I fhc pilot Covers ?runs\\ick County rg^TsiXTEEN ' N fa|| Federation Friday Night At Shallotte School , _? Demonstration Clubs OITIC . , _ .ill TL *_ r Brunswick 10 noiu ineir Annual Fall Gathering Friday Night VILLAGE CLUB WILL SERVE AS HOSTESS flub Workers Feel That It Mil Be Well Worth While For All Club Members and Friends To Attend demonstration clubs jf Brunswick county will hold Fa Federation at the Shalt::? hi:.:: school on Friday. The rjienn- "ill be held at six ; >;k the afternoon. The jaEotte Village Club will act as cSes> members of all clubs expected to bring a picnic pfW Hie i a ting will be in the i..:: f a Hobby Night. All jibs will have exhibits and every pjb member is asked to confute something interesting for lese e hibits. The Brunswick UBity club women have created srv interesting things and they pre the public the opportunity i seeing their work. The principal speaker for the wring will be Miss Virginia yard. Family Life Coordinator (rem Wilmington. Miss Ward is icatar.dmg in her line of work i: it is felt that all who attend cii be greatly benefitted by hearEg her Many other interesting rents are on the program and X.-.- McLamb and County Agent Jejson feel that it will be well conn the time of Brunswick treaty people to attend. Many Recording Their Discharges Great Number Of Former Service Men Now Recording Their Discharge Papers At Court House So many Brunswick county lemcr service men have been recording their discharge papers fcnng the past week that this paper has been unable to keep up r.th the publication of a brief reRime of all these discharges. About 50 sets of papers recorded during the past two weeks are still waiting mention in the paper. It is hoped that a larger list can be carried next week. Following is a brief outline of #me of the discharges recorded tang the past few days: NEILS JORGENSEN ?Home, Sesthport, honorable discharge Item the Navy at Navy Personnel separation Center. Shelton. Virfx,a. October, 1945. (Navy disdurges as recorded do not show fegth of service.) P1NKEY A. FELDER?Home, Mancl. Entered service May, Honorably discharged Oct bet 1945. Served in Northern Solomons. Eastern Mandates, " ears American Defense Service (Continued on Page 4) Brief News Flashes WILL CLOSE The county offices will close on b'ontlay in celebration of Armistice Day. according to R. C. St. worge. county auditor. office to close The l" a| ration board will be tosol for the day on Monday. ^ntiistigc Day. home coming day Members of Soldier Bay Baptist torch at Ash, are planning a Hone i ,ing Day for Sunday, 'Member 11th. Dinner will be cr the grounds. The public is ?*ire 1'iiipless, well known ^o'hport niall owner and opot f>i > [,o Amuzu Theatre, has 1'i;> ill in the J. Arthur >kher mrnioria! Hospital ham shits stop ,, ipV :-aval craft travelling ' inUivj waterway are putting P at Southport or Fort Caswell * lh? night, even when they Uirtugh hi the middle of w"'V' NIus' 01 these craft are - bouts. When they do not e to run over to the Fort they ?LP.: up on the river beach -icH of! when they get ready v.,:;4?* -'-veral Jleeti of tfc? iive slipped the past week, s THE; O. 33 6-PAGES Tt TOKYO K f : . ^vrr'.:/: . ,,.. . -'-. * >< i ' ;,^1. : mmSrSnSWIh^ I- HHH Above are two official U. S. Navy photogra newest and most powerful of the Fleet. She wa i the early Solomons campaign to the final knoc part in seven major bombardments and numeror J forced to lay in for repairs. Top picture shows bombard the Japanese homeland. Below she is days ago. Serving with the Indiana as a Sea ma son of Captain and Mrs. C. N. Swan. The youn to arrive home the latter part of next week. Ex-Servicemen Are Victory Bonds * , *ll \?