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Most Of The News AH The Time THE STATE PORT PILOT _ A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Volume No. 20 No. 26 8-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1959 5c A COPY The Pilot Covers Brunswick County PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Brunswick Man To Vanderbilt As Professor Dr. Walter Harrelson Has Accepted Appointment As Professor Of Old Testa ment TO DEVOTE MORE TIME TO WRITING Has Served As Dean Of Divinity School At Uni versity Of Chicago For Past Several Years Dr. Walter Harrelson tells it best: “I have accepted an invitation to be. Professor of Old Testament at the Divinity School, Vander bilt University, Nashville, Ten nessee, beginning next September (I960).” This was part of the text of a letter received by Dr. Harrelson’s family in Southport before the holidays. Dr. Harrelson is now Dean of the Divinity School at the Uni versity of Chicago, a post which he has held for several years. The move to Vanderbilt will mean a cut in salary, as well as a demotion from his present post, but other considerations have en tered into the picture. He writes, ‘‘I have really enjoyed my work at Chicago and will leave here with many regrets. But I feel sure it is right to stop trying to do two jobs with the strength and talents for one. And teaching and research are my real loves.” He explains that the Vander bilt program of study is similar to that of the University of Chicago: “The School is inter denominational and has a Ph.D. program as well as one leading to the regular ministerial degree. I know many of the faculty mem bers and respect them; several of them were my classmates and two of them are former students.” Dr. Harrelson was scheduled to go to Jerusalem in the summer to teach at the American School of Oriental Research, but his de cision to teach at Vanderbilt has postponed this trip indefinitely. Last summer he visited Europe for two weeks at a World Council of Churches conference, and at tended conferences in Wisconsin and New Mexico with his family. He and his wife will move to Nashville with their two sons, David and Robert. Their daughter, Marianne, will enter college in the fall. Dr. Harrelson has written sev eral pieces of religious literature, and has most recently completed two studies on theological topics. He is also working on a larger book, which he hopes to finish in the time afforded by his move. BrUf Bit* Of lnewsj HOME FOR CHRISTMAS Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Wells re turned from Key West, Fla., to spend Christmas at their home in Southport. SATURDAY DANCE The Southport Lions Club will sponsor a dance Saturday night at the Community Building. Music will be by hi-fi. LIONS MEETING The regular meeting of the Southport Lions Club will be held tomorrow (Thursday) evening at 6:30 o’clock in the Community Building. AUTOMOBILE FIRE Members of the Leland Volun teer Fire Department answered a call one night last week to ex tinguish a fire in an automobile on Highway 17. VISITS PARENTS 2nd Lt, A. C. Purvis, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Purvis of Winnabow, spent the Christmas vacation at home with his par ents. He is now stationed at Keesler Air Force Base, Biloxi, Miss. BISHOP CORUNg The Rt. Rev. Thomas H. Wright, Bishop of Eastern North Carolina, will hold confirmation and regular services in the St. Philips Episcopal Church on Sun day, January 3, at 11 o’clock. The public is invited. QUIET HOLIDAY Brunswick Sheriff E. V. Leon ard reported that things were quiet in the county during the Christmas holidays. Corporal O. H. Lynch said that the same was true for his department, with only the Christmas night accident near Hickmans Crossroads to mar the record. I Columbus Boy | Fatally Hurt In Auto Wreck Accident Near Hickman’s Cross Roads Christmas Night Accounts For Brun swick County’s Eleventh Highway Death Of Year A Nakina teen-ager, returning j home after he and friends had made Christmas visits, was thrown from a spinning vehicle in Brunswick county, and died from resulting injuries. Thomas Earl (Tommy) Gore, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert R. Gore, Nakina, died of severe head injuries sustained in the ac cident, which occurred shortly after midnight, Friday, 5.7 miles south of Ash on rural paved road No. 1300, better known as the Ash-Hickman's Crossroads high way. The fatality was Southeastern North Carolina’s first of the Christmas holiday. Also injured in the wreck, wliick left the 1956 Oldsmobile an estimated total loss, was Morris