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The Pilot Covers Brunswick County THE STATE PORT PILOT __ A Good Newspaper In A Good Community _ Most of The New* All The Time VOL. NO. SIXTEEN NO. 7 o-PAGES TODAY Southport, N. C., Wednesday, April 19, 1950 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY *1.50 PER YEAR Candidates For Office Continue To Last Minute Total Of 47 Candidates Have Filed For County Offices Including At Least One For Each Position On Board Of Education REPUBLICANS TO HAVE CONTESTS Four Candidates For Each Party Enter Race For Sheriff Nomination; Ten Democrats Out For Commissioner Forty seven candidates filed for county offices before the dead line Saturday, 33 of them for places on the Democratic ticket and 14 on the Republican ballot. In addition, there were 6 can didates to file for township off ices. The board of elections met here Saturday for the purpose of in structing the registrars in their duties and for turning over to them the necessary books and re cords. It was necessary to make three changes in the precinct organ ization. Mrs. Mae McKeithan re signed as registrar at Southport No. II and was replaced by Miss Annie L. St. George, Wilson Arnold resigned at Supply and was re placed by George Dance. Curtis Hewett resigned as registrar at Grissettown and was replaced by Mrs. Dudley Lewis. The board found that the pre sent polling place at Supply still is available. Following is a complete list of candidates who filed for office: Senate: Walter M. Stanaland, Odell Williamson, and S. Bunn Frink. House of Representatives: Tom T. Ward and Harry L. Mintz, Jr. Clerk of Court: Sam T. Ben nett and Elrich Y. Hickman. j Sheriff: Ed. V. Leonard, O. W. I Perry, Sr., Waynsie D. Evans and 1 M. R. Tripp. Judge Recorder’s Court: W. J. McLamb,- Geo. B. Ward and J. W. F-uark. Coroner: John G. Caison, Dave Garrish and Joe C. Wilson. Board of Commissioners: O. P. Bellamy, F. Herbert Swain, J. B. Ward, Sr.„ Eddie Spencer, R. T. Woodside, C. A. Montgomery, G. M. Bennett, El Roy King, R. L. Rabon and H. O. Peterson. Board of Education: Herbert Long, Thomas St. George, G. Ken ney Lewis, B. A. Williams, J. Worth Stanley and Malcolm H. Rourk. Constable: Northwest township, Dillon L. Ganey; Northwest town ship, J. E. Lewis; Smithville town ship, Johnnie Hewett; Shallotte township, Drew C. Long; and Shallotte township, W. H. Todd. Justice of Peace: Smith town ship, A. W. Smith. Following is a list of Republican candidates who filed: House of Representatives: Char les M. Trott. Clerk of Court: Harold Rivers Wescott. Sheriff: J. Lindsey Robbins, H. L. (Sinker) Willetts, G. W. Hugh es and G. W. Piver. Judge Recorder’s Court: C. C. Robbins. Board of Commissioners: A. R. Brinson, Odell Jenrette, C. W. Know, I. E. Reynolds, Percy A. Hughes and E. Vance Gore. County Surveyor: L. C. Bland. Brief Newt Flasket _ IJONS CLUB The Southport Lions Club meets tomorrow (Thursday) at 1 o'clock in the Community Building. THROAT OPERATION Mrs. F. Mollycheck has return ed home from a two weeks stay in the James Walker Memorial Hospital in Wilmington, where she underwent an operation on her throat. She is now doing nicely. SATURDAY DANCE The Southport Lions Club will sponsor a juke box dance Sat urday evening at the Community Building. Proceeds derived from this event will go toward paying a portion of the cost for mass x-ray during the month of August. COUNTY VISITORS Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Reynolds, formerly of Shallotte, now of Lake Okeechobee, Florida, are spend ing a week with relatives in Wil mington and at Shallotte. Mr. Reynolds, a regular reader of The Pilot in Florida called around by this office Tuesday. Senatorial Candidates -x llll'lllllll I I— OPPONENTS — Senator Frank P. Graham, former president of the University of North Carolina, is opposed for reelection to his seat in the United states Senate by for mer Senator Robert R. Reynolds, center, and Willis Smith, Raleigh attorney, light. Forest Fires Lay Waste To County Lands Light Showers Tuesday Night Brought Some Re lief To Forest Rangers Who Have Been Unusual ly Busy Recently Brunswick county has suffered heavy damage to young trees in woodlands as a result of forest fires during the past ten days. And Forestry Officials estimate that 25,000 acres of land ha\’e been burned over. With the woods very dry and high winds prevail ing, the power and destructiveness of forest fires has been asserted wherever the flames could secure a foothold. In one fire, starting near Shal lotte Monday approximately three thousand acres were burned over. This fire swept up to the clearing just back of the REA office and the Shallotte school buildings. One small, unused building was de stroyed. Another bad fire was burning near Holden Beach Sunday and Monday. The past ten days