- The State Port Pilot
Southpert, N. G.
Published Every Wednesday
JAMES M. HARPER. JR Editor
! Entered a a second-class matter April 20, 1028, at
the Post Office at Southpert, N. C? under the
Act of March 8, 1870.
SUBSCRIPTION rates
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;ONE YEAR $1.50
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MONTHS 75
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Wednesday, December 7, 1949
I The Miracle Worker
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! In our boyhood we lived in the coun
! try and we well remember how much we
J looked forward to our visits With our
i grandparents, who lived in a nearby city.
Tc our child mind this was like stepping
? into another world, one that was gay and
: bright and full of fun ; and while we al
! ways were glad to return to our home
! and immediate members of the family,
i the end of one visit to our grandparents
! marked the beginning of our anticipa
! tion of the next.
And as we look back on these memo
I ries of our childhood we are impressed
! that the one thing that made the big
difference in conditions at home and our
grandfather's house was electricity.
There were electric lights, of course.
And there were street lights and flash
j ing electric signs which were worth as
many trips downtown after supper as
could be promoted. There was a steam
furnace, but it was fed by an iron fire
man whose motivating impulse was elec
| tricity. And the movies, also electric.
; Later, of course, there came radio ; and
it came first to the city.
And then electricity began to be avail
able in the smaller towns. Soon it spread
to the areas immediately surrounding
these towns. And finally this modern
miracle was brought into the strictly
rural homes.
Even when we used to vistfHkt.?r&nd
! father's house, there was considerable
question in our mind regarding the rela
tive merit of life in the city and life in
.the country, and out of loyalty we usual
ly took up for the country even though
we sometimes doubted our own argu
ment. But with the coming of electricity,
there no longer was the slightest doubt
in our mind. It was life in the county, a
jmile ahead of the noisy, crowded con
ditions of the city. For electricity
brought to the rural resident all of the
conveniences that formerly had been as
sociated with life in the city, and it did
not take away one single attraction that
had been associated with country life.
And the agency which brought elec
tricity into most of the rural homes was
IRE A.
Which Shall It Be
The next time you hear somebody be
moaning the trend toward centralization
pf government in Washington and the
resulting high cosft of taxes, don't stop
listening. Let him talk on, and the chan
ges are that pretty soon he will hit upon
feome phase of governmental service of
Jjvhich he does not approve, or he will
mention some service which he himself
figures the government owes the people.
: And right there is where the trouble
jjomes.
One reason why we have so many gov
ernment employees now is that we have
developed a demand for so many servic
es which we have comte to expect from
the government. The tremendous cost of
the annual budget of the United States
has resulted from the same thing.
! We want our taxes to be reduced ; but
te want the government to do more of
is and more of that. There will be no
material reduction in taxes until the ave
rage citizen is ready to see the United
States get back into the business of gov
erning and abandon its growing status
of the capital of a Welfare State.
: If we really want economy and un
questionable integrity in our government
tjien we must go back to the attitude of
dur forefathers, who thought the gov
ernment was something for them to sup
port, not something to support them.
1 We don't know anyone who's fast
enough to keep up with his good inten
tions.
Cemetery Problem
We have heard much in recent months
about the Southport cemetery and what
should be done to improve its condition.
To be honest about it, were it not such a
serious problem we long since would
have tempted to say we were tired of
hearing about it and let the subject drop.
Our suggestion if followed will elimi
nate a let of unnecessary discussion and
should result in some positive action.
There is a committee appointed by the
Southport Lions Club to study the mat
ter. We think that it would be a good
plan to determine the number of families !
who own plots in the cemetery and who
have loved ones buried there. When a I
'complete list has been drawn up, figure'
the cost of perpetual care of the ceme
tery, pro-rate the amount among the re
sponsible lot-owners who still live in the
community, then call a meeting of these
people and tell them what plans have
been submitted and a permanent orga
nization has been named to carry out;
these plans, we believe the citizens will!
give dependable financial support to the j
cemetery project.
