{he Pilot Covers J Brunswick County __ 0. FIFTEEN r flVaccam |Co. 5onf< sOfer Mil :rBr,; Time In History Of lg? County When Deposits Ir . grunswick Banks Have ?xceeded Half Million rVERAL PROSPERITY reflected, showin ^Lfitution A n d Workers jjte High Throughout All Sections Of Brunswick County |r:- the first t ime in the his of Brunswick County bank H/ deposits in the Southpor ^Er-it of the Waccamaw Ban! K< Trust Company have passer K. million dollar mark. Thi is having fine business fron section of the county, re general prosperity. tittle r.o records are available Br. ierstood that even during & lays rvhen three banks ope in Brunswick tl?e total de never exceeded half a mil Hos-q hnon Hiia tr Iims ""v fact that the county lin< within half a mile of th( of Wilmington. As a mattei or.vei tience many Brunswicl ;e naturally did their bank it. Wilmington while others jaized the banks in White Such use of other banks is carried on but the deposits lore than a million in th< bank show general good rage and that residents 01 county are financially much r off than they have evei ce it opened for business sev rears ago the bank has beer a wonderful service foi r.g interests and business ir wick. Back of this service been the untiring efforts oi er Prince O'Brien and Ast Cashier Mrs. Rachel CorBoth of them have labored ngly to make the institute tip-top in t he service ders to the public. A third yee. Mrs. Martha Browr has also rendered fine e although she has beer the bank only a comparashort time. She is now or e of absence with her husivho is in the service and if ied in the north. 1 Brief News Flashes ^bettrxs from overseas J Marine Cpl. Raymond Jennings Hkison, son of Mr. and Mrs. W HlCaison. of Rt. 1. Shallotte, has Mtoed to the States after long overseas. He is now spend;^PS a 30 days furlough with his '^Barents. He will be stationed al Marine Corps Base here in th( t^Boited States upon completion oi 1^*3 furlough. olorho woman dies i-Jj Frances Joyner, 68 years old known and respected South^B?r colored woman, died Mondaj a brief illness. The remains SMhrc prepared for burial at McoBV5 Undertaking Parlor anc to Shallotte yesterday foi "?*T OX THE RIVER As a result of floods furthei the watershed conslderabl* iBS" has been comin8' down th( jBi Fear during the past few W-Vs- This matter usually reach-Vs here as the tide approaches *? lowest stage. Beaching at university Josephine Moore, wh< i^BJaouated from the University ol ^th Carolina last year, witl J? honors, was called back ther< J1" a vacancy in the Woman': ??! 11 iucation Department o: 8K ,'aculty- Miss Moore is i venter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe 0re of Southport. M^EIVES PROMOTION k?r?c D- Clemmons, son o: I. a M Mrs. C. M. Clemmons o; ^tte. has been promote: m Pr'vate to Private firs 'y is stationed in th ^ -a-Burma-India theatre an< ;1S serving with the India 5:ra division of the Air Trans ? Command since August o iff "ar' "v has been in the ar since January, 1942. In civil *"' 'if,i he was engaged in lum ^hr.g at Asll> ] THI 40. 25 aw Bank & hport Bran lion Dollar * ? ? [Bolivia Man W From Aboar Knows What War Is For He Heart Of It For More Tha i A Man Needs Most I (NOTE: O. V. Leonard, son of _ Mr. and Mrs. Napoleon Leonard I of Bolivia, served three years in I the Army long before Pearl Har- J bor. Getting an honorable discharge when he finished his enlistment period, he turned about and enlisted in the Navy for ti t years. This was about four years t ago and he has since been assigned to duty on submarines. For 1 the past two years he has been % on the famous Billfish. His boat was recently in port on the West 1 Coast for a few days, after long ? active service in the Pacific. While the ship was in port he wrote the letter below to his mother) . .x tli Dear Mama: At least 'I ^ ' can really say "X know what war lis." Believe me, it's hell. I have ] j been right in the heart of it for, | over a year now. It does things ^ , to a person. It makes him much ^ [ j older and a better judge of the \ j human race. It not only does that, . j it also gives him courage and a cfeeling that he is being depended ^ upon to do a job. The thought of I cc that saK olnno smrill on *>*??? I _ *-??