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Le pilot Covers L>* c?unty THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community ^TxTEEN NO. 9 -- 6-PAGES TODAY Most of The News All The Time Southport, N. C., Wednesday. June 9th, 1948 published every Wednesday 91.50 PER YEAfc aril AppoWs >unty Nurse for Brunswick o Kara Adams Nam iSStotfc dffw* M?",h ?' CASPECrAL TERM L. Matte" 0f Busi?e" k "f of By Commit Here ** Monday of the board of coun ',. ?wncrs in session here f minted Miss Barbara county nu"e. succeeding . g smith, who is retir- \ end of this month. . ams will be paid a1 j J235.00 per month and ^ mlie when traveling j business. j Walton, clerk to the 'ms directed Monday to j Governor R. Gregg Cherry j [ commissioners do not | special term of court for Lat?. A request for the | ?3 made by Solicitor Clif- , Moore at the conclusion | jlay term, and last week , t Court Sam T. Bennett' 'jjvsed that Charles L. Cog-1 Ma been assigned to pre a special session be ts July 12. truest was forwarded to Site Highway and Public b Commission requesting tins body take over the tunning from the J. H. K! place to the Shell Point1 o Lockwoods Folly. cssaon was granted the ni Erosion Service to use t space on the second floor It musty building at Supply, t budget estimate for the of of the county agent was [pred. and following a joint Cr.j with members of the ?nek county board of edu *1 ?n ;?>' auioii was taken be budget estimate for the i of education. Brv Ballard was granted usta to pay back taxes on "ere? in the James Ballard E. Weston was granted rjscr. to pay 5130.00 on his j t the balance to be paid at ate of $25.00 per month. t the full amount has been he 3 to receive a deed from enntv. ttXTEVG NEW BOAT ?1 Arnold of Southport ia work on a 55-foot trawler. Fred McDonald & Holder, Beach community most of the construct ftMXG MEETING ' Olive Holden Newton is this week attending of the Grand Chap - E. S Mrs. Newton is Matron of the Live Oak ter No. 179 at Southport. *?'' return home Friday. "?"XING from TEXAS * Md Mrs. H. M. Baker ?Mwn are returning home from Waco, Texas. ! spending the past ^eks while Mr. Baker ? vacation from the South ?Ptist church. JJttOR ,\t CAMP yK Godfrey. instructor .J''1 at State College dur ? Pwt session, has gone to Ike v 00 Minr'?tott Beach, t H e * river near New ,be an Instructor a *nr? the summer. Mrs. , baby are at their ?nox ??LE SCHOOL "?lies Branch Baptist b n^r Shallotte, is spon hfiri CaUl>n Bible School ! V-,.' al the church begln ?5*mornm?-june nh Sis , anfi ending Sunday ?Wl^ss 2?th. All children, Ifiss f Garrett and daugh ?ay (. ogen Garrett, left th,v eswnt City, Fla., H:,W.e'e ca"ed due to ' r-"f.v Paul Patience. 1 Garrm r'0l'J grandson of 18 be Was electrocuted *! ?jf rn* into contact with ^ wtl'le playing Sunday Mule That Goes Up Is Hard To Get Down L. C. Brown Lost A Fine Mule, But His Troubles Had Only Begun When He Found Him Again Having been a woods boss for lumbering interests before the days of tractors and trucks, L. | C. Brown, Longwood farmer and business man, knows sometRing about mules. Meeting a newspa per man this week, Mr. Brown [inquired of him: "Has anybody, told you about my mule?" The I newsman had heard of folks, in-, eluding a superior court judge, I using Brown's Mule all their j lives; but he had not heard this! one. Encouraged by the Interest, Mr. Brown went on. "My big mule disappeared last week and we could not find him. He just disappeared without leaving a trace. We hunted for him most of the night and half of the next day. He is a valuable animal and I did not want to lose him. Search as we did, we could not find a single clue to his where abouts. I had finally about de cided that he had been hijacked. "Then, along about noon, I heard his braying, as a mule will bray when h$ begins to get hungry. We traced the sound and found the mule had gone into my two-story tobacco packhouse. There was some feed on the ground flocr and after he had j eaten all he wanted he had climb- j ed the long inside stairway and made himself a private apart ment, 12 feet from the ground. | The stairway is in the form of an 'L' running up to a platform from which another flight of steps goes up to the second floor of the building. The mule abso lutely refused to come back down those stairs even though I tried everything I could think of to persuade him. I "Knowing that a mule under stands cussing and as there were no sailors handy, X sent some negroes up to talk him down. It I did no good. That mule did not have the least idea of leaving his second floor apartment. "The