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lNq.sixteen 6-pages today Southport, N. C., Wednesday, September 1st, 1948 published every Wednesday |i.so per yeas
Most of The News
All The Time
SECTION BASE DECLARED SURPLUS
im Bureau
arts Campaign
or '49 Members
?izition Seeking To In
ns? Total Enrollment
Lut Year By At Least
??Third During Drive
i Hawes. secretary of the
lick County Farm Bureau,
li Sat an active member
now is underway and
(wy possible effort will be
H to increase last year's
Hiip total of 488 by one'
tlhis would place this year's
k about 650 members.
toidajr afternoon there were
county representa
at a district Farm
?Meting at Elizabethtown.
rt these same people now
??'?'eiy working to obtain
'lrsb-?s among Brunswick
> irrr.ers and business men,
^ to Secretary Hawes.
1 project behind which Farm
1 members have thrown
strength has been the
haw River Drainage Pro
certain definite pro
been achieved in this
Farm Bureau mem
** are planning to get be
' Project for rural telephone
Brunswick county.
*"?rship also is keenly in
*1 Plans for the estab
? of a livestock auction
at some central point in
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W.V?,
Flashit
* "O MEET
meeting of tie j
^ "-ions Qub will be held
F? i^rr* -in
r*c?<G
? ?lil K. ? . -J
ISj,, oe no preaching aefH
iC ? "ening at Southport
ji j,j|" . ckurch. However, j
L he regular Church
Pi>^':S Sunday mornfng
SINDAV
Kt,'. 7'*??. newly licens-!
pL," Supply will preach
ptist church on
l*d ""8 at r-he 11 o'clock
k it ,, at; the evening
Nr L?.Clork Public
fth ' w ^ attend these
Registration Is
Now In Progress
In Office Here
:? Seventy-two 25-year-old Bruns
wick county men registered for
the draft Monday, according to
J. E. Carr, chairman of the
Brunswick County Draft Board.
Figures for yesterday's registra
tion are incomplete.
The Draft Board office is lo
cated in the Smith building, up
stairs over the Building & Loan
office. Mrs. Frances Young is
clerk and on Monday her only
voluntary assistant was Mrs. Paul
Messick.
If you are a man of draft age
?18 through 25?you must regis
ter at the Selective Service
office in Southport on th? dates
designated for your age group. If
you were born in any of the years
listed at the left, then get ready
for a chat wi.th the Selective Ser
vice Board on the date shown to
the right. Here's the complete
list of years and days set for
registrations:
1924?Sept 2-3.
1925?Sept. 4-17.
1926?Sept. 8-9.
1927?Sept. 10-11.
1928?Sept. 13-14.
1929?Sept. 15-16.
1930?Sept. 17-18.
Two Dances For
This Week-End
Steadily Increasing Crowds
For Dances At Long
Beach Pavilion Expected
To Reach Climax ,
The old fashioned square dances
which %have featured the Satur-,
MV..evening- programs at Long'
jft-Ai ^Pavilion this summer
re* jjfk new high in attendance
S?.brday ?evening when 330 per- j
sons paid their way in to hear j
the fiddle music of Joe Reaves
and his Brunswick County Boys
and to dance to the figure-calling j
of Charlie Trott and Alden Pot-j
ter.
Gene Thomlinson and Carl Wat
kins, proprietors of the pavilion,
have been delighted with the sup
port that Brunswick county peo
ple have given these amusement
features during the season, and
for the coming holiday week-end
are planning a double-feature.
Continued on page two
SURPLUS?From an unofficial but reliable, source
this morning it was learned that the Navy Section Base
at Ft. Caswell has been declared surplus and has been
turned over to the War Assets Administration for dispos
al. Just what action the Board of Conservation and De
velopment plans to take following this development is
uncertain, but at their meeting here last Spring that body
passed a resolution authorizing the addition of Ft. Cas
well to the State Park System provided suitable arrange
ments could be worked out with the Navy Department."
It is understood that, an inventory is now being made for
the purpose of proceeding with the business of disposing
of the Section Base property.
Judge Burney Will
Open Court Monday
Business As Usual Is Sche
dule For County Offices
As Court Term Convenes
On Labor Day
DOCKET IS NOT
VERY IMPORTANT
No Capital Case Is Set For
Trial During One We4
Mixed Term; Another
Civil Tertn Septem
ber 20
A one week' mixed-term of
Brunswick county Superior court
will' convene Monday with Judge
John J. Burney presiding.
