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it ?C ?? jl-.xt k'* ' ?i\ /10 The State Port Pilot Southport, N. G. <5 ill r.: t?n?? 9-tJ? Published Every Wednesday \ JAMES M. HARPER, JR Editor 99 a f hi fa ' Entered as second-class matter April 20, 1928, at the Post Office at Southport, N. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES i':t>NE YEAR ? 51.50 ' SIX MONTHS - 1-00 2 THREE MONTHS ' ---- -75 .1100? L l. ? "j"> Wednesday, September 15, 1948 I'"'1 Worth Investigating ' A paving assessment is just another , form of taxation, so it may be that we ju; we are putting our professional popu larity on the line when we suggest that within the next few months Southport citizens will have a good opportunity ? to secure additional paved streets at a cost that our property owners can stand. From a representative of the com ^ pany which holds the contract for grading and surfacing this end of the River Road we learned last week that j B-his company might be able to pave i some streets in Southport while work ..V ing in this vicinity. When we told him that our city government is not the ? wealthiest municipal body in this part of the world, he suggested that since biu the company could do the work at a J?*.very reasonable figure after being al ready set up for operations, it might be well for the property owners to look ? into the matter of absorbing paving costs themselves through the medium '?',n of assessments. j[ 11> . , We hesitate to go on record as favor s ing this move, particularly until we are i'ri'i able to learn more about the costs and ,r',, other important details; but we should fci? like to see additional paved streets in Southport, and if this offers a reason .'?> able means for getting this work done, iti ? we hope that some of our more pro gressive property owners will get to ?,'gether and look into the matter. bn* " fc<? no Time For Action Official word has been received that ? the Navy Department has informed the r<i War Assets Administration that the jli ^e<|^on Base at Ft .Caswell is surplus to its needs, and that governmental ag > ?ncy has taken over the matter of its disposal. Although nothing official has been learned on this subject, there is some reason to believe that the State of North Carolina may still be interested in acquiring this property as a part of the State Park System. At any rate, the State will be given the right of refusal when the property is put up for sale. In the event that neither Federal, State nor Municipal agencies desire to acquire the property, it then becomes necessary to dispose of it into private hands. This is true not only of the land and the buildings, but of any equipment which may be included in the liquida tion. Too often the matter of these sales is already cut and dried before local citizens learn that they are being con templated. News of this particular dis posal sale is known in plenty of time for some of our local people to make an intelligent survey of the facilities being offered with the idea of making plans to acquire and use them to the best possible advantage. There is no reason why we should sit idly by and wait for foreign capital to move in and take over. Dixiecrats Win The split decision of the State Su preme Court on the question of allow ing the Dixiecrats a place on the Presi dential ticket is evidence that the elec tion machinery needs overhauling. The six Justices who ruled in favor of the new party had the letter of the law on their side, while Chief Justice Stacy was not necessarily illogical in his dis sent. The issue that arises is why should the problem have to come up at all. There is no doubt that petitioners should be citizens of the State but the Board of Elections interpretation that they must be persons who did not vote in such and such an election or primary is questionable. Just because a man did or didn't take nips at the bottle on previous occasions is no proof that he is or isn't a tippler later on. Just be cause a citizen voted Republican in previous elections is no proof that he will vote for Dewey, and that holds for Truman. And we'd like to remind again that there's another piece of election mach ineiy that doesn't need overhauling but tossing out the window. The leadership of the Democratic party in this State repudiated the absentee ballot when the farce was thrown out of primary elections. It needs to go one more step and say this mechanism of