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lruns?ick County
THE STATE PORT PILOT
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NO. 14 B-PAGES TODAY Southport, N. C., Wednesday, July 13, 1949 published every Wednesday ti^o per yea*
erendum On J
liacco Quota
Set For July
? swrss o,
Cure?1 Tobacco
fbgible To Vote On
ly 23
lK?TADJUST?SUPPLYi
Program Must Have
_,ble Vote Of Two
irds Of Farmers Who
g Ballot In Elec
tion
0f flue-cured tobacco i
, ?ho are eligible to vote !
^ferendum on July 23, to.
.e whether they want mar- J
ouotas continued on the,
pare being compiled by
ura! Conservation Com-'
and are open for inspec
the county office.
rtferendum has been call
cocformance with Agricul
AdjusUnent Act of 1938, j
m'vides for quotas on flue
tobacco. However, quotas'
K be in effect for 1950
approved by at least two
of the growers voting in
jeedum. Elroy King, chair
of the Brunswick County
,-jjrai Conservation Com
aid this week that "Any
Mo has an interest in the
crop of flue-cured tobacco
ier, tenant, or share crop
eligible to vote in the re
nt being held July 23. "No
he added, "is entitled to
sore than one vote even
he may be engaged in
5 flue-cured tobacco in
more communities, coun
ot States.
rketing quotas furnish
s ?r.th a method of ad
i saoly to demand and help
ate fair prices for the
n tky produce.
i a 'x past," Mr. King
nI out "growers will vote
wp^psit^as^ (1) do, you
lirketuig quotas for three
-1150. 1951, and 1952; (2)
i favor the quota for one
990, but oppose quotas for j
?ws or (3) are you oppoe-1
any quotas?
potts are approved, acre- j
Bents, conforming to past1
patterns. will be set.
ill be small acreages avail
ftr adjusting old allotments
establishing allotments for
i on which no tobacco has
S"wn during the past five
Individual farm acreage
?t for 1950 will be about
m as the 1949 allotment |
?' farm which has produced j
?5 percent of its alloted i
! a any one of the past
jears.
legislation authorizing
to the 1950 and subsequent
also provides for price sup
at 90 percent of the
?nce if marketing quotas
'tinned."
mlNtw,
Flathit
HOURS
a change in railroad
s in Wilmington it will be
V! to have letters in the
? post office before 8
1 in the morning or 3
1 in the afternoon if they
1 leave on those respective
NEW STATION |
IH. LONG, manager of the :
l^'ynn store at Longwood, |
?pleted, equipped and open- j
* service station in that)
community. Mr. Long
1 food machanic in charge |
continue his own work
Gwynn store.
WKrtRT
I? Prink received a letter
from his daughter, Miss
F Frink. who is doing re
r? *'ork in Germany. She
I*? assigned the station
pM and likes her set-up.
Pv" a detailed and most ta
account of her trip to
station.
*AIX TRIP
? H Baker is at Fruit
??aptist Assembly this week
T, "P 15 on the program for
? Conference being held
at the x. C. Baptist
T'n ^esmbly grounds. Three
I v^5 are making the trip
they plan to visit
_ Points of interest in the
H chiefly the Smoky
National Park. Those
?'"ltnp ar* Lee Aldridge,
"*"?1 and Lee Caahwell.
Sharks Showing Up
To Harass Fishermen
Species Considered Harmless To Man .But They Contrive
To Give Shrimpers Hard Time
The sharks, always destructive!
to the nets of the fishermen at
this time of the year, are especi
ally terrible now, according to
the boat operators. Hundreds of
dollars worth of damage is be
ing done daily and much time is
being lost.
The sharks are believed to be
unusually numerous owing to the
fact that the local waters are
full of menhaden. Schools of men
haden afford choice picking to
the hungry sharks- A net full of
fish and shrimp is even more
choice. When the nets are being
dragged along deep down in the
water, the bag filling with shirmp
and fish, the sharks come along,
slash open the bag and pro
ceeds to devour the contents by
the bucket full.
Most of the shirmp trawlers
carry out a net or two for re
placements. Even with this fore
sight a boat seldom comes In at
the end of a days work with its
net still in a servicable
tion., ?>i
Leon McKeithan, sKippei
of the Dallas Pigott boats, said
this week that on his first drag
of the day he always got several
baskets of shrimp. Along mid
afternoon he usually has to quit
because his nets are so torn as to
be unservicable.
