15 To Be
ladline On Tax
(eturn To State
^ Lamb Warns Tax
"ers They Must File
Ithin One Week; Assis
Is Offered ?
Lno* week, March 15, is
piine for filing State in
3X returns, according to a
L issued today by Major
yrr.b. a representative of
gate Revenue Department.
^ person, single or married
j,: hvmg with husband or
receiving an income in e.\
-/ ihp SI.000 personal ex
emption, plus allowable deductions
must file a return," Major Lamb
said. "A return must also be fil
ed by every married woman hav
ing an income in excess of $1,000
personal exemption, plus allow
able deductions, and every mar
ried man living with his wife on
Dec. 31, 1948, must file a return
if his income exceeds his $2,000
personal exemption, plus allow
able deductions."
| There is a penalty of from five
to 25 per cent which may be im
I posed if a taxpayer fails to file
| a return by the close of March
115th.
Major Lamb, a deputy commis
sioner, will be glad to assist any
person who wishes to call at his
office in the courthouse. Notices
[will be placed in the courthouse
I and public places regarding the
deputy commissioners schedule.
(ICE Of MUNICIPAL fcLfcCTION FOR THE EXTENSION
OF THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE
TOWN OF SHALLOTTE
Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commission
/the Town of Shallotte, at a meeting held on the 18th
ebrurtiy. 1949, called and ordered a special election to
elj on Tuesday, March 29th, 1949, for the purpose of
rJinjr t lie corporate limits of the Town of Shallotte, as
prized by an act of the 1949 General Assembly. (HB
i-) All pei-sons lawfully registered upon the present
Lj0Il books for the Town of Shallotte and who have
(hanged their places of residence are eligible to vote
k special election without further registration. This
Provides for a new Special Registration of voters in the
tory proposed to be annexed.
Residence in the State of North Carolina for one (1)
and in the town or the territory proposed to be an
for four (4) months is required to qualify a person
Sjjistration.
The official registration books will be open at 9:00
on Wednesday, February 23rd, 1949, and closed at
P. M.. March 16th, 1949. The Registrar will be'L.
ri Russ. He will have the books open at HOLMES'
HCE on Wednesday, February 23rd. 1949, Wednes
Mareh 2nd, 1949, Wednesday, March 9th, 1949, and
nesday. March 16th, 1949, from 9:00 A. M. to 4:00
Wednesday, March 23rd, 1949, will be challenge
and the registrar will hear any challenge then made,
? A. M. to three O'Clock P. M.
The description of the territory proposed to be annex
,as follows:
'Beginning at a stone located 3100 feet northeast
er from the present northeast corporate limits as
ire d along United States Highway No. 17, said stone
on the north side of said highway: running thence
i 60 degrees 00' West 2800 feet to the old New Brit
Road near R. D. Woodard's place; thense northwest
i with the said road to the present corporate limits;
re continuing with said corporate limits to Mulberry
th: thence down Mulberry Branch to Shallotte River;
s up Shallotte River to Bobby's Pike; thence up
sn of Bobby's Pike to United States Highway No. 17;
^ East 2,000 feet to a stake; thence North 30 degrees
feet to a point on Shallotte River opposite the
h of Charles' Branch; thence down Shallotte River
feet: thence North 5,000 feet to the point of begin
!v order of the Board of Commissioners of the Town
illotte.
HOLMES, Town Clerk.
M. L. GALLOWAY, Mayor.
He recommended that the matter
j be attended to at the earliest
possible date by all taxpayers.
Tobacco Quotas
Are Unchanged
March 1 Deadline Passes
Without Any Revision;
North Carolina Gets 634,
313 Acres
March 1 came and went with
| out any change in the 1949
| quotas for flue-cured tobacco.
That was the deadline which
i had been set by the Depart
ment of Agriculture for revision
! of the quotas set last August.
I Tar Heel growers were allotted
1634,313 acres for flue-cured this
' season. This is more than two
thirds of the national total of
960,000 acres.
Changes in the quotas were dis
cussed at Washington a few days
ago but sentiment was decidedly
against an upward adjustment.
It appears almost certain that
the five per cent increase allott
ed in August of 1948 will be the
figure on which acreage will be
based for the coming season.
Loris Merchant,
Taken By Death
Native Of Chadbourn And
Brother Of Mrs. F. G. Kel
ly Of Tabor City Laid To
Rest Tuesday
LORIS, S. C.?H. Clay Hughes,
a native of Columbus County and
a brother of Mrs. F. G. Kelly of
Tabor City, died in a hospital
at Conway on Monday of last
week. He was 54 years of age.
