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fl,e Pilot Covers Brunswick County NO. 40 THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Most of The News All The Time 14-PAGES TODAY Southport, N. C., Wednesday, January 2nd, 1946 |1.50 PER YfcAf i?UBUSHED EVERY WEDNESDAY laboratories Are (finding Up Work It Fort Caswell atson Laboratories Now Winding Up Experiments L'nderway For Past Nine Months (OPERTY NOT ON SURPLUS LIST HI ftot Known What Will L)one With Fort Cas well. Scene Of Recent Radar Experiments -v Wat- n Laboratories are ' ; the experiments that p; let-way at Fort Cas - ? tiie past nine months ac .. _ f Matthew M. Hartigan, ? chemist in charge of the H made no statement as ? s . s.s of the experiments the the: they would be con pfj at some other point. Sith Army men on detached pee as.- sting with some de > the work, it is understood C the laboratories have been pjed i". experiments with ra . \ large balloon, on a steel He. h.is been maintained over ? 5>rt at a height of 1200 feet, t a time there were reports f the balloon would be re (ri by a steel tower and that i k might go on indefinitely. 1:4 the Watson Laboratories lfc!i:ng the work, it is under pi that the entire occupancy Fir; Caswell will revert to t Xavv. by whom the place is cri. 'icluding the site and ar.i physical property ac i?i by purchase and rebuild ; I'd repairs, the fort repre :3 something over a million Ci-s All of the new building t of a permanent type. 5e place has never been desig as surplus property. Fur r than that, repeated reports r- been to the effect that the :-rr.::.er.t would not again sell r. Caswell. fm 4^4 j ice-- ?- \ f or Real Estate . J. Smith, Durham real i:; n;ar.. has opened an office th rrir.k building, adjoining i ax collector's office. He is od to be planning to go ii the real estate business on ex;tr.s:ve scale. He has re bouiht the Flanner resi- ! w or. Bay Street and will his family here from Dur- : t early in February. Brief Newt Flashes ISGE IN" DATE regular literature meeting j -? Woman's Club will be held Wednesday. Jan. 9, at the ; fflunity Club. Dwight Mc a will be the speaker and abject will be the United Na- j & $ ELECTED 'ord has been received here 1 ; James P. Furpless, son of * Furpless and the late Mrs. P'sss of Southport, has re -? been elected 1946 worship faster of William G. Hill; ?" No. 218. AF & AM, in ??h. WE ISS BE ALE ?aymon.i D. Gilbert, radio tech s" third class, is now serving ^ destroyer Beale, which is Part in the occupation of fir after a distinguished war 1 Sr Young Gilbert lives nearj Wy. VACATION ar.d Mrs. W. G. McGlam- ? r- a:i spending two week's, lt>'- at Mr. McGlammer's old 'J: 'n Georgia. During their ** Mack's Cafe is closed. "ttLLIAs BLOOMING ^ra;r'^' to reports great ^rs of (lie winter blooming at Orton are blooming " *?ek. There has been no : to any of the flowers by , thus far. if no unusually > J' cold spell sets in there 1 - a steady succession of the f a bloo:us from now until ? tne spring. home fc- ar'd Mrs. D. I. Watson L re' Jrni>l home from the l Sj;t Watson has r in the Army about k v^ars and for the past year L 's Rationed in California. rsce:\ed an honorable from the service. Make A Return Visit To Orton New York Couple Here Six Years Ago Could Not Re sist Desire For A Return Visit Mr. and Mrs. Mooney, enroute from New York to Florida, stop ped for a visit to Orton Planta tion and Southport this past week. Their trop brought to mind an interesting visit they made here just before Christmas, six years ago. Six years ago Life Magazine conceived the idea of sending , Wallace Kirkland, one . of- its crack cameramen, down the in land waterway aboard a yacht, the object being to make a pic ture story, showing yachting travel. As the trip was scheduled to be made from New York to Miami in eight or ten days, it was planned to make only about a dozen stops along the route to take the pictures for the story. The yacht DoHOO was selected to carry the party, which in cluded Mr. Kirkland and Miss Mary Joyce Walsh, a Florida girl who was later described in the picture magazine "Click" as be ing the most shapely woman in the world. Miss Walsh was to model for the pictures made by Kirkland. To give the necessary respectability to the party, Mr. and Mrs. Mooney were sent along as chaperones for Miss Walsh. Southport was not one of the i scheduled stops, except for /gas. ! However, it was known here that the boat was enroute down } the waterway. With this in formation at hand a call was made to John Field, one of the editors of Life. He was request ed to contact the boat and have it stop here. Mr. Field was very nice about it, but he advised that the boat was expected to be in Florida on a certain time, and that it was behind its schedule. Allen Ewing, James Harper, the late Churchill Bragaw and Bill Keziah all watched for the boat and when it arrived the self appointed committee got busy. The plans were only to stay| here long enough to take on gas. i The crew did not even take the | trouble