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The State Port Pilot Southport, N. C. Published Every Wednesday JAMES M. HARPER, JR Editor Entered aa second-class matter April 30, 1028, at the Post Office at Southport, N. C., under the Act of March 3, 1870. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR ...|1?50 SIX MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTHS 75 Wednesday, November 16, 1949 One Way To Do The Job Recently we have had many sugges tions that something should be done to clean up and to beautify the Southport cemetery, and we have passed ,some of these ideas along in the hope that some good would come of them. Thus far there is nothing to suggest that we are leading a successful crusade; still we find encouragement in some re cent activity we have .noticed at the cem etery. One local family who own a lot near the Southern boundary of the grounds have gone to considerable trouble and expense to build up their section of the cemetery and now are preparing to plant winter grass. It might take a long time to get the en tire area beautified one lot at a time, but that is one way to do it; and it is encour aging to see one family group who have decided to let work take the place of talking. Two Good Services Southport may have no claim to the title of the world's most progressive com munity, but there are two services which we have that will hold their own in any competition. We always enjoy the sur prise shown by our visitors when they learn about our bus service and our dial telephone system. The good transportation facilities which are available to much of Bruns wick county have been developed to a re markable degree since 1935, when a hiail bus station wagon provided the only passenger service of the W.B. & S. Rail road. These conditions steadily improved until the war years brought about travel restrictions which sent the bus business booming. The war is over and business is not quite so bustling, but with the Cas well Seaside Assembly in prospect and with the ever growing development of our Brunswick county beaches it looks like hauling people to and from our area will be big business for the W.B. & S. for a long time to come. The telephone service is something good which we have enjoyed for many years. The Bell Telephone people have maintained their equipment to keep pace with the growing needs of the commun ity, and now it is a source of pride to know that no town or city enjoys better communication facilities. This is another of our blessings which we wish we could share with our fellow citizens of Brunswick county. He Wasn't So Dumb "To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with per petual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or pro fusion and servitude. If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements. If we can prevent the government from wast ing the labors of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they must become happy." Is this the American Medical Associ ation speaking? Is this a quotation from the old American Liberty League? Is this the Fair Tax Association ? Is this the Republican party taking a crack at Pre sident Truman's so-called "welfare state"? None of these. We are indebted to our friend, Ralph Sholar, for passing along to us this excerpt from the words of a great man ? Have you guessed yet ? Well, Thomas Jefferson, the great liberal, gave this warning and the following ad ditional admonition: "The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbid jt in the disposition of our public moneys. We are endeavoring to reduce the gov ernment to the practice of rigorous econ omy, to avoid burdening the people, and arming the magistrate with a patronage of money which might be used to corrupt and undermine the principles of govern ment." There is yet time for public opinion to return to the thinking of Jefferson. Have we already reached the point when the! government is "wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of caring for them"? Not Just An Old Bell It was an old bell which was formally presented to East Side Community Church by the Atlantic Coast Line Rail road Company, but it was not just an other bell. To every railroader, those bells which rode the rails with them day after day and night after night through so many years were intimate companions. Each had a personality of its own. And it came to be loved and cherished by the train crew. Most of the oldtimers are gone now.1 They are being donated to churches where they will make music in quiet re tirement?no longer called upon for hourly seVvice or to take the jolts inci dent to stops, starts and rail travel. High in the belfreys of houses of wor ship, they will occupy an honored spot befitting a retired servant who has given the best years of his life to his family and is assigned to spend the balance of his days in more tranquil environment. ? The world's number one disease is ma laria, afflicting more than 300,000,000 people each year. RALEIGH ROUNDUP By Eula Nixon Greenwood BREAKING UP . . . Little is being said about it yet, but the Southeastern Chain Store Coun cil will as of January 1 break up injto State organizations. The N. C. unit will be known as the North