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
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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<
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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<
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Inesday, September<
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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. . >
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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 <Jf
the session. The school board went M
so far in its opposition to Staton . 8
that the school was ordered clos- ('l|
ed and remained closed for * J.?
(Continued on Page 4) if|
: :?'i 1
[ Ration Pointer*) I
CANNING SUGAR
Sugar stamp No. 40 good ,j j
for five pounds of canning" 'tj
sugar until February 28,
1945. Apply to local boards Ifi
for supplemental rations.
FUEL OIL
Period 4 and 5 coupons"
now valid and will remain,
valid throughout the heating
year. Period 1 coupons for
next season are now valid.
GASOLINE
A-ll coupons now valid for" flj
three gallons each through'
November 8.
MEATS AND FATS
Red A8 through G5 (Book
4) now valid at 10 points
each for use with tokens.
Good indefinitely.
PROCESSED FOODS
Blue A8 through L5 (Book
4) now valid at 10 points each
for use with tokens. Good In*'
definitely. (NOTE: Blue Ration
Tokens will expire Oct-,
ober 1. Use them IMMEDIATELY.)
SHOES
Airplane stamp No. 1 and
No. 2 (Book 3) valid indefinitely.
A
SUGAR
Sugar stamps No. 30. 3V
32, and 33 (Book 4) good for
five pounds of sugar each la?
definitely.
*
Rationing rules now require that
every car owner write his license
number and state in advance en
all gasoline coupons la his possession.