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Volume No. 20
THE STATE PORT PILOT
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
No. 52 10-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1960
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PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Loading Ship At Sumy Point
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VISITOR—Recently when a Netherlands ship was
loading cargo at Sunny Point Army Terminal a re
presentative from the Embassy in Washington was
on hand to attend to certain details of the shipment.
He is shown, left, shaking hands with Lt. Col. Louis
Doyle, executive officer, as operations draw to a close
at the wharf.
Several Ships
Are Scheduled
At Sunny Point
Two Vessels Berthed There
Today With Another Due
This Week; Two More
Scheduled First Of Week
Two ships are berthed at the
docks at Sunny Point Army Ter
minal this morning and another
will be due in before they de
part to make this one of the bus
iest periods at the nearby installa
tion in recent weeks.
In port today is the USNS Lt.
Geo. W. G. Boyce, a Victory ship,
and the US Kenneth Stevenson,
a Liberty ship. Due in this week
is the Boylon.
At least one of these ships is
due to still be in port when two
more vessels arrive Tuesday.
These will be the Netherlands ship
Amsreldyk and the Flying Spray.
These ship movements indicate
an unusual amount of activity at
Sunny Point, and it comes as a
welcome relief to many Brunswick
county stevedores who have had
lean pickings for several weeks.
Not only hav things been slow
for the stevedores, they still are
for men engaged in fishing and
shrimping operations, which have
been unusually poor this year.
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Brief Bitt Of
HVEWS-I
BAKE SALE
The W. S. C. S. of Trinity
Methodist Church will have a
bake sale down town on Saturday
morning at 10 o’clock.
ATTENDING CONFERENCE
Mrs. James M. Harper, Jr., is
attending the North Carolina Con
ference this week in Rocky
Mount. She is the guest of Mr.
and Mrs. W. R. McAuley.
EX CM FISH FRY
The Exum Community Develop
ment Club will sponsor a fish
supper at the community park
from 4 o’clock to 8 o’clock on
July 4. The supper is for the bene
fit of the building fund.
WEEKEND RAINS
It is difficult to place a price
tag on rain, but that which fell
over the greater part of Bruns
wick during the past weekend
may well have been in the mil
lion dollar category. Tobacco that
was threatening to ripen pre
maturely had started to. grow
and develop so that throughout
the greater part of the county
this week crop prospects are much
improved.
Building Boom
Hits Shallotte
Record Amount -.Of ..Con-:
struction Now In Progress I
In Business District Of
This -Progressive ..Com
munity
More than $100,000 worth of
new construction involving six
new projects is underway in Shal
lotte this week as the biggest
building boom in the history of
this thriving Brunswick county
town.
The building nearest completion j
is that of Shaltotte Furniture Co., !
where the stock of merchandise
already has been moved in. This
is a 30 x 84 structure next door
to Shallotte Methodist Church and
is of masonry construction. In
cluded is an attractive brick
front with slanting, plate glass I
windows. The proprietor, Hubert j
Bellamy, supervised this work.
Across the street from this pro- j
ject work has started on an addi
tion to the Kirby store building.
This addition is 40 x 100 feet and i
will occupy the lot on which the '
old R. D. White garage once
stood. Golbert Grissett is super
vising this project.
Grissett also is in charge of the
new addition that is being made
to the D. C. Andrews store, which
is across the street from the
Kirby project. An addition 30 x
55-feet is being made to the An
drews building, and it is of all
masonry construction.
The most ambitious building of
them all is in progress on the lot
next to Shady Park Service Sta
tion, where a new super market
building is going up. This all
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District Club
Meeting Planned
President’s Institute For
Women’s Clubs Will Be
Held In Wilmington
Thuursday
On Thursday district officers,
district committee chairmen, and
presidents and delegates will at
tend a President’s Institute in
Wilmington. The meeting will con
vene at 11:30 a. m. at a local
restaurant for luncheon followed
by a business session.
Mrs. George W. Ross, Wilming
ton, is president of District 11,
North Carolina Federation of Wo
men’s Chibs will preside. The
purpose of the Institute is to
orientate club and district leaders
on the new projects of the State
and General Federations. Plans
will be made for the District 11
Annual Meeting which is to be
held in Clinton this fall. The bus
iness session will include an in
, formal question and answer period
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Gets Degree
WALTER D. STAN ALAND
Shallotte Man
Gets Masters
Walter D. Stanaland Receiv
ed Master’s Degree * In
Engineering A t Drexel
Institute
Walter Devaun Stanaland, son
of Mrs. Alice Stanaland and the
late Walter M. Stanaland of Shal
lotte, received the master of
science in electrical engineering
from. Drexel Institute in Philadel
phia on June 18.
