'The Pilot ('-oxers
flrunswick County
THE STATE PORT PILOT
N0. SIXTEEN NO. 52
6-PAGES TODAY
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Southport, N. C.f Wednesday, April6, 1949 published every Wednesday ?1.50 per yeai
erring Season
rings On Many
fo Town Creek
?-i Run Of Herring
E 'nS That Each Night
Lens Of Fishfry Parties
jjeaci For Banks Of This
jtream
rrING FRY IS
* FAMOUS OUTING
Mo0n Period Of April
Height Of Season For
)?e Of Most Peculiar
Fishing Periods Of
This Section
casing runs of herring were
led in Town Creek Monday
icon bv H. T. Bownier. dis
?an-.e protector. The official
that the peak of catches will
Lilly be made this and next
t the runs are always heav
dunng the AprU full moon
id
?eifbrated far and wide for its
[fishing. Town Creek is no
widely known for its abun
?tt of herring during the spring
* At such times hundreds of
d/are attracted to one point
laother of the broad and deep j
IBS.
?robablv the main headquarters i
ashing parties is at the up- j
, Town Creek. Large numbers J
rovrboats and outboard power-;
boats are kept there at all
s. During the herring runs
number of these boats are
?d and many of the fishing
,jes bring in their own boats
trailers or in trucks and take
c home when they leave,
r two or three miles down
historic creek boats, some
j by the dozens, are found
a3 landing spots on the creek
lis. A three-mile long length
Use streams from the upper
la Creek bridge on Route 17
pretty well lined with boats
it range eight or ten miles
fa stream for the fishing oper
Us. . ,
Be same condition prevails at
t Town, otherwise the . lower
pit Creek bridge on. the Riyer
Bo. The boats are just about as
cerous there as at the upper
Int. The same fine fishing pre- j
is from both places. ,.
With the herring now running, I
t frvs are now the highly j
it at both the upper and lower j
idges. Late each evening parties
V. moving in with their boats,
leases where they do not al
idy have a boat at the land
(. In either case they take
t nets and the wherewith for
Wish fry that they plan.
Is for the fish, they know that
) hour on the stream will get
E all they can eat, and some
lake home.
lie making for the fish frys
?aple. Some cold com bread,
;ar of pickles, lard in which
i.'rv the fish will serve. These
klmes and fish cooked in fry
I pans over open fires in the
lit woods is something to tempt
the man or woman who is
t especially hungry. Coffee, al
i brewed over an open fire, is
course included.
Everything is on the informal
k. Anybody who happens along
Jsually told to move up and
t some of the hot fish and
fcbread. This is an invitation
t is seldom refused. There is
?ething about the cooking on
? banks of the stream that
?*es a man or woman hungry.
trie f Newt
Flashit
ftEKS SCHOOL
*r- and Mrs. Tom Gilbert have
t,: to Nashville, Tenn., where
r- Gilbert will be in school for
' "ext nine months.
^ GAME THIRSDAY
* scheduled baseball game be
the Topsail high school
p and Southport, Tuesday
ktoon was rained out and will
'Played off here Thursday
??moon at 2:30 o'clock.
r- A. MEETING
,*:s M. R. Sanders, president
?Be Southport Parent Teachers
Ration, states that the or
?nation will meet Thursday
j? at 7:30 o'clock in the high
J"?1 auditorium. Mothers of
/jr;n of pre-school age are
Wiaiiy invited to attend.
N'Xfi FISHERY
will be a special meeting
' "tunswick County Post No.
American Legion on Friday
F ?t 7.30 o'clock to perfect
P* for a fishfry to be held at
r? Creek on Friday night,
P 15, for legionnaries and
* gue?ts. This will be a dutch
First Bluefish Of This
I
Season Taken Monday
Basil Watts Made Trip Off-Shore Monday To Discover
That Recent Reports Are Weil-Founded
Officially, the bluefish have ar
rived at the sport fisherman's
favorite fishing grounds on Fry
ing Pan Shoals. That much is
certain, despite the fact that no
one has tried trolling yet.
