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Most Of The News All The Time Volume No. 17 No. 13 _A Good Newspaper In A Good Community 6-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1955 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY The Pilot Covers Brunswick County $1.50 PER YEAR ASC Election Is Scheduled To Be Held Next Week Election In Brunswick Be ing Held Simultaneously Over North Carolina On Tuesday, October 18 LONG LIST NAMED AS CANDIDATES Eligible Voters Urged To Participate And To Seek Election Of Quali fied Men At least 60 persons will be candidates for 18 community Ag ricultural Stabilization and Con servation committees when an ex pected 2,500 farmers go to the polls Tuesday, October 18. Persons eligible to vote will in clude any farmer, operator, tenant or sharecropper that is partici pating in, or is eligible to par ticipate in any county ASC pro gram. From each of the 10 commu nities three persons will be elect ed. High man is chairman of the community committees, second high is vice-chairman, and third is a member. On Oct. 27, the successful can didates will meet in Supply to elect county committeemen. Both the county and community people will take office on Nov. 1. Polling places will be open from 9 a. m. until 5 p. m. The follow ing are the communities and their polling places: The designated polling place for each community is: Lockwoods Folly, J. E. Kirby’s Store; Northwest, W. H. Brew’s Store; Smithville, Midway Sta tion; Shallotte, Grissettown, L. L. Hewett’s Store; Town Creek, Har old Willetts Store; Waccamaw, Waccamaw School, Agriculture Building (Veterans Work Shop). A complete list of candidates was published last week in The Pilot, and voters may refer to them in reaching a decision with regard to their vote next Tues day. Lonnie Evans, ASC Chairman for Brunswick, urges that every eligible voter go to the pols. “This is a worthwhie plrogram", he said, “and we should do our best to see that the best men available are elected as its lead ers.” Brief Bite Of '-NEWS-1 BINGO BENEFIT A benefit bingo party will be held on Thursday evening at the U. S. O. Building at 8 o’clock, sponsored by the Live Oak Gar den Club. Funds will go towards improving the school grounds, j Prizes are donated through the courtesy of the Southport mer chants. TEMPORARY DETOUR As a result of a heavy piece of equipment breaking through a culvert on Route 130, near Oaks Plantation Monday morn ing, traffic between Southport and Wilmington was detoured over 87 and 17 for two days this week. The State Highway Com mission forces got things straightened out Tuesday. PLANNING DANCE The Southport Charter Boat mens Association will sponsor a dance at the Community Building in Southport on Saturday, Novem ber 5, at which time prizes will be awarded winners in the 1955 Fishing Rodeo sponsored by this organization. Music will be furn ished by Ray Spencer and the Four Sharps. AT NEW HOPE Homecoming Day will be ob served Sunday, October 23, at New Hope Presbyterian Church at Winnabow. Registration will begin at 9:30 a. m.; church school at 10 a. m.; morning wor ship at 10:45 a. m.; picnic din ner at 12:30 p. m. The morning address will be by Dr. W. C. Mebane. The afternoon session will begin at 2 p. m. LECTURE SERIES A series of lectures at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in South port was begun Tuesday evening by Father Thomas A. Williams, who says that the purpose is to explain the historical background and create good will for the Catholic religion. This series will continue with sessions on October 18 and 25 and on November 1. All lectures begin at 8 o'clock in the evening, and all persorw are invited. Receive Charter PRESENTATION—Ladies Night was observed by the Methodist Men’s Club here last week with the Rev. Norwood L. Jones, former pastor, third from the left, as speaker. From left to right are shown Art Newton, M. R. Sanders, Jones, the Rev. R. II. Jordan, H. H. Hodgin, Conference Representative, who presented the charter, C. C. Carr, John Julius Swain, A. W. Blake and B. M. Burris.