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Most Of The News All The Time Volume No. 20 THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community No. 5 SOUTHPORT, N. C. The Pilot Covers Brunswick County 8-Pages Today WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1959 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Whiteville Newspaper Editor Dies Suddenly Editor And Publisher Of The News Reporter Also Was Half-Owner Of The State Port Pilot A community bowed its head in shod; and grief Saturday as it paid the final homage to Leslie Stuart Thompson, 58, editor of The News Reporter of Whiteville. Mr. Thompson, editor of The News Reporter since 1938, died suddenly and unexpectedly about 4:35 a. m. Friday at Columbus county hospital. He had been stricken with a heart seizure about 3 a. m. at his home. There was intimation of such an at tack The services at Whiteville Methodist church of which he had been a steward since 1938, were followed by interment at Colum bus Memorial park. The Rev. P. O. Lee, pastor of the church, assisted by the Rev. L. D. Hayman, Southport, and Dr. G. E. Garlington, Wilming ton district superintendent, gave voice to the final homage as paid by one of the largest groups in recent history. Mr. Thompson’s death was en tirely unexpected by his family and friends. The day, Thursday, followed the pattern of a nor mal press day, and civic club meeting night. At 12:30 a. m. Friday, his wife, Mrs. Margaret Farrior Thompson, called him to end his reading— a practice common with him—and go to bed. About 3 a. m. he arose, appar ently not feeling well. His falling signalled the difficulty he was in. Medical assistance was sum moned, and he was rushed to the hospital. Conscious and apparently in no discomfort to the end, he met death quietly. Surviving with his widow, are a daughter, Mrs. James C. High; his brothers Bradlev O. Thomp son of Lumberton, und Emerson M. Thompson of Burgaw, and a sister, Mrs. P. D. Jones of Bur- i gaw. The rites Saturday saw as pall bearers five nephews, Robert Floyd of Fairmont; Edwin Floyd of Cary, Stuart Thompson of Bur gaw; the Rev. E. M. Thompson, Jr., of Stantonsboro, and Chester Ashley of Fairmont, and James M. Harper, Jr., co-owner with Mr. Thompson of the Southport newspaper. A delegation from the North Carolina Press association, of which he was president in 1955-56, represented the North Carolina organization. Continued On Page Five Brief Bit» Of lnewsj DANCE IS PLANNED Billy Melton and his orchestra will play for a dance at the Com munity Building on Saturday, August 29. It will be sponsored by the Live Oak Garden Club. ATTENDS CONFERENCE County Superintendent of Schools John G. Long is attending a conference for superintendents of schools in session this week at Mars Hill College. BOLIVIA MEETING " The Bolivia Community Devel opment Club will hold its regular meeting on Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock in the school cafe teria. COMMUNION SERVICE Communion service will be held Sunday morning at 8 o’clock at St. Phillips Episcopal Church with the Rev. Thomas S. Clark son in charge. Regular morning worship will be held at 11 o’clock. RETURNS HOME Mrs. Ella Aldridge has returned from the University of North Carolina where she took work in special fields of Public Health Nursing during the summer months. BACK FROM TRIP Mr. and Mrs. Dempsey Coleman , and son have returned from a visit to Colorado, where they vis ited their son, Airman Eric Cole man, who is in the U. S. Air Force and stationed at Lowery Air Force Base. RETURNS HOME Floyd W. Kirby of Supply has returned to his home from Janies Walker Memorial Hospital Mon day where he had been a patient since sustaining a broken hip two weeks ago. He is making satis factory progress, and on Tuesday visited his store. I (Photo by Baldwin) LESLIE STUART THOMPSON Preliminaries For ASC Farm Election rolling Places selected And > Community Election Board Members Named By Coun ty Committee COMMUNITY ELECTION DATE SEPTEMBER 10 Eligible Farmers Urged To Participate In Each Step Of ASC Elections For This Year Preliminary plans are being completed for the forthcoming ASC election, scheduled to be held on Thursday, September 10. Already the county election board has met and has designated polling places, together with a list of community election offi cials. This latter group now is in the process of compiling a list of nominees for each community, and these will be turned over to the ASC County Office Manager in order that they may be pub licized. Provision is made for nomina tions to be made by petition, and the final slate of candidates will be published at least two weeks prior to the electaion of commun ity committeemen. At the September 10 election the committeemen will be named, with one of them to serve as dele gate to the county convention which will be held on September 25. At that time the new county committee will be elcted, and this group will take office on October 1. It has been pointed out that all persons actively participating in the farm program are eligible to vote or to hold office, whether they be landlord or tenant. “The main thing we want”, said County ASC Chairman Lonnie Evans this week, “is to have every eligible person participate in this election.” Dredging Begins At Sunny Point The Dredge Pullan Of Nor folk Dredging Company Has Started Maintenance Work At Wharf No. 1 The dredge Pullen of the Nor folk Dredging Co. got started late Saturday night on the 1.6 million cu. yd. maintenance dredg ing job at the Sunny Point Army Terminal, the Corps of Engineers at Wilmington announced this week. The Pullen’s first work is in the entrance channel of the lower wharf with the discharge of ma .