Ift. Pilot Covers junswick County THE STATE PORT PILOT Most of The New? All The Time A Good Newspaper In A Good Community ?-PAGES TODAY Southoort. iSTC., Wednesday. April 14th, 1948 ruwJSHED every wednesdai ?1.50 PERYEAB Hot-Water Well In Spotlight ATTRACTIVE?Sure to be a center of interest when Ft. Caswell becomes a ::: the State Park System is the hot-water well which was the subject of nation puMieit> ai'out ten >ears ajro. The above young ladies are shown taking an out r during one of the winter months. Ten yean and three weddings later, it will 1 ?o better to allow the lovely models to remain unidentified. Itate To Take Over Caswell rom Navy For Park System id Of Conservation And 1 [vflopment Proposes To itrate Park For One ij." Do T. ial Basi-" ? their visit to Ft. U Friday for the purpose L. . first-hand inspection p facilities of the U. S. Sectiori Base, members of .if Conservation anil pnent ..r. Saturday voted f tate with the Navy for ? if this property for a of one year as a link in ate Parks System. Navy hail made previous | of *he use of the Section' always with a 5-year re son rlause which discour ?e 3* te officials. The one "al will give the park of ?" ipp.rturity to discover tu! if interest that will ?a m this property, ? and j pve an Hjea of the extent i *rs and improvements re-1 to bnr.g the facilities up ('lesired standard. "solution for taking over iwell was introduced by w Rogers, of Scotland "mpaper publisher and I of 'he board of Conserva Development. * are many features which1 5elP to make Caswell one 1 ?o?t popular points on tot. r I * .'ears ago when Fort j 1 ?as open to the public 1(1 salt water well" was a Wbhclty asset. Stories J1' *hower and hot water "aued On Page Four) ' Flashes ?ere ?**art. manager of Sear's p"" Store, was a visitor ' ' ^.v whit, on a tour of k county ticach tievelop communities. [Juj. srxi?.\Y |rP' r T'H play the Moose V Sumlay afternoon in rM Cu"test of the Cape ^ .season. In the - f1 the local team u,. V' to Mason ic, Raclcliff going for Si.ijih[>ort. ^TERKst fs '.'""rr" Star of "The j ^"El',Pr" which plays I, Tu, sday at the L,J"e SO" Of J. c. COt rsburg, va., man who tj res"Jent of Southport k of ,?CCa3lona' visitor. A the eicer Mr. Cotton fc" y '''splayed in the uinc iead in the pi(,_ ?1 III by Loretta Young,1 'or 1947 Academy UUs role. I Ferry Service To Ft. Fisher May Be Tried Group Of Brunswick r arm- j ers And Businessmen To Form "Brunswick Cooper ative" AUCTION MARKET FIRST OBJECTIVE Provisions Will Be Made For Selling Stock To Farmers And Business men In County The Chamber of Commerce has hail an inquiry requesting inform-! ation on the matter of a ferry J from Fort Fisher to Southport.1 Such a proposition was given consideration several years ago t by some outside interests. When the highway bridges were built at Wilmington a letter from j Southport to J. L. Sprunt in Wil mington suggested the possibility! of the John Knox ferry boat be- j ing brought down the river and. operated between Fort Fisher and' Orton. There were no roads on the Brunswick side of the river) at the tftne and the suggestion | was only a dream of the future. | The resent inquiry comes from! the Automobile Legal Associa-1 tion, affiliated with the American . Automobile Touring Alliance. Its principal offices are in Mass-1 achusetts, with others throughout all eastern states. The associa-1 tion In its letter indicated in terest in a ferry, with Fort Fish-; er and Southport being the only points specifically mentioned. The view of the contacts in Boston, is that if there were a j corporation or private interest with funds to construct ferry i slips at Fort Fisher. Southport1 (Continued On Page Four) I Robbins Nest Has New Owner! i Winston-Salem People Pur chase Local Property And Will Recondition For Fut ure Occupancy The Robin's Nest, formerly a show place of this area, was sold last week to Mr. and Mrs. E. C. | Hayes of Winston-Salem. Mr. Hayes is an official of the Stand ard Oil Company of New Jersey, j He will retire next year and in formation is that during the re mainder of this year he and Mrs. | Hayes will devote much time to, restoring the fine old house with the ? purpose of making it their | permanent home when Mr. Hayes retires. I The place is on a high bluff overlooking the Cape Fear river, ^continued oa page two) Farmer Bellamy Setting Tobacco O. I*. Bellamy, Shallot te farmer and former chairman uf the board of eounty ciimmis nioners apparently has the edge on other farmers in the matter of their 1948 tobaeeo crop?. Sir. Hellamy reported Mon day that he set out a full acre of tolmrco Saturday and would get three or four acrea more planted fhK week. It 1? very likely that a number of grow ers are planting this *wk but with hi* start Saturday Mr. Bellamy is probably the first in the county to get out any considerable acreaeg. Traffic Counts Tried In Court Lengthy Docket Disposed Of Before Judge VV. J. McLamb Here In Record er's Court Wednesday Traffic counts featured the lengthy docket disposed of before Judge W. J. CcLamb here in Recorders