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The State Port Pilot Southport, N. C. 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. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR $1.50 SIX MONTHS - ? 1.00 THREE MONTHS 75 Wednesday, April 21, 1948 Cancer Drive Before you shrug off the current drive for funds for the American Can cer Society we urge you to stop for a moment and recall events of the past year involving the death of close per sonal friends and loved ones. The chances are that before you get very far you will remember the name of someone who died of cancer. Well, the purpose of the American Cancer Society is to finance research which will lead to control of one of the most ruthless killers which still stalks mankind. So when someone asks you for a con tribution for the cancer drive, think before you say no. Cemetery Clean-Up Recently when there was a group of distinguished visitors in town one of the ladies in the party expressed an interest in the Southport cemetery. The ancient live oaks over-shadowing the grave stones and monuments formed a setting which she found well nigh irresistable. It was a source of pride for us to dis cover that workmen were in the pro cess of cleaning up the cemetery, re-ar ranging displaced grave-markers and otherwise restoring order in a place and among things which never should have been permitted to get into a run down state. Later we checked up and discovered that this was a part of the work being carried on under the direction of Mrs. Helen Bragaw and under the sponsor ship of the Southport Lions Club. The interest shown by this visiting lady convinced us that this is a worthwhile project, and one which will make a good impression upon our ever-increas ing number of visitors. They say that funds for this work are getting scarce, and if that is true there are many local citizens and for mer residents who will want to make a contribution to make it possible to car ry forward to a successful completion. < Home Marketing County Agent J. E. Dodson greatly deplores the lack of marketing facili ties for fanners in this county. He points out that so long as it is impos sible for them to sell their products at home it is likewise impossible to expect them to do their trading at home. The County Agent declares that four and a half million dollars worth of timber products are sold outside the county each year. To this can be added three and a half million dollars worth of tobacco; one and one-half million dollars worth of livestock and two mil lion dollars worth of seafood of various kinds, including menhaden. All this and a lot of other things pro duced in Brunswick have to be moved outside the county before the producers can get a decent price. Mr. Dodson thinks the county is bad ly in need of a sweet potato storage house and market. The same house could be used as a tobacco warehouse and market. It could be located any where on a hard surface road, he thinks, and suggests that between Sup ply and Shallotte would be an ideal location from the standpoint of acces sibility and transportation. "It would pay somebody with land in an easily accessable location to donate five acres for the location of a warehouse or warehouses where farm products could be handled and sold," he declared. A business community would spring up around such a market and the value of adjoining property would increase ?nifold. The Destroyer Needless waste of the ces of our country is one of the grea We have always had greater respect for the thief who stol?,??? mobile tiro than for he ofto.?^ pnt who w?u d s a ni adm.rat.on ? duc ^."hW because either through use? ^ we know he ?gomg ^ ^ ^ the slasher. His is a destructive act that ^Likewise, there is far greater reason respect a man ?.*?\EJ is for the thoughtless destroyer of our timber resources. W L- Shaddix, secretary o Southern States Forestfire Association, suggests that the public 30m m a move to obtain a law to bringr the FB into the picture for prosecution of fire bl Hifletter, with a request for publica tion, is self-explanatory: The anti-communist publicity in America, is most necessary for reasons we all know but we need a similar campaign to enlist the public in trying to catch a few fire brands in our southern forest areas. On Sunday, April 4, at about 10 a. m., I saw a man in a pale blue shirt across a creek from me about a quarter of a mile setting fire to a forest heavily timbered acreage which completely destroyed essential defen se timber some three miles long and two miles wide. Some of this, fine pine and hardwoods represented the savings of at least one World War II veteran whose chief diversion in his many long years of service in the Army was ways and means to grow timber for his retirement income. One of these owners is yet in the service, and I can realize how flat his pride will fall when he treks over his only holdings, and sees the black long snags that once