Congressman Carlyle | Promises Inlet Work >resentative Meets With I roup Of Boatmen At iolden Beach For Discus sion Of Dredging Needs ^PES TO GET EARLY RELIEF lis Have Made Passage trough Lock woods Folly ^nlet Very Unreliable During Recent Years is possible, in view of pro bes made this week by Con gressman F. Ertel Carlyle, that the fishermen and other boats using the Lockwoods Folly Inlet may get some sort of emergency relief this summer. There is also an encouraging prospect of some thing being done permanenty tn the near future. The situation is that the dredg ing of the intracoastal waterway by the government had the ef fect of shoaling the Lockwoods Folly Inlet. The river now em pties into the waterway and very little of the waters pass on out. into the ocean at the previously | much used inlet. With this inlet shoaled almost to the point of being impassable by boats except at high tide, a large number of fishermen at Holden Beach and points on lockwoods Folly River are un able to get to and from their work except at the odd and changing hours when the tide may be at flood. " This lack of passage at all tim- j es often produces a dangerous: situation. If the boats are out I forking and a storm comes up i while the tide is low the boats, iMoetimes have to run all of the v&y to the mouth of the Cape: Fear river at Southport to get: fn sheltered waters there. Depen- j t?ag on where they may be work- j ijg7 such trips may take the Bkwoods Folly boats from two j four hours. Anything can hap-1 to small boats within two four hours time in stromy i Yacht Owner Enjoys Birthday Dinner The SIS, a beautiful 46-foot I Cris Craft cabin cruiser owned ! by W. G. Oaks, of Philadelphia, j put in here Friday afternoon j with Mr. Oaks and party aboard. It happened to be the birthday (of Mr. Oaks and his friends took him around to the Sawdust Trail for a birthday steak dinner. They declared this dinner to be the best they had partaken of since leav ing Philadelphia. Giving the dinner was Mayor Leon Ford of Medford Lakes, N. J., Col. F. H. Lineburner and Dr. J. S. Shipman of Philadephia and Captain M. Garris of the SIS. I Dr. and Mrs. E. C. Anderson of I Wilmington joined them as | guests for the dinner at the Saw dust Trail. weather. This week Congressman F. j Ertel Carlyle went down to Hold en Beach. He was taken out to I the inlet on the boat of Captain j Lucian Fulford and also up the river a short distance to Var num's Point. During this trip the Congressman talked to a num ber of the Southport boat skipp ers, relative to the inlet. At Var num's Point he met many inter-1 ested fishermen. . Getting back to the Holden I Beach Ferry where many of the I boats base, a meeting was held ' at the store of Bill Grady with approximately two hundred per sons present. Mr. Grady served as master of ceremonies and in troduced several boatmen who told of their trouble with the in let. Congressman Carlyle was also introduced by Mr. Grady and he made a most encouraging talk, promising to do all In his power for an emergency appropriation to open the inlet and keep it open ?Otil something can be done in a permanent way. MATTRESSESS Have Your Old Mattresses Sterilized And Reconditioned. You Will Find It Both Economical And Satisfactory. We Cater Especially To Beach Residents Recently we have installed new equipment which makes it possible for us to turn out high quality jobs in a hurry. Bring us you work, or phone or write us about your needs. BAREFOOT MATTRESS CO. Phone Wilmington 9909 Leland, N. C. Leaflet Issued On Farm Plans "What Is A Conservation Farm Plan" Being Distri buted By Soil Conserva tion Service In County The A, B, Cs of the "conser vation farm plan" which more than half a million United States farmers already are using are given in a new U. S. Department of Agriculture publication, j It is Leaflet No. 249, "What is a Conservation Farm Plan?", prepared by the Soil Conservation Service. As of June 30, 1948, the leaflet reports, 571,163 farmers in soil conservation districts had completed and were carrying out such conservation farm plans on more than 157 million acres. There were 2,013 conservation I districts in the Nation on that date, covering more than a billion acres and including more than three-fourths of all the farms and ranches in the country. The conservation plan - "a I blueprint for your farming opera tions" - is written by farmers! and soil conservation techniciants together, adapted to the land cap abilities of every acre on the farm. It shows what each acre should be used for, whether for crops, meadow, pasture, or woods, as well as how much conserva tion protection each acre needs. The plan sets up, for example, crop rotations and amounts of fertilizer to be used, land to be cultivated on the contour, drain age and terracing needs, guides to pasture and woodlot manage ment, and so on. At the same time, "If changes in markets, prices, or other con ditions make it desirable to cha nge the plan, this is fairly easy to do." The leaflet points out that virtually all farmers who have such a plan say their conservat ion farming program has increas ed yields and profits and also checked erosion. -Copies of the leaflet may be obtained from the Soil Conser vation Service office in the Agri cultural building at Supply, or by writing to Soil Conservation Ser vice, P. O. Box 1231, Shallotte. Cut Worms Are Hurting Tobacco Cool Nights Are Giving These Posts Good Weath er ,??r Working Rwin On Many,Tob?