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llie pilot C-oxers ^.vick County THE STATE PORT PILOT I Most of The New? All The Time : Regulations f d To Step [(p Inspections Having Automobiles Various N,odeU ! W $ DESAETLAUGUST 31 Will Be Made '"protection Of Man . a Has Just Acquired ^ Motor Vehicle L "vehicle Department ? * , , m?w set of rules i 'j??s designed to speed jSanical Inspection Pro ! j vehicles. 81,1 five, the remainder of .twrious model vehicles| ,?*nted for inspection. | X Moore. Director or ^rtWts Mechanical In " Division. said the neces ?? the new regulations was i Uder.t by the fact that at ^ of June only 250.185 of jj-js >62.252 registered ve lod been inspected. K '<?*? requirements, which ac effect immediately, stipu 4K: ji! motor vehicles of year i ap to and including 1936 j *ta:ies of year models 1947 U1? must be Inspected by IS 31. Tar models 1937 and 1946 inspected by September jtoiels 1938. 193?. 1943t| jjj mo must be umpect- j October 31. Kb 1940 and 1942 must: sKcted bv November 30. jfoiels 1941 and 1949 must bated by December 31. Kechar.ica! Inspection Law, Sv the 1947 General As rtquires that all vehicles] t inspected once during j ,jdtwice a year thereafter." Qeiissioner of Motor Ve i ;< pvyj power ,und?jr the j Idprrauigate sucn ru.js and' Kens as he deems necessary i ainunistration of the law. ?King up the various dead-1 Mrcre said the Department! k assured that by the end W all registered vehicles' law paid a visit to one of j Saw's 36 mechanical inspec- ( laces. "In this way," hej ? "the lanes will not have nierp such a tremendous 1 it the end of the year." Ship's Wheel Provides Base For Nice Table Captain And Mfs. Roy Robinson Have Made Attractive Table From Ancient Ship's Wheel Captain and Mrs. Roy Robin son of Southport have a beautiful and unique table, created out of the huge steering wheel of one of the great square rigger sail- j ing ships that plied the ocean lanes a hundred or more years ago. All that is known about the wheel is that it was salvaged by the Coast Guard at Ft. Lauder-1 dale, Fla., some time in the dis tant past. There is no record of the name of the vessel from which it was taken, nor of when the ship was wrecked. All that is known is that the huge wheel, more than five feet across, lay in the store room of the Old Coast Guard station at Fort Lau derdale for years. Covered with, other accumula tions, it was forgotten until the second world war period, when It was unearthed by Captain Robin son while having the store room cleaned out. The hub of the wheel is a large block of brass, weighing approximately 25 pounds. Into this the spokes of the wheel are milled. The spokes are of ma hogany. The fello is of black walnut, mahogany and white maple, the seams knit so closely together that they could not be detected if it were not Tor the different colorings of the woods. By building a base and a large center leg on which the wheel is mounted, Captain Robinson created a beautiful table out of the wheel. The table top is a large circular piece of plat glass, completely covering the wheel, but leaving it plainly visible. It cost $15.00 to cut the plate glass In circular form to make the table top, but that and all other costs and labor that went into making the table was time and money well spent. Captain Robinson has already been offer ed $200.00 for the table, the main object of the would-be purchaser being to get the wheel. Sailing Vessel In . Port Following Blow Two-Masted Sailing Yacht Took A Beating From Northeast Blow Last Week And Put In Here For Repairs CRAFT ENROUTE TO N. Y. FROM MIAMA Guest-Crew Bringing The Yacht to New York From Her sails battered, two of them blown out from two days of buf fetting against the Thursday and Friday northeast gale, the Char mian, bound to New York from Miami, put in at Southport Sat urday. The ship, a 58-foot two-masted sailing yacht with a small auxil iary engine, had only a 12 foot beam. With eight persons aboard, she got rather crowded below deck, especially when the north east gale sent mountainous seas over her and rushing down her hatches. The ship is owned by Lionel K. Levy, architect of New York City. Despite her small size she has been something of a voyager. A former owner sailed her from New York down through the Panama Canal and to California, j Getting caught in a storm, his wife was injured and left the ship on the west coast. The pre sent voyage was to take her home to New York. Mr. and Mrs. Levy were aboard. While the eight persons aboard the Chairmian when she put in here were all more or less guests, it was mostly less. Limited quar ters and the need of various tasks being performed forced everybody aboard to work in various capacities. Miss