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Volume No. 18
THE STATE PORT PILOT
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
No. 38 6-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1958 5c A COPY
The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Brunswick Group
Appears Before
Road Commission
Rep. James C. Bowman Was
Spokesman For Bruns
wick County At Thursday
Afternoon Appearance Be-!
fore Highway Commission
SPECIAL SESSION
HELD IN WILMINGTON
Other Brunswick County
Citizens Present For Pre
sentation Of Highway
Needs Of County
Representative James C. Bow
man was spokesman for a dele
gation of Brunswick county citi
zens who appeared before the
State Highway Commission in ses
sion Thursday afternoon in Wil
mington. Also appearing before
this group was County Attorney
S. B. Frink and F. Herbert Swain,
chairman of the board of county
commissioners.
After presenting requests com
piled by the commissioners, Bow
man broached the subject of a
long-range plan for a highway
from Ft. Fisher to Bald Head
island, with the added proposal
that ferry service be provided be
tween that point and Ft. Caswell
and Southport.
During the course of his re
marks, Frink recalled that there
is legislation introduced by him
and State Senate in 1953 to pro
vide ferry service across the low
er Cape Fear.
The formal requests were for
repairs and additions to the pri
mary road system, as secondary
road requests are handled through
another approach. The projects
cover every section of Brunswick
county.
Later the commission announced
that it hopes to relocate US 74
76 at Leland putting an overpass
over the railroad and bringing the
road into the US 74-76 and US
17 junction. It would eliminate a
serious of traffic slowing curves
through a congested area.
US 74 was the topic of another
group, the East-West association,
seeking a direct route from Wil
mington to Charlotte. This group
wants a limited access route into
the Queen City from the Atlantic
port.
Brief Bit* Of
lnewsj
PASTORS CONFERENCE
The regular monthly meeting of
the Brunswick Baptist Pastors
Conference will be held at 12:30
o'clock Tuesday at Mt. Plsgah.
The Rev. J. D. 'Hales is pastor.
REVIVAL SERVICES
The Rev. D. J. Stoner of East
on Baptist Church, Winston
Salem, will be guest minister for
the revival next week at Mt.
Pisgah Baptist Church. Services
will be conducted at 7:30 o’clock
each evening, and everyone is in
vited.
REVIVAL MINISTER
Dr. W. D. Morris, pastor of
Temple Baptist Church of Wil
mington, will conduct revival serv
ices next week at Boone’s Neck
Baptist Church. Services will be
gin at 7:30 o’clock each evening
and will run Monday through
Friday.
LILY SALE
Members of the Junior Garden
Club, under the direction of Mrs.
Guy Garrett, will conduct a lily
sale on Saturday for the benefit
of the Brunswick County Easter
Seal Society for Cripple Children.
Mrs. John G. Swan is chairman
of this drive for the Southport
Woman’s Club.
COURT IN SESSION
Superior court is in session here
this week, with Judge Susie
Sharp of Reidsville presiding. The
first two days of the session,
which is for trial of civil cases,
was taken up with the case of
Long vs State Highway Commis
sion. It was expected that this
case would go to the jury this
afternoon.
NAVAL RESERVE UNIT
There will be a special meeting
of the Southport Naval Reserve
Unit Friday evening at 7:30
o’clock in the Community Build
ing All persons between the ages
o£ 17 to 18 Vi, or those with pre
vious military experience, are
UI'gcd to attend. The unit now
has a complement of 20 members,
and these will be sworn in Mon
day evening at the Naval Re
serve Center in Wilmington.
In Senate Race
RUNNING—Ray H. Walton, left, S. B. Frink, center, and Odell Williamson,
right, are all condidates for the Democratic nomination for State Senate. Both Wal
ton and Frink have served before in this office and Williamson has had prior legisla
tive experience as a member of the House of Representatives. This race promises to be
among the more interesting in the coming primary.
Candidates Enter
Primary Contest
Of Commissioner
I
Three Members Of Present
fioard And One Former
Member Seek Nomina
tion; Third Man Enters
Race For Coroner
This was the week that can
didates began to announce for
the office of county commission
er, and a total of four men made
their formal announcement. More
over, each of these four men has
experience in this office.
Included in the group are F.
