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Volume No. 20
THE STATE PORT PILOT
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
No. 22 8-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1959 5c A COPY
The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Census Takers
Making Rounds
Of County Farms
Important To Have Infor
mation From Small Farm
ers As Well At From Lar
ger Operators
LIST ENUMERATORS
FOR THIS COUNTY
Work Of Completing Report
Will Be Speeded If Ques
tionnaire Is Filled Out
In Advance
The 1959 nationwide farm cen
sus, one of the biggest farmer
government cooperative under
takings of this decade is now
in progress in Brunswick county
It is the seventeenth nation
wide census in which farmers and
the United States government
have participated in the last 120
years.
Brunswick county agricultural
operators, small, large, and in
between, for the past several days
have been giving census takers
the kind of cooperation an
enumerator needs in this nation
wide count of farm acres and pro
ducts, county by county, farm to
farm. The owner of one hog, for
example, is important as is the
operator of hundreds of acres, be
cause, of the more than 4,600,000
farms in the nation, many of them'
are the smaller operations.
At one time North Carolina and
Pennsylvania ranged first and sec
ond in the nation in number of
small farms and small towns. In
many towns and villages there are
owners of livestock and fowl, and
operators of a few acres of land,
who qualify as agricultural op
erators.
Farm census questionnaires
have mailed to every farm op
erator in Brunswick county. The
census takers, the census bureau,
wili appreciate the farmer filling
out the form which he received.
That enables the census taker to
complete the work in an orderly
and efficient manner.
Census takers, or enumerators,
for Brunswick county are: Eugene
Baines, Mrs. H. W. Benton, Mrs.
Charlie O. Holden, Welton Hugh- j
es, Horry Jenrette, Mrs. E. J.
King, Mrs. Earl Long, John H.
Mills, Jr., Mrs. Aldreth Phelps,
Mrs. Bryant Potter, Mrs. Harold
Willetts.
Supervisor for Brunswick and
New Hanover counties is Stuart
D. Patrick of Wilmington.
Farmers themselves, through
Continued On Page 4
ON DEAN’S LIST
Phillip King III of Southport
made the Dean’s List at Wilming
ton College for the first quarter.
CHURCH BAZAAR
The Women of the St. Philips’
Episcopal Church will have a
bazaar Friday from 10 to 5
o’clock at the Parrish House.
LIONS TO MEET
The regular meeting of South
port Lions Club will be held to
morrow (Thursday) evening at
6:30 o’clock in the Community
Building.
TO OPEN SHOP
A new jewelry store is in pros
pect for Shallotte, with the new
business being operated in the
Kravitz building. The proprietor
will be Sam F. Frink.
BENEFIT FISH FRY
A fish fry will be held at
Yaupon Beach Methodist Church
on Friday night from 5 to 7:30
o’clock. The event is sponsored by
the Women’s Auxiliary of the
church.
BENEFIT BARBECUE
There will be a barbecue sup
per, pit cooked on church grounds
the day of serving, at Zion Meth
odist Church, Town Creek, on
Saturday, December 5, beginning
at 6:30 p. m. Proceeds will go
to the building fund of the church.
TO ATTEND CONFERENCE
John G. Long, Superintendent
of Brunswick County Schools,
will attend the winter meeting
of the Division of Superintendents
of the NCEA in Durham next
week. Theme of the conference
will be the “The Superintendent
and Educational Leadership”.
NEW PASTOR ARRIVES
The Rev. and Mrs. Owen and
family moved into the Baptist
Church parsonage this week, and
he has assumed the pastorate of
Southport Baptist Church. A re
ception in their honor will be held
Friday evening between the hours
of 8 and 10 o’clock in the Com
piunity Center. Everyone is in
vited.
General Tank Is
Tuesday Visitor
Commanding General U. S.
Army Transportation Ter
minal Command (Atlan
tic) Inspects Sunny Point
Brig. Gen. James F. Tank visit
ed Southport and Sunny Point
Tuesday, and during the course
of his visit set at rest rumors
that operation of the nearby U. S.
/ rmy Ammunition Terminal by
the government is to be discon
tinued in June.
General Tank described Sunny
Point as "the most modem am
munition loading terminal in the
world” and said that it possesses
features which will be of inestim
able value to the United States
in the event of war.
"Southport may be a small
town”, he said, "but here at
Sunny Point you have the most
efficient and safe facility for han
dling ammunition that is now in
operation in the world”.
Following a tour of the nearby
terminal, made in company with
Lt. Col. W. S. Norman, command
ing officer, and Col. Richard J.
Dial, deputy under General Tank,
the latter officer expressed satis
faction with what he had seen.
