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T[ie pilot Covers Bruns,vick County THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Most of The News All The Time ^SIXTEEN NO. 16 8-pages today Southport, N. C., Wednesday, July 23rd, 1947 11.50 PER YEA. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNtSDA* ew jersey Man |5 Enthusiastic Oyer His Plants Shepard, Of Shiloh, ? Jersey, Reports That ! iJ Set With Brunswick Toiato Pla"ts Is Doing Hi*'* __ . ^rRS INDICATE ^ great INTEREST UKtv Is That This May fo> u> ft."'" r Territory For Plant Producers , Mst spring Everett H. " j 0t' Shiloh. N. J., came tUport. leased 25-acres of , sowed it in tomato ' He did this without ad ' [.reparation of the land Jing on the hunch that he jpoduee tomato plants here _iT earlv to ship them to his f;. se-.v Jersey for planting ^regular time. Above all, [ sh^npard believed he could L\ giants from his beds here jiiy 'move them to New Jer Set them out the next ?e demonstrated he could do BTthAV His trucks required 15 ts to get their loacts of Plants i Southport to New Jersey, i was against 42 hours be ared to truck plants from i in Georgia. ?v. sheppard production of Kg at Southport was not so K jowins on 'and that was prepared late in the . .? a rather indifferent many of the plants ^ : ie up fell victim to , mable coltl that mark last spring "cvertheless, Mr. Lpird grew enough plants to i care of several hand red e in tomatoes. fntirg W. B. Keziah this week how his Brunswick-grown ?pstiave been doing this year, T&eppard said: Dsr-Bill - The tomatoes are tie plants lived fine and *emed to be of the. same fiekis are now 1 1 pretty sight with every pig uniform in growth. I have ks of your Brunswick :s growing in one field and Bmenced tomato growers say K they are the best tomatoes s? grown in these parts. I W! vouch for that, since I is the plants and planted the I But I will say that it is a ifcfiil field, completely cov 1 *ith tomato vines. Every ? is as green and even as fcz you could hope to look i Standing to one side and iig it over you get the im Mon you are looking at a t kept lawn. "AH plants now have a good I of tomatoes. If nothing hap 6 *e are going to make a ? nop. We will begin picking f tomatoes in about two weeks i -us ;s two weeks later than p* The lateness applies to all i; "lose where the plants ' grown in Georgia as well mv own Brunswick-grown plants. Only about 60 * of the Southport plants are F^Srowr. here at Shiloh, the P ? to the canning com ^ ?"?: are at their place in ?jylvama. i will find out how 8 P&nts there aro doing and Continued on page 7) IritfNtw Flathtt Jptss TR,|. J*|j Robinson, eastern North 9 distributor for the Am Stove Co., is in High this week attending the Exposition. PtiQg TRIP "? C. St. George. Brunswick '? auditor, left this morning "sleigh where he will aP~ ' ^fore the Local Government '""'.ssion to present the 1947 cstimate for approval. CttlSE Balstead Holden. son of Mr. R H. Holden, of Hold ^ach anfl shallotte, has "i a ROTC cruise in the ? ''anal Zone. He is ex j*1 to return shortly and will 101 to college this fall. I^N ddtesent E"s Annie Merle Pigott. who "Panied her sister and bro Mr. and Mrs. Edward of Shallotte, to Colum ">'o. last week, had a fine Cfops. She said are very different there from what ? 3re v iium nil re- Corn was only high and t*ere " 101 of had in Ohio. Alert Banker Foils Man In Financial Flim-Flam Federal Authorities Capture Man In Charlotte Who Made Mistake Of Trying To Fool Cashier I A city slicker who tried to make a monkey out of a small town banker is now in the hands of the FBI in Charlotte and Cashier Prince O'Brien, of the Waccamaw Bank and Trust Co., of Southport, has the satisfaction [ of knowing that alert action on his part helped to put i him there. "This party came in the bank* at 1:45 p. m. on June 12 and' I stated that he would like to open | a checking account, that he was [ opening up a drink stand and sandwich shop at Long Beach j and introduced himself as T. B. I Howard. He presented a check | for $1,200.00 for deposit, drawn 1 on a Jacksonville, Fla., bank. He j signed a signature card, we gave | him a small check book and he left the bank. [ Two days later on Saturday j ; around 10:30 a. m. he returned ! to the bank and presented a check drawn on us for cash in the amount of $900.00 which I j i refused to cash, stating that he was checking against uncollected j funds and that we would have ito have ample time (6 or 7 days) j to collect the $1,200.00 check. I ; didn't like his looks and I wasn't j I taking any chances. He stated that he would call back on Tues- ( day, the 6th day. j "At 10:30 o'clock Tuesday ; | morning he was back for the j $900.00 and we again refused to ! give him the cash. He said his | ! wife was in a Wilmington Hospi- 1 ! tal and just had to have the | money. At this point we offered to call the Jacksonville bank to make sure the check in question was paid. He said that would be all right, that he would go out to (Continued on