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The State Port Pilot Southport, N. C. 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, April 27, 1949 More Conventions About a month ago the General Board of the Baptist Convention met in South port; one week later the Brunswick County Council of Home Demonstration Clubs was hostess to a District Club meet ing which brought in at least 400 visitors for a day; two weeks ago one hundred fifty persons attended a Lions Club Zone meeting in South port; and yesterday be tween two and three hundred persons at tended the Methodist District Confer ence. All of which suggests that Southport bids fair to come into its own as a good place to hold conventions, conferences and meetings of various kinds. We hope that this development will be encouraged, because it is nice to have visitors. We like our community, and we have discovered that as a rule, people who come here to spend a few hours or a day like Southport, too; and many of them return again and again. ?One of the finest things we have to of fer in the way of facilities for entertain ing these meetings is the Community Building, the acquisition and mainten ance of which is the major project of the Southport Lions Club. No group which has had a meeting there can help getting a good impression of Southport and Brunswick county, and we hope to see it used more frequently in the future for these purposes. The Baptists And Caswell Practically everybody in Southport has known for several weeks that a strong movement was on foot to have the North Carolina Baptists Convention ac quire the ex-section base at Fort Caswell for a Seaside Assembly, but for strategic reasons no mention has been made of these plans. Last week announcement was made that the General Board of the Baptist State Convention in their meeting in Greensboro had voted to submit a bid to the War Assets Administration for the amount at which the property has been assessed by WAA appraisers. This bid was made under priority rating,, and is outranked only by Federal and State ag encies, neither of which have shown any interest in acquiring this property. As this is being written, no final decis ion has been made in the sale of this property. There appears to be good reas on to hope that the Baptist bid will be successful, and local sentiment strongly favors this result. According to our best available infor mation, the Baptists plan to use the faci lities of the fort in a manner similar to the use made of their Mountain Assem bly at Montreat. If this plan works out, then during the summer months there will be changing scene of thousands of visitors from all over North Carolina to this area. It is our honest opinion that nothing that has happened in connection with the development of our section during the past quarter century is more impor tant to the development of Brunswick county than will be the centering of Bap tist interest in Fort Caswell. Let us all hope that nothing happens to upset the business of obtaining this property, nor to plans for putting it to the best possible use of thousands of North Carolinians who will learn to know and love our section of the coast. B. Gordon Lewis B. Gordon Lewis was a credit to the newspaper profession in which he spent 21 years of his life. When he slipped quietly into the Great Beyond, the "Fourth Estate" lost an editor and publisher of superlative courage; a newspaperman with the nor mal number of faults and prejudices, but one who kept those faults and pre judices in the background as he sought to present the news in a fair and impar tial manner; an editor who was, person ally and editorialy interested in good government, honest administration of public affairs, and who was not afraid to speak his mind. Of course, there are many other fine things which could be said of him. But the greatest tribute which can be paid an editor is that he published his story, without fear or favor; that he refused to be bull-dozed by the influential when he sensed a story; that he accorded equal treatment to the underdog and the top political or civic leader; that he was not afraid to take the unpopular side of an issue if that side merited his support; that foe and friend were seen through the same eyes in the columns of his newspaper; that he mirrored the life of his community; that he interpret ed newspapering as a public responsibili ty and not for his own selfish gain. That he passed away comparatively young in years is one of the tragedies. That he served long and well is one of the great satisfactions of the moment. Clip For Future Reference This item, which appeared in the State press, should be clipped and pre served for future reference: "North Carolina was one of the safest states in the nation last year, the Nat ional Safety Council says. "The State ranked first in the South and fifth in the nation in the safety council's 1948 traffic safety record. "It was voted an outstanding achieve ment award for a 12 per cent reduction in traffic fatalities. "The National Safety Council, report ing the honors in bulletins from its Chic ago, 111. headquarters, says the- State