j ?. I The Pilot Covers Brunswick County volume TEN NO. 2 distribution Of " I Free Textbooks I Is Big Problem i ^Elementary School Children | This Year Will Be Fur nished Basal Books Free I Of Charge; Rent Supple- . I mcntary Books lilC.li SCHOOL BOOKS , MUST BE RENTED B' ,11 Of Distribution Will Be Similar To The One | Followed In Rental System Of County Last Year I Elementary school children of 1 M(k county will receive ^Hicir basal books free this year. . ^ ml the proper distribution of Hicsr books is a major problem Hihich is confronting the county ^Kipermtcndent. Miss Annie May . H Miss Woodside says that books s Hi ill go out from her office to * H-< principals, the principals will , H; the teachers have the books, j H' the teachers will distribute I Hie books to the students. This is j j; Himilar to the plan followed in I H? rental system last year. I Supplementary books for the : Hlementary grades will be rented, Hie students l'or a nominal sum. H!,-'i school students will be re- ] Haired to rent all their books. J I Every child in the elementary Hrades will have access to a mu Be book: there will be a drawing j to every three children, and I B - ! : - books will be distributed | J B the same basis. Reading s, spelling books, geography Bi? ks and history books will be B ;t I one to a child. There Bi d I he i book on the study of B hoi i"o: each child in the 6th | iLirtie Bits I Of Big News I I News Events Of State, B Nation and World-Wide Interest During Past j Week :s r MBj -- <3 IHelp Tenants 1 The house passed Tuesday I a bill authorizing appropria- ' B tion of $135,000.00 over a v I three-year period to assist ten- ' I ants acquire farms and to re- c I tire submarginal land fromj1 B indication. The bill goes top I the senate, where a similar, I measure is pending. It would |1 I authorize $10,000,000 in 1938,p B .SL'.-I .oon.000 in 1939 and $50,-1' I oon.ooo in 1940 for liberal lo-p I ans to tenants and sharecrop- j I pers for purchase of farm J B homes, and $50,000,000 over j, the same period for government purchase of unproductive farm land. 11 M/0/Jsfitj ft '' "w n f r v *.?**???,*> v I Dainty Mary Pickford?"Amcr- j ca's Sweetheart" to theatre-go-1 . millions at the peak of her|j i fame- knelt in a garden jt Saturday on a white satin pillow , t B>"'l took as her third husband L he handsome Charles (Buddy) | ^Rogers. She gave her age as 43. j t < was 34. jt IAppropriation s Congress gave the adminis- r tration $1,500,000,000 Tuesday r to finance work-relief for the I year, starting July 1, but bog ged down in a race to provide i I funds for the war and interior I departments for the same perI iod. The house completed conI gressional action on the relief j I bill by adopting recommenda- j I tions of conferees composing differences with the senate. The measure now goes to the I White House for presidential approval. W/'inish Job "We're going through." That ^was President Roosevelt's reply, group of house democrats said ^ j'iday to their suggestion to him hat congress be kept in session I ntil jt aC{a on Roosevelt | bill and other major proftcf'onj In At high noon today (Wed-' I "esday) in the city council I I chamber. Mayor-elect Thomas . I b f'ooper wiil be sworn in as ! I chief executive of the city of I 'Wilmington by Judge Alton A.' ijj The oath of office1 will be administered to Com-; jmssioner of Finance W. Louis I ber by Thomas A. HenderI son clerk of New Hanover superior court, and Commissi1 Continued on page 4.) THI 3 4JV Miss Annie May Only Womi Brunswick County Superintendent Of Schools Is Only Woman In North Carolina Holding This Position IS NOW SERVING HER SECOND TERM Was Appointed In January, 1935, As Acting Superintendent And Was Elected Superintendent That Year Miss Annie May Woodside is he only woman in North Caroina holding the position as Couny Superintendent of schools. This fact came to light recenty during the visit of a routing 'Xpert from the state school :ommission, in Raleigh. Miss Woodside was appointed n January. 