I PAGE 2 I The State Port Pilot Southport, N. C. Published Every Wednesday I JAMES M. HARPER, JR Editor (On Leave of Absence, In U. S. N. R.) Entered as second-class matter April 20, 1928, at the Post Office at Southport, N. C., under the I Act of Match 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES f'OXE YEAH $1.50 I SIX MONTHS 1.00 ft THREE MONTHS 75 [ Wednesday, July 12, 191-1 Hard P ork Continues i The hard work which has fall an to the lot of all farmers in this county . since the day when the rains ceased | and they were able to turn the first furrows in their fields, is still continuing1. In the case of the tobacco growers the demand for continuous effort is . more urgent than ever. During a normal year with a normal supply of labor available, even during those years when only a moderate crop j of tobacco is produced, the situation calls for a lot of work. This year the crop seems above normal and the supply of labor is hardly more than half the usual thing. From the time it is ripe and on the stalks in the field, until it is put on tlie sales floor, tobacco is a perj islkiMe crop. It must be given timely j attention all of the way through, or producing it will have been a wasted effort. Indirect reports from tobacco growI crs are indicative that they have a big crap and are turning out a good quality 1 of'the cured weed. To do this under existing conditions means continuous hard work for all on the farms. I)oin!* Fine Work A report from the J. Arthur Dosher Memorial Hospital indicates that the Brunswick county institution is pretty well filled. Only two or three empty beds existed at the time the report was made. The hospital has done extremely good and it is this good work, rather than any increase in sickness, that has sjcept it busy since it was first opened. NThc high regard in which it is held by patients and former patients is often attested for and in many ways. Recently the crew of a government dredge, based at Wilmington, took up a voluntary collection among themselves. Af-nnccinn tinn hnt Hiev sent the insti a ICX IKlOOJlif, v . v. ?.?v tP tution, in which a number of them iij have received treatment. It was their way of showing their appreciation of jj, the hospital. " ? And Some Jf ould Change Our System i In reviewing the record of production reported by the War Production Bo|rd up to May 25, last, the world . has evidence of an industrial miracle wrought in the United States. B. M. Bapuch puts the heart of the story in thilty-three words: "The war has been (a (Jrucible for all the economic systems of 0ie world, for our own, for Communisni Fascism, Nazism?all the others. An? the American system has outproduced the world." F$r Greater Service T!he Brunswick Electric Membership * J * - hi. i. 01 ii L'OFJiorauon, Willi unices ai onauuue, has? done a wonderfully helpful work by Isupplying current for power and liglits to hundreds of farmers and several small towns in Brunswick and Coluntbus counties. From the start, several yeafs ago, the organization has functioijed with the utmost smoothness under; the direction of Dr. E. D. Bishop. There s no question that the patrons have been extremely well pleased, r With the good work that has been accomplished now generally known, hundreds of other residents of the two counties >vhc have not been able to obtain will welcome the news that the corporation plans expansion. According to Dr. Bishop, the Unit plans to serve practically all sections of the two counties, where power is not now available. To carry out these plans Dr. Bishop recently obtained a loan of eight hundred thousand dollars. It can be taken for granted that the news of this planned expansion will be received with pleasure in homes where electric current is not now available. \ Just Clause For Pride Brunswick county lias just cause for pride in the response that was made in the 5th War Bond Drive. The "E" series of bonds was for relatively small sums. It was for the man on the streets and on the farms, the j folks