North Carolina Newspapers

^ pilot Covers County THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Most of The New# All The Time 6 paces today Southport, N. C., Wednesday, May 18,1949 published every Wednesday SlJO per year iden Rates Nation's No. |l Fish Product , p^blTcTtionCarrTes Ltd Story On This * ^j Carried On rth Carolina "used 1N many FORMS 'l?^M*wi.khd Of This Low Fiih Are Now Placed h Carolina's menhaden I? featured in an article EL iaiue of the National ' Magazine oy Leonard , member of the public torial staff , menhaden are caught k Atlantic coast from to,i southward, and in i ,)f Mexico. Roy chose .v Carolina Coastal area "to on-the-spot study of y fisheries. B!ior. of the article in ?al Geographic means tU Carolina's place in the i industry will be made ? iSOO.OOO members of Mr throughout the world rit?? wilt be available , in'nearly every muni ,1 and college library ti SUtes. , -Menhaden ? Uncle p Cbmmerclal Fish," the b two important rea j the fish is so little . it has nearly as many js ? there are reducing [nd it is too oily, mealy r for human consumption, nt? Roy: "More people i contact with menhad tt form than with any i Hie thousands employ * industry last year are j tadfol compared with who use menhaden i L h: ir. your Kitchen and , L 3 apt to contain men-] |i The linoleum on your i 11 sffice floor, the var- ! Nut that decorate the ?al walls in your home I ???proof garments k been made with th* I manufacturer* use oil r?r their product. I uilmal protein is lm Mo the health of cattle, I'M poultry, menhaden led with their food, of* I this fish indirectly to 5 table." i artwing on the New I coost discovered Indiana len for fertiliser by II fish in each corn hill. He relates. Now practical I of the fish is used as Roy then traces the the menhaden industry * odonferous sun-proces ethod on Rhode Island j to the large, almost odor on page four ?rliM.fi r- PENALTY j I faulty which will apply ^marketing of excess flue kco during the 1949-50 ; year will be 20-centa [WATTS ILL I iy Wends of Capt. Sam j i '*111 regreat to learn 1 k a seriously ill in Staten j 1 S T. Capt. Watts suf > severe heart attack on J Hiv Tth. Latest Tcports j | wsdition are that he i? [ f improved. | climc I'M Johnson, Brunswick , Mfc health officer, will! 11 pre-school clinic Fri beginning at 9:30 ' Waccamaw high school, who have children "iter school for the next fall are urged I Diem to this clinic. SERVICE S- will be made in the [?orahip at St. Phluips church for Sunday. ^Church will begin at in the evening in e usual 11 o'clock iiately following the [.service there will be a meeting. 1 Sl'PPER 1 ?f Trinity Methodist Jl> serving a benefit bar fcTh*1 Fri<lay night at 7 P>8 will be prepared "ry coais in an outdoor of the work will be men. However, it ^'?ted out that it will l,' Permissible for wo wcluse tickets for the Postal Service For Long Beach June 1st Acting Postmaster J. B. Russ Has Been Notified That This Service Will Commence Then According to Acting Postmas-1 ter J. B. Russ of Southport, folks who want to write to Long Beach I may do so after June 1st, but he! cautions that they should be care ful and add "N. C." after the name. Otherwise the letter, card or parcel may wind up at Long Beach, California, a beach with j identically the same name as that of the popular local resort. The new post office at Long1 Beach is to open on June 1st. Its service to the public will be only temporary, lasting through June, July and August the first year. However, if the beach continues to grow in keeping with expecta tions, the office may open again next summer to stay. Continued operation is natural ly dependent on the number of winter residents in need of mail service. Last winter several fami lies became established for year round residence. It is very likely that next winter will see this number increase. The office will undoubtedly become a permanent ina year or two. All mail will be handled through the Southport office. In some cases, according to available in formation, full bags of mail may be made up elsewhere and arrive at Southport ready to go straight on to the beach. In other cases matter may arrive mixed with i Southport mail and be bagged in J the local office. The W. B. & S. Bus Line, which ; carry the mail between Wilming ton and Southport will extend the service to Long Beach, a bus j leaving here with both mail and passengers for the beach soon after the mjul truck arrives at Southport in the morning and again in the afternoon. So far, neither the location of the Long Beach post office nor the name of postmaster have 'been announced. Several of the residents of the beach are under I stood to have applied for the job. Homecoming Day To j Be Observed June 10th Veterans Organizations Join ing With Southport Home Demonstration Club In Sponsoring This Event FORMER SERVICE MEN INVITED HERE Effort Will Be Made To Make This A Day For Renewing Old Acqua intances And For Merry-Making Invitations are being mailed to many veterans of World Wars I and II stationed In Southport and Brunswick county, and also to former residents of Southport to attend a homecoming- day and reunion sponsored toy the Bruns wiek county veterans organizat ions ^n4.