Most Of The News
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Volume No. 20
THE STATE PORT PILOT
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
No. 7 8 Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1959 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
FHA Office In
Shallotie Now
With Columbus
Changes In Set-Up Of Or
ganization Result In Con
solidation Of Brunswick
With Columbus County
SUPERVISOR KNOX
TO HENDERSONVILLE
Shallotte Will Continue Ser
vice On Part-Time Basis,
With Office Hours On
Tuesday And Friday
According to A. M. Benton.
Area Supervisor for the Farmers
Home Administration serving the
southeastern area of North Caro
lina. it has been necessary to
make changes in the • county of
fice setup affecting Brunswick
and New Hanover counties. The
following changes are to take
place in the near future:
The full-time county office
serving Brunswick and New Han
over counties, which has been lo
cated- in Shallotte, was terminat
ed at the close of business Aug
usL 21.
Brunswick county will be serv
ed by a part time office and at
tached to the Columbus county
full-time office located in White
ville. Osco W. Jackson, County
Supervisor in charge of the FHA
program in Columbus and Bruns
wick counties, will divide his
time between the two counties
and will maintain office hours in
Shallotte, each Tuesday and Fri
day morning from 9 o’clock until
.12 noon for the transaction of the
agency’s work. The part time of
fice in Shallotte is located on the
second floor of the Coastal Drug
Store Building next to the ASC
and SCS offices.
New Hanover county will con
tinue to be served as a part, time
office, but will be attached to
the Pender County full-time of
fice in Burgaw. C. R. Dillard,
County Supervisor in charge of
the FHA program in Pender and
New Hanover counties, will con
tinue to maintain office hours in
Wilmington each Friday morning
from 10 o’clock a. m. to 12 noon.
The part-time office in Wilming
ton is located in Room 105 of
the Custom House, across the hall
from the County Extension
Agent’s office.
Simultaneously with the closing
of the Brunswick County-New
Hanover County FHA office, it
was announced that George W.
Knox, Jr., of Wilmington who has
been in charge of the Shallotte
FHA office, has accepted a trans
fer to Hendersonville, with the
agency.
Brief Bin Of
lnewsj
BENEFIT SUPPER
A benefit shrimp supper will be
served at Bethel Methodist
Church at Bolivia Saturday eve
ning, beginning at 5:30. Proceeds
will go to the building fund.
SOUTHPORT VISITOR
Floyd Kiiby, Sr., was able to
visit Southport on business Mon
day. He is making satisfactory re
covery from a broken hip, and
now is able to get about on
crutches.
BREAD SAUE
Members of the Bolivia Lions
Club will conduct a bread sale
Monday afternoon and evening,
the proceeds from which will help
finance the youth program spon
sored by that club.
VISITS PARENTS
Corp. Jackie Shaw and wife,
Helen,, of Ft. Benning, Ga., have
returned home following a visit
with his parents. Mr. and Mrs.
Lonnie Shaw, at Bolivia.
VISITING PARENTS
Lt. Jack Swan, Jr., is visiting
his parents. Capt. and Mrs. John
G. Swan, for 30 days. He has
been on duty in Korea for the
past 13 months and when he
leaves Southport will report for
duty at Fort Ord, Cal.
BENEFIT DANCE
Members of the Live Oak Gar
den Club of Southport are spon
soring a benefit dance Saturday
night at the Community Center
Building in Southport. Music will
be furnished by Billy Melton and
his orchestra.
DOG LICENSES
City Manager C. D. Pickerrell
issued a warning this week to all
dog owners to either get their
tags or1 prepare for trouble with
the law. "September 1 is the
deadline,” he declared. ‘‘On and
after that date we are going to
prosecute.” The city manager said
that less than one-third of the
dog owners have thus far pur
chased their licenses.
Famous Sculptor
DECEASED—Sir Jacob Epstein, right, is shown at work on a bust of Lord Bert
rand Russell, who is sitting as the model. The famous English sculptor died last week
in Londan, and his daughter, Mrs. Joe Lewis of Southport, left immediately for New
York to contact other members of her family prior to departure for London, where
she was to attend final rites for her famous father.
Jacob Epstein
Noted Sculptor
Dies In London
Internationally Known Art
ist Was Father Of Mrs.
Joe Lewis Of Southport
And Grandfather Of Leda
And Ian Hornstein
Sir Jacob Epstein, who rose
from the East Side slums of
New York to world fame as a
sculptor, is dead at 78.
