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5-PAGES TODAY Southport, N. C., Wednesday. July 20th, 1949 fUBUSHED every Wednesday ?1.50 per yea?
erendum Set !
Saturday
Weed Quota
ir
Will Decide By
^Vote Whether Con
Apply T?Tob.c
CropAfterTb" Year
rH?0FPpROGRAM UP
Voting At Same
fFarmers To Decide
rther To Continue
"obacco Associates
asl in the referendum
on flue-cured tobacco
quotas will determine I
, acreage allotments are
in 1950, according to,
gy- Chairman of the I
^cultural Conservation |
''' xhe Committee today
>ng places in the coun
M quotas furnish grow
4 method of adjusting
t0 demand and help obtain
. es for them for the to
produce.
?t Of Congress under
?je referendum is being |
tarday. July 23, also pro-;
jTprice support loans at
Jrt of parity on flue-cured
i provided growers do not;
e quotas. Chairman King
J. Regardless of the out-1
a; this referendum, price
-"loans at 90 percent of
ril be available on the
ggp of flue-cured tobacco
jntection to growers.
as are approved indivi
acreage allotments for
r,J be about the same as
K.? allotment for any farm
lias rroduced up to 75 per
ils allotted acreage in any
past three years. There
a small acreage for ad
it of old farm allotments,
? Htablishing allotments on
at which no tobacco has
rw. in the past five years,
sgply and demand situa
MMts. the Secretary of i
ta can increase allot
ay aie up to March 1.
n' yfsr,n who has an in
a the 1949 crop of flue
ttacco as owner, tenant,
r cropper is entitled to j
c the referendum but no j
is entitled to more than
# even though he pro
tobacco in two or more
fces, counties, or States,
an King said, "I believe
to us to show our in- j
' going to the polls and I
one way or the other. This
imocratic way of deciding
portant issue, and I urge
*rv flue-cured tobacco
m the county go to his
:'.y voting place on Sat
Jaly 23, and vote in this
na."
Mowing points have been
as polling places for the
townships:
West township: U. L.
store and North West
Creek township: J. L.
store and Mercer Cox's
?lie township: Willie He
store and Lindsey Robbins
"&ued On Page Eight)
I Flathit
? MEET
WiUetts, secretary and
Mr of fne Brunswick County
Club, calling all hunters
wrmen to a special meet
fte club at the Bolivia
house Thursday night of
|W. The meeting opens at
L*k- Mr. WUletts is anxious
interested parties attend.
f FOR buses
P??r Hubert Livingston of
F B- & S Bus Lines. Inc.,
flrns Cumbee, driver of the
Isus between Southport and
f-T'On, are expected to re
l -? of the week from
T Colorado They went to
Pr western State Thursday
f,t? home two more buses
r line. William Walk.
I ', -'.ft'-r Mr. Livingstons
a- the bus station during
Wnce. I
SHAFT
breaking of one of her
rr shafts while fishing
f' has resulted in the j
Navigation Company
I?i<l up for about a week. J
commanded by Cap
1" Potter is the top boat
t here this season. )
of* ?ne her 'w0 en"'
? Brunswick was able (
^ N'ew Bern to the rail
Lr her own power this \
Tall Towers
RADIO?Although there is no Ra^io Broadcasting
Station in Brunswick county, three transmission towers of
Station WMFD, located near the Ship lay-up basin at
Brunswick River give this county a claim to an interest in
the radio business.?(Star-News Cut.)
Charlie Rourk Is
Mayor Of Bolivia
City Government Of Bruns- [
wick County Community t
Reactivated Following A
Lapse Of Quarter Century |
THREE ALDERMEN
NAMED TO SERVE
Two Members Of Old Board
Located And One Still
Will Serve In That Cap- !
acity With New Or
ganization
_________
The municipal government of j
the community of Bolivia which i
was permitted by its citizenry to;
expire peacefully .on April 15, i
1924, was ressurected Friday night j
and Charlie Rourk, merchant, was
named mayor to fill the unexpir-1
ed term of Charles B. Aycock, I
who was seeing at that time.!
Mr. Aycock died last year.
In making plans for reactivat
ing the municipal government of!
this community, ' discovery was
made that two members of the!
1924 board of aldermen still are
living at Bolivia. These men are [
M. E. Cox and N. B. Leonard.;
J. T. Mercer, the third member,!
sice has moved away. Dawson
Lewis was named to fill his unex
pired term. Alderman Cox decid
ed that he will be unable to corn
Continued On Page Four
Wednesday Set
For Examiner
?
