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Most of the News! All The Time r THE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Volume No. 21 No. 23 10-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1960 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Cub Scouts Of Field Trip INSPECTION—These are members of Cub Scout Pack shown at dockside in Wilmington where they boarded the U. Alexander H. Cheridan Saturday. The trip was arranged by Point Army Terminal. No. 238 of. Southport, S. Army Freighter Pvt. personnel at the Sunny Coast Guard To Send New Boat First Of Year Permission Is Now Being Sotight From U- S. Army Engineers To Erect New Mooring Facilities At The Yacht Basin The Commander, Fifth Coast Guard District, Norfolk, Va„ has made application for permit to construct two four-pile clusters for mooring facilities in the Southport Yacht Basin. Permission to erect the pile clusters in the local yacht basin are in parparation of a berth for a new Caost Guard patrol boat, due to arrive here sometime after the first of the year. Ac cording to information reeieved, the new craft will be 95-ft in lenght and will be in command of a commissioned officer. Plans submitted show one pile cluster is to be constructed on the east boat basin prism limits and the other pile cluster to be 35 feet channelward of the first pile cluster. The two proposed pile clusters are considered tempor ary, for a period of about two years, pending development by the Coast Guard of more suitable and permanent moorings in the South port area. Plans showing the pur posed work may be seen at the post office at Southport. As information, a Department of Army permit merely express Continued On F age 4 Brief Bite Of _TVTI7TY7C!. CONDITION IMPROVES Harry T. Sanders, patient at Dosher Memorial Hospital since Thanksgiving, is somewhat impro ved, although his condition still is considered to be serious. AT WACCAMAW The senior class of Waccamaw High School is presenting a three -act comedy, "Mountain Gal", Thursday evening at 8 o’clock in the school auditorium. AMERICAN LEGION An interesting meeting of the American Legion Post No. 194 was held Monday night at the Legion Hall. Many current sub jects were discussed before Com mander Crawford Ruark adjourn ed the meeting. Next meting will be on the first Monday of the new year. TOBACCO MEETING There will be a meeting on aromatic tobacco production at Waccamaw School in the Vocatio nal Agriculture Building next Wednesday at 2 p. m. All persons interested in growing this crop should make plans to attend. Roy Crouse, Extension Tobacco Speci alist for aromatic tobacco, will lead the discussion. Holiday House Set For Sunday Lions Club Building To Be* Scene Of Display Spon sored By Garden Clubs And Featuring Christmas Decorations On Sunday, the Southport and Woodbine Gardens Clubs of South port are jointly sponsoring a “Christmas Holiday House” with the Live Oak Garden Club par ticipating. The Holiday House will be staged in the Community Building and will be open to the public from 2 p. m. until 9 p. m. Persons other than.Garden Club members are invited to exhibit arrangements in the following categories: 1. Arrangements using a re ligious figurine (Madonna, angel, St. Frances, etc.) 2. Arrangements for living room or hall table using fresh material. 3. Christmas wreaths. 4. Doorway decorations other than wreaths. 5. Arrangement suitable for gift -giving among friends (container being jewel boxes, music boxes, or any other container). 6. A Della Robbia wreath. 7. Advent wreath. 8. New Year's Eve arrange ments. 9. Christmas table favors and ornaments for tree-including cor sages, candles, Christmas stock ings, Santas, icicles, styrofoam balls, stars, and reindeer. 10. Small arrangements, featur ing one or more candles. 11. Small Christmas tree, any material-modern or tranditional Continued On Page 4 . Sheriff Warns To Take Care Incident Of Past Week Causes Sheriff E. V, Leon ard To Issue Warning About Thieves Sheriff E. V. Leonard this week issued a warning to all law abid ing citizens of Brunswick county | to be on their guard during the j forthcoming holidays to protect j themselves against thieves and j bad check artists. “I don't know why it is that i they seem to get so busy during the time from Thanksgiving to j Christmas,” Sheriff Leonard said this week, ‘‘but seems like they do.” He cited the bank robbery in Southport during the weekend, | the loss of government checks 1 from the post office and theft of j seven fine turkeys from Starling j Hewett Friday night. “We are working on the tur key case,” Sheriff Leonard report ed. "Meanwhile, Mr. Hewett has of fered a $100 reward for informa tion leading to the arrest and eo ; eviction of persons responsible for ' 1 stealing his turkeys.” Dredge Gerig Here Next Week The Engineer dredge Gerig is scheduled to arrive at Cape Fear December 12 for about 10 days of bar channel dred ging to restore project depth of 35 feet. She will depart December 23 for