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Brunswick County
THE STATE PORT PILOT
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VOL. NO. SIXTEEN
NO. 46
6-pages TODAY Southport, N. C., Wednesday, January, 18, 1950
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Brunswick Weed
Fanners Attend
Shallotte Meet
Extension Specialist Warns
That Farmers May Be Off
To A Bad Start By Having
Plants Too Far Advanced
This Early
PRAISES FARMERS
FOR GIVING PLANTS
Recalls That Last Year The
Growers In This County
Provided Plants For
Many Up-State To
bacco Farms
About 300 Brunswick tobacco
growers attended the meeting at
Shallotte last week to hear S. N.
Hawkes, extension tobacco spe
cialist, talk on varieties of the
week and prevention and control
of tobacco plant disease. The talk
was illustrated by the use of
slides.
For this part of the State Mr.
Hawkes recommended the broad
leaf varieties of tobacco, such as
Golden Harvest, 402, Yellow Spe
cial, etc. Although he cheerfully
admitted that Brunswick growers
knew their business and always
produced an ample supply of fine
plants, Mr. Hawkes apparently
felt that some few of them were
being a trifle early this year.
Plants are already coming up in
many beds. A few growers are
holding off until about the first of
February to play. This may be
a wise move, according to both
the extension specialist and Coun
ty Agent A. S. Knowles.
Both the county agent and ex
tension specialist referred to the
bountiful crops of tobacco plants
produced in Brunswick last year,
a crop that was so large that
the local growers were able to
make a Golden Rule gesture.
They gave away hundreds of
thousands of fine plants to grow
ers in. nearby counties, where the
plant supply failed.
Both Mr. Hawkes and County
Agent Knowles reported having
seen great numbers of the up
state fields of tobacco grown from
Brunswick plants. They said these
crops were fine. Not the least
pleasing was the statement that
all of the up-state growers who
were donated plants by growers
in Brunswick were very apprecia
tive of the neighborly gesture.
Brief Newt
Flathet
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LIONS TO MEET
The regular meeting of the
Southport Lions Club will be held
tomorrow (Thursday) at 1 o’clock
at the community building.
FIRST CHECKS
Postmaster J. B. Russ of South
port received the first two checks
for delivery to National Service
Life Insurance policy holders
Monday. They were for James E.
Stanley and Thamos C. Floyd.
OFFICE HOURS
Beginning today the weekly
schedule of office hours for the
Brunswick County Welfare De
partment at Shallotte Legion Hut
each Wednesday morning will be
resumed by Miss Frances Coble,
case worker. Those with business
to transact may meet her during
the morning, beginning at 9:30
o'clock.
FORMER DOCTOR DIES
News has been received here
of the recent death of Dr. Flet
cher Locke Brown at his home
in Jacksonville, Fla. Dr. Brown
resided in Southport and prac
ticed medicine here from 1909 to
1920. He is well remembered here
by many of the older Southport
and Brunswick county people. He
was a native of Whiteville.
RECENT DONATIONS
Including among the donations of
over a hundred books recently
made to the Southport Public
Library, were eighty volumes from
Malcolm Lewis of Southport and
Durham. Other recent donors of
books to the library have been
Miss Mae Phelps, Mrs. Jessie
Harper, Capt. J. B. Church, Mrs.
C. Ed Taylor, Mrs. Harry Weeks,
Miss Stuart Arrington and the
family of Walter Clark.
POSTMASTER ILL
—Mrs. Ida B. Parker, post master
at Shallotte, was taken, to the
James Walker Memorial Hospital
in Wilmington Monday faternoon
for an operation for appendicitis
and complications. According to
Dr. M. H. Rourk of Shallotte,
Mrs. Parker will be in the hos
pital for ten days and may be
absent from her office even long
er. The post office work is being
carried on by her assistants dur
ing her absence.
