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THE STATE PORT PILOT
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
The Pilot Cove,
Brunswick County
Volume No. 22
No. 22
TQ-Pages Today
SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1961
5c A COPY
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Accepts Award
COMMENDATION—Col. Johnnie D. Duffie, Commanding1 Officer of Sunny
Point Army Terminal, presents the Certificate of Merit for Safety which accom
panied a citation, to J. Edward Hahn, Superintendent for theMorace Corporation
at Sunny Point. Terminal officials are proud of their record of safety at the
nearby installation.
Stevedore Firm
Commended For
Safety Record
Brig. Gen. C. F. Tank
Writes Letter Of Com
mendation To L. Edward
Hahn, Superintendent For
Morace
The Moraee Stevedoring Cor
poration of New York has been
cited by the Commanding General,
U. S. Army Transportation Ter
minal Command, Atlantic, for its
outstanding safety record achiev
ed while loading and discharging
ammunition at the Sunny Point
Army Terminal during the period
1 July 1960 to 30 June 1961.
Brig. Gen. C. F. Tank’s commen
dation reads as follows:
“I take great pleasure in
awarding the inclosed United
States Army Certificate of Merit
for Safety, to the Moraee Steve
doring Corp. in recognition of
your outstanding efforts in acci
dent prevention during the pe
riod 1 July 1960 to 30 June 1961,
which we refer to as Fiscal Year
1961.
“This is a noteworthy accom
plishment and bears witness to
the "safety consciousness” of
your organization. All of us rec
ognize that it helps prevent need
less suffering by personnel and
their families.
“I am fully cognizant of the
hazards which attend all steve
dore operations and the effort
which must be put forth if those
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QUARTERLY CONFERENCE
The Rev. C. S. Boggs, District
Superintendent, preached Sunday
morning at Trinity Methodist
Church in Southport and conduct
ed the first quarterly conference.
NEEDS MORE TOYS
Chief of Police Herman Strong
said this week that there is need
for more used toys which can be
mended and repainted by police
men and firemen prior to distribu
tion to under privileged children
at Christmas time. He wants to
get in contact with persons who
may have toys for this purpose.
OYSTER ROAST
Theer will be an Oyster Roast
at the Shallotte Lions Club Park
in Shallotte for the benefit of the
4-H Development Fund Saturday,
starting at 4 p. m., and lasting
until everyone has been fed. It
is being sponsored by the Rockett
Community 4-H Club under the
leadership of Mrs. Paul Holden.
benneTt barbecue
A barbecue supper, pit cooked
on church grounds, will be served
Saturday, December 2, beginning
at 6:30 p. m., at Zion Methodist
Church in Town Creek. The sup
per will be served buffet-style in
the Fellowship Hall of the church.
Home-made cakes and pies will
also be available. All proceeds
will be used by the Building Fund
for the church.
Special Election
Brings No Change
Only In Alternate Member-'
ship Of Community Com
mittees Do any Changes
Occur In Friday Voting
The special election to deter
mine the ASC Community Com
mitteemen from three Brunswick
County townships held last Fri
day in the affected communities
has resulted in no appreciable
change, even though the vote was
almost double that cast in the
first election.
According to Ralph Price,
Brunswick County ASC office
manager, the only changes made
in the special election took place
among alternate committeemen;
one of whom was replaced and
another who dropped from first
alternate to second. All winners
of the first election came through
the second one as winners.
At Shallotte township a vote of
669 was rung up, compared to
480 votes cast during, the first
election, with the following can
didates elected: Horry Jenrette
of Ocean Drive, S. C., John How
ard Gore of Shallotte, Grover
Hickman of Shallotte, were elect
ed committeemen, and Rufus
Sommersett and Fred Watts were
elected as first and second alter
nate respectively.
