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" yvf . FOUR THE STATE PORT PILOT I' Southport, N. C. 1 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY ,1 JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor !l 1 I ntered aa second-class matter April 20, 1928, at ( the Post Office at Southport, N. C., under 1 the act of March 3, 1879. < Subscription Rates ONE YEAR $1.50 i BIX MONTHS 1.00 j THREE MONTHS .751, NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION ] 19 3 6- 'MEMBER* { Wednesday, July 22, 1936 ^ Uneasy looks the face that wears a i frown. ( ( Even a sober second thought has been i known to stagger a little. ? s There are two sides to every question, r even if only one of them is right. Ic Some motorists never find out what is 0 e around the next curve until someone at n the hospital tells them. Things that people want to get in the ^ paper is advertising, the things they want to keen out is news. i Police say that motorists are triple ? parking. Well, if there's not enough room e in the streets to park, let'em use the side- a walks?pedestrians can crawl underneath j or over the top. jc ? In Short Crop js r Following a trip last week that carried r us through several of the better farming sections of North Carolina, we are convin- i ced that nature this year has taken care i of any necessary curtailment of crops. i This is particularly true of tobacco, and ^ it appears now that there should be a t good demand for weed of fine quality, "i Prunswick county farmers appear to j have rallied quickly from the devastating effect of the drought, and the harvest i a"d selling season holds great promise for t residents of this section. \ Don't Argue t i Now that there is definite assurance of t a project to hard surface another link in the Whiteville-Southport road, the t question arises regarding the route to be e followed. 1 Following a survey conducted last sum- t mer, the State Highway Commission has t available facts and figures showing the f most practical location of the proposed project. Their decision probably will be I based upon these figures. t It is inevitable that some residents of ( the county will be disappointed that the \ road does not run by their door. Instead of being disgruntled because of this fact, I though, they should lend their enthusias^i/? on_nr\ovofirvr? f a ottinnr IVja oof nv V2V V V~V{/VX UVXVtl W HiV VA tended as quickly as possible in order ( that a paved road through their sec- ? tion may become a reality. j The completion of this road is going to ( open up new fields for many Brunswick g county citizens. T One Reason < i Quite a number of people ha#ve mani- ] fested surprise over the strong race Geo- i rge Ross Pou made in the first primary. ] The Lumberton Robesonian gives this ex- j planation: . , "George Ross Pou, who defeated two j opponents for the office of state auditor, \ was the only candidate for a state office other than governor who used advertis- 1 ing in county papers as the chief means of reaching the people during the cam-| paign, and he says that 'the results speak for themselves.' They do, eloquently. Major Baxter Durham and some little known man from Asheville relied upon personal letters and contacts. Major Durham had held the office for some 20 years, prior to that worked in the auditor's office and was well known all over North Carolina.' " Tourist Industry With their hearts and souls wrapped up in dreams of industrial development that would see the beautiful Southport finrbor used as the base of great shipping enterprise, residents of this section have THE STATE for years been overlooking another indus:ry just as great. The tourist business is one of the five greatest in the world today. Each year oillions of dollars are being spent by travelers and vacationists as they seek out new pleasure spots. Any section which offers cool summers, warm winters, the iroad Atlantic ocean in the front yard md a paradise for sportsmen of all kinds n her surrounding territory is rich in her possibilities of development. > As matters stand today, Southport's larbor development is far ahead of her ibility to attract and properly entertain ourists. This is inexcusable, too, for there are 'acilities here now for tourist homes and imall hotels. There are a dozen families n town whose weekly income can be :omfortably increased by providing one >r two attractive rooms for visitors. In vestern North Carolina practically every ittractive home along the road has a neat ign in front announcing that there are ooms for tourists. The number of visitors annually to louthport is limited only by the ability f the town to take care of them. Increasd facilities, and proper advertising, will lake our town one of the most popular acation spots on the Atlantic coast. \awmill Fires It seems a bit ironical that the busiless whose very existence depends upon he protection and cultivation of our forst resources should be the greatest menice in this direction. Recently when forest fires took a huge lamage toll in this county several of the oost damaging blazes were started at awmills. To make matters worse, lack of ntelligent co-operation on the part of nill operators was a contributing cause. Sawmills are moved into new locations md begin operations without first bumng off an area about the mill to prevent ire from starting in the undergrowth. ,Vork begins, and the tall smoke stacks jelch out their smoke and sparks that fly ibout for several hundred feet. No spark irrester is provided. Finally, when a small blaze is sighted, 10 effort is made to put it out because he mill operators are too busy. Unfortunately, the legal weapons with vhich to combat criminal carelessness of his kind are limited. Public opinion will lave to do the trick, until proper legislaion can be passed. Personally, we wouldn't lease a timber ract to a man who had permitted fire to :scape from his last mill site and damage orest area for miles around. We would afraid that he might do the same bing to us, and ruin our prospects for a uture crop of trees. If the sawmill operators are too imiro.ident to help insure the future of heir business, then it is up to the land >wn^rs to help impress them with the ralue of being careful about forest fires. Show Them No Mercy For the third consective year the crime >f arson has decreased in the United States. And, the report adds, "Not only las the