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Most of the News All The Time V 7.v, ;• THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Volume No. 22 No. 28 10-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1963 5c A COPY jvy". *v\; • The Pilot Covers Brunswick County PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Night Hunting Slaught The senseless slaughter of more than forty wild ducks, shot at night and left floating on the waters of Twin Lakes, has en raged Mannon Gore, developer of Sunset" Beach, ahd.has brought Federal Wildlife authorities into j the case to Join with county and State law enforcement officers in an . effort to capture and pun- j ish those responsible. ' The episode occurred Thursday night after the patrol left the lake at T:30 o’clock and evidence shows that a car'was maneuvered on the road in a half-dozen ef forts to shine the lights on the water so that the ducks could be shot. Gore and his helpers were back at the lake before daylight again on Friday morning, and it was then that they began to pick up signs Of the shooting orgy of the night before. A total of 42 ducks were found, including black ducks, mallards and wood ducks. Others that were shot had drift ed away, and there was evidence that animals had found and de voured several other birds. Gore was careful to collect con siderable evidence to turn over to the Federal authorities. In cluded were 19 12-guage shell casings, some .22 rifle empties, imprints from the automobile tires and the clear impression left by a pair of football shoes. ‘‘We know who these people are,” the resort developer declar ed this week. ‘‘They have been but now we think we have them • involved in a case that is so se rious that Federal action will be taken and maybe put a stop to ! this dangerous trespassing once and for all.” Gore went on to explain that he has at least two good motives | for protecting the Sunset Beach development area, including Twin j Lakes, from hunters. ‘To begin jwitfc, this is a residential area,” i he said, .“and there are houses i within gunshot of where some of! these fellows would come to shoot ducks. “The ducks are a second rea son for rhaking this a Wildlife Refuge. Hundreds of them come j into these two lakes, and we feed them regularly. It has come to be a major attraction for tourists and people who want to drive down to the beach during the off season. The ducks on our lakes have attracted several hundred carloads of visitors '-during the past-few weeks.'. “What these fellows that have been giving us such a hard time fail to realize is that what we are doing is the best thing that can take place to improve duck hunt Continued On Page 3 r-1 I Brhf Bttt Of lnews-j »invc ta unrirn The regular meeting of the j Southport Lions Club will be held j Thursday night at 6:30 o’clock in j the Community Building. CHRISTMAS VISIT A. W. Moore has returned from a Christmas visit with Mr. and Mrs, Sam Mauney in Raleigh and with his brother, Eugene Moore, in Ahoskie. -4^ HOLIDAYS’"I’nD ,:'. j Things ara back to normal rou tine today after the Christmas! and New Years holidays. Schools reopened following a 10-day vaca tion period and the county com missioners were holding their reg ular first of the month meeting. Recorder’s court was' in Special session. ' ■ COLLEGE STUDENTS ‘ j Among the college students at ! home for the holidays were Joyce Jorgensen, Karen Swan and Mary Louise Herring, Meredith; Fred Burdett, Jr. and Edward Oliver, Jr.,, the Citadel; Betsy Duffie, Womans College; Lee Aldridge, East Carolina; and Foxy Howard and Bobby McKeithan, Wingate. WHEAT SIGN-UP ASC Manager Ralph L. Price reports that 51 farmers signed up to divert 216.0 acres of wheat in Brunswick county. ‘‘The total ad vance payment for wheat diver tion here amounted to $2,404.14,” he said. The extent of participa tion for 1963 was 53 percent as compared to 67 percent in 1962. North Carolina led the nation in the number of farms that signed up under the program last year. December 14 was the final data to ngu-uj) for wheat 4*vnmicqi, er Wild Ducks ; . ^ Evidence Piled Up DEAD DUCKS—This is the pile of 42 ducks that were shot on the roost Thursday night at Twin Lakes. There are signs warning that no