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The griins*v piiot Covers ick County THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Most of The News All The Time r^o. SIXTEEN NO. 14 S-PAGE5 TODAY Southport, N. C., Wednesday, July 9th, 1947 (1.50 PER YEA* PUBLISHED EVERY wtUNtaUAl franswick County Tobacco Farmers Go To Polls This Saturday On Leaf Program Leaders Urge Big ^.Out As Expression O,' United Strength Of (lowers Producing To LjNTEERS will r WORK AT POLLS Iferendum Will Decide Kether Farmers Will Approve 10-Cent Per Acre Assessment For Program f,v;v flue-out ed tobacco grow Brunswick county whether ^,,1. tenant or share-cropper today by G. M. Ben l diairnian of the County committee, to vote in 1 tocacoo referendum on Sat- ! fcv July 12. referendum. authorized by last sessions of the legisla , in both North and South 1 doa. provides for flue-cured es to express themselves in ?d to an assessment of 10 per acre to be used in ' etmg and developing the ex market for tobacco. The would be administered by j Jsn-profit organization known 1 I Tobacco Associates, Inc. |jt Bennett quoted from a ?::t hy F. Y. Floyd, secre t acco Associates, to effect that: j Only tobacco farmers who engaged in the production of 15<r crop of flue-cured to i till be eligible to vote. Regardless of the number of! ^ may have, no grower i?re than one vote. Tie polls will be open from { i m. until 6:30 p. m. Sat l July 12. It will require at least a j tads favorable vote to put prcgram into effect. ? Bennett said that for1 wick county the i\Hc*.ing g places will be open and ! be manned by volunteer poll pKs as indicated: fcrtliwest. Maco. Paul Brown; ^ L Rourk's Store, J. | Williamson: Town Creek, J. | Henrys Store. S. L. Purvis; a. Mercer Cox's Store f Holden: Southport, Coun Hone. Roscoe Rogers; An-j ft Ward's Farm. C. S. Ward; ! P.r Supply postoffice, J. H. **??: Mt. Pisgah. J. H. Store, Edgar L. Holden; N'eck. R. p. Robinson's " P?- c Swain; Shallotte, Road Service Station, Rob Hawes. Gause Landing, r Gore's Store. L. Thom ??ett: Grissettown, Grissett s Store, W. H. Redwine; ?oasboro. Harry Bennett's ? wither J. Carter; Friend _ I McLamb's Store. Leo J?. Longwood, Long's Herman Long. Ash. Lon - "-"b Store. Lonnie Evans; r^'v. Cumber's Store. Asa . ? "v*- Exum, Ike Vereen's lr L 0. Bennett. r? leaders have joined in I*?t appeal for a record '.oto in the tobacco re Saturday. Dean I. o. Continued on page five) hitfNtwi Flashes lS DRUG STORE "p> McGowan. stationed at1 J^'on Base as a pharmacist j > je war and since then a visitor here with ! r1* is opening a new drug 1 . ? ? Kingston, Bartow coun- | f ^rgia. f?** Bo.ftolrte,Snt- ,and "*? Ten,, ha antl I T*** of rXtrn s c?">Pletecl , m * orton ( V|lve ?Mranar - ir e"^,r?lVU;'N"riON ?r mur. ' :,k <* the su today for Jl**bnce TZ hC W,U ? State ? ,he meeting: lit I ?C' Saies?Pr;et0r ?' K'"g3 Kj, 18 Dlann mPany. at ?5^ 'ad.o ?n opening 2 ? ?"^CTp? *, TOBACCO TIME CROPPING ? When its cropping time on a tobacco farm everybody has to work. Here an attractive young Brunswick county girl is shown driving a tobacco sled, ready to take a load of leaves to the barn. Drastic Changes Made In Automobile Laws New Legislation Enacted By Recent Session Of Gen eral Assembly Became Effective On July 1 $100.00 FINE FOR DRUNK DRIVING _ i Operators Of Motor Vehic les Must Be Able To Dis charge Obligations In Case Of Wreck With the act effective July 1, some new and drastic auto- ? mobile laws went into effect last week. This week's session of the Recorder's court saw Judge W. J. Lamb acting in accordance with these new laws for the JSrst time. As trmny peo,X* a*' not acquainted with the new1 laws, and as Ignorance of the law excuses no one, it may be well to point out here some of the more drastic changes covering the operation of automobiles: j Instead of the previously re quired fine of $50.00 costs and revocation of lieense for a year for drunken driving, the per- j son so convicted must pay a fine of $100.00 and can also be im prisoned in addition to having the costs to pay. The $100.00 fine is a must in such cases. If the driver of a vehicle is involved in a wreck resulting in personal injuries or damage to property amounting to $50.00 or more his driver's license must be taken away until he can show that he can pay for the damage resulting from the accident, and also that he has insurance or enough money on hand to take care of future accidents of the same kind. The new speed limit, effective as of July 1, is 55-miles-per hour instead of the 50-mile speed law that has been in effect for the past few years. This speed law will haul a lot of drivers into court and force them to , dig down in their pockets for fines, costs and also for the loss of their driver's license, if they are caught more than once. To sum things up, there is a great deal about the new auto mobile operation laws that driv ers