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)F DEEDS 1
l. J. WALTON
Result In OverDemocratic
:tory
the unofficial re- J
runswick County [
ions, the county ]
sterday's election E
nplete victory for ^
>arty on national, ^
' tickets. ?
ity election the q
s for the office J
Deeds where the ^
s show A. J. j c
ding London Le-! ?
24 votes. J. \V. j /
larger majority j V
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IBfts race wiui ?icn- ?
ft republican candidate for
ftfeoae of Representatives,
ft-.as.-:: c of votes will begin 1
jhonday morning at 11 o'- '
ft according to David Ross,
ft- . ' of the Board of Elecft
a- official tabulation will 1
ftr :r next week's Pilot. It is 1
Cable to give anything exftunofficial
returns until the!
ft are officially counted. I F
ftthe rational race, Roosevelt!
Mil a lead that at 3:30 Wed-1
fcv morning Governor Thomas '
ipewey. republican candidate F
I ires-lent. conceded the elecI
to his opponent. Franklin
| Roosevelt and sent him a j.
L.r which was described by
t:- a lent elect Truman as I
[fee display of sportsmanship." j
(the state gubernatorial race,
E Cnerrv of Gastonia defeat[i'e
republican candidate, [
ki Patton by a large majorI
Former Governor Clyde R.
it was elected to represent *
B Carolina in the U. S. Sen- ir
I the seat formerly occupied by vi
I Remolds. All other demo- _
tc candidates were elected. a
eavy Losses In ?
holera Epidemic;
rthwest Township And s
Coastal Section Suffering ol
From Ravage Of Swine t\
Disease bl
aj
: Northwest township and
I the coast from Southport P:
Stallotte. hog cholera has be- G
e very bad during the past ol
nl days. The Howell's Point ni
tat seems to have suffered the j si
test losses, so far. Elwood
nons of that section had lost c<
bogs at last reports. Mr. Clem- vj
ts lives at Supply but has sev- ft
hundred acres of land under B
e It Howell's Point. e)
tston Swain has also lost'CI
ty below Long Beach. In R
'-west township H. O. Peter- a
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'COURT MONDAY tl
-?e to the pre-election activity
* *as no session of the Rec*s
Court Monday. Arrests *
during the past week vere I
or trial next Monday. j
s been 111 '
'U{ Miss Donna Jane Larsen,
ftter of Mr. and Mrs. Pete /
has been ill at her home
's now improving.
RIGHT EYE
J;;' -gaged in farm work
weeks ago, Frank Lennon,
the best known young
rs of the Supply community, '
an injury to his right _
, J0? a flying piece of steel.
as since entirely lost the
'01 the eye
w
^r-mxg to states ia
B'timons, son of Mr. and (0
. aM>' Simmons of South- b
'* /^turning to the U. S.jf<
j,., from foreign service'n
I" Coa*t Guard. He advises j h
d'wts he will be at homejoi
6 J ?n lf,ave on about the u
this month. He has been | If
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To FDR;
ting Runt
UNOFFICIAL TABULAT
1 Repi
Precinct 5
3
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1
loods Creek I
..eland I 2
Town Creek J 2
lolivia 1
losquito
Imithville 5
Supply
Secession *
ihallotte
'rying Pan 1
Irissettown I
Ihingletree j
-ongwood |
^sh | i
Vaccamaw j
xum |
Total | 19
Hugged Training
For County Man
iVith Coast Guard
toy McKeithan, Now With
Crew Of LST, Preparing
For Stiff Going Ahead
1RST SAW SERVICE
HERE AT OAK ISLAND
las Been In Active Branch
Of The Service Since Before
The Beginning
Of War
Roy A. McKeithan, Brunswick
>unty boy who first saw trainig
at the Oak Island Coast
uard station, and who has been
i the most active fields of serIce
in* which the Coast Guard
anticipates, Is now training as
member of the crew of a LST
Landing Ship, Tanks). The foliwing
account of the training
ccount of the training which he
now taking was written by a
:gular Coast Guard correspondlt:
ABOARD THE LST 831 ?
printing over a thousand-yard
astacle course which varied beveen
ditches 10 feet deep and
irriers 30 feet high in an aver
?e time of three minutes and [
?rty-five seconds has been only)
art of a day's work for Coast
uardsman Roy A. McKeithan
Southpo/t, and his fellow crew
lembers, who soon will take this
lip to a war zone.