This knocks in the head a pre
vious action on the part of the
board of county commissioners
setting Monday as a holiday for
all. county offices, because with
court in session it will be neces
sary for most of the officials to
be on thg job . as usual.
Clerk of Court Sam T. Bennett
reports that the docket is a fair
ly long one, but that the cases
scheduled for trial are of minor
Importance. No capital case is in
cluded on the list, except in the
case of a negro defendant who
has not been apprehended.
Considerable interest is center
ed in a case charging Mrs. Curtie
Robinson ftnd Willie Belton with
fornication and adultery. Mrs.
Robinson is a white woman and
Belton is a negro man. A bill of
indictment was drawn for these
defendants during the last term
of court and a warrant was serv
ed by Sheriff. Walter M. Stana
land. A true bill has been return
ed by a Brunswick county grand
jury..
Bolivia Needs
Faculty Member;
Otherwise This School Is I
All Ready To Begin Year
Under Talmadge Page,
New Principal
Bolivia high school still needs
one teacher before everything will
be set for the opening of the fall
term under a new principal, Tal
madge Page, who has succeeded
O. C. Burton.
Mr. Page says that during the
first week school will run from
8 o'clock to 1 o'clock. He Is par
ticularly anxious to have good at
tendance, since faculty strength
is based upon attendance records.
A faculty list which is com- j
plete with the exception of one I
high school vacancy has been re-'
leased by Mr. Page, Bolivia prin-j
cipal, and is as follows:
Miss Bertha Reid, Winnabow, j
first; Miss Maud Fox, Randleman, ?
first; Mrs. Emma C. Herring,'
Wilmington, second; Mrs. Mildred
Tenuta, Wilmington, second; Mrs.
Frances G. Holden, Supply, third;
Mrs. Elie J. McKoy, Wilmington,
fourth; Mrs. Omega G. Page,
Rose bo ro, third and fourth; Mrs.
Ora G. McKeithan, Bolivia, sixth ;
Mrs. W. E. Lesh, Bolivia, fifth;
Mrs. Mae Ward, Bolivia, seventh;
Mrs. RebA S. Rogers, J/tullins, S.
(Continued on Page 3)
Huge Sawfish Is
Taken In Trawl
A huge saw-fish, said to have
been over 14-feet long and esti
mated to weigh 1900 pounds,
was caught 8*ttud?y to the net
at tfae shrimp boat Imperial HI
of the W. S. Wells fleet
M. C. Spencer was skippering
the i craft. He shot' atad killed
the big fish, afterwards cutting
off. and. retriving'the-saw with- ,
okt attrtnpting to get tfae fish
aboard the boat.
Sawfish are listed among the
North American game fhhes.
The rod; and reel record for size
is 736 pounds, this fish being
caught off Galveston, Texas.
County Council
Meeting Friday
Miss Corinne Greene, Home
Demonstration Agent, Ur
ges Full Attendance At
Important Planning Meet
ing
The County Council of Home
Demonstration Clubs will meet at
the Agricultural Building in Sup
ply on Friday, September 3, at
3 o'clock. Miss Corinne Greene,
the home demonstration agent,
says that this is a very Important
planning meeting and die is an
xious for representatives of all
clubs to attend.
The election of officers will
be held, plans will be laid for
the year 1949 and for Achieve-,
(Continued on page four)
Shallotte Land
Sale Saturday
To Draw Crowd
Much Interest Centered In
Sale Of Lots Contained In
Sub-Division Of Lands Of
Late T. H. White
BUSINESS SITES
ARE INCLUDED
New Avenue Has Been Cut
From Highway To River
And Beautiful Home
Sites Will Be Up For
Auction
There is widespread interest in
the real estate auction sale to
be held at Shallotte Saturday af
ternoon at which time 82 lots em
braced in a modern subdivision
will be offered to the high bidder.
The . property is the T. H. White
estate land which was sold last
month to a representative of a
large pulpwood concern in South
Carolina. Later the word was cir
culated that this property would
be used for a loading Bite for
pulpwood barges, but subsequent
developments revealed that this
Is a real estate venture the likes
of which have been cited as a
sore need'for Shallotte for many
years.? ?