to tie up the boat. They simply held her to the dock while ! Robert Thompson was gassing her , up. During this brief time the j local men got hold of the party. There was a little hedging but the skipper finally went aft and told the party that it looked too late to go on to Myrtle Beach that night. So, fie suggested , they stay here and the party j could do as it pleased. j The upshot was that a birth- 1 day party was held on the boat for Miss Walsh that night. Next m,orning the skipper and his crew set out blythcly down the water way, leaving Life's cameraman, model and chapcrone all here. A trip was made with them to Baldi Head Island next morning and' one to Orton at about noon. To'-j wards nigltt they were delivered by station wagon back .to the yacht, then waiting for them at Myrtle Beach. men the Inland Waterway pic- j turc story camc out in Life it j was found that Brunswick coun ty had mere pictures than any, other place along the waterway. -) Sellers To Open Furniture Store T. Kelly Sellers, owner of the | Sellers Furniture Company in ' Wilmongton, will open a branch store at Southport about the middle of this month. He has leased the R. R. Stone brick ' building and plans to install a large stock as soon as repairs are completed. Mr. Sellers carried- a small stock of furniture in the same building a year ago. inability to get furniture and capable help at that time caused him to close the place until the matter of supplies became better. The store here will be managed by John Sim mons, Southport boy who has re cently returned from overseas service. Mrs. M.A. Dosher Burial Monday Aged Southport Lady Pass* ' es After Long Illness At The Home Of Daughter j ! Mrs. M-'garet Ann Dosher of' Southport died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. T. J. Peadrick, Saturday night. Mrs. Dosher was 84 years old and had been in ill ' health for a long time. She was the widow of the late W. J. 1 Dosher, well known in Brunswick county. Funeral services were conduct- 1 ed Monday afternoon from the Southport Baptist church at 2:30 o'clock with Rev. A. L. Brown of ficiating. Burial was in the old Southport cemetery. | Mrs. Dosher is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Peadrick; four sons, Charlie, Southport; Arthur J., Philadelphia; William J., New Orleans, and Elmer, Morehead City. One brother, S. W. Smith, Wilmington and 15 grandchildren and five great grandchildren also survive. Active pallbearers were Charlie Trott, Crawford Rourk, Robert St. George, S. B. Frink, Wayne Leinert and John Erickson. Honorary pall bearers were: W. F. Jones, Harris Creech, W. S. Davis, J. E. Carr, Capt. C. C. Cannon, Prince O'Brien, L. T. Yaskell, W. P. Jorgenson, L. W. | Lancaster, Joel Moore, George Whatley and Dr. L. C. Fergus. 1 Thomas St. George, Pierce Cranmer, Robert Willis, B. J. Holden, C. G. Ruark,, Dwight McEwen, R. T. Woodside, J. J. Loughlin, Jr., Clyde Swain, Gus McNeal, F. W. Spencer, Capt. Charles Swan. Boss Leonard, Ross Livingston, W. E. Bell and W. T. Fulwood. Auto Licenses Good Until January 31 Motor Vehicle Commissioner T. Boddie Ward reminded motorists yesterday that their 1945 auto mobile license plates are valid until midnight January 31 under an amended State law. Ward urged owners to pur chase new plates as early as possible before the deadline to avoid the rush during the few dayB before the expiration date. Seized Cradle Of The People" ISTANBUL, TURKEY ? (Soundphoto.) ? Dispatches published by the semi-official Turkish news agency Anatolia, branded as "crazy" Russian Georgian demands that Russia annex a 180-mile stretch of Black Sea coast, and said Turkey would fight to prevent the loss of a single inch of Turkish territory. The Georgian demands, in form of a letter referred to the "seized cradle of the people" and demand ed that Turkey turn ever to the Georgians eight administrative dis tricts, of which the picturesque Black Sea city of Trabzon, of 30,000 population, pictured here, is the chief city and port. The incident is no help tc already strained Russo-Turkish relations which have been deteriorating since last March when the Soviet denounced a 20-year old treaty of friendship and non-aggression. Federation To Continue Drive Through Jan. Brunswick Will Continue Its Efforts For Increased Membership In Farm Federation PLEASED WITH CHICAGO MEETING {Delegate From Brunswick Was Impressed With At titude Shown At Nat ional Meeting The drive for members of the Farm Bureau in Brunswick coun ty will continue through the month of January, according to County Agent J. E. Dodson, who is greatly interested in the or ganization and who returned home at Christmas from the national meeting of the Farm Federation in Chicago. Mr. Dodson was one of two hundred North Carolina delegates who attended the Chica go meeting. In all, some 10,000 delegates attended. Describing his trip, Mr. Dodson says that it was eight degrees below zero in Chicago while he was there. This in itself would not have been so bad had it not been for