B jiit Pilot Covers ick County F TEEN NO Bmswick Is Behind In Red mross War Driv( ^Lirmati Reports T h a Bounty $' ?5QO Shoi > Goal In Red Croi ua, Fund Drive ;llote southport KjOOLS cooperatin ^Le Ends This Saturda Final Report Will ^Kdicate to Service Men H Extent Of Bruns 1 n 1_: ! WICK'S D?taiuj( Of War orts from the various coi reveal that Brunswii v $1.5)0.00 behind its 19 V. the fled Cross War Fui li ig to Mrs. M. 1 bau:i;. county chairman. O few dajs are left to rai uou of $0,200.00 and it that tiie county will expre ini _ of the war effort ai eat part that the Red Cro _ in the present conflii tts iron the schools she lev are supporting the dri remarkable degree. Rival) r. the various classes hi t a large amount beii m two of the county schc Southport and Shf rhi Southport School wi match 1100 students h, v ..MOO and the Shallot with approximately 91 s has raised $1,607.00. p it on what each grai two above schools hi will be in next weeli The report is long, ai the pr per too late for pu iVaccamaw school has r $t!55.C0 to date. They a rking and expect to rai lire before the drive enc reports $200.00 and L s laised $131.00. Rosenbaum urges eve) i these last few days e m the hope that Brun u.'ity will not fail in i raise the quota. Repor 11 ether points in tl item area indicate th y are counties meetii iotas but are going fi on't want our service mi ncn to have to read ;nty paper that the cou failed them," suid Mi "Dlooen fomomh It men and women are dyii i>. we still live a routine lit it of us are forgetting b k we think that V-E Day (Continued on page 2) taring Ordered On Xew Bus Rout > Uti ities Commission w ' hearing in Raleigh on Tue tori! 10. at 10 o'clock, i ' application of the W. B. & b Lir.es. Inc., to operate a b '-"tor line over the Riv s between Southport ai Eton Manager Hube oton. of the bus compar ! they plun to institi.te s< ."tst as sxin as the franchi panted. Brief News Flashes * PRESENT PLAY Senior Class of Southpc i) school will present "T feel's Maid," a three act pla Friday night, April 6. T Action is being directed h IV R. Lingle. ?VE HOLIDAY coutry offices will be clos oday in observance of Easti * Board ol' County Commissio * in session at 10 i tit T ie day morning. -VRisj. SERVICE pfec w u be an Easter sunri ' on the garrison at 7 o'clo kr morning. Pastors of all t * "ch<5 n Southport will par n the service and ever r' ted to attend. ,,M M'F Xlt KR n Mrs. H. B. .Bennt ^ dau~ i - r. Polly Anna :-pent last week-end wi J;ves Fayetteville. Wh t Rev Bennett was gut ;'fer a rho Spring. Lake Ba cr.jrr.. .ocated on Fort Brai M , HOME > Arad'lla Long and M b/"'1 ' ?'3m have returned . hcr.r ln Fayetteville ail L. S the week-end with Bk [ ? Mrs. e Lennon Swain "idge, Jid. ] TH .51 Super-I5S jy ld| BONN, GERMANY?Soui vi. i from the air of the Adolpl n- Bonn, Germany, which troo sei have cut, according to Gern i8; broken the Nazi line of supi ss mans announce 5 American ld along a 235 mile war fron ss _ ? Shallotte Boy < 5 Rincr Side Seal il-i ^ Captain Odell Williamson,! te Of Shallotte, Piloted Cub 501 Plane From Which Associated Press Man Viewed do Stirring Event Of The as) European War id SAW LANDINGS OF b- AIRBORNE TROOPS c- Brunswick Man Given Prore minent Mention In Story sej Which Credits Him As Resident Of Charlotte Instead Of rv Shallotte With the great Allied race for Berlin now on and German detenses being overwhelmed, the le Sunday daily papers had great at stories of what is looked upon as ig | the knockout offense against Gerar many. In Associated Press stories a Brunswick county boy, Captain ;n Odell Williamson, of Shallotte, in figured prominently. He was the i n- pilot of a cub plane in which Wts j s. j Galagher, one of the ace Asso-, er | ciated Press men, rode as a pas- [ ig) senger. e. I Through an error which probably arose because of a similarity is in the two names, Gallagher credited Captain Williamson with be| ing a resident of Charlotte. As J I a matter of fact he was born, grew to manhood and entered serg vice at Shallotte in Brunswick j