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The Pilot Covers Brunswick County THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Most of The News All The Time ^^CTEEN NO. 14 8-PAGES today Southport, N. C., Wednesday. July 10th, 1946 J si.so per yla, ,-ubush ed every weunemjai telephone Gills how Increase I In Five Years I G. Bain, Manager Of Wilmington District For Kell Telephone Co., Says Ke Of Equipment Is Up ?g.8 Percent Lk PERIODS ARE MOWN TWICE DAILY lephone Company Man ner Urges Users To Keep Their Conversa ? tions Brief And To I Avoid Congested I Periods L volume of telephone calls J in Southport is setting new | m to figures obtained r telephone Manager O. G. K Southport residents are K a total of "38 lpcal tele t/calls on an average busi 1 dav. This is 18.8 per cent ?.. .h0 number made daily five t - "such an unprecedented I t calls being handled by Imtient already heavily loaded, E are times when local sub Kjrs' are experiencing brief E, i- hearing the "dial tone," I v hum which is the sig I the dial equipment is Lv to take their calls. The E hours for calling in South It are from 9 to 12 noon and 1 6 to S p. m., and it is dur I p that this busy I affecting the dial equip Eb more frequenUy encoun I p.,iition arises occasion ? because of a temporary con tr. and does not mean that I .^r.e is out of order. Mr. ? uted out that with the Ke addition in the number of ?scribers as a result of the Krnanvs efforts to provide ser if tor as many people as pos E eonpUd with the increase ? calls wr telephone, telephone ft ar? carrying the heaviest It: At times this E& the quality of the service. Hte Telephone Company is ex B? ever.- effort to manufac K ir : install the necessary K itt to handle the increas I volume of local calls with ? ? standard of speed. ?(: 8a:n pointed out that the 1: is the equipment's way 1 :ay;-; Number. please." it ne users can assure Knselves faster service by al ? - ..sung for the dial tone V:- starting to dhL If you try lave seconds by dialing before B hear the dial tone, you may B ~:nites by getting a wrong fcer or no number at all. ?Telephone users here can also ? by keeping conversations V lad not making calls to formation" for numbers which I in the directory. Such V travel over much of the ?e equipment which is used Iregular calls and add to the Igestion." Brief Newt Flash et PREACH SUNDAY "f Rev. Dr. Taylor, executive "ary of the Wilmington fy'tery, will preach Sunday at 8 o'clock at South Presbyterian church. WlXiECREST anl< Stanley, son of Mr. and -ohn Stanley, of Ash, and Went at Mars Hill College, irking this summer at Kidge WHrre lake ?ntj Agent J. E. Dodson Miss Alene McLamb, home spent most of last week ftiite Lake attending the 4-H 1 encampment. Quite a num of boys and girls from iswick attend the camp each wr. s TO SCHOOL :v C. H. Lewis, pastor of Shallotte Circuit of Metho ehurches, plans to attend the nr' term of summer school ^'gh Point College in order let off seven hours work and 1 qualify for his bachelor of degree. ^ RNS TO WORK Sam J. Frink has resum "~r duties a3 acting postmas a'- Shallotte after being in the ^"thur Dosher Memorial hos :eceivip.g treatment for a Qay peiiod. During her ab " work in the post of *as carried on by Miss P feves Hawes, assisted by f Mildred Hawes, of the p Postoftice. Referendum Information For Farmers Q. What is the authority for the flue-cured tobacco referen dum? A. Public Law 302, 79th Con gress, approved February 19, 1946, directs the Secretary of Agriculture to proclaim market ing quotas on flue-cured tobacco (types 11, 12, 13, 14) for the marketing year beginning July 1, 1947. The law provides that the quotas will be in effect only if approved by growers. A re ferendum in which growers of flue-cured tobacco will vote will be held Friday, July 12. 1946. Q. Who is eligible to vote in the referendum ? A. Any person who has an in terest in the 1946 crop of flue cured tobacco, as owner, tenant, or sharecropper, is eligible to vote in this referendum. Q. May a person who has more than one farm producing flue cured tobacco vote for each farm? A. No. No farmer whether an individual partnership, Corpora tion, Association, or other legal entity will be entitled to move than one vote. Q. How many voters must ap prove quotas to make them ef fective ? R. At least two- thirds (66 2-3 percent) of the growers voting in the referendum must favor quo tas before they can be in effect. Q. Is it necessary for eligible voters to cast their ballots in their own community ? A. Every voter is expected to Tote in the community in which iis main farming activities are located. If lie has a farm in another community he may vote in either place but can't vote in both places. Any eligible voter, however, can vote in any com munity he wishes but his ballot may be challenged if his name isn't on the list in that c >m munity. Q. On a farm operated by