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SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1955 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
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Delegates To
Attend Meeting
Of Farm Bureau
Annual State Convention Of
This Organization Will
Begin lit Raleigh Sunday
And Will Last Through
Wednesday
PRESIDENT JOE
STANALAND GOING
Interesting Program Has
Been Worked Out And
Important Business Mat
ters Will Be Con
sidered
I
Joe Stanaland, president of the
Brunswick County Farm Bureau, |
will head the delegation from this
county to the 20th annual North
Carolina Farm Bureau convention
in Raleigh beginning Sunday and ,
lasting through Wednesday.
More than 1,000 members of
the organization from across the
state are expected to gather at t
the Sir Walter hotel to consider
problems of today’s agriculture,
and to determine bureau policies
for the coming year.
Among the speakers slated for
the event are Charles B. Shu
man, president of the American
Farm Bureau; Joe Williams,
former State Farm Bureau di
rector of organization; Dr. D. W.
Colvard, State College dean of
agriculture; Robert C. Jackson,
executive secretary of the Na
tional Cotton Manufacturers In
stitute; Clyde Green, State ASC
chairman: and Mrs. Charles W.
Sewell, former director of the
American Farm Bureau Women.
Vespers will feature pre-con
vention activities on Nov. 20, as
members gather for this tradi
tional candlelight ceremony in
the Virginia Dare Ballroom at
the Sir Walter Hotel. Former
State Farm Bureau President A.
C. Edwards will deliver the ves
per talk.
Eight commodity conferences
will kickoff regular convention
business on Monday morning.
Also at this time the annual
meeting of the North Carolina
Farm Bureau Women will con
vene in the Ballroom.
At the morning session of the
women’s meeting State Chair
man Mrs. J. V. Whitfield of
Burgaw will present her annual
address. Following a special
luncheon program, the women
will hear Mrs. Irby Walker, Wo
men’s administrative head, de
liver her annual report.
Mrs. Charles W. Sewell will be
guest speaker for this event.
At 2:30 p. m. on Monday the
North Carolina Farm Bureau
Mutual Insurance Company will
hold its annual meeting in the
ballroom. Featuring this session
will be an address by A. E.
Richardson, general manager of
the American Agricultural Mu
tual Insurance Company.
Climax to Monday's convention
program will come at 7:30 p. m.
when A. D. Williams, State Farm
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Brief Bits Of
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CHANGE OF SCHEDULE
The Baptist Brotherhood of
Southport Baptist Church will
meet Tuesday, November 22, in
stead of Thursday, November 17.
MEETING POSTPONED
The regular meeting of the
Southport Lions Club will not be
held tomorrow (Thursday) but
will be combined with a Ladies
Night program Monday evening
at 7 o'clock at which time offi
cials and key personnel at Sunny
Point and their wives will be
guests of honor.
SINGING PROGRAM
The Silver Star Quartet, a
group of radio-television enter
tainers from Leland and Wilming
ton, will appear Friday night at
7:30 o’clock in the Southport high
school auditorium in a 2-hour
show. Their concert will include
popular songs and gospel hymns,
and everyone is invited to attend.
The program is being sponsored
by the high school.
CHURCH BAZAAR
There will be a church bazaar
on November 18, sponsored by
the Margaret Parkhill Woman’s
Auxiliary of St. Philip’s Episcipal
Church. The bazaar will be held
in the Parish House of the
church, beginning at 2 p. m.
Items for sale will include needle
work, cake and coffee. There will
also be a special table of pack
ages sold for 50c each. These
packages have been mailed to
Southport from many places, and
will be sold in their original mail
ing wrapper. Each package con
tains an item worth 50c or more.
Fall Fishing
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A YEAR TO THE DAY from the time that two Whiteville men, A. G. Carter, Jr., (center), and
Eugene Sears (right), were in party that caught 285 pounds of King Mackerel off Calabash, they
returned and participated in hauling in the above catch. Bill Edmunds (left) of Whiteville and
Lake Waccamaw, Carter and Sears pulled in the 17 big ones shown here exactly a year from the
time the other big catch was hooked. This one weighed in the neighborhood of 250 pounds. Both
this catch and the one on Oct. 13, 1954, were made off the "Joy,” captained by I. J. Dew.— Photo
by Baldwin of Whiteville.
Division Chief |
On Inspection
Tour Qi State
General Henry J. Hoeffer
Has Just Taken Over
Duties As Head Of South
Atlantic Division, U. S.
