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Brunswick County
1XTEEN NO. 35
THE STATE PORT PILOT
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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.<o" p?bUcW"
< n in Laurinburf re-,
'^this meeting 150 wei-l
0 fficials -ind inlere3t yi
' -eard and entered into dis
Y mVlV problems which!
Pbhc Welfare Departments,
Uup noticed that the num-|
<**& todep^enfcWW-;
aid newly Snd had in-j
; considerably over the past
t " ears One reason given i
. ''tU the fact that family,
<^ips are breaking down so j
Midien no longer feel re
>*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.