At Town Creek, where a vote of
j 436 was tabulated compared to
j 398 in the earlier election, the
I following candidates were elect
j ed: Roy Willetts, Alden Potter
I and William P. Gore, all of Win
nabow, as committeemen; with
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Cedar Grove Is
Contest Winner
This Community Leads In
Most Categories As Com
munity Judging Is Con
ducted Last Week
Cedar Grove Community Club
ran away with practically every
first place rating in this year’s
Brunswick County Community
Clubs contest. Judging took place
last week.
Named best “overall” club, was
Cedar Grove, with Piney Grove in
second place and Royal Oak tak
ing third.
Cedar Grove placed first also
in Youth Activities, with Piney
Grove second, and Thomasboro
third.
In Community Improvement it
was again Cedar Grove first, with
Piney Grove second, and St.
James-Rutland Chapel third.
In the Home Improvement cate
gory Piney Grove swept first
place with Cedar Grove in second
and Royal Oak taking third.
Judges for the contest were
John Spaulding, Assistant Farm
Agent for Columbus County, J. A.
Adams, Vocational Agriculture
teacher at Armour High School,
Acme, and Mrs. Merril, Assistant
Home Demonstration Agent in
Pender County.
The Cedar Grove Community
Club, on the basis of its splendid
! showing, will represent Brunswick
j in the area judging which is
I scheduled later.
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“Meanest Man”
Strikes Again
At Concord Method is t
Church at Supply they have
a new candidates for the title
"Meanest Man”—t h e only
thing Us they do not know
his name.
The new District Superin-?^
tendent was to attend a fel
lowship supper Sunday night
prior to conducting First
Quarterly Conference, and
when preparations got under
way to brew an urn of cof
fee, that appliance could not
be found. Finally members
came to the painful conclu
sion that it had been stolen
sometime during the off-sea
son for coffee making.
It is a West Bend, 50-cup
capacity. Members of Concord
will appreciate any informa
tion which may lead to its re
covery.
Former Pastor
Dies In Raleigh
The Rev. E. M. Hall Dies
Following Lengthy Ill
ness; Former Pastor At
Trinity Methodist Church
The Rev. Edgar Milton Hall,
former pastor of Trinity Metho
dist Church in Southport, died
Thursday morning at Rex Hos
pital in Raleigh following a long
illness.
He was the last surviving mem
ber of the first board of direc
tors of the Raleigh YMCA, on
which he served as secretary. He
joined the Methodist Conference
in 1918 and had served in Ben
son, Zebulon, Raleigh, Lillington,
Southport, Kenly, Grifton and
After retiring at the age of 72,
the Rev. Mr. Hall was called by
the State Legislature in 1947 to
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Southport Artist
Enters Exhibit
Mrs. Gilliam Hornstein Has
Pencil Sketch Accepted
For Exhibition By N. C.
Museum Of Art
Artists are now being notified
by the North Carolina Museum
of Art concerning whether or not
their works have been accepted
for the 24th Annual North Caro
lina Artists’ Exhibition.
One hundred and forty-three
works were selected for the ex
hibition from over 500 entires.
The selections, which were made
on November 16 and 17, were
picked by Andrew C. Ritchie, Di
rector of the Yale Art Gallery
who was judge for this year's
competition.
The work of one Southport art
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Referendum Set
For December 12
On Four Matters
Tobacco And Cotton Quotai
Will Be Up For Approva
With Peanut And Cottoi
Promotion To Be Decidec
Tuesday, December 12, is ai
all-important date to Brunswicl
County farmers, for that day thej
will vote on four separate ant
highly-important issues, tobacct
quotas, Tobacco Associates, cot
ton quotas and peanut produc
tions referendums. In Brunswick
the usual ASC voting places will
be used and will be open from
8 a. m. to 6 p. m.
In October of 1939, appalled
by the tremendous increase ir
tobacco acreage planted and a
steady decline in price of the
weed, farmers voted for quotas
to keep the supply in balance with
demand. Things picked up im
mediately. The coming tobacco
quota referendum is a choice be
tween much cheap tobacco and
less high-selling weed. It is that
simple.
