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The State Port Pilot
Southport, N. C.
Published Every Wednesday
JAMES M. HARPER, JR Editor
(On Leave of Absence, In U. S. N. R.)
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Entered as sccond-class matter April 20, 1928, at I
the Post Office at Southport, N. C., under the
Act of March 3, 1S79.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
ONE YEAR $1.50
SIX MONTHS 1.00
THREE MONTHS 751
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1945
famous Last Words: "Well, if he
won't dim his, I won't dim mine!'(
For Higher Production
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ter is incorporated in a news story
elsewhere in this paper, the county
agent is urging efforts towards producing
an increased yield of corn.
Bather than stress an increased ac- '
reage the agent aims at increased producaticn
per acre. He points out that
this can be done by proper fertilization
an* better cultivation.
Any Brunswick farmer who has
found himself faced with the necessity
of buying coin during the past three j
or four years will readily agree with i
the county agent that there is a pressing'
need of more corn production. It
has been impossible to buy corn in j
either large or small quantities. Ex- j
cept for what the farmers have themselves
grown they have to depend on j
substitutes. There is a shortage of corn j
everywhere and all indications point to
this shortage continuing for at least ;
some years to come.
There does not appear to be any pos- '
sibility that the farmer who tries to
produce more corn this year will be
?? miofoi-o WVipro nrartir.al. the
Hill MHi; CI Illiomnv. ?? ~ t ,
increase should come both from increased
acrea.ee and in all cases from
bet er fertilization and cultivation than
this crop has received in the past.
Surplus Property
A dozen years aeo the evolution in j
shipping by water made it no longer !
necessary for the United States Department
of Health to continue to operate !
the Quarantine Station in the Cape
Fear River at Southport. The work was
discontinued.
r,he station, a costly affair, and most
of the fixtures were left there for the
elements to destroy. Many tons of iron
and steel lie there rusting, the water
tank is ready to topple into he river,
and the eight or nine buildings serve
no purpose except as a roosting place
foi gulls.
As much as the passing of the
Quarantine Station from local activities
was regretted the removal and salvaging
of what is fast becoming a
hopeless ruin would be welcomed. Built
of the best of material there is still
much that could be salvaged rom what
the government left for nature to reclaim.
Rivers No Barrier
Neither the Tiber, so long famed in
scng and story as guarding the walls
of Rome, or the German counterpart,
their so-called immortal Rhine, have
been a barrier to the onrushing Allied
A imi nn 4-l-\ 4- ama l? <\ 1.1. .
AI1II1CO LIICIU <11 C StCttUII^ Hit Stalling tlltJ
defeat of Germany.
Why should these rivers be a hinderance?
We have spanned the Atlantic
and the Pacific. With the development j
of the airplane and the creation of |
paratroopers no stretch of water, however
great, can prove a lasting hinderance
to modern fighting forces. At their
best the Tiber and the Rhine are only
legends of past days. Among other
things this war has destroyed forever
the famed legends that the Italians
built up abound the Tiber and which
were created with equal faithfulness
by the Germans for their great River
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nnciij Cixc IIVJ lUIlgAU" UcHTICrS.
Like Cornered Rats
The Allies are fighting not just to
win the war. This time the fighting is
to put an end to, for all time, the German
and Japanese war lords who have
lived by the sword and shall perish the
same way.
The Allied powers are determined
v that those who are responsible for this
v. war, and also those others in authority
who have blindly obeyed the higher
V "HPS, shall be punished in the final ac^
^sj^ting. The Nazi and the Japanese
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THE
war lords know this. With this certainty
before them they are fighting like
cornered rats. As they go down they
are determined to drag with them the
last hopes of both Germany and Japan
of ever becoming great peace loving
countries.
Long since punch drunk and groggy,
Germany is now fighting without either
hope or motive. She cannot win and
knows that much despite the haze of
bewilderment and that no encompasses
the German Nation. It is a pity that she
cannot also see and know that she has
reached the condition where every
blow she trikes will bring a hundred
battering blows in return.
A ppeasement
On the strength of the voting procedure
for the Dumbarton Oaks plan
adopted at Yalta, one raises the question,
"What strength does the projected
organization have to enforce world
peace beyond the power of moral persuasion?"
If the decision to use force
to stop an aggression must be backed
by the unanimous vote of the five great
powers, it follows that if one of the
five is the would-be aggressor that one
can veto the use of force and make the
world organization impotent to bring
the force of combined arms against
aggression.
Russia' delegation at Dumbarton
Oaks held out for veto powers by any
one of the bi? five, thereby snagging
the conference, ^t Yalta, all that
Churchill and R losevelt succeeded in
doing was to buffer the veto power by
providing small nations an opportunity
to register disapproval.
On the surface, it smacks of ugly
appeasement of the Russian Bear.