should get themselves ac quainted with unless they want to get themselves rid of some- \ thing more than pocket money,1 and possibly their driver's per mits. Increase Seen ? In Corn Crop Visiting Specialist Says Ave rage Yield Will Be Great er; County Agent Says There Is Acreage In crease Dr. Miles, head of the soil testing laboratory in Raleigh, 1 spent part of the past week in Brunswick county and expressed himself to County Agent J. E. Dodson as being very much j pleased with crop conditions. Dr. Miles came out with ai) , estimate that farmers of Bruns wick county would average at least five bushels more corn per acre this year than they produc ed last year. , I The contributing factors for this increase, he said, lie in the farmers planting more winter cover crops, using more ground Uruestone, more and better fer- . (Continued on Page 8) J Hughes Figures In Record Inning Buck H:>rde<', catching for the West in the all-star (fame played Sunday, probably set a baseball record when he re tired three batters in order unassisted. In the eighth inning of the game, with Jack Hughes of Southport on the mound, three batters popped easy fly balls back towards the screen and Hardee came under each one to make the out and retire the side for the Inning. According to all reports, and after on inspection of all books of odd plays on base ball, this is the first time such an incident has occured. Drunk Driving Price Goes Up Judgments Rendered In Brunswick County Recor der's Court Monday In Compliance With New Highway Safety Laws The price of conviction in Brunswick county Recorder's court on charges of drunk driv ing went up to $100.00 and costs this week as Judge W. J. Mc Lamb based his judgments upon, the new highway . safety laws. The following disposition of cases resulted: Cornelius Bellamy, drunk driv ing and reckless operation, 90 days on the roads, judgment sus pended on payment of a fine of 5100.00 and costs. Liccnse re Continue on page 8.. Drainage Work ? On Gwynn Farm Longwood Farmer Reclaim ing Fertile Land That Has Been Out Of Use Be cause Of Lack Of Drain age One of the largest farming de i velopment efforts put forth in Brunswick county in many years |is now being carried on by Rice Gwynn, of Longwood. His effort is directed at reclaiming from swamp land a tract of several hundred acres. For the drainage work Mr. Gwynn is using a powerful drag line and is cutting canals from Caw Caw swamp through the tract. These canals are 12-feet deep and vary in width from four feet at the bottom to about twelve feet at the top. In addi tion to the acreage of the Gwynn land, the several miles of canal j will also l>e of great benefit to [adjoining land owners. This drainage undertaking will not only open up a large acre age of rich farming land to cul tivation, it will, in the opinion of County Agent Dodson, serve as jan illustration and demonstration of what can be done to other ^Brunswick county lands that are in need of drainage. Mr. Gwyfin, in this undertaking is doing some valuable pioneering work? (Continued on Page 8) County Farmers In Mass Meeting This Saturday Important Session For Dis cussion Of Waccamaw River Drainage Project Will Be Held At Wacca maw School PLANS MAKING GOOD PROGRESS Stage Has Been Reached When Cooperation On Part Of Each Land Owner May Have Immediate Effect There will be a mass meeting of farmers and land owners of Shallotte and Waccamaw town ships on Saturday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock in the Waccamaw .ligh school auditorium. Purpose of this meeting is to aear reports of recent, decisive developments in plans for the Waccamaw river drainage pro ject, and two speakers will be on hand to tell Brunswick coun ty residents just what has been done and what remains to be accomplished before the project can be set up. These speakers are Henry Wyche, vice-president of the Waccamaw Bank and Trust Co., and J. P. Quinerly, agricultural agent for Columbus county. They have recently returned from a trip to Charleston, S. C., in con nection with the proposed drain age project, and they are in pos session of information which in dicates that a public hearing on the work may be held within 60 days. In order to facilitate action on this project as much as possible, there is certain information which the farmers themselves must furnish, and it is chiefly for the purpose of setting up this cooperative program that the Saturday meeting in this county has been called. County Agent J. E. Dodson, who has maintained a keen in terest in the proposed drainage project from the very first, urges that every farmer and land own er in the lower end of Bruns wick county make an effort to attend the Saturday meeting. Rufus Dosher Death Victim News Received Here This Morning Of Passing Of Popular Southport Man At Western North Caro lina Sanitorium Word was received here this morning of the death