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The pilot Oxers jjunsivick County ^sixteen no. 34 STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community 6-PAGES today Southport, N. C., Wednesday, November 24, 1948 Most of The Newt All The Time tlJO PER YEAB PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY jjeo Winners ,J Good Luck Fishing Here Tkr? Prizes In Dsep riassit'ication Were ^ L? By Parties Fish \boarcl Local Boats ,iTS BOAT HAD WINNER AGAIN p-jzo.Winning Fish In ^ Classification Were [fjught From Bruns wick County Beaches -nian who was seeking im ? orik money in this year's ' :.em .\oi th Carolina Beach Fishing Rodeo a Zaoi plar^ to follow was to "..^r from a sport fishing ?,11 Southport or from some | ob the Brunswick county Ite second successive year m the deepsea classifi e res a member of a party' , the idle On of Capttan C Watts. This craft had the i piace winner, while Capt. e Arnold had the second prize x aboard his Kiabab. i significant that not one of .jute winning fish was a sail, t though Captain Watts had rtich measured over eight 3 length. On the otherhand, ^ on a handicap basis, a t arnberjack. and 8-lb., 4-oz., yd mackeral and a 23-lb. ?-ere winners in that or iowing is a list of winners in ieepsea group: s prize, $500 war bond and kr. Arthur F. DeGreve, VVash e, D C., arnberjack weigh j) pounds caught on Idle On firing Pan Aug. 20 on 18 i: line. Kci prize. $200 bond and iy Arthur W. Newkirk, Wil li- Spanish mackerel weigh i pounds. 4 ounces caught on ?ff Frying Pan Sept. 9 on Iread line. ted prize. S100 bond and tro W. T. Lowrance, Concord, | li: weighing 23 pounds caught j frying Pan on Idle On Aug. 3.' i addition to these 1 ?trtnqr*. Le prize for the Best fish ffom tanf was for a 43-lb red drum pb)r J. S. Bro^nj taken while pg in the surf at Bald Head, i 1Mb, 9-oz. third prize winner I T. Rothrock's was caught IQracake mlet. h 'it children's division fjrst Itaird prizes were won by kids kg off the Moja of Capt. Vic Unre. Clark Carroll had a k 10-oz. bonito to win first t in this classification while i year ole Johnnie Parker III Wilmington took third prize kalO-lb, 10-oz. king mackeral. height at the Famous Club in I tagton awards will be made | 4e annual SENCBA banquet ?inch a number of dignitaries < been Invited as principal l?rs. BriefNews Flashes BOOL HOLIDAY K Brunswick county schools 1 closing Wednesday afternoon i four-day Thanksgiving holi I which will last until acade i activates are resumed on *ay morning. big BEAR hunting west of Winna ' Saturday Herbert Potter shot ' tolled a big black bear. It is ?stood he was not out after *? tot that he just had some shells along when he met the fellow. ^ hospital Womans Auxiliary of ?P?ft Presbyterian church ^ items for a baby show w the benefit of Dosher Mem Hospital on Sunday even tMany useful articles were and made available to institution. J1 YACHTS passing ^ ^'orth Wales owned by W. *Wer, Jr . and the Nicoya **?1 Gould were among ihe ' yachts that have passed and stopped here over-j "tang the past week. The of the pleasure craft ?fcrt'^ 48 now assumin8 lar8e J?1* SHOW "*rsof the Womans Society L*?tian Service of Trinity Church will present a ' show in the high school on Friday evening, i S o'clock. Details of | tt??!'4111 W1'l be announced Ordained REV. JENNIS McLAMB,? Brunswick county man, who recently was ordained a minister in the Baptist church. Sballotte High Planning Annual Students Alrsadjr At Work "Compiling Material For Student Publication The Shallotte' frigfi1- school stu dents, backed by the parents, have undertaken ^the 'publication of a beautiful school' annual, a work which the students declare , Will compare favorably with that of I some of the Better known colleges.] ?Arrangements have already been made with printers of anuals in Kansas City, Mo. The contract calls for the first sixteen pages of the work to be' in their hands by the 16th of December, but the book will not to completed and ready for distribution until April 15th. Miss Alice Copeland will super vise the work. The editor-in-chief is Susie An Wilson and the busi-1 ness manager is Rose Marie Hold en. Others members of the staff are Aubrey Milliken, Marie Hewett, Billy Gray and Mary Gwen Chad wick in the editorial department, Billy Kate Leonard, Waban Thom as, Gertrude Hewett and Catha leen Clemmons on the business! staff. Clerk Remands Case To Court Negro Deemed Too Drunk For Trial By Magistrate Is Returned To That Court For Hearing Arrested by State Patrolman! J. C. Taylor, Saturday, George C. Cromartie of North West town ship was taken before Magistrate j J. C. Tucker, charged with having J become drunk on the public high ; way. Magistrate Tucker is said to have given a look at the culprit and to have filed the following i judgment: "The defendant is too,' drunk to be given a hearing." j George was accordingly put in1 jail in the absence of a $100.00 j bond until Judge W. J. McLamb1 (Continued on page four) Believes Building Will Continue A. R. Boatwright