State Driver License Exam
infer Will Be At Southport
Each Wednesday Instead
Of On Monday
The State auto license examiner
will hereafter fill his Southport i
appointment each Wednesday in-1
stead of Monday. He will be here
at the court house all day each
Wednesday, according to State j
Highway Patrolman J. C. Taylor.
The new schedule becomes opera-.
Continued On Page Four
New Soil Man In
Brunswick County
H. F. Kizer of Snow Hill has
been named Soil Conservation
for Brunswick county, replacing
C. D. Potter who was transferr
ed July 1 to a new soil conser
vation district in Mississippi.
The new conservationist is a
veteran in the Soil Service, hav
ing been connected with the
program since 1935. For the
past 7 years he has been soil
conservationist for Greene Coun
ty. He is a graduate of Clem
son College and formerly taught
vocational agriculture at Long
Creek high school.
Mock Wedding
Friday Night
Tom-Thumb Wedding Will
Be Presented Friday Eve
ning At Southport High
School Auditorium
Wedding bells ' will be ringing
Friday night at 8 o'clock when
thirty-five of the little folks of
Southport will present a Tom
Thumb Wedding, sponsored by the
Woman's Bible Class of Trinity
Mehodist church.
The cast of characters is as
follows: Bride, Jean Gilbert;
groom, Chuck Smith; maid-of
honor, Paula Fodale; best man,
Eddie Hughes; groomsmen; Tom
my Sanders, Herbert Baker, Jr.,
Craig Castor and Dickie Marlowe;
bridesmaids: Ann' Denning, Kitty
O'Brain, Joyce Jorgensen, Libby
Griffin; flower girls: Martha
Harrelson and Pattie Jenkins.
Ringbearer, Johnny Hewett;
train bearers, Sandy Potter, Fran
cis Catoldo; minister, Homer Mc
Keithan; soloist, Dannie White;
bride's father, Jimmy Moore;
bride's mother, Anne Baker;
(Continued on Page 8)
Tobacco Outlook
Is Favorable In
British Situation
Hutson Says Prospects Are
Unchanged By Britain's
Decision To Cut Purchases
From U. S.
HASIMFORTANT
BEARING ON PRICE
If Negotiations Now In Pro
gress Work Out Price Of
1949 Tobacco Crop
May Be Better
John B. Hutson, president of
Tobacco Associates, Inc., said in
Washington Thursday that, in
spite of Great Britain's announc
ed plan to buy less American
tobacco this year, that country's
expected purchases from the
United States will compare favor
ably with either of the past two
years.
(The British announcement In
Londan said its dollar expendi
tures for tobacco would be trim
med from $110,000,000 last year
to $90,000,000 this year, and that
this meant a cut of about $20,
000,000 in its purchases of United
States leaf,)
Hutson described British export
market prospects for United
States tobacco this year as "fair
ly satisfactory for the time be
ing."
"On. a long-range basis," he
continued, "it is becoming in
creasingly clear that we have got
to find a way to use more British
goods in this country if we ex
pect the United Kingdom to con
tinue as our best tobacco export
customer."
Like many others, Hutson had
"hoped" that the United King
dom would not have to curtail its
tobacco buying so drastically. Butj
he added, that in view of the |
situation over there, he thinks
they are taking about as much
as could reasonably be expected.
Hutson estimated that during
the current British fiscal year
(which runs from April 1 to
April 1) it would take under its
plan announced today about 17S,1
000,000 pounds .form weight) of
Unite<J. ?t&tes leaf tobacco.
Meanwhile in Farmville, Carl
T. Hicks, president of the Flue
Cured Stabilization Corporation,
said the corporation would have
"to take up the slack" to keep
prices up.
Sharon Church
Scene Of Hay:
"Prisoner At The Bar" Will'
Be Presented Friday Eve
ning At 8 O'Clock With
Several Local Characters
"Prisoner at the Bar," will be
given in the Sharon Methodist
Church Friday evening at 8
o'clock according to an announce
ment by the pastor, Rev. Russell
H. Caudill. Twenty local residents
will have part in the performance.
Herman Gray will act as pre
siding judge, while Carvln Roach
will serve as counsel for the de
fendant. Marshall Roach will act
as the sheriff, and Bedford Lud
lum will serve as the fingerprint
expert. Mrs. Bertha Roach will
be an important witness ior the
prosecution and Miss Alene He
witt will take the part of the
prisoner's little daughter. Miss
Victoria Roach will act as the
clerk of the court. William Earl
Continue on page 8
Commissioners In
Session Monday
Two road matters claimed th?
attention of members of the botfrd
of county commissioners here
Monday.
