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The State Port Pilot Southport, N. C. 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. j SUBSCRIPTION RATES , ONE YEAR -SIX MONTHS THREE MONTHS .$1.50 . 1.00 , .75 Wednesday, August 7, 1946 : 1 i Plenty Of Oil There is a saying that "more oil has been found in the laboratory than by the drill." This simply means that scien tific developments in oil conservation ? and utilization have enormously expan ded our present and potential supply. Ever so often, some pessimist "authoritatively" forecasts that within a few* years this country's oil reserves will be exhausted. All through the oil industry's 87 years of colorful history such predictions have been proven groundless. Additions to proved reser ves have almost always been greater than current production. Further, prov ed reserves have uniformly turned out to be greater than original estimates indicated. A good example is the great East Texas field, discovered in 1930. It was expected to produce a grand total of 2,000,000,000 barrels. It has already produced more than that ? and its remaining reserves are currently es timated at about 3,000,000,000 barrels. At this time, our proved reserves amcunt to more than 20,000,000,000 barrels of oil and up to 200 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. However, only about half of the 1,500,000 square miles that geologists consider potential oil territory have been explored. There is plenty of room for new discoveries ? and, in addition, reserves are constant ly being upped by deeper drilling in old areas to open deeper sands. Research is the backbone of the oil industry ? both in producing and con serving crude oils, and in perfecting better fuels and lubricants for thous ands of purposes. There's no longer a shortage of supply here. The Hobbs Bill Passage of the Hobbs Bill, which was signed by the President on July 3, was made necessary by the racketeer ? ing activities of certain organized labor ? groups. ! Genesis of the bill goes back to 1941, when a New York City teamsters' union stopped trucks arriving from outside the city, and compelled shippers or buyers to employ union drivers and pay them the union scale. Threats and viol ence were employed. A farmer driving his own truck and hauling his own pro duce was forced to hire a union driver. A test case was taken to the Supreme Court, which held these activities did not violate the Federal anti-racketeer ing act, and that remedial action would have to be taken by Congress. The Hobbs Bill is the result. It simp ly makes it unlawful for unionists, along with everyone else, to interfere ; with interstate , commerce by ex tortion or robbery. It does not inter . fere with labor's rights to strike or pickct. It is in no sense a "class" meas l ure. It is a remarkable fact that some labor leaders vehemently objected to the passage of this bill by Congress, and its signing by the President. To all intents and purposes, those objectors were saying, in effect, that union labor has a right to racketeer, to threaten, and to use violence to gain its ends. The plain fact is that such a measure should have been enacted long ago, and Congress' long delay in passing it - is indefensible. The Hobbs Bill is not designed as the answer to all our labor difficulties. It simply puts unionists on the same basis as all other citizens so far as the ob servance of ordinary rules of law and order is concerned. Time To Pay Up With conditions as they have been during the past few years, there really is little fcxcusfc for anyone being is debt. There are exceptions to this, of course, and some with good reason. Our purpose in bringing up the mat ter at this time is to point out that it may be a good idea to keep your credit good. In the first place, an honest debt should be paid just as soon as possible. In the second, there may again be a day when it will be necessary to use j your credit to provide for your family. I Go down the list. Find out if there is an unpaid balance at your general store ; see if you have the doctor all paid up; check with the church treas urer and find out if you are paying your part of the expenses; straighten up your hospital account ? if you owe one; pay your taxes. Remember, no matter how much money you have in your pocket or in the bank, it doesn't belong to you until all your bills are paid. Pulling Together We like the idea of unified promo tion for all the beaches in Brunswick and New Hanover counties. There is no question but that the demand for beach property is greater now ' than it has ever been before, and the older, estab lished resorts are not going to be able to take care of all interested parties. That is where the new developments, several of them right here in Bruns wick county, come in. Beach property should be one of the best businesses in this area during the next twelve months. Ideological Extremes No one has put more aptly the ideol ogical case between the United States and Russia than that enigmatic French man, Charles De Gaulle. In a public address recently, De Gaulle said : "America bases its strength on the intelligence of individ uals, and Russia concentrates in one man all the strength of its society." The intelligence of individuals, anch ored in the rugged freedom of Ameri can tradition, has indeed been the his toric touchstone of American greatness. It remains so. t On the contrary, Russia has arisen to its present position of world power and leadership in violation of individual in telligence and liberty. The Soviets have vested in one man the burden of thought and decision whatever the problem or however great the moment. Regimentation in Axis states was never more complete than it is in Russia. The complete subjugation of individual ini tiative and individual intelligence reached its zenith no more so in Hitler's Germany than it has in Stalin's Russia. Equilibrium between such ideologi cally opposite states as Russia and the United States appears difficult not to say impossible. Poles apart are Russia's system of one-man government in which the individual is the servant of the state on one hand, and American