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Pilot Covers lJ> County SO. 'SIXTEEN NO. 53 THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Most of The News All The Time _6^AGES TODAY Southport. N. G.. Wednesday. Aoril 16. 1947 |1.50 PER YEA* PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Result In I 0 Road Being se(| To Travel w"' Sunday A. Warning 1 3Three Miles Nearest rjhport Were lmpas* pe dm buses unable to run Lus Of Visitors Dis ced From Making ,Xo The Famous Qrton Gardens . rain in the Southport Jturday morning put the ^id in bad condition for ' md continued rain Sun ?rning results in "Road ;ijns "ear Southport. The Maiden's Creek was one ,us quagmire that wheel cles could not use. buses, two of which use j, were unable to make nips Monday. ?*eeks last fall school bus ,? unable to travel this road, stool children being there pbla to attend school and ^ rooms in the white and K schools at Southport be adv demoralized by the B of so many pupils. i it the worst things about gent condition of this road K Orton Plantation, nine LJ? the road from Southport Ly advertised as onfe of the tasty spots in North Caro lC this time of the year. Kds of tourists visit the [and they ^pcnt a great deal key among the business peo [7 Brunswick county. Some se visitors come hundreds ts. and much of the good of the advertising put out jt state and other agencies I when they find their cars ;E impassable mudholes. I riifNiWi i Flashu I. HOME Es Whatley returned home tear.esday from Charlotte K a second operation at ?tal in that city two weeks flttSEXT PLAY Boers of the senior class of ! Port high school will pre Itieir play. "Daffy Dills" in |sh school auditorium Friday J (i? at 8 o'clock. tt TO STATES k Clarence Clemmons. son i and Mrs. B. G. Clemmons, | apply, is returning to the te states after spending the 's erai months in Alaska as P of Task Force Frigid". IJAPAX 'Uster L. Edwards, Jr., son t and Mrs. Lester Edwards, feirta. has left the United *s for Japan where he will Ution?"i for a tour of duty 'lie U. S. Army. "BALL here ? Championship Masonboro Ifefs will meet the South- 1 ' town team on the local M Sunday afternoon at 3 Sr.iu,- Allen probably will 5 ; <r the visitors, with Jack fcs hurling for Southport. ^ NEW CHURCH F?nal is being placed for 'instruction of the new Bo * Baptist church. It will be * on the same lot as the structure. Rev. George r-'*d is pastor or this church. Nnted DELEGATE | ! s. Wells has been appointed i Pernor R. Gregg Cherry as '?frtp to the Convention of , and Harbors Congress at r^gton, D. C., May 2nd and states that he plans to I TO BUFFALO j ?ral of the employees of; S. Engineers dredge, Hoff- | . t the yard at Norfolk, r"1? vveek-cnd at home with ^ ?. The ship will leave " the 21st for Buffalo,; . where it will be engaged ^S'ng for some time. . r^CTlXG NEW BOATS L, & WeUs and son, Billy, left morning for St. Augus ^ *?, where they are inspect ^ new boats they are kuilt in a yard at that L Both are 50-footers and ?'as been promised for | i Make A Oenerous Contribution To The Cancer Drive Mrs.Rosenbaum Heading Cancer Drive In County Mrs. M. M. Rosenbaum, of Shallotte, is heading the Cancer Drive in Brunswick county and has set up an organization which will give citizens of every com munity an opportunity to con tribute. The community workers are announced by Mrs. Rosenbaum are as follow: Southport: Mrs. Landis Brown, Mrs. Dallas Pigott, Mr. Robert Willis, Mrs. Rooert Godfrey and Mrs. Wiley Wells. Supply: Mrs. Clarence Lennon, Mrs. Jesse Roach, Mrs. Floyd Kirby, Mrs. Ethel Cheers, Mrs. Edgar Holden, Mrs. Bascom Clem mons and Mrs. Clyde Holden. Longwood: Mrs. Jack Brown. Village Point: Mrs. Boyd Rob inson, Mrs. Maggie Register and Mrs. Henry Williams. Shallotte: Mrs. Charles Arnold. LeLaml : Mr. Guy Womble. Bolivia: Mrs. Foster Mintz and Mrs. William Kopp. The American Cancer Society this year is asking for $12 mil lion which will be spent in re search, education, and service for the prevention and cure of can cer. North Carolina's quota is $168,000. Unless We Act 1 in 8 Will Die of Cancer. "Every Tlwee Minutes Someone in the United States Dies of Cancer." "Seventeen Mil lion Americans now Living Are Doomed to Die of Cancer". These are facts gathered by the Ameri can Cancer Society, which is now in the midst of its annual cam paign to raise funds to combat this deadly menace. Beauty Contest Nets Nice Sum Total Of $1,440.16 1# Real ized From Spirited Con test Which Was For Benefit of Shailotte Camp Church When the smoke of baloting to decide the most popular girl in the Shailotte community cleared off Friday night, the Ladies Aid Society of