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THE STATE PORT PILOT
Southport, N. C.
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
JAKES M. HARPER, JR., Editor
AaUrad m aecond-daM matter April 29. 1928, al
Poet Office at Southport, N. C., under
. the act of March S. 1870.
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Wednesday, October 29, 1941
Well, it seems that Joe Louis is still
No. 1 on the hit parade.
Moral: If you want to be an upstanding
citizen in the community, don't get
on skates.
Just because he calls her honey that's
no sign he's nectar.
School Columns
This year, without any solicitation on
our part, Bolivia and Southport schools
have been sending in material for a column
in The State Port Pilot each week.
We cannot help believing that publicity
will be a healthy stimulus to extra-curricular
activities of the boys and girls, and
it is a pleasure for us to cooperate with
Al f AQ/tll?kVG! in lpftijlff the'
UltriU iiiiu uicii u^-uviivi ^ ... A o
world hear of their worthwhile efforts.
Neither our space nor our inclination
will limit us to publicising the activities
of these two schools. We'll be just as glad
to have columns from Shallotte, Leland
and Waccamaw. Our only request is that
they be mailed so as not to reach us later
than Monday, and it is preferred that material
be typed.
A Letter
Elsewhere in today's paper we are
printing an interesting letter from Hubert
L. Holmes, Shfllotte boy who enlisted
several months tgo in the U. S. Navy. Wei
suggest that yo.i read it, for it strengthened
our belief that life in the navy offers'
unusual opportunities for young men who
can pass the requirements for admission.
We were so glad to receive this letter
that we are going' to put Sailor Holmes
on our mailing list and will send him The
State Port Pilot for the next twelve months
at no cost to him provided he is not
transferred outside the United States.
And, in this connection, we want to
make this proposition: We will send the
Pilot free for 12 months to any other
Brunswick county boy who is enlisted in
either the U. S. Army or the U. S. Navy
if he will write us a nice, interesting letter
that may be used either entirely or in
part for publication.
In order not to be unfair to boys who
are now paying for The Pilot while they
are away from home in Uncle Sam's
armed force, we will extend their present
subscription for 12 months upon receipt
of a letter of the above specifications.
You parents and friends might do the
boys a good turn by calling this offer to
their attention.
Resisting Inflation
Testifying before the House Banking
and Currency Committee, Price Administrator
Leon Henderson observed that
price control is necessary to prevent inflation
and runaway prices. However, he
added, price control should principally
be exercised as near the source of goods
as nossihle. and should not he exercised
over distribution except in acute situations.
The retailers of this country are doing
everything in their power to hold down
prices without being subjected to ironhanded
governmental regulation and domination.
More than a year ago the chain
stores took the lead in formulating a
merchandising program to meet the exigencies
of the emergency. Thousands of
independent stores also voluntarily joined
in. Under that program, America's retail
stores in all fields pledged themselves to
fight profiteering and speculation. They
pledged themselves to ayoid "scare" advertising
which promotes hysterical buying.
They pledged themselves to educate
consumers to use substitutes for materials
and supplies which have been made scarce
and costly by defense demands. They
pledged themselves to take every step
Sthat would further increase their operating
efficiency, further reduce costs, and
further improve their service to their
customers.
This program has been carried out in
full. In many instances retailers ha\
even gone farther?and have reduce
their own already modest margins <
profit in order to maintain moderate pri
es and encourage trade. That is why n
t tail price increases have been far le;
than wholesale price increases.
American retailing is fighting an tfj
' gressive war against inflation.
> The Enemy Within
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How many Americans could answe
this question with any degree of accurac
?"How adequate are our local fire d<
fenses?"
The chances are that not one perso
in a hundred could give anything resem
bling an informed answer. Y<et that ques
tion is one which directly affects all ou
lives, all our property?and which, at thi
time, has a very direct bearing on the na
tional defense program.
Is the fire department up to snuff? I
there an abundance of water for fightinj
fire in all sections where it is needed ? I
there a strictly enforced, modern buildinj
code and fire prevention ordinance? Ar<
periodic inspections made of iocal prop
erty to ferret out and correct fire haz
ards? Do schools and other public build
ings have sufficient and properly design
ed emergency exits?