Page 7) Southport Man Sets Record Straight On Big Amberjack W. B. Keziah Furnishes Date, Weight And Other Background Material To Refute Claim Made Last Week RECORD CLAIM IS MADE LAST WEEK Fifty-One And One-Half Pound Fish Taken At Moreheal Considerable Lighter Than 62 Pounder Going back a matter of seven years from last Monday in order I to straighten out some claims that are now being made regard ing where the largest amberjack ever caught in North Carolina i waters was taken, W. B. Keziah. local fishing authority, has un , earthed some pertinent informa | tion on the subject. On the 20th of July, 1940, i Louis J. Baisch, of Louisville. Kentucky, " boated a 62-pound ! amberjack while fishing from the , boat Sea Girl of Captain H. T. Watts, Basil Watts serving as mate. It took the Kentucky man ' forty-five minutes to bring the i huge fish to gan. wun the fish having been caught early in the f morning and the Sea Girl having ! no ice box long enough to hold j it, the fish lay on deck, exposed j to the sun for eight hours before i it was brought in and weighed. In reports sent out about this fish the exact weight at the time ! of weighing, eight hours after it I was caught, was given. No allow ance was made for weight lost during the time elapsing after the fish was caught and until it I was weighed. Subsequently, both | Bob Wilson, Editor of the "Up ( Continued on page 7) Holloman Will Not Return Here Principal During The Final Weeks Of Last School Term Accepts Position Elsewhere, Leaves Vacan cy A. C. Holloman, who served as i principal of Southport high school from March of last year, has notified the chairman of the local school board that he will not return here in that capacity. He did not say where he was going, but indicated that his principal interest will be in i coaching. Mr. Holloman was re-elected at the end of this past school I year, but never had indicated his I acceptance. All other members of last year's faculty, with the ex ception of two members who 1 resigned, were also re-elected. Both of these vacancies have 1 since been filled. Southport has been allotted an additional teacher for next year, and this vacancy has not been ' filled. However, applications are on file for both this position and that of principal Jim Piner Tells Another Tall Tale Jack, of beanstalk fame, ap j parently has a dangerous rival j looming up in the shape of | Capt. Jim (Bud) Pinner, of j Southport. Last year the Southport man j won the prize offered by a big fish net and twine company for the biggest fishing lie re ported. Tuesday he called at this of | fice to report that his bean [ vines were covering the roof of his home. That the only way he could pick them was by get ting a ladder and climbing up on the roof. Funeral Rites For Mrs. Piver Former Resident Of South port Died Last Tuesday In Greenville; Funeral j Services Here Thursday I Mrs. Minnie Wescott Piver. 77, j died in Pitt General Hospital in | Greenville last Tuesday. She had been in declining health the past J 18 months and critically ill for [ three days. Funeral services were at Trinity Methodist church at j Southport Wednesday afternoon i at 3 o'clock by Rev. P. H. Fields, pastor, assisted by the Rev. J. A. Neilson, pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church, of Greenville. Burial was made in the old Southport cemetery. Mrs. Piver was born and rear ed in Southport. She was mar ried to George H. Piver, who died in 1917. She had been living in Greenville since 1925. She was a member of Trinity Methodist Church. Southport. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Grace W. Ford and Mrs. Katie Cox, of Southport; Mrs. Lester Jones, of Greenville; and Mrs. M. D. Walker, of Lenoir; three sons, Harry E. Piver, of Oak Ridge, Tenn.; George Ver non Piver, of Beaufort; and I James A. Piver, of Greenville; 20 ' grandchildren ; 20 great-grand I children, and one sister, Mrs. [Mary Register, of Jacksonville, Newspaper Men Going Fishing Sam Regan. stale news editor of the News and Observer; A1 G. Dickson, editor of the Wil mington News and the Rovin' Reporter of the State Port Pilot ' are planning a fishing trip, Huckleberry Finn and Tom Saw yer style, Thursday. ? These fellows, with no other equipment than a cane fishing pole and a can of worms, can get more satisfaction going off by themselves than they can by standing shoulder to shoulder in ' a maddening crowd of high jf&lutin sportsman. New Soil Man Assumes Duty At Shallotte John F. Harper Succeeds LeRoy Mintz As Soil Con servationist For The Brunswick County Work Unit HAS BEEN WORKING AT SMITHFIELD Has Record Of Twelve And One-Half Years Service In Soil Conservation Program John F. Harper began work Monday as Soil Conservationist for the Brunswick County Work Unit of the Lower Cape Fear Soil Conservation District, suc ceeding LeRoy Mintz, who re signed earlier this month to ac cept appointment as vocational agriculture teacher at Shallotte high school. Harper comes to Brunswick county from the Johnson County