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The State Port Pilot Southport, N. G. Published Every Wednesday i AMES M. HARPER, JR. .... Editor Entered a4 second-claas matter April 30, 1028, at the Post Office at Southport, N. C., under the Act of March 3, 1679. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR $1.50 SIX MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTHS 75 Wednesday, November 23, 1949 Thanksgiving Remembrance Ati this season of the year almost everyone feels kipdly toward his neigh bor and the care of the year seem to fade away with the summer. Perhaps it was because of this welling up of gratitude within them that the Pilgrim Fathers ob served the first Thanksgiving several centuries ago. Be that as it may, we still follow this great American custom, and most of us feel better for it. ' One good way to enjoy the full fruits of this yeai^s Thanksgiving Anniversary is to make plans to attend the Union Worship Service at the Presbyterian church Thursday jnprning. The histori cal background of this occasion is religi ous. . Another manner in which we may give practical expression to our feeling of heartfelt gratitude for the good things that hare come to us is to make an at tempt to help others. There is no finer way tO do this than to send or bring prac tical gift# to your county hospital on this Thanksgiving Day. Farmers Progress Take the case of Claude Gore. A few years ago his ideas about agri cultural practices underwent a great change,, and where he had been follow ing the old plan of cash cropping, he changed over to small grain and hay crops. Perhaps as by-produee of the latter de velopment he became interested in live stock to which his hay might be fed at a profit, and gradually he found himself the owner of more and more milk cows. A natural consequence was that eventu ally he was operating a milk route, serv ing customers in Shallotte. Recently he purchased several milk ers from Wisconsin and is now ready to go into the business of milk production on a large scale. He has a milking barn and other modern improvements almost completed, and as matters now stand he has one of the most promising farm ope rations in Brunswick county. It just goes to show you that there is no end to the possibilities of a good man, a good piece of Brunswick county land and a good amount of imagination and ambition. Notable Improvement We call attention to an article releas ed by the U. S. Department of Commerce calling attention to the fact that Bruns wick county manufacturing establish ments have increased the annual amount of value added by $2,857,000 since be fore the war. First, let us explain that the term "value added" means the value of manu-. factured goods in excess of the cost of materials. This means that the above sum of almost three million dollars is earned each year by Brunswick county business firms and individuals either as profits or as wages. Two things are significant in this con nection. The first, of course, is that there has been a phenomenal growth in income from manufacturing sources. The second is the revelation of the scope of that source of revenue for Brunswick county, which generally is classified as being without major industry. Kot only is our county making pro gress, but it is making it more rapidly than most of us realize. School buses now carry 22 per cent of all public school pupils to and from school. In 1920, the percentage .was 1-6 percent. Tilirty-nine states now have state asso ciations of school boards. Rural Electric Progress From the small beginning1 of 35 miles of energized line in December of 1939 and 400 customers, Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation has grown in 10 years to 1084 miles of line and 5,000 members. A meeting to mark the 10th anniver sary of the Brunswick REA will be held Friday of this week at the Waccamaw High School at Ash and should bring to gether a large portion of the coopera tive's membership. j The contribution REA has made to the economic and social development of this area is distinct and conclusive. Only those who have seen the youth of the na tion drift to towns and cities because| modern conveniences were lacking on the farm can appreciate the social im pact of rural electrification. The trend has been halted and there are some definite indications that the cultural level of farm families is rising to such an extent that towns and cities may well beware lest the urban com-, munities be found in the lower literacy) bracket. We congratulate the Brunswick Elec tric Membership Corporation and its manager, E. D. Bishop, and the board of directors for the progress that has been made. RALEIGH ROUNDUP By Eula Nixon Greenwood NOT FROM BAPTISTS? ... It was private ly admitted by leading Baptists here for the State Convention