bL'"Ie News
el All 1 e
Mighter Illir
1 Point Of
1 Before
H| Went Ashore During
r^Kgder Storm Last Mon/^ Afternoon
And Efi^H!T"o
Free Her Were
[*P?NDENT PILOT
o her in charge
*?.Chapman-Scott Tug
Here From New
City To Pull The
Kjp Into Channel
yrttuin and Hiwaiian
H- Ulmoian was float:
Sunday after be
- the point of Eatthe
previous
^Kr iftemoon.
H vessel went ashore late in
ftrn.vn during a thunder
I fK . it that time was
. it is believed that
Ev,: an.I rain, together
::e flashes of lightning
H -jvo been confusing to the
pilot who had her in
II a nol tonI
tons She was draw1
16 feet forI
- . k, and adding
I ty of freeing her
| -it she went
L full moon high tiile.
I tugs working on
I from the rising
I from Wilmington
I her off to no
[ put in for a tug
I Merritt-Chapman-Scott
I- New York. The
| . ived Friday and
I .. hich finally relit
freeing the distressed
kort the Illinf
S y another
i-ith a barge in
If ' ing to transfer
I | the stranded ship
I she would come off
stiff Two hundred longpier.
were standing by for
foil (Eevervthing was workfee
Sunday morning for a
at high tide and the
<1 tig didn't even have to
i land to the Resolute.
' fte worse for her experitte
Illinoian sailed Sunday
after remaining here during
? for an inspection to de
if she had been damaged.
Bttlc~Bits
Or Big News
B" Event* Of State,
n and World-Wide
Barest During Past
Week
Wyche, 19-year-old 1
st and son of Mr. j
of Hallsdrowned
yesterday afB
ln Lake Waccamaw when
from whiCh he and
B yriung men were
- out of reach.
Bsaid that about three
M the four young men
Buying a swimming party
'-he lak. having gone out
B 1 having left the
I' a swim, Cyril, and Gra.
B ming together
i forest, Aug. 7.?Dr.
0. Kitchin, president of
,!"?t college, announced
fl the college's medical
B loul'l be transferred from1
For?t to Winston-Salem,
Bukj be expanded from a
ar to a four-year instituB?
1Wire resources of the
Tf Cray fund in the Winm
foundation, he said,
I" "'ado available to
B Ljrest college, and will
Possible "this long-wished
W mUf'ii-necded expansion"
Jical school.
Bt. !c,h|n did not disclose the
litW. ltle fund, but said it
B^te for building and
j* Purposes. The fund
B v< ,l,sLf-d following the
H^erni ,
dj. years ago of BowBfeJ''
^iuston-Salem tobac
1 TH1
NO. 28
loian Aground
Battery Island
Being Freed 1
Repairing Dan
Steeple Of
Carpenters are busy this
week repairing the damage
suffered several weeks ago
1 to the steeple of the Southport
Baptist church.
In the accompanying, picture
workmen may be seen '
| as they literally start at the
top and work their way to
the bottom. Included among
other improvements is a set
of lightning rods, these, of
course being designed to prevent
a recurrence of the ac- )
cident that twice within the
past four years has caused
several hundred dollars worth |
of damage to the church
; building.
It is reported that most i
of the loss from the recent
damage was covered by insurance.
This hnwf>v?"
not include wiring and light
fixtures which were a total
loss.
Work of repairing the
I
Several Memb
Associatic
Group Came Down Satur- j
day Afternoon Aboard
Frank Sherrill's Yacht
And Spent Over An Hour
Sight-Seeing
GROUP VISITS AT
ORTON PLANTATION
Scheduled Visit Friday Aftcrftcrin
* Was Postponed
Because Of Unfavorable
Weather
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sherrill
on their yacht, Martinia, brought
I a party comprised of members
iof the North Carolina Press Association
here Saturday afternoon
and although their stay here was
;limited to about an hour, the vis-'
itors all apparently had a very
interesting and delightful time.
