The State Port Pilot
Southport, N. G.
Published Every Wednesday
JAMES M. HARPER, JR Edit
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 $1.50
SIX MONTHS 1.00
THREE MONTHS 75
Wednesday, September 18, 1946
Try T his On For Size
The next time you feel like you must
criticize someone for something he has
tried to do, just ask yourself if you
could have done better. If your answer
is an admission that you could not,
then yo have no right to criticize. If
you think that you could do better,
then why don't you?
Worth Trying
With a little over one-half the time
limit for the Annual Fall Fishing
Rodeo already elapsed, there still is a
good opportunity for some Brunswick
county fisherman, or a party out on a
boat from this county, to capture some
of the big prize money that is being
offered.
If you make a good catch, you should
go to whatever trouble necessary to
have it weighed, recorded and official
ly entered in the contest. If you don't
like prizes yourself, and even if you
don't need money, Brunswick county
needs the favorable publicity that will
come to it if the prize winners are
brought in here.
Your ChUd On The Highway
Parents are inclined to have the com
fortable feeling that the welfare of
their child is shifted from them to the
school authorities from the moment he
passes out of the door in the morning
until he comes in again late in the
afternoon.
True, during the school term tha
child does spent most of his waking
hours either going to school, in school
or returning home from school ; but to
saddle the school people with complete
responsibility for safety during the
first or the last part of this daily pro
gram is to be grossly unfair to those
whose burden of responsibility already
is great.
Often when we see school children
tearing about in their eagerness we are
moved to marvel that there are not
more accidents instead of fewer.
The parents can do a lot to impress
their children with the need of safe
practices, particuluarly as it applies to
walking along the highway, or crossing
a busy street or road.
It is well to remember that the re
sults of all the care and attention of a
lifetime can be snuffed out in a
moment, and it is logical that no one
should be more concerned with the
safety of the child than are the par
ents. i
Natural Advantages
We believe that it is a good thing
for people to make an occasional trip
to other sections in order that they
may have an opportunity to see how
others work and live, the problems
they must face and how their condi
tions compare with our own.
And that being true, we can think of
nothing that we would like better than
to be able to load a bus with a repre
sentative group of farmers from this
county and carry them on a trip to the
mountains of Western North Carolina.
The residents of that section of our
state feel that they are peculiarly well
blessed, that they have absolutely
everything that God intended as a good
and perfect gift for mankind. And
with that attitude, they have set in to
work with what they have to the very
best possible advantage.
We have tried to make a fair com
parison of our advantages with their's,
and we have come to the conclusion
that the principal things they have that
we do not are high mountains and
plenty of ambition. We'll go even furth
er and say that we think that if some
of those people up there could farm in
a place like this county they'd be rich
in five years; and many of our citizens
would starve to death if they had to
make a living under the same conditi
ons that the mountaineers do most of
their farming.
This isn't being written to make
people of this county feel backward
when compared with their neighbors of
' Western North Carolina, but the idea
is to point out that the things they
have up there that help make it one of
the most progressive parts of the State
| may be had right here in this county,
and be had more abundantly.
We have plenty of soil that has more
natural fertility than theirs; we have
areas that may be devoted to grazing
lands if we try ; we have longer grow
ing seasons and a climate which per
mits a greater variety of crops; we
have' timber areas thai produce more
and better timber than you find in the .
mountains.
When we see what a beautiful show
ing these people have made with the
few blessings which nature has bestow
ed upon them, it makes us ~ick to see
so many of our own natural advan
tages undeveloped. .
From an agricultural point of view
our county has made wonderful strides
during the past ten years, but when
the day comes that we have developed
our own opportunities to the same ex
tent that they have been developed by
residents of the mountain counties of
our state then, indeed, will this county
be the garden spot of North Carolina.
The President
Demands Economy
President Truman recently sent a let
ter to the heads of executive depart
ments and agencies of the government,
which is potentially of the greatest im
portance. In that letter, the President
demanded maximum economy in the
administration of the bureaus concern
ed.
