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Brunswick County
Volume No. 21 No. 9 10-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1960
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PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Thursday Set
For Community
ASC Elections
List Of Nominees Announ
ced From Which Choices
Will Be Made For Local
Committeemen And Dele
gates
Election of Community Commit
teemen to serve in the ASC pro
gram of Brunswick county will be
held on Thursday, September 8,
and a full list of nominees has
been completed.
The high man in each commun
ity will become chairman of his
local committee and will serve as
delegate to the county convention,
which will elect members of the
county committee for the next
year.
All persons who participate in
the farm program, either as own
er, operator or tenant, are eligible
to vote.
Polling places designated be
low:
Lockwoods Folly, J. E. Kirby's
Store; Northwest, Applewhite’s
Store; Smithville, Midway Service
Station: Shallotte, J. S. Parker’s
Store (Grissettown); Town Creek,
Old Barber Shop (Next to Mae’s
Barbecue); Waccamaw, Agricul
tural Building at Waccamaw
School.
The following persons have been
nominated for a position on the
community committee:
Lockwoods Folly—Alton Ben
nett, Rotha Cheers, Floyd *Hewett,
W. McKinley Hewett, Carl Holden,
Murchison Holden, Aldridge
Phelps, Edwin Sellers, Rifton Sel
lers, Ennis Swain.
Northwest—Elmer Ay cock, Her
bert Brew, W. B. Owens. R. J.
Peterson, H. O. Peterson, Jr.,
George Skipper, M. V. Skipper,
John Smith, Rufus Steward, Fran
kie Sykes.
Smithville—Willie Brown, Wil
lie Clemmons, Edgar Finch, Henry
Gilbert, J. Earnest Gilbert, Lillian
Hewett, Hoyd Lancaster, Frank
Lennon, L. P. Richardson, C. S.
Ward.
Shallotte—A. W. Bradsher,
Howard Gore, Curtis Hewett, Jr.,
P. A. Hewett, William Hewett,
Edwin Holden, Paul Holden, Wel
don Hughes, Horry Jenrette, Wil
bur Register.
Town Creek—E. T. Albright,
A. R. Beck, Jr., Herbert J. Bry
ant, N- C. Darnell, Earl Earp,
Arthur Gore, William Penn Gore,
Archie Johnson, Alton Potter,
Daniel Rabon, Roy Swain, Roy
Willetts.
Waccamaw—Lora D. Duncan,
Jessie Evans, Johnnie Fernside,
Roy W. Hughes, Jennings King,
Elmer Little, Jim Little, Elliott
Mints, Bryon Smith, Jim Daniel
Vereen.
Any persons for whom nominat
ing petitions were submitted,
whose names do not appear above,
were omitted from the slate of
nominees because they were de
termined to be ineligible to hold
office as a community committee
man in the community for which
they were nominated by petition.
Brie/ Bitt 0/
-NEWS-1
BENEFIT SMORGASBORD
A smorgasbord supper will be
served at the Ocean View Meth
odist Church at Yaupon Beach
■Friday from 5:30 to 7:30 o’clock.
Meats and fish will be served.
SISTER DIES
Mrs. Louise Pearce of Clear
field, Pa., died on August 17, fol
lowing an extended illness. She
was buried at Bigler, Pa. She was
a sister of Capt. C. N. Swan of
Southport.
DEMOCRAT RALLY
Plans are being made for a
Democrat rally to be held early
in September at the Bert Frink
place at Gause Landing. Judge
Raymond Mallard of Tabor City
will be guest of honor and key
note speaker.
BUILDING PROGRESS
Good progress is being made
on the new business buildings at
Shallotte, with the Pigley Wigley
to be in operation within the next
two weeks. Glass is being install
ed at the Kirby addition and in
the buildings next to Red & White.
LIONS TO MEET
The Southport Lions Club will
meet tomorrow (Thursday) at
6:30 o’clock in the Community
Building and Lion Joseph M. Ride
out will have charge of the pro
gram. Invitations have been mail
ed to former members of the club,
inviting them to attend this meet
ing as guests of the club.
