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Most Of The News All The Time Volume No. 17 No. 15 12-PAGES TODAY STA1 A Good New SOUTHPORT, N. aper In A Good Community The Pilot Covers Brunswick County WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1955 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY $1.50 PER YEAR Brunswick Co-op Meeting Friday At Whiteville BRUNSWICK CO-OP Annual Meeting Of Bruns wick Electric Membership Corporation Will Be Held In The Columbus County Warehouse ALL DAY MEETING HAS BEEN PLANNED Free Prizes, Interesting Pro gram And Good Enter tainment Expected To Attract Record At tendance A full day’s program for rural citizens of four counties is plann ed for Friday, October 28, in the Columbus County Warehouse just east of Whiteville. The local REA-financed Co operative, operating under the name of the Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation, will hold its annual membership meeting which usually brings together about six thousand people. William T. Crisp of Raleigh, Executive Manager and legal counsel for Tar Heel Electric Membership Ass’n., will address the meeting. In addition other top executives in the State and Na tional REA are expected to be present. Registration will start at 9:30 A. M. and will be followed by demonstrations. C. D. Branclf, president of the Co-operative, said that this an nual affair has become an institu tion with the people who are ser ved electricity by the Co-op in Brunswick, Columbus, and parts grows more people attend the of Bladen and Robeson counties. Each year as the Co-operative meeting until it has outgrown all available indoor space except a to bacco warehouse. Branch called attention to the program for the all-day meeting and urged all members of the co operative to be sure to attend, and come early. He also stressed the facts that every one should check with his neighbor members and offer them a ride when possible. Some of the main features of the program are: Registration begins at 9:30 a. m. and each member should be sure to bring the registration card mailed to him inside the October Tell-O-Watt. High points of the program for : the day are shown below: !, 9 to II :30 a. m.—registration. ; 9:30 to 10:30 a. m.—A food freez- ! ■ er demonstration by Miss Estelle j Doyle, home economist. ! 10:30 to 11:30—Mrs. Dorothy Godfrey, Regional Home Econo- j' mist, will conduct a cooking school. I 11:30 a. m.—A period of enter tainment by Sandy Brothers, WMFD radio and television art- ■ Continued On Page Two Brief Bits Of lnewsj FIRST FROST Brunswick county had its first frost of the season Tuesday night. It was light, and only a little vegetation was killed. ATTENDS CONFERENCE John F. West, City Manager for Southport; Auditor Walter Aldridge and Joe Spencer, Superintendent of the Light and Power system, were in Wash ington last week in attendance on the conference of City Man agers. RECOGNITION DAY Annual District Recognition Day will be held in Fayetteville on October 29. From this county four 4-H Club members will at tend. They are Jimmie Albright and Betty Jo Darnell of Bolivia, Eleanor Rabon of Winnabow, and Thomas Young of Lei and. 1 1 I 1 ] 1 ] I I ] I l SOUTHPORT BOV Colonel John C. Moore, Super intendent of Fishburne Military , School, Waynesboro, Virginia, recently announced the appoint- ' ment, of John C. Plaxco son of % Mr. and Mrs. Robert Frank Plaxco, Sr., Southport as ser geant major, master sergeant. 1 AT BAPTIST CHURCH A full length movie, “Martin £ Luther”, will be shown at South port Baptist Church this Sunday s evening at 7:30 o’clock. This mov- ' ing picture was produced by the 1 Lutheran Church to help teach • people of all Protestant churches I more about their history and be- ' liefs. Southport Baptist Church is presenting this movie as part of “Reformation Sunday”, a special ; ! day that is becoming more and ; more important in churches all1 . over the world. Passing Yachts Increasing Daily Pleasure Craft Frequently Stop Over In Southport Har bor To Spend The Night Too early yet for the full flow of yachts to be passing South port, a lot of them have been moving southward during the past 10 days and several of them stop here for the night. Some make two nights or more of it. At this stage of the shrimping season the basin can accom modate only a small number of yachts with moorings. Visitors at the basin say that space is taken nightly and that the number of stopovers would greatly increase if the passing skippers knew that moorings could be found here. As it is, the boats bound down river late in the afternoon can only guess as to whether or not they can tie up here. Many try to set their traveling time-table for some point further down for the nights, where they feel