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? Of The News The 1 ime Providing Set-Up For nfi Passed I rVxpense Inside < Allowed Under 0! Bill Passed | B.^t Legislature B^fpFs'PROVIDED ;B, Paid Salaries ^B0f AllpFtdS' By' legisla-' _ the office of sheriff ] Wtl county was passed ! ^ ^ .,0 North Carolina BLiblv. Details of the ^ explanatory in the n be entitled an act : ! of the Sheriff j P . .f Brunswick Coun-j I iJi9erai Assembly of j do enact. SB' Thnt the office H Public j^sion 19P.5 be ami s hereby repealed. That the salary of | Wh\i Brunswick County l?u by the Board of, -j^issioners of Bruns- j ^ v provided neverthe-J said salary shall not ] K, twenty two hundred , B annum., nor r tv.entv five hundred | IE pmvidod that I hall be in lien I I vXpl'llSO| Kit the Sheriff shall be I wL..~. expense for E;i i? is necessary out-1 Ifcumiai :os of Brunswick Kgrided further, that the L his deputies shall |i process fee of fifty I L i fi a- whom a | L is issue'.: and served,! Ithe County of Brunswick, [political subdivision therebintil't and that the same t due ar.i payable at the I Ion of the sendee. LSheriff j ne authority to appoint; liar deputies, all shall be : [ the Board of County Miers. 1 of whom shall! | to! less than thirty nor I j U fifty dollars monthly, j iall receive not less than t more than seventy five | ninthly. And that this1 all be in lien of all fees I il expense paid said detaed on page 5) le Bits Big Nev/s ?? i E*nti Of State, i n and World-Wide treat During Peat Week EFGENK O'BRIEN ftan Situation IN ENGLAND h eve of his seventieth ' British Prime Minister Chamberlain delivered his tog speech against dicHe revised his planned bitterly ilenouncc Chanfrlf Hitler as a "breakh&uses.' He regarded the M the Czecho-Slovaks as ton? of an attempt to 1 the world by force. The | ambassador to Berlin was! "I home as a protest b* hours later the Ger *wsabcr to London was Hf closed his speech.1 hs interrupted frequently' hug ovations and wild] ' by saying he believed; wtirc British empire and !r nations valued peace: w freedom even more. K AMERICAN Sccretaiy Welles, with "Wat's approval, attacked threat to world peace "sation. the actions of r He further hinted S'-'Veniinont doesn't hc" Czechs can be held in" nnder the German rule. Ihe'iirnt Were cancelled. IN Hi.WCE '",IJ ilavt of feverish cf""er Daladicr persuaded Jtb Chamber of Deputies i h"n dictatorial powers I tori. :i) rc. P Already he has taken R'P- further chaos ui Availed when Hungray Crania. 1r Measure ^ proposed to develop { Rner tor naviga-: cn page 6) THI iTimbe -" ' wffw'i.n ' \*f? ' ' * # S m i^llW wWwiP'S mm>' 2 h&*&^. * v ABOVE.?Sample plot o 1928. Fire lines were tlearei tic picture of long leaf pine BELOW?Same plot tak after the first picture was tt rule is the same as in pictu; pine during a ten-year peric the man with the rule measu approximately 30-feet, ten y : ' Thomas Says He ' Will Not Oppose Recorder's Bill ii In a telephone conversation from Raleigh this morning Representative Cornelius ^ Thomas says that he will make no effort to block in committee hearing tomorrow the bill introduced by Sena- ' tor S. Bun Frink to extend the term of Recorder W. M. j Stanaland for two years. Thnmas niwioiislv has stat. ed that he would stand by i 1 the action of the Democratic I < executive committee and that 1 body, in its last meeting, i voted 6 to 5 against an extension. Thomas says, how- f ever, that he holds in his j hands a petition signed by 10 members of the Demo- j cratic executive committee, i including the vice-chairman, j f and this, to him, reflects a j t preponderance of sentiment 11 in favor of the extension. I i ATTENDS FUNERAE |c Mrs. W. M. Wells attended the j funeral of her nephew, Durward j t Huff, in Beaufort Thursday after-, a noon. ' Southport Man To Group Of } A group of artists and art students from the Wilmington Art Museum had a succession of thrills camping out on Bald Head Island Saturday | and Sunday. The party was headed by Henry McMillan, instructor in art at the museum. W. B. Kcziah, was guide and served as host to the party. Others ill addition to the above two were Mrs. Isabel Watts, Miss Ruth Willoughby, Miss