with relatively small sums to inj vest. Reports made Saturday showed j that only 3 of the 100 counties in North Carolina had reached their "E" Bond quotas. The final checking up will uni doubtedly show some more counties j over the top. Still, the fact that Bruns- i wick went over on Wednesday of last j week and that only three counties had ' made their quotas by Saturday indicates this county was among the very first, if not the first county to go over the top buying "E" Bonds. It is a just cause for Brunswick coun- , ty people to feel pride in the way they bought bonds. They not only went over their quotas with "E" Bonds, but they bought more than enough extra to make good a deficiency in corporation bond buying in Brunswick. Hitler Reflects German Gloom I Hitler made a gloomy speech the other day, the gloomiest ever made by the once exultant feuhrer. Hard times have befallen him, times of direst peril, times which even he, if there remains within him any sembleance of clear thinking, must know are portent with | inevitable collapse for the Nazis. And gloomy he might well be. Not since November 1912, when British and A vt fmnno InnrJpH in North Afl'i nmci. itciii n wj/u ? - ca and Rommel was thrown into reverse at El Alemain has he been able to claim a single major victory. On every front, the course of events has been the same. Reverses, retreats, defeats, catastrophes have dogged his trail. From Stalingrad and deep in the Caucasus to Odessa and across the Prut into Romania; from Moscow back j along the road of Napoleonic doom to Minsk; from Leningrad to Latvia; from j El Alemain to the outskirts of Leghorn; ! from London to Berlin?along these re- I treat roads, Hitler has found increasing bitterness, peril, catastrophe. While Germans listen hopefully for j some word of victory somewhere, and find nothing to assuage their bitterness and boost their morale but the i terror robot bombing of Southern Eng- j land, the tide of war swings on and on against them with nothing save the spectacle of unconditional surrender remaining as escape from days and nights on end of mounting grief. That is the picture written plainly in the skies over Germany. With the news of every day's events, the picture is sketched more indelibly upon the Ger? - ? i- --- t? _ o ii n man nonzon. xseiore me uerman people, there stands the enemy whose strength and destructive power has reached an overwhelmng crescendo. With them stand only two alternatives ?either to fight it out to the bitter end or to surrender to the Allies. Ahead of , them, only one inevitable result looms J up in ever enlarging certainty?unconditional surrender. That is the background against i which Hitler arose to speak the other j day. Plainly absent was his old time frenzied oratory. Gone was the buffoonery, the acting, the satire, the wholesale attack on Jews and plutocrats, the breathing of threats of destruction and promises of certain victory. Present only were the grim, sobering facts of mounting catastrophe. To the South the Allies were moving north; to the East the Russians were moving - west; to the west British, Americans, I Canadians were moving east. From I north, south, east, and west were coming the planes, clouds and clouds of them, dumping destruction upon every part of the Third Reich which the Nazis once boasted would remain inviolate from enemy bombs. For the first time in generations, Berlin stood in | mortal peril, that capital sounding j board from which Hitler had announced to the world during the first dawn of September, 1939, that the German armies had moved across the Polish border and thereby incited a war which was to make all other wars trifling in their consequences. In the undertones of Hitler's oratory could be heard the ominous thunder of doom. No mortal man, be he ever so fanatical, could listen to the rising thunder of Allied guns from east, west, and south, or hear the never-ending reverberations of Allied bombs blowing German industry into oblivion without accepting the fact that currently mounting disaster in Germany could mean anything short of complete disaster in the end. THE STATE PORT North Carolina Nation In Bon ! ?