/l TU. rinkfinir I f .PPlfitt ) 1TICI1 f? 11V VIU m maw a f .. _ Know What Victory [)q Means And Realize Price _ Of Victory Must Be Paid | Sjnce Arm ! ber 11th, fa] FINAL DRIVE OF WAR year, the lad IS NOW GOING FINE of the Brun American Le Workers Urging The Public planning to To Invest Their Money the uso buil By Buying Bonds In of thu week This Last Drive operating wit this event. Agencies which handle the Vic- ~ tory Bond sales are not allowed yfn In rr to reveal the names of persons Jldld^ who have bought bonds. That is 1*t I a private matter between the sell- W O < ers and buyers. This paper learn- ' ed this week, however, that quite a number of ex-service mep, some Cpl. Audi ! of them low ranking Army and I Poorly I ; Navy men, have been stepping up; wise Ti 1 and buying Victory Bonds. German These men know what a fight' ? " .1- /-? 1 A for victory means. Now tnai tney j v^pi. nuuic j have fought and won they appre- and Mrs. R. [ ciate better than many of the! received his | stay-at-home folks that the ex- Army at F< | pense of winning victory, as well j California, la as the fighting, is something 1 at home. In ! that must be paid. j day he said | This week LeRoy Mintz, chair- ' c'ded whethe I man of the Victory Loan Drive ' farming 01 in Brunswick county, is hopeful, thing else. He said the county has gone over Cpl. Phelps ' the top in all previous war bond 'n February, I drives, and it must in this?th . European the greatest of all. Like confidence an<' was take in the outcome is being shown crn Holland by Prince O'Brien of the Wacca- 0,5cr- 1944. 1 maw bank, which has been trie a German pi of the most active selling agents fined there in all of the War Bond dnves. Fro"1 this ca J Mr. O'Brien said yesterday, "We hy the Amer have just got to go over the top May 3rd of in this drive, and we will." j He sufferec Mr. Mintz is asking that alj (Contini [selling agencies, all committees, i [and others interested in the sue- D-. ! cess of the Victory Bond Drive,' Dig iYU i go the limit with efforts to put: I Brunswick county over the top ! during the next four weeks. Union Revival 1 Ended Friday Rush ? On Monda; Union Revival Services At rusl1 t0 Pay Auditorium Of Southport ?W'ce of Ts High School Came To Jorgcnscn. M >| End Friday Night uss.stants, M I " Miss Wilma The two weeks Union Revival, ^uf\v a" day particpated in by a!! Southport an4 times VVhite churches and with services | a number ofat the high school auditorium I lnS 1? bp w'a each night and at the Baptist ! Recent inqi I church each morning, came to a collections f< close Friday night and is said to' are far kboi ' have been the most inspiring and j this time of i helpful revival held in Southport, tions have 1 , in many years. ! towards the I Large audiences* attended each I ing the past : service. The preaching was done J This year, it by Rev. At. J5- Tyson, pastor of i lections will the Me the lit t church at rover.' the tctn ti (Continued on page 2) *j (Contini * \ * # i "V STATE I A Good News paper Ii PDAY Southport, N.'C., Wee iOUND AND HOME jL r. / ' - 1 '*?* ^ I iphs cf the mighty battleship USS Indiana, one of the is one of the Navy's mainstays for three years from kout blows against the Japanese homeland. She took is air strikes. Only once in her combat career was she her headed to the task of being the first battleship to shown as she arrived at home on the west coast ten in first class for two and a half years is Reese Swan. I g Southporter is expected to receive his discharge and | Buying Mrs. Walker T ^ . Died Last Week In Drive -? ; Mother And Son In Widely t Known Brunswick Family I \ o , i Buried In Oakdale Cerae- i nee saiurauy tery 11 istice Day, Novem- Mrs. Emma Mercer Walker, a j < [Is on Sunday this natjve of Brunswick county and j, ies of the Auxiliary member of one of the widely swick County Post imown families in this section ] gion, No. 194, are C|je(| ear[y Saturday morning in j stage a banquet at the james Walker Memorial hos- g Iding Saturday night pital in Wilmington. She had been . The Legion is co- sjck only a short time and her t Lh the Auxiliary for clea.th followed by only a few hours that of her son, Calmer D. j * Walker, who died in the United < i Veterans Hospital at Bay Pines, V eteran ! Fla., the preceeding afternoon. ^ |i The body of Mr. Walker, a vet- . ! fortunate eran of the Spanish-American war, was brought to Wilmington and a double funeral for mother ie Phelps Was and son was held