Army Engineers
General Henry J. Hoeffer, re
cently designated by Lt. General
Samuel D. Sturges as Division En
gineer of the South Atlantic Di
vision, is scheduled for the first
inspection of of his division this
week. His appointment becomes
effective Nov. 15 and North Caro
lina becomes the first State in his
division to be visited and inspect
ed.
General Hoeffer arrived in
Charlotte from the Division Head
quarter's in Atlanta yesterday and
was joined there by Col. R. L.
Hill, Corps of Engineers Wilming
ton District, at noon In Char
lotte they inspected the Ordinance
Missile Plant that the Army En
gineers are building for the Ord
inance Corps.
Today they are at Fort Bragg
inspecting work in progress there
and at nearby Pope Field.
Thursday morning General
Hoeffer and Colonel Hill will
check on construction at Seymour
Johnson Air Force at Goldsboro.
Following this in the afternoon
with a conference with key staff
members in Col. Hill's office in
Wilmington.
General Hoeffer’s Division in
cludes North and South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama and a
portion of Mississippi for military
and civil work construction.
Bom near Denver, Colorado,
March 15, 1902, General Hoeffer
takes over the South Atlantic Di
vision of the Army Engineers
with a long and distinguished rec
ord of previous work.
Post Office In
For Big Rush
More Patrons And Shortage
Of Boxes Promises Plenty
Of Business For South
port Office During Com
ing Holiday Season
Postmaster J. B. Russ stated
Saturday that lie now has 515
lock boxes and drawers for the
handling of mail at Southport.
Every one of these compartments
are rented, however, and there
: are a number of requests for the
reservation of a box should one
i become available.
A good many people are having
to call at the windows for their
mail.
In addition to this box and
window delivery, a great deal of
mail is sent out to Sunny Point
each day by an orderly. With all
of the Sunny Point mail coming
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Record Catches
Of King Mackerel
Lost Or Strayed
One New Piano
Paul Harrill, proprietor of
Harrill’s Music Store, is a
good fellow but his good
deeds hardly extend to giving
away a brand new piano. For
that reason he is anxious to
know the placement of one
light oak Baldwin Acrosonic
which one of his employees
left at some home or church
in Brunswick county. This
man left the firm without
leaving a record of this place
ment, and Mr. Harrill needs
to know about it.
He will be in Southport
Monday evening for the Lions
Club Ladies Night program.
He will bring down one of
his Baldwin organs and his
ace organist, Lee Hopper, to
help out with the entertain
ment.
Launching Ramp
Winning Favor
Word Is Spreading That Ex
cellent Facilities Exist At
Southport For Launching
And Retrieving Boats
Southport's new small boat
ramp is proving to be very popu
lar and the general opinion is
that it will be the means of at
tracting hundreds of small boats
here each year to be put in or
taken out of the water.
Twenty feet in width and near
ly 200 feet in length ,two trailers
can be backed on and unloaded
at one time when such is neces
sary in the interests of speed. Re
garaless of size, anything that can
carried on a trailer can be han
dled, the trailer being backed into
water of sufficient depth to float
the boat. When loading a boat to
be taken out of water the position
is reversed. The trailer is backed
in to sufficient depth for the
boat to be rowed or pulled into
proper position before the trailer
is pulled out with it.
For the past several years as
a part of its Sun-Fun Festival
the Myrtle Beach Outboard Club
has staged an outboard race from
Southport to Socastee, S. C., each
spring. This past year, for the
first time, this outboard race was
eliminated on account of the dif
ficulty of launching the small
boats from their trailers here.
The ramp will eliminate this
difficulty for the future and local
residents hope that the annual
race to Socastee will be resumed
next spring. Even with the pre
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Three Parties Fishing Out
Of Southport Y esterday
Brought In Over Eighty
Of These Fish On Each
Boat
SEVERAL BOATS
WORKED WEEK-END
One Of Most Successful
Parties Were Out Aboard
Lady Ruth, Owned By
Paul Harrill Of
Lumberton
Some of the best king mackerel
catches ever made at Southport
have been brought in during the
past few days, and yesterday
three charter boats brought in
catches of more than eighty of
these fish.
L. Bost and party of Shelby
were out aboard the Idle-On III
with Capt. Hoyle Dosher and
brought in 84. J. A. Barger and
party of Hickory were out with
Capt. Hulan Watts aboard the
Idle-On IV and brought in 83
kings. Jack Hefner and party of
Charlotte were out aboard the
John Ellen with Capt. Walter
Lewis and brought in 80.
