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The State Port Pilot Southport, N. G. Published Every Wednesday m i JAMES M. HARPER. JR Editor Entered as second-class matter April 20, 1928, at the Post Office at Southport, N. C., under the t Act of March 3, 1878. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ' ONE YEAR ~ $1.50 SIX MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTHS 75 Wednesday, July 6th, 1919 Telephone Service There are definite signs that some thing soon wil be done to relieve the handicaps resulting from poor communi cations in Brunswick county. The en couraging thing is that efforts in this di rection are being made on three impor tant levels, Federal, State and local; Currently there is a bill before Cong ress which will if approved set up a plan for extending telephone service in much the same manner that electric current was made available through REA. As a matter of fact, REA has been mentioned as a probable agency through which to operate the proposed new program. In Raleigh it is well known that Gov ernor W. Kerr Scott is extremely interes ted in making telephone service avail able to rural residents. There has been much speculation that this program is the matter referred to by him as his coming "big surprise." In Brunswick county the law firm of Frink and Herring has been employed to take steps to organize a corporation whose business wil be to provide tele phone service to Bolivia, Supply, Shal lotte and possibly to other points in Brunswick county. ? We know of nothing right now that will do more to knit Brunswick into a closer-working, more harmonious com munity than the establishment of depen dable communications. We hope to see a practical telephonic network established through this area, and the sooner it is done the better it will be for all parties who will be affected. The Boats Blow If you are a stranger in town and are engaged in a perfectly normal conversa tion with some local citizen when sud denly he appears to go into a trance and stop listening to what you are saying, all at the mere sound of a boat whistle; think nothing of it. Listening to boat whistles is pleasant pastime for Southport citizens these days. The chances are that the blasts you hear is from one of the menhaden fish boats which work for the local fac tory and which carries a crew of South port men. The number of blasts tell the story of the day's catch, and everyone around here feels that he has a stake in the fishing results. If you are curious and want to do some figuring yourself, then here are your di rections: The first three long blasts of the whistle are for the purpose of warn ing the hands at the Brunswick Naviga tion Company that one of the boats has started down the waterway with a load of fish. So check off the first three toots and stand by with your score-pad. Each long blast thereafter indicates a catch of one hundred thousand fish. It is a little difficult to sound out fractions on a whis tle, but a short blast at the end of the series usually denotes twenty-five or fifty thousand fish in the catch. But when your conversationalist sud denly makes another show of life and in terest and announces with a note of pride that "the Gifford?or the Morehead or the Anderson, of the Brunswick or the Plaxco or the Nickerson?has three hun dred and fifty thousand,' never doubt it. The whistle told the story. Prescription Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court and able statesman, once furnished his pre scription for a balanced life. He listed the ingredients as follows: Faith without Credulity. Conviction without Bigotry. Charity without Condescension. Courage without Pugnacity. Self-respect without Vanity. Humility without obsequiousness. Love of Humanity without Sentimen tal ism. Meekness with Power. Hughes, it appears to us, prescribed well for a busy world. They'd Like Understanding The North Carolina teacher is a long way from being the highest paid but she is in the most favorable position she has ever been in the history of the State. However, a discussion of pay is not in tended here. The teacher needs more than pay. Above all she needs to belong and she needs for the parents and the community to understand her problems. Children are in the classrooms for six to seven hours a day during a five-day week and a nine-month year. Parents will agree that the span of school years contains some of the most difficult years in the life of the child, perhaps the most difficult of these being the "smart-aleck, sassy" years when the child thinks he knows everything and wants to be "cute." j It is doubtful if there is a parent who,I at one time or another, hasn't said, "I'll be glad when school starts again, for Johnny (or Mary) is about to run me crazy." In all too many cases this is forgotten when something ruffles the temper of the parent. It is difficult to understand ?and yet it's true?how any parent could expect a