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_M^t Of The New I AU The Time ^ NO. Widdleto tOfW.E I Wilmit Henry A. Grady Pr< ^ sided Over The Hearin ^ Uhiih Was Held T ^ Work Out Plan Of Coi ^ tinued Operation J. UWBETT WAS RECEIVE ^Bru'd In That Capacit j^Mrom 1933 But Asked ^ Thaf Middleton Be .Named To Replace Him On Job H 'f M. J. Corbett thi B of duties as r ^ vo: Wilmington, Brun B ithern railroad wj B K. F. Middletc B ccssor at ^Brir: yesterday in superii in Wilmington. >' A. Grady of Clii who presided, was inform* the hearing by attorneys th; ' Mr. Middleton i ^Bcivcr would assure continue ^ rratic:: of the railroad. M ^Wdletor and Charleston. S. C ^Borate? advanced considers b for the operation of tt e in the past year, the cou s advised. Mr Corbett. who had been n vcr of the 28-mile Southpoi Wilmington railroad since 193 i petitioned the court that h agnation as receiver be accep because of his advanced ag S6 and ill health, rhe hearing had been contini from July 21 at Southport. y new receiver for the rai ,j. Mr. Middleton will also a: re active management of tt [. In serving as manager, t U fill the vacancy created t e death several months ag H. H Shannon who had serve that capacity for many year It; railroad has been opera ; at a low, for many year omcys staled to the court. ive Cases Are Tried In Cour itire Day Consumed I Disposing Of Short Do< ket Before Judge Stana land Monday Although only five cases wer posed of, Monday was a har y in Brunswick county Recorc s court. Daylight Saving hour re observed by Judge Waltc Stanaland. J- C. Crooni. white, faced chat > flf frond hut iii/l<*?MAHt ? uui juugiucnv v??> ^ th held. ^Hac.es S. Hewett, white, wa ^Bir.d guilty of non-support ( illigitimate child. Judgment c ^Bmor.ths on the roads was si ^Ber.dcd upon payment of cost the case, the hospital bill an ^Bctor's bill upon the further cor ^ ion that the defendant pay th He. of SI .10 per week into th for support of the chili ^fttice of appeal was given an ^Kd was set at $200.00. ^fcifton Britt, white, was foun ^Wty of drunk driving and wa ^ft'en 90 days on the roads. Judg ^Brt was suspended upon pay Bnt of costs and a fine of $5( ^Hs driving license was revoke months. W. Coleman, white, wa ^Brged with drunk driving an H (Continued on page 4) luneral Sunday lor Mrs. Bowmei ^Knal Rites por Mrg. H. 1 Bo#*mcr Sunday A ?outhport Baptist Church KB Interment In New Ceme tery ^ ur.eral services for Mrs. E ^| Bowmer of Southport wer -.ducted at the Baptist churc ^Bnday afternoon at 3 o'clocV J11 Rev. a. L. Brown in charge SBkrmrnt followed in Northwoo ^Bnetery. Bowmer died Friday a ^Bsher Memorial Hospital follow a long illness, she is survive1 ^r husband. Captain H. 1 and by one son, Tore Bowmer. ^Bth? 18 4'80 >,;rv'ved by he one bro K both libh ' f?'lr sisters- Mrs- C" * ns' Miami. Fla., Mrs. I st Augustine, Fla Irs w Pr""--' f ?rd. Va.. an ^|" " T? Fullwood, Southpori THE 26 n Named R( >. &. S. Railr igton Court jjc Z Getting Married Minute Woi When Registrants Get Married R After Being Ordered To So At Own y Registrants who get married; as 1 on the eve of induction or after | <" being ordered to report to the; mai ! doctor for physical examination | 'jjo; j will do so at their own risk and | Exa will find that their marriage will I sunnot keep them out of the Army, i ed e" This was made clear today by I the s" General J. Van B. Metts, State ear] 13 Director of Selective Service, as j prel ,n he announced a modification of i antt a the former policy of leniency to-! cas< 3r, ward married men which has j jUS( been recommended by State Head-, has "" quarters. General Metts stated j thai ;c' that a modification in this policy I dati was made necessary by an in- i giV( 1S creasingly large number of regis-; jng !d trants who are apparently under- wec r- taking to abuse the policy of sua ' leniency in an effort to evade phy le military service. ! shoi le Thet modified policy, which was way r', passed on to all Selective Service j regi | agencies in the State today, is I B-' A *?