^p Fields With a three mon& period'of worry ab6dt 'producing? the plants and getting them set out In the fields - npw over ew?^pk,,for f-rej pl^nting' BrWswickj tobacco grow ers now have aft ' even bigger worry^ the first' after planting. The jwesent difficulty is over cut worms, and nature- is mak ing things favorable for these pests. Cold nights and morning leave the cut worms in their element. It takes only one- cut worm to destroy a tobacco plant in the field, and. when the one worm is multiplied by hundreds they can do a great deal of dam age in a single night, especially on a cold night. According to Register of Deeds ! Amos J. Walton, a lot of the Waccamaw and Shallotte town ship tobacco growers . awoke Monday, shivering at the cold and at the thought of what had been done in their tobacco fields dur ing the night. Incidently, Mr. Walton said that he and some other growers would give their tobacco fields the first cultivation this week. COLORED CITIZEN DIES H. A. Stanley respected colored citizen of Shallotte died of a stroke while attending church Sunday efternoon. He is survived by his wife and and ten children. He was a life-long resident of his community and was a highly respected colored citizen. His past (life is reflected in the lives of his children who are all upstand ing Christian men and women. He had three sons who saw ser vice during the recent war, and each in his own way made a re I cord that was outstanding. Read The Want Ads. DOBBINS TOBACCO SPRAYERS Give your tobacco plants every possible chance to live and to grow without infestation from insects. Spray regularly, and use one of these modern, labor-saving machines to do it quickly and well. We Also Have A New Shipment Of POULTRY WIRE M1NTZ & CO. Harry L. Mintz, Jr., Mgr. Supply, N. G. Publisher Dies B. GORDON' LEWIS, editor and publisher of i the Columbus County (News, Chadbourn, who died at his i home in Whiteville late Thurs day afternoon. He was editor of [The News Reporter for 15 years | before purchasing the Chadbourn paper. B. Gordon Lewis Passes Suddenly Editor And Publisher Of Co lumbus County News Stricken At Home Thurs day Afternoon B. Gordon Lewis, 44, editor and publisher of the Columbus County News of Chadbourn, died sudden ly at 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon at his home at 117 Fuller Street in Whiteville. Death resulted from a heart attack induced by high blood pres sure from which the veteran newspaperman had suffered for many years. He was slightly indisposed Thursday morning and remained in bed during the day, but the seriousness of his condition was not realized until a few minutes before death struck. The Chadbourn editor and pub-' lisher, who had been publishing1 his memoirs covering 20 years of newspapering in Columbus County, appeared in normal health throughout the week, hav ing attended to getting: out his newspaper on Wednesday as us lial. During the mpnth previous to his death, he had visited Wash ington, D. C. to see the cherry blossoms in bloom and except for a brief seizure, thought at the time to be asthmatic, he seemed to be in excellent health and the best of spirits. Mr. Lewis, a native of' White ville, beg&n his newspaper career as editor of The News Reporter in association with his brother, Rone H. Lewis, who was thfen publisher. He continued in that capacity for 15 years and be came one of the better known members of the "Fourth Estate" in North Carolina. Severing his connection with the Whiteville paper five years ago, he purchased the Columbus County News from W. G. Perkins and published and edited the Chadbourn paper until his death. Mr. Lewis was the son of the late David James Lewis, a native of Robeson County, and the late Lucy Howell Lewis, a native of Columbus County. He was born August 28, 1905. He was educated in the schools of Whiteville and Duke Univer sity. He was a member of White ville Methodist Church and had served as a member of the Board of Stewards for the past year. His civic affiliation was with the Chadbourn Rotary Club. Mr. Lewis, who