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I jhe Pilot Covers runswick County THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Most of The News All The Time NO. SIXTEEN NO. i 6-PAGES today Southport, N. C., Wednesday, April 13,1949 published every wednesdai *1.50 per yeai wing Interest wn By County mers In Stock lv Agent Reports That r^ers Are In Happy sition Of Having Pro -ed M?re ^ee? Than ed?1 URE TOUR BEING PLANNED iers ity , Will Have Oppor To See Results Of id Practices In Graz ing Program .ars that there is a sub Hncrease in livestock be roduced on the farma In ?ick this year, and this in can be looked after to ad by having spring and fr grazing. ?tv Agent A. S. Knowles ,j"out this week that it is ,t deal better to have more than livestock, as having a s of feed will encourage livestock, without anybody spring and summer e practice to put on now, s, is to plant the Biloxi of soy beans at the rate bushel per acre in rows wide. These seed should [anted before the 15th of md should be fertilized with 300 lbs of 3-10-6 fertiliz t acre. The beans should be for grazing in about seven after planting. ther good summer grazing s Pearl Millett. This should died any time up to the 15th ily m 18 inch rows at the of 8-12 pounds of seed per 00 lbs of 6-8-6 fertilizer be applied at planting and 200 pounds of nitrate of may be added as top dress rhi? crop will be ready for ig in 5 or 6 weeks. set Sudan grass may be i up to June 1st. This go in 18 inch rows, 10 to unds per acre, with 4001bs -6 fertilizer at planting and 200 pounds of nitrate of 15 . Side virest>u?g alte* the 1 are up. line with the increasing in-1 in pasturage and cattle g. County Agent A. S. les has arranged for a pas tour, to be held Friday ,oon. April 22. This tour ?mbrace the Winnabow and communities and other will be staged in other unities during the month, interested in pastures and raising are invited to meet e Henry store in Winnabow :45 o'clock on April 22nd. there they will go to the D. bhnson Dairy to study pas date of seeding and differ rasses, iadino clover, fescue crimson clover and rye 3:15 o'clock the party will t the Gilbert Eeid farm to the same seedings as f and note the results. 4 p. m. the party will ar at Kenny Lewis farm on Jell Swamp highway and in ion to studying the grasses time will be devoted to the >r of feeding hogs and cat totinued On Page Four ItitfNtwt Flathtt :iAL MEETING ere will be a special meeting e congregation of St. Philips opal church after services sdav night. Every member is; to be present. E MEETING 6 Southport Lions club will fosts Thursday night at a meeting to which representa from Whiteville, Lake Wac w and Shallotte are expected. ECHANGE f?tive Monday night of this the first show at the Amuzu will begin each night at oclock except on Saturday, ' the first of three shows will *t 7 o'clock. LEGE honors 88 Ann McRackan, daughter r- and Mrs. M. T. McRacken outhport, recently was elect s-president of the Phi socie Merideth College. Miss Mc an also was elected vice ?fent of Jones dormitory. Q"IT supper ' ^outh Feiowship of Shar wthodist church will give a nt oyster roast at the church *turday evening, April 23, o'clock until 8 o'clock. | "" 3 will go toward the, The public is cordially | Southport Baptist Church COMPLETED?The congregation of Southport Baptist church is now enjoying the use of the full facilities of their new church and educational building. The main audi torium is the old cburch building, completely renovated. The Sunday school rooms are new, and were designed to accommodate the needs of a growing church. The pastor is the Rev. H. M. Baker and the contractor was G. C. Kilpatrick, member of the board of deacons for the church. Candidates Are Slow To File In Shallotte With the books open for the filing of cai'lidates for mayor and aldermen through Saturday, April 19, the Shallotte town election seims to be getting off to a slow start Only one candi date had f^ed up to Monday, ac cording tq Hubert L. Holmes, clerk to tie town board. Roney white Cheers who ran for the offjte of mayor two years ! ago and lot. out to Leon M. Gal j loway, is tljt; single candidate who has filed. Jvir. Cheers is again offering fot mayor and it is pro-1 bable that Mayor Galloway will offer for selection. No candidates for aldermen have filed tiis far. It is under- J stood that tne or two members j of the presett board may not of I fer for reelettion. Five men form the Shallotti board. Big Plans For Friday Outing Brunswick County Post No. 194, American Legion, Sponsoring Fishfry At Town Greek Bridge . Officers of the Brunswick Post, [ No. 194, Ajnerican Legion, are expecting a freat crowd for their | j annual fishty at the Town Creek J j bridge on Rt-ite 17 Friday night of this wee!; | The fish fry is to be dutch, | seventy-five- :?nts for all that any-1 one can eat. The herring will be caught late n the afternoon by Jackson B. Potter and several other membefr; of the