the accompanying wind. Chicago is known as "The Windy City" and it lived up to this name during the meeting of the Federation. Leaving Mount Airy, the North Carolina delegates saw no real stands of timber for the entire J distance to Chicago. Mr. Dodson said that he returned to Bruns wick county thinking more than ever of her pine tree forests. Dodson was very much impress ed at the attitude shown at the Federation meeting. He believes more than ever that now is a propitious time for Brunswick farmers to line themselves up with the great national Farm Federation. To Organize Wildlife Club Sportsmen Plan To Form Organization At Meeting Here On Tuesday Night, January 8th With L. T. Yaskell acting as temporary chairmen, Brunswick I county sportsmen, who are in- ' terested in hunting and fishing, j are to meet at the court hou'_ in Southport Tuesday night, Jan-j uary 8, for the purpose of or- J ganizing a wildlife club and seek- ' ing affiliations with the State ! Wildlife Federation. The meeting is called for 7:30 i o'clock and all sportsmen in the county are invited to be present and hear the fish and game situa tion discussed. Ross O. Stevens, secretary treasurer of the State Wildlife Federation, will be present. He will make an address and will as- j sist in the forming of the local organization. Mr. Stevens assist-! ed in the organization of the j New Hanover Wildlife Club three j (Continued on page Two) Xmas Decoration In Town Few This Year Mrs. H. B. Smith won the first I prize in the Woman's Club annual! Christmas tree lighting contest J for her living Christmas tree. There was no second prize given in this classification. I W. G. Butler was awarded the first prize for his house decora tions and Mrs. Walker Clemmons won second prize. The judges i made their decisions on Christ : mas night. Very few entries were observed this year and the town was not as festively decorated as in former years. Street lights were installed by the city only in the downtown section. Hospital Gets Trained Worker Miss Eleanor Niernsee Ac cepts Post With J. Arthur Dosher Memorial Hospit al At Southport The officials of the J. Arthur Dosher Memorial hospital have secured the services of Miss Eleanor Niernsee, R. N., daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Niern see, of Southport, as superinten dent of nurses. Miss Nif.nsee enters upon her duties today. Miss Niernsee graduated from the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore in 1936. Following her graduation she was appointed head nurse at that widely known institution, remaining there in that capacity until May, 1941, when she enlisted in the Army. After nearly a year in the of fice of the Surgeons of the 3rd Service Command she was sent overseas with the famed Johns Hopkins Hospital Unit, known as the 118th. She served in Austra lia, New Guinea and the Philip pines for 37 months. During this time she was promoted to the rank of Captain. Returning home this past sum mer on a 40 days leave of ab sence, she was here when the war ended and as her enlistment was only for the duration she received an honorable discharge without being called upon to re turn overseas. Since receiving her discharge Miss Niernsee has been planning to take a years rest and then return to Johns Hopkins or some of the other large eastern hos pitals. A desire to remain at Uome led her to consider and finally accept an offer from the local hospital. I Will Be Back In The Spring Merritt Moore, who with his brother, Boyd Moore, and their families, have been spending the holidays here with relatives, have returned to their home at Mor gan City, La. Mr. Moore stated Saturday that he intends to bring his big shrimp trawler back to South- j port early this summer. He has ; been fishing there nine or tenj years and has done well. Our ROVING Reporter W. B. KEZLAH Miss Kate M. Johnson, of Win nabow, setsi the paper to rights regarding the date of the Charles- ' ton earthquake. In a recent story j relative to geologists being around making inquiries regarding the ' dead fish that drifted ashore on! this coast, following the earth- 1 quake, it was stated that the quake happened in 1888. Mrs. j Johnson says that the correct' date is August 31, 1886. The question has been coming up as to whether the four men adrift in a small boat above Fry ing Pan, last week, were aboard ? a dory or a dingy. Newspaper stories credited them with being in a dory. All yachts that pass through here carry dingy's. Both boats are tops in small craft but the dingy's are usually much ' smaller and lighter than the j dory's. Reading the newspaper accounts of the reccnt saga, Cap tain J. B. Crurch said that if the men were in a dory they were in no danger, provided they knew ar^thing at all about fuch boata "Die dory's art UMd~ by the New England and Novia] Scottla fishermen, working with a parent ship off the banks of New Foundland. With these boats i frequently spread over areas of several miles' and the sudden storms and foggs that beset that