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The Pi'ot Overs Brunswick County THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community . Most of The News All The Time SIXTEEN NO. 32 6-PAGES TODAY Southport, N. C., Wednesday, November 12, 1947 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDA* SI. 50 PER VjgAft County Farmers 0 Vote For Committee m ,t!nn Committee For Brunswick County Secur ; Nominations For De cember Election |C0MREPRESENTN county I Brunswick Is Member Of | Tower Cape Fear Soil Conservation District; Good Men Needed 1937 the State Legislature an enabling act authori ? irolina farmers to JpnlM Soil Conservation Dis Z-< This act provided for a .p ,-,f five farmers in each dis 1.'. called district supervisors, to the affairs of the dis (ft ?mce some districts contained Lffial counties, a central ' board only five members did not Ictti to provide sufficient local Irfiership in the various counties. 1S4T Legislature, therefore, ded the act of provide a "County Soil Convervation Dis- 1 tict Committee" of three farmers ' i each county. The new law pro- ! V' for the electfbn of these1 aty committees in all districts i the state during the week of jcember 1 to 6, 1947. He Lower Cape Fear Soil Con ization District composed of I ien. Brunswick. Columbus, and' p.;- r ? ir.ties was organized x 1944. and since that time has managed by the following |; ari of district supervisors: D. t Harrelson from Bladen county, :rt T. Reid from Brunswick ty. M. L. Inman and V. C. it-ette from Columbus county, id A. B. Herring from Pender Bty. At the suggestion of the State Conservation Committee, j supervisors have appointed ittion committees in each of the ur counties, to secure nomina tes and manage the approaching Cions. These election comnjit i Till get five or more farm is nominated in each county kr. which the voters will elect fcw in the election beginning j I'dember 1. Nominations are by petitions signed by at 1st twenty-five (25) qualified *ters of the county. The com tittee appointed to secure the ?amations and manage the [section in Brunswick county is ciposed of Dalton Simmons, itfton Swain, Charlie Harvell, Wey P.uss and John Brown. The Miction committee has suggested la following farmers as nomin ss fjr the county committee: W. p Gore. Shallotte; Earl Thomp r- Supply; Corbett Coleman, 1*: Gilbert & Reld, Winnabow; Sal Earp, Winnabow; B. A. ?"ss. Lohgwood. Ruinating petitions are being ^filiated for each of these. The Iterations must be completed! ti forwarded to the State Soil ! teservation Committee not later; to November 20. three persons receiving the *?est number of votes in the Member election will become J* Count. Soil Conservation fcstrict Committee." The person ?"Wiving the highest number of Wes will be elected for a three f?' term, the second highest for | t?o year term, and the third Wst for a one year term. In ( Continued on page 4) BritfNtwt Flathtt fU'TION LIGHT A flashing caution light has 'wi erected at the intersection Moore and Howe streets in ?wthport. "?? \T I. ELAND A "Womanless Wedding" is be j-'S presented by the Leland i ~Jr's Club at the Leland high | 7^1 auditorium, Friday nignt , K ,;W o'clock. AT CONVENTION Jke Rev. Herbert M. Baker, of Southport Baptist ?Urch. is in Winston-Salem the ?* part of this week attending ? annual meeting of the Baptist te Convention. VT sh.VLLOTTE j. '"1"'1 will be a square dance i , box supper at the Shallotte school gymnasium Friday jj ^ of this week from 8 until tv ih'0Cl< ^le event is sponsored . ''"e Shallotte Lions Club and ] i will go toward financing | - mmuntty Christmas party. | ijtF iIcK-eithan states that an I ^?