A considerable number of i
sharks get in the nets, along
with the shrimp and fish. In
there they lose all power to be
destructive owing to being packed
in. When they are hauled aboard
the boats a quick end is made
of them with an axe or anything
handy and they are then thrown
back into the sea, where they
are quickly devoured by other
sharks.
The sharks, of course, are not
man-eaters. They are harmless
mullet sharks and there is no
record of anyone being injured by ;
them in local waters.
Bellamy Farm Shows
Results Of Planting
Efforts In Connection With j
Lower Cape Fear Soil Con-1
servation District Paying
Dividends To Young Far
mer
VALUE OF PASTURE
LAND IS DISCOVERED
Conservation Practices Have
Placed This Farm In Top
Condition And Has
Helped Results
By C. D. Potter
Soil Conservation Service
James Bellamy is giving his
65-acre farm near Shallotte a
"face-lifting" with soil conserva
tion practices?not in a single
day but In a few years.
? BeHainy Is giving this "face
lifting" soon after he and Mrs.
Bellamy moved on the farm in
1946. The young Navy veteran
found that some of his land was I
to wet and some if it was too'
eroded or sandy to grow good
crops. ?
That's when he asked the Lower j
Cape Fear Soil Conservation Dis
trict to help him figure what to
do to the land. And in less than
three years since Soil Conserva
tion Service technicians helpad
him make a complete soil con
servation plan for his farm, he's
hit many a lick that's counted.
Land too wet for crops was
drained with tile and open drains.
A canal cut by a dragline now
serves as an outlet for field drains
and intercepts surface water that
used to flood the field. Kudzu (
planted on canal banks keeps
them from caving in and holds
down unwanted growth.
Tile drainage made more land
suitable for growing tobacco.
That allowed him to follow a soil
building rotation on tobacco land.
And Bellamy changed 8 acres of
lowland to pasture because of his
(Continued on page 21
Another Big
Day In Court
Traffic Violator* Pour Near
ly $500.00 Into School
Fund In Fines And Bond
Forfeitures Here Monday
Forty six of the 52 cases heard
Monday by Judge W. J. McLamb
in Recorder's court were traffic
violations.
The sum of $475.00 was collect-.
[ ed in fioes and costs and this
| will be about doubled in forfeited
bonds. Owing to the crowded doc
ket a large number of cases in
which the defendants left bonds,
were not called out and the bonds!
forfeited. This will be done next
Monday. Such cases are designat
ed as "continued".
The minute book shows the
following entries:
German Evans, reckless opera
tion, capias.
Mrs. Gladys Respovick, no oper
ators license, fined $25.00 and
costs.
W. Clyde Martin, speeding, fin
ed $5.00 and costs.
Leslie Hand, speeding, not
guilty.
Willie Walter Snow, speeding,
capias.
Zack Burris Martin, speeding,
continued.
W. B. Lennon, speeding, fined
$5.00 and costs.
Earl Wahles, speeding, continu
ed.
Horace Riddle, speeding, con
Continue on pag* 8..
New Street Signs
Go Up Over City
It still may be a distant day
before Southport residents rely
upon street markers and house
numbers to give directions con
cerning where they live, but
when that time comes the town
is ready. At least the streets
are properly marked.
Recently city employees have
completed their job of erecting
neat white posts bearing the
names of the streets at each
?intersection. No longer will the
average citizen be limited in
his knowledge of streets to the
time-honored mental crutch of
"Lort, Howe, Dry"?which hap
pen to be three contiguous
thoroughfares of this commun
ity.
Several Barns
Lost By Fire
Reports Of Three Losses Of
This Nature Came In Mon
day, With Judge W. J.
McLamb One Of The Vic
tims
Reports of destruction of to
bacco barns and contents by fire
were slow in starting up this
year until Monday of this week.
Then reports started to come
up fast. Judge Willie Joe McLamb,
arriving from his farm at Hick
man's Cross roads, reported the
complete destruction of one of his j
barns early that morning. The1
building and curer, he said, was
worth a thousand dollars and the
tobacco destroyed would run his
loss up to about seven .hundred
dollars more. He had no insurance
on either barn or contents.
Following the loss ?Monday suf
fered by Judge McLamb, his bro
their Robert McLamb, lost a
barn full of nice tobacco by fire
Monday night.
Former chairman of the board
of county commissioners, O. P.
Bellamy, lost a fine b&rn filled
with tobacco this week. His loss
is supposed to be about the same
as that sustained by Judge Mc
Lamb. The two farmers are near
neighbors.