Camp Methodist church found that it had raised the neat, net sum of $1,440.16. Miss Mary Milliken, sponsored by the Williamson Motor com pany, was the winner, the sum of $525.44 being credited to her spon sor and other supporters. Mrs. Nellie I. Williamson, sponsored by the Russ Furniture company, came next with {344.93 being voted for her. Miss Annie Merle Pigott, Spon sored by the Shailotte Soda Shop and Cafe, and Miss Ruby Jean Bennett, sponsored ty Rourk's Service Station, each netted well over a hundred dollars and the other ten or more contestants representating the various stores all got tidy sums. The contest was managed for the Ladies Aid Society by Mrs. R. D. White, Jr., and Mrs. R. S. White. Appreciative of what the effort had done for the building fund of the new church, both of these ladies stated to this paper that they wanted to thank the business people of Shailotte, and all of the young ladies who were in the contest, for their effort*. One - Way Traffic Over ;> Bridge Is Temporary Temporary Bridge Over] Brunswick River Will i Permit Traffic To Move In Both Directions At Once DETOUR BRIDGE TO BE READY SOON : Four-Lane Bridge Being Planned As Permanent Structure Over River; To Start Pilings Folks who are worried over I the one-way drive rule now in force at the Brunswick river [bridge, thinking that the rule Willi fstay on until the new bridge is [finished about a year from nowi may relieve their minds. Hie one way rule will be in force only un til the detour bridge is finished and put in use. After that traffic can flow both ways across the temporary bridge at the same time. It will be necessary, however, for traffic both ways to move slowly. The detour bridge is cur ved and all traffic across it will have to proceed slowly and care 1 fully until back on the paved | road. | Ail of the pilings and sills on | the detour bridge are in place i 'and only the decking and guard remain to be placed before traf fic can be detoured and the work | of tearing down the old bridge I gets started. It will be early in ! May before the detour Is 1 put in use, according to J. O. ( Brown, engineer for the State 'Highway Commission, who is in spector for the bridge building operations. Mr. Brown stated this week that the new bridge will be 39 feet wide, with 37-feet clearance j between the guard rails. This will afford what is known as a four lane bridge or road. To be more definite the bridge will be exact lly the same width as the bridge 'across Sturgeon Creek on Route 74, two miles west of the Bruns ! wick river bridge. From abutment to abutment the Brunswick River bridge will be 424 feet in length. At the be ginning of the channel, heavy oct agonal pilings, each with a weight .resistant strength of 42 tons, will (Continued On Page 5) Homecoming Day Observed Sunday Soldiers Bay Baptist Church j Held Anniversary Service As Climax To Post-Easter Series j The Soldiers Bay church in Waccamaw township, Rev. Wood j row W. Robbins, pastor, held post-Easter services through the 'past week, leading up to the big home-coming meeting that was held Sunday. Following the morn ing worship Sunday a bountiful dinner was served on the grounds and in the afternoon baptismal services were held. On Sunday March 30, the Sold iers Bay church had its first bap ? tiring in the new pool in the . church building- Ten converts [were baptised at this service and were received Into the church. ! Frank Stanley, son of John Stan ley, was at home from Mars Hill 1 (Continued on page five) Farmers Ready To Plant Tobacco Several Brunswick growers are expecting to get started at the work of transplanting tobacco plants to the fields this week. Although they are starting fair ly early, the work is expecting to be more long--drawn-out than us ual. While there are many plants now ready for transplanting there are many, many more that are still tiny. It will take the best of growing weather to enable these small plants to attain a transplanting size within the next three or four weeks. Mrs. McRacken Is P.