THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Volume No. 18 No. 14 6-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1957 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY $1.50 PER YEAR Most Of The News All The Time The Pilot Covers Brunswick County Building Repair May Be Financed Thru FHA Loan George W. Knox, Jr., Rep resentative In Brunswick County, Points Out Servi ces Of This Federal Ag ency APPLICATION MUST HAVE PRIOR REFUSAL Funds For Construction Or Repair Of Farm Homes Are Now Available To Eligible Owners The construction and repair of farm houses and other farm build ings may be financed by Farmers Home Administration loans, George W. Knox, Jr., the agency’s Brunswick county supervisor, said this week. He said the same kind of farm housing loan program is available as last year when American farm owners borrowed $21,300,000 to construct, improve, or repair farm houses and other essential farm buildings, or to provide water for farmstead or household use. Farmers Home administration loans are provided only when a bank or other lenders cannot ade quately serve the farm owner’s credit needs, at the present time. The agency does not compete with conventional or cooperative lenders, Knox said, but does sup plement the credit services sup plied by other sources. Borrowers agree to repay the housing loans within the shortest time consis tent with their repayment abili ties, but no loan schedule can go beyond 33 years. The interest rate is 4 percent. Although housing loans go only to farm owners, an owner may boiTow to repair or build a house or other farm buildings for his tenants or farm laborers. A bor rower must be an American citi zen. Any farm involved must be big enough and operated in such a way as to be considered an actual farm, and it must produce a sub stantial part of the operators an-' nual cash income. Farmers cannot use farm housing loans to buy land or refinance debts. Knox cautioned loan applicants against starting construction work or incurring debts for work or materials before their loans are closed, if they expect to obtain their financing through the Farm ers Home Administration. Farmers buy their building ma terials wherever they please, usually from local dealers. They obtain their building plans from any reliable source they choose. The Farmers Home Administra tion has a limited number of plans that applicants may use if they want to. During construction the agency makes periodic inspections to make certain that sound construc tion standards are followed. The local Farmers Home Ad ministration office is located in Shallotte in the Stananland Build ing. LBrief BiU Of -NEWSJ HOMECOMING DAY Homecoming Day will be ob sei-ved Sunday at New Hope Pres byterian Church at Winnabow. LIONS TO MEET The regular meeting of the Southport Lions Club will be held tomorrow (Thursday) at 6:30 p. m. in the Community Building. FISH FRY PLANNED Members of the Mill Creek-Fun ston Community Development Council will hold a fish fry next Tuesday night, beginning at 7 o’clock, at the home of Joseph and Elmore Willetts on highwky No. 87. SOPHOMORE BROTHERS N. Dykes Hewett and James D. Hewett, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Del mas Hewett of Shallotte, are both sophomores in college this year. Dykes is a student a at Wilming ton College and Jimmy is attend ing N. C. State. AT Ml'. OLIVE The Women of the Church of the Wilmington- Presbytery will meet Tuesday and Wednesday of next week at Mt. Olive Presby terian Church. An imposing list of guest speakers have been in vited to appear on the program. CEMETERY CLEANING There will be an all-day work ing October 22 at the Griffen -Cemetery near Ash. Everyone having loved ones buried there are asked to come and bring tools with which to work. REA Improvements INSTALLATION—This is an REA work crew setting a pole for the new sub-station at Shallotte, which was erected recently to increase the power supply for a larger area of Brunswick county. REA members are looking forward to their annual meeting in Whiteville on Friday of next week. Lt. Col. Murphy Point This Week Popular Executive Officer At Sunny Point Army Terminal Has Received Notice Of Assignment In England Lt. Col. Wm. F. Murphy, who came here two years ago as executive officer at Sunny Point Army Terminal, completed his tour of duty on Friday and has been notified that his next assign ment is 'in England. In his position of executive of ficer, Col. Murphy occupied a strategic position during the early days in the operation of the great Army Ammunition Terminal. One of his