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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. SUBSCRIPTION RATES I ONE YEAR $1.50 | SIX MONTHS - 1.00! THREE MONTHS 75: Wednesday, June 16, 1948 Public Health It is our understanding that members of the board of county commissioners still have the matter of creating a part time public health department for Brunswick county under advisement and that their action of appointing a county nurse at the last meeting does not necessarily close the door on the prospects for the expanded program. Since we believe this to be true, there are a few pertinent facts which we would like to point out. The first of these is that if the part time health department is created, Brunswick county will have the full time services of a public health nurse (which, might very well be the same young lady named last week as county nurse); would have two-thirds time from a trained sanitarian; would have a full-time office clerk; would have one-day per week services of a public health doctor. Most important is the fact that with this organization Brunswick county would then be affiliated with the State Board of Health and would rave full access to the services of that depart ment. This sounds like a lot for the additi onal expenditure of only $1,450.00 on the part of Brunswick. The remainder of the cost of the program will be paid by the State and Federal government, who do not now contribute one cent to ward the salary of the county nurse. It is a fact that more Federal aid, and possibly additional State aid, may be forthcoming within another year, but it will be available only to counties who are cooperating in the maintenan ce of a public health program. We believe that the county commis sioners are in favor of the expansion of the program, but resitate to obligate the county to pay out another $1,450.00 they do not know where is coming from. To work out an answer to this question may be a headache for the board, but if it may be answered in the affirmative, there is reason to believe that the re-establishment of a public health program in the county may be the finest lasting tribute to the mem bers of the present board of county commissioners. Don t Take Chances We wouldn't say that we are exactly superstitious, but we do think that there is no particular point in antago nizing the Gods of Goor Fortune. Therefore, it is with some misgiving that we have printed elsewhere in to day's paper a report that there have been no drownings reported at a beach resort in Brunswick county during the past quarter century. Now we do not mean this as an invi tation to some self-designated dare devil to go out beyond his depth and wear himself out. Wherever the water is over your head, there is a possibility of drowning, and it always is well to exercise every possible safety precau tion when working or playing about the water. But we do believe that there are certain natural factors which help to make the Brunswick county coastal area unusually safe for batners. For one thing, it is unusual for the coastline to run east-west as it does along our section. This means that the prevailing summer breezes blow straight in to the beach. The long arm of Frying Pan Shoals provides a cer tain measure of protection to the nat ural cove which it helps to create. But perhaps the most important feature contributing to this safety angle is the shallow depth of the water along our shores. Reference to coastal charts show this to be true. - * < This means that when the breakers come rolling in, they flatten out in stead of pouring over into deep water, creating strong and dangerous under tow. The result is a beach condition that is as safe as nature can make it; and its gravest hazard is the human element which always must be reckon ed with. This latter is the factor about which we have misgivings when we urge all guests at Brunswick county beaches this summer to help preserve our record for safety. Rain Damage The recent rains that damaged some tobacco directed the thoughts of many farmers to the Soil Conservation Ser vice which has aided many leaf grow ers in establishing practices which minimize such damage. The most extensive damage, accor ding to Frank Glover of the SCS, occur red on hillsides where erosion in the past years has removed from 50 to 75 per cent of the top soil. The thin layer of top soil took all the water it could hold and then the subsoil, which is mostly sticky clay, could not absorb the water fast enough. Consequently there was a large "run off" and severe erosion occurred. When the rain stop ped and the sun came out, the exces sive amounts of water in these areas caused severe flopping of tobacco. Bad ly eroded land is unsuitable for the production of good tobacco in either wet weather or dry weather. The next highest damage occurred on long gentle slopes where the rows were run up and down the hill. Water started running down the row middles near the top of the hill, and the longer the row the more water was accumulat ed, flooding the lower ends of the rows as it reached the flat land. The flat areas at the ends of the rows were so badly flooded or saturated, that much tobacco drowned or flopped. The third condition under which ma jor damage occurred was where tobac co was planted on "tabletop" flat land, especially where accumulated ditch banks were high enough to keep the water out of the open ditches and make a "lake" out of the field when the heavy rains fell. The surface water just could not get off fast enough to keep the soil from sobbing, and tobac co from flopping. Conservation practices can, and did in a number of cases, reduce greatly the damage to tobacco under these storm conditions. Terraces and contour tillage will prevent excessive concentra tion of water, will reduce erosion, and help the farmer conserve his "top soil." so that future damage to the land and to tobacco will be held