; pfie Pilot (Covers M pruoswick County ?0^NO. FOURTEEN NO. School Holidays To Begin Next , I Tuesday Noon |,^Biange In Dates Makes Holidays From December Twenty-First To Decern-1 IH ber Twenty Ninth In AH1 Schools Of Brunswick ! - |H AND HALF DAYS from regular work Hottest Christmas Holidays Many Years Among ^ The Schools Of BrunsI wick County To Begin Next Week I According to announcement yesterday by Misa Annie H Supt. of Schools K- Brunswick County, the Christ- < ^K5 holidays among the schools j Brunswick will begin next : lay December 2tst, at noon. Hi schools will reopen on Wed- | ^Kday December 29th. This will . five and one half days free- ' It. from class room work for the Hicf.t'rs and students. ' i^K'rigiral dates for the holidays (' HlleJ for the schools to close at ' Her- o" December 23rd and to 1 Hcjv on January 3rd, 1944. I Ht is understood that alt high < elementary grade schools in I state will observer uie uecem21st to 29th dates for their ] jays. One of the arguments these revised dates, it is unstoP'i, is to allow teachers time each their nhomes and do some ppir.p before Christmas day. ] iy living at a distance from schools in which they teach lid hardly be able to do this if holidays began on the 23rd. n, too. it is said, the exciteit attendant on the near apich of Christmas would scarce- < permit of students obtaining i h benefit of work done on ( 22rd and 23rd. It was deem- , xst to close as early as pos- 1 : and to resume work in like j lere are 138 white and colored ; hers am! approximately 5,000 , ents who will get their freefront t las.v room work when ' holidays begin at noon Tues- ' s Upland Rice j Did Very Well j Farmer Planted Three 1 cres in The Commodity l nd Got a Yield of 33 * ushels Per Acre, Posbility as Cash Money ' rop i org? Cox. farmer of the Ash t dimity, planted nearly three s i in upland rice this year. The esttr.g of the crop showed a ' of 33 bushels of recleaned I to the acre. Neighboring t ers who saw Mr. Oox's field t noted the production are I entering if they may not have ' ^Bssed up a good bet on a new < ^Vii money crop for this county, < >^W failing to grow rice. The coun- 1 iHr agent, who passed on the incarnation as to the above produc- i H?" b also wondering if some- I m the Brunswick farming ^ ogram may not have been over<'Hok?d tfl Years ago the Brunswick coun See. grown chiefly along the \ Fear River, was acclaimed finest grown anywhere in the '^ erl'J. The destruction of the it (Continoed on page 4) 1 Ration Pointers I I SUGAR?Book 4. stamp 29. m> pounds expires January 15. , I GASOLINE ? Coupon No. 8 ' A book good for three gal i*m ? SHOES?Coupon 18 in the B!-?ar and coffee ration book vai:d for one pair of shoes has expiration date. No 1 air f.ar.e stamps in Book 3 became :'i November 1 for one pair tiiues I KlOU?Brown stamps, Book meats and fats L, M, N, ex u'rc 'anuary 1. Green stamps f-uox i processed foods, A. B, expire December 20. D, E, ?nd F valid December 1, expire January 20. I H EL oil, ? New No. 1 ''-upon. Class 4 sheet, good for ''' gallons it unit), expires January new No. r coupon. & ,, 5S sheet, good for 50 gal\ :ms units), expires January I No. 1 coupon. Class 6 SOdo for 250 galolns (25 expire January 3. No. pir J va,1(' November 30, cx U s January 25. No. 3 valid ^otcmijvr :;o, expires February * i*"??Inspections required U ' ; book holders every six 01 01 B holders every four H months: 0f c holders every gBwrec months. TH1 34 Was In Battles ( . - v- ' - i\ it - : ,<{; .* \v . I , :* a:'.. 1 . -| ' ' :*> -v . I <:xfyy'K -v.-;-', k" ? } William Ernest Lewis, AMM j i 2nd class, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. j < E. Lewis, of Winnabow, who has| i been assigned to shore duty at 1 San Diego after spending some time at sea. He was on the Hor- | net and later transferred to the I Saratoga. He participated in the battles of Coral Sea, Guadalcanal, ind Midway. For action in the latter he was awarded the Presilent's Citation. Railroad Bridge Rnrnpd Mnndav Brown Creek Structure Of B W.B.&S. Completely Destroyed by Fire; All Junk To Be Trucked From i A Here The Brown's Creek bridge near s'avassa, largest structue on the IV. B .& S. Raiload, was entirely lestroyed by fire Monday morning >f this week. The loss of the c< nidge forced a change in the a 5lans for wrecking and R. C. oi Shipp, Supt. of the Hyman Mich- in lels Wrecking Company, of Chi- pi ?go, immediately began making pi jlans to ship rails and other met- rt il from South part by truck. u Mr. Shipp says that ails and all ej netal from all along the line to n( ;he burned bridge will be brought a n here over the railroad, two flat es ?rs being utilized for the purpose. ol U this point the rails wll bo cut p. nto four sections for loadng on fa :o trucks and transportaton to hi tv Vilmington to shipment to the tteel mills. 