** w JVM, aivuv, "Hi taiij ailli ? s through to the end. J . Like many others, I have seen a , triumph, victory and bitter defeat. h j I have seen my ship mates stand ^ f! up under grueling strain, hour (after hour. And they still carried on with a smile and a determina- . tion to fight to the end. These fa are the kind of men that AmerW ica has fighting for her. Many I hours I have sat silent, listening gc ! to distant explosions, wondering cc if they were coming any closer ^ to let us get in our work. Those 1( hours were well spent and some of them and what followed will ^ live in my memory forever, i At other times life seems dull . land useless day after day and I days of battle, but there is al- * ways that encouraging spirit that carries us through and brings out the sunshine. It is the spirit of the thing that gives us much comfort in time of need. Just re- ? member, no matter how long or dark the night may be there is always a dawn, bringing sunshine j and a more cheerful outlook on (Continued on Page Four) Mintz Attending 1*? Trainee's School1 j< ;?\ !m Soil Conservationist Is Now', In Salisbury For Three F 5 Weeks Of Training For I His New Work a ' 'ft ; LeRoy Mintz of Shallotte, Soil Conservationist for Bruns- ^ i | wick county, left Sunday for t Salisbury, where he is spending J ! three weeks in the Trainee's1 ^ t School for the Soil Conservation fj workers. According to Mr. Mintz,1 lo the program for the work in j p Brunswick is shaping up well butja, the need of thorough preparation1 S( > is obvious. r The District Office is now pre- j I } paring a story for release to the J[ _ | newspapers, giving much informj ation regarding the program. This release will be published shortly. One of the biggest obstacles to any early start on the program f is the matter of surveys. Qualified Engineers to make such surveys r are not obtainable, all being eii ther in the service or engaged in i | war or other essential work. It r, appears that the making of any -1 great progress in the work is dej'pendent on the obtaining of en-j gineers and other workers. They; may not be available until after [C the war ends. P' ; Reid Supervisor * Of Soil District fi ? i . P* 1 Well Qualified Brunswick | Man Appointed To Post ai I On Board Of Lower Caps R Fear Soil Conservation t? J District M f u< f G. T. Reid of Winnabow has i been appointed a Supervisor of;w ^ the Lower Cape Fear Soil Con- jE servation District. He succeeds "i e LeRoy Mintz of Shallotte. Mr. 1 Mintz resigned in order to ab cept the post of Soil Conserva- e( tionist with the same organiza-1w tion. The appointment of Reid is'c' for a term of one year. "i Mr. Reid is one of the best ^ " qualified men in Brunswick for the post of supervisor to help di(Continued on Page 6) EST; A Good 4-PAGES TODAY : Trust ichHas Deposits rites Mother d Sub Billfish i Has Been Right In The n A Year; Tells What n The War Zone Selling Time j On Leaf Mart In Sharp Cut Due to congested conditions on j le markets of the other tobacco | :lts selling on all markets has :en cut to four days a week, jlling time on border belt mar:ts has been further reduced to ,'2 hours a day in an attempt to ilieve their congestion. The warehousemen in Whitelie have not yet reached a desion on the closing date for the, rhiteville market. However, ac 11 If T? :ui Tn Cnlnn I HUillg LU iVX. Xj. XV.1UXCI, Jl., oaiC9 ipervisor, the market will prob)ly close on October 20. The Whiteville tobacco market < is sold to date 27,730,507 pounds ! ; tobacco for an average price of : 'er $43.00 per hundred pounds, i Approximately 12 million dol- ' rs has been paid to producers r their crop. 1,281,608 pounds ere sold last week. 1 To date during the 1944 seain, 9,020,523 pounds more tobac> have been sold than during le entire season last year. The 144 season is now only 1,080,441 >unds short of the peak season i ! 