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.
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Wednesday, January 25, 1950
Make It Personal
This week when you are asked to
make your contribution to the March of
Dimes, we urge you not to consider the
national scope of this worthwhile organ
ization, nor the untold good it does for
thousands of boys and girls throughout
the land who, but for its efforts, would
go through life as helpless cripples.
Just think for a moment what it means
to you to have the resources of the Nati
onal Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
' standing between you and your own
child, grandchild, niece or nephew. In
other words, be perfectly selfish about it
for a moment and consider what it means
to you and to those you hold most dear.
Then dig down and make your gift.
| On The Job
We go along taking the U. S. Coast
Gua>rd for Granted until an emergency
' arises, then the real value of these men
is underscored for our benefit.
Like Saturday, when three upstate
visitors got into trouble at Lockwoods
Folly inlet while on a pleasure cruise in
: their 14-foot open boat. There was noth
; ing about their adventure to match some
of the daring deeds of this honored ser
vice, but the fact remains that the pro
mpt, efficient action on the part of the
Coast Guard never was more welcomed
than when they showed up in the black
darkness to take the stranded trio off
the last point of land before they were
swept out into the open sea.
The greatest service rendered by the
, Coast Guard is to help prevent accidents,
but when emergencies arise as sometimes
they do is good to know that we have the
»; men and equipment of Oak Island and
| the Eighty-Three Footer standing by to
prevent loss of life and property.
;
Good Record
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If you cannot be perfect, then be the
P best.
And that is just what the staff at the
Brunswick county garage is being. For
the second straight month the record for
defects of schools buses has been better
for this county than for any other county
in the district. The inspections are being
made by qualified members of the State
Highway Patrol, who are strictly im
partial ; so all findings are based upon
fact.
Here is a point upon which too much
emphasis cannot be placed, and we are
proud of the record that the county
mechanics have made with the school
bus fleet.
Jury Service
We wish that hundreds of our citizens
could have heard Judge J. Paul Frizzelle
Monday morning as he delivered his
charge to the members of the Grand
Jury selected to serve during the next
twelve months.
His chief objective was to impress the
men with the honor of being selected for
jury service. This is a duty which many
of our people have come to dread and to
avoid w:ith great skil and determination.
Those who shy away from a call to the
jury should have heard Judge Frizzelle
as he explained that the service of com
petent, intelligent juriors is the very
foundation stone of our law.
We frequently hear good and respect
ed men crying about the lack of respect
for law and order, the breaking down
of our standards of justice and the lack
of reverence for our courts. Well, here
may be one of the fundamental reasons,
this unwillingness on the part of the av
erage businessman to take time out from
his own enterprise to lend his efforts to
the task of insuring good government.
A Public Duty
Our government in the past twenty
years has mushroomed into the most
huge and complicated enterprise on
earth. Methods and procedures adequate
to its management two decades ago to
day are hopelessly obsolete.
Posterity may well record that one of
the greatest events in American history
occurred when Congress, in recognition
of these facts, created, by unanimous ac
tion the Commission on Organization of
the Executive Branch of the Government,
under the chairmanship of former Presi
dent Herbert Hoover.
For if this distinguished commission’s
monumental report is adopted, the dis
astrous course of bewildered spending by1
the Executive Branch, due to unwieldy
structure and confused administration,
can be arrested and an annual saving of
upwards of $3 billions effected.
The Hoover Commission, as it is fami
liarly known, was composed of six Demo
crats and six Republicans. In Mr. Hoov
er’s words, the members were “twelve
toughminded men of different political
faiths and ideologies.”
Their assignment was as tough. It was
to explore the whole field of governmen
tal activities and to recommend reforms
that would make government as efficient
and effective as humanly possible.
On the basis of the investigations of re
search task forces composed of experts
in every phase of governmental activity,
the Hoover Commission shaped its final
Report which is an explicit blueprint for
government reforms vital t# the national
economy.
The report will remain o,nIy a 'docs*
ment unless, through 'the vigorous Sti>p
port of public opinion, it can be written
into our laws by action of Congress.
