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?' ? fhe ^vers J Brunswick County hfejva fifteen no. 9" Work Done | Cutting On Kce Gwynn Land B^r Three Million Feet Of I fimber Taken From The | vl (;Bvnn 1-and At Long-. B?ood Selective Cutting ^ Demonstration | H, AGENT SAYS THEY jAVE DONE GOOD JOB Forester Calls AttenHgcn To Urgent Need For Timber And Good Prices That Are Now Being Paid R:ie Cu.vnn, of Longwood, selective cutting of timber ^ ^s i little over a year j_',i to ate has taken out over K*. million feet of timber. This remarkable showing, consider * - 41 I labor shortages ana uuki ?lties on such a project durE Blanchard. Farm Forester his county, supervised the i" in which both he and] n have been very much in- j (j, in addition to getting lie desired timber they have ' o ach more desirable material j r future croppings And fire L have been built to protect jh hole woods area. Gvvynn and f lard have done a remarkably job of it. according to a :ent made to this paper by I r Agent Dodson, who has j I r. interested observer of the j j rating the value and need ^ tting out timber now, in where land owners have it \ ,n handle it. Mr. Blanchard v stated to this paper: spite of the decrease in g, our lumber production is falling behind the requireThe Armed Forces and escivilian needs will have to v 1 billion feet of saw-timber p ar as well as 13 million j. f pulpwood. The Army j ias SCO different uses for \ r.d the navy has almost as c of production has been j] bv .-. vera?' different "fac- j abor shortage is one of 0 rgest and there is little! / improvement in the situa-; j a summer. |a ler big factor in decreased , i on is that many people, i :iber that should be cut at i ae and they will not put j Tiber on the market. The j i the battlefields may be t m thriir lit'no Knnonco fViAir ! m lit- 11 inva i/vvuuwv * ?iC : get the ammunition that i I have been delivered but for J k of lumber. It takes 100,- ( ;t of lumber to send every d of supplies overseas. Can hmber owners who will not | eir timber face their neigh- |( hose boy isn't coming back? npage prices have never i:gher and the mill owners ixious to buy. They are willcut the timber in anyway, j he landowner desires. ! advice and help is avail-1 o timber owners to see that ;et a fair price for their timid to help them find buyers. ie who has timber for sale lows of timber for sale is 1 sted to get in touch with c county agent at once. Let's * the invasion with more than s bonds." J spital Gets ' Nice Donation i _ t * Of Dredge Henry Ba- ! Sends Check For s 23.00 To Show Appre- , iation Of Institution dicative of the general esteem < chich the J Arthur Dosher s a?hal hospital is held, a letter received last week by hospitjfficials from Captain Mo:*ton , "f and the crew of the U. | Sneers dredge. Henry Bacon. ?eck for $123.00 was enclosed 5 the request that the money "sed toward the purchase of equipment. < tie dredge is based at Wilming- ' Captain Parker and a number employees are Brunswick (Continued on page 4) ? TH Cases Are Pent State Highw * D Now Overseas 111 Pvt. Bennie A. Clemmons, son j f Mrs. Leona Clemmons, who J las recently been transferred to [ verseas duty. Pvt. Clemmons j iao ucvu in viiv hi inj uiiguivviw | or two years. Mrs. Arnold Died Saturday Morning Veil Known Southport Wo-' man Succumbs Following! Long Period Of Illness, Funeral Services Held J Sunday Following a long illness, during rhich she was a patient in the | )uke Hospital at Durham and j iter in the J. Arthur DosherJ Memorial hospital. Mrs. George j V. Arnold died here at 3.30 on Saturday morning. Mrs. Arnold is survived by her j tusband, George W. Arnold, of Southport, and one son, J. F. Arn- j ild, of Baltimore and Southport. j Uso surviving are two sisters,! itrs. J. E. Pinner, of Southport ind Mrs. Arthur Marlowe, of i xiris, S, C., and four brothers, G. | 4. and C. B. Reeves, of Loris, O. j C. Reeves, of Wilmington, and D. \ Reeves, of Raleigh. Funeral services were held from' he Southport Presbyterian church it 3:30 Sunday afternoon, with! lev. R. S. Harrison