fl'he Pilot Covers Brunswick County Tno. fourteen nc inge Plan Of lasurement Of irms For 1943 i Measurements In Reims Compliance With ,\ Program Will Not Required This Year CH MAPS TO BE REQUIRED For Reporting By Inual Farmers Has 1 Adopted On Nation-Wide Scale For Year ?rs of Brunswick County be required to give linear nicnts in reporting their I iveighboring coastal town And Will Do Their Waiting At Home The fleet of shrimp trawlers owned and employed by Paul Fodalc have returned from a six weeks fruitless stay at Georgetown. S. C. They are now marking time here until shrimp may he located in an abundance sufficent to justify operations. Just before the beginning of the local season the boats usually spend a short time at Georgetown. At the beginning of a year the shrimp usually show up at that point earlier than they do here. This year seems to have (Continued from page 1) Inipliance wun pi uvjmuh.i ui mc 43 program of the Agricultural ijustment Agency, according to 0. Bennett, chairman of the unty AAA Committee. It previously had been announ1 that performance reports juld be accompanied by a tch map of the fields reported th linear measurements for h field, the chairman said. The tch maps still are required, t only a listing of the total cage in each individual field I be necessary. It was determined that listing the linear measurements of :h field probably would be the tse of considerable confusion, I it was decided that they uld not be required," Mr. Bent said. "However, the farmer I be required to show how he ermined the acreage in the ci whether measured by chains, ps. or from previous records of A measurements." 'he plan of reporting 1943 perinance by individual farmers ; adopted on a nation-wide Ic by the AAA in an effort to e labor which otherwise would engaged in active production also gasoline and tires, he I In former years. AAA pernance was reported by comteemen, reporters, or others tloyed by the AAA. hairm'an Bennett said AAA community committeemen will assist farmers in making reports and n i.si approve all reports mad- from their communities. In addition he said, some farms in each community will be spotchecked by the committeemen or others. Farmers carrying out late practices for which a payment is made under the AAA program will be required to make a supplemental report at the close of the program year on December 31. Begin Mailing Cards Back In Application Forms For War Ration Book Number III Should Be Placed In The Mail Between June 1-10 To accomplish the gigantic task of getting War Ration Book Three into the hands of 940,S00 North Carolinians Uncle Sam is borrowing an idea from one of the nation's most successful businesses ? the mail order house. He's making it just as simple as possible for everyone to get the new ration book. He is having the application blank delivered to your home by the postman, where the head of the family can fill it out at his convenience. Once completed. it need only be mailed back between June 1 and 10 to the OPA state mailing center (the card is already pre-addressed) and you can forget all about the whole thing until the postman delivers your family's ration books to your door. Distribution of the new ration book will be the biggest mailing job in history, but it won't be a (Continued on page 4J Shrimpers Return From Georgetown Operators Get Tired Of Waiting For Shrimp At K1 I I .1 T* TH >. 7 " ... v. . .': : TOURIST.?In the foregrou Fort Caswell priod to the 1 District AWS Meeting Will Be Held This Week Important Meeting Of The Ground Observer Corps Of Aircraft Warning Service To Meet At Goldston's Hotel Friday And Saturday RE-ORGANIZATION PLANS TO BE DISCUSSED Representatives From 22 Counties In North And South Carolina Scheduled To Attend The Two-Day Meeting An important regional conference of all district civil directors and area supervisors of the Ground Observer Corps of the Aircraft Warning service will be held at the Goldston Hotel, Lake Waccamaw, June 5-6. The primary objective of this conference is to initiate a program that will increase the efficiency of all the civilian personnel within the Aircraft Warning service. Plans for re-organizatior will be outlined and the districl civil director together with the area supervisor, wll have an opportunity to discuss problems peculair to