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K; , ()f The News I AH The Time k^thirteen no. 1 mayor Jo MFour Me I Of Aide] H. Voters Of Third ^Ward Decide To Make Change In Their Re^K^jentation Official Set^ 'p Will Be Same KuC .MFBTiiN'GS } ARE BEING HELD Nominating Conven n< Have Been Held, Mm'lth Last Scheduled ^Mfor Thursday Night ? of the third some channtation on the tomorrow tiie city of port with its H for the next H Ft tiie citizens HI e courthouse and * T> "CHtfoan for a IliratM JUI - ? ? ? I rm The nomination was L by J. W. Ruark and secIj bv R. F. Fiasco. There I ther name placed before [house, so the nomination was L-claimation fe Monday night meeting for [purpose or nominating two Iters of the board of aiderfront the first ward followtr.e same pattern. W. P. JorLj placed in nomination the Its of the two incumbents, no r ranted were presented, and L Thompson and W. E. Doshtiil bear the endorsement of Ipeorie :n the election on May liters of the second ward paid same compliment to their two nectatives. Captain I. B. lells and Captain J. I. Davis, Bay night, with both men p nominated without opposite will be no nominating potion tonight because ,af week worship services at tue churches, but this business ?rr.i:.ating candidates will be d tomorrow night when vot5' the third ward meet at o'clock to name their candii lor aldermen. ling Bouts f m Iiere Tomorrow >nd Program Being tajed In High School iymnasium On Thursday light; Nine Matches Are irrnged k boxing bouts between Wnl scrappers of Southport school have been arranged tomorrow i Thursday) nighty program to be staged in the school gymnasium beginning o'clock. tot should prove to be the toot of the evening is the taion between Johnnie Sims and his less experienced tor. P.othweil. Another head;s ^at between Billie Willis Jack Christian. her matches arc as follows: lto Mollychcck vs John C. Ralph Potter vs Bobby " Olan Thorsen vs BroCbristrar.; Tommy Willis vs v.'' stiller; Glenn Jones vs * Swann; Douglas Jones vs Pb Sellers; Dan Smith vs 1 O'Daniel. M Inquest In Fatal Wreck ifr' ng Scheduled At eats Service Station inning At 8 O'clock; am? Being Held Under ond ' will be an inquest toato th<- death of H. S. Wilmington, who waa injur..i early Saturday at Sturgeon Creek near Leland. Coroner John son will preside over the [/' *toch will be held at service station at 8 Ml. <S was killed or drowned ' car driven by Wilbur ,.of Winter Park, left the U ^ tile 'ridge where four four negroes were In n an?ther automobile ' James, a former SouthI a oL is at liberty under caniof" He Btated that he K"? 01 'he car just before I* bhe 1,ridge, and that the Ptonged into the stream. L*'.v . - THI 12 hnD. Eriks mbersofTh rmenRe-Nc | ISLAND ATTRAG wBk ;v - . i . finU ? iV'IHL_i?JHL-L SCENES?During the past that Bald Head Island had a i Late enough for the tropical glory, yet early enough to mis, came away tremendously impr beauty and natural charm of t Hard Surfacing i Complete On ?. a? Road Will Be Open And Ready For Travel Before J May 1; Paving Project Going On Within Development j ? EXPECT OTHER ANNOUNCEMENT SOON ?' _____ Ci Plans Are Being Made To t! Make This By Far Big- ^ gest And Best Season Yet Enjoyed By De- , velopment h The State Highway Commission ^ j has about completed the hard [ * I surfacing of the road leading to fl j Long Beach, and the resort can now be reached without the dis- 01 comforts of having to travel over rl ja rough dirt road such as afford- n ed the only avenue to the beach n before the hard surfacing. w Vice-President E. F. Middleton ti of the Carolina Lands Inc., own- ei ers and developers of the beach, tl stated yesterday that the comp- f( any was also pushing work on p an additional two miles of road f, paving, extending on through the 31 beach village and over back streets. All of the paving will be 11 done by early in May. I\ By that time it is hoped to be ready with an announcement of considerable improvements that are being planned. The road and improvements in sight for this g0 year are a pretty fair guarantee that the beach will get well on its way towards being a sizable little town this summer. HOSPITAL PATIENT Reggie Pinner of Southport cntered Dosher Memorial Hospital J So Saturday for medical patient. Truck Crops Pr< Island On W< With the product packed in y boxes lined with waterproof h paper, thousands of heads of is lettuce were shipped to north- tl ern markets last week from fi Bald Head island. The heads were large and of unusually Is fine quality and the shipment ] g is said to have been the first I e from any point in North Car- u olina this year. r It is understood that other ii shipments are being made this e week. Shipments of garden c peas and other truck crops are C well under way. With a bad tl start the first year, due to a r: very dry season and the plant- ii ing of the experimental crops ti on newly cleared lands that s dried out too quickly, this I SL A Goo 4-PAGES TODAY en And le Board iminated TS VISITORS | .... 