District Soil Supervisors
Pictured above are the District Supervisors of the Lower cape Pear Soil Conservation Distinct
as they planned district activities at a meeting in Wilmington. They are (left to right): H. A. Munroe
of Bladen County. J. D. Bellamy, Jr., of Brunswick, A. B. Herring of Pender, Clyde Wayne of Colum
bus, and J. H. Tinga of New Hanover. (Cut courtesy of Wilmington Star-News)
Soil Men Meet
In Wilmington
To Set Plans
James D. Bellamy Is District
Supervisor For Brunswick
County And Representative
On District Board
The county and district super
visors for the Lower Cape Pear
Soil Conservation District held an
all-day meeting in Wilmington
early this month to study the
soil conservation problems of the
district, and to revise the district
"Program and Work Plan”, ac
cording to an announcement re
leased by James Bellamy, district
supervisor from Brunswick Coun
ty
The revised “Program and
Work Plan" will replace those
developed for the district more
than five years ago when the dis
trict was first organized. Exper
! ience gained during the past five
years of operations, plus changes
in farming systems and farm
methods, made it desirable to re
vise the district plan, Bellamy said.
He also pointed out that re
vision was urgently needed at this
time to include information con
cerning New Hanover County
which was recently added to the
Lower Cape Fear District by vote
of the land owners in that coun
ty
The district is now composed
of five counties: Bladen, Bruns
wick, Columbus, New Hanover,
and Pender. The work of
the district is sponsored and guid
ed by a committee of three far
mers in each county known as
County Supervisors. The five
county chairmen make up the
Board of District Supervisors for
the district at large.
The supervisor for Brunswick
County for 1950 are: James B.
Bellamy Jr., Shallotte; G. T. Reid,
Winnabow; and Corbett Coleman,
Ash.
The five District Supervisors
are: A. B. Herring of Pender
County, chairman; H. A. Munroe
of Bladen County, vice-chairman;
Clyde Wayne of Columbus Coun
ty, secretary; J. D. Bellamy Jr.
of Brunswick County, and J. H.
Tinga of New Hanover County.
The district has an agreement
i with the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture whereby the
Soil Conservation Service furn
ishes trained personnel to assist
farmers of the district in develop
ing conservation farm plans and
applying soil conservation and im
proved land use practices.
Other agricultural agencies also
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Four Prisoners
Break Jail Here
Deputy Sheriff W. G. Bland
Spent Busy Day Monday
Recapturing Two Of The
Four Escapees
Following the escape of four
prisoners from the Brunswick jail
some time Sunday night, Deputy
Sheriff W. G. Bland had a full
day of work on his hands.
All four of the escapees were
awaiting trial before Judge W. J.
, McLamb Monday on a variety of
charges. Burris Bozeman, a fre
quent visitor to the courts, was
charged with breaking—and—en-,
tering; Bill Aldridge, said to be
from Whiteville.had a larceny
| charge against him; Pat Murphy
j Jordan of Wilmington was in
| duress for drunken driving, All
three of these are white. Escaping
with them was Hoyt McMillan
Long, a negro who was awaiting
to be tried for driving without
an operators license.
In some manner the four had
(Continued on page 2)
Superior Court Will
Convene Here Monday
Judge J. Paul Frizzelle Will
Preside Over One Week
Mixed Term With Crimi
nal Cases Predominating
NO OUTSTANDING
CASES DOCKETED
No Murder Cases Scheduled
For Trial But There Is
Considerable Interest In
Other Cases On
Docket
Judge J. Paul Frizelle of Snow
Hill is to preside at the one
week mixed term of court that
is to convene here Monday. Judge
Frizelle is presiding this week at
the term of New Hanover Super
ior court.
The session promises to be
rather interesting, despite the ab
sence of serious criminal cases.
No murder cases have been
docketed and about the worst
things on the docket are said to
be a manslaughter case growing
out of an automobile wreck, and
a case of incest in which a
prominent white resident of Wac
camaw township is the defendant.
Of such interest that it will
probably draw a crowd is the
case in which Palmer Bellamy,
Shallotte business man, has in
dicted Deputy Sheriff Gus Bland
on a charge of .assault with
deadly weapon. Since this warrant
was sworn out the officer has
indicted Mr. Bellamy, charging
him with interfering with an
officer in the discharge of his
duties. Both cases were scheduled
to be heard here in Recorder’s
court Monday and were continued
to Superior court when both de
fendants asked for a jury trial.
The criminal docket is a rather
lengthy one, according to Clerk
of Court Sam T. Bennett. Some
of the cases may be vigorously
fought and it is very likely that
little of the civil docket business
can be attended to until late in
the week.
