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The State Port Pilot Southport, N. G. Published Every Wednesday IAMES M. HARPER, JR. Editor Entered as second-class matter April 20, 1928, 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, March 1, 1950 Progress Report A few weeks ago when members of the Southport Woman’s Club voted to sponsor mass X-ray examinations in Brunswick county in cooperation with the Brunswick County Health Depart ment they were cheered to learn that there was a possibility of securing this service sometimes during 1950. When tentative plans fell through, an nouncement was made that Brunswick county had been placed on the waiting list and that a date early in 1951 appear ed to be the time when the work would be conducted in this section. But now comes word that a county for which one of the mobile units formerly had been scheduled has dropped out of the picture, giving Brunswick an oppor tunity to move a long way up the line, probably to an August date. This is an important undertaking, and one which will require a lot of study and understanding if it is to be a success. It might be well to explain that the primary purpose of the mass X-ray pro gram is to detect unsuspected cases of tuberculosis. This idea is that if these patients can be discovered while their trouble is in an early stage it will be re latively easy to arrest its development and to control possible spread of the di sease. It is estimated that it will cost about $1,300.00 to have this service made avail able to citizens of Brunswick county, and while the Southport Woman’s Club is ready to take the leadership in putting over this campaign, it is not financially able to assume the burden of footing the entire bill. This is something with which other responsible groups will have to help, and it is not too early for some of our people to begin to give serious thought to this question. Girl Scout Camp If you do not already have something pretty important scheduled for Sunday afternoon we think that you might enjoy driving out to the Girl Scout Camp at Pretty Pond for a dedication ceremony and open house at the winter lodge. However, if you plan to make the trip let us advise you to go to Winnabow and take the Funston road. That route is in pretty good shape. It is possible to go in toward Funston from the River Road but this route is rough and is very narrow. A third approach is along the old CCC road from highway 303, but this is unsatisfac tory for normal travel. Once you reach the camp site, you are in for a revelation. The north shore of Pretty Pond has been cleared of under brush and an attractive lodge building has been erected overlooking the lake. There is a pretty little promertory from which the flagpole points skyward, and round about this area are signs of other clearing for buildings still in the plan ning stage. Whenever there is activity at the camp, you are sure to find Mrs. R. II. Holden taking a lead in what is going on. She always has an enthusiastic second in her husband. This young couple have an infectious enthusiasm, and many of their friends have followed their leadership into this camp project. We will not attempt to describe the fairyland of modern miracles that al ready have been installed in the kitchen, but you may rest assured that there are gadgets and conveniences that you would hardly expect to find in a camp building deep in the heart of the Bruns wick pine belt. All of this adds up to something worth going to see, and as we were saying, Sun day is as good time as any. You will be hearing a iot more about the Girl Scout Camp at Pretty Pond in months and years to come. Worth Thinking About If you are inclined to glance over or I ignore safety editorials, you probably | won’t read this. If, however, you are in terested in being alive 10 months hence, it may be worth your while to study these highlights from the State report on last year’s highway accidents. Check these and then check your own driving habits: Of the 35,972 drivers involved in acci dents last year, 19,897, or more than half, were in violation of the law' at the time of the accident. Nine hundred and thirty of these drivers W'ere involved in fatal accidents. Speeding topped the list of violations. Drivers traveling at an ex-1 cess speed at the time of an accident numbered 3,300. Drivers committing other traffic offenses were listed as fol low's: Driving intoxicated, 1,469; failure to have right-of-way, 4,159; driving on wrong side of road, 3,945. Of the 35,972 motor vehicles involved in accidents, 707 had defective brakes, which were the direct cause of 16 fatali ties. Two hundred and seven motor vehic les had defective steering mechanisms, resulting in three deaths. Charlotte led all other cities in fatali ties w'ith 17; Durham and Greensboro w'ere next with 10; Raleigh, third, with eight; and Wilmington, fourth, w'ith sev en. The 25-34 year old drivers were invol ved in the most accidents—10,198 with 309 being involved in fatal accidents. Seventy drivers under 16 years of age w'ere in accidents, tw'o of them fatal. A total of 26,581 drivers were within 25 miles of their homes when accidents accurred. More passenger cars than any other type of vehicle wrere involved in acci dents. A total of 27,958 of these were in accidents, 641 of them being in fatal ac cidents. Trucks in accidents numbered 6,820, with 208 being in fatal mishaps. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays ac counted for more fatal accidents than the other four days of the week. More accidents occurred betw'een 5 and 6 p. m. than during any other hour of the day. RALEIGH ROUNDUP By Eula Nixon Greenwood NOTES . . . The Young Democrats group in this State is rapidly being transformed into a Dr. Frank Graham organization ... At the re cent rally held in Greensboro Graham buttons in University of North Carolina colors were all over the place . . . and two other similar rallies are planned before the Primary . . . which is all right if the Young Demo's want it that way, but heretofore they did their big rallying for the Democratic Party after the Primary .... ... A lot of people who hear Commentator Bob Thompson have been asking why he refers to National Committeemen Jonathan Daniels as “Dice” Daniels. Well, Thompson and Daniels, along with Thomas Wolfe and some other wheels, were in school together, or separately, at Carolina, where Daniels became very adept with flying dominoes. The classmates named him “Dice”, but the name never stuck—except in the mind of Bob Thompson; and he rolls deni bones now virtually every Sunday night on his broadcast . . . . . . Robert R. Reynolds of Asheville, now running for the U. S. Senate against Dr. Frank Graham, spoke to the Spanish American war vets meeting in that land of the sky a few days ago. After the speech was over, Bob strode into the lobby of the Vanderbilt Hotel, old folks crowding around him, shaking his hand. Said one old lady, tears rolling down her wrinkled face: “Thank God for a man like you, Senator.” . . . Get it ? Again, that’s what Kerr Scott had in mind when he advised Sen. Graham to “run like he was being shot at . One of Eastern North Carolina’s largest papers last week ran, on Monday, a two-column photo and long article on Reynolds . . . and Wednes day followed with a three-column picture of Reynolds and his seven-year-old daughter and another long article . . . and the feature editorial of the week ... as long as your arm and wide as a handsaw . . . was devoted to Our Bob . . . But two weeks ago Walter Winchell roasted Robert ... It is estimated that two more blasts from Winchell will as sure his nomination ... Ho hum. INTENTIONS . . . Although they were woe fully underpaid, cussed and discussed and fre quently ridden hard and put up wet, it does begin to look as If most of those gentlemen who were here representing their counties and their districts during the 1949 Legislature will attempt to come again as time draws nearer the Primary. So far, the only woman who has signified her intentions to be a candidate is Mrs. Josie R Carr of Chowan County. J. H. McMullan, brother of Attorney General Harry McMullan, says he isn’t interested in returning now that plans are moving along to put the bridge across the Chowan River between Windsor and Edenton in good condition. That was his main idea in running the last time. Mecklenburg had the feminine side of the ledger cornered in 1949, but will not have that honor this session. Jim Vogler, who ran for State Treas urer in 1948, will be a candidate as also will be Robert Lassiter, Jr, also of Charlotte. The Governor may have a hard time with both men. Roving Reporter (Continued from cage one) dren or grown-up anything for a chance in a raffle. The State Advertising Division held one of its meetings in Wil mington last week, the object be ing to explain the advertising program for the next 18 months i and to invite suggestions and co j operation. Following that meeting we received a brief but interest ing letter from Charles Parker, the director. He said: "Dear Bill: You all in Brunswick are the most hospitable people on earth, i and I always look forward to visiting you.” It may be mention ed here that Charlie and John Hemmer both plan to come for the March 22 start of the out board race and afterward cover the beaches and other interesting ^ places that will afford story and picture material. The Brunswick party attending the Wilmington meeting was composed of John W. Garner, Hobson Kirby, J. E. Cooke and Dr. R. H. Holden of Shallotte; E. F. Middleton, E. F. Middleton, Jr., and Col. Frederick McDonald, Charleston; Davis Her ring, Charles Trott, J. M. Harper and ourself. _ Chief Adrain Sellers, serving aboard the big aircraft carrier Valley Forge at San Diego, has been spending the past ten days here and at Supply with rela tives. He has been in the Navy something over nine years and plans to remain until he is able to take service retirement. The Valley Forge is one of the largest carriers, having a crew of 2,300 men. Recently at the air base in California Adrain met up with Franto Mollycheck, another Southport boy who is in the air service. Talking over things, Franto remarked to Adrain that if he ever got back to Southport the air corps would have a hard time getting him to go back to California. Both boys take this paper and Adrain claims he reads