Death Car
A YOUNG MISSIONARY riding in this car died on the operat
ing table four and a half hours after he sustained head.-injuries
when the car was rammed head-on by a pick-up truck. He is
John Mason Child of Salt Lake City, working out of Southport
for the Church of Latter Day Saints. The driver was injured.
Young Missionary
Killed In Wreck
Head-On Collision Saturday5
Between Shallotte And i
Whiteville Claims Life Of
John Mason Child
Two men were killed in a head
on accident near Old Dock on
the Shallotte-Whiteville highway
early Saturday afternoon, one of
the victims being a young Mor
mon missionary who has made
many friends in Brunswick coun
ty during the past few weeks.
He was John Mason Child, 20,
only son of a Salt Lake, Utah,
family. Also killed in the crash
was Forrest Ray Crumpler, 26,
of Crusoe Island.
Highway Patrol reports by Pfc.
A. H. Campbell, identified him
as driver of the pick-up. The ac
cident occurred in front of the
Cardell Gore home.
Three others were also serious
ly injured; the driver of the
car, Gary H. Lythgoa, 24, Helena,
Mont.; Douglas Long, 21, Crusoe
Island, and Eugene Long, 32,
Crusoe Island.
Patrol reports indicate the
truck, totally destroyed, was own
ed by Elton Long, father of
Douglas Long. The car was also
totally destroyed.
At Columbus county hospital,
the two Longs and Lythgoa were
described as in satisfactory con
dition. Sunday they were listed
only as fair.
Lythgoa sustained a broken
arm and lacerations. Eugene Long
sustained a broken left leg, and
Douglas Long, facial lacerations.
The story of the Saturday holo
caust began about 10:40 a. m.
according to police radio logs.
A call was received in Whiteville
that a pick-up truck belonging
to Elton Long, with three men
in it, had been down in that area
"raising cain" and looking for
whiskey.
The only Patrolman on duty
had been in the Old Dock-Crusoe
area looking for the truck for
some time before the crash call
came through.
According to the investigating
patrolman, Roscoe Blackmon,
Whiteville R4, said he was driving
south on NC 130 and the pick-up
had been following “hugging his
bumper.”
Suddenly, just as the oncoming
Lythgoa-driven car was about
even, Blackmon told the patrol
man the pick-up whipped out to
pass.
The blinding head-on collision
pushed the car back about 30
feet, turned it completely around,
and caused the pick-up to turn
almost around and overturn, Pfc.
Campbell said.
From under the truck was re
| covered nine quart cans of beer,
i a half gallon fruit jar and a pint
I bottle both which were reported
as showing signs of having con
tained whiskey.
All of the five men in the two
vehicles were reported as thrown
out.
Child and Lythgoa are mis
sionaries of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Popularly they are called Mor
moms.
The two young men were serv
ing obligatory two-year mission
ary terms in the Bi-unswick-Co
lumbus area as part of their ser
vice to their church. They had
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Labor Day To
Be Observed Here
Monday is Labor Day and
will be observed as a holiday
by city and county employees.
Also taking the day off will
be the banks and the savings
and loan office.
Unaffected by the holiday
schedule will be the schools,
which will begin the second
week of their fall term with
out interruption.
Most of the business firms
in Brunswick will be open
as usual, for the holiday
weekend is likely to bring
the last big rush of business
of the holiday season.
Marsh Hen Time
Starts Tomorrow
Season Extends Until Nov
ember 9, But Hunting
Still Will Depend Upon
The Tide
The Wildlife Resources Com
mission has announced the 1960
1961 waterfowl shooting season
and bag limits selected from with
in a framework of dates and bag
limits offered by the U. S. Fish
The earliest of all water
fowl hunting seasons will be
gin on Sept. 1, when the
Marsh Hen shooting season
opens. It will continue
through Nov. 9, with shooting
time from half-hour before
sunrise to sunset. Bag limits:
Sora, 25 daily, 25 possession;
rails and gallinules, 15 daily,
30 in possession singly or in
combination.
and Wildlife Service. Following
are the dates and bag limits on
all migratory game birds for the
coming season:
Geese—November 9 through
January 7, daily bag 2, possession
limit 4.