Work Unit, with offices at Smithfield. He has been at tached to that office since Dec ember, 1945, when he resumed work in the Soil Conservation program following his release from service in the Army Air Corps. During the war Harper served as a glider pilot with the rank of Flight Officer. He was stationed for many months in England and later in France. He was one of the survivors of a glider mission into Holland from which only a few hundred of the 10,000 troops involved managed to escape. The new Soil Conservationist first became associated with the program in February, 1935, giv ing him twelve and one-half years experience in the work in which he is engaged. No Extension Of City Limit; Special Act Oi Legislature j Required That Vote On | This Matter Of Shallotte City Limits be Held With in 90-Days The proposal to hold an elec- j tion for the purpose of extend ing the Shallotte town limits is | out for the present and the mat- 1 ter cannot be re-opened until the legislature meets again and an amendment is made to the bill that Senator R. I. Mintz had passed last spring, according to , Mayoi; Leon Galloway. This bill called for an election to be held within 90-days after the bill was ratified. This made it necessary to hold the election by July first of this year. Plans for calling and holding this elec tion within the specific time could not be completed and the matter of the election must now wait for an amendment to the present bill, or the passage of a new one. If the election had been held and the move carried the town . limits would have been extend ed to about twice the size of the present boundaries. It is un derstood that the present popu- j lation of about 400 would have been increased to about 600 by ! the taking in of the new terri-l tory. ? i Wildlife Club To Meet At Bolivia E. J. Prevatte, president of ' the Brunswick County Wildlife Club, has called a meeting for Friday night of this week at 8 o'clock at Bolivia high school. Harry Green, district repre sentative on the Wildlife Re sources board, has been invited 1 to be present, and this will af ford Brunswick county sportsmen an opportunity to express their views with regard to regulations governing hunting and fishing in this county. Mr. Prevatte urges that a large number attend this meeting, as this will indicate a healthy in- 1 terest on the part of county resi dents in the fish and game pro gram. ? Georgia Is Set For Opening Of Tobacco Mart Golden Leaf Pouring Into Warehouses In First Belt To Open For Season PRICES EXPECTED * NEAR 1946 LEVEL Florida - Georgia Area Is Predicted To Have High er Poundage Than Last Year VALDOSTA, Ga. , July 19.? Golden flue-cured leaf tobacco began pouring into warehouses here today on the eve of the South Georgia-North Florida to bacco belt market opening to morrow. Good average prices sparked by high top sales are expected. Predictions were that poundage would exceed last year's seasonal total. Most encouraging news was announcement that the Commod ity Credit Corporation loan rates on this year's crop were above average. Loan rates were hiked on wrappers and were low ered on low grade leaf. ' In 1946, 10,214,359 pounds sold on the Valdosta marttet from six warehouses with a belt high aver age of $46.30. This year seven warehouses are being loaded and opening averages are expected (Continued on page 7) Visitors From Mid-West Here Minnesota People Like Brunswick County, En joy First View Of Atlan tic Ocean Accompanying their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Norwood O. Reynolds and their little son home, Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Buler, of Hutchinson, Minn., have been spending the past ten days at Shallotte with Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Reynolds. The younger Reynolds and his wife and baby have been living at Hutchinson since his discharge from the Army with the rank of lieutenant a year ago. Mr. and Mrs. Buler had never seen the ocean prior to their arrival at Shallotte. To them it was decidedly interesting, as was Brunswick county and its (Continued on page 7) Our ROVING Reporter The "by-passed" section of the Old Fayetteville Road at Leland, running to the Leland-Lanvale ? road, is a stretch that has al ways had our sympathy. When , Nos. 74 and 76 were built 30 or more families, living in a fertile farming section were left off the main thoroughfare. The road was neglected and steadily went from | bad to worse. Formerly having a i mail route, this service was dis continued when the mail carriers ' could not get through half the I time. School bus service likewise went to the bad. The 30 or more families have had a hard time in every way since the paved road I went through a mile and a half I to the north. The folks on this road, at least those who have talked to us, have never asked * for a paved road. They simply [want their road ? a road that was once extensively used and well looked after ? put in passable condition and kept that way. We do not see where