The State Port Pilot
Southport, N. C.
Published Every Wednesday
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JAMES M. HARPER, JR Editor
Entered as second-class matter April 20, 1928, at I
the Post Office at Southport, N. C., under the j
Act of March 3, 1879.
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Wednesday, October 23, 1946
Long Range Planning
When a grape vine was planted and
an arbor built to support it on the farm
of the late H. D. Mintz near Shallotte,
before the Civil War the planters and
the builders probably had no idea how
much their planting would produce or
how long their work would last.
Approximately a hundred years have
passed since the grape vine was plant
ed. The arbor, constructed of heart
pine, is almost as solid as on the day
it was built. The vine. Well this year
it produced grapes to the value of
$160.00, and there is no telling how
much it has been worth during its ap
proximate hundred years existance.
Scuppernong grape vines that are
planted last for several generations of
mankind. The county would be better
off with more grape vines, more fruit
trees, more strawberry and blue berry
patches. The crops we grow now are
all aimed at quick returns, and they
involve a stupendous amount of labor
and expense each year that they are
produced.
Still another time-required crop to
which attention might well be directed
is livestock raising. It takes approxi
mately two or three years to produce
beef cattle and milk cows. With its
?natural grazing, adaptability of lands
for permanent pasture and the grow
ing of feeds, more milK cows and beef
cattle should be raised in Brunswick.
School Attendance
There are at least three schools in
Brunswick county whose high school
department will be discontinued if on
the basis of average daily attendance
it is necessary to reduce the number of
members in the faculty.
If the parents do not wish to see the
day when their children must ride to
some point near the center of the coun
ty to attend a consolidated high school,
they will do well to encourage their
children to maintain a good attendance
record. It might be a good idea, too,
to encourage the children you know
who should be in school and who are
not to enroll now and attend regularly.
Brunswick county can retain her
present school set-up, and can make
it stronger, by using these facilities as
they were intended.
And One For All
For those who are already keenly in
terested in the advancement and de
velopment of Brunswick county, and
for the many more who are becoming
interested, it is getting to be a hard
matter to decide on the section slated
to enjoy the greatest advancement.
Under the circumstances it is not un
reasonable to say that all areas of the
county are sitting pretty, all in a posi
tion to go forward with a little more
public spirited effort on the part of its
citizens.
Broadly speaking, Brunswick county
may be divided into three areas: The
farming areas lie in Shallotte, Wacca
maw, Lockwoods; Folly, Town Creek
and a portion of Northwest townships.
The sport and commercial fishing and
the recreation area is all along the
coast from Calabash to Bald Head Is
land. The industrial area is in the up
per end of Northwest, Town Creek and
along the river to Southport.
While having their own advantages
in a number of things, all three areas
have a great deal in common, surely
enough to feel a great deal of admira
tion for development in neighboring
areas. A lot of Southport people, for
instance, are proud of the fine farm
ing sections of Brunswick county, serv
ed by the centers of Hickman's Cross
Roads, Thomasboro, Longwood, King
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i town, Ash. Grissettown, Shallotte, Ex
um, Freeland, Supply, Bolivia, and
Winnabow. Likewise they are proud
of the fine industrial resources of the
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county at Leland, Navassa and the
Brunswick river bridge section, as well
as the potential industrial resources
that all of the west bank of the Cape
Fear river has in prospect.
It is easy to believe that other coast
al sections of Brunswick have many
people who look in the same friendly
way upon the farming and industrial
sections of the county that Southport
people do. And it is also easy to be
lieve that the folks of the farming and
industrial sections are watching with
interest that the growing interest in the
sport fishing and recreational areas.
Some sections of Brunswick, notably
Shallotte and Southport, have been get
ting together strongly during the past
few years. It will be a good thing when
all of our communities get together the
same way and work together for what
ever will advance the other community,
as well as their own.
World Living Standards
The extraordinary way In which the Uni
ted States has outstripped most of the na
tions of the world in living standards was
strikingly brought out last week at the
International Labor Organization's 29th an
nual general conference at the University
of Montreal.
