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THE STATE PORT PILOT
Southport, N. C.
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
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Wednesday, June 18, 1941
It's an ill will that bodes nobody good
Ambition is wish-thinking that has
lieen energized.
A vacation is time you spend discovering
that working wasn't nearly as bad as
you thought it was.
' One result of this war is likely to be
that this jitterbugging age of ours will
be slowed back down to a waltz.
Men are oftentimes like guns. The bigger
the mouth, the bigger the bore.
Girls should be more sincere in the
evening. They can't laugh up the sleeve
of a sleeveless evening gown.
If time is flying by too fast for you,
just try waiting for a busy phone line to
. clear.
Some people like to "live in a house by
the side of the road," and let rest take
its course.
We see by the news that the hens are
now laying more eggs than the radio
comedians.
If you take pot luck at your friend's
house, be sure that it's not your unlucky
day.
Thirty Seconds
Count thirty seconds?one-half of a
minute.
In that insignificant length of time fire
destroyed $285 worth of property somewhere
in the United States. In that time,
fire attacked someone's home, someone's
store, someone's factory, endangering life
and irreplaceable possessions. And during
each half minute of every day, seven days
a week, 365 days a year, fire will continue
to destroy ?285 worth of property
unless we do something about it.
No one should say that he doesn't
know what to do. Basic fire prevention is
simplicity itself. The National Board of
Fire Underwriters recently laid down the
rules for a successful fire prevention campaign
in a few words when it said: "Look
around you! Burn that rubbish! Stamp
out that cigarette before you throw it
away! Keep gasoline out of the house!
Fight fire?before it starts!"
Fird, believe it or not, has killed more
Americans than all the wars in our history.
And fire, today, is even more dangerous
than in normal times. Fire menaces
the defense effort. Fire in a key fac
uviy may btup uie pruuuvuuii ui essential
parts for days and weeks. And fire, at all
times, wastes materials, labor, energies?
and that most precious of elements, Time.
Those institutions whose job is fighting
fire are redoubling their efforts. The National
Board, for instance, is using its
full facilities, without charge, to help the
Army and Navy departments prevent fire
i| army camps, navy yards, munitions
plants, etc. It is carrying on an aggressive,
24-hour-a-day fight against the saboteur.
But, vital as this work is, it is no!
efough. Every American must help if fire
iijto be defeated. And that means you!
Search The Title
I We were talking recently to State
Treasurer Chas. M. Johnson about the
Phillip Allen property which the city o
Sfcuthport and Brunswick county owi
jointly.
r"How did they acquire this property,'
he desired to know?
"Tax foreclosure," we said.
"Do they have a good title," he asked
"We don't know, but we suppose so,'
we told him.
"Then there are two important thing
to be done," said the man who als<
heads the Local Government Commission
"They ought to get that title ironclad
Then they ought to sell that land to some
body and get it back on the tax books.
We were particularly impressed witl
the first of these two pieces of valuabl
h
advice, for unless there is an uncontestable
title for this property it is easily
with the power of its former owner to
* institute litigation that not only will take
* from the taxpayers several thousands of
* dollars in the matter of sale price, but
which niay bring about an insufferable
delay in inducing some industry to locate
0 here.
5 j We have a county attorney and we
- j have a city attorney. Neither the county
j commissioners nor the board of aldermen
should be satisfied until they have seen
a report from these lawyers indicating
that there is no possible flaw in the title
to this property."
. We Crow Our Bread
5 There is a great significance to this
small grain program that is finding such
favor with farmers of our county this
, season.
One thing it will do is to make for a
better balanced farm program. Land that
, formerly was used chiefly for the proI
duction of the cash crops is being diverted
to grain.
A second important result is to add an
other link in the live-at-home farm proj
gram that we have preached over and
-j A
over again to our readers. ^ man ?nu
'produces his own bread on his farm is
' just that much harder to discourage when
' depressions come.
Roosevelt Crocks Down
No action of recent months has brought
about a greater feeling of reaffirmed
faith in the democratic system than was
evidenced by citizens of this section when
President Roosevelt called out the Army
to settle the airplane factory strike last
i week.
