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The Pilot Covers Brunswick County I VOL. NO. FOURTEEN NO I TIC I ' i f RESOLUTION.?A deer I the surf at Long Beach is sh Shop man. w ho is a frequen I about to let fly with a cast in the surf off Bald Head Is _ Editor Charlotte Observer. I Dodson Remains As County Agent For Brunswick Members of Board Of Com-' missioners Re-Appointed Him At Meeting Held j i c i Monday; oaiary ivmot For His Secretary TAX MATTERS UP BEFORE BOARD Resolution Passed to Transfer Interest Of County In Allen Property To State Port Pilot At the meeting of the board of county commissioners here Monday J. E. Dodson was re-appointC'l county agent for the coming year. Provision was also made for a .$10.00-per month raise for Mrs. Catherine 13. Russ, clerk in the office, subject to the approval of the county auditor. The following were named ratios inspectors for their respective townships: W. H. Milligan, Shallotte; Golcy Lewis, Town Creek; George F. Ganey, Northwest; and S. O. Hcwett, LockW'uods Folly. A payment of $200.00 to C. Kd Taylor for services on his contract with the county for collection of back taxes on suits instituted by him was authorized. i'nivision was made to convene the .';_'0-acre Beck tract owned toy Mrs. Olive Mercer to M. B. Ward, Jr., upon written authority of Mr. and Mrs. Mercer. A resolution was passed conveying the interest of Brunswick county in the Phillip Allen property to The State Port Pilot for, $5,000.00, with instructions to the county attorney to prepare and | !o deliver to the agent of The State Port Pilot a good and valid j deed for this property. Other tax matters settled were (Continued on page *) i JTH1 >. 8 flNG FOR RED DRl ___ j ' : : ' :: :, V;:;:VV:'-:. .. -:i"x v>:: ' . : : : vx: \ ' x:. x jas ' v"- : cxi'- i<- f. x ' ?> ' v $ ?x s sg ' ' v vh**.'': if" :x>: wL : Jr SO:yiy.':': m Sm bHSHF i-seated resolve to get one o )\vn in this poise of Charley visitor here. The cameramai out in the surf. Some nice l and this year.?Cut by cour Two Workrooj Turning C *. Production For Brunswick , j County Chapter Ameri-! can Red Cross Speeded' 11 " " ' of r'-i 11 up Dy IlClfJ V/l vuivtvu I Workers RECORD OF HOURS GROWS IMPRESSIVE Attendance Has Been Holding Up At Two Surgical Dressings Units Despite The Recent Hot Weather During the month of May the two surgical dressings workrooms of Southport turned out a total of 8,438 dressings for the U. S. Army. This figure is behind quota requirements for this chapter of the Red Cross and it is hoped that an increased attendance will result this month in a better showing for June. At the workroom at the ArmyNavy building, open three days a week for the afternoon and night, 44 women worked a total . of 383',i hours to make 7,100 ' dressings. The colored women have been working at their workroom two nights a week since the sixth of May. They accounted for 1,338 of ( the dressings. They had 32 worn- 1 en working for a total of 274 hours. The following is a complete list through May of those women who have either received their 50-hour production pins or who have c passed other milestones in their \ work with surgical dressings. 1 Those who have completed 50 \ hours: Mrs. C. H. Augustine, Mrs. t Robert Thompson, Mrs. Earl I. ' Brown, Mrs. C. C. Cannon, Mrs. i James Carr, Mrs. Harry Weeks, t Mrs. Connie Lupton, Miss Mary ( Weeks, Miss Carrie Harker, Mrs. i (Continued on page 4) i E ST A Goo 4 PAGES TODAY JM l?l|fSf&" 4 / fe: St Hi"" ,v -m^m in, i fBi "iTTtt * " -?" - f.v ^?0^ >< VAtowwf :. .. . , - ' : : f the red drum running i Farrell, Greensboro Ai i caught him just as he wa ed drum have been caugh esy of Jake Wade, Sport lis Are Now - rv : .All JLAeSSlIlgl Thermometer Up To 100-Dcgrees When the mercury hit the 100 - degree mark here Saturday it broke all records foi June weather in recent years, according to Mrs. C. fcd Taylor, observer lor the U. S. Wcathei Bureau. Not only was Saturday a record-breaking Ncorcher, but Thursday and Friday had led up to it with intensely hot days; and Sunday and .Monday followed with little relief. Moreover, the hot spell in and around Southport has been unbroken by the showers that brought sonic relief in other sections of Brunswick. As a consequence crop conditions in this immediate vicinity arc none too good, while out In the county they are rejiortcd to be ideal. Woods And