Recorder Hears
Lengthy Docket
Judge W. J. McLamb Has
Busy Day But Cases Of
Greatest Interest Were
Bound Over To Superior
Court For Jury Trial
Monday was another busy day
for Judge W. J. McLamb and
officials of Brunswick county Re
corder's court, but the cases
which the unusually large crowd
came to hear failed to come up
for trial. These were the indict
ment of Deputy Sheriff Gus
Bland for assault and of Palmer
Bellamy and W. H. Hewett for
interfering with an officer. Both
were bound over to Superior court
for trial. The following cases were
settled:
Francis Gilmore Ross, speeding,
costs.
Daniel Smith, possession, fined
$10.00 and costs.
Palmer Bellamy and W. H. He
wett, interfering with officer, mo
tion for jury trial, bond $50.00
each.
Gus Bland, assault with deadly
weapon, motion-for jury trial,
bond$100.00.
John Ellis Ganey, speeding, fin
ed $5.00 and costs.
Isiah Brown, speeding, fined $10.
and costs.
Mable Smith Berry, reckless
operation, fined $15.00 and costs.
Bertram Berry, possession, fin
ed $10.00 and cosfs.
Ella P. Belden, possession and
parking on highway, fined $10.00
‘Continued on page isj
Unusual Catches
For Shrimp Boats
Fishing1 for menhaden, the
boats of the Southport shrimp
ing fleets have been bringing in
several tons of stingarees
daily. The ugly creatures seem
to be here in unprecedented
numbers. Their presence, fish
ermen say, points to the men
haden being very numerous.
However, during the warm
weather the menhaden swim be
tween the bottom and surface of
the water. The nets, dragged
along over the floor of the
ocean, sweep in the stingarees
and only get a relatively small
number of menhaden in the
operations. A hard freeze will
send the fish to the bottom
where the trails Will get both
stingarees land . fish.
Visiting Tug
Buys Groceries
Big Vessel Puts In Here On
Monday Afternoon For
Provisions For Trip To
Mexico For Tow
One of the big Moran tugs from i
Norfolk with a crew of 25 men i
put in at Southport Monday aft- j
ernoon to be completely provision- j
ed for a trip all of the way to;
a port somewhere down in Mexico, j
Harrelson’s Grocery got the or-1
der and while the bill was being \
filled it just about looked as if!
the store was moving its whole ’
stock. The order ran into several |
hundred dollars.
It is understood that the tug1
got a hurry order in Norfolk :
to leave for Mexico to pick up '
a tow, that these orders specified
stopping at Southport to have the j
galley provisioned and then pro- i
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\V. B. KEZIAH
Our
ROVING
j E. J. Prevatte, Southport at
torney, remarked Monday that he
.believed in giving the devil his
dues. “I went bird hunting Sat
urday with Attorney G. Butler
Thompson of Lumberton,” said
Attorney Prevatte, "and that fel
low has one of the best English
setters I ever saw. It was good
on both coveys and singles. Un
fortunately, he added, I could
not hit anything. We got a good
bag, but it was Butler’s dog and
Butler’s gun that deserves all of
the credit.”
A fine sportsman, greatly in
terested in the fishing at South
port, Morton L. Church, promin
ent resident of Charlotte, admits
that the fishing news is one of
his first reasons for subscribing
to the Pilot. Sending his renewal
this week, Mr. Church said: " You
have a paper that to me is very
interesting and I enjoy much of
it beside the fishing news, which
was the first reason for subscrib
ing.”
About this time every two
years a considerable number of
folks approach newspaper men
with the remark: “At the solicta
tion of many friends I have de
cided to run for office.” Our per
sonal experience is that thaey run
to get something for themselves.
A slightly different case may
now be shaping up. All we have
made in Brunswick county in the
past 25 years has been turned
back in an effort to advance and
do something for the good of
Brunswick county. The following
is no joke, but it left us consider
ably amazed. A substantial citizen
of Brunswick county came to us
|this week and said: "I want you
to run for the House of Represen
tatives on the platform that if
you win you will not come home
until all of the folks in Raleigh,
including Governor Kerr Scott,
learn that Brunswick county is in
North Carolina.
Miss Eloise Lancaster, a grad
uate of Southport High School,
now a student at State College,
I writes us about arrangements for
Continued On Rage Four
Conway Hearing
To Be Held On
Waccamaw Plan
Public Discussion Of Pertin
ent Facts Regarding Buck
Creek Matter Set For Feb
ruary 16 At 2 P. M.