was honored also for its automobile in spection program. The prqgram, the council said, was abolished shortly af ter the honor was voted." The item is offered as a check against the record which is being chalked up in the current year. ' ' RALEIGH ROUNDUP WINTER BETTER u. All alpng, ;th? Gover nor has said the balloting should be done this spring. However, the feeling is' that the road bond issue, at least, Would stand a better chance of passage if voted on about the middle of December?or a day or two before Christmas, when rural roads are at their worst and when hundreds of bus-riding children sometimes ar rive at school from one to three hours late. It is thought that Scott prefers the vote in good weather, fearing that his rural friends might not be able to get to the polls at all if the election were held in the dead of winter. NEWGROUND . . . Although Kerr Scott had played around with various projects, plans and ideas since becoming Governor, hitting a sprout here and breaking a plowpoint there, he has never removed his eyes from the two big poles at the field . . . $50,000,000 for schools and $200,000,000 for roads. Many a long root which he didn't know was there has sprung back to crack him on the shins, but he kept plowing. BACK HOME . . . Most of the legislators have gone home each weekend to test the senti ment of their constituents, but North Carolina is a long State and at least one member has been here constantly on the job since the Gen eral Assembly convened the first week in Jan uary. He is C. S. Slagle of far-away Macon, who brought his wife to Raleigh and set up house keeping here. Not one time has he been home. At least one other member, Gover Davis of Haywood, has made only one trip back to the homewoods. ' OFF THE CUFF . . . This column, which started with the little Renfro Herald is Yad kin County in January, 1943, is now being car ried In 42 papers from Waynesville to More head City . , . Scott appointments are schedul ed to get underway next week, so if you have a man or men you are pushing, you had better get the ball rolling as of right now . . . THE WINTER . . . While the Legislature has been cursed a great deal, it has, never-theless, gone along with Scott to the extent of spend ing every dime in sight for the next two years. It could not have spent 'more without raising your taxes. It has permitted the Governor to spend $7,500,000 for ports. He is also getting his road and schools bond votes. He has lost out on some relatively minor matters, but if you have looked on the past-and-a-half months as a fight between Scott and the General As sembly, then Scott must be put down as the winner. If he fares as well at the hands of the people in the bond votes as he did with the Legislature, there should be no cause for anxie ty and further hand-wringing by Scott follow ers. BY AUGUST 1950 . . . The belief among some of the conservative leaders here in Ral eigh is that a special session of the Legisla ture will have to be called between now and August, 1950, for the purpose of raising taxes, etc., with which to meet appropriations which were made by the recent Legislature. ' ? The Rovin' Reporter (Continued from page one) anew. The Volunteer Fire Depart ment needs that truck as speedily as possible. To get it they must have about a thousand dollars more than they now have. The truck, when secured, will serve Southport, Caswell Beach, Long Beach and other places where needed when it can do any good. It is a community undertaking for community good. Property owner at any of the above places or elsewhere who have been plan ning to donate, should send in their checks now, payable to the Volunteer Fire Department These checks may be mailed either to Ormand Leggett or to us and they will be turned over to Mr. Leggett and acknowledged in this column. Appreciating that the fire truck planned for the Volunteer Fire department will be of much general aid, D. L. Mercer, forest j warden of Brunswick county, \ handed us five dollars Monday } as a little donation from him for I the fund. At the same time Judge Frank M. Armstrong of Troy sent in another five dollars. He owns a summer home at Long Beach and thinks rightly that the truck will be a great standby for himself and other residents of the beach. Realizing how E. D. Bishop and the rest of the REA at Shal lotte are always ready to give service when they can, it may be pointed out here that there are a large number of connections at Long Beach. Folks now coming in to the beach for the summer are finding considerable trouble with their current and when they try to call Shallotte over the phone line to that place they us ually find the line out of order. A prominent up-state citizen, owner of property at the beach, has asked if the REA could not put a maintenance man at the beach during the summer? When growing tomato plants for New Jersey tomato farmers started up in Brunswick county it was stipulated that the plants must be ready by about the 12th of May. With April not gone, Everett H. Sheppard has 20 acr es of the finest tomato plants ever grown anywhere. He could be trucking them to New Jersey