The huge differential in wages around
the world, for instance, was shown by the
report of an Australian delegate who told
the conference "with a touch of pride"
that natives in the Australian dependent
territory of New Guinea now have a mini
mum wage of $3 per month and cannot
be taken away from their homes for more
than 12 months at a time. Fortunately, it
seems, their pay was $1 a month and they
could be kept away from their homes for
periods up to seven years.
That represents a condition at the oppo
site pole from American standards, yet In
ternational Labor Organization statistics
show a general level of wages in the Uni
ted States of $49.30 a week in the year
1944, while in Great Britain it was SI 8.80
a week. Cotton factory workers in Bulgaria ?
neither a primitive nor a highly developed
nation ? get 12 cents an hour.
It is true, of course, that purchasing
power is probably a good deal greater in
some of these ill-paid nations than it is
in the United States, but, for the most
part, the picture of toil, poverty and ex
ploitation reflected by the reports is pro
bably all too true.
Nor is it no concern of the United States
that the rest of the world has so little
purchasing power. Earning little, they can
buy little. A tremendous market for con
sumer goods manufactured in the United
States will develop, should millions of per
sons in other nations begin to attain some
thing approaching the standard of living
we have in this nation.
Almost as compelling as the commercial
motive Ls the humanitarian conviction that
the toil of any human being is worth more
than $3 a month, regardless of his ignor
ance or primitive condition of life. South
African mine workers, "who have received
no wage increase for decades . . . though
living costs are much higher," have literal
ly become our neighbors In. the modern
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world. Because of this fact alone, we can
not be completely forgetful of the burden
oi their exploitation.
William Z. Foster, head of the Commun
ist party in the United States, says Wal
lace's New York speech awakened the na
tion. We don't know about that, but it sure
interrupted the President's naw. ? The San
ford Herald.
Nearly all experts in Germany were
Nazis. Our policy makes thera jobless,
so they turn to Communism. And all of
us must pay because our big shots
can't be smart.
Aptitude tests are merciful things.
They keep a little mechanic from suf
fering because ma wants him to be a
violinist.
"Men yearned for the music of their
native land." ? Mag. Especially the
snare-drum clickety-click of feminine
heels on pavement.
The government is a liar. Analyze its
report and you find that the two items
which did most to increase the cost of
living" last month were shellad and
raw silk. .
Well, the deserted Mikhailovich
when he fought the Reds; we support
ed and armed Tito, knowing he was a
trained tool of Stalin; so whatever we
get now we asked for it.
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Just Among
The Fishermen
| Mike Felis, of the Crystal RSs
I taurant in Wilmington, got his
I fish for the week when he took
'a party out on the Idle-On Mon
day. They got 70 trout, describ
ed as "big." The fishing ranged
from two to five pounds in
weight and most of them ran to
the last-quoted figure. While
fishing for the trout they also
got two huge flounders. Twenty
orje fine, large blue fish topped
off the day's catch.
Sidney Ramsauer and other
Durham sportsmen made a fine
catch out on Frying Pan one day
this week. They brought in 21
cero, or king mackerel, all about
as near the same weight as it
was possible for that many fish
to be. To be exact about it the
21 fish all weighed between 20
and 21 and a half pounds each.
Four amber jack, weighing from
19 and a haif pounds to 32 and
a half, were also taken. The
party got a number of bonita,
which as Skipper Watts put it,
"were not worth counting."
Loafing down at Shallotte
Point on a recent afternoon it
became obvious that a great many
many up-state sportsmen had
learned of the fishing possibili
ties of that fine little center.
John W. Garner, proprietor of
the hotel, keeps both bait and
tackle handy and he was receiv
ing constant calls for both. Oc
cupants of a dozen cars from
different parts of the state were
down there, fishing from the
j docks, from row boats or out
board Snotor boats and some were
using the larger party boats for
trips out to sea. All were making
nice catches.
