EDITORIALS
ROADSIDE ANGEL, FIRESIDE DEVIL
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A passing citizen had something to
say the other day about roadside angels
and fireside devils. Take most any man
on the street and you’ll find him to be
a courteous, amiable gentleman.But put
him behind the wheel of an automobile
and he becomes a demon incarnate. The
man’s remarks prompted some inquiries
of traffic officials and personal obser
vations about traffic manners practiced
by both drivers and pedestrians. We
say manners but in most instances the
violations pertain to regulations.
First come the indifferent drivers and
some of the things they do to the peril
of others:
Failing to keep to the right when ap
proaching a red light at an intersection.
This jams the vehicle making a right
turn into your street.
Opening doors on street side and
sticking your rear out without checking
for oncoming traffic from behind.
Double parking in a line of traffic
with a “let ’em wait” attitude. There
may be an emergency back there and
you are imposing a delay.
Improver parking, leaving front or
rear of car sticking into the street.
Driver waiving hand through window
meaning she intends doing something,
but what?
Making left turn from too far to
right of center line preventing cars be
hind from passing on the right.
Failing to give turn signal early
enough for proper safety of yourself
and those behind you.
Cutting back too. quickly to right lane
after passing another car. This is a fav
orite stunt of the hot-rodders and
know-it-all drivers.
Driver taking his half of the street in
the middle of it. This is 1961, not 1915.
Pulling away from parked position at
curb without proper clearance from
traffic approaching from both direc
tions.
Now for a look at the indifferent
pedestrian. What is he doing to im
prove the traffic problem? Aggravates
it mostly. Observations:
Stepping into the street instead of
waiting on the sidewalk for the green
walk light. Whiteville does not have
“Walk” and “Don’t Walk” lights but
pedestrians should walk with motor
traffic.
Thumbers stand in the street and on
highways beckoning a ride.
Newsboys peddling papers from the
streets instead of from the sidewalk.
Crossing streets without looking close
ly for oncoming cars.
Jaywalking—crossing street in mid
dle of the block or any place other than
at intersections.
Getting in and out of cars on street
side instead of sidewalk side.
Having family reunions in the middle
of sidewalk blocking foot traffic both
ways.
Waiting behind a car without assur
ance that a driver is not at the wheel.
Better still, wait on the sidewalk.
Calling to a friend in passing car
diverting his attention from driving.
And if you want to get thrown out
of one man’s car when he offers you a
ride, just step in, light up a cigarette,
throw the match on the floor and then
stall whistling.
These are some of the common prac
tices that make it so difficult for an of
ficer to do his job. He can’t do it with
out your help, so think about them and
avoid committing them the next time
you are out walking or driving.
PRETTY BIS BUSINESS
We were looking through the Chris
tian Science Monitor a few days ago
and came across a statement of condi
tion of a New York bank. Over to the
right of the statement was a column of
^gnres. They caugM out attention for
ted oy commas, not a period anywmere.
That meant they represented dollars,
The State Port Pilot
Published Every Wednesday
Southport, N. C.
JAMES M. HARPER, JR.Editor
Sintered as second-class matter April 20, 1928
at the Post Office at Southport, N. C., and
other Post Offices, under the Act
of March 3, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Brunswick and Adjoining Counties
and Service Men . $2.00 per year
Six Months . SI 50
Elsewhere in United States — $3.00
Per Year:—« Months . $2.00
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cents to trivial.
We looked a little closer. Most of the
totals over there on the right had nine
digits. That meant millions of dollars.
But wait. Some of the totals had 10 dig
its. We counted again. Yes, 10 digits.
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The statement said the bank’s liabili
ties were $8,697,580,186 and right be
low this figure was the same dollar sum
for assets. Oh, we thought that’s enough
to balance the national budget. Again,
we thought, banking is pretty bug busi
ness.
Then we looked a little closer at
some of the items. For instance, cash
and due from banks—$1.9 billion;
loans, $4.3 billion; U. S. Government
obligations, $1.6 billion, to mention a
few' of the assets. Under liabilities, de
posits w'ere $7.7 billion, surplus was
$400 million and undivided profits were
$131 million.
