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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<t' to back up their application. ' Mr. Sherill must have found a man, or has a gocfd man in mind, if the number who have made inquiries is any indication. If any ex-service man has lost j his discharge button he may re- 1 gain his property by calling at the State Port Pilot office. One such button was picked up on the street this week by Captain Bertram Burris of the Cape Fear Pilots assrciation. With the 1946-'47 high school basketball schedule now officially on its way an interesting fact to be noted is the real competitive spirit, combined with good sports manship, being shown by students and patrons of all schools. TTie boys and girls are playing for the sport of the thing and to up hold their own schools. Competi tion is a very good thing, but without sportsmanship it could easily offset any good accomplish ed. It is a nice thing to see each community upholding its own school and at the same time rendering due credit to efforts put forth by opponeftts. This writ- 1 er is in the position of having to be for all schools in Brunswick county. We can claim no parti- ? cul-ar favorite. At the close of j the season we will rejoice with 1 whatever school has proven vie- j tors on the court and at the same time we shall be equally pleased at the teams and schools that hav^ shown the most sportsman- , ship, whether they won or lost, j This columnist was raised on a farm down in Union county and .(Continued On P??? 5). W. B. KEZIAH Our ROVING Reporter Homecoming At Prospect Church The pastor and congregation of Prospect Baptist church at Sup ply are arranging for a Home coming Day to be held at the ?church on Sunday, December ;22nd. ? \A1! members of the church, former members and former min isters are being urged to attend. A fine musical program is be ing arranged and luncheon will b? served on the grounds. River Traffic Hits New High Here Tuesday dumber Of Ships Which Were Delayed Monday By Fog Were Forced To Wait Until Tuesday To Go Up River SHIPS FOR STORAGE PART OF MOVEMENT P. C. To Be Used By Wil mington Unit Of Naval Reserve Also Ce-me In Yesterday After Delay Tuesday morning saw about the 1 heaviest traffic moving on the river of any day in several years, according to members of the Cape Fear Pilots association, who handled the craft. Cause of this jtraffic jam was the fog which [made travel on the river im possible Monday. In addition to three big freight ers and tankers bound for Wil mington and two others coming out, three of the big maritime craft went through enroute to the Brunswick River Lay-in Basin in this county. One of the ships going to the lay-in basin was the William E. Riddle, liberty ship which drew international notoriety several months ago when she was in collision with the, American farmer, whose . salvage case has "developed Into a iaw*Strtt of in ternational scope. Fireworks Law Now In Force City Officials Direct Police Chief Otto Hickman To Arrest Peraont Shooting Fireworks In Public Plac es Laws controlling the use of fireworks and firearms in the city limits of Southport have been in effect for many years, according to city officials, who declare that these laws formed a part of the first control measures when the city was incorporated. At times in the past there has been laxity in the matter of en forcing the anti-fireworks law, but with the increasingly dan gerous type of fireworks now being placed on the market, the city officials through Chief of Police Otto Hickman, are moving for strict enforcement. The only exception that will j be made to the enforcement of 1 Continued on page two Hearing Will Be Held In River * Drainage Work U. S. Army Engineers Have Promised That Hearing Will Be Held In Connec tion With Waccamaw Drainage Project DATE OF HEARING HAS NOT BEEN SET Sponsors Of Project To Be Granted Time To Prepare Evidence Of Needs; Engineers Also Study Two North Carolina and two I South Carolina counties, Bruns 'wick and Columbus is this state ! and Horry and Georgetown in I South Carolina, are assured of ! being given a hearing by the I Army Engineers in the matter of ' the Waccamaw River Watershed | drainage project. This hearing [will be held at some time in the near future, after the advocates of the undertaking have had suf ficient time to collect . needed data in favor of their cases. During the same time the en gineers will go thoroughly into the matter, getting technical in