temptation and suspicion is not good for general flections. In spite of all the excitement over the Dixiecrat mess, probably it is just as well that a place on the ballot was given them. With the decision we have no argument. OPEN FORUM A column dedicated to opinio?? of > Ike public. A mouthpiece (or the i Tlew? and observations of OM friend? sad reader?, for wbleh wa , accept no responsibility, toalnhu tlons to tbls eolnmn must not ?xc*?4 Ure? ttandrad word?. r*v OPEN FORUM JJditor of State Port Pilot; Dear Mr. Harper: Someone has thought it worth -while to call our attention to an ^ditorial you had In your paper -i?ii September 1, 1948 referring to, far as we can gather, an arti :i?le written and published in the ?'Wilmington STAR NEWS about jifome of the catches of Capt. ;'rflulan Watts being made off ; &rightsville Beach. We heartily ?'ftgree with the article being ln i'&rrect in the first two paragra-j '?phs. However, we take particular ."Exception to the last paragraph referring to the South Eastern JJtyorth Carolina Beach Associa tion as having instigated this arti cle and acting like a baby. ' We notice on the same page lihat your paper is entered as ^fecond class matter beginning April 20, 1928 which apparently means that you have been in busl -ness for some 20 years. We don't vpiink it is necessary to call to any ^newspaper man's attention that -ftct that often -in rush periods ?'iirith poorly trained reporters and "the desire to fill up space at tim i'ies they are not very diligent in "their duty and do not investigate completely the articles which they ?'?print as news. If you had been j ^diligent in your duty you could >>-?asily have checked with the "'?^paper printing this article and found as we did that the parti cular article was written by a liyoung man by the name of Fred ""Batson who was pinch hitting Jv during their sports writer's vaca tion, namely, Mr. Jim Wilson, and the information did not come ??rom this office. You are also cognizant of the fact that the South Eastern North Carolina Beach Association is not on the payroll of the STAR NEWS or| iny other paper. You receive from this office copies of all worthwhile news releases that we send out to radio stations, news papers and commentators through out the United States. The South Eastern North Caro lina Beach Association and I as its executive secretary have, we believe, given more state and na tionwide factual publicity to Brunswick County and Southport In particular than would be pos sible to buy for many thousands of dollars. Now as you have made a futher statement and the writ er quotes: "A free press Is no place to play up nor to pay off personal likes and dislikes". We specifically request that you pub lish this letter in its entirety to correct among your readers this erroneous piece of reporting. The Beach Association has as one of its main objectives the co ordinating and cooperative effort of our southwestern North Caro lina. Any incorrect statements tending to tear down this con structive work we have cut out is doing the entire area a grave in justice. We have many loyal sup porters in your area and we hope to have more ipcluding you in the future. Yours very tru'y, South Eastern N. C. Beach Asso. John J. Hudiburg Executive Secretary CEMETERY CLEANING OFF E. T. Clemmons, of Supply, re quests the paper to advise re latives and friends of the persons buried at the Holden Cemetery, near Holden Beach, that the cem etery will be cleaned off on Oct ober 2nd. Mr. Clemmons and oth ers of that community will ap preciate it if all persons interest ed wiH join in the work on the above date. ENLISTS IN ARMY Vance Little, son of Mrs. Ella Little of Waccamaw township, en listed In the Army on September 3rd. He is now awaiting call to report for service. His enlistment is for a two year period. Greensboro Men Enjoy Week-End Group Of Law Enforcement And Court Officials En joy Informal Outing At Long Beach Twenty-five or more happy-go lueky fellows, nearly all fftm Greensboro, enjoyed a week end at Long Beach from Thursday through Sunday of last week. The crowd was comprised pf judge, solictor, lawyers, court house and law enforcement of ficials, all bent on having a few days of relaxation and entertain ment after a trying summer. J. P. Shore, Clerk of Court of Guilford county, was Moderator or boss of the event. For proven der the whole crowd seemed more interested in shrimp, fish and clam