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Volume No. 19
THE STATE PORT PILOT
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
No. 49
8-Pages Today
The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1959
5c A COPY
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Adjournment Is
Principal Aim
Of Legislature
Two Major Pieces Of Legis
lation Must Be Handled
This Week If Session Is
To Close During Week
End
NO NEW LOCAL BILLS
ARE INTRODUCED
Rep. James C, Bowman Re
mained In Raleigh During
Past Week-End To Help
Speed Job
By JAMES C. BOWMAN
One of the most important ques
tions of this session of the Gen
eral Assembly, to be decided this
week, is adjournment.
Your Representative was re
quired to remain in Raleigh over
the weekend in order to answer
all outstanding correspondence, to
place his committee files in or
der prepare fox' what appears to
be some very hot debates on ex
tremely important issues.
As far as adjournment is con
cerned it is certainly possible that
this session can conclude its bus
iness late Saturday, June 20th,
or early Sunday morning. In the
lah.er event, the clock will be
stopped at midnight Saturday, if
there is a possibility of adjourn
ment, and the session will con
tinue until all business is con
cluded sometime Sunday morning.
The two most important bills
to be considered by the House
during this are the Court Reform
bill and the bill providing for
revisions in the State constitution.
With regard to the latter bill,
the provision which limits one
Senator to each county in the
State will probably generate more
debate than any other provision
in the Revised Constitutional
amendments.
Several provisions of the Court
Reform bill will be attacked, prin
cipally, that provision which
places the rule making authority
of courts at all levels in the
hands of the Chief Justice of the
Supreme court. The provisions of
both of these bills, which are in
the form of constitutional amend
ments, will be placed before the
people in a State wide vote.
No bills effecting Brunswick
county only were introduced dur
ing the past week.
S. B. 388, introduced by Senator
Frink, provides that at the next
election membership of the Board
of County Commissioners will be
increased to five members from
the present three-member board,
was ratified on June 9.
S. B. 427, introduced by Sena
tor Frink, amending the Long
Beach charter to provide for a
new system of voter registrar on,
was ratified on June 11, and is
now law.
H. B. 879, introduced by your
Representative, providing for the
incorporation of the Town of
Ocean Isle Beach, was ratified
on June 10.
II. B. 1187, introduced by your
Representative, which raises com
pensation of Justices of the Peace
from $1 to $2 in cases where cash
bonds are forfeited in highway
traffic cases was ratified on June
11.
H. B. 1147, introduced by me,
which provides for procedures in
preparing school budgets and
method of accounting for school
funds, passed the House on June
8, was received in the Senate
and sent to the Appropriations
committee.
( Continued On Page Six )
Brief Bits Of
lnewsj
BUSINESS VISIT
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. McAuley
of Rocky Mount spent Saturday
in Southport on business.
BAR CONVENTION
Ray H. Walton, Ernest E. Par
ker and Davis C. Herring are
attending the convention of the
N. C. Bar Association this week
at Mayview Manor at Blowing
Rock.
ATTEND MEETING
County Commissioners R. E.
Bellamy and F. H. Swain, County
Attorney D. C. Herring, and Mrs.
Ressie Whatley, county auditor,
have been attending a session of
county officials in Asheville this
week.
LIONS CLUB
The regular meeting of South
port Lions Club will be held to
morrow (Thursday) at the Com
munity Building. While this has
not been officially designated as
Ladies Night, Lions have been
encouraged to invite their wives
to this meeting.
Receives Scholarship
HONORED—Miss Gwen Clemmons, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Edwin Clemmons of Supply, and a graduate of
Shallotte High School, has been awarded the annual
Shallotte Business and Professional Women’s Scholarship.
Mrs. Johnsie Holden, President of the club, presented the
scholarship to Miss Clemmons at the graduation exercises.
Miss Clemmons plans to enter Meredith College in Ral
eigh this fall, where she will study Religious Education
Tobacco Farmers
To Visit Station
Brunswick County Growers
Will Visit Border Belt To
bacco Research Farm On
Thursday
LATEST METHODS TO
BE DEMONSTRATED
Farmers From This County
Will Participate In Morn
ing Program; Good At
tendance Being
Urged
The annual Tobacco Field
day will be held at the Bor
der Belt tobacco research
station, June 25, from 9 a.
m. to noon.
The station is located five
miles northwest of Whiteville
on the old Lumberton-White
ville highway. There will be
sufficient signs pointing the
way to the station either
from Whiteville or Chad
bourn.
