the Pil?1 (?oxers Brunswick County THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community , B?' S1XTi!? NO 51 6-PAGES today Southport, N. C? Wednesday. March 30, 1949 mmuHED every Wednesday Most of The New? All The Time ?1.80 PER YEAB i fcTScouts Are joking Forward jog Their Camp . . Ladies Ars Still Push "?ale Of Cooki~3 As a,ir Leaders Makts Coll ects For B'88er Dona IOCS |LS OF ENTIRE '' area interested Uv Pond Camp Will Pra ti' Camp Site For Girl , Luis From Four Ad joining Counties v cjV:c matters in recent . v.jve gained such popular , interest between the resi L o:- ,\ett Hanover and Bruns f countv as the development P^rv Pond here in Bruns tcounty. te Pretty Pond project is for; construction of a year-round . f0r the Girl Scouts of the I j Pear Area, composed of New j ,ver. Pender, Columbus andj H?ick counties. The Girl! ts of the Cape Fear Area are j raorated. and this past year) t secured Pretty Pond, a beau- j 1 My of water, similiar to j g Lake- The pond covers an, !0f 50 or 60 acres and has[ Hiful sloping sandy beaches, j Si money with which the| land considerable surround-! land was acquired came | cgh the sale of cookies, near- | 2 of these funds being raised j Se Wilmington girls. lev are now trying to get j -onal funds and material by ale of cookies and otherwise I build themselves some sub-1 tal camp buildings. Bruns-1 i county Girl Scouts and the j tc generally have entered | sly in the undertaking of | the girls. Columbus and | fer folks are doing the same; V flowing the precedent set in cring the land and lake, the : Hanover folks are agiin jj the lead looking in camp faction. The girls are selling tes, and other help coming t public spirited . flien and m. One lumber firm has don J300 00 worth of lumber and ! have been 'many others, r unions in Wilmington are i iung generously in free labor.: Jungs are shaping "up rapidly; the constructing of a beauti-1 wmanent camp in the near: it is of humor are" arising | cga {he various efforts ol the1 Scout^ to rai$e qjoneJC f?r i camp. Recently- iwo super edents of the Hants Hosiery in Winston-Salem were in j iport with W. B. Keziah' on j lil mg trip. They presented the 1 man with some nylon hose. i promptly sent them to Mrs. Rick H. Holden in Wilming- \ *ho is chairman of the Camp! niittee. "The Bill Keziah j ta", were passed on by Mrs. fea to Hal Love, head of the 0 City Bus company. With 1 femme assistance, Mr. Love ?deling the hose and is pro 's to have a big auction sale *rs figure that the modeling te hose by Mr. Love will make t worth a lot of money. He is 1y five feet high and weighs pounds. iiitf N??? Flathtt tt-MHNG MEETING ' T- Denning, superintendent frunswick county schools, is ^'ladephia this week atend annual meeting of the Association of School ?strations. * POSITION Dorothy Bell Gold has ac the position of Public In ?;on Director for the Com f*y Chest in Winston-Salem turned her duties last week, [formerly was State Editor r? Wilmington Star. A native ^"thport, Mrs. Gold is a P*te "f High Point college . ,r'r a time was associated 1 High Point Enterprise. FROM WASHINGTON r1 Mi.Candless of the Bur 15 the Budget. W. Rowley P*?"'', manager of the Rock P Glnger Ale company and j - Putnam, manager of the nSsfon branch of the S. & 1 eterias, spent the week-end [* a Ashing and sight see [ '' A" are from Washlng , * Saturday R. C. Bagby, L i "" an? jeisc D. Frink, Native Of f This County, Will B2 Bur ied . This> Afternoon In Suthport Cemetery Jesse ?D. Frink, 48, native of Brunswick county, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Frink of Shallotte township, died in Col umbia, S. C., yesterday morning after a long period of failing health. He had been a resident of Columbia for the past fifteen or twenty years. Funeral services were held this morning at 10 o'clock in the Dunbar Funeral Home in Colum bia. The remains are being brought to Southport this after noon and will be interested in the Northwood cemetery at 3:30 o'clock. Rev. L. D. Hayman will have charge of the services at the grave. Surviving Mr. Frink are his widow, Mrs. Helen Weaver Frink of Columbia, S. C.; one brother, S. Bunn Frink of Southport and nine sisters, Mrs. W. W. Martin, Columbia; Mrs. A. J. Sommer sette and Mrs. H. I. Sommer sette, Shallotte; Mrs. R. A. Cox and Miss Sue Frink, Wilmington; Mrs. A. R. Mooney, Supply; Mrs. Richard Watts and