hunting is permitted. There were more than 40 ducks in this collection. Capt. St. George : i Retires As Pilot Veteran Member Of Cape Fear Pilots Association Leaves Service After 39 7- .Years, i , v t' ^—7 By WILLIAM G. ALLEN For the first time in well over 100 years the name St. George will be missing from the Cape Fear Pilots Association Roster be cause of the retirement of Cap tain Harold T. St. George of Southport. Captain St. George retired as an active pilot Monday after 39 years of service. Both his father and his-. grandfather were pilots before him. After making application for his license, Captain St. George served as an apprentice from February of 1923 to February of 1926 when he received his pilot’s license. Captain St. George said that he could not estimate the number of ships he has guided up and down the Cape Fear river from the. first one in 1926, “Munisla”, to the last one, “Nea Tyhi”, Mon day. “I could not even tell you the number of ships I had last year,” he said with a smile. Surprising enough in this world of change, Captain St. George said that the work of the pilot has not changed very much since 1923. In fact, he said that if one of the dead pilots would come back he would not have too much trou ble in assuming his old job. “The only difference between piloting my first ship in 1926 and my last one Monday was that I was mighty nervous on my first one,” he said. , When Captain St. George first joined the' Association in 1926, there were 13 pilots. “All of them are now dead”, he said. Although there are only eight pilots in the Association now, Captain St. George does not be lieve it is a dying profession. “Larger, ships account for the drop in membership in the Asso ciation,” he said. “The pilots han dle more ships than they did when I .first joined the Associa tion.” Jem Durant of Wilmington will take Captain St. George’s place in the Association. "He ■ served about the same apprenticeship that I did back in 1923,” the veteran pilot stated. As for the routine of work, Captain St. Geoige said that the eight pilots practice rotation. After one pilot has taken a ship up or down the river, the other seven must work before the first one can take on another job. AH the money is then turn ed over to' the Association. Af ter the expenses have been paid, the balance is divided equally among the members. Thti pilot's day runs from 5 OoiliBttai Ob ftfe 3 Retires ^ CAPX. H. T. ST. GEORGE Listing Taxes Now In Progress Farm Census Information Will Be Part Of This Year's Report, As In The Past The big job of listing real es tate and personal property for taxes began today (Wednesday) in Brunswick ’county and will continue through the month of January. A schedule of appoint ments will be found elsewhere in this newspaper. This year, as in the past sever al years when they have listed tax es, farmers will be asked to fill out a farm census. This farm census has no con nection with the tax structure nnrl uHU nnf i»-» ont, either county, state, or national tax structure. This information is strictly to help build a better and stronger agricultural program in Brunswick County and North Carolina. This is the only means that has been devised to get this informa tion that is needed by practically every agency operating in Colum bus county in helping build a stronger and better agricultural program. Up to this point, all of the ag ricultural programs have used this information in developing the program in the county. When the tobacco program first started, they went to the state census for the harvested cropland and the acreB of tobacco harvested. From that basis the allotments were allotted,to the state and in turn to the counties. The same procedure has been followed on Continued on Page Tbrea District Mason Meet In Tabor City On Tuesday Representatives From Brunswick County Will Attend, Have Chance To Hear Grand Master Tabor City Lodge No. 263, A.F. and A.M., will be host to repre sentatives of approximately 1600 Masons from ’13 Lodges in the 11th and 12th District on' Tues day, according to Jessie R. Bar ker, secretary of the Tabor Lodge. Plans for the district meeting are under the direction of Cool idge Wright of Clarendon and Henry H. Atkinson, both district deputy