MISS VIRGINIA COBURN TO BE FESTIVAL'S 'MISS WHITEVILLE' Daughter Of Mr. And Mrs. J. N. Coburn To Serve As Official Hostess At Tobacco Event * Miss Virginia Coburn. a daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Coburn ?of Whiteville and a student of Salem College. Winston-Salem, will be "Miss Whiteville" at the .Sixth Annual Tobacco Festival at the National Guard Armory her? " on August 19. Mrs. David Smith, chairman of the festival committee represent ing the Woman's Club and the 'Junior Woman's Club, announced Miss Coburn's selection this week. She will be official hostess to the queen contestants who will re present the various organizations of Columbus. Bladen and Bruns wick counties. The Garden Club this week en tered Miss Ethel Rogers, daugh- j ter of Mr. and Mrs. G. O. Rog ers. as a contestant for the honor and prizes which will be award-1 ed to the young lady who is adjudged the winner. Earlier the Whiteville Business and Profes-' sional Women's Club had enter-! ed Miss Jane Lewis. These are the first two entries but most of the fifty-six groups invited to enter a potential queen are ex pected to do so. The sponsors have already en gaged Royce Stoenner and His Orchestra to play for the dance which will be staged the night of the festival. Stoenner's musi cians are rated among the best on tour this Summer. Misses Hattie Bert Baldwin, Jacqueline Smith and Virginia McRackan will be hostesses at the intermission party for the pages and their escorts. The hos tesses, together with the other pages, were selected this week. The other pages are Mary Joe Cole. Carol Hooks, Ann Guiton, Ann Schnibben. Valentine Thomp son, Christine Boger, Margaret Bruton. Hilda Stevens, Elsie Har relson, Mary Hill Fore, Florene Thompson, Etta Rose Mann. Pen nie Sellers, Nancy Gore and Rosemary Jones. COAIPI-ETES HOME Miss Mary McEachern of Red Springs has completed and mov ed Into a nice new home at Hol den Beach. The construction j work was in charge of Norman j Bellamy. DON'T SEND I IT AWAY! For Expert Watch Reoair SERVICE Brong Your Work TO US... Complete Line Of Jewtlry j All Work Guaranteed Canady Jeweler Shallotte, N. G. 'Miss Whiteville A nd N-ew Entry I Shown above are (top) Miss Virginia Coburn, who has been designated as "Miss Whiteville" I left- the Tobacco Festival, and (bottom) Miss Ethel Rogers who is the newest entry for queen, j Miss Rogers will represent the Whiteville Garden Club. Correct Methods Vital To Future Of Forest Crop Good Management Practic ed Generally By Large Owners But Small Tracts Also Need Attention BY WALTER W. BARNES (Farm Forester) Even though little thought or consideration is given to the small timber tracts by their own- j ers, in many cases farmers, it is nevertheless a fact that these small woodland areas comprise about 65 to 70 per cent of the total forest area in the State. When this fact is realized, it can be readily seen that the con-j centra::on of effort toward good and sound forest management should and is being directed to-! ward the small woodland owner.' For the most part, the large sawmills and pulpwood companies' who own the bigger timber hold-, ings ranging from 2,000 to 200,-1 000 or more acres, are applying. MOWER PARTS ? For All Makes Mowers ? FORMYDUVAL & McCORMICK, Inc. Whiteville, N. C. CATHOLIC INFORMATION Father Adain or Papa Prolpplasm ? Did you ever, dear neighbor-' imagine that perhaps hundreds' of thousands of years ago there j nestled in he hollow of your fam-[ lly tree, Daddy and Mammy Ape? Did you ever continue your mental wanderings back some millions of years -further, until; you ran into a tiny, jelly-like organism which contained the first germ of life in all the world ? And if you did this, and i believed It to be true, did you not shudder a bit at the mere thought of the Daddy of us all? j Now I do not know what you think?nor what my pew-mate in ' the Catholic Church thinks?of Evolution; but personally I much prefer to believe in a Paradise of flowers and trees and babbling brooks, wherein most happily dwelt my beautiful, God-like first parents, Adam and Eve?each created by direct action of God. Students of Evalution of a cer tain school may laugh at my naive Paradise, my Adam of the dust, my Eve of the rib, my God of all creation^ my beloved book of divine revelations. But to me their laugh sounds hollow and forced, for with all their years of learning they cannot disprove one word of the Bible story of man's creation; nor can they force upon me by the wildest stretching of theories, a jelly-like enigma as my first parent. "And the Lord God formed' mar. of the slime of the earth; j and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a1 living soul" (Gen. 1;7). So says the Book of Genesis. So says the Catholic Church. So say I, with all my faith and