j-},c Pilot Covers H Brunswick County W^To. FIFTEEN NO nusually Lat I faced Tudgt Iwid-aSession Of Recor j^rs Court Had One Of I [he Heaviest Dockets In Many Months tuber DEFENDANTS M FAILED to appear Bienty Four Cases Called Hn,th Some Having To Be Continued For Arrest Of Defendants 3j;e John B. Ward and SoliH'' \v Kuark were confront?:th the biggest docB ?a: the Recorders Court has B y one day in many B?<- I:: several cases officers ; [ ;saed summons for defenB . the defendants failed Birttfif- I"- such instances capB?is issued and the case conBee unti' rext week. B' 8 show the followBe cases before the court and the Bs-;'.:'"' m.ade of each case: B f Thoip, obstructing road, Wesley Smith, speeding, or. payment of fine of Btv and costs. P. Reid, speeding, call capias and continu Ckience Anderson, larceny, :---jed to Sept. 25. Arthur Sneed. larceny, continui u Sept. 25. ;. a:. :erson, larceny, continui b September 25. Arthur Hankins, drunken driv; . x months on roads, judgc: suspended on payment of i of $75 00 and costs, p.: mas McDonald, larceny, concec to September 25. Ernest Tate, speeding, 30 days mads. judgment suspended on pert of >20.00 fine and costs. [OW of fine remitted. Sarah Jane Western, possession : purpose of sale, 60 days o>. c:v farm, judgment suspended (Continued on Page 4j our Teachers Short At Bolivia rincipal Tucker, States He Expects To Have Full Faculty By End Of Week ihe Bolivia high school got un?way .Monday with Principal tea Tucker reporting a four ?aer shortage in the eiementiy aid high school grades. Howie.' he expects all of these vatCts to be filled by the end ' the week. The vacancies are * l'.h and Sth grade teachers - two in the high school deQiarles Walton is again servf the school as janitor. Driv5 ' ail buses have been secured the buses themselve seem ki oruer for the years work, fie teachers reporting Monty were Misses Bertha Reid and cialene McKee, first grades; Continued on Page Four) IFire Destroys I U ilson Home BC;.e nice six room cottage of P u Mrs. E. W. Wilson at P-v(a was completely destroyed P fire at eleven o'clock Friday frur.g. The blaze is supposed to V originated from the flue to P stove in which dinner was hePj cooked. Nothing whatever V* saved. The family, composed Mr and Mrs. Wilson and two fighters, escaped with only the P-.es they had on at the time. I Brief New* I Flashes PtB CROSS MEETING There will be a meeting of the I Cross Executive Committee I he office of Mrs. Grace PP^k on Thursday afternoon at V ? o'clock. Col. Statley, Field viesentative from Atlanta, will P Present. P^IYES IX FRANCE * and Mrs. C. L. Sellers P'dved word this week from Pir son, William, stating that P had arrived safely somewhere Pjrance. He is serving with 8. P?cal unit. PjXOCNCE BIRTH and Mrs, J. W. Thompson, Knerly of Southport, now of P*'Sh, have announced the birth Pa ??, James William ThompBr "I He is a grandson of the ffr J W. Thompson of South \ ] TH1 _ 4-PAG ge Docket ; And Solicitor " ? Posthumous Award Given To Captain Bragaw Resident Of Southport Killed In Italy Given Posthumous Decoration By War Department for Gallantry In Action MANAGED ORTON BEFORE GOING IN THE SERVICE '! ?? ' Mother And Younger Broil ther Live In Southport; j Was Son Of Late Colonel Henry Churchill Bragaw, Of Raleigh Captain Henry Churchill Bra- [ gaw, who was killed in Italy last January, has been posthumously : awarded the Silver Star, accord1 ing to an announcement made j r j this week by the War Depart[ment The Order of the Purple ! Heart had previously been con- j ' ferred on him. Captain Bragaw was 29 years old and was unmarried. He was [manager of Orton Plantation ' prior to entering the service. His I mother and a younger brother, j ! Ensign Billy Bagaw, of the Naval ! Air Corps, are residents of Southi port. j The dispatch from the War De(Continued on Page 4) j Principalship Still Unsettled Southport School Opens i With Rev. A. L. Brown Substituting As Principal Until Regular One Can Be Secured I The Southport school opened Monday without a permanent [principal and short two teachers but this trouble is expected to be ironed out in the next few days. Miss Annie Mae Woodside, Supt., of Schools, says that the local j school board has seven applicants | for the vacant post of principal, j I W. R. Lingle, who headed the [ schools for the past seven years, I has been worikng in Fayetteville j j since last session closed. Several weeks ago he notified the local school board that he felt his Continued on page four Good Opening At U/n A^mnur Q/*linn] TT AC ilia, w uuiuui Full Faculty And Large Number Of Students Are Present Monday For j Opening Of School Year Although it was stated last 1 week that the faculty of the i Waccamaw school was