Again And Again
Under a Clinton dateline appears the
following item :
"Six persons, including a father and
his four small children, died today as
exploding kerosene turned a farmhouse
into a flaming deathtrap.
"Sheriff Perry Lockerman said Ernest
Autry, building a fire in a stove, appar
ently poured kerosene on hot coals. The
fuel exploded in flames which licked
through the five-room house."
Although it seems likely that people
will continue to take chances, we feel!
obligated to remind our readers again j
and again that kerosene should not be;
poured on hot coals. Such obituaries
aren't pleasant to record.
for the Christian Laymen's Mission, was I
quoted by listeners as saying: "Divorces j
should take place during courtships." It.j
isn't particularly important whether
those are her exact words, but it is read
ily apparent what she meant.
When you flatter a man, you're just
telling him what he already thinks about
himself.
RALEIGH ROUNDUP j
By Eula Nixon Greenwood
NOTES . . . Dr. H. O. Lineberger, prominent
Raleigh dentist, suffered a serious heart attack
recently. A native of Gaston County, he grew
up with former Gov. Cherry. Cherry as an
orphan lived with Dr. Lincberger's parents,
grew up with him, and earned his board and
room by working on the Lineberger farm . . .
Private insurance companies, which have look
ed on helplessly while 51 school administrative
units joined the State Insurance Plan, are now
planning to decrease their rates somehow to
meet those of the State . . . Travelor Kerr Scott,
who within the past few months has visited
Colorado and roamed the Midwest sightseeing,
has bought cows in Missouri, hunted pheasant
in the Dakotas, was in Mississippi and Cali
fornia last week . . . will be in New York
next . . . but is expected to spend the Christmas
holidays at Haw River . . .
. . . Garland B. Porter, former W-S Journal
reporter and kin of the Surry County Cock
erhams, ex-Southern Adv. Mgr. for Hearst and
at one time director of the State News Bureau
(1U43), blew into Raleigh from New York Sat
urday for the Va-Car. game. He is now hitting
it rich as general manager of "Southern Ad
vertising and Publishing" in Atlanta . . . and
has a young wife, the former Miss Ruth Vail
of Edenton . ... He was reared by his aunt,
the late "Miss Nancy" Cockerham of Jonesville
in Yadkin County ...
. . . The best, cheapest, and most beautiful
cookbook now available in North Carolina is
"Favorite Dairy Recipes of North Carolina"
Send 50 cents to the Publications Division, N.
C. Agriculture Dept., Raleigh . . . and get one
or a dozen fancy and economical Christmas
presents . . .
. . . Carolina's Charlie Justice, who was in
strumental In getting more Southerners in one
body north of the Mason-Dixon Line than any
man since Gen. Robert E. Lee, will, alas, romp
one more time as a college player . . . Jan. 2
in Dallas . . . Carolina will play Notre Dame
at Kenan Stadium in 1952 . . . Around 30,000
went to N. Y. for the N. D. game. Did Lee
get North with that many?
. . . Now that the William Neal Reynolds
Coliseum is ready at N. C. State, Raleigh is
going to make an attempt next week to get the
Southern Conference ? Basketball Tournament
(now at Duke) back to the Capital City . . .
The Coliseum can seat 17,000 . . . about 5,000
more than Duke. ... It has a portable basket
ball floor ($12,000) . . . and is equipped to pro
vide ice for the State's first hockey games . . .
Everett Case, State basketball coach, told fri
ends last week that all types of events will be
staged at the Coliseum, including Barnum Bai
ley-Ringling Bros, circus next year . . . He re
fere to it as the "South's Madison Square Gar
den" . . . Total cost of building and equipment:
a little over $3,000,000 . . .
. . . All of North Carolina's more Important
Big Four basketball games will be carried over
a 40-etation network . . . Ray Reeve, the ann
ouncer. . .
f he Rovin' Reporter
Continued From Page One
One of the nicest things to"
come to our attention recently
; was the way that Brunswick peo
i pie and many from New Hanover
i came to the aid of Mr. and Mrs.