this week if the fields were ready for them there and there was no danger of frost. If things work out according to plans the plants 1 will be moving by the truckload 1 about next Monday. To folks from up-state and from northern and eastern states it looks sort of odd to see the fields of growing corn, tobacco, etc., In Brunswick. Here and there one encounters cornfields with the stalks already about knee high. Farmers have all been un usually busy, giving their corn fields the first and sometimes the second cultivation before they have to turn to cultivating tob acco. Cultivating of tobacco will begin this week. As an indication of the general reaction to the show, J. J. Loug hlin, Jr., one of the many pleas ed Southport citizens present, said next morning: "Jerry Ball certainly put new life Into the drive for funds to buy the new fire truck last night. I believe he caused a lot of our folks to wake up. If we all take hold now and try to help we will soon be where the boys can get the truck." Steve Wall of the Wilmington News called to see us while we were out fishing the other day. He left a note regretting we had gone fishing without taking him along. Also he was very appreci ative of several heads of lettuce that we had stolen for him from Everett Sheppard's lettuce patch j a few days previously. We are not sure that we have told you about it, so we will say here that everything was just a bout as we expected. We had to take Congressman diaries B. Deane freshwater fishing the oth er day, while the wind was from the east. To make matters worse, the moon had just changed. It was just as we expected. The Congressman caught one catfish that weighed about half a pound. Despite this he made an appoint ment for another trip in June. Folks who have seen Jerry Ball in action at the piano haven't seen anything. They should see him when a bluefish strikes his plug when he is trolling. He real ly goes to town then and takes all spectators along with him. We would not be at all surprised if Jerry's experience with the bluefish the other day has the ef fect of curing him of ambitition for fresh water fishing honors. Without taking any honors for ourself, it may be said that we are one of the early risers in Southport. Here In the office at about 4 o'clock each morning we see car after car loaded with sportsmen rounding the corner on their way to the yacht basin and their boats to go fishing. These folks spend the night somewhere else, they get breakfast some where else, pack lunches some where else. All they do in South CATHOLIC INFORMATION But Doesn't The Catholic Church Add New Truth?? No, not a single hew truth? evpr^ ,\ "But how about the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, de clared only in 1854, and the doc trine. of the infallibility of the Pope, declared only in 1870?" Let us answer with a story: John Bangs, - of sterling reputa tion, was running for mayor. His opponents had nothing on him; but one of them said: "Bangs was married way back in 1877. Is there anyone living today who knows he was legally married? Well then why not ..." So a rumor was craftily started and spread, as rumors do spread. It became a story of "facts." It became a political slogan, till some of John Bangs' friends began to! believe it. Then Bangs acted. In a big newspaper advertisement, he re produced his duly signed marri age certificate. The witnesses were dead, but others certified to their signatures and to the fact that they knew all about the Bangs marriage from the testi mony of those now dead wit nesses. Had John Bangs added a new truth? Had he not merely estab lished and made clear a truth which had existed since 1877? No Pope has ever added a truth, subtracted a truth, or al tered a truth. He cannot, because all divine truths necessary to man's satvation whether revealed by Holy Scripture or by living tradition have been safeguarded all these nineteen hundred years since the coming of the Holy Ghost on the first Pentecost Sun day. Christ had promised the Spirit of Truth to His Church and promised that this Spirit would abide with His Church for all time. Not all truths, however, were expounded in full. Relying precisely on this divine promise that the Holy Ghost will Infallibly guide his teaching, any Pope, suc cessor to the chief of the Apos tles, can when necessity or just occasion arises, officially declare truths which have always belong ed among the doctrines of Christ's Church but which have never theretofore been explicily set forth. Thus it became necessary three hundred years after the death of Christ to declare the truth of His divinity because of the spread of a false teaching denying that Christ was truly God. No one will say that this was a new truth since the whole Christian religion was founded on that doctrine. In like manner the Catholic of today be-1 lieves the dogma of the Immacu late Conception, the dogma of Papal Infallibility?not as new but as now clearly defined truths. If it's anything C&thqlic, ask a Catholic! For further information write P. O. Box 351, Whiteville, N. C. SCHEDULE WB&BBUS LINE Southport, N. C. EFFECTIVE TUES., JAN. 