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The P'lot (:?vers Brunswick County THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Most of The New? All The Time \ill* ^sixteen NO. 29 8-PAGES today Southport, N. C., Wednesday, October 22, 1947 published every Wednesday . n.so per ^nbhng Facts ;or presentation before Engineers Ae^nTTT E. Dodson t As T" Present Brief Value Of Dr.io Project^ PL!C ?RIDAY,GOCT. 31 g "SS u~rinde ^accamaw R.ver Drainage Area _ went J- E- Dods?n >i.: a, many Brunswick f {armers as possible who * drained by the Wacca 1 I'* plan to attend the ' to be held at Con I'rf Z Friday. October 31. L^rt::- will be held at the r county courthouse and wUl( r ^ 11 o'clock. H county agent points out " , of Waccamaw township, ... flVe percent of Shallotte S-" and a Part of Lock s' Folly* and Town Creek ^rs are drained by the. PU river and its tribu figures in connection j-'-e importance of the drain 'mject show that a minimum ?V'926 acres are affected, 1 17568 being under cultiva , Within this area there are ( acres of tobacco included. tr.:y Agent Dodson has pre r a brief for presentation at , tearing, and in it he shows -rortance of good drainage +e farmers who grow crops iK 1.1 this area of Brunswick p.,- He points out that the paction of a spillway and the of a 5-mile canal to ij off flood waters from the (amaw river not only will is thousands of acres of jriand available for culttva , M will result in a marked nwment in timber growth in tost areas as well as bet- : acp results throughout much be Waccamaw drainage area. ? flirty -geat strescea the rta.-ce of having an tmpres delegation of Brunswick ly farmers and landowners nt for this meeting, as this at sure way to impress the ?enties in charge of the hear Itfcat the people of the coun Itt squarely behind this pro SritfNeut Flathis BDCCTIXG REVIVAL fc Rev. H. M. Baker, pastor Itathport Baptist church, is ?totting a revival meeting at ?Beet church, near Supply, **eek. The services are being attended. ? ? ? r{ Tend meeting & members attended an *11 f meeting of the Divisional W. it- ? Clinton on Tuesday. They ? Mrs. H. M. Baker, Mrs. W. Better. Mrs. R. C. Daniels. M. T. McRackan, Mrs. W. fees and Mrs. G. D. Robin It ? . > , ^ PI BLIC1TY fe cover of the State Maga published by Carl Goerch of carried a picture of Hulan Watts and his '? rod and reel last week, two center pages of the ma r? carried four beautiful fish J scenes at Southport. All of [Pictures were taken by Hugh ? r- of Wilmington. ?pTT planned Order of Eastern Star, [Ambers of the Live Oak ^er- Order of Eastern Star, ave a sale of fancy-work, Md candy Friday, October ' at the Community Center beginning at 3:30 At 8 o'clock a benefit will be held in this same F??. and a full program of r^nment has been prepared L,tfc? interest of both young " old. fefSK*' <"I. EARING L "ies hav-'ng relatives and r?? buried at the Griffin ceme t near Ash, or who are other J; tefested in this burial place L are advised that Nov ?3 r wi" be clean-up day at C ??et<;ry and both workers T "wis t0 pUt the cemetery in "?ape will be appreciated ?ho come to work should ,Uncl1 as it is planned to " all day event. The ,s "ear the hom? of J. Former Governor Speaker Today Before Convention Brunswick Baptist Associa tion Opens Annual Meet ing This Morning At 10 O'clock At Southport Baptist Church At the rate at which delegates and visitors were coming in this morning for the opening session of the Brunswick Baptist As sociation. at 10 o'clock it appeared that Moderator S. I. Mintz was correct in his prediction that to day at Southport and tomorrow at Shallotte would see the biggest gathering of Brunswick county Baptists that have ever assembl ed since the association was form ed 49-years ago. Today session had an unusually, interesting program, being the in spirational address by former Governor J. Melville Broughton. Mr. Broughton speaks this after- 1 noon at 3:30 o'clock. Ladies ofi the Southport Baptist church are serving lunch at the USO build- 1 ing at noon. Today's program at Southport calls for adjournment late in the afternoon, the delegates to as semble again tomorrow (Thurs day) at the Shallotte Baptist' church, where the two-day session will be concluded. As today at, Shallotte. Election of a Moderator and other officials for the ensuing year will conclude the Thursday session. Each of the 24 Baptist churches in the county is send New Superintendent Of Public Welfare Arrives Miss Ruth E. Patterson As- ! sumed Duties As Welfare Officer For Brunswick County Last Wednesday j FORMER PENDER COUNTY OFFICER I New Superintendent Fills Vacancy Existing Since Resignation Of Chas. E. White Miss Ruth E. Patterson arrived