Brunswick County Post ?who reside in the Winnabow co^kunity. Assurance tJ^^Dne around that there will b^'plenty of the fish, regardless ot how large the crowd may be. They will be cleaned, cooked and served hot, along with fixings, as fast as they are caifcht. With big runs) of herring nc.v on, members of the legion s^; that it will take but a few ntnutes to catch all that are nee4>d. Invitations .to participate have been sent to t he legion posts in Wilmington, A me Delco, White ville, Chadboum, Fair Bluff, Ta bor City, Old Dock, Ash, Shal Continued )n Page Four Independent Nine Loses Opener 1 Southport Drops Well-Play ed Contest To Winter Park In Season's First Game Sunday Afternoon Southport drojped a close 5 to 3 decision to the championship Winter Park EUngers Sunday afternoon in the opening day of play in the Cape Fear semi-pro league. Stiller started on the mound for Southport, but got into trou ble in the first when the Wil mington nine scored three times. One more marker came home in the second, then Radcliffe went in for Southport to hold Winter Park to a lone tally the rest of the way. j Southport scored one run in the first and two more in the fifth. Brendle led the locals with two for four, with Bowmer, Watts and Clark collecting the other bingles off Skipper, Whedbee and Pepper. A running catch by Stevens, Southport centerfielder, was the fielding gem of the day. Nominating Meetings For City Next Week With Less Than One Week Remaining Before Con ventions To Name Candi dates Little Interest In Evidence MAYOR LIVINGSTON SEEKS RE-ELECTION I Voters Will Follow Old Cus tom Of Nominating Alder men For Each Ward At Separate Convention Next week beginning on Mon day night citizens of Southport ?rill hold a series of nominating : conventions for the purpose of naming candidiates for office in the municipal election on May 3. It has become a custom for candidates nominated in this man ner to remain unopposed in the election, and only on a few oc casions have their b?en any deviations from this practice, and not in recent years has there been a candidate who was suc cessful in bucking the convention ticket. On Monday night citizens of the first ward will nominate candidates for aldermen. The pre sent representatives from this ward are Dan Harrelson and G. j W. McGlamery. On Tuesday night citizens of the second ward will meet in the courthouse to name candidates for aldermen from their part of town. The only present repre sentative is J. A. Gilbert, who was appointed to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Davis Herring as a board mem ber. M. M. Hood moved from Southport several months ago to create an unfilled vacancy. Citizens of thethird ward will Citizens of the third ward will day night. Their present repre sentatives on the board are Wil liam Walker, who named to fill the vacancy created when H. A. Livingston was elevated to the post of mayor, and Fred Spen cer, who was appointed to the board when L. J. Hardee resign ed. Names that have been suggest ed thus far as possible candidates for the board of aldermen include former mayor John D. Eriksen and G. W. McGlamery in the first ward; J. A. Gilbert in the second ward; G. E. Hubbard and Fred Spencer in the third ward. The nomination of a candidate for mayor will take place on Fri day night of next week, and thus far only Mayor Livingston has Continued on page four Brunswick Man To Study Aboard Walter Harrelson Awarded Fellowship Worth $1,000. For One Year's Study; Is Student In Union Theolo gical Seminary Walter Harrelson, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Har relson of Winnabow and Orton i Plantation, has been awarded a 51,000 fellowship for study a board. The award was from the Union Theoliglcal Seminary of New York and is made annual ly to the members of the senior i class having the highest acade i mic record for the three-year j seminary course of studies, i The Brunswick man attended Mars Hill college for three years prior to entering the armed for ces. Finishing four years in the \ Navy, he entered the University of North Carolina, graduating in ' 1947. He is a brother of Dan i Continued On Page Four Brunswick Chapter Receives Citation Dr. J. M. Waggette, chairman of the Brunswick County Chap ter, American Red Cross, has received the following citation, signed by Lord Halifax, from the British Embassy In Wash ington. "It is a fine tribute to our host of volunteer Red Cross workers to bring relief to the people of the United Kingdom during the dark days of the war," said Dr. Waggette. Fol lowing is the full text of the citation: "His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland most warmly thank the Mem bers- of the Chapter of the* American Red Cross in Bruns wick county, North Carolina, for the valuable f help which they Jiave , given towards the relief of suffering in the ttoited Kingdom caused by enemy act ion during the Wat -Of 1939 1945. "The people of the United