Newspapers / State Port Pilot (Southport, … / Sept. 23, 1959, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of State Port Pilot (Southport, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
Most Of The News All The Time Volume No. 20 THE STATE PORT PILOT _A Good Newspaper In A Good Community The Pilot Covers Brunswick County No. 11 8-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1959 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Tobacco Sales Wind Up Today For Whiteville Last Of Columbus County Markets To Wind Up Season’s Business With Close Of Sales Today (Wednesday) PRICE AVERAGE CONTINUES HIGH Chadbourn Market Shows Gain In Volume Over Sales For Last Season, With Outstanding Average The 1959 season has all but slipped into the record books as far as the Border Belt is concern ed. In Columbus county, only Whiteville is left operating. And it is putting on a jam to add pounds to the record before the final chant this Wednesday. Chadbourn closed Friday, Ta bor City closed last Thursday, and Fair Bluff has been closed since Sept. 11. With Whiteville's closing down, only Mullins, which closed Thurs day, and Fairmont and Lumber ton which are expected to close Sept. 30 will be operating. Chadbourn, which has been in a tobacco selling mood all year, and has had an excellent run of fine leaf, closed out its last five days with 488,858 pounds for $308,470. U. S. Department of Agricul ture reports, in preliminary sur vey, indicate that Chadbourn sold 10,545,534 pounds for a season average of $62.97, possibly the highest on the Border Belt, Last year it sold just shy of 9 millions pounds, 8,988,027 for a $60.16 average. Tabor City, which has also been having a fine year, came through its last four day3 with 193,704 pounds selling for $117,879. Tabor City’s annual sales were 8,009,866 pounds for a $62.88 av erage. Last year, Tabor City was just a little ahead in pounds, 8.0&0.504, but the $61.19 average kept the money from matching this year’s $5,036,210. As for Whiteville, more than half a million pounds at the $61-$62 or better average are ex pected to be added to the 30,515, 535 pounds totaled up so far. The big, three-set market, has managed a $61.61 average in face of some heavy runs of low quality tobacco to pile up $18, 800,057 sales. It is anticipated that the Whiteville market will miss last year’s poundage of 32.7 millions, but not by the margin originally anticipated. Whiteville will probably have well over $19 millions in gross cash from its sales. As a market year goes, 1959 will probably be one for the books. It will probably be re cognized as a good year for all of the early chemical control fussing. It will probably be recognized as a good year despite late start ings because of cold, wet weath (Continued on Page Four) Brief Bite Of H\EWSJ LIONS CLUB The regular meeting of the Southport Lions Club will be held tomorrow (Thursday) evening at 6:30 o’clock in the Community Building. BENEFIT SUPPER A benefit shrimp supper will be served at Bethel Methodist Church, Bolivia, Saturday, begin ning at 5:30 p. m. The proceeds will go to the building fund. BOOSTERS CLUB The Southport Boosters Club will meet Friday night at 8 o’clock in the high school audi torium. This is an important meeting and a large attendance is urged. DONATED GIFT The Adult Women’s Sunday School class of the Bolivia Bap tist Church has donated receiving blankets to the nursery at the Dosher Memorial Hospital, South port. EXUM SUPPER The Exum Community and De velopment club will sponsor a sea food and chicken supper Saturday night from 4 to 8 p. m. at the Exum community park and build ing. Benefits from the supper will go to the Exum Community and Development club. Plates for adults will be $1. and $.50 for children. State Official Is Shallotte Speaker Charles Gordon Maddrey Will Be Principal Speak er At Annual Meeting Of Atlantic Telephone Mem bership Corp. Meeting Charles Gordon Maddrey, head of the North Carolina Probation Commission, will be the principal speaker at the second annual membership meeting of the At lantic Telephone Membership Cor poration Friday evening in the Shallotte high school auditorium. This meeting will give the pre sent officials of the organization an opportunity to report progress that has been made during the past 12 months and to outline some of the goals which lie ahead. Included will be the informa tion that the total number of subscribers has grown from 683 to 800 during the past year. Among the new projects are sev eral plans for expansion, and for the erection of a new business office building. Speaker for the occasion is a native of Hertford county. He is a graduate of Wake Forest Col lege and has been considerable service in the State Legislature, having