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fle Pilot Covers Lnswick County THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Most of The News All The Time ^"sixteen no. 39 r ? ? esjtodat^ Southport, N. CM Wednesday, January 7th71948 fubushed every Wednesday si.so per yea* l5,ers Should IP, Diversified farm Program ?'?XfSS a!: H.r.? W'" ? Redaction Of To Acreage ?YS PREACHED ^LANCED program Greater Emphasis On UAna Feed Crops Crag" Farmer ?*?, Well Off Or Better Than Be fore the Brunswick tobacco lCUt 27-per cent for 1948.; j Agent J. E. Dodson was| j? this week and asked; fes m prospect for thej , take the place of the to faUs that are to be cut an do lots of things to <or the acreage loss," he ?or years I have been ad ?tot we make a living at of all. We have been t0 grow too much tobacco i L using the money to buy Ld canned vegetables. The dollar. regardless of how niav look when the auc calling from very small 'floor, grows very smal t is used to buy meat and ?jungs we can grow on firms. tobacco crop." he contin kquires too much care and Ion from the average grow fcecially from those who L themselves with acreage. 7,t begins to need attention :eglect everything else. I i known of cases where to growers have even quit their cows, their time be P taken up with too much it is doubtful if all of the L growers are prepared to Hi the acreage reduction in Lie light that Mr. Dodson it it seems sure than many i see it this way. The coun fortunate in being able to j wide variety of crops, in ^ii to tobacco. Some of these j crops, especially food and I oops, are even more valu- j i4an tobacco. Irief New$ Flash?* SEW HOME s. C. F. Southerland has i il into the new home re- j ( purchased by her son, | l from Mr. and Mrs. Jack J kal meeting revival meeting will begin | today evening. January 19. dand Baptist church. The i ter will be the Rev. Charles [ b*ard, teacher of bible at j Ml College. A. TO MEET >< regular monthly meeting j ^ Southport Parent-Teachers pation will be held tomorrow j iy) evening at 7:30 o'clock I high school auditorium. | 'Thompson McRacken. presi-1 1 urges a full attendance. IttTBALL county basketball scheduic friday night calls for a double Is at Southport between the J teams and those from Wac F- The Leland lads and las [*ill invade Bolivia for a k blU. cub ? regular first of the month [a? of the Southport Lions ?a? postponed last Thurs to the fact that the date * New Year's Day. The first j S of the month will be [tomorrow (Thursday) at one r* at the Community Center P MSITOR Wonsavage. a former J* of the Southport high 'acuity, was a visitor here 1 short time Monday. Now at New Bern with the ^Aeronautics Authority, the school teacher served in i' "y before accepting a job the CAA. TO CHINA J? D Mercer, chief elec 3 mate In the Navy and *5 aboard the Cruiser At returned to Tsingtao.l ^ er visiting many of the! J*1' ports in the western | j, We iS tJie son of Mr. K E. Mercer of Bolivia. Menhaden Recognized As Greatest U. S. Money Fish Campaign Being Lined Up For County-Wide Rat Killing Reported That Three Of Five School Districts Have Already Been Organized For Participation In Rod ent Control Plan PROGRAM MEETS WITH MUCH FAVOR Citizens Of Brunswick Ap parently Feel That Too Much Annual Loss Is Being Suffered From This Cause It is understood that only the Leland and Southport school dis tricts now remain to be lined up for the county-wide rat killing campaign that is to be inaugurat ed in Brunswick county some time this month. With the organiza tion of these two communities a definite date will be set. Full details as to the date and me thods of the campaign should be available for publication by next week. A very strong sentiment In favor of the campaign appears to exist all through the county. The estimated two hundred thousand dollars yearly loss in the county from rats seems to be just a little more than the average Brunswick citizen is willing to stand for. At the same time it is pretty well understood that individual ef forts to dispose of the pests will not go very far. If one house holder sets to and gets rid of his rats it is only a matter of a week or two before his place will be overrun again from neighboring houses. Many years of experiment ing in many states have revealed that the only way to get rid of rats for any length of time is to have county-wide, organized, rat killing campaigns. Brunswick is planning for that. Busy Term Of Court Expected, / ? Clerk Of Court Sam T. Ben nett Expresses Belief That Practically Entire Time Will Be Used For Criminal Cases Clerk of Court Sam T. Bennett states that about 40 criminal cases are scheduled to be heard at the mixed term of