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THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community The Pilot Covers Brunswick County Volume No. 21 No. 14 10-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1960 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Next Wednesday Is Closing Day For Whiteville Prices And Volums Continue High On This Border Belt Market As Season Nears Close Next Week Preliminary U. S. Department of Agriculture reports through the 36th day of bright leaf sales for the Border belt shows that Whiteville has sold 34,010,600 pounds of tobacco so far. The sale has been for $21,061,155, a heavy two and a quarter millions of dollars more than last year. The Golden Anniversary mar ket poundage is already 3.5 mil lions ahead. Two More Closed The close of the Chadboum and Tabor City markets left White ville the only market still oper ating in the county. It is one of the three markets left in the Border Belt on the North Caro lina side. For Chadboum, the year end ed with approximately 14 percent increase in pounds and 13 percent jump in dollars. An average of $62.36, which was off slightly from last year’s $62.97, is report ed. All totaled, Chadboum this year cold 11,995,973 pounds of tobacco, lor an aggregate of $7,480,779. At Tabor City, the record was very similar. Its pounds were about 15 percent ahead, its dollars 14 percent up from 1959. The va rious is again ascribed to a sea son average of $62.53, which was off slightly from the $62.88 of the year before. Tabor City’s sales ran 9,227,289 pounds for $5,778,889. In Whiteville, the two-set mar ket expects to continue its sales to Oct. 12 according to latest re ports. The date was set after warehousemen surveyed the situa tion and realized much tobacco was still in the farmers’ hands. Should the Whiteville market hit the 36,000,000 figure it will be the second highest figure since the 139-Dixie Bright loaded sales of 1956 which soared to 40,484, 000 pounds. The dollar value is already a record for the 50-year-old mar ket. This year the Golden Anniver sary sale has been characterized by a continually rising average. Now it is at $61.92. The market is the only major outlet for to bacco to show both a gain in volume, dollars and average. LIONS TO MEET The regular meeting of South port Lions Club will be held to morrow (Thursday) at 6:30 at the Community Building. MARKETING CARDS Brunswick county farmers are urged to return their marketing cards to the ASC office at Shal lotte just as soon as they have completed marketing their crop. TURKEY SUPPER The Woman’s Society of Chris tian Service of Trinity Methodist Church has scheduled a turkey supper on Thursday, October 13, from 5 until 1 at the church. BOLIVIA P. T. A. The Bolivia P. T. A. will hold its first fall meeting Monday eve ning at 7:30 o’clock. Plans will be made for the annual Hallo ween Carnival at that time. Re freshments will be served. TWO MEN INJURED Seriously injured in a fire Sun day afternoon at Vernes Esso Station at Shallotte were Harry R. Tatum and Linwood Gray. The accident occurred when the car on which they were working burst into flames. Both men were brought to Dosher Memorial Hos pital in Southport for treatment. BAPTIST HOMECOMING The Southport Baptist Church announces plans for its annual homecoming day program on October 23. The days services will begin with Sunday School at 9:30 a. m. and the homecoming program at 10:30 a. m. The pro gram will include various recogni tions, a brief history of the church and a message by an out standing Baptist leader. A special fund raising emphasis will also be a part of the purpose of the day. The church extends to form er members, and friends a cordial invitation to share in this pro gram. Telephone Building HEADQUARTERS—Among the more impressive building improvements made I recently at Shallotte is the completion of the new home of the Atlantic Telephone Membership Corporation. It houses the business offices of the co-operative, which now serves almost 1,000 subscribers in Brunswick county. First Steps In Lighted Field For Southport Four 85-Foot Poles Have Been Erected With Others To Go Up This Week; Other Equipment Purchas ed Four 85-foot poles have been ! set at the Southport athletic field and plans are on foot to com plete the project of lighting- the field in time for use this season. Four more poles, each 75-feet in length, are already on the site and will be erected this week. At a report meeting Thursday night announcement was made that the necessary transformers 1 have been