The Pilot Clovers
gninswick County
The state port pilot
no.
SIXTEEN NO. 32
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
Most of The News
All The Time
6-pages TODAY Southport, N. C., Wednesday, November 10, 1948 published every Wednesday si^o per yeai
pt Stop Now,
[farm Election
Js On The Way
Ltfick County Growers
foil Go To Poll# On De
cember 2 To Decide On
immunity Committee
. COMMUNITIES
* IN WHOLE COUNTY
^Time System Of Seven
?u Community Commit
^ To Be Abandoned
In This Election
petime during: the years of
p, War II it was decided that
(9?ty area should be broken
p into units of lesa size in
g to get a farm program
I to W farmer as quickly
ible. This program had
f good features, but the aim
,:o communicate to the farm
y emergency existing at the
fiai to encourage, enlist, and
I tie farmer In his efforts to
IKe the necessities to sustain
[ to been determined that
?arm program cah be admin
pi as effectively and with
I tost to revert to the pre
, basis of 6 communities in
t af the 1" now recognized.
,5 communities will be known
jurtbwest. Town Creek, Smith
, Lockwoods Folly, Shallotte
I ffaccamaw. The community
si and boundaries will be the
? as the townships for the
i area.
?election will be held in each
be six communities on Decem
li 1948. to elect a chairman.
Ktarman, and regular mem
; a well as three alternates,
eve for the year 1949. A de
te ?ill be elected also who
| attend the Convention on
F.oer 3, 1948, and assist in
f (Section of a County Com
ix consisting of a chairman, |
Idsairman, regular member
I three alternates. Every far-1
IJ urged to go to the polls j
tecember 2 and vc> fo^ foeti j
i to assist in administering;
ISrm program during the
I program year.
IritfStwt
Flathtt
nas close
ki county offices will be closed
?row i Thursday) in obser
|* of Armistace Day.
shtal auxiliary
k Dosher Memorial Hospital
Wary will meet tomorrow
ktay.i afternoon at 4 o'clock
lie tome of Mrs. J. W. Thom
t
ktkry cleaning
k cemetery at Sharon Metho
l church in Lockwoods Folly
?ftp will be cleaned off on
today, November 17th. All
life interested are asked to
out on that date.
f?KR DIES
t Odum, of Red Springs,
p of Mrs. Floyd Tvirby of
'y. died at his home in Red
|*S3 Friday. He is said to have
? failing health for some
1 Burial was held at Red
*9 Sunday.
hlHER REPORTS
'tenge has been made In
aily schedule of receipt of
'r bureau information from
Ston. Heretofore this in
_ ?> has beep received and
? ibout 9 o'clock each morn
j~ '-'le future the report will
? tae about IX o'clock and
Posted as soon as possible
Ml
AUXILIARY
t ^American Legion Auxiliary
"Wt on Thursday afternoon
18. at 3:30 o'clock in
r?om at the city hall.
>. nstine Frink, president
or?anization, says that
.3 'an?f'r of losing the local
,r unless there is a greater
strength and interest.
,**es a full attendance at
meeting.
GERMAN*
n! Officer George Egan
? Mrs. Hubbard and their
S0RS w'" leave on
i ' for New York.
're they will leave on
t f; 19th for Germany
^ arrant Officer will
Ik v 1 for the next two or
^nti' time tor de
ir.l.e family is here with
1^' *rs G. E. Hubbard, Sr.,
Warrant Officer Hub
LED THE VOTING
HIGH MAN?When all of the votes cast in the Gen
eral Election last Tuesday had been counted, it was found
that W. Kerr Scott, the next Governor of North Carolina,
led all other candidates in the Brunswick county vote
with a total of 2,758.
W. Kerr Scott Is
Leading Vote-Getter
Canvas Of Brunswick Coun
ty Vote Thursday Failed
To Upset Any Results Of
Last Tuesday's Count
TRUMAN GIVEN A
SMALL PLURAWTy(
This Was Surprising In!
View Of Thurmond
Strength; Every Demo
cratic Candidate
Winner
j W. Kerr Scott, the next gov
ernor of N. C. proved to be the
most popular candidate with >
Brunswick county voters last!
