/ V The pilot Covers gfUflS^' ,-ick County THE STATE PORT Most of The News All The Time -^gSiXTEEN NO. 41 A Good Newspaper In A Good Community 6-pages today Southport, N. CM Wednesday, January 15th, 1947 $1.50 PER YEA* PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESUAI ^ & Polio [ids Begins In County Today F?FundrPW Uh| l?lS"!gTc Combat Inf an- . f?sWum Ext ! Mont tUNTE|^ FOR DRIVE , j Prevatte Has ? Wide Organiza- ( Assist In Ra.s VCounty Quota Thrive for collec ?jr'r'u; ?ith which to com-! * ^ paralysis gets un *^? Bru ^ick county to-; continue through wu?r of this month, 2 rtmaind .,00.00 set asi '?f preached, f/; Prevatte. of South VT, is chairman of the K county chapter of the , organization set up to -V emergency arising out; epidemic, has been 'fig .he past few days '" a county-wide or will carry the tor funds into every fiv m the county. ffer hope that every m hive an opportumty 1 W contribution through ?f.hese volunteer workers, !*e event someone is miss 1 arses that checks or .vers for money to be $ ? this worthwhile , oe waled to her. L county-wide organization -the following personnel. PaiUs Piggott, Southport; i A. Kopp. Bolivia; Mrs. 1 ttri. Mrs. J. L, He"r^' , Dorothv Evans and Mrs. r McDougall, WinnaBow, Holmes and Mrs. D. . Sgey Leland; Mrs. R. C. 1 hiad Mrs. Roland Sim- ; ? is;: Mrs. L. C. Babson lis J. V. Simmons, Free- . ? Its J. E. Dodson and j Dodson, Exum: Mrs. , n T Mrs. ? to: Grissettown; Mrs W. ttib. Hickmans Cross its. H. H. Pierce, Thom t Mrs Layton Bennett, | ?> Mrs. J. J- Hawes, Sup- j (ta Emma Lou Harrelson, h?revatte stated yesterday! U donation of $10.00 nasi I waved from the Old Shal t B??tist church at Grisset-j l raking this the first con-j tr. received for the 19* ' j b i Dimes Drive in Bruns- j t 1 IritfNtui Flashti WIS XECSSABY k prevention officials are attention to the fact that tog February 1st and runn "roigh June, it is necessary to: permits for burning. n AGAIN * Gwynn, Longwood busi r"?: and tobacco grower, is "M up and about again af toig confined to his home toss last week. * MEETING t&fl Joe Greenhalgh, or * of the International ?oins Union, CIO, will hold "?jr.g here at the courthouse toy night, January 25, at *tok for the purpose of ^ officers and enrolling <*3. ^Xtu JAILER toff John White has ap W. C. i Blackie) Webb, tohport, to the position of ' He succeeds Chief of "? Otto Hickman who has 1 serving m a temporary to-!' since the first of Dec *? *.?"? jjLN(. S(ji;.VRE DANCE 'Auxiliary of the Shallotte I 247, American Legion, to?? a big old-fashioned ? dance in the Williamson ^mpany building at Shal ^ Thursday night of this ^ t fine rjng band has *curetl from Wilmington to for the ocassion. f? SCPPLR b- fellowship of the l *ethodi3t church will ^ a chicken supper on Sat l aT^g. January 18th in Ik ^ high school. The be country friend | ^th mashed potatoes Ik?5 ?favy, garden peas, rolls coffee and [S5JpM made- ^ pub" Your Favorite Newspaper Furnishes 45-Year Old Alibi Myrtle Beach Man Writes To Express Deep Gratitude For Solution To Problem That Has Worried Him In a recent issue of this i paper a short story told of J. I E. Gilbert missing his buck \ and losing his shirt tail as a result of using old shotgun j shells in which the powdef was detoriated in strength. Mr. ! I Gilbert claimed that the loss of his shirt tail was unjust, that he hit his buck but the \ \ shot bour.ced off the critters' back. The story revived memories I in the mind of St. Julian ! Springs, Myrtle Beach man, I | who is a subscriber to the pa per. He sat himself down forth-with and wrote this pa per: "Re-old shell with buckshot bouncing off buck: "Boy, this gave me the an swer after 46-years. At the age of 12 while hunting on Waccamaw Neck I shot at a buck. Missed him with both J | barrels. The deer kept com- I ing straight on and in no time j he was almost on top of me, despite the fact that I was climing a pine sappling to let him pass. "Of course, they cut off my i shirt tail. I "In those days we loaded our I own shells, and the propellant was black powder. When such a charge was fired it produced a lot of smoke, almost equal i to what resulted from a $2500 forest fire. My two such shots | clouded tne atmosphere ter | ribly, with the result that "no see buck, buck no see me" un til I was up the pine sappling in safety. "The loss of my shirt tail was always debatable In my mind as being justified. Not being qualified at the age of ? 