that Wake Forest must look outside Baptist ranks in North Carolina for suf ficient money to set u pa college in Winston Salem. P. S. Four representatives of the drive called on Multimillionaire W. N. Reynolds a few weeks ago?but at that time received little en couragement of a substantial contribution from him. niis was the talk at the Convention, but he still may be the ace in the deck. About a year ago when Wake Forest played Clemson in Winston-Salem, Twin City Baptists finally per suaded Brother Reynolds to see the game. A special box seat was arranged for him, no football-lover, and the Deacons looked about as sad as at any time during the season as the Clemsonites roared to another victory . . . THE TREND ... Insurance Commissioner Waldo Check reports that his department al most daily receives applications from groups in all parts of the State for permission to esta blish cooperative insurance companies. He be lieves that a public relations progTam is badly needed by the insurance companies. NOTES ... At least two of the Big Four coaches . . . Snavely and Walker . . . now write letters each weekend to their players of the previous Saturday. These are mailed or put in the boys' lockers on Monday and run some thing like this: "Your downfield blocking was particularly good Saturday, but in one instance you?". The note goes on to praise the boy on his good points and to explain the mistakes he made. . . . Latest figures show there are now 70 different telephone companies operating in North Carolina. Owners say it is impossible to improve service and do much expanding because of heavy taxes.... . . . and so the Government is going ahead with plans for a rural telephone program. . . . Those schools which have been looking to next year for a defeat of the State College basketballers should turn their sights else where . . . The freshman team this season aver ages over six-feet-four in height . . . The Dea cons (sometimes known as the Demon Dea cons) meet Baylor on the gridiorn next fall . .. University will play Notre Dame at South Bend . . . Seen: J. M. Broughton, Jr., nearly as large as his father, ambling along on Fayetteville St . . . Mrs. Brandon Hodges, wife of the State Treasurer, and Mrs. L. Y. Ballentine, wife of the Agriculture Commissioner and executive secret ary of N. C. Automobile Dealers, in pleasant conversation. . . . WHERE FROM? ... Out in Los Angeles, where anything religionwise and otherwise can happen, and often does. Dr. William Graham, 31, six-feet-three, is preaching to around 6,500 people each night. Time Magazine says he is' taking the West Coast by storm. He's been of fered a movie contract at a fabulous sum (which he of course turned down) and nearly all the ministers in Los Angeles have been to his huge tent to hear him. Time and the Associated Press said last week he ia from North Carolina, but none of the Bap tist leaders in Raleigh contacted by this column knew anything about him as of last Sunday afternoon. News reports say he is a Baptist, is president of the Northwestern Schools in Min neapolis, and Is leather-lunged, trumpet-lunged, and what-have-you. Some person in Raleigh is of the opinion he is a nephew of Sen. Frank Graham . . . but this ia hearsay (not heresy, Mr. Linotyper). Know anything about him? KETTLE OF FISH ... A few weeks ago the hostess at the Mansion was told to prepare a dinner for 12 people. She did it. Came time for the guesta to arrive, but nobody was present except Kerr Scott and his family. Hostess be came worried, took the matter up with the Gov ernor. He found a mistake had been made on the date. She was all put out. But the Gover nor put his arm around her shoulders in fath erly fashion and said: "Don't worry. I've al ways wanted a good bait of fish. Now we'll b?ve u." Rovin' Reporter (Continued from peg? one) was especially relative to the housing situation for employees at the present time and the ac cessibility of the nearby beaches. They have been sent full infor mation on all matters they asked about. If the recent rumors regard ing a 200 man club forming in Charlotte to develope Bald Head island have any foundation the promotors are picking something worth While. If a hotel was built on the island people would flock j there by the thousands the year round. It would be necessary to have a ferry running from South port to Fort Caswell, then to Bald Head and back to South port via Fort Caswell. With the River Road open, Caswell and the beaches developing, local people and outside folks whom we have talked to are of the belisf that there would be enough traffic for continueous profitable operation of the ferry all day long. The folks who central things on Bald Head island would have a gold mine, worked by the other fellow for free. Congratulations are in order