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[Most of the News All The Time B Volume No. 22 No. 5 THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community 14-Pages Today_SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1962 ~ 5c A COPY The Pilot Covers Brunswick County PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Brunswick Men In Alaska REUNION Pointing to Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, as the site of their first reunion since they left their old hometown of Shallotte, more than 20 years and two wars ago, are old school-mates, from left, TSgt. Clifton W Clemmons, MSgt. William O. Reynolds, and CWO Mack L. Hewett. Although warrant Utticer Hewett has managed to maintain contact with each of the other two at one time or another during this period, it took the coincidence of service assignments to bring all three back together again more than 4,500 miles from where they originally started.—(U.S. Air Force Photo.) Payments Being Made This Week For Feed Grain ASC Office Manager Ralph Price Received Authoriza tion Tuesday To Begin Making Settlements ASC office manager Ralph Trice announced this morning that he has been authorized to begin to make final payments to Brunswick county farmers eligible for payments under the Feed Grain and Wheat Stabilization program. Price esetimates that these pay ments will total about $100,000 for Brunswick county. He said that office personnel will begin immediately to prepare the necessary papers for final settlement, and he says that cards will be mailed out as quickly as the individual file has been made ready. He urges that farmers not come in until they have received their post card notice, and he Continued On Page 4 Brhf Qf lnewsj SUNDAY SERVICES Sunday services at St. James Episcopal Church, at the inter section of U. S. 17 and N. C. 130 in Shallotte, are at 9 a. m. AT LEBANON-MILL CREEK The Lebanon-Mill Creek com munity meeting will be held Mon day at 8 o’clock in the Com munity Building. All interested persons are encouraged to attend. IN SUMMER SCHOOL Principal W. N. Williams of Southport High School is a stu dent at the second session of summer school at the University of North Carolina. MEMORIAL SERVICES Memorial services for Mrs. Helen Dilsaver and Mrs. Lizzie McKeithan will be held by the Daughters of America Friday at 8 o’clock at the Community Building. Members of the family and friends invited. POWER INTERRUPTION There will be a power interrup tion in Southport Thursday at 2 p m. while city electricians move a pole on Howe street in prepa ration for a paving project. Power will be off for one and one-half j hours. SPECIAL COURSE John G. Long, superintendent of Brunswick County Schools, is taking a three-week course in poli tical science at the University of North Carolina. The course is re quired by the State Department for the advanced superintendents certificate. Turtle-Back RIDE—Little Mary Dee Swan seems pleased with her perch aboard this big mother turtle who was dis covered on her nest on Bald Head Island. Her mother, Mrs. Reese Swan, lencte a timorous, helping hand as'the sea monster begins to lumber her way back to her ocean haunts. Mission Study Series Planned Brunswick Baptist Associa tion Will Sponsor Simul tanious Sessions At Sev eral Churches The Brunswick County Baptist Association School of Missions will be held August 19-24. Baptists throughout the county association are planning to hold schools of missions in the follow ing churches: Leland, Elah, Town Creek, Lebanon, Mill Creek, Peace Memorial, Bolivia, Southport, An tioch, Bethel, Oak Island, Supply, Mt. Pisgah, Calvary, Jennies Branch and Shallotte. Each night, Monday through t* riday, a different speaker from the foreign, home and state mis sions will speak after the mission study classes. Those who are not having a school in their local Church are invited to attend a church near their home and hear the missionaries speak on Baptist work throughout the world. Speaking at the missions will j Small World Gets Another Testing Item for ‘'Its A Small World Department”— Miss Gertrude Loughlin of Southport, supervisor of ele mentary education for the Brunswick County Board of Education, was walking along the street in Honolulu one morning last week when she came face-to-face with Miss Brightie Holden, member of the school faculty at Shal lotte. Neither knew that the oth er was in Hawaii. be missionaries from Taiwan, Philippines, Costa Rica and Ni geria. Also on the program will be Home Mission Board mission aries from the Indian territory