jiLt Of The New
jH The Time
fmuthport B(
jB Base
Tender Thrusl
[K In Yesterday Am
Stationing Buoy
Which Planes Ma
came
IN YESTERDAY
H, Will Arrive Ever
i^^Epay Until Total Of
f^^Ky Planes Have
'^^H)ten Here For
H Practice
i \ aircraft tende
imv. Norfol
flwdav morning and im
[he work c
/jj^E jrdior buoys at the up
: thi harbor, near th
station. Hardly wer
f [he anchors in plac
y twin motored patrc
roared in from Norfoll
^Ega-nand of Commander t
Ksuier Griffin of the Nor
fv,.
Iltf DaSc *?? * ??*'
l-itsent of plants and wil
L actively directing: th<
[it: the two weeks the ai
I iii be engaged in targe
La: Southport.
Dually it has been learnet
liSiftt of six planes will ar
Is-! every other day for ;
Let 10 days, making a tota
letting air ships to visi
I;: is not known if then
I* more than 6 here at on<
lutrvey engaged in targe'
L practice on the range
Idl be located near South
| planes will be here cact
lln fact they will come ahc
I tough the day. *Th(
K. striated near the quar
toe statm. will serve as i
Kite: ship ari furnish supplie:
pmrjbor and gas and oil.
I is reported that among the
Be? flat will come to take
lit tie target practice will be
beacon of the giant four'
feed Sirosky Flying Boats
Irftbese giant planes broughl
easier Griffin to Southporl
I?month ago when he made
ptanary survey and detert
a Southport for a target
I for his ships.
fit? tri C/Mithnnrt no mol'
?"- wvuiiipvi V, O'"1 V?V*'
H ts. will see some
r^resting in the flight ol
-v birds ami their othei
during the next twe
'Anile no information is
as to whether or not
will carry on their work
it is assured that they
' here, both the 20th and
^ ^eir presence at that time,
as on week days should
i lot of visitors to South
"tie Bits
I Of Big News
Event* Of State,
B"ion and World-Wide
I riertst During Peat
Week
Tragedy
mounted to 24 Monday
^B' -i?ck of the crack strcam"City
of San Francisco"
^B-ce pushed a general roundH
railroad yard
^B'tcrs in quest of the mass
B^r blamed for last Satur
- Two men were
in jails of two states
^B*be crews found the bodies
W' *wnen and a man in the
wreckage. Two
F ":eri died in an Elko hos
* their injuries. Latest vieB
"Wvered from the wreckMrs.
Henry P. Vaux ol
Udge Kosemont, Pa.,
-bughter Miss Susan M
^beir bodies were found
in their demolished
bsr (ir.e hundred four J*rs
w,r. injured or bad ^n
UP- nearly 100 requir-"bst
first aid treatment,
*2,000.000 train was
"An a rocky Nevada, can
' a which authorities
B ld? 'leliberately misplaced.
*?inued on page 8.)
TH
NO. 29
ecomes Tempc
or Navy Bomir
uring Target P
5 Work On Surf
y Street Winds
Rain Has Badly Hampered
f Ever Since They Ca
Jupiter Pluvius permitting;,
y work on the highway here in
town will be completed tomorrow
and the highway
camp will be off and on its
way to Faison.
The work here has been
r under the direction of YV. R.
k McAuley, and it is pardon|
able if he wanted to make a
f fast, clean job here before
his adopted towns |>eople. But
e 1 if this was his wish, mortal
e man never had less cooperae
tion from the elements.
Rain did it. The very suc^
cess of laying a sand-asphalt
' surface depends upon having
dry siind with which to work.
g From beginning to end the
local project has been harrased
with intermittent showers
that have permitted very few
! days when weather conditions
| Whiteville Ma
Two Million /
;|
t Average Prices Are Holdi
ing Up Well As The Bidding
On All Types Continues
To Be Strong
i MARKET HAS PASSED
FIVE MILLION MARK
i Other Markets Of The
5 County At The Present
Time Are Having Big
Sales; Prices Holding
Up Well
Whiteville's tobacco market is
leading last year's poundage record*
by more than two million
pounds, leaving all previous records
for sales shattered.
Friday's sales put the total
t sales for the Whiteville market
| up to a total of 5,284,243 pounds
I for the first seven days of sel.
ling, 2,019,571 pounds out in
j front of the first seven sale days
of 1938.