area, boats and fishermen are frequently lost. In such cases there is nothing to do except to see that the stern of the craft is weighted down. If this is done the dory will take care of itself in any kind of weather. Captain Church says that the New Eng land fishermen arc frequently lost for weeks in their dory's in the dead of winter and that they al ways show up. With a decided improvement in [ the labor situation, Brunswick farmers are starting out the year 1946 with a much more cheerful view of things. This week, while discussing the out look, County Agent Dodson said the outlook was good. If a stretch of favorable weather comes along at any time in the Continued an page two Findlay Writes About Fishing In Fresh Waters State Fish And Game Com missioner Gives Some Timely Information To Fishermen WILL OPEN PONDS ON OWNERS REQUEST Owners Of Impounded Waters May Fish At Any Time Without Regard To Closed Season In a letter, replying to a re- ! cent editorial in this p.. ner con cerning fresh water fishing, Com missioner John D. Findlay gives information that will be of in terest to fresh water fishermen. Among other things it has been generally supposed locally that not even owners of ponds or impounded waters could fish in them during the closed season, beginning ip April. Mr. Find'ey's letter also in dicates that upon request from the owners, any ponds or im pounded waters will be opened to year round fishing. His letter was as follows: "In the same regulation pro viding for fishing in the thirty three lakes the Board of Con servation and Development gave the Commissioner of Game and ' Inland Fisheries, which is my j present position, the authority to open any other lakes in the State ' to year round fishing upon the i application of the owners of or j those persons having controlling j (Continued on Page 2) Nice Sum From License Sales Proceeds From Sales Of Sportsmen's Licenses Ex- 1 ceed That Of Previous Seasons By Good Sum This year, with several weeks of the hunting season yet to go, County Game Protector H. T. Bowmer, has turned in $2,226.00, up to January 1st. According to all available information the largest sum ever taken in dur ing a single previous season was $1, 700.00. This was for the sale of hunt ing and trapping licenses only. It did not include fishing li censes, which arc usually sold during the spring and summer. Tile $1,700.00 taken in during previous seasons represented the whole of the collections for the year, while the current report is for only a part of the hunting and trapping season. Mr. Bowmer has been game protector for about a year. He Ms a capable assistant in Charles Skipper, of Leland. The hunting, trapping and fishing licenses are sold through these officials and by various agancies at convenient points in the county. Southpc-t Man Given Air Medal Lieutenant Richmond R. Lewis Given Decoration For Service With Air Transport Command First Lt. Richmond R. (Teddy) I Lewis, son of Mrs. Brady Lewis, | >f Southport, has been awarded ! lis eighth Oak Leaf Cluster to ' lis Air Medal by Brig. General Carles W. Lawrence, command ing general of the India-China Division of the Air Transport Command. He wa6 awarded the Air Medal in North Africa in 1943. Lieutenant Lewis is the only son of Mrs. Lewis. Immediately I following his graduation from the Southport school he entered a school for training as an aircraft j mechanic. Finishing at that he unlisted in the service before the jut break of the war. After ser rice as a trainee and an in structor he was sent overseas for several months and then returned to the states and assigned to the Air Transport Command. He has been flying steadily as i pilot for about four years. Onj i reccnt visit home he expressed lis intention of remaining in the: service. .11 Make Race R. I. MINT/ Dredging Work Now Underway One Dredge At Work And Another To Start Up Shortly On Big Bruns wick County Ship Basin Work on the big ship lay-in basin on the Brunswick River is now in progress, with one dredge in operation and another to ar rive and start work shortly. In formation is to the effect that the basin is not expected to be completed for nine or ten months. Original plans, however, called for the construction work to be carried on in such a manner that ships could use the basin before it is entirely finished. Over nine million cubic yards of earth wll have to be removed by the dredging operations. The basin, when completed, will ac commodate 500 of the big sur plus ships. They will be serviced and kept in repair, for use in short order when the need arises. Travelers on Routes 17 and 74 through this county will pass within two or three hundred feet of the upper end of the basin. The River Road between South port and the Brunswick River Bridge, runs parallel with the basin for about three miles. Much Sickness In County Now A Lot Of Folks Have Cases Of Old Fashioned La Grippe According To The Doctors The new year finds a lot of sickness in Southport and all over the county. The hospital at