Rosalie Oliver, Miss Margaret White and Miss Cynthia Anderson, Marshal Stttlur of Chapel Hill and Claude Howell of Wilmington. A number of attractive sketches were made Saturday afternoon and after a late supper, interspersed with stories of the wild hogs on the island and others relative to the headless ghost of the pirates that are frequently seen, a number of the party walked the two miles from camp to the Cape Fear i . f long leaf pine reproductior i around this plot to exclude on a sandy ridge, en in the spring of 1938, exa< iken. The man in the foregi re above. This represents a 11 >d where fire was excluded, ired six feet in height in 1928 ears later. Photos Prove The Rapidity Of Timber Growth Pictures Of The Same Tim- ber Stand Taken Ten Years Apart Definitely Prove Value Of Control VRITER OPPOSES LIGHT BURNING \ny Fire In Any Timber Growth Is Detrimental, According To Chief Of Forest Fire Control [By W. C. McCORMICK, Chief >f Forest Fire Control, N. C. Jept. of Conservation & Dcvclopnent) / Figures will ly& and liars will igure, out no one can discount ihotographic facts. Volumes have been written, the Snglish language torn to shreds n oratorical outbursts by the earless few who, in an attempt .0 discredit proven practices, have >ccn advocating the use of fire n the woods under the guise of ] ts being beneficial to timber pro-1 luction in the South. In the spring of 1928, the writer 1E ook pictures No. 1 shown here, IE tnd in the same month in 1938. I i (Continued on page 6) I Plays Guide B /isiting Artists lighthouse. At the lighthouse the per- C / sonnel was just as adept in oi telling ghost stories as Adrian w Willetts and Bill Midgett, b< coast guardsmen, had been. Si Along about midnight the vis- ri iting party of six started n< back to camp and on the way a ghost appeared from oi somewhere to join the party. le In the resulting haste Miss U Anderson's escort led her a through the gnarled roots and branches of a long dead j cedar tree, peeling her shins J, somewhat. Miss Anderson j who is the grand-daughter of Admiral Anderson and was j recently called north to christen one of Uncle Sam's bat- | H tleships. As the night was st still young a foray was made cl on the larder and a trip was o' made off into the woods for a marshroallow toasting ex- j a1 pcditioi). Their guide had a jai time getting everybody awake ? to see the sunrise Sunday A' (Continued on page 6) ti HE News paper Ii Southport, N. CM W pidly 4 ' ? i, taken in the spring of fire. This is a characterisctly ten years to the month ound holding the six-foot atur,al growth of long leaf The sapling in front of i, and this had extended to : : ? Southport Boys And Girls On Radio Program Boys and gil ls of the grammar grades of Southport school will present a radio program over station WMFD Saturday morning, beginning at 11 o'clock. The program will be opened with a welcome by Frank Plaxco; Iris Newton, Billic T"> 1 I ? ..I ...ill .Dorut/r iinu a uuuxua wui sing "Playmates"; "Come Where the Bluebells Ring", will be the next number; Valsette, by Barbara Myers; "Too Young To Know", by Bobbie Davis; "Beach Pie", by Elinor Rees; "Mummy's Little Black Rose", girl chorus; "Stack Waltz", by Julia Coleman; "Serenade", John Hall; "Flower Song"; reading by winners of Thursday's contest; "Wedding of the Flowers" by the third and fourth grade chorus. ienefit Boxing ^ogram Planned oys Under Claude McCall Will Stage Amateur Boxing Show Tuesday Night In High School Gym The group of boys from whom laudc McCall is attempting to ganizc a local Boy Scout troop U1 stage a series of boxing juts next Tuesday night in the juthport gymnasium. Funds deved wil be used to purchase icessary equipment. The boys have been working it under the tutelage of their ader, who gained a good reputtion as an amateur boxer while student at Wake Forest Col(Continued on page 5 J Revival To Begin Here Next Week Rev. Paul H. Fields of Rose ill will begin a series of revival irvices at Trinity Methodist lurch Monday evening at 7:30 clock. Services will be held each day l 3:30 o'clock and at 7:30 o'clock ud a cordial invitation has been itended by the pastor. Rev. E. [. Hall, .to the public to attend