ft,e pilot Cox era Brunswick County 1XTEEN NO. 35 THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Most of The Newt All The Time 8-PAGES TODAY Southport, N. C., Wednesday, December 1,1948 published every Wednesday ji.so per yeai jjfc Welfare People Discuss Program Plans wjng Conditions Means pting Of Responsibility i f(r More Cases Upon frunty Departments ojSLATIVE ACT 'under DISCUSSION -ased Appropriation Is | ^ed Of State With jjope That Assistance May Be Given To Counties ,u F Patterson super-j i **? welfare of Bruns-| y. ? verge C. Smith and j ? V county welfare board ^ meetrng of the South *iS.*f?r their old folks nor! (Lives feel responsibility for | L m ana her children. They : * . these burdens to the Writable orgam^atio^ In December 1?4& county had 179 old age, r. e cases, 33 aid to depen-, [iuidren cases and 16 aid to : p blind cases. In DeceI" , ? sad 246 old age assistance t?) dependent children cases,. UUd W r.eedy blind cases.) ( luncheon attend ^y the, ?-? s Dr Ellen Winston, state ^oner of public welfare. ,?talk on the legislative act 1 sr.ch the public weliare de Eer,t ?111 ask for in the 1949 jrtve This legislative pro , has been the result of tw f ?; study by local welfare de K?l3 to learn the needs of ( people of the State with he t to social legislation. ; fe first request will be for itu enable the county, State, | Federal governments to re-, fie cost of an old age assis Ijwts from property belong- ( I to the recipient after that tf- dies. This will greatly, let the cost of the public assis i urogram. 1 lis year again the department I ask the State for help to the , Ites in giving general a3?*?" k to needy people between the l of IS and 6o. At present the ces must bear the entire re rji ility for this group without ['selp from the State of Feder pvemments. ! 1? laws on domestic relations j 1 protection of children should aaaged in order to protect the; iy and the children in the t? welfare officials believe. !?:cption law which was pass- j x 194" but was invalidated be- j * o! a technicality will be pre- j W again this year. fcth the increasing need of so people for help of various 0 from the county welfare de feats the state department of welfare is asking for ta les in appropriations for pub fcstance and for adminlstra 1 These increases are badly ?y by the local offices in order on the work efficiently. wiefNews Hashes pnciL Charles E. Cause is a pat M' the Veterans Hospital in where he went last p 'or an operation for removal ,5?aracts. bazaar sbers of the Woman's Mis ~ Union of Southport Bap aireh will hold a bazaar on afternoon at the Com . ; Center Building. A turkey j* *111 be served by members 7? same group from 5 o'clock ??ck that afternoon and J. 'ASTOR Rev. Kred Gore of White j** accepted the pastorate ' A Ufe church at Exum. , Mr. Gore will preach ,5oriwig and evening on the th'rd Sundays. This ar ~fcnt gives the church two ^ Preaching services each hJ"1'"1 the people are en ^ by the prospect of grow Uv*iopmeat. Biggest Drum Of Year On Home-Made Tackle Bolivia Fisherman Landed 59-Pound Red Drum Thanks- ! giving On Rig He Made Himself Using a home-made rod, a cane pole with eylets and reel attached by himself, Delmas Reynolds, an employee of the Elmore Motor Co. at Bolivia, took time off Thanks giving Day and caught the biggest red drum that has been taken with i a casting rod on this part of the1 coast in years. The fish was a 59-pounder and it j required a full 30 minutes to land t it. A remarkable thing is that in' addition to the light cane rod, Rey- j nolds was using a line of only 27-1 pound test strength, not half strong j enough to have lifted the fish out I of the water. A small chunk of i shrimp on a small 1-0 size hook added to the unusual tackle to which the jumbo fell victim. Reynolds, with his father-in-law, Mr. Britt, was fishing for puppy drum a hundred feet above Mill j Bridge, two miles above Howell's Point. This place and the creek flowing through the marsh is a favorite place for fishing for pup py drum and hundreds are caught tnere each year. Only an occasional specimen of the larger red drum has been caught there, this probably dut to the fact that most of the fisher men use only small hooks and re latively small chunks of shrimp. I With none of the favorite strips I of mullet being offered, this big j fellow was content to take the j small lump shrimp. The drum, taken to Bolivia and i weighed in the presence of a large! number of witnesses, is understood | to be still on exhibition in the meat i refrigerator at the W. &. Kopp' store. It has attractive much at tention. I New Store Buildings Go Up At Longwood Former County Commission er A .P. Russ Has New' Grocery Store And His Son A New Furniture Store , OTHER BUILDING BEING PLANNED New Business Activity Giv es Prospect Of Longwood Becoming Trading Cen ter Of Area Few places in Brunswick have made more development during the late summer and fall than Longwood. This fine community has made some very substantial building progress, despite