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ajH sfl 25M{0st Of The News 9 All The Time Uifl S^LEVEN NO mamber I Organi I Mond< Vaskell Named ChairOf Bo*rd Of DirecHs Which Includes A ^Ejtibership Of Nine :rcTIVES OF H" GROUP OUTLINED H^ Is Being Made To Hp This Organization Hunty-Wide In Order f0 Promote General H Interests _ up county citizens met Hv night in the courthouse and organized the Chamber of Yaskell was named chair nan board of directs includes R. I. Cornelius Thomas, H. C. Hp, W. St. Stanaland, Allen tries Matthews. \V. i James M. Harper. "'nntnd hv vntp inicn \>civ viwvvu .w? ns present who had paid >mbership fee of $2.50 will be their duty to constitution and by-laws irrange for other details .ization. The board will first meeting Friday ciliary 5. ir.g is Cue declamation of ion: he purpose of organizing ber of Commerce for k County, an organizale business men of Brunsity to promote industrial s to advertise the atfeatures of Brunswick 0 invite and encourage opment of our beaches, age our agricultural and investments, to promote re and especially farm:a otherwise nronuite the elfare of the citizens and in the county of Brunsassociate ourselves into ization this day, to be the Chamber of CornBrunswick county. Mem1 the organization shall persons who will pay ;s of not less than $2.50. forth in the by-laws to 1 and which organizabe controlled by an committee to be selects organization. There also a council, which st of one member from ship in the county and ar.s of the council and le executive committee it forth in the by-laws, icutive committee shall Ehte by-laws at a meeting >. consult.1 red and adopted by "ranization at its next meet1 The following persons who Kr.be their names hereto do associate themselves and k who become members at ting shall at this meet'Eect an executive committee ~.e members, who shall w a chairman, and this comshall have charge of the [:"ss of the organization unby-laws are proposed and bribers enrolled to date in ' to the directors are: " H. Thomas 16 memberships aswcll Carolina Corporation), 2 Prink. S. T. Bennett, Ivey " H. C. Stone, R. O. Lewis, H Pierce. Z. G. Ray, C. C. - E L. Harrelson, D. HarrelH L. Mintz, Jr., J. A. Bogie, Swain, H. T. Bowmer, Bob ""r. A. E. Lewis, G. WalH Wallace, Leige Robbins, Parker. C. Ed. Taylor, G. McOlamery, D. E. Arthur, - O'Brien, Gus McNeill, J. Lc'Caster. 'id-Night Services htr Presbyterians jjkre will be a special midI' - Christinas service of song ' ' rship at Southport PresChurch Sunday with a j^Ee by Rev. J. R. Potts. ' Presbyterian Sunday School Present a Christmas pageant ^ A o'clock Sunday evening. P.tv. Mr. Potts will preach Hope Sunday morning at iJ o'clock. r.ving Pan Ship Is On Vacation ????? "T;! Lightship No. 91. is now Pan Shoals, taking the ^ of the 'Frying Pan" whose T took her to Norfolk to be r' on the railway for overd'5 an(l painting. Number 91 t *WP guard on the shoals '?out a month until the Fryreturns. She will then f? relieve other lightships ^ overhauling. TH1 ft . 47 Of Comm. zation Me< ay Night 7 * ? ' I ''Vg-B Southport Pici Appear In. * Photographer On Assign-' ment To Make Pictures Along Inland Waterway Was Here Sunday And Took Pictures ALSO VISITED""OTHER POINTS IN COUNTY Party Was Bound For Miami. Fla., ^nd "Miss ; Florida" Was Photographer's Model Several Southport and Bruns-: wick county scenes were shot i Sunday afternoon and Monday, morning by an official photogra- ; pher from Life Magazine and it j is likely that scenes of this local- j ity will appear soon in an issue of this nationally known publication. The yacht Do-Ho with Wallace j Kirkland, photographer, aboard, | stopped here about 4 o'clock Sun-1 j day afternoon at Thompson'sj i dock to refuel. W. B. Keziah, , Southport publicity man, had I been notified by Bill Sharpe. of | the State Board of Conservation i and Development, that the pic- j j ture man would be here, so he j was there to meet the boat. Kirkland was asked about tak- ; ing some local pictures, but he I said only a short stop was plan-1 ned for the purpose of taking on j fuel. One bystander suggested, that if he were looking for typi-1 ? i ?????