have brought a continuous series of bad blazes and much young tim ber has either been destroyed or badly damaged. Tuesday night brought light rains to lessen the danger to the woods. Despite this prospect Forest Warden Dorman Mercer is calling on all citizens to be especially viligent to prevent fires from getting started and in aid ing to combat them if they do get started. Truck Crops Almost Ruined Cold Snap During Past Week-End Threw Big Blanket Of Frost Over Young Vegetable Crop Inquiry of County Agent A. S. Knowles this week reveals that the farmers in Brunswick are re porting the almost complete de struction of their snap bean crops by the cold weather of the past week-end. Harvey Hewett of the Shallotte community saved some of his by pitting pine straw over them. Joe Cochran of Southport saved five acres by having smudge fires on the edge of his field during one cold night. A number of farmers, says Mr. Knowles, are reporting damage to the corn crop that was up. Straw berries were damaged to some ex tent. Practically all blooms were killed, but the growers expect more bloom to come in time to give a fair crop. Red spiders con tinue to feed on the strawberry leaves and to cut down on the prospect for this crop. In all, says Mr. Knowles, sev eral thousand dollars in damage was done to the various crops by the cold weather. However, con sidering the early season this damage may be materially reduc ed, especially if good weathei sets in immediately and continues. Local Nine In Class B Game Southport Wi!! Play Willi ams Here Friday After noon In First Game Of State Championship Eli mination Series Southport plays Williams high school here Friday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock in the first game of the Class B baseball championship for North Carolina. A second con Continued On Page Five Warns Growers To Save Tobacco Plants County Agent A. S. Knowles Sees Signs Of Severe Shortage Of Plants In Southeastern North Caro lina flantincTnow IN FULL FORCE County Agent Believes That Cold Weather Of Past Week-end Will Not Prove Fatal To Plants In Field county Agem a. o. rvnuwiea as calling on Brunswick tobacco growers to preserve all tobacco plants they may have. He says that tobacco plant shortages are being reported in many nearby counties, and it is necessary that growers save all plants in Bruns wick. This says Mr. Knowles, is both to guard against any possible local shortage and to fill needs that may arise elsewhere. Blue mold has been the chief enemy of plants throughout the southeastern part of the State. It is advisable to continue spray ing or dusting tobacco plants un til transplanting is completed he wai’ns. The weather is continuing favorable for the development of blue mold. Dust or spray after each pulling of plants to insure good coverage with fermate at all times is his advice. The recent cold weather and frost did some damage to plants that were already in the fields, but it is thought that most of them will survive. A few farmers had removed the tobacco canvas I from their plant beds and the frost killed some beds and severe ly damaged others. Blue mold has been severe on small plants unprotected by fer mate and will cause some grow ers to have to look to neighboring growers for their plants, but the county agent thinks that there I will be enough plants for every! one if the present supply is taken care of and protected against both mold and cold. Last year Brunswick county growers opened up their hearts and plant beds to growers in a number of other counties. They may be called upon to do a neigh borly deed again. Transplanting, he says, is get ting off to a good start this week and will swing out into high gear next week. It is expected that most of the Brunswick plants will be set out by May 1st, Mr.' Knowles says. Survey Being Made In County Telephone Company Is Now Conducting Study Of Needs And Cost Of Tele phone Service Representatives of the Southern Bell Telephone Company started Monday with a servey of the need and demand for communica tion facilities beginning at Jackies creek and extending westward through the county. This action has resulted from repeated efforts on the part of the telphone committee of the Brunswick County Farm Bureau, which has been constantly behind this project for several years. Recently the members of the local committee conducted a sur vey of prospective telephone users throughout the counts*, and later j T. T. YTard, chairman of the | telephone committee, and other members of that group went to j Raleigh for a meeting with utilities j I Continued On Page Four Smudge Fires Save His Beans Except for possibly a few scattered beanstalks in gardens, Joe Cochran of Southpprt may have had the only field of snap beans left in Brmfewick county after the cold of the past week. Mr. Cochran