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Volume No. 17 No. 25
THE STATE PORT PILOT
A Good Newspaper In A Giod Community
SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JANUAR§2, 1957
The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
6-Pages Today
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
$1.50 PER YEAR
Thinks New Year
May Be Promise
For Development
Southport Man Looks Upon
Bouncing Long Spring As
Great Natural Resource
For This Area
CITES GROWING
NEEDS FOR WATER
Publicity Given This Spring
During Recent Months
May Bear Fruit During
The New Year
By W. B. KEZIAH
Knowing of the water for 20
years, but with little to say about
it because the time was not then
ripe if Brunswick county was to
get the most in value out of this
great natural resources, we are
welcoming this New Year of 1957
with a felling of assurance that
it will provide some good use for
the outpouring at Bouncing Log
Spring.
In the past year very littlfe if
any effort was made to create
curosity on the part of the public.
Rather, the trend has been to
wards satisfying the interest of
people who were already interest
ed. As we recall things, we have
not guided more than any four
persons to the spring at any one
time. Tilings have not been in the
nature of excursion or picnic vis
itors. Things have just been a
matter of taking people who make
water their business or people en
gaged in industry where water
is important.
For that matter, water is im
portant everywhere and to every
body, whether industry is involved
or not. Mankind cannot live with
out it. A man might live tem
porarily on soft drinks, but soft
drinks cannot be made without
water.
And throughout the United
States the supply of fresh, un
polluted water is getting less and
less. Surface water in many great
areas has become so polluted that
it is unfit for either domestic
or industrial use without the most
expensive treatment. Even with
treatment a lot of people shudder
at the idea of swallowing it.
But this underground source of
supply they call ground water,
lying two hundred feet or more
beneath the surface of Brunswick
county, is not easily subject to
pollution. Topping that, U. S. Gov
ernment water experts have told
us during 1956 that the supply
will last forever.
Backing things still further the
North Carolina State Board of
Health has stated that it is pure
enough for human consumption
as it is. Also that it is adapted
to the use in most forms of in
dustry without treatment.
In the few cases where treat
ment for the use of industry may
be necessary it will not be due
to any impurity in the water. It
will simply result from the fact
that some few industries require
very soft water.
The water from the Bouncing
Log Spring area is a little harder
than that from the average sur
face well area a fact that can
easily be corrected with the use
of a moderate amount of lime.
One paper mill in Alabama uses
80 tons of lime daily in softening
its water. The hardness of the
Continued On Page Fourf
Brief Bits Of
lnewsj
HOSPITAL PATIENT
Mrs. Tom Webb is a patient
at Dosiier Memorial Hospital
where she underwent a minor
operation today (Wednesday).
SCHOOLS RECON VENE
More than five thousand Bruns
wick county school children were
back in their class rooms this
morning following Christmas va
cation.
BACK AT OLD JOB
Operating the repair department
at McNeil's Esso Station for sev
eral years, J. B. Warth, all
round mechanic went to Sunny
Point soon after it was activated.
Recently he had a spell of illness
from which he has not yet en
tirely recovered. Considering all
things, he has decided that his
old job is best fitted to him and
he is now back at McNeil's.
ORTHOPEDIC CLINIC
The orthopedic clinic conducted
monthly by the Clippie Children’s
Section of the State Board of
Health and the Wilmington Rotary
Club will be held Thursday, Jan
uary 10, from 8 o’clock until noon
at James Walker Memorial Hos
pital. Last month 82 persons were
examined, 11 of them from Bruns
wick county.
To Conduct School
COMING—The Rev. Audley G. Hamrick, left and
his wife, right, are two of the sixteen workers who will
be in Brunswick county later this month to conduct a
simultaneous School of Missions. They are from Magda
lena, New Mexico.