1 week-end it is probable ecord number of visitors, vegetation to be in full 5 the insects, each visitor essed with the unspoiled he island. Almost i Beach Road deadline For Mattress Work April 30th has been set as le deadline for receiving appliitions for the cotton mat ess project in this county, ccording to Mrs. Marion S. osher, home agent. .Mrs. Dosher says that about 300 of these mattresses have Ben completed and delivered i citizens of this county, here are on file applications >r about 3000 more. Shortly after announcement f the comforter project to be in in connection with the mat ess program, local officials eelved word that shortage of laterials would force ahandonicnt of these plans. Since that me. according to Mrs. Dosh r, word has been received tat lends hope that one compter per family may be comletcd. Deadline for applying >r these also expires April 9th. lew Books For Local Library uthport Lady Donates Several Valuable Volumes To Southport Public Library Mrs. George P. Howey has i'en about 30 books to the uthport Public Library and (continued on page four) >duced On ay To Market ear's planting of various crops as gone far to prove that the iland is admirably suited for te growth of truck crops, ruits, etc. On land that was cleared ist summer and faii, small rain was sown and the presnt winter and spring crops rere planted on lands cleared ivo years ago. The area now i grain will be in wonderful ondition for any sort of truck rops this summer and fall, harlie Matthews, manager of tie property for Frank O. Sher111, has" been exercising system l all of the farming operaions. He has tested the various oils to discover their suitabil(continued on page four) ME ] \ >d News paper I Southport, N. C., Wedr Increase Shown j In Auto Deaths In This County I . r Five Persons Died As Result Of Automobile Accidents During First Three Months Of This Year COLUMBUS IS WORST COUNTY State Record Shows Mounting Death Toll During Early Months Of This Year; One Other To Be Added North Carolina streets and highways ran red with the blood of traffic accident victims last month, as the death toll showed an 81 per cent increase over that of last March, the Highway Safety Division reported this week. Records of the division list 96 . traffic deaths last month, against ] 53 for March, 1940. This is the j greatest increase on record In this state. The traffic toll for the first three months of this year was 275 persons killed, against 188 killed in the same p"riod last ( year, an increase of 46 per cent. Fifty of the 100 counties, including Brunswick county, showed increases in automobile accidents over the first quarter of last year. During the first three months of last year there was , only one fatality in this county . resulting from highway accidents. The record for 1941 was five . ntucu. ^ The worst counties included . Columbus, which had 11 traffic deaths the first quarter of this ' year, against none for the same period last year; Wake county, j with a death toll of 18 this year, ( against three last year; Pender with six this year against none ' the first quarter of last year; . Rockingham, with six this year against one last year, and Meek- ( lenburg, with 15 this year, against 12 last year. "These shocking figures chal- < lenge every citizen of our state < and every agency having anything to do with accident pre- 1 vention to devote more time, I more thought and more -'i^rd ,] work to the accident problem ; than ever before," declared Ronald Hocutt, director of the Highway Safety Division. ! .