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Volume No. 18
THE STATE PORT PILOT
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No- 19 6-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1957 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
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First Services
Held Sunday In
Shailotte Church
■ Congregation Of Shailotte
Camp Methodist Church
Have Completed Work
On Beautiful New Brick
building
NEW EDUCATIONAL
FACILITIES PROVIDED
First Sermon In New Sanc
tuary Delivered By Dr. J.
E. Garlington; Other
Interesting Features
Of Service
The congregation of Camp
Methodist Church at Shailotte
moved into their new brick build
ing Sunday morning, and a large
number of former members and
friends were present to help cele
brate this occasion.
Guest minister for this first
service was Dr. J. E. Garlington,
district superintendent, iwho spoke
on the relationship of the Chris
tian to his church. Special music
included a solo by Miss Alicia
Johnson.
Prior to the sermon, the keys
to the building were delivered by
Aubrey Johnson, chairman of the
building committee, to LeRoy
Mintz, chairman of the official
board. Each had a few appro
priate remarks to make regard
ing the splendid response they had
received from members of the
congregation throughout the
building program.
R. I. Mintz, of Wilmington, a
former member, traced some of
the history of the church, recall
ing the contributions that numer
ous individuals had been to the
growth and development of Camp
Methodist Church. Included in his
remarks was the following his
torical data:
The Campground Methodist
Church grew out of the preaching
and work of the early Methodist
circuit riders who traveled the
old Georgetown Road, living out
of their saddle-bags and preach
ing to the people wherever they
found them. The site now oc
cupied by the present church was
a favorite meeting place in these
early days because it was here
the two avenues of transportation
crossed each other—the north
south highway and the Shailotte
River. One such meeting occurred
here on February 7, 1791, when
Bishop Francis Asbury "preached
at the Charlotte River to not less
than one hundred people.”
The exact date of the origin of
the church, like that of the town
is not known, but it has been
established that by February of
1799 a church had been built in
the approximate vicinity of the
present one. (The town was a set
tlement by 1729). It can be as
certained with some certainty,
however, that the first church
building was errected in 1797 or
in 1798. By January of 1799 the
church had been completed and
■was a part of the Bladen Circuit.
Since the church was located on
■the banks of the Shailotte River,
it was named for the river and
first called the “Shailotte Meeting
House.” Bishop Asbury called it
the “Charlotte Meeting House”
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Brief Bits Of
lnewsj
JUDGE IS ILL
The regularly weekly session of
Brunswick County Recorder’s
court was postponed because of
the illness of Judge Earl Bellamy.
CONFINED TO HOME \
Register of Deeds Henry Hick
man has been confined to his
home at Hickman’s Crossroads
for several days due to illness.
RECEIVES HONOR
Henderson Rourk, Jr., has been
elected to membership in Phi Beta
Kappa at Davidson College. He
is the son of Dr. and Mrs. M. H.
Rourk of Shallotte.
CHURCH BAZAAR
The Woman’s Auxiliary of St.
Philip’s Episcopal Church will
hold their annual bazaar and rum
mage sale on Saturday from 10:30
to 3:30 o’clock, in the Parish
House. Home baked pies, cakes
and cookies will be on sale. Cof
fee, tea and sandwiches will be
served for a nominal charge
REVIVAL SERVICES
Revival services will be con
ducted at New Hope Presbyterian
Church beginning Monday, No
vember 25, and continuing through
Sunday, December 1. Guest minis
ter will be the Rev. J. A. Mar
row, Jr., pastor of Cape Fear
Presbyterian Church in Wilming
ton.
Congressman Will
Be In Brunswick
Plans Call For Him To Be
In Southport At The
Courthouse Thursday And
Friday And At Various
Points Tuesday And Wed
nesday Next Week
Congressman Alton A. Lennon
will be in Southport at the court
house Thursday and Friday of
this week to discuss with his con
stituents any problems of legisla
tion which they may have on their
mind.
Tonight (Wednesday) he is in
Whiteville, attending the last in
a series of meetings throughout
his district With tobacco farmers.
Following his two days in
Southport, Congressman Lennon
will spent Tuesday and Wednes
day of next week at various
points about the county for the
purpose of talking to the citizens.