sev eral members of the same family, which member or members are ?entitled to vote? A. If several members of the same family participate in the j production of flue-cured tobacco on a farm in 1946, the only mem jbers of such family who are eli Igible to vote are members of the family who have an indepen I dent bona fide status as opera tor, share tenant, or share crop j per and are entitled to share in I the proceeds of the 1946 crop. Conservation Of Grain Is Urged Use Of Supplemental Feeds And By - Products On Farm Urged As Possible Saving In Stock Program j In a nation-wide program the AAA is stressing the acute gen eral feed and seed crop shortage and is urging its huge member ship to feed sparingly of un perishable foods and conserve all possible grain during the summer months when other feed is plentiful. C. Bennett, chairman of the Brunswick county AAA commit tee, says that there is not enough grain anywhere in the nation to feed the starving people and at the same time waste it on live stock. Pastures and all available by-products of the farms should be fed before the livestock own ers resort to the feeding of grain. Efforts to save grain should not be limited to the feeding of I (Continued on Page Four) Election Board Hearing Causes LittK Excitement m _ ? Candidates Who Filed Pro test Of Returns From Se- j cession Precinct In Sec- 1 ond Primary Failed To Appear POSTPONE HEARING OVER REGISTRATION i Colored Residents Of Boli via Precinct To Be Giv en Opportunity To Be Heard September 20th The special meeting: of the | Brunswick county election board j Tuesday afternocn for the pur 'pose of hearing complaints from j Dillon Ganev and L. C. Tripp | lacked everything in the way of [being sensational. Both Mr. Ganey J and Mr. Tripp had withdrawn j their protests of the election re sults at Secession precinct and | there uS ou uiai. ; score. In another matter in which a j Bolivia colored man had protested [ to the board over his not being | allowed to register and vote, a ! continuance of the hearing was [ordered until September 20. I Mr. Ganey. who had polled 14 votes at Secession against the j 174 given to his opponent, John | G. White, had protested the re | suits at that precinct. Mr. White's | total vote in the county was 1271 1 ! and Mr. Ganey got 1001. White j | was declared the Democratic j nominee for sheriff. Mr. Tripp also signed a pro test of the Secession vote. Mr. I Tripp received 40 votes at Seces- j sion and his opponent, M. B. Chinnis, received 141. Mr. Chin- j nis won out over Mr. Tripp in 1 the county by 6 votes. He receiv ; ed 1001 votes to the 996 cast for \ Mr. Tripp. State Interested In Fort Caswell State Officials Ask To Be : Advised When Any Change In Status of Navy Section Base Property Occurs The State of North Carolina is making a real effort to ac quire Fort Caswell as is if the interests of the United States Navy no longer holds the place as being necessary to the gov ernment. : If the State acquires the pro perty it is understood the exist ing physical improvements will be expanded and the place made a part of the North Carolina Mountain-Seashore park system. As an indication of the activity on the part of the state, a letter was received this week by W. B. Keziah from Director R. Bruce ;Etherirfge, ot the Department of j Conservation and Development. (Continued on page 4) Large Bluefish Being Caught ! Captain Lance Says That The Largest Fish Of This Kind He Has Ever Seen l Are Being Taken Operators of sport fishing 1 boats say that the blue fish now being caught off Southport are the largest ever taken in these waters. Captain Victor Lance, who has operated his boat from Florida to Ocean City, Maryland, states that a party out with him (Continued on Page Four) i Record Rainfall Floods Southport With 11.05 inches of rainfall duil.ig the final fifteen days of June, and with 9. US-inches during the first nine days of July, Brunswick county in the immediate vicinity of South po. ? his reached a super-sat urated condition. Although the 7. 85- inches that fell on June 15 still stands as a modern record for tt?e local weather bureau, water reached i flood proportions in and about Southport Tuesday when Mon- ! day's 3.29-inches of rain was followed "Monday night by an other 1.96-inches. Crops hi SmithviUe township have suffered heavy loss from I t. ese more recent Mins, and it.tmv ? >'jitactw damage la *i Town Creek township. In tfce lower part of the county crops continue to be in pretty good shape despite the continued precipitation. Small Attendance For Convention Annual Gathering Of Court Reporters Held At South port Latter Part Of Last Week; Those Present Had Fine Time Owing to the continuous rains] last week and the fact that a , great number of the members were busy with the summer terms of court, the meeting of the Superior court reporters here was not very largely attended. Despite the