The State Port Pilot
Southport, N. G.
Published Every Wednesday
JAMES M. HARPER. JR. Editor
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
ONE YEAR $1*50
SIX MONTHS 1.00
THREE MONTHS 75
Wednesday, December 22, 1948
This Changing World
You take one look at Southport and
say, "Things haven't changed one bit in
the past twenty years" ? but you'll be
wrong.
The other day we were looking in our
file for a newspaper cut, and this placed
us face to face, so to speak, with a good
many of the men who have been the
leaders in this town and county during
the past generation. It came as a shock
to us to realize just how many of them
have passed away.
Included on the list are the leading
physkian and surgeon this county has
ever known and his wife; and outstand
ing lawyer who become a Superior Court
Judge; two distinguished colleagues of
his of the Brunswick County Bar; the
man who was in charge of the last rail
road to serve the city, later head of the
Selective Service Board; the two men
who were proprietors and pharmacists
at the town's two drug stores when we
came here to live, and the young man
who succeeded one of them; the man
who was Chief of Police for Southport
then; the man who headed the P. S. Pub
lic Health Service; one of the county's
outstanding young men, whose brilliant
career was cut short by the war; two
merchants whose stores have passed in
to other hands; three of the best known
members of the Pilot Association; two
ministers who served congregations here.
This role is by no means complete.
They are just a few of the faces that re
mind us that whiie things may remain
pretty much as they were twenty years
ago in Southport. people do change.
The Big Project
Ever so often we hear the question,
"Just what does the Southport Lions
Club do?"
We aren't going to try to give a com
plete answer to this query, but will point
out one service that it has rendered to
this community, which, if it never does
another useful thing, more than justifies
its existence.
In the spring of 1946 the USO Build
ing at Southport was declared surplus by
the government and was placed on the
market. The building had come to be an
important local point for business and
social functions, and club leaders imme
diately recognized the importance of do
ing something to retain these facilities
as a permanent asset to. the community.
Purchase was made in the name of the
City of Southport, and initial payment to
the government was made from a loan
made possible when practically every
member of the Lions Club endorsed a
note. Subsequently this loan was repaid,
largely through funds realized from
sale of surplus property which had been
purchased with the building.
What has all of this go to do with the
Lions Club and the good that it does?
Just this. If club members had failed to
take this action and to take it when they
did, the chances are that the USO build
ing would have been sold to some indivi
dual, probably some outsider, for salv
age ; and today the only thing left of the
building would be memory of where it
stood.
We are happy to report that not only
is this building a great asset to a com
munity such as ours, but it is being used
for the very purpose for which it was ac
quired: To provide a community build
ing where the people of Southport and
surrounding country side may gather in
dignity and in comfort for their social
gatherings too large for a private home;
for business meetings for which a large
assembly room is desirable; for a meet
ing place for the Teen-Age Club; and for
a multitude of other purposes which help
to make life in this community more en?
joyable.
The acquisition of this building and
its operation and maintenance is the big
project for the local Lions Club.
"Peculiar People"
(This editorial, released by Telepress
Features Syndicate, is Xenophon
Greene's conception of how it might
have been written in English for a news
paper in Moscow.)
What a peculiar place, America!
They are invaded each year by Santa
Claus and build no fortifications against
him.
They put countless lights on Christ
mas trees and do not worry about the
e'ectric bill.
They buy all kinds of nice things in
stores and then give them away as gifts.
The newspapers are full of sugges
tions on what people may buy instead
of telling them what they musn't.
They load their homes with presents
for their children and then tell the chil
dren somebody else brought them.
They go about the streets laughing
and happy and do not contemplate the
miseries of their lives.
They throw away their money into big
pails which are conveniently placed at
street corners.
They cheerfully tell one another of all
the things they would like to get, and
then they go to church to thank God
for what they have.
They have no conception of truth and
blithely wish each other a happy new
year when they know we can have no
such thing as happiness.
They smile at policemen.
Everybody is always thinking of
everybody else. They would even like to
help us if we would let them.