Officers and men have just
>mpleted their training at a Na
1 amphibious base and are ready
) face the toughest of obstacles,
esides learning the theories of
cpected future problems, the
ew has acquired a practical
nowledge of every hazard they
re apt to face.
Whole days were spent in actilly
fighting fires of every des iption
until each man became
a experienced fire fighter. They
awled through booby-trapped
reas and the men who wee un>rtunate
enough to set off one of
le traps?a small but unpleasant
re-cracker?were subject to the
ughter of their mates while they
:tired to the side-lines as a "bate
casualty."
By plugging water - spouting
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Veiling Prices
Fixed On Hogs
kction Taken On October j
30th Fixes Ceiling Prices!
On Live Hogs Of Varying
Weights For Market
According to announcement
om the county AAA office at
upply, the ceiling price on live
ogs weighing 240 pounds and
nder has been extended to hogs
eighing 270 pounds and under,
he price is $14.75 per hundredeight,
Chicago basis. Hogs
eighing 270 pounds are priced
t $14.00 per hundredweight.
This action, became effective
ictober 30. 1944 and was taken
ecause of the greatly improved
jed situation in relation to the
umber of hogs and because the
og crop for the current season
f 1945 is below anticiapted prodction.
Wholesale and retail price j
vels will riot be effected as to,
ressed pork or meat cuts.
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A Good
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County
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ION OF COUNTY VOTE
esentative R. of Deeds
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40 40 411 40
26 49 230| 49
:55 192, 247, 212
28 : 145 232
26 50 28 50
13 144 488! 175
57; 155 611 157 ,
50 67 148! 72
52 186 152 186
54 106 154: 106
J 64! 93
: 98; 160
251 93 36 79
43 300 156j 287
39! 165! 37! 163
53 71 67 67
21 1618; 2152 2128
New Registrants
With Local Board
| Eight white and three colored
men composed the list of regis!
trants with the Selective Service
Board during the month of October.
The men and their addresses
are: Wilbur Franklin Wigner,
Bolivia; Robert Lee Rabon, Jr.,
Winnabow; Leo Russ, Freeland;
Joseph Carl Pruitt, Freeland;
James Norwood Willetts, Bolivia;
jLinwood Gray, Shallotte; Walter
I Iredell Gore, Jr., Leland; Edward
Freeman Hewett, Shallotte.
The three colored men are:
| Willie Jenkins, Leland; Alvin
(Jackson, Southport; and George |
Sou therland, Leland.
Farmers To Elect
Committeemen
Election On November 22
For Men Who Will Have
Important Roles In Connection
With Post-War '
Farming
Farmer committeemen who will
have important roles in war and
post-war farm problems will be
named at AAA elections in Bruns- \
wick County on November 22, ac- {
cording to C. O. Bennett, unair->
man of the county AAA commit- ,
tee. Locations and dates of the'(
elections will be announced as <
soon as they are arranged.
Farmers from each AAA community
will choose three committeemen
and two alternates, and '
delegates elected at these meet- <
ings later will name three mem- ]
bers and two alternates for the
county AAA committees. All
farmers who have \Or will participate
during 1944 in any phase '
of the AAA program, such as '
carrying out approved soil-build- \
ing practices, are eligible to vote i
in AAA community elections. (
Committeemen elected at this t
time represent both their neigh- ]
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Fine Citizen Of
Bolivia Dies
Joel Long Passed Suddenly
Saturday Morning After
Long Period Of Slowly
Declining Health
Joel Long, eighty year old resident
of Bolivia, died suddenly
at his home Saturday morning.
He had not been ill but had been
experiencing a long period of
gradually failing health, due to
his age.
For many years Mr. Long and (
his wife, who survives him, had j
operated a dining room at Boli- ,
via. Serving the public in this ]
capacity, he became widely |
known. Possessing a friendly i
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Kills Big 'Possum \
Invading Henroost \
Awakened by the squawking of i
chickens in a coop in the yard at '
her home at midnight, Sunday 1
night, Mrs. Maxine Fulcher pro- 1
vided herself with a good stout i
stick and went to investigate. 1
The disturber of the hen roost <
proved to be one of the largest <
o'possums that 'possom knowing (
folks have seen in Southport. A (
few blows from Mrs. Fulcher's <
cudgel and the 'possum was really
dead and not just playing it.