Many of us had begun to wonder just
where was the end to what certain unscrupulous
labor leaders were being per,
mitted to do to retard the defense program
through the subtle sabotage of
strikes. Labor may never say that it was
treated unfairly, that snap judgment was
used, nor that all would have been well
had there been no government interference.
It seemed to us that the President waited
full long to take this drastic stop, but
we more than forgive his resitancy when'
'se see the firm follow-up manner he has
| used to keep other labor rows from rear:
ing their ugly heads.
:
It's An III Wind
Ronald Hocutt, director of the N. C.
Highway Saftey Division, is wont to see
a silver lining in the prospect of gasless
; Sundays proposed by Secretary Ickes in
an effort to meet the impending gasoline
shortage.
"It's an ill wind that blows nobody
good" Hocutt comments. "While I am not
prepared, on the basis of information 1;
have now, either to advocate or condemn
"gasless Sundays" it is interesting
to speculate as to the probable effect
such a restriction might have on our traf.
fic accident toll."
Hocutt then quoted figures to show
that for the 449 accidents in North Caro,
iina since the first of the year through
May 31st, 109 of them happened on
Sunday.
The same is true of the accidents in
Columbus county, except rather than 25
. per cent of the fatalities happening on
. Sunday in this county, 40 per cent took
, place on the Sabbath. A check shows that
, in Columbus county, out of a total of 19
, fatalities on the highways since January
. 1st, a total of 8 of them happened on
. Sunday.
So, while "gasless" Sundays are not to j
- be desired if they can be avoided, at the
, same time, they might serve to drastically
reduce the amount of traffic on the highways
and in turn, reduce the number of
fatalities.
; The customer is always right?on the
3 spot when there's a penny to be saved.
f
1 The Italians are going to be loyal to II
Duce if it takes every German Hitler's
> got.
Some people try to cover up their misdeeds
by spilling dirt on their friends.
Just a word of advice: Don't let there
s be too much prude in prudent.
o "
u Generally, if you're itching for fame,
l' you break out with ambition.
? Don't look too sheepish or you might
^ give yourself away?if anybody would
e have you.
THE STATE PORT PI
Among
i fishermen"
BY BILL KEZIAH
N. L. Duncan of Benson got
a seven-pound bass from Orton
pond one day this past week. At
the same place J. E. D. Johnson
and L. O. Dixon, both of
Johnston county, got 32 large
| grey heads and several fine bass
I during a few hours of fishing.
* ? ?
Menhaden boats operating
for several miles down the
I coast were reporting great
I schools of blue fish and mack!
ere! all of the past week. These
i great game fish were feasting
! on the menhaden. They are of
| good size and will be moving
! up and along the shoals for
| sometime to come, giving great
' sport to anglers when they
| arrive here.
* * *
j Thursday C. G. Vogell, A. H.
Rion, Wyche Dickert and Van
j Buren Burch of Columbia got a
| large and small tub and three
| large water buckets full of blues
while fishing from the E. M.
Lewis. Mr. Vogell, an enthusiastic
booster of the Southport fishing,
usually makes more than a dozen
trips here each year. He is planning
on a month-long trip soon.
* * *
, We have been sort of unreconciled
at the unexplained failure
of Frank L. Johnson, secretary
of the North Carolina
Soft Drink Bottlers Association,
to appear at Southport
on regular schedule. This week
Frank wrote us he has not been
very well, but he hopes to get
here soon. He asked that we
bring suit against Postmaster
Yaskell for wasting fishing
plugs on alligators.
? * ?
G. R. Shafto, president of
radio station WIS in Columbia,
S. C., is coming up on the 21st
for a few days of fishing. Mr.
Shafto is o? no relation to the
Bobby Shafto that Mother Goose
wrote about. He is a fine sportsman
and a camera crank of some
note. Like C. C. Vogell, with
whom he will come, he is already
strongly sold on the Southport
fishing and a great booster
for what we have here.
