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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, December 12, 1915
} ear-Round Fishing
John D. Findley, State Commissioner
of Inland Fishing, has announced that
1 thirty-three North Carolina lakes are
now open to year-round fishing. None
of the year-round open places are in
- Brunswick. Local sportsmen who like
to engage in freshwater fishing will
I have to lay off next April for -10 days,
; a time when freshwater fishing is at
; its best.
Quoting Mr. Findley: "Research in;
dicates that year-round hook and line
a i. 4 1-,^ fioii cunnlv in
Iisnnig cannuu iim^u mc -most
impounded waters. Due to the
I rapid rate of growth of fish in southl
ern waters many bass reach maturity
and die without being caugiit. Bass are
inclined to take a plug best during the
spawning season, although the fish actually
spawning will not bite at all.
Sportsmen miss their best fishing during
the closed season."
The above being true, no reason is
seen by this paper for most of the
lakes throughout the state being closed
for 10 days, while others are open to
hook and line fishing. Here in Brunswick
the fishing is just getting good
when the closed season comes on.
When the 10 days closed period is over
there is little worthwhile fishing because
of the fact that the waters are
full of young spawn upon which the
adult fish feed. In addition, the spring
season is so far advanced that mosquitoes
and other insect pests make it an
ordeal to venture on any of the streams
or lakes.
If one wished to be fair to the sportsmen
throughout the state it would not
be oat of place to declare an open seasou
lor fishing with hook and line in
all lakes of the state.
Our Brunswick Coast
After the war ended it was not expected
that the full tide of tourist travel
southward would get underway for
a year or two.
All the same, they say that everywhere
in Florida tourists who traveled
by car and trailer and by yacht are
gathered by the thousands. They are
paying unheard of prices for any sort
of accommodations and for many of
them accommodations are out of the
question. Florida is already about as
congested as Washington was during
war times.
Next year hundreds of northern and
; eastern yacht owners will eagerly welcome
any opportunity that presents itself,
permitting them to go to southern
I wfeters without running into congested
I centers.
The coa. t of Brunswick county, from
I Little Biver to Southport will be mis.
ah .1 l\irr Knt if if rlr?o<c not im
Olllg UUV \>il ?v '/i j.; uvv iL ?v vtvrvt; ??
mediately begin to work on the idea of
safe winter dockage for yachts and
1 hotel accommodations for the water!
way travelers. Calabash, Seaside, Shallottelnlet,
Lockwoods Folly Inlet and
South port all have possibilities. If any
of these places find it absolutely impossible
to do anything of a physically
constructive nature at this time they
I can still do constructive work by showI
ing the waterway travelers hospitality
and friendliness at every possible opportunity.
Compulsory A (tendance
During the war welfare officoals,
upon whom rests the burden of seeing
; that compulsory school attendance
I laws are enforced, had to be lax in
seeing that many young boys and girls
were kept in school. The plea that they
were needed to work was listened to,
and rightly during the all-out-to-win
J days.
The war has now been won. Sensibly
minded young men and women are
turning eagerly back to the books and
gaining an education while they still
have time. Many others, not so sensibly
minded, are now neither attending
school nor engaged in any worthwhile
; effort.
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THE STATE PORT PILOT, !
WILLIAM KNOX
DIES IN TEXAS
(Continued From Page One)
Knox, of Leland; Mrs. E. F.
Goldston, of Balm, N. C.; four
brothers, Dr. J. C. and J. L. Knox, j
of Wilmington; Carl Knox, off
Atlanta, Ga., and George Knox of1
Washington, D. C.
Canadian Skipper Deplores
Lack of Yacht Facilities
(Continued From Page One)
his boat was about to leave and
he had little time, to write Mr.
Keziah a letter relative to the'
trip and conditions. This the'
Captain, who is a Canadian, read- j
ily agreed to do, mailing his let-j
tcr at Georgetown when the
Jomar II docked there. The letter
was as follows:
"Dear Bill:
"As I promised you, here is a
small item, relative to our trip,
and the views of a seafarer. If
you think it worthy of printing i
in the paper you are quite wel-1
come to make any use you like1
of it.