Thirty is a nice age for a woman, es
pecially if she happens to be 40.
Money is the most important substi
tute for brains.
Raleigh Roundup
(By Eula Nixon Greenwood)
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.?Just on the other
side of the holiday season lies 1949 session of
the Legislature. When?what day?does it
meet?
The North Carolina Legislature convenes on
Wednesday after the first Monday in January
each odd-numbered year?unless called to spec
ial session by the Governor, in which event
it gathers when he says gather.
So, this year, with the first Monday coming
on January 3, the General Assembly will con
vene on January 5. There will be a caucus
held on Tuesday night for electing the Speaker
of the House, etc.
Members of the Legislature receive $600 per
term. They must stay in session for 60 days.
There are 120 members of the House and 50
in the Senate. To be in the State Senate, a
citizen must be not less than 25 years old. Age
does hot matter in the House.
Session of the Legislature ? usually costs
around $275,000, with a special session running
at least $100,000, whether it stays one day or
one week.
Attorneys usually dominate the General As
asembly. From 40 to 50 per cent of the mem
bers are lawyers as a general rule, and they,
being conversant with legal Lingo, are the
members who put the final touches on the
bills.
And that is your government lessen for to
day.
NO LETUP?Individuals and corporations
looking for tax reductions should set their
sights beyond 1949. The consensus in Raleigh
is that there will be no tax cuts on the State
front or on the national level next year. On
the contrary, there may be some tax increases.
Kerr Scott promised cafe operators, etc., that
the sales tax would be removed from meals
served in public eating places, and he is ex
pected to recommend this to the Legislature.
However, it will likely be necessary for the
State to get this lost revenue from some source.
BILLION-DOLLAR GOVERNMENT?North
Carolina, which only a few years ago could
count its expenditure in the hundreds of thou
sands of dollars?with the term "million" spok
en of only occasionally, and then only in wis
pers?is now moving swiftly toward the billion
dollar figure.
In fact, if requests placed before the Advis
ory Budget Commission this fall could be
granted, Kerr Scott's administration would
Cost thQ taxpayers over one billion dollars! It's
getting so we talk rather blibly :.n billons.
What is a billion?
This will give you some idea: If an inventor
1948 years ago had built a perpetual motion
machine whose main wheel would make a con
plete revolution each minute, the wheel would
have turned only a little more than one billion
times from the birth of Christ until the pre
sent hour.
MANY MOTORISTS
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month the only thing they can
do is hunt up an examiner in
some other county before the
first of the year.
The fine after Dec. 31 will be
525.00 and costs, amounting to
about $34.00 in this county. A
magistrate or other trial judge
can, if he sees fit, refund the
costs, but the $25.00 fine is fixed
by law and the driver without a
license will have to pay it.
NO BOND FOR
Continued From Page One
his truck on Friday morning,
December 10, and investigation
revealed that his death was caus
ed by a knife wound in his left
breast. It was discovered that
Hart was the last man seen with
Wescott the night before, and he
was placed in jail. On the follow
ing Monday Hart made a com
plete confession to his brother,
Otto Hart, in which he stated
that Wescott had been fatally in
jured during a fight before Fri
day morning.
METHODIST CHOIR
(Continued from pave one)
standing stars, but the combined
efforts of a choir whose voices
blended in near-perfect harmony.
The cantata was directed by
Mrs. Dallas Pigott and the organ
ist was Mrs. James M. Harper,
Jr. The members of the choir
were:
ROUTINE SESSION
(Continued from page one)
90 days on the road in this and
a previous case where he had
not complied with judgment.
David Williamson and Edgar
Muncey, larceny, not guilty.
Aurthur Blanchette, speeding,
fined $15.00 and costs.
John Thomas McCoy, possession
for sale, two months on the roads,
suspended on payment of a fine
of $300.00 and good behavior for
two years.
Marvin L. Piver, reckless oper
ation, fined $25.00 and costs.