This was his first visit to Sunny
Point.
As Commanding General of the
U. S. Army Transportation Ter
minal Command (Atlantic) the
Sunny Point facility falls under
his command. When he left here
he continued his way to Charles
BRIG. GEN. TANK
ton, S. C., another port under his
command.
.General Tank was pleased with
the friendly relations that exist
between Southport and the mili
tary installation. He was told of
the economic influence that has
returned from this operation and
of the pride which local citizens
have in the terminal.
Before going out to Sunny
Point with Col. Norman, he and
Col. Dial made several visits here
in Southport, including one to
City Hall here they were met by
Mayor Roy Robinson.
Street Projects
Getting Attention
Howe Street Now Paved
Curb-To-Curb From Moore
Street To Bay; Survey
Being Made For Drain
age
SAFE WALKWAY ON
MOORE EXTENSION
Sidewalks Being Built In
Two Sections, With City
Furnishing Labor And
Property-Owners The
Materials
Several street projects have
been completed recently in South
port, with other work still in pro
gress, including two sections of
sidewalk being installed.
Among the recent improvements
was the curb-to-curb paving of
Howe street from Moore street
to Bay street and the improve
ment of shoulders on Moore
street across Fiddlers Drain. An
important part of this project
was the erection of a restraining
wire fence bordering the marsh.
Another street being shrubbed
out in preparation for later grad
ing is a route from the intersec
tion of Fodale Avenue with the
old River Road. This street will
come out at Dosher Memorial
Hospital.
City forces are at work this
week shrubbing off the city prop
erty which is a part of the new
cemetery tract. This is just a
beautification project, but a street
will be opened up across one end
of the property.
There are two sidewalk paving
operations in progress here this
week. One is on Moore street,
near the Howe street intersection,
where the level of the walk is be
ing raised. The other is on West
street, in the second block from
the Howe street intersection.
In both instances the adjoining
property owners are paying for
materials and city forces are do
ing the work.
Order Autopsy
In Infant Death
Coroner Reserves Decision
In Death Of Jarrell Child
Pending Outcome Of Ex
amination
One of the siren blasts heard
Tuesday morning in Southport
was a summons to the Southport
Volunteer Rescue Squad to the
Jarrell home near Southport
where an unsuccessful effort was
made to revive a 5-months old
child which had smothered to
death in the bed.
Coroner Lowell Bennett said
last night that arrangements had
been made to hold an autopsy
today (Wednesday) at James
Walker Memorial Hospital in Wil
mington. He declined to give
opinion as to the cause of death
until the resuits of this examina
tion are made known.
Funeral services for the child
Continued On Page 2
Lennon Will Be
Here Next Week
Congressman Alton A. Len
non will be in Brunswick
county next week to talk to
citizens in various communi
ties about any problems they
may have.
His schedule calls for him
to be at various points in
Brunswick on Tuesday and
Wednesday. On Thursday he
will be at the courthouse in
Southport from 9 o’clock in
the morning until 5 o’clock
in the afternoon.
He will be at his district
office in Wilmington Monday
and Friday for appointments
and to handle mail.
Road Hearing Is
Scheduled Here
Highway Officials And Di
vision Engineer Will Hold
Public Meeting In Com
munity Building On De
cember 15
Residents of Brunswick County
will have an opportunity to pre
sent road requests, petitions and
problems to Third Division high
way personnel at a public hear
ing here on Tuesday, December
15. Announcement of the meet
ing was made today by Division
Engineer T J. McKim, who is in
charge of the hearing.
City and county officials, along
with the general public, are invit
ed to attend the meeting if they
have road problems which they
feel should receive attention.
The hearing will be held be
tween the hours of 2 and 4 p. m.
on Tuesday, December 15, at the
Community Building in Southport.
The Third Highway Division
conducts regular monthly public
hearings for the purpose of hear
ing requests and explaining the
road program to interested citi
zens.
50th Anniversary
Banquet Planned
Interesting Highlights From
History Of Organization
Will Feature Program
Next Thursday
Members of the Southport Wo
man’s Club, and a few drafted
husbands, are busily at work pre
paring for the 50th Anniversary
Banquet which will be held Thurs
day night, Dec. 10 in the Com
munity Building.
Skits depicting the first few
years of the club will be drama
tized, and an enjoyable evening
Continued On Page 2
Provide Penalty
For Undesirable
Weed Varieties
Support Rates For Several
Discount Varieties To Be
Only 50-Percent Again
Next Year
SAME PROVISIONS
APPLIED THIS YEAR
Warning Given To Farmers
To Obtain Seed From
Only Most Reliable Sour
ces This Year
Prices for flue-cured tobacco
from discount varieties will be
one-half the support rates for
comparable grades of other va
rieties in 1960.
