THE STATE PORT PILOT _ A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Volume No. 17 No. 28 6-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1956 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Most Of The News All The Time The Pilot Covers Brunswick County $1.50 PER YEAR Traiii Workers To Assist In Filing Returns All Day School Will Be Held In Supply Friday To Give Instruction To Those Interested In This Work SOCIAL SECURITY MEET SCHEDULED • County Agent Gives Advice To Farmers About Their Obligation To File Proper Returns There will be an all day school held at the County Office Building in Supply on Friday, January 27, beginning at 9 a. m. for instructing “key” people in assisting farmers in preparing their Inoome and Social Security tax returns. Anyone interested in this work should take advantage of the school, because several hundred farmers will need to file their returns by Feb ruary 15. Most farmers will need help in filing a correct return. Remember the Social Security meeting at the courthouse in Southport on Thursday, January 26, at 7 p. m. Attend this meet ing to find out how you can take part in the program. Any farmer making a net income of $400 in 1955 must file a report. More de tailed information will be given at the meeting. Retirement benefits have been extended to thousands of farmers for the first time. It is extremely important that farm folks under stand reporting for social security and tax purposes because 1955 is the first year to be used for com puting social security benefits. Use Schedule F, Form 1040, to compute your self-employment tax. If you earned $600 or more this year, you must file a federal income tax return. The' one ex ception is an individual who at tains the age of 65 before the close of his taxable year. He is required to file a return only if he has a gross income of $1200 or more. Gross income is total in come before any expenses are deducted. If the necessary forms for filing are not received by mail, con tact the Internal Revenue Serv ice for two copies of each form heeded. The following forms are used by farmers: 1. Schedule F, Form 1040, is used to summarize the farm in come and expenses and to com pute the net farm profit or loss. This form is also used to com pute your self-employment (So cial Security) tax. 2. Form 1040 lists the farm profit calculated on Schedule F, Form 1040, other items of income, personal deductions and the in come tax due. When the cash basis is tused, farm income includes all cash or value of merchandise or other property received during the tax able year. It does not include value of products sold or services performed for which payment was not received during the taxable year. Continued On Page Two Brief Bits Of lnewsj SPAGHETTI SUPPER Members of Sacred Heart Church are sponsoring a spaghetti supper at the Community Build ing on Thursday, February 9. SERIOUS CONDITION Captain James Arnold, veteran Southport sport fisherman, has been seriously ill at his home here since returning from a Wilming ton hospital. TOP STUDENT Forty students at East Caro lina College, all North Carolinians, made the highest possible grade on all courses included on their schedules for the fall quarter. Dr. Orval L. Phillips, registrar, has just announced the honors list. One of these with top academic standing is from Brunswick. She is Norma Jean Lancaster of Sup ply LliADERSHI 1* CON FEK ENC'E The Women’s Missionary Union of the Brunswick Association will hold a leadership conference at the Southport Baptist Church on Monday, January 30, begin ning at 7:30 o’clock. Mrs. Leroy Hooks, associational superinten dent of WMU, will preside, with associational chairmen leading the various conferences. Following the conferences a social hour will be held In tEc~ church' social hall. Ground - Breaking DIGGING—Col. W. A. McAleer, commanding officer of Sunny Point Army Ter minal, is shown here at the ground-breaking ceremony preceding the construction of housing units for military personnel on the Garrison in Southpcrt. In the foreground, left to right, are Lt. Col. McLeod, Col. Murphy, Lt. Col. Jackson, Col. McAleer, Mayor Robinson, Lt. Col. Lancaster. In the background is shown a large contingent of Sunny Point workers who came in to Southport for this special occasion. Cage Tourney Is Set For Bear GYM This Year Annual Brunswick Coun ty Basketball Tournament Will Begin On February 29 And Will Conclude March 3 The Annual Brunswick County High School Basketball Tourna ment will be held this year at Bolivia, with opening round games scheduled to start Wednes day, February 29. The schedule and other details were worked out at a meeting of coaches and principals last week at Bolivia. It was decided to use officials from