in Oklahoma. From the state mission board will be Dr. L. H. Hollingsworth, chaplain at Wake Forest College, and several asso ciate missionaries. All of these (Continued On Page 4) Brunswick Men Hold Reunion In State 01 Alaska Reunion For Three Former High School Buddies Takes Place Among Ser vice Men Chums and schoolmates all the way through their tenure at Shal lotte High School, young Mack Hewett and Cliff Clemmons grad uated from there in 1939, follow ed by their buddy, Bill Reynolds, in 1940. Shortly after that they all de parted from the Shallotte area— Clemmons and Reynolds to take jobs in other communities and Hewett to enter the service. Recently, the three all got back together again at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, for the first time in more than 20 years as CWO Mack L. Hewett, MSgt. William O. Reynolds, and TSgt. Clifton W. Clemmons, all of the United States Air Force. Warrant Officer Hewett is the administrative officer for deputy chief of staff for plans of the Alaskan Air Command and Ser geant Clemmons, the non-commis sioned Officer-in-charge of Pro testant education for the Chap lain's Section of the 5040th Air Base Wing. A newcomer to Alas ka, Sergeant Reynolds is slated to become the First Sergeant of the 748th AC&W Squadron at Kotzebue. Seemingly the keystone of the trio, Mr. Hewett has correspond ed off and on with Sergeant 'Reynolds over the years and had run into him previously at Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina, in 1954, and again when both were home on leave at Shallotte last year. Meanwhile, the Clemmons fam ily came to Alaska in August, (Continued On Page 4) Contact Made With Industry Negotiations Underway To Work Out Plans For Heavy Industry In This County A group of Brunswick county men will meet Friday at Boiling Spring Lakes to discuss a course of action which they hope will bring a heavy industry employing men to this area. A preliminary contact with the president of the interested com pany was made Thursday, and an effort has been made to line up a meeting which will deter mine if it is possible to continue efforts to bring this manufactur ing business to Brunswick. The probable location will be in the Boiling Spring Lakes area, where a site has been made avail able and certain other induce ments have been offered by the developers. There are other re quirements that must be met in the way of a building and other details, and these propositions will be under consideration at the Fri day meeting. TIME and TIDE Twenty-five years ago this week,j plans were almost complete regarding the sailing regatta to * held in Southport harbor. Governor Clyde R. Hoey was to firs the starting gun and a wide variety of entertainment was scheduled to take place in South port during the three-day event. A fishing camp at Holden’s Beajch was to be constructed to provide the North Carolina prisons with seafood. The fishery would be located nine miles from tile prison camp at Supply and would be operated by convict labor. The Southern Kraft Corporation was still seeking a site for a loading dock in the vicinity of Southport.; a Southport citizen, Frank M. Sasser, was elected district commander of the Ameri can Legion; W. R. Lingle had been named principal of Southport High School by the local school board. Twenty-years ago this week, a complete investigation of the tJ.S.O. Club in Southport was ordered by Governor J. M. Brough ton. The 1 equest was made to the U.S.O. headquarters in New York. There was a restriction prohibiting dancing in the building because it is against the policy of the sponsoring organization, the Salvation Army. The club was for Service Men and it was felt that dancing should be allowed jf they wanted it. The operat ing personnel had been dismissed recently because of this inci dent. The tobacco markets in the area were to open soon and a fifty-nine million pound crop was expected for the border belt region. This was an eight million pound increase over 1941. The local menhaden boats were skipping over the fine schools 1 of bluefish and Spanish mackerel to concentrate on menhaden. The catching of food fish was postponed until after the men- . haden season passes. ' The Navy was appealing to private owners for the use of ship ' to shore radio telephones; weather bureau statistics showed that , this July had been one of the hottest months during the past ; (Continued On Page Four.) Birthday Party OBSERVANCE—Colonel Timothy J. O’Leary,, Commanding Officer of the U.S Army Terminal Unit (7457), Boston, Mass., is about