It is doubtful if there is any
natural stream in Brunswick
county that offers more fine fish
ing that Town Creek. At this
season of the year the rock, or
stripped bass, are the greatest at
traction to sportsmen. These fish
bite all through the winter, even
on the coldest days. In addition
to the rockfish, Town Creek is
also justly celebrated for the
fine bass that abound in its wa
ters. Miles and miles of the
stream are open waters to boats.
Of great depth and in some plac
es more than half a mile wide, it
is an inexhaustable sport fishing
spot. In the spring it is no less
attractive or famous for its runs
of herring, which are taken in
nets. Hundreds of parties go to
Town Creek in the spring when
the herring runs are on.
With its fine fishing sometimes
seriously effected by heavy rains
on the long watershed, the Wac
camaw river, which forms the
dividing line between Brunswick
and Columbus county, has not
been heard from so much as a
fishing point since late June.
However, it is a place dear to the
heart of the fishermen in normal
times. No waters in Brunswick
have the same glorious red breasts
that the Waccamaw waters have.
In addition to these beautiful fish
there is an abundance of bass
and of about every other fish
that inhabit the fresh waters of
southeastern North Carolina.
From information relayed by
C&ptain Victor Lance of the' Mo
ja, the fishing along the New
Jersey coast and other points
east have been terrible this sum
mer. Same thing here, same rea
son. Too much rain and general
ly bad weather. Fishing, like
everything else, has its ups and
OPEOORUM
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Southport, N. C.
October 11, 1946
Editor
State Port Pilot
Southport, N. C.
Dear Editor:
May I commend you on your
editorial of last week that had
to do with the problem in our
town of the children who run
around the streets at night, often
very late at night, and making
noises that disturb others living
near the street.
Problems such as this are
growing in intensity all over the
United States and our town will
be no exception unless the par
ents of these boys and girls wake
up to their duties as such. It is
beginnings like this that develop
into real juvenile delinquent prob
lems.
Isn't there something that we
as a community can do for these
boys and girls to give them some
thing that will interest them, and
won't the parents open their eyes
to their opportunities as well as
their responsibilities to these
young people?
Very truly yourtf,
One Who Is Interested
Bolivia Students
At State Fair
The free admission of North j
! Carolina school children to the '
State Pair at Raleigh last week |
drew the greatest crowd on re
cord to attend such an event. The
youth 0/ North Carolina literally
overflowed Raleigh and the State
Fair grounds.
No information is available as
to how many other schools in
Brunswick, sent a delegation of
students, but Bolivia high school,
was right there, chartering a big
bus for the day and sending a
| large group. The boys were in
I charge o f J. M. King, Bolivia
agricultural teacher. Reports are
j that they had a great time.
ATTENDED STATE FAIR .
Linden Clemmons, Lee Clem
mons and J. M. Parker, all of
Supply, attended the State Fair
in Raleigh Thursday.
downs. This year it has been
mostly 'down. c
It must have been a fishing
i family. The Moja had five bro
thers to compose a fishing party
I Sunday. They were the Penegar
brothers from Gastonia. Informa
tion was not complete enough
to give us all of their first names.
They got 112 bluefish and one
bonita. Information is that the
ocean is full of bonita between
here and the lightship. The ocean
is likewise full of sediment kick
ed up by many and various spells
| of bad weather. The bonita and
the still bigger fish have not been
disposed to bite much lately. They
are waiting until the ocean settles
down.
Captain H. T. Watts with his
Idle-On was also out with a party
| Sunday. Information does not
I say who the party was, but re
ports are that they got a lot of
blues, several bonita's and some
big king mackerel and amber
jack. The sailfiah were keeping
much to the depth of their ocean,
in the manner they have been
doing all summer. When things
get settled down there will yet
be many reports of fine catches
made between Southport and Fry
ing Pan between now and Christ
man.
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We have been able to promise our customers
more merchandise for each dollar spent
throughout the years, and that is still
what we are trying to give them
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LeRoy Mintz, of Shallotte, says,
I that the Bennettstown road in |
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without mail or bus service to carry
children to school for two days
following- the recent heavy rains
Portions of the River Road be
tween Southport and Wu,
were also completely oljJ^
an even longer period.
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