This is a continuation of the
variety discount program that
was operated this year by ASC,
according to Lonnie Evans, Chair- !
man of the Brunswick ASC com
mittee. According to Evans, dis
count varieties have been classi
fied by State and Federal scien
tists located in this area as "low
to lacking in flavor and aroma,
generally of light body, and|or
currently with poor acceptance in
the trade.”
In order to avoid the possibility
of a ' farmer unknowingly plant
ing a discounted variety, farmers
should procure their seed only
from reliable sources. Only in this
manner will the farmer be able
to certify that he is not planting
one of the discounted varieties.
According to Evans, the quota
of 1,078.6 million pounds, con
verted to acres, results in 715,110
acres available for allotment in
1960. Acreage available for allot
ment in 1959 totaled 714,327
acres. The small increase in the
1960 acreage is required by law
to be used for establishing allot
ments for farms that have not
grown flue-cured tobacco during
the past 5 years, for correcting
errors, and for adjusting inequi
ties. Thus, for most farms, 1960
allotments will be the same as
in 1959.
In a referendum December 15,
1958, a total of 96 percent of
the State’s flue-cured tobacco
growers voted in favor of quotas
through 1961. Marketing <4ux>ta.s
have been in effect for flue-cured
tobacco every year since enact
ment of the Agricultural Act of
1938 except for 1939, when they
were disapproved by growers.
Knowles Urges
Good Turn-Out
Tobacco Meeting Scheduled i
To Be Held On December ,
9 At Waccamaw High
School Auditorium
i
Brunswick County Agricultural
Agent A. S. Knowles, urges to
lacco growers to attend the coun
ty-wide tobacco meeting to be
held at Waccamaw School on
Wednesday, December 9, at 7:30
p. m.
Roy R. Bennett, Agronomy Ex
tension Specialist in Tobacco, will
be the speaker for the event.
Bennett has been tobacco special
ist for the N. C. State College Ex
tension Service for several years
and well qualified to lead a dis
cussion on latest production prac
tices.
This meeting is being held early I
in December to give tobacco <
growers the benefit of getting the I
Continued On Page 4
Library Visitors
INTERESTED—One of the highlights of the recent visit to Southport of Mrs.
Mae Bamber, council woman and former mayor of Southport, England, was an inspec
tion of the local public library, to which numerous volumes were contributed by citi
zens of her native city through the efforts of Mrs. Bamber. Shown standing at one end
of the library are Mrs. C. D. Pickerrell, Mr. Pickerrell, Mrs. M. H. Rourk, Mrs. Bam
ber, Harold Aldridge, Mrs. Robert Jones, Mrs. H. A. Livingston, Mrs. Susie Carson,
Mrs. James M. Harper, Jr., Mrs. Frank Daniels, sister of Mrs. Bamber, Mrs. Phil King,
librarian, and Mr. Daniels.—(Huntley Photo.)
Visiting Mayor
Has Gifts For
Public Library
One Of Highlights Of Her
Recent Visit To Southport
Was Inspection Of Library
Facilities By Mrs. Mae
Bamber
Mrs. Mae Bamber, former
Mayor and now Councillor of
Southport, England, personally
presented a gift volume to the
Southport Public Library on be
half of the present Mayor, Wil
liam Berwick during her recent
visit here. Accepting the book
‘An Architectural Guide to Lan
:ashire” were Mrs. James M.
harper, Jr., chairman of the Li
brary Board of Trustees, and
Vfrs. Philip King, acting librarian.
Mrs. Bamber also presented the
library with the official Visitors
3ook from the Mayor’s Parlour
n Southport during her term as
Mayor, and a color portrait of
lerself in her Mayor’s robes. As
soon as the portrait can be fram
'd, both these items will be on
iisplay in the library.
The gift from present Mayor
Berwick marks contributions to
he Southport Public Library
Continued On Page 4
Marina Planned
Near Shallotte
Washington, D. C., Firm
Reported To Be Interest
ed In Providing This Type
Of Facility On Shallotte
River
A Washington, D C., firm plans
;o build a yacht basin and marina
m the Shallotte River, according
o Congreve Jackson, president of
Continued On Page 2
TIME and TIDE
By JIMMIE HAKI'JKK
It was November 29, 1939, and a trailer camp was under con
struction at Ft. Caswell. A new booklet put out by the Conserva
tion and Development people was heavily studded with Bruns
wick names: Clarendon, Town Creek, Lilliput, Orton Plantation
(and more next week). The Southport girls team had won a
28-27 decision over similar members of the faculty, but the boys
had fallen in the path of the ‘‘old men,” led by Rogers, Furpless
and Livingston, 32-23. The Pilot had once again aided two South
port families, far away from home, to get together; a poem
entitled “When Yaskell Goes A’Fishing” had appeared in the
fishing column; and, just like last week, there were 26 shopping
days left before Christmas.