Mrs. G. D. Smith, Whiteville, and Roscoe Bellamy of Ocean Drive, S. C. New Equipment Added To Firm Barefoot Mattress Company Has Enlarged Facilities And Has Addsd New Equipment Recently A little industry in Brunswick that has been growing rapidly during the past few years and which is now equipped to grow still faster is the Barefoot Mat tress company in tjie Woodburn community. Starting out just a few years ago after several years of train ing in mattress construction, T. C. Barefoot did all ? of his own work, with machinery that was not exactly up to date. Working early and late, assist ed much of the time by Mrs. Barefoot, the Barefoot Mattress company prospered. New mach inery that provided for better and faster work was bought and in stalled. Three'or four years agy a really suitable cement block building was erected and the com pany moved in. Still more recently a lot of new and more up-to-date machinery has been purchased and installed. Instead of just Mr. and Mrs. (continued on page two) Telephone Company Offers Ship-To-Shore O. G. Bain, District Manager For Southern Bell, Ex plains Facility For Bene fit Of Boatmen 2-WAY CONVERSATION WILL BE POSSIBLE Radiotelephone Receiver At Wilmington Is Help In Making This Possible For Low - Power Transmitters Owners of private and com mercial craft in this area who wish to use ship telephone ser vice may make arrangements at the Wilmington, North Carolina, office of the Southern Bell Tele phone and Telegraph Company, according to O. G. Bain, manag er. In order to use this type of service, it is necessary for the boat operator to provide his ves sel with an adequate radio-tele phone set, preferably one rated at 15 watts or more, and to re gister with the telephone comp any after he has secured a lic ense to operate from the Federal Communications Commission. A new radiotelephone receiver has recently been installed near Wilmington by Southern Bell to operate in conjunction with its 400 watt transmitter at Charles ton. Radio signals from craft in this vicinity may now be picked up by the Wilmington receiver and sent over land telephone lin es to the Charleston Marine Op erator. Messages to the ships are transmitted direct from Charles ton. The new facilities will permit vessels that are equipped with lowerpoWered transmitters and receivers to enjoy the advantages of ship telephone service. When provided with the proper equip ment such vessels will be able to establish two-way telephone con versations with all land telephone. Also, when two vessels are be iContinued on page 2) All Counties In Health Set Up Last North Carolina County Will Be Added To State Organization By July 1 As of July 1 this year every county in North Carolina will have an organized Public Health De partment, according to an an nouncement just made by Doctor J. W. R. Norton, State Health Officer. The last, and the one hundredth, county to join up for full-time local health work is Pamlico, which will be in a dis trict with either Craven or Beau fort counties, Doctor Norton said. On January 1, this year, there were ninety-six full-time Public Health counties, leaving only four to make the number one hundred per cent. Jones joined with Lenior, Brunswick with Columbus, and Madison with Buncombe. The action of the Pamlico County Commissioners in voting to estab lish a County Health Department, not only rounds out one hundred counties, but fulfills a dream of long stading on the part of those sponsoring Public Health activities in this State. Favorable action by Pamlico county is extremely gratifying to State'Health Officer Norton, who, since taking office since July 1, has emphasized the importance of local health work, taking the position that Public Health is a matter for the grass roots. He has made the statement on sev eral occasions that, while an ade quate skeleton organization is necessary in Raleigh, he believes Continued On Page Four Occasional Bed Hit By Blue Mold Blue mold is still hitting to bacco beds here and there thro ughout the county, according to County Agent A., S. Knowles. Considerable .damage has been done to some beds but there is still an abundance of plants for all needs and some to spare, ac cording tQ the county agent. Many of" the beds have very large , plants and .this circum stance may force some growers to begin transplanting about the middle of April. The work should be