the same association that furnishes referees for regular sea son games. Each school will vote for their three top preferences, and the men to call tournament games will be decided in this manner. Guy McKeithan was named of ficial scorer and Odell Bennett was named official time-keeper. Two games will be played on Wednesday afternoon, two games Wednesday night, two games Thursday night, two games Fri day night and two games Satur day night. Admission for the tournament was set at 40-cents for school children and 80-cents for adults. Progress Made On Title Work Big Task Involved In Ac quiring Title To Land Be ing Added To Security Area Of Sunny Point The original plans by the Real Estate Board of the Savannah Army Engineers to acquire ad ditional lands as a security zone at Sunny Point will shortly take an active course. It was learned this week that attorneys for the Real Estate Board already have 150 titles prepared. This is about half the number of tracts of land that will be acquired. Work on the balance is proceeding steadily, j Only 3 or 4 of the titles will cover land in Brunswick county. ■ All lie in an area south and west of Walden Creek and are of con siderable acreage. About 300 1 tracts are in New Hanover and are mostly of small acreage, ; some being merely building lots! and a f/w have houses. This New Hanover property lies along the Cape Fear River back of Carolina Beach, Kures Beach and Fort Fisher. It is di rectly opposite the three big wharves on this side of the river and is being acquired for securi ty purposes alone. Appraisers will go over each of the New Hanover tracts, make an appraisal of its value and then endeavor to get title through \ negotiations with the owners. Should this fail the lots that can- j not be bought through negoita- : lions will be condemned. Sunny Point Pays Huge Sum In Area Cooking School Thursday Night The Southport Parent Teacher Association is spon soring a cooking school to morrow (Thursday) evening in the high school auditorium. Mrs. Sarah Barker, home eco nomist for Suburban Rulane Gas Company in Wilmington, will conduct the school. This is one public perform ance where there not only is no charge, but where there is a fee of 25-cents per person to be paid to the treasury of the sponsoring organiza tion in return for their ef forts to get out a crowd. Men are urged to attend, first because they, too, are bringing 25-cents on the open market; and secondly, because Mrs. Barker needs some food-tasters in her audience as she gives away samples of what she cooks. Dr. Rice Helps Get New Herd New England Industrialist Presents Valuable Guern seys To N. C. State Col lege In Raleigh The School of Agriculture at North Carolina State College has received a valuable addition to its herd of Guernsey cattle from the Howland Guernsey Farm of Brat tleboro, Vt., through its owner, Weston Howland, Boston indust rialist whose home is in Milton, Mass. Announcement of the presenta tion of the gift of 17 head of topnotch Guernseys to the college was made by Dr. Carey H. Bos tain, chancellor of State College, and Dr. D. W. Colvard, dean of the college’s School of Agricul ture, who said the gift was prompted “in recognition of the valuable assistance received by Mr. Howland in his Gurnesey 3reeding program from Dr. Victor A. Rice.” Dr. Rice is now serving an interim as director of instruction in the State College School of Agriculture. He was graduated from N.C. State in 1916 and later spent many years as dean of the School of Agriculture at the University of Massachusetts. While at the University of Massachusetts, Dr. Rice worked with Howland in selecting and breeding one of the top Guernsey herds in America. Dr. Rice assist ed Howland in the early studies of his herd and in selecting sires after country-wide tours of the best Guernsey herds. Commenting on ' Dr. Rice’s work, Howland stated in a Continued On Page Two Annual Civil Service Pay roll Runs $800,000' With Weekly Contractor’s Pay roll Running $125,000 MUCH OF THIS MONEY BEING PAID LOCALLY Installation Has Meant A Great Boost In Economy For Southeastern North Carolina The Sunny Point Army Ter minal, located on the Cape Fear river above Southport, already is adding to the economy of South eastern North Carolina at the rate of more than $8,000,000 an nually, according to figures re leased for publication this week by Col. W. A. McAleer, command ing officer. This figure includes salaries, payroll and expenses. Colonel McAleer said the pay roll and equipment figures are estimates "based on averages and are considered fairly accurate.” “Due to the public and com munity interest in the impact of Sunny Point Army Terminal on local economy” the estimates were released for publication, he said. The