^sting event is being staged [ he anticipates a large j Southport Sailfish Wins Sweepstakes Rodeo Prize I Charlotte Dentist Is Winner Of $5,000 Cash Award; Captain Hulan Watts Wins $1,000.00 Prize The SENCBA Annual Fill Fish ing -Rodeo will reach its grand climax next Tuesday evening at a banquet at a Carolina Beach Hotel when Governor R. Gregg Cherry will award prizes to win ners in the $15,000.00 contest. The biggest prize the governor will award is a check for five thousand dollars to Dr. Elliott R. Motley, Jr., the Charlotte dentist, whose seven-foot, 11-inch sailfish was never headed in the race for the best deep-sea fish taken dur ing the tournament. It was the first sail the 33-year-old Char lotte man ever caught, although he had fished extensively in both Atlantic and Pacific waters dur ing his three years as a Com mander in the U. S. Navy Dental Corps. Dr. Motley received his B. S. degree from Davidson Col lege and his M. D. from Emory. Governor Cherry will also pre sent $1,000 to Captain T. H. Watts of Southport, the veteran sports fisherman from whose] boat, the "Idle On," Dr. Motley] Hi; LAN WATTS hooked the $5,000 prize-winner. Billy Jenkins, 25, of Wilming- j ton will receive $1,000 from the | governor for his record-breaking j 40-pound red drum, taken in Class | (Continued on Page Four! A And B Drivers Given Chance To Get Licenses I All Persons Whose Name j Begins With First Two 1 Letters In Alphabet Must ' Be Examined Before Jan. I 1st PATROLMAN WILL BE IN SOUTHPORT Failure Of Drivers To Ap ply For New Driving Per mit Before Deadline May Cause Court Action Under the new auto drivers li cense law all persons whose last names begin with A and B must get new licenses before January 1, 1948. Failure to present them selves to the examiner and get the new license before that date will result in their being cited to court. For the A and B class A. D. Peterson, license examiner, will be in Southport at the courthouse each Monday during the remaind er of the year. He will examine all in the A and B class and is sue new licenses where the ap plicant is qualified. Persons whose last names begin with C or D will be examined af ter January 1st and so on down through the alphabet. Hours for the examiner will be from 9 a. m. each Monday until 5 p. m. Only the persons whose last names begin' with A or B should apply for the renewal of their licenses during November .and December. Fishing Boats Up The Coast Vessels Leave This Area In Atempt To Meet Fall Run Of Menhaden Before Schools Reach' Here To meet the late fall movement of menhaden down the coast, three of the boats of the Bruns wick Navigation Company left this week for Morehead City and Beaufort. It is said that possibly the Plaxco and the Brunswick may bring their catches home for pro cessing. Both of these craft are 137 footers, former mine sweep ers, each having two 500-horse power engines. They can carry big loads and travel nearly twice as fast as the other boats. Both are understood to be capable of making about 16 miles per hour when loaded. These trips up the coast are more or less of a yearly venture at about this time. The fish, ac cording to some of the boat cap tains, should be near enough for the boats to be operating from Southport again within another two weeks. Aged Resident Dies Saturday Solomon E. Hewett, 67-year old former resident of Lockwoods Folly township died Saturday. In his younger days he was a fish erman and farmer. He is surviv ed by his widow and two brothers. The funeral was held Sunday at Bethel Baptist church, Rev. B. H. Price having charge of the services. Post Hallowe'en T urkey Shoot When Mrs. M. K. Sanders won the prize at the recent Hal lawe'en carnival she didn't realize it, but her troubles had just begun. The holiday bird chose the following blustery Sunday af ternoon to escape from his coop, and the more he was chas ed the wilder he became. Final ly he took to the trees, and as sticks and stones were thrown to bring him down, he moved higher and higher into the branches of a tall oak in front of the Sanders' residence. Finally, with the wind storm raging and with darkness fall ing fast, the man of the bouse was appealed to for some as sistance with armed force. Just at dusk he blasted away with his shotgun, and down tumbled Thanksgiving dinner ? a full three weeks too soon. Freezer Plant Good Insurance Farmers May Plan Hog-Kil ling Operations Secure In Knowledge That Chan- | ge In Weather Need Not Necessarily Be Disaster ous With November generally ac cepted as a good month for hog killing, with a good number of the Brunswick county porkers meeting their fate during this month, reports from Shallotte in dicate that the Brunswick cold Storage is beginning to do a thriving