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Most Of The News All The Time THE STATE |ORT PILOT The Pilot Covers Brunswick County I Volume No. 17 No. 27 6-Pages Today A Good Newspaper In j Good Community _SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNE| JANUARY 16, 1957 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY $1.50 PER YEAR Official Visits I Big Spring And At Sunny Point Jack Riley, Member Of State Board Of Water Commissioners, Southport Visitor Monday Afternoon COL. Wm. MURPHY SUNNY POINT HOST Group Then Pays Visit To Bouncing Log Spring With W. B. Keziah As Guide By W. B. KEZIAH On our way to the Bouncing Log Spring Modayn afternoon witli Jack Riley, Dick Byrd and A1 Johnston, it was our idea that the four of our detour for a few minutes down to the administra tion headquarters of SPAT and meet the very affable Lt. Col. William Murphy, executive officer of the installation as well as some of the other Sunny Point people who are residents of South port. The guards at the gate passed us, but through some mistake on our part we led the visitors through the comptroller’s office instead of going directly to that of Colonel Murphy. Some of the 40 or more girls, most of whom were from Southport, in Major Doyle’s office, unfeelingly waved us on in the direction we should have taken in the first place. Naturally, they grinned in the way that pretty girls usually do. We lost no time in getting out, thereby missing the smile of one or two that we are especially fond of. We got into the proper room and there Safety Director Bill Haughton, who had the floor at the moment, waved us on into Lt. Colonel Murphy’s office, where the glad hand of welcome is al ways waiting. It was about time to call it a day, but Lt. Col. Murphy had no thought of being anything but hospitable and informative, even if it was to be on his own time. The Visitors were then treated to an orientation of the instal lation, a pretty big member of the big 3 that serves the United States on the Atlantic Coast. At least we guess it is pretty big, as it serves the whole Atlantic Coast at all deep water ports on the Atlantic Coast from Nor folk, Va., to Miami, Fla. The other two big numbers are Hampton Roads, Va., and Brooklyn, N. Y,, at what was formerly the New York Port of Embarkation. I he indoctrination completed, Lt. Col. Murphy bundled all the visitors including the reporter, into his personnal car and they went for a tour of the installa tion. The Colonel headed down straight towards the Bachelors Officers Quarters, over a road that he described as “Keziah Drive.” He pointed out road signs to prove his claims, in case any one doubted his word. Turning back at the BOQ, he guided the Power Company men down the main stem to the in spection pit and back down the Continued On Page Four Brief Bitt Of lnewsj COMMANDER RETURNS Following a 14 days leave Col. Frank T. Edson is back at his duty as commanding officer at Sunny Point Army Terminal. BENEFIT SALE The Mary Rebekah Circle of Trinity Methodist Church will sponsor a cake and pie sale on Saturday morning at 9:30 o’clock on the porch of the Leggett’s home. Proceeds will go on the nursery department of the church. .MOVES LAW OFFICE Kirby Sullivan has moved his law office from the second floor of the Smith Building to the office formerly occupied by Ray Walton in the Taylor Building next to the post office. VESSLES TO ARRIVE The schedule of vessles to ar rive at Sunny Point Army Term inal during the next ten days re mains unchanged, according to Lt. Col. William Murphy. One ship will arrive on January 24 and another on January 26. WINTER WEATHER Winter struck Brunswick coun ty yesterday, but not with the same devastating force that was felt in many other sections of the country. Temperatures in the Southport area were high enough to prevent sleet and freezing, but out in the county this morning trees were loaded down with ice. Feature Article „Hf- 'ttSi ft ts there is a story about North Carolina South norf normal Srre'^hiKneXTma&S^1’6 Ph»‘°^Pher visited March Of Dimes Now In Progress Mrs. M. H. Rourk Names* Chairmen For Various Committees To Serve In March Of Dimes Cam paign In County NEED STILL GREAT FOR POLIO FUNDS Citizens Urged Not To Slack Up In Winning Fight On This Dread Disease Organization is complete for the March of Dimes campaign in Brunswick county, and Mrs. M. H. Rourk, chairman, has named chairmen for each community to head this annual fund-raising ef fort. These community chairmen are: Mrs. Wm. Mathews, Ash; Mrs. Foster Mintz, Bolivia; Fred Ed wards, Shallotte Point; Roddy Bennett, Exum; Mrs. Corbet Cole man, Freeland; Mrs. Cecil Robbins, Bell Swamp; Mrs. Henry Irvin, Winnabow; Mrs. Ernest