Jacksonville, Fla. The Gerig is now dredging in Beaufort Inlet at More head City on the 35-foot pro ject. She will finish there December 10, as present plans provide. Southport Man Dies Suddenly Thomas W. St. George Is Victim Of Heart Attack Monday Night; Funeral Services Being Held To day Citizens of Southport were stun ned Tuesday morning with news of the death of Thomas W. St. George, member of the Brunswick County Board of Education and prominent citizens of this comm unity. He had attended a meeting of Board of Education Monday even ing and apparently was in good spirits and good health. During the night he was stricken with a heart attack and was rushed to Dosher Memorial Hospital where he died a short time later. He was the son of the late Capt. Tommie St. George and the late Mrs. Ada Dosher St. George and was 57 years of age. H% was a graduate of Duke University. His life was spent on and around the waterfront, and for severaj years he served as captain of the man haden boats for the Brunswick Navigation Co. Currently he was a civil service employee at Sunny Point Army Terminal. Survivors include his wife, the former Clara Neighbors; two brothers, James St. George and Russell St. George, and two sist ers, Miss Marion St. George and Mrs. Guy Garrett, all of South port. Funeral services are being held at 3 p. m. Wednesday at Trin ity Methodist Church with the Rev. Lawrence Bridges officiating. Burial will be in the Northwood Cemetery. Active pallbearers will be John Long, James Wolfe. D. F. St. George, Otto Hickman, Frank Potter and Johnnie Vereen. Hon orary pallbearers are the present and any past members of the board ofedueation and Dr. F. M. Burdette and Dr. Landis Brown. Shrimp Hearing Set Saturday In Morehead City Propo-a! To Prohibit Shrimp And Fish Trawling Inside 3-M le Limit Faces Hard Batt'e A public hearing on a proposal to prohibit shrimp and fish trawl ing within the three-mile limit of the North Carolina Coast from Cape Hatteras to Cape Fear will be held at Morehead City Satur day at 10 a. m. The hearing will be conducted by the commercial fisheries com mittee of the State Board of Con servation and Development in the board room of the Commerieal Fisheries Building. The committee will make its recommendations to the C&D Board at its January 9 meeting in Raleigh, Eric W. Rodgers of Scotland Neck, chair man, said. The proposal to prohibit shrimp and fish trawling within the three -mile limit was made at the Oct ober meeting of the Board of Con servation and Development at Hickory by A. W. Daniels of Charlotte, chairman of the advi sory committee to the C&D Board's commercial fisheries com mittee. The commercial fisheries committee set Dec. 10 as the date for a public hearing on the mat ter at Morehead City. Daniels said requests for closing the area to shrimp and fish trawling came from sports fish emen, many of whom contend such activities by commerieal fishermen are destructive to fish inhabiting waters within the three-mile limit over which the State has jurisdiction. Many com mercial fishermen contend trawl ing is not detrimental to fish j growth as sports fishermen claim. I Proponents and opponents will be given an opportunity to be heard by the commercial fisheries committee. Proposals to close certain des ignated areas in Pamlico Sound to shrimp and fish trawling, and re stricting the taking of clams to t.ongs and rakes only from Cedar Banks Club to Portsmouth Island on the east side of the channel in Core Sound, Carteret county will also be heard. Dedication Of Building Slated Free Fish Fry Will Begin Operations Friday Night At New Agriculture Buil ding Dedication of the New County Office Building in Supply will start with a free fish fry at 6 o’clock Friday afternoon, with the dedication program to be held in the auditorium at 7:30 o'clock. The main address will be made by R. W. Shoffner, assistant dir ector of N. C. Extension Service. Congressman Alton Lennon will be present and appear on the program for a short talk. Open house will be observed from 8 to 9 o’clock for inspect ion of the building and for re freshments. The county commissioners are expecting a large turnout for the dedication program. They are giv ing the fish fry in order to in sure a large number of people i present. “The dedication program will be short,” said A. S. Knowles Continued On Page 4 Scenes Of Robbery EVIDENCE—In the picture above left Policeman Charlie Johnson is pointing out the hiding place of the machines taken from the Waccamaw Bank And Trust Company to Mayor Roy Robinson. On the right Cashier Prince O’Brien points to the broken window where thieves reached in to open the lock to gain admittance. Amateur Job— Thieves Enter Bank * New Appointees E. J. PRKVATTE A. H. GAINEY, JR. Changes Made Board Organizes The first five-man board of ] commissioners to serve Bruns wick county in recent years were administered their oath of office Monday morning before Clerk of Court Jack Brown, then promp tly set about the business of mak ing some changes in appointive officers. E. J. Prevatte was named coun ty attorney, succeeding Davis C. Herring. A. H. Gainey, Jr., was named to fill the position of solicitor of Brunswick county Re corder's court, the job formerly held by Prevatte. During the period when, the board was organized F. Herbert Swain was once more elected chairman, but not without a fight. His vote was 3-2 over Ira D. Butler, who also voted for the suc cessful candidate. In addition to Swain and Butler members of the board are R. E. Bellamy, now starting out on his third term; Cortez Ward and D. B. Frink, new members. Also taking oath of office was Durwood Clark, former county > „ j, > j, ■», j., .