NOTICE IS RELEASED
BY COLONEL LAMPERT
AH Those Interested In
Flood Control Aad Drain
age Proposal Are Invit
ed To Attend Meeting
A public hearing on the Wac
camaw River drainage and flood
control proposal has been set for
Thursday, Feb. 16, in the Horry
County Memorial Library Build
ing at Conway, S. C. at 2 p. m.,
according to a notice from J. B.
Lampert, lieutenant colonel, Corps
of Engineers, District Engineer.
The notice is entitled, "Notice
of Public Hearing on Buck Creek,
Horry County, S. C." Actually,
it delates to the egtire project.
The hearing is pursuant to a
resolution of the Committee on
Public Works of the House of
Representatives, adopted April 5,
1949,' as follows:
“Resolved by the Committee on
Public Works of the House of Re
presentatives, United States,
That the Board of Engineers for
Rivers and Harbors be, and is
hereby, requested to review-the
reports on Waccamaw River,
North Carolina and South Car
olina, submitted to Congress on
Dec. 10, 1941, and prior reports
with a view to determining
whether any modifications of the
recommendations contained there
in are advisable at this time
with respect to flood control and
drainage of Buck Creek and its
tributaries South Carolina.”
Colonel Lampert, in advising in
teresting parties of the hearing,
(Continued on page 2)
Chairman Gives
PMA Objectives
f ' -
S. L. Purvis Delcares Pur
pose Of Farm Program Is
To Provide Abundance
Without Wkste
Abundance without waste.
These are the double barrelled
aims of the conservation and price
support program administered
locally by the Brunswick county
PMA committee, according to S.
L. Purvis, chairman of the com
mittee.
"Conservation and price sup
ports all fit together in one pro
gram, says the chairman. Con
servation protects and improves
the use of our soil and water re
sources so that farmers can con
tinue to produce abundantly. Price
supports protect the farmer in
this abundant production and pre
vent ruinous prices when he has
been successful on the production
side.
“Acreage allotments and mar
keting quotas’’, he explains, “are
means for assuring a balanced
production—for checking the use
of land to produce surpluses and
for which there is no market.
They are means for assuring each
(Continued on page five)
Watch For This Equipment
FLOATING— Above are shown drift bottles with and without
drift anchor. Drift anchor is designed to reduce effect of wind on
movement bottles. Below are shown experimental drift cards with
instructions sealed in plastic envelopes.' If scientists find that these
cards are satisfactory for determing currents, the cards will replace
the more expensive and bulky bottles in future current studies.
Fishermen Asked To
Save Drift Bottles
Buses Pronounced
In Good Order
According to information re
leased this week from the De
partment of Motor Vehicles in
Raleigh Brunswick county had
the best record of any county
in this district for the condition
of its school bus fleet at the
last inspection.
With fifty buses in operation
only 3 defects were discovered.
Columbus county with 118 units,
had 23 defects; Robeson county
with 134 buses had 68 defects
reported; and Bladen county
with 83 buses in operation had
21 defects reported.
This was the third monthly
inspection conducted by the
State Highway Patrol.
PM A Office To
Close Saturday
County Agriculture Office
At Supply Will Not Ob
serve Office Hours On
Saturday; Commissioners
Hear Other Business
Members of the board of county
commissioners in session here
Monday gave their approval to
plans for closing the agriculture
office at Supply on Saturday. No
announcement has yet been made
concerning the date for this prac
tice to go into eriect.
Other matters disposed of by
the commissioners included relief
in the amount of $160.00 in the
tax listing of Mrs. Thomas Young
due to the fact that timber has
been cut.
Two road matters were also
considered. The board recommend
ed that a 1.5 mile stretch of road
from the old Shallotte Point road
Continued On Page Five
Brunswick County Shrimp
ers And Fishermen Asked
To Look Out For And Re
turn Any Of This Scientif
ic Paraphernalia
DATA WILL HELP
CHART CURRENTS
Investigations Continue In
Connection With Discover
ing New Fishing Grounds
Off N. C. Coast
Inhabitants of coastal counties
of North Carolina may shortly
find along the beaches drift cards
or glass bottles which contain a
past card addressed to the Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution at
Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Fishermen may find them snar
ed in their nets. These are not
bottles thrown overboard by
ocean-going vessels as a part of
the debris but are known as
“drifting bottles” and have been
released by the Fish and Wild
life Service vessel Albatross III
as she traveled from Woods Hole.