These engagements are being
met to carry out his promise to
hold meetings throughout the Sev
enth Congressional District each
year in order to stay informed
of the needs and desires of the
people.
judging Continues
In Area Contest
Mill Creek-Lebanon Com
munity Will Be Visited
Tomorrow (Thursday) By
Judging Group In Im
provement Contest
THIS COMMUNITY
IS COUNTY WINNER
This Contest Is Seven-Coun
ty In Scope And Is Spon
sored By SENCland
Development Council
Jn First Year
Five communities in five coun
ties, including Mill Creek-Leban
on will be judged this week
for top honors in the SENCland
development association contest.
Also, this week, 53 candidates
for the individual farm income
betterment contest, will be ad
vised that Dec. 31 is the dead
line for completion of their re
cords.
The announcement of the
SENCland contest winners is ex
pected to come Dec. 2 in Wil
mington when the association has
its first annual meeting.
Horace Carter, Tabor City,
chairman of the seven-county
group, said that Truman D.
Morse, under secretary for U. S.
department of agriculture, will
be the key speaker.
The meeting will be at the
Moose hall and will feature a
dutch dinner.
Mill Creek-Lebanon by virtue of
being named the top white com
munity in the county will com
pete with others for honors in
the association.
All of the associations in the
county are less than a year old.
Judging for the county unit is
expected to begin at 4 p. m.
Thursday.
Other communities being judg
ed Thursday include Bladen
Union in Bladen county, Sandy
Plains community in Colum
bus county. On Friday, Long
Creek in Pender and Pleasant
Grove in Duplin will be judged.
The top Negro community in
the county, Mt. Olive is be*
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Complete Study
On Drainage
Information Concerning Pro
jects In Several North
Carolina Counties Has
Been Sent To Civil De
fense Office
Field surveys of streams clogged
by the 1955 hurricanes have been
completed and reports of findings
are now in the hands of Federal
Civil Defense authorities at Thom
asville, Ga.
The Corps of Engineers’ Dis
trict office in Wilmington say
the work involves applications for
stream clearance in 26 counties
and in two towns, Clinton and
Windsor.
What action Civil Defense will
take and when to expect it is not
known at this time, the District
advised.
The counties applying are:
Beaurfort, Bladen, Brunswick,
Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Co
lumbus, Craven, Currituck, Dup
lin, Greene, Hertford, Hyde, Jones,
Lenoir, New Hanover, Onslow,
Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Per
quimans, Sampson, Tyrrell, Wash
ington, Wayne, and Wilson.
Tobacco Meeting
Scheduled Tonight
Tobacco farmers from Bruns
wick county will get the
word straight from Washing
ton on the 1958 outlook, Wed
nesday night.
The man who’ll give it will
be Joe R. Williams, director
of the tobacco division of the
Commodity Stabilization serv
ice of the U. S. Department
of Agriculture.
Williams will appear here
to discuss the 195'! and 1958
tobacco pictures at the re
quest of Congressman Alton
Lennon. The meeting is one
of a series for the Seventh
Congressional district, Lennon
has set up.
It will be the first time in
a number of years that tobac
co planters will have a
chance to hear and talk with
firsthand a top level govern
ment official on the critical
agricultural program.
The meeting will be held at
the courthouse in Whiteville.
It begins at 7:30 p. m.
Civil Police In
City Are Active
This Organization Complies
With Recommendations
Of Civil Defense Author
ity
To comply with the best prac
tices recommended by Civil De
fense, a Civil Defense Auxiliary
Police Force has been set up in
Southport according to City Man
ager Carl W. Galloway. This group
is composed of volunteers who
give their time and service with
out pay to their community.
On Halloween night a contin
gent of this group was put on
duty under the direct supervision
of Chief Louis Clark.
Before going on duty, Chief
Clark instructed the men on the
details of the job they were to
do, and reports from all places
where they were assigned com
mended them for their work.
The men who are on the Civil
Continued On Page Two
Long Speaks To
Southport PTA
Brunswick County Superin
tendent Of Schools Gives
Factual Information Re
garding School Finances
The Southport PTA held its No
vember meeting in the High
School auditorium Thursday, when
J. G. Long, Superintendent of
Schools for Brunswick County,
spoke on the financial operation
of the public school system.
The county superintendent gave
a comprehensive breakdown of the
financial responsibility assumed
by the County, State and Federal
governments in the operation of
the schools. He showed that teach
ers' salaries are paid from State
funds, except in the case of vo
cational teachers, whose salaries
are shared one-third each by the
Continued On Page Two
County Baptists
Will Participate
In ‘M’ Program
Mobilization Night Will Be
Observed At Mill Creek
Baptist Church On Decem
ber 2 As Part Of Area
Observance
SOUTHERN BAPTISTS
HOLDING PROGRAMS
Over 30,000 Southern Bap
tist Churches Are Partici
pating, With Twenty
Nine Taking Part In
Brunswick
“It's time to mobilize for king
dom service,” according to Mrs.