The party was comprised of
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Horner," of
Sanford, (Mr. Horner had been
elected president of the North
I Carolina Press Association only
a few hours earlier the same
day); Miss Beatrice Cobb, of
Morganton, (secretary and treasurer);
Wm. C. Lassiter, Raleigh;!
' JSdltor Jonn a. raiK, naicign j
[Times: M. C. Dunnagan, Raleigh;
| Mr. and Mrs. Roy Parker, Ahosi
kie Herald, Ahoskie; Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Anderson, Skyland Post,
Westjefferson; H. A. Cecil, High j
[Point Enterprise ;Leonard Woodjrow
Wilson, Chatham News, Siller
City. Meeting the boat with
Mr. and Mrs. Sherrill and their
guests when the Martinia docked
were Postmaster L. T. Yaskell,
Captain Bonner Bussell, and W.
B. Keziah. The visitors were taken
in cars to Orton Plantation, a 1
(Continued on page 8) 1
Publicity Is
Given Orton,
Charleston Radio Station <
Carries Information |i
About The Beautiful Gar-1
dens Of Orton Plantation 1
In its tri-weekly report over i
WSOC at Charlotte, the arolina i
Motor Club broadcasted an interesting
item relative to Orton
Plantation, eight miles above
Southport. The broadcast was a i
general one, covering the state.
The item relative to Orton was ]
as follows: <
"If you are a flower garden :
lover by all means take time to j,
run down to Suthport. Southport :
Is located 32 miles south of Wilmington
and is reached by U. S. j
Route 17, and N. C. State Route j,
303. The Orton Plantation is near i
Southport on the Cape Fear ]
River. The plantation was estab- ,
lished in 1725, by "King" Roger i
Moore. The mansion is said to be i
one of the finest examples of
pure colonial architecture in j
America, and the gardens, with ;
their flowers and moss-hung
treis, are famous throughout the
coiin try."
E SI
A Goo
Southport, N.
fOn
For Week
Sunday Noon
lage Done To
Baptist Church
w
a
i.
HHg
building is under the direction
of Bryan Dosher.
ers
Of Press
>n Visit Herei
Keziah Is Guest
Of Gene Austin
__???????
Wlvn the Gene Austin
show was in Wilmington last
week the star and producer 1
wired W. B. Keziah at Southport
and invited him to come
up for the evening performance.
The local newspaper man j
and civic booster accepted
the invitation and accompanied
Miss Evelyn Loughlin
to Wilmington for the show.
Before the curtain tne meal
folks were guests of Austin
and his company at dinner
down town. Following the
show they were invited back
stage where they met the
stars of the cast and other- j
wise spent an enjoyable even- i
ing. I ]
Austin visited here last winter
and this was his way to ,
show his appreciation to Mr.
Keziah for the courtesies
shown him and Mrs. Austin ,
during the visit.
Numerous Cases ;
Before Recorder >
Drunken Drivers Take Up '
Much Of The Attention '
Of The Court At Regular J
Weekly Session Monday (
In Recorder's Court here Monday
Frank Brown, colored, plead- 1
ed guilty to charges of driving '
while drunk. He was given six 1
months on the roads, this judg- '
ment to be suspended upon pay- 1
ment of a fine Of $100.00 and J
costs. His license will be revoked '
For 12 months.
Ronnie Varnam, white, pleaded c
guilty to charges of drunk driving
and judgment was with held.
John Parris, white, pleaded t
guilty to charges of drunk driv- '
ng and was given 4 months on
the roads, this judgment being
suspended upon payment of a
ine of $50.00 and costs.
George Harker, white, was
ound VllSy of drunken driving
and was. given 4 months on the
oads, this judgment being suspended
ikon payment of a fine
of $50.00^Hie costs and upon the
further iffiaition that he surrender
his driver's license for 12
months.
Carson Skipper, white, pleaded
guilty to charges of drunken
driving and was given 6 months
on the roads, judgment being suspended
upon payment of a fine
of $50.00, the costs and surrender
of his driver's license for 12
months.