was healthy "tall trees. Now if this one instance were an excep tion it would not justify so much interest, perhaps, but it is one of thousands of fires which eat into the heart of our wealth early this April in southern sections. The main purpose olf requesting this space in your paper is to suggest that the public join in a move to interest Congress in making it legal for tfce FBI to aid in fire guilt detection for privately owned timber and game reserves. Unlike City crime detection the woods rat is far away from any other human when he applies his torch?he is smart enough to start these fires on Saturday afternoons and Sundays when farmers and others are away at Church or visiting. Al so, it is a time when so many fires get out that paid wardens cannot get to them all. If this step can be taken the FBI will catch some of our worst destroyers of our forests and game, and the psychological ef fect on others will cause them to reduce their undermining activities. I am against government control, but due to emergency of impending war, and the fact that our saw mills must be sent to Africa, Mexico, and Canada to supply lumber and crating material if and when another world war starts, I for one will do anything I can to provide FBI help to help save our essential resources. I think new that this item brought about by a very few of our own people, not usually called Communists should be put on the future program for action in order to protect the Nation. I do not believe that any agency on earth other than FBI can catch forest firebrands such as burnt up this veteran's only property above referred to. Why Go Away ? The Reader's Digest recently quoted Henry Thoreau as replying to the query, "Have you traveled much?" with: "I have traveled widely in Con cord." That was his home town. Thoreau traveled widely there. The thought might be developed here in Eastern North Carolina to the advan tage of the citizenry. Before taking off for the Magnolia or Cypress gardens in Charleston, have you seen the azaleas in Wilmington, Orton in Brunswick or McQueen's near Whiteville ? Have you explored near home ? Have you traveled widely in your own back yard? There are many who would like to see the magnificent machines that turn out cigarettes who haven't prepared themselves for that event. Eight here at home, there are hundreds who have never visited an auction market and witnessed the sale of tobacco. Drawn window shades are a form of insulation against cold and heat. Among Friends Of The Soil (Editor's note: This is No. 2 in. a series to show how your Soil Conservation District technician | works, what he does and how he can likely help you as a farmer). The Soil Conservation Service1 technician has just come into his office from the field and is pre paring a field map of the farm! just visited, drawing in location of proposed changes from notes on a clip board lying beside the map on the desk. A man enters the office. He is a stranger to the technician and from his ex-] pression we would judge he is not quite sure this is the office he is looking for. Technician. "Come in. My name is Glover. What can I do for you?" Visitor: "I am looking for the man who does drainage. I have some land that needs a line of j tile." Technician. "I do not do drain age but can often help farmers decide what type of drainage to use, how to put It in and how it: can best fit in with a plan for! conservation of soil and mois-J ture." Visitor, whom we will call, "Farmer A." "I need to get rid of some moisture?not conserve moisture, and my land is not washing. I just want to put in this tile line." Technician. "Where is your farm located?" Farmer A. "It is just south west of town, about three miles out on the main highway." Technician, pulling a sheet from a file. "This is an aerial photograph of that vicinity. Sup pose you show me just which is your land so I can outline the boundary lines on this map. It might help if I know just where the place is that needs drainage." Farmer A. "It borders on the highway on the front side." Technician. "Is your house next to the road with two large trees out front?" Farmer A. "Yes. That's my house. The lines run this way." | He shows where his land lines run, following iamumx shown on the photograph. Technician. "Now show me the wet spot, the place where you j want to put in tile." Farmer A, pointing to a dark place at one end of an open field. "There it Is." Technician, looking at hia! watch. "We just about have time; to look at it before dark. Are you ready to go home ? If so, you can go on and I'll follow you out now." Farmer A. "I can go all right but I'll have to come back. I am waiting for a man who will not be in town for an hour or two yet." Technician. "All right. Let's go look. You may as well ride with me and we can talk some as we go along." On the way the technician ex plained that most soils can be helped by tile, but there are few soils with sticky clay