| The I'iiot Covers I Brunswick County no. fourteen n oaras lauded Ky Governor On I Anniversary vernor Praises Ration loardr In State For Patriotic Service And FaithKulness cognition for nre warded service eir Work has Often Been jfficult And The Public Should Be Grateful To Them ^BjALKIUH. Jan 3. ? Governor h;,s issued the follow t: January 5, 1944, 4^1 the Second AnniverK' oi i: inauguration or the H; . u program under the H; - : the Offices of Price Hi ition. - -'am was established a of cooperation fceKedeial Government - oral States. The ra. I.aids in the various Hn t - u, i c named by the - ol the States and >. : administration of raH::.. and prices is essentially H:. .: ai lunction, the cooperaHthe States has been invited i in a manner that has V i Hp; ;u 1 immeasurably to tlie H,* ot the general plan. National Administrator of Her : Price Administration H cx; -d the feeling that .ration should be giv> Second Anniversary Hp ti the thousands of men K a.. who without reward Hp i.ie face of much criticism i i invaluable service | : is ci local rationing ^B: , i panels. This is unHp: a worthy proposal and H. . .eive the fullest response H ..ehJul the nation. Hp. N ih Carolina, there are Hma. two thousand men Hi ...or. who have been servH with cicat fidelity and withK i. ,i nsalion as members of H.n:y .lotion ng Boards and H , A large r.iajorty of the ol- the ? beoids have served conH. .- y tor two years, giving Huuiingiy of their time to a halt and mportant, though H:;.ent!y a distasteful and unHwar.t. task. While many naHra! policies of the Office of Hxe Adminstraton have been Hrect tj severe criticism, some H v. rich lias no doubt been justiH: u should be remembered Hi the local boards have not ^Be responsible for matters of ^Bi-.y but have only sought to their duties as a paHu -ervice in the tme of our Hb?..'.s gravest emergency. I lite nearly two thonsand men H. women on these local Board9 B- Panels of N'orth Carolna are H?:t.: g of tne highest praise. ^Bcy have made a definite and ^B-aCe contribution to their resH"-:vt counties and to the State ^B- Nation in this war emergB< Their service has been of highly patriotic and sacrificial H?st ' >' They have . rendered H-^ service in the all-impor^? a ar.n i? vowv. IU pi event liliiOUVll d to protect the homes and cit*s of the State from the laxity ot unfair distribution of W-tial commodities. As Governor of North Caroa' I express to all of these "til and Panel Members the cks of the State for the ser* which they have performed, earnestly hope that in each My of North Carolina, tough appropriate civic organ1 other agencies, there " be planned and carried out suitable program for the due "gnition of these faithful and hiotic citizens on the Annivcrry hate - January 5, 1944. Ration Pointers [ bAsOLlNK ? A-8 coupons l;t' good through February 8. Sl'tiAR -Stamp No. 29 in wok Four is good for 5 Nr.;s through January 15. SHOES stamp No. 18 in ?00li One good for 1 pair. No l on the airplane ' 'ot in Book Three is good Ior 1 pair. Mats, FATS ? Brown !t,mpa L. M N, P. and Q arc f"0'1 through January 1. Brown n,I>ri is good through JanCary 29. Brown stamp S beL".cd January 2 and regood tlirough January --' bharc ( mp i on the first k* 01 AVar Ration Book 4 L.800,1 f(,r l>oints for the purI, ? ul l?oi < through January ^ ' Hut tsstn FOODS?Green . C* D, e, and F in Book I uary C g00d through Jan TH IO. 37 Whiteville-Soi Began Operat Are Now Giving Double Ds Seats Of Brunswick And Intermediate Points; ^ Present Ma The W. B. & S. Bus Lines, Inc. begin double daily service beI tween Whiteville and Southport Monday of this week and Generat Manager Hubert Livingston stated last night that the prospects for passenger traffic | looks fine, despite the fact that the Monday and Tuesday runs of the buses were made without any advance notice to the traveling public. A bus will leave Southport for Whiteville at 7:30 each morning. At the same hour another machine will leave Whiteville for Southport. The return trips will [begin from each place at 4:30 in [ the afternoon. A complete sche-1 dule of arrivals at intermediate j : points on the route is carried in J I the advertising columns of this' paper. In accordance with the established custom of the bus com| panies, stops will be made to j | take on and discharge pasj sengers at all points on the i route. But where the public will i not be inconvienced it is preferred that the buses be boarded at one of the designated stopping j points. Organizing Lo Soil Conser Hearings To Be Held The Last Of This Month With Regard To Very Imporant Post-War Work In Brunswick County ALL OF BRUNSWICK INCLUDED IN MATTER Hearings To Be Held At i Eight Different Places In