it be j anything but justice to these peo ple if a State Highway road re paid crew was moved in to put it in passable shape in the near future. At least before school starts. Things have been bad lately. Too much freshwater in the | stream, too many weeds where we have to dig for worms and too darned hot to dig for them anyway. As a rule, we always like to do all of our own work. Lately, however, we have dis covered a young negro boy who has a combination of industry and of not being afraid of fish ing worms. He is proving inval uable. On hot days, taking turns at the shovel and picking up , worms is rotated between the I two of us. This means that while one is shovelling the other picks up worms, turn and turn about. ,With this method we are able to move more dirt in an hour than (Continued on page 7) Commissioners Establish County Tax Rate At $1.55 For The Next Fiscal Year * . Gives Explanation Of How Shallotte Got It's Name Raleigh Lady Comes Forward With Suggestion That Name Was Brought Over From England During the past few years lit erally hundreds of people have asked of both local and up state sources how the town of Shal lotte got its name. Up until the past week no one has ever been able to come forward with a satisfactory answer. Some people have said that the name was originally Charlotte, while others have been quick to dispute this claim. A couple of weeks ago some up-State resident asked Carl Goerch, of The State Magazine, in Raleigh, how Shallotte got its name. The question had been asked of him many times before, and always he was frank to say that he did not know. Following Mr. Goerch's asser tion in the State Magazine that he did not know how Shallotte came to get its name, Miss Sarah W. Ashe, of Raleigh, daughter of a former distinguished Bruns wick county man for whom Ash postoffice was named, called him on the phone and told him that perhaps she could help him. She said: "The earliest settlers in the Shallotte section arrived upon the scene in 1730, about five years after the lower Cape Fear country was opened up. Among the first people to settle there were Samuel and Algernon Ashe. They were brothers. They liked the country and decided to make their home there. Ever since then, there has been some one by the name of Ash living in the vicinity of Shallotte, and so far as I know they were all descend ents of Samuel and Algernon Ashe. Incidently I have seen the name of these two men on sev eral deeds. "As the community grew, it was decided to give it a name, and Shallotte was selected. As you probably know, this is the (Continued on page 7) Strong Shrimping Fleet Operating From Southport Just A Matter Of Locomotion Several months ago George Whatley underwent a serious operation on his hip at a Char lotte hospital, following which he was encased - in a plaster | cast from his chest to his left 1 ankle. George has been in good i health,, his hip has apparently been mending nicely, but noth ing hag happened to make his plaster cast flexible. Paul Fodal, who has been handling a lot of shrimp late ly, hits found himself in des perate need oT his rlght-hand man, who has been well enough for some time to help around the buying house save only for his inability to jack-knife in and out of a car. But that problem has been licked, and this week George is back at work on limited duty. How does he get there? They send a pick-up truck for him, but instead of getting in, j George stands on the side, ex j tending his rigid limb, and holds on for a quick three I block trip. Mrs. Ida Parker New Postmaster Received Notification Mon day Of Confirmation By U. S. Senate Of Her Ap pointment To Thi# Posi tion Mrs. Ida Parker was notified Monday of the confirmation by the United States Senate of her appointment as postmaster for Shallotte. It is believed that fur ther action by postoffice authori ties will be routine. The office has been filled by Mrs. Lucille Frink as acting-post I master since 1945. An examination was held to fill this office last year, and | Mrs. Parker was one of the suc ' cessful applicants. ? Water Samples Are Mailed Off ~ | Shallotte Citizens Are Seek ing Information Regard ing Content Of Water Supply Before Distribu tion Is Made Samples of the water from the Shallotte Ice Plant deep well were sent off this week for the purpose of testing by State 1 chemists. The object was in ac-( cordance with tentative plans to construct a small waterworks system, using water from this well. There seems to be no question (Continued on P?f? 7) More Than One Hundred Trawlers Now Engaged In Shrimping In Water* Of Brunswick County Coast MANY LARGE BOATS ARE INCLUDED Buying Houses Are Now In Operation With New Out fit Here To Commence Business This Week I According to Dallas Pigott, of Hardee and Pigott, there are now around 130-shrimp trawlers at Southport, operating or else get ting outfitted, ready to start op erating. This is by far the lar- 1 gest number of trawlers to be, here at any one time since be fore the war. * One year