grand masters. Wright will preside at the af ternoon session which will begin at 5 o’clock. Supper, will be serv ed at 6 o’clock, and Master David Cook of the Tabor City Lodge will preside when the meeting convenes at 7 o’clock. Master A. Hinton McLeod Of Lambert on, Master W. Roscoe Enzor of Fair Bluff, Master Wil liam T. Stover of WhiteviHe, Mas fpr WllliniYl A Qinnlai— nf TiTnu . ton, Master Thomas J. Willis of St. Pauls, Master Branson E. Townsend of Red Springs, Master Wilton G. Baxley of Fairmont, Master Belvin A. Heath of Wac cainaw, Master, Gordon T. Lane of Chadbourn, Master Robert L. Clayburn of Proctorville, Master Julius M. Suggs of Elizabeth town and Master James M. Haw es of Shallotte will lead dele gations from their lodges to the Tabor City meeting. Masonic leaders other than Grand Master Ricker of Ashe ville, who are expected to attend the meeting include Charles A. Harris of Raleigh, grand secre tary; A. D. Leon Gray, superin tendent of the Oxford Orphanage; Troy G. Robbins, superintendent of Masonic and Eastern Star Home in Greensboro and District Deputy Grand-'Leeturera Lee R. Cain bfTHe llth district and John. EL Barkley of the 12th district. Winners Named For Decorations Contest Sponsored By South port Garden Club Makes More Beautiful City Dur ing Christinas Mr. and Mrs. Albert Russ;.Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bogie and Mr. and Mrs. James Bowman took, top honors in the Christmas Decora tion Contest sponsored by the Southport Garden Club. Mr. and Mrs. Russ took first place for the prettiest living tree while Mr. and.Mrs.'Arthur Weeks were second. Mr. and Mrs. Bogie had the prettiest door while Mr. and Mrs. Fred Willing were second in this category. Mr. and Mrs. Bowman won first Continued on Page Three Bowman Sworn In i- VAW.W^AU'.WWMM •. „ P^TH—James C. Bowman, left was a dministered the oath of office for District Solicitor this morning in Brunswick county Recorders Court by Judge R. I. Mintz. Seated in the background is Recorder W. J. McLamb. The portrait on the wall is an oil painting of the late Judge E. H. Cranmer. (Staff Photo by Alien). Highway Death Toll Drops As Year Nears End All-Time Record Pace For Deaths Takes Big De cline Following Month Of May Coroner L. B. Bennett pointed out today that a year that start ed out as the worst in the history of highway deaths in Brunswick County tapered off during the final six months for & total of only 1, and that on a technicality. On the evening o May 11 there was a grinding, two-car collision near Bolivia on Highway No. 17 Which claimed four lives and ran the highway death toil to 18 for 1962 in this county. On the evening of May 11 there pulled from the waters of Davis Creek, and in it was a woman driver who, it was claimed, made the plunge in a suicide attempt. Because the" car took off from' a public road; this was classified as a highway fatality—the last of the year for Brunswick county. This brought a welcomed relief for harrassed Highway Patrol of ficials, who had been almost- des perate in their efforts to control the situation. The holiday weekend was quiet, and the first two days of the New Year have passed without a major accident. The Highway Patrol has its collective fingers crossed in the hope that the good luck will continue. TIME and TIDE Twenty-five years ago this week the huge run of shrimp dur ing the past week \yas. believed to have earned the local boats close to $20,000. The shrimp were not caught in abundance in the past day or two, but the shrimpers were still hopeful for an other big week. Usually the boats had ceased operation after Christmas but they would not stop until they were sure that the catches were past. Judge E. H. Cranmer announced that he would retire from his position in tne Superior court soon. The announcement J prompted others to run for the position, including J. J. Burney of Wilmington. The two convicts who were at large in Brunswick county during the past month were finally apprehended at Sanford by federal agents. The two admitted that they were planning an other bank robbery after which'they planned to flee the coun try. ‘ • rT'i ifnntit tin.,.... lull" _I* ...i.i_ branch of the Waecamaw Band and Trust Company but fail ed to