Court Wednesday. The following disposition of cases re sulted: Wendell Davis, reckless opera tion, costs. Elvin H. Holf, reckless opera tion, $15.00 fine and costs. , Vernon O. Ncally, speeding, ca pias. Cary C. Jackson, reckless op eration, $25.00 fine and costs. Elias Belangcr, speeding, ca pias. James Cause, assault, 90 days on roads, suspended on payment of $100.00 fine and costs. Martin L. Stephens, reckless operation, $25.00 fine and costs. Evelyn W. Barefoot, no op erators license, continued. M. C. McLamb, possession, con tinued to April 14th. Roncy Carlysle, larceny, bound over to Superior court. . Earl Benton, speeding, $10.00 fine and costs, fine remitted on payment of $23.55. Eugene L. Cray, assault with deadly weapon, continued to April 28. Robert Hester, carrying con cealed weapons, fined $50.00 and costs, gun confiscated. Jonathan Reaves and Eugene Jackson, larceny, continued to April 14th. Monroe Mebane, drunk driving, reckless operation, speeding, con (Continued on page t) State Officials Luncheon Guests Local Lions Club Members Of The Board Of i Conservation And Devel opment Hold Business Meeting Here Friday | Afternoon VICE-CHAIRMAN IS PROGRAM SPEAKER Visitors Left Southport For Trip To Orton After Vis iting Caswell During The Morning Members of the Board of Con servation and Development were guests of the Southport Lions Club at a luncheon here Friday as members of that body were in this area for the purpose of inspecting the Naval Section Base at Ft. Caswell. The board members and their guests made the trip -from Wil mington aboard the U. S. Army i Engineers yacht Kittyhawk, and following their visit to Caswell | came over to Southport for their j luncheon engagement. Following an appropriate wel- < come by the club president, B. j L. Furpless, J. L. Horne, vice J chairman of the board, spoke for a few minutes about the purpose I of the visit and other matters! pertaining to conservation and j development work that is of par ticular Interest to citiiens of this section. He also introduced mem- J bers of his party to the South port people. Following the luncheon the board held a business meeting in the library of the Community Center Building, and at 4 o'clock [ departed for Orton where they were conducted by J. Lawrence ISprunt on a tour of the beautiful garden. At 5 o'clock a tea WH3 given in their honor at Orton ! Mansion. I Members of the group at Southport included: Eric Rogers, Oscar Breece, Walter Damtoft, Wilbur Bunn, Charlie Allen, Bob Proctor, Roy Hampton, K. Clyde Council, Mr. Stafford, Miles Smith, Percy Ferebec, Colonel George Gillette and J. L. Home, members of the board; and Bill Beichler, Tom Morse, Eric John son, Miss Evelyn Yelverton, R. Bruce Ethridge, Paul Kelly, Hugh Rhodes, A1 Dixon, Mrs. Damtoft and Mrs. Dunlapp. More Candidates i File For Primary Election Board Chairman G. C. McKeithan Report* Competition In Sight For Every Office G. C. McKeithan, chairman of the Brunswick County Board of Elections, has had a rush of business during the past few days as many candidates have filed with him for the coming May Primary .election. A race for the Democratic nomination for Register of Deeds is assured with Amos J. Walton, incumbant, and James H. Gallo way, both candidates. W. J. McLamb is the only can didate thus far to file for Judge of Recorder's court, but A. H. (Lonnie) Gainey has given notice, that he will file, and John B. Ward, who formerly held this of-' fice, was the first man to an (Continued on Pagn 2) Speaker KERR SCOTT Candidate For Governor Here Wednesday Nite Brunswick County Teach ers Had Opportunity To Hear Some Of Views Of Kerr Scott On Matters Affecting Schools Kerr Scott was the principal speaker here Wednesday even ing as members of the Bruns wick County Chapter of the North Carolina Education Asso ciation celebrated their final meeting of the year with a ban quet at the Community Building. Henry C. Stone, principal of Shallotte high school, as master of ceremonies presided over an interesting progranl which was highlighted by the piano artistry of two Shallotte music students. Marion Galloway, seventh grade student, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Galloway, played "Impro visation in Melody," by Arthur L. Brown, and "Simple Confes sion," by Frances Thome. Hen derson Rourk, sixth grade stu dent and son of Dr. and Mrs. M. H. Rourk, played "Rapsody In Blue," by George Gershwin, and "A Song From The East," by Cyril Scott. In his address to the teachers Mr. Scott told the Brunswick County Educational Association that "unwholesome conditions in the State School system can never be rooted out as long as teachers are paid less than farm | hands." The candidate for governor said the State cannot afford not to increase teachers' salaries be (Continued on page 2) 1 Drive Continues For Cancer Fund i Contributions Will Be Soli cited In Public Place? With No House To House Canvass Being Planned Miss Marion Frink, commander of the field army now soliciting funds for the Cancer Drive in Brunswick county, has completed a