!; Pilot Covers
nsvvick County
). FOURTEEN NO.
lswick Gr
:h Other V
Continual
This County Was j
ites In Favor Of I
ation To 55 Votes I
I To Quota Plan ,
/NSHIP
AS UNANIMOUS
hroughout North
Was About 94ln
Favor Of
tued Tobacco
Control
? North Carolina!
rets have voted 94,0;
avor of continuing in'
ree-year tobacco marplan
first instituted
e's largest "money" |
ndum held Saturday,
66 of the 72 counating
in the voting
to:
year quotas. 90,984.
*r quotas, 2,065.
y quotas. 5,848.
eligibility list of ap-l
rfl.000 farmers, only!
ti Saturday's referen-j
npares with the 142,-1
d in 1940 when the'
expire this year wasj
cultural Adjustment {
In. neaaquarit'rs nere, ,
Hrhich supervised the referendum, j
Bud that there would be no re-'.
Burns from the six counties which '
Bad not reported today. The AAA 11
Baid there were no votes cast in S
In, - counties. '
I With one township voting unBnimnualy
in favor of the tobacco
Buotas Brunswick county farmers J
I.j.i other 111 the state SaturBay
in* voting in favor of tobacco
Buotas for the next three years,
n this county 355 farmers voted
favor of quotas while only 50 .
voted against The state as a '
lvhele voted in favor of quotas by
bt per tent.
[Farm Machinery i
Now Available
| i
Additions Made To List Of
Equipment And Implements
That May Be Furchased
Without Permits
Pursuant to the authority vestJed
in the North Carolina State 1
USDA War Board by an amend- ,
ment to Food Production Order
3. the following items of farm (
equipment have been released i
from county quotas as of July 7, ^
Potato planters, potato diggers* i
potato sorters and graders, lime 1
spreaders, manure spreaders,
spike tooth harrows, disc harrows, i
riding cultivators, pea and bean i
harvesters, corn huskers and I
shmiders, ensilage harvesters, 1
feed cutters, Grain cleaners and 1
graders, engines, horse-drawn ]
moweis. dump rakes, side deliv- 1
ery rakes, pick-up balers, grain 1
hinders, grain threshers, ensilage !
cutter, corn shelters, hay presses,
and tooth wceders.
Items of farm equipment pre- '
viously released from county i
quotas by the State USDA War !
Board include: 1
Tractor-drawn and mounted i
planters, tractor-drawn and I
mounted cultivators, tractor - 1
drawn or mounted moldboard I
plows, tractor-drawn or mounted
disc plows, one-way tillers, trans- !
planters, garden tractors, soil pul- 1
verizers and packers, Rotary hoes,
spring tooth harrows, power takeoff
tractor mowers, traction
sprayers, spray pumps, power,
power dusters, traction dusters,
hammer mills, and burr mills.
Removal of county quotas does
dot release any of the above
items from quotas set for the
State, and manufacturers are required
to follow the original distribution
pattern by states. They
are authorized, however, to ship
any of the above items into the
state without regard to county
tags. Kach machine, however,
should bear a North Carolina tag,
designating it for sate to a North
Carolina producer, and machines
so tagged cannot be sold to farmdfs
of other states.
County farm machinery rationing
committees may issue pureha.ie
certificates for these items,
and dealers may honor the certificates
regardless of the counties
f?r which the machines are tagged
and regardless of county quotas.
Applicants for purchase certificates
should be required to certify
that they have located the
lachines in dealers stocks before
a certificate is issued.
The State War Board has deded
not to release from county
(Continued on Page Fou*i
THI
15
!- sag
owers loin
^eed Farmers
tion Of Quota
LANDMARK
. -T ;
^ ,'Lsv si/- ' * %.w?" ' I
w -A' . !
The old channel light |
ower on Oak Island shown '
ibove has stood sentry dur- ,
ng three wars. Although it
s playing no useful part in (
present preparedness, it
stands as a proud veteran
)f past activities.
No Upset Bid I
In W. B.
