p,e Pilot Oners
tuns,vick County
THE STATE PORT
NO. SIXTEEN
NO. 35
A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
Most of The New*
All The
6-PAGES TODAY Southport, N. C., Wednesday, November 2, 1949
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY 91.50 PER YEA!
ineer Has J
lion Of Big
jjch Expansion
ty^ho Has Drawn Up
L For Development j
Section Of Long
,ch Discusses Reasons j
, Optimism
iNSION AREA
JaS OPPORTUNITIES
?rick H. McDonald Has
I Wide Experience In j
-lopment Programs
^ Likes Local Pro
spects
Lg he was at Long Beach j
rj of the angles to his !
[community and industrial
f ;or the Carolina Lands, I
Charleston. S. C., the j
etative of The Pilot went
I the beach Sunday for the ;
f purpose of digging some- i
wt of Frederick H. Mc- )
I concerning the huge de
now being undertaken,
us already known that Mr.
Uj was in "Who's Who
Lea." There it is shown
k u-as born in Charleston j
t a brilliant record as an J
pi and development en- 1
l that he helped develop j
i Florida resorts and has j
| national recognition as a '
jg and development en- j
[ His book on "Community
tostrial Development", pub- 1
ft Harper's, is the autho
L toat field and has become
It of reference for civic,
t utlity and banking, de
i e: officials.
Kc Donald, is now the tech
'mi of the model coastal
torn that has been laid out
i Midilletons and which is
nrting off with the speed
ritet.
e~er to an inquiry as to
tening features at Long
Se smiled and said: "We
rrag on to fill a social
?mic need of our North
tn Carolina families, and
families from other
this, he added: "At
?(vacation a year is now
tie budget of every family,
nation with these families
n to go and what to do.
una! people, on down '
* tie wage earners, who '
tit backbone of our corn
's. all want to go to the
re.
lv of them cannot do it.
f resort area in the Caro
ls passed the devolopment
l >11 except the Brunswick
' section. In these other
iiwts on furnished homes,
k two or three weeks, are
for the average wage
< or professional man. The
f of buying land and bulld
apecxally buying the land,
N the reach of the aver
tan.
'*? taken 640 acres at
This is one of the
tifully located areas on
j* of either Carolina. High
?? we have subdivided it
starting from scratch
't the model coastal re
?? Of North Carolina.
JIr McDonald at Long
*** Robert Russell, of the
Construction Company.
P?ny has a wide exper
31 construction in both
?<l South CaroUna. Mr.
* and Mr. RusseU were
I an analysis of building
** sources, labor and thans
" is understood that
ruction company will
* ?Pen a permanent Long
on Page Four
f'GE PRESIDENT here
Henry W. a. Hanson, presi
of Gettysburg College,
urg, Penna., was a week
itor in Southport where
A h's brother, Ed Han
^ celebkation
_ will be an anniversary
'ion at Shaliotte Village
Iioh! 'St Church the S?C"
j, y in November. Dinner
the ground. All
i7 wtls are cordially in
to. m"1! and bring a choir
^ the ringing.
tOR
v F Leased
to Davis of First Pres
l ?uwh. Grafton, W. Va?
I a, ,ls ln Southport last
!n;s.r,P s {o retire from
e?5rd y ?ar'y next year and
?ble u Southport as an
1^ Ration for retirement.
W1" very pro-|
10 uve ia this area.
Goin' Shrimping
TRAWLER ? This is the Royal Flush, one of the best boats in the Dallas Piggott
fleet at Southport, on her way to sea for a day of shrimping. The inset shows Merritt
Moore, skipper of the Penny. (Wilmington News Cut)
Sudden Squall
Drives Trawler
Fleet To Cover
It is not often that the boats
of Southport's tough shrimping
fleet head homeward owing to
weather once they go outside,
the skippers usually have an
early morning hunch whether
or not it will get very rough.