(Continued on Page Four) Spinning Rod Is Tarpon Tackle Fred Willing was the sec , ond local fisherman to land a tarpon, and this occurred sev eral years ago. Last week he scored again, and this gives some idea of just how diffi cult it is to catch a silver king. His latest catch was a 32-lb fish caught while spin casting off the point of Bald Head Island. He was using a 10-lb test line, and it re quired a half-hour to land the fish. Lions Hear Dr. Stuart Willis Noted Expert In Field Of Tuberculosis Gives Inter esting Information On Pro gress Made In This Field Medicine Members of the Southport Lions Club heard Dr. Stuart Willis, lead ing authority on treatment of tuberculosis, describe Thursday night some of the great progress that has been made in this field of medical science, yet he warn ed “tuberculosis is far from be ing washed up”. Dr. Willis is from Chapel Hill and is head of North Carolina Sanitoria. He came to Southport at the invitation of Lion Morris Cranmer. He was introduced by Dr. M. H. Rourk, former District Governor and currently Interna tional Counselor. Dr. Willis said that 25 years ago 75,000 died each year in the United States from tuberculosis. Last year he said that figure had dropped to 14,000. “The strange thing is that just about as many cases are discovered each year now as there were 25 years "ago. The big difference is in the re sponse to treatment,” he said. Use of the wonder drugs has brought about this great change, he said, and now a vast majority of the patients are able to return from the hospital to resume nor mal living. He urged that public concern for control of tuberculosis not be relaxed, for it has been only through improved detection meth ods and proper treatment that significant progress has been pos sible, he declared. Second Training Group At Sunny Point This Week Twenty-Three Officers And Two Enlisted Men Of Re serve Group From Bos ton, Mass., In Annual Field Training TRANSPORTATION MEN IN CIVILIAN LIFE Men Have Benefit Of Work ing Side By Side With Employees At Sunny Point Terminal During the past two weeks, the USAR Transportation Ammu nition Terminal (7457) from Bos ton, Massachusetts has been per forming its annual field training at the Sunny Point Army Ter minal at Southport. The unit is commanded by Colonel Timothy J. O’Leary who is the Director of Transportation for the City of Boston, Massachusetts. The unit has an authorized strength of 23 officers and 2 enlisted men. Many of the per sonnel of the unit are active in the transportation field in civilian life. Lieutenant Colonel Carl W. Kearsley owns and operates the Suffolk Storage Warehouse Com pany; Captain John J. O’Hare is the Sales Manager of the Reo Truck Agency at Boston, Massa chusetts; Captain Robert Z. Zar tarian is the District Manager of the Universal Carloading Corpora tion at Springfield, Massachu setts; and Captain Arthur J. Gould, who is the Yardmaster of the unit, is an employee of the New Haven ailroad. Among the members of the Na tional Defense Transportation As sociation are Colonel O’Leary, a past President of the New Eng land Chapter, and Lieutenant Colonel Kearsley who is the Re gional Vice-President for Massa chusetts. Name Committee To Zone Beach Y aupon Beach Residents Proceeding With Plans To Control Types Of Buil dings A special session of the town council for Yaupon Beach was held Monday evening to consider the proposition of adopting a zoning ordinance. After extended discussion con cerning the establishment of a suitable ordinance for the Town of Yaupon Beach and the apponit ment of a zoning commission, Commissioner E. G. Sinclair of fered the following motion: “Be it ordained by the town of Yaupon Beach “That, in order to avail the town of the zoning regulations and provision of the General Statutes of North Carolina, a zoning commission with all the powers conferred by law is here by appointed to recommend the boundaries of the various dis tricts and appropriate regulations to be enforced therein, the zoning commission to be composed of the following persons: “Bill Sharpe, chairman, G. V. Barbee, Jr., E. C. Setzer, A. A. Dixon, A. E. Rozar, A. E. Hamil, and P. R. Vann members. The motion was seconded by (Continued on page 6) Miraculous Esci pe RESCUE—Eight persons were rescued from the two above vehicles following their head-on collision Thursday morning on Highway 74-76, and their escape w^s just in the nick of time. Immediately after they were pulled from the wrecked cars, the two vehicles burst into flames. All eight passengers were hospitalized in Wilming ton. KENDALL L. HARDEE Shallotte Man Commissioned In