steal anything. The would-be thieves entered through the window, rumaged through the drawers, but ignored twenty dol lars worth of postage stamps. Their main purpose seemed to be entering the vault, but they failed to do so. Roy Swain, a young Southport citizen, was installed as Mas ter of the Pythagoras Lodge. Swain became the youngest per son ever to attain the position in the history of the organiza tion. He was installed by C. Ed Taylor, the former master. The Office of Defense Transportation placed another restriction on the public schools. Those within two miles of school had to walk. The bus could make only four stops each mile, with no doubling back over bus routes. Fifteen years ago this week the menhaden were recognized as the greatest U. S. money fish. The specie, which is so abun dant in this area, yields $10,000,000. To get this much oil, boats had to oatch 800,000,000 nieuhaden, twenty psy cagt oj tha r.a. Ooatiauod os Page i Bowman Sworn In By Judge Mintz Pre-Measurement Of Land Starts The premeasurement sign up will begin on January 2 and will continue through March 15, unless the max imum number of requests on which work can be complet ed on is received prior to March 15, according to ASC Manager R. L. Price. This service is offered on all allot ment crops and feed grain or wheat stabilization pro gram diverted acreages. The charge for this serv ice will be: For tobacco $3 plus $1 per acre to be meas ured, for other crops or land used $3 plus $.60 per acre. The minimum charge per farm will be $8. Committees To Head Pageant Shallotte Jaycees Organize For AU-Out Effort To' Make Success Of Miss Brunswick Pageant Plans continue for the third an nual Brunswick County Pageant, which will be sponsored again this year by the Shallotte Jaycees. Saturday, March 9, h'as been set as the tentative day. During the past week the fol lowing committees have been named to head up the various phases of the pageant promotion: President Gene Blair has been elected pageant chairman. Mem bers of the entry committee are Thurston Mintz, Jackie Thomas and Bobby Ray Russ. The ticket committee will be Sam Inman and Billy Cheers; J. T. Clemmons and Robert Stanley will be in charge of publicity; the program committee will be Billy Gurganus and Steve Vamum; and on the budget committee, David Gause and Bobby Russ. The committee in charge of pro curing judges will be Jackie Thomas, Gene Blair and David Jones; the stage committee will be Billy Cheers, J. P. Lewis and David Jones; Roney Cheers will be in charge of advertising. Brunswick Will Share In Funds R i e g e 1 Workers Pledge More Than $14,000 For Various Fund Drives Dur ing Year Employees of Riegel Paper Corporation’s Pulp and Paper board Division contributed $14,160 in their recent annual fund drive. This exceeded the $14,000 goal set for the drive, and consider ably exceeded the $13,400 given Continued Ga Page 3 Assumes Duties Of Solicitor For ’ Eighth Solicitorial District Following Cere mony Here J&mes d. Bowman was sworn in as Solicitor for the 8th Solici torian District by Judge R. I. Mintz, resident judge of the 5th Judicial • district, in a ceremony this morning hi Brunswick couhty Recorder’* 'Court, „„ Bowman, who was elected without opposition in the general election in November, succeeds John J. Burney, Jr., who has held this post for the past sever al years. He has named Allen Cobb, Wilmington attorney, to continue as assistant district soli citor. The swearing-in ceremony was witnessed by Mrs. Bowman, Mrs. Mintz and Judge and Mrs. Ray-, mond Mallard in L addition to members of the Brunswick Coun ty Bar Association and other per- I sonal friends.' Bowman was born in Kenly in \ 1910 and grew up in Wadesboro. j He graduated from Wadesboro High School, attended Duke Uni- ! versity and Virginia Military In stitute, obtained L. L. B. degree from Washington College of Law, Washington, D. C., and was ad- j mitted to practice law in courts1 of North Carolina in 1938. He is a member of the Amer ican Bar Association, North Car olina State Bar, North Carolina Bar Asociation and also is ad mitted to practice in United States District Courts in North Carolina, United States Supreme Court, and United States Court of Military Appeals. the