-T.A. President Elected To This Office At Final Meeting Of The Year For This Organiza tion Thursday Evening In their final meeting of the year last Thursday evening mem bers of the Southport Parent Teacher Association electad Mrs. Thompson McRacken president for the coming year. She succeeds Mrs. James Harper. All of the other officers were reelected. These include Mrs. L. J. Hardee, vice-president; Mrs. Robert B. Thompson, secretary; and Mrs. R. C. Daniel, treasurer. A report of a gift of $65.00 to the high school lunch room from the Cape Fear Home Demonstrat ion Club was made by Mrs. Joe Ramsaur. and announcement was made that all of the new equip ment in the lunch room has been paid for with the exception of a $59.00 balance. Mrs. Hardee was named to head a committee to raise funds for paying this off. The program included a hum erous skit "The Doctor's Office", (Continued On Page 5) I Rice Gwynn and John B. Ward, i both of Waccamaw township, are' 'usually the first each year to' tell us that they have started transplanting: their tobacco. Neith er of these fellow has been heard I ? from this year. L. C. Brown, same ' i township, usually has something ' ?to say about picking strawberries' | at this time of the year. Nothing at all has been heard from any | of these early birds and it looks like someone else will beat them1 next week in reporting first to bacco plants out and first straw- j berries in. Listening to Edward Redwine we learn that former Sheriff J. 'A. Russ did more'n anybody else towards making the Shallotte 'popular girl contest the whoop jing success that it turned out to [be. Mr. Russ stood like horatio at 'the bridge for his favorite candi Jdate, with everybody g&ngH up Board Education Fails To Name Head Of Schools i ? : \ Action On Superintendent 1 Deferred Until Meeting In May By Members In Session Here Monday R. T. WOODSIDE IS BOARD CHAIRMAN Members Of Local School Committees Named By County Board To Serve During Next Two Years Members of the Brunswick County Board of Education met Monday night at the office of the County Superintendent, and a mong the business disposed of was appointment of members of local school boards for the next two years. Action on the election of a Superintendent of Schools was deferred until the May meeting. R. T. Woodside has been named chairman of the five man board, which includes these other four members: R. I. Phelps, Henry Williams, Foster Mintz and Hous ton Reynolds. The following local school com mitteemen were named: Southport: Carl Ward, Robert Thompson, James Harper. Shallotte: D. B. Frink, Dr. M. H. 'fcourk, Stella Hewett, V. E. Galloway, Guy McKeithan. Waccamaw: George Ward, El roy King, Pawnee Formy-Duval. Bolivia: Lester Edwards, Jewell McKeithan, Earl Earp. Leland: Arthur Sue, O. E. Pet erson, Robert McDougall. Recorder Hears Numerous Cases Variety Of Matters Dispos ed Of Monday Before Judge W. J. McLamb In Brunswick County Recor ders Court Monday was a fairly busy day for Judge W. J. McLamb and other officials of the Brunswick i county Recorder's court. The fol lowing disposition of cases was made: Earl Alexander, speeding, fined $10.00 and costs, fine remitted. Hershall Lennon, passing school bus, continued to April 21. Willie Tate, Jr., speeding, fined $10.00 and costs. Geneva Stewart, prostitution, | continued to April 28. | Ann Wright, public drunkness, | 30 days in jail, suspended on pay ment of costs and not to be caught in Brunswick county with in a period of a year. ( John Patrick, aiding and abet ing in prostitution, continued to April 28. A. H. Wright, passing school bus, fined $10.00 and costs, fine I remitted. Andrew L. Jenkins, operating motor vehicle with improper equipment, fined $10.00 and i costs, fine remitted. Martin Mintz, ^Leahman Mintz, | larceny, two years on roads, sus pended on condition that they pay costs and not violate any law for a period of two years, to at [ (Continued on Page Five) Our ROVING Reporter w. b. BPAH against him. He lost but the oth-| era contributed a nice little sum to the church building fund be fore Mr. Russ was downed. The Shallotte high school girls and their soft ball team is an organization that we expect to watch with interest. Coach Blak er.ship did wonders with the boys' and girls' basketball teams that 1 he piloted during the past season. With the material he has for a girls' soft ball team, we believe he will do equally as well with his latest venture. If there is any other girls' soft ball teams in Brunswick, or outside of Bruns wisk, they can get a game by writing Coach Bl&kenship at Shal lotte. TTie business men of the Sup ply community, with their idea of closing for half a day one day! (Contfemad On Psg? 6) Bolivia Automobile Men Baffled By CPA Action On-Again-Off-Again Action On Part Of Government Agency Holds Up Two Buildings Both J. A. Elmore, owner of the Elmore Motor company, Chevrolet dealer, and P. C. Wil letts, Ford dealer at Bolivia, have had a run of very hard luck since the war ended. Mr. Elmore found himself very much in need of a new building in which his extensive body work could be carried on two years ago. The housing authority refused him a build ing permit, then granted one, then refused It and finally granted it again. Between stops and starts he got the