North Carolina Newspapers

rtie Pilot Covers L,nswick County THE STATE PORT Most of The News All The Time jst Leaders ieCt Caswell Site Saturday Of ?cean ^ofr Jf for Purpose of Ob ? Chemical Analysis Shing^ciht,eS ?foECLOSEEIDEAL .Expectation Is That Vill Be Approved ,r twenty-five promi * ministers and lay i ?n inspection of Fort bturdav afternoon. In o inspecting the build-, ving the property a; ?ing over, they took) ll;e bathing water at | points on the beach, j -ples have already been i v the State chemists for | -lysa of the Caswell | j-d Caswell water is no1 if. Powell, one of I of Caswell Beach I ,-rtHS Fort Caswell, says fte waters analyed last ' that they showed no pol Sams Nelson, prominent jj-Sfray textile industra B r. analysis made year ist and got the same re H Mr Powell. There was :on then and the analysis _^made for the Baptists eqxeted to show any. very probable that the CtoUna Baptists will have I a definite step looking .[cthase of Fort Cahwell, ?je end of this week. They | lite what is termed a rea-! Us. The WAA officials j ara time ago that they *C the property in a way idibenefit and be pleas it people of the nearby pr d the rest of the Iu su. ?prospect of the Army Ifie property for a big S( center, it now appears ? area surrounding Fort Is solidly united in the the Baptists will be j iiy the place. Not' only' sympathy all for the; . Mi entire North Car-: Cwressional delegation in! ftn has endorsed the sale pserty to them. Should weed :n purchasing it I t to turn the historical1 into a great seaside as Prad for the use of the *li over North Carolina. '? it will also be open to ral public, according to ?t of one of the minis '*'13 in the inspection H M Baker and W. B. Southport were with Kt>ng party Saturday. Mr Baker is largely fir the interests of the 1 tong attracted to Fort 'ItfNtwt Hithtt I Bl-RXS Wallace Moore home ??'er Road was destroy- ' J?5 ?f undetermined origin r10 meet [ *'ePJlar meeting of the r t?ons Club will be held U Tkursday) at the C0"1* I ?,'llnS at 1 o'clock. New be installed. FEES res'dents who wish 5 f' Wlt'1 the department fe-M spra-vinS residences J! :n^s 'n an insect con 15jam way contact Mrs. . I-,avis and make the L^Posit with her. 1^- cheaper ^? slight reduction in the N UvT and the fact r,?. ?. been elimated hL . is '"tended for tractors and in to . * resulting in cheap keM^re purP?ses- The est T"* 1S 12-cents ^'??S-cents in 1948. '?"lionr r-BaId Head Sun* ""Wrton attB"tIer Thomp* ^?on., i ey' and sev" "ipinc f," aaw a huge tar V Th?m. tke water ear 1 b*in. y described the Uj." 0Vl?r seven feet in ?M oth?"mm?r Bertram *"? wr ulhPort sports ?*here * b'S tarpon in %av. w une was ?e?n. &1 broke their lines. Conference Champ WINNER?Halstead Holden, Shallotte youth, is shown receiving the Bill Hendrix trophy following his victory in the Southern Conference Track and Field meet in Chapel Hill recently. The Brunswick county boy is conference champion in the half-mile event.?(Wilmington News Cut.) Brunswick Boy Counted On To Keep Up Work By Jake Wade (Special to the State Port Pilot) Cruising somewhere in a UnitedStates Naval Reserve Unit is Halstead Holden, A Brunswick county boy, and while he's enjoy ing the ride, he's thinking right now of his best sports love, track. Halstead a few days agc> wrote Dale Ranson, one of his track coaches at the University of North Carolina. At the time he? was in Portsmouth, England. His; next destination, he said, was j Cuba. He's wondering about Car- j olina's cross country team next. fall. Holden whose home is at I Shallotte, is a letterman ih both j cross country and track. His j specialty in track is the 880 j yard run, at which he worked faithfully this spring, but never! quite came up to expectations un-j til the Southern Conference | championship meet late in May. Then he hit the jackpot. He ran the 881; in a fine 1:56.8 to win the title, dethroning Frank j Magill of V. P. I. It was his best job of the year and it earned him a place on the Southern Confer ence team in the inter-conference meet with the Southeastern Con ference legions. He's young, ana a junior, so Coach Ranson and the other Car olina track coaches are counting on him next year. He has a lot of natural ability, is an earnest workman and is a good compet itor. Winnabow Man j Dies In Wreck J. R. Walton, Greyhound Bus Driver, Died In Acci dent Monday Near Smith field J, R. Walton, whose home is at Winnabow, was killed instant ly Monday morning when the Greyhound bus which he was dri ving was in head-on collision with a milk truck on Highway No. 701 near Newton Grove. This highway accident, describ ed as the worst tragedy of the holiday week-end in North Car olina, ~ claimed the lives of two other persons, both of them oc cupants of the other vehicle in volved. Following the collision, the bus burst into flames, and only heroic work on the part of members of, a crowd which quickly gathered prevented further loss of life. Walton's body was jammed be hind the wheel and efforts to extricate it before the fire took over proved fruitless. However, reliable reports from persons at the wreck are that he was dead) before fire ever reached his body. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Virginia Clemmons Walton, to ?whom he was married about a t year ago; his parents Mr and, j Mrs. Henry M. Walton of B?llvia', (Continued on P?ff? five) August 2nd Set As Date For Opening Georgia - Florida Belt To Open On July 26 To Get 1949 Season Underway; Dates For Other Markets Set BOARD ADOPTS ONLY ONE NEW REGULATION Warehousemen And Grow ers Get Ready For Sales In Twenty-Three Co lumbus County Ware houses The chant of the tobacco auc- j tioneer will be heard again in Columbus County's twenty-three tobacco warehouses on Tuesday August 2. Announcement of the opening date paved the way for ware housemen and growers to get ready for the 1949 season. Flue-cured sales will get under way on July 26 when auction markets in the Georgia-Florida belt will open. The North Carolina Border Belt and South Carolina Belt open ings on August 2 will be follow ed by other belts as follows: Eastern North Carolina on Au gust 18; Carthage, Aberdeen, Sanford and Fuquay Springs on August 29. and the remainder of the Middle Belt on September 1;' and the North Carolina and Vir ginia Old Belts on September 12. The 1949 opening dates for the flue-cured tobacco markets were set in Raleigh Thursday by the Board of Governors of the Bright Belt Warehouse Association in an executive session at the Sir Wal ter which followed a public hear ing. Growers and representatives of growers' groups attended the pub lic hearing, presenting their re quests and recommendations with regard to the opening dates for the forthcoming marketing sea Continued On Page Four Brunswick Man Still Patient i Roger W. Willetts Recover ing From Serious Injuries i Sustained In Automobile Accident In Virginia Still in the Kings Daughters j (Hospital at Stanton, Va., Roger IW. Willetts, son of Mr. and Mrs.! J. F. Willetts of the Mill Creek community, is slowly recovering from injuries received in an auto mobile wreck about a month ago. Reports from the hospital are to the effect that it may be over I two months before he can be dis ' charged. Both he and his wife 'suffered broken legs and other injuries, thftse of Mr. Willetts be-j ing much the more serious. It is | expected that Mrs. Willetts will j be discharged from the hospital) in a few days. I | Mrs. Willetts is a native of IStanton. The couple had beenj home to visit Mr. Willetts people and were on their way back to ( Yorktown, Va., where Mr. Willetts | is erriployed as a Naval instructor, when their car was wrecked with the resultant injuries. Street Paved With Blocks Of Ice Visitors to the waterfront in Souttiport- ? Tuesday afternoon rubbed theii: eye?', in disbelief when they sfiw tlje section in front of Mack's Cafe, literally paved with blocks of lice. Some of-, the idle onlookers might have thought this was a unique way to beat the 90 plus heat, -but not the employees of Southport, Coal & Ice Com pany. Those fellows were trying to retrieve as much of their spilled cargo as they could sal vage. ? <? The impromptu paving" project resulted when a side of oil'e of the big trucks gave way while the vehicle was on the way to make a delivery to one of the shripm packing houses, spilling fore than a ton of ice in the hot street. C. D. Potter Goes To Mississippi Soil Conservationist For Brunswick County Given Transfer From Shallotte Office Effective July 1 Clifford D. Potter, soil conser vationist for Brunswick county for the past 18-months, has been transferred to Belzoni, Mississippi, and had only short notice to re port for duty on July 1. He and Mrs. Potter left their Continued On Page Pour W. B. KEZIAH Our ROVING Reporter Some months aero WAA officials Baptists. personally advised us that they | intended selling Fort Caswell to ' the interests that would, make the best 4 use of it, use that would j benefit Brunswick county. No sale j has been made yet although a number of different