Baptists Planning
School Of Missions
Simultaneous Training Pro
gram Will Be In Progress
January 13-18 In Sixteen
Churches In This County
SIXTEEN OUTSIDE
SPEAKERS COMING
Program Will Change Each
Night During The Week
That This School Is To
Be In Session In
Brunswick
A simultaneous School of Mis
sions will be conducted at 16
churches of the Brunswick Baptist
Association in this county from
January 13 through January 18,
according to plans announced this
week by Mrs. Margaret McRack
en, assftpiatifin&L missionary.._
Sixteen outside workers, includ
ing 5 foreign missionaries, 7 home
missionaries and 4 state workers,
will conduct these schools, and
plans call for a different leader
to be at each church each night.
The participating churches are
Lebanon, Town Creek, Mill Creek,
Leland, Elah, Bolivia, Antioch,
Supply, Mt. Pisgah, First Shal
lotte, Shallotte, Soldier Bay, Jen
nies Branch, Boones Neck and
Southport.
Mrs. McRackan said that it is
impossible to give a time for be
ginning each evening’s session, for
in some churches extra courses
are being offered. There will be
additional information about the
school next week.
Recorder Holds
Extra Session
Brief Session Held Thurs
day With Only Few Cas
es Being Tried Before
Judge Earl Bellamy
■ At a short session of Recorder’s
court here Thursday Judge Earl
Bellamy disposed of a few cases.
This weeks session is being held
today (Wednesday) and is not
yet available for publication. The
last week's docket shows the fol
lowing:
As not to be found or by re
quest of the prosecuting officers,
the following matters were nol
prossed with leave:
Lloyd Sheppard, James Tripp,
Billy Guy Amons, Eugene C.
Spivey, Alvin J. Nobles, Richard
A. Powell, George H. Krugg,
Gerald N. Jones, Haskeal P.
Lovett, Vernon Lee Norton, John
E. Cook.
Cash bonds were forfeited in
the following cases: Arthur F.
Plott, John H. Goltz, Alfred P.
Muse and Louis Dublin.
Beulah Bellamy, worthless
check, costs.
Guy Redman Jackson, speed
ing, fined $15 and costs.
James Kaiser, forcible trespass,
one year on roads, fined $50 ana
costs. Jail sentence suspended if
defendant leaves county imme
diately.
Eddie Jackson Raynor, im
proper equipment, fined $10 and
costs.
James Edmund Lewis, driving
too fast for conditions, not guil
ty.
Robert Deleon Stroud, speed
ing, fined $10 and costs.
John Frances O’Brien, drunk
on highway, fined $25 and costs.
Worthless check, 30 days on
roads suspended on making re
stitution to J. S. Mangurn and
pay costs.
(Continued on Page Four)
*—
Three Alarms
For Firemenj
The Southport Volunteer
Fire Department was called
into action three times with
in a 24-hour period over the
past week end, but no serious
damage resulted from any one
of the blazes.
Sunday morning, shortly
after midnight, a call was re
ceived to the home of Mrs.
Grace Ford where a chimney
fire failed to do any damage.
Sunday afternoon the firemen
were called to the old CCC
camp site for a trash fire.
— Later that afternoon they re
ceived their third call, back to
the trash fire which had brok
en out again.
Telephones For
Two Communities
Southern Bell Announces
Plans For Providing Ser
vice To Acme And Bolton
In Columbus County
Southern Bell Telephone Com
pany officials announced today
plans to spend more than ?400,000
on two projects which will bring
telephone service to Acme and
Bolton and surrounding territory
in Coulmbus county.
Wilmington Manager Paul B.
Woodson said that a petition for
a certificate of convenience and
necessity is being filed with the
State Utilities Commission in Ra
leigh and said that telephone serv
ice is planned for the latter part
of 1957.
Rapid agricultural progress cou
pled with industrialization in this
area, including the Riegel plant,
has brought about a need for ex
panded telephone service. A tele
phone company official said that
Southern Bell representatives will
be calling upon residents and bus
iness firms in the Acme and Bol
ton communities and surrounding
areas immediately in order to de
termine the demand for service.
This information will be used as a
basis for providing the necessary
equipment for the two dial sta
tions, which will be located at
Acme and at Bolton. These will
be brick veneer buildings in which
will be housed the dial equipment,
and construction is expected to
begin shortly after the completion
of the survey this month.