Brant—November 9 thrugh Jan
uary 7, daily bag 8, possession
limit 8.
Ducks—November 19 through
January 7, daily bag 3, possession
limit 6.
(No canvas back or redheard
ducks may be taken. Only 2 wood
duck and 1 hooded merganser
allowed in the daily bag or pos
session limit.)
Coot—November 19 through
January 7, daily bag 6, possession
limit 12.
Merganser—(American or Red
Breasted) November 19 through
January 7, Daily bag 5, possession
limit 10, singly or in combination
of both kinds and in addition to
other ducks.
Shooting hours for geese and
brant are from half an hour be
fore sunrise to sunset including
opening day. The same hours ap
ply to ducks, coot and mergansers
except that on opening day, No
vember 19, the hours are from
noon to sunset.
Marsh Hens—(Kails, Cora and1
Gallinules) September 1 through
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Jury List For
September Term
Superior Court
Judge Clawson Williams Of
Sanford W il 1 Preside
Over Week Of Superior
Court For Criminal Cases
Judge Clawson Williams of
Sanford will preside over a one
week term of Brunswick county
Superior court convening Monday,
September 19. It will be for trial
of criminal cases.
Following is the jury list that
has been drawn for this term:
Lewis C. Evans, J. L. Mintz,
Olen Gore, S. Keifer Babson, W.
B. Nelson, L. F. Jones, M. Foy
Smith, Osborn Cox, Ash; Harry
C. Evans, John W. Brady, Jr.,
Talmadge Little, N. M. King,
Freeland; L. M. Penfergraph,
Ernest Joyner, Floyd Dilsaver, W.
C. Price, Clyde Newton, A. E.
Huntley, Edward I. Clemmons,
Southport; J. D. Evans, Fred
Cumbee, R. B. Hewett, Jr., Caesar
Evans, Jr., Supply; Rudolph Ful
wood, Layton B. Bennett, C. A.
Stanley, G. L. Milliken, Ernest D.
Holden, Shallotte; Donald J. Mer
cer, Bolivia; G. H. Wilkin, James
D. Edwards, Houston Fields, F.
E. Stafford, Harris Skipper, W.
C. Smith, Leland; Leon W. Bland,
Longwood.
Hold Pair For
Monday Robbery
Two Supply Men Admit
Taking Money From Dis
abled Veteran And Aban
doning Him In Woods
“It was one of the most cruel
and heartless things I have ever
known human beings to do”, is
the way Sheriff E. V. Leonard
described the Monday daylight
robbery of a disabled World War
II veteran here Tuesday.
The victim was Gerald D. Work
man, who was on his way from
West Virginia to Myrtle Beach,
S. C.', Monday when he was pick
ed up at Northeast river bridge
by Leamon Simmons and Robert
L. Fulford, two white men of
Supply, who offered to take him
to Myrtle Beach for two dollars.
He accepted the offer, but when
they turned off on a dirt road
and continued to travel into de
solate territory he became sus
picious. Finally they stopped the
car and forced him out at the
point of a knife. The other man
held a screwdriver, and with these
two weapons they relieved him
of $98. Before leaving him out
in the woods in strange country
they handed him back one dollar,
then took off.
Because of his physical con
dition Workman was barely able
to walk, but he made it to Bo
livia to report the robbery.
Brunswick County Sheriff’s offi
cers then went into action, and
with Charlie Skipper, Drew Long,
Alex Ganey and Edwin Hewett
working on the case they found
out the couple had been to
Whiteville, where they had been
arrested and made bond; to Cru
soe Island and finally to Wil
mington. There they were arrest
ed Tuesday morning by Wilming
ton Police officials and confessed
their crime.
They are being held for trial
under $5,000 bond.