(Tuesday as he piled up 2758 votes,
which was 69 votes ahead of'
Congressman-elect F. Ertel Car- j
lyle and 89 more than Senator
j elect J. M. Broughton. Scott's
| vote was 232 greater than that
j of Amos J. Walton, who led the
| county ticket.
i A further check of the Bruns
| wick balloting reveals that Presi
jdent Harry S. Truman was high
I man in the voting for president
as he led Governor Thomas E.
Dewey 2052 to 1896. This is rath-j
ler remarkable in view of the fact'
j that Governor Strom Thurman 1
polled 715 Brunswick county votes:
most of them taken away from'
President Truman. Only 20 votes'
were cast for Henry A. Wallace
for president in Brunswick.
Another notable fact is that
every Democratic candidate ' on
the ticket in. Brunswick county,
was a winner, even in township
contests. The only successful Re-;
publican candidates were men un-1
opposed for township offices.
Brunswick county voters were
rough on amendments, especially (
those suggesting the possibility of
added cost of government. The!
(Continued of page four)
Longwood Man
Is Sowing Grain
I
Rice Gwynn Farms At
Longwood Will Go In Ex
tensively For Small Grain
During Winter Season
Rice Gwynn of Longwood is
now engaged In planting 200 acr
es of small grain, mostly oats,
:on his farm near Longwood. This,
is understood to be only a part j
of his small crop for next year,
i In recent weeks IWr. Gwynn has
sold between two and 'three thou
sand bushels of seed oats produc
ed on his farms the past spring.
Most of this came from spring oats
as the excessive wet weather in
the fall of last year made it im
' possible for him to sow small
grain at that Ume. Despite the
fact that spring oats are said to
seldom do well In Brunswick, Mr.
Gwynn made a big crop.
This may have been largely
due to his very fertile land. One
of the main efforts by Mr. Gwynn
and his tenants is to build up the
soil. This fall he sowed 75 acres
in Austrian winter pears, to be
plowed under in the spring.
? I
Southport Folks
Talk With Son
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Loughlin,
Jr., of Southport received the
thrill of a lifetime Saturday
wften they spent about forty
five minutes in conversation
with their son, Joe Sam Lough
lin, who is in the Navy and
is stationed at Coco-Sola, Canal
Zone.
Contact was made through the
courtesy of E. Sellers, Jr., for
merly of Southport, who is now
eniployed at The News Report
er Co., in Whiteville. Sellers
spends his spare time working
with his amateur radio station
W4NTQ, and one of his regular
contacts is KZ5WG of the Can
al Zone, whose operator ar
ranged to have' young Lough
lin at his set for the talk with
his parents.
Funeral Sunday
For Mrs. Parker
Mrs. Annie Dosher Parker
Died Friday At Dosher
Memorial Hospital; Fu
neral Services Held Sun
day
Mrs. Annie Dosher Parker, 81
year-old resident of .Southport,
died in the Dosher Memorial Hos
pital Friday after a short illness.
Funeral services were conduct
ed here in Trinity Methodist
church Sunday afternoqa^ at 2
o'clock and were in charge of Rev.
L. D. Hayman. Burial was in the
old Southport cemetery.
! Active pallbearers were Walter
?Lewis, John Caison, S. B. Frink,
Robert St. George, S. T. Bennett,
[ Dr. Roy Daniels and Richard
| Brendle.
I Honorary pallbearers included
Charles Swann, Robert Thompson
W. E. Dosher, J. I. Davis, Rudolph
Sanders, J. E. Pinner, Joel Moore,
| and Price Furpless.
Survivors include four sisters,
Mrs. Susie Carr, Mrs. C. E.
Gause, Mrs. John Erickson, and
Miss Katie Dosher; one brother,
Fred Dosher, Sr., all of Southport.