purchased, together with several other expensive items. This has brought the ori ginally estimated cost down from ’ $5,000 to about $3,000, with at least $1,000-of this latter amount already in hand. The lights and some of the other necessary items are due for delivery this week and the work of rigging the ilghts is expected to start right away. Local sponsors have their eye | on the November 11th date with Shallotte. The Pirates have agreed to come here to play if Southport has its field lighted by that time. : There also is a feeling that it might be helpful to have the field lighted for an earlier game if possible, and this has been set up as a secondary objective. Safety Checks Reveal Faults Major Charles A, Speed Praises Results Of Volun teer Safety Inspection Lanes Like That In South port A total of 30,762 vehicles re ceived a 10-point check for safe driving condition in North Caro lina during the 1960 National Ve hicle Safety-Check program, ac cording to highway patrol Major Charles A. Speed. Here in Brunswick county the Southport Lions Club has sponsor ed the Voluntary Safety Check for each of the past three years. Of the number checked, 5666 were rejected when found to need immediate service attention. Later 2895 of the faulty vehicles were returned for a recheck and pass ed. Vehicle Safety-Check programs were conducted in 108 cities and counties of the state during May and June as part of a national campaign in states not requiring official motor vehicle inspection, Major Speed said, The campaign was under the sponsorship of the j Auto Industries Highway Safety I Committee and Look magazine, with the cooperation of the Asso ciation of State and Provincial Safety Coordinators. National results, recently re leased, show one out of every six vehicles safety-checked had at least one unsafe item. This was the lowest percentage of unsafe vehicles discovered in the 13-year history of the camaign, accord ing to national authorities. In all, 3.2 million cars and trucks were safety-checked throughout the country at community check ' lanes, in automobile dealer ser vice departments, service stations and garages, at military installa tions, by teen age groups and by industrial plants and government agencies. Nationally, for the sixth year in a row, rear lights headed the list : of items often found needing at Continued On Page 4 Progress Report At Phone Meeting Same Slate Of Officers Of Atlantic Telephone Mem bership Corporation Re elected At Annual Meet ing Gwyn B. Price of Raleigh, chair man of the North Carlina Rural Electrification Authority, was the < principal speaker Friday at the third annual membership meeting of the Altantic Telephone Mem bership Corporation. A crowd of about 150 was present for this meeting. The speaker told the member ship that ‘‘telephone service plays a leading role in agricultural progress” and is an important part of the state’s economy. He also explained that "it is a grow jing business.” Price backed up his assertions with statistics showing that more than 40 per cent of Tar Heel farms now have telephone serv ice as compared with about nine per cent in 1944 when the first of the state’s 10 cooperatives was cut into servnce. The Brunswick organization, which dedicated a $29,000 admin istration bulding and gained 116 new subsricers during the past | year, was the most recent group I to organize. Revenue from local and toll calls processed through the Bruns wick cooperative during the past year amounted to more than $73 000, Cooperative Manager Fred Browm explained. President Harry L. Mintz w'as reelected for a third term as pres ident of the cooperative. H. Foster Mintz was reelected as vice-pres ident and Joe C. Stanaland was reelected secetary. The same ac tion was taken with regard to four members of the board of directors, A. P. Henry, Roddy Bennett, Elbert Pigott and Roddie Bennett. President Mintz said three new area were recently included in the cooperativei They are Bona parte Landing, Ocean Isle Beach i and Sunset Beach. i Postoffice Load Shows Increase Office At Shallotte Goes From $15,000 To $25,000 In Past SJx Years As Mail ing Increases A new all-time high in the na tion’s mail volume was reached during fiscal year 1960 ending Jilne 30, which continued the steady upward trend of the past seven years at a rate which even exceeds the population growth, according to advance information from the Annual Report of the Post Office Department which has been made available to Post master E. V. Gore, Jr., of Shal lotte. Although subject to last min ute revisions, the year’s total has been estimated as 63.6 billion pieces of mail which includes about one billion pieces of parcel post. It was stated that this would mean an increase of nearly 25 per cent over the correspond ing figures for 1953 when the annual volume was 50.9 billion pieces. During this same period, it was pointed out, the revenue of the Department also has shown an impressive gain with an increase from $2,091,714,000 in fiscal year . 