Retires
H. T. BOWMER
Southport Man
Retires Today
After 16 Years
H. T. Bowmer Retires On
65th Birthday As Game
Protector For North Car
olina Wildlife Commission
Capt. H. T. Bowmer literally
turned in his suit today as he re
tired as game protector after 16
years service with the N. C. Wild
life Resources Commission.
“Tomorrow I'll be just like I
came in this world,’’ he said yes
terday, "naked and barefooted.
That’s my birthday and I’m re
tiring. And when we retire we
are required to turn in our uni
forms.” These uniforms are fur
nished to game protectors on ac
tive duty.
But Capt. Bowmer is not too
unhappy over this turn of events.
“I think it is better for me to
get out while I still fell like en
joying life”, he said philosophical
ly. “I might have worked on for
another five years and finished
wearing myself out, but I think
this is the best way.”
He says that he intends to re
main as a Federal Game pro
tector, a position to which he was
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Licenses For
Southport Dogs
Policemen Are Making A
House To House Canvas
To Determine Ownership
Of Dog Population
Chief of Police Herman Strong
and Policeman Charlie Johnson
are engaged in a house-to-house
contact to determine ownership of
dogs in Southport, and with the
purpose of seeing that every dog
is licensed.
“The real purpose of this is
not to collect the fee of $1.50,”
Strong said this week, "but it is
important that we know the own
ership of every dog in town. There
is no better way to be sure ex
cept to rely upon tags.”
The chief explained that during
the past seevral weeks there have
been at least six persons bitten by
a dog. “In at least one case own
ership of the dog was denied,” he
explained, “and it was not possible
to determine if the animal in
volved had been given the rabies
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TIME and TIDE
By JIMMIE HAKFEIt
What ever came of the art of wood chopping? Well, back in
1935 it still was flourishing, and Peter McLaren, native of
Australia and claimant to the world’s tiUe in this field, was
coming to the CCC Camp at Southport to put on a demonstra
tion. There was front page picture of him in our issue of August
28, 1935. Application had been made for funds with which to
repair and enlarge the municipal power plant in Southport; and
the Southport unit of North Carolina Fisheries, Inc., had re
ceived its charter.
Mrs. U. L. Rourk had been named post master at Leland;
C. A. Ledford had reported as principal of the Southport
schools; and Miss Lois Jane Bussells had been hostess at an
all-girl house party at the Jones Cottage at Caswell Beach.
Fire of undertermined origin had destroyed the warehouse of
the W. B. & S. railroad the day before publication of our issue
for August 28, -1940. W. H. Walker, retired Register of Deeds
lor Brunswick county, had been fatally injured in an explosion
that occurred during the fire. A suggestion had been received
that Paul Green, noted North Carolina playwright, be contacted
with regard to writing a drama for presentation at Fort Cas
well.
Little Miss Jean Evelyn Thompson had been hostess on the
occasion of her second birthday to a number of her friends at
her home here; they had changed the name of one of the boats
at Brunswick Navigation Co. from the Hawley to the Cozart;
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Appointed Pilot
In Panama Canal
John W. O’Daniel Receives
Notice Of This Coveted
Appointment And Has
Already Reported For
Duty
John W. O’Daniel of Southport
has received his appointment as
a pilot in the Panama Canal and
reported for duty last Monday.
This is one of the most coveted
positions in this profession and
the appointment of O’Daniel
makes it two men from South
port holding one of these jobs.
The other is Joe Young Christian.
Following graduation from
Southport high school, O’Daniel
attended N. C. State College prior
to entering the Merchant Marine
Academy at Kings Point. Later he
served two years active duty with
the U. S. Navy where he attained
the rank of Lieutenant. For the
past several years he has worked
for the U. S. Engineers, his latest
assignment being chief mate
aboard the U. S. E. Dredge Hyde.
Earlier this year O’Daniel re
ceived his master’s license, and
then made application for appoint
ment as pilot in the Canal Zone,
O’Daniel is married to the for
JOHN W. O’DANIEL
mer Doris Swan, and she is plan
ning to fly to the Canal Zone to
join him early next month. They
expect to make their home at
Coco Solo.