Presbyterians In
Revival Services
The Rev. A. K. Dudley Of
Wilmington Will Assist
Dr. J. M. Waggette With
Preaching During Meet
ing
I Officials and members of the
Southgprt Presbyterian church are
preparing for what is hoped will
be the biggest revival held at
I this church in years. The ser
? vices will start Monday night
| (Continued of page four)
Few Openings
Now Available
In Farm Class
January Class?? In Veteran
Farm Training Program
Still Have Few Openings
For New Students
APPLICANTS SEE
SERVICE OFFICER
Special Benefits Now Avail
able To Men Who Had
Dental Work Started
While In Service
In sending his September and
October report of the activities
at his office, Cecil C. Edwards,
the Brunswick County Veteran?
Service officer, says that the agri
cultural teachers at Shallotte and
Bolivia have advised him that
they have a few opening for vet
erans who wish to enter the Farm
Training School on the first of
January.
It is important that veterans
desiring this work apply to Mr.
Edwards for certificate of eligi
bility and entitlement at the very
earliest date. A certified copy of
discharge papers must be present
ed to him and he will be glad to
assist in arranging the eligibili
ty papers.
Mr. Edwards also points out
that veterans of World War n
who had dental work started and
not completed while they were In
service, or if this work was com
pleted and some work now needs
to be worked over, may apply
for dental work.
His report for the two months
shows the following: Received 95
letters; sent out 90 letters; nine
long distance calls and wires; 200
interviews; 12 filed trips; 49 ed
ucational matters; 2 employment
case; 11 cases of readjustment
allowance; 46 compensation and
pension cases; 6 P. L. 346 loan
cases; 4 hospitllizatlon cases; 4
farmer training; 44 cases requir
ing legal or business advice; 34
miscellaneous cases.
Funeral Held
For War Hero
Pfc. Jasper C. Mercer Laid
To Rest In National
Cemetery Following Fu
neral Rites Yesterday
~????
Funeral services were hel(l yes
terday at two-o'clock in the Yopp
Undertaking Parlors in Wilming
ton for Pfc Jasper C. Mercer, son
Of Mr. and Mrs. A. Lee Mercer,
of Bolivia. The young man was
killed fighting in Germany in
November, 1944. Following the
services 'in Wilmington the re
mains were intered in a National
cemetary.
He Is servived by his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Mercer of
Bolivia; two sisters, Mrs. F. T.
Brittian and Miss Mary Lee Mer
cer of Bolivia; and two brothers,
C. J. Mercer and B. B. Mercer of
Wilmington.
Active pallbearers from the
Brunswick county American Le
gion post No. 194 were Crawford
Rourk, ' Dorman Mercer, Charles
M. Trott, Wayne Leinart, John
G. Caison, and Ralph Cataldo.
Honorary pallbearers were Arthur
Knox, Dr. L. C. Brown, G. S. Hick
man, C. W. Knox, H. A. Marks,
B. S. Reynolds, Edward Murrell,
and J. A. Elmore.
RETURNS
REV. L. D. HAYMAN
Rev. Hayman
Comes Back To
Trinity Church
No Change Made In Any
Assignment In Brunswick
County, But New District
Superintendent Named
Hie Rev. L. D. Hayman has
been returned to Trinity Metho
dist church in Southport as pas
tor for another year as no
changes were made by the An
nual North Carolina Conference
in charges for Brunswick county.
The Rev. Richard Braunstein
returns to the Shallbtte charge
and the Rev. R. H. Caudill returns
to Town Creek.
The Rev. C. D. Barclift replaces
Dr. E. L. HiUman as district sup
erintendent.
The list of appointments fol
lows:
C. D. Barclift, District Super
intendent.
Bladen Circuit, to be supplied.
Burgaw, R. E. Walston; Caro
i-WfeSBK:
C. F.j Andrews; Clinton, J. H.
Lajniags. > IT,'
Clinton Circuit, F. F. Warren
(S).
Duplin . Circuit, ' to be supplied.
