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fhe P>,ot Covers ;r0nswick County NO. SIXTEEN NO. 29 THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community Most of The New* All The Time 6-PAGES TODAY Southport, N. C., Wednesday, September 21, 1949 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY 11.50 PER YEA1 fease Noted I , Enrollment Of All Schools Reveals Total Gain; |]9g Students This Year ilotteTschool SHOWS MOST GAIN Ificant Gains Have Been ea In High School En rollment At Each School [v superintendent of j u j T Denning said Mon- j at at the end of the first Vot school this fall enroll- I jjr the five consolidated ' of Brunswick county! I an' increase of 198 over j , for the same period last | <-a:n was general over the ! "nth increased enrollment: * high school and elemen iecartrnents of each school.1 Ke led in total increase. i of major significance that irercentage of the increase i to high school enrollment, j indicates that a large num i ;irls and boys who have ^ out of school for various s e returning to complete utacation. Southport high school en et picked up from 78 stu bs! year to 96 students ai; The elementary figures i- increase from 275 toj ?-?:>tte high school there! l\ high school students last ji compared to 227 this Eeinentary school enroll : up from 788 to 817. is vere 133 high school stu- i a: Waccamaw last year, j ;ft registered this fall. Ele s school figures increased I r :o 531. | ? .vhnnl enrollment at ft ised from 86 last i K 90 this term. In the j school the figures j Id tot last year and 358 III session of school. It: ha: 72 nigh school stu I u and 77 this fall. wr.ir.ar school enrollment il? iast year and 343 this - superintendent says ?:-i- enrolment this fall is i high school and 3887 in ?"vr.' :ir> school. These s include enrollment at the 1 schools. . . I ???' Brunswick County Train- j ' ? hijjh school attendance aped frnm 174 last year , '??'is fall. In the elementary ; there were 321 students : *?' and 318 this faU. * Irii/Mwi Flasket 1TAL auxiliary 1 Dosher Memorial Hospital will meet Thursday ton at 3:30 o'clock at the; " 'lie president, Mrs. H. B. ? MARS HILL w Shallotte high school ' are students at Mars , 5 ML They are Sam Flet- ! "ink. L. L. Hewett and ' J Gore. t TO SCHOOL tet R. Frank Plaxco, Jr.. ' Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. '? Sr., Southport, has re ' nis studies at Fishburne School. KNT LEADER j 1 McRackan. junior at Merc Coilege from Southport. was | 5 the group of campus lead to returned to college early 'Kit to attend planning col - of the Student Govern Council. in which she is fwident Jones Dormatory. 1 IN SCHOOL tort Swain, Jr., has return- I 's- C. Stat? College after j ip3 the Summer working at j !te Farms, Lynnhaven, Va. | 15 one of the largest Guern- 1 ,r!?s in the United States Southport boy was there Section with his course in husbandry which he is lnS at State College. 5*rvT^ 1 itr wing stationed at the J 41 Hospital, in Coco I L nal Zonn. Mr. and Mrs. | r 5 Loughlin and baby will j I Jn Southport today byj L will spend some time j fed ? Whiins parents, ' C *?? J. J. Loughlin. They I lZn Orleans from the K/j? Monday and after aj l p canse on home. | Foresters At Work PARTNERS ? Association Ranger G. T. Reid is shown talking things over with tractor mechanic Claud Sellers. Reid has been ranger for the Orton Association since it was formed. Shallotte Citizens Work On Playground Shallotte Lions Club Has Adopted Project Of Con structing Playground For Children Of Community WHITE DONATES ? i> USE -OF PROPERTY' -./if] 1 i"?l I ?n i G. C. McKeitban, Chairman Of Project* Says That Pro vision Will be Made For Playing All Sports Using land,' the free use of ! which has been donated by R. D. I White, Sr., the Shallotte Lions Club has completed the clearing and leveling of a pretty tract that will make an ideal play ground for the young folks of Shallotte and community. The location is only two blocks from the main business part of the town. A field 285 ft. by 425 feet has been cleared and leveled with a bulldozer. G. C. McKeithan, chairman of the playground committee, says that a tennis- .court will be con structed and that there will be facilities for other outdoor gam es, including football and base ball. No halfway measurers are plan- 1 ned. Mr. McKeithan says that I floodlights will be installed, al- 1 lowing for night games. Dr. R. H. Holden is president of the Shallotte Lions Club. He says the entire membership is very much interested in this, playground pro ject. Here for two days last week, filling a sort of requested ap pearance. John Hemmer, top photographer for the State News Bureau, did not get the pictures that were the special object of his visit. However, Mr. Hemmer got some other very good ones. He remarked on the fact that year by year on his visits to Southport and Brunswick county he never failed to get pictures of some subject of widespread inter est. Cover Crops Will ; Earn Payments However, It Is Important Fori Farmers To Secure Prior Approval Of These Prac tices Establishing a winter cover crop from seedings of rye, wheat, oats barley or a mixture of these crops during the fall of 1949 will be a recognized conservation practice for payment in 1950, according to J. J. Hawes. Secretary of the Brunswick County Agricultural Conservation Association this j week. A ? payment of $2.00 per acre j will be made for seeding rye and a payment of $1.50 per acre will be made for seeding oats or bar ley or a small grain mixture containing either of these crops. Prior approval of this practice must be obtained from the Coun ( Continued on Pa^e 20 Huge Amberjack Caught Saturday ????