here last Wednesday to assume her new duties as superintendent of public welfare for Brunswick county, a position which has re mained vacant since last Decem ber, when Charles E. White re signed to accept a similar post in his home county. Miss Patterson came to Bruns wick county from Burgaw, where she served as welfare officer for Pender county for the past three and one-half years. She has a total of 10-years experience in welfare work. Miss Patterson is in Raleigh the first part of this week attending the annual Public Welfare Insti tute. Since the resignation of Mr. White 10 months ago, the Bruns wick county welfare office has been in charge of Miss Dorothy Swain, acting superintendent of public welfare. She will remain with the local office. Miss Byrnes Lewis reported here August 1 as case worker trainee, but resigned effective September 15. Busy Day For Court Officers Variety Of Cases Disposed Of Here Monday Before Judge W. J. McLamb In Brunswick County Recor der's Court J The minute book of the Bruns jwick county Recorder's court I showed the following: entries fol lowing the Monday session: Mack Young, reckless opera tion, fined $50.00 and costs and to make restitution for property : damage and personal injuries. Alex Houston Jones, operating ; vehicle with improper brakes, no I horn, capias and continued. . James G. Butts, possession, fin ed $5.00 and costs. Ernest Toline, no operators license, capias and continued. Ella Mae Hayes, public drunk ness, fined $10.00 and costs. Fine remitted on paying of costs a j mounting to $28.15. O. C. Johnson, public drunk , ! ness, fined $10.00 and costs. Hollis Williamson, selling beer without a license, ordered to pay i costs. , Joseph A. Young, assault with I deadly weapon, fined $25.00 and I costs. i Henry Ellis Brown, speeding, . ' capias and continued. Mamie Johnson, public drunk ' (Continue J On Pqge 5} J. MJtXVlLLE BKOllUHiUii ing three delegates and also a number of visitors to both ses sions. All of the Baptist minis ters of the county are scheduled to attend, along with a number of other prominent Baptist min , isters from throughout the state. Rev. H. M. Baker, pastor of the Southport Baptist church, which is playing host today, ex pressed himself as being very pleased at the outlook for the meeting, both here at Southport and for tomorrow's session at Shallotte. Small Tarpon Is Caught In Net | A small tarpon, weighing I about five pounds, was caught I in a (fill net Monday night by .Malcolm Stidham. He was ft-h ing for spots and mullets at Bald Head Island. Finding a big tarpon with the take of a menhaden net is nothing unusual for this point. Getting them in a gill net is not so frequent as they tear such frail stuff up. A local devotee of freshwater fishing says that during the summer and on various trips he caught seven very small tar pon, all under ten inches in length, with a hook baited with a very small piece of shrimp. New Building Almost Ready Formal Opening Of Wil letts Motor Company In New Building Set For( Next Thursday Night The Willetts Motor Company at Bolivia, owned by former Sheriff C. P. Willetts, is making exten-j sive preparations for the formal ) opening of its new home on Thursday, October 30th. Mr. Willetts started construc tion two full years ago but was hampered by both building re strictions and material shortages, j His new building, which he will I I open up next week, is said to be jone of the finest Ford dealer ships in Eastern North Carolina. With dimensions 80 x 100 feet, the building contains a 30 x 54 foot show room for cars and also the well appointed repair parts department. Another 30 x 24 front show room is for various electrical appliances with the of fice between these two show rooms. The service garage in the rear of the building is 70 x 80 feet and like the show rooms, office J and repair departments is wellj ' equipped throughout. The building Is of brick, with) a steel truss roof. The floor and t many square yards of outside paving is of beautifully finished white concrete. This concrete work alone ran into a cost of several thousand dollars. The entire front of the building ! and sides, extending back the . length of the show rooms is of I costly plate glass, making both , the show rooms and office out ' rank anything in the county for | being well lighted. I With the formal opening at I noon Thursday of next week, Mr. I Willetts says that at 8 o'clock | that evening he will be host at | a barbecue supper friends and customers in the new building. For this event he is making prepara ' tions to entertain hundreds of [visitors and he is extending th? (Continued on Page Five) , Selling Season For Whiteville Market Closes! Sales