~ I Enough War Stamps And J Bond Bought To Purchase ( 240 Planes Costing Total Of $6,745,000 b Allison James, Executive Man- t. ager, War Finance Committee, c Greensboro, very proudly announced this morning according to fig- p ures received today from the U. c S. Treasury Department, War Finance Division, Education Section, ^ Washington, that North Carolina r has exceeded all states in the Buy-A- Plane Campaign conduct- j ed by public schools for the period s January 3 through June loth, 1941 ] in the sale of war savings stamps and bonds for the purchase of ] planes during this campaign. v The North Carolina Schools, t superintendents, principals, teach- t ers and pupils purchased for the armed forces in the Buv-A-Plane Campaign: 211 Trainer Planes, $15,000,00 each: 15 Mustangs, P- n 51, $75,000.00 each; 8 Douglas', C47, $110,000,00 each; 3 Mitchells, () B-25. $175,000.00 each; 2 Libela- s tors, B-24, $300,000.00: 1 Flying Fortress, B-17, $450,000.00 each; I and 240 Planes, costing total of $6.745,000 00. C The State of California was second, with 4 890,000.00; The State' of Pennsylvania was third, with n 4,595,00000; The State of Texas a was fourth, with 3,705,000.00; and >' The State of Michigan was fifth, S with 3,350,000.00. p Mr. James also stated that not n included in the above figures re- tl released from Washington, that b forty (40) more planes, costing J $1,780,000.00, or. a grand total of i 280 planes, have been contributed c to our armed forces by North! Carolina Schools. 1t He also stated that during the c 1943-44 school year, the total am- \ a nf onn.nment nurehased bv schools, including the Buy-A- c Plane Campaign, amounted to * S15.041.238 00 j ( The miscellaneous equipment ^ consisted of Farmous Jeep. Amphibian Jeeps. Flying Grasshopper Jeep Planes. Life Floats, Field . Ambulances, Water Tank Trucks, ]' Landing Barges, Motor Scooters, " Motorcycles, Parachutes, Army and Navy Surgical Beds, Bombs. Bayonets, Machine Guns and oth- ' er pieces. Mrs. J. S. Rlair, State Chair- '' man, Education Division, of the t( North Carolina War Finance Com- * mittee, is very much elated and u grateful for the splendid coopera- n tion and tangible evidence of the practical patriotism given by all " those connected with and interest- ^ ed in the Educational System of North Carolina. f< Mr. Clarence T. Leinbach. State tl Chairman, extends congratulations: and appreciation to all the school j J children and school people for the , magnificent support they have; < given to the war effort 111 North, Carolina. Farm Safety Week ? Set For July 23-29 ti ,ti Naitonal Farm Safety Week will, ^ be observed July 23-29?dedicated to emphasizing the need for year- h round care in preventing the farm!'t( accidents which are hampering the nation's food production. j ^ "Statistics prove that the entire g wheat crop of the United States, or two-thirds of the potato crop,' , could be produced with the am- I ount of labor lost through acci- j dents to American farmers last year," Maynard Coe. director ofj the Farm Safety Division of the jT National Safety Council, said. rj Mr. Coe pointed out that an ^ estimated 4,uuu,uuu extra iarm a workers will be needed to help, produce food this year. "Much of this help will be inex-' P perieneed. City boys and girls and [" men and women unfamiliar with I " A farm hazards must be made con- a scious of rural safety," he said. a Among the agencies cooperating a with the Council in National Farm 1 Safety Week are the United States Department of Agriculture, the j' National Grange, the American fl Farm Bureau Federation and The f; Farmers' Union. t Sell the i ( SOME of the gals in everj to pre-war aristocracy ? th won't lay much, if any. Wa offense now. The remedy it Weed out your culls, broody! PILOT, SOUTHPORT, N. C i Schools Lead j id Campaigns j Livestock Dying 1 Over County Now