I*4 % ; I'Hot * A)\ ers nswick County 0. FOURTEEN~NO ly Papers Out For wood Drive rive Underway To te Pulpwood CutSouthern States )RT PILOT THE CAMPAIGN rive Is A Result il Need Of More lod To Carry iVar Industries Port Pilot today has weekly and daily >f the nation in a aid the Government the serious pulpwood ition. ond time since Pearl the nation's nejvsx*en called upon to .'lious war material it was the NewsScrap Metal Camat time scores of ced shutdowns for naterials. What the complished in that The situation was II ith more than 6.000,000 Ks 0; precious metal collected.Mow it is the pulpwood camIfir. and it is equally serious beIse hundreds of thousands of Els of the nation's pulpwood 1 required for war purposes. Tit' Victory Pulpwood CamIgn was initiated ry the War Eduction Board, with the coErat:on of other Federal DeEtmonts. war agencies and inItrj'. It is designed to relieve] Ireasnigly serious shortages in Ipwood. the raw material which Ekes smokeless powder, rayon j I parachutes, plastics for airIr.e parts, shell and bomb cas-1 Is and shipping containers for [munition, foods, supplies, blood Lsma and other necessities for t armed forces and our allies. [The campaign to increase the eduction of puu wood for the inufacture o* i.vlucts vitally fcessary lor military needs overfcs and for home front war uses, addressed to farmers, wooded owners, forest laborers and] per available workers in the i e major pulpwood producing ] eas of the South, Northeast and j ike States, where manpower j ortages have developed because | the withdrawal of woodsmen r service in the armed forces or her war work. In anticipation of the present (Co:.tinuxO on page 41 led Cross Moves illliu 11CW V/1IH-C ow Occupying Quarters Next To Tax Collector's Office; Brief Outline Of Mrs. Grace P. Ruark, Executive cretaiy of the Brunswick counRed Cross Chapter, has moved r office to the one formerly oc- j pied by the local ration board j the building next to the countax office. Hours will remain e same, these being from 9 to5. This move was made necessary ' the increased volume of work Inch must pass though Mrs. I mark's office. Home service, a ,ry necessary and helpful duty (rformed by the Red Cross for nice men and their families, increased both in importance d in scope. Acting as a medium of commutation between the people of ninswick County and their men 1 the Army and Navy, helping 1 solve war - created problems hieh inevitably arise when men t serving in distant places. It was of this service General (Continued on page 4) Ration Pointers | GASOLINE?In North Carolina \-(i coupons arc valid until November 26. All gasoline taupons in the possession of tar owners must be endorsed "ith the owner's license number lnd state of registration. Sl'GAR?Stamp No. 14, good !?r 5 llis, is valid through October. Stamps Nos. 15 and j? ar' uood through October 31 rr 5 lbs. each for home canning Purposes. Housewives may aprJ to fheir local ration boards I '""re if necessary. SHOES ? Stamp No. 18 (1 Plr) is valid through October j L i'I AT, ETC. ? Red Stamps ; *> 1, and W, now valid, ex,)lr, August 31. PROCESED FOODS ? Blue vafa1'S an(I T remain d "trough September 20. TH i. 17 Cords^ of Pulpwoo PULP WOOD PROTECTS I *t an U. S. Army Ammunitio ;ected with casings made fi which may be seen in small wood and hundreds of thous needed for smokeless powd war. New Principal For Lelan< i S. D. Wright, A Former Teacher Heads Leland School For The 1943-'44 Session SHALLOTTE FIRST TO REPORT FULL hALULlY Prof. Stone Announces Full List Of Teachers In Both High School And Elementary Grades A principal for Leland school has been secured, according to Miss Annie May Woodside, county superintendent of school^ The election of S.TX' IV Fight oi Gibson to fill the place formerly held by O. C. Burton paves the way for a complete list of teachers for Leland. Mr. Wright is not new to Brunswick county as he taught for several years at Bolivia* school. Principal Henry C. Stone of the Shallotte high and elementary school has secured a complete faculty. For the high school the following teachers have been elected. Henry C. Stone, principal. Mrs. Edna Russ, math., Shallotte; Ida| Creech Mintz, commerce, Shallotte; Emma Oliva Baker, English and history, Shallotte; Mary Frances Hill, English and Spanish, Cedar Grove, N. C.; Margaret Hipp, home economics, Clinton, S. C.; J. F. Caldwell, history, Smyrna, S. C. For the Elementary grades the following will serve: Emily Angelia Hubbard, eighth grade, Clio, S. C.; Muzette Wilkerson, eighth ~ro/1o Drtiiofomnunt TM fl.: Edith i giaUCllVUU^VlllVUMV, ... , B. Breedlove, seventh grade, Murphy, N. C.; Eva Helen Israel, seventh grade, Rosman, N. 