"Our present fiscal situation is a
most serious one," the Chief Executive
said. "We are faced with a continued
substantial budget deficit in the pres
ent fiscal year .... We must do every
thing within our power to reduce infla
tionary pressures. One of the most ef
fective means of doing this is to reduce
Federal expenditures."
It remains to be seen just how well
Mr. Truman can force department
heads to carry out his explicit instruc
tions. Normally, high-level bureaucrats
are extremely unwilling to cut their
budgets and organizations. They work
on the principle of the more the mer
rier. The plain fact is that the country
can no longer afford that kind of a
philosophy. The very root of inflation
is excessive government spending.
Congress, when it reconvenes, will
also have a chance to help prevent in
flation by cutting costs. If the multi
tude of government agencies won't
voluntarily cut down, Congress must
force them to. And Congress, by refus
ing to approve wasteful and needless,
expenditures can play a major
role in preventing dollar depreciation
and price inflation which will destroy
the economy of the nation.
The President has pointed out the
proper course. The gala financial show
is over. The time of reckoning, distaste
ful as it may be, is here.
Mr. Byrnes, our people like insults no
better than you do. Every slap you en
dure invites a second. If there must be
a showdown the sooner the safer.
Elliott Roosevelt's book is good anti
British propaganda, yet it consists of
his opinions and his memory of long
conversations, unsupported by facts.
The rich have another advantage.
They aren't afraid of being thought
"cheap" if they take time to count
their change.
One thing we must not forget for a
day: If Britain is crippled and ceases
to be a great power, America will stand
alone ? in deadly peril.
A war isn't over until the law has
captured or killed the veterans who
were somehow encouraged to scorn the
rules of civilization they once obeyed.
Our trouble is that only a few Amer
icans understand the great and compli
cated mess in the Near East, and they
don't knew what to do Aboiit it.
Just Among
The Fishermen
City auditor E. R. Weeks and
Acting- Postmaster Bemice Kusa
have made three trips out in the
bay fishing during the past week.
Each of the three trips they
caught three large turtles, which
went to make turtle soup.
It is about time for Postmaster I
Wilbur Dosher to take his an- 1
nual vacation, which is usually
boiled down into two weeks erf
fishing at Southport. George
Wortham, his colored man of all
work on such occasions, seems
more worried than we are at the
postmaster not having yet shown
up.
Local menhaden boats are said
to have had an unusually good
year this- far, with several months
of fishing yet to go. So far the
shrimp production has been small,
a condition partially made up for
by an extra high price to the
boatmen.
Although the marsh hen hunt
ing season has been open all of
this month hunters have not had
favorable weather, and will not
be likely to have such weather
during the month of September.
For this sport a northeast wind
during a high tide period is neces
sary if the birds are to be found.
Rockfish are beginning to strike
in Town Creek and along with
these fighting fish are plenty of
large mouth bass, mormouth's,
etc. Town Creek is fast becom
ing justly celebrated as the lar
gest open body of fresh water In
Brunswick and for the fish that
this water contains.
The real fishing season off
Southport has hardly yet began.
This claim will be more readily
understood when October and
November rolls around and the
real big fellows begin to come in.
From a knowledge of fishing here
in previous years the sportsmen
can be assured of something big
just ahead.
Fishing with a hand line at the
old quarantine station this week,
Ralph Mollycheck, son of Mr. and
Mrs. F. Mollycheck, hooked and
dbeked a 25-inch black drum that
weighed eight-and-a-half pounds.
The youngest is only nine years
old.
One shore fishery at Little
Beach, near Shallotte. caught
6000 pounds of fine mullets Sat
urday morning. It is understood
that many fine catches have been
made at the different fisheries
along the coast during the past
several days but no reports have
been received as to poundage.
