EDITORIALS:
EAST-WEST TRUNKLINES
North Wilkesboro’s Journal-Patriot in
a recent editorial declared that the lack
of foresight, past and present, in the
development of east-west rail and high
way transportation systems continues
to be a stumbling block in the progress
of North Carolina. Our colleague says
there is no trunkline railroad or high
way from North Carolina to the rich
midlands without going hundreds of
miles out of the way. Then he points
out that three railroads come to a dead
end in the mountains: at Mt. Airy,
North Wilkesboro and Murphy. Further,
no super highway leads from the state
into the midwest.
As a result, the editorial emphasizes,
port development at Morehead City
and Wilmington has suffered. Add to
that the natural deep water harbor at
Southport which continues to be an
overlooked resource for waterborne
commerce.
The Journal-Patriot is so right in its
contention that rail and highway plan
ners missed a golden opportunity when
they failed to tap the coal and grain
business beyond the mountains with rail
and highway trunklines. The failure,
for one, prevented Southport from be
coming a coaling station for ocean-go
ing vessels. To be specific, the Yadkin
Valley roadroad, built in the late 1800’s
from Wilmington to Mt. Airy, was de
signed to connect Southport with the
coal fields and the west but it was
never done. Just 25 more miles would
have linked it with the Norfolk Wes
tern for a direct shot to Chicago.
TEXAS DROPS DOWN THE LADDER
From the point of political power and
prestige, Texas has dropped several
rungs down the Washington ladder.
Sam Rayburn is gone, Lyndon John
son is no longer Senate Majority leader,
Texas Senator Yarborough is in and out
of the Johnson traces and, the biggest
blow, the other senator is a Republican
from Dallas.
Of course these combined circumstan
ces are pleasing to Republicans in the
Longhorn State and, in contrast, a bitter
pill for the Texas Democrats.
It hasn’t been like this for many
years if ever.
John Nance Garner held the Texas
banner high in the 20’s and 30’s as
Speaker of the House and Vice Presi
dent. Then there were Senator Con
nally, chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations committee, and Senator Shep
pard, chairman of the Senate Military
Affairs committee. Through their seni
ority and legislative power, they got
much for their state which might not
have been obtained otherwise.
Wth Mr. Rayburn as Speaker and
Mr. Johnson running the Senate, Texas
was just about the whole show. Mr.
Johnson is there now, certainly, but his
is a presiding job and as such is not
privileged to have a hand in floor man
euvers.
TAX EXEMPTION FOR COLLEGE TRAINING
rarenxs ox.college students win wel
come the suggestion that they be given
tax exemption for all reasonable col
lege expenses.
The suggestion comes from the Quin
cy Herald-Whig of Quincy, Illinois after
noting that Congress turned down the
administration’s $1,000 scholarship pro
posal. The defeat of this bill seems to
have grown out of thinking that subsid
ies j destroy initiative. Far from the
facts. Graduates of service academies
were not only subsidized but were also
paid while getting their education.
But the tax exemption plan. It makes
sense. It is said that the college gradu
ate will earn at least $100,000 more
during his working life than the non
college man. This means he would pay
about $20,000 in income taxes during
his life, and that would be far in excess
of what the other fellow would pay.
I he original tax loss is estimated at
$1,600. This is based on current exemp
tion of $600 and the suggested exemp
tion of $400.
A year or so ago, it was suggested
that tuition at N.C. State college be in
creased. Chancellor John Tyler Cald
well opposed the move on the premise
that we should make the cost of college
education as reasonable as possible so
that the maximum number of students
could get an education. Then when
they get out their earning capacity is
higher and their tax payments would
rise in proportion.
College training does cost money
these days. Many parents skimp intoler
ably to get their children through
school. If they have such faith in their
offspring, certainly Congress should
have like faith in future citizens.
NO CREDIT TO RESERVES
The Army reservist from Texas who
was sentenced to six months hard labor
for making' fun of an order to quell
wanting-out complaints, will have time
now to mull over the outburst.
If a reserve can’t pull active duty
when he is called and for as long as
the need exists, then the program may
as well be discontinued. He gets paid
for reserve duty just as he does for
active duty. What’s more, he builds up
retirement. He knows that when he
signs for chair-warming drill two hours
a week for which he gets a retirement
point and a day’s pay.
This man is not representative of the
reserves. He is not a credit to the re
serves and the better it is that he has
been set apart from them.
THE MERE SUGGESTION
A food page headline exclaims:
“Ham top menu item for any meal.”
