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I he News :Time NQ- 5 ip Of ! Group Monday ;ss At This . To Adopt nd By-Laws vn Up ARE 0 ATTEND Influence n May Be ;o Every County sidered full memberswick County' erce has been j night at 7:30 , courtroom at j tices to that t to members, ectors was in inday evening discussing inle plans which > the program commerce. It luest members estions which offer with rejf the organiit them at the night. ;ipal items of fore the group be the adopution and by11 be considern of memberA. * 1 Ifc LO exienu LiltL of the new organiza- | ( rj section of Bruns[ so a warm inliai been extended inter[ - of the county to k lembers Monday keral Rites Mr. Marshall us Were Interred Lr Springfield, Ohio, i January 6, With Lei Officers Participat a?t rites were conducted i L January 6th. at 2 p. j ppnrgfield. Ohio, for Rev. j H Marshall well known j Li Rector of Southport. j Rnice was conducted at! f's Funeral Home by the Icultrice Post No. 6 of j k Legion. Commander i! the post delivered a hi ar.d consoling message, teral procession was given wort to Ferncliff CemeR of the most beautiful its in Ohio, where the retrc laid to rest. ComI Kenny of the 40 and 8 I! pall bearer. At the be American Legion paid to their comrade's departotintied On Page 4) copalians To I let Next Week i Meeting Will Pay Br To Bishop Thomas Darst On 25th Anni?ry Of His Elevation Position Anr.ual Convention of the Diocese of East Caro0 meet in St. James' > Wilmington, next WedThursday, January 24 1 The Woman's Auxiliary will meet at .the same ^ two Conventions, in batons. will ^qelebrate the Wvcrsary of Aty Consecra"t Rev TTffimas C. Darst, j h Bishop <4 th eDiocese. i 1 expected that a number j Bkport people will attend ""rentions. Delegates electee vestrv to represent St. ' Episcopal Church are: J; Erickson, Horace Glover, witmuef; cn page 4) f ' Nation Meet 6turday Night r)in? Program For ; P* Will Be Held In P Hit;h School GymP? Under Joint SponP'P Of Club Women I. :ies.of county-' I.' ' tings will be L and high school r iy night at I under the joint auL'rthl ''oimty Federation L ," t ration clubs and :or the Parrct?ue'i"ori pajfe 4) th: 11 Scene Sho J&E&HB3 ?? ? j^^HRwnnM :* " " ' ^ ? ? ~ WATERWAY?One oi in last week's issue of Lif inland waterway as it runs Cape Fear river at Southpo zine and the one shown ab< top of the pilot tower. Qnnflinnt't Pi/ k-zvi-mipvyi. L A. Issue Of Silw-iT&ir' One Photo Was Taken 01 Waterway From Top 01 Pilot Tower And Showed Much Of The Southporl Waterfront BIRTHDAY PARTY PICTURES SHOWN One Photo Shows W. B, Keziah Presenting Mary Joyce Walsh Baby Alligator From Orton The January 15th issue of Life Magazine contains three pictures that were taker, at Southport recently when Wallace Kirkland photographer for that publication, stopped here on the yacht DOHO. n his assignment for a picture story of the trip from New York to Florida via the inland waterway. One of the pictures was snapped from the top of the pilot tower and shows the inland waterway as it extends southward from here. Another shows W. B. Keziah, Southport man. as he presents a baby alligator tc Miss Mary Joyce Walsh, photographer's model, on the occasion of her 20th birthday, which sht celebrated at a party held ir Southport. A third picture shows Joyce as she blows out the candles on her birthday cake. In ths background is shown a box ol beautiful camelias that were senl i V... T T nurroncf SnrUnt frOni IICl uj o. u?n.v..vv Orton Plantation. Southport is clearly marked or the map which is shown with the picture series, and a box is drawr about the spot marking this citj with the notation "Mary Walsh has her 20th birthday". Included in the script accompanying the picture story is this information. "On the trip dowr (Continued on page 4) Fruit Trees Pl< While Folks I While the rest of the state has been wading around in snow in this vicinity folks have beer planting orange and lemon trees shrubbery and flowers. From al reports this is the only portior of the state that has not beer visited by snow this winter. Th< upper portion of the county received a blanket of an inch 01 more of snow, but only half ? dozen people can be found ir Southport who profess to havs seen a flake falling during an} of the recent cold spells. The orange and lemon trees an being planted on Bald Head is land, along with some shrubberj and flowers. Orton Plantation anc Bald Head island, this past week received a shipment of two ful freight car loads of flowers shrubbery and trees. The ship ment included thousands of var icties, including more than 30< species of camelias, one of th( most beautiful wintcr-bloominj flowers in North Carolina. Most of the flowers went t< jthe wonderful Orton Gardens, al ' ' ' ' - / ' E ST; A Goo 4-PAGES TODAY wn In Life w ? "gBp i > ' ** *^^^^358 tr ' the South port scenes shown e Magazine was that of the southward after leaving the rt. The picture in Life Maga)ve were both taken from the :tures In Life Magazine * CANDIDATE ii # \ ik wi \ I .