Covel Williamson, 19, also of Na kina. He suffered lacerations and was kept overnight at Columbus county hospital, Whiteville, for possible head injuries. He was discharged at 11:15 a. m., Satur day, after being admitted at ap proximately 1:30 the same mor ning. Uninjuried, according to Pa trolman H. F. Deal of Woodburn, the investigating officer, was an other Nakina teen ager, Ernest Ray Gore. Deal stated he understood the trio had been calling on friends and relatives in the Ocean Drive Beach, S. C., Calabash and other Brunswick county areas as part of their Christmas holiday, and were traveling southward, enroute home, when the crash occurred. The patrolman’s report says the auto, which belonged to Mr. and Mrs. Dayton Morris Williamson of Nakina, parents of Morris Covel Williamson—who had the car in charge—went into a curve at a high rate of speed. Continued On Page 6 Must Present Earning Record Persons Seeking Assistance From Veterans Service Officer Should Have Re cord Of Income Crawford L. Rourk, Brunswick County Veterans Service Officer said this morning that persons seeking his aid with the annual income questionnaires required by the Veterans Administration should bring in complete informa tion about income received in 1959. Persons engaged in farming or business should be prepared to show a gross income and will be allowed to deduct their expenses before arriving at a net income, according to the County Veterans Continued On Page 6 ! Delivery Date Of Bookmobile Is Set Vehicle For Carrying Books Into Every Section Of Brunswick County To Be Delivered Next Week SCHEDULE WILL START SOON AFTER List Of New Books Recently Received By Southport Public Library Given Southport Public Library offi cials were advised this week that the bookmobile will be ready for delivery next week, and soon thereafter the regular rounds of the county will be started. A series of unforseen develop ments, including the steel strike, have caused a delay in delivery. More than one hundred new books have just been received for the Southport Public Library and Brunswick County Bookmobile. Included are works to cover a wide variety of reader interest, from skin diving to flower ar rangement. Among the new works of fic tion are: “Advise and Consent”: “Hawaii”, by James Michener; “Exodus”; “Dear and Glorious Physician”: “The Darkness and the Dawn” by, Thomas Costain; "The Ugly American”; “The Devil’s Advocate”; “Station Wagon In Spain”; and “The Queen’s Grace”. Arts and recreation are repre sented in Robert C. Ruark’s “Horn of the Hunter”; a course in pencil sketching; Balanchine’s “Stories of the Great Ballets”; three volumes on flower arrange ment, and one on home land scaping; a guide for horse own ers; the new edition of Scott’s “Catalogue for Stamp Collectors”; Arthur Murray’s “How To Be come A Good Dancer” and “The Complete Book on Skin Diving”. Readers who like biography and history can choose from “Grand ma Moses”; “Fred Astaire”; “Crusade in Europe”; “A Night To Remember” (the story of the sinking of the Titanic); “The Babe Ruth Story”; “Affectionate ly F. D. R.”; Bruce Catton’s “Glory Road”; the widely acclaim ed new book by Cornelius Ryan “The Longest Day” and Carl Sandburg’s "Always the Young Strangers”. Books of general interest in clude Alexander King’s “Mine Enemy Grows Older”; Cornelia Otis Skinner’s “The Ape In Me”; “The Status Seekers”, and “The Story of the Olympic Games”. Other new purchases are my steries, books on etiquette and glamor, and travel. Two beautiful memorial volumes were also received in this ship ment. One “The World’s Great Religions” is a memorial to Mrs. J. J. Loughlin, Sr., by Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Turner; and the other “American Seashells” is in memory of Price - Furpless, given by Mr. and Mrs. Dan Har relson. Both these books are lav ishly illustrated with color plates and will not be put into general circulation, but reserved for use only in the library. * New Year Holiday To Be Observed City and county offices, banks, postoffices and Sav ings & Loan will be closed Friday in observance of New Yec.r’r Day. In addition, some stores will be closed, some of them for the purpose of taking inventory. Brunswick county schools will reopen Monday morning following a holiday period which started at noon on Tuesday, December 22. Change Date Of Adult Classes Literacy Classes Will Begin Over WECT On January 18, Two Weeks Later Than Originally Planned Claude Dunnagan, Promotion Director of WECT-Television in Wilmington, has announced that the starting date of the Adult Reading and Writing