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Most Of The News I 4iJ The Time k^twelve. no. 5 Kate Committee K'ow Considering meed Allotments Conmittee Expected Complete Its Work Tobacco Allotments ]Bl?rly This Week And >"3t;t'y County Committee hnjal tobacco acreage of county ^ 3,101.3 Acres Tobac For Producing Tobacco committeemen have det*! their work on 1941 . swick county, and called for to fill farmers of this >n the findings jniBitteemen. They have been . the state comniit their review and acceptit is cted that the state " Ciittee will complete its work itments early this K ind notify the county comof acceptance or rejection, of acceptance on the part r.: committee the toiltotments will immediateK asaiJf. i to individual grow Ij, covering the land which is R!S.i under the worksheet serI romber carried on the togs allotment, announces J. E. 0oo. county agent, jp farmers should keep in 0 that the allotments cover | cultivated land shown for Hon their compliance for the u covered under the worksheet iwhich the tobacco allotment dotted, and when such farm is 1 or any portion of the culitei land comes in possession toother party or concern, then it part of the cultivated land Br its proportionate part of (tobacco allotment for the enl farm regardless of the fact ?the farmer has not planted loco on that portion being I or the portion being sold Id to contribute any part to I tobacco allotment. k no case can a tobacco al03t be planted on any other | except on the farm for ':e allotment is actually |t unless a duly and properly kned transfer is made by | oocr.ty committee combining (farms owned by the same Itr, which will allot the farmmur.g the two farms to plant ombined allotment on any I or portion of the combined Sere a grower has two allotus and wishes to combine e two allotments in order to His a different manner other Ion the farm for which the btent was made, then the allots must be combined by I remittee. If the alot combined by the ttee and a grower lan on the farm on llotment is made, be considered as is allotment on one iderplanting it on should bear in me of selling farms rns that the man rm does not have, hority to divide the any manner other >portionate basis as is of the cultivated a on page 4) son Located Christmas Sammy guardsman at Oak >n, bought a new nd one of the first id was to caution tainst leaving the car. had the new mamg before he went 10 barbershop one went in for some he came out, his ie. Highway patrol id officers in adit ies were notified. Oick Brendie, who staying home that Kiehard while his own at the beauty ded upon her rele'd go down town minutes before bed ooner was he out returned. "Where's irjorie," he asked? there," she saidmow our car isn't d Oick. t was that they dls1 Marjorie had come beauty shop and 0 the Oden car? and model as her had driven home. a period of great hen the mix-up was 1 out and cars wen; their rightful own THI 0 L *" N ^s i- ' r:.:;V .. I ; : Lonely Vigil By Towermen In Brunswick By W. C. McCormick, Chief Forest Fire Control North Carolina Forest Service. There had been no rain for several weeks, the autumn sun | was hot, atjd what breeze was blowing was hot and dry. The vegetation on the ground, the leaves on the shrubs and trees were withered and dry. It was dangerous forest fire weather. If a fire started it would spread rapidly. The dried leaves, grass and other vegetation would flash up like powder. The Forest Wardens were uneasy. Ebrun Russ, the Forest Fire Towerman at Riegel Station in the middle of Green Swamp, had been on top of the 125 foot tower from sun up. Russ knew that fire conditions were bad, that the swamp was "bone" dry and th. i. a fire might spring up at I any point within the 12 mile I range of vision from the lookout I tower. From his lofty post above j the forest, he swung his gaze in a circle over the tree tops looking for a wisp of smoke that j would indicate the beginning of j a forest fire. As his eyes travel' ed to the southwest corner of I the tower, looking in the gener' al direction of Shallotte, he ccnt| ered his gaze on one point. A | small, thin, smoke like a white | streamer was rising above the i tree toDS. His trained eyes im I * mediately Identified it as I S-M-O-K-E. After standing a second or two, with his hand shading his eyes, he reached for the tlephone hanging on the side of the map table, and called Dalton Edwards, j at the Shallotte Tower: "Dalton ?, Russ at Riegel. I have just spotted a smoke which looks to be on the edge of the j swamp. My azimuth reading is 