Whom do you think you are kidding,
Mister?
They are hard to come by but we'd
like to get hold of just one more dirty
looking, rusty looking and smudgy 20*
pounder before we get through this
journey.
We’d bind it tightly with gauze and
sink it in water for a simmering boil
The State Port Pilot
Published, Every Wednesday
Southport, N. C.
/AMES M. HARPER, JR. ........ Editor
Entered as second-class matter April 20, 192«i
at the Post Office at Southport, If. C., and
other Post Offices, under the Act
of March 3, 1878.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Brunswick and Adjoining Counties
and Service Men . $2.00 per yeat
Six Months ...—. ?1.60
Elsewhere in United States — $3.00
Per Year;—6 Months -—.$2.00
just the right number of hours. Then
we’d fight temptation until that 20
pounder, less now, cools to a chill on
the back porch. Next, you guessed it, a
pan of hot biscuits and a pot of gurgl
ing coffee.
That’e top stuff for three times a
day and in-between too.
But, mind you, it must be cured in
salt, nature’s way, and no smoking and
no fancy bottled stuff brushed on to de
stroy that natural, delightful flavor.
A man that is well advised dreadeth
his least enemy.—Geoffrey Chaucer.
NOBLE CONFESSION
When filling out the official federal
employment forms, Georgia-born Secre
tary of State Dean Rusk paused only
briefly when he came across the part
asking whether any relatives had ever
plotted to overthrow the government of
the United States. Rusk wrote in pre
cise hand: “My two grandfathers.’’
Both served in the Confederate Army.
To think before you speak is a good
idea, provided you thing long and hard
enough.
Time and Tide
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dawn singing by the colored choir.
There was a front page complaint that shrimp trawlers were
making small catches in local waters; Shallotte girls had taken
up softball as a spring replacement for basketball; and a thief
with a taste for fine food had raided the Lonnie Evans smoke
house and had made off with 18 cured hams.
The front page picture in The Pilot for April 9, 1952, showed
the Shallotte High School band marching in the Azalea Festival
parade. The fever was contagious, for Southport school patrons
held a meeting to discuss organizing a band here.
There was a front page story of the first tobacco of the season
being planted in Brunswick; Easter was upcoming, and the edi
tor had some nice things to say about the planned observance
here. On the sports scene there was a story that illustrated the
value of not giving up. Shallotte was behind by a score of 13-1
in a baseball game with Leland when the Tiger coach took out
star pitcher Kay Scott to give some of the other boys game ex
perience. The Pirates went to work and pulled out a 14-13 vic
tory with a rally that even Scott was unable to put down when
he was called back to the mound.
Orton made it again five years ago this week, with peak beau
ty predicted for the following weekend. The National Geographic
was sending a writer on a trip down the intracoastal waterway
to Florida, and he was expected here within a few days for story
material and pictures.
A society note was that “Miss Karen Swan Becomes Bride of
Darrell Fisher”; Capt. Carlton Garrett was still here, engaged in
red snapper fishing off-shore; and the Southport PTA was spon
soring a womanless wedding.
TWO KILLED
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of Shallotte by the Revs. S. E.
Edens and Bert Bennett, with
burial in the church cemetery.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Betty Neville Hewett; two daugh
ters, Dianne and June Hewett, all
of the home; his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Stella Hewett, Supply, Route
1; and a sister, Mrs. W. W. Jaco
bus, Georgetown, S. C.
Funeral services for Canady,
under the direction of Peacock
Funeral Home of Shallotte, were
held Monday at 11 a. m. at
Bethesda Me+hodist Church in Co
lumbus County by the Revs. Don
nie Davis and Earl Lanier, with
burial in the church cemetery.
Survivors include his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt E. Canady;
eight brothers, David, Charles,
Ronnie, J. L., John, Jerry, Harold
and Russell, all of Ash;' and his
maternal grandmother, Mrs. Ida
Reaves of Whiteville.
Active pallbearers for the
Hewett funeral included James,
Harley and Huey P. Hewett,
Stanton, Jimmy and Billy Bryan.
NAME REGISTRARS
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ternate; McKinley Hewett, Re
publican judge.
Frying Pan: Mrs. Leslie Chad
wick, registrar; Victor Gurganus,
Democrat judge, Boyd Robinson,
alternate; Howard Gore, alter
nate.
Grissettown: Robert Pigott, re
gistrar; Dave Bennett, Democrat
judge, Bun Stanley, alternate; J.
Earl Long, Republican judge.