It is the plain duty of citizens every
where, regardless of their affiliations
with any group or organization, to sup
port sound government. There is and
there should be no plea for curtailment
of essential services, but there should be
an appeal for an end to waste in govern
ment.
RALEIGH ROUNDUP
By Eula Nixon Greenwood
WORTH REMEMBERING ... As the 7o6,
000 Baptists of North Carolina worry and fret
and quarrel over whether to accept the General
Board’s ruling and take that $700,000 grant
from the State and Federal Gov’ts for the Bap
tist Hospital in Winston-Salem, here is some
thing they should consider:
Accepting this grant from Uncle Sam and
N. C. should not interfere too much with the
separation-of-church-and-state doctrine. Why?
Because the Baptist Church—and all other
churches—are already getting millions and mil
lions of dollars a year from local, State, and
Federal government. How? Through the exemp
tion of church property from taxation! If the
Baptists can accept these millions from the
backdoor, what is wrong with accepting a few
hundred thousand from the front? You’re wel
come.
OFF THE Cuff . . . Remember 25 years ago
right along now when farmers were having a
fuss over the tobacco co-«p? On Jan. 13, 1925,
there was a terrific fuss at Yanceyville as far
mers swarmed in asking for a financial state
ment from the Cooperative Association and
payment for two crops of tobacco . . .
. . . The Advisory Committee on the Chaii of
Retailing in process of establishment at the
University Is composed of E. S. Spainhour, El
kin; J. Norman Black, Greensboro; James A.
Graham, Red Springs; John M. Carroll, Ashe
ville, Frank L. McCabe, Burlington; James H.
Clark, Elizabethtown; Judson H. Blount, Greep
ville; Clyde R. Greene, Boone; Brevard R.
Hoover, Winston-Salem; Karl G. Hudson, Ral
eigh; Jacob Winstead, Rocky Mount; and Chair
man Louis Lipinsky, Asheville. . . .
. . . Inside reports from the Wake Forest
campus are taht cases against two of the foot
ballers accused of cheating may be reopened . .
and that several discrepancies In Accused Mur
derer Raymond Hair’s story told Los Angeles
detectives will develope in later hearings . . .
ANOTHER SMATHERS . . . Another North
Carolina Smathers is becoming prominent in
politics. This one, Rep. George Smathers, Flo
rida Democrat, is a native of Waynesville. The
other one served one term as senator from New
Jersey, and prior to that was mayor of Atlantic
City. He was from the Asheville-Waynesville
environs. If memory serves correctly, he is
deceased . . . politically, if not otherwise.
But this young Smathers seems very ■Mch
alive. At any rate, he is going to oppos# Sen.
Claude Pepper, New Dealer and Fair Dealer of
Florida. A lot of people regard tomatoe-faced
Claude as a communist, or at least GJbmmuni
stically inclined.
The Miami Congressman says "there are to
day in the U. S. more Communists than there
were In Russia at the time of the Communist
Revolution.”
He will have to go some to oust Sen. Claude
Pepper, but may be able to turn the trick.
POLITICAL MOVES . . . Opponents to Sen.
Frank Graham are still looking around for
somebody to run against him, but so far the
search has been fruitless . . . Talk about Ag.
Commissioner L. Y. (Stag) Ballentine’s making
the race is not taken seriously here by anybody,
including Commissioner Ballentine himself, who
is Injecting new life daily into the N. C. Agri
culture Department.
Roving Reporter
(Continued from cage one)
ugh the day. All layers, the birds
are kept in two separate houses,
one of these being 60 x 22 feet.
Mrs. Ethel Hinson of near Hol
den Beach tells us that Cecil
Thompson of Weilford, S. C., was
visiting in that community Sun
day. He came on to Southport
with friends and seeing the old
Whittlers Bench, he asked what
it was. When told he got out his
knife and straightway became one
of the thousands of whittlers who
have whittled at Whittlers Bench.
We expect that E. V. Evans of
Leland and T. M. Hickman of
Hickmans Crossroads have been
doing business at the same stands
longer than anybody else in
Brunswick. Both are in buildings
that were constructed around 50
years ago. They started in these
places and are still going strong.