20,1948 WEEK-DAY SCHEDULE LEAVES SOUTHPORT LEAVES WILMINGTON 7:00 A. M. 9:30 A. M. ?1:30 P. M. 4:00 P. M. 6:00 P. M. 7:00 A. M. *9:30 A. M.. 1:35 P. M. 4:00 P. M. 6:10 P. M. 10:20 P. M. *?These Trips on Saturday Only. **?This Bus Leaves Winnabow at 6:10 Daily. - SUNDAY ONLY - LEAVES SOCTHPOKT LEAVES WILMINGTON 7:30 A. M. 10:50 A. M. 4:00 P. M. 6:00 P. M. 9:00 A. M. 1:35 P. M. 6:10 P. M. 10:20 P. M. Not Exactly News Notes from Shallotte Junior-Senior banquet: It is hard to imagine a building as unattrac tive as the interior of a Brunswick county high school gymnasium being transformed into such a fairyland of beauty . . . Faculty members checked their dignity with their wraps, and entered into the spirit of the occasion in a manner that was a pleasure to behold. Princip al Henry Stone's contribution was a rustic re ndition of "You Are My Sunshine" . . . Dr. and Mrs. Henderson Rourk were a gay couple as they skipped about the table in response to the chanted demand of the students ... If Wabon Thomas can fight any better than he can sing then he has a brilliant ring career ahead . . . We decided that Mrs. Katie Mc Keithan can do anthing she tries when we heard her accampany Miss Gasque in her vocal solo . . . Everything turned out right?even the May Pole design. Southport's No. 1 & No. 2 needs go hand in hand. They are a modern motor. court, or small hotel, and a yacht basin for use of pleasure craft and sport fishing boats . . . The price Increase effective Monday at the Amuzu is the first that has been made since before the war and marks the end of a drawn-out effo business haa made to hold the line a?ai vancing costs. Artesian overflows provide the water for many homes In Waccamaw townshj Carl Watkins was here from N'orlina to the past week-end at Long Beach, h. that he may have dance band down for. season engagement early in May . . . q, suit of having a good hardsurface road ? Beach will be to cut down on traffic 1? down the strand this summer ... Brunswick county golfers followed play ? Wilmington Open Tournament during tfct week-end and were disappointed when O'Leary blew his slim lead Sunday and 4? back to a sixth place tie. Every one of the doctors now practice Brunswick county have a military Three were Navy Men?one assigned t, Marine Corps?and the other two were Army . . . Hie handsome deer head now ? ed and on display in the Henry store ?t nabow was furnished by a buck which nuj mistake of trying to run over A. p. h?; a drive two years ago. 1 port is to come in and board their boats, leaving the boats for home with their fish as soon as they return. Before the war most of the fishing' parties spent the previous night here, getting rooms meals and the lunches they took out with them. Everybody pro fited by the coming of those fel lows. Now only the boatmen pro fit. We were out trolling for blue fish the other, day with Archie Thornhill of Rockingham and Charlotte, Archie Is very much like L. T. Yaskell, who used to go fishing with us. TTiis likeness is both physical and verbal. Of the 82 big bluefish caught during the two hours before it rained and forced us to quit and <?me home, Archie and your Roving Reporter pulled in the first two, landing both the same second. Previous to starting to fish, Jer ry Ball, Marion Tarrant, Archie and I had put a dollar in the kitty to go to the first one of the party who caught a fish. Archie made arrangements fpr this dol lar to go to the one who caught the biggest fish, Instead of the first one. Captain Arnold was to j be Judge. Later on In a confer-1 ence between Archie and Captain i i Arnold, a conference to which we ; were not Invited to take part, j Archie managed to convince the captain he had got the biggest fish in the box and he took the dollar. FORMER RESIDENT Continued From Page One secure this purchase. The exer cise of their priority before the deadline for closing bids carries their plan one step farther toward realization. LIVINGSTON IS f Continued From Page One without opposition in the city election on May 3. In past years this has been a mere formality, and where there has been any contest for municipal office it has developed at the nominating con vention. On Thursday night voters of the third ward followed the pat tern of their fellow citizens of ward one and ward two when they showed little interest in naming their candidates ftl ermen. Fred Spencer, mett: the present board, and Hubbard, former alderman, nominated without oppositnj Candidates for the otfcei erman posts are Ralph o and G. W. McGlamerv from one; and J. A. Gilbert an mand Leggett from ward ti BIG CATCHES OF~ party from Fayetteville, 25! fish, aboard Idle-On. April 24: Jim Foil and from Salisbury, 225 bluefi board Botfly. April 24: Lloyd Traywldt Barrier, W. H. Melton and Hartsell of Albemarle and Carter of New London, 21S fish aboard Kiabab. TKANSFERED TO NORFO Bob Parker, Yeoman 2nd in the Navy, has been trs ed from Charleston to N for duty in the Flag Alio of Commanders Service Atlantic Fleet. He was fa stationed at Fort Camel his wife is the former Mil Watts of Southport. 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