the fact that the main road through there has been entirely or partially clos ed due to grading and road paving activities. Former county commissioner A. P. Rus* has recently completed and opened a large two-story brick building on the site of the former L. C. Brown store that was destroy- j ed by fire two years ago. The low er floor of this building is being used as a general store and the upper floor is used as a residence by Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt Holden, son in-law and daughter of Mr. Russ. Adjoining this building Mr. Russ's son is now completing a large cinder block building, in which he will open a furniture store. This building is also very attractive. W. H. Long has placed material and has started work on a 40x70 Continued On Page Six November Has No Bad Frost Month Ends Without Ap pearance Of First Killing Frost Of Fall; Light Frost In October With the average Brunswick county killing1 frost falling on Nov- j ember 22nd, that date came and went without a killing frost hav ing hit. Sprouts on last summers tobacco stalks are still green and growing sweet potato vines are still green where they have not been dug and cotton stalks in many places are still covered with green leaves. During October there were a couple of light frosts. Barely enough to nip tender leaves with most of the trees and undergrowth in the county of the evergreen variety, weather makes no differ-1 ence to them. Other trees have re gular periods for shedding their leaves, and they shed at their ap pointed time. They have not been hastened this year by frost. A year or two ago in one of his news releases relative to Bruns wick county. Bill Sharpe of the State News Bureau made the state ment that with its average year round temperature of 62.4 degrees Brunswick county had the mildest climate of any place in North Car olina. Others think the same thing. New Jersey and New York far mers and truckers are fast finding out that this is an ideal area in which they can grow their early farm and truck plants. The North Carolina Wildlife Commission, in stead of buying bicolor plans in Georgia and Florida, is planning to grow its own plants down here in Brunswick. Brunswick county was selected for this because of the late date for frosts and generally winter. The record of a total of only 7 inches of snow at Southport In Brunswick county since 1924 is something tor other sections of the state to shoot at. Giant Shrimp Is Taken Off Shore Barby Fulford of the Holden Beach fishing fleet made a un usual catch Friday. He was fish ing at Big Hill, a point directly off the lower end of Long Beach, and his trawl brought up a shrimp that weighed exactly a quarter of a pound. Thirty or forty shrimp to a pound constitutes a fine quality of shrimp. Four to the pound means that the other shrimy could not call this fellow a little shrimp. Sidney Caison, another Holden Beach fisherman who reported this catch, says that from the end of its tail to the tip of its whiskers the _ quarter-pound shrimp measured 19 inches in length. Young Farmer Is Raising Stock Crop Rotation And Use Of Permanent Pasture Im portant Factors I o Farm Operations Of James Bel lamy Just as soon as he was released from the scrvice four years ago James Bellamy of the Hickman's Cross Roads community purchased the old David Mintz farm near Shallotte. Mr. Mintz died about ten years ago and his wife and daughter tried to carry on with a naturally fine farm, but war times and the total absence of available labor had brought the place into a bad ly run down condition when Mr. Bellamy and his young wife pur chased and took over. Within the short period of four years a transformation has taken place in the land. Mr. Bellamy has carried on a program of rotation of crops and consistant building up of the soil. His only money crop Is tobacco and he plants but five acres of that each year, but with just this one money crop the young farmer is making every acre of the 45 acres of cleared land count | towards making money. And the best part of his oper ations, he thinks is the building | up of the soil. Aided by both j County Agent J. E. Dodson and I County Soil Conservationist C. D. potter, he has a well established ! program in which every acre fits lin. ( Mr. Bellamy has a tractor and to supplement It where cultiva tion is needed he has a pair of fine mules. Contrary to most farm mules, these animals are not hay burners during the several months (Continued on page six) I I Unusual Catch Of Sea Dollars ( While fishing off Frying Pan ' shoals in the gulf in 19 fathoms j of water Catain Fan Groth, a Norweigh in charge of one of the jw. S. Wells boats, struck some big sea biscuits or sea dollars last week. Small sea biscuits about the size j of a dollar may be picked up any I where on the beaches. They are | highly rated as souvenirs. These scooped up off Frying Pan [were four times as large as those found on the beach, and are said I to be four times as pretty. The | boat brought in a ton of fish but j the sea biscuits formed the inter lestipg part of the catch. 