County, Notice Of Pla- I } ? ce? And Date fur Hearings Will Appear Next Week During the latter part of this month a series of hearings will be held on a matter that will be of vital importance to Brunswick county during the post-war period. The 'hearing is for the organization of the Lower Cape Fear Soil Conservation District, the district to include all lands in Brunswick county, excepting and excluding town and village lots, and lands owned by or under the control of the United States, or any of ifs agencies. The western and piedmont part of the state has had such districts and a tremendous amount of soil conservation work has been done in those districts during the past several years. Brunswick does not need terracing, but it does need drainage and the Soil Conservation District, embracing the whole area of Brunswick county, will come in for this drainage. To show the proposed working. I it may be taken for granted that the government, in furtherance | of the local work, will open up | the outlets of Hoods Creek, Town Creek, Lockwoods Folly River, Shallotte and YVaccamaw Rivers, as well as other streams in Brunswick. When this work of opening up things, by dredging, has been completed attention will be given further up stream and many thousands of acres of valuable farming lands will be made available for trucking and general farming. "This work," said County Agent Dodson, "will be the biggest thing we will have after the war." Columbus, Bladen and Pender counties are also moving forward for places in the Lower Cape Fear Soil Conservation District. The district will be made up of these three counties and Brunswick. The government already has the surveys and it is understood that the government will do the dredging. To illustrate the practical nature of some of the work that is contemplated, it is said that a canal wiil be cut from (Continued on page 4) Pulpwood Cutting Off 50 Per Cent Bad weather during the past two weeks has curtailed the cutting of pulpwood in Brunswick county 50 per cent or more, according to H. L. Clemmons of J Supply. Mr. Clemmons supervises the cutting for the Canal Wood Corporation at Georgetown. This corporation probably handles more than half of all of the pulpwood that is now being cut in the county. EST I A Good 4-PAGES TODAY ithport Buses 1 ing This Week lily Service Between County Columbus With Stops At | lew Lines May Relieve iil> Troubles i The W. B. & S. Bus Lines, Inc., now has six passenger buses available for taking* care of the travel aid mail contracts between j Southport and Wilmington and Southport and Whiteville. Four' of the machines are now, having been de ivered during the past month. Owing to the mail and greater volume of passenger traffic between Southport and Wilmington 'this necessitating frequent ruis, four of the machines will have to operate between these places but one of them will always be available for any emergency between Whiteville and j Southport. j It is understood that there are j hopes that contracts may be se-1 cured for the carrying of mail between Whiteville and Southport, supplying Old Dock, Ash, Shallotte and Supply en-route. Such service would be a distinct been to the citizens of Waccamaw, Shallotte and Lockwoods Folly townships. The citizens of those townships have long claimed that the mail service they get is about the worst in the world and altogether out of keeping with modern needs. \\KTOi* ranp p ' VI. \jupv 1. VtiJL | vation District; g C An Urgent Request ' ( It is urgently requested that ] out of consideration for service a men in this area, the public re- 1 train from attending the movie r at the U. S. O. on Sunday r nights. v The same picture is shown c on Salurday night and every- i one is welcome to that, Direc- s tor J. T. Gibson states that e though similar requests have t been made before, numbers of people, especially children, insist upon being at the U. S. O. ( on Sunday nights, thereby depriving service men of seats for the show. Production Off ;( At Workroom Request Is Made That Better Cooperation Be Given c Red Cross Surgical Dress- r ings Program J Production of surgical dress- ( ings for the month of December a suffered a drastic decline because t of Christmas holidays and the c fact triat the work room was closed for two weeks, according j. to repcrts sent in by the chair- j man. Twenty-two women worked 105 J hours to produce the 3,500 dress- ' ings which were folded. This is I quite a lot less than have been J made Jit the workroom in previous months. It is hoped that with the new year, women in Southport will make it one of their resolutions to give at least one afternoon or night each week to this volunteer work. The workroom is far behind