teacher, with 35 to 40 pupils, to do 10 times as much with a problem child as the parent is able to do. And yet, that expectation is all too fre quent. Even more than an extra dollar in the pay voucher, the average teacher would like to feel that she can call the parents j of her pupils and be sure that they will understand the situation which has aris en. She would like to know that she will be accorded the same right to enforce discipline and compel wise employment of the pupil's time as the parent would accord himself or herself. The next time the parent's temper is ruffled by something which happens in school, maybe it would be wise to sit down and ask the question: "What would I do if there were 30 or 40 John nys and Marys on my hands for six or seven hours every day ?" If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourvself."?A. Nielen. RALEIGH ROUNDUP "I KNEW IT" . . . Tony Tolar, head of the State Highway Patrol, said last week that a check recently made by his boys showed that trucks and buses are the speedsters in North Carolina. Can't you just hear (if you haven't already) some nervous motorist saying "I knew it all the time." A total of 2,232 vehicles were checked by stop watches at seven points in the State, said Tolar, and is was found that the busses were fastest, trucks averaged a speed of 46.3 miles per hour. This is only 1.3 above the 45-mile per-hour limit and is still well within the five mile tolerance which virtually all patrolmen will admit (off the record) they permit. Motor Vehicles Head Landon C. Rosser said late last summer ... in a public statement . . . That truck drivers are the safest on the road. They are also the most courteous, by far. The average motorist may be an-angel around the house and a deacon or choir-leader in the church, but let him or her get riled while dri ving and he (or she) becomes a regular little hellion with no manners whatever and very little sense. Make this test: the next time you go on a daytime trip keep your headlights on. Chances are that one car in 10 will give you the signal that they are burning. The other nine are too selfishly occupied to tell you. On the other hand, here's a bet that every truck you meet will give you the flash that your lights are on. Give it a try. Also, the next time you are driving at night and are in doubt if it's okay to pass that truck ahead of you, kick your light button if it's all right to go around, you will get a signal from the driver. Truck drivers are the most courteous on the road. LOOK OUT! . . . Incidentally, Cousin, here's a tip. This fellow Tolar, you know, went into his present position under a little criticism, and that, of course, makes him extremely eager to do a bang-up good job. So be careful about your speed ... be keer-full! OFF THE CUFF ... Mrs. Carl Goerch and Mrs. J. C. B. Ehringhaus are still working on their North Carolina Business Directory . . ? have $8,500 in advertising sold and will pub lish when the figure reaches $12,000 . . . The book will sell for about $1. . . . President Harry S. Truman wants to set up another place in his Cabinet . to be called the Department of Welfare ... or Welfare and Education'. . . If he is successful, Jonathan Daniels or Sena tor Frank P. Graham. might be offered the post . . . Daniels should stand the better chance, for the President needs all the strength he can muster in a stubborn Senate . . . CALL ATTENTION TO (Continued PTom Pa^e One) tion $3.00, total $15.00. All those resiring to go should make a $5.00 deposit with their applica tion by July 9th. This can be , sent to either Mr. Knowles or I I Miss Greene at Supply, or may j be handed to them in person. The, $5.00 deposit will be deducted from the $15.00 camp costs. Should anything prevent the ap plicant from attending the $5.001 deposit will be refunded. It is im portant that the $9.00 for food may be paid either in cash or in provisions totaling that amount. CASWELL PIER (Continued from page one) The place has been more or less closed to public fishing for years. Sergeant Mann, the caretaker for the War Assets Administration, has relented considerably towards the folks whom he knows will respect property rights. Therefore fishing is now allowed on a limit ed scale. WOODMEN REACTIVE (Continued from page one) Pigott, advisor lieutenant; H. R. Tatum, banker; W. M. Hewett, financial secretary; L. B. Bennett, escort; J. M. Hawes, watchman; J. P. Russ, sentry; R. S. White, chairman of auditors; Bailey Russ and R. B. Hawes, auditors; Dr. Wingate Swain, physician. The Shallotte Camp is now re ported to have a strength of around 100 members, which re presents an increase of approxi mately one-hundred percent since the first step in the reactivation program started in January of this year. This session was attended by George Walter, district man ager, and was held at the home of Harry Tatum. Mr. Walter at tended the Thursday meeting and is much encouraged over