90 Per Cent Of Parity Fayored On Commodities Farm Leaders Adopt Reso lution For Support Pro gram In Line ^ /ith Steag all Amendment STAND TAKEN AT RALEIGH MEETING Three Thousand Dollar Gift Is Received For Use In Research Program In State The North Carolina Farm Bur eau is opposed to any increase in the announced 1949 flue-cured to bacco quota and favjrs a 90 per cent of parity support on all basic commodities. ? Resolutions stating these posi tions were adopted Saturday at a meeting of 75 organization lead ers in Raleigh. With President W. W. Eagles of Macclesfield presiding, the group resolved that "the North Carolina Farm Bureau is opposed to any further increase In the already an nounced quota for fule-cured to bacco for the 1949 crop." The reso lution further instructed NCFB officers to "use their influence ac cordingly and to carefully evaluate existing conditions prior to the fin al determination of quotes for the 1949 crop," taking steps necessary to keep supply in line with demand and to avoid a burdensome surplus of flue-cured tobacco. It was also resolved that the "North Carolina Farm Bureau goes on record in favor of 90 per cent of parity on all basic commodities and the retention of the Stegall amendment on all non-basic com modities, such as agriculture has had for the past few years." A third resolution, also passed unanimously, calls for a change in the time at which farmers can be gin moving corn through govern ment channels. The proposal would move the time from June to April j as a means of encouraging greater i com production. Short Session I Of Court Held Docket Quickly Dispo?ed Of By Judge W. J. McLamb And Court Officials Here Wednesday An abbreviated session of Bruns wick county Recorder's was held| Wednesday, with the cases dispos ed of before noon by Judge W. J. McLamb and court officials. The following entries were made: | Harry Hill, assault with deadly' weapon, continued to December 1st. James Purvis, reckless operation, $25.00 fine and costs. Foster J. Frank, speeding, or dered to pay costs. James Marvin Loftin, speeding, capias. Amos Little, no operators license, $25.00 fine and costs, costs re mitted. Desire Grissett, assault with deadly weapon, 60 days in jail, sus pended on defendant making re stitution to Annie Morgan in the sum of $20.00 and pay court costs. Placed on good behavior for two years. Frank Godley, drunken driving, capias. George Cromartie, public drunk ness, judgment suspended on pay ment of costs. Continued On Page Six FISHING RODEO WINNERS WINNERS?Awards in the Third Annual SENCBA Fishing rodeo received $500 bonds and trophies at the third annual rodeo banquet. Left to right, State Senator Roy Rowe who made, the awards; C. B. Holden of Wil mington, prize winner in the pier class; Arthur F. Ds-' Greve of Washington, D. C., top winner in the deepsea class; W. T. Gulldge of Wilmington, winner of ihe grand prize in the surf division; and Glenn M. Tucker, SENCBA president. At the right is Capt. Ilulan Watts, skipper of the Idle-On, who carried out the top winner in the deep sea class for the second straight year. Prizes Awarded All Sencba Rodeo Winners Bear Backs Down This Bear Hunter Herman Phelps, one of the bus drivers for the W. B. & S., was on his way home this week in his car. He lives four miles be yond Supply and had been mak? ing the late run to Wilmington. Half a mile from his home a big bear ambled out in tile mid dle of the road and stood there in the glare of the headlight. Be ing of a bear hunting family, Herman did some quick think ing. He wanted that bear, but he reasoned that if he drove fast enough to hurt It he; might wreck his car. The bear might be made mad enough to claw him up. So, 'he forgot his desire for bear and slammed on his emergency brake. The car slid to a stop about four feet from the critter. The bear stared sul lenly into the headlights for a minute, a minute during which Herman was making sure his windows were all up. Bolivia Plans P.-T.A. Benefit Chicken Salad And Barbe cue Supper To Be Served On Saturday; Auction Sale Later In The School Gymnasium The Bolivia P. T. A. will stage a big Harvest Festival at the school house Saturday night of this week. The event will open with a child en salad and barbecue supper at the school lunch room, beginning at 6:30 o'clock. Following this there will be an auction sale and j general merrymaking at the school gymnasium. At the auction sale all kinds of Continued On Page Six Our ROVING At Longwood this week W. H. Long advised us that W. E. Avant,' his helper in the Rice Gwynn store, was at home killing a 500 pound hog. Mr. Avant, showing up soon thereafter, confirmed that it was a 500-pounder. He added that he had made S stands full of lard from the porker. Until some one sends us a report of a bigger, we will let Mr. Avant's porker stand as being the biggest reported to us this year. Mrs. Nelson Bennett, president of the WacCamaw P. T. A., tells us that they are making plans