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The State Port Pilot Southport, N. G. Published Every Wednesday JAMES M. HARPER, JR. Editor Entered as second-class matter April 20, 1028, at the Post Office at Southport, N. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR .$1.50 SIX MONTHS . 1.00 THREE MONTHS .75 Wednesday, January 11, 1950 Now Is The Time “ . . . for all good men to come to the aid of their country.” That is the way this tried and true test line of typewriting students goes; and it is as good way as we can think of to com plete the thought of this editorial com ment. Because now is the time for all good citizens to give thought to problems re lating to the schools of Brunswick coun ty. This is January of election year, and while there have been no formal announ cements made by any candidate for any office, soon these declarations of intent will be forthcoming. We have the following suggestions to make concerning selection of the men in to whose hands will be trusted the ad ministration of our public schools. Let the Parent-Teacher Association or other interested school patrons decide on one or more candidates whom they would like to see serve on the Brunswick County Board of Education, then set out to get these men or women to run for a prefer ential vote in the May Primary Election. Once these acceptable candidates have agreed to run for office, it should be the primary concern of everyone who is in terested in the schools to back them to the limit and help to place upon them the stamp of approval of their neighbors and fellow patrons. We believe that no man who is a can didate for the House of Representatives or the State Senate will refuse to agree to name to the board of education the can didate receiving the highest vote in the Primary Election. The best way to be sure of this is to ask him, and once a can didate has gone on record as being wil ling to abide by the will of the voters, we think that he will live up to his promise. At any rate, no good citizen should be wiling to vote for a man in whom this much confidence cannot be plac< ' with safety. In seeking commitments from candi dates for the legislative offices, we sug gest that a request be made for him to agree to name the candidate who receiv es the greatest number of votes in his home school district. If this plan is fol lowed, then local citizens can have a more intimate control over the question of who shall represent them in school matters. Poor Sportsmanship We went out to the local gymnasium Thursday night to see the basketball games between Southport and Shallotte. We thoroughly enjoyed the games, but before the evening was over we were shamed by the poor sportsmanship of the local rooting section. The girls game was a humdinger, and after Shallotte had pulled away to what appeared to be a commanding lead, Southport whittled away at it until no more than two points separated the teams in the final two minutes of play. In a game this close a foul shot might easily provide the deciding margin of victory, and good sportsmanship pres cribes complete silence on the part of the spectators while free throws are being tried. We are ashamed of the fact that our visitors were accorded no such cour tesy Thursday night.__ Sometimes this booing can boomerang against the team whose cause the rabid rooters seek to encourage. About twenty years ago in one of the first sessions of the Southern Conference Basketball Tournament in Raleigh we saw the re feree give South Carolina an extra foul shot when fans refused to remain silent while a player from that team attempted a free throw. The point was good, the contest went into double overtime and South Carolina won the ball game. Whether or not your exhibition of poor sportsmanship ever costs your team a victory, the outcome of no basketball game to be played in Brunswick county this year is worth forgetting the funda mental principles of fair play. The Uinstead Decision The decision of William B. Umstead, former United States Senator from North Carolina, not to oppose Dr. Frank P. Graham in the primary this year is a big disappointment to many of those who had looked to him for leadership. There j is no doubt he would have made a power ful candidate. It was Mr. Umstead’s misfortune to come up for election against that late J. M. Broughten who was one of the most powerful vote-getters of recent years. That defeat, together with his health, may have been the deciding fac tor. Whether he could have defeated Dr. Graham will remain in the category of conjecture. But that Mr. Umstead has been an able statesman is a matter of his tory. Federal Aid Teachers in the Brunswick County School System recently reiterated their appeal for federal aid to education but stipulated that such aid was favored with the condition that control of educa tional policies should remain