Fishing with rod and reel at
the quarantine station, Airs. F.
Mollycheck docked a seven-pound
black drum and a number of
smaller fish. The following day
she did even better by taking a
27 y4 inch black drum that weigh
ed twelve-pounds-and-tow ounces.
We had to leave on a moon
light fishing trip of our own be
fore the fish could be weighed,
but it can be said that a Char
lotte party made a mighty nice
catch in 16-amberjacks, 9 barra
cude, 4 bonita and I king mack
erel last Tuesday. It was not so
much the number of the fish, it
was the size, as about half the
amberjack and barracuda ap
parently weighed between 25 and
35-pounds. The whole catch was
estimated to weigh in the neigh
borhood of 500-pounds. The party
was out aboard the Idle-On of
Captain H. T. Watts, with his
ion, Basil Watts, as mate. The
sportsmen were Dr. E. R, Motley,
Capt. D. C. Tasker, T. J. Orr and
J. H. Orr, all of Charlotte. None
of them could lay claim to get
ting the biggest fish. They were
all big.
The mullet fishing firm of
Prink and Bennett ? S. B. Frink
ind Sam T. Bennett ? Jotait own
ers of a 16-foot skiff and a 82'/]
yard gill net, reports that It
spent all day Sunday on one of
the beaches. The fruits of their
tabors was some 45 or 50 large
mullets and a general feeling of
liaving been Industrious.
We had a couple of visitors
Monday, Mr. and Mrs. Burton H.
Smith, of Charlotte. Mr. Smith
a widely known as a "Friend of
Fur, Fins and Feathers," that
neaning he is greatly interested
n game and fish. The couple
x>th believe we should have a
iifferent system of game and fish
conservation.
Due to arrive here from Col
imbus, Ohio, on October 5 and to
remain 1 through October 13th are
Vlr. and Mrs. Fred C. Houck.
they are due to bring salt and
Freshwater fishing outfits and the
brlp to the south Is a change
Iron) the Canadian woods and
waters where they have hereto
fore gathered. Jimmie S tuber, se
cretary of the Outdoor Writers
Association of America, got them
leaded to South port
The Moja, Captain Victor P.
[>ance, a sailfish getter on a sail
fish getting boat when sailfish
ire to be got, raised 4 sails last
ruesday but came in without its
sailfish flag flying. Of the 4
sighted fish three made what
?night be called a nibble at the
,ure. The fourth was some dis
:ance away. One guess is as good
is another, and our guess is that
Captain Lance and the Moja will
lave several sailfish to report in
lext week's paper. His party last
week was composed of Dr. and
Mrs. H. Lutterloh and son of
3anford, Dr. and Mrs. C. H. Lut
:erloh, of Hot Springs, Ark., and
Frank Calkins, Richmond, Va.
Judge Walter Bone, without
uiy favors, caught the first sail
taken on an expedition out in the
bay off Fort Caswell with us
ind Ed Mallison, one night last
week in a small outboard motor
boat. It was kind of rough wea
ther in a rough spot on the river
ind the boat did much rolling
ind tossing. Despite this dis
souraging aspect, about 20 fish
were caught and the pleasing
feature of the trip was the fine
sportsmanship shown by the
judge. He was pretty good at
fishing, for a country boy.
Something must have been radi
:ally wrong with freshwater fish
ing this summer. Perhaps it was
the floods or it might be the
teacher shortage. At any rate it
has been the first summer that
we remember when Prof. Henry
C. Stone of the Shallotte school
has failed to come in with a re
port of a fine catch of bass or
perch.
FARM TRAINING
PROGRAM PLANS
ARE EXPLAINED
(Continued *Tom Page One)
quire the necessary skill and
management ability to insure his
employabllity and a demand for
his service at a satisfactory in
come. The employer-trainer must
agree to cooperate with the teach
er of agriculture in giving on
the-job training and to pay the
trainee a satisfactory wage com
mensurate with service rendered.
