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Volume No. 17 No. 11
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1956
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The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
SI.50 PER YEAR
Whiteville Weed
Market Is Still
At Full Speed
Over One Million Pounds
Disposed Of During Mon
day Sales On This Border
Belt Market
GOOD AVERAGE
FOR LAST WEEK
Total Sales For Season Has
Reached 31 Vi - Million
Mark During Sales That
‘ Were Held Friday
Whiteville’s tobacco market
had a full sale Monday, with a sale
estimated at over a million
pounds of leaf, according to R.
G. Maultsby, sales supervisor.
M a u 11 s b y said prices were
stronger than when the market
closed Friday and that sales for
the week would probably be
from three and a half to four
million pounds.
Sales for last week totaled 4,
665,025 pounds which sold for
$2,507,935.58, making an average
of $56.91. Last Monday’s average
led last week's sales at $59.27.
Season’s sales through last
Friday totaled 31,567,923 pounds.
Total money paid amounted to
$17,347,157.89, making an aver
age of $54.95. This is the first
week that the season’s average
has exceeded the average for
the same number of selling days
as last year. Last year, at this
time, the season average was
$54.77, which is 18c per hundred
under this year’s average.
The local market is ahead of
last season through last Friday
by 5,709,459 pounds and the
money paid . out exceeds last
year by $3,184,974.68. To date
the Stabilization Corporation has
taken only 15.66 per cent of the
total sales.
With the likelihood that the
local market will reach the 35
million pound sales mark this
week, Maultsby is confident that
the season’s total sales will
reach the 40 million pound point,
befdre selling ends here.
Although sales continue fairly
heavy Maultsby pointed out that
sales are not blocked and that
farmers now can come to mar
ket and sell the same day with
out any delay.
Brief Bits Of
LNEWS-'
BUSINESS TRIP
Sam T. Bennett is on a busi
ness trip with several members
of the sales staff of Cape Fear
Motor Co. to Richmond, Va.
HOME ON LEAVE
Joe Young Christian is at home
on a 30-day leave with his
mother, Mrs. Frances Young. He
has been stationed in Hawaii for
the past few months and has re
turned to the United States to
attend one of the Naval Special
ist Schools in California.
PET-COOKED BARBECUE
, A barbecue supper, pit-cooked
the day of serving, will be held
at Zion Methodist Church in Town
Creek Saturday beginning at 6:30
o’clock. Home-made cakes and
pica will also be on sale. The
public is invited to come and
bring their friends.
SCOUT CHARTER i
Ned McEachem, area commis
sioner for Boy Scouts of America,
was in Southport Sunday night
and presented the charter for the
troop being sponsored by Trinity
Methodist Church. This ceremony
took tiie place on the regular
evening service.
SNAGGED *HEM IN
It is reported that the mullets
were running so thickly around
the Blows Fishing Pier at Long
Beach last week that a Greens
boro man placed a number of
naked fish hooks on a line. Cast
ing over the schools of fish with
this line he reeled in rapidly and
at every cast he snagged at least
one mullet. Others fishing from
the pier state that he had snagged
a wash tub full of the mullets
before he quit.
CHURCH MEETINGS’
The vestry of St. Phillip’s Epis
copal Church will meet at the
church at 7 o’clock Thjrsday
evening to go to Wilmington for
a meeting with Bishop Thomas
H. Wright. The regular meeting
of the members of St. Phillip’s
originally scheduled for Thursday
night will be held Friday night
at 8 o’clock at the Parish house.
The meeting With the Bishop will
bt discussed and refreshments will
be served. All members and
friends of St. Phillip’s are urged
to attend.
Waterfront At Calabash
SCENE-This is a typical waterfront scene at Calabish, and it is apparent that
the fab fishing season is in full swing. There are nets in both of the skiffs in the left,
foreground, and in the center of the picture are shown two reels on which haul seines
have been stretched for drying.—(Art Newton Photo.)
Herring-Waiton
Form New Law
Firm In County
Davis C. Herring, Formerly
Associated With S. B.
Frink, And Ray H. Wal
ton Form Partnership
Davis C. Herring and Ray H.
Walton, Southport attorneys, have
formed a law partnership under
the firm name of Herring and
Walton, according to announce
ment made here Tuesday.