Indication Is That Property
Will Go To Persons Who
_Bid It In At Public Sale
Held Here On July 19
HAVE UNTIL NOON
THURSDAY TO RAISE
\ppears That Railroad Will
Be Junked Unless Some
Development Is In
Prospect; Buses
Will Continue
E. F. Middleton, receiver for the
IV. B. & S. Railroad, said yesteriay
that no upset bid had been revived
since the public sale of
Lhe railroad holdings here one
,veek ago Monday. Any raise of
bid must be made before tomorrow
(Thursday) noon in order to
oe considered.
Already there is considerable
speculation as to the fate of the
rairoad. According 10 Dest auviw,
that will be junked. However,
there is a clear indication that
the apprent purchasers are in
position to operate the road and
will look the favor upon its operation
if business appears to justify
such a move.
It is expected that the bus and
freight franchise will continue to
De operated in much the same
manner as it has for the pastj
several months. There has been a
suggestion that improved and
modern equipment may be substituted
in some instances, making
possible a better service for
freight and bus patrons.
The road will continue operation
under the direction of Receiver
Middleton until August 1,
1943.
Mussel Gatheri
Recognize
Mussel gathering may now
be regarded as an important
addition to the seafoods operations
in this county, the work
coming mostly during months
when oysters are out of season
and fishing is at a rather low
ebb. From all information available,
it seems that the musselgathering
work will be carried
on only from early spring until
September or October.
The value of the mussel appears
to have been discovered
only about five years ago, and
gathering has been on a small
scale until war broke out. The
product seems to have a valuable
chemical for both warfare
and other purposes, and chemical
industries in Delware are
now buying all that they can
get, the gathering operations extending
all down the North
Carolina coast. Sooner or later,
it is said, they will be gathered
on the coast of all states where
they are found.
E ST
A Good
Southport,
Navy To Accept
Men For School
Seventy-Five Boys To Be;
Enrolled For Navy Petty i
Officer Training Needed1]
Before August 8th
A total of 75 youngsters from
Eastern North Carolina will be accepted
for the Navy's Petty Officer
Candidate Schools in ceremonies
in Wilmington on August '
8, as the second annual observance
of Eastern North Carolina
Navy Day takes place. 1
Brunswick county has been allotted
20 places for its natives,
and all 17-year-old boys who are
interested in being a part of the
August 8th group should visit or
write the Wilmington Navy Recruiting
Station, which is located (
In the postoffice.
Only 17-year-olds arc eligible t
to volunteer, and they will be given
their choice of 55 different f
schools. Chief R. L. DeLoach, offi- "
cer-in-charge of the station here, ,
said today that the Navy Day en- .
listments would "just about wind
up voluntary enlistments in Eastern
North Carolina?and all over
the State." f
DeLoach said that the large ,
juota was obtained in order that
every youngster who desires the *
special training be given a chance
to enlist before it is too late.
Application for enlistment on
August 8 may be made at the
Navy Recruiting Station at any ,
time between now and the seventh ?
of August. Also, 17-year-olds may
contact the travelling recruiters
ivho travel on regular schedules c
to many towns in eastern North j
Carolina.
Training is being offered in f
medicine, radio, aviation, and
(Continued on page *)
j
deceived 1
, 8C S. Railroad;
Fame Of Southport
Spreads To Iran j
About three weeks ago Cpl.
Dan Walker was in the barracks
somewhere in Iran when an
offieer strode in and inquired if i
there were a North Carolinian
in the crowd. The Southport
boy confessed, and was led over
to the officers quarters where
there was an argument going
on.
Lt. W. S. Blakncy had the
floor. "We, want you to prove
something for us, Corporal,"
said he. "I have been arguing
that Southport has the best fishing
and that Bill Keziah can
write the best fish stories in
Nbrth Carolina. What about
it?'
That ended the argument,
for not only is Cpl. Walker a
native of Southport, he is a
long inena anu iunucr muuimate
of Keziah.
Winnabow Club
Meeting Held
The Winnabow Home Demonstration
Club met Thursday at the
home of Mrs. C. W. Osborne.
The new home agent. Miss Norfleet,
met with the club and gave
a very instructive lesson on "Busy
Day Meals" and gave recipes for
same, also receipts for pickles, relishes
and such.
It was decided to have a recreational
meeting in August and
members are asked to bring picnic
lunch.
