Most Of The News All The Time Volume No. 17 No. 26 THE STATE PORT PILOT Good Newspaper In A Good Community The Pilot Covers Brunswick County 6-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1957 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY $1.50 PER YEAR Home Production Of Food Is Goal For Club Year Home Demonstration Agent Cites Need For “Raise A Square Meal Around The Home” Project For This County ALL HOME OWNERS URGED TO PLANT This Is Seen As One Means By Which To Combat The High Cost Of Living By SUE BROWN Home A sent It is possible for every farm family in Brunswick County to be well fed in 1957. We in Bruns wick County as well as the rest of North Carolina are faced with an increased population, decreas ing cash-crop allotments and high er prices on many foods. Last year at least 20 percent of our people were not properly fed. However, we have enough idle land to produce fruits and vege tables for a population twice the size of ours. With the right kind of plan we can make our county the best fed in the nation. Of course foods can be produced with out a plan, but planning can make the difference between being well or poorly fed. “Raise A Square Meal Around Home” is such a plan for pro ducing foods to feed your family —not to sell. Of course you will want to sell or exchange surplus foods for those you do not pro duce. Be sure, though, that you first save enough to meet your family needs. Foods in this plan are given in the amounts needed by one person for one year. Farm people grow foods on a yearly basis. Peo ple who buy all their food will want to know the amounts needed by one person for one week. Your Home Demonstration Agent will be glad to give you this informa tion. The right foods can make a dif ference in the way Look, Feel, and Act. Be sure that every day you eat: five servings of fruits and vegetables which include one green or yellow in color, one rich in Vit. C (as potatoes, raw cab bage or citrus fruit) and three others (as potatoes, white beans, apples, etc.) ;two or more serv ings of meat, fish, poultry or eggs; two to four cups of milk (1 pint to 1 qt.-); and some en (Continued on Page Four) Brief Bits Of lnewsj SOUTHPORT P. T. A. The Southport Parent-Teachers Association will meet tomorrow (Thursday) night at 7:30 o’clock in the high school auditorium. ON LEAVE Col. Frank T. Edson of SPAT has been on a two weeks leave from his duties as commander of the installation. He will be back in his official harness in a few days. INFANT DIES FRIDAY Keith Allen Moggard, 22-day old infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Moggard of the Antioch Church community and Southport, died last Friday and was buried Sat urday at Antioch Cemetery. COLLEGE GRADUATE Monroe Smith of Bolivia, a graduate of Southport high school, completed his work for a B. S. degree at East Carolina College at the conclusion of the fall term. He will be awarded his degree during exercises on Sunday, May 19. BUSINESS LULL Following several weeks of ac tivity in shipping, Sunny Point is now having a brief lull in load ing and unloading. Officials say that according to the schedule they have, the next ship in will arrive on January 21. This will be the SS Bondia. ALMOST COMPLETED The Executive Officer at SPAT reports that the dredging of the channels in the vicinity of the northern and central wharfs is 95 percent completed. The Hill Dredging Company of Atlantic City, N. J., should complete the job this month. MOTHER DIES < Mr. and Mrs. Craig Caster and children have returned from West ern North Carolina where they went to attend the funeral of Mrs. Caster’s mother, Mrs. Resa Whitaker, of near Mt. Airy. Mrs. Whitaker, who was 86 years of age, died Sunday night, Dec. 31st and was buried on January 2nd. At School Of Missions LEADERS—John Gearing, Irene Chambers and Gladys Farmer are three of the sixteen outside workers who will participate in the School of Missions programs that will be conducted simultaneously next week in 16 churches of the Brunswick Bap&st Association. Baptists Ready For Big Program Starting Sunday Sixteen Churches Of Bruns wick Baptist Association Will Engage In Simultan eous School Of Missions Next Week A mass meeting of all members of the Brunswick Baptist Asso ciation will be held Sunday after noon at 3 o'clock at the First Baptist Church in Shallotte to launch the School of Missions pro gram that will be conducted throughout the following week at 16 churches of the association. The plan is to have one of the 16 outside workers who will be working in Brunswick county all next week in charge of services at each of the 16 participating churches each evening. Leaders will change assignments each day. so that those who attend the sessions will have an opportunity to hear a different speaker each night Included in the group of work ers will be 5 foreign missionaries, 7 home missionaries and four