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The State Port Pilot Southport, N. C. Published Every Wednesday JAMES M. HARPER, JR. Editor Entered as second-class matter April 20, 1928, at the Post Office at Southport, N. C., under the Act of March 3, 1870. SUBSCRIPTION RATES i - 1.00 ONE YEAR - 5150 SIX MONTHS THREE MONTHS 75 Wednesday, October 12, 1949 Poultry Show Our congratulations to members of the Shallotte Lions Club and to members of the extension service, and our apprecia tion to the Seal's, Roebuck Foundation, for it was their combined efforts that made possible the 4-H Club Poultry Show which was held Saturday at Shal lotte. It is impossible to properly evaluate ihe full effect of an event of this kind. It is a fine thing to give our farmers an op portunity to see the value of using good stock and good feeding methods; it is helpful to have 144 fine chickens distri buted about the county; but the chief benefits from the show undoubtedly have been the lessons that have been learned by the twelve young boys and girls who competed in the poultry project. This was a fine effort toward develop ing better flocks and better poultrymen, and it is our hope that this is the first in a series of similar projects. Take Warning The school bus tragedy near Middle sex last week served a grim reminder that we should spare no effort to insure the complete saftey of our boys and girls. The tragedy is that it takes a lesson so dear to teach us about dangers which we have before us daily. Right here at home we have two situ ations which call for immediate correc tive attention. One is the Southportj high school gymnasium, which should be! thoroughly examined and rendered safe before the winter basketball program I gets underway. The second is the Wal i den Creek bridge, over which three) j school buses must pass daily. Already] plans are in the making for replacing i this inadequate structure. We hope that this work will be done before it is too | late. ! Growing Trend We were talking this week to a mer-J chant who has furnished much of the! seed that Brunswick county farmers have purchased this fall to sow their perma nent pastures. "If all of these seed come up and the pastures do well there will be a big de mand for cattle in Brunswick county," said he. And right he is. Brunswick coun ty is rapidly growing away from its old status of being a farming county in which there was little place for cows or cattle. Before very long there will be no such thing as a farm where there is no milk cow, because our folks are realizing that this is one farm animal they cannot af ford to be without. And coming along on a larger scale will be the development of the beef cattle business to the point where it is one of our important cash crops. Rovin' Reporter (Continued from page one) In addition to Johnnie Vereen, who made the report of being waylaid, it was said several other cars were held up at the same place. Suspicion was cast on game wardens. Since the letter was published we have learned defini tely that the men holding up the cars were not game wardens. AH ivardens in this area have denied having anything to do with it. It is said that the men had guns but were not in uniform and they de clined to state why they were searching cars. A post card from Dempsey At kinson of the Reigel Paper com pany ranch invites us to come around to Honey Hill and see him and the Brahma bulls. This is a matter in which we do not know if it is best to see Dempsey or the bulls first, but when one is going to see the bulls he should have plenty of time. Despite the fact that he is now with the Carolina Light and Po wer Company, our long-time friend, Bill Sharpe. continues to send us clippings of pictures and interesting matter that his office sees in the papers about Bruns wick county. We don't know how we came to get in such company, but we had to spend all of Thursday on a shrimping expedition with Phil Wright, State News editor of the Wilmington News, and David Peterson, staff photographer for the Star News. The trip was by courtsey of Captain Merrit Moore of the Penny and his helpers, Don St. George and Pete Larson. Pete and the skipper have a new way to cook shrimp. Boy. we ate shrimp