* * *
Gordon Patrick, manager of
the Buenos Aires branch of
the National City Bank of New
York, never caught a fish until
last week. But in the States
from Argentina for his vacation.
he came to Southport for
five days of fishing and got
it. We will bet our last year's
hat that Gordon will be teaching
the folks down in Argentina
something about fishing before
the summer is over.
* * *
We are kind of astonished at
Uncle Henry (Judge Henry Dannehl
of Fredericksburg, Va.) He
is 70 years old and last week
he came to Southport with a
bunch of younger squirts from
New York and Maryland. He kept
up with them for five days and
nights, going with them to Long
Beach at night and getting up
at anywhere from 2 to 5 o'clock
each morning to go fishing. He
left here as fresh and chirpier
as any of them. Uncle Henry
caught the biggest barracuda
taken by his party. He told us
that St. Peter had been holding
the gate open for him for sometime,
but he was not ready to
go so long as he could still come
to Southport and go fishing.
* #
Recently some of the Bridger
boys at Bladenboro saw a picture
in The Washington TimesHerald,
showing Bob Wilson and
his catch of fish at Southport.
In due time the picture was
shown to Dr. S. S. Hutchinson
of Bladenboro. Up to then, the
Doc had not known there was
any good fishing nearer than
Florida. He immediately got
the fishing fever and came in
last week with a bunch of the
Bladenboro boys, one of whom,
Roy Lennon, caught the first
sail that was ever purposely
gone after in Southport waters.
We have the sails and marlin
alright, it has just been that
the barracuda, amberjack and
dolphin were so sure that no
one cared to look for their
more elusive cousins.
* * *
Mrs. F. L. Formyduval of Wilmington
came in from Bald Head
Island one day this past week
with a 34-pound red drum, about
the largest such fish that has
been caught by a woman anywhere
on the lower North Carolina
coast this year. Last month
Mrs. Formyduval won the monthly
prize of the New Hanover
Fishing Club for the largest drum
taken by a woman during the
month. That fish, like this one,
was taken from the beach on
Bald Head Island.
* * *
John Boyd Finch and his
LOT. SOUTHPORT. N. C.
I This Week In ... .
DEFENSE
President Roosevelt, declaring
I a strike at the North American
Aviation plant in Inglewood
, Calif., was impeding the defense
; program, ordered the Army tc
|: operate the plant after workers
j rejected Mediation Board terms
I Tor settlement. Two days aftet
| taking over, the Army reported
"100 percent efficiency" with all
employees returned to work. The
President said plants \vhich he
might be forced to place undei
Federal control will be returned
to private management as soon
as possible.
The House voted for an amendment
to the 1912 Army appropriation
bill to prohibit the payment
of funds to any individual
or company failing within 1C
days to abide by Mediation
Board recommendations for settlement
of disputes. The Senate
approved a declaration that striker
or lockouts in defense industries
are "contrary to sound'public
policy."
The Mediation Board announced
settlement of three labor disputes,
including the dispute of
the soft coal industry. The U. S.
Conciliation Service announced
settlement of 34 additional disputes.
SELECTIVE SERVICE
Selective Service Headquarters
ordered reclassification of all registrants
"impeding the defense
program." The order said "the
citizen who has been deferred because
of the job he is performing
in the national defense program
cannot expect to retain the
status of deferrment when he
ceases to work on the job for
which he was deferred."
TVio Cnnntn jinnrnvpil Jl bill to
defer men who reach their 28th
birthday by July of this year,
except those already in the Service.
FOREIGN' AFFAIRS
The State Department announced
sinking of the American
freighter Robin Moor in the south
Atlantic by a German submarine.
Announcing the rescue of - only
11 of 16 persons forced to abandon
the ship. Under Secretary
Welles told the press that international
law requires precautions
must be taken for the safety of
I passengers and crew before a
ship is sunk.
SHIPS
The OPM granted full priority
I for materials necessary in the
j building of 289 merchant ships
| for U. S. and Great Britain and
the 312 special lease-lend vessels.
