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pilot Coxers #tvick County THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Most of The New? All The Time sixteen NO. 29 6-PAGES today Southport,*N. C., Wednesday, October 20, 1948 published every Wednesday si.50 per yeai trintendent Jjty Schools E[)0rt On Work ? of Teacher Load ?ft to 33 Pupils Ha. % In Additional j j,v Members In The UNCHANGED | e This Fall Close JJlleU Those For Z Schools During ; fall Of 1947 ^tervifw^this week J.I ... county superintend-, ^xjls. gave some ,nter" urination relative to the ; 'St county schools at the | ;^e Mr. Denning said: i meeting of the State; j Education at Raleigh in 0t this year the teach-! '?as* reduced from 35 to j At this time a spe-j Lr was also given to; ev! hanucr 30 or more; ; allotte was the only, ? Brunswick to qualify wtra teacher. Uland school has em i commercial teacher, us ,v derived from a special: _ held a year ago. | ? end of the first 10 days [ 1WT-48 school year 4563 j were enrolled in the if Brunswick under 144 I , At the end of the same ?jis year we have 4563 with 151 teachers at will be noted from this modified student allot tam has given the coun . additional teachers, the year 1947-'48 South hi 358 students and 12 For 1948-'49 this school students and 11 teachers. I jtte. serving two town-' ud 999 ?tudenta and 32 j in 1947-'48. This year; He same number of stud are enrolled and the ?< teaeiwrs. < ] Ktnaw had 675 students] Mdiers during the 1947' flus year there are 630 under 22 teachers. had 452 students and i in 1947-'48. This year j I has 436 students and1 s. had 378 students and sin 1947-'48. This year t has 391 students and s. the extra teacher is from special tax mon Brunswick county negro had 1701 students and ra in 1947-'48. They new students and 56 teach Sotth Carolina Educational State Board of Ed am! Special Education on are all advocating the' of the teachers load ! present 33 to 30 stud organization are hop 'worr.piish this during the ?^lature. It takes ap fciy 40 students per teach '"?rage 33 per day. The 8 ire allotted on average ??"?lance net enrollment. ?-e fall of 1947 20 white students from Bruns entered college. This "int)er of white students ^ On Page *'our) inV Stmt Iflfli/iii DANCE Sallotte Post American 1J sponsoring a dance on night. October 23, at the ^ gymnasium. Proceeds >!o th<: Legion Hut bulld ^ homecoming L^-Pe Presbyterian church ^??abow will hold its an Jjwoniing Day, next Sun * ;s an occasion that the ^r-n VVinnabow folks Jt'-rmer residents o f the liave been making a ^ ?ffair for years. As [Jjtaic dinner will be on Ln *aval school ][ ->tr Davis, U. S. N.. son r Mn- \v. S. Davis, of i ?'S now in the United i^al School at Bain J^ylantf. He was one of men to receive ap j 'o this preparatory I Wording to a realese P **ool it gives both *ad ?college prepara The students were [?> the Bureau of Navy to prepare them for L??? the u. S. Naval I* Alinapfili? Bloodhounds Found To Be Good On Deer Local Man Reports Unusually Good Lu?Jk First Day Of Season With Young Hounds With a couple of 18 months old dogs, one a purebred blood hound, W. T. Fullwood of South-1 port is credited with having two! up-and-coming deer hounds. Fri day, the first day of the season, these dogs jumped six deer and' more fTian did their part in bring- | ing down two of the animals. Buck feever mixed with some rather poor shooting is said to i have been the contributing cause' why only two of the six animals were bagged. Four of the hunt ers got in futile shots. Chief Aus tin of the Coast Guard patrol boat brought down one buck and Chief White got the other. Six men formed the party, Ful lwood, Chief Austin, Chief White, George Hankins, Robert Mc Kenzie and a man named Nelson.' It is said that Chief Austin would probably have been trampl ed to death by an unusually large buck if he had not been standing behind a large stump. Closely pressed by the hounds, the ani mal was coming straight at him. When he tried to shoot he found out there was no shell in his gun. He managed to load and get in a shot that did him no good and the deer no harm. One other hun ter missed this deer in three shots. It grot away completely. One thing that the entire party agreed on was that the Fullwoods dogs were both exceptionally good. A different tale was told by Chief of Police Otto Hickman, j He was out with another party j and they did not get a deer. He said his dogs were no good. He, has since got another one. Southport Skipper Favois Air Spotting Captain James B. Church Says That Assistance From Plane Cruising Overhead Is Great Help To Boats MAINTAIN RADIO CONTACT ALL DAY Much Credit For Unusually Good Season For Local Menhaden Fleet Attri buted To New System Early each morning a three seater plane begins cruising just off-ahore at South port, Caswell Beacli, Long Beach or Holden Beach. Seeing it hovering over head and apparently bound no where, visitors to the beaches ?3?