Sunny Point economy boost was broken down into three cate gories: Civil Service payroll, con tractor’s payroll for stevedoring and allied services, and supplies' and equipment. The contractor’s payroll is the! Continued On Page Two 1 Lack Of Serum Stalls Program In This County Dr. C. B. Davis, Brunswick County Health Officer, Says That Last Of Present Supply Of Salk Vaccine Will Be Used Monday ADJUSTMENT MAY BE MADE IN SUPPLY Manufacturers Have Ample Stock On Hand And Some Additional Vaccine May Be Made Available Here Soon Difficulties with North Caro lina’s polio immunization pro gram discussed Thursday at a health workers conference at Lake Waccamaw are being brought home to Brunswick county now. Dr. Fred Foard, director of epidemioligy for the state health department, indicated dissatisfac tion with the polio shots program at a meeting of the Southeastern health workers conference. Representatives of the 17 coun ties heard Dr. Foard say that th4 present distribution system of 70 percent to private medicine, and 30 percent to public health agen cies for the serum was considered a drawback. He advocates a 50 50 split. He said the present arrange ment meant that in some areas the agencies’ supplies were ex hausted and that the people were economically unable to take ad vantage of the serum through private physicians. Dr. Foard urged that those who can obtain it through their ’doc tors, but said something must be done to help those who cannot. Dr. C. B. Davis, Brunswick county Health Officer, said Tues day that present supplies of the vaccine will be used up during Monday’s school clinic. After Monday’s shots the agency will have on hand a small reserve of the serum but not enough to continue the program until the federal government releases more of the disease-preventing vaccine. Such releases involve long manipulation of channels and red tape with Washington through the state health department. Foard called the Salk serum program one of history’s greatest undertakings as far as public (Continued on Page Four) Begin Grading For New Motel First Work On Newest De velopment At Yaupon Beach Is Underway This Week Grading for the new 26-unit motel at Yaupon Beach is now in progress and actual construc tion work will start this week if weather does not interfere. Some of the units will have kitchens and will afford light housekeep ing facilities for brief periods. Developer G. V. Barbee is hir ing his own carpenters and other workmen and that he will per sonally supervise the construction, as he has been doing withi others of his buildings since he started the development of Yaupon Beach. The motel is located just back of the big steel fishing pier con Continued On Page Two W. B. maHAH Our ROVING Reporter Mixing with the crowd around the court house Monday morning, we ran into both good and bad luck. A lot of folks were stopping Us to subscribe to the State Port Pilot. Just as we had written our 13th receipt during the mor ning a colored friend from Long wood hurried up and borrowed $2.00 so he would have enough money to pay his court fine and costs for speeding. A total of 49 subscribers have been added to the papers mailing list since Friday. That means, in case you don’t want to figure it out, that for Saturday, Monday and Tuesday there was a daily average of more thfn sixteen sub scribers per' day. For a long time circulation agencies have been crediting the State Port Pilot as having one of the best paid-up circulations of any of the North Carolina vyeelUies. Tiic continued growth of this circulation natural ly leaves us pleased at what we can offer Brunswick county ad vertisers. Some folks may wonder why there is so little paper and other trash on the streets in the busi ness section of Southport. There used to be plenty of it. Nobody paid any attention to it, in fact it was the custom of a lot of folks to throw papers everywhere. During the past year things have been changing and the folks who follow such practices have been getting the cold eye from folks who saw them in the act. After a full day there is very little paper lying abound on the streets. Before daylight next morning that is all gone. Tuesday morning of this week after crowds in town to attend court Monday, John Mc Roy was out in the drizzling and (Continued on page four) Rare Bird Found Inside Reservation Identified By Visiting Game Specialist As Anhinga, More Familiarly Known As Water Turkey Of Snake Bird Showing H. T. Bowmer and two other State Game Protectors over Sunny Point Friday, Gene Tom linson of the Resident Engineers office and the visitors saw a large anhinga. The bird was swimming around in one of the natural ponds in the reservation. Very few people have ever seen an anhinga, and would probably not