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Most Ot The News All The Time Volume No. 21 No. 5 THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community 8-Pages Today SoU 1HPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1960 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY The Pilot Covers Brunswick County Ben McDonald Honored 85 HONOR—Horace Godfrey (right), Administrative Officer, North Carolina Ag ricultural Stabilization Committee, is shown presenting the first plaque of its kind ever awarded in the United States to Ben McDonald, Farm and News Director, WECT-TV, Wilmington. The award was presented to McDonald at an area meeting of the ASC county managers and office personnel recently held at Goldsboro. “ ... In grateful recognition of outstanding public service to farmers and the general public in eastern North Carolina through dissemination of farm program information.” Mc Donald, originated and conducts the award winning Carolinas’ Farm Beat Program over WECT, Monday through Friday at 6:30 a. m. Brunswick Man To Be Retired From Engineers Franklin H, Greer Will Re tire On August 15 After 35 Years Of Service With Corps Of Engineers Franklin H. Greer, former resi dent of Southport, plans to re tire August 15th after 35 years with the Wilmington District Of fice of the Corps of Engineers. When Frank retires the event will mark the first time in this century that there were not at least two Greers among employees of the Corps of Engineers. His father, the late William F. Greer, was captain of the old dredge Henry Bacon, his uncle George Greer was captain of the hopper dredges Cape Fear and Comstock, and another uncle, Zeb Greer, was captain of the hopper dredge Kingman. Counting Frank’s bro ther, Duvall, presently employed by the Engineers for over 25 years, the Grer clan has amassed over 150 years of service dating beyond 1900. Although Frank started out in dredging activities buying food and related supplies for dredges, he moved up early to an office job in finance work. He retires as chief of the Finance Accounting Section. Mrs. Greer, the former Mar garet Alexander, is a native of the Southport community. Brief Bit* Of LNEWSJ AT JT'NALUSKA The Rev. Lawrence Bridges and Mrs. Bridges are spending this weeks at Lake Junaluska where he is taking a special course. MOUNTAIN TRIP Mr. and Mrs. Ray Walton and daughter, Libby, are spending a few days on vacation in the moun tains of Western North Carolina. BENEFIT BARBECUE A benefit barbecue chicken sup per will be served by the Bolivia Lions Club Saturday evening, the proceeds to go for the Bolivia school athletic program. LIONS TO MEET The regular meeting of the Southport Lions Club will be held tomorrow (Thursday) evening at 6:30 o'clock in the Community Building. Lt. Col. Johnnie D. Duf fie, commanding officer of Sunny Point Army Terminal, will be the speaker. Helicopter Helps Spot Violations Air Search Reveals At Least Two Hidden Fields Of Tobacco Here In Bruns wick County FLYING MACHINE MAY RETURN HERE Investigation Of Other Sus picious Areas Is Still Be ing Carried Out By ASC Officials At least two unreported tobacco patches were spotted in Bruns wick county as the result of spot ting activities carried on last month by the ASC office. When officials from the Bruns wick ASC office called at one to to investigate, they found that the tobacco had been pulled up, the stalks had been hauled into the woods, and the field had been planted in beans. When con fronted with the evidence, how ever, the owner was cooperative and showed the investigators where he had piled the uprooted tobacco. A second field was camaflaged by planting tobacco and corn in alternate rows. The only trouble was that the corn did not pro vide sufficient canopy for the to bacco, and it was identified. ASC spokesmen say that the penalty for these infractions prob ably will be loss of the amount of acreage involved from next year’s allotment. Furthermore, there is a possibility that perjury proceedings may be brought in Federal court. In both instances only a small amount of tobacco was involved. In one case the illegal field meas ured .36-acres and in the other .37-acres. Funeral Friday For M. B. Chinnis Prominent Northwest Town ship Citizen Died Wednes day In Veterans Hospital In Fayetteville LELAND—Michael Burris Chin nis, 66, of Leland, Rl, died Wed nesday morning in Veterans Hos pital in Fayetteville. He was born in Brunswick County on December 31, 1894, the son of the late Thomas Bragg and Susan Roberts Chinnis. He was a veteran of Wold War I, and taught Sunday school in the New Hope Baptist Church for many years. The deceased was prominent in Continued On Page 4 *— Painter This is the display tower for 