EDITORIALS
SPACE FLIGHT OPEN POLICY
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Commander Alan Shepard has be
come the first American to soar into
outer space. For this unprecedented
feat he is due the nation’s acclaim and,
no doubt, the other free people of the
world and more under the Communist
yoke will join in recognizing Shepard
and his achievement.
The Shepard flight, reaching 115
miles above the earth and 300 miles
down range, stands out as a fine ex
ample of our nothing-to-hide policy.
The world knew well beforehand what
was about to take place, knew some
thing about what wrent on during the
flight and was kept informed about the
successful return and recovery of the
astronaut.
No such conditions prevailed about
the flight which Moscow" says Gagarin
made some weeks ago. All we know- is
Gagarin’s “beautiful sight” remark and
a great volume of wrords from the Kre
mlin. The record shows that Kremlin
words have been as cheap as desert
sand and we do not believe that there
has been a change. What convincing
evidence do we have that Gagarin got
there? How many if any tried it before
and failed to come back safely? The
whole matter is debatable.
Again, the Shepard flight represents
a planned scientific procedure without
a motive to be “first” or to set a record.
Nothing was left to chance insofar as
humanly possible. The life and safety
of the astronaut had a much higher
priority than the matter of being first
in space.
But this is only the beginning, offi
cials say. More flights are scheduled
involving greater distances and more
astronauts. Cruises around the moon
are on the planning boards and land
ings on the moon are contemplated.
Certainly, Commander Shepard has set
the pace and the end, if there is to be
an end, is not in sight.
THAT YAWNING GAP
A full bow to Grandmother Conger
for putting first things first in the dairy
industry. Grandmother Conger is Mrs.
Mary Conger of Iola, Kansas. She and
her husband Carl own a 720-acre dairy
at lola. Both were reared on farms and
met at Kansas State University. Carl
works in the next county as a conserva
tion agent and Grandmother (of four)
Conger looks after their 225 holsteins
when he is a-way. Mrs. Conger must
know a thing or two about dairying for
she was invited the other day to express
her views before the U.S. House Agri
culture committee, the invitation coming
from Cairman Harold D. Cooley of
North Carolina.
The committee listened while she told
them that farmers just can’t make out
without some program to adjust supply
and demand. Further, in her view,
farmers are often at opposite ends on
what the program should be. But the
greatest fear, still her view, is that
fai’mers will wind up with no govern
ment program at all. Then she got
down to the situation which prevails be
tween the cow and the consumer.
She said: For eight years there has
been a yawning gap between the prices
she and her husband must pay for their
equipment and the price of milk they
sell. They have doubled and tripled
their milking herds in an effort to close
the gap. Her duty is to milk in the
morning, getting up before dawn with
coyotes yipping in the back pasture.
The beams of her flashlight pick out
100 holsteins. They don’t want to get
up. They’re as lazy as people. She
walks around them and whoops and
hollers. Then she thinks of how many
people they are supporting.
These cows and others like them sup
port the milk industry with its proces
sors, shippers, and milkmen. They sup
port the farm machine industry, pesti
cide makers, service organizations and
dozens of others.
The picture is then inescapable, she
went on, a giant inverted economic
pyramid balanced with its apex resting
on the farmer and his cows. So it’s very
important for the cows to get up in the
morning.
So when you pick up that carton of
fresh milk from the front door step in
the morning, remember that the cows
and a great mass of people had to get
up hours earlier to get it to you.
REA OBJECTIVES OUTLINED
The recently confirmed director of
the Rural Electrification administration,
Mr. Norman Clapp of Wisconsin, had
some significant views on the aims and
objectives of the REA in a recent ad
dress in Oklahoma. If we were to boil
down Mr. Clapp’s address in two words,
we would say that he emphasized the
“security aspect” of the growing system
of supplying electric power to rural
areas. He points out two goals neces
sary to achieve security of the program :
The first would guarantee a secure
power supply for cooperatives through
fair power supply contracts or let the
REA generate its own power.
The second goal would develop rural
power systems to such an extent that
the systems would be essential factors
in the creation of new industries.
Then he assured his listeners that a
study would be made looking toward
the linking together of regional trans
mission lines. He went on to the effect
that power supply would receive top
priority in the REA program and furth
er that power supply facilities are going
to be developed to meet the increasing
demand.
These objectives, Mr. Clapp explain
ed, are based on certain future de
mands. In 1960 REA demands totaled
29 billion kilowatt-hours. By 1970 these
requirements will rise to 68.6 billion
kilowatt-hours. In 1985 the demand is
expected to climb to 196 billion kilo
watt-hours.
He said REA is going to meet these
demands by pursuing an aggressive
policy leading toward more abundant
power and low cost power for all rural
Americans. In addition, he said REA is
going to be in the fight to help coopera
tives maintain their territorial integrity.
We know, he explained, that protecting
your territory is becoming a critical
problem and we are going to assist you
in every way possible in solving this
problem.