-ths Southport Home Demonstration Club, this event to be held on Friday, June 10, fefver^l* mrvte stars, govern ment <nd military officials have been invited to attend the home coming.- Announcements concern ing those, able to attend will be made later, as soon as they have h^ad tim# to reply. One of the highlights of the day will be the crowning of the Community Beautification Queen, climaxing the community beauti fication drive which the local home demonstration club has been sponsoring for the past year. Voting has commenced and will be closed on June 4. The candidate for Queen and their sponsors are as follow: Gloria Lee Hewett by Camellia Inn; Pat Arrington by Watson's Pha rmacy; Stuart Arrington by Ar rigton's Department Store; Mary Ann Loughlin by Harrelson's Grocery; Catherine and Rebecca McRackan by Southport Trading Company; Janice Swan by Mack's CWe and Amaretta Burr by Leg gett's; Doris Swan, Dosher Mem orial Hospital. Other events of the day will be music by a military band and the high school band, field day contests with prizes to be award ed, good Southern cooking, danc ing, baseball games and boat rides. . .. _ - All people planning to attend the Homecoming Day are re quested to notify Mr. Rourk gen eral chairman, or Miss Swan, secretary of the home demonstr ation club. Commissioners In Session Monday Routine Matters Disposed Of Before Commissioners In Quiet Se??ion Members oT:he board ofcounty commissioners disposed of mat^ ters of routine importance here MTheayresignation of Cecil Ed wards as Veterans Service Officer was accepted, and in the absence of any recommendation for a suc cessor. no action as ^ke" In a series of tax matters the following action was take"V Mariah Mallette Jud dered conveyed to Sylvester Wad dell upon completion of p y of $317.65; the Stillie Ballar P perty was ordered convened to Ernest Ballard upon P^en^ *103.65; the Giles Nixo ^ was ordered conveye J20622; Reaves upon payment o * the refund due to Felton Garner for sale of a piece of land for which the county was unable (Continued on Patf* *' A teriffic blast Monday morn ing about 8 o'clock made Southport residents think that plumbing fixtures were being ripped from their places and that foundations were crumb ling from beneath the buildings. While home owners were busy tracing the source of the com motion there was a second and less severe blast, and this time it was traced to dynamiting operations in the Cape Fear river. An old channel marker which recently has been replaced was being removed, and the method employed was the use of a heavy dynamite charge about the piling supporting the struc ture. Persons who were looking on at this operation report that debris was blown several hun dred feet in the air. Jangled nerves were the only casualties ashore. Dawson Jones Funeral Today Former County Forest War den Died Monday At His Residence Of Sudden Heart Attack Dawson Jones, prominent resi dent and businessman of the Woodburn section, died suddenly Monday afternoon of a heart at tack suffered while he was at home. It was generally known that the deceased had been suffering from a heart condition, and this necessitated his slowing down from his normal activities during recent years. However, news of his death came as a shock to friends throughout the county. For a number of years Mr. Jones served as both game pro tector and the first county forest warden under the State coopera tive program. Later he gave up the game protector duties and helped to establish a sound for estry program in Brunswick. Several years ago he retired from these duties and since that time has devoted himself to the development of a business in which he was engaged at Wood burn with his son, and to buying activities for a hardwood lumber company. Surviving him are his widow, the former Miss Bessie Pauline Ganey; one son, Mack F. Jones, of Woodburn; two daughters, Mrs. M. Eugene Bullard of Wilmington and Mrs. W. W. Lewis, of Lorain, Ohio; two brothers, C. McD. Jones and Earnest P. Jones of Wilming ton; three sisters, Mrs. J. B. Coley, Mrs. W. F. Watson and Mrs. Gurney Pittman, all of Wil mington. Funeral services were conducted this morning from the chapel of Andrews mortuary by his pastor, the Rev. J. D. Withrow. Interment followed in Oakdale cemetery. Active pallbearers were; C. C. Robbins, W. C. Smith, J. T. Paden, O. W. Watters, Jr., and A. H. Ganey. Honorary pallbear ers were: J- Lawrence Sprunt, Keneth Sprunt, Peter Brown Ruf fin, W. R. Dosher, George Clark, S. Bunn Frink, James M. Harper, jr., Gilbert Reid, W. C. McCor (Continued on page 2) Monday Morning Blast In River Williamson