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fMost of the News All The Time THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community The Pilot Covers Brunswick County Volume No. 21 No. 25 10-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1960 5c A COPY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Library Books Come In Every Month In Year Expansion Of Southport Public Library Has Been Speeded By Gifts F rom iV;any Friends It's Christmas throughout the year for the Southport Public Library, as gift books are receive ec! constantly. Among the more recent dona tions are a five-volume set of “The World’c Great Events" given by Captain Reuben' B. Drew of Brooklyn, N. Y. Another sea-far ing man. Captain James B. Church, has also shared his ex tensive library in the form of the “Library of Oratory” and the Lib rary of Inspiration and Achieve ment as well as many miscell aneous volumes. Both Captain Drew and Captain Church ex press their hope that the books they presented to the lib rary w:ll be reminders to coming generations of the great legacy of the past, available to them through books. Among out-of-town donors, Bill Sharpe of State Magazine con tinues to be the library's number one "Santa Claus”. At least two or three volumes are sent to the Southport Library every month by him. Frank Farrow of Wilmington and Henry G. Catucci of Wash ington, D. C. have also presented books in recent weeks. Mr. Cat ucci owns a cottage at Long Beach and his family spend their summers there. Religious volumes have been given to the library by Moody Bible Institute, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon). And in Southport, if Mrs. Susie Sellers Carson and her mother, Mrs. Ledrew Sellers, have to move one more time the library will own practically all their many books. These two have giv en more 100 books to date. Others in Southport who have donated books to the library are Mrs. Alice St. George; Ronaio and daughter, Carolyn; A. E. Huntley; Dufffy A. Perdew; Ron ald Hood; Mrs. Ray Spencer; and Mrs. Flangie Huckaby. Gifts from county resident inc lude additional volumes from Ike Vereen of Exum and Mrs. E. E. Holden of Holden's Beach, as well as donations from Mrs. L. C. Bab son of Freeland, Mrs. Dan Shan non of Long Beach, Mrs. Aileen Hewett, Ralph McCullum and Mrs. Clemmons of Lanvales. Thanks to these interested friends, and with the money avail able for the purchase of new books, the library system now has holdings of over 9,000 vol umes. It is excepted that by the end of the fiscal year there will be at least 10,000 books available to Brunswick County residents. Brief BU» Of lnewsj TOWER REPAIRS City employees have been busy this week making repairs to the U. S. Weather Burea” diem-w tower on the Garrison. The upper portion of this structuhe sustain eh damages in Hurricane Donna that have made it unusable since then for displaying storm warn ings. RECIEVES PROMOTION Lt. Jack Swan, native of Southport and now on duty with the U. S. Army at Port Ord, Cal., recently has been pro moted to the rank of Captain. CHRISTMAS MASS Midnight Mass will not be cele brated at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Southport on Christ mas Eve but will be held instead on Christmas morning at 9:30 o’clock. AT ST. PHILLIPS Holy Communion will be cele brated at St. Phillips Episcopal Church in Southport on Christmas Eve. Carol singing will begin at 11:30 and communion will be held at midnight. STILL IMPROVING Reports from Dosher Memorial | Hospital indicate that the condit ion of H. T. Sanders, who suffer ed a serious heart attack on Thanksgiving night is showing im provement. LICENSE EXAMINER The Driver License Examiner’s Office at Bolivia will be closed Friday December 23. The office at Southport will be closed Monday, | Decmber 26, and Monday, Jan-! uary 2. These offices will be closed in observance of Christmas and New Year's holidays. Christmas Program On Television PERFORMERS—These are students of Mrs. Tingle’s grade at Southport High School as they appeared in a halt-hour Christmas show on television over WECT Monday afternoon. Because of their unusual arrangement on their raised stage, simulating a Christmas tree, their names do not appear in order. The group in cludes: Beverly Price, Jeranne Donnell, Vickie Harper, Patty Smith, Chuck Smith, Renee Horne, Judy Poindexter. Sandy Allen, Charles Clevenger, Mike Helms, Patti Gail Swain, David Britian, Sarah Pigott, Rodney Melton, Helen Walker, Ann Soutnerland, Jean St3rron, William Walker, Claire Glore, Beverly Ludlum, Jerry Poteet, Rose Marie Gregory, Don Jordan, Jerry Dilsaver, Debra Arntsen, and Joe Feak. Protests Action On Ferry Service Rep. James C. Bowman Sends Telegram Request ing Additional Considera tion Of Project Representative James C. Bow man has expressed displeasure over the announcement made ear lier this month by the State Highway Commission that no ac tion is recommended in the es tablishment of ferry service be tween Southport and