PLEASE PUT IT ON THE FRONT PAGE
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“Now, please put it on the front page
where everybody will see it!” How of
ten we newspaper folks hear that.
Why, bless your hearts, gentle read
The State Port Pilot
Published Every Wednesday
Southport, N. C.
JAMES M. HARPER, JR. Editor
Entered as second-class matter April 20, 1928
at the Post Office at Southport, NT. C., and
other Post Offices, under the Act
of March 3, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Brunswick and Adjoining Counties
and Service Men . $2.00 per yeai
Six Months ... $1.50
Elsewhere in United States — $3.00
Per Year;—6 Months.. $2.00
ers, li we thought people read only the
first page of our paper, we’d print one
page every week and quit.
A newspaper is a good deal like a
store. The front page corresponds to
the show window. Inside you’ll find the
goods you’re after. We publishers know
that the backbone of our product is
composed of the messages and offer
ings of our advertisers. Without the
ads, a newspaper just wouldn’t be
worth taking home—if in fact it were
printed at all!
As for news—well the most popular
features in any newspaper, speaking
from the feminine viewpoint to which
we cater, are the personals and the so
cial news. Inside also you’ll find the
sports department, informative letters
sent in by our correspondents, classified
advertisements, legal publications. Some
folks even read the special columns and
the editorials!
“As far as we know, the U. S. is the
only country that finds victory just as
expensive as defeat.”—JD. O. Flynn.
“JONAS!”
Time and Tide
Continued From Page One
Joe Mathes, baseball scout for the St. Louis Cardinals, had
shown an interest in Jack Hughes. Soupthport pitcher; there was
talk of erecting sweet potato dehydration plants in this area,
including one in Brunswick county; and Banker Prince O'Brien
had just returned from the State Bankers Convention at Pine
hurst.
May 16, 1951, and menhaden fishing already was in progress,
this fact being attested by a front page picture of a local boat
crew at work. Early catches of king mackerel had been unusu
ally good. The N. C. Society of County Historians had made a
boat trip down the Cape Fear River on the previous Sunday and
had been greatly impressed with the wealth of historic material
in this area.
Facilities for taking care of summer visitors at the N. C. Bap
tist Assembly at Fort Caswell had been expended in anticipation
of needs during the forthcoming season; trustees of Dosher Me
morial Hospital had set out t > raise the sponsors’ share of funds
with which to renovate that 1 uilding; Southern Bell was planning
to install radio-telephone ser ice at Shallotte; and Jerry Ball and
Archie Thornhill had done mother benefit show here in South
port.
Time moves on, and nov it is just five years ago. Jerry Ball
and Archie Thornhill were >ack again at the same old stand, and
there was a front page pi ture to prove it. State Geologist Jas
per L. Stuckey and Fed* al Geologist Harry LeGrand were in
Brunswick to check th fantastic flow of freshwater from
“Bouncing Log Spring.”
Star Route mail servict was now available to residents of Cas
well Beach, Yaupon Bei h and Long Beach; a grand total of
$1,600 in casli or useful riffs had been raised for Dosher Memor
ial Hospital in the annu 1 supper put on under the leadership of
Mrs. H. B. Smith; ar 1 members of Southport Presbyterian
Church were getting re tdy to launch a building program, with
an educational building being their first objective.
SHALLOTTE GIRL
Continued From Page 1
May 28 for Washington, i C. and
return the following Sat) lay.
The all-expense paid rip for
the week's stay in the .ation’s
capital, is awarded by the Star
News Newspaper's as a public
service.
The spotlight is not st urge to
this young lady, for she lias been
something of a child prodigy in
an entirely different category. As
one of the outstanding students
of the Belcher Dance SUidio she
has appeared on countless pro
grams, both in Brunsv. »: county
and in other parts of the state.
On occasion she performed at the
State Lions Convention.
She is a good student and earn
ed the praise of Mrs. Musette
Arnold, sponsor of the spelling
contest at Shallotte, and of her
home room teacher, Mrs. Betty
Hewett.
TOO MUCH TALK
Continued From Page 1
court adjourned on Monday. Trial
of several civil actions began on
Tupsday morning and will con
tinue for several days.
LELAND WOMAN
Continued From Page 1
son by a former marriage, Larry
Edward Watson of the home; a
brother, Clifton Barnhill of Wil
mington; a sister, Mrs. Myr-tle
Wood, Baltimore, Md.; eight half
brothers, Linwood, Carlton, Eu
gene, and Hubert Barnhill of
Lexington, Wilbur, Jr., Thomas,
David and Michael Barnhill, alli
of Wilmington; and four half
sisters, Mrs. Evelyn Becham,
Lexington, Mrs. Elsie Brown, Le
land, Mrs. Juanita Britt, and Miss i
Helen Barnhill, both of Wilming- i
ton.
TWO BRUNSWICK
Continued From Page 1
ice.
The course consisted of lectures
and films and was designed to
show town, county and slate offi
cials effective means of control
ling mosquitoes. *
Those attending the sessions
went to Pamlico county Thursday
to study a major drainage project
to control mosquitoes.
