North Carolina Newspapers

I The Pilot Covers I Brunswick County I&LNO. sixteen nc Vacation School Held At Bolivia, I Termed Success Iforty Perfect Attendance 'Certificates Awarded At Close Of Vacation Bible IiiNS LOUISE ADAMS WAS THE DIRECTOR Btluch Interest Was ManiI tested In School Just I Closed At Bolivia Bap tist Church I - of the Bolivia I v e recently com st interesting and . \ tion Bible School at cA moic than 70 students I nd with 40 perfect certificate* being rtf- cut at the close of the st.vl. Mtss J-ouisc Adams of B was director. B attendance certiB divided among the B --.-es and teachers: - Mrs. Elizabeth Wil. teach-, i Mercer Willetts, M,. McKeithan, Donald *. '... \V:!!iam Harod Willetts, ..... por,t. Margaret Ann Mc[ Maud Lee McKeithan. ^'wilh.mson. Bill Pope and : Frank Mintz. .ary, Mrs. Evie Walton, Ronald Thomas, Bill J.::"J,. Arlis Willetts, Sarah igloch Kopp. Jenette Gray, : v. Loekamy. Annie Ruth .. v Margaret Ann Phelps, r.i Mao Mintz, Barbara Ann j.. - Williamson, Edna ?ar F.ahor. Eleanor Mae Rabon, p. "as. Burden McLelv 1 Clifton Comeau. Mrs. Ruby Edwards, Lcvcine Edwards, Hubert S? -- K-ricc McKeithan, Janie y-v- Mary Alice Bowling, raa'eth Johnson, June Giay j-: K ' Lou Sellers. i' Miss Louise Adam. Kid-.: Margie Phelps, Annie l j./- Lenzie Walton. _L. :,o:;. Louisa ??imy >: Beck. . ' were awarded certi at the conclusion of the a,. :, Leen McKeithan, Mr- Foster Mintz. and Mrs. Frank Mintz. These were for tnrsportation. Brief News Flashes SON" BORN EM i-c and Mrs. John Shclton e tin birth of a son, Cjr';, Shclton, Jr., 011 Mont July 16. at the Doshcr S d Hospital. OFFICE TO CLOSE to Mrs. William chair, thief clerk, the local 1 board office will be closed lay Friday to enable the '? force to catch up with the a: t of work which has '.c.Tiilatr>l. MU>1 OVERALL QIO'IA te' ;n :ck county exceeded its *:' bond quota by a little ' SDo.i'QO according to the last teal rcoort this paper was ' to obtain In the "E" Bond '> the county apparently fail the goal by $2,733.00. I MAKING REPAIRS Roy Daniel. who recently ' the- Certified Feed Store '"'i lot and several ad' lot' is having extensive nri made on the feed store MOVED HERE ir. Mrs. Claud Willing sun, Claud, Jr.. have moved ^ sc'Jthport from Fruithind, Md. Wot :l;:; ?.,n engage in *?Ping At present the fami* bv>: ; with Mr. and Mrs. P. Jorgensen. rfn?i\s kkom vacation Maude I'helps. Supt. of has returned to her of' a ten days vacation at - at Ahoskie. Her Mr:i Tucte Bnato of ' a i her daughter, Mrs. lughn of Ahoskie, ach - here for a few i;- VL'.t. . ACCIDENTALLY SHOT 10rr!* S Lcwcllyn of Salis patient at Dosher "r|a' Hospital on Sunday receiving treatment "jund in his hip rc' iv afternoon when a J; ' tally discharged when - tic young friends were -- c.-.i Long bBach. ] TH nr ( French Family A V?I > I In the above picture, ' the Normandy invasion, Pfc is shown with two of his co with whom he made friends | try. Mercer, the son of Mr. Bolivia, was killed in acti 1 when a member of a morta Hears From F Who Was K j Pfc. Leo Hessian, a close friend 'of Mercer and shown with him in the above picture, sent the photograph to the family with a letter telling of their friendship with ithe French family. Hessian is now somewhere in Germany and it was from there that the letter originated. In the letter to Mr. and Mrs. j Mercer, Hessian says of i tne h'rencn ranniy: -xney were I real friends to the boys from overseas. Your son and I and other boys were really glad to (find French people who treated us with such hospitality and (friendship as these did." Regretting that the picture was not cleared, Private Hessian said Three Mace Boys Have Come Home Service Men Return From Overseas Duty; Two Skipper Sons Home On Leave Relatives and friends of at least three Northwest township service men were made happy last week by the return of men from overseas. Sgt. G. H. Skipper