their districts, it was said. Lieut. Col. Oscar C. Tigner, ol Wilmington, will open the business session with an address -oi welcome. First Lieut. Alfred D Schiaffo, the Regional Grounc Observer Officer, will preside Brief talks will be giVen by Lieut Lee, Filter Area Ground Observei Officer, and Lieut. J. S. Matjasko the Regional Intelligence and Public Relations Officer. The district and directors anc area supervisors from this sectior expected to attend will includee: Bladen district: John W. Baird Elizabethtown. ?Brunswick: Jirr Finch (DCD) Winnabow; Jim Ferger (AS) Winnabow; and Charles Russ, Shallotte.?Columbus: Raymond R. Cook (DCD) Whitevillc; and Joseph S. Mann (AS) Whiteville.?Horry: Charles B. Thomas (DCD) Conway, S. C.; the Rev M. O. Owens, Jr., (AS) and Clay Hughes (AS) Loris, S. C.?New Hanover: Louis H. Vowell, Sunset Park.?Robeson: William H (Continued on page 4) Legion Meeting Thursday Night There will be a special meeting of the Brunswick County Post No. 194, American Legion, Thursday evening at 8:30 o'clock at thf USO Club. Commander Chas. M. Trott desires a good attendance for this meeting, and all ex service mer are invited to be present. Brunswick Tol Only Te At the beginning of a tobacco growing season it is usually somewhat difficult to secure anything like an accurate prediction as to the volume of the weed that will be produced. The crop has to get started before anybody can figure on whore it is going. Even then there is always the chance that weather may detour it from following the route of expectations. Rice Gwyn, Longwood business man, tobacco planter and operator of a big warehouse at Fairmont, was in town this week and stated that the crop Vas now making splendid headway. The production will run, he thinks, to about the same as last year. Owing to late planting of much of the crop, he says that some of the weed will be E ST A Gog 4 PAGES TODA"S i??? -! IN THE OLD DAY *** > S| .. s ? ' . w ":i ind is a visitor looking over :ime that it was converted i Caswell Agaii To M Article By Yeoman R. V . Winning Gives Interestir Facts About Transfo ination Of Resort To Se tion Base MEN FIND BASE LITTLE LONESOM i Liberty Bus, Plus Seven Entertainment And Re> | creation Features, Make Fellows Swear By Their Base In World War I the old para ground at Fort Caswell echo . daily to the tread ot the marc j ing feet of hundreds of men . training. Then and before then . was an important point, althouj , its biggest days never saw mo , than 2,800 men quartered the at one time. As an army post Fort Caswi i was known far and wide, but is worthy of note that North ai South Carolina furnished most 1 the men who training there t fore and during the first woi i war. Still living in North ai ; South Carolina arc many hu ' dreds of former soldiers w] trained at Caswell. Since this first world war hu > dreds and hundreds of these fori er soldiers have returned to Fc ' Caswell and Southport for visit. Many thousands of otli .' people have visited the place . a summer resort and for its i I triguing historic interest. Getting out of the past and i . to the present, Yeoman R. i Winning, who is now stationed , the Navy Section Base at Ca well, recently wrote the followii interesting story, which has be 1 released through the Navy's Pu i lie Relations. "The old fort had laid in dus , ruin for tweny years her antiquat i batteries silent in the sun ai rain. The tread of marching fe i had given way to the shuffling tourists. Twenty-four miles up t ; course of the Cape Fear Riv< Wilmington, North Carolina, roa ; (continued on page four) Boats Return From r Working In Florid The menhaden boats U. R. Co zart and W. P. Anderson rctur ed to Southport the first of tt week. They have been fishing ' Florida for the past sevei weeks and had good luck, weath - and all considered. Manager R. F. Plaxco of ti .. Brunswick Navagation compai says that as soon as these boa |can get lined up they will beg j the yearly quest for menhadi si off Southport. Another boat, ti ti John L. Morehead, started fishii i last week. bacco Crop n Per Cent Of lighter after being cured. Asked directly what per cen might be off as a result of labo shortage and the very unfavor able start of the growing sea son. Mr. Gwyn said: "I feel sur that our production will com within ten per cent of th