large part of her organization and workers are busy throughout the county raising money toward the Brunswick county quota. TTierc will be no house to house canvass, and in Southport two teams of young ladies are solicit ing funds. Operating downtown I (Continued on page 2) Our ROVING Reporter \V. a KEZIAH We were planning to go to I Long Beach to the auction sale Saturday, that is if anybody came along and took us. While the method of our getting there was still in a sort of status quo, Arthur Baldwin. Jr., of Whitc Iville, came along and stopped to ask us to go to lunch with him. As it is our steadfast policy -to be accommodating to everybody, we compromised things by going to the beach with htm instead of lunch. | The Brunswick county coast got credit in about all of the biggest papers in the east last i week for the taking of the first bluefish on the North Carolina 1 coast. The fish in question were taken on March 27 by the boat of Captain T. H. Watts. J. Ham mond Brown in his outdoor col umn in The Baltimore Newi-Poat said that this was the earliest these fish had been known to appear on the North Carolina coast. Our good friend Captain J. B. Church is on a two weeks vaca tion at his old home near Boston. The day before his departure it was noticed that he was busy working in his yard. He was ask ed if ho was searching for a four leaf ciover to insure good luck with the girls on his trip. His reply was: "I'm finding plenty of four-leaf clovers but it will take a six-leaved one to do me any good." At the beginning of World War II there was much talk of decen tralization of population and in dustry. President Roosevelt, we believe, was one of the advocates (Continued on paf? flv?) WALDEN CREEK FARMER IS EXPECTING EARLY MELONS And Robert McRacken Recall* Early D-rficultie* Ex Derienced In Tran?porting To IViarket "Although X grow them to sell, | I will be able to give you a wa termelon by the 25th of June or before." So said Robert McRack-| an to a representative of this I paper Saturday night. Mr. Mc-I Rackan lives out on the river1 road, two and a half miles from town. "Have you planted your seed yet?" he was asked. ; "Sure" he said, "I planted the first of them the 10th of March and plai ted all of my melon crop1 during that month. They are all | up and growing." | Remembering the big truck loads of watermelons that he brought to Southport and Wil imlngton daily for six weeks or | more last summer, this Walden k'ri" k faimer was asked how i many acres he put out in the ! melons this year. "Only 35 acres this year," he jsaM. "Wita the bad road I had to move them out in half-loads j last year. My dad and other farmers used to grow and send them out of here by the barge load, loading on Walden Creek." There was a time when river road farmers, McRackan's, Moore's and others, grew and shipped several hundred acres of melons each year, sending them out on boats that were loaded on Walden Creek. The boat method became too slow in competition with fast moving trucks over hard surfaced roads. The melon growing has sort of languished, although scores of Wilmington dealers will proudly advertise that his mellons were grown on Walden Creek, when he can get them from there. But, "only 35 acres" is still a j big patch. It means that from j east to west, when Robert is on j the east side of the field shoot ing red headed woodpeckers that! are plugging his ripening melons, | he won't be able to see what a j newspaper man is doing on the, west. Making Applicaation i To Obtain Charter Brunswick Farmer Grows Ton-Liter B. C. William*, Shallotte farmer, aiWov?! his |M>rk pro duction goal of a "ton-liter" Wit?! room to xpare last wfok when he marketed 11 tlx month* old Duroc hogs tiiat weighed 2,600-lbt. This litter wax born on the Williams farm October 8, and were brought along on peanuts until time to put them In a pen to top them off on corn. Sale was made last Thurs day, the day the pigs were 6 roonthH old and their total weight went 600-11?. over the original objective of the pro ject. Students Visit Two Plantations High School Boys And Girls Visit Clarendon And Pleasanl Oaks Friday Afternoon The tour of two of the Bruns wick county river road planta tions by the teachers and senior students of the Brunswick schools Friday afternoon was both edu cative and interesting. Lindbergh Gore, speaking for a bunch of the Shallotte school folks as well as himself, stated that just to see the Pleasant Oaks Plantation more than re paid them for the trip. From a farming standpoint, the planta tion presents a mixture not often met up with In any county. Hundreds of acres of grain, especially wheat, about 18 inches tall and so green that It looked blueish, presented a beautiful level sigfit. The beautiful ponds, huge barn and numerous attrac tive homes made a wonderful sight. Not the least interesting at the moment were the thous ands of blooming flowers, scat tered over a huge area and Just at the peak of their blooming. The Pleasant Oaks azaleas were just at their peak of bloom Fri day afternoon and for that