The total cost of the two build
ings is estimated at $16,000. The
cost for engineering services, ac
quisition of land, dial equipment,
cable, telephones and wire will
bring the over-all cost of the pro
ject to over $400,000. Actually,
the total cost of the Acme pro
ject is estimated at $300,000, while
the estimated cost of the Bolton
project is $130,000.
At the present time telephone
service to these two communities
is limited to public toll stations
and the Riegel Corporation switch
board. Upon completion of the
two projects, telephone subscrib
ers will be able to make local calls
between the Acme and Bolton sta
tions.
In a telephone call to this news
paper this morning Mr. Woodson
said, “It is a matter of pride
with us at Southern Bell to be
able to bring modem dial tele
phone service to residents of these
two comniunities. J would like to
Continued On Page Two
Set Deadlines
For Obtaining
New Allotment
Certain Regulations Must
Be Met By Those Who
Seek Tobacco, Cotton Or
Peanuts Acreage As New
Growers
APPLICANT MUST
DEPEND ON FARM
February 15 Last Date For
Tobacco And Cotton Ap
plications; Peanuts
1 Close Feb. 16
Farm operators without allot
ments on tobacco, cotton, or pea
nuts may apply for new grower
allotments on these crops if they
desire to grow such crops in 1967.
Application is made on a form
provided for this purpose at the
county ASC office at Supply.
Farmers without a peanut allot
ment are still permitted to grow
one acre without an allotment.
Dates by which application
must be made for these crops
are tobacco and cotton, February
J.5; peanuts, February 16.
Requirements for being eligible
to receive a new growers allot
ment for tobacco are: (1) the
operator be dependent on Use farm
for a living, (2) the owner or op
erator has no other farm with a
1957 tobacco allotment, 13) the
operator has experience as a
landlord, sharecropper or tenant
during two of the past fire years
growing tobacco and (4) operator
must live on the farm.
To be eligible to receive a new
cotton allotment a farm operator
must meet these requirements (1)
owner or operator does not own or
operate another cotton farm and
(2) be largely dependent on the
farm for a livelihood.
For a new peanut allotment the
farm operator would have to qual
ify as follows: (1) he or ’ a pro
ducer on the farm have exper
ience in growing peanuts, (2) be
largely dependent on the farm for
a livelihood, and (3) the farm is
the only one owned., or operated
by the owner or opei a cot wniclt
peanut allotment is established tof
1957.
Lions Will See
Phone Exhibit
Southport Lions Club Will
Have Opportunity To See
Latest Developments In
This Type Of Communi
cations
Paul Woodson, manager of the
Wilmington office of Southern
Bell, will be in Southport tomor
row (Thursday) with the Tele
phone Magic Trailer on Parade,
which will be opened at 1 o’clock
to members of the Southport Lions
Club as their program feature
for the day.
This trailer is the largest ex
hibit of communications equipment
in the United States housed in a
trailer.
Following the visit by members
of the Lions Club, the trailer will
be open to the public. A special
invitation has been extended to
high school science students to
visit the exhibit.
Of particular interest will be
an opportunity to see yourself on
a T. V. screen; see the first tele
phone made by Alexander Graham
Bell; see sunlight converted direct
Continued On Page Four
MRS. Ii J. SANDLIN, JR. of
Beulaville was recently elected
director of District Eight of the
North Carolina Congress of Par
ents and Teachers.. She will di
rect the work of the 86 local
PTAs with total membership of
22,420. The district comprises Bla
den, Brunswick, Columbus, Cum
berland, Duplin, New Hanover,
Pender, Robeson, and Sampson
counties.
Jury List For
January Term
Superior Court
Judge Harland McKeithan
Of Tarboro Will Preside
Over One-Week Mixed
Term Convening On Jan
uary 21
Superior court for the trial 01
criminal cases will convene her<
on January 22 with Judge Har
land McKeithan of Tarboro pre
siting and the session schedulec
toj last one week.
te board of county commis
„jrs has drawn the names o:
persons for jury duty at th(
—fr From the list a grand jui
»rve through the year 1957
tea.
v>in sersateui.