Us meeting. PORr i A Good Com ednesday, March 22, 1 Equipment For New Telephone System Arrives New Brick Building Recently Constructed By Price Furpless Will House The New Paraphernalia DIAL SERVICE BEFORE MAY 1ST No Human Element Will Play A Part In Service That Will Be In Use After Change Workmen are already busy installing equipment necessary for j the dial telephone system that is to serve customers in Southport after about May 1. Housed in a small brick building recently completed by Price Furpless back of the old Northrop store will be a maze of wires and electrical devices that will be the unattended central office. Once this equipment has been hooked up and checked no further human attention is required until some mechanical or electrical part needs repair. An appreciation for the compactness of the new equipment can be had when it is discovered that the little building which was built especially for this purpose is 12x15x10 feet in dimension. One group of workmen are busy working on the telephone lines about the town, and new poles are being used to replace some that were beginning to get a bit weather-worn. It is reported that the change from the present service to the dial system will be completed before April 20. School Exhibits r n ci ror riower anow Special Effort Will Be Made To Have School Children Of County En* jt tc Exhibits In Local Flower Shew The 1939 Flower Show, sponsored by the Southport Woman's club, will include exhibits entered by school children of the county, says Mrs. Marion S. Dosher, who has charge of the show this year. School children and their teachers and principals are asked to cooperate to the fullest. This is the first time such a classification has been included in the show and it is hoped that a good number of exhibits will be sent in. Prizes will be offered by the Woman's club for the various divisions of exhibitions and a grand prize will be offered the school in the county which receives the highest number of points based on the number of prizes or places which students from that school have won. There will be a prize offered for the largest variety of- wild flowers, labeled, which the school children enter. There will also be a prize for the largest variety of native leaves and shrubs, labeled. Other classifications are as follows: largest variety of herbs, Continued on page 6) Total Of Nine M A AA TM tddCd 111 VUUI L Larceny Cases Led All Others In Session Of Brunswick County Recorder's Court Monday Monday was another busy day in Brunswick county Recorder's court as a total of 10 cases were tried before Judge Walter M. Stanaland. Earl Sidbury, colored, pleaded guilty to charges of larceny and was bound over to Superior court under bond of J500.00. R. R. Deaklns, white, pleaded guilty to charges of reckless operation. His sentence of 6 months on the roads was suspended upon payment of a fine of $50.00 and the costs. Buck Hankin9. colored, was tried on a charge of possession of intoxicating liquor for the purpose of sale. Judgment in (Continued on page 6 Revival Services At Shallotte Camp Rev. C. D. Barclift. pastor of Fifth Avenue Methodist church in Wilmington, is assisting Rev. C. N. Phillips this week with a series of revival services at Shallotte Camp Methodist church. Congregations attending the services have been very encouraging and. a warm welcome la extended to aji who v.nah to attend. t l r pii imunity 939 PUBLI Historic Landi Be Sold I Prices Creek Lighthouse Wi War And Guided Ves; Un Th Announcement has been received from the procurement division of the treasury department that sealed bids will be received up to 10:30 a. m. April 11, 1939, for the purchase of Prices Creek Lighthouse Reservation which is located about two miles up the Cape Fear river from SOUthport. Completion of this sale will mark the passage into private hands one of the most historic landmarks in this section, for during the period of the Civil War the light guided vessels through New Inlet, which since has been closed. The notice states that all proposals must be accompanied by the required deposit and submitted in duplicate forms which contain all necessary information to the treasury department. Wreckage Of To Be Rerno^ Ruark Is framed 4-? r r* I ? ?? v^uuiuy ovuwiui Members of the board of county commissioners in special session here Monday appointed Joe W. Ruark county attorney succeeding C. Ed Taylor. His salary was set at $50.00 per month and the appointment becomes effective April 1. During the afternoon members of the board were in conference with tax listers, who will begin their duties of listing property for 1909, taxes the first week in April. A special meeting of the board, will be held here Saturday morning. 