12 to solve the mystery of failure with two shots, it comes to me now that the dense smoke was not the cause of the inaccuracy of my shoot ing. You have now given me the answer: "My old shell bounced off buck. "Thanks, very much, Buddy, "St. Julian L. Springs." Authority On Fishing ! Pays Visit To County Miss Francesca LaMonte, Representing American Museum Of Natural His tory, Has Been Conduct-! ing Fishing Survey MADE STUDY OF LOCAL FACILITIES Spent Sunday Evening As Guest At Anchor Hotel At Shallotte Point And Visited Other Places Mi"s Francesca LaMonte of the American Museum of Na tural History in New York, spent Sunday and Monday at Southport, Shallotte Point and points in Brunswick county, get ting local color and a personal insight to the sport and commer cial fishing possibilities. Miss LaMonte was accompanied on the trip by Bill Sharpe, of Ra* leigh, director of the State News Bureau. With a versatile knowledge of all matters pertaining to sport and commercial fishing and a writer of widely recognized abili | ty on such subjects, she has ! heard a great deal regarding the i fishing possibilities along the coast of North Carolina. This re sulted in her trip here to get ithe personal angle. Miss LaMonte and Sharpe cov ered the whole of the North Car olina coast on this trip. Starting out at Manteo, they arrived at Wilmington at about noon Sat j urday, spending the day and ! night there and coming on to [Southport at noon Sunday. Sun day afternoon they were at Shal llotte and that night they were [ guests at the Shallotte Point ! Hotel, going to Gause Landing i Monday morning and returning ? to Southport for further data be | fore going on to Wilmington. ! From there Miss LaMonte re ' turned to New York by plane j Monday evening. Shallotte Has New Lions Club Organization Meeting Held Friday Night With Henry C. Stone Named As Presi dent Of Club The Shallotte Lions Club held its organization meeting Friday night, with members of the Whiteville club assisting. Officers were elected and the club got off t0 a good start with 19 members. The officers are H. C. Stone, president; Edward Redwine firs vice-president; Fred Mmtz, 2nd vice-president; Woodrow Buss. 3 ra vice-president; R. D White, ,. tail twister; C. W. Rhinehart. ion tamer. The Executive committee of the club is composed of E. h. Kirby, LeRoy Mintz and J. B Ceas on iris Bald Head island on the 2nd of December. They made x splendid crop. Would Abolish Rural Policemen Representative Odell Wil liamson Stated Saturday That He Considers This Office To Be Undemo cratic Declaring that he regards the setup as undemocratic, Represen tative Odell Williamson plans to introduce and endeavor to have passed a bill that will abolish the offices of rural policemen in Brunswick, according to an in terview Saturday. With no feeling against any of the three men now serving as [ rural policemen.- Representative Williamson stated briefly that the offices were created by legis lative enactment, which also named the three men who were to serve. No provisions were made for their reappointments nor for replacements. The law, j as it stands, apparently gives each man a job for life and this | is the main objection, according j to the Representative. , Although concerned with law enforcement, the three rural po licemen act independently of the sheriff's office. With the excep tion of certain fixed duties that the sheriff and his deputies are expected to perform, the police have about as much authority as I the sheriff. | The Williamson bill will leave I the county without rural police. [ "The Sheriff," he said, "is sup posed to be the law enforcement officer. If he cannot enforce the j law with the deputies he has or I can get, he can be held account able." The three men who will lose their jobs if the bill passes are Rural Policeman W. D. Evans, of Waccamaw township; O. W. Perry and Dillon Ganey, of Northwest. When asked for an expression of his opinion on this question, Senator R. I. Mintz declared that he would like to confer with the Sheriff and with the county com missioners before making a state ment However, he pointed out (Continued on Page rive) Funeral Sunday For Mrs. Smith Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon by Rev. Wood row W. Robbins, at the Soldiers Bay Baptist church for Mrs. J. Lenox Smith, who died at her | home near Ash the previous Friday night. She had been ill for only a short time. The bural was in the Smith cemetery. In addition to her husband Mrs. Smith is survived by three sons, James Smith, Archie L. Smith, C. D. Smith, and one daughter, Miss Dulah Smith, all of the Ash community. Use Machinery To Speed Work Of Wood Cutting j | ? | Power Saws Have Replaced I Hard Work Of Cutting Timber With Axe Or With Cross-Cut Saw; j Saves Time OTHER WORK ALSO DONE BY MACHINERY Improved Methods Have Made It Possible