Last week the fish were report
ed as being nearly, all of the
way from the Frying Pan light
| ship to the fishing waters off
t Southport and they were described
(as being the most numerous in
1 years.
j Monday the Botfly, Captain
Basil Watts, went out with its
' net to see about it all. Offshore
I a northeast wind was blowing
and "under such conditions the self
respecting bluefish keeps down in
; the blue waters, completely in
visible.
i No school could be sighted. The
| wind got stronger and the seas
began to run faster. Despite not
| a sign of the fish, the Botfly
dropped its net overboard blind
' and brought in 15 blues. They are
! said to have averaged two pounds
each.
That is considered a good size
1 for this early in the year. Making
the set blind and getting the
results obtained is said to be in
dicative that the ocean is full of
j fish. The usual method of com
mercial fishing is to never bother
to set a net until a school is
definitely located.
Captain James Arnold, operator i
of two sport fishing boats, stated
that from now through the fall '?
; there will be fine trolling for
i blues, except during unusually
bad weather.
Shallotte Citizens
Extend City Limits
Recent' Measure Carried
Overwhelmingly In Light
Vote And Citizens of New;
Area May Vote In City
Election
ELECTION WILL
BE HELD MAY 3
Mayor Leon Galloway Will
Be Candidate To Succeed
Himself; Has Served
Five Years
The Shallotte special election
last week to determine the an
nexation of considerable area on
both sides of the present city
limits created very little interest
and only a light vote was cast.
Two hundred and three men
and women were eligible to vote
and only 8 cast their ballot
against annexation, while 53 vot
ed in favor. The law provides
that the new area be taken into I
the corporate limits of the town,!
immediately following the elect
ion, if the said election carried.
Mayor Leon Galloway says that
road signs, showing speed limits,
etc., will be moved out to the edge
of the new town limits this week.
Shallotte's regular municipal
election will take place on May
3rd. Residents of the new area
of the town should register and
be eligible to vote in this election.
Those who desire to do so may
also file as candidates for mayor
or for membership on the board
of aldermen.
Mayor Galloway nas served the
town as mayor for five years, this
coming in three one-year terms
and one term of two years. He
stated this week that he is offer
ing again in the coming election
and after this term, if he is
elected, it is his intention to re
i tire. No statement is available
from any of the members of the
iboard of aldermen. Several who
have been seen stated they had
not yet decided whether they
would offer for reelection.
Commissioners In
Session Monday
Board Names Rabies Inspec
tors For Brunswick Coun
ty At Session Here Mon
day; Other Routine Busi
ness
Members of the board of county
commissioners Monday set the fee
for vaccinating dogs against
rabies at 75-cents and named
rabies inspectors for each of the
six townships. They urged that
notices be posted or advertising
otherwise be displayed sufficient
to let the citizens know the
vaccinating schedule.
Named to serve this year
were: George Ganey, Northwest;
Goley Lewis, Town Creek: Otto
Hickman, Smithville; Lindsey
Clemmons, Lock woods Folly;
Lafayette Jones, Shallotte and
Waccamaw townships.
C. P. Willetts was relieved of
$2,000.00 valuation due to error
in listing: E. O. Rabon was re
funded $2.00 which he overpaid
on his taxes; the Alethia Pest
ridge lot in Southport was order
ed sold to J. B. Russ for taxes
and costs; a refund of $315.35
was ordered to be made to Felton
Garner on the purchase of a piece
of land for which the county
could not give good title.
Representative Odell William
son was requested to put off a
revaluation of Brunswick county
property for two years in con
nection with a state-wide bill on
this matter. A total of $27.00 was
I added to the county general re
(Continued an Pas* 3)
To Open Books
For Registration
Registration books for the
j City of Southport will be open
! for new registration for the
| coming election on Saturday,
i In the first ward Mrs. Elsket
I St. George will have the books
| open at Ford's Store; in the
j second ward Miss Annie M.