1953 to $3,276,800,000 for fiscal yetr I960. Continued On Page 5 Manager FRED BROWN Morehead Aid Deadline Near Interested Students Still Have Time To Make Ap plication For Scholarship Aid Kirby Sullivan, chairman of the Brunswick Morehead scholarship committee says students desiring to apply for a John M. Month ead scholarship should have their ap plications in his office on Oct. 15. These applications have already been distributed to the principals of each school. Additional forms can be secured from Sullivan or Ernest Parker, the co-chairman. Candidates for the scholarship are chosen on the basis of scho lastic ability and attainments, qualities of manhood, truthful ness, courage, devotion t6 duty, sympathy, kindness, unsefishness Continued On Page 4 Highway Work Scheduled For Brunswick Area State Highway Commission Announces Schedule For Improvement To Roads In This County The State Highway Commission | has approved and set up funds for improvements to more than 20 I miles of roads in Brunswick Coun ity. j Stabilization work is scheduled on these roads: 2.6 miles of road 1428-Dogwood Neck Road from road 1426 to road 1426; 0.8 mile J of road 1425-Saw Mill Road, from US 74-76 to road 1419; 1 mile of road 1320-Fred Pigott Road from road 1316, northeast; 2 miles of road 1338-Prong Road, from road 1337 to road 1339; 0.6 mile of road 1161-Summersett Road, from NC 904 to a dead end; 1.5 mile of road 1340-Honey Island Road, revision at Juniper Creek; 1.5 mile of road 1337 Prong Road, from road 1333 to road road 1336; and 4.5 miles of road 1417-Malmo Road, from NC 87 to US 74-76. Grading, draining and surfacing work will be done on these roads: 3.2 miles of road 1437-Woodman Road, from US 74-76 to road 1438; and 0.4 mile of road 1123-Garland Varnum Road, from road 1122 to a dead end. Grading and stabilization is 'scheduled on the following roads which have been added to the State system: 0.30 mile of Neigh borhood Road No. 1, from road 1332 to a dead end; 0.25 mile of Shell Point Extension, from end of road 1132 to a dead end; 0.70 mile of Cox Road, from road 1112 to a dead end; 0.10 mile of Cala bash Road Extension, from the end of road 1166 to a dead end; 0.35 mile of the Galloway Cross ing, from road 1500 to a dead end; 0.35 mile of Neighborhood Road No. 2, from road 1500 to a dead end and 2.30 miles of Sunset Beack Road, from the end of road 1172 to Beach. Approximate cost of the im provements is $120,000. Begin Drive For Benefit Of Blind, Annual White Cane Drive Being Conducted This Week By Members Of Southport Lions Club The date for the White Cane Drive by the Southport Lions Club has been set for October 9 through October 17. This drive is sponsored by the more than 14, 000 Lions in North Carolina. It presents the greatest challenge and oportunity for service in the I field of work for the blind and visually handicapped to the Lions and friends of the blind in North Carolina. The North Carolina State As | sociation for the Blind is a Lions j project. It was organized by Lions in 1934 as a non-profit, state (wide organization and is support led by Lions through this one an nual fund raising project, the White Cane Drive, each Septem ber. There are no paid employees in the Association, no adminis trative salaries, all work is on a voluntary basis. Continued On Page 4 TIME and TIDE A headline in The Pilot for October 2, 1935, reported that the first degree murder trial of Dillon Jenrette would begin on the following Monday with Judge Clawson Williams presiding. An other headline reported that U. L. Rourk had resigned from the Board of Education. Col. Earl I. Brown, Division Chief for the U. S. Army Engineers, was a visitor in Southport aboard the engineer’s yacht Falcon. Caption beneath a front page picture of Fort Johnson report ed that this building had been turned over to the Bureau of Lighthouses. “Plenty Of Good Mules And Hackney Wagons” were advertised by a Whiteville livestock dealer; Mrs. Irma Carr had been honored at a surprise birthday party given in her honor at Clear Lake Inn by Mrs. J. W. Ruark; and the Southport Wo man's Club was planning to