The Rovin' Reporter
(Continued From Page one)
regarding better hogs and better
livestock of all sorts in Brunswick
county. It is a long step from the
days of runts and razor backs
to the fine breeds of hogs now
in Brunswick county. Like wise
the tick-ridden cows of other
years have also disappeared. Each
year sees less and less scrub
stock in the county and each
year sees the already good breeds
of cows steadily improving in
quality.
About ten years ago Mr. and
Mrs. Carl Gunnerson and their,
small daughter, "Mickey", were
residents of Southport. Mr.-Gun
nerson was distributor for the
Standard Oil Company at the
time. Mickey, at the time, was a
favorite of ours, and still is. But
she is grown up now and is to
graduate from high school in,
June. The folks now live in New]
Bern and Mr. Gunnerson is dis-1
tributor for the oil company at I
that point. Just to see old friends j
the family drove down from New j
Bern Saturday evening but had
to return the same night.
"Mickey" and her father came j
around for a visit with us and
knowing that we circulated
around they asked us to extend,
Christmas wishes to all of their
friends here.
Ever since we can remember
J. J. McKoy of Bolivia has been
driving one of the first Model A.
cars that ever came off the as
sembly line. We have often won
dered how old it was and how
it could ever get about as spry
as it does. The other day Mr.
McKoy hauled us around in that
thing for about an hour. It went
lickty split about as good as any
car does. When we asked how
old it was we were advised that
the still proud owner had been
buying tags for it for 21 years,
without a miss, and in that time
mighty few days have been miss
ed without the car being in use. |
It was bought from the R. D
White company in Shallotte. Mr. j
White is the pioneer Ford dealer j
in Brunswick.
Mrs. Mann Truitt of Sanford,
now spending the winter in Pan
ama, but planning on a perman-,
ent home at Long Beach some |
time in the future, writes us
that she has written Governor-to
be Kerr Scott, calling attention
to Fort Caswell and the way
that the State has been neglect
ing to take over what she de
scribes as a "God given heritage
to the people of North Carolina."
Mrs. Truitt says she is also writ
ing other members of the official
North Carolina family relative to
the Fort. She spent one winter
at Long Beach and knows the
place well.
By making liberal allowance for
the fact that time changes all
things, Ted Robinson of Time
magazine has been able to recog
nize in the bare skeleton of the
Little Jenny at Southport the
same trim Little Jenny on which
he played as a boy in Massachu
setts.
More travels about Brunswick I
this past, travels that led us to
various places that we had not
visited recently, caused us to
draw some conclusions. Accord
ing to those conclusions the hog
crop in Brunswick county is lar
ger than has been estimated. It
may be that the late summer and
fall prospects of an abundance of
feed and grazing resulted in farm
ers keeping small hogs to grow j
into big ones. Anyhow, there are
a lot of pigs, hogs and cows j
grazing on green pastures in (
Brunswick.
During the war Lieutenant John
Hubby of South Bend, Ind., was
stationed at Fort Caswell for over
two years. Mrs. Hubby resided in
Southport at the Camellia Inn.
The couple now reside in Shreve-j
port, La., where Mr. Hubby is in i
business. A letter from Mrs. Hub-'
by to Mrs. Bragaw this week told
of the couple sometimes meeting!
up with other war-time residents!
Of SouthportanTT!^
nothing but reminsCtll
sant days here. Mrs. p
sent them a Chr1!tm^_
to the way of a ve?. '"'I
tion of the State Pon
SCHEDULE
WB&BBUS LINE
Southport, N. C.
EFFECTIVE TUES., JAN. 20,194S
WEEK-DAY SCHEDULE
LEAVES SOUTHPORT 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.
THE CHRISTMAS STORE
For The Kiddies
Bicycles ? Tricycles ? Toys
FOR HIM or for HER
Select A Beautiful HELBROS WATCH,
For Years Of Joy And Satisfaction
For The Family
Articles That Make For Greater Pleasure?
GREATER COMFORT ALL YEAR !!
Radios . . . Electric Toasters . . . Electric Hot-water Heaters
Broilers ... Electric Stoves ... Vacuum Cleaners
Washing Machines ... Furniture for Every Room
In The House !
