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The Pilot Covers Brunswick County THE PORT PILOT Sixteen no. is A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Most of The News All The Time 6-PAGES TODAY Southport. N. C.. Wednesday. August 7th, 1946 $1.50 PER YEA* PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDA1 lonial Beach it For Early Building Boom , Name Has Been Adop j By Owners Of Bel jpv-Robinson Land, Lo |Kd On Ocean Front ear Holden's Beach L'DE INTERESTS (buying priperty l(j To These Places Is As First Important ee(j For Development Of New Section Of Beach ?mned beach development tfte Bellamy-Robinson and .. is east of Shallotte In L'been given the official 0f Colonial Beach. tlv \v. E. Bellamy and L-er Robinson, owners of a ".:ac: of beach land on the ocean strand as Holden's V'soM a 2880-foot frontage, nearly a mile back to jijjj waterway, to the Pine Lumber Company -umber of prominent indi b of Spruce Pine, Asheville points in Western North jM This land was divided ? the lumber company and I others interested each get a frcr.tase of 240-feet and ie i?P' iss&Cv in this group of s 'we-e connected with M.ra Corporation in |<tfical capacity during the T-oticing Mica for the gov-, it Adopting part of the |, ?; .r corporation they :v: -iur.tvg the war, they their stretch of the beach , Beach. | \Y< stern North Caro . jireeing, Messrs. Bel j a.-.: Robinson decided this I to give their remaining is'.itgs the same name, t Western North Carolina er.; iiyers were represented D. ; Smith, of Southport, *css: with them at Spruce [ as: ?to has one of the 12 to itectages. Mr. Smith I Sat tie Western North is folks will build at least h iiwr.es just as soon as ar. jet materials. Itey ir.d Robinson are set am:: to develop their re sj ioag stretch of beach Mr Kobinson also owns p tract adjoining Holden's ami running down to the |" : Ccior.ial Beach. This ?& be developed, and in a time there should be * real estate activity all of *5? from Lockwoods Folly '?5 Siallotte River inlet. Beach. Robinson's J Cclornal Beach will : continuous strand from , 'j Inlet, and it is said to be i | ? fie smoothest and most strands on the lower! (Cttaued on Page 4) hkfNtwt Flashes Bt.ILDING , Ml i of Shallotte has I r W. E. Bellamy build- 1 Shallotte and will move | tS store there as soon as | fa? work can be done on| ?nicture. ? millet catch ? ;^and pounds of mul- , *?rr. caught one day lastj the fishery at Little | ^ war Shallotte. The fish 2;H' to have been of good 1*4 good catches are ex K Tc in. jr order shortly. [WOOtSG repairs | ?- '?'"-'.son pharmacy building I '??wgaing extensive repairs. ttv cr-.cert floor, new walls Kw overhead ceiling is be ll;*'- It has been found ini to keep a wooden floor 1 ?e wiMing for any length of j "ttcnox ar?g in the Shallotte P advertisement in the tobacco edition was Mrs. , ??"'? White. Mgr. This is! Edward Redwine is " hi- b<-en since last Thi3 paper regrets a!"l is very happy to <* correction ^51 NOT MCESSABY ?^V to a rather general J, are a resident of ?f'ik County y?u can in jjj ' wpostcd waters with l to have a fishing lic ? applies only when *7 ?Bluuwa, shrimps or oth gi., Uy-'-'- If you use art ^ Vsu ars object b yiii iavs i zeezs*. TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH 1? ?? ? , ? m nCw organ? a new Hammond organ, gift of Price Furpless and his two sons, ?James and Lanier, in memory of the late Lillie Drew Furpless. will be installed at Trinity Methodist Church this week in time for use Sunday morning, when an ap propriate dedicatory service has been arranged. J. Milton Panetti, Charlotte musi cian, will be present as guest organist. Coast Guard Commandant Pledges Speedy Return Speaking Sunday At Man I teo Celebration, Admiral Farley Promised That Strategic Stations Will Soon Be Restored I OAK ISLAND WILL BE AMONG FIRST Commandant Also Promises That Men Will Be As signed Stations Near Own Home Wher ever This Is Pos sible Of particular interest to fisher men, shrimpers and small boat } operators in this area is the promise made at Manteo Sunday by Admiral Joseph F. Farley, U. S. Coast Guard commandaht, that life saving stations located at strategic places along the coast will be restored to normal I strength as soon as possible. Residents of Brunswick county have been