Newton will have the books
open at Kilpatricks Funeral
Service; in the third ward Mrs.
Vera McKeithan will have the
books open at the courthouse.
Although it is only a matter
| of ten days before the first of
j the four nominating conventions
which will name candidates for
the election, there ? has been
little show of interest and thus
far the only avowed candidate
is H. A. Livingston, who will
run for reelection to the office
of mayor.
More Homes Get
Electric Power
Brunswick Rural Electric
j Membership Corporation
Continues To Connect Us
ers Along New Lines
i Final inspection of the REA
1 power line on the river road was
j fripde Thursday and following
; a few minor rearrangements, cur
rent was turned on yesterday,
according to Elliott Tripp, as
sistant in the REA office at Shal
lotte.
Mr. Tripp reported that a sur
prisingly large number of homes
have been connected and are now i
getting current. In addition to the
residential service a number of
stores, etc. both directly along
the line and at some distance
back are being served.
Orton Plantation will probably
be the largest user. There a con
siderable amount of power will
be required for the constant
pumpping of water for flowers
during the summer months and
for other power. Last summer, i
I for a six months period or longer
it took 52 gallons of gas per day I
to pump water for the flowers.
The gas engine has been replaced
(Continued on paye 2)
Farmers Begin
Setting Weed
Tobacco Being Transplant
ed Generally Throughout
Brunswick This Week In
Early Beginning
Brunswick county tobacco
growers will swing away on the
planting of their 1949 crop of the
weed this week, two weeks or
more earlier than usual. Register
of Deeds Amos J. Walton, who
farms near Hickman's Cross
Roads, stated Tuesday that he
was all set to begin planting
Friday and will keep on until he
finished.
County Commissioner George B.
Ward of near Ash said the same
thing.
Asked about the general plans,
County Agent A. S. Knowles stat
ed to a newsman that he had
heard 'a lot of the farmers say
that they expected to begin plan
ting their tobacco this week. Ap
parently these early birds are so
numerous that Mr. Knowles hesi
tated- to name any of them for
fear he might overlook some
(oonthi'ixl ob P*g* two)
Baptists Plan
Vacation Bible
School Clinic
All Churches Urged To Send
Representatives To Im
portant Conference Tues
day At Mill Creek Church
BIBLE SCHOOLS
URGED FOR ALL
State Organization Is Urg
ing More General Vaca
tion Bible School Pro
gram For This Sum
mer
The Brunswick Baptist Associa
tion will hold a Vacation Bible
Clinic on Tuesday, April 12th, at
the Mill Creek Baptist Church
from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. TOere
will be gathered all of the Sup
erintendents and the workers who
are planning on assisting in
Vacation Bible School work for
the summer, and the principals
and the pastors of the churches.
A worker will be present to
lead the general conference an
four workers from the outside will
lead in the seprarte department
al classes to all the teachers who
kare to work In the various
^Southern Baptist Conven
tion's Baptist State Board is pre
senting the phase of the impor
tance of the work and they are
ureine that all churches in the
Brunswick Association jolnin
this great effort and try to have
at least one week of Vacation
Bible School for this summer.
Each worker that attends is ask
fd to bring lunch as the program
will continue through most of the
day. Each church is also asked
(Continued on pag? 2)
Jerry Ball Will
Present Program
"Stumping The J*1?1? ^ja^"
er" Will Be Staged Here
For Benefit Of Volunteer
Fire Department
Public-Relations man for the
Standard Oil Company is ?oimnB
to Southport on April 21 to help
out the boys of Southports
unteer Fire Department
purchase of the new *ir?
they have ordered and which is
to be delivered next month.
A personal friend and fishing
companion of W. B. Keziah, Jerry
was recently asked by the local
man if he could not put on a re
gular show at which admission
could be charged, the proceeds
all going to the fire truck fund
jerrv could and would, to help
out the unpaid Volunteer Fire
Department boys. He writes Mr
Keziah that he and R. Man?"