1939. ^Gttens Return To Petersburg letired Postal Employee Reported Great Time Visiting Old Friends And Fishing Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cotten of etersburg, Va., and Mrs. Henry low of Baltimore, are returning their homes today after a two eeks visit here, where Mr. Cot- i n resided as a boy. The Cottens are the parents of >seph Cotten, Jr., widely known j ovie ac'tor. On his mother's'side I r. Cotten. is related to the j rinks of Brunswick county. In j ie postal service for about half | century, Mr. Cotten learned to | sh while living here with his andparents as a young boy. To! m, a visit home and several lys of fishing is a yearly event, i While here he spent several j i lys out on fishing trips and had: ne luck. He also visited Shal-1 tte and on an invitation from I rof. Henry Stone he delivered j< 1 address to the several hundred ihool students. Vent-Teachers Hold 1st Meeting lolored Training School Organization Gets Off To' Fine Start With School ' Year, Several Worthwhile Objectives By JAMES E. WILSON The first 1944-'45 monthly eeting of the Parent-Teachers ssociation of the Brunswick Dunty Training School at Southart was held Monday night. Rev. J. B. Howell, pastor of St. ames A. M. E. Zion church, iplored Almingty God for His. essing on the faculty in their j ork, and for continuous amiable :lations between the teachers and irents during the school year. The new supervisor of elementry schools in the county, Mrs. ose King, and the new science . acher of the training school, 3ss Felicia Canty, were introd:ed. Objectives listed for the year ere improvements in the Home conomic and Agriculture departlents; library books; back drop >r stage and a radio. A surplus of $152.89 was report 1 in the treasury and all debts ere listed as paid. The field ubs reported at otal of $24.68. It was decided to have a Founsrs Day program and a Family ight occassion at an early date. I Committees were appointed as (Continued on Page 3) ME I News paper I Southport, N. C., We CASHIER | - ! Prince O'Brien, cashier of the | Southport branch of the Wacca- 1 maw Bank & Trust Company. His efficient work is responsible, in a large measure for deposits in the bank going to over a million dollars. Inquest Slated Thursday Night Inquiry To Be Held Into i Death Of North West Township Negro Coroner W. E. Bell has announced that he will hold an inquest here at the court house Thursdaynight of this week into the fatal stabbing of John Walden Ballard, who was allegedly slain by his wife late in September. Both the slain man and the accused woman are about 50 years old. The weapon used as a butcher knife and the wound was through the heart. Sheriff C. P. Willetts arrested the woman a few hours later and she was sub- [ sequently released on a $2,500! bond, pending the inquest. The Coroner was ill in the hos-1 pital at the time and was not' immediately able to hold an inquest. New Woman's Club Officers New Officers Elected For The Brunswick County Council Of Home Demonstration Clubs The Brunswick County Council of Home Demonstration clubs met in Miss Norfleet's office at Supply on Wednesday. Twenty-six members were present, representing the clubs at Supply, Winnabow, Bolivia, Antioch, Town Creek and Cape Fear. John Harris, horticultural specialist of Raleigh, gave a talk on ;10me OeaUUIICauUII. ne niusuai- I ed his subject with colored slides of country homes and bunches of native shrubs. The slides showed homes before and after planting shrubbery. At the business meeting, following the address of Mr. Harris, officers were elected to serve for the coming year. These officers are Mrs. Bill Kopp, of Bolivia, president; Mrs. K. B. Dresser, of Leland, vice-president; Mrs. J. J. I Hawes, of Supply, secretary; Mrs. | Lee Clemmons, of Supply, treasurer. ' W. B. KEZ1AH So far as we know, Concord Methodist Sunday School at Supply is first in this county to start a practice which shows real rememberance and should be very pleasing to men in the armed service. This week Mrs. Richmond Galloway, treasurer of the Concord Sunday School, gave us two one-year subscriptions to the State Port Pilot. One was for Sgt. Albert Holden, % the Postmaster, Minneapolis, Minn. The other was to Frank C. Floyd, Jr., at the Naval