the en thusiastic show of interest. Regu lar meetings will be held on first and third Monday nights. C. D. POTTER GOES (Continued from page one) Shallotte home last week, and after reporting at his new sta tion, they will have a three-weeks vacation which they plan to spend at their home in Coyle, Oklahoma. The Potters were very popular both in Southport where they re sided for several months and at Shallotte where they have lived for the past year. He had a wide acquaintance throughout the coun ty as a result of his contact with farmers in connection with his soil conservation work, and he was recognized as being a faithful and conscientious man in the government program. FIVE AND ONE HALF Continued From Page One son. Regulations which will govern the 1949 sales season, as adopted by the board Thursday, show only one change over last year's?the selling time per day was increas ed from five hours to five and a half hours. The other regula tions call for a five-day sales week, a 400-pile per hour rate of sale, and a maximum weight of 300 pounds per pile. Holidays will be observed on Labor Day, September 5; Armis tice Day, November 11; and Thanksgiving Day and the day after, November 24-25. "I think the market dates are eminently fair and equitable to all belts and markets," declared President Fred Royster of the Bright Belt Warehouse Associa tion, following announcement of the board's decision. "I believe they represent the best possible solution under the existing cir cumstances." Graders Assured Assurances have been given that a sufficient number of gov ernment graders will be on the markets on the specified open ing dates, board officials said. Thursday marked the first time that the association's 28-man board of governers has set the market opening dates for the flue-cured territory. Explaining at the public hearing, Royster said that for a number of years, down to and including the 1945 season, the matter of setting dates was handled by the Tobacco Association of the United States. Then, he said, certain major buying companies, fearful of anti trust action, withdrew from TAUS. In 1946, at the suggestion and instigation of the Bright Belt Warehouse Association, a marketing committee was set up consisting of representatives of growers, warehousemen, and buy ing companies. Some months ago, Royster related, the buying com panies withdrew from the com mittee. In turn, after much discussion and legal consultation, Royster told the group, the association voted unanimously to place the task of fixing the opening dates in the hands of its board of governors. Legally, it would seem proper for one segment of the tobacco industry to set the dates, but illegal for a cross-section of the industry to do so. The Rovin' Reporter (Continued from page one) bacco growers just can't afford It may sound like a small thing, but a lot of people in this area appreciate the improve ment in the inland waterway bridge resulting from the replacement of a missing plank on I the northern end. Automobile owners believe that it saves a lot of wear and tear on fragile front-ends ... A few years ago C. R. Livingston demonstrated that beautiful dahlias will grown around here. Now Mrs. H. T. Bowmer has poined in this demonstration with beautiful re sults. Jimmie Prevatte has just returned from the (sort of trip that all of us dream about- He (spent 12 days on an all-expense stay in New I York City. Of course, his mission was business but you can't work at night in New York . . . The Southport Sandfiddlers, who lost their first game of the season to Shallotte 7 to 3, will en tertain the same team here tomorrow and will be out to reverse the story. There is talk that private capital may be used to surface a road from the Davis creek landing at Long Beach to Lockwoods Folly in let. What a boost that would be for surf fish ermen . . . And speaking of fishing, just as the Not Exactly News' Southeastern North Carolina Beach Fishing Rodeo opens, Mrs. F. VtolhJ of the most consistent winners in has taken off for the mountains. County Game Protector H. T. Bom-n latest to enter the bee business in j We hear that he purchased some of k ment from our friend W. J. Martin, west, who has retired from bee-k?^ The fellows on the Coast Guard (, say that there is nothing like a trip folk to make you appreciate livjn?j port . . . Walter Lewis savs that &, animal which men at Oak Island b be a seal still is living in the creek m A bad case of sunburn is a harj of a beach vacation . . . The street?? port were as deserted on the fourth as they are on Sunday afternoons s, stores were closed . . . Several 1?