Wot Covers lruns?ick County ^SIXTEEN NO. 27 THE STATE PORT PILOT y A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Most of The New? All The Time 8-PAGES TODAY Southport, N. C., Wednesday, September 7, 1949 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY $1.50 PER YEAB" Wgency Drive L Folio Funds tans In County .-ick County Citizens Asked To Make ecial Donation To Cover jdemic Costs ? IS BEING "launched today Explaining Need Be Generally Distributed ith Envelope Provid ed For Donation wljo epidemic through-out this year is the most ."eotdemic since the crip eoidemic of 1916. Already yve been ten thousand Les this year than were j gt this time last year end is not in sight. This situation has caused a t drain on the funds of the 01 Foundation for Infantile 153 so that it has become L,v to carry on a speedy Bcy drive for additional to help stem the side of a? caused by this epidemic, the last day of August the dl Foundation had advanced 1721.39 to the different State k; for use in meeting this Biergency needs. H. Jt. Baker, chairman of jnnswick County Chapter, today that this county has I So 939.00 since the begin tbe year from the Nation dation to help pay the : lis of Brunswick polio Zr-r-; are still two of our in the hospital and sever _i receiving treatments and jhUs will have to be met ieip from the National Bey-:':ve hundred envelopes ? distributed in Brunswick today for contributions to wgency drive. Citizens x these contributions in iirious community chair I drop them in their local fce. Arrangements have ,-ade with the differ fosauster by 5 the Post General so that all envelopes will be turned a central collecting office State for forwarding to atonal Foundation. Mr. Baker announces the "5 as community represe i this emergency drive: Fodale, Emergency Drive ?: H. T. Saunders, J. T. and C. Caviness for H. Faster Mintz and ftje for Bolivia; Mrs. M. * and H. C. Stone for If: Mrs. .Mac F. Jones and Manning for Leland; Mrs. Brbv and Mrs. J. J. Hawes , : C. Stephens and ?aft Hewett for Waccamaw; Clemmons for Holden's Walter Lewis for the U. S. ?>iard: Martin Robbing and Morehead for Winnabow. ?mpaign is to last only K and it is hoped Bruns w?ty citizens will realize sgency nature of this drive give generously for this J1 help those who have elPmg Brunswick patients iitJ5lsl)ursements amount . ^?? each day and at it hf8 *Sational Foundation * able to carry on its nnS unless we respond a!>d generously in this \iritfStmt Hatha IRK DANCE I J-.nr square dances will be at the Community Build- j t Southport under sponsor- j < the Lions Club. X(J TO ENGLAND 1 Eloise St. George Chap is leaving today for an ??- flight to England, where F ; .n her husband, who is fW in the country with the | N'avy. PKG AT SHALLOTTE r 5!>(i Mrs. Charles Reynolds pchmond, Va., have been F-S several days at Shal I *ith Mr. and Mrs. Isaac F ??? The couple lived in N until about 30 years P'hen they moved to Rich r *:>!re Mr. Reynolds is en r 'n the plumbing business. r*CATIO\ f? Ev? Mae Chadwick, stu li'itse in the James Walker hospital in Wilmington, IT"1? her vacation with her 'Mr- and Mrs. John Chad 41 Shallotte Village Point, ^aine r.allowav, also a is the house guest Chadwick. Caswell Parade Ground ROOMY ? Above is shown the big parade ground at Ft. Caswell, with the water | tank and officers quarters in the background. Once the Baptists take over this property j the parade ground probably will be converted into a playground and the officers quar j ters into dormatories in which to house visitors to the Seaside Assembly. 