Monday after-1 Fed But Other- noon at 4:30 from the home of , eated Well In Mrs. Walker's daughter, Mrs. C. Camp L. Dickinson of Princess St. Rev. J. F. Herbert, pastor of Grace Phelps, son of Mr. Methodist church, officiating. : L. Phelps of Supply, Burial followed in Oakdalc come- j discharge from the tcry. I ^ art Winfield Scott, Mrs. Walker, the widow of the !. st week and is. now late Henry Fulton Walker, is sur-1 ( the Pilot office Mon- vived by one daughter, Mrs. Dick- j he had not yet dc- inson, and by eight grandchildren. ' | r he would go back She was an aunt of the late C. Ed 1 J - have a try at some- Taylor of Southport and had many i other relatives in Brunswick. ( entered the service Mr. Walker is survived by three i ] 1942. served in the daughters and one son. 1, "atre of operations, pall bearers for Mrs. Walker ; n prisoner in North- a( the double funeral were: C. M. j i on the 29th of Oct- ; wade. Edwin Taylor. Badger . Wi-? ufic onrrir?1 fo I > & i*v vf,4VM vw wnunuea on page two 1 ison camp and con for seven months. i??????? 7??^?????? mp he was liberated ^PJ" ican Ninth Army on | nj y B SviW m, ,#j[| I shAt O RC Tax Office' pPfjf tents rar rtuv*vi For This Season I w- E- KEZIAn Year; Monday A y At Office Bailey Russ, shallottc farmer i | and dairyman, asked us Saturday | y there was a big i if we had ever seen azaleas bloom- i county taxes at the ing at this season of the year. Wc I lx Collector W. P. j had not until this year. A. number < r. Jorgcnsen and his: of others had asked the same thing ( iss Louise Reese and1 and we had seen a number of < Barnett, were kept such bushes blooming. Wishing 1 making out receipts some official information about it,. J during the day quite, we asked Jim Ferger, of Orton taxpayers were wait-,Gardens, how come? He said tlieyj ited upon. | were off season blooms, resulting I lilies reveal that tax j from rainy summer and fall. He 1 >r the current year j added that the same bushes would 1 re the average for ] bloom again at the usual time in ' the year. The collec-1 the spring. un unusually high.1 otal assessment, dur-1 While on the subject of flowers, 1 two or three years. I the Orton Gardens now have a: appears that the col- j number of camellia, bushes show-1 run the nearest . to j ing fourth with beautiful blooms. 1 tefctrumV that - ihiy i rhs number of buabaa with ticosus '< led on Page 2) j wCI increase 4iy byday until late ? - ' ' - - surviving are: one son, mui-i nan; two daughters, Mrs. Laura) 5. Coleman and Mrs. Elvie Million; one brother, G. W. Simmons; md one sister, Mrs. Donnie Mc-! ne o'clock Wednesday at the graveside of the Soldier Bay Bap:ist church, with Rev. Anson | Smith jn charge. Shallotte Woman n:_j ti j__. uieu mursuay Member Of Well Known Shallottc Family Died In Raleigh Hospital After Long Illness Mrs.' Essie R. Chadwick, wife of H. S. Chadwick, well known resident of the Shallottc section, died in a Raleigh hospital Thursday morning. She had been in j bad health for a long time and her death did not come unexpectedly. She was 52 years old. Mrs., Chadwick is survived by her husband and an adopted daughter, Mrs. Carl Pigott of Shallottc; two sisters, Mrs. Bennie Williams and Mrs. Charlie Milliken; two brothers, Walter (Continued on Page 3) WING Reporter ivinter when they will reach their peak to blend with the early izaleas und other flowers. Thanks1 to the ability to obtain more lab-1 ir, for sowing grass and clearing iff under the flowers, conditions it I he Orton Gardens arc the best they have been during any November in several years, Since ration points got hard to get Shallotte has been without any :a?e or restuarant where the public could obtain meals. That condition was remedied this past .veek by Mr. and Mrs. Earl Milliken opening a cafe and quick; lunch plate. Brunswick county rhas never liai gredter calla for carpenter j ir-i lifore;-* icr r.ew-foiling ?td, - (Continued on Page 3) ' __________ P0R1 i A Good Cor Inesday, November 7tl Accused Cleared In Fishing Cases Ten Defendants Went Free In Illegal Fishing Cases Heard