You are entitled to the answers to sue!
questions as these, and it is your dutj
to ask them. Today fire loss is running
ahead of last year. It is taking more lives
; It as wasting more labor- and energy, n
I is destroying materials which are important
both to defense and normal activity
It is destroying sources of taxation, and
thus increasing the burden that must b?
borne by all other taxpayers. It is breeding
delay and waste of time.
Even in very small communities, good
fire protection is perfectly possible. The
people can be educated. And many little
towns have joined with others to create
fire fighting organizations whose cost,
when divided among the cooperating
communities, is small. In short, wherever
you live, whoever you are, there is no
valid excuse for failure to do our part in
preventing fire now.
"Oil Shortage" Backfires
The so-called "oil shortage" scare on
the Eastern seaboard, promoted for reasons
hard to understand, has vanished
like a morning mist. According to a congressional
committee investigation, there
is no serious shortage in the foreseeable
future.
The productive capacity of the American
oil industry is more than adequate
to meet today's enormous military demand,
as well as the normal civilian demand.
A transportaition problem was
created by the transfer of tankers to
lireat Britain, mat prooiem is now oeing
met by moving oil by rail, even though
the cost to the industry- is higher; by the
construction of additional pipelines, and,
in many cases, by using copl instead of
oil in industrial operations.
This country produces more than 60
per cent of all the oil in the world. It
produces oils of a quality unequaled elsewhere.
Friendly cooperation with industry
as dislocation problems arise, due to defense
needs, will do more to solve them
than autocratic, punitive action.
If your business begins to bear fruit,
you generally think it's a peach.
Living costs are rising so rapidly wonder
how long before the stratosphere will
be reached?
And some of the pictures which come
in over radio look like they have right
much static mixed in too.
| Shears And Paste
WHY WAIT?
(Charlotte Observer)
Seven communities in the United States
have been certified by the Office of Production
Management to the War and Navy departments
as facing severe unemployment unless
special consideration is given them in
awarding defense work. Two of these communities
are in Michigan, two in Iowa and
one each in Georgia, Wisconsin and Iowa.
Something presumably may be done about it.
But that isn't all. Charlotte's hosiery industry,
all North Carolina's hosiery communities,
might be listed as needing something. The
authorities warned months ago that the nation
might see the gloomy spectacle of plants
idle and people walking the streets for work,
due to all-out defense necessities. That isn't
the case in Charlotte and North Carolina but
those responsible for spreading the work
shouldn't wait until more communities are
listed with the seven in other states, until the
J list reaches 700.
THE STATE PORT I
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I FISHERMEN
1- BT BILL KEZIAH
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This week end will see the
(fathering of a very important
- group of men at Southport. Coming
from eight or ten states,
s about thirty-five outdoor editors,
radio commentators, representing
? newspapers and magazines with
S circulations of many millions, will
r be here for five days of hunting,
s fishing and general relaxation.
The occasion is one in which
" Brunswick county people cannot
- overdo thier traditional hospitality
and friendliness towards vis-!
itors.
? ;
When the defense activities arc |'
1 over and the uniforms of the
r soldiers and sailors are laid aside
(we hope that time will be soon '
? but fear that we are only in- 1
dulging in wishful thinking) '
t Southport will have great business,
as one of the premier sport 1
fishing centers of the Atlantic '
coast, to fall back on. We have j1
I big game fish of all sorts out
, on Frying Pan Shoals, and this _
fact is little understood here, un-1
derstood even less among the mil-'
lions of sportsmen abroad in the
[ United States. The big fish strike I
, this point on the coast a month j
or two earlier than they appear j
! at other points above here, and
i they remain a month or two
later in the fall. When we have
\ hotels, boats and other accommodations
for the sportsmen
' thousands of them will flock here
i during the spring, summer and
fall.
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In fact it has been the visiting
sportsmen who has carried on,
more than any other agency at
Southport, during the past several
years. They have given much em- j
ployment to people who had none,
they have brought money to town
when It was badiy needed. They
have helped to maintain a balance,
and though it may surprise
some of our people?we are hardly
yet to the point where sportsmen
are really beginning to recognize
Southport and come here.
In the light of the numbers that
wlh be coming a few years from
now, Southport people will be
looking back to recalling that the
sport fishing really' started to
grow along about 1941 or 1942.
