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The State Port Pilot Southport, N. G. Published Every Wednesday JAMES M. HARPER. JR Editor Entered as second-clasa matter April 20, 1628, 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, February 23, 1949 Natural Advantages "The the outside world know some thing of the abundance of historical facts and breathless legends and tradi tions of Southport, provide accommo dations for their entertainment, then prepare to share in the third largest in dustry of North Carolina?the tourist trade." This was the advice of ^George W. Rappleyea, former vice-president of the Higgins Industries of New Orleans, who spoke Thursday before the Lions Club in what he described as "the only place in which 1 ever have lived that I like well enough to want to make my per manent home upon retirement." What Mr. Rappleyea said was born of a wealth of experience which has come through travel and through busi ness contacts in several countries. The program which he outlined in his inter esting thirty-minute talk is one in which the Lions Club can well afford to lead the way in working toward the develop ment of this community as a tourist cen ter. Sports Program We can think of nothing which brings more pleasure to a great number of perscns than a good, live sports pro gram in our schools. The fact that we have just that in Brunswick is born out by the results of the Brunswick County Basketball Tournament which was con cluded Saturday night in the Leland high school gym. Some folks claim that too much em phasis is placed upon competetive sports, but there can not be very much wrong with basketball when it affords interest and recreation for large groups of players and prospective players in each school; when it affords to the youngsters a sort of goal to which they look forward; and when it gives the old er folks night after night of olean, ex citing entertainment. We are grateful for the basketball program which has developed in our county school system, and we have a feeling that more good than we know results from this outside activity of our schools. EX-G. I. Citizens Those who had misgivings about the way that ex-service men would fit into the post war world as citizens should have been present Monday when a large delegation appeared before the board of county commissioners to ask for a full time Veterans Service Officer. There was no cocky attitude of "these are our rights and we're going to have 'em." There was no attempt made to throw any political weight around. And the only reference made to the glory of the men who fought for their country was made by a non-vet eran. These men were not seeking to create a job, they were trying to make avail able a service. Many of them have had problems to work out with the Veterans Administration regarding their educa tion or other benefits, and they have ex perienced the difficulties of being able to clear these up through corresponden ce. They know that there are problems every day affecting the welfare of vet erans and their dependents which these people are unable to handle for them selves, and they want to see every bene ficiary get what is due him under the law. There were fireworxs at the meeting, but they were brought on by issues othfer than the one at hand; and it is a credit to the veterans and to their ability to stick out for their objective, that they came away from the meeting with the expenses of a Veterans Service Officer assured until provision can be made in the new budget for his employment. This, as we see it, was the work of good citizens who saw a need in their county and set about to have it taken care of. There should be more cases where the interest of these vigorous young citizens is centered in some com mon cause of good government. Which reminds us that last year we mentioned the effect of the veteran vote on a certain issue. "That won't make any difference" we were assured by a professional politician. "The veterans today are the greatest unregistered group of eligible voters in America." That is something which should be corrected if the young men of our coun ty are to continue to have their full share in its government. Highway Signs At the risk of offending advocates of advertising signs along the highways, we are compelled to agree with the State Highway Commission that such signs in close proximity to the highways add nothing to the beauty of our roadways, are potentially dangerous because they distract drivers from concentrating their attention on the business of operating a motor vehicle and are of doubtful value tc those who spend their money thereon. The commission is seeking the removal of all signs within 50 feet of the road way. That certainly makes sense with respect to the unsightly billoards that are present in such abundance. And with respect to the dolled-up, luminous boards, they increase the possibility of accidents. How can you tell whether it's a bicycle on the edge of the road or a luminous sign over on some tree? Any