there were 200 boats, but they were relatively small. Taking all of them together the present fleet is made up of boats that will average close to 45-feet in length. During the season when 200 boats were operating thej average length would have been considerably shorter. With their capacity considered, the fleet now here is the most powerful i ever assembled at Southport for! shrimp trawling. W. S. Davis and brother, of i Beaufort, have leased part of the 1 Hart fish house at Southport and are now operating here as buy- 1 ers and shippers. They brought somewhere around twenty boats down from Carterett county the past week. A number of the boats owned or operated by Hart have also come in during the past week from Rockville, S. C. Traffic Cases Tried Monday State Accept* Plea Of Guil- I ty To Minor Charge In Matter Of Wilmington Taxi Driver Although he was charged with j both drunken driving and reck- , I less operation in the warrant sworn out by State Patrolman C. J. Ferguson, in Recorder's ! court here Monday, the State al- ! lowed Lee Benjamin Pollock, Wilmington taxicab operator to I submit to a charge of reckless [operation in Recorder's court i Monday. Judge McLamb senten ced Pollock to 60 days in Jail, J suspended on payment of a fine of $15.00 and costs with provision ; that he make restitution to i Charles Skipper in the sum of j $150.00 for damage done to the Skipper car. ' J. H. Graham, charged with drunken driving and reckless op eration, had his case continued for the third time. For speeding and failing to stop at stop sign, Clyde Council Brown was fined $10.00 and costs and given two weeks to pay. W. E. Chaloc was required to (Continued on page 7) Revaluation Program Make* Possible A Reduction Of 5-Cents From Last Year*# Rate Of $1.60 TAX VALUATION SHOWS INCREASE Incomplete Figures Indicate' Additional Million And One-Half Taxable Property On Books Members of the board of coun ty commissioners hav* ^ upon a tax rate of $1.M for *e next fiscal year, reflecting* cut of 5-cents from the present rate of $1.60. in making announcement of their desicion. members of t"? board stated that it their hope Oat as a result of the revaluation program they would be able to reduce the tax rate to a flat $1.50. However, a pressing appeal for an additional 5-cents per hundred for the board of education in order that tW body may make some critically needed repairs and addition* to the school buildings made it ne cessary to peg the rate at 1.00. With final tabulation for Town Creek township still incomplete, it is indicated that the tax valu ation for the county has been jumped from ten million dollars last year to 11,500,000.00. Following is the value of real estate in each township as It now stand, on the book.: North west, $1,579,000; Smithvllle. $1, 933,097; Lockwoods Folly, $1,1W. 290; Shallotte. $1,071,949; Wac camaw, $845,718. The total of personal property for the county is $1,979,913. Corporation ExcfM values total $923,147. The "iSv amount of the bud get estimate prepared by Coun ty Auditor R. C. St. George, and tentatively approved by the board, calls for $240,000.00. Of this amount $65,000.00 goes into the debt service fund. Effective July 1 the salary of the county attorney will be $100.00 per month, with that of ficial relieved of responsibility for bringing tax suits, save only when he is paid on the same basis as other local attorneys who are doing some of this work. In a conference with the com missioners County Attorney R. I. Mintz reported 42 suits institut ed by him during the period from December, 1946, to July 1, ?U of these to be brought to comple tion. The E. H. Smith estate was given permission to afterlist 3 acres of land for the past 5 years at a valuation of $105.00. The commissioners have ap proved the erection of a $6. 000.00 colored school at L/>ng wood and unanimous approval has been given the special bond election for the Leland school district. Lions Club Will Get Out Folders Five Thousand Pie?. Of Literature Telling Of Re sort, Fishing Fac.litiea Will Be Distributed Five thousand folders proclaim ing the attractions of Southport as a restful resort and fishing center have been printed under the sponsorship of the Southport Lions Club, the sample copies of which were passed around for members to see , at their last regular meeting Thursday. Special emphasis has been laid on the fact that Southport is the logical place fr#m which spo ru men should plan to sail when they set out in quest of prize winning fish during the Fall FUh ing Rodeo September 15-Octoter 31. Considerable interest was shown in a proposed inter-club baseball game that will be played some time soon, and members as well as outsiders are looking forward toseeing such diamond luminaries as Cronley Ruark, D. J. Smith. Dwight McEwen and others conk* pete with the horsehide and hart wood. Outstanding feature of the meeting Thursday was a misslag word story prepared by L4oB Secretary Smith. The prise for the winner was donated by [eottk Pharmacy.