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THE STATE PORT PILOT Most of The News All The Time so. SIXTEEN NO. 48 0 A Good Newspaper In A Good Community jS-pages TODAY Southport, N. Wednesday, March 12~ 1947 (1.50 PER YEA* PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDA! Providing [ecial School jj Introduced I School Supplement I "For Leland District Wu Be Authorized By Lin REQUIRE "special election Lr Bill Providing A F in Manner Of P?g County Audi Also 's Intro duced Ucal bills were introduc ^ General Assembly last 0f them by Senator ,B and one by Represen ^ Williamson. the Mintz bills is for j0n for a special elec s iiekl in the Leland jjrict on the issue of ,7 special supplementary 'as The other provides fc . -fficial* of the town of to hold office for two filkan.son bill provides (junjes in the present tanning the county audi prorides for reducing his sa tour years to two ^rcary of the three bills '-Introduced by Mintz, I" Relating to the election L_s ;n the Town of Shal ,1 Brunswick County, twite Section 3 of ^ 3? of the Private Laws > provide for the bien ja of a mayor and 5 B:.-.ers of the town of 6 First election would be i is: Tuesday after the hay in May 1947 and iravor and commissioners ii office until their suc are elected and have Two commissioners | set a town treasurer themselves at salary i i: month. Candidates ktvupvl to file a. atate ? tT. of which is set out [id' of candidacy with tea: least 2 weeks prior day and pay fee ($3 fees for mayor and $1 Kales for commissioners.) *k officers would be ap k ey the Commissioners ients of Shallotte Ineligible. Would authorize l)te officers, when in hot IS a person charged with h of criminal law within ?tipality, to pursue the fc beyond the town limits ? fir as the line of an ad (eounty. To Election Laws. Si-Introduced by Mintz. 1 5? Providing for an elec ? tiie question of the local implement tax. Leland District, in BrunswicR !? t'pon petition of Leland District Committee set ? purposes and proposed sate of tax. and upon Jl hereof by County Board ktaiued On Page 5) hitfNtui Flasha ? meeting P March meeting of the P1" Parcnt-Teacher Asso P *iU be held on Thursday P'! ? 50 in the school auUi i1 CLOSKS p v . which opened I ie Miller Hotel I- its equipment I ponurUy, The ? re to accommo I---' I ? no.M hospital rft Whatley. who under I' Operation in a r " two weeks ago. pi hop.;r Sunday. He is still r' to his bod but reports I" the effect that he is get | ' ? idly. PjT PASTORS MKET I ? March 3, the I/.' e of the Bruns t Association hold it-v t tine at the South | Seven pa^ 1 supper was 1 Missionary F' "? the church. ? Pre* Fear Home Denion ?^Qub win serve a chick ?). Friday night from ? ip the Southport Km?' Iunch room- 'rhosc l" la'<c thcir d'n" ?toL10 tat sli?uld bring PiTp3 Proceeds will go for B 01 the lunch room. Star-News Tournament Winners CHAMPIONS ? The Shallotte girls high school team, winners of the girls division of the Wilmington Star-News tournament. Shown above, front row, left to right ? Margaret Phelps, Loraine Galloway, Alberta Leonard, Captain; Ruby Jean Bennett and Burnice Cumbee. Second row ? Helen Skipper, Willie Mae Spivey, Elizabeth | Long and coach H. H. Blankenship. Players not shown are Connie Frink, Polly Ben ! nett, Mary Frances Hardee, Betty Lou Hewett, Catherine Hewett and Selene Regis iter. ? (Cut Courtesy Star-News.) Brunswick Man Still Figures In World News The Martin Behrman, an Am erican Liberty ship, now under charter to the Ishrandtsen com pany of New York, is still fig uring strongly in the Interna tional spotlight, with the out ~futher hazy. ? ? The Behrman is in command of captain Rudy Gray, a Bruns wick county man with many relatives in this section. In the press dispatches his address is given as Southport. Some three weeks ago his ship took on a cargo, valued at three million dollars, and alleged to contain rubber, quinine, etc. This car go was loaded at the Indoseian held port of Qieribon. The Dutch East Indies gov ernment protested the sailing of the vessel, finally placing an armed guard aboard her and creating a stormy scene with Captain Gr&y, who charged them with piracy. With com mand of the vessel taken from him, allegedly by armed force, he went ashore and P. is vessel was moved by the Dutch from one dock to another in Batavia for the purpose of unloading. Monday the Isbrandtsen Lines, which lease the ship, fil ed a suit against the