1 the Weather Bui'eau on the Garri son in Southport, and the spec at the top in Winston Hurst, who was painting the weather vane Tuesday afternoon. The entire tower has received a new coat of paint and the display staff has had its rigging renewed. Numerous Books Being Donated Librarian Reports Gift Of Variety Of Books For Use In Southport Public Library And For Book mobile More than 200 books have been donated to the Southport Public Library and Brunswick County Bookmobile w'ithin past weeks by friends both in and out of Bruns wick county. Miss Claudia McMillan of Greensboro, who vacations at Long Beach, gave 90 books, the majority of which are mystery stories. H. H. Bird of South Caro lina and Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Jernigan of High Point were oth er out-of-country donors. Joe Sam Loughlin gave as a memorial to his grandmother, Mrs. J. J. Loughlin, Sr., a copy of Moore’s “Stories Old and New of the Cape Fear Region.’’ Residents of Southport "who j have presented books to the li- I brary include: Mrs. James Wolfe, : Mrs. Basil Watts, A. E. Huntley, Continued Cn Page £ J Third Week Of Training Union Nov/ In Progress Over One Thousand Mem bers Of This Organiza tion From All Parts Of North Carolina Attending Session At Fort Caswell MISS NO^TH CAPO* IN A EXPECTED SATURDAY Mother Is Serving On Staff This Week As Teacher Of Morning Class And Even-ng Vesper Speaker This week there are more than one thousand persons at the N. C. Ranti-t Arsemblv at Fort Caswell for the third weekly session of -the Bantist Training Union. There were 800 persons on hand last week for the second week of this program. In charge this week is the Rev. Jack Noffsinger, pastor of Knowlwood Baptist Church in Winston-Salem. Joseph Stroud, Musical Director for the State Baptist Convention, is in charge of music. A member of the staff this week is Mrs. Owen F. Herring, who not only teaches during the morning class period, but who serves as speaker each evening at vesper services held on the forti fication overlooking the Atlantic ocean. Mrs. Herring, who has been coming to Caswell with her family each summer for the past 10 years, is the mother of Miss Ann Farrington Herring, who was chosen Miss North Carolina two weeks ago in Charlotte. Mrs. Herring said yesterday that she expects her daughter to arrive at Caswell Saturday mor ning to take brief time out from a busy schedule which right now has her in Asheville. “AH of us have enjoyed our summer trips to Casweil,” said Mrs. Herring. “We have two sons older than Ann who have served in the Navy, and they have al ways tried to arrange their leave so they could join us here. We have the same housekeeping cot Continued On Page 4 Road Requests May Be Heard Highwav Commission Hold ing Hearings On Road .Requests In New Pern Tomorrow (Thursday) Morning Road requests from citizens of Eastern North Carolina will be heard (tomorrow) Thursday dur ing a meeting of the State High way Commission in New Bern. The Commission will meet in New Bern on Thursday to take up regular business, and to listen to road requests and petitions from citizens of the area. The public hearing will get underway at 9:30 a. m., in the Superior Courtroom of the Craven County Courthouse. Scheduled appointments expe dites the hearing, and will elim inate long waiting periods for those scheduled to appear. Continued On Page 4 Campbell College Boosters A BRIGHT VIEW—Gwen Clemmons of Supply, rising sophomore, takes a sunny view of her Alma Mater as she examines a Campbell College viewbook with her grandfather, II. Lyndon Clemmons. Clemmons is heading the Campbell expansion effort m Brunswick County. At the left is L. II. Campbell, president of the school. Right is Mrs .Margaret C. McRacken of Southport, missionary of the Brunswick 1 Baptist Association. The four were prin-cipals at a Campbell expansion meeting in | Supply. Campbell Group Raising Funds For Expansion President L. H Campbell Talks To Brunswick Coun ty Citizens At Meeting In j Supply Baptist Church “Twenty-five thousand dollars I is no big sum. We can easily raise lit If We go about it right.” H. j Lyndon Clemmons retired farmer and timberman of Shallotte, said this about the goal Brunswick Count.ians have set for giving over the next five years in the state-wide campaign to under write making Campbell College a senior institution. Clemmons, who is heading the effort for Campbell in Brunswick County, was chairman of a com munity meeting held Tuesday eve ning of last week in the First Baptist Church of Supply. Clemmons’ granddaughter, Gwen Clemmons, a rising sopho more at Campbell, spoke of her own experiences as a freshman on the college campus. Principal speaker was L. H. Campbell, who has