The State Port Pilot
Southport, N. G.
Published Every Wednesday
JAMES M. HARPER, JR Editor
Entered as second-class matter April 20, 1928, at
the Post Office at Southport, N. C., under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
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Wednesday, April 14, 1918
A Step For Progress
Action on the part of a group of
Shallotte citizens in making applicat
ion for a charter for a cooperative
which will bring auction market facili
ties to that community is another step
in the march of progress.
When our farmers have to haul their
farm products many miles to market
two or three undersirable results are
experienced. The first of these is that
expense is added to his farm-market
ing program, and this increased cost
must be absorbed by him. Added to
this is the fact that most farm products
lose weight or lose quality when they
are given long hauls.
In the second place, the farmer and
members of his family have a tendency
to do their trading where they do their
marketing. Thus when you help out a
plai for selling on a home market, you
are taking the best possible steps to
ward having your farmers do their
trading at home.
Good Public Relations
Brunswick county high school seni
ors and teachers made a tour of two of
the famous Cape Fear River Plantati
ons Friday, and for many of these boys
and girls this will be a memorable ex
perience.
For one thing, they will always re
member the beauty of these reminders
of the Old South as they saw them in
their new robes of Spring. For another,
they will long remember their visit to
scenes of early history which had its
being in Brunswick county.
They will remember with pleasure
the courtesy of the invitations extended
to them, and since they are future
citizens, taxpayers and prospective
voters and office holders ,it is nice for
these large property owners to enjoy
the wholehearted good will of their
young guests.
Fine Tribute
Last week the Rev. L. D. Hayman,
pastor of Trinty Methodist church, re
turned home from New York to which
port he had traveled as a guest aboard
the tug John E. McAlister of which his
brother, Captain Dan Hayman, is skip
per.
The McAllister was in port over the
past week-end, and at the 11 o'clock
hour Sunday morning Captain Hayman
and all of the members of his crew were
members of the congregation at Trini
ty Methodist church. Six of this number
returned for the evening service.
We call particular attention to these
visitors because of one thing. It speaks
well for our preacher. It means that
these fellows think he is a good sailor
and a good shipmate; and this was the
greatest tribute of respect that the
crew of the McAllister could possibly
pay him.
Distinguished Guests
Southport had the privilege Friday
of having as their guests members of
the North Carolina Board of Conserva
tion and Development, and if our visit
ors had a good time as did their hosts,
then we would call it a most successful
occasion.
Primary purpose of the trip to this
section was to inspcct Ft. Caswell, with
the idea of making arrangements with
the U. S. Navy to procure those facilit
ies for inclusion in the State Parks
system. Favorable action was taken on
this matter, and final word from the
naval authorities appears to be the
only hitch in completing these negotia
tions.
If these plans go through, there will
be other visits from members of the
Friday group of guests; and a good
groundwork for our muture relations
with members of the Board of Conser
vation and development will have been
laid at this meeting.
Democracy In Action
A Durham publication for colored
people, The Carolina Times, recently
published an outstanding editorial on
the subject of race relations.
All liberals are in agreement that
the salvation of the country lies in the
production of "statesmen" instead of
"hatesmen," and their diagreement
with President Truman's civil rights
program is not on the grounds that they
wish to continue the "viciousness of
race hatred," but that such a program
will not speed the development of bet
ter relations.
The Times editorial is nevertheless
enlightening and offers some food for
thought. It follows: >
"Several days ago we had the pleas
ure of seeing several teen-age youngs
ters of both races enjoying themselves
together at play. There was no eviden
ce of race consciousness as they skated,
wrestled and had their fun at other
childish pastimes. Here we felt was de
mocracy in action. Certainly it was a
better demonstration of it than is often
found among their elders who to the
contrary cannot even worship God to
gether.
"The thought finally came to us that
it would be a fine thing if these young
people could never know the vicious
ness of race hatred. Now they are free
and unmindful of the enslavement to
what some of our southern governors
and congressmen have been referring
to as southern traditions. On to morrow
their elders will teach them all of the
hatred and meanness that go with liv
ing in the south. All of their natural in
clinations to find fellowship in each
other, to have respect for each other
and to enjoy the fullness of life will be
stunted by a false doctrine that they
must learn about southern traditions.
