V SSBHMHHMm i* pilot C.mers ij^jdswick County THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Most of The News All The Time ?*?- S XlLEN NQ 3? 6-pages today Southport, N. C., Wednesday, October 27th, 1948 published every Wednesday fi.so per yea* fX Carnival fill Be Staged Friday Night i Event Will Have %( The Thrills And Lw That Make It favorite Program For ? __ mg CONTEST N0W IN PROGRESS jj From Carnival Finance Activities Parent-Teacher Or lUiiiation Of School >unual Hallowe'en Carni Southport high school will Jetway Friday evening at jCl0CH with the costume llhich will be held in the auditorium. First and i prizes will be awarded v post attractive and ori I costume in the pre-school -,p and in the 6-years to group. In the 9-years to ^ group there will be two ipnjeV one for the most at ct and original costume ufcr for the most comical in the carnival is this week as students j jndes are canvassing fori a support of the candidat- j King and Queen of the and for the court at i. The crowning of the is an outstanding feature event each year. jkates in the voting con jjr Queen and King are: Jane Helms, Richard Gre Lena Ward, G. W. Fisher, jiiene Stidham, Elliott Hick P&tricia Adams, Sammy dants: Janice Trunnell, I Ward; Betty Lou Rabon, j Dre?'. Ram ona Williamson, j Cockran; Gwendyln Cook, CuhweU: Vickie McEwen, Cockran. m Bearers: Barbara John ftrry McEwen, Caroline nr. Tommy Harrelaon; j Rose Fodale, Jimmy Moore, j ring festivities on the | I the auditorium, the scene carnival will shift to the j itun. where the fish pond, : mmtry store, the bakery, j ?ccr shop, the hot dog stand tae of horrors and refresh tends will hold forth. carnival in under the aus- | the Parent-Teacher As and money from previ-; amvals has gone for the [ of a piano for the ii. a gas range, clectric j :or and other equipment lunch room and athle iment for the playground. I If Uf Newt Flash?* the hex ley s Daw-son Russ, fire con 8-'- 2nd class, TJSN., has 'ending several days at his ?st Bolivia. He is serving W the USS Henley recently in the Medlteranean Sea. TffiR DIES k ad Mrs. C. G. Ruark were * to New Bern Sunday due '* death of Mrs. Ruark's Baxter H. Armstrong. 1,5 well known here, having Southport many times. p" services were held Mon ^W-NG THEATRE "??ve alterations and re B new being made on the ^ theatre. When it re * it ?iii be in charge of R. Jr. Among other equip White has just recelv 350 new seats. POSTPONED "pilar first of November ^ th> board of county 'Mrs will not be held ^ ?*>". but will be held on .N'ovembcr 4, instead, to chairman R. O. PARCELS L, Martin, manager of the i%,f\ C., district office L Department of Com lL3 "o*- prepared to furn ? . i parties de I,.' *ntl gift parcels or pre ^ 'lends, members of the or families who are ?n request to Mr. Mar I 1 will be sent free to [?siring to make such SEEKING OFFICE OPPONENTS?Left above is Amos J. Walton, Regis ter of Deeds or Brunswick county, who is the Democratic candidate for this office in the General Election Tuesday. B. A. Russ, young Longwood businessman, is his Republi can opponent. Citizens Vote Tuesday In General Election As In The Past, Greatest Interest Of Brunswick County Voters Is Center ed In Local Ticket PRESIDENTIAL VOTE GOING THREE WAYS Fact That This Is Year For Electing National And State Officers Expec- ; ted To Bring Out Big Vote : Brunswick county voters will j go to the polls Tuesday to join with other citizens of the nation I in electing a man to serve as | President of the United States j for the next four years, but as j usually Is the esse, chief interest is centered in tho local ticket- I In the past Brunswick has been j one of the few .North Carolina) countics in which a Republicican: candidate for president might' reasonably expect amajority over his Democratic opponent. This time the vote is expected to go three ways, with President Harry S. Truman, Governor Thomas E. Dewey and Governor Strom Thur n?an all collecting some votes. There has been little said in this (section in behalf of the candidacy of Henry A. Wallace, the Pro gressive party candidate. On the State ticket there is i expected to be little show of strength aside from the support j given the Democratic and Re publicican candidates. | It is