North Carolina Newspapers

1^ pilot Covers Lnswick County THE STATE PORT ^SIXTEEN NO. 25 A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Most of The News All The Time 8-PAGES TODAY Southport, N. C., Wednesday, -August 24, 1949 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY fl.50 PER Yi prists Plan (flection For State Missions . Churches Of Bruns 65 County Urged To .Be Un.ng Up "State M.s p pay" Program ^VIDESERVICES Qf Most Important Lof Church Financed Jib This Method ^nd All Asked To Help Baptist churches of Bruns ' ,nIv are urged to begin ?t hf'jr Sundays scheduled L,t their "State Mission during the months of jjc and October. Missions has a great * -m the Baptist realm "this great channel of giv J churches that enables ?tuts of North Carolina to O^ir program into the ui everv corner of the State I u into the heart of the en States. ^ ^ Missions" means that i person in the field of edu jupplentary nature and ^ life will benefit from soirees. From its funds goes w ato the Foreign, Home jute Mission fields; from sturces goes Teaching into hmiaries. Christian colleges, ,, schools; from its re e goes healing into the hos ( {ram its resources goes Ming to the need into the is soir.es and old minister's i tptxy i juin objective of State as u to make North Car j great Christian state and j: Baptists "To Take North L for Christ" and to make C conscious of their need L every phase of the work K Convention. "Church Kr.ust bear in mind that K y .as-ir <wf ariog dtws : In the Hospital or Or- j Kp offerings for they come I the OS-Operative Program It Baptists and are set aside ual days in which they are f, says the Rev. W. R. tad. Every church Sunday i superintendent is asked to s plans to have a special j ly or Sundays set aside for tang and to give ? short k time on the program for Kwonary or the Moderator Bent State Mission Day in church. i Rev. H. M. Baker and the Hr. Moorehead are making > schedule of visitation for State Mission Day and will r. each church sometime ? the months of September October to make the appeal, i superintendent is asked to k touch with either of these 1 ?d let them know what w* will be best suited for Ktasion. It itf 1 Stmt Flathtt NtKBYTERIAN 1. M. Waggette returns this ^ from his vacation and re ' services will be held at 'port Presbyterian church The young people will ? 7:15 o'clock with preach *rvices at 8 o'clock. t POSTPONED ? which fell in torrents Sat ' afternoon wiped out all *> of holding the auction ?f the L. C. Brown pro 1 ?t Longwood and Satur September 3, has been set new selling date. Desir tosiness and residential lots ^ offered at that time. 1 broadcasting *? Joe Davis, who is in the 'J;r^ business at Little '? S. C., and who is doing father novel advertising in was the announcer ; OR in Worldland, Wyoni* before he went to Little Those who read his ad will readily agree he broadcasting. NICE ONES PuPP.v drum, black drum ' er nice small fish are now ? cau?ht about the docks , utllPort small boys. Some ' 'touMers are also being i Uls Hubert Fullwood P! pound flounder at Pigott shrimp house d Joe Swain caught &r the same after Second Tarpon BEAUTY. ? This 65-lb. silver larpon which Capt. Fred Willing is displaying on the rack at the Southport yacht basin was the second caught within one week by parties fishing from open skiffs. Capt. Bill Styron started things off a few days before with a 122-lb. whopper. City Of Southport Planning Clean-Up Property Owners Urged To Cut Grass And Bushes From In Front Of Dwel lings SOME WORK ALREADY - IS IN PROGRESS j Aldermen Also Preparing ,To Crack Dowp On Sale Of Licenses For Dogs Be fore Sept. 1 During the, remainder o fthis month "special emphasis will be placed upon cleaning up vacant lqts and grounds about the homes in Southport, and members of the board of aldermen are pre pared to offer every possible en- J couragement of this project. During the past week two I places which have been given a! good going over are the garrison grounds, which are being