for the Brunswick Rural Electric which will be celebrating its 10th j birthday at the Wapcamaw school Friday of this, week; Hie organiz ation has weathered all storms and grown from a swaddling in fant into a lusty youth. Along with many other things it has been taking a big part in the rapid development that ha? been going on in Brunswick county during the past few years. Present preparations for con struction activities at our beach es ami in southport are not pointing to a temporary boom. They are simply indicative that hundreds of people are getting ready to carry out long cheer ished intentions. A lot of people whom we have recently talked to have stated that they are only waiting the passing of the Thanka -giving, Christmas and IJew Year holiday to begin some real build ing. The holidays have never been found to be a good time to do much more than plan. Interup tions in worn atter u is once started are not desirable, especi ally when the people interested live some distance away. There will be t no idle skilled or un skilled construction labor at Southport, Fort Caswell, Cas well Beach or Long Beach after the first of the year, provided such workers do not flock In by the hundreds. Rockfish, even small ones when they strike unexpectedly, can put up an exciting battle. While she was fishing from the Engineers dock one day this week Mrs. F. ?Molleycheck got a strike that all biit paralyzed her. She was using very small hooks and fishing for sheephead. It did not take long for her to realize that it was no sheephead that had taken her bait, likewise she began to have doubts if 'she would ever land her fish from that high dock. She finally did, with some assistance from Connie Lupton, who happen ed to be working on the dock. It proved to be a rockfish, weighing 8 pounds and eight ounces. This is the first rockfish taken from any of the local docks this year. This week we are making the rounds with Tax Collector Ed ward Redwine, more to keep him company than anything else. A better reason, however Is that we are getting about in part of Brunswick that we seldom have an opportunity to visit. We sort of get a kick out of going around once in awhile and seeing what our farmer and other friends are doing. Starting out yesterday, it seems to us that there are plenty and unmistakable signs of a lot of improvements having taken place since we went over the same route just a year ago. We devoted most of Saturday afternoon going around with some energetic New Jersey truck growers who want to plant 20 or 30 acres of lettuce in the spring. They want to lease with the option of buying if they can grow lettuce here like they be lieve they can. Anybody, pre ferably near the coast where there is less danger of frost, who has such land that he is willing to lease at a fair price, may be helping to start up something new and profitable if he will ad vise us where it is. The folks will be back in two weeks to make a more extensive search for suitable land. These folks do not grab off just anything at a big price. They take samples of land that interest them and have it analyzed. "Things are looking good for the Southport area of Brunswick," so said County Agent A. S. Knowles this week. In a way, the county agent is mainly interested in farming. In another way it is within his job to do everything he can for the general develop ment and welfare of the county. He was alluring to the unmis takable trend towards building at Long Beach, Caswell Beach, Fort Caswell, Bald Head Island and Southport. A few days before talking to us Mr. Knowles stated that a golf course would bring more people to Southport than go to Pirtehurst. We agree with him, but with reservations?not even a golf course would build the town until the town has a hotel. Mr. Knowles was absolutely right in "one thing. We have a better climate than any place in North Carolina, and people love to come to places near the ocean. Plant growing at Orton is no longer a fad and as not been for a good many years. It has grown to be one of the biggest businesses in Brunswick. It is really a big industry, attracting customers from dozens of States. In past years the Orton Gardens came to be one of the most widely known spots in North Carolina. Now the nursery grounds are be coming equally well known. The fall and early winter planting time for camellias, azaleas and other plants has been a time of big business. The spring will be even bigger. Enlarged greatly each year, the Orton nursery new supplies a world of plants and flowers. It appears that the Pleasant Oaks Plantation on the River Road above Orton may become a big beef cattle project. Hargrove Bellamy, Wilmington wholesale druggist, who recently purchased the place, has already planted 14 acres of pasture and may go into the cattle raising business if the pasture does well. Pleasant Oaks is noted both for beauty and for its splendid small grain produc tion. For a good many years stnall grain has been a main crop on the plantation. There is little, if any question of how pastures will do. The duck and geese hunting ] sea.?on ojjens at noon next Tues flay,' November 29,th. With cool | Weather having come much earii t.