with the county ticket j that the closc fight is expected | to develope, and leaders of both j parties will be in a frenzy of | activity right up until the time| [the polls close at 6:30 o'clock [next Tuesday afternoon. Voting j will begin at 6:30 o'clock Tuesday morning. : In the contest for Brunswick county representative to the low er house of the North Carolina (Continued on Page 2) Jersey Grower Here Last Week Everett H. Sheppard Will Return to Southport Soon To Begin Preparation Of Land For Tomato Plants! Everett H. Sheppard, Shiloh, N. | J., tomato farmer and plant pro-' ducer, spent last week on his1 plant growing farm on the River! Road, seven miles above South- [ port. He was making prepar tlons to build two tenant houses for the use of employees. Mr. Sheppard is to return in about ten days and will begin clearing 20 acres or more of addi-1 tional land. He will plant this land in watermelons next spring and in 1950 he will add the land to his tomato plant growing acreage. The acreage in watermelons this year made a fine crop. He plant ed it in melons as It had just been cleared and was too fresh for the growing of tomato plants. It is in fine condition for growing; plants for the New Jersey farms next spring. | For this year's crop of plants Mr. Sheppard used land that he had leased. He will use his own land for plant growing for the first time next spring. His crop of tomatoes in New Jersey, grown from plants produced here, was an exceptionally fine one. Other j New Jersey tomato growers who used the Sheppard Brunswick county plants are all said to be highly pleased. Two Election Officials Fined Two Brunswick county elect ion officials were convicted and drew fines of $25.00 each in Federal Court in Wilmington yesterday for depriving certain negroes of their voting rights and two other officials were ac quitted. Rufus D. Holden, retired mail j carrier of Supply, was one of j the men convicted, while the I other was Milton Curtis Mur- i rell, restaurant operator of I Shallotte. Miss Annie Nelle j Fulford of Supply and Dou^'as j H. Hawes of cBolixi'.. yyrere.ac- j quitted. In passing sentence upon Hol den and Murrel, Judge Don Gillam called attention to the apparent absence of intent to violate the law. Pictures Made Of Shrimp Boats Representatives Of Cater pillar Tractor Company Southport Saturday For Pictures Of Equipment On Trawlers For the first time on the North Carolina coast the advertising division of the Caterpillar Tract or Company, Peoria, 111., took note of Catipillar Marine Engines here Saturday. The company keeps up the use of their products everywhere, hav ing two completely equipped photographic laboratories in a truck with expert photographers in charge. The travel from coast to coast, recording the useful and unusual things their tractors and engines are doing. This past week one of the laboratories was sent to the agen cy at Columbia, S. C., swinging around' to Southport for pictures of the shrimp trawlers and en gines. From here they went to the North ? Carolina distributors at Raleigh. Glenn Heintz and John E. Mat hews were in charge of this lab oratory. They got pictures of en gines and a large number of the big Southport trawlers in action and at the docks. The Penny of Captain Meritt Moore, some of the Dallas Plgott boats and the fleet of Lewis J. Hardee was | singled out for , attention. ! Mr. Hardee was interviewed at the laboratory on the matter of boats, engines and Southport fishing. The conversation was re corded by a dictograph and will Continued on page two - ,To Bring Boat On Next Visit James Shearer, special agent of the F. B. I., Roy Brokaw, Army Intelligence and Pete Yas kell, all of East Orange, N. J., are here this week on a fishing trip. j Yanskell, a brother of former postmaster L. T. Yaskell. who is also here with Mrs. Yaskell, says that he and Special Agent Shear er have about completed a 30-foot cabin sea skiff that they intend to christen in Southport waters on their next trip here. Their i boat, called a Jersey sea skiff, is . an adaption of the Seabright ,Dory. It has two Chrysler ace j motors, able to make 27 miles ! per hour and with a cruising IsiMed of IS mite* Association In Annual Meeting In This County Brunswick Baptist