cement walls and flooring up on a sizable building. Then in March a heavy wind storm blew down one of the ' side walls of this new building, j Before he could even start re building the wall, much less Reigel Paper Co. Ranch | s Weathers First Winter * Orton Gardens At Their Best Visitor* to Orton on Sunday j found the gardens in much the same plight a party of brid es-maid caught in a shower dripping wet but still nighty beautiful. A few hardy souls braved the weather and roads and felt well-rewarded for their presev ercnce; and mast of these visit ers saw more camellias in bloom than they have ever seen be fore at the season when azaleas are claiming the spotlight. One rtuult of the past few days has been to hold back the climax of blooming which visit ors hope to see each season. With a couple of warm, fair days this week the coming week end might easily mark the peak of the season. On Shrimpers! South Carolina Legislature ? Considering Law Appar ently Aimed At North | Carolina Fishermen With several bills having been 1 introduced relative to non-resi- J dent fishing in South Carolina water, the latest and apparently the surest of enactment is one calliife for a tax of $2,500 yearly I on each and every non-resident j boat fishing in South Carolina. > The above bill went to com- 1 mittee hearing last week. A small portion of the committee, according to South Carolina press dispatches, are understood to have favored setting the tax or license fee at $500.00 instead of the $2, 500. The matter will probably reach a definite show down this week. The $2,500 tax is on all I non resident boats, regardless of | th?ir size. South Carolina towned boats, under the same bill, will also come in for taxes, ranging from $50.00 for 30-foot boats to $100.00 for 40-footers with $2.00 additional for each additional foot. It is recommended that the South Carolina fish commission shall have the right to refuse to license any boat owner or operat or who has been convicted of violating the fishing laws of South Carolina. It is also recom (Continued on Page 4) Supply Merchants Close Wednesdays i Half-Holiday Will Be Ob-| served Each Week On Wednesday Afternoon By! Group Of Supply Mer chants In a get-to-gether meeting laatl Friday night Merchants of Supply and the surrounding area decided that it was only fair to their em- j ployeea and to themselves if they have a half day holiday ! each week to this end they voted that their places of business will ' close at noon each Wednesday beginning April 23, remain closed for the balance of the day. Merchants entering into this agreement were MnU and Com-, (Continued on paf* it putting a roof on, the authori ty stepped in and stopped him again. Mr. Willetts needed an entire ly new Ford building. He got brick and other material for a building about 80x90 feet. Then ?he housing refused a building permit. Finally they let up and he got the brick walls built. Then they stopped him. Finally he got the steel girders for his roof up and about three fourths of the cement floor laid before he was stopped again. As he now stands he has a fine build- j ing with a fine roof, the struct ure being partly floored but still minus windows and doors and with the Fprd man wond ering when on earth they are going to let him finish a place in which he can do business. Necewary To Provide Small Amount Of Commercial Feed For Brahama Cat- j tie On Range Thi? Win- . ter MANAGER ON TRIP TO LOOK FOR MORE County Agent Still Hai Plan Which He Believes Will Provide Year Round Grazing For Cattle The 55 Brahama cows pur chased by the Reigel Paper com pany and placed on their range at Makotoka last fall have had their number increased with the addition of 35 fine calves. Both the old cows and the calves are doing well and the venture at raising cattle on the huge land holdings of the paper company seems to be doing very well. In fact, Jim Lattey, supt. of the woods for the paper company, has just returned from Florida, where he is said to have been looking into the cattle situation with the object of buying an ad ditional hundred head of the Brahama cows. This first winters try-out at raising the Brahama's resulted in a small amount of feed hav ing to be used at times. The rest of the time the cows were on their own on the range and did well. Next winter, it is believed hat the cows can easily go without any feed at all as the sowing of fire lanes in grain and cover crops will have progressed to the point where this crop will take care of all that the range does not provide. County Agent Dodson says that a number of Brunswick county farmers who are interested in stock raising, were able to keep