Classes on Television, originally scheduled for Monday, January 4, has been postponed until January 18. The change was made, Dunnagan ex plained, in order to allow for ad ditional time needed to co-ordin ate community TV group classes and secure volunteer teachers to supervise and lead group discus Continued On Page 6 Dr. Garlington To Visit Yaupon Church Sunday District Superintendent Will Preach At Sunday Morn ing Hour And Afterward Will Hold Quarterly Con ference SEVERAL OFFICERS WILL BE ELECTED Church Leaders Looking ing Forward To Busy Sea son At Brunswick’s Newest Methodist Church Dr. J. E. Garlington, District Superintendent, will make an of ficial visitation to Yaupon Beach Methodist Church Sunday and will preach the first sermon in the New Year. Following the sermon, Dr. Garl ington will conduct the business of the Quarterly Conference. At this time, delegates to the District Conference and to the Annual Conference are to be eelcted. Of ficials will be elected to fill some vacancies in the local church or ganization. Reports will be made as called for. Dr. Garlington will review the financial and material work of the charge and make such recom mendation as deemed advisable. Since the opening of the new church for worship on the second Sunday in November, twenty eight new members have been added to the church roll. The services Sunday are open to everyone, and a cordial in vitation is extended to all who will share with the congregation in these first services of the New Year. After a busy two weeks of Christmas religious activity, the pastor and his congregation are settling down to a winter pro gram looking to bigger things as the approach of Spring nears. Travel Industry Facts Released Travel Council Of North Carolina Makes Study Of Business That Comes From This Source North Carolina’s third largest industry—travel—is summarized in a 20-page pamphlet just issued by the Travel Council of North Carolina. The Council, a non-profit organ ization devoted to the develop ment of the travel industry, calls the survey “the most comprehen sive ever made of the travel in dustry in North Carolina, and probably in any other stat?”. The digest reveals that the dol lar value of travel in North Caro lina in 1958 was $360,000,000, an increase of 135 percent in 10 years, and that the total revenue of the travel-serving industry (in cluding non-transient business) was $723,000,000 in 1958. The survey was made for the Travel Council of North Carolina by a nationally recognized auth ority in the travel field, Dr. Lew is C. Copeland of the Department of Statistics of the University of Tennessee. Dr. Copeland spent nearly two years on the North Carolina project. He had pre viously directed surveys for the states of Tennessee and Arkansas. Copies of the digest are free on request to the Travel Council of North Carolina, P. O. Box 2719, Raleigh. TIME and TIDE By JIMMIE HABriSR It was December 27, 1939, and menhaden fishermen, laying off only for Christmas day, were continuing to reap the late season harvest of fertilizer fish. The USE Dredge Comstock had put to sea with a large contingent of Brunswick men aboard; Lois Jane Bussels had entertained the Thursday Night Bridge Club at a quail supper; and Just Among The Fishermen dealt that week with the passing of The Literary Digest and the in ception of the new Life publication. Our editorial writer was recalling happenings and impressions of the celebration just passed—the mid-night service at the Pres byterian church; the better musical programs on the radio dur ing the past week; the unusual and attractive displays of Christ mas lighting in Southport and throughout the County; the mid night mass celebrated at the Catholic church (the first in the church’s history) on Christmas Eve; and the prevailing peace on earth, at least for the people of our nation. .it was December 27, 1944, and there was not peace on earth. The Pilot that week carried instructions for civilians to follow in the event of enemy bomb attack. Mrs. H. B. Smith had been awarded first prize in the tree lighting contest, Mrs. Wiley Wells for house decorating. T. R. Clemmons had killed a fox recently, but no judgment had been passed on the animal’s sanity; the county was behind in its quota of War Bonds for the current period; and Earnest Parker Jr. was serving with the Marine Corps somewhere in the Pacific area. Continual On Page Four I Lt. Col. Norman Retires F rom Army Commanding Officer At Sunny Point Turns Over Duties To Lt. Coi. John nie D. Duffie Lt. Colonel William S. Norman, the Commanding Officer of the