fhe Piiot Covers prunswick County KfrHlRTEEN NoTi EJotte Will i I Begin Program ! I On April 25th I. ^(aureate Sermon Will ?1 Delivered In Evening j I n| That Date By PresiI Of Flora MacDonI,OTHER NIGHT Fr0R COMMENCEMENT Igulled Program Is PlanIJ In Order To Reduce I faessity Of Travel As I Much As Possible I?, gwltotte high school coml-jjsent program will be reEgg to two events this year, lv . to announcement this IF, V Principal Henry C. I .^laureate sermon will on aunoaj cvciin.j,, .. ;< r. v30 o'clock by Dr. H. j t.;-gcr. president of Flora iCollege. } ;: ,y evening, April 30, at yocii the graduation exF. ; ? :!! be conducted. There , ., formal speaker for this 'r;- trophies and other i*srds wall be made and (-as .v:ll bo delivered to memp of the graduating class. inference To Be Held At Bolivia kportant Sunday School Conference Will Be Held At Bolivia Baptist Church For Association it. important Sunday conferbe held at Bolivia Bapk church for all the Sunday tv 5 in the Brunswick Assof - Every superintendent is p to be present with a large p: from his Sunday School in|c; each teacher. V rvijrani is as follows: HEME: "Forward With Christ JOor Association." What It Means To Go Icq:- With Christ." Dcvotioni Isaac Willetts, Lebanon Bapf.K: Ay School superintendent. M5 -- Roll call of churches, e-' - Mrs H. Foster Mintz. Preparing To Go Foes' lection of Sunday School ka".officers. Each Church Going ton:, each church grouped, the goals for advanceK if Forward With CTirist leur Association": planning the ee of Association. 1. Sunday b Training. "Forward With ts - Leadership." 2. Evangcr Forward with Christ in Wnning." * Daily Vacation Bible School, frr.-f with Christ in Bible MO ? Adjourn. J to Sunday School doing its this conference will help 5* revival to the churches in ' fcseciation. Several Cases T i i r* . iried in Lourt Itnday Saw The Trial Of Numerous Actions Before 'udgc John B. Ward In Recorders Court * -'crai cases were disposed of " P."corder'8 court Monday t-: Judge John B. Ward. May Palmer, colored, was r guilty of reckless operation ' ' as given 30 days. Judgment * suspended upon payment of and a fine of $25.00. Of | ar-ount $10.00 was remitted. . Jenkins, white, pleaded v to charges of assault. Glv' "'ays on the roads, judgment suspended upon payment of * and a fine of $50.00. L barren, colored, was with drunk driving, but " t'J appear for trial. 'alioway, colored, was giv^ Months for possession. Judg.t ''-'as suspended upon payI costs and a fine of $50. " rc was a 10-day stay of allowed for appeal, bond '* set at *100.00. "Werick S. Hargett, white. : tounrt guilty 0f drunk driv; '-lvtn 90 flays on the roads, pw was suspended upon gait of costs and a fine of j his driving license to be ' !'l for 12 months. His ABC St!*8? also rcca"ed. j! '-upton, white, was found ,t;' of transporting and was .n :: months on the roads, "^ent was suspended upon | ?f costs ancl a fine of ^ Hill, colored, was con. public drunkeness. Given ^Unuea On Page Four) 1 \ THI 52 Wilmington M Preach On E Rev. William Crowe, Paste Church, To Preach Bat Rev. William Crowe, Jr., pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Wilmington, will deliver the baccalaureate sermon at Southport high school on Easter Sunday afternoon, April 25, in the high school auditorium. The visiting minister is a graduate of Southeastern College, Memphis, Tenn.; holds a bachelor of divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Va.; and hold a degree of master of theology from Xemia Thelo- ^ logical Seminary, St. Louis, Mo. i Prior to coming to Wilmington j in March of last year, The Rev. i Mr. Crowe held pastorates at d Tuscombia, Alabama, and at Blue- I field. West Virginia. S He is associate editor of The 1 Presbyterian of the South, pub- 1 lished at Richmond, Va? and has * been a contributor to a variety of religious papers and theological __ reviews. R. Since coming to Wilmington the po Rev. Mr. Crowe has been active- m ly identified with the religious and ve secular life of that city, and W. hi; W. R. Lingle F Local Scht * Meeting Of Southport ~~ School Board Held Monday Night With Only Two Changes In School Faculty j ? TWO TEACHERS TO DROP PROFESSION j I .. Vacancies Caused By The J " Failure Of These People I' To Apply Have Al- t< ready Been Filled | n I u W. R. Lingle was rc-electcd ? principal of Southport high x school at a meeting of the school board here Monday night. All ex- B cept two members of the present f< faculty were re-elected, and nei- ^ ther of these was an applicant. y Others who will return here u next year were: Miss Josephine w Corbette, home economic and s] science; Mrs. Frances Marie bi Jones, French and English; Mrs. p| John T. Fields, math.; Mrs. Ruth 0j Hood, eighth grade; Miss Caro- U lyn Albright. 