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The State Port Pilot Southport, N. C. Published Every Wednesday JAMF.S M. HARPER, JR. Entered as second -class matter April 20, 192S, at the Post Office at Southport, N. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR SIX MONTHS ; THREE MONTHS Wednesday, July 17, 19:1(> Looking Far Ahead It takes three years for cultivation for blueberries, figs, or similar crops to start bearing and begin bringing re turns on the money invested in planting such crops. The average Brunswick farmer does not seem interested great ly in crops that do > not bring the return of his dollar inside of 12-months after he invests it. It is probably this disposition and desire of our farmers that keeps Bruns wick county from being known for the many fine crops its soils will produce. We can certainly grow many things that will bring good money besides the usual one-year crops of tobacco, corn, peanuts and potatoes. This week sees the beginning of pre parations for the planting of two 100 acre buleberrv farms near Southport and on lands that have not been re garded as worth anything except to | grow pine trees. It will take three years before the first crop is harvested and , in the meantime the size of the under takings means that thousands of dol lars will be spent in buildings, clearing and preparing the land, planting, ferti lizing. cultivating and irrigating the plants. The interesting thing about this ven ture is that the men who are making it are not going about it blindly. They have hp.d many years of experience in growing blueberries and have exten sive blueberry farm interests in other ?states as well as in this state ? in Pen der county. Operating in Pender they found out that Brunswick county had plenty of suitable lands for growing blueberries. Added to the ideal lands is the fact that there is considerable available labor, not otherwise employed at the time the blueberries are ready for harvesting. When the full-planned i acreage comes into bearing some 100 pickers, in addition to ether workers will be employed at gainful wages wages during the harvesting season. $1.50 | 1.00 i .751 It is the belief of this paper that County Agent Dodson and various en terprising Brunswick farmers with fore sight will watch the start of the blue berry growing industry with interest. It might not be a bad idea for some of them to start a blueberry patch of their own. Time For Action The majority of the deer hunters in this county oppose any change in the deer hunting regulations, and if the proposal to shorten the season to 45 days is carried out there will be many disappointed sportsmen in this area. The board of conservation and de velopment meets next week in More head City, and if anything is to be done about maintaining the law as it now stands the time for action on this mat ter is now. It will do no good to wait until next fall and cry about spilt milk. If the hunters want to get some action, they should form a delegation, employ some legal representation, and attend the meeting a Morehead City. The Weather Takes Its Toll There are conflicting reports regard ing the extent of damage caused to crops in this county due to the heavy rainfall of the past few days. Some of the better farming sections seem to have been very lightly hit, while in other parts of the county the tobacco crop was a fifty percent loss. We are happy that so many farmers still have their prospect of a fine crop, and we just hope that sudden rapid ripening of the weed will not cause an unpleasant aftermath to the rains. But we have deep sympathy for the farmers who worked just as hard and who needed the money their crop would bring just as badly, and who now face a financial crisis because of the drowning or scalding of their to bacco as it stands in the field. Farming is always a gamble, and it is a tough deal to suffer loss of a crop that had every prospect of being sold on a high market. A mother Recognition Selection of Dosher Memorial Hos pital at Southport as cne of the forty seven institutions in North Carolina approved by the Veterans Administra tion for treatment under the Blue Cross plan of veterans with service connec ted disabilities is another recognition of the high standards of our county hospital. We don't knew of another business or organization in Brunswick county that is doing as much good for as many people. And you may