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The State Port Pilot Southport, N. G. Published Every Wednesday JAMES M. HARPER, JR. Editor Entered as second-class matter April 20, 1828, 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, May 11, 1949 Flower Show At no time during the year do the ef forts of the Southport Woman's Club show to better advantage than when its members stage their annual Flower Show each Spring. We are reminded that a few years ago a committee of out-of-town judges ex pressed frank amazement that a town the size of Southport could put on such a creditable exhibit. If these visitors had known what we know they would not have been surprised. These Southport women can do a good job of anything they undertake. We sometimes think they greatly out strip our men in this respect. Free Offer We do not have a single tobacco plant to our name, so in the very beginning let us confess that this suggestion is for an expression of generosity from others. We read in a Sunday newspaper that farmers upstate are having the hardest time in years getting enough tobacco plants with which to set out their crops. Many are said to be using inferior plants, while others have been forced to truck in plants grown in other states. At least one farmer has flown in plants from an other part of the South. It is our observation that Brunswick county produced one of the finest crops of tobacco plants in its history this year. Moreover, the crop has been set out and transplanting is practically complete. There are millions of strong, healthy plants left. We think that it would be a wonderful gesture if the tobacco growers of Bruns wick county would through their County Agent announce that they will give free of charge all the plants that any farmer from up-state will come here and pull for his own use. This would strike a new note in friendly cooperation and would reflect everlasting good will upon Bruns wick county and her farmer citizens. Hospital Day This is Hospital Week, and tomorrow / (Thursday) has been designated as Hos pital Day at Dosher Memorial Hospital. One special feature of this year's ob servance is the opportunity which visit ors will have to see the results of some of the activities of the Hospital Auxiliary. This will be particularly noticeable in the kitchen, where a large electric stove has been added to the equipment through the efforts of the women of this organi zation ; and on the sun porch, the latest theatre of activities for beautification and improvement on the part of the Hos pital Auxiliary. We are glad that one day each year is set aside for special attention to this Brunswick county institution, for al though there is scarcely an individual who has not had some benefit either di rectly or indirectly from the hospital, it is well to pause occasionally and to count our blessings lest we come to take them too much for granted. Chief among the services it has ren - - dered is that in an age when there is far too little medical care to go around, the existance of this hospital has made it possible for a doctor personnel not ever totaling mortf than five to care for the needs of our widely scattered population. Not only has hospitalization been placed within reach of those who otherwise might be denied, but these services have rendered with efficiency tempered I ? with sympathy and by ability governed with understanding. A few years ago the name of this insti tution was changed from "Brunswick County Hospital" to "J. Arthur Dosher Memorial Hospital" to honor the memory of a man who was the friend and physi cian of thousands of our residents. It is a credit to his name that this institution still is being operated in a manner which would meet with his full approval; and it is well to remind our citizens that it is no less a Brunswick county institution now than it was before the name was changed. The City Tax Dollar The Reader's Digest condenses an ar ticle from The Saturday Evening Post entitled, "I Get My Money's Worth From Local Taxes." It was written by Carl J. Faist and appeared in the April issue of the Digest. Faist says his salary is $5,880 a year and he lives in a house which is assessed at $4,250. His total taxes last year was $1,174.78, and of this amount $98.18 went to the city. "From my city tax I get police and fire protection day and night the year round," Faist says. "I get pure water de livered to my home, and the garbage and sewage removed. I get traffic lights to drive by, gtreet lights, bridges, side walks, pavements ... I get health pro tection through the