Paul Harrill had his 45-foot
sport cruiser out with Capt. Leon
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ROVING
Reporter
We are getting to see a few of
our old friends in the country
this week by making the trips
around with Tax Collector M. D.
Anderson. At about this time
j each year for the convenience of
tax payers who seldom get to
town, and some who are unable
to come for various reasons, the
collector makes calls at various
points. The advertising of the
i calls also serves to remind a lot i
of people to come around and
pay up their taxes at the office.
Going around with the collector
gives us a opportunity to see de
velopment throughout the county
and to visit with old friends.
During the past year ocean
fishing piers seem to not have
been as productive as during past
seasons. Fish were governed by
the weather. Nevertheless, the
Yaupon Beach pier is said to
have done well as an aid to de
: velopment. A great deal of r eal
j estate has been sold with the pier
figuring strongly as one of the at
tractions. A fishing pier is not
usually productive of the best
fishing during its first year. Ap
parently fish have to find it. As
evidence of the Yaupon pier hav
ing come to be recognized as a
valuable aid to development, it
may be pointed out that Long
Beach residents have immediate
plans to construct a pier.
Writing from Greensboro, How
aid Barbee, one of our numerous
subscribers in that area, tells us
how much he enjoys The State
Port Pilot. He then goes on to
call for more matter about Long
Beach. He says that there are
some wonderful people with lots
of courage over there on the
beach. We have thought the same
way a great many times during
the past year as we observed how
determined they were on coming
back after the storm of a year
ago.
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Special Service
Wednesday Nite
To Give Thanks
Union Services Planned On
Thanksgiving Eve By Pas
tors Of Protestant Chur
ches Of Southport
REV. JOE MacLEOD
WILL BE PREACHER
This Service Follows Estab
lished Custom For Obser
vance Of Thanksgiving
In Southport
A community Thanksgiving
service will be sponsored again
this year on Thanksgiving Eve
by four Southport churches.
The service of worship will be
held at 7:30 o’clock Wednesday
evening at Trinity Methodist
Church and the Rev. Joseph B.
MacLeod of the local Presbyte
rian church will deliver the ser
mon. The choir will be composed
of persons from the sponsoring
churches. A Thanksgiving offer
ing will be received and later sent
to CARE for overseas relief.
The service has been planned
by the ministers of Southport
Baptist Church, St. Phillip’s Epis
copal Church, Trinity Methodist
Church, and Southport Presbyte
rian Church. The public is cor
This continues an annual cus
tom of holding a union service in
Southport either on Thansgiving
Eve or on Thanksgiving morning.
These services have been well at
tended in the past.
Varied Docket
Heard Monday
Numerous Cases Tried Be
fore Judge Ear! Bellamy
In Brunswick County Re
corder’s Court Monday
A variety of cases were dis
posed of here Monday before
Judge Earl Eellamy in Recorder’s
court with the following judge
ments being handed down:
Raymond C. Jacobs, non sup
port, defendant asked for jury
trial, bond set at $400.
Harrison Long, public drunk
enness, fined $25 and costs. In a
second case fined $25 and costs
and to remain outside the city
limits of Southport for one year
or 60 day road sentence will be
invoked.
Hampton Edmond Leonard,
reckless operation and failing to
stop at stop sign in circumstances
involving collision, fined $200 and
costs.
James Vance Hewett, failing
to yield right of way, fined $10
and costs.
John Julius Weeks, speeding
(65-mph) fined $10 and costs.
William Henry Hill, public
drunkenness, resisting arrest,
fined $50 and costs.
Edward Glenn Wells, speeding
(70-mph) fined $15 and costs, $7
of fine remitted because of miti
gating circumstances.
Eugene Milliken, drunk driving,
resisting arrest, fined $100 and
costs and license revoked in
drunken driving case. Not guilty
as to resisting arrest.
Oscar Easter, public drunken
ness, concealed weapon, resisting
arrest, nol pros as to resisting
arrest .fined $50 and costs on
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Shrimp Soup Being
Placed On Market
Big Food Manufacturer Planning To Introduce This
Product On Market Soon
Shrimp Soup is something new
for Southport, oldest commercial
production point in North Caro
lina for shrimp. In fact, shrimp
soup has not reached here yet
and cannot correctly be called
new until it does arrive. All the
same the Campbell Soup Com
pany has added to its nationally
known products something new
in the way of a Shrimp Soup.
It would be hard to say just
how many ways shrimp are now
prepared and eaten, but it is safe
to say that there are only a re
latively few people who are not
fond of them in some form or
other. But shrimp soup is new
on the market and it may be
that a lot of folks will be con
tent to stand by and see others
test it as a choice food.
