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Volume No. 18
No. 12
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SOUTHPORT, N. C.
PORT PILOT
In A Good Community
The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1957
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
SI.50 PER YEAR
Brunswick Gets
Its Liberal Share
From Road Fund
Announcement From Ral
eigh Indicates That $17,
132.60 Will Be Made
Available For Secondary
Roads
THIS MONEY IS
SPECIAL ALLOTMENT
May Be Spent For Paving
Or Stabilization Of Rural
Roads Approved By
Commissioners And
Engineer
The State Highway Commission
has announced the individual coun
ty allocations from the special
$2 million secondary road fund
recommended by Governor Hodges
and approved by the General As
sembly.
Brunswick will receive $17,
132.60 from this source.
The funds will be distributed to
the 14 division engineers for use
in the counties of each respective
highway division.
The funds will be used on coun
ty road improvement on the basis
of need during the current fiscal
year. The Secondary Roads De
partment used a formula based on
the unpaved rural roads in an
individual county divided by the
total miles of unpaved rural roads
in the State.
Highway Director W. F. Bab
cock explained that the funds may
be used in the various counties
to pave, bring up substandard
roads to "minimum levels of serv
ice” or general betterment, e. g.,
widening roads, resurfacing them,
relocating them, or doing bridge
work.
How the funds may be used
will be left to the discretion of
the division engineers and the in
dividual county boards of com
missioners, subject to the review
of the secondary roads depart
ment and the Director of High
ways.
The special allotment may be
used for for paving rural roads
on a point priority basis or if
the county commissioners and the
division engineer so recommend,
it may be used for widening or
stabilizing existing unpaved rural
roads.
Wilkes County with the largest
number of unpaved secondary
roads—901.5 miles—in the State
is eligible for the largest alloca
Continued On Page Five
Brief Bits Of
lnewsj
COLLEGE STUDENT
Miss Pauline Holden, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Holden of
Supply, has returned to Flora
Macdonald College for her second
year.
PLAN REUNION
There will be a Clemmons fam
ily reunion at Howells Point Sat
urday, October 5. All members of
the family and their connections
are invited to attend.
LIONS TO MEET
The regular meeting of the
Southport Lions Club will be held
tomorrow (Thursday) evening at
6:30 o’clock at the Community
Building.
PIE AND CAKE SALE
Mary Rebekah Circle of the
Trinity Methodist Church will
sponsor a pie and cake sale on
Saturday at 10 o’clock on the
porch of the Leggett home.
KtVIVAL SISKVIW
The Rev. R. E. Whitley, pastor
of Immanual Baptist Church of
Kinston, will be guest minister for
a series of revival services to be
held at Shallotte Baptist Churph
near Grissettown during the week
October 7-13. Services will begin
each evening at 7:15. The Rev.
J. D. Hales is pastor.
BENEFIT BARBECUE
On Saturday there will be a
barbecue supper, pit-cooked on
church grounds the day of serv
ing, at Zion Methodist Church,
Town Creek, beginning at 6:3C
p. m. The supper will be served
buffet style in the Fellowship
Hall of the church. Home-made
cakes and pies will be on sale.
EIGHT BULB SALE
Members of the Southport Lions
Club will conduct a light bull
sale, beginning Saturday, Octobei
12, and continuing through th<
following week. B. G. Torrence
will serve as chairman. The plar
is to offer a package of assort
ed sizes, in the hope that home
owners will want to buy a supplj
to keep on hand.
To Be Honored
INDUCTION—Dr. M. H. Rourk of Shallotte will be
honored at a banquet Monday evening in the Shallotte
high school cafeteria. He will be installed by Past Inter
national President John L. Stickley, who will be the
speaker for this occasion.
Formal Induction
Of Dr. M. H. Rourk
Past International President
John L. Stickley Of Char
lotte Will Be Present For
This Occasion Monday
Evening
LADIES’ NIGHT TO
BE OBSERVED
Visiting Lions And Their
Ladies From Over This
District Will Join To
Celebrate This Oc
casion
Dr. M. H. Rourk, newly elected
governor of District 31-H of Lions
International, will be formerly in
ducted into office Monday evening
at a special Ladies Night pro
gram in the Shallotte high school
lunchroom.