This meeting will be held at
New Hope Church lawn.
ng Becomes
ed As Business
Robert Jones, of Southport,
is handling the product on the
lower North Carolina coast. He
now has pickers at Shallotte Inlet,
Lockwoods Folly Inlet and
on the Elizabeth river, canal
and creeks two miles below
Southport. A ten-ton capacity
truck starts out at Shallotte
each day, loads the day's picking
at that point, takes on more
at Lockwoods Folly and finally
completes the loading for the
trip north at Southport.
Gathering is done only at
low tides, the workers sometimes
being able to put in a
few hours, sometimes a full day,
dependant on the tide. The time
of loading the truck and sending
it on its way varies. Sometimes
it can leave with its load at
noon and again it cannot begin
its journey until night.
Ben M. Patrick, photographer
for the North Carolina Department
of Conservation and
(Continued on p*gt> four).
4TE
News paper In
N. C., Wednesday,
Southport Boy I
Among Sailors Saved
From Japs
Potter Family Learn That
Their Second Son On
Cruiser Helena Is Included
In 157 Men Rescued
From Island
FIRST BROTHER
REPORTED SAFE
Sryant Potter Had Written J
Parents, but Anxiety Was J
Felt Over Safety Of
Frank Potter Following
Sinking
Having heard directly from
heir son, Bryant Potter, last
veek that he was safe following
he recent sinking of the Helena,
nembers of the young Southport
sailor's family were still greatly
ipset over the welfare of his broiler,
Frank Potter, a member of !
he same crew.
That anxiety was ended Friday
vith the published list of 157 survivors
picked up off a Japanesoleld
island in a daring rescue folowing
the naval battle, for the
lame of Frank Potter was among
hem.
Following is an eye-witness ac:ount
of that rescue, one of the
nost daring of the war, by Gor- b<
ion Waiknr staff correspondent sp
or The Christian Science Monit- sl
:r: tli
"Steaming impudently beneath _
t moon of almost dazzling brilliince,
units of the United States T
fleet rescued 157 survivors of the *
iruiser Helena from this island bebre
dawn today.
"(The 9,700-ton light cruiser
rlclena was sunk in the first Bat- _
;le of Kula Gulf July 7, It was
:he only American loss in that engagement
which cost the Japa-I
icse nine warships, and most of
Lhe probably 600 to 800 men ?
iboard it were rescued within a
few hours.)
"The pre-dawn rescue was one t
of the most magnificent maneuv- s
?rs in the Pacific war to date, e
ind the very audacity of going I
into the enemy's own backyard ,
through waters thick with submarines
made its signal success the
more remarkable.
"Tnight heavily bearded men
who had suffered from hunger,
squalor, thirst and anxiety for '
more than a week slept once 1
again without fear of molestation. *
It was an impudent thing to do, '
running up there, the commander '
of the protecting destroyer fleet '
said on his return,, but it was '
well worth while.
The Helena's men were fighting
men.
The commander explained that
the force of destroyers?converted
four pipers now known as APD's 1
or destroyer transports?pcnctat?1
rieen intn the .Tana- I
?I- I
nese Solomons. *
We Americans do more than
most other people to rescue our
fighting men, he continued, I am
very happy our mission succeeded
as moothly as it did without in- C
terferencc from the enemy. He
crossed his fingers and grinned.
We were lucky.
Having been aboard one of the
rescue boats, the writer can attest
that during the entire period
spent practically at a standstill
off the enemy island, there were w
constant enemy contacts on our c(
instruments.
"While we were waiting for the Sj
return of our landing boats from w
the beach?humorously so-called? g;
a Japanese bomber came over and S(
dropped a stick of explosives
across the stern of one of the c]
destroyers, but the blast appar- jr
ently did no damage. y
"At another point an enemy g,
float biplane passed barely 100
feet above our ship, but the
moon ducked behind a black cloud *
at that moment, and we were un- |
molested.
"The rescue boats were in
charge of Ensign Rollo H. Nuckles
of Kansas City, Mo., erstwhile
University of California drama j
student. Lowered from the destroyers,
they slid poiselessly at
snail's pace into the coral outcroppings,
feeling their way
through the dark passages.