Herbert Swain, chairman of the
present board, who now is com
pleting his fourth year in that
office; R. E. Bellamy and Dur
wood T. Clark, who are now com
pleting their first term; and R.
L. Ratoon, who served for several
years as county commissioner be
fore deciding not to run two years
ago.
The first candidate for the
board of education announced this
week when Chandler Rourk gave
notice that he will seek the pre
ferential vote for representative
to that body from the Shallotte
School District. Both Bolivia and
Southport are due to vote on a
representative this year.
The race for coroner drew a
third candidate this week when
G. C. Kilpatrick, who currently is
filling out the unexpired term of
the late Sam T. Bennett, filed for
this office.
Field Worker For
Cancer Is Visitor
Miss Martha Pugh Talks
With Local People About
importance Of American
Cancer Society Program
Miss Martha Pugh of New
Bern, field worker for the Amer
ican Cancer Society, talked with
a group of Southport residents
Thursday about the organization
Of a permanent chapter here in
Brunswick county. Tentative plans
were made for a meeting at an
early date, at which time she will
return to help with the organiza
tion.
During the course of her visit
she discussed some of the more
recent trends in cancer research.
The American Cancer Society is
fully engaged in the struggle
against leukemia. Current grants
represent an expenditure of near
ly $400,000, a level of support
exceeded only by appropriation of
the Federal government. This re
search on leukemia is concerned
with all aspects of the disease—its
cause, its course, its cure. More
over, because of the evidence sug
gesting a virus relation to leu
kemia, it is pertinent to note that
the Society is supporting some 40
grants in the virus research field,
which represent an expenditure of
about $1,205,000.
The American Cancer Society
is well aware that the rise in the
leukemia death rate in 25 years
has been exceeded only by that of
lung cancer. The percent increase
in reported death rates standard
ized for age for males for 1955
compared to 1930 was 192 per
cent, which is second to lung
cancer’s 647 percent. In felmales,
however, leukemia has increased
faster in reported death rates
than any site: 172 percent since
1930, as compared with 112 per
cent for lung cancer. There were
an estimated 11,310 leukemia
deaths in the U. S. in 1956, a rate
per 100,000 population of 6.8. Leu
kemia accounts for about 4.5 per
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Additional Funds
To Be Available
Brunswick County ASC Of
fice , Receives Definite
Word That Funds Will
Be Available For Appli
cants On List
FARMERS MUST ACT
IMMEDIATELY
Action Results From Addi
tional $250,000,000 To
Soil Bank Program Af
ter First Funds Were
Exhausted
A $250,000,000 supplemental ap
propriation for the Soil Bank’s
acreage reserve program, has
opened up the possibility for all
farmers who were placed on the
waiting list to be included in the
1958 program.
This is according to an an
nouncement toy Lonnie Evans,
county chairman of the Agricul
tural Stabilization and Conserva
tion committee.
Generally speaking, the only
farmers who will now be able to
participate in this program arc
those who visited the ASC Office
and had their names placed on the
register prior to the sign-up dead
line. The sign-up deadline on cot
ton and corn was February 20,
and the dead-line on tobacco was
March 7.
According to Mr. Evans there
are a few farmers in the County
whose names are not actually on
the register who might be per
mitted to take part in this pro
gram at this time. In these cases
there are definite conditions that
must be met in order for the
farmer to be eligible. The farm
operator must file with the coun
ty committee a certificate set
ting forth that he took positive
action in an attempt to parti
cipate, and showing that this ac
tion was taken after the opening
of the sign-up period, and not
later than the applicable closing
date.
Another requirement is that
this certification be received in
the county office not later than
April 18. The final condition on
acceptance of requests not timely
filed is that funds be available
in the county allocation to cover
the agreement after all farmers
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Oyster Planting
Begins In County
Forty Percent More Oysters
Will Be Planted In Bruns
v’ick County Waters This
Season
Gehrmann Holland, fisheries
commissioner for North Carolina,
reported Monday that the work
of planting 25,000 tubs of seed
oysters in the waters of Bruns
wick county began that day. This
is a 40-percent increase over what
was planted last year.
A tub represents 5 pecks. Local
j labor is being used for this work,
| which includes gathering small
' oysters, breaking them from clus
i ters and planting them singly on
bottoms where conditions are
favorable for their development
Helpers are paid at the rate oi
25-cents per tub for this planting
operation. Preference is given tc
those who have purchased com
mercial license for the operation
of their boats.