made ready for use as an auxiliary playground for school children and a portion of the Mark Fargarson lot Where these jtfbs are com- ! pleted and property owners are in need of some' help in carting off the remains of grass and bushes they sh'ould call the city I hall and ask for the use of the trash truck. The aldermen are determined that this clean-up campaign shall be general, and after September 1 lots whicfa are grown up and unkept will be taken care of by city labor, with costs of clean- 1 ing being charged against the, property. Another program which is due to get emphasis from the city i fathers during the next few days is payment of 1949-50 dog tax. These must be paid before Sept ember 1, with the license tag being displayed on the dog's col lar. Service Officer Ready With Form Supply Of Forms For Malt ing Applications For Divi dend On National Service Life Insurance Ready For Monday Crawford Rourk County Veter jans Service Officer, urges all , World War II veterans in this ! county to be sure they fill out | a veterans survey form at the | same time they apply for nation al service life insurance dividents. This survey form will be to their advantage in the years to come. National service life in surance dividend applications and veterans survey forms will be available at the American Legion hut at Shallotte and the Ameri can Legion room at Southport where members of the American Legion and Legion Auxiliary will assist veterans in filing these' applications beginning Monday, August 29, and staying open each evening until 8 o'clock through out the week. The county service officer will alternate between these two locations during the week. Sports Writer Set For Tarpon Jim Wilson of the sports de , partment of the Wilmington Star-News has based his cabin less rowboat at Southport with the laudable purpose of catch ing a tarpon during the first # good fishing weather. Likewise the . Coast Guard firm of Austin and White have acquired a splendidly, adapted I tarpon fishing -boat. It the tar pon do not take an off hour during their off hours from duty, they propose to astonish I local folks with a big 'un some time soon. L Rains Hamper Sport Fishing Fishermen Reported Good Luck On Days When Boats Were Ab!e To Go Out During Past Wsak If size counts, a 41-pound am berjack, caught by a Salisbury party aboard the Idle-On took first honors during the past week among the sport fishermen. However, a catch of 206 big Spanish mackerel by a Myrtle | Beach party was equally inter : esting. The week has been a Dad on with respect to the weather, j About all parties have content ed themselves with fishing just off shore for bluefish and mack" erel, $nd few have gone to the gulf where the big fish aboard. (With some of the boats not re | porting regularly the following I sums up the week: Moja, Captain Victor Lance: R. F. McCoy, M. Jones, Laurin [burg; Robert B, Jones, Jimmy Jones, Rev. Jas. A. Jones, Char loSte, 30 mackerel and 9 bluefish j. . . Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Page and Dr. W. L. RamsauSr, Kings Mountain, 4 bluefish, 44 mack erel, 2 barracuda, 1 albacore, 1 dolphin, 1 amberjack, 12 jack crevalle . . . Dr. and Mrs. W. R. Floyd, Minnie Walker, Mr. .and Mrs. R. T. Hayes, Louise Harkey, all of Concord, and Mr. and Mrs. Gleen Fraizer, Southport, 2 bar racudas, 87 bluefish, 15 mackerel. Idle-On, Captain T. H. Watts: Dr. W. H. Merritt, N. Y., Dr. Crederick, Durham, Dr. Paul Simpson, Raleigh, Geo. Johnson, Jr., Wilmington, 124 mackerel . . . C. L. Wyatt, G. E. Racel, Jim Willetts, M. A. Smith, W. M. Barnnger, W. C. Steen, all of Salisbury. 