flie pilot Covers Uis* ick County THE STATf PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Most of The News All The Time NO SIXTEEN NO. 18 6-PAGES TODAY Southport, N. C., Wednesday, August 11th, 1948 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY fl.50 PER YEA^j List Is For Two L ernls Of Court At, OnTw.S "j Term Convening ^ On Monday, Sep U?r 6th ?JPSeTTEMBER 20 O ?ev Will Also V^Are Drawn Jurors . ? hjve been drawn for superior court < * held here during ?? * first of these is lasting for one " rver.in" on Monday, * g judge John J. Burn ?S?5- ?? ??? "" Stt H. S. Simmons. Mrs- Clyde *?**?? J r' M M. Hood, J. u KT Hattie Thweatt, Kf Jesse A. Purvis- Ivey PftaTlev Gore. Ash, Mrs. Keit. C. S. Cheers C. C. R Gray, Larry P ? T) Woodard, A. A. t Jr.. R D. McCall, Her ^ Shallotte; ^ b r Williamson, G. R- ^ l,.V?'ntz. L L. Williams f pfcelps. Ltland: _ ? John Griffin, Charles .Hewett, H. M. Long' s Liter, J. W. SeUers Sup ** J C. Reynolds, V. A. i John C. Gore. Bolivia; Ejitn. Jr. Longwood; James U'mnabow; I ?tond week of court, I j for trial of civil cases, Lwte on Monday, Septem I judge Burney wlU also k aver this term, and Uie Jk have been drawn for jar. W. V. Simmons, Lis fa^non. J- V. Smith, John Lt!e, L. F. Jones, Ash; I l Holden, R L. Gallo ns. G. A. Brown, R- L. Ls, Ruby Clemmons, Mrs. fj Hewett, Supply; Mrs. Stanaland, H. V. P'g" I R Gray, Mrs. Lucille E. t Dora A. Hewett, B. M. U Todd. H. R. Tatum. L Lane WiUetts, T. H. h Winnabow; C. T. Arnold, j belle Mills. Mrs. Bessie I a: Bolivia: C. G. Ruark, W. B. Moore. Mrs. P- ? I Margaret Dozler, South C R. Spivey. Leland; Mrs. Salmons, Freeland; hitfSewt Fltthtt IlIDDLERS WIN l4e test played game ? uur.er's series, the South Scdfiddlers. a team com W youngsters from 8 to Wj i :< age. defeated Shallotte p- aftermon by a score of iMalcom Gore pitches for, yf. -r.-i Jean Allen Bennett , fc Joe Swain was the win- 1 Meter, although he was re- . Ph Billie Gullis. Pt DEMOCRATS 1 ft Williamson, president of 1 peig Democrats Club for i pick county, has called a j p of this organization for j B night, August 20, at 8 1 * in the Shallotte high | ' wilding. He urges a full; fcce and says that among "'-'T.ar.r business to be dis ' * is the matter of election p officers. I - ____ r^lN(. HOME Pitman Halstead Holden. . P to. and Mrs. R. H. Holden. j and Holden Beach,! F^ih up his two months P *?rd the TJSS Princeton, 1 P^frar.cisco on August 21. 1 P8 the vessel there at that ^ I* *iil return home to re studies at the Univer-j Carolina. Thetcruise ie young Brunswick Pietieijatci took him the' I Hawaiian Islands. I FHo TRip group of Southport 1 r Cleave Saturday morn P^witeo where they will) Ej^st Colony pageant on F' v \v. b. & s. ; chartered for this >rrangements have been 1* frying all costs includ ?jJPWation. meals, loging at one time. A., are still available, j E* *i*ing to make the ?jy^Mmtact Miss Annie . DISPLAYS NEW TYPE NET INVENTION ? A new type of net which permits \ small food fish to escape but which retains shrimp has I been invented by Louis Guthrie of Morehead City. He is I shown above with Dr. H. F. Prythtch, an aquatic biolo- 1 gist of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, inspecting i the new net. Beauty Contest Will Close W ith Big Dance Members Shallotte Post No. 247, American" Legion, Sponsoring Voting Con test To Select Beauty Queen WINNER FREE TRIP TO CONVENTION Contestants Being Sponsor ed By Various Business Firms of Shallotte And Money To Go To Hut Fund A beauty contest which will reach its climax with a dance at Shallotte high school gymnasium on Saturday evening. August 21, is now -ia progress under the sponsorship of the Shallotte Post No. 194, American Legion. Funds raised from the contest I and the dance will go to the build- 1 ing fund of the American Legion 1 Hut which already is under con- 1 struction. Members of the Shal- 1 lotte/ Lions Club are gifing their active support to this contest and so are the merchants and busi- j nesi men of the community. Twenty-one of the most attrac-l tive young ladies of Brunswick j county have been nominated for this contest and are being spon- : sored by various