1185. Give me a reading from your tower so I can definitely locate the fire." LOCATE FIRE After sighting across his map Edwards replied: 'I "can see it now. It's square between me and the sun, that is why I didn't see it sooner. My I! reading is 45. By checking your ] reading of 185 it would place it i about a mite and a half off of I the Makatoka-Supply road at the edge of this pocosin that lies northeast of my tower, pretty much at the head of the south fork of Juniper Creek. You can get into it from the Makatokaj road and I'll call the ranger here I (continued on page four) Keziah Resents That He Has I "Doggone it," said W. B. Keziah. "why the Sam Hill is some nut always asking me if I happen to be German ? I don't know how they get the idea, unless there is something in the pronunciation that resembles the pronunciation of the name of former Kaiser Bill of Germany." "The fact of the matter is that way back in Bible times, Job had three daughters, in addition to various other troubles, both great and small. One of these daughters was named Keziah, and she was kind of outstanding because of the name. "Well, a good many years rolled by after the first lady Keziah, without further record of the name being entered on the books. Then in 1068 an English family followed the then general custom of look E ST/ A Gooc 4-PAGES TODAY Sc OOKOUT STATION 1 I i W I * TnWFRMAN?F.hrim Ru: Riegel fire tower, is shown tal another section of the county ted with his lookout station, fire tower on the right, with t! other buildings on the left. Supply Woman Hurt In Wreck j Mrs. T. F. Cumbee of Supply was painfully but not ser- jy iously injured Friday afternoon in a wreck between Southport and midway when the car in which she was riding with her son and his wife and baby left the road and overturned The wreck victims were assist-; i ]g ed by passing motorists and Mrs. ^ Cumbee was brought to the hos- or pital by Chas. E. Gause of South- ai port. She was able to leave the se 'of hospital Tuesday. jte ; Inference as German Name ? sh ing around for a handle for th the house. They had read of ;lt Job's troubles, especially the w, Lady Keziah. Then and there 0v they adopted a family name to and it was thus that the fj] House of keziah was born, or sr created whichever way you look ].e at it. (hf "I don't know my precise rela- g tion to Job, unless it is by |a adoption. But it kind of seems iju to me that I inherited a lot of hi his troubles, along with the i name of one of his daughters. ! &l "Some several centuries pas- jdi sed by after my English fore- I or bearers adopted the name of Sj Keziah. Meanwhile Scotch and ai Irish blood was grafted into w the family tree. I have inherited the canniness of the Scott. jBi the ugliness of the Irish and re the stubbornness of the Eng- cc lish. The combination suits me ! (Continued on page 4) ITE I News paper mthport, N. C., Wedr ?' iiii 00>' %8. Lai. ? ss, above, towerman at king to a forest warden in nvpi- flip fplpnhnnp nnnimi-. Tlie top photo shows the he towerman's cottage and lumerous Cases Before Recorder londay Was A Busy Day For Judge Walter M. Stanaland And Colleagues In County Court I In Recorder's Court here Monty Cleve Long, white, appeared 'fore Judge Walter M. Stana-1 nd with prayer for judgment in s case for being drunk and dis derly. Tried almost a year ago id given a 30-day suspended ntence upon payment of a fine $25.00 and costs, he has comenced to serve hig road sennce. Charlie Inman, colored, was ven 6 months on the roads for isault and forcible trespass. He is the negro whom Rice ivyn, Longwood business man, tot with a .410 guage gun after e man had entered the Gwyn >me, and taken his wife, who as cooking there at the time, it and beating her. According the evidence introduced, Gwyn red upon the negro with the nail calibre gun after he had fused to leave the premises as id been ordered by the owner. ,vyn, charged with assault with deadly weapon, found that dgment had been with-held in s case. W. G. Smith, white, pleaded lilty to charges of drunken iving and was given -1 months l the roads. Judgment was sulended upon payment of costs id a fine of $50.00. His license as revoked for 6 months. The case against Tilghman Dwen, colored, for reckless opeition was nol prosttecl at no >st to the county. J. W. Parker, white, pleaded (Continued on page 2) - % * P0R1 In A Good Cor iesday, January 15, 194 REA Membership j Meeting To Be All-Day Affair1 Interesting Program Of Entertainment In Planned And Business Session Of ( Importance To All Is j Scheduled