county. The part of the Gallagher ill Associated Press story which conlS_ cerns Captain Williamson is givan en here: g "For the first time the alU3 ways-pessimistic American foot er soldier feels tonight that this is a,l the beginning of the last great ,j.? Datue wmcn win uimg cut iy, to a quick end. ir-j Everything the Allies have, in-1 sej eluding some weapons still on1 I the secret list, has been thrown i | into this battle to crush the most' I powerful German fighting force | I left in the west, and amazing j progress is being made by aj combination of British and Amer-1 ican skill and guts, j 1 followed the Doughboys and ; Tommies from their secret asJ sembly areas to the Rhine over ; moonlit roads and watched the 'attack develop from a front line irt j regimental command post Then1 he'I crossed the Rhine, and finally' ty.j flew in a cub spotter p.ane toi he I watch housands of parachutists by' and glider troops drop into Germany. To watch it one of the best ' seats was in a Cub plane piloted ed by Capt. Odell Williamson of ?r Shallotte. I in_; A slight wind had come up, I [, . blowing the smoke away from! the river and leaving the left I bank of the Rhine in clear view. ; The Cub had to fly high to keep ise! out of the way of some 1,500! elf | transport craft dropping airj,e borne troops from 10 a. rn. to 1J ti- P- m. | The drop was one of the most complicated feats of arms thus far! in the war. It was being made in i ; daylight in one of the heaviest ! flak belts in Europe by slow '[ j transports towng gliders?sitting yj! targets for ground gunners. jje j To meet this threat of the ,stj German antiaircraft defense, ' ! British gunners at 9 o'clock fired _ | shells which burst in the air at Jail known German flak positions, trying to knock out the personnel. At the same time scores of fightrs 'er-bombers hit at German flak ?0 positions deeper in the battlezone. erjThat assault continued for half an hour Then it had to stop so that j the drop areas would not be cov(continued on page two) A est; A Good 4-PAGES TODAY Jighway m ^ FSryfW1*- 1 - ^-- 1BI ldphoto?An excellent photo . 1 Hitler superhighway near ips of the U. S. 1st. Army lan reports. Thus they have )ly from the Ruhr. The Gerarmies are now advancing : t. ; 3ives AP Man : For Big Push! I i i Rusty Does His Bit To Help i Charles Russ, of the Coast < Road Filling Station at Shal- I lotto, was 011 the receiving end of one of the best Red Cross and human interest stories of 1 the year, Saturday morning. "Rusty" Tripp, six and a ] half year old son of Mr. and I Mrs. .Mangus Tripp, happened J in the store and was engaged in conversation. < The young fellow remarked to friend Charles that he wished his mother would let him come to Shallotte every Saturday and stay all day. "But, you'd get hungry at lunch time," said Charley. "No," replied Rusty, "I would not. I have been going without my lunch every day and giving my lunch money to j the Red Cross ever since the drive started." Courthouse Lawn Much Improved Grass And ShrubberyCreating Quite A Different A p p e a r a nee In Grounds Of County Court House With peas planted last summer, followed by winter grass in the fall, the Brunswick County County Court House lawn received additional attention last week with the planting of shrubbery, secured from Orton. The improvement is already noticable. Thanks for the effort is due the Woman's Club, county and measure alsocity offiiculs, espe-' cially R. C. St. George, county auditor, with a measure also going to Henry Mitchell, court house janitor. The landscaping was planned by James Ferger, manager of Orton. Mrs. Eva Roark, had active charge of the planting of shrubs. Mrs. Helen Bragaw has also spent a great deal of time and energy on the court house grounds and the Episcopal grounds adjoining. One Of Five Home From War 1, One Of The Five Sons That Mr. And Mrs. Charley 11 r.,,, I mtl/UTTCII IIUTV i The Service Now At Home I Seaman 1-c Glenwood McDowell, one of the five sons of Mr. and Mrs, Charley McDowell of Bolivia in service, is at