chowdr than anything else. Some of the fish were caught by members of the party, assisted by Clerk of Court Sam Bennett and others. Still ^more were donated and the rest were bought. There was, according to Bennett, plenty of both shrimp and fish. Around a dozen of the visitors were heard to express their in tention of returning during Octo ber or November for more fish and shrimp. Several are said to have ideas of combining business with pleasure and buying beach home sites when they return. LEBANON REVIVAL Revival service will begin at Lebanon Baptist church on Mon day evening, September 20, with the preaching to be done by the pastor, the Rev. Herbert M. Bak er. The song services will be in charge of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kel ly of Wilmington. BENEFIT SHOW Slim Mimms and his Dream Ranch Boys will play for a bene fit perforance in the Bolivia high School auditorium on Friday night at 8 o'clock. The program Is sponsored by the Youth Fellow ship of Bolivia Methodist church. Rovin' Reporter (Continued From Page One) things he saw the need of a hotel here and expressed a wish to talk about it to a friend of his. During the time we were in the hospital Mrs. E. H. Arrington and other ladies of the town gave ~a reception in honor of Rev. and Mrs. H. B. Johnson of Mt. Airy and their son, Dr. Thor Johnson, conductor of the Cincinatti Sym phony Orchestra. The occasion was a very fine one, despite the fact that the danger from polio prevented general invitations. What we are driving at this late is that we are sorry that no men tion was made of the event in the paper. This winter will see several Northern plant growers coming In to get lands along the River Road for the purpose of growing early vegetable plants. The building of the road by the highway com mission ana me success that has been achieved at growing tomato plants by Everett Sheppard assur es this development. The construc tion of a power line along this road, a project that is soon to be started By the REA, will be an other developing factor. Despite the fact that Bill Sharpe, head of the State News Bureau, is versatile in everything and John Hemmer, the official photographer, is supposed to be able to. take pictures under all sorts of conditions, it is evident that neither have any desire to be bull fighters. Writing us this week that they would be down in three weeks or so to get pictures of various things, including the Reigel Paper Oompany's Brhama cattle, Bill added as an aftertho ught: "Are you sure it will be quite safe?" So far as we know, it will be safe enough for the bulls. Known to many Brunswick peo ple, by reason of his major acti vities in road building and con tracting work, the death of E. W. Gannis of Fayetteville in a piane crash near Clarkton Friday afternoon was a general shock. Mr. Grannis built Camp Davis and many projects in this and other states. Since the war he was been engaged chiefly in road build ing.-The Holden Beach road now being paved is one of the Grannis projects in Brunswick county. The road from Soldier Bay church at Ash to Grissettown is also a; Grannis job. Grading on this road was finished some time ago and paving is schelduled to start in about two weeks. With both Long Beach and Hol den Beach assured of big and continued development, an out siders view of what may help to speed up the development may not come amiss. We believe that in stead of just sitting around this fall and winter waiting for the lot owners to start something more in the way of building next spring it would be a good move to put both time and money in pro motion work. This could well be done all through the fall, winter and spring. At both beaches there are many hundreds of lots owned by people who fully intend to tuild homes soon or at some time in the future. Every home that is built this fall or winter will in spire the building of one or two others. Fall and winter relapses from growing should not be allow ed to occur. Fishing at Long Beach this week Delmas Fulcher of Wilming ton, a summer resident of the beach, caught a slender, silvery 14-inch fish over which there has jbeen some argument as to idenity. [The fish was as gamey as a tar jpon, breaking water several times (before it was landed. Waters | Thompson was inclined to think it was a smelt, but the fish had la fin that no smelt is supposed to have. Our own belief is that it was a bone fish and it had