A veteran will not be accepted j
on the employer-training pro
POST-WAR STOVES IN STOCK
Harry Robinson
SOUTHPORT, N. C.
HUDSON SALES AND SERVICE
FISK TIRE DISTRIBUTOR ?
RECAPPING and VULCANIZING
REID & HASKETT
216 MARKET ST. WILMINGTON. li. C.
gram in cues where the trainee
is employed by any member of
his immediate family. However
If the veteran is working on this
farm with the objective of be
coming permanently established |
he should be able to rent a part
or all of it to be operated on
his own and then become a self
proprietorship trainee. Hie pro
gram is to train a veteran for
a specialized job and not to train
ordinary farm labor.
More Publicity For County
With Rattler In Museum
(Continued froiu pate One)
"Brunswick" through various ex
press handlers between Southport
and the museum in Raleigh.
The special tag was hardly
needed. All express workers who
had to handle the buzzing box
were anxious to get Tid of it by
sending it right on somewhere.
But the express company made
good, as is attested for in a
letter received this week by Mr.
Keziah from Harry T. Davis,
curator of the museum in Ra
leigh, in part he said:
"Dear Patient Friend Bill. ? We
are grateful to you for supplying
a fine specimen of the diamond
back thai we have been needing
for about two years now. The
newsmen were around and you
have doubtless seen about the
safe arrival. The express man
of dark hue, was asweat and
very pale, with the constant
rattling. You will be pleased to
know that the name "Brunswick"
is sticking. He (or she) will
doubtless be a worthy successor
to "Onslow." "Brunswick" de
voured a large rat during his
first night in the exhibition cage
and that indicates he will be
tractable to his permanent sur
rounding s." j
LEGION POST TO
HAVE FISH FRY
(Continue from page one)
lotte post are all urged to bring
a new member with them. Dur
ing the drive for new; members
which has been in progress the
past two weeks the Shallotte
Post has greatly increased its
membership.
ROSCOE ROGERS
GETS NEW JOB
(Continued from pace onei
$400.00 valuation. The Estate
Corporation was relieved of
$1550.00 valuation on one piece
of land because of lots sold. W.
H. Chadwick was relieved of
$500.00 valuation. Earl Johnson
was relieved of $1,400.00 valua
tion because house has been mov
ed.
Mrs. Carrie Anderson was add
ed to the disability list of $10.00
monthly. Miss Maggie Andrews
was dropped from the list.
Ernest Parker was allowed to
afterlist one acre of seashore
land. Garlee Smith was given
permission to pay taxes for ail
unpaid years at $20.00.
SOUTHPORT LADY
DIES IN ATLANTA
(Continued rrom Page One)
The active pallbearers were
Cajit. C. N. Swan, R. T. Wood
side, Capt. J. I. Davis, J. W. Lan
caster, M. R. Sanders and Capt.
J. ? B. Church.
RECORD NUMBER
OF CASES TRIED
(Continued Firm i"age One)
and resisting officer, continued to
September 30.
W. H. Hewett, interferring with
officer in discharge of duty and
assaulting officer, continued to
September 30.
Robert D. Lee, larceny, held
for Superior court under $500.00
bond.
J. Bruton, non support, re
quired to pay $750.00 in full for
claim.
Everette Holden, possession,
sixty days in jail, judgment sus
pended on payment of a fine of
$20.00 and costs.
Burl T. Dennis, improper
brakes, judgment suspended on
payment of a fine of $10.00 and
costs.
James Burl Scott, speeding,
judgment suspended on payment
of costs.
G. E. Jones, disturbance in
public place, continued to Sept
ember 30.
Ernest P. Currey, speeding,
judgment suspended on payment
of costs.
George Black, improper lights,
judgment luspended on payment;
of coats.
Joe G. Mullis, worthless check;
(two cases) capias and continued.
H. V. Stanley, failure to deliver j
certificate of sale of motor ve
hicle, nol pros.