been elected as represent ative in 1949 and 1951. Two years ago he was named to fill the un expired term of the late Roy Parker, who died while serving in GORDON MADDREY the Legislature. Maddrey is a past president of the North Carolina Farm Bu reau, is a member of the Rotary Culb and of the Kiwanis Club. He is a Mason. President of the Atlantic Tele phone Membership Cooperative is Harry L. Mintz, who urges a full attendance at the Friday night meeting. He reminds members that valuable door prizes will be be awarded during the evening. Record Powell Bill Funds For County Total Of $40,833.83 Receiv-: ed For Financing Street Improvement In 4 Bruns wick Municipalities LONG BEACH RECEIVES GREATEST AMOUNT Southport, Shallotte And Yaupon Beach Are Other Towns Participating In Distribution Three Brunswick county muni cipalities will receive a total of $36,922.33 in Powell Bill funds, acording to announcement made this week by the State Highway Commission in Raleigh. Heading the list will be Long Beach, whose almost 50-miles of streets helped to qualify for $23, 681.85. Southport will receive $10,892.90; Shallotte will receive $2,347.58; and Yaupon Beach will receive $3,911.50. More than 400 North Carolina municipalities will share this year in the distribution of $6,766,092.58 in Powell Bill Funds, according to the State Highway Commis sion. This represents an approx imate 4 per cent increase over the $6,477,457.37 distributed last year. During the nine-year period of aid under the Powell Bill, a total of $51,779,757.24 will have been dis tributed with the issuance of this year’s checks. Checks for their proportionate shares will be mailed on October 1 to 409 municipalities which qualify undear the 1951 statue qualify under the 1951 statue cent per gallon net State gaso line tax for the use of municipali ties in maintaining and improv ing their non-highway system streets. The net revenue from the tax amounted to $81,228.60 for (Continued on Page 2) Tax Collector Is Reappointed Mrs. Betty G. Prevette Named To Continue As Brunswick County Tax Collector For 1959 Levy Mrs. Betty G. Prevatte was re appointed Brunswick county tax collector Monday by members of the board of county commission ers. This was her fourth appoint ment to this post, and prior to assuming the position of tax col lector in 1956 she had served as deputy tax collector under Jack Brown and later under M. D. Anderson. Her reappointment apparently was based upon her record of col lections during the past year, for when she turned the 1958 books over to the auditor she had col lected 83-percent of the book value. Since collections still are being made on the 1958 levy this promises to be one of the best years for this department. Mrs. Prevatte has engaged Pa tricia Russ as her assistant, re placing Mrs. Clarice Ussery, who recently moved to Boston, Mass. Convention To Elect Committee The Chairman of each new ly elected community com mittees will attend the Coun ty Convention Friday, as delegate from his community, to elect the county committee for 1960. This convention will convene at 9:30 a. m. in the County Agriculture Building in Supply. All newly elected committeemen will take of fice on October 1. The county committee ,vill consist of three members, who will have charge of the farm program in Brunswick for the next 12 months. They do not have to be members of their respective community committee, but must be eligi ble voters in the farm elec tion. Charter Night At Bolivia Club Members Of Bolivia High School Faculty Guests Of Honor At Thursday Meet ing; List Of Awards Han ded Out Five charter members of the Bolivia Lions Club were present Thursday night for the 10th An niversary of the founding of that organization. Qualifying for this distinction were Douglas Hawes, Foster Mintz, J. M. King, Harold Willetts and J. D. Lewis, the lat ter now a member of the Shal lotte Lions Club. Guests of honor for this occa sion, which was ne’.d in the Bo livia School Cafeteria, were mem bers of the Bolivia High School faculty and their wives. During the presentation of awards Lion A. S. Knowles pre sented a bronze plaque to past Zone Chairman Kirby Sullivan; the Bolivia Lions Club received Continued On Page Two Officer Managers Meet In County Brunswick County ASC was host to District 3 Office Man agers at their regular monthly meeting Thursday. Attending this meeting from outside the county were: J. N. Bryan, district field man, Whiteville; Luther Bryant, program reviewer, George Bell, program reviewer both of the State Office; Mrs. Dorothy D. Spivey, office manager, Columbus county; Mrs. Julia Waddell, clerk and Livingston Roberts, chief clerk, Bladen county; Rufus Elks, office manager, Duplin county; Jeffress Wells, office