know what it was if they did. They might imagine it was a water turkey if they knew there was such a bird. Swimming with only its head and a few inches of its neck out of the water, it looks exactly like a snake and that circumstance leads to it also being called a snake bird. Several years ago the late Churchill Bragaw of Orton and several Outdoor men saw an anhinga, water turkey or snake bird—take your choice of names —swimming in Pretty Pond, now owned by the Girl Scouts of the Cape Fear Area. At least they saw its head and part of its neck. A few others have been reported as being seen in the county at various times, but none recently when Mr. Tomlinson and his par ty happened on the one Friday. The discovery of this bird gives the opening for an observation that Sunny Point, with its many ponds and lakes, may some day develope into a wonderful wild fowl refuge for all kinds of birds. No information is available as to just how many acres are sur rounded by the 13%-imles of fence, but it is a big area, with much in the way of lakes and ! ponds. Inside that fence there will never be any shooting unless it is a vital matter of security. The birds there should not only find food and security, they should lose some of their wildness. Colonel W. A. McAleer, com manding officer at Sunny Point, is reported much interested in the anhinga and the possibility that wild geese, ducks, etc., may soon find Sunny Point a natural refuge, where no man will do ; them harm. I Crisp Case Comes To Trial Today Business Meeting Monday At Bolivia Representative citizens from several Brunswick coun ty communities will meet Monday evening at 7:30 o’clock in the Hawes Building at Bolivia to discuss plans by which new industry may be attracted to this area. Tlie idea was conceived by the Rev. Clarence Warren, pastor of Town Creek and Bethel Methodist churches. He received encouragement from citizens with whom he discussed the plan and the meeting on Monday night was arranged. No special invitations have been issued, and it should be made clear that no particular town or community will have preference over another in the efforts of this group to attract industry to Bruns wick. Recognize Need For Facilities Truck Stop, Including Ac commodations For Driv ers As Well As For Vehi cles, Seen As Big Need BY W. B. KEZIAH The public has obviously un derrated various things in con nection with the huge terminals here and several people very in terested and obviously anxious to go into some form of business have recently asked regarding this or that matter. Among the inquiring folks have been several who want to know something regarding the needed proportions for a truck stop. Namely, a place that would have room for the parking of the tractors and accommodations for the drivers during the 3 or 4 days they are in Southport, each trip. The general idea was that about 2 acres of land would be needed. To sort of be able to give the inquiring parties better informa tion than we had at the time, M. C. Harrison, Safety Inspector for the Baggett Transportation Com pany of Birmingham, was in terviewed this week and asked how much land would be needed for an adequate terminal. Harrison was not sure, but he thought that over 5 acres would be needed for the tractors of his company that will be here. It is understood' that space is not needed for the trailers. They go straight to the shipping term inal and remain there until they are unloaded and are reloaded, ready to go on a return journey somewhere. Thq tractors, as has already been stated, uncouple and come into town. They and the drivers remain here until things are in readiness for them to hit the road again. It is quite possible that a shop may be required for overhauling the tractors and sometimes give Continued On Page Two Leland Automobile Dealer Faces Murder Charge In Superior Court With Spe cial Venire From Which To Choose Jury JUDGE BURGWYN PRESIDING JURIST Other Cases Disposed Of During First Two Days Of Criminal Court Here This Week A special venire was brought in from Sampson county this morning from which to draw a jury for the trial of R. E. Crisp on a charge of murder. That case was calendared in Brunswick county Superior court for today, and Judge W. H. S. Burgwyn had cleared the deck during the ‘‘irst two days of court this week. Crisp, a Leland automobile deal er, faces trial for the fatal shoot ing of James Anthony Ferreri on the night of March 16, 1955. Ferreri, who was 17 years of age, and two companions were from New York and claimed they were on their way to Florida at the time of the shooting. Crisp is ex pected to claim that he shot in self defense. Two manslaughter cases have been disposed of here this week. Lonnie Beatty, pleaded guilty to this