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5 f . Page 2 The State Port Pilot Southport, N. G. Published Every Wednesday JAMES M. HARPER, JR Editor (On Leave of Absence, In U. S. N. R.) Entered is second-class matter April 20, 1928, at the Post Office at Southport, N. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE TEAR : $1.50 SIX MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTHS 75 Wednesday, January 31, 1945 Since God gave us two ears and only one mouth He must have meant that we were to listen twice as much as we I talk. Keeping on the level also keeps you out of a hole. Adclf Hitler conquered a lot of Europe, but all he will be able to keep of it will be six feet. No woman can make a fool of a man unless she has his cooperation. The way to get to the top is to get at the bottom of things. The bright driver will dim his lights when meeting another car. Men, like pins, are useless when they lose their heads. These Are Important Days We were all wrong last year in predicting that V-Day would come on the German front, before the dawn of this year. The whole country became too optimistic, too over-confident, and this made things all the harder when our forces in Germany and Belgium met with reverses along about Christmas. A month ago predictions regarding V-Day were few and far between. No one cojld see even hopes of it for many months to come. The past month has changed the looks of things again and optimism is once rr ore running high. Even the most conservative minds cannot fail to see ' that G ermany is now the nearest to overwl elming disaster than she has ever been. Anything can happen now and it can happen any day. This week the Swedish press even declared that "the next 8 days may decide the war." ????????T-? Strikes Good Average? But Something Is Lacking !' According to County Agent Dodson, Brunswick county hits a pretty fair average in most farm products and falls behind in two things for which both our climate and soils are especially well adapted. Here is the way the agent lists things Corn, over-average; wheat, above average; tobacco, over-average; chickens and eggs, over-average; hay, I above the average; hogs, above e. The two things in which we low the average are milk cows :ef cattle. obvious that there is something in the above conditions. In the op we are away above the avproduction. We could and should his crop to milk cows and beef The natural grass and long grazison are factors which, added to iy and other roughage should Lhe raising of milk cows and beef a profitable venture in Brunsmtly we were in the office of the' agent when a long distance one call came in. It was from a Hanover county dairyman who :1 100 tons of lespedeza hay, and :1 to know where he could get it 'odson supplied the answer and me day trucks began rushing the ;>d tons to the dairyman, the enundred tons of lespedeza being ed by one grower. 'tically all Brunswick farming are capable of producing around tons of lespedeza per acre; this irery little work save harvesting, inderstood that the county has a ;r of growers who were easily :o supply orders for a hundred :r more. 5 past week Gilbert Reid, of Winsaid he was planting 85 acres ! crop this year. Marketing the s not in his mind as the two car of registered Hereford heifers le added to his herd two years ir.d the calves that have come to since, will dispose of that hay winter during the two months there is not abundant pasturage. 1 THE Are Getting Ready Farmers are now in earnest about getting ready for preparations for the 1945 crops, especially tobacco. Most of the tobacco growers got their seed beds planted the first of the month, a very few have been planting this past week, and a still smaller number have yet to plant. Except for a few days during the first part of January, the ground has been too wet for plowing. This is not holding back anyone from making other 1945 farm preparations. There is a great deal to do on all farms at any season of the year and this is especially the case at about this time. Last year the farmers were not able to do but very little plowing until along in April. They had everything else in shape when it got dry enough and then they kept continuously plowing and planting. It was a late start in 1944, about the latest that any one can remember. In the long run this did no damage. The crops last year were about the best ever grown and certainly the best ever grown under such difficult labor conditions. Now They Know How The Farmer Feels Consumers who recently had the coupons in their food ration books summarily invalidated, can appreciate the problem that faces the