lights and signs that are not on the high way and at the side of the highways to improve travel safety are distractions. A test case is in the Wake County courts. Without other evidence to the contrary, we certainly hope that the State Highway Commission gets the de cision. RALEIGH ROUNDUP MANSION CONFERENCE ... As this column told you last week, the Legislature has been pleading for some financial advice from the Governor. Leaders of the General Assembly finally re quested a conference with Kerr Scott, and on Wednesday night, February 9, he invited around to the Mansion Frank Tayfor of Goldsboro, Larry Moore of Wilson, Grady Rankin of Gastonia, Edwin Pate of Laurinburg, House Speaker Kerr- Craige Ramsay of Salisbury, and Lt. Gov. Pat Taylor of Wadesboro. These are the chairmen of the Finance and Appropriations Committees and the presiding officers of the two houses. Also present were Scott Advisors George Ross of Raleigh, Elmer Long of Dur ham, Charlie Parker of Raleigh, and L. P. Mc Lendon of Greensboro. $64 QUESTION . . . Scott presented to the group his educational program. He went over the speech he was to deliver to the joint ses sion of the Legislature the following evening. Most of those present were surprised that the Governor still had made no suggestions about where he was to get the money for his ambi tious educational program. They were frankly shocked at this sin of omission. McLendon said this would never do, putting it a little stronger than that. Scott nodded toward Secretary Char lie Parker, who reputation as a fiscal expert has been far overshadowed?until recent weeks, anyway?by his aptitudes as a newspaperman. Parker came back with the assertion that the matter of raising sufficient revenue with which to implement the school projects was the "six ty-four-dollar question". THE REWRITE . . . the conference, broke up at 1 o'clock, Thursday morning. Net result of the meeting: The special message had to be rewritten. This required speed, for it was only a few hours until the address was to be made. You can imagine what a sweat the Governor's office was in all daV Thursday. Newspaper men?and Raleigh is now swarming with them?were crying for a copy?just one copy? of the speech. Nothing doing. Downstairs, gub ernatorial typewriters chatted angrily. Down the worn steps of the capitol came the hum and scuffle of an irritated and impatient Leg islature. Finally a few minutes before 8 o'clock as the Legislators came filing in to hear their Governor, the speech was finished. THE BOOK . . . The whole thing came like a bolt out of the blue to the average legislator. Consensus seemed to be that "Scott threw the book at us". In his campaign last summer, there was no hint of these taxes. Rather, he seemed to favor reductions in taxes. No men tion was made in Governor Scott's inaugural address of any of these tax-raising measures. In short, the Legislature was caught with its pants down. THE ANSWER ... It seems inconceivable that the General Assembly will go along with Governor Scott on any of the overnight revenue raising recommendations he has laid before them. He wants the $30,000,000 hardtimes re serve, fund spent. This may be done. Meantime, Scott's requested $200,000,000 bond issue for roads and the $50,000,000 bond issue for schools hang In the balance. Demonstration In Slip Covering Miss Corinne Green, Brunswick home demonstration agent, has j announced that Miss Em Lee, heme management and house furnishing specialist from State College, will conduct an all day slip-cover demonstration at the [ agricultural building in Supply, 1 Wednesday, March' 3rd. The meeting will begin at 10 o'clock and extend through 3 o'clock. Each lady is requested to bring lunch enough for her self. Miss Greene is very anxious "that^aJl club "women and non-club" women who are Interested at tend. Miss Lee is thoroughly versed in her work and an inter esting and helpful demonstration is assured. ANNOUNCE BIRTH Mr. and Mrs. Homer Holden of Bolivia announce the birth of a son, Homer Larry Holden, Feb ruary 9, at James Walker Mem orial Hospital in Wilmington. IN THE MEDITERRANEAN John H. Yeoman, seaman, USN, son of Willie Yeoman, of Leland, is currently on a cruise to the Mediterranean ports' aboard the destroyer USS Hambleton of the Sixth Task Force. CATHOLIC INFORMATION Thou shalt not steal ? Cornelius ! If thou employest men and pay est them not in accordance with, their worth and their needs, but growest unjustly fat by the sweat of their brows, then thou art tak ing from them what thou hast not rightly paid for?and thou shalt not steal, Cornelius! If thou workest for another fori a just wake, and givest not thy full time and skill?or, if because' laborers are scare, thou demand-; est more than is thy due?then' thou cheatest thy employer?and1 thou shalt not steal, Cornelius! If thou art a teacher and dosti remove from youthful minds and j hearts God, religion, and all mor ality?teaching as facts that! which thou canst not prove?then| thou art a robber of the inno-1 