interests have I been interested in getting the pro jperty. Thus far we have not been i committed as favoring any poten tial buyers. But we have recent-1 fly been learning more and more of the plans of the North Caro j lina Baptists. They want the pro perty for a seaside assembly J grounds. In their hands much of j the history and tradition of Fort Caswell will*be preserved. At the same time their plans will, we , believe, be very helpful to tho ; development of Brunswick county, i Thfct being the case, we hope that the government will sell Fort! Caswell to the North Carolina I Mayor Ronnie Cheers and for mer Mayor Leon Galloway of Shallotte, when seen together this week were unhesitating In saying that traffic over Route 17 during teh holidays was the heaviest they had ever known. Everybody seem ed to be bound somewhere and just as many people seemed to be intent on getting away from there. The cars, according to the two Shallotte men, were just shooting by in both directions. One class of Brunswick county people gave little observance to the holidays and they probably never vrill. They are the tobacco growers. Their main crop is re quiring their day and night at tention along about the 4th. This year was no exception. The to Continued On Pftgfe Four Beaches Attracts Holiday Crowds Over Week-End Thousands Of North Caro linians Trying To Escape Heat Visited The Various Brunswick County Resorts CROWDS ATTEND HOLIDAY DANCES Holiday Festivities Were Free Of Serious Accident So Far As The Resort Areas Are Concerned Brunswick county beaches at tracted thousands of visitors over the holiday week-end as scores of would-be . vacationists were turned away because of lack of accommodations. At Long Beach all available cottages and rooms were in use, and hundreds of visitors came down just to spend the day swimming and fishing. Three dances during the week-end per iod drew a record number of peo ple. A traffifc count probably would reveal a new high in motor traffic at this beach. At Caswell Beach all facilities were filled to capacity. Holden Beach was a bee-hive of activity as holiday crowds took advantage of the improved road to reach their favorite beach resort. This play-ground as usual featured unusually fine fishing and boating. Reports from Shallotte Point and from Gause Landing and Sea side indicate that the holiday rush was general, and that any one with accommodations for guests over the week-end had plenty of demand for them. Caswell Pier Fishing Spot Lucky Pehom Trying Their Luck From There Have Had Very Good Success Recently Wit hSeveral Va rieties The 300 foot Caswell river dock and the pier leading out to it is credited with being the best fishing spot along the coast where the use of a boat is not entailed. The Baptists or whoever else buys the Caswell property will find themselves the owner of a very substantial fishing pier over wa ters that have the fish. Mrs. H. G. Radcliffe, an ardent Southport fisherman, demonstra ted the fine sport that is to be | found at the Caswell dock on the I afternoon of the 4th of July. Using live minnorws for bait I Mrs. Radcliffe caught four floun 'ders, the largest of which weigh ed five and a hp.lf pounds while the smallest tipped the scales at 3 pounds and 9 ounces. She also got 3 gray trout, the largest weighing 3% pounds and the smallest 1 % pounds. With all of these f?sh in her ^arm-size basket, Mrs. Radcliffe modestly admitted that seven or eight more very large flounders and trout were hung and that they broke away. She says that all of the fish that, got away were larger than Any she caught. Soldiers and sailors who have been stationed at Caswell in times past have a better idea than any jone else about the fine fishing j that exists at the Caswell dock. 1 Continued On Page Four Tragedy Narrowly Averted In River Clerk Of Court Sam T. Bennett And Three Companion* Clung To Capsized Craft 4 Hours A Sunday fishing trip to Bald Head Island intended to last two days came near being disasterous to Clerk of Court Sam T. Ben nett his brother, G. L. Bennett, of Wilmington and Joe Crispens and Hank Olnick of Greensboro. Their boat swamped and turned over in the backwash of the Gulfland, an oil tanker owned by the Gulf Oil Company. The four men are said to have drifted for 4 hours, holding to the overturned skiff, before they were picked up by the boat of Marshall Hill of South port. The party was using a 16-foot j skiff belonging to Mr. Bennett, j In addition to the four men it : carried an outboard motor, a tent, fishing