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Page 2 ^ ^ The State Port Pilot Southport, N. G. Published Every Wednesday JAM ?S M. HARPER, JR Editor i (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 Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR .....$1,50 SIX MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTHS 75 Wednesday, March 28, 1945 Hate Intensified More than a year ago many American people predicted that when the - wai in Europe was brought to its close Z many would forget the fact that we - still have a war on hand in the Pacific. Such expectations have proved - groundless. The end in Europe is now - swiftly approaching and with its coming renewed interest is being awakened - on all sides in what our men, planes Z and ship are doing in the Pacific. The daily news may now be full of ~ the impending defeat of Germany but it if being at least balanced by the tid ings rolling up from the Pacific. We - weie told that Germany must be beatZ e'n first and it was a wise war board T tha; made such plans. We might have " forgotten and forgiven the Germans U - ? 4-K ~ that is instlv illUMl Ul Lilt: puiiw?i?vi?w j ? - thers in the flush of a victory over Japan. But like a tiger whose tail has | been trod upon, mighty forces in | Em ope will whirl around to join in the ? assault on Japan?the object of hate r* intensified. : Lu mber Situation There appeal's to be a tremendous - demand and need for lumber on the pait of home owners and people who tl would like to be home owners. An enormous amount of building is being done, mostly in the construction of small but substantial homes. This building activity would be trebled, ac! coiding to informed circles, if it wore ; not for the difficulties of getting priorijL ties for lumber. t takes a lot of labor to take trees k fixm the forests and turn them into finRus?e<J lumber. The government is now KUsih^vvetji' little lumber but "there is no ^Bcsls eking in the demand for pulpwood. 1 In fact, there is an insufficiency of lar not- to produce all that is needed. As much as is the need for lumber, 2 lu nber is hardly essential to the carrying on of the war at this time. To sup ply all of the civilian needs for lumber - at present would entail the" diverting of ? labor from pulpwood production, still a i very essential industry. In a little time, 5 perhaps, there will be sufficient labor fcr all the lumber production needs, without curtailing the pulpwood production. When that time comes, prioriT-. ties are hardly expected to stand in the S way of getting all needed lumber. j* Slacking Attendance Jm From the faithful and greatly dimin^ ished number of attendants at the ^ church services in this county there has 1 recently come some comment over the -* number of church members who absent "v^ themselves from services. At some 2 churches the members are greatly disZ tressed at the falling off in attendance. A member of one of the churches in this county recently stated, with obvi ous distress, that though her church " has a membership of over 150 the aveZ rage attendance each Sunday has dropZ ped to 20 persons. As it is the usual thing for at least a few visitors in the - community to attend each service the - average indicates that only a very Z small number of the members are going Z to church. This cannot be the fault of the pas* tor as he is highly regarded. It just - seems that with the easing up of the war situation folks are forgetting and Z neglecting their church duties. - Works All Right Here *0 Over in the neighboring county of - Columbus there has been considerable - stir in Recorder's Court circles. It seems - that during the recent session of the - legislature a law was pasted permitting ~ defendants in the' Columbus Recorder's Court to ask for jury trials. Such re quests automatically send their cases from the Recorder to Superior Court. It seems that there has been much said about the matter and defendants by lie dozen have been asking for jury 4 - - ior mm. fie is interested in tne mosi trivial thing which happened at home .... the play you saw, the birds at the feeding boxes, the friend you met on the street, the school marks of his younger brother, his sisters' new beau, He is interested in clippings from his local paper. He wants to know that you are well, and doing your share, that your spirits are high and your hope undimmed. Spare him the saddening, the worrying things. There is nothing he can dc about them, at that distance. Letters filled with woe and foreboding onlj serve to heighten'his tension and anxiety. He worries enough about yoi without youri adding to it. Worry does not make a good soldier. Write as often as you can, if only i 'line. Once a day is better than once i week; twice a day is all right too. Yoi have the time. It doesn't take very lonf to say, I love you, I am thinking of you Keep your letters cheerful, and under standing. Make each a little link bind ing him strongly, closely with home. Write often; write cheerfully; an< put your heart in your letters. THE l?U I! HiLgBgg??f?