their cows all winter without a bit of feed. Futhermore, these cows have been in the best pos sible condition at all times, sleep and fat. All they had in the way of feed was the grazing on cover crops. These farmers cows are of breeds that lack the foraging ability credited to the Brahamas. Deputy Leonard Receives Praise Former Mayor Of Wilming ton Pays High Tribute To Ed V. Leonard, Bruns wick County Officer In a letter this week to this newspaper, Waiter H. Blair, for mer Mayor of the City of Wil mington, ha* some mighty nice things to say about Deputy Sher iff Ed. V. Leonard, who recently resigned as Chief of Police at Carolina Beach to return to his homo county, Text of his letter follows: Carolina Beach, N\ C., April 12 th., 1947. Editor, State Port Pilot, Southport, N. C. Dear Sir: I want to congra'.ulate the peo ple of Brunswick county upon securing the services of Mr. Ed. V. Leonard na deputy sheriff. As former Mayor and Com missioner of Public Safety of the City of Wilmington for a numb er of years, and having been closely associated with the Peace Officer's Association of North Carolina for quite wme time, I feel 1 am [It i position to know and appreciate a good and ef ( Continued on Page Ft**) Conventions For Nomination Of City Officials First Of Four Nominating Conventions Will Be Held Tomorrow Evening By Voters Of First Ward MAYOR CONVENTION ON TUESDAY NIGHT Unusual Interest Is Being Shown In Forthcoming City Election and Many Candidates Enter Race With more than a normal a mount of interest already being shown in the forthcoming city election, all eyes will be focused this week on the nominating con ventions, the first of which will beheld Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock in the courthouse. At that time candidates for aldermen from the first ward will be nominated. Currently serving from that Ward are R. L. Thomp son and Prince O'Brien. The for mer has announced that he will be a candidate for reelection, while O'Brien has indicated that he will not run. Enters of the second ward will select their candidates on Friday night.David Herring and C. R. Livingston represent this ward on the present board, and it is be lieved likely that both will be available for futher duty. In the third ward Dr. L. C. Fergus and M. R. Sanders are the representatives on the present board, and neither will stand for reelection. Several candidates have been suggested from this ward. This convention will be on Monday night. John D. Eriksen, elccted for the first time' in 1935, will agait seek the nomination at the con* vention on Tuesday evening. Ho is sure of opposition from Chas, M. Trott and G. C. Kilpatrick. Aldermen In Final Meeting Important Business Trans acted By Members Of Out - Going Board La?t Thursday Evening Members of the board of ald ermen for the City of South port sold the interest held by the city in the Phillip Allen property to S. B. Frink for $2,000.00 last Thursday night. This is a tract of about one hundred acres ly ing in the river front north of Fiddlers Drain. Dallas Piggott was given per* mission by the board to extenU his dock at the yacht basin for 40-fcet and a connection with the Wells dock. A resolution was passed to allow the opening up of 10th street, which is opposite the Doa her Memorial Hospital, with the understanding that no coin re' cord player nor beer joint may be operated in the hospital zon^ A resolution was passed, gu6 Ject to the opinion of the City Attorney, requiring an annual license of $400.00 to be charged for a woodyard where wood iu sawed and sold lying within the following boundaries: From Bay Street to West Street and from Atlantic Avenue to Caswell Ave. A resolution was passed di recting that privilege tax be col lected from all businesses begin ning with the next fiscal year. Ray Spencer was employed to begin at once to make some necessary repairs to the City Hall Building. This was the final regular session for members of this board, since the city election will be hcMf before time for the next meeting. Floyd Infant Passes Monday Died In High Point Hospit* al; Parents Were Former ly From Southport - Stephen Thomas Floyd, infant son of Mr and Mrs. G<;orge Floyd of High Point, formerly of South port, died in a High Point hos pital last Monday. The 18-month old child had been ill for four days. Surviving besides the parenta are two brothers, Marvin and Joe Floyd, and two sisters, Frances and Bonnie Floyd. ? Funeral services were heW Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock from the Fairmont Park Baptist church. Rev. John H. Scalf was ? I the officiating minister. Burial I ww in Floral Garden CemeUrjy