every word in this copy about three times, just as soon as the paper reaches him. With several outstanding re sidents of the county hacking the undertaking and determined that Brunswick county shall come to be recognized as a part of North Carolina—and a mighty good part at that—plans are now pretty well outlined for county-wide publicity efforts during the year. Several thousands folders will be printed and be distributed among the travel agencies and through the State News Bureau and other sources. These folders will illus trate the main farming and sea shore attractions of Brunswick county, where to go and how to get there. In addition to the fold ers it is intended that up-state and out of state daily newspapers shall get good news and feature coverage from throughout the county. Much of the needed funds are already being underwritten. At the Ennis Long station and tourist court on 17 near .Supply, D. T. Long was showing us his garden Saturday. Strawberries were in bloom, radishes have been abundant for some time and other garden stuff was com ing along. The garden plot is in a rather low and damp area and has perhaps felt the effects of cold weather more than other garden plots on high and dry ground. The big rush for farm crop seed is now really on. When we hap pened into the store of the Shal lotte Trading Company this week the biggest run of customers was around the seed department. The getting of seed corn was one of the main objects. A couple of weeks ago Tax Collector Edward Redwine was complaining he had blistered both his heels plowing his garden plot at Shallotte on his Saturday aft jJiOver 5 million Maytags sold— far more than any other washer. Come la end piece peer order eew $124.95 to $179.95 Kings Electrical Sales Go. Shallotte, N. G. ernoon off from the tax collec tors duties. The garden was so big, he said. We looked up that garden plot Saturday and our re actions were that the fellow who could not plow it without getting his heels blistered was not cut out to be either a farmer or | gardener. Weather is unpredictable, but supposing there is no radical im mediate change, we feel safe in advising folks who want to see the Southport and Orton flow ers at their lovliest for this year, should make their visit between now and this time next week. Usually the camellia blooms are about all gone by the time the first azaleas come forth. This year there seems to be the like lihood that many of the beautiful camellias will be blooming after the azaleas are gone. S. Bunn Frink has started his new residence on Cape Fear River Heights. G. L. Bennett, manager of the Atlantic Oil com pany in Wilmington, will start construction this week or next. Clerk of Court S. T. Bennett and others are also making plans for building in the same area imme diately. Reports from Florida and the shrimping in the gulf off Fort Myers and Dry Tortugas are to the effort that Southport boats are doing well when they are able to get out. Almost daily, however, they are kept at their docks by bad weather and the rough waters that 'prevail in the fishing area. Even when they do get out they have to keep their sounding lines in constant ope ration for the purposes of finding bad bottom before the nets are dragged over them and damaged or destroyed. Between 400 and 500 boats are down there fish ing when they can. We always have sense enough to know when the weather is not good for fresh water fishing. Sunday was not one of those good days, but G. Butler Thompson and Frank Morrison of Lumberton 'came down and tried their luck. They really did pretty well for country boys. For our inspection they brought around a nice large bass, seven or eight large perch and a couple of good sized jacks ■“—°ne for each of them. _ Must be ten times as many j building contractors and workers | in Brunswick county now as there was just a few years ago. Lots of them have moved up from be ginners into the skilled class from the county’s own residents. A lot more have moved in from lothn- points. All are getting I n'ty of construction work to do. Mr. Inman of the Shallotte Builders Supply company was telling us Saturday that he had just been talking to two con tractors from Charlotte who are planning to construct some build ings at Long Beach right soon. The road down through Holden Beach is now being extended for a mile and a half below the present end. This will give access to the Robeson Beach and also bring the road nearer to permit ting access to the Bellamy Beach. In view of the number of fine homes already along through Holden Beach and those along the stretch now being construct ed, it seems reasonable that the State Highway Commission should Lake over the entire Holden Beach road and make it an all wtathei road as soon as possible. Brunswick county got none of the seven million dollars appro riated by the State for ports at Wilmington and Morehead City Yet the ports authority was established for helping just as much at. Southport as at More head City and Wilmington. The plank in the platform of S. Bunn Frink, candidate for State Sena tor, pledging his efforts to get money for the Southport harbor and for the inlets at Lockwoods Folly and Shallotte