Both are young and energetic
and their ability is backed by a
thorough education in law and
several years of practical exper
ience. Graduating from Wake
Forest Law School just before
the beginning of World War n,
Herring served for the duration
in the Navy. Following the war,
he formed a law partnership, with
S. B. Frink of Southport, a firm
that has operated very successful
ly until its recent dissolution.
Walton was in the Merchant
Marine during World War II and
immediately upon receiving his
discharge he entered Wake For
est Law School to complete his
college education. Graduating
from the law school, he opened an
office here with Attorney E. J.
Prevatte with whom he practiced
until business with his farm in
Robeson county led Prevatte to
move to Robeson, where he re
mained for more than a year.
Walton was elected State Sena
tor for Brunswick county in 1954,
a position that he has held with
credit to himself and to Bruns
wick county.
The new firm will be located
In the building, opposite the tax
collectors office after this week.
Southport Girls
And Boys Away
Long List Of Local Students
Attending Various Colleg
es And Prep Schools This
Fall
A recora number of Southport
girls and boys are attending the
various colleges, universities and
prep schools this fall.
East Carolina College at Green
ville leads the list with Carolyn
Ranseur. Patricia Adams, Norma
Ann Harrelson, Betsy Carr, Bar
bara Bomberger, Doug Watts,
Bertram Burris, Jr., Bobby Cullis
and Ronnie Hood.
■ There are five boys at N. C.
State, including Joe Cochran,
Bobby Swain, A1 Trunnell, Paul
Moore and Billy Murdaugh.,
There are six Southport boys
at the University of North Caro
lina. They are Lew Hardie, Elliott
Hickman, Gibson Barbee, Louis
Newton, John Newton and Jim
mie Harper.
Tnere are two So.uthport stu
dents at St. Mary’s in Raleigh, j
Newton.
Also in Raleigh are Betty Mc
Glamery and Neil Lewis, who are
attending Kings Business College.
Carol Ann Wolf is a student
at Flora Macdonald College in
Red Springs.
Two Southport girls, Vera Ann
Willis and Jeannine Kincaide, are
commuting daily to Motte Busi
ness College with Billy Dosher,
who also is a student there. So
is George Stanley, a Southport
high school graduate who. now
(Continued on Page Four)
Open Bid On Inlet
Closing Project
Wilmington Contractor Sub
mits Bid On “Cure Or No
Pay” Basis For Closing
Storm Inlet At Long Beach
CIVIL DEFENSE
MET AT MEETING
Proposal Now Under Ad
visement And Announce
ment Will Be Made
Within Few Days
About Work
At. yesterdays opening of bids
on the proposition to block off
the Long Beach inlet created by
the storm in 1954, only one bid
was received by the Board of
County Commissioners and Civil
ian Defense officials.
This bid was in the sum of
$55,700 and was submitted by C.
K. Horton of- Wilmington. The
funds available for the purpose
amount to $62,000.
There may be a few days de
lay in awarding the contract.
Since there was only one bidder,
General Edward Griffin, director
of Civilian Defense, and other of
ficials decided that the papers
should go to Raleigh for legal
confirmation as to the validity
in a case where there was only
one bid.
The opinion was expressed that
a ruling on the matter will be
made this week and that Mr.
Horton will be notified.
The specification calls for the
work to start not later than the
19th of October and that the work
he finished in 90 callendar days.
The contractor will be on a "no
cure, no pay", basis.
In addition to the county of
ficials, General Griffin, Colonel
Brown of the State Water Re
sources; Henry M. Von Oesen,
consulting engineer, and others
were present at the bid opening.
Former County
Agent Passes
John Ellis Dodson Died This
Afternoon At His Home
In Southport; Funeral
Services Here Friday Af
ternoon
John Ellis Dobson died at his
home in Southport this afternoon
at 2 o’clock after being in a
critical condition for the past sev
eral weeks. He was 68 years of
age.
The deceased retired as county
agent in May, 1948, after serving
in that capacity for 28 years.
Prior to that time he had served
for two years as county agent
in Pitt county. He was a native
of Pilot Mountain.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Minnie F. Dodson, and four chilr
dren, Mrs. Colon Mints of Ra
leigh; Jack E. Dodson of Rich
mond, Va., Phil Dodson of Ash
and Mrs. Kermit Mintz of Yoko
homa, Japan. He is also survived
by three sisters, Mrs. I. J. Blay
lock, Greensboro; Mrs. Alonzo
Foster, Altamahaw; and Mrs.