A family spokesman disclosed
Friday that Epstein, one of the
most controversial figures in the
annals of art, died at midnight
Wednesday in his Hyde Park
home in London, across a narrow
street from the residence of his
friend and fellow artist, Sir Win
ston Churchill.
With him was his second wife,
Kathleen Garman Epstein, 54.
The creator of such figures as
“Genesis,” “Adam,” “Eve” and
“Ecce Homo”—which led some
critics to call him a genuis and
others a madman—had been in
ill health for months.
Coronary thrombosis, or stop
page in one of the heart’s main
arteries, ended Epstein’s long
career in the midst of what prov
ed to be his last controversy.
The spokesman said Lady Ep
stein delayed announcing tne
death until Friday because she
wished to rest before facing pub
licity.
Epstein had worked on his lat
est sculpture, including a figure
of Princess Margaret during the
morning and afternoon before his
death.
In death he was hailed by no
tables of British art as one of
the century’s greatest sculptors
by any standards.
“He was by far the greatest
Continued On Page Five
Examine School
Buses In County
Vehicles Found To Be In
Good Condition, With
Several New Units Hav
ing Been Added; Safety
Will Be Stressed
Patrolman H. F. Deal of the
State Highway Patrol inspected
Brunswick county school buses
this week and reported that he
found them to be in excellent con
dition.
“The mechanics should be con
gratulated for their fine work
and upon a job well done”, he
said. Herman Love is chief me
chanic, and he and his crew say
they anticipate a year of safe
and orderly transportation.
In this connection Corporal O.
H. Lynch of the State Highway
Patrol said this week that he be
lieves that parents con do much
to insure the safety of bus trans
portation with a little personal at
tention during these opening days
of school.
"Not only is the conduct of the
students on the bus largely gov
erned by the attitude of the par- j
ents,” said Corporal Lynch, “but ;
it is important where they stand 1
and what they do while waiting 1
for the bus to come. A little par- i
ental supervision on the home end 1
of the line may help solve a lot ’
of safety problems before they 1
i develope.
Record Enrollment
Is Expected Friday
Brunswick Men
On Committee
Two Brunswick county
men, Representative James C.
Bowman and Senator S. Bunn
Frink, have been named to
the North Carolina Commis
sion on Interstate Coopera
tion.
Governor Luther Hodges
has appointed Representative
Bowman chairman of the
group.
He also named Paul A.
Johnston, director of the De
partment of Administration,
At.ty. Gen. Malcolm B. Seaw
ell, and George Randall,
chairman of the Paroles
Board, to the commission.
Lt.. Gov. Luther Barnhardt
informed Hodges he had nam
ed Sens. Edwin Duncan of
Sparta, S. Bunn Frink of
Southport and Robert Lee
Humber of Greenville. Speak
er Addison Hewlett Appoint
ed Reps. Austin Jones of
West Jefferson, Bowman of
Southport and Herbert Hardy
of Maury.
Church Music
School Planned
Interesting Course Of Study
Will Be Available Next
Week At Mill Creek Bap
tist Church
The annual school of church
music of the Brunswick Baptist
Association will be held August
31-September 4, at Mill Creek
Baptist Church. The purpose of
this school is to aid in the devel
opment of an effective music min
istry in the churches. Special em
phasis will be placed upon attain
ing a practical and worshipful
program within the reach of every
church.
A variety of classes will be of
fered, designed to meet the needs
of church musicians. “The Begin
ning Music Reader”, a book for
those who have had little or no
music training, will be taught by
Ben Johnson of Southeastern Bap
tista Seminary, Wake Forest.
David VanHook, Minister of
Music of Temple Baptist Church,
Wilmington, and a graduate of
Southern Baptist Seminary, Louis
ville, Kentucky, will teach "The
Beginning Vocalist”, a book of
exercises and discussions in voice
training.
A non-technical course, “The
church Music Mammal”, presents
the blueprint for a Baptist Church
Music Ministry and will be taught
cy John Herbert Holden of Sup
ply. Mrs. Avery Lumsden will
:eaeh a class for those interested
n choral direction and congre
gational song leading. The text
>ook for this class is “The Tech
lique of Conducting.” A special
:ourse for children 9-12 is planned
n connection with the music
chool. “Junior Music Activity”
vill be directed by Mrs. j. j,
iawes, assisted by Mrs. A. S.