jobs has been as director of public relations, and in this capacity he has made hundreds of personal friends and has gained vast goodwill for this army in stallation. He has made many appearances as guest speaker at civic organi zations in this part of the State, and he has made arrangements for scores of guided tours over the base. He and Mrs. Murphy have lived in the officers quarters that were erected on the garrison since they were compltd, and they have a large circle of friends here who regret to see them leave. He will be succeeded as execu tive officer by Col. Norman, who has been his next door neighbor for several weeks. To Leave Reserve Phase To Help Farmer Long-Range Program For Instituting Conservation Practices On Farm May Prove Inviting The conservation reserve phase of the Soil Bank program deals not with allotment crops but with all other cash crops, Brunswick county ASC officials pointed out this week. Under the conservation reserve, farmers reduce their planting of cash crops and at the same time carry out an approved conserva tion practice on the land. The conservation reserve is the long time phase of the Soil Bank pro gram. Under this phase farmers contract to divert general crop land to soil, water, forestry and wildlife conserving practices for periods of 3, 5 or 10 years. In return for this participation, farmers receive two types of pay ments for the diversion. They re ceive a costshare payment of up to 80-percent of the actual cost of establishing the practice on the land. This cost-share payment is received only once during the period of the contract. However, in addition to the cost-share pay ment, an annual rental payment is made to the participating far mer for each year the land is under contract. In an effort to encourage more farmers to place their entire farm Ih the conservation reserve and to emphasize forestry and wild life practices, certain annual pay ments made under the 1958 pro gram will be at a higher rate than last year. (.Continued On Page Four) Southport Gets New Equipment New Ten-Wheel Truck Ob tained Through Coopera tion Of Health Officer For Use In Local Sanita tion Projects DRAGLINE V/ILL BE MOUNTED ON CHASSIS Equipment Will Be Used In Connection WithGarbage Disposal Efforts And Mosquito Control A new 10-wheel truck and chasis has been purchased by the City of Southport and will have equipment mounted at once to assist in dealing with health prob lems, particularly garbage dispos al and drainage, that affect resi dents of this community. Mayor E. B. Tomlinson, Jr., and City Manager Carl W. Gallo way worked with Dr. C. B. Davis, Brunswick County Health Officer, to obtain this truck, which was purchased from the Federal Sur plus Agency at a fraction of its original cost. It is unused. Plans call for mounting a drag line body on this vehicle so that this equipment will be completely mobile. The city has received a liberal offer for the purchase of a new dragline and has completed arrangements for its immediate delivery. Mayor Tomlinson listed a change in garbage disposal meth ods as one of the primary needs of improvement on the part of the city. The plan is to use the sani tary fill method, which involves digging deep trenches into which garbage may be dumped and cov ered. This is in contrast with the present practice of dumping at a point near Southport and setting fire to the debris. Another important use for this equipment will be for drainage work, involving opening up ditch es that may have an important bearing upon the mospuity popu lation of the city. It is also con templated that a use will be found for the heavy equipment in water front improvement projects that are now in the planning stage with the city fathers. New Chevrolet To Be Out October 31 Foster Mintz Of Bolivia Says That 1958 Models Will Bring Revolutionary Improvements The 1958 Chevrolet, reportedly the most spectacular model in the history of the company, will be introduced at dealer showrooms nationally Thursday, October 31. “We sincerely believe this is one of the most interesting auto mobiles ever brought out by the industry,” Foster Mintz of Elmore Motor Company said this week. “Every major part will show the results of an engineering job that began five years ago.” “The 1958 model became possi ble,” Mintz said, “only through expanded and modernized facili ties. It is the first car to have full advantage of the resources (Continued on page four) Recuscitator For Use At Hospital Members of the board of aldermen for the City of Southport have agred to pur chase a rescuneitator for use