E. V. Gore of the Shallotte
Continued On Page Four
New Officers Of
Club Installed
J. T. Denning Succeeds Dav
is C. Herring As Lions
Club For Next Year
| J. T. Denning is the new presi
dent of the Southport Lions Club,
but was prevented by illness from
attending the Thursday meeting
set aside for installation of new
officers. In his absence Robert
M. Willis, new first vice-presi
dent, presided over the meeting
after retiring president Davis C.
j Herring had relinquished the
chair.
| Other officers include Roy Rob
inson, second vice-president; G.
,C. Kilpatric, third vice-president;
Prince O'Brien, treasurer; George
I Whatley, secretary E. H. Arring
ton, Lion Tamer L. D. Hayman,
; Tail-Twister J. A. Gilbert and
Dan Harrelson, members of the
bo*rd of directors.
Commissioners In
Session Tuesday
To Set Budget
July 5th Meeting Held To
Take Place Of Postponed
First Monday Meeting Of
Board
PROPOSED BUDGET
BEING PUBLISHED!
Citizens And Taxpayers Giv
en An Opportunity To In
spect Expenditures In
Various Departments
With the first Monday meeting
postponed because of the Fourth
of July, members of the board
of county commissioners met here
last Tuesday to transact regular
business.
Among the most important de
cisions was that of approving the
tentative budget as submitted by
W. P. Jorgensen, county auditor.
A copy of this budget is being
printed elsewhere in today's paper
so that all citizens and tax pay
ers may have an opportunity to
see a breakdown of the tax dollar.
The budget is based upon a
rate of $1.65, which represents
an advance of 10-cents over *he
last year's rate. It has been ex
plained that three principal fac
tors figure in this increase. One
is the loss of revenue beer and
wine taxes; another in an antici
pated drop in delinquent tax col
lections and a third is an effort
that is being made to pay off
some of the outstanding indebted
ness among the current expenses
which have been' being carried
forward from year to year.
Crawford Rourk was named as
Veteran Service officer for the
ensueing 12 months period.
A fee of $25.00 was set for
peddlers license for anyone going
about the county retailing mer
chandise from a truck or other
vehicle.
New toilet facilities were auth
orized for the farm building at
Supply. i
Within the scope of tax matters
Cornelius Thomas was granted
permission to list the Thomas]
Bryant land at 43 acres instead:
of 125 acres in accordance With
a recent survey the W. E. Shiver
land was ordered sold to Belton
Ward for $120.35 the A. E. Hol
lis land was ordered sold to F.
M. Hollis for $80.99, $20.00 down
and $10.00 per month.
The amount of $20.00 per month
was added to the blind grant.
Vacation Bible
School Begins
Former Southport Girl Is
Helping With This School
Which Is Headed By The
Rev. W. R. Moorehead
The Baptist church began its
Vacation Bible Scfiool Monday. |
The Rev. W. R. Morehead and
Miss Beverley Nielson are helping
the local church in this work.!
Continued On Page Four
Storm Sewer Gets Flushing
Above shows part of the recent operation of pouring 96 half-gallon jars of white
corn liquor down a Southport storm sewer. The whiskey was captured in a pick up truck
by State Highway Patrolman J. C. Taylor on Route 76, near the Brunswick River
Bridge. Shown above emptying the jars are, Deputy Sheriff, G. D. Robinson, left; Con
stable J. E. Lewis of Northwest township, right. Sheriff Walter M. Stanaland is the in
terested onlooker in the center background.?(Cut Courtesy Wilmington Star.)
Office Day For
Health Department
Miss Barbara Adams, nurse for
the Brunswick County Health
Department, has changed her off
ice hours to Mondays and Satur
day mornings in order to accom
modate court crowds who may
also have health problems to at
tend to. These will be the princi
pal times for immunization shots
in the office, she says.
The weekly . venereal disease1
clinic will be held on Friday j
afternoon as this is the time i
when Dr. Floyd Johnson, the
health officer, is here. Blood sam-1
ples for marriage license candi-'
dates and for persons desiring
a cirtificate for food handling
also will be taken of Friday. |
Mrs. Body Robinson of' Shal- j
lotte hae been added to the staff
of the Health Department and
will be connected with the prb
gram in Brunswick county.