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Southport, N. C., Wed
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On the basis of incomp
President Roosevelt for a f
;he United States has be^n c
Study Couse At j
Baptist Churches
Vliss Grayson, Returned
Missionary From China
To Hold Study Courses
At Various Churches
Miss Alda Grayson, Missionary!
rom China, is preparing to teach j
i series of Study Courses and i
vili aim sneak .-it various chinch- j
I
;s in Brunswick county during the:
:oming week.
Her speaking appointments are
it Bolivia church Sunday inorn-j
ng, Nov. 12; at Mt. Pisgah Sun-1
lay evening at 3:00 o'clock; at
Will Creek church November 19
it 3:00 o'clock.
The general public is cordially
nvited to attend the above servces
and also the Study Courses,
vhich will be held at 7:30 each
light at the following places and
lates: Mt. Pisgah, Nov. 12th
;hrough 15th; Southport, Nov.
16th through 18th; Mill Creek,
^ov. 19th through 21st; Lebanon,
tfov. 22nd through 24th. '
IV. B. KEZIAH
There -seems to be anywhere i
'rom 50 to 100 per cent increase |
n the turkey crop this year. Last
fear the birds turned out to be
much in demand and profitable to ;
:he owners. This spring good
'locks of young birds were hatch->
>d and grew for several weeks
vithout being bothered by rains
vhich cause wet feathers. A coniition
nearly always fatal to j
foung turkeys. A day or two ago |
ve met up with H. H. Hewett, of;
Supply. An inquiry about his turkeys
led to the information that
le has 165 birds, all large enough
for the table now. Last year he,
lad only a hundred birds. In-1
iirect information regarding oth-,
;r raisers in the county is to the
iffect that all of them have larger
flocks than last year. In most
:ases the birds are much heavier.
Phil Dodson of Freeland, a
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lete returns, the election of
ourth term as president of
anceded.
School Carnival
Was A Success
Nice Sum Of Money Raised
For Various School Projects
The Southport School presented
a Hallowe'en Carnival on the
night of October 31st and the
sum of $336.00 was raised and
will be used for various things
wnicn are neeuen ai uie atiiuui,
among them a motion picture
projector and athletic equipment.
The coronation of the king and
queen of the' carnival was the
high spot of the evening's entertainment.
After five minutes of
exciting, last minute voting on
the kings and queens from the
high school and primary and
grammar school departments, Billy
Dosher and Joy Lynn Be)l were
elected King and Queen. Joy Lynn
was acting for Patricia Adams.
Each was presented with a box of
candy as prize.
Immediately following the coronation
the costume parade was
held and the prizes for the two
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) VING
Reporter
partner with his father in all of
the farming operations on the
Dodson farm, is not getting so
many eggs just at this time. The
condition is due to the fact that
the birds are in the moult and
are getting ready for some really
fancy laying a little later on.
This week an inquiry of Mr. Dodson
regarding how many eggs he
was now getting daily, brought
the response, "Not many, only a
little over a crate a day." A crate,
it may be mentioned, is composed
of 30 dozen eggs. A crate of
eggs a day may riot sound bad,
but when it is considered that
the Dodsons have twenty-one
hundred layers a different angle
is given things. A little later
when the Dodson hens get tc
laying 20 or more crates of eggs
each days things will be getting
more business like.
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mmunity
Colonel Potts I
To Pres
Legion To Have
A Dutch Supper
Crawford Rourk, adjutant of
the Brunswick County Post 194,
has announced that the Legion
.will have a Dutch Supper at the
|U. S. O. building Saturday night,
November 11th. All members of
i the Legion are urged to be present
and a cordial invitation is
also extended to all veterans of
World War One and Two, who
have been honorably discharged,
to attend.
A square dance will be held
| following the supper.
Bowers Rebuilds
Wrecked Bridge
| Structure Damaged In CarTanker
Wreck In September
To Be Rebuilt
I The State Highway Commission
has awarded the contract for
the rebuilding of the Sturgeon
Creek bridge, near Leland to J.
S. Bowers of Whiteville and Raleigh.
It is understood that; the
amount involved is in the neighborhood
of $12,000.
The bridge, by reason of its
narrowness and being on an
abrupt turn, has been a dangerous
problem to traffic for the
past several years. The rebuilding
involves the widening of the
structure from 20 to 34 feet. It
is to have a concrete timber
j foundation and timber piling, like
the bridge over the Lookwoods
I Folly River at Supply. The floorj
ing and hand rails will be of
concrete.