manager, Robeson, county; Casper Wells, office manager, Pender county; Linder Orr, office manager, Ons low county; and J. ^ #ehlegel, office manager, '^Ranover county. Big Transaction Is Now Pending At Long Beach W. L. Scham, Head Of Na tional Development Corp oration, Outlines Plans For Development PLAN TO PURCHASE MIDDLETON INTEREST This Pioneer Developer Will Stay With New Corpora tion As Chairman Of Board Directors W. L. Schram, president of Na tional Deyelopment Corporation of Charleston, S. C., announced Tues day that his group was buying the remainder of the property in the Long Beach-Tranquil Har bour Development owned by E. F. Middleton and that plans call for speeding the development of this area. Schram said that he represents a group of North Carolina and South Carolina investors who see unlimited possibilities in the re sort development already under way on the lower end of Dong Beach. “We plan to take full advan tage of the vision and leadership of Mr. Middleton,” he stated, “for he will remain with us as chair man of the board of directors. Among the projects in immed iate prospect will be the erection of a 100-room motel, which will have facilities for feeding a large group of people, ample meeting space for small conventions, etc. Plans call for a luxury-type motel, with a swimming pool, beach cabanas an dother refine ments. Also on the drawingboard are plans for a 5-mile canal which will make literally hundreds of building sites available with deep water facilities for mooring boats. This canal would follow the course of Davis Creek and would be 100-feet wide, 10-feet deep. Sale of residential lots will con tinue, with more paving to be done within the next few months. Schram and Middleton left fol lowing the meeting for Charles ton, S. C., but plan to return Fri day with final plans completed for this giant undertaking. It is understood that arrange ments have been made with Lin coln Construction Co. for grading, paving and dredging. Seek Nominees On Co-Op Board Committee Named To Nomi nate Candidates For Board Of Directors Bruns wick Rural Electric Mem bership Corporation Eleven members of the Bruns wick Electric cooperative have been named as a nominating com mittee to suggest candidates for the board of directors. The cooperative will have its annual meeting Oct. 30. The nom ination committee meets Sept. 22. Members of the committee in clude Bryan R. Smith, Longwood; I. W. White, Tabor City R3; Ralph Jemigan, Whiteville R2; E. C. Grainger, Fair Bluff; D. H. Lennon, Evergreen Rl; Archie Buff kin, Whiteville R4; D. L. Mercer, Bolivia; G. T. Reid, (Continued on Page Two) Strange Birds In Vicinity GUARDS—This peaceful pasture scenene is more unusual that it may appear at first glance. For one thing, the cattle are a part of the Brahama herd on the Splayn Farm at Walden Creek. This breed comes from the continent of Asia, and the Bra hama is looked upon in India as a holy animal. The small white birds, one of whom is perched upon the head of the herd sire, are African Cattle Egrets, who have miga ted to the United States in recent years. They delight in picking ticks and flies from the animals as they go about their daily living. Cattle Attract Exotic Birds In Southport Area African Cattle Egrets Have Stood Fly Guard On Herds Near Southport During Summer Months By WATERS THOMPSON People riding by the Splawn farm Ipr visiting the Magnolia Dairy 4his summer could hardly fail to notice the flocks of white birds ill with the cattle. These birds ar4 African cattle egrets, v ThW jfre,jn*ite ..similar to "and in fact ari/ close relatives of our native) egrets and herons. Egrets in nfcst localities are called “whit* cranes”. For some reason, since this country was first set tled, Jeople have referred to mem bers ? of the heron family as “cranes”. As/ a matter of fact, very few peoiie have ever seen a native crane. There are only two species found in the United States, the whooping and the sandhill. The large white whooping crane is al most extinct and the sandhill is found only in sections of the Florida Everglades and other wild and remote places. The African cattle egret, shown with Splawn's Brahma cattle in the above photo, appeared on the East Coast of South America about 20 years ago. No one is sure just how they arrived there from Africa. In the ensuing years they have spread over the entire Eastern United States, having been seen as far North as Canada. In the summer of 1956, David Adams, a graduate zoologist of N. C. State College, was here doing research work on marsh hens. He discovered three pairs of cattle egrets nesting on Bat tery Island. This was the first breeding record of this species Continued On Page Four TIME and TIDE By JIMMIE HARt'if.ft