assured that Oak Is land station is regarded as one of the more important life sav ing stations, and it is believed that this activity will be among the first to be built back up to full working strength. At a celebration marking the 156th birthday of the U. S. Coast Guard, Admiral Farley, asserted that "like the other armed ser vices we have been going through a period of intensive demobiliza (Continued on page 4) Good Fertilizer Helps Corn Crop County Agent Says That Brunswick County Farm ers Have Used More Than Usual On This Year's Crop The Brunswick county corn crop received a great deal better fertilization and cultivation than usual this year, according to ' County Agent J E Dodson and is showing a greatly increased yield per acre. The corn crop, with the ex ception that there are damaged spots where lowland crops were affected by the excessive rains, is a splendid one this ypar. It will) conis ir. hxziy wises x good crop (Continuea on F?*e Four* I Examination For Two Postoffices | Mrs. Edna Bell, secretary for the Civil Service Commis sion, has received announce ment of competitive examina tions to be held for the job of postmaster at Bolivia and at Shallotie. Applications must be properly executed and on file at Washington, D. C., be fore the close of business on August 28, 1946. The Bolivia postoffice pays $2300.00 per year to the post master while the Shallotte office pays an annual salary of S2900.00. Necessary application forms may be obtained from one oi the above postoffices, or from the II. S. Civil Service Com mission, Washington, D. C. Rain Cuts Short One-Sided Game Bladenboro Won Abbrevia ted Contest, 9-0; Local Fans Hope To Hold' Team Together Remain der Of Season I 1 Southport was trailing Bladen boro by a scorc of 9 to 0 when rain put a stop to proceedings here Sunday afternoon. Struggling along without the ' services of their regular pitcher, j Southport was having a rough; time of it. Only two Southport j men appeared in the local line-up, | and but for the continued sup- ! port of the Wilmington troys' would have been unable to field a team. Sunday afternoon the locals go ; to Leland, and an all-out effort j is being made to field the strong est possible team for that engag ement. Not only is there plenty j of rivalry between these two j Brunswick county entires in the Eastern State League, but local fans are doing all they can to keep a going club togeather dur ing the tail-end of this season, j ioolur.g shaad to batter things] ?.aX t New Owners Will Produce Timber Parties Who Recently Pur chased Large Tract Of, Land In Smithville Town- j ship Will Try To Improve i Timber Growth It is unofficially stated that ! Robert E. Lee and Mr. and Mrs. j Robert M. Lee, of Manning, S. j C., who recently purchased 11,000 1 acres of Brunswick county* lands | and are purchasing more, have i improved timber producing in view. At the same time they are not connected with the pulp mill ( interests and have entirely dif ferent methods of operations. They plan a great deal of drainage to stimulate the growing of the trees already on the land. With this drainage will go bet- j ter fire protection. Not the least interesting, it is stated, is that their lands will not be in the nature of a closed (Continued on page 4) 1 Two Weeks Term Of Superior Court Opens Sept. 2nd Judge Walter J. Bone Will Preside Over September Term of Brunswick Coun ty Superior Court Next Month DRAW JURY LIST ? FOR TWO WEEKS Week Beginning September 2nd Will Be For Trial Of Criminal Cases; Second Week Fof Civil Actions ' Judge Walter J. Boone is to' preside over the two-weeks termj of Superior couit that is to con vene here on September 2. The first week is to be devoted to the tml of criminal cases and dur- 1 "ng the second week, beginning1 iieard C1 ^ CiVil cases wil1 bc At their meeting Monday the board of county commissioners jdrew the following jury list to serve at the civil term: L.)^. Milken, C. P. Little. Iceland; A. J. Smith, Youth Gore Ash; M. S: Ganey, Jr., w. | p v ent?n' H- O. Peterson, Joe | ? Verzall, Leland; John W. Lan caster, J. b. Cochran, J. e. Pin ner, Lee Clemmons, L. W. Clem Z? arnd J' A- McNei". South-, P rt, Lacy Lancaster, Hoyle Varnum, Sr., J. w. Mills, a Hob l"shm SUPPly: R F' Swain' I ? S. Holden, Ed Mercer, Foster W Han?'