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THE STATE PORT PILOT
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
Volume No. 22
No. 19
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SOUTHPORT, N. C
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1961
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PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
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SITE—After 25 years at Gause Landing’, St. James Episcopal Church has de
cided to relocate in Shallotte. Building on the new Church will begin soon on the
new site at the intersection of U.S. 17 and N.C. 130. Guy Culpepper is the war
den, James M. Merritt is the secretary, and Philip Thomas is the treasurer of the
congregation. The Rev. Nelson B. Hodgkins is the minister in charge of the mis
sion. The land was donated to the church by L. C. Rourk of Shallotte.
Golf Architect
Attends Meeting
Of Club Members
Raleigh Man Shows Details
Of First Nine Holes Of
Boiling Spring Lakes
Course
At a meeting of the members
of Boiling Spring Lakes Country
Club Thursday night in the
Southport Lion's Club Building it
was announced that a charter of
incorporation had been granted
the club by the state.
Business undertaken at the
meet included the selection of a
nominating committee to nomi
nate persons to serve on the
board of directors. E. J. Prevatte,
-> •" James C. Bowman and Tommy
Kirby were named to the com
mittee. It is understood the new
committee has already met and
. is prepared to make a report at
a meeting to be held tonight
(Wednesday), when seven direc
tors will be elected.
E. V. Floyd, president of Floyd
and Associates, one of the busiest
golf-course building firms in the
Southeast, was a guest at the
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HOSPITAL PATIENT
Nancy Lennon, an elementary
school student in Southport, has
entered Duke Hospital as a med
ical patient.
BENEFIT BARBECUE
There will be a barbecue sup
per served at Sharon Methodist
Church at Supply Saturday from
5 to 9 p. m. The Walton Quartet
will sing. The public is cordially
invited.
TURKEY SHOOT
There will be a turkey shoot
Saturday from 10 a. m. to 9 a. m.
at Taylor Athletic Field in South
port, sponsored by the Southport
Booster's club. The proceeds will
be applied on the amount owed
for lights on the Athletic Field.
STILL IN HOSPITAL
Mrs. C. Ed Taylor of Southport
still is a patient at Duke Hos
pital }n Durham, but is expected
to be discharged this week. She
plans to visit her daughter, Mrs.
Earl I. Brown, in Durham before
returning home, probably some
time next week.
METHODIST BAZAAR
The Annual Methodist Bazaar,
sponsored by members of the
WSCS, will be held Friday in the
Leggett Appliance Building on
Howe Street. Hundreds of items
suitable for Christmas gifts will
feature this sale, which will start
at 9 p. m. and continue through
the day.
Brunswick Voters
Turn Down Bonds
Southport No. 1 Only Pre-:
cinct Voting Favorably
On Bond Issues In Tues
day Election
Brunswick county voters kept
step with other North Carolinians
Tuesday when they voted by
overwhelming majority against
the 10 proposals of the Statewide
Bond Election.
Not a single one of the issues
received a favorable vote in
Brunswick, and only in one pre
cinct, Southport No. 1, did any
of the proposals carry. Voters in
that half of Southport voted in
favor of every one of the ten
items. However, the favorable
majority there was off-set by the
adverse vote in Southport No. 2
so that the composite Southport
vote favored only College Bonds,
State Training Schools, Mental
Institutions and Local Hospitals.
Next to the Southport precincts,
the closest favorable vote was
cast at Exum, where a light vote
was cast.
Throughout the county an un
expectedly large number of voters
went to the polls, and the total
of slightly over 2,000 citizens who
cast their ballot surprised most
political observers.
On the State level the vote
went about two-to-one against the
issues, but in nearby New Han
over county every one of the 10
proposals carried.
Here in Brunswick there was
no significant trend in voting,
save only in Southport and in the
Leland drea. Overall, the margin
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Guards Receive
Letter Of Praise
Sunny Point Terminal Per
sonnel Receive A Letter
From Maj. Gen. R. E.
Butchers
High praise has been received
by the members of the civilian
guard force at the U. S. Army
Transportation Terminal, Sunny
Point.
In a letter' from Major General
Ft. J. Butchers, Provost Marshal
General, the degree of interest
manifested by guard detachment
members in an educational pro
gram establishes a record among
civilian guard forces.
"This is indicative of outstand
ing leadership and a high state of
morale," the Provost Marshal
General wrote.
He said he took note that the
23-man force employed at Sunny
Point had attained 100 percent
enrollment in an extension course
of the Provost Marshal General’s
School, Fort Gordon, Ga.