During recent days reports have . een made by various farmers of i attle and horses dying over the I, ounty. ]! In the Cedar Grove section J. J. ( 'owell lost a valuable young milk j ow. In the Gapway area last Thurslay Rex Lovette had a nice young , nule to die. , A few miles out from town T. , . (Theidore) Thompson, young ( on of Mr. and Mrs. Barney , Tiompson, lost a mule. ' ; Although it has not been estabished it is believed that the rorkstock may have died from j1 he excessive heat prevailing at ( he time. Some five years ago farmers of ie county lost large numbers of < rules and horses from the heat. e ine dealer reported having in- ' erested in thirty-odd head that 1 ied from the heat in a single ummer month. t 'tinners Begin Oanteloupe Sale RALEIGH. ? The cantaloupe ' lovenrent from the Laurinburg c ection began this week, accord- 8 lg to an announcement from the 1 tate Department of Agriculture, leavy shipments should begin t ext week. No price ceilings on < his season's crop have as yet een announced. The equivalent of approximately f 67 cars moved out of North j 'arolina last year. Shipments of cantaloupes from It ' * J "C I ( no mugeway nxuun wi wan en ?. 'ounty are scheduled to begin' 5 round July 10. '35.00 Per Ton Is Veiling Placed ? )n Watermelons t t RALEIGH.?The producer ceil- ( ig price for watermelons grown i this State his been set at $35 l er ton, says Randal B. Etheridge, * hief of the Markets division, { late Department of Agriculture. ; Etheridge said this price reresents an increase of $15 per jn over the tentative ceiling of 20 per ton established several eeks ago. He said this should * lean?on the basis of the sale of ,000 cars?an increase of $420.10 to watermelon producers of 'orth Carolina. The new price will go into ef- c ?ct July 5 and continue through r fe season. Ting field Is New f \Iarket Newsman j RALEIGH. ? J. A. Winfield, r rincipal of Angier High school j ir the past five years, has been c ppointed market newsman with r re State Department of Agricul- r ire R. B. Etheridge. head of the larkets division, announced. i Winfield, who for many yearA ' as worked with the Department I s a fruits and vegetables inspec- j ir during the summer months, ucceeds Bailey Rich, now agriculjre representative with the 4 outheastern Cliain Store Council, j, Expert Says Pigs ( 3eing Over-Fed [ RALEIGH 1 "aimers are feed- j lg then growing pigs too much r ich and fattening feed, reports >r. William Moore, State veterin- 0 I "I frequently see 50-and 60- v ountl pigs caiTyfng as much fat v l proportion as would market 1 ogs of 2o0 pounds," declared Dr. t Tcore. He added that "when pigs re kept fat frdm six weeks of p ge until market time, they are o pt to be easier victims of infec- v ion." i "Growing pigs should receive a alanced rations that will deve- t >p bone and muscle, and solid I oundations?and then the heavier I attening rations can be fed to j hem later on." j C 111 Slackers 'j r flock think they belong ey eat aplenty but they isting feed is a pretty bad i a quick trip to market, hens, and early moulters! ' , ? Maximum Prices Oi Watermelons Issued RALEIGH, July 6.?Maximu trices for watermelons, which w nean substantial reductions f[C ast summer's high retail pric< lave been issued by the Office Price Administration, Theodo 3. Johnson, district OPA direct< innounced. The action establishes dolla ind cent prices, F. O. B. count shipping points, and dollac ai lent mark-ups for the vario landlers including retailers. The F. O. B. ceiling (aft Tuly 4 is $35 per ton. The ma: num wholesale mark-up Is 1 :ents per pound and the reti nark-up is 1% cents per poui 'or Group 1 and 11 stores ai :ne cent per pound for Group 1 ind IV stores. More Honey Seen fn State This Year RALEIGH. ? The State hon ;rop this season is the best in se iral years, according to P. I Draddock, apiarist with the N. Department of Agriculture. He said production of honey he central counties is "excellent vith that in the eastern area "f; ibove average." No report