George Lewis of Elon College.
Funeral services will be con
ducted Friday afternoon from
Continued On Page Two
Change Officers
At Oak Island
Adrain Fulcher, Warrant
Officer (w-2) of the Oak Is
land Coast Guard Station, has
been transferred to the office
of the Captain ef the Port
at the Custom House in Wil
mington. It is understood that
he will be in the recruiting
office for the Coast Guard at
Wilmington.
Mr. Fulcher and his family
have resided in Southport for
a year while lie was in com
mond at Oak Island. A chief
petty officer will take com
mand at Oak Island. The
Norfolk Coast Guard Head
quarters has not yet indicat
ed who this officer will be.
Jury List For
October Term
This Action Taken Monday
By Members Of The Coun
ty Commissioners; High
way Commissioner Heide
Trast Present
The Board of County Commis
sioners were in regular session
Monday' and Highway Commis
sioner Heide Trask, accompanied
by Engineer Bibberstein, met with
the board for a discussion of va
rious roads that need improve
ment and surfacing. This meeting
seemed to be very satisfactory to
both the county officers and
highway folks.
It was ordered that $500 be
released on R. L. Benton, N. W.
Township, due to error in list
Continued On Page Two
Our
ROVING
Reporter
Last week we slipped on some
lose oil and hit the sidewalk with
our hip, causing us to sleep for
several nights on one side only
and to sit the same way. In addi
tion, we had to requistion Henry
Mitchell, Boyd Moore and Mal
colm Frink to tie our shoes on
as many mornings.
The first three weeks of the
marsh hen season has gone and
thus far no one has been able
to bag any of the birds. There
have simply been no high tides
since the season opened and with
out a high tide the birds can
not be found. As a matter of
fact, even with a high tide it
may last only a couple of hours |
and few sportsmen outside of >
coastal residents can be present j
aij<l prepared for the fine shoot
that will prevail.
ecently when Mrs. L. L. Hew
of Grissettown was in this
ice to subscribe for the paper
be sent to her son, she left
ore questions could be asked
oi which to base a little news
st >ry. A brief story was written
ai yhow, and at least one glaring
ei :or cropped up when it was
st ited that her son was married,
w I'reas he is still enjoying sin
s' ■ blessedness. The young man,
I- U Hewett, Jr., son of Mr. and
* rs. L. L. Hewett of Grissettown,
n a graduate of the Shallotte
h ’» school, class of ’49. Continu
h > his education, he graduated
fi >m Wilmington College class of
'.Continues on Page Four)
Receive Word Of
Reassignment Of
Colonel McAleer
First Commanding Officer
Of Sunny Point Army
Terminal To Fill Key Po
sition In Atlantic Trans
portation Terminal Com
mand
WILL BE ON STAFF
FOR GEN. HOUSEMAN
Will Be Replaced At Sunny
Point By Col. Frank T.
Edson, Native Of South
Carolina
The reassignment of Colonel
William A. McAleer, Commanding
Officer of Sunny Point Army Ter
minal, to a key position on the
staff of Major General Evan M.
Houseman, Commanding General
of : the Atlantic Transportation
Terminal, in New York, was an
nounced today.
General Houseman, in announ
cing the new assignment for
Colpnel McAleer, praised him
highly for his record at Sunny
Point and lauded his ability as
its first commander for the past
year and a half.
The Atlantic Transportation
Terminal Command controls the
Brooklyn Army Terminal, Hamp
ton Roads Army Terminal and
Sunny Point Army Terminal.
General Houseman stated that
the reason for the change was
not only that he wanted Colonel
McAleer on his staff, but that it
was his policy to rotate his sen
ior colonels to give them com
mand opportunities.
Replacing Colonel McAleer on
October 1 will be Colonel Frank
T. Edson, a native of Jonesville,
S. C., and former Director of Op
erations at the Brooklyn Army
Terminal.
Association To
Admit Outsiders
Southport Charter Boat
men’s Association Amen
ds Charter To Permit
Other Businesses To Be
come Members
The Charter of the Southport
Charter Boatmen’s Association
has been amended to include
citizens of Southport and adjacent
areas other than owners of char
ter boats operating out of South
port. The motion as made to in
clude owners, managers, and pro
prietors of motels, cafes, inns,
and other interested business men
and women, private boat owners,
and such other persons as the or
ganization shall deem eligible for
membership.