“The results obtained at Sunny
Point Terminal are particularly
gratifying to members of the
school staff who prepare the sub
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K
Honored
JAMES 1). BELLAMY
Shallotte Man
Is State Winner
James D. Bellamy Receives
Governor’s Award In The
Field Of Soil Conserva
tion At Greensboro Meee
ing
James B. Bellamy of Shallotte
is winner of the N. C. Wildlife
Federation's first annual Conser
vation Awards Program and re
ceived the Governor’s Award in
the field of Soil Conservation at
the awards banquet in Greensboro
on Friday evening.
The award was made by Gov
ernor Terry Sanford.
Regional and State awards
were offered in the fields of 4-H
Conservationist Award, Boy Scout
Conservationist Award, FFA Con
servationist Award, Soil Conser
vationist Award, Forestry Conser
vationist Award, Wildlife Conser
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Mackerel Still
Make Big News
Big Catches Of These Prize
Fish Being Reported By
Parties Fishing Out Of |
Southport
Tuesday after a six-weeks visit
Literally hundreds of king
mackerel were landed by South
port party boats during the
period from Friday through Mon
day.
On Saturday the Idle On II,
Capt. Basil Watts, carrying the
David Neil party from Davidson,
brought in 65 kings; while on the
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Referendum On
Tobacco To Be
Held On Dec* 12
Weed Farmers Will Have
Opportunity To Decide
Whether To Continue Fi
nanciol Support Of To
. bacco Associates, Inc.
December 12 North Carolina
flue-cured tobacco farmers will
be given an opportunity to vote
in a referendum on the con
tinuance of their self-help sales
plan for promoting their leaf.
The referendum date was an
nounced by A. C. Edwards, board
chairman, Tobacco Associates,
Inc;
On this date farmers will vote
on whether they favor continu
ing to assess themselves up to
but not to exceed $1 per acre,
annually for the next three years
(1962-63-64). The money, if two
thirds of those voting approve,
will be used to insure continued
and expanded sales of their leaf
in the export and domestic mar
kets.
Edwards said that growers en
gaged in the 1961 production of
flue-cured tobacco as landlord,
tenant or share-cropper are eli
gible to vote and that the referen
dum .will be held in every to
bacco producing county in the
state at regular community poll
ing centers and the usual vot
ing hours will be observed.
Administration of the program
is in the hands of Tobacco Asso
ciates, Inc., a non-profit or
ganization formed in 1947, with
offices in Washington, D. C., Ra
leigh, Dillon, S. C., and Brussels,
Belgium.
Tobacco Associates is headed
by J. B. Hutson, a former U. S.
under-secretary of agriculture,
and a 24-member board of direc
tors, with authority to set the
annual rate of assessment up to,
but not to exceed $1, to carry
on the sales production work.
Three Car Wreck
Near Battleship
Auto Collision Involving
Three Vehicles Occurs On
U. S, Highway No. 17
Near Ship Site
A wreck involving three vehi
cles sent two Wilmington men to
the hospital early Sunday mor
ning with injuries described as
not serious. The three-cornered
accident took place in Brunswick
County on U. S. Highway 17 at
the intersection of the cut-off
road leading to the berth of the
Battleship U. S. S. North Caro
lina.
Highway Patrolman W. H. Mor
gan. who investigated the acci
dent, said that an oil tanker be
ing operated by Chesley Lee
Johnson, 50 whose address was
listed as Wilmington, was in pro
cess of making a left turn from
the, highway into the cutoff when
a 1955 Chevrolet, operated by
Jerome Clayton Vann, 20, also of
Wilmington, struck the oil truck
on the side. The Chevrolet skidded
into an approaching car it was
meeting. The last vehicle, a 1956
Buick, was operated by Edward
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UNUSUAL—Brunswick Town has the distinction of being the location of two
important historic sites. During the early eighteenth century a thriving town was
located here, and during the Civil War period Fort Anderson was erected upon
the ruins of the deserted Brunswick Town. One-half the display pavilion shows
relics and gives information about the early settlement; the other one-half tells
of the Civil War and the part that was delayed by Fort Anderson. Seldom will the
historian find two eras of history in a single location.
Opportunity For
Employment Has
Created Interest
Labor Survey Forms Con
tinue To Come In From
Brunswick Women Seek
ing Jdbs At Home
First returns of the labor sur
vey form which was published
last week in The Pilot have come
in, and a study of the informa
tion contained encourages the
prospect for finding a good sup
ply of trained sewing machine
operators in Brunswick County.
Kirby Sullivan, president of the
Southport Junior Chamber of
Commerce, and James M. Harper,
Jr., president of the Southport
Development Corporation, wish to
A copy of the LABOR
SURVEY FORM will be
found on Page No. 5 in this
issue of The Pilot.
make it clear that there is no
positive committment for building
a garment factory in Brunswick
County. However, a man who is
considering expansion in this field
has made a personal visit to the
Southport-Boiling Springs area
and has asked for information re
garding available labor. If he is
pleased with the results of the
labor survey, this may be the
basis for deciding to erect a plant
in Brunswick County.