more assured of accommoda tions. Still others stop above Southport, although they find themselves with plenty of time to get on here. Before the waterway came in to use Southport was the favorite stopping place for scores of yachts in the fall and an even greater number in the spring. In the fall a matter of marine in surance kept the craft from going further south until about the first of November. Return ing in the spring the rough waters of Frying Pan Shoals fre quently held them up again. The small boats were not equal to going around the shoals. As a result they tied up here at any place they could find, many of them having to anchor in the harbor. One period is recalled around 22-years ago when there were nearly one hundred pleasure boats tied up or moored in the harbor for a full two weeks stretch. Bound north, they could get this far, but very few were imprudent enough to try to make it through the shoals. The wise ones came in and tied up. The opening of the waterway brought a big change in pleasure boat travel. King Mackerel Are Caught In Numbers rhree Southport Boats Out Friday Hit These Big Fel iows, With One Party Bringing In 62 Of Them WEEK-END WEATHER WAS UNFAVORABLE Several Boats Out Today And Predictions Are For Good Catches For The Next Several Weeks A party fishing Friday aboard :he Idle On IV with Capt. Horst Schmidt hit the jack-pot with ting mackerel and brought in 62 )f these fellows for the best catch >f this kind this season. Two >ther boats out that day from vhom reports were unavailable lad between thirty and forty of hese fish each. Just as the charter boatmen bought they had it all lined up, ilong came another spell of bad veek end weather, and it was not mtil Monday that much luck fol On that day Jack Sechrist and sarty of Shelby were out with Japt. Basil Watts aboard the Idle Jn II and had 12 king mackerel, ! cero, 9 bonito and 2 amberjack. Japt. Hoyle Dosher had Milton <-iser and party of Kings Moun ain out the same day and had 9 dngfish, 6 amberjack, and 6 lonito. Winfred Garrison and par y of Greenville, S. C., were out vith Capt. Hulan Watts aboard he Idle-On IV and had 7 king nackerel, 2 amberjack and 6 ionito. Several boats are out today, .nd with crisp cool weather pre ailing the prediction is for good esults. eVteran skippers believe hat the next few weeks will iring some good fishing results, larticularly with king mackerel. Srunswick Has 2 In Asheville t-H Farm And Home Elec trical Congress Meeting This Week In George Vanderbilt Hotel; State Finals To Be Held The 1955 4-H Farm and Home Electric Congress will meet in he George Vanderbilt Hotel at LSheville October 30 and 31. Jpward of 200 county winners, long with many county agents ■r home demonstration agents, nil attend. Brunswick will be represented y Thomas Young, Jr., and Betty o Darnell. They will be ac ompanied by Snode Wilson, as istant county agent. Winning boy and girl for the tate of North Carolina will re eive an expense-free trip to the la.tional Congress in Chicago, lixteen territorial winners, re iresenting the areas of the four ponsoxing power companies, also vill be announced at Asheville. These pxizes—$100 seholai-ships or winners and gold watches or runners-up will be present 'd at a Monday evening awards continued On Page Two Train Rides For Terminal Visitors Among the equipment at Sunny Point are some railroad coaches in which workmen will he transported from the administration area to their jobs at various points about the installation. On Saturday these coaches will form a sight-seeing train which will give visitors an opportunity to ride over the reservation. The point of de parture will be the adminis tration area, where guards will be on duty. The terminals will be open to all visitors, most of whom probably will plan to use their own automobiles for travel about the installation. Making Plans To Produce Plants Tomato Plans Will Be Grown On Sheppard-Coch ran Farm Near Southport For Use In New Jersey Sheppard and Cochran are pre paring to put out 35-acres in tomato plants on their farm just outside of Southport in the early spring. They will grow the plants for tomato farmers in New Jer sey and other northern states. This is not an experiment for this area. Sheppard, a New Jersey tomato grower, began growing plants here for his farm in New Jersey several years ago. Things turned out splendidly, the plants were especially hardy and always ready at just the time that the growers in the colder states want- i ed them. From a moderate beginning, !' with the plants, for which there was always a heavy demand, the operation expanded until there j was about 80 acres devoted to the crop each year. Approximately 150 workers were erquired each spring to pull the plants and make