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Brunswick County
EIGHT NO. 54
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till Of Needy
Uttered By WPA
f Projects, As Varied j
K The Ability Of The '
Residents Of The County
Offered By WPA
I
ILES GREER IS
ignment OFFICER |
Planting Project Of-1
imployment To The j
;rmen: T? I
, Get Work In
Sewing Rooms
kick county offers an ex-!
the effort of the Works
Administration to give j
relief clients according
various skills or crafts. 11
d as the county itself are i
WPA projects now in j
s L. Greer, WPA assign- j,
ficer. pointed out the J'
projects differing from i.
the average agricultural
i this part of the State, j
:ion to laborers and farm
' Greer said, "we had to 11
for the fishermen along
It was for this reason !
im its great benefits,1
put the oyster project
ion. Under the direction j
Williams of Shallotte, j
WPA oyster project has giv- '
work to seventy men skilled j
fie work that they are doing. |
t month these men plant j
[sands of bushels of seed oys-.
f
to the farm laborer WPA has <
hied drainage projects. "In
wmpy county such as this,"
tt said, "we can appreciate i
it these projects mean to all j
us whether we own land that j
be improved, whether we
tiy appreciate the convenien- j
that such a project as that atJ
s Swamp will mean, where!
water has always blocked
raad after a rainy spell." J
ke drainage project is the 1
K in the county, Greer said, i
'Continued on Page 6) s
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I
ittle Bits I
I Of Big News !
ews Events Of State,
W?tion and World-Wide 1
Interest During Past j
I Week i
v 0/ Season I1
Apple blossoms were in full |
bom Tuesday in the orchard i >
* an upper Xyack, (N.Y.) esHte,
where the temperature j(
been sub-zero since late i?
January. Rene Badi, care- j '
teer, said that the blossoms '
y sre in bloom on only one ap- 11
pfe-bearing tree in an orchard
?t 200 trees.
V Organize
Thirty-five hundred tobacco
Holers. stirred to action by
?* Supreme Court nullifica roof
the AAA, Monday vot-N
unanimously to organize in
of the movement to I
the benefits of the dead j
y^ral law through new j
H* laws administered by
agencies with the super j^n
of the Federal govern- t
lipase |
A new menace?disease? ! ^
winter's cavalcade in i
midwest Monday. Dr. j j
y*r-h Jirka, director of the 1?
y?-'5 health department, wam J
the cold wave had reached j
y? Pneumonia stage" in Illi- ^
f with 435 new cases re- ?
yte'1 for the last week. ,
Hi ???.
Wponary Freed
B ^ 8hackled American missiand
his Canadian colleay^
held prisoners in the
y^bw'estern war zone by a
Ethiopian chieftian, have
Kn ordered released, it Was <
y^'osed Tuesday. The men ]
y* toe Rev. Harold Street, of t
j??011, 111., who was impris- <
with a dog chain fasten- i
oh his leg3, and the Rev.' j
J' "ewin, of Toronto, who i
u not shackled. Mrs. Street j
J her four children were 1
^yLjj^o^uardatanu^oiJ
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SCENES OF SO
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Here are some interestin
ed with the deepest snow of i
engaged in the unusual occup
post office. (Yes, the picture
The top center picture was t
snow covered roofs. Below i:
tion and shows tropical plant
Episcopal church, showing tl
County Sch<
Resume W
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Consolidated Schools In ~
Brunswick County Closed
Down Last Wednesday!
Afternoon Because Of (
Bad Roads
5Ci\!E SCHOOLS MAV
NOT RE OPEN NOW
Principals Told To Use
Their Own Judgment and
To Remain Suspended
Until The Roads
Are Safe
The consolidated schools of j
Brunswick county, closed since I
ast Wednesday because of the
mpassable roads of the county, j
vere scheduled to re-open this j
Wednesday) morning provided
die principals were of the opin- j _
on that roads were safe for I
school bus transportation. *
The unscheduled holiday which 11
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segan last Wednesday waa mc i
second in the past two weeks.