Approval was given a petition
that the east-west road at Holden
B?ach be improved and extended
for two and one-half miles in a
westerly direction.
The other project receiving ap
proval was a request that the
highway commission take over
and all-weather surface streets
in Southport extending from the
corner of Moore St. and Atlantic
Ave., running past the ice plant
to the Southport cemetery.
Establish Loan
Rate On Tobacco
Crop For Season
Grower* Are Assured Of
High Average During Sea
son; Loan Average 1.4
Cents Below 1948
An average loan rate of forty
two and one-half cents per pound
has been established for the 1949
flue-cured tobacco crop.
This is 1.4 cents under the |
1948 figure when 43.9 cents was!
guaranteed.
The Department of Agriculture
annuonced at Washington that the
loan rates on the 1949 crop will
range from $70 a hundred for
top grades down to ?9 for nonde
script grades.
All loans will be made on the
basis of official standard grades
at a specified rate for each grade.
There will be a four cents per
pound differential between "tied"
and "untied" tobacco.
Growers are eligible for the
loans if they have not produced
| in excess of their marketing
quotas.
The loan rate is considered
quite favorable in view of the fact
that it Represents a very small
(Continued on Page Eight)
Greensboro News
Man On Vacation |
State News Editor Jim Reyn-1
olds Is Busy Today Fol
lowing W. B. Keziah On I
Freshwater Fishing Expe
dition
Jim Reynolds, fctate News
Editor of the Greensboro Daily
Nevfrs, his family and the family
of his brother-in-lkw, Foots Fes
mire, are now vacationing at Long
Beach and like most people who
spend a few days or weeks there,
Mr. Reynolds is already convinced
that Long Beach is the real thing
for continued development as a
family beach.
He is especially impressed with
the long list of professional men,
doctors, lawyers, bankers, busi
nessman, and others who have
built summer homes at Long
Beach and are occupying them
for the summer. He pointed out
that Long Beach appears to be
the only one on the North Car
olina coast where two Congress
men, Deane and Carlyle, have
built and are occupying summer
homes.
The Greensboro newspaperman
had been in the office long before
he asked W. B. Keziah to write
him a full page story about Long
Beach and send it and pictures
right away. Even such an impor
tant matter as an appointment
(Continued on Page 8)
Our
ROVING
i
Reporter
W. B. KEZIAH
Congressman .C. B. Dcane is
fixing to lose his July appoint
ment with us to go fishing if
he does not hurry up and get
down to his summer home at
Long Beach. We have a steadfast
rule to go fishing when we want
to and not to go when we don't
want to. When we want to go
even Clerk of Court Sam T. Ben
nett, if he wants to go, is just as
good a companion as a Congress
man who does not want to go.
However, and in famess to him,
Congressman Dean always wants
to go. The trouble with him . this
year is that he is tied up with
things in Washington and has not
been able to get down to his
summer home.
Thus far we have not seen Wal
lace Wade of the Duke Universi
ty Blue Devils vacationing as us
ual at Caswell Beach. Neither
have we had any sounding: out
from him or any of his friends
regarding the possibility of our
taking him on a fishing trip.
While we have the utmost respect
for Mr. Wade's ability as a foot
ball mentor, we have to regret
fully admit that our first trip out
with him convinced us that he
was one jf the world's worst
fishermen. It was Just before the
beginning of the football season
and he may have had his mind on
that. He certainly did not worry
the fish.
Things will not be quite com
plete for us In Southport until
Dr. Thor Johnson. Cincinnatti,
Ohio, symphony orchestra con
ductor, shows up at one or the
other of the beaches for his an
CONTINUED ON PAGE i
WAA Announces Sale Of
Ft Caswell To Baptists
At Price Of$86,000,00
Repellant Compound
Is Being Tried Here
Southport Seafood Dealer Will Test This Week Peacetime
Use Of Shark Repellant
Bill Wells, local seafood pro
ducer, had an idea last week that
may really father something of
great general value to this sect
ion and to the fishing industry
in all southern states.
Mr. Wells, in common with
other Southport seafood produc
ers, was suffering heavy loses
through having nets torn up by
sharks. Not only were nets be
ing destroyed and damaged but
great catches of fish and shrimp
were being lost with them.
With so much menhaden in the
waters, sharks are being attracted
here in unprecedented numbers.