FREE BARBECUE < DINNER AT NOON l No Pains Spared In At tempt To Make This An j Event That All Members Will Be Anxious To Attend The annual meeting of members of the Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation to be held at Waccamaw school in j Brunswick county Saturday is ( to be an all-day affair that will ( provide plenty of fun and enter- , tainment for all who attend. In addition to business features and an address by R. M. Bil- 1 lhimer, REA representative, there will be a free barbecue dinner at noon, free prizes, a demonstration of electrical appliances and a basketball game. Following is a copy of the program which has been sent out by Superintendent E. D. Bishop to every member of the corporation: 10:00?Music; invocation, Z. G. Ray; 10:10?welcome, C. P. Willetts, president; 10:15?reading of notice of meeting and proof of j mailing; reading of unapproved minutes; 10:25?reports of officers:?T. T. Ward, secretary-trea- . surer, E. D. Bishop, superintend- ' ent; 11:00?introduction of nominees for board of directors, R. B. Mallard; 11:10?election and balloting; 11:30?music; 11:35? Address, R. M. Billhimer, R. E. A. Representative; announce- I ments; 12:00?barbecue dinner; 1:30?music; 1:35?appliance dem- ! onstration by Miss Mary Lokey, R. E. A. Representative: 2:00? I drawing for prizes; 2:15?an- : nouncement of newly elected di- ] rectors; 2:30?basketball game; 4:00?adjournment. Boy Fights To Save Local Lady Little Billie Odin Used Principles Of First Aid Trying To Prevent Fatal Injury Of Mrs. Potter If 10-year-old Billie Odin had not met with such determined resistance from Mrs. Mary E. Potter as he sought to extinguish flames that were burning her clothing from her body Saturday afternoon he might have been able to save her life. This young man, son 'of Mr. and Mrs. Sammie Odin of Southport, was alone with Mrs. Potter in her home at the time she caught fire. When he learned of | her plight, he rushed to her with a blanket, ready to smother the flames. Frantic with pain and fright, the elderly victim fought off the child repeatedly before he was able to wrap her up and stop the burnijp. Continuing his level-headed application of first aid principles, Billie stirpped most of the burned clothing from the body before he summoned aid. Later it was learned that he was manfully putting into practice Ies- 1 sons in first aid that had been taught him in school. Mrs. Potter died early Sunday morning at Dosher Memorial Hos- | (continued on page two) ( I Tobacco Farmers ' Meeting Tuesday; Specialists Will Attend Meeting At State College To Tell How To Produce Better Tobacco This Season Owing to the fact that the outlook for tobacco prices in 1941 are not so bright, farmers should make a special effort to produce a crop of good quality tobacco this year and a county-wide tobacco meeting will be held at the I Shallotte school on Tuesday night, January 21st, at 7:30 o'clock. For this meeting three men from State College will be present. Each man is a specialist in his line of work. They will discuss tobacco diseases, tobacco insects; and Mr. Weeks, who is tobacco specialist, will discuss the I fertilization, cultivation, grading, and all phases of tobacco growing. These men will probably have a motion picture machine with them so as to show pictures. County agent J. E. Dodsin says, "I think it will be worth tobacco farmers' time to attend this meet" ~.v r pil nmunity 1 PUBLI51 Local Bank Ma< In First Six M Report Is A Part Of Semi-A Show The American Pul The Waccamaw Bank and i Trust Co. made more than 6,900 loans totaling more than $2,750,- i )00.00 to firms and individuals 1 from it's eight offices during the i first six months of 1940 according to a statement by Prince 1 D'Brien, cashier of the local 1 Dank. ^ i The bank reports that between i January 1 and June 30, 1940 it : made: i J,517 new loans total ing $1,001,211.70 1 5,973 renewals of * i loans totaling 1,522,163.79 ] 116 new mortgage i loans totaling 237,797.52 1 This report is a part of* the I semi-annual survey of bank ending activity designed to show 1 the American- public that it's ; lommercial banks are meeting reasonable demands for current I Play Begins Tt Basketball ( ^ * Two Double-Headers Are Scheduled for First Night J Of Play, With Games At j Southport And Shallotte KEEN COMPETITION IS IN PROSPECT Looks Now Like Leland Boys And Bolivia Lassies Mav Have Inside Track In County The event to which a majority of the high school hoys and girls of Brunswick county have been looking forward to for weeks gets