small attendance, j all of the reporters who were able to attend were given a royal j good time through the efforts of j President Spurgeon Baxley, of i Wilmington, Stephen Worth of | Fayetteville and Dwight McEwen | of Southport. Mr. Worth con- 1 tubuted the use of his cabin cruiser, tfie Petrel, to various boating excursions and entertain ment. Since most of the report ers attending were from up-state points the boat proved a very valuable entertainment feature of I | the gathering. Vacation Bible School Is Now Going On Here Daily Sessions Are Being Held This Week At Southport School With Children Of All Churcbei Participating BAPTIST PREACHER HEADS THE SCHOOL Faculty Comprised Of Two Trained Workers And Several Volunteer Helpers From Here In Town A one-week session of Daily Vacation Bible School is being held in Southport this week with the various churches of the com munity cooperating in the under taking. High point of enrollment was reached on Tuesday when there were 93 students present. The school will come to a close on Friday, and at 8 o'clock that evening there will be a com mencement exercise held in the high school auditorium. Parents and friends are invited to be pre sent for the program which will be presented at that time. Heading the school is Rev. Her bert M. Baker, minister at South port Baptist church, upening ex ercises are being conducted daily by Mrs. Thompson McRacken and Miss Ellie Ford Hinson is serving as general secretary. Two special workers from Wilming ton, Mis. Margaret Biggs and Miss Minnie Creech, also are helping with the training prog ram. Volunteer workers who are serving as teachers and helpers include Mrs. C. C. Cannon, Miss | Bess Miller Plaxco, Miss Ann McRacken and Miss Williamson in the beginners department; Mrs. Jack Oliver and Mrs. Walter Ald ridge in the primary department; Mrs. Ruth Gay, Miss Hinson and Mrs. C. G. Ruark in the junior department; and Mrs. James Harper in the intermediate de partment. No Session Of Court Monday Judge John B. Ward Will Take Next Monday Off After Holding Court Every Monday Except During Superior Terms This week's session of the Re corder's Court was limited to about ten minutes of time. Judge John B. Ward and Solicitor J. W. Ruark opened the session and it was found that there were only three cases up for disposition. Of these three one of the defendants asked for a jury trial, auto matically sending his case up to Superior court. The other two matters were continued until a future session. It was announced that there would be no session of the court held next Monday. Judge Ward, who has carried on the business of the court through all set dates, including holidays, excepting only when a term of Superior court was being held, is getting one day off for a vacation. The cases coming up Monday I were the following: I George Franklin Benton, reck Continued on page four Our ROVING Reporter W. B. KEZUH It is no secret that we like farm folks and farm crops. Any thing about the farms is always interesting to us and, starting with when we were raised on a farm, we have picked up enough knowledge of the vocation to be able to tell a haystack from a potato hill. This week Jimmie Hawes, secretary to the AAA or ganization at Shallotte, unwitting j ly paid our knowledge of farming a nice compliment We were in iJimmie's office at Supply and the phone rang. The caller was the Wilmington Star and they want ed to know from County Agent Dodson if the hard rains had hurt the Brunswick crops very much. 'Jimmie advised them: "Mr. Dod son is at White Lake but Bill Keziah is in the back office. Hold I the wire a minute until I go and ask him if the crops were hurt." Chandled Rourk, of Shallotte, is to be congratulated on the attractive appearance of his new store building next to the high school. The building is of con crete blocks and fits in well with the surroundings formed by the I Shallotte school buildings. j Bill Hight, . Louisiana man who is taking a course in horticul ture at Georgia. Tech, is super vising the cutting and planting of camellias and azaleas at the huge new Orton greenhouse. He tells us that it will take a month to complete the job and that when finished the building will contain I thousands of the small plants. I While you have not been see ( Continued on page 41. POSSIBLE PARK AKEA FACILITIES ? If present hopes of the State of North Carolina to acquire the i Navy Section Base at Ft. Caswell as a part of the state parks system are realized, there are many buildings that will be in condition for use by the public. The above scene of Caswell shows a portion of the concrete gun emplacements, with barracks j and administration buildings in the background. Photographic Record Being Made Of Old Documents Machinery Similar To That Used In Processing V-Mail Reduces Storage Space Requirements For '* Ancient Documents All old records of Bruns- | wick