Even folks who like to pick
up a green shrimp, strip its
jacket and head off and eat it
raw, say that it is hard for them
to visualize shrimp soup. They
believe firmly that the product
can be made, but they just don't
know about the result.
Talking about shrimp soup
this week, Dallas Pigott, South
port shrimp producer, had an
idea that the use of shrimp in
the making of soups would great
ly increase the demand. That,
however, is not the major prob
lem. The demand has been mak
ing tremendous strides in the
past 40 years. Production, has
never kept up with it.
About 45 years ago a South
port man, with a small sail
boat started the first commercial
production of shrimp here. He is
said to have gone broke in the
attempt. He had a contract for
his catch to be handled at $1.00
per bushel and both he and his
backer got it in the neck in the
venture.
Folks knew nothing about
shrimp and they just would not
eat them. The catches from the
one small boat could not be sold
i here, and the idea of shrimping
I commercially was given up for
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Teen-Age Activity
Here In Southport
First Visitor
Praises Ramp
Arriving- just as workmen
were finishing the work of
building the boat loading
ramp, Rev. Ben L. Rose, pas
tor of the First Presbyterian
Church of Wilmington, Chas.
G. Rose of Fayetteville and
Miss Peggy Rose, launched
the first boat from the in
stallation.
The tide was at low slack,
a circumstance that made no
difference. The big outboard
slid smoothly into the water
without any effort.
Had the tide been just a
little higher the boat would
have floated clear as the trail
er was backed in. The launch
ing demonstrated that small
boats can get in and out at
any time. Larger ones can
make it until half an hour
before low tide and then after
half an hour of incoming tide.
“Best Ramp on the Coast,”
commented the Rev. Mr. Rose
as his boat floated clear.
Bob Constante
Chief Of Police
: Former Highway Patrolman
Named To Succeed Jack
Hickman As Chief Of Po
lice For Southport
City Manager John F. West
announced Monday the appoint
i ment of Robert H. Constante as
Chief of Police at Southport. The
appointment became effective yes
terday. Constante succeeds Chief
Jack Hickman who resigned a
; month ago to accept employment
| at Sunny Point.
The employment of Constante
; as Chief gives Southport an effi
! cient force. The new officer was
with the State Highway Patrol
; for several years, resigning this
: year to go into business. He had
previously served in the U. S.
Navy.
Assistant Chief E. F. Gore, who
carried on the entire duties fol
lowing the resignation of Chief
Hickman and who continues with
his position, has also had con
siderable experience as a law en
forcement officer. He is a Marine
Corps Veteran.
Christmas Seal
Sales In County
Everyone Urged To Coope
rate With Annual Chris
mas Seal Fund - Raising
Drive This Year
1955 Christmas Seals are being
mailed this week throughout
j Brunswick County as they are
throughout the United States.
I This 49th annual sale challenges
every citizen to know the facts
and needs about tuberculosis.
, Of 400,000 estimated active
| cases it is believed that 150,000
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Supervised Recreation Be
ing Sponsored By Parent
Teachers Association And j
Lions Club
COMMUNITY BUILDING
USED FOR PURPOSE
Open From 7 To 11 O’Ciock
On Saturday Evenings,
With First Occasion
Proving Successful
There was something doing in
Southport Saturday night for the I
young people and it came about
as a result of the joint efforts
of the local Parent-Teachers As
sociation and the Southport Lions
Club.
The event was the first in a
series of Saturday night teen-age
parties at the Community Build
ing. These will feature dancing
and supervised recreation. Two
members of the Lions Club and
two ladies from the P. T. A.
will be in charge each night, and
trained recreational directors will
assist in directing the programs.
A new record player with a
wide assortment of numbers has
been installed, together with a
speaker that steps up the volume.
Refreshments are on sale, and
profits from this concession will
go to help defray expenses of
these evenings of fun and recrea
tion.
About one hundred boys and
girls, most of them of high school
age, attended.
Mysterious Holes
Again In Ground
More Interest Created In
Large, Round Hole That
Appeared Near Caswell
Long Beach Road Two
Years Ago
By W. B. KEZIAH
About three years ago some
one found what looked like an
oversized doodle hole in the woods
near Caswell Beach. However, it
was beyond the ken of a doodle
as 20 or more tons of sand and
earth had been removed in some
mysterious way to create it.
The hole was perfectly round,
some 15 or more feet wide across
the top and shaped exactly like
the mouth of a funnel. A foot
deep wall of earth extended all
around the rim. That hole still
exists, less than 200 feet from
where the Long Beach road enters
the Fort Caswell road.