^ I I ? ?L"1" ' trials since the law was passed. The same law has applied to Brunswick county for many years. In cases where there are real reasons for a defendant not being tried by the Recorder, the Superior Court has always respected such reasons and given the parties a just and fair hearing. On the other hand, Superior Court Judges have little patience with a docket cluttered up with small cases that should have been disposed of before the Recorder. Local observation has been that the small offenders who demand jury trials without good cause and thus take their case to Superior Court are getting out of the frying pan into the fire. The law has worked all right in Brunswick county. Fleeing The Gods Of War Barely five years ago the terror stricken non-combatants in the Low Countries, men, women and children, were fleeing from the onrushing Nazi Armies. The refugees crowded the highways and byways. To add to their terror and distress German aircraft frequently swept down and machine-gunned them. All that is changed now: the situation is reversed. Last week, and the week before that, uncounted thousands of German men, women, and children were fleeing in terror across their homelands from the angry Gods of War. There has been no machine-gunning of the refugees but thousands upon thousands have fallen by the wayside, caught between the fire of their own fleeing forces and the now swiftly moving Allies. Germany has been receiving what she gave the Low Countries barely five years ago and the Gods of War have never been more angry than they are now. The end, so far as Germany is concerned, cannot now be far off. T It LMt d cA f-f ?>] jl i m. %j rv vy wi A A c About to emerge victoriously from a war for the rights of humanity, it is pleasant to be reminded of what some of those rights are, and one such reminder arrives with our envelope of gayly colored Easter seals, which help finance a program for the care and education of crippled children in our community and in the nation. At this "time of the year, it fe 4good to remind ourselves that helping others to help themselves is our American way of doing things, and that the Easter seal is a convenient symbol of that belief. We welcome the pictorial reminder that there still lives in this war-torn world kindness and generosity, and the will to protect those who cannot help themselves. But most of all we welcome the reminder that someday those whom we are now helping may help us That is what is known as enlightened self - interest; the restoration of the physically handicapped to productive capacity is the kind of investment we cannot afford to overlook. Generous public support of the sale of Easter seals will promote this end; let us buy them and use them. The Spirit Of The Letter Naturally, writing daily, one soor exhausts the news, ... but there are always things to say. A fighting marj cannot be too often assured that those he loves, love him, think of and pray ? t -TT ? * ' ?i -J- t * it STATE PORT PILOT, SOUTH i WISE j AND Otherwise J Of all the spring flowers, none is more blessed with subtle elegance than the dogwood. Requiring none of the specialized cultivation necessary for garden flowers, the \ dogwood has that beauty which nature creates in its moments of spontaneity Among the many familiar le-1 gends about trees, that of the dog- j wood tree is one of the most beau-1 tiful. It is particularly appropriate j that it be re-told at this Easter season. At the time of the Crucifixion, j the dogwood attained the size of' the oak and other forest trees, j So strong and firm was the wood i it was chosen as the timber for | the Cross ... To be thus used for such a cruel purpose greatly j distressed the tree and Jesus, nailed upon it, sensed this and in His gentle pity for all sorrow, said to j it: "Because of your regret and [1 pity for My suffering, I make j you this promise: Never again! shall the dogwood tree grow large | enough to be used as a cross. ; | Henceforth it shall be slender and shall be bent and twisted, and its : blossoms shall be in the form of i a cross?two long and two short |; petasl; and this tree shall not be) mutilated nor destroyed, but cherished and protected as a re- i minder of My agony and death upon the Cross. . . " "Gee, Mule ! ! !" i "Dadblast your hide, why don't ' you gee-ee-EE?" ' So wrote the late Senator Tom i Watson of Georgia in a beauti- 1 ful description of corn planting time in Dixie. The scene will be ' repeated many times over in Columbus county during the next few weeks. For though tractors ( have come to outmode the mule, they are still relatively few and ! the patient, plodding, long-eared 1 mule still remains the backbone of ' ! rura life in Dixie. The most un romantic of all animals, the mule ' is the most