6th grade; Mrs. W. ka R. Lingle, fifth grade; Mrs. Robert Willis, 4th grade; Mrs. R. S. 17 Harrison, second grade; Mrs. r, Louise A. Byrd, first grade. Miss Miriam Bullard, seventh f* (Continued On Page Four) V Good Record Is w Made With Bonds Sales During Latter Part Of wi| March Indicate That ci0 Brunswick Citizens Con- nii tinue To Buy Bonds l bc( According to reports received ga from the Federal Reserve Bank Ms of Richmond and the Charlotte jus Branch Bank, the issuing agen- ye: cics of Brunswick county have wo for the period March 16-31 sold ele Scries "E" Bonds in the amount we of $7,443.75. ser The above figure includes all for sales for which remittances have Soi been cleared through the Federal wil Reserve Bank by the last day of ma the accounting period. Record Shipmer Made From 0 The Orton gardens arc seeing H their peak of blooms this week, or the azaleas now getting at their a zenith of beauty. These flowers d< passed through the winter and No spring uninjured by the cold be spells, which got many of the ? earlier camellia buds. They are n( more numerous and, if possible, fU lovlicr than ever. ^ Despite unfavorable travel Uf conditions there has been a good a, influx of visitors coming in ca whatever way they could. The love of many people for flow- ^ ers, especially the ladies, is so m deep rooted that not even war times can keep them from Orton when the flowers arc in bloom. st The flowers have been attended, practically all of the la- 13 bor being colored women and P girls, many of whom have been working on the plantation for Jn years. These folks are devoted fr to the flowers. "Aunt" Faithful st J SL A Good 4 PAGES TODAY inister T o ' iaster Sunday >r Of First Presbyterian :calaureate Sermon B J " I ^ * f\t- - flK :?p^v ISjIr ' ' CC MK^ ri &i I rifl H ^1 : BHSHRBSB w HHBSMH^^^H pi w $ REV. WILLIAM CROWE * Linglc, principal of the Southirt school, stated this week that li embers of the senior class feel '1! ry fortunate in having secured m for their speaker. Reelected As >ol PrincipalR Picture Story ?? Of Pines Told ? ro 80 :? *? ? MJlit? VJVID VI I llir, a BCIIC5 f four pictures depicting slash sa nd loblollies from the time , lo; ley were planted by the Riegcl aper Corporation until they go m > the pulp wood mills to be to laxte into gunpowder and miliiry essentials, appears in t*ifc? ? eeks issue of the Washington' h0 i i nes - Herald. The pictures were made by en M. Patrick, photographer >r the North Carolina State Pa ews Bureau, while here with arland Porter, News Bureau sa lanager, last month. They a ere arranged by Bill Keziah, a ho also wrote a two column a tory, apjiearhig at the same. u me. The storj' and pictures j'a ith portray the value of the a Ine woods and the splendid co[>eratlve spirit that exists in lis county bi preventing and U mtrolling forest fires. I riksen Likely hoice For Mayoru ith No Opposition In Sight, Incumbent Is Likely To Be Asked To Continue In Office Voters of the city of Southport 'a it meci r riaay mgnt ai o ock in the courthouse to nonate a candidate for mayor. sa Until this past week there had ^ ;n considerable speculation re- r: rding a probable successor to lyor John D. Erickscn, who is a it now winding up his eighth ir. He had announced that he 01 uld not be a candidate for re- cr' ction. However, during the past . ek it was learned that Ericktic l's plans will make it possible him to continue to reside in ?r! uthport, and he has indicated a llingness to serve aagin as as. yor if the people decide that J0. (Continued on page 4) j?. pc it Of Plants " rlon Gardens annah, one of the oldest col ed women, has a large plot of U tmellias that have been un- " :r her especial care for years. plot of flowers anywhere arc :tter attended than hers. 