Publicity regarding this hole
attracted a lot of attention to
wards it. A lot of people visited
the place. Hairy Davis, Curator
of the North Carolina State
Museum, wrote he was coming
down to probe the hole with a
steel rod and see, if he could,
what caused it. He never carried
out his plans.
This past Sunday Clinton Sell
ers and Robert Johnson, local
men, sought out a reporter for
this paper and asked if he had
ever found out what caused the
hole in the ground on the Caswell
Beach Road.
Getting a negative answer,
Clinton spoke up and said: ‘‘Well
we have found 3 more holes just
Continued On Page Two
Brunswick Has
Twenty Students
In State College
Total Of Twenty Brunswick
County Boys In School
This Semester At N. C.
State College
WIDE VARIETY OF
COURSES FOLLOWED
Six Major Degree-Granting
Schools Included Among
Academic Offerings At
State College
Among the 4,816 students en
rolled at North Carolina State
College this semester are 20 from
Brunswick county.
This list includes: Larry Neal
Baldwin, Leland; Joe Beverly
Cochran, Jr., Southport; Darald
Clinton Frink, Shallotte; Phillip
Rudolph Fulcher, Jr., Leland;
Grover Audrey Gore, Shallotte;
William Hugh Gray, Supply;
Charles Shimer Hewett, Jr., Shal
lotte; James Albert Hewett,
Shallotte: Joseph Percy Hughes,
Ash; Billy Wayne King, Free
land; James Elbert Kirby, Sup
ply; Bernice Wilbur Odin, Wil
mington; Albert Columbus Pur
vis, Winnabow; Wilber Earl Ra
bon, Winnabow; Gennis Mizzell
Smith, Ash; Walter Devaun
Stanaland. Shallotte; William
Morris Sue, Leland; David Ross
Swain, Southport; Robert Wayne
Swain, Southport; Albert Glen
worth Trunnell, Jr., Southport.
Figures on the county enroll
ment were released today by
Kenneth D. Raab, director of ad
missions and registrations, who
said North Carolinians make up
82 per cent of the student body.
The Tar Heel students repre
senting all of the State’s 100
counties total 3,959. In addition,
there are 699 students from 43
other states and the District of
Columbia, 153 from 39 foreign
countries, and five from United
States possessions.
State College has six major de
gree-granting schools — the
Schools of Agriculture, Design,
Education, Engineering, Forestry,
and Textiles. It is recognized 'as
one of the nation’s key Land
Grant Colleges.
Old Newspaper
Spoke Of Port
The News Reporter Of 33
Years Ago Was Promot
ing Southport As Proper
Location For Etate Port
Among the old newspapers
treasured by Mrs. Josie Easley,
who died two weeks ago, was a
copy of a Columbus County De
velopment edition of the White
ville News Reporter, published 33
years ago. The edition also car
ried an 8-page section devoted to
Southport and its possibilities as
a State Port.
This week Mrs. Easley’s daugh
ter, Mrs. Martha Senile of King
ston. Mass., found the old copy
of The News Reporter among her
mother’s possessions. She present
ed it to the State Port Pilot.
Among the articles in the edi
tion was a full page written by
W. B. Keziah of Southport, at
that time editor of The News
Reporter. Sub-headlines for this
story described Southport as, “A
Town of Wonderful Natural
Beauty and Advantages, Where
the Eyes of North Carolina Look
for Relief From the Long Hauls
and Excessive Frieght Rates—
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Fide Fable
Following is the tide table
for Southport during the next
week. These hours are ap
proximately correct and were
furnished The State Port Pilot
through the courtesy of the
Cape Fear Pilot's Association.
High Tide Low Ttd<
Thursday, November 17,
9:35 A. M. 3:07 A. M.
9:41 P. M. 3:50 P. M.
Friday, November 18,
10:13 A. M. 3:44 A. M.
10:18 P. M. 4:29 P. M.
Saturday, November 19,
10:50 A. M. 4:23 A. M.
10:58 P. M. 5:10 P. M.
Sunday, November 20,
11:30 A. M. 5:04 A. M.
11:43 P. M. 5:53 P. M.
Monday, November 21,
0:00 A. M. 5:51 A. M.
12:13 P. M. 6:40 P. Mf
Tuesday, November 22,
0:35 A. M. 6:46 A. M.
1:04 P. M. 7:32 P. M.
Wednesday, November 23,
1:32 A. M, 7:48 A. M.
1:59 P. M. 8:27 P. M.