In a wreck at the bridge on
September 27th, one person was
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Still Working
On Mail Route
Bus Company Still Trying
For Mail Contract Between
Whiteville And
Southport Points
Hubert Livingston, general
manager for the W. B. & S. Bus
Lines, Inc., stated recently that
the corporation was still trying to
get mail service between Whiteville
and Southport. This would
give Old Dock, in Columbus
County, Ash, Freeland, Longwood,
Shallotte and Supply far better
service than that which now exists.
The corporation operates only
one bus a day between Southport
and Whiteville, leaving Southport
at 7:30 in the morning and returning
it leaves Whiteville at 4:30
p. m. This gives a lot of people
an opportunity to travel to
Whiteville and spend a few hours
there. On the other hand, people
using the bus service and
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Is Serving Off
French Coast
Small Coast Guard Boat on
Which Southporter Serves
Rescued 1200 On D'-Day
Writing this paper from somewhere
in the British Isles, Jerry
Dosher, a Southport boy, son of
Captain A. J. Dosher of the U. S.
E. Dredge Absecon, says he enjoys
reading his hometown newspaper
and appreciates it more
than almost anything else he gets
from home. He is a Seaman 1st
Class in the Coast Guard, was in
the invasion of France and has
made several trips back and forth
between France and the British
Isles.
Jerry, who is a nephew of
(Continued on Page Five)
Qualifies As A
Sharpshooter
Pvt. Graham M. Roberson of
Winnabow is with the 174th Infantry
Replacement Training Battalion
at Camp Hood, Texas. He
has recently qualified as Sharpshooter
with the Army M-l Rifle.
, He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. B.
, A. Roberson.
A dispatch from the training
. center says that Pvt. Roberson
has also fired the' .30 calibre carbine,
the Anti-tank Rocket Laun,
cher (Bazooka), and Rifle Gren:
ades. He has thrown Hand Greni
ades under simualted combat con
ditions and later in his training
i he will fire the Light Machine
i Gun, the 60mm Mortar, and the
; Browning Automatic Rifle and
will fire all these weapons under
simulated combat conditions,
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$1.50 PER YEA* PUBLISI
Designated
ent Silver Star
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Commanding Officer At
Camp Davis To Be Here
Saturday Night To Present
Medal To Mother Of
Captain Bragaw
CREMONY WILL
FOLLOW AMERICAN
LEGION BANQUET
Public Invited To Be At U.
S. O. At Nine O'clock
Saturday Night To
Witness Presentation
Major General Frederick E.
Uhl, Commanding General of the
Fourth Service Command, has designated
Colonel A. E. Potts,
Commanding Officer at Camp Davis,
to come to Southport Saturday
night and present the Silver
Star to Mrs. Helen G. Bragaw,
mother of Captain Henry Churchill
Bragaw, who was killed in action
in Italy last January wh^le
gallantly leading his company.
It was at first panned to have
Mrs. Bragaw go to Camp Davis
for the presentation with appropriate
military ceremonies. Learning
her health was such that it
was not advisable for her to make
the trip, Colonel Potts wrote yesterday
that he would come to
Southport and make the presentation
personally at any time she
desired.
The Brunswick Post American
Legion is to have a banquet at
the local U. S. O. building Saturday
night. This will be staged
of 7 Oft ITaIIautincr o /"Anforano
uk i .ov, i'uiivniiig a vviuvivtivv
with Commander Charles Trott,
Joe Loughlin and Crawford Rourk,
of the Legion Post, it was decided
to make the presentation of the
Posthumous medal to Mrs. Bragaw
at the U. S. O. at 9:00 o'clock
Saturday night.
Colonel Potts will be a guest of
honor at the Legion Banquet,
which is in the nature of a
Dutch treat and only for members
of the Legion and ex-service
men. Following this banquet and
a brief business session the general
public is invited to be at the
U. S.O. at nine o'clock to witnes
the presentation.
At the presentation the Legion
members will take an active part.
Mrs. R. C. Fergus
Killed In Wreck
Collision Of Cars At Ocean
Drive Fatal To Mother
Of Local Physician; Husband
Badly Injured
Mrs. Roy C. Fergus, of Carolina
Beach and Wilmington, mother
of Dr. L. C. Fergus, of
Southport, was instantly killed
Thursday night when she was
thrown through the windshield of
*L? mam ond drivon hlf hot"
Uic Lai utvucu aiiu uinvu
husband. The Fergus car and a
machine owned and driven by
Mrs. Mary Mortensen, of Cherry
Grove Beach, were in a collision
at Ocean Drive, near Myrtle
Beach, S. C.