Elizabeth town, O. L. Hard wick;
Fairmont, Daniel Lane; Faison,
(Continued on page four)
Health Officer
Talks To Lions
Dr. Floyd Johnson, Colum
bus County Health Offi
cer, Outlines Duties Of
Health Department
Dr. Floyd Johnson, Columbus
? County Health Officer, was speak
er Thursday at a meeting: of the
jSouthport Lions Club?
j Dr. Johnson outlined some of
I the duties of a health department
j and showed how' the services of
an organization of this kind
1 might prove of special advant
| age in an area where there is a
1 great influk of vacationists and
1 of tourist trade.
l| Plans are being made to hold
?jthe next regular meeting of the
? club on the evening of Thursday,
J November 18, at which time a
Ladies Night program will be
presented. A turkey dinner is be
ling served for this occasion.
w. B. KEZIAH
Our
ROVING
Reporter
The Shallotte boys are far from
discouraged at their first year of
trying for a high school football |
'team, but they wolild sort of be1
[justified if they did feel a mea-j
sure of discouragement. Coming
j up against the Tabor City boysi
[this past Friday the Brunswick!
boys made their first score of the1
year. The game resulted in a 79'
to 7 victory in Tabor City's favor.
From all of the reports reach
ing us Brunswick county haS|
planted and is still planting one:
of the largest small grain and j
winter cover crops that has been,
planted in this county in years.
Winter oats are about all sown,
and are coming up to a fine
stand. The same holds true of
Austrain Winter peas. Most of
the Brunswick wheat crop is us-,
ually sown in November ^and
growers are now busy with this!
work.
Writing1 from Oteen, where he
has been in the Veterans Hospit
al for some time, L. F. Bennett
says that he thinks this paper
has been doing1 a wonderful work
work for Brunswick county: "A
newspaper always trying to help
a better community an* county."
We are glad that Mr. Bennett
likes the paper and took the tro
uble to tell us of his devotion to
it and to Brunswick county. ?
During the past week a lot of
people in various sections of the
county have asked us Why the
tabulated abstract of votes in last
weeks paper did not give the re
port on the presidental vote at
all precincts. Well, the paper had
to be published the morning fol-.
lowing the election. In this county]
(Continued On Page Four)
Modern Hay'Baler Is
Labor-Saving Device
One Man Can Do Work Formerly Requiring The Labor
Of An Entire Crew Of Men
Rice Gwynn, Long-wood farm
er, has the most modern piece of
haymaking machinery ever seen
or heard of in Brunswick county.
It is a tractor-pulled hay-baler
that does its own hay raking. Tile
raked hay goes right through the
machine and emerges as neatly
bound 80-pound boles of hay,
ready for trucks to pick up and
haul to storage.
Not a pitchfork is required in
the entire haymaking operation
on the extensive Gwynn farm.
Only one man .is required for the
entire raking and baling operat
ion. This is the tractor operator.
He has to pay less attention to
j the rake and baler that his trac
Itor is drawing than the operator
j of a road scraper has to pay to
his machine.
It takes two motor-pulled mow
ing machines to keep a day ahead
of the rake and baler; owing -to
the rake taking a wider sweep.
With a man operating each of
these two motor powered motors
it is a rather interesting taci uiai
to cut and bale hundreds of bales
of hay each day only three men
are required for all of the work.
The baler and rake cost over
two thousand dollars. It is pra
ctically automatic, raking the hay,
and leaving the bales lying in the
field to be gathered up by trucks
and hauled to storage. Between
ten and eleven thousand bales
of hay have, been raked and bal
ed by the machine on the Gwynn
lands this year.
The average hay baler calls for
a big force of men to haul the
lose hay in unload it and feed it
to the machine. Forking hay is
not altogether an easy job. With
this modern machine the use of
pitchfork is entirely eliminated,
likewise much of the trucking.
A truck can load up with more
than twice as much hay and in
half the time that it took to load
the lose product to take it to the
old style balers.
Making Nets For Use
In Trawling For Fish
Much-Publicized
Snake With Show
Some months ago newspapers
made considerable stir over a
planned fight to the death be
tween a mule and a boa con
strictor. The stir became so
pronounced that the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty
to animals and city and county
officials stepped in and re
strained the Cole Brothers show
from staging the fight.