them ready tor shipment by truck. For the actual packing Sheppard invent ed and put into operation what is said to have been the first tomato j plant packing machine ever put: in use. The bundles of plants, I their roots neatly drapped in wet I: moss, went rolling down the as-1 • sembly line and workers at the end of each line quickly packed ' the bunches away in boxes, which were loaded on vans for shipment' to their destination. J, A pleasing thing about these shipping operations was that the : loaded vans could start out from i here at 3 or 4 p. m. and be de- ; livered on the farms in New Jer- 1 sev as soon as the planters were ‘ ready to begin work next mor- i ning. As a result, they arrived in the very best conditions for j planting. [ i After the first few years of op- ! i erating the farm in the Sunny j Point area Joe Cochran of South- j i port joined Sheppard, whose home !: Continued On Page Four j - -1 Honored PAUL 1 FISHER Southpot Boy Receives Honor At Thi Citadel Paul D. Fish;r One Of 47 Senior Cad’ts Designated As “Distinguished” Mili tary Studeit Paul D. Fishc of Southport a senior at The (itadel, is one of 47 senior cadet; just designated as a Distinguisled Military Stu dent by Colone R. H. Tucker, Citadel Professor of Military Science and Tatics. The award is made to cadets who have a high academic standing and who also possess ‘‘Outstarcling qualities of leadership, high moral character and definits aptitude for Military Service.” Fisher is in the Army ROTC Unit at The Citadel. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. George C. Fisher of Southport. The awards with the concur rence of Gen. Mark W. Clark, president of The Citadel, are for outstanding qualities of leader ship. scholastic attainment and definite aptitude for the military service. Cadeta who win the DMS classi fication may apply during their senior year for commissions in the regular Army of the United States. Man Dies While Working On Job Alex Cash Of Roxboro Died Suddenly Thursday; Death Ascribed To Heart At tack Alex Cash, 56, white man of Roxboro, working with G. W. Talman, Wilmington contractor working on the terminal job dropped dead of a heart attack Thursday at about noon. He was employed as a truck driver and it is said that while he was standing on the ground he just fell over backward and was dead when fellow’ employees reached him. Brought to the hospital here, doctors said he died of a heart attack. This is the first fatality of any kind to any of the hun dreds of men in continuous work on the terminal during the past lContinued on Page Four) Whiteville Weed Market Closes Selling Season Brunswick County Farmers Who Stiil Have Tobacco To Sell Must Travel To Distant Markets To Find Sales WHITEVILLE HAD SUCCESSFUL YEAR This Border Belt Market Sold 39,486,774 Pounds At Am Average Price Of $54.01 Hundred A sale of 168,970 pounds of tobacco as reported by Sales Supervisor R. G. Maultsby, Thursday, brought the 1955 poundage for Whiteville to just shy of 39% millions pounds. The total for the on-again off again 1955 season is 39,486,774 pounds. This is a gain of 502,306 pounds over 1954’s 38,984,468 pounds. The season marked by nearly half of the sales days being on short time had been expected to see the sale of 40 millions pounds in the Whiteville warehouses. Money for the two seasons re mained almost even with only 55,680.38 difference between the leading $21,328,687.17 received this year over last year’s total. The 1954 average was $54.70 as compared to this year’s $54.01. Another unusual feature of the 1955 season, in addition to the 22 short-time selling days, was the 20.1 percent of the crop taken in by Flue Cured Stabili zation Corp. This is nearly two and one-half times more than taken in by the cooperative in 1954. The Whiteville market, operat ing with two sets of buyers worked hard during the last four sales days to reach toward the 40 millions pounds expectation. For the four days sales totaled 755,668 pounds. Money received was $363,556.93, for an average of $48.11. Trash tobacco was credited w-ith keeping the price low, but grade for grade leaf was reported as selling good. The Federal-State Market News Service reported that for the Border Belt the crop was the best ever produced. And it said that record levels in gross sales were reached. A total of 370,838,800 gross pounds were sold for just under $199 millions. General average was $53.63 per hundred pounds. Brief Session Of Court Held Weekly Session Of Bruns wick County Recorder’s Court Completed By Noon Monday An abbreviated session of Brunswick county Recorder's court was completed before noon here Monday, with the following judgments being handed down by Judge Earl Bellamy. Albert Boland Craig, speed ing (65-mph) fined $10 and costs. Horace McDonald Barker, speeding (65-mph) fined $10 and costs, $5. of fine remitted be Continued On Page Four' W. B. KEZIAli Our ROVING Reporter Since a great many copies of | his week’s issue of the State Port Pilot will go into new hands, t is fitting to repeat here what I las already been told. Over four ■'ears ago J. T. Denning, Super ntendent of the Brunswick Coun y Schools at the time, Colonel t. C. Brown, Corps Engineers Wilmington District Army and he writer were coming down the Pape Fear in a boat. As the ‘raft was passing the spot where Wharf No. 1 now stands, Colonel 3rown remarked, “Some day the People of Southport will wake up ! md find they have gotten more1 ban they ever expected to get.” Hie proof of Colonel Brown's pre liction can now be seen. We have felt a personal sense 'f appreciation for Colonel Philips >f the Army Engineers, whose picture appeal’s elsewhere in this ssue, “The Little Man With the Satchel." It was Colonel Phillips vho was picked 5 years ago to j visit every District Office of the Army Engineers, see what they had in the way of a suitable lo cation for a great Army Ter minal. In the course of his assign ment he arrived at the Wilming ton office, saw what they had and continued his quest. He visited 17 District offices and examined their records and data. Going the rest of the way and repeating his performance at other District Of fices, he returned about 5 months later and announced that Sunny Point at Southport was the best of the 17 great harbors he had inspected. Somewhere along the line the officer was dubbed “The Little Man With the Satchel.” He apparently like it, as he sent us a picture with the satchel prominently displayed. We have no information as to whether Senator Byrd of Virginia will be among the guests at the dedication services of the Sunny (Continued on page four) Several Thousand To Attend Dedication Of Sunny Point Terminals Distinguished Visitors CONGRESSMAN CARLYLE GOVERNOR HODGES Urge Farmers To Get ASC Benefits Governor Coming In By Helicopter Helicopters will be used to ferry several distinguished visitors to Sunny Point for the dedication ceremonies Saturday, and one of these passengers will be Governor Luther H. Hodges. The governor had a prior engagement to be at Sea Level on Saturday, but when special arrangements were made to have him picked up at that town by Army heli copter, he agreed to attend the program at Sunny Point. He will appear on the pro gram. Arrest Man On Robery Count House And Automobile Of T. M. Stewart Cf Lilling ton Entered Monday Whiio On Fishing Trip While fishing in the Shallotte River at Brick Landing Monday the house and also the car of T. M. Stewart of Lillington were broken into and robbed of numer ous small items, including blan kets. Stewart was accompanied down to the Stewart cottage by W. C. Benson and Ken Block, also of Lillington. The three men made a wonderful catch of fish and it was not until late in the night that they found they had been the victims of a robbery. Their first clue came late Monday mor Continued On Page Two I . Escape Attempt Fails Saturday Two Prisoners Gain Tempo rary Freedom But Have Additional Charges Lodg ed Against Them With 7 minor counts against him, John Bronson, alias John Watson, added to the score Sun day morning and now has the additional charges of breaking jail, stealing a car and assault ing an officer with the stolen car. Another white prisoner joined Watson in the attempted escape and was recaptured early Sun day in Franklin Park trees and shrubbery. After getting out of the jail Watson promptly stole a 1954 Dodge that some citizen of South port had left unguarded. In this machine he set out and was over- • taken on the river road by Dep-! ulty Sheriff Henry Pike. Pike drove his car along side the stolen machine and called on the negro to halt. Instead of doing so, Wat son swerved the stolen machine into the one owned and driven by the officer. Continued On Page Two Brunswick County Officials Warn That Deadline For Certain Practices Will Ex pire The Last Of October SOME FUNDS ARE STILL AVAILABLE Farmers Who Have Receiv ed Purchase Orders And Who Cannot Comply Are Urged To Turn In Their Permits Farmers who have requested assistance and have received ap proval on winter cover crops, oats or barley, have only until October 30 to complete the seed ing, an da report must be made to the ASC Office in Supply not later than November 15. The final seeding date on rye and wheat is November 10, and must be reported by November 25. The final seeding date on crimson clover, hairy vetch and annual ryegrass is November 1, and must be reported by Novem ber 16. November 30 is the final for seeding or reseeding perman ent pasture and must be