Officiating at this ceremony
will be Past International Presi
dent John L. Stickley, who will
be the speaker for this occasion.
An invitation has been extended
to all clubs in this area to at
tend this occasion, and notices of
acceptance have been coming in
from many cities. There is every
indication that the Monday eve
ning program will be a new mile
stone in Lions Club activities in
this part of the district.
The program is slated to begin
at 8 o’clock, and arrangements
have been made to provide seat
ing arrangements for the large
crowd expected to be on hand to
visit the new district governor
as he is honored by his home
club.
“Help A Home”
Is Local Project
Mrs. H. B. Smith Serves As
Chairman Of This Depart
ment In Southport Wo
man’s Club
The Help-A-Home project of the
N. C. Federation of Women’s
Clubs is getting under way again
this year throughout the State,
according to reports coming in
to Mrs. L. A. Denton, of Roanoke
Rapids, the State chairman of the
project. This community service
project of club women is being
carried on in cooperation with the
county departments of public wel
fare as an effort to strengthen
family life.
Mrs. H. B. Smith is chairman
of this project for Southport
woman’s club.
Last year on the state level
a total of over 35,000 household
items were collected to aid some
3,500 persons in over 1,300 fam
ilies. The plan is for club mem
bers and others in each commu
nity to offer good household items
no longer needed which can be
used by families in the community
which do not have resources for
purchasing essential items. Many
families receiving public assist1
ance are aided since the small
grants in North Carolina do not
provide for home furnishings
Many other families in temporary
need are also helped.
A value -of over $30,000 was
put on the househoud items con
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Time Goes Back To
Eastern Standard
Sunny Point Army Terminal
went back on eastern Stand
aid time Saturday so that
workers reporting for duty
Monday put in their first day
in several months under the
old time arrangement.
At their regular September
meeting, members of the
board of aldermen authorized
the return to eastern stand
ard time by city offices and
employees.
Daylight Savings time will
come to an end on a nation
wide basis later this
month. This will involve a
change in radio and television
schedules.
Recorder Hears
Numerous Cases
Short Session Monday Fol
lowed Unusually Loni
Term Of Court Here I.as
Week
The weekly session of Bruns
wick county Recorder’s court wa
over before noon Monday with th
following cases having been dis
posed of:
William Armstrong waived ap
pearance and pleaded guilty t
charges -of 65-mph. He was finei
$10 and costs.
Harvey Lee Bellamy pleadei
guilty to charges of driving afte
hsi license had been revoked ani
was fined $200 and costs.
Willie Carter pleaded guilty t
charges of driving 65-mph an
was fined $10 and costs.
Gordon B. Lewis pleaded guilt;
to driving 65-mph and was finei
$10 and costs.
WbOlVJ V/ • UV11V/1U I^IVUUVU
to driving with improper equip
ment and was fined $25 and costs
Harold D. Varnum pleaded guil
ty to driving 65-mph and wa
fined $10 and costs.
Last week there was a fu
docket in Recorder’s court, wit
the following cases being tried
Orzlon Robinson was found gui]
ty of driving without operator’
license and public drunkenness
Sentence of 60 days on the road
was suspended upon payment c
costs and a fine of $25, but notic
of appeal was given.
Norman A. Hewett pleade
guilty of possession and judg
ment was suspended upon pa>
ment of a fine of $25 and costs
The case against William £
Wells for improper registratio
was nol prossed when it was re
ported that he had complied wit
the law.
W. G. Wells was found guilt
of improper registration and wa
fined $10 and costs, the fine bein
remitted when it was reporte
that he had complied with th
law.
Carlton Barfield pleaded guilt
i to charges of operating with inr
proper equipment and was fine
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Name Committee
Members To Plan
NewOrganization
Mayor E, B. Tomlinson Ap-!