The program for Brunswick
county will begin at 9 a. m.
so that small groups can be
organized so everyone at
tending will be able to hear
the entire program. The tour
of the Field Day can be
made very effective and
worthwhile.
This will be a good chance
to see the experimental work
that is being done on tobacco
plus some demonstrations
showing some of the best
and most up-to-date produc
tion practices.
Some of the things that
will be seen and discussed at
the field day are old and
(Continued on Page Six)
Library Moving
Project Ending
Few More Details Remain;
To Be Straightened Out
Before Open House Is
Held Next Week
Work at the Southport Public
Library is being completed this
week and plans are to open with
in the next week so that the
public may start using the im
proved facilities and the greater
number of new books that have
been added.
Tentative plans are for an open
house next week, at which time
the Southport Woman’s Club will
serve refreshments to all who
come to visit the library. The ex
act date and time will be an
nounced in The Pilot next week.
The following have been help- i
ing • with the work of accession
ing and placing the books: Mrs. i
E. C. Blake, Miss Lottie May :
Newton, Mrs. Ed Weeks, Mrs. C. :
K. Stanaland, Mrs. Robert Jones, <
Mrs. S. T. Bennett, Mrs. Phil
.(Continued on Page Four)
Asks Marking Of
Dangerous Wreck
Southport City Manager C.
D. Pickerrell, in a recent let
ter to Coast Guard officials,
has requested that a wreck
marker he placed on the re
mains of the Confederate
blockade runner “Ella”.
Though small hang buoys
mark the inshore limits for
safe navigation off the south
western shore of Bald Head
Island, Pickerrell has request
ed that a buoy be placed di
rectly over the wreck for the
protection of small craft and
outboard operators.
Pickerrell, in the letter,
made specific recommenda
tions that the wreck not be
demolished, stating that it
affords good fishing for an
glers seeking many of the
smaller varieties of game
fish.
News Report On
English Shrimp
Letter From Lt. Col. Wm.
F. Murphy Indicates That
Shrimp Supply Has Been
Off At Southport, Eng
land, As Well As Here
A letter this week from Lt.
Col. Wm. F. Murphy, still sta
:ioned at Southampton, England,
reports that he recently made a
fleeting visit to Southport, Eng
and.
“I intend to go back for a lon
ger visit”, he said, “and will drop
n to see the Mayor. I will let
/ou know more particulars at a
ater date.”
A clipping from a local paper
vhich he enclosed indicates that
:he shrimp!s) supply at South
port, England has recently im
proved just as it has at South
port, North Carolina. Here is a
reprint of this news item:
“Southport shrimps, in short
supply during recent years, are
returning to the shops. The pres
ent season, which began in Sep
.ember, is regarded as the best
'or many years.
“Until icy water flows to the
sea from the first heavy frost
)r snow on the Pennines, there
should be plenty of shrimps for
everybody.
“As one shellfish merchant put
t, ‘Nature always evens herself
>ut. Nobody is grumbling.’
“Now, at the height of the
season, there are pienty of
shrimps all along the coast,
inough to keep just about every
>ne busy.
“Another person in the shrimp
(Continued on Page Four)
Early Assembly
Programs Draw
Many Visitors
State R. A, Camp Being
Held This Week At Bap
tist Assembly At Fort
Caswell Site
SUNDAY SCHOOL
WEEK OF JUNE 29th
Staff Assembled And Physi
cal Facilities In Readi
ness For Carrying On
Summer Program
A State R. A. Camp, with the
Rev. B. W. Jackson in charge, is
in session at the Baptist Assem
bly at Port Caswell. This program
will last through next week.
This will bring the pre-season
program up to the June 29th date,
which marks the beginning of
Sunday School Week, expected to
be one of the major sessions of
the summer season. Dr. Herman
Ihley will be in charge.
The physical plant at Caswell
has been placed in readiness for
the busy weeks which lie ahead,
and among the more important
improvements have been the ad
dition of 9 family-type apart
ments.
Most of the summer staff al
ready is on hand, and is com
prised of college boys and girls.
Several of them will be returning
for their second and third years
of duty.
Fred Smith, who is manager of
the Baptist Assembly, has the
same responsibility for the Fruit
land property owned and operated
by the Baptists. This keeps him
busy commuting between the
mountains and the sea.
Among the early season pro
grams that have been held thus
far is a retreat by members of
Zebulon Baptist Church ;a retreat
by members of Clinton Baptist
Church; and a program conducted
by the Baptist Student Union for
students from N. C. State and
University of North Carolina.