Air Station, Bennett Field, Brooklyn, N. Y. By way of explanation Mrs. Galloway said:' "We wanted to do some little thing for those boys, something they would really appreciate. We decided that more than anything! else they would appreciate get-! ting their home county paper for. a year. The Sunday School is' POR* n A Good Cc dnesday, October 1] Fine Gathering 0 Community Head Held At Suppl; Meeting Of Farmers A Supply Wednesday Ws Well Attended; Prograi For Balance of 1944 Ws Mapped Out WEDNESDAY MEETING OF GREAT VALU Need Of County Organize tion Is Shown At Gathering Of Community Leaders A fine representation of Con munity Leaders met at the AA office in Supply Wednesday f< the purpose of having J. M. Hei ley, fieldman for the AAA, ou line and explain the fall progra which the AAA sponsors on tl farms. The object of the meeting < the committeemen was to becon more familiar with the progra and the benefits which they ai other farmers of their commuri ties may earn by following certa crop growing principles during tl balance of the 1944 season, whi( ends on Decembe 31, 1944. It had been arranged at Con munity Meetings in the varioi communities to sei)d represent! tives to the meeting, these repi sentatives to learn the plans ar in turn advise farmers in the communities. The. following repr (Continued on Page McRackan Make Huge Pear Croj Fifteen Hundred Matur Pear Trees On Farm C Thompson McRackan at Producing Heavily With fifteen hundred pear tre in full bearing on his farm nei Walden Creek, Thompson M Rackan says he will make a o crop this year despite the fi that the early August storm d some damage to the trees. He is now harvesting the en and says there will be sever thousand bushels. If the price anything like it was last year tl fifteen hundred trees should n a small fortune. It is understoi (Continued on Page 4) Supply Girl At Dress Revie\ Young Supply Girl Mad Excellent Showing A County Dress Review an At Lumoercon Accompanied by. Mi Elizabeth Norfleet, home d meonstration agent, Miss Ma garet Phelps of Supply, a stuiei in the Shallotte high school, a tended the District 4-H Drei Revue in Lumberton on Thursda At this revue she modeled a ye low taffeta dress which she d signed and made. Prior to this revue in Lun.be ton Miss Phelps was the Brun wick County 4-H Dress Revi winner. Another Supply girl, Mil Linda Mae Sellers, who is also student in the Shallotte hig school, was second in the counl contest. WING Reporter sending each of them the pap for a year and we know they w enjoy getting it." * * * We may be wrong but we b lieve that S. C. Reynolds of Su] ply raises more game chiekei than anyone in Brunswick. I keeps over a hundred of the ham some fowl and likes them for tl superior quality of the eggs, l well as the fine flavor t hat a game chickens are credited wil having. Mr. Reynolds was partia ly disabled in the first world wa had to stay in a government ho pital for a long time thereafti and still has to take things fai ly easy. Mrs. Reynolds runs a fil ing station and soft drink stan * * * All of the girls who work the AAA office at Supply have 1 (Continued on Page Four) I * ? > r piL immunity Lth, 1944 $i.5( f BROTHERS II ? Sgt. J. Carl Ludlum, left tional Guard in August, 1940 jf at Fort Screven, Ga., and aftei ie seas he is now stationed at Foi m E. Eldridge Ludlum, Sl-c, wa Paficis fleet after completing 1 i- i Bainbridge. Both young men ; in lotte high school. They are si Ludlum, of Shallotte. in ?? ?Local Officer V fa His Acti' ir Local Lawyer s Continues III ? C. Ed Taylor, Southport attorney, continues seriously in the [I J. Arthur Dosher Memorial hos- C ' - - i ? _ i pital, wnere ne nas Deeu a pan-r ent for three weeks, 'e Mr. Taylor has been in rather j L If poor health for the past two years! e but was able to continue his law practice with the firm of Taylor and Prevatte up until the time es of the present illness, ar : | Anniversary To id Be Observed! >p lir al New Hope Church At Win- i Is nabow Will Celebrate w 50th Anniversary On The jd Twenty Second t( New Hope Presbyterian church 1 at Winnabow will have its annual 1 Home-coming