At the last meeting the mat
ter was duly presented and by
uninamious vote of members pres
ent was adopted. The purpose of
this amendment is to enlist the
cooperation of persons desiring to
help advance the cause of sport
fishing here in Southport and in
'nearby areas. Under the terms of
active membership, these persons
are to bt admitted by paying the
regular enterance fee and then
the regular monthly dues. Those
desiring to join or who may be
solicited to join, will be made ac
quainted with full details of the
organization's working plans, con
stitution and by-laws.
Further plans were laid at this
last meeting for the coming event
Continued On Page Four*
FIRST OF A SERIES of advertisements supporting- the state’s
industrial levelopment program is received by Governor Luther
Hodges from E. B. Hunter, Charlotte, chairman of the North
Carolina Press association’s committee on industrial development.
Members of the NCPA with circulation of nearly a million and
a half, are publishing the advertisements a# public service with
out cost to the state. An enlarged copy of one of the advertise
ments is shown in the background.
Rape Cases Hold
Court Spotlight
Week End Fishing
Hit By Weather
Bad weather put a crimp
In sports fishing activities at
Southport during the past
few days for parties planning
to go outside.
Only one report, that from
Capt. Fred Fulford, was re
ceived for week end activi
ties. On Saturday he had H.
E. Goodman and party of
High Point out aboard the
Davis Bros. V and brought
in 4 bonito, 3 Spanish mack
erel and 1 king mackerel.
The next day Roy McKnight
and party of Charlotte
brought in 5 king mackerel,
6 dolphin, 4 Spanish mackerel,
3 amberjack and 1 barracuda.
In direct contrast, some of
the best surf casting and pier
fishing of the season was en
joyed by fishermen who went
in for this type of sport.
Hill Family Now
In Canal Zone
Letter Received Last Week
From Col. R. L. Hill Re
ports Comfortable Loca
tion Of Family
With his widespread contacts
while Chief of the Wilmington
District Army Engineers, many
friends in this area of Colonel
and Mrs. R. L. Hill and their
daughters, Gladys and Mary, will
be interested to know that they
are now located at Fort Clayton,
Canal Zone.
Colonel Hill is now Engineer
for the Navy in the Canal. The
family arrived there and the
colonel took over his duties on
September 2.
Under date of September 8th
Colonel Hill wrote a friend in
Southport:
“When we arrived at Fort Clay
ton, just a week ago, the first
things we found in our pile of
mail were issues of The State
Port Pilot. We have read every
one of their many interesting arti
cles and we feel that your news
paper provides a recurring link
with events in North Carolina.
“We certainly have particular
interest in Sunny Point, the beach
communities and State Govern
mental affairs. We brought here
with us a photograph of Governor
Hodges, and it was the first item
unpacked for our living room. In
cidently, this is my first letter
from the Canal Zone to anyone
back home.
"Life here is interesting. Rain
2omes every day at this season
Jf the year for a few minutes,
remperature is selaom over 80
iegrees. We almost live in Bur
nuda shorts.
“We were met at tile sliip
vhen we docked at Cristobal on
he Atlantic side. The sponsors
Continued On Pag* Four)
Trial Of Four White Men
Will Begin Here Tomor
row In Brunswick Coun
ty Superior Court
TWO NEGRO MEN
ON TRIAL TODAY
Othor Routine Cases Dispos
ed Of Before Judge Claw
son Williams During
First Two Days
Of Court
As court convened here this
morning testimony continued in
the case against Frank Clark
and Samuel Brown, Jr., against
whom the grand jury yesterday
returned a true bill for rape.
The two defendants, through
their attorney S. B. Frink, enter
ed a plea of nolo contendre to a
charge of assault upon a female
with intent to commit rape.
No jury was required for this
case under these conditions, but
testimony was presented for con
sideration by Judge Clawson Wil
liams, who is presiding over the
one week term for trial of crim
inal cases.
Yesterday the grand jury also
returned true bills against four
white boys who have been held
without bond on charges of rape.
The defendants are Haywood
Sullivan, William B. Sullivan, Le
Roy Sullivan and Albert D. Rob
bins. Trial of this case, in which
there is a great amount of public
interest, was originally scheduled
to begin this morning, but it ap
peared early today that it may be
Thursday before this case comes
to trial.