criminal and civil court that is to convene here j Monday, Saturday 19. In addition j to thfe criminal cases a civil dock-, et much longer than usual is waiting for disposal. In view of the number of crim inal cases lawyers who are in (Continued 011 page five) Southport Men Attend Funeral j Henry W. Sell, respected citi- ? zen of Monroe, Union County, j died at his home Monday after noon after a considerable period j of failing health. He was ap-1 proaching his 95th birthday. Burial was held yesterday in j the Mill Creek cemetery, near Monroe. Mr. Sell was the father of A. C. (Sparkey) Sell, South-j port barber. With his son. Harry Sell. Mr. Sell attended the fun eral. Loses One Dog? Finds Another J. E. Gilbert, who Uves near Supply and gets his mail from Bolivia, found a dog and lost his own dog In the woods near Orton on New Years Day. If anybody out that way lost a dog and found a dog that day, it must bo Mr. Gilbert's and he will be glad to swap back. Mr. Gilbert's dog (the one he lost) Is a red hound. The dog the other fellow lost and which | Mr. Gilbert found, is likewise a i red hound. The only difference is that Mr. Gilbert's dog, (the one he lost) is older that the one the other fellow lost and which Mr. Gilbert found. Seed Cleaner Is Now In Operation Tobacco Farmers Invited To Take Advantage Of Free Service Being Offered At Office Of County Agent J. E. Dodson Now set up at the County Agents office at Supply for the j benefit of tobacco growers who j grow their own seed, a tobacco | seed cleaner Is available for the ( cleaning of all such seed taken ; there. No charge is made for the cleaning of tobacco seed and very little delay is experienced. The1 machine is said to have a ca- J pacity of 25-pounds of seed per j hour and very few if any Bruns wick growers use that much to bacco seed. In addition to cleaning the seed j of all trash and dust the ma-1 chine separates the lightweight j from the heavier seed. This is j considered very advisable as the i heavier seed is the more desir- j able. They produce stronger and hardier plants and this may be a factor in determining the quali (Continued on page five) Man Faces Trial For 'Auto Theft Southport Colored Man Ar rested In Mullins, S. C.? And Returned To This County To Face Charges During the Christmas holidays John Brinson. local colored man is reported to have stole a car. the property of Frey Joy of Wilmington, who was visiting his mother. Mrs. Lottie Hazelton, in Southport. Brinson. a 42-year-old man, picked up three local color ed girls and drove them to Wil mington in the stolen car. Arrested in Wilmington by city police, he made his escape on i foot, leaving the stolen car and his girl friends behind him. t With Wilmington police, the State Highway Patrol and South jport officers all anxious to give (Continued on Page Five) 1 Coast Of North Carolina 1? One Of Centers Of This Industry Along The East Coast Of United States BY BILL SHARPE You've probably never taken a bite of America's No. 1 fish, but don't grieve about it. Most people think the menhaden is too oily to eat, but nevertheless, this little bluish-white sea-critter has top pled the profitable Pacific "sar dine" (.pilchard) from its throne as the nation's most valuable fish. 1946 Department of Interior re ports show menhaden yielded some $10,000,000 worth of oil, meal and dry scrap. To extract this much money from the lowly mossbunk er required the taking of 900,000, 000 fish (20 per cent of the na tion's total catch), and to take 900,000,000 menhaden required a lot of work, much of it dangerous, all of it laborious. The profits, however, kept everyone in the industry in a rather good humor. Aside from the ship-to-shore radio service, the taking of men haden is as conventionalized and simple as any business in the world. When the school is sight ed, a "seine-netter," using a "striker-boat," rows to the edge of the slick to indicate its posi tion and to support the corkline after the net Is set. Two powered purse-boats then leave the mother ship, and head for the front of the school, sep arate, release the seine, and then encircle the fish. The boats bring the two ends of the net together, and a tom-weight is heaved over board for anchoring and closing the bottom and guiding the purse line as it is hauled in to "purse" the net. The two purse boat crews grad ually webb the net, concentrating the fish toward the striker boat. Now the trawler moves in and (Continued on page four) ' Employ Brendle For Street Work Engineer Will Be In Charge i Of Maintenance And Im- i provement Of City Streets And Will Perform Other Duties Richard L. Brendle, Southport man and civil engineer with many years of