of Rufus Dosher, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Dosher, of Southport, at West ern North Carolina Sanitorium, whene he has been a patient for the past few weeks. Mr. Dosher, who grew up in this community and who later was proprietor of Watson's Phar macy, was here on a visit early this summer and his friends were much encouraged by his apparent return to good health. News of his passing comes as a -great shock. Mr. Dosher was striken -with (Continued on page 4) GRADUATE I TEACHER ? Miss Wilma I Phelps, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Phelps, of Ash, graduated i with honors at Womans College, University ;pf North Carolina in 'June with<i degree in home eco nomics. She has been elected ^a ! member of the high school facul ; ty at Waccamaw and will teach ; vocational home economics there i next year. West Captures All-Star Game On Sunday 9-5 H. D. Stanley And Jack Hughes Hurl For Win ners; Cain And Ham monds Star At The Bat The western half of the East ern State League, Whitavillo, Sou'hport and Bladenboro, won the becond annual all-star game held here in Whiteville on Sun day when they defeated the east i ern half, Masonboro, Wallace and | Elizabethtown, 9-5. The west won last year's tilt 9-3 to duplicate j their run score as well as the i victory. Buddy Byrum of Elizabethtown ! started on the mound for the east and H. D. Stanley opened ; for the West. Stanley was credit ed with the win as he allowed four hits in four innings and gave up three runs. Byrum was re moved in favor of his teammate, j Gibson, after giving up three {hits and eight runs. | The west iced the game in the | second ptanza when Byrum walk 1 cd four consccutivc batters fol lowed by a line double by Cain that brought in three more tallies. Cain was the leading runs batted in king with three for the west. The last marker in the second inning came on an error by third baseman Lynwood Rowan. Jack Hughes came into the lilt in the fifth inning and pitch ed fine ball as he gave up only four hits, all of them in the ninth inning, that accounted for the last two marke-.s by the 'East. "Weenie" Brown hurled the last five and two-third inn ings for the losers and gave up only two safties. Brown had hurled against Southport the day before the all-star game and was not scheduled to hurl. The absence of Hunker Benson and (Continued on Page rive) . Our ROVING Reporter W. B. KEZUH Among many appreciated let ters received during the past week was one ? from Jasper L. Memory of Wake Forest, well known to the Baptists of North I Carolina. His letter is self cx ! planatory and is reproduced here Jwith: "Dear Bill:? I have just 1 read the well deserved editorial that the Wilmington News had about you. It brought back many happy memories of good times 'we. had together in my boyhood ! days in Whiteville. You were one 'of the few adults around there who seemed to think that a boy ' of 11 or 12 had any sense and j was worth killing any time with. The tricks you showed me and old Jack Wooten on a checker board have come in mighty handy on numerous occasions and have afforded me a lot of pleasure and wholesome recreation. Then, too, I remember an entire Sunday morning that you spent hunting I for ?nd finding a couple of scrawny calves of mine that had broken out and were grazing [down near White Mar ah when you ran across them. The next | j time you come to Raleigh, 1 ' give me a telephone call and j I'll come and get you. I'd like to , show you around and introduce j you to my wife and boy. The 'boy is 10 years old; and when Ij ' get half a chance I am taking I him down to Southport and we ' I will wet a fish-hook or two with ! you." ' I The nurses and attendants at the J. Arthur Dosher Memorial hospital are greatly pleased when I friends of the hospital and form . er patients write in to express | their appreciation of the atten- 1 tion and service they received. In [ | this specific case Misses Mary 1 and Barbara Hanson, Salisbury j girls, were in an automobile ac- j cident at one of our beaches ; some time ago. Both were . brought to the hospital and Missj Barbara was found to be right j badly injured. After being pa- j tients for some time they were j taken to Salisbury, to be near. (Continued on Page Five) I Man-O-War Birds Sighted Hovering Over Southport Local People Identified These Unusual Visitors In Flight Over City One Afternoon Last Week Two beautiful and graceful j Man? O-War-Birds, probably a I honeymoon couple as they are jmale and female, are now on the ; coast of Brunswick. This paper's ! society reporter could obtain no information as to Ijow long they plan to stay. j The birds were first noticed last' week by A. E. Stevens, who i quickly called them to the at tention of others for identifica | tion. Poised close together, a quarter of a mile in the air and directly over the town, they faced a stiff southwest wind