The State Port Pilot
Southport, N. G.
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Published Every Wednesday
JAMES M. HARPER, JR ... Editor
Entered as second-class matter April 20, 1928, at
the Post Office at Southport, N. C., under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
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SIX MONTHS 1.00
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Wednesday, May 12, 1948
Growing Community
We were visiting1 in the Leland com
munity last week, and were amazed at
the amount of development that has
taken place along the highway from
Brunswick river bridge to the Leland
post office.
A few years ago we were very fami
liar with that part of the county, and
made weekly trips through that section
as we went to Whiteville to get The
Pilot printed. Lately our visits have
been more infrequent, and each time
we have passed along Highway No. 74,
we were sur%> to see some new project
in the making.
This is easily one of the most pro
gressive sections of Brunswick county,
and some of this development to which
we refer includes good, substantial
business which gives employment to
many residents.
There is no doubt that our county is
making progress, and Leland is leading
the way to a good part of it.
Hospital Week
This is National Hospital Week,, and
today is being observed at Dosher Me
morial Hospital in Southport as Hos
pital Day.
We never miss an opportunity to re
mind the citizens of our county just
how fortunate we are to have the facili
ties of this fine institution available to
us, and sometimes we grow impatient
ithen we hear criticism that is leveled
qt our hospital and its personnel.
Admittedly, neither the hospital it
self nor the persons who operate it are
perfect; but these are no normal times,
and reports which have come to us con
vince us that not only do our people
get much better service at Dosher Me
morial Hospital than at most of the
other hospitals they enter, but they re
ceive these services at a much more
reasonable rate. It is a case where
there is nothing to gain by straying
from home in search of greener pas
tures.
Never pass up an opportunity to be a
l)?oster for our county hospital. It is
one institution in which we may all
take a justifiable pride.
An Institution Perishes
All of this talk about the high cost
of living doesn't mean a thing, not un
til it pinches in a place where you are
particularly sensitive.
If you take a grocery list and use
your money, it isn't hard to discover
items which have undergone a hundred
percent increase within the past three
years. If you are one of those fortun
ate persons who have succeeded in
buying a new car, or if you are just
one of the hundreds who still are on
the waiting list, you know that automo
bile prices are up from twenty to
eighty percent, depending upon the
make and model.
The fact of the matter is that a dol
lar no longer seems to do its duty, and
while you may find it advisable to take
more money with you when you go
shopping, you may depend upon com
ing back with less to show for it.
All this we know, and all of these
things we have learned to take on a
sort of grin-and-bear-it basis, pending
a leveling off of prices, a condition
just as elusive as the prosperity of the
early thirties, which always was lurk
ing just around the corner.
But now the crowning blow has been
struck, and it has hit where it hurts
the most?thc kids from six to sixty. It
is in our community no longer possible
to buy a niekle ice cream cone. There
aren't any. They've gone up to a dime!
Fifth Commandment
Most of us who have embraced the
Ten Commandments as our standard
of life regard the Fifth as the easiest
to keep. Our prayerful inventory is tak
en with only passing interest in the
divine law "Thou shalt not kill" be
cause we are sure we could never be
guilty of this unthinkable crime.
We are wrong. In their 1948 book of
street and highway accident data, The
Travelers Insurance Companies make it
sickeningly clear that the Fifth Com
mandment is a precept for every driv
er. In the book's foreword, Jesse W.
Randall, the companies' president, sug
gests a definition that moves our an
nual traffic tragedy squarely within the
orbit of the Decalogue: " 'Thou Shalt
Not Kill' means that nothing on earth
can be so important that a man's life
should be risked for it, unless in the
very risking of life the man becomes
better equipped for eternity."
In 1947, 32,500 Americans were kil
led in traffic accidents. In each case,
the vehicle involved was a weapon. In
each case, it killed with the same cold
finality of a gun or a knife.
Yes, safety is a sermon. If the ap
peals of self-protection or common con
sideration are not enough to stay the
dangerous driver, perhaps the Fifth
Commandment is.
Healthy Trend
The trend away from tenant farming
and toward ownership by the man who
tills the soil is a healthy sign. It por
tends a higher standard of living dnd
a better job in the matter of conserv
ing the natural resources of the coun
try.
The New York Times recently took
a look at the farm picture in the South
and came up with this editorial com
ment:
"One morning after dawn a calva
cade of conservation swarmed over the
place. Many tractors dug deep into the
wasted land; posthole diggers, fertilizer
spreaders and bulldozer battled the red
clay. Jeeps jumped over old furrows as
expediters of commands. Landscapers
limed the lawn and planted shrubs. A
dejected farmhouse got a spray of
white paint. The fields of the farm
were laid off according to a model plan.