01 It is expected three months will w >e required to finish the wreok- ^ ng job. The rails are mostly m ighte than the average standard p! ailroad rails of tody. In addition tt 10me of them at places are ra- JJj -her- badly bent as esult of the *' n( >oor roadbed. Mr. Shipp stated w hat it is his understanding that jj, he company will retain the readied rights, belevng that some- a! :hing may happen to justify the >peration of the road. In that ^ :ase they will rebuild the whole ? Inc. p( Grew Lespedza On A Big Scale ( IVaccamaw Township Farmer Planted Fifty S Acres in This Wonderful Hay and Legume Crop, Farmers are Saving Seed Manlon C. Gore, prominent IVaccamaw township farmer, livng near Longwocd, went into the trowing of lespedza on a pretty w arge scale this year. He planted tl 50 acres in the grass and his cut- c< ting totalled 125 tons of hay, an le ivarage of 2 and a half tons to a the acre. He has been offered $30.- n< )0 per ton FOB cars, for the en- ir tire crop. ts The lespedza was sown in February, topping off a crop of oats tl in which hogs grazed In addition L to the lespedza hay crop the oats ic may also be counted for the same ni acreage and the lespedza gave the U land fertilizers to the value of $6 - s< DO to $10.00 for the crop that fol- fi lows after. u; Brunswick farmers are rapidly ci becoming greatly interested in lespedza. In fact, farmers all over ? the south are becoming that way. rr In idadtion to the wonderful hay 11 crop that it produces it is in- S valuable for the legumes that it a. gives the land on which it is g planted. A great many farmers ? are now growing it for hay, allowing it to reseed itself on the r< same land. Others are growing it S for seed. Among the farmers who c; grew to produce seed this year s are: J. W. Stanley, J. R. Sim- li mons, L. M. Babson, W. B. Ed- ti ward and R. M. Edwards, all of d Waccamaw .township. f E STi A Good 4-PAGES TODAY Children Got H Coopers mprovised Transportation Pi Regular School Bus Brok To Their Hoi The Marsh Branch, colored, school bus had broken down two miles out of town. Some 85 or 40 children climbed out and started on their five or six mile journey home. They had hardly quitted their defunct vehicle before they were met by Jim Forger, coming In from Orton. Jim remembered what he bad passed, just a mile back up the road. There was a school bus parked up there, driver and *11. Doing nothing. At least Jim thought it was a school bus, it looked like one. "Get in here," said Jim to the iriver of the broken down bus, j tve will get you a way to get I those children home. The driver ; >beyed and Jim turned around j ind speeded back to the parked j bus. "How about it," asked Jim j Many Farmers And Pa) * k a T"1 1 n? i W 'ver /\ 1 nousana Drums wick County Farmers L Must File For And Pay J Victory Tax And Few Know Of It 1G CROWD MET WITH S COLLECTOR AT SUPPLY ? I ill Persons, Single Or Mar-! ried, Whose Incomes I Amounted To $624.00 I Must File For Vic- D tory Tax !re B Between 150 and 200 Brunswick' 01 >unty farmers were at County gent Dodson's office at Supply hi i Friday for the purpose of hav- , g Raymond D. Christman, deity income tax collector, ex- in ain the making of income tax ki :turns and also the filing for tl ie three per cent Victory Tax. J * The number of Brunswick farm-1 r? s who must pay income tax is t & )t so very large, but when itj imes to the Victory Tax it is j itimated that more than 1000 of j e( ir farmers must file for andj t\ ty that. The approximately 200 ec irmers who got their blanks and 0i id the victory tax explained to b< lem Friday is probably less than ie fifth of the actual number n ho will have to file and pay. Commentating on the situation, ie county agent says: "While ost of our farmers .who must ry income tax know it, it seems lat very few of them know lat they must pay Victory Tax. here are a great number who are >t subject to income tax who ill have to come across and pay ic Victory Tax." A brief outline of both income id victory tax is that: T Any single person whose "gross hi icome" amounted to .$500 or d< lore, or $1,200 or more if mar- w ed, must file for income tax. Any c< :rson, single or married, whose
ich in shares. b'
pood catches of the smaller lo- tl
jl or inlet mullets are. being ?
lade daily. One fishermen sold b
50 bunches at a quarter each, at o
hallotte Saturday afternoon. Half ri
dozen other fishermen, all with ri
ood catches, were completiting a
'ith him with, their offerings. u
Oysters are also abundant and n
sadily obtainable at Shallotte, tl
upply and other points at practi- o
ally all times. They are of a nice s
ize but are described as being a F
ttle salty to the taste at this b
ime. This is due to the prolonged n
ry weather and the absence of s
resh water in tidal streams. s
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News paper In
Southport, N. C., Wei
ome Thru f
tion Of Driver
*essed Into Service When
e Down Got Children
nes Safely
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of the driver of the parked bus,
How about you taking' some
school children home?"