While the prospective builder
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TIME and TIDE
An invitation had been sent to President Franklin D. Roosevelt
to visit Southport while on a forthcoming Southern tour. The
fine fishing here had been held out as one of the big attractions.
That was front page news in The Pilot for November 11, 1936.
Readers may note that press day that week fell upon Armistice
Day, and arrangements had been made for patriotic speakers to
appear in chapel at each of the consolidated high schools of the
county.
Local fishermen were spending their spare time fishing for
rockfish off Walden Creek bridge; Powell Crosley, owner of the
Cincinatti Reds, had been a visitor here aboard his yacht, Sea
Owl; and there was a new column in that issue of The Pilot—
“Pictured Personalities.”
The tenderest hunting scene we ever saw was a front page
photo in The Pilot for November 12, 1941. It showed a pretty
lady hunter, armed with a shotgun, looking sadly at a buck that
had been slain, and she was in the act of patting the poor crea
ture. The caption was “Modern Diana And Her Deer.” Another
hunting note war that lay days had been approved for quail
hunting in Brunswick that fall.
Watermelons were ripening in November on Bald Head Island;
a contingent of soldier cameramen had spent a week-end visit on
Bald Head Island; and the first frost and ice of the season had
occurred two days earlier.
In our edition for November 13, 1946, announcement was made
that Dr. M. H. Rourk had returned to Shallotte after living in
Myrtle Beach for several years. Repairs were being made by 1
Paul Arnold to the old Miller Hotel. No arrests had been made
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Brunswick Town
Project Favored
Business Group
Meets Thursday
An informal luncheon for
Southport business men will
be held at noon Thursday at
Louis Fine Food Restaurant.
The meeting is without
plan or organization and the
purpose of those who have
made arrangements to use
the private dining room of
the local restaurant is to get
together to discuss mutual
problems and plans for the
development of this area.
This will be a Dutch af
fair, and no special invita
tion is required.
Columbus Man
Takes Own Life
Acting Coroner G. C. Kil
patrick Rules James Har
rison Died Of Self-Inflic
ted Wounds
The lifeless body of a well
known Evergreen area farmer
was discovered in his parked
auto, about 12 miles south of
Bolton in Brunswick County, late
Thursday afternoon.
According to Acting Coroner
G. C. Kilpatrick of Brunswick
County, James Harrison, 37, died
of a self-inflicted .22 calibre bul
let wound. He said it appeared
that Harrison had died sometime
Monday.
Sources say that the Colum
bus county man had left home
on the weekend and had not been
seen until his decomposing body
was found in his late model
Buick on the lonely “CCC Road”
—thus named because it was
originally constructed by Civilian
Conservation Corps members some
years ago—which runs between
Maco and Freeland in the Green
Swamp area. It intersects with
NC 130, about 12 miles south of
Bolton.
Kilpatrick said that Jimmy
Stanley, a Riegel Woodslands em
ployee, was making a routine
check on the road that runs
through timberland owned by his
firm about 4 p. m., Thursday. He
noticed the auto parked off the
side of the little-traveled road,
and then saw the man in the
front seat.
Kilpatrick stated that sources
of information related that an
auto answering the description of j
the Harrison vehicle was seen
going into the side-road, Mon
lay. He said his investigation had
letermined that the death came
soon afterward.
The acting coroner stated that
Harrison's body was lying on
the front seat, with the stock j
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: Southport Garden Clubs Get
District Approval For
Making Formal Garden
State Project
A delegation from the three
garden clubs of Southport, the
Live Oak Club, the Southport
Garden Club and the Woodbine
Club, attended the annual meet
ing of District Nine in Jackson
ville on Wednesday and were suc
cessful in securing district en
dorsement of their proposal that
the North Carolina Garden Clubs
adopt the restoration of a colon
ial garden and the establishment
of a nature trail at Brunswick
Town as a State Garden Club pro
ject.
The proposal will be presented
to the executive committee at
their next meeting in February
and it is hoped that favorable ac
tion will be taken at that time.
About two years ago Stanley
South, archaeologist in charge
of excavation at the Brunswick
Towp site for the Department of -
Archives and History, requested
the three local garden clubs to
take the dual plan as a project.
Though hard work was done by
members of the clubs in planting
native plant material, it soon be
came evident that it was more
than the three clubs couli carry
to successful completion. The sug
gestion was made, and voted
favorably on by the three clubs,
that a plan be followed of pre
senting the project to the State
Garden Clubs.