1935, to serve as superintendent of Brunswick county ichools while R. E. Sentelle served in the state Legislature, ft'hen the election of superintenlent came up in June of that rear. Miss Woodside was named >y the board. So efficiently did she fill that >osition during the past two rears there were no other Ferry Boat Jol Be Raisec Sank Sunday Night When She Caught On Top Of A Piling On Brunswick County Side Of The Cape Fear River ERRY BOAT IS FAMILIAR TO MANY formerly Was Important Link In Conveying Visitors To Wilmington, BuJ Was Retired By bridges The ferry boat John Knox, ehich for many years plied the ^ape Fear river between New fanover and Brunswick county ihores was at the bottom of the iver Sunday night, but the veslel's present owners, Stone Towng company, announced it would ic raised soon. R. R. Stone, president of the owing company, said the Knox vas sunk Sunday night when the )oat became caught on a piling >n a rising tide. It had been tied ip on the Brunswick shore and vas not in use at the time. The Knox ferried passengers icross the river for years until he construction and subsequent ifting of the toll on the Cape 'ear and Northeast River brid(Continued on page four) Boys And Girls * m A*, i . in Attend course The State Short Course for >oys and girls enrolled in 4-H dubs will be held at State Colege the week beginning July 26. All members should have competed their project work for his year in order to be eligible o attend, or at least have it ip-to-date. Boys and girls desiring to atend should notify their respecive Farm or Home Agent, with vhom they are enrolled, as early is possible in order that arrangenents for transportation may be nade. An Article About This Month' In the current issue of Esso Road News, illustrated publication printed for distribution to motorists of the South Atlantic states, there appears the following story about Southport: "The lusty appetites of those who hanker after the succulent shrimp are the main support of the fisherfolk who populate the picturesque village of Southport, N. C. \(L-7). Food-fish supplement Southport's income at certain seasons, but it is shrimp, shrimp by the tons and truckloads. that are the mainstay for living at this interesting village. "Every afternoon and early evening the fishing boats that ply the mouth of the Cape Fear River dump their cargoes of shrimp upon the wharves at Southport. Here they are iced and packed for shipment by motor truck to the railroad for the journey onward to the appreciative city markets. "There's sport fishing also E ST A Goc iges today Soutl Woodside Is in Superintendent * '* v' ir^B MISS ANNIE MAY WOODSIDI applicants for the job as super intendent when the board of ed ucation met in April and re-elcc I ted her unanimously. ir nn hn Rnox io 1 After Sinking * COUNTY OFFICES TO CLOSE SATURDAY P.M. Beginning this week all the county offices will close at 1 o'clock on Saturday throughout the remainder of the summer months. This action was announced following an agreement lietween county officials reached in conference .Monday. It was especially requested that this notice appear in The State Port Pilot in order that persons living at a distance from Southport might ho saved a needless visit to the courthouse 011 Saturday afternoon. Elderly Woman Passes At Home Mrs. Mary Cole Price, One Of Southport's Oldest Residents, Died Monday I Night At Her Home Here Mrs. Marv Cole Price, 88, one of Southport's olilcst residents died at her home here Morulaj night following an extended ill ness. The deceased was the widow oi the late Captain John E. Prici of the U. S. Coast Guard service who died 13 years ago. She is survived by two sons Captain John L. Price, Port Arthur. Texas, and Victor H. Price Savan'ah. Ga.; one daughter Mrs. Mabel P. Marran; and twe granddaughters, Mrs. G. E. Chadwick, Straights, and Miss Victoria Morran. Funeral services were conducted from the Trinity Mcthodisl church Tuesday afternoon at J o'clock by the Rev. C. N. Phillips. Interment was made in the (Continued on page 4.) Southport In s Esso Road News at Southport, for there are boatmen who will take you angling in the bay or offshore a dozen miles or so. "From the wharves it's interesting to take the view f across the bay to Fort Caswell at the tip of the peninsula. or oceanward through I a narrow