J without a movement or a visible | flutter of wings for nearly ten minutes. Finally turning their ! heads they dropped down to- : i wards Bald Head Island, pre- j I sumably to spend the night as it ! I was only a few minutes before j sundown. The male Man-O-War-Birds are entirely black. . The female is a kind of brown with white breast and upper belly. Both have wing spread of seven feet or better and they seem to have the ability to hang motionless in the sky for an indefinite length of time, even in the face of strong winds. On July 5, 1899, tjie late Dr. T. Gilbert Pearaon, president of the Audbon Society, found a Man-O-War-Bird in Pamlico Sound. This was the first North Carolina record of the bird, j Eighteen years afterward one j was found in the sea near Cape [ Lookout. In September, 1935, a whole flock of the birds put in at Southport, following a bad j storm. They remained here for a week. Again in 1939 a Man-O- , War-Bird was seen at Oregon Inlet. These instances and the two birds here yesterday form the only known records of the Man-O-War being seen on the coast of North Carolina. Their range is tropical and | sub-tropical seas. Some birds au- ' thorities believe that they even | sleep, if they sleep, in the air. ! They nest in bushes or small trees at heights of 4 to 20 feet from the ground. It is entirely possible, but would be extraor dinary, that this couple may have been nesting on Bald Head Is land. Story May Shed Light On Soldiers Burial Places Youngster Has No Awe Of Ocean Not all of the visitors to the seaccast get impressed by the size of the ocean. Five-year-old Patsy Lyklns, of Blue Uiamond, Ky? is one of the exceptions. Visiting her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Tyler, in Southport this week. Patsy went on a picnic to Caswell Beech. Without meaning any insult to King Ncpture or to the beach promoters upon arrival at the strand and with the whole ocean spread out before her, Patsy informed her friends, "I want to wash ray hands in i the crick." Commissioners In Session Monday Delegation Of Ex-Service Men Met With Board To Ask For Employment Of Full Time Service Officer' For County A delegation of ex-service men met here Monday with the board of county commissioners to urge the employment of a' full-time service officer for Brunswick county. The commissioners were im pressed with the facts presented by the delegation and expressed their full sympathy with the pro ject. However, they withheld de cision in the matter until a more | complete picture of the financial condition of the county is avail able. In other routine matters E. A. Ganey was relieved of certain taxes assesses against property formerly owned by him at Eagle Island, said lands having been condemned by the government. William Rourk was permitted to pay the sum of $40.00 on his taxes now, the balance to be paid when he sells the timber on the land. W. D. Stanley was al lowed to pay taxes for all past due years- on the basis of his ' 1933 valuation. Alfred Hooper I was allowed to pay the sum of ' $12.00 on his taxes, with the balance due on September 1. Settlement of personal property taxes with Capt. J. B. Church (Continued on Page 4) Stolen Money Recovered Monday Thanks to good investigating work on the part of Deputy Sheriff O. W. Perry the sum of $30.50 stolen from Mrs. J. M. I Williams of Woodbum was re covered , and returned to the owner Monday. Aaron Cole, 15-year old Negro : boy, was arrested by the officer \ and is being held to await a hearing in the juvenile court. It i is understood Mrs. Williams left the money hanging in a purse on her back porch and that the boy got hold of it and carried | it off. He had it hidden in some woode. 1 Aged Southport Colored Man Tell# Reporter Of Conditions About South port During Civil War MANY INQUIRIES ABOUT SOLDIERS Answer To Questions Of Anxious Relatives May I Be Provided In Ac- i count Furnished By Joe Reaves It may be that a question ask- i ed of Southport people hundreds, of times has its answer in the [ story told by Uncle Joe Reaves,! of Southport. Uncle Joe, 89-year ,old colored resident of this com munity, has a mighty good mem- j ory of what went on during the days of the civil war period. For years past Southport peo- ! pie have received letters from distant parts of the United Sta- 1 tes. the writers giving the name of a grandfather and some- ! times of a father who died here' at Southport during the war. 1 The writers wished to know if; the grave of their relatives could be found. Cases are also known I when people came a long distance i to try and find where relatives i were buried. A few months ago Frank OJ Sherrill, of Charlotte, owner of i Bald Head Island, at Southport, had a letter from Ohio, telling of the writer's grandfather dying at Southport and wanting to ' know if he might have been bur-i ied on the Island. Mr. Sherrill passed tile