home on a 30 days leave. He has been in the Navy for over three years and has seen much foreign service. His brother, Richard, is also a ' Seaman 1-c and has been in tlie [service nearly five years, overseas for the past three years in the South Pacific. Clayton, a Cox1 swain, has been in four years and has spent most of the time | in the South Pacific. Bailey McDowell, the fourth of the McDowell boys to be in the Navy, has recently returned from the South Pacific and has received an honorable discharge. He was a I (Continues on page 4) UT I News paper I Southport, N. C., W Berry Acreage In The State Reported Low State Acreage Reported Not To Exceed 2,300 In Comparison With 6,210 For 1934-43 Average OTHER STATES EXCEED THEIR OLD ACREAGE State Was In Eighth Place But Is Now In Tenth RALEIGH. ? North Carolina's strawberry acreage this season is expected to total not more than 2,300 as compared with 6,210 acres for the 1934-'43 average, according to a State Department of Agriculture report. This State produced 161,000 crates from the 2,300 acres devoted to strawberries last season. In the mid-spring strawberry producing states, the acreage this year is reported at 39,350 acres, five per cent less than the 41,560 acres harvested in 1944 and slightly below the 1945 intentions report recorded last October. Among the states competing with North Carolina in the marketing of strawberries, Tennessee has 9,500 acres in strawberries, compared with 13,680 for the 10year average; Virginia has 3,100 as against 6,700 as the average acreage for 1934-'43; and Kentucky has 3,200 acres in strawberries, 4,000 acres less than the 10-year average. While North Carolina ranked in eighth place in the nation in acres used for strawberries in 1934-'43, Ihis state has slipped into tenth position, according to this year's estimated acreage. Production of strawberries in the four early spring states ? Louisiana, Alatama, Texas, and California ? is expected to be 77 percent larger than the 1944 crop. WeMs Case To Superior Court State Asks For Jury Trial In Alleged Dog Poisoning Case, Other Matters Are Heard This Week When the Recorder's court convened here Monday morning the State asked for a jury trial in the case charging Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Wells, prominent Southport people, with putting out poison, which it is alleged, resulted in the death of three valuable dogs, belonging to Dr. L. C. Fergus, William Wade and Skippy Stiller. The case will be heard at the next session of superior criminal court. Cases heard Monday were as follows: Alfred Garrett, setting fire to woods, nol pros with leave. James McNeil and William King, robbery, continued to April 2. J. P. Warren, Jr., speeding, judgment suspended on payment (Continued on page 2) li kkziah * ^ ^ Dr. J. V. Davis has bought six of the ten beautiful deer hound puppies mentioned in this column last week and belonging to Tom Hickman. The doctor plans to turn the whole six, into a tribe of fox chasers. He thinks that deer founds will be just as good as walker hounds for the swamp graps. With two old and experienced fox hounds to lead them and show them what is right the doctor expects to hear some music from his pack next fall and winter. The spring weather lured half a dozen of the local 'teen age boys to Bald Head island Friday evening. They went to camp out in the open, traveling by rowbat and with a plentiful supply of provender to sustain them, in addition to the fish they expected to catch and did catch. The aim was to stay until late Sunday evening but all showed up at home bright and early Sunday morning. The explanation of their early return was that late Saturday evening they left their camp, unguarded, and went over r pil nmunity 71945 Purple Heart F Family Of Noi I Posthumous Award Given For Shallotte Soldier who | Was Killed In Action CHAPLAINS LETTER TELLS OF DEATH s Brooks Had Been In Service | About A Year; Death Occured In France In November Mrs. Stella Brooks of Seaside i has recently received the Purple Heart awarded