'Parity' Members Sought By Head Of Farm Bureau Farmer Must Join Himself And Secure At Least Nine Other Members to Become Eligible Tom T. Ward, president of the Brunswick County Farm Bur eau, appealed today to the farm ers of Brunswick County to be come members of the Farm Bur eau Parity for Agriculture Club. "To become a member," Mr. Ward said, "it is necessary for a person to join the Brunswick County Farm Bureau and secure the memberships of at least nine other farmers." During the 1949 State-wide Farm Bureau membership drive ' 1,827 Tar Heel farm men and women were members of the club, thereby dedicating themselves to fight for the parity principles for agriculture and pledging them selves to make whatever sacri fices necessary to give farm peo ple the same protection that is affered other groups. Farm Bur eau memberships written by Par ity Club members last year total ed 53,420. "The Parity for Agriculture Club was formed in honor of the past president of the American Farm Bureau, Edward A. O'Neal, who during 16 years as president fought constantly for parity in come for the farmers of the Nation," Mr. Ward said. "The North Carolina Farm Bureau re cognizes its members who per form specified duties in procuring memberships each year as Ed ward A. O'Neal Parity Club Members." President Ward explained that the man and woman secur ing the largest number of Farm j Bureau members in the State will be given expense-paid trips I to the National Farm Bureau j Convention in Chicago this Fall. ' Awards for use in defarying the ! expenses of Parity Club members J to the National Convention will , also be made to each county reaching its minimum membership Continued on page four Joe Brooks Is Hurt In Wreck Prominent Brunswick Coun ty Man Sustained Critical Injuries Saturday Morn ing In Wreck Near Piney Grove Joe Brooks, well known resid ent of the Seaside community, has been in the James Walker Hospital in Wilmington, in a ser ious condition since Saturday mor ning when he was injured in a wreck on U. S. Highway No. 17. State Patrolman C. M. Cum mings reports that Mr. Brooks was operating a brand new Chev rolet pulpwood truck. At the Piney Grove Swamp bridge the machine suddenly swerved from the right hand side of the road to the left. The front end of the truck struck squarely against the end of the bridge. The engine of the truck was ! driven back through the seat of the cab and the machine was completely demolished. Patrolman Cummings said he had never seen such a complete wreck. As the engine was driven back over the seat Mr. Brooks was thrown out over it and through the closed left hand door. His left side was crushed and various other injuries were sustained. He | was found about 12 feet below the road surface on the edge of the water. Patrolman Cummings had not explanation as to the cause of the wreck, other than j that Brooks may have gone to sleep or lost control. Two Marines Killed In Shallotte W reck A Collision Between Automo bile Occupied By Four Ser vice Men And Truck Load Of Negroes Takes Two Lives FOUR OTHERS ARE HOSPITAL PATIENTS Joe Cause, Driver Of Truck, Absolved Of All Blame; Wreck Recalls Memor ial Day Slaughter Duplicating on a smaller scale the Memorial Day wreck Shallotte in which seven persons died, two U. S. Marines were in stanUy killed in a ;fec* ?12 *5 Shallotte River bridge at 12.55 yesterday morning. ' A car and truck figured in this accident. The car, occupied by Marines from said by Patrolman C. M. Cur mings to have been traveling too ? st No blame has been credited to the driver of the other machine, a Studebaker truck. The dead are Austin L. Love, 21, H. S. Battalion,, 2nd Marine^ Camp Lejenue, driver of a 1942 Fofd- ? na W Gerald K. Grenalt, Jr., 18. ?? & S 1st battalion 10th Marines, Camp Lejeune. Injured and in the Dos e SETS HHTs 2nd Battalion, and Joseph G. Hardley, D-2-10th MTwenty-four negroes in a two ton Studebaker truck headed South were all thrown clear of the truck. Nine of them recel^ SUe, a?a were Wash to the hospital. Patrolman Cum mings stated Tuesday morning that only a miracle saved tire bunch of negroes from being killed. The Studebaker truck was driven by Joe Cause, negro of the Shallotte commumty and hi passengers are said to have been residents of Brunswick coun The accident as reconstructed bv Patrolman Cummings, Patrol man J. C. Pierce and Coroner J. ? Caison is that the car occupied bv the Marines was traveling fast when it entered the bridge and struck the truck occupied by the negroes. Sideswiping truck it swerved completely around and struck the J bridge^ Patrolman Cummings that the negroes' truck was well on the outside of the curve at Continued On Page Four Commissioners In Session Tuesday Routine Matters Of Business Disposed Of Before Board In First Of Month Session Yesterday Routine matters were disposed f hofnre the commissioners here Tuesday . at their first meeting ?