Tarrant, personnel manager for
the Esso Standard Oil Company
in North Carolina, will be here;
on April 21st and they will put j
on something that will mean a
lot of fun.
Every cent made during e
evening will go to the Fire Truck
Fund. Jerry is even off?rin| 1
pay for the printing of handbills
if they are desired.
Including in the very interest
ing program now being arranged
is the same stunt that Jerry pu -
ed off during the Polio Fund
Drive. The folks who wish to
here any particular tune played
by Jerry on the piano will only
need to put a dollar in the Truck
Fund Kitty and ask him to play
Continued on page two
w. B. KEZIAH
Our
Reporter
Bill Sharpe of the State News
Bureau writes us that he is hav
ing an unprecedented demand for
folders or other illustrated mat
ter of Brunswick county. Such
matter is needed to send out from
Raleigh in response to the hund
reds of specific inquiries about
Brunswick county. We have been
sending such matter for the past
seven or eight years and our sup
ply is now liquidated. In the very
next mail, following the request
from Bill, a letter was received
from Julian Metz, executive dir
ector of the FayetteviUe Chamber
of Commerce. He stated they are
receiving requests daily for In
formation regarding our beaches
and he asked for all available
folders.
A* Long Beach again begins to
fill up, many of the residents and
Southport people are learning
with real regret that Mrs. Geo
dge M. Kirby died at her home
In Lumberton recently. Mrs. Kir
by was 72 years old and was one
of the very first residents of
Long Beach, having built one of
the first homes there. Spending
from early spring until late fall
at her beach home, she was in
tensely devoted to fishing and
could be seen every day at some
point on the beach or in South
port, happily fishing. This fine
old lady was greatly beloved and
she will be very much missed by
Southport and Long Beach people,
as well as by those who knew
her in Lumberton.
Even preachers seem to like
(Oenttntwd at tour)
Visit Gamp Site
rLAwmnti.?This is Pretty Honct, one or tne ciear-water lanes lying on tne sand
ridges near Allen Creek in Brunswick county. This pond and considerable surround
ing acreage recently was purchased as a site for a Girl Scout camp for the Cape Fear
Area. A group of girls can be seen in the foreground.?(Star-News Cut.)
REA Power Available
Now At Pretty Pond
Girl Scouts Plan
Birthday Party
The Girls Soouts of the Cape
Fear Area, composed of New
Hanover, Pender, Columbus and
Brunswick counties, are hav
ing theUs annual Birthday par
ty at Pretty Bond, Saturday,
April 9,w beginning- : art 10:30
o'clock.
This will be the first birthday
party at Pretty Pond, recently
purchased by the Girl Scouts,
where they plan to construct
four substantial camp buildings
in the near future.
Scouting leaders are hoping
for pretty weather so many of
the girls and their leaders will
have an opportunity to visit the
site of the proposed Girl Scout
camp.
George R. Foulke
Passes At Home
Former Brunswick County
Resident Died At West
Chester, Pa., Wednesday
Following Extended Ill
Following an illness of several
months, George B. Foulke, Jr.,
former owner and operator of the
old Governor Bussell Plantation
at Winnabow, died in the hospital
at West Chester, Pa., on March
30. Mr. Foulke was 59-years old.
Mr. Foulke left Brunswick
county in 1941 to engage in ac
tive war work as superintendent
for the Hercules Powder Company
in its plant at Pulaski, Va. Since
the war he has been engaged in
Continued On Page Four
Girl Scout Camp Site Will
Be Served With Power
After Misunderstanding
Over Right-Of-Way Is Ad
justed
CONSTRUCTION MAY
BEGIN IMMEDIATELY
Camp Will Serve Girls Of
Four Counties Who Com
prise Cape Fear Area
Of Organization
The Girl Scouts of the Cape
Fear Area are now in a position
tp st^rt their camp at ? Pretty
Pond whenever Aiey are reafly
after a right of the way for a
'power line to th<J proposed camp
was granted last week by Geo- [
rge L. Buist of Charleston. Con
tractors moved in Thursday and
began claring this right of way
and poles and probably the fir
ing will all be up this week and
current will be turned on some
time next week.