&Sii in OL S .. : 1 . I Lee Gravely, of Rocky Mount, who less than two months ago i was guest speaker before the > I Whiteville Civitan club, formally i entered the gubernatorial race i Friday, and pledged himself to a i 12-point platform which mciuaes ' planks opposing highway fund i i diversion and the three per cent sales tax. > Health Official Visits South port The Q-33 with Assistant Sur. igeon General C. L. Waller, in i charge of the Division of Quarenr j tine, aboard spent Thursday night i; and most of Friday .here. The vessel was enroute to Tampa and I merely stopped here to spend the ?j night and get mail, the Surgeon 11 spending part of Firday looking j around. inted Here Up-State Shiver ! I ready resplendent with many win,' ter blooming flowers, and with i thousands of azaleas and other , | early spring flowers already giv1 j ing promise that this year the i gardens will surpass all previous i years for loveliness. A variety of Monkey Puzzle | trees, a plant with which the gen" j cral public is not well acquainted, i were in the two-carload ship1 j ment, which came from San Jose, ; j California. Additional shipments '1 are to come from there and other 'points on the Pacific Coast in the 5 {near future. 'r Churchill Bragaw and Charley t Matthews, horticulturists at Orton and Bald Head Island, spcnl I five weeks in California' last fall 1 | _ | The object of their trip was tc i purchase the trees, shrubbery anci . flowers. Both of them, and othei ) horticulturists, are confident thai ; the orange and lemon trees will ; j grow and produce on Bald Keacl Island. They were warranted by j I the growers to withstand a tern perature of 15 degrees or lower ME d News paper 1 Southport, N. G., Wei Sagging Tobacco Prices In 19 4 0 Seen By Hutson Thinks That The Infant 1940 Tobacco Crop May Find Rough Reception When It Finally Reaches Warehouse Floors Next Fall 1939 CROP PROVED BIGGEST IN HISTORY One-Fourth Larger Than The Record 1937 Tobacco Crop, And Much Larger Than First Anticipated The infant tobacco crop, now beginning its first growth in plant beds, is expected to find a rough | reception when it finally reaches warehouse floors next fall, believes J. B. Hutson, assistant administrator of the Triple-A. Its preceding brother, the 1939 crop, turned out to be the largest on record, totaling 1,100,000,000 pounds of flue-cured leaf. It was larger than 1937's record crop by one-fourth and is 325,000,000 pounds more than will be used during the current year. This means, Hutson explained, that world stocks will be 325,000,000 pounds greater at the beginning of the next marketing ' season than at the beginning of 1 the past season. An 4-svw thnf nvnonrif in/li. WI1 lup %JL II1UI, iltutcations are that exports will be approximately 150,000,000 pounds less than usual. In effect, this situation sets the stage so that stocks in the United States next July 1 will be about 475,000,000 pounds larger than at the beginning of the 1939 marketing season. We actually need less than half a crop of flue-cured tobacco next year. We are allotting between 750 thousand and 760 thousand acres, which at a low yield of 800 pounds per acre would give us around 600 million pounds of tobacco; with a yield of 900 pounds per acre, we would have about 675 million pounds. Present indications are,that it will be extremely difficult to market at reasonable prices this much tobacco next fall. The Commodity Credit Corporation is now holding approximately 175 million pounds of flue-cured tobacco which represents about one-half of the surplus. We hope to export these holdings during the next (Continued on page four) Hits Officer And j Gets Road Term Man Given 8 Months On Roads For Assaulting Deputy While He Was Performing Official Duty George Brooks, Jr., white, who was tried two weeks ago on charges of assaulting an officer while in performance' of his duty, was given 8 months on the roads bv Judtre Walter M. Stanaland, who passed sentence On him Monday. Brooks, who was charged with striking Deputy Sheriff 1 Drew Long while the latter was engaged in official business, will . not begin serving