To Har vest Large Quantities Of Wood For Mills Logging pulpwood in Bruns wick county has undergone a transformation from the methods that were employed just a few years ago. Then the cutting was almost entirely done with hand axes and cross-cut saws. Now the axe, while still extremely ne cessary in the woods, is very little used at the job of felling and cutting up the trees. Replacing the axe and cross cut are the power driven circu lar saws. Where it formerly took fifteen minutes to half an hour to chop down a tree, the power saws can be made ready and sent swishing through the tree to bring it crashing to the earth within a couple of minutes after the workers reach it. Once the tree is felled the mobile saws can move up along side it, cutting block after block, almost as fast as they can be measured off by an assistant to the saw operator. In fact, it takes two or three assistants to each saw operator. With their pike poles it is necessary .that they be on hand to see that the tree is felled in its proper di rection. After that they are kept almost as busy as the saw opera tor, seeing that the work of cutt ing up the log progresses stead ily without gripping of the saw as a result of the butt end of the log pressing against the earth. In addition to the speedy work of cutting down the trees and sawing off the four foot blocks, speedier methods of transporta tion have also come into use. In stead of the trucks that carry two or three cords of the heavy green wood, tractor trucks are now getting generally in use. They carry eight cords at a load and at some of the logging op erations these tractor trucks are both loaded and unloaded by machinery in a fraction of the time such operations formerly took. To sum up, the cutting, load ing, unloading methods of former (Continued On Page 5) Week Of Study Being Planned For Dock Assn. School For Pastors And Deacons Being Planned First Week In February At Soldier Bay Baptist Church TO HOLD SESSIONS TWICE EACH DAY Invitation Extended to Pub lic And Officials Of 1 Brunswick Baptist As sociation For Series A week of study for the | deacons and pastors of the Dock Baptist Association will be held at Soldier Bay Baptist church February 3-9. This school for the pastors and the deacons is planned to give a week's study to the work of the deacons and of the church. These studies will be in the morning and in the evening, starting at 10 o'clock and running until 12:30 or 1 o'clock then again in the evening from 6:30 until about 8:30 o'clock. The people of Soldier Bay church are preparing to care for any and all of the deacons and pastors who will come and stay for the week. There are many people who live close enough to come every day and remain at home, but for those who live too far to go and come each day, the church is prepared to keep them for the week. It is requested that each person who would like to have a place to stay for the week please drop a card to Mrs. Hazzel Purvis, Ash. On the faculty for the week will be the Rev. Earl Bradley, Statfe Missionary for the eastern district oT North Carolina, and the Reverend Sam Lamb, pastor of Whiteville Baptist church. The { pastor of Soldier Bay Baptist church, Rev. Woodrow W. Rob bins, is hoping to have a mission ary for the week to speak about the mission work. The books that will be studied v Continued On Page 3) Lengthy Session Of County Court j Busy Day For Judge W. J. j McLamb And Solicitor J. ! W. Ruark As Many Mat ters Disposed Of Monday brought the biggest i session of recorders court in several months, as proceedings lasted practically the entire day and a number of cases had to be continued for various reasons. The minute book shows the following cases as having come up and the dispositions made: A. L. Robinson, transporting, possessing equipment for manu facturing whiskey, continued " to January 27. W. H. Burgess, speeding, fin ed $20.00 and costs. George Norris, assault, nol pros with leave. Harvey Riggins, non support, called and failed, capia9 issued. T. F. Johnson, false pretense, returnable January 27. Margaret A. Carlson, speeding, (Continued on page 2) Our ROVING Reporter W. B. KF.ZIAH Hie idea of a new tennis court seems to take hold strongly at i Southport each spring. The move ment starting about a dozen years ago, each spring has seen the organization of committees and the making of great adoo | about the project. By the time j ! summer comes everybody has his or her mind on the beaches and ' ! the tennis court, project is for- 1 i gotten until another spring when! ! the idea may again come to life I i briefly. Instead of starting the | ; new tennis court matter