The State Port Pilot ,
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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.
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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."
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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er and better with les3 manual
labor than is required in older
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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 ^
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1945 - 1946 TAXES
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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.
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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
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