*? * ? ? ' -;t(~ The biggest amberjack of the year, a 61-pounder, was caught Sunday and brought in by <C. ? C. Pridgen, president of the Bank of Myrtle Beach. Mr. Pridgen was fishing frorii the Idle-Oh of Capt. T. H. Watts. He stated that more than half an hour was- l-equired to bring the big fish to gaff. While Mr. Pridgen was fight- J ing his fish a smaller one, a 32-pourider, was hung and boat- ' ed by John Courtney of Cres- j eept Beacji, a member of the same party. In addition to Prid- I gen and Courtney the party was composed of D. B. and J. j O. Baldwin of Myrtle Beach Mr. Heusstis of Crescent Beach and R. D. White, Jr., of Shal lotte. In all they took five am beijack and a number of barra cuda. and king macherel. Government Help For Pastures Farmers May Apply For Payments To Assist With Purchase Of Seed And Fertilizer For This Pur pose Farmers are busy preparing land for establishing permanent pastures as weather permits. This is the right season of the year to get land ready for seed ing the pasture. Every farmer that plans to put in permanent pasture should make a special ef fort to have land ready for seed ing by October 1, if possible. It is necessary to apply suf ficient lime in order to have a good pasture. In the absence of a soil test the farmer should put approximately 2 tons lime per acre. He should also apply 1000 pounds of a 2-12-12 per' acre. Both the lime and fertilizer sho uld be disk lightly into the soil before seeding. For average con dition a seeding of 2 pounds of ladino and 10 pounds of fescue clover is sufficient. The ladino clover seed should always be in oculated just before seeding. This is best done by putting a small amount of syrup or molasses in water and sprinkling some of the solution on the seed. Stir the seed until all of them have some moisture at which time apply the inoculation and stir again until all seed are black. The seeding should take place in the late af ternoon or on a cloudy day to prevent direct sunlight from kill ing the inoculation before the seed are covered. In order to maintain a perman ent pasture it is best to have some supplemental grazing such as rye grass and crimson clover or small grain or combination of small grain. When planning the (Continued on page gj Whitevilie Mart To End Selling Season Friday _____ ? | Prospects Are Bright For Moving Into Select Thirty-; Million Pound Circle By Friday Afternoon FINAL PORTION OF CROP TO BE SOLD Whitevilie Is Expected To Be Among Dozen Leading Markets In Matter Of Season Poundage The Whitevilie Market today entered its final week of the sea I son with bright prospects of en j tering the select 30-million circle. . Sales through Friday totaled ! 29,388,664 pounds, according to ; the report of Dave S. Neilson, sales supervisor. j There arc few markets in the nation which have a volume of I thirty million pounds and the ob i jective of local warehousemen has been to move back into the ; select group. ; Several markets including i Whitevilie, dropped from the 30 | million class when tobacco acre | age was reduced drastically two years ago. The Whitevilie market, accord I ing to unofficial figures to date, is expected to end the season on Friday with about three million pounds above the combined sales of the four one-sale markets in this area. Local warehousemen will be in position to handle all offerings during the final week of the sea son. There has been no block for sometime now and this week will be used to finish selling the crop in this area. The 1949 total here is expected to place Whitevilie among the j first 12 markets in the flue-cured I area. i President Says - | Everybody Works Head Of ^nin#w;ck Cowity F arm Bure^uJUrges EJyery one Eligible For Member ship To Join Organization ;l !T "It has once been said that the Brunswick County . Farm I Bureau was a 'Tom Ward Farm | Bureau,''' said President T. T. jWard ^his week. ! "That nas never been true. I | am glad to say now that the people of the county feel that it I is our Farm Bureau. It is a grow , ing organization that is wide awake for local, state and nation al benefits. - : "At this time we feel that the organization is really getting somewhere . toward a telephone system for the County. The or ganization was partly responsible for the Poage telephone bill favor ably passing the house in June. "We are now in our member