*, rsf tho inland water- 1 tai OCCIICO V4 va.v way he'd go a long way before ! he found a more interesting char-1 acter than W. B. Keziah, South- J , port's ambassador of good will I | to all passing yachts, and water-1 front reporter extraordinary. ( The photographer was persuaded, and when he came from be-' low with his camera he also had with him a very beautiful girl whom he introduced as "Miss Florida." A couple of pictures j were snapped with Keziah talk-1 ing to the young- lady. ; The suggestion was made that (Continued on page 6) Clyde Newton Duck Hunt A group of Southport citizens were guests of the management of Long Beach at a duck hunt and breakfast Saturday morning, and the laurel wreath was | unanimously awarded Clyde Newton for his tall story during the morning repast. I The weather had been much i to warm and fair for the ducks to be on the pond in any great j numbers, and the bag consisted j ! largely of Blue Petes. So the men about the breakfast table , began to recall their deeds of I other days. A few good stories, and the 1 stage was set for Clyde. A j mouthful of coffee to wash down his toast, and he was off: "You can talk about your | mallards and red heads and ! black ducks," he said, "but a common, ordinary didapper is I the hardest duck in the world I to kill." He glanced about the circle, j but there was no objection, j Most of the men knew from | I Only 3 ! E ST7 A Good 6 PAGES TODAY erce In J eting On his Week1 I; Ev! __ ? G L tures May |j Life Magazine ! I el > P Holidays Begin \\ Friday At Noon ? I Consolidated schools of Brunswick county close their doors j Friday at noon for a Christ- J mas holiday season that ex- j tends to Tuesday morning, Jan- | uary 3, 1940. This gives stud- ' ?j cuts and teachers the entire Christmas week and New Years I Day. In most of the schools special Christmas programs, with trees j and presents, have been plan- i lied for Friday morning. At Southport, the plan, as in re- p< cent years, will be to have a {hi white Christmas. This idea is tt being carried out in an effort pi to impress upon the children ai the joy of Christmas giving. tt 01 College Girls ? And Boys Here S Christmas Holidays Brings!?1 Boys And Girls Back To Spend Vacation With hl Respective Families g] S< The college girls and boys are w back home for the Christmas b( holidays, and the social activities b| of the younger set is moving at g] a quii;iYci One of the outstanding parties 01 to which the group is looking forward is the dance to be given t? at the Community Center Buiid- ti ing Friday evening, December 29, pi for the young crowd. Miss Frink ti arrived last night from Hender- tl sonville, where she is a student at tt Fassifern. si Louise Niernsee, student at E Peace College, Raleigh, also ar- hi rived home last night. la Earlier arrivals were Anna ts Taylor form East Carolina Teach- T Continued from page 3 ir rr Breaks Up J ing With Story" experience that a didapper can c< duck under the water in time t' to escape a bullet from the hl fastest rifle. . "Only man I ever knew who ' could kill them was Captain [ Dave Fulcher," Clyde continu- t ed, "Captain Dave owned one of the first gasoline motor Vj boats in Southport, one of Si these old one cylinder motors that ir sputtered along 'put-put-put,. at Well, one day he started upjtl Dutchman's Creek in his boat -g and the didappers heard him b< coming. They thought the motor sl was some peculiar kind of re- 11 peating rifle, and they started . diving. They kept right on until / every didapper in the creek had drowned himself." Members of the party, which was organized by W. B. Keziah, C included Dr. L. C. Fergus, Prince |w O'Brien, E. R. Weeks, E. J. Pre- j T vattc, John Fulwood, W. E. Bell, | p Gus McNeil, Clyde Newton, Ed; hi Frampton and James Harper. |Oj Shopping I ITE I News