intelligence. I, am permitted to believe, if X- so1 choose, that Gijd made a single germ of life from the slime of the earth and step by step through millions of years evolved j higher species until a man-life animal was arrived at. But if I subscribe to this theory, I am compelled to believe that God breathed a soul into one of these animals and thus made a new : creation?man. j I say, the Church permits me to believe all this, in so far as i the evolution of man's body is ! concerned; but, mind you, I do i not have to. And so, having free [choice, I most decisively reject as | my first parents Papa Proto plasm and Mamma Unicell, and | clasp to my heart Father Adam i and Mother Eve. And, dear neigh ibor?I suspect you do, too. If it's anything Catholic, ask a Catholic! For further informa tion on this subject write for a free pamplet to P. O. Box 351,' i Whiteville, N. C. good forest management prac tices to their holdings. They realize the financial investment tied up In their timberlands and I are handling this investment in isuch a way that it will pay off in the course of time, and also re turn a divided over the initial investment. What are these own ers of large timberlands doing to insure a return or their in | vestment ? A large number of the bigger sawmill operators, practically all cf the pulp mills and some of the large private landowners, have in their employe from one to sev era! technically trained foresters. Their full time work and effort is directed toward the proper management of their timber hold ings on a sustained yield basis. All the timber, pulpwood, poles, or other wood products to be cut are first marked with paint to insure the cutting of only those trees which need to be cut. In a young stand of from 4 to 12 in ches those trees are usually re moved for pulpwood that are crooked, diseased, of poor quality, inferior species, such as Pond Pine and those where a crowded condition exists. In a stand of sawtimber size, usually 14 in ches and above where the tim ber is not fully mature, a light sawtimber cut or a cut up to 50 per cent of the volume of the stand if often practiced. The amount of timber removed at this time usually is dependant on a number of factors. The density and quality of the stand, the number of old trees, left from the previous cutting, he amount and size of the reproduvtion already established, the average growth rate of the stand and the specie being cut. Sometimes another cut ting is made before the timber becomes mature and ceases to grow. This cutting will usually consist of sawtimber or poles and piling. The final cutting of com mercial value is composed of the mature timber which has been left for the final crop. Before this is cut, if there is no young growth present, the forester will mark enough seed trees to be left to establish a new crop on the area. Sometimes no seed trees are left but the entire final crop of timber cut and Pine seedlings are planted where needed. There are advantages to plant ing an area rather than allowing it to reseed naturally. In the first place, when seedlings are planted, the desired specie can be estab lished. Another advantage of planting is to gain several years time which is often required if nature does the planting. Another phase of the foresters on these large holdings has to do with the planning, laying out and plowiag of an adequate sys tem of fire lines in order to safe guard the future of the timber crop. Protection from forest fires is one phase of forest manage ment which does more than any one thing to insure a merchant able crop of timber in the least possible time. All of the activities and fores try work mentioned above as be ing the duties of a forester work ing for a private company are al so available to the small timber owner hrough foresters employed by the Farm Woodland Market ing Program which is under the direct supervision of the N. C. Forest Service. The Farm Fores ter in this district, comprising Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Duplin and Pender Counties, is Walter W. Barnes, whose office is in the N. C. Forest Service District office, Waccamaw Bank and Trust Co. Building, White ville, N. C. Advice Given On Delousing Fowls Suggestions On Insecticides Offered By C. F. Parrish Of State Extention Ser vice BY C. F. PARRISH (I? Charge, Poultry Extension) Many preparations are Offered the public and are designed to eradicate poultry lice. Recently S. A. Edgar, Associate Animal Pathologist, Auburn Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama, con ducted a series of tests Involving forty-five methods and employing the use of seven insecticides in louse treatment. One of the insecticides used was nicotine sulphate. H>is was applied to the roosts at the rate of one ounce to a definite num ber of running