^? le sXghtly curious as to what it is aoing. If they look twice they will pro-1 bably see several menhaden boats in the same area. If the boats | are too far away from the plane to be seen the odds are that they still are somewhere in the vicini ty. The plane is the spotter, look ing for schools of menhaden andi the pilot is constantly chatting with the captains of the boats, over the phone as he continues his search. ? The men on the boats are all vitally interested in the reports from the plane. The boats have tall lookout masts where men may watch for fish, but the plane according to Captain J. B. Church is the latest thing in outright ef ficiency for such work. The fish may be running deep, difficult for the men In the look out of the boats to spot. At its best in weather the range of vis ion from the lookout is limited. A good school of fish may be just a few hundred yards from one i of the boats, with no one know-1 ing of It. ' There has always been much cruising around taking much time and much use of fuel trying to spot fish from the crow nests of the boats. But a plane high up gives a wide area of vision to'the watch ing pilot Swift in its travels, it can carry its spotter over sea area in an hour than a whole fleet of boats could cover in a day. A constant watch is necessary, whether from boat or plane. One hour the schools of fish may be (Continued on page 2) Dedication Of Church Sunday Rev. Wood row W .Robbins Will Deliver Dedicatory Sermon Sunday After noon At Soldier Bay Bap tist Church Dedication services for the new church building at Soldier Bay will be held Sunday, with an all day program for this event. Sunday school will be held at1 10 o'clock in the morning, fol lowed at 11 o'clock by a Child-j ren's Day servicc. At 12 o'clock a picnic dinner will be served on,' the grounds, and this is expected! to be one of the most delightful1 features of the day. At 2:30 o'clock members will reassemble in the church audi torium for the dedicatory sermon by the Rev. Wood row W. Robbins of High Point, who was pastor at Soldier Bay during the period when the church was under con-| stractlon. A cordial Invitation has been extended all members, former members and friends to attend the program Sunday. "1 Freak Wind Hits Farm Near Supply A. R. Mooney, of Supply, re ports a very unusual storm that visited his place at two o'clock one morning this past week. He says it was like a big whirlwind, a regular twister, coming in a flash and gone as quickly. It. lifted a fourth of ! the roof of his home and also | lifted his only two pairs of | overalls and hung them in a pine tree 150 feet away. From the Mooney house the | "whirlwind" swept to the corn j field of one of his neighbors. | There it picked up a pile of corn and piled it up again in another place, some distance away. Shrimping Crews Show Up Missingi Good Pay Results In Work-1 ers Taking Off For Un-1 announced Holiday In | Many Instances A number of the, Southport i shrimp trawler captains are said to have trouble keeping crews or having them to show up after pay days. Too much money seems J to bring on a disinclination to iwork, the say. | Monday morning Captain Dan (Early Wells said he was unable to go out. His two-man crew quit Saturday. "I paid the first one $159.00 for his six days work, the other got $121.00, and they quit," he said. The same thing is said to hap pen Jo other boats. Helpers will work until pay day and then they lay off sometimes without warn ing. Skippers are said to frequen tly arrive at their boats on Mon day morning only to find they have no crew. Including the captain, most of the boats owned by Southport re quire two helpers along with the captain. A few are small enough to get along with just the Cap tain and a helper. These two-men boats often have the same trouble as the three-man crafts. The helpers just do not show up after pay day. As against these large and med ium sized boat operating troubles a large number of boats are here from Carteret county and points] on the coast. Most of these are two-men boats. 10 or 12 are so small that the owner can easily operate them by themselves. Cat ches by these one-man boats are I (Continued on Page 2) Commissioners In Session Monday Board Hears Appeal By Committee Of Represen tative Citizens For Public Health Department Members of the board of coun ty commissioners listened to an other appeal from a citizens com mittee for ar full time health de partment at their regular meet ing here Monday. . The committee was comprised of representative from clubs and organizations from various sec tions of the county, and the ap peal of this group was baaed up on placing funds now being rais ed for health work in Brunswick (Continued On Page Four) Prominent Men Of Two Parties Speak In County | ?