rest assured that if this hospital weren't being run in an efficient and orderly manner it never would have received the endorsement of the government for care of wounded veterans. Rovin' Reporter (Continued trom Paet One) hit in the neck when the rains came. I Coming up from Shallotte on ' a Greyhound bus Saturday every thing was full, likewise the stand ing room in the aisle. We were standing up front and just be fore we got off at Supply a note was passed us from hand to hand from somewhere near the middle of the line. With the note was a couple of dollar bills and the note spoke for itself. We are quoting it here: "We enjoy the Pilot and your Rovin' Reporter , column each week." The signa ture was that of Mr. and Mrs. 1 Hal Martin of Baltimore. They have a fine place in their owner ship of Tar Landing, down on | the Shallotte River. We have : heard they plan to retire there some day and really build it up. ' If is funny how many people say something every day about how they like reading this col um. The Pilot is supposed to j be devoted mainly towards print ing the news from all sections of the county. It does pretty well at that. The Rovin' Reporter column is just made up of odds and ends of matter. Stuff that is al ways being met up with and which can hardly be called news. Very little attention is paid to what goes in it, it just makes a good filler. Despite this lack of attention to it gets about the most comment of anything ap pearing in the paper. We never monkey with the weather. That is one thing we keep our nose out of. We had absolutely nothing to do with all of that rain last week. We kept out of it. "I have changed my shirt three times today." said State Senator elect R. I. Mintz when we met him in the postoffice Saturday afternoon and politely declined his invitation to go with him to Wilmington. Reason for declining was that it was too hot. We happened on a bit of the unusual in human interest this week. Capt. J. B. Church drop ped around to see us and said he wished we would pay Capt. John Potter of the menhaden boat Morehead a compliment. He said: "During the past four days Captain Potter caught 800,000 menhaden and my boat and the Gifford together only got 300, 000." We objected to this in its entirety, on the ground that we knew the Anderson of Capt ain Church had been laid up at least one, maybe two of the four days. "That does not make any difference," said Captain Church. He evidently believes in the old saying of, "Lay on MacDuff" and devil take the hindermost. The fact that his own boat had met with a mishap was not to take any credit from Captain Potter for having topped it and another good boat. A lot of our friends among the Brunswick farmers have planted or are preparing to plant patches of strawberries for the market. In the opinion of County Agent Dodson, who says he is more of a practical farmer than an agent, a patch of berries on each farm, well looked after and no larger than can be looked after, is a valuable addition. Funny that we knew nothing about it until recently. Now that 1 we do know something, it strikes ! us that Davis Creek on the lower part of Long Beach, has the per fect setting as a harbor for all sorts of pleasure boats. When they get an inlet into the creek from the waterway and also a deeper outlet to the sea Long Beach will have a perfect har bor for large and small pleasure yachts and also a fine embarka tion point for sport fishing boats. When they get around to build ing the new Long Beach hotel we understand it will be located on 1 , the beautiful bluffs and sand j dunes overlooking Davis Creek, | Rains have been conspiring to prevent us from spending a day i with Dr. and Mrs. Holden at their Holden's Beach. Two dates have been set for a Jeep ride j down there with Dr. Holden's son, ! Halstead. Each time it poured rain. We hope to try it again j sometime soon without making I too much plans that the weather ! man can dispose of. By way of Bennie Swain, a ' Southport boy now living at ! Pensacola, Fla., we have received | a newspaper clipping showing a j 185-ton tugboat being loaded on ! a big liberty ship in the New Orleans harbor. With the tug be ; ing hoisted alongside the freight er by huge cranes the name of the ship shows plainly on the J stern. It reads, "Francis Marion, Wilmington, N. C." It our mem ory serves us right the Francis Marion was one of the earlier built ships at