And Dodson Named Bond Chairmen Representative And Former County Agent Are Serving As Co-Chairmen For Brunswick County In Bond Drive VOTE SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 4TH Voters Will Have Oppor tunity To Cast Ballot For Or Against Sale Of Bonds For Improve ments < Representative Odell Williamson of Shallotte and J. E. Dodson of Exum, recently retired county agent, have accepted cochairman ship of Brunswick County's Com mittee for Better Schools and Roads, it was announced this week by John Marshall, executive secretary of Better Schools and Roads, Inc. Williamson and Dodson will spearhead a county drive for voters' support of the Better Schools and* Roads program, which faces its biggest test on June 4 when the people of North Carolina will vote on the issuance of bonds for school and road building. The appointment of the two Brunswick county men and their acceptances as leaders of the local effort marks the beginning of a state-wide program to inform all Tar Heels of the need for better schools and roads and to impress upon all voters the significance of the June 4 bond election for the economic and social life of North Carolina. By their acceptance of co-chafr manship Williamson and Dodson also became director in the non profit, non-partisan citizens' or ganization Better Schools and Roads, Inc. The co-chairmen said their first job would be to encourage regis tration of voters fo rthe election. In this connection, however, they pointed out that no sp^eial regis tration is required. Any citizen (Continued on page 2) Numerous Cases Heard In Court Traffic Violations Take Up Most Of Day In Recorder's Court Here Wednesday I Most of the cases tried in Brunswick county Recorder's court here Wednesday before Judge W. J. McLamb grew out of traffic violations, with the fol lowing disposition being made: Coy Thurman Neal, speeding, nol prossed at request of pro secuting attorney. John Norman Moore, speeding, continued. Floyd Holt Martin, speeding, i fined $10.00 and costs. Bettie Howell, no operator's license, fined $25.00 and costs. Etheridge Utley Gurganuous, speeding, continued. Arthur W. Feldman, speeding, capias issued. T. H. Sampley, public drunk ness and possession, capias issued. Louise D. Murden, public drunk ness, fined $10.00 and costs. Marcus G. Grissett improper equipment, capias isseud. Frankie Turner and Howard Malpass, breaking and entering, 'Continued on page 2) Student Protest DEMONSTRATION ? Students of Shallotte high school are shown above in the midst of their demonstration staged Tuesday in protest against the action taken Monday night by the Shallotte District School Committee in refusing to re-elect Henry C. Stone as principal. Mr. Stone, who is the only principal under whom most of the students ever have gone to school, is very popular with the boys and girls. (Star-Ne\.3 Cut.) Shallotte Students Support School Head Brunswick Man Now In Canada Last fall and winter the State News Bureau put out a lot of matter regarding John Fernside of Exum and his bear hounds. Stories and pictures were used in newspapers and magazines from coast to coast. Fernside is reported to have received several hundred letters from all over the United States and Canada, these letters com ing from people who wished to come to Brunswick county and go bear hunting with him and his dogs. Many of the letters contained invitations for John and the dogs to come to dis tant States and participate in bear hunting. At the present time Fernside and his hounds are in Canada, taking part in a big bear hunt. They have been there for about eight days and it is understood that the plans call for a two weeks stay, hunting witK and training dogs belonging to Can adian hunters. Waccamaw Has Vocational Fair Vocational Fair And Open House Observed Friday Evening With Many Par ents And Patrons Attend ing On Friday the Waccamaw high school presented, a Vocation al Fair and held open house. The fair presented exhibits of pro jects carried on by the pupils in each department. There will ex hibits of projects presented by the adult ladies classes sponsor ed through the Home Economics Department and also the Veter ans Shop Classes display itms that have made by the ex-GIs during the year. A feature of the program was a Fashion Show by the Future Homemakers of America and the adult Ladies Classes. Immediately following the pro Continued On Page Four Our ROVING Reporter W. B. KEZIAH Uncle Abe Hankins dropped quitely out of the picture of Southport life a few days ago. He went so quickly that we heard nothing of his passing until three or four days afterward. Uncle Abe was 90-years old, respected and a familar figure as he went around Southport with his gar bage can to gather feed for his pigs. Until recent years he looked after a number of gardens and lawns of his Southport white folks. Age slowed him up and stopped him from that, but he continued to