"Thus instead of producing more
men like Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln
and Roosevelt we will produce here in
the south a fresh crop of Bilbos, Rank
ins, Bleases, Hoeys and the like. Instead
of statesmen we will produce hatesmen
who will defy the United State Su
preme Court, the Constitution and
every other agency we have to sustain
a democratic form of government. In
stead of leading the world toward an
era of peace, they by their unwilling
ness to accept all men for what they
are worth, rather than for what the
color of their skin is, will lead the
world toward another war.
"We call upon every decent Ameri
can, both north and south, to stand up
and be counted now, stand up and be
counted as being against the kind of
action in this country that is furnishing
the propaganda mills of communism
with the kind of stuff that makes other
nations of the world doubt our sincer
ity about democracy. We call upon our
churches to stand up and be counted,
stand up and be counted as being
against hypocrisy in all our churches as
well as in our government. If we don't
stand up and be counted we may as
well look forward to the day when we
will be counted lying down in graves
that have been dug because some little
human jackass with the title of con
gressman, used the freedom of demo
cracy to defeat democracy.
"Our children can lead us toward
the beauty of living without hatred if
we will only let them follow their own
inclinations. We call upon those who
have done other wise to let our child
ren go."
Certainty
A customer was looking through the
baby things on display in a Warren,
Ohio, store. To engage her in conver
sation that might lead to a sale, a clerk
asked, "Are you expecting?"
"No, I'm not expecting," was the re
ply. "I'm sure."?Reader's Digest.
California had 20,000 black bears in
1947, according to official estimates.
New York City every day.
The average American used about"
187.44 quarts of fluid milk in 1947
which was lower than the record 201.40
quarts in 1945.
The Navy has two fleet post offices
in the United States which handle all
mail going outside the States to ships
and shore stations. One is on the East
Coast at New York and the otjiers on
the West Coast at San Francisco.
State To Take Over Caswell
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bathing pools at Caswell went
far and wide, and many people
came thousands of miles, attract
ed by the fabulous waters that
rate favorably with the famed
Hot Springs, Ark., waters in
chemical content.
The war arrested the develop
ment of Fort Caswell, and neith
er the facilities of the Fort nor
the waters from the hot salt well
continued available to the public.
Still, month after month and year
after year, inquiries about the
water have continued to come In.
Only last month a party of ten
New York people travelling in
two cars were anxious to come
to Southport for two weeks. Ad
vised that the public could not
make use" of the water while the
Navy held the place, they aban
doned the plans for the two
weeks stay at Southport.
This is only one of hundreds of
similar cases, coming up during
the past several years. At that,
Caswell;and its waters were just
becoming known when the war
concluded development.
With the State taking over
Fort Caswell and using it as a
part of the Mountain-Seashore
Park System, the unusual mineral
waters from the deep well on the
reservation will become one of
the biggest publicity assets along
the coast of southeastern North
Carolina.
There is something appealing
about those waters, something
kind of mysterious that grips the
public. It will not be long after
the State takes Caswell over be
fore pictures of the shower and
of the great bathing pools atop
the concrete gun placements will
again be flooding the country.
The well Is 1800-feet deep with
about 10 inch cast iron piping.
Drilling several wells immediate
ly on the reservation in search
of drinking water, the govern
ment struck hot, salty water af
ter going through many feet of
rocky formation.
The water, a natural flow with
a force at the top equal to that
found in city water mains, had
several times the salt content of1
that found in pure sea water. It
possessed half a dozen chemical
properties and the remarkable
thing about it is that it has al
ways been credited with having
a year-round temperature of 96
degrees, farenheit. It was, of j
course, unfit for drinking pur
poses.
The Army had not use for min-1
eral water. The outlet was cap-1
ped and the well remained closed
for around 40 years. It was re-j
opened and the hot water discov
ered only a few years before:
World War II began. Then it was
capped again for the government
was not running a health resort
while the war was on.
No figures are available aa to
the number of gallons of water
the well sends hurtling up
through its great iron pipe per
minute, but this natural stream
will rank with the day in and f
day out take from the Southportj
city water mains.