business in curing and freezing meat. Until recently, beef, various other meats and fruit formed the chief business of the cold storage. These products are still coming in at a good rate but, according to information, the main item now is the handling of pork. Hogs (Continued on page four) Annual Movement Southward Begins Many Yachts Passing Thru Southport Each Day As ? Pleasure Craft Head For Florida For Winter Florida-bound boats are coming through fairly numerously now, many of them stopping at South port for the night. Others that have put In at Wrightsville for' the night usually stop anywhere | along the coast between here and | Myrtle Beach. Both Holden's j Beach and Shallotte Point are j said to get a fair number of these over-night visitors. So far, most of the boats going south have been small craft, un usually under 50-footers, with an1 occasional large one. The big boats, most of which carry their owners, families and sometime^ guests, are the last to go South. The heaviest movement of these big craft is expected -to take place about the first of December. Charleston Man Sees Possibility For A Toll Road E. F. Middleton Points To Project Being Planned Between Charleston And Savannah As One Which May Expand WOULD OPEN UP NEW OCEAN ROUTE Middleton Believes Plan Would Receive Little Op position From Either Public Or State E. F. Middleton, Charleston man who took a long vision of Long Beach some years ago and saw it for what it is destined to become ? one of the most popu lar beaches on the North Carolina coast, is again seeing things. Interviewed a few days ago, Mr. Middleton was very much in trigued at seemingly well set plans of huge Chicago road build ing interests to construct a toll road and bridges between Charl eston and Savannah, Ga. The dis tance will be 87 mil^s against a present mileage of 120. It is said that the plans call for the con struction of eight drawbridges and one overhead bridge across vari ous streams and inlets. When a doubt was expressed that the traveling public would greatly favor toll roads, Mr. Mid dleton said: "Usually they would not, but this road would open up a section almost as issolated as the coastal section of Brunswick. Property values will go up into the hundreds of millions of dol lars. The state road systems will not be interfered with and the state will certainly not be oppos ed to outside money building roads that will bring about such development." The interest of the Charleston man in this projected road below Charleston is very much height ened by the fact that the same huge corporation has been and is still building other* such roads throughout the United States. He thinks that the below-Charleston plans can well be extended east ward from Charleston to connect Wilmington, crossing the Cape Fear to Bald Head island at or near Southport and running from the island on through Kures and Carolina Beaches into Wilming ton. One thing is certain, all of the Brunswick coast, from Calabash up through Seaside, Gause Land ng, Shallotte Point, Holden's Beach, Long Beach, etc., would lail with joy the building of such a road, even if it involved :he payment of tolls where the road ran. Brunswick Girl Is Prize Winner Miss Anne Fulcher, ~ daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Fulcher, 3f Leland, won secpnd place on her 4-H Club dress exhibit at the North Carolina State Fair, rhe prize was $15.00. Miss Fulcher was one of ten selected in August at the State J-H Club short course, at State College. She also modeled this outfit at State College. It was jreen gabardine with black hat, gloves, pocketbook and shoes. Last Chance To Get Seed Help J. J. Hawes, secretary of the Brunswick County AAA Commit tee, wishes to warn farmers de siring to purchase seed as soil conservation materials through the AAA office that the deadline is Saturday of this week. After November 15 no orders will be taken nor deliveries made on purchase order for Austrian Winter Peas, rye grass, vetch or crimson clover. Mr. Hawes calls attention to the fact, that an ample supply of these seed is now on hand, and farmers have three more days in which to make their purchases through the government farm program. Traffic