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The pilot Covers (jru"sU ick County THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Most of The News All The Time NO. 'SIXTEEN NO. 18 48-PAGES TODAY Southport, N. CM Wednesday, August 6th, 1947 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY SI. 50 PER YEAR jPTIMISM REIGNS AS CURTAIN-TIME NEARS )N ANNUAL DRAMA OF MARKET {OPENINGS Kales Will Begin [Aug. 7 At 9 A.M. Lflty-One Warehouses Ready To Go As (Feverish Activity Precedes Big Event; I Golden W eed Rolling Into Towns All I Over The Border Belt I Optimism prevailed today as the curtain-time nears I the annual drama of tobacco market openings in the Mer Belt. ? Throughout Columbus county and in the market L, of Whiteville, Tabor City, Chadbourn and Fair ?iff, there was a tenseness in the air as feverish activity ?j^ded the market drama when the chant of the auc Keer will be heard for the first time during the 1947 Ken I The golden weed already was rolling into market ?ms throughout the Border Belt. | Columbus county's 21 warehouses, staffed with ex Bnenced men and women in the tobacco warehouse Bk>?s. were ready for the# ar cr>' of "Let's go." > "Go" signal will be Thursday morning, Aug at 9 o'clock. Sales time I ^ four hours this year in I of the five hours allotted J ywr. Kit air of expectancy, of wait T rsache'.i out to Clarkton and fe, also in this immediate i. rjrtltousemen were making minute preparation for the ftion of visiting growers and boiled peanut vendors were ? paper bags. Stores ! filling their shelves and Hers. Fruit stands were wait for their supply trucks to j k with loads of fresh vege ? and fruits. Policemen were ready to handle the tre 5 volume of traffic. fcanwhile, farmers were busy |utng their leaf for hauling market- The long pull, with toils, hot suns and anxiety I tearing an end for the grow \ They had worried over the ?Me shortage of plants be R of the cold weather. There i been the dry spell which *1 to hang on too long. Then k the rains and the winds, ft did some damage. And hail ?A in spots. For a few it let heavy loss. But the hail i spotty. iMost of the crop ?pec Lastly, came the intense * ?hich burned up some leaf. ' throughout the entire crop { stasor., ever-present was the ' of loss of barns by fire. A ' M burn. It became a season ^appointment for those who ttd such catastrophies. t much of the anxiety and ^ become a thing of the today. The drama, the color . annual event was in the ? In Whiteville, in Tabor in Chadbourn and in Fair there breathed again the ? 'P'nt akin to that of a 8 with a toy or a girl dress the first date? a spirit of and expectancy. rriefNews Flashes [*s TO MEET regular meeting of the ?Pwt Lions Club will be held ^ at 1 o'ciock at the taunity Center Building. " EXHIBIT 1 toefit arL exhibit featuring J?'k of Arthur E. Newton, j* Southport artist, will be a the Community Center ?n Thu^day. August 1 ' TTO1? organizatinw be . man, 8ocitt) ^ rhn?tian ^ <* Trinity Methodtot uU ?etaila of plans for eat w,i] appear in The * "tXt I jfl Mr?- J M Waggett 5?/w *uest? la*. we?k: ! y. _p Waited VV. thomp ??ti , ,55Cn is an artist it tM station. For Bev iw Yrll he hnd a stutHo to a nulk has tauSht painting fcfcitM ?f and ha# r j wide'.v- He call** oSouth ** WorW. Other guests (, ju, fa Wrs. OUn McDon i ? E- McCutdwn and iU?f E- B- McCatcb?n, 11 ? tutcpva 9. ?. i. Whiteville Tops In Leaf Sales Outselling; the total of die other three Columbos county tobacco market* by five mil lion pounds, Whiteville auc tioned 33,395,865 pounds dur ing the 1946 market season. With its high poundage to tal, Whiteville distributed to leaf growers a grand total of $17,204,493. The average of $52.36 was good enough to rank 10th in the nation. Mrs. Alene Mintz | Resigns Position I Of Home Agent 1 . . Resignation Becomes Effec tive September 1st And Was Accepted By Com missioners Monday MISS WILMA PHELPS NAMED REPLACEMENT This Action Taken By The Board Subject To Appro val Of Extension Offi cial At N. C. State College ' Mrs. Alene Mintz has resigned her position as county home demonstration agent, effective September 1, and her resignation was accepted by the commission ers while in session here Monday. Following this action, the board elected Mis3 Wilma Phelps, of Aah, to fill this vacancy, this action being contingent upon ap proval from the proper authori ties of the extension program at | N. C. State College. Mrs. Mintz succeeded Miss Eliz ' abeth Norfleet as home agent for Brunswick county. She is a na | tive of Sampson county, but was I married to a Brunswick county ! ex-service man since coming here I to work. Miss Phelps is a recent grad j uate of Womans College, Univer ' sity of North Carolina. She had I an enviable college record and I recently was elected head of the 'home economics department at Waccamaw high school. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Phelps. No Definite Action On State Taking Over Fort Committee On Parks Advis ed To Consider The Mat-! ter And To Be Able To; Make Full Report To Board MATTER TAKEN UP AT MOREHEAD i Outside Interests Have Been Encouraging The State To Take Over Facilities For Recreation According to information re ceived here, no definite action was taken in the matter of the state acquiring Fort Caswell at the meeting of the Board of Conservation and Development in Morehead City last week. How ever, the Parks Committee was instructed to study the contract that is being offered by the Navy. This committee is expected to make an early report on its finding. It has been repeatedly stated that the Navy would not declare Fort Caswell surplus. Fending: any emergency, the Navy is willing to give the State a lease on the property. It is un derstood that the terms require that the State keep up the pro perty, paying for this upkeep and J1.00 per year to make the lease legal. The State could see shrdluun The State could use the pro perty for any purpose and could I make it a part of the Mountain ! Seashore Park system, using the many fine existing buildings and other facilities the year-round for the accommodation of tourists land other visitors. Used in this J way and with fair and reason able charges, it is believed that the returns would more than pay the initial outlay for furnishings land repairs and at the same time take care of all upkeep expenses. While morta in this area are mostly used only during the summer. Fort Ouwell has physi cal properties, combined with a vtry mild climate with a year round average temperature of 62.4 degrees to make it equally desirable as a winter or summer resort. In the hands of the State or others, the Fort could be made to play tfe initial big part in developing a treat winter re sort patronage for the North Carolina coastai section. Numerous outside interests, in cluding; R B r-?e, publisher of (Continue: on pikf* 7) Commence Paving Section Of Road A State Highway force has commenced work on paving ap proximately one mile of road extending from Highway No. 180 at Soldier Bay Baptist church and passing in front of the Waccamaw high school. Grading and preparation of the roadbed for the asphalt treatment already practically is completed, and a large tank ' has been set down at the Junc tion for the convenience of the asphalt spreaders. Little Shrimp Selling Cheap Premium Prices Being Paid For Larger Product, A Few Of Which Are Show ing Up In Catches Too many medium to small size shrimp being taken all along the North and South Carolina coasts have resulted in a low market, especially for the shrimp according to W. S. Wells and other local seafood daelers. The | small shrimp have been going J downward in price and the price j on the larger sized product has been advancing. In other words, large shrimp are commanding a good premium on the market. The trouble is | that not enough of the larger ones are being caught. Some days boat) operating on the regular grounds get a bushel or so of big shrimp. These big shrimp are apparently strays from some point far off -Shore where the boats are unable to go on account of the lack of char tering to show waters where the bottoms are free from obstruc tions. To go just anywhere sev eral miles off shore and drop a trawl to the bottom means more than a 50-50 chance of the rtawl being thrown away. When and if the proposed fishing survey re veals bottoms where the shrimp stay and where boats can be op erated a t points far off-shore, it is believed that the average year round size of the Southport stortnip vWJl become much larger Jtfelfc At pfektnt. Government Girl MISS ALLEN E