business firms. J Arrangements have been made j for voting at eaeh of the sponsor- 1 ing stores, and. it is anticipated! that a redhot contest is in the making. The winner will be crowned at the dance and will be .the official J beauty queen for the Shallotte I Legion Post and will jeceive a1 three-day all expense trip to the State American Legion Convent- 1 ion in Asheville September 4-6. j With this honor and this trip in prospect, there is keen rivalry among the contestants. Voting already is underway and will con tinue up until intermission on j the night of the coronation ball. J Southport Man Passes Friday John Monroe Barnhill Died At Dosher Memorial Hos pital Friday; Funeral Services Held Saturday John Monroe Barnhill, 64-re tired marine engineer, died here In the Dosher Memorial Hospital Friday morning. He had been up and about as usual until a few days preceeding his death. With the Southport Baptist church in which Mr. Barnhill held membership being rebuilt, fun eral services were conducted in Trinity Methodist church Satur day afternoon at 4 o'clock. The services were in charge of Rev. H. M. Baker, pastor of the Bap tist church, and Rev. J. M. Wag gette, pastor of the Southport Presbyterian church. Burial fol lowed in the Northwood ceme tery. . Active pallbearers were M. R. Saunders, S. T. Bennett, Dave Garrish, Paul Fodale and J. L. Robbins. Honorary pallbearers were C. E. Cause. J. L. Moore, Gus Mc Neil. Dr. L. G. Brown, Dr. F. M. Burdette, H. B. Smith, Fred Spencer, C. N. Swan, Joe Arnold, John caison, Pete Hickman, Tom Hickman, Archie Evans, W. J. Hayes, L. B. Leonard and Louis Hardee. He is survived by three daugh ters, Mrs. John D. Gainey, Le-i land; Mrs. E. F. Gore and Mrs.J I (Continued On P?g? Hour) I Southport Artist To Hold Exhibit Arthur E. ? Newton, talented I young Southport artist, will hold an exhibit in the Communi ty Center Building on Friday, August 20. Hours for the show will be from 3 o'clock to 6 o'clock in the afternoon and from 7 o'clock to 10 o'clock in the evening. Newton will have on exhibit a number of paintings of local scenes, most of them different from his works shown here last summer. Several . of the paint ings already have been sold, but will be included in the show in order that his friends may see the progress he has made dur ing the last year of study ( in New York. A silver offering will be tak en, and the beneficiary will be the Womans Society of Christian Service of Trinity Methodist church. Recorder Hears Varied Docket t Numerous Cases Covering Variety Of Offenses Dis posed Of Before Judge W. J. McLamb Here On Wednesday ?I ? A variety of cases came before Judge W. J. McLamb here In Re Recorder's Court Wednesday, with the following disposition being made: Gregory Dolis, speeding, con tinued. Irvin Young, public drunken ness, 30 days on roads, judgn^nt suspended on payment of costs. Berdine Durden, disorderly con duct, continued. Henry Durden, assault with ?? duct, continued. . George W. Farmer, drunk driv ing no operator's license, capias. Edward Norman Hall public drunkenness. 30 days, judgment suspended on payment of costs. Fred W- Warwick, raising dis turbance on state highway, fined $22.76 and costs. Cecil G. Cowan, public drunken ness on state highway, fined $22.76 and costs. Cecil G. Cowan, assault, con '"johli Clayton Coffee, speeding, continued. George W. Daniels, operating motor vehicle on highway with improper steering equipment ana lights, continued. Herbert Dixon, reckless opera tion, continued. Lawrence Thurston Caison, reckless operation, continued. Sam Merrick, assault with deadly weapon, guilty of ?impl? assault, judgment suspended on payment of costs. William Jackson Lewis, speed ing $15.00 and costs. Henry C. Corbett, reckless op eration. 