Kingdom will ever hold their generosity in grateful memory." Finish Paving On River Road Four - Mile Stretch From Southport To Walden Creek Surfaced In One Week Of Working Time By New Method Using some of the most mod ern road building machinery ever to be operated in Brunswick county, the Ballenger Paving Company of Greenville, S. C., laid four miles of sand asphalt paving on the River Road in just seven days, less than that time if allowance is made for two rainy days that very much hinder ed operations. The grading on the four-mile River project was done by the Towles-Cline Company of Wil mington. They did a mighty fine job and finished in due order to permit paving just as soon as it became warm enough. Th?j Ball (Continued of page four) * Southport Nine Beats Topsail Here Tuesday Locals Pound Out 9 - Run Barrage While Two Home Team Pitchers Hold Visi ors To Single Bingle TEAMS PLAYED TIE GAME THURSDAY Southport Squad Will Play Saturday At Camp Lejeu ne In Second Class B Elimination Contest Richard Brendle and Jimmy Radcliff colaborated yesterday to fashion a 9 to 0, one-hit victory over a visiting Topsail high school nine which on Thursday had held the Southport team to a 6-6 dead lock in 11-innings. The local boys played a clean, heads-up brand of baseball which gave the home-town fans a good taste of what a winning team [looks like. At bat, the high school players peppered away at the offerings of Southpaw Tommy [Smith, a Wilmington American j Legion graduate, and continued [ 1 to work on Batts, a good right hander, who replaced him. j Southport started things off in the first inning when Fisher I walked, advanced to third on an i overthrow at first on Spencers! grounder and came home on an [infield out by McDowell. I The local artillery. really un limbered in the second stanza when Brendle beat out an infield hit, Hickman anc Watts singled, with Brendle coming home on a wild throw to first. Fulwood walk ed and both he and Watts scor jed on a double by Russ. i Bowmer was hit by a pitched 'ball to open the third ining and ) scored on two successive errors j by the visitors. [ The final three Southport runs I came over in the sixth when | Fisher singled to right, Spencer (walked, McDowell singled, scor ing Fisher, Bowmer walked, Spen cer came home on an error. | Jimmy Edens got the only Top isail hit in the third when he | singled over short off Brendle. I Continued On Page Four Special Easter Music Planned Choirs Of Trinity Methodist Church And Southport Baptist Church Will Pre sent Easter Programs I * j Special musical programs once more will feature the observance of Easter in Southport, and the probability is that as in past years citizens of this community will be awakened before day Sunday morning by the music of the colored singers as they [make their way about the town. The choir of the Southport Baptist Church will present the cantata "The Cross of Redemp tion" by Edward W. Norman on Easter Sunday night at 7:30 o'clock, under the direction of Mrs. R. C. Daniel, dicector of music of the church. The decora tions for the service will be under the direction of Mrs. L. J. Hardee and Miss Margarette Dozier. The choir of Trinity Methodist church will present a cantata, "The Music of Easter", on Sun day afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Mrs. Dallas Pigott, choir director, is in charge. This musical pro gram will take the place of the regular Sunday evening service. Our ROVING Reporter W. a KEZIAH Last week's calendar arrange- j ments did not include a day of any. sort for any kind of fisher man. "ITiere were winds from the cast or winds that were too high. You just could not fish. If you could you couldn't catch any thing, and that amounts to the same thing. Folks who wanted to go fishing last week had to be mighty good sports to get through the week without cuss ing. Mrs. Harris Nelson of the Har ris Nelson's of Leaksvilie-Spray spent the past week getting the Nelson summer habitation at Cas well Beach ready for summer and fall occupancy by the end of this month. The spring appearance of Mrs. Nelson at Caswell Beach is always followed at an early date by her appearing- at this office to have her subscription to this paper renewed and the address changed from Leaksviile to South port. Four new homes have been built at Howell's Point since the first of the year. The power and light lines have also reached this point, popular for inside fishing. This spot on the waterway f.nd at the mouth of Lockwoods, Folly river has for many years been rated about the best inside fish ing point in Brunswick. With the road much better than it used to be and its waters easily accesible by boat to the residents of Long Beech and Hold en Beach, How (Continued on pagt Two) Sport Fishing Off To Good Beginning Party Aboard Idle-On Of Captain Hulan Watts Brought j In First Bluefish Taken This Season Trolling The 1949 sport fishing season] is definitely off to its start and local