has five acres in the beans and they were not injured. Robert McRackan who lives 3 miles from town on Route 130 is said to have suf fered a complete loss to 6 acres. Partial credit may be due to the fact that Cochran had fires burning at two dif ferent points around his field Friday night. However, it is said that the worst of the cold struck Thursday and Saturday nights. Cochran Sana no won, •n.ll ewer Brunswick county Sunday and everywhere he went he found that all beans and some other crops had been killed. Dewey Anderson of the Hickman’3 Crossroads community stated Monday morning that about all tobacco growers kept fires burn ing near their plant beds and this resulted in little loss of tobacco plants. Youth Meeting ] Scheduled Here Southport Baptist Church Will Be Scene Of Baptist Youth Rally Friday Eve-! ning Of This Week Friday night there will be a Baptist Youth Rally at the South-! port Baptist church and young people from all the 27 Baptist churches in the Brunswick Asso ciation will gather for fellowship, i inspiration and open forum dis cussion of youth work and pro-1 blems in the various churches. I J. H. Holden, moderator of the (Continued On Page 5i i Establish Rate Of Penalty On Excess Tobacco County PMA Chairman Stat es That Probable Penalty This Year Will Be 19 Cents Per Pound FARMERS MUST MAKE UP MIND May Not Wait Until After Tobacco Is Cropped To Destroy Excess, But Must Plow Up Present indications, according to S. L. Purvis, PMA chairman, are that the excess tobacco penal ty rates during the 1950-51 mar keting year will change very little from the 1949-50 marketing year rate. The official rates will not be available until some time in May; however, it is estimated that ‘there will be a penalty of 19c per pound on this crop whereas the penalty for the 1949 crop was 20c per pound. The penalty rate is set prior to the beginning of each market ing year in accordance with Sec tion 314 of the Act which pro vides for a penalty of 40% of the average market price for such kind of tobacco for the imme diately proceeding year to be col lected on the marketing of any kind of tobacco in excess of the marketing quota for the farm on which the tobacco is produced. Purvis stated that the county office has been advised that re gulations will be received permit ting the farmer only 5 days from the date of his notice of measured acreage to decide whether or not he wishes to harvest his excess tobacco or destroy it before any of the tobacco has been cropped. According to this procedure, once excess tobacco has been cropped, it cannot be destroyed to bring the' farm within the allotment. Malcolm Frink Injured Sunday Young Southport Man Sus tained Painful Injuries When Auto Struck Rear End Of Big Truck Thirteen stitches were required to sew up the lacerations in the head of Malcolm Frink, young Southport man who has been in the Dosher Memorial Hospital since Sunday afternoon when he drove a Ford Sedan into the rear of a heavy, army type steel truck, owned and operated by Wrily Willis, also of Southport. The truck is said to have been damaged to the extent of $150.00. The Ford was almost demolished. The hood passed under the truck body, and the bumper, engine and right front wheel crashed against the double rear left wheels of the heavy truck. Young Frink was knocked unconcious by the im pact and the Ford, with no one at the wheel, veered around the truck and ran unguided for 270 feet, according to Patrolman J. C. Taylor. It finally dashed itself up on the curbing in front of the tax collectors office. Willis, the owner and operator of the truck, stated that he knew (Continued on page four) Our ROVING Reporter We’re wondering slightly what Mrs. Jimmie Woltz of Long Beach said Thursday night when Jimmie carried home a brand new wash board? We had just paid 98 cents for that board and donated it to the auction sale stuff for the benefit of the Volunteer Fire Dch partment. Wishing to protect our investment, we bid a dollar on it when it was put up for sale. Jimmie, who was doing the auc tioneering, thought he saw a chance for a raise and he bid a dollar and a half on his own account and found lnmeslf both seller and buyer. Henry Belk, editor of the Golds boro News-Argus and a long-time friend, wrote us this week that he and Mrs. Belk were expecting to be at Long Beach for their summer vacation as usual this year. Henry is one of a dozen North Carolina newspaper e-ditors who are deeply interested in Brunswick county beaches. George Beasly, editor of the Montgomery Herald, is now building a new home at Long Beach. •While the weather here may have been just a little unusual recently, making the wearing of a coat comfortable in the early mornings, it still has not been anything like in various other States. For illustration, Thomas M. Thompson, now