"As I told you, we are one:
ship of a convoy of 19 ships that
left Elizabeth City on Saturday,;
December 1st. Previous to that
time six others had been in company
with us and they fell behind.
The Jomar II, on which I
am, sailed from Niagara Falls,
Ontario, a little over three weeks
ago and joined the convoy at
New York.
"All the way down the coast
we were treated very kindly and
it seemed that the further south
we got the greater the hospitality.
At every place we stopped we
found adequate supplies of fuel,
oil, gas, groceries, etc. There
was one place that was an exception.
Before we reached Southport
we were warned that owing
to the limited docking facilities j
and the great number of shrimp
boats it would be almost impos-1
sible for us to tie up at South-'
port. A number of the boats inj
the convoy heeded this warning I
and stopped at Wrightsville, while
others came on. On our arrival
here we found the warnings were
true. Other yachts ahead of us
4
It is becoming increasingly evident
that enforcing the compulsory school
attendance law will again become an
i -;tj the welfare officials. Apparently,
the sooner such actions bej
gin the better it will be for all con!
cerned. There seem to be a great many
j young people of this county who have
not been in school this fall and who
j should be found there when school re!
opens after Christmas.
Returned Servicemen
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Since the day the war in the Pacific
j ended some one has bobbed up daily
with the inquiry: "What will our boys
' d when they get back ?"
Up to the present time over 275 men
j in this county have had their discharges
recorded at the office of the Regis1
ter of Deeds. Since this is purely a
I safety measure and there are no orders ,
; and no law requiring such recording, it
I is safe to say that between 50 and 100
j more men than those shown by the
recorded papers are also at home.
From the beginning the only possible
answer to the question was to wait
and see. The Final answer had to come
! from the boys.
Enough are back home now and
have been out of their G. 1. clothing
; long enough to show what they will do. |,
i Most of them are right back where
I they left off, on farms, in stores, garages,
and what have you. A goodly
: number of them are entering business 1
for themselves or getting better jobs
than they formerly held, where such is
i possible. A number are in college,
finishing the education that was inter;
rupted. Another group is doing nothing
much, just looking around in an effort
to determine what is best for tnem to
do. [
One thing1 is certain, very few of
them are not losing any time in getting
back to normal living.
Time For A Show-Down
In a recent letter to Representative
Gore, Democrat, of Tennessee, Bernard
M. Baruch gave the people of the United
States sound advice and warned
labor and management to settle their
differences or face government intervention.
He recommended an inventory
of the resources of our nation so we
might have "an over-all picture of the
balance sheet of the countrq."
He also urged an examination of our
productive capacity "to see that
I enough of what is produced remains
i in the United States to avoid disastrous
: inflation, and then how much to allo!
cate for the rehabilitation of Europe,
China, the Philippines.
"Unless this dividingis done wisely,
we will sink and the whole world will
go down with us. We should direct our
aid to foreign countries by giving priority
to those who need the most and
! who will use it to help set themselves
j on their feet.
"If we promise loans to foreigners,
the money will be useless if they cannot
buy the goods from our production
here.
"Such demands will further inflation
temporarily because they aggravate de!
mands here. There is no use giving foreigners
credit (or our citizens greater
buying power through increased wages
and decreased taxes) unless we are
willing to establish priorities which will
ration our production where we want
it to go until production increases.
"We must be careful when we give
j aid to other countries, that this aid is
not used to nationalize their industries
against us, to destroy our own competitive
system which, I think, should be
| preserved. England, Czechoslovak^
I Prance and other countries arc nation]
alizing or about to nationalize their industries.
Russia has totalized herself?
one buyer and one seller?and is total:
izing all countries coming under her
I aetris."
I w
This week, al Mitchel Field, N. Y.,
' General H. 11. Arnold, General Carl
Spaatz, and Lt. General James Doolitlle
of (he Air Forces went to bat for
the young officers and men who are
being demobilized?in an effort to sell
(hem back into private life under the
most favorable conditions.
It has been the contention of the Air
Forces that, up to now, fewer than 5
! percent of all veterans get adequate
counselling on their return to civilian
life. The Mitchel Field conference was
an effort to get more intelligent handling
of veterans in every American community.
and particularly to get across
the point that a man who can run an
office should not be used to sweep the
floor, or to vun ds.
and not a part of our convoy had J
taken up every available mooring
and there was nothing for us to
do but go out in the canal and
anchor for the night.