paper Southport, N. C.. \ ury List For January Term Of Civil Cour udge J. Paul Frizzelle, 0 Rose Hill, Will Presid Over One Week Terr For Trial Of Civil Cases AMAGE SUIT IS SCHEDULE! rial Of Green Vs. City 0 Southport Damage Suit Will Come Up For Trial During Term The January term of Brunswic >unty Superior court for the trij civij cases convenes here Moi iy, January 8. with Judge , aul Frizelle presiding. One of the cases scheduled fc 'ial is that of Green vs City ( Duthport, a matter in whic 'ere is considerable local interes allowing is the jury list for t! rm: J. J. Roach, Supply; Murra obbins, Winnabow; G. Wallat intz, Ash; J. E. McRoy, Soutt )rt; C. R. Gray, Supply: G. ( tanley, Shallotte; S. T, Rus hallotte; G. R. Hewett, Supph r. C. Lenert, Southport; G, 1 aney, Leland; J. H. Fernsid reeland: D. S. Russ, Longwooc )hn E. Benton, Ash; Dan Mint eland; H. D. Fulford, Supplj L. Dixon, Supply; S. F. Mint eland; M. R. Russ, Freelant . D. Bishop, Shallotte; Late !intz, Ash; John V. Chadwicl hallotte; H. A. Fields, Lelan( ' E. Maultsby, Winnabow; Eve ;te Hewett, Supply; A. J helps, Shallotte; D. C. Carlisl eland; Edwin Dozier, Southpor f. E. Dozier, Southport; W. I avis, Southport; Norman L. Be my, Supply. Expect Fishing Here To Las lope That Shrimp*"1 An Menhaden Will Strike 1 Here So That Local Fisl ermen May Get Chanc At Them Commercial fishing at Soutl >rt, both shrimping and mei iden, may continue well int le new year, according to a resent indications. The shrim e still holding out good ar lere appears to be plenty Of the 1 the .coast above here. The ill make their appearance i outhport in due time, but ai kely to be bunched and tl .inches will have to be locate good catches are made. Two years ago Southport ha le of its most profitable shrim] g seasons in January. A bo; ist happened to strike a la rp inch, and for around two weel reat catches were made wil ood prices holding out througl it all of that time. Fisherme ;lieve that if enough of tl oats go out to make a fair co' age of the area another larj ;rike can be made in Januai r February. As regards the menhaden, Ca] tin' John Eriksen said Sunda lat the boats had been hearir lenty regarding fish being 11 ie coast above Southport durir le past six weeks. Normal! iese fish are supposed to mo\ ;eadily on this way, but Capta; riksen says that the local boa ive not yet encountered ar rge bunches and he and Ca] dn J. B. Church and Captai homas St. George are all seen igly inclined to agree that tl tenhaden will put in their a] ;a ranee here after Christma 1 fact, they are having hea\ :rikes sometime this week ar lat the good fishing will coi nue. Normally the menhaden boa sase operations at Christma ie schools of fish having passt ere at that time. Cottages Are Almost Complet D. M. Stringfield, of Fayett llle, and W. R. McAuley, i outhport, are having the finisl ig touches put to nice cottagi t Long Beach. The advent i ie new year promises to brir reat building activity at tl each and the coming of summi lould see a sizeable populatk lere. destructive Fire At Thomasbor The store and filling station < raven Nelson at Thomasboi as destroyed by fire early la hursday morning. The loss laced at $1,500. It is not know ere if there was any insuranc r the origin of the fire. toys Before C P0R1 In A Good Con Vednesday, December 2 For Governor toMF>r J. M. BROtGHTOX >( Last week J. M. Broughton, :h prominent Raleigh attorney, made * | his formal announcement for gov10 ernor. Brunswick county people will remember Mr. Broughton for y his speech here a little over a :e year ago in the heat of the Demo^ cratic campaign. J Legionnaires Of J: District Gather i For Meet Friday i; Rose Announces That The .; American L e g i on Of r; j North Carolina Will Ask I ! Changes In N. C. Educae, | tional Laws'. KRAHNKE PRESIDED AT i- WILMINGTON MEET I He Introduced Several Outstanding L e g i o n n aires From Columbus County To The Gathering * WILMINGTON, Dec. 18?The American Legion will ask the & next Session of the General Asn sembly to amend the present law governing educational programs ;? for the children of World war veterans, June H. Rose, of Grceni ville, state commander, told a i- Seventh district rally of Legion to posts Friday night in the exhibit 11 building at the Legion stadium. ip The Legion will seek to have id the law amended to include any m children of World yar veterans .y who have died of a service connt nected disability, Commander Rose re declared before approximately 75 ,e Legionnaires from posts in the d Wilmington area. PRESENT LAW td At present, he ?aid, the law 9_ provides that any children of a it deceased veteran who died prior ,c to January 1, 1925, be given a is four year college education with j, every item of expense to be paid v | by the state. ,n | "This law when first passed by ie i the state legislature in 1933 apv_ plied only to those children of rg , World war veterans who died in ' | uniform", Commander Rose said, j A mid-winter rally and rehabilitation conference for all Legion i posts in North Carolina will be ' held on January 14 and 15 in J? j Gastonia in an effort to train | service officers to handle problems 'o i - ? Qricinw ho announced. [y i "4 ,c (? aSnd uo panufluoo " Local Auxiliary ;| Will Help Vets p! | Will See To It That Vets. i erans In Hospital^ Rery i ceive Christmas Presents lti I And That Families Are 1_ Helped ts | Every disabled World War vets' jeran who spends Christmas in a ;<l j hospital will receive a gift from j the American Legion Auxiliary, Mis. S. B. Frink, rehabilitation | chairman of the Southport unit P j has announced. The local unit is cooperating in the vast gift program through the North Caroc" lina Department of the Auxiliary, 3 which will send Christmas rememberances to all veterans hosj pitalized in the state. 3 I Christmas giving to the disj abled men is an annual activity I with the Auxiliary, Mrs. Frink exC1 | plained. Last year 94,654 men >n were remembered, with $236,902.124 expended for this purpose. In j addition, the families of 25,293 of 1 these veterans were visited, their q ; needs for a happy Christmas supj plied, and word sent back to the of hospitals so the veterans could ro i have peace of mind about their st | families on Christmas, is | Needy families of veterans in n j Southport will be given Christie, ! mas baskets of food and toys by (Continued on page 6) hristmas r pil nmunity 0, 1939 publisf Loan Secured On < Timber Land 3n Three Counties Assumption Is That This Is Being Used As Collateral To Secure A Loan To I Erect Paper Mill BRUNSWICK HAS HOPE FOR PLANT Change In Attitude Toward ; Paper Mill Has Taken Place During The Past Several Years ' Probably in conformity with j plans to build somewhere in south-1 j eastern North Carolina at an j early date, two big pulpwood con- j cerns have recently obtained huge j loans, giving first mortgages on! lands owned in this and other! nearby counties. > It is understood that the mort-1 gages have been, or will be, recorded in five separate counties, \ the lands lying in these making it! necessary for the entire document j to be recorded in each. One of the documents, already recorded, ran to 350 pages of typewritten matter. The other, on which employees in the office of the Register of Deeds is now at work, ran to an even 400 pages. The cost of recording each of the mortgages will run in excess (Continued on page 6) Tour Guide C Information t I * 11 Hog Cholera In County Subsides Threat of cholera has ceased J [ to he j?.s great menace for I Brunswick county farmers as it i has been all fall, and there is evidence that the scourge is 1 about to let up in its severity. Several things contribute to this. The first is that more than 8,000 hogs have been vaccinated. County Agent J. E. Dodson has been assisted by Dr. ( C. E. Cox, LeRoy Mint/, and J. j M. King, the latter two agricul- [ ture teachers in the county. An- ? other contributing factor is that many hogs have been shipped i