parti cular day, at least, their beauty undoubtedly surpassed anything In Brunswick county. The plantation has many thou sands of azaleas. J. J. Ramsauer and his son, Joe, co-managers of the plantation, were just finish ing up planting seven thousand azalea bushes. These new plants, as well as the old ones, are be (Continued on Page 2) Southport Boy Wins 4th Place Competing in the 10-county Soil Conservation Speaking Con test at Fayetteville Friday, Her bert Swain of Southport, winner in the Brunswick county contest, came out 4th among the prize winners. The Pender county representa tive stood first, winning a $30.00 prize and the chance at the State Prize at State College. New Han over county was second, Lee County 3rd and Brunswick 4th among the ten contestants. The competition at Fayettevl'Js was considered very stiff by the judges and all who heard the young contestants. It is expect ed to be even harder In the finals it SUte College. Northern Interest Directs Inquirey To Local Cham ber Of Commerce Secre tary Regarding Project WOULD OPEN NEW TOURIST AVENUES With Southport, Ft. Fish er And Bald Head Island Linked Up More Visit ors Could Be Expect ed Here At a meeting at Shallotte last week a 5-man committee was given the go-ahead signal in the matter of applying for a charter for the "Brunswick Cooperative," an organization that has for it? immediate plans the establish ment of an auction market. Once established, this market [may branch out with the ultimate idea of helping Brunswick farm ers to sell more of their products at home. This, in turn, will fos ter trading at home. The five-man committee Is composed of T. T. Ward, Long wood; J. A. Purvis, Ash; A. S. Hewett, Supply; O. P. Bellamy, Wampee, S. C., and W. E. Stana land, Ash. J. E. Cook, cashier of the Shal iotte branch of the Waccamaw Bank and Trust company, stated this week that the committee is already busy with the prepara tions to apply for the charter. Following the securing of these papers a campaign will be launched to sell stock among both business men and farmers of Brunswick county. On its face this corporation would appear to be for the bene fit of the farmers only, Mr. Cook pointed out that such is not the case. The success and progress of the farmers of Brunswick bears close relationship to the ad vancement of the business in terests. The organization will be the Brunswick Cooperative and business Interests are as keenly interested as the farmers. The application for a charter will ask for an authorized capital stock of 1100,000, divided into 1600 shares of preferred stock of the par value of $50.00 per share, and 2000 shares of common stock with par value of $10.00 per share. The preferred stock in the as Isociation will be freely transfer jrable. Holders of this preferred stock shall be entitled to cumula tive annual dividends of 4 per .annum, first payable out of any net savings of the association. Holders of common stock will likewise be entitled to a dividend (Continued On Page Four) Boatwright Buys Long Beach House Troy Man Think? ThU Will Be Fine Year Of Develop ment For Nearby Long Beach; May Add To Building > Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Boatwright, of Troy, have been spending sev eral days at their cottage at Long Beach, and while ljere Mr. Boatwright bought several addi tional building lots at the beach and the 12-room guest house near the pavillion. These purchases were made at the auction sale of the J. F. Gar rell property Saturday. Mr. Boatwright stated this week that he might double the (Continued on page 3) McKeithan New Election Board Head For County Registrar? And Judge? For Various Precincts Ap pointed By Members Of Board During Session SOUTHPORT WILL f HAVE TWO PRECINCTS Saturday Is Final Day For Candidates To File For Primary; Registration Strats May 1 The Brunswick-County Board of Elections met at the court house in Southport on April 10 for qualification with G. C. * Keithan, chairman; R. s !^ ken, secreUry; U C. ? T? result of a request Jjo change Southport precinct, Uie following arrangement ^ Keeninc the exterior boundary Unes as they a?, then dividing precinct by N. C. Highway No. 130 to Howe street then by Howe street to water edge. The par lying on Northeast side of N. Highway No. 130 and Howe street to be called Ward No. 1; thepaH Wing on the Southeast side of N. C. Highway No. 130 and How street to be called WardNo. 2 The voting place for Ward N . at the court house and for Ward No. 2 at B. J. Holden's store. All other precincts boundrtca were adopted as herefore used. The following registers and judges of respective precincts were appointed: Hoods Creek: Registrar, Mrs. Leo Medlin; judges. Dick Sanders and Lonnie Regan. Town Creek: Registrar, S. U Purvis, judges, Earl Earp and G. W. Swain. Bolivia: Registrar, Mrs. May Galloway, judges, E. O. Raboiv and H. L. Willetts. Southport Ward No. 1: Regis trar, Mrs. Ressie Whatley; judg es, Mrs. Bill Wells and Joe Coch run. Southport Ward No. 2: Regis* trsr: ? Mrs. Elsket 9t. G??>tg<'; judges, Thomas St. George ?*