been presi dent of the Baptist-sponsored school in Harnett County for more than 25 years. Stressing the im 1 portanee of the church-supported college as a leavening agent in |Democratic society, President Campbell stressed his own belief, “Education that isn’t Christian I just isn’t true. “Our schools and churches are | partners in the misisonary effort to bring the world to a saving ; knowledge of God,” the college : president said. Of the plan to make his college a senior institution, President Continued On Page 4 TIME and TIDE By JIMMIE HARt'KK The Pilot for July 31, 1935, reported the election of Henry C. Stone as principal of Shallotte High School. This was the biggest issue ever published up to that date and included a 12-page sec tion heralding the opening on August 8 of the Whiteville tobacco market. County Agent J. E. Dodson had announced that tobacco marketing cards were ready for distribution and could be picked up at the Farm Office at Supply. One editorial cited the shameful need for a hardsurfaced road leading from Brunswick county to the tobacco market; the Wac camaw river was being surveyed to determine the feasibility of building a dam for the erection of a power plant; and news from Baltimore was that Miss Eleanor Kleanor Niernsce was making a good record as student nurse at Johns-Hopkins. Five years later there were signs of international unrest: A Southport lady had received a letter from her family in England, who reported generally good conditions despite the fact that country was at war; there had been 21 Army enlistments from Brunswick so far for the year; and the Marine Corps was slant ing a sales pitch to young men of military age. There had been excitement here in Southport on Monday mor ning when a seaplane had made an emergency landing above the quaiantine station. A short time later two motor launches from j a Navy destroyer came in from outside and towed the plane out to sea. What her final restination turned out to be was a matter of conjecture. | It was 1954, and the intervening years had seen most of the Continued On Page Four Tropical Storm Damages Crops Oil On Beaches All Along Coast During- the past few days bathers at Brunswick county beaches have been bothered with globs of black oil in the water and on the strand, and this week there has come word that this trouble is not confined to this area. In the vicinity of Charles ton, S. C., beach bathing came to a virtual halt during the past weekend as the re sort areas were victims of the same condition. It is believed that the oil is coming from a tanker which sank near Beaufort, S. C., last month and from which the cargo of Bunker ' C now appears to be seeping to con taminate the ocean waters for miles around. Calls Attention To Tax Refund County Agricultural Ae-ent Cites Deadline For Filing For Gasoline Tax Refund Due Farmers September 30 is an important date to most Brunswick County farmers. That's the deadline to file for the federal gasoline tax refund which is available on gaso line used on the farm between July 1, 1959,- and June 30, 1960. A. S. Knowles, county agricul tural agent, reports that the re fund has been estimated at about $52 for the average eligible North Carolina farmers. "I am convinced," Knowles add ed, “that there are many far- 1 mers in the county who neglect to claim this money to which they are entitled.” Knowles says gasoline used on a farm is subject to either a three or four cent per gallon refund, depending on the date purchased. In order to file for a refund, the applicant must own, be a ten ant on, or operate a farm. If someone else uses their equipment on this farm, the owner, tenant or operator is considered the ulti mate purchaser and eligible for the refund. Persons who file a claim must have records to support their claim upon request from the Dis trict Director of Internal Revenue. Care must be taken not to in clude gasoline used on highways for personal or non-farming pur poses; or for processing, canning, j packaging or freezing operations. I The law provides penalties for those who file false or excess claims. Brunswick County farmers | should send their claims to the j District Director of Internal Rev- i enue, Greensboro. Continued On Page 4 Chief Damage Results From Rains That Accompanied First Storm Of Season Friday TOBACCO CROPS ARE WORST HIT . Room For Curing Rapidly Ripening Crop At Pre mium As Farmers Are Faced With Crisis Brunswick county crops which appeared last week to be the best in history sustained serious dam age Friday from the first tropical storm of the season, with the greatest source of trouble coming from excessive rains. Almost 4-inches of rainfall was recorded at the Weather Bureau stateion here in Southport