Following are the names drawr
Lawrence High, J. M. Bennett, I
B. Bennett, O. O. Barnes, J. I
Hewett, Lawrence Leonard, E. \
Gore, Sr., V. M. Beck, A. B. Wi]
lis, Fred W. Edwards, Randolp
Hardee, Shallotte; C. W. Harvel
Leroy Lewis, G. H. Lanier, J. E
Lewis, F. L. Gore, F. W. Wooter
Woodus Mintz, O. D. William;
N. M. Sellers, Willie Henry, Le
land; L. O. Sellers, J. p. Swair
Willie Galloway, G. T. Danfort
H. Foster Mintz, Goley B. Lewi;
Continued On Page Four
Closing Is Near
In Name Contest
[Saturday Is Final Data For
Submitting Name For
Area Development Orga
nization
WILMINGTON — More than
70 different entries have been re
ceived in the Southeastern North
Carolina Development associa
tion’s big name contest that
closes Saturday, W. Horace Car
ter, president of the organization
announced today.
'The interest in this contest
pas been gratifying and we have
pome fine suggestions but the
[winning name may still be on the
Continued On Page Two
I
Our
RpVING
Reporter
From the day when we first
came to know him 32 years ago
when he was a salesman in - the
store of J. B. Ruark & Company
in Southport, we have regarded
the late Sam T. Bennett as an
especially fine citizen of his town.
He was also a real friend to all
around him. Southport and
Brunswick county at large have
lost a real friend and good citi
zen in the passing of Sam T.
Bennett.
At this, the beginning of the
New Year, all who are connected
with the State Port Pilot are very
much pleased that they can offer
to business interests in Bruns
wick the greatest paid in advance
subscription list ever furnished byi
a newspaper in Brunswick. Out
subscribers are. people, who think
enough of its news contents anc
alue to Brunswick county to pay
tie subscription price and renew
ear after year. 1956 saw the
umber of new subscribers in
case without any special ef
>rts being put forward by the
-iblisher. Our readers simply like
ie paper and feel that it is useful
» them.
Residents of Southport in
wiably tell visitors who are in
larch of us to stand still. They
id that we will show up in a
linute from somewhere. Moving
'em Southport 9 or 10 years
?o, Mrs. L. C. Fergus must have
"■gotten how to find us. She
as here in the early fall and
■’eiywhere we went we were
>M that Mrs. Fergus had just
sen around looking for us. Now
la writes and tells us that every
(Continued on Page Four)
Compares Fishing
Here With Florida
South Carolina Man Writes Columbia Sports Writer That
King Mackerel Fishing is Best Along Atlantic Coast
One of the most enthusiastic
boosters of king mackerel fishing
off Southport is Capt. Sam P.
Gardner, operator of the Ocean
Plaza Fishing Pier at Myrtle
Beach, S. C. Capt. Gardner made
several successful trips during
December, and recently wrote a
letter to Ed Fitchett, Jr., outdoor
writer for the Columbia State
telling of his good luck. This let
ter, along with a 4-column cut,
appeared in South Carolina’s larg
est daily newspaper on Decem
ber 23. Text of the letter follows:
“Dear Ed,
“I sent you a card from Flor
ida, saying that we were sending
you a fish picture—but the folks
I asked to send it to you had
already sent it elsewhere.
"So, when I got back home and
found you didn’t get the picture,
I wouldn’t send you and old pic
ture out of date, I got some
boys together and went back for
another load of those fine king
mackerel so you could have an
up-to-date picture.
“Well, that is just another way
of saying that we had so much
fun out there that we had to go
back. We were out there, off
Southport, N. C.,' hfonday of this
week and got 51 kings and about
a dozen bdnitos, the kings weigh
ing up' to about 20 lbs.