Stana land, Hickman Cross Road; Mrs. Rufus Williams, Leland; Mrs. F. C. Osborn, Thomasboro; Mrs. Percy Russ, Longwood; Mrs. Nor man Grissett, Grissettown; Mrs. Jack White, Shallotte; Mrs. Nor man Homstein, Southport; Mrs. Sidney Hewett, Boone’s Neck; Mrs. Garland Clemmons, Supply; Mrs. Hobson Mears, Calabash; C. A. Caviness, Colored school. Great strides have been made in the program to wipe out polio Continued On Page Four Soil Bank Rate Given On Cotton Payment Per Acre Rate For Brunswick County Set Below Established Rate For State As Whole On the Acreage Reserve phase of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation program, coun ty per-acre payment rates for 1957 have been announced on cot ton. These payment rates vary by counties, based on the pro ductivity index for the county. The average per acre payment rate for the state on cotton is $58.00. The payment rate for Brunswick County is $53.00. On the basis of these figures ASC County and Community Commit teemen established a farm pay ment index rate on each cotton farm in the county. A notice will be sent to the operator of each farm for which a cotton farm rate of payment per acre is established for 1957. The sign-up under the soil bank acreage reserve program for to bacco and cotton will begin around the last of this month. The final date for signing an agreement on cotton or tobacco is March 1. Farmers are limited in the num ber of acres they may place in the reserve. On cotton it is 10 acres, or 30 percent, and on flue cured tobacco it is 3 acres or 30 percent. Name Manager For Assembly Announcements made yes terday in Raleigh by the Gen eral Board of the Baptist State Convention included the fact that Fred J. Smith, for merly of the Methodist Or phanage in Raleigh, has been made manager of assemblies and camps. This will include the Caswell Baptist Assembly at Fort Caswell. la the announcement it was stated that Smith will make his home in Southport At the fall meeting of the Convention arrangements were made that point to ex panded operations at Caswell. Attendance Is Now Increasing Attendance Drive Now Be ing Conducted In South, port By Membership Of Trinity Methodist Church Brings Increase Attendance on the second Sun day of the Church Attendance Movement at Trinity Methodist Church in Southport increased fifty-two percent over the first Sunday at the morning service and one hundred-twenty-five per cent in the evening, according to the registration committee, Miss Lottie Mae Newton and Mrs. M. R. Sanders. Last Sunday morning the minis ter preached the first in a series of two sermons on the church. His topic was “What Do You Think Of The Church?” The second ser mon will be preached Sunday Continued On Rage Two NCEA Session Being Planned Claude Farrell, Director Of Lay Activities For NCEA, Will Speak Before Bruns wick County Group The Public Relations Committee of the Brunswick County Chapter of the NCEA will have charge of the county-wide session sched uled to be held at Leland on the afternoon of January 31. The principal speaker for this occasion will be Claude Farrell, director of Lay Activities of the NCEA. Representative James C. Bowman also has been invited to attend. Mrs. Frances Stone of Shallotte heads the committee arranging the program. Other members of her group include Mrs. Betty Gore Wood of Bolivia, Mrs. Lucille Wil liamson of Southport, Mrs. Ger trude Galloway of Leland and Mrs. Elsie Dodson of Waccamaw. Support Penalty On Some Types Of Tobacco Crop Department Of Agriculture Seeks To Discourage Pro duction Of Certain Varie 1*95 Tobacco During PRICE SUPPORT IS CUT TO ONE-HALF Other Regulations May Be Imposed Later, With Con sideration Being Given To Basing Reducation On Pounds Major changes in the 1957 flue cured price support program, changes which are expected to discourage production of varieties viewed as undesirable under pres ent demand conditions and to en courage an increase in the pro portion of the crop having char acteristics currently in demand, were announced recently by the United States Department of Ag riculture. These changes, which are in accordance with recom mendations of grower Organiza tions and industry leaders in the flue-cured tobacco area, are a follow: (1) 1957 crop flue-curec tobacco of varieties "139”, "140” and “244”, irrespective of grade will be supported at one-half the support rates for comparable grades of other varieties. (2) Price support rates for in dividual grades of all flue-cured varieties will be adjusted to re flect current demand patterns. This action will support a pro gram to encourage to follow cul tural practices that will increase the proportion of the crop which has desirable flavor and aroma