/\ a inuitduuiij nic I Shrimp i *? Boats Have Been Bringing 5" In Fairly Good Catches p 'c Of Headed Shrimp During Past Few Days, With P Several Craft Working ? ,d PRICE HAS BEEN 1 GOOD THUS FAR in 3 ?nl Closed Season On Shrimp- 6,0 ing In Louisiana Believed To Be Responsible For ot High Prices Now ma COl t Trawling for shrimp has been rio picking up daily at Southport, of Paul Fodale now has some 15 po! boats at work. J. A. Arnold has ] n almost that many. Wells brothers ma " have 10 with plenty more to start pic l* soon. Another two weeks should flu see about 50 boats at work If pn the production and market both iin; e holds up. pla d | The market is a bit of an un- me ~ 1 certain prediction. Louisiana, oft s i which produces more than half Soi T of the shrimp taken in the sai United States, has been having led s a 40 day closed season This closed season will be over and the ad< s Louisiana shrimp will be reach- ma ing the markets again in anlf other 15 days. This will probably ma tbo Iaoo! murlret tflkinp J _ ICOUtt ill Utb iVVOi 1HM* ?v? ;s a considerable drop, d Last week the boatmen here \w, I- were being paid 15-cents per !e pound for headed shrimp. The ie catches were running all of the . j. way from 50 to 450-pounds. cejv d The first full truck load for mer the Fulton Fish Market in New oidl d York went out Saturday. Prev- wrjj 3 iously smaller shipments had been Oldl ' sent to other cities, and all local atio demands were taken care of. well When one gets around to the H production end, a feeling of gen- in eral optimism is found' among pos; ? both buyers and boatmen. The and way they look at things is that for (continued on page four) forn The Breeze May r To Do With Lovers of the beautiful Bald anc t Head Island are asking them- Thi ; selves and others, "Will it be- boc i. come Goat Island"? This writ- isle er knoweth not that it will, Sm but if it does there is a vast loo t. amount of consolation in the j e fact that the prevailing wind Bai h from Bald Head blow in the t0 c. direction of Carolina Beach, in- eve stead of toward Southport. Goj d Not that anybody wishes aw Carolina Beach any harm. It tha t will just be our good luck that the prevailing winds blow thi- e,rs d ther, instead of hither, if Bald J* Head becomes Goat Island, i- Officially, Bald Head is Smith Island. It has also been ?"c r known as Cape Fear Island, i- Palmetto Island and by various 1 if other nonencla'.ure. It was not in l. until about a decade and a 11 >. half ago that a former editor n?l ., of this paper began to call the hai d whole island Bald Head, stead- PUI t. ily and persistently in The Pilot be . : sv A Good 4-PAGES TODAY iceiver J oad At c HearingG At Last g n't Help Boys c, On Eve Of Induction, Or ' Be Examined, Do Rick follows: Ni When a registrant acquires Tied status after issuance of " tice to Appear for Physical ' imination', it should be as- r ev led that both parties concludthe marriage knowing that m registrant was subject to ly call for service and were ^ aared to take consequences, therefore deferment in such ;s would not appear to be ified. But when a registrant m indicated on his questionnaire st t he is engaged, giving the |3 s set for the wedding, or has 'n ;n similar information in writ- ?r to the local board and the Iding date falls after the is- rc nee of 'Notice to Appear for 'Sical Examination', his case nld be considered in the same r as those who married after fif istration, as provided by (continued on page four) 111 ini That ini season Is On w op w en lood Of Mail fie For Postoffice JS eri IVhen the buoy tender came E1 Tuesday it brought a pres- wt t for the local postoffir*? *01 00 pieces of mail. The ten-., r had made contact with one \] the transports engaged in 11 meuvers off the Onslow inty coast, and the warrs of mock battle had a lot mail they wanted to have itcd. Vi It was when this flood of til descended upon the emiyecs of the local office that ;y first began to fully appelate the automatic cancelg machine which recently reiced the old hand-pounding thod. Uncle Jim Lewis, the icial stamper-outer at the tio nthport office since 1912, de d that he had often cancel- se< a mail that larere when Ft. t01 swell was in operation, but he, led that he was a younger .n then, and was mighty at< inkful for the machine that m' de this work comparatively pc ty yesterday. pa vit ants Information yc About Section vit mong this week's inquiries re- c0' ed by the Chamber of Comce was one from Edward A. or iam, columnist and special mi er, of New York City. Mr. iam wanted a lot of inform- pe n about Southport, Fort Cas- lm and Bald Head Island, e said he had written much the past about Southports |h( abilities as a summer resort exporting port, and he asked a little more up-to-date inlation. U Have Much Goat ProjectGl 1 in stories