After graduation from Shallotte
High School with the class of ’44,
Stanaland served three years with
the United States Maritime Serv
ice and four years with the
United States Navy. In May 1957
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Southport Man
Attends School
Lt. Col. Johnnie D, Duffie
Enrolled At Stanford Uni
versity For One Month’s
Special Course
Lt. Colonel Johnnie D. Duffie,
; Commanding Officer, U. S. Army
Transportation Terminal, Sunny
Point, is one of fifty executives
; selected to attend the Transpor
tation Management Program at
Stanfoi'd University.
In the four-week program mid
dle-management executives from
railroads, airlines, steamship com
panies, and motor carriers study
with industrial traffic managers
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Precinct
Voting
Sanford
Hoods Creek . 141
Lei and .
Town Creek .
Bolivia .
Southport No. 1
Southport No. 2
Mosquito .
! Supply .
i Secession .
| Shallotte .
j Frying Pan .
j Grissettown .
Shingietree .
Longwood .
| Ash . ..
Waccamaw .
Exum ..
TOTALS
230
174
121
228
323
66
107
139
152
161
83
71
104
91
60
74
2325
Lake
60
278
246
71.
115
113
14 i
72
155
109 j
124 |
103 ;
205 j
71
105 j
26 I
32
1899
Game Protectors
Stock Waccamaw
Total Of 1,500 Large Mouth
Bass Released This Week
In Waters Of Waccamaw
■River
In accordance with previously
approved plans, the Wildlife Re
sources Commission has complet
ed the stocking of 1,500 large
mouth bass fingerlings in the
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Proposals For
Improvement Of
Waterways Made
Glenn M. Tucker, Member
Of Department Of Water
Resources, Favors Use Of
Gasoline Taxes For Wa
terway Improvement
Glenn M. Tucker, member of
the Department of Water Re
sources for the State of North
Carolina, has written a letter con
taining several recommendations
to General J. R. Townsend, chair
man.
This was done following a meet
ing last week at which time the
Carolina Beach man was invited
to submit some of his recom
mendations in writing. A portion
of that letter follows:
"My first suggestion is that the
navigable waterways be classified
in a manner similar to the high
ways.
“Perhaps the primary navigable
waterways would be all of those
now or in the future belonging
to the Federal system of naviga
ble streams or other bodies of
water.
“The secondary navigable wa
terways would be all others with
in the state.
“I would suggest that our de
partment have a numbering sys
tem for all of these, and that
certain signs, eventually, be plac
ed along such waterways, such
as: 1. At fixed intervals let the
signs show the depth; 2. At con
fluences let directors and dis
tances be posted.
“Secondary waterways might
include streams that are now
navigable by small craft, or
streams that might be made navi
gable.
“With the rapid growth of
pleasure craft marketing and the
widespread use of such craft, and
with the desire for waterfront
homesites that would accommo
date such boats, it is obvious that
the State of North Carolina has
liKtirrited opportunity to develop
the caster! part of the state by
encouraging this market.
Thus it is that the continued
segmenting of small streams by
the State highway sysatem in its
construction of bridges, built just
a bit too low, is continuing to
help minimize the effectiveness of
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Dr. Self Back
To lincolnton
Returns To Home Town For
Practice Of Dentistry Af
ter Spending Year At
Tranquil Harbour
One of the pioneering efforts at
Tranquil Harbour comes to a
close—temporarily, at least—this
week when Dr. Fred Self returns
to his home at Lincolnton to
practice denistry after being lo
cated at Tranquil Harbour for the
past year.
During his stay in this county
he and his family made many
friends and he enjoyed a splendid
reputation with his patients. The
trouble is there were not enough
of them.
In a letter to this paper this
week he said:
“The time has come for me to
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TIME and TIDE
By JIMMIE HARPER
A new front page feature appeared in the June 26 edition in
the year 1935. It was called “Outstanding News From Every
where”, and the keeper of the column was Miss Dorothy Bell,
High Point College student, at home for the summer months.
There was a front page feature, with photo, of John Wescott,
identified as the last surviving Confederate veteran in Brunswick.
A serious forest fire was raging in the Green Swamp, and boys
from the CCC camp at Southport were helping with the round
the-clock battle.