-Traffic deaths in the 20-24 age group showed an even 100 per cent increase, from 22 the first quarter of last year to 44 the first quarter of this year. Fatalities among children under ten years of age also were up nearly 100 per cent, from ten last year to 19 this year, of the 275 persons killed, 211 were males. Large increases were noted in the numbers of persons killed in (continued on page four) Services For / *\ 11 r\ 11 ! "Kaliy Uay | ;Rev. Walter Pavy Has Made Special Arrangements For This Observance Rally Day is to be observed at the Bolivia Methodist Church next Sunday morning at eleven o'clock, and the special program arranged for the day, "The Church School Builds the Church" will ' be given. Every member and friend is urged to make a point of being present at this service. Rally Day will be observed at Zion Church, Town Creek the following Sunday morning May 4th. To make it more convenient for friends to attend, who also desire to attend other church services, the hours of services (Continued on page 4) Cancer Control Leaders Named Mrs. George Cannon, Of Bolivia, Named To Head Cancer Control Program In Brunswick County This Year A Brunswick county unit of the North Carolina division cf the Women's Field Army of the American Society for the control of cancer has recently been organized by Mrs. H. M. Morrison, vice-commander, of Wallace. Mrs. George Cannon, of Bolivia, has been appointed captain and Mrs. L. H. Reynolds, Leland; Mrs. C. G. Ruark, Southport; Mrs. Chas. Russ,' Jr., Shallotte, and Mrs. Tom Hood, Ash, have been asked to serve as Lieutenants. -An enlistment campaign will be carried out the last week in April, and all citizens are asked (Continued on page 4) tL-. ' PORT n A Good Com iesday, April 23, 1941 K CHAIRMAN n \jL H W ?^r jfl <MR " 2/5 Kt .dBBHBMMMI po CO W. M. STANALAND Br ? ? be Recognition For Pc Judge Stanaland;;;; Pr Chairman Of Jackson Day an Dinner Program F o r of Brunswick County Hon- sti ored In Final Report Judge Walter M. Stanaland, m; :hairman of the Brunswick Coun:y Democratic Executive Commit:ee, served as chairman of Brunsvick county for the Jackson Day F1 Dinner program this year and ,vas successful in raising twice nc die amount contained in the juota assigned him. The following excerpt from a " ? T T T"?1 iU - | letter to mm irom joe l,. oiyuic, state Jackson Day Dinner chairman, gives proper recognition to Judge Stanaland: "I am in receipt of your letter _ of March 31st with check for r 5100.00 enclosed. Congratulations on having doubled your county's quota". Later Chairman Blythe wrote ?the following letter to Democratic Chairman Edward J. Flynn praising the wo.' ' / Judge Stan- ' aland: *< ! "Honorable Edward J. Flynn, Chairman j "Democratic National Commit- | tee "Washington, D. C. "Dear Mr. Flynn: "I wish to call your particular 1 attention to Mr. W. M. Stana- 1 land of Shallotte, Chairman ( Brunswick County Democratic , Executive Committee, who has | done such an excellent job in as- ; sisting in raising funds for the j Jackson Day Committee. I feel , that his unusual efforts should , be recognized. He has been en- | thusiastic in this campaign and j is responsible for being able, not only to raise the quota of his , county, but doubled it. , "I feel that the enthusiasm of | such Democrats should be known to the National Chairman." r Judge Stanaland, Attorney R. I' I. Mintz, W. S. Wells and W. P. Jorgensen attended the state Jackson Day Dinner in Raleigh early this month. - ? ?. R State Advertising Head Visits Here li Charles Parker, Head Of 0: State Advertising Bureau p And Bill Baker, Photo- b grapher, Here Monday t; p< Color pictures of the Orton is Gardens, with the flowers at the d height of their spring blooming, H were made yesterday by Bill g Baiter, cameraman with the h State News Bureau. Baker and Charlie Parker, manager of the h news bureau, spent Monday night p and Tuesday morning in Southport before going to Orton for the pictures. . Mr. Parker recently succeeded ' Bob Thompson as manager of * the News Bureau, going there after several years as state news editor of The New and Observer. Reports from Orton are to the effect that the number of last i season's visitors to the plantation 1 gardens has been reached and e*- ] ceeded. With the peak of the j seasons visitors having been ' reached only the past Sunday, it is likely that the number of last < seasons visitors will' be almost s doubled this year. ] Governor Broughton of North < Carolina and many other prom- 1 inent citizens of the state have .1 made special visits to the gardens this year. Likewise the volumne of visitors from other states has been very large. Sat- I urday and Sunday it was noted 1 that there were more out of state 1 cars at Orton than from North Carolina. ' PIL munity PUBUSH ienansville Man " Is Appointed To Highway Board msiderable D i s a p pointpointment Sensed Here Over Failure Of Gov. ^ Broughton To Reappoint L A. F. Powell, Jr., From Third Division RINCE NAMED AS r HIGHWAY CHAIRMAN c endersonville Lawyer And idember Of