Zeb Vance Green, speeding, 60
days on roads, Judgment suspend
ed on payment of a fine of $15.00
and costs.
W. H. Grainger, no lights on
trailer, continued to September
23rd.
Elma Cox, improper lights and
brakes, capias and continued.
Cornelius Bellamy, reckless, '
operation, 60 days on roads, judg- 1
ment suspended on payment of
a fine of $25.00 and costs.
Ira Prince, possession of non !
tax paid whiskey, 60 days on I
roads, judgment suspended on
payment of costs.
Sherman James, no chaffeurs!
license, judgment suspended on ,
payment of costs.
Clarence P. Marton, drunk I
driving, motion for jury trial.
Anthony Rivenbark, reckless
operation, continued to Septem
ber 30.
Goley Caison, no operators li
cense, judgment suspended on
payment of costs.
Odell Walton, improper lights,
30 days, judgment suspended on
payment of costs.
Ethel Ballard, Improper brakes,
judgment suspended on payment
of costs.
Hay Sellers, unlawful parking,
judgment suspended on payment
of costs.
Alex R. Mercer, improper
equipment, judgment suspended
on payment of one-half the costs.
Fred Lee Atkinson, improper
equipment on motor vehicle,
judgment suspended on payment
of costs.
William Howard Coluerhoose,
reckless operation, 60 days on
roads, judgment suspended on
payment' of a fine of $25.00 and ;
costs.
James T. Hancock, speeding,
60 days on roads, judgment sus
pended on payment of a fine of
$15.00 and costs.
C. W. Lewis, speeding, judg
ment suspended on payment of
a fine of $10.00 and costs.
Bryant Brown and Emma Hew
ett, fornication and adultery con
tinued to September 30.
Earlow P. Dudley, drunk dry
ing, 4 months on roads, judg
ment suspended on payment of
a fine of $50.00 and costs.
D. A. Baker, reckless opera
tion, nol pros.
Longwood Man 1
Has Big CtJ
Sales From Tobacco
On The Rice
Farms This Year O
ing The $44,000 Msijl
With a small part of th? J
remaining to be sola, the
on the Rice Gwynn farm J
Longwood has brought Li j
870,000 this year. Mr. >; ? . I
that the 60.9 acrcs grown ^.jl
self and tenants will
about $800.00 per acre. |
A part of the Gwynn crop J
sold this past week at an J
age of $75.00 pt-r hundred poJ
One of the colored fa .1
ers on the Gwynn farms
so Interviewed awl asked (J
the effects of the unusually 3
rainfall on his crop In the
mer. He aaid he made t J
crop, but still lost some i?J
from the rain. The han-3
was made more difficult, ktl
clared. I
Phelps Sisters I
Enter Coll
Two Daughters, Of ?
And Mrs. R. C PheB
Of Ash, Enter Schooll
University Of Norl
Carolina ?
Misses Wilnia and i.cah ^
daughters of Mr. and Mrs 8
Phelps of Ash. left Mor-iaj
Greensboro where they are i
ents In the Woman's Collegi
the University of North Csro
Miss Wilma is a senior u
majoring in home eronoir.ici
lowing her graduation from
Waccamaw high school she
tended Mars Hill College
graduated there before eiu
Woman's College.
Miss Le-ah completed her
school work this p?st sun,?
Campbell Junior College. B
ing Woman's Oollece now i
freshman, she like her s
plans to major in home ?
mlcs.
Chicago is (he second lifl
city in the United States. I
Among babies, whoopinj cfl
is fatal in one case out of tfl
VOTE FOR I
H. EDMUND R0DGER5
For Congress in the Coming Nov. Elect
FROM THE SEVENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTR
(Cumberland, Harnett, Robeson, Bladen,
Columbus, Brunswick, New Hanover)
Your Vote Will Be Appreciated
M? ? ? ?
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