OPM Production Director Biggers,
speaking at Quebec, said,
"almost every ship now building
in our rapidly expanding yards
is ahead of schedule." The Maritime
Commission directed the
Southern Pacific Company to deliver
for national defense purposes
its entire fleet of 10 vessels
(66.600 tons), formerly used in
coastwise trade.
LEASE-LEND AID
President Roosevelt reported to
Congress that $75,202,425 of war
materials have been transferred
to the democracies since enactment
of the lease-lend law and
$4,277,412,876 has been allocated
for further aid out of the $7,000.000,000
provided by Congress. He
tsaid that work has started on
(agreements with foreign govern
ments on the terms and conditions
of the aid they receive.
CIVILIAN DEFENSE
Civilian Defense Director LaGuardia
stated organization of
medical groups, auxiliary police
and fire units, sanitation, and
first aid squads are the necessary
basis for adequate home defense.
He said panic is to be
avoided under all circumstances
and it will be necessary to educate
the public to the absolute
necessity of obeying instructions.
Mr. LaGuardia said firemen
and policemen from 40 Eastern
cities will be trained in combating
poison gas and incendiary
and high explosive bombs in 17.
camera are going to be a valuable
aid to the promotion of
the Southport sport fishing industry.
When the first sail of
the season was brought in by
the Torobill Thursday, John
was right there, made some
fpjod pictures and developed
the negatives ready for use the
next morning. Pictures are
more and more useful, especially
in connection with fishing.
A good cameramen always
standing by will be of great
value in showing what Southport
has in the way of game
fishing.
* ? ?
This week will see a lot of
fine sportsmen coming in from
the District of Columbia. Maryland
and Virginia. We are hearing
real often from Don N. Carpenter,
hunting and fishing editor
of the Washington Daily News,
and from Bob Wilson, the "Up
The Stream" man on the Washington
Times Herald. They are
singing the praises of Southport
pretty far and wide in their papers.
Jimmie Briggs of WRAL
station in Raleigh and Charley
Parker and Bill Baker of the Department
of Conservation and
Development are also hammering
at things?and doing a good job
of it. There are a lot of others,
and to all of them we are
grateful.
I - NOT EXflC
Yankee, the Fergus' Trish setter, has turned
surly?but there's a reason. The other day Dr.
Daniel decided that he didn't really need a bird
dog, so lie made Dr. Fergus a present of Spot, his
English setter pup. Resentful because of the
division of affection in his master's household,
1 Yankee began to pout, and on one occasion he
] spent such a prolonged visit with one of the
, neighbors that Mrs. Fergus had to go over and
I biing him home .... These folks around here
1 who do a little horseback riding will take a back
[ seat when they learn that Mary Mathews (Mrs.
Charlie) used to ride a cow pony 11 miles to
1 school every day when she was a somewhat
1 younger girl in New Mexico . . . Incidentally,
the Mathews hope to be able to get a couple of
western ponies for use on the island before many
more months. J
( Metroscopes. That's a big word that we had
i no idea what meant until Bremen Furples informed
us that it was the technical term for threedimension
movies like the short he will show Friday
and Saturday at the Amuzu. Special glasses?
they'll be furnished free?are used by the audience.
"Arkansas Judge" is the feature attraction
two-week courses at Edgewood.ced a campaignI
Arsenal, Md., under the direction fense consumer,
jof the army Chemical Warfare | portation officii
i Service. Trainees will return buying and stori:
J home and instruct fellow towns- ter's coal this su
'men. .. , ....
fhe load that mc
OPM announced it will soon """ , '
begin a nation-wide campaign to a defense mat
collect ?crap aluminum from upon the transpo
civilians. A test drive in Rich- "in? next fall. T1
mend. Va., and at Madison, Wis., iconsumers agains
it was said, produced enough of I 'ng at high pric
the metal to build 16 pursuit 'supply of bitumil
planes or two and one-half bom-'P'e for all needs,
bers. PRI<
OIL j Administrator
Defense Petroleum Coordinator the Office of P
Ickes told a press conference that tion and Civilian
curbs on petroleum consumption ed with the indi
along the Atlantic Coast appear to prevent unju.'