(Continued On Page Fouri
George Lewis In
Flight Training si
cl
Naval Aviation Cadet George S
W. Lewis, of Southport, N. C., has. le
completed three months of phy- vi
sical conditioning and ground; s<
school work at the U. S. Navy w
Prc-Flight School here at Athens, bi
Ga. He has been ordered to the ci
Naval Air Station at Hutchinson, bi
Kan., to begin progressive flight
training preparatory to joining a
combat unit. 6'
Lewis, son of F. L. Lewis, ti
Southport, graduated from ?high oi
school in 1939. He was transferred k
here from the CAA War Training j c<
Service School, Hickory.
V
POR'
i A Good Com
July 28, 1943
FOSTER I
W' : .
f
-y^tt \
/( m - JOBC
A .
THIEF?A whole bus 1
jside Dorman Mercer's pas
ie a pig robbing a milk cow
ire,'and an even rarer thinj
n'pf in the fact, with the. aid
Western Unioi
To Disco)
*
Fnds The Law No !
Respeetor of Person !
.Saturday night members of
he board of aldermen called a
.pccial session and met with
ifficials of Civilian Defense to
'each an understanding about
ules governing lights in homes
nid 011 cars in the restricted
irea, in which a portion of the
sity lies.
Following a discussion it was
Iccided that a committee be
lamed to decide about house
ighting, and that Nash street
nid a portion of West street
torra the dividing line between
the dim-out zone and restricted
irea. Arrest and trial of violators
was ordered.
On his way from the meeting
to his place of business two
blocks away Alderman I'earce
L'ranmcr was caught for driving
with bright lights.
rwo Cases Tried
In County Court
>ne Man Comes In And
Makes Apeal From Sentence
Previously Imposed;
Another Given Preliminary
Hearing
Practically all of the case schejled
for trial Monday in Brunsick
county Recorder's court were
intinued.
John Floyd, white, over whom a
x months suspended sentence
as hanging, came into court and
nve notice of appeal. Bond was
:t at $200.00.
Julius Knight, colored, was
targed with breaking and enterig.
Probable cause was found and
le defendant was bound over to
uperior court under bond of
500.00.
bulletin Will
Aid Sawmillers
ips On How To Increase
Life Of Machinery And
Reduce Labor Require-1
ments Included In Free
Booklet
Valuable suggestions for rcducig
labor requirements and for incasing
the life of machinery in
nail sawmill operations are in- j
uded in a bulletin, "Operating1
mall Sawmills in Wartime" ire-]
used by the U. S. Forest Ser-J
ice . Of interest to portable]
iwmill operators and farmers |
ho harvest their own timber, thij
ulletin is particularly timely be-!
tuse wartime demands for lum-l
jr require efficient operation of;
II existing mills.
Useful information on all phas}
of sawmilling is included, from:
ps on the most efficient methods
f cutting logs to suggestions for]
eeping records to compute in- ]
)me taxes. Pointers on mill ope(Continued
on page 4)
(
r ph.
tmunity
PUBUSI
MOTHER
v
V "-Kfk
X s * jr"'A
; " 1
%;
fW BBBb
, i
oaci 01 passengers stopped j
ture at Bolivia recently to
. That is a rare sight, to he
* is to be able to catch the
of a camera.
ti Plans
itinue Service
Receiver Of W. B. & S. Has
Been Advised That Service
Will Be Discontinued
Effective August 1st
CITIZENS HOPE
TO CHANGE PLAN
Local Group interested In
Attempting To Work Out
Some Plan For Continued
Operation Of
Wire
E. F. Middlcton, receiver for the
Wilmington, Brunswick & South- '
crn Railroad, was advised last
week that effective August 1 the
Western-Union office in Southport
will be discontinued.
Henceforth ail messages must |
be telephoned long distance to
Wilmington ,and any incoming '
messages must be received either ,
via telephone or through the mail.'
Mr. Middleton said Tuesday that
he hoped that something could be
rionn to influence the teleeranh
company officials to reconsider
their decision to discontinue local <
service in Southport. He pointed
out that for the past year the 1
railroad company has operated the
wire service at a loss purely to
keep the service available for
Southport citizens. During this
period the private telephone line
to Wilmington was abandoned, and
all telegrams either sent a received
required a long distance
telephone call.