normal crop." It should be kept in mini that Mr. Gwyn's remarks do no apply just to his own tobacc crop. As a tobacco marketinj man, he naturally keeps postei with all things pertaining to th planting and growing of th crop in the territory served b; this warehouse. He refeerred t j geneal conditions in the brigh i leaf belt when he stated tha the crop would not be mor than ten per cent below normal ATE >d News paper Southport, N. C., V S .inyp, <1 , 1 ? J " the deserted buildings of ol( nto a year-round resort. .1 Resounds ilitarv Activity if.f ? ig Warning Wasted r' On Snake Charmer cFolks here who know \V. B. P Keziah and who know that he catches every snake that he . meets up with, may get some a amusement from the following incident, oceuring yesterday. He was out with his horse and stopped near a house occupied by a family that has recjc cenetly moved to town. The obed j?'f for this post. Receipts totaled $50.68 cent: d she reported. She and her helper IC only had 400 of the artificis 18 flowers to sell, and there wer just 19 left. All sales were mad i' in Southport, as travel condition *' made it impractical to try to vlsi other sections of the county. Those who assisted Mrs. Frin n with the sales were Mrs. Edit >f Robinson, Miss Carolyn Robinsoi >" Miss Mary Frances Lucas, an Miss Sue Fredere. le I Officers Asked Tc t- D ? u ? lYegisier Tfuiivcu l' Civilian Defense Enrollee May Become Entitled T< e Certain Benefits If The; Are Listed With Person nel Officer As the first step towards mak ing air raid wardens and civilia . defense workers of various sort 1 eligible to receive certain benefit; should they become entitled t them, it is necessary for the offi 1 leers in charge of all such work a|ers to register them with th " personnel officer of the defens council. They paying of hospital bill and monetary benefits for disabili d ties incurred when civilian volun o teers are on duty became possibl i- only recently. Such cases canno i. be looked into by the personne I- officer unless the worker ha d been registered by the Air Rat r Warden or other officer unde a whom he or she works. W. B. Keziah has been namei personal officer for the Brunswicl n County Defense Council. It ap e pears that there are Detweei - seven and eight hundred worker d in Brunswick who must be reg n istered with him if they are t n be eligible for benefits. All offi cers in charge of such worker are, therefore, asked to make ou h a list, giving names and addresse t of the men and women workinj h under them. This list should b (Continued on Page Four) T PII nmunity 1943 PUBU! THE SENT! (AN EDI It isn't often that we ge | writing a front page editori point that there are not fi2 |of Southport willing to saci "i month for the safety of thei ' their community, then we th 3 Last Saturday morning i ert sent out over the warning er Command to the control munities. The news never . there was nobody on duty at Now this was a genuine belief of high officials that this area of enemy action. It had our community would h unprepared and entirely de and confusion that months has sought to prevent, e We do not know who w duty Saturday morning, and i- tively unimportant detail. T1 s vigil that has been skipped ' imminent attack might just " any other neglected watch. ? The point is that there lf at all times. n 'We are winning the ws r. able to believe that it will ei of reprisal on our Atlantic < i- the closer we come to victor; t. from token bombing. There y and one night's sleep each n e for viligance. ; Sale Of Rail. I; Is Unconfit e d 1 I Constructive Idea r About Railroad s d ~~ s While In town Monday Dawg son .Jones, of Iceland, made the very constructive suggestion cl that when and if new owners l_ purchase the W. B. & S. Rail,, road and its franchise to Southe port, it could be made into the n best paying short line in any state, simply by rebuilding and e rerouting it down the Cape !