Most Of The News All The Time Volume No. 17 No. 22 THE STATE foRT PILOT A Good Newspaper In 6-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, Good Community EMBER 12, 1956 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY The Pilot Covers Brunswick County $1.50 PER YEAR Aid For Hungary Coming In Slow From Brunswick Schools Helping To Give Residents In All Parts Of The County An Oppor tunity To Participate INFORMATION ON ADOFTION CONTACT Several Agencies Serving As Contacts In Placement Of Refugees In The United States National Red Cross officials in telephone conversations to day with Mrs. Phil King, Chapter Chairman of the Brunswick county chapter of the American Red Cross, again stressed the urgent need for funds to be used for the relief of Hungarian refugees. Of a total of over two million dol lars assigned by the National Red Cross for this purpose Brunswick county has been given a quota of only $283, Mrs. King said. Mrs. King said it was hoped, when the initial an nouncement was made last week for gifts to the Hungar ian relief fund, that no spe cial collection would be neces sary, but that it now appears that some calls will have to be made if the county’s quota is to be reached. She said this is an emergency and the need for funds is far more serious than was at first anticipated. Mrs. King said some few checks and contributions had been received but that much more was needed immediate ly if the county is to do its part in helping these unfortu nate people in Hungaryj Checks and donations may be mailed to either C. D. Pick errell or Mrs. Lacy Hunt, White ville. Mrs. William C. Smith of Leland, Home Service Chair man, had information about whom to contact in connection with providing homes for Hungarians in this country. She says that there are sev eral agencies through which' requests may be processed, and she has a list of them. Already she has received Inquiries from several Bruns wick county persons who are interested in offering a home to come of these people. Brief Bits Of I -NEWSJ FATHER DIES Capt. and Mrs. Lewis Fritch La., where they were called be Lla., where they were called be cause of the illness and death, of his father. WEEK END VISITORS Mr. and Mrs. David Watson and children, from Raleigh, and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Watson and daughter, from Georgetown, S. C., spent the week end here with Mrs. Ida Potter Watson. AIJTO COLLISION ( Two vehicles were damaged but i occupants escaped without injury 1 here Tuesday when a station ] wagon being driven by Mrs. Dan : Harrelson was in collision with a car being driven by a member of the crew of the 83-foot Coast Guard patrol boat. RETURNS TO CALIFORNIA L. A. Galloway, Jr., appraiser for the Federal Housing Authority j in several counties in California, : returned to his work Saturday after a month’s vacation here with his mother, Mrs. L. A. Galloway, Sr., and his sister, Mrs. Betty Prevatte. FAIR BLUFF VISITOR Mrs. Henry Coleman of Fair Bluff spent part of the past week here with the family of her son, Dempsey Coleman. Mrs. Dempsey Coleman accompanied her home on business in connection with the estate of her father, who died recently. BUILDING PARSONAGE The congregation of Southport Baptist church has started work on a new parsonage in Deepwater Heights, new development in Southport. Roy Swain is super vising the work. The building will contain eight rooms, 3 bedrooms, a study, liv ing room, dining room, kitchen and family room. It is of brick veneer construction and the plans indicate that it will be very at tractive. Bald Head Island Wild Animal Haunt At Least The Present Crop Of Wild Hogs Is Not The First Inhabitants To Be Hunted By W. B. KEZIAH With the subject of wild hogs on Bald Head Island having come up and sort of disposed of with the admission that there may be a considerable number orginating from the stock that Frank O. Sherrill placed there a number of years ago, it may not be out of line to say that at times there have been a number of other wild animals there. From Chief of Police Louis Clark and Law Swan it is learned that at the present time there is a medium sized wild dog on the island. It is said to have been there 4 or 5 years and was prob ably lost by some hunter. Living in a solitary state, it seems to have lost all contact with man. While a good many claim to have seen it, none ever got close to it. It is really wild. Since no one feeds it, this dog must subsist on the wild pigs, ooons, possums, squirrels and other animals on the island. All of these and a few other animals are abundant. Fifteen years ago there was a wild cow on the island, and it was really wild. Dozens of hunters made various attempts to get near enough to shoot it. It always escaped but probably carried a load of buckshot and many rifle balls to the day of its death. The general opinion is that it finally died from natural causes as no one ever claimed to have killed it. If someone did kill it he prob ably found it very tough eating. Some