Day on Sunday, October 22. This is also the 50th al anniversary of the church so it y will be a memorable occasion. The observance will begin at d< [e eleven o'clock in the morning and m ^ there will be a special Com- w . munion sendee. Rev. Mr. McClure j ti of Asheville will be the special in guest and others who have been' cc invited are Rev. David Coblentz,! pi ss former pastor, and his newly I ti e" wed wife, and Mr. I. G. Mitchell, IR r" who was pastor during the past Ji J summer. m t- w 33 All friends of the church are y. cordially invited and urged to be'f| :1- present for the day. Jerry New- i fc e- bold of Wilmington and Southport p] is serving the church at the pre- oj r. sent time. m ?J. L. Bennett " 5 Died Thursday j ~ Outstanding Farmer And ~ Citizen Of Exum Community Died In Local Hospital After A Few C Days Of Illness Following an illness of just a few days J. L. Bennett, 70, one of the most prominent farmers and citizens of Waccamaw town- b( ship, died in the J. Arthur Dosherlg Memorial hospital Thursday morn- n( I ing. For more than 50 years he was a successful country mer- al chant and farmer in the Exum' y. community, retiring from active "" work a few years ago on account r? er of his advanced age. g The body was taken back to J* the former home and buried Fri- ! day afternoon at four o'clock in jw e" the cemetery at the New Life p" Baptist church. Rev. M. L. Mintz w }s conducted the funeral services. in le tl J- Besides his widow, he is sur- sc le vived by four sons, N. A. Ben- 111 IS jj nett of Whiteville, Roddie R. je th Bennett and C. Odell Eennett of p, I- Freeland, and Sgt. Ivar. V. Ben- aj r' nett, U. S. Army, France; four Ci s- ol jr daughters, Mrs. J. H. Fearnside r_ and Miss Rachell Bennett of Free- tc II- land, Miss Opal Bennett of South- b< d. port, and Miss Lyle Bennett of ic Wilmington; one brother, B. D. tl in Bemfett of Freeland and two sis- ei to ters, Mrs. J. D. Ray and Mrs. R. lo E. Vereen. OT [ > PER YEA* PUBLISHED V SERVICE above, enlisted in the Na. He received his training spending 27 months overrt Jackson, Columbia, S. C. s recently assigned to the > months study in Radio at are graduates of the Shal- i ins of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Writes Of vity In Pacific on Of Mrs. George Y. \ Watson Now Stationed At Large "City" In New Guinea 1IVES DUE CREDIT TO BOYS IN FRONT LINES .ooks Forward To Return-, ing Home To Relatives a. i r?: i_ rtnu r Menus (Lt. (ji?) l)?n Id W. Watson, sou of Mrs. lieorge V. Wutsoii, is sia? tioned soraewiiert In >? ? ttnlnen and is tne only Navy man ?i ills base. The follow lug account of his present activities Is of 111Just received lour issues of the ^atf'Vert Pilot a few days agoj ad those being my first got top ( ri'ority. It was really good to et all of the news. Have only been over a short hile but it sems longr than it dually has bn. Was in Australia >r a few weeks before I came up| > New Guinea. At the present' am assigned to the Army?the J ily navy man on the base?1 j ike quite a ribbing at times. We j re based on top of a high hill /erlooking the water. Usually ive a fine breezez blowing most : the time?fact is we sleep ui?:r a blanket at nites. Our "sumler" is coming on now so guess e are in for a little warm wealer. This is the largest "city" i N. G. Have several nice tennis >urts down town but have only layed a couple of times. Everyme I pass the courts I wish obert Thompson, Bill Styron and mrnie (Harper) were here. Relinds me of the good matches e use to have at Fort Caswell. I finally caught up with D. I. y to where he is based every >urth day and ho meets the lane every time. We get in a lot f conversation in the fourty-five inutes 18m there. Had a couple of days off about 1_? lice wi'cns agu euiu aivw auuui (Continued on Pago 4) :ish Getting Very Plentiful aptain Gurganuous Reported To Have Caught 15,000 Pounds At Little Beach Monday Mullets a nd spots which have ;en very plentiful at points above runswick county, seem to have )w struck the local section of le coast. Cool weather Monday id again Tuesday greataly aided te fishermen in their