Their hunches seldom keep
them from going out and almost
never result in their having to
come home before the working
day is over.
Tuesday was a sort of excep
tion. There was no hunch strong
enough to keep them from go
ing- out^ but a sudden spell of
squally weather along about
noon brought; one and all the
hunctfi they had better come in.
With a gale that some of the
boatmen estimated at 40-miles
per hour, they turned their tails
towards Bermuda and came in
with the spray flying.
Varied Docket
Heard Monday
Numerous Cases Tried Be
fore Judge W. J. McLamb
In Brunswick County Re
corders Court Here This
Week
A large docket including a
variety of cases was disposed of
here Monday before Judge VV. J.
McLamb with the following en
tries being made:
James L. Amick, reckless oper
ation, capias.
Alonzo L. Harper, speeding,
fined $10.00 and costs.
LeRoy Jacobs, no operators li
cense, fined $25.00 and costs.
Henry A. Marks, speeding, or
dered to pay costs.
Duget M. Harper, speeding,
continued.
Dietrich Rodfs, speeding, con
tinued.
Fred Lee Atkinson, speeding.
Plead guilty (no judgment en
tered.
Walter S. Bolban, speeding, con
tinued.
Talmadge Hodgins, possession,
fined $10.00 and costs.
Wilson McKay, speeding, reck
less operation, fined $25.00 and
costs.
Jasper Bellamy, possession for
purpose of sale, fined $100.00 and
costs and judgment of 8 months
road sentence suspended upon
(Continued From Page Six)
Young Farmer
Trys Spraying
El wood Ballard Tries This
Method Of Protection On
New Structure; Chesley
Sellers Does Work
The spraying of the underparts
of homes and other buildings In
Brunswick county is not an un
usual procedure. It serves to pre
vent decay and the ravages of
termites.
El wood Ballard, young veter
ans farming student at the Boli
Continued on p?gs four
Shallotte Football
Team Playing Here
I Second Meeting Of Season
Between Two Teams
Scheduled For Local
Gridiron Thursday After
noon
SHALLOTTE WON
FIRST CONTEST
Southport Boys Anxious To
Rack Up At Leat One Vic
tory During First Season
Of Football
, Interest in high school football
I should reach an all-time high this
i week when Shallotte comes here
ito play Southport Thursday after
( noon.
These teams met earlier in the
j season and Shallotte took a one
i point decision in a hard fought
'game played on her home field.
Southport came oiit of that con
I test determined to turn the tables
in their second meeting, and
I their practice this week has been
! directed > to that eitd.
j Shallotte on the other hand has
j the confidence gained from one
I victory and members of that
t squad believe they can turn the
trick again. .They have the ad
vantage of having thoroughly
scouted the Southport team
Thursday, with Coach Carmichael
and several of his boys keeping
j track of every trick.
Shallotte will be after their
| third victory of the season. In
addition to their win over South
port they defeated the Tabor
City J. V.'s. They lost Friday to
Aynor, S. C., but there was no
disgrace in that. This is one of
the strongest high school outfits
in that part of the neighboring
state.
Southport, playing its first sea
son of football, still is without
j a victory. However, the boys are
determined to win at least one
game during their inaugural year,
1 and they think Shallotte is the
team that can furnish them with
(Continued On Page Four)
Achievement Day
Event Saturday
4-H Club Members From
Brunswick Will Join With
New Hanover Boys And
Girls In Interesting Event
Brunswick County 4-H Clubs
are joining with New Hanover
4-H Clubs for an Achievement
Day program at Legion Stadium
in Wilmington on Saturday, Nov
ember 5. The program will start
at 10 o'clock and last until mid
afternoon. Several Brunswick club
members will take a leading part
in the program. Hazel Lackey
will lead the 4-H club creed and
Sebren Austin will lead the 4-H
club pledge. Both are from Le
land.