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The missionary work has about t
been done. Hundreds of sports- 3
men now know from personal ex- s
perience that Southport has the
fish. Literally thousands of others
have heard about what we have and
are planning to come and
take a go at It some day. We
believe that the best assurance of
alf lies in the fact that outdoor
editors and snorts u/rifpro far o?ri
near, recognize the possibilities of
sport fishing development at
Southport. For two or three years
a lot of nationally known outdoor
editors have gladly welcomed
anything and everything about
the Southport sport fishing. They
have plugged it at their own typewriters
and radio broadcasting
stations. The number of such
writers is increasing daily. For
the size of our town, Southport
is the most widely known of any
place in the United States. It
would now take some real hunt!
ing over the United States to
. find a place that has many sportsmen,
with none of these sportsmen
ever having heard of Southport,
North Carolina.
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But we are only at the beginning.
This work has been shared
by the sportsmen who came and
tried things. Backing them up
have been our friends, the
outdoor editors, who believed. We
hope that the coming week will
see dozens more of outdoor
editors personally sold on the
Southport fishing and on Southport
and Brunswick county as a
community of friendly, hospitable
people.
From our personal experience
with them, the outdoor editors
are much in a class by themselves.
Some of them are firstclass
liars about hunting and
fishing?the only things in which
anybody is justified in lying
about. This doesn't spoil them. On
the contrary, it rounds them out
and makes them human. They are
a class of fellows whom it is
easy to meet and from whom it
is hard to part.
With all the British have been
able to do toward increasing food
production, they have been able
to boost their pre-war total only
about 10 percent, giving them to
percent of what they need.
PILOT^OUTHPOR^N^^
OPEN_F0RUM I
A col DIM dedicated to opinions tot
u># puoiic. A mouthpiece for the
Tlewc end observation* of our
friend* and reader* for wblch we
?MPt fu> oeapomlidUi/- Coatribune
to tola column must not
exceed three hundred word*
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Chaplain's Office
United States Navy Yard
Charleston. S. C.
October 25, 1941
Mr. James M. Harper, Editor
The State Port Pilot,
Southport, North Carolina.
Dear Mr. Harper:
Just thought X would give you
a brief sketch of my "ideas"
about the Navy and it's advantages
to young men about to be
inducted into military service. I
read in the paper a few weeks
ago that you had been made
"Navy Editor" for our county.
Glad to learn that you have this i
splendid opportunity to do your
"bit" for national defense. I joined
the Navy, I admit, "dodging the '
draft" and sincerely believe that ^
I have profited by it. I was work- '
ing in the Shallotte Post Office '
as Assistant Postmaster, and al- 1
though the nature of my work '
might have exempted me, I felt '
that I should get in the service '
and "pitch." I enlisted in the j'
Naval Reserve in May of this, 1
year and was called to active dutyj'
here in the Charleston, S. C. Navy !
Yard on July 15th. I worked in J1
the personnel office one month i'
and was then assigned to the job 11
af Chaplain's Yeoman, which in- j{
eludes the duties of librarian, j t
Along with this job comes the j J
duties of assisting with the je
church services, which are held |{
each Sunday morning in the Yard j 1
Chapel. I
I find that the majority of the ?
x>ya are of the highest type both
morally and spiritually. Most all!
)f them are high schol graduates 1
ind a large number have had col- j ?
lege training.
The Navy offers unlimited op-'
Dortunities to a young man about
;o be called into military service. c
lie may enlist in the reserve for j
he duration of the national em- j
urgency with a good rating and j
:hance to advance rapidly. The j
;hird class petty officer pay is: j
;he same as the base pay of an f
irmy sergeant, and providing he ^
las suitable experience in some e
jarticular line, such as storekeep- \
;r, yeoman, cook, etc., he may enist
as such.
Wishing you best of luck with ] t
rour work and with best regards. i v
, am i
Yours very truly, t
Hubert L. Holmes, c
Yeoman 3c. M-2, U. S. N. R..
SOUTHPORT !;
SCHOOL NEWS :
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MATCH GAME
There is talk of the high school 11
;iii's basketball team playing the
own girls in the very near fu- 0
ure. That should be worthy of 1
'our time, so watch for posters J
innouncing the date.
HALLOWE'EN CARNIVAL s
On Monday evening, November 11
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One prominent land-owner In the county told
us the other day that he had more birds on his
place this year than he had seen in several seasons.