feet of roosting space. Since the number of feet of roosting space Involved varied, the degree of success derived from the test varied. In one par ticular group of birds, the birds were spot treated, that is, seven I drops of nicotine sulphate were applied to different portions of each bird's body. A study of the results secured indicate that very satisfactory results were secured when two applications of Black Leaf 40 were applied by the Brush Cap method at the rate of | one ounce to each Z0 feet of i roosting space. The spot treat-; j ment also gave excellent results. However, in North Carolina some poultrymen report they have ex perienced trouble in using, Black ?"Leaf 40 on birds when care was not exercised in administering lthe treatment. They have found, CAPITAL letters ! j EULA NIXON GREENWOOD KINGS AND BEAUTY .QUEENS?In this land of the plunging neckline and the bare midriff, it is a lowly hamlet in deed which does not have one or more beauty queens these days. ; Speaking at the Peach Festi val held in Rockingham last week, J. M. Broughton, cutting ,a twinkling eye at the queens assembled there, reminded them that one of the first beauty con-j tests of which we have any his- j j tory occurred while King David j lay on his death bed. As usual, I J. Melville knew whereof he spoke. Fact is, he might have added that the serious condition of the man who had ruled with iron hand over Israel for 40 years prompted the search for a come ly young woman. David, even as his son Solomon after him, nad an eye for the | I beauty of words, wisdom, good-] ;ness, and the female form as, well. So, a? David lay dying, his advisors?see first chapter of j First Kings?decided to bring in I a young virgin: "and let her ] stand before the king, and let her cherish him ..." j After quite a search, Abishag j , was brought in. Although she I : was very beautiful and did cher lish him, David responded not in the least. Well, they knew then i and there that David was a ! goner. Sure enough, 63 verses j later "David slept with his fa j thers," and Solomon ascended the j throne. These modern North Carolina ; misses may be no great shakes as Abishag, but the response they get from the audience and j from the photographers and the | ! papers really puts the young Shu nammite of King David's day in the shade. DEWEY DIXIE? ? Authentic reports which reached Raleigh ] j last week on the Dixiecrat do-! jings indicate that at least one | big holding company in New [York is being supplied with de-j [tailed information on the political; j insurrection in the Deep South.] j There is some opinion here?free ly voiced last week?that Thom as E. Dewey knows of each move being made by the Dixiecrats by the time it is made and some times even before. There was no evidence of any shortage of cash at the Birming ham meeting. On the contrary, the entire shindig seemed pretty well heeled, according to one North Carolina observer. Where | did the money come from, and why? Consensus in Raleigh is that the Dixiecrats will not create a j ripple in North Carolina . . . in sufficient time, insufficient in terest. NEW LOOK WANTED: They I are not shouting it from the j roof tops, but four North Caro lina Congressmen fear that the | coves and ridges of Western North Carolina may suffer an J invasion by the Republicans while | they are in Washington doing! their master's bidding during the] next few weeks. Congressmen Bulwinkle, Jones, Redden and Doughton?yes, even Doughton? anticipate hard fights this fall, but were forced to leave their folks and rteturn to Congress to help elect a Democratic Presi dent. Most in demand for the battle are J. M. Broughton and W. Kerr Scott, both of whom are keeping in trim for this final bout. While j old Democratic war horses like Cam Morrison, J. C. B. Ehring haus, and Clyde R. Hoey may be used, the political leaders of the mountains are pleading for Scott and Broughton. They feel that, somehow, the people seem to want that new look in the Demo cratic party in this State, and believq that Scott and Broughton can best supply it. The principal worry of the De mocrats is not the election of State officials, but Congressmen. Then, too, there is Truman. They must not forget him. NOTES?If you want to see any Big Four football games this fall, you'd better get a move on . . . Some of the early-season events in the high schools may be cancelled because of the polio i epidemic . . . Incidentally, Dr. Hart E. Van Riper, medical di rector for the National Founda tion for Infantile Paralysis, re ! ports that deaths from polio average only one per hundred (cases . . the number of child ren permanently crippled is less than two per hundred cases ... I I SCOTT?W. Kerr Scott said in Raleigh last Saturday that he | thinks he will win in November, | has no