Cole Brothers claimed that
the snake could kill a mule and
they were willing to risk losing
their valuable reptile in support
of their belief. State miAeum
officials expressed the belief
! that the mule would trample
the snake to death. Officials
sworn out served papers by the
SPA, enjoining against the fight,
a fe whours before it was to be
staged.
The Cole Brothers are here
this week with their show and
carnival. James W. Cole, one
of the owners, said he was still
willing to risk a snake-mule
fight if it were not for court
orders against it.
Magazine Writer
May. Visit Here
Robert Froman, Saturday
Evening Post Man, May
Come Here For Story
About Bald Head Island
Bald Head, most outstanding Is
land on the North Carolina coast,
may shortly be featured in a
story by Robert Froman for the
Saturday Evening Post. Writing
to W. B. Keziah this week Mr.
Froman advised that the Post had
asked him for a story on the
habitable islands of the country.
Bald Head is such a place, de
spite the fact that it is inhabited
only by Coast Guards.
Mr. Froman, an outstanding
feature story writer, advised the
Rovin Reporter of the State Port
Pilot that he had been advised
he was the best authority any
where in this section on islands
near Southport. He asked how
many islands there were in this
area and their sizes; if any for
sale or rent and any idea of
prices, any special problems in
volved in living in those places,
water, insects, floods.
The above and other questions
were asked and all are being an
swered in detail. The information
being furnished with regard to
Bald Head island is being sup
plemented with additional matter
relative to the Ocean Isle pro
perty at Gause Landing and a
general descriptive of things
along the Brunswick county
coast.
School Officials
To Chapel Hill
The Brunswick county board of
education, Supt. of Schools J. T.
Denning and members of local
school boards of the five white
consolidated schools in Brunswick
are to leave early tomorrow
(Thursday) morning for Chapel
Hill to be in attendance at the
state meeting.
Supt. Denning states that about
25 people are to go. They will
have to leave rather early as the1
meeting opens at 10:30 o'clock, j
New Rigs Will Be Tried By
Southport Fishermen As
They Try For Food Fish
In Gulf Stream
NETS ARE DIFFERENT
FROM SHRIMP TRAWLS
Two New Types Will Be
Employed In Effort To
Discover Which Is Best
Adapted For Local
Use
With a .slow up in shrimp pro
duction last week believed to be
largely due to warm weather and
the passage of tfcs shrimp south
ward there was also a cut on the
number of Bhrimp - nets being
damaged or lost.
But the net makers and repair
men were working just as hard
as ever. TTiey had fewer new
shrimp nets to make and fewer
old ones to repair, but there was
plenty for them to do in the way
of making nets for the gulf stream
fishing that many people believe
will be a big thing this winter.
Lewis J. Hardee has been mftk-1
Ing the New Jersey style netsl
for his boats to use in this win-1
ter fishing. Hiey are different
from the shrimp trawls in that
they are without the long wings,
the twine is much heavier and the
mesh about four times as large.
Tlie mouths of the nets open sev
eral times as wide as those of
the shrimp nets.
Shrimp are scraped up from
the floor of the ocean and In
shrimping operations few fish are
caught because the top of the
nets are barely above the bottom.
For fishing the mouth of the nets
3pen wide, being held that way
by large floats.
A pretty good way to describe
(Continued On Page t'our)
Commissioners In
Session Thursday
Board Heart Appeal By
Citizens Committee For
Health Department; Co
lumbus County Health
Officer Present
Dr. Floyd Johnson, Health Offi
cer for Columbus county, appear
sd with a group of Brunswick
county citizens before the board
of county commissioners here j
Thursday to give an outline of
the work which a health depart
ment performs in a county which
It serves.
Hie commissioners and mem
bers of the citizens committee
asked a number of questions of
Dr. Johnson, all of them design
ed to develope information which
would lead to helping work out
plans for establishment of a full
time health department in this
county.
The commissioners expressed a
willingness to pass along to their
successors a recommendation that]
a public health department be in
cluded in the county government
If this can #be done under the
present appropriation.