Counts Make Up Docket Most Of Cases Tried Here Monday Resulted In Vio lations Of Traffic Regu lations Cases disposed of before Judge W. J. McLamb in Record er's court Monday featured traf fic violations. The following judg ment resulted: Dalton Smith, parking on high way, continued to November 24. Ed Gore, assault, continued to November 24. Mable Gore, assault, continued to November 17. Thubert Hewett, reckless op eration, continued to November 24. Russell Cook, failure to stop at stop sign, ordered to pay costs. Leo Meares, vagrancy, not guil ty. Tennis Davis, possession, no operator's license, fined $25.00 and costs. Charles Marvin Watts, reck less operation, fined $25.00 and costs. Enoch M. Farris, drunk driving, fined $100.00 and costs. Vann Long, drunk driving, fin ed $100.00 and costs. William Henry Ely, speeding, capias and continued. Edward Bullard, obstructing public road, not guilty. Margaret Allison, speeding, call ed and failed, capias. A. D. Young, speeding, tres pass, not guilty. Dr. J. A. Guiton, speeding, fin ed $15.00 and costs. William DeCover, speeding, fin ed $5.00 and costs. Dan Fuller Williams, drunk driving, asks for jury trial. Auxiliary Seeks Hospital Gifts Thanksgiving Day Has Been Designated As An Appropriate Time For Friends To Send In Gifts And Money At the last meeting of the Dosher Memorial Hospital Aux iliary attention was directed to the fact that the hospital is in need of many small things, such as glasses, small trays to hold the glasses and medicines, table covers, scarves and many other similar items. Since the auxiliary was found ed soon after the hospital was first established, this organiza tion has made it a point to see that the small things needed were (Continued on page four) W. B. KEZIAH Our ROVING Reporter Frank Smith, a self-styled Yan kee with the prefix that is usual ly applied to it, has been linked up with the business at Shallotte Point for a right good many years. Away back in the distant past Old Captain Allen Milliken built a store at the Point and ran it himself. It was then acquired j by the Rourks and handed along. | Chandler Rourk owned the place for a good many years and Frank ran it for him. Several years ago Frank bought the store and con tinued to run it. Recently he sold out to Mrs. Leonard, a nearby resident. Relieved of his business worries, Frank has been spending twelve days at his old home at Long Island, N. Y. He owns other property at the Point and is well rooted in Brunswick county. Sending us his renewal to The | Pilot, I. N. Galloway, of Supply, wrote something that we are al-| ways pleased to hear from those who take and read the paper. Mr. Galloway said: "I can't do without The Pilot. Thursday, when it comes is a red letter day for me. I have never yet been disap pointed in the paper and for this you fellows have my thanks." It is no great credit to South port folks that no effort has ever been made to do something for "Uncle" Jim Lewis at the South- , port postoffice. TTiis old fellow is now in his 82nd year. For the past 33-years he has been a local employee more loyal to the Post Office Department or to the pub- i lie. "Uncle" Jim has no regular 1 hours, day in and day out he is at the office before the sun 1 rises and still there when it sets. By hitch-hiking around with the tax 9ollector we will spent most (Continued on page Two) Appoint New Pastor For Trinity Methodist Church The Rev. L. D. Hayman, For Past Four Years Pas tor Of Whiteville Meth odist Church, Is Coming Here THE REV. MR. FIELDS GOES TO WILMINGTON New Pastor For Southport Has Long Record Of Ser vice In Eastern North Carolina The Rev. L. D. Hayman, for the past 4 years pastor of White ville Methodist church, has been assigned by the North Carolina Conference as pastor of Trinity Methodist church. He succeeds the Rev. Paul H. Fields, who will go to Wesley Memorial, In Wilmington. The Rev. Richard Braunstein was returned to the Shallotte cir cuit. The Rev. Mr. Hayman comes to Southport with an impressive record of ^rvice in the ministery in Eastern North Carolina. Both he and Mrs. Hayman are grad uates of Duke University, and the Rev. Mr. Hayman holds a mas ter's degree from that schqol. The