5 Spanish mackerel, 1 amberjack, (41 pounds) 5 monita, 6 barracuda . . . Mr. and Mrs. Bill Stott and children, Greens boro, 70 bluefish and mackerel . . . Mr. Thompson and party, Myrtle Beach, 85 large mackerel . . . S. T. Russ, J. O. Baldwin, Phillip Southerland, George Clare, Brooks Baldwin, Ben Waters, C. C. Pridgen, all of Myrtle Beach, 206 large mackerel. Cadet, Captain Hpward Victor: i Continued On Page Four Jury List For I September Term Of Court Drawn Two Murder Cases Are Sche duled For Trial During Superior Court Session Be ginning September 6th JUDGE HENRY L. STEVENS PRESIDING This Session Of Court Will Not Open Until Tuasday j In Order To Miss Labor Day Holiday Two murder cases will feature the September term of criminal court, scheduled to open on Mon day, September 5th. As a re sult of agreement among lawyers and court offcials, Cierk of Court Sa? T. Bennett says that the term will be one day late in opening to allow for the Labor Day holiday. The session will therefore open on September Cth. Jurors, witnesses and others need not attend until Tuesday, Mr. Bennett says. Judge Henry L. Stevens of Warsaw is scheduled to preside. The murder cases involve the killing of Luther Gause, negro of Shallotte, on April 17th. Har rison Grissett is charged with the crime and it is alleged that he split the head of the Gause negro wide open with an axe dur ing a quarrel between the two. Grissett is at liberty under a $2,500 bond. In the other murder case Ern est Singletary, young white man living near Southport, is charged with the fatal cutting of his father-in-law, Archie Withington^ two weeks ago. Singletary con fessed to officers that he cut the older man. Solicitor Clifton Moore set Singletary's bond at $5,000 which he has been unable to furnish. Other cases to come up are about the usual run, according to the Clerk of Court. Jury list for the . term is com posed of Ej. ,9, Sipunons, j.lrs? Etfie L. Long, 'Freeland; Lonzie M. Hughes, A. E. Babson, S. R. Stevens, W. W. Phelps, Sidney Phelps, L. H. Hughes and Mrs. E. H. Nelson, Ash; Mrs. Vera F. Arnold, Robert McLamb, E. V. Gore, J. M. Bennett, Virginia Hewett, E. V. Gore, Jr., W. E. Tripp, L. N. Hickman, Eldridge Ludlum, Woodrow Russ, Bailey Russ, Shallotte; Oscar Johnson, Rodway Sellers, Bolivia; Mrs. J. G. Swan, . E. H. Arrington, J. E. Carr, Ralph B. Johnson, South pqjt; W. A. Caison, Thomas N. Galloway, James. L. Galloway, Jessie W. Kirby, Freeman Kirby, Isaac Clemmons, Lonnie Gallo way,^ J. P. Hewett, Supply; G. W. Swain, Winnabow; G. V. Hollis, Leland. Death Driver Held For Trial Colored Woman Fatally In jured Sunday While Rid ing In Automobile Being Operated By Her Hus band Arthur Bennett, Wilmington negfro, is being held for a coroner's inquest as a result of a wreck in volving two cars on Route 17 be low Grissettowu, Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. Bennett's wife died Continued On Page Four W. B. KEZIAH It is very much in order In out own opinion, to commend County Agent Knowles, Veterans Train ing Teacher Tinga, at Bolivia the other agricultural teachers and the farmers throughout the coun ty for looking around for some thing that will balance tobacco. Tobacco, we think, is a good crop but there are limits to the ' a mount in which it can be produc ed If it is to bring a good price We have already about reached that limit. A general increase in the tobacco acreage will mean a like drop in prices. Something besides tobacco must be grown There may also be a limit to the profitalble production of hogs and and cattle, but here in Bruns | wick we have always been miles l from being in sight of that limit. I With good pastures to start with ' and good stock Brunswick farm ers could produce a treat deal of New Catholic Priest Takes Over Church The Reverend Francis M. Smith, recently appointed assist ant to . Rev. Frank J. Howard of "Sacred Heart Parish, White ville and successor to Reverend Walter J. Sullivan, lately in charge of Sacrsd Heart Church, Southport, was born in Phila delphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis M. Smith and nephew of Mrs. Evelyn Sin gletary Smith, formerly of South port. Father Smith received his educ ation in the parochial school sys tem of Philadelphia and at St. Mary's Seminary, Emmits burg, Maryland. He was ordained to the priesthood at St. Patrick's Church, Charlotte, on May 26th by most Reverend