W. B. KEZIAH
Our
ROVING
Reporter
Unexpected we found ourselves
Involved in some trading compli-|
cations this week. R. D. Cald
well, prominent citizen of Lum-:
berton, lives next door to Con-1
gressman F. Ertyle Carlye, an-1
other prominent Lumberton man. I
Congressman Carlyle also owns j
a summer home at Long Beach1
and spends his off time there. \
Well, Mr. Caldwell hunted us up
verf early ? one morning this
week. He advised that he and his j
family were occupying Congress-'
man Carlyle's cottage at the]
beach for the week. This partly i
in consideration for his making
an appointment for us to take'
Congressman Carlyle fresh-water i
fishing when he gets down in a- j
bQUt two weeks. The proposition
to take the Congressman fresh
water fishing was agreed to in |
consideration of the Congressman j
doing all he can to help the North
Carolina Baptists get Fort Cas-!
well- I
Writing us from his home in
Ashland, Kentucky, H. B. Clem
mons says he has been very much1
interested in what he has been
reading in the State Port Pilot
relative to the need of a cannery
in Brunswick county. He believ
es that a cannery would be a pay
ing venture here, regardless of
: whether it is a community or
: commercial set-up. Mr. Clem
I mons goes on to say: "We have
a community cannery near Ash
land and I ame sure that you
people have not yet fully realiz
ed what you are missing by not
having one." From a newspaper
clipping accompanying the letter
from Mr. Clemmons, it is seen
that the cannery near Ashland is
really a county project. The use
J of the equipment for canning is
I allowed all citizens of the county
and trained supervisors or teach
ers are in charge of the work,
assisting the housewives, all with
jout charge. The people using the
cannery merely pay for the cans
| that are used.
| The youngest member of an
especially nice Burlington family
! will be able to call Southport his
j home town and the Dosher Mem- j
I orial Hospital the place where he 1
I was born. We don't know the J
; young gentleman's name yet, be-1
j cause he had not been named j
' when we asked his grown-up sis- j
[ ter, Ann, about him. The young;
gentleman in question is the son,
i (Continued on Page 2)
ahead.
For the benefit of landlubbers
it can be said here that a thou
sand fish weighs seven hundred
pounds. The daily catches of the
boats of the fleet run to around
three hundred thousand fish to
each boat. The Brunswick of Cap
Continued on page four
Dredge Getting
Ready To Sail
U.S.E. Dredge Hyde Will
Leave Soon For Four
Months Job In South
America; Local Msn In
Her Crew
Now being overhauled at the
shipyards in Jacksonville, Fla., the
U. S. E. dredge, Hyde is sche
duled to sail on August 15th for
Venezuela. She will have a 4
months job there, her present
I
schedule being for her to start [
on her return to the United
States December 15th.
About half the crew of the'
Hyde are Southport and Bruns- j
wick county men. John Swan, of
Southport, has been in command
of the vessel for seevral years.
According to Ed Karlow, a
member of the crew now spend
ing a few days here with his
family, all of the Brunswick coun
ty men now among the crew are
Continued on page four v
John L. Morehead Here Sat
urday And Made Trip
Outside On Menhaden
Boat Brunswick To Ob
serve Conditions
PLENTY OF FISH
STILL IN PROSPECT
Local Factory has Been Run
ning At Top Production
This Summer As' Unpre
cedented Number Of
? Fish Here
John L. Morehead of Charlotte,
president of the Brunswick Navi
gation Company; Rarris Nelson
of Caswell Beach and Leaksville
Spray and a few of their friends
were guests ont he menhaden
boat Brunswick Saturday for an j
inspection trip over the Southport I
fishing grounds.
The Brunswick, Captain John
Potter, is high boat of the year
in catches. The Brunswick is lead
ing the Gifford, Captain James
B. Church, by only a narrow
margin.
In fact, according to Captain
Potter, Captain Church has held
i the honor of being top boat sea
! son up to last week. Then a com
I bination of sharks and ?an old net
| enabled the younger man and his
I oonverted mine sweeoer to forge
Shrimp Survey
Work To Wind
Up This Week
The North- Carolina shrimp
survey wil be completed this week
and the survey boat; Penny,
owned by Captain Merritt Moore
of Southport, will return here
from Morehead City and resume
its regular work of shrimping.
The final three weeks of the
survey are being done in More
head City waters but it is under
stood that the Southport area
came in for more time and at
tention than any other part of
the coast during the eight months
the . survey was underway.
This was due to more possibili
ties being discovered In this area.
The work has been underway
since the first if the year and
consisted mainly of dragging,
sounding and the use of try nets
for the purpose of locating bot
toms where shrimp are to be
found and which are of such a
nature that trawls can be used for
fishing.
It is understood that approxi
mately sl$ months more will be
required before the results of the
survey can be made public. An
analysis of all findings will have
to be ma&e and charts prepared
for the guidance of boat opera
tors.