He ascribes this to the fact -that a nuigHiUor *>
of his moved from the community since last season,
taking: with him several bird dogs who had
formerly amused themselves during: the off-season
by self-hunting: .... And, speaking: of birds and
dogs, Monday's rain ought to make things much
more pleasant for several local hunters who have
been taking- their dogs out for a little pre-season
work.
Carolina dropped her fourth game of the season
Saturday to Wake Forest, duplicating last
year's upset score of 13-0. Duke roared on her
unbeaten way at the expense of Pittsburgh 27-6,
but faces what may be her sternest test of the
season Saturday when she plays Ga. Tech in Atlanta.
The men of W. W. Wade are all set for
J, at 7:30 the Home Economics You". Hie cast
Department will sponsor a Hal- as follows: Keatf
mwe'en carnival in the gymnas- professor, Billie
,um. There will be all the things Randolph, the b
i person looks for at a spook Martha Grey B
ihow, plus a number of surprises. Perry, an oblij
rhe costume parade and the Moore: Grandpa
irowning of the rulers of popular- ent by-stander, B
ty will climax the event. The fol- Appleby, a helpfi
owing have been chosen as con-1 Christian: Prise
;estants for the above honors: sweet young tni
Sixth grade, Barbara Weeks Swan; Tootsie 1
tnd Jimmie Smith: seventh grade, | spinister, Libby i
Setty Todd Corlette and Billie j Boy Bean, her bi
Veils: eighth grade, Betty Arn-jnie Simmons: Va
>ld and John Carr Davis; ninth Southern charmi
jrade. Libby O'Brien and Bobby. Weeks: Boggins.
iones; tenth grade, Mary Flor-'ler, Rudolph SelU
?nce Moore and Brother Christian; | .
(leventh grade, Martha Grey | Winnakn
Jrown and Basil Watts. j WinnaDO
On this same evening there will ...
. T. .. . . , ... , i Mr. and Mrs.
>e In the high school auditorium I , , ,
. . . .. and children of 1
i series of stunte put on by the riyed t(
dementary grades^ the high cher,s y
ichool and the Parent-Teacher ? _ i
... ~ ... . Mrs. Preston SJ
Association. A prize will be . . ..
.... . , ..a number of the
iwarded the group giving the .
)est stunt day even,n* 11
8th GRADE OFFICERS ^ter' Llttle S
The eighth grade has elected r ayn
(fficers for the ensuing year. w ? d ?
Phese officers are as follows: |"a ? .
. . : den Davis of Wi
'resident, Douglas Jones; vice- j w , M.
(resident, Glenn Jones: secretary,! and ' J'
ially Ann McNeill; treasurery, | ev?"ln&ohn
Carr Davis. The news re- ] ^5' a rs',
lorter is Eleanor Reese. They ?J Wilmington v,i
lave chosen as their grade moth- i or "n^ay e]
irs Mrs. J. A. McNeill and Mrs. i , Mr' and **rs' [
Vill Sellers Davis. j daughter. Miss F
EUGCT CAPTAINS Masa" . sp*nt Sdt
The girls basketball team has in ^elr ,ouse ^
leen practising for the past two Petersburg, F
? ?' -???j r~.. Pari Knox of
veejuj. iiury nave caculcu ouy t~irnold
as their captain and L?t- 3Pent the week
ie Hickman as their alternate mother, Mrs. Min
aptain. The young peo
BASKETBALL BEGINS mington District
Basketball practice is coming P^Wbytery held I
long nicely. The boys are full raI1'r at New H<
f zip and high hopes. They hope c^urc^ Sunday
o order thejr suits soon. Some evening serving
f the boys are ordering new! Sr0Un^8hoes,
but the majority are going i Mrs. Jesse Pj
o use the ones they succeeded 'was a visitor her
ri breaking h. last year. j ing.
We noticed a player from one | Miss Laura Ak
f our stronger rural schools in Delco schol facult;
he gym on Tuesday. We wonder end with the fie
ust what his motives were. Miss J^ttia Ta
The play which the athletic as- faculty at Gra
ociation has chosen to give is en- week end here w
itled "Professor, How Oould Mrs. E. W. Taylo
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j? Ami
The greatness of tl
small part to the progi
and industry operaunj
prise.