parts of the thick woods on the island were badly infested with ticks and this wild cow prob ably gathered a host of them during the spring and summer. About the most famous wild animal on the island, of which there is any knowledge locally, disappeared some 18 or more years ago. This was a genuine wild boar, no kin to the present race of wild hogs on the island. It was said to weigh a thousand pounds, counting the lead that various hunters pumped into its hide without any visible effect. Many a hunter or group of them (Continued on Page Four) Christmas Musical Programs Planned Choirs At Two Soupthport1 Churches Will Present Their Annual Christmas Cantata Sunday OTHER PROGRAMS BEING ARRANGED Full Schedule For Trinity Methodist Church During Holiday Season An nounced Special Christmas programs in the Southport churches begin Sun day when the choirs of two of the churches present their can tata. A Christmas Cantata, “The Child of Bethlehem”, to be pre sented by the adult choir at 5 o’clock Sunday afternoon, Decem ber 16, will inaugurate the special Christmas services at Trinity Methodist Church. The cantata is under the direction of Mrs. Dallas Pigott, choir director, with Mrs. Robert Willing serving as assist ant director and Mrs. James M. Harper at the organ. At Southport Baptist church this program will be presented at 7:30 o’clock. Mrs. Eunice Huntley is the director. The December "Family Night” will be held Wednesday, December 19, at 6:30 o’clock instead of on December 27. At this time all the families of the church have an opportunity to bring a covered dish supper and enjoy a period of entertainment and fellowship with new families. The children’s Christmas pro gram will be given at 7:30 o’clock on Sunday night, December 23. Under the auspices of the Chil dren's Division of the Church School, this program is being led by Mrs. G. E. Hubbard, Mrs. W. R. Jenkins and Mrs. E. C. Harrel son. On December 30, at 7:30 p. m., the college students in the church will be in charge of the service, the day being designated as "Stu dent Recognition Day”. The high school age group of the Methodist Youth Fellowship plan to go caroling prior to Christ mas, and on New Year’s Eve they will attend a watch night service on a sub-district level at Sharon church near Shallotte. Two Boats Back In Local Waters Two Vessels Of Southport Fisheries Operating Out Of Here This Week After being at Beaufort for the past month, two big boats of the Southport Fisheries Company came home yesterday and are now fishing in the Southport area. They have been having good luck at Beaufort, but as the fish are now off Southport they preferred to return here and work for their own factory. It has been reported that there are plenty of big roe menhaden here. The first day’s catches will reveal whether or not this is cor* rect. Captain J. B. Church said Continued On Page Two Beautification Of Hospital Grounds There’s a “new look” to the Dosher Memorial Hospital this week because of activity of the Southport Woman’s Club. Foundation planting: of ever greens makes the front of the hospital much more attrac tive than it has been since the extensive remodeling job of two years ago. Mrs. H. T. St. George has been chairman of the Hospital Grounds Committee of the Woman’s Club with the ex pert assistance of Kenneth Sprunt of Orton Plantation the hospital now boasts a fine array of beautiful plants which will make this Bruns wick county institution more attractive as the years go by. Cashes Bond Of First World War Brunswick County Man Sends In 38-Year Old Lib erty Bond To Be Convert ed Into Cash Serving during the first World War as a corporal, Thurman L. Cox of Howells Point on Route 1 from Bolivia put some of his savings in Liberty Bonds. This week he decided to cash! one of these bonds that was ori ginally worth $50. Before mailing it off to the Federal Reserve Bank in Richmond to be cashed, (Continued on page four) Brief Session Of Court Held Absence Of Highway Pal trolmen Brought About An Abbreviated Session Of Recorder’s Court Mon day Because the State Highway Pa trolmen, important witness in most of the cases, were unable to be present Monday, owing to their being required to attend an inspection elsewhere, only a. short docket was heard by Judge Earl Bellamy in Recorder’s court. The docket was cleared and court adjourned at noon with the minutes showing the following cases as disposed of: Otis Marvin Fulford, no opera tor’s license, nol pros on presen tation of valid license at time of arrest. Edwin Roberts, non-support of illegitimate child, 6 months on roads, suspended on condition that he pay $18 per month to the sup port of the child and pay costs of this action. Jimmie Lee Davis, no chaffeur’s license, no turning signal, fined $35 and costs, $15 of fine re mitted on presentation of valid license. , •. . New Conference Being Planned For Grid Teams Representatives From Sev eral Brunswick, Columbus And Bladen Schools Will Meet Wednesday FIRST MEETING TO BE AT WACCAMAW Object Is