Brunswick County Recorders Court during the period 1953 1957; served as Recorders Court Judge Brunswick Jounty for sev eral months in 1962, following resignation of Recorder’s Court Judge Earl Bellamy and until appointment of a judge to fill the j remainder of. the elected judge’s ! ' Continued On Page 3 ;•< -= • | Funeral Today j For Mrs. Dosher ’7. -'V ' : ■ ' • • ’■ Mrs. Alta Dosher Died Un expectedly Tuesday Morn ing Following Brief Ill ness Mrs, Alta Wescott Dosher, 76. died Tuesday morning in Dosher Memorial Hospital after a short illness. Final rites were held Wednes day at 3 p. m. from Southport Baptist Church by the Rev. Mark Owens and the Rev. Herbert Baker, with burial in Northwood Cemetery. .Survivors include a son, H. L. j Dosher of Buena Park, Calif.; i and a daughter, Mrs. L. J. Har dee of Southport. Active pallbearers were Mikall j Hardee. Tommy McKeithan, Har-! old Dozier. Bill Faulk, Jr.,: Bill Faulk, Sr., Dusty Jones, Qleim TruaeU ^Bd pea Haidee. Leland Jaycees Receive Charter From President Important Meeting Of New Organization Held Thurs day Night Aboard Battle ship North Carolina Charter night was observed for the new Leland Junior Chamber of Commerce Thursday night aboard the battleship USS North Carolina; - , Southeastern Regional Director L. Stacey Weaver, Jr., presented a national and an international charter to Leland Jaycee Presi dent Dale Coker, after which State President John L. Kennedy made the feature address. President Kennedy, who was in troduced by Southport Jaycee President H. A. Schmidt, spoke on what the Junior Chamber of Comerce means to a community. He also traced briefly the history of the organization. State Secretary Marvin P. Wil son, Jr., of Wilmington, presided over- the installation of officers. The new Leland Jaycee officers include beside President Coker, Vice-President Thurston - Lynch, Secretary Dwight Crainshaw, Treasurer Homer Chadwick and Directors A. H. Gainey, Jr., Frank Gore, Jr., and Willie Hayes. A president’s pin was present ed by Secretary Wilson to Mrs. Coker who in turn pinned it on her husband. The new Leland club then pre sented State President Kennedy with a Brunswick County hickory smoked country ham. Eighth District Vice-President. Kirby Sullivan of Southport ex- 1 tended words of welcome and recognized the guests, which in cluded Brunswick County Com- ' missioner D. L. Ganey and Prin cipal Rockerfellow Venters of Le land High School. A total of 46 persons attended the charter night ceremonies in cluding 23 Leland Jaycees. -ftev. Randolph W. Gcahiun. pas— - * tor of the Woodbura Presbyterian "v. church, gave the invocation while *■" " Rev. J. C. Shaw, Jr., pastor of the Leland Baptist church, led ; the benediction. Four Brunswick Persons Rescued Shrimp Trawler Goes Down In Atlantic Ocean South Of. .Savannah, Ga., En route To Southport Although the crew was saved, a 63-foot . Brunswick county shrimp boat sank at the mouth of the Savannah river near- -Sa vannah, Georgia, Monday after being stuck on a breakwater for more than 24 hours, according to Coast Guard authorities. T., M. Hickman of Shallotte, owner of “H and WL”, and Mr. . and Mrs. Harold Crocker of Sup ply and their son, Thomas James Crocker, were removed from the sinking boat Monday by the Coast Guard. According to Coast Guaid au thorities, the boat ran aground, at the south jetty entrance to he Savannah River Sunday at ap Droximatelv 6:30 a m Tt struck a breakwater. Because of heavy damage to the hull of the “H and WL", at tempts to remove the boat from the breakwater or float it off were unsuccessful. The Coast Guard worked for more 24 hours to remove the boat from the breakwater, but it sank during a stiff northeastern Monday. The Brunswick shrimp boat was en route from St. Augustine, Fla., to Shallotte when it sank. ■ 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, December 27, 7:59 A. M. 1:50 A. M. 8:05 P. M. 2:35 P. M. Friday, December 28, 8:41 A. M. 2:32 A. M. 8:49 P. M. 3:18 P. M. Saturday, December 29, 9:24 A. M. 3:16 A. M. 9:35 P. M. 4:03 P. M. Sunday, December 20, 10:10 A. M. ' 4:03 A. M. 10:25 P. M. 4:49 P. M. Monday, December 31, 11:00 A. M. 4:53 A. M. U 21 P. M. 5.35 P. M.
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