indispensable to the 1 farms in the South. For general onnery and cussed stubbornness, he can take the prize in any show, but when he levels out down 1 a corn row between traces hook- ; ed to a plow, he's the most valu able piece of animal flesh ever to grace a farm. Upholder a mor gages, stabilizer of family credit, backbone of harvest incomes, he's the connecting link between the j farmer and farm profits. "Co-whack" goes the plowline j on the back of the patient mule. |1 Out rolls a volley of unsavory i' epithets at this son of a jackass.!' He quickens his pace in reponse only momentarily. Soon he's back again in the same patient pace of. the animal slave that he is. "Giddap, ye dadratted onnery so-and-so." "Co-whack" goes the line again across his back, as up - the furrow he goes, down to the wood and over to the fence. "Gee, Mule," and around he 1 turns plodding the furrow again, back and forth, back and forth, with the patience and hythm of 1 a clock. The plowman follows and 1 dreams of Mil-grown crops. The 1 mule dreams only of nubbin-lad- : en troughs at mea time. And when the sun of high noon has slowed the step of both mule and plowman to a snailish pace and the mule is unhooked from the traces and set toward the stall, the tired steps of the plowman ; are strained to keep pace with the quickened tempo of the mule who is urged homeward by the 1 irioinn a ...? l 1 a. . ? . ??oivn ui a watering irougn, yellow nubbins and- a rack bulging i with hay. They call him a hybrid, a cross between a horse and an ass, in1 heriting the size of the horse and , the patience and endurance of the ass. He has no elegance, no L poise, no dignity. A flop-earred , mule, with all the unsavory connotations of that uncomplimentary epithet, he has no graceful ' lines, no versatile gait, no fleeti footedness, no flowing mane. Na, ture robbed him of every outward quality of physical beauty. Often L robbed of the capacity to pro( pogate his own species, he is the perfect animal slave. But wherever seed is placed in ' the ground and men depend upon [ growing crops for sustenance, this onnery son-of-a-jackass is in' dispensable. "Gidodap, Mule" is the basic requirement of farming and the theme song of harvest returns. > The Rovin' Repoiter 5 (Continued from page one) r past when industries have sought to obtain an enormous volume of fresh water at some point in 1 Brunswick county. The above place 3 is it for the next such party that comes along. As a matter of fact we have already passed on the int formation about this water to a t concern that may possibly be interested. 1 I We have planted a . crop and It is a sad testimonial to our knowledge of agriculture to say that we do not know what will grow - from the seed we planted. Some weeks ago we planted a bit of , lespedeza, ancj did not have en1 ough seed. The next Saturday we missed out on getting more seed PORT, N. C by some fellow beating us to Kir- ] by's at Shallctte and buying up all they had. A couple of days or i so later County Agent J. E. Dod- j i abn, who knew of our desires, to j j plant lespedeza, presented us with I a thirty pound bag of seed. We i haven't seen the agent since then, i but when we got home and open- i ed that bag we were a son of a I gun if it was lespedeza seed. It 1 was not much bigger than must- i ard seed and looked like that. De- < spite our doubts, which approach-1 ed the verge of being downright i misgivings, we planted that seed [ in the same way we would plant j i lespedeza. If time reveals that ( we have gone and planted an j acre of mustard instead of some, i ] to us, unknown variety of les-! c pedeza, we don't know what will 11 happen to the county agent. t The fresh water fishing season s closes for forty days Friday of f next week. Some gink, ignorant t of the fact that Easter Sunday 1 comes along before the 6th, re- t leased official press dispatches to i the above effect, adding that the t law would lift temporally on 1 Easter Sunday and Easter Monday. The straight of ,the matter ' is that the season closes on April j 6th and remains closed for 40 f days without a break. | ( Dr. J. V. Davis, who keeps j count of such things for his own e personal satisfaction, says that Brunswick county has had only jfive days that were without sun- s shine since Thanksgiving day last iroar Tnlfincr into account the fact S that this period covered the win- 1 ter months it is an interesting 1 showing. c I No reports have come in of any I farmer having started transplant- a Ing his tobacco plants but a few days more of the present weather s will cause such work to become a general. The plants are so well t developed that it appears that it appears that early planting will t be necessary. S New homes are springing up all 1 over Brunswick almost overnight. ( A. trip anywhere in the country reveals new buildings under con- c struction. The hundreds of land f deeds recorded in the