'C.; Edna Mae Fowler, sixth grade, Newberry, S. C.; Mrs. Mae Home Russ, sixth grade, Shallotte; Glene Cooms, Russ, sixth grade, Shallotte; Molly Hague Clay, fifth grade, Columbus, N- C.; Mrs. S. T. Russ, fifth grade, Shallotte; Sarah Louise Clement, fourth grade, Inman, S. C.; Annie F. Russ, fourth grade, Southport; Flora Beatrice Moore, fourth grade, Brevard, N. C.; Gertie Taylor Stovall, third grade, Oxford, Brightie G. Hoiden, third grade, Shallotte, Gladys Thomas, third (Continued on page 4) Claims He Ga\ The Porter S A story in this paper last week related how Garland B. Portei, I manager of the North Carolina State News Bureau, had been mistaken for the real thing in porters. The incident happened here recently. Regardless of the fact that he may not be the real thing in porters, he was Johnny on the spot when the wife of a Navy officer asked him to carry her bags up stairs. The story credited Porter with being asked to carry the bags, and that he passed the duty on to "his assistant" Ben Patrick, North Carolina's official photographer. Ben was understood to have, and perhaps did, receive the tip which the grateful lady tendered. From a letter received from the news bureau man this week it appears that his honor has been impunged, or something. He (Claims he carried the bags him EST A Goo< S-PAGES TODAY d=Cords of Shells ?Above are cords of shells n Dump. The shells are prorom pulpwood, a cord of . insert. The cord of pulpands more like it are badly er and other munitions of Secured 1 High School Wandered Around, Is Now Back Home David Perkins, young South|H)rt colored man, enlisted in the Navy three years ago, a time when it was mighty hard * for colored men to get in that branch of service. By persitance, David made the grade, got in and now has a good record behind him to show for three years of wanderings in various parts of the world. Recently David, who is a son of Mary Perkins of Southport, arrived at a new base aboard the submarine chaser on which he is stationed. He oi>ened his eyes one morning, got on deck and found he was tied up at the dock at the Section Base, with Southport and his home barely two miles away. County Court Has Few Cases Very Little Time Required T* ? Ll.wJIn M/vnrlav fnnrf iu uauuic iTtuiiuuj . Cases Before Judge John B. Ward All work waiting the attention of Judge John B. Ward in Recorders court Monday was dispensed with in very short order. With the docket cleared, court was adjourned at noon. The following cases came up: Max Myers, reckless operation, continued to August 23rd. Roland Long, driving drunk and reckless operation, $50.00 and costs, license revoked for 12 months. George Behaler, non support, continued. Lester Foster, speeding, sixty days on roads, judgment suspended on payment of fine of $25.00 and costs, $15.00 of fine remitted. Newkirk Sullivan, assault with deadly weapon, six months in jail, judgment suspended on payment of fine of $25.00 and costs. Jack W. Hilton, reckless operation, 90 days in jail, assigned to (Continued on Page Four) re The Lady iervice Himself self, when asked to do so. He further alleges that the tip for the service was given Patrick who divided the swag with a local man, the two spending it for soft drinks, and not sharing the wrongly acquired gains with him. In a letter to the editor the porter portrays his grievance. This letter is published in full, below, The public can at least give him his due credit, even if he nevei gets the quarter.?The Editor. "To The Editor: To say that I was surprised at the account of my energetic stay at the Camellia Inn, as carried in the Pilot of August 11, would be not quite correct. I