the North Carolina Shipyard in Wilmington. It is very likely that some two or three hundred Brunswick county men may have had a part in her building. Fish could be seen swimming across the River Road at sev eral points for practically all of last week. Small lakes border ing the road had their waters backed up over the road and the fish apparently found a delight ful new place in which they could swim about. Cars did not find the going so delightful. They had to move in low gear and at very low speed to keep engines from being drowned out. For the past 20 years R. H. Maultsby, Bolivia farmer has been using a walking stick that was cut from a blackgum sprout 48-years ago. The stick was orig inally cut by his father, the late S. W. Maultsby, Sr.. who died 40-years ago. Following the death of the elder Mr. Maultsby the stick was in disuse for 20 ' years until the son saw the need I of a good stout aid. The stick [ has neter been painted nor re- i i ceived any attention since it was ; cut nearly half a century ago. j BOARD MEETING NEXT WEEK WILL AFFECT HUNTING '??ontinusd From Pa^e On? I 1 turkey ? season December 2 i 'through December 21. with a bag; : limit of one per day and one per season ( bag limit the same as for 1945-46); and rabbit ? season1 November 20 through January 15, with a bag limit of 10 per day ; (there was no bag limit on rab bit in 1945-46.) Other recommendations of the division: SQUIRREL ? West ? In and west of Allegheny, Wilkes, Cald | well, Burke, and Rutherford coun | ties, season October 1 through ! January 1, with a bag limit of j six per day. East of the coun j ties listed above ? season October , I 15 through January 15. with a , | bag limit of 10 per day. (No! j change from 1945-46 in length ; I of season or bag.) BEAR ? Wese ? In and west of' i Allegheny, Wilkes, Caldwell, Burke, and Rutherford counties, ' season October 15 through Jan uary 1, bag limit two per day ' and two per season. East of these ! counties ? season October 1 through January 1, bag limit two i per day and two per season. (No change from 1945-46.) OPOSSUM AND RACCOON? j October 15 through February 14, ! with gun or dogs. (No change.) Forest Service To Expand Fire-Line Plowing Program (Continued rrom imge one) crawler type tractors pulling specially designed fire line plows. Transportation of the equipment has been greatly facilitated by the recent arrival of trucks with j semi-trailers with features fori quick and easy loading and un loading. The actual cost of operation of these units, which will be borne by the timbeiland owner is as follows; Heavy unit ? $6.00 per mile; Medium unit ? $5.00 per mile; Light unit ? $4.00 per mile. Applications for this service should be made to County Ward en Mercer. The program is ex pected to get underway as soon as enough applications are re ceived to warrant Its efficient. operation. Preliminary Work Begins On Two Blueberry Farms (Continued fiom page 1) between the blueberry and other cultivated crops is that the grow ers have to wait three years aft er planting before their first crop comes. After that there is a yearly production. For each 40-acres in the berries 75 to 100 pickers will be needed for the picking season of for weeks or more each year. Since this crop comes on during a slack season at Shrimping and also a slack period in other kinds of emuloyment, the Southport shrimp pickers "should be able to make considerable extra money each year. The blueberry people are also very interested in wild plums. They state that if plums grow wild here they may also start a plum farm. Plums produce some j of the most appetising jellies and j there is a big market for them. ' Mr. Key aifd his son both express | ed surprise that there was no at I tention paid to the growing eith er plums or figs in this county. They also stated that Bruns-. wick county has a very large land acreage suitable to the grow th of blueberries. One of the es sentials to such land is having a hard pan soil not far beneath the surface. This hard pan assists in : the holding of water and permits j irrigation of the plants. Told several weeks ago of the plans for the blueberry farms, j conty Agent J. E. Dodson was highly gratified. He believes that J this undertaking by expei ienced concerns will lead to others en , gaging in the same industry and j that many farmers may also ! start planti'.ig and cultivating : small patches of the blues. Richard