To Organize Con ference For Smaller Schools Desiring To Play 11-Man Foot ball ASH, Dec. 12—Plans are being laid for the organization of a new Southeastern North Carolina li man football conference at a meeting scheduled for the Wac camaw High School auditorium, at Ash, on Wednesday night, Dec. 19. Tommy Webb, principal and coach of Southport High School, who is leading the effort to form the new loop, said today that the meeting would begin at 7:30 o’clock on the above night. Principal John G. Long of Wac camaw will act as host to the group. Schools of three counties—Co lumbus, Brunswick and Bladen— ire being invited to attend the gathering. Letters have been mail ed to them by Webb, asking that hey send representatives to the ksh confab. Schools expected to send their coaches here include Bolivia, Wac camaw and Southport of Bruns wick County; Hallsboro, Acme Delco and Williams Township of Columbus and Bladenboro and Clarkton of Bladen County. Other schools may also send represent itives if they are interested in joining the circuit, Webb stated. Small-School Loop The formation of a small-school 11-man conference was mentioned n a letter written sometime ago t>y Coach Landrum Wilson of Bo Continued On Page Four} Receives Blame Curtis Evans Reduced In Rating And Tran*f |rred Following Coast Guard Investigation Announcement was made from 5th Coast Guard District Head quarters in Norfolk, Va., last week that Engineman lc Curtis Evans had been found guilty of “certain dereliction of duty” in connection with the fishing accident last month that cost the life of one man and resulted about the mira culous rescue of his companion. Rear Adm. H. C. Moore said Evans “has been relieved of his duties, reduced in rating, and transferred, pending further re view and study of the case.” Douglas Wilson Sessoms, 20, of Laurinburg was found drifting far at sea November 8 in the 16-foot outboard boat in which he and an other Laurinburg man, J. E. Boone, 34, had set out fishing October 26. Continued On Page Two Three Counties Southport Man Lai in got A Big One Without Tackle 1 rize catch of the year ng circles was made thif ik without hook or net bei] ivolved. The only risk waj tting wet, and Mrs. Lu< igford of Long Beach it when she jumped intc ocean and floundered ash drui clos she aroi ash< to and will eler Sn with a 42-pound red M Bigford was walking os the breakers on Long Bea md saw the big fish swii lg in water about two feetBp. Without hesitation ted in threw her arms it and dragged it She got wet from head both by the waves > water that the fish sph 1 over her in its un less to leave its native iper Fishing Rported Good f Southport :ch Of These Beauti ish Brought In Fri iy Skipper And Crew ew Jersey Boat lonths the papers have a lot about red snapper on the upper coast, but ;tion has nothing over •t in that, according to Eddie Brex, owner and of the Pieces, of Ocean , dryland. Ca;t|in Brex has been at More head City since early October. As of n<w he is fishing off South port qjd he declares that there is no p; :e like it. “T! prospects for snappers here,’ he said this week to a repor r, “look terrific off-shore. They >eem unlimited. They in a belt ■ 00 yards wide and of un limitdp length. In fact, they ap pear fto be everywhere that a good bottom exists and that is about everywhere.” Asked if he had found things ■it.h regards to the snappers bet --- -—,. .... the coast. Car rex stated; ‘'Better, mucii better. I Haven't seen anything like what you have here.” He pointed out that on the first trig here late the past week, they were not looking for snappers exclu sively. On the market snappers bring around $20 per hundrec wholesale. On the other hand, big sea bass have a ready sael at $2f per hundred. On their arrival they were no1 slow in discovering that the big sea bass were even more numer ous than red snappers. Purely as a matter of business, they onlj spent only three days loading uj with 1,500 pounds of the re< snappers and 2,000 pounds of se; bass and headed in to Southport The handling was quickly ar ragged for by Dallas Pigott, th< boat was re-iced and newly pro vifioned and was off again foi the fishing the same afternoon By today the boat should be baci again with several thousanc polmds of snappers and bass. file snappers are averaging bet te: than 10 pounds to the fish T] e sea bass run close to ; p< Linds each. All are taken wit hi nd lines, plus two fishing rig th it have windlesses. In additioi (Continued on Page Pour) Our RAVING Reporter Folks around Southport, ex cepting those who have not visit ed the hospital, have not seen John McRoy in a couple of weeks. He is ill, said to be suf fering from heart trouble, al though he did not have a stroke. Not seeing John, folks still see that the Southport streets are clean and devoid of paper and trash by daylight each morning. We are one of the few who get up early enough to see who is carrying on at John’s job. Jufit about when we get to this office at 6 a. m., we are met by Tumps Phelps, John’s