county, deeds, wills, mar- ; riages, etc., of date prior to j 1850, were photographed this i week by James M. Black, who i represents the Genealogical So- I ciety of Utah and is working in cooperation with the North | CaroTTna State Department of Archives and History. Mr. Black has been making ; photographs in this work at the I rate of about 400 per hour, each one covei^ng a full page of the record books. To better understand the work, it should be said that he uses the same camera that was used in the widely known war-time V-mail process. The films which make the record are 35-MM and, as can easily be imagined, these films save a world of storage space. Any of the large record books in the courthouse can easily have their entire records kept in a roll no larger around than a silver dollar. The films will be kept by the Department of Archives in Raleigh. They can be brought into instant use when needed, the film being projected on large size reading copy and any size copy of any deed or paper can quickly be made. The work is being done to eliminate any possibility of old i and valuable records being lost ! in any manner. No cost to j Biunswick county is involved as the State is simply making a record for its own keeping i and these records will be just as readily available to the pub | lie as are the original books and records in the courthouse 1 at Southport. Long Beach Mutual Water Company Is Incorporated Paving Road To Shallotte Point Work of hard surfacing the highway from Shailotte Point to Route 17, near Shailotte will begin next Monday, July 15, ac cording to highway officials. No contract is being let for this five mile stretch of road : as the Slate Highway Commis sion's own road building force will do the work. Hie road will be o.{ sand-asphalt. Grading 1 of the road bed has been un- ! derway for the past two months and is just completed. Brunswick connty has only received one short road con- : tract sbiee the war, the four mile stretch running from U. S. No. 17-74' to the ship lay-in 1 basin. The Shailotte to Sihal- , lotte Point stretch Is about ; double in length that of any other work the commission has done with its own building force In this county. Southport Girls Enter Contest Betty Todd Corlette And Barbara Weeks Enter j Contest For Selection As Miss North Carolina Misses Betty Todd Corlette and ! Barbara Weeks were entered < Monday in the preliminary con test for the Miss America Pa geant that is to he held at At lantic City, N. J., early in Sept ember. The preliminary is to be held at Wilmington on July 16th. TJhe finals at Atlantic City will attract beautiful young women from all over the nation. They will be selected in various states in preliminaries, such as the one scheduled to be held in Wilming ton. Miss Corlette, whose mother is assistant cashier at the local branch of the Wviccamaw and Trust company, is especially gift ed as a singer. Miss Weeks, the daughter of City Clerk and Mrs. Ed Weeks, is also a fine singer. Both girls are very attractive and since the contest is for the purpose of finding young women who have talent as well as beau ty, the Southport girls will have a double chance. Anyway, there will be many, ^/ell-wishers for them in the Wilmington contest. Ernest Parker Gets Same Job County Mechanic Is Re Elected By Members Of Brunswick County Board Of Education Here Mon day At a special meeting of tha Brunswick Board of Education in the office of Miss Annie Mae Woodside, superintendent of schools, Monday evening Ernest [Parker, of Shailotte, was reap pointed county mechanic in charge of the county garage and all school buses. Mr. Parker has, held the position for the past ! year since ? his return from the service. He had previously held ; the position for a number of years. (Continue on pago ?) Local Men Named As Incor porators With An Autho rized Capital Of One | Hundred Thousand Dol lars WILL DRILL DEEP WELL FOR SUPPLY Plan To Set Up Water works System That Will Provide Adequate Sup ply For Horns Use And For Fire Fighting A certificate of incorporation was issued last week by the Secretary of State for the Long Beach Mutual Water Company. The incorporators are Davis C. Herring, Sam T. Bennett, Charles M. Trott, C. C. Carr and Fetton Garner, all named in the papers as being residents of Southport. The corporation has an au thorized capital of one hundred thousand dollars and the aim is to provide water for the residents of the fast growing Long Beach development area. The plans, according to one of the incorporators, is to drill a deep well, or wells, back in the woods from the beach. An abun dant supply of pure water for both household use and fire fight ing is expected to be easily ob tained. At present the beach has a small water system, said to be entirely inadequate for supplying the present needs. The well, too, is said to be in an unsatisfactory location and the