aperture at the mouth of the Cape Fear River. I "And an interesting eightmile drive is that around to Fort Caswell where the ocean view is unobstructed, and it's possible also to see for ten miles up the river. "Routes 303 and 130 that connect with U. S. 17 permit divergent routes in visiting Southport. And if you can find a straighter stretch j of road than that along 130, Esso Road News would like to know about it. For a dozen or more miles there is I scarcely a deviation from the straight line of the highway which is level as a bili liard table as it slashes I through the tall pines." ATE >d Newspaper Ii tiport, N. C., Wednesda County Teacher Allotment Made Public Tuesday One Teacher Is Lost From Faculty Of Four Of The Five Consolidated Schools In Brunswick County INCREASE MADE IN COLORED FACULTY Teacher Allotment Is Based Upon Average Daily Attendance And Teachers May Come Back The teacher allotment for Brunswick county schools announced Tuesday by Miss Annie May j Woodside, county superintendent, | shows that one teacher has been lost from the raculty of four of the five consolidated schools this year. An additional teacher has been added to the high school department of the Brunswick county ' training school, bringing the total to 5; there are 44 colored ' elementary teachers in the coun tyAccording to the figures made public by Miss Woodside, there will be 20 high school teachers and 54 elementary teachers in the white schools of the county this year. At Southport there will he 4 hich school and seven elementary teachers, a loss of one faculty member. At Shallotte one elementary teacher was lost, making the number for that school stand at 5 high school and eighteen elementary teachers. Waccamaw also lost one teacher, leaving 3 members of the high school faculty and thirteen in the , elementary department. Bolivia I will have 4 high school teachers (and eight elementary teachers, [losing one faculty member. Le(Continued on Page Four) Rain Came Again To Aid Foresters Forest Fires Broke Out Again Last Week In Sections Missed By Showers And Rain This Week 1 Helped In Control The report in last week's State I Port Pilot that general rains had temporarily put an end to the forest fire worries of the Bruns, [wick county Forest Warden were ' premature, for during the past 'r j week there have been stubborn I forest fires in areas where there had been little or no recent rain. The blaze to the left of the v (Southport-Supply highway flared (up again over near the inland , waterway, and only the fact that ' | it had been confined by fire . | fighters to a restricted area kept it under control over the past p week-end. Fire in the woods near Shallotte Village point covered con' siderable area before being brought under control by War| den Dawson Jones and his coworkers. A smaller outbreak near Thomasboro was brought ' under control late Sunday after a two-day battle. (Continued On Page 4.) Boon's Neck Club ; Women Hold Meet Boon's Neck Home Demonstration club met Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. J. D. Robin' son. Following the business meeting and project reports given by club I leaders, the home agent, Mrs. Marion S. Dosher, gave a lesson ' i on "Accessories for the Home," illustrating with mounted picturcs. Lesson sheets were distributled. The hostess served the 8 members present delicious home-made doughnuts and iced tea. The club adjourned to meet again Friday afternoon, July 16. j at the home of Mrs. Dewey Hewett. South port Junior 4-11 Club Meets The Southport Junior 4-H Club i met Friday morning, June 25, at the apartment of the home agent Ten girls were present and began work on their summer project in clothing. The next meeting will be held Friday morning. July 9, at which time a program in recreation will be enjoyed prior to the lesson I given. | Any local girls over 10-years| of-age who wish to join the club, j which meets twice monthly durj ing the summer, are invited to 1 attend the next meeting. New members will not be taken in after that date. \ POR ri A Good Con y, June 30th, 1937 County Board Begins Study Of 1937 Budget | Members Board Of Commissioners Met Three Days Last