of the ifethodist church and Rev. ISecil Alligood of St. Phillip's (Co..linu%<3 on page 41 Sum*" I net In nilgai uuoi in Destroyed Mash Vine Hundred Pounds Of Sugar Formed Part Of Ingredients of Mash Captured At Whiskey Still In a haul made by Rural Policenan O. W. Perry and A. T. U. >fficers Charles Gray and A. E. -eake, a 10-gallon steam whiskey 'till was seized and destroyed. Vlong with it were thirty gallons if non-tax-paid whiskey. The cap;ure was made in Northwest one light last week. Not the least of the haul was 1.800 gallons of sugar mash. This vas also destroyed. Going with :he mash would be nine hundred rounds of sugar, the ingredients :o the mash being fifty pounds of sugar to each fifty gallon barrel >f the stuff. The still was in operation as he officers endeavored to slip up >n it, but lookouts gave warning ind all escaped, leaving the still (Continued on Page 2) Chemical Plant Damaged In Fire Spiritine Chemical Company Lost Part Of Its, Manufacturing Plant In; Fire Early Last Wednesday Morning The Spiritine Chemical Company plant at the Brunswick Riv>r Bridge was damaged by fire sarly Wednesday morning of last week. 1he refining plant, toolj house and a storage tank were' destroyed, along with some dam-, age to the main plant. It is understood that the fire started from a hot charcoal still. It is said that there was no in-1 surance on the plant and equipment. The company is extensively engaged in the manufacture of Creosote-and Wood Preservatives, as weli as insect exterminators., (Continued on Page 4) J ESTi A Good 4-PAGES TODAY ding Against av Employees Herbert Creech And James Simmons Being Tried In Bladen County Today On Charges Of Setting The Woods Afire MAY TRY SIMMONS HERE NEXT MONDAY Cases Pending Here Against Simmons And Herbert A. Creech Charging Them With Setting Fires Between Holden's Beach And Old Dock Herbert A. Creech, Sr., and James Edison Simmons, both employees of the North Carolina State Highway Commission, are j. being tried in the Recorder's Court in Elizabethtown today on charges of setting fire to woods in Bladen county. Another defendant, Herbert A. Creech, Jr., was tried for the . same offense at Elizabethtown, last Wednesday and given eight months on the roads. From this he took an appeal to Superior court. He entered a plea of guilty in the Bladen Countv Recorder's Court, in which he was tried last week. Following ;he trial in Bladen county, today, James Edison Simmons and the younger Creech will probably be brought here for trial next Monday. County Forest Fire Warden Dorman Mercer, says that cases are pending against both of these men. The j I specific charges are that they set | a trial of woods fires, from Hoi- . den's Beach, in this county, to . Old Dock in Columbus county. Some 25 fires were started between the above points one afternoon, two months ago, the fires breaking out in the wake of a passing State Highway bridge repair truck, in the body of which young Creech and Simmons were riding. Both had been working with the bridge repair crew at; Holden's Beach and the crew was moving on to other points. It i3 alleged that Creech and Simmons occupied their time on the trip from Holden's Beach to Old Dock by striking matches and throwing them out into the dry grass by the side of the road. P. E. Sebring, District Forest Fire Hanger and W. L. Brewer, District Forester, were here this past week with Warden Mercer, working up the case against Creech and Simmons, to be ready for action when the cases in Bladen are disposed of. It is understood that following the discovery of the alleged proclivity of , the three men in starting forest j fires, the State Highway Commis-j' sion has fired all three and has, also loned every aid in seeing that t they were prosecuted. Army Flier Dies I' In Crash Nearby Pilot Killed In Emergency Landing Near Caswell 1 Road 1 Second Lieutenant Mason Jay ' McCloud, 20, stationed at the Bluethenthal Field Army Air 1 Base, was killed while flying a < routine training flight near town 1 Sunday morning, air base officials 1 revealed yesterday. i