Last Wednesday j Brought To End Second Best Season This Market. Ever Has Enjoyed SALES TOTAL NEAR TWO MILLION MARK | Official Government Figur es Not Available, But Sales Supervisor Esti mate Given The curtain fell last Wednes ! day on the second best tobacco market season in Whiteville's his-' | tory with the final report show ? ing 31,939,532 pounds sold. This compares with last year's; record total of 33,490,125 pounds which brought $17,208,076.29. According to official figures re leased by Sales Supervisor Dave i S. Neilson, the average per hund j red pounds was $43.60. Government reports will not ! be available for sometime, but | the supervisor's report is ex pected to be a close approxima tion. The final three days of the market last week witnessed light sales, mostly of inferior grades of tobacco. The total was 258,460 pounds. Nine warehouses operated here I this season with three sets of [ buyers until the curtailment which followed openings in the | Border Belt. Two sets remained | until last Friday and one was held over for the final week. Urges Farmers To Plant Oats County Agent J. E. Dodson Points Out That Farmers Have Plenty Of Time To Sew This Crop County A-,ent J. E. Dodson says thi't fj . October 15 through NoVember 15th is the ideal time for the planting of oats in Bruns wick county. That being true, now is the beginning of the most favorable time for the planting of this crop. The weather at pre sent is just right and the farm er does not neglect the oppor tunity that comes along between now and the middle of next month will be heading for a good crop. Oats for cattle and hog graz ing, for a cover crop and later for harvesting will be badly need ed this year, the county agent thinks. He ^dmits that the corn crop is exceptionally good. At the same time he points "out that for many years Brunswick farm ers have been depending- more and more on commercial feeds and growing and increased num ber of hogs and cattle. The com mercial feeds will be costly this year and hard to obtain. Good grain fields fof winter grazing and for the follow-up crop of feed will do much to lessen- the need of buying costly feeds or the use of too much of the corn crop. Hogs simply cannot be grown profitably in this county under present conditions without pas ture for grazing, according to Mr. Dodson. Oats furnish the best possible winter grazing for both hogs and cattle. The land, (Continued on page Two) In addition to being a good farmer, D. P. (Perry) Mintz of Waccamaw township devotes part of his time to the production of honey. For this work he has about 130 colonies of bees and they probably bring him about as much money as his other in teresting work. Mrs. Mintz said this week that her husband was so used to the bees and the bees so used to him it was seldom if ever that he gets stung. Hav ing been bee stung more or less all his life, a sting now has very little more effect on him than | a mosquito bite has on the aver age person. Capt. W. E. Bellamy has just completed a nice 30 x 60 cinder block building at Boone s Land j ing on the east bank of the Shal THE TWO BILLS GET TOGETHER PAIR ? Left above is Bill Sharpe, director cf the State Advertising Bureau, dis cussing matters of local publicity with Bill Keziah, one-man Chamber of Commerce for Brunswick county and the Rovin' Reporter for this newspaper. What Bill Sharpe would like best of all would be to have a man like Bill Keziah helping him in each of the 100 counties of North Carolina. Reputation Of Rovin' Reporter Spreads Abroad Huge Red Drum May Win Prize Billy Jenkins, youthful Wil mington angler, forged to the front In the race for top honors for surf catches during the An nual Fall Fishing Bodeo this week with a 40-lb red drum caught off Bald Head Island. Jenkins was a member of a party of Wilmington sportsmen who caught 16 drum in two days, with several others run ning to nice size. On Saturday Delmas Fulcher and William Oberjohan, Southpurt men, hit the jack-pot at the same place, but none of their 17-drum top ped the 15-lb mark. On Sunday thp.se men were joined by Dayis Herring, Burn irtt Russ, Jack Hughes and H. T. Sanders, all of Southport, and only three small drum re warded their efforts. Aged Resident Of Supply Dies ? ? John S. Grissett Died Fri day Following Lingering Illness; Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon John Staton Grissett, weel known and highly respected far mer of the Supply community died Friday in the Dosher Mem orial hospital, where he had been a patient for the past ten weeks. Mr. Grissett was eighty seven years old. His death came as a result of the infirmities of age. Funeral services were held Sun day afternoon