colleague, with broom, rake and cart. Tumps is carrying on for John and keep ing the streets clean for him while he is in the hospital. As one of the Southport sport fishing boat captains remarked to us the other day, "We ought to make this sport fishing a year round business.” Such develop ment would be simple enough. It would probably involve a litOe more use of the telephone. On the ot <r hand the sport fishermen co ing here in the winter could be assured of catches greater th t those they make in the su Jner. The use of the telephone w< id come in through the neces sit of having arrangements with fis ng parties that would insure th ■ coming in at any time when th weather is fit for fishing. T1 ce are enough bad days be tw 'n December and spring to nr e it unwise to definitely ar ra fa for trips far in advance. T1 : trips would have to be ar ra fed at only about a day’s no th For a month now the boats hi ' been bringing in several hun dr i pounds each trip. The only tr iile is that not enough sports m i know of the big success at t,is time of the year. m ti e continued dry weather has a rather dangerous condi to the timberlands in Bruns w 1 especially should we have y/ days before the rains come. Mjp'a with, the presept condition -itinued On Page Four) Brunswick Man To Head SENCBA James C. Bowman, South port Attorney, Will Serve As President Of Organi zation That Promotes Re creation In Area James C. Bowman, Southport attorney, was elected Monday night to serve as president of the Southeastern North Carolina Beach Association during the com ing year. He succeeds E. L>. White of Wilmington. Members of the board of direc tors of the organization praised the efforts of the late John Far rell, executive secretary and pass ed a resolution of sympathy to his family as a result of his recent death. Mrs. Alice Strickland of Caro lina Beach was named to succeed him in this office, and at this meeting submitted a list of pro jects and a plan of action to be followed during the coming year. The organization has been in operation for 10 years, and during that time has done much to pro JAMES C. BOWMAN mote tourist business in this area. That still will be the chief ob jective. Hospital Care For Dependents Has Big Change ffingr — - Announcement Made That Dependents Of Service Men Are Now Eligible For Care In Civilian Hos pitals HAS IMPORTANT LOCAL BEARING Personnel At Oak Island And Military Personnel At Sunny Point Will Be Affected Two million dependents of uni formed American servicemen all over the world became eligible for civilian medical care at govern ment expense on December 7th, when the Dependents’ Medical Care Act went into effect. This act is expected to have an important effect upon Dosher Memorial Hospital and upon mili tary personnel stationed in this area, chiefly at Sunny Point and at Oak Island Coast Guard sta tion. Wives, dependent husbands and children of active duty members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and dependents of commissioned mem bers of the Public Health Service and Coast and Geodetic Survey are now eligible for civilian medi cal care. Forty-two states plus Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico have signed contracts with the govern ment under which civilian phy sicians will be able to attend mili tary dependents. The Act, which the military has described as one of its greatest career incentive boosts in many years, was signed into law by President Eisenhower on June 7th, 1956, to becomd effective December 7th. Ventor Winding Up Work Locally Dredge That Has Played Prominent Part In Con. struction And Mainten ance At Sunny Point Will Leave Soon Winding up about six months of maintenance work at the Sun ny Point terminal, the dredge Ventor of the Hill Dredging Com pany will leave the first of the year for Cocoa, Fla., where it has a full year of work ahead of it. Coming here the last of 1952, the Ventor had its first opera* tions at Sunny Point early in January, 1953. For nearly two years it aided in dreging the Sunny Point basin and channels. Finishing there, it went to Bruns wick, Ga., for some months and then returned here for mainten ance work. Leaving here the second time it went to Cocoa, Fla., for some months of maintenance work and then came back here for its pre sent job. Before coming here on the original job the Ventor spent nearly two years at Cocoa. From there it was on its way home tb Atlantic City, N. J., when the McWilliams Construction Com pany of New Orleans, La., called it here to assist in the Sunny Point job. With its jobs on this and the lower coast the Ventor has not been back to its home port of At lantic City, N. J., in seven years. 