Bryson Hickman. Their home be
tween Bolivia and Southport was
destroyed by fire. The couple
have 10 small children, the young
est was in the hospital at Wil
mington and the parents went to
bring it home. When they return
ed they found nothing left of the
home and furniture but a pile of
ashes. In this time of trouble to
a large family the responses were
quick and gratifying. We have
not learned just how much aid
was given, but it is said to have
been generous.
Things are fast taking on a
Christmas look throughout Bruns
wick. Decorations are rapidly get
ting into place and business hous
es are putting on a fine stock
of seasonable goods. ^ At Shallotte
and Southport preparations are
well underway for community
Christmas programs at which
time the deserving needy are al
ways looked after as well as pos
sible. Although other places
throughout the county are well
so well organized, it is the custom
to follow the same practice in a
bout every community in the
county.
This is a time of the year when
Jimmie Woltz at Long Beach and
others in Southport and through
out the county are good for noth
ing except bird hunting. Jimmie,
however, did take time off this
week to come in and ask us when
they are going to get telephone
service at Long Beach, Caswell
Beach, Fort Caswell and Holden
Beach. We expect that Mrs. Har
ris Nelson of Leaksville-Spray
and Caswell Beach will be get
ting into our hair about the same
thing next time she sees us. All
we know is that our good friend,
O. G. Baine, manager of the Wil
mington District of the South- j
ern Bell, has told us that all of j
the facts relative to the need of j
extension of the service are now
in the hands of the Bell people,
awaiting action of some sort.
Frequently someone writes or !
sees us personally to ask who is j
the eldest man or woman in '
Bi-unswick county. This question !
stumps us for the very simple !
reason that we do not know the
answer. We believe that Mr. and
Mrs. R. Will Davis of Southport,
married happly for 63 years, are
the longest married couple, but
that does not necessarily make j
either one of them the oldest per- 1
son in the county. We are in the j
position where we want to ask j
our readers to write and tell us of [
anybody in Brunswick wh? <is 90 |
y?|rs old or older. Plea?ft give
tMir ages and where they live.
If such old people do not belong'
to your Own family It Should ndt
cause you to hesitate about writ
ing to tell us about them.
Except for the years when the
boys were all in the service, it
is doubtful to us if a season ever
went by without at least two deer
being added to the meat storage
on' the farm of our friend, R. L.
Phelps, of the Juniper Creek
section of the county. Mr. Phelps
has always been a mighty hunter
In his own right. So have been his
five or six boys. They still are.
Only three of the boys are still at'
home but they would allow for'1
six deer in a season. These with
the two that Mr. Phelps person
ally gets and the bear or two the
boys kill each year add Up to
quite a bit of meat. Couple or so
years ago these folks offered us'
a bea ham if we would go around '
to the cold storage at Shallotte
and get it. We doubted our abili
ty to chew the thing up.
A few weeks ago we had a,
story about an undertaker driving,
to the home of Johnny J. Arnold,
late one night. He had been sent;'
to get the body of Johnny and the',
expedition was somewhat pre
mature. The story created some
interest and went around consi
derably. For the information o {
the folks who may still be inter
ested, we passed Johnny's home
the other day and saw him otitj
in the field, still digging potatoes.
Have you an interesting oij
unusual person in your neighbor-?
hood, man or woman, white orf
colored, boy or glri. Anybody
( that is unusual or is doing the
1 unusual. Folks or things thatf;
should have a writeup or some
sort of mention ? It will be ap-'
precieted if readers of this eol-t'
umn wiH write us e/r tell us a-j
bout such people or things. Please
give what details you Win to help'
make intre sting Mention.
It is a time of the .year when
we should be having rejxyrts from
Mr. Warren at shallotte PeintJ.
and Mrs. Bill Grady et the Hold-i
en Beach Ferry relative to their,
catches of roefcfish. Bo far this
year Mrs. Mollyeheck at Botith
port has been sftandihg out alone
in making catches of these fish.
