of his com panions a ride over the island late Saturday afternoon one of the propeller blades on the helicopter become losened forcing the pilot to land near Corn Cake Inlet and tighten things up. There was no injury to either the 'copter nor its passengers. Brunswick May Get Movie Set I Highway Forces Repairing Road Route 130 east of Walden Creek has recently gotten in very bad shape as a result of heavy hauling. Although this section of the road will be taken over by the govern ment in about a month, the State Highway Commission, is now having it thoroughly re paired. A sizable force of men with equipment was moved in Monday for the work. The bad stretch of road is about half a mile in length and for this distance the pavement is broken and crush ed in a number of places. The work of repairing may take most of this week. Southport Lady State Officer Mrs. C. Ed Taylor Attend ing State Convention Of Kings Daughters In Dur ham This Week The sixty-fifth annual conven tion of the N. C. Branch of the Kings Daughters and Sons will be held in Durham, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this week, with headquarters at the Washington Duke Hotel. This convention is being attend ed by Mrs. C. Ed Taylor of South port, who holds the office of chaplain in the State organiza tion. She will participate in the program. The convention theme is “Building.” The honored guest will be Mrs. A. Ray Vanderbeck of Kansas City, Mo., recording secretary of the International Order. The Executive Board meeting was held at 10 a. m. Tuesday. The Communion and Memorial services were held Tuesday even ing at 7:30 o’clock in the Betsy (Continued on Page 4) Recent Rains Damage Roads New Grading Through The Green Swamp Sustains Considerable Amount Of Damage During Recent Heavy Rains District Highway Engineer C. E. Brown stated this week that the grading on the Brunswick stretch of the Hupply-Bolton road was badly damaged in the late summer rains. Much repairing of the 14-mile stretch will have to be done before the paving can be laid. Blythe Brothers, with the con tract for grading the entire stretch in both Brunswick and Columbus counties, completed the grading this summer and also paved from Bolton to the Bruns wick line. The Brunswick part of the paving is some 14 miles, a (Continued on Page Four) Inquiry Received Here Last Week From Famous Hol lywood Producer Regard ing Natural Location BRUNSWICK HAS NEEDED FACILITIES Information Forwarded To Movie Executive Together With Invitation To Make Further Investigation Of Area Only two places in Brunswick have all of the essentials re quired by Hollywood movie pic ture producers who are now planning a location trip in con nection with forthcoming pic tures which they will make in January. The president of the producing company has written W. B. Keziah, outlining in detail the requirements and asking for im mediate detailed information. Keziah feels that it would be unwise to reveal the identity of the producers at this stage of things. A study of the detailed requirements, however, convinces him that the coast of Brunswick has two places that have the major essentials named. The story to be filmed has a coastal setting and has some thing to do with a resort or re sorts, the local man says. This is indicated by direct inquiries as to the temperature and weather during January. A medium-priced resort setting was indicated. Not all of the essentials are needed in one group. They must be on the ocean, a beach and swimming cove is necessary, along with (Continued On Page Four) Demerit Plan For Southport Principal Thomas C, Webb Has Sent Letters To All Parents Urging Their Co operation In Maintaining School Discipline Starting Monday, a demerit system was begun at Southport high school, according to an nouncement by Principal Thomas C. Webb. The plan will apply to students from the fifth grade through high school. Every student has had this sys tem explained to him. When a student has created a disturbance of one kind or another ,a teacher will give demirits and with each demerit one hour will be spent in detention hall. These demerits and the reason for them will go on each student's permanent ac cumulative record. When a student has received ten demerits, he will be expelled from school for three days. When he has received fifteen, he will be expelled for a week, and so forth. When a student is expelled from school ,in days of his expul sion he will receive zero on all classes. “If you are familiar with grades at all,” says Principal Webb, "you know that it takes three 100’s to be averaged with one zero to give you a passing mark of 70. Continued On Page Four) ASC Election Plans Formed By Committee County Election Board To Be In Charge Of Conduct ing Election Of Farm Pro gram Officials This Year ELECTION SET FOR OCTOBER 18 Community Election Board Members Named; Nomi nations Made For Com munity Committee men And Dele gates The method of holding com munity ASC farmet'-committee elections was announced this week by Lonnie Evans, Chairman of the Brunswick County ASC Com mittee. Community elections will be held in the county’s 6 designated agricultural communities on Oc-. tober 18 at the regular ASC poll ing places: Lockwoods Folly—J. E. Kirby's Store; Northwest—W. H. Brew’s Store; Smithville— Midway Station; Shallotte—Gris-, settown, L. L. Hewetts Store; Town Creek—Harold Willetts Store; and Waccamaw—Waccf maw School, Agricultural Bli (Veterans work shop). Polls remain open from 9 a. m. ' p. m. This year .elections will Y ducted under the supervi a county election board County in the State. T! tary of Agriculture last year vided for the appointment of an . election board in each county and • named the members to serve on' this board. The county election . board in Brunswick County is composed of A. S. Knowles, coun ty agent, chairman; H. F. Kizer, soil conservation technician; R. R. Allen, farmers home adminis tration supervisor; Joe Stanaland, president Farm Bureau. In accordance with the secre tary’s regulations the county elec tion board met and named a com munity election board for each of the 6 communities in Brunswick county composed of 3 farmers other than incumbent county or committeemen. The community election board will serve as a nominating committee to select a slate of at least 10 nominees for positions on the community committee and also serve as the polling place board. The community election board members named by the county election board for each community in Brunswick county are; Lockwoods Folloy — Garland Clemmons, Supply, chairman; Bailey Russ, vice-chairman; J. J. Hawes. Northwest—C. W. Harvell, Le land, chairman; F. D. Williams, vice-chairman; Martin V. Skipper. Smithville—Elwood Clemmons, Bolivia, chairman; T. J. Gilbert, vice-chairman; J. P. Swain. Shallotte—O. P. Bellamy, Wam pee, chairman; A. W. Bradsher, vice-chairman; Paul Holden. Town Creek—Charles Taylor, Winnabow, chairman; Royal Dan ford, vice-chairman; Sherwood Johnson. Waccamaw—R. I. Long, Ash, chairman; Lindsey Inman, vice chairman; B. H. Evans. The following farmers were nominated for election as com munity committeemen and alter nates, and delegates and alter nate delegates to the county con vention : Lockwoods Folly — Henry C. Williams, A. Rosemond Mooney, Robert Hawes, Aldreth Phelps, Hardie Roberts, Bedford Ludlum, (Continued on Page 4; Tide Table Following is the tide table for Southport during the next week. These hours are ap proximately correct and were furnished The State Fort Pilot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot's Association. High Tide Low Tide Thursday, October 13, 5:56 A. M. 12:01 A. M. 6:14 P. M. 0:00 P. M. Friday, October 14 6:43 A. M. 0:20 A. M. 6:57 P. M. 12:49 P. M. Saturday, October 15 7:27 A. M. 0:62 A. M. 7:38 P. M. 1:33 P. M. Sunday, October 16 8:09 A. M. 1:43 A. M. 8:18 P. M. 2:15 P. M. Monday, October 17 8:47 A. M. 2:21 A. M. 8:55 P. M. 2:55 P. M. Tuesday, October 18 9:26 A. M. 2:58 A. M 9:32 P. M. 3 35 P. M. Wednesday, October 19 10:00 A. M. 3:35 A. M. 10:10 P. M. 4:15 p. m.
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