Lester Benton, white, pleaded
guilty to charges of being drunk
and disorderly and possession of
intoxicating liquor. He was given
4 months on the roads.
(Continued on page 8)
4TE
d News paper 1
C.t Wednesday, A
Shows Benefits
For Brunswick
In Form Of Aid
Social Security Act Has
Been Responsible For
Bringing $65,000.00 To
Citizens Of County In
Three Years
STATISTICS ARE
FROM HEADQUARTERS
M. R. Dunnegan Furnished
Fasts For Story At Meeting
Of North Carolina
Press Association
Brunswick county residents and
communities have been benefited
to 'he extent of approximately
$65,000.00 through operation of
the ten divisions of the Social
Security Act during the slightly
more than three years in which
some of the divisions have been
active, it was stated by M. R.
Dunnagan, informational service
representative of the State Unemployment
Compesation Commission,
while attending the annual
convention of the N. . Press
Association at . Wrightsville
Beach.
Normally unemployment compensation
to unemployed workers
is the largest of the ten
items and in many cases is as
large as the other nine combined,
but this is not true of Brunswick
county, due to the small
number of industrial and commercial
firms which are subject
to the Unemployment Compensation
Law, Mr. Dunnagan
said. Unemployment Compensation
accounts for only $11,258.78,
or less than one-fifth, of the receipts
in the county.
L. Yelton, State Director of
Public Assistance and Dr.
Roma S. Cheek, executive
secretary of the State Commission
for the Blind, and with
figures available in the Central
Unemployment Compensation office
and from Washington, Mr.
Dunnagan said he was able to
get a fairly accurate picture of j
the benefits and services secured
to Brunswick county through
operation of the Social Security
program.
In the division of Old Age Assistance,
he said, $20,554.00 has
been sent to aged needy citizens
in the two years of operation of
that part of the program, through
June 30. In addition, in July,
51,194.00 has been delivered to I
171 aged needy persons, an ave- ]
rage of $6.98 each. This average |
is below the State average of
59.59 for July, he said. In addi-1
to Dependent Children, $9,850.00,
ivas sent to Brunswick to help)
support dependent children in the
same two years. In July, $521.00
vas sent for support of 113 dependent
children, an average of
54.61 a month. This also is below
the State average for July.
In Aid to the Blind, $3,070.00
las been sent to this county in
the same two years, while the
imount for June (figures for
luly are not available yet) was
5130.00, for 13 blind persons in
the county, an average of $10.00,
:ach for the month. |
In another division, Old Age
3enefits, or Insurance, it is imsossible
to get the figures, but!
>y apportionment, it is likely ii
hat 32 individuals have received!
ibout $620.00 in small lumpsum;1
sayments in this division. This
las been paid to workers in :
tovercd occupations on the basis
>f their earnings since January :
( Continued on Page 8)
Couple Arrives
Schedule
A couple of New Jersey
school teachers arrived at |
Southport in an 18 foot rowing
kayak Friday, traveling
right on their schedule for
the 1,500 mile trip from Bellvine,
N. J., to Key West, Fla.
Neat, sun-browned and
healthy, they afforded a remarkable
illustration of the
beneficial effects of out door
life. They intended to resume
work with their double bladed
paddles early Saturday
morning but deferred to the
hospitality of Southport folks
scenery here- and at Orton.
They spent the whole of that
day getting notes for a book
they plan to write, and photographic
scenes. Many
yards of film were used in
the movie camera that was
a part of their equipment.
POR'
In A Good Con
ugust 9th, 1939
LAWYER
i
?^
Announcement was made Tues;
day that R. I. Mintz, above,
Brunswick county Register of
Deeds, passed the North Carolina
State Bar Examination which he
stood last week in Raleigh.