5 Map Survey Is Now Completed With Completion Of Securl ing Right-OfWay Easments Figures For Electric Power Project Will Go To Washington The map engineer for the Brunswick Electric Membership cooperation has completed his ! work, according to E. D. Bishop, project survey coordinator, and work this week is concerned with obtaining the right-of-way easments and membership tabulation preparatory to submitting these final facts to officials in Washington for their approval. This is the final step before securing money with which to begin actual construction of the power lines. A mootine- of the board of di rectors was held Saturday night and C. P. Willetts was elected president; vice-president was S. P. Phipps and T. T. Ward was chosen secretary-treasurer. In addition to the above officers the board Includes G. K. Lewis, R. D. White, R. D. Bennett, of Brunswick county; Lacy Stanley, Fred Lay and Francis Strickland, of Columbus county. Brunswick Wi Represei Brunswick county will have a larger space than ever before in a North Carolina booklet when the 1939 edition of Variety Vacationland is issued by the state advertising division. Copy for the edition has just been sent to the printers. Fifty thousand of the booklets will be printed, and these will lie the main mailing piece of the division this season. A picture of llic old Prices Creek lighthouse is included among a page devoted to the Cape Fear region. Orton mansion will dominate another page on "patriots and plantations". The warm-water pool at Fort Caswell is pictured on a page called "Seashore Fun". A picture recently made at Bald Head Island will also be published. Few counties in the state will ije, so well represented as Brunswick. "Vou can t keep oouthpdH ajx S^dsswiek coxity cut of ,0T fi SHED EVERY WEDNESDAY nark Will ;l 3y Government is In Active Use During Civil sels Through New Inlet le River L. * jl* K 1 is Barge Not b red From River a * !P Survey Conducted By Mem- S bers Of District Engineer ti Corps Indicates That It 01 Is No Great Hazard b' V. WAS THREAT TO d' YACHT SAFETY lai However, With Definite'31 Plans In The Making For |?' A Yacht Basin, Need | For Removal Has ja. Been Diminished in The removal of the wreckage a of the barge Belfast from the \ point where it lies off Battery G Island, directly opposite South1 port, is not considered as war- j' J ranted by the Engineers office in Wilmington, "from the stand- ' j point pf providing a better an- g i choragc for small boats. 1 Early in December the South- y ! port Civic Club secretary at the i request of Mayor John Eriksen, . | took the matter of the removal' ^ of the wreck up with Major G. W. i f. 11 Gillette. A survey was immediate-1 ' I ly ordered and the complctition of t _ , I charts or March 13th shows that , the undertaking would be very , I costly. w J Major Gillette writes the club that in view of the costly nature _ 1 of the work and the fact that the ! t Yacht Basin project for Southport J * | has been approved, the removal I (Continued on page 5) Burning Permit * Now In Effect Law Governing Period Dur- . I ing Which They Are Re- cj >1 quired Amended By Cur- R rent Legislature bi An amendment to the brush w ! burning permit law was passed a . by the North Carolina Lcgisla- yi jture on March 16. making it | necessary for landowners to sec- js ure a permit "Between the first day of February and the fifteen- g I'th day of June, inclusive, or be- j, Itwecn the fifteenth day of Octj ober and the thirtieth day of b; November, inclusive, in any year" | J This means that the law gov-1,, (Continued on page 5) 11 Be Well nted In Booklet [ anything anymore", Bill Sharpc, news