in the hands of the states. The wisdom of this position is readily apparent. Federal aid with such strings as now surround housing and slum clearance projects would serve no useful purpose in the very states where the poorest educational opportunities can be afforded. The best argument for federal aid to education is the situation in Mississippi. Although a greater portion of Mississi ppi’s productive wealth is spent for edu cation in that state than in any other state, Mississippi’s children are provided a minimum of opportunity for educa tional development. Thus, as long as this condition prevails, it can only be said that children in Mississippi made a great mistake by being born there. When a state does the maximum it can afford, then there should be federal aid. Federal aid, in our opinion, is desir able only for public schools. There should be no federal aid for private and church schools, or for any school run by any church denomination. RALEIGH ROUNDUP By Eula Nixon Greenwood . . . Note to Gov. Scott: Somebody is taking collards out of the Women’s Prison garden and giving them to neighbors in Raleigh . . . This has been going on for quite a while now, but the employee’s stolen collards are winning him no friends . . . They are literally lousy . . . . . . Raleigh is setting a standard for the entire nation in its overall sales and business activity. It has been written up in Sales Man agement, Business Week, and Forbes, the busi nessman’s magazine, for keeping its retail sales volume ahead of 1948. Forbes in a recent issue says that only three cities in the U. S. showed a percentage gain over last year. They were: Albany, Ga., 7 per cent; New York City, 1 per cent; and Raleigh, 10 per cent over last year . . . . . . Raleigh employees of the Federal Land Bank report that loans to farmers are picking up sharply because of the boll weevil damage in the cotton areas . . . and general leveling off on farm front. . . . The State will get its new Highway Building underway very shortly now, but com plaints about a State-operated cafeteria have died down . . . Mum is the word right now. P. S. The State likely will not run a cafeteria, but will provide a floor for one which will be operated privately . . . During a lull in the Dixie Basketball Classic games here, the man on the public address system announced: “Will Raymond Hair please report to the press table?” The joke was on C. A. Dillon, Jr., son of the prominent merchant and leading Raleigh socialite, who was doing the announcing. He was so absorbed with the games that he did not realize he was casually asking for the ap pearance of a man being hunted throughout the nation. It was the laugh-of-the-week in Raleigh. . . . State employees are now on five-day work week . . . Gov. Scott may come up with a surprise appointment early this spring . . . The Jackson Day Dinner here the latter part of this month is expected to be the best in sev eral years because of North Carolina's Increas ing prominence in Washington . . . So, if you are going to be here, get your reservations at your favorite hotel now . . . . . . Aside to political candidates: filing time for candidates for solicitor, judge all State of fices, U. S. Senate and Congress closes at noon on March 18; and for those seeking to come to Raleigh for the 1951 General Assembly or to hold a county office or city office, at 6 p. m. on April 15. DOING WELL . . . Charlie Johnson, who lost out to Kerr Scott in the gubernatorial shebang 18 months ago, is now selling stocks and bonds. Reports are that he is making slightly more in this business than he would have in the Governor’s chair. Roving Reporter (Continued from sage one) ours failed in that. Crawford Rourk, veterans ser vice officer, says that he has caught ten rockfish this year. Some of them, illustrating by holding his hands wide apart, were very big. Unfortunately, we did not see any of them and Crawford neglected to produce other witnesses than himself. This is the season of the year when former postmaster L. T. Yakell wishes himself back at Southport more than ever. The building of the River Road over Fiddlers Drain makes it possible to catch millions of minnows. The goggle eyes are the biggest we have ever known them to be and we have never known the large mouth bass to be so plentiful. All this is what that fellow gets for moving away from Southport. Writing from the Navy Air Field near Seattle, Washington, and inclosing a clipping of Rip ley’s Believe it or not Indian Trail tree at Southport, Frante Mollycheck: “It seems that no matter where I go I run across something about Southport.” Mollycheck is now a radio man on a Navy plane. Although their relatively small! size has caused them to look j less formidable than any team they have played this year, the boys of the Brunswick Training school have consistently demons trated