Rivers, has a right pleasing sound to a lot of Brunswick citizens who are Not Exactly News When he renewed his subscription to The Pilot the other day we promised Hiram Long, Supply resident and widely known well-digger, that we would tell our readers that he was not the Hiram Long who recently was brought into Recorders court on charges of drunkeness . . Two pelicans who have been playing about in the river at Southport during the past few days are the first we have ever seen around here. However, it is not too uncommon to see these birds with the big beak capacity flopping their lazy way along the beach. Residents in the immediate vicinity of the George Rappleyea home on Moore street have been a trifle uneasy since he had .a storage tank of several thousand gallons capacity erect ed in his garage. Knowing his penchant for things scientific they fear that he is planning H-bomb experiments . . . M. W. Lindner, Long Island resident who does a little truck growing down here each winter, came in just in time for Monday's cold snap. Makes him want to go way back up north where it’s warm! County Agent A. S. Knowles is giving a con vincing demonstration of home beautification and gardening in his lot near the junction at Supply . . . “Fountainhead,” starring Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal, is the feature to night and tomorrow at Shallottc theatre . . . The Thursday - Friday feature at the Amuzu is Southport is “Everybody Does It,” with Linda Darnell and Paul Douglas . . . We hearti ly endorse the idea of holding a junior-varsity tournament at Shallotte this week. Not only will it give the younger boys and girls a chance to get into the sports spotlight, but it will give the coaches a good line on what to expect in the future. Ten years in the U. S. Navy have taken toll from Adrian (Hooper) Sellers, who still uses an infections smile to get things done as a chief . . . When Southport lost Friday night to Camp LeJeune the big difference between the two teams was Floyd Propst one of the smooth est high school players we have seen. He was good for 22 points against Southport, hit for 26 the next night against Magnolia. Incidentally, he is the catcher on the baseball team . . . Chas. M. Trott is greatly upset over the disap pearance of a huge iron frying pan from the runis of his Long Beach office. The big skillet is the property of the American Legion, he says, and has served nobly for many a good fishfry. He is mighty anxious to have whoever 'borrowed' the utensil return it. Sign of the weather: John Erikson hauling two boxes of coal around in the back seat of his Cadilac sedan Monday afternoon . .. Reports of shrimp catches off the tip of Florida in dicate that we will lose more of our boats to that area for Spring and Summer fishing . . . rhe Kings Electrical Sales Company building recently completed at Shallotte is a credit to the business of that community . . .. W. B. Keziah thinks that it is going to take a mighty good basketball team to eliminate the Bruns wick County Training School boys from any post season tournament in which they parti cipate. tired of seeing Brunswick not re cognized as a part of the State of North Carolina. Wa are now redoubling all ef forts to get out news matter relative to Brunswick county and the country at large, through the State News Bureau in Raleigh. Also by sending out all possible interesting matter to North Car olina daily papers. By “all pos sible" is meant all interesting stories we can get hold of. There is not a post office community in the county where some sort of an interesting story does not break every week, sometimes every day. If the folks who get the break of seeing or hearing of these interesting matters will pass the information on to us will see that it will go to the up state papers with the date line of their post office. Mention was made in last weeks paper of the huge tooth of some prehistoric animal having been found at Holden Beach. We saw the tooth this week for the first time in the office of Dr. R. H. Holden at Shallotte. Owing to the tips of the roots having1 been broken off, the tooth was not quite as lang as first reports indicated. However, the three and a half pound molar is plenty big. The open palm of a mans hand will barely cover its surface, We expect that sometime this sum mer there may be organized dig ging at Holden Beach for other bones of the animal to which this tooth belonged. Gauses Landing' and Seaside folks are greatly pleased at the giading having been done on the roads they have always needed. The same can be said with re gards to the folks on various other short stretches that have been recently graded. W. R. Bomberger of .the Bethel church .community asked us this past .week to come out and see his road. James Garner, superinten dent of the Brunswick Naviga tion Company, asked us to do the same thing with regard to the one mile out to the factory. We understand that all of the short stretches about the county re cently graded or now being grad ed by the State forces wijl be paved in the early spring. The new home of Kings Elec trical Sales Company in Shallotte is probably the best lighted build ing in Brunswick