schedule because of the indifference of Southport women to this Red Cross work. The dressings are badly needed by the army and offer a splendid opportunity to cooperate in the war effort. Much Influenza In A Mild Form Southport Area Appears To Have Greatest Number of t Sufferers From The Di-'a sea ie Which Is In A Veryjd Mild Form t I There have been many hun- f dreds of cases of influenza in c Brunswick county during the past s few weeks. The disease is still t very prevalent with the South- t port area said to have the larg- c est number of cases. All sections i of the county are effected, how- < ever. * 1 Mrs. Lou Smith, county health c nurse, stated on Monday that the J disease had been and still is in a 1 very light form, no serious cases 1 being reported. There also ap- t pears to be few, if any, com- < plications resulting from the at- i tacks. J (continued on page rour) < m i News paper Ii Southport, N. CM W< Caravan To Be At Shallotte School Jan.13 intertainment To Be Presented By Paper Company To Help Inform Public Of Importance Of Pulpwood . DISPLAY WILL BE INTERESTING FEATURE evenings Program Will Be Free And Public Is Cordially Invited To Attend There will be a program of ree entertainment at the Shalotte High School on Thursday light, Jan. 13, given by the Inernational Paper Company for he pur]>ose of acquainting citi;ens of Brunswick County with he importance of pulpwood in he nation's war effort. There will be sound moving lictures of pulpwood manufacure. In addition there is to be i display of war materials made rom pulpwood which should be if interest to every person in Srunswick. Though our people mow aliout the cutting of pulpvood, it will be of interest to hem to see where it goes and n what form it emerges to fight h<> war The company is not trying to lell anything. It is simply ndeavoi'ing to inform the pubic what pulpwood means to our :ountry as an aid in carrying on he war. The movies show the >ulpwoo:l industry from the [rowing pines on through the lutting of the trees, the manuacture of'war articles and the ictual uses to which these arti:les are put. The Pulpwood Carvan will ony be able to exhibit in Brunswick it this one place and time, Shalotte high school, Thursday light, January 13. It will be very nuch to the interest of all Brunsvick citizens to attend. It will lost them nothing and the moves and exhibits will bring them erne extremely valuable know, dge ccncerning Brunswick great imber crops. Joint Meetings For Next Week Zountv And Home Agents Willi Hold A Series Of * Meetings At All Consolidated White Schools In Brunswick Next Week Instead of regular home lemonstration meetings for this ] nonth, Miss Norfleet and County < Vgent Dodson have planned a < leries of joint farm and home . iutlook Meetings for both men 1 ind women. These meetings will ; ake the place of the home i' lemons'.ration meetings which arej. isually held each month and J lemons orations will be given by 11 >oth ::he Home and County j tgents. 11 Both Miss Norfleet and County'I Vgent Oodson are anxious for ineresteci parties and the general ' mblic to attend the meeting j learest their home. The schedule I or next week is as follows: I Monday, January 10, Leland ligh School. i Tuesday, January 11, Bolivia ' -ligh School.(Continued on page 4) . W. B. KEZJLAH A great many Brunswick couny land owners feel that they lost i i real friend last week in the leath of Perley Vereen, Supt of , he Reigel Paper Company lands. Cot only was he was apostle of ire prevention and conservation if timber on the hundred thouland acres of land belonging to he company he served, he and he company's fire prevention iquipment and men were always eady to go many miles to aid in ixtinguishing fires on other ands. With the woods crop now lefinitely fixed as Brunswick's ;reatest farm crop, the Reigel laper company did much to >ring about an understanding of he value. The good work will go >n and to Perley Vereen belongs nuch of the credit of bringing tbout a realization of the value )f our woods many years sooner P0R1 i A Good Com sdnesday, January 5th, SER1 '"H ? T^Ti Lt. Eleanor Niernsee of I serving in Australia's biggest left is Lt.-Colonel James Bon er, all four are former meml timore.?