An effort has been made to get
the manager of the Wilmington
Western - Union office to come
here for a conference with citizens
for the purpose of working
out some plan for keeping wire ,
service available. Mr. Middleton i
has pledged his hearty cooperation
with any move that may result. I
USOClubN
Dr. O. R. Grattan, (above) of i
the National Staff of the Army
and Navy Y. M. C. A., with Vesper
Smith, of Raleigh, district
supervisor of North Carolina, were
guests of the Southport U. S. O.
Club last week. Dr. Grattan met i
with the pastors of Southport to
discuss the Church Desk proposed
for the U. S. O. Club, with re- i
Iigious literature and the opportunity
for the service men to talk
with representatives of the
churches on their problems.
A feature of the U. S. O. program
to help maintain the contact
with home and the home 1
communities is the metropolitan 1
papers which have been added to
the U. S. O. Library consisting of i
The New York Times, The At- !
lanta Journal, and The Detroit 1
Free Press. Other papers will be i
added.
The U. S. O. appreciates the 1
splendid co-operation of the Naval
Section Base in loaning their motion
picture projector and in fur- 1
nishing transportation for it to 1
and from the U. S. O. Club dur- 1
ing the period when the U. S. O.
projector was in Chicago being
overhauled.
The soldiers visiting for sever- ]
1 ~ " 'y ~ ' T("V5T"v?
,0T
1ED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Tobacco Farm
Encouraeet
In Gee
Lives 84 Years
On Same Block!
One of the venerable colored
women of Southport is .Mamie
Eliza Swain, eighty-four years
old. She lives with her daughter,
.Mary E. (iibbs, just In the rear
of the colored Methodist church
and she has spent her entire
life on the block on which she
was born.
Her husband has been dead
many years. She has three children,
Mary Gibbs and Beatrice
Swain of Southport and William
Swain of Philadelphia. All
of these, along with the aged
woman, are highly respected.
She has eight grand children
and three great-grand children.
Although not strong enough
to work she gets around
well, her eyesight is still good
good and she has a remarkably
clear mind.
Farmers Free To
Purchase Guano
For Any Crop Now
Any Grade Of Fertilizer
Now Being Manufactured
For Any Crop Available
To Farmer
COLTRANE MAKES
SITUATION CLEAR
Unprecedented Amount Of
Fertilizer Is Anticipated
During The Coming
Fall And Winter
Months
RALEIGH. ? North Carolina
farmers arc free to purchase any
grade of fertilizer now being manufactured
for any crop, D. S.
Coltranc, assistant to the Commissioner
of Agriculture, has announced.
"In order to meet the war-time
requirements for food, feed and
fiber, it is anticipated that agriculture
this fall and winter will
call upon the fertilizer industry
to produce an unprecedented amount
of this material which is so
vital to the farmer at this time,"
said Coltrane.
Although manufacturers or fertilizer
are faced with many handicaps,
Coltrane is of the opinion
that they will meet the demand
"through careful planning and cooperative
efforts."
He asserted that "we are in a
stronger nosition as re cards fer
tilizer materials than we were
during the past year, for only in
potash is our agricultural supply
less than that of 1942-43. No.
shortage of chemical nitrogen is
now expected. All told, this war
has had much less effect on our
fertilizer supplies than the last
one."
While the indicated demand for
nitrogen is not definite, it will
have to be greater than this country
has known for it to exceed
the supply, explained Coltrane.
With the increased production
of chemical nitrogen and the reduction
of organic nitrogen, mixed
fertilizers will necessarily carry
more chemical nitrogen and less
(Continued on page 4)
ews Of Week
al days in this section are splendid
men and have been very welcome
at the U. S. O.
Ralph Fultz and Miss Gloria
Freelund, both of Miami, Fla.,
will be married Saturday evening
at Southport.
John Silva, Ph. M. 3c, is receiving
congratulations on his
engagement to Miss Jeannetto
Paciello of Brooklyn. They will be
married in January.
Miss Nermenia Rivera of the
Bronz Hospital in New York City
was a caller at the U. S. O. this
week. Miss Rivera is now operating
nurse at the Arthur Dosher
Memorial Hospital of Southport.
