The State Port Pilot
Southport, N. G.
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Published Every Wednesday
JAMES M. HARPER. JR - Editor
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'Entered as second-class matter April 20, 1928, at
the Post Office at Southport, N. C., under the
Act of March 3, 1870.
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Wednesday, September 1, 1948
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School Attendance
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Once a capable faculty has been as
sembled, there is no more important
factor in a successful school year than
? the maintenance of good average daily
. attendance.
For one thing, it is only through re
? gular classroom sessions that a boy or
girl will be able to get the most out of
i" a year's work, and it is unfair to re
tard the progress of other students by
/.holding back a class for the benefit of
J'., their educational progress.
In the second place, faculty strength
is based directly upon attendance fig
o'j' ures, not upon total enrollment. There
?? fore, the only possible way whereby
- the teaching force at your local high
h.-j school can be maintained as it should
3 ' be is to have every student who is eligi
ble to enroll, and to have every student
enrolled present every day.
? This is a matter in which the par
vrf ents can be of invaluable assistance to
'? 'school officials. Their interest in school
? , affairs can be shown in no more prac
tical manner than to see to it that their
?y children of school age are present every
^ day unless providentially hindered, and
that they are there on time."
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;v Southport And Artists
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(Wilmington Star-News)
The successful exhibition of the work
. of a young Southport artist, Arthur E.
Newton, in his home town, a few
i, nights ago brings to mind the rich pos
sibilities of the nearby community to
become a painters' colony whose appeal
v would transcend the state's borders.
Southport is as charmingly quaint as
i. the numerous New England maritime
villages prospering frOm entertainment
I of the artist. Its sources of material are
? ' as extensive and inspiring. Its climate
affords considerably more time for
painting than do the northern coastal
towns. Wholesome accommodations are
available and living there is compara
tive cheap ? no small matter to many
an artist.
The picturesque and lackadaisical
atmosphere, so we are told by those
who paint, is conducive to good work.
Practically every artist who has sam
pled Southport's advantages has prais
ed the place. Because the town enjoys
this good name among painters, per
haps the only thing needed to give it
the boost it deserves is some well-plan
ned promotion by North Carolina art
interests, as well as other folks who
have an idea what the colony would
mean to our cultural resources.
Where You Are Safest
Ever since lightning struck a tree in
our front yard when we were a young
ster, we have been interested in the
matter of where you are safest during a
thunder storm. For years we have gone
along believing that automobiles offer
ed pretty good security during these
times, and now we quote the following
from an article in Automobile Facts,
an independent trade publication :
"You're safest in an automobile when
lightning strikes! Recently during a
man-made' storm in a research labora
tory, a 3,000,000-volt charge of lightn
ing was fired at a passenger car to de
termine what happens when the ele
ments gang up on Mr. Motorist.
"Result: Even the engineer who sat
at the steering wheel throughout the
experiments didn't mind. The vehicle
acted as a lightning-proof cage, divert
ing the heavy currents harmlessly
around around the passenger. .Only a
small scorched spot on the car's metal
top remained as evidence of the dram
atic test."
T sch! Tsch !
So Hulan Watts is carrying fishing
parties out from Wrightsville Beach
these days!
Now that's going to come as some
thing of a surprise to folks who see him
leave his dock at the Southport yacht
basin each morning and watch him
come back in late in the afternoon.
And some doubt may exist in the minds
of. members of the large crowd who
watched him spread three beautiful
sailfish on the grass near the basin last
Wednesday afternoon that he took
these fish off Wrightsville, but was
mean enough to bring them down to
Southport before he unloaded.
The Southeastern North Carolina
Beach Association is now old enough to
stop acting like a baby, and news re
leases concerning results of its fishing
rodpo should be factual. A free press
is no place to play up nor to pay off
personal likes and dislikes.
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J Rovin' Reporter
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tarts, pumping glucose into us,
-almost by the gallon. Penicilin.. a
Jceally new and wonderful drug !
that first came into general use
.during the war, was needled into
from all angles, literally and!
figuratively speaking. Some of
the nurses showed marked talent
in discovering star board and
-portside spots in which they could
yflfck a penicilin needle.