— (Photo by Vali Newton.) Southport Boys Brought Betore Juvenile Judge Hearing In Southport Today Climaxes Series Of Break Ins And Petty Thievery; Mass Meeting Of Parents Called Seven Southport boys have been taken into custody by Chief of Police Jack Hickman on charges that they have participated in a series of break-ins and petty thievery and this afternoon they are being brought before Juvenile Judge Jack Brown. Chief Hickman said this mor ning that the boys are from good families and that since it is their first offense, everything possible is being done not to establish any criminal record for them. No names were released for publi cation. Most serious of the break-ins was the robbery last week of the Riverside Motel, where a consid erable sum of money was taken. Football players who have been leaving their clothing in the gym nasium have been missing money on several occasions. In addition, the law offices of E. J. Prevatte, Ernest Parker and Frink and Herring have been entered. Sev eral merchants suspect that num erous articles of merchandise have been lifted. Parents, educational and reli gious leaders have become alarm ed over the situation, and a mass meeting of parents has been scheduled for the courthouse next Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock. A spokesmen for the group said, “We know this conflicts with the usual hour for prayer meeting, but we think this immediate prob lem is serious enough for every adult in the community to be concerned about.” Start Work On Tourist Court Third Modern Motel For Southport Now Under Construction On Howe Street Aaron Inman, Shallotte con tractor, started work last week on what he states will be one of the most modern tourist courts and restaurants in Brunswick county. Both structures will be rushed to completion. The owners are Ray Walton and Frank Lennon. The location is just South of Lennon’s Esso Station on Howe street. Grading and filling start ed Monday morning. Information as to the number of units in the motel has not yet been revealed, but indications were given to the effect that it will be a big place with everything modern con venience, plus air conditioning. Need for additional facilities, both motel and restaurant, has been felt here for a long time. Only last week the proprietor of one motel stated that he felt the town needed two or three more. Frequently large parties try to book his entire place, which gen erally has no vacancies for the regular business. The additional restaurant facilities also gives as surance that at least two eating places will be open to serve the public at ail times. New Pilot Boat In Service Here New Craft Constructed Forj Wilmington-Cape Fear Pi lot Assiciation By Florida Boat Building Firm OLD PILOT BOAT WILL BE RETIRED New Boat Named “Cape Fear Pilot” Replaces The Old R. R. Stone For Ex acting Duty Of This Service With 18 years of honorable service behind her the boarding boat R. R. Stone of the Cape Fear Pilots Association has been re tired and the pilots now have a new, bigger and stronger boat this is fittingly named “Cape Fear Pilots.” During her long and useful career in the service the R. R. Stone placed pilots aboard thou sands of ships that carried mil lions of dollars worth of cargo up the Cape Fear River to Wil mington. Nor did her usefulness stop there. She met the vessels again at the bar and took off the down-river pilots before the vessel went on her own to sail the seas. Often the job was a very dan gerous one, to pilot and crew as well as the boarding boat. In heav ing seas it was no easy job to bring the R. R. Stone alongside some behemoth of the sea and transfer a pilot aboard or take him off, as the case might be. In more distant days before those of the R. R. Stone, it was not an unusual thing for a pilot on an outward-bound ship to have to remain there until the vessel reached some other port. From there he would return by rail. But the R. R. Stone always managed to put its pilot aboard and to take him off. She was de pendable and fully adequate to have her masters boar d and leave all Cape Fear shipping during her days. Some months ago the pilots placed an order with the Tiliakos Boat Building Co. of St. Augus i Continued on Page Fourj Postpone Term Superior Court Regular Term Scheduled To Convene Monday For The Trial Of Civil Actions Will Not Be Held There will be no term of Su perior court here next week as scheduled, according to Clerk of Court Jack Brown, the Brunswick County Bar Association having, requested that this r egular term | be cancelled and that a special term be called for either the last week in November or the first week in December. The Chief Justice who provides I for such special sessions wil lan nounee when a judge will be available. Judge Clifton L. Moore had been commissioned to hold next week's term before it was cancelled. The bar association especially request- j ed that he be assigned to hold 1 the special term and his coming is dependent upon his being avail- I