oyaraii i ivub <n -abr* abount Southport, particular ly in connection with cases of drowning. This equipment will be kept at Dosher Memorial Hospital, where there is liklihood that it may be needed. It will be mobile, and thus may be re moved to point of greatest need in a case of emergency. This is one step toward ob taining a complete set of res cue equipment for use in this area. New Officers On Duty At Terminal Two New1 Officers Have Re cently Been Assigned For Duty At Sunny Point Army Terminal Two new officers have arrived for duty at the ammunition ter minal. Capt. Louis C. Russell, an en gineer officer, has reported for duty and has taken up temporary quarters, with his wife and two children, in Yaupon Village. Capt. Russell comes from Leghorn, Italy, where he recently completed a three-year tour of duty. Capt. Russell has given early indication of much pleasure with his new duties and is looking forward to a long and pleasant tour. (Continued on Page 4) Commissioners Will Attend Meet For Road Study Harold Makepeace, Secon dary Road Officer Under The New Highway Reor ganization Plan, Will Be In Wilmington Next Wed nesday STATEWIDE STANDARDS TO BE DISCUSSED Meeting In Wilmington Will Be Part Of Program Cov ering Entire State To Furnish Information Secondary Roads Officer Harold Makepeace has announced his schedule of meetings with the County Board of Commissioners of 64 Tar Heel counties between October 16 and 29. ; In setting the date, place, and hour to meet with the various county boards, Makepeace said he was anticipating the face-to-face meetings with the county commis sioners and the discussion of the new Statewide standards on coun ty road improvements. His assist ant, Bill Ingram, wil accompany him. They will be joined by Divi sion and District engineers from the various field offices. On Wednesday, October 23, Makepeace will be in the Wil mington division office at 9 a. m. to talk with the County Boards from New Hanover, Pender, Ons low and Brunswick. Committee Has Name For Group The Southport Development Council Will Be Incorpo rated, With Shares Of Stock To Be Sold Members of a steering commit tee named 10 days ago by Mayor E. B. Tomlinson, Jr., to perfect plans for a local promotional or ganization held their first meet ing last night and selected the name “Southport Development Corporation”. As is implied by the name, the organization will be incorporated and citizens will be given an op portunity to purchase shares of stock. It will be a non-profit or ganization. Funds received will be used for advertising and promotion, both in an effort to attract industry into this community and to draw more tourists and vacationists. Data Sheets from the Depart ment of Conservation and Devel opment were passed out to com mittee members, who will study the apparent needs and be pre pared at their next meeting to begin compiling the necessary in formation. The papers on incor poration will be prepared before the next meeting. Meanwhile, City Manager Carl W. Galloway, Alderman R. A. Jones and Mayor Tomlinson have begun an anylitical survey of lo cal advantages, and these will be presented to the Department of Conservation and Development in order that they may be able to tell interested parties about South port. A list of 200 prospective industries has been received, and each will receive a letter from Southport inviting them to inves tigate the advisability of locating a plant or factory here. Several plans for advertising were discussed, including sign (Continued on Page Four) TIME and TIDE By JimnjE HARPER It was Wednesday, October 20, 1938, and the front page of The Pilot was dominated by Camp Sapona, the local CCC Camp. The camp was to celebrate its third anniversary and General Manus McClosky had been invited to attend the proposed ban quet. Boxing bouts had proved popular at the camp with many local citizens attending. The three-round bouts were referred by Robert Thompson. Southport’s maritime industry was booming. In one day some twenty thousand pound of bluefish had been shipped by local packers. Sport fishermen had had good luck during the past week, and some of the local shrimp dealers were paying out 700 nickels a day to headers—oc a bucket. October 21, 19*2- County farmers were short on hogs and long on wheat, so the swine were being fattened on grain. The USO Club news appeared as usual in The Pilot that week, not carrying much of excitement, but a reminder that the service club was still there to serve the G. L’s. W. P. Jorgensen had just succeeded Charles E. Gause- as Coun ty Tax Collector, and Rep. Harold Cooley was slated to appear in the upcoming Democrat!