which she and other community leaders hope will result in the Waccamaw school having a lunch room by the beginning of the year. They have a suitable building, lack ing more repairs, she says. Hey will naturally also have to have' f both equipment and supplies.. The j iWaccamaw school is now the only j | white school in Brunswick without 'a lunch room. Leland, Bali via, jsjhallotte and Southport all have! i good service for the students who I live too far away to go home for i their lunches. With little in the way of detours available, folks who traveled the road from Makotoka through Ex um to Freeland and on to the new Britian Bridge found themselves up against it during the rains last week. This road is now being grad |ed by State Highway forces, pre limary to paving. It happens that rainwater and soft dirt mixes all too well. Hiis road got all but im passable the past week. Folks traveling from the Soldier Bay .Continued on page four I Five-Hundred Dollar Bonds : Awarded Winners In j Each Of Three Top Clav j siiicaiions Of Contsst FISHERMEN FROM HERE DID WELL Brunswick County Boats And Beaches Furnished ! Their Share Of Win ners In This Year's Competition The presentation of $500 bonds and trophies to three grand prize winners last week highlighted the Southeastern North Carolina Beach Association'?- - Third Annual Fall Fishing Rodeo banquet at the Famous Club. The awards were presented by State Senator Ray Rowe of Bur gaw during a state-wide radio broadcast over station WGNI and the Tobacco network. Recipients of the three grand prizes were Arthur F. DeGreve of Washington, D. C. for his Amebr jack weighing 60 lbs., length 4 ft. 17-% in. girth 30-% in. caught on Capt. Thos. H. Watts' "Idle On" off Frying Pan Light Ship August 20; W. T. Gulledgo, Wilmington, for his 45 lb. 9 oz. Rfed Drum 4ft. 1 in. long and girth 27! i in. caught at Topsail Inlet, Auguest 25; C. B. Holden, Wilmington, for his 38 lb. j 4 oz. Red Drum 3 ft. 9'/a in. long j girth 24-% in. caught from Atlan tic View Pier, Wrightsvilie Beach October 5. j Senator Rowe presented $200 bonds and trophies to Arthur New kirk, Wilmington, for his 8 lb. 4 ,oz. Spanish Mackerel, length: 2 ft. 8 in.; girth 14Vz in. caught on Capt. James Arnold's "Kiabab" off Frying Pan Shoals Sept. 9; W. A. Spencer, Wilmington, for his 6 lb. Continued On Page Six Leland Baptists Work On Church Leland Baptist Church Will Be Using New Sunday School Rooms Soon; Brick , Veneer Job On Exterior The new Sunday school rooms at Leland Baptist church will be ready for use next Sunday, accord ing to one of the church officials Monday. This does not mean that the en tire job of remodeling and enlarg ing the facilities of the church will' be completed, but it will mean that so far as the use of the building is concerned it will be available for all services. March has been as the probable time cf completion. Space for the Sunday school rooms has been provided by raising the church 8-feet and construct ing the class rooms on the ground floor. The outside walls are of brick, and the brick course will continue as a veneer for the out side of the church auditorium. It is estimated that this work will cost about $18,000.00, and it is hoped that it will be accomp lished without the necessity of placing any debt upon the church. The Rev. Hovey Pope of Wil mington is pastor of Leland Bap tist church and preaches at both the morning and evening hour on the first *and third Sundays. He has been called as full-time pastor of this church, but will be unable to accept after the first of the year due to previous preaching committments. Longwood Man Is Laying Tile Rice Gwynn Follows Up Canal Work On Farms With Six Carloads Of Drainage Tile After spending around $20,000. 00 last year in digging drainage canals with a (Uaglin?, Rice Gw ynn, outstanding Brunswick coun ty planter, began another big drainage project this week. sUs 4ng a tile-layer 'he is digging ditc hes and putting in six freight car loads of six inch drainage tile. The tile empties into the canals that were dug last year. The cost of the tile and the laying, Mr. Gwynn says, is 8,000, 00 for his part. In addition the Lower Cape Fear Soil Conserva tion District will pay a per cent age of the cost. County Soil Conservationist C. D. Potter is do ing all of the technical work. Mr. Gwynn said yesterday that he did not know just how long it will take the tile-laying to dig all of the dltchep, lay the t,ile and refill the ditches. "Riat is a job that is up to contractors. Owning some of the very best farming land In Brunswick, the Longwood farmer has continuo usly set a mark in development for other farmers to shoot at since he came to Brunswick county a number of years ago. He cultivates somewhere between 800 and 850 acres of land each year and is always striving for the improvement of the soil. With two crops a year in most cases, like smalt grain and les pedeza, his farming operations stack up something like this each year: Two hundred and fifty acres in small grain, over which