Schools were closed down on
rhursday two weeks ago when
snow covered the ground and ?
nade it impossible for the busses
to run. Three of the schools,,
Southport, Waccamaw and Shalotte,
re-opened a week ago Monlay,
but Leland and Bolivia were
forced to wait until Wednesday j
o resume operations.
There was a possibility that li
some of the schools would not j y
3e able to go back to work to-1
lay and Miss Annie May Woodside,
county superintendent of e<
schools has left this matter entirely
up to the judgment of the j
principals of the various schools, jc
Library Project
Doing Real Good t
\Ithough It Is One Of The ?
Smallest WPA Projects, l
It Is Doing Work That u
Will Be Of Lasting Bene- di
fit
Although it is small, one of Ji
he most important WPA protects
in Brunswick county is the
school library project. Although j
t employs only 8 women, its i
jeneficial effects will be felt by .
he county's school for years to 1
;ome, according to Mrs. Gladys
i. Proctor, WPA director of wo- in
nen's work. ui
Under the direction of Mrs. p<
Duta C. Moore, of Southport, the ni
vomen on the library project do cl
L variety of work. Their prin- c<
:ipal activity is, of course, the
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di
Many Veterans .
Apply For Bonus
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R. C. St. George, commander
>f the Brunswick County Post
dumber 192, American Legion, I d<
said this week that many vet-1L
srans of this county already have tt
nade formal application for their ce
idjusted service certificate paynent.
M
Commander St George stated la
hat a meeting of the American ct
STA1
\ Good News]
r Southport, N.
UTHPORVS DE
' '::y : :
g pictures taken recently v
recent years. At the left
tion of shoveling snow off
was posed!)
aken from the top of the
5 a picture of some of the i
s covered with snow. The i
ie snow on the cedar trees
x>ls Will !
'ork Today
miss McQueen is
WELFARE ASSISTANT
Announcement was made 1
this week of the appointment
of Miss Mary Ruth McQueen, j
supervisor of sewing rooms in
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PFUIISWlt'n cuuuiji iv ov/i >v !
assistant to Frank M. Sasser, j
count; welfare officer.
Mrs. Helen Sneeden, of Wilmington,
who has been serving
as assistant welfare officer,
will take Miss McQueen's
place as supervisor of sewing 1
rooms.
Mr. Sasser and Miss McQueen
are in Raleigh today
(Wednesday) attending a state
wide conference of welfare officers
and their assistants.
taw Books For
Local Library
lomplete List Of New
Books Purchased For The
Southport Public Library
Include Literature For
Adults And Children
Patrons of the Southport Pubc
Library will be interested in j
le following list of new books j
lat recently have been purchasi:
Adult books:
Silas Crockett, Mary Ellen
base; Mary Peters, Mary Ellen
hase; Keeping up With Lizzie, I
-ving Bacheller; Awake and Re- j
earse, Louis Bromfield; Wings j
E Love, Vera Brown; Air Stew- j
rdess, Vida Hurst; Oil For the
amps of China, Hobart; Man |
fade the Town, Ruby M. Ayers; |
oil River, James Boyd; So Red
he Rose, Stark Young; Green
ight, Lloyd C. Douglas; North
? the Orient, Anne Morrow Lin
hprerh.
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Children books:
An Old Fashioned Girl, Alcott: I
ane Hardy in Hollywood, R. S.
(Continued on page 6)
teachers Meeting
Has Been Postponed
The county-wide teachers meet-1
tg originally scheduled for Sat-1
rday, February 15, has been J
3stponed, according to Miss An- j
ie May Woodside, because tea- j
lers have lost so much time re;ntly
from their school duties.
Announcement concerning this
leeting will be made at a later
ate.
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7 reel and Girl Is
A Good Student
Brunswick county's lone stu-1
?nt at Campbell College, Miss
ois Brady, Freeland, was on
ie "B" semester honor roll resntly
published.