characteristics. The three varieties used as currently undersirable have been classified by Federal ’and State scientists of the flue-cured to bacco area as “low to lacking in flavor and aroma, generally of light body, and or with current poor acceptance in the trade”. These varieties, particularly "l.W represent a substantial proportion of the 1956 flue-cured tobacco crop. The increased production came at such a time when cigar ette production was shifting from non-filtcred to filtered cigarettes. Since these varieties tend to pro duce a large proportion of to baccos that currently have an established market value of only about one-half of varieties high in Continued On Page Two Another Group Now In Union 1 | Involves Civilian Personnel At Sunny Point Exclusive Of Civil Service And Stevedoring Workers Civilian workers at Sunny Point, not including Civil Service employees or stevedore workers, have organized and have become affiliated with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauf feurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America through Local 391 at Greensboro. This union has been recognized by Ryan Stevedoring Inc., and officials of this firm now have in their possession a copy of a pro posed contract for the purpose of study prior to a later meeting that will be held for the purpose of negotiating the contract. Local representatives say that the object of this move is to obtain wage increases for af fected personnel in addition to other benefits to which these peo ple feel that they are entitled. JOHN T. WAYLAND list Leader Lead Series ayiana Of :heastern Theological inary Will Be In :hport Next Week of ohn T. Wayland, Professor gious Education at South Theological Seminary, Forest, will arrive in South his Saturday for a week of study. Wayland will have the ser at the morning worship on .y then, beginning Sunday ng at 7:30 o’clock he will five classes on the book of ans. He will use the book, Gospel According to Paul, a stuwy of the letter to the Romans. ^ie conducted each evening s classes of one hour duration Thursday, all at 7:30 addition to the evening classes Dr. Wayland will teach morning classes, Monday 'ugh Thursday at 10 a. m., he subject, “How to Approach New Testament’’. These class '"" "rlG hour and will be ^augnt in the church samstuary. Before going to teach at the eminary at Wake Forest, Dr. Wayland was a local pastor in forth Wilkesboro, Monroe, Dur am, and several other places in tie South. His graduate work was one at Yale Divinity School, and e has served as a chaplain in he U. S. Navy. Nearly two years ago Dr. Way and came to Southport and 'reached in the revival services at louthport Baptist Church, leople of the church and The com nunity liked his way of preachi ng and teaching so well that hey have been looking for an other opportunity to invite him Jack. The people of Southport Bap ist Church invite everyone in the (Continued on page four) Arrests Made For Vandalism iSeveral Recent Instances Result In Some Southport Boys Being Called Before Juvenile Judge A good deal of plain vandalism iccurred in and about Southport larly last week and officials say iiat the identity of the offenders s pretty well established and that •nests may be made shortly. At Caswell Beach they tore lown and carried off a number of lighway signs and signs from cot ages. At the Tom Robinson cot age they broke a number of win lows and also tore down and re Continued On Page Two Out ROVING Report er Credit for a lot of bad weather that never gets to Southport or anywhere else on the Brunswick coast is handed out weekly, some' times more often, by the weather folks. During the winter most bad weather comes in from the north west, north or northeast. Weather headed down from those direc tions is picked up and the folks are told what to expect. It hap pens, however, that along the coast winds are nearly always blowing in from the south, south west or such. A result is that these winds usually meet the ap proaching bad weather and swing it off course. As a. result, weather reports coming down from up state some times are just so much "wolf”, so far as the coastal section is concerned. A few people may have gained : the impression that we have been i putting too much stress on the 1 abundance of underground water in Brunswick. The number is very i much offset by the hundreds who i can see real value to the county i through having such an asset. ! These hundreds comprise folks i both inside and outside Brunswick, i Monday Jack Riley, a member of the board of .water commissioners, t Continued on Page Five Narrow Escape From Drowning Mrs. R. D. St. George Escapes From Family Automobile Moments Before It Plunges Into Davis