]7,e Pilot Covers I prunswick County f&EEN ~NOT Is Unattended [jjrhts Tend To I Mar Blackouts Commander of CiviWj7n Defense Calls AttenI ,..0 To Fact That Lights ibould Not Be Left liATERS subject JO HEAVY penalty liy Of $5,000 Or One Imprisonment Or I yih Provided For PerI ons Leaving Lights On During Black outs Intended lighting in homes, c OCD Head stated that this rung is being issued in view 3* fact that lights in many fcess establishments, such as r? window and neon overhead te '.cere not properly attendee fc? the latest blackouts. Uns outside switches have beer Bided and the local warder ffied of location of such tees, persons leaving lights " "u unattended will be sub1 to the penalties mentioned. Senior Play To Be Given Friday We-Act Farce Will Be Presented Both Afternoon And Evening By Memkrs Of Southport High * >001 Senior Class to senior class will present ? " 'y in three acts, entitled tot Gracious, drunrlnia!1* Fri Id. niatic at 1:45 P. M ening performance at in. in the high schoo and George Bret-Ken' I'lolph Sellers and Bro' istiani cousins, witf s about how to spenc in how to earn it, fine > temporarily, but defia state of financila emnt when their landlady :nnox, (Mary Joyc< kniands a deposit or erduc rent. arrives by wire when ar y friend telegraphs ex ney lor Henry's fathei tain the friend's tw< i Marie Moore and Luis rani over a week-end :r is on a trip to Mexico girls are arriving, anc 4 the money. The solu is to be to pay a deposit rent and entertain th< hnselves. To keep then apartment, they needi v? a ehaperone. This ob ' overcome when P-Sam ford i the house-boy, wh< more brains than a tnor havr and still live, fmdi fro'ind outside the apart a grey wig and blaci f-;arr. e mother had al tie that what fee fount Ptei ha could keep. Th< the 'uirth ci -Grand %ivd on Page Four) THI 46 RUINS * " , ~_ ! - \ . V - * t * H> i^ ANCIENT?One of the o ty is the site of Old St. Philli] ture and appointments of this St. Phillips Chu Rich In h \ * I Located At Site Of ^ Old | ;| Town Ut BrunswicK, is Last Visible Signs of Old; est Settlement In This State ITHICK BRICK WALLS SHOW SIGNS OF SHELLS , [ Altar Cloth And Other Ap- j pointments Were Sent To This Country From Eng- f land And Are In L Use In Southport $ When its little band of mem-, , bcrs gather to worship at old St. J ' > Phillip'." church in Southport each ' I Sunday they use an altar rail, j ( i baptismal font, ^ altar cloth, col- , lection plates and other church,1 j furniture brought from England j ' more than two hundred years ago. i , , St. Phillip's Episcopal church at Southport is not so old, not i ' having been built until 1850. The ] '< explanation of its having the old j i fixtures lies in the little known | I 1 fact it inherited both the name! and fixtures from Old St. Phillip's j J [ at Orton, this original St. Phil-' J> lip*- having been built in 17301 j . to serve the people of Brunswick, j L , oldest town in the Cape Fear , country. Brunswick, where the original [ V . St. Phillip's was built, once had a . population of about seventeen hundred souls. The huge church, ' according to estimates, would easily have seated a congregation of a thousand people. Brunswick, tl now but a gost town a mile below q Orton, still has its site indeliably 0) marked by the four stark walls l of St. Phillips. Three feet in ^ thickness and built out of, brick f, brought from England in the ]c 1730's, St. Phillip's walls bid fair j b. to be standing as they are now a. p r couple of hundred years in the future. w The original church was built ti ! through the efforts of the people b; I of Brunswick, aided by the w . Church of England, and the then (j, ( ruling Archbishop of Canterbury tl in London, with the King himself n assisting. A little known fact is n L that the church was not always jr I called St. Phillip's. It was origin- tl ally called: "His Majesty's Chapel v* in the Carolina's." At that time b i both North and South Carolina 91 I were designated simply as the! f< Carolina's, there, being no dividing) 1 * ^ 1 , line Dciwccn uic cwu uuu< o. The first Rector of St. Phillip's, , alias His Majesty's Chapel in the ci I (Continued Un Page rour? la Old Fire Break After Smoulc i A fire that was started . < - somewhere around Dutchman's | ( r creek the first part of April, < > 1941, swept all the way to Ori ton Plantation and beyond i . there at some points. A stiff I , gale was blowing at the time i 1 and the flames are said to have i made over three miles per hour ] ' t as they swept across the coun- I l ! ty. 1 The most valuable part of 3 Orton woods were saved only by the hardest kind of work ] , from the fire prevention organ- < j ization, aided by everybody on , - the plantation. As it was, con- f 3 siderable fine timber was de stroyed. t The payoff to that fire will ( - surprise many people. Although i St cccured