Vincent S. Walters, D. D. Bishop of Raleigh. Father Smith has also been given charge of St. Elizabeth's Catholic church in Delco. Home Economics Teachers Meet Teachers From Brunswick County Join With Those Of New Hanover For Ac tivities For Tfcis Y?ar Heme Economics teachers of Brunswick and New Hanover counties held their first meeting of the year Wednesday morning at New Hanover high school. Mrs. Wilma Baker, Waccamaw high school, presided as chair man pro tem, and a tentative pro gram for the year was set up. It was decided to have a rotating chairmanship. The Shallotte high school teacher was elected secre tary of the group, and Miss Betsy Cobb, New Hanover high school, reporter. Future meetings will be held in the second Wednesday of each month at 4 p. m. Monthly programs were sched uled with the following teachers in charge: September: "Demon stration of Clothing Shortcuts," Miss Frahces Jordan; October: Adult Education and Program Interpretation," Mrs. Wilma Bak er; November: Banquet; Decem ber: Visual Education, Miss Eve lyn Brown; January: "Effective Methods of Evaluation," Mrs. Margaret Paulson; February: "The Teaching of Housing", Miss Jean Bostan; March: "Problems in Teaching Consumer Buying and Family Economics, Miss Betsy Cobb; April: "Family Relation ships at the High School Level," Continued On Page Four Our Reporter meat, beef and milk at just as much profit as they would get from a greater amount of labor and time devoted to tobacco. The numerous farmers who are plant ing permanent pasturage are pio neering something that will some day mean a great deal to the county. The number of doctors own ing homes or building lots at our beaches has been a subject of comment for several years. Those fellows evidently know .good, healthy surrounding where they can rest. They certainly do not practice while spending their J vacations in Brunswick. Now comes the Rev. H. M. Baker who calls attention to the fact that our beaches are fast becoming popular with Baptist ministers. Next year with the Baptists hav Continued On Page Four Another. Brahma Bfill Added To Riegel Herd Riegel Ranch Gets Another Herd Sire As Prospects For i Enlarging Project Improves I Four lordly Brahama bulls now head the growing herd of cattle on the Reigel Paper Company ranch near Makotoka as J. B. Lattay, general manager of the woods and ranch, recently ac quired the 4th animal in Florida. The herds were started about three years ago with some 60 purebred and cross bred cows and three purebred bulls, two of them being young. The heard has been increasing steadily as only the steers are sold off for beef. All heifers are kept for herd in crease. So far as can be learned the raising of this breed of cattle in the wooded areas of Green Swamp has been a great success. After the first winter of cat Schools Of County Open Next Thursday * Change In Season On Marsh Hens Marsh hen hunters with an itching trigger finger may just as well stand their favorite shotgun back in the corner for another month, according to County Game Protector H. T. Bowmer, who reminds the sportsmen that the season does not open this year until Octo ber 1. Bowmer does not know upon what level this change was brought about, but says that he has instructions to enforce the change in regulations. The season will extend for 60 days fron} the new opening date. Local hunters depend each year upon the big tides of September to do their best hunting, so news of the change comes as a disappointment to them. Another Busy Day Of Court Traffic Violations Once Mors Help Fill Recorder's Court Docket Here Monday The Monday, session of Bruns wick county Recorder's court was over by mid-afternoon, but only after a number of cases, most of them growing out of traffic viola tions, were disposed of as follow: Martin Mintz, no operators license, fined $25.00 and costs. Geo. L. Bacon, Jr., speeding, continued. Russell G. Simmons, speeding, fined $15.00 and casts. Cameron M. Nuttall, reckless operation, fined $25.00 