able for the time when the special! session is called. Good Fishing On Local Dock The best catch of the sea son for local dock fishermen was reported Monday by Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Field of Myr tle Beach, S. C. Fishing for one-hour and one-half at high water slack they landed 10 sheephead which ranged in weight from 6-lbs to 11 %-lbs for a total of 85-lbs. They also had 4 flounders, the largest of Which ' weighed 5 Vis-lbs. The flounders totaled 16-lbs in weight, making 101-lbs of fish caught by this couple. Mrs. Field is daughter of Mrs. W. M. Wells of South port, and the couple were fishing from the Bill Wells fish dock. Post Office Has Steady Growth Demand For Boxes And Lock Drawers Now Ex ceed Supply As More Peo ple Move Into Community The Southport post office busi ness heavier than it has ever been known to be and an inquiry of post master J. M. Russ this week brought to light that there are no boxes for rent. People want ing one have to put in an appli cation in advance and wait until one becomes available. For renting post office drawers things are not quite so accute. The office had one drawer for Continued On Page Two Board Of Health Adopts Ruling For Sanitation Ordinance Pertaining To Proper Disposal Of Hu man Waste Seen As Stride Forward In Hcok Worm Control MILK ORDINANCE ALSO ADOPTED iVlosqn to Control Program Continues With Two Men On Duty Full-Time With Residual Spraying Machine A sanitary ordinance was adopted Monday by the Bruns wick County Board of Health in session here at Southport, and through its provisions new and important steps can be taken in the matter of improving health conditions throughout the coun ty The hookworm control program is expected to benefit most frorrr this regulation, which requires either flush-type toilets or ap proved outdoor privies: The following paragraphs from the ordinance indicate the full effect of the regulation: “No person shall deposit any human excrement on the soil or in any body of water in Brunswick county without its having been properly treated to render it in nocuous, in a manner approved by the State Health Department. “Every dwelling, service sta- j tion, cafe, church, school, depot or place where people live, as semble or congregate in Bruns wick county, shall be provided with either sewer or septic tanks which are approved by the State Board of Health and the Bruns wick County Health Department, or with a sanitary privy which complies in construction and maintenance with the provisions of the State Privy Law.” The program of mosquito con trol continues throughout the county, with two men having been employed for a month through funds furnished by the U. S. Public Health Department for emergency operations. They are using a residual type spray ing machine throughout rural j areas. Third Highway Death Claimed Negro Boy Fatally Injured Thursday Evening On River Road When Struck By Automobile Brunswick’s third fatal highway accident of the year occurred at 6:30 Thursday evening when Jermiah Denkins, 10-year old col ored boy who lives on Route 130 just above Orton Plantation, was struck and killed by a car driven by Stella Spencer Taylor, resident of Lake Village in Wilmington. The boy is reported by eye j witnesses to have run into the highway directly in front of the car. State Highway Patrolman I Seth L. Thomas investigated the accident and is still looking into the case. Coroner Sam T. Ben nett investigated the accident Continued On Page Two W. B. JUSiOAH I Our ROVING Reporter Selling watermelons from hi 5 fields right along since the 4t 1 of July, Robert McRackan, wh > lives just outside Southport, too [ another one of his bumper load 5 to Wilmington and here Friday, October 6. Planting 60 acres i l the melons under conditions ca; • ciliated to produce daily trucli • loads for the market, McRackan'3 selling season has extended a lit ■ tie over three months and is be - lieved to have resulted in fine re ■ turns. He sees that both loci J and retail demands are alwaj s taken care of, and usually aboi t 3 times a week a big truck los d goes to Wilmington for retail ar d wholesale demands there. In h t many years of growing and ma - keting melons he does not reca 1 being unable to find a sale for tl t product. We really don’t know wheth r it will help or not Among tl t Monday inquiries with respect i accommodations, etc., here Southport, one gentleman wlic J lives 1500 miles from where he : expects to make his future home, . wrote and asked about various i things. He is shortly