that they are right there with what it takes to make a good basketball team. Their flashy floor work, accuracy at the basket and good guarding combines to roll them up points while holding their opponents down. Their 51 to 5 point win against the Mt. Olive school of Whlteville Thursday night re flects credit on Coach Johnson and themselves. We have always thought that the Brunswick growers who planted their seed beds the first week in January were very early birds. They now seem to have competiters with another crop. Last week the Sheppard boys from Shiloh, N. J., planted enough bell pepper seed to secure about a million plants. They will be ready to set out in the open field by the first of April. Although some varieties bloom right through the winter, recent warm weather has been bringing out a lot of camellia blossoms that are not supposed to be in bloom until much later in the year. Scores of bushes at South port have been blooming at Southport and it is understood that at Orton Plantation the un seasonable activity has extended to thousands of plants. Reports of unusually fine catch- i es of large goggle eyes have been coming in from Town Creek, but fishing for them is said to be dif ferent from the course followed in the spring and summer. Deep holes have to be hunted out and fishing in such spots has to be done near the bottom. Usually these fish are caught in the spring with hooks adjusted to only a moderate depth. In the very late summer afternoons they will strike from on the surface. Among the many reactions to the publication of the picture of the Indian Trail Tree on the lawn of Mrs. E. H. Cranmer, we have received a letter from Mrs. Ed ward Gates of East St. Louis, 111., asking for post card pictures of the tree if they are available. She stated he was a collector of post cards and sent payment for all we were able to send her. Rev. H. M. Baker tells us of an advertisement in the State Port Pilot bringing the quickest sort of results. Last week just at the deadline for advertising copy Mrs. Thelma Davis brought in copy for a reader advertise ment, seeking the return of a highly prized Siamese cat. That was Tuesday afternoon. The paper was published Wednesday and dis tributed that night. The next af ternoon after his return from school Glenn Stanley, son of Mr, and Mrs. Goldie Stanley who live 3 miles from town, was sitting on the back porch of the Stanley home reading the paper. He had just read the advertisement about the lost cat and looked up to see the animal approaching the house from a thicket. He promptly brought it back to Mrs. Davis. The 22 room Surf Inn destroy ed by fire at Wrightsville Beach Friday was owned by Mr. and Mrs. Jack Lane. Mrs. Lane is the youngest daughter of Mrs. Helen Bragaw of Southport. The loss is the destruction of the Inn is estimated to be in the neighbor hood of $20,000. Going around the county some this week we noticed quite a number of tobacco beds with the seed apparently already planted. Alton Bennett, who lives between Supply and Bolivia seemed to have planted for the biggest acre age of any of the places noted. Formerly of Waccamaw township Mr. Bennett is a fine tobacco farmer. We appear to have demoted a Southport boy from his proper rank in the Army. A couple of weeks ago we told of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Hubbard of Southport getting a trans-atlantic telephone call from the family of their son, “Sgt.” G. E. Hubbard, Jr., who is stationed in Germany. The young Army man who enlisted before the war started has been a War rant Officer for several years. A plumbing firm said to be planning to locate here and for whom a new home is starting up near Hart’s Grill, is said to al ready have six contracts for in stalling plumbing in new horpes that are to be built at Long Beach right away. They are quot ed as saying that they expect to get many more such jobs here this year. January, usually much the dul lest month of the year, has start ed off as what many residents call the most active month in 25 years. Everybody is at work at something or other. Building new homes and repairing old ones appears to be giving employment to many carpenters and skilled and unskilled workers from out of town in addition to local men. Seeing in it a possible means of being taken on more fishing trips with us, our friend Sam Bennett, clerk of the superior court, has learned to spell on his fingers. He gives promise of be coming better at that than he is at fishing. Anyhow, he is very handy with the outboard motor and things really team up well as we can catch enough fish for both. Patrolmen C. M. Cumming and J. C. Taylor, who swore off from smoking as their New Year re solution had resumed the habit Monday. Apparently they had de cided that the way to resume was to resume. As a part of the resolution, the one who broke it was to have