In making preparations for this
sale a new stteet, Riverview Ave
nue, lias been cut from a junction
with U. S. No. 17 to the river.
The property has been divided in
to 82 lots which are 25-feet in
width. In auctioning off this pro
perty, a buyer will be given the
privilege of buying as many more
units of 25-feet width as he mqy
desire.
Included will be some very de
sirable business building sites ai)d
also some splendid residential
lots. Eight of the 25-foot sections
running to a depth of 100-feet
front on the highway. A like
number front on the river, and it
is this latter group that is expect
ed to cause the most spirited bid
ding for home sites.
The sale is being handled by C.
W. Mills & Son, widely known
auctioneering firm of Bennetts
vtile, S. G , . .
Full Schedule
Set For Sunday
1 ? _________
Return Of Padtor From Va
cation Will Mark Begin
ning Of Full F^ll Pro
gram For Trinity Method
ist Church '
Rev. L. D. Hayman and Mrs.
Hayman will return from a visit
to their son, t>r. Louis Hayman,
now resident staff doctor at the
Veterans Hospital at Black Moun
tain, the latter part of this week
and the Rev. Mr. Hayman will be
in his pulpit for a full program
of services Sunday morning, Sept
ember the 5.
The Church School officers are
urging- all teachers and officers
and pupils of all classes to return
for this "beginning of the fall pro
gram. At 11 o'clock the pastor
will announce the program of the
chu!-ch leading up to the annual
conference ? and administer the
Holy Communion. Hie evening
worship will begin at 7:30 o'clock,
and the pastor will bring the
message. ?
The Youth Fellowship will meet
on Sunday evening at 6:45
o'clock, which will be the first
(Continued on page 2)
Our
ROVING
Reporter
W. B. KEZIAH
Taking it for granted that most
of the folks who read this column
know that we have been spend
ing the past two weeks in the
hospital and doing no rovin', it Is
hoped that they will know why
most of this week's column is
going to be about the hospital and
nothing else. This is partly be
cause we don't know much about
anything else. A still better rea
son is that the hospital belongs
to everybody here in Brunswick,
and none of us knows as much
about the hospital as we ought
to.
We went In suffering from
acute appendicitis, a form making
an immediate operation necessary.
Usually in such attacks the doc
tors try for as much time as pos
sible to be certain if the patient
is physically able to stand an op
eration. The heart especially
must not do a fade-out when the
patient is under the ether. We
were Immediately put down as be
ing a tough old bird in matters
of the he?rt, and about equally
tough in others.
"We will operate on you at five
o'clock today," said Dr. Landis
G. Brown. To this decision Dr.
F. M. Burdette nodded heartly
approval. In fact, between these
two resident physicians of the
Dosher Memorial Hospital there
is a fine spirit Of cooperation and
understanding.
We were too far gone to care
either what they did do or what;
they didn't do. It was up to them,
not us. With a deadline having
been set the nurses doubled ef
(Continued On Page Dour)
Kids Pool Resources
To Save Pet Pooch
Recent Foray By Dog Catcher Had Kids In Trouble Until
They Raited Emergency Fund
Recently when Southport city
officials put on a drive to en
force payment of the dog tax one
of the thref animals empounded
durifig the first two days of this
flurry was a nondescript pooch
which had taken up with a group
of kids out near the ice plant.
When the youngsters began to
gather for their unplanned morn-1
Ing activities they soon discover
ed their dog was missing, and
then the word drifted in that J
the dog catcher had been seen in
the neighborhood. A quick check
revealed that their pet was in
the pound.
Some boys and girls might have
cried out a situation as serious as
this, but not this group. This was
not the first piece of business
with which they have been forced
to wrestle this summer, for in
cluded among their vacation ex
ploits was the operation of a
miniature mercantile establish
ment. So they held a conference,
then scattered to work out their
plans.
Piggy banks were shaken, par
ents were contacted for pre-pay
ment of weekly allowances, and
all possible sources of ready cash
were worked.? The group recon
vened, and a quick check reveal
ed there was enough money on
hand to pay the fee for empound
ing and to purchase a license tag
which would give permanent im
munity from the forays of the
dog catcher.