of Troy one i of the large property owners at j ! Long Beach, spent last week here |and at the beach. Mr. Boatwright said that with the cost of building material dropping, he was looking for a lot of activity in building at the beach between now and next summer. This feeling seems to be shared by property owners at Cas well Beach, Holden Beach and other places on the Brunswick coast. There should be an upsurge of building activities at the Bruns wick County beaches within the next few weeks. e. Farmers Not Waiting For Drainage Project Landowners Of Lower Sec tion Of Brunswick County Are Going About Prob lem Of Drainage On Their Own LOCALLY OWNED DRAGLINE HELPS Machinery Owned By Mc Lamb Brothers Keeping Busy Digging Drainage Canals Or Individual F arms While they are waiting on the action that may or may not come from the government relative to drainage of the Waccamaw riv er lowlands, a number of Shal lotte and Waccamaw township farmers are solving small drain age problems of their own. The farmers living within the prt posed canal area, Waccamaw to Little River, are powerless to do anything individually for drainage of their thousands of acres of wet lands. That will have to be an united undertaking. A little distance away from" the drainage district, however, are many thousands of acres of fine farm and pasture lands that are worth little until they can be drained. They are not a part of1 ?the proposed big drainage pro ject?, although in many cases they will' be' helped by it. They pre sent individual problems of drain age. '/? The average ' drainage ditch with straight banks is out of the picture , for dealing with these in dividual problems. Straight-bank- j ed ditches fill with debris and I growth in a very short time. They are a constant source of trouble after they are dug, and the dig ging is about as costly as the sloping "Y" shaped canals that do not fill so easily and can easily be dug with draglines. Rice Gwynn, Longwood planter is due much credit for starting private drainage canal work that is now taking hold with many farmers in lower Shallotte and Waccamaw townships. Mr! Gwy nn's efforts with the sloping-sid ed canals are also the major un dertaking of that sort in the two townships. Leasing a dragline two or three years ago he constructed some 20 miles of these canals. With this work he was able to reclaim several hundred acres of very rich bottom lands. Following in the same path, many other farmers of the two townships have hired draglines and had canals dug. Until recent ly these machines had to be ob tained from contractors outside of the county. It was heard to fine available draglines at the time when conditions were best adapt ed for their work and when the farmers wanted them. Last spring Layton McLamb and his brother, W. J. McLamb, of the Hickman's Cross Roads and Thomasbcro communities helped the drainage problems of their communities by purchasing a new dragline for construction work of various sorts, including the cutting of canals on their own (Continued on page four) Brunswick Boy Buried Sunday Sgt. Edward Brew Was Laid To Final Rest With Im piessive Rites Suiujay Af ternoon Brought home from Italy, where he died on May 12, 1944, Sgt. Edward Brew of the Phoe nix-Leland community, was buri ed at New Hope Baptist church cemetery Sunday afternoon at two o'clock. Survivors of Sgt. Brew are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Brew of Phonix; a daughter, Miss Jo ann Brew of Wilmington; four brothers, L. E. Brew of Wilmin gton, and W. E., D. T., and W. H, Brew of Le land: one sister. Mrs. L. H. Tharp of Leland. Inspection Lane To Be At Supply Motor Vehicle Inspection Lane I No. 35 will be set up on Saturday of this week at Supply where it will remain in operation through Tuesday of next week. Paul Avant of Chadbourn is supervisor. Location of the inspection lane at Supply is in lieu of its former schedule at Southport and Shal lotte, and the appearance this week and next at Supply will be the last this year in Brunswick county. This means that Bruns wick' county motorists who want to be on the safe side will do well to make their plans to have their automoblies inspected on this vis it. The last appearance of the in spection lane in this county dur ing 1948 will be the final week in December, according to the pre sent schedule. Varied Docket Tried In Court Ca^es Heard By Judge W.J J. McLamb Wednesday Covered Number Of Dif. j ferent Violations Of Law e A varied docket was disposed of bere in Recorder's court Wed nesday, with the following judge ments being handed down by Judge W. J. McLamb: D. C. Smith, public drunkness, 30 days on roads, suspended on good rehavior and payment of costs. Lemuel V. Roberts, improper automobile equipment, $7.50 and costs. Johnnie R. Butler, no operators license, fined $25.00 and costs. Tuggy Grissett, rape, continued to Nov. 24. Ellie R. Piatt, speeding, contin ued to November 24. Luther Carl Mitchell, speeding, $10.00 fine and costs. Dennie Jenkins, assault