U. S. Army Transportation Ter minal, Sunny Point, will retire from active military duty on De cember 31, after more than 20 years of service. Col. Norman will be succeeded as commanding officer at Sunny Point by Lt. Col. Johnnie D. Duf fie, who already has arrived in Southport. His family, now in Co lumbia, S. C., will arrive later. A retirement ceremony was held in honor of Colonel Norman at the Brooklyn Army Terminal by Headquarters U. S. Army Transportation Terminal Com mand, Atlantic (USATTCA) on December 18, at which he was presented with a Letter of Com mendation from Brig. Gen. Char les F. Tank, Commanding Gener al, USATTCA. The citation laud ed his demonstration of “many qualities of inspiring leadership and professional skill which con tributed materially to the accom plishment of the mission of his command.” Colonel Norman was to revert to inactive status several years ago, but because of his record as an outstanding officer, he was LT. COL. NORMAN recommended by the Department of the Army Selection Board for retention on active duty. A native of Mississippi, Colonel Norman entered the Regular Army as an enlisted man from that State in 1030 and served with various Infantry units prior to World War II. He was com missioned in January 1943 as a Reserve second lieutenant and served on active duty Continuous Continued On Page 6 Officials Attend Ferry Conference Name Winners In Lighting Contest Winners have been an nounced in the Christmas dec oration contest sponsored by the Southport Garden Club. They are: Door arrangements—first, Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Vereen; second, Mrs. Davis Herring. Living tree—first, Mrs. Al bert Russ; second, Mr. and Mrs. James Bowman. Overall decorations—first, Mrs. Dallas Pigott; second, Mr. and Mrs: Guy Garrett. Most unusual—Mr. and Mrs. A1 Martin. Higher Rate In Social Security Employed People Will Pay 3-Percent On Income Ef fective January 1st Persons in work—employment or self-employment—covered by social security are reminded that the social security tax rate will be increased beginning with 1960, Doris H. Moss, Field Represent ative of the Wilmington, Social Security Office, announced this week. When employed people get their first pay envelopes or pay checks in January, they will find 3 per cent instead of 2y2 percent de ducted for social security tax pur poses. When self-employed per sons file their 1960 tax returns early in 1961, they must pay 4% percent instead of 3% per cent social security tax. This in crease will not apply to self-em ployment returns on 1959 earnings which must be filed on or before April 15, 1960. The above in creases in social security tax rates apply to wages or self-employ ment income for 1960 through 1962. The increased social security taxes which become effective as of January 1, 1960, were enacted by Congress to assure the con tinuing self-supporting nature of the old-age and survivors trust fund and the disability trust fund in which the social security taxes of employees, their employers, and the self-employed are de posited. Before amending the law to provide for the increased tax rates, Congress appointed an ad visory council on social security financing to investigate the trust funds. This council was made up of representatives from business, education, Government and lead ing insurance companies. They re cently reported “It is our judg ment, based on the best available cost estimates, that the contribu tion (social security tax) sched ule enacted into law in the 1958 session of Congress, makes ade quate provision for financing the program on a sound actuarial basis.” ; Senator, Representative And Mayor All Attend Meet ing In Raleigh With Gov ernor Hodges PROMISE THOROUGH SURVEY OF NEED New Hanover Citizens Join With Brunswick Men In Urging Early Action On Project Governor Luther Hodges and State Highway officials promised a delegation from Brunswick and New Hanover counties last Wed nesday that an immediate, com prehensive survey will be conduct ed to determine the feasibility of putting ferry service between Southport and Ft. Fisher into op eration. Breaking point in the negotia tions came when highway officials revealed that a traffic count con ducted last summer revealed great daily use of the highway run ning from Carolina Beach to Fort Fisher. Proponents of the ferry service took the position that many of these automobiles would I have continued to Southport had j facilities for their transportation I across the river been available. Representing Brunswick county at this meeting were Senator S. B. Frink, Representative