The work started near th<
South Carolina line and will pro
gress toward the Cape Fear area
with Lockwoods Folly being tht
terminal point.
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ASG Office Now
Has New Manager
Ralph Price has been named
office manager for the Bruns
wick ABC County Committee.
He was named after Mrs.
Ada L. Varnum resigned to
accept the position as Chief
Clerk in the office.
Price is a native of Colum
bus county, receiving his edu
cation in the Tabor City High
School. He is married and has
3 children. He was an Office
Manager Trainee from Nov
ember 1955 until December
31, 1956. He has been Chief
Clerk in the Hertford County,
ASC Office since December
31, 1956.
This change became effec
tive April 1.
FSA Ready To
Help Financing
Relaxing Eligibility Require
ments For This Farm
Credit Organization In
Effort To Aid Economy
Farmers Home Administration
has moved to do its part in help
ing to solve the unemployment
problems by loosening its eligibil
ity requirements for Farm Hous
ing loans. George W. Knox, Jr.,
County Supervisor for New Han
over and Brunswick County says
that under an authority received
from Horace J. Isenhower, State
Director, for the Farmers Home
Administration many farm fam
ilies are now eligible for Farm
| Housing loans to construct new
I houses, improve, modernize, and
repair their dwellings and other
essential farm buildings.
Repayments periods for these
loans may extend up to thirty
three years at four percent inter
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Supply Citizens
Form Community
Betterment Unit
j Nominating Committee For
New Group Is Headed By
J. J. Hawes; To Make
Report At Next Meeting
JULIAN A. GLAZENER
ATTENDED MEETING
Extension Specialist Made
Talk On Benefit Of This
Type Of Organization
And Showed Slides
A group of the Supply citizens
met again Friday night at the
Brunswick County Farm Office
to further organize the communi
ty development program. The
meeting was opened with a pray
er by A. S. Knowles, county
agent, who in turn introduced
Julian A. Glazener, extension pro
gram planning specialist from N.
C. State College. Mr. Glazener
spoke on community development
and showed slides to further ex
plain this program.
The group agreed to organize
and a nominating committee con
sisting of J. J. Hawes, chairman,
R. D. Clemmons, Mrs. Rifton Sel
lers and Mrs. Fred Parker were
appointed to elect a slate of offi
cers to be voted on by the group.
Another meeting will be held in
the near future to elect officers.
At the close of the meeting
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Shallotte Lions
Hear Nurse Talk
Miss Annie Lou Davis Dis
cusses Operations Of
Brunswick County Health
Department
Highlight of the Shallotte Lions
Club meeting of March 20 in the
Shallotte School Cafeteria was a
discussion of the public health
program in Brunswick County by
Miss Annie Lou Davis, senior pub
lic health nurse. Chick Taylor,
program chairman, introduced the
speaker.
“The Brunswick County Health
Department is considered new
when we compare it to many oth
ers in the State,” said Miss Davis.
“It was started just 8 years ago.
New Hanover for instance, was
started in 1879. For a department
as new as Brunswick's, much pro
gress has been made that we can
feel proud of. Most of the services
found in any of t'he other depart
ments are available here.
“While we do not have a lab
oratory,” she continued, “we can
use the laboratory services of
the State Board of Health, and
New Hanover County offers fur
ther laboratory services, as well
as, X-ray services. We must not
feel complacent at this time. We
have a long way to go yet.
“Our consultants at the State
Board of Health feel that our
biggest problems are environmental
sanitation and our high infant
death rate, and that these two are
directly connected. It is believed
there is much that can be done
about both of these.
“In 1956 Brunswick County had
the highest infant death rate in
this state. It was double that of
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i
TIME and TIDE
By JIMMIE HARPER
It was April 6, 1938, and, according to a headline, the political
pot was now at the ‘simmering’ stage. There was much specula
tion as to what might develop in the race for sheriff; four can
didates had announced their candidacy already. Capt. Huian
Watts, with his E. M. Lewis, had made the first bluefish catch
of the season; the grounds of the Southport (Episcopal and Meth
odist churches had been beautified with plants donated by J. L.