Fort Caswell has many nearby j
attractions to the tourist and
visitor. Thrown open to visitors j
it will draw them by the thou-1
sands.
TRAFFIC COUNTS
Continued From Page One
tinued to April 14th.
Edison Vereen, drunk driving,
continued to April 14.
H. P. St. George, speeding, not
guilty.
Henry Colam Dinsdale, speed
ing, capias.
Sarah McRae Neisanna, speed
ing, capias.
Hartford Edwin Boykin, speed
ing, continued to April 14th.
George Mattock, reckless op
eration, fined $25.00 and costs.
Rudolph M. Gour, speeding, ca-,
pias.
Daniel Aerbock Averbock, |
| speeding, capias.
| Albert Shaw, speeding, capias,
i Mortimer Wallace, speeding,!
capias.
Leander Maylon Lowchin,
speeding, capias.
McKEITHAN NEW
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port on Tuesday, April 27th, at
2 o'clock for purpose of instruc
tion and to be sworn in.
The opening date for registra
tion ia May 1st; closing date for
registration May 15th. Challenge
day is May 22nd.
The date for the primary is
May 29th, the polls to open at
6:30 a. m., close 6:30 p. m.
All notice of candidacy must
be in hands of the Chairman of
Board of Elections by 6 o'clock
p. m. on April 17.
Only those in armed service of
U. S. A. are entitled to vote ab
sentee ballots in the primary elec
tion.
Hie board will meet on June
1st at the Court House for the
purpose of canvassing returns of
the primary and declare results
of same.
Making Application
Continued From Page One
of 4 percent per annum, payable
only if, as and when declared out
of the net earnings, after the
payment of dividends on prefer
red stock.
Ferry Service To Ft.
Continued Prom Page One
and Bald Head island, two ferry
boats or as many as were need
ed, plying between the three
points would create a world of
travel Interest towards this low
er section of North Carolina.
Regular tourists from the east
going down through New Han
over county could take passage
with their cars at Fort Fisher
for Southport and Bald Head and
back to Southport and Fort Fish
er. Or they could come in. to
Southport from Fort Fisher and
go right on down the coast.
North bound tourist travel could
come in here, go to Bald Head,
return to Southport and then to
Fort Fisher, where they would
quit the ferry and go North.
Essentials to such an undertak
ing would be ferry slips at the
three points and two or more big
ferries to give rapid, regular ser
vice. Other absolute essentials,
but not necessarily a part of the
ferry system, would be modern
hotels near each of the three
ferry terminals. Such hotels prob
ably would spring up of their
own accord at all three points.
It is said that keen-minded hotel
interests would fight for conces
sions that would give them the
right to cater to the tourists and
vacationists who would avail
themselves of the ferry service. |
BIBLE MOVIES |
Saturday night at 8 o'clock
Rev. J. M. Hutchinson, of Cort
land, N. y, will be guest speak
er and will show movies on the
Bible at the Gospel Center near
Holden's Beach. He will also il
lustrate a gospel message by car
tooning with colored ^
Hutchinson is field
for the Bible Class y
Boys and girls, as
adults, are urged to jv
rally and hear "Uncle
GROCERIES
Our job is to help the house wife feed the fafr
every week we are adding new satisfied custom^
growing list of patrons.
They like our big, fresh stock ot name urand ^
dise, they like our self-service and they like our*
able prices.
RUSS FOOD CENTEl
SHALLOTTE, N. C.
FOR RECORDER
I am seeking the Democratic nomination for Judge
i
of the Brunswick County Recorder's Court, subject to
the will of the voters in the May Primary.
I go before the people as a candidate' free from ob
ligation to any group or faction, and I ask for your sup.
r?n fhf hnsis of mv record.
Yur Vote And Support Will lie Appreciated
A. H. (Lonnie) GAINEY
WORK CLOTHES
With farm work going on full blast, there will be new
demands for comfortable, servicable work clothes. You
can be sure of satisfactory, dependable merchandise
when you trade with
R. GALLOWAY
General Merchandise
SUPPLY, N. G.
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DEEP FREEZERS
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