Carolina Chain Store Council. Dan Paul, Sen. Clyde R. Hoey's son-in-law, will be executive secretary for this Estate. Of fices will be in Raleigh. TUMMY TROUBLE . . . Wake Forest stud ents were buzz-zing last week about Coach Pea head Walker's health. Reports have it that he has a serious stomach ailment and is on a strict diet. Well, it is apparent that he isn't doing as much up-and-down bench striding as he did last year?and he seems to be off in weight. But come to Raleigh any autumn day and you can hear any type rumor you are looking for any one of the Big Four coaches?most of the tales are concerned with Everett Case at State, Beattie Feathers, Wolfpack coach, and Peahead Walker. OFF THE CUFF . . . One thing to keep in mind during the school bus row which is still in progress: The counties purchase the original busses; the State buys the replacements . . . Thus if a county has 50 busses in operation, the State can only buy new ones as these are worn out . . . Several counties do not have suf ficient busses . . . The better busses now cost around $3,000 each . . . Owners of television sets who live in the northern half of N. C. were able to get the North Carolina?N. D.- game from Richmond . . . Robert R. Reynolds is do ing a lot of congratulating, condoling, and thanking via letters, etc., these days . . . Wal lace Wade recommended Peahead Walker for the Wake Forest job ... In their first meeting Wade's big Blues took the Deacons 67-0. . . . The next year Wade downed Walker 7-0 and went on to the Rose Bowl. . . . Many of the larger counties are keeping an eye on the State's experiment (?) with the five-day work week . . . and plan to adopt it if the idea works in Raleigh . . . Around 2,000 people are expected in Ral eigh for the State Baptist Convention on Nov ember 15 ... Up for discussion: plans to bor row $200,000 for special projects on the coast? Seaside Assembly and Fort Caswell . . . . . . Scott may soon be known as our trave lingest Governor . . . He has made three trips into the Midwest within the past six months .. Spent the last week in October ... or some of it . . . hunting pheasant in the Dakotas . . Lt. Gov! Pat Taylor was with him on this last expedition . . . . . . There are no new developments on re ports that Harry McMullan may resign as At torney General to enter the practice of law with J. C. B. Ehringhaus, Jr. . . . But associates say he is going to stay right where he is . . Attorneys who know him say that Ralph Moody, one of McMullan's assistants, has one of the best legal brains in the U. S. . . . . . . State Legion Commander R. C. (Col onel) Godwin is getting quite a reputation a round Raleigh as a cook . Had some friends in the other Sunday morning. The menu: chicken livers cooked in country ham grease; venison; Squirrell. He keeps a freezer locker well stocked . . . but for breakfast? FOR FREE . . . Rural of Star Route Box Holder?Local. "Dear Friend: This is the latest list, by names and numbers, of Farmers' Bul letins published by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture. As Senator, I have a limited number of these for distribution. If you desire some of trie available bulletins, please check . . . With best wishes, I am, Sincerely yours, Frank P. Graham." Good go ing, Dr. Frank. You are now in the groove, fraafc and ?11 MEMBERSHIP WILL Continued: Prom. It*?. Om was secured for the purpose of constructing an additional 11?, miles of line to serve 408 mem bers. A third loan of $109,600 was approved late in 1940 and 132 miles was added to bring service to 418 more members, j When all three contracts were I completed, at the end of 1941 the ! coperative was serving 1415 con sumers through 477 miles of ener f frized lines. i The original board of directors was composed of G. K. Lewis, [Winnabow; C. P. Willetts, Bolivia; R. D. White, Sr, Shallotte; T. T. Ward, Longwood; R. B. Bennett, Ash; F. E. Lay, Olyphic; S. P. Fipps, Tabor City; Fronis Strick land, Tabor City; D. H. Lennon, Boardman; J. L. Robinson, White ville; and Lacy Stanley, White ville. C. P. Willetts was the first president and T. T. Ward was the first secretary-treasurer. The war interrupted . further i development of the corporation's j system but E. D. Bishop, the manager, and the board of direct ors was not idle. Curing' the war years,' additional unserved areas were developed for post-war ex pansion by making contacts with prospective consumers, making short extensions, obtaining rights of-way, signing up members and' presenting application^ to tht REA for loans. As a 'result- of this foresightedness, the corpora tion received allocations in thi aggregate of J998,000. Thfc money, however, was not made available until materials were ret leased at the end of the war. Because the Brunswick REA foresaw the necessity of'expand ing the facilities-to ?meet the: future power needs of its mem bers, plans were developed for the construction of three high voltage transmissioh lines, 'to gether with new -substations and other devices, frofn Whfteville to Shallotte. The new high-voltage lines were begun at the earliest date possi ble and were completed' February 1, 1949. They carry 33,000 volts each. The cost of this construction, together with