!,Via^' S' Clifton' V\ Harvell. G. M. Ludlum, c. L. Holden H. M. Fullwood, R. L. '-on, J. M. McLamb, W H McLamb, D. N. Hewett. M. L Sfbow8^110116'' G" M Rei* F?r thc civil term, beginning on September 9th, thc following ju.ynien are being summoned: Leroy Mintz, S. F. Reaves, E. E. Parker, L. C. Rourk, C. A. Stan wY' i ?' Danf01d. Carl Hewett, , ? L- Hewett. Shallotte; L. B. Leonard, Southport; E. L. Clem mons J. D. Johnson, A. L. Me" - pf' Dewey Robbins, VV. I; ,Medlw' Leland; George. B. Phelps, John B. Clemmons, J. E I Long, S. J. Privett, T. H. Phelps, i S- H. Hewett. Z. V. Phelps, Sup Ward a A' Blnnett' Jr- M'an Fvanc ?nson Babson. Armstrong Evans B a. Russ. J. L. Smith! Pile Of Tobacco Averages Dollar, M. P. Green, Shallotte Far- ! 300-Pound Pile Of Tobacco Friday For Even $300.00 M. p. Green, young Shallotte mer, says he sold a 300 pound pile </ tobacco on the Whiteville market Friday for ex actly $300.00. The tobacco brought $1.00 per pound. sj ?ethaVeragf prlce for tobacco since the market opened has been around $9.00 or $10.00 higher per hundred than it was last year. On thc other hand the price that tobacco growers and farmers Zl? 1? P?y for about everything /^.y ? about twlce what "t ( Continued on page six) Our ROVING ' Reporter I Deputy Sheriff OdeH Blanton and I were figuring on going fishing yesterday, down to Judge John B. Ward's pond in Wac camaw township. We were not figuring on getting arrested, as I the Judge had told us we could go. Besides, having the deputy with us was to be an additional safety precaution when fishing on a pond that is posted. They tell us that the Judge's pond is full of bass and perch The trip that was to have been made : yesterday, and which was post poned on account of rain, was in order that we could see for our selves that the fishing was good. We never believed judges or any body else when they told us they had a fine fishing place, unless they would let us try it. Saturday, while we were keep i ing up our good repuatation of 1 always beir.g at SiaUatta cm Sat urdays, we raa acraas E. J. Prevatte. of Southport He was busy trying to put over some sort of a horse trade with R. D White, for automobiles. He told us to stick around and he would bring us home, two hours ahead of the bus. Which is why we disappeared from Shallottc about the middle of the afternoon. They tell us at Shallotte that ! Doris Frink curried her whole 4S ! pages of last week's State Port ; Pilot to the Shallotte Cheatre m I order to get admitted to the show. As you may not have read the little item in this column last week, we should re peat here that through the friend ly cooperation of both the Shal lotte Theatre and the Amuzu at Southport, some woman or girl is getting a free ticket to a show each week, one at Shallotte and lone at Southport. Mrs. McKin-j I ley Kewett will be to a! 1 (Continued on Page Four) W. B. KEZIAH Statistics On Recent Rains May Be Expressed In Feet Rainfall Nears 3-Foot Mark In Period Covering Less Than Two Months; Waccamaw River . Still Rising The amount of rainfall in Brunswick county since June 15 may well be expressed In feet instead of in inches, for during this period of less than two months the total has reached 33.36-inches. That, of course, is just a little shy of three feet, or one yard. Existing records for the local station of the TJ. S. Weather Bureau went by the board during July when .there was a total of 20.05-taches precipitation. August Is away to a fair start with a total of 2.26-inches during the first week. One result of the protracted rainy spell has been generally cool weather. Only on three occasions thus far this sum mer has tlie murcury climbed as high as the 89-degree mark. During most of the days the maximum temperature for each 24-hour period has been In the low eighties. Following In the wake of re cent rains, Waccamaw river Is on its' way to an all-time mark for high water. Coy Form.v Duval, in charge of the government water guage at New Brltian bridge, says that the reading till? morning stead at 14.47-feet, with the water still rising. Previous high-water maik was an even 15-fect. .... Highway Department Men Begin Surfacing Road Hunters Protest Deer Regulations About one hundred Bruns wick county hunters and pro perty owners met Friday night at Bolivia high school