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r PAGE 4 The State Port Pilot | * Southport, N. C. Published Every Wednesday JAMES M. HARPER, JR Editor (On Leave of Absence, In U. S. N. R.) Entered as second-class matter April 20, 1928, at the Post Office at Southport, N. C., under the [ Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR $1.50 SIX MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTHS 75 Wednesday, August 1, 1945 School Questions Rising Barely a month from now the schools will be opening again. The youth of America will once again be turning to the education which they need and which is their heritage. Between now and the opening there will be many vexing questions to arise. The matter of teachers and transportation will dominate. There is no denying that competent teachers will be hard for many of the schools to find, or that transportation of children will be a difficult task. The same troubles existed prior to the opening of the last session, but in 'some marvelous way the gloomy out"look faded within a few weeks after the work actually got in hand. We believe that such good work will be continued this year, but the troubles now arising will fade away when school work starts. Much Publicity The war may have had something to do with it. At the same time a whole lot of credit can justly be given to the State News and Advertising Division of the Department of Conservation and Development. We mean the fact that at almost any place in North Carolina you will see an automobile with a tag from some other state for every one that you see with the North Carolina marking. The News and Advertising Division has given this state an enormous . amount of helpful publicity. Naturally, much of the good that has resulted during war time has not been visible on the surface. Folks other than those who have been working with and keeping in contact with State publicity have had no time for observing and noting other things. This paper has been keeping in touch with the state publicity and advertising since the work first began. Under Bill Sharpe, the original director, a tremendous amount of useful introductory work was done, valuable contacts were made and the work attained a very substantial footing. V Under Bob Thompson, who succeeded Sharpe, the good work went right on, ao it did latpc under Charles Parker, and still later under Garland B. Porter. A year ago Bill Sharpe returned to his first love, better than ever equipped to carry on the work of director. He is now giving the state much valuable publicity and laying the foundation for 1 general benefit that will come after the war. 2 The Threat Looming The threat to Japan, of war with - Russia, to add to the trouble that the 1 Nips already have, is looming larger 2 daily. It would hardly surprise the ? American people to wake up any 2 morning and find that Russia is con tinning her pact with England and the r United States and making our enemies " hers. Z Along with the bombing to which Z she has been subjected from sea and 2 air for several weeks, the Japanese arc 2 facing a terrible threat in the uncer tainty of what Russia will do. This - threat is, in itself, sufficient to inspire Z a great deal of peace sentiment and Z talk among the Japanese. 2 War commentators seem bent on 2 agreeing that if Russia declares war - Japan will promptly surrender. Russia - ready to fight would give the Japanese 1 the opportunity to save their face in Z their already lost cause. They could 2 claim that they could still whip the 2 United States and England, but with 2 Russia also arrayed against them it - would be useless to continue the strugZ gle. Threats of Russia entering the war Z may move the Japanese to surrenderZ ing. Actual war with Russia will con2 vince in short order even the most ig2 norant among the Japanese that there -? are but two things from which to choose: surrendering or having then* , ' * j ' V ? . ' - 7 V ... . ; ....... , v ' 1 | country destroyed. | In Good Hands ?? I When the Whiteville Junior Woj man's Club members bought war bonds l to the amount that would cover the purchase of a modern 'Hellcat" nightfisher plane for use against the Japanese, the ladies composing the organization had no idea that their plane i would be assigned to a young pilot j from the neighboring county seat of I South port. A knowledge of such destined use would probably have only stimulated I the bond buying, and well it might. ; The Night-Fighting Hellcat, piloted by Ensign Billy Bragaw of Southport, is : in good hands. They could