Dutch East Indies government for ten million dollars for the alleged unlawful seizure of the ship and cargo. On the other hand the Dutch claim that no law was broken by the seizure of the ship, that its cargo was being stolen from the Dutch govern ment. Improvement Of Roads Indicated State Has Projected High I way Improvement Pro I gram Which Will Help J Situation In This County I | According to information reach ing this paper the State Highway I Commission now has projected 'road plans mapped out for Bruns wick county calling for the ex penditure of $443, 000.00 for pav mg construction on the roads of Brunswick county. This sum docs not include the money that will be spent on secondary roads, or i for maintenance purpose. It is 'also under stood not to include ; bridge construction, at Alligator Creek and the Brunswick River I The information is to the ef fect that the roads that are to come in for paving this year are already mapped out or listed. The report given this paper, specifying the roads, is .indicative that the whole county will come in for a share of the hard surfacing. | It is not known when the next paving project will get underway, owing to the uncertain weather. Some contracts will be let in the I very near future, however and early summer will see more road building underway in B/unswick I county. Shallotte Girls Winners In Star-News Tourney Brunswick County Sextet Defeats Clarkton Satur day Night In Finals By Score Of 26 To 24 THE BOLIVIA GIRLS REACH SEMI-FINALS Southport Boys Provided Major Up-Set OfTourna- i ment With Victory On , Wednesday Over Wilmington Shallotte high school girls won the Star-News Y. M. C. A. Southeastern North Carolina Bas ketball tournament held in Wil mington last week by nosing out the Clarkton lassies by a score of 26 to 24 in the finals on Sat urday night. The Shallotte team thus clim axed a fine season, having en joyed a good record in pre-tourna ment play and having won the consolation prize in the recent Brunswick County Tournament. Victory in the finals came in the sharp-shooting of Leonard and Frink. Shallotte earned her place in Saturday night's finals with a victory over Acme-Delco in the semi-finals Friday by a score of 14 to 9. The 7 points scored by Leonard in this fracas was the big factor. Shallotte's other vic tory in the tournament came over I Long Creek Thursday by a score ! of 33 to 8. The Brunswick coun- 1 ty entry drew a first round bye. | Bolivia girls, Brunswick county j champions, fell by the wayside i Friday when they were ousted byj Clarkton, 22 to 17. On the day j before they won handily from | Penderlea by a score of 29 to 17. j The Bolivia girls also drew a bye for first round play. The only other Brunswick county entry in the girls division was Leland, who lost on Wed nesday to Clarkton by a score of 30 to 24. Four Brunswick county teams entered the boys division, with none of them getting past Thurs day's quarter finals. Southport provided the first major up-set (Continued on Page 4) Furniture Man Moves To Town Young Veteran Who Purch ased The Dixie Furniture Company Has Moved His Family To Southport j Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Jones and i little daughter have moved to j Southport from Magnolia and [are occupying a waterfront apart ment. Mr. Jones recently pur chased the Dixie Furniture Com pany and is now o[>orating it under the name of the Jones j Furniture company. Mr. Jones was an assistant 'signal officer and was in the Army for six and a half years. He has had considerable ex perience in the furniture business and expects to make a consider able enlargement of the utock of 'the local store. Season Opens On Rattlesnakes O. M. Holden, of Supply, comes across with the first rattlesnake story of the year i and has 12 rattles to prove It. He was removing stumps from a field last week and came across a good sized rat tler reposing in his winter home, where a rotten root had heen. Despite its being a cold day the snake was just as lively as those that arc en countered in slimmer. Its buz zer was in good working order and it showed a decided ob- | jection at being routed out j from it.s winter quarters. Mrs. Miller Is Claimed By Death Mother Of Mrs. D. M. (Davis Was Spending Win-I ter In Southport; Death | Occured Tuesday Night,! With Funeral Arrange- 1 ments Incomplete Mrs. Elizabeth Miller. 