Car Go Up In Smok< Some Five Hundred Acre Of Woodland And Autc mobile Of Lee Frink O Supply Lost In Fire Thursday and Friday were he lays in themselves and the Brum vick county forest fire warder 'ound it doubly hot when the vere called upon to fight a fit hat broke out below Shallotti ["here was little wind, but th leat dryness made, the brake dil 'icult to control and extinguisl bounty Forest Fire Warden D. 1 tfcrcer, stated Monday that abot (Continued on Page Fourj, ATE d News paper Ii Southport, N. C., We Farmers Should ] Contact Local Gas Committee ; [I Community Committeeman Located In Each Rural Section Will Have Charge | Of Recommending Gasoline For Farm Use LIST OF COUNTY GAS COMMITTEE Necessary For Applications j For Automobile And Tractor Gasoline to Go Through Committee For the past several weeks, j chairmen of the AAA community I committees have been scrvI ing as a county-wide advisory | board to assist farmers in making application for gasoline for their automobiles used for farm i transportation, for farm tractors 1 and for other stationary equip- J ment. These men may be found in , each community, and for the con- i vcnience of citizens throughout ' the county, the full list is given: ' i Herbert Russ, Shallotte; B. A. Russ, Ash; L. J. Carter, Wampee, S. C.; Clarence H. Jenrette, Ash; Elroy King, Frceland; S. Keifer Babson, Ash; D. B. Edwards, Frceland; Paul Brown, Lcland; F. Leo Medlin, Lcland; James T. White, Leland; A. P. Henry, Winnabow; (Geo. W. Swain, Winnabow;F. H. Swain, Southport; G. R. Holden, Bolivia; John W. Sellers, Supply; Edgar Holden, Supply; Lucian Fulford, Supply; H. B. Bennett, Shallotte; L. Thomas Hewetd, Shallotte; R. I. Long, Ash; John F. Allen, Ash; Weston Evans, Frceland; A. J. Walton, Jr. Ash; and W. E. Lewis, Winnabow. After the recommendations have been made by local committeemen, applications for gasoline are sent to the County Defense Transportation Committee j for final action before applications may,, L filled by the rationing | board. Fodale Opens Up Rockville House Local Man Will Handle Catches At South Carolina Point Until Season Opens And Boats Return ti Here t s Paul Fodale, Southport seafood ^ dealer, has opened a shrimp pack, ing house at Rockville, S. C., and , b a considerable number of boats j moved down there this week, with" more 10 ionow. iney win nsui there until the shrimp show upl here in numbers sufficient to J justify the return home. | Among the boats that have al- ' y ready gone to work for Fodale are, the Dove, Murdock Simmons; - Robin, Kenwood Varnum; Carrie - M., Clarence Simmons; X. L., Taft Robinson; Pilot T., Sam Gardner; E. M. Lewis, Monroe Barnhill. ] The Wells Brothers, also of ] Southport, operate the single oth- i , er Rockville packing house. They ( ' have had a considerable number , of boats down there for some i time and last weeks efforts were!I attended by fine catches of a | good quality of shrimp. i Several other shrimp trawler captains are operating their boats < at Georgetown, S. C. Among j these ae Robert Willis, George ; , and Cratie Arnold, John Creech i and several others. Here's That St( Bald Head , No one believes in ghosts i any more. For no one ever sees ghosts, and ghost stories are now greeted with smiles. N6 one in Eastern North Carolina believes the story of the ghost of Theodosia Burr, despite the tales told of her tragic disappearance many 1 years ago, nor does any one ' 11,1,1 hnr nipuln iriiarvlc Ut IlL VU Uiak UVl I'iiun. J,UUIUU still search for her at midnight s on Baldhcad Island, which is >- the local name for Smith Isf land, on which is Cape Fear, a few miles from Southport. Kdmund McLaurin, Wilmington publicist and photo5. grapher, would have stated the is above sentiments only a short y while ago; but that was before e he made a photographic expedie. tion to the windswept, semi,e tropic isle. Today he tells a f. story of his own. Theodosia Burr, beautiful j, daughter of Aaron Burr, was it the wife of Joseph Alston, Governor of South Carolina. On POR i A Good Coi :dnesday, June 9th, ] No AAA Penalty For Not Meeting War Crop Goal: Provision For Penalty Fo Failure To Plant 90 Pet cent Of War Crop Goa Will Not Be Exacted B AAA iVEATHER HANDICAPS CAUSE PLAN CHANGE Zh'mn. Bennett Urges Fat mers To Reach And Exceed Goals If Possible In Order To Reduce Food Shortage "Farmers of Brunswick Count vho fail