hardly hope ' for a better fate for it than that it be placed in the hands of the trained young fighter from Southport. i Store Customers At Fault If you talk to the clerks in the stores, you will find that a lot of supposedly good Americans give scant consideration to the truth in making purchases. As shortages of necessities grow more | aoute, many stores have tried to carry out a voluntary rationing program so that all persons can get a share without the annoyance and compulsion of ra| tion stamps. Clerks who are trained to | be courteous are pushed around by cusi whn insist udoii netting scarce iviiivio " ? ? -----? - ?r v ? I articles of food, wearing apparel, | smokes, etc. "Some of our best people are the | worst liars," said one clerk. For example, we have tried to voluntarily ap? portion eggs, ladies' hose, cigarettes, etc., to each customer. Many people who I know have received their allotment early in the week, come in the latter part of the week insisting that they haven't made such purchases. While we know they have received their quota, we get called down if we I question their veracity." Voluntary action by retailers, in which they must have the cooperation j of the public, can avert much compulsory rationing which is so distasteful to the average citizen. But it must be a two-way proposition?the customer j must cooperate with the store. You Can Help Now If you find it difficult to get on a { train, remember that the railroads and | the Pullman Company, by order of the Office of Defense Transportation, have with drawn from service all sleeping cars operating between points 450 miles or less apart. The action was made necessary by unexpectedly heavy arrivals of troops from Europe. This action makes available an additional 895 Pullman cars and gives the military the exclusive use of about half the sleeping cars operating in the United States. These cars afford a greater measure of comfort to our troops moving to the west coast prior , to embarkation to the Pacific theatre. It is interesting to note that in 1918, ! with a total of approximately -11,000 cuacnes ami steeping ears, uie railroads performed -12,676,000,000 pas: senger-miles of service. In 1944, with approximately 27,700 passenger-carrying cars, the railroads performed 95,575,000,000 passengermiles and the 1945 passenger load is expected to mount 10 per cent, tp more than 100,000,000,000 passenger-miles; or nearly two and one-half times the 1918 passenger load?to be moved in 00 per cent less passenger carrying carrying equipment. On account of wartime restrictions, the railroads have been unable to buy passenger carrying cars. The hauling job and the maintenance job they have done with the equipment at hand is almost beyond belief. They have rendered service more expeditiously, more courteously and with less waste than in 1918, when there was vastly more equipment, more engines and much more manpower. You can do your part to help out in the greatest transportation job in history by traveling only when necessary for purposes other than pleasure. Lord Haw Haw, says a dispatch, "appeared on the docket with a half-dozen drunks and prostitutes." In consideration of Haw Haw's particular service to his country, couldn't and "other" have been worked in gracefully before that last word??St. Louis Post-Dispatch. THE STATE PORT PILOT, SO The Rovin' Reporter (Continued From fa-re One) er. We cannot help but agree with these general predictions, especially when there is already much substantial evidence of the predictions coming true. Daily we see and talk to people from interior North Carolina, all manifesting great interest in our beaches and .fishing: Adding to those who are seen personally, | many letters are coming in ask-j ! ing both about beaches, fishing | j and near coast farming lands. Many visitors from up state I think it great sport to fish for the big white and blue catfish i j that swarm by the Southport fish j I houses by the thousands, feasting: | on the shrimp heads that are dis-! | carded in the river. While none j of them wishes to be a kill-joy j to sport, the shrimp house operators are not so pleased at this fishing on the docks while work j is going on. The big two and' three pound cats exude plenty of slippery scum from their skins and this scum on a dock where workers are hurrying about is likely to cause someone a bad fall. Hence many of the shrimp house operators have an edict against catching catfish and I throwing them on their docks while work in going on. Bill Shaipe, director of the' State