75-year j old resident of New York State, j died he.'e Tuesday night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. D. j M. Davis, with whom she has : been' spending the winter. She j has been in failing health for a ! (Continued on page 4) Our ROVING Reporter W. B. KEZIAH Hereafter when relatives or friends send us a subscription for this paper to be sent to some relative or friend living outside of Brunswick county or the state, we will appreciate it if ; they will write a few lines about ] the person to whom they are sending the paper. Also be sure to name the person who is pay- j ing for the subscription. This in- j formation will serve as data dn which we can give a little write- 1 up in this column. The write up ' will acquaint the party to whom the paper is being sent with the 1 friend or relative who is sending it. Writing from Stuart. Fla.. ! where he has been fishing with j his cruiser Moja for the past] three months, Captain Victor P. j Lance says they had beautiful weather the first part of the sea son. but February brought plenty ' of cold and windy days. He ex pects to return to Southport about the middle of April. His J Annual Red Cross Campaign Under Way In County Workers Are Busy In All Sections Of Brunswick Giving Every Citizen An Opportunity To Contrib ute To Fund COUNTY QUOTA IS $3,600 THIS YEAR Bond To Be Awarded The School Making Best Re cord On Percentage Basis; Cash Prize For Child The annual Red Cross Fund Campaign is in full swing throughout Brunswick county this week, with the objective be- j ing to give an opportunity to every citizen to make a contribu tion before the close of the drive. Edward H. Redwine, young Shallotte businessman, is county chairman for the Red Cross Fund campaign this year and he has worked out a county organiza tion that reaches into every community. As in the past, much of the success of the program rests upon | the response of the school child ren, and as an added incentive this year a $25.00 bond is being offered to the school which makes the best record on the basis of enrollment. In addition, there will be a $10.00 cash prize for the child making the best re cord. In Southport Hubert A. Living ston, manager of the W. B. & S. bus company, is in charge of the program and he has organized workers who will conduct a house to house canvass. Charles M. i Trott and Paul Fodale will take | care of covering the business j firms of the community. Red Cross officials have point ed out that this organization wasj (Continued on Page 4) District Legion Meeting Friday Community Center Building At Southport To Be Scene Of Meeting For Visiting Legionnaires The Brunswick County Post No. 194, American Legion, will be hosts Friday night at a Le gion District meeting. This wiil be a dinner affair in the com munity center building, beginning at 7:30 o'clock. Hie dinner will be served by the management of Macks Cafe, in Southport, and \#ill be dutch. Plans for the occasion were mapped out by Joe Mann, Dis trict Commander, of Whiteville, who says that one of the chief objectives will be to stimulate in terest in the "Dusk To Dawn" campaign for more members of the Legion. A cordial invitation is extend ed all members of the Shallotte Post, American Legion, and of the Ash Post, American Legion, to attend this meeting. Attend ance is not limited to Legion members alone, as a friendly wel come is assured any ex-service man who will attend. scorc for the season is 40 sail fish, resulting from 31 trips. The fish were good fighters and cost him $65.00 for new lines in one week. He says that if he had had a couple of experienced fish ermen aboard on two or three of the trips they could have taken a dozen a day. Our friend John W. Garner, of the Anchor Hotel at Shallottc Point, is preparing for a big fish ing season this year. At the Sportsman's Show in New York recently he purchased nearly two thousand ' dollars worth of new fishing tackle, mostly rods and reels. He expects this equipment to be coming along about the first of April. This week we had a visitor in the person of J. A. Barbot, presi dent, secretary-treasurer, general manager and owner of the Shal lotte-Southport toll telephone line. Mr. Barbot had the idea that (Continued on Page Five) "They Didn't Get Away" Robert High and F. M. White, Jr., proved to their many friends that "the big ones didn't get away" this time. The two men caught the beautiful string of striped bass shown above in 314 hours in the Lcckwood Folly