■ , ... . TIME and TIDE I December 4. 1935, and winter had been here. The temperature had dropped to 26-degrees, and some out-of-season blossoms had been blighted by the cold. There was a note that Boatswain Hoy Robinson, in charge of Oak Island Coast Guard Station for the past 4 years, was being transferred to Boston. There had been no Thanksgiving dinner served at the Bruns wick county jail for the simple reason that the local bastile had been empty during the holiday period. A dozen men from the local CCC Camp had given blood for a patient at the local hos pital; and Dr. D. I. Watson had celebrated his 79th birthday with open house at his home here. Thomas Crady Floyd, Southport boy, became the first man to be furbished the armed services through the local Selective Ser vice Board. He volunteered for one year and left on Wednesday, December 4, 1940, for Ft. Bragg. That was the same day The Pilot came out that week. Orton reported a profusion of early blooming camellias, probably as the result of an unusually mild November. A group of upstate fox hunters visited Brunswick and found j that their luck was too good. Foxes' were so thick they got in i each other’s way. The Outdoor Writers of America had returned to their homes, and clippings from their newspapers were begin ning to come in. They had been much impressed with the hunting Continued On Page 4 commissioner, the newly elected ! Register of Deeds. He succeeds Henry Hickman, who was not a candidate for reelection. Leroy Hooks also was present and qualified as magistrate for Town Creek township. Famous Father Dies Tuesday Nathan B. Miller, Who Re ceived Nation-Wide Pub liciay Last Year, Dies In Hospital Nathan B. Miller, the man who was the center of nationwide pub licity last year after his wife had given birth to triplets, died Tuesday at the Veterans Hospital in Fayetteville. He is survived by his widow, Pinkie Blackwell Miller, and six children, Peggy, Frances, Jimmy, Glenda, Brenda and Linda Miller all of the home; and two brothers. Monroe and Leon Miller, both of Mullins, S. C. Funeral services will be held at 1 p. m. Thursday in the chapel of Coble Funeral Home in Wilm ington. Burial will be in the Na tional Cemetery in Wilmington with military honors. The Miller family lived at Clar endon Plantation between South port and Wilmington, the same place they were living when the momentous birth took place. Fol lowing this event, they accepected offer for employment for the the father near Charlotte, but after a few months they notified their fomer landlord, Cornelius Thomas, of their desire to return to their former home in Brunswick county. When widespread publicity re ported that the addition of three mouths to feed might work some sort of economic hardship upon the Miller family, offers of assistance came in. Several people wanted to adopt one or more of the little girls and some cash contributions to help defray their living expen ses came to the Millers from dis tant states. What the family will no now that the father and main bread winner is deceased has not been determined. Office Equipment Removed From Waccamaw Bank And Trust Co. During Week-End Was Recover ed Tuesday Southport was the scene of a bank robbery during the weekend but by Tuesday noon it was apparent that it was a home grown job and there was even I some evidence to suggest that if the thieves had it to do all over j again they probably wouldn't do ! it. That it was not a convent ional bank robbing job became evident early Monday morning when Cashier Prince O’Brien first surveyed the scene inside the local branch of the Waccamaw Bank and Trust Co. A sliver of glass on the floor set him off upon a quick inventory which revealed that a typewriter, an el ectric adding machine and check writing machine were missing. He checked the vault, and there was no edvidence that any attempt had been made to break in there. There was even a lose dollar bill in the cash drawer which had not been taken. The banker called the local po lice and acting Chief H. G. Rat cliffe called Sheriff E. V. Leonard. Knowing that when the thieves cracked the window of the bank they became involved in a Federal case,’ Sheriff Leonard contacted the F. B. X. A more complete investigation revealed that sometime between closing time Saturday and Mon day morning the bank