in other papers. b time has come when everyly knows where Bald Head ind is. To find out where is i ,tth Island, a person has to 80 k at the maps or charts. a" ts doubtful that the name . Id Head will ever give way ^ any other designation; not ^ in to such a fancy one as ^ it Island. There will be an ful smell before anything like W( ,t happens. But, gentle read- Jr , you are not to get the an, a that we are prejudiced 1 lints the goat. We esteem th< l highly, at a safe distance, thi 1 when he is windward from no, instead of vice-versa. tht 'here is no malice whatever ani this treatise on the goat. Gr is just a long winded an- ly incement of the fact that we th? re heard that a large herd of aui e-bred Angoras are soon to be< put on the island. yei iTE 1 News paper 1 Southport^N^G^W< EA Group Closes wo-Day Session In Last Thursday wynn B. Price, Chairman Of N. C. RE A Reveils This District Likted At Top Of Those In Nation RE AT BEING MADE FOR FUTURE onference"-Was" Held For >urpose Of Discussion Of Operating Problems Ut The District A quarterly conference of 29 orth Carolina Rural Electrifica,n projects held at Carolina | -ach in two-day session was ought to a close on Thursday cning. Gwyn B. Price, chairan of the N. C. REA was the icst speaker at a dinner Wed-, sday evening at eight o clock the Royal Palm hotel. Mr Price gave a complete proZreport8 .. MA ents in this state, andsaidthat atistics show that this district right up at the top of the list the nation in regard to proess He quoted statistics to ow' that in 1935 electricity ached only four per cent of me C. rural population, and that ,w, through the medium of the EA program in the s|atCl Tyre has been boosted to 25 r cent. Great plans are being ade at the moment for expand-; g the program in the state,, csident Price said. This conference was hel o e purpose of discussing ?P?rat" g problems of the distric iiong those present were C. A. inder, chief of co-operatives eration division of REA, Ernest . Hover, regional operations gineer, R. W. Ward, operations ild engineer, and O. W. Briden, jional construction engineer, of e R .E. A. in Washington. E. D. Bishop, of Shallotte, supintendent of the Brunswick ectric Membership Corporation is in charge of arrangements r the conference. [YA Training Offered Youths irious Training Schools For Boys And Girls, Both White And Colored, Are Located Throughout N. Carolina Brunswick county boys and is, including both white and igro youths, may enroll in Nanal Youth Administration resint training centers in various :tions of the state, Area Direc: Harold H. Jeter announced re yesterday. rhese centers are being oper;d by the National Youth Adnistration to provide work exrience for both boys and girls, rticularly for employment in al defense industries faced with current shortage of workers. iuths wishing to apply for ad ssion UJ uiese wciiicm mc tiled to contact the Brunswick iinty NYA office. For the benefit of youths, boys girls, white or colored, who ly be interested in entering one the training centers, work exrience offered in each is as folvs: Durham?regular course, auto ichanics, construction. Photoiphy, woodworking, machine ?p, radio, and sheet metal (Continued on uage 4.) Wilmington Boy Scouts Camping oup Left Tuesday To Spend Several Days This Week On Camping Trip At Bald Head Island in experienced group of older y Scouts from the Wilmington :a are spending this week on Id Head island, camping, fish% swimming and exploring, ey are in charge of David C. es with Rufus E. Pitman and T. Rainey, Jr., assisting. The lers in the party are John >Ife, Ned Herring, Frank Gault, , Jack Booker, Donald Russell d Jack Hyman. While here Tuesday morning boys said that among other ngs they hoped to' locate the iv rather famous lost graveyard it is somewhere on the island, I d for which a whole troop of eensboro Scouts searched vainseveral weeks ago. Reports that ire is such a graveyard are thentic, but the location has j :n lost in the jungle for 30 irs. i - - s?.?. . PORT In A Good Comm ;dnesday, July 30th, 1941 GETTING t. t&w . f , ! t * 3 HE jBk ' mImm SOCKER?Warren Wilson, t Kimball for the Southern Confere to set out on his professional carei week and said Monday that his f Lou Nova card in September. Begin Paving ^ New Section Of Highway 74 Sout Hea Lasi Final steps in the elimination of dangerous curves in the Wilmington-Whiteville highway TO F near Maco were begun last