News Bureau at Raleigh, | and John Hemmer, his official i photographer, were here with us1 last Thursday. We managed to', get in some time at both Caswell! and Long Beaches and a few pictures were made at both places, as well as in Southport. i The two North Carolina boosters! were on a schedule that they had to maintain. However, we' had assurance that they would j be back later in the summer and ! would go over anything in the county that has story and pic- j ture interest. I Jimmie Briggs, Raleigh hardware man and a pretty good spotter on the radio when it, comes to hunting and fishing; stories, had been riding our beam for two weeks, trying to get us to get him a cottage for| his family at Long or Caswell Beaches. Beach cottages at; cither of these places are just! not obtainable right now. Those! who have them for rent say that they are reserved right along until October. Nothing daunted at our being no good in our efforts to serve him, Jimmie phoned in this week that he was coming anyhow with his family, that they would stay here in town until they could get a cottage j through some one else defaulting j on his reservation. Fred Fletcher, j of WRAL at Raleigh, is already over at the beach and has been j there ten days. [Secrecy Veil Removed; No We Can Admit It Happened Some reported feeling the explosions shake the beach houses. Some survivors were picked up by another ship, others by the coast guard. They were brought 1 to Southport and to Charleston. 26 survived and 16 crew members were killed. On March 16, 1912 the motorship AUSTRALIA, of the Texas \ Company, was struck by a tor- j pedo off the coast of North Car-1. olina near Cape Hatteras, N. C. : These survivors were landed at Southport, N. C. ? i LOCAL WAREHOUSES READY FOR YEAR'S CROP GOLDEN WEED (Continued i'w.m Pace One) men have had the experience necessary to assure every tobacco grower of the best possible sale for their crop. Tobacco growers have confidence in the Whitcville warehousemen. This is evidenced by the fact that each year more lobacI'm is snlrl in Whitrvilln Ihnn thr. whole county produces in spite of the fact that there are three other markets in the county. Tobacco is brought to Whiteville from distances as great as 200 miles. In bringing tobacco this distance to Whiteville the growers pass through other market towns because they have confidence in the fact that the Whiteville warehousemen will get the top price for their tobacco crop. PILOTS JUNIOR WOMAN'S CLUB 'HELLCAT" (Continued from pafe 1) the ship sank under him. He swam for three hours before he was rescued. Ensign Bragaw is a younger brother of Captain Churchill Bragaw, who was killed in action in France the first of last year. He was slated to be given his Lieutenant's commission the last of this July. In a letter to W. B. Keziah. at Southport, this week, he said: "I have a new plane that I though you might like to hear about. It is a Hellcat Nightfighter, tlie same as I flew on my last cruifcc, but this one has a little sticker just forward of the cockpit. It reads: "This aircraft was bought through an equal amount in war bonds purchased by the Junior Woman's ciub of Whiteville, North Cirolina," LETTERS Greenwood for a Tobacco Society. This organization would look out for tobacco in the future?look ahead beyond the days of scarcity and 43-eent tobacco. It would not stand up any more for the producer than the buyer and no more for the warehouseman than anybody else. It would push research programs and do everything possible to keep tobacco on the move as regards quality and quantity. LINE?Are you a liner? Well you had better learn to be on< if you want to purchase selecl :ommodities these days. Th( breadlines in the old depressior years were nothing compared tc the cigarette and steak lines ir 1945. There are several habitua iners. One prominent Raleigt Teller got in a line?away dowr :he line the other day at a locai irugstore in the hope of getting i pack of cigarettes. Well, you enow drug stores sell about : very thing nowadays except plow joints. When it came this liner's ime to buy. he saw that the are product so much in demand vas panties "with real elastic." ["is said he bought him a pair ind took them home to the missis, who was delighted. ATKINS?Stewart Atkins of Jastonia got two jobs in one lay recently. He was news edi/-??