The Tobacco Associates issue
boils down to whether tobacco
farmers should disregard the for
eign tobacco market—thereby en
couraging foreign growers to pro
duce much of the weed—or assess
themselves a few cents to push
the use of American tobacco in
cigarets manufactured in foreign
countries for foreign consump
tion.
The cotton referendum is im
portant to all local producers of
that staple crop, insomuch as the
fate of continued government sup
port (or parity) be maintained, at
all cost. The fact remains that,
at national level, cotton is being
talked less and less as a good
yardstick for farm income. An
overwhelming vote in favor of
cotton marketing quotas on De
cember 12 will assure the USAD
that cotton still figures big in
the South and that farmers want
to keep the status quo.
The peanut referendum is aim
ed primarily towa-dl N. C. grow
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Varied Articles
In Church Bazaar
Even The Birds Are Re
membered As Episcopal
Church Women Prepare
For Annual Sale
Men, women, children and the
birds have all been remembered
in items to be offered for sale at
the annual Christmas Bazaar of
St. Philip’s Episcopal Church,
Southport, on Friday.
No kidding, among the many
unusual articles made by the wo
men of the Church are stuffed
pine cones—for the birds.
To make the feeders, a mixture
of suet, peanut butter and wild
bird seed was stuffed into large
pine cones. A string has been at
tached to each for ease in hang
ing outside. Experts in the bird
watching field testify that all va
rieties of wild birds would ask
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Civil War Fort
FORTIFICATION-—-This is a scene off Fort Anderson, which is located at
Brunswick Town on the Cape Fear River in thi scounty. It has been called th6
largest and best preserved Civil War fort in the United States. Underbrush has
been cleared away and an asphalt walk has been constructed the entire length
of this fort. This photo shows Battery B of Fort Anderson.— (Official Archives
and History Photo.)
Holiday House
Scheduled For
Sunday, Dec. 10
Annual Event Will Feature
“Old - Time Christmas”
Motif In This Year’s De
coration Ideas
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Holiday House, an event spon
sored each year by the various
Garden dubs of Southport will
be held this year on Sunday, De
cember 10, in the Lions Club
Building.
Mrs. J. M. Harper, Jr., is gen
eral chairman this year and says
that this year emphasis will be
on Old Time Christmas”, and will
“highlight various ideas that can
easily be imitated by one and
all.”
In charge of registration at the
show will be Mrs. L. J. Hardee,
Mrs. E. C. Harrelson, Mrs. A. E.
Huntley, Mrs. E. E. Parker, Jr.,
Mrs. Dallas Pigott, and Mrs. H.
T. St. George.
In charge of the Fireplace
Grouping will be the Woodbine
Club; while Mrs. E. C. Harrelson
will be responsible for the huge
Christmas tree on hand and its
dressing and ornamentation. Mrs.
A. E. Huntley will have charge
of the windows.
Refreshments will be served in
relays, with Mrs. Dallas Pigott
and Mrs. Merritt Moore in charge
from 2 to 4 o’clock; Mrs. L. X
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TIME and TIDE
Announcement was made in The Pilot for December 2, 1936,
that the submarine Perch would visit Southport on her shake
down cruise. There was news, too, of another vessel, the men
haden boat “Captain*' had run aground during a storm and had
sunk with all hands aboard being saved.
A “hot sulphur spring” promised to speed development for Fort
Caswell as a resort; a Shell oil tanker was stranded in the
Southport harbor due to shortages in her crew; and Southport
had just had its first taste of real winter weather for the season
as the temperature dropped to 25-degrees on November 28.
Five years later there was a front page weather report which
classified the November just past as being “warm and dry.” The
lowest reading for the month was 31-degrees. This and other
news was recorded in our publication for December 3, 1941.
There was a front page piece which declared “Bolivia Automo
bile Man Has Interesting Hobby." That was J. A. Elmore, and
the "hobby” referred to was a nursery for growing azaleas and
camellias—something that has since developed into a very profit
able venture for him. There also was a front page story telling
that tobacco graders—those with a true talent for the business
of separating the good weed from the bad—were much in de
mand.