am never surprised at the way Bill Keziah presents me in a bad light as regards my physical and mental exertions, and the way he tries to give Ben Patrick credit for all the hard work I do. (Continued on Page Four) ATE i News paper Ir Southport, N. CM We Home Owners ^ Fill Northwest < In Rapid Manner Section Has Had The Great- F est Growth Of Any Part Of Brunswick During The Past Two Decades LELAND SECTION MOST F THICKLY SETTLED Much Of Area Around f Northwest Township Town Now So Thickly Settled That Heavy Population Could Be Shown c A frequent remark from vis- s itors to Southport is that the Le- a land section of Brunswick county P Is growing by leaps and bounds, new homes being built and old n ones repaired, and the town is ra-ld pidly becoming one of the most t' heavily populated centers of Brunswick county. ? In town this past week former n j county Forest Warden Dawson w Jones commented on the strides a that his community is making. d He stated that in a large area ? there were now five times as many residences as existed fif- 0 teen years ago. These residences P are nearly all occupied by the owners and are good substantial a structures, many of them being n of brick. Although he did not 0 mention the fact Jones, himself, 0 owns one of the nicest brick rei sidences in the entire county, P about two miles from Leland. r, v,?,,0 v,?ilt 1 Otuico y wuiti o ?a?t wuiinj good homes' in recent years. Fori J ' several miles from the Brunswick River bridge westward on Route 74 residences are almost as thick as in the average city. This condition exists not only on Route 1 74, the same thing may be found down the Southport road and along all roads in the township. New citizens have bought lands and built homes wherever they could find lands that were fob sale. ^ The great majority of the peopie work in Wilmington at vari- ^ ous'industries. A great many oth- u ers have regular employment at v the various fertilizer factories in | Northwest Township. Many more are employed by the Spiritine ., Chemical Company, the Gulf j' State Cresoting Company and the Taylor - Colquitt Cresoting com- ^ pany, all of which are located near Lelaqd. While the township cannot be described as agricultural, County ? Agent J. E. Dodson recently stat- ^ ed that the Leland and Northwest ^ township folks had entered into the Victory Garden spirit more E heartily than any other section of u the county. Of the many good w farms scattered about the township, most are said to be center- n ing heavily on the production of tl foodstuffs this year. Navy Wallops ' r\ r\ l toast buarders s Navy Baseball Talent Had Field Day With Local And Wilmington Coast Guards Sunday The Naval Section Base presented a cavalcade of sport in the B form of a double-header Softball Ij contest last Sunday. The contests ^ were played on a field known asj*1 the Sand-Spur Stadium and one c] would have to travel a long way to witness two more exciting a games than those on that histor- t! ic field. t< The Wilmington Coast Guard v, team that has been carrying J a away softball honors in that city T went down to defeat before an | n All-Star enlisted team, in an ex- b tra inning game, 6 to 5. The ei teams were evenly matched, j T , However, the locals succeeded in a tying the score in the final inning: (continued on cage four) High Praise To Brunswick Man _ i a | Dennis F. Benton, Of Lei land, Offers His Service To U. S. Army Engineers i Despite High Salary In Civilian Occupation h ri A dispatch from the public re-;tl ; lataions office of the U. S. Army; S ' Engineers in Wilmington, this n i week, paid tribute to the pa-y friotism of Dennis Franklin Ben-' ' ton, a Brunswick county man, re- T i siding at Leland. The dispatch had f! i the authorization of Captain W. j fi ! F. Fowler, public relations and j L i recruiting officer, and was as fol-J 1 lows: p "Mr. Benton, a forty year old V (Continued on page 4) & ? PORi i A Good Com dnesday, August 18, l1 Volume Of Weed I Offerings Shows Decided Increase l< 'rescott Reports That The Friday Sales On Thel Whiteville Market Were Over Half A Million ( 'RICE AVERAGES REMAINING SAME >lo Change In The Prices Being Paid On