Margaret McRackan, Association
Missionary for the Brunswick
Baptist Association.
December 2 has been set as
“M” Night, or Mobilization Night,
for 30,834 Southern Baptist
churches in 1,071 associations, as
announced by R. Maines Rawls,
director of association work in
the Training Union Department
Baptist Sunday School Board,
Nashville, Tennessee.
Brunswick Baptist Association
will observe "M” Night on Decem
ber 2, at Mill Creek Baptist
Church when 29 churches will par
ticipate. Local Baptists ' who will
assist in program plans are: Mrs.
Reba Sellers, John Herbert Hold
en, Radway Sellers, Rev. and Mrs.
Luther Hawkins, Mrs. Lois Mor
gan, Rev. W. T. Lundy, and Mrs.
McRackan.
The biggest meeting of its kind
in the Southern Baptist Conven
tion, this year’s attendance goal
is set at 450,000. Brunswick As
sociation’s goal is 250.
This special night was begun
in 1945 with the promotion of a
large simultaneous Baptist asso
ciational mass meeting on April
24. In 1946, it was decided to
designate December for “M” Night
observance and to make it the
regular mass meeting for the
quarter for launching the Train
ing Union program for the coming
year.
r.l .A. Ivxeis m
New Lunchroom
Organization Plans To Con
tinue Some Improvements
In These School Facilities
The Waccamaw P. T. A. held its
regular monthly meeting in the
new cafeteria November 11 at
7:30 o’clock. The new cafeteria
facilities went into operation No
vember 8 and the patrons are
very proud of the new construc
tion.
The P. T. A. voted unanimously
to sponsor the completion of a
room built on the back for stor
age. They also plan to build walks
with a roof to protect the stu
dents from the weather. An old
fashioned working bee will be held
in the near future. New shrub
bery will be set out Thursday by
Ralph King and the F. F. A.
boys.
The following were appointed
chairman of various committees
and were to select members to
serve on said committees:
Block-layer committee, Thurston
Hughes; sidewalk committee, Nel
son Bennett; shrubbery commit
tee, Mrs. Dave Bennett; shed com
mittee, Calvin Dennis; clothes col
lection committee, Mrs. Smithie
King; publicity chairman, Mrs.
Nelson Bennett.
An enjoyable skit was given
by Dewey Bennett, Larry Russ,
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Tour Southport Harbor
EXPLAINING—Col. H. C. Rowland, Jr., U. S. Army district engineer, shown in
the center with his back to the camera, is busy explaining a chart of the Southport
harbor to visiting members of the North C arolina State Ports Authority here Monday.
This picture was taken in the Southport yacht basin during a trip about the harbor.
Later the group made the trip up the rive r to the Sunny Point Army Terminal aboard
the Army Patrol Boat.
Sports Fishing
Holds On With
King Mackerel
Unusually Large Catches Of
These Fish Reported From
Trips Made Out Of South
port During Past Week
Week-End
One of the best king mackerel
catches of the season was brought
in Sunday by Earl Howard and
party of Albemarle, fishing with
Cant, Walter Lepris aboard the
John Ellen. They' had 96‘'of these
fish which ranged tn weight from
8 to 25-lbs. The day before O. W.
Stutts and party of Mooresville
brought in 41 king mackerel, 5
amberjack and 8 bonito.
It remained for Ray McKee
and party of Catawba to bring
in the grand daddy of the kings
on Sunday, when they checked in
with one that tipped the scales
at 55-lbs. They had 18 king mack
erel and 4 bonito.
The C. W. Tweet party of
Charlotte was here Monday and
used all three of the Idle-Ons for
a trip for king mackerel with the
result that 145 were brought in.
50 of them were caught from the
Idle-On III, 35 from the Idle-On
IV and 50 from the Idle-On II.
Harvest Festival
At Bolivia Friday
This Event Takes Place Of
Hallowe'en Carnival That
Was Cancelled Because
Of Sickness
A Harvest Festival will be held
Friday evening at Bolivia High
School under sponsorship of the
Parent-Teachers Association. This
event has been planned to take
the place of the annual Hallowe’en
carnival, which was cancelled due
to illness in the community.
The program will get underway
Continued On Page Two
TIME and TIDE
By JIMMIE HARPER
It was November 24, 1937, the day before Thanksgiving.