Creek Mrs. R. D. St. George tumbled out of the front seat of her family automobile Sunday afternoon mo ments before the vehicle made its driverless way into the waters of Davis Creek and disappeared from view. Thus tragedy was averted in a freak accident which caused several hundred dollars damage to the St. George family sedan. Mr. and Mrs. St. George were out for a Sunday afternoon drive and had traveled over to Long Beach. They turned off the main road down to the Davis Creek landing and had stopped there on the hard surface for a few minutes. Their pet dog was with them, and had been let out of the car to play in the sand. Mr. St. George saw something that arous ed his curiosity, and he got out of the machine on the driver’s side and started walking away when he heard his wife cry out in alarm. He looked around in time to see, the car moving slowly in the direction of the creek, and when he saw his wife fall out on the ground he ran around the vehicle to her assistance. All this time the car continued to roll, and by the time the owner got back around to the driver’s side he was afraid to risk gettng in. The automobile went down a small incline and into the water. Moments later it was almost submerged, but had retained enough buoyancy to let it float away with the force of the tide. It was recovered several hours later several hundred feet from where it entered the creek. Mrs. St. George escaped with nothing more serious than scratches and bruises from her fall to the pavement, but the Dodge sedan must undergo a com plete washing and cleaning, inside and out. Superior Court Here Next Week Apply Now For Pullet Project All 4-H club members in Brunswick county who plan to receive baby chicks from the Sears Roebuck Pullet Chain should mail their ap plication blanks in to S. H. Lee, assistant county agent, at the county agent’s office in Supply immediately. The pullets are expected to arrive in the county on Feb ruary 25. Applicants are urged to get blanks in as soon as possible, as selection of members to receive chicks must be made within the next two weeks. The pullets this year will be the Harco Red breed. Weekly Session Of Court Held Variety Of Cases Disposed Of Before Judge Earl Bel lamy During Session Of Recorder’s Court Monday A large number of cases cover ing a variety of offenses were disposed of here Monday before Judge Earl Bellamy in Recorder’s court. The following judgements were handed down: Clyde H. Carlisle possession of tax paid whiskey, drunk on high way, fined $35 -and costs. John Henry Pellom, reckless op eration, fined $15 and costs. Elbert W. Simmons, possession with seal broken, fined $19 and costs. Isla Watson Pitts, speeding, fined $10 and costs. Jesse Izer Smith, speeding, fined $10 and costs. Arnold Ray Scott, speeding, fined $10 and costs. Bobby Robert Strickland, speed ing, fined $10 and costs. Augustus C. Widehouse, speed ing, fined $10 and costs. William Graham Bland, failing to stop for stop sign, fined $10 and costs, fined remitted because of mitigating circumstances. Ardell Currie, speeding, fined $10 and costs. Vernon Ray Clewis, speeding, fined $10 and costs, fined remitted because of mitigating circum stances. Robert Lee Eckhart, larceny, 60 days on roads, suspended on good behavior and to make restitution to R. L. Rabon in amount of $12.50 and payment of a fine of $15 and costs. Joseph Lynn Jackson and Carlie Ross Jackson, larceny, 90 days each on roads suspended on mak ing restitution to J. L. Purvis in amount of $30, paying a fine of $50 and costs and to be of good behavior for two years. Ronald Lewis, larceny, 60 days in jail, suspended on condition that defendent make restitution to R. L. Rabon in amount of $12.50, pay a fine of $15 and; costs and be of good behavior for two yeArs. Raymond H. Libby, larceny, sentenced to 30- days on the roads> Continued On Page Four* Judge W. H. S. Burgwyn Will Preside Over Com ing Term In Place Of Judge Harland McKeith an NO OUTSTANDING CASES SCHEDULED One Manslaughter Case Is Most Serious On Docket; Several Divorce Actions May Be Tried Clerk of Court J. E. Brown has been notified that Judge W. H. S. Burgwyn will preside at next weeks term of Superior court instead of Judge McKeithan A two weeks term of court now going on in Cumberland made it necessary for Judge McKethan to remain there next week. Judge Burgwyn presided at the January term of court here last year. The criminal docket for' next week has 26 cases, one of these being a manslaughter charge. None of the others are of a very serious nature. Twelve divorce cases are among the civil matters that will come up during the week. From the jurymen who have been summonsed to appear at the opening of court a