The Hood Building, recently purchased by Brunswick county,
was being remodeled for use as county offices; threat of infantile
paralysis had led to cancellation of at least two county-wide
meetings, but no case had thus far been reported in Brunswick;
and we received an assist from Miss Branch Phelps, our Exum
correspondent, who urged public spirited people of th evarious
communities to send in the news to the county newspaper.
A front page headline in our issue of June 26, 1940, announced
that J. Melville Broughton the Democratic nominee for Gover
nor, would be the speaker at the Fourth of July reunion sched
uled here for members of the 2nd Trench Mortar Battalion, men
who had served at Ft. Caswell during World War I. Randolph
Scott, famous movie star who had been a member of this outfit,
had received a special invitation to attend.
W. S. Wells had received the Democratic nomination for Re
gister of Deeds in a second primary election on Saturday; a
! front page headline proclaimed: "Army Training Is Planned For
Adult Citizens”; and a local lady, Mrs. L. C. E’ergus, had received
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Primary Winner
TERRY SANFORD
Brunswick Again
Votes For Sanford
Voters In This County Once’
More Give Majority To
Candidate Who Won De
mocratic Nomination For
Governor Saturday
Brunswick county voters joined
with other North Carolinians Sat
urday in giving Terry Sanford a
majority in his contest with Dr.
I. Beverly Lake for the Demo
cratic nomination for governor.
The vote in Brunswick was
2,325 for Sanford to 1,899 for
Lake as well over four thousand
voters went to the polls to cast
their ballot in this single contest.
: Sanford also carried Brunswick in
' thea first primary, when he re
ceived a majority over the other
i three candidates.
In carrying Brunswick again
Saturday Sanford lost only six of
j the 17 precincts. Lake was high
man at Leland, Town Creek, Se
cession, Grissettown, Shingletree
and Ash.
Sanford utilized a high-energy,
hard sell television campaign,
coupled with a decidedly favor
able state press, and a power
; propelled stumping campaign to
win.
His program “a new day for
North Carolina” advocates edu
cational improvements at all
costs, a Scott-type revival of
roadwork, plus improvements in
agriculture and industry.
He holds high optimism for the
I state economy, and pointed to
[ a 20 percent first quarter gain in
[ state tax revenue as indication of
the “rising economy.”
Lake, a former Wake Forest
law professor, now practicing in
Raleigh, hewed to a conserva
i tive program of advancing North
| Carolina programs as money for
j them could be found.
He viewed the 20 percent first
quarter state income gain dif
ferently, noting that it included
the bulk of the 1959 income
taxes, plus an override coming
in from payroll withheld tax in
come as a loss, not a gain.
Lake’s position against the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People
brought in what may have been
the deciding issue.
Southport Man
Named Officer
James A, Pearce Of Cam
den, N. J., Is Elected Head
Of Spanish War Veterans
For New Jersey
James A. Pearce, of Camden,
N. J. was elected commander of
the Department of New Jersey,
United Spanish War Veterans at
its 62d annual encampment held
in Asbury Park last week.
He was installed by Past De
partment Commander Fred Sha
dell, of Washington, assisted by
Past Department Commander
Arthur Orme, of Bloombury.
Pearce, a native of Southport,
has been a resident of Pennsauk
en 15 years. When the Spanish
American War broke out in 1898,
he was a member of the Naval
: Reserves, and joined the regular1
; Navy, serving for 16 years. Dur
| ing War I, he was inspector of
naval ordinance for the New York
Shipyard and Cramps. He is em
ployed as a real estate salesman
in Pennsauken.
Commander Pearce’s first visi
tation was to his own camp, Gen
eral John A. Mather Camp 39,
Camden, which he joined in Jan
uary, 1926.
He has been a justice of the
peace in Pennsauken Township;
served from 1951 to 1954 in the
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Accepts Post
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CAROL ANN WOLFE
Top Position
For Local Girl
Miss Carol Ann Wolfe Ac
cepts Position As Math
metician With U. S. Naval
Weapons Lab
Carol Ann Wolfe, Southport girl
who recently graduated from
Flora Macdonald College in Red
Springs, has accepted a position
as mathematician with the U. S.
Naval Weapons Labratory at
Dahlgren, Va.
This installation is located on
the Virginia side of the Potomac
river and is about 50-miles from
Washington. D. C. She reported
for work Tuesday.
Miss Wolfe is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Wolfe
of Southport, and her father
drove her to Dahlgren Monday.