The Forgotten Front
It is with difficulty that one fits the
Italian campaign into the picture of
total war strategy. Now that the tide
of battle has swept well past the heyda.v
when Rome fell, through the eyes
of a layman it looks as if the whole
bloody affair on the Italian boot might
have been avoided. Aside from being a
major blow to German morale and pinning
down German divisions in Italy,
there is apparent no result which
probably could not have been accomplished
without having pushed the Italian
campaign beyond the surrender of
Italy. ;*-: **($
It is obvious now that the Allies have
no plans for the Italian front other
than a holding operation. Few news
dispatches are released for publication
of activities there. The Fifth and the
Eighth armies, once pacing the headlines.
are assigned to the oblivion of a
pinning down operation.
While decisive battles are being
fought along the Rhine and the Oder,
the veterans of the Fifth and Eighth
belong to a forgotten front.
The First Army
The First Army is more than first in
name. It was first to hit the Normandy
beaches, first to invade Germany, first
to breach the Siegfried line, and now
first to cross the Rhine.
Drop In Ph. D's.
The science department of Time
Magazine recently published graphs
illustrating a precipitous drop in the
last few years in the number of Ph. D.'s
granted by United States universities in
four basic sciences. They were tenned
startling signposts on the road to
"scientific bankruptcy." They reflect
the shortsighted manpower policy of
oqr government, the effects of which
are already being felt seriously in the
medical profession. The training of doctors
has been reduced dangerously.
An unquestioned authority commenting
on the inadequacy of present internship,
states that: "Many institutions,
in their desire to accede to the
wishes of the Army and Navy, have arranged
their intemeships so that an
experience of no more than two or
three months in surgeiy is obtained.
According to the regulations, twothirds
of all the male internes?approximately
4,000?every nine months
will enter active military service with,
at the most, no more than a few
months' experience in surgery. It is
these eager but inadequately trained
young officers who will serve at battalion
aid stations, where t he wounded
are first brought and where expert
surgical judgment is often needed."
No nation, if it wishes to lead the
way toward a better civilization, can
afford to neglect the sciences as we
now are doing.
STATE PORT PILOT, SOUTt
WISE II
AND
Oilier wise
| Libby O'Brien writes from
jGreensboro College (this is a littie
bit of free advertising for the
[ Alma Mater) that she's getting
'along fine. They have lots of
] fun, she says, even though there
is plenty of work to do.
Libby is the only daughter of
Cashier and Mrs. Prince O'Brien,
and this is her first year off at
school. She's on the floor committee
for her freshman-Sophomore
dance this week, a job which
consists mainly, she says, of
keeping them from jitterbugging!
The Rovin' Repouter
(Continued from page one!
the days work he has applied himself
to his nice little farm near
Shallotte. Recently the WhiteHawes
quarter of a century association
was disolved, with mutual
regrets. Especially on the part of
Mr. White, Mr. Hawes was inspired
with the aim of taking
things easier and better looking
after his farm. He probably still
has to learn that farming is not
easier than some other things.
Since the Elmore Motor company
first began operations at
Bolivia the mainspring in the
??kori i rionnrtment has been
ij(cv.nai<ivu>
Floyd Brittion. Before Elmore's
started up he was the same thing
with whatever best automobile
shop there was in Bolivia. He
owns a farm and lives on it,
working on it before and after
shop hours, if folks with ailing
motors will let him. Once each
week he gets a half day off from
the shop and sets out for home
with his tool box. Taking the tool
box is necessary as on his half
WANT ADS
LOST?Ration Book No. 4. Please
return to Albert W. Williams,
Shallotte, N. C.
LOST ? Identification bracelet
with "Margie" engraved on it.
Lost in front of Ruark's store.
Finder please return to Margie
Hickman, Southport, N. C.
WANTED?
Two competent person to qualify
for dealer for the famous J.
R. Watkins Products. Territory to
be Northwest, Town Creek and
Smithville townships. The position
is clean, profitable and beneficial.
To qualify one must hive automobile
and put up bond for credit,
either personal or cash deposit.
For complete information and
qualifications see me at once.
Your Watkins Dealer,
EDWARD S. SMITH,
Ash, N. C.
FOR SALE ? Field Fence,
Barb Wire, poultry wire,
metal clothes lines, nails 6c
per pound, Garden and
Field Seeds, Fishing Tackle,
Fish Nets. Sherwin - Williams
Paints. Farm Tools.
Furniture, Linoleum Rugs.
Cow Halters, Bridles, Harness.
OSCAR HIGH, Court
House Square, Whiteville,
N. C.
LOST?Ration book No. 4. Willie
Strong, Supply, N. C.
TYPEV\TOTERS REPAIRED ?
And Cleaned. Some adding machine
work. W. V. Hammonds,
203 W. Col. St., Whiteville, N. C.
New crop ARTICHOKeTpICKLES
by Mrs. Martin's prize recipe
- ??TTr^TrnTr nr? i.i i.irr
at nome 01 wm^r^ i ^r\rji^rv
HONEY, for twenty years a
favorite in the Carolinas. At
your grocers.