boatmen say that their parties will be bringing in good j catches of bluefish and trout this week if there is no more stormy weather to stir up the ocean. The Idle-On of Captain H. T. Watts was the first to report catches of blues while trolling. Going out Sunday with a party headed by George Klutz of Char lotte, 22 trout, 18 bluefish and a number of drum and flounder were taken. The ocean was too mudy from last week's storms for either bluefish or trout. The same unfavorable condition existed Monday when the Idle On had a party from the Chry stal restaurant in Wilmington. This party got 42 bluefish and trout. A commercial fisherman from Harkers Island made a catch of 100-pound of nice blues on the scoals just off Bald Head Island Monday. He also reported very unfavorable conditions at the time for his sort of work. All boat men say that by the middle and later part of I this week there will be fine fiBhing, to continue for the next nine months. Four Hundred Women Attend Meeting Here Shallotte Man Passes Exams When the State examinations for Certified Public Accountants were held recently in Raleigh Ernest E. Parker, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Parker of Shallotte, was the only candi date to pass all four divisions of the examination. The young Shallotte man, who now is a student in the law school at University of North Carolina, achieved this unusual record without having had his one year's practical experience which is required before he is licensed. Another Brunswick county man who passed the account ant examination was Dan Wal ker, son of Mrs. Ruth Walker of Southport. Birthday Party For Girl Scouts Several Hundred Scouts Of Cape Fear Area Gathered Saturday At Pretty Pond To Inspect New Property More than 300 Girl Scouts of the Cape Fear Area, composed of New Hanover, Pender, Colum bus and Brunswick counties, parti cipated in the annual Birthday Party at Pretty Pond Saturday. According to one visitor, a hap pier bunch of young girls would have been hard to find. Pleasure was not all confined to the young folks, as officials of the four-county organization were seeing the site of a great future Girls Scout camp for the first time, were immensely pleas ed with what they saw. Pretty Pond, a beautiful, clear water lake of about 55 acres and surrounding land representing a whole acreage of about 145 acres, is owned by the Girl Scouts of the Cape Fear Area, Inc. The land and lake was pur chased with money raised through the sale of cookies by the Wil mington girls. The camp that is now being built will be used by troops of Scouts and their officers continuously during the summer months and at other times when the girls are not in school. Several buildings, each to ac commodate 20 girls and their of ficers, are planned for constuction as fast as funds become available. The first such building was start ed this past week and should be ready for occupancy in a couple (Continued on Page 2) Examiner Warns About License License Examiner N. E. Hud son Reminds H, I, J, And K, Drivers That They Must Take Test The H, I, J and K motorists must be re-examined before June 30, according to Examiner N. E. Hudson who warns that now is the propjer time to apply I to the nearest State license ex aminer for the test. Only two and a half months re main for the drivers In this group to apply before it's too late. Some people put off until the last few days the necessity to apply for new license. As ,a re sult those folks usually have hours to wait in line. This is very tiring on applicants, especial ly when there are other neces sary things that must be done. Examiner Hudson wil be in Southport on Mondaly and at Shallotte every Tuesday too give ddiver tests. District Federation Meeting Of Home Demonstration Clubs Met In Southport All Day On Thursday WILMINGTON MAN MAKES ADDRESS Bladen County Club Women Won Attendance Gavel, With Points Based Upon Miles Traveled Home Demonstration Club wo men from Brunswick county were hostesses Thursday to a District Federation meeting at Southport which was attended by more than four hundred representatives from, Bladen, Columbus, New Hanover and Brunswick counties. The attendance gavel was awarded the Bladen county re ! presentatives, this prize being based upon the total number of miles traveled by delegates. The morning business session was held at Trinity Methodist church, which was filled to over flowing by the large group in attendance. This meeting was pre sided over by Mrs. Robert Mc ' Dougall, president of the Dir trict Federation; ? and constated chiefly of-, reports from the var ious county councils. : This session adjourned at 12:30 o'clock and members went over to the Community Center Building where a picnic lunch was served. At 2 o'clock the group reas sembled at thei church. The first feature on the program were vocal solos by Miss Gloria He wett and Miss Patricia Adams of Southport. i This session was highlighted by !an