State Board Of Elections Chosen; Johnson Becomes pi ABC Chairman te cx Dr. Guy Vernon Gooding, of menansville, was Friday ap- _ inted third division highway d; mmissioner by Governor J. M. r( oughton, a position which had en formerly held by A. F. : iwell, Jr., of Whitevillle. ^ Announcement of the appointjnts was made simultaneously th that which revealed the ap- J intment of Lawerance Benton *7 ince, of Hendersonville, lawyer id member of the state board u elections, as chairman of the o: ate highway and public works mmission. * Members of the highway com- a Ission follow: ^ First Division?Carroll Wilson, Roanoke Rapids. ei Second Division?Edward C. 0 anagan, of Greenville ri Third Division ? Dr. Guy Ver- u in Gooding of Kenansville. fi Fourth Division? T. Boddie tl (Continued on page 4) nformation A About Ga * ?; * Will Abandon Alligator Hunt So far as young Joel Moore p is COBi -"1 led, it is a closed seaion on alligators. All spring this Southport j youngster has had a yearning to trap a gator in his hole In >rder to bring him back alive. Sunday afternoon he was following a promising trail of al- ? ligator activity through a piece j if marshland when suddenly he t ipied a leathery looking por- t tion of a reptile protruding t from a patch of grass. Grow- e ing very cautions, ho was f sneaking up to grab his gator t when there was a terrifying ( buzzing noise that froze him I In his tracks. What he had mistaken for the tip end of the tail of a I deeping gator turned out to ' be a wide awake rattlesnake. Joy Held For j Killing Girl oland Paul Wescott, Char?i u/:?u Rmii,Hv k;i. t gcu TT till ?-?* uiaai; . ling Young Girl, Is Said |1 To Be From This County r ? Wilmington police list the kil- c ng of Miss Mildred Lee, 18-year t Id Wilmington girl, by Roland t aul Wescott, 20, as the most c ratal murder that has ever J iken place there. Wescott, sup- t osedly maddened by jealousy, c i quoted as saying he "would r o it again if I had the chance." Ie also said he knew he would I et the gas for the act and that 1 e did not give a d?. s Young Wescott, who is being t eld for the grand jury without i rivilege of bail is reported to t (continued on page four) 1 Students, Sport Sight-Seers Bald Head Island, which could boast seeing about 300 visitors during a twelve month period previous to four years ago, has had more than 300 visitors during the past week. And they were interested ones, composed of sport fishermen, >ight-seers, high school and college students. The college students predominated, one college liaving 61 teachers and students there in a day. This week will see the sport fishermen stepping out on the point of the island. Such vistors will be the most numerous for sometime to come. Because of greater areas in which to fish and the fact that they are taken from both / . ? OT p ED EVERY WEDNESDAY rwo Fires Take Toll Of Fot Of Brunsv * ieveral Cases Firt Tried In Court 1 ii ases Covering Variety Of Offenses Heard Before Judge Walter M. StanaIand Here Monday A variety of cases were dis- R' Dsed of here before Judge Wal- ' S >r M. Stanaland in Recorder's >urt Monday. J. W. McCall, white, pleaded uilty to charges of drunken T riving. Given 6 months on the posi >ads, judgment was suspended pon payment of costs and a fine 3g Q t $50.00, his driving license to . ' e revoked for 12 months. ^ Daniel Reeves, white, pleaded cgn) uilty to charges of public A runkenness. His sentence of 30 ays on the roads was suspended . . pon payment of costs and a fine 5f $15.00. ^ Nick Long, white, pleaded guilf to charges of transporting A ^ nd judgment was continued for fi(, no weeks. James R. Forrest, white, pleadd guilty to charges of reckless A peration. Given 90 days on the . aads, judgment was suspended at3?' pon payment of costs and a ine of $25.00, with $10.00 of p t liis amount being remitted. ^ (Continued on page 4) <A 1 mal available ?' the irden Contest z bla lome Agent Is Passing Out I List Of Rules And Re- bee search Material For Gar- bef den Contest To County led Schools a 1 Bol 'RIZES BOTH IN for SCHOOL AND COUNTY 1 sib entries Must Be Completed And Handed In Before " May 2; Other Require- ed ments Are Listed for Rules governing the garden anc ontest being sponsored by the Per Jrunswick Defense Council for loys and girls of the county will >e circulated through the schools H his week together with refer- \J nee material that will be helpul to boys and girls who plan o write as essay on "How We Jan Aid The National Defense ,, 'rogram By Planting A Family ? (Continued