couple has two grown children. Dr. L. D. Hayman, Jr., UEV. L. D. HAY.MAN, is a practicing physician at Have- j lock, and their daughter is mar- j ried and lives in Conway, in this state. He came to the Whiteville charge in January, 1944, from Atlantic and his ministery in the Columbus county town was j marked by a building program i wlilch has resulted in the near completion of a new church at (Continued on page four) Two Children From This County In Polio Ward Launch Second Local Trawler The Seafighter, second of Lewis J. Hardee's big locally built shrimp trawlers, was launched here Saturday after noon. She slid into the water without a hitch and Is now hav ing her big diesel engine plac ed. She will probably begin shrimping before the end of the month. The boat Is 54-feet In length, the same size as the Sea Boys which was launched late in June. Her bottom a little sharp er than the Sea Boys and she is expected to be smooth in | handling. Both boats were built j by Lewis Spaulding, colored boat-builder from Florida. He was assisted on both craft by local colored men. Have Good Luck On Bald Head Drum Casting Off Tip Of Bald Head Island Nets One 30-Pound Drum For Local Sportsmen Apparently November is bring- 1 ing some extra good fishing in j the inlets and bays, the sort of j sport that folks looked for and 1 ; failed to find during September and October. Monday night Delmas Fulcher of Wilmington and Bill Oberjohan of Southport reported that they had just returned from the point on Bald Head Island. Their main ' catch was' a 30-pound drum, but i (Continued on page 2) Respected Negro Dies Wednesday The Rev. Sam Frink, Out standing Leader Of His Race In Southport, Pas sed Following Months Of Declining Health Rev. Sam Frink, one of the best known and most highly respected ? colored residents of Southport, iied at his home here Wednes iay morning following an illness Df several months. He was in his 77th year. Ordained as a Methodist min- i ister when 21-years of age, he i iivided his time between his ser- , 1 rice to his church and employ- 1 ] ment with the U. S. Army En-| ?ineers as a carpenter. Following < 30-years of service with the En- ; i gineers he was retired on a pen- j 1 sion and since that retirement J has lived quitely at his home in ' Southport. i Greatly liked and respected by ( both the white and colored resi- . ients of the town, the death of 1 this good colored man was a c Jistinct shock. He reared a large family, three 1 sons and five daughters, all of 1 whom are occupying positions of i usefulness and trust in their vari- ' (Continued on Page 2) < ; Little Boy From Supply And Leland Infant Are Receiving Specialized Treatment At James Walker Hospital OTHER CASES HAVE RECEIVED ATTENTION Annual Drive For Funds During January Will Take On New Signifi cance For Contribu tors To Cause It is not generally known, but at the present moment there arej two Brunswick county children receiving treatment in the James Walker Memorial hospital in Wil mington for infantile paralysis. I They are little Edward Thomp-| son, 3-year old, of Supply, and Brenda K. Mintz, 8-months old Leland baby. The James Walker | hospital has special facilities for the treatment of such patients. In! addition to these two there have been a number of others from Brunswick who received special treatment ' at various times dur ing 1946 and 1947. A total of $1, 474.57 has been paid for the care and treatment of these little sufferers. National Infantile Paralysis headquarters has been called upon and has responded nobly with the money that Brunswick did not have for the above need. It is hoped that the 1948 Drive will ' bring a response from generous hearted people, sufficient to en- 1 able Brunswick to take care of her own. The Infantile Paralysis Drive, which will start in January, will have for its head in Brunswick codnty the Rev. Herbert M. Ba ker. The Rev. Mr. Baker has been appointed chairman for the drive and he states that he feels he is fortunate in having to assist him J. T. Denning, Superintendent of schools for the county. Mr. Den ning will have charge of the work In the schools during the drive. Mr. Baker stated this week (Continued on page