Associa tion Met Wednesday And Thursday Of Last Week At New Life And Anto och Baptist Churches MANY PROMINENT SPEAKERS HEARD The Rev. H. M. Baker Is Re-Elected Moderator, John Jenrette Is Clerk For Association Dur ing Next Year The fiftieth annual meeting of the Brunswick Baptist Associa tion was held on Wednesday and Thursday of last week, the first day's session being held at New Life Baptist church near Exum and the second day at Antioch Baptist church, near Bolivia. Feature of the first day's acti vites were talks by representativ-' es of various North Carolina Bap tist causes. Dr. Owen Herring spoke about Wake Forest College; the Rev. John Walton spoke about the orphanage; the Rev. Earl) Bradley spoke about the Baptist State Convention; and Dr. Mc Gee spoke aoout the Baptist Hos pital. The annual sermon was de livered by the Rev. Tom Johnson of Bolivia. Thursday's session was devoted chiefly to business, featuring a report by the associational mis sionary, the Rev. W. R. Morehead. The annual sermon for this ses sion was delivered by the Rev. Bennie Price of Bethel. The Rev. H. M. Baker, pastor of Southport Baptist church, was reelected moderator of the con vention, with John Jenrette being reelected clerk. Next year the association will meet at Sabath Home Baptist church near Hol dens Beach and at Leland Bap tist church. Greensboro Folk Fond Of Fishing Poor Weather Conditions During Past Week-End Failed To Discourage Man And His Wife From Favorite Sport Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Cone of Greensboro may have something of a record for the number of fishing trips they have made out from Southport with the same party. Mr. Cone said Sunday night that they had been here ten times this summer and they always charter a boat for two days when they come. Coming in this past Friday they went out on the Kaibab of Cap tain James Arold on Saturday. Luck was poor as there was a bit of east wind in the air. The couple, both good sports and de voted to fishing as much as they are to each other, did not mind that. They fished all day. Sunday morning with the same weather conditions found them getting breakfast at Mack's at 5:30 o'clock. Soon thereafter they were out again with Captain Arnold and again they remained out until sunset They returned at that time with the long drive to Greensboro in mind. The Sunday catch was some better than Saturday. Mr. Cone reported to an inquiring newsman (Continued on Page Six) ; Harvey Johnson Is Crash Victim Harvey Johnson, Jr., one of the three men killed In a-plane crash at Dunn last week, was a part itime resident of Brunswick coun jty. He has usually spent his sum mers at Holden Beach with his > sister, Mrs. Bill Grady. He was J Mrs. Grady's only brother, j Only seventeen year3 old, the youth was active and popular among the young folks at the beach. It is reported that an investi gation of the plane crash is be-j i ing made. It is said to have been j rented by the companions of i J young Johnson for the purpose of! making a trip, crashing a few | minutes after they took off. The | engine was driven straight in-: to the ground. Pictures show the tail standing upright, apparent- j jly undamaged. Brunswick Men Buy Dragline Foi- Drainage Two Hickman's Crossroads Men Purchase Equipment To Help With Drainage Problems In This County Layton and Willie Joe McLamb! of the Hickman's Cross roads community are credited by Coun ty Soil Conservationist C. D. Pot ter with having the only drag line owned by farmers in Brunswick county. Mr. Potter states that the mac hine is doing very efficent ser vice, digging canals for farmers I in Shallotte and Waccamaw town-| ship. Layton McLamb, one of the owners, is the operator. For the digging of drainage j canals a charge of 20 to 25 cents per cubic yard of earth is made the charges being dependent on the character of the soil being moved. From the above charge the farmers get a refund of 8 cents per cbic yard from the AAA, this leaving them with a net cost of 12 to 17 cents per cu^ic yard. Mr. Potter as soil conservati onist does all surveying work without any cost to the farmers having the canals dug. While this dragline is the first one owned by Brunswick county farmers and used for farm work, it