finishing technical school at Fort Wayne, Incl., wrote us on April 11 and mentioned that it had been snow ing hard there all of that mor ning. Finishing college some years ago Mr. Thompson, who is the son of Mrs. J. W. Thompson of Southport, served in the Coast Guard during the war and during the. past year or two has been taking further studies in engineer ing at Fort Wayne. The use of pictures in this paper and in thousands of other weeklies and some daily papers calls for a rather involved pro cedure that many readers of the State Port Pilot may not under Continued On Page Four Southport Shrimpers Want Mess Of Fish Interesting Sidelight On Florida Shrimping Is That N< Fish Appeared In Trawls A heretofore unnientioned angle to the Key West shrimping was revealed Monday in an interview with Captain Merritt Moore of the Penny with which he re turned Friday and is now getting ready for local operations. He says that in the shrimping at Key West the boats did not i get enough fish for the crews to I get a meal. Now and then they caught a mackerel but outside of this just no fish were taken except a few 3 and 4-inch speci mens. Since shrimp form one of the main sources of food for fish, it is a little odd that no fish are taken with the shrimp at Key West. Another oddity thinks Captain Moore is that all of the Key West shrimping has to be done at night. The boats simply cannot drag them up in the daytime. It is believed that in the daytim* the shrimp go down in the abundant white mud that covers the oceai ] bottoms in that area. This mud (while powdery on top, is some | thing like the "bull tallow” stuf | frequently found at points ii i North Carolina. It is very han | just under the soft surface mui and once an anchor gets stud ! deep it is a little hard to pul : OUt. j In the past few weeks thi volume of the Key West eatche: i of shrimp have been growin; smaller. At the same time thi ! size of the product has also beei growing smaller. At the presen 1 rate of things and if no new dis jcovery is made the catches ma; jplay entirely out in a very shor : time. The shrimp may show up then ! again next winter, Captain Moori says, but he expects very little 01 any operations from now unti that time. Dr. Goodman Named Council President Board Cancels May Court Term During the April term of civil court attorneys and Solicitor Clifton Moore took notice that only a few minor cases were I waiting trial at the May term of criminal court. The fact that court week comes on election week was also recognized. The solicitor and attorneys reached an agreement that if there were no jail cases await ing trial one month in advance of the scheduled opening of court, the term would be can celled. Monday the board of county commissioners acted in accord with this agreement be tween the solicitor and attor neys. They passed a resolution cancelling the May term. This will automatically continue the few minor cases on the docket until the September term. Clerk of Court Sam T. Ben nett states that the cancelling of the May term of court will save the county eight or nine hundred dollars that would have to be paid to the grand jury, trial juries, court stenographer, etc. Commissioners In Session Monday Routine Matters Disposed Of Before Board In Regular Session; Cancel May Term Superior Court Members of the board of coun ty commissioners disposed of routine business at their regular meeting here Monday. Included on their list of activi ties was approval of changes in the 1949-50 county school fund budget supplementing state school funds. These changes had nothing to do with the total amount of this fund. The board approved sale of 6 acres adjoining Southern Kraft and Harrison Moore, known as (Continued on page fiv«> Barbecue Supper Successful Event Southport Memorial Asso ciation Netted $142.00 From Benefit Supper Here Thursday Evening The members of the Southport Memorial Association were de lighted at the fine support given on Thursday night supper for the benefit of our cemetery work. The net proceeds amounted to $142. and will serve to good pur pose in beginning work where most needed on the cemeteries until more funds can be secured. The success of the supper is due in large part to Mrs. Wiley Wells, chairman of the special committee appointed by the Board of Man agers and her staff composed of Mrs. F. M. Niernsee, Mrs. Louis Hardee and Mrs. George Whatley. In addition, there were ladies from each of the participating organizations of the community who helped in serving and in general assistance about the Community Building. Everyone as far as need arose contributed pies, corn bread and other items of the food supply. X - Brunswick County Forestry Council Organized A Meeting Friday Night A Supply LEADING FORESTRY OFFICIALS PRESEN1 District Forester And W. S Edmunds, Head