Points Steering Commit
tee To Follw Up On Re
cent Meeting Of Local
Citizens
CONCERTED DRIVE
FOR NEW INDUSTRY
Committee Members Will
Meet Next Week To Se
lect Name And Work j
Out Details Of Orga
nization
Mayor E. B. Tomlinson has
named a committee to make plans
for a promotional organization for
the City of Southport and to pre
pare a report to be made at a
general meeting later this month.
The following persons have
been asked to serve on this steer
ing committee: E. J. Prevatte, L.
J. Hardee, E. C. Blake, J. C. Bow
man, Miss Annie May Woodside,
Robert Thompson, R. A. Jones,
Johnnie Vereen, Hulan Watts, with
City Manager Carl A. Galloway
and Mayor Tomlinson serving as
ex-officio members.
After drawing up plans for or
ganization and selecting a name,
one of the first matters of busi
ness will be to conduct an in
ventory of the physical advan
tages offered by this area in the
quest of new industry.
The appointment of this com
mittee is the outgrowth of a
meeting held 10 days ago when
a small group of citizens met
with a representative of the De
partment of Conservation and De
velopment to consider plans for
attracting industry to locate in
the Southport area.
Second College
Course Started
Will Moot Each Monday
Evening At Bolivia School;
FJaces StUl Open Fan Ad
dition il St idents
Tlie first teaching session of
"Improvement In Heading Instruc
tion” was held at Bolivia Monday
evening as the second course for
college credit got underway in
Brunswick county.
Weldon Hall, principal of Wac
camaw high school, is the instruc
tor. He has had considerable ex
perience as a college teacher, and
students who pass the course will
receive credit toward a college de
gree or toward the renewal of
their certificate.
Monday is the last time that
, students may enroll, but there
» still are a few vacancies. Super
intendent John G. Long urges that
anyone who is debating whether
or not to take this course at
> tend the next session for a first
: hand impression.
Meanwhile, a course in "The
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! Another Sailfish ■
Brought In Friday
Capt. Walter Lewis had Col.
> Norman and party from Sunny
i Point out aboard the John Ellen
Friday for one of the few fishing
1 trips made during the past few
• days. Mrs. Lou Mallison landed a
1 7-foot sailfish. Other catches in
cluded 20 red snappers, 2 black
> fin tuna, 3 amberjack and one
1 16-lb Mexican hogfish.
r
County Officers
Capture Small Still
Three Columbus county white
men were captured Friday at a
still in Waccamaw township near
the river in a raid staged by
Deputy Sheriff Henry Pike and
Deputy Sheriff Leon Galloway.
These men had had the still un
der observation constantly for
several days.
The operators were Levy Sim
mons, Alpha Simmons and Burt
DuBois, all of the Old Dock sec
tion. They were placed under $500
bond and will be tried Monday in
Recorder's court.
This was a 50-gallon copper
still with 250 gallons of mash.
There were 14 barrels, five of
which were about ready to run.
All Details Are
Completed For
Farm Election
Brunswick County Farmers
Will Go To Polls Next
Tuesday To Vote For Men
To Serve As Leaders In
Farm Program
All preparations are in order for
holding the community farm elec
tion in the six precincts of Bruns
wick county on Tuesday, October
S.
Farmers are urged not to pass
up this opportunity to vote for
the men they want to serve on
the Community ASC Committee.
At the same time a delegate will
be elected to attend the County
Convention to elect the County
ASC Committee.
The designated polling place for
each community is: Lockwoods
Folly—J. E. Kirby’s Store; North
West—Applewhite's Store; Smith
ville—-Midway Station; Shallotte—
Grissettown, Parker’s Store; Town
Creek—-Bolivia—Douglas Hawes
Store; Waccamaw School, agri
cultural building.
Bus Drivers To
Hear Maj. Speed
Principals And School Bus
Drivers Invited To Attend
Regular Meeting Of Shal
lotte Lions Club Thursday
Night
On Thursday evening at 7:30
o’clock the Shallotte Lions Club
is sponsoring a safety program
for all school bus drivers in
Brunswick County. The meeting
will be in the Shallotte school
cafeteria, and each Lions Club has
been asked to invite the school
principal and bus drivers from
their local school. Other teachers
have been asked to come, especial
ly those who have anything to do
with the bus drivers.