underway Tuesday night of next week with basketball doubleheaders involving four of the five consolidated schools.' In opening games Southport plays host to the lads and lassies of .Waccamaw while Shallotte and i Leland meet at Shallotte in an- ( other double bill. Bolivia teams 1 drew a bye for opening round I games. Picking favorites for ^ Bruns- j wick county basketball race al- < ways is a risky business, for many developments are possible during the course of a season. Right now it looks like the Leland boys are entitled to the role i of favorites, with the dark-horse , Shallotte team that won last!1 year's tournament play also in \ the running. Bolivia doesn't fig-1 ure to be as strong as last year, j and Waccamaw promises to be about the same. Southport, without a league victory during the past two years, hopes to climb off the bottom of the ladder this season. From force of habit its a good idea to say that Bolivia girls will be at or about the top of the championship 'flight when the . season ends, waccamaw ana anailotte probably will offer bitter dispute to any championship aspirations, and Leland and Southport also may get in a few licks in their own behalf before tournament tipie. Store In County Burned Sunday The store owned and operated by H. S. Ward at Hickman's Cross Roads in this county was burned to the ground Sunday night. Not only the building, but the stock as well, was burned. The oss was partially covered by insurance. Maybe He Shoi His Dog And A local bird hunter who shot a predatory cat in the woods jne afternoon last week concluded that maybe he would have dbne better to have shot his dog and kept the cat. But that's getting ahead of die story. A couple of years ago when there was some little discussion throughout the state relative to the scarcity of quail, W.. B. Keziah wrote State Game- Commissioner J. D. Chalk a lengthy epistle in which he ascribed the cause for the diminishing supply of game birds to the ever increasing number of roving cats. "Just why some people who shrink ih horror from the thought of killing a litter^of kittens will bundle up these same kittens and turn theni loose out in the woods is a mystery to me", wrote Keziah i - ,0T KED EVERY WEDNESDAY Je 6,900Loans onths Of 1940 nnual Survey Designed To >lic Activity Of Banks credit. The new loans averaged $285.00 ind the average renewal was^ for S510.00. In size these loans ranged from $10.00 to over $10,000. About 55% of the total of these loans or more than $1,500,300.00 was loaned directly to farmers and much of the balance of this credit was extended to firms who finance farming Dperations. This nation-wide survey made by the American Bankers Association reveals that fifty-four percent of North Carolina's 196 commercial banks made 277,000 loans totaling $269,000,000.00 during the first half of 1940. For the whole country less than onehalf the commercial banks report over thirty million credit transactions amounting to more than twenty billions of dollars. lesday In Championship 1 First Fish Of Season Caught An early season freshwater fishing story comes from Postmaster L. T. Yaskell, who brought in a big-mouth bass weighing 5 |>ounds 8 ounces Monday afternoon. The fish and weight are vouched for. What preceded the catch is the Postmaster's own story. It was: He was not expecting the fish to be striking and he was casting only for pleasure and practice from the banks of a small lake between Southport and Orton. A huge bass rose and struck so suddenly and viciously it snatched the rod and reel out of his unsaspecting hands. He avers he waded out (and he had wet pants to prove it) and retrieved his property. The big fellow had got away, but a short time later he was hooked and landed during a return engagement. Congressmen To { Receive Folders Supply Of Brunswick County Folders Are Mailed By W. B. Keziah To Be Distributed To Congressmen Congressman J. Bayard Clark and his secretary, M. J. Shuffler, are both very much pleased with the Brunswick county folder, now being distributed by the Chamber of Commerce at Southport. At Mr. Clark's request, Mr. Shuffler wrote for at least five hundred copies to be presented to the members of Congress with the compliments of the people of Brunswick county. The requested number and a few more have already been sent. Distributed through such a source at the National Capital, they should be of wonderful advertising value to Brunswick county. In an earlier letter Mr. Shuffler stated that congressmen were alWays on the alert for anything interesting