He had been a resident of
Loris for the past quarter of a
century.
Mr. Hughes was taken ill at
his home on Sunday afternoon
and died in the hospital of a
cerebral hemorrhage.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday at 3 o'clock at Loris
Methodist Church with his pastor,
the Rev. B. C. Gleatoh, officiat
ing. Burial followed in Patter
son Cemetery.
Members of the Loris Post of
the American Legion were pall
bearers.
The Loris merchant was the
son of the late W. J. Hughes
and Sarah Gore Hughes of Chad
bourn.
He served in the United States
Navy during World War I and
after being discharged from ser
vice, he came to Loris and went)
into the merchantile business in
which he was engaged for the
past 25 years.
Mr. Hughes had been active in
the American Legion and the 40
and 3 for the past 10 years. He
had received many honors, both
state and national, for work in
these two organizations. He was
the recipient of a merit; award
[from the war department for his
[service as commander of the de
fense and air force warning ser
vice during World War II.
The Rovin' Reporte?
distance to feed and care for his
hogs. On top/or th-t Ben is al
ways busy with his fishing.
Highway patrolmen in a big
area around Brunswick county
came to know Paul Fodale, local
seafood producer, as their friend
a long time ago. When any of
them are in or near Southport
they invariably call on Paul and
just as invariably they take home
to their families some fish and
shrimp as a token of friendly
regard from the Southport man.
Our knowledge of farming and
stock raising is a rather prideful
matter to us, even if it is not
enough to mean anything to the
other fellow. This pride received
a jolt Saturday. In company
with County Superintendent of
Schools J. T. Denning and his
family we were driving through
the Pleasant Oaks Plantation and
saw a beautiful herd of ten
black and white spotted cows,
some distance away. We were
travelling fast and may not have
been as observing as usual.
Catching up with Joe Ramsauer,
Jr., a little later, we asked him,
"How many herefords have you
in that herd of cows in the pas
ture?" "None" said Joe, "They
are all holsteins."
Starting to raise chickens be
fore the war, Jim Pinner built
himself a nice chicken house in
his backyard. Chicken raising did
not turn out to be an unqualified
success and the chicken house
was converted into a two room
appartment for war weary wives.
Came the end of the war and the
chicken-apartment house lost
much of its appeal. As a result
another bright idea was born and
the chicken-apartment house
emerged therefrom as a commun
ity grocery store. "Figures don't
lie," (we are not authorized to
speak for Cap'n Jim), but they
showed us figures the other day,
claiming that the chicken-apart
ment-grocery had grossed twenty
two thousand dollars worth of
business the past six months.
With stock raising and agri
cultural opportunities and our
coast line with its potentalities
for development, Brunswick
county is letting a lot of oppor
tunities go by. We have some
thing in the nature of a county
wide chamber of commerce, equip
ed to interest tourists, farmers
and vactionists and to keep them
interested until they come here
to' 'stay. We believe that our
beaches, the towns of Shallotte
and Southport and the county all
together could adequately provide
for such a thing. There should
be a get-together meeting at
some of our beaches in the im
mediate future to see what can
tie done. One thing is certain, the
things we need done are not going
to be done by someone else from
elsewhere. We will have to do
what is done.
At the moment no figures are
available as to just how many
miles of new electrical distribu
tion lines are going up in the
county that is to be finished dur
ing the coming month. The im
pression is that it is about 200
miles. Last week Elliott Tripp of
the REA remarked that the 20
or so miles running through the
Bethel Church community and up
the River Road would serve ap
proximately 200 homes to strat
with. The guess Is that the ex
tension work throughout the
county will give lights and power
to around 2,000 new homes.
From Attorney G. Butler Thom
pson, of Lumberton comes a let
ter to us relative to fishing. In
the same missive Mr. Thompson
goes on to tell of a bird dog alleg
ed to be owned by him. Sports
men will readily agree that Mr.
Thompson has a remarkable dog
or that the dog has a remark
able owner. A passage in the note
was as follows: "I war walking
along the banks of the Lumber
River, casting for trout one day
this week. My bird dog was with
me and we finally came to a
footlog and decided to cross the
river. The dog was walking the
log ahead of me and when we
were almost across he froze into
a point. I kicked him to make
him go on but he just froze
harder. Just then I saw a swirl
in the water under the log and
I made a cast. A 10-pound trout
hit the plug/ almost instantly.