state workers. Next Wednesday the visiting workers and pastors of the par ticipating churches will be guests of members of the Friendship church at a meeting that will be gin at 10 o’clock in the morning. An urgent appeal is being sent out by Mrs. Margaret McRacken, association missionary, to all Bap tists in Brunswick county to par ticipate in this simultaneous edu cational and inspirational program that will be in progress all next week. Flat Car Tank New Equipment Ability To Transport Large Quantity Of Water To Remote Areas By Rail Helps Fire Protection At Sunny Point In addition to its rolling equip ment that can move anywhere that there is a road SPAT has received and installed two large auxiliary pumps on a flat rail road car. The car with the pumps is cou pled between two railroad tank cars, each of which hold 20,000 gallons. The whole outfit can be quickly moved to any point on the more than 75 miles of rail road track so that the outfit may provide extra water for the fire trucks, if needed. The personnel employed as fire fighters at the terminal is al ways kept trained and informed safety-wise. In line with this a fire drill was held Thursday, Jan Continued On Page Two Franklin Park Motel Continues Mrs. Sam T. Bennett Will Continue Operation Of Southport’s First Motor Court It was announced this week by members of the family that Mrs. Sam Bennett will continue the op eration of the Franklin Park Motel. Much of the attention and care of the place has been in her charge since it first began opera tions and the motel has a large number of established patrons. Mr. Bennett, prior to his recent death, had built up a thriving automobile sales agency and this may be discontinued. It is fcaid, Continued On Page Two Shallotte To Get New Health Center Decision Reached At Mon-1 day Session Of Members Of Board Of County Com missioners G. C. KILPATRICK NAMED CORONER Other Matters Of Routine Business Disposed Of During Regular Meet ing Of Board The controversial question of the location of a. Health Center for Brunswick county was settled Monday when R. E. Bellamy made a motion to build it at Shallotte. Commissioner Durwood Clark seconded the motion, and Chair man Herbert Swain went along with the majority to make it unanimous. Members of the board appoint ed G. C. Kilpatrick, Southport mortician and acting city man ager, to fill the unexpired term of Sam T. Bennett as Brunswick county coroner. The contract for the lease of the Brunswick County Boarding Home to Mr. and Mrs. Sam Watts was extended for another year. The board approved a contribu tion of $200 from the county to the Southeastern North Carolina Beach Association. Mrs. Betty Prevatte reported tax collections totaling $20,449.03 for the month of December. The salary of Dr. N. M. Horn stein as county physician was raised from $110 per month to $150 per month, effective February 1, 1957. The board passed a resolution to collect cancellation fees along with the recording feed of mort gage deeds and chatel mortgages, retroactive to January 1, 1957. A $200 adjustment was made in the tax valuation of W. C. Smith of Shallotte township be cause of an error in listing and similar action was taken for Ethel X. King Babson of Waccamaw township for the same reason. Statistics For Public Health Official Figures From Local County Health Depart ment Records Tells Of Work Load Members of the Brunswick County Board of Health met Thursday and received a report of public health activities for Brunswick county for the year 1956. This showed triple immuniza tions and smallpox vaccinations to be 948 at Southport, 1220 at Shallotte, a total of 2,168. Polio immunizations and reports dating from April 1955 showed 3,517 at Southport, 2780 at Shallotte, a total of 6,298. There were 64 diagnotic cards prepared at South port, 121 at Shallotte, a total of 185. Daily reports for office visits by pre-school children and chil dren of school age showed 431 at Southport and 107 at Shallotte, a total of 538. School inspections, referrals and treatments show 1270 at Southport and 678 at Shallotte, a total of 1,948. In the milk program including visits for milk and reports, there were 90 at Southport and 78 at Shallotte, a total of 168. There were 150 laboratory reports at Southport, 439 at Shallotte for a total of 589. There were 94 eye clinic cases at Southport, pone at Shallotte. Continued On rage -two r Council Plans Meeting At Beadh A meeting of the Board of Directors of the newly or ganized Area Development Association has been schedul ed for 4 p. m. Friday at the Yaupon Restaurant in Yatt pon Village. There are many important items on the agenda and a full and prompt attendance is urged. Secretary R. L. Thompson reminds members that “we are still very much in the embryonic stage and the success of our future will depend on the attention given to our -early activities.” Owners Pruning Blueberries