office of a Register of Deeds Amos Walton i t are inai-ative that the county is e gaining many new citizens. e t This matter of the Associated t Press and other news gathering, t agencies crediting all of the do-1 ? ings of the service men from our 11 favorite town of Shallotte to Char-1 v lotte is getting on our nerves. It j v is bad enough that half the Shal-! a lotte mail goes to Charlotte and r that plenty of the Charlotte mail ( comes to Shallotte. without all of r The Shallotte folks being referred c to in the press as residents of i Charlotte. A striking example of t bow' Charlotte gets the credit for v everything may be seen in the d story in this issue relative to t Captain Odell Williamson. He is distinctly a Brunswick county a man, a resident of Shallotte until t he entered the service. The story ( gained wide prominence, being car- t ried under four column heads in t many of the daily papers. ( t Purple Heart Received By < Family Of Norwood Brooks 1 (Continued from page One) s class of 1936 and attended pre- 1 paratory school and college for about two and a half years .leaving college to work at the North 1 Carolina Shipyard in Wilmington. He remained with this corporation for about two and a half years, leaving to enter service in the fall of 1943. WELI.S TASF Tfl SUPERIOR COURT < Continued from Page 1) of fine of $10.00 and costs. Isaac McCaskell, possession, speeding, judgment suspended on payment of a fine of $15.00 and costs. Joseph Dyson, violating stop sign law, judgment suspended on payment of costs. Daniel Richardson, speeding, judgment suspended on payment of a fine of $20.00 and costs. Nathan O. Bailey, speeding, judgment suspended on payment of a fine of $15.00 and costs. Herman Smith Almond, speeding, judgment suspended on payment of a fine of $10.00 and costs. Homer M. Bordeauv, speeding, judgment suspended on payment of a fine of $10.00 and costs. Junior Privette, trespass, nol pros with leave. Ray Hocutt, possession, judgment of a fine of $10.00- and costs. Elsworth Rabon, speeding, judgment suspended on payment of a fine of $10.00 and costs. Mildred Collins Peach, speeding, judgment suspended on payment of a fine of $10.00 and costs. Man Ring-Side Seat in Push , Shallotte Boy Gives AP J (Continued from page onej ered with smoke and dult. No Allied guns could fire in or near the area during the drop because of the danger of hitting Allied planes or troops. Thus the drop, at the peak of the battle, came in a lull in the battle's roar. Some flak positions may have been knocked out,, but there were plenty left as two streams of C47s with their tense 'chutists and glider men crossed the river to the north, made the drop and then swung out to the south. I / PLANES ON FIRE The Cub flew high above . the scene at the point where the C-47s . lame out We could see the planes going straight into the fl^k as! ihrough craft .and crews were ar- j mor-plated. Smoke obscured the drop, but not the planes. In 14 minutes long streams of fire as | the pilots fought desperately toi hold control until they had cross-1 ed the Rhine where their crews :ould jump in safe territory. Some exploded in flight. Others I fell at the river's edge. Two at once were seen flaming ilmost side by side as they streak- i !d for the Rhine. "Look," shouted Williamson, pointing. "Look at those poor levils. You've got to hand it to j :hose C-47 pilots, just sitting here and taking it." Williamson whipped his Cub; ibout and cut in close to the two I 'lying coffins. There was nothing j 0 do but just sit there and watch lelplessly. One plane had its moor on fire and the pilot was tradng altitude grudgingly against :ime in an effort to make a crash anding in an open field. The other was burning from he wings. Suddenly parachutes? wo of them?billowed out. The iiiot apparently stayed with his )lane to give the crewmen a ihance to bail out. Suddenly the >lane dived toward the ground.! . But before it hit it exploded with h 1 smoky, reddish glare. |s< The first pilot must have seen tl lis companion go down, but he a itayed with his ship. He skimmed |? i row of trees and crash-landed IP n the ifeld. For a moment it JT ooked as if he was safe. But the g rash apparently broke open the' w ;as tanks. The entire ship was enpilfed in a red glare. No one was;w een to get out. b While this was going on a * tream of transports plunged.11 [Cross the Rhine like a relentless 8 ide. Ih The big picture of war went on P mt some of the little actors were b rone." ! 