Major C. A. Speed, Director of
the Highway Safety Division of
the State Highway Patrol, will
be the speaker. He is an expert
in the field of traffic safety, and
has a reputation for being an un
usually good speaker.
The Shallotte Lions Club is so
much impressed with the im
portance of this occasion that
they have invited other clubs in
the county whose regular meet
ing falls on this night to change
the date and make arrangements
to have the entire membership
hear Major Speed.
A barbecue supper will be serv
ed.
TIME and TIDE
It was October 6, 1937,
County farmers and timbej-:
lessness in brush burning,
team was showing good p
were Dan Wells, Earl Beljai
tela.
A Southport sea captair
tons of shrimp had been
divorce cases were being t
its usual top coverage of
week carried a cut of a
incidental news that, “Ma|i'
ter-pound eggs.”
By JIMMIE HARPER
snd
it was a bad time for forest fires,
men were being warned about care
fhe Southport High School basketball
't aspect. Among the leading candidates
my, Malcom Frink and Victor Bar
was being charged with piracy, 25
! hipped north on Tuesday, and seven
ied in Superior Court. In addition to
(ounty and local news, The Pilot that
< ierman, one Adolph Hitler, and the
churian breed of hickens lay quar
Five years later, Octot^i
making his rounds, and w
The Confederate batteries
surrendered to a truly Unit ?
effort. Signing for the Co i:
Lee Braxton of Whitevil e
to brand car tires for the r
rustlers. Carl West had ai
independent candidate for
had recently been promoted
and Christmas shoppers w
(Continued or
■< uld
it
r 7, 1942, the Navy recruiter was
continue to do so for some time.
Battery Lamb were finally being
d States, to be scrapped for the war
ifederacy was Thompson McRacken.
was offering (in an advertisement)
owners in an effort to curb tire
tjnounced that he was running as an
ounty Commissioner, Lt. R. I. Mintz
to the rank of Captain, USAAF,
t being urged to send their packages
Pago Four) *
Shooting Preserve
Hope For Future
Field Representative For Sportsmen’s Service Bureau
Reports On Success Of Several Projects
Six months of hunting is now
available to sportsmen in nearly
two-thirds of the states, says
Charley Dickey, field represent
ative of the Sportsmen’s Service
Bureau.
Dickey, who lives at -Green
wood, S. C., was here last week
to try his luck with marsh hens,
and while in Southport discussed
the matter of controlled shooting
with local sportsmen.
“For years the trend was to
cut the seasons shorter and short
er,” Dickey states. "But shooting
preserves, where pen-raised birds
are stocked through an extended
season, are making it possible for
hunters to enjoy their favorite
sport five and six months.”
Shooting preserves are a boost
to state game departments from
the free enterprise system, Dickey
stated. Preserves are operated
priveately at no expense to the
public. The hunters pay a fee,
based either on the number of
birds bagged or the number re
leased, to compensate the operator
for his investment in time, money
and effort.
New York, back in 1911, was
the first state to feel the demand
of a mushrooming population and
pass preserve legislation. There
was no great growth of preserves
in America until after World
War II. ‘‘But now states are
either passing preserve legisla
tion, or liberalizing their old laws,
so fast that we can hardly keep
up with them,” says Dickey.
Just recently the Georgia Gen
eral Assembly, without a dissent
ing vote, passed a bill authorizing
a six months’ preserve season
for quail. This vividly illustrates
how the attitude of sportsmen
has changed. Only a few years -ago
if such legislation had been en
tered, the author of the bill would
have been ridden out of the state
on a splintered rail.
The most popular preserve
game is the ringneck pheasant
which refuses to tame down, al
though it has been raised in cap
tivity since the dawn of history.