Now This Operation Necessary To Insure Good Produc tion Next Spring; Present Outlook Favorable Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Key, Sr., arrived here from New Jersey on New Year’s Day. The next day they began the task of planting 12 acres in blueberries to add to their big acreage in that crop on their farm two miles out of South port. Combined with the task of planting the new acreage, they have a still larger task of pruning the approximately 50 acres of bushes from which they have been harvesting bountiful crops for the past several years. Asked about the present con dition of the plants and prospect for a crop this year, Mrs. Key stated to a reporter that the plants have never been in better condition than they are now. With anything like normal weather, this spring will see them producing about the biggest and best they have ever grown. It is noteworthy that in all of the years that this couple and Continued On Page Hour Our ROVING Reporter At many points distant from the tax collectors office there are people who do not often get to town because of illness, age and other reasons. For years it has been the custom to have the tax collector go around and fill ap pointments at various places, thereby making it more convenient for the tax payers. Well, 20 or more years ago tax collectors, new ones who did not know the way to some of the places and old ones who did not want to ride around alone, got the habit of asking us to go with them. We don’t remember all that we have made the rounds with, but among them has been the late Charles Gause, Bill Jorgensen, Ed Redwine, Jack Brown, M. D. An derson and others. Now comes a new collector, -a woman •• for the first time in the history of Bruns-. wee i wit] exe ui tell SP. the moi t par in mei whs has dep less and be helj tax collecting. Regardless of fact that this is not leap she has asked us to spend a riding around the county her later this month. 'i T i ns Gol. William. F. Murphy, tive_ officer at Sunny Point, us that despite the fact that is already beleived to have best equipped and to be the aWy manned of any fire de ment of any area of its size he State, they are by no s ready to stop and rest on they have .The installation more than 50 men in its fire ftment and others, scarcely well trained, from the guards mhera, are always ready to ent in should a call come for Equipment and men are al wijjfc refc$jf to be crushed to any Continued on page four) Methodists Now In Attendance Campaign Here Membership Joining In Vis itation Program Aimed At Increasing The Attend ance During Period From Now Until Easter PART OF WORLD-WIDE MOVEMENT IN CHURCH Visitation Being Carried On During First Few Days Of Campaign By Teams Of Two The world-wide Church Attend ance Movement was launched in Trinity Methodist Church of Southport Sunday morning at 11 o’clock with the service of Holy Communion. Last week and this week a friendly visitation has been in progress. Homes of all resident members and others of Methodist preference are being visited. The following members have been sent out two by two: Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Cromer, Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Hood, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Harper, Mr. and Mrs. Max Wil liams, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Harrel son, Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Hubbard, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Blake, Ray Walton and Fred Willing, M. R. Sanders and John Julius Swain, E. C. Blake and W. P. Horne, Capt. J. B. Church and Capt. J. I. Davis, Capt. C. N. Swan and J. G. Swan, Mrs. W. P. Jorgensen and Mrs. Eva Ruark, Mrs. H. T. St. George and Mrs. C. Ed Tay lor, Miss Annie Newton and Mrs. R. D. St. George, Mrs. D. C. Herring and Mrs. Blanche Weeks, Mrs. Joel Moore and Mrs. Ruth Walker, Becky Helms and Cynthia Howard, Bobby Willis and David Peters. This special church attendance movement encourages persons to covenant with God to attend at least one service of worship each Sunday between January and Easter. Under the direction of the Ceirrmission on Membership and Evangelism the local church is joining countless others in the world in this endeavor. The movement is designed to deepen the spiritual life of every individual who wholeheartedly re sponds to it during this period through a realization that “The Answer Is God” in his or her personal life, family life, church life, and life in the community and world at large. Fire Lanes For Easement Lands Land Owners Adjoining Sunny Point Reservation oin In Making Property afe From Forest Fires I l addition to the thousands of acr ss that were bought outright anc which now form the Sunny Poi it reservation, the government als< leased hundreds of acres from lam owners just outside and aro ind the reservation. The out sidi is known as the easement pro lerty. F