Week As A Board Of Equalization And Review MUST WORK OUT PLANS FOR BUDGET During Past Week Office ! Of Delinquent Tax Collector Has Been Turned Over To William Jorgensen After meeting last week as a board of equalization and review, members of the board of county j commissioners will begin next week to make plans for the counity budget for 1937. This work will be made more difficult this year because of the fact that for the first time provisions must be made for county i participation in the Social Sec[urity program. The board will meet Monday in j its regular first of the month j meeting, but there probably will be special sessions next week te work out the budget. The audit of the delinquent tax collector's office was completed this week and William Jorgensen has replaced Curtis Tripp. District Church Meeting Begins Wilmington District Church School Convention Will Be In Session At St. James A.M.E. Church, Beginning Today The Wilmington district church school convention of the Zion division, African M. E. Church will gather at St. James' A.M.E church here Wednesday for a three-day session. More than 125 delegates, representing Christian education departments of the church in the district, from New Hanover, Columbus and Brunswick counties are expected to attend. The keynote sermon will be delivered by the Rev. P. H. Mumford, pastor of the Whitevillc circuit, Wednesday night at 8:000 o'clock. City Attorney Robert W. Davis will welcome the delegates to Scuthport. Eleanor Swain will deliver the welcome of the host church. The educational address will be delivered Thursday night at 8:00 o'clock by Dr. S. J. Howie, pastor of St. Luke's A.M.E. church, Wilmington. Other speakers on the program (Continued on Page Four) Sea-Session Cluh Met Last Tuesday I rT*U? Caq -Crvooinn UntYtA DftlYIOTI stration Club met Tuesday afternoon, June 22, at the home of Mrs. Troy Caison. The club presj ident, Mrs. Madeline Caison, presided over the meeting. | The Home Agent, Mrs. Marion S. Dosher. gave the demonstraj tion for the month, the subject | being "Accessories for the Home." Illustrations were given I by using colored pictures, and | lesson sheets were distributed. Extension bulletins on "Canning Fruits and Vegetables" were also distributed. j The club adjourned to meet on Tuesday, July 27, at the home of Mrs. Oscar Fulford. -?~-~ Winnabow Club Meeting Is Held The Winnabow Home Demonstration Club met Thursday, June 17, at the home of Mrs. T. F. Johnson. The president, Miss Josie Reid, presided over the meeting. The demonstration "Accessories" was given by the Home Agent, who distributed extension lesson sheets on the subject. She also showed an exhibit of various types of fruit jars on the market and gave hints on preventive methods of food spoilage from canning. Extension bulletins on "Canning Fruits and Vegetables" were distributed to club members. The following project leaders reported: Miss Josie Reid, foods; Mrs. D. L. Henry, clothing: Mrs. Bertha Devaun, home poultry; Miss Kate Johnson, home gardens and flowers: Mrs. Harvey Lanier, child development. The next meeting will be held Thursday, July 15, at the home of Miss Mary Maultsby. The hostess, Mrs. Johnson, served lemonade and cake to the ten j members present and the home | agent. r pil lmunity PUBLIS Prominent Citizer Section Is C * Had Long Been Outstand- j I ing Figure In The Affairs Of Columbus County; Represented County I In Senate Number Of Times KNOWN AS FATHER OF STRAWBERRY MARKETS Mr. Brown First Conceived The Idea Of Colonizing The Chadbourn Area And Giving Birth Of The Strawberry Industry Joseph Addison Brown, politi-1 ' cal leader, agriculturist, retired merchant, and fother of the strawberry industry in Columbus ; county, died at his home in Chadbourn Saturday morning of a heart attack. He had been suf1 fering with a heart ailment for ' a number of years, and for two ' weeks before his demise had been ' confined to his bed. Surviving are his widow, who ! before marriage in 1898 was Miss I I Minnie Mclver, of near Sanford,, l]one daughter, Mrs. Gladys B. II Proctor, of Whitoville; two sisI ' Meeting Held 1 For Yacht Ri * RECEIVE BIDS FOR SURFACING NO. 