%hSeetardrgave Martha UtUe j?hn nftaST in M^She was "rpd to pay $150.00 this week. reqThe birdP passed a resolution I the veterans Service Officer to appear before this body and make a report each f.rst MTheaboard approved a proclam ation declaring Thursday, Septem ber 9 to be observed as the 12th baenniversary of the ^opening ?M* S SS Security AJ relief. SailfisFi Caught Offshore Tuesday Sport fishing picked up again Tuesday afternoon with the wind swinging around to the south. The Idle-On, Captain T. Hi Watts, brought in an 8-foot sailfish, caught by H. G. Carr, of Clinton. Added to this were 6 barracuda and 2 bonita. The Botfly, Captain Basil Watts, with a party headed by Dr. Bowden of the State hos pital, brought in 70 fine mack erel. Captain Victor Lance of the Moja got 76 fine mackerel. His party was formed of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Beverage of Burgaw and Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Bow man, Jr., of Blackstone, Va. *The Joy, Captain . George Gre gory, with a party headed by Mrs. Stockton, of Lattimore, got 106 mackerel. School Building Money Allocated This And Nearby Counties Will Receive Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars To Aid In Construction Of Plants This and adjoining counties will receive hundreds of thousands of dollars from the $50 million school i building fund which came into , being as the result of the $25 | million appropriation from the General Fund surplus and the ! $25 million approved by the elec I torate in the bond election. Allocations were announced in | Raleigh last Thursday by the State Board of Education. The figures for this and the nearby counties are: Brunswick? $387,720.09. Bladen? $480,408.56. , Columbus ? $494,839.12; White- j ville, $119,452.76. Pender? $394,046.01. New Hanover ? $598,095.09. The $25 million from the sur plus was allotted by the General Assembly and distributed the Continued On Page Four | Whiteville Mart Sales Reach 25 Million Pounds Warehousemen Report Local Auction Houses Are Near ly Four Million Pounds Ahead Of Last Year NEILSON OPTIMISTIC OVER FINAL OUTCOME Three Weeks Of Selling Time Left For Growers To Dis pose Of Crop; No Block Sales Exist Selling over five million pounds again in the five day selling period last week, the Whiteville Tobacco Market has now sold 25,001,852 pounds of tobacco in just 24 selling days, according to Sales Supervisor Dave S. Neil son. Averaging better than a million pounds per day since the open ing the local market is exper iencing one of its best seasons as far as full sales are concerned. This year, however, with the crop weighing much lighter than was anticipated, the poundage figure shows the effect of the decline. Last seasdh, even with less sell ing time, a full sale was high up over the million mark, whereas this year the poundage averages only about 1,045,000 for a full sale. Maintaining a season average of $51.78 has given the local market the distinction of a steady "$50 plus average" for every selling day since the opening of the 1949 season, Neilson said. Already, the 12 warehouses in Whiteville have paid out over $12,500,000 to the growers who have been selling on the three-sets-of-buyers market. With approximately three weeks of selling time left, the local market is seeking the "charmed" 30-million mark in pounds sold. Last season the local market sold 27 million pounds and had the honor of having the lowest amount of decrease in sales of any market in the Border Belt. Market observers estimate that Whiteville will reach their last year's poundage by Wednesday or Thursday of this week. Growers have voiced their sat isfaction in that the Whiteville market will retain their home buying and warehouse personnel .for the entire season. "Of course", stated the supervisor, "when the Old Belt opens we will lose one set of buyers but with the one sale markets closed", he added, "we will be able to insure all growers of Columus and adjoin ing counties