National Guard Kendall L, Hardee Is Mem ber Of First Graduating Class For N. C. National Guard Officer Candidate School Kendall L. Hardee of Shallotte, a recent graduate of the North Carolina National Guard Officer Candidate School at Fort Bragg, holds the distinction of being a graduate of the School’s First Class. Hardee was among thirty-four candidates who received diplomas' and the gold bars of a Second Lieutenant on 20 June. Rigid military bearing and Esprit de Corps was displayed by the first class at impressive graduation ex ercises. Major General Capus Waynick, State Adjutant General, addressed the graduates and ap proximately 1,000 visitors which included the families and friends of the candidates. Other distin (Continued on Page Four) TIME and TIDE By JIMMIE HAKFEK It was August 9, 1939, and a front page cut-line that week announced that County Register of Deeds R. I, Mintz had re cently passed the state bar exam. Red Cross lifesaving classes had already paid off in full: Claude McCall and Johnnie Sim mons, just out of these classes, had figured prominently in the rescue of a small boy from the surf of Wrightsville Beach. Gene Austin, always a local favorite, had recently appeared in Wil mington; the Vanderbilt yacht Alva had been piloted into South port harbor by a member of the local pilot’s association; and an other yacht, this one an 18-foot kayak paddled by a New Jer sey couple, was also in port. Hunting licenses were to be put on sale at the last of the week, in plenty of time for the opening of marsh hen season. The steeple of Southport Baptist Church, recently visited by a stroke of lightning, was being put back into order. Irony lies in the fact that this same steeple had undergone these same re pairs, for the same reason, only four years before. The freighter Illinoian, aground on Battery Island since Monday of the pre- 1 ceeding week, had been re-floated; our editorial writer had won- i dered if upriver traffic had not better rely solely on local pilots : in the future; and Long Beach surf fishing had taken a sudden 1 jump. ; It was August 9, 1944, and the opening of county schools had been postponed due to a polio epidemic. The storm of the past , week had brought back memories of other storms long before. , Oldtimers had recalled one in 1898 which drove 30 damaged \ sailing ships into the harbor. On the recent storm, trees at Ft. ; Caswell, Orton, and in Franklin square had suffered; two shrimp 1 Continued On Page Two Major Tragedy Is Averted Thursday Hospital Trip By Helicopter Col. Earl I. Brown, retired U. S. Army officer, suffered a cerebal hemorhage at his home here Wednesday and was taken to Dosher Memo rial Hospital for treatment. On Friday an army helicop ter flew down from Fort Bragg and Col. Brown was transferred to the hospital on that big military reservation. Reports from the family in dicate that he stood the trip very well, and that his con dition is as good as can be expected. Civil Defense Is Subject Of Talk Col,. James B. McCumber, Director Of Wilmington New Hanover County Civil Defense, Is Woman’s Club Speaker Col. James B. McCumber, Di rector of the Wilmington-New Hanover County Civil Defense, was the speaker at the meeting of the Southport Woman’s Club on Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Davis Herring at Long Beach. About 25 members were present for the meeting. Col. McCumber acquainted the ladies with the general overall plan for defense in case of na tural disaster or neuclear war and told them of some of the ways in which they could prepare themselves and their families in case such disasters should strike. He distributed several booklets which had to do with home pro tection, emergency sanitation, and stocking emergency food stores. Col. McCumber told of the plan which has been formulated which designates Brunswick County as i reception area, and stated that if the necessity for evacuating Wilmington occurs, Brunswick would have to receive up to 10,000 evacuees and care for them until they could return to their homes. Mrs. E. C. Blake, Safety Chair man for the club, thanked the speaker for his talk. A letter was read from the for mer president, Mrs. J. C. Sanders, who is now in Alaska, telling of -he celebration which marked the mtrance of Alaska as the 49th state. A report was heard from the president, Mrs. James M. Harper, lr. concerning the bookmobile. It was reported that the buffet sup set which the club sponsored ten lays ago was a great success. A lift was sent from the club to diss Jeannette Gainey at Samar :and, this being a part of the date-wide prbject of Women’s Hubs to remember these girls in their birthdays. The hostesses were Mrs. Clin- ■ on Bellamy, Mrs. Robert Jones ! md Mrs. Jimmy Woltz. They! lerved delicious apple pie a la node with iced tea. Guests in :luded Mrs. James McCumber of Wilmington. Quick Action By 3 Near by Construction Workers Free Eight Persons From Flaming Wreckage VICTIMS ESCAPE WITH FEW MINOR INJURIES Head-On Collision Occurs In Brunswick County On Highways No. 74-76 Thursday Morning Quick action on the part of three nearby construction work ers prevented a mass cremation following a highway