city's food, milk, restaurant and sanitary inspection. The street in front of my house was cleaned ten times last summer and the snow was removed six times in the winter." Of course, he has much more to say than that, much of which is applicable in our own community. In some cases we get less and in other cases we get more. But in an event, there is much food for thought in what Faist says. Anyone' who is on the tax books for $2,500 would probably find it difficult to get his garbage collected for what he pays in local taxes. Maybe we should keep this in mind the next time we are tempted to complain. Faist says h^ paid $1,079.60 in fed eral taxes, or 11 times his city taxes and about one fifth of his entire income. Of course this doesn't take into ac count the hidden taxes?those he pays on cigarettes, transportation, telephone, admissions, processing, luggage, tires, automobiles and even on a loaf of bread. The article closes with this observa tion: j;J [A V, ? hi! "7he emphasis frr recent years has been upon ,our obligation to the nation. Let us alsft.reciqgni&e our local citizen ship and the opportunity it affords to improve oiur way:of life if we exercise self-government intelligently." RALEIGH ROUNDUP GOOD EXAMPLE ... Sim A. DeLapp of Lexington, State chairman of the Republican party, probably set a good example for State Democratic Chairman Capus Waynick last week when he said he could not serve as a vice pre sident of Better Schools and Roads, Inc., the agency set up to push the adoption of the $225,000,000 bond issue for roads and schools. In refusing the position, DeLapp said it is probable that there is divided opinion regarding the bond issues and that he, as head of the party, should not take sides. He did not say how he, personally, felt on the matter. In contrast to this, Democratic Chairman Waynick is subjecting himself to some criticism by being one of the front-line proponents of the bond issues. ABOUT NICARAGUA . . . Capus Waynich is the new emissary to Nicaragua. This country is a little smaller than North Carolina in size, having 50,000 square miles to this State's 52,000, and is much smaller in population? 1,500,000 against approximately 3,500,000 for the Old North State. Nicaragua in 1940 had 150,000 white folks in its population. AFTER JUNE 4 . . . Waynick has said he will go to his new position, which will pay him in the neighborhood of $25,000 per year, until after June 4, the date of the roads-and-school bond vote. His position as party chairman is expected to go to L. P. McLendon of Greensboro or Ever ett Jordan of Saxapahaw. SHIN-KICK . . , The current issue of the American Magazine has an Interesting and timely article by U. S. Comptroller Lindsay Warren on the wastefulness in our Federal Government Since all of his tenure has been under Democratic administrations, the article adds up to a rather vigorous shin-kick at the Democratic Party. COMMANDER GODWIN ? . . . R. C. Godwin of New Bern and Raleigh, who since 1939 has been State Veterans Employment Representative (a bigger position than it sounds like), is be ing boosted for Commander of the State Ameri can Legion. The convention will be held in Raleigh on June 18-22, and the GI bushes are being shak en for support for Godwin, a 30-year Legion naire and at present a Department Commander. Consensus among Raleigh veterans seems to be that Godwin, as both veterans employment man and State Commander, would be in a uni que position "to be o? tremendous service to veterans and theit families in what Is now be coming known as the leveling off period. The Rovin' Reporter (Continued from page one) both of whom reside on the Bell Swamp highway. Mr. Reid har vested five acres of crimson clov er and put it in his barn two weeks ago. Mr. Lewis havested his last week. One angle of sport fishing that has grown rapidly along the coast of Brunswick without any at tempts being made to speed up development, is the inside fishing that is offered all the way from Calabash to Lockwoods Folly In let. The waterway is good all the way through. At Seaside, Cause Landing, Shallotte Point and Lockwoods Folly the favorite spots are said to exist. At all of these places many small boats are available for use with either oars or outboards motors. Bait can also be obtained readily. During the spring, summer and fall thousands of fishing parties arrive for some of the extra fine inside fishing along the waterway and inlets. For Lockwoods Folly Inlet boats can be obtained at Long Beach, Howell's Point, Var num's Landing and Holden Beach. Plenty of boats