the best of service CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 Holiday Traffic Unusually Heavy Minor Accidents Added To List Of Casualties Over Holiday Week-End In addition to the two deaths at Shallotte Tuesday morning, Labor Day apparently had its share of minor casualities. At Thomasboro Monday a negro sold ier bound for Atlantic Beach in South Carolina, is said to have lost control of his car. The mac hine swerved into the front of the Gus Bland filling station and was badly wrecked. The building is said to have been damaged about $500.00. No one was hurt. Also on Route 17 below Shal Continued From Page 7 Our ROVING Reporter w. B. KEZIAH On his vacation with relatives in Wilmington and visiting friends here in Southport several days ago, Dr. L. C. Fergus of Los Banos, California, was looking mighty well. Dr. Fergus lived here I and practiced medicine and sur Igery for several years. In both ! of these things he acquired an I exceptionally fine reputation. Ow ing to the fact that the children were in school, Mrs. Fergus was | unable to accompany him home. The Leland community has lost two of its better known citizens this summer, Dawson Jones some weeks ago and now Jimmie Raf tery. Both were active and both had influence in their communi ty. We shall miss both on our infrequent trips to the upper part of the county. And it goes with out saying that the folks of the Leland community will miss them all the more. Interviewing a dozen tobacco growers this week representing all sections of the county, we did not meet up with anybody who had a bad report to make regard ing his tobacco crop or that of his neighbors. All agreed that this year's crop has been a fine one and that the price has been good. Interviewing Dempsey Atkinson Saturday with a view of learning just how many ways the Brahma cattle can be onery, Dempsey, who Is nursemaid to the calves, said, "They butt like a goat, kick like a mule and bite like a camel.' When a calf or cow has to be de livered anywhere by truck it takes a real cage to hold it. If Continued On Page Six Dempsey Atkinson Misses Bill Keziah J Expresses Belief That Report Of Delivery Of Young Brahma Bull Drove Newsman Out Of Town Dempsey Atkinson was a dis appointed man Saturday morn ing when he arrived in Southport with a young Brahma bull aborad his pick-up truck and he couldn't find his friend, W. B. Keizah, any where. "It's the first time I have ever been here and missed seeing him," he complained. "I think he must believe all these stroies he writes about my Brahmas, and when he heard I was coming with this one he left town." The Riegel Ranch at Honey Hill sold six of its Brahma steers on the Wallace livestock market this past week. "Hie ani mals brought a premium of one and two cents more per pound than any other stock offered that day. Dempsey Atkinson who trucked the steers to Wallace says that the owner of the stockyards ask ed him if he had fed the steers gunpowder, or what. When they got out of the truck into the cat tle pen all of the buyers and spectators cleared out of the place as if by magic. The long-eared brutes that kick like a mule, butt like a goat and bite like a camel, were not a bit sociable and nobody, not even their handler, was disposed to cultivate close acquaintance with them. The 'sales manager announ ced that if there were any more young Brahma bulls coming up he would build his customers and the spectators comfortable seats outside the fence, and would al so build himself a wire cage in order to sell them. But the fact that the market was bullish and that the Brah ama's brought two cents more per pound was really interesting to a lot of stock raisers. Town. Creek American Legion Post Organized Drew Long Tells Best Cat Tale Drew Long of Grissettown claims to have a cat that he has taught to bring him small articles lying about on the ground. Nn one can be certain wheth er or not Drew himself is lying on the ground. But there are grounds for suspicion. Attending court here this week he claimed that the said cat found a quarter, in other 25 cents, a few days ago. The hon est cat uicked up the money in its mouth and