cent?and thou shalt not steal, Cornelius! If thou art a wedded man and) dost misuse the privileges of the; married state, then thou robbest! God and the world of human be ings?and thou shalt not steal, Cornelius! If thou art a surgeon and dost mutilate the body of an innocent man who thou thinkest (and only thinkest) may bear ill fruit, then thou art destroying in him a God given function?and thou shalt not steal, Cornelius! If thou, as a physician, dost end the life of one thou deemest to be unfit, or because he suffereth ex ceedingly, then thou takest be times that which belongeth to God alone?and thou shalt not steal, Cornelius! Because "everybody doth it" or "business is business"?because paganism and animalism are tol erated and applauded by many? because much of the world hath discarded God and hath thus gon6 mad?none of these, Cornelius, giveth thee right or excuse to do likewise. Surely, dear Cornelius, such of these teachings as would rob God and men and the world of what is essentially and rightfully theirs, must bring down afresh from the heights of Mt. Sinai that terrible and unmistakable warning to all' men of all time?THOU SHALT NOT STEAL! If it's anything Catholic, ask a Catholic! For further information write P. O. Box 351 WhiteviUe, N. C. NOTICE OF MUNICIPAL ELECTION FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE TOWN OF SHALLOTTE Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commission ers of the Town of Shallotte, at a meeting held on the 18th of February, 1949, called and ordered a special election to be held on Tuesday, March 29th, 1949, for the purpose of extending the corporate limits of the Town of Shallotte, as authorized by an'act of the 1949 General Assembly. (HB No. 27.) All persons lawfully registered upon the present election books for the Town df Shallotte and who have not changed th^ir places of residence are eligible to vote in this special election without further registration. This act provides for a new Special Registration of votersan the territory proposed to be annexed. Residence in the State of North Carolina for one (1) year and in the town or the territory proposed to be an nexed for four (4) months is required to qualify a person for registration. The official registration books will be open at 9 :00 A. M. on Wednesday, February 2?rd, 1949, and closed at 4:00 P. M., March 16th, 1949. The Registrar will be L. Bailey Russ. He will have the books open at HOLMES' SERVICE on Wednesday, February 23rd, 1949, Wednes day, March 2nd, 1949, Wednesday, March 9th, 1949, and Wednesday, March 16th, 1949, from 9:00 A. M. to 4:00 P. M. Wednesday, March 23rd, 1949, will be challenge day and the registrar will hear any challenge then made, from 9:00 A. M. to three O'Clock P. M. < The description of the territory proposed to be annex ed is as follows: 'Beginning at a stone located 3100 feet northeast wardly from the present northeast corporate limits as measured along United States Highway No. 17, said stone being on the north side of said highway; running thence South.60 degrees 00' West 2800 feet to the old New Brit tain Road near R. D. Woodard's place; thense northwest wardly with the said road to the present corporate limits; theitce continuing with sai<3 corporate limits to Mulberry Branch; thence down Mulberry Branch to Shallotte River; thence up Shallotte River to Bobby's Pike; thence up the run of Bobby's Pike to United States Highway No. 17; thence East 2,000 feet to a stakq; thence North 30 degrees East 6,000 feet to a point on Shallotte River opposite the mouth of Charles' Branch; thence down Shallotte River 1,000 feet; thence North 5,000 feet to the point of begin ning.' By order of the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Shallotte. H. L. HOLMES, Town Clerk. M. L. GALLOWAY, Mayor. SCHEDULE W. B. & B- BUS LINE Southport, N. C. EFFECTIVE TUES., JAN. 20,1948 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 SOUTIIPORT LEAVES WILMINGTON 7:30 A. M. ? :00 A. M. 10:50 A.M. 1:35 P M. 4:00 P.M. ,a M< 6:00 P. M. 1 10:20 P. M. Not Exactly JVeiD From Long Beach, North Carolina, to Long Beach, California, is the move made by Dr. M. M. Rosenbaum sweep of this statement it is necessary to overlook the fact that the Rosen baum practice and the Rosenbaum home were at Shallotte, recalling only that the doctor is owner of a block of lots at the nearby bpach. The big: news is that a communique this week from Kitty, the doctor's pretty and talented wife, relates that the family is all well, but misses the warm, Southern dirjate of Bruns wick. (They landed in California just in timd for the moat severe winter in years) . . . Incidental ly, this gives California two of the three doct ors who served Brunswick during the months immediately following the war. Dr. L. C. Fer gus is practicing at Los Banos, California, where he and his family have made their new home. R. D. White got a fast release on "Johny Belinda," the movie which bids fair to win Academy Award honors this year for its star, Jane