gather garbage through the day that he died. His last day and last trip, he had been at the Grimes House, filled his bucket and plodded home, three quarters of a mile away. The reports are that he arrived home, put down his bucket, sat down In a chair on his porch and faded swiftly, and quietly away. We shall miss the old negro. About 10 months ago John Marshall dropped in on us for a short visit and to renew an old time friendship dating irom when he was on the Wilmington Morn ing Star. Al G. Dickson and Miss Betty Divine are the- only ones who are still in the front office since his time. When the war came John went into the service and spent two or three years overseas. He came back as many more men came with more or less loose ends and uncertain what he would do. He had one of those tired feelings, the same as many others. We had a letter from John this week. He is now Executive Secretary for "Better Schools and Roads. Inc," the or ganization that is backing Gov ernor W. Kerr Scott in the drive for better schools and for more roads for the people of North: (Continued On Page Four) Demonstration Tuesday In Protest Of Firing Of Prin cipal Henry C. Stone'Fol lowed By Petitioirs MEETING SCHEDULED FOR THIS MORNING Local School Committee Met Monday Night And Re fussed To Reelect Prin cipal, Setting Off Row Students and citizens of Shal lotte were awaiting the next devlopment today in a heated controversy over the re-election of Henry C. Stone as principal of Shallotte high school. First suggestion of trouble among the students developed Tuesday morning after they had learned that Principal Stone had been fired at a Monday night meeting of the Shallotte District School committee. The drivers and their substitutes met and voted to strike. There followed a coun cil with responsible citizens of the Shallotte community, who advis ed the students to continue their] normal activities and promised] that a meeting of the local school board would be convened this morning at 11 o'clock at which time they would be given an op portunity to present their case for Mr. Stone to the school gov erning body. A short time following this meeting there was a mass de monstration on the part of the students of the upper grades who marched from their class rooms and away from the campus through the streets of the Town of Shallotte. It was estimated that several hundred students partici pated, but there was no evidence of disorder. Many of the boys and girls bore banners calling for the re-election of the only principal who had served the school since they entered the first grade. The school buses departed fori their respective destinations on j schedule yesterday afternoon, but for the most part were loaded with children who were headed home to carry their troubles to their parents. During the day student leaders had prepared and distributed petitions requesting that Mr. Stone be retained as principal, and this morning these scrolls came in covered with the names of several hundred signers. Continued On Page Four Waccamaw Finals Will Begin 27th Class Night Exercises Will Get Commencement Ex ercises Underway; Bac calaureate Sermon May 29 Commencement at the Wacca may high school will begin on May 27th with class night ex ercises at 8 o'clock. Hie Bacculureate sermon will be preached by Rev. J. W. Line burger of Fuquay Springs Sun day afternoon, May 29, at 4 o' clock. Graduation exercises will take place Tuesday night, May 31. Eighteen students, 7 boys and 11 girls, from the high school grad uation class. The address will be made by Judge John J. Burney of Wilmington. Principal W. C. Stephenson stated this week that he feels the the Waccamaw school has had a very successful year. Ex cept for being effected by the general delay in opening in the fall things have moved smoothly throughout the year. Judge Stevens Will Preside Here Next Week! Warsaw Jurist Will Hold Court In Southport Be ginning Monday; One Week Mixed Term Is Slated Judge Henry L. Stevens of War saw will preside over a one-week mixed term of Brunswick county Superior court which convenes here Monday. Clerk of Court Sam T. Bennett says that there appears to be little chance that much time will be available for trial of civil actions as a pretty full criminal docket has been set up. A variety of cases appear on this docket, including one case of | murder. Many of these cases have resulted from requests made at Brunswick county Recorder's court for jury trial, particularly where the charge has grown out of traffic violations. County Farmers Donating Plants Hundreds Of Acres Of To bacco Up State Have Been Set Out During P^st Few Days With Brunswick Plants For the past week Brunswick county tobacco growers have been sitting on top of the world, so far as showing a good/neighbor policy is converned. There own fields already planted, they have been turning millions of surplus plants to growers of other sec tions