“Little Man” Is
District Visitor
Col. Raymond Phillips, Who
Had Early Connection
With Sunny Point, Re
turns For Visit
By Steve Wall
“The Little Man with the
Satchel” is back in the state
again but he is not on a Sunny
Point hunt this time, so far as
has been learned.
.Just nine years ago, Raymond
M. Phillips hesitated along the
banks of the Cape Fear River,
asked a few questions and then
flew off to Washington. In his
briefcase was something special
for Brunswick County.
Almost overnight, Engineer sur
vey men were seen up the river
running lines and recording eleva
tions. They worked early and
late, Saturdays, and Sundays, too.
Noting this, the late Bill Keziah
wrote in his Roving Reporter;
“Something big must be on the
way for Brunswick County be
cause the Engineers don't or
dinarily work on Sundays.”
How right Bill was. But what
a time he had in getting some
facts to ease that ever-discern
ing mind. Those in the know
could not talk, but, Bill, aware
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Enters College
MAYES HAWES, son of Mr.
and Mrs. D. H. Hawes of Bolivia,
has entered summer summer
school at State College, where he
will enroll as a freshman in the
School of Engineering this fall.
He was valedictorian of his grad
uating class at Bolivia High
School this spring. In addition,
he was a three-sports star in ath
letics.
Frink Opposes
Bill Governing
Use Of Boats
Brunswick County Senator
Says He Expects Passage,
But Registers Objections;
Explains Teacher Pay
Stand
Senator S. Bunn Frink declared
Monday that he was opposed to
the State boating act as proposed
by the present form of legis
lation, but he added that he
thought it would pass anyway.
“I cannot see the point in rais
ing the price for license to give a
job to a bunch of people who are
not trained in handling matters
pertaining to water safety”, he
said. “I have' spent considerable
time in the Coast Guard, and I
think that problems of this na
ture can best be handled by that
branch of service.”
Senator Frink said that when
the matter of the $10,000,000
teacher fund came up he voted
against the bill, this despite the
very positive stand he had taken in
favor of it previously. “When I
studied the bill more closely”, he
declared, “I became . convinced
that the teachers will fare better
under present plans, allowing that
their contingency raise comes
(Continued on page 6)
Agitation For
Ferry Not New
Reports From Colonial Re
cords Indicate That This
Has Been Going On For
More Than 200 Years
Agitation for ferry service
acx-oss the Lower Cape Fear is
nothing new in the annals of
State government, for minutes of
the Colonial Records of North
Carolina of 1727 reveal that a
General Court in session at Eden
ton gave favorable action to a
petition of citizens of this section
for such service.
The spelling, and the phrasing,
(Continued on page 7)
TIME and TIDE
By JIMMIE HARPER
It was June 14, 1939, and "a company recognized for many
successful efforts in locating buried treasure” was soon to
descend on Bald Head Island. Our newswriter waxed romantic
in reporting this project, saying "popular local supposition is
that pirates, who once strongly peopled Bald Head Island, buried
much of their plunder on the west end of the huge property.”
A bit more realistic, but equally romantic, was the report that
Annis Jean and Barbara Weeks, departed the week before for
Washington, had seen England’s king and queen there. A new
menhaden fisherman, the R. B. Hawley, had been pressed into
service at Brunswick Navigation Co.; pelicans had been seen in
the vicinity; and another reptile, this one a Mexicon horned
toad, had been found in Southport, and subsequently on the
front page of The Pilot.
Our Not Exactly newsman had noticed that there were two
sundials in service locally. One belonged to Mark Farguson, and
the other was in the yard of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Hewett. This
same column had noted a good crop of young sailors, among
them Donnie St. George, Jack Christian, Lenhardt Davis, and
Johnnie Simmons; but the most not exactly of news that week
appeared as an editorial blurb, to wit; “We don’t know what the
temperature was on Friday, but it was meanest around 12
o’clock.”
It was June 14, 1944, and The Pilot’s front page was again
carrying news of the European invasion campaign. Bill Wells
had recently returned from a business trip to New York, and
among the sights he mentioned seeing there were Mr. and Mrs.
.Continued On Page Four
Southport Man
Back From Trip
Brig. General James Glore
Returns Home From Nine
Week Trip To East Paki
stan On Government Busi
ness
Brig. Gen. James Glore return
ed home Saturday following a 9
weeks absence, five weeks of which
were spent on the continent of
Asia, in East Pakistan.