crowd was growing larger all the time and some of the folks > (Continued on page four) i Week'End Business Is Thriving at Long Beach Crowds Flock To Popular Beach Resort During Past Week - End With Pros pects Good For Entire Season OPENING DANCE SATURDAY NIGHT All Business Places Are Open And Ready For Big Rush Of Beach Visitors i For Next Three Sum mer Months For week-end visitors to Long Beach there,, could be no doubt that summer has come, nor that this is destined to be a banner year for this popular resort. The popular beach resort, seven miles from Southport has start ed things with a bang. Nearly every cottage Is full-up for the summer and those that are not, engaged are in good demand. The | end of this week will see about j everything full, except a dozen! new homes that are still in vari ous stages of construction. Many other homes are about to start. For the Saturday night open ing dance at the Long Beach pa vilion Gene Tomlinson and Carl Watkins, the new owners and operators, both popular young ex service men, have secured Virgil West and his orchestra. West, a local favorite and boasting one of the best dance bands in this section, has always drawn a big crowd. The outlook for Satur day night is the biggest of all, Tomlinson and Watkins are clean, energetic young fellows and are setting out to play their part towards developing the beach. They are not selling beer at the pavillion lunch room or snack bar and are assuring their pat rons that they will do everything possible towards maintaining a clean, orderly recreational cen ter. Their lunch room and snack bar will also have their formal opening Saturday night. (Continued on page 4) Shallotte Man Passes At Home Charles Robert Tatum Died Sunday Following Illness Of Only One Week; Bur ial Services Monday Charles Robert Tatum, well i known resident of Shallotte, died at his home Sunday morning. He had been ill for only about a week and his death was attribut ea to hemorrhage of the brain. Burial services were conducted Monday afternoon at the Chapel Hill cemetery at Shallotte. Rev.. H. B. Bennett, of Shallotte, of-1 ficiated. Active pallbearers were Rob-. ert Hawes, Woodrow Russ, Rothy ( Cheers, Bryan Hewett, Earl Hew-, ett, and Harrison Canady. Mr. Tatum is survived by his | wife, Daisy Gray Tatum of Shal lotte; two daughters, Ella Gray j Tatum of Baltimore, Md., and Mrs. Mabel Tatum of Shallotte;' three sons. Edgar H. Tatum of: the U. S. Army in Bedford, Mass., I Charles E. and Harry R. Tatum ' of Shallotte; four brothers, Ralph, Edgar, Julius and Fletcher Ta-| turn, all of Elizabethtown; two,' sisters, Mrs. J. D. Ellis and Miss Hester Tatum, both of Elizabeth town. J James McKeithan Going To Moscow Master Sgt. James McKeitfo an has been spending several days at Southport with his mother, Mrs. A. T. McKeithan. He will leave on June 17tih for Russia, where he will be sta tioned the next two years or longer. This Brunswick county sol dier, enlisting: several years be fore Hie beginning: of the war, has continuously made a -fine record In the service. For the past two or three years he has been in the recruiting ser vice. In Russia he will be station ed with tlie American Embassy at Moscow. Fishermen Had Big Day Sunday Unusually Fine Catches Of Bluefish And Mackerel Reported By Boats Out From Southport For Sun day Fishing Boats out from Southport Sun day made some of the best catches of blues and mackerel that have been brought in this year. Captain Victor P. Lance with the Moja reported a catch of 225 bluefish 'and 32 mackerel. His party was composed of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Tucker of Raleigh; Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Phillips, Cary; Harold Kelly of Raleigh and John Hamilton of Greensboro. Donnie Watts with the Botfly reported 278 bluefish and 62 mackerel. The Watts party was Dr. Rod King, Dr. R. T. Ron ner, Fred Orrell and Maynard Wilson of Wilmington and W. H. Pitt, of Alexandria, Va. James Arnold with the Kaibb brought in 300 blues and macker el. No report was received as to the names of the persons forming his party. Basil Watts with the Idle-On reported that he got out very late and his par ty only got 82 large bluefish and mackerel. David Adams wfth the Patricia got 200 blues and mack erel. Several other boats were out, including some from Wrightsville Beach and Wilmington. No re ports have been received as to who formed the parties or the (Continued on page rour) j Few Openings In Veteran's Glass Schools that do not have their quota filled will be permitted to enroll new trainees on July 1-8 