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The State Port Pilot Southport, N. G. Published Every Wednesday lAMES M. HARPER. JR Editor ? ? n i i Entered as second-class matter April 20, 1828, at the Post Office at Southport, N. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879. r SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR $1.50 SIX MONTHS 1.00 41 ?""'THREE months 75 Wednesday, August 17, 1949 The Open Forum This week we received a well-written letter for the Open Forum column com plaining about the existance of a local situation which possibly should be cor rected. The only trouble is that the letter was not signed. Newspapers have a policy of long standing never to pay any attention to anonymous communications. The Open Forum column is open to our readers for an expression of their feelings on matters affecting the welfare of our community, but anyone genuinely interested in work ing for improvement will have no objec tion to having his name identified with his good cause. Fishing Spotlight We believe that records for the past few years prove conclusively that South port is the logical port of departure for the best fishing trips to be had along he ' North Carolina coast. Blues and mackeral for the taking; plenty of fine trout in season; amber jack, barracuda, dolphin and bonita for those who will go after them ; and sail fish. All these have helped to earn the reputation which this place has come to enjoy with saltwater fishermen from Washington South. And now a new feature has been ad ded. Last Monday Bill Styron landed a 121-lb. silver tarpon while fishing inside over near Bald Head island. Then Satur day, just to prove that this was no fluke, Fred Willing landed a 65-lb. beauty of the same species. Saturday afternoon interested specta tors were treated to a rare spectacle when they visited the Southport yacht basin to see the day's catch. There hang ing from the rack was an 8-ft., 2-in. sail fish, and right beside it was Willing's tar poon, two of the world's finest big game fish, caught the same day. The School Comes First Two weeks from tomorrow, on Sep tember 1, the consolidated schools of Brunswick county will open for their fall term. But even at this late date there are scores of people living within the Shal lotte school district who are more inter ested in suits and warrants growing out of the disagreement last Spring over naming the local school committee than they are the chance of their school get ting off to a good start for a successful year of work. Already too much has been said about the differences of opinion which exist among the various factions in what is considered by many to be the most pro gressive section of Brunswick county. We hesitate to bring up the subject again and do so only for the purpose of urging that wrangling and bickering be forgot ten now in the interest of seeing twelve hundred Brunswick county girls and boys get a chance to derive full benefit from the year of school which they are about to commence. We do not believe that any great ob stacles exist with regard to the principal or his teaching staff. Most of the trouble has come from methods which were em ployed to attain these results ? and these mthods were used to combat others just as questionable. All of which means that nobody seri ously questions the ability of the princi pal or the teachers now elected to con duct a successful school term. The only thing that will make this impossible will be to have their work carried out under the cloud of court action and the normal life of the community disturbed by bit terness and hard feelings. We would like to see all pending suits and threats of counter-suits dropped for good. If this cannot be done, we hope that all matters now pending can and will be postponed until after school ad journs next Spring. We believe that the welfare of the children dictates that this ! course be followed, and where the well-' being of the girls and boys is concerned prejudices and partisian politics hold no right-of-way. A Friend Indeed i I The 1927 baseball team of the New! York Yankees is regarded by many as! the greatest of all times. From the pur- J pose of this editorial, whether that is true i is not especially important. At any rate, i that was a great team which Miller Hug- ' gins fielded. The Yankees of 1927 had Babe Ruth,/ Tony Lazerri, Combs, Musial, Koenig and others who were brilliant fielders and great hitters. But even with their tremendous power and skill afield, that team or no other team would be capable of winning with out a pitcher of equal calibre. Yes, a; good baseball team must have a pitcher, j However, this is not a baseball editor- j ial. We mention a baseball team and a pitcher to illustrate what we mean with respect to the farm program. We have acreage allotments, we have a conserva tion program, and we have many other features which are important to our farm economy. There are the players in the field. And then we have a pitcher ? the Farm Bureau. Without this pitcher, there could be no success. When the tobacco program Was mired in a sea of mud four years ago, the Farm Bureau paved the way for the Tobacco Stabilization program which has been ? and this year more than ever ? the saviour of leaf growers. All other phases of the program could have been in expert hands, but if the Farm Bureau hadn't led in establishing a means of in suring 90 per cent of parity for growers, these would have availed nothing. When we realize that probably three times as much tobacco is now going into the Stabilization pool as was the case last year, then we can begin to appreciate I what the Farm Bureau did to help farm ers. It literally pitched the farm program out of a hole. There is a not of satisfaction to be gained from the knowledge that the to bacco our people work to produce can go only so low. It's like a man who owns a 95-mile-an-hour automobile and never drives over 45. He knows