e Pilot Covers |BrUn5? ick County THE STATE PORT Most of The Nevr? All The Time A Good Newspaper In A Good Community 1946 fl.50 PER YEAf PUBLISHED EVERY WEUNESUA1 I igt Repairs j |epend On Bids Being In Line ?? Highway Engineer Jlj That Bids For Per Knent Improvements To EL Bridges In County ? ge Opened January Kt Surfacing part pi SWAMP ROAD , lwaV Officials State | jirikes With Result E Shortages Have Af fected Contractors State Highway commission j *a bids on permanent re- j ,j tie Brunswick river and j creek bridges on Tues- j T. T. Betts, its division 1 ? engineer. 3aid in Fay- > last week. commission will also seek | i on a contract to repair j , over Jackie's creek and j an: p. both in Brunswick Ik declared. said he had good reason ^ that the commission receive bids on its ad- ' gent for repairs on the (jr.-wes ailment of material ship lied the decline in steel pro i because of the soft coal jade it impossible for the son to advertise for the tins month, he concluded. . Mallard, district highway jace superintendent, re 4a: his crews have com Jle installation of new two Ms as decking for Alii, creek bridge. jv emergency repairs are , adertaken on the Bruns isw bridge this week, Mal si ; the activities of the | S?iway Commission in i county this week is facing of several miles paddle road, beginning at I S*pamp intersection and toward Southport. TTilsf J* in that part of thisf ilwas in the worst need' k Delivery Ways Building 4#e Drug Store And 'accimaw Bank And ?! Company Expect ? Be In New Quarters fe First Of Month I 'wilding held up await fc arrival of plate glass to and doors for the new I* the Shallotte Drug com the Shallotte branch of fecamaw Bank and Trust *7 are expecting to be * is their new quarters by ? of next month. > store will move next the larger brick addi W the bank will move from 'building where it has into the rooms vacat ur drug store. Both busi 'P much larger and much Utable quarters by the > and will be neighbors in ^ recently enlarged and by its owner, R. D. biifNtut Flathts 1 CHAIRMAN noting of the board of '?f the Dosher Memorial 1 Friday night E. J. Pre- ? Southport attorney, was |Ja^firman' succeedin8T L II^ who moved from several months ago. j3%ort Parent-Teachers ^ 0 hold its regular ""eting Thursday even ! ' 58 o'clock in the high fr:^num. A program tmas music has [. " for this occasion. ? ad k jy of appointments Rew board of county !ast week this Vth? , J 1 the $150 |tz ? ^ ^ be paid R. I. i*m ,'0ur't>' attorney was S. B. Frink b eia this office. Mr. h. Paid only J120-per ^ not charged with ^ ** attorney, a job jW*? consolidated with that office under THIS IS BIG BUSINESS BUSINESS ? It may look like fun to you, but it's big business in many1 North Carolina communities. Left above, a Gulf Stream "party" boat, which grosses its own-j er around $80 per day during the season. There are scores of boats like this, or small-} ear, based at North Carolina ports. Left, center, a guide helps a guest land a fish. Be-| low, left, chief ingredient in the business isthe pleased customer. This boy is shown laj nding his first fish ? a 25-pound amber-jack. Top right: Thousands of such things; are sold by retail merchants on the coastof North Carolina. This is a feather, used j on dolphin, sailfish, amberjack, channelbass. Below, right, the guide, having fifij shed a successful trip off-shore, lugs hiscustomers1-ftsh ashore. Outlines Plan To Establish Fair Each Fall Jimmy Raftery, owner ofj Brunswick's big road show, the R. &. S. Amusements, is busy ! with a lot of things now while the show is in winter quarters near the Brunswick River bridge. !Mr. Raftery said Friday that he thinks that Brunswick County should have real fair grounds and a real county fair each year. Furthermore,- he believes that the fair should be a tri-county event, with Columbus and New Hanover counties joining in. The ideal location for such annual events, said Mr. Raftery in an interview with The Pilot's re presentative this week, is right at the junction of Routes 17 and 74. Located there, it would draw tremendous patronage from near by Wilmington and New Han over county and the place would be equally convenient to Bruns- i wick and Columbus county folks. Mr. Raftery says that there is no doubt at all that Wilmington and New Hanover county would join up solidly in such a tri county fair. He is equally posi ( Continued on page 2) Law Requires Bill Of Health Couples Married In Another State Required By Law j To Present Necessary Health Credentials To Register Of Deeds A law not generally known was called to the attention of this piper the past week when Regis ; ter of Deeds Amos J. Walker re ferred to Section 51-14 of the Consolidated Statues of North Carolina, as amended in March 1945. This law specifically says: "Residents of the State who are married outside of North Carolina shall, within 60-days af ter their return to said State, file with the Register of Deeds of the county in which they live, a cer tificate showing they have con formed to the requirements of the examination required by Sec tions 51-9 through 51-14 for those who are- married in the state." The above law means that per sons desiring to marry must stand the medical - examination if they are residents and plan to continue residence in North Carolina re (Continued on Page 2) Sport Fishing Recognized As Being Big Business Brunswick County Is In An Ideal Location To Reap Benefits Of Expansion Of Big Game Fishing Off Coast ALREADY MILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY! Economic Conditions Have Contributed To Increase In Number Of Inland Sportsmen Who Are Fishermen BY BILL SHARPE Don't look now, but a multi million-dollar business is slipping up on us, and simply because millions of Americans with in creasing leisure want some out door sport with modern exertion, a lot of sun and a little adven ture, all at moderate cost. Saltwater gamefishing so nice ly fills the bill that it is one ofi the fastest growing sports in ' America, and is becoming an in- 1 creasingly important factor in ' the huge recreational industry ofj the country. As a consequence of the grow ing interest in saltwater fishing, the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development will ask the 1947 General As sembly to finance a thorough sur vey of the State's marine sport fishing resources, with the idea (Continued on page 4) Tax Listers To j Gather Monday , Officials For Six Townships Will Meet Monday For Instructions And To Ob-i tain Supplies From Tax Supervisor The tax listers for the 1947 1 tax listing are to meet in the I office of Tax Supervisor W. P. I Jorgensen Monday, December 16th, to receive instructions re garding their work, which be gins the first of January. Supplies will be available for] these workers and will be de- 1 livered at that time to those who have not already been supplied, i Mrs. Hope Brooks, of Iceland, ' has been named tax 'lister for. Northwest township, where the ! board of county commissioners had ueen unable to secure a suit- 1 able person piior to their meet-, ling last week. J Seeks Another Rural Mail Route Mrs. J. Sum Frink, acting postmaster at Shallptte, in mak ing an effort to secure a new rural mail route, running out from Styallotte and serving up wards of a hundred homes down in Lockwoods Folly town ship. In company with Mrs. Frink a postoffice inspector spent two days at Shallotte last week and they made a complete survey of the proposed service. Mrs. Frink stated Saturday that the folks tp be served by this route, if it is secured, have never had any sort of mail service with out some of them going several miles for it. In ' recent weeks this depart ment has been on the receiving end of a lot of practical demon- 1 stration of the fact that advertis- ; ing pays, especially in this paper and when it is intended to con tact anyone in Brunswick county. | A couple of weeks ago Frank O. j Sherrill, of Charlotte, advertised for a caretaker for Bald Head J island. A prompt and continuous result of this advertisement has ' been that this department has | been paged several times daily j by persons wanting to know j about the job or a recomihenda- > tic