Several other matters of minor
nature were tried during the first
two days of court. Eddie Ward
pleaded guilty to charges of non
support. His sentence of 6 months
on the roads was suspended upon
payment of $5 per week to the
Clerk of Court and the sum of
Continued On Page Four
Pilot Cooperates
With Advertising
Newspaper Of North Caro,
lina Join Hands In Help
ing To Spread Word
About Opportunities For
New Industry
With circulation of nearly a
million and a half, newspapers of
the state are joining hands
through the North Carolina Press
association to spread the word
about the need for new industry
and ways and means of getting it.
The message will be carried in
a series of public service adver
tisements, published without cost
to the state.
“This is a fine public service
by the press," declared Governor
Hodges, “and is in keeping with
its leadership not only for in
dustrial development but toward
improving our economic in every
respect.”
The public service project, larg
, Continued From Page Five
Association Will
Meet In Columbus
To Form Council
Permanent Organization Of
Thi* Body Expected To
Be Perfected At Meeting
In Whiteville October 26
SEVEN COUNTIES
TO JOIN TOGETHER
Brunswick Represented By
James C. Bowman And
A- S. Knowles; October
Meeting To Culminate
Activities
Permanent organisation of thi
Southeast North Carolina Develop
ment association is anticipated
when a meeting of the seven-coun
ty organization is held in White
ville, October 26.
Horace Carter, Tabor City,
chairman of the steering and or
ganizational committee of the
temporary association, says that
a board of directors is expected
to be formed in Whiteville.
And from this group will come
the officers of the permanent
group.
The budding organization is
banding together seven counties
in this area which are seeking to
improve their economic positions
through pooled resources. Or
ganizational and research activi
ties have been underway for the
past two months.
Expected actions at Whiteville
Will be:
1. Naming of 21 additional
members—three from each coun
ty including a woman—to the
organizational committee. The
21 combined with the present
14-man group will comprise the
association’s board of directors.
2. Naming of overall commit
tees for four proposed main di
visions, and county committee
chairman for each division.
At a previous meeting an ob
jectives committee proposed four
divisions of activity for the
group: Agriculture, Industry,
Tourist and Recreation, and
Community Development.
3. Presentation of research
material gathered on agriculture,
industry, and tourist trade.
Groups have been working col
lecting pertinent information in
these categories since a meeting
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Whale Story In
Up-State Daily
Recent Occurrence At Yau
pon Beach Results In
Humorous Feature Story
By Miss Marjorie Hunter
A few weeks ago a story ap
peared in the Pilot about a whale
washing up on Yaupon Beach and
how a crowd, including Dr. Rich
ard L. Burt of the Bowman Gray
School of Medicine, rolled it back
into the ocean after Dr. Burt had
administered some mild first aid.
Following the return of Dr.
Burt of Winston-Salem, M.ss
Marjorie Hunter of the Jouri&l
Sentinel got hold of the a tor; and
did the matter of the whale' up
brown. Following is her account
of the whale’s visit to Yaupon
Beach, as it appeared in the Win- .
ston-Salem papers:
“The Richard L. Burt family
had a whale of s time down at
Yaupon Beach la jt week.
“And did the world’s most pam
pered whale.
“It all started when Dr. Burt,
Continued On Page Two
Tide Table
Following is the tide table
for Southport during the next
weak. These hours are ap
proximately correct and were
furnished The State Port Pilot
through the courtesy of ths
Cape Fear Pilot’s Association,
High Tide Low TUb
Thursday, September 30,
7:45 A. M. 1:42 A. M,
8:04 P, M. 2:01 P. M.
Friday, September 21,
8:22 A. M. 2:19 A. M.
8:39 P. M. 2:40 P. M.
Saturday, September 22,
9:00 A. M. 2:56 A. M.
6:15 P. M. 3:21 P. M.
Sunday, September 33,
9:41 A. M. 3:34 A. M.
9:55 P. M. 4:04 P. M.
Monday, September 24,
10:27 A. M. 4:15 A. M.
10:42 P. M. 4:50 P. M.
Tuesday, September 25,
11:20 A, M. 4:62 A. M.
11:38 P. M. 5:45 P. M.
Wednesday, September 26,
0:00 A. M. 5:57 A. M.
12:20 P. M. 6:46 P. M.