two years ago, the firs ' i is still turning at least one ' place. At the old Edwards fish 1 factory os the river, just south 1 ST A Good 4 PAGES TODAY > OF ST. PHILLIP! -'** - . % . ? ... ? * > .. J_ utstanding points of historic ps Church, near Oiton Pla old church were passed or irch Is listoric Value Point Rationing Is Not So Tough From all re|?orts, point raioning is not nearly the buga>oo that it was advertised to ! >e, and consumers and mer'hants alike are quickly masterng the intracacies of the new >ystem. I Of course, there hasn't been iin-h ! rush to beam with, for nost housewives have taken ulvantage ot the period allowed or buitding her |>antry stock to :ive cans per |>erson. But most >f the trade experienced in intoned commodities this week, las been by persons who ap- j wared to understand what they vere doing. Those who failed to register or their War Ration Book. No. 11 last week at the school sites nay register at the rationing xiard office after next week. tank's Rating Is advanced Greatly /accamaw Bank & Trust Company Is Now Rated Among The 900 Largest Banks In The Country K. Clyde Council, president of te Waccamaw Bank & Trust ompany, has received a message f congratulation from Upton E. iptrott, vice-president of the .mericas. Banker in New York, >r the fine record made fcy the ical institution in '.J42, when the ank practically doubled its deosits. The message, received last reek, says in part: "Congratulaons on the fine showing made y your bank during 1942. Notithstanding the large increase in onncits shown bv many banks ir, ic country last year, the Waccalaw Bank & Trust Company lade a spectacular gain, advano> ig from 1185 to 832 place among ic nation's largest 900 banks as rell be revealed in the American anker's copyrighted list of tki 30 largest banks group to t :aturcd in the Friday's edition. MEDICAL Mrs, Nora Johnson, of Bolivia, itercd Dosher Memorial Hospital ist Friday for medical attention. Out Anew lering 2 Years if Orton. there was a great pile if coal and clinkers. This caught fire in the flames of two years ago and a fairly lively fire is still smouldering. Sometimes it will burn for weeks with only a thin wreath of smoke showing. Again the fire will eat its way to the top of the Coal and burn briskly. Last week County Welfare Agent J. R. Raper and W. B. Keziah were making a call at a bouse ncaV the Edwards factory. Their attention was called to a forest fire just getting started in some broom straw. It was a right lively blase and. to their amazement it originated from this two year old forest fire. The pile of turning oca! and clinkers and tanked up this week to prevent a-1 other fire being started. ATE I News paper Ir Southport, N. C., We 5 I i: v V . ' r . " -4r- t -- - g ].. r ? c interest in Brunswick counntation. Some of the furni- d i to St. Phillips in Southport. i, j Income Tax Is ; Due This Month I V There Has Been No Provis- 1 ion Made For Cancellation Nor For Changing d Due Date On These Pay- i ments f r C. H. Robertson, Collector 01 j Internal Revenue, today said that v the number of income tax returns a filed by individuals is below the j number which could reasonably be jexpected at this time. He again t pointed out that an income tax r return must be filed by every single person whose gross income 1 from all sources was $500 or ? more for 1942, and that an income tax return must be filed by every married person living with husband or wife if their combined gross income was $1,200 or more { for the year 1942. The Collector said that possibly the delay in filing returns may be attributed in part to an erroneous impression that legislative proposals before the Congress, commonly known as "pay-as-you go" plans, will relieve taxpayers from . filing their Income tax returns , for 1942 and paying the first quarterly installment on or before , March 15. He referred to a re cent broadcast in which Secretary Morgenthau, Chairman Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee and Chairman George of the Senate Finance Committee made i" clear that there is no ' pending tax plan., which will relieve Individuals of the necessity j of filing ncome tax returns and ! payng the first quarterly install ment on or before March 15. ! Chairman Doughton, of the Ways and Means Committee stated the matter succinctly when he said: "Let me make this fact celar. There has been no cancellation of taxes on 1942 income. There has been no postponement of taxes on 1942 income. There has been no change in the time or place of payment. The first quarterly in| stallment of the income tax is j due on or before March 15th." The Collector urges taxpayers to file their returns as soon as possible. He said that if they should require assistance of members of his office in preparing their returns, they will be able to get assistance with the least de lay by