The tremendous vol
I vices flowing to our p
\ dard of living far aboi
?was possible becaus
demanded and were w
qunnity and superior <)
We know our cusb
standard of financial s
fident they are willin,
charge for it. That is t
When you pay bank charges you do moi
venience in handling money, or purchase 1
ke it possible for the bank, through ample
maintaining the same high type of service i
DEPOSIT INJWED UP TO $8,000.09 BY
wednesday', OCTORfd
TLYNEWS^I
Tech's good old Southern hospitality
trampled Newberry College in a I
week, goes over to Chapel Hill .,vilh ^
cfiance to w'ttip the Tarlfeels "
Maxie Cooker, who with his father, ... E
Cooker, spends most of his nights fishing .*
river and bays near town, says that ts
fluently is able to see the searchlights of rjB
Davis during their noctournal meandering /B
the sky. And that must he all of /I
as a light bean flies ... If you've bees eettJB
thrill out of these high-flying planes thabeen
hearing during the past few days H
' for
an even greater thrill on Wednes^, ?E
Thursday of next week when "I Wanted ij
plays at the Amuzu. This is easily the m.T.K
ing airplane picture we have seen, and it,TB
cational as well as entertaining. JK
ShallotteNetnl
Willis; Vicky!
ane of his life, J SHALLOTTK Oct 2" r K
:rown: Grandma | Gore of N-orfolk Va
fing soul, ane j week em) here ,v H
Perry, an mnoc-l L Gore h*
asil Watts. John | GaUoway H
il fnend, Brother , ' ??*
ilia Morlev a!'0*"' S' C' 18 "siting huTB
? ' - i ents. Mr and Mrs. Henry HeiwB
ng. Luia Mane | j^r and Mrs Warm f.2B
3ean, a plump I Rpent Saturday in Wilr.ur.gtaB
O'Brien; Butcher j Mrs Q,as R,.ss relun.^
g brother, John-; ^ week from Philadelphia hfl
lerie Whitman, a wj,ere ghe visited relatives
?r. Annls Jean was acc0mpanied home k yfl
the sporting but- Miss Margarette Bru^B
!** The many friends of p2l
? Clemmons will regret to kM
W News that she is a patient a; u^l
Memorial hospital fl
Rudolph Fulcher , Miss Eloise Buffkin spent J
Norfolk. Va? ar-, week end with relatives at
j visit Mrs. Ful- Sea, S. C. S
rs. Minnie Knox. Sam Fowler of JackstrarpB
ivage entertained was a business visitor here Msl
little folk Fri-jday. I
i honor of her] Preston Paiker of CharlesaB
iylvia Ann's fifth < S. C? visited his family here fcH
week end H
i. W, Colwell of i MiSS Agnes Russ of WrimirpsM
and Mrs. Mars- vjgjted her parents. Mr ar.l tfl
ilmington visited j a. Russ. Sunday I
Henry Sunday Mr and Mrs Robt sul'.iw.kB
Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Gore of
W. S. Campbell nad0Vl- were visitors here :
sited Mrs. E. W. day fl
uiay night'ero m Wilminglv I
iler enroute
] spent Thursday in Florence I rfl
Atlanta. Ga.. | ^ Beatrice Bennett sal tfl
end with hi . Gene Alle: were ?./.?
me Knox. j |MW| )ast wfcei(
,ple erf the Wi -, M gtaniev will leave Twfl
of Wilmington | ^ vj8it nlatives ta Ti J
heir annual land Plant CKv Florida
'jre n^av/ ici <au ?
afternoon and, B R and Emory Stinky i
supper on the Wilmington spent the week a
here with re'atives
idgett Of Ashe Mr. and Mrs. L B Russ m
e Monday morn- Wilmington visitors Monday
Miss Evyiene Bellamy, win I
erman of Acme- attending Motts Business CoQea
y spent the week in Wilmington, visited her tat
ids. j Mrs. Wilbur Hoklen. thru It
ylor of school week end
ham, spent the: Cajot. W. E Bellamy of G*
rith her mother, leston, S. C? spent last week kit
r and family. iwith his family.
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lis nation is due in no I
ess made by agriculture I
r as free private enter- I
ume of goods and ser- I
V> 1C?? mum oton. U
UWJK 1 atMUR UUI 3U?u
re the rest of the world
e the American people
illing to pay for greater
[Uality.
omers demand a high
ervice and we are cong
to pay a reasonable
he American Way.
re than buy safety and
the use of money?you
i capital, to be certain
n good times or bad.
fafrmont
ROSEHILL
K?NANSV1LL?
holly ridge
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