* r\f fho otnniQ ClfkTP.ttp when Jregg Cherry began running for Jovernor, and he helped Mr. Cherry tremendously in the early lays before the band wagon be;an taking shape. He has. renamed in this position?may still le there. But he was made secetary-treasurer of the North Carolina railroad and makes norc at that than you do and loesn't work nearly as much at t either. And then Stewart was nade editor of a textile magazine vhich will be published in Charotte. He's a young feller, about 13 or 34, but he is certainly niovng along. He deserves it, too. ANDERSON?A few patrolmen ire a little pleased that Walter Vnderson didn't accept?or hasI't at this moment?the position is major of the State Highway 'atrol and director of highway afety. "I knew that man when he ras chief in Winston-Salem, and le would have us boys doing >ur daily Bible reading before we itarted to work," one of the parol boys commented last week, tnderson is a mild-mannered fentleman and he does go in for eligion?and that's one of the casons he is so much in denand. A little more straightInc thinking and acting in police etups and you will read fewer terns about various city hall candals throughout the la nil. Anerson's remark about his ccn UTHPORT W. C. ! CAPITAL By Thompson BY THOMPSON GREENWOOD i BACK?W. P. Hendrick, now1 a captain in the Allied Military Government, a native of Taylorsville, and former tobacco marketing specialist with the State Department of Agriculture, will be! discharged from the Army in a! few days now. Hendrick worked for a tobacco [ company in China for several1 years and speaks Chinese fluent-, ly. But he wasn't certain he was J going to be needed in China and! so in Manila he applied for a > discharge and he will get it and go back to the department. j; I i TOBACCO?Anything about ( tobacco should he of interest ] in North Carolina. Here are ; some items; tobacco which was l virtually burning up on the stalk three weeks ago is now I being drowned out by the heavy 1 rains. I Plans are now taking shape ! ( The Skipper said, "I am the i j only Tar Heel Pilot in our Squad-1 c ron. The plane should be as- I signed to me. The next time you t are over in Whiteville and should i see any of these worthy ladies of \ the Junior Woman's Club, I wish that you would express to them ? my personal thanks. Tell them i that this plane, which they | bought, is the last word in car- j riet fighters. It has more modern ( armament and is better all around <c than the one I had to consign t to the locker of Davy Jones early ( in the spring when my carrier C was under attack." ! ( Although he said nothing about c it, Ensign Bragaw and his squad- f. ion, with him flying the plane r that the Whiteville women t bought, is known to be with Ad- r miral Halsey's fleet, off the coast C of Japan and giving the Japs r tioublc a plenty for the past c month. I i I r cience nui idling nun ine taleigh place is what seemed to hock everybody. They had not eard the word "conscience" ised outside the Sunday School oom in so long that they were CEIVED able-Top NGES Southport, N. C. S LINES, Inc. , N. C. EDULES le 16, 1944 WILMINGTON Saturday ARRIVE Read Up AM I'M I'M I'M I'M I 8:30 3:00 5:30 7:50 11:30 8:00 3:35 5:00 7:20 11:00 7:15 2:20 4:15 7:05 10:45 w 7:30 2:05 4:30 0:50 10:30 7:15 1:50 4:15 11:35 10:15 Ion 7:00 1:35 4:00 6:20 10:00 HEIRTI.E t 10:25 3:00 7:43 11:25 9:55 2:30 7:15 10:55 9:40 2:13 7:00 10:40 w 9:25 2:00 6:45 10:25 9:13 1:50 6:33 10:15 ton 9:00 1:35 0:20 10:00 0 8UIPTA111J U-V1UV) 1 9:00 5:25 1.25 !* 8:35 5:00 11:50 w 8:15 4:40 11:35 8:00 4:25 11:20 7:25 3:55 11:55 I SHIPYARD UlfDAY) 5:35 1:30 G:JU 1:15 B 00 12:55 W 4 10 12.35 4 25 13.20 3.55 11:54 I GAME PROTECTOR GETS FOUR MEN ' l Continued from page One) i tion the men had not killed aijy- j thing prior to the arrival of the i officer. This is said to hardly lessen th offense as it is against the law to carry guns in the ^ woods and fields during the closed season. :? COURT NEARLY I1 PROVED A DUD (Continued From Page One) but a few minutes on the part of v Judge John B. Ward and Solicitor 1 J. W. Ruark to hear both cases. 0 The court minutes show the fol- a lowing entries for the day: ^ Thomas Lee Grant, speeding,,, judgment suspended on payment of a S10.00 fine and costs. John Utley, larceny, not guilty. 1 r SCHOOL TO OPEN r SEPTEMBER SIX (Continued From Page One) |S teacher situation, Miss Woodside i stated that she had no definite [s statement to make. There prob- ,j ably is a shortage of teachers at's some of the schools, but this is r a yearly occuiance. For the past s several years authorities have ^ been uncertain regarding teachers , almost up to the very day on iu which the schools opened. |r JUST RE Florence T OIL RA LEGGETT'ST~5 " W.B.