"Now, to my mind, the absence
of dockage at Southport results |
in a great loss to your com- j
munity. It is very bad advertis-;
ing in addition to taking money j
away from your merchants. When J
you consider that the average j
touring yacht spends about ?15.00
or more at each stopping place j
for supplies, not including oil and 1
gas, then multiply this by the
number of yachts and you have
a transient trade possibly greater)
in one day than all of the local
tiude for a week.
"Something ought to be done
about the present conditions right j
now. Since travel restrictions [
are lifted this inland waterway j
will be filled with people going
up and down the coast. We will
certainly get a large party to j
come down from our own yacht'
club in Toronto, Canada, next
year and I guess that hundreds of
other boats will come from other
portions of Canada. They tell
us that the yachts arc already
tied up 10 dccy in the slips at
Miami and if you had basin and
docking facilities here there is i
no reason why many boats from
the north should not stop here for
the entire winter, instead of going
on to Florida, where the worst
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congestion is bound to be.
"I wish you and the paper th(
best of luck, also wishing you :
Merry Christmas, or as we sa;
in Canada?Bon Noel."
H. M. WEBB
WILLIAM B. MOORE
DIED YESTERDAY
(Continued from page 1)
ters, Mrs. Kate Dean and Mrs
E. J. Flemming, both of Ala
bam a.
Following the first world wa
Mr. Moore engaged in commercia
fishing, leaving that employmen
to become Chief of Police a
Southport. He served in thi
capacity for several years unti
he suffered a stroke of paralysis
about ten years ago. Since tha
time he has been a semi-invalid
He was known to Southport peo
pie as "Hook" Moore.
Tentative plans are to hold th
funeral Thursday from the South
port Presbyterian church witi
Rev. J. R. Potts of Wallace con
ducting the funeral service. Th
burial will be in the old South
port cemetery. The hour had no
been determined at the time th
Pilot went to press.
ORTON GARDENS
GET RENOVATION
(Continued from page 1)
ton workers, a good number o
employees of the Wilmingtoi
Terminal Warehouse have beei
putting in many man hours ii
work at the plantation this year
Not a part of the Garden, bu
essential in keeping up the sup
ply of plants for garden replace
ments and the huge nursery, ar
two acres of new trellised plan
beds for the development o
young plants. To prepare thes
beds much grading had to b
done and the use of such ex
pensive machinery as a drag lin
was employed to cut canals t
insure complete drainage. In ad
dition to the big canal uniforr
drainage is assured by an elabor
ate system of tile drainage. Man;
hundreds of yards of water pip
ing and an overhead sprinkle
system insure the plants bein;
kept well watered during dr
seasons.
Probably in excess of fift;
thousand feet of heart pine lum
ber went into the construction o
the trellis work of this ne\
nursery ground.
ENRAGED NEGRO
KILLS HIS WIFE
(Continued rrom UHgj 1)
next morning. The shooting fol
lowed immediately.
Grissett, according to Police
man Evans, was in the kitcher
building a fire in the stove. Mc
Daniel came in from the wood
and blazed away at him with i
12 guage shotgun, the load striking
Grissett in the arm an
shoulder. The wounded mai
rushed from the house and to
neighbor's, who carried him t
the hospital.
Following the shooting of Gris
sett, McDaniel rushed into an
other room where his wife was
He is alleged to have shot he
twice, afterwards clubbing he
with the shotgun, breaking th
barrel from the stock.
When officers reached the Gris
sett home early Sunday mornin;
they found the woman lying o
the floor in a pool of blood. On
of her small children had climbe
up on her body and had gone t
sleep. It vwas at first though
that both woman and child wcr
dead.
The latest report made by Po
liceman Evans on McDaniel i
that he was seen alighting fror
a bus a few miles this side o
Conway, early Monday morning
I By ?
lDING company
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Tile South Carolina officials hav
: joined in the search and Evar
i said he had no doubt of his bein
/ captured. Evans swore out
warrant for McDaniel befoi
Clerk of Court Sam T. Bennet
Monday morning.