In Court Here Monday Not guilty verdicts came in apid order in Recorder's Court donday morning when ten separate cases were called, charging rarious Brunswick county comnercial fishermen with violating he fishing laws by not having icenses. The prosecution failed to icore with a single conviction. The ten defendants were, J. J. Jheers, Sidney Caison, Harvey tirby, LuCian Fulford, Johnnie1 Word, Goley Fulford, Urris Ful-1 ord, Herman Fulford, Leonard Davis and Hoyle Varnum. J. C. Neison was uie cuinpiaiiiuig witless against all of the defendants.: Other cases shown by the i dinute Docket of the days pro-; :eedings are as follows: Renna Moore, assault, three nonths at county home or judge-! nent suspened on payment of a j ine of $25.00 and costs. W. A. Hardee, assault, coninued. Andrew Jackson Poole, passing1 :ar in face of on coming traffic, udgement suspended on payment if a fine of $15.00 and costs. Fred Lee Burney, improper ights and no registration card, | udgement suspended on payment j if a fine of $10.00 and costs. Herbert Parker, assault, sus>ended upon the defendant being if good behavior for six months. Simmons Funeral Services Today Life - Long Resident Of Brunswick County Died At Home In Ash Tuesday Morning Mrs. R. Frances Simmons, 68, lied Tuesday morning at 11:30 /clock at her home in Ash after in illness of several years. She vas a life-loijg resident of Brunsvick county. r piL nmunity i7l945 Returned Serv Urge Buying1 In this issue of the paper is i advertisement, paid for at regular | < advertising rates by four return-,1 ed service men. All of them saw long and active service and dur- < ing that service they came to ] know what Victory really means, i 1 The four returned service men 1 wha are urging that Brunswick \ County people buy Victory Bonds i are: I j Rudolph I. Mintz, Southport I Attorney, who sehved as Major ( in the Air Co ps for two years j in England. He gave a total of ( four years and two months to the i service; Rudolph M. Sanders. Southport 1 ice manufacturer. As a Lieutenant I i and Lt. Commander in the Navy,' j Seeks Great D< Sport-Comrr Memorial Services jl November Eleventh Memorial services will be held | at Lottie's Grove Baptist church I near Shallotte on the second Sun- ' day in November for Harry Hall, of the Navy, who was killed in action against Germany. The young man was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hall of Shallotte. The pastor and congregation of the church are cordially inviting all friends and the general public to attend this service in memory | of one of the many Brunswick j 1 county war-dead The services:: will be held at 11:00 A. M. i Kill Three Bears Near Winnabow Hunters Get Three Of The 1 Animals In A Days Hunt,' n "-*-i n ii c M 1 in Ihe oeil owamp iiear Winnabow Three bears were killed in a j1 very short hunt at Bell Swamp, one and a half miles from the) Winnabow post office one day ' last week. One of the animals ' weighed 200 pounds and each of 1 the smaller ones eighty pounds. ' Kenneth Kye of Winnabow shot the 200 pound bear. J. A. Saun- ' ders and James Justice of Hamp- ' stead shot the smaller ones. The hunters in the party were Lee Kye, Jr., Sandy Potter, Lee | Kye, Sr., all of Winnabow, J. A. ' Sanders, James Justice, J. A. Shingleton and Grey Justice of , Hampstead. |, From reports from this and ] various parts of the county, | hunters have been setting a record for the number of bear killed in Brunswick this year. This is | entirely satisfactory to farmers, | many of whom have frequently ( suffered loss from having their | corn fields and apiaries raided by , bears. Use Materials Before Deadline Many Dollars Lost Last Year Through Failure To Earn Full Allowance With the end of the 1945 Program Year just two months off, H. O. Peterson, member, Bruns-; wick County AAA Committee, urges all farmers who have ob Ullllt'll UUIirHJI Vcl LIUI I IIUILII l<*L.