Ten seconds after he has been
released in the specially prepared
cover on a preserve, the pheasant
reverts to the wild and is as wary
and as tough a target as his na
tive cousin.
“The smartest pheasant of all
is a pen-raised bird which has
been released and shot at and
missed a couple of times,” says
Dickey. “On many preserves there
are ‘old-timers' working around
the borders which not even the
best of hunters can bag. One pre
serve in Western Pennsylvania has
a ‘covey’ of about thirty pen
raised birds gone wild that can
not be approached closer than
100 yards without the birds
flushing. Even driven shoots, with
ten and twelve hunters, have been
unsuccessful in getting close
enough to fire.”
Mallard ’ ducks are the second
most popular preserve bird with
quail rapidly booming as' game
breeders are discovering better
techniques for conditioning the
pen-raised bobs. The chukar
partridge, a former resident of
India, offers a unique target and
a species not found in the wild
except in a few Western states.
City huhters are the most fre
quent hunters at preserves. The
average sportsman from a small
town can more easily find a place
to hunt because he has closer con
tact with the farmers. But they
both should be glad to ^ee the
pressure eased off by the city
sportsmen taking their recreation
on preserves, Dickey stated.
Continued On Page Four)
Week-End Storm
Hits This Section
■9
Heavy Rainfall
Recorded Here
The official figures for the
Sunday rainfall in Southport
was 9.24-inches.
These figures, furnished by
the local U. S. Weather Bu
reau station, represent the
second greatest amount of
precipitation recorded in one
24-hour period in recent
weather bureau history.
On September 19, 1946,
there was a rainfall totalling
11-inches. The total amount of
rain recorded at Southport for
September that year was
18.83 inches.
Although there were num
erous rains during the month
of September this year, the
total, including Sunday, was
only 13.01-inches for the 30
day period.
Waccamaw PTA
Formed Friday
First Session Of New Orga
nization Well Attended,
With Delmas Hughes Be
ing Elected President
ASH—A large and enthusiastic
attendance featured the re-orga
nization of the Waccamaw High
School’s Parent-Teacher Associa
tion, which was completed at a
meeting in the auditorium here
Friday night.
Delmas Hughes was named
president of the PTA, according
to Waccamaw Principal J. Weldon
Hall. Other officers elected in
cluded Calvin Dennis, first vice
president; Mrs. Irene Tysinger,
2nd vice-president; Mrs. Elsie
Dodson, secretary; Miss Lillian
Watts, corresponding secretary;
Mrs. Merle Evans, treasurer. Mrs.
Mary Stanaland led the devoti
onal.
Hall said that several local per
sons commented that the group of
125-150 persons present was the
largest seen at a PTA meeting
here. The organization of a local
Parent-Teacher group was com
pleted for the first time since it
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Scattered Damage Results
From Northeaster That
Hit Here Saturday And
Brought Torrential Rains
TOTAL OF 9.24-INCHES
RECORDED FOR DAY
Launching Ramp Sustains
Damage, Boat Overturns
In Harbor And Erosion
Causes Beach Dam
age
A northeast storm that occa
sionally threatened to reach hur
ricane velocity lashed the coast
jf Brunswick Sunday, bringing
with it torrential rains that re
sulted in an official reading at
the local U. S. Weather Bureau
station of 9.24-inches for the 24
lour period ending at 6 o’clock
Sunday evening.
The wind never went much
ibove 40-miles per hour, but when
jhis force was behind the steady
iownpour of rain, roofs and sides
if houses that never had leaked
iefore began to show signs of
noisture. The experience left
iveryone bailing and mopping.
One accident occurred in the
•iver Saturday afternoon when a
narsh hen hunting expedition had
i boat overturn near the mouth
if the inland waterway. The four
nen involved, including E. C.
Blake and son, Bill, received a
lucking. In addition, they lost
:ash and equipment amounting to
seevral hundred dollars. Included
were three shotguns.
Some damage was reported to
:he strand at Long Beach, and
;oday representatives from the
^ivil Defense Administration are
n the county to make an inves
tigation. They are considering the
problem from the standpoint of
erosion.