of the army, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Skipper, was one of the arrivals. He | came in from overseas on a thirty days furlough. Sgt. Skipper served with General George H. Patton for eighteen months. He seems very much elated over the great victory in Europe, in which General Patton's forces played I such a conspicious part. At the conclusion of his furlough he will report at Foit Bmgg for further assignment. Another son of Mr. and Mrs. Skipper, Clifton S. Skipper, arrived home front the Navy .this week. The family has one other son still overseas with the Army [and also a son-in-law. Relatives and friends at Maco, where the family resides, hope that all will j be able to come home soon, if only for a short stay. Caldwell C. Potter, Seaman 1-c, (son of Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Potter, I is at home from the Navy on an eleven days leave. Having alI ready spent 25 months in overI seas duty, Seaman Potter will [report to San Francisco, Calif., for reassignment. While overI seas he served on a P. C. Boat. Davis Defeats Southport Team Very Close Contest Monday j Between Uocal toasi ! Guards And One Of BigJ 4 Service Men Teams The Southport Coastguardsmen suffered their first defeat of the season on Monday. Camp I Davis took the big end of a 3-4 I score in a game that was oxj tremenly well played on both I sides. Manna who has done the mound I work in every game played by ] Southport this year, went the I whole route, with Webb behind j the plate. In the first inning ' things looked dark for him with j Camp Davis putting over a run. | In the 7th inning the guardsmen j found the target for the first time and batted out three runs, . all they could make in their nine I :ru lings. i (Continued on page 2) ESL A Gooc ~4-PAGES TODjA tnd Bolivia Man ^|hB^p^vw3 taken in France soon after . Carson Mercer (lower left) mrades and a French family 5 while serving in that counand Mrs. A. Lee Mercer, of on on November 19, 1944, r battalion. riends Of Son illed In France he knew the parents would understand and would value the pic-' ture, despite the poor quality or the film they were compelled to I use. He concluded by saying: "We all miss Carson very much, but | we know that sometimes the ] Lord sees things in a way that the rest of us do not see here on this earth. He was well liked by us and we sincerely, think there was not a better man in the outfit." Private Mercer was one of the; first Brunswick county boys to j : ii ! givu uicii uvea uuiuig uic uuiupean war. He was married and his widow now lives in Waccamaw township with her parents. Lingle Goes To Jacksonville Principal \\. R. Lingle notified the Southport School Board last week that he has ! | accepted the principaLship of the Jacksonville High School. Lingle has been principal of the Southport School for the past eight years. No successor to Lingle has been elected, according to Miss Annie May Woodsidr, county superintendent of schools. Completion Is j Planned Sept. 20 Builder Expects New Shal. lotte Teacherage Will Be Completed By Twentieth Of September R. 15. Bellamy of Shallotte, who has charge of the construc: tion of t^ic teacherages at Shal| lotte and Ash, said Saturday that he expected to have the Shallotte ! building completed and ready for ' use by the 20tli of September. I The building is of brick veneer land is to contain 20 rooms and1 j 7 baths. A force of 14 workmen liave already made substantia! 