Patricia Ryne, formerly with the New York World-Telegram and the San Francisco Herald-Examiner, now taking a post-graduate course at the University of Cali fornia, in Berkely, California, was very much pleased at the invita tion of a local newsman to come ashore and have supper with him at Mack's. Her pleasure was short lived. The balance of the guest-crew made her stay aboard to cook supper for them. Miss Ryne's father, Captain W. D. Ryne, of the U. S. Naval Re serve, who was also aboard for the pleasure of the trip and to serve as navigator, was about (Continued on page 2) Irieftfews Flithtt *5 TO MEET k agular meeting of the, tor. Lions Club will be held | tow i Thursday* at the tecty Center Building. Kcamaw bank bs O'Brien and J. E. Cooke, j ?as of the Southport and \ fete offices of the Wacca-1 ?Bark and Trust Company j Nscrt today that the direc-1 1 < the bank declared a di- ? ^ 30c per year to holders | !*W as of June 30, 1948. *3 BABXETT HOME I 1 and Mrs. E. E. Elliott, of j !*? Mount, have purchased 1 te. Matilda Barnett home fethport. It is understood plan to move here Mr. Elliott has been Atlantic Coast Line rail ^ Rocky Mount. ball game FjW Sandfuidlcrs and junior team arc to ?* Shallotte Thursday af P* this week. Both teams . ? up of boys under 12 ^ Southport won last 1 game piaved here by PCtoi. ^a?BARN bvrns Ijm',7 curing harn ful1 of 1 Co-nl,t0bacco ^longing to HpTL a widow' i Polly township, 4 b-v f're this past a i,M 0ss is sa'd to have I ^Tone to her. * Vi??? my transport Ogle ^ ?t a. Was scheduled to k Se J,,ea'Slern post Sunday ?a r?.,ies of war dead that ^W5 from Eur?P? ^ tils t s bcing brought >lon uT'1 13 that of ^V'W n Leonard of Shal " h* ,?'nt" [t is under Vt? a . { wiU arrive at "kre s, lal wi" take me time next week. District Legion Meeting Friday Chas. M. Trott, district com mander of the American Leg ion, has completed plans for a district meeting Friday evening at Long Beach Pavilion. In vitations have gone forward to officials of all posts in the dis | trict, and indications are that j there will be a good attendance. This will be an important business meeting. Among the [ items of business will be the j election of new district officials, I the election of delegates to the State Convention and to the National Convention. Weed Auctioneer Beach Builder Jimmie Woltz, Ace Auc tioneer on Fairmont Mar ket, Spends Oft'-Season Constructing Nice Homes At Long Beach Leaving for Fairmont the last of the month to begin his an nual stint as auctioneer on the Fairmont tobacco market, jimmie Woltz, one of the Deuer Known (criers of the weed in the Bright ! Leaf Belt, said Monday that he was getting back to Long Beach | in about three months and that he intends to spend the winter | and next spring in building ? homes. Mr. Woltz is originally from I Sanford but is now a year-round . resident of Long Beach. During j the past year he has built three j homes, and they were better than ' the houses that Jack built. They j have ranged in cost up to $12, 500.00 and are about the most attractive of any on the beach. The houses Mr. Woltz has built are all on the lower end of the beach, as are those he plans (Continued on Page Eight) Artists Depart Following Visit Mayor Eriksen Talks Fishing Now Serving As Skipper Of Menhaden Boat At Beau fort, S. C., Local Man Say s Fish Are Off The Coast At home this week from Beau-1 fort, S. C., where he operates a I menhaden boat, Captain John D. | Eriksen commented on the num I ber of fish of all sorts now off. I the coast and in the sounds. He j J said the whole ocean along the j j coast is full of bluefish and [ mackerel, with other game fish in abundance further offshore. | In the area where he now is operating, menhaden fishing has not been so good. However, it was pointed out that the sounds everywhere are full of menhaden. "If they ever drift outside where XConUnued oa ?84? Two Young Ladies And Young Wilmington Manj Recently Have Been Busy Sketching Local Scenes Miss Katherine Morris, Ra leigh, and Miss Dorothy Hooks, j S'mithfield, left for their homes Sunday afier spending three weeks in Southport painting wa-1 terfront and other scenes. Claude Howell, talented young' Wilmington artist who is now| devoting his entire time to paint ing, spent all of last week work ing with Miss Morris and Miss Hooks. With plans to spend con siderable time here in the future, Claude came down for a day and stayed a week. Upon leaving he said, "I don't really want to go home but I need some clean j clothes. After all I only came (down to-spend one day." | One of Howell's paintings of Southport, called "Funnels" and j showing a pile of ships funnels I taken from Navy patrol boats I when they were converted into [ fishing craft, has recently been | sold to the High Museum in At ?ConUaued on Page 61 Uniform Rules Established By Wildlife Board i . 