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Volume No. 17 No. 26
THE STATE PORT PILOT
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Brunswick County
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SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1957
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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
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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'
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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.