The Thunderbolt fighter plane 1 which Lt. McCloud was piloting developed engine trouble in mid- ' air, and he attempted to make an > emergency landing, it was said. i The plane dove into the ground and exploded, killing him instantly. The accident occurred at 10:30 o'clock. Police Chief Otto Hickman and Dr. L. C. Fergus rushed to the scene of the accident to find thepilot beyond medical aid. Lieutenant McCloud had been (continued on page two) Speeding Again The Main Offense Half Of Defendants In Cases Heard Monday By Judge Ward Involved Driving Too Fast On The i State Highways Speeding comprised the major- : ity of the charges heard by Judge ; John B. Ward in Recorder's Court here Monday. Four defendants in such cases each paid a fine of i $20.00 and costs. In a fifth in- < stance the case was continued, i The minute docket shows the dis- ' position made of the following cases: < Johnnie S. Nance, speeding: sixty days on roads, judgment suspended on payment of fine of i (Continued on Page 4) < tnT I News paper I ISouthport, N. C., We< mi d i election Doarc Phelps Receive Sail Boat Capsizes | A minor furor was caused along the waterfront Tuesday afternoon when the boat owned by Franto Mollycheek capsized in the channel, spilling Mollycheek and his two companions, Bobby Brown and Louis Newton, into the river. The tnree boys we're sailing when a sudden wind arose and they were unable to reach shore. The shouts of the boys attracted the attention of bathers on the government dock and Franto's father, F. .Mollycheek, of the Lighthouse Service, went out in the launch to effect a rescue. Before he arrived oil the scene, the 1'ilot boat, captained by Merle Hood, reached the boys ami brought them in. Declare July 3rd 4 County Holiday County Offices Will Be Closed That Day; July Meetings Of Commissioners On Second And Third Mondays At their mid-month meeting here on Monday the board of :ounty commissioners ordered Lhat the July meeting of the board he held on the second and third Mondays, instead of on the first Uid third, which are the usual hates. This change in dates for the July meeting was made in recognition of the fact that the first Monday in July falls on a hay just preceeding a holiday. Monday, July 3rd wad declared a holiday by the commissioners and all county offices will be closed an that day. (Continued on Page 2) ?.1 Yf. B. KEZIAH J. J. Ludlum, Shallotte farmer, is said to have perhaps the largest and best appearing lespedeza field in Brunswick at the present time. Mr. Ludlum has between 35 and 40 acres, all in one field, growing this hay crop. His neighbors say that it is a very pretty crop. Other Brunswick .farmers are also said to have fine crops of lespedeza. It is fast becoming a very popular product in Brunswick, enriching the land in addition to producing great quantities of hay. ? ? The 1944 shore fishing season is about to begin and from now. m through the remainder of the P0R1 n A Good Comi inesday, June 21st, 1944 s< 9 ^8R i jf to f ov ? I - - B^Pj|?|i '""5? I "B wfE^BMM bi ' *jH a\ ; ,-tB pc 4>S F1 ? Ctl I^Tpr ^ - UQI h( or 1 Declares ? to ;d Nomination g tt In Special Meeting Errors Are Found In Count Of h; Vote For Membership On L Board Of Education In \ Recent Primary _____ ol REQUEST RESIGNATION di OF PRECINCT OFFICIALS a( j j ~ b< Vote For Chinnis At Shal- 0i I Iotte Was 33 Instead Of hi The 53 Credited Him m On Sworn Returns Ii From Precinct o| st The Board of Elections met, 'J j here Friday in special session, | went over the records of the vot-1w ing at the Shallotte precinct in'P1 j the recent primary and declared ol that corrected returns from there M 1 were such as to materially change jw the county-wide results. I D The corrections at the Shallot- iw te Precinct show R. I. Phelps to j1,1 have a majority of eight votes |al over M. B. Chinnis, who in the Jw original count was declared the [al nominee for membership on the!lr Board of Education by a major- ** ity of 15 votes over Phelps. 