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 Tidt Thursday, December 13, 3:44 A. M. 10:11 A. M. 4:02 P. M. 10:25 P. M. Friday, December 14, 4:40 A- M. 11:08 A. M. 4:58 P. M. 11:18 P. M. Saturday, December 15, 5:35 A. M. 12:03 A. M. 5:52 P. M. 0:00 P. M. Sunday, December 16, 6:27 A. M. 0:09 A. M. 6:46 P. M. 12:55 P. M. Monday, December 17, 7:19 A. M. 1:00 A. M. 7:39 P. M. 1:45 P. M. Tuesday, December 18, 8:11 A. M. 1:50 A. M. 8:32 P. M. 2:34 P. M. Wednesday, December 19, 9:01 A. Ml 2:41 A. Vt. ,9:25 P; M: 3:22 P. M. Mackerel Catches Still Being Made Trinkets Sold To Pay Bonds Although officers are not supposed to accept anything short of cash bonds from speeders, Monday saw a big assortment of articles put up and sold by Deputy Sheriff H. G, Ratcliffe. Each one of the articles were supposed to represent the value of $25 bonds and were sold as the owners defaulted in their ap pearance in court. Represented in the loot was an automobile tire and tube, a fishing rod and reel and about a dozen ladies and gents watches, mostly of good make. In this jewelery busi ness the highest price paid for a watch was $10. Two Lions Clubs At Sunny Point Members Of Southport And Bolivia Clubs, Together With District Officials, Enjoy Conducted Tour Of Installation The membership of two Bruns wick county Lions Clubs met Thursday at Sunny Point and aft erward attended an orientation course conducted by specialists in the various branches of service at the terminal. A tour of the installation completed the day. The tour of the Bolivia Lions Club was scheduled and carried out for the morning ending at the Administration Building short ly before one o’clock. There the Southport Club, some 40 strong, joined them and both clubs and their hosts had luncheon at the cafeteria, before the Southport delegation started on their tour. Following the luncheon, Colonel Frank Edson Commanding Officer of the terminal, spoke of the ter minal and told of his interest in getting maximum utilization of the labor potentials here in South port and other areas of Bruns wick. He briefly introduced the visitors to Sunny Point as an in stallation that they could call a part of Brunswick county. Lt. Col. Murphy and other SPAT officials followed this up with a brief orientation on the areas to which they were to be taken on the tour. Following this and some general discussion the visitors and hosts found seven official cars waiting to take them on the tour. With each of these cars a guide had been assigned to explain all points visited. These guides were Lt. Col. Murphy, Lt. Col. William A. Besser, Major Lewis Doyle, Major Leslie Bel lows, William Houghton, Capt. Ralph Burns, and Major Herman Schwartz. The above guides saw to it that all passengers in their vehi cle got a good and complete briefing on the points visited. At some of the points the whole group stopped and angles df'- the installation were discussed. Southport Charter Beats Made Good Use Of Sev eral Of The Pretty Days During The Past Week To Continue Fishing GOOD LUCK FOR EACH PARTY OUT Skippers See No Reason To Doubt That Good Fishing Will Be Available So Long As Weather Lasts Results of fishing' trips made out from Southport during the past week continue to support the claim that good yestr-round sport is available in waters off the Brunswick county coast. At any rate, some of the best catches of king mackerel made this fall came in during the past few days. Last Tuesday Dr. Joseph and party of Myrtle Beach were out with Capt. Basil Watts aboard the Idle On II and brought in 45 king mackerel. The next day R. E. L. Brown of the same city and some of his Myrtle Beach neighbors caught 65 of these fish. On Saturday a party from Hick ory had 48 of these big fellows to show for their day. Sunday it was Jimmie Batuyios and party of Wilmington, who brought in 40. Capt. Fred Fulford had Mr. Lineberger and party of Hickory out Saturday aboard the Davis Bros. V. They caught 16 king mackerel, 4 bonito and 1 amber jack. The following day he had W. H. Bandy and party of Hick ory aboard his boat and they had 19 king mackerel, 1 amberjack, 1 dolphin and 7 bonito. On Friday Capt. Walter Lewis took members of his own family out aboard the John Ellen. They caught 6 king mackerel and 800 pounds of seabass. On Saturday Mrs. Lou Mallison and party of Southport caught 28 king mack erel. Mr. Boss and party of Shel by made the Sunday trip and brought in 43 king mackerel. Former Official Dies Saturday David £. Robinson Dies Four Days Following The Death Of Wife; Both Na tives Of Brunswick Coun ty Four days following the death of his wife, Mrs. Alpha Robinson, David E. Robinson, former Wel fare Officer for Brunswick coun ty, died at his home at Carolina Beach Saturday morning. Mrs. Robinson died on Tuesday and her burial took place on Thursday. Her husband followed her to tire grave in the same cemetery, Grelawn Memorial Park in Wilmington, Sunday. Services for both were conduct ed by the Rev. William M. Wells, Jr., of Wilmington and the Rev. L. D. Hayman of Southport. Both Mr. and Mrs. Robinson were both natives of Brunswick county, spending all of their lives at their home near Supply until about 20 years ago when they moved to Carolina Beach. Aboijt 1925 and for - several years SJr. Continued On Pag* Two

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