not com- J plete, a most successful opening ' was held Monday with a large " enrollment of students and a full ' corps of teachers present. Prinjcipal J. T. Benning is anticipating a most successful school year. The loss of LeRoy Mintz who resigned his position as teacher of agriculture on September 1 to take a position with the soil con-J serration department of the county, will be felt by the school and patrons. Mr. Mintz served as j head of the Vocational Agricul(Continued on Page Four) Bolivia Boys Off To College? S Four Vocational Agricultur- ' al Students At Bolivia ' Are Now Entering Col- A lege Training E ti A good indication of the value s of the Vocational Agriculture c ! work in the schools of Brunswick j, county is found in the fact that h three boys, all graduates of the i( Bolivia school last spring, are now n attending State College and fol- v lowing up the splendid training v that was given them during the tl past two or three years by J. M. ? King, Vocational Agriculture c teacher at Bolivia. Still another boy, Bobbie, left last week for his second year's work at Wake t Forest. f The three new students at y State College this year are, Lo- n well Mercer, who is taking Voca- e tional Agriculture, and Jack h 'Walls and Larnell Willetts whojv (Continued on Page Four) la E STATE A Good News paper I es today Southport, N. C., SVe< - --w^| m j 4 n. Mj^njr j, ^ - - ? ,. , J -.,( '. '' :' gippps . ^s. V sS^/ ! ' \ f ' WIDELY PICTURED FOXES . . . Oris it the Girl? lohn Hubley, wife of a Naval Lieutenant formerly stations :ox cubs she is holding, has been circulated throughout tl )f newspapers and magazines have carried it. The two } Marion Fredere, of Southport. They are as tame as housi Soerch of the State Magazine.) O ROVING ^ Reporter \ ? n vtj'/mr S , J). AliALnia . ? 1] In line with the general belief him that the crop is the best in 1 hat the war in Germany will | years, it appears to us that the P oon be over, we are quoting di- j answer as to how it was produced d ect from a letter received this is plain for all to see. The grow- a reek from J. Hammond Brown, ing season was fairly good and v resident of the Outdoor Writers; supplementing that the Brunswick t issociation of America. Mr. farmers worked harder than they irown is also Outdoor Editor of had ever before worked. Taking a he Baltimore News-Post and has everything by and larger, they put n everal times visited Brunswick in a 16-hour working day for six b ounty. His letter indicates he days of the week. The answer as s opes for an early return here as to how this years crop was prod- e e says: "Now that it looks as uced is found in the way the ti f this mess will soon be over,: farm folks worked, plus a fairly C laybe Eastern North Carolina, good season. Mr. Stanley is a u nil come into its own again and j strong advocate of the Austrian h re shall stage a Victory party on winter peas as a soil improver, he sand of Cape Fear and amid He also thinks highly of lespedeza he beauties of the gardens at as a hay crop and soil improver. % >rton." I The winter peas and lespedeza ? ? * i are, he says, the poor man's e J. Worth Stanley, Waccamaw friend. f ownship tobacco grower and j * * ? e armer, said last week that this Amos Walton of Waccamaw, E ear his crops and those of his Acting Register of Deeds during f eighbors are the best they have the time that W. S. Wells was in s ver grown. He dees not yet sec service and now a candidate for tl ow they managed to make it, the office on his own, was in rith labor shortage and late start town this week. Asked about v t planting time. Agreeing with I Continued on page four f< J I . -'V POR' n A Good Co Inesday, September< Teflon:SB??*?? ' * n i M " i gpp' . I HI^B i i The above picture of Mrs, 2d here, and the two small le United States. Hundreds roung foxes belong to Miss 3 cats?(Cut, courtesy Carl Did Tax Matters Occupied Board bounty Commissioners Appear Gratified At Success Of Efforts To Clear Up Delinquent Taxes Tax matters again constituted he only business, to come up beore the board of county commisioners at their mid-month meet ng here on Monday, ror aimosi heir entire administration the resent board has been working iligently to clear up tax matters nd put the county on a basis /here all property owners beat heir share of taxes. As an indication of the success ttending their efforts one only eeds to refer to the large numer of people coming in daily to ettle up for their delinquint taxs. On Monday this rush to pay axes was so strong that Tax Icllector W. P. Jergenson was nable to leave his office for anch. (Continued on Page Four) ISITS PARENTS Jack Stone, S. 1-c, has returnd to his base after spending a ifteen days leave with his parnts, Mr-, and Mrs. J. I. Stone, at tolivia. He recently graduated rom the Aviation Machinists chool in Chicago, 111. Finishing hero he was sent to U. S. N, dr Station at Brunswick, Maine ,'here he has been for the past our months. r piL mmunity >0, 1944 ** * Shallotte Boy T. Army Life In Corporal Tennyson G. Robinso Observations Of His Ovei Past Three (NOTE: The following let- ir ter from a Shallotte boy, Cpl. ai Tennyson G. Robinson, son of a W. E. Robinson and the late Sirs. Eva Hewett Robinson, a should be on Interest to the & many friends of the young soldier, who is now serving In New Guinea.) 