hi6 sentence i until Monday. The case charging A. L. Willetts. white, with driving an auto mobile with improper license, was dismissed at no cost to the county Dolan Norris, white, charged with having no driver's license, heard his case dismissed without cost to the county. Julian Price, white, was found guilty of operating a motor vehicle with improper lights. Judgment was suspended upon payment of a fine of $10.00 and costs, the fine being remitted. Samuel O. Hewett, white, pleaded guilty to charges of operatj ing a trailer without proper j license and was taxed with onehalf the costs. Ed S. Dennis, white, pleaded i guilty to charges of violating the speed law. He was fined $15.00 I and costs, the fine being remitted. Governor Joyner, colored, pleaded guilty to charges of being , cirunk on the highway. Sentence of 30 days on the roads was suspended upon payment of the | costs and a fine of $15.00. Joe Robinson, colored, was found guilty on charges of drunken driving. Sentence of 6 months on the roads was suspended upon ' | payment of the costs and a fine : i of S50.00, his license to be re voked for 12 months, i j Frank Lewis Gore, white, was I, found not guilty of reckless oper' | ation. ; i Mrs. Marion Verecn, white, was 1 found guilty of reckless opera1 tion. Judgment was suspendec - upon payment of a fine of $25.0( and cost. Her fine was remitted (Continued on page four) 1 ???-? 1 P0R1 % (n A Good Cor dnesday, January 17th Col. Edgar Bain Here For Beer License Hearing .iVcjp'x . v '-/SBs ^mr ? Head Of Brewers And ; North Carolina Beer Distributors Committee Col Edgar H. Bain, head of the Brewers and North Carolina Beer Distributor's Committee, met Tuesday with members of the board of county commissioners to hear a complaint against the continued operation of a retail beer establishment in the Thomasboro community by Odell Williamson. After the petition had been : read and there had been a proi longed discussion of the matter, i action by the board was deferred , until Col. Bain and his commit J tee can make an investigation i and report to the commissioners. The board meeting continued throughout the day, with most of the time being devoted to tax ' settlements. ; NYA Project For Jobless Youths 11 C. C. Russ, Superintendent j Of Public Welfare For j Brunswick County, Wants To Contact Eligible Boys And Girls C. C. Russ, superintendent of , public welfare for Brunswick I county, says that there are scv, j eral openings for NYA employ. | ment for both girls and boys between the ages of 18 and 24 | years. i There are several opportunities j to place girls who are high school I graduates in stenographic posi| tions, according to Mr. Russ, and any desiring work of this kind should contact him. With regard to possible openings for boys, Mr. Russ says that if enough boys show an inter, est in a woodworking project one will be set up on some centrally located place in the county. Uni employed boys falling in the above prescribed age limit should i- *- D,,?? | L'UIl IclC L iVLI . nuoo. Battleship Far From Completion Clark Advises Secretary Of Chamber Of Commerce That Will It Be Almost Two Years Before ShakeDown Cruise Of North Carolina It is a long way between the j launching of a battleship and the ! time when they put her in com| mission, and Congressman J. Bayard Clark advises that the Navy Department says that while the battleship North Carolina will be launched in June of this year, it will be about October, 1941, before they put her in commission. At this distance it is impossible to make even tentative plans re' garding her shake-down cruise. I "However", says the Congressj man, "we may be able to make j some headway towards getting her if we try again about Janu'jary 1941." { Going further in his letter to | the Brunswick County Chamber i of Commerce, Congressman Clark {added: "If you think the State of Brunswick would like to have :' some naval vessel pay its capitol j city of Southport a call during i j 1940, please give me some idea ! of the time the visit would be i preferable, and I will take the i matter up with the Navy Depart> ment". The Chamber of Commerce had asked that the Battleship North i Carolina visit Southport on her shake-down cruise, when she was ready for such a cruise and if i her depth would permit her to ! enter the Cape Fear river. The I j Congressman is now being advisI j ed that Southport and Brunswick .'county will appreciate visits from (Continued on page 4) _ r pil nmunity 1940 publjsi N. C. Legion CI Once Army PI * Rev. Frank J. Howard, Catholic Priest Here, Served