formation. A party of three en gineers from the Army _ Engineers office at Charleston, S. C., spent two days last week looking over I the project. They were seeking i information in order to present the practical side of the project ;at the hearing when it is called. According to County Agent J. E. Dodson, who is greatly in terested in' the undertaking, the wandering Waccamaw river in its (Continued on page Two) Robberies Occur Over Wide Area Of This County Doll Collection To Be Displayed Here Next Week The valuable doll collection of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Arlington will be on display in the win dow of Arlington's beginning next Thursday in what promises to be an outstanding Christ mas attraction for this com munity. The collection Included 325 dolls, which have been gathered over a period of many years by their owners. They have cogie from many countries, and for the most part are diessed in clothing typical of the country they represent. Last year one of the largest department stores l;i South eastern North Carolina invited Mr. and Mrs. Arrington to use their show windows to display their collection, but due to cer tain risks involved, the South port couple declined this in vitation. Their decision to place their dolls on exhibition here throughout the holiday season is in the interest of helping to create the Christmas spirit in Southport. Three Places Of Business In Southport Entered Sun day Evening By Thieve* Leaving No Clues ANOTHER AREA HIT LAST WEEK Long wood Merchants And Citizens Felt Effect Of Robberies On Tuesday Night As Gypsies Are Suspected Leaving no clues behind them, robbers broke into three business places in Southport Sunday night. In each case they secured a small amount of money and other articles. The complete loss has not been ascertained. At Mack's Cafe the cash regis ter was broken open and about $15.00 was taken. The picola at this place came in for the heav iest damage. It was almost com pletely wrecked in the effort to get at the cash drawer. Informa tion is that it had been cleaned of its collection Saturday so only a small amount of cosh was ob tained from this instrument. At Leggett's the hasp was pried off the front door and the cash register was robbed of ? about ten dollars. It is not known if any merchandise was taken from this place. Further up the street at the Jones Grocery the loss was heav ier. Chfef of Police Otto Hick man states that about $60.00 in cash was taken from the ca*h registery. A pistol and a quantity of cigarettes and perhaps othef articles also disappeared. So far the officers are said U be entirely without dues. Four business places at Long* wood were broken into and rob bed Tuesday night of last week four of the robberies were com mitted by members of a band of gypsies who fled to South Caro lina that night. For several days between 35 and 40 gypsies were camped on the Chandler Rourk property ad joining the Shallotte school. Frorp this point they made dally trips all over the county, ostensibly to trade various articles, tell for tunes and repair stoves. In reali ty, according to Rural Policeman W. D. Evans, of Waccamaw town ship, they were sizing up various places for robberies. Mr. Rourk ordered them to leave his property Tuesday. They broke camp, but instead of mov ing away in a body they again scattered over the county. That evening two or three of the gypsy women appeared at the home of Mrs. Winslow Caison, near Ash. They went through the usual hocus-pocus that is put on by members of their tribe. When they left Mrs. Caison found that $490.00, which she carried in a wallet In the bosum of her dress, had disappeared with them. She notified Sheriff John White at Shallotte, and the next day he found the whole band had coverged again at a point in South Carolina. Without authority in that state, all he could do was (Continued on page 2) Yacht Travel On Inland Waterway May Reach 1,000 Schools Get One Week For Xmas Brunswick county white aitd colored school children will get five days of freedom from their studies for the Christmas holi ( days, according to Miss Annie Mae Wood-ldc, superintendent of schools. The recess from studies bo gins on Friday, December 20, at the close of that day's ses sion, Studies will be resumed on Monday, December 30th. With this period including two week-ends, there will be ten days to elapse between the closing and opening dates. However, only five days of this time will be lost from studies. New Equipment Building