contract construc tion of 420 mile? of new distri bution lines and additional dis tribution lines built by the co operative's own 'line crews since the early part of 1948, represents an investment pf over one mil lion dollars to provide service to additiohal members and tp moder nize the system^ pf power source and distributions. ?. The, contrast between the Brunswick's status on Sept. 30, 1941 and Sept. 30, 1949 is strik ing. Eight years ago, it had 477 miles of line, and served 1415 customers. The figures for this year show a total Of 1084 miles of line and 5,005 consumers. The distribution is as follows: Brunswick?460 miles and 2392 Consumers. Columbus?593 miles' ahd 2499 consumers. . .. ' ? Robeson?10 miles and 38 con sumers.. > .' Bladen?21 miles and 76 con sumers. The present directors are: A. P. Henry, Winnabow; D. L. Mer cer, Bolivia; W. M. Hewett, Shal lotte; J. B. Ward, Ash; W. A. Mintz, Freeland; F. E. Lay, Olyphic; Foy D. Fowler, Tabor City; Fronis Strickland, Tabor City; C. D. Branch, Boardman; J. L. Robinson, Whiteville; and N. C. White, Whiteville: . Robinson is president and W. M. Hewett is secretary-treasurer. E. D. Bishop,, the -"coordinator ] at the beginning of the Bruns wick Electric Membership Cor poration, became manager in September of 1949 and has coft- ( tinued in that capacity. When the first line was ener gized on Dec. 18, 1939, the co operative's staff consisted of Bis The program for the 10th an niversary meeting at Waccamaw High School will include regular business, reports of officers, elec tion of directors, entertainment and addresses by Gwyn Price, chairman of the North Carolina Rural Electrification Authority, and other REA representatives. hop, a lirtem'an and an office girl.' Actually when the tests were J made in preparation for "turning! on the juiefe" fir the' first time, I the lineihan was climbing poles and connecting transformers, while Bishop was engaged in set-1 ting meters, tapping up services' and writing Service orderB. A j bookkeeper and two men was the j entire personnel at that time. I That contrasts with 24 full-time I employees, using 10 motor vehi cles, at this time. Bishop recalls that it really took a selling job to sign mem bers in the early days. Many of them were skeptical, wondering at first whether the service would ever be provided and then wheth er it would continue. . That sitaution np longer exists and the contribution of the Bruns wick RE A to the area is now fully, recognized and appreciated. ? ? Manager Bishop sums up the development in this way: "The biggest thing this has done is that it has brought elec tric service .to, farm families Which has 'made it possible for farm folks. to have the same convenances as thope who live in .the. city, wfth the added advan j tages of living in thfe country. Another thing wfc see?the young er generations of the farm famir lies, now that they enjoy the aame conveniences as their city cousins, without a . doubt their outlook as sons and daughters of : the rural areas is much more promising. ....: . ?? . , ?J "The use of electric fcawer on ?the farm - is making a very de-;j finite contribution, to the eco nimics of the rural family. ;; 'The REA program is dedicat- J ed. to extending, electric service1 to every unserved rural home in ?our operating area. Our construc tion program will continue until; the last farm home in. the area, which desires service, will be ser ved." .. ... ? Roviri' Reporter (Continued from page one) 'the parents, and this' uneasiness is justified; The use of- high pow lercd guns in woods where there is a likelihood of being groups of < children is. a .danerous practice. [At the very least it will alarm parents aftd retail camp develop ment. It Js to be hoped that "Brunswick hunters will Stay away I from the camp area arid at the i same time do all they' can to |discourage visiting hunters from going, there.^ .. v ... : Along with actual development [ fact? in : and around Southport j. there are. some apparently well | founded tumors relative to Bald Head island and . development I thtsre. Charlotte people. have stat led -during the past week that a .movement is on feet to form a 200-man club with- Frank O. Sher riii as its head, and the purpose being to develop^ the island. TTie i7,000-acre property is owned by Mr. Sh6?TiU. With facilities for taking care of visitors and a small ferry for transportation, the island would easily become one of the most visited ?pots on our po&st. Sonic fine hunting Can be found there and the ocean side Is credited with a/fording the best sifrf casting area on the North Carolina coast. The numerous arci full of all sorts of fish, including tarpon in the summer. J This year unsealed Christmas greeting cards must bear a two cent stamp if the address is at some other post office than that where they are mailed. Sealed cards mUBt bear the regular first class postage- The increase in pos tage on the unsealed matter will probably result In millions of Christmas cards being held up for postage, or forwarded with the receiptant having to pay the de ficiency. The Southport Baptist church, has acquired two new and valu ed members, Dr. R. K. Redwine. moving to Fort Caswell from Winston-Salem to take charge of the new North Carolina Baptist Seaside Assembly homes, has transferred his membership from the Winston-Salem, where he for merly lived. W. A. Maxwell, care taker of the property, has also transfered his membership from SCHEDULE W B.