to plant at least 90 pei rent of their warcrop goals th rear will not have deductlor nade from their 1943 agricultun ronservation payments to be mac: >y the AAA, according to C. ( Bennett, chairman of the Count \AA Committee. "In order to encourage max num food production in the fac >f weather handicaps of a lai ind wet spring over most of tl lation, the War Food Adminis ation has relaxed provisions i he 194,1 AAA program which pri scribe these deductions," Chairma 3cnnett said. "When goals wei jeing set this year, the AAA ai lounced that failure to plant i east 90 per cent of individui :arm warcrop goals would rcsu n a (Indiiptinn nf Sift n#?r API 'rom adjustment payments." The deduction provision, ti chairman said, was announci ilong with a plan to make incci Jve payments on the acreages i varcrops between 90 and 110 pe :ent of a farm's goals. These pa; nents, however, failed to rcceh Congressional approval, but sp :ial payments will be made t Irish potatoes and eight d iignated vegetables grown con nercially for fresh marketing. "Removal of the deduction pr vision does not mean that farn crs should relax their efforts -each their goals, and excc< ;hem if possible," Mr. Benne said. "The unfavorable wcatlu conditions which were rcsponsib for removal of this provision wel nost severe in the Middle We from which a large portion of tl nation's food comes. This mei that farmers in areas not so a fected must exert extra effor to see that their goals are mi ind that all the crops arc ha vested." Since prevailing weather cond tions have cut the anticipated coi icreage, the War Food Adminis ration urged farmers in all aref to plant emergency feed croj (Continued on page 4) Boats Blow For Good Catche Menhaden Craft Getting Of To What Seems To Be j Good Start This Wee But Have Labor Shor ages All boats of the Brunswic Navigation Company came Monday with their whistles blov ing the signal to the factory thi they had made good catches. Most of the Southport resit jnts are familiar with the signs that tells of the catch, as it is generally welcome sound to s ivho hear it. Boat captains said yesterda luring which good catches we ilso made, that the prospects fi fish were pleasing. However, seems thlit there is a pronouuci (Continued on Page Four) >ry About 1 Island Ghost Dec. 30, 1812, she sailed on s small pilot boat, the Patriot from Georgetown, S. C., to visi her father at New York. The boat never arrived a New York. Fifty-seven years later, is 1869, a poor woman living oi the outer banks became ill anc called in Dr. W. G. Pool an< paid his fee with a most re markabic picture. It had comi to her from her girlhood sweet heart, she explained, who ha< told her he had taken it fron a boat which had been washec ashore, with sails set and rud der lashed, in 1812. It was thi portrait of a beaytiful younj woman, painted in oil on polish ed mahogany, in a gilded frame The portrait was shown t< members of the Burr famil; and, almost without exception they pronounced it a likeness o the ill-fated Theodosia. It is nov in a private museum in Nev (Continued on page 4) T PIL mmunity 1943 publis* Judge Nin s Of Wilii ;l And Soi y | Brunswick Cou s On Method Fc Two Producers In Northwe They Produce 200-Po Seventy-Fiv By W. B. KKZIAH jei y Up in Northwest township two's! r_ men are raising pork on a pretty | J i large scale, but the interesting ! a ls ! thing is that they claim that from | s is pigs to pork it costs them less j n ill | than half-a-cent-per-pound. If h le : anybody, anywhere, happens to be tl y. j producing finished pork at less b y cost than that, they should step t forward now or forever hold their t i- peace. f :cl The men are Dillon Ganey, te former sheriff of Brunswick couniC ty, now a special officer, and his t t- neighbor, Dawson Jones, who is! d 3f also known to practically every j c e_ resident of Brunswick county by I h in reason of his long service as a re county forest warden. 