demo cracy in which the state is the servant of the people on the other. It is ironic that America's first full fledged participation in international af fairs should come when international diplomacy is caught in the cross-cur rents of such ideological extremes. With only the doctrine of goodwill, based in the integrity of international treaties and the sincerity of internat ional friendship, to preach, idealistic Amei'ica, plunging into mid-stream of world relations, finds that the doctrine of good will is strangely out of place in the age-old struggle of power poli tics. And yet out of this welter of clash es and counter clashes, with the sover iegn individual arrayed against the sovereign state, must be fashioned a peaceful world. That is the heavy bur den of Mr. Byrnes at the Paris Peace conference. That is the basic motive which brought the United Nations Or ganizations into existence. That is the unending challenge of all who are in tent upon making peace more than an armed interval between wars. Anglo-Saxon Bloc Russia's Molotov complains bitterly of an Anglo-Saxon bloc aimed at Mos cow. Against the background of persis tent Russian efforts to sabotage the peace, it would be surprising if such were not the case. No nation can lay the foundation for international suspic ion as Russia has without incurring de termined and organized opposition. To Russia only those nations are friendly and cooeprative who accept Russian proposals without talking back. Those who talk back are orginazide opposi tion. Just Among The Fishermen For several years before the I war The State Port Pilot ran a regular weekly column, captioned Just Among the Fishermen. The title gave a rather wide range to people and things that could be mentioned. The column was dropped with the beginning of the war wiui more serious things coming up. At the beginning of the revival of Just Among the Fishermen we want it clearly un derstood that it will not under take purely Southport coverage. It will seek and welcome little matters about fishing, hunting and kindred subjects from all parts of Brunswick county. In cidently the revived Just Among the Fishermen should give in terested parties an opening for some good publicity for their communities if they will write and send in little hunting and fishing stories. Luther Holden reports that residents and visitors to Holdens Beach have been catching some very large sheephead and num erous black drum this summer. Like reports of fine catches of these fish are being made by John W. Garner of Shallotte Point; the Brooks boys at Sea side and Ivey High at Calabash. With half a break from the weatherman there should be some excellent fishing in the bays of the Cape Fear river, Lockwoods Folly river, Shallotte river and Calabash inlet from now on. For folks who are addicted to sea sickness or are too timid and lack the time to go outside, all of these points offer some ex cellent late summer and fall fish ing for trout, spots, sheephead, black drum, puppy drum and var ious other fish. Freshwater fishermen in Bruns wick county and throughout the state will learn with a great deal of pleasure that there will, here after be no closed season on freshwater fishing in the spring. In the past 40 days have been set aside each spring: to allow for spawning. A few designated wa ters here and there were left open during this closed season. In the future there will be no clos ed season, instead some specific waters here and there will be closed. These waters to be clos j ed have not yet been designated. A statewide size limit on large and small-mouth bass has been adopted. Heretofore the limit on size was 10-inches in the western part of the state 12 inches in the east. The new rul ing is for 10-inches throughout the state. Size limit on pan fish, mostly perch, has been re j moved altogether. Daily catch I limits are remaining the same as | in the past. I Advertising the fact that fall fishing is the best in North Car olina, the Department of Con servation and Development is now running large advertise ments in various sport fishing magazines. In the September ad vertising, carried in Field and Stream and other high class pub lications, the illustration shows Dave Roberts, of the Outdoor Writers Association of America, casting for red drum on the point of Eald Head island at Southport. About two jumps and a shake j from now we plan to have Charlie Farrell of Greensboro down here for a full week of both fresh water and saltwater fishing. Charlie, in case you do not know j it, has the best collection of fish ing pictures of any man in North Carolina. And he made them himself. He is wizard at knowing what will make a good fishing picture and at making it. He will be iA line to stay on his next trip here. We want to show him the coast from Calabash to Southport, including all points in between. Deer hunting at night, follow ing the practice known as shin ing, has long been outlawed in this and many other states. Re cently, despite a stringent law, it has been much practiced in this and adjoining counties. Last week three Columbus county men, 1 Robert Granger, Levy and Willie Jones, all residents of Old Dock, found themselves in court where they were given their choice of six months on the roads or pay ing fines of $100.00 and costs, out of the same basket ALL Telephone materials for catching up on thousands of applications for tele phones, extending farm telephone service, and providing more long distance facilities all come from the same basket. It's a big basket, but war communication demands emptied it and left us way behind in switchboards, buildings, cables and everything telephone service requires. In spite of hampering shortages of raw materials ? lead, copper, steel and the like? we're making progress. And we won't let up until there's plenty of service, local and long distance, for town and farm. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED NOW IN STOCK Harry Robinson SOUTHPORT, N. C. Rovin' Reporter (Continue from page one) show at the Shallotte Theatre this week upon presentation of a [ copy, of this paper at the ticket 'window. Miss Barbara Weeks will be admitted to the Amuzu at Southport under like condi | tions. I Where in the past there has j been nothing but fishing and bath- J ing on the beautiful beaches that extend along the Brunswick | county coast, a big change is now j coming. This week we heard a well informed man say that fully five hundred new homes were slated to be built along the Brunswick coast in a year's time. [Many are now being planned for early construction and many ] I have been built. The number of people who have bought beach building lots is running into the hundreds. The best thing about these newcomers is that they come from all parts of the state and other states. Representative people are being attracted to the Brunswick coastal section by its wonderful fishing and hunting and still ..more . ideal bathing beaches. -j We had not heard of the Wa net Farms, operated by Blake j Brothers, produce growers, until this past week. Then one of the, brothers dropped In for a bit of a visit and was kind of interest- J ed in everything down this way, especially In the plans for the blueberry farms. The Blake Bro thers, originally from New Han over, are growing produce away up the Cape Fear river in the fartherest corner of Northwest township. We are reminded that we should go around to see them some time. Likewise, our good friend, W. J. Martin, of Whiskey Creek Apiaries in Northwest, is also rating a visit. One, of the most highly pleas ed men we met up with this week was Cornelius Thomas, owner of the Clarendon Plantation on the Cape Fear. Mr. Thomas jubilantly told us that the present paving contract would bring hard sur facing to within two miles of Clarendon. Development all along the river road, he says, insures that the whole road from the Brunswick bridge to Southport is getting in line for paving. We ? we are saying 'we' be cause it sounds bigger and may make him think that there is more of us ? hope that our good friend H. L. Clemmons, of Supply, is not really seriously consider ing his promise to cut our throat. All about some pullets that arc to begin laying in September. Two weeks ago Mr. Clemmons gave us the money and had us to write an advertisement, offering two hundred pullets for sale. The copy went right to the shop but in the hurry and jam up of get ting out the tobacco edition it was lost somewhere. Last week the ad was set, but came out in The News Reporter instead of The Pilot. We did not in the least blame Mr. Clemmons when he favored us with a frown the last time we saw him. COLONIAL BEACH SET FOR EARLY BUILDING BOOM (Continued from page I) North Carolina coast. At present the only way to reach either Robinson's Beach or Colonial Beach is to cross the waterway at the ferry at Hold en's Beach and tiavel down the strand, 'ihe owners of the pro perties are uniting with plans for a real road down through each beach, also for a vigorous effort to have the Holden's Beach road paved and a real bridge built to replace the ferry. They also hope some day to see a bridge across Lockwoods each man lost a valuable L. C. Smith shotgun, the weapons be ing confiscated. Tney were, cap tured on the Counc'l hunting estate by half a dozen game pro tectors, including H. T. Bowmer and Charles Skipper of Bruns wick county. Folly Inlet, connecting them with Long Beach, going through Southport and up the River Road. Such a road, they say, would form a real ocean highway. Coast Guard Commandant Pledges Speedy Return (Continued Frwn Page One) tion even while many demands for special services still exist." Admiral Farley said that as a result of Coast Guard demobiliza tion "we have been obliged to re jduce complements In certain ac tivities and to reassign tempor arily some of our personnel to meet the exigencies of the situa ! tion. ! "However, I am glad to say I we will soon be able to return j many men to the beach and other | stations which a careful survey I shows should be retained," he j continued, "We shall lose no time in returning to their perm anent station men who specially | enlisted for duty in those locali ties. This is a promise." "The Coast Guard and the shores of North Carolina have j been closely Interrelated for ?man*, years .jjnd will . continue to, (be so for many years to come." GOOD FERTILIZER HELPS CORN CROP j (Continued From Page One) | is badly needed. , Among the farmers who are 'getting fine results from good ! fertilization of their Zl I this year, is Lucian fwl 'supply. Mr. Phelps h?j especially fine corn. But, he and the county iger, J he is only one of many? wick farmers who fertile, corn crop well and have J 'ed fine results. new owners win PRODUCE TIMBER (Continued from corporation. When the pt? buy lands they usually ^ forever and it is never u 'devoted to anything v,,1 growing of trees. The y cording to report, will Kt| holdings to anybody who J 5-acrcs or more, if the buygl trucking, farming. cauls 'J or other development view. Their planned t-J | work will actually encounpl ; sale of the lands for faring J poses. They now have jfor several more big tiicu 1 land in Brunswick, I AGED RESIDENT LAID TO REST. (Continued from oa*e burial here at the Kilpatrilk eral home. Following th? ? were taken to the chape: ? drews mortuary in WihJ where funeral services ( Saturday afternoon at 4 tt| Burial was in Oakdale DR. JOHN B. MANN OPTOMETRIST Eyes Examined . . . Glasses Fitted OFFICE ? McROY BUILDING Over First National Bank WHITEVILLE, N. C. Phone 236-J MISS ANNIE MERLE PIGOTT ? Office Assistant ? HAULING \ You need one of our steel body, one-ton cap* car trailers. Best thing on the market for moving? tobacco and other farm products. SEE THEM AT COAST ROAD SERVICE STATIOJ SAMRUSS, Shallotte, N.C ORDER NOW Or You May Be Too Late! SPRINGER COAL &OIL CO Wilmington, N. G. Phoned SCHOOL CLOTHING!! Do you realize that in less than one month your children will be going back to school ? Better begin now collecting the clothing needs for that boy or that girl who must look Neat every day during the coming School Year ! SHALLOTTE TRADING CO Hobson Kirby, Prop. Shallottc, N. C ? . ' *, ,, *' f. v;-- i ? J ' ' A
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