Fort Fisher. Today he dispatched the fol lowing telegram to J. Melville Broughton, Jr., chairman of the State Highway Commission: "Press releases indicate com mission about to reconsider neg ative action, Fayetteville meet ing, Re: Sea level ferry purchase and operation. Accordingly, ur gently request summary negative action, without notice, on Fort Fisher-Brunswick county ferry at same meeting also be reconsider ed, Particularly in view of pro mises made to me by members of commission and highway officials that ferrys now in use at Alligator River would be made available for Fort Fisher-Brunswick cross ing when new bridge completed across Alligator. Will appreciate advice regarding this request.” The telegram was signed "Jim Continued On Page 4 Trespass Law May Be Invoked Long Beach Officials Hope To Call Halt To Practice Of Removing Cedar Trees From Beach Lots Long Beach’s Cheif of Police J. D. Bigford stated this week that he has received numerous complaints from property owners about individuals cutting Christ mas trees, yaupon, mistletoe and even removing shrubbery from their property. Chief Bigford said that anyone cutting or removing trees, yau pon, mistletoe or other plants from any property in Long Beach without the written permis sion of the property owner will be prosecuted. He suggested that those written permission, to save embarrassment, contact him be fore entering the property. The police chief continued, “All property in Long Beach is privat ely owned, and such disregard of individual property owner’s rights can give this entire county a bad Continued On Page 4 K Vacations Set For Employees Brunswick county schools got out today at noon for Christmas vacation. County and city employ i ees likewise completed their pre-Christmas work today, with Thursday and Friday being added to Monday as I Christmas holidays. The two banks in Bruns wick county will remain open Saturday, but will be closed on Monday. Many of the busi ness firms likewise will ob served Monday as a holiday, since Christmas falls on Sun day this year. Emphasis Upon Safety Goes On i “Close Out Sixty” Is Impor tant To Officials Of State Highway Patrol In North Carolina “The Christmas Spirit should not be of the bottled variety if the person using it plans to drive a car,” Sgt. A. H. Clark, officer in charge of Dist. VI, Troop B, N. C. Highway Patrol announced. “Each year at this season we have a great deal of difficulty with people taking ’one too many’ at a party or social gathering and then trying to drive,” Clark said. "In an effort to overcome this situation ‘Operation Flood-Light’ a part of the over-all “Close out Sixty’ program will be instituted in Brunswick County,” he report ed. “We are hoping that the motor ing publicwill give us their co operation and assistance. If they will, we can reduce the accident picture in Brunswick County,” the Patrol official said. To emphasis the project Clark pointed out that Pau-olmen wall use portable generators and flood lights to set up checking stations on roads and highways through out the county. "These ‘Flood-light Operation’ will not confined to the main highways, but the secondary loads will be closely checked. We will have all available men on duty through the Holidays,” he Continued On Page 2 Battleship May Be Brought To Carolina Site Advisory N, C. Battleship Committee Recommends This Action To Governor Luther H, Hodges James C. Bowman, Southport attorney, attended a meeting of N. C. Battleship Commission in Raleigh Thursday and helped to present a recommendation to Gov ernor Luther H. Hodges that the famous man of war named in honor of this State be returned to a permanent berth and preser ved as an historic shrine. Gov. Hodges was urged to pet ition the Navy Department to delay pians for scrapping the ves sel until July 31. This would give citizens of North Carolina time to raise funds for towing and displaying the famous warship, the committee said. I “Some day this ship could be a I great tounst attraction’’ for the State, Gov. Hodge told his press conference as he revealed the act Continued On Page 4 Robbers Run Off With $14,000 Loot The Willetts Service Station1 Near Leland Is Scene Of Armed Robbery Early Tuesday Night Sheriff E. V. Leonard said this morning that members of his department were working with S. B. I. offiecrs in an effort to track down two young white men who held up the Willetts Service Station near Leland last night about 8:45 o’clock. The place is owned and oper ated by Mrs. Marie Willetts. According to reports, two men, one of them masked, walked into the station and demanded that any money on hand be turned over to them by Mrs. Alice Ben ton, who was in charge at the time. She is 70-years of age and is the mother of Mrs. Willetts. With her in the station was Mrs. Mary Fisher, and the thieves forced them at gunpoint to go to the back bedroom, where they were tied up with their hands Continued On Page 4 TIME and TIDE Times were hard back in 1935, so hard that one of the