Then Sley headed for the office
of the city tax collector, paid the
fee and the fine' and were in
structed to go around to the
pound to claim their pet Hiere
they discovered that they had not
been the only ones disturbed by
the events of the day and that
their pet pooch had escaped.
Their feeling of uneasiness was
not relieved until they reached
their own neighborhood and spied
their dog cheerfully waiting for
them. The shiny new tag for
which their pooled earnings had
been spent was fastened securely
about hla neck as the kids and
their pet proceeded U forget that
there had been any unpleasant
interruption of their play. .
Schools Of County
Postpone Opening
McKinley Button
Discovered Here
Buttons for the use of sup
porters of candidates in election
campaigns are believed not to
have come into use until near
the beginning of the present
century. .
While rummaging in an old
drawer at the po? toff ice this
week, Postmaster J. B. Buss
may have come across one of
the earliest buttons made.
About 98 large ?? a half dol
lar, the button bears a wonder
ful likeness to President Wil
liam McKinley. He campaigned
for and was elected to the presi
dency in 1896 and the button
found by the postmaster must
have been struck off that year,
making it more than 50-years
old.
Congressman Is
Helping City
Congressman C. B. Dean?
Is Trying To Help Secure
'Modern Fire Truck From
Section Bate For Use In
Southport
Congressman C. B. Deane of
Rockingham and Long Beach is
making a vigorous effort to ?get
the modern fire truck owned by
the Nhvy and .located at Fort Cas
well assigned to Southport'g Vol
unteer Fire Department.
There appear to be good and'
sufficient* reasons for this action. |
In addition to Fort Caswell the
government has various other pro
perties in and around Southport
in Coast Guard, Navy and other
construction. Costly boats, aome
of which ofter create a fire haz
ard to the town in addition to
being potential victims, need pro
tection"~that the town is not in a
position to give at present.
The theory is that if the truck
at Caswell is of no longer any
use to the Navy it could be put
to great use by Southport. Much
of this use, would naturally extend
to protecting government proper
ty.
From letters received by Con
CContinued on page 2)
Johnson Family
Ends Vacation
Conductor Of Cincinnatti
Symphony Orchestra And:
Parent* Conclude Mon-1
th's a Vacation At Long
Beach
Rev. and Mrs. H. B. Johnson
and their son, Dr. Thor Johnson,
left yesterday for Mt. Airy, the
home of Rev. and Mrs. Johnson.
They have been spending the
month of August at Long Beach."
By next summer they will be
regular summer residents of the
Southport area. Last year Dr.
Johnson purchased a building lot
at Caswell Beach and he states it
is his hope that he will be able
to build a home there for his
parents during the winter. He will
(Continued on page 3)
Decision Reached To Post
pone School Opening On
Monday After Trip About
County By Superinten
dent
NO NEW CASES OF
POUO REPORTED
Superintendent Of Schools
J. T. Denning Believes
Action Will Be Helpful
In Keeping Up Ave
rage Attendance
County Supwtntonritnt of
schools J. T. Mutiny
Monday that the opening * of
Brunswiok county schools for the
fall teem has been postponed for
one week, .making' Mohday, Sept
ember 13, the-opening; day of the
fall tern}.'
This action wis taken follow-1
ing a trip about the county made
by 'the school superintendent. "Al
though there have been but -three
cases of polio reported," he said,,
"there prevails a feeling of un
easiness and uncertainty that I
believe would work ' against our [
first month's attendance If we.
were to . open next Monday."
He went on to explain the im-|
portance of the first month's at
tendance, pointing out that teach
er strength Is based directly up
on those figures. "In the interest
of keeping our faculties well staf
fed," he declared, "we would be
making p. mistake to begin our
fall term before parents feel" that
their children may be sent to
school with little or no Immediate
danger of being exposed to an
active case of polio.
Dr. Burdette, who in the ab
sence of a public .health depart
ment In the county Is the head
of the county health program by
virtue of his position as county
physician, says that there is no
(Continued of page four)
New Schedule
For Examiner
Driving License Examiner
Hudson Will Be In South
port On Monday And
Tuesday Of Each Week
Until Further Notice
License Examiner N. S. Hudson
Is now devoting two days each
week to examinations for auto
mobile drivers license. He stated
Tuesday that he will be at the
courthouse each Monday and
Tuesday until further notice.