130 i Announcement was made Wednesday morning lhat low | bids for 3.45 miles of grading, surfacing and structures on Route Number 130 between Shallotte and Old Dock have been received by the State i Highway and Public Works Commission. I.ow bid for the roadway was from F. D. C'line, Raleigh, for $70,297.04; structures from Kiker and Yount, Reidsville, for $16,707.50 The fact that the bid was for a road in Brunswick county indicates that work of surfacing the highway actually I will begin at the Shallotte end. There was no announcement that the bids had been accepI ted, nor was there any indi, J cation when the work would i! Itegin if the bids an- approved. Southport Nine Gets Even Break I jWon Wednesday Afternoon From Wilmington, But Dropped A Hard-Fought Contest Friday To Loris The Southport baseball team won a slugfeast Wednesday afi ternoon with a Wilmington independent team by the score of ^ 18 to 8. Fred Willing was on the mound for the locals for the first six innings and pitched air-tight' ball. He fanned 12 men during I his turn on the mound. With a long lead rolled up, Willing was replaced by Watson, j who allowed most of the enemy | runs. In one of the best games of the season tne local team lost Friday afternoon to Loris on the latter's home diamond by a score of 5 to 3. Southport took a two-1 run lead in the third, but Loris counted three runs in their half of the inning, and was never headed. Watson, with three for four, led the Southport hitters, i 'I The men of Camp Sapona lost Sunday to the Southern Pines CCC team by a score of 12 to ; 10. The contest was marked by the loose playing of members of : I both teams. . i j !_ Question And Ans On Socia Beginning with this issue j The State Port Pilot offers j to its readers and advertisers i a Question and Answer column on Social Security. It will be found on Page 3 of this issue. Through the column The Pilot will answer inquiries from its readers on the Social Security law. All workers, employers, housewives, others are invited to use this | service. It is not a legal service. It is an informati| onal service. Answers will be ( authoritative. The Social Security Board, through Stacey W. Wade, ,0T HED EVERY WEDNESDAY I Of This laimed By Death Hp***- jp B Mk 4? HMMmHN9hHh JOSEPH A. BROWN ters, Mrs. J. T. Newland, of Chadbourn; and Mrs. J. C. Edwards, of Florence, S. C., and three grand-sons, Edward, Joe, and Dick Proctor, all of White- ' ville. Born at Rockingham, Rich(Continued on page 4.) o Map Plans aces In August Steering Committee Is Appointed At Meeting To Investigate Various Problems Relating To Races ANOTHER MEETING NEXT THURSDAY Representatives Of Carolina Yacht Club Were Pres ent Tuesday Evening At Meeting Held Here A group of fourteen representative members of the Southport Civic Club met Tuesday evening in the Legion room of the Community Center Building and appointed a steering committee for the proposed yachting regatta to i be held here in August. Appointed on the committee were Captain I. B .Bussels, Allen ; C. Ewing and James M. Harper, Jr. Ensign K. R. Cotton and W. B. Keziah will be associated with members of the committee this week in their efforts to gather facts pertaining to staging the yacht races. Everett Huggins and R. C.' Campbell, III, of the Carolina Yacht Club, Wilmington, attended the meeting and assured local citizens of the full co-operation of their organization. The steering committee will meet this week with the board of governors of the Carolina Yacht Club. Another local meeting will be | held Thursday evening of next; week in the Community Center Building at which time committeer will be appointed and definite dates and plans will be an- j nounced. I Rearrested After Making Bond Here Obie and Eddie Sellers were released Monday afternoon un-j der bond on charges of highway robbery but were immediately re-! arrested by a deputy sheriff from Columbus county who had a warrant for their arrest on a similar charge. J. J. Canady and J. S. Hewett, Brunswick county residents, char- j ged the two Columbus white; Hinw 11r? a nrl rnlipVpH ! I11CJI IICIU klivui U|/ u?u them of small amounts of money and personal articles. The