up again j six weeks from a Tuesday, why, I not pave the courts now so theyj j may be used as a skating rink ; ! for the Southport small boys and [ girls during the winter? Hund-! I reds of tjese youngsters now . | have roller skates, and no place ; to skate except in hte streets and j roadways. So far there has been ; no accidents, but it is just ? poss ible that some of our boys or girls will have to be carried to the hospital, or a worse place, be fore Southport people realize that a skating rink in & safe spot would be a even more worthwhile than tennis court. With continuous rains last summer the fish that swarm in to our bays and mouths of rivers and creeks never had a chance at what the sportsmen had to of fer. In fact, the fish were not there. Flooding fresh waters drove them far out in the salt waters of the ocean, and that was pretty far out. The normal salt content in the mouth of the inlets and bays did not return until about six weeks ago. With the return of these waters the fish have also returned. Wet years, such as we had last year, do not usually come in succession Folks who came to the coast to fish 'in the rivers and bays last year and who had poor luck are not likely to be disappointed if they return this year. While last year waa just after the war and thousands of people were eager to go fishing if they _( Continued Cm Page 5j Southport Aldermen Seek ^Legislative Authority For if Holding Election on Liquor LEGISLATORS IN RALEIGH ? Left above is State Senator R. I. Mintz, who is representing Brunswick county in the up per house of the North Carolina General Assembly. Ori the right is Representative Odell Williamson, member of the lower house. Fishermen Request That Dredge Help Shrimpers Looking Ahead I o Furnishing Bait In anticipation of a big in crease in tile number of sport fishing parties this year, H. T. Bo winer, local boat owner and operator, has frozen and stored away more than 500 5-pound boxes of shrimp with the idea of always having bait available for his own and other parties. With the Southport shrimp producing Industry devoted al- ! most entirely to shipping to \ New York and other eastern markets there have been fre- j quent periods during the spring I and summer when shrimp have , not been available for either ' the fishermen or local tables. Require License For Freshwater Both Sportsmen And Com mercial Fishermen Are Required By Law To Have License For Fish ing County Game Protector H. T. Bowmer is called attention of fishermen to the fact that they must have licenses to fish in the freshwater streams. One type of license is for the sportsman, and these may be ob tained at several points in the county: W. E. Bell, Southport; j Frank Rabon, Winnabow; Charlie | Rourk, Bolivia; C. O. Blanton, Supply; D. C. Andrews, Shallottc; and Coy Formy Duval, Freeland. Commercial fishermen using nets in freshwater streams must purchase a license from the game protector. Captures Large Still And Mash One Operator Also Captur ed By Rural Policeman O. W. Perry In Raids Made By Him Last Fri day Rural Policeman O. W. Perry, of North West township, made a single-handed raid in the Indian Creek section of the county, near Phoenix, last Friday. He captur ed a 100 gallon steam still. 1600 gallons of molasses mash and one of the three operators who were present at the time. Having to hold to his man, the two other operators got away. The prisoner taken was Walter j Everette, colored. He has pre- J viously served in the Federal i pentitentary for manufacturing whiskey. Taken before U. S. Com missioner Taylor in Wilmington, he was held fo rthe spring t^rm of Federal court under a $300.00 bond. The two operators who got away at the time Everette was arrested were both negroes. The three had just fired up the still, preparatory to making: & run U. S. Army Engineers Of fice Has Received Re quest That Dumping Area For Work On Bar Be Changed During Ope ration U. S. E. DREDGE TO BEGIN WORK. HERE Believed That Proper Dis' tribution Of Material Will Cover Obstacles That Menace Nets With the U. S. Army En gineers dredge Hoffman schedul ed to come here and begin work on the Cape Fear bar within the next two weeks, Southport shrimp fishermen are greatly- in terested in an effort that is be ing made to interest the En gineers into changing the ships dumping ground from the pre sent Dump ' Boy to the Teal Pond rocks. This change, according to the boatmen, would not involve a much longer haul on the part of the boat than to the present dumping grounds. The Teal Pond rocks ace a coral bottom area, 3 miles long by about half a mile wide. Fifty or so loads distribut ed over