four) Shallotte Man Passes Sunday John Bert Jacobs Died At Dosher Memorial Hospit al Where He Has Been A Patient For Some Time John Bert Jacobs, 51-year-old resident of Shallotte township, died here in the Dosher Memorial hospital early Sunday morning. He had been 111 for several week3. Funeral services were conduct ed yesterday at Prospect Baptist ;hurch, near Supply, with burial following in the church cemetery. Mr. Jacobs is survived by his widow, two sons, Elmer Jacobs, ! ot Albany, Ga., and Cecil Jacobs, I it* Shallotte; two daughters, Ruby Jane and Julyne Jacobs, of Shal lotte; three brothers, Charlie Ja cobs, of Sarasota. Fla., Henry Jacobs, of. Miami, Fla.; and Wil lie Jacobs, of Little River, S. C.; three sisters, Mrs. Beulab Stocks, of Nakina; Mrs. Osley Monroe, rabor City, and Mrs. Lester Long 3t Tabor City, Pinner Selected As President Of District Teachers Tabor City School Principal Honored By Southeastern Group At Fayetteville Meeting REPRESENTATIVES OF THIS COUNTY THERE Inspiring Address By Dr. Ralph McDonald Was Highlight Of Fayette ville NCEA Meet ing C. H. Pinner, principal of Tabor City Schools for nearly a decade and one of Columbus county's outstanding educators, was elect ed president of the Southeastern District of the North Carolina Education Association at Fayette ville Friday. Mr. Pinner succeeds V. R. White of the Fayetteville school system. Mrs. R. R. Christie of Wilming ton was named vice president, but no secretary was chosen. Lumberton was chosen as the site of next year's meeting, the date being left for later deter mination. Teachers from 13 Southeastern counties attended the meeting and heard Dr. Ralph W. McDon ald, two-time candidate for Gov ernor and now with the National Education Association, become a prophet of gloom as he predict ed that the educational situation in North Carolina "is bound to grow worse". Backing up his "view with al arm" message, Dr. McDonald said the State school system had dropped from 32nd to 39th in tcacher compensation during the past four years. The division of classroom teach ers adopted a resolution asking for a starting salary of $2,400 for teachers with a Class A cer tificate Make Extended Trip Out West O. R. Mintz And Three Nephews Are Visiting In Idaho And In State Of Washington O. R. Mintz of Ash and his three nephews, Sammie, Hugh David and Teddy Vance, are visit ing the grandparents of the Vance boys in Idaho and other relatives in Seattle, Washington. Sammie and Hugh David, the older of the three boys, were born in North Carolina. In 1924 their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Delbert P. Vance, moved to Seattle to live. Teddy was born there in Seattlo and after a few years all three of the boys came to North Caro lina and Brunswick county to live with relatives. They have not seen their grandparents or par ents since, until the present visit. With their uncle they went to Idaho by the Northern route and will return home by the Southern route. They are planning on a (Continued on page four) Tax Collector Making Rounds Rovin' Reporter Will Travel Next Week With Tax Collector W. P. Jorgen sen Throughout County County Tax Collector Wil liam P. Jorgensen will begin his regular tax collection round* Tuesday of next weeK. In addition to the regular routes and places where he has been stopping for a number of years, Mr. Jorgensen has arranged for seven new calling points. At the hours designated in his,, advertise ment elsewhere in this paper he will stop at the D. E. Simmon* store in Waccamaw township; the Frank Smith (now Mrs. Leonard) store at Shallotte Point; R. L. Rabon's store and the E. V. Evans store in North West township; Hinson's store, Peter Robinson's store and Cobie Hewett's store, all in Lockwoods Folly township. All of the above places are new points of call, where tax payer* in the community may meet with the collector without having to go too far. In all Mr. Jorgensen will call at 26 different places In the county. The full list may be seen in the advertising columns. As usual, taking this opportuni ty to get about the county and see the folks, the State Port Pilot's Rovin' Reporter will ao? company Mr. Jorgensen on theaa trips, ;? * ;1r ?/