present “The Dixie Blackbirds Min strel" later in the month. A robber who had held up Hobson Kirby, Shallotte merchant, got nothing for his trouble but experience according to a report of the incident in The Pilot for October 2, 1940. There was a spectacular display of pulchritude on the front page with a leggy young miss shown in three artistic attitudes of shark hunting— from a menhaden boat with a rifle, no less. The Outdoor Writers of America had accepted an invitation to hold their fall meeting in Southport. Miss Annie May Woodside, county superintendent of schools, was distributing free tickets to the State Fair to Brunswick county school children; Bill Styron and Hulan Watts had been high men at a local skeet shoot ;and city officials had discover Ponttnued On Page Four Senator Sam Ervin In Bolivia Friday North Carolina’s Senior Sen ator Will Be Principal Speaker At Big Demo cratic Rally Friday; Ter ry Sanford Coming Next Week Senator Sam J. Ervin will be the principal speaker Friday night at a Democratic rally to be held at Bolivia High School auditorium. The time will be 7:30 o’clock. This will launch the campaign which Democratic leaders have de signed to bring outstanding lead ers to Brunswick county between now and November 8, for next week Terry Sanford, Democratic nominee for governor, will speak at a rally in Shallotte. Not only does Ervin enjoy the prestige of being North Caro lina’s senior senator, he is fam ous for his wit and oratory, and Brunswick county citizens who have heard him before are anxious to hear him again. Senator Ervin is recognized as being one of the Senate leaders and holds several important com mittee assignments. His record of service in public office includes duty as a member of the House of Representatives and a mem ber of the State Supreme Court. E. J. Prevatte, chairman of the Brunswick County Democratic Executive Committee extends an SENATOR SAM ERVIN invitation to all Brunswick coun ty citizens, regardless of party affiliation, to attend this meeting. "Senator Ervin is a distinguished public servant whom members of both parties both admire and re spect,” Prevatte said this week “X hope we will have a large audience at Bolivia to hear him speak.” Arrangements for this meeting are in the hands of A. H. Gainey, Jr. Shell Club Holds Two-Day Meeting ——-5] Speaker JAY ML DAVIS Homecoming Set At New Hope U.S. Army Chaplain To Be Principal Speaker At An nual Homecoming Event In County The Annual Homecoming Day at New Hope Presbyterian Church at Winnabow will be held on Sun day, October 16. The speaker will be TJ. S. Army Chaplain Jay M. Davis, whose first pastorate was at New Hope and Southport, where he served from 1932-35. He graduated at Presbyterian College in South Carolina and from Union Theolo gical Seminary. He entered the Army in 1943 and was remained on active duty since that time except for a pe riod of 18 months, giving him 18 years active duty in the Army. Chaplain Davis will speak at the 11 o’clock hour and dinner will be served on the grounds. RED CROSS CASES Case workers are continuing to investigate applications made for Red Cross assistance as a result of losses sustained during Hurri cane Donna. A meeting of the Ad visory Committee was held last night, with another scheduled for next week. There are 371 appli cations, with $7,178.80 having been disbursed thus far. No cash has been paid out, but purchase orders have been made for neces sary materials. Community Building In Southport Is Scene Of Friday Evening And Sat urday Afternoon Sessions Members of the North Carolina Shell Club held their fall meeting in Southport on Friday and Sat urday with a program whose diversification ranged all the way from boat trip to Bald Head Is land Saturday morning on a shell hunting expedition to a sceintific talk that afternoon by Dr. John H. Ferguson, member of the faculty of the University of North Carolina. The Community Building was headquarters for the meeting, with registration getting under way there Friday afternoon. Among the first arrivals were the president, Mrs. Kenneth Johnson, of Raleigh; Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Wadsworth of Chapel Hill; and Mrs. Smith Whiteside of Durham. The latter provided the feature attraction of the Friday night meeting, color slides of shells and shelling on Sanibel Island in Flor ida. This session was opened by the president, followed by Mayor Roy Robinson, who extended a welcome in behalf of the citizens of Southport. James M. Harper, Jr., local newspaper editor, added a word of welcome and