When I landed the fish I noticed
it had a knot in its stomache,
so I cut it open and out dropped
a fat quail." It is again admitted
that the above is a remarkable
dog and that the owner is above
the average. The one puzzling
feature in regard to the story is
where on the Lumber River is the
stream narrow enough to be
crossed on a footlog?
The house committee on roads
has rendered an unfavorable report
to the bill introduced by Repre
sentative T. E. Cooper for the
Highway Commission to construct
a bridge across the Cape Fear
river from a point near the Dow
Chemical Company plant to
Brunswick county. This unfavor
able report is merely postponing
what will inevitably have to be
done. With the present bridges
across the river at Wilmington,
all of the eggs ire in one basket.
These bridges are often over
crowded with travel. Another
factor that should be given con
sideration is that the wrecking
or damaging of either of the pre
sent bridges would about paralize
everything in Wilmington and
work incalculable injury to every
thing west of Wilmington. The
travel arteries west of Wilming
ton are too important to be de
pendent on a single structure or
structures.
With 9 boys and 13 girls in its j
senior class, set for graduation j
this year, the Brunswick Training
School, has the largest number
of pending graduates of any
school in Brunswick, white or
colored. With this the only ad
vanced negro high school in the
county the students for the high
school department are brought in
by bus from all over the county.
The following boys and girls are
due to graduate this year: Char
lie Swain, Rufus Livingston, Al
phonso McMillan, William Turner,
James Smith, Howard Bryant,
Hobert Bryant, Howard Reaves,
Adolph Fullwood, Maggie Bryant,
Majorie Gore, Delores Greene,
Ernestine Clemmons, Estelle Stan
ley, Viola Hankins, Lizzie Mae
Gore, Virginia Gore, Malissa
Brown, Ernestine Joyner, Ernes
tine Grissette, Ruth Fullwood,
Lonnie Fullwood and Laurie
Mima.
A lot of people in Brunswick
are building new homes. If you
are one of these folks or if your
neighbor is building one, how
about writing this column, telling
where, how many rooms, brick or
frame and anything of interest
about the structure. The cases
where they are just placing mat
erial, where a new home is com
pleted and where one is under
construction will all make good
publicity material. Write us about
such things today.
"That boy of mine is getting
his State Port Pilot in China and
I am doggoned if I can get along
with my wife without getting it
here." The foregoing was from
Floyd Brittian of the Antioch
and Bolivia community. The boy
be alluded to was Hubert K.
Brittian, serving in the Navy and
at present in China. In his most
recent letter he advised his moth
er that he was getting his paper1
right along.
Mrs. N. M. Milliken of Supply
has a quilt which she made by
herself and in the making of
which she used ten thousand dif
ferent pieces of cloth. She makes
several "patchwork" quilts each
year, but this one with ten thou
sand pieces took up most of her
spare time during one year. In
addition to doing all of her house
work Mrs. Milliken has to look
after her five small children.
Selling straight from producer
to consumer, Shallotte probably
has the best fish and oyster mar
ket of any place along our coast.
There is nothing wholesale about
the method. Any day of the week,
especially for Saturday, a goodly
number of fishermen go out and
get all the fish they think they1
can sell the next day. To this
they often add oyster and clams.
The next day finds them set up
for retail business from their
trucks. Not everybody stops to
think about it, but we believe
the knowledge that they can al
ways find fish on Saturdays and
often on other days results in
bringing a lot of people to Shal
lotte.
W. F. Deuschle or the Hanes
Hosiery Mills Company in Win
ston-Salem writes that he will
be down some Thursday In March
for some Friday, Saturday and
Sunday freshwater fishing with
us. The receipt of his letter
caused us to turn to our calendar
and there we noted something
that should interest all men and
women who like to fish. It will
interest them if they have not
already noted it. Except for the
last week - in March all of the
weekly moon changes occur on
Mondays. The last week in March
and on through most of April
the change comes on Tuesday.
That means that during March
fishing will be best from about
Wednesday through Sunday. In
April it will be best from Thurs
day through Mondays. Fishing is
usually at its best a day before
the moon change and at ?ts
worst the day after.
j Admitting that all farms in
Brunswick county have been rath
er busy the whole of this year,
Orton is believed to be outstand
ing In this respect. Since Christ
mas this plantation has been
furnishing steady employment to
a huge force of men and women
engaged in looking after flowers,
caring for the gardens and nur
sery grounds and packing and
shipping plants to purchasers.