The sharks are always destructive |
in the summer and this year their
numbers make them terrible for
their destructiveness to the fish
ing industry,
Losing his catches of shrimp
and having his nets destroyed re
sulted in Wells standing off
quietly for awhile and doing some
deep thinking.
He remembered that during the
war days when the torpedoing of
ships in the Pacific was a daily
occurance, hundreds of sailors
had to take to shark-infested I
waters. While the sharks here are
harmless to man those out in the
Pacific are man eaters and are
death to the man or woman In
the water, clinging to a lifebelt
or anything handy.
During the war the situation
was so crucial with regard to the
shipwrecked men that scientiest
plunged into the task of creating
something that would repel sharks
and keep them away from the
shipwrecit victims. They found a j
very practical composition that
would keep the sharks away for
days and days.
The discovery was at once made
available by small quantities of
i it being attached to all lifeboats
used in the Pacific. Its use there
is said to have saved thousands
of lives.
Wells remembered about this
government used shark repellant
during the war days. He got on
long distance and asked Boston,
New Bedford and Gloucester,
Mass., what became of the gov
ernments shark-repellant inven
tion. These places did not know
but they thought Wells had an
Continue on page 8..
Big Damage Suits
Filled In Brunswick
New Registration
Of City Voters
A new registration of voters
in progress in the City of South
port, with registration books
being open at the regular poll
ing places each of the follow
ing two Saturdays.
It has been pointed out that
the new registration will be the
basis for voting in the beer
wine election on August 13.
However, the new registration
has not been ordered for this
purpose alone. The books are
long out of date, and the new
registration will be used for
subsequent city elections.
Prospects Good
For Weed Crop
Tax Collector Is Former To
bacco Auctioneer And He
Likes Prospects For This
Year's Sales
County Tax Collector Edward
H. Redwine, who should Know
something of tobacco since he
worked as an auctioneer in addi
tion to having been raised on a
fine tobacco farm, says that
Brunswick county growers are
curing out a mighty good crop of
the weed this year.
About two thirds of the crop
has been barned, he says. This
year's crop is the earliest in re-,
cent years.
The weed as it is coming from
the barns, says the former auc-j
tioneer, is rather thin in leave
and this results in it being a bit
off in weight. This, he adds, is
a very desirable factor, so far as
the tobacco buying companies are
concerned.
Liggett & Myers, R. J. Reynolds
Tobacco Company, and Virginia
Tobacco Company, all are said
to like the thin, light leaves, this(
being much more desirable in the
cigarettes. The Export Tobacco j
Company and Imperial Tobacco
Company like their's sort of
heavy. One thing the Brunswick
county man is sure of is that
with the unusually fine grade be
ing produced this year Brunswick
growers will get the top of the
market.
The slightly lighter weight of
the leaves this year will be made
up for with the better price that
the crop is expected to bring. And
in the summing up the poundage
per acre will not .be cut much, if
anything. The absence of horn
worms in the crop this year means
a whole lot of perfect leaves
without a hole. Often tobacco
reaches the market with dozens
of holes in the leaves, some of
these holes being quite large. This
will not be the case thi? year.
(Continued on Page 8)
Firm Of Frink And Herring
Filed Suit* Totaling $130,
000.00 A? Result Of Fatal
Accident May 28
DRIVER OF DEATH
CAR IS NAMED
Suit Being Brought By Sur
vivor# Of Four Brunswick
County Victims Of
Fatal Accident
Four damage suits totalling
$130,000 were filed here in the
office of Sam T. Bennett, clerk
of the superior court, by the law
'firm of Frink and Herring Mon
day.
The suits all grow out of the
memorial Day automobile wreck
in which seven persons were kill
ed at a point on Route 17 near
Shallotte. The defendant in all
cases is John J. Benson, adminis
trator of the estate of A. N. Hous
ton, driver of one of the auto
| mobile. Houston and two of his
J companions in one of the automo
j biles were killed while four died
;in the other machine.
1 Mrs. Roland Gray, widow of
Roland Gray, asks for $40,000 for
the death of her husband.
Harry S. Davis, administrator
of the estate of Erline ' Atkinson,
asks for $30,000.
I Callie Bertram Gray, adminis
trator for Louis B. Gray, aged 8
months, asks for $30,000.
I Callie Bertram Gray, adminis
trator of the estate of Gloria Ann
Gray asks for $30,000.
I All of the above are petition
ing to sue as paupers.