posthumously to her son, Norwood O. Brooks, who was killed in action in France on i November 5, 1944. He was a member of Company L, 15th Infantry, and a letter received this week | from the Assistant Division Chaplain, Major Lloyd E. Langford, gave details which the family had not known. The letter reads as follows in part: j "According to an officer, of hisi). company, he was killed in a! j, night attack on a small French I j, villaee. As he led his sauad into! PORT n A Good Coi ednesday, March 28th In Philippines M i 8HM I r 1 T. SGT. MILLIKEN Milliken Writes Of His Voyages Young Shallotte Village Point Sergeant Writes His Folks of His Voyages Here And There (T. Sgt. (Carles Milliken, son of Mr. iuid Mrs. Charles Milliken of Shallotte Village Point, who is now serving in the Philippines, has written his mother an interesting account of his trip overseas in 1948. Portions of his letter arc incorporated herein:) We boarded our transport at San Francisco, Calif., on December 23. The following day we sailed, destination unknown. Some of the boys said Australia, others I New Zealand, New Caledonia, New Guinea, but it was all guesswork, no one could be certain. We had good weather all the way over. The trip itself was very monothonous. Twice we saw a ship not belonging to our convoy. Once we saw some islands. Twenty-one days later we sighted land-. . cw Guinea?that same afternoon we dropped anchor at Milne Bay. I was totally unprepared for the sight that met my eyes. I had expected to find the whole island low, flat and swampy. Instead I found the /wuinfrtr srhMf mniinfoinhiia Bnmfl I VUU111.1 J 'WJ 1UUU4IVUJ11UUW. uuun, I of the mountains were well above seven thousand feet high. I The first day or two I thought II would keel over from the heat | and it seemed as though it rained every hour. The rain that fell 'on the jungles turned to steam, rose, condensed anc^ fell again. Four or five days later we moved on to Goodenough island, about I a hundred miles away. There, on January 18, 1944, we went ashore, j the first time in twenty-six days. I On this island we set up our i camp, unloaded all equipment and jput everything in readiness. About two months later we had ; everything back aboard our tank lighters and headed for the front, five hundred miles away. We passed Oro Bay, Buena, Lae Fin(Continued on Page 2) WING Reporter to pay a cermonial visit to Mr. land Mrs. Lewis. On their return they found that about 40 hogs had invaded the camp and everything was in chaos. All the grub, with the exception of canned goods had been eaten. Even most of the canned goods was covered up in I the stands where the hogs had inI dustriously rooted in search of choice stray morsels. The boys in the party were Douglas Jones, Franto Mollycheck, Bobby Jones, Lewis Newton, Ralph Potter, Charles Dosher and Bobby Creech. In town this last week Gilbert | Reid and Slim Osbom unconsciously gave us a tip to what may be a valuable natural resource of 'Brunswick county. They were tellI ing of their freshwater fishing and 'mentioned a place we had never heard of before. They added that the water was 40 feet deep for a quarter of a mile and over a hundred feet in width. There is a continuous flow in this great ba 8in which should hold about a billion gallons in reserve. There have been several times in the Continued on page two V town, he was fired on "by rifle-|l men at close range. He was hit ' twice and died instantly. He was 1; one of the most popular men in 1> his company. He had a cheerful 1; disposition ar.d was always ready ii to help the new replacements, p Having fought through many n fierce battles, he never wavered nor failed to do his best. g "As Protestant chaplain, it was Brunswick Coi Turning To J jl Protected Her Chicken Flock j ; In ul daylight last Fri- I day a fox invaded the yard I of Sir. and Mrs. Charley 1 Watts, near Shallotte. The animal seized a chicken and was killing it, a performance that was interrupted by Mrs. Watts, who seized a club in one hand and the hind leg of the fox in the other. With- 