to market; while still another s j reason is that 'many farmers ? have taken advantage of tho j few cold days this fall to do : r I their hog-killing. . j1' Minor Cases In j; Recorder's Courts t Monday's Session Of Brunswick County Recorder's j,, L Court Devoted To Trial e Of Minor Infractions c *- " onnet koro \fftn. t m necuruci a wuu u?v x j day only cases of minor import-17 I ance were disposed of before Iv Judge Walter M. Stanaland. Lindsey Evans, plead guilty to ia charges of being drunk on the 19 highway but judgment was with held. Harry Bryant pleaded guilty to ' charges of possessing apparatus n for the manufacture of liquor and e judgment also was with held in c his case. j1 Edgar Stewart Harrell was re- n quired to pay the costs of his P case when found guilty of oper- d ating with improper lights. h Henry Boykin, pleaded guilty ja 'to charges of operating a motor j1 vehicle with improper signal v lights. Judgment was suspended r upon payment of costs. 1 v Hiram Sellers pleaded gjuilty to 1 charges of operating a motor, t* vehicle with improper lights. |tl Judgment was suspended upon i b (Continued on page 6) Camellias Begir Bloom At C Orton plantation is getting ready for the camellia season. Within a few weeks, the early varieties will begin the colorful march, to be followed by a succession of blooms until all 350 varieties on the famous j plantation have flowered. It is Carolina's first evidence of the promised spring color. Already, hundreds of southbound travelers have gone thru ; the ancient gateway of Orton : this month. In January, the ; visitors will come by thousands, j to see the camellias, mostly, but also to wander the quiet I I OT |IEO EVERY WEDNESDAY Current Switch Portion Of Bri Project Mom * I Work Begins On T Primary School For Shallotte 0 Workmen began Friday on It the construction of a 6-room ] primary building at Shallotte. This structure, which will be of brick veneer, is one of the three provided in the county-sponsored WPA project recently approved. Miss Annie Maj; Woodside, nl county Superintendent of lw: schools, says that work could el begin on a similar building at h; Waccamaw if more brick layers f0 were available. However, there appears to be a shortage of this particular type of labor in nc Brunswick. The third phase of the project is the addition of tc class rooms on the Southport high school building. *. R. E. Bellamy is the WPA jr project supervisor in charge of j the Shallotte building. Ift, fii ar jives Other ? 1 \bout County ' tilt ye Tour Extends This Week r, Down U. S. Highway No. ar 74 Across Eagles Island, eij Thence To Supply And sil Southport Wl 1 ca MENTIONS ORIGIN OF te LOCKWOODS FOLLY cc ar Mso Mentions Some Matters Of Early Historical iei Importance in the City Of Southport ^ U. S. Highway 17 crosses the 'ape Fear River at Eagles Is-1 and. Some of the numerous flowrs along the causeway were I irought here from foreign ports i0 n the soil used as ballast by hips calling for cotton and naval tores. The waterlily, marsh bluelell, marsh aster, spiderlily, j ' narshmallow and numerous other ilants thrive on the marshy c and. Tie highway, along the I ourse of the first toll road auhorizcd by the legislature, has icen successively a corduroy, ilank and rock-ballast road and ( ies carried traffic for two cen- j uries. Bridges span Alligator Ireek and the Brunswick River. At the Brunswick River Bridge I 3 the junction with the Old Riv-;er r Road, which affords a short- jc' ut, via Orton, to Southport. G Also at the Brunswick River of Jridge are the junctions of U. S. |d? 4 and U. S. 17. Down 17, mid- j *t? Cnnnlv H f i ay ui uic wuiivj ( w , ,ith a population of 110. Guides i to re available here for deer and n( uail hunting. j tr Left from Supply, is a dirt road ,w o Lockwoods Folly Inlet, a place | P' he name of which appears on ^ raps as early as 1671. Here an es arly settler named Lockwood w ame, supposedly from Bermuda. jw 'he name recalls his foolhardiess in starting