HEWETT, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hewett. of Supply, has accepted employment as typist in Wash ington, D. C. She is a graduate of Shallotte high school, where, she was valedictorian and winner of the Hamilton Mintz Memorial cup this year. Electric Current For Long Beach Critical Materials Located And Furnished RE A Of ficials In Order To Faci litate Service Current was turned on over three miles of new distribution electric line at Long Beach last week. The new line runs from the old beach limits on the west down the new development open ed since the war, serving ap proximately 30 new homes and at the same time giving assur ance to many more prospective home builders on the three mile stretch. It is understood that private interests found and purchased the necessary wire selling it again to the REA which had been unable to find suitable wire for the three miles. The line itself was con structed by the REA, which sup plies the power. Recently E. D. Bishop, Su perintendent of the Brunswick Rural Electric Membership Cor poration, expressed regret to a representative of this paper over the inability of the REA to find suitable wiring for this project. At the time he stated that the Long Beach extension was con sidered a very important one to the REA. He believes that Long Beach was assured of a great de velopment, thereby calling for much power and being one of the best customers of the REA. Service Officer Is Authorized For Brunswick Commissioners In Session Here Monday Appropria ted $2,500.00 From Em ergency Fund For This Purpose LELAND DISTRICT ELECTION CALLED Chairman County Board Of Elections Directed To Call At Once Election For School Tax Members of the board of coun ty commissioners in session here Monday voted to appropriate $2, 500.00 for the establishment of a full time Veterans Service Of ficer in Brunswick county. Funds for this purpose will be drawn from the emergency fund of the county for the fiscal year 1947-48. This action follows upon the heels of a strong request made of the commissioners several weeks ago. At that time they expressed a willingness to coop erate in this program provided it did not entail an increase in the tax rate. The clerk to the board was ordered to notify David Ross, chairman of the Brunswick coun ty board of elections, to call a special election for the Leland school district for a special tax levy not to exceed 15-cents on the hundred dollar valuation. The commissioners passed an order selling the tax liens in the name of T. F. Johnson for the years 1941 through 1946 to A. L. Mercer. Marketing Cards Now Going Out All Growers Should Have Cards In Hand In Time For Opening Of Market Thursday Of This Week The AAA office in Supply is now mailing out tobacco market ing cards to some sixteen, hund red Brunswick county tobacco growers. Starting last week, these cards should be in the hands of all growers who have no excess acreage by the time the market opens on Thursday. Measuring and computing each growers's acreage to see if there was any excess of the allotment, and also the acreage of the few who planted without an allot ment, began the first of June. It is understood that these non-allotment growers and also those who have excess acreage were to call at the AAA office the first of this week and ob ( Continued on page 7) i Our ROVING Reporter w. b. mm Congressman Robert L. Dough - jton of the 9th Congressional Dis i arict of North Carolina, wrote ! rus a nice letter this week. If he j ifinds he can get away from, ! home for a week or so before : Congress reconvenes he plans to 1 come to Southport, rest up a*id j go freshwater fishing some. At least we are giving to under- i stand he plans that. Mr. Dough- ! ton Is the chairman of the Com- ; mittee on Ways and Means and i is regarded as one of the most ! ! powerful figures in Congress At ,home in western North Carolina | he is one of the big farmers. ; | Manager E. D. Bishop, of the ; Brunswick REA, proved to be a good fishing companion one day j | this week. We did the boat pad- j dling to get him to the place we J wanted to go, and he got some ' badly needed exercise rowing : back. Not knowing how to Chew 4 t6bi6c6, fc?. baa two vwry lirjf* ; fish to break away from him and I escape, where there is usually one big one to get away. The two of