sub soils that cannot be drained well by tile. Farmer A. "The subsoil is sticky all right, but how can you tell this afternoon whether I can or can't use tile to drain my wet piece?" Technician. "We have a soil man that makes conservation surveys (or soils maps) that will map your farm the next time he comes to this county. He maps farms in a number of counties and he's scheduled to come to this county the last of this week. You might call the soils map he makes on your place an inven tory. This inventory tells us all about your farm, the different kinds of soil, the slope of the land and the extent of erosion. But getting back to your wet field that we want to look at this af ternoon?we can take a post hole digger and look at the subsoil." They now have arrived at the farm and the farmer is digging a hole with a post hole digger about where he thought the tile line should run. Farmer A. "Sure is getting sticky down here. How deep do rou want to dig?" Technician. "About 3 feet. We vant to see how sticky the sub soil is at the depth where the ;ile should be." The farmer completes the hole to 3 feet and they are looking it the subsoil. Farmer A. "It sure is sticky mbsoil, 'bout like wax." Technician. "Yes, It's to sticky to put tile in. You might be wasting your money on tile, rhe water just won't drain well through that sticky subsoil." Farmer A. "I never realized it wa.a that sticky." Technician. "I believe I can suggest something that will help through. See where all this wa ter Is coming from? It's coming off of the roof of your house, barn, crib and pack house, run ning down the rows on your high land and emptying down here to make this land too wet." Farmer A. "I guess you are right, but this land still needs draining regardless of where the water comes from. Some way must be fixed to get it off." Technician. "If that up-slope water was cut off?diverted so to speak?I feel sure that the small ditch you already have would take care of the situation. All you would have to do would be to keep several small channels opened into it." Farmer A. "But how would you go about cutting off that water?" (Editor's note: Next week we will listen in further on this pre liminary' discussion between Farmer A and the Soil Conserva tion Service technician.') AT HOLDEN BEACH Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Bardin, Louisville, Ky., Mrs. Margaret Hood Harris and Miss Eloise Pearson, Lumberton, w end visitors at Hol.jer ^ * MULTIPLICATION ^ A story of a do? W#J home of Mr. and Mrs, v , dere Friday night. ?> ' morning when Mr. < out to feed the animjj ' that there was sixte?Q Three of the puppi^'V * died. The owner can ?jT dogs by calling at home. ^1 GROCERY SHOPPElj Whether you are one of our regular tomers, or whether you are just a we^C visitor at one of our beaches, you will t that it will pay you to do your grocery ^ ping here. R. GALLOWAY General Merchandise SUPPLY, N. C. 51 Cash Prizes Each Month In This State! Awards in Pepsi-Cola's "Treasure Top" Sweepstakes and Contests Total $203,725! How'd you like to win $25,000 cash? Here's your chance! Pepsi-Cola's great new con tests offer more than 15,000 Cash Prizes?with a top Family Sweepstakes Prize of $25,000 Cash! State and national cash prizes every month! Lois of chances to win! Enter this swell new series of Pepsi-Cola contests. Enter often?every entry* gets a Treasure Certificate for the Family Sweepstakes Prizes. ? ? ? Look for "Treasure Tops" ? Pepsi-Cola bottle tops Look under the cork?hidden detign under every Pepii top. with hidden designs under the cork. Collect 'em...swap 'em ... get a complete set. ?Entriee should be complete and accompanied by a "Treasure Top". GET ENTRY BLANKS AT YOUR STORE fPepsi-Cola Company, Long Island City, N. y. Franchised Bottler: Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co., Wilmington, N. C. ELECTRIC REFRIGERATORS DEEP FREEZERS We are accepting orders for quick delivery. Don't wait until the hot weather rush of buying begins. KING'S ELECTRICAL SALES CO. Shallotte, N. G. SCHEDULE W. B. & B. BUS LINE Southport, N. C. EFFECTIVE TUES., JAN. 20,1948 WEEK-DAY SCHEDULE LEAVES SOUTHPORT LEAVES WILMINGTON ** 7:00 A.M. 7:00 A.M. *9:30 A. M. 9:30 A.M. 1:35 P.M. *1:30 P.M. 4:00 P.M. 4:00 P. M. 6:10 P. M. 6:00 P. M. ? 10:20 P. M. *?These Trips on Saturday Only. **?This Bus Leaves Winnabow at 6:10 Daily. - SUNDAY ONLY - LEAVES SOUTHPOBT LEAVES WILMINGTON 7:30 A.M. 9:00 A.M. 10:50 A.M. 1:35 P.M. 4:00 P.M. 6:10 P.M. 6:00 P.M. 10:20 P.M. FOR RECORDER I am seeking the Democratic nomination for Judge 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 port on the basis of my record. Yur Vote And Support Will Be Appreciated A. H. (Lonnie) GAINEY PENNSYLVANIA P-100 TIRES 15.25 Plus Tax Be sure of perfect motoring! Switch now to sturdy Pennsylvania P-100's . ; . the tires that are up-to-the-minute in. safety, style and design. 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