operations. Captain Gurganuous, who opeites the shore fishery at Little each, near Shallotte, got 15,000 >unds of mullets and spots Monly, according to Lennox Gore ho was in town yesterday. Other fisheries along the Brunsick coast are also said to be doig well. If the present cool wealer and north wind continues >me large catches should be Ade this week. Last week the price of mults was off from the high levels revailing two or three weeks %o. This was due to very large itches all along the eastern part : the coast. At Morehead City id Beaufort fish dealers are said > have been caught in a jam itween overproduction and r.o e in which to ship. According to le Beaufort newspaper, one d? il there is credited with having I st the greater part of 100,0001 (Continued on Page 2) J Most of The News All The Time EVERY WEDNESDAY Many Defendants Failed To Appear In Monday Court : Number Of Capias' Increases As More Defendants Fail To Heed Summons From Patroimen I CASES HAD TO BE CONTINUED j| First Court In Two Weeks I Owing To Illness Of I Judge i J State highway patrolmen usual ly issue a summons for defend- j ants who are charged with speed- 0 ing and other traffic law viola- 1 tions. These summons are issued I after examination of the papers -0 carried by the defendants and as- I certaining that everything is al- I right. The practice saves many an | offender from going straight to J In recent weeks there have j been a good many failures on the I part of defendants to answer when such cases are called in I court. This results in a continu- I ance of the trial. It also results I in the patrolmen going out and, I invariably, getting their men, 0 Clerk of Court S. T. Bennett, I stated this week that very few I cases were lost as a result of the 0 summons being issued in place of I a warrant. I According to the minutes, a I great many defendants again fail- I ed to appear when their cases I were called this week. The min- f| utes show the following business II handled: I William Birch, speeding, sixty 11 days, judgment suspended on pay- tl ment of fine of $25.00 and costs. I Lawrence Cook, no operators I license, called and failed to ap- , I pear, capias issued. 1 Lawrence cook, drunK driving, continued. Boyd Elliott, no operators license, capias issued and case continued. Boyd Elliott, using profane language in public place, capias issued and case continued. Boyd Elliott, failing to report accident, capias issued and case continued. ft. Irvin, speeding, judgment 1 suspended on payment of a fine of $20.00 a nd costs, fine remitted. Jim Henry Williams, disturbing peace, not guilty. John Simpson, assault, Continued to October 16th. Nelenzi Sampson, assault, continued to October 16th. Boyd Elliott, drunken driving, capias issued and case continued. Theodore Babson, larceny, continued to October 16th. C. D. Babson, false pretense, \ continued to October 16th. Lewis Hincs, speeding, sixty days on roads, judgment suspended on payment of a fine of $20.00 and costs. Paul Holden, operating tractor with lugs on highway, continued to October 16th. Dickie Ganey, assault, sixty days on roads, judgment suspended on payment of costs and defendant be of good behavior for one year. George Gennells, false pretense, continued to October 25th. Carlton Butler, speeding, con- 1 tinued. *;V SB I n. . D i I I ixationrumiers | CANNING SUGAR Sugar Stamp No. 40 good for five pounds of canning sugar until February 28, 1945. Apply to local board for supplemental rations. I 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 3 gallons each through November 8. MEATS & FATS Red A8 through K5 (Book 4) now valid at 10 points each for use with tokens. Good Indefinitely PROCESSED FOODS Blue A8 through R5 (Book 4) now valid at 10 points each. Good indefinitely. SHOES Airplane Stamp No. 1 and No. 2 (Book 3) valid indefinitely. A new stamp is to become valid on November 1. SUGAR Sugar stamps No. 30, No. 31, No. 32 and No. 33 (Book 4) good for five pounds of sugar each indefinitely. ~ Rationing rules now require that every car owner write his license number and State on ail gasoline coupons in his possession.