Sellers were taken to Columbus, but a third alleged companion in the holdups, Carl Wal-' ton, remained in jail here in de- i fault of the |500 bond set on I each charge. wer Column 1 Security System manager of the Board's office at 116 S. Salisbury St. in Raleigh, has consented, as a special service to The Pilot and its readers, to answer all questions on the Social Security law submitted to this paper. Make your questions brief and to the point. Because of space limitations The Pilot must condense questions and answers. Questions will be answered as quickly as possible in the order received, j Address your inquiries to The State Port Pilot. In keeping with Social Security Board policy names will not be published. MO Most Of The News I All The Time I $1.50 PER YEAR I Social Security I Program Soon To I Start In County I Necessary To Obtain The Services Of Trained Cer- jS tifying Case Worker Before Actual Work Can Begin 9 NO USE TRYING TO 9 RUSH SIGNING UP B Welfare Officer Says That H| Work Will Be Taken Up Just As Soon As Possible And Visits B Won't Help B A trained certifying case wor- ' SH kcr must be employed by the county before work of signing up |flfl applicants for under the provisions of the social security law can begin, says Frank M. Sasser, BH Brunswick county welfare officer. 1 BH Mr. Sasser says that efforts now are being made to secure a f B person for this post, and he ex- I Hfi pects the work to be able to move forward in a normal manner within the next few days. M Meanwhile, he wishes citizens , j^Hj of the county to bear in mind that nothing is to be gained by visiting the local office. Notice will be sent out just as soon as Ml actual work of signing can begin. H Mr. Sasser and County Attor- . M rey S. B. Frink attended a eon- H ference in Raleigh last week on this matter and had personal tallis with Mrs. W. T. Bost, state 1 director of I'ublic Welfare, about |^H the situation in Brunswick court Six Cases Tried I In County Court > Matters Of Minor Impor- 'H| tance Disposed Of Here In Recorder's Court On Hj Wednesday Before Judge Hj Joe W. Ru^rk H Six cases of minor importance ; H| were disposed of here in Recorder's Court Wednesday before Judge Joe W. Ruark. SI Perl Collum, white, was tried for assaulting a female, but the |H judgment in this case was h?J(I < open for one week. * Joe Bellamy, colored, was i^H found guilty of driving a motor j vehicle while he was under the Bl influence of intoxicating liquor, He was required to pay a fine of $50.00, the costs of the case j and his driver's license was re- J B| voked for one year. 9 Wesley Brown, colored, pleaded j 9 guilty to charges of transporting I Bfl intoxicating liquor. He was given three months on the roads, j this sentence being suspended upon payment of the costs, and I upon the further condition that | H| the defendant remain of good : |H behavior. |H Earl Babson, white, was char- H ged with reckless operation of a H motor vehicle. An action of nol^ |9 pros with leave was taken in Y this case. H In a case growing out of an ! |H automobile accident, Phillip Lof- 1 H tin and Lonnie Peterson each in-1 dieted the other for reckless ope- ! 9 ration. A compromise was reach- I H ed. the cases were consolidated I 9 and each defendant was let off i^H with paying one-half the costs. flj Clement Milliken, white, was 9 found guilty of violating the rul- H cs of the road. Judgment was 9 suspended upon payment of the costs. K Tide Table I I Following Is the tide table { for Southport during the next B week. These hours are appro- jfl xlmately correct and were furnished The State Port Pilot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot's Association. B High Tide Low Tide Thursday, July 1 B 12:49 a. m. 7:14 a. m. II 1:34 p. m. 8:26 p. m. Friday, July 2 || 1:45 a. m. 8:24 a. m. | 2:29 p. m. 9:32 p. in. Saturday, July .3 B { 2:47 a. m. 9:30 a. m. jB 3:33 p. m. 10:33 p. m. KB Sunday, July 4 ^B 4:00 a. m. 10:31 a. m. B 4:41 p. m. 11:28 p. m. B .Monday, July 5 j 5:15 a. m. 11:28 a. m. H 5:45 p. m. B Tuesday, July 6 | 6:19 a. m. 12:24 a. m. ]B| 6:43 p. m. 12:26 p. m. B Wednesday, July 7 B 7:15 a. m. 1:18 a. m. 7:36 p. m. 1:22 p. m. B