until we felt like one. Phil looked positively cherubic as he munched away at them for about two hours. Mrs. Virginia Walton, who spent the summer here with her sister, Mrs. Maxine Fulcher, and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Junius Clemmons, caught a 40-pound red drum at Chineoteague, Va., a few days ago. Mrs. Walton says she had handed her line to Mrs. Model R-1049 Beautiful 10-cubic-foot refrigerator. Wide side freezer holds up to 33 pounds of frozen foods. Removable insert shelf; tall bottle storage; ideal refrigerator for large families; suburban or farm homes. ROBINSON'S SOUTHPORT, N. C. Selling Out All Dry Goods HALF PRICE To give our customers better service with Building Supplies, Hardware and Plumbing Fixtures, we are now selling all of the remainder of our dry goods at half price. We are getting new supplies of building material, hardware and plumbing fixtures daily. It will be a plea sure to serve your large and small needs. R. ?. Bellamy & Son SHALLOTTE, N. C. i Clemmons and had gone to the lunch basket for a sandwich when the big fish struck. It required the united efforts of both ladies, and some assistance from Mr. Clemmons to land the prize. Mrs. Clemmons Is also a former resi dent of Southport. We had an interesting visitor this past week in Robert C. Mil ler of Charlotte. When we first started to school Mr. Miller, al ready a college graduate, was teaching. The son of a prominent Shelby textile industralist, he fol lowed that vocation for many years and is now retired. He keeps himself young, and does a good job at that, with his interest in sports and folks younger than he is. | Among our fishing friends here this week, were J. B. Leek, Col umbia, S. C., I. G. Ammey, Hop endale, Mass, and Jas. E. Hill house, Gadsden, Alabama. They were college roommates at the Alabama Polytecnic Institute, in 1914 through 1917 and all are jolly good fellows who make it a point of getting together and coming to Southport about every year on a fishing trip. The pre sent trip was made in the plane owned by Mr. Ammey. Ability to forecast the weather is a valuable feature of some lines of business, if you can guess right. Last week Guy McKeithan of Kirby's Hardware store at Shallotte . had an opinion that it would come up a cool spell about the time last week's paper came out. Advertising his fine line of stoves and heaters would be time ly, he thought. Seeing him this week, we were greeted with, "I guessed wrong last week, run the same advertisement again this week." Seven school children died in a collision between their bus and an ice trutk near Middlesex last week. The State Highway Com mission and the county comrtiis sioners have been indicted because of road conditions that are said to have caused the wreck. The same thing may happen at Wal den Creek in Brunswick county' unless a new bridge is built soon. The bridge is a nigh arched wooden structure in a bad state of repair. Vehicles entering at one end cannot see other vehicles ap proaching from the opposite end. A new bridge is an immediate need. Dr. O. B. Chamberlain of Char leston was here Sunday, just see ing what the sport, fishing boats were catching and arranging for a trip of his own in the near future. Dr. Chamberlain remark ed that from all he heard at Charleston, Southport is the best place on the coast for sport fish ing. We heartily agree with him. Where he usually comes every GROCERIES You can save money by trading with us. We carry a complete stock of well known brands, and you always are sure of getting full value for your money. R. GALLOWAY General Merchandise SUPPLY, N. G. COURTNEY ROOFING CO., Inc. Roofing and Siding Contractors TELEPHONE 3121 SOUTHPORT, N. C. ? also ? CRESCENT BEACH and CONWAY, S. C. Build-Up Roofing, - Asphalt Shingles CATHOLIC INFORMATION God Has No Beard God is not an old man. He does, not sit, enthroned in Heaven be neath a halo, looking severely at the world He made one week, long, 1 long ago. God is neither young nor old.1 God IS. ("Before Abraham was, I am," said Jesus'; To God, all time , is a perpetual "now". He sees all our mortal goings-on as easily as, a sight-seer, peering through the observation windows atop the Wasington Monument, surveys