1 Lay-Day Regulations For Both Quail And Deer Abandoned Through Ac tion Of Wildlife Resour ces Commission DEER SEASON TO OPEN OCTOBER 15 Quail Season Opens Novem ber 25 And Extends Through January 10, With Hunting Allow ed Every Day A set of 1948-49 hunting regu lations, which eliminates many of the local exceptions in effect pre j viously, was announced Saturday by the State VTildlife Resources ! Commission. | The regulations were establish ed by the commission in a three ' day executive session held in I Raleigh. Executive Director Clyde P. Patton said one of the most im portant features is elimination of j the system of "lay" (no-hunting) !days which have been in effect | several years for some game species in the eastern part of the State. "Conservation-minded sports men will go along with the aboli tion of 'lay days' especially in the case of quail. There is con clusive evidence that greater kills are possible on days following a j period of rest when split coveys 1 have been given a chance to re-J form. The commission believes that all North Carolina sports men should have an equal oppor tunity to hunt regardless of their place of residence. "The new policy gets away from the past precedent of local exceptions," Patton said, "and the uniform regulations will greatly increase the efficiency of the law enforcement staff." The seasons (all dates inclu-j sive): Quail?Nov. 25-Jan. 10. Daily bag eight, possession limit 16, season limit 100. Rabbit N-v. 25-Jan. 10. Dail>*| bag seven, possession limit 14. Squirrel?Oct. 15-Jan. 10 (ex cept in Ashe, Watauga and Al legheny Counties, Oct. 1-Dec. 15.) Daily bag eight, possession limit 16, season limit 100. (In '.nd west of Allegheny, Wilkes Caldwell, Burke and Rutherford Counties daily bag six, possession limit 12, season limit 75.) Ruffed Grouse?Oct. 15-Jqfi. 10. | Daily bag two, possession limit four, season lifnit 10. Wild Turkey (gobblers only) ? Nov. 25-Jan. 10. Daily bag one, possession limit two, season limit six. Deer (bucks only)?In Eastern North Carolina, Oct. 15-Jan. 10, except In Hatteras Township of Dare County, Nov. 1-30, and noj open season in Atlantic Town-, ship and Roanoke Island in Dare;' in Buncombe, Henderson, Hay wood and Transylvania, Nov. 15 Dec. 6 (parts of Buncombe, Hay-| wood and Henderson will be closed); in Mason, Clay and J Cherokee, Nov. 15-17 and Dec. 6-1 8; and Avery, Burke, Caldwell, McDowell, Mitchell and Yancey, | Nov. 15-17. In East daily bag one, season limit two; in West ern counties, season limit is one. | Bear?Qct. 15-Jan. 1. Daily bag two, possession limit two, season (Continued on page four) TYING TOBACCO BARNING?A part of the busy scene of putting in tobacco is shown above as an expert 'stringer' is shown at work with her two 'handers'. Barning tobacco is a job which requires the efforts of all members of the average farm family. Tobacco Warehouses May Be Constructed Animals Destroy Ripe Watermelons ANIMALS DESTROY 14 Everett H. Sheppard, Shiloh, N. J., phoned Southport Mon day to ask a friend the best method to keep coons from de stroying his melons on the River Road eight miles above Southport. The later part of last week he was advised that the deer and coons were de stroying his melons in great numbers, so he made the long distance call to find out the best way to protect his melon patches. He was advised to have his man to tie a dog in the field and leave it there all night; if the dog was not too lazy to bark, he would scare the ani mals away. In case anyone does not know it, both deer and coons are very fond of ripe, watermelons. (Continued on Page 2) Freeman Resigns Waccamaw Post Served As Principal Of That School Last Year,: Succeeding County Super-' intendent J. T. Denning Martin C. Freeman has resign ed as principal of the Waccamaw school and has accepted the principalship of the Stokesdale school, near High Point, where j he will teach this year. j Mr. Freeman came to Wacca-< maw last summer, following the; resignation of J. T. Denning, who | was elected superintendent of i schools for Brunswick county. | In leaving Waccamaw Mr. Freeman was actuated by the1 fact that his mother, a widow, I now 75-years old, is in rather' feeble health. At Stokesdale he will be near his old home and his mother. Business Interests At Shal Iotte Showing Intention Of Making Move In This Direction If Possible TWO WAREHOUSE PLAN FAVORED Believed That Brunswick Market Could Sell Prac tically All Of Weed Grown In County West Coast And Ran Afoul Bad Weather Off Carolinas Shallotte where they have been' talking the building of tobacco warehouses for several years and the establishment of a market fori the weed is again excited at the. prospect of such an undertaking.. Some definite information on the j matter may be available the last of this weeK, according to R. D. j White, Sr.