For many years the late J. L.
Babson of Waccamaw township
conducted a fertilizer business at
Freeland. Since his death a year
or more ago the business has been
taken over by his son, Lester
Babson, on the Kingtown Road.
Mr. Babson has recently built a
nice warehouse for storage. With
expectations of a fertilizer short
age this year, Mr. Babson and
other dealers are advising farm
ers to place their orders early.
The small grain and winter le
gume crops continued to look ex
ceptionally good. Among farmers
recently remarking on the excel
lence of this crop have been Rice
Gywnn of Longwood, J. E. Dod
son of Freeland, County Agent A.
S. Knowles and many others. Be
ing all over every township last
week, we can heartily agree with
them.
Postmaster Roland Simmons of
Ash appears to be a big believer
in soy beans. In his store in
which the office is located the
other day we noticed something
like a hundred bushels of soy
bean seed that he had harvested
and sacked, waiting for some oth
er soy bean grower to come a
long.
Around at Shallotte Village
Point last week Chandler Rourk
had just dropped by to engage in
a political argument with Cap
tain and Mrs. J. V. Chadwick,
although both of them are for
the same candidates as he is. At
Freeland, Exum, Ash, Longwood,
Grisscttown, Hickman’s Cross
roads, there was plenty of politi
cal talk.
Charles Harvel of Leland re
minded us this week that North
west township is in Brunswick^
county. We are right. glad to
hear that and hope he will con
tinue to take interest in the fact.
At his store at Hickman?
Crossroads Judge Willie Joe Mi
Lamb is extrelling the virtue of
treated vs untreated fence posts.
A sign in his yard is supported
by a treated and an untreated
post. The sign gives the informa
tion that the untreated pine post
will last about 7 years and the
treated one at least 30 years.
Just to show that we have had
very little winter weather this
year, it may be said that at Ash
last week we saw Garland Long,
a carpenter, still wearing his last1
summers Panama straw hat. The
thing looked like he had been
wearing it every day since he
bought it.
J. O. Grissett of Grissettown
seems to us to be one of the most
consistent builders of his com
munity. He is always adding to
his repair shop and filling station
and doing much of the work him
self whenever he can snatch a
few minutes from regular chores.
By planting palmettoes in front
of their home Mr. and Mrs. Pea
rce Cranmer have started some
thing that will some day be an
object of much interest to tourists
a few palmettos are on the coast
above Southport where the tour
ists can see them. Such trees
growing along the road here will
really stamp this section as the
beginning of the Carolina low
country.
All over the county it is to be
noticed where small fires have
occured in the woods. It appeared
that only small areas were burn
ed over, the average fire covering
perhaps not more than two acres.
The burned over areas remind
one that the windy and really
dangerous period of the year is
now near. Some of the recent
small fires could have been real
ly destructive during the windy
days of February, March and
April. This Is the dangerous per
iod when general cooperation
should exist in preventing the
start of forest fires and in fight
ing them when they start.
Separately picking lists of
what they believe to be the ten
prettiest places in North Caro
lina, Carl Goerch of the State
Magazine and Bill Sharpe of the
Carolina Light and Power Com
pany, formerly head of the State
News Bureau, both picked Orton
Plantation here in Brunswick
county as one of their ten. It :s
also interesting that in compiling
their lists of ten, Orton was sec
ond in both cases. Rean Mount
ain in the western part of the
State took first.
Except for several short stops
while he was filling his appoint
ments, we rode around for 56
hours with Tax Collector Edward
Redwine last week. We both get
pretty darned tired of each oth
ers company—P. S.: We told the
foregoing to a lot of folks who
■ were too dumb to see anything
I else funny enough to laugh a
! bout.
J. A. Elmore, Chevrolet man of
; Bolivia, was telling us this week
j that he was at McMillan and
Cameron’s in Wilmington Satur
day morning and two cars of
tourists were asking how to get
| down the River Road in Bruns
| wick to see the historical spots
and other places of interest. Mr.