Here in Southport there was
some damage to the boat launch
ing ramp at the foot of Howe
street, and plans are being made
:or its early restoration.
Most of the farmers who still
lave anything growing suffered
:rop damage, for flood conditions
prevailed on almost every farm. A
particularly heavy loss was sus
tained on the Sheppard-Cochran
farm, near Southport, where a
fall crop of cucumbers were cov
ered by water.
U. S. Navy tug, enroute North
from Florida with a decommis
sioned destroyer escort in tow, put
in here Friday night to escape
the storm. It left Tuesday to re
sume its trip.
City Considers
Preparation CM
Map Information
Pronosal Made By Engineer
Howard M. Loughlin To
Bring This Information
Up To Date, Install Mark
ers, Etc.
OTHER BUSINESS
BEFORE ALDERMEN
Plans Being Made For Ex
tending Eleventh Street
To City Limits; Seek
Highway Route
Members of the board of aider
men have received a proposal from
Howard M. Loughlin, registered
engineer of Wilmington, for per
forming (necessary survey services
and the preparation of a map of
the city of Southport. Included in
this proposal would be the in
stallation of control monuments
and the preparation of informa
tion that would expedite the num
bering of homes in Southport.
This proposal was submitted at
the invitation of the members of
the board of aldermen, who will
consider the further possibility of
having this work performed.
A motion was passed to ac
quire the necessary right of way
for extending 11th street to the
city limits, and some discussion
was made of the possibility of
having a federal highway routed
through Southport.
Oliver’s Grocery was authorized
to handle 20-percent wine for re
tail sales.
The city auditor was authorized
to purchase $5,000 worth of city
bonds from the sinking fund, re
ducing the city indebtedness to
$134,000.
Baptists Plan
Busy October
Schedule Given For Serie*
Of Important Meeting*
Which Have Been Arran
ged For This Month
The month of October prom
ises to be a busy time for Bruns
wick county Baptists.
On October 7, a music planning
meeting will be held ot Antioch
Church at 7:30 p. m. The Rev.
Avery Lumsden will have Charles
Meadows from Sunset Park Bap
tist Church, Wilmington^ as State
Representative, helping him.
Everyone interested in the pro
motion of better music is urged
to be at this meeting. Confer
ences will be held with all phases
of the: music department.
The W. M. U. Regional meeting?
and Leadership Institute will be
combined in an all day and night!
session on October 10, 10 a. m.:
until 8:30 p. m., in the Snyder;
Memorial Church in Fayetteville.
All leaders in local W. M. U.'
organizations are invited.
A brotherhood clinic will be
held October 22 at 7 o’clock at
Bolivia Baptist Church. All man'
are included in the brotherhood.
E. J. Prevatte, brotherhood presi
dent, has invited Bennett Staughn,
Raleigh, to be guest speaker. This
meeting, beginning at 7 o’clock,,
will be a supper session. The.
W. M. S. of Bolivia will serve as
hostess.
The annual associational meet
ings are scheduled for Wednes-'
day and Thursday, October 23-24.
On Wednesday morning the serv
ices open at Old Shallotte Church
at 10 o’clock. The annual asso
ciational meeting will begin with
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Tide Table
Following la 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, October 3,
3:38 A. M. 9:46 A. M.
4:13 P. M. 10:21 P. M.
Friday, October 4,
4:30 A. M. 10:39 A. M.
5:00 P. M. 11:08 P. M.
Saturday, October 5,
5:17 A. M. 11:27 A. M.
5:43 P. M. 11:50 P. M.
Sunday, October 6,
6:01 A. M. 0:00 A. M.
6:24 P. M. 12:12 P. M.
Monday, October 7
6:40 A. M. 12:31 A. M.
7:02 P. M. 12:53 P. M.
Tuesday, October 8,
7:18 A. M. 1:09 A. M.
7:38 P. M. 1:33 P. M.
Wednesday, October 9,
7:53 A. M. 1:47 A. M.
8:12 P. M. 2:11 P. M.