Health Report
For July Given
By County Nurse
Mrs. Lou H. Smith Makes
Report Of Her Activities
For Month Of July In
Health Department
VACCINATIONS TAKE
UP MUCH OF HER TIME
Following is the report of public
health work done in Brunswick
county during the month of
July by Mrs. Lou H. Smith,
County nurse:
Fifty-seven homes visited to
advise mothers; 140 people came
to the office of advice, or to
take some vaccination; 5 conferences
with doctors of the county
or elsewhere; 9 conferences with
county officials; 5 trips to hospital
on official business; 1 chsc
of diphtheria quarantined; 4
Wassermanns taken; 28 malarial
smears taken; 32 specimens sent
to laboratory.
One trip to Whltevme for a
conference; 1 visitor from state;
25 persons took typhoid vaccine;
3 babies took toxoid to prevent
diphtheria; 25 cases of malaria
reported to this office; 20 cases
of syphilis reported; 1 case of T.
B. Reported; 1 case of diphtheria
reported; 1 case scarlet fever reported;
850 miles driven during
month.
WppfJ Snips flnnr!
I! V VV? MM?VV V?VWVt
At Lumberton
Market's Average Rising
Since Opening Day With
Sales Running To Capacity
BY. J. C. FULTON, I
Lumberton Sales Supervisor
LUMBERTON, Aug. 9.?Lumberton's
tobacco market apparently
topped all Border Belt markets
on the two-day average for
the opening last week. Monday's
sale of 811,178 lbs. sold for an
average of $19.68.
Lumberton's $18.67 average for
Thursday and Friday was ahead
of anything else in the belt so
far as official records showed.
With brisk selling today pushing
through to another fine ave(Continued
on page 8)
Here On
On Trip South \
The journey here from Bellville
has been without incident, ac- e
cording to information. An in- c
traduction to the travelers is best ?
given in an Associated Press
Dispatch which the Civic Club
secretary, W. B. Keziah clipped
on July 3rd and has been holding
until they arrived here. Hhis
dispatch was as follows:
"?Two New Jersey school teachers
pushed an 18-foot kayak into
the water of the Passaic river
Sunday and shoved off for Key
West, Fla.? a 1,500-mile jaunt
via the inland waterway.
"Charles Fisher of Newark, instructor
in Central Avenue
school, and Leon Kvadar of
Bayonne, a teacher in Hamilton
junior high school of Elizabeth,
had food, extra clothing, tent,
'cooking utensils, radio, firt aid
(Continued on page 8J
r pii
nmunity
PUBUSHED EVERY
Forest Warden
Makes Report
Before Board
County Forest Warden
Dawson Jones Shows
That A Big Improvement
Made In Efficiency Of
Forest Protection Program
BIG REDUCTION
IN ACRES BURNED
County Warden Says That
Chief Credit For Improvement
Should Go
To Citizens Of
County
County Forest Warden Dawson
Jones presented his annual report
to members of the Brunswick
county board of commissioners
here Monday and showed that fire
protection has been given 412,500
acres in this county during the
past fiscal year with a loss
through burning of only 11,185
acres.
This compares favorably with
last year's record, which showed
a loss through burning of 45,329
acres in 214 fires, an average loss!
of 211.82 acres per fire. During
the fiscal year just closed there
were 136 fires resulting in an
average loss of 82.24 acres per I
fire.
Total cost for protection to this I
county was $2,000.00 appropriated
by the county and matched
by Federal funds. This does not
begin to represent the actual
good from fire control in Brunswick
for, as Warden Jones points
(Continued on page 8) I
Tobacco Pric<
Close To 20
a
Vanderbilt Yacht
Here On Visit [
:
The Alva, palatial Vanderbilt
yacht, arrived in the
Southport harbor Tuesday
night about 8:30 o'clock on
what was unofficially announced
as a two or three
day visit here.
The graceful craft, which
is about the finest that ever
puts In here, usually stops
at Southport every year. She
carries a crew of 45 men
and officers and has a draft j
of 19 faet. She was brought
In by a member of the Wilmington-Cape
Fear Pilot Association.
Wednesday morning it was
reported that .Mrs. Vandcrbilt,
wife of the owner, is
aboard.