( Secretary Of State Thad I Eure Scheduled To Be At! Southport Tonight; Re publican Senatorial Can didate At Waccamaw LIEUT. GOVERNOR COMING TO SHALLOTTE Voters Of County Being Given Opportunity To Hear Issues Discussed By Able Party Lead ers Secretary of State Thad Eure will speak at the courthouse in Southport tonight, the first of at least four prominent Democratic leaders who will appear in Bruns wick during the next two weeks. On Friday night there will be! counter attractions in .the politi cal field, but since they are at op posite ends of the county and are being staged by the rival parties, the prospect is taht a good crowd will show up at each place. John Wilkerson, Republican candidate for United States Senator, will speak at Waccamaw and R. I* McMillan, past State Commander of the American Legion, will speak at Leland. On Saturday evening Lieuten ant Governor L. Y. Ballentine will speak at Shallotte high school. He is an able speaker and is well known in Brunswick. A good crowd is expected to hear him. F. Ertel Carlyle, Democratic candidate for congress from the seventh district, will be the prin cipal speaker at Waccamaw high school on Tuesday night Candid atse will attend all meetings. Traffic Charges Tried In Court 1 Violations Of Traffic Regu-j iations Featured Docket' Heard Before Judge W. J. McLamb Wednesday Traffic violators took up moat of the day in Recorder's court here last Wednesday as & varie ty of offenses stemming from this cause were disposed of. The following disposition was made: James W. Griffih, speeding, $10.00 fine and costs. Edward Grady, tresspass, 6 months, suspended on good ? .be havior for two years and pay ment of costs. Roy Gore, reckless operation, continued to November 10. Walter McCarry, larceny, capi as. William Edward Gore, non sup port, continued to October 20. Curtis Varnum, Herbert Gallo way, assault and robbery, not guilty. Cleveland Brown, improper eq uipment on vehicle, capias. John Anderson, Jr., improper equipment, costs. John Owen Everett, transport ing, six months on roads, suspen ded on good behavior and payment of a fine of $150.00 and cost. Bycicle ordered confiscated and sold. Frank Angler transporting, not guilty. Henry Peschau, speeding, pos ession, transporting, guilty of posession, fined $25.00 and costs. Charles Parson, drunk driving, Continued on page two Body Of Sailor Shipped North The body of George E. Glea son, 48-year old Massachusetts man, was shipped to Boston Fri day by Kllpatrick Funeral Service. Gleason died at sea aboard the steamer Northfleld of the Key stone Shipping Company, Phi ladelphia, Pa. He was a pumpman aboard the vessel, which was bound south. Certificates from the ships of ficials showed he died of natural causes. The steamer continued southward after bringing the body to South port. The body was Ijeld here four days, awaiting instruc tions fr^m relatives of the dead man. Paving May Be Completed Soon Thru Longwood RuiH Operation* On Griaaet*! town-Soldier Bay Road May Result In Complet ion Of This Work After One Week Of Paving If good working weather con tinues the paving of the Grisset town to Soldier Bay road through Longwood should be completed in a week, according to L. C. Brown, Longwood citizen, who was in town Monday. The contractors, the E. W. Grannis Company, Fayettevllle, began the paving work Saturday afternoon. They worked from dawn to dusk through Sunday and by Monday they had the first mile of the road completed. The paving started from Route 17 at Grissettown. Mr. Brown stated that the orders were to rush the road through, working Sundays the same as other days, j this in the effort to get the eight miles completed before bad wea ther sets in. Heavy rains will make the newly- graded roadbed' practically impassable and this I accounts for the speed-it-through orders. f The road saases directly thr ough Longwood and fine farming ! section all of the ;wa>y. Converted Navy Craft Is Ready George F. Nickerson, Lat est Addition To Menhad en Fishing Fleet, Will Be Ready November 1 Work of reconverting the Geo rge F. Nickerson, former Navy Mine Sweeper, into a menhaden boat has been completed at the plant of the Brunswick Naviga tion Company which owns the vessel. The Nickerson was taken to Wilmington yesterday for a finishing touche to her equip ment. She will be able to take her place with the rest of the fleet on November 1st, according j to R. F. Plaxco, general manager of the corporation. The Nickerson is a 136-footer, equipped with two 500-h. p. die sels. In some respects she may be regarded as better than either the Brunswick or the Plaxco, both of which are also converted minesweepers and are regarded as the best In fishing boats on this coast. The Brunswick is owned by the company, the Plaxco by