with deadly weapon with intent to kill, remanded to J. P. to make proper report. William R. Brown, speeding, fin ed $10.00 and costs. Charles R. Sanders, drunken dri ving, guilty of reckless operation, fined $50.000 and costs. Jim Floyd, public drunkness, 30 (Continued on .Page Flour) Russ Requests Early Attention To Yule Mailing Postmaster Says All Pack age? Should Be Put In Post Office By Dec. 15th i o insure Delivery HANDLING SYSTEM IN POST OFFICE CITED Even Heavier Flood Of Christmas Mail Is Expec ted For This Year At v Local Office Postmaster Burnice Russ to day appealed to local residents to plan to mall all Christmas greet ing cards and gifts packages "just as early in December as possible." An even heavier flood of Yule tide mail is expected this Christ mas than during the record-break lng 1947 holidays. "If you postpone mailing to the last minute this year," Postmas ter Russ warned, "you risk dis appointing your friends. Your holiday messages and gift will be caught in the rush and perhaps not delivered until after Christ mas." All packages should be mailed before Dec. 15 to assure delivery before Christmas Day, he said. Christmas cards for out-of-State delivery also should be mailed by December 15 and cards for local addresses should be in the J collection boxes several days be-< fore December 25. Early Christmas mailing is ex tremely vital, the postmaster said, because handling the Chirstmas mail load is divided into three phases. First, the mail for out-of town must be collected and dis patched by rail and air. Then, de livery of Yuletide greetings being exchanged lofcally becomes the big job. Finally, there is the last-min ute flood of cards and packages from out-of-town to be handled. "Whenever these three opera tions overlap, there's a jam in the post office and deliveries are de layed," the postmaster declared. Drainage May Earn Payments i Brunswick County Produc- , tion And Marketing Ad ministration C o n s i d era This One Of Most Impor tant Farm Practices The Brunswick County Pro duction and Marketing Administr ation Committee considers open ditch drainage and tile drainage to be two of the most needed pra ctices to be performed on the farms in Brunswick' county says Chairman Elroy King. Before either of the practices can be performed and the farmer be elegible for payment, prior ap proval must be given. This re quires a service to stake out drainage ditches and lay out tile drainage systems for which no administrative funds have been available. The Brifnswick County PMA Committee, with the approval of the State PMA Committee, was set aside $250,00 of the 1948 pro gram funds to be used for prior approval services of these two drainage practices. They have done this since no other funds'are available for this service, and the j county allocation of funds for j practice payments will be reduc-! this amount. Our Reporter We are making the rounds of townships in Brunswick this week with Tax Collector W. P. Jorgen sen. This week we are in Wacca maw, Shallotte, Lockwoods Fplly and part of Town Creek townships. Tuesday of next week things are wound up with Northwest and an other part of Town Creek town-! ships. On account of the nearness to the office Mr. Jorgenson does not make any calls in Smithville township. A few nights ago Harry Robin son was returning licity-split from Long Beach and there was a flash and a crach that for the moment j convinced him he had struck some-1 body. Mindful of the fact that if he had killed a person he was not smart enought to get away with it if he added up the role of hit and | run driver to his misdeeds, Harry stopped and backed up to see who the victim might be. Instead of the man he expected and dreaded to find, he was overjoyed, to dis cover he had killed a buck deer. He promptly loaded the animal in to his truck, brought it home and dressed it He has since been brag ging how he is having deer steak i every day without having to go through the time-honored custom of sharing his kill with other hunt ers. Allowing for an assortment of ifs, freshwater fishing is mighty I good at this time of the year, if you go to the right places, if you have the right sort of bait, if the day is not one immediately fol lowing one of the weekly changes of the moon, if It is not too windy and especially if the wind is not | from the east. We were fishing I with Crawford Rourk one after jnoon this week. Between us wei |pulled in 34 crappie's or goggle) | .