the city at his feet. Time is like a little boat riding the waves of that limitless ocean which is eternity. God does not sit, neither does He stand. We read those expres sions in the Bible, because the in spired writers had the problem of expressing the limitless in limited terms, just as, once, a sculptor put our idea of liberty into a metal statue. That monu ment in New York Harbor is not liberty. It represents liberty, and it gives us an artistic idea of liberty. In the same way,, the description of God as a venerable old man, found in the Scriptures, helps make Him conetete in our minds. God is a spirit. He is every where. To think of Him as sitting I or standing is about the same as, to think of a fog sitting or stand ing. It isn't that a spirit is like a fog, either, for even a fog is made up of matter, of billions of tiny waterblobules; but God is as intangible as our idea of liber ty ? excepting that He is every where. He is in us and around us. He fills everything, down to the marrow of our bones; and yet we must say that while He is in us, He is distinct from us. God is present in our hand, but He is not our hand itself. The important thing to remem ber is that God is love. He is not a killjoy. He loves us, each of us personally, ten thousand times more than we love our own mothers. He wants us, to be happy in this life, and then for ever after death. He has told us how to be happy, and has given us a few simple rules; better, He has given us His own example in the Person of Jesus Christ, His Son, God with Himself and equal to Himself in all things, that loving Him, adorning Him, and Serving Him, we might had life everlasting. If it's anything Catholic, ask a Catholic! For further information write P. O. Box 351, Whiteville, N. C. SCHEDULE W. B- 8t B- BUS LINE Southport, N. C. EFFECTIVE TUES., JAN. 20, 1948 WEEK-DAY SCHEDULE LEAVES SOUTHPORT LEAVES WTLMINGTOJi ?* 7:00 A. M. 7:00 A.M. *9:30 A. M. 9:30 A.M. 1:35 P.M. *1:30 P.M. 4:00 P.M. 4:00 P.M. 6:10 P.M. 6:00 P. M. 10:20 P. M. * ? These Trip# on Saturday Only. ** ? This Bus Leaves Winnabow at 6:10 Daily. - SUNDAY ONLY - LEAVES SOUTHPORT LEAVES WILMINGTON 7:30 A.M. 9:00 A.M. 10 :50 A. M. 1 :35 P. M. 4:00 P.M. 6:10 P.M. u 6:00 P.M. t 10:20 P.M. Not Exactly News Bobby Spencer, end on the Southport foot ball team, was able to console himself Friday despite his team's loss to Shallotte. He had scored the first touchdown ever made by a Southport football player . . . Friday's game was played on the old field back of the Chand ler Rourk Station, but before we left we went over behind the school building and looked at the new athletic field which is not ready for use. This is a beautiful layout, and the grass which has been planted there is coming up to make a colorful blanket of green. The cheer leaders helped add excitement to the occasion by keeping up a steady stacato. The high spot in good sportsmanship came at the half when the Shallotte gang carr.e over to the Southport side to join first in a yell for te visitors, then for a cheer for the home team. Off-season building continues at Long Beach, with major additions going on at the Steadman cottage and with two others now under con struction in the old section of the beach. Well,, we missed out v on Mr. Amos, ...Waltpn . and the Grand 01' Oprey but now Mrs. Lou H. Smith comes to our rescue to report that she attended the Saturday night performance. She says it is a fine experience and says for as to tell Mr. Amos it is well worth 7^ Edward H. Redwine is a handy ' a community. Saturday he hurried ^ work so he could give his service* ? ^ 1 at the 4-H Club Poultry Show aM ^ followed. ' 1 W. T. Fulwood, Jr., is bookng Plott hounds, supposed to be ur.surJ?. bear dogs . . . There continues to ^ starting a produce market at Supply y., Wes MacAfee, one of the Har backs ? r, first Rose Bowl team, attended the ^ at the Community Building Saturday;^ "Trail Of The Lonesome Pine," w MacMurray and Sylvia Sydney, p|ly, J and Tuesday at Shallotte theatre." Qm same dates the feature at the Amua. ,! "Whispering Smith," with Alan ladj ? results of offshore fishing parties bear i theory that October is one of the b?t , in the year for this sport . . . We