made an nouncements regarding the Bald Head Island trip on the following morning. This trip was made in sections, with the first contingent leaving a nearby dock at 8 o’clock. The emergency ferry service had com pleted its transportation of pas sengers prior to the 3 o’clock meeting. Although the island trip failed to provide much in the way of fruitful shell collecting, it was an interesting trip and members appeared to enjoy their visit to tropical Bald Head Island. The Saturday afternoon busi ness meeting saw the appointment of a nominating committee, which Continued On Page 4 College Course Draws Variety Representatives From Sev eral Walks Of Life Are j Taking Off - Campus} Course In Public Relations The off-campus college course j class being instructed in Bruns wick County during the fall quar ter is made up of people with a variety of occupations and back grounds. The course in Home-School Community Relations, (Education 334G), offering 3 quarter hours graduate or undergraduate credit from East Carolina College and which is transferable to other colleges, meets each Monday at 6:30 p. m. for a three hour ses sion. The has an enrollment of thir ty-five persons which come from New Hanover, Columbus and Continued On Page 4 Jaycees Planning To Hold Beauty Contest In 1961 Members Of Shallotte Orga nization Hold Planning Session Saturday Night To Discuss Details Of Contest Members of the Shallotte Jay cees held a planning meeting Sat urday night with several of the school principals to discuss plans for conducting the 1961 beauty pageant on a local level. Plans call for five preliminary contests, to be held in the five school districts. Winners in these contests will compete' in the finals of a countywide event, with Miss Brunswick County moving on to the State Contest next summer. The Jaycees discussed plans to raise funds for prises to the awarded winners in both the local and county contests. They also are working on plans for raising funds to finance the wardrobe and travel of the county winner as she advances to the State Finals. ~ Tentative plans call for holding the elemination contests during the month of January, with the county contest coming up in March. The Jaycees have prepared en try blanks and are anxious to be gin receiving entries right away. Following is a copy of the rules and regulations which cover this competition: "Entrant agrees to abide by all the rules of the local and national contests now in effect or as an nounced hereafter. “Entrant agrees that the time, manner, and method of judging the contest shall be solely within the discretion of the Shallotte Junior Chamber of Commerce Club, and that the decision of the Judges will be final. "Entrant agrees that if she is selected as the winner of this contest, she will not sign a man agement contract with any in dividual or corporation, and that she will rrot give Any written or verbal endorsement of any mer cantile commodity or commercial organization, nor will she permit any photographs to be used in connection with any advertised commodity or service not associat ed with this contest, without per mission of the Miss Brunswick County Pageant. “Entrant must be single and never have been married, divorc ed, or had marriage annulled. “Entrant must be a high school graduate by September of this year. Brunswick County residents who are enrolled in college out of Continued On Page 4 Petroleum Men Cite High Tax Effort Being Made To Di rect Thinking Of People To Possibility Of Gasoline Tax Reduction If Congress permits a tempar ary one cent federal tax on gaso line to expire on schedule as promised, Brunswick county motorists will save approximate ly $45,700 annually. This figure comes from T. D. Lindson, the Shell Oil distributor and chairman of the county pe troleum committee. Service station dealers all over the county are currently bringing these facts to local motorists by securing signatures on petitions Continued On Page 4 Tide Table Following to the tide table tor 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 Cow Tide Thursday October 6, 8:41 A. M. 2:25 A. M. 9:05 P. M. 2:53 P. M. Friday, October 7, 9:24 A. M. 3:07 A. M. 9:47 P. M. 3:36 P. M. Saturday, October 8, 10:06 A. M. 3:47 A. M. 10:28 P. M. 4:19 P. M. Sunday, October 9, 10:48 A. M. 4:29 A. M. 11:10 P. M. 5:03 P. M. Monday, October 10, •11:32 A. M. 5:12 A. M. 11:55 P. M. 5:49 P. M. Tuesday, October 11, . 6:00 A. M. 12:18 P. M. 6:40 P. M. Wednesday, October 13, 0:46 A. M. 6:51 A. M. 1:09 P. M. 7:35 P. M.
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