inevitable but the degree of re- creases in coffee,
striction would depend on public j board, crude oil
cooperation in conserving oil and automobiles. Mr.
gasoline. He said the American j certain auto firn
Automobile Association has pled- recently announci
ged a campaign to cut down con- because they "e
sumption of gasoline by motorists with the favorab
by slower driving, elimination of 1 tion of the Indus1
hasty "getaways" in traffic, and i
proper engine adjustments. He ^ WII,,,W'1 1 11,1 IW"
said Bureau of Standards tests j I
showed a car which gets IS miles I
to the gallon at 30 m.p.h. will i
get only 8.6 miles to the gallon 11
at 80.
POWER
The Federal Power Commission ,1
reported "many areas of the I III.
country are now . . facing power'!
shortages . . . Unless orders are I II
placed immediately for large 11
jamounts of additional capacity jl
for 1913, serious shortages willjM l
develop ..." I j
OPM Director General Knud-11
sen announced OPM has formally I
approved the St. Lawrence Wat- I /
jerway and Power Project "as I V r
, part of the all cut difense effort." I
The President allotted 8200.000 j I
for construction of a cooperative I
| transmission system to carry ; I
power from the Pensacola Dam I . T
to 15 REA cooperatives in Kan-'l I,
sas, Arkansas, Missouri, and I
! Oklahoma to provide for develop-: I
j ment of zinc deposits for defense. ' I 1
f'/lt V
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The Office of the Bituminous I
Cool Consumei-s' Counsel announWAR
DOG CP
Unless your dog h<
Rabies before July 1,1
prosecution. The pen
roads or a fine of $50.0(1
?
i
The Following Men Will
NORTHWEST
TOWN CREEK .
SMITHVILLE
LOCK WOODS FOLLY ...
SHALLOTTE
WACCAMAW
A fee of 75-cents for ea
vaccinations at regularly a{
dog inspector is forced to c
is $1.00 for each dog.
BOARD OF CO
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WEDNESDAY. Jimr ^ H
TLY NEWS - |
.... About the nicest fathoi
we know of is that existing h.-t. . P
T. Bowmer and his young son 7 , |l
youngster is his dad's first mat. tN,tt. 3
and sea. 1|
Joe Leighton and his band
I Thursday night at Long Beaeli. . :l
! go north to spend most of the
around Pittsburgh, then later 1., 1
Dance fans around here hope (
j them in the fall. That boy's frank ,, ... c
I ner is going to make him a lot ..
I Carl Gunnerson, Standard Oil i I
once served for a period of a ye.u .,r
as fireman on the old steamer Will t
If you want to know the reason \ . t(-,.,
Frying Pan lightship do not - ,
the boat, just ask Harry Sell, tl. jsi,,
word barracuda?name of the hie
inhabit the waters thereabout . . >t, . I 0
learned more about the theatre cii. j? '
ington City while there on his 1 . I *
he did the homes of the vair I
agencies.
-endorsed byde-| I'ltlOIUlllS I
price and trans-, OPM placed i. \ 1
js?to promote j acid, aluminum - i
ng of next win- per. and syntb i. I
mmer to lighten | fun priority eonti .i . ,p , I
cement of crops jnounced p,I
orials will place sufficient quiiiuiii
rt system begin- I terials for
he office warned! Vice President \V,!| J
t "panicky" buy-j ing in Washingt
es and said the mocratic way is
ious coal is am-j to put off n<
|es until after the
?ES that more material will |, t
Henderson, of able for defense. [ a
rice Administra- DEFEN'sk hoi SIXg
Supply, arrang- Defense
istries concerned Palmer I J
stified price in- ; been completed lt.2f 5
plywood, paper dwelling unit
I, gasoline and'26 states and terri: Henderson
told | ing to the Confer1 | -f
is to withdraw tional Housing I
ed price rises P la
ire inconsistent i to ask Congress 1 I 3
le earning posi- S500.000,0nd
try." .homes in dofer.S'
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