With The U. S. Aviation Corps During World War FIGURED IN THREE FORCED LANDINGS But Never Was Hurt During His Many Hours In The Air; Entered The Priesthood In 1926 People inclined to think of the Catholic priesthood in terms of the cloistered seclusion of medieval monks have a surprise in store for them when they meet the recently elected chaplain of the North Carolina Department of the American Legion. He is Rev. Frank J. Howard, pastor of the Southport Catholic chapel, who during the World War saw service as a member of the U. S. aviation corps, serving at Kelly Field at San Antonio and Payne Field, West Point, Miss. One day recently a representative of this paper was surprised to see Rev. Howard coming down a ladder forward-like, without 1 holding on?and was reminded of the fact that the priest is accus- ] tomed to dizzy heights. 1 During the war, Father Howard ] was one of the crew chiefs at 1 I the army flying field, serving in | Bolivia And L< Play Big Gai * Basketball Bulletins ! :i GAMES THIS WEEK Thursday Waceamaw at Southport | j iyWaud at- Bolivia Monday Bolivia at Waceamaw Shallotte at Leland STANDING OF TEAMS GIRLS Team W.L. Pet.. Team W L Pet. 1 | Bolivia I 0 1000 i ; Waceamaw 1 0 1000!: | Shallotte 1 1 .500! I Leland 0 1 .0001 ( l Southport 0 1 .000 BOYS ( I Team W L Pet. i Leland 1 0 1000," Bolivia 1 0 1000 < | Shallotte 1 1 .500 Waceamaw 0 1 .000 !1 Southport 0 I .000 Note: Southport-Leland games Tuesday postpone because of ill- ' i ties*. 1 Invite Friends For Anniversary ] Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin B. 1 Atkinson, who reside on their ' farm between Bolivia and Supply, invite their friends to call on ' them during the afternoon and ' evening of January 24, from 3 1 o'clock to 8 o'clock, the occasion 1 being their 51st wedding anniversary. i This couple has lived in the i same neighborhood during the en- < tire married life and have rear- j I ed a family in Brunswick county, j Gulls Point Oul To Boat Capt If any one thinks that sea gulls 11 and some other water fowl are | ( worthless they should save their i breath, and not try to convince , Southport fishermen to their way ] of thinking. In the spring, summer and ] early fall birds are very helpful , to anglers and also to commer- , cial boats that are in quest of , food fish. They hoover over the j water and when the fishermen j see such gatherings of darting j birds they know that an inspection of the area will reveal ' plenty of fish swimming almost on the surface. ; The regular fall season for menhaden was a bad one. Good i weather kept the schools from j moving down here before Christ- 1 mas, as they usually do. Christmas came and went without bringing any over supply of cheer to a lot of men who had counted on a normal season. It is almost an invarablc cus-' torn that the boats shall stop work it Christmas for a period of three or four months. Soon after Christmas the boats went for a couple of days. They found no fish, but there was plenty of the ?? OT : i?D EVERY WEDNESDAY laplain Was 5 lane Mechanic / fsL E * 1 JfcJjL-, i D Ji c a El) I C? I ai B A H 21 R REV. F. J. HOWARD 11 T the capacity as plane mechanic, ei The Legion chaplain has seen sl many hours in the air, and nc a less than three times has occupied te planes which figured in forced 0) landings, one time a broken wing ie tOnntinued On Pace 4) a ? ir ;land Boys ne Tomorrow These Two Teams Are Now p Tied For Lead In Boys' Division Of Basketball League Play; Thursday's Game Important BOLIVIA GIRLS AND WACCAMAW ARE TIED e ? at Keen Interest Being Shown a In Basketball Series ^ Throughout County As s Teams Test Their fi Strength | u One of the most interesting b games of the pre-tournament sea- p son for Brunswick county high 0 school basketball teams is promised for tomorrow night when ^ Bolivia and Leland boys clash on the former's court. So far, each team has won i?s ' only game. Bolivia defeated Shal- ^ lotte while Leland scored its win Q it the expense of Waccamaw. The ^ girl's game will pit the league- u leadine Bolivia lassies against the n once-defeated Leland sextet. " Standing of the club at the of one week's play is shown in the accompanying box, and a report ^ of the two Waccamaw-Leland games (the only ones sent in) ^ follows: LELAND-WACCAMAW a The Waccamaw boys' and girls' E basketball teams met the Leland teams on Thursday night in the p first official game of the season. p The Waccamaw girl's were vie- ^ torious over the Leland 'assies ei with a score of 38-26, but the sj Waccamaw boys lost to them w with the same score. e