experience, began work with the city of Southport on January 1st. His work is tenta tive, for a period of 60 days, at the end of that time he may be permanently employed. Mr. Brendle's duties will be the supervision of all street and sewer work, the hiring and firing of employees of that department and to see that all such work is carried out on time and with all employees properly paid for the duties they perform. He will read all light and water meters and have such reports ready for bill ing at the proper time the first of each month. At each month's meeting of the board of aldermen he is to make a report of all work done and requirements and he will have j charge of all city tools, equip-! (Continued on page five) | Action Ordered In Payments To Forestry Dept. Commissioners Order Two Payments Monthly To Be Made Forestry Depart ment To Insure Coopera tion BOARD PROTESTS INSPECTION ZONE Commissioners In Regular Session Here Monday Dis posed Of Other Rou tine Matters Of Busi ness During Day Members of the board of coun ty commissioners in session here Monday passed an order instruct ing County Auditor R. c. St. George to make two payments monthly to the Forestry Depart-1 ment as Brunswick county's share j in the protection program until I all back payments have been met.! This stand was taken in the face of recent threats to with draw state support from the forestry program r.cw function ing in Brunswick. The commis sioners indicated that they have no desire to see any curtailment in the matter of forest protection in this county. Two road matters were given approval of the board. The peti tion of a group of citizens of the Hickmar.s Crossroads section to' have a two-mile section of road J running to U. S. No. 17 was passed upon favorably. The com missioners also approved the re quest of Kingtown citizens that a "speed zone" be. established in that community and forwarded this request to,officials of the State Highway Commission. Members of the board express ed their displeasure over the fact that apparently the Inspection Lane program of the North Car olina Motor Vehicle Bureau has been set up so that persons from Brunswick must travel to Lum-! berton for their inspection. Steps have been taken to correct this arrangement, if possible. In matters of routine business, Alice Davis was relieved of 954.00 valuation for a lot listed through error; tax settlement for Piver and Williams was ordered upon the basis of total payment cf (Continued on page four) Teacherage Work Will Start Soon ! Members Of Board Of Edu cation Decide To Begin At Once On Rebuilding Teacherage At Wacca maw School At their regular monthly meet ing here Monday night members of the Brunswick County Board of Education decided to begin at Once on the work of rebuilding the teacherage at Waccamaw. Meanwhile, the eighteen per sons who made their home there before the building was destroyed! by fire during the holidays have j found placcs in private homes of the community and have resumed their teaching duties. Some help in the matter of re placing their lost belongings was received during the past week when about $135.00 was raised (Continued on page five) ' Our ROVING Reporter w. B. KEZIAH One of the new subscribers to this paper, a western New York State man who is planning to move to Brunswick this year, writes us that in his part of New York State they sometimes get completely snowed in for seven or eight weeks at a time. The past two weeks have been I especially bad. To hundreds of j Brunswick county boys and girls i who have never seen the ground ; covered with snow the stories and pictures of the recent snows in [New York and over much to the! country were very alluring?prob-i 'ably just as alluring as our sun-' shine is to the boys and girls who live out there. Elwood Cheers and Alton Milli ken of Shallotte, both of whom are to graduate at an electrical: school in Chicago next month, j have been having something in( the way of snow to write home o their folks about. They have I seen more snow in a day this winter than they ever before saw in all their lives. Both say they will be kind of glad when they finish in Chicago and get home again. Returning from a vacation in Florida, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Woni ble spent the past week with Mrs. Womble's parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. Holden, at Shallotte. Mr. Womble is instructor in Music at the PInehurst school and has charge of a 50-piece band there. Their young son, Guy, F., Jr., who recently had an attack of infantile paralysis, is doing nice ly in the hospital at Gastonia and will be able to return home in another month. He is said to show little