Of N. C. Forestry Association, At This Meeting The Brunswick County Forestn Council was formally organizet Friday night at a well attendee meeting at the office of Count} Agent A. S. Knowles in Supply Officers elected were Dr. E. G Goodman, chairman; Fred Mintz vice-chairman T. T. Ward, secre tary and treasurer. The executivi committee is composed of Roiani Simmons, H. L. Clemmons, D. L Mercer. William Edmunds of Wananish secretary of the North Cardin, Forestry Association, and Joi Herlevich of Whiteville Distric Forestry Warden, were presen and told the gathering of interest ed farmers and landowners wha the council can do to promot better forest production practices The officials pointed out tha forest fires are the No. 1 pro duction problem at the presen time. But, looking to long-tim production, there are severs practices that should be follow ed to improve and protect thi most important crop. The wood crop in Brunswick has bee; estimated to be worth more tha: all other crops put together i: yearly returns. The council will work vigorous ly in the interests of the wood lands keeping in line with th other such organization that hav been organized throughout th State in reecnt years. Audience Likes Jerry Ball Show Talented Pianist And Archil Thornhill Combined Ti Furnish Good Entertain ment Here 1'hursday Eve ning Jerry Ball and Archie Thorn hill, two employees of Sjtandari Oil Co. and employed in the publi relations department, scored an other success before a Southpor audience Thursday night whei they put on a program for th benefit of the Volunteer Fire De partment. It developed that Thornhill no only is a capable master of cere monies, but is an accomplished vo calist as well. It already was a wel established fact that Ball is i versatile and talented pianist, am the musical efforts of this pai: highlighted a good evening of en tertainment. The program was given variet; through a number of stunts, foi which valuable prizes were award ed participants. The crowd thor oughly enjoyed these audienci participation features. A more serious portion of thi program was a. picture showing various hazards which may resul in dangerous petroleum fires,/ am many methods for their preven tion were explained. The Charlotte men had hopec to combine an exploratory fish mg trip with their visit, and di< go out on Thursday as guesti of Capt. James Arnold. However bad weather forced them in an< (Continued on page five# Baptist Women Hold Meeting Here Thursday Annual Meeting Of Woman’s Missionary Society Of Brunswick Association At Baptist Church » VISITING SPEAKERS 1 FEATURE PROGRAM - Officers For Next Year 1 Elected By Gathering Field Representative Discussed Cooperat l ive Program me Annual Associauonai wo 1 mans Missionary Society meeting : was held Thursday at the South • port Baptist church. Represen r tatives from the different societies . in the county attended this meet ing to present reports of work . done the past year and elect the . officers for the new year. Miss Laura Frances Snow, state field representative, discussed the cooperative program and pointed out that this program is the best way in which all Southern Baptist churches can work together for the fair promotion of all the work outlined by the Southern Baptist Convention in America and throughout the world. Miss Lillian Williams, mission ary in Colombia, South America, r brought greetings from the Mis t sionary Societies in that land and . a descriptive report of Baptist progress in Colombia. Rev. H. M. Baker, pastor of the local church, spoke on the in . dividual responsibility of every Christian to be a soul-winner if Christians are to be faithful to ■ the commands and purposes of Christ. Mrs. L. H. Reynolds, divisional superintendent, brought the clos ing message of the program. Mrs. • Reynolds spoke on “Your Labor : Is Not In Vain In The Lord”. I The new officers elected at this ■ meeting are: Mrs. M. B. Robbins, Winnabow, associational superin tendent; Mrs. H. M. Baker, South . port, assistant superintendent; ■ Mrs. W. E. Greer, Bolivia, secre ■ tary-treasurer; Mrs. M. T. Mc 1 Rackan, Southport, assistant sec . retary-treasurer; Mrs. Dennis He wett, Supply, community missions Chairman; Mrs. J. D. Johnson, i Bolivia, mission study chairman; , Mrs. Paul Lewis, Winnabow, ■ stewardship chairman; Mrs. Fos ; ter Mintz, Bolivia, training school . and Margaret Fund chairman; ; Mrs. Alex Bogie, Winnabow, liter ; ature chairman; Mrs. Dewey Rob bins, Winnabow, young people's (Continued of page four) ; Seniors Present : Comedy Friday 1 “Almost Eighteen” Will Be i Presented Friday Night 1 At 8 O’Clock In High School Auditorium Members of the senior class of 3 Southport high school are rehear 3 sing for their performance of the 3 three-act comedy, “Almost Eigh teen" which will be presented at the