Although the Leland girls put ap a terrific fight, they were Un- r, ible to break through the strong j, iefense of the Waccamaw team; s( thus enabling the Wacca- ci (Continued on page 4) p t Menhaden " ains In Winter bird signs. Look as they might, they could see no fish. There came a day when all hands seemed forced to agree that there was no fish?the season was over. Some of the fishermen felt, lowever, that there were fish, and that they only needed to be found. Among these believers was Captain John Ericksen of the R. B. Hawley. He went out one morning and there were still no fish, but the birds were darting everywhere over a certain area. They seemed to be saying: "Set pour net here, set your net here." There were no fish in sight and no sign except the birds, in which Captain John had a lot of confidence. So, out went the big purse net of the Hawley and after, an hour of tugging to close the bottom and bring the bag near the surface, the ship-toship phone of the Hawley was crackling out to other boats the message that they had found fish. Setting their nets blindly, except for the guidance of the birds, the Southport menhaden boats have been coming in daily with good catches. 1^1 , - - -1 .The Pilot Covers Brunswick County ?1.50 PER YEAJ? itate Commander American Legion Vill Visit Here une Rose Will Be Guest Of Honor At A Dinner And Dance To Be Held In Southport On Friday, February 2 , LABORATE PLANS FOR THE OCCASION 'inner Will Be Served By Daughters Of America Before Dance At 9 O'clock In Legion Hall In a letter to J. J. Loughlin, r., Commander of Brunswick ounty Post 194, State Comtander June H. Rose of the merican Legion advises that he id Adjutant Jim Caldwell will :rtainly be here for the banquet nd dance to be put on by the runswick county Post No. 194, merican Legion, on February id. The address of Commander ose is to feature the program in le Community Center Building, he local post, with characteristic fiergy, is planning to give the ate commander a real reception. .11 ex-service men are invited > attend, regardless of whether r not they are members of the gion. This invitation is good to II of the white ex-service men i Brunswick and surrounding JUlllrlVO. Cottages Built ! At Long Beach Reported That REA Lines Probably Will Be Extended To Serve Cottage Owners At This Development This Summer Chas. Wallace automobile dealr of Salisbury, has started contraction on a substantial cottage t Long Beach. D. M. StrlngeUl, Fayetteville Attorney., lyig tarted construction on a second ottage, his first one having been nished shortly before Christmas. Although not much activity 'as anticipated in the sale of uilding lots during the winter, urchases of desirable lots have ontinued at a pace well in keeplg with that set during the sumler months, when over three undred such lots were sold. Water mains are now being rd to connect up with much Ianned building. An official of tie Carolina Lands, Inc., owners f the property, has advised W. !. Kcziah, executive secretary of le Brunswick Oounty Chamber f Commerce, that there was very reason to expect that the oming of summer would find round forty complete homes at tie beach. The first break in the bad weatier should see the commencelent of a lot of building activity t Long Beach and Fort Caswell I leach. Long Beach will shortly get ower and lights through the :EA. 50 of the property i owners, I le required numocr, were repond yesterday afternoon to have igned for the current. The lines rill probably connect with the stablifthed lines through Supply. Of those signing for the cursnt a number already have omes at the beach. Others are lid to now have homes in proess of construction or to be lanning to build immediately. With the demand for building (Continued On Page 4) Tide Table Following is the tide table for Soutbport during the next week. These hours are approximately correct and were furnished The State Fort Pile* through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot's Association High Tide Low TUT TIDE TABLE Thursday, December, SI 3:05 a. in. 0:48 a. m. 3:81 p. m. 9:48 p. m. Friday, December 22 4:05 a. m. 10:37 a. m. 1:31 p. ni. 10:36 p. m. Saturday, December 23 4:59 a. m. 11:27 a. m. 6:25 p. m. , ]1:25 p. m. Sunday, December 24 5:47 a. m. ' 6:17 p. m. * 12:17 p. m. Monday, December 25 6:32 a. m. 0:14 a. m. 7:00 p. ni. 1:07 p. m. Tuesday, December 26 7:16 a. in. 1:04 a. ra. 7:46 p. m. 1:55 p. ra. Wednesday, December 27 8:01 a. m. 1:55 a. m. 8:32 p. m. 2:42 p. i* i " 1,1 ???? iii ah 4
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