wi riven on the mountain sectic lince bees in that locality mu lepend largely on sourwood, ai t is not yet in full bloom. A olonies came through the wint ind spring months in good cone ion, declared Craddock. f*ig Production )n Decline, Says RALEIGH.?There were 12 p ent fewer pigs farrowed in th Itate from December 1 to June han during the correpsonding pe - ?? i- it 0(1 last year according 10 u >op Reporting Service, of tl State Department of Agricuitur During the spring farrowir eason just closed, 140.000 sov arrowed 854,000 pigs. This is i ler cent larger than the 10-yei iverage. The number of sows to farro his fall was forecast at 111,00 hree-fourths as many as the 148 100 last fall. banners Urged To Jse More Nitrogen hor More Cold Yiel RALEIGH, Ju-e 21.?The Norl Carolina Feed Committee has b ;un the distribution of placart hroughout the State telling farn rs they can increase their coi iroduction this year 16 bushe ter acre by the greater use < litrogen, it was announced by 1 >. Coltrane, chairman of the con nittee. The 3,000 placards, which ai wo by three feet in size, git armers the following advici Fertilizer corn. Your Experimei station recommends more sit Iressing. Use 200 pounds of ni ate soda, or 155 pounds of Ca 4itro, or 155 pounds of A. N. I ir 100 pounds of ammonium ni ate. Get 16 bushels more coi ?r acre." 4 t i r; regularities Found 'n Potato Weights 'n Weight Of Potato. RALEIGH, June 21.?Around 1 48 bags of Irish potatoes hat leen weighed on the various poti o markets in Eastern Nor( Carolina and a 25 per cent ii egularity has been found, it ht teen announced by C. D. Baucor uperintendent of Weights an ^ooonroo rlivioinn .Qfofo Donar nent of Agriculture. There is usually a 2 per cer verweight in each 100-pound ba 0 allow for shrinkage but las /eek 13.6 per cent were ovei reight from two to 10 pounds an 1.4 per cent underweight froi wo to six pounds, said Baucom, The farmers in bagging th lotatoes were somewhat of th pinion that the law of averag rould take care of these error: lowever, Baucom explained tha 11 bags found underweight wei irought up to the proper weight. ? v 'RICE CEILINGS SET RALEIGH, July 6.?Raleigh an lharlotte OPA offices have estat ished maximum prices which ma te charged for beer and ale sol 1 retail outlets in North Carolin; Tiese price ceilings become effec ive July 10. The OPA order provides thre irice groupings?IB. 2B and 3i -and classification of retail out ets will depend upon price harged during the base parioi Lpril 1-10, 1943. All retail outlet ,'ho were not in operation dui tig the base period will be classe n the lower priced group 3B ur il authority is granted by OPi or a higher priced group. The National Poultry Improve rent Plan will place greater em hasis on breeding for high eg| roduction in addition to main lining satisfactory requirement or good viability. I Buy War Bonds * TO OA Y For Future Nerds . . . . WEDNESDAY, luLY m I HV I \>v|/^^4 ^ S CV?u ^>v Russian 2T ft --"- , SUCCESS ;$gg| ?1 . VICTORY*'' ft i J*ftf I ^ ^Hnd l4<*v?*i H ? ar I * J ,1-H *+.:. CjlJ ( St __ ~ ? :.1|WACS Are Doing Good lob 1 "I T- A_ **JL.Ir?..i? in nnuy ivicuicai v^uuus K With battle casualties mounting after receiving their basic traindaily, more and more trained and *n? one WAC training skilled women are needed in our centers. hospitals, states Miss Bettie A. Other Medical \\ ACs. after a 'j j Lamb of Wh.tev.Ue Women's Arr. i my Corps Civilian Recruiter. School, Dental Technician Sctiw lc The Army is determined to give or x-Ray Technician School ( m Rl le | the best possible medical care to assignments as pharmacist, phjr. ^R( e 1 the injured soldiers, but we do maCjSt aide, psychiatric sf< -j ,g not have enough nurses and tech- worker, orthopedic tc hnimr ^Ru (,3 nicians to do the job that lies (mechanic!, orthopedic technician ,g J ahead. The gap must be filled by ajde, laboratory technician, dcrtai ^R.V irS women! laboratory technician, dental t-ch- ^R c j WAC medical technicians, espe- nician. X-Rav technician, lip