“I was all over the West Coast
of Florida, and although I got
some red snappers and groupers,
some weighing up to 35 lbs., we
saw no fishing that would com
pare with this good mackerel
fishing off of our Carolina shores.
“Sincerely,
"Sam P. Gardner.
"P. S.—By-the-way, just after
Christmas, say from December 27
on, if the weather is still pretty
and warm, those kings should
still be out yonder and I am hop
ing to make at least a third trip.”
Methodists Will
Stress Attendance
Methodists Try
New Type Service
A change in the Sunday
evening services at Trinity
Methodist Church will become
effective Sunday night, Jan
uary 6, and continue through
the last Sunday night in Feb
ruary, according to action of
the Official Board announced
by the pastor.
Each family is being asked
to bring a light supper, pre
ferably something cold and
easily prepared, for a period
of fellowship from 6 to 6:45
p. m. This will be followed by
a different type vesper service
each night, with the whole
program concluding at 7:30
o’clock.
College Girls
And Boys Here
Holiday Visitors To Com
munity Swelled By Pres
ence Of Students And Re
turning Service Men
Adding much to life and ac
tivity in this community during
the Christmas vacation period per
iod were the college boys and
girls and the returning service
men.
From East Carolina Colege Pat
Adams, Joan Ramseur, Norma
Harrel3on, Barbara Bomberger,
Betsy Carr, Bertram Burris, Doug
Watts and Ronnie Hood were at
home. «
University of North Carolina
students home for holidays in
cluded Elliott Hickman, Lew Har
dee, Gibson Barbee and Jimmie
Harper.
From St. Marys in Raleigh
Jean Thompson and Ann Brooks
Newton were here for the holi
days.
Tommy Blake was on vacation
from Presbyterian Junior College.
State College students home for
the holidays were Joe Cochran,
(Continued on page four)
Former Resident
Passes Suddenly
Mrs. Elaine Cook, 43, former
resident of Southport and daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Kil
patrick, died suddenly at her
home in New Orleans, La., yes
terday. It is understood here that
she was the victim of a heart at
tack.
The remains are being brought
to Southport and funeral services
will be held here at the Kil
patrick Funeral home Thursday
afternoon at 3 o’clock, with the
Rev. Leo Hawkins, pastor of the
Southport Baptist Church, of
ficiating. Burial will follow in the
Northwood Cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be Roy
Robinson, Charles Aldridge,
Harold Aldridge, Ernest Parker,
Boyd Moore and Richard St.
George.
Mrs. Cook is survived by her
husband, E. H. Cook of New
Orleans; one daughter, Mrs. Ken
neth Riebe, Quantico, Va., a sis
ter, Mrs. A. L. Cashwell, Wil
mington; the parents; and two
grandchildren in Quantico,
‘Visitation Program Will Be
Conducted In Effort To
Have Members Attend
Church At Least Once
Each Sunday
PERIOD FROM NOW
UNTIL EASTER STRESSED
Movement In Trinity Meth
odist Church Under Di
rection Of Commission
On Membership And
Evangelism
Trinity Methodist Church in
Southport, will. launch a . Church
Attendance Movement Sunday
morning at the first worship serv
ices in the new year at 11 o’clock.
This is in cooperation with a
world-wide church attendance
movement from January to Blast
er and is similar to the nation
wide effort in which the local
church participated three years
ago. The theme of the united ef
fort is "The Answer Is God’’.
Through correspondence, visitation
by laymen, laywomen, and young
people, as well as other means of
contact, members and others of
Methodist preference in the com
munity are being encouraged to
covenant with God to endeavor
to attend at least one service of
worship each Sunday during the
period of the movement, unless
prevented by circumstances be
yond their control.
The Church Attendance Move
ment proposes to do more than
bring persons into the sanctuary.