* pioneer, business man; of the town. j Mr. White stated Saturday that1 in his -opinion it was less than useless to attempt to start a mar ket off with only one sales ware-1 house. He and others interested j are, bending their efforts for two warehouses. There seems to be J good prospects of getting these j two houses, even if Mr.. White | and other citizens of the town I have to build the places them-1 selves. That two houses are necessary! for the beginning of the estab-1 lishment of a market is evident. Few, if any of the big tobacco buying companies are interested in sending iull corps of buyers to one-house market towns. Like wise less of the growers are dis posed to carry their weed to a one place market. The situation at this time, ac cording to Mr. White, seems to be that good warehousemen can be secured to operate two ware houses at Shallotte if such ware houses are built. With the start j once made, it is believed that, other warehouses and warehouse-j men will inevitably come. Brunswick county produces sev- j eral million pounds of fine to-! bacco each year. The establish ment i' a market at Shallotte | would result in most of this crop j being sold there. In addition, a | lot of tobacco would come in i from upper South Carolina andi other weed growing areas. I "I am dctng all I can to get j warehouses built here. See me the last of this week and I may have] something more definite for you," | (Continued on page 2) Our w. B. KEZIAH Seems to us that most every body around Shallotte must have had the toothache or some kind red ailment Saturday. Dr. R. H. J Holden has Saturday closing hours for his dental office at i 3:30 o'clock, at which time he j and Mrs. Holden always leave for] | Holden Beach with us in tow. j We missed the trip to' the Beach Saturday simply because fifteen j or more patients were waiting | at closing time or came after ' wards before the doctor could get away. J The W. B. & S. Bus Lines has put on its regular summer sche dule of trips to Long Beach. These trips are a convenience in various ways. Visitors from up 'state can come down and go di rectly on to the beach, or if they have business here in town they can go later. People leaving the beach for up-state points by bus can also get through without calling on a friend or relative to bring them over to Southport. Last, but not least, a lot of Southport people and summer resident*) of the town like to go over to the beach for a few hours by bus. [ The proposal now rapidly tak ing form to build two tobacco marketing warehouses at Shal lotte and to establish a market there seems to us to be some thing well worth carrying on. j Such buildings could serve more | than one purpose. After the to bacco curing flues for barns. They would also be ideal for con structing and storing fish boxes for use at various points on the coast. i \ One thousand pounds of fairly large mullets, the first good catch of the summer season, was made at the Little Beach fish (Continued On Page Four/ Big Week-End At Long Beach Another Record Breaking Throng Expected At Popular Brunswick Coun ty Resort This Week-End A check with many of the resi dents of Long Beach Monday af ternoon brought out the fact that there is a general belief . that four times as many people are visiting the beach this year as last summer. Two hundred and more men and women paid admission to the dance Saturday -night, and there were about that many more spectators. Along with this good crowd at the pavilion another good crowd was at the Seashore Grill, where another dance was being held. . Dancers and spectators only ^Continued on Page 61 Livingston Will Replace Eriksen As City Mayor John D. Eriksen, mayor of Southport since 1935, has resign ed this position and Hubert A. Livingston, alderman from the third ward has been named by his fellow members of the board to fill the unexpired term. Mayor Eriksen has been engag ed in fishing off the South Caro lina coast for the past several months, and a good part of his time has been spent away from here. He felt that in fairness to] his office he should resign in or der that a man who was spend ing all of his time here might be named to serve. The board of aldermen as now constituted includes Dan Harrel son and G. W. McGlamery, first ward; M. M. Hood and J. A. Gil bert, second ward; F. W. Spencer and an un-nafoed replacement for Mayor Livingston from the third ward. City officials report that re-| pairs to- the main pump at the city water plant have been com pleted and the main