- this winter, then should be Kuod duck hunting from the start. Reports from various sections of the county indicate more of these birds are here than are usually found. In past years there have been very few wild geese shot in Brunswick, some years none at all. This year a surprising thing to hunters is that many flocks of wild geese have been taking up at various points along the ?coast and on freshwater lakes. There should be some pretty good geese hunting this year, but in the interest of future sport it would be a good plan not to kill out all of the birds. The law will allow only one wild geese to be killed by a hunter in a day. One fellow who has lost noth ing this year by going fishing has been Mike Zezefelis, operat or of the Chrystal Cafe in Wil mington. Taking his son and some of the employees of the cafe e&ch Monday for the past four months, Mike and his party have never failed to make- a good catch. The last three Mondays their catches would have averaged around 5250.00 in value, each trip. De ducting $65. for the boat charges, SCHEDULE WB&BBUS LINE Southport, N. C. EFFECTIVE TUES., JAN. 20,1948 WEEK-DAY SCHEDULE LEAVES SOUTHPORT LEAVES WILMINGTON 7:00 A. M. 9:30 A. M. ?1:30 P. M. 4:00 P. M. 6:00 P. M. 7:00 A. M. *9:30 A. M. 1:35 P. M. 4:00 P. M. 6:10 P. M. 10:20 P. M. *?-These Trip? on Saturday Only. **?This Bus Leaves Winnabow at 6:10 Daily. - SUNDAY ONLY ? LEAVES SOUTHPOBT LEAVES WILMINGTON 7:30 A. 10:50 A. 4:00 P.M. 6:00 P. M. 9:00 A. M. 1:35 P. M. 6:10 P.M.. 10:20 P. M. Not Exactly News Hiree long distance calls one day last week came from widely separated sections of the country. Early in the morning M. W. Lindner called from Long Island and was interested chiefly in the weather down this way, probably because he plans to come down before long to engage in some winter truck operations. T7ie next was a call from New Orleans from Geo. W. Rappleyea, who currently is lining up op erations for a large sugar plantation in Cuba. And then a call from Orange, N. J., and L. T. Yaskell, former Southport postmaster. He wants to know about some hunting for his brother, Pete, but wound up listening to W. B. Keziah giving him a capsule report on recent fishing. Southport has had representation in New York for several consecutive weeks. First it was a vacation trip for Capt. and Mrs. H. T. St. George. Next a football junket for Mr. and Mrs. Tommie Garber. Then Mr. and Mrs. Davis Herring decided to combine pleasure with busi ness and enjoy a visit to the Big Town. Be fore their return Mr. and Mrs. Fred Willing' al ready had checked in for a vacation stay. And just to keep the chain going, although not on a strictly amateur basis, Edward Taylor is to report for work with a textile sales organiza tion there the first of next week. "We Were Strangers" starring Jenifer Jones and John Garfield, is the feature Monday and Tuesday at the Shallotte theatre . . . "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House", with Carey Grant in the role of the bewildred builders, is the Thursday ? Friday feature at the Southport . . . When County A|W' Knowles suggested that one of the ' 1 land uses possible would be the cor? I a golf course he struck a responsive^?] several citizens. '1 Among the off-season development ,1 Beach has been the completion of the J masonry cottage by som? Sanford Jj Erection of the new home of Kings EkJ the recent face lifting job on the w^': Station have greatly improved the \J of the business district of Shallot> Newton was standing high on a piw, angle shot at the burning boat in ^ i basin Sunday morning when the explo^J gas tank blasted him from his perch. gj it put a temporary damper on his trJ for on-the-spot news coverage with hu We suppose that during the past u Cherry McDonald, a sorrel saddle marts owned by Mrs. L. C. Fergus, has j, column more timeS than any other g beast. Well, here she is back again. Wt h Sunday morning with her present o*>i Pulwood aboard, and she was just as y. sassy looking as she ever has been in ^ Long since out of the colt stage, Ctom could have found a better home for he:^ Come Thursday and you'll know have been keeping a bird dog or just t| size pet. That's right; it's bird season: I Mike and his party have been coming along pretty well on the big end of the deal with the boat man. The party has a standing Monday engagement with the Idle-On of Captain Hulan Watts, The other night Mike told