on Fri day, with heavy showers coming each day since. • A trip through the county to day showed some damage to every field of tobacco where harvest has not been completed. This dam age appears to be from 10-per- I cent to 50-percent, with the worst area being on farms with sandy soil in the Shallotte-Supply area. The only fields from which all to bacco has been cropped in the county were in the vicinity of Ash postoffice. Where there had not yet been j any actual loss of tofcacco, leaves are yellowing up the stalk in many fields so fast that it will be almost impossible to locate barn room in which to handle it. Right now it is safe to say that there is not an idle, usable barn in Brunswick. Other than damage to crops, the damage from the Friday storm was negligible. Winds reached a velocity of 55-miles per hour, but no property damage has been reported. Leland Citizen Dies In Hospital James Walker Stephens Be lieved To Be First Baby Born At James Walker Hospital In Wilmington James Walker Stephens, 58, of Rt. 1, Leland, believed to be the first baby born at James Walker Memorial Hospital, died there Friday after an illness of three weeks. Born June 29, 1902, Mr. Steph ens had served 33 years as a section foreman for the Seaboard Air Line Railroad until his ill ness. He went to work as a rail road employee with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad at the age of I 15. | Surviving are his wife, the for mer Ollie Belle Rogers; two sons, I. E. Stephens and W. W. Steph ens, both of Wilmington; one laughter, Mrs. Patricia Ann Boardson of Leland; one sister, Mrs. lia V. Jones of Portsmouth, (Continued On Page 2) Observance Of 18th Birthday Of Army T.C. Here July 31 Marked 18th Anni versary Of Founding Of Transportation Corps As U. S. Army Technical Service INFORMAL PARTY AT SUNNY POINT Visiting Reserve Officers From Mobile, Ala., And Meridian, Miss., Par ticipated July 31 marked the 18th anni versary of the formation f)f the Transportation Corps as a De partment of the Army Technical Service, and on Friday afternoon at Sunny Point Army Terminal an informal observance of this occa sion was held in the terminal cafeteria. Present for this occasion were about fifty visiting Reserve Army Officers from Mobile, Alabama, and Meridian, Miss., who were concluding a two weeks training period at Sunny Point. The following birthday message from Lt. Col. Johnnie D. Duffie, commanding officer at Sunny Point, explains the significance of the occasion and describes in part the important place which the Transportation Corps occupies within the U. S. Army organiza tion: “During World War I there existed in the military innumer able problems of coordination and operations of the then very limit ed transportation systems and vehicles. It was obvious that som« system of controls, planning, and coordination was required. How ever, in the intervening period be tween that great conflict and the outset of World War II, because of the very stringent economics forced on the Defense Establish ment, little or nothing was done toward rectifying this deficiency. “It was not long after Pearl Harbor that it was forcibly brought to light the problems of transporteing the hundreds of mil lions of tons of materials required to support our military operations Continued On Page 5 Numerous Cases Tried In Court Judge Earl Bellamy Hears Numerous Cases Monday As He Seeks To Clear Docket Prior To Neixt Week The man who was arrested last week and charged with theft of a shrimp boat was sent back to South Carolina Monday to stand trial, but not before he had been convicted of a multitude of viola tions here in Brunswick. The defendant was Joseph B. Milligan, who was convicted of drunk driving, speeding, driving without license, driving too fast for conditions and following too closely. He drew a total of $160 in fines, plus costs. Dola Biauu and Johnnie Bland asked for a jury trial on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and were held under bond of $200 each. Probable cause was found in the case charging Gus Causey with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and he was Continued On Page 2 Tide Table Following la the Ode 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 Tide Thursday, August 4, 4:50 A. M. 11:12 A. M. 5:38 P. M. Friday, August 5, 5:52 A. M. 0:01 A. M. 6:37 P. M. 12:09 P. M. Saturday, August 6, 6:51 A. M. 0:54 A. M. 7:31 P. M. 1:05 P. M. Sunday, August 7, 7:46 A. M. 1:45 A. M. 8:23 P. M. 1:57 p. m. Monday, August 8, 8:41 A. M. 2:34 A. M. 9:12 P. M. 2:48 P. M. Tuesday, August 9, 9:33 A. M. 3:23 A. M. 10:02 P. M. 3:38 P. M. Wednesday, August 10, 10:24 A. M. 4:09 A. M. 10:50 P. M. 4:28 P. M.
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