SHALLOTTE HAS
A ROUGH WEEK
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-; from loss of sleep. Near tli
j Tatum home he apparently doze
r 1 off, at the same time stepping o
1! the gas. The car swerved, lei
t the highway and struck tl
t Tatum house. The structure we
s knocked completely off the tw
1 foot high foundation pilings c
i which it stood. Stanley and Sin
t mons contributed $100.00 towa;
I getting the Tatum home back c
- fts foundation, replacing broke
I dishes, etc. The floor is said 1
e have been piled two feet dee
- with various household furnitui
i Mr. and Mrs. Tatum and the
- two small children after the ce
e struck.
Saturday morning a car with
t Maine tag was approaching Sha
e lotte and cn the curve near tl
high school the driver lost coi
trol. The car turned over se'
eral times and the top and boc
were demolished. Two of tl
four men in the machine wei
carried to the hospital and tl
other two are understood to hai
been treated by Dr. Rosenbaum
? OLDEST CITIEZN
t DIED YESTERDAY
(Continued from page 1)
- lotte and Village Point this sun
e mer, it was tc find him bus:
t engaged in some work about tl
f house.
e Surviving are two sons and
e daughter, C. C. Andrews of O
. Dock in Columbus county, W. I
e Andrews of Shallotte, and Mi:
o Maggie Andrews, who made hi
. home with him.
n Funeral services and burl
- were to be held at 11:00 o'clo<
y Wednesday at the Gurganus cem
- tery. The names of the officia
r ing minister and the pall beare:
% were not available this momin
y
ELECT OFFICERS
V FOR AAA FOR 1946
(Continued from pa[e J)
f elected vice-chairman; J. B. Po
y ter, of Winnabow, was electi
regular member, succeeding H. (
Peterson, of Leland, who servi
very acceptably during the pa
. year; Earl Earp, of Winnaboi
i was elected first alternate ar
T 1K r> ? ? C*I 1 nnlir itroo olao
I ?J. iVJL. UUdtil U1 ouppijr V* a.O tltv.
J ed second alternate. These o
" ficers have already begun the
' duties.
f SHALLOTTE WANTS
. NEW P. 0. BUILDING
,oril!H'je<l iivin I)
her own.
| The Shallotte postoffice patrol
11 apparently understood the situi
01 tion and made little or no cor
! plaint over the temporary ui
suitable quarters. It was a
sumcd that a postmaster or pos
mistress would be appointed
1 short order and that whoever ws
r given the position would obta
c | or construct a building.
] Now, with several months ha
_ ing gone by and the old buildir
n still being used with no immedia
e prospect of getting somethir
better, various patrons are b
0 ginning to complain. E. Holde
t J Jr., stated to this paper Saturdt
c that the post office building w.
a disgrace to Shallotte and tl
whole community. Mr. Holdi
" i was of the opinion that steps
31 some sort should be taken
" immediately secure a better buii
; ing.
^ Despite the growing irritatic
of various patrons of the offii
there still seems to be difficultii
about getting a new building. Ui
til a permanent postmaster i
postmistress is appointed no or
expects Mrs. Frink to constru
a building that she may not g>
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v,' With the war over and travel j
id restrictions lifted the reopening | 1 t
of the schools of Brunswick coun- j 1f.
ty, after Christmas, should see the ] 1ir
resumption of basket ball playing, 1among
the students. In past I J.
years the friendly rivalry of our I i
schools on the basket ball courts
did much to stimulate continued; ,
attendance on the, part of the
j advanced students. Few of the |
ls 1 young folks on either the boys ^
I ANNOUN<
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in We are pleased to announ
a first class repair shop in c(
I business at tlie Brunswick I
c! | We are making a sf
"y I Electric and Acetyls
ie | pleased with our repaii
of I service.
J RIVER
f SERVICE S
ie | F. 1). HINSON
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T'S HERE...
THE NEW 1946
FRIGERAK
NOW ON DISPLAY
LEGGETTS
SOUTH PORT, N. C.