Five o'clock, the deadline. Sev
eral nurses were around the high
bed in room 14. They had been
getting us ready for the operat
ing room where another group of j
nurses and two doctors were
gowned, gloved, hooded and wait
ing. Robert Price, tops among or
derlies, came rolling a stretcher
down the corridor. He, too, was
hooded. He had to stand-by there
in the operation room and move
the stretcher when necessary. As
he rolled his conveyance into '
room 14 the ether mask was slip-!
ped over our face and mouth and
in a matter of seconds our spirit j
had done a complete fade-out. j
As a flying saucer we soared I
out into painless, dreamless and
boundless space between two
worlds. We should emphasize that
there was no pain. In what seem
ed to have been only two or three
minutes, we opened our eyes and
there we were back In the same
bed in room 14. Of doctors, nurs
es and orderlies there were none.
Sitting over near the foot of the
bed and looking as sleeply as the
devil was a newspaper friend of
ours. "See here," we said to
him, "we thought we were going
to be operated on at five o'clock
and it must be past that time
now." "You were operated on,"
he assured us, "at five o'clock
and it is now two-thirty in the
morning."
Now we have never yet met
the fellow whose word could be
taken as being the absolute truth
In all matters. That operation, if
it had been performed, had been
painless, noisless and in a decided
Hgr mysterious manner. We began
to explore under the bedsheets
and, sure enough, there was some- ?
thing resembling a mustard plas- j
ter, and about as hot, covering!
the spot where appendectomy's
are performed along with some i
extra territory. Strangest thing
about it was that we were still
not feeling the least pain or sore
ness.
Later on, when he happened toj
be alone with us in room 14, we
told Robert, the orderly, about
our having gone off as a flying
saucer while they operated on us.
He backed off a slight distance
and seemed otherwise astonished.
"How do you think," we asked
him, "they 'operated on us and
we had no pain?" "You had pain,
al right," said Robert. "You just
didn't feel it."
The operation and everything!
about it had all been done so |
smoothly and efficiently that get-|
ting over it would have been next
to nothing in our young life. We|
could have gotten up and walked
back up street the next day but
for a nunfortunate circumstance.
We had forgotten to tell the dqc
tors. Despite the fact that there
were many times when they
could not be of any use, the nur
es were all very kind and helpful.
We especially remember Mrsi
Inez Shannan, Mrs. Thomas St.
George, Mrs. Eddie Spencer, Mrs.
I Jones, Miss Anderson, Eulene
Stedham and others who were al
Sways about our room.
We believe we often shocked
these good women. We were sup
posed to keep lying flat on our
| back in bed. Time after time,
jeven on the night following the
! operation, they would come into
( our roort and find ug sitting on
our back in a chair with both feet
resting on the window sill. On
such occasions they would hurry
off to report our unothordox corn
'duct. Before they could return
| with reinforments we would be
| back in bed and resting easy.
| There were a lot of really
j bright spots in being sick, little
? things that undoubtedly went far
to help us to get well quickly,
just as such things help others in
like circumstances. There was
the interent and attention of the
doctors and nurses. This interest
also goes to hundreds of Bruns
wick county people and patients
from other places.
Even such supposedly cold
blooded propositions as a couple
of lawyers, Bun Frink and Davis
Herring, ordered us one of the
largest and finest bunches of
flowers. Rev. ' and Mrs. H. B.
Johnson and their son, Dr. Thor
Johnson, also sent in some beau
tiful flowers, as did Mrs. Alice
Arrington, Mrs. J. W. Ruark, Mrs.
Doug Norton, Mrs. W. H. Walker,
Mrs. Helerf Bragaw and others.
From Charlotte came a box of
fine cigars from G. F. Ball, one
of the big boys in the North Car
olina Sales Division of the Stand
ard Oil Company; Phil Wright,
state news editor of the Wilming
ton News, kept raising cain over
the telephone for us to get well.
He also wrote some especially
crazy letters, as did O. G. Bain,
manager of the Wilmington Dis-.
jtrict of the Southern Bell Tele
phone and Telegraph Company.
Dr. L. H. Sanders of Raleigh
wrote us his children were still
talking about "Mr. Bill," and ask
ing how he was. Little Danny
White, eight-year-old Southport
boy, and many others of like age
and older sent beautiful cards.