Down across the bottom it said the
bank had 105 offices in Greater New'
York and 26 overseas.
It all just goes to show wdiat this
country boy doesn’t know about Big
Business America.
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Time and Tide
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ty by several farmers who had gone into the business of bee
keeping on a commercial basis; and even though it was in the
heat of summer, a Wilmington coal dealer had o quarter-page
advertisement in The Pilot warning home owners to order their
winter fuel early.
Ten years ago this week we carried a front page picture of
Dr. Floyd Johnson, who had just been honored for 30 years of
faithful service as a public health official. The Southport shrimp
ing fleet was here in force after working in Florida for the win
ter months.
Southport residents were becoming increasingly conscious of
the good effect of summer vacationists on local business; and
there was a building boom at Long Beach. Paving at Holden
Beach had been extended to include Colonial Beach; the boys of
the Shallotte National Guard were in camp at Hinesville, Ga., at
Camp Stewart; and a baby show was being held in Southport on %
the coming Friday afternoon.
Five years ago this week two Southport lowyers, Senator Ray
H. Walton and Representative Kirby Sullivan, were off for Ral
eigh and a special session of the State Legislature. Brunswick
county had counted her ninth highway fatality of the year on
Monday of that week.
There was a front page story quoting from an article by Alex
ander Sprunt, who had called Battery Island a “Paradise for
Birds.” Brunswick county officers had captured and destroyed
thi-ee stills; interest appeared to be lagging in the plan to innoc
ulate persons under- 20-years-of-oge against polio; and a jeep
had been used to tow a mother turtle back to the sea after she
had crossed the highway at Long Beach to build a nest and lay
her eggs.
Letters To
Editor
July 14, 1961
Winnabow, N. C.
The State Port Pilot,
Southport, N. C.
Dear Sir:
I read with much interest an
article in todays News and Ob
! server on a plan th at is saving the
j tax payers of Hornett County
thousands of dollars yearly.
The doctors there, working
through the county Medical So
ciety and under the leadership of
Dr. Bruce Blackman, are giving
! what amounts to two afternoons
a year each to review medical
records on file for welfare cases.
Payments to people who are able
I to work are terminated on
' grounds that they are not actual
] ]y entitled to it. All new appli
I cants for welfare for medical rea
sons must be certified unable to
work by a team of three physi
cians.
In reviewing the files these men
have found payments • continuing
over a period of ten years to per
sons who have long since been
cured and are now perfectly aide
to work for a living. 1
files wouldn’t reveal many similar
cases. If so, they should be ter
minated immediately. Brunswick’s
needs are great enough in other
areas to make it seem foolish for
the tax payers to encourage more
laziness than we already have.
Very truly yours,
Wilbur E. Earp.
MOVIE PROGRAM
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This week the Friday show is
scheduled to have “Autocrat And
Son" and “Portrait Of Burmuda”
as the features. Next Wednesday
the pictures that have been book
ed are “Out Of The Earth”, “The
Right Man” and “Wolfsburg No.
221”.
CAR HITS COW,
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her infant daughter were the only
ones hospitalized after first aid
at a Wilmington hospital. One of
the daughters received a rather
deep cut on the forehead, and Mr.
Frink received bruises and minor
facial lacerations. Mrs. Frink’s in
juries are reported to be facial
lacerations, and 8-months-old
Sammie Lynn underwent surgery
Tuesday afternoon.
The Frinks had only recently
returned from an overland trip to
Salt Lake City, Utah, and had
driven the same vehicle safely all
those many miles to the Mormon
City in the far west and returned,
without accident or incident, only
to have this accident right at
I home.
SPORT FISHING
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! with Frank Griffin and party of
Monroe, to 30 Spanish mackerel,
3 king mackerel, 3 bonito, 2 bara
| cuda and 50 pounds of sea bass.
On Sunday Capt. Hoyle Dosher
took Tom Goodrich and party on
the Idle On IV to rendezvous with
140 blue fish and Spanish mack
erel, 4 dolphin, 2 king mackerel,
one amberjack and one baracuda.