ship drive. I want to say to all the workers, and to all members of the organization, that I appre ciate the splendid coperation that i they have given. Everybody's good work is why the organization is still growing. Together we stand, divided we fall. "It isn't a matter of whether we enjoy writing Farm Bureau memberships, but its just one of those things we have to do to keep up the business end of our farming. "Let's everybody roll up our Continued On Page Four Dividend Prepared By Waccamaw Bank Checks are now being prepared covering the regular quarterly dividend of 50c per share to stockholders of the Waccamaw i Bank and Trust Company J. E. Cooke, Cashier at Shallotte, and Prince O'Brien, Cashier at South port announced today. The dividend is payable on or before September 24th to stock holders of record as of Septem ber 15, 1949. The dividend, which will aggre gate $10,000.00, is payable to about 200 stockholders who live in all parts of the territory' ser ved by the Bank. Baptists Begin Moving Tilings To Ft. Caswell Moving Vans Have Been Transferring F u r n i t ure And Equipment From Ft. Fisher Site The North Carolina Baptists have moved several van loads of furniture and equipment from Fort Fisher to Fort Caswell, the purchase of which place was com pleted last week from the U. S. Government. Although the sale has been com pleted Fort Caswell has not yet been formally turned over to the Baptists by the War Assets Ad ministration caretaker. It is sup posed that this formalty will take place this week. The Baptists have been using Fort Fisher as a Seaside Assem bly ground for the past three years. They had an option to purchase Fort Fisher but decided to buy Fort Caswell. County Mechanic Explains Delay ^Delivery Of Replacement Buses On School .Routes '' Has B^en Delayed By ' Slow Production -t '? * *' * ? "' ? ' 1 ' <' Btunswfck school patron^ who may be chaffing at the failure of new school buses to arrive may get some consolation from the fact that C. C. Brown, head of the state school transportation system, says that 51 of the North Carolina counties have not receiv ed a single new bus this year. Two have been delivered to Brunswick, according to J. T. Denning, superintendent of schools and Ray Milligan, the county mechanic. Six more are ' to be j delivered as soon as possible. These new buses for Brunswick and the rest of the state have their delivery dependent on the ability of the body companies to make deliveries. Mr. Milligan, quoting from- Mr. Brown, says that it may be as late as January, 1950, before all of the buses are delivered to all the counties in the state. Mr. Milligan says that the pat rons of several of the Brunswick ' schools have heard that buses us ed on their route were to be re placed, and they are wondering why this has not already been done. He says that he and others connected with the transportation system are just as anxious as the I parents are for these buses to arrive, but they cannot do any thing but wait until the machines are available. W. B. KEZIAH Our ROVING Reporter We had a visit Sunday from Captain John Woortman, Estonian who landed here with his wife, daughter and fourteen other re fugees just a little over a year ago. For some months it was 1 feared that Captain Woortman and his compatriots would be de ported on the grounds that they had not legally entered the coun ty. Their status was finally clear ed up and they were allowed to remain and start life all over a gain from scratch. Coming back to Southport when they were re leased from Ellis Island, Captain Woortman and three of the men have proven themselves except ionally gobd fishermen. All are employed on shrimp boats of the Bilj Wells fleet. This has not been such a good year for shrim pers thus far, but Captain Woor tman ? told us Sunday that he had earned and save up some money. He is very happy at the start he is making in this country. About 30 years ago we wrote a piece in some paper listing the most eligible bachelors in Colum bus county. Dr. Joe Usher, now of Greensboro and Long Beach, was one of the vicitims. Last week Dr. tMier came around to tell us that he had just been clean ing out his trunk and found the clipping that introduced him as one of the most eligible bachel ors. Time changes all things. His fully grown and very pretty dau ghter accompanied him into the office and the missus waited out side in the car. Although we ought to have been working, we spent almost two hours, Saturday, with Dr. W. H. Davis, dean of the Baptist (Continued on pag* 2) Maybe Mermaids Have ! Discarded Their Shoes Anyway, Mrs. Lois Jane Herring Is Puzzled As To How Many Shoes Washed Up On Beach Either a lot of people lost their shoes or somebody lost a lot of shoes this summer, judging by a report made by Mrs. Davis Herring, wife of a Southport at torney. Returning from a fishing trip to Bald Head Island, Mrs. Herring reviewed her discoveries in the way of footwear. The fol lowing is her own account. "This may not interest you in the same way