The complaint of Mrs. Roland
Gray, which is closely followed
in text by the complaint of the
other three petitioners is, in part,
as follows:
"That on or about the 28th
day of May, 1949, plaintiff's intes
tate was the owner of and was
operating a 1936 Ford automobile,
and which said automobile was
proceeding at a slow and lawful
rate of speed and in a lawful
manner along U. S. Highway 17
in a southernly direction toward
Shallotte, North Carolina, at about
6 o'clock A. M. on said date at
a point about one and one-half
miles northeast of Shallotte, North
Carolina, in the county of Bruns
wick, said highway at said point
being perfectly straight in both
directions, but with a slight de
cline towards Shallotte, and that
at the time that said automobile
was being operated by the said
plaintiff's intestate in the manner
above alleged, the defendant's in
testate, A. N. Houston, was oper
ating his 1946 Ford automobile
in a northeastwardly direction
along the said highway and ap
proached the automobile in which
the plaintiff's intestate was oper
ating and at the said time and
place the defendant's intestate, A.
N. Houston, carelessly and negli
gently drove and operated^his snid
1946 Ford automobile at a very
| Continued On Page Four
Announcement Made Tues
day From Atlanta Office
That Historic Property
Ha* Been Sold To N. C.
Baptists
SALE ENDS LONG
TIME SPECULATION
News Of Sale To Baptists
Welcomed In This County
1 As Their Operation Ex
pected To Help
Local Area
"""S*
rw/nt
Sale of Ft. Caswell by the War
Assets Administration to North
Carolina Baptists was announced
from Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday morn
ing by L. D. Strom, director of
regional sales. The sale price was
$86,000.00.
The only possible hitch in con
firmation of the sale rests In the
establishment of satisfactory cre
dit terms, and no difficulty is
expected to arise in that connec
tion.
This brings to an end month?
of negotiation between official?
of the Baptist State Convention
and War Assets Administration
representatives and it is expected
that the results will be generally
pleasing to residents of this area
who welcome the Bapttts and
their proposed use of the historic
fort.
The North Carolina Baptists
propose to use the facilities of
the ex-section base for a seaside
assembly which will be used prin
cipally during summer months for
recreation and study and for con
ventions of various kinds. There
also has been a pr^ocsal that a
school for ministers and ?ay It
ers may be added. Once the oj
ation gets underway It is es?
ed that several hundred pel
will be using the fort facilities
each week.
Plans call for the Baptists to
give up an option which they MM, _
fhr the purchase of a site at Ft.
Fisher for which the original price
was $95,000.00. No better yard
stick of the importance which
residents of that section attached
to the presence of the seaside
assembly at that point is needed
than a review of the concessions
made by property owners in their
efforts to have the Baptists re
main at Ft. Fisher.
When the Caswell property was
appraised by WAA representatives
during the winter the price was
set at $148,000.00 Several dele
gations representing the North
Carolina Baptists visited the fort
and were well pleased with what
they saw. Finally a meeting of th'e
general board of the Baptist State
Convention was held in Southport
with about forty members pre
sent, and from that visit definite
action resulted.
Discovery was made that the
water rights to the property be
long to Goldsboro interests for
whom R. W. Powell is spokes
man. Once the matter of a water
supply was ironed out the Baptists
entered their bid for the property.
Refusing to take advantage of
their priority rights .they made
an offer of $50,000.00 for the 300
acres of land and existing im
provements. This was turned down
by WAA, and a round of confer
ences began. It finally was neces
sary for War Assets apraisers to
make another estimate of the
value of the property, and it was
Continue on page 8
Tide Table
Following; Is the tide table
for Southport during the next
week. These hours are approxi
mately correct and were furn
ished The Stat? Port Pilot
through the courtesy of tha
Cape Few Pilot's Association.
High Tide Low Tide
Thursday, July 21,
3:47: A. M. 10:09 A. M.
4:32 P. M. 11:06 P. M.
Friday, July 22,
4:44 A. M. 11:04 A. M.
5:25 P. M. 11:59 P. M.
Saturday, July 23,
5:40 A. M. 11:52 A. M.
6:16 P. M. 0:00 P. M..
Sunday, July 24,
6:30 A. M. . 0:47 A. M.
7:03 P. M. 12:42 P. M.
Monday, July 25,
7:23 A. M. 1:32 A. M.
7:50 P. M. 1:32 P. M.
Tuesday, July 26
8:11 A. M. 2:17 A. M.
8:37 P. M. 2:18 P. at
Wednesday, July 27
9:00 A. M. 3:00 ,K. M.
9:23 P. M. 3:06 P. M.