farmer under 57 varieties of regulations and restrictions. Ordinarily the farmer plans production schedules years in advance. Investments in crops are made on the basis of probable prices at harvest time. Long experience with the laws of supply and demand teach the farmer what he must grow if he is to stay out 01 bankruptcy. At least that is the way the farmer operated before the age of regulation and subsidies descended upon him. Now, like the consumer, he knows not what to expect next. A government directive may cut his acreage, reduce prices when his crop is ready to harvest, or put him out of business. It is not a pleasant way to live. Tribute To The Orphanage Out of 304 at Thomasville Baptist orphanage examined for the Armed Forces, only three have been rejected, according to figures recently released. Compare that with the 56.8 percent rejected from the state as a whole for physical reasons and you have one of the finest tributes to orphanage training one could ask for. On the basis of the percentage of rejections in the state as a whole, Thomasville orphanage should have had more than 150 rejected instead of the three reported. While one is directing his sympathy toward the orphans, let him withhold some of it for the children out of the orphanages whose home training and care do not fit them for life, as the 56.8 figure reveals. The wholesome food, plenty of milk, physical activity, regular hours, wholesome physical contacts and moral and spiritual training given at the orphanage furnish an excellent pattern for children who are fortunate enough to have parents and a home with them. The possibilities of the vast Russian offensive are enormous. It is difficult to restrain optimism ih the face of it. How Germany can long continue organized resistance against such pressure staggers comprehension. The Russian tide has gained such momentum that it will take a well-prepared German defense system to stop it. And. if it isn't stopped, the Germans are under no delusions as to what the outcome will be. We agree that there should be a liquor referendum in North Carolina and that it should wait until six months after the war. In the case of a victory . for either side now, there would always be the come-back that had the boys overseas been at home, the result would have been different. The best way for complete victory for either side is to wait until that circumstance is eliminated. Two United States soldiers, sightseeing in London, were walking down Whitehall. They wanted to see the war office but did not know on which side of the street to look. They hailed a passing Tommy and asked: "Which side is the war office on?" The Tommy though a startled moment and replied, "Gorblimey! Ours, I think!"?-Wichita, (Kans.)) Democrat. STATE PORT PILOT, SOUTH I The Rovin' Reporter [j (Continued from page one; | the time we were there, Mr. John j i Jenrette paid for four more sub- j j scriptions before we could get out |, ;of the Walton office. He was sending the paper to his daugh-j, ters in Maryland and Washington,!' D. C., to his son, Lt. Addison ' Jenrette, who is overseas, and ! renewing his own subscription. [Only his own subscription could ] be counted for Ash, and it was a i renewal. However, there were ' ; plenty of Ash folks to run FreeI land a close race towards swelling the Waccamaw township list , of new readers of the Pilot. Longwood also piled up a nice ' little list of new subscribers to , help make Waccamaw township . j a real contender with Shallotte,j j : where the number of new subscribers to the paper has grown j to a very gratifying number. We 'have been going to ShallottS regj ularly every Saturday and it was j ' a very bad day when we did not ; get a dozen subscribers, along | with news matter. After one of I these Saturday trips to Shallotte we added 34 new and renewal subscriptions to the list. | The present day terms of criminal couit still have their Judge, Solicitor, Sheriff, Clerk, Lawyers, Defendants, Jurors and Witnesses, j The court rooms, too, arc still the same. But in spite of these unchanging regularities there is a vast difference between the terms of court of today and those that were held 20 years ago. Take Southport, and the Brunswick county terms of court. In the old days, owing to the fact that the Steamer Wilmington, on which the judges came to town,! did not arrive until noon, it was formerly the custom to open each term at noon on the first day. Ten j o'clock in the morning would suit for other days; they usually held j night sessions, anyhow. At the recent term Judge John |J. Burney was about first to arI rive. He opened court promptly