Local PTA Group
Invited To Meet
lumber Of Prominent
Speakers Scheduled To (
Appear On The Program
Of PT-A Institute
All members of Parent-Teach- ]
irs Associations in this county (
lave been invited to attend the ,
welfth annual sessions of the
'krent-Teacher Institute which is ]
leing held at the University of
>!orth Carolina at Chapel Hill |
his week, today through Frilay,
August 7-11.
The Institute is being conductid
by the University of North
iforth Carolina Congress of Par?ts
and Teachers. ]
A number of prominent speakrs
scheduled on the program iniludes
Dr. Clyde A. Erwin, State
Superintendent of Public Instrucion;
Dean Ray V. Sowers of
Florida Southern College; H. E. i
Stacy, of Lumberton, president of j t
he North Carolina State School,?
Board Association; Dr. J. Henry <
lighsmith, president of the <
s'orth Carolina Education Asso- 1
liation; Jule B. Warren, Secre- <
ary of the Association; R. 1
dayne Albright, Director of the 1
State Employment Service. <
Miss Grace Van Dyke More, i
ihairman of music of the Na- !
ional Congress of Parents and <
teachers; Mrs. Ruth Vick Ever- i
;tt, Field Secretary of the;!
iforth Carolina Education Asso- j
nation; Prof. Guy B. Phillips and,:
?rot. Roben J. Maake, both of j 3
he University Education Depart-1
,0T jj
WEDNESDAY $1.5
Ten Candidates
Saving Course
Given Friday
*
Six
Student Life j
Saver Rescues
Boy From Death G0
Coi
An unusual occurence hap- J
pcned Friday afternoon at
Wrightsville Beach when one
of the Southport boys who
had gone down there for one
of the classes In the senior sav^
life saving course rescued a Jun'
boy from drowning. Frid
Perhaps the most authentic repr
report of the rescue Is that Natl
of Charles A. Mix, Red Cross clusi
Life Saving examiner, who Hi
{ was an eye witness: 90,
"While at Wrightsville Clai
Beach Friday I was able to mon
see the fruits of our labor Isucc
materialize. Claude McCall I scor
was responsible for saving a ' Tayl
small boy from certain death Wee
by drowning through a swim- B<
ming rescue. Assisting him savi:
was John Simmons, who joe
went along to assist if need- O'Di
ed. It will lie of interest to jn
your people to know that the ]jfe
courses were worthwhile and
I am indeed irrateful that I ih?
was able to be the instructor \
of these boys, and also was wjj|
able to observe the results of Vent
our labor." cere
do ]
y tt One
2S Hover
Ifact
Cent Average "-J
i j Thu
Total Of $266,531.99 Paid ?he
Out To Patrons Of The rcpo
Whiteville Tobacco Mar- worl
ket Thursday And Fri- rivei
day peril
that
MORE POUNDAGE ON the
MART THAN IN '38 favo
j the
Sales Held Up To The 18 only
Cent Average Which date
Started The Market the
Off On The Opening and
Day on
sent
Whiteville's tobacco market sjng
got off to a flying start during e(j,
the week-end, selling a total of!able
1,459,026 pounds of tobacco as |
compared with 1,369,955 pounds l-l|
for the first two riavs of the 1938 ! '
selling season and the average
this year for the first two days
was $18.26.
Money paid out for the first fyja]
days of selling, Thursday and q
Friday amounted to a total of jy
$266,531.99. Records are believed g
to have been shattered for open- j
ing sales on the Whiteville tobacco
market. qc
Official figures for the market russ
show that Whiteville on Thurs- ancj
day sold a total of 796,084 state
pounds of tobacco for a total vrill
Df $145,803.87, which figured an Place
average of $18.32 for the day. ^
Friday's poundage and average their
both were only very slightly un- whic
3er those of the preceding day,
when 662,942 pounds sold for '
$120,728.12 for an average of
518.21 per hundred.
Weed Prices Up <?