week WPA forces cooperating with the state highway com- Blond mission began pouring the 22- Migh foot wide concrete surface. To *U!a mwAtont hnrron Hp wuriv Uli Li II a jiiujgvv last winter when a right-of- F way was cleared and several fills were made in an effort to remove several tantelizing J?e Loi curves from this section of ember road. The new road bed is a have a little over a mile in length. next v Completion of this work will Pion m be another forward step to- ln one ward making this highway safe For 1 for motorists, for prior to the f?r Sou present project several months Warren last year were spent widening ranks c the surface of the road. out >n R. L. Brendle of Southport is champii WPA engineer on this project, who hi that do Free Movie For ZtZ p 11* contagi ocrap Aluminum 2eri? _ . ~ - Wilsc Free Tickets To See Con- a sumj voy*' Will Be Given Kids hi3 gra For Scrap Aluminum If iCgC hi Brought To Theatre On (C Thursday . Cooperating with the local Tf Council for National Defense in J^tlC its drive to gather scrap aluminum, Price Furpless, proprietor of the Amuzu theatre of Southport, will give free. theatre tick- yf ets Thursday afternoon to boys y,e E and girls between the ages of ber 0 five and twelve years in exchange to se for old pieces of this metal. mind The tickets will be exchanged men for the aluminum utensils next approa door to the theatre on Thursday going afternoon between 5 o'clock and names 6 o-clock, but the tickets will home-l not be good for admission until have Friday night. This has been done if the because '.'Convoy", the feature at home, the Amuzu on Friday and Satur- satu day, is as timely as today's war out as headlines and presents an inti- per to mate picture of one side of the were war. It was thought logical to the la she '"'is feature in reward for in sw tl. ren's efforts to aid in plunge I Defense. darned jday is the last day for on her collecting scrap aluminum, and At i (continued on page four) . broads > / PIL< unity PUBLISHEI J READY TO FIGI ,Jjr ' * ^ ::>^p|^gpP|F ^ Vv ilond bomber who knock nee Heavyweight champio er. He has been visiting ii irst pro-fight probably w, arren Wilson To Launch *? hern Con ference I-vyweigh Champ Spent 1 t Week Here Visiting itives And Friends IGHT ON CARD WITH LOUIS-NOVA J thi Giant Believes He ,hl t Have Good Chance thf Defeat Conn; Will tul ive Subsidized Try uni or Championship thl gn ic folks who attend the as lis-Lou Nova fight in Sept- on( will go early, they may , n opportunity to see the " world's heavyweigh cham- wa ake his professional debut of the preliminaries. f tell :hat spot has been picked ither Conference Champion Wilson to desert the if the simon purse and set I,e> quest of the heavyweight en1 anship. He doesn't know cm is opponent will be, but rcs esn't worry him. He knows s career is going to be rV y paced, and he has a ous conviction that he can ire of himself once inside qS esta in, who has just completed fron tier session necessary for to duation from Clemson Col- whe is been spending the past cenl lontinued on pagp 4) Pea Ider Keziah C Fast One1 B. Keziah, secretary of liki Irunswick County cham- too f commerce, is immune an< asickness and does not the telling prospective fisher- It about it. He invariably he iches all parties that are ma out and asks for the of so that he can wire the obs :own undertaker and wai him to ask the families cla iy want to bodies sent foe ' I irday Keziah had to go kin a sort of assistant skip- I tim Churchill Bragaw. they i ass aboard the Isabelle, and | pile idy is kind of flippant. I Mis elis she both rolls and i ton s. A fellow, has to have i ove good sea-legs to stand the decks when it is rough. sav iny rate, the Isabelle got one ide to a swell and rolled dra OT D EVERY WEDNESDA IT ? mHpiH : i - V . J ? ;h| I * I/ :*??? RjlP^ : HPi [ W J j| ed out Carolina's Gate nship this year, is read; 11 Southport for the pas ill be on the Joe Louis i Is Set Pro - Careet hree Little Girls Find Turtle Nest [Is no secret that one of : greatest thrills in living on ! beach this time of year is s possibility of discovering a tic's nest, so It is easy to lerstand the wild delight of ce of Judge E. H. Crunmer's ind daughters Monday night they led their parents to > enntaininc 101 eeirs. Pat and Stuart Arrington 1 Mary Minta Mint/, wore Iking on the beach with their ers when they discovered the l-tale tracks of a mania turwho had labored ashore