- Fear. Docks, according to Mr. .Jones, would spring up all along the river between Wilmington and Southport. The one mistake made by the origin? al builders of the road was in locating it a distance from the Cape Fear River, r ' Routine Session , Of County Court if > Numerous Cases Disposed d Of Before Judge John B. " Ward In Recorder's Court d On Monday ?' In Recorder's court here Mon? day several cases of minor im1 portance were disposed of. c Albert Henry, white, was found e not guilty of slander. ;? Ralph K. Sellers, white, pleaded guilty to charges of permitting a minor to drive a motor vehicle. ? Judgment was suspended upon payment of costs. *j Willie Hewett and Loftin Clemmons, white, were found not guilty of larceny. R. H. Maultsby, white, was I found guilty of passing a wortht less check. Sentence of 60 days fVi/i rAodo u/ao aiianfnrJnfi tinon VT'l UIV XVTUV4W " V.W -IT' j payment of costs. E. E. Long, white, was found guilty of reckless operation. Givs en 60 days on the roads, judgo ment was suspended upon payY ment costs and a fine of $10.00. (Continued on page 4) ; Shark Meat Ft ' An Inspi i- By VV. B. KEZIAH > Hundreds of tons of shark e meat is thrown back into the e sea along the lower North Carolina coast each year. Some s of the sharks are caught by - sportsmen while angling, others - are swept up in the shrimp e trawls and still more are taken t in the huge menhaden purse il nets. s The sportsman whales his d shark, usually a small one, over r the head and throws it back into the sea; the shrimp trawler d clubs his or breaks its neck k and likewise throws it over board. The menhaden boats i scoops up theirs with their big s power bailers and dumps them - into their cargo holds. They o haven't time, during the rush - of loading, to pick them out and s throw them back into the sea, t but that is what becomes of s them when unloading time ef comes at the factory, for the e sharks lack the oil that is the main inspiration for conuner* ,0T [ iHED EVERY WEDNESDAY HY SLEEPS [ TORIAL) it worked up to the pitch of al, but when it gets to the persons in a place the size ifice one night's sleep each | r families, their friends and ink the time is ripe, before day there was an al; system of the Fourth Fightcenters in the various com- , reached Southport, because ; the Control Center, alarm, one based upon the there was some danger in didn't materialize, but if it ave been caught completely fenseless against the chaos of Civilian Defense training as supposed to have been on i we consider this a compara- t his was not the only nightly i recently, and the warning of j as well have fallen during J should be somebody on duty \ ir, but it is almost unreason/er end without some gesture , Coast. Paradoxically enough, i /, the more danger we are in : is no room for complacency; 1 lonth is a cheap price to pay ! road Stilly . med By Court ? - I Hearing In Wilmington Yes- i terday Reveals Interest Of Other Bidders In The Property Offered For Sale MATTER IS NOW UNDER ADVISEMENT Upon The Basis Of Facts Shown Thus Far Appears Likely That Public Sale Of Property Will Be Made After spending several hours Tuesday listening to bids and proposals for bids on the W. B. & S. Railroad, Judge Q. K. Nimocks retained the matter for further deliberataion and told the interested parties that he would decide within a few days whether the terms of a recent private sale would be confirmed, or whether a public sale would be ordered. It was the considered opinion of one observer at yesterday's hearing that the private sale would not be confirmed, but that the matter would be thrown open 1 again to all bidders. The recent private sale was to a New York firm, who had previously purchased a considerable quantity of railroad bonds held by j the government. It was never learned whether this interest pro- ' posed to continue the operation ' of the rc?ad, or whether they planned to junk it. During the course of that sale, other interested parties began to bob up, at least one of which was (Continued on page *) Mayor Returns From New Orleans Mayor John D. Eriksen of Southport returned home Saturday from New Orleans, where he spent a month assisting the General Food Corporation in getting its canning plant in operation. The corporation is beginning the canning of menhaden fish on a huge government lease-land contract. >r Crab Bait ring Local Idea cial menhaden fishing. The factories have no use for them. In Southport there are hundreds of people, especially ladies and young folks, who like to go crabbing. This year the inability to get beef or beef scraps has made this effort practically impossible. Beef is the favorite bait, but people who know something of commercial crab fishing