O’Daniel is the son of Mrs. Guy
Garrett of Southport and is a
grandson of the late Capt. Tom
mie St. George.
Seek Information
On Building Reef
Art Show Being
Planned Saturday
Franklin Square in South
port will be the scene Satur
day of an outdoor art show
which has invited all local
artists, regardless of their
age or experience, to par
ticipate.
Pictures are to be entered
prior to 10 a. m. and should
me matted or framed, suit
able for hanging. There will
be a special department for
children.
The exhibit will include a
few art objects other than
paintings, and the exhibition
should prove of general in
terest.
The hours of the show are
from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m.
High Point Man
Drowning Victim
Bobby Michael Drowned
Friday Afternoon While
Swimming In Ocean Off
Tranquil Harbour
Tragedy ended the vacation
visit of Mr. and Mrs. Bobby
Michael and two children of High
Point Friday afternoon when the
father was drowned in an acci
dent which threatened the life of
all four.
According to reports, the two
Michael children, ages six and
two, were playing on an air mat
tress which drifted away from
the parents. When the husband
and wife started to retrieve it
they stepped into water over their
heads.
It was at this point that the
action of two youngsters, Oliver
Grady Query, 16, and Michael
Price of Charlotte, did some fast
work to prevent a wholesale
tragedy. They managed to get
Mrs. Michael and the two chil
dren ashore, but Michael dis
appeared from view. Mrs. Michael
was brought to Dosher Memorial
Hospital in Southport where she
responded to treatment and re
vived. Some time elapsed before
the body of Michael was recover
ed and artificial respiration was
begun.
These efforts continued for two
hours, the later part at the local
hospital, but he could not be re
vived.
Assisting in the effort to revive
the victims was Ormand Leggett,
who had some of the Southport
Rescue Squad equipment on the
scene. Also assisting was 16-year
old Linda Price, a beach visitor,
and Jimmy Albright and Johnny
Barbee of Yaupon Beach.
Michael was a native of Lex
ington and attended schools in j
Lexington and High Point. He !
graduated from Lenoir-Rhyne
College in 1950, and served in the i
Army for three years. He was I
production manager for the Aid- I
erman Photo Co. in High Point
and was a member of Emanuel
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Inquiries Addressed To Ar
eas Where These Instal
lations Have Been Prev
iously Eestablished
A group of Southport citizens
met Tuesday morning in the court
room to discuss plans which will
govern construction of the artifi
cial fishing reef off Bald Head is
land prior to making formal ap
plication to the U. S. Engineers
Department for permission.
Already permission has been
granted by the U. S. Navy and
by the N. C. Department of Con
servation and Development. In
formation to be included in the
application to the U. S. Engineers
will include plans for stabilizing
the reef to prevent its component
parts from scattering over the
ocean floor. Stability is to be
desired not only from the stand
point of the builders, who want
their installation to remain in one
place, but also is a matter of con
cern to shrimpers and to men
haden fishermen who operate in
this area.
At the Tuesday morning meet
ing no serious differences of opin
ion occurred, and it was agreed
that C. D. Pickerrell, city man
ager and secretary of the South
port Development Corporation, be
directed to write the Corps of
Engineers ofthe Charleston, S. C.
District and the New Orleans
District to determine what plans
and specifications were followed
in the construction of artificial
reefs in their areas.
Following is the text of the
resolution passed last week by
the N. C. Board of Conservation
and Development regarding the
local project:
"The Board of Conservation and
Development, having learned with
great interest of a proposed arti
ficial reef off Cape Fear for the
purpose of improving salt water
sport fishing, and having been
advised by the State Advertising
Committee of the vast economic
potential of the salt water sport
fishing industry, does hereby ex
press its commendation to the
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New Numbering
System Planned
Beginning Immediately, 3
Numbers Will Be Used
Instead Of Present Letter
Prefix
Some telephone numbers in
Southport will have a new look
beginning this week.