to cut a birthday cake, while Colonel Edward A. Johnson and the female employees of Sunny Point Army Terminal look on. This occasion mark ed the twentieth anniversary of the U.S. Army Transportation Corps of which Sunny Point Army Terminal is a part. I icture was taken in the Terminal Cafeteria Monday. Committee Will Name Solicitor Nominee Friday Southport Attorney James C. Bowman One Of Two Men Being Considered For Nomination The. 8th Solieitorial District committee will meet Friday mor ning' at 10 o'clock in the court room of the New Hanover court house to name a Democratic can didate for this office. This action comes as a result of the recent resignation of Soliietor John J. Burney, Jr., who had been nomi nated without opposition in the JfflK .Primary. * Two men have nw.de if known th^t they Would like to have the nomination. One is James C. Bowman, Southport attorney and former member of the General Assembly from Brunswick Coun ty. The ofher is Allen Cobb, who has server! for several years as assistant district solicitor. The decision rests in the hands of a 12-man committee comprised of three | members from each of the four! counties comprising the district. There are Pender, Bruns wick, Columbus and New Han over. It is a foregone conclusion that the Brunswick delegation will stand sdhdly behind Bowman and that the New Hanover delegation will follow the same course on behalf .of their candidate. This means that the decision will rest with the delegates from Pender and Columbus counties. Unofficial reports are that some o: the committee members were contacted about the appoint ment prior to the time that Bur ney’s resignation was made pub lic, and that some of the mem (Continued on Page 4) Birthday Of T.C. Observed Monday JAMES E. POWELL James E. Powell Dies On Friday Shallotte Mortician Died At James Walker Memorial Hospital In Wilmington Following Heart Attack James Edgar Powell, 49, well known Shallotte mortician and businessman, died at James Wal ker Memorial Hospital, Wilming ton, Friday at 11:15 p. m. after an illness of three days. He was the son of Mrs. Bess Wooten Powell of Whiteville and the late J. J. Powell, also of Whiteville. Mr. Powell was stricken with a heart attack, Wednesday, while at James Walker Hospital, where he had carried a patient for treat ment. He was the owner and operator 3f Powell’s Funeral Home and also of Powell’s Furniture Store in Shallotte. He had lived in the Brunswick County town since the summer of 1958. A graduate of Whiteville High School with the fclass of 1932, Mr. Powell also attended Wake Forest College and was a grad jate of Gupton-Jones School of Mortuary Science in Nashville, renn. He was employed for a number if years by both McKenzie Mor uary and Meares Funeral Home )f Whiteville. During part of that ime he and his wife, Mrs. Vivian looks Powell, operated The Art ’hop at a South Madison Street ocation, prior to moving to shallotte to open business there. A member of Whiteville Metho list Church, he had taught the Men s Bible Class there. He was veil-known for his work with the Masonic order, having belonged o and was a certified public Lec urer with Lebanon Lodge 207 of \ hiteville. He organized the Shallotte Masonic chapter after noving to the Brunswick locality. He was also a Past Patron of he Whiteville Order of Eastern Star. Continued On Page 4 11 Fitting Ceremony At Sunny Point Army Terminal Celebrates 20th Birthday Of Transportation Corps On July 30, the- U. S. Army Transportation Corps, youngest of the Army’s Technical Services, and of which Sunny Point Army Terminal (SPART) is a part, was twenty years old. As part of the birthday ac tivities of the Transportation Corps, there were two separate celebrations at Sunny Point Army Terminal. There was a cook-out for employees wnt Their families and for a U. S. Army Reserve Unit from Boston, Massachusetts, who were on active duty training at SPART. This program was on Thursday. The second birthday celebration was a “birthday cake, tea and crumpets” gathering for all em ployees of the Terminal and visit ing Army Reservists, in the Sun ny Point Cafeteria, at the close of the work day on Monday. The Transportation Corps, es I tablished in 1942 under the stress i of the greatest wartime mobili I zation in history, carried out in j World War II one of the most gigantic transportation tasks ever j undertaken. Through its eight wartime ports of embarkation 1 alone poured 7,290,000 passengers jand more than 126.700,000 M-tons of cargo destined for the far flung theaters of operations. Much of