Provided the camp building iB
not started before next week pow
er for all of the construction
needs will be on hand when the
building is started, according to
Elliott Tripp of the REA office.
Through some misunderstand
ing, that was not due to a lack
of sympathy with the girls or
willingness to aid them in every
way possible, Mr. Buist, a Char
leston attorney and an extensive
Brunswick county landowner, de
clined to give the right of way
when first requested to do so.
When the matter was explain
ed to him he very promptly and
courteously gave permission for
the line to pass through his lands.
A spokesman for the girls has
advised a representative of this
paper that they understand the
eircumstances under which the
right of way was at first refused
and then just as promptly grant
ed. They are grateful to Mr.
Buist.
It is understood that the first
building for the camp will be
(Continued on Page 2)
Weekly Session
Of Court Held
Routine Matters Disposed Of
Before Judge W. J. Mc
Lamb Here In Recorder's
Court Wednesday
A comparatively brief docket
was disposed of here in Bruns
wick county Recorder's court
Wednesday before Judge W. J.
McLamb. The following entries
,were made:
Dewey P. Hewett, reckless
operatioh, capias, bond to be set
at $500.00.
William Henry Willetts, reck
less operation, continued.
Herbert Arnold Ganey, reckless
operation, continued.
Georgia' B. Davis and Rosetta
jToomer, possession, 60 day in
jail, suspended on each paying
fines of $25.00 and cost.
Robert Mclntire, public drunk
ness, sent back to justice of
peace.
Robert Clemmons, Everett
Clemmons, Fred Cumbee, violat
(Contlnu?d on 2;
Superior Court
Term Lasts For
One-Half Day
Five uncontested divorce cases
and one case involving a lost
deed were disposed of here Mon
day before Judge W. C. Harris
in a civil term of Superior court
which lasted for less than one
half day.
There was. much grumbling
among the crowd of persona who
had been summoned for Jury ser
vice and witnesses in other cases
which had been set for trial on
the court calendar, but which
were continued. Farmers parti
cularly resented being called from
their work at this season.
Among the divorces granted
were those of Sarah P. Britt from
N. L. Britt or grounds of adul
tery; Olive Newton from Charles
J. Newton, Alton Smith from
Estaleen Smith, I. O. Swain from
Delores Swain, Katherine R. Mc
Quage from Robert J. McQuage,
all on grounds of two years separ
ation.
The case of Mrs. Mildred He
wett vs Myrtle Beach Lumber
Co. was set as first to be tried
at next term of civil court; the
action of J. C. Crouch vs H. R.
Lancaster was set as the second.
The case of R. H. Lewis vs C.
E. Mulloy was removed to New
Hanover county for trial.
A dispute over a lost deed
between Jane Beck Mercer and
Lulu Mitchell was settled in
favor of the plaintiff.
Entry No. 4357 in the name of
A. S. Hewett, H. L. Clemmons
and R I. Mintz was ordered
vacated. ,
Bennett Attends
Washington Meet
Brunswick County Clerk Of
Cdurt Will Be Interested
In Waccamaw Drainage
Project At Rivers-Harbors
Congress
Sam T. Bennett, clerk of court
for Brunswick county, is In
Washington, D. C., this week at
tending the annual Rivers and
Harbors Congress and chief
among his interests will be to
press for early attention to the
Waccamaw River drainage pro
ject.
Although Mr. Bennett was ap
pointed by the governor as
Brunswick county representative,
he also is representing the in
terests of Columbus and Horry
county citizens.
The present status of the Wac
camaw drainage project is that a
survey of its needs has been ap
proved by U. S. Army Engineers,
but this far there has been no
recommendation of final action.