EXECUTRIX'S NOTICE
TO CREDITORS
Having qualified as executrix of the
will of the late John D. McKeithan.
deceased, of Brunswick County, North
Carolina, this is to notify all persons
having claims against the estate or
the deceased to exhibit them to the
undersigned at Southport, North Carolina,
on or before the 16th day of
February. 1046. or this notive will
be pleaded in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said estate
will please make immediate payment.
This the lGtli day of February,
1945.
MART M. McKETTHAN.
Executrix of The Will of
JOHN D. McKEITHAN
2-2l-6-Weds.
NOTICE
NORTH CAROLINA
BRUNSWICK COUNTY
The undersigned having qualified
as administratrix of the estate of .T.
V. Simmons, decreased. late of
Brunswick County, this is to notify
all persons having claims against
said estate to present them to the
undersigned on or before 15th day
of February, 1946, or this notice will
be pleaded in bar of their reccovery.
All persons indebted to said estate
will please make immediate payment
to the undersigned.
This 8th day of February, 1945.
DORA C. SIMMONS,
Administratrix
R. H. BURNS. Sr., Attorney
Whiteville, N. C.
2-14-6-Weds.
PROMPT
EFFICIENT
SERVICE
SOUTHPORT
CLEANERS
SOUTHPORT, N. C.
JPORT, N. C,
I days off ho has more calls to atj
tend to this and that job than
he sometimes gets during shop
I hours. Sometimes he has to work
i all night, making a call on and
'administering treatment to some
farm tractor that has to have its
appendix taken out and other ail1
ments repaired.
FISHING SEASON
I CLOSES APRIL 6TH
Continued rrom page 11
' the law allows. Aside from these
i two days the closed season runs
from April 6th to May 19th.
| There is, of course, no closed
season on salt water fishing. In
I normal times the closed season on
| fresh water fishing comes at a
time when most of the residents
of the coastal areas prefer to go
in for salt water fishing. With all
restrictions on salt water fishing
lifted for the first time since the
war began, it is expected that
sport fishing in the ocean will
get well underway again this year.
MRS. CLEMMONS
DIES THURSDAY
j (Continued From Page One)
Wrench and Miss Gladys Clemmons,
all of Wilmington; and four
sons, T. T., of Bolivia, and J. A.,
I Isaac and Vander Clemmons, all
| of Supply.
Active pabearers were R. B.
King, G. W. Murray, W. M. Blanton,
Charles Jarrell, W. M. Edwards
and W. F. Batson.
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Honorary pallbearers were Dr.
Johnson, Dr. Barefoot, J. Holmes
Davis, Jr., W. C. Scoggins, E. W.
Walden, L. F. Herring, W. C.
Bradley and C. T. Rivenbark.
SPRING FIESTA
STARTED TUESDAY
(Continue? From Page One)
plane, Skooter and other rides as
well as concessions.
James 'Raftery, owner-manager
of the R and S Amusements is
well known here and popular with
his many friends and patrons.
Thursday will be "Colored Day"
and a special matinee will start
at 1 P. M. when all colored school
children will be admitted free at
the matinee entrance gates,
j Saturday will be a holiday for
white school children when a
"Chiidrens Party" will be staged
ifrom 1 P. M. till 6 P. M. and all
white school children will be admitted
free at the main entrance
gates during the above named
; hours. The shows will close at midJ
night on Saturday night and a
| record crowd is expected to ati
tend.
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J. FRED SMITH
SERVICES TODAY
(Continued Frr m Page One)
| Dick Brendel, W. L. Aldridge, E.
R. Weeks, John Potter, Capt. C.
N. Swann, Lanier Furpless, J. E.
Pinner, Dwight McEwen, Crawford
Rourk and George Whatley.
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[ROBT. A. BENNETT
DIES AT SHALLOTTE
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1 ed in the Bennett family cemeter;
i near the home.
i The active pallbearers wer
; Grant Gore, W. J. McLamb, Lloyi
| McLamb, Harry Bennett, DicI
' Causey and Bobby Sommersett.
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HUSBAND WOUNDED
ON IWO ISLAND
(Continued from page one)
Marines in Detember, 1939 am
served 11 months in Iceland. Be
fore Iwo he had taken part in th
invusion of three other islands am
was slightly wounded twice. H
had receive the Purple Heart witl
the Gold Star and a Presidentia
Citation with a Blue Star. He ha
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source of revenue for N
farmers; new factories fc
thousands of jobs for reti
men; increased prosperity i
Here is an industry that is
largest in the country and t
great expansion. Does N
intend to hold its place
industry?
Will North Carolina do i1
meet this war emergency?
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are making stuffed toys for
bers of their nursery class at th'^H
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i friends for their expressions o^BL)
e sympathy when we received wot^Bjw
i of the wounding of our son re^Etfc
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