Eimore thinks that Southport and
Brunswick will come in for a lot
of travel with the completition
of the River Road. Through truck
ing and tourists who are in a
hurry will not use it, but the
hundreds who are interested in
historical and well known places
will use it. “Some of them,” said
Mr. Elmore, “will come back to
stay”.
In business at Bolivia for 35
years, N. B. (Poley) Leonard,
feels he is getting in feeble heal
th and that he should stop work.
Accordingly, he plans to retire
as soon as he can find someone
to rent or lease his store and the
comfortable living quarters at
tached to. Somehow, Bolivia will
not seem the same when Poley
retires' from business.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wallace,
owners of one of the fine homes
at Long Beach, came in Saturday
for the week-end and to make
plans for their return to the
beach in the early spring. Mr.
Wallace is very enthusiastic at
all of the prospects for Long
Beach and around Southport. He
thinks that this year will see this
area making much the greatest
growth that it has had in any
previous several year period.
From talking with an interest
ed party this week, we will not be
surprised if a very popular make
of automobile establishes an a
gency in Southport this year. In
fact, there are representatives of
more than one make of car very
much interested. It is a very good
bet that before the end of sum
mer Southport folks will not have
to go outside of town to purchase
their favorite business and fami
ly cars.
During the past week the own
ers of the very representative
business house in different towns
have broached us with inquiri
es as to the possibilities for stor
es with stock such as they carry
at Southport. We were able to
tell them-.what we honestly feel:
^"or, the, first time In yfeats, a
Result of present and assured fut
ure development, there _ are good
openings at Southport for vari
ous forms of progressive stores.
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Although he is now with the
Carolina Light and Power Com
pany with much bigger pay than
he received as director of the
State >Jews Bureau, Bill Sharpe
has never lost his interest in
Brunswick county. Writing us
this week he enclosed copies of
letters he had written interested
parties, relative to things here in
Brunswick. When the State News
Bureau was first established, with
Bill In charge, we believe we
were one: of the very first agen
cies that began cooperating with
him.
Women and girls wearing shorts
have not' been unusual sights this
month. Monday and at least two
days last week folks thus garbed
could be seen by the dozens. We
noticed one young lady arrayed
in shorts and washing her car.
During this operation she got her
self soaking wet, apparently with
out any discomfort in the Jan
uary weather.
One of the first things that
District Solicitor Clifton Moore
asked us Monday was, “What
kind of bait are you using now?”
We told him, "Mostly live min
nows, worms are good, too. We
will catch the minnows for you
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COLUMBUS TRADING CO.
Shallotte, N. C.
The outstanding addition to the business sec
tion of Southport during the past year was the
erection of a modern dental office by Dr. R.
C. Daniel on Howe street. Dr. Ray deserves full
credit for that; but one of the things that mak
es it most attractive is the way the grounds
about the building are kept, currently featuring
a pretty stand of winter grass. Credit for this
goes to Mr. Willie FulUvood, Who has adopted
the project during his spare time from his
store . . . Rhett street, following the old W. B.
& S. railroad track, is one of the most natural
ly beautiful streets in Southport.
Last week we saw a news picture of the fish
ing fleet at Morehead City. Two of the three
boats shown were the Royal Flush and the
Penny of Southport. A third Southport boat,
the Rosalina, was mentioned in the cutlines . .
The palmettos planted during the past week in
front of the Pearce Cranmer residence has added
an interesting touch to Moore street and mak
es us wonder why more of those trees have not
been set out about homes in Southport.
Baxter Williams, newly appointed member
of the local school committee at Waccamaw, is
a talented man when it comes to training bird
dogs . . . This may sound like a funny sug
gestion for a community that coudn’t even keep
up two clay tennis courts, but with the pros
pect of many summer visitors at Ft. Caswell,
plus the normal summer colony at the Bruns
wick beaches there would seem to be a good
opportunity for the operation of a nine-hole
golf course somewhere nearby.