on page four) defense Meeting . Will Be Held 1 ree deeting Will Be Held To- Mmorrow Afternoon At der Bolivia In Agriculture tar Building A county defense meeting will ere le held in the Bolivia agricul- inti ural department, Thursday after- on loon at 3 o'clock. Persons expect- usi d to attend are representatives hos if: Triple A, extension organize- sisl ion. Farm Security, N. Y. A., lad lome demonstration clubs, service tha :lub, senior 4-H club, health de- anc lartmcnt, welfare department, be tankers, W. P. A., and education we! lepartment. Any civic minded ? nen or women will be welcome. ? Representatives of the land-use p ilanning comfnittee, State Col- . j ege, Raleigh, will be guest ipeakers on the program. Couny Defense Chairman, Mrs. Mar- fc on S. Dosher, will preside over he meeting with Miss Mildred *j .IcDonald acting as Secretary. jj 0 smen And > Crowd Island boat and surf casting, there g, are other sections of North g, Carolina more widely known for drum fishing than Bald g. Head Island. The fact is that 7; the point on Bald Head Island is one of the best places if not j; the very best place in North 7; Carolina for surf casting for drum. 8: The island has no overnight 8: accommodations, but many do stay overnight, sleeping in the 8: sand dunes, in the absence of 8: other facilities. The need of a truck or large station wagon, available for hire for the pur- 9t pose of transporting visitors and carrying their luggage " about the island is also ap- " apparent. L_ * I Jj "he Pilot Covers runswick County $1.50 PER YEAl Heavy est Area /ick County e Which Started Near leaver Dam Last Wedtesday, Swept Through 5,000 Acres Before Be? ng Stopped HER FIRE IN HOODS CREEK AREA it Conflagration Was sported To Have Been itarted By Kids Playing With Matches Thursday wo forest fires located in op,te ends of the county swept mgh a total of more than 00 acres of timberland durlast week-end to pile up most staggering loss of ret years for Brunswick. . blaze which originated in Beaver Dam section Tuesday it or Wednesday morning was pped along by a southwest d until it was actually within gates of Orton Plantation, otal of 15,000 acres was burnincluding 1,000 acres at Or, Some of the best timber in county was in its path, dso lost was one of the build3 at the Hayes Fish Factory, ut eight miles above Southt on the Cape Fear river, rp in Northwest township aner fire got out Thursday when couple of kids playing with tches started a fire that was stopped until Sunday, nor un it had added 20,000 acres to week-end timberland toll, "wo dwellings occupied by cold residents and one colored irch were destroyed by this ze. n each instance these fires had n allowed to grow too large ore forest wardens were calto the scene, and more than hundred CCC enroliees from Iton assisted the fire fighting y ces on both fires. determined to discover if pos- \ le the person responsible for blaze which apparently start- / near Beaver Dam, Forest irden Dawson Jones has offer- i a reward of $100.00 for inmation leading to the arrest 1 conviction of the person or sons responsible for setting blaze. ' i fficers Named Local Auxiliary jj s. C. Ed Taylor Re-Elected President Of Dosher; Memorial Hospital Auxil-^ iary At Last Meeting ' i It the last regular meeting' the Brunswick County Hospital, ,i xiliary Mrs. C. Ed Taylor was lccted president. Miss Annie Newton was made vice-presiit, Mrs. Minnie Davis, secre-; y, and Miss Lottie Mae New, treasurer. Jlans also were discussed for f ating an active, county-wide' srest in National Hospital Day May 12. Although the gifts tally most welcomed by the ipital on these occasions cont of linens, towels, etc., the fes wish to have it known t presents of farm produce; l{ 1 any other thing that 'tf&y useful to the hospital will be Icomed. ride Table, 1 Following is tho tide table ir South port during the next eek. Three hours are approimateiy correct and were furished The State Port Pilot trough the courtesy of the ape Fear Pilot's Association. Jgh Tide Low Tide TIDE TABLE I Thursday, April 24 18 a. m. 0:16 a. m. :34 p. ni. 12:22 p. n* Friday, April 25 56 a. m. 1:00 a. m. 10 p. m. 1:03 p. in. Saturday, April 26 32 a. m. 1:41 a. m. 43 p. in. 1:43 p. m. Sunday, April 27 08 a. m. 2:21 a, ra. 17 p. m. 2:10 p. m. Monday, April 28 44 a. m. 2:58 a. nv 49 p. m. 2:53 p. m. Tuesday, April 29 22 a. m. 3:32 a. m. ;2S p. m. 3:25 p. in. Wednesday, April 30 1:01 a. m. 4:06 a. in. ):00 p. ni. 3:56 p. m. i) II ! .J* a: - J
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