impor tont off-season sources of income was fur trapping. A front page piece in our issue for Christmas day of that year spoke of the fact that some ritzy fur pieces had their origin in the wilds of Brunswick. The county was glazed over for a white Christmas, with a blanket of ice covering the countrysiae. Groucho Marx—the same one that's still on television—was the star of “A Night at the Opera”; there was a reduction in cost of automobile license plates in prospect for motorists; and Southport shrimpers had got together to request a survey of the local shrimping grounds, with wrecks and hidden obstructions to be marked. In our edition for December 18, 1940, there was a report of an escape on horseback by a young Southport maiden from a persu ing mule. (The race wound up a dead heat to the barnyard.) Don Carpenter, Washington, D. C., sports writer, had made another successful deepsea fishing trip here. The board of commissioners had approved plans for revalua tion; thirty persons had qualified for Red Cross First Aid In structor Certificates; and Friday 13 had been selected as the day to plant some early vegetable crops over on Bald Head Island. Manager Charlie Matthews was superstitious! It was the week before Christmas, December 19, 1945, to be exact, and hundreds of Brunswick county service men were to be at home for the holidays for the first time in several years. Large shipments of holiday greenery were being shipped from various points in this section. Charlie Sellers and Slim Osborne Continued On Page 4 K Bookmobile To Rest For Week There will be no Bookmo bile runs during the week of December 26 to December 1 30. The schedule will be re sumed on January 3, 1961, with regular runs to Bolivia on Tuesday, January 3 and Waccamaw on Thursday, Jan uary 5. Full schedules will be given in next week’s issue of The State Port Pilot. Personnel of the Brunswick County Library System wish to extend to all library pat rons best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year. Southport Boy Held In Robbery Leon H. Hilburn, Southport High School Student And Athlete, Being Held For Theft At Local Bank A Southport high school stud ent, 16-year-old Leon H. Hilburn, has been arrested for the recent robbery of several pieces of busi ness equipment from the South port branch of the Waccamaw Bank & Trust Co. Hilburn, who is from a good family and who vv'as a member of the high school football team for the past two seasons, is being held in New Hanover County jail under a federal warrant with bond set at $1,000. The Southport youth also is charged with forgery of a check for $400, and is being held under an additional $1,000 bond on that count. Theft of the equipment occur red two weeks ago during the weekend. Discovery of the loss was made Monday morning by Cashier Prince O'Brien, who call ed local police and the F. B. I. The following day Southport Po licemen Charlie Johnson found all of the stolen articles hid behind some crab traps near the rear of the bank building. Hilburn is reported to contend that he was alone in this amat our effort at robbery and said that he did it on the impulse of the moment after walking out of a soda shop across the street. Continued On Page 4 Armory Project Is Given Boost Weed Allotment To Remain Same For Next Year Slight Increase In Acreage In United States Will P, Used To Special Pur poses, Not For General Increase The national marketing quota for the 1961 crop of flue-cured tobacco has been announced at 1 billion 122 million pounds, ac cording to Lonnie Evans, chair man of the Brunswick County Agricultiral Stabilization and Con servation Committee. This quota, converted to acreas, results in 715,817 acres available fpr allotment in 1961. Aeeage available for allotment in 1961 totaled slighty less at 715,110 acres. For North Carolina, the 1961 allotment is 471,246.58 acres. Brunswick County's 1961 allot ment is 3,289.20 acres. The ASC office also announces that thr discount variety program for ,'lue-cured tobacco will be con tinued in 1961. For most farms, according to Ivans, the 1961 allotment will >e the same as for 1960, since he small national increase will ire used as a reserve for cor recting errors, adjusting inequit ies, and establishing allotment for farms that have no flue-cured tobacco history during the past five years. As directed by present legisla tion, flue-cured tobacco prices for the 1961 crop will be supported at 90 percent of parity sincer mar keting quotas will be in effect. In the last flue-cured tobacco marketing quota referendum, held December 15, 1958, quotas for the 1959, 1960, and 1961 crops were approved by 95.4 percent of the growers voting. Lt. Col. Duffie Likes Southport Letter Written By Comman ding Officer Of Sunny Point Army Terminal, Ex presses Feeling Of Good N eighborliness (EDITOR'S NOTE: This week we received the follow ing: letter from Lt. Col. John nie D. Duffie, and rather than to relegate it to the Letters To The Editor column, we have decided to make