Continued On rag* Five
Brunswick County Schools
Will Open For Fall Term;
Teachers Back On Duty
Thursday Morning
NEW PRINCIPALS
AT SIX SCHOOLS
Supt. John G. Long Says
That Most Of Faculty
Vacancies Have Beep j
Filled; Polio Vacci.
nation New Re
quirement
Superintendent John G. Long
said Tuesday that preparations
are being made to take care of
6,000 boys and girls in the school
system oij Brunswick county as
the fall term opens Friday mor
ning.
Six schools will have new prin
cipals on duty.
At Southport Reginald Turner,
a former principal at Shallotte,
assumes the duties formerly held
for the past several years by
Thomas Webb. The latter will
teach this year at Dixon high
school in Onslow county.
At Shallotte Irie Leonard, for
mer principal at Southern Pines,
takes over the reins of Bruns-'
wick county's largest high school,
replacing A. A. White, who will
be principal at Manteo.
J. P. Snipes, former principal
of Griggs School at Poplar
Branch in Currituck county, suc
ceeds Eugene Nance, who has
moved to South Carolina.
Homer Thomas is the new man at
Leland, succeeding William West
as principal.
Neil Singletary returns as prin
cipal at Waccamaw.
Jonathan Hankins, former prin
Continued On Page Five
Establish Rate
For I960 Soil
Bank Payments
State Administrative Officer
Announces Rate Of Pay
ment At $10 Per Acre
Next Year
COUNTY PAYMENT
SET AT $15 PER ACRE
Several Factors Have Bear
ing Upon Payment To Be
Made To Farmers Un
der Latest Program
The basic rate of rental pay
ment in North Carolina under the
I960 Conservation Reserve of the
3oil Bank will average $16.00 an
icre, H. D. Godfrey, State Ad
ministrative Officer, Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation,
announced today. This is the same
is the basic payment rate in the
State under the 1959 program.
The basic rental rate for Bruns
wick County is $15 per acre.
For individual farmers, a per
acre rate will be set for the par
ticular land to be placed in the
Conservation Reserve taking into
consideration the productivity of
the land and limiting it to the
local fair rental value of the land
based on crops harvested during
the past 5 years.
The 1960 Conservation Reserve
program contains special incen
tives for farmers to place all their
eligible land in the program for
at least 5 years and a priority
system for accepting Conservation
Reserve contract applications. Eli
gible land, in general, is cropland
which is regularly used for cul
tivated crops or tame hay.
According to Godfrey, there
will be two types of payment un
der the progress—a cost-share
payment for carrying out a con
servation practice on the reserve
land and an annual rental pay
ment during the 3- to 10-year
life of the contract.
Forms for farmers to use in
requesting rate determinations for
their land will be available from
pounty ASC offices about the
middle of August. The period for
filing syeh requests will be Aug
ust 24-Sep«emb(.T ao.
Magazine Editor
Lions Speaker
Bill Sharpe Tells Lions To
Preserve The Beauty And
Character Of Southport
In Face Of Pressures
Bill Sharpe, editor of The State
Magazine, was the speaker at the
Thursday evening meeting of the
Southport Lions Club.
Sharpe, who was the first di
rector of the Advertising Division
of the Department of Conserva
tion and Development, counseled
his listeners not to become so
obsessed with their quest for in
dustry and expansion that they
will lose sight of the great natur
al advantages of this area for
vacationists and for retirement
living.
“There are not many towns in
North Carolina which still have
the character and the flavor you
have here in this area," he said.
“Some of these things are price
less, and once they have been
surrendered in the name of pro
gress, they can never be reclaim
ed.”
Continued Cm
re Five
TIME and TIDE
By JIMMIE HARTER
It was August 23, 1939, and two local favorites, Jack (some
one’s liver and white bird dog) and Whimpy (a member of the
Popeye cartoon strip clan had figured somewhat in the news.
The two were both noted hamburger eaters, but Jack had fallen
in with crew members of the USS Thrush and had set a new
record for hamburgers downed (without onions). During the
past week the community had witnessed an unusual military
operation: several small boats from the above mentioned tender
had gone adrift and had swamped. The Navy had a flight of
planes up the next day in search, and the finding of each craft
was marked by the dropping of a smoke bomb, several of which
had fallen in the river nearby.
Real, live people had also figured in the news that week. Miss
Nancy Hood had been hostess at one of the season’s top social
functions. Cards were played, and according to all accounts,
Mrs. Fred Willing copped the traveling prize, while Mrs. W. R.