county. The system is of the most modern type available and renders every corner of the attractive building as light as day on the darkest night. Mr. and Mrs. Kravitz are planning to add extensively to the lines they carry in a short time. Through some misunderstanding it was stated in last week's paper that the American Legion Post at Shallotte was sponsoring a big dance for Wednesday, March 1st. The object being to donate all funds to paying for the dress ing rooms recently installed at the Shallotte high school. The above event is to be on Wed nesday, March 8th and tickets are now available. The Legion is trying to help out in the very worthy undertaking that the pat rons of the school started and finished, but lacked sufficient funds to completely pay for. Elbert H. Gray, a clerk for the FBI in Washington, spent part of the past week with his pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Gray, at Shallotte. Talking with him Saturday he stated he had been getting The State Fort Pilot for the past 10 years. Dur ing the war the paper followed him for 6 years in the Marines, chasing him all around in the Pacific and into North China. Now that he has settled down in Washington Mrs. Jack Hick man, who looks after the correct ing of The Pilots mailing list, is getting a rest from changing his address. Working from New York to Miami in the interest of the Waterway Guide, Sam Holmes, Florida newspaper man, spent two days here last week. After he had finished his work we found the following note on our typewriter: "Dear Bill: Folks here in Bruns wick may not realize what a good weekly paper they’ve got. Com pared to other weeklies I have seen it Is a standout. It is not only clear and concise, but per sonal in flavor. It lias an advan tage over many in that it car ries editorials by its own editor, rather than by some out of town director. And from what I have seen it doesn’t carry clip sheet material which every newspaper is bombarded with and which could make the editor’s job a lot simpler—if he cared to lower his standards.” Already having a stack of his torical marker points, Route 130 from Southport is bidding fair to get more and of becoming desi gnated as the most historical, ■ road in the State. As such it I would attract and be the means I contact for hundreds of visit ors along the coast of Brunswick. There should be a historical mar ker to the old Indian Trail Tree | in Southport and one for Bennett Creek, where the ships of Stede Bennett were taking on water | when they were surprised and Bennett captured by the ships of Colonel William Rhett. William E. Powell, researcher for the histori | cal marker program, will be here 1 in a few days to look after the matter of marking the Old Char ! leston site and Prices Creek Ligh j thouse. We aim to try and inter est him in the Indian Trail Tree, in Bennett Creek and in Bald | Head Island. Bald Head is also in the local historical things, hav ing been the hangout of so many pirates before they moved to Wil mington and other places. “Boy,” said a newspaper visit or who was here this week, “Ed win Beach Couger, Travel Editor of the New York Herald-Tribune, would fall for any story you sent him about Brunswick county and it§ interesting coastal area. You have just what Mr. Couger is always looking for and using. Many miles of the Coastal High way from New York to Miami pass through your county. The travelers over this route seldom stop except for places they have heard about and become interest ed in. It is the Travel Editors business to advise them about and interest them in things along routes they plan to travel. Here in Brunswick those travelers can find all of the real South at the very beginning, but they do not know it yet. Why don’t you tell them about it through the Her ald-Tribune’s Travel Section?” MISS PARKHILL Continued From Page One She liked things here and just stayed on. About 20 years ago Mrs. Robbinson sold the Robbins Nest and Miss Parkill bought a home in Southport. The two con tinued to live together until tlia death of Mrs. Robbinson and thereafter Miss Parkill lived alone for more than a decade. She is understood to have only distant relatives in Pennsylvania. Funeral services were held at St. Phillips Episcopal church Mon day afternoon at 3 o'clock. Fol lowing this the body was shipped by train to Brownsville, where brial is being held at 2 o’clock this afternoon. Miss Annie Mae Woodside accompanied the body to Brownsville. SCHEDULE WB&BBUS LINE Southport, N. C. EFFECTIVE TUES., JAN. 20, 1948 WEEK-DAY SCHEDULE LEAVES SOUTHPOKT LEAVES WILMINGTON ** 7:00 A. M. 9 :30 A. M. *1:30 P. M. 4 :00 P. M. 6:00 P. M. 7:00 A. M. *9:30 A. M. 1:35 P. M. 4 :00 P. M. 6:10 P. M. 10:20 P. M. * ^r*ps on Saturday Only. This Bus Leaves Winnabow at 6:10 Daily. - SUNDAY ONLY - LEAVES SOUTHPORT LEAVES WILMINGTON 7:30 A. M. 10:50 A. M. 4:00 P. M. 6:00 P. M. 9:00 A. M. 1:35 P. M. 6:10 P. M. 10:20 P. M. ROYSTER Field Tested Fertilizers I obacco And General Crop Fertilizer Now On Hand. Let us talk over your fertilizer needs with you. You’ll find it pays to use the best. COLUMBUS TRADING CO. Shallotte, N. G.
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