to her bit for posterity. The it soon was uncovered, and husiasm mounted with the int until the 101 total was iched. essing Club Moves Locatior he Southport Dry Cleaner blishment has been move ,t downton on Moore Stree the Perry garage buildini re new quarters have been re :ly arranged by the ownet rce Cranmer. latches A On The Chin e a. bucking bronc. Keziah k a header over the engine 1 caught the other side of : pilot house on his chin, knocked him out cold, and bounced off from the chin ssaging and butted the top his head against the same itacle. When he came to he s still so groggy that he imed his glasses were out of us. 5ut to do him justice, it was d of rough. At the same ie when he was committing ault and battery against the it house with his head, is Nancy Crow of Wilmingtook an involuntary dive rboard from the cockpit of craft. A watchful swain cd her by catching her by of her flying heels and gging her back aboard. ??? ?I The Pilot Covers Brunswick County t $1.50 PER YEA* I Certificates Go To Bus Drivers ; Who Pass Course School Bus Drivers 'Clinic Held Two Days Last Week At Shallotte With Total Of Fifty Drivers Being Approved SAFETY DIVISION DIRECTS COURSE List Of Approved Drivers Includes Forty-One White Boys, Four White Girls And Five Colored Drivers As a result of last week's school bus driver's clinic conducted at Shallotte there are 41 white boys, four white girls and five colored boys certified for duty as regular drivers or substitutes on the Brunswick county school routes for the next school year. During the two-day school there was a total of 67 applicants for driving certificates enrolled in the school, .which was conducted by representatives of the Safety Division of the Motor Vehicle Bureau in conjunction with school authorities. Among those who failed to pass the rigid mental and physical examination and the road test are several who were automatically disqualified because they had no driver's license. They will be certified when this has been done. White boys passing the testa were James Bennett, Clinton Bellamy, Roderick Bellamy, James G. Bordeaux. Ishmael Chadwick, James E. Clcmmons, Edwin Gray, Howard Gore, Elrich Hickman, Mahlan Leonard, Warren Phelps, Norwood Reynolds, Robert Reynolds, Burgwyn Sellers, Warren Sellers, Elwood Robinson, John Julius Swain, George V. Tompkins, Billie Willis, Bige Bowling, s Edward Lee Cox, George W. , Dance, Roland D. Dulton, Shelton ^ N. Edwards, Raymond Gilbert, William Gore, George C. Hickman, Carl K. Lewis, W. A. Ix>ng, Jr., Bob Milliker, John H. Mills, | Jr.. Willlford C. Mintz, Adrian u>," Phelps, Bayard Sellers, \Vendcll Sclelrs, Lawrence R. Sullivan, Mercer R. Sullivan, David Vance, , William T. Vance, Morrison B. . Watkins, and E. J. Skipper. White girls who successfully " passed the tests were Erma Lois Gray, Elneda Stanaland, LaVcrne Thompson, Ada Mae Varnum, Mae Bell Varnum. Successful candidates from - among the colored enrollees were Dolphus Bryant, Ellis Dudley, Bert Johnson, Russell Johnson and Henderson Thomas. Physical examinations for all applicants were made by "Dr. J, (Continued on page 4) ttm m* Captain Guthrie Injured On Boat Standing on the deck house of the menhaden boat Lynhaven of the Phillips factory. Captain Cicero Guthcrie was knocked to the deck of the vessel by the swinging bailer while the boat was being loaded in a rough sea Monday. Ua """toi norl o krnl/nn lmr T*Vi o ougioiiivu u Ui UJ41.II rough seas arc understood to have caused the bailer to swing out of control. The boat was finishing taking on a full load when the accident happened. Captain Gutherie is being treated in the I J. Arthur Dosher Memorial Hospital. s " \ Tide Table Following is the tide table ' for Southport during the neat week. These hours are approximately correct and were furnished The State Port Pilot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot's Association. High Tide Low Tida TIDE TABLE Thursday, July 31 0:36 a. m. 7:02 a. m. 1:21 p. m. 7:30 p. m. Friday, August 1 1:37 a. m. 8:07 a. m. 2:22 p. m. 8:56 p. m. Saturday, August 2 2:34 a. m. 9:10 a. m. 3:27 p. m. 9:37 p. ni. Sunday, August 3 3:33 a. m. 10:09 a. m. 4:31 p. m. 10:33 p. m. Monday, August 4 4:57 a. m. 11:06 a. m. I 3:28 p. m. 11:49 p. m. I Tuesday, August 5 I 5:54 a. m. 11:59 a. m. I 6:18 p. m. Wednesday, August '6 I 6:43 a. m. 0:42 a. m. I 7:05 p. ni. 12:45 p. ? I I ???J
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