tackle and food for two ! days on the island. They were between Fort Caswell and the is land when the tanker passed them and they were caught in its back wash when it was some 75 yards ahead of their small craft. The swiftly moving vessel was bound to sea. The overturned boat with the four men clinging to it drifted into the bays north of Bald Head Island and finally up Cedar Creek where they were found by Mr. Hill, who was returning from a fishing trip with Mrs. Frances Young, Mrs. Riley Willis and others. Some of the men still hold ing to the boat were almost ex hausted. They are reported to have lost about J600.00 worth of equipment, including a new tent, fishing tackle and valuable watches. Woodmen Reactivate Camp At Shallotte Big Bill Sent To Capt. Woortman As he was master of the Ro land on which he, his wife and daughter and 14 other Estoni ans made the three thousand mile voyage from Sweden last summer, Captain John Woort man has received a bill from the U. S. government amount ing to slightly over twelve thousand dollars. This charge is made for the transportation of all on board the Roland to Ellis Island, and for their food, clothing and oth er expenses incurred while they were detained there pending a decision as to whether or not they would be allowed to re main lri the United States. Captain Woortman and three other men who made the lbng trip with him are working here on shrimp boats. They are do ing well, but Captain Woort man sadly admitted to a news man Monday that it will be a long time before he could save enough from his earnings to pay the twelve thousand dollar bill. Another Busy Court Session Post - Holiday Session Of Brunswick County Recor der's Court Is Crowded With Traffic Violators This week's session of Bruns wick county Recrder's court was postponed until Tuesday, but on that day Judge W. J. McLamb and other court officials were greeted with a lengthy docket which featured many cases grow ing out of holiday weekend traf fic violations. Following is a re port of these cases: John Grant Reed, speeding, con tinued. Dranford A. Sneed, reckless operation, costs. Horace C. Sutton, reckless oper ation, not guilty. Robert H. Sutton, reckless oper ation, not guilty. Harwood B. Cox, speeding, fin ed $10.00 an dcosts. John Bowie, no operators license fined $25.00 and costs. Leon Lindsey Huls, reckless operation, fined $35.00 and costs. William F. Sacks, speeding, fin (Continued on page Ave) Man Dies Friday In Auto Accident Kernersville Man Killed When Car Overturn* On Curve Near Hickman'?, Crossroads Brunswick county had only one fatality during the holiday week end that occured Friday when Floyd O. Phillips, 31-year-old Kernersville man, sustained fatal injuries in an automobile acci dent near Hickmans Crossroads. Eye-witness reports indicate that the Guilford county man was traveling at a high rate of speed when he lost control of his car. on a sharpe curve. The machine ! turned over three or four times and Phillips suffered severe head injuries. He was brought to the Dosher Memorial Hospital in Southport where he died Friday afternoon. His body was returned to his home for burial. Shallotte Camp No. 160 I* Placed On* Working Basis With Fitting Ceremony Thursday Night At Legion Hut NEW OFFICERS ARE INSTALLED Visiting Woodmen From Clarkton Help To Install Officers For Camp At Shallotte Shallotte Camp No. 160, Wood men of World, which was organ ized in 1905 was reactivated Thursday night with a fish supper and appropriate ceremonies. A storm drove the fish-frying activtties indoors, and the meal was served in the old REA office at Shallotte; but nothing had dull ed the appetite of the Urge crowd who enjoyed this portion of the program. From this point the meeting adjoured to the Shallotte Legion Hut for installation of newly elected officers and for inspira tional talks by WOW leaders and old members of the Shallotte Camp. Among the latter was John W. Russ, a charter member, who told what it has meant to him to be associated with the Wood man organization through the years. The ceremonies at the Legion Hut were presided over by Roy Helms, Cousul Commander of the Clarkton Camp. Frank Gardner was captain of the degree team which installed the officers. E. R. Meares, financial secretary of the Clarkton Camp, made a brief talk and recited a narative poem in his inimitible manner. J. C. Gree, field representative of the WOW of Clarkton, spoke on the fraternal side of the organization, and A. A. Dennis, a former resi dent of Brunswick county who now