30 days, judgment sus pended on payment of costs. Gilbert Waddell, possession of apparatus for manufacturing, con ""colon HaU. transportation and Dossession, continued. | John R. Spencer, drunk and disorderly, continued. Ross Spencer, trespassing, con tlnURoss Spencer, drunk and dis- , orderly, continued. Naomi Mintz, no operators li- , cense, continued. Inspection Lane Returns Today To Tins County, Motor Vehicle Inspection Lane No. 28 Operating Today And Tomorrow At Shallotte MOVING HERE TO . START SATURDAY Will Operate At Beach Intersection Saturday And Again On Mon day Of Next Week Motor Vehicle Inspection . Lane 1 No. 28 is operating today and tomorrow (Thursday) at Shallitte and will be open to the publkj at Southport on Saturday and again on Monday. Automobile owners with vehicl es of 1936 and prior models must have them inspected before Aug ust 31, or run the risk of being fined. The same is true of owners of 1947 and 1948 model automo biles. Although the end of this month marks the deadline for automo biles falling into these classifica tions, it is pointed out that cars of any model may be offered for inspection at any time. All motor vehicles must be inspected during 1948, and motorists are urged to attend to this detail without wait ing for the last-minute rush which is sure to result if owners persist in putting off their in spection. I Shallotte Lady Passes Monday Mrs. Lydia D. Chadwick Died Monday Afternoon At Home Ne-r Shallotte; Funeral Service* Today i Mrs. Lydia D. Chadwick, high ly esteemed 73-yeai* old resident, of Shallotte. died at her home Monday afternoon following .a l lengthy illness. Funeral services are being con- ? ducted this morning at 11 o'clock from the late residence. Inter- 1 ment is to follow in the Gurganus j cemetery. Active pallbearers are grand- j sons of the deceased, W. T. Sel- 1 lers, Robert H. Sellers, Jack! Chadwick, Donald Pigott and I McKee Pigott. Mrs. Chadwick is survived by three son?, three daughters and 17 grandchildren. The sons and daughters are, John M. Chadwick j Hary S. Chadwick, James W. Chadwick, Mrs. B. H< Pigott, Mrs. W. B. Sellers and Mrs. Le Roy Mintz, all residents of Shal lotte. . Dances Continue At Long Beach Gene Tomlinson and Carl Wat kins of the Long Beach pavilion ; report that more than 260 per sons attended their dance Satur day night. The popularity of the Saturday night square dances at th? pavil ion has grown so steadily, Tom linson and Watkins say they will have to enlarge their dance floor. Plans to that end are being stud ied now. Joe Reaves and his Brunswick county string band, dispensers of | fine square dance music, have reg ular Saturday night engagements at the pavilion. Charlie Trott is now calling the figures. Contestant I ?? uAL8erta Leonard, ho is being: sponsored by the Lions aub of Shallotte in the I SK? con'e8t of the Whiteville j Noted Symphony Leader Is Now j Visiting Beach; Drn7^?r ??ohMon? Director Of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, I, Spending! August With Parent. At Long Beach Count v "if bten ??Id 0n BrunSWick S Wa last year when he came to Southport and CWell MrlVfi P8rents' R*v. and n B- Johnson, of Mt. Airy Dr Thor Johnson, widely famed conductor of the Cincinnati Sym phony Orchestra, is back to spend Beachemamder ?f Augrust at Long Last year the Johnsons had rooms at the Camellia Inn in Southport. They bought a beauti fully locate^ lot at Caswell Beach ^r, ,Wf orl?ihaUy the plans tw-V'L " t0 buiId a home here during the past spring. Dif ficulty in securing building ma terial and in locating a contractor ! has delayed the building. ' J This year they managed to se-l I8!?6' Tide' Jr- cottage' Wh i Stott at Long Beach. I While there for the summer, they| will lay plans for building their! own cottage at Caswell beach-1 during the wlffter or spring. Thor Johnson, a North Carolln ian and produce of the Unlveraity at Chapel Hill, is now one of the most outstanding American Sym phony conductors. o,?r*?r uy 8 rePreser|tative of The Pilot while the family was nloht"^ MuMaCk'a Cafe Sunday ' ir; J nson statees Arnold,) guests, Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Cone and daughter, Miss Nancy Cone, Greensboro, 50 blues and mack erel, several sea bass and snap pers. Reported sighting two sail fish. Kaibab, Captain James* Arnold, guests Cecil Stegall and party of four from Marshville. 91 blues knd mackerel, weighing one and 1 a half to three pounds. Joy, Captain George Gregory, 1 guests Dr. Rhomer and party ? from Long Beach, caught 50 blues and mackerel. 