Two Raids Net
Much Moonshine
Total Of Twenty-Six Gallons
Of Non-Tax-Paid Liquor
Captured Sunday After
noon By Officers
Deputy Sheriffs W. H. Granger,
G. W. Bland and Odell Blanton
raided two places near Supply
Saturday afternoon. At Alden
Hewett's they found six half-gal
lon fruit pars filled with non
tax paid whiskey, The whiskey
was hidden in the woods about
150 yards from the home of Mr.
Hewett. He was arrested as the
owner and is being held for trial
in Recorder court next Monday.
An hour later the same offi
cers made another raid at the
home of W. B. Clemmons. There
they found 21 gallons of whiskey.
Five gallons of this, according
to Deputy Granger, was buried
in the Woods' near the Clemmons
home. The main part was buried
in the Clemmons chicken house.
Mr. Clemmons was arrested and
is also being held for trial next
Monday.
The whiskey taken in both raids
is said to have been a good grade
of unlabled stuff. The 24 gallons
are now stored in the seriff's
office and will probably be poured
down a sewer following the trial
Monday.
Baptist Meeting .
Today With WAA
Men At Caswell
Negotiation* Today Design
ed To Bring About Ad
justment Between Asking
And Taking Price Of
Property
WAA APPRAISER
WILL BE PRESENT
Indications Ar? That Church
Group Will Be Able To
Work Out Eome Agree
ment With Govern
' ment
Today is expected to bring a
Ihowdown as to whether the
North Carolina Baptists will buy
Fort Caswell from the War As
sets Administration. Through M.
A. Huggins, its secretary, th*
Baptist organization has a bid
of $86,000 for Caswell, the WAA
has been contending that the
place is worth $150,000.
It is said that if the Baptists
are prepared to show planned.
purposes that will make the pro-;
perty of general public benaflt!
and at the same time perpetual*
Fort Caswell's historic inter**!,)
there may be an adjustment in
the value set by the WAA. Tbs
price may come down far enough)
for the offering price to meet It.
If neither side is able to mak*
concessions the praperty will pro-;
bably be disposed of to whatever
other interest offers the be*t ?
price.
In addition to the Baptista I
other parties are known to IM i
interested in acquiring the pro
perty. Three of these interest#!
are said to plan development ?
resort nature. The other has is
mind the construction of * hug*
menhaden processing plant, ac
cording to information.
Glenn Gibson, WAA appraiser,
who made the original lnven-,
tory of the value of the property
some months ago, is scheduled
to go over things again today.
Bxptlst officiate will also be pre
sent. Some fnonths ago WAA
officials made the statement that
proposed uses of the property
by bidders would have consider
able monetary value. It seems
to be the desire of the WAA to
sell to the interests that will
develop the property to th*
greatest general benefit,,
Music Recital
Sunday Night
Ben C. Stephenson And Mist
Barbara Adams Will Ap?
pear In Varied Prograni
At The Southport BaptUt
Church
Ben C. Stevenson and Miss
Barbara Adams are giving an
organ and voice recital at th*
Southport Baptist church next
Sunday night. This program'? is
being preesnted for the benefit
of the organ fund in the local
church and a free wiU offering
for this cause will be taken, at
the service.
Mr. Stevenson and Miss Adami
have planned a program of sacred
music, hymns and light classic^
for this event. A special feature
of the program will be the us? of
a set of mass chimes which ean
be fitted to any organ and hav*
a distinctively beautiful touet
Members of all churches are cor?
dially invited to this special serj
vice.
Tide Table
Following Is the tide table
for Southport during the next
npek. These hours are approxi
mately correct and were furn
ished The State Port Pilot
through the courtesy of the
Cape Fear Pilot's Association
High Tide Low Tide
Thursday, July 14,
10:45 A. M. 4:39 A. M.
11:00 P. M. 4:40 P. M.
Friday, July IS,
11:28 A. M. 5:18 A. N.
11:35 P. M. 5:24 P. M.
Saturday, July 16,
0:00 A. M. 5:58 A. M.
12:11 P. M. 6:11 P. M.
Sunday, July 1*7,
:10 A. M. 6:41 A. M.
12:50 P. M. 7:03 P. M.
?Monday, July 18,
1:08 A. M. 7:27 A. M.
1:49 P. M. 8:08 P. M.
Tuesday, July 19,
1:55 A. M. 8:18 A. H.
2:43 P. M. 9:07 P. M.
Wednesday, July 20,
2:49 A. M. 9:13 A. ]
3:88 P. M. 10:0? P. !
Company President
Observes Prospects