ecently the terminal officials, wit hearty cooperation from the eas ment land owners, has effect ed agreement whereby SPAT is to >uild fire lanes on the ease mei t properties. T lis is in line, says Lt. Col. Continued On Page Four Important Changes Made In Insurance Residents Of This Area Will Be Principally Affected By Extended Coverage N. C. Insurance Commissioner Charles F. Gold last week an nounced rate revisions and a $50 deductible on windstorm and hail losses. The deductible feature ap plies in the same manner as the deductible provision in automobile oollision coverage: The policyhold er pays the first $50 of any such loss while the company is re sponsible for that portion of a loss exceeding $50. Rate revisions announced last week are the result of heavy in surance losses during hurricanes of 1954 and 1955, Gold explained. In the past the State has been divided into two zones for insur ance rating purposes—the coasta, area and the inland territory. Under Commissioner Gold’s ruling of last week the State is now divided into seacoast, central and western zones. • Counties in the seacoast zone are Beaufort, Brunswick, Camden Carteret, Chowan, Craven, Curri tuck, Dare, Hyde, Jones, New Hanover, Onslow, Pamlico, Pas quotank, Pender, Perquimans, Tyrrell and Washington. Effective January 1 extended coverage rates in these counties increased from 14 to 20 cents per $100 on dwell ings and from 27 to 40 cents on farm barns. In the central zone—consisting of Caswell, Columbus, Alamance, Chatham, Moore, Scotland, and other eastern counties not in the seacoast zone—the rate has in creased from 8 to 11 cents on dwelling and from 23 to 32 cents on barns. There is no change in the west ern zone—consisting of all other counties—where the dwelling rate is 8 cents and the barn rate 23. Gold emphasized that the new rates do not apply to policies now in force but only on new and re newal policies. He also explained that windstorm damage to radio and television antennas is now excluded from coverage except upon payment of an additional premium of $5 in the coastal zone, $4 in the central zone and $3 in the western zone. Open Bids Friday For Phone Lines Farm Situation Galled Urgent Members of the ASC com mittee for Brunswick county met Monday with members of the board of county commis sioners in an effort to work out some satisfactory arrange ment for providing suitable quarters for the farm office. Chairman Lonnie Evans said that the state committee has set February 1 as the deadline for making some pro vision for adequate quarters and have threatened to move the offices fron> this county to an adjoining county unless this is done. Edgar Holden, member of the county committee, said Monday that the Soil Bank and other ASC payments amount to more than $100,000 each year for Brunswick county farmers. Recorder Holds Lengthy Session Numerous Cases Disposed Of Before Judge Earl Bel lamy Here In Recorder’s Court Monday An unusually lengthy docket was disposed of here Monday be fore Judge Earl Bellamy in Bruns wick county Recorder’s court, with the following disposition being made of cases: James Alston, reckless opera tion, fined $15 and costs. Arthur Lester York, speeding, $25 and costs. Chancey Clarence Smith, no op erator’s license and failing to yield right of way, $25 and costs. E. L. Lovett, assault on female, 90 days on roads, suspended on condition , that defendant leave Brunswick before January 22 and not to return in a period of two years. Bernice Loston Johnson, speed ing, fined $35 and costs. Marion Wright, Jr., no chaf feur’s license, improper equipment, fined $20 and costs. Willie Bordeaux, no chaffeur’s license, fined $25 and costs, $15 of fine remitted on presentation of valid license. Gordie Alvis Smith, no opera tor’s license, failing to yield right of way, fined $25 and costs. Eddie Reynolds, William C. Rog ers, disturbing the peace, both sentenced to 30 days on the roads, suspended on payment of costs and good behavior for two years. Thomas Edward Armstrong, transporting, improper registra tion, license in state of suspen sion. Twelve months on the roads, suspended on payment of a fine of $385 and costs and placed under good behavior for three years, automobile seized and to be sold at public auction, whiskey order ed destroyed. Herbert Brown, possession, fined $25 and cost®. ' ' *' ? ' John ‘ Daniel - Campbell, drunk' Continued On ‘ Page tour) Statesville Contractor Suc cessful Bidder For Con tract To Erect 235 Miles Of Telephone Lines URGE IMMEDIATE PAYMENT OF DEPOSIT President Harry L. Mintz, Jr., Points Out Danger Of Delay On Part Of Or iginal Applicants In This Regard Bids were opened Friday after noon at the office of the Atlantic Telephone Membership Corpora tion at Shallotte for the construc tion of 235 pole miles of telephone plant to provide service on a five year basis to 729 members. Of the five firms bidding