The time was December 4, 1946, officials at Shallotte had plac
ed a ban on the use of fiieworks in that town. Bill Wells had be
gun construction of a marine railway at his seafood packing
house in Southport.
Book covers were being distributed to school children, and the
theme was forest fire protection; farmers were voting Saturday
in their County Farm Committee Election; and a decision had
been handed dfi\vn by the U.S Army Engineers that the govern
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Southport Group
T alks T o Governor
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ASG Committee
,.a Is Unchanged
The ASC County Conven
tion was held this (Wednes
day) morning at Shallotte
and Lonnie Evans of Ash
was reelected chairman. Also
reelected as members were
Edgar Holden and Lay Long.
C. W. Knox was reelected
first alternate and the only
change which occurred in the
voting took place in the
choice for second alternate.
Manley Bennett was named,
replacing Alvin Clemmons.
Winners Named
In Art Contest
Work Of Southport Youngs
ters Is Hanging In Public
Library As Part Of Re
cognition
Winners of the art contest
sponsored by the Southport Art
Association and Southport High
School have been selected, then
work has been hanging in the
Southport Public Library during
the past two weeks and will hang
until the middle of December.
Clare Gore took first place in
the 6-9 year old graphics group,
with honorable mention going to
Troye Davenport. In the water
color category, 10-14 year group,
Patti Key was tops, with second
place going to Dana Newton,
third place to Jon Newton, and
Rachel Harrelson receiving honor
able mention.
Color graphics winner in the
same age group was Bobbi’Smith,
with Sandy Donnell taking sec
ond, and Landis Brown, third
place. There were two honorable
mentions in this category, Caro
lyn Styron and Andy Hoglund.
Black and white graphics win
ner in the same age group was
John Martin Lewis, with Jon
Newton second and Cheryl Cole
man third. Honorable mention
went to Billie Mace and Rachel
Harrelson.
In the senior division 15 to 18
years group. Bill Coring won first
place in graphics. Bill also won
honorable mention in the same
category. In color graphics there
were no first or second place
winners, but Ruth Hohrein won
honorable mention.
An ambitious bit of art work
was turned out by the talented
pair of John Martin Lewis and
Jon Arthur Newton, in a mural
entitled simply: "Yacht Basin.”
The contest was sponsored by
the Southport Art Association as
a means of promoting the crea
tive impulse in Southport’s school
I children. An association spokes
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Representative Group Of
Local Citizens Talk To
Governor Sanford And
State Officials About
Port
A group of representative
Southport citizens were in Ra
leigh Monday afternoon for a con
ference with Governor Terry San
ford, Deleon Williams, director of
the State Ports Authority, Har
grove Bowles, director of the De
partment of Conservation and De
velopment and other members of
this latter department.
The conversation centered about
the harbor at Southport, and more
particularly how to make use of
the $500,000 contingency fund
which is provided for improve
ment for port facilities here if
and when a specific project has
been outlined with the prospect
of being self-liquidating.
The financing must come from
Revenue anticipation bonds, and
the proposition must have the
approval of the Council of State
and of the State Ports Authority.
Spokesman for the local group ;
was Ernest E. Parker, member of j
the Board of Conservation and
Development. Also present were
Mayor J. Edward Hahn, City
Manager C. D. Pickerrell, James
M. Harper, president of the
Southport Development Corpora
tion, Kirby Sullivan, president of
the Southport Junior Chamber of
Commerce, E. J. Prevatte, chair
man of the Brunswick County
Democratic Executive Committee,
Harold Greene, mayor of Boiling
Spring Lakes, and Roger Ward.