to be trans- i ferred here. Closing his very in- ] 1 formative letter, he said: “'I am single, if that will help.” What worries us in respect to this party j is that most of our girls are al ready taken. We cannot say whether it will help us or not to ! i know that this prospective new comer is single. In fact, we ad-!: mit a preference towards men with families that will help build : up our school. However, for the information of this party who is! single we should state that we are j not discriminating against him. ] We told the facts of the case to : one of our Southport girls and ■ she said, "Write and ask him to send his picture.” j -- !: With travel on the highways be- I lieved to be twice that of any pre-!. vious year, partly owing to the j; vast amount of construction that t Continued on page four) Homecoming Queen CROWNED—Miss Jean Thompson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Thompson, was crowned Homecoming Queen at a dance held Friday night following the foot ball game with North Duplin High. The Crown is being placed upon her head by Buddy Duncan, co-captain of the Southport football team.—(Art Newton Photo.) Real Estate For SPAT Transferred -_5| Carolina Beach Boat Rescued A Carolina Beach boat, the Wayward Ann, was brought into Southport by the Coast Guard early Sunday morning after being out all night off Fort Fisher. The Coast Guard 83-foot picket boat, Chief Boatswain Mate R. L. Aus tin, made the rescue. Fourteen persons were aboard the boat. These were transferred to the cutter while making the rough pass age through Frying Pan Shoals in order to reach Southport from the east. No one was injured, but the Wayward Ann was reported to have been in a dangerous position with her motor dis abled and the drift of the vessel towards the shoals when the Coast Guard reach ed her. Recorder Hears Lengthy Docket Large Number Of Cases Disposed Of Here Mon day During Weekly Sess ion Of Recorder’s Court A long list of cases were dis posed of here in Brunswick coun ty Recorder’s court Monday, with the following judgments being handed down: Andrew Jackie Nealey, speeding (75-mph) fined $25 and costs. Smith Carl Wilson, speeding (75-mph) fined $20 and costs. Manda Gore, assault with dead ly weapon, charges adjudged malicious and prosecution taxed with costs. Oscar J. Vernon, non-support, 6 month jail sentence suspended upon his payment of $20 per week to support of wife and 5 minor children. Clyde Eugene Burge, speeding (65-mph) fined $10 and costs. Mollie Robert Robinson, speed ing (75-mph) fined $25 and costs. Earland Smith, public drunk ness, simple assault, not guilty of public drunkness. Fined $25 and costs on simple assault charge, payment of fine suspend ed on good behavior and not visit ing the Holiday Truck stop for a period of 6 months. Joe Smith, public drunkness, simple assault, not guilty of pub lic drunkness, guilty of simple assault, fined $25 and costs, pay ment of fine suspended on good behavior and his remaining away j from Holiday Truck Stop for a period of 6 months, costs. Joe Smith, reckless operation, fined $15 and costs. William Green, no chaufer’s li cense, nol pros. Robert Louis Weinberg, speed ing. no operator’s license, nol pros as to no operation’s license, ^ fined $25 and costs for speeding 75-miles per hour. Jerome Buster Cox, speeding] (65-mph) fined $10 and costs. Richard William Schmidt, speeding, operating on wrong side of highway, guilty of speeding (65-mph) fined $20 and costs, $10 of fine remitted because of mitigating circumstances. Rossi Col Johnson, public drunkness, possession, fined $25 and costs, Minnie Easter Searcy, speeding", Continued On Page Two Title To All Real Estate Embraced In Sunny Point Army Terminal Reserva tion Turned Over To Transportation Corps TRANSACTION, IS MADE WEDNESDAY Plans And Preparations Be ing Made For Formal Opening Of Terminals On October 29 Col. Wm. A. McAleer, command ing officer of the Sunny Point j Army Loading Terminal, was ad- j vised last week that this is now the official title of the new gov ernment installation near South port. Formerly it has been officially known as Sunny Point Army Am- j munition Loading Terminal. Last Wednesday in a simple ceremony on the reservation all real estate holdings for the in stallation were transferred from the U. S. Army Engineers to the Transportation Corps. Col. Ray mond L. Hill represented the En gineers while Col. McAleer rep resented the Transportation Corps. Formal dedication of the pro ject will come about on Saturday, October 29, and