, i M. S. Smith, supervisor of sales
i here, loctay reieaseu nguiea ouun;
I ing that total figures for the
: season thus far show a. total of
-15,284.243 pounds, selling for a
I ( total of $1,017,736.20 for an average
of $19.26, against a total
II for the same period last year of
3,264,672 for a total of $817,289.00,
which placed the average
at $25.00 per hundred pounds.
i Smith gave out figures which
show further that the market on
( Continued on Page 8)
Invite Official <
Here For Dinner
Aeronautics Specialist Will
Be Invited To Come To
Southport For Consultation
Leaving no room for grass to
grow over the recently arrived at
decision to try and secure a
modern airport for Southport, W.
B. Keziah, the Southport Civic
Club secretary is actively engaged
in plans to stage a dinner and
booster meeting at the Long
i Beach pavalion within the next
I few days. The date is dependent
I upon Thurman W. Miller, Asso'
ciate Airport Engineer of the
11 Civil Aeronautics Authority, of
Washington, D. C., advising when
he can get here. Mr. Miller advised
the club last week that he
would be here within the next
two weeks. He has been requested
to speed up his visit, if possible.
Along with the engineer as a
j guest, it is planned to invite ofI
ficials of the Naval Air Base at
Norfolk to attend the dinner.
These officials are now at Southport
along with the naval planes
and in connection with the local
target range activities. While the
proposed airport is for land
planes it is hoped that the site
agreed upon will be so situated
that the facilities can also be
j (Continued on page 8)
E STi
A Gqqj
Southport, N.'
>rary
lg Planes
ractice Nearby 1
acing Local
; Up Tomorrow
Work Of Highway Employees 1
me Here On This Job
were at all favorable.
Through It all, however,
the highway boys stuck to
their jobs with patient per- i
sistance and when they leave j\
town tomorrow they will tra- i
vel a slick, black ribbon that 1
has been widened 4 feet from I'
Southport to the Sawdust ['
Trail and a new surface ex- '
tending 10 miles from town I
toward Wilmington.
| It is at the end of the job |r
that the crowning triumph Is |P
located. It is the first sharp*; |l
curve about 10 miles from i*Southport,
formerly a dangerous
place in the highway. |
Without benefit of consulting
engineers, this curve was
widened and banked so that- n
now it is a pleasure to round ^
in the trip to town. -j
? ?if
irket Running j?
Uiead Of 1938^
*- ij(
? 3
Unusual Shark jt
Is Caught Here j?
lb
A West Indies carrier ' 1
shark, M*? first i" r reports I
as having; been seen or captured
here, was taken off
Bald Head Island Saturday
by J. M. Davidson, of Greensboro.
1
The fish was six feet in j
length and was estimated to
weigh between 150 and 200
I pounds.
It had no back fins but
the flippers were unusually a
large and set close to the (
head, giving the appearance ^
of being ears. The hide was
very tough, the mouth was g
like that of a catfish with ^
the lower jaw extending even
with the upper and both cov- f
ered by a Hp that bore whiskers
like those on a catfish. ^
Davidson landed the fish
with an ordinary casting rod {
and light line. His fishing
UIIW Clinl.
companion* weir tt uvj u,.?.
ar, W. S. Phillips and Henry ?
Woo ten, of Greensboro.
r
Shows Benefits
Of Paved Road
i
Letter Received From J. L. 11
Sprunt Outlines Some Of
The Plans To Develop "
Popularity Of Route No. i
17
Writing the Southport Civic
Club secretary. W. B. Keziah,
from Wrightsville, where he and
his family spend the summer,
J. L. Sprunt of Orton stated that
friends advised him that the sucj
cess of the Sea Level Highway
No. 17 is assured. Recently there
was a meeting at New Bern and
it was revealed that a million
dollar ferry boat was being built
| to augment the service over No.
117 at Cape Charles, Va. This ferry
will have 15 minute schedule
from Cape Charles to the mainland.
j Mr. Sprunt said that if we
could only get a hard surfaced
road from Southport to Wilmington,
via Orton, a great deal of
I the through tourists traffic would |
jbe diverted to come down through
Orton, Southport and back
I into No. 17 at Supply. He thinks
| the road could even get an alternate
number?like 17-A?from
1 the Brunswick River Bridge,
j through Orton, Southport and to
Supply.
Although Mr. Sprunt did not
mention this fact, sentiment in
favor of paving the River Road
J through Orton is daily growing
j stronger. The Cape Fear river mansion
and its beautiful gardens
land nurseries at Orton attracts
1 (Continued on page 8)
ME
J News paper I]
S., Wednesday, Aug
Installation Of
Legion Officers
Monday Night
Ceremony Will Be Held At
Long Beach Pavilion At
A Dutch Dinner That Is
Being Planned By Com-1
mander
LOUGHLIN WILL
SUCCEED JOHNSON
District Officials Have Been
Invited To Be Present
For The Installation Of
Officers
J. J. Loughlin, Jr., Commander,
s issuing a call for the Brunsvlck
County Post No. 194, Amercan
Legion to meet at the Long
Beach pavilion Tuesday evening,
August 22nd at 7:30 o'clock,
[he occasion will be the annual
nstallation of officers and the
dans embrace a Dutch supper.