A one-day fair will be held in
connection with the Achievement
program. Members are urged to
exhibit their project, if possible.
Exhibit 10 ears of corn for the
corn project, and a garden exhibit
to represent a garden project.
They will have space for pigs,
calves, and poultry. Brunswick
hopes to have an Achievement
Day his its own next fall.
Southport To Be /
Well
Trinity Methodist church of
Southport should be well re
presented this week at the
North Carolina Conference
which meets in Sanford.
The pastor, the Rev. L. D.
Hayman, is a former pastor of
the Sanford Methodist church,
which is hc^et t< j
two years.
Delegate rieprefifhting' Trinity
Mditftoflist church . it the' con-:,
ference is J. W. Ruark, South
port attorney, who formerly
served afe mayor "'of ? Sanford
?while practicing law in the Lee
county seat.
Their visit to conference will
be in the nature of a home
coming for these two south
port men.
Advises Farmers
To Use Proteins
Change In Order In Diet!
For Fatening Hogs In1
Fall
Brunswick county farmers that
j are now feeding out hogs are
| urged by County Agent A. S.
I Knowles to supply all their hogs
I with a good mineral and some |
protein supplement for best re- j
Continued On Page Four
having served
County Agent A. S. Knowles !
Advises Farmers That;
County Farmers
Ready To Help
Milk Situation
i
Report# From Raleigh In
dicate Increase In Impor
tation Of Grade A Milk
Supply During Fall Mon
ths
BOLIVIA FARMERS
PLAN MILK ROUTE
Interest In Dairying Ap
pears To Be Centered In
That Community With
Progress Made
A dispatch from Raleigh this
week stated that supplies of
grade A milk is now coriiing in
to North Carolina at the rate of
1 15,000 to 20,000 gallons per day.
The figures were given in an
announcement from the State De
part of Agriculture.
Dealers in Indiana, New York,
Pennsylvania, Tennessee, West
Virginia, Maryland and Virginia
have been granted permits to
bring their milk into North Car
olina. The dispatch quoted com
missioner of agriculture L. Y.
Ballentine as saying that the best
of the milk markets in this
state were at Wilmington, New
Bern, Greenville, Wilson, Fayette
ville, Raleigh, Durham, Greens
boro, Lexington, Charlotte, Gas
tonia and Asheville.
Commissioner Ballentine added:
"Unfortunately the production of
our own grade A dairy herds is
diminishing at a time when the
demand is increasing."
Calling attention to the above
dispatch, Jake Tinga, veterans
teacher at the Bolivia school,
said:
"You may say that the farmers
in the Bolivia community are
going to do something about
North Carolina producing more
of the milk that is needed. There
is no reason why it should be
bought from other states when
It can be produced here.
"With Wilmington considered
the best market in the State,"
Continued On Page Four
Two Held For"
Death Of Woman
Two Colored Residents Of
Supply Ordered Held In
Death Case Following In
quest Here Monday Night
Lois Johnson and his brother,
Bernice Johnson, Negro residents
of the Supply community, were
held under bonds of $750.00 each
following an inquest held by
Coroner John G. Caison at the
court Monday night into the
death of Magadalene Ray, 23-year
old Southport negro woman. The
Ray woman died early Saturday
morning in the Community Hos
pital in Wilmington, where she
had been taken after she allegedly
fell from a car operated by Lois
Johnson.
The grand jury will make fur
ther investigation. Both negroes
readily gave bond and were re
leased immediately after the in
. quest.