Town Creek folks, too, should be
sending In some reports of rttck
fish catches, since they are at
one of tire favored spots for rock
fish. ? ;
Each year since the war Rich
mond Galloway of Supply has
built a home at Long B4a?h. It
is a sort of Winter's work for
him and he always sells them in
the . summer. When we met up
with him thiB past week Mr.1
Galloway told us that he was
planning to build a substantial
home at Long Beach soon after
Christmas. We have an idea ttyat.
the turn of the year will find Mr."
Gallowoy having plenty of torn
The Refrigerator with Exclusive
SYSTEM
Come in and see how Norge, with S-D-F, turns
itself off, defrosts itself, then turns itself back on
again? automatically? while you sleep!
GCT THE
INSIDE STORY TOO I
Let us show you bow Norge
provides more refrigerated
gf% f \ yv of storage space for all types of
% (.J (J %M fa| food, with lots of space for
t/J %J Ks ? c/ cJ frozen foods aad ice cubti.
ROBINSON'S
SOUTHPORT, N. C.
Not Exactly Neves'
The green shoulders of thte new fy pafred
portion of the 1tlV<r fcoad help make this an
attractive approach to town . . . 1*ul Maash
has tire pffise fflplht WMfeft Of ihe community
In the form of M?veh *u zry ftrewn pups which
are * straight creta between Boykln and Gheaa
peak retrfeyer. Hiere ft little telUng wfaether
the pups will "W efnall lijte their father or
large like their mottet, btft regardless o t their
site every one of them should kn*w what you
mean when you eay "fetch". ' . ?
Toughest luck In the dog line l|ftppened to
Ed Weeks ov*r the wr?k-ehd. He jfot his prise
pointer, Dan, back from a Duplin county train
er Friday, had a good bird hunt with him Sat
urday, then found him dyin|: from a dose of
poison Sunday . , . TTte anmlfcl meeting of the
GWdltth XTtob, which throw* tjie ntfe book away
tor otK meeting each year with the President
of the United States, 1s a love feast compared
to the grilling the Rev. L. O. Herman, IVrtl
twlster of the Southport lioiu Club, was sub
jected "to at the nmrsd^ meeting by four visit
ing Methadftt ministers.
Hue B-L-M Gift Shop probably htt already
pome sort of record for expaneion, having doubl
ed the sire of Its quartern in less -than the one
month it ha* been to operation ... ite OiMst
mas oard series "Southport Scenes," done by
Art Newton and on Me this wtefek by memBefs
of Southport Woman >e Club, have been quick
to catch the public fahey, and *vin those who
had already puritiased most 0f ?
greeting cards have added a few '
Mall to folks away from here. 5
Manager B. L. Furpless is gtoat, .
over the fact that he was showir. >
Sand" before one o.' the leading
theatres. He also thinks he has ? J*
Thursday and Friday in "UnU^
starring Sonny Tufts . . "The BetuJ
prom Bashful Bend" is the feature a*
White, Jr? Is expecting to pack
and Tuesday down at Shallotte th^
Several local duck hunters have
look.
? W# never heard it recommended y '
builder ih the sense of restoring nit?J
St. Augustine grass will build up v
any given area more rapidly than J
growth we ever have seen . . . with r,n
equipment moving in all along the
at least two men who formerly sou ,
mutes and horses to Brunswick county
now are featuring a tractor lint to (
with their business. They are Sam j_
WhtteviHe and J. P. Newton 0f rJ
TWey boast that they will sell you (jy
Or they'll trade you a tractor for i ^
a mule for your tractor.
Fa We fire alarms may be annoyi^
never ftisi too much when we go
to one. When there is no fire nobody i*,
home, his business nor his life.
pa ay in (his Long Beach building
activities.
Robert Sulllvah'a ( "Wlnn-A-Be
Grill" at Winnabow is * credit to
Brunswick county. A a 'the name
Indicates, it is at Wihnabow on
Route 17. It Is admirably located
to be seen by the motorists, both
?coming and going, and is just as
attractive outside as it is Inside.