in full swing by April 20th. Plants that are. al lowed to remain in the beds until they become overlarge are not so desirable as the smaller, chunky product. Prospects Good For Fall Crop Company Has Been Signing Contracts For Farmer# To Produce Fall Crop Of To matoes In County Plans for growing- fall tQmoto es under contract appear to be going well. According to all re ports, and up to last Friday7-a bout 70 acres are said to have been contracted for, most of this being among farmer of the Supply, Bolivia and Shallotte communities. W. K. Ballentlne, now with the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, has been offering the contracts. Mr. Ballentine will pro vide a market for the green pack at Supply, and if things go well with the effort this year he will resign from the department, buy a farm near Supply and move there to engage in marketing of tomatoes and other farm truck crops, including sweet potatoes. Recently Mr. Ballentine stated that his years of observation had convinced him that fall grown tomatoes would do well In Bruns wick county, with both climate and soil contributing to this. He says that tomatoes grown here will reach the market at a time when other producing sections are idle. First Fishing News Of Spring Is Encouraging Commercial Fishermen Re port Early Arrival Of Blue fish Several Mi! 7s Off Jjlrgve -?i.-t !!? a., - J In SPOr.TSP.lEN M/.v GO FOR TH :M SOON Party Of Three From Wash ington, D. C., Caught Four IJj,' .'.ed Di'um rl'hlnj At Eald Hand Satur day Tie spirits of the sports fish ing gentry will quicken at the news that the bluefish already are here now and they do not usually show up until about the last of April. j Southport- commercial fishing boats enroute to fishing grounds around Frying Pan lightship haye been reporting the presence of the bluefish for over a week. So far, they are not so close to shore, tut they are said to be moving in fast. Monday placed th^m at being all along the 25 mile distance betweeij the South port Knuckle Buoy and Frying Pan lightship. Dan Wells of the Bill, Jr., Charles Swan and A. E. Downing of the Shoestring are the latest to make reports of the coming of the blues. They have ben see ing them over a week and they say they are coming In fast. The Knuckle Buoy is only about 10 miles off Southport and 5 miles off Bald Head island. By the time this story is read the fish will very probably be up as near as they come to Bald Head island. Other interesting sport fishing news of the week was the taking of four large red drum by surf casting on the point of Bald Head island Saturday. The largest of these fish is reported to have weighed 35 pounds and all of the others were nearly as big. The sportsmen making the catch in cluded Bill tylcCandless of the budget* ^ buj-^aU, S. G. Putnam, manager of the B. A. W. Cafe tteria and W. ilowiey Hildfbrand, all iof Washington, D. C.." T^iey' were on the island on I other business and had only a short time to devote to their ! fishing. They plan to return soon ;for another go at the drum and I further inspection of the island. Baptist Church Has New Organ Henri Emurien Of Wilming ton Will Present Organ Recital At Southport Bap t tist Church Sunday Night Henri Emurien, minister of music at the First Baptist Church : in Wilmington, will -give an or gan recital in the Southport Bap tist church next Sunday night. Mr. Emurien is a versatile musi cian and a part of his program will consist of sacred songs which he will sing while playing his own accompaniment at the organ con sole. The Baldwin organ In the Southport Baptist Church is the first instrument of this type sold in Eastern North Carolina. It re presents the product of fourteen years of research by the Baldwin Piano Company, makers of fine pianos. The acquisition of this instru ment marks the first milestone (Continued on Page 2) W. B. KEZIAH Our ROVING Reporter The fact that the Southport school needs a modern gymnasium with a lot of seating capacity has been long been recognized and now is the very best time to start something leading to the school having just that before the next session gets underway. We have some fine basketball material for next year. Over a nurrfber of years we have been steadily building up a better girls team with the pro spect of it being much better next session of school. Hie boys team has built up to where it won the