Six negroes were in the car in
volved. They were the two John
( Continued on page Z)
YV. fl. KEZtAH
Our
ROVING
Reporter
Bob Powell, Goldsboro, one of
the owners of Caswell Beach, |
adjoining Fort Caswell and Long
Beach, wrote us this week and
was apparently much impressed
with the latest development an
gle to his neighboring Long
Beach. Among other things Mr. j
Powell said: "I have been reading1
in your paper and others about i
the new developing plans Mr. j
Middleton has for Long Beach, j
He certainly seems to be going j
to town and I hope he will make
a big success of it. He surely de- 1
serves to as I have never seen
a man with so much energy as
he has." J
Mayor H. W. Tallevast of |
Myrtle Beach was telling us one
night this past week that he and
some companions from Myrtle j
Beach and Conway had never been
out fishing before that day. They >
had just come in on the Idle-On, J
bringing in an exceptionally nice
catch which included 42 king !
mackerel. Those fish must have
weighed 800 pounds. They filled I
, 5 large wash tubs two feet over
| the top. The king mackerel are
long fish. These ran from three to
four feet in length and the only
way to get them in the tubs was
to stand them on their heads.
To get the fish home the mayor
I of the neighboring coastal re
! sort town followed a very unusual
j method. They took everything
| from the baggage compartments
! of their two cars and stacked
| the fish inside, like cordwood.
At least some of the folks in
' Southport who have known us
during the quarter of a century
we have lived in the town will
readly admit that we have always
stood up for and worked for the
things we believed would help
Southport and Brunswick county.
During our time obstacles from
the outside, sometimes in the
guise of friendship, have develop
ed to block many worthwhile
things for Southport and Bruns- j
I wick county. We are now headed
for coastal development in Bruns
i Continued On Page Four
Southport Man Spots
Goerch Grandchild
Rovin' Reporter Not Fooled By Failure Of Raleigh Publish
er To Identify Cover Pic
The extremely clever Carl I
Goerch of the State Magazine in
Raleigh can get around almost
anything.
And it is a rather hard matter
to get anything about babies ' a
round W. B. Keziah, The Pilot's
Rovin Reporter. He is their fri
end to and knows all of them.
The cover picture for the Oct
ober 15th issue of The State was
a beautiful photo of a fine baby.
In the description of the picture
Goerch waxed eloquent, describing
the youngster as the smartest
and most wonderful baby. He paid
it more tribute than any youngs
ter ever got. Then he wound up
rather lamely by saying that he
did not ask the Ballance Studio
whose baby it was.
Without even turning from the
picture to look for and read the
description, Keziah said, "I will
j bet anyone $5.00 that the pictjire
is of Carl Goerch's grandchild!
"Nonsense," said someone, "that
is a really beautiful baby, Carl
Goerch does not look a bit like
it."
"Besides," said someone else,
"Carl never uses The State to
parade his own family. He had
been publishing the magazine for
14 years before his own picture i
ever appeared in it."
"I don't blame him for never
wanting to publish his own pic
ture," said Keziah. All the same,
I know that is a picture of his
grandchild. He is too old to have
a baby of his own that young
and there are other reasons why
he should not have one of his
own as pretty as that. There is
an old saying of like father, like
son."
To settle the controversy, the
following letter was written Mr.
Goerch:
"Dear Carl:
"Bet you $1.00 the picture of
the baby on this weeks issue of
The State is one of your grand
child.? Bill". '
j Twenty four hours later came
'this reply from Raleigh:
;Dear Bill:
"Thanks for your letter. I have
I just called up Ballance's Studio
| and discovered much to my sur- !
; prise and amazement that you j
I are absolutely correct. Glad you j
wrote me about this because oth
erwise I probably would have been
In ignorance concerning the iden
tity of that baby for the rest of
my life. ? Carl Goerch."
Sunday Experiment To
Cost Owner Of Fleet
Big Investment
Firnj Interested
Officials of the investment de
partment of one of the major
North Carolina insurance com
panies may be here in a few
days to look into the invest
ment possibilities at Long
Beach.
Special interest seems to cen
ter around the new model sea
coast town development , sector..
The opening up of this, pro
perty has been attracting wide
spread interest.
In a letter to a local news
paper man the president of the
insurance company stated that .
the development had been call
ed to the attention of the in
vestment department of his
company.