The Local Markets After 10 Days Of Selling Tobacco markets of Columbus ounty experienced the heaviest ] ales of the season on Friday, j fter fairly heavy sales on the , receding day. 1 Averages are running pretty s luch the same as in the previous ays of selling, approximately $41 < o $42 per hundred. i P. S. Prescott, supervisor of j ales on the Whiteville tobacco ] larket, reported that the local t rarehouses sold in excess of half i million pounds of weed on Fri- ( ay for the largest day's selling i his season. i Something like 400,000 pounds f weed had been sold on the ( receding day, Prescott said. i From Tabor City, Chadbourn, nd Fair Bluff, the other three ] larkets of the county, likewise ome reports of increased weed ' fferings. ] Howevir, sales today are ex- ] ected to be relatively light. 1 fn f-fnl/1 Hflofinrr i 1U 1AU1U 11VU1 Ulg |J On New Bus Line .ower Section Of Brunswick May Get Daily Service From Whiteville Via| Ash, Longwood and Grissettown The North Carolina Utilities lommissioner will hold a hearing in | :s office in Raleigh on Tuesday, iugust 31st, to consider-a req est for a franchise by the Vhiteville-Seaside bus line, which i proposing to institute pasenger service between the couny seat of Columbus and the >wer part of Brunswick. The application lists the route hat is to be followed as begining at the court house in Whiteille, going through South Whiteille and proceeding on 701 to he junction of 130, following his highway through Old Dock i Columbus county to Ash in Irunswick, thence following an nimproved road through Longrood and Grissettown to Seaside.' The promoters of the line are ot listed on the application for he franchise. ?ong Record Of Church Work: !. N. Mintz Has Been A Deacon In Elah Baptist Church For 42 Consecutive Years; Special Services ^ Mr. S. N. Mintz of the Elah laptist church section, near Leind, has a record of continuous hurch service that few people ? ave ever equalled. He has been deacon in the Elah Baptist ? hurch for 42 consecutive years. The members of the church had j special meeting Sunday night, ? le entire service being devoted ) the long record of Mr. Mintz i | rith the Elah church, as deacon nd Sunday school adult teacher. { here will also be a special ser- . ion preached next Sunday night, y Rev. G. T. Hickman, dedicated ] specially to the beloved brother. J he public is cordially invited to ttend this service. ..eland Man Dies v Here Saturday \ ?' : s tephen Franklin Benton c Widely Known Resident c Of Leland Passes At Lo- I cal Hospital Following a long illness, Step- < en Franklin Mintz, widely known t ssident of Leland, died Jiere in le Dosher Memorial Hospital \ aturday night, after a long ill- < ess. Mr. Mintz was in his 72nd > ear. ' Funeral services were held 1 hesday afternoon at 3 o'clock J rom the graveside in the Mintz ? imily cemetery, with the Rev. ? ester Akors officiating. < Pallbearers were: G. B. Skip- l er, Paul, Klutz, Frank Benton, L. i V. Benton, E. J. Skipper, and I (Continued on Page Four) ? r PiL munity 943 PUBUS1 Commissioner! . Jorgensen *. Capable Young Official Reappointed For Two Years At Meeting Of Board Here Monday 3THER MATTERS HEARD \T MONDAY'S MEETING Jury Selected For September Term Of Superior Court And Various Other Matters Handled At the regular meeting of the 3runswick county board of comTiissioners W. P. Porgensen, pres:nt tax collector, was appointed 'or two more years to fill the same office. On the motion of A. P. Russ, seconded by O. P. Bellamy, and nade unanimous by the vote of 3. I. Mintz, Jergensen was apjointed "current and delinquent :ax collector of Brunswick Coun:y for two years beginning with Dctober, 1943 to collect each fears' levy during that period of :ime." A jury for the September term )f Superior court was drawti and s as follows: F. P. Potter, W. E. Bellamy, J. B. Kirby, J. H. Royals, P. C. iVoodard, O. P. Holden, Reubin r. Caison, Henry Fulford, I. D. Fulford, Carl Clemmons, Herbert Brown, J. B. Sermons, Johnnie VI. Varnum, Supply; J. V. Chadvick, A. L. Meares, D. C. Million, Shallotte; G. M. Smith, D. P. Mintz, John Ellis Dodson, Anson Babson, Corbett Coleman, O. L. Weed Product