~> nil(lor the 1945 Program to exercise every possible effort to use these materials in accordance with good farming practices before the, deadline, December 31. Mr. Peterson pointed out that many dollars were lost to Brunswick County farmers last year because they failed to earn the full amount of their soy-building allowance. "Conservation materials in the form of Superphosphate is still Plan Removal Of Cemetery Seaboard Air Line Desires Posession Of Froperty Which It Owns; To Move Cemetery upon presentation ot tacts showing that land owned by the | Seaboard Air Line and occupied ] by a cemetery at Navassa. isj now needed by the railroad, the Board of County Commissioners; at their meeting here Monday, ordered that the railroad be grant(Continued "on Page Six) ' ,0T 111.50 PER YEA* fUBUS 'ice Men Victory Bonds ie gave three years to the ser vice, part of this time in foreigi waters; M. M. Rosenbaum, Shallott ioctor, who served in the Euro pean Theater for two years. H leld the rank of Captain am Major in the Army medical corp ind gave a total of nearly fiv fears to the service of his coun try; Commander Landis G. Browr )f the Navy Medical Corps, th last two years being in the Paci fie. These men arc supporting th< victory bond drive wholehearted y and want to see Brunswicl jo over the top. ivelopment lercial Fishing Local Seafood D e a I e i Thinks There Are Grea Possibilities Of Develop ment INCLUDES BOTH SPORT, COMMERCIAL FISHINC Town Has Always Ncede< Sport And Commercial Fishing Facilities, Need Now Growing Stronger Each Day, Says Wells For a number of years South port people have realized that on is thing that promises develop ment and lasting prosperity ti this section of the coast is the dc velopment of sport and commer cial fishing. * The sport fishing until now ha been hopelessly handicapped b; the absence of hotel facilities ani safe and convenient facilities fo dockage and service to the spor fishing boats heretofore, shrimp ing at Southport has been con fine'i to the operation of ver small boats. These boats, of i necessity, fished only close t shore. This week one of the commer cial fishermen voices himself as b the outlook, in a letter to thi paper. W. S. Wells, Southpor seafood producer and dealer, wb owns half a dozen of the larg shrimp trawlers and employ several others, had this to sta; in a letter to this paper. "For some time I have bee; hearing rumors of planned con struction of facilities at South port for sport and commercia fishermen. I think that I, and th rest of the seafood dealers, a ivcll as many of the boatmcr have been realizing for a Ion, time that such facilities arc bad ly needed. "With a hotel where the spor fishermen may get service, wit! good fishing boats available fo them, there is no question tha Southport will attract hundred! of not thousands, of sport fisher men. There is hardly any limi to the extent to which sport fish ing will develop if hotel and boa facilities are provided. "While I and the other seafoo dealers and the boatmen ar pleased to hear of any planne development of local sport fish ing, we would like also, to sut mit that there is more than i (Continued on Page Four) First Frost Of The 1945 Seasor Sudden Cold Wave Sunda: Followed By First Killing Frost Of The Year Mon day Morning A week of very mild wrath* was followed by a sudden an unexpected cold wave sweepin down from the North Sunda morning. Sunday night saw th temperature sun tumbling an Monday morning Brunswick coui ty people awoke to the fact tin the first killing frost of the sei son was here. The average date of the firi killing frost in this county in ui dcrstood to be the 22nd of Noven bcr. The arrival on the 5th th year is said to be one of tt earliest dates for killing frosts i several years. However, last yet and during the past two or thr< years the first frost has been con ing much earlier than the ave age date. Usually the first killing fro strikes in the country away fro the coast, the immediate coast section sometimes not getting killing frost until two or thr? wceko after the interior part < (Continued on Page i) Most of The News j All The Time | HED EVERY WEDNESDAY * Medical Care ; Offered FSA Folk In N. C. 1 Addition To Hospital And e Surgical Care Plans