Miss Brady, the daughter of
[r. and Mrs. H. G. Brady, was
at spring graduated from Wacimaw
high school where she
as valedictorian of her class, j
fepoi
paper In A Good
C., Wednesday, Febrm
\epest snow c
?- ,s ^ "
' - "*." q
veti
por
' 1 day
rhile Southport was blanket-j iani
is Postmaster L. T. Yaskell c
the sidewalk in front of the trip
| ice
pilot tower and shows the tw
streets in the residential sec-,ex?
ricture on the right is of the ton
i in front of the steps. jthe
Joh
Complete Report |E?
On Benefits To
f\ ? T"1 1 the:
County rarmers
i
Final Tabulation Of All The
AAA Payments For Year I ?
1935 Show That Sum Of
I V O V f K/? IV u ? r vrw ^
1 1
R. E. Reynolds has been replaced
here as WPA district en- *
gineer in charge of Brunswick Lec
county projects by D. B. Black, I die<
of Burgaw. ! mo:
Mr. Reynolds has been assigned aft<
Columbus county, with the Lake j 'n
Waccamaw project as his special H
work.
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Half As Many Divert
Granted In This Cc
Perhaps 1935 was a bad [ J
year both for married coup- I c
lea and for those who were "
b
not, but wanted to be. At
any rate, records in the d
Brunswick county court- b
house reveal the fact that li
the number of divorces gran- ?
ted last year in Superior j h
Court here were half as many h
as the number of marriage j g
licenses issued to white coup- a
les. tl
To begin with, records In- d
dicate that the marriage p
market was off?only 36 licenses
having been issued to b
white couples. May, with a d
total of 7 permits issued, si
was the high month of the ti
year while the months of s<
$47,899.73 Was Paid To ?
Brunswick Farmers j
OVER SEVENTEEN
MILLION IN STATE
Money Was Disbursed For1 ?
Rental On Lands Retired I ?
From Cultivation, Adjustment
Payments
To Co-operators
A final tabulation of AAA j'
benefit payments shows that j j,|
North Carolina farmers received | p
a total of $17,589,400.46 in 1935; 0,
for co-operating in the crop adjustment
programs. { s|
The total payments for all j 4,
crops, divided by counties, shows o;
that farmers in Brunswick county' |C
received $47,899.73. j 0
The money was disbursed as | 0,
rentals on land retired from the 0;
cultivation of basic crops and as c
adjustment payments to the far- t<
mers who limited the production 0]
of these crops. ti
The payments in this State for j rr
1935, according to figures an- j ti
nounced by Dean I. O. Schaub, of b;
State College, were divided among [ r,
the growers of various crops as in
lows:
Tobacco growers $9,359,220.81, I
cotton growers $6,717,981.05, pea- 1 v-?
nut growers $813,904.11, corn- Hj
hog producers $634,489.68, and
wheat growers $63,804.81. j F
Although this includes all the! a I
checks distributed during the j
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D. B. Black Takes \
1? ///'? Plnr.0\ I
ominent Shallotte Man, j
Who Died Sunday Morning
In Wilmington, Was
Buried Monday At Shallotte
?????'uneral
services for Wallace C. |
inard, 52, of Shallotte, who I
1 at the James Walker Me- j
rial hospital Sunday morning
?r a short illness, were held 1
Shallotte Monday morning at
o'clock by the Rev. J. K. Wor(Continued
on page six.)
:es As Marriages
lunty Last Year
anuary 8, February 2, Marh
3, April 2, June 4, Augst
2, September 8, Novemer
8 and December 5.
On the other hand, the
ivorce court did a thriving
usiness. A total of 18 absolte
decrees of sepe ration
'ere granted to white coupes.
Five other cases were
eard and divorces were
ranted, final action to be
ompleted upon payment of
lie costs. There were three
ivorces granted colored cou- i
les.