pertaining to any section of their district and that they brought such things to the attention of fellow lawmakers. He asked for something to be sent him applicable to Brunswick county towards which he was (continued on page four) uld Have Shot [ Kept The Cat to Mr. Chalk. "There's no doubt about it", he stated, "the predatory housecat is responsible for the tremendous shortage of quail." It is significant that within a short time a number of large placards prepared by the state department for distribution throughout North Carolina bore the picture of a cat, and the wording "The Birds' Worst Enemy". The afore-mentioned local hunter was one of a Southport group who blamed fcftes for the shortage of quail. But when he spied a black cat stalking something about fifty yards up a sand road from him he remembered the admonitions of Keziah and blazed away at the animal, which %as more than two miles from the nearest house. (Continued on page -2) The Pilot Covers j Brunswick County i| $1.50 PER YEAR . i , [ Wilmington Man | Suggests Three !jj Lane Highway j i J Hugh McKae, Who ( Own* , 1 Considerable Property In J Brunswick And Who is 1 Interested In Sectioh, ' H Makes Suggestion 3 WRITES ABOUT I THE RIVER RO?D 6 Says That Great Area For . H Industrial Expansion Will t Be Opened Up Along, i River Front | This week the Brunswick Coun- ] ty Chamber of Commerce had a j suggestion that one of the first | and best things to help Bruns- ' wick county would be a three- > lane hard surface highway down the river between Wilmington J and Southport. 5 It was stated that such a road > would open the whole west side I of the Cape Fear River from i' Navassa to Southport to manufacturing industries needing deep 1 water. And it has also been sug- j gested that' such a road may ] be needed in the future in fur- j therance of the governments act- j ivities for National Defense. | The suggestion came from ; Hugh MacRae, colonization ex- -tj pert of Wilmington. Mr. MacBae . Viaa hofrtmo noHnnnllu knnuin Hlir< , ' ing the past few years for his j,1 success in developing real estate j " for both farming and industry. | In a letter to W. B. Keziah of } ' the local Chamber of Commerce t Monday, Mr. MacRae stated ho 1 would be glad to do what ho 1 could to influence industries and 1 other undertakings in utilizing I ( the resources of Brunswick coun- , Both Churchill Bragaw of d Orton Plantation, a director of T the Chamber of Commerce, and 't Mr. Keziah have been earnest advocates of a hard surface River j Road for the past three years. However, neither of them had ' such a thing as a three lane j road in mind unless it has been quite recently. Last week, with National De- | fense activities here very much in mind, Mr. Keziah wrote the i) newly organized Brunswick county defense committee and suggested - that one of the greatest ill possibilities for good by the committee was in urging immediate surveying and early construdilqp work on the River Road. ; Ml Bragaw Heads * * I Civic Group 1 Succeeds L. T. Yaskell As . President Of Brunswick .91 County Chamber of Com- "' merce A meeting of the board of di rectors ot liie tsrunswicK vjouniy n Chamber of Commerce was held Monday night and Churchill Brag- ^ Bfl aw, manager of Orton Plants- 1 tion, was named to succeed L. T. Yaskell as president. Other changes in the official family of the organization include turning over duties of '{jl treasurer to W. B. Keziah, in , addition to his present duties as '' executive secretary. 'iW Tentative plans were made fof a supper at which Hugh McRaa of Wilmington will be asked to speak for a few minutes to a ? 1 representative group of Southport business men. 4 H Other projects were taken under advisement, to be discuss'M ''{91 more fully at a later meeting' of the board. V*'*t Tide Table jj Following Is the tide table for Southport during the neat week. These hours are approximately correct and were furnished The State Fort Pilot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot's Association High Tide Low XMr TIDE TABLE Thursday, December 26 9:21 a. m. 11:40 a. m. 5:43 p. m. 11:53 p. m. Friday, December 27 6:12 a. m. I 6:34 p. m. ' m 12:34 p. m. Saturday, December 28 7:00 a. m. " 0:46 a. in. j 7:21 p. m.' 1:26 p. in. ' Sunday, December 20 7:45 a. m. 1:38 a. in. . 9 8:07 p. m. < 2:15 p. m. l| Monday,. December 30 ..R 8:30 a. m. 2:26 a. m. ^ 8:52 p. m. 3:00 p. m. Tuesday, December 81 l(i 9:14 a. in. 3:12 a. m. 'W 9:37 p. m. 3:42 p. m. i'n Wednesday, .January 1 ' ^ , ! .. 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