beach owners, who have been furnishing water through this system, are said to j be gladly welcoming any organi zation that will provide water at a rate that will keep pace with the growing needs. Winnabow Man Takes Own Life Harvey Clayton Chennis Died Sunday Morning As Result Of Self-inflicted Gunshot Wounds In what is believed to have ! been a fit, of despondency caused I by several months of bad health, Harvey Clayton Chinnis, 58-year | old veteran of World War I shot | anfl killed himself at his residence I near Winnabow Sunday morning. I The weapon used was a 12 gauge shotgun and the load en tered the left side of his neck, causing almost instant death. Acting-Coroner John G. Caison, who is serving during the ab sence of Coroner W. E. Bell, was called to the scene and he states that his investigation revealed it was a plain case of suicide and that no nquest was necessary. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock from the late residence of the deceased. The services were in charge of Rev. Woodrow Robbins and Rev. C. E. Brinson. Burial was in the Vines cemetery. Mr. Chinnis was a member of the Mill Creek Baptist church. The pallbearers were members of the Brunswick County Post No. 194, American Legion, of Southport, of which Mr. Chinnis was a member. Surviving is his wife, Mrs. Tiny Sullivan Chinnis; a daughter, Mrs. W. C. Huffman, Winnabow; two brothers, S. D. Chinnis, Win ter Park, and J. W. Chinnis, U. i (Continued on Pagt 4) Tobacco Farmers To Vote Friday On Weed Control Outcome Of Referendum Will Determine Whether Quota System To Prevail In 1947 COUNTY POLLING PLACES ANNOUNCED Any Person Who Haa Inter est In 1946 Crop Of Flue cured Tobacco Eligible To Vote Columbus county tobacco farm* era will vote on marketing quo tas cn flue-cured tobacco Friday, July 12, according to Bill Hooka, chairman of the County Agricul tural Conservation Committee. The referendum was called in accordance with the law, which provides for marketing quotas on flue-cured tobacco for the 1947 crop. However, marketing quotas cannot be in effect unless ap proved by at least two-thirda of the producars in the flue-cured areas voting the referendum. Following are the polling places in Brunswick county by townships: Lockwoods Folly: J. H. Royal's Store, Coast Road Warehouse; R. P. Robinson's Store and C. O. Blanton's Store. Northwest: U. L. Rourk's Store and Maco. Shallotte: Harry W. Bennett's 'Store, E. V. Gore's Store, Thurs ton Mintz's Store, L. C. Brown's Store and Grissett's Store. Smithville: Ward's Farm and Llndsey Robbins' Store. Town Creek: R. L. Rabon's Store and S. P. Cox's Store. Waccamaw: S. C. Gore's Homo, Exum and J. R. Simmons' Store. Marketing quotas furnish grow ers with a method of adjusting supply to demand and can help to provide fair prices to growers for the tobacco they produce. At the present time, flue-cured tobacco growers are producing a ibove world consumption levels to I build up depleted stocks in for i eign countries. Marketing quotas afford the opportunity to adjust this supply to meet demand. "Any person who has an in terest in the 1946 crop of fluc : cured tobacco as an owner, ten ant, or sharecropper is entitled to I vote in the referendum," Mr. I Hooks said. "However, no per json is entitled to more than one vote even though he may be en gaged in production of flue-cured tobacco in two or more com \ Baseball Game Ends In Quarrel Whiteville Team Walked Off Field At Southport School, Confer* With School Officials | Argument over a close play at home plate in the last of the third inning Sunday afternoon ended when the^ Whiteville nine packed up their gear and walk ed off the field. The Columbus county boys held a 3 to 2 lead at the time, but their decision to quit the contest gave the South port team an automatic 9 to 0 forfeit. Whiteville broke a scoreless deadlock in their half of the third when with one away Hardy hit a clean single to left, Stan [ ley walked and Heath was hit by a pitched ball. At this point ! Powell, Whiteville shortstop, hit a mighty triple, cleaning the bases. Southport was on her way to tie the score in the last of the stanza when Hughes, who had walked, came in on a three- bag ger to right by Billie Hardiston, star Southport third ba9eman. The big argument came on the (Continued on Face 4) Bolivia Citizen Is Laid To Rest William Bowling, Aged And Respected Citizen Of The Community, Ditd Monday; Funeral Tues day Afternoon William Bowling, well known and esteemed resident of the Bo* livia community, died in the ! Docher Memorial hospital ham Monday night. Mr. Bowling was 81 years of age and had been 'very active until quite recently. He was a native of Hyden, Ken> j tucky, and moved to this county .several years ago. Funeral services were held . Tuesday afternoon at Antloch ! Baptist church. Rev. G. W. Dowd. .officiating at the lervlces. Burial I (Contlnuad oa Pag* Four)