accident on 74-76 in Brunswick county Thurs day. The men jerked two flaming automobiles apart, broke windows and pried open jammed doors to release four women and four chil dren from what seemed certain, firey death. One of the women was Mrs. Francis Gabreski, pregnant wife of the nation’s No. 1 jet ace pilot. “Soon as we looked out the door and saw the cars in the ditch and burning,” said shop foreman R. P. (Rung) Spivy, "we grabbed our fire extinguishers and went running. “We could hear one of those lit tle girls a-cryin’ inside, but the cars were jammed together and afire in their front sections. My two men and I ran back and got our wrecker, hooked up and pull ed the cars apart. That little girl inside kept cryin’ louder and loud er, but we pried open the doors. One woman was unconscious. We picked up all but two little girls and moved them out. The little girls got out by themselves. A big crowd was gathering around by that time. “I’m certain the fire would have gotten them if we hadn’t had the tools and got to them when we did. And it was lucky that it happened just about 75 Continued On Page Six Ordered To Stop Work In County Action By Consolidated Board Of Health In New Hanover County Last Week May Upset Bruns wick Set-Up The Consolidated Board of Health of New Hanover county has ordered Dr. C. B. Davis, city county health director now on leave of absence, to give up his part-time duties as Brunswick County health officer, effective Sept. 1. The action requiring Dr. Davis to devote full time to his official duties as health director for Wil mington and New Hanover Coun ty came at a meeting of the Board Wednesday. To compensate Dr. Davis for his loss of pay from Brunswick County, the Board recommended that his present salary of $9,120 be increased to $11,520. Dr. Davis, who is attending a post-graduate course in chronic diseases at the University of Min nesota on a U. S. Public Health Service scholarship, is expected back the latter part of this month. Improvement Is Shown In Weed Sales For Week Grade For Grade Average Still Favorable, But Vol ume Of Low-Grade L,eaf Hurts Market Average GOOD DEMAND FOR BETTER QUALITY Volume Has Been Lighter Than Usual Thus Far As Farmers Have Been Completing Harvest Tobacco marketing along the Border Belt continued to show much the same picture as it has since it opened. The grade-for-grade averages for the poorer qualities continue - to hold high, but the volume of 1 low grade leaf kept total dollars down. There was some recession ' for the low qualities, but they - appeared still well over support. • There were exceptions in spots . along the belt where some better - tobacco is making a bigger show-; ing. The U. S. department of agri culture reports this: “There was no marked change - in average prices. However buy-1 ers began bidding $l-$2 above - support for more of the top; grades. “Quality of offerings was bet- ■ ter as more good leaf appeared‘ on the floors and less primings. - “Volume was fairly light espe-" cially on the Border markets. De- - liveries were heavier towards the • latter part of the week and heavy I sales are expected to continue.” Government figures show these' results as of the end of the sec ond week of sales: Whiteville 3,714,322 pounds for $2,124,637; Tabor City 1,288,562 pounds for $750,700; Chadbourn' I, 429,126 pounds for $870,707 and Fair Bluff 968,470 pounds for $565,496. As for the markets south, the * USDA reports “the bulk of the.' Georgia-Florida tobacco crop has been sold.” Ten of the 28 markets announced closing dates. Quality was dropping as the remanents came in. The Georgia-Florida average is now $58.77 as compared to $58.23 for the same period last year. Volume is 214 times greater at 137.3 millions against 50.9 mil lions pounds last year. Grandson Dies Following Wreck Officers Still Investigating Circumstances Surround ing Death Of Charles Ro ger Eason Charles Roger Eason, 20 year old New Hanover county youth, died early Saturday morning of injuries sustained in an auto mobile accident that occurred on the Caroalina Beach road. Investigating officers are not satisified with their findings sur rounding this fatality, and they are still at work on it this week. This young man was a grand son of Mr. and Mrs. Byron Drew of Southport. He was bom here April 15, 1939, the son of Preston J. and Mary L. Drew Eason. Surviving besides his parents, are four brohters, Jackie. Bobby, Allan, and Larry, all of the home! and a sister, Agnes, also of the home. Funeral services were conduct ed Monday afternoon at 3 p. m. in the Chapel of Andrews Mor t Continued on page four) 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 TMa Thursday, August 13, 2:32 A. M. 8:53 A. M. 3:26 P. M. 9:44 P. M. Friday, August 14, 3:39 A. M. 9:57 A. M. 4:30 P. M. 10:46 P. M. Saturday, August 15, 4:44 A. M. 10:58 A. M. 5:29 P. M. 11:43 P. M. Sunday, August 16, 5:44 A. M. 11:54 A. M. 6:24 P. M. 0:00 P. M. Monday, August 17, 6:39 A. M. 034 A. M. 715 P. M. 12:46 P. M. Tuesday, August 18, 7:30 A. M. 1:22 A. M. 8:02 P. M. 1:35 P. M. Wednesday, August 19, 8:17 A. M. 2:07 A. M. 8:45 P. M. 2:21 P. M.
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