01 Dear Editor: h After having received the State P Port Pilot at more or less regular tl intervals throughout my entire al twenty-seven months overseas, I t feel that I should write and tell J you that it has been one bright fc spot in an otherwise dull exist- J111 ence-not dull from standpoint of 01 inactivity, but dull from stand- n point of home contacts. As you may or may not know, j is I came across with the 118th Gen- J d< eral Hospital, a John-Hopkins unit sc that has distinguished itself in bi medical and surgical attention'pi I given to soldiers in this theatre of; w war. ui I spent many months in Aub- j oi trailia where I learned to know j I and appreciate the people and | ai their ways which are only slight-!a' ly different from ours. I made| Field Meeting ( For Sweet Pc . ? Field Meeting On Friday For Sweet Potato Growers Demonstration Should Be Of Interest To All Growers Of Sweet Potatoes SPECIALISTS FROM STATE COLLEGE TO BE HERE Meet* ",,;ll Be At Farm Of Hickman, Of tlolivia A field meeting that should be interesting to many Brunswick county growers of sweet potatoes is to be held Friday of this week on the farm of J. T. Hickman, near Bolivia. The meeting, according to the announcemeht by County Agent Dodson, will be I of especial interest to sweet jpotat'o growers who have an eye jopen to improved methods of curling and storing sweet potatoes. I Labor saving devices for cultivating and digging the crop will al| so be demonstrated. specialists irom inoi in Carolina, b [state College, with equipment for J* | cultivating and digging sweet | | potatoes and plans for converting j j tobacco curing barns into sweet * potato houses, will be on hand to assist the county agent in the demonstrations. If the attendance and interest is large enough to _ justify it an actual demonstra- ^ tion of digging, grading and packing will be given. The meeting will be at two o'' clock Friday afternoon. A Grand Jury Adds To Its Report Expressions Incorporated In Proceedings Of Body . [ After Report Was Made To Judge Stevens , The report of the grand jury was published in last week's aa paper. However, following the presentation of the report to [ Judge Stevens, a recommendation y, . | was made and incorporated into j j,r . j the report. This recommendation I m . which the paper failed to get was 1 ei ; as follows: laj "We wish to incorporate the'ed expressions contained below in ourjne i regular report. Geo. B. Ward, j at i foreman, Lacy Dawkins, Sec. iof Whereas, heretofore Grand Juries of Brunswick County have"* > i called to the attention of the as 1 Board of County Commissioners ca of said county the need of re- ^ , pairs to the Court House, and th Where the Board of Commis- J ^ sioners have recently caused the a] roof of the Court House to be re-j* I paired and repainted and certain! other repairs made and have caus- J pr ed the interior of the Court House including all offices and the Court ? room to be well and pleasingly painted; and Whereas, by reason of the care ' and diligence of the Board of w County Commissioners of Bruns- p 'J wick County, the Court House is 0(l II now well repaired and rapainted1 a in a manner reflecting credit up-,in , on the Board of County Commis-1 w; , sioners and the people this coun-,in : ty: |ex (Continued on Page Four) jyc T77- : ;?, ..v. . > * OT [ 0 PER YEA* PUBUSHE1 eUsOf 1 New Guinea n Writes Some Interesting -seas Life During The Years lany friends there that I believe nd hope will remain friends for life time. I am now in New Guinea where fellow learns that life takes on n entirely new meaning, I have een here several months and the nly thing about the place that I ave learned to really like is the urpose of our being here. For lat purpose I would go any place rid be content until the time for le to move out to a better place. The Pacific theatre is known >r its great distances, any movelent is for many miles and that t course means isolation, which teans loneliness. One of the features of this place i the abundance of rain, we selom miss a day of rain, of course imetimes it is not so very hard ut at other times it can sure our. Of