'progress. The framework is up j and the brick are now being laid. I At Ash only 5 men have been employed thus far and only the concrete fundation has been laid. The building is to be identical with the one at Shallotte. Mr. j Bellamy says that as soon as I brick and other material arc dejlivercd at Ash he will increase) the number of workmen there and finish the building as early as possible in the fall. He was not prepared to set any definite date for the completion of the Waccamaw work. J Both buildings arc to be used homes for teachers during the sessions of school. They were ' made possible by bond issues, authorized for tile purpose by a bill passed at the lust session of the legislature. The providing of good quarters for the teaching forces is expected to reduce greatly the trouble of securing and keeping good teachers. Thi3 ha3 been especially hard in Waccamaw. TOBACCO BARN BCBNED Don Daniels, colored farmer of the Hickman's Cross Roads section, lost a good tobacco barn full of tobacco by fire late Saturday afternoon. So far tills i season this is the first loss of a j bam and tobacco to be reported 'in Brunswick county. \TE I News paper 1 Y Southport, N. G. Bombs L Japans POTSDAM?Prime .Minister Churchill called on President Truman today. Opening of the full-scale Big Three conference has apparently been delayed until tomorrow. GUAM?Gunfire of the U. S. Pacific Fleet has virtually demolished two Jap industrial centers while carrier planes have burned a third city to the ground and with land-based bombers heavily attacked 13 others Saturday and Sunday in one of the most destructive week-ends ever Ceiling Lists Are Available May Be Secured From Local War Price And Rationing Board Complete lists of the legal ceiling prices on all grades and cuts of meat, printed in a convenient size that will fold to fit the purse, have been received in a limited quantity at the War Price and Rationing Board, J. A. McNiel chairman, said tiday. Housewives and shoppers may obtain these lists by calling in person at the local War Price and Rationing Board or by sending a penny postcard, he explained. "We are placing in the hands of consumers a simple and power-1 ful weapon to help smash black maraer in meat, mi. iYitimci said. Prices shown on the Consumer Meat Price List are the highest that may be charged regardless of the size of the store, he pointed out. "Housewives can immediately help relieve the maldistribution of meat and stamp out black market, simply by refusing to pay more than the ceiling prices listed and by reporting all evidence of black market operations to OPA," he said. Leland Man Dies In Accident Woodrow Brew Said To Have Drowned Yesterday In Roadside Ditch Following A Car Wreck Near Carolina Beach Woodrow "Woodic" Brew, well known young road house and filling station operator at Leland, I was killed early yesterday morning in un automobile accident on the Carolina Beach road near Wilmington. He owned and operated the Chatterbox station and was well known throughout Brunswick and adjoining counties. Details as to the accident are meager but it appears that young Brew was driving his car on the Carolina Beach road during a heavy rain. The car cither skidded or he lost control. The machine turned over, throwing all of the occupants out. Brew is (Continued from page one) | ?? lij Ou w. b.1ezuh Karl Weeks, C. M. 2-c. writes us tliat lie gets the State Port Pilot regularly and feels that it brings him his home town news, although he is not a native of Southport. He was stationed here at Caswell from lute in 1941 through July 1943. While [ here he met and married a SouthI port girl, Miss Othela Outlaw, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 13. R. .Outlaw. Mrs. Weeks resides here while her husband is overseas. Several other men who were at Caswell with Ear! are at the same base with him in the Pacific and he frequently meets up with still more of them. When such meetings occur, he says, they all think back to the time and place where some of them met some of the best friends they have ever known. The general idea seem3 to be that! thfy will all return here some day after the war, for a vacation and some of the hunt L ? P0R1 n A Good Con ,, Wednesday, July 18th ay Wastejl Industry suffered by the enemy. Carrier aircraft sank or