November 1 ? With the addition of a medical g care plan to the Farm Security I Administration's group health e j program in North Carolina, bor" rowers from the agency may safe| guard the health and financial ' security of their families for a s total cost of $40. per year, says -1 C. E. Callihan, County FSA Su; pervisor. e Hospital and surgical care . i plans have existed since January 11, 1943 and April 1, 1944, respec| tively^ and are popular with the families tjiat have used them, says Vance E. Swift, state director. FSA borrowers may subscribe to any or all three. The medical care plan will start I operation November 1. Cost S20 Per Family I" The medical care plan is offered through an agreement with ; the Medical Service Association, Inc. of Durham. FSA borrowers [" | purchase membership certificates t for $20 per family per year cov-! ering general practitioner care. Interested physicians agree to render medical services to families holding the certificates and J to accept payments by the association according to the schej dule of fees listed on the family's certificate. Any extfa charges for mileage on rural calls will be paid by the member. The association pays physicians on a quarterly basis. To insure freedom of choice of physicians, payments on the same basis will be " | made by the association to phye sicians wlio have not agreed to cooperate under the medical care 0 plan, upon presentation of satisfactory evidence that authorized service has been rendered a certificate holder or member of his s family. If a borrower wishes to Y use the services of a non-coil j operating physician, any extra r charges above those paid by the , , t association must be borne by the - member. Hospital Clare Changed ^ Approximately ft,000 North Cat - ' 0 ollna families are members of I9A9 suiiewiue nuspiwi uuc program. The membership fee is ~ | $12 per family per year. 01 The plan was changed slightly 8 ] for the better, effective April 1 of ' 1 this year, Mr. - Swift said. Pay0 ment to hospitals was increased e from $4 to $4.50 per day for full 31 ward coverage. The maximum Y number of days hospitalization for normal obstetrical cases was n increased from five to seven, i- Payment up to but not ex ceeding $4.50 per day for hosd pital expenses is guaranteed by e the association to any recognized s hospital for services to a ccrti- , i, ficate holder or any dependent r g member of his family, upon evi- I - dence that authorized service# were rendered. t If a member uses a private or h semi-private room rather than a r ward, or goes to a non-cooperatt ing hospital, any additional ?. charge above those included In ' - the $4.50 per day allowance for t room and board, and services - such as laboratory examination t1 and use of operating and delivery ' rooms, must be borne by the d member. Hospitalization service e is offered through Hospital Savd ings Association of North Caro- i lina, Chapel Hill, and Hospital i- Care Association, Durham. Each a association serves a specified I group of counties in the state. Surgical Clare I'lau FSA surgical services are also i offered through Medical Service I Association of Durham. The * membership fee is $8 per family ' per year. Subscribers to the state-wide plan increased from y 2,730 to 5,161 the first year. a Interested physicians agree, to accept payment in full from the association in accordance with the schedule of fees listed on ,r membership certificate. If a bord rower elects to use the services _ j of a physician other than one v who has agreed to cooperate ICI under the plan, any charges in r) excess of those paid by the asv (Continues on page 4) it l" ?! Ration Pointers ii . 5 is le RATION CALENDAR in MEATS & FATS: Red Stamps / ir ?Fl, Gl, HI, Jl, K1 . . . now :e valid expire November 30. i- LI, Mli Nl, PI, Q1 . . . now > r- valid expire December 31. Rl, SI, Tl, Ul, VI . . . now st valid expire January 31. nt Wl, XI, Yl, Z1 (and GREEN al N-8) . . . valid Nov. 1 . . . expire a February 28, '46. c SUGAR: Sugar Stamp No. S3 J ot now vaUd . . . expires December , 31. . t J