a settlement exosed to both the sea and the In- ? ians. He is also credited with1 | aving built a boat on the river ntl with having discovered, after i he craft was finished, that it ras too large to get down the iver to the ocean. His settlement ias destroyed by the Indians, 'he beach still reveals the skeleons of several blockade runners hat were scuttled when cornered y the Federal gunboats, or sunk (Continued on Page a) ining To )rton Gardens walks surrounding the stately mansion facing the river, to visit old Brunswick town ruins and see glimpses of a humming southern plantation life. January and February are the best months for Orton's camellias. From March until the end of April the azalea show begins in the gardens. Most of North Carolina's co- j lonial plantations have been j broken up and dissipated I among many holders, but Orton survived and grew with the years, today comprising thousands of acres. ^ - _1 The Pilot Covers Brunswick County $1.50 PER YEAR led On For $ inswick REA $ Jay Morning ? . 8 hree-Phase Line From Leland To Shallotte Was Energized Monday And Users Enioyed Current For First Time -ft THER PHASES TO BEGIN THIS WEEK Is Expected That All Persons In Brunswick Whose Homes Are Wired Will Be On This Week The three-phase REA line runng from Leland to Shallotte as energized Monday, bringing ectric power into more than a mdred Brunswick county homes r the first time. It was learned Tuesday afterion that the two-phase line exacting from Shallotte to Longood probably will be energ'zed day, and that it is cxnected at the power lines into all seems will be carrying power Into rm homes before the week-end. The only thing holding up the >w of electric current now is lal inspection of the main lines, id the inspection and acceptance the wiring of homes that have it yet received an official o. k. ights by Christmas" has heme the slogan, and everyone working toward that end. Although agitation for rural :ctrification began three or four iars ago, it was uic woia ui jpresentative Cornelius Thomas id Senator S. Bun Frink in Ralgh last winter that made it posble to begin actual preliminary ork on the power project as .rly as last February. Other I I chnicalities cleared away, actual instruction began in September; id now, a week before the end the year, practically all of iral Brunswick has electric pow available. ;jl; Change Time Of P.-T. A. Meeting The regular monthly meeting ; Southport Parcnt-Teachers As- iSj iciation will be held the second iiursday in January instead of le first Thursday. The date is inuary 11. At the next meeting the topic ir discussion will be "mental fgiene." It is hoped that a large fl imber of parents will be able i attend this meeting. trass hire Gets Fire Truck Out J '\ A grass fire started by a city nployee who was engaged in eaning up the street near the rimes House, gave indications getting beyond control Satuply afternoon. M The fire truck was called out |t:J id returned without getting in- H ' action, as there seemed no 1 led. A few minutes after the uck was back in its quarters it JD as called out again to the same 1 ace. A spark from the grass Sfl re had fallen among some leav- , and trash in a gutter of the H illis home and a lively roof fire ! as in process of getting started. Tide Table J Following Is the tide table .H for Soutbport during the nest week. These hours are appro- I xlmately correct and were fur- . nlshcd The State Port PUV through the courtesy of tbo Cape Fear Pilot's Association High Tide Low TUT M TIDE TABLE Thursday, December 31 5:05 a. m. 9:46 a. m. 3:31 p. m. 9:48 p. m. Friday, December 33 4:05 a. m. 10:37 a. m. 4:31 p. m. 10:36 p. m. Saturday, December 33 4:59 a. m. 11:37 a. m. M 5:35 p. m. 11:35 p. m. i Sunday, December 34 1 5:47 a. m. 6:17 p. m. 13:17 p. m. I Monday, December 35 6:33 a. m. 0:14 a. m. 7:00 p. in. 1:07 p. m. Tuesday, December 36 t 7:16 a. m. 1:04 a. m. 7:46 p. m. 1:55 p. m. Wednesday, December 37 8:01 a. m. 1:55 a. m. 8:33 p. m. 3:42 p. m t