Just for good luck an acre pond was
measured off for fishing and recreat
ion. When the conservationists began to
go over the top-soil in the morning the
farm was said to be worth' $4,000. A
soil conservationist said he would give
$15,000 for it after the day's work.
"The farm is located in what used to
be the center of the bright tobacco
belt of the South. What happened there
made news for many farm owners who
only recently acquired their \a\vd. For
thousands of farm owners of the South
have come up from tenancy and share
cropping in the past decade or so. If
we go to the deep South, where tenancy
and sharecropping were once entrench
ed, even there we find a marked
change for the better. In Mississippi in
1935, 69-8 per cent of all the farms
were operated by non-owners, but in
1945 the number operated by tenants
had decreased to 59-3 per cent. In
South Carolina the number of tenant
operated farms decreased from 62-2
per cent of the total in 1935 to 54-2
per cent in 1945. In North Carolina
much less than half of the farms are
operated by tenants, and in Virginia
nearly 80 percent of them are owner
operated.
"In the early 1930s when farm own
ership in the South began to show a
steady increase, 22 million acres had
been destroyed by wind and water
erosion and by plows wantonly guided
by unskilled hands, in eleven states of
the regioh. Farm ownership is the best
barrier against the tides of waste, for
the owner has a vested interest in soil
conservation. He is not like so many
tenants, 'aimin' to move next year."
No area possesses finer soil and clim
ate for growing the delictable Puerto
Rican yam, and all that remains to be
done in order to make this an even
greater sweet potato center is a broad
program of education.
The boy who picks out a fielder's
glove in preference to a catcher's mitt
is practicing discrimination. The girl
who selects a blue jacket instead of a
pink sweater is discriminating. So is the
teacher who calls on one student who
doesn't know his lesson, instead of an
other who does.
There are 361 rural high schools in
North Carolina with' no provision for
vocational agriculture, the State Educa
tion Commission has discovered.
MoTor~Vehicle Department Warns
C And D Drivers Against Waiting
I RALEIGH?A report issued to-,
j day by the Department of Motor
; Vehicles shows that since Jan
' uary X, only 38,800 persons with
: surnames beginning with C and
ID have received their new driv-)
' ing licenses.
That means, Department offi
j cials pointed out, that some 111,
1200 persons in the State are j
1 going to face a lot of inconven- j
jience in waiting in long lines un
j less they get their new driving j
j permits during May. It is esti-1
mated there are around 150,000 J
drivers in the State with last
names beginning with C and D.
The deadline on C and D re
newals is June 30, but June is.
also the month when chauffeurs1
licenses have to be renewed. The!
Department said license examin
ers could be kept busy during
June issuing nothing but chauf
feurs licenses, and unless the re
maining C and D drivers report
to their examiners during the'
remainder of May, they may j
have trouble getting their licens-!
es by the deadline.
Officials stated that there will:
be absolutely no extension to the \
time, and any C and D who puts
off obtaining a new license must!
suffer the consequences of the1
law?which means that if he is,
caught driving on an old license!
after June 30, he will be found |
guilty of a misdemanor and will .
be fined not less than $25.
The Department also stated
that there will be no additional
examiners added during the next |
two months to take care of the j
expected last-minute "rush", and j
added that persons who do not:
get their licenses Immediately J
will have to suffer the ordeal of,
waiting in long lines.
State highway patrolmen will
make spot checks along the high
ways after June 30, in order to
apprehend any C aYid D drivers
who have not obtained licenses.
Beginning with July ?1, personal
with last names beginning with j
E, F, or G, will be re-examined
until December 31.
Army Engineers
To File Report
Charleston Office Requests
Additional .Information
On Flood Control And
Drainage Plan
Farm Agent J. P. Quinerly was
advised today that the Charles
ton office of U. S. Engineers will
complete their report on theWac
camaw River flood control and
drainage project by June 1.
The Engineers requested some
additional information which Mr.
Quinerly and Henry B. Wyche,
assistant vice president of the
Waccamaw Bank and Trust Com
pany, are now assembling and
will forward to them immediate
ly.
The Engineers' report was ori
ginally scheduled for completion
by August 1, but was hurried up
following a conference between
Mr. Quinerly, Representative J.
Bayard Clark and Senator Wil
liam B. Umstead.