this area would about cover it completely and create a * large . new shrimping area, easily accessible to the boats. The coral growth at Teal pond protudes only a few inches. The mud from the dredge would set tle down, covering these ob structions. At the same time it would slowly spread over the ad-| joining sandy bottom areas and be attractive to shrimp in a much larger area than that actually covered by the rocks. Shrimp do not gather thickly in pure , sandy bottoms and the area beyond the rocks is sandy. The pond has a muddy bot tom, making it very attractive to shrimp, but the rocks form (Continued On Page 5) Brunswick Man Will Be Busy Senator R. I. Mintz Will Have Active Time Keep ing Up With Duties On Important Senate Com mittees State Senator R. I. Mintz has been named chairman of the Senate committe on Commercial Fisheries, and in addition has been named to membership on 16 other committees of the up per house of the North Carolina General Assembly. These appointments include: Appropriations. Conservation and Development, Election Laws. In stitutions for the Deaf, Internal Improvements, Journal, Judiciary No. 2, Justices of the Peace, Military Affairs, Printing, Pub lic Utilities, Salaries and Fees, Senatorial Districts, Teacher and I State Employees i Retirement, , Trustees of the Greater Univer-' sity, Veterans Affairs and Water j Commerce. At Meeting Thursday Night City Board Passed Reso lution Requesting Repre sentative And Senator To Introduce Bill SENATOR MINTZ IS OPPOSING MOVE Declares That He Will Not Introduce Or Support Bill Which Will Lead To Election On Subject Of Liquor At the regular monthly meet ing _ of the board of aldermen last Thursday night a resolution was passed requesting Senator H. I. Mintz and Representative Odell Williamson to introduce a bill to allow voters of the City of Southport to vote on the ques tion of whether or not to allow a State operated ABC store to be located within the city limits of the City of Southport. The motion was made by Dr. L. C. Fergus, was seconded by Alderman D. C. Herring and the only dissenting vote was cast by Alderman R. L. Thompson. Background for this acUon is the serious financial situation of the city, particularly in connec tion vith the difficulty in meet ing its obligations to bond hold ers while still carrying the load of administrative costs. The establishment here of an ABC store, with profits from the sale of liquor to go to the city, is seen as one possible source of relief. Senator Mintz and Representa tive Williamson have both been contacted by letter, and while Re presentative Williamson has not yet been sounded out on the sub ject, Senator Mintz has taken a firm stand in opposition to the proposed bill. He Issued the fol lowing statejner' *o news paper Monday! "I am opposed to the bill, and I will not introduce or support it. I believe that the counties are the smallest sub-division that should be permitted to operate stores under the ABC plan, un less the city in question has a population which represents a l Continued on page five) Another Judge May Come Here Illness Of Judge Clawson Williams May Make It Impossible For Him To Come To Brunswick For Court Next Week Judge Clawson L. Williams, scheduled to begin a week's, terro of Superior court in Wilmington this week and to preside at the one-week term that is to convene here on the 20th, was taken ill last week and his place for the New Hanover term was taken by Judge L. Paul Frizelle, or , Snow Hill. Court officials here have not been notified of any change of the original plans for Judge Wil liams to preside at next week's term. It is assumed that if he continues il' his place for the term will be taken by Judge Frizelle, or some other Judge. With the addition of a number, of cases since last week, there is a rather heavy criminal dock et awaiting whatever judge who in named to preside* In addition to about 30 criminal cases there are a considerable number of civil matters scheduled for at tention. Receive Bids For Bridges State Highway Commission Announces , Low Bidders For Work On Alligator Creek And Brunswick River Bridges Low bids on two bridge im provement projects in Brunswick county were announced yesterday by the State Highway Commis sion. The E. W. , Grannis Co., tJf P'ayetteville, was low bidder at $91,132.50 for work on the ap proaches to Alligator Creek and Brunswick River bridges. Hi? iV. P. Loftis Construction Co., Of I Charlotte, was low bidder on the 'structures at $220,820.35. | These bridges are located on ,U. S. No. 17, 74 and 76 and are considered to be a menace to | safe travel on the highway from hers to Wilmington.