She is a graduate of South
port High School, and while in
college she was active in student
affairs at her alma mater. She
majored in math.
Annual Flower
Show Thursday
Brunswick County Club Wo
men Will Hold Annual
Flower Show At Concord
Methodist Church Tomor
row
The Annual Flower Show spon
sored by the Brunswick County
Home Demonstration Clubs will
be held tomorrow (Thursday) at
Concord Methodist Church at Sup
ply. The show will be open to
visitors from 4 to 6 o’clock.
An added feature of the show
will be the appearance of Miss
Charlotte Womble, who will give
a demonstration on arranging
flowers. She is house furnishings
and housing specialist with the
extension department.
Classes will include perfection
of bloom, artistic arrangement,
potted plants, fruits and vege
tables and wild flowers.
Entries will be received from
3 to 4 o’clock and all classes are
open to anyone who wishes to
enter. Only judges and clerks will I
be permitted in the building while
judging is in progress, and deci
sion of the judges will be final.
Poted plants must have been in
the possession of the exhibitor
who for two months and all ar
rangements must be done by the
exhibitor. All entries in perfection
of bloom must be grown by the
exhibitor.
Development Of
Huge New Area
Gets Underway
Owners Of Large Tract Of
Land Lying Between
Highway No. 87 And Or
ton Will Offer Lots For
Sale
FIRST SECTION
NOW ON MARKET
Unlimited Possibilities For
Development Include Dam
For Freshwater Lake
And Building Golf
Course
The first phase of what could
turn out to be a multi-million dol
lar development has been com
pleted and residential lots in Boil
ing Springs Development Co. go
on sale this weekend.
As a matter of fact, several
sales have been made even before
the public offering has been made,
for a group of Southport men
contacted a representative of the
company Monday morning and ar
ranged to purchase a block of
several lots.
Site of the Development is near
Allen’s Creek in an area lying
east of highway No. 87 and the
Orton Plantation lands. Several
thousand acres are included in
this tract, and only a small part
is included in the pilot project
for which sales will begin during
the coming Fourth of July week
end.
Owners of the property are
Hazzard Reeves of New York and
Drayton Hastie of Charleston.
These men purchased these lands
from George Buist last year and
first reports were that they had
some industrial development in
mind. Preliminary work by en
gineers disclosed the adaptability
for development of a mammoth
retirement home—vacation retreat
type of property, and that is the
project now being undertaken.
The developer is C. A. Pratt of
Greensboro, who has had consid
erable experience with projects r,f
this nature. He has rented a hoir. .■>
in Southport and is moving here
this week with his family.
The first section of lots are in
the area of Long Pond, now called
Spring Lake. The engineering
firm of McHenry and Greer of
Southport laid out the lots and
the streets, and the latter work
was done by Lincoln Construction
Co. of Wilmington.
The property may be reached
by turning east off highway No.
87 on the old CCC road. About
one and one-half miles from this
intersection the development area
will lie to the north of this road.
The area includes hundreds of
acres of high sand ridges, cover
ed with longleaf pine and other
native growth. There are scores of
small lakes, most of them well
stocked with fish. Game abounds
in this area.
If this first phase of develop
ment is successful, plans already
are being made to dam up Allen
Creek to provide a 400-acre lake
with a shoreline of seven miles.
Also in the planning is a golf
course, a business district and
other facilities which will be need
ed to make this a first class re
sort area.
Pratt and sales assistants will
be on the property this weekend
to show lots to prospective pur
chasers. One attractive feature is
that these first lots are being
ofered at a very low price and
with small down payment. These
details will be explained by the
salesmen.
Tide Table
Following Is the tide table
for Sonthport 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 Tide
Thursday, June 80,
11:53 A. M. 5:48 A. M.
. 6:09 P. M.
Friday, July 1,
0:01 A. M. 6:35 A. M.
12:47 P. M. 7:07 P. M.
Saturday, July 2,
0:54 A. M. 7:29 A. M.
1:47 P. M. 8:10 P. M.
Sunday, July 3,
1:54 A. M. 8:27 A. M.
2:50 P. M. 9:16 P. M.
Monday, July 4,
2:58 A. M. 9:29 A. M,
3:53 P. M. 10:20 P. M.
Tuesday, July 5,
4:02 A. M. 10:29 A. M.
4:55 P. M. 11:21 p. m.
Wednesday, July 6,
5:06 A. M. 11:28 A. M.
5:53 P. M.