1 out more ado she clubbed the c animal to death. Mrs. Watts j? is 75 years old, it is under- 11 stood. Her defense of the fea- i thered inhabitants of her f farm yard is remarkable. ? The next day another fox c invaded the same yard. It i t engaged in a fight with a dog belonging to the Watts family, ' then ran under the house. t Robert Watts, son of Mr. and s Mrs. Watts, got his shot gun and put a quick end to the * lurking invader. Holy Week To Be Observed; I Services At St. Phillips Onlt Maundy Thursday, Good j Friday, And Easter t There will be several services at v St. Phillips Episcopal church in j observance of Holy Week. The ( first will be tonight (Wednesday) { and Bishop Thomas Darst will ? speak. i On Thursday night at 8 o'clock t P. M. there will be a Maundy s Thursday service. Holy Com- < munion will be observed in com- < memoration of the institution of the Lord's Supper. On Friday at one o'clock there will be a one hour Good Friday service conducted by the rector, Rev. Cecil Alligood. Easter services will be held at 11 o'clock Sunday morning. Bill Provides For Increase In Pay Measure Introduced By Representative Ruark Provides Additional Compensation In accordance with a bill introduced by Representative J. W. Ruark on March 18th, which bill subsequently passed and became a law, three of the county employees and the three members of the board of commissioners will each receive an increase in pay hereafter. ' The following description of the bill has been received by this pap- 1 ers: ,1 CnavTr 1 Inn 31V?AttU uuuv-cu ujr i(Continued on page 2) ; ,0T [ $1.50 PER YEA> PUBL1SF 'eceived By rwood Brooks NORWOOD O. BROOKS ay sad duty to officiate at his lurial. I wish to assure you that le service in keeping with the ligh principles for which he made he supreme sacrifice. He was laid o rest in a cemetery that is nicey located, and the surroundings lave been developed as beautifuly as possible. His individual grave s cared for with the reverent resiect and honor which is due our lational heroes." Brooks graduated from the Jhullotte high school with the (Continued on Page 2) intv Farmprs I icuppernongs Many Farmers Are Again Beginning To D e v ote Some Time And Attention To Crop That Once Flourished NEIL THOMASTHAS EIGHT AND HALF ACRES Vines Are Now Three Years Old And Growing On A Strong And Substantial Arbor Neil Thomas, who owns and ives on the famous old Clarenlon Plantation on the River Road, law visions of a great revival of he scuppernong grape-growing ndustry three years ago. Acting in this hunch, he planted eight ind a half acres, 850 vines, on one if his farms at Grissettown. The lines have all lived and thrived, ["hey will produce small quantiies of the grapes this year and he production is expected to iteadily Increase, year by year. For the arbor, or supporting ramework for his vines, Mr. rhomas used heavy creosted pil ngs, about the size of telephone >oles, but shorter. These heavy >osts are arranged at each end if the field and heavy wires are itrung between. Spaced at regilar intervals between the heavy losts are lighter, creosoted tim)ers, about three inches thick. It ook quite a pile of the creosoted losts and lighter timbers to cover he whole eight and a half acres. Growing scuppernong grape:, vas at one time an extensive an irofitable indusstry in Brunswick :ounty. Soils and climate combin:d to make the crop an ideal one, ? long as the market held out. ["here was considerable truth in he saying that a farmer who had lome scuppernong vines could, 'Shake a grapevine and get en>ugh money to buy a mule." Prohibition and the attendant sollapse of the grape market cnocked the props out from unler the industry however. One or wo good vines usually made all he grapes an average family leeded. Without any market for he rest farmers who had many jrape vines let them go unattend!d or else destroyed them and used he space they had required for lomething else. During the past few yqears the jrapes have been staging a real :ome-back. Last year the price vas $5.00 per