This project is something for
which farm groups in the three
adjoining counties have been
working for the past three years,
and their efforts have met with
widespread encouragment. Among
their supporters are Congressmen
representing the districts affected
and also the United States Sen
ators from North and South
j Carolina. While in the capitol city
Bennett plans to contact Con
gressional leaders and others who
Grower Pleased
With Prospects
Of Good Plants
Everett H. Sheppard Expect?
To Have Plenty Of Planta
For Own Use And Some
To Sell Thi? Year
THIRD YEAR FOR
HIM IN COUNTY
New Jersey Man Poineerad
Tomato Plant Production
In Brunswick And Likes
Latest Results
Everett E. Sheppard of Shiloh,
N. J. and Southport say? that he
is the happiest man in Brunswick
county, and the cause of his
happiness is that he is now grow
ing the beBt tomato plants that
he has even seen in a life time
of tomato plant production and
tomato growing.
Some time back Mr. Sheppard
wrote one of the large New Jer
sey tomato canning factories that
he could only promise to be able
to supply them with a million
and a half plants for the use of
their fanners. That was not all
he expected to produce, but he
needed plenty of plants on hla
own farm and there were other
agencies he had to supply.
Monday of this week Sheppard
wrote the plant production mana
ger and advised him that he would
double the previous allotment. He
will deliver three million tomato
plants to the Prichard Canning:
company and he says that they
are the best tomato plants ever
grown anywhere, stocky and hard,
weather cured in every way. They
can be set out and will stand the
New Jersey weather two week?
earlier than plants produced far
down in Georgia.
The Sheppard tomato plant
farm is on the River Road, about
7 miles above Southport. About
20 acres of land cleared last year
and planted in watermelons, as
the ground was to fresh at tha
time for tomato plants, are now
growing the plants. Another 20
acres cleared this spring has
been planted In watermelons that
are now coming up. Next spring
this additional 20 acres will be
added to the tomato plant pro
ducing land and 20 acres will be
cleared and planted in melona
next year.
Mr. Sheppard bought 145 acre?
on the River Road two years
ago. By clearing as much as he
can each year and giving the
first year to melons, he ultimately
plans to put about his entire
Continued On Page Four
River Road Is
Being Surfaced
Contractors Began Laying
Surface At Walden Creek
Saturday And Good Pnl
gress Is Reported
Surfacing of the River Road
from Southport to Walden Cree*
is now underway by Towles-Cllnp
workers. The asphalt plant Wa?
moved in and set up near thi
Magnolia Dairy Thursday and Fri
day. The work started at the
upper end and is moving this way
as there is some slight grading
work still to be finished at PricJ !
Creek and Fiddlers Drain.
The grading of the road wa?
commenced last September and
was not hurried as there waa
ample time to finish before Oi)?
weather became warm enough f of
sand-asphalt surfacing. Ever/
(Continued on page Two)
Tide Table!
Following Is the tide table,
for Southport during the nextq
week. These hours are approxi
mately correct and were furn
ished The State ^ort Pilot
through the courtesy of the
Cape Fear Pilot's Association.
High Tide Low TMe
Thursday, April 7, ti
2:08 A. M. 8:45 A. M.
2:42 P. M. 9:02 P. M.
Friday, April 8,
3:16 A. M. 9:50 A. M".
3:50 P. M. 10:10 P. M.
Saturday, April 9,
4:19 A. M. 10:48 A. M.
4:52 P. M. 11:12 P. M.
Sunday, April 10,
5:18 A. M. 11:41 A. M
5:50 P. M. 0:00 P. M.
Monday, April 11,
6:14 A. M. 0:09 A. Mi
6:44 P. M. 12:31 P. M.
Tuesday, April 12,
7:06 A. M. 1:02 A M.
7:36 P. M. 1:18 p. m.
Wednesday, April 13,
7:57 A. M. 1:53 A. M.
8:29 P. M. 2:0? P. M,