Southport is s&id to be full of patients. So many people are said to have influenza, that this paper yesterday sought competent in formation as to whether the dis ease was in a mild or severe form. Dr. Landis G. Brown, of whom the inquiry was made said: "Yes, there is a lot of sickness, but it is not influenza? at least not the type that swept the country in 1918. What the folks have now is more like a case af old fashioned LaGrippe." So far, no deaths have been reported from anywhere in the country during the present epi demic o? illness. So far as is known there are no especially dangerous cases. However, both LaGrippe and influenza are dis-' eases that may open the way for complications. Care should be taken to prevent the disease from spreading and those who have it should be careful and avoid the possibility of complications. Good Food Supply Is Seen For 1946 j Reduced Military Needs Will Help Fill Nation's Larder, Hartford Predicts , NEW YORK? The food indus-! try must maintain its war-ac celerated pace in 1946 in order to meet increased domestic demands and fill its export obligations, John A. Hartford, president of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, declared here today. "With adequate production of most foods indicated for the new year," Hartford said, "industry wide teamwork is needed to im prove the quality and freshness of agricultural products and to reduce to a minimum the waste and spoilage Involved In moving these products from farm to kit chen." A hopeful development in re cent years, he said, has been the (Continued on Pag* Four) | Major Mintz I To Run For State Senate j Veteran Still Technically In Service Until February I 3rd Of This Year WITHDREW IN 1940 BECAUSE OF THE WAR Southport Lawyer And For ! mer Register Of Deeds Will Resume His For mer Plans In the Army Air Corps, on an inactive status until February 3rd, Major R. I. Mintz is not in a position to make personal state ments utnil after that date. Close friends, however, say that as soon as he is released from his Army status, on the above date, he will announce his candidacy for the State Senate. Major Mintz filed as a candi date for the State Senate early in 194ft, This was done after had obtained permission from the Secretary of War. ' At that time he was a Lieutenant in the Army Reserve. Right after he j filed as a candidate his group I was alerted for service and he ! promptly withdrew vis a candi date, without being able to give his real reason for withdrawing. The fact that he was being alert ed for service constituted a mili tary secret at the time. 7?e is the eldest son of Mrs. H. L. Mintz and the late Mr. Mintz, of Shallotte. Graduating from the Southport high school at tne time when Southport had the only high school in Bruns ' wick, he entered State College at | Raleigh, graduating from there ! with his B. S. degree in 1929. Following his graduating he en? tcred the set vice of the Bell Tele (Continued on page Two; Tobacco Growers Getting Ready Some Few Starting ' Plant Tobacco Seed Beds And Many Others Are Getting I Ready A good number of Brunswick county tobacco planters are this week making preparations to sow their plant seed beds. With the weather at all favorable, a few of them will get around to sow ing their seed during this week. This first of January crop work is nothing unusual for tobacco planters in lower coastal North Carolina and South Carolina. It is regarded by many that the sooner the plants get started the more stocky and desirable they will be. The majority of the growers wait until after the mid dle of January, nvmy of them un til late in February, to plant. Using Lifeboat To Go Fishing Southport Fisherman Ac quires Interesting Piece Of Surplus Government Property A big. late model, unsinkable, sclf-bailtng lifeboat, the type used by the Coast Guard during storms, has been purchased by James Arnold, who brought it home from Atlantic City, N. J., this week. Captain Arnold found the boat among government sur plus craft. He thought it would be very distinctive to have with a vessel for fishing off South port. This new type fishing cralt will enable Skipper Arnold to go out on the tip of Frying Pan Shoals with a commercial crew or a sport fishing party that can leave its storm worries behind. Once in a while in seas like those produced by a hurricane, such a boat as he has will turn over, but it bobs right up again, top side up and with the inside dry. You can't get water into them ac fast as it will run out. For the winter '.e plans to en gage in sea bass tishing out on the shoals, without regard to stormy weather. If they want to' come home, all the crew will have to do will be to stick with the boat. Nice Luck On Hunting Trip Hunting near Southport with four of his friends from Mt. Airy, on Friday, Bill Eadons came to town and reported nice luck by the party. They shot 23 large ducks and two nice buck deer, beside smaller game. Those in the party beside Eadons were O. E. Wilson, Ed Herring and R. W. and V. S. Stanley.