charge and was given 18-20 years. He was on trial for the fatal shooting of Lonnie McCoy. Alfred Marlowe pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter as a result of an automobile accident resulting in death. He was given from 2-5 years, judgment being suspended upon payment of costs and a fine, the defendant to re main on probation for 5 years and refrain from driving an auto mobile during that period. Three defendants entered pleas of guilty to charges of burning Continued On Page Two New Streets Are Being Laid Out Development Of Residential Area In Northeastern Sec tion Of City Continues At Rapid Pace Still grading roads on the Frink and Herring sub-division, the Coastal Construction Company is building streets for the Willis Brothers and Moore-Fonville, all in the Cape Fear Heights area. The place affords some beauti ful home sites and in parts of the area quite a number of nice homes have been built during the last few years. All but two that are still under construction are occupied. Power lines have already been constructed through much of the area and water lines are now be ing laid. As soon as these facili ties are completed private inter ests are expected to do much in home building. A number of re sidential lots have been sold by the various interests that are carrying on with the development. The area is just across Fiddler's Drain, also known as Bonnet Creek, and is less than half mile from the court house. Report Indicates Continued Need For Polio Fund One New Patient Reported In Brunswick County Dur ing 1955, But Three For mer Victims Were Given Aid TOTAL OF $784.00 PAID BY CHAPTER Additional Funds Were Sent To Epidemic Fund Head quarters To Help Com bat Disease In Other Sections With the annual March of Dimes of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis now in full swing in Brunswick County attention is called to the report of the county treasurer, Mrs. J. M. Harper, Jr. for the year 1955. This report went recently to na tional headquarters and reflects the disbursements of the chapter for the twelve month period. Only one new polio .case was helped, but three persona who contracted polio in previous years received hospitalization and braces. This indicates that even without a new outbreak in the county funds are continually needed to provide help for pa tients who were crippled in prior years. A total of $630 was paid for patient care, of which amount $150 went for surgery, $4 for physiotheraphy and the remainder for hospitalization. As the need for funds was more urgent in other parts of the country than in the county dur ing the last year, $907.47 was deposited with the Epidemic Aid Fund. It is well to remembei than in a recent year when the Brunswick County Chapter was in need of more help than it could provide for itself, the Epidemic Aid Fund sent checks in excess of $5000 to the county. Here in Southport members of the Lions Club have agreed to accept responsibility for solicita tions from places of business. Mrs. N. M. Hornstein, community chairman has secured an addition* al group of volunteer workers. Volunteer workers in South port include: Mrs. Laura Watts, Mrs. Gertha Ward, Mrs. Mary Garner, Mrs. Libby Spencer, Mrs. D. A. Baker, Mrs. Velma Ward, Mrs. L B Bennett, Mrs Neils Jorgensen, Mrs. Dosher Ruark, Jr., Mrs. Riley Willis, Mrs. J. Shelton, Mrs. Walter Aldridge, Mrs. O. W. Carrier, Mrs. B. L. Furpless, Mrs. Emily McKeithan, Mrs. Guy Garrett, Mrs. J. T. Barnes and Mrs. Jim Johnson. Stray Dogs To Be Rounded Up Owners Warned Against Al lowing Pets Run At Large On Streets Of Southport Without License Tags As is frequently the case at the close of the hunting season good dogs as well as mongrels and pets are again on the streets, especially at night and in the early mornings. Frequent complaints are heard by Chief Butler and Assistant Chief Gore, as wel las by other city officials. The dogs are be coming rated as a general nui sance, as well as a menace. Accordingly, the police have been instructed to begin round Continued On Page Two Tide Table Following; is the tide table for Southport during the next week. These hours are ap proximately correct and were furnished The State Port Pilot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot's Association. High Tide Low Tide Thursday, January 26, 6:46 A. M. 0:24 A. M. 7:11 P. M. 1:06 P. M. Friday, January 27, 7:40 A. M. 1:19 A. M. 8:06 P. M. 1:57 P. M. Saturday, January 28, 8:31 A. M. 2:11 A. M. 8:58 P. M. 2:45 P. M. Sunday, January 29, 9:21 A. M. 3:02 A. M. 9:48 P. M. 3:31 P. M. Monday, January 30, 10:09 A. M. 3:51 A. M. 10:39 P. M. 4:17 P. M. Tuesday, January 31, 10:56 A. M. 4:41 A. M. 11:29 P. M. 5:03 P. M. Wednesday, February 1, 11:43 A. M. 5:30 A. M. 0:00 P. M. 5:49 P. M.