bureau manI agcr, wrote to W. B. Kcziah, j secretary of the Civic Club. | "Whenever we look in our files for a subject nowadays, we run right into Brunswick material, ready and begging for use. I do not know of . mother county of comparable size, and few of any size whatever, that has been so alert to take advantage of even the slightest opportunity our program seemed to present to it. That is precisely what wc try to do in the nation?make North Carolina | material so easy to use, so readily available that editors will get In the habit of turning to us." "Your efforts in Brunswick seem to take that same long look?which is, too simple for short-sighted people to see? but I am confident that if you can outlive your skeptics Brunswick will some day call I you a prophet,? abeit & bit | cantankerous oca." / The Pilot Covers Brunswick County $1.50 PER YEAR nstallation Of New Officers In 0. E. S. Chapter irs. Mary Mintz Was Installed Monday Night As Worthy Matron, Succeeding Mrs. W. G. Butler EREMONY WAS MOST IMPRESSIVE Irs. C. M. Powell, Of Wilmington, Associate Grand MatrcuvJHad Prominent Part In Program An impressive installation cerelony was held Monday night hen new officers of the Live ak chapter, O. E. S., were in:alled for the coming year. Mrs. '. M. Powell, of Wilmington, asjciate grand matron for North arolina, acted as installing ofcer. Others who assisted Mrs. owell with the installation cereiony were Mrs. H. T. St. George, ho acted as grand marshal!, Mrs. ou Smith, grand chaplain, and [rs. I. B .Bussells grand organit. Mrs. R. I. Mintz is the new orthy matron, succeeding Mrs. /. G. Butler in the office. John irickscn was installed as worthy atron. Associate matron will be [rs. Thelma Willis, associate atron, B. J. Holden. Mrs. J. D. utton will be secretary Miss Lote Mae Newton will hold the Ffice of treasurer. Conductress will e Mrs. Marion S. Dosher, with [rs. D. M. Davis as associate conuctress. Mrs. E. H. Cranmer will servo s chaplain for the coming year; trs. H. T. St. George will servo 1 11. T L> Dnuaollc! s iiitiismi ii, mis. ju kj. i/uootuu ill be the organist. The following ladies will also ssume duties; Mrs. W. H. Barett as Adah, Mrs. Bert Holden, ,uth, Mrs. J. W. Ruark will serve s Esther, Mrs. Janie Oden at [artha, and Mrs. Robert St. eorge as Electa. Mrs. Annie K. Vitou will hold le office of warden and Mrs. H. !. Corlette thal^uf sentinel. \Mr*. \y. - OV' iut!?|., ^retiring orthy matron, made a farewell fjeech after which she was preanted with a sliver pitcher by le officers of the chapter .She lso received a past matron's swel from the entire chapter. Mrs. Mintz was presented with ve potted plants in the colors f the order by the five star oints. At the close of the ceremony :freshments of punch and cako ere served to about 65 guests. Said Head Not To Be A Park enate Committee Reports Unfavorably Bill To Include Brunswick County Lands In Proposed Park The Fort Fisher Park Bill, in odticed by New Hanover county tizens last week and aimed to ive jurisdiction over lands in oth New Hanover and Brun3ick, was reported unfavorably by senate committee in Raleigh esterday morning. Another bill, covering only inds in New Hanover county, as adopted. Neither Frank O. I i. jii ~r o.. i.i 11~.. .i IICI I III, UH IlWl Ul LIftlU tK flll sland, or Brunswick county had ny obpcction to t!ic subslituto >11. In his fight against the bill >r. Shcrrill was vigorously sided (Continued on page 6) " j Tide Table Following Is the tide table (or Soutbport during the next week. These hours are apprexiraately correct and were fur nished The State Port Pile' through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot's Association High Tide Low Tl4r TIDE TABLE Thursday, March 2.1 9:01 a. ni. .1:11 a. in. 9:16 p. m. . .1:19 p. m. Friday, March 21 9:14 a. m. 3:51 a. in. 5:38 p. in. 1:52 p. in. Saturday, March 25 10:29 a. m. 4:30 a. m. 10:14 p. ni. 4:10 p. in. Sunday, March 26 11:22 a. ni. 5:16 a. m. 11:39 p. tn. 5:16 p. ni. Monday, .March 27 6:16 a. m. 12:22 p. ra. 6:20 p. m. Tuesday, March 28 0:39 a. m. 7:28 a. m. 1:25 p. m. 7:89 p. in. Wednesday, March 29 1:16 a. m. 8:39 a. rib 2:35 p. tu. 8:o3 p. lie l i?. ad i r ' mSiAi ? I