Mr. Fergus is said to have sustained
a compound fracture of
the skull and other injuries. He
was brought to the J. Arthur
Doshtr Memorial hospital and is
still in a serious condition, but it
is thought he will recover. Dr.
Fergus, who went to Myrtle
Beach immediately after the
wreck, superintended the removal
of his father to the local hospital.
Mrs. Mortensen, the driver of
the car which collided with the
Fergus machine, sustained lacerations
of the knee and chin and
other minor injuries. Her two
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Roscoe F. Long
Killed In Germany
Son Of Mr. And Mrs. Hosea
Long Of Supply Meets
Death Serving With Hospital
Unit
Mr. and Mrs. W. Hosea Long
of Supply have received official
notice from the War Department
that their son, Roscoe F. Long,
was killed in Germany on October
2, 1944.
No details were given but the
young man was serving with a
field hospital unit when last heard
from, shortly before he was killed.
He was 22 years of age, was
married about two years ago to
Miss Elizabeth Hannah Stanton,
of South Carolina. They have no
children. In addition to the parents,
several brothers and sisters
survive. One of the brothers, Guy
M. Long, is serving with the army
in Germany, in the same area
where Roscoe was killed. Another
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Most of The News
All The Time
-JED EVERY WEDNESDAt
Farm Federation
Meeting Friday
A Great Success
Ladies Of The County Did
Themselves Proud With
Great Variety Of Home
Made Exhibits
*
DEMONSTRATE USE
OF LOWLY FEED BAGS
Good Attendance At Annual
Gathering Of Farm
Men And Women At
Bolivia School
House ?
| The Farm and Home Federation
Meeting at Bolivia on Friday
'night was outstanding in the
j great number of exhibits made
jfrom feed bags by the club women
of the county. These exhibits
(included both wearing apparel
| and home furnishings, all made
| from bags" in which various feeds
[are packed by the manufacturers.
Dinner was served picnic style
and there was more than enough
for the large gathering. Along
with the abundance the variety
was most pleasing and appetizing.
Following the dinner the gathering
adjourned from the gymnasium
to the auditorium of the
school building, where a short but
splendid program was given. This
consisted of the song, "America,"
Pledge to the Flag and Prayer.
Mrs. Carl S. Ward then delivered
the welcome. The program included
an address by John H. Harris,
horticulturist at State College, the
j. c 1 tu*
recognition 01 visiluis, ami uio
'installation of new officers.
; Among the visitrs from outside
| the county were County Agent
Charles Raper, of Whiteville; Miss
Genevieve Eakes, former BrunsI
wick home agent and now holding
the same position in Columbus;
H. E. Blanehard, forester for
Brunswick and Columbus counties;
John H. Harris. State Horticulturist
and Miss Verna Stanton,
District Home Agent.
Returning to the gymnasium
an entertainment program consisting
of games was given. This
was followed by the presentation
of prizes in the feed bag sewing
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Armistice Day
To Be Observed
County Offices Will Be
Closed Saturday In Observance
Of End Of First
World War
November 11, Armistice Day,
was declared a holiday for county
employees and officials by the
board of county commissioners in
session here Monday. In accordance
with state laws, yesterday,
election day, was also declared a
holiday and observed accordingly.
Beyond requesting the welfare
officer to investigate two cases
I on which they had received re- '
I i. ~ i-t? it? - e u- i _
puru?, uiit: time ui Liie uuaiu was
taken up in handling various tax *)
matters that came up Monday.
It is understood that a meeting
of the board will be held shortly :
to consider the matter of the
county home. j
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| Ration Pointers |
CANNING SUGAR
Sugar stamp No. 40 good for
five pounds of canning sugar until
February 28, 1945. Apply to
local board 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 now
valid.
GASOLINE
A-ll coupons now valid for
three gallons each through November
8. "A-13" coupons good
for four gallons each become
valid November 9.
MEATS & FATS
Red A8 through P5 (Book 4)
now valid at 10 points each for
use with tokens. Good Indefinitely
PROCESSED FOODS
Blue A-8 through R-5 (Book 4)
now valid at 10 points each. S-5
through W-5 become valid November
1st.
SHOES
Airplane Stamp No. 1 and 2
(Qook 3) valid indefinitely. Airplane
Stamp No. 3 becomes valid
on November 1.
SUGAR
Sugar Stamps No. 30, 31 and
33 (Book 4) good for five pounds
of sugar each indefinitely.
Rationing rules now require
I that every car owner write his
| license number and State on all
I gasoline coupons in his possession