Massachusetts to a point off the
South Carolina coast in her sec
ond cruise in North Carolina
waters.
It will recalled that the Alba
tross operated out of Morehead
City for one month last spring.
Because of the information de
veloped at that time, she is now
on a second and longer cruise.
While off the North Carolina
coast now until the last of Feb
ruary most of the time will be
spent trawling in areas now re
latively _unkngwn_to the trawling
fleet. Areas between the 50 and
150-fathom lines will be studied
for trawlability and presence of
marketable quantities of fish. A
conference with a number of
trawler owners and captains, to
be held in the near future will
determine those areas which the
fishermen would like to have in
vestigated.
Hydrographic observations will I
Continued On Page Five
First Candidates
For County Jobs
Out This Week
S. B. Frink Announces Can
didacy For Nomination As
State Senator And W. D.
Evans And Ed V. Leonard
Out For Sheriff
SAM T. BENNETT
WILL RUN AGAIN
Battle Lines Forming For
One Of Most Heated Pri
mary Campaigns In Re
cent Years In Bruns
wick County
Two candidates for sheriff, one
candidate for clerk of Superior
court and one candidate for the
office of State Senator made their
anouncement this week as battle -
lines began to shape up for the
coming Democratic primary elec
tion.
Sheriff candidates are W. D.
Evans and Ed V. Leonard, Sam T.
Bennett is the candidate for clerk
of court and S. B. Frink is seek
ing nomination to the State Sen
ate.
Bennett has served for three
terms as Clerk of Court, and was
unopposed for the Democratic
nomination in 1946. He is making
the forthcoming race upon the
basis of his record as an office
holder, and has invited a close
inspection o fthe kind of service
he has rendered during the years
he has served as clerk.
Frink is a former clerk of
Superior court for Brunswick
county and has served two terms
in the Senate, during the session
of 1935 and 1939. He is a suc
cessful attorney in Southport and
has served on numerous occasions
as county attorney and as coun
sel for the board of education.
In declaring his intention to
seek nomination to the State
Senate, Frink declared that it is
hot his intention to head any
slate of candidates. “I am inter
ested in going to Raleigh to give
the people of Brunswick county
capable and honest representa
tion,” he declared.
W. D. Evans, well known Wac
camaw township-man who served
four years as a rural policeman
and four years more as a de
puty sheriff, definitely committed
himself Saturday to make the
1950 race for sheriff of Bruns
wick county. His formal announce
ment appears in this issue of
The Pilot.
In stating that he is com
ing before the democratic men
and women as a candidate, Mr.
Evans added that he was not
lined up with any ring, clique
or faction. He is runhing, he
said, purely on his record as a
citizen of Brunswick county and
as a law enforcement officer while
serving as a deputy sheriff and
later as a rural policeman. He
says he will appreciate an ^i
vestigation of that record and the
vote and support of the men and
women who are looking for a fair
administration of the law.
Leonard is a former deputy
sheriff for Brunswick county, for
mer Chief of Police for Carolina
Beach and former Chief of Police
for Southport. This gives him a
long record as a law enforcement
officer, and he contends that he
has gained valuable experience
which will make it possible for
him to fulfill every duty of the
office of Sheriff of Brunswick
county.
He says that he is willing to
have his friends judge him on the
basis of his record, and is seek
ing support in the coming
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Tide Table
Following Is the tide table
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, January 19,
8:54 A. M. 2:21 A. M.
9:06 P. M. 3:01 P. M.
Friday, January 20,
9:36 A. M. 3:06 A. M.
9:50 P. M. 3:42 p. Mt
Saturday, January 21,
10:16 A. M. 3:48 A. M.
10:33 P. M. 4:21 P. M.
Sunday, January 22,
10:54 A. M. 4:31 A. M.
11:13 P. M. 5:01 p. M.
Monday, January 23,
11:32 A. M. 5:14 a. M.
11:55 P. M. 5:41 p. >i.
Tuesday, January 24,
0:00 A. M. 5:59 A. M.
12:11 P. M. 6:23 P. M.
Wednesday, January 25,
0:40 A. M. 6:48 A. M.
12:53 P. M. 7:08 P. Mb