to a minimum: With the present reduced tobacco al lotments, each farmer should be very careful in selecting land for tobacco, and apply the necessary conservation practices so that storm damage can be held to a minimum and maximum pro duction can be obtained. This is simply good business. Soil Conservation Service technicians assigned to the Lower Cape Fear Soil Conservation District can render valu able assistance to farmers in planning their farms and in applying conserva tion practices. Aid For The Blind We hasten to correct any false im pression which may have been obtain ed through news items in the State press regarding solicitation for the blind. The National Association for the Blind was refused permission to seek contributions in this State because their service was already being rendered by the North Carolina Association for the Blind. Thus they had no outlet and no method of aiding citizens of this State. Of course, the State organization has not been affected by the decision of the State Welfare Board. The association which is fostered by the Lions Clubs is fully licensed and has rendered such outstanding service in the field of sight conservation that it merits the contin ued support of all citizens. Remember that the North Carolina Association for the Blind is an approv ed organization and is worthy of your contributions. Their White Cane Drive is both legal and worthy. In our opinion, it still isn't too late to send telegrams to Speaker of the House Joseph W. Martin, Jr., Wash ington, D. C. urging that Congress take action on the federal aid to education bill. In fact we believe that Congress should be bombarded with messages in support of this legislation. Rovin' Reporter (Continued from page one) our beaches, we have been keep ing in contact with Holden Beach for some time. This contact has not been as thorough as we would like. Conditions call for co- j I operation among the beach resi J dents and we feel sure that co- j ! operation will grow. Beginning j j the first of this month an orga-| I nized contact with Long Beach | ! was also started. There, as at; I Holden Beach, all matters of in terest will be sought out and wel ! corned when the residents coope rate with tips to stories and litems of news. With the inside }and offshore fishing that is to be (found along the coast of Bruns wick, with their east-west shore lines that make them safe from storms at sea, our Brunswick county beach line is deserving of a lot of attention and is destined to become widely famed. At the Seashore Grill at Long Beach this week Mr. and Mrs. Ed Baucom showed us a 9-pound flounder they had just bought from Weston Brown. He had gigged it and a sizeable abg of others in the inland waterway back of the beach. Mr. and Mrs. Baucom are the folks who came to the beach on a visit three years ago and just haven't gone home yet. They never will. This couple deserves a great deal of credit for keeping the Seashore Grill open the year round and serving the public. In various ways a lot of Bruns wick folks came into contact with Commander S. B. Haskell at the I Caswell Section Base during the \ war. He was there a couple of j years or more before being trans ferred. We remember him most pleasantly as having been our I fishing companion, and on one oc-, casion we were passing a large, pile of saw dust and he asked us. what it was! The Commander is | in Cincinatti, Ohio, now. Writing J this week with reference to his subscription to the Pilot he said, he hopes to be able to return fori a visit soon. I Mentioning the various busi ness houses on Long Beach last week, the Helms Fish Market j was overlooked. This market is kept by J. Brice Helms, a Union | county boy who came to the beach three years ago and forgot | to ever return home. When they j are scarce at the beach he buys i his fish and shrimp at Southport. j Sometimes, he says, he has 'bought shrimp and fish in South port, taken them to Long Beach and sold them to some Southport folks who brought them right (back here. Carolina Beach, more or less 'like Southport, is on a dead-end I road. Not so much lies beyond at either place. It is not surprising to see the continued talk of a highway bridge across the Cape Fear below Carolina Beach to the Brunswick side above Southport. , Neither will it be surprising when j such a bridge becomes a reality j some day. Another bridge across the river is a "must." Should 'either the Northeast River brid IT'S new.;, it's modern . .. it's exclusive . . . it's the new Norge Self-D-Froster ? the refrigerator that DEFROSTS ITSELF!Just think of it... no more fuss and muss of manual defrosting ... no button or dial controls. No melting of ice cubes ... no exposure of food to outside air. Norge . . . and only Norge . . . eliminates these worries. Every night at mid night, while you sleep, the Se/J D-Froster takes over. Here's hew the Self-D-Froster works! This handsome electric clock, mounted on the rcfrigeratordoor, turns the mechanism off at midnight, switches it on after the coating of frost has melted. Defrost water is car ried away into the non spill Handefroster con tainer. conveniently located and easily re movable for emptying at your convenience. ^Defrost water never collects in the Cold pack ... so there's no need to remove your meats. Sealed Giant Side Freezer keeps ice cubes frozen. REFRIGERATORS ? ELECTRIC RANGES WASHERS ? WATER COOLERS ELECTRIC WATER HEATERS HOME HEATERS ? GAS RANGES HOME FREEZERS Easy Terms ? 