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The State Port Pilot , _? Southport, N. G. Published Every Wednesday JAMES M. HARPER, JR Editor 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 SIX MONTHS THREE MONTHS .$1.50 ( 1.00 .75 Wednesday, July 3, 1946 Hold To What You Have Next week Brunswick county tobacco farmers will have an opportunity to cast their ballot either for or against continuation of the. control program, and our advice to them is to take stock of their present situation before they have any part in bringing about a change. We will not do. the usual thing and compare present prices of tobacco with those paid the farmers in 1932, but we do want to point out that even in these days of high prices the farmer is being well paid for his tobacco crop. It is very likely that the day may come when restrictions against uncon trolled planting of tobacco may repre sent the difference between prosperity and hard times for our farmers. On the basis of what has been accomplish ed through the weed program, we be lieve that it -deserves the continued support of the men whose principal in come is derived from growing flue cured tobacco for market. . r \ T ake It Easy , . / While the clamor is still ringing out from Washington over the passing of the OPA we are taking the liberty to say to both our merchant friends and to members of the buying public, "Take t easy." ; Rovin' Reporter ? (Continued from page 1) Blje was so thrilled with the ap pearance of the Brunswick coun tyf plantatfon, that she wrote right back and asked if she could buy it or another place just like Orton. Without con sulting Mr. and Mrs. Sprunt, we were able to write this lady and CAMERA-FILM OFFER 1946 "CHAMPION" MODIL Color Candid Type Camera .98 Postage Paid FREE!! $3 Includes 2 rolls of No. 127 film FREE # TaltM full NATURAL COLOR pic turcs indoors or outdoors. # Takes 16 black-and-white* on ordi nary No. 127 8 exposure roll. # New film track brings entire picture to sharp focus. # Equipped with GENUINE Simpson lens. # Fixed focus! Exposure automati cally correct at all times. # Precision built ? fool proof. # Attractively boxed. Compart Our Sh? 5" Long DON'T CONFUSE WITH TOY CAMERAS Gua/anf?? with *a<h camera RUSH money-order, save C.O.D. fees. IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT K & K SALES COMPANY 534 Pittsburgh Life Bldg. Dept. Pittsburgh 22, Pa: Wanted To Buy * 100,000 POUNDS ' Tobacco IN LEAVES \ J % C D COOK Pecan Grove WHITEVILLE Next Door To C. L. Nance Transfer Office We Start Buying Tues., July 9th We would remind our friehag, the merchants, that the customers they serve are the same people who will be their customers following the present period of readjustment. To do anything now that will undermine their confi dence in you later will be an everlast ing mistake. And we would call attention of our readers of the buying public to the fact that passing of the OPA has not creat ed any new and mysterious source of supply for scarce articles of merchan dise. We therefore counsel you to buy the things that you actually need and steer clear of unscrupulous people who seek to charge exorbitant prices. A mighty good idea is for you to keep on doing your trading with merchants you know, men who will be doing business next month and next year at the same old stand. Let State Have It In response to inquiries made last week, 'and also in recent letters to par ties in Southport, Director R. Bruce Etheridge, of the Department of Con servation and Development, stated that the State of North Carolina had very definite plans for making use of Fort Caswell, if it can be obtained from the Federal Government. The Navy owns Fort Caswell and has no use for it in the present order of things. The Coast Guard, the only other Federal agency that has shown any interest in the pjace, wanted only a fraction of the existing facilities. Re ports indicate that the Coast Guard is dropping out and leaving the whole place for disposal to any agency that can get full value for all the money that has been spent at Fort Caswell. It seems to us that the only agency interested which can get full value from the facilities is the State of North Carolina. With Fort Caswell as a part of the Mountain-Seashore Park system, which is what the State plans to do with it, the whole of Southeastern North Carolina and the State at large will benefit. The Caswell facilities are of perma nent type. As salvage they would not bring ten-cents on the dollar that has been spent. Not used they will go to ruin, even with a generous allowance for caretakers and up-keep. We say let the State have Caswell. place. . I i We .noticed this last week that both D. B. and Sam Frtnk, of the Shallotte community, have some mightly fine crops . . . So has Sol Wilson ... Did not get around to see what Rice Gwynn has in the way of crops, but we understand that he now has around 30 tobacco barns, all busily engaged in handling the huge acreage he plants each year in tobacco . . . Judge John Ward told us that he ha3 just finished getting in 7 oil-burning systems in as many of his barns, fie thinks the oil burners are labor saving and that at the same time they will cure a barn full of tobacco at lower cost than results from the use of firewood ... In this connection Lester Babson asked us to go around to his barn to see a mighty fine barn of tobacco that he had just finished curing with oil burners. According to him, farm ers can get more insurance and at a lower rate when they use tlv oil burners for curing . . . Charlie, Sam and Gene Russ, of Shallotte, have some fine tobac co and other things that are found on a farm . . . All those farmers, white and colored, on the highway between Supply and Shallotte, have pretty crops. Their growth interests us every week as we pass along that way. Probably they seem to us to grow faster than they do to the folks who are out in the fields work ing them. One afternoon recently we saw a colored man at Shallotte with nearly half a bushel of blueber ries, which he said he had pick ed in the swamps in a couple of hours and without any help. We understand he sold the proceeds of his two hours work for some thing over five dollars. The in teresting point was the size of these berries. They were about as large as the tip of a man's finger. If blueberries will grow wild that large, without cultiva tion of fertilization, we can readi ly understand why New Jersey