us that they got their fish and had their fun on these trips. Both of them mustered out after long periods of service, Captain Harry Lehew and Cap tain Sam Watts have both re cently retired from the U. S. Engineers service and moved to Southport. Captain Lehew was skipper of one of the big dredges attached to the Baltimore office. Captain Watts has been at Staten Island, N. Y., for many years and has had command of dredges in the New York harbor. Already moved back with his family, he is looking around with a view of buying or building a home. Cap tain Lehew has already bought a home and is nicely setled here. Born at Kures Beach and with his home in Wilmington until he moved here some months ago for Steady flying service as a fish spotter, Pilot Hall Walters has Reached the point where he can be trusted to stay here. There is little danger of his flying off for any length of time. He flys the 4-place spotter plane for the Brunswick Navigation Company. Going to Beaufort last week with the fleet for two or three weeks of operations at that point. Hall found there was no fish there yet. Grounded by no fish and bad weather, he came right back to Southport to stay until he could again take wing to look for fish. REA MEETING. (Continued Fr~ro fage One t last farm home in the area de siring service has been connected. At present the organization has a total of 1084 miles of lines and 5,005 customers. The distribution in the 4 coun ties is as follows: Brunswick? 460 miles and 2392 consumers; Columbus?593 miles and 2499 consumers; Robeson?10 miles and 28 consumers; Bladen?21 miles and 76 consumers. t The office and work head quarters are at Shallotte and E. ?>. Bishop, the manager, has been in charge of the organization since it was founded. He has a very capable office force composed of Mrs. Mae M. Sanderson, book keeper; Mrs. Lena Hawes, cashier; Mrs. Elizabeth L. Willis, clerk; Miss Ruby Gore, clerk: Mrs. Mozell W. Sabiston, work order clerk; Mrs. Virginia R. Bellamy, stenographer, and C. E. Tripp, assistant manager. care for families who would like to come to Caswell for a vacation some of the present buildings will be readied for house-keeping and will be rented as furnished apartments. TAX ORGANIZATION TO (Continued from page one) and an insolvent list of S3,872.74. W. P. Jorgensen, Brunswick county auditor who has served for several years as tax super visor, was reappointed to this post and was instructed to carry out the duties as prescribed by law. The board also approved a re quest that a 1.6-mile section of road in Town Creek township running from Dan Caison's place to W. C. Gore's be improved and put in all-weather condition. The sum of $15.00 was added to general relief. All county offices will close at noon Wednesday and will reopen for business on Friday. METHODISTS WILL Continued From Page One for a good beginning. Everyone j is invited to the worship services at the church which in reality begin on Sunday morning and runs through the week. I GOOD PROGRESS " | l Continued from p?j,, I gion, to having be? I organize the first of t|*, I and largest unit of tin s, Guard in North Carolai very much gratified it 5 sponses that have bees a the organization work. BRIEF SESSIONOT ! , continued rrom owen ' tinued. I Maggie Heard, possess? I tinued. W. W. Twitty, speeisj and continued. I Elmer Ray Potter, no cpe license, capias and coca 1 Harold Sandlin, sneemj. [and costs. MRS. McKEITHAN (Continued from ptp 1 lamy, C. H McKeithk Burnett and W. A Stori I ary pall bearers were F L way, J. J- Knox, J. LI Dr. E. G. Goodman, S 0! E. L. Krahnke, D. R ii R. H. McDougall ik " Hodges. Read The Wail THANKSGIVING It is well to pause at this season of the to take stock of the good things which1 happened to enrich our lives during the now drawing to a close. We are gratd our friends and customers for the confil and trust which they have show n in us. for their continued patronage. R. GALLOWAY General Merchandise SUPPLY, N. C. AUCTION SALE One business lot 26 x 56 on Moore Street One House and Lot 66 x 95.?7-room d?|k| Bay Street. Known as the C. M. Crapon Property in Port, N. C. SALE?7 0:30 A. M., December 8th, 1949, on theW I Prince O'Brien, Executor 01 Estrt<( C. M. Crapon . CINDER BLOCKS New And Used Blocks r or Immediate Delivei Complete Floor Sandkfig Equipment G. W. McGlfiERY V Southport, jL. C. STATE CONVENTION Continued From .Page One meetings. Often the key-note speakers at some of the meetings are nationally and internation ally known men from other de nominations. Caswell with its spacious grounds and facilities affords op portunities for recreation that places like Ridgecrest can not afford. Supervised and planned programs of recreation will be offered at each conference. To
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