county championship this year and the greater honor of the championship of Wilmington Star-. News-YMCA Invitational tourna ment The best token of apprecia tion that could be shown the pre sent teams and the best encour agement we could offer future teams would be through the pre sentation of a modern, safe gym nasium. The Bolivia boys basketball team made probably the greatest improvement of any Brunswick team following the county-wide high school series. This team en tered the county tournament with a record of six games won and six games lost. They were not seeded to make any great show ing at the county tournament, but they ended by just missing a crack at the finals. In the Star News-YMCA tournament they en tered the contest with heavy odds against them. There again the Bolivia boys fought their way in (Continued of page four) In Princess Court WINNER.?MissSammie Lane Mercer, of Bolivia, was chosen Thursday night to represent Brunswick county in the Teen-Age Princess court' at the Teen-Age Bail of the Azalea Festival Friday night in Wilmington. The Teen-1 Age party at the Shallotte Legion Hut was one of the most enjoyable social events of the season.?(Star-News Cut.) Bolivia Young Lady W ins Princess Contest Willetts Active With Roll Gall Peale Willetts, Bolivia business man, is directing Red Cross Roll , Call activities in the Bolivia community and this week made a call to the executive secretary of the Brunswick County Chap ter for a new supply of Red Cross buttons. "We have a feel ing that this community is be ing well taken care of", said Dr. J. M. i Waggette, chairman of the Brunswick County Chap ter. The big effort of the Shallotte Lions Club in the interest of the Red Cross drive is expect- j ed to be centered in the bene- ! fit dance that has been sche- 1 duled for Wednesday night of next week at the Legion Hut., with all proceeds to go to the Red Cross. Reports of activity in other sections are not available,' but] Dr. Waggette expects' to have a thorough canvas made of every community. Funeral Held For Geo. Autry Well Known Southport Mer chant And Business Man Died Early Manday Fol lowing Lengthy Illness George W. Autry, 66, died at his home here early Monday morning following a lengthy ill ness. Mr. Autry moved to Southport from the Antioch community 27 years ago and engaged in business here. He successfully operated a small shoe shop and store near the courthouse and became gen erally konwn throughout the county. At one time he served as a member of the board of aldermen of Southport. Fnueral services were held here at the Southport Baptist church at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday after noon. The remains were taken to Antioch church and interred in the cemetery there. Surviving Mr. Autry are his | (Continued on Page 2) Chicks Being Given Members 4-H Club Members Of Coun ty Showing Unusual Inter est In Poultry Projects With Free Chicks Members of the 10 4-H Clubs in Brunswick county are having 1000 one-day old chicks, all of them supposed to be pullets, dis tributed among them today by County Agent A. S. Knowles. * TTie chicks were secured thro- i (Continued on Page 2) Miss Sammie Lane Mercer Will Represent Brunswick County At Teen-Age Ball Of Azalea Festival CONTEST STAGED IN SHALLOTTE HUT Young People Enjoy Event Which Was Staged Under Direction Of Mrs. E. H. Redwine For Legion ' Posts ' Miss Sammie Lane Mercer, a student of Bolivia high school, was chosen Thursday night to represent Brunswick county on the Teen-Age Azalea Princess' Court at the Teen-Age Ball at the Cape Fear Armory Friday night, April 1st. Miss Mercer was select ed from a group of ten beautiful young ladies which represented each school in the county at a Teen-Age Party at the American Legion Hut near Shallotte. Miss Gloria Hewett, Southport, was runner-up. The Teen-Age Party was spon sored by the American Legion Posts of Brunswick county. Mrs. E. H. Redwine acted as hostess for the evening. Dance books were issued at the door and stu dents from Shallotte school pro vided some entertainment. Waban Thomas, master of ceremonies, gave a few imitations of various radio stars. Sammie Nell Tripp and Claudy Beck enacted a comedy, "Dance Pests", and Ger aldine Cox gave a fine rendition of "Galway Bay". Prises were awaraded the winners of a Jitter bug and waltz contest. Contestants from the different schools