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.
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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.
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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.
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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 <Ji
Charlotte. Other guestj J
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Thornhlll and Marion TirJ
Charlotte, D. N. Caliwl
Mr. O'Kelly, Esso Oil ^
Wilmington, and W. b
S hal lotte
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The body of Davis Gore, 32
year-old Whlteville Negro who
escaped from Brunswick county
prison camp last week, has been
found floating in the Waccamaw
River.
The body vas; discovered near
Shallotte Wednesday by residents
of the area who had gone to the
river to fish, prison department
officials said.
Chief Prison Inspector Kyle
Matthews said prison guards and
law enforcement officers had
been searching the section since
late Thursday when .Gore broke
from, a road g*n?. XJuards and
blood-hounds chased him for ap
proximately weight miles, Matt
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Herman Leder, and Walter, H.'
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