& B.BUS LINE Southport, N. C. EFFECTIVE TUES., JAN. 20,1948 WEEK-DAY SCHEDULE V LEAVES SOUTHPORT LEAVES WILMINGTON 7:00 A. M. ?9:30 A. M. 1:35 P. M. 4:00 P. M. 6 :10 P. M. 10:20 P. M. 7:00 A. M. ? 9:30 A. M. ?1:30 P, M. ' 4 :00 P. M. 6:00 P. M. *?These Trips on Saturday Only. **?'Thii Bur Leave* Winnabow at 6:10 Daily. - SUNDAY ONLY - LEAVES SOUTHPOBT LEAVES WILMINGTON >7:80 A. M. 10:50 A.M. ' 4:00 P. M. . 6:00 P, E 9:00 A. M. 1:85 P. M. -?:10P. M. 10;:20 P. Mv Not Exactly News Art Newton came back from Raleigh this I week with a new press camera that will do a I lot to increase the number of local features | which are * given circulation in the upstate i dailies . . . Attorney D. C. Herring: left Tues day on a business trip to New York City. He j was moaning- because it couldn't happen last j week in time to give him an opportunity to | make the mass migration of Tar Heels to the j Big Town for the Carolina-Notre Dame game. | Ed Weeks has sent his prize pointer, Dan off to college for a refresher course before bird season opens next week . . . "Laff It Off" pro mises to be a sure-fire home talent comedy hit ... Hie turn-out for the first in the new seri es of Lions square dances was a little less than sensational Saturday night, but a good time was had by all and they'll be back for more of the same this week-end . . . We saw four wild geese fly over Southport Friday. "June Bride", which plays Thursday and Fri day at the Amuzu, has been called the best Bette Davis picture in years . . . "Casablanca", ? starring Ingrid Bergman, is the feature for the the late show Saturday and Sunday at Shallotte theatre . . . The E-L-M Gift Shop, Southport's newest business enterprise, gets its name from the first intial of each of three Sisters who are in partnership. ? They are Miss Edna Dozier, Mrs. Lilian Faulk and Miss Margaret Dozier. As a member of the important committee on committees at the Baptist State r this week the Rev. H. .M. Baker wa, j tion to have a hand in selecting the f will decide the Caswell Seaside ^ question . . . Robert McRacken, who h? many projects on his River Road to go in for raising turkeys in a b;g^: year . . . With a scrappy little band I playing this fall Shallotte is sure to "i bumper crop of prospects from which tT their 1950 football team. Up at Lcland the Lions Club is Wotb a new Community Building and muc,^ material and most of the work has be* 4 ed. They say that Lion President Holiiy, ning is a sight to behold as he wield, ^ handed hammer ... One thing that hA,, fall our favorite time of year is the ^ oyster roast season ... Mr. Willie Coo?, furnishing his regular seafood custom?, some choice mullet roe last week. They say that rockfish have started n but no local angler has reported a cat? far .. . Rockey, the Tommie Garner* gany colored Boykin retriever, is one < best canine companions for a child ?, have seen . . . There apper.rs to be i , crop of pecans in Brunswick this fall if there is any doubt in your mind site er tempus really does fugit, just let ut? you that next Thursday is Thanksgiving | Carolina Beach to the local church, In addition to those of ficially connected with Fort Cas well the prospects are bright for many retired Baptist preachers and, laj^nen acquiring property and building permanent homes at Fort Caswell. There would seem to be a splended opening at Southport for an up-to-date builders supply firm, carrying everything per taining to home construction and repairing. It is a rather well j known fact that for the past year an out-of-the-county builders sup Jply company has been delivering a truck of material in Southport daily. Some days there have been several such truck loads. The out Jook is for the need of such sup plies to increase several times over during the next year or two. In addition to the purely local Southport demand there should be big business for such a firm providing for Long Beach, Cas well Beach and Fort Caswell. Southport with its developing ! sport and commercial fishing and .its rapidly developing nearby re sorts is now facing its brightest outlook of any period of its his tory. The beaches and fishing will afford the business background, the same as good farming secti ons have developed background for business elsewhere. Here the sport and commercial fishing and the beach developing will be mere pasting with Southport the gate way to all of it. You cannot build filling stations and country [Stores on the ocean. With the building of roads everywhere thr oughout the 8tate and the erect ion of stores and filling stations i at every point, we are entering an 'area that will have very little small town development, except in isolated cases. Instead it will be community development, buy ing at neighborhood stores for the most part and going to the big ger towns over the good roads in others. Southport, we believe, is an exception. Southport people have been going to other places to trade for years. With the chang order of things, trading