The Leland Home Demonstration Club had obtained a club
house of its own that week, and a Western North Carolina group
was seeking such facilities. The Civic Club had been contacted
to help the mountaineers find a suitable location for a hunting
and fishing lodge. Mrs. H. T. St. George had done some power
ful entertaining during the past week, hostessing two bridge
parties in as many days; Pearce Cranmer and Ed Newton, both
working in Raleigh, were home for the holidays; and the new
Ford, featuring gear-shife on the steering-post, had just come
out.
It was November 29, 1944, and our editorial writer drawing
from the problems presented by the V-2 bombings of England,
had made some somber comments about the possible nature of
World War II. Mr. and Mrs. Donald St. George had announced
the birth of a daughter; D. I. Watson was back in the states
Continued On Page Four
Area Development
Awards Saturday
Third Annual SENCland
Development Association
Meeting Scheduled To Be
Held In Wilmington
EXUM REPRESENTS
BRUNSWICK COUNTY
This Community Develop.
ment Club Will Be In
Competition With Win
ners From Other
Counties
The third annual area awards
tor community development ex
cellence, sponsored by the SENC
land Development association, is
departing from its former format
for the December 5 meeting.
The Exum Development Club,
Brunswick County winner, will be
one of the contestants in the
finals of area competition.
This year the awards will be
given at a meeting at Wilming
ton starting at 10:30 a. m. Then
a picnic or covered dish luncheon
will follow.
Dr. J. T. Caldwell, chancellor
of North Carolina State college
will be the key speaker for the
meeting.
Under arrangements for the
meeting, according to an an
nouncement by R. L. Thompson,
Jr., secretary for the area group,
all participating in the luncheon
are requested to bring their own
baskets. Drinks will be provided
free of charge.
Some $1,000 will be divided
among communities in the south
eastern area of the state taking
part in the competition.
For the first place winner in
the area doing the best overall
job there will be a loving cup,
with second and- third place tro
phies awarded also.
To the community in each coun
ty doing the best overall job,
ther will be a $100 cash award.
Another $100 award will go to
the community in the area doing
the best job in youth programs,
and another $100 for the best
area community in home beau
tification.
Continued On Page 4
Chief Of Police
Position Filled
Herman Strong, Member Of
Police Department At
Laurinburg, Will Assume
Duties Here December IS
Herman Strong, member of the
Laurinburg Police Department,
has accepted the position of Chief
of Police for the City of South
port and will arrive here on De
cember 16 to take over these
duties.
The new chief had three years
experience as a military police
man during World War IX, and
prior to joining the police force
at Laurinburg served for 2 years
with the Fayetteville Police De
partment.
Currently he is specializing in
detective work.
Strong is married and he and
hie wife have two children, a
daughter, Pricilla, age 8, and a |
son, Larry, age 7, 1
Surprise “Turkey”
For Thanksgiving
When Mrs. Otto Hickman
went to get her turkey out
of the deepfreezer last week
she glanced out of the win
dow and was somewhat star
tled to see a scrawney, live
turkey walking through her
yard. Thinking that someone’s
Thanksgiving dinner had es
caped, she shooed him into
her chicken yard; and notic
ing that the bird appeared to
be a little undernourished, she
gave it some feed, which it
refused to eat.
A little later when her
father-in-law, Tom Hickman,
came by she told him about
the visiting bird, and asked
to go out and see if some
thing was wrong with it. He
went, then came up with the
starting information, "It’s a
turkey, all right—a turkey
buzzard”!
P. S. Apparently the “tur
key” had been crippled by
some eager early hunters and
could not fly. However, its
appetite returned immediately
when it located an aging deer
head that had been tossed
away behind the Hickman
home.
Local Minister
Returns Home
The Rev. Thomas S. Clark
son, Rector Of St. Phillips
Episcopal Church, Com
pletes Two Weeks Duty
At Fort Bragg
The Rev. Thomas S. Clarkson,
rector of St. Phillips Episcopal
Church in Southport, has returned
from a two weeks tour of active
duty with the 18th Airborne
Corps at Fort Bragg.
The Southport minister is a
member of the TT. S. Army Chap
lain Reserve Corps with the rank
of major. He has 19 years active
duty and only one year remains
before he can retire.