is worthwhile- to state Rice Gwynn, prominent Longwood far mer, had more than 20 miles of j big drainage canals dug with ; draglines during the past year. He leased the machine and hired the I operators. His canals opened up jsome very rich farming land to 'cultivation. Farmers Planting More Pastures Indication That More Brun swick County Farmers Are Interested In Live stock Comes From Seed Orders Indication of increased inter est in cattle raising in Bruns wick county may be found in the fact that 400 Brunswick farmers have placed orders with the AAA for seed with which to sow per manent pastures. The individual planting will run from one to six acres each. Some of this seed will be for (Continued on page Z> Our ROVING \V. B. KEZIAH A year or so ago something-1 was written in this column about! The Pilot having a subscriber | named Omega. She was not fully identified as her last name was; not given. Omega is from the Greek, Alpha and Omega, Alpha] meaning the first and Omega the last. The same thing must apply in this case. This week we had a nice letter from Miss Omega Little, of Freeland. She writes that she has five brothers and three sisters and that she is the baby of the family, which may have accounted for her parents, naming her Omega. It is not all profit, this big money that is sometimes paid to shrimp boat operators. It is ad mitted that the farmer has to have land, has to fertilize and work his corn crop, has to feed his hogs and beef cattle before he has anything to sell. The shrimper does not plant or cul tivate, but he has to invest ten to twenty thousand dollars in equipment and he is constantly facing loss. Nets are lost almost daily by being hung on, hidden reefs or wrecks. Last week the Penny of Captain Meritt Moore made a miscaluation when lower ing its net. The net got caught in the propeller and in less than half a minute $275.00 worth of new net was torn to shreds. The propeller did not bend or break but it often happens that both propeller and shaft are ruined. Such accidents as this are almost daily occurance. I The Towle8-Cline Construction company, of Wilmington, has found out that dry weather, com bined with very light sand just (Continued On Page Four) Dogs W aging Losing Fight With Bruin John Fernside Reported To Have Lost Two Good Dogi; Tennessee Hunters Have Pack Crippled A bear hunt in the Great Green Swamp last week is said to have resulted in two-thirds of the pack of a pack of bear hounds owned by Tennessee hunters being badly crippled in mixing' up with an especially savage old bear. One chase is reported to have lasted 24 hours and to have ended' in the complete exhaustion of the few dogs not crippled by the bear. They were called off and taken home to Tennessee to be brought back to try again for the same creature another day. John Fernside, Green Swamp bear hunter and guide, has had two of his fine bear hounds kil led, supposedly by the same tough bear that beat off the Tennessee hounds. The first of this week saw a party of Concord and Albemarle bear hunters after this mean customer. The visitors brought in a pack of about a dozen of the big Plott bear hounds. Real bear baiters, they are said by Irksene Vereen to weigh from 50 to 80 pounds each. No report is yet available covering this hunt and the effort tc get the bear that has been doing so much damage to dogs. Fernside, the Phelps boys and other Brunswick hunters are cred ited with getting several other big bears since the season open ed. Five Months Coma Is Ended By Death Gillette Proposes Caswell Purchase Col. George Gillette presented a proposal to the Board of Con servation and Development Sat urday that the State of North Carolina take immediate steps to acquire Ft. Caswell, which last week was taken over by the War Assets Adminstration. He listed three methods in which Fort Caswell might be obtained for a state park. They were (A) purchase, (B) pay ment of 50 per cent of value if used as a state park and (C) | secured at a national price if | used by the state for the pre servation of historical values. Following the report of Col onel Gillette, the board auth orized the department to aeek to acquire Fort Caswell under the third category. It was goint ed out the board has in