Schools were being let out for the holiday week-end, bird hunt
ers had been in operation since the 20th, and a big fat turkey
graced the front page of The Pilot. Dr. D. I. Watson had cele
brated his 71st birthday anniversary, and Commodore Strange of
the Carolina Yacht Club had predicted a gala affair at the club’s
1938 regatta to be held in Southport Harbor.
The Rev. E. M. Hall had returned to Trinity Methodist Church
for the third year, and Capt. H. T. Bowmer had issued a card of
thanks to the patrons of his sport fishing craft. Our editorial
writer had observed that four of the five consolidated high
schools in the county now had indoor gymnasiums. And in an
antic which smacked lightly of a publicity stunt, the Southport
Civic Club had adopted a sea cow as mascot. Name: Susie.
The November 25, 1942, issue of The Pilot gave ample proof
that this had indeed been a mild autumn. One local lady was re
ported to have, in the last week, picked ripe figs from her back
yard tree. Eva Margaret Hewett had been the sponsor of the
43rd ship launched at the Wilmington shipyard, the Paul Hamil
ton Hayne.
Mrs. E. H. Cranmer had been appointed chairman of the
Women’s Division of the Defense Saving Staff, to aid sale of
War Bonds in the county. Winter gardens were noted to be con
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SPA Members Visit
Southport Monday
Turkey Shoot Is
Set For Saturday
The Southport Lions Club
will sponsor a turkey shoot
Saturday on the garrison
grounds near the Community
Building. Firing will begin at
10 o’clock and will end at 2
o’clock, unless there are still
anxious contestants present.
This will be a contest of
skill, with turkeys being
awarded as prizes for the win
ners. Contestants may bring
their own weapon, or one will
be furnished for their con
venience. Shells will be furn
ished by those in charge of
the turkey shoot.
Shallotte B&PW
Sponsor Painting
Water Color By Claude
Howell Of Wilmington
Being Sold To Raise
Funds For Club Projects
By ETHEL RYAN
I Special To The Pilot
An old Brunswick County land
mark, preserved for posterity in
a startling water-color, is cur
rently displayed in the window of
Fred Mintz’s drugstore in Shal
lotte.
The picture is the property of
the Shallotte Business and Pro
fessional Woman’s club and will
be sold later this year to provide
funds for the many civic and
educational projects sponsored by
this organization.
The landmark depicted is the
Old Miller Hotel in Southport,
and is by the talented and prom
inent Wilmington artist, Claude
Howell, noted for, among other
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Brunswick Folks
At Convention
Controversial Issues Before
Baptist State Convention
In Their Session This
Week In Raleigh
Miss Annie Mae Woodside, E. J.
Prevatte, Mrs. Margaret McRack
en and Rev. and Mrs. Leo Haw
kins were elected as official mes
sengers to represent Southport
Baptist Church at the Baptist
State Convention being held at
Raleigh this week.
Other churches in Brunswick
county are also represented at
the convention.
A number of important deci
sions have been placed in the
hands of delegates to this con
vention, among them being settle
ment of the controversy of wheth
er or not to permit dancing at
the Baptist colleges. The matter j
of federal assistance to these col
leges and to church supported
hospital will be considered.’
The New Group Attended
Breakfast Served In Com
munity Building Monday
Morning By Citizens Of
Southport
MAKE TRIP ABOUT
SOUTHPORT HARBOR
Visit To This Area Included
Boat Trip Up The River
To Sunny Point Army
Terminal For Tour
And Briefing
Members of the State Ports
Authority were guests of the citi
zens of Southport at breakfast
here Monday morning and after
ward made a tour of the harbor
and the trip up river to the South
wharf at Sunny Point by boat.
The breakfast was an informal
meal, prepared and served by
ladies of Southport in the Com
munity Building. The building had
been attractively decorated, a log
fire was burning in the big, open
fireplace and the breakfast of
country ham and eggs helped get
the visitors off on the right foot
for a busy day.
Mayor Eugene B. Tomlinson ex
tended a brief word of welcome,
then introduced members of the
State Ports Authority and other
guests. Chairman John M. Reeves
responded on behalf of the vis
itors.
Other members of the State
Ports Authority are William
Grimes Clark, Jr., of Tarboro,
vice-chairman; General R. L.
Eichelberger of Biltmore Forest;
Earl Norfleet Phillips of High
Point; Kirkwood Floyd Adams of
Roanoke Rapids; Collier Cobb, Jr.,
of Chapel Hill; and Charles Dowd
Gray of Gastonia.