It was September 20, 1939, and there was news that week of upcoming attempts at growing citrus fruit at Orton and on Bald Head Island. A veteran big-game fishing skipper had stopped here on his way south for the winter season and had added weight to the local contention that Southport was probably the best fishing spot north of Florida. Recent-marriage events had made Inez Harrelson the wife of Don Shannon; Murley Hood had been transferred from the Bogue Inlet Coast Guard facility to Oak Island; and the Southport School News told that Lula Marie Swan had been elected secretary of the freshman class. News of the preceeding week had it that the Long Beach Pavilion would be open for the entire winter. This week's Pilot announced that the building would be operated as an oyster roast. Lewis Hardee's Sea Queen had topped all other boats in daily catches on Monday when she had brought in 50 bushels of shrimp. All boats were doing well, but prices were down. Evan gelist H. A. Foster was holding forth at the Shallotte Methodist church; a premature war scare was being dispelled in a page one story; and we don’t know why, but food prices had been soaring in Mongolia. It was September 20, 1914, and never before had more square inches of bare, female flesh been spread over the front page of The Pilot. The picture, a good 3 col x 12-in. shot, showed a local lady holding two baby fokes, which animals were noticed only on second glance. Southport had once again been through a hur ri-ane scare, and once again had been spared; the San Jose, a trawler of the W. S. Wells fleet, had brought in a well-holed air craft gunnery target; and Miss Margaret Bartels had become the Continued On Page Four i i Superior Court In Session Here Clothes Give Clue To Arrest When he returned from the high school football game at Shallott.e Saturday night Police James F. Howard was informed that a Marine Pa trol unit had been here look r ing for a man who was A. W. O. L. Among the clues they left was the fact that the fellow sometimes wore a jacket bearing the inscription, “Member Of Olympic Drink ing Team”. “I’ve been talking to him tonight”, said the local law man, then headed out to see if he had returned to South port with the football follow ers. Sure enough, he had. The arrest was made and the Marine Patrol was called. Drape W. Martin was the young man wanted as a de serter, and he left later that night in the custody of the Marine Shore Patrol. Grand Slam For Sailfish Here AH 3 Watts Boats Bring In Sailfish Tuesday To Establish New Record For Fleet Capt. Hulan Watts has had three charter boats operating out of Southport for the past 10 years, and yesterday for the first time in history they all came in with a sailfish flag flying. As a matter of fact, the Idle On HI, of which Capt. H. A. Schmidt is the skipper, had two sails, to make it four for the day for the Watts fleet. Aboard the Idle On II, Capt. Basil Watts, a member of the Sam Hawes party of Conway, S. C., had a 4-ft, 4-inch fish as the star of their catch. Two Fayetteville men, a Mr. Scott and Sam Hammond, had sailfish, both over the 6-foot mark. Biggest of the day’s catch came in aboard the Idle On IV, with Capt. Hoyle Dosher as skipper. Guilford Klunk was the lucky man, and his fish measurer 7-ft, 8-in. This may be the largest Continued On Page Two Four Students Attend Chowan With the late registration pe riod almost at an end at Chowan College, 455 students have been enrolled for the 1959-60 academic year. Last year at the same time, 408 students had registered. This year’s Chowan record breaking enrollment includes four Brunswick county students: James T. Albright, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Albright, Bolivia; Harry B. Sell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sell, Southport; Don ald Lee Willetts, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Willetts, Bolivia; and Keith Randolph Williams, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. O. Williams, Ash. j5Judge Raymond Mallard Of Tabor City Presiding Over One Week Criminal Term In Southport CROWDED DOCKET BEING HANDLED Most Of Cases Are Of Mi nor Nature, With Many Defendants Entering Pleas Of Guilty As Charged Superior court is in session here this week, with Judge Raymond Mallard of Tabor City presiding over a term that thus far has brought to trial a multitude of cases of minor importance. For the most part Judge Mal lard's fines have been modest, but the provisions for some of the suspended sentences have ap peared to be a little on the stern side. The following were convicted of drunk driving. Road sentences being suspended upon payment of $100 fines and costs: Marion E. Henderson, Leo Russ, Thomas Hawes, Jonas Bryant and Woodus