- rally. The engagement of Miss Lois Jane Bussels to Ensign D4vis C. Herring, USNR, had just been announced, and our ‘Not Exactly’ editor had noted with pleasure the treatment. Coach Jim Tatum’s Carolina Tar Heels had given Duquense on the preceedipg Saturday. Continued On Page Four! Division Engineer Former Resident C. E. Brown Formerly Own ed Summer Home In Southport And Is Well Known In This County Division Engineers of the North Carolina State Highway Commis sion are assuming nejv responsi bilities under the recently reor ganized Highway Commission. These career officials will be the chief contact for local govern ing bodies such as County Boards of Commissioners and municipal officials. In addition, they will meet the public to explain plans of the Highway Department in pub lic hearings. In southeastern North Carolina, a seasoned roadbuilder, C. E. Brown of Wilmington, is now the “contact man” who will work even more closely with the city and county officials in the Third High way Division. Brunswick, New Hanover, Onslow, Pender, Duplin and Sampson Counties compose the Third. With the new seven-man High way Commission concentrating on State-wide rather than local road policy, the division engineer will spend more of his time in devel oping road plans in his division and in conferring with all interest ed groups on these plans. Gover nor Hodges and Department of ficials, including Director of High ways W. F. Babcock, have stress ed the importance of division en gineers’ role in working more closely with the people and devel oping better public relations in each division. Although the seven Highway Commissioners have been assign ed specific areas in the State, irrespective of highway division boundary lines, for the purpose of explaining state-wide highway policies, they will not be respon sible for handling specific re quests and suggestions will be handled by division engineers. In explaining the division en (Continued on Pasre Four) Initial Meeting Of Naval Reserve Emergency Gall For Fire Force On the night of October 14, after a series of radio calls that were relayed by State Highway Patrol personnel near the North Carolina and South Carolina border on Route 17, Sunny Point turned out fire fighting equipment and technical advisors and rushed to the scene to help extinguish a fire that broke out on a vehicle hauling high explosives to Norfolk, Va. Gene Tomlinson, plant en gineer, and Bill Houghton, safety director, were respon sible for seeing that equip and personnel were dispatch ed to render the assistance requested. Unusual Catch Of Sails Made Two Boats Fishing Last Wednesday Each Brought In Pair Of These Prize Billfish; King Mackerel Show In Numbers Four sailfish were brought in here last Wednesday in an un usual late season show of these fish. John Sharpe and party of Statesville, fishing aboard the Idle On III with Capt. H. A. Schmidt, brought in a pair of sails. The same results were reported by Capt. Basil Watts of the Idle On II, who had Mr. Casey and party of Greensboro out with him. After a spell of bad weather. Capt. Schmidt stayed out yester day with members of the Yount family of Hickory and brought in one of the biggest catches of king mackerel made here in recent (Continued on Page Four* Superior Court Now In Session Civil Actions Being Tried Here This Week, With Suit Against City Con suming Most Of Time The October term of Brunswick county Superior court is in ses sion here this week with Judge Hamilton Hobgood of Louisburg presiding. The first two days of the ses sion were taken up with pre liminaries o fthe trial of Arnold vs the City of Southport. It still is in progress today. That controversy is based upon a claim for damages alleged to have resulted to the Arnold Prop erty when a bulkhead and slips Continued On rage Hour First Session Attended By Number Of Persons In terested In Joining Local Unit Of Organization GOOD PROSPECT FOR FORMING LOCAL UN|T This Will Bring Several Thousand Dollar A Year Into Southport And Will Protect Draft Status A meeting was held here last night to discuss the organization of a unit of the Naval Reserve, and from the show of interest it appears that there is a good chance to continue with these plans. No effort was made to sign up members last night, but a meeting will be held next Wed nesday night for that purpose, Chief Yoeman Markland from Wilmington was present last night. There will be openings for E officers and 50 enlisted men. Each man who drills for twc hours one night each