I at 9:30 each day and closed a'. five, except on those days when the jury had a stubborn case. Folks arriving for court last week usually marched straight up; stairs, they circulated very little about town or the court house I except during the one hour rei cess for lunch at one o'clock. The medicine shows of other days were not here last week, neither were the horse traders or newspaper and magazine subscription solicitors. The nearest to a horse trader was Squire Afton Smith with his old dray horse which he kept hitched in a very conspicious spot. That Hammerhead attracted considerable attention, even though it would net take any beauty prize at a horse show. Twenty years ago one of the first things folks did after arriving in town for court week was to be sure they could find a place! to eat and sleep. As a rule, they came expecting to have to spend the whole week here. In this expectation they were seldom disappointed. They also had to fir.d stables for their horses or mules as automobiles were not so plen-| tiful then. C. Odell Bennett, of Exurn, Waccamaw township, is credited by various of his neighbors with i CIRCULATING OIL HEATERS Operation of these heaters is simplicity itself. Burners contain 110 mov- \ ing parts, no wicks, no lighting rings. Bum No. 1 Furnace Oil, Range Oil or Kerosene. ALSO HOT WATER HEATERS COAL RANGES OIL RANGES WOOD COOKSTOVES Wood or Coal HEATERS FOR 1945 K ' City Cut-Rate Store SOUTHPORT, N. C. , I PORT, N. C. laving the finest Austrian Winter fields in Brunswick coifnty. He has six acres in the legume, planted early and thick and now has a dense m;MS of the vines that are almost knee high. In the planting of this legume some of the Brunswick farmers ire said to plant barely 25 or 30 pounds of the peas to the acre. This often results in a poor stand and much slower growth than would result if the seed was planted thicker. Mr. Bennett is understood to Pave planted 65 pounds of the seed per acre and he started off the crop with 400 pounds cf 18 acid per acre. When it comes time to plow under those peas to make ivay for this years corn crop his tractor will have a job. Depending on the growing season, he is expecting to make 50 to 75 bushels of corn to the acre, following this legume. Saw in the paper where a Columbus county man was down on Waccamaw River one day a couple of weeks ago. He carried home with him four fine large mouth bass, the four weighing sixteen pounds. His catch would have larger but his bait ran out. As most fishermen would have guessed it, he was using live minnows for bait. At this season of the year nothing will approach live minnows as bait for either large mouth bass or perch. Despite the general belief, the bass will bite just as well or better during any mild winter day as they will in summer. Get a day when the wind is from the south and it is mild, be sure and have a supply of lively minnows and if the bass are there you will get your limit, if you know anything of fishing. TTVnm now until lntp> Rnrinp" minnows will beat anything with which you could bait your hook. When fish have spawned in late April and the waters are full of minnows there is little use in using them for bait. From May until hot weather a plug or other artificial bait is best. Plugs are also pretty good for the big fellows in March and April. For June, July and August plain angle or earth worms are the best bait for bass and perch. Shrimp is also highly regarded during those months. With February just around the corner, many Brunswick folks are getting a strong case of the family garden fever. With the soil and climate it is a pity that this fever does not last the whole year round. The general disposition is to plant everything in the spring and have so much stuff in the late spring and summer that most of it goes to waste. We should treat our gardening fever so as to produce some crop or other for the table every month in the year. It can be done. For this section of the state onions sets, radishes, English peas and Irish potatoes may be safely planted after the middle of February, provided the ground is not too wet for preparing. March should see a continuation of onion, Irish potato and English pea planting. Other crops may also be put in the garden plots, viz: beets, carrots, collards, mustard, parfcnip, mdish, spinach, lettuce, etc. Many farmers plant corn in the fields during late March in the average year. Thev are unable to get about this last year because of the continued rains. April brings weather that permits of the planting of practically every kind of garden crop, whether they are hardy or tender. In this climate