'r si KILLIKEN WRITES itl ">F HIS VOYAGES ia (Continued From Page One) rj hhaven and stopped at Sadtor,' ^ ive miles behind the enemy lines | ^ ind forty miles from their big ?ise at Madang. Here we unloadd supply ships, took supplies ancf quipment to the front and j ^ irought back the wounded and he dead. Our task3 also included o, he machine gunning of enemy lositions along the beach. About he middle of our stay at Sadior| ve made a small amphibious in'asion at a point about 30 miles ibove there. Here is where X first g| net "Washing Machine Charlies" | Jap Bombers) They came every J noonlight night and each would! Irop a couple of eggs that kept j _ is awake. They never hit anything J iut once, thafe I know of, and that ' vas a gasoline dump. Eight hun-! Ired drums of high octane avia-1 ion fuel went up with a bang. ) After two months at Sadior we igain loaded everything on our ank lighters and took off for ?' Glouster, New Britian. Here hings were the easiest of any- ? hing we met up with. Cape " Gloucester had been taken from1 fj he enemy about five months be-1 ore. About all we had to do was a mload the ships. We made one ja imall invasion at a point one'e! lundred and twenty miles away. |S1 Fishing was the best around ^ S55fiSSS56S6Si5iiiiS6 si DON'T WORRY ANY MORE About Where You'll Buy Your ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES We Are Now The Dealer In This Vicinity For General Electric Products a Place Your Orders ? \ow so we rnn spmw 5 ^ , . . . _ vmajl OVI Y W 0. You First! 8: I: 8: 8: City Cut-Rate Store s! SOUTHPORT, N. C. t\ i: 5: t: mmmmmmmmtmmmmm c WEDNESD> everyday" / : 3-lo-4}- ?. _ ? ere of any place I have ever e< sen. One day twelve boats on ti ieir way to Arrowe caught rt bout 200 king mackerel. They rr eighed from ten to thirty five -r ounds each. fj Again after two months we loved on. This time to Aitape. r lack in New Guinea again. It _ as kinda tough here. The Japs : rere stubborn and the surf and eaches were bad. This is where n came in closest contact with f< le enemy. Once I put a load ofi mmunition ashore, about five g undred yards behind our forward g osition. two nours iaier i aire ack with another load and cruis lg along about fifty yards from ? lore I headed towards the dump P lat I had previously made. All is t once the Japs opened up at E ie. with everything they had, !j fles. mortors and machine guns. < fe lost no time getting out of | inge. On the 28th of November I was, ttached to the Navy for an in-1 / asion of the Philippines. I was 'ith the Navy for about six eeks. This was pretty good for ur Army boys. We ate better ' jod than we had been getting uring the preceeding year. On December 28th, a year and ve days after we left the States, ( re sailed again and here I am, till in the Philippine Islands. With love, RUDY i JILL PROVIDES FOR NCREASE IN PAY (Continued Fri m Page one) rarch 16. "To regulate the salary and !or xpenses of certain officials in le County of Brunswick, State j f North Carolina." (Would allow; ldge of the recorder's court $25 j er month for traveling expenses, I lcrease by $25 per month the I alaries of the assistant clerk of le Superior Court, the county uditor, and the register of deeds, nd fix pay of county commissionrs at $10 per day when in sesion.) March 17, reported favorably j y House Committee; passed 2nd' nd 3rd readings in House; receiv-'p We Are Ah To Serv< COME TO SE1 R. GALL SUPPLY W:b. & ou Southport BUS SGHI Effective Jur SOUTHPORT TO Monday - J LEAVE Read Down M AM AM I'M PM 15 7:00 9:00 4:00 6:00 Soutlipor 45 7:30 9:30 4:30 6:30 Supply 00 7:45 9:45 4:45 6:45 Bolivia 15 8:00 10:00 5:00 7:00 WlanabO' 25 8:15 10:15 5:15 7:16 I.anvale 40 8:30 10:30 5:30 7:30 Wilmlngt 8CITDAY 8C1 4:15 6:00 Southport 00 11:15 4:45 6:30 Supply 15 11:3 5:00 6:45 Bolivia 30 11:45 5:15 7:00 IVInnabo' 40 11:55 5:25 7:10 Luuvale 55 12:10 5:40 7:25 WUmlOgt 80UTHP0BT T< 00 1:30 9:30 Soutbporl 25 1:55 9:55 Mill Cree 45 2:05 10:15 Wlnnabo: 00 2:20 10:30 Lanvale 30 2:50 11:00 Shipyard SIIALLOTTE TO 45 1:15 Shall, tie 00 1:30 8apply 20 1:60 Bolivia 40 2:10 lVlanaboi 00 2:30 1,anTale 30 3:00 Shipyard -DREAMS W J by Senate and senTt^CoiiBL es, Cities and Towns; March^R* ;ported favorably by Senate C'o^K lit tee; passed 2nd and 3rd real igs in Senate: March 21. ra^E ed." I trunswick is I iehini) in red s :ross war drive i (Continued from page Onel I ear that we still have a lot A >re us." V "Let's give till it hurts." aA; ests Mrs. Rosenbaum." And thfl' ive more till we feel betterA CorregiJor, guardian of A touth of Manila Bay. is gK. orted by three lesser fortifiR. ilands. the sites of Forts hu-t.^birum and Frank. Hj CDD CAT cl L V>IV ijrVLiL )ne?48 ft. x 13 ft. Traw er, new Packard moto price $3,000.0 )ne?34 ft. Shrimp Boa straight 8 Chrysler Auti mobile Engine, $1,500.0 Exceptional buy. )ne?39 ft. Shrimp or n< boat. Cadillac motor, hoisting mast and rij ging, two new shrim trawls SI.80 )ne?30 ft. Cabin Cruise core sound built, sleepio and cooking facilities, Cylinder Marine Engiiu Chrysler. Boat in perfa condition $2,50 PAUL'S Machine Shop AGENTS for LATHROP Gasoline and Diesel Motors DIAL B-3266 BEAUFORT, N. C. vays Glad it i j You! 2 US OFTEN OWAY , N. C. fnNES, IncT , N. C. 2DULES le 16, 1944 WILMINGTON Saturday arrive Read Up ] . 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