Af Ft A Am* V>V4.JIX AV A. A. * Prisoner Of War Writes Parents After more than a year of suspense Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Harvell of Bolivia have heard directly from their son, Edward Lassiter, who since the capture of Bataan has been a prisoner of the Japs. A card received from him was in his own handwriting and is a source of happiness for those who had failed to hear < from him. It reads as follows: IMPERIAL NIPPONESE ARMY?I am interned in Osaka Uneda Bunsko, prisoner of war. My health is usual. I am working for pay. Please see that everything is taken care of. My love to you. , Young Harvell joined the navy in 1937 and since then has served as signalman. He was taken prisoner during the bat- 1 tie of Bataan. He has two brothers in the service. One, i Woodrow is in the A. A. F. and is at Elgin Field, Fla. He , has been in five years. The sec- i ond, Hugh Duncan, is now at Camp Campbell, Ky. | Change In Hours j For Ration Office Mrs. Grace Jones, Chief Clerk11 >f the local Ration board, announ- j i ^ i Ai- - A. 1 ...Ill Un I i :es lousy uuil new jiuuis w,? ibserved at the ratioiv office. i The hours will be from 9 to 4, ' he hour from 4 to 5 to be used' i inly for necessary office work. The I ( rnblic is asked to transact their! i msiness with the ofice Before asj 10 one will be admitted after that < ;ime. North Carolina Boys Havii Accompanied by five youngsters I vho are much interested in the 1 lutdoors, Mrs. Roxie Collins j Simpson, Taxidermist at the 1 State Museum in Raleigh, is 1 ipending ten days here. The boys ire John Trott, Jr., and Jim Ivey l if New London; John Coffey, ; Gorman McCulloch and Ernest Hitchell, Jr., of Raleigh. Mrs. ' Simpson is secretary of the North i Carolina Bird Club in which all 1 he boys hold membership. Their first day out on the ; vaters and woods was without l ivent. A trio of Southporters who I vere intent on fishing carried hem and one of their hosts, ' Douglas Jones, to Orton early one < norning. Mrs. Sltnpson elected to lerve as the propelling power for i rowboat and she wound up the lay with a badly blistered hand, i vhich later became infected and equired medical attention. The x>ys, themselves, acquired sundry mnburns, chiggers, etc. In addi ,0T HED EVERY WEDNESDAY > Reappoint Tax Collector ; W. P. JORGENSEN Long, Ash; T. J. Watson, Leland. R. H. Sellers, J. C. Maultsby, Winnabow; J. N. Arnold, Southport; J. Dallas McKeithan, Earlie E. Evans, D. E. Evans, and E. A. Evans, Freeland. Also attended to by the board of commissioners were the following matters. Eyota Farm was ordered placed on the 1933 valuation. It being a fraternal organization and only holding a remainder in the property subject to Crownstream's (Continued On Page Fov* ion Placed gure As 1942 Flue Cured Crop Of 796 Million Pounds Is Being Predicted By The Department Of Agriculture DECREASED YIELD SEEN BY EXPERTS On All Types Of Tobacco, Prediction Is That There Will Be Considerably Decreased Per Acre Yield WASHINGTON. ? A flue cured tobacco crop of 795,074,000 pounds now is expected for this year by the Agriculture Department as compared with an estimate of 771,499,000 pounds a month ago, but the total 1943 tobacco crop is expected to be almost identical sn size with that of last year. Prospects as of August 1, the department announced today, point to a crop of 1,411,703,000 pounds of all types. The total last year was 1,412473,000 pounds while on July 1 of this year a 1943 crop of 1,396,610,000 was indicated. Through the prospective production of flue cured tobacco in creased during July, me prospects for burley, dark fired and dark air cured fell off slightly. The indicated flue cured production would be about two per cent less than last year, but nearly eight per cent above the ten year average. Yield per acre is heavier in the Georgia-Florida area than was expected, and now is indicated to be 900 pounds per acre in Georgia and 790 in Florida, the department said. For all types of tobacco, the average yield per acre is indicated i Continued on page 4J Bird Club ig Great Time tion, when they returned to the joat landing they found that the party that had carried