reported by December 15. ASC officials urge every farm er who has approval for cost share on any practice to make every possible effort to complete the practice and report it by the above dates. If approval has been given for any practice and a farmer is unable to complete it he is urged to report this so the funds can be used on other farms where there is a conservation need. In this way he will help himself and his neighbor. Farmers who are faced with a conservation problem brought about by the recent hurricanes should contact the ASC Office in Supply for information or assist ance in cost-share for emergency practices to restore the land so affected. Farmers who have not request ed cost-share for a needed prac tice should come by the ASC of fice and make request. Purchase orders are now being issued for requests already approved. ASC officials urged to act while there is still time and funds available. Police Chief Is Trying New Job Chief Of Police Jack Hick man Asks For 30-Day Leave Of Absence To Try Job Of Fireman At Sun ny Point At his own request Jack Hick man, Chief of Police at South port for the past seven years, has been granted a 30 days leave of absence without pay. He has been offered a job as fireman at Sunny Point and he entered on his duties there Monday. At the end of that time he will have the option of returning to the office of chief or resign ing and continuing at Sunny! Point. Mayor Roy Robinson stated this week that pending Hickman’s de cision, Assistant Chief E. F. Gore (Continued on Page Four) : Congressman F. Ertel Car lyle Will Deliver Princi pal Address In Ceremony Attended By Many Digni taries GOVERNOR HODGES TO BE ON PROGRAM Ceremony Saturday Will Mark Delivery Of Modern Terminal Installation To Transportation Corps By Army Engineers Congressman F. Ertel Carlyle will make the principal address at the dedication of the Sunny Point Army Terminal Saturday at 2:30 p. m. on Wharf No. 2. Con gressman Carlyle represents the Seventh North Carolina District in the U. S. House of Represent atives. Governor Luther H. Hodges will also attend the ceremony and will participate in the program. The program is a joint affair under sponsorship of the Corps of Engineers, builders of the pro ject, and the Transportation Corps, the using agency. The oc casion will mark the conclusion of five years of work including initial survey, research and plan ning followed by three years of dredging and construction. The public is invited to attend the dedication ceremony. The terminal is the first of its kind ever built and is designed for the particular purpose of handling ammunition. It incor porates many safety features totally lacking in normal water front facilities. These include an inspection station, barricaded rail roads and utilities, public address warnings systems, floodlights, automatic firefighting systems on wharves, suspect track for bad order railroad cars and trucks, and a reservation of some 13,000 acres of land to comply with the quantity-safety-distance factor. The latter is a formula arrived at from studies of explosions re sulting from the handling of am munition. In addition to Representative Carlyle, Maj. Gen. Ivan L. Ben nett (retired), former Chief of Chaplains, United States Army, and native of Southport, will share in the program. Maj. Gen. Charles G. Holle, As sistant Chief of Bngineers for Construction, will speak for the Corps of Engineers and Maj. Gen. Paul F. Yount, Chief of Trans portation, will speak for the Transportation Corps. Colonel R. L. Hill, District En gineer of the Wilmington District, and Colonel W. A. McAleer, Com manding Officer of the Terminal, will participate in a dual flag ceremony. The XVIII Airborne Corps band from Fort Bragg will give a 30-minute concert (2:00 2:30) with selections at other times. Invitations have gone out to approximately 300 local, state and Federal officials. The Terminal may be reached by following highway 130 or 87 from north-south route 17. Guards and signs on the reservation will direct guests to the program site. The entire project will be open to the public from 9 a. m. to 4:30 p. m. October 29 and from 10 (Coutinued on Page 4) Fide 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. Uigh Tide Low Tide Thursday, October 27 4:10 A. M. 10:31 A. M. 4:37 P. M. 10:57 P. M. Friday, October 28 5:02 A. M. 11:25 A. M. 5:26 P. M. 11:45 P. M. Saturday, October 29 5:53 A. M. 0:00 A. M. 6:16 P. M. 12:17 P. M. Sunday, October 30 6:43 A. M. 0:31 A. M. 7:04 P. M. 1:06 P. M. Monday, October 31 7:33 A. M. 1:17 A. M. 7:54 P. M. 1:56 P. M. Tuesday, November 1 8:24 A. M. 2:05 A. M. 8:45 P. M. 2:46 P. M. Wednesday, November 2 9:16 A. M. 2:54 A. M. 9:39 P. M. 3:37 P. M
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