While at Fort Bragg Chaplain
Clarkson attended lectures, at
tended the supper honoring the
Commandant of the U. S. Army
Chaplain School, attended the
Chaplains Conference. Duties con
sisted of visits to chapels, ob
serving the over-all program for
chaplains on the huge military
reservation and assisted Chaplain
Ninedorf in Episcopal Holy Com
munion.
Chaplain Clarkson reported
that his tour of duty was most
pleansant, and he declared that
he was particularly well impress
ed with the esprit de corps that
exists among the chaplains, of
ficers and enlisted men at Fort
Bragg.
Chaplain Clarkson says that
several of the men with whom he
was associated at Fort Bragg are
greatly impressed with Southport
as a recreation area and among
those who plan to visit here with
their families are Col. John O.
Continued On Page 4
Holiday House
Planned Sunday
By Garden Clulr
This Event Being Sponsored
This Year By Members
Of Southport Garden Club
With Mrs. F. M. Burdette
Chairman II
MANY DEPARTMENTS
FEATURE PROGRAM
Ideas For Yuletide Decora*
tions And Gift Wrapping
Will Be Demonstrated II
Here
Of much locally will be the
annual Holiday House, sponsored
by the Southport Garden Clubt
which is to be held in the Com
munity Buildings on Sunday be
tween the hours of 2 and 5:30
o’clock in the afternoon and 8:3Q
and 9:30 o’clock in the evening.
Refreshments will be served,
with Mrs. Guy Garrett presiding,
assisted by Junior Garden Club
members. Highlight of the after
noon will be performance by the
combined Junior Choirs at 4
o’clock. This will be under the
direction of Mrs. E. J. Prevatte
and Mrs. G. E. Hubbard.
General chairman for the Holi
day House is Mrs. F. M. Bur
dette, assisted by Mrs. Dallas
Pigott, Mrs. J. T. Barnes, Mrs.
L. J. Hardee, Mrs. Robert Thomp
son and Mrs. C. A. Graham, Jr,
Classes of arrangements and
chairmen are as follow: Door,
Mrs. J. T. Barnes; living room
table, Mrs. H. T. St. George;
dining room table centerpieces,
Mrs. Elizabeth Keith; dining room
table settings, Mrs. C. A. Grah
am; kitchen, Mrs. F. L. Willing;
Christmas card display, Mrs. E.
E Parker; packages, Mrs. C. G.
Ruark.
There will be a miscellaneous
table and a Junior Garden divi
sion.
The front, door will be decorated
by Mrs. E. C Harrelson, the
mantle, piano and archway by
Mrs. Davis Herring and Mrs. G:
W. McGlamery; and the Christ
mas trees will be decorated by
Mrs. Dan Harrelson and Mrs.
James Harper.
Everyone is invited to partici
pate any anyone may have an en
try or entries in one or more di
visions.
The building win be open all
day Saturday to prepare for the
event.
A silver offering will be taken.
Funeral Friday
For Local Lady
Mrs. J. J. Loughlin, Sr,
Died Thursday At HeJ
Home In Southport; Was
One Of Brunswick’s Most
Elderly Citizens
Mrs. J. J. Loughlin died at her
home in Southport early Thurs
day morning. She was 88 years of
age and was one of the town’s
most highly respected citizens.
She is survived by two sons,
J A. Loughlin of Wilmington and
J. J. Loughlin, Jr., of Southport;
and by one daughter, Miss Ger
trude Loughlin, of Southport.
Funeral services were conducted
Friday afternoon from Southport
Eaptist Church with two former
pastors, the Rev. A. L. Brown of
Smithfield and the Rev. Leo Haw
kins of Chadbourn, in charge.
Burial was in Oakdale Cemetery
in Wilmington.
Active pallbearers were James
D. Loughlin, Howard M. Loughlin,
Continued On Page 4
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,
Low IMa
High Tide
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TIDE TABLE .
Thursday, December 3,
10:17 A. M. 3:45 A. M.
10:37 P. M. 4:29 P. M.
Friday, December 4,
11:12 A. M. 4:39 A. M.
11:34 P. M. 5:22 P. M.
Saturday, December 5,
0:00 A. M. 5:36 A. M.
12:08 P. M. 6:17 P. M.
Sunday, December 6,
0:33 A. M. 6:34 A. M.
1:04 P. M. 7:12 P. M.'
Monday, December 7,
1:32 A. M. 7:35 A. M.'
2:00 P M. 8:08 P. M.
Tuesday, December 8,
2:30 A. M. 8:37 A. M.'
2:55 P. M. 9:02 P. M.
Wednesday, December 9,
3:26 A. M. 9:35 A. M.
3:48 P. M. 9:54 P. M.