In addition to the store and grill
which are already thriving, It ta
the plans to ultimately build
tourist cabins.
To find one of the most polite
and obliging ? colored men in
Brunswick county one only needs
to go to the stor? of Lonnie
McCoy near Northwest station in
North west township. Lonnie is
a combination farmer and country
merchant and has been carrying
?>n business and farming about
all of his life. When the tax col
lector is making his rounds Lon
nie's stdre is a regular place of
call and Lonnie would be the flrft
person to pity up Uiere If his poli
teness did not cause him to stand
aside and wait until the usual
cro?wd ft fihfshed.
Has anybody stopped to recog
nize the fact that Brunswick
county has ssven women post
masters, as against only three
men holding these positions? -The
womenfolks are Mrs. (jhadwick at
Navassa; Mrs. U. L. Rourk at
Leland; Mrs. A. P. Henry at
WfnnabOw; Mrs. L. L. Edwards
at Bolivia; Mrs. J. J. Hawas at
Supply; Mrs. Ernest Parker at
Shaltotle Chd Mrs. L. C. Brown
at Longwootl: MOtiTODcs' holding
postmaster jobs fn the eouffty ate
Sir. Inman at frrtelaWJ; TOiand
aimnrons at ASfj and Betnice ftttss
at Southport.
Contractors bwitdtng the detottf
at the Towji Creek bridge fttve
eomjHebed Mre tm/poraty Utruc
Mi* that, ia W be -*?cd ft>t -trafftc
while the. I ntw< bridge is b<Hng
built, ft t? WldmtoW that the
wwic -*? ;tfc*?|r : the m'
structure wi* fctgfei vm w**k. ?1
addition *** Wing
wider it Sfili.taW <*. ?llf?Uy W
ferertt approach. Work it Widen
ing the. Hwm'Mawlt *Mge
is already tiiidettaitr ?Ml it ?? MM
that ww* . ' ?H the SMI S*amp
struct u* win Underway *#on.
All thr? of tftfete ttttdfca We ?K
Route 17. i"
Using.* ?Ht ?? <nl try?g
for bait ' last week, CravWort
Rourk ?M||t ? amai] Hw tar
pon, .With Mail' aWl
here, It la entltfly reasonable t<j
suppose that Ifrprt ate also fame
large ones in the waters are tod
Bald Head island. One thijg; is
eure, with &U Btryon. Fred Wll
ling and others having established
the fact that are plenty ?t tar
pon in the waters daring the sum
mer naeaca for sportsmen seeking
"these and other big: fish that &
bound In the waters.
Hra 41. ?. HoldelO KtW tts S*t
trtHay that she coQW fOtm the
name of the girl home fh?m col
lege for Thanksgiving and who
kissed and hugged us. It SU rais
es us very fmich that Mia could
truesa that, the picture of the
REA office gWls, eftewhote In this
issue, is only typical ot the wee
looking gala at Sh&llotte. Ail but ?
two of the bunch are married. |
On the other hand, the Coastal
Drug company, the Shallotte Soda
Shop, Shallotte Trading- company,
Coast Road Service Station, and
other ptac*s all have some fair
to middling nice looking girls that '
wear neither' diamonds or wedding
rings.
About all of the Sotithport 1
commercial fishing interests are
port of up in the air over the
Coast Guard Mat being called
to Norfolk for ten days of over- 1
hauling. Stationed here In the
middle of things, that little boat I
could and did look after things
from above Wrightaville to the
South Carolina line. Wheh it Is
here it is a safeguard to life and
property along a big area of
coast. We believe the local fish
ing interests were right In their
claim that the best should not
have been sent away for tan days
without another boat of equal ef
fectiveness coming in to stand
watch during her absence.
It is a very likely bet that the
cold weather has already enabled
duck hunters to get their day's
limit at least one time, and there
have been plenty of hunters. Bald
Head island has hftd more hunters
and more. guns than at ^ny t|mte
since the war.