This trip abroad was made as
consultant for the Tudor En
gineering Co., an agency working
with the International Coopera
tive Administration. His specific
mission was to make a study of
transportation facilities in that
county, and to present a report
on his findings. This he has
done in a voluminous printed re
port, supported by many photo
graphs.
The scope of his work encom
passed rail, highway, water and
air transportation facilities, and
during his stay the Southport
man traveled by every means
from ox cart to air liner.
“The purpose of this study’,,
Explained General Glore, “is to
determine what are the major
problems of transportation. Our
government has found that before
much progress can be made along
the road to economic recovery in
most of these foreign countries,
certain bottlenecks in transporta
tion must be discovered and re
BRIG. GEN. JAMES GLORE
moved.”
General Glore says that his
work laid the groundwork for
further investigation, but said
that he is not sure that he will
be involved in this next mission.
Pakistan lies in two parts,
separated by a distance of 1,200
miles. While his operations were
in East Pakistan, he entered the
country at West Pakistan. The
city of Dacca in East Pakistan
was his principal base of opera
tions.
Three More Marlin
Brought In Here
i
Red Cross First
Aid Awards Given
Thirteen Brunswick Coun
ty residents were among a
group which received certi
ficates of completion of the
Red Cross first aid course at
Sunny Point Army Terminal
recently.
Those from Southport in
cluded Morris E. Bevel, Harry
E. DeHart, Joel H. Edwards,
Randolph C. Grant, Robert
B. Green, Jack E. Hickman,
Charles W. Keller, James D.
Melton, Kenneth E. Poteet
and Charles R. Wallace; from
Bolivia: Frank C. Keller;
from Leland: Julius M. Ben
ton; from Shallotte: Henry
M. Fullwood Jr.
These men participated in
the three week program
which included nine class
meetings, totalling thirty
hours of instruction. Herbert
A. Nichols of Southport was
instructor for the classes.
Another Short
Court Session
Continuation Of Cases Re
sults In Early Adjourn
ment Of Recorder’s Court
Here Monday
The following judgments were
handed down in the weekly ses
sion of Brunswick County Re
corder’s Court Monday:
Lofton Freeman, stop law vio
lation; $10 and costs.
Curtis Long, taking child from
its mother; nol prossed. Assault
on female; nol prossed.
Johnnie J. Moore, improper reg
istration; nol prossed when
evidence of registration was given.
George R. Smith, assault upon
a female, 2 months on the roads,
suspended upon payment of costs
and 2 years good behavior. The
charge of assault upon a female
was nol prossed.
William B. Taylor was found
guilty of drunk driving and was
given 90 days, judgment being
suspended upon payment of costs
and a fine of $100.
Leon Hill was given 6 months
for assault with a deadly weapon
with intent to kill, suspended upon
payment of restitution to the pro
secuting witness in the amount of
$28, a fine of $25 and costs.
Moses Grissett was found guil
ty of assault with a deadly
weapon and was given 3 months
on the roads, suspended upon pay
ment of $15 fine and costs.
Marvin W. Raynor was found
guilty of driving 70-mph and was
fined $15 and costs.
Harvey Everett was found guil
ty of driving with improper reg
istration and without chauffeur’s
license and was fined $15 and
costs.
Continued On Page Four 1
:Capt. Walter Lewis Has
Two Productive Trips
While Another Southport
Boat Also Had A Marlin
Saturday
ANNOUNCE RULES
FOR TOURNAMENT
Thousand Dollar Prize For
Largest Blue Marlin Is
Being Offered By Co
Operating Agencies
Paul Russell of Troy took a
quick lead in the Southeastern
North Carolina marlin tournament
last Saturday with a 250 pound
blue marlin caught aboard his
boat, the Flying Fish, offshore of
Frying Pan lightship.
Capt. Raymond Lewis, skipper
of the private boat, reported that
the fish jumped several times
during the three-hour battle. •
Another Southport boat, the
charter fisherman John Ellen
skippered by Capt. Walter Lewis,
also boated a marlin in the same
area that day. The fish was land
ed by C. F. Hathcock of Greens
boro after a 45 minute fight.
Hathcock’s fish weighed in at 211
pounds.
Earlier in the week, Capt. Wal
ter Lewis reported the catch of
a smaller marlin, weighing 191
pounds. This fish was landed by
Boyd Jones, a member of a John
son City, Tenn., party.