as it did me. I was completely intrigued by the oddi ty or unusualness of what I found on the beach of Bald Head IsIp.u] one day this week. I "Mr. and Mrs. Bill Styron, Callendar Newton of Charlotte, Davis and myself went up Cape Creek to its headwaters and then left the boat and walked on over to the ocean. Almost the first thing I noticed after reaching) the beach was a man's rubber sandal that had washed up among { the shells. "Few steps more and I found j another sandal, but not the mate to the first one. As I walked on ' I found a woman's bedroom slip per, moccasin style. Next was a' woman's red sandal. Then came a black callerina slipper. Then in, quick order I found a man's, brown moccasin and a woman's white rubber bathing shoe. In less than a hundred feet I had found seven shoes, all in good condition, but none matching. ? "Futher down the beach to wards the lighthouse were more shoes. I found two pairs of ten nis shoes and one tennis shoe to which there was no mate; a pair of black leather pumps, a man's brown leather sandal and two rubber bath shoes, etc. I would like to have done some shoe col lecting while on the island, for I have never seen so many nor a greater variety than I found there, and I have had plenty of "beachcombing" experience. "But 1 was loaded down with a fishing tackle box in one hand and my rod and reel in the other. The only extra thing I could lug back was a beautiful nine-pound and twelve ounce red drum which I had caught, and felt that I ought to carry home myself. "In addition to this accumula tion. I wore back a soldier's com bat helmet which Mr. Newton found and gave to me to wear as a sun hat. It gave me little pro tection from the sun, however. "I reached home, proud of my fish, curious as the shoes, the helmet and several hats we had seen. And, I will havq to admit, I was looking something like a boiled sea turtle. "If you have any solution to the mystery of all of the shoes and hats on Bald Head Beach, please let me know what it is. I am curious, for I am sure that Theodesia Burr Alston did not wear all of these things." Highway Patrolmen Lead No Easy Life The Case Of The Missing Heifer ? \ . J. H. Milligan of Ash believes he must have raised a descend ant of the cow that jumped over the moon. Last week he loaded a young heifer in his truck with sides about 6 feet high. Thinking rapturously of the nice sum he was going to get for the heifer on delivery in Whiteville, he got in the cab and drove off. | The trip to Whiteville was without incident, 30 far as Mr. Milligan knew. Arriving at his destination and seeing the man to whom delivery was to be made, Mr. Milligan called out, "Well I have brought her for you". It developed that this claim was wrong. Harve's heifer was not in the truck. And has not seen hide nor hair of her since he put her in the truck mora than a week ago. Visitor Figured In Bandit Break Detective Irvin Kravitz Re covering From Wound Re ceived In Brush With New York Gunman Irving and Samuel Kravitz of New York have been spending a few days with their brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Eli Kravitz at Shallotte. The former is a detective on the Brooklyn police force and Samuel Kravitz is owner of the big Kings Elec trical Sales Company in Brook lyn. Both have visited at Shal lotte on previous occasions. This visit recalls a rather ex citing incident that received wide spread attention in New Yourk newspapers two weeks ago. De tective Kravitz is still suffering slightly from a ricocheting bullet from a police special. Fired from point blank range, the bullet struck him on the belt buckle, ricocheted and wounded him sli ghtly in the hip. As reconstructed from the New York newspaper, a young negro had been executing a series of armed holdups and robberies. Captured, he was taken to the police station and while guarded there by the regular officers he snatched the gun from the belt of one of them and ran from the building. Detective Kravitz and other of ficers gave chase. As the negro emerged from the station with the officer close behind him he turned and fired two shots. One struck the officer on the belt buckle and glanced off causing the wound. The other missed. Kravitz fired four shots In re turn, three of them striking the negro and knocking him down but not inflicting fatal wounds. The negro got up and ran for a block before Kravitz over took him and clubbed him into un ( Continued on page I) I Average Person Ha? No Idea Of Long Hours And Vari ety Of Call* That Take Up Day For These Men THREE PATROLMEN ASSIGNED COUNTY Main Highways With Ad joining Feeder Roads Divi ded To Give Each - ! ' Territory > ?' i i The three highway patrolmen in Brunswick county lead lives far more busy than the average person would suppose. Inquiry of them this week reveals that they spend an average of fifteen hours each day attending to duti es. The set up is for Patrolman J. C. Taylor to cover Route 76 to the Columbus county line and the River Road from the Brunswick River bridge