facilities will be provided both for the folks who come here to fish and use our beaches and for the regular Southport people. Along with a great many Southport home owners painting their homes, Paul Fodale has joined in the beautification move ment and has given both the buildings used in his fishing busi< ness a coat of paint. The im provement is noticable. Uncle Joe Reaves, aged, well known and very active until a few months ago, died at his home recently. Uncle Joe was among the most highly esteemed color ed citizens of the town. Born on the Reaves Plantation just across Walden Creek and now by Thomp son McRackan, Uncle Joe play ed with the children of Colonel Lamb during the war between the States. Colonel Lamb was the commander of Fort Fisher and while he was at that historic point two sons lived on the Reaves Plantation. Game Protector H. T. Bowmer says that he and other game pro tectors are now keeping: a close i watch on the Pretty Pond camp} area and. also the State Wildlife! Refuge which adjoins the camp| area. Hunters disregarding the j posted area signs will be called 1 into court, according to the game I protectors. Bob Wheeler, Wildlife | Commission man jn charge of the | refugee, says that applies equal ly as strong to the adjoining refugee lands. The state will take a hand in assisting- in the prose cution of hunters found on the east and south of Pretty Pond. A movement is now underway for the formation of a private corporation with the object of building a 700-foot fishing pier at Long Beach. This corporation, although acquiring land from the Carolina Lands corporation, will have no connections with the var ious developments that the Caro lina Lands is now pushing. In a sense it will be a private busi ness undertaking. The present plans are for the pier to extend 700 feet into the ocean and to have a T-deck at the sea end. A contractor has already made an estimate of $30,000.00 for the pro ject. PRODUCTION OF (Continued Fr^rn rage One) Benny's Rochester and Pappy Chiselfinger, that old time settler' who tells tales, played by Harry ( Robinson. The sports page has pretty f girls from the high school in cheer leaders costumes. The society page features a wedding with the bride and groom, best man, preacher and all participants being high school i students. The Columnists will be repre-1 sented by that super-duper key- | hole snooper, Walter Winchell.; This part will be played by Ed Redwine who will give the low-1 down on local and world news. I Dorothy Dix will be represented by Sam Bennett, demonstrating I the proper way to bathe a baby. I The funny paper pig Ross Livingston as Po^ introduces the lunnv pjpei Ed Harrelson as Blonde; 5 McGlammery as Magpi; Harrelson as Little Abn? mond Leggett as Daisy H* Dock Robinson as Baby Sp j Penty. I The show ends with 1 rj I finale, "A World United"'. Ii ' girls of all nations jou j with Uncle Sam to help I (world united. The above is a partial I selected thus far. Many I will have a part in tiiii filled show. Mrs. Ruth Lanham o! [ Oklahoma, is directing tie I duction. ATTEND GAME Mr. and Mrs. Tommit d spent the past week in .Vet] City to attend the Notre s] Carolina football gam?. PRIVATE CLASSES DRAWING LESSONS Classes for younjii grown ups. Practiced? ing, Painting, Creotrn sign, Composition, W tising Art. Art Appret tion. Lessons $2.00 Ptffl th-Payable In Advana ART NEWTON Soufhport CATHOLIC INFORMATION Shake Well Before Using ! . . but listen, Jim, doesn't the Bible say, 'Whoever believeth in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life'? Then why all these other things you Catholics must believe and do?" "Because, Ben, the Bible tells us about these other things, too. How about the commandments, baptism, penance, fasting, eating the flesh of the Son of Man, and lots else? About believing only?1 well, St. James puts it rather | aptly when he' says, . . the devils also believe and tremble,', and again, 'Faith without works' is dead," (James 2:19-20). "But St. James?wasn't his de clared 'an epistle of straw' ? I "Yes, by Martin Luther. But if one man can change religion, why' not another and another; and so; it has been until today we have 400 Christian sects and each ofj these a house divided against it self. So-called Modernism has eaten into many denominations, I teaching and preaching against' the Incarnation, the Resurrection, I heaven, hell, and the immortality! of the soul, and invalidating the, j entire Bible or anypi-fl j that contradict its Iteawj cause of this chaos of jjj vvith no authority to su:?4 and is not truth, I cana<l the devout Protestant <?! day is almost forced M 1 himself to the simple crtdj cept Christ as my Sav.or it go at that. I "But we Catholics, Bel sure we have the divine P*1 tion for salvation in ""J guided traditions of tteJJ verified by the true inteirj of the God-inspired fcjl Surely we accept Him *1*1 pounded the medicine; Kf not satisfied merely to the remedy up there on and grant its efficacy.JJ| take down the bottle shake well to get all J* gredients active, and '-"M our medicinc exactly U "J on the label." I If it's anvthirg Catlx&W Catholic! ' I For further informal J P. O. Box 35 i. 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