are available at Shallotte Point, Gause Landing, Seaside and Calabash. A note from Jerry Ball of the Esso Company, Charlotte, brings the information that he, Marion Tarrant and Archie Thornhill had a grand time down here when they put on the Fire Truck bene fit show. They said that South port folks were as nice as any they have found anywhere. All intend to come back and help out in anything they can. Brunswick county deserves and probaly will get full attention from the new State Highway Commissioner of this district, in this county more than anywhere else the State road building pro gram is far behind. For 15 or more years the county received little attention from the highway commissioners who came and went. Then J. A. Bridger of Bladenboro came along and to him Brunswick county owes its first real start in road building. His time was limited and he did not get to finish what he started in giving Brunswick county the roads to which it was entitled. But he made the start and made good progress. We believe his successor will carry on along the same line. When the Girls Scout Camp at Pretty Pond is completed?and it is destined to grow and grow the Girl Scouts of New Hanover, Pender, Columbus and Brunswick will owe a lot to the initial ef forts put forth by Mr. and Mrs. Roderick Holden of Wilmington. Mrs. Holden is chairman of the building committee. Mr. Holden, being her husband, just has to tag along and help. To his credit he is doing it willingly. To these two belong the credit for the hundreds of donations to the camp that will bbecome a blessing to the whole coastal section. Since he retired early In the early in the year after many years of useful service we have seen very little of formal Coun ty Agent J. E. Dodson. As a matter of fact, we have happen ed on him only once and that was just a few days after he re tired. It seems to us that some of the farmers and others among whom Mr. Dodson worked and helped for more than a quarter of a century should take steps to honor him this spring or summer with some sort of fitting oc casion. Talmadge Sellers, agricultural teacher with the veterans at the Shallotte school, has invited us to go for a hop with him in his plane around over all sections of Brunswick. The young veteran has painted such an alluring pic ture of Brunswick county from the air the farm lands, coastal sections and the ship lay-in-basin with its hundreds of freighters, we have decided to take him up on the trip soon. While we have spent some time in the air, it just happens that we have never seen any of Brunswick county from that angle. Lucius C. Lamar, of the Wash ington Daily News, at Southport for a week early in April, writes us that he had the nicest vaca tion he can remember despite the fact that his stay was during a week when the weather just would not permit fishing. He in tends to come back at the earli est possible moment. Incidently, It should be said that D. A. Whitley and Kelly at Howell's Point did much to make Mr. Lamar's stay a pleasant one. "Dear Bill: writes H. B. Clem mons of Ashland, Kentucky, "En closed find my check for another year's subscription to Brunswick County's best yet, newspaper. Being a Brunswick Countian my self, I could just not get along without it and its Rovin' Repor ter feature." Thanks a million, Mr. Clemmons. Appreciation from its readers helps a lot in the continued aim to try and make the paper better. Jim Wilson, sports writer on the Wilmington News, spent a morning here with us this week. Very much interested in the sport iishing off Southport, he was dis cussing ways and means where by the sport fishing parties that come here may obtain more sat isfactory service. His own opln ion was that the lnabilty to ob tain boats when they are wanted is one of the worst drawbacks. POLICE CHIEF (Continued From Paee One) been appointed acting Chief of Police during the leave of ab sence. TTie value of the menhaden fleet has grown with the addition of former mine sweepers and oth er craft to the point that the navigation company feels called upon to exercise every protect ion to the boats at night when their crews are at their homes on shore. The watchman's duties are understood to include all time when the boats are at their docks whether it be day or night. NEW FUNDS WILL (Continued From nge One) few residents in the REA area who will not have current avail able, according to manager E. D. Bishop. Approximately 5000 members will be hooked up with the Brunswick REA when the short extensions or loops in the pre sent program are completed, Mr. Bishop