read- ^Rd w cially trained in a U. S. Army ;ng technician l instructor!, hear- ^Ry 0. school, are aiding medical officers ,ng aide technician, braille an<: ^Rst 1,- and nurses to care for sick and j typewriting technician (ir.stnjc- ^Ra wounded soldiers in many military j tor), vacation training of tip ^R hospitals. I blind technician (instructor! ?. ^Ry So ably are these WACs filling ciyaational therapist technician no! the medical duties assigned to J occupational thereapist technician H them that the Surgeon General aide. ^Re (/hopes to secure 50,000 Medical1 Women who are between 20 ar.; * |WACs to aid Army doctors, den-; 50 years of age ami who meet th' ^Rti j, tists, and nurses in the actual physical and edu-ational tequire s. care of patients, to fill vital jobs i ments may join the Women's Ai- H1 ja in hospital laboratories and to per-: my Corps by contacting their ^B| v form equally important administ- Civilian WAC Recruiter, or thev n'rative duties. W ^rite t0 Headquarters (Har la I Women who have a college deg- ?lt? R^ruttmp O.stHct, P. 0. of I ree or two years of college and j Bu"<""g. Charlotte 2, N. C. 3-! experience in this field may be j The first European known to V i-'assigned directly to medical units have visited Alaska was Vitus | attached to various Army stations, Bering, a Dane in the service of K_ ^ evacuation and general hospitals' the Russian Navy. t- mVrnl ^0m w^iere I - h ^oe Marsh " ^att Door|y Versus 4 ^lir Tomato Matt Doorly's skin broke out In Funny how some people ni?h a rash last week. He finally ad- off to extremes like that. They F mltted to Doc Holllster he'd take a wholesome thing and eaten twelve tomatoes In a row overdo It till It disagrees with Just the day before. them-or maybe find they don't -Shucks," said Doc. "That's all happen to like lt-and then they ? that's the matter with you. That want " banned for everybody. r_ kind of eating would turn any- From where I sit, folks oneht l9 body red." to realize there's a middle So now Matt has not only cut J""? everythlng-a middle ?d out all tomatoes for himself. g~nnd of moderation on he one He's forbidden his family to eat ha?l;" and *lerance for 001 tomatoes. And wont even have neighbors on the other. 1 them In the honse. Says toma- /*) /]>/ n 5 toes are antisocial and ought to ^jCt r. bo prohibited by law. (/ a ? ??? Tl 6 1?44, BHWING INBUrrHY FOUNDATION, North Carolina Committee Idfar H. Bain, State Director, 006-407 Insurance Bldg., Roleigh, N. C. : W. B. & S. BUS LINES, Inc. Southport, N. C. BUS SCHEDULES Effective June 16, 1944 J SOUTHPORT TO WILMINGTON y Monday - Saturday i. LEAVE ARRIVE i- Read Down Read Up P ?A A* FM am PM pm pm R 5-45 7:30 slen 6:00 Soll,,,?0N 1:30 3:00 0:30 7:> 1] e!? 6:30 Supply 8:00 2:S5 C:V0 7:0 II _ 6.00 7:45 9:45 4:45 c*4R DnUrio T..<E O.oa 4.45 7*05 10:13 6:15 8:00 10:00 5:00 7:00 Wlnnahow 7:30 2:05 4:30 6..." . 9 0:25 8:15 10:15 5:15 7:15 l.aavale 7:15 1:50 4:15 : (J 6:40 8:30 10:30 5:30 7:30 Wilmington 7:00 1:35 4:00 6 ." M a M Mm i i: I - 7:30 10:45 4:15 6:00 Southport 10:25 2:00 7:45 11:25 8:00 11:15 4:45 6:30 Binlf 9:55 2:30 7:15 10:55 a 8:15 11:30 6:00 6:45 Bolivia 9:40 2:15 7:00 10:40 I- 8:30 11:45 5:15 7:00 Wlnnabow 9:25 2:00 6:45 10.25 , 8:40 11:65 5:25 7:10 l.aavale 9:16 1:60 6:35 101;' H 1 8:55 12:10 6:40 7:25 Wilmington 9:00 1:35 6:20 10:00 SOUTHPORT TO WHITEVIM.F. 2 7:30 Soathport .... 6:40 8:00 PafBl? 6:10 - 8:20 Shafiotte 5:55 , 8:50 Aehe Poet Office 6:25 5 9:10 OH I)oe* 6:05 - 9:25 Tfew Brunswtek 4:50 a 9:45 Wklteville 4:30 SOUTHPORT TO 811IPTARD B 5:00 1:39 9:30 Sonthpori 9:00 6:25 1:25 5:25 1:56 9:55 Mill Greek 8:35 5:00 11:50 5:45 2:05 10:15 Wlnaabow 8:15 4:40 11:35 6:00 2:20 10:30 I.tttvale 8:00 4:25 11:20 6:30 2:60 11:00 Shipyard 7:25 3:55 11:55 SHAtUOTTF. TO SHIPYARD 1 4:45 1:15 ShaHotte 5:35 1:30 I 5:00 1:30 Supply 5:20 1:15 K 6:20 1:50 BoUrla 5:00 12:55 I 5:40 2:10 Wlnnabow 4 40 12:35 6:00 2:30 Lttriale 4:26 12:20 6:30 3:00 Shipyard 3:55 11:65

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