No Slack Time
For Farm Work
County Agent A. S. Knowles
Reports Continued Acti
vity As Brunswick Farm
ers Catch Up With Chores j
Some people may have gained
the impression that following the
harvesting and marketing of the
tobacco crop there is a slack
period of farm work in Bruns- 1
wick county.
This is far from being the case, 1
according to County Agent A. S. ,
Knowles. The past few weeks have
been unusually busy, he says.
The main thing has been har
vesting the last of the hay crop,
getting corn and other crops in
to the barns and doing the thou
sand and one chores that had to j
be neglected during the busy sea- 1
son with tobacco. Not the least
of the various chores has been
the building of new homes and
the repairing of old ones and out
buildings.
Such farmers as live near the
coast have found it convenient
to take a day or two off, go
fishing and lay in a supply of salt
fish for the winter month. Others
have been going hunting and
nearly everybody who professes
to be a hunter has either killed
a deer himself or been in on the
kill with a party of other hunters.
Probably the biggest business
of all occupying the attention of
most people despite the fact that
Continued On Page Six
Southport Raid
Nets Good Haul
Jasper Bellamy Place Raid
ed Saturday Night With
Quantity Of Liquor Being
Discovered
Sheriff Walter M. Stanaland
and six deputies raided the store
and beer joint of Jasper Bellamy
in Southport Saturday night and
made a good haul in the shape
of twenty-one and a half pints
of whiskey and half a gallon of
wine.
Some of the whiskey was found
(Continued on F*g? I)
W. S. Well. Uses Two Of
His Big Trawlers To De
termine Comparative Per
formance Using 3-Blade
And 4-Blade Propellers
I
DECISION GOES
TO 4-BLADE WHEEL;
Boat With Same Engine
Showed Marked Improve
ment When 4-Blade
Propeller Was In
stalled
W. S. Wells, local seafood p>*0-"
ducer, tried an Experiment Sun
day which he says on the face
of results will cost him $900.00.
All tugs have 4 bladed pro
pellors; so do most of the larger
ships. All shrimp boats,' so far
as is known, have been using 3
bladed prop?. If the bigger boats
pulled better with four blades it
was reasonable that the pmaller
craft would do the same.
Four of the larger Wells boats
are identical in size and in en
gine power. A 4-bladed prop wa?
bought and it' was arranged 16
hold an experiment; to see .which
style of blade gave the most pull
ing power.
The Claudia J., Frank Brown
skipper and the W. S. Wells, S.
T. Bennett skipper were taken
out in the river and raced against
each other. Both boats were us
ing 3-blade props and the race j
was >a draw. It was evident that
with the same wheels both boats
had about the same pull.
The Claudia J. was then run
up on the railway and the 4
blade prop was substituted for the
the other. With this 4-blade
wheel on the two boats again
raced and this time the Claudia
J. simply walked away from the
W. S. Wells. Hitching the two
boats stern to stern the two
boats were set to pulling against
each other and again the 4
blade prop proved its superiority.
With its engine running full
speed the W. S. Wells was easily
dragged all around the river.
There is considerable viberatlon
in all boats using 3-bladed props.
An interesting fact in connection
with placing the 4-wheel blade
on the Claudia J. is that the vibe
Continued On Page Four
Girl Scouts Are
Observing Week
Local Observance Included
Special Attendance At
Church Services Sunday
And Other Activities
This is National Girl Scout
week, and on Sunday morning
the members of the Southport
trrop attended services in their
respective churches in full uni
form. Recognition was given them
by the ministers.
The Southport troop now num
bers 23 members, with three
additional members waiting to be
enrolled. The troop leader is Mrs.
J. M. Waggett, the two assistant
leaders Mrs. R. F. Plaxco and
Mr?. R. M. Robinson.
The Girl Scout Committee for
Southport includes Mrs. Pearce
Cranmer, Mrs. James Piner, Mrs.