Some people may not look upon
farming as an inductry. At Orton
the growing of flowers and the
caring for many acres of perman
ent gardens is a huge industry
that provides a lot of people with
a comfortable livelihood. Between
the people who grow and sell
flowers there Is little or no diff
erence than with the farmer who
grows and sells tobacco, cotton,
corn or other crops.
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 ! !
nrPAV VIEW TAVERN HOLDEN BEACH
HEAVY'S FISH MARKET
In old post office building, next door to
Owl's Head Grill and Pool Room.
Everything Fresh and ready for the pan.
"We Dress Them"
Shallotte, N. C.
25
Mules
25
Mules
Another load of fine, young mules arrived today .... All
are from 4 to 6 years old, Gentle, Kind and Broke, weighing from
1,050 to 1,250 pounds....
COME AND GET YOUR PICK TODAY!!
CASH or TERMS
S. L. Fuller &Bro.
Whiteville
AMUZU
THEATRE
SOUTHPORT, N. C.
Admission?0c and 25c
Two Shows Nightly?
Starting at 7 o'clock
Except?SATURDAY?
Three Shows Starting at" 6:30
Thurs., Fri., Mar. 10-11
"BIG CITY"
Margaret O'Brien
Robert Preston
ALSO?"It Can Be Done'
Saturday, March 12?
"NIGHT TIME
IN NEVADA"
Roy Rogers and Trigger
ALSO?Selected Short
Monday., Tues., Mar. 14-15
"A DATE WITH JUDY"
Wallace Beery
Elizabeth Taylor
ALSO?"Slap Happy Lion"
Wednesday, Mar 16
"WIDE OPEN FACES"
Joe E. Brown
Linda Roberts
Also?Chapt. 8?"Riders
Of Death Valley"
? COMING ?
"A FOREIGN AFFAIR"
Don.'t Forget?We Now Sell
Delicious Hot POP CORN
-NOTICE
OF MEETING OF THE BOARD OF
EQUALIZATION and REVIEW
MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1949
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1949
Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to sec
tion 1105 of the Machinery Act, Public Laws
of 1939, a meeting of the Board of Equalization
and Review will be held on the 14th & 16th
days of March, 1949?
THe Board shall, on request, hear any and all tax
payers who own or control property assessed for tax
ation in the county with respect to the valuation of
such property or others; and shall perform such other
duties as required by the Machinery Act with respect
to assessing and listing property for taxation.
No notice will be mailed to Taxpayers except in
case of an increase in valuation of property.
W. P. Jorgensen
TAX SUPERVISOR
Brunswick County
HOT POINT
and
GIBSON
REFRIGERATORS
HOT POINT
and
GIBSON
Electric
RANGES
LookJBefore
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m
|| |You Leap
Today every business man has certain lines of appli
ances. Each one is advertising that his appliances are bet
ter than the other man's. But there is one thing that they
are not advertising and that's what kind of a Guarantee
you are getting from the Company, which makes the pro
duct and also the Guarantee the merchant gives you of
service in case you should get a defective product. Most
of your appliance dealers do not have a Service Depart
ment or Service Man to take care of your appliances in case
you should need service.
Another important thing is that business has got to be
such a cut-throat proposition that a lot of appliance dealers
are cutting prices on such things a Refrigerators ranges and
other items. But the business men that are doing this cannot
or will not service your appliances They don't have a Ser
vice Department. The main thing is that while selling you
an item at one price and selling the same item to your
friends at another price is not being fair to either one. You
nor your friend really know which is the right price. The
dealer that does this is not giving you the right price nor
the Service which your guarantee calls for. So what good is
a guarantee if the dealer can't stand behind it? Also, the
dealer is subject to lose his franchise for the product he
sells for selling above or below the factory prices which
each company gives.
When you come into our store ask to see the factory
prices, which each appliance is to be sold by. Also ask for
our service department. We promise to stand behind all
Guarantees that go with appliances.
When you go into the other man's store ask to see the
same. If he cannot show these two things to you then your
Guarantee is not any good. And the only thing you have is
an appliance and he has your money.
KINGS ELECTRICAL SALES CO.
Shallotte, N. G.
HOT POINT,
THOR and APEX
WASHING ..MACHINES
G. E.
ZENITH
BENDIX
RADIOS