The cards were almost unlimited,
as were the visitors. All were
really appreciated, because deep
down in our heart we could not
fail to see that those who wrote
and those who came to speak for
themselves really meant what
I they said about hoping we would
i be well soon.
Three cards were from hope
less cripples, who have been that
way for many years. They touch
ed us more than anything else.
Right now, and always, we
are grateful for the sickness that
has shown us the fine inner side
of many, many people.
SCHOOLS OF COUNTY
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active case of polio in Brunswick
county.
Miss Barbara Adams, county
health nurse, says that the first
Brunswick county child reported
as a victim of polio during the
current epidemic has been dis
charged from the hospital and
appears to be completely recover
ed. Two other children, both col
ored, are being hospitalized out
Bide the county.
Postponement for another week
will give principals an opportunity
to fill a few vacancies which will
exist in their teacher list
COUNTY COUNCIL
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ment Day in October of this year.
Brunswick county has 14 Home
Demonstration Clubs, totaling
about 200 members, among whom
there exists a remarkably fine
FURNITURE
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Bed-Room, Living-Room, Dining-Room and Kitchen.
YOUNG Washing Machines
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LOCATED AT THOMASBORO
SHALLOTTE, N. C.
Once in a lifetime ...
In the average span of life no other purchase merits such care as the
selection of a cemetery memorial. The memorial must have beauty and
perfection and must lose none of these attributes thruout the ages.
Posterity will pass judgment on the wisdom of a choice made today.
We have memorials on display as well as photographs
and sketches from which your choice may be made.
Our experience as memorial crajtsmen is at your service.
KING MARBLE & GRANITE CO.
802 S. 17th Street Wilmington, N. G.
Authorized Dealer
Scott-Atwater
Here is a cracker-jack
outboard motor that is
giving dependable, econ
omical service to scores
of owners in Brunswick
County. See and hear one
in operation, then you
will know why people
are switching to this mo
tor both for business and
for pleasure.
FURNITURE and APPLIANCES
Let us help to beautify and to modernize
your home with new and Comfortable Furni
ture and with electrical appliances that save
work and add to your living pleasure.
Washing Machines . . Radios . .
Refrigerators . . . Water Pumps.
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Everything Electrical ! !
KINGS ELECTRICAL SALES CO.,
Shallotte, N. C.
spirit of cooperation far com
munity betterment.
Miss Greene says she will be
gin her 4-H Club Work among
the schools of Brunswick county
just as soon as the fall session
| opens.
.THREE SAILFISH
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I this fish broke water on several
j occasions and that there was no[
'doubt as to his identity. He es
timates it weight at least 90-lb.
I This was not his first contact with
I tarpon in this area, and he doesn't
{figure to let it be the last. He
?plans to improve his fishing gear
| and go back for another battle.
It was a Slier City party fish
ing aboard the Idle-On with Capt.
T. H. Watts Wednesday that had
the field day with sails. They had
three on at one time, and caught
two of them. They came back in
with three of these big fellows,
including the 8-ft., 2V4-in., leader
in his class. Mr. Buckner caught
the top fish, while W. E. Vestal
!had the next one in size and Sam
T. Reese had the third. Other
members of the party were W.
H. Rowland and G. S. Butler.
They also had 16 blues and mack
eral.
On Thursday Mr. Boyd and
party of Myrtle Beach caught a
sallflsh, 2 dolphin and some blues.
TTie said was taken' by Mr. Boyd's
son, and made it two for the
Watts boa.t< on that day, as the
Botfly also had a sail. Griffin
Lloyd and party of Durham were
out Friday and had 65 blues and
mackeral; S. W. Coldrider was the
man who hooked the marlin on
Saturday, and about fifteen min
utes before this fight got under
way C. C. Lo ranee landed a aail;
on Sunday Noel Dunlvant and '
party of Whitevllle caught a |
small sallfish, 2 dolphin and sev- !
eral blues.
HOUSE GUEST
Miss Carol Ballard 0f u
ton, D. C? is the attract
of Miss Mary Jo Usher 0? q51
boro at the Usher cotl,^
Long Beach. Miss Ball,, 7*
Miss Usher were roonam"
Greensboro College.
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Southport, N. C.
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4 :00 P. M. 6 :10 P. M
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