Mrs. Plaxco, wife of the general mana (Continued on Page 2) Our ROVING Reporter W. B. KEZIAH Several yachts have found the 600 yards of mooring facilities j of Dr. R. H. Holden on the water-j way at Holden Beach very much] to their liking during the past j few days. With the boats now] bound south many make an over-j night stop at Swansboro. They; say that W*ightsville Is too short; a run from Swansboro and that1 Southport is too cluttered up with1 shrimp boats and has no faciliti-j es in its basin for the yachts, i Swansboro to Holden Beach mak- j es a nice day's run. The Woman's Auxiliary of the| Presbyterian church will have an' old fashioned box supper at the1 Community Building Friday night of this week. They will charge no admission but they are asking that the women and girls bring fancy boxes of food and permit them to be auctioned off. The proceeds will be used for the bene fit of the girls basketball team. In addition to' the auction there will be plenty of entertainment and everybody is invited to at tend. E. F. Middleton, Sr., Charles ton, S. C., pioneer in the Long Beach development, was here this past week with interested parties from Charlotte. Mr. Middleton tells us he plans to return to South port and the Beach in a short time to make preparations for winter and spring activities. He recognizes the value of con stant pushing and promotion dur ing the winter months and said that right now things were look ing at their best for beach devel opment. With its furniture now placed (CootiniMd on page 21 - - ? ? " ' Ft Caswell Passes Into Hands Of WAA Effective October 19th For Disposal SURPLUS PROPERTY POOLS?A representative of the War Assets Admin istration took over Ft. Caswell Tuesday as the Navy De partment formally surrendered this war-time Section Base. Above is shown one of the pools atop a World War I battery. This was a conversion by private interests prior to the time the base was taken over for use during World j War II.?(Wilmington News Cut.) Award Contract For j New RE A Power Lines Bald Eagle Is Caught In Net Clerk of Court Sam T. Ben nett and his brother, G. L. Ben nett, of Wilmington, have come out with tops In unusual catch es. . Sunday they had a net put at Long Beach. When went to look in it' they found 300 pounds of spots and along with the spots was a huge bald eagle The eagle was drowned. It had evidently' swooped down on the net to take a fish that was im prlsioned near the surface. In stead of getting the fish its claws and legs became entangl ed in the linen meshes. As the tide rose it was dragged under. Former Resident Dies In Durham Funeral Services For D. J. Smith Conducted Thurs day Afternoon; Inter ment In Chapel Hill Cemetery Funeral services for D. J. Smith, who died Wednesday morning at Durham were held Thursday aft ernoon at 3:30 o'clock at the Hall Waynne Funeral Chapel. The Rev. H. P. Ruppenthal conducted the services. Interment was in the Chapel Hill cemetery. Mr. Smith had been indeclin ing health for several months and had been a patient of the hospi-j tal for the past two weeks where his condition had been regarded as critical. He was born in Duke Cented, Pa., March 20, 1882, the son of Amos and Nancy Downing Smith. He was educated in the schools of Pennsylvania and lived the I early part of his life there. In j 1932 he came to Durham where' he was associated with the North Carolina Joint Land Bank for several years. His last work was Continued on page 3 Bolivia Farm Bureau Meets Charles Taylor Of Winna bow Elected President Of i Bolivia Chapter Of Farm Bureau Federation The monthly meeting of the American Farm Bureau Federa tion, was held Monday night in the Bolivia high school. The meet ing was called to order at 7:30 o'clock by J. H. Tinga, tcmpor-| ary chairman. The Rev. Fred Mintz led the opening prayer ask ing for Divine guidance. The elec tion of officers for the coming year resulted in the following: President, Charles Taylor, Wirtna bow; vice president. Homer Holden, Bolivia; Secretary, O. C. Burton, Bolivia: asst-secretary, (Continued on page three) AWARD CONTRACT FOR Total Of 1320 Miles Electri-1 cal Distribution Lines To ) Be Erected In Brunswick And Columbus Counties ! EXPECT WORK TO START IMMEDIATELY Contract Calls For Com pleted Job, WUh Two Miles Of Line To Be Erected Each Work ing Day " '? <! 1 E. D. Bishop, manager of the Brunswick Rural Electric Mem bership Corporation at Shallotte, announced this ? week that the REA headquarters in Washing ton have approved the second of two low bids submitted for the building of 320 miles of electri cal distribution lines In Bruns wick and Columbus county. E. C. Bridges of Heath Spring, S. C., submitted the low bid of $487,696.00. The Boyle Construct ion Company of Sumter, S. C.t stood next in line with a bid of $490,691.85 and the award was made to this bidder. In addition to the 320 miles of distribution j lines, the Boyle company will also! 