On the instruction staff of the
school are the following:
C. E. Gerhardt, entomologist,
Region III, USPHS, Charlottes
ville, Va.; B. P. Bjornson, assist
ant chief, insect and rodent con
trol, training branch, USPHS, At
lanta, Ga.
Dr. A. P. Chestnut, director, In
stitute of Fisheries Research,
UNC, Morehctd City; Dr. E. W.
Constable, state chemist, Depart
ment of Agriculture, Raleigh; Dr.
George Jones, extension entomolo
gist, State emiege, Raleigh; Char
les J. McCotter, senior sanitarian,
Pamlico County Health depart
ment, Bayboro.
Charles M. White, chief, insect
and rodent control section, State
Board of Health, Raleigh; Sidney
H. Usry, sanitary engineer, State
Board of Health, Raleigh; Dewey
W. Boseman, sanitary engineer,
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Beaufort, and Donald F. Ashton,
entomologist, State Board of
Health, Raleigh.
ARTISTS EXHIBIT
(Continued From Page 1)
ists gallery in Wilmington.
Both she and Mr. Berkman will
speak at later meetings of the
Association, and will participate
in the coming Arts Festival on
the Fourth of July weekend.
The Arts Festival plans are
progressing well and it is hoped
that the local organizations will
send representatives to the next
meeting of the Southport Art As
sociation to arrange for conces- j
sions and entertainment. The j
meeting will be held in the library ;
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7V©£ Exactly News
W"M
R. V. Asbury, weekend guide at Brunswick Town, came to see
us late Sunday afternoon, still dressed in liisi colonial costume,
(See ]>ix on front page of last week’s State Port Pilot), as we
walked across the street little redheaded A1 Martin spied this
gentleman in strange attire and called out, ”Say, who’s that”?
For a quick, comprehensive answer we yelied back ‘‘He’s a page
out of the past.” “Yeah,” he said, “he looks like Captain Hook”!
Be it remembered that on the evening of May 16, 1961, it hail
ed in Southport, and not even the oldUmers could recall when
there had been another storm like this. Hurricanes hit harder
and perhaps leave greater damage, but the sight of houses and
other buildings with broken window panes and street littered
with debris that had been shredded by the falling ice were
strange to sec . . . When the storm passed out to sea, the ground
was literally covered with ice. Where it had drifted, it was several
inches deep; and this morning there was still ice in many places
about the town ... It is a miracle that there were no deaths or
serious injuries
When Vito Ragazzo, member of the football coaching staff at
Carolina, was in Southport Monday night to see Ben Blake about
going to school up there this fall he said that he wanted to talk
to some of the younger boys, hoping to keep a line on them as
they develop. We introduced him to one such prospect, and the
last thing Coach Ragazzoo said to him was, “Be sure and bear
down on the books, boy. It doesn't make much difference how
well you can play sports if you cannot stay in school.” . . . The
Shallotte track team last year and this year has done more to
create local interest in this sport than everything that had been
said or written about it before. Out at Supply and at Shallote
this week we have noticed a jumping standard, complete with
sawdust pit, where youngsters are learning to--pole vault and
high jump.
The other day when we opened a new package of Palmolive
soap and found a pink cake inside we felt like somebody was kid
ding us. For years we have felt that this was about the most
masculine of the soft soaps, and somehow'we had the idea that
olive oil had something to do with the green color. So now it
turns out to be pink, and sissy. We feel like we used to when one
of our buddies started going with the girls . . . Anybody watch
ing TV last night—or trying to—mugt have known that some
thing unusual was in the air. We never saw so much interference
from electricity. Most of the folks in town had no idea who won
the Emmy Awards until they read their morning newspaper.
“Carthage in Flames” is the Friday-Saturday show at the
Amuza . . . Down at Shallotte at Holiday Drive-In “Where The
Boys Are ” is the big attraction Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
at 8 p. m. on Monday night, May
29. The public and all interested
in the Arts are urged to attend.
HAIL STORM BLASTS
(Continued From Page I)
ings, in addition Lo homes in the
community, had glasses smashed.
Among the more serious losses
appeared to be the two school
houses and churches with stained
glass windows. Hailstones beat in
through the wood shingle roof at
Trinity Methodist Church.
In other instances roofs that
were covered by asbestos or slate
shingles were seriously damaged
by’ the hailstones.
As a result of the dimage to
trees, the ground was littered
with debris today, and early this
morning City Manager C. D.
Piekerrell and Mayor Eddie Hahn
were supervising the job of clean
ing up, with all of the city forces
being used in this operation.
Ironically, most of the damage
will not be covered by insurance
since the $100 deductible applies
not only to windstorm damage
but to damage caused by hail.
SHALLOTTE FINALS
Continued From Page 1
Judy Carol Vaniam, Nancy Jane
Varnam, James Reginald Walker,
Larry Dillon Ward, Willie June
White, Zadie Legwin Williams,
Betty Pearl Woodard, Lenora Vic
toria Woodard.
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