&S.BU Southport BUS SCH1 Effective Jui SOUTHPORT TO Monday - 1 LEAVE Read Down A 31 AJI I'M I'M 7:00 9:00 4:00 6:00 Noiillipor 7:30 9:30 4:30 6:30 Supply 7:45 9:45 4:45 6:45 Bolivia o.uu jv.uu o.un i ;iiu ?> minimi 8:15 10:15 6:15 7:15 l.anvale 8:30 10:30 5:30 7:30 'Wllmlncr SUM1AT 8C 7:30 10:45 4:00 6:00 Southpor 8:00 11:15 4:30 6:30 Supply 8:15 11:30 4:45 6:45 Bolivia 8:30 11:45 5:00 7:00 IMnnaOo 8:40 11:55 5:15 7:10 Luuvale 8:55 13:10 5:30 7 25 IMlmlUgl SOCTHPOBT 1 Itl'CLH S 5:00 1.30 9:30 Houthpor 5:25 1 55 9 :55 Mill Cm 5:45 2:05 10:15 IVlnnabo 6:00 2:20 10:30 Lanrale 6:30 2.50 11:00 Shipyard SlIA l.I.OTTE TO (EXCEPT S 4:45 1:16 Shallotle 6:00 1:30 Supply 5.20 1:50 Bolivia 5:40 2:10 Wlpnabo 5:00 2 30 Lin vile 5:30 3.00 bttipilxd s ' 7 > WEE .1 - WHO NEEDS i , v ''!i i| i i-iour , knocked completely off their feet when a police chief could talk 1 of being guided by it. j ?60 CENTS?The cost of hairi cuts in Raleigh went from 50 to 60 cents a few days ago. On the i first day, at least one customer asked his barber about the inj crease. "Well," replied the barI ber, "look at the extra labor nowadays. We are getting more long-headed young whipper-snap pers, ana urai increases vuai labor costs right there. On the other hand, faces are longer, because of the war and taxes, and we must go up on shaves, too. More labor, more costs." All of which proves again that you can never out-talk your barber. The best thing to do is just settle back and let him ramble. POSSIBILITY?Wake Forest meets Army on the football field this fall, and the meeting may bring together on opposite sides of the line two Yadkin-SurryWake County boys, LeRoy Martin, Jr., and Sidney Martin, his little 210-pound brother. In Raleigh High School, they were both on various all-State selections, with LeRoy having a little the edge. Sidney is stockier, a little rougher on the gridiron, but his brother is taller, calmer in play, and is an excellent man for knifing through a lot of | trouble to get at the play which | is in the making in the opponents' backfield. Both are good old boys, and averaged better than 190 on all their work in high [ school. LeRoy, who has been in the Army since last summer, received appointments at Annapolis and at West Point, took the latter, j They will both be on the squads I this year and may get a few1 licks at each other. Fish odors can be removed j from the hands by rubbing with salt and warm water before I washing with soap. | "Good Ole American Soi Now, to pho The South is honored. It has be thousands of returning heroes native soil. You may sec sonic of them kis many more nailing hopefully home. How about all of us skipping so about keeping the necessary on this inconvenience for those wh ,fl?? f' S* sJRV/C Southern Bell Telephone INCOtfOl )NESDAY, AUGUST 1, 194s A VACATION ? ' I . .cfj! Heavy Rains Fall Throughout State Weather Report Shows State-W:de Precipitation; Covers Period From July 8014 RALEIGH?Rains were general over North Carolina fiom July through July 20, said a cooperative report issued Wednesday by the U. S. Weather Bureau and 1 the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. This report, covering the period from July 8-14, is the first of weekly weather-crops reports i which will be issued each Wednesday for the entire State. Information for the weekly release will be provided by weather experts and 300 special weathercrops reporters, according to Frank Parker, head of the Federal-State Crop Reporting Service. Mary Allerton was the last I survivor of the Pilgrims who I i came to America on the first I voyage of the Mayflower. | Place left over foods in small I containers and store in your re- I frigerator. I Presbyterian I JUNIOR COLLEGE g Begins Sept. 7, 1945 | | Preparatory Department. One I and Tfo Year Commercial. Stan- I dard Two Year College leading E A. A. or A. S. degree or transfer. I Aviation. I Christian emphasis. Thorough. I Small classes. Individual atten- I tion. Personal counseling. Extra- I curricular activities. Athletics. I Pre-professional courses. Accel- I erated program. Pre-induction H training. Ex-service men may I enter at any time. Fifteen schol- B aiships for women. Rcister now. For catalog, write the. President. I MAXTON, N. C. I ne home!" I cn chosen as Ihc place w here I > Mill first set foot on (heir I s that soil. And you may see I to get a long distance call 9 me long distance calls? Ho# I cs brief ? Let us gladly acccpi I o have given so much for u9> I |I ^32^ and Telegraph Comfaw i (4*10 I ?I
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