(Continued on Page 8) Brunswick Woman Has Strange Recovery Twelve Major Operation? Failed But "Voice" Lead? Preacher To Lay Hand? On Neighbor And Mr*. Mintz Of Leland Recover?; Duke Hospital Makes X-Ray? BY JOSEPH HUFHAM | DELCO, Oct. 25?Tho?P who contend that the days of miracle? are over should check on this, that their faith might be renew ed. i About fifteen years ago Mrs. Esther Mintz, wife of Stephen Mintz of Lela^nd, was so seriously ill of cancer of the throat, that her personal physician admitted ! to the family that there was no i more hope for any sign of re jcovery, and she was brought home 'from the hospital to die. Mrs. Mintz had had 12 major operations and had been examined by one hundred and thirty-five doctors. By the time she readied home her throat was so complete ly closed that she had to spend most of her time on her stomach, struggling for breath. I Not far away the Dev. Jethrp 'Benton, an evanglist that is well i known in all sections of Columbus i Brunswick and Horry counties, j was hoeing out his potato patch. I he said that he had heard of Mrs. Mintz's serious condition, land was thinking about her when | suddenly a voice seemed to come !to his ears, saying: "Kneel where j you are and pray." As he did so, the "voice" said, I "Go aiioint Mrs. Mint* snd lay your hand? upon tier. "But th? minister waan't aire, ao he arose and began hoeing potatoes again. He hoed on out to the end ot the row, and there he knelt and prayed again. And again the "voice" commanded him to go lay hands upon Mrs. Mints and pray for her. "nils time, he obey ed. There was a large congregation of friends in and around the house when Mr. Benton got there, each expecting Mm. Mintrt next breath to be her last. A friend of the family welcomed Mr. Ben ton to Mr* Mints'* bedside, where he placed his hands upon the back of Ker head and began to pray, but his praytr was cut somewhat short, because Mrs. Mints turned over on her back, looked up into his face, and smiled: '?t's gone," she said, barely above a whisper, "The cancer is gone!" Mr. Benton could not help re joicing in ?pirit, for he knew then that the Lord had seht him. But on his way back t? his potato patch, another "voice" said to him: "ljiat woman hasn't been healed! You know die hasn't!" (Continued On Pag? Four) Southport Boats Are Operating Successfully Fights Bear On His Own Grounds Often the meeting: between hun ter? and bears In Brunswick county is sudden and unexpected and sometimes the parting on such occasions is swift and pain less. \ Warren Knox was deer hunt ing near Bolivia Friday and his dogs got something up a tree. Never having heard of tree climbing deer, Warren approach ed cautiously. He discovered a big bear up a big tree. Taking careful but shaky aim, | let the bear have the contents i of a buckshot load. The bear , immediately strated to climb i down the tree. Warren shot at him again and he put on the accelerator in descending the tree. By the time the bear reached the ground, Warren was too far off to see which way he went. Club Members Enjoy Program Ladies Night Program Ob served Thursday Evening With Turkey Supper At Lions Club A ladies night program featur ing a bountiful turkey dinner was held Thursday evening at the Community Building with around one hundred persons in atten dance. At the conclusion of the ban quet, the hall was quickly con verted into a make-believe radio studio, and an amateur hour soon was in progress, with many mem bers of the audience appearing in new and unusual roles. Sam T. Bennett was introduced for a vocal number, playing his own accompaniment on the piano. There followed a balloon-blow ing contest between Lion Presi dent Davis Herring and Mayor Hubert Livingston, with the for mer succeeding in over-taxing the strength of his balloon first, there by winning a pack of bubble gum. .The radio idea was followed through when Dan Harrelson came up with a commercial at this point telling of relief from high prices, sorry service and poor merchandise. A musical note next was sounded by E. H. Ar lington, with the aid of a quick ly-recruited quartet, who fell back on that old reliable "Sweet Adeline." A dressmaking contest was next arranged, with Mrs. M. R. Sanders and Mrs. C. G. Ruark, each armed with newspapers, pins and a pair of scissors, Re signing and pinning on a dress for their model-husbands. Mrs. Ruark was declared winner on the basis of studio applause, win ning a neatly-wrapped cake of ice. There followed one of the moat surprising musical features of the program with the Rev. L. D. (Continued on page four) Report? From up The Coast Indicate That Local Craft Are Able To More Than Hold Their Own With Other Vessels PLANE SPOTTING STILL EMPLOYED! Tw? Smaller Boat? Of Lo- i Rthi"? Off popart To Discover Movement Of Pith ' Southward Boat? of the 'Srurujwick Navi gation Cqmpany of South port now working out of Beaufort as the big schools of fall menhaden get that far down the coast, are tops at getting fltfi, according to members of the crews home for the week-end. 1 TTiree of the local boats up there Brunswick Nicherapn and Plaxco are converted Navy minesweepers with powerful engines that enable them to set the pace in getting to and from the fishing grounds. They can get there, get big loads and get back to port in short or der when fish are to be found, and they are being found now. Aiding the local boats is Hall Wattera of the Pennington Flying Service in Wilmington. During the season here Watters gave fine service in locating fish off Southport When the boats went to Beaufort Watters