01 The Minutes of the Board of 81 Elections, covering the special meeting at which this action was taOon arn aa fnllmvR' / vu"v" I J (Continued on Page Four) \ Training Given | (J. S. 0. Hostesses L Great Need Of Developing Hostesses For Work In U. S. O. . Revised standards for USO junjior hostess groups, geared to the n [needs of returning service men, e< arc embodied in a bulletin receiv- E ed today by Captain James B. tt Church from Mrs. Pearl Case! ai j Blough, director of USO Services r< ;to Women and Girls. n' | Captain Church said that the a | bulletin, which has been sent to | (Continued On Page Four* c< ? ri S( si ir G WING \ Reporter 1 I summer and fall it will be the j usual thing to find camps on the j beaches of the Brunswick coast, with alert fishermen on the watch for schools of mullets, and crews standing back of them waiting for j the kill. Capt. Willie Gurganus, of jshallottc, will move his crew and j rigs to their old stand at Little z (Beach on the 26th, according to c a report received this week. This n outfit has a new 250 yard long E seine,- which they expect to put P to good use. It is not known ? when other fishing camps along h the coast will be set up but the F first of July should see a number B of them in operation. l< (Continued on Page 2) PIL munity PUBLISH Jisser And Bet To Be Used H _ sveral Big Diesel Powered " Craft Capable Of Rough Weather Fishing Have Lately Been Purchased In Florida IG INCREASE IN THE NUMBER BOATS HERE [any Craft Bought From Dutside State, Many New Ones Built Here In The County And Many Others Rebuilt Brunswick county fishermen are id to be much better equipped begin this season than they er have been during a previous shing year. The number of home vned boats has increased from >out 70 to around 100, according W. S. Wells, local seafood laler. Not only are there more boats, it they are much larger on the 'erage and also much ' better iwered. Wells made a trip to lorida the past week and pur- , lased four large boats, all of { em powered with diesel engines, lese four, and one recently pur- I lased by Dr. L. C. Fergus and. I lother by Herman Stanaland, of lallotte, make six boats with | ;avy duty diesels, where there is never before been more than le such boat operating here. / The price on all six of these esel powered boats is understood ranoro rlnsn to <10 000 00 p?ph o- ? I hey are large enough and have >wer enough to go to sea and sh in almost any sort of wca- n ler. n Merritt and Boyd Moore, who ii ive been fishing in Morgan City, p a., for the past three or four a ;ars, are to return to Southport a August. They will bring an- 1 ;her large and well equipped o esel powered boat. b Lucian Fulford, of Supply, has b Jded a large and well equipped j >at, built this winter. About 15 n - more new boats are said to p ive been built by various fisher- p ten around Supply and Shallotte. | ? i addition to these a great niany p d boats, some out of use forj iveral years, have been complete- j a rebuilt and equipped. s In all, it appears that Bruns- s ick owned boats will be able to j roduce all that the present list p " buyers can handle. At present s le understanding is that there; r ill be six buying houses. S. W. j p avis and brother, of Beaufort, | a ill use mostly their own up state j p oats. Other buyers here this year v re Paul Fodale, VV. S. Wells, 10 falls Brothers, Hardie and Pigott a rid J. J. Arnold. All are expect- p ig a considerable number of g oats to be operating by the first f July. The fe,.r craft that have v one out recently have made some s ighly encouraging catches. 