going to his ofncc now ra- , thcr than waiting until a few , days before March 15. Taxpayers j who make arrangements to file j their returns promptly assist | themselves as well as their Gov- j crnment. niat taxpayers have ev- ( erything to gain by early filing | (Continued on page 4) < Regular Court Session Monday Most Of Day Consumed In Hearing Evidence In ' Cross Indictment That Had Been Brought Into ( Court i An all day session of Recorder's court here Monday featured the . hearing of a drawn-out case involving a cross indictment. C. M. Jenkins was found not guilty of making an assault with a deadly weapon. A charge , against him for selling oeer to a minor was continued. Wendell Sellers was found not guilty of making an assault with a deadly weapon. The care against Fred Pigctt charging assault with 4 deadly weapon was continued G. E. Jones was charged with violating the stock law, but fail*cd to appear. Capias issued ird the case was continued. t AL P0R1 i A Good Com dnesday, March 3rd, 1 Dressing Unit ] Does More Work With Less Help That, At Least, Was Record ' Compiled During Period Just Closed, But Chairman Would Like To See Increase In Personnel \ iEVERAL LADIES ! PILING UP HOURS , Total Of Twenty-Four La- j dies Have Put In At Least 50 Hours Folding Sur- ? gical Dressings In I Workroom 8 The surgical dressings program r . as on the upgrade during the < nonth of February, and though t he number of hours was not so ;reat, the number of dressings ( nade showed that the ladies are < ecoming more proficient. j There were seven who won ? hir 50-hour production pins dur- ( ng the past month. These were: ilrs. C. H. Augustine, Miss Car- , ie Harker, Mrs. A. B. Weeks, j drs. S. C. Baker, Mrs C. C. ] Gannon, Mrs. Robert Thompson, , ind Mrs. James Prevatte. This j rings to a total of 24 the ladies ? vho have completed their fifty lours. Four hundred and fifty seven I lours were worked and 9,841 ] Iressings were folded. Forty nine adies accomplished this. These igures, though satisfactory, arc lot at all what they should be. .fore ladies are needed if the ! vorkroom is to operate as it . ihould. The workroom is in the trmy-Navy building and the new lours are from 2 until 5 and rom 8 until 10 on Mondays, Wedlesdays, and Fridays. Christman Heads Division Office 'ield Deputy Collector Is In Charge Of One Of State's Two New Divisions; Zone Office In Whiteville Due to the great increase in irnrb- as a result of new and in sreasing federal taxes the Colector of internal revenue, Chas. i. Robertson, of Greensboro, is establishing two new divisions ofices in North Carolina and four najor zone offices, of which one s located in Wilmnigton. It is i inderstood that the change be:omes effective as of March 1; md Raymond D. Christman, field ieputy collector, with offices in Wilmington has been promoted to fie position of Chief Zone Deputy, j n charge of zone offices located n Whiteville, Lumberton, Kinston md New Bern, embracing apiroximately 15 counties. Mr. Christman will have supervision ill deputies located in these sones. j In designating Wilmington as a 1 najor zone office it means that 1 fie Wilmington office will remain 1 >pen at all times for the benefit 1 )t the public and it will be in ;hargc of Miss Sadie Lee Whit- 1 field, of Greensboro, who has al- ] -eady arrived in Wilmington and j taken up her duties. The new ar- < rangements will fill a much need- ; 2d service to taxpayers in Wil- I mington for the reason that under i the former plan the field deputies ] located here were required to fill ( ippointments in adjoining coun- j ties, thus making it necessary to :!osc the Wilmington office exccpt one or two days each week. Deputy Collector Paul de Mont- ! pellicr, who has been in Wilmington for several months also dc- ! puty Byron E. Campbell who came here recently will continue to be attached to the Wilmington Dffice. In discussing his appointment ' as Major Zone Chief Mr. Christman states that much of his time will be spent with other zone deputies after the present income tax filing period ends on March 15. He entered the internal re venue service on August id, asMoi as a field deputy deputy collector and from June, 1937 to March, 1939 he served the department as chief of the Income Tax Division in Greensboro. Brunswick Man Given Parole James Ballard, Brunswick county negro serving a 15-year sentence following his conviction in 1937 on charges of manslaughter, was among the ten prisoners granted a parole this week by Governor J. M. Broughton. RECORDER UTTER C. H Hickman, superintendent of the county farm, reported this waek that he had a sow to farrow IS pigs Sunday. This is the largest Utter reported ;rs 'h-s secton in some time. r piL munity 943 PUBUSt Native Of This Senior In S ^ATICE OF THIS COUNTY ion Of Late Reverend And M Shallotte, Is Completin; j Wake F James Bascum