At Fairmont j nisi
1 thr
Fairmont Market Strong 001
With All Grades Up
From 2c To 4c Pound
Since Opening 2.g
FAIRMONT, AUG. 9.?Fair- 3:<y
nont's tobacco market continues
:o grow stronger in price average ?:41
(very day as proven by the offi:ial
records of the market, ac:ording
to C. B. Stafford, mar- 4!?
<et sales supervisor. Monday's
sfferings was one of the season's
largest sales and the best from
:he standpoint of average. Monlay's
sale was 881,170 pounds
which sold for an average of ?:4
519.78. Tuesday's sales was light' 7:?
;r with only 439,984 pounds sold,
which brought an average of 7:?
519.50. 7:4
Growers selling at Fairmont!
seemed pleased with prices paid |
for their tobacco and it was I
(Continued on page 8.) I""""'
' ! -j. '
1
rhe Pilot Covers
runswick County
'
__ i
0 PER YEAR
For Life
Pass Exam
' By Mr, Mix
Seniors And Four Junors
Are Successful In
rhe Life Saving Course
Conducted By Field Repesentative
OD SHOWING FOR
BEGNNING HERE
isiderable Interest Was
town In Life Saving
bourse And Work Next
Year Assured
:n candidates for senior life
ng and four candidates for
or life saving were certified
ay by Charles A. Mix, field
esentative for the American
lonal Red Cross, at the conion
of a one week's course.
Igh score for the seniors was
this record being shared by
id McCall and Johnnie Slms.
Each of the other four
essful candidates made a
e of 75. They were Edward
lor, Donnie St. George, Harry
ks and Leonhardt Davis,
oys certified for junior life
ng certificates were Jack and
Young Christian, John D.
iniel and Bill Shannon,
a personal letter to the local
saving chairman Mr. Mix said
he enjoyed his work with
Southport boys. "I believe
the group you now have
be able to do much in preino*
VL*afn?* appiilnntu T at*i
ly hope that those who failed
lot look at it in that light."
of the chief reasons for
e failures, he adds, is the
that some of the candidates
! forced to miss one or more
ies.
lis was particularly true on
rsday and Friday afternoons
n the class was required to
rt at Wrightsville Beach for
<. It was low tide in the
r each day during the class
od, and Mr. Mix pointed out
he could not do justice to
boys under the existing Unrable
conditions. In carrying
swimmers to Wrightsville,
four boys besides the candl- *
s for senior life saving made
trip. Each of them passed,
it is interesting to note that
the report which Mr. Mix
in he didn't show that a
le junior candidate had failonly
that they had been unto
complete the course.
inting Permits
To Go On Sale
rsh Hen Season Will
pen The First Of Next
lonth, And Licenses Will
e On Sale In Plenty Of
ime
mnty Game Warden Eustas
i was in Southport Monday
rpnnrtf?H that rnimtv am!
i hunting licenses for 1939
go on sale at the usual
is the last of this week,
lis will be in plenty of time
lermit sportsmen to procure
licenses before September 1,
h is the date for the open(Continued
on page 8)
'ide Table
following Is the tide table
Soutbport during the next
:k. These hours are appmlately
correct and were furtied
The State Port PIM
ough the courtesy of ths
ie Fear Pilot's Association
;h Tide Low TtfT
TIDE TABLE
Thursday, August 10
5 a. m. 8:53 a. m.
9 p. m. 9:57 p. m.
Friday, August 11
8 a. m. 9:56 a. m.
5 p. m. 10:53 p. TO.
Saturday, August 12
t a. ni. 10:54 a.
6 p. m. 11:49 p. m.
Sunday, August 13
1 a. m. 11:52 a. m.
cxt
0 p. m. .
Monday, August 14
3 a. m. 0:41 a. m.
0 p. in. 12:49 p. m.
Tuesday, August 15
2 a. m. 1:33 a. m.''
8 p. m. 1:44 p. m.
Wednesday, August 16
0 a. m. 2:22 a. m.
7 p. m. 2:26 p. m.
,'j,- . ;
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