week will draw one full day’s pay. Pay day will come once each three months, and it is estimated that this ac tivity will bring in an annual pay roll of from $25,000 to $30,000, There will be an opening for one full-time man. It is contemplated that the unit will be in communications, and there is immediate prospect of obtaining $5,000 worth of elec tronics equipment. Boys from 17 to 18%-years of age are especially invited, as par ticipation will make them exempt from the draft for as long as they attend 90-percent of the sched uled drills. Aldermen Hold Regular Meeting Re-Zoning Of Portion Of Howe Street, Naming Of Zoning Committee And Change In Ordinances Among Items Of Business Members of the board of aider men met Thursday and adopted a resolution re-zoning Howe street from Leonard street intersection to the city limits. A zoning committee comprised of F. W. Spencer, G. R. Garrett, R. L. Jones, E. J. Prevatte and Ed Royal was appointed. Authorization was made for the purchase of a new police car for the city. The board approved an ordin ance to set the fine for failure to observe a stop sign at mini mum of $10 or a maximum of $50. They also made it unlawful for travel to take place in the street in front of the school when signs are erected. Another ordin ance will be drawn to enforce one-way traffic on certain streets in Southport Annual Baptist Association In 2-Day Session Morning, Afternoon And Evening Meeting Being Planned On Opening Day Next Wednesday; Two Sessions On Thursday THREE CHURCHES WILL BE VISITEQ Wednesday Morning Ansi Afternoon Sessions At 0|f| Shallotte; At Mill Creek On Wednesday Nigth The annual meeting of the Brunswick Baptist Association will be held next week, beginning Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock at Old Shallotte Baptist Churph. i The morning session will be devoted largely to business, with i an inspirational message from the Rev. Harold Gore. Lunch will be served at noon. More business and reports will take up the afternoon period. The evening session will open at 7 o’clock at Mill Creek Bap tist Church, and has been ar ranged especially for those who work and are unable to attend the day-time meetings. The Rev. Luther Copeland, professor of Missions at Southeastern Baptist Seminary, will be the principal speaker. The associations! meeting will continue on Thursday, with a mor ning meeting scheduled at Supply Baptist church. More time will be devoted to hearing reports and to disposition of business matters. Lunch will be served at 12:30 o’clock. The closing session will be Thursday afternoon, also at Sup ply Baptist church. Brunswick REA Meet Is Planned Annual Membership Meet ing WiH Be Held In Whitville On Friday, Oc tober 25, At Liberty Ware house On 701 By-Pass The 19th Annual Membership Meeting of the Brunswick Rural Electric Membership Corporation will be held at the Liberty Ware? house in Whiteville on Friday, October 25. Registration begins at 9 o’clock. Principal speaker for the occa sion will be the Hon. K. D. Tisin ger, general counsel for the- Na Continued On Page Four Future Farmers Officers Named! A meeting of the Waceamaw Federation of the Future Farm ers of America was held Monday, September 30, at the Whiteville Vocational Agriculture Depart ment. Representatives from Bla den, Columbus, Brunswick and New Hanover counties were pres ent. The following officers were, elected: President, Ronald Wray,' Tabor City; vice-president, Frank Galloway, Hallsboro; secretary, Donald Wright, Whiteville; treas urer, Bennett Williams, Clarkton; reporter, Franklin Adams, Bladen boro; sentinel, Fumie Hughes,? Williams. Waceamaw Future Farmers arek planning many activities for the coming year including an F. F. contest. Meetings and sessions are to be planned and directed by the newly elected officers. ~ ■ * Tide Table Following Is the tide table for Southport during the next, week. These hours are ap-" proxtmately correct and were furnished The State Port Pilot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot’s Association High Tide Low TMr Thursday, October 17, 1:46 A. M. 8:05 A. M. 2:19 P. M. 8:47 P. M-. Friday, October 18, 2:55 A. M. 9:14 A. M. 3:24 P. M. 9:49 P. M. Saturday, October 19, 4:00 A. M. 10:19 A. M. 4:25 P. M. 10:47 P. M. Sunday, October 20, 5:02 A. M. 11:18 A. M. 5:23 P. M. 11:41 P. id. Monday, October 21, 5:59 A. M. 0:00 A. M. 6:18 P. M. 12:14 P. M.. Tuesday, October 22, 6:53 A. M. 12:32 A. M. 7:10 P. M. 1:07 P. M. Wednesday, October 23, 7:45 A. M. 1:22 A. M. 8:01 P. M. 1:58 P. M.

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