McAuley cut consolation. Oddly enough, Miss Hodd was top
scorer at a similar affair given the following Friday by Mrs. L.
T. Yaskell. The USS Thrush, and her crew members, couldn’t
get out of the news that week, or so it seems, for the men had
been featured guests at the Long Beach dance on Saturday
night; our editorial writer was again cautioning tobacco farm
ers to spend their money wisely; and the game warden had an
nounced that he would accept part of same for just-arrived
hunting licenses.
It was August 2 ,, 1944, and people then, as now, were con
tributing to the local library’s stockpile of knowledge. Latest to
donate books were Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Stevens of Indian
Continued On Page Two
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Southport Soldier
SECRETARY’S FLAG—Cpl. Carey W. Spenser,
Headquarters Company, 1st Infantry Division, Ft. Riley,
Kansas, holds Secretary of the Army Wilber M. Brucker’s
flag during dedicaton ceremonies Monday at the Repub
lican River Bridge and the Fort Riley Interchange. Spen
ser is the winner of the nation’s highest peace time
award, the Soldier’s Medal, which he won while on duty
in Korea.
Senate Committee
Favors An Armory
Hardee Back On
Fisheries Board
Governor Hodges announc
ed last week the reappoint
ment of A. Winfield Daniels
of Charlotte and Lewis Har
dee of Southport as members
of the Commercial Fisheries
Advisory Board, for four-year
terms expiring July 1, 1963.
The Governor also announc
ed the appointment of Ralph
Meekins of Wanchese as a
member of this Board for a
four-year term expiring July
1, 1963. Meekins will replace
Arnold Daniels of Wanchese
who recently resigned.
Book Donation
Leads To Letter
Story Concerning Public Li
brary In The Pilot Re
news Acqaintance For
Boyhood Friends
When Capt. Ruben Drew re
ceived his copy of The State
Port Pilot early this month he
read where a volume had been
donated to the Southport Public
Library by Thomas E. Apple
white of Delco.
This rang a bell with the
Brooklyn citizens, native of
Brunswick county, who had at
tended private school over in Co
lumbus county in his boyhood. He
wrote a letter to the Delco donor
an dasked about some of his
friends of other years. Mr. Apple
white was one of these, and fol
lowing is a portion of his letter
to Capt. Drew:
“Dear Judge
“Do you recall the salutation?
Vivid is the picture when you and
your grandfather crossed the old
bridge in the horse and buggy,
with a little fodder sticking from
out behind the buggy, and arrived
at our home, where you were to
stay while attending school in
Cronly, N. C.
My father soon dubbed you
with the title Judge, and from
then on it wasn’t Ruben but
Judge Drew.
Well, Judge, your letter was a
surprise to me, but I assure you
it was an agreeable one. A little
over a year ago I was in Ut
N- Y., attending the wedding
a nephew of mine, and on
way back home we stopped
“ c- for a day or so. So
1 did not know you were thi
'Cronly is no more. The ns
was changed to Acme—very li
change there, perhaps it has g
down, but has hard surface r
thru the village. If you re
about where the Burns fan
lived, up the road, there has b
quite a change there, as Rie
Paper Co. has put in a paper
or'inn^h1, an<i 1 guesa ab0llt
r 100 houses have been built
the locality.
“Brinkley (the little place
of Cronly on the ACLRRO)
more. Its name has been cl
Continued From Page C
1
Report Of Senate Appropri
ations Committee Includes
Funds For Shallotte Arm
ory
THIS ACTION IS
NOT FINAL STEP
Conference Must Be Arran
ged With House Appro
priations Committee Be
fore Final Vote
The Senate ' Appropriations
Committee today approved a mili
tary construction bill that has
$1,657,000 in new money for 11
armories in North Carolina.
Included in this recommenda
tion was provision for $95,000 for
the construction of an armory at
Shallotte.
Announcement of the commit
tee’s action came late Monday.
Sen. Sam J. Ervin (D-NC), a
member of the Senate Armed
Services Committee, has been
working on the North Carolina
project for several months.
His office said the money for
the armories in the Senate bill
is over that provided in the
House appropriations committee,
which approved $794,000 for ar
mory and reserve construction in
10 areas.
The committee’s action does not
mean that the added money is
available. The bill is brought
out first must pass the Senate,
and then the differences between
the two bills must be worked out
in conference.