from the graveside at the Holden family cemetery, near Supply, and were in charge of Rev. A. E. Fulmer of the Bap ( Continued On Page 5) W. B. KEZIAH Our Reporter lotte river. A good dock has also been built there and quite a num ber of buildings. A nice little community is said to be growing up around the landing with much more building in prospect. In cidently, Lockwoods Folly town- . ship, in which Booncs Neck is located, is more largely bounded by water than any other town ship in the county. On the south is the inland waterway, on the west is the Shallotte river and on the east is Lockwoods Folly river. Keeping up his record for the destruction of whiskey stills, De puty Sheriff O. W. Perry took a hundred gallon outfit and also got three and a half gallons of whiskey in a raid in Northwest township last week. A negro who (Continued on page five) Recent Series Of News Pic tures And Articles Gave Readers Throughout The United States Introduc tion KEZIAH UNAFFECTED BY THIS ATTENTION Southport Man Remains Content To Live Simply And To Spread The News Of His Home County | The Rovin' Reporter, otherwise W. B. Keziah of the State Port I Pilot, has recently been coming I in for a lot of widespread pub licity. To most folks he is just plain Bill. He would have it that way. There is nothing faney or orna mental about him. In fact, he rather thrives on the lack of any thing fancy. Newspapers send their best featye writers to Southport to get stories on the town, its fishing and everything of interest. Often the editors | themselves come. Ihvariably they pick on Bill as- one of the best features of the town for copy. Recently Tom Lynch of the Charlotte News started out to write about Bald Head island. He got a really wonderful story for his paper, but most of the mat ter was about Bill. Woodrow Price, star feature writer for The News and Obser ver, was recently down on an as signment to get a story of the Southport shrimping. He got it. Along with the shrimping story he following up with a thumping good feature story on the local man and Southport. Chester Davis, hunting and fishing editor of the Winston Salem Journal, came down to write a feature on the inland wa terway through Brunswick coun ty. Most of his hunting and fish ing column turned out to be about Bill. The Wilmington Sar-News has several times played up Keziah. Recently Phil Wright, state news | editor, distributed a lot of pic | tures of Bill and Bill Sharpe, state publicity director. One of these pictures is being shown with this story. The Charleston News and Cour ier and most of the North Caro lina dailies played the picture and story up big. The Norfolk Vir ginia-Pilot ran the picture at the top of its front page with a big (Continued on Page 2) County Native Goes To Korea i Roney C. Hewett, Retired Army Man, Has Accep ted Position With U. S. Army Engineers Abroad Roney C. Hewett, a native cf Brunswick, with his former home, near Southport, a resident of Sprink Lake in Cumberland coun-' ty for the past several years, has; been processed for duty with the U. S. Army Engineers in Korea. He will fill the position of stock clerk and storekeeper. Mr. Hewett has been ordered to report at the Arial Port of Em barkation in California on Oct ober 22. His family will con (Oontinued on page five) Fall Fishing Expected To Be Getting Better According to John VV. Garn er, of Shallotte Village Point; D. A. Whitley, of Howell's Point; Charlie Trott, of Long Beach; the Brooks boys, at Sea side; the fall fishing is just now beginning. They expect the best of fish ing to break this week and to last through all of November. Along the waterway, at the in lets and on the ocean beaches they are expecting something great in fishing lor trout, pom pano, sheepheady flounders, puppy drum, red drum, spots, Virginia mulletuf and black drum. I ' - n In fact, ther& shoilld be good fishing for about everything this mon?h and next. In addi tion to the. above named fish, | rockfish and the big speckled sea trout are beginning to strike. Both the rock and trout bite about all winter, mostly on artifical lures. , On all sides down the coast it is frankly admitted that J thus far in the year, the fish ing has been rather poor. This | is easily accounted for by call ing attention to the excessive rains and flooding fresh waters which drove the salt water fish out into the saltier .ocean. They are returning now and it is not likely that further rains will bring about another exodus. In addition to the excessive fresh waters along the coast, the continuous northeast, and east winds have also, been a deterring factor for the sport fishermen. Fish will bite alright during north winds, but they apparently