says. RIVER DRAINAGE Continued From Page One and Harbors Congress. Bennett was given an opportunity to dis cuss the proposal and was ac corded a most courteous hearing. The canal which has been pro posed for the Calabash area in South Carolina would lower the water table from two to three feet permanently and would greatly reduce the overflow which has damaged eo much of the area. Actually, about two thirds of Col umbus and Brunswick counties lh North Carolina and about one third of Horry County In South Carolina would be affected by the project. The proposal has captured the imagination of people throughout Eastern North Carolina and many persons, Including engineers, who have been called in to advise re garding its feasibility. SUCCESSFUL SHOW (Continued from page one) Mrs. L. J. Hardee, Mrs. Fred \yilling. Sea shells: Mrs. L. J. Hardee, Mrs. J. M. Harper, Mrs. H. C. Corlette. Mantel: Mrs. Fred Willing, Mrs. H. T. St. George, Mrs. Thomas St. George. Boudior: Mrs. James Harper, Mrs. C. G. Ruark, Mrs. L. H. Bringloe. Bras: Mrs. D. C. Herring, Mrs. R. B. Thompson. Copper: Mrs. C. G. Ruark, Mrs. Thomas St. George. Silver: Mrs. Thomas St. George, Mrs. Dallas Pigott, Mrs. H. T. St. George. Coffee: Mrs. C. G. Ruark, Mrs. L. D. Hayman, Mrs. L. J. Hardee (Mrs. H. T. St. George honorable mention). Din ing table (without dishes) Mrs. C. G. Ruark, Mrs. Thomas St. George, Mrs. R. B. Thompson. Dining table (with dishes): Mrs. L. D. Hayman, Mrs. L. J. Hardee. Class III?Shadow Boxes?Mrs. J. M. Harper, Mrs. R. B. Thomp son, Mrs. D. C. Herring. Class IV?Potted Plants?Mrs. Mattie Aspenwall, Mrs. C. Ed Not Exactly News Somebody was kidding James Arnold Monday when he reported he had caught an 11-pound shephead. "You must have got mixed up," they said. "Maybe it was a black drum and you didn't know it." James replied, "I know my fish, alright He had teeth as big as mine? and a damn sight more of them" . . . 'Each year the childrens division in the Woman's Club Flower Show improves. A few years ago when blue mold hit tobacco I plant beds hard up-state two Wake county far mers we know came down to Brunswick to get some plants to set out their crops. They found some down in the Waccamaw section, and of the three farmers who let them have plants, only one would make any charge. We have seen these fellows several times during the inter vening years, and they never fail to mention their appreciation for the help they received the season their tobacco beds were ruined . . . Some people think that the Riegel brahmas would do well on these coastal marshes. This breed Is pupular along the coast of Texas. "So Evil My Love" is the ominous sounding title of the Ray Milland movie which plays Thursday and Friday at the Amuzu. The week end attraction . at Shallotte theatre is "Let's Taylor. Class V?Tables?Party: Mrs. J. M. Harper. Set: Mrs. Frank M. Niernsee, Mrs. Fred Burdette. SHIPPING RUSH (Continued from pajre On?) vines are just now starting to run. According to all indications he will be marketing melons soon after the middle of June. FOUR FATALITIES IN (Continued from page 1) them, to testify. I Attempting to Jump on the body of an unloaded pulpwood truck near Seaside, Saturday af ternoon, Moses Hill, 65-year old negro of that community, met instant death when he missed his seat and fell under the wheels of the heavy vehicle. Constable Todd of Shallotte township states that the wheels of the truck passed over the neck and shoulder of the negro, his neck being broken. The truck was being operated by Ervin Brooks, colored. Said to have run from behind a parked car directly into the path of a highway truck, driven by Grady Lane Bordeaux, George Barnes, a 6-year old negro boy of Exum, was run over and instant ly killed Thursday afternoon. Highway patrolman say that no charges have been made against the truck driver. The boy appar ently followed the fashion of many children and ran into t}ie path of the truck from a point where the driver could not see him. RECORDER HOLDS (Continued from rage 1) $10.00 and costs. Lemuel Lester Lowe, reckless operation, fined $25.00 and costs. Fine remitted. Edward McPherson, reckless MONEY-SAYING BARGAINS CIGARETTES?(All Popular Brands) ?ctn $1.50 Fancy RICE?3-lb. pkg. 40c Hi-Up FLOUR?25-lb. bag $1.75 CORN MEAL?5-lb. bag 25c GRITS?5-lb. bag 30c PURE LARD?2-lb 35c SUGAR?5-lb 45c Carnation MILK?2 large cans 25c ALL SOFT DRINKS?6 bottles 25c Native FLOUNDER?per lb 30c MULLETS, BUTTERFISH, CROAKERS, per lb 15c O 'Q UIN N1S CALABASH, N. C. SCHEDULE W- B. 8c B. BUS LINE Southport, N. C. EFFECTIVE TUES., JAN. 20,1948 WEEK-DAY SCHEDULE LEAVES SOUTHPOBT LEAVES WILMINGTON ?? 