is supervisor of boy's activi ties for the Clarkton Camp, re ported on this phase of the work. Installed as new leaders of the Shallotte Camp were H. T. Ben nett, counsul commander; R. E. Continued on page four Famed Drama To Be Here Monday "Pruoner At The Bar" Will Be Presented In Trinity Methodist Church Under Auspices Of Churches Of Southport "Prisoner At The Bar" will be given in the Trinity Methodist church Monday evening, July 11th, at 8 o'clock under spon ship of the churches of South port. This is a drama portraying a court trial of a prisoner for a capitol offense, which crime is committed by a drunken husband. The feature actors In this drama have been giving this portrayal in churches of all denominations under direction of the Board of Temperance of the Methodist Church for fifteen years. Two of these artists will accompany the drama and take the parts of Dis trict Attorney and the Prisoner. The remainder of the court scene will be made up of local talent from the churches care fully selected for their ability. The entire court will number about twenty actors. There Is not a dull moment during the pro gram. These characters will in clude J. T. Denning, Judge; Rev. Mr. Wilkenson, Prosecuting At torney; L. D. Hayman, Defense attorney; G. D. Robinson, 8heriff; C. E. Blake. Baliff; R. B. Thomp (Continued on Pftft fJv?) Shipping Small Shrimp South To Canning Plant Product It Of Inferior Grade And Commands Small Market Price Except To Canneries In Louisiana FAIR CATCHES OF THIS SIZE MADE Giving Work To Headers And To Workers Around Houses As Well Rs Re turns To Men Who Go Out On Trawl ers Five or more tons of headed shrimp are now moving out from Southport daily. The product, al most too small in size to be very good for the green pack that is sent to eastern markets, goes to New Orleans, La., and is eager ly bought up by the canning factories. As canned shrimp some of them may at some time find their way back to Southport. All local dealers, Paul Fodale, W. S. Wells, Dallas Pigott, Lewi? J. Hardee, J. A. Arnold and T. B. Smith combine to form the daHy truck load of shrimp to Louisiana. Such shipments are of little worry to these producers. Their boats bring in the shrimp, the product is headed and packed in boxes with ice. Paying so much pet hundred pounds, Joe Thompson, young Wilmington fish dealer, sends one of his trucks in daily and the shipment pulls out for Louisiana as soon as the boxes can be collected. The dealers here are paid on delivery of the box?* to the trucks. The small shrimp now being taken bring a good price per bushel to the boatmen, with the heads still on. Colored women get their cut at the picking tablfe. The boxmarkers and the iceman! also get their's. So does the dea\- ? er. It takes about three and la half bushels of shrimp with their heads still on to make a 100 pound box of headed shrimp. After the other costs are added up to the 100 pound boxes, it can easily be seen that the five or more tons of little shirmp, pulling out from Southport daily for the can ning factories are leaving a nice little sum behind them. Call Attention To 4-H Camps County Agent And Home Demonstration Agent Want Brunswick Bfcgri And Girls At Summer Camp County Agent A. S. Knowles and Miss Corrine Greene, the home agent, are calling attention to the fact that it is time to be gin arranging for the 4-H Club Camp which is to be held at Millstone 4-H Camp near Roch ingham on July 25-30th. Only 17 boys and 17 girls can be taken from Brunswick, but the agents think that more than that number will be wanting to go. The week of camp will be filled with work, fun, education and recreation. It promises to be a very enjoyable accasion. The acti vities are designed to build citizen ship. The camp fees for each indlvldr ual will be $2.50, food J9.00, in surance coverage 50c, transporta Continued On Pag? Four Tide Table Following Is the tide tstl)e for Southport during the nest week. These hours are approxi mately correct and were furn ished The State Port Pilot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot's Associate?. High Tide Low Tide Thursday July 7, 5:05 A. M. 11:19 A. M. 5:65 P. M. 0:00 P. M. Friday July 8 6:03 A. M. 0:14 A. M. 6:47 P. M. 12:12 P. M. Saturday July B 6:5? A. M. 1:05 A. M. 7:37 P. M. 1:01 P. M. Sunday July 10 7:4? A. M. 1:52 A. M. 8:23 P. M. 1:48 P. M. Monday July 11 8:38 A. M. 2:86 A. M. ?:06 P. M. 2:88 P. tti Tuesday July 12 9:21 A. M. 3:18 A. M. 9:45 P. M. 3:16 P. M. Wednesday July 13 10:03 A. M. 3:59 A. M. 10:24 P. M. 3:57 P. M.