them out had done a fade-out and left them to walk back. It was some eleven miles from the boat landing high up on Orton Lake to Southport. In addition there was some exceedingly warm August sunshine. Nothing daunted, Mrs. Simpson and the half a dozen frying sized youngsters set out for home on foot at 3:15 p. m., or that was the time they claimed to have started back. At 7:30 they arrived with the tongues of most of the boys hanging out from thirst and the exertion of walking back, not to mention the exertion they previously had from walking through the woods, rowing on the pond and scratching chiggers. Next morning at 7:00 they were up and off to Shallotte, where they spent a day acquiring more (Continued Cn Page Four,) i ! . Most Of The News Ail The Time $1.50 PER YEAR Tobacco Ceiling Revised By OPA | In Recent Ruling Ungraded, Untied Top Price To Be $38 A Hundred, While Graded, Tied Has $44 Ceiling CLARIFIES EARLIER WEDNESDAY RULING Much Dissatisfaction Had Been Expressed To The Earlier Ruling, Which Made No Differential The Office of Price Administration the latter part or the week | set a maximum weighted average purchase price of 38 cents a pound for ail flue-cured tobacco sold untied, tnus establishing a differential between tied and untied tobacco. This action, OPA said, will not affect the over-all maximum weighted average purchase price of 41 cents a pound for the 1943 flu-cured crop. Flue-cured tobacco is grown In Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. In the Carolinas and Virginia, it is customary for growers to grade their tobacco, tying leaves of corresponding quality into "hands." In Georgia and Florida, on the other hand, the tobacco is sold on the auction markets in a untied conditions. Buyers of the untied tdbacco naturally have considerably more work to do in rehandling the tobacco after purchase. ??fi ro ra* Dealers anu nuuuiav^.... buyers, recognizing the additional work performed by the growers who grade and tie their crop, have voluntarily paid approximately two cents more per pound for corresponding grades of tied and sorted tobacco than tor untied offerings. When maximum price regulation No. 441 was issued July 24th, a weighted average maximum price of 41 cents a pound was established for the entire crop with a differential. This was done in the interest of simplified control and in the belief, OPA said, that the traditional differential would be maintained. However, since the opening of the markets, the farmers in the Carolinas, having kept informed of the prices prevailing for untied tobacco in Georgia, have become alarmed that their sorted and tied tobacco will not bring the customary higher prices because of the limitations of the over-all weighted average maximum price of $41 a hundredweight, OPA confessed. This resulted in a disruption of normal marketing practices, the agency said, with tobacco moving from Squth Carolina into Georgia and being sold there untied rather than sold tied and graded. This movement imposed a heavy drain on transportation facilities. Unduly heavy sale of untied tobacco could become a serious problem in view of what has been reported to OPA as a manpower shortage in the South, it warn said in Washington. NEWS nnirrc DiULiO SON ARRIVES Lt. and Mrs. Earl I. Brown an| nounce the birth of a son, Ralph Edward, at Dosher Memorial Hospital on August 32. Mrs. Brown is the former Miss Anna Taylor of this city. DAUGHTER BORN Mr. and Mrs. Alex Fox, of Wilmington, announce the birth of . a daughter on August IS in the Dosher Memorial Hospital. WAS PATIENT Miss Juliet Johnson, of Bolivia, was a patient in Dosher Memorial Hospital on Wednesday and Thursday. .MEDICAL PATIENT S. A. Potter, of Winnabow, was a medical patient at Dosher Memorial Hospital from Wednesday to Sunday. RECEIVES TREATMENT Mrs. A. B. Crocker, of Winnabow, entered Dosher Memorial Hospital for treatment on Monday. ? TONSILS OUT Little Patricia Marlowe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Marlowe, and little Santa Lee Aldridge, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Aldridge, had thefr tonsils removed at the Dosher Memorial Hospital on Monday. I i.