grand jury of 18 men will be selected to serve at all criminal terms of oourt during the year. The clerk states that it is pro bable that the term will not ex tend through the full week. The manslaughter case, growing out of a death in an automobile wreck, is set for Tuesday. Wilmington Club At Sunny Point Lions Club Members Held Luncheon At Cafeteria Thursday And Enjoyed. Conducted Tour Of Base A large group of Wilmington men who are members of the Lions Club held one of their reg ular meetings at the Sunny Point Army Terminal Thursday. Such gatherings, formed of various or ganizations and groups of people, are entertained and orientated into the operations of the installa tion at least once each week. It is the plan of Colonel Frank T. Edson, Commanding Officer of SPAT, and his officers to give brief histories of the terminal, explaining what it is for and what it can do. In short, they waive what is supposed by some to be a cloak of secrecy and are able to answer practically all questions that may be propounded by interested visitors. The Wilmington group was met at the terminal cafeteria and fol lowing the serving of lunch, Lt. Jolonel William F. Murphy, ex acutive officer of the terminal, and William Haughton, safety di rector, with the aid of various naps, explained the interesting features of the installation. Jolonel Murphy went into detail as to why and where it was built. He pointed out that SPAT and ;wo other great terminals make ap the Atlantic Terminal Com nand. The other two are at Brooklyn, N. Y., and Hamptoh Continued On Page Two 1 Information Of Farm Census Is Of Great Value Farmers Asked To Give Necessary Information At Time They List Property For Taxes This Year INFORMATION IS KEPT CONFIDENTIAL This Material Frequently Is Valuable Source For In formation To Assist Farm Program; Not Used For Taxation “No modem business man would think' of continuing his operations year after year without taking an inventory at regular intervals,” says A. S. Knowles, Farm Agent for Brunswick County. Since farming is also a business, agri culture likewise needs to take a yearly inventory to determine what progress has been made and what needs to be done,” he adds. That’s why agricultural leaders throughout North Carolina are urging farmers to give their wholehearted support to the 1957 Annual State Farm Census. The census is being made during Jan uary under the direction of local Boards of County Commissioners through their appointed township tax listers. Its purpose is to ob tain reliable information at the county level on land utilization, major crop acreages harvested, selected livestock numbers, and other miscellaneous items, says Knowles. Although in most counties the farmers make their report to the township tax listers, the law pro hibits the use of this informa tion in any way as a check a gainst the farmer’s personal and property taxes. The information reported by farmers is kept strictly confidential and is avail able only to the landowner who makes the report. ti. Y. Ballentine, State Com missioner of Agriculture, says: “The reliable, factual information provided at county and town ship levels by this yearly survey will be of great help to local farm leaders in working out plans for county and community agri cultural programs.” “This annual farm census has been one of the best insurance policies the farmers of North Carolina could secure,” adds Knowles. “The availability of these farm facts has ment un told millions of dollors to the farmers and the State.” State Featured In Publication Holiday Magazine Carries Feature Story Of North Carolina In February Is sue A full-scale portrait of North Carolina, from the sands of the Atlantic seaboard to the valleys of the Smokies five hundred miles away, is featured in the February issue of Holiday. The article, by Ovid Williams Pierce, extends over thirteen pages of the maga zine and is illustrated with six teen photographs, many in color. During the course of his prep aration Staff Photographer Burt Glinn visited Southport and took several local pictures. However, no Brunswick couty scene was among those published. Pierce contrasts the ragged frin ges along the remote eastern 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 Tide Thursday, January 17, 8:44 A. M. 2:26 A. M. 9:10 P. M. 3:01 P. M. Friday, January 18, 9:35 A. M. 3:18 A. M. 10:05 P. M. 3:50 P. M. Saturday, January 19, 10:26 A. M. 4:10 A. M. 10:58 P. M. 4:39 P. M. Sunday, January 20, 11:18 A. M. 5:04 A. M. 11:55 P. M. 5:30 P. M. Monday, January 21, 0:00 A. M. 5:59 A. M. 12:11 P. M. 6:23 P. M. Tuesday, January 22, 0:53 A. M. 6:58 A. M. 1:06 P. M. 7:18 P. M. Wednesday, January 28, 1:53 A. M. . 7:59 A. M. 2:0.3 P. M. 8:16 P, M.