lespedeza is sown in the spring; sixty acr es in tobacco; sixty acres in cot ton; four hundred acres in corn: sixty acres in peanuts and 80 acres in soy beans. So far Mr. Gwynn has never gone in for hog and cattle rasing, His tenants have milk cows and (Continued on Page Six) v Pecan Crop Is Good This Year Many sources have been sayirfg that this year's pecan crop in Brunswick county is a good one. An illustration of Just how good may be found in the report of Mrs. George F. Goley, of Shallotte, who said this w'eek that they made about one thousand pounds of the nuts from their trees. The normal | production, she said, is about 500 'pounds per year. | Some of the Goley's 30 trees are I mature. Others are younger and .all should be producing more and more as the years go by. They re quire no attention and give no trouble. About th^ only work at tendant on growing pecans is to i acquire and plant the trees and gather the nuts as they fall each j year. i A thousand pounds of nuts for 30 ! trees, some of them young, is far j from being a bad showing. This i year the product is bringing about j 30 centa per pound. Committeeman To Be Elected Next Week For County S Brunswick County Will El ect Member Of Three Man Committee Named To Administer Soil Pro? gram BALLOT BOXES OPEN ALL WEEK Voting Places Located At Convenient Points All Throughout County And All Voters Are Eligible Voters in each of the four coun ties of the Lower Cape Fear 8oll Conservation District will cast their votes next week, December ;6-ll. to elect one county commit teeman in each county. The Stat? Soil Conservation Committee, B. K. Beichler, chairman, has been legal notices posted calling the elections. Hie following have been nomin ated in Brunswick county. Corbstt Coleman of Aash; Earl Thompson of Supply; A. J. Walton, Jr. o* Long-wood. Each of these men was nominated by petitions signed by 25 qualified voters. The person re ceiving the largest number of votsa In next week's election will be for a term of three years. Similar elections will be conducted in 84 counties in North Carolina, which are included in the 22 Soil Conser vation Districts now operating la the state. In an election held in December 1947, the following were elected to the Brunswick County Committee Gilbert T. Reid for a three year term, W. C. Gore for a two year term andCorbett Coleman for ? one year term. Annually thereafter, the vacancy occuring each year is to be filled by electing one committeeman for a three year term. The retiring committeeman may be re-elected or a new person may be elected, according to the wishes of the vot ers. These elections are being held in accordance with regulation at-' set forth by the Sol! Conservation Districts Law or North Carolina as sn^r. Ui< 1047 ion of^ the General Assembly. \ Ballot boxes and ballots will M placed at the following places: j Vocational Agriculture Building, Bolivia School; Vocational Agri culture Building, Shallottc School; Vocational Agriculture Building, Waccamaw School; Kirby's Store, Shallotte; KcLamb's Store, Hick I man X Roads; Rourk's Store, Le? land; Agriculture Building, Sup ply; State Port Pilot Office; South port. Any qualified voter of the county is elegible to vote in this election and votes may be cast any day from December 6-11 inclusive, at any of the above places. Possibilities Of Fort Interesting Virginia Real Estate Mao See? Unusual Possibilities In Facilities At Ft. Cas well Taking just enough time out from Thanksgiving day to visit Orton Plantation, see the River Road construction and for a short visit all the way through Long Beach, A. P. Haskell prominent real estate man of Arlington, Vir ginia, and W. B. Keziah of South port devoted five hours Thursday to a complete inspection of all of the Fort Caswell physical proper ties. Mr. Haskell was evidently pleas ed with Long Beach and its east west frontage on the ocean. His attention was very much attracted to this property and the same can be said of Caswell Beach. Fort Caswell, however was the center of his Interest and het looked upon this property as being eminently suited to some of the big utilities companies for a year-round rest and recreation center for their em ployees. He plans to contact some of them with this object in mind. In addition to the resort and recreation center possibilities, Mr. Haskell also saw industrial oppor tunities in the place. He plans \o try and find a buyer from both the recreational and Industrial angle. On account of the nature of the construction he saw nothing in the salvage angle. He stated his belief that Fort Caswell could be used pretty much as it is, in some plan ner. Salvaging would be jutt a waste of valuable material and the destruction of something that would be of much use o* Bruns wick county. From Southport the visitor .went to Myrtle Beach Thursday night. From there he planned to go to Charleston to see E. F. Mld dleton dit Long Beach and othaca. From Charlesbqp he will go to At lanta, Ga., and see the War AssettS Administration officials.