up to, but not to exceed, the quota assigned to the school January 1, 1948. Bolivia school for veterans will be open June 14th from 2 o'clock to 5 o'clock to fill out training forms so that the advisory com-| mittee can pass on their eligi bility before July 1. ! New enrollees will be restrict ed to those veterans who (ire now farming and have a satis factory farming situation. Vete rans who decide to farm on or about July 1, but do not now have a farming program In pro gress, wiil not be eligible. Leaders Hear Discussion Of Health Problem Dr. Wm. P. Richardson, Representing State Board Of Health, Outlines Plans For Enlarged Service PART-TIME HEALTH > DEPARTMENT SOUGHT Believed That Working Agreement May Be Reached With Officials Of Adjoining County Leaders of various Brunswick county activities met Friday evening at Bolivia for the pur pose of hearing Dr. Wm. P. Richardson, representative of the State Board of Health, discuss the matter of enlarging the pub lic health services of Brunswick county. Although a county nurse has been employed for Brunswick for the past several years, this fails to give Brunswick an official connection with the State agency, and leaves its citizens without the protection of the Board of Health. Dr. Richardson outlined the ser vices of an organized health pro gram and attempted to show the far reaching effects of having it operate in a community. He then discussed means by which Bruns wick might become a cooperating county, and pointed out that at present this is one of only six North Carolina counties who do j not have at least a part-time health officer. One plan suggested by Dr. Richardson is for the establish ment of a part-time health of fice through cooperating with one of the neighboring counties. This could be accomplished, he said, by arranging for the services one (Continued On Page 5) Photographer Is Visitor Friday: Johnny Hemmer Paid Fly ing Visit To This Com munity, But Had Camera Along And Took Some Pictures State News cameraman Johnny Hemmer was at Southport Fri day, and as he always has his 'camera with him he made quite a number of pictures while here I to be added to the News Bureaus collection of publicity pictures. | Among the scenes shot were pictures of Whittlers Park; the Lewis Spaulding boat building op erations for Lewis Hardee; grave stones in the old Southport ceme tery, shrimp boats and Mack's new cafe building. I Mr. Hemmer arranged with W. B. Keziah to return in July for scenes to be shot at Howell's Point, Holden Beach and Shal-1 lotte Point. This trip will prob-1 ably be made by boat, unless it happens that the New Holden | Beach road has been completed j by the time. i Any tips about interesting pic-, ture scenes with story matter be-j hind them at the above mention ed plates will be appreciated by Mr. Keziah, who will arrange for the places and spots to be visit ed. WASHINGTON CONFERENCE DISCUSSION?Shown above are Representative J. Bayard Clark, Senator Wm. B. Umstead and J. P. Quinerly, farm agent of Columbus county, as they conferred recently in Washington about the Waccamaw River drainage project. Recent favor able developments indicate that a preliminary survey will be made of this work sometime this year. Mack's Cafe to Reopen ' For Business Friday County Half-Way In Auto Total Of the 100 counties in the state, Brunswick is 26th from the bottom In the number of automobiles registered. The number accredited to Brun swick by the North Carolina Vehicle Registration is 2,986. Clay county , has the smallest number of cars accredited to any one county, only 640 be ing credited. Guilford county stands at the top with 46, 755 cars and Mecklenburg is a close second with 45,944. The total registration for the state is 859,037 automobiles, trucks and trailers and 24,461 miscellaneous motor vehicles. Beach Ferry Is Overtaxed Two-Car Ferry Over Inland Waterway Unable To Keep Up With Amount Of Traffic To Beach Despite the fact that new road construction is forcing all travel to use a sandy detour, the two car ferry at Holden Beach could hardly keep the line of cars going to and from the beach Sat urday afternoon and Sunday. The little craft, if that is the proper name for it, was shuttling CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 Our ROVING Reporter w. B. KEZIAH The nicest home-grown cab bage we have seen in a long time were at the Russ Food Center in I Shallotte Saturday. They were | grown by Mrs. Brady Long, and Charles Russ says she has been putting a lot of them on the market. A couple of the heads placed on the scales were found to weigh eight pounds