us managed to boat 40 fish, 15 of these were big blue gills. No count was made of each man's catches, but when we call ed it a day we noticed that most of the fish were in Mr. Bishop's i end of the boat. One day this past week a par ty coming down from up-state to do some fishing registered a friendly kick. They had supposed there was a lot of good spots for| saltwater fishing without going j out on boats. They had inquired ! of everybody they met up with ! where such spots were. Nobody seemed to know, or would tell where these folks could fish. Such things happen every day. A lot of people come to go fish ing and nobody can or will tell them where they can fish. It (Continued on page 7) Bolivia Girl Health Oueen Second Year In Succession ! Miss Betty Jean Danford, Daughter Of Mr. And Mrs. Early Danford, Represented County Miss Betty Jean Danford, mem ber of the Bolivia 4-H Club, re j cently was elected Health Queen ' for Brunswick county for the se ! cond successive year and was the j representative at the Southeast . ern district contest at Goldsboro where she scored 97.5. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Early Danford, of Bo livia, and is a member of the j 11th grade at Bolivia high school. Herbert Swain, son of Mr. and ,Mrs. Herbert Swain, of South port, represented the boys of the I county in the district contest. His score also was 97.5. The final winners in each di vision of the district contest ran up a total of 99.25 points. New Principal Elected For Local High School I Three outstanding personali ties in the realm of sport* are spending this week at South port or at nearby beaches. Wallace Wade, nationally famous coach of the Duke Uni versity Blue Devils, is spend ing a few day* at Caswell Beach. Coach Wade Is taking a flrntl period of relaxation be fore he enters into the fall football grind. Yesterday afternoon Wiley Sholar, famous football official, and his son, Bill, arrived at Southport for a few days fish ing. Mr. Sholar, Who has help ed officiate at a Rose Bowl game among other assign ments, stated that he has j twelve games on his slate for J this fall. J. L. Von Glahn, director of athletics at N. C. State Col lege, and Mrs. Von Glahn are spending two weeks In South port. With them are Miss Katharine Von Glaltn and L*rry Hays. Officers Make Successful Raid I Deputy Sheriff 0. W. Perry And ATU Men From Wil mington Make _ Haul Of Men And Equipment In Northwe?t Deputy Sheriff O. W. Perry and A. T. U. Agents Howe and Plate made a couple of big hauls in Northwest township last week. In one raid three men were cap tured and held for trial in Fed eral court, in the other case three escaped. Thursday night the officers captured a 100-gallon steam still, 500- gallons of sugar mash, 61 gallons of whiskey, an outboard motor and a 1936 Chevrolet au tomobile. Not the least of this haul was the capture of Alex Porter, Robert Carr and Alfred Smith, negroes, who were charg ed with operating the still. All three were held for Federal court under bond. The raid was in the section known as Raccoon Bluff on the Cape Fear river above Leland. In another raid Sunday morn ing the same officers seized and destroyed another 100-gallon steam still with 300-gallons of sugar mash. This raid was in the Sugar Hill section of Northwest township. While the officers were watching this still three negro men camc along bringing a quan tity of fruit jars for the evident purpose of starting a run. They detected the presence of the of fice* Sport Figures Visit Section H. T. Sanders, Of Concord, j Has Been Elected Princi-| pal, Succeeding A. C. Holloman As Head Ofj Southport School WACCAMAW SCHOOL WITHOUT PRINCIPAL Decision Of W. R. Teachy! To Accept Principalship ! At Rose Hill Leaves Vacancy To Be Filled H. T. Sanders, of Concord, has been elected principal of South port high school for the coming! year, succeeding A. C. Holloman. The new principal is 37 years ; of age, is a graduate of Lenoir Rhyne College, and holds a pro- [ visional masters degree from the ' University of North Carolina. He has taught bchool since 1937, ex- 1 cept for a three year period spent in the army. He is married and | has one small Son. Mrs. Sanders is a registered nurse. He has taught in the schools at Sanford, Leaksville, Kanna polis and Concord and has had considerable experience coaching | athletic teams in various sports. 