On Saturday Capt. Dosher and
the Idle On IV carried the Lynch
party to 180 blues and Spanish
mackerel.
Monday saw the Idle On II,
under Capt. Basil Watts, return
E. A. Clement and party of Char
lotte, with 101 blues and Spanish
mackerel, one bonito, one bara
cuda, 2 king mackerel, 2 dolphin
and 2 sea bass.
BRUNSWICK WILL
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have “the fastest, meanest crab
in the derby.”
Pressed for a definition of a
mean crab, Dan’l snorted like an
old hardshell: "A mean crab,” he
said, “is one not above eating the
ocmpetition.” Anyone who ever
fished Brunswick waters, avers
Walker, “knows how avaricious
our crabs come”.
The derby, first of its kind ever
to be held in North Carolina, will
get underway with a snap and a
swish of many legs on August 25.
The race will consume two days—
crabs (outside Brunswick I not
being noted for their speed.
The unique contest was dream
ed up by Greater Morehead City
Chamber of Commerce, with the
blessing of both the Department
and the Institute of Fisheries Re
search. The purpose of the race
is to point up the state's crabbing
industry.
The contest is open to all am
bitious crabs residing along Coas
tal North Carolina; illegal imports
from Massachusetts, Oregon and
South Carolina will be scuttled on
sight, it was reported.
Walker refused to give details
on his dark horse entry. It is
rumored however, that the swiftie
comes from the Long Beach area
and has been undergoing secret
workouts in the Inland Waterway,
paced by Walker and secured with
a fish line.
Production of crabs meat rose
from some 8 million pounds five
years ago, to 15 million pounds in
1960, according to U. S. Fish
Service information.
BELLAMY STILL
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clerk.
Another action by the board
was to re-employ Robert Sellers
as policeman, subject to call at
any time. He was administered his
oath of office on Tuesday.
The street committee named by
Mayor Bellamy is comprised of
Murphy and Wesley. The finance
committee has as its members
Sinclair, Barbee and Champion.
SUMMER STUDENTS
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penses for the special school are
partially underwritten by the Na
tional Science Foundation, but
that all were enrolled in a special
class at Duke University.
The party, traveling by private
vehicles,, rolled into Southport on
Monday and left Friday. They
came direct from the vicinity of
Spruce Pine, high in the Blue
Ridge Mountains, and the South
port stay terminated their field
excursions.
According to their leader, all
Highway 117 North, Wilmington N. C.
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such groups are at liberty to
choose their itinerary, as long as
the three divisions (Piedmont,
mountains, seacoast) are visited.
Dr. Sharer said that a group visit
ed Southport last summer. He
added that another group, some
what larger than his own, is due
to come to Southport this week.
The professor said the incoming
group will study plant life.
“It is quite a course,” Dr.
Sharer said. “We are privileged
to study everything we get hold
of in the field of zoology, from
microscopic specimens up to ver
tebral, snakes, turtles, fish, etc.
Southport proved very prolific
hunting grounds. I expect to come
back next year.”
Sharer is a native of Ohio and
spent most of his early years in
the Cleveland area of that state.
Before joining the faculty of N. C.
Wesleyan, Dr. Sharer taught zoo
logy at Duke University.
TENTATIVE RATE IS
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1962 As attorneys for a group
of taxpayers of this county we
have viewed with alarm the min
utes of the special meeting of
June 26, 1961, in which you pur
ported to adopt an alleged budget
for the 1961-1962 fiscal year.
"This is a formal demand that
action be taken at the meeting
of July 17, at which meeting this
letter is being delivered, to amend
the purported action of June 26
and that action be taken to com
mence the necessary proceedings
for the legal adoption of a budget
as provided by law.
“A copy of this letter is being
delivered to each member of the
Board, a copy to the County Audi
tor, and a copy to the clerk to the
Board. It is requested that its
contents be entered in the min
utes.’’
Walton was unavailable for
comment following action by the
board late Tuesday, so it is uncer
tain what further action he may
take in the interest of his clients.