(Cut, Courtesy Feat _ *1 1 1 I tontest ended With Old Year Number Of Garments Handed In As Result Of Contest Between Two Groups Of Southport Ladies The End-of-the-Year contest between the knitters of Southport and the service wives came to a close with the last day of the year with the Southport ladies ahead. Mrs. C. Ed Taylor, production chairman for the local Red Cross chapter states that a good number of knitted garments were made because of the contest. Mrs. E. R. Outlaw turned in the greatest number of knitting hours. She knit five Navy turtleneck sweaters. Mrs. Lizzie Southerland was second with . socks being her specialty. In all, fifty eight garments were made, among them Navy and Army sweaters, Army mufflers and Navy helmets. The following ladies participat- i ed in the contest; Mrs. Bangert, ; i /V ew R e gist rants For The Service ??? * The following young Brunswick 1 County men have registered for ' the Selective Service during the 1 past month. Unless indicated otherwise, all are white: Chester 1 Glenn Jones, Southport; Roukj< ITrinlf r?n1 T-Tnllv Rirlcro* Tr>c With three brothers in service, i Miss Emma Lou Harrelson, of Orton Plantation, decided several < weeks ago that she also wanted to get into service, real service at that. She was told that the quickest way to get over was in the WAVES, where girls were (Continued on page 4) r Pii munity 1944 PUBL VING IN AUSTRA W I - p" .Jf W Wr' ''wy the Medical Corps, shown ; hospital, where this pictu iley, Lt. Martina Nelson a bers of the staff of the J( ure Editor, Baltimore Eve Lieutenant El Visits SoutI Next Week's Paper Next week's issue of tin State Port Pilot will be pub lishrd 011 Tuesday, January 11 instead of Wednesday, January IS. The following week th< normal schedule will be resum ed and the Pilot will be pub lished on Wednesday as usual. Income Increases In Brunswicl Average Employment Ir creased And Brougli With It More Income Fc Workers Over 10,000 employers in Norl Carolina show a war-time en ployment increase of some 116 000 and a total war-time payrc Increase of $300,000,000, as tl difference between their 1940 ar 1942 wage reports to the Ui employment Compensation Con pensation Commission, it was ai flounced today by Claims Deput C. A. Dees. For the state as a whole, en ploycrs reported for 1942 an ai irage of 579,282 workers, recen ng $730,581,705, as against a iverage of 474,872 workers wh cceived $430,584,323 in 1940. I Brunswick County, an average < 118 workers who earned $391 531 were reported for 1942. Th: (Continued Un Page irour> Walton First To Offer For Offic< Starts The 1944 Campaig By Stating He Is A Car dictate For Renominatio: To The Office Of Regis ter Of Deeds Register of Deeds Amos . Walton stated this week that 1 s a candidate for re-election t lis office this year. He was at lointed to succeed W. S. Well; .vho was given a leave of al sence^to enter service. With two sons in service an limself unable to give his coui ry fighting service, because t ige limitations, Mr. Walton sti "eels he can render his count service by carrying on efficientl n one of the major county oi (continued on page two! Henry L. Stevens To Hold Cour Clerk of Court Sam T. Bei nett was advised Monday th< ludge Henry L. Stevens, of Wai saw, and Judge W. C. Harris, < Raleigh, have made an exchanj in the January and spring tern Df court. This change will brin Judge Stevens here to presk Dvcr the one week term of mi: ad court that convence on Jai uary 24th. TTiere is very little in the wa of important criminal or civ cases to be heard at the aboi term. However, the Januas courts are always largely atten ed as they come at a season i the year when farmers are le busy than usual. m ISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY LIA i ~ ^ 4L;| above, second from left, is re was made. With her on the nd Major W. L. Winkenwerd>hns Hopkins Hospital in Balning Sun>() eanor Niernsee a Mm lport, Australia - * "j Local Woman Went With First Medical Unit To Be J Sent Overseas During The Present War, In 3 Australia Nearly Two - I Years ' PICTURE APPEARS 5 IN NEWSPAPERS Red Haired Nurse From Southport Often Before The Cameraman Of Baltimore Evening Sun Down in Australia i .Lt. Eleanor Niernsee, popular red-haired Southport girl, Is now rounding out three years service it with the army. For the last two ir years she has been with the largest hospital unit in far away Australia. With several hundred other :h nurses and doctors she left early i- in 1942 for her present post. The !,- unit with which she went over 1,11 was the first detail of doctors and le | nurses to be sent to any of the id I theatres of war. Practically all members of the unit were from Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. Lt. Niernsee rs the daughter of y Mr. and. Mrs. F. M. Niernsee. She finished at the Southport high school with the class of 1934 and '' immediately thereafter went to ~; Baltimore for training in Johns n Hopkins as a nurse. Graduating o there she accepted a position on nitne sian ana remameu wmi uic )f hospital. She enlisted in the army nursing corps three years ago, when it became apparent that we 18 would sooner or later enter the war and