blueberry growers are planning a 200-acre . blueberry farm near Southport. A Shallotte hog raiser asked us Saturday, "What is going to be come of our hogs? We can't buy any feed." The answer, so far as we know is, and we believe that County Agent Dodson would make the same answer, is that we will have to grow feed if we are to raise hogs. This business of buying feed to raise hogs has never been what it was cracked up to be. Quite a number of Brunswick farmers raise their own hog feed and the sooner this becomes the general practice the better things will be.' County Agent Dodson got us to wcrtidering about something Saturday. Talking about blue berries for Brunswick and their possibilities (of which he thinks a great deal) he went on to say assure her she could not buy Orton. Also that there was no other place just like Orton. From a letter received from her this week it seems she can be in terested in buying some other -BOATS We are now open for all kinds of welding and machine work for boats, cars, tractors, etc. See us at our new shop on Lockwoods Tilly River at Supply. Lockwoods Folly Service Station A. B. CHESTNUT, Mgr. Supply, N. C. STILL IN LINE You will be glad to know that high ' quality and low prices still are the rules under which we operate. Cast Your Ballot in the Tobacco Referendum On July 12th t R. GALLOWAY General Merchandise SUPPLY, N. C. NOW IN STOCK Harry Robinson SOUTHPQRT, N. C. that w? needed some one far I sighted enough to see that there [ was money to be made by grow ing figa on a commercial scale. , He though this was especially true in the Southport area and cited the case of those famed fig trees on the Fort Caswell re- ; servation. Those Fort Caswell i fig trees have been bearing great | black, pear shaped figs, firm and i of the most delicious flavor, for ; years and years. They date back i beyond the time that anybody J can remember. There are always two big crops each year and these crops have never been , known to fail. They produce de- 1 spite all sorts of weather and with neither fertilization or cul- j tivation. "An acre planted in those figs I would produce a good harvest in! three years and thereafter the ! twice yearly harvest would be- 1 come heavier each year. I don't see why some one does not en gage in growing those figs," said the agent, "they are the surest producing variety I have ever known, and there is always a hig demand for them at good prices. They can either be sold green or preserved." ? it nappenea tnai we Knew those Caswell fig trees about as well as the county agent. So far as figs go, we have never seen anything like those that grow at Fort Caswell. This moved us to ask the name or variety? "They are known everywhere as the Brunswick variety of figs," said Mr. Dodson. This statement sort of put us up in thp air and the county agent was not able to bring us down. To the inquiry if the Brunswick variety of figs, those that axe grown at Fort Caswell, originated in this county and thus received the name of the Bruns wick variety,' Mr. Dodson was un able to give a satisfactory an swer. All that he knew was that the best figs in the world grew at Fort Caswell and wher ever else they are found they are known by that name. We are where we must ask if there are any old people in Bruns wick who know who planted those fig trees at Fort Caswell? And how long ago were they planted ? Were they known as I the Brunswick variety when planted, or did they get their name by being grown in Bruns wick? PLAX FISH FRY Residents of the Henry Land ing community in Boone's Neck township are planning a big fish fry and p;cruc m fish house on July 4th. Crowelli Robinson, Captain Jesse Robinson and Bill Jake Hewett are some , of the leading spirits in the un-j dertaking and they say that | everybody is invited and that there will be free fried fish and other good things for all. PROGRESS BEING MADE ON LARGE GUANO FACTORY (Continued Frum Page One) er and better with les3 manual labor than is required in older ? fertilizer factories. Navassa, on both the Seaboard and Coast Line tracks, is a big j center for fertilizer production. ? Already in operation there for! many years have been the hugej plants of Armour & Company; I Virginia-Carolina Chemical com- j pany; and Royster. The Gulf ? States Creosoting Company also I has its huge creosoting plant at! Navassa and the plant of the Wilmington Box Company is an other big industry for the Navas sa section of Brunswick county. RECOU PER ATIN'G Friends of Mrs. Hugh Gray, of Supply, will be glad to Know inai she ia recouperating nicely fol lowing a major operation at James Walker Memorial Hospi tal, Wilmington. RETURN* HOME Chief Boatswain Mate Roy C. McKeithan has retired from the service after nine and a half years with the Co?st ing war he was . 'f1! lf.fr ft. most of the time and he has been stationed ington State. \Vlth Kelthan, the former m',' * Hood, he has returned ?' port but has not > ^ what he will do ^ ?NOTICE? 1 1945 - 1946 TAXES Advertisement of land for sale f0r paid 1945 Taxes begins in July. p,Jy i] month and avoid extra cost and embarrjJ ment. 1 Save 2 Percent On Your 1948 Tax;, By Paying This Month. E- R- WEEKS CITY TAX COLLECT( >|< NOTICE OF SALE The windmill tower, tank and water pump formerly in use at the County Home is for sale, and sealed bids for this equipment will be receivd up until noon of Monday, July 15, 1946. The sale will be made for cash, and the purchaser agrees to assume all costs of dis mantling and removing same within 10-days following acceptance of bid. The board of county commission, ers, who will pass upon the bids submitted, reserves the right to reject all offers. AMOS J. WALTON, Clerk Board of Commissioners of Brunswick County THE TIRE OF HIS CHOICE WHEN YOU TRY A Pennsylvania from BLACK'S YOU'LL AGREE They're Just As Safe As My Favorite Chair . . . "Yes, Sir! I feel just as relaxed in my car, with PENNSYLVANIA TIRES as I do in my rocking chair. The last set of tires I used al most wore out a new 1942 car. They're still in good shape, too .... Black's just Recapped them. DON'T TAKE CHANCES ON SMOOTH TIRES - GET PENNSYLVANIA TIRES OR Black's SERVICE STATION TIRES . . . WHEELS . . . RIMS . . . RECAPPINQ Phone 110-J W. G. BLACK Whitevillt MOST MODERN RECAPPING FACILITIES IN EASTERN CAROLINA HAVE YOUR Old Tires RECAPPED 15 Year Experience Behind Earti Guaranteed Recapping Job. 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