Shingletree: Mrs. Lacy Bennett,
registrar; Mrs. Lucille Frink,
Democrat judge, Luther Hickman,
alternate; M. J. Bennett, Republi
can judge.
Longwood: Mrs. Eula Browning,
registrar; Vincent Long, Demo
crat judge, Ray Parish, alternate;
Guy Hughes, Republican judge.
Ash: R. I. Long, registrar; Mrs.
Henry Pyke, Democrat judge, Au
burn Dutton, alternate; Curtis
Hughes, Republican judge.
Waccamaw: Mrs. Wrent Mint.z,
registrar; Lee Williams, Demo
crat judge, Leo Smith, alternate;
Jack King, Republican judge.
Exum: Mrs. Mildred Vereen,
registrar; Elmo Mintz, Democrat
judge. James F. Little, alternate;
J. Marvin Bennett, Republican
judge.
ENGINEERS RECEIVE
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The brief setting forth the
claims for damage to the South
port waterfront and establishing
the need for improvements to the
Southport Yacht Basin was pre
pared for the City of Southport
by Brig. General James Globe,
l who made no charge for his serv
ices.
Pickerrell explained that the
problem at hand embraced three
things: The erosion of the South
port waterfront and the hope of
getting a retaining wall or bulk
head to control that lossage; the
enlarging of the Southport yacht
basin; and the addition of a small
boat safe harbor.
These improvements contends
the city, are matters appropriate
to legislation covering the im
provements to the navigable wa
terways of the United States. In
other words, that necessary steps
were, in the opinion of the town
of Southport, definitely the busi
ness of the government. Picker
rell’s presentation of the city’s
case was not interrupted from
any quarter and was well-received
by the Engineer delegation.
At the conclusion of the state
ment, J. M. Hall, chairman of the
New Hanover County Board of
Commissioners, concurred hearti
ly with the report, and stated
“that which is good for Southport
is good for Wilmington. We are
fully behind Southport and Bruns
wick County in their requests on
this matter.” Frank Downing,
representing the director of the
I Wilmington Board of Commerce,
then stated that a council meet
ing would be held that same af
ternoon, at Wilmington, and that
‘our cooperation is assured.”
Brig. Gen. Glore then read a
letter he had received from the
I Clinchfield Railroad, which con
cern expressed willingness to co
operate with Southport in its re
quests. and offered land “at rea
sonable cost” if necessary for
success in this project. General
Glore concluded his talk with the
expressed conviction that “Bruns
wick and New Hanover counties
must hang together, or hang
separately.”
Ernest Parker, Southport at
torney and a member of the N.
C. Board of Conservation and De
velopment, then read a letter re
ceived from Lewis Hardee,
apropos a fleet of shrimp trawlers
being based at the Southport
yacht basin, if and when that
facility is able to accommodate
them.
R. L. Thompson, lifelong resi
dent of Southport and proprietor
■of Thompson’s Marina on the
Southport waterfront, then took
the floor to point out the in
adequacies of the existing facili
ties. Thompson said that in 1953
he had purchased his marina with
the understanding that his dock
was to be kept usable by the
U. S. Government. This has not
been done, he said, and added
that “if the water is not kept
open I will have to close up. I
figure I have already expended
I
some $22,000 in maintenance
costs; costs I cannot afford.”
At this point Captain Rappa
port stated that he had not been
aware that a public dock existed
at Southport.
Next heard was Capt. B. M.
Burris, representing- the Cape
Fear Pilot’s Association, who en
dorsed fully the case as present
ed by Southport. Pickerrell then
formally requested that the As
sociation write a letter of en
dorsement to the Board of Army
Engineers. S. Bunn Frink endors
ed the program as a member of
the N. C. General Assembly.
At this point Gen. Glore asked
for a date of reply to be received
from the District Board of Wil
mington, and was given a tenta
tive date of "within the month.'’
Magnuson made some conclud
ing remarks, all of which were
couched in terms favorable for
the aspirations of waterfront
Southport. Said Magnuson: "The
U. S. Government is indeed con
cerned with erosion, particularly
future erosion—past damage be
ing irrevocable.”
Congressman Lennon spoke at
some length in a sort of sum
ming up; mentioning the “ob
jective approach to this problem”
of Brig. Gen. Glore, and praising
the retired military man for his
hard and sincere work on behalf
his adopted home. "Brunswick,”
stated Lennon, "has never agreed
to hold the government blameless
for the damaging water-wash
fi-om passing commercial vessels
plying harbor and river enroute
to another port than Southport.”