WEDNESDAY
e! to use. There is no building for or
is1 rent good enough for the needs, scl
g Since the office is one where the Tt
a postmaster or postmistress must pe
e furnish quarters, it seems that su
t, the only solution to the problem
j is for the Post Office Department
I to appoint a regular official. It wi
! is understood that seven or eight j co:
i eligible persons took the examina- Lc
tion for the office early in the I cei
le summer. I Ri
:d; ; an
rn Roving Reporter ;of
ft: (Continued rrom page one) |be
le brought out an elephant goad jro1
LS made of ivory from the tusks of J ^
0 Jumbo, P. T. Barnum's famous j "T
,n elephant, which has long been ac- j po
1" claimed the largest elephant in wi
cl captivity. Jumbo was killed by a an
111 tiain in 1886 while trying to wi
n save a smaller elephant from the Bi
? same train. In fact the smaller!
?P
g elephant was saved as Jumbo;
ir hurled her from the track as in- so'
lr stant before she was herself slt
struck. The bringing out of the Mg
story of Jumbo and Barnum re- ico
l_ minded us that we came into this sil
j world during the greatest story otl
v of Barnum as a showman. The sei
y. middle letter in \V. B. Keziah ac
ly stands for Barnum and our birthie
day came on Monday of this Gs
re week, four days after friend Raft- w<
ie ery brought our namesake to P'<
re mind. 'ed
, th
In prewar days when many *e:
j yachts used the waterways it &l
j was our custom to meet all of c"
! the boats when they stopped here. su
1 We would get acquainted with the be
! ships owners and crews and in fa
le this manner we picked up a nod- j
ding acquaintaince with many naa
I tionally known people. Some an
j|i mighty well known people travel in
cur watenvays in boats. It often
s3 happened that on such visits we ab
,r would pick up and take with us clu
j on these visits, as an added token ra
1 of friendliness towards the visi- W(
a tors to town, one or more of the su
'v most atti active and friendly girls w'
e" hann*annfl tr, he available at
the moment. It is quite likely ?'
IS that a number of Southport girls
and also others who happened to ^
be in town, can recall having A'
J been taken down to see the yachts ,
of some nabob and to have re1
ccived an invitation for all to
t- come aboard. It looks like this
d practice will have to be revived,
3. provided nice girls with a friend
lit .hnonifQlilA cnirif era .ivnilnhlo !
{, DECEMBER U?1
girls basket ball teams stm!J
hool before they gradrmlM
lere is no reason why ^
live contests should not v/j
med. ^
The folks around the B-J
ck River Bi ulge and the
mmunities of Woodbun J
land seem to be sold ^ J
nt on the need of having 9
vcr Road paved. It
unusual thing to visit in erj
those communities uithj
aring the subject of pavingJ
ad brought up. As Ji^l
iftery said to us this
he road has tremendous trj
ssibiiities and in addition 1
11 bring about an indiaj
d farming development 4
11 be of real taxable value |
unswick county.' I
Something in the growing J
n last year resulted
tall grain yield being rl
liter than usual in Brunsul
unty. Whether this is respS
ile or it can be laid to sol
tier cause, this winters 4
ems to be smaller than usual!
reage. So far the best J
.Ids we have seen are at 1
errand chain farms in Kom
:st township. The Garrand J
>, with farms all over the UJ
' States, have made much 1
e way of tests of varieties I
rtilization to determine the tl
ain crops for the soil I
mate of Brunswick. The I
Its of these experiments hi
en of gencial benefit to I
rmers. I
Bee keepers all over the stl
d that includes a great rr|
Brunswick county, ?t
e honey crop this year is g
out a third of what it his b
ring previous years. Exces
ins that prevented the &
>rkers from going about tl
mmertime business is crei
th responsibility for the i
op. There are quite a nun
small bee keepers in the co
and several large ones. Ais
e largest is the Whiskey Ct
jiary in North West tonus
E. Dodson and some of
intz boys in Waccamaw
ither Holden and his sou,
ippiyFOR
SALf
?1,200 lb. Mule. 1 Cai
?Turning plow.
?Cultivator
?Sweep Stock
?Opening Plow.
\nd All Necessary Par
J. B. C()CHRA>
Southport, X. C.
2EMENT
cc that we have opener
mnection with our othei
liver Bridge.
iccialty of welding
:ne. You will
r work and genera
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