^ who can stand the few flies and ^ with which they must contend are * ested in the health department s sprsj gram in the hope that it will get ni j to leave their crop and join in the mad scramble of getting from pface to place on the 4th of July. They are probably better off for that. Some of our holidays are coming to be little more than periods of hundreds of deaths on the highways and weeks, months and years of suffering on the part of thousands of others. The tobacco growers of Brunswick observed a "safe and sane 4th." One of the men employed as a fisherman on one of the More head City boats that has been | fishing here the past five or six weeks said Monday that they were making pretty good wages despite the loss of time on the long trips going and coming. The boatmen are paid for what they produce. It takes the Morehead City boats some twelve hours to make the run down here and the same time going back. If they leave here with their loads in the late afternoon there is no possibility 'of their getting to their factory, unloading and re turning in time to make a catch the ? next day. The best they can hope to do is to fish here three days out of each week. But, still they are making good money with this handicap of having to waste so much time on the long trips back and forth. The Southport boats have a distant advantage. They load up with fish every day and, in fact, usually have more than half a day to spare. Monday saw about all of the boats of the local fleet back with their loads ebfore noon. They are not allowed to take aboard more than the daily capacity of the factory. If they were not limited by the cap acity of the local factory, pro duction this year would have been double what it is according to some of the boatmen. The story is simply that the local boatmen are restricted in their catches on account of the inability of the fac tory to handle all they can pro duce. Despite these restrictions the local factory is said to have handled several times as much fish as any other on the coast since the season opened. Boats here under restrictions and still outdoing all other factories on the coast, and boats there working under the handicap of long hauls and making good money at such work, afford good basis for the continued rumors that another fish factory will be built at Southport during the coming win ter. Two or Ihree weeks ago mention was made in the Not Exactly News column that Will Sellers Davis and his grand children were saving cellophane tabs from cigarette packs to aid in getting a seeing-eye dog for a blind person. This wek B. E. Hewett of Toledo, Ohio, wrote The Pilot that he read the item. He inclosed with the letter a small package of cellophane tabs to be given to the collecting children. The Whittlers Park bench in Southport still serve a lot of pur poses. One night the past week Don Reynolds, a presman for the Carolina Stamp and Printing Co. in Wilmington, came down the 11:30 bus with plans to go out on one of the shrimp boats next morning. He said that everything was closed when he got here, j Next morning he was found peacefully sleeping on the park bench. He is not the first person who has done that. With eight historical markers along the River Road, folks in this area who know something of local history think there should be nine. Apparently fag the State Historical &, ;the old Price Creek q ! played a very impw, , during the Civil \vJr | this lighthouse to gu:lt, I the blockade running 5 ]the river, Fort Fisher vj been unimportant as 14 this part of the state. At the present tinu 1 the past several weekii has probably had the h employment rate of s:v its size in the state. 1: j be doubtful If there j 1 Southport able and r; work and who is ue Not only is there little j employment, the salt i earnings for labor u j running much higher a received at many other p More than 325,000 w j cancer develop each va ling to the America? Cu ciety. AMUZU THEATRE SOUTHPORT, N. C. Admission?14c and 30c Two Shows Nightly? Starting at 7:30 o'clock Except?SATURDAY? Three Shows Starting at 7:00 Thurs., - Fri., July 7-8? "LOVES OF CARMEN" "Princess" Rita Hayworth Glen Ford ALSO?Cartoon Saturday, July 9? "TRAIL OF THE VIGILANTES" Franchot Tone ALSO?Cartoon Mon., - Tues., July 11-12 "WORDS AND MUSIC" June Allyson, Perry Como and Judy Garland ALSO?Cartoon Wednesday, July 13? "GASHOUSE KIDS GO WEST" Dead End Kids ALSO?Chapter 10? "SUPERMAN" ? COMING ? 'YOU WERE MEANT FOR ME" mmmmmmmmmmmmmms It's easy to own a) Thr.. ?J9 ? ' Easy tarmi?libaral trada-m. Lit 00 ?how them to you today. KINGS ELECTRICAL SALES CO. Shallotte, N. C. SUMMERETTES Gay Play Shoes For Everyone Variety Of Colors MEN'S SANDALS MINTZ & CO. Harry L. Mintz, Jr., Mgr. Supply, N. G. THE NEW 1949 With 9xelusiv0 DEFROSTS YOUR REFRIGERATOR EVERY NIGHT Low Monthly Payemnts Cash or Credit M?d?l $DF-?4? ROBINSON'S SOUTHPORT, N. C. LONG BEACH BUS SERVICE Safe, Dependable Transportation When Yoo Need It. i c > DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY and SUNDAY Leave Southport 8:45 a. m. Leave Long Beach 9:15?.? Leave Southport 3:00 p.m. Leave Long Beach 3:30p ? e Southport 8:00 p. m. Leave Long Beach ... ll:00p ? , _ , ?SATURDAY SCHEDULE ? 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