paid the other $6.00. When they were seen Monday each of them claimed that the other started smoking first. Squire Coy FormyDuval, the sage of Waccamaw was in town Monday with his accustomed toothbrush. Seeing him reminded us that in our recent census of Brunswick county men who sport mustaches we overlooked him. He has as good a mustache as any other man. Having seen him with out this facial ornament once or twice in the past, we don’t blame him for wearing it. The installation of traffic lights requiring motorists to come to a full stop at the intersection between the bus station and The Pilot office seems to be working out to good purpose. Most mot orists have been heeding it and proceeding only on the green light as is required. Chief of Police Jack Hickman said this week that he was allowing a week for the motorists to get used to it. Some time this week he will be gin citing all who fail to stop when the red is against them. “Uncle” John Allen Hewett, highly respected and industrious negro of Lockwoods Folly town ship, will be 90 years old on the 14th of the coming August. He was born August 14, 1859. H. F. Hewett, one of Uncle John's white neighbors, tells us that the old gentlemen is highly respected by his white and colored neighbors. He is still in good health and is very active, plowing, hoeing and doing all other chores on his own neat farm. He is said to have a great many descendants. The average motorist probably does not know it, but the fact remains that all cars of highway patrolmen are equipped with speedometers that are tested frequently and certified to be exact. The speed of all motorists passing these cars can readily be checked, as can the speed of cars in front. According to Patrolman C. J. Pierce of Shallotte, 55 miles per hour calls for the citation of any driver. However, the most frequent citations show drivers as going from 60 to 75 miles per hour. Penalties will be added to all unpaid 1949 taxes after February 2nd. In the case of the larger tax payers this penalty runs to a sizable bit. In all cases it is ROYSTER Field Tested Fertilizers Plant Bed Stock And General Crop Fer ilizer Now On Hand. Let us talk over your fertilizer needs with you. ^ oil’ll find it pays to use the best. COLUMBUS TRADING CO. Shallotte, N. C. Not Exactly News While she and her husband were here for the Christmas holidays Margaret Aldredge learned to her sorrow that a good fireman never can resist the sound of a fire alarm. The family was all dressed up and getting ready to sit down for Sunday dinner when the siren sound ed. Dick Rankin bounced up and was off to the fire. His knowledge and experience gained as a member of the fire department of Washington, D. C. helped prevent a dangerous conflagration, but in the process Dick did a through job of ruining his Sunday clothes. While standing around a duck pond Satur day afternoon James Carr and Gus McNeill heard a flapping about in the branches of a tree under which they were hiding. Neither thought much about it until a moment later when they saw a wild turkey rapidly drawing out of range . . . Ad post-holiday notes: Mrs. Anna Thompson not only has a feeling for the overworked postoffice employees during their Christmas rush, she prepares hot chocolate and sandwiches for them for a between-meal snack. Kathleen Clemmons, who played a bang-up guard for the fine Shallotte girls team, Is the young- lady we depend on for the "Pirate Log,” Shallotte school news column, each week . . . We have enjoyed reading our autographed copy of "On A Clipper Trip Around The World”, an interesting and informal report of her personal experiences written in the inimitable style of Miss Beatrice Cobb, personnel secretary of the North Carolina Press Association . . . Five new homes are in the process of construction ip Southport. "Top O' The Morning”, starring that well known team of Bing Crosby and BaiVy Fitz Gerald, plays Thursday and Friday at the Amuzu, thus giving Manager B. L. Furpless another beat in the matter of playing new pictures before some of the bigger theatres in the cities . . . When they went to Raleigh last week as a part of a delegation seeking tele phone facilities for Shallotte and surrounding territory E. D. Bi3hop and Odell Williamson literally made a flying trip. They took off a couple of hours after other members of their party left Shallotte, then met them at an air port just this side of the capitol. Williamson, who was an airal artillary spotter during the late World War, was the pilot. worth saving1. For the convenience ] of folks who cannot well make a trip to town to pay their taxes, Edward Redwine, the collector, will visit 26 central points in the county with the tax books next week. As usual we will make these rounds with him. For the past few years, part of which time now automobiles could not be delivered for love or