The Revs. Russell S. Harrison
and A. L. Brown were in Wilmington
Tuesday attending the
Counseling Seminar in the Field
af War Problems. Dr. David Eitzen,
of the University of Southern
California now in the employ of
the Army and Navy Y. M. C. A.
in the U. S. O., is the leader and
lias specialized in this field of
cdbnseling in war times. The Rev.
C. D. Burclift, pastor of the
Fifth Ave., Methodist Church of
Wilmington returned with Rev.
Narrison and is a guest in Southport.
Most Of The News
Ail The Time
]
?' j
$1.50 PER YEA!
ers Feel ,
i Over Sale |
>rgia First Day
Report Indicates That Tobacco
Brought From 70
To 15 Cents Per Pound
More This Year Than
Last
41-CENT CEILING
PRICE IS EXCEEDED
First Sales Averaged 40-45
Cents According To Unofficial
Reports Following
Tuesday's
Sales
Flue-cured tobacco brought
from 10 to 15 cents per pound
more than last season's average
price as auctions opened Tuesday
in the Georgia-Florida belt and
an extension service specialist reported
prices for lower grades
"surpassed all expectations."
E. C. Westbrook, tobacco specialist
for the Georgia Agriculture
Extenson Service, said the unexpected
prices for low grades was
particularly true of the Moultrie,
Ga., market. Leaf that sold for
three or four cents a pound last
year brought from 25 to 38 cento
a pound there.
Over the 15 Georgia marketo
and the two in Florida sales exceeded
the 41-cent average ceiling
set by OPA. Best weed usually is
offered first and later sales are
expected to bring the average in
line with the ceiling.
Some of the cigarette type leaf
touched 60 cents and a good
quantity brought from 50 to 55
cents a pound. Most markets reported
first sales averaged 40-45
cents. ' i
The average price last year was
30.25 cents a pound for a 61,500,000
pound crop. This year's
production has been tentatively
estimated at around 50,000,000
pounds.
The 41-cent maximum fixed by
the OPA applies to total purrtvTu.
91 a single boy?r during
the entire season, permitting a
tobacco company to pay 50 or 60
cents a pound for some grades,
but requiring purchase of enough '
lower grade leaf to bring the av- ,f
crage to 41 cents.
Offerings were light in some A
sections, due to the lateness of
the crop this year.
Heavy Rain jj
Damages Crop
Heavy Downpour Monday
Adds To Troubles Of 1
Farmers In Shallotte Vicinity
<i?A<imin<r dfllntrp tfl the J^f1
1IIV ciunuiiift v.v..^0_ ? cent
wet spell in the Shallotte
section fell Monday through the
noon hours, with one of the
heaviest rainfalls ever witnessed ,
in a short period. J
This and other recent wet wea- M
ther is causing consternation to II
tobacco farmers of that area. It Vj
isn't so much that tobacco is be- r
ing drowned in the patch ? although
some of it is ? but it Is , )l.
the labor shortage that is made ji
more accute each hour that work- jj
ers are kept idle.
Another trouble is that tobacco
that has been kept green long
past the usual ripening period haa
been turning too rapidly for comfortable
handling ,thus adding the
shortage of curing space to the g
woes of the tobacco growers. M
One shining example of a fel- 1
low who made the best of a bad I
situation occured this week when
George Spencer, colored farmer,
cropped tobacco all day by him- 3
self, then went to the barn and r
handed while his wife tied. In this mmanner
they managed to get in ,1
! three rooms in their curing barn
in one day. rg
Many Agencies j
Join In Drive f
United War Fund Cam- '.jf!
paign Which Is To Be 1
Staged In Brunswick This ^
Fall Has Many Responsi- i
bilities _ nj
More than one half of the f
{125,000,000 to be sought by the J
National War Fund in a nation- '
wide campaign next fall will be
used for service to our armed
forces, it was announced today? ,'
The announcement was made in p
a detailed budget report presented
by Winthrop W. Aldrich, presl- , jj
dent of the Fund.
The budget figures issued today l
show needs of National Wfcr Fupd jj
member agencies totaling
j 000,000, of which $67,672,000 is ,
(Continued on pegs s>
i