Present status of armory con
struction funds for the state is
this:
The House has passed an ap
Continued On Page Five
Prison Terms
For Defendants
Monday Was Bad Day For
Defendants In Brunswick
County Recorder’s Court
Monday was a day when a de
fendant in Brunswick county Re
corder’s court was liable to wind
up in jail.
On this list was Joseph A.
Cobb, given 12 months when con
victed of possession and trans
porting liquor. His automobile was
ordered confiscated.
Also going off for prison tex-ms
were Phillip Lapre, James R.
Murgatroy and Harvey Littlefield,
who were convicted of traffic vio
lations in this county, but who
also had theft of an automobile
charges hanging over them " in
Pender. Included among their
troubles in Brunswick was larceny
by trick. Each of the defendants
got 60 days.
Harold Clark and Lin Rideout
were convicted on charges of
larceny of a ski from a boat in
Southport. They were required to
make restitution and their sen
tences of 6 months each were
suspended upon payment of costs
and fines of $25 each.
Numerous other cases, most of
them growing out of traffic vio
lations, were disposed of.
I
Poundage And
Prices Advance
In Weed Sales
Whiteville Market Boasts
Five Straight Days In
Which Sales Totaled Over
Million Pounds
SEASONS HIGHEST
AVERAGE REACHED
Figures For Last Week Re
veal Average Price Of
$63 Per Hundred; Bet
ter Grades Reaching
Market
Tobacco warehouse doors stayed
wide open as Border Belt tobacco
rolled in, and the dollars rolled
out.
For Whiteville’s busy three- .
buyer market it meant five mil- •
lion-pounds-plus days with tobac- I
co selling for nearly $63 a hun- -
dred,
Information from all of the .
county's markets indicate heavy *
soles, many dollars. The U. S. I
department of agriculture called -
it "the heaviest volume and the '
highest weekly average” of the -
season.
For the tobacco itself, USD A I
reports an increase in the per- -
centage of good leaf with the pro
portion of leaf and smoking leaf .
nearly double with less lugs, -
primings and cutters.
Stabilization receipts dropped to
3.3 percent for the week, across ‘
the belt, with the season’s re- -
ceipts down to 6.8 percent. Last
year at the same point, FC had I
15.5 percent.
Overall, the belt report shows '
the price $1.31 over last year’s -
average at the same point, with
about 8 millions pounds less.
The Whiteville market moved -
nearly 4.6 millions pounds last
week for $3.5 millions. The season
market show’s 13,625,353 pounds
selling for just shy of $60.
Last week the Whiteville mar
ket had averages ranging up to
$64.68 with an overall average for
the week of about $62.75. Ware
housemen for the big market
which handles a large volume of
medium to low quality leaf, ex
pressed satisfaction at the trend,,
In Chadbourn, the center of one
of the best crops in many years
from a quality standpoint, there
have been 4,874,546 pounds moved
for a $61.89 average.
Tabor City, also drawing on
good fields, has totaled 4,396,924
pounds for a $61.42 average.
New Committees
For Lions Club
A. A. Dixon, President Of
Southport Lions Club, An
nounces New Assignments
A. A. Dixon, president of the
Southport Lions Club, has an
nounced the following committee
assignments for the ensuing year:
Program: Roy Robinson, chair
man, James M. Harper, Jr., D.
C. Herring.
Attendance: C. E. Bellamy,
chairman, H. G. Ratcliffe, Kirby
Sullivan.
Membership: James Glore,
chairman, W. P. Horne, Karl Hog
lund.
Finance: Louis J. Hardee, chair
man, S. B. Frink, W. G. Wells.
Sight: H. A. Livingston, chair
man, R. N. Clevenger, J. G. Long.
Boys and Girls: R. N. Cleven
ger, chairman, L. M. Pender
graph, Tom Gilbert.
Lion Information: Ray Walton,
chairman, C. R. Livingston, P. M.
Continued On Page Five
Tide Table
Following' Is the tide
for Southport during
week. These hours are
proximately correct and
furnished The State Port
through the courtesy of
Cape Fear Pilot’s
High
Low
Thursday, August 27,
A. M.
P. M.
Friday,
A. M.
P. M.
Saturday,
A. M.
P. M.
Sunday,
A. M.
P. M.
8:06
8:50
August 28,
9:02
9:48
August 29,
9:58
10:41
August
10:49
11:30
Monday, August
A. M.
P. M.
Tuesday,
6:17 A. M.
6:37 P. M.
Wednesday
7:01 A. M.
11:39
0:00
September
0:15
12:26
0:58