trained nurses and medical staffs would be needed. The attack on Pearl Harbor plunged thousands of doctors and nurses, who were already in the p army, into still more rapid and rigid training. Lt. Niernsee's unit was the first to be ready to go. n She sailed with it after a flying visit home at Christmas, 1041. n Several times in the past few months the Baltimore Evening Sun has run full pages of pictures, ' showing the activities of the Johns Hopkins unit in Australia. Although there are hundreds of le doctors and nurses in the unit Lt. (Continued on page 4) ) Little Business Commissioners >f y First Meeting For The New y Year Found Little Busif-| ness Awaiting For Board Of County Commissioners To Transact Their first meeting for the t year, coming so soon after Christmas, found little work for l- the board of county commissionit ers to do when they met here r- Monday. Tough weather also jf contributed towards it being a ;e rather small day. is In addition to minor tax matg ters, the Carolina Lands, Inc. ie owners of Long Beach and olhei c- lands in Brunswick, was allowed i- a reduction of $5,000 in valuatior for 1943 and the same amounl ly for 1944. This was due to depre11 ciation in value of the beach anc re other lands, the beach being un-y able to operate for the past twe 1- years, owing to wartime restric of tions. ss A report on the general countj (Continued on Page Four) rh'.Uif i - - - i ? 1 4 Most Of The News All The Time ] $1.50 PER YEAR _ . Wickard Urges Farmers To Cut More Pulpwood .? Pulpwood Cutting and Food Production Go Hand In | Hand Says Agriculture Secretary Wickard SOLDIERS FOOD PACKED IN PULPWOOD BOXES New Containers Made From Pulpwood Also Needed To Market Much Of 1944's Fruit And Vegetables I PulpwooU cutting and food production go hand in hand to serve American fighting men. Secretary Claude R. Wickard of the Department of Agriculture said this week in urging farmers to back the Victory Pulpwood Campaign. At the same time, Marvin Jones, War Food Administrator, pointed out that the pulpwood shortage directly affects farmers because they are large users of its products in carrying on their normal trade in farm produce. "I have watched with interest the development of the Victory Pulpwood Campaign, in which farmers in pulpwood-producing areas are playing such an important part," Secretary Wickard stated. "The farmers of America aro ' performing outstanding service 1 in raising foodstuffs for our fighting men, our Allies, and tho ' home front. They will do their i part in producing the pulpwood that goes into supplies and equipment for their own sons, bro thers, ana menus overseas. 1 "Actually the one production job complements the other. Food ( from our farms is transported to our fighting forces in paperboard boxes and multi-wall paper bags made of pulpwood. "County agents and foresters, who already have helped in the Victory Pulpwood Campaign, | may be counted on to advise ' | farmers on how and what trees to "iVr~accordance with good I (Continued From Page One) Few Defendants i In Court Monday All Matters Handled Quickly And Adjournment Of Court Was Made Before Noon, Good Crowd Of Spectators Present Despite downpours of rain, a fairly good crowd, including near- > ly a dozen defendants, were in attendance at Monday's session of the Recorder's Court. The min- L' ute docket shows the following cases and their disposition. W. O. Welch, failure to stop at stop sign, judgment suspended on payment of costs. David Bryant, retailing, continued to Monday, January 10. Hubert A. Eaten, speeding, j~j nn navnwnt I judgment oud^viiuvm vri* x?j ? (Continued on page 2) NEWS "| I BRIEFS j | HOME ON LEAVE Motor Mechanic 1-c Staccy Wade, is spending a 20 days leave here with his father, Capt. Wm. Wade and sister, Mrs. Eskctt St. George. This is his first trip home in a year. He has been in Africa on active service for the past nine months. He is with the Coast j Guard and his work there was mainly concerned with the land* ing of troops. He was engaged J in two battles and suffered minor injuries. ;| BACK FROM AFRICA S. M. 3-c Erwin Joy has been ! spending an 18 days leave from the Navy with his mother, Mrs. i Lottie Joy, who lives near town, i He has just returned to the . States after nine months service in Italy and Africa. Before enter- ;X ing the service he was with the , advertising department of Sears Roebuck in Wilmington. I FLYING A FIGHTER E. F. Middleton, Jr., who was a with his father in the operation I of Long Beach previous to our entry into the war, is now flying i a P - 47 (Thunderbolt) at a I - Florida port At the time of beginning his training as a pilot r he was a student in the Citadel at Charleston. /' I J