anything that grows in a vegetable garden for use in the spring and summer can be planted in April. Even so, we have now reached the season of the year when any Brunswick home should begin the preparation of garden plots and the planting of the more hardy things. A young lady out in the country was telling us the other day that she read everything in the Pilot. She complained of one thing, however. She said that everything in this Rovin' Reporter stuff was about men that we never mentioned the women and it was not fair. Come to think of it, she may be right. Don't remember when we have written anything much about women folks in this column. When we had anything about them we always chucked it around somewhere else. This course was followed without any discrimination in mind, as most of what finds its way in here is bum stuff, anyway. But, to please this young lady and others, if there are any, we aim to write a whole column in a week or two and in that column we will not mention a single bum. It will all be about the gentler sex and we aim to bestir ourself during the next week or two in the effort to find something interesting to say about the women. At the moment we have not a single girl or woman in mind to write something about, who and what we write about will have to be dependent on. circumstances and happenings during the next two weeks. CAPT. WILLIAMSON TELLS OF DIVISION (Continued from page One) ?which battered open a passage through the hedgerow country allowing American armor to fan out over France?by a series of successful offensives against the Germans. At the outset the 30th drove the Germans back across the t ire River. Then in a spectacular attack the Old Hickorymen forced a crossing of the Vire Rivi er and opened the drive on St. ' Lo. Those battles in the hedgerow ' country were real slugging matchj es, every foot of advance being i skillfully and stubbornly contested and they were complicated by rough and frequent' counter-attacks. However, some of the heaviest fighting remained to he accomplished by the 30th after had given the "green light" to the armored drive. That occurred in | the Mortain-St. Barthelmy sector when the 30th took over the area :of the First Division at a time i when four German panzer divij sions struck in the most poweriful blitz offort of the campaign, I to drive through to Avranches and Iseperate the American First and Third Armies. It was there that infantry riflemen with bazookas, artillery and tank destroyers, cooks and messengers, witn the help of U. S. planes and RAF rocket firing Typhoons finally threw back the Ger man tanks in a battle that sce; sawed for three days before the : Germans concluded that they were I no match for one American divi| sion. In this same battle, the great defensive at Mortain-St. Barthelj my, a battalion was isolated on a hill near Mortain, cut off without food, ammunition and medical supplies for five and a half days and despite the fact the I harassed infantrymen were under | constant enemy observation, artilj lery and mortar fire, they refused repeated demands to surrender. The 30th Infantry Division was commended for its heroic stand! ! for the courage and skill of its men who refused to let overwhelj ming odds discourage them in jthe battle against tanks at St. Barthelmy, and for the loyalty and stamina of the members of the "lost battalion" who defied surrender demands, their spokesman telling the German officer: "Go to hell. We wouldn't surrender if our last round of am, munition was fired and our last bayonet broken off in a Jerry belly." ! This battle of the 30th against i the best of the German armor started on the night of August 7-8 and a week later the Old Hickorymen again were forcing ! the retreat of the Germans, i The 30th Troop drove rapidly ] against the Germans to free | Evreux and Louviers, then cross, i ed the Seine at Mantes Cassicourt , i to enlarge the bridgehead there ' and prepare for the next breakthrough, this time into Belgium. An opposed infantry speed march record was made and another commendation won when on , August 31 and September 1 the 30tH' dashed to Tournai, Belgium, covering 180 miles through ene! my occupied territory in 72 hours. ; The march was motorized during ! the last two days and was screenj ed by a task force of the Division. The 30th was the first allied injfantry division to enter Belgium. | Still disrupting German efforts | toward an orderly withdrawal, the Old Hickorymen drove on to I become the first allied troops in i Holland, arriving there on Sep! tember 12, after having captured the famous border fortress, Eben Emael, on September 