'Bill," the tame Orton deer, >w a year and a half old and *" illy grown, is also much at.ched to the flowers. As a usil thing he is right around nong the workers. He neither its nor tramples on the flows, having long ago decided lat they were just to- be ad- T? ircd" foi While the flowers have to be c[i rvb-rtri aftor thr Orfnn folks arc "vu vv"' """ "" 1UI rcssing the growing of food- tu uffs this year. Every family nl( growing a garden and the antation is turning everything Mi wards summer and fall grow- pr, g of foodstuffs. Everything all om field food crops to live- Be ock is receiving attention. H< ME News paper ] Southport, N. C., Bolivia Finals Consolidated In Single Session accalaureate Sermon Bj Rev. W. E. Pate, Formei Pastor At Antioch, Will Be Highlite Of Program /ILL BE HELD ON FRIDAY, APRIL 3C his Measure Instituted Bj Vote Of Seniors In Cooperation With RubberGasoline Shortage Seniors of Bolivia school, ii impliance with the gasoline ant ibber conservation program, vot i recently to stream-line theii 'aduation exercises, which havt :en consolidated into the evening ' Friday, April 30. The speaker for the occasioi ill be Rev. W. E. Pate, formei istor of Antioch Baptist church ho will deliver the baccalaureati irmon. There will be no forma idress, the salutatory and vale^ ctory taking the place of this. Awards will be made at this me, and the diplomas will bt mded out to the seniors. .arge Order For Nursery ecord Shipment For Single Day Is Reported At Orion Nursery Last Week All single day records for th< ;le of flower plants from thf rton nursuries were broken lasl eek when 2,200 strong, wet ioted and blooming azaleas wen Id to up-state dealers. The plants were shipped the me day, a good sized truck id of lumber being required to lild deck after deck in a big oving van, which carried them their destinations. The moving van had to go upate for a loa farm demonstration agents or t< any member of the Southeri states regional contest commit 1 tec including G. L. Hcrrington chairman, extension service, Uni versity of Tennessee, Knoxville Tennessee; L. P. Watson, exten sion horticultural specialist, Nortl Carolina State College, State Col lege, State College, North Caro lina, and R. O. Monosmith, exten sion horticultural specialist. Miss issippi State College, State Col lege, Mississippi. Recruiters To in _ rr Visit towns To Contact Prospects For Duty In Seabees And Waves And To Talk To 17-Year-Old Boys About Service About 40 recruiting reprcsentatives of the Navy Recruiting Service this week will visit almost every North Carolina towr and city which docs not have a permanent recruiting station tc enlist men and women of at ages for duty with the Navy, il was announced yesterday by Lt Cmdr. Charles B. Neely, head ol the State's Navy recruiting. Recruiter in this vicinity wil be D. W. Vaughan, who will opcr a substation in the Post Office building at Southport on Apri 14th, 19th and 26th, and all persons interested in the Navy are invited to meet him for an interview. It is now possible for men between the ages of 18 and 38, whe previously were prohibited frorr volunteering for any service, tc enlist in the Navy's Seabees. The Seabees are composed of men skill ed in every phase of construction? and the Navy guarantees each applicant that he will follow his chosen trade in the constructior battalions. Most men arc enlisted with pet' ty officer ratings in the Seabees and, after a 30-day indoctrinatior period, they are assigned to some naval base on a construction pro jeet. Much of the duty is foreigr duty. As a Seabees petty officer a tradesman draws up to $12( per month base pay ? plus al living expenses, clothing, and al i lowanccs for dependents. Rating! up to chief petty officer an awarded at time of enlistment. General service is open to 17 year-olds, and to men between th< (Continued On Page trour> T PII nmunity )43 pubu: BIRDS CAU! > s s f. n o j \ * i ^9^ 11 : 1 ^ : " '-J e 8 ROOKEY?Interest has ? Battery Island, opposite Sou u of some unusual discoveries and appearance in this sectii ii aw, who like his brother, Lt - alist at heart, has been vis: s while on leave from his Nai j ! Red Cross Wai ; Mount Witl : New Bus Added \ To Serve Public i r > Effective this week another 5 round trip daily has been add3 ed to the bus schedule between Southport and Wilmington. 