Going into tangibles, including
figures, the Congressman said
that “testimony given at this
hearing proves that the yacht
basin water depth at low tide
does not exceed six-feet, whereas
it is suppored to be maintained
by the Board of Engineers at 12
feet mean.”
Fate of these projects now de
pends entirely upon the decision
reached within the next thirty
days at Wilmington and by the
Army Engineers.
ST. PHILLIPS TO
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will include the Rev. B. Frank
Hall, the Rev. Randolph Gregory
and the Rev. W. R. Stevens. The
Hanover Singers, under the direc
tion of Bob L. Alexander, will
sing.
The history of St. Philip’s
1 Church goes back to 1728, when
the Rev. John Lapierre arrived
from England to be the first
minister at Brunswick Town. A
chapel was built in 1736, and
nine years later the colonial legis
lature provided for the erection of
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Not Exactly News
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We got through the day this Sunday, April 1, without once
hearing the taunt ‘‘April Fool” . . . March roared in like a lion
and roared out the same way Saturday night, with winds up to
70-mph in gusts checked at the Oak Island Coast Guard Station.
Down at the baseball field Thursday afternoon the gnats were
eating us up. Leon McKeithan was suffering through the same
set of circumstances, but he had a hopeful note. "Hulan Watts
says that when the gnats start biting the bluefish are here,”
Leon reported. But thus far we have had no report of bluefish
catches . . . Mrs. Frances Key, who is handling publicity for the
House and Gardens Tour here Sunday, says that she hopes many
Southport residents will want to make the tour. ‘‘I think it is
interesting, and I think it will be worthwhile. In fact,” she said,
“I hope people will invite company to come to see them Sunday
so they can visit these homes and gardens.”
Next week is National Library Week and the Southport High
School Library is observing this occasion with a Book Fair on
April 11-12. The subtle suggestion is made that books make an
ideal gift, and that one appreciative recipient would be the school
library ... A note from Mrs. James C. Sanders at Juneau,
Alaska, reveals that she has been working as assistant secretary
of the senate during its current session. The Sanders family for
merly lived at Yaupon Beach, and she was a member of the
Southport High School faculty.
We met a truck on the highway Tuesday that we know was
headed for the beach, for not only did it have a boat and trailer
in tow, but there was a jeep riding on the truck. This latter
vehicle is almost as good to have as a boat for the family that
is spending the summer at the beach . . . Today we saw our first
dogwood of the season in bloom. It was near Whiteville, in that
thermal belt which we contend has an earlier season than we do
right on the coast.
We hate to think of the Art Newton family moving to the
mountains, even to Asheville; for we know of no group which has
enjoyed life on the banks of the Capt Fear River more than they
have . . . Some of the backstage scenes at the womanless fashion
show Friday night were redicuious and hilarious, but none
seemed to be more incongruous than the sight of Tom Gilbert,
a tired in full, flowing pink evening dress and smoking a big
ac cigar . . . This should be a weekend filled with pleasure
and excitement, both here and throughout the area. We hope that
you will do your part to keep it safe. - ... -
a parish church to be called St.
Philip’s. Construction was started
in 1754. Governor Tryon paid for
the sashes and window glass to be
brought from England, and in
1768, the church was dedicated.
Stanley South, State archeolo
gist in charge of the Brunswick
Town State Historic Site excava
tion, will direct visitors over the
grounds.
MRS. BUTLER IS
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chosen for the honor “because of
her outstanding work in holding
her club together in the absence
of a county Home Demonstration
Agent.
The new Clubwoman of the
Year is active in the affairs of
the Goshen Baptist Chufch,
where she teaches a class of In
termediate students. Mrs. Butler
is also a member of the Womens
Missionary Society and is an ac
tive participant in P. T. A. and
the Brunswick County unit of the
American Cancer Society. '
BOOSTERS
, The Southport Boosters Chi*
will have a special meeting Thurs
day night at 8 o’clock in the
City Hall. There are several cur
rent projects to be brought up
for discussion that will be of in
terest to all members, and to all
other Southport Boosters.
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EFFECTIVE APRIL I
Compounded Quarterly
NOTICE TO DEPOSITORS
Those with Optional Savings Accounts should bring in the Pass
Books or mail them in so that the Dividend earned during the quarter
January 1 ■" March 31 may be entered in the book.
Southport Savings & Loan Assn.
W. P. Jorgensen, Sect.-Treas.
SOUTHPORT, N. C.