the past considered acquiring Fort Cas well but some of the conditions set up by the Navy prohibited its purchase. Auto Accident Proves Fatal Rufus Washington Sellers Died Sunday Night At Dosher Memorial Hospit al Following Accident | Rufus Washington Sellers, 31 lyear old son of Mr. and Mrs. E. jE. Sellers of Supply, was fatally i injured in an automobile wreck |on the curve of Route 130, just I south of Lockwoods Folly river, Saturday night. He died in the , Dosher Memorial hospital Sun !day night. j Mr. Sellers saw five years of service with the Army during ) the war, much of this time being Ion active duty overseas. Burial was held today at the Swain Graveyard, near Supply, the services in charge of Rev. [ Ira Britt. Mr. Sellers was unmarried. He 'is survived by his parents, Mr. ad Mrs. E. E. Sellers; two broth \ ers, David H. Sellers of Supply and Edgar Sellers, Jr., who is with the U. S. Army Air Forces and stationed in Georgia; four sisters, Mrs. W. I. Morgan, Green sboro; Mrs. Glenn Carpenter, Three Mile, S. C. and Misses Al phia and Verona Sellers of the home at Supply. Active pallbearers were Wil son Arnold, Ernest Holden, Al bert Holden, Dewey Sellers, War ren Sellers and D. L. Hewett. Hon orary pallbearers were Rifton Sel lers, Herbert Sellers, B. R. Sel lers, Walter Lee Clemmons. Dr. Landis G. Brown, Dr. F. M. Bur dette. Charles E. Murrell, 1820 Chest nut street, Wilmington, owner of the car in which Mr. Sellers wSs riding, is still in a serious con dition, suffering from contusion of the brain, at the Dosher Mem (Continued on page 2) Mother Of Local Man Dies Suddenly! County Superintendent of Schools J. T. Denning was noti fied this morning of the sudden death of his mother, Mrs. Minnie Denning, last night at her home near Mt. Oliva. He was informed that her death wa3 due to a heart attack. ? I Funeral services will be held tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at Pleasant Union Christian Church, neat Newton Grovft _ . _ _ Ui - Mrs. Louise Thieme Died! Sunday At Home Of Her Mother After Long Per-! iod Of Being Unconscious j AUTO ACCIDENT CAUSES INJURY! Wreck Near Charlotte On I May 22 Caused Prolong ed Period Of Uncon sciousness Death put an end to one of the strangest cases in recent medical history of North Carolina when Mrs. Louise Thieme died Sunday at the home of her mother, Mrs. Arabella McCall, after being in a coma Since being involved in an automobile accident near Char lotte on May 22. Although she was able to take i nourishment, the young Brun? I wick county native failed to re gain consciousness at any time j since the wreck, which resulted lin another fatality. She spent 20 weeks as a patient at Highsmith [Hospital in Fayetteville, and was brought two weeks ago to her mother's home in this county. The victim, who was 19 years of age, was married in March to Sgt. Earl L. Thieme, who is stat ioned at Ft. Bragg. t The funeral servces were con ducted Monday afternoon by the Rev. H. M. Baker, at Silent Grove Baptist church. Burial followed in the church cemetery. Routine Session Of County Court Numerous Cases, Moil Of Them Traffic Violations, Up For Trial Before Judge W. J .McLamb Judge W. J. McLamb presided over a routine session of Bruns wick county Recorder's court here last Wednesday, with the following disposition of cases: Joe Evans, Arthur Mac Evans, Roy Smith, larceny, continued to November 10, bond $200.00 each. J. A. Floyd, public drunkness, 30 days in jail, suspended on pay- j ment of costs and defendant to j be of good behavior for one year. Buck Hankins, assault. 30 days in jail, suspended on payment of costs and defendan being of good behavior for one year. Robert White, drunk driving, 30 days suspended on payment of a fine of $100.00 and costs. Edman Edison Wilson, speeding fined $25.00 and costs. Robert Gibbs, posession of whis key still, 6 months on roads, jud gement suspended on payment of a fine of $100.00 and costs, de fendant placed on good behavior for a period of two years. Alexander Davis, poseasion of whiskey still and manufacturing, 6 months, suspended on payment of a fine of $100.00 and costs and to be of good behavior for two years. Joe Evans, removing crop from land without consent of owner, defendant ordered to