trace of the disease. Spectators at the benefit bas ketball game here Friday night got their money's worth In more (Continued on page four) Board Of Directors Approve Bid For RE A Extension In Brunswick-Columbus Gause Trial Scheduled To Begin In New Hanover Shallotte Negro Charged With Shotgun Slaying Of Jim Williamson To Get Second Trial For the second time Leon (Scooper) Gause, Shallotte negro, will go on trial for his life in New Hanover Superior court next Wednesday morning, accord ing to information received by this paper. Gause is accused of the murder of H. Jim Williamson, well known Shallotte farmer. Captured after an exciting man hur.t lasting over several days? during which he is said to have exhibited .the cunning of a fox, Gause admitted the crime to the arresting officers. No denial of the slaying was made during the previous trial, heard in Wilming-I ton last year. Convicted and sentenced to die, a new trial was granted by the Supreme court on the ground that an error was made in the charge to the jury. During this trial and subsequently, Cause put on a show of insanity. It is generally conceded that he is of low mentality. Officials Of Shallotte To Crack Down On Speeders' Kingtown Folks Ask "Speed Zone" Wc don't know who is kid ding who, but among the mat ters of business brought betorc the board of county commis sioners here Monday was a pe tition from a number of resi dents of the Freeland com missioners here .Monday was a petition from a number of resi i dents of the Freeland com munity requesting that a "speed zone" be established in the Kingtown section. This b> not th? first petition to be presented by residents of that community relative to roads, but all of the others have had to do with rood improve- ! ment. As a matter of fact, me- I mory of the last trip made to j that community leaves room for considerable doubt that I much speeding can be done over I the road through Kingtown. Could be that those people ; want some response to their re quests, and if they cannot get it one way they will take it another. Teen-Age Club Holds Meetings Weekly Session# Of .Young People Of Community Held At Community Cen ter Building Under Adult Direction The Community Center build ing, now used each Saturday evening by the 'teen-agers, is af fording some healthy and whole some recreation for the young folks, with various citizens being the hosts and hostesses on each occasion. As indicated by the name, " 'Teen Ages." the meetings are mainly for the young folks of the 7th through the 12th grade in school, the older attendants be ing the hostesses and chaperones. [This past Saturday Mr. and Mrs. I Joe Loughlin were the host and ! hostess, with Mrs. Saunders and Mrs. Thompson McRackan assist ing. Square dancing is usually a feature, with checkers and all (Continued on page five) Plant Man To Come Next Week Everett H. Sheppard Is Making Plans To Expand Operations For Produc ing Tomato Plants Local ly Everett H. Sheppard of Shiloh, N.*J.. is due to arrive here this i week with machinery to begin clearing and plowing his land on the River Road to grow tomato plants this spring. Mr. Sheppard has one tract of 25-acres that was sown in small grain in the fall. The grain was planted as a cover crop and will be plowed under when he is ready to sow his tomato seed. The immediate task is to be gin clearing a 135-acre tract that he leased last year. As much of this tract as can be gotten ready in time will be planted in to iniato seed this year. The balance | (Continued on page five) Safety Demands That Speed Limit Law Be Enforced j As Automobiles Pass Through This Busy Com-1 munity REGARDED AS NO. 1 PROBLEM) Mayor Leon Galloway Says That Every Consideration j Possible Will Be Shown | Visitors To Town Despite its speed limit of 20-j miles per hour through the busi- j nefls district, northern tourists en- j route to Florida are apparently of I the opinion that No. 17, through' Shallotte, is a speedway, accord-J ing to Mayor Leon Galloway. j TTie traffic problem seems to I be the most perplexing thing the' Shallotte officials have to deal1 with. They have no desire to have I motorists think their town is a j speed trap. Neither have they any: desire to have motorists flash I through town at a speed in ex-i cess of both state laws and the | towns ordinances. With the business houses be ing on both sides of the highway and many people crossing from j one side to the other about every | minute, it is extremely dangerous j for these pedestrians to have cars| whizzing through at 50 to 60 miles per hour. Very few slow' down to the prescribed 20-milesl per hour that the town ordinances I call for. Mayor Leon Galloway said Sat