More women than men in the
United States complete four years
of high school, but more men
than women finish four years of
college. ,
MILES OF SMILES
That's What You Get When You Use
GOOD GULF ALL THE WAY
ENNIS LONG SERVICE STATION
U. S. No. 17 Supply, N. G.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER
This is to state that I have filed for County Com
missioner on the Republican-ticket, subject to the will
of the voters in the May Primary Election.
In this primary I go before the people as a candi
date free from obligations to' any group or fraction. I
am out for the best interest of our county as a whole,
and not for the honor of the office. If you think that the
others are more capable than I am, then cast your vote
for the best. j
Your Vote and Support
Will Be Appreciated.
GEORGE W. SWAIN
Winnabow, N. C.
We are now in a position to take care oi
your orders for lumber, building supplies and
paints. i
SMITH BUILDERS SUPPLY, Inc.
Castle Hayne Road
Wilmington, N. C.
Dial 2-3339
A<1M vxfl.iu'lllill.l..
SCHEDULE
W: B. & B- BUS LINE
Southport, N. C.
EFFECTIVE TUES., JAN. 20,1948
WEEK-DAY SCHEDULE
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LEAVES SOUTHPORT LEAVES WILMINGTON
** 7:00 A. M.
7:00 A.M. *9:3Q A. M.
9:30 A.M. 1:35 P.M.,
*1:30 P.M. 4:00 P.M.
4:00 P.M. 6:10 P.M.
6:00 P.M. 10:20 P.M.
*?These Trips on Saturday Only.
**?This Bus Leaves Winnabow at 6:10 Daily.
-SUNDAY ONLY
LEAVES SOUTHPORT LEAVES WILMINGTON
7:30 A.M. 9:00 A.M.
10:50 A.M. 1:35 P.M.
4:00 P. M. . 6:10 P. M.
6:00 P. M. 10:20 P. M.
Cow Burned In
Hallsboro Area
Four-Year-Old Boy Starts
Blaze In Cow-Shed With
Matchp Animal Has To
Be Destroyed
HALLSBORO, MAY 10. ? A
four-year-old boy with a match
started a fire near here Saturday
j afternoon and burned a cow-shed
on the farm of Mr. and Mrs.
Alfred Creech. A cow, standing
in the shed, was burned so seri
ously that she had to be destroy
ed.
James Milton Creech was play
ing at the shed and struck the
! match in a bed of corn shucks.
The parents were in the field set
ting out tobacco.
In pre-flight estimates of the
time required for the flight from
San Francisco to Honolulu, an
overwater distance ot 2,420 miles,
Naval Air Transport Service nav
igators have achieved an average
of only six minutes error.
More than 650,000 copies of
the "American Practical Naviga
tor," only official United States
reference on navigation, have
been sold since its first edition
in 1802. About 750 copies of the
book, published by the Navy
Hydrographic ' Office since 1866,
are currently issued each month.
Navy airfield crash and fire
fighting crews are being trained
in tactics designed to complete
the rescue of all passengers and
crew from a crashed or burning
airplane within two minutes af
ter the accident.
An estimated $6,095,696 was
saved by the Navy during the
fiscal year 1947 as a result of its
employee beneficial suggestion
program.
Creech Boy Bitten By Rattlesny
' HALLSBOKO, May 10.?The
J condition of WoodrU Creech, 13
year-okl son of Mr. and Mrs.
Lee Creech, who was bitten by
i a rattlesnake Friday, was re
ported today as satisfactory.
| Young Creech was out hunt
| ing with an air-rtfle in the
White Marsh section when he
sudaenly felt a prick or sharp
sting and at first thought he
had stepped on a br^N
he raised his foot, h.' \
rattler.
x The boy trioU t0
tile but It mud.. us * ^
then ran to his hom^i
rushed to a WhitniifS
cliin for medical att Kj?
Reports today ^ *
getting along as WH) * ??
be expected. *
Latest Navy patrol bomber,,
land-based, incorporates recipro- f
catii.g and jet engines. Each of J
two wing nacelles, one on each j
side of the fuselage, has an open- i
ing in front for propeller power |
and a small slit in th?
Jet exhaust.
First woman elected to
S. Senate was Mrs. Hj,.
Caraway of Arkansas. *'
WE TOP THEM ALL!
Ford Cyclone Lock Shingle. This is the shjn)!j J
have been looking for. Rides out the most severe ?
storms, yet costs no more.
36 - Months To Pay
R. B. WARREN, General Contract?
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PHONE 3256 SOUTHPORT, N. C.
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