and costs. Elizabeth R. Snider, speeding, fined $10.00 and costs. John E. James, speeding, not guilty. Mrs. Minnie Holden, no opera tors license, fined $50.00 and costs. Alonzo Leon Hooper, posses sion, fined $10.00 and costs fine remitted. Jolly Bernerman, possession, fined $50.00 and costs. William F. Hardy, public drunk ness, fined $25.00 and costs. Edward E. Caraway, speeding, fined $10.00 and costs. Braxton Bragg Hodges, Jr., al lowing minor to operate car with ( Continued On Page Four) Commissioners In Routine Session Adoption Of 1949-50 Budget Recently Advertised In The Pilot Made Final; Mc ' Ewen Employed As Court Reporter The second meeting in August for members of the board of coun ty commissioners saw as its most important matter of business the adoption of the budget as ad vertised several weeks ago in this newspaper. Dwight McEwen was employed as court stenographer for Bruns wick county at a salary of $100.00 for each week of court or portion thereof. ' The commissioners authorized Jailor G. D. Robinson to have the repairs recommended by the grand jury made to the Bruns wick county jail. Mrs. Blanche Gore was reliev ed of 1948 taxes due to error in listing. Mrs. Fannie Sullivan was relieved of $3.00 dog tax. tie raising many miles of the fire lanes that give the wood lands protection from forest fires were planted in grasses, mostly Ky 31, fescue, ladino clover and lespedeza. These fire lane pas tures did exceptionally well and during the past winter and spring real pastures were started with acres, is described as a beauty, the same grass mixtures. One pasture, said ,to cover 80 with the grass now 12 to 18 inches tall, as thick as it can stand and with the field level un broken. On account of the fine growth it is possible that this field be cut for hay in the near future. In other pastures and fire lanes the cattle will be allowed to do the harvesting. County Superintendent J. T. Denning Announces That Everything It In Readiness For Fall Tsrm VACANCIES IN FACULTY FILLED Superintendent Urges Par ents To Send Their Child ren To School First Day And To Keep Them Going J. T. Denning, superintendent of schools for Brunswick county, said last night that things are in good shape for the opening of the fall term next Thursday, September 1. All schools of the county will open on that date. At a principals meetihg held !here Monday it was revealed that j complete faculties have been [rounded up for each of ihe five I consolidated schools. At South Iport there still remains the pro blems of assigning their work for the year to the assembled teacher personnel. The superintendent urges par ents to see to it that all children of school age are in school the first day and that they attend regularly. "This is the only way that a child can realize full bene fit from his school work," Mr. Denning pointed out. 'It also is important that teachers are al loted upon the basis of average daily attendance, and in some in i stances it may be possible to get | additional teacher strength upon I the basis of an' increase atten | dance. Youth Revival At Chapel Hill Young People Of Baptist Church Near Shallotte Will Assume Roles Of Re sponsibility During Meet ing Plans have been completed for the Youth Revival that will be gin at the Chapel Hill Baptist church of Shallotte on next Sun day evening and run through the following Sunday, September 4th. The entire workers staff for the revival will be made up of young people of the churqh and the messages will be brought each evening, beginning at 8 o'clock by the Rev. Billy Rivers, a young ministerial student of Furman University at Greenville, S. C. who was a schoolmate of W. R. Moorehead, missionary for the Brunswick Baptist Associa tion. The Rev. Mr. Rivers comes highly recommended for this the first Youth Revival that has ever been held at the Chapel Hill church and all of the members of the church are requested to be present for this meeting. The choir will be under the direction of Mrs. W. J. Hewett, the