to Southport and return. This patrol may also in clude calls for duty anywhere, the investigation of wrecks at points where other officers may not be available, etc. Patrolman C. M. Cummings, with his headquarters at Bolivia, is on a sort of hot spot. He pat rols Route 17 from Supply to the junction with 76, thence back 303 to Southport, Fort Caswell and Long Beach and back to Sup ply. Patrolman C. Pierce at Shallotte picks up the Cummings patrol at Supply and covers Route 17 to the South Carolina line. He also has 130 from Shal lotte to the Columbus county line. He and Cummings both have stretches of other roads in ad dition to the busy Route 17. All thrtc cf the officers are supposed to be on the road from 1 o'clock each afternoon unitil nine that night However it is very seldom that the early morn ing hours fail to find them on the road investigating traffic violations or wrecks, and their work seldom ends at the nine o' clock hour. Visitor Suggests Mounting Fish State News Photographer Declares That Visitors Will Get Big Kick From Seeing Mounted Speci mens As a result of the recent two day visit here by John Hemmer, photographer for the State News Bureau, various photo services, including Wide World photo, are now distributing pictures of Cap tain Bill Styron and his 122-pound tarpon, caught at Southport two weeks ago. Mr. Hemmer did not actually make the picture. The fish was caught three weeks before his visit and the picture \yas snap ped by a local amateur photo grapher. This negative was taken by Mr. Hemmer and enlarged for distribution of copies of the pic- 1 ture to the various syndicates. Writing W. B. Keziah about the I (Coatiausd on page 3) Demurrer Denied Tuesday Morning In School Case Judge Henry L. Stevens Re futes To Sustain Action Of County Attorney E. J. Pre vatte And Associates NOTICE OF APPEAL GIVEN BY COUNSEL Counsel For Plaintiff Allow ed Twenty Days In Which To Amend Complaint; Thirty Days To Answer Judge Henry L. Stevens Tues day overruled a demurrer filed by County Attorney E. J. Prevatte to the complaint brought by At tornies Emmett Bellamy and Ro bert Caulder of Wilmington In behalf of J. P. Russ and the Rev. Dennis Hewett as an outgrowth of their appointment and sub sequent dismissal as members of the Shallotte school bqard last Spring. S. B. Frink of Southport and R. I. Mintz of Wilmington were associated in the case with Mr. Prevatte, and the three gave notice of appeal, with 15 days being allowed by the court for preparation of statement and IB days being granted the plaintiff for preparation of counter state ment. It was agreed that the case should go up upon the basis that it was argued before Judge Stevens. In the meantime counsel for the plaintiff asked for time In . which to amend their complaint and were granted 20 days for this purpose. The defense will have the usual 30-day period in which to file answer. The case was argued before Judge Stevens with no jury being called. This was not intended to be a trial of the charges being brought, but a hearing to deter mine if the charges constituted sufficient grounds for trial. If Judge Stevens is sustained by the Supreme court in his decision, the case wttr be s<h?4?hd fA# trial, probably at the January term of court. Six divorces were granted, five of them upon the grounds of two years separation. These actions were: Christian Ann Davis Grant Continued On Page Four Wildlife Club Meeting Friday Moving Pictures Will Be Shown Illustrating Vari ous Problems Connected With Game And Manage ment The Brunswick County Wildlife Club will hold a meeting at the Bolivia high school building Fri day night, September 30, at 8 o'clock. This meeting will be fea tured by the presence of "Rod Amundson or Win Donat of the educational division of the State Wildlife Resources organization. Various moving pieture pertain ing to wildlife and the cooperation that can be shown by hunter* and the public will be shown. These films are part of the State Educational work in connection with wildlife. The coming of thte film to Brunswick county on the eve of the beginning of the hunt ing season should be interesting to hunters, landowners and the general public. W. T. Full wood, Jr., of South Continued On Page Four Tide Table; Following Is toe tide table for Southport during the next week. These hours are approxi mately correct and were furn ished The State Port Pllct through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot's Association. High Tide Low Tide Thursday, September 22, 7:29 A. M. 1:20 A. M. 7:52 P. M. 1:43 P. M. Friday, September 28, 8:21 A. M. 2:06 A. M. 8:42 P. M. 2:43 P. M. Saturday, September 24, 9:12 A M. 2:52 A. M. 9:j!0 P. M. 3:25 P. M. Sunday, September 25, 10:05 A. M. 3:38 A. M. 10:22 P. M. 4:17 P. M. Monday, September 28, 10:59 A. M. 4:27 A. M. 11:13 P. M. 5:11 P. M. Tuesday, September 27, 11:56 A. M. 5:18 A. M. 0:00 P. M. 6:08 P. M. Wednesday, September 28,') 0:10 A. M. 6:14 A. ) 12:56 P. M. 7:12 P./
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