bushel, and that was food money, considering that pickng was the only cost of producng. Farmers began to care for heir vines again and in miiny ;ases began to plant vineyards. So far as this paper knows the light and a half acre vineyard jelonging to Mr. Thomas is the argest in the county. It is howsver very likely that a great many Jther land owners have set out some of the vines. TO PRESENT CANTATA The combine choirs of Trinity Methodist church will present The Thorn Crowned King," an Easter cantata, at the morning service on Sunday at 11 o'clock. Most of The News All The Time IED EVERY WEDNESDAY Board Holds f A Joint Meeting Monday M orning f Differences Between County Supt. Of Welfare And County rnysician jwm To Be Causing Trouble TWO WORKERS CANT WORK TOGETHER SAYS Commissioners Vote In Fa- v f vor Of Dr. Fergus And Board Of Welfare Supports Mrs. .'Phelps; Nothing Settled The Board of County Commis- J sioners and Board of Public Welfare held a joint special meeting Monday. The cause of the special meeting is said to have been the inability of the County Welfare Superintendent, Mrs. Maude Phelps, and the county Physician, Dr. L. C. Fergus, to work together in harmony and cooperation. Dr. Fergus is understood to have charged that in every inst- [' ance where it was necessary for cooperation between Mrs. Phelps and himself she had either gone over his head or had tried to do so. Neither Dr. Fergus or Mrs. Phelps were present at the meeting and the various causes of disagreement and instances of lack of cooperation could not be learn- IX ed. After the matter had been discussed County Commissioner J. N. Sowcll made a motion that in tho best interest or me county mm. Phelps be asked to resign. Commissioner A. P. Russ seconded this motion and Chairman O. P. [l Bellamy voted no. Vj A motion was then made by ! Walter M. Stanaland of the welfare board, that cither Dr. Fergus cooperate with Mrs. Phelps, ^ be asked to resign or be discharg- k ed, was seconded by member George C. Swuin. J. L. Henry a i third member of the board, did i not vote. The following are the minutes of the special meeting as takejt^^? by Register of Deeds ^.nros J. H 'Walton, secretary jx -61'ficio tokffl the board of county commission* W ers: "Special meeting of county com- ]i| missioners and welfare board in ,u joint session, with all members present. "Chairman O. P. Bellamy spoke favorably of Mrs. Phelps, the present welfare Superintendent. He J urged that she stay on at her prosent work. Mr. Henry, Mr. Stanaland and Mr. Swain, all members of the board of welfare, spoke Jr unanimously in favor of Mrs. Phelps. "County Commissioner A. P. Russ held that Mrs. Phelps should resign for the liest interest of j the county. If it was not possible for her to work in harmony with Dr. Fergus. Commissioner J. N. ' Sowell also spoke in favor of Mrs. Phelps resigning for the best interest of the county. "Motion by Mr. J. N. Sowell, i seconded by A. P. Russ, Chairman ffl O. P. Bellamy voting no, that - J1 Mrs. Phelps resign as County Wei- 1 fare Supt. I "Motion by Walter M. Stanaland 9j of the board of welfare, seconded by George C. Swain, that Dr. J Fergus either cooperate with Mrs. I Phelps, resign an the county phy- I sician or be discharged." j | Ration Pointers ! 1 ii PROCESSED FOODS: BLUE STAMPS X-5, Y-5, Z-5, A-2, B-2 . . . expire March 31. C-2, D-2, E-2 F-2, G-2 . . . expire April 28. H-2, J-2, K-2, L-2, M-2 . . . expire June 2. N-2, P-2, Q-2, R-2, S-2 . . . expire June 30. MEATS & FATS: RED STAMPS Q-5, R-5, S-5 . . . expire March 31. T-5, U-5, V-5, W-5, X-5 . . . expire April 28. * Y-5, Z-5, A-2, B-2, C-2, D-2 T? . . . expire June 2. E-2, F-2, G-2, H-2, J-2 . . . 9 expire June 30. Sl'GAR Sugar Stamp No. 35 . . . -V good for five pounds . . . expires June 2. SHOES Airplane Stamps No. 1, 2, , | 3 now good. FUEL OIL Period 4 and 5 (last reason) and Periods 1, 2, 3. 4 and 5 (this season) valid for j 10 gallons each. GASOLINE 4 A-15 coupons good through .1 June 21. _ I i 'J

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