music will be furnished by Mrs. Lewellyn Gray, a member of the Chapel Hill church. The ushers will be composed of Misses Cecilia and Marrianna Tr.'pp, the offering bearers, Dwane Tripp and Jimmy Stone; the program committee, Miss Polly Bennett and Miss Cheers; welcoming commit tee, Mrs. Dixie Cheers, Mrs. Goley Woodrow Russ. Each night will feature special music from the Junior and the senior choirs and also there will bee a fifteen minute hymn festi val each evening in which the entire church will jqin. The pas tor of the church, Rev. Ira F. Britt, and the deacon board of the church urge each member to be present. Chapel Hill church has Jong been recognised as one OONTmUHD ON PAOC ? Whiteville Leaf Mart Close To 20-Million Mark Sales Now Stand At 18,6M^ 320 Pound*, According To Report of Supervisor Dave S. Neilson OBSERVERS BELIEVE 30 MILLIONS LIKELY Half Of 1949 Crop Belieftf| To Have Been Sold; Priff , Average Considered Satisfactory Selling over a million pound* of tobacco per day for the PM* [fourteen days has been the re cord of the Whiteville Tobacpo market as the season total qoijr stands at 18,664,320, according to Dave S. Neilson, sales supervisor on the local market. At the conclusion of sales yes terday on the Whiteville maifct, Neilson voiced his opinion quu the market would sell over tto 30 million mark by the end <*'. the season. "Already", he S^d, "We are over 3,000,000 pound#' ahead of the 1948 season and itltt going strong". , Citing a few of the statistic*, on the local market, the supervi sor estimated that by tomorrow night the Whiteville market "W^U be just a shade under 20 milUpn pourfds sold In nineteen selling days". The average for the rea son has remained steady through out the past weeks with the spa-' son average now at $52.88 fwc hundredweight. The heaviest poundage la onfl " single day on the Whiteville mar ket was recorded on August 18, the tenth selling day, when 1, 155,897 pounds were sold in the; 12 warehouses that comprise the Whiteville market. The lightest.' day was on the fourth selling ? day of the market when only 785,068 pounds were auctioned. The highest single average re corded during the season so Cse. for over a million pounds, wa* an August 15 when s *53.21 aver age was ported tar ' 1,155,897 pounds. With the low average recorded in the Eastern Belt opening, growers, from all parts of thq state are reportedly seeklrig sti es on the Border Belt, where,- jyj parently, higher prices are pre Continued On Page Four. ,.,,J ? ? ? '?} . | Young Democrats Meet September - _ * Edward H". Redwine, Pmi? dent, Has Called Meeting For Purpose Of Election; Of Officers And Delegate# President Edward H. Redwiws of the Brunswick County Younjg Democratic Club is calling ^ meeting to be held at the Shal lotte school house Wednesday night, September 7th. The meet ing is for the purpose of elacti ing officers for the year dele gates to the State Conventloa.^ The State Convention will ijer held at New Bern September 17. President Redwine states that he hopes to have Solicitor CJJf* ton L. Moore or Congressman C. B. Deane or Cangressman F*J Ertel Carlyle as speaker at ihd meeting. At any rate, he Hysj they will have a good speaks^ I All democrates, young and eld are invited to attend this msstq Ing, which will open at 7 :8u o'clock. M I Tide Tabte Fallowing Is the tide taM? for Southport during the Mdft week. These hours are spprtfB-,, mately correct and were fur*' lshed The State Ftrt Pilot through the courtesy of Hat Cape Fear Pilot's Association High Tide Low TMs Thursday, Aug. 25, 8:40 A. M. 2:85 A. M. 9:05 P. M. 2:51 P. Mi Friday, Aug. 26, 9:82 A. M. 8:19 A. 9:52 P. M. 8:41 P. M. Saturday, Aug. 27, t* 10:25 A. M. 4:04 A. j? 10:41 P. M. 4:88 P. Mi Sunday, Aug. 28, r-r 11:19 A. M. 4:51 A. M? 11:88 P. M. 5:28 P. SC. Monday, Aug. 29, 0:00 A. M. 5:48 A. M.'. 12:15 P. M. 6:27 P. E Tuesday, Aug. 80, 0:28 A. M. 6:88 A. Jl 1:17 P. M. 7:82 P. M? We<kirsday, Aug. 81, 77. 1:27 A. M. 7:88 A. M. 2:21 P. M. 8:97 P. Ifr.