“Big Jack,” one of the last Wallace Beery
pictures, is the feature Monday and Tuesday at
the Amuzu . . . Tip to his fishing friends: The
Rovin’ Reporter has a pair of knee-length rub
ber boots, fireman-red, that undoubtedly will
become a conspicuous part of his fishing re
galia. If you want to be in style, heed this hint
in fishermen’s fashions . . . Long Beach visit
ors will be surprises the next time they see
the change that has taken place in the lay of
the land to the left of the bridge at the inland
waterway.
It was no hard matter to hear a political
discussion going on among the crowd here for
court Monday . .. Capt. and Mrs. J. I. Davis
not only have the largest camellia bush in
Southport, but they have a splendid collection
of young plants in their back yard . . . The
Behrman orchestra which is scheduled for a
Lions-sponsored dance engagement Saturday,
February 4, played a lot of engagements at
Lumina last summer.
The warm days of the past two weeks have
started many local citizens digging about in
their garden . . . People who have been watch
ing the crew at work painting and repairing
the Southport water tank during the past week
ire willing to admit taht the men earn their
pay . . . The fleet of new autos you see be
longing to the boys on the Liman are a direct
result of the recent trip they made to Venezeu
la for dredging operations. Most of these fel
lows really appreciate being stationed here for
awhile.
Weather forecast: We predict that the
Groundhog is in for a big scare when he makes
his annual appearance next Thursday . . .
We'll be back then, too.
and Judge Frizelle and Clerk of
Court Sam Bennett will dig the
worms”. We have an idea that
some physical effort will do those
fellows good.
Should anybody want to know
why the city water looked terrible
Monday morning, they can be ad
| vised that the city fathers had
the big tank throughly washed
out Sunday. Regardless of how
pure water may be, the insides
of a container has to get a bath
now and then. Most of the color
ing to the water had disappeared
within a few hours and it is now
clear and sparkling.
Some of the Southport shrimp
trawlers brought in nice catches
of Virginia mullets Monday, along
with other fish. The whiting do
not usually show up here in any
numbers until late in the winter
or early spring. The boatmen are
taking this week’s catches as
promising something soon.
We are not sure of the satus
of ^Judge J. Paul Frizelle as a
fisherman, but we were talking
about going fishing before he j
could get from his car to the j
court house when he arrived Mon- j
day to hold court. Judge R. Hunt j
Parker is an enthusiastic but j
danged poor fisherman. Judge W. :
C. Harris is so big that we al
ways hesitated to broach him with
the subject of fishing. He would
sink the boat.
Farmers who are interested in
land clearing operations with bull
dozers might get a pleasing les
son if they were to go to the
Sheppard plant farm on the ‘River
Road this week. Trees and
stumps are giving way to the big
machine in a manner not dream
ed of just a few years ago.
Following the clearing of the land
all broken off roots will be grub
bed out and the land will be
planted in watermelons this first
year. Next year it will be used
to produce tomato plants for New
I Jersey and Pennsylvania tomato
] farmers.
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| After telling us and various and
j sundry others who were around
that he gets all of his news from
The State Port Pilot, C. W. Bruce
colored farmer of near Bolivia,
had to go to his car and bring
in his II or 12 year old son, Sat
urday. He wanted the boy to see
the man who wrote all of that
"Rovin’ Reporter.”
It was some other fellows, not
us, who created the idea that we
run for representative of Bruns
wick county on a platform that
we would stay in Raleigh until
everybody there, including Gov
ernor Scott, learned that Bruns
wick county is in North Carolina.
We believe that we are less in
terested in the proposition than
any of the folks who have spoken
to us about the squib we ran in
last weeks paper. Phil Wright,
State News editor of the Wilmin
gton News, said last year that it
would take an act of the legis
lature to get us away from
South and Brunswick county for
any length of time. He may have
been right. For some time we
have been unable to see how we
could continue making our week
ly trips to Shallotte and other
places but we find ourself still
going.
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Hine
man of Staten Island, N. Y„ an
nounce the birth of twin daught
ers, Laura Lee and Linda Jean,
on Thursday, January 12 at St.
Vincents Hospital. Mrs. Hineman
is the former Miss Lois Watts,
daughter of Captain and Mrs. S.
F. Watts of Southport.
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