"Why, yes, "said the driver
?f the parked car, but with
svldent surprise, "where are *?
they, how far do they go and
liow far do they go and how
many of them do I take?" Jim C
told him and he got into ac- j
tion. Jim was just congratulating
himself on having bestirred
that school bus driver and was
preparing to get into his own
car when pulpwood cutters,
working in the woods nearby, in
called to him to ask where their tines
had gone and how soon it Ti
would return. Jim had com- th
mandered one of the Canal tii
iVood Corporations big buses, CI
iised to carry pulpwood cutters, p<
mistaking it for a school bus. b(
ci
Must File 2
fa
* T m b<
/ victorv lax *
_I _ el
)irect. Commends?
m
Brunswick Jail i"
b<
tate Director Of The Di- ^
vision Of Institutions And
Corrections Well Pleased
With Brunswick County ai
Jail cc
U;
J. M. Neese, Director of the fr
ivision of Institutions and Cor- cc
actions in Raleigh visited the ki
runswck County Welfare Office tli
1 Thursday. ti<
While inspecting the County jail l,
; expressed himself as highly ^
eased with his findings. He jok- cr
igly remarked that if he had fo
nown how clean and sanitary y(
le rooms are he would have been
illing to spend the night in iail ju
ither than spend his perfectly pi
aod money on a room elsewhere.
A complete clean-up program be
is been put on at the jail. All C<
lulty plumbing has been replac- ec
i, the interior has been painted, w
vo new stoves have been install- tr
i in addition to an entire new in
rtfit of springs, mattresses, and at
:d linen.
fo Hold Inquest
TltiittuJnir Wirrllf
1 UUI dUaj iiigm
c
[earing Into The Death Of
Elvin Justice Will Be
Held At The Court House
Thursday Night At 7:30
Coroner W. E. Bell has set Q
hursday night at 7:30 for tlje w
siding of the inquest intone Ri
iath of Elvin Justice, Leland man er
ho was killed in an automobile pi
illision two weeks ago. The in- F1
rest will be held at the county b?
>urt house. R>
Mrs. Justice, badly hurt in the H
ime wreck in which he husband
as killed, has been suffering m
om her broken leg and other lu
ijuries. The inquest was delayed at
titil she could appear and testify, p:
Paul Fields, Wilmington negro, Jc
(Continued on page 2)
HgjJ|
W. B. KEZ1AH
G. W. Kirby and son have been nc
i business at Supply for 53 years, lo
hat is probably longer than any lo
ther Brunswick county business ce
as remained in the same family, w
luring these 53 years the busi- lo
ess has occupied three different tii
ilildings. The first established by h<
le late G. W. Kirby when his tt
ins had not been born, was in a b;
uilding that stood between the G
Id Peter Rourk store and the fc
iver, on the west side of the yi
sad. Later he occupied a building jR
bout where the Richmond Gallo- ti
'ay store now is. From there he S.
loved to the present location of u]
tie firm. His sons, as they grew T
Id enough for business respon- cl
ibilities, were taken into the firm. ir
'loyd Kirby, the oldest of the
oys, still carries on under the si
ame of G. W. Kirby and son. His H
econd brother, Hobson Kirby, ti
old out several years ago and
P0R1
i A Good Cora
[inesday, December II
Reparations For
Christmas Are
Being Made Now
Roman's Club To Sponsor I
Lighting Contest Again
This Year And Will Present
Three Prizes
OMMUN1TY TREE
PROGRAM PLANNED
ommunity Tree Has Been
Decorated In Front Of
Courthouse And Will
Be Scene Of Program
There will be a Christmas lightg
contest this year sponsored by
le Southport Woman's Club,
nree prizes will be given, one for
le most attractive house decoraons,
one for the best living
hristmas tree among the white
>pulation and a third for the
!8t living tree of the colored
tizens.
The decision to sponsor a tree I
jhting contest this year was j
ade with full recognition of the.
.ct that the American people are'
sing asked to conserve electric;
>wer for industry. As the South- j
>rt Power Plant does not provide
ectricity for any factory there
mid be no saving if the citizens
Trained from lighting for Christas.
The electricitv used will not
, any way hinder the war effort.
was decided that there would
i a great deal of happiness to
s gained from seeing Southport
ith its normal amount of illuination.
City Electrician Harry Aldridge
id other city employees have
impleted the wiring of one of
le cedar trees on the street in
ont of the court house, for a
immunity tree. So far as is now
lown, this will constitute all of
le street Christmas light decoraons
that will be placed this year,
ick of wiring material, time and
le prevailing conditions are giv- j
1 as the reason for limited ef- j
irts at street decoration this:
;ar.
The trees and house will be ]
idged on Christmas night by imu'tial
judges.
On Thursday night, two days
ifore Christmas, there will be a
immunity program also sponsorI
by the Woman's Club. This
ill take place at the Community
ee and musical selections are beg
prepared for this. It will start
; 7:30 o'clock.
socal Ladies
Attend Meeting
amp And Hospital Meeting
Held At Fort fisher
Friday With Local Representatives
Present
The local Camp and Hospital
juncil Committee of the BrunsIck
County Chapter, American
ed Cross, attended the New-Riv-Camp
Davis Camp and Hostal
Council meeting Jield at Fort
sner on r riaay.