letter on to a repre- ; sentauve of this paper and a ' dutiful search was made of the 1 hearstones in the Southport cemetery, to see if any of the 1 stones might carry the name given. Not only was the name not found, there were only half a dozen gravestones in the whole cemetery that were connected with the Civil War period. Still the fact is indisputable that a lot of soldiers died in and around Southport during that time. The question is: Where were they buried? Uncle Joe's story may give the answer. Born in 1957, the son of slaves on the Reaves Plantation, now , (Continued on Page Five) Supply Resident Dies Wednesday ? f Albert C. Hewett Died Fol lowing Heart Attack; Funeral Services Conduc ted From Oak Grove Church Albert C. Hewett. 50-year-old i resident or near Supply, died in the Dosher Memorial Hospital Wednesday morning of last week. He had been rushed to the hos pital for treatment, following a heart attack earlier in the day. Funeral services and burial were held at Oak Grove church and cemetery near Supply. The services were in charge of Rev. ?I?' LeWiS' ?f SuPP'y- Active pallbearers were members of ! American Legion Post 247. Mr. Hewett is survived by his widow, Mrs. Emmie Ethel Hew ( Continued on Page Four) Southport Man Named To Head Shrimping Body |W. S. Well# Named Chair man Of Five-Man Board To Supervise Survey Of Shrimping Along Coast GROUP WILL GO TO WASHINGTON Plan It To Seek Federal Cooperation In Making Exhaustive Study Ot Shrimping Industry In This Area At their organization meeting in Raleigh with the Board of Conservation and Development Monday W. S. Wells, of South port, was elected chairman of the special five-man board that is to seek development of the shrimping industry along the. North Carolina coast. Other members of this board are Louis J. Hardee, also of Southport; R. L. Burnett, of. Wilmington; C. G. Holland, of Beaufort, and G. S. Fulcher, ot. Oriental. Meeting with the commission were Vf. Roy Hampton of Ply mouth, chairman of the Stat* Conservation and' Development Commission's commercial fisher ies committee; and Capt. John A. Nelson, fisheries commission er of the Department fit Con servation and Development. The commission will go to Washington Monday in scareh of a scientist to carry out the search for new shrimping grounds and direct other phases of the proposed survey. Members of the commission are scheduled to meet with officials of the Fish and Wildlife Service to discuss men qualified for the position and also to discuss similar surveys which have been conducted In Louisiana and Texas. Hampton and R. Bruce Ethc rldge, director of the State De partment of Conservation and Development, will accompahy the group to Washington. While there they will consult with Dr. Harden F. Taylor of the Rockefeller Foundation, who is coming from New York to confcr with the North Carolina group. Dr. Taylor is a specialist in marine research. In addition, the commission also will talk with surplus pro perty officials about leasing a boat and the equipment with which to carry on the hunt for new shrimping grounds. Requir ed for the job is a craft of 60 to 75 feet in length which could stay offshore for several days at a time, eliminating the necessity of putting back into port each night. The survey which the commis sion is undertaking is an effort to locate new shrimping grounds, with bottoms over which the trawlers can operate without in jury to their nets. These grounds are supposed to exist some dis tance offshore at various points and locating and marking them for the guidance of the boat op erators will mean a great deal to the shrimping industry. The shrimp found at these off shore hazardous points are large ones, very much desired by the markets. It is a well established fact that once they leave the shore waters of their nativity their use fs lost. They cannot be taken under present conditions and they never return and play any part in the future propaga tion of shrimp life. To Demonstrate New Cub Tractor New Farmall Cub, Tractor To Be Shown Farmer* Friday Afternoon, July 11, Swart Farm At Castle Haynes A special demonstration cam paign of International Harvester Company's new, snail, low-cout Farmall Cub tractor has been arranged by Marks Machinery Company. Wilmington, on Friday July llth from two until five o'clock on the D. Swart Farm at Castle Haynes. 9 miles north of Wilmington on highway 117. An invitation to inspect and get the feel" of the all-purpose Farmall Cub, which will make modern farm tractor power avail able to approximately 3.000, 000 farms having small acreages, 1# extended to agricultural educa tion leaders, extension service*, county agents, local service cluba, farmers, farm youth organiza tions, businessmen, industrial workers and all others interest ed in the economy and efficiency i of this small tractor.
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