A. J. Krahnke district comnander,
has been invited to be
iresent and to serve as installaion
officer at this ceremony.
)ther prominent legionaires from
his district also have been askid
to attend the meeting.
All members of the local leg- J
in post are being urged to be i
iresent and they are being re- i
riinded that it will not be amiss .
f they bring along bathing suits, <
he pavilion is only a few yards '
rom one of the best bathing
eaches in this section. In addiion
to the installation of officers
nere will oe general aiscussion
f matters of Interest to mem- ers
of the organization.
The pavilion is reached by folDWing
the Cashwell road across
lie inland waterway bridge and I
urning northwest to follow the .
ew road that begins on the hill
lalf a mile southwest of the
ridge.
Boys And Gir!s
Attend 4-H Camp
[*otal Of 16 Brunswick
County Girls And Boys
Were At White Lake
Camp Last Week
Sixteen Brunswick county boys
md girls attended the 4-H Club
lamp at White Lake last week.
Tiey were accompanied by Mrs.
farion S. Dosher, home agent,
,nd Miss Julia Taylor, of Winlabow,
leader.
The period of encampment was
or 4-H members from Bruns-'
i'ick, Onslow and Jones county, j
i t,,alLwM,nrla/l nmaram r\f otnHu I
v nurivuiiutu piu^ium vi. uvm.j
,nd entertainment included i /
lasses in woodcraft, nature study
,nd a study of plant diseases; [
ames, swimming and supervised |
ecreation periods. Educational I
novies also were included in the
irogram. 1 ^
Brunswick county boys in at-1 is
endance at the camp were Ern- ir
st Lewis, R. S. Sellers and Web-1 a:
ter Swain, Winnabow; Lynwood?li
Janford and Dalton Sellers, Bo-j
I via: The girls were Martha, e<
(Continued on page 8) |n
Southport Men
Aboard Vai
On their stay here from
Tuesday until Saturday last
week Commodore and Mrs.
W. K. Vanderbilt apparently
took a strong liking for
Southport. Ashore Friday
morning, Commodore Vanderbilt
remarked that he had
not seen a mosquito on the
boat since arriving and the
breeze had been delightfully
cool.
At one time it was understood
that the Alva with its
distinguished owners would
remain here about ten days.
Thursday the Commodore
wired to both New York and
Palm Beach, requesting that
mail for himself and the
ship's crew be forwarded
here. Thursday afternoon,
however, he was advised of
the death of a friend and
business associate in Washington.
This resulted in the
ship leaving earlier than was
originally planned. The ship
was moved up to Wilmington
Thursday afternoon to take
on water at one of the docks.
Returning early Friday morning,
she left Saturday.
On their second day here
POR
n A Good Coi
ust 16, 1939
And ?
BIG FELLOW?Here's
south port to the Gulf Stre
t is possible for the boats
iirith lli?> trnnirnl hitr camp
n nu kiiv V*WJ^?VM. "*o o
Committee Is
Sound W<
Waterway Work
Doing Nicely
With ono dmlge operating
on tho lower pnd of the projpct,
good progress is being
mad)1 in widening and deepening
the inland waterway
from Seaside to Southport
Officials of the boat state
that they move forward approximately
six hundred feet
each twenty-four hour day.
The boat is manned by three
eight-hour shifts and the
work goes forward day and
night. The families of most
of the married men are residing
in Southport.
The canal is being deepened
from 9 to 12 feet and proportionately
widened. The
specifications call for 12 feet
depth to be 90 feet wide on
the, floor bottom and this
calls for a wider surface, as
the walls of the canal slope.
7uneral Services
For Mrs. Reeves
Mrs. May Reeves, wife of
leorge Reeves, died at Dosher
lemorial Hospital August 4. She
i survived by her husband, their
ifant child and her parents, Mr.
nd Mrs. Reuben Lewis, of Bovia.
Funeral services were conduct1
the following day by Rev. C.
'. Phillips.
Invited
iderbilt Yacht
Commodore and Mrs. Vanderbilt
and Dr. Glaison went
for a visit to Orton in Company
with R. I. Mintz and
W. B. Keziah. Churchill Bragaw,
manager of the plantation
showed the visitors the
courtesies of the mansion and
grounds.