was among the better straight-down-the-line fact ual writers, was also a top fea ture writer and columnist. His "Pen and Ink", which he author ed in recent years under the name of his son, B. Gordon, Jr., was a widely-read column. He moved it from the editorial page to the front page after the use of the boy's name was begun. Some of his reporting gained national recognition. In his memoirs, he relates that: "I have the very dubious honor of hold ing up the presses of Time Mag azine while a United Press cor respondent called to get my per mission to use a story I had writ ten about Anne King, colored woman of Whiteville, and her eight husbands." His editorials were generally re ocgnized as among the best. It seemed ironical in the light of his death Thursday that his lead editorial in his Wednesday's is sue dealt with heart disease. The same striking strangeness; seemed to exist with respect to J his "Diary of an Editor: 20 Years of Newspapering in Columbus County." The twelfth and final i chapter in the series was pub lished on Wednesday, April 13,1 ending his reminiscenes of his | career and setting the stage as if to say, "That is finished and all remains is to add that last news paper '30' to make the story com plete." The veteran editor, besides be ing active in his church and civic club, gave liberally of his time and effort to war bond drives, Red Cross and other community and charitable programs. Surviving ftrc his wife, the for mer Frances Bruce of Rice, Va.; a daughter, Frances Anne Lewis, 13; two sons, B. Gordon, Jr., 5, and James Howell Lewis, 3; four sisters, Mrs. W. H. Richardson of Raleigh, Mrs. A. W. Palmer and Mrs. R. E. Carrington, Jr., both of Sanford, and Mrs. Norman Johnson of Greensboro. He was the last surviving mem ber of the four Lewis brothers. Rone H. Lewis, the former News Reporter publisher, and Richard M. Lewis and Julian D. Lewis, prominent Whiteville attorneys, preceded him in death. Funeral services were conducted Saturday morning at 11 o'clock from McKenzie Chapel by his pastor, the Rev. D. A. Clarke, and interment followed in White ville Memorial Cemetery. The active pallbearers were Ralph Beason, Ben B. Lewis, James Harper, George W. Gold, Charlie Love, and John Babits. Honorary pallbearers included the members of the Board? of Stewards of Whiteville Methodist Church, members of the Chad bourn Rotary Club, Dr. W. ,A.' Greene, Dr. F. B. Welton, R.' * Grissett Still Held For Jury Coroner* Jury Returned Ver-1 diet Of Self-Defente In Gau*e Killing; Other Evi dence Offered Although a coroner's jury em panneled by Acting Coroner G. C. Kilpatrick rendered a verdict that John Harrison Grissett act ed in selfdefense when he killed Luther Gau9e with an axe near Shallotte on April 17, Grissett is still being held in jail here. Grissett was being held pend ing dismissal or other action a gainst him in Recorder's court here Wednesday, the coroners jury having brought in its ver dict the previous night. When the matter came up, acting on be half of relatives of Gause and presenting some evidence not brought out at the inquest, attor ney S. B. Frink secured a motion for Grissett to be held for the J grand jury. Bond was set at $10,000.00 and Grissett has been unable to fur-j nish this sum. Prisoner Drowns In Escape Try Body Of Whiteville Negro Found Floating On Wac camaw River By Fisher-! men Wednesday j hews said, only to lose his trail at the river. Matthews said officers in the area believed Gore was drowned while attempting to swim across the river. Gore first was sentenced from Columbus county in July, 1936, to 20-25 years for second degTee murder. Paroled on December 24, 1942, he was returned to prison in February, 1947, under a 12 j month sentence for assault with a deadly weapon and the parole revoked. He escaped from Bruns wick previously on June 24, 1947, and was recaptured last July 27. Brunswick Man Passes Friday General Robert Calda Died Friday Following Brief j Illness; Funeral Services! At Laurinburg I [ I General Robert Calda, 45, died) here Friday in the Doshier Mem-1 orial Hospital, where he had been | ill for several days. A native of | South Carolina he had resided on j j the Caswell road, about four mil-j es from Southport, for the past J several years. [ Surviving him is his widow, {Mrs. Carrie Calda of Southport; | i a brother, Harvey Calda of Mc J Coll, S. C., and a sister, Mrs. j Thomas Painter of Laurinburg. j i The remains were prepared for I burial at Kilpatrick and taken to | Laurinburg Saturday. Funeral i services and burial was held j there. MIDNIGHT SUPPER - Following the sh(m I school house for the the fire truck fund Mr ^ 1 Ormond Leggett enterwl a midnight supper Jerry Ball, main show and public relttio?, for the Esso, working