10. Maast.richt, Holland, fell to the 30th on September 13 after which Old 1 Hickory troops fought on into I uermany, advance elements crossing the border at Horbach on SepI tember 14. The attack on the Siegfried [Line started October 2, continu|' ed for two weeks, to establish the bridgehead in what was rreputed by the Germans to be their "impenetarble West Wall.'" More than 1,500 battle decorations have been awarded officers and men of the 30th Infantry Division for gallantry in action and meritorious service in the ! Seth ========== WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, mons, G. V. Snath. Corbet (y ' lace of*Z Infantry Division is man, B. A. Milk, F n. ^B The 30th Man y General L There were plenty of -.hers b commended by ? J de_ he could not ,( C5U S, Hobbs who has who they were. corated. 0-Kinally built The demand, for dy imtte [ - ? Although it was s National farming purposes has become ,u H 'around troops cgsee Geor- great that M. C. Gore of Ur,.. ^B Guard Units and thus wood, has built a sto oge hour* ^B gia and the Car Hickarv from for the explosives ami is isatke.. gets its name, whQ ing it extensively among ai. President ^rewjac* ^ farmers of the county. ^ H offiSrand men represent all cmzEN . States in the Union. D1ED THURSDAY ] " The Division climaxed a color- (Continued Fion: P; One. , ,Vmrid War I history by cracK- Surviving are his wife. Mr>. H the Hindenburg Dine, paving B(?..tha McKeithan. on s r.. E?. Bp v for Germany's ultimate gene; and a daughter. Shirley; a ^B th? ^ \hen Will history repeat sigtor, Mrs. He: mar Cm 0( de Wilmington, and a bother, Phfl. ^B itse*f ' ___ lip McKeithan, of New York. rr.MPANY ADOPTS I Funcf.il services w re held a , ?r Ofll rv Trinity Methodist ch ch Fielay ^B A - (Lp,I frrra page One) 'afternoon at B.:0. The sciviccs V! iwontinu leave of ab- were conducted by Ret. 0. I. H.-, B ptoyees on 1 Armefi Forces or gcn v;ho was assisted by Rev. *" sence in tne ^ crediti for L Brown. interment was in the MfrCh nefit and' pension puposes, No thw:od cometriy. all benefit 1 services. Active pallbearers were John H. for timespem^J^ D Eriksen. J. A. M.Neil, ,w W> ,, ii To R?ach Lewis, Edwin Dozier. p. B. R Jury Unable - i Thompson and LeRoy Swain. Hon- B Verdict !n Tom lo S iorary pallbearers v F.. p. Wk Case; Orders Mistrial iWeeks, b. L. Furpl. ss. G. k. { (Continued from pa? Hubbard. J. E. Smith. \Y F. Jor.. H 5130.00 and defendant Jto ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ g good behavior f Richmond Fullvvoorl iiAira J cut o. . Douglas Ballard, murder, con-i ' tinued for defendant. I Mrs. A. \V. Detwillrr and bahEdward Young, murder, con- are visiting relatives in Ja k tinued. | ville, Fla ' " n" > Joe Brooks and Pat O'Quinn,; ___ disturbance and assault, continuJ. B. Carlisle, aid and abet in illsW I receiving stolen goods, continued. ,fralr,r-' J' 1 9 L Between criminial cases eight f\ B 5j% ^ H civil motions for divorces were I -III 11% v.' heard by Judge Burney, the div- w'wfcaSww B orces being granted in all cases. . . Tvrri-ra, H ! Act promptly, N other, tr. he'.a rc;^Vl, B I muscular soreness or tight/less, ccnr-s- B FARMERS USING 1 tion ar.d irritation in uprcr br;. ,.rMUCH DYNAMITE I passages, fits cf coughing-duc u V FOR DITCHING M?^ ?^<icksVaPiRlib---': W (Continued From rage One) FtNETKRTtStoupp:rbronchiil 9 for L. C. Babson, Bailey King and' tubes wit tuts special medicinal vapors, fl others in the Freeland community.| STIMiiLATIES chest: ar.j bad; 9 Lonnie Evans, of Ash, stated surfaces like a vanning poultice. that there was nothing like dyna- Often by morning nost of the B mite, either in these days of la- I bor scarcity or at ether times. ONLY VflPORt c Cive. /otl thisspc- 9 Among the farmers of his com- r'.a h?,3 ','f B ..b . . .. . ; home-provea...Uie best-%novn horns munity whom he mentioned as us- remedy for relviv- a 9t ing it and liking it were Lester , ing miseries of 'J ? 9 Babson, G. W. Cox, W. V. Sim- children's colds. \y VAPODua B I DYNAMITE I I "THE PARKER'S RBT I Best Thing Fer Ditching, Blowing I | Out Stamps and Other I (Farming Purposes. I I have a large supply on hand at 9 absolutely the best prices. I (Get Your Permits And See Me I For What You Need. I M- C GORE I Long wood, N. C. |\l I FERTILIZERS I GROCERIES ? FRESH FISH I VULCANIZING, AUTO PARTS AND REPAIRS I SHEET ROCK, DOORS, WINDOWS, ROOFING B ODELL I5LANTON 1 SUPPLY, N. C. I ji BIG SELECTION I m Good Young Mules, I A _ Ttl? A _ V_.?> I LAS nne AS IUU VC * Ever Seen. Don't ^ Miss Them! ur mules before trading or purchasing. L. Smith & Co. WHITEVILLE
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