12 1. Their pigs cost them nothing, h it they say. They only have to mark i a ai i them with a slit, or crop, in the i c It ear. This is to identify those that 11 re belong to each man. From pigs 11 to hogs that run to an average of c le 200 pounds, the whole cost of h ;(j growing is only 75 cents, accord- t v ing to what both claim. t 5f We never heard about those v r_ hogs until this past week when t y. Ganey said something about the l Miss Genevie\ Resigns As to ] tt Brunswick Gets jr - Two Superlatives. |. re 1 The last issue of The State Magazine marked the 10th an[J) " ^ niversary of that publication, j, tj, and this occasion gave Editor Carl Goerch an opportunity to r. do a little summarizing of his impressions gathered during his li- decade of travel over North n Carolina. t- Mr. Gocrch named seven j is su]>erlatives covering things of ^ as outstanding appeal to him, and of this number Brunswick coun- r ty furnished two. 0 The Raleigh magazine publisher reaffirmed his statement t that Southport was the best t S place in North Carolina to live I upon retirement; and he voted c for Orton Gardens as the most t f beautiful spot in Eastern North I ^ Carolina. s 1 Value Changed J * For Meat Cuts I ln " 1 it Some Of Better Cuts Now t Demand Higher Price In d- Red Coupon Value From g A Ration Book I a e ill RALEIGH, June 9.?Preferred a cuts of beef-such as steaks and ^ y. roasts will now cost the housere wife substantially more red j 3r stamps, although fewer points j it will be required for numerous s ;d items of lab, veal and variety f meats, it is learned from study- t - ing the third official table of con- j sumer points values for meat, c fats, fish and cheese. The new table became effective, . Sunday, June 6. The increases in I 5 the point values for beef, ranging ' from one to three points per i (Continued On Page Four) 1 Chemists Report 1 i Shows Much Iron 1 j Samples Of Ore From Tom Peadrick Lands Analyzed J By Norfolk Chemist And j Found To Contain 29.03 i Per Cent Iron Ore r 1 ( ^ Captain Tom Peadrick. South- c port man who is employed in j I Norfolk, has a considerable area ~r of land to the left of the Fort g ' Caswell road after it leaves a Route 130. On this tract is what o ' appears to be considerable de- j 5 posits of ore of some kind. Capf tain Peadrick knew it to be iron c > but was uncertain of the per \ f centage. In order to be sure, he v recently carried samples of the c r deposit back with him to Nor- t (Continued On Page Fou?), ,0T [ IED EVERY WEDNE5DA1 locks Ore ngton, Bi ithern Ro nty Men Hit >r Cheap Pork st Township Claim That unds Of Pork For re Cents ich- man-take- his-sharc partnerhip that existed between him hnd ones. Ganey said that Jones has bout 80 brood sows at the preent time. He didn't know how tany sows, pigs and hogs he had imself. They hardly ever sec hose hogs except during Deccmer and January when they fed hem just a little. The rest of the ime the hogs got their own ced. The story sounded sort of salty, fou can't buy a pig in these imes for less than five or ten ollars. We didn't see how they ould get their pigs, raise them tc logs and market them as pork at . cost of only 75-cents for each 00 pounds. We ran into Jones rimself later the same day and isked him about it. He disclaimd any knowledge of owning 80 irood sows at this time, said that here might not be more than 4C if the sows. He had no idea ol luw iiianv nuwo, 1"#^ ??"** iiwfihere were in all. He had no( ccn around in two weeks and could have learned little about he number if he had been around (.Continued on page 4) 'e Eakes Home Agent renders Resignation To I he Board Of County Commissioners Here On Mon thty, Effective July 1st fO ACCEPT WORK IN COLUMBUS Applicant For Her Job Was Present For Monday's Meeting And May Be Hired On Third Monday Miss Genevieve Eakes, for the last two years home demonstraion agent for Brunswick county esigned from this position Monlay, effective July. In submitting her resignatior o members of the board of couny commissioners Miss Eakes relorted that she had received ar iffcr to take over a similar posiion in Columbus county. She exiressed her appreciation for th( iplendid cooperation that she has lecn accorded by county officials luring her tenure of office, anc ihe made it clear that the change ihe is making is made with the >est of feeling toward all person: vith whom she has worked ir Jrunswick. This was Miss Eakes' first posiion as home agent, as her time irior to coming here had beer pent as George Reid teacher al don roc high school. She succeed id Mrs. Rufus Dosher two year: igo, and has established an indable record in her work. With Miss Eakes Monday wai diss Elizabeth Norfleet, George teid teacher at Leakesville higt ichool, who came here to applj or the job as home agent. The