and perfected plans for making an appe-.il to the game division of the Department of Conserva tion and Development with re gard to changes in the deer law as it has been set up for the coming season. Particularly objectionable to the hunters !s the provision for lay-days, which would per mit hunting on Thursday, Fri day and Saturday only. Peti tions bearing hundreds of names will be sent to the Ra leigh officials in support of the request that these lay-days do not apply to Brunswick county. Aged Resident Laid To Rest Edward B. Stanley, Sr., Died Friday At Dosher Memorial Hospital Fol lowing Illness Of One Week Following a week's illness Ed ward B. Stanley, Sr., died here In the Dosher Memorial hospital Friday morning at 11 o'clock. Mr. Stanley had resided in Southport about three years. He was 73 years of age but was active as his work as a shoe salesman un til about a week preceeding his death. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Hattie L. Stanley, Wilming ton; a daughter, Mrs. B. M. Beine, Atlanta, Ga.; three sons, James Winfield Stanley, South port, Edward B. Stanley. Jr., Stanley, Jr., Jacksonville, Fla., and Rudolph H. Stanley. Wilming ton; six sisters, Mrs. Betty Ward and Mrs. Cora Piner, Morehead City; Mrs. Alice Moore. Mrs. Guy Jones, and Mrs. Fanny Frazer, Swansboro, and Mrs. Maggie Pin er, Jacksonville, Fla.; three bro thers. Charles Stanley, Morehead City, Nob B. Stanley, Fayette ville, and James Stanley, Swans boro; and two grandsons. The remains were prepared for (Continued on page 4) Routine Session Of Court Held Several Cases Were Dispos ed Of Here Monday Be fore Judge Ward; Ses sion Over Before Noon The Brunswick county Record- 1 er's court docket was disposed of before noon Monday, with a total of seven cases up before Judge John B. Ward. The following disposition was made of cases: | Willie Caison and Bessie Cais on. assault, nol pros with leave, j Willie Smith, alias Spera, lar-! ceny. bound over to Superior I court. J. Lee Brewer, larceny, bound . over to Superior court. Aaron Abrams, speeding, judg-l ment suspended on payment of a fine of 110.00 and costs. Stacey Jenkins, no operators license and without registration card, held open until August 19th. I Lonnie Grice, larceny, bound 1 over to Superior court. Mabel Urghart, possession, pleaded guilty and was fined jlO.Cfi isi taxti witi ccsts. ' ft Paving Of Read Between Shallotte Village Point And Highway Begins On Other End Of The Pro ject IMPROVED ROAD TO SERVE MANY! Several Weeks Ago And Has Been Hampered By Heavy Rains Recently Using its own road building outfit and construction crew, the State Highway Commission be gan work last week on the five mile stretch of road from Shal lotte Village to Route 17, just below Shallotte. With moderate ly good weather the paving is ex pected to be all laid within 60 j days. The work began at the Village | Point end of the road, running I towards the highway. ? vf the stretch, preliminary to the paving, was started in the spring and towards the last it was de layed by the beginning of the rains in mid-June. Somewhere around a hundred families live in and around Shal lotte Point and along this road to the intersection with No. 17. These families and others living around Shallotte, and hundreds of sportsmen enroute to the Point for hunting and fishing, make the stretch much traveled. During the rainy period last winter the road became all but impassable. Shallotte Point Making Progress New Business Places Are Springing Up At This Popular Resort Spot; More Hotel Facilities Are Needed Shallotte Point is definitely on the up-grade. R. C. Fergus, of Wilmington, has just completed a large new shrimp house at that place and it is said that the Fales fish and shrimp firm of Wilmington will start construc tion on. another one in the im mediate future. John W. Garner, who built the Anchor hotel at the point two years ago, has found his hotel facilities already much overtaxed. The hotel is situated on a two and-one-half acre tract and to help take care of the room short age Mr. Garner has recently com pleted two four room cottages and is now completing a three apartment building with four rooms to each apartment. Even with these added facilities he stated Saturday that he hardly knew how he was going to begin to handle