River in Brunswick county. The smallest weighed 4\ -pounds and the largest weighed in at 24 pounds. The total string weighed 146 pounds. This Seed -Planter Has Business To Fine Point No Inquest In Bellamy Death John G. Caison, who as act ing-coroner investigated the death of Dawson Bellamy, re spected Supply colored man, several weeks ago, said Monday that there will be no coroner's inquest in this case. Bellamy died in a fire which destroyed liis home during the early morning hours of Feb ruary 2, and some circumstan ces surrounding his death prompted an intensive investi gation on the part of Bruns wick county officers. Mr. Caison met Sunday with Sheriff John G. White and De puty Sheriff Dillon h. Ganey, and following this conference announcement was made that an inquest is deemed unneces sary. Former Pastor Now Improving Rev. O. I. Hinson Still Con fined To His Bed At His Home In Durham, But Conditions Improving Friends from Southport wha 'called to see Rev. O. I. Hinson, ? former pastor of Trinity Metho 'dist church, while in Durham jlast week found him making a ] slow but steady recovery from a recent serious heart attack. After spending about a month in. a Durham hospital, the former : local pastor was able to move to jhis home at 1002 W. Trinity Ave., where he is being cared for by I his daughter, Miss Ellie Ford ] Hinson, a teacher in the Durham ' city schools. Source of his trouble was a j blood clot, which came near cost ing the life of the Rev. Mr. Hin 'son. Once recovery set about, he i is without remaining signs of (this attack and only awaits the ; return of sufficient strength to enable him to resume his normal duties. To visitors the patient very checrfully pointed out that while his progress has been slow, it has been steady. "First they brought me home from the hos pital^' he recalled. "Then they let 1 me sit up in bed. Then the doc (Oontinued oo Page 4) New Seed Store For Shallotte New Merchandising Service1 Has Been Opened In Rooms At Rear Of Shal lotte Soda Shop And Cafe Edward Redwine and Guy Cul-| pepper, owners and operators of i the Shallotte Soda . Shop and! Cafe, arc this week announcing:! the opening of the Shallotte Seed ! J store. Mr. Redwine calls at- i tention to the fact that this is 1 ! the only store in the county de- : voted entirely to the handling of i (farm and garden seed. ; The location is in the . two ] I rooms in the rear of the bank | and Soda Shop, and R. M. Ed- J I wards, well known Waccamaw ; township farmer, is in charge of j the business. Mr. Edwards states j that' they are getting in a large 1 supply of farm and garden seed . jfor both bulk and package. They1 I will handle everything that goes to make a crop, whether It is, jfor farm or garden. i Motor-Driven Tomato Seed Planter Being Used To Plant Several Acres Near Southport This Week NEW JERSEY MEN LIKE PROSPECTS Indications Point To Other Uses For Land In This Area By Truck Produc ers Up North It was a long jump from the ir.ule pulled corn planters to the modern machines drawn by tract ors. In fact, the jump has never been entirely completed. In these United States millions of acres of corn are still planted eachl year by the old and dependable mute or horse-drawn implements that have stood the test of time. The Brunswick county farmers ; who have seen the evolution of th4" corn" planter, have rpro'dirtl>* never seen the original planter ; for tomato seed. Few of them have ever seen a tomato seed , planter of any sort, for the [ simple reason that heretofore it has been an easy matter to sow j the seed for all practical pur poses by hand. , This week out on the Wallace Moore farm three miles from Southport, anybody who cares to make a trip can see a brand new and really modern tomato seed planter in operation. Operating on its own power, it plants three rows of seed at a lick, in much the same way that corn is drop per by a planter. There is this1 difference. Corn is supposed to be I dropped two feet or more apart ! in the rows. The tomato seed planter puts out one Beed to each inch. Planting three rows at a J time, the machine will be going I all of this week and part of next, j seeding an average of about three acres per day. "I could easily seed much more than three acres a day," said E. H. Sheppard, of Shiloh, N. J., who is starting out in the toma- , to plant growing business in Brunswick, "but I have to con- j sider harvesting while I am planting. I