Now building a packing house
oh thHfr bluebetry tiear
Sotithport, B. M. Graham and T.
fc\ keys, Jr., say that they are
?wry maoh pleased at the grtrtrth
made by their blueberry bashes
flaring the pait year. With a good
acreage In producing plants, ex
pectations are for a pretty big
crop of blueberries next spring.
Thousands of additioiuil plants
will be started early in the year.
The blfcns to ultimately have
200 acre* growing 1ft the blue
berries. ?
. 1. inn. ,
?fre Willis Super Market in
VpytjttKtc, witr its rorrnat op?r
lit* yesterday, found Itself In en
tirely new. quar^rs, without hav
ing moved. H new cimtevMock
building, two stories In height
and with $tob outside flnllh of
stucco, was "built around and ov
er their old More building, In i
which business wertt ?ri as tMia).
When all' of the outside of the
new building was completed the
old oM inside whs torn out. With
the did building already having
a good cement floor, futures and
good! remained where they were
until a two toot border was aMed
to the cemiht floor to extend It
tfte width "and length of the new
building. Mr. Willis has bought
aM at the 4h*Uote Trading Com
pany Stock ?t gtpcette*. added
them to what he had and is now
adding much in the way ot new
stock.
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The East Arcadia boys and gtris,
a rangy outfit, are to meet toe
Brunswick Training School bays
and girls here Thursday night, i
Both schools have good outfits I
and the teams have about shar
ed honors in year*, tbtaor- 1
row night's meetlhg at the totor- ]
ed school should pack the gymn- '
asium aM -folks go and who i
have Yt***r before attended a <
Negro basket game should take ]
along some cotton with i
stuff their ears, TV (
squad usually makes s
racket In the wooden
Game Protector H T, &J
has come forward this
some exact information wj
the Federal Wild Foul J
laws. He says that four t
and two geese are alio** (_
ter in a single day. 8k?teJ
begin half an hour Mini
rise, but it must end uifeJ
fore sunset. All hunters rrjl
a federal wild fowl junjF
It must be in their pa
not left at home or in t <
The Shallotte Tradinj <
at Shallotte has underpo]
a change during the put J
Its whole big grocery
was sold out to A. B. M
space formerly used for |J
Is now providing additailT
for a large stock of Q.t|
goods and seasonable drr |
for the Christmas trade. E
Kirby, owner of the
?trading company, said
that the change to specuia|
dry goods had already bql
bout a gratifying
volumne of sales.
Some current ktppeA
"mentioned to us in ShalaT
urday were Mr. and 111
Boyd are moving into Ir
home at Longwood this m
Mrs. Boyd, as we hift
talk to her old man. tdd i
the place was very prefl
Mr. and Mrs. Detail r
havfe moved into an iffi
while their home it beiifi
pletely remodeled *
Mrs. Eli Kravitz are ptoa
build a new home early *
new year ... J. W. SflJ
Supply told us that lie >r
ting tired of going
store in Shallotte and tvtto
there ahead of him
some of the girls
Captain J. B. Ow* 1
that the menhaden IIMfl
smarter than they
especially the older oa?
eome down the coast ij
faH or early winter. TM
to be regarded the mo< '
things that swim. Nw >"
or roe menhaden, seem tc
habit of swimming deep ?
oome down the North ? ?
coast. With boats and *?"
to spot them only with f?
it follows that less ?
the roe menhaden (
the upper North Ciro??(
each year. The fish g ? #
port arid few of them a
here. But on the other h
lions of them lay th*ir
Southport and when ^
and summer com? ,
here is almost unlim^ ,
be one of natures
survival. With lrt? ?
fish caught in the I W {
there is more of tM!"
spring and summer.
A renewed e"?rtus^
this week to weah
pipe. Lewis Hardee
ivith a full box of ?
:igars. We will be ^ ^
)f them now and J
jipe will remain
CINDER BLOCKS
New And Used Blocks For Immediate
Delivery
Complete Floor Sanding Equipment
G. W. McGLAMERY
Southport, N. C.