1 He is now taking graduate work at the University of North Caro lina and will move his family to Southport just as soon as the present term comes to a close. County Superintendent J. T. Denning annosnced yesterday that W. R. Teachy, who had been elected principal at Waccamaw high school has. resigned this work to aocept the portion of (Continued On Page 5) Sportsmen VI Meet At Bolivia . j Hunters And Fishermen Will Have Final Oppor tunity To Express Their Wishes In Connectioa With The Game Laws Hunters and fishermen are | urged to attend a meeting of the Brunswick County WUdllfe Club at Bolivia high school at 8 o'clock Friday evening. E. J. Prevatte, president of the county organization, states that this Mil be the last oppor tunity for the sportsrteh of this area to 8 raw up their recommen dations for laws governing hunt ing and fishing in Brunswick county and get them to the Wild life Resources Commission in time for their consideration. "It ia my belief that our hunt ers and fishermen will want to have a voice hi formulating th? ?laws which will govern th*ir ac tivities In this realm of a ports." says President Prevatte. "aftrt r t deem it to be of utmoat impor tance that we havt a good re presentation, at the Bolivia caest iftf op rtlfity as*at" .. < Women Selected For Service As Jury Members Mr*. F. Mollycheck I* First Woman Ever Selected For Jury Duty In Brunt wick; Several Other* Are Named TWO? ONE ? WEEK TERMS SCHEDULED Judge Leo Carr, Of Bur lington, Will Preside Over Court Sessions To Be Held Here In Sep tember Two one-week terms of Super ior court are scheduled for Brunswick county during the month of September, with Judge Leo Carr, of Burlington, presid ing. On Monday, September 1, a one-week mixed term will con vene, with the greater part of the time likely to be used up In trial of criminal actions. After skip ping one week, a civil term will convene here on Monday, Sept ember 15. In drawing the jury list here Monday, Mrs. F. Mollycheck, of Southport, became the first wom an ever to be drawn for Jury ser vice in Brunswick county. Sev eral other women were included in the list fdr the two weeks. First Week: William McDowell, Mrs. F. Mollycheck, J. E. Mc Keithan, Mrs. Glenn Frazer, Wil liam H. Walker, Southport; R. S. Whit#, Mrs. Ktta Register. J. " W. Garner, E. H. Gray, H. H. Pierce, W. H. MUliken, G. L. Hickman, D. C. Andrews, Shal lotte; Ray H. Walton. D. A. Evans, Olen Gore, P. D. Smith, James Redwine, Ash; Garfield Clemmons, W. J. McDowell, Bo livia; John E. Hewett, C. H. Mil liken, C. L. Mintz, Clyde L, Clem mons, John D. Reynolds, O. M, Holden, George E. Clemmons, C. B. Sellers, Supply! H. J. Formy duval, Westen Evans, M. K. King, Freeland; Mrs. M. E. Smith, W. H. Williams, Leland; C. W. Os bern, W. C. Savage, Winnabow; D. S. Longwood. Second Week; J. Dallas Mc Keithan, Thalmadge King, Free land; W. H. Paden, Paul Brown, D. T. Brew, Relmore Potter, G. F. Carroll, Leland; Walker Bry son Hewett, Mrs. C. B. Kirby, O. T. Hewett, J. L. Fuiford, J. B. Kirby, Joe McDowald, J. E. Kirby, Harlee Kirby, Jesse Brown, Supply; F. D. Inman, Kerby Reeves, Jim Carlisle, B. (Continued on Page 7) Brief Session Of Court Held Judge W. J. McUmb And Other Officials Of Recor der's Court Disposed Of Light Docket Here Mon day "f i"!1 ? A light docket mi disposed erf hew in Recorder1# court Monday before Judge W. J. McLamb. with the following disposition of CUKI! John Williams, drunk and dis orderly, not guilty. William Justice, pogaesaion and , transporting, continued to August 11. Wesley Johnaon, possession and tranaporting, continued to Aug ust 11. R. P. Plaxeo, allowing minor to operate motor vehicle on state highway, pJeads guilty, adjudged to pay coata. 1 Frank Bowen, drunk in public place, continued to August 11. Willie McXoy. assault with .deadly weapon, guilty at simple aaaault, sentenced to atrve 30 da}-* in Jail, suspended on pay ment of a fine of <10.00 and costs. John Williams, assault. not guilty. I Buddy Brown, possession, 89 ! days on the roads, suspended on 'payment of a fine of $10.00 and costs. 3am West, cursing on highway,, !not guilty. Willie Robinsrm, drunk driving, ; cowuauad to Augwt U. *s
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