Mr. Hudson stated that recent
absences from his post or. days
designated for examination of
Brunswick county people had been
beyond his control. There has
been an insufficient number of
examiners and some of them have
been off duty for one reason or
another. This made it necessary
for other examiners to double up
and fill vacancies.
He says that all ;,E", "F", "G'(
Initials and all beginners should
come to the courthouse the first
available Monday or Tuesday and
they will be t*ken care of. To
put this off Until the last minute
may make things very difficult
on both the examiner and the ap
plicants. so he is asking appli
cants for renewals of licenses and.
those who eek beginners license*
to com? on in as fast as poosibls.
Three Sailfish
In One Day But
Big One Escapes
Party Fishing With WatU
Saturday Had Blue Mai*
lin On The Line For F?r>
ty Minfates Before Giant
Fish Broke Free
TARPON HOOKED
BY INSIDE PARTY
Fishing In This Vicinity b'
Best Ever Unless Storm
Puts Stop To Recent
Run Of Good
Catches
Six sallflsh within the peat.,
week, three of them in one day,
with one a rodeo record breaker
is only a part o f the big fishing
news from South port this weak.
On Saturday a member of a
party fishing aboard the Idle-On
with Capt. T. H. Watts hooked
a blue marlin and waged a 40
minute battle with him before be
broke free of the sailflahiaf
tackle. Watts, who is a veteran.
Of many battles of denizens of
the deep, says that no pkrty of
his ever had a sequence of thrtlii
to match these.
He says that for the better part
of half-hour he kept his motar
"hooked up," running with tb*
fish. Even so, he says that often
all the line on the reel was Just
about gone before the big fellow
would start Jumping. "He muat
have jumped clear of the water
twenty times or more," he
"and part of the time we
tail-walking. Once he was with
in fifty feet of the boat when be
.p.r ?.-it, and I had a good look
_ tu j He waa easily between
three hundred and four hundsed
pound* in weight and was at least
15-feet long. He was as large aa
fou^ big porpoises."
Shipper Watts believes that tba
martin got away when he put a
kink in a UO-lb. teat leader wire
and broke it. When asked if be
thought he could land a martin
with a rig similar to the one be
was ualng Saturday, he waa anv>
istio, "I know darn well we can.
't ad that gentleman fr.ed
down before lie finally -got away
Saturday, and after doing all of
thatrunning he had 'sounded '.
There was lfttle strain on the liri?
when it parted, which makes me
know that a kink caused the trou
ble."
And the other big news of the
week so far M fishing is concern
ed also Is about the t>ig one that
got away. Bertram Burris and
Bill Styron, fishing in one of tha
creeks near Bald Head Island,
hooked a tarpon Friday and had
him on for a battle royal before
he freed himself. Burris says that
CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
Numerous Cases
Heard In Court
Variety Of Cam? Diipo*?!
Of Before Judge W. 3.
M c Lamb la Recorder'?
Court Wednesday
A lengthy docket Including a
variety of cases was disposed of
here Wednesday before Judge W.
J. McLamb in Brunewlck county
Recorders court The following
disposition was made of cases:
John H. McCall pleaded guil
ty to charge? of simple assault
and judgment was suspended up
on payment of costs.
Similar action was taken In ?
case charging; Curtis McCall with
the same offense.
Orbie Hewett was convicted oa
charges of drunk driving. Sen*
tence of 30 days on the toads was
suspended upon payment of costs
and a fine of $100.00. His liceasB
was revsked for J2 months.
King Knox was found not gull?
ty on charges of reckless opera?
tion.
Robert D. MlUlken was found
not guilty on charges of failure
to identify self following an acci
dent.
Rapply J. Howell pleaded guil
ty to charges of speeding and
was fined $6.00 and costa '
Junior Austin Fulford waa
found not guilty of reckless op
eration.
Waddell Crawford was ftfund
guilty of speeding and was taxad
with costs. ' . Jfl
Probable cause was found In the
case charging William He
Goodman with highway robb
and the defendant was bound
to Superior court. < r'?
George Kerr Andrews pleaded
guilty to charges of public drunk
enness and was fined $5.00 and
costs. "V
Hie case against Bert Rite for
drunk driving was noi pressed
with leave.
John Anderson was found
ty of possession and waa
$10.00 and costs.