all of the earmarks of a bone fish, except for a slight difference in the mouth. Whatever it was pret ty. FURNITURE COMPLETE FURNISHINGS FOR Bed-Room, Living-Room, Dining-Room and Kitchen. YOUNG Washing Machines LEWIS 8C McLAMB LOCATED AT THOMASBORO SHALLOTTE, N. C. HOME FURNISHINGS Fall Is The Time To Buy Furniture! The special things that bring comfort and satisfaction to every member of the family should come out of the money for crops which all of the family helped to produce. FURNITURE BED-ROOM SUITES . . . DINING-ROOM SUITES LIVING-ROOM FURNITURE KITCHEN EQUIPMENT APPLIANCES Washing Machines . . . Hot Water Heaters Radios ..: Vacuum Cleaners Electric Toasters OUTBOARD MOTORS See Our SCOTT-ATWATER Outboard MOTORS. . . . Just right for business Or Pleasure. KING'S ELECTRICAL SALES COMPANY SHALLOTTE, N. C. While there are twice as many Hewett's as Smith's in Brunswick county there are still plenty of Smith's. Four of them subscribed in a row this week, as fast as receipts could be written out. While on the subject of folks taking this paper, It can be said that folks at Long Beach havel about led all other sections of the county in subscribing during re- J cent days. Before returning to their homes, they are having their part-time home county paper go with them. This action pleases us very much because it shows they aie genuinely interested In their growing beach resort. Getting the paper in their homes up-state and in other states, they will be do ing their beach a lot of good by reminded to talk about it to their neighbors and friends. While fishing just off the mouth of the river the big ex-mine sweeper Brunswick took a huge tarpon in its menhaden net this week. The fish was estimated by Captain John Potter to weigh close to a hundred pounds. Suf focating in the dense mass of small fish, it died before it could be released. As these fish prefer the fresher water in the river and bays, it is not so very often that one falls a victim to the com mercial nets. Taking an occasional one cannot be avoided and when one is caught it is a matter of regret to the commercial fisher men, who have no use at all for such fish. FUNERAL SUNDAY (Continued From Page One) both of Wilmington. Private Leonard is survived by his widow, Mrs. Laura A. Leon ard, and a small son, Malory B. Leonard; his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse J. Leonard, and a sister, Miss Connie L. Leo nard. WANT ADS FOR SALE: 8 Shoats, weight 75 80 pounds. Priced right for quick sale. L. O. Sellers, Mill Creek, Bolivia, N. C. FOR SALE: One Supertax oil circulator in good condition, 1947 model. See Mrs. Thelma M. Davis, Southport, N. C. FOR SALE: Four-room house, lights, water, gas. One mile from Sballotte Point, See R. A. Milliken, Rudy's Cafe, Shallotte Point, N. C. FOR SALE: White enamel wood or coal range with warming; closet, $20.00f wood or coal heatrola, $15.00; also five gait-1 ed saddle horse, with saddle ' and bridle, complete, $175.00. See Mrs. Lee Hewett, South port, N. C. I Auto UPHOLSTERING ? Convertible Tops ? Head Linings J ? Side Panels : ? Seat Covers i ? Body Repair | ? Auto Painting i ? Welding SEE CLYDE SPRADLEY'S GARAGE & BODY SHOP I FOR SALE: 3-Room cottage, completely furnished. Hot and 'cold running water, with bath. | Brown St. & Atlantic Ave. See 'or call Skeet Gore, Phone 3217, ! Southport, N. C. LOST: Chrome hub*?"**"' Buick autouob.le 7P (, returned to State n"1 Office, Southport. V* p FOR Stratton jm ta'ie 1 yar(l Shalt.,Ue u??> j Shallotte, N. c. mber < FOR SALE:" Large or; electric water 42-gal. tank; c?re "V crated block ?lachin(*1 "etel covered buildup ft. Building has cJ; *; and metal. Priced to, N | sale. See W. l ai.ikj * _^Ohver, South^J TYPEWRlTKIi REPAffij ING-Any make'l? repamnK a"d cleaning Adding Machines pi, reasonable. See Mr 11,? ? at State Port Pilot OfS or contact mo at Sin p j Walter Street, Whitert 'N. C.. Phcne 3088. SCHEDULE W-B.&B.BUS LINE Southport, N. C. EFFECTIVE TUES., JAN. 3). I'm WEEK-DAY SCHEDULE LEAVES SOUTIIPORT LEAVES WILMINGTON ?? 7:00 A.M. 7:00 A.M. *9:30 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. PENNSYLVANIA P-100 TIRES 25 PER. WEEK Be sure of perfect motoring! Switch now to sturdy Pennsylvania P- 100's ; t ; the tires that are up-to-the-minute in safety, style and design. They'll give you higher mileage too..; extra mileage that meaps savings for you. 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