well has been deepened by 50-feet. These im provements have resulted in a bountiful water supply, and any critical shortage of water has been ended. Piedmont Men Like The Beach Declare That Residents Of Their Section Will Do Much Toward Develop ing Brunswick Beaches "We Charlotte and Piedmont Carolina folks are going to build up Long Beach," so said Bill Probst, of Concord, commission agent for the Standard Oil Com pany. "You can say that for me, too," said H. T- Sawyer, Assist ant Division Manager for the Standard Oil Co. Charlotte head quarters. Both of these Standard Oil men are now spending some time at Long Beach with their fam ilies. To show that he meant what he said about building up. Mr. Probst went on to say that (Continued On Page B) Time Magazine Man At Beach Ted Robinson, Associate Editor Of Widely Known Publication, I? Spending Month Of July At Long Beach With Family A regular summer resident of Long Beach for the past three years, Ted .Robinson of New York, associate editor of the in ternationally known Time Mag azine, told a newsman Monday that he liked Long Beach the first summer he ever came there, and he and ~rs. Robinson and their five children have grown to like the place better and better each summer since. "We look forward for weeks to the time when we can leave New York and come to Long Beach. We love the place," he said, "You can quote me, if you want to," he said, "as saying that I can t think of any other place on earth, so far from home, where I d rather go, Just to squat around and enjoy myself. And I wish I (Continued on page five) Shipping Shrimp South To Plants For Processing sra sw5r?? Market PRES|NRTESM^ESHR.MP When Quality Of Product Improve* ^hip nuHiti To Northern Market. Will Be Resumed For the first time in the hl? ess. Err?.?*."?-f^g ? twelve ton. ol italmp here yesterday for the plant 01 the Castigliola Fruit Company at ^^HoUPrjaenU the company which handles fg* and frozen shrimp and frozen seafoods in addition fruits and vetetables, said last night that he would buy here from the local dealers for as long as he could get them. When large shrimp come in the trucks will go north to new York and other markets. When th? product is small they will head for the Gulf Coast and the can n'"n addition to the main plant at Chalmette?which is the spot in New Orleans where Andrew Jackson fought the British to a standstill?the Castigliola com-, pany has five other plants In Louisiana. . They keep six 14-wheeler tall er trucks in operation, bringing in produats. These trucks have their own freezer units, keeping the catch at zero temperature un til it is delivered. They carry a net load of 12 Cons of fish of shrimp to each trailer. Eight other 10-wheel trucks operate? and owned by the company carrj, net loads of 10 tons each. Vincent Castigliola Is personal - ly doing tne buyinr port for the present. If t**y ar? able to buy shrimp here steadily he may be replaced later by an other representative of the com pany. They buy from the local producers ana pay cash as soon as the purchase is weighed. The Castigliola company can use and wants small shrimp Ifoe the Louisiana canning plant. Their operations here, if the producers will sell to them, will remove (* lot of small shrimp that the not much desired by the northern markets. Traffic Cases Feature Court Numerous Actions Disposed Of Before Judge W. J. McLamb, With Several Defendants Waiving Ap? pearance A long list of cases, the ma jority of them growing out of traffic violations, were disposed of before Judge W. J. McLamb here Wednesday. The following disposition w^s made: Norris Henry, possession, trans porting, reckless operation, $425 and costs. Disposal of car to come up later. Roy Smith, reckless operation, continued to July 14th. Charles L. Prevatte, drunken driving and resisting arrest, con tinued to July 21at. Nat Isreal, reckless operation, continued to July 21st. Jeal L. Pratt, speeding capias. Mildred Zeigler, speeding, ca pias. Victor S. Gurch, speeding, ca pias. Enid Gay Jacobs, speeding, ca pias. Eleanor Dublois, speeding, ca pias. John Luther Harrison, assault with deadly weapon, 90 days on roads suspended on payment of cost and defendant to be of good behavior for a period of two years. ? Lucian Bruton, reckless opera tion, capias. D. D. Bruton, drunk driving, fined $100.00 and costs. I John A. Walker, speeding, {In led $10.00 and costs. James Marion Ledbetter, speed ing, fined $10.00 and costs. J. Herman Leder, speeding, continued to July 14th. Joble Clarkston Allen, speed ing, fined $15.00 and costs. James B. Parker, speeding, fined $10.00 and costs. Oleo Morris, operating motor vehicle with improper license, nol pros. William Arthur Spencer, | (Continued on pa?? a).