3 In addition to the early ' morning bus from here at 5:30, i there is now another bus leav ing Southport at 7:15 o'clock, arriving in Wilmington at 8:30 o'clock. The return trip is ' made from Wilmington at 4 o'l clock, arriving at Southport at . 5:15 in the afteraon. There is a plan underway now to have a bus leaving . Southport at 6 o'clock in the . afternoon, returning from Wilmington at 10:00 In the evening. Definite announcement of this service wiU bo made later. , Military Forces Visit At Orton ' Soldiers And Sailors Out, numbered All Other Visitors Sunday At Orton Gardens , But for the presence of in[ numerable ladies, visitors to Or( ton this past Sunday would have t gained the impression that the ( beautiful and stately gardens were I having a military parade of some . sort. Officers and men from Camp Davis were there in force, as j were WAACS and WAVES from somewhere. Not least, the Navy was well represented with nattily dressed officers and men from the | local Section Base. (Continued on Page Four) Farm Element In Gag Picti , Pictures of pretty girls go, ing at beaches, etc., are not so \ much in demand during the war. Those girls are, or should l be, engaged in war industries, j or something useful. Most of i them are. Still, when the State News . Bureau manager and his cameraman come down the last i of this month, W. B. Keziah will have a program for them . that will call for the use of 1 about seven nice looking girls in at least one picture. , The Oaks Plantation, beaui tiful place belonging to F. G. 1 Adams on the Cape Fear river . five miles above Orton, probably 3 has more scenic surroundings > than any other farm in the county. Manager J. J. Ramsaur . and his son, Joe, Jr., are en> gaged in turning the plantation all out for food production dur ,0T p SHED EVERY WEDNESDAY 5E INTEREST Sfl ??? v ... Nt&Bi ucr .. Ir.g'wl r.n, case i been centered recently on thport, because of the report ge. i made in the nesting habits that jn of birds there. Billie Brag- earn . Churchill Bragaw, a natur- flics iting the island almost daily age ;al air training. too, r Funds Still s? 1 New Returns E" * . amo Bolivia School Comes For- cr's ward To Redeem Herself.1 W With Report Of $239.72 havj To Be Added To Com- dren munity Effort vivo wide I COLORED CITIZENS , STILL SEEK GOAL scho ______ sure 1^ ? nn r? .1 linrlf iUrand lotai Keportea i nus ! Far Is 10-Per Cent Above Quota Established For Lcr This County bcnc chile Maybe you wondered when you prjrr studied the report of Red Cross cert; War Fund receipts in last week's worl paper just what had happened to age Bolivia high school. four Well, here's the answer: Bo- banc livia high school was unaccount- W ed for. The $84.65 credited to that leavi institution came from the com- "Id < munity itself, and the effort of upor the school itself is reflected in of h the check for $239.72 brought in mari since last Wednesday by Principal him, Glenn Tucker. I mon In addition to this, another surv worker in Southport turned in payr $10.43; and $42.85 has been added to o to the contributions received from own the colored citizens of the county. ar"P The total for the county now the stands at $4,466.47, more than 10- uri'J percent above the quota. insu| This makes a total of $390.31 mon' reported from the colored citi- woul zens, who have elected to continue ca3c working throughout this month in woul their effort to reach their goal of mon1 $500.00. W A break-up of the communities dies from which these funds were re- titlec ceived follows; Mt. Carmal church. lun,I Ruth McNeill and Ellen Reaves. to l' $20.35; Browns Chapel church, ('ren I Ethel Swain and Ida Frazicr, $20.60;Fricndship church. Ludelp- ncar hia Bellamy and Addic Lee, $21.