Jack Hickman, Mrs. E. J. Han
son and Mrs. J. M. Wolfe.
King Mac *el
Catches Cause
Travel Trouble
Several R¢ Parties Have
Run Into Difficulty Whe*
It Came Time To Load
Catch For Homeward
Trip
SOME AMAZING
CATCHES MADE .
Parties Out From Southport
During Week-End Report
ed Some Of Best Catch
es Of The Season
If they had been stacked Tip
like cordwood, a fairly simple
undertaking because they are ap
proximately 4-feet in length, it
might be said that about two
cords of king mackerel, or cere,
have been caught by sportsmen
operating out of Southport during,
the past week.
About the only way such ftsh
can be carried home in the aver
age automobile is to cut off both
heads and tails, then pack them
in the largest galvanized wash
tubs available. Even so, this pack
ing calls for the fish having to
be bent.
Take one day out with the;
King mackerel, Sunday for exam
ple. Not all of the boats out
that day could be checked on
and the size of their catches de
termined. Severar were out fishing
on the gulf, several more were
fishing for blues on the shoals.
This story Is just covering the
operations of four of the boats
that went to the gulf stream.
The Idle-On, Captain Hulan
Watts, returned with 59 blues
and 51 of the big king mackerel.
Only three men were in the fish
ing party. Their bluefish filled
the large ice box that they
brought with them from Charlotte
in which to carry their catch
home. The king fish constituted
something like 800 pounds, gross.
Their heads and tails were cut
off. Then, packed without ice,
they completely filled three of
the largest family size wash tuba*'
The men making the catch were
JBflo. J. and
Frances Libes, all of (Xiarlotte. It
was 'lucky this party 'did not
have a 4th man.1 Their big car
would never have carried him
and all their fish home.
Chadbourn fellows did almost
as well. Burton Wilder, ^Miko
Borders, Horace bullock, Dr. Ben
Ward and John Krahnke, all of
Chadbourn, were out on tfte botfly
of Captain Basil Watts. These
boys got 52 large bluefish, I
dolphin and 39 big king mackerel.
When a reporter left them they
were' still' trying to figure out
how the five and about 400
pounds of fish were going to get
home in a 1949 model Ford. It
looked impossible to take on any
ice to preserve the catch.
The Moja of Captain Victor
Lance just fished around with as
sorted passengers and finally de
cided to go where the kings werei
The party was composed of A.
W. Dugan, Joel Dugan, O. J,
Clentz, Miss Edna Connoffie and
Nathan Fleishman, of department
store fame, all of Fayelteviile.
They brought in 2 amberjack, I
bonita, I barracuda, (25) pounds)
28 blue fish and 6 big king
mackerel.
The Cadet of Captain Howard
Cictor and its party composed of
Tom Warfield, F. C. Higgenbot
torn and Roy H. Wood of BaltU
more and Howard Schumere of
Philadelphia, Pa., brought in IS
king mackerel and 11 amberjack.
The day before the same party,
Continued On Page Font
Tide Table
Following Is the tide taUe
for Southport during the next
week. These hours are approxi
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, November 3,
6:11 A. M. 0:00 A. M.
6:27 P. M. 12:22 P. M.
Friday, November 4,
6:49 A. M. 0:84 A. M.
7:04 P. M. 1:08 P. M.
Saturday, November 5,
7:25 A. M. 1:10 A. M.
7:41 P. M. 1:48 P. M.
Sunday, November 6,
8:02 A. M. 1:45 A. M.
8:16 P. M. 2:22 P. M.
Monday, November 7,
8:87 A. M. 2:21 A. M.
8:48 P. M. 3:01 P. M.
Tuesday, November 8,
9:12 A. M. 2:96 A. M.
9:23 P. M. 3:89 P. M.
? Wednesday, November 9,
9:60 A. M. 3:83 A. M.
10:00 P. M. 4:20 P. 1