that should an emergency arise, there is power and speed for the asking. Our farmers and business men should remember that no baseball team is great w|thout a good pit*her on the mound. In our farm program, it-has been the Farm Bureau which has supplied the pitching in our behalf. RALEIGH ROUNDUP . . . John Battle, new Governor of Virginia, is a native of New Bern. Many of the top men in Virginia now were born in other states. Some wag remarked here last week that Vir ginia, the mother of presidents, hasn't even been pregnant in 50 years .... . . . With college foofball practice only a few days off, some of the Big Four (Wake Forest, Carolina, Duke and State) teams are finding it difficult to get in touch with their players. Carolina has reportedly lost two important line men, Duke a halfback, and Wake Forest a guard and two backs, one of these being the freshman star, Traveligne . . . . . . Although many service stations took a part in opposition to the increase in the ?as tax, (he State issued last week to its depart ments the names of stations throughout the 100 counties which will sell gas to State cars at a 2-cents-per-gallon reduction . . . AMOS AND ANDY ... If a little burn); cork or black shoe polish were smeared on the faces of Charlie Parker and Kerr Scott, they could easily pass for Amos and Andy of radio fame. The Governor, of course, is "de president of de comp'ny" and Amos, much the more arti culate of the two, is Amos Parker, taxicab driver. Reports of their press conferences often read like a script from the radio team. Parker sits at Governor Scott's elbow at the press conferences, and then the dialogue begins. Why Is Amos at Andy's side that way? Well, because he is afraid Andy might suddenly start mumbling something about "eight million, ten million, 12 million" and say something wrong. He is there just in case. It's really funny . . . how Parker must guide the, governor. KNOCKS . . . Last Friday afternoon Gover nor Scott was complaining about the "knock ers" (he never knocks anything or anyone, chambers of commerce, etc-, you know) and he was wanting to know just what free services the State provided its Governors at the Mans ion. He wanted to know if it is right for his son, Robert, to continue to drive one of the Mansion cars to and from his school work at puke University. Sang out Parker to the press correspondents: "Ask him about the shoes, boys. Ask him about the shoes." So, they asked about the shoes. It developed that he had some shoes mended here awhile back and found the work had been done free of charge at the prison. No more of that, said Governor Scott. Wanted to save the State some money. Rovin' Reporter (Continued from page one) wife and little daughter. Last, but not least, was Miss Frances Bird, a teacher at Duke Univer- j sity, where her father is one of j the professors. Rev. Mr. Bird was J talking church to us and asked, "Did you ever know tne Reverend Charles Trott, that fine old Epis copilan minister of Salisbury?" "No," was the answer. "We never knew the Rev. Charles Trott, but we knew a grand rascal of the same name who is one of his sons." M. E. Huggins, secretary to the North Carolina Baptists, wasj here last week. In fact, a great many No?th Carolina Baptists were here last week, all seeming tremenduously elated at the pro spects for an early closing of the deal for Fort Caswell. Not the least of their elation resulted from , many of them getting to see Fort Caswell for the first time and getting a personal idea of what is being bought. Mr. Huggins told us he would be back this week and we have an edea that there will be a lot more Baptists in addition to him. Sergeant Mann, who remains in charge as caretaker pending the closing of j the deal, tells us that hundreds | of cars are going to Fort Cas- 1 well daily. A lot of Brunswick county folks [ attended Farm and Home Week I in Raleigh, according to Jake j Tinga, veteran teacher at the Bolivia school. Mr. Tinga wrote us from Raleigh while the meet ings were in progress. He de scribed things as wonderful. We have not been able to get any- j thing like a list of the Brunswick folks who attended, but from the many fine comments that have been heard there musf have been a crowd. We felt a very distinct per- j sonal loss last week in the death of Everett Holden of Shallotte. ' Everett and we were always good I friends, esteeming each other in ! spite of our individual faults. We ! knew him first as one of Shal- 1 lotte's pioneer business men. He slowed up in business in his later i years as late as the war times | he was still carrying on a big business. He gave us ample proof | of the size of this business. With no bank at ShaUotte at the time, he always insisted on our bring ing his funds to Southport for[ deposit. Sometimes, especially dur ing the tobacco season when far mers were paying up, Everett would fill our pockets with cash for delivery to the Waccamaw Bank in Southport. It may sound like a roundabout story, but we heard this week J that Ralph Price, president of the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance J Company, is buying a fast boat so that he can make quick and easy trips to Southport. His family resides at Myrtle Beach j during the summer and he has | little time to be away from the Jefferson, except on week-ends. Southport figures in the boat business by reason of the fact that the Greensboro business man is said to have a growing interest in the possibility of development here. Anyone who keeps track of the sport fishing parties coming to Southport doM not have to do much figuring on one point. More parties come to Southport from Myrtle Beach than anywhere else. One, two and three parties every day. The Myrtle Beach address is not always given with the re ports of these parties. This is be cause of the fact that they are summer visitors or residents of Myrtle Beach and usually give their permanent home addresses. The Myrtle