for the work, T. L,. Dysard & Sons Con struction Company of Statesville was lo\ • bidder in the sum of $248,35 .74. President Harry L. Mintz, Jr., says that it is of great importance that all original subscribers for telephone service finish making their nequired deposit of $50. “In planning their construction work the contractor will make every reasonable effort to connect these sponsoring members,” he said. “Failure to complete payment may result in a delay in receiving serv ice.” The contract for the manufac ture and installation of the auto matic dial equipment to serve the area of the Atlantic Telephone Membership Corporation was awarded to the Stromberg-Carl son Manufacturing Company on May 1 of 1955. The equipment is at present being delivered and will be installed and ready for operation at such time as Dysard Construction Company completes the outside plant, which is ex pected to require several months. Continued On Page Four! Law Enforcement Report Received Figures Indicate Busy Per iod For Brunswick Coun ty Sheriff’s Department During Past Year Sheriff Elbert H. Gray has re leased a report of law enforce ment activities for Brunswick county during 1956 which reveals much activity on the part of law enforcement officers. In many in stances their activities were car ried on in conjuction with ATU agents and members of the State Highway Patrol. A total of 183 stills were cap tured, 104,100-gallons of mash was destroyed and 622-gallons of whiskey were taken and 15 men were captured at stills. ATU co operated in many of the raids. Thirty automobiles were con fiscated, with the State Highway Patrol cooperating in many of these arrests. Twenty-seven places were raid ed for whiskey, vice, etc; 261 persons were arrested; 322 civil' papers were served; and 192 capias and subphoexias were serv ed. Brunswick Man Enters Prison To Serve Term R. E. Crisp, Leland Automo bile Dealer, Begins Serv ing 5-12 Year Sentence For Second Degree Mur der SECOND REPRIEVE IS DENIED CRISP Had Received Extra Time In Which To Attend To Matters Of Business But Second Appeal Is Denied Redman E. Crisp, resident of the Brunswick River bridge com munity, was taken to State Prison last week to begin serving his sentence of 5 to 12 years for mur der. Crisp was tried in Brunswick County Superior court last Jan uary for the fatal shooting of a youthful hitch-hiker, James Ferrari, from New York in March, 1955. The boy, with two com panions, was found late at night in an old car in the used car lot owned and operated by Crisp and was fatally shot. After receiving his sentence. Crisp took an appeal to the Su preme Court and after several months the court ruled that it could find no error in the trial. Before the defendent could be taken to prison to begin serving his sentence, Governor Luther Hodges issued a reprive which delayed execution of the sentence until January 2 of this year. On January 2, Sheriff Elbert H. Gray was preparing to start for Raleigh with the prisoner, and that morning another reprive ar rived from the Governor, delay ing execution of the sentence un til July 2. This reprive with the Governor’s signature and the seal of the State was followed almost immediately by a telegram from Governor Hodges, stating: “Reprive granted to R. E. Crisp under date of 12-31-56 done through an unauthorized use of my signature, therefore it is in valid and of no effect. Committ ance should issue as usual.” It is understood that the first reprive was issued by the Gover nor in order to permit Crisp to get his business affairs into shape to permit his family being taken care of during his absence. They are said to be still in a deplorable shape and shortly before the first of the year application was made for an extension of the reprive until July 2. High Brass At SENCBA Banquet Two High Ranking Army Officers Will Attend An nual Awards Dinner In Wilmington On January 19th Major General Charles G. Holle will be among the distinguished guests scheduled to attend the annual banquet of the Southeast ern North Carolina Beach Asso ciation on January 19, according to an announcement by President E. L. White. The dinner meeting is set for the Cape Fear Hotel ballroom with Major General Emerson C. Itsch ner, Chief of Engineers, U. S. Army, as guest speaker. President White said Congress man Alton A. Lennon will return 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 Association. High Tide Low TIAr Thursday, January 10, 2:04 A. M. 8:29 A. M. 2:19 P. M. 8.50 P. M. Friday, January 11, 3:05 A. M. 9:35 A. M. 3:23 P. M. a.51 p. M. Saturday, January 12, 4:06 A. M. 10:38 A. M. 4:27 P. M. 10:50 P. M. Sunday, January 13, 5:06 A. M. 11:36 A. M. 5:29 P. M. 11:47 P. M. oMnday, January 14, 6:04 A. M. 0:00 A. M. 6:27 P. M. 12:31 P. M. Tuesday, January 15, 6:59 A. M. 0:41 A. M. 7:22. P. M. 1:23 P. M. Wednesday, January 16, 7:51 A. M. : - 1:34 A. M. 8:16 P. M. - 2aZ P. - M.