will tell you that shark meat is much better bait than beef. It has been suggested that some local meat market make it a business of collecting the sharks as they are Drougnt in by the menhaden boats. They can easily be dressed and if placed on storage would become very popular and at a good price for crab bait In addition, there are many dog owners who would be tickled if there was some source where they could be assured of getting well kept shark meat for their pets. (Continued on page 4) Most Of The News All The Time $1.50 PER YEA! Farmers Facing Bad Deficiency In Hog Feeds Unless Something Is Done To Alleviate The Situation, Coming Months Will Bring Serious Problem FARM AGENT WARNS OF POSSIBILITIES Tells Farmers What Is Necessary in Order to Avoid The Possible Shortage In Supplementary Feeds "The scarcity of supplement Feeds for hogs, namely fish meal, tankage and most of the oil meals, will be a serious handicap to hog growers during the com- | ing months unless definite plans ire made in advance to meet this situation," Said J. E. Dodson, County Agent. Three suggestions that should be helpful are: 1. Conserve high protein feeds, especially fish meal and tankage, for sows and suckling pigs; 2 Fully utilize grazing crops as soybeans, lespedeza, clovers and small grain pastures; and 3. Utilize waste peanut and soybean field residues during the fall months. Feeding weaned pigs and fat toning hogs: Pigs and hogs weighing above 50 lbs. do well on grains that are properly balanced with succulent pasture, minerals and protein supplements from soybean, cottonseed or peanut oil meals. If self-feeding is desired, shelled corn, coarsely ground wheat or finely ground barley can be placed on one compartment of the fedder and one of the following protein mineral mixtures can be placed in another compartment: 1. 30 lbs. soybean oil meal, 30 lbs. cottonseed meal, 30 lbs. peanut oil meal, 8 lbs ground limestone, and 2 lbs. salt. 2. 45 lbs. cottonseed meal, 45 lbs. soybean meal, 2 lbs. ground j limestone, and 2 lbs. salt. 3. 85 lbs. soybean or peanut oil m >8 lbs. ground limestone, 5 i lbs. stemed bone meal, and 2 lbs. ' salt. If hand feeding is preferred, a mixture of 85 lbs. of ground grains and 15 lbs. of one of the above protein-mineral mixtures is ? j suggested. If protein supplements ' arc not available at all, pigs above 45 lbs. will make fairly good gains on soybean lespedeza, clover or small grain pastures, if they receive daily 1 pound of grain per 100 lbs. of liveweight and have j free access to a mineral mixture ! as 10 lbs of ground limestone, 5 lbs. of stemed bone meal and 2 . lbs. of salt. The gleanings of peanut and soybean fields should be utilized until the late fall rains set in, feeding a little grain and the mineral mixture. Do not glean or "hog down" swollen and i ripen ved sovbeans or neanuta. as heavy losses occur annually from j this practice. Feeding Breeding Animals: Temporary pasture will provide both exercise and needed green feed for bred sows and gilts. If they are on soybean, lespedeza or clover pasture, only the mineral mixture and enough grain to keep them in good breeding condition A is necessary until 30 days before farrowing time. Beginning 30. | days before the pigs are born, they should have a little fish meal, tankage or surplus milk 1 each day. If pasture is not available, feed good, green colored legume hay in a rack. Do not permit the bred cow or gilt to become too fat by farrowing time. (Continued on page 4) Mrs. J. W. Brown Dies In County Mrs. Alice Odell Brown Of Winnabow Buried Last ' Thursday Afternoon In Vines Cemetery Funeral services for Mrs. Alice Odell Brown, wife of J. W. Brown of Winnabow, were con- ( ducted from the late residence Thursday afternoon, and were in j charge of Rev. Wood row Robbing. " Mrs. Brown was 46 years of age ! and had been ill for some time. ' Burial was held in the Vines cemetery, near Winnabow. Active pallbearers were D. L. Mercer, Alex Mercer, Ed Mercer," O. J. Gore, E. J. Gore and H. F. Flowers. Honorary pallbearers includ- i ed: T. N. Sullivan, A. B. Mer- i cer, Sam Johnson, T. H. Wolf, H. i M. Potter and Lee Kye. In addition to the husband, Mrs. Brown is survived by four | sisters, .-virs. iirne <_nmnis, Mrs. n Bertie Gore and Mrs. Blanche jfl Gore, all of Winnabow, and Mrs. I