address by Alton Lennon, Wil imiligton attorney, on "The Mec hanism of the Legislature", in which he delt particularly with legislation now pending before the General Assembly in Raleigh and now it will affect the lives of residents of Southeastern North Carolina if passed. Following reports of commit tees and transaction of other brief business there was a talk by Mis3 Ruth Current, State Home Demonstration Agent. Missionaries Are Sunday Speakers Four Young Missionaries, One A Brother Of Local Resident, Heard At South port Baptist Church Sun day The congregation of the South port Baptist church had an un usual service Sunday morning when four young missionaries spoke of their plans for service on the foreign mission fields to which they are going. Miss Helen Hasler, a citizen of Switzerland who is going to Algeria, Africa, to work among the Moslems, emphasized the tie of the local church in the mis sionary program. Mr. and Mrs. Drewer Johns from Illinois told of their plans for work in India. Mr. Johns pointed out that the missionary effort today is far more diversi fied than it was even a genera tion ago. "Today missionaries are more than evangelists", he pointed out. They are teachers, doctors, skilled artisans and specialists in many other fields." His speciality is farming and he is being sent to India to work on the mission field as a Christian teacher of new and better methods of agri culture. Dr. Howard Hardee, youngest brother of Lewis J. Hardee, spoke of his hope?' for medical mission ary witnessing in the Belgian Congo. He stated that he did not think of himself as being a "noble or courageous" person be Continued On Pag? Four Caswell Property Being Advertised ForSaleBy WAA Priority Bidder* Have First Chance To Acquire For mer Section Base Before April 25th STATE APPARENTLY IS NOT INTERESTED WAA Representative De clares That His Agency Has Received No Bona fide Offer For The Caswell Property Holding: off for six months with the expectation that the North Carolina Department of Conser vation and Development would want Fort CaswelT for a State. Park, the War Assets Adminis tration is today beginning the ad-, vertising of that property for sale. Bids are invited for the pro perty as a whole, and not In Pt?%. eels. It includes 248-acres of land, together with all improve-! ments consisting of streets, sew erage lines, water tanks, pumjV' electric distribution system, r*^> maining portion of telephone sys tem, artesian well, fencing and approximately 70 buildings. These buildings consist of of ficers quarters, barracks, recrea tion building, auditorium, machine shops, ice house and other struc tures. This offering is subject to the following priorities: 1. Federal Government agencies; 2. State and local governments; 3. Non profit institutions. These priori ties expire on April 25. Bids front the general public will be received until May 13. / The Department of Conserva tion and Development could have obtained the property at a frac tion of its real value. Members of the Department repeatedly claimed they were trying to obtain it for a State Park, but every offer made by the Navy encount ered objections from the State and finally the property was turned over to the WAA for dis posal. - A representative of this pape? has a letter from a member of the Department of Conservation , and Development in which it 1s said that the 24$-acre Fort Cas well property is not large enough for Park purposes. As against this the Department asked for the sum of 147,000.00 in Its bud get for the development of a 1-acre park in the eastern part of the State. Recently the WAA representa tive made the flat declaration that his agency has received no bid from the State. Auction Sale At Long Beach Group Of Choice Beach Lots Will Be Offered For Sale Easter Monday By Gold? ?ton Brothers Firm Long Beach will have an auc tion sale of 50 choice residents! lots on Easter Monday, when part of the Barbee and Lasslter property will be put up by the owners to the highest bidders. The sale will be conducted by Goldaton Brothers, twin land auctioneers of Sanford, and will start promptly at 2 o'clock. The Barbee's who resided at Wake Forest, and Mrs. Lasslter, of Spring Hope, own a large num ber of residential lots on one of Continued On Page Four Tide Table Following la the tide table for Southport during the next week. These hours are appro?** mately correct and were furn ished The State Port Pilot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot's Association. High Tide Low Tide Thursday April 14 8:48 A. M. 2:48 A. M. 0:19 P. M. 2:51 P. M. Friday April IS, 9:S6 A. M. 8:84 A. M. 10:10 P. M. 3:88 P. M. Saturday April 16, 10:29 A. M. 4:24 A. M. 11:08 P. M. 4:25 P. St Sunday April 17, 11:24 A. M. 5:17 A. M. 11:57 P. M. 5:17 P. M. Monday April 18, 0:00 A. M. 6:12 A. M. 12:19 P. M. 6:18 P. M. Tuesday ApU 19, 0:54 A. M. 7:12 A. M. 1:18 P. M. 7:14 P. M. Wednesday April 20, 1:84 A. M. 8:12 A. M. 2:20 P. M. P- *