Hewett, of* Vashington, a native of Brunsvick county, Shallotte, the son of ate Rev. Dempsey L. and Mrs. Hattie D. Hewett, is making a rery outstanding record at Wake rorest College Law School, both n scholarship and leadership. Mr. Hewett is this year presidint of the Wake Forest College aw School, which speaks for itlelf of his outstanding popularity ind ability. He stays busy but j lever to busy to enjoy a conver- ' lational chat with a fellow stulent. Scholastically he is on the hon>r roll, in the top rank of his :lass. He is not only a Christian jentleman, but applies himself to ichieve his desired goal, and has he requisites of a good lawyer. His association will long be emembered by students who lave been privileged to contact lim. His humble manner, pleasant imile, his witty humor will linger n memory long after he has pass- 1 id through the portals of Wake i Red Cross Driv In Brunswi * " I i' T-Intrn ^Inno In Fnnr'l i law uuno xii x v/wi Types Of Service Whenever there is news of ( action by any or Uncle Sam's armed services, .Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Leonard, of Bolivia, have j cause we wonder if one of their boys will not be involved. Mr. Leonard was in Southport this week and told a representative of this newspai>er that they have one '*>$ on a submarine, one on u battleship, 1 one in the air force, and one < with the infantry In North Af- < rica. i So far, the most serious casualty that has been report- ' ed to them is a broken leg suf- 1 fered by the son serving on I undersea duty. Tax Matters Are ; Heard Monday! Members Board Of County ( Commissioners Spent Most | Of Day Settling Tax Mat- | ters For Citizens Members of the board of com- t nissioners for Brunswick county ; teld their regular first Monday j meeting here this week, devoting < most of their time to hearing and | jettling tax matters. f G. T. Hickman was granted a | reduction of $250.00 in list in his < property; Freeman Kirby was i granted a hucksters license; T. A. 3aney was allowed to afterlist ' 3.17 acres since 1937; Leo Ben- 1 ton was allowed to pay delin- 1 juent taxes prior to 1933 in the I basic of valuation for that year; > G. H. Lanier was allowed to pay ( bis 1927 taxes on the basis of the , 1933 valuation; Rebecca Gausc j was permitted to pay her taxes , Dn the basis of a valuation of 1 $1,280.00; Isaac Jcnrcttc was re- I quired to pay 1933 taxes on the basis of the valuation for that year; an order was passed to forclosc the property of Jake McMillan in own Creek for payment ; of taxes. Business I roub FriendLong Charlie Farrell, Greensboro camera artist, who was a frequent visitor to Southport before the war came along, is evidently suffering badly from the spring fishing fever, with not much chance to go off in search of a remedy. In a letter to a friend here this week, Charlie said: "There is no place in all the world more inviting than Southport and the fishing holes you have scattered around, during this balmy spring weather." Continuing, he conjured up all sorts of woes, much of which, it is suspected, may be changed to his inability to get off and go fishicg. He said: "My oldeet fccy is ia the army and the r.ext or.e, (a musician) who has been playing at Carnagie Hall this winter, will probably soon be called. Both my brothers are in tho army and ,0T ~ IED EVERY WEDNESDAY ?County Is C< >chooliOfLaw ' ISSENIOR 30 D C ' Irs. Dempsey L. Hewett, Of p. g Course In Law At orest ' 1 Bj | JAMES B. HEWETT ov* fro: forest upon ms graduation una out spring. pos Wil e Underway r ' oth ck This Week the Mrs. S. B. Frink Is County tec Chairman Of War Fund up' Drive And Is Carryings^ Campaign Into Every-Sec- t| j [ tee COMMUNITY LEADERS ARE HELPING OUTjtrii Hot Every Possible Effort Will me Be Made To Attain The rat Quota Of $4,000 That wo Has Been Assigned i scjj "In its second War Fund Cam-1 paign the American Red Cross is bi" isking the American people for 0,1 contributions to the War Fund to arc enable the organization to continue to meet is wartime obligations, particularly those to the irmed forces of the United States is prescribed in its Congressional I s Charter and in Army and Navy _c regulations. This fund will be ' raised by the Chapters throughout the country and part of the .... fund will be remitted to the Na- , j tional Organization for the con- ^ iuct of national and international _ Fled Cross activities, and part will . >e retained and expended by the ^ Chapters for the conduct of auhorized Red Cross activities in heir several jurisdictions. c "The total sum to be raised by ^ he Brunswick County Chapter in ^ his campaign is $4,000, of which , , f2,000 will go to the National Or- c janization as this Chapter's share )f the sum required for the na- p donal and inter-national activities V/ ind $2,000 will be re retained by his Chapter for authorized and :ssential Red Cross activities in ts jurisdiction. ' "All funds contributed to the I Fo Brunswick County Chapter in this :ampaign will be collected and landied subject only to the authority of The American Nationjl Red Cross and this Chapter, ( ind all such funds will be divid- ex ?d between the National Organ- ?'" ization and this Chapter in accordancc with the ratio which this Chapter's quota of the national jj fund and the sum required for its local activities, as stated above, J hpjir in rach other " U!1 Mrs. S. B. Frink, chairman of 3,0 the drive in this county, has been no1 at work during the past week C01 (Continued on Page Two) J sqi les Make Old ? jForSouthport Smith, whom you will remem- ' ber as my right hand man, is in IVl the navy. Three others of the old employees in the place have gone out and our colored ofl farmer, who has been here so Ar many years, shivers and shakes Br all day long with expectations ; of being called. on "The photographic business inf is chaotic with all accessories, bulbs, etc., being frozen, and t film coming in only in driblets. Trying to do business these days is so troublesome that, if it was not for the investment ami good will that I have ac- tlv cumulated in twenty years here of in the block, I would throw up Kb the spinach, go to Southport a and go fishing. I'd like nothing better than, fooling around with a one of those shrimpers, or in m being off somewhere With Cap: wi tain John Eriksen." ac 1 5 i 1 lost Of The News All The Time .11 1 n SI.50 PER YEA! ommittee Kills Sill For Sale Of Power Company lance Group Takes Acion After A Hearing On The Bill Providing For 'urchase Of Tide Water 'ower Co. ME OPPOSITION IN THIS SECTION nside'able Opposition To i urchase Of Utilities By Zity Of Wilmington Seen In This Area lie Senate finance committee the General Assembly summarkilled a bill Thursday permitX the city of Wilmington acra Ho nmnorfv of the Tide lv t 1 J ? , te Power Company, which opees in 18 eastern counties, iction on the bill followed a g public hearing and a brief :ussion in executive session. :re was solid support for the offered by the officials of the f of Wilmington and New Hanr County, and some support m the 17 counties affected, bogged down in face of opition from the area outside Imington. tesidents of the 18 counties r electrical rates considerably excess of those charged by any er utility company operating in state. Residents of the 17 nties joined in Wilmington's ire for lower rates, but felt y would not be assured of protion under the proposed setThe State would lose $250,000 , taxes now collected annually m the company, but the conning reason for the commitaction appeared to be doubt to whether counties and munialities would receive the conditions provided in the bill in l of taxes, since those pay*ifc? timnlrl Ko onnnntlarv tn nno 1 I WO nuuiu ?rv WJ.IIW. j -j-. ng expenses, and whether they uld be assured of continuous vice. J Senator J. E. L. Wade, of New . j imcer, led the pre^brieiKa of lii'o '? ! , while Senator John Larkins, of slow, one of the counties in the :a, led the opposition. Appcaf; for the bill were Mayor Edgar w, City Manager A. C. Nichols, i other city and county officials, ;se Jones, Kinston attorney, repenting various municipalities in area; Mayor 0. L. Herring, of sehill; Mayor Aubrey Hall, of dlace, and R. L. Mitchell, New rk bond attorney who drew the !. Appearing against it were in L. Skipper, of Littleton, secrey of the North Carolina County tnmissioners Association, who med it "the worst bill I ever j v,"Mark Lassiter, of Snow Hill, iji 1 Harriss Newman, Wilmington orney. jale of the Tide Water Company i been ordered by SEC pursuant the Utility Holding Company " ~' f harlie Hattem 4 Given Sentence rmer Operator Of Place In This County Is Tried And Convicted In New Hanover Recorders Court - :j| Charlie Hattem, well known, - Brunswick county tavern ;rator, was sentenced to 12 nths on the roads by Recorder Winficld Smith in Wilmington " s week after the recorder found ttcni guilty on a morals count. \ similar sentence was imposed Lucille Shelley, who was tried ng with Hattem. Both gave ticc of appeal to Superior urt. k| Members of the city-county vica iad testified tliat the coupla re found in a house at 814 Member's Lane. Hattem, who merly operated a tavern in (Continued On Page Four) up ply Girl Is Now \ember Of WAACS Vivian Phelps, of Supply, was iicially enrolled in the Women's my Auxiliary Corps at Fort agg on February 18. She is now awaiting further lers to report for basic tralnt' ormer Resident Dies In Dayton < j News lias Itcen received here Of , i e recent death in Dayton, Ohio, Mrs Alice London Bucher. ic was S3 years of age and was native of Eouthpcrt. The deceased was a member of prominent family of this ccm- ' anity, and news of her passing 11 be regreted by many farmer quaintanccs.'