Its underlying objective is two
fold: To relate individuals more
intimately to God as revealed in
Jesus Christ and to make their
spiritual experiences more signifi
cant in the lives of their fellow
men. There is the realization that
modem man tends to regard him
self as a stranger in a rapidly
changing world. Political, military,
social, Industrial and economic de
velopments have so swiftly alter
Continued On Page Two
Powell Is Elected
Bar Group Head
Succeeds Southport Attor.
ney As President Of Dis
trict B&r Association
W. H. Powell, Jr., Whiteville,
was named as the second presi
dent for the bar association for
the 13th Judicial district.
The election was held during
the group’s annual meeting held
in Whiteville recently.
Other officers named included
Leon D. Smith of Elizabethtown
as vice-president; Walter D.
Thompson of Whiteville as secre
tary-treasurer.
N»med to the executive com
mittee were Sankey Robinson of
Whiteville, Worth Hester of Eliza
bethtown and Kirby Sullivan of
Southport. Edward Clark of
Elizabethtown will continue as
counselor for the group.
Clifton Moore, Superior court
judge from Burgaw, was guest
speaker for the organization’s an
nual meeting. He discussed his
recently publicized belief that the
state’s motor vehicle laws should
be changed to place the decision
of whether a drunken driving
conviction should carry suspen
Contlnued da Page Two
New Drainage
Aid Application
Will Be Made
Representatives From This
County Attended Meeting
In Wilmington To Ex
plain Application Forms
EARL MADER IN
CHARGE OF MEETING
Regional Director Of Civil
Defense Told Representa
tives That Certain In
formation Must Be
Furnished
Attempts to get. more Civil
Defense financial assistance in
clearing up the drainage dam
age from the 1955 hurricane sea
son goes into another installment.
The new chapter in the effort
was brought about Friday after
a delegation from the county
heard Earl Mader, regional di
rector for Civil Defense, say that
information supplied by the ap
plying counties wasn’t concrete
enough for decisions of need.
Mader said that many of the
applications provided opinions,
but didn’t give the facts and
figures demonstrating losses or
damages that are being required.
Already some 47 miles of
snagging and clearing of hurri
cane damaged drainageways is
underway now in the county. It
is known as Operation Snag, and
is being supervised by the U. S.
Corps of Engineers.
Mader told the group that
three questions have to be answer
ed by the individuals on each of
the projects proposed:
1. Exactly how much of the
crop was lost during the 1953
hurricanes.
&. now many acres or iana
had to be abandoned because of
the hurricanes.
3. How many crops were plant
ed but were lost in 1956 during
the growing season due to back
waters from the clogged drain
age.
These answers have to be in
specific facts, of crops, acres, and
dollars and cents. He said, of
course, that estimates by the in
dividuals will be the best in
formation available.
It is believed that question
naires for individual farmers to
answer and sign will be worked
out for Brunswick county.
Previously, the county agent,
which has been the key working
force in recent weeks in obtain
ing such data, obtained letters
from about 100 persons, to cover
the county’s request. The letters
unfortunately did not include a
high enough percentage of def
inite figures.
UNC Alumni See
“Hodges” Story
Christmas Session Of This
Organization Attended By
'Students And Their Par
ents; Hugh Morton Pre
sented Program
Hugh Morton of Wilmington
was guest speaker at the Decem
ber meeting of the Brunswick
County Chapter of the University
of North Carolina Alumni Asso
ciation here Thursday night at
which time students and their
parents were invited to meet with
the old graduates.
Entertainment for the occasion
was furnished by the film “The
Luther Hodges Story”, which was
compiled and edited by Morton
Continued On Page Four)
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 Aseociatlon.
High Tide Low TI*
Thursday, December 27,
4:16 A. M. 10:28 A. M.
4:26 P. M. 10:38 P. M.
Friday, December 28,
5:10 A. M. 11:22 A. M.
5:20 P. M. 11:29 P. M.
Saturday, December 29,
6:01 A. M. 0:00 A. M.
6:10 P. M. 12:12 P. M.
Sunday, December 30,
6:47 A. M. 0:16 A. M.
6:56 P. M. 12:57 P. M.
Monday, December 31,
7:30 A. M. 1:01 A. M.
7:37 P. M. 1:39 p, M