The local clubwomen were re
minded that of the past two state
wide projects, one was in the
northeastern part of the state, the
Elizabethan Gardens at Manteo
and the Other was in the far
western part of the state, the
Botanical Gardens at Boone. They
thought it logical to present a
project which would be located j
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Women Attend
District Meet
Representatives From South
port Woman’s Club At
tend Session In Wilming
ton Tuesday
Mrs. Johnnie D. Duffie, presi
dent of the Southport Woman’s
Club, led a delegation of mem- i
bers of the club to their annual
fall District meeting in Grace
Chui'ch, Wilmington, on Tuesday.
Those who attended were Mrs. i
Dallas Pigott, Mrs. A. E. Huntley,
Mrs. E. J. Prevatte, Mrs. E. C.
Blake, Mrs. H. T. St. George,
Mrs. J. A. Eaton, Mrs. Frances
Key, Mrs. W. A. Mace, Mrs.
William Norman, Mrs. L. J. Har
dee, Miss Lottie May Newton,
and Mrs. James M. Harper, Jr.
Mrs. Duffie gave the courtesy
report at the luncheon which fol
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Bridge Tenders
In Busy Season
For Fall Traffic
Estimated 10,000 Craft Pass
Through Fort Caswell
Bridge Draw Each Year
Traffic in the Intracoastal Wa
terway reaches its peak in the
fall as the hundreds of yachts
owned by sportsmen along the
eastern seaboard make their way
southward for the winter. And
this brings on the busy season for
bridge tenders like Woodrow
Smith, who has been one of the
bridge tenders at the Fort Cas
well bridge since 1955.
According to Smith, who resides
at Supply, October and Novem
ber are the peak season for wa
ter-travel. Smith should know,
having opened the draw on Fort
Caswell bridge, leading across the
waterway from the mainland to
Oak Island, literally hundreds of
times each year of his service.
The hours are long, extending
12 hours a day (or night), for
seven days each week, and a
bridge-tender’s existence is a bit
on the lonely side, but Smith had
few complaints. He revealed the
following statistics:
There are four men who com
prise the crew who tend the Fort
Caswell bridge. Besides himself,
they are W. C. (Jack) Hewett of
Bolivia, Homer Clemmons of Sup
ply, and Jack Wallace, also of
Supply. The tenders alternate on
daytime and night dutv.
In the last year for which rec
ords are complete (1959), more
than 8,800 boats of various de
scription passed through the
draw. Smith estimates that water
way traffic has increased since
then by some 15 percent, meaning
that approximately 10,000 boats
will pass beneath the bridge this
year.
Of this number, more than half .
will fall in the pleasure craft
category. Right now these ex
pensive bits of floating mahogany
and plywood outnumber the com
mercial fishing craft almost two
to-one. according to Smith. And
there are a few commercial craft
which are concerned with freight
and not fish. An example in hand
is the S. S. Vermont, a 250-foot
freight boat registered in Wil
mington, Del., which passes
through the Fort Caswell bridge
draw several times a year, bring
ing paper from Georgetown, S.
C., and sugar from Charleston.
The bridge-tenders, like the
bridge itself, are under the juris
diction of the N. C. State High
way Commission. In between
raising and lowering the draw,
the crew are not exactly idle.
There is a count made of cars
and trucks held up by the opera
tion of the bride, and a traffic
count (all vehicles crossing the
bridge) is made and duly recorded
in books on the average of once
a month the year round.
Bridge-tending, says Smith,
would be very pleasant work if
boat-owners would co-operate and
give proper signal.
In good weather the signals are
made by sound, and consist of
three blasts of whistle or horn,
or three calls through megaphone.
The tender will then reply with
three blasts from horn, bell
strokes or megaphone. The Fort
Caswell bridge, however, utilizes
a siren. When weather conditions
prevent the hearing of sound sig
nals as a boat approaches, the
mariners should signal by swing
ing their arms wide in circles;
by swinging a lighted lantern at
night, or by swinging a flag by
day.
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Tide Table
Following- is the tide
table for Southport during
the week. These hours are
approximately correct and
were furnished The State
Port Pilot through the
courtesy of the Cape Fear
Pilot’s Association.
high low
Thursday, November 9,
8:06 A. M. 2:05 A. M.
8:15 P. M. 2:46 P. M.
Friday, November 10,
8:49 A. M. 2:45 A. M.
8:58 P. M. 3:31 P. M.
Saturday, November 11,
9:35 A. M. 3:28 A. M.
9:45 P. M. 4:17 P. M.
Sunday, November 12,
10:25 A. M. 4:14 A. M
10:39 P. M. 5:07 P. M.
Monday, November 13,
11:21 A. M. 5:07 A. M.
11:40 P. M. 6:02 P. M.
Tuesday, November 14,
12:21 A. M. 6:05 A. M.
7:01 P. M.
Wednesday, November 15,
0:45 A. M. 7:13 A. M.
1:25 P. M. 8:03 P. M.