This scant margin of two>-one
in the local marriage
ivorce situation lends new
ignificance to the observalon
that there is some conolation
in the fact that the
umber of divorces cannot
IT PI
I Community
try 12th, 1936 publisi
aptain Tomrt
Had Cold Ti
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teran Pilot Left Wil-,
nington Aboard The Tug
'ejepscott And Arrived
n Norfolk Nine Days
^ater
AT WAS ICE-BOUND
)R FOUR WHOLE DAY
i-rituck Sound Was Frozl
Over And Tug Was
Jnable To Leave Coinjock
Until Steel-Hull
Tug Led The Way
aptain Tommie St. George,
5ran pilot, returned to Southt
last Thursday from a nine
trip to Norfolk up the in3
waterway.
Irdinarily this is a three-day
>, but his tales of snow and
which he encountered be-'
en Wilmington and Norfolk I
lained this unusual delay,
aptain Tommie left Wilming-1
luvmriau Tnnnjirv 27. aboard I
"*~ / " ? -- - tug
Pejepscott with the barge
n Frederick in tow. They arid
in Morehead City the foling
day. The tug lay over for
iay at Morehead and left i1
irsday in the midst of a heavy i
wstorm. Saturday afternoon |
y arrived at Coin jock and at- j
ipted to proceed across Curri- k
Sound.
hat's where the trouble began.
: sound was covered with ice I
21st Infanti
Encamp At
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i-MAN GETS THE
GAMING TABLES
Padlocks were applied M011ly
by Deputy Sheriff Melvin
ewis to the three gaming tales
in use in Southport as he I
ut an end to this form of
utlawed amusement.
The definition of an illegal j
lot machine given in Section
133(a), Consolidated Statutes
f North Carolina, is as fol- I
>ws: "An illegal slot machine
r punch-board is defined as
lie that shall not produce for
r give to the person who pla?s
a coin or money, or give
i the person who places coin
r money or the representave
of either, the same in
larket value each and every
me such machine is operated
y placing money or coin or
presentative of either therei."
uneral Service
or W.C. Leonard
LOT
IED EVERY WEDNESDAY
lie St. George
np To Norfolk
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C'AI*T. TUAIMIti Si. ULUitw
four to six inches thick and the 1
tug was forced to turn back. !
Sunday morning another effort1
was made to cut through the ice j
toward Norfolk and again Mon-1
day another fruitless attempt was
made.
On Tuesday, with the assistance
of the tug Thomas E. Moran,
another start was made. This latter
tug was of 700 horsepower
and had a steel hull that plowed
her way through the ice. The trip
was slow, but sure, and the tugs
arrived in Norfolk at 9:00 o'clock j
Tuesday night.
Captain Tommie said that he
has seen snow and ice before,
but never like that he encountered
on his trip. Accommodations
on the tug were comfortable,
though, he said, but he added
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ry Will I
: Ft. Caswell
iV
-US 5
Party Of Officers Under.
Edgar H. Bain Will Be
Here For Three Days
This Month
WILL CONDUCT A
TRAINING SCHOOL
Local Arrangements Are
Being Made By Lt. R. I.
Mintz And Captain
Fred B. Leitzsey
Announcement was made Tues
day of plans ror a mree-aay encampment
of tiie 321st Infantry
at Fort Caswell on February 21,
22 and 23. The visitors will be
under the command of Colonel
Edgar H. Bain, of Goldsboro.
During the three days spent at
Fort Caswell a training school
will be conducted. Lt. Colonel
Alexander L. P. Johnson will be
principal speaker. The training
school will include lectures, motion
pictures and tactical walking.
On Friday night, February 21,)
officers will conduct a national j
defense program in the auditorium
of the Brunswick county J
courthouse. Lt. Colonel Johnson i
will speak and the public is cor- i
dially invited to attend. At that j
time Major T. G. Vickers, regr-!
mental chaplain, will be decora-!
ted with the D. S. C. Major)
Vickers was pastor of the Trin-j
ity Methodist church here at the |
outbreak of the war and many,
local citizens will appreciate this
opportunity to see him honored.
On Friday evening there will
be a dance, sponsored by mem
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Ders OI Uie Drunawicft. vuuu?.j .