1 Joy, Captain George Gregory, 1 guests Dr. Rhomer and party from Long Beach, caught 50 blues ' and mackerel. 1 Botfly, Captain Basil Watts, E. 1 Continued on page 3 Stabilization Of Lock woods Folly Inlet Bar Reported To Be Project Of Great ExpOnse And Labor SOME IMPROVEMENT NOW IN PROSPECT This Would Extend From Bar To Bridge At Sup ply; Fishermen Need Access To Ocean At Law Water Writing Bill - Grady at the Hol den Beach ferry at Supply this | week, Col. H. R. Cole, District! Army Engineer, pointed out that the existing project for Lock woods Folly River calls for ? a channel 100 feet wide and 6 feet deep at mean low water. This project starts at the ocean with the Lockwood Folly Inlet, runs up the Intraooastal Water way, thence up the Lockwoods Folly River to the bridge at Sup ply, a total distance of 19 miles, according to Col. Cole's letter. The main need is for keeping open the inlet from the ocean to the waterway. The large number of fishing boats operating from the waterway at the ferry have no way of getting to and from the ocean except this Inlet." It lsi continually shoaling up and mak-| ing the passage of the boats dan gerous and often Impossible. With reference to this inlet part of the Lockwoods Folly pro ject, Col. Cole said: "Based on past experience with other Inlets along the North Car olina coast this office is convinc ed that it is Impractical to main (Contihued On Page Four) Southport Lady Dies In Hospital Mrs. Grace K. Dosher Died This Morning Without Regaining Consciousness Following Stroke Mrs. Grace K. Dosher, widow of the late Dr. J. Arthur Dosher, beloved Brunswick county physi cian, died this morning t# the hospital in Southport narped for her husband. Mrs. Dosher had been a patient for three weeks at the local in stitution, but her condition had not been considered serious until she suffered a stroke on Monday. She never rallied from this shock. The death ?f Mrs. Dosher re moves from Southport a person who has figured prominently in the civic and social ' life of the community over a long period of years. Her friends who knew her when she first ?CHme from Balti more, Md., to Southport to make her home recall her patient and ever-willing assistance to her doc tor husband, who long before modem hospital facilities were established here performed major surgery the results of which are considered little short of miracu lous. She had been active In the Live Oak Chapter, Order of Eastern Star, in. the American Legion Auxiliary and in Red Cross acti vities during both World War periods. She always had a repu tation for being a fine hostess, (Continued On Pan Vow) Whiteville Sets Pace With More Than Jl, 100,00ft Average Is Holding Above $56 Per Hundred Pound* For Four Market Sale* FULL SALES SEEN FOR COMING WEE?. Tabor City Averaged Sligty ly More Than Two Hun dred Thousand Pounds Daily Coltimbu* County's four tobac co market towns today started second week operations with pros pects of full sales after auction ing five and one-half million pounds during the first four days of the new season. Supervisors of Whiteville, Ta bor City, Chad bourn and Fair Bluff reported that the county's 21 warehouses were in the midst of what amounted to a block to day and that lndlcatlona pointed to much heavier volume this week. Prices this morning were slight-, ly higher on some grades and market observers expressed th?f opinion that the average would ba as high as >57 or more. Whiteville set the pace last, week with a total of 3,122,420 pounds of 822,687 pounds for Fri day and an average of IS6.73. Ha was optimistic over the outlook for full sales this week. Tabor City ended the four-day first week with sales totaling 815,-. 000. Supervisor Larry Ash by said an average of $56 was maintain ed. On Friday the border town sold 188,332 pounds for an aver age of $55.81. Sales Supervisor C. B. Townsend of Fair Bluff reported an excel lent first Week. He said the mar ket's 750,000-pound total was greater than the volume for the first two weeks of last year. Frl-1 day's top was $75 and the aver age for the week waa $56.02. Chad bourn reached 800,000. pounds for the first fpur days. Hits brought "alt average of