ambitions beyond being i Governor for four years, will not sell his farm or discontinue its 'operation in Alamance County, still has "at least" 500 letters yet to write supporters in his campaign . . . has hardly had time to look at his farm since June 26 . . . his telephone rings i at all hours of the day and night .... didn't read a single one again going light on the calories didn't rea da single one | of his newspaper advertisements j during the campaign, and no I stories for him or against him ]. . . . heard only one broadcast concerning himself . . . that on j the night before the second Prim-1 ary . . j WEEDS?Last year on the 1 south lawn of Josephus Daniels' WakesLone grounds there was a beautiful garden . . . also the year before . . . and al! during the war . . It's in weeds this summer . . . His office at th? News and Observer is still va jcant . . . Editorials are being written by Jonathan Daniels and Robert E. (Fleet) Williams ... very, good ones, too . . OFF THE CUFF?To see Char lie Johnson ambling down Fay etteville Street here you would never guess he was the loser in that recent incident . . . He is said to be very well fixed fin ancially . . . and will In all prob ability be in better shape in this wise four years from now than if he had won . . By refusing 'J. M. Broughtorf's offer to become ? his assistant. Mayne Albright fol lowed some advice given him some time ago by W. Kerr Ccott: people lihe a man who makes his ? , own way, who must meet a pay roll now and then, and who j makes a living other than by salary . . . For some time Al bright had considered hanging out .his shingle, believes now is the time to make the break . . . He I will also enhance his political future ... In his campaign be . made many good "connections," they call them . . . though most of them were not of the lucrative-client variety . . . Very liberal, intellectually and morally ronest, a pretty good speaker, land possessed of a good mind, i he should go far in the practice 'of law if his idealistic outlook permits him to stomach the various types of bases and clients which attorneys must content with now and then . . particular ly in their early years . . . BIRTH OF A NATION?When David Wark Griffith died last Friday, the notice of his passing made front pagee throughout the country. He was the man who made "Birth of 8- Nation," the writers said. But North Carolina people?those who care a darn about anything of this kind? know it was the other way | around. "Birth of a Nation" made ; Griffith. Who really made "Birth of a Nation"? Thomas Dixon, from hts books, "The Clansman" and "Leopard SpotB." Dixon was not even mentioned in the ac count of Griffith's death, but hla widow who lives here in Raleigh had her eyes opened when she read that the film has grossed more than $10,000,000 and is still being shown. SALE OF LAND FOR TAXES City of Southport, N. C. Notice is hereby given that I have this day levied on the following de scribed real estate situated within the corporated limits of the City of South port. X. C.. to satisfy taxes due City of Southport for Cash at City Hall door in said City at ^ 11 A. M., August 9, 1948 I unless sooner redeemed according to law. Cost and penalties to be added. E. R. WEEKS, City Tax Collector. WHITE RACE | Adams, David, 1 lot Brunswick $23.00 ! Aldridge, H. B. Est. 1 lot West .. - 20.60 Arnold, Mrs. Geo. & Mrs. Sarah, Bateman, 1 lot Atlantic ...? 16.00 Arnold, James Clifton, 1 lot Bay ? ........ ? ? ?. ?~ 37.88 Bowmer, H. T., 1 lot Baker Foundation ?... : - ? .~. 32.70 Brown, Charles, 1 lot Lord ...? ?. ......- ?~ ? 31.50 Brunson, Mrs. E. B., 1 lot Lord ?.... ~??. ?... 31.00 I Central Commercial Co., 1 lot St. George ? .. 2.50 Cooker, Marshall, 1 lot Burlington ... .? ...? - ? 14.40, | Cooker, Airs. Sabra, 1 lot Brunswick ? .. .? - ? .. 13.00 Creech, John, 1 lot. West .? ? ? ?.. ?.. 22.40 . Dosher, Miss Bessie, 3 lots Howe ? ........ ? 4.00! Dosher, Geo. Est., 1 lot West & Caswell ? ? .? 23.00 I Dozier, Miss Margaret, 1 lot Cauwell ? ? 5.28 Drew, Mrs. C. B., 1 lot Atlantic ? ? ? .? .. 10.00 I Drumb, All>ert A., 1 lot Cottage ?? 2.50 Eamon, T. M., 1 lot Howe - ? ?... ?.. 9.00 | Ewing, Allen C., 1 lot Brunswick _ 14.80 i Floyd, Thomas, 1 lot West ?:.. ...?.u ? 11.00 NESCO OIL RANGES SEVERAL MODELS NOW IN STOCK Other Wood, Oil and Electric Ranges From Which To Make Your Choice MINTZ 8C CO Harry L. Mintz, Jr., Mgr. SUPPLY, N. G. -L. C- BLAND LONGWOOD - SHALLOTTE, N. C. &*c2SS*? ? -=r ZT-..T.:.' ,5*^"' g",??n Est., 1 lot Caswell" ~ ~ - vl?? ^ IU,,5: L 101 D- J- ??nth Vereen, Alva Est., 1 |-ig i0? coil**? ? " tei, N^EaV .* VUS&l^r ? - wKSff- 1 lo? Lord __T W?? ShU*?. . i Turlington. 1 lot Swaeey wSSml ? Sf* Clarendon Wamett! ^V l lol^^T' 1 101 8WW" T. " ? 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