Other matters taken up before
the board were of routine import
ance. H. B. Usher was relieved
of $450.00 valuation due to error
In listing. Hie Highway Com
mission was asked to take over
a 2-mtIe stretch of road from
No. 130 at Zion Baptist church.
Collie Ozment was relieved of
1M6 knd prior years taxes due
to double-listing.
District Legion
Members Attend
Friday Meeting
Tenth District Meeting Held
At Ocean View Tavern,
Holden'i Beach, With
Good Number In AttMK
dance
HARRY L. MINTZ IS
DISTRICT COMMANDER
Principal Speaker For Thii
Event Wa? Col. Wiley
Pickens, Executive
Vice-Commander Of
State Department
With eleven posts represented
by a total of 76 delegates, th?
meeting of the 10th District
American Legion post at Holdeft
Beach Friday night is credited
with being one of the best held
In this area in a long time.
The meeting was held In the
dining room of the Ocean View
Tavern and was presided over by
District Commander Harry L?
Mintz. Among the speakers he ln>
t reduced was Col. Wiley Pickene
of Raleigh, executive vlce-com"
mander of the Department of
North Carolina. Commanders of
the various posts were also In
troduced. ' ??
Colonel Pickens spoke on the
youth of the Legion organization,
calling special attention to the
services that it renders to dis
abled veterans; to the community
services that it performs and
especially to the work that it per
forms among the boys. He men
tioned enemies of the Legion, chief
of which are the Communist.
Norman McCullough of Elisa
bethuwn, district membership
chairman, spoke briefly about the
orogresa of the membership drives,
i^ouis Parker of Elizabeth own, 2nd
Division Commander, reported that
the 10th District was leading th?
State Department in membership*
at this date. -?
The eleven posts represented
were, Elizabeth town, Bladenbonv
Clarkton, Tabor City, Fair Bluff,
Whiteville, Bolton, Delco, Wilming
ton, Shallotte and thport.
The dutafc,supper served by the
Oceon View Tavern was a special
event of the evening. A seafood
meal including lobsters, shrimp,
crabs and fish .was prepared anil
served'.
Many Visitors
_ At Long Beach
Summer Residents Find
Weather Reminiscent Of
Vacation Period On Their
Visit During Past Week
end
Their three and a half miles of
road all completed except for the
smooth top surfacing which will
be applied in the early spring,
permanent residents, many of
Long Beach have something nice
to show the summer time resid
ents, many of whom are now
coming down for the week-end*.
Among these permanent resid
ents are Mr. and Mrs. Jlmmle
Woltz. Mr. Woltz, one of the top
tobacco market auctioneers in the
bright leaf belt, has been resting
up since the Fairmont market
closed two weeks a?o. When he
is not busy with his tobacco mar
keting he gets a kick and plenty
of exercise as a home builder at
Long Beach. Last winter and the
year before Woltz put out close
to $40,000.00 in building home?,
which he sold to others as fast
as they were built.
In an interview Monday he ex
pressed expectations of doing
even better with his building thU
year, as he will be able to start
out two or three months earlier.
He said he is planning to build
at least two houses of his own
and he has expectations of cart*
trading or supervising the work
on three or four others that bit
friends plan to build.
Among the up-state folks who
own homes at Long Beach and
spend the summers there, the fol
lowing were down to spend Sat
urday and Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Q. I. Scarborough
family and guests, from Fayette
ville at their cottage Saturday
and Sunday. Also from Fayette-,
ville were Mr. and Mrs. W. W*
Wallace, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Un
derwood, Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie
DeVane.
From Sanford were Mr. and
Mrs. E. M. Underwood, Sr., from
Kinston was J. B, Haymore and
guests. Mr. and Mrs. Callendar
Newton were down from Char
lotte; Mr. and Mrs. Glen Ward
from Burlington; Tony Bllisoly
and family from Raleigh; the
Waynicks from High Point were
at their cottage. Mr. and Mrs. J.
A. Woltz had as their guests, Mr.
and Mr?. W. E. Stott, of Spring
Hope; Mrs. S. W. Scarborough,
Seven Springs; Mrs. A. K. Mills*
from Sanford. '
'il