Ready | North Carolina Equipment ; Company Will Occupy | Building Recently Erect- j ed Near Brunswick River | Bridge The new buildings of the North1 Carolina Equipment company onl Route 74 near the Brunswick I River bridge' is receiving its fin- ) ishing touchcs this week and will shortly be occupied. The buildings consist of a large I quonset hut with brick frontage. [ This structure, with the excep- 1 tion of the brick frontage, is of I the type built for the army. Erected by the Donnely Construc tion company, of Wilmington, it (Continued on Page 2) Routine Session Of County Court Seven Cases Disposed Of I Before Judge W. J. Mc Lamb Monday, With Nol Pros Taken In Three Of Them Seven cases came up for trial before Judge J. W. McLamb and Solicitor E. J. Prevatte in Re corder's court here Monday. Of these seven, three were nol pros ed and two were continued. The complete record of the | day's business as shown by the j minute book Is as follows: . D. P. Andrews, D. L. Andrews, George Andrews and H. T. Schnibben, attempt to assault, nol; pros. ?? | L. C. Piver, trespass, nol pros. ; Frank Stockhouaer, disturbance! in public place, 60 days on roads, j judgment suspended on payment; of costs and defendant required to stay away from A. V. Milli ken's place and remain of good! (Continued on pogtt 2). j Reports From Elizabeth City This Week Indicate That Total Number Of I Pleasure Craft Over 709 i HIGHLIGHTS NEED FOR ACCOMMODATIONS With Average Of Five Per sons Aboard Each Pleas ure Craft, Big Flow Of Tourists Passing A dispatch from Elizabeth City says that 700 yachts, conservate ly valued at seven million dol lars, have come through the Dis mal Swamp canal locks during the 90-day period ending last Sat- , urday. Despite this huge move ment of pleasure craft southward there are no signs of this travel diminishing. j The boats passing through the locks during the above period are credited with carrying an average of five persons, the larger num ber being cabin cruisers. Some of these boats checked in at the up state point are probably still somewhere between Southport and the canal. i No figures are available at the moment as to how many yachts have reached Southport in this journeying, but the Dismal Swamp report on the movement is strongly In keeping with pre dictions made by this paper sev eral weeks ago that at least a' thousand yachts would come down the canal before Christmas. As an average thing the heaviest passage of the boats usually reaches here a week or two ' weeks before Christmas. It is probably a conservative claim to' say that upwards of 200 yachts' will traverse the canal through Brunswick county before tlje end i of the year. After the first of the year only a moderately small number will | be moving Southward for a few j weeks. Early In Arpll the return- j ing tide from Florida will set in. -J Funeral Monday For Mrs. Davis Widow Of Late R. W. Davis Died Suddenly Friday Afternoon Following A Heart Attack Mrs. Minnie Blackwell Davis, 66, widow of the late Robert W. Davis, prominent Southport attorney, suffered an acute heart attack at her home here, Friday afternoon, dying before she could be carried back into the house after falling at the loot of the ] .steps jto the porch. Mrs. Davis is survived by two daughters, Miss Bobby Davis, of Southport . and Mrs. Robert Dick enson, of Asheville. Two sisters, Mrs. J. M. Sharp, of ReidsvUle, and Mrs. Ear lie Garrett, of- Dan-, ?CoatiaiMd ?a p?e? ? ? **' * . 1 : . * Odell Bennett Again Chairman . Waccamaw Township Far mer Once More Elected Head Of The Brunswick County AAA Committee With a widely-scattered vote being cast In the AAA election last Saturday, it may be several days before the complete can vass is completed and the namts of the many community commit teemen who were elected are determined.' Something like a hun dred of these community commit teemen were elected and the work of canvassing the vote U natural ly slow. With regards to the county of ficers of the association the re sults were more easily obtained. Odell Bennett, Waccamaw town ship farmer, was re-elected chair man; G. Martin, vice-chairman and Jackson B. Potter, F. Her bert Swain and J. Manley Ben nett were named county commit teemen. If the canvass has been com pleted and the results are avail able, the list of the community committeemen who were elected will be published next week. Seventeen communities are re presented in the county with sev- ' eral committeemen elected In each community. ^ ,'332! ?