brought it to him ? according to Drew. Tarpon Refuse To Cooperate John Hemmer, State News Bureau Photographer Paid Visit To Tarpon Grounds With No Visible Results Attempts made yesterday by John Hemmer, photographer for the state news bureau, to secure action pictures of tarpon fishing at Southport failed. Neither the tarpon nor any other fish were biting and the more or less dis appointed cooperatives in the ef fort laid the results to the east wind and other local reactions to the hurricane that was moving up the coast. Sunday afternoon Hemmer got what he said would be the best picture ever made of any shrimp trawling fleet on the coast. About all of the Southport boats were at their moorings in the basin with their nets at their masts to dry. With the sun shin ing brightly and everything still, matters seemed to be made to order for good pictures. For the tarpon fishing expedi tion a fairly large number of small boats had agreed to cooper ate and make an effort to get Continued On Page Four Jury List For Superior Court One-Week Term Will Con vene On September 19 For Trial Of Civil Cases Only The board of county commis sioners met last Tuesday for the purpose of drawing a jury list Jot the one week term of civil court that is to convene here on September 19. The following nam es were drawn: Robert Moore Willis,' Charlie Williamson, J. M. Smith, Reuben L. Jones, W. J. McRackan, South port. William Hewett, Juanita Ben nett, Ora Redwine, Wilbur C. Register, H. C. Frink, Shallotte. J. T. Hewett, W. R. Long, Lonnie Evans, B. R. Milliken. A. R. Russ, Ash. J. C. Maultsby, J. J. Ramsau er, T. L. Tharp, Winnabow. Elizabeth Potter, W. W. Har old, J. E. Lewis, G. R. Ennis, Jr., E. M. Hickman, D. McFadyen, Floyd Wilkins, Inland. Floyd Brittian, Carl Wescott, Leon Leonard, Ed Mercer, Boli via. Edwin Clammons, Hifton Hol den, Wilson Lancaster, E. B. Clemmons, Carrie Jackson, Sup ply Ezekial Evans, G. C. Simmons, Freeland. Kenneth McKeithan Is Elec , ted First Commander Of Neweit Legion Post In Brunswick County ENTHUSIASM MARKS MEETING OF VETS Thirty Signed As Charter Members And Installation Services Already Are Being Planned An enthusiastic group of about 50 veterans met at Bolivia high school last week and organized the Town Creek Post, American Legion, with Kenneth McKeithan being elected its first commander. Thirty of the men in attendance signed up M charter members. Harry L Jft.'inta, f?t com mander of the American Legion, says that this was one of the most enthusiastic meetings It has been his privilege to attend. The char ter has been forwarded to State Legion Headquarters and to the National office, and when it is returned an installation service will be held at the time of the next meeting. The district com mander will officiate at this cere mony. In addition to Commander Mc Keithan, other officers elected were Dorman L. Mercer, 1st vice commander; Winfield Lesh, 2nd vice-commander; Douglas H. Hawes, adjutant and finance of ficer; R. S. Willetts, chaplain; Charles Taylor, sergeant-at-ams; Charlie Robbins, historian. This is the fourth post of the American Legion in Brunswick county. Others are located at Southport are located at South port, Shallotte and Ash. The re gular time for meetings will be on the second and fourth Friday nights of each month. County Farmers Visit Sampson Members Of Veterans Agri culture Class At Bolivia Pay Visit To Henry Vann Farm Near Clinton Interested in better pasturage for livestock for Brunswick coun ty the Smith-Douglass Fertilizer company of Navassa was host to a number of the young Farmers of the Bolivia community on a pasture trip to Clinton last week. The immediate object of the trip was a visit to the Henry Vann farm. Mr. Vann has 140 purebred Hereford cows and keeps them on 140 acres of ladine clover and fescue pasture. This acreage would readily .sustain three times the number of cows now on it. Mr. Vann really has the pasture bug and is set for an increase in his herd. In addition to the Brunswick farmers, about a hundred other from varoius sections were in the four. One of these visitors asked Mr. Vann how much corn he rais ed. The answer was, "Absolutely