0 1 |F Jim Crew Skipper I Hurt In Action r 0 t. (jg) Robert Ruark, For- v mer Southport And Wil- ^ mington Man, Recently Wounded In The Shoul- f der In Action ? ' Bob Ruark, Southport and Wil-1 ^ lington man, who left the sports iitorship of the Washington aily News for the Navy nearly iree years ago, was wounded in . ction recently, according to word V :eeived by friends here. He is, 4 ow in hospital and his injuries re said to be in the shoulder. As a Lt. (jg) Ruark command1 a gun crew on a freighter caring supplies to the forces over- ? :as. Two interesting feature lories, written by him and tellig of his experiences in Armored uard have appeared in" the Satrday Evening Post during recent lonths. Lt. Ruark is a son of obert Ruark, a Southport man c ho served as postmaster in Wil- c lington for several years preceed- j lg Wilbur Dosher. t * e ^ged Winnabow I Resident Dies!' i . H. Edge, Eighty-Four I Years Old And Widely v Known, Passes At Home 11 Of Son After A Long v Period Of Illness ______ s Funeral services were held at ? ion Methodist church, in Town J reek township, Saturday after- ? oon at 4:00 o'clock for J. H. Idge, 84-year-old and highly res- e ected resident of the Winnabow ? immunity. Mr. Edge died at the ome of his son, W. M. Edge, on 'riday, following a long illness, urial was in the church ceme:ry. 1 (Continued on page 4). OT " [ED EVERY WEDNESDAY .ter Boats V ere This Year ' i War Bond Show Pa There will be a War Bond Premier at the Amuzu Theatre on Monday afternoon, S/ Jure 26, at 3:30. The feature If is lo be "Best Foot Forward," starring Lucille Ball and Wii- g? liaro Gaxton, and is the con- g tribution of the Amuzu Theatre to help further the sale of bonds in the Fifth War Loan Drive. Admission will be only to those who have bought bonds in the present drive. No one ^ can see the picture through jBr paid admission. Either the bond itself or a signed ticket So from the issuing agent must be shown to .Mr. Price Fur- ln* pless, owner and manager of the theatre, before admitt- ')0 ance will be i?ermitted. ag Vuto Tax Stamps Ssa? Yow On Sale At^ \ 1 1 Postoffices th? of tlso May Be Had At Of- m' fice of Collector of Internal Revenue; Must Be an n 1 1 d? V I i rurcnasea uy juiy i ui< th< Commissioner of Internal Rcve- go ue Joseph D. Nunan, Jr., has an- sa ounced that auto use tax stamps i the denomination of $5.00 were wc laced on sale in all post offices th nd offices of Collectors of Intern- thi 1 Itevnue on Saturday, June 10. to 'he stamps will evidence payment th f the tax for the fiscal year ab eginning July 1, 1944, and must e purchased on or before that an ate. The stamps will be serially j in; lumbered, will be gummed on thelde ace, and will have provision on! lai he back for entry for( the make, I th nodel, serial number and state: sh icense number of the vehicle. Jte Mr. Nunan said that, to guard[ gainst loss or theft, it has been 1 <ir uggested that, when affixing the tamps, the vehicle owner should th ampen the windshield rather j be han the adhesive side of thej^t tamp. This method has been|'n! ecommended to keep the stamp Jtu atact upon the windshield. As an!sa dditional precaution, it has also cr: een suggested that each motor *h ehicle owner should make a rec- P1 rd of the serial number which inppears on the use tax stamp dr or protection in the event the ar tamp should become lost. s^' Kvery owner of a motor vehicle |Bc rtiich is used upon the highways mi hould call at his local postoffice r at the office of the Internal ?? tevenue Collector and secure a 5.00 use tax stamp and affix it ca o his vehicle on or before July 1, 944, the Commissioner said. The arious postoffices will sell the tamps over the counter for cash j~ nly and no mail order business I ,-i:h respect thereto will be con- I ueted by the post offices. Collec- _ ors of Internal Revenue are auhorized to accept cash, post ofice money orders, and certified hecks in payment of the use tax tf.mp. Uncertified checks will not e accepted. Sales of the less than 15 de(Continued on page 2) started Curing The 1944 Crop ieveral Growers Have Begun Curing Tobacco And Work Will Be Pretty General By The First Of July T. T. Ward, farmer and tobaco grower of Longwood, started uring tobacco Saturday. Frank ^loyd, of Supply, beat Mr. Ward o the start by one day and sevr.il glowers in lower Waccamaw o.vnshjp are said to have beaten ioth Ward and Floyd by beginling to crop and cure their crop he first of last week. The first of July wi.'l see practially all tobacco growers in liunswick busily engaged in haresting and curing the 1944 toiacco crop. Some warehousemen dio have been around through he