Russell’s fish, the largest re
ported thus far in the Southport
Wrightsville Beach area, qualifies
as the leading contender for the
$1,000 cash prize offered jointly
by the Southport and Wrights
ville Beach Blue Marlin Commit
tees. Previously, the largest mar
lin reported in the area was Dr.
Norman Hornstein’s 230 pounder.
(Continued on. Page Four)
Methodists Set
For Homecoming
Interesting Events, Includ
ing References To History
Of Church, Will Be In
cluded On Program Sun
day
Finals plans are being made
this week by members of Trinity
Methodist Church for Homecom
ing Day, which will be observed
oh Sunday.
This also marks the last Sun
day in this conference year, and
the Annual North Carolina Con
fernce begins the following day
in Wilmington.
Scores of invitations have gone
out to former members and
friends who now live in other
parts of the State and in other
states. Arrangements are being
made for local Methodists to pro
vide the food for a bountiful din
ner to be served at noon.
An interesting program, fea
turing some of the historical high
lights of the church, has been
planned for the Sunday School
and morning worship services.
National Guard
Members Attend
Camp In Georgia
Battery C, Under Command
Of Capt. David B- Carmi
chael, Making First En
campment Since Reorga
nization
FORT STEWART IS
FAMILIAR TO SOME
Battery C Scheduled To Re
turn To Shallotte On Sun
day, June 21, Following
This Summer Training
Officers and men of Btry C,
2d AW Bn SP) 252d Arty arrived
at the Army Armor and Artillery
Firing Center at Fort Stewart for
two weeks of summer field train-'
ing Sunday, June 7th. The unit
left Shallotte, on a two-day motor
march, arriving without accident.
The first week has been spent ‘
on the firing range as the anti-.'
aircraft artillery Guardsmen fire
their twin 40-mm guns at radio ]
controlled planes. The second I
week will be devoted to field
exercises. '
Col. Kenneth M. Corbett, com-'
manding officer of the252d AAA I
Group and senior commander of*
the encampment at Fort Stewart,'
led an orientation program Mon
day, welcomed the troops, and *
explained the mission of the en-.
campment.
Following a parade on Satur
day, the men will be free for *
recreation trips to Savanna* I
Beach, Sea Island or other near- -
by points for recreation.
Btry C, commanded by Cap- -
tain David B Carmichael, is mak- I
ing its first summer encampment
since reorganization of the North
Carolina National Guard. How-.
ever, for most of the men, Fort
Stewart has been the summer
field training site for 12 years.
The basic weapon for AAA
guardsmen is the M-42, a self
propelled twin 40-mm rapid fira •
gun. After four days of firing'
at towed targets and small radio
contrQlled target planes called
RCATS, the TAR Heel Guards
men along with units from Ala
bama and Florida will “defend”
an air strip against “Agressor
Forces” in simulated combat.
Btry C will return to Shallotte
on Sunday, June 21.
Good Impression
Of This County
Recent Visitors Pass Along
Favorite Information To
Other Members Of Their
Religious Faith
Following the recent visit of
John W. Martin and Eli Miller,
members of the Amish, or Men
nonite faith, an expression of
their continued interest in South
port and Brunswick county as a
possible location for a colony of
their people has come in a letter
and in a clipping of an article
which the former has written in
The Budget, a nationally circulat
ed publication carrying news of
Amish and Mennonite people.
Martin evaluated his Southport
visit in the newspaper article, and
seemed well-impressed with
Brunswick, its people, the climate
and the land, with respect to its
being good soil from which to
make a living.
Following is the text of his
newspaper article:
“Although this is headed Burns
ville, it is being written at South
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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 Lon Ttdr
Thursday, June 19,
5:10 A. M. 11:29 A. M.
5:57 P. M. 0:00 P. M.
Friday, June 19,
6:10 A. M. 0:17 A. M.
6:54 P. M. 12:24 P. M.
Saturday, June 20,
7:09 A. M. 1:11 A. M.
7:49 P. M. 1:18 P. M.
Sunday, June 21
8:05 A. M. 2:04 A. M.
8:42 P. M. 2:10 P. M.
Monday, June 22,
9:00 A. M. ' 2:55 A. M.
9:33 P. M. 3:01 P. M.
Tuesday, June 23,
9:54 A. M. 3:44 A. M.
10:24 P. M. 3:52 P. M.
Wednesday, June 24,
10:47 A. M. 4:33 A. M.
11:13 P. M. 4:42 P. M.