this moved in the Corps’ 1,700 ship fleet of ocean transports. Following World War II, the bulk of this fleet was transferred to the Navy. Overseas, members of the Corps established the famed Red Ball Express, a trucking line which delivered more than 412,000 tons of supplies in 81 days to support Continued On Page 6 Shopping Center Building Goes Up Good Progress Being Made On Business Structure At Boiling Spring Lakes; Golf Course Irrigated Good progress continues on the construction of the big brick building in West Boiling Spring Lakes where the shopping center will be located. Robert Jones of Southport is the contractor. Over on the same side of the road there is activity in cutting in a new street, and one repre sentative reports that it is to make more lots available in the section recently placed on the market. There is activity, too, over on the golf course, where the busi ness of installing irrigation facili ties is well underway. This will develop the need for two deep water wells, and these are being drilled by J. D. Bigford Co. Work continues on the Boiling Spring Lakes Country Club, with steel girders for this two-story structure already in place. Both the golf course and the country club building are being geared for a Labor Day opening, and if this deadline is met, there will be a busy month ahead for workmen engaged in both pro jects. Whiteville Now Tobacco Market Big Experiment In Sale Of Loose Leaf Offerings Hold Interest On Eve Of Market Opening Prospects are bright for a good sales year as time nears for the opening of Whiteville’s big tobac co market on Thursday, August 2. It will be the 52nd continuous year of selling the Golden Weed for growers of Southeastern North Carolina by the local mar ket. Farmers, merchants, warehouse men, buyers and all others con cerned feel that the growing sea son hereabouts has been the best in many years, despite some con cern over weather conditions. And, they feel that, with excel lent care and modem methods farmers use in growing their to bacco, that this crop year should prove to be a very probitable one for the leaf growers. Whiteville, like all other Border Belt markets that will open on Aug. 2, will be looking forward - to its first sale of loose leaf to bacco. The government is allow- [ ing sales of lugs and such type - tobacco for the first time dur- • ing the first five sales days of the 1962 season in North Caro lina. The Whiteville market has - grown from a small market with only one set of buyers and a small quantity of tobacco to a large, three-sale market and many millions of pounds of the ' golden leaf. During the 1961 tobacco sea- . son, the Whiteville Tobacco Mar ket sold 34,780,000 pounds of leaf for an average price of $64.84. The growth here has been ciN**r sistent an all during these yea Building By-Pass Around Cave - In Sunny Point Army Terminal Engineers Are Construct ing Temporary Rail Con nection Ready To Open Continued On page 4 In accordance with their policy of exercising every possible safe ty measure in connection with the handling of ammunition, U. S. Army offiicals in charge of Sunny Point Army Terminal have authorized the construction of iu temporary by-pass of a cave-in area adjoining their approach railroad. Work began this week and this short section of track is expect ed to be available for use within a short time. Meanwhile, tests and borings are being made to determine the nature and extent of the trouble that has caused the foundation to £ive way beneath the track in the vicinity of the Boiling Spring. When this cave-in was first noticed several weeks ago an ef fort was made to patch it up with clay. This failed to hold, and sub sequent cave-in action caused some concern for the safe passage of loaded trains over the section of the track. It is possible that the under mining effect may be controlled and that the original track may go back into use. However, Sun ny Point officials have elected to take no chances and will use the temporary by-pass as a safe ty measure. 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. Thursday, August 2, 9:02 A. M. 3:05 A. M. 9:13 P. M. 3:12 p. M. Friday, August 3, 9:40 A. M. 3:42 A. M. 9:46 P. M. 3:51 P. M. Saturday, August 4, 10:18 A. M. 4:19 a. M. 10:20 P. M. 4:32 P. M. Sunday, August 5, 10:57 A. M. 4:56 A. M. 10:56 P. M. 5:13 p. m. Monday, August 6, 11:37 A. M. 5:34 a. M. 11:33 P. M. 5:58 P. M. Tuesday, August 7, 12:22 A. M. 6:13 A. M. 6:49 P. M. Wednesday, August 8, 0:17 A. M. 7:00 A. M. 1:12 P. M. 7:45 P. M.
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