were: Hilda Hewett, Shal lotte; Anne Fulcher, Leland; Coleen Coleman, Bolivia; Lessene Ganey, Leland; Sammie Mercer, Bolivia; Gloria Hewett, Southport; Rose Marie Holden, Shallotte, Mary Joyce Purvis, Waccamaw; Itis Smith, Waccamaw; Betty Jane Helms, Southport. All the . girls were so attractive Continued On Page Four Expect Buses ! To Carry Mail W.B. & S. Buses Probably Will Deliver Mail Directly To Long Beach Postoffice It is reported that the W. B. & S. buses will carry the mail from Southport to the Long Beach postoffice when the office Is esta blished. there about the first of May. This will be continuance of the contract held by the bus line for carrying the mail between Wilmington and Southport. According to all available In formation there will be something like a dozen residents of the i beach to apply for the position of postmaster. ' Owing to the small salary the appointee will probably hav? to operate the office in connection with soma othar . Southport Wins Opening Contest In Class B Rac* Visiting Camp Lejeune Nintt Battle* Through Ten li nings Before SouthpoW Pu>he* Over The Winniai Marker FIRST GAME OF YEAR FOR LOCALS Radcliffe Goe* Route Fdsr Southport, Keeping Four teen Visiting Hit* Well Scattered Southport high school took their first step in the right direc tion toward the state champion ship for Class B teams yesterday afternoon with a 10-innlng 5 to 4 victory over a visiting Camp ? Lejeune nine. Hie game was slated as a sev- ? I en-inning affair, but at the end' I of that period the score was tied . 4-4. Camp Lejenue threatened in ? each of the three following fram- [ es, but ' the Southport defense. ' tightened when it needed to most, ? and the winning marker came a- ! cross In the last of the tenth. To open that frame Spender V was safe on a Texas leaguto ? which dropped near the life field ? foul line. He advanced on a sin gle by Rusa and came tearing ? home a moment later when Me-) Dowell hit a grounder which went ? through the shortstop. Camp Lejeune was off go a I big lead with three runs In tke ? second Inning, but Southport bet- \ ted around in the fourth to push, over four runs and take over a | one-run lead. The visitors scot ed another tally In the sixth, sett- ? ing the stage for the overtime,' battle. Radcliffe went the route for * Southport. He scattered 14 hits I and three walks well enough to ? keep out of serious trouble except; In the second. He fanned 10 men. ? Barringer worked a nice ?ame for * Lejeune, allowing 0 hits, walking ! five and striking out 9. One of the best play* of UM game was when Fullwood snared a hard liner in right late in the contest. Spencer was best at the plate for Southport with three for five, one a double. Hie Southport lineup included!1' McDowell, first; Spencer, second i Russ, short; Fisher, third; Bow- ; mer, left; Brendle, center; Ful?*' wood, right; Watts, catcher; Rad cliffe, pitcher. Traffice Counts Tried In Court, Most Of Recorder's Cod Defendants Were Up Fffp-' Violation* Of Traffic R$-! g ulations ? "*[ Again Wednesday most of the i day In Recorder's court was spent' In disposing of cases growing qjit i of violations of-traffic laws, with' the following disposition belAjkJ made by Judge W. J. McLamb: Hubert F. Grissett, drunk drttrtj ing, motion for non-suit granted. George Singleton, speeding, fin-' ed $10.00 and costs. Miss Lena Brew, assault with' deadly weapon, continued. Henry Beatty, passing car jjfc, bridge In face of incoming traf-' flc, capias. f [ Eugene Farrior, no operattyl' license, no brakes, capias. George Edwards, reckless op-, eratlon, speeding, no operators' license, six months on roads, ' judgment suspended on payment I (Continued on page 3) Tide Table Following Is the tide table for Southport during the next week. These hours are approxi mately correct and were furn ished The State Port Pilot through the courtesy of tke Cape Fear Pilot's AssodattokJ High Tide' Low Tl*e Thursday, March SI, *"?' 8:58 A. M. 2:58 A. Mb 9:14 P. M. 8:05 P. M. Friday, April 1, 9:28 A. M. 3:S5 A. M. 9:47 P. M. 8:40 P. M. Saturday, April t, ?rji 10:00 A. M. 4:13 A. M.' 10:24 P. M. 4:13 P. it Sunday, April 3, 10:87 A. M. 4:54 A. M. 11:08 P. M. 4:52 P. $t Monday, April 4, 11:22 A. M. 5:40 A. M. 11:58 P. M. 5:39 P. M. Tuesday, April 5, 0:00 A. M. ?:34 A. M. 12:21 P. M. 8:38 P. ti Wednesday, April 8, 1:01 A. M. 7:38 A. ?t 1:30 P. M. 7:48 P. M.