CROWDS ATTEND
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follow hard on the heels of the
second.
‘‘Training Union” said Manager
Smith, “is among the most im
portant Baptist work. Junior, in
termediate and adult classes will
be held during the next two
weeks. The finest leaders in the
N. C. State Baptist Conference
will be on hand during the next
14 days, and a conservative esti
mate of guests would be 1,500,
to profit by the conferences and
the method-procedures which will
be emphasized.”
Sidney Bastable will come all
the way from Coventry, England,
- tr> lead one of the conferences
during the coming week. In
charge of next week’s Training
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Not Exactly News
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We saw the tobacco patch this week that was severely dam
aged two weeks ago when weed - killer was applied instead of
sucker-control chemical. It is on the Paul Holden farm near Shal
lotte, and the owner may salvage something from this part of
his crop. He cut back the stalks and is growing again from a
sucker . . . That reminds us of the year that Oakland Smith,
Waccamaw township farmer, harvested one crop of tobacco, cut
his stalks down to one sucker per plant, and came on with a
second crop. It was so successful that the State farm office pas
sed a rule against this practice the next year.
Down at Thomasboro Tuesday we saw a sign advertising live
crickets for sale. We expressed some surprise, but were informed
that this just happens to be about the best bait for bream . . .
Folks over at Yaupon Beach say that E E. Wesley has a green
thumb—and that he has a wonderful vegetable garden to prove
it.
We were telling Dan’l Walker, city manager at Long Beach,
about a problem we were having last week with fleas. In the
next mail we received a clipping of an adv telling about pills you
give to a dog so that fleas and ticks and other insect parasites
will bite him and die. It was Dan’s note that got us: “This is
such a good idea that I may get some and take them myself,”
.... Incidentally, there is one local dog owner who found out
that the city fathers are not kidding about this dog pound busi
ness. Tuesday afternoon he made up a barrel of Creso dip in his
own individual war on fleas. He had two dogs, and having im
mersed the first and turned him loose, he preceded to dip the
second. The first victim, quite naturally, beat a hasty retreat
from the scene, and before the second job was done dog No. 1
had been whisked away to the city dog pound. (Yep. We got him
back.)
July 19, and still no native watermelons or cantaloupes on the
market. . . Last week we thought we had our prices mixed up
when we advertised chicken breasts at a lower figure than the
quotation on legs and thighs. We asked the proprietor about it,
and he assured us we had it right. “And the biggest demand of
all,” he said, “will be for chicken wings. We won’t be able to
keep up with them.” They were priced.at only 10-cents per pound
less than breasts!
Although the free movies in Southport "Wednesday and Friday
afternoons may outdraw them, on the commercial moving picture
front this week "Cry For Happy” is the weekend show at the
Holiday Drive-In; and here in Southport “All Hands On Deck”,
a Pat Boone musical, will be playing ot the Amuzu.
| Union activities will be James P.
| Morgan of Raleigh, who is Train
| ing Union Secretary for the State
j Convention.
A holdover from Music Week
will be Joseph O. Stroud, State
Music Secretary, who will lead
the singing at worship service,
with Alfred Baker at the organ.
In charge of the intermediate
class, largest group in the Train
ing Union, will he Mrs. Rob
Smith, of Robinsville.
NOT THIS MAN
The James L. Rich whose name
appeared in the report of Record
er's court in last week’s issue of
The Pilot was not the James L,
Rich of Winnabow.
BEACH PATROLMAN
Clayton T. Jordan has been ap
pointed as patrolman for tha
Tranquil Harbour section of Long
Beach.
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Carol Lane Hewett
Brunswick County Representative In The Miss
North Carolina Pageant In Greensboro
This Week.
WE INVITE YOU TO LISTEN TO THE TELECAST OF THE FINALS ON SAT
URDAY EVENING, BEGINNING AT 10 O’CLOCK ON A PROGRAM
OVER STATION WECT-TV, WHICH OUR ASSOCIATION HAS HELPED
TO MAKE POSSIBLE.
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Have It Ready!
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