pay costs and pay $14.00 to prosecuting wit ness. Murdock Hill and Major Hill, assault with deadly weapon, con tinued to November 10. George Hankins, assault with deadly weapon, found guilty of affray and ordered to pay costs. Samuel Sigler, drunk driving, failure to dim lights, continued to October 27. Marsden Bellamy, drunk on or near highway, continued to Oct. 27. Dessie Grissett, larceny, not guil ty (Continued on pag* 2) ? War Assets Will Favor Permanent Plan Purchasers Official* Indicate That Ef fort Will Be Made To $m That Property Goes Tt Someone With Long-Rats' ge Plan LITTLE VALUE FOR SALVAGING Apparently Some Of Tfc# Most Valuable Assets Of This Location Are Of No Value To Specu lator* Before returning . to Atlanta last week after the formal taking over of Fort Caswell by the War Assets Administration, A. H. Lane of the Division of Custody and Management, called at glib office. Mr. Lane stated that communi cation relative to the disposal ot the former Navy property ahovM be addressed to T. A. Dechmoot War Assets Administration, Ponce de Leon Ave., N. E. At lanta, Ga. Mr. Dechmon is head of the disposal division. Although the matter of dis posal will not rest with Mr. Lmi, he stated that the first aim of the WAA would be to dispose ot the porperty to the best general advantage of community, stat* and nation. If possible to avoid it, Fort Caswell will not be toid to either speculators or salvaging Interest, he indicated. Speaking as an individual, Mr. Lane appeared to see very little if anything in disposal by piaosi meal or for salvaging. The nature of the construction is such that the physical property cannot weU be salvaged. The most practical thing that can be done with Fort Caswell, It seems, is to dispoet of It in its entirlty to individuals or corporations who have logic?! use for it ih mind. One thing that appears certain seem* to be that the WAA con siders tho property very valuabls foi- some sort ot use as it is. It is their aim to try and dispose of it in its present state. Fort Caswell after being an Army outpost for many years, ceased to have military status Monday with the departure of all Navy personnel for Charleston. The going of this handful of men left Caswell completely In charge of the War Assets Administration.' Three South port men, Craw ford Rourk, L. W. Clemmons and Byron Drew, all Civil Service ! employees at the base for thp past several years, were released from duties Tuesday, Oct. 19. They were all under temporary I civil service status and will. be given jobs of some sort In the Wilmington area. A. L. Lewis, a Civil service employee at the base since it was taken over by the Navy, is being retained by the WAA. When leaving Monday the last of the Navy men took with them to Charleston the big Mack fire truck, a machine that Congress man C. B. Deane tried vainly to obtain for the South(W Volun teer Fire Department, nils truck, it is understood, is being replaced for the tenure of the WAA ad ministration of the base by a smaller fire truck, which was loaned by the Army. Hie only men on the property are Resident Custodian James C. Waters of the WAA and three civil service employees. These will act as guards and otherwise look after the place until it is dispos ed of. Obtain Approval For ACP Program Brunswick County Farmers May Now Obtain Appro val Of Practice* For Which Payment Will Be Made In 1949 Farmers can now obtain ap proval for practices to be perform ed for credit under the 1949 Agri culture Conservation Program. The 1949 program is being an nounced early In order that many practices can be performed this fall, says secretary J. J. Hawes. Farmers have previously been notified by letter to obtain prior approval for the small grain they plan to plant this fall which thsy j expected to turn next spring. Jt is essential that prior approval be obtained before seeding snubil grain, and a report made to the county office by November 1, 1948 stating the acreage seeded In ord er for credit to be given. ?? Complete operating plan* for the 1949 program are now in the hands of the county committee. Limestone, superphosphate, and pasture seeds are now available through the County AAA offlos. A* ^m

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