number of incendiary fires deTeased, but there has been a marked les:ening of such fires resulting from orga1!7.pH nr nrnfpaHinnnl priminnla " V. w. The arsonist is justly termed the most lespicable of felons. He is also ope of the nost dangerous; no man's property, no nan's life, is safe when he operates. The lation's arson bill still runs into many Trillions of dollars annually?to say nothng of the infinitely more important "bill" sf burned and cremated bodies the arsonist leaves behind him. It is the duty and the privilege of every citizen to fight him. The splendid success that has so far been achieved in battling arson has been well earned. Many units of government have passed the model arson law suggested by the National Board out of its long and broad experience with this type oi crime. Prosecuting attorneys have shown the utmost willingness to pursue the arsonist until he is finally convicted. Courts have meted out the heavy punishment the crime deserves. Other bodies, public and private, continually carry on investigations of suspicious fires, keep records oi known arson rings, and produce evidence that would otherwise be unobtainable. Every state and community should do its part in stamping out arson. The public should demand that this be done? and it should co-operate in every possible way with the authorities. The arsonist has'no mercy?and he deserves none. PORT PILOT, SOUTHPORT, Waterfront |f By H. W. Hood Jr. Wind?Winds have been blowing from the southwest almost constantly for five weeks now, | despite expectations and predictions that they would have changed long before this. At times j the river has been decidedly choppy and outside things were even I worse, fishing boats often not [ being able to make their trips. Fishing?Surf fishing is never very good during the month of | July, nevertheless W. H. Coffey, ! of Pinehurst, and a companion landed five large drum on the; point at Bald Head one afternoon last week. The largest one weighed twenty-five pounds af-, ter being dressed. Expert?Fisheries Commissioner Jos. L. Stone of Greensboro sprung a new one to most of the local fishermen while he was here one day last week. Mr. Stone says he is the champion sheeps- j I head fisherman of North Caro-1 I lina and that once in two days j he caught seven hundred pounds of the fish at Nags Head. The | interesting point about sheeps- ( head fishing, according to Com-1 missioner Stone, is that they do | not eat the sand fiddlers that are used for bait. They merely crush i them with their jaws in the manner that a man steps on an acorn on the street to hear it crunch. Transfer?Captain W. E. Bellamy and h;8 dredge the Henry Bacon will probably be sent to Savannah, Ga., sometime in the near future, according to statements made by the U. S. Engineers office in Wilmington this week. The vessel will probably be ' kept at the Georgia part for six months. Captain Bellamy is a J resident of Southport and many members of the crew of the Ba-'. con are residents of Brunswick' county. Scraping?Too rought to go !. fishing anyway, the menhaden boat Captain has been using the past two days to stay on the rail way and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom. She was scheduled to resume fishing this morning, weather permitting. Southbound-Treeking southward ! this week went a couple of-small menhaden boats from Morehead, lured by reports that there is good fishing in Florida once again. Most of the big boats that went to Florida last winter went back north a month or so ago (with a tale of poor fishing behind them. Demolished?Nobody shed any great amount of tears when one of the old buildings of Captain Bonner Bussells, used as a fish house, on the water front, turn- ! bled down one night the past week. They were planning to j itear it down anyway and, reports say, build a better one. Shipshape?After being decomJ missioned for several days while ja new engine was being installed, the Pilot boat R. R. Stone is back in the service of the Cape Fear Pilots and ready for any of the quick trips that the men are called out on. The D. H. Penton had to do double, duty while the Stone was out of commission. Preparations?Ben Gray, one of the largest fish and shrimp buyers here during the summer and fall months, was in town Monday i from his home at Morehead Cit.v He was making preparations to open up for this season's work. Lightning?Mindful of the fact ' that lightning strikes in high places and having seen this demonstrated several times in the past, the Cape Fear Pilots usually forsake their office for other quarters during thunder storms and they were called upon to do this twice the past week. In addition to the members of the association who are stationed at , Wilmington, the following Pilots j live in Southport and may be | found at the local office when j ; they are not off duty: Captains Harold St. George, Thomie St. 1 George, Bonner Bussells, J. I. ' Davis, Fred Willing, Robert ; Thompson and Bill Styron. Harry j [ Weeks, engineer for the Pilots since nobody knows when, can al"iso always be found there when i he is not taking them out to , meet some ship. ' Open?Stewart house is again open but only temporary. Mr. . ( and Mrs. Sam Skinner, of Kentucky, who now own and use this ! famous old hostelery as a sum- ' mer home, are spending a few , weeks there. BACK Di CAMP Lt. Carlisle King returned Sat urday to resume his duties as , educational advisor at Camp Sapona following a two weeks course 1 at State College, Raleigh. N. C. ??i?? By PERCY CROSBY <twria*trh 'it&i The 0oy wbc? bad inierrded ascape / 1 T ^nt Pall IAI I jjciol van IUJ 8 The last call for pay made. Advertisement of th || begin in the August 5th H property upon which taxi Jj Monday, August 3, will b H be removed from the list | PAY YOUR 1935 TAJ | EMBARI I will follow this schd 1 MONDA" H H. O. PETERSON'S STORE? 9: m PHOENIX POST OFFICE?10:<X # LELAND?11:00 until 12:00 o'cl fl G. C. LEWIS' STORE?12:30 un #5 C. T. ROBBINS' STORE?2:00 u J? J. L. HENRY'S STORE?3:00 un BOLIVIA?4:30 until 6:00 o'clo< | TUESDA SUPPLY?(KIRBY'S STORE)?? W. H. VARNUM'S STORE?9:3( % J. M. ROACH'S STORE?11:00 IW. E. TRIPP'S STORE?1:00 un GRISSETTOWN?2:30 until 3:3< HICKMAN'S CROSS ROADS?4 WEDNESE LONGWOOD?8:00 until 9:00 o ASH POST OFFICE?9:30 until J. D. BABSON'S STORE?11:00 FREELAND POST OFFICE?1:C E. A. 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