A SUITABLE PRESENT FOR EVERYBODY
IN THE FAMILY!
KINGS ELECTRICAL SALES CO.,
SHALLOTTfy N. C.
OWL'S HEAD
'Heavy Russ", Proprietor
Shallotte, N. G.
STATEMENT
ROCHESTER AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY
New York 5, N. V.
Condition December 31, 1947. An Shown By Statement Filed
Amount of Capital paid in cash ?
Amount ledger Assets, Dec. 31st previous year, $5.G49.8:u:
Increase paid up Capital $ ?
Income?From Policyholders, $2,377,519.59; Miscellaneous '
$274,413.62; Total
Disbursements?To Policyholders, $1,081.395.92; Miscellancou? * 11
$1,112,984.82; .. Total
Fire Premiums?Written or renewed during year, -ai+
$3,952,438.00; ...? In Force t-ft
All Other Premiums?Written or renewed during year. ^
$2,818,763.75 In Force, Ml?*
ASSETS v^
Value of Bonds and Stocks f|l
Deposited In Trust Companies and Banks not on interest y
Agents' balance, representing business written HubHe?|uent to
October 1. 1947
Agents' balances, representing business written prior to
? October 1, 1947
Interest and Rents due and accrued
All other Assets, as detailed in statement "
Total ? K(t(J
Less Assets not admitted ? jyj
Total admitted Assets ? - ....
LIABILITIES
Net amount of unpaid losses and claims I:i;j
Unearned premiums ?m
Salaries, rents, expenses, bills, accounts, fees, due or accrued
Estimated amount payable for Federal. State, county ami
municipal taxes due or accrued j?j
Contingent commissions, or other charges due or accrued ;j
All other liabilities, as detailed in statement T|
Total amount of all liabilities except Capital
Special surplus funds:
Capital paid up ?
Unassigned funds (surplus) ... $2,931:53.::
Surplus as regards Policyholders ? -
Total Liabilities MlI
? BUSINESS IN NORTH CAROLINA IM KlXt. HIT
Fire Premiums received $82.r?nt;
All Other Premiums received $?9.95?:
Losses incurred?Fire $18.fiR2; Paid
Losses Incurred?All other $18.901; Paid
President, John C. Evam?
Secretary, Llewellyn Freeman
Home Office Lillertry Sr. New York 3 X.
Attorney for service: , ?
Wm. P. Hodges, Commissioner of Insurance, Haleigh. X C.
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
INSURANCE DEPARTMENT.
Raleigh. June 1st, 1948.
I, WM. P. HODGES. Commissioner of Insurance, do <?rtif> tlwttl? *c
is a true and correct abstract of the statement of the* Rn. h? ?:?r Ar,?r
Insurance Company of New York 5. N. Y. filed with this I K-inrtnwrj. *i
ing the condition of said Company, on the 31st day of December, 1*1?.
Witness my hand and official seal, the day ami year above written.
WM. P. HODGES
Commissioner of Insurance.
1949 Tax Listing
NOTICE
LIST YOUR REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY
DURING THE MONTH OF JANUARY
All property owners and ta* payers are required by law to return to the Li.st^j
ers for Taxation for the year 1949, all the Real Estate, Personal Propertj, Etc.,
they own on the first day of January.
All male persons between the ages of 21 and 50 years must list for To" Tax
ing the same time, except those exempt by law for physical disability.
All persons to whom the foregoing applies who fail to list their Heal and Pers<^
Property, and/or Poll Tax will be(guilty of a Misdemeanor and subject to a li?c 01
prisonment upon conviction.
LOCAL LIST TAKERS WILL POST NOTICE Of APP()lN]
MENTS IN PUBLIC PLACES-WATCH FOR SAME !!
The Board of Equalization and Review will meet at the Tax M
fice at Southport on March 14,1949. Any complaint about
tion should be taken before the Board at that time.
PLEASE LIST YOUR PROPERTY WITH The LIST TAKE|
IN YOUR HOME PRECINCT
W. P. Jorgensen
TAX SUPERVISOR