the increased patronage that is sure to come with the (Continued on Page Six) Commissioners In Session Monday Three Road Matters Dispos ed Of And Other Routine Business Handled By. Board In First Of Month j Meeting Among the nutters of. business disposed of by members of the board of county commissioners here Monday were three road petitions. The board recommended that the road leading from highway Bolivia and the road leadir.g from Bolivia, to highway 303 be drained, graded, briigtd isi hard (OoaUAusd on Pag* BUi Tobacco Prices Advancing Daily On Best Grades Tobacco Pouring Onto Whiteville Market For Beginning Of First Full Week Of Sale. TOBACCO BRINGING GENERAL SATISFACTION Rain Cause* Drop In Sales On Second Day Through out Eight Market Bar der Belt With the beginning of the first full week of sales for the 1946 season, tobacco was pouring onto the' warehouse floors in White ville today while the golden weed was reported bringing a very satisfactory 55c average. During the first two days of sales last week, more than a mil lion and a half pounds were sold on the Whiteville market. The farmers were reported generally pleased, with only a few turning their tickets. After a fluctuating beginning, sales soon steadied and prices ranged upward to an average of 55 cents, with some individual sales reported as high as 66 cents. Quality of offerings was re ported generally good. Especially strong prices were being paid for weed of better quality. The eight Border Beit markets sold an estimated 5,744,351 pounds of tobacco and recessed their la bors Friday night for a two-day week end holiday. The combined poundage sold on all the markets average bet' ter than $54 per hundred during the two-day sales period. The Border Belt markets open ed Thursday morning at 9:30 un der weather conditions sports writers would have lazily called "rained out." Rain has been falling intermit tently on most of the eight mar kets, resulting In a drop of three quarters of a million pounds of the golden weed n irketed, Friday as comrnmr^ft>r*'(irrar.rf?i<e plac ed for sales opening day. The markets yesterday saw a slight increase in the quality of leaf offered on -some markets, while some markets reported a considerable amount of tobacco damaged fron\ prevailing damp ness being placed for sale. The weather, if present bond!* tions persist, will eventually cause a slow down in sales vol ume throughout almost the en tire belt, market officials predict ed last night. However, warehousemen and planters alike, jubilant over the first two days of sales, predicted that this week will see heavier sales on all markets. Farmers Using Banking Credit Figures Compiled During Past Fiscal Year Reflect Improved Financial Con' dition Of The Farmers North Carolina agriculture is currently in a stronger financial position than it was at the close of World War I, according to Prince O'Brien, Cashier, Wacca maw Bank & Trust Co., Soullv port, who has been designated by the North Carolina Banker* Association as Brunswick Court ty Key Banker. Reporting on the results of a, national survey of bank lending in 1945 made by the Agricultural Commission of the 'American Bankers Association. Mr. O'Brien said that in North Carolina it shows that farmers use only ; a tenth of the bank credit avail-, able to them. The 208 banks'iiT the state which serve agriculture made 93,185 loans to 63.398 farmers last year for a total amount of {37,465.000. On Jan uary I, 1846. these banks had farm loans outstanding of $18, 872,000. On the same date these banks had $217,120,000 additional for agricultural loans had the farmers needed it. That the credit extended by the banks to their farm customers i? a useful tool of agriculture is shown by a breakdown of these over-all figures, he added. Last year 55.222 farmers procured farm production loans in an ag gregate amount of 125,697.000. Farm real estate loans were made | to 7,669 farmers for a total of $11,324,000 On January I, 1946, these were outstanding in the banks $5,821,000 in production loans and $11,186,000 in long-term farm real estate loans. Loans on crops in storage insured by the Commodity Credit Corporation were made by the banks to only 507 lanr.ers icr e tote! etf orj* (Continued tt page tlx)
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