prefer to go hungry when a northeast or east .wind is blowing. This late summer and fall the Brunswick county coast has had more of that kind of wind than any of the older citizens "can remember in any previous year.'' But, everybody believes that from now on the fishing will be tops. Revival Begins . Monday Evening The Rev. David G. Ander son Will Conduct Series Of Services At Southport Baptist Church All Next Week Revival services will begin Monday night, October 27, at the Southport Baptist church and will continue through Sunday. The song service will begin at 7:30 o'clock each night under the di rection of Fred Kelly, o f Wil mington. Mr. Kelly will be as sisted by Mrs. Kelly at the piano. 'The guest minister for these special services is the Rev. David G. Anderson, pastor of Tabernacle Baptist church, Columbia, S. C. Mr. Anderson spent his childhood in China where his father was a missionary and came to this country to attend Furman Uni versity. His theological training was taken at the New Orleans Baptist Seminary and he has pastored churches in Greenville, S. C., New Orleans, La. and Col umbia. Mr. Anderson's Church in Columbia js well known for its (Continued On Page 5) Veterans Must Register For Farm Training New Class Will Begin Work First Of Year But Train ees Must Register Octob er 28 Or 29 CERTAIN PAPERS MUST BE SUPPLIED Certified Copy Of Dischar ge And Certified Copy " Of Marriage License Required If Married Veterans interested in enrolling' in the farm training program classes which will begin about the first of the year are asked to register at one of the two places provided for their convenience on ; Monday or Tuesday of next week. On Monday, October 27, vete rans will be registered at Bo livia. The following day, on Tues day, October 28, veterans at Shal lotte will be registered. On hand to assist the registrants will be" Vocational Agriculture Teacher Johnie King, at Bolivia, and Vo cational Agriculture Teacher Le Roy Mintz at Shallotte. Cecil Edwards, Brunswick county Vet erans Service Officer, also will be on hand to render any possible assistance. Prospective registrants are cau tioned to bring along a certified > copy of their discharge, and if they are married, a certified copy of their marriage certificate. Johnie King is the local super visor of the Veterans Training program at Bolivia while LeRoy Mintz is local supervisor of thla program at Shallotte. _ Commissioners In Routine Session Nothing Of Unusual Inter est Disposed Of During ?The Regular Meeting Of County Board Monday Routine I ix , <rs , took up most of the time of -the members of the board of county commis sioners at their meeting here Monday. Paul J i Arnold was relieved of $1,500.00 valuation when double listing was revealed. Catherine Frink was given permission to pay 1-7 interest in taxes due on Jacob Frink Estate upon the basis of the 1933 valuation; Dr. C. A. Thomas was releived of liotte township when a J 2,-000. 00 adjustment was made in the esti mate placed on his timber and bis 672 acres were listed at $6.00 per acre. The commissioners set the . amount of. taxes due on the Curtis Benton Estate at $37.55. Lucy Williams was ordered ad mitted to the county home as an inmate. J. B. Atkinson was" appointed to make the survey for W. H. Simmons in Entry No. 4359. Relatives Meet Homecoming Day f Annual Event At New Hope Presbyterian Church Was Occasion Of- Unusual Im portance To McKeithan Family A fine gathering, turned out for the Annual Homecoming D*y at New Hope Presbyterian church, Wlnnabow, Sunday. The weather, one of the most beautiful days in months, was ideal and the folks of the community, as well as the many visitors, greatly enjoyed the event. An unusually fine picnic dinner was served on the church grounds at noon. New Hope's Homecoming Day Sunday was sn especially big event for members of the Mc Keithan family, outstanding in this county many years ago and still occupying that position. There is not a township in Bruns wick and only a few communi ties that do not number Mc Keithan's among its citizens. But not all the families are related. Of one of the older McKeithan families, H. S. McKeithan still lives at Bolivia; his brother, A. E. McKeithan, is a resident <jf Wilmington and a third brother, Henry McKeithan. lives in Flor ence, S. C. It was these bro? thers and their kindred that made Homecoming Day at New Hope especially notable. Not Including the more di* tant relatives, 24 of the Mo Keithans gathered at New Hope Sunday from various point* These included Mrs. Mae Mff chant, wife of the newspaper publisher at Madison. Fla.; Har old McKeithan of Miami, Fla.; Mr. and Mrs. Henry MrKeitha% (Continued on Page Five)