accompanied them and based his plane there. He searches while the boats fish and with his direct radio com munication with the local boats he is able to direct the boats to large schools that are taken im mediately. The Morehead City Flying Ser vice also has a spotting plane out for the other boats. However this plane operates differently and re portedly in a less efficient man ner than the course followed by Watters. It is said to fine the fish one day and that night it directs the boats where to go and look for the next From the Ume when he spots them the fish may move many miles before the boats arrive next day for the search. The Morehead and W. P. An derson, two of the local boata, are continuing their operation here. The local boats now at Beaufort will return as soon as the south bound schools of fish get near (Continued On Page Four) Ash Youth Now Driving In Army WITH THE EIGHTH ARMY IN SENDAI, JAPAN?Private First Class James E. Simmons, son of Mrs. Alice B. Simmons, Ash, North Carolina, is now ser ving as a truck driver with the 62nd Signal Battalion, located on the outskirts or this city on Nor them Honshu islsnd. Private. First class Simmons entered the Army on August 7, 1M6, and completed his basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky. He sailed for overseas duty In this theater on March 14, 1947 where he volunteered for' Jump 'SSSS' Tv the llth Alrbo? Division, later being transferred to his present unit Shallotte Lions Plan Christmas Party This Yej Community Christmas P?te gram Last Year Turnfd Out So Well That Idf? Will Be Tried Again GIFT PROGRAM TO BE EXPANDER Lions Will Hold Dance Thursday, December ^ To Raise Additional Money Needed Last year's community Chrttf mas at Shallotte went over M despite the fact that the move ment was started late and the tovflv lacked the benefit of previous ex perience In programa of this klQ<^ Oandy, apples, orange?, toy?, et?, were dispensed on a lavish tca^p to about 360 white children Of Shallotte and the iurroun<tytyf communities. In addition to the above abput 34 baskets of staple groceries ?o4 fruits, each worth from |7.00i to. $10.00, were made up and sell out to needy families. These baa-' keta contained sugar, coffee, gztt? lard, meat, flour, meal, peaching* candy, apples, oranges, nuta, etc. .The Shallotte Lions Club, ifk members strong was the moving spirit behind that Christmas. Tfcf. efforts of this club In varioifi humatarian undertakings has bf$q such that at a recent meeting Rev.' Richard Braunstein of the Metkgi^ dlst church commended it as 99 Ing more of a power for good many churches are. This year the Lion's Club Shallotte 1? proceeding with bigqpft, and better Comntunity Christmif plans. At a dance that the orgi$-. zatlon sponsored last week $224-00 was netted for the Community Christmas Fund. For Thurs<j^ night of next week, December 2oif the club is sponsoring a bigger dance, with the best string bao$ avallable to furnish music. dance will be held In the school gymnasium and all of the proceed will go to the Community Chrl^-. mas Fund. Southern Beli Seeks Revenue Petition Presented To Stafo Utilities Commission Ask-: ing Upward Adjustment In Rates pur Pointing; out that increased rates are necessary to meet todajfa coats and render good service, the Southern Bell Telephone Company has filed an appUcatlon for revis ed rates with i the North Carolina Utilities Commission. Southern Bell declared in 1UI application that the present rimi. In North Carolina are wholly In adequate for the needs of the busi ness Is rendering good service aid that Its request Is for only ?uw rates aa are absolutely necesrtrf to meet the telephone needs oTtft# state. The rates now In effect are the emergency charges applied for by Southern Bell In September for business and long distance mtr vice and In October 1947 for rest* dential service. This rate increase in these classes of telephone ser vice, representing an over-aU post? war Increase of 12-1|3 percent in revenue, was the first and has been the only general Increase in r?tM in NOrth Carolina since 1921. The emergency, rates were re quested only as a stop-gap to pa?r. tiaUy offset Increases in costa up to the time application was m*4* ? (Continued of page four) Shallotte Movie ij '* Reopens Sooff Shallotte Theatre Will Be Under Management Of R. D. White, Jr., When It Resumes Operation Next Week x-y Closed for a month while ex tensive alterations were beliig made, the Shallotte theatre will reopen on November 24th under the management of R. D. Whtye, ? .t; si Twelve thousand dollars fcapp been expended In alterations, seats, projection machines, etc. A new celling has been pat In and the building painted ln*ide and out. Movie-Goers wiU find the building really attractfy^, comfortable and modern In every respect The theatre will be operated In the future by R. D. White, J4QI? took over a month ago at the expiration of the lease held. Ig Charles Floyd of Whlteville.
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