damaged 103 Jap ships and 25 barges, totaling 108,000 tons against feeble antiaircraft opposition. IHIYA ISLAND, OKINAWAS. ?Rugged, tensed Marines of the Eighth Regimental Combat Team splashed ashore on this little island 310 miles south of Kyushu June 3, behind a stiff rocket, shellfire barrage?beneath lowflying air cover?and found no one but docile natives. The only Jap in the whole area?garrison(Continued on Page 6) Prevatte To Be Tax Attorney Instructed By Commissioners To Take Action Against All Property Owners Who Owe For hey could in the effort to secure I s larger product, shrimp trawlers t i-orking out from Southport have j een suffering heavy damage to d cts during the past two weeks. 8 11 one afternoon two of the large ? rawlcrs owned by W. S. Wells e eturncd to port with their nets urn to pieces. In one of these i istances the whole net was lost, j ' xcept for 7 or 8 feet of the bag| nd the running boards. With bigger nets being used in | ecping with the increased size j f the trawlers now being opcr- i ted, the loss of a net amounts Continued on page two Shipyard Buses Discontinued $ ; t V.B. & 5. Bus Line Discon- s tinucs Operation Of Its h Buses Between Southport''' And Shipyard The W. p. ? S Bus Line. Inc.'1 as discontinued the operation of ^ 11 of its buses running between j, Southport and the shipyard in a Vilmington. This, saya manager j lubert Livingston, is due to the f act that only a small number f f Soutliport people are now t forking at the shipyard and ? leed transportation. j o The buses now discontinued' eft here for the shipyard at 5:00 f i. m., 1:30 p. m? and 9:30 at(C light- Replacing the 1:30 p. ;n. |I (Continued on Page Four) Three Years At the meeting of the Board I of Commissioners on Monday E. ' J. Prevatte was appointed tax ' collecting attorney to handle all s matters relative to the collection t of delinquent taxes. Payment to Mr. Prevatte will be as allowed . by law on the basis of tax suits. When foreclosurers are completed and deeds delivered to the county the county pays the fees. 1 When the taxes are settled on J delinquent property after the suits have been instituted, the _ property owners settle the fees. By an order of the board Mr. Prevatte was directed to bring suits against and foreclose on all property whereon the tuxes are due for three years. The county took action with respect to illegitimate children and other undesirable inmates of the county home. The keeper of j ,the ljome, the Supt. of Public. [Welfare, and the County Nurse 'were ordered notified that Emma Hewett and her two children I would not be allowed to remain 'in the home after August 1st, 1945. These agencies were notified tc take necessary steps with respect to the woman and her children before the above , date. Matters relative to the settlement of taxes occupied the remainder of the days session. Among these matters, E. L. Krahnke, administrator of the estate of the Kite J. T. West, apthaoin hrdl i-iniwEs hrdlu hm pearcd before the board and paid the sum of $871.02, as payment l in full for taxes on the West Estate lands. . HOMEWARD BOUND Galloway Hewett, Mo. M. M., is on his way home according to i word received by his wife this week. He has been serving 13 months in the Pacific. Mrs. Hewett, the former Miss Pearl I Stanley of Shallotte, is now cmployed in the Palace Photo Shop in Wilmington. She plans to meet her husband in California. Both arc residents of the Shul-'t iottc community. a ? ? v _ b 1 t WING j! Reporter j: ( ing and fishing, if not for a long- V ier stay. At various times efforts have been made to interest North Carolina, "nconle in shrimn. There ^ have always been thousands of Carolina people who love the product of the ocean but found lit hard to get them because of the greater demand in the eastern cities and the fact that our dealers usually ship by the truck load, anywhere from five to