Beach paper appar ently loves to write up the cat ches of these fishing parties, but not in telling where they fish. The paper usually says that the fish, "were caught near here." . Carl Goerch was in town Sat urday. Along about noon that day everyone was out of the of fice. They were too lazy to close the office door. Getting back sometime in the afternoon, there was a note from Carl saying he had been to Bolivia, Supply, Shal lotte, Holden Beach, Fort Caswell, Long Beach and here and that he left his love. Thinking we might get a line to write about his visit, we inquired about among the neighbors if they had seen and talked to Carl. Most of them said they did not know him and asked what he looked RELAX and enjoy a carefree vacation . ? ? Keep in touch with home by i- ? ? ? * LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE What a comfort to know that no matter where yon go, or hew long youH be away, you can get "back home" in a minute' or so by telephone. Many new circuits and switchboards have been added and nine out of ten out-of-town calk go through while you hold the line. Use Long Distance regularly to keep in touch with home and office. Voice visits with home folks cost so little ? yet mean so much to your pleasure and peace of mind on vacation. SOUTHHN BILL TILEPHONI AND TIIIORAPH COMPANY GOOD GUIF Use The Best. Always Call For GOOD GULF Gasoline & Motor Oil ENNIS LONG SERVICE STATION U. S. No. 17 Supply, N. G. EARL'S LUNCH Across The Street From Shallotte Theatre Serving Tasty Sandwiches Daily Homemade Cakes & Pies Soft Drinks Not Exactly Neti# Remember the Sellers kids that used to be assigned the nickname "Hooper" just as fast as they got to be old enough to go to school? Well, there's another one coming on, name I of Bennle. Since his family now lives at Sup | ply he is getting his swimming start in Lock I woods Folly river and his baseball training on | the new diamond at the fork of the road . . . ! Not only is baseball on the mend In Southport, ; but the prospects are for further development each season for the next few years since most of the players are youngsters. Place Packards also high on the list of "big cars" owned by Southport drivers. There are at least five of late vintage . . . "Straw berry Roan" is a Gene Autry extravaganze scheduled to play Thursday and Friday at the Amusu . . . Fishermen are finding the Davis creek landing at Long Beach a very good place to take off from for an inside fishing trip. We saw Joe Reaves Saturday and learned that while he is not playing with any square dance organization this summer, he is anxious to know of ?ny Fiddler's Convention dates . . . We think that Jim Hiompson of Raleigh and his brother, Butler Thompson, of Lumberton get more enjoyment the year round from their week-end visits to th?nr oM hom?^ fellows we know. Jim and son* 5 gome beautiful blues and mack^u? Our nomination for the piaw greatest recent improvement has the Willis home overlooking the g]*' Davis St. . . C. G. Ruark is ^ * the time being at least his [%, * on the old site of Ruark's store J ating the Thompson building Amuzu preparatory to opening There still are no small boats fw vice here, but a lot ot Southport discovered the pleasure possible fnj your own boats and outboard mot^ We haven't heard any more about team for Southport hi^h school thiij they are going to have one the sponsors probably would be more m in their support if some of the boy*, to play would get out and do a and passing. You dor.'t need hesvy , for that . . . Mrs. C. B. Deane thicks husband's summer vacation at Uoj doomed by the slow ^'!journment i Congress. like. After we gave them a good description they usually said: "No, we have not had any very bald headed man in here today." Highway Commissioner (Continued Frun F&gu One) tion for Brunswick at this time. "About Septemebr 1 we will open bids for construction of new j bridges over Jackes Creek, Town. Creek and Bell Swamp on U. S. No. 17. One paving project also I may be included for Brunswick."! This morning public announce- j ment was made that bids on this work will be opened qn August 30. Bids also are being asked for 3.7 miles of sand-asphalt sur facing from Phoenix toward Acme. CONJURE SHOOTING ?(Continued from page ode) Other matters disposed of be fore Judge McLamb Monday in cluded : Elizabeth Hinsocker, speeding, fined $10.00 and costs. James A. Anderson, speeding, fined $25.00 and costs. Orbie Hewett, no drivers license, fined $25.00 and costs. Gladstone Grigsby, speeding, fined $5.00 and costs. Napoleon B. Barefoot, speeding, ordered to pay costs. Cecil Elliott Chestnutt, speed ing, fined $5.00 and costs. James Preston Butler, speeding, fined $10.00 and costs. Edna Fields Bryant, possession, 90 days in jail suspended on good behavior and payment or a rine | of $25.00 and costs. Herbert Parker, violating stock law, ordered to pay costs. George Karas, speeding, fined $10.00 and costs. Alfred B. Cheatham, Jr., speed ing, fined $10.00 and costs. Nat Rabal, possession, fined $10.00 and costs. Jackie Raymond Jones, speed ing, continued. Robert Edward Doughtry, speeding, fined $10.00 and costs. W. C. Darrow, speeding, fined $10.00 and costs. J. C. Riggs, speeding, continued. Harlee Ballard, non-support, continued. Calvin Everett, Jr., drunken driving, reckless operation, nol prossed. Isaac Jenrette, Isiah Jewett, equipment for manufacturing, 6 months on roads suspended on good behavior and payment of a | fine of $100.00 and costs. H. W. Rogers, ipcjjfl tinued. | Oliver Parker, K-J Thirty days on rosisJ on good behavior f<* |J and payment of costi. | Melvin Godwin, "J deadly weapon, nol prtj John Richard Bennajj ing, capias. 1 Ray Collins Tea^t J and possession, fined |g costs. | Chancev C. Smith, J operation, fined S35.0G J Read 1 lie Want] ELLEN'S Typewriter & Adding Machine Repair Service ? Southport, N. C Let us serve you. 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