Sprunt; and in a triangular debate, the Southport High School
negative representatives (John Hall and Edward Taylor) had de
feated the Chadboum team.
In a rather informal front page news story, The Pilot that
week presented an anecdote, concerning two regular attenders of
the Methodist Sunday School—Jack Christian and his dog, Pal.
Our editorial writer had noticed the profusion of bootblacks with
some alarm, and had offered some suggestions on how to con
trol the “industry”; oranges cost 15 cents a dozen, men’s shoes
were $1 a pair, and a subscription to The Pilot cost $1.50.
It was April 7, 1943, and somehow the county had finally
reached its quota for the current Red Cross drive. A large por
tion.—over $1300.00, in fact—of the contributions had come from
Shallotte High School. Miss Annie May Woodside had been re
elected as county school superintendent; more county farmers
were getting REA service; and Russell Johnson had reported the
birth of a 118 pound calf at his Winnabow dairy.
Citizens of the Antioch community had begun work on a new
brick church; Wesley and Jfernes Johnson, attached to an Aimy
unit in the Canal Zone, vrere home on furlough; and a maximum
speed limit of 35-mph was feing rigidly enforced. Spring was in
the air, the tennis bug had bitten local court fans, and the clay
Continued On Page Four
English Mayor
VISITOR—Mrs. Mae Bamber, shown here in conversation with
Hubert Living-ton while p visitor in Southport several years ago,
arrived at the airport in Wilmington this afternoon for another
visit to this community. She is mayor of Southport, England,
and has maintained contact with friends in this area since her
previous trip to the United States. She will be guest of honor at
a reception this evening at the Community Building. She returns
to New York tomorrow.
Fishermen To Get
Training Courses
Name New Ship
For Long Beach
Long Beach on the Atlantic
coast, as well as Long Beach,
California has a namesake. It
is the Navy’s first nuclear
powered surface ship sche
duled to be delivered in 1960.
The record says she will
exceed 700 feet in length and
will displace some 14,000
tons, and will have virtually
unlimited high-speed cruising
radius without the need of
frequent refueling.
As a sequel to the U. S. S.
Nautilus, first. atomic power
ed submarine, the Long Beach
sets a precident in surface
vessel achievement.
Warning Given
To Dog Owners
Complaints Come From Va
rious Citizens Regarding
Depradations Of These
Pets While Running At
Large
“The City Aldermen have re
ceived complaints from property
owners with respect to dogs run
ning at large, ruining shrubbery,
and destroying property, and
otherwise becoming a nuisance,’’
said City Manager C. D. Picker
rell this week.
“The fact that the individual
dog owner has his dog inoculated
as prescribed by law and pur
chases a city dog tag does not
in any way excuse the individual
of liability or entitle the dog to
become a public nuisance,” he
warned.
“Tlie City Aldermen have the
power to regulate the manner in
which dogs are kept in the City
of Southport under the present
statue,” he declared.
”At this time the aldermen are
making a direct appeal to all
dog owners to consider their
neighbors’ property and the gen
eral welfare of the community in
the manner in which they keep
their dogs,” said the City Mana
ger. “It is believed this appeal
will be all that is necessary to
secure the full cooperation of
everyone and no further action
will have to be taken.”
New Program Of Vocation
al Training Being Made
Available Through U. S.
Bureau Of Education
MAKING PLANS TO
HOLD LOCAL CLASSES
Program Will Be Adminis
tered Through Board Of
Education, With First
Emphasis Upon Class
es For Adults
Edward Ludke of the U. S. Of
fice of Education in Washington,
D. C., was in Southport Thurs
day evening to explain a program
of vacational training for men
engaged in the various phases of
the fishing industry and offered,
through the State Department of
Public Instruction and the Bruns
wick County Board of Education,
to set up one of the training
programs here.
Also at this meeting were T.
Carl Brown, supervisor in the di
vision of vocational education, and
A. Wade Martin, assistant in the
Department of Labor in Raleigh.
These three men met at the
city hall with the mayor, members
Members of the Advisory
Council met Monday evening
and completed plans for a
course in net mending. This
will be 3-hour classes to he
held twice each week and will
be conducted by a qualified
instructor at the Dallas Pigott
Seafood House. The first ses
sion will Ibe held Friday, April
II at 1:30 p. m.
of the board of aldermen, repre
sentatives of the board of educa
tion, representatives from the lo
cal high school and a group of
interested citizens who wanted to
learn as much as possible about
the program.