Returning to Southport
Mr. Mintz and Mr. Keziah
boarded the Alva at the invitation
of Commodore and
Mrs. Vanderbilt. They were
shown all over the magnificient
vessel by Commodore
and afterwards Mrs. Vanderbilt
served tea on one of the
sun deck saloons.
The Alva is a million dollar
yacht and her magnificent
furnishings will probably
run to much more than
that sum. She has seven
decks, draws 21 feet of water,
is 280 feet in length and
her operation requires a
crew of 45 men. She carries
two 3-pound guns mounted
on her forward deck. As a
usuaj thing she also carries
an amphibian plane on her
after deck. On this trip, however,
the amphibian was left
at Palm Beach.
T PI]
mmunity
FUBUSHED EVERY
Still They Bring "
: im
sv wr -. - ,
s^BSHI
another barracuda caught
am aboard the boat of Cap
to make the long trip, parti
fish.?(Cut courtesy Star-N
Named To
eed Sentiment
m
Three Brunswick Countj
Men Are Named To In>
vestigate Attitude Ol
r* H/!iL D 1 T.
growers yv nn ivegaru 11
Control
!
WILL REPRESENT
STATE COMMITTEE
From This Set-Up It Ap
pears That No Vote Will
Be Taken This Year
Unless Farmers Like
J. E. Winslow of Greenville
I president of the North Carolins
Farm Bureau Federation, Mondaj
j appointed a committee of flue
j cured tobacco growers to investi;
gate the possibility of calling a
referendum on tobacco crop control
for 1940.
Included on the Brunswick
county committee are W. C. Gore
John L. Henry, D. Gaston Wilson
The State committee, authori
ized at a mass meeting of farmers
at Raleigh recently, will meet
! in Raleigh on or about September
1, E. F. Arnold of Raleigh, executive
secretary of the farm
bureau, said.
! "The committeemen will sound
out sentiment in their counties
and determine whether farmers
want a referendum, in the event
Inhappn nrires sair." said Arnold.
Three persons, were named
from each county in which flueI
cured tobacco is grown.
Big Bootlegger
Before Recorder
Negro Caught Twice Within
Two Days Was Tried
Monday Before Judge
Walter M. Stanaland
Marshall Robbins, colored, was
I captured Sunday morning on the
| causeway running from Brunsj
wick river bridge to Wilmington
I after a chase by Brunswick counI
ty officers and a load of non taxj
paid liquor totaling 108 half-gallon
jars was captured.
Henry Potts. Daughtridge Tripp
and Douglas Cook were the officers
participating in the chase.
The day before the negro had
been arrested for possessing materials
for the manufacture of
liquor, consisting of several bags
of sugar, meal and wheat middlings.
j Monday the Robbins negro was
brought into Recorder's court be1
fore Judge Walter M. Stanaland.
On the charge of possession of
materials he was found guilty and
was given 4 months on the roads,
j this sentence being suspended up|
on payment of a fine of $75.00
and costs. He was given 8 months
for possession and transporting,
this judgment being postponed
upon payment of a fine of
$75.00 and costs.
Elnora White, colored, was
found guilty on charges of possession
and transporting of intoxicating
liquor. Her sentence of
(Continued on Page 8)
1 ' -4 .- ' >
LOT
WEDNESDAY $
rhem In
SB l^aBr n^M
^*: ,JP
i imIw
HHHyK|^|J^^9
iiifflS
by a party going out from
itain Hulan Watts. Whenever j
ies invariably have good luck
ews.)
Mass Fleet To
CnnvArnrp I Innn
VV11T VlgV VJ/VA1
Gulf Stream
f zz
Sport smcn from Washington,
I). Charlotte, High |
Point, Charleston, S. C., and
other points are preparing
' for - a four or five day invasion
of the Gulf Stream
at Southport, beginning Friday
of this week.
Three local bouts have already
been chartered to make
daily trips and Dr. D. B. Mizzei's
trim little sport fishing
cruiser is being sent up from
Little River to add to the
j number. Still another boat,
making five for this party, Is
j said to be scheduled to arrive
j from Charleston Friday evening.
Taking everything by and
large, if the weather is only
half way fair, there should
be some .wonderful fishing
| tales to relate in next week's
pa|>er.
Busy Week-End
For Fishermen
Parties From Up-State Were
Here In dipt in umbers ror
The Week-End Sport;
Unfavorable Weather
Hurt
The past week-end brought
large contingents of sportsmen
to Southport for fishing. Durham
1 and Charlotte probably furnished
the largest quotas. ^However,
there was quite a number of pari
j ties from other towns who were
I not contacted.