ten ? tons at a load. There has. never !r been a demand from any point in North Carolina for a truck i load, at least there docs not f seem to have been before. This 0 week, instead of it having to v make the long 20-hour run to r New York, the Wells Brothers of Southport loaded a truck with 1 seven tons of shrimp, made dc- a livery to a North Carolina dealer, I Continued on page two 1 PIL lmunity 71945 Ike' And gmg "S VraSbp* .' AftTH KANSAS CITY, MO.nother of General Dwight ! jeside her famous son as they ;as City airport. Both smile he rounion. Fowler Toins C Firm; May Get * - J A Little's Good But More's Not Better At the end of eleven | < straight days of rain the | \ local weather bureau report f a total of 7.78 inches since. , fc the first of the month.- This L total, when compared with j t the total for one day's rain 1} last month, June 25th, when ji< 7.56 inches were recorded in j c the 24-hour period, Isn't so 1 o much, but farmers in this vicinity are wringing their s hands in concern for their 8 croj>s. County Agent J. E. Dodson c said this morning that it is s too early to estimate the ic damage done crops, but he ;s said that the recent rains :f coming at a time when the c soil, already had about all it id could stand is a cause for Ja concern. In just a little over |' three weeks 15.34 inches have g fallen, and for practical pur- : poses that is just too much. f ii Many Nets Are ; Lost By Trawlers It c 7ishing Offshore In Effort ('j To Get Product Of Better Quality Often Results In' Loss c v Working as far offshore as; t OT [ $1.50" per- yea> publish! Mother ' IJ|K B PPw^ffT^feh iV P'jjj^sSSHBj JE3 -Mrs. Ida S. Eisenhower, r Eisenhower stands proudly c ' met recently at the Kanhappily in appreciation of J c old Storage ? New Lockers1 j 0 Additional Lockers Will Be Added If Applicants Will ] File And Pay In Advance, Management Says ,, Members of the firm of the j1 'olumbus Cold Storage Co. in i Vhiteville announced today that ' iareey Fowled of Whiteville had ' lecome a member of the firm nd would take an active inerest in the business beginning ifonday, July 23rd. Mr. Fowler 3 widely known throughout the j, ounty and has been a resident | f Whiteville for several years. At the same time the firm | tated that it had decided to add < ome additional lockers to the, j ould storage plant provided a ufficient number of people want-j d them. Elsewhere in this is-1 ue appears an advertisement j rom the firm station that if , nough people will come to the' ffice of the cold storage plant ' .nd sign up for lockers and pay or them at the time, they will t. ;ct the additional lockers and! itstall them. The money paid j or the locker rent will be placed n the bank and will not be used iy the company until the lockers .re installed and the key deivered to the person renting it. . Officers of the firm in making c he 'announcement, stated how- * vcr, tha? 80 per cent of the f ackers would have to go to pro- ; lucers 111 uiuur iu swuic iuc | icccssary priorities. Another point that was stressel was the fact that people ranting the lockers would have o sign up for them at the cold torage plant office, and that he sign up would have to be ompletcd within the next 10 lays or two weeks in order to ecure the priorities in time to et the lockers installed for the arty fall season. George Fulford Died On Friday iVas Member Of Large Family And Leaves Many Relatives; Burial Saturday At Sabbath Home George X. Fulford. well known . esident of the Supply community. ied at his home Friday. He a . as 42 years old and is reported o have been in failing health for \ omc time. Funeral services were ekl Saturday afternoon at Sab- a ath Home Baptist church and ,-erc conducted by Rev. J. O. ? Valton, pastor of the Soutlisidc . Japtist church in Wilmington. ? Surviving are his widow, Mrs. innie Sellers Fulford; seven a rothers, Jolm L Fulford, Hermn