Accompanying them on their
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Savings Bond
Sales Increase
Chairman Prince O’Brien
Reports Brunswick Has
Purchased 72.4 Percent
Of Established Quota
The Savings Bonds picture in
North Carolina during October
improved, with the Series H Bond
sales showing a 7.5 per cent in
crease over those of October, 1956.
Sales in Brunswick County were
$7,171.60 and for the ten-month
period through October, $49,979.51.
This is 76.6 per cent of Brunswick
County’s annual goal of $65,280,
according to the monthly sales re
port released today by Prince
O'Brien, County Volunteer Savings
Bonds Chairman.
Total Savings Bonds sales
amounted to $4,277,313 in North
Carolina during the past month.
Cumulative sales of Savings
Bonds in the state for the year
amount to $39,367,472, which is
72.4 peT cent of the state’s 1957
sales goal of $54.4 million.
Ten counties in North Carolina
have already sold their 1957 sales
quota. They are Dare, Gates,
Macon, Onslow, Alleghany, North
ampton, Stanly, Chowan, Moore,
and Cherokee.
Ruark Novel Is
Story Of Early
Experiences Here
“Old Man And The Boy” Is
Off The Press And Is Re
ceiving Favorable Reviews
In Many National Publi
cations
WALL STREET JOURNAL
IN LENGTHY REVIEW
Book Is Compilation Of
Stories Of Hunting And
Fishing Exploits Of The
Young Author With
His Father And
2 Grandfathers
“The Old Man And The Boy”,
latest novel by Robert Ruark, is
off the press and this week
Southport and- Brunswick county
is receiving much favorable pub
licity as the scene of these in
teresting tales of the early life
of the author.
Time Magazine, which did not
deal too kindly with Ruark’s
“Something of Value”, found
something to like in this collec
tion of stories about hunting and
fishing experiences which Bob
Ruark recalled from his youth.
Originally they appeared in Field
and Stream, and the new book
is a collection of 28 of the best
from this series.
The New York Times also did
a favorable review of the new
book, but it was the staid and
statistical and sometimes dull
Wall Street Journal that the new
Ruark work was warmly em
braced. One full column was de
voted to this treatment, and in
the opening paragraph Brunswick
county gets top billing as the re
viewer says:
“Quite early in Robert Ruark’s
new book the Old Man says to
the Boy: ‘There is hardly any
thing that a smart dog can’t
teach a man.’ Granting that—and
a man almost has to if he wants
to understand Brunswick County,
North Carolina—there is very lit
tle indeed that a smart old man
can’t teach a smart young boy.
The remarkable memory of Robert
Ruark shows he listened well."
And closer to home, in The
News and Observer Sunday Char
les Craven gave full and friendly
cover-age to this book which he ob
viously enjoyed reading.
Port Tonnage Of
Local Interest
Wilmington’s Place As On.©-,
Of Leading Atlantic Ports
Has Local Economic Im
pact
Port tonnage figures compiled
by the Corps of Engineers show
that th New York-New Jersey
center led the country in 1956
with 155 million tons.
Wilmington harbor with 4,777,
000 tons ran second to Jackson
ville, Fla., 6,588,000 tons, among
South Atlantic ports. Savannah
had 4,157,000 tons, Charleston
4,118,000 tons and Morehead City
479,320 tons.
Total waterborne commerce for
the nation hit a new record in
1956 with 1,093,000,000 against
1,016,000,000 tons in 1955.
The tonnage figures were re
leased by the Corps’ Wilmington
District.
There is considerable local in
terest in tonnage for the port of
Wilmington, since several mem
bers of the Cape Fear Pilots As
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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 Cow Tide
Thursday, November 21,
7:29 A. M. 12:59 A. M.
7:41 P. M. 1:40 P. M.
Friday, November 22,
8:18 A. M. 1:47 A. M.
8:30 P. M. 2:29 P. M.
Saturday, November 23,
9:06 A. M. 2:34 A. M.
9:17 P. M. 3:15 P. M.
Sunday, November 24,
9:52 A. M. 3:19 A. M.
10:04 P. M. 4:01 P. M.
Monday, November 25,
10:37 A. M. 4:04 A. M.
10:51 P. M. 4:46 P. M.
Tuesday, November 26,
11:22 A. M. 4:50 A. M.
11:39 P. M. 5:32 P. M.
Wednesday, November 27,
0:00 A. M. 5:38 A. M.
12:07 P. M. 6:19 P. M.