From Durham were, Mr. and
Mrs. John C. Cunningham, Mr.
and Mrs. Brice Fonviellc, Mi.si
Mary O'Briant and Pete Paul- .
lette, composing one party. They
had good luck, Mrs. Cunningham
taking the largest barracuda
caught during the week. Another
party from Durham, using two
j boats Sunday, was composed of
R. G. Montgomery, Lee Gardner,
Abner Waters, Clarence Nash,
Roy Pope, George Hudson, TugI
gle Webster and Bruce Rogers.
Greensboro was represented
1 by Wiley Sholar, Henry Wooten,
j W. S. Phillips and H. M. David,
son. Along with the catch made
by this party was a six-foot
West Indies carrier shark, said
J to be the first ever seen here.
Instead of the usual underslung
lower jaw, this shark had a
mouth exactly like that of a
j giant catfish, even to the whis|
kers.
Two Charlotte parties out Saturday,
one headed by F. P. Sum|
mers, were not contacted and
the names of the members and
j a report on their catch was not
secured.
Coming for nothing but shark
fishing and getting their fill of
that were Robert Haywood, Stokes
White, Lee Ritchie, Don
(Continued on page 8)
rrwrn - i
The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
1.50 PER YEAR
Negotiate For
Merger Of Two
REA Projects
Final Negotiations For Merging
Of Two Rural Electrification
Projects In
County Expected Soon
?? ^
BRUNSWICK-COLUMBUS
GROUP IS AGREEABLE
Acceptance Of Northern
Columbus Project As An
Extension Made By
Brunswick-Columbus
Electric Membership
Corporation
The proposed rural electrification
project for 99 miles of lines
in Northern Columbus county has
combined with the BrunswickColumbus
Electric Membership
Corporation, which has already
had 175 miles of lines approved
in the two counties.
Although the final negotiations
for the switch of the proposed
project from the Four County
Electric Membership Corporation,
which serves Bladen and adjacent
territory, to the Brunswick-Columbus
corporation have not been
completed, it appears now definitely
assured that the northern f
end of the county will have electricity
with which to light their \ K
Christmas trees this year.
At a meeting of the Brunswick .
Columbus Membership Corporation
on the past Monday night,
the directors and members voted
overwhelmingly to include the
nrnnnoorl nnr^horn Pnlllmhnq nrn
r*"r? ?--ject
in their organization.
To that end, two additional
directors representing the proposed
extension were named in the
persons of D. H. Lennon, of
Boardman, RFD 1, and J. L.
Robinson, of Whiteville, RFD 1. ,
In trying to set up two organizations
in the county, the propogaters
of the project in the
northern part of Columbus ran J
into difficulties which led fb the '"'l
switch to the Brunswick project.
The latter organization has accepted
the northern Columbus , fj
project as an extension at a
meeting last week.
Under the proposals as they
now stand, the lines of the extension
will extend from Harrelson's
Crossing by Chadbourn,
Boardman, Western Prong, Wootens
Store, and Welches Creek,
Clarendon and Mollie. The earlier
Brunswick-Columbus project already
includes lines from the
lower "panhandle" of the county
near Pireway to a short distance
south of Fair Bluff..
' K
Seeks Support
For Improvement
Churchill Bragaw, Orton /I
Plantation Horticulturist, M
Spent Week-End In Ral- fl
eigh Seeking Support Of Ij
River Road Improvement <-j|j
Churchill Bragaw, manager and
horticulturist at the Orton Plantation
and nurseries, spent part
of the past week in Raleigh. The
purpose of his trip was to obtain
endorsements from garden
clubs and other official sources
for the hard surfacing of the
river road, running from Southport
through Orton to Brunswick
(Continued on page 3) ,
!
Tide Table
Following Is the tide table
for Southport during the next
week. These hours are approximately
correct and were furnished
The State Port Pita#
through the courtesy of the
Cape Fear Pilot's Association
High Tide Low TW
TIDE TABLE
Thursday, August 17.
9:10 a.m. 3:08 a.m.
0:26 p.m. 3:27 p.m.
Friday, August 18.
10:01. a.m. 3:54. a.m.
10:18 p.m. 4:16 .p.m.
Saturday, August 19.
10:54 a.m. 4:39 a.m.
11:11..p.m. 5:08. pm..
Sunday, August 20.
ll:47..a.m. 5:27. a.m.
6:03. p.m.
Monday, August 21
0:04 a.m. 6:21 a.m,
12:42 p.m. 7:05 p.m.
Tuesday, August 22.
0:58 a.m 7:23 a.m.
1:38 p.m. 8:10 pjn.
Wednesday, August 23
1:57 a.m. . 8:26 a.ml
2:37 p.m. , 9:13 p.mA