7:00 A.M. 7:00 A.M. *9:30 A.M. 9:30 A.M. / 1:35 P.M. *1:30 P.M. 4:00 P.M. 4:00 P.M. 6:10 P.M. 6:00 P.M. 10:20 P.M. *?These Trip* on Saturday Only. **?'This Bus Leaves Winnabow at 6:10 Daily. - SUNDAY ONLY - * ? ? LEAVES SOUTHPOBT LEAVES WILMINGTON 7:30 A.M. 9:00 A.M. 10:50 A.M. 1:35 P.M. 4:00 P.M. 6:10 P.M. 6:00 P.M. 10:20 P.M. Live A Little" ... The men of TrlnitTJ dist church are planning to put on a jj barbecue supper in which the only fJ participation will be as gruests. ' Preacher Hayman was excited thij after seeing some mullets jumping jn beth creek . . . State College basket^ Everett Case has asked Richard Brendle t, to Raleigh to talk over where the Sc? boy will go to college next fall . , ? obtained this week on the coast of dr^j yacht basin for pleasure craft seem ^ this project out of the realm of po?^1 private ownership of moderate mean* Davis creek and the waters |ying J there and Holden Beach offer a hoautifitj in which to operate small boats with ?J motors. We look for this area to be .5, use this summer by residents both of Beach and Holden Beach . . . Week-end j of summer visitors give local merely pleasant prevue of what business will fe g a few weeks . . . We hated to see ti, school baseball team drop out of the Championship race Thursday, but it ^ have happened in a cleaner game, nor they have lost to a nicer bunch of boyj as it is rather smali~HoJj Dr. Holden say? it is ^ dition an dthe only trouH pected with it is that it ?jI be able to handle traffic" enough. VBITEDlilOTHER " Mrs. A. L. Wililams jjj Eljia Rae Williams, oI i mond, Va., spent the week J Shallotte with Mr. and Mrs Reynold, parents of Mr? llama. CLASS PLAY AT SHALli The Senior high school the Shallotte school win their annual class play toaj (Thursday) night at the school Auditorium. The fJ entitled. "Kay Beats the Bq It is set for 8 o'clock. operation, motion for jury trial. I W. D. Pankey, possession, 61 months on roads, suspended on payment of a fine of $100.00 and costs and good behavior for two years. PLANTING SEED (Continued from page one) attention. Early next spring they will be distributed about the State for the purpose of forming small plots of quail food among land owners who are interested in quail and other wildlife. HOLDEN BEACH WORK (Continued from page one) tion at the waterway. Only cars may cross on the ferry at a time, TIME NOW FOR '*SPRING TUNING" Bring Your Gar To Us For A Compl Lubrication With GOOD GULF. ENNIS LONG SERVICE STATI U. S. No. 17 - Supply, K.| I v COOK & HEAT WITH^SSOTANB ?AS i * -SHB-. . LEGGETT'S SOUTHPORT, r>}. C. CATHOLIC INFORMATION How Much Muit A Man Worship ? They carried him Into the em ergency ward, mangled and dying,1 and all he would answer to re peated questions was: "a priest? a priest!" "Get a priest," ordered the sur geon impatiently, "any priest! It ( doesn't matter. I've seen scores of; them die?these Catholics?and without exception each calls for a| priest and also without exception each passes on resignedly if the priest has come in time. Funny thing1." Funny? It's the most natural thing in the world if one under stands the importance to a Cath olic of the Sacraments and the need for a priest for administer ing them. No matter how faultless the dying Catholic, no matter how re cently he may have confessed his sins to a priest, when death ap proaches it is his greatest desire to make a final confession, to re ceive hU God in Holy Communion, to have the healing graces of Ex treme Unction?to pass on to his God With every possible prepara tion. Tis is what is known as a "happy death," for which every Catholic prays throughout life, for which he yearns and c??" la aware of his criticd ? That ia why the OjtMJJ ready day or night, lw or foul, to rush to the ?k sick or dying. That xnrtjj risk plague or P?8tl'en?'tl shell, danger ofany!W*, him who calls for thowPJ God which the priest alo*? minister. r( The Catholic priest mi. not be a good Prea(*fL or may not have a pi sonality. He may or the average amount o. weaknesses. But when he itM? J altar of God and when M ters the Sacraments we?" is exercising Go^j!:" with the same validity cacy as did Peter and ? Apostles who received - date from Jesus Christ 1900 years ago. w .Every Catholic knowlto is why, when death c apace, he calls for a pn? Pl1A. onything Catholfc Catholic! For further informal' P. O. Box 391, White** . Royster's HELD-TESTED FERTILIZE - & t ? PURINA FEEDS COLUMBUS TRADING CO, Shallotte, N. G.
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