county are reported to have aid that the crop was the best ;rown in the county in many cars. The time between setting >ut the plants until the harvesting i gan is said to cover the shortst period in which a crop has ver been produced in the couny Farmers will have nothing in be way of a rest period this 'ear. They got a late start with ilanting and there have been no (Continued on Page 3) * " S ~ ^^^^MMMMMil lost Of The News 1 All The Time j 11.50 PER YEAR I /ar Bond Sales ~ 1 jood In Some J Areas Of County | irtial Report At Southport ;I Indicates Good Sales La- |I cally, Although Little Is Known Of General Coun- jjl ty Results tLES ALSO SEEM GOOD i SHALLOTTE SECTION dieved That Workers In everal Sections of Brunswick May Show Some Real Results When Reports Are Made rhe only report available on the ;flj i War Loan Bond Sale in 9 unswick is from the Waccamaw ftp nk and Trust Company in fjj uthport. This report indicates ! it a fairly good response is be- > j made by Southport people. ' e actual response may possibly jff much better than shown by the 391 port of the bank, as two other B encies, The Southport Building $tj d Ixian Association and tht t uthport post office, are botk id to be active in their efforts fl le report of Cashier Prince 0'? ] ien. at the bank, indicates that B Brunswick county fails to make . 9 od in its quota it will not be -Hi rough any fault or shortcomings S folks <n Southport and the im- S miace area. At Shallotte a day or two ago, ; th Postmaster W. R. Holmes J d Hobson Kirby, who is one of jH e county chairmen, reported to 3B e effect that things were going dl od. No actual figures covering les were given, however. The postmasters at Ash, Long- ijLj >od and Freeland are handling e bonds and it is understood > at they are doing all they can tR' further the sales and see that eir communities make a credit- Jjjj le report.' At. Supply, Bolivia, Winnabow j d Leland they have ladies serv- Kj % as postmistresses. It is unrstood that all four of these I lies are doing their best to furer the sales and the total will Tljr ow some splendid work having, en Jiy.th?m. -MnEi The United States now has huneds of thousands of men en- I ged in the bitterest struggles I at American manhood has ever en called upon to engage in. lousands of these men are giv% their lives and will never rern to their homelands; thounds of others will come back ? ippled and maimed. Each day' at the war is prolonged will see ? e numbers of these dead and jured increasing by the huneds. The American people who e at home are backing this! ruggle by buying War Loaninds, which is doing nothing^ ore than investing money in tha.. st possible security and at a ' od rate of interest. No city, town or community * n afford to fail to do it's part.unswick and Brunswick comrfnntlniioH r\n nocro 91 VWHWiiuvu v?? ?/ rn Ration Pointers 1 CANNING SUGAR Sugar stamp No. 40 good for five pounds of ' canning - M sugar until February 28, 1945. f Apply to local boards for sup- H plemental rations. FUEL OIL Period four and five fuel oil coupons good through Sep-II tember 30. During October unused coupons may be excharig- _ M ed at rationing boards for new H 1944-45 heating season coupons. GASOLINE A-10 coupons now valid and will expire August 8. MEATS & FATS Red A-8 through W-8 (Book 4) now valid at 10 points each for use with tokens. Good indefinitely. PROCESSED FOODS Blue A-8 through V-8 (Book 4) now valid-at 10 points each for use with tokens. All are good indefinitely. RENT CONTROL All persons renting, or offering for rent, any living quarters whatsoever must reg- . ister each dwelling unit with rent control office In their rent area. In counties not under rent control, persons who feel that they are being overcharged for rents may submit complains to OPA on complaint forms which are available at the local War Price and Rationing Board SHOES Airplane Stamp No. 1 .ant. No. 2 (Book 3) valid indefW nitely. SUGAR Sugar stamps No. 30 and No. 31 (Book 4) good for-. 5 pounds indefinitely. Stamp No. 32 became valid for t pounds on June 16. - 'JL