Mr. Ludke, Mr. Brown and Mr.
Martin explained that this repre
sents an effort on the part of the j
federal government to provide
trade training of fishermen in
much the same manner that train
ing programs are maintained for
the various trades and industries
and for agriculture. "The fishing
industry long has been neglected
in vocational work”, said Mr.
Ludke, "and since this is such an
important source of our national
food supply, Congress last July
made funds available for a train
ing program for fishermen.”
He went on to explain that the
purpose of this plan is to give
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Revival Services
Begin In County
Starting Sunday
Part Of Simultaneous Revi
val Program Being Con
ducted By Churches Of
Brunswick Baptist Asso
ciation
LEADING MINISTERS
ARE PARTICIPATING
Sixteen Church In Bruns
wick Will Have Services
In Progress During
This Period
"You Can Know Him Now” is
the theme of the simultaneous
Revival Services which will be
held by the churches in the Bruns
wick Baptist Association during
the month of April. Sixteen
churches have chosen the week of
April 6-13 for this united effort,
and four other churches will be
having services during the pro
ceeding or following weeks.
Those churches joining together
for this crusade are Leland, Elah,
Goshen, Farmers’ Chapel, Antioch,
Supply, Mill Creek, Southport, Mt.
Pisgah, Prospect, Gospel Center,
Nelw Life, Town Creek, Boone’s
Neck, Friendship, Bowden Memo
rial, Lebanon, Bolivia, Sabbath
Home, and Mt. Olive. Each church
will announce its plans locally for
its services.
This campaign has been planned
and promoted by the Brunswick
Baptist Association’s Evangelistic
Steering Committee, Avery Lums
den chairman. Other members of
the committee are: Chairman of
Church Enlistment, Mrs. Margaret
MeRacken; Chairman of Finance,
C. G. Hammonds: Chairman of
Publicity, Mrs. Catherine Skipper;
Chairman of Radio and Television,
Rev. Paul Hardy; Chairman of
Fellowship, Rev. Fred Johnson;
Chairman of Census, Rev. Luther
Hawkins; Chairman of Prayer,
Mrs. Cora Frink; Chairman of
Music, Rev. Avery Lumsden,
Chairman Of Attendance, Rev. Leo
Hawkins; Chairman of Visitation,
Rev. W. T. Lundy. Rev. J. D.
Hales, Jr., moderator of the asso
ciation, has also assisted in pre
paring for this crusade.
A Crusade rally is scheduled
for 2:30 Sunday afternoon at the
Supply Baptist Church. There will
be a program of special music by
Mill Creek and Mt. Pisgah Church
Choirs and an inspirational mess
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Seeks Increase
In Conservation
Letter To Director Of De
partment Of Conservation
And Development Asks
That More Oysters Be
Planted
Southport attorney S. B. Frink
on Monday wrote a letter to Wil
liam P. Saunders, director of the
Department of Conservation and
Development in Raleigh, asking
that "some positive effort and
action be taken to promote the
planting and growth of oysters”
in Brunswick county waters.
Text of this letter follows:
“I am very much interested in
promoting the planting and grow
ing of oysters in the sounds of
Brunswick County. As you know,
the oysters in the sounds of
Brunswick County are almost ex
tinct and that some positive ef
fort and action must be taken to
promote the planting and growth
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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 Low Tide
Thursday, April 8,
6:55 A. M. 1:02 A. M
7:27 P. M. 1:22 P. M.
Friday, April 4,
7:48 A. M. 1:55 A. M.
8:20 P. M. 2:11 P. M.
Saturday, April 5,
8:40 A. M. 2:46 A. M.
9:12 P. M. 3:00 P. M.
Sunday, AprU 6,
9:31 A. M. 3:38 A. M.
10:05 P. M. 3:48 p. M.
Monday, April 7,
10:24 A. M. 4:29 A. M.
10:59 P. M. 4:39 p, m.
Tuesday, AprU 8,
11:19 A. M. 5:22 A. M.
11:55 P. M. 5:32 P. M.
Wednesday, April 9,
12:16 A. M. 6:18 A. M.
0:00 P. M. 6:28 P. M.