Wagner was born in | Leipzig in lSl.'i HAMLET MAN Is DROWNED SUNDAY (Continued from ' drown. The bo.lv was , some time later. tf"" Price Furpless. Southpott ing as coroner in the * Coroner W. E Bell ?1V^ the occurence at:,i ,a'lft death was due lo an aicii inquest was hc-hj 'Hie body was taker ? Hamlet for buiial. Petroleum has been . etfery continent. A PRICE TAG that standi out ! Although your cost of living has steadily increased, here is one thing? an important thing in your life? that actually costs you no more today than it did twenty-five years ago. It's your telephone! This record of low cost performance, in these times of rising prices, is enough alone to stand out like a beacon in the night. In addition the service has greatly expanded and as more telephones have been added the relative cost to the user has steadily declined. Today you can reach many more people by tele phone?the better to serve your needs for busi ness or personal use. This record? which stands out as an achieve ment?is becoming more and more difficult to maintain as the costs of everything going into the furnishing of telephone service continue to rise. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED ICE We can now give real service to ice con sumers in the Shallotte, Supply, Holden's Beach, Shallotte Point, Grissettown, Thorn asboro, LongwOod and Ash sections. Our new plant at Shallotte is now pro-( ducing a large supply of good, clear ice from tested and pure well water. Daily deliveries in Shallotte and to ret tailers at nearby points. SHALLOTTE ICE COMPANY J. M. BRUTON, Mgr. Shaftotte, N. C. * Today's Superfortress is tomorrow's museum piece. That's why air - minded young men choose the Army Air Forces ? a ca reer packed with training and adventure which pays off in dollars and cents in civilian life. They become skilled technicians in fields of the future : jet propul sion, atomic energy, "re mote control" flying, radar, television ? any of the more than 200 trades and skills offered men of the New Army at some of the most advanced schools in the world. While in the Army, they are reaping the benefits of the most liberal recruiting program ever offered. Stop in your Recruiting Station today to learn all the facts. U. S. ARMY RECRUITING OFFICE 203 P. O. Building Wilmington Or Contact a Recruiting Repre sentative in the SOUTHPORT P. O. Lobby Every Tuesday from 10:00 a. m. until 2:00 p. m. SPONSORED BV Town Greek Service StatioYi LILLIAN RaBON, Mgr. WINNABOW, N. C. BOATS FOR RENT Pure Oil Products ? General Merchandise KING'S ELECTRICAL SALES COMPANY SHALLOTTE. N. C. T>i?tfri%trtor f6r Electrical Supplies Arid Lighting Fixtures FREE!! ?T'm" 1946 "CHAMPION" MODIL Color Candid Typa Camera $3-98 Pottage Paid Inclodei 2 rolls of Ho. 127 film FREE # Take* full NATURAL COLOR pic turea indoor* or outdoors. # Takea 16 black-and -whites oo ordi nary No. 127 8 -exposure roll. # New film track brings entire picture to sharp focus. # Equipped with GENUINE Simpson lens. # Fixed focus I Exposure automati cally correct at all times. # Precision built ? fool proof. # Attractively boxed. Compart Our Siz* 5" lorif DON'T CONFUSE WITH TOY CMBUl Guarantee with each cor.tn RUSH money-order, save C.O.D. fees. IMMEDIATE SHl?U?$* K & K SALES COMPANY 534 Pittsburgh Life Bldg. Dept. Pittsburgh 22, Pc. -BOATS We are now open for all kinds of welding : machine work for boats, cars. etc. See us at our new shop on Lockwoods Folly River at Supply. Lockwoods Folly Service Station A. B. CHESTNUT, Mgr. Supply, \. ( LONG BEACH BUS 4? Round Trips Daily-'! < I Schedule Effective Thurs., July 11 Leave Southport ? 8:00 A. M. Leave Long Beach Pavilion ? 8:30 A. M. Leave Southport ? 11:00 A. M. Leave Long Beach Pavilion ? 11:30 A. M. Leave Southport ? 3:00 P. M. Leave Long Beach Pavilion ? 5:30 P. M. Leave Southport ? 8:00 P. M. Leave Long Beath Pavilion ? 11:00 P. M. Round Trip, 35 Gents ? One Way 20 M W B.&S. BUS LINES PRICES UNCHANGED Regardless of the status of OPA regulations you will find that there will be no sudden change in the prices of our merchandise. Our regular customers have come to recognize our firm as an institution operated upon the principles of fair trade and honest dealing. This was our policy before the days of the OPA, and this will continue to be our policy. SHALLOTTE TRADING CO Hobson Kirby, Prop. Shaflotte, N. C.
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