D. Fulford, Oscar T. Fulford, a Imerson Fulford, Dewey Fulord, Goley Fulford and Lawrence a 'ulford, all of Supply; two sisers, Mrs. Harry S. Davis of . lupply. and Mrs. Mary Johnson l f Palmyra. Active pallbearers were Calvin 1 tewett, Herbert Robinson, John Alison, Doyal Vanium, Dehnas i fewett, and H. ? Davis; hooor(Continued page One) p I Most of The News j All The Time | j ED EVERY WEDNESDAY. j Routine Day In Recorders Court Here This Week ; Jsual Number Of Petty | Cases Came Up For Disposition Before Judge Ward And Solicitor Ru- hi ark /AR1ETY OF CASES AIRED IN COURT . < j. Tases Heard Ranged From Speeding, Driving On Rim; One Woman Found Not Guilty J Of Cursing Monday of this week foun4 nly a routine day's work awaitig Judge John B. Ward and j j! iolicitor J. W. Ruark in the Reorder's Court. All business was fi :} isposed of by one o'clock. The j; V linute Docket shows the followig entries: jjl O. B. Robinson and Curtis i'.J tobinson, forcible trespass and |i? iofnrhino- thn npaOP continued tiO Lugust 13th. John T. Davis, speeding, judg- m| nent suspended on payment of a |H ine of $10.00 and costs. J|g Howard Mathew Weise, speed- j|l9 ng, judgment suspended on pay- j ji nent of a fine of $20.00 and osts. DeLean Tripp, speeding, judg- jl nent suspended on payment of a ine of $10.00 and costs. Edward Frederic Bergman, Irunk driving, judgment suslended on payment of a fine of 150.00 and costs, license revoked. |sj| Dewitt Taimadge Elliott, no : hauffeur's license, improper ights, continued to July 23rd. Delbcrt Hewett, driving or rim, . W udgment suspended on payment " if costs. ; I Mrs. Ruth Robinson, ussault vith deadly weapon, continued to Vugust 13th. | | Lubbie Jones, drunk on high- : II vay, judgment suspende<l on pay- J;l nent of costs. Lubbie Jones, drunk in 'public i,.jl >lace, judgment suspended on >ayment of costs. Mildred Evans, assault withf j tj Continued on.4?ge four J Fishermen Are Making Catches several Nice Hauls Of Mullets Made By Shore Fisheries Along Coast During .'I Week ] Although it is two months yet' jj 9 >efore the main" season is ex- 15 iccted to arrive with the coming , a if the main runs of "September j '1 nullets," shore fishermen along he Brunswick coast have their amps already set up and -arc. .jjB tccping a watchful eye out for ichools of fish emerging into H vatcrs where they can be netted H vith the huge drag nets. From Little Beach, near Shalotte, the crew of Captain Amos Stanley reported their first :atches this past week. At one taul 440 pounds were taken and n another vi couple of days later hey dragged in a thousand lounds. Raleigh and Charles . j -H >'loyd, who operate another fisli:ry at Cause's Landing, reported i catch of 000 pounds. In both uses the fish were described as icing fat and_ fine. From the beginning of the sca?n the fish usually taken by the j| ihore fishermen increase rapidly n size. The fish now being aught arc bringing 12 to 10 J; j :ents per pound. With crccku ; ind inlets reported full of the ish there are exjectations of a j? food season this year. Ration Pointers jj PROCESSED FOODS (Blue Stamps): T2, U2, V2, W2, X2 H . . now valid . . . expire July 31. IL Y2, Z2, Al, Bl, CI . . . now, f|l alid . . . expire Aug. 31. Dl, El, Fl, Gl, HI . . . now jj 'alid . . . expire Sept. 30. Jl, Kl, LI, Ml, N1 . . . now 'alid . . . expire Oct. 31. MEATS & FATS (Red ,3{ Stamps): K2. L2, M2, N2, P3 . . now valid . . . expire July j | Q2, R2, S2, T2, U2 . . . now ft alid . . expire Aug. 31. Sj xro tiro vo vi in LH T?, JfYAt .V?| lit |; ralid . . , expire Sept. 30. W Al, Bl, CI, Dl. El . . . now nalid . . . expire Oct. 31. | SUGAR: Sugar stamp No. 3? 1 j . . good for 5 lbs. . . expires Vug. 31. !:| SHOES: Airplane Stamps Nfc T' I, No. 2, No. 3. now good. FUEL OIL: Periods 1, 2, 3, <k | S, valid tor 10 gallons each. GASOLINE: A-16 coupons |{ /alid June 22 through Sept XL