a front page story of it, in the belief that it is of interest and is important to every citizen of Southport.) inis weeK marns tne advent or Christmas, period in which the Christian World celebrates the birth of Christ with prayer, thanksgiving, and gift exchang ing, It is traditional in our society to attempt to brighten the lives of our loved ones and friends with our thoughtfulness and genero sity. It was just one year ago this week I arrived at Southport and Sunny Point to begin this pre sent tour of duty. On this happy and pleasant anniversary this let ter is sent to you with the sincere desire that its simple thought, ex pressed in my very feeble manner, may be conveyed to the citizens of Southport and Brunswick County. As was previously noted, we are all very thoughtful and gen ergous in our gift giving. It sometimes appears that most of us are not as generous and thoughtful as we could be in the matter of expressing a few kind words to our loved ones and friends. In spite of the fact that it costs nothing, dollar-wise, to to look a person in the eyes and tell him or her that they are a friend and that we really ap preciate their friendship, we are as a rule rather reticent to do so. It has been my experience that this form of expression re sults in a feeling of warmth and peace that material things con not possibly approach. During my first year here, there has been several occasions that caused the true character of the people of this area to be shown. When it became necessary, there was a concerted effort on the part of everyone to render the neded assistance and or sym pathy. There wold be no let up until the job was done, and, of (Continued On Page 2) :County Commissioners Made An Appropriation Total ing $10,000 To This Pro ject Here Monday; $5,000 To Be Used Immediately The Shallotte Armory project ?ot a big boost Monday when members of the board of commis sioners voted to give $5,000 to ■vard the local sponsor's share of $21,695.82. The county board also passed a motion to give an addi tional $5,000 in September. This help from the county re moved a tremendous burden from the shoulders of several volun teer workers who have undertak en the promotion of a project which will bring a $153,020.78 building to this county They had received a pledge of $5,000 from the Town of Shall otte, and this imount already has been made available. There have been several ■ash contributions made, and the committee still faces the big task of raising the difference between he $15,000 already pledged from nunietpai and county sources and he total amount of the sponsor's ;hare, $24,695.82. Various means are being tried to secure these funds, among them being important contribu tions that are being made by members of the National Guard. There is a feeling of optimism hat the remainder of the re quired funds will be raised in ord er that contractors may begin work soon after the first of the year. It will be necessary for every cent of the local sponsor’s share to be turned over to the state agency before any work can begin. Of the total cost of the build ing-, the federal share is $102,051. 26, or 25-percent of the cost. The State share is $26,779.70 and re presents 17%-percent of the total cost. The local share is $11,477.00, or 7%-percent. However, these costs are based upon a Class A armory. Slialiotte sponsors feit that their total needs will be better served with a Class B ar mory, and received approval for that type construction. However, the additional cost must be borne entirely by the local agency and adds $12,718.82 to the cost, for the total of $24,695.82. Contracts already have been let for the various services as follow: General construction, Glazier Con struction Co. of Wilmington, $121. 871; plumbing, Fault Plumbing Co, of Garner, $7,900;; heating, Carl B. Minims, Plumbing and Heat ing Contractors, Raleigh; and electrical work, Graves Electric Co., Wilmington, $6,650; archi tects fees for inspection and sup ervision, Ballard & McKim, Wilm-. ington, $2,705.78. Seek Entrants For Pageants Selection Of Miss Southport Scheduled To Take Place Here In February On Saturday, February 18. Miss Southport will be selected in the Miss Southport Pageant to be held at the high school audi torium. All entrants will receive prizes for participation and Miss Southport will receive several prizes as she moves into the Continued On Page 4 ride Table Following Is the tine 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 Cow Tide Thursday, Deember 22, 11:10 A. M. 4:40 A. M. 11:33 P. M. 5:23 P. M. Friday, December 23, 5:38 A. M. 12:06 P. M. 6:18 P. M. Saturday, December 24, 0:33 A. M. 6:39 A. M. 1:03 P. M. 7:15 P. M. Sunday, December 25, 1:33 A. M. 7:41 A. M. 2:01 P. M. 8:12 P. M. Monday, December 26, 2:33 A. M. 8:45 A. M. 3:00 P. M. 9:07 P. M. Tuesday, December 27, 3:32 A. M. 9:45 A. M. 3:55 P. M. 10:01 P. M. Wednesday, December 28, 4:26 A. M. 10:41 A. M. 4:48 P. M. 10:52 P. M.
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