each. Hicy were stripped of all the outert leaves and only the pure white heads were weighed. Mr. Russ says that Mrs. Long has brought in a number of heads that were' larger than the two weighed when we saw them. I E. E. Sellers, of Supply, writes us that when he waa digging his Irish potatoes he found a bush that had something that looked just like green tomatoes growing on the top. This is the second report we have had of buds or tomatoes growing on potato vines. A couple of weeks ago Al bert Swain, a colored resident of: Southport, showed us his potato] patch and the tomatoes were on( almost every bush. The J. & K. store, bath rooms; and lunch room at Holden Beach | is now in tip-top shape and op-! erating for the summer. John J and Kemp Holden, the owners and operators, are both young ex-j service men who were overseas | for most of the duration of the I war. They have an especially nice, lunch room, one of the nicest wei have seen. Telling Kemp that Johnny Hemmer, state news bu reau photographer, was to be with us early in July for some picture making, he said: "You fellows will have to arrange your trip so that you can be our guests for luncheon or dinner." So, we may try that dining room before long. After teaching for many years in various parts of the state and with the last few in Brunswick at Leland and Bolivia, O. C. Bru-j (Continued on Page 2) Free Fish And Spaghetti Supper Will Be Served Hundreds Of Visitors Ex pected For Opening IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS COMPLETED Waterfront Establishment Ready To Resume Service To Public After Under going Face-Lifting Mack's Cafe in Southport will reopen Friday evening with a free fish fry and spaghetti sup per after being closed for sev eral months for a complete overhauling and repairs. <3. W. McGlamery. The proprietor is making preparations to entertain up to 1,000 guests. For many years this cafe has been building up a fine reputation of taking care of things when it comes to feeding the public, and its specialty has always been sea foods. The building has been com pletely rebuilt and converted into a clean, attractive structure. About 70 persons can be seated at a time for meals and for the opening Friday night and there after an efficiency of employees will always be on hand to render prompt service to the public. During the recent period a daily question from people up state has been, "When will Mack finish his place and re open?" That question is now an swered, or will be Friday night when this popular waterfront eat ing place will hold open house preparatory to continued service. Numerous Cases Tried In Court Variety Of Cases Heard By Judge W. J. McLamb In Brunswick County Recor der's Court HereWednes day A number of cases covering a variety of charges were dis posed of here in Recorder's court Wednesday before Judge W. J. McLamb. The following disposi tion was made of cases: Jessie James Cooper, public drunkenness, 30 days in jail, judgment suspended for a year on good behavior and payment of costs. Harris Bellamy, intent to rape, preliminary hearing waived and defendant sent to Superior court under bond of $5,000.00. Cleo Williamson, failure to dim lights, capias. Charley Ganey, public drunken ness, not guilty. R. L. Stanley, public drunken ness, 30 days in jail and as signed to roads, suspended on condition that he make restitu tion in the sum of $49.45 for damage done to jail and pay costs. Melton Johnson, violating stock law, nol prossed. James .T Booth, public drunk ness and drunken driving, fined (Continued On Page Four) Supreme Court Voids S.C. Law On Shrimping The Supreme Court today ! unanimously upheld the author ity of South Carolina to regu late and tax shrimp fishing In the three mile Atlantic coastal belt lying seaward of low water mark. ? , i The court at the same time struck down a requirement that all shrimp fishing boats unload their catch and pack and stamp them within South Carolina. It also ruled unconstitution al another requirement impos ing a $25 license fee on shrimp boats owned by residents of South Carolina and a $2,500 fee on boats owned by non-resi dents. The court upheld a state tax of one-eighth cent a pound on fresh shrimp taken at sea. ( Chief Justice Vinson wrote the decision. Southport Man Passes Tuesday ?; ? Funeral Services For Char les H. Hickman Being Con ducted Today From Anti och Baptist Church Charles H. Hickman, 69-year; old Southport carpenter and | farmer, died at his home here j early yesterday morning. He had been in bad health for some timei but only a few of his intimate friends