Starting on that date, Southern
Bell here will begin a slow
change-over to a new number sys
tem—All Number Calling. Tele
phone numbers will have seven
numerals rather than the present
name and five numerals.
The change is expected to take
about three years, Southern Bell
manager H. F. Kincaid said. Each
telephone customer will be noti
fied before his number is to be
changed.
Kincaid said the change will
nean only that numerals will be
substituted for the two letters
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Tobacco Prices
And Volume Up
For Whiteville
Indications Point To Record
Breaking Season In Both
Pounds And Average On
This Border Belt Market
If things have been glittering
brightly for the Golden Anniver
sary tobacco sales on the White
ville market, then what is hap
pening now will have to be de
scribed as having lustre without
parallel.
Today confirmed that the big
three-buyer sets market is well
into the big sell of the main crop
of Columbus county and sur
rounding area tobacco.
It started last Thursday when
volume jumped suddenly to over
a million pounds for a record
smashing $61.69. The volume con
tinued Friday, and it is continu
ing again today.
Sales Supervisor George Gold
says that the volume is heavy and
the prices appear to be excellent.
‘’Everybody tells me we’re going
to have one of our best days so
far.”
The picture looks just as
bright for the rest of the week.
So far the Golden Anniversary
sale of the Golden Leaf has seen
Whiteville sell just over 10 mil
lions pounds through 12 days of
selling.
The money has bulked up to
just under $6 millions for a sea
son average of $59.04.
Record-wise, the Whiteville
market is 2 millions pounds ahead
of last year at the end of 12
days, money is $1.3 million*
heavier, and the average is $1.03
bigger.
The Golden Anniversary mar
ket continues to tbe the only Co
lumbus market showing an in
crease in pounds, dollars and
average.
Chadboum is about 300,000
pounds ahead with 3,295,829
pounds, $1,972,302 dollars, and
$59.84 average. Fair Bluff is
better than 350,000 pounds ahead
with 2,343,676 noim^k. $1,335,138,
and 556.9T. ity is about
500,000 down *V^45 pounds,
$1,294,982, anc» 1.02 average.
The U. S. Department of Agri
culture reports that so far Flue
Cured Stabilization Corp. has
taken under loan slightly over
5 percent of the offerings on the
Border-South Carolina markets.
The take dropped last week.
Gross sales for the two-state
belt were heaviest last week,
mainly under the influence of
South Carolina activities. Aver
ages were also well up.
In Georgia-Florida there are
still eight markets operating, but
prices are reported dropping as
the quality of offerings slides.
All but four of the markets, all
in Georgia have announced they’ll
be closed by the end of the
month.
Caswell Scene
Of Youth Meet
Speaker At Session During
Past Week Was The Rev.
Worley G. Hawthorne
The Rev. Worley G. Haw
thorne, pastor of Seagate Com
munity Chapel, was principal
speaker this past week at the
Ft. Caswell youth retreat near
Southport.
The two-day retreat. Aug. 26
27, was sponsored by the Liv
ingston Baptist Church of Delco.
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Tide Table
Following la 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 tbs
Cape Fear Pilot's Association.
High Tide Low TMs
Thursday, September 1,
3:32 A. M. 9:54 A. M.
4:23 P. M. 10:44 P. M.
Friday, September 2,
4:39 A. M. 10:57 A. M.
5:24 P. M. 11:41 P. M.
Saturday, September 3,
5:40 A. M. 11:56 A. M.
6:21 P. M. .
Sunday, September 4,
6:37 A. M. 0:33 P. M.
7:13 P. M. 12:50 P. M.
Monday, September 5,
7:31 A. M. 1:22 A. M.
8:02 P. M. 1:41 P. M.
Tuesday, September 6,
8:20 A. M. 2:09 A. M.
8:49 P. M. 2:29 P. M.
Wednesday, September 7,
9:08 A. M. 2:54 A. M.
9:34 P. M. 3:15 P. M.