was enter ed through a window in the rear of the building, with admittance being gained after a hole was knocked in a pane of glass op posite the window lock. It is be lieved that one or more persons then entered the bank and remov ed the three machines. All day long Monday local off icers and F. B. I. agents went over the scene and all available information. On Tuesday morning Policeman Charlie Johnson start ed out over the same territory again, and about mid-morning dis covered the three machines part ially hidden behind a tin ware house a short distance to the rear of the bank building. . Johnson guarded the machines from being touched, then phoned the F. B. I. office in Wilmington. Agents were in Southport within a short time and their invest igation still was incomplete late Tuesday. There is a strong feeling that Continued On Page 4 Soil Election On This Week Ballot Boxes Are Located in Several Communities As Informal Vote Is Conduc ted For Soil Conservation Supervisor One Soil Conservation Super visor for Brunswick county will be elected by popular vote in an election now in progress. The voting began Monday and will continue through Friday of this week. The voting is informal and bal lot boxes are located at the fol lowing points: Bennett's Store in Exum. Lonnie Evans Store in Ash, Washam-Warlick-Harrelson’s in Shallotte, Parker’s Store in Supply, Henry's in Winnabow, Parker’s Store in Grissetown and Ward’s Store in Longwood. All qualified voters in the coun ty are eligible to vote and are urged to do so during the week. Referendum On Cotton Quotas Next Tuesday List Of Polling Places In Each Township Is An nounced. Along With The Names Of Poll Holders Coummunity referendum com mittees who will be respondsible for conducting the cotton market ing quota referendum through out the county on December 13 have been announced by the Brun swick County Agricultural Stab ilization and Conservation Comm ittee. All members are farmers eligible to vote in the referendum. Arrangements for the establish ment of polling places in all of Brunswick County's six cotton growing communities have been completed. Notices showing the date of the referendum and the location of polling places have been posted in conspicous places In the county. Notices are also being mailed to each farmer who has a cotton acreage allotment, informing him of the place where he may vote in the referendum. All persons who, as landlord, tenant, or sharecropper, engaged or were considered engaged in the production of upland cotton in 1960 are eligible to vote in the up land referendum. If there is any question about eligibility, farmers are asked to check with their County ASC Office. The community polling places and the referendum committee men serving in the December 13 poll are as follow: Lockwood Folly - J. E. KirBy's Store, poll holders - Mrs. Mars hall Roach and J. C. Robinson. North West - Forest D. Willi ams Store: poll holders - H. O. Peterson, Sr., Paul Brown and W. J. Butler. Smithville - Midway Service Station; poll holders - Mrs. J. C. Crouch and George Lindner. Shallotte - J. S. Parker’s Store at Grissettown; poll holders - Mrs. D. Bert Frink, Mrs. Pearl Hewett and W. Herman Long. Town Creek - D. H. Hawes and Son Store; Bolivia, poll holders - Robert G. Ward (others to be named). Waccamaw - Lonnie Evans Store, Ash; poll holders - Jenn ings King and Jim fflttle. Southport CAP Is Transferred Local Flight Has Bean Transferred To Adminis trative Jurisdiction Of Cape Fear Squadron The Southport Flight, Civil Pa trol, was transferred recently from the administrative jurisdict ion of the Brunswick County Com posite Squadron and placed under the administrative control of the Cape Fear Squadron in Wilming ton. This change will bring the local unit under the direct com mand of Lt. Colonel Sidney W. Wilson, Group 8 Commander, • and will afford the Southport Flight a quicker and more effici ent channel of communication with the higher echelons of the Civil Air Patrol in this area. The Southport Flight will visit the Cape Fear Squadron Head quarters Thursday night for the regular meeting of that unit. An orientation program is planned which will introduce the southport members to the various facets of Continued on Page * _ "Fide Table Following is the tide table for Southport during the next week. These hours are ap proximately correct and were furnished The State Fort Pilot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot’s Association. High Tide Low Tldr Thursday, December 8, 10:54 A. M. 4:47 A. M. 11:21 P. M. 5:24 P. M. Friday, December 9, | 11:35 A. M. 5:31 A. M. 6:07 P. M. Saturday, December 10, 0:09 A. M. 6:21 A. M. 12:80 P. M. 6:54 P. M. Sunday, December 11, 1:01 A. M. 7:17 A. M. 1:12 P. M. 7:46 P. M. Monday, December 12, 1:59 A. M. 8:19 A. M. 2:08 P. M. 8:42 P. M. Tuesday, December 13, i 2:58 A. M. 9:21 A. M. 3:07 P. M. 9:39 P. M. Wednesday, December 14, | 3:56 A.M. 10:21A.M. 4:05 T. M. 10:34 P. M. i
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