hi* , name to add to our list of foreign rejui,, Eloise St. George Chapman, who receritij to London to Join her navy husbare; , that her weekly copies of The Pilot? mother sends airmail? arc pretty good k k other week, C. C. Vogels, genial auto dealer of Columbia, S. C., has been hitting his favorite fish ing spot ? Southport ? the last three weeks without missing. He was especially pleased with the fine catch he and his party made this past week. They will probably do better if they make it this week while the big blues are running. Mr. Vogels has been taking this paper for several years just to see how the fishing is going and to be sure that nobody catches more than he does. The fact that they were pleas ed at their high school winning the Friday football game from Southport did not prevent a lot of Shallotte folks from showing good sportsmanship when we saw them Saturday. Hobson Kirby, Dr. R. H. Holden, G. C. McKeithan and several others frankly stated that they did not think the game a deciding one. Both places will have good football teams. And, just now no one here is saying which is the better. "There are more big bluefish off our coast than I ever knew to be there at any time previous to this," said Captain James B. Church, dean of the skippers of the Southport menhaden fleet. Captain Church has been fishing here for more than 30 years. As a menhaden fisherman ne is not interested in blues or other game fish except in that he likes to see the other fellow get his share. In reporting the great prevalence of game fish he was commenting on something that he has an opportunity to observe more than half the days of his life. Saturday night we were talk ing to Mrs. Harris Nelson of Spray. Her husband was one of the cotton mill tycoons at Leaks ville-Spray until the big Marshall Field Company bought some of the mills. "Hie Nelsons now own one of the finest homes at Cas well Beach and spend their sum mers there. We said something to Mrs. Nelson about the thou sands of people who would come to Fort Caswell and our beaches, with the development of Fort Caswell by the Baptists. We ask ed her, "What are we going to do with all that overflow?" Her reply was short and to the point she said: "Build a hotel, or hotels." SHALLOTTE WINS (Continued from page one) greater part of the contest, but none of these conditions served to discourage the large crowd of spectators, many of them from Southport. With all of the rain and mud, there were remarkably few fum bles. Mark Gray, quarterback for the tricky T-formation used by Shallotte, was adept at ball hand ling, and Southport managed to complete a number of passes. The defensive work of Robinson at tackle and Clemmons at end was outstanding1 for Shallotte, while the Southport line featured the play of Sanders at tackle and Muncy at guard. The line-ups follow: Shallotte: Ends, Clemmons, Mc Keithan, Holden, Gore; tackles, Robinson, Brown; guards, Hughie Hewett and Charles Hewett; cen ter, Roy Hewett; quarter, Mark Gray; half, Stanley, White, Bell amy; full, Thomas Gray. Southport: Ends, Bobby Spen cer and Fisher; tackles, Sanders, McKeithan, Arnold; guards, Mun cey, Boice Spencer; center, Hood; quarter, Ward, Fulcher; half, Russ, McDowell, Witt"! Bowmer, Cullis. COMMUNITY FAIR Continued From Pafe j, prizes will also be given j will be hog and husband^ foot races, etc. A lot of fjy aured everybody atten% CROP PROGRAM (Continued from pap , set up an organization j the county. While Mr. Su, mailing out invitations tt J sentative men in the agrifl business and professional ^ the county the Monday | meeting is not restricted a sense and the public ii j to attend. Sell At Home ? Trade At Home SNACK BAR A Delightful Place For A Quick Sand*i Or A Light Lunch. ENNIS LONG SERVICE STAI LJ. S. No. 17 Supply, \ When You Need Building Matri SEE US SMITH BUILDERS SUPPLY, lit Castle Hayne Road Phone 2-3339 WILMINGTON, N. C. Lumber ? Wallboards ? Roofinq ? Paints, Si Square Dance USO BUILIDING Saturday Nite MUSIC BY Dixie Pioneers Gentlemen 75c. Ladies 25c Sponsored By SOUTHPORT LIONS CLUB -AND MORE OF Get 12 Full Glaxas In Ptpti't Six 12-oz. Bottle* More for your money? in taste and value. 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