who lost their plantbeds from blue mold or other plant disease. So far as can be learned, the plants have been given freely and gladly. In no Instance has it been heard of a Brunswick grower charging his needy neighbor for his plants. On all sides it has been a come and get them policy. Following the principles of the Golden Rule. With the soil and climate that it has, Brunswick farmers are able to grow anykind of plants, (Continued on Pag? XI Redwine Named Post Commander! Brunswick County Tax Col lector And Oversea* Vet eran Elected Commander Shallotte Post American Legion Edward H. Redwine, Brunswick county tax collector, has been elected commander of the Shal lotte Post No. 247, American Legion, succeeding Mitchell Mc Coy. Other officers elected were Dr. R. H. Holden, 1st vice-comman der; Harlee Hewett, 2nd vice-com mander; Cecil C. Edwards, who has the multple duties of adjut ant, finance officer and post ser vice officer; Harry L. Mintz, Jr., chaplain; D. B. Frink, sergeant at arms. These men will be inducted in to office at the regular meeting night on May 20 at the Legion Hut, and all ex-service men, re gardless of whether they are now members of the American Legion, are urged to attend. The Shallotte Post meets twice monthly, on the first and third Friday night. The American Le gion Auxiliary meets at the same time. The Legion also sponsors a square dance each Saturday | evening at 8 o'clock at the Le-I gion Hut. Farmers Planning Fall Tomato Cr< For imato trop Brunswick K. W. Ballentine Who Will Provide Fall Market For Thi? Purpose Attended Meeting At Supply Friday FARMERS ASSURED MARKET FOR CROP Seed Being Distributed For Getting Plants Ready For ? Use In Plenty Of Time For Off Season About 35 farmers interested In growing fall crop tomatoes gathered at the office of County Agent A. S. Knowlea Friday night and engaged in a discuas- [ Ion of methods of planting sod cultivating. The matter of mark-; etlng has already been taken care i of by K. W. Ballentine of tfea State Department of Agricultural who is contracting for all of the. fall-grown tomatoes that can b*' produced. Present at the meeting in ad- j ditlon to the county agent and! Mr. Ballentine were Frank Har- ? rer, Henry Covingtoh,horticultural | extension specialist; Dr. J. H. Jenkins of the vegatable research' laboratory In New Hanover | county. These gave informatioa. on the time of planting, cultl- ? vating, etc. All of these gentle-] men are aaid to be very much < interested and if this year's ef- 't fort proves a success they be-! lieve that fall-grown tomatoes ? will become a very valuable crop \ for the farmers of this area. Approximately 100-acres of the, fall tomatoes have been con tracted for. The heaviest acre age is said to be in the Supply! Bolivia and Shallotte communit ies. The tomatoes will be deliver-" ed at Supply and paid for there ? and it is planned to ultimately* expand the marketing to IncludeI a number of farm and truck ? crops. I The seed for the tomatoes are now being delivered to the fart mers who contracted to groy an acreage. The instructions call . for the seed to be planted around the 15th of June. The seed should V be planted in row*, two or three lnchsa. aj?rt and'i should i bC 'shad ed to'prevent the he*'?an ? front killing the plants. Mr. Ballrttine says that the plartts Should'to large enough to set out about" the first -week of August.' At that time this section usually has cloudy and sometfwies wet weat her. The plant? should be able to get a good start, t u ? ? 'r In an interview-this'week-*r. Ballentine said that the farmer? who produce plants enough would not be limited to 'tli? acre?? they contracted for. He has a Wg. market lined up and vMll take all that any contractor produces. ' , Menhaden Boat Being Repaired Broken Propeller Shaft Rej ported To Be Sourse Of Trouble Which Crippled Vessel Last Wednesday _____ i t A broken propeller shaft1 is credited with causing the troubl^ aboard the menhaden boat plaxi co last Wednesday. The brealMhg of the shaft caused the vessel to take on water rapidly. ToWecJ in to her dock at the factory^ the water was soon pumped out. It is understood that the broksn propeller shaft has been replawd (Continued on page Zi Tide Table Following li the Ude table for South port during the neJft week. These hours are approxi mately correct and were furn ished The State Port Pilot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot's Assodatto*. High Tide Low Tide Thursday, May 5, Thursday, May 19, 1:12 A. M. 7:30 A. M. 1:45 P. M. 7:49 P. M. Friday, May 20, 2:04 A. M. 8:2S A. M. 2:40 P. M. 8:43 P. M. Saturday, May 21, 2:55 A. M. 9:15 A. fc' 3:33 P. M. 9:40 P. M. Sunday, May 22, ? 3:45 A. M. 10:03 A. H 4:22 P. M. 10:35 P. Ml Monday, May 23, led 4:33 A. M. 19:48 A. M. 5:06 P. M. 11:23 P. M. Tuesday, May 24, 5:20 A. M. 11:31 A. ML 5:50 P. M. 0:00 P. M. Wednesday, May 20, 9:04 A. M. 9:11 A. K 6:31 P. M. 12:13 P. 14