natter of her selection was helc n abeyance until the third Monlay meeting in this month. Light Session Of County Court :ive Cases Up Before Judge John B. Ward Monday, But Only Three Disposed Of A short session of Brunswici ounty Recorder's court was helc lere Monday before Judge Johi J. Ward. Judgment was continued unti lext week in the case of Iv; Coleman and Yancey Cliff harged with fighting in a pub ic place. Annie Louise Clark was foun< ;uilty of making an assault wit] l deadly weapon. Given 60 day in the roads, judgment was sus (ended upon payment of costs. Frank Ottis Ussery wai harged with drunk driving, bu vas called and failed to appear. D. L. Gore was convicted o Irunk driving. Given 4 months oi he roads, judgment was suspend (continued on page four) 1 Most Of The New# All The Time r |1.50 PER YEA* ???^? /ers 5a/e "unswick ad In July p jInterest Shown By Variottt Parties In Acquiring Property Of Wilmington, Brunswick & Southern Causes Order NEXT SALE WILL BE HELD IN JULY Each Of at Least Five Prospective Bidders Will Be Given Chance, With Bid Starting At $45,000.00 On a court order handed down | this week by Judge Q. K. ! Nimocks, of Fayetteville, the Wtl| mington Brunswick and Southern Railroad will be sold at auction to the highest bidder at the court house door at Southport in July. : Bidding will start at $45,000 and ' no bids under that sum will re, ceive consideration. The order cultimates on an or- j dcr of Judge Grady who had or ! dcred the road sold at auction on 11 the 24th of May. After advertising was started it was withdrawn i with an unofficial announcement that a private sale had been efl fected to New York interests. At 1 t the hearing at which it was ex, pcctcd that this private sale would i be confirmed it was found that j three other interests were ready i to submit bids. Another hearing resulted last week. At this last hearing it was found that there were then five different interests seeking to buy the road and its franchise, which includes bus and, mail lines between Wilmington and Southport. Finding that there was no lack of bidders, Judge Nimocks declared to confirm the sale of the * road to private interests and or- | dercd it placed on the block at ' ' public auction. 1 It is understood that the New York InU-est i that were seeking to obtain the road at a private sale have recently bought up all of the, Government-owned bonds of the ' road. . Auxiliary Will J Stage Baby Show ' * "*?i- t. e-i a . n.u June i / in is jci no *?r ?**.*? For Grand Climax Of Baby Show Being Sponsored By Episcopalian Women i The Womans Auxiliary of St Philips Episcopal church is spon1 soring a baby show on June 17, at 5 o'clock, under the large oaks in the garrison. They are very 1 anxious for all mothers to ertt<r i their babies from one month to i six years in this contest. A small I fee will be charged for each child : [entered. All enrtles must be given i | to Mrs. Frank Niernsee, phone 1 ; 12517, by Tuesday noon, June 15. j i The following classes will be J open and a prize will be given -J for the winner of each class: *| s Class I? Floats?All entries;. i Class II?Prettiest baby?1 month t to 6 months; Class III?Most at tractive baby?7 month to 1 year; i Class IV?Most attractive cost ume (those not entering floats); Class V?Most popular and ati tractive baby among entries. vr, J i, This last class will be decided t i by votes, which must be cast in r one of the boxes placed down: town. The boxes will be closed at 1 two o'clock Thursday, June 17th. 1 Class I, II. Ill, and IV, will be judged during the parade. Home- j (Continued on page 4) Mayor Fergus Patient Here . Mayor Of Carolina Beach I Passing Time Learning f Fish Business From Yas- 1 kell And Playing Check' jl ers With Keziah | Suffering with rheumatic fever, 1 Mayor R. C. Fergus of CaroHlta |l 1 Beach is a patient in the J. Ar- |j r thur Doshcr Memorial Hospital. 1 , It is understood that he will' re main there two months receivtiht j treatment at the hands of h3 1 1 son. Dr| L. C. Fergus, i Extensively engaged in the fish s business for many years in WJ1 mington, Mayor Fergus is pnl* | vented from being lonesome dlirs ing his stay in the hospital ,by I t daily visits from Postmaster X. | T. Yaskell, who has the ability to f tell anybody everything that rion body else ever knew about the I- fish business. (Continued on page toon w