G. Evans. Provision also was made for supervision of each de fendant to see that he remains of good behavior, does not violate the law and remains gainfully em ployed. Robert Johnson and Robert L. Seoggin were found not guilty of drunk driving. Hosea B. Lanier was found guilty of common law robbery and was given 3-6 years on the roads. The case charging Robert Lee Simpson with larceny was re manded to Recorder’s court. Earl Pyatt pleaded guilty to charges of larceny and was given 4 months on the roads, suspended upon payment of fine of $25 and costs, the defendant to be of good behavior for 3 years and remain j sober and gainfullv emnloved. Numerous other cases are on ! the docket for the rest of this week. Page To Teach College Course Off-Campus College Credit I Course Will Be Offered In Brunswick, With Class es At Shallotte Two courses will be available for teachers and others interested in college credit courses here in Brunswick county this fall, ac cording to announcement this week from the office of the Board of Education in Southport. The courses to be offered are Physical Education, with parti cular emphasis upon practices and procedures in elementary school The other is a graduate course in Mental Hygiene. The instructor will be Tal madge O. Page, high school super visor of Wilmington, who taught1 several classes during the past! two years. The first session will : be Monday evening at 6 o’clock1 at Shallotte high school, and per sons desiring to take work for college credit may report at that time. Ferry Project Discussed With Southport Group W. F. Babcock, Director Of, State Highway Commis sion, Says That Complete Study Will Be Made Of Project INSPECT SEVERAL POSSIBLE SITES Highway Official Emphasize es Fact That Decision By Highway Commission Will Be Based On Facts Four representives of the State Highway Commission were in Southport Tuesday for a meeting, with Southport city offiicals and other interested citizens regarding ferry service between Southport and Fort Fisher. Heading the group of visitors was W. F. Babcock, director of the State Highway Commission.. He reported that study will be made of all factors pertaining to the establishment of this service, and that final consideration by' the Highway Commission will be based upon these findings. “I will say this”, he stated at the outset of his talk. “So far we have not developed evidence that would tend to show that the ferry is not needed. That, of course, is a negative approach, and the fact is that thus far neither have we been able to esta-. blish evidence that there is a serious ned for this ferry service.” Babcock reported that some of the considerations will be the cost of a ferry, the cost of operation —including the salary of licensed personnel; and the location of suitable sites for slips on both ends of the proposed route. He expressed no concern about being able to locate a suitable' place for a slip on this side of the river, but before he and his party, left they had a look at two or three possible locations. Representative James C. Bow man asked for a time-table on this pr/rtiect, and Babcock express ed doubt that serious considera tion could be given to financing the undertaking prior to the Jan uary meeting of the Highway Commission. Senator S. Bunn Frink, who started the ferry movement in 1951, spoke briefly before the group before returning to the afternoon session of Superior court. He urged that favorably consideration be given, and that the project be expedited as much as possible. I Present with Babcock for the Continues On Page 4 American Legion Meeting Monday Local Post Being Reactivat ed, With District Com mander Scheduled To Visit Post For Next Meet ing A preliminary meeting of local American Legion members herd Monday night with District Com mander James F. Calhoun of Wilmington led to a decision to reactivate the post in Southport other meeting has been called for next Monday night. Crawford Rourk has been nam ed temporary commander and W, R. Bomberger has been named temporary adjutant. Continued On Page Two 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 TMa Thursday, September 24, 0:14 A. M. 6:27 A. M. 12:43 P. M. 7:07 P. M. Friday, September 25, 1:08 A. M. 7:21 A. M. 1:38 P. M. 8:05 P. M. Saturday, September 26, 2:07 A. M. 8:19 A. M.‘ 2:35 P. M. 9:04 P. M. Sunday, September 27, 3:06 A. M. 9:20 A. M." 3:30 P. M. 10:00 P. M, Monday, September 28, 4:02 A. M. 10:16 A. M. 4:25 P. M. 10:51 P. M. Tuesday, September 29, 4:56 A. M. 11:10 A. M. 5:16 P. M. 11:39 P. M. Wednesday, September SO, 5:45 P. M. 0:00 A. M. 6:04 P. M. 12:01 P. M..
State Port Pilot (Southport, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Sept. 23, 1959, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75