Wyman. It is coming Monday and Tuesday to Shallotte Theatre . . . We don't know how you feel about It, but we like Henry Fonda; and because of that we are aiming to go see "Fort Apache" at the Amuzu Theatre Thurs birth announcement Mr. and Mrs. William Aubrey Smith of Leland announce tht birth of a son, Ronald Aubrey, in the James Walker Memorial Hos pital at Wilmington, February 3. Mrs. Smith is the former Miss I Lois Watkins of Leland. SHALLOTTE LIONS Continued From Page One Shallotte school. For Friday night j of this week, in furtherance of this objective, the club will spon-1 sor a big: dance. All the proceeds will go to the lunch room, Mr. Redwine says. ' baptists offer (Continued From Page One) ing all services held at the church. The workers are Mrs. Clifton Arnold, Mrs. Joe Wilmoth, Mrs. Wafker Lancaster, and Mrs. Susie Carson, superintendent ele mentary department. FALL TOMATO CROP FOR I Continued From Page One | transplanting and care during the ! hot days of summer. County ! Agent A. S. Knowles is also keen ly interested and will render every possible aid. CHAMPIONSHIP GIVES I (Continued frm ruge Onei I cipally to Brunswick county,! their coach, H. T. Sanders, says j that he feels that his team willj have a god chance against high! school competition in its class! from any section. He isn't making,1 any rash predictions, but he plans: to carry his boys as far as possi-' ble toward the State Champion-! ship in Class B. 1 INCORPORATION OF Continued From Page One R. W. Powell of Goldsboro, one of the Caswell Beach owners, said that construction on two or three new homes would get un derway at Caswell Beach immedi ately. Charles Trott of Long Beach,' said that Wiley Wells 6f South port was now engaged in the building of a new home at Long Beach. He expected others to be started in the very near future. RECORDER HEARS (Continued from page one) of one year. Willie B. Miller, non-support, continued. John E. Green, tresspass, fined *10.00 and costs and required to I stay off premises of J. C. Mc Keithan. I Everet Simmons, public drunk-1 ness, possession and resisting offi-1 cer, motion for jury trial, bond $100.00. George M. Frankiskas, speed-1 ing, capias. ' Malaski K. O'Comer, speeding, I capias. ^ John D. Lownmer, speeding i capias. 1 day and Friday of this week. . . Hata off to Richard Brendlo for winnin free-throw championship for the spor,n(/0 ?secutive year, and if anybody asks you' ^ ing good on 23 out of 25 shots from the r line requires a pretty steady set of nerves J cidentally, this is a good contest which Sunu Jewelers through tlieir Brunswick tountya presentative D. D. Haskett, arc sponsoring Lawyer Dwight McEwen has acquired on* these old-fashioned high-wheel hikes and PJ to put on a public demonstration of his ridu skill sometime soon. ^ We hear that the smooth surface will be M plied on the Long Beach extension just as s^i as there is reasonable assurance of pood wort ing weather. . . We hate to see Pho-.ogrjp^ Field move on with his cameras and floaty darkroom because he has rendered a servic which this community needs the year-round Waban Thomas lost out in the Carolina Gold? Gloves Tournament-in Charlotte when a secon round opponent gave him a bad cut over his ?.j In the first round. Rather than take any c'.^ane cf 'permanent injury to this fine youngster, th fight officials stopped the bout. . . And ther goes the bell on this stuff for this week. J. T. Sellers, public drunkness, nol-prossed at request of prose cuting attorney, defendant having been tried before J. P. Lawrcnce Clcmmons, public drunkness, continued. v Louis Wilson, reckless opera tion, net guilty. FIDDLERS PLAY (Continued from page one) higher learning. The receipts from this convention are applied to the Scholarship Fund which is spon sored by the Leland Club. This is a chance to combine pleasure an< service on a high level. Several string bands have beei contacted for this convention an the competition promise to keen. Some of the best in strin; music will be the order of th eevning. Prizes will be awarded to two best string bands as w as to the two best fiddlers, ban; players and guitarists. Even hog callers have a chance at thj prize money. There will be cak walks and auctions. WORLD'S POCKET BILLIARD CHAMPION, 1947 AND 194? -INSURANCE AUTO . LIABILITY . . FIRE . . COLLISION LIFE . . HOSPITALIZATION J. B. HEWETT ? ? Insurance of All Kinds ? SHALLOTTE, . . . NORTH CAROLINA OCEAN VIEW TAVERN OPEN THE YEAR ROUND REGULAR MEALS . . . SPECIAL DINNERS Really Cooked By An Expert Dining Rooms, Bed Rooms, Furnished throughout In The Best Obtainable. Open Every Day In The Year ! ! OCEAN VIEW TAVERN HOLDEN BEACH MULES We Have A NEW SHIPMENT Of Nice YOUNG MULES 3 To 6 Years Old These Mules Are Ready to Work Cash or Terms t SINGLES and TEAMS We ha^e in stock, 1 and 2 Horse Hackney Wagons and Harness. Tractor and Horse Drawn DISC HARROWS ? Be Sure and See Us Before Ydu Buy ! ? SETH L. SMITH & CO. - WHITEVILLE, N. C.
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