James C. Bowman, Mayor Roy Robinson, Glenn Tucker represented Caro lina Beach, with the mayor and city manager also present. The meeting was held in the Governor’s office, and Chairman Mel Broughton of the State High way Commission also attended. A strong presentation was made of the development potential of this area, with particular stress being placed upon the Tranquil Harbour resort area and upon the Baptist Assembly at Caswell. Pageant Given By Youth Group Young People Participate In Program Presented At Trinity Methodist Church Young people of Trinity Meth odist Church presented a Christ mas program in the church sanc tuary last Tuesday evening. The program, a dramatization of the manger scene, was ar ranged by the Rev. Lawrence Bridges, and was narrated by Walter Turner. All departments of the Church School were repre sented in the cast. Those participating, and their roles, were: Mary—Susan Harrel son; Joseph—Vinnie LeClerc; Inn Keeper—Phil Aldridge; Rabbi— Wayne Austin; Angel—Clare Mar garet Glore; Wise Men—Don Brown, Jack Keith, Bill Furpless; Shepherds—Ed Taylor Harper, Davey Herring, Steve Parker, Johnie Melton, Chip Graham; Travelers—Margie Piner, Tina Peters, Rachel Ann Harrelson, John Newton, Bobby Graham. Continued On Page 6 Tax Listing To Start In This County Monday Property Owners Urged To List On Time And With List-Taker In Their Re spective Townships PROPERTY OWNERS HAVE RESPONSIBILITY Must Furnish Accurate Re port Of Real And Person al Property Owned As On January 1st The job of listing real and per sonal property in Brunswick county for taxes begins Monday with the list-takers set up and ready to go in their respective townships. The listers are: Northwest, El mer Aycock; Town Creek, Jewell McKeithan; Smithville, Carl Ward; Lockwoods Folly, Mrs. Coyet Gray; Shallotte, J. B. Ward, Jr.; Waccamaw, Odell Jen rette. Mrs. Ressie Whatley, tax super visor, urges that property owners list their taxes with the list-taker in their own township. This will avoid possible trouble and con fusion later. She is also very anxious to have every property owner to list during the month of January. Pro vision is made for a penalty for late-listing. Property owners are urged to be able to make an accurate re port of their holdings, both real and personal. This will speed the process of listing. Most of the listers will make a round of several points within their own township and notices regarding this schedule have been posted in public places within the township. The listing law provides that “All property owners and tax payers are required by law to return to the list-taker for tax ation for the year 1960 all the real estate, personal property, etc. which they own the first day of January. “All male persons between the ages of 21 and 50 years must list for poll tax during the same period, except those exempt by law for physical disability. “All persons to whom the fore going applies who fail to list their real and personal property and|or poll tax will be guilty of a mis demeanor and subject to a fine or imprisonment upon conviction.” College Class To Be Offered Course In Health Education Being Offered With John G. Long As Instructor A course in Health Education will be taught during the winte* quarter in the series of off. campus, college credit courses be ing offered in Brunswick county. This is the third year that these classes have been offered. Instructor of this course, which will give 3 quarter hours credit at East Carolina College, will be John G. Long, superintendent of Brunswick county schools. In ad dition to the Brunswick county teachers who are enrolled, there also are a number from New Hanover and Columbus. The course will be taught at Shallotte High School each Wed nesday at 6 o’clock, with the first session scheduled for January 6. The course is open to persons other than teachers, and it is Continued On Page 6 Tide Table Following la the tide table (or Sonthport during the next week. Theoe hours are ap proximately correct and were furnished The State Fort Pilot through the courtesy of tbs Cape Fear PUot’s Association. High Tide Low Tide Thursday, December 24, 2:16 A. M. 8:39 A. M. 2:30 P. M. 8:58 P. M. Friday, December 25, 3:22 A. M. 9:45 A. M. 3:35 P. M. 10:00 P. M. Saturday, December 26, 4:25 A. M. 10:48 A. M. 4:38 P. M. 11:00 P. M. Sunday, December 27, 5:25 A. M. 11:47 A. M. 5:39 P. M. 11:57 P. M. Monday, December 28, 6:25 A. M. 0:00 A. M. 6:38 P. M. 12:42 P. M. Tuesday, December 29, 7:20 A. M. 0:52 A. M. 7:36 P. M. 1:36 P. M. Wednesday, December 30, 8:14 A. M. 1:45 A. M. 8:30 P. M. 2:27 P. M.