course every few weeks e see the Sun and that gives 3 a chance to dry our bodies and lr clothes. You see clothing gets musty nd even molds if the Sun stays tvay too long at a time. (Continued on Pagi 4) )n Friday itato Growers Judge Caught A Nice String Judge Henry Stevens went fishing just before the scheduled hurricane last week and made a nice catch. With Solicitor Clifton Moore, Attorney E. J. Prevatte, and Dr. R. J. Hyatt he made a nice catch. George Worthan) serv- | ed as guide. The party got three large black drum, t wo large red drum, t wo trout and a whole i lot of croakers, pigflsh, etc. In all their catch weighed about 40 pounds. Both the judge and Solicitor are said to have been tickled pink over their trip. The catch was unusual because it was not a good day for fishing. The buromometer was way down, heralding the nearness of the hurricane. Fish simply will not bite just , In advance of a storm. Jew Nurses Home fo Be Built At Dosher Memorial forth Carolina Shipbuild-1 ing Company Has Dona- j ted Five Hundred Dollars Toward Structure ADDITIONAL FUNDS ARE SAID ASSURED lodern 8-Room Nurses Home Will Allow Extra Patient Space At Memorial Hospital A nurses home for the J. Arur Dosher Memorial nation of iOO.OO toward the structure has ien made by the North Carola Shipbuilding Company' and her donations that are in view isure much of the needed amint of $7,500.00. The plans are to construct a oroughly modern eight room Jck nurses home on the lot imediately south of the hospital, nee the building of the hospit, the nurses have been quarterin the hospital proper and the iw building will give consider>le additional space for the care patients. Members of the hospital comittee say that the building is aured, just as soon as material ,n be obtained. Far from all of e needed funds are in hand but ey feel justified in saying that ere will be no hitch in raising 1 of the needed amount Any and 1 donations that friends of the ispital can make toward this leded improvement will be apeciated. Gilbert Cox With Assault Forces Seaman Second Class Gilbert Cox, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. Cox, dP Bolivia, was a member a U. S. Naval crew in the merican assault forces which vaded France. Previously he as at Normandy, Cherbourg and the Mediterranean. Despite his itensive service he is only 191 :ars old. J Most of The News All The Time D EVERY WEDNESDAI Precautions For { Hurricane Taken I But Not Needed I Red Cross Was On Hand In Case The Storm Struck In This Vicinity CAUSED CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE IN NORTH Reports Indicated Southport Would Be In Center Until Last Minute Change In Course Southport and the lower North Carolina coast entirely escaped Wednesday and Thursday when the hurricane raged off-shore and i conjecture ran rife as to where Jt would strike. While the hurricane was at sea, reports credited the winds with blowing at 140 miles per hour. Many local residents felt confidents that the hurricane would f not strike here. Hundred year ' maps of the U. S. Weather 6u- J reau show that hurricanes invar!- |i; (ably strike at Hatteras on the ! coast a bove us, or at Charleston* H below. At any rate, with last week's hurricane raging 200 t/t 300 miles at sea and its course H undetermined, it was a simple *Sj matter of prudence to take all HI (possible steps to handle an emlergency if it came here. 4 The Red Cross called Mrs. Ruark at the local office, warned her of possible danger and 'J instructed her to take whatever m steps might be necessary. Mrs. I>. C. Fergus, the Red Cross Disaster Chairman, was instructed to have disaster centers ready and to get )'| all emergency supplies ready for the handling of any storm vie- Lj tims. I In accordance with the above fl instructions the court house, Cath- M olic church and City Hall were !| all made ready for storm suffer(Continues on page 41 ' Staton Jailed By | Charlotte Police J Formsr Principal Of Wac- 1 camaw School Taken By Charlotte Police On Ca- fj pias Instanter From Soli- :i citor Moore A dispatch from Charlotte states that J. B. Station, former H principal of the Waccamaw ,j school, was arrested Saturday and jailed by Charlotte police to awaij: 1 transfer here. He is charged with jll larceny of school funds, a trufe bill to that effect having been 1 j found by the grand jury at the ill spring session of court. At last week's session of court H Solicitor Clifton Moore issued a Ocapias instanter for the arrest of a Station. Previously no action, had been taken upon the finding of /5? the grand jury. Station, employed as principal of the Waccamaw school last ' 3 session, was apparently at odds 'J with his teachers, the school board U and patrons from the opening