figure that I can only get the plants pulled from about three acres each day. So, I am | proceeding leisurely with the j (Continued "n Page Four) Recorder Hears Routine Cases Fourteen Cases Disposed Of Here Monday In Recor der's Court Before Judge W. J. McLamb Cases of routine interest and importance were disposed of here in Recorder's court Monday be fore Judge W. J. McLamb. The following disposition was made of the cases: James H. Locomy, Jr., failure to stop at stop sign, fined $10.00 and costs. Blake Carlisle, no operators li cense, fined 110.00 and costs. Vance Gore, improper lights, fined $10.00 and costs. Charlie E. Ford, improper lights, fined $15.00 and costfl. W. E. Griffin, speeding, fined $10.00 and costs. Howard E. Vercen, improper lights, capias issued. Levey Hooks, larceny, guilty of misappropriating- property for his own use. not guilty of lar ceny. Judgment continued. Robert Hooper, violating game law, 60 days in jail, judgment suspended on condition that he pay costs and not violate any of the laws of the State for a period (Continued on Pare <) Final Report Is Made This Week On Polio Drive Funds Collected Through out Brunswick County During March Of Dimes Campaign Total $913.03 This Year COUNTY CHAPTER IS PERMANENT Organizations Remains In tact In Order To Render Service If And When Needed In Bruns wick Mrs. E. J. Prevatte, chairman of the Brunswick County Chap ter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, announces that a final report of activity during the annual March of Dimes campaign reveals that a total of $913.03 has been raised from this county. In addition to her duties as chairman of the permanent or ganization, Mss. Prevatte headed the drive fir funds this year, and she says that she desires to ex press her grateful appreciation to citizens in every community in Brunswick county for their fine Bupport. TTie fact that a permanent or ganization does exist in the coun ty means that the machinery is all set up to cope with an emer gency which may arise as a re sult of the occurance of cases of infantile paralysis. Already funds are being disbursed in Bruns wick for care and treatment of cases of this dread disease, and the support of citizens insures the ability to continue this pro gram. Following is a report broken down in order to give credit to each group and each community who cooperated in the drive: Antioch Baptist church, $15.00; employees of Royster Guano Co., $11.00; Daughters of America, $10.00; Old Siiailotte Baptist church at Grlseettown, $10.00; Ash community - $9.95; Shallot te 4NE. !>-?>!!*' ' "M V Mt. Pisgah Baptist church, $10.00; Hickman's Cross Roads, $10.00; Wilmington Pine Co., $25.00; Grissettown community, $7.50; Freeland community, $26.00; Exum, $15.00; Waccamaw school, $34.74; Leland school, $58.12; Longwood, $6.10; Supply, $32.00; Armour Fertilizer, $53.00; Winnabow, $43.80; Leland, $20.00; Brunswick County Training school at SouUiport, $53.60; Southport Baptist church, $30.00; Southport School, $99.61; South port community, $127.00; Caswek Base, $9.50; Andrews Chape!,' $6.60; Amuzu Theatre, Southport, $81.91. Brunswick Man At South Pole Lloyd S. McKeithan, Chief Torpedoman, Member Of Crew Of Destroyer Hen derson On Byrd Expedi tion Lloyd S. McKeithan, Brunswick county boy whose parents and wife live at Freeland, is serving: as Chief Torpedoman's Mate aboard the destroyer U. S. S. Henderson which has been parti cipating in the Navy's Anartic expedition known as "Operation High jump." The Henderson is part of the central group of Task Force 68, which has been chartering the vast unknown regions of the Anartic under ' the technical di rection of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd. It is understood that in addi tion to young McKeithan two or three other young Brunswick men have been with Admiral Byrd and Task Force 68. Their names arc not immediately available. (Continued on page 4) R. & S. Coming Here Next Week Brunswick ' County's Own Road Show Will Open 1947 Season With One Week Stand At South port For Fire Department Starting their annual spring road tour at Southport one week later than usual the R. & S. Amusement Company, Bruns wick's own road show, will open at Southport on Monday, March 17th. , Remaining here the full week, they will then launch out for eight months on the road, carry ing with them about 200 people and the largest collection (Continued on rip roar)