- marl 30; First Baptist church, Eliza o{ 1 (Continued on page 4) 's burii Figures Even I pcrsi ares Of Season' Im ing the war. 1,11 Nevertheless, in spite of r food growing being stressed, the plantation has a drove of seven beautiful-but long-earcd-Cicilian donkeys. They are probably the Proi biggest collection of four-legged R jackasses anywhere in the P State. The least that can be ?i said of them is that they arc decidedly pictursquc. The plan is to have half a ijngi dozen nice looking girls riding was those donkeys, or at least hold- by 1 ing them. Jacks are said to be Thee rather recalcitrant and it is Atla | possible that some of the girls ton I will wish to hold the animals Trin that arc assigned to them in al d preferrence to riding them, and Anyhow, a sizable collection of W. male and female mules will the make a picture that will go panj over with the papers, in spite Hug of war-time restrictions. I " 8 * "- M ost Of The News All The Time i'J ~: "' 81.50 PER YEA1 iciai Security enefit Payment* n This Section ures Show That The Soial Security Board Has aid 198 Claims In This ection TY-EIGHT WENT TO RETIRED EARNERS ures Show That A Total Fifty-Eight Of Thesa beneficiaries Are Retired Wage Earners gures released today by the al Security Board show that person in this area are reIng monthly payments of oldand survivors insurance. A I of $2,264.00 in such monthlenefits was paid during tho th of January to men, worn and children in the counties lladen, Brunswick, and Colunii of these beneficiaries aro ed wage earners, IS are the :s of retired wage earners, and are the widows of insured c earners who have died. In tion to the widows receiving thly payments of survivors ranee, there arc 103 children his area who also benefit unthc survivors insurance provi. There are also in this area jed dependent parent of decd insured workers who now ive monthly payments of oldand survivors insurance. The field manager explained when a fully insured wago cr who is 65 years or mors, claim or his monthly oldinsurance benefits, his wife, limy cmuii iiiuuuny utiicum he is 65 years old or when reaches that age. In addition, , of his children under age 16 if in school) will receive thly benefits ? except that benefits for the entire family not be more than twice the unt of the retired wage camown monthly payment, hen an irsur^l worker dies, r ng a widow with minor childt monthly payments of surrs insurance arc made to hia >w and to his children who under > age 16 (18 if in ol). The widow of an ind worker who has children :r age 18 in her care ? re- ' lless of her age ? receives e-fourths of the amount of husband's primary insurance fit and each of his minor Iren receives one-half of his iary insurance benefit withn ?in limitations. An insured tor's widow who has reached sixty-five also rceives threeths of the amount of her husI's primary insurance benefit, hen an insured worker dies ing a parent sixty-five years or more who was dependent i him for support at the time is death, and no widow or unried child under 18 survives the parent is entitled to thly payments of old-age and ivors insurance. The monthly nent to a parent will amount ne-half of the wage earner's primary insurance. For cxle, if the wages credited on deceased worker's social secr account justify a primary rancc benefit of?say $30 per th ? the surviving parent Id receive $15 per month. In both parents survive; they Id receive $15 each or $30 per Lh. here the insured wage earner and leaves no survivors en1 to monthly benefits, a >-sum death payment is made le widow or widower or chilor parents of the deceased, lump-sum death payment to reltaives is six times the pri/ insurance benefit. If no one he above-mentioned relatives ving, a payment covering the il expenses, up to an amount ix times the primary insurbenefit, will be made to the on who paid the funeral exes. ipressed With Jeauty Of Orton minent Visitor Here ates Brunswick Show lace Above Other Fam< us Gardens luch prettier than the Bil ath Gardens in Mobile, Ala," the comment made this week Dr. H. B. Trimble, Pcan of ilogy at Emory University in nta. He was referring to 'Orand its beautiful trardens. Dr. ible has been spending sevcrays here with his son-in-law daughter, Ensign and Mrs. M. Pate. He made a visit to plantation Saturday in comr with Mrs. Pate, Mrs. O. E.. hes, Mrs. J. F. Fields, Mrs. continued on page (ourl ' M&ffl '