none. Corn has only half the value of pasture for feed and it costs twice as much to raise it." According to Mr. Vann's re cords, he is producing beef in his pastures at a cost of 5 cents per pound and is selling it at 18 cents per pound. Sherwood Johnson of Bolivia paid especially close attention to the high grade Hereford cattle. One of the registered bulls cost $10,000 and Mr. Vann said, "He is worth it. His calves don't gain i a pound a day. They gain two) pounds a day. And that is what' (Continued On Page Four) Mercy Of Judge j ' Tempers Justice In Court Trial Courtroom Spectators Join In Giving Break To Two Puerto Rican Boy* Tried Here Tuesday Morning JUDGE STEVENS HOLDING COURT Other Matters Disposed Of During First Day's Session Were Of Routine Im portance Brunswick County citizens pre sent in the courtroom Tuesday morning were witnesses of the fact that justice and mercy were well served when Solicitor Clif ton Moore and Judge Henry Stevens came to a consideration of the case of two Puerto Rican boys charged with trespass la breaking and entering Mr. Holme's store in Shallotte. When the Rev. H. M. Baker, local Baptist minister, learned that these two boys were lodged in the local jail he wrote Mrs. Lucy Montes, mother of one of the boys, to advise her of the plight of the boys. Her reply stat ing that she was a widow with no work and that the boys were on there way to Florida looking for jobs when they committed this crime aroused the interest of the local minister, Mr. Robinson the; jailer, and S. B. Frink of the firm of Frink and Herring. ' Contacting Mr. Holmes in Shal lotte they learned that he wanted; to help the young men and was not interested in prosecuting the; case further. When Judge Stevens and Mr. Moore understood the' circumstances the charge was re duced against the beys and the sentenced was allowed to be the time already spent in jail (four months) pending trial. This would have been a good ending for the case, but Judge Stevens' sympathetic understan ding lead him to allow the Rrr. Mr. Baker to make a public plea in wyt <^n*'ioni? to help . these boys get back to New Yor*. Brunswick county citizens didn't wait for the hat to be passed around, but quickly came to the rail and speedily contributed enough to pay the expenses of the young men in getting back to their home. Mr. Baker bought their bus tickets and saw them off to New York on this bus from Wilmington with five extra dollars between them to take car# of their needs until they arrive home. It was a different Judge Stevens who Tuesday afternooft summarily ordered sheriff's offl? cers to lock up John Daniel Etfcna for the night following a verbal exchange during which the juriet got the impression that the de fendant was showing improper respect for law. Judge Steven* had directed a verdict of guilty* based upon the defendant ow* statement, in his trial for tres pass, and was about to pass sen tence when the situation arose which drew down the wrath of the court. Henry Evans was co defendant, but did not figure ir^ the exchange. Sentence will be passed today. Sam Hankins was tried for ?e-i sault with a deadly weapon fon his aleaged shooting of Loul^ Spauling several months ago. H? was found guilty and sentence will be passed today. Willie Mac Hardy was convict^ ed on charges of assulting a fe male and drew 3 years on tha roads. Continued On Page Four Tide Table Following; la the tide table for Southport during the next week. These hoar* are approxi mately correct and were furn lfhed The State Fort Pilot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot's Association. High Tide Low Tide Thursday, September 8, 8:26 A. M. 2:18 A. M. 8:44 P. M. 2:30 P. M.; Friday, September 9, 9:00 A. M. 2:51 A. M. 9:15 P. M. 3:05 P. M. Saturday, September 10, 9:34 A. M. 3:25 A. M. 9:45 P. M. 3:45 P. M. Sunday, Septenriber 11, 10:08 A. M. 3:58 A. M. 10:15 P.M. 4:21 P. M. Monday September 12, 10:43 A. M. 4:33 A. M. 10:48 P. M. 5:01 P. M. Tuesday September IS, 11:25 A. M. 5:09 A. M, 11:28 P. M. 5:45 P. M. Wednesday, September 14, , 0:00 A. M. 5:51 A. M. 12:12 P. 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