urday that as much as they hat ed to be discourteous to tourists the interests of public safety de mands that the town hold down the speed of cars when they are ? passing through town. They In-j tend to clamp down tighter and tighter on speedsters. Traffic Charges Heard In Court Session Of Brunswick Coun ty Recorder's Court Last Wednesday Again Feat ured Traffic Counts Once more last week trial of cases growing out of arrests for violation of traffic laws were re sponsible for the majority of ac tions before Judge W. J. McLamb. The following disposition of cases resulted: Salva tore OiGomes, speeding costs. Nemi Grady, assault with dead ly weapon, 90 days on roads, sus pended on condition that defend ant pay costs, in the amount of $25.95 and pay dental bills total ling $161.00. James Archie McCrary, speed ing. $5.00 and costs. John Toniasini, speeding, $10.00 and costs. Eai 1 T. Carswell, speediiur, $15.. 00 and costs. John W. Hewett. drinking on h ghway and disturbing peace, $lo.00 and costs. Bobert Price, public drunken ness, $10.00 and costs. Worth Ivey, violating stock law, continued. Freeman Hewett, no operator's license, $25.00 and costs. Woodrow Lewis, drunk driving, motion for jury trial. Sinnn8 ?' Roberts, speeding, $10.00 and costs. $25 0nW,nSrtVeCkIeM nation, $25.<K) and costs, fine remitted. ?."A Campbell, failure to dim lights, costs. (Continued on page five) Approximately 400 Mile* Of Power Line* Covered By Bid* Opened Tuesday By Director* Of Bruns wick Electric Member ship Corporation ALMOST MILLION DOLLARS INVOLVED Transmission Lines, Sub Stations, Etc., Covered By Bid; Figures Taken To Washington For Final Approval At a special meeting of the board of directors of the Bruns wick Electric Membership Cor poration in Shallotte Tuesday bids were opened for labor contracts on 400 miles of new transmission and distribution lines. 160 miles of this distance is in Brunswick county and 240 in Columbus. TTie spending of $998,000.00 in the building of new distribution and transmission lines, substation equipment, etc., is involved. Of the several bids submitted and opened, that of Z. A. Sneed en's Sons, of Wilmington, was the lowest and received the approval of all directors. E. D. Bishop, manager of the REA, was in structed to go immediately to Washington with this approved bid and all supporting data, and to stay there until it is approv ed by the Washington headquar ters, who must pass final judg ment on whether it will be ac cepted or rejected. In an interview this morning Superintendent Bishop stated he was leaving for Washington Mon day with the Sneeden's Sons bid. Bishop, along with all of the tff ficers of the organization, is very anxious for Immediate action. The bid covers the clearing of all of the rights of way and the erec tion of the poles. The official called attention this morning to the fact that bids of the same nature as the present ones were opened on the 7th of November, 1947. They were rejected by the Rural Electrifica tion Administration on the grounds that they were too high. The present bids are considered much more in line. J. L. Robinson, Whlteville, Route 1. is president of the Bruns wick REA. LeRoy-Mintz, young Shallotte man, is secretary-treas urer, B. O. Vannort of Charlotte is the engineer. Bishop has been manager since the organization a number of years ago. County Farmers Using Phosphate Many Growers Have Taken Advantage Of Opportun ity To Improve Fertility Of Their Soil With AAA Assistance Putting it under rye grass and various winter legumes, Bruns wick farmers put out the enor mous total of 811 tons of super phosphate during the past fall. Most of the land on which this fertilizer was used will go ill corn in the spring. Under the AAA soil'conserva tion program this phosphate costs the farmers only $6.60 per ton. The actual cost is $21.00 per ton but the AAA pays $14.40 of the amount. Although it was too wet to get out the normal small grain crop, a special effort was made to get out winter legumes and thereby take advantage of buying the phosphate at the low price that the AAA made possible. Navassa Negro Is Held For Murder James Kaiser Charged With Inflicting Fatal In juries To Perry Munson Following Trouble Be tween The Two Perry Munson, Navassa negro, employed by the Virginia Caro lina Chemical company, died In stantly Saturday morning after being struck by James Kaiser, also colored, with a piece of iron pipe. The trouble is said to have started the night before when Munson struck Kaiser. Following this row Kaiser is alleged to have laid for Munson and to have struck him on the head with th* (Continued On Pag* 0)
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