3 Years to Pay ROBINSON'S Solithport, N. C. SCHEDULE W. B. & B- BUS LINE Southport, N. C. EFFECTIVE TUES., JAN. 20, X94S WEEK-DAY SCHEDULE LEAVES SOUTHPORT LEAVES WILMINGTON , 7:00 A. M. 9:30 A. M. *1:30 P. M. 4:00 P. M. 6:00 P. M. 7:00 A. M. *9:30 A. M. 1:35 P. M. 4 :00 P. M. 6:10 P. M. 10:20 P. M. *?These Trips on Saturday Only. **?This Bus Leaves Winnabow at 6:10 Daily. - SUNDAY ONLY - LEAVES SOUTHPORT LEAVES WILMINGTON 7:30 A. M. 10:50 A. M. 4 :00 P. M. 6:00 P. M. I 9:00 A. M. 1:35 P. M. 6:10 P. M. 10:20 P. M. ge, the Cape Fear or Brunswick river bridges be wrecked in any manner a great area of country to the south and west of Wil mington would be isolated. With the volume of trafic that is de pendent on these bridges an al ternate route in and out of Wil mington is a necessity. j A new service that is being of- J j fered by the Railway Express i Agency snould be of interest to shippers of shrimp, fish and other [perishable products. It is a con I tainer or portable refrigerator, I carrying about 400 pounds. It is j not sold but is provided the ship pers at a nominal rent, based on (the number of hours it is in tran sit. Shippers of seafoods around jBelhaven and Manteo are said to t be using them by the hundreds to carry small shipments through I out this and adjoining states, (thereby creating new markets, especially for shrimp. Information about these containers can be ob tained at all express offices. Whether or not it interests you, j this reporter is becoming intrigu-l ed over the number of upstate doctors who own homes or build-1 ing lots along the Brunswick | county coast. Our guess is that there are between 50 and 100, with the number nearer the 100 mark, at Caswell Beach, Long Beach, Holden . Beach, Shallotte , Point and other spots. When your | doctor wants to get away from his office and have a rest they look for a place where conditions j are healthy and they won't be bothered with patients. Most of the Holden Beach fish jing fleet, boats that operate from the inland waterway at the ferry have come out from their winter [ hibernating and overhauling points. They are now poised, eith er to take out fishing parties or I to go shrimping, when shrimp are to be found. The wateway at the ferry is a very busy point. Visitors and residents of the beach get a big kick and some very profitable catches out of fishing in the waterway at the ferry. Using a large trailer parked in the rear of his home at Holden Beach, Dr. J. V. Davis who has retired from the practice of den tistry except for plate work, is all nicely fitted out with an office that is a bit unusual. He can work there when he wants to and can sleep there when he wants to. it is a mighty nice place to either work or rest. j Tobacco cropping and curing will get underway on a consider able number of Brunswick coun ty farms this week, according to the look of things. Despite the fact that the crop is spotted, the general condition appears pretty good for a fine year. Much of the corn crop has already been laid by and many more fields are ready for the final work of cul tivator or plow. The corn al3o looks somewhat spotted. Pat Chandler, 14 year old son of Mrs. J. S. Chandler, of Fay etteville and Holden Beach is the champion sheephead fisherman of the year, according to all reports we have received. Fishing at the wreck of the old blockade run ner Ranger, directly in front of the Holden Beach hotel Thursday he caught 9 large sheephead in a very short time. Two of his fish weighed four and a half pounds each. The others were almost as large. If anybody, anywhere along the coast of Brunswick has made a better catch or does make a better one, we would like to hear of it. Zeke Stanton, of Lumberton, where he has been engaged in the automobile parts business for many years, tells us that he built the 18th house at Holden Beach [when that popular bathing and [fishing spot started' to develop. .Few summers have come since (then when his family has -not spent the summer there. He comes down for each week-end to see how everything is going. I Crops in some parts of the (county are exceptionally fine. In other parts they have suffer ed considerably from insects, es pecially the army worms in the I corn. Tobacco is also being bothered. What would have been a good rain in many sections of the county the past week was soon outweighed by heavy, hot winds that quickly dried things up. Several farmers reported |over the week-end that they were (badly in need of rain again. LITTLE PHIL AMONG Continued From Page One From time to time the nurses at the hospital in Gastonia wrote letters home for Phil, to friends and to this paper. He was getting well. But during the past several months nothing * has been heard from Phil, at least not until Sat urday morning whenT^ to a reporter: 4 I "If you write anvn,,* last night, he sure ?m* * Phil was here." J i Phil, now at home on the highroad l0 u-i*'1 , at home, happy as ever ^ braces hut can walk ?.,J degree of ease He v,a, with the crowd Friday (his mother said: i "When Phil saw in u that Mack's would onj ^ | nothing would satisfy that we should promise him, so that he could * j ends again." 1 REVIVAL SERVICE ?'munued K rum p^e q^. year he has been dirtcior music in one of Ui< ! churches in Dallas. Texas ultimate ambllition is to SfW) in church- music. The public is coiiiiallj in, to attend all of the servua special invitation is extent summer residents at nearby ^ es. i SAFE-STURDY PENNSYLVANIA P-100 TIRES ?* A Savs money, time and trouble on your motor trips thi* summer. Drive in now... make your old, winter-worn tires pay up to M% the cost of new, safe Pennsylvania P-100 tires.Y ou'll be set for trouble free driving. Don't delay... come in today. You're welcome to save on Pennsylvania P-100's. i$ 1.25 "> Y Will I our Old Tirti Can B? To? i Down Poywifll | K&3tu*m BLACK'S SERVCIE STATIOf TIRES . . . WHEELS . . . RIMS . . . RECAPPI? Phone 110-J W. G. BLACK Whitev KERR SCOTT FOR GOVERNOR GO FORWARD WITH SCOTT 1. A Dirt Farmer?The Farmer's Best Friend. 2. Remove Discriminatory Taxes on Farm Machinery. 3. Repeal "Mud Tax" on Farm-To-Market, Home-To-School * Home-To-Church. Roads. 4. Better Provisions for Aged and Indigent. 5. Veterans State Service Program Second to None. 6. Increase in Rural Electrification and Telephones.
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