Post Number 194, American Leg- j
ion, given at the recreation hall!
of the local CCC camp celebrat- j
ing George Washington's birth-1
day and honoring the distinguish- J
ed visitors.
(Continued on Page Six)
Commissioners In
Special Session
Members of the board of com-'
missioners for Brunswick county
will hold a special meeting today i
(Wednesday.)
Camp Sapona Boy
Joins The Navy
Albert A. Dickinson, of Row- [
land, and a former member of
Company 427, CCC, Southport, j
has enlisted in the U. S. Navy
at Raleigh, headquarters for re- j
cruiting in the Carolinas, accord-]
ing to advices received from the
navy recruiting station at Wil-,
mington.
Toung Dickinson was accepted
and sent to Raleigh by the navy
recruiter at Wilmington and was
formally enlisted February 6th.
Most Of The News
All The Time
$1.50 PER YEAR
Fire Warden Says
Now Is Time To
Burn Timberland
Fire Warden Dawson Jones
Gives Valuable Information
To Landowners Who
Plan To Burn Over Underbrush
LIST OF DEPUTY
WARDENS GIVEN
Citizens Urged To Tell
Towermen When They
Plan To Start Controled
Fire To Prevent
Alarm
Landowners of Brunswick coun
ty who are planning to Durn over
their timberland this spring in
order to keep down under-brush
and thereby reduce the menace of
forest fire should complete this
work during the month of February,
if possible, according to
county fire warden Dawson
Jones.
Instructions for conducting this
burning as safely as possible
have been given by Warden Jones.
First of all, the towerman
nearest the tract to be burned
should be notified of the intention
to start the fire, otherwise,
when he sees the blaze he will
make a report summoning firefighting
forces to the scene.
It is best, according to Warden
Jones, to do the burning late in
the afternoon or night. By doing
this high winds may be avoided
and there is not so much danger
of a wind shift. It is important
tU/v ^5 OA that it will
lu sum uic me ow wu*w iv .....
back its way through the timber
growth, for much less cjamage
results from this method. Warden
J<?:t-s says -that it is necessary
to burn over a tract every
year. By so doing, the landowner
destroys game, their food and
cover. Leaves and other vegetation,
valuable as a source of fer!
tility, also are lost. By dividing
I timber tracts into areas and alternating
with the burning these
(Continued on Page Six)
Recorder Hears
Several Cases
Several Cases Disposed Of
Before Judge Peter Rourk
Here In Recorder's
Court Last Wednesday
Several cases of minor importance
were disposed of here in
Recorder's Court last Wednesday
before Judge Peter Rourk.
Robert Moore, colored, pleaded
guilty of simple assault and
prayer for judgment was continued
upon payment of the cost in
the case.
Clyde Hewett, white, was charged
with reckless driving but the
charge against him was dismissed.
The case against M. L. Burn,
white, for reckless operation of
an automobile was nol prossed.
Similar action was taken in the
case against H. S. Jones and
James R. Melton, principals in
the same accident from which
charges against Burn resulted.
Nick Mintz, white, was sent
before Juvenile Judge B. J. Holden
on a charge of assault, but
the case was dismissed.
Tide Table
Following is the tide table
for Southport daring the next
week. These hours are approximately
correct and were furnished
The State Port Pilot
through the courtesy of the
Cape Fear Pilot's Association.
High Tide Low Tide
Thursday, February IS
11:08 a. m. 5:16 a. m.
11:44 p. m. 5:10 a. m.
Friday, February 14
11:53 a. m. 6:00 a. m.
5:45 p. m.
Saturday, February 15
0:30 a, m. 7:01 a. m.
13:43 p. m. 6:46 p. m.
Sunday, February 16
1:35 a. m. 8:13 a. m.
1:44 p. m. 8:10 p. m.
Monday, FeDruary 17
2:30 a. m. 9:20 a. m.
2:58 p. m. 9:22 p. m.
Tuesday, February 18
8:40 a. m. 10:18 a. m.
4:12 p. m. 10:28 p. m.
W'ednesday, February It
4:45 a. m. 11.12 a. m.