The Southport visitors were re
ceived by Governor Sanford in
his office and talked with him in.
the presence of the department
heads. He expressed interest in
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Congressman To
Visit Brunswick
Congressman Alton A. Len
non Announces Schedule
Of Engagements For Vis
iting Throughout County
A release from the office of
Alton Lennon, the Congressman
from the Seventh District, was
received by The Pilot this week
and sets forth the schedule of
visits to be made in this district
during the adjournment period of
the first session of the 87th Con
gress. That schedule follows:
On Monday, December 4, Mr.
Lennon will be available at the j
District Office (Wilmington) for j
appointments and mail. On Tues
day, December 5, Lennon will |
visit Brunswick County at large
(stopping here and there); on
Wednesday the same schedule,
and on Thursday, December 7, he
will be at the Brunswick County
Courthouse in Southport, from 9 |
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Deep Channel To
Southport Basin
Given Approval
River And Harbor Engin
eer* . Concur With Re
commendation That Will
Make Deep Water Anch
orage Accessible
The Board of Engineers for
Rivers and Harbors announced
last week its recommendation that
the channel from ocean across
the bar to Southport harbor be
improved, widened and deepened
by the U. S. Army Corps of En
' gineers. The board turned down
i the recommendation that the
"navigation channel between
Southport and • Wilmington be
deepened in its entirety at this
time.’’
The findings of the board
evolved around a recommendation
made a year ago by an official
group of Division Engineers, that
the channel be "deepened to 40
feet and widened to 500-feet, with
increased width at bends, from
Southport to the foot of Castle
Street in Wilmington.”
In its decision that the chan
nel from Southport to Wilming
ton “shouid not be deepened at
this time”, the board took into
consideration the rapid increase
in the size of tankers, which
could, said the board “render
such channel (38-feet) inadequate
before the project could be half
finished.”
Pointing out that an improved
entrance channel at Southport,
“would permit even the largest
tankers to off-load to drafts al
ready available in the channel all
the way to Wilmington”, the
board stated its belief that “this
method of operation may be eco
nomically superior to the proposed
plan for further improvement to
the Wilmington side of the chan
nel.”
The board’s action did not, how
ever, permanently close the door
to improvement in the channel
above Southport. In a public no
tice released last Wednesday, the
hoard states:
“All interested parties are in
vited to submit new and addi
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New Commander
American Legion
Young Southport Man Is
Elected To Head South
port Post No. 194 During
Coining Year
Ronald Hood has been elected
commander of the Southport Post
No. 194, American Legion, in a
reorganization meeting of this
group attended by State Com
mander Ben Halterman of Wil
mington.
Elected vice-commander was
Horace Duncan. T. C. Bowmer
was elected adjutant and treas
urer; W. R. Bomberger was elect
ed chaplain; and James Piner was
elected sergeant at arms.
In addition to State Comman
der Halterman, also preesnt for
the reorganization meeting was
District Commander Roddy Breese
of Wilmington. These men under
scored the importance of a live
and vigorous American Legion
Post in any community where
there are veterans, and they urg
ed that the local organization be
revitalized through the participa
tion of men of all ages who have
served in the armed forces of the
United States.
Tide Table
Following is the tide
table for Southport during
the week. These hours are
approximately correct and
were furnished The State
Fort Pilot through the
courtesy of the Cape Fear
Pilot’s Association.
HIGH LOW
Thursday, November 80
1:19 A. M. 7:33 A. M.
1:27 P. M. 8:10 P. M.
Friday, December I
2:11 A. M. 8:32 A. M.
2:19 P. M. 9:04 P. M.
Saturday, December 3
3:03 A. M. 9:30 A. M.
3:11 P. M. 9:54 P. M.
Sunday, December 8
3:56 A. M. 10:25 A. M.
4:03 P. M. 10:42 P. M.
Monday, December 4
4:44. A. M. • 11:17 A. M.
4:52 P. M. 11:29 P. M.
Tuesday, December 5
5:31 A. M. 12:08 A. M.
5:39 P. M.
Wednesday, December «
6:17 A. M. 0:14 A. M.
6:25 P. M. 12:55 P. M.