'handle the conversion work on' 50 miles of line, changing It from] single to triple phase. Superintendent Bishop states' that work will begin just as soon1 as the papers can be officially ex ecuted. That may be this week. | The contract calls for two miles of line to be completed each work ing day. The work embraces the clearing I of the right of way, the purchase of all wiring and other equipment, 'including poles and tehir place ment. In a way of sepaking, It I will be a turnkey job with the j REA or property owner only hav ing to run lines from the distrib ution lines to the point of use of current. The Boyle people are under stood to have had wide experi ence in construction work of this n&ture. Health Nurse Is Covering Schools Miss Barbara Adams Is Busy Making Visits To Various Schools In Effort j To Take Care Of Begin- J ners Miss Barbara Adams, the coun-, ty health nurse, is now busy, covering all Brunswick County schools with the present work a-| mong the first graders, vaccinat ing and checking on immunlia-j tion alrtady. given. She reports, finding several children who are' in need of medical care. Her second pre-school and infant clinic began yesterday at Sup ply. Miss Adams has covered all of; the schools one time. This leaves' her with two more visits to each before things Slack up In this1 line of wprk. She has started the Immunization of 550 school child-, (Continued on pag* 2) 1 Valuable Property In Tho Hands Of WAA For' Whatever Disposition Ap pears To Br Advisable STATE MAY STILL SECURE PROPERTY Negotiations Between Board Of Conservation And Do? velopment Failed To Materialize James C. Water?, custodian for Atlanta Regional offices of the' War Assets Administration, for mally took over Fort Caswell from the Navy yesterday. The Section Base is now surplus property to be disposed of In whatever manner, the WAA deems most advisable. It may be either sold to some corporation or individual for de velopment or salvaging purposes or it may be turned over to the State of North Carolina for u*f as a part of the State Park Sys tem?if the State wants it. The valuable physical proper ties ot the Fort including several old but substantial brick build ings are of such nature that sal vaging to any great entent pa pears to be impractical. The most practical course appears to be through handling the property as a summer resort or for some oth er purpose including the possibili ty of its being a part of the State Park System and the build ings devoted to various uses. For two years the State ha* been negoitating for the pro perty. At first the request to the Navy was for a long term lease, five years not being considered long enough for the alms the De partment of Conservation and De velopment had in mind. The Navy at first refused to give a long time lease. Later the government changed its mind and Is said to Safe offered the leas* for a* ia definite period, subject only to a national emergency that might create the necessity of the Army or Navy reposessing the pro pet ty By this time the State had al so apparently changed its mind, wanting only a one-year trial lease. Supply Resident Dies At Home John J. Hewett Had Been In Poor Health For Some Time; Funeral ServicM Yesterday Mr. John J. Hewett died at his home at Supply Monday night. He was 75-years-old and had been In bad health for a long time. Funeral services were conduct ed yesterday ? afternoon from the graveside at the Galloway cemet ery near Supply where burial fol lowed. Rev. H. M. Baker of the Southport Baptist church offlcat ed. Mr. Hewett Is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ida Brown Hewett, and three sons, L. W. Hewett, Murphey L. Hewett and Dennis R. Hewett, all of the Supply com munity. A number of grandchild ren and one great-grandchild also survive. Bolivia P.-T. A. Starts To Work Grade Parents Named For School; Organization Dis cusses Plans For Helping School The Bolivia school has one of the best operated P. T. A.'s lit Brunswick county and the second meeting of the school year xlss held a few nights ago with an unusually good attendance. The organization has 54 members, all working efficiently In the inter est of the school. Mrs. W. A. Kopp is president of the organization, H. Foster Mintz is secretary and G. K. Lewis is treasurer. At the last meeting various plans and suggestions were mads with the view of securing fuft&a for needed equipment for the school and grounds. Among the immediate plans are a hallowe'en party, to be held on October 29th. Plans are also under way to hold a womanless wedding in the near future. The following are the ? parents, serving with the P. \ A.: 1st; Mrs. Radway Sellers ai_ Mrs. BUI Thrope; 1st (b) J. B. Hickman and Mrs. E. P. MiUq( Continued on page I