and close relatives were| aware of the seriousness of his i condition. Burial services for Mr. Hick man are being held at the An tioch Baptist church this after noon at 3 o'clock with Rev. Mr. Kent, pastor of the church in charge of the services, assisted by Rev. Bennie Price. Active pallbearers are Joel Moore, John Caison, Robert Jones, J. A. Gilbert, Robert "VVoodside, Ralph Sellers. Honor ary pallbearers are George Tal mon, John W. Hewett, Dr. L. G. Brown, Dr. Fred Burdette, Boss Leonard, Lewis Tyler, Eldridge (Continued On 'Page Four) Deadline Near For Licenses Drivers Whose Last Name Begins With "C" Or "D" Must Be Examined Before June 30th For Permit Folks whose surnames begin with "C" or "D" have just one month left during which they can renew their drivers license. Folks whose names begin with those letters will be a subject to a fine of not less than $25.00 if they are caught driving after midnight on June 30 on their old license. Mrs. Cora S. Rice, director of public relations for the Depart ment of Motor Vehicles, writes this paper that there are an esti (Continued On Page Four) Next Wednesday Date For Flower Show At Bolivia County Council Of Home Demonstration Club* Will Sponsor Flower Show To Be Held In School Lunch Room COUNTY COUNCIL ALSO WILL MEET > Flower Show Committee Urges That Entries Be Made By Women From All Sections Of County Brunswick county Home Dem onstration Club members have been making preparations for the flower show which they will hold in connection with the Coun ty Council meeting at the High school in Bolivia on June 16th. The flower show committee 1#" composed of Mrs. W. A. Kopp, chairman, Mrs. Joe T. Ramsauer, Mrs. Gilbert Reid and Mrs. J. J. Ramsauer. These ladies have worked hard in preparation for the event. Mrs. Kopp requests that all flower exhibits be In as early as possible as the judges are scheduled to begin their work at 2:30 o'clock. Hie flowers will be displayed in the lunch room at the school. An extensive list of attractive prizes are being offered for both garden and wild flowers. The show is county-wide In scope and all who are interested in flowers are invited to bring exhibits and display them. Mrs. Corinne Green, the Home Demonstration Agent, states that not having flowers to exhibit should not keep any one. from attending the show. All are invited and all are assured of be ling able to see a most pleasing variety of flowers. Mrs. Mary L. McAllister, dis? | trict agent, will be present for i the County Council meeting and j Flower Show. Following the 'council meeting a tea will be 'held. All club members are urg j ed to attend and to bring their I friends. The show wiu start at 12:30 o'clock, but the exhibitors I are again reminded that they 'should bring their flowers before that time If they are to be pro perly displayed. Approve Bids On River Road Grading And Paving Con tract Awarded Towle? Cline Company; Tempo rary Hold-Up On Struc ture Bids The bid of the Towles-Cline Company, of Fayetteville and Wilmington for the paving of eight miles of the River Road was accepted Thursday by the State Highway Commission. It is understood that the grading work will begin at once, with paving to follow as soon as possible. The project runs from Lilliput Creek, on. the Orton lands, to connection with the present four miles of paving. At the same time, the highway commission rejected a bid for the bridge span across Town Creek on the same project. This bid, made by the V. P. Loftis Com pany, is said to have been re jected owing to a technicality and new bids will be received for the span on June 29th. The failure of the bridge span bid to get through will not inter fere in any way with the speed ing up of grading and paving project. Asphalt Mixing Plant Set Up Work Of Resurfacing Por tion Of U. S. No. 17 To Be Followed By Paving Of Bolivia Road A big asphslt plant is ? now being set up on the Supply,H9I den Beach road, a mile south of Supply. It is to be used for mix ing the asphalt Tor resurfacing Route 17 from Supply toward* Bolivia and also for the paving of the short cut road from Bolivia to Antioch church. Grading work on this short cut road is well along and it is stat ed that it will be ready for the paving as soon as the resurfacing of No. 17 is completed. It is expected that another as phalt mixing plant will be set up this week or next on the Holden Beach road, from Rout? 17 at the J. E. Kirby store to Holden Beach. This road is now ready for paving. The two plants will be only about five miles apart. Different road construct ing firms have the contracts far the roads.