plans and ar-! rangements are being made to- j ward that end. An important reorganization of the Army domestic ports of em barkation, effective October 1, was announced last week by the De partment of the Army. The reorganization will bring the ports of embarkation and their out-ports and sub-ports along the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific coasts under three separate trans portation terminal commands. Under the reorganization the newly established commands will be responsible for all terminal operations and related activities along their entire respective coastlines. On the east coast, the New York Port of Embarkation at Brooklyn will become the Atlan tic Transportation Terminal Com mand. It's subordinate installa Continued On Page Pour/ Soii Men Will Meet Thursday Business Session At Shal lotte Will Be Followed By Tour Of Wildlife Refuge And Of Sunny Point Soil Conservationists from five North Carolina counties will meet it the American Legion Hut at Shallotte Friday morning. They j »vill hold a brief business session there, inspect various places with j H. F. Kiser, Brunswick Soil Con servationist, and in the afternoon, | beginning at 1 o’clock they will I be in the Southport area. Kiser states that approximately 30 men will be in the party. Ar riving her e at one, they will be taken on a tour of the State Wildlife Refuge on Orton Planta tion. Following that, they are espe cially interested in a planned tour of the Sunny Point Army Ter minals. Here they hope to be joined by Colonel Maurice Lan caster, Post Engineer at the in stallation, for a tour of the yards where much efforts are being made to prevent erosion by the growing of grass on various ex posed areas. This is a work in which the soil men are much in-1 terested. Whiteville Still Selling Tobacco At Good Price Rapid Strides Being Made In Effort To Overcome Setback Resulting From Hurricanes And The Fall Rains POUNDS AND PRICE REMAIN SATISFACTORY Oyer Three Million Pounds Of Tobacco Sold Last Week On Whiteville Warehouse Floors The Whiteville tobacco market continued rolling towards over coming the hurricane and short time handicaps of this season, to day with sales reported at about 90 percent of volume. R. G. Maultsby, sales supervis or, said that some of the houses may combine their sales during the latter part of the week, but that the market will continue to operate on full time and "at full blast.” Through sales closing Friday, the Whiteville market had sold 37,318,320 pounds of leaf for $20,269,172.13, or a yearly ave rage so far of $54.31. Flue-cured stabilization’s take had dropped to 21.74 percent for the season. The yearly poundage gain was about 518,084 pounds over the same period last year. Monday was up only $86,265.78 as last year’s average was slightly high er at $54.84. Trashy tobacco from the storm during the latter part of last week dropped the weekly price average to $50.94, but the same experience is being recorded on all of the markets, the supervisor indicated. During the week 3,091,674 pounds were sold for a total of $1,574,773.74. Stabilization’s take for the week was only 13 percent. Methodists To Meet Thursday Church Leaders Will Con duct Workshops Here For Representatives From All Methodist Churches In County On Thursday night from 7:30 to 9:30, a large group of Methodists expected to attend the annual in the Brunswick sub-district is Church School Institute to be held at Trinity Methodist Church. The theme this year is “Evangel ism Through The Church School.” This emphasis arises out of tha realization that only one Ameri can in five is a member of a church school and that year after year from 60 to 75 percent of all who join the church by profession of faith in Christ come through the church school. 'The institute is being sponsored by the Board of Education of the North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Church. It will be con ducted by the Wilmington District Staff. After a message to the whole group by the District Su perintendent, Rev. V. E. Queen of Wilmington, on the topic “Go Make Disciples of All”, the group will divided into worshop units. Rev. E. H. Smotherman of Wil mington will lead the group for pastors, general superintendents, assistant superintendents for Continued On Page Two Tide Table Following is the tide table for Southport during the next week. These hours are ap proximately correct a«d were furnished The State Port 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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