money, dealers paid the usual ap propriation for advertising. Only the Chevrolet folks continued steadily with their newspaper ad vertising and are now using the papers more than ever. It is noteworthy that during recent weeks, and since they were able to produce and deliver cars, a bout all of the other manufactur ers of automobiles are swinging back around to the tried and true newspaper advertising. The winter small grain and legume crop throughout the coun ty is said to be looking excep tionally well. Just a few years ago little attention was paid to such crops, especially to legumes. Now the practice of winter crops is becoming widesperad and the communities where such cr ops are grown usually show up with fer tile lands and prosperous farmers. On many farms in Brunswick there is a lack of sufficent hum us and nitrogen. Winter crops will make up for this deficiency to a large extent. For our sandy lands there is probably no better soil enriching crop than a sum mer growth of crotalaria to be plowed under in the fall. The rank top growth provides humus and the roots are wonderful gath erers of nitrogen. In some places in Brunswick wild asparagus has gained a foot hold and grows luxuriantly, pro viding a tempting1 dish for those who care to seek out the plants. So far as we know, no attempt has ever been made to grow the garden or truck variety of as paragus. That is, no attempt was made until the past year. Last Summer Everett H. Sheppard sowed about a quarter of an acre of land on his farm on the River Road in asparagus seed. From this he has secured hundreds of i rooted plants an dis now setting them out both here and on his farm in New Jersey. H. O. Peterson of Northwest township, former county commis sioner, is now devoting himself to I his sawmill business and farm i ing. In town Friday he said that | it was the expectation that the | four mile stretch of road from | near his home to Acme will be j built in February. The road goes ifrom Leland to Phoenix, thence j to Acme. i We are missing Jake Tinga, j veterans teacher at the Bolivia , school. He resigned the first of I the year to go with his brother, a truck grower at Castle Hayne. Jake, very much interested in dairy cows and other angles of farming, had a good eye for news. He never missed a chance of sending us something relative to what his students were doing. This is something that other such teachers in the county should take up. It will encourage both their own students and the public in general. John B. Ward is probably the nearest competitor of Rice Gwynn of Longwood for extensive farm ing in this county. During the past few years Mr. Ward has been showing his faith in Bruns wick farm lands by buying seven small farms in different sections of the county. On these farms he has a total tobacco quota of 40-acres and the' usual run of other crops. He recently bought the small Dickie McKeithan farm near Bethel church. The efforts of the Volunteer Fire Department to buy equip ment for fighting gas fires on boats, cars and where such equip ment is needed, is something that should be quickly recognized. Be- ; cause of their use of gas and oils, boat owners and filling station operators should be es- j pecially interested in helping to get the gas fire fighting equip ment. But the boys also need much new hose that will stand the force of the booster. It is a matter in which all can join in donating. Former County Agent J. E. Dodson, taking it rather easy on his faupi in Waccamaw township since his retirement, said Satur day that the farmers in his sec tion have a good crop of legumes and small grain. During his long service with the county Mr. Dod son’s legs and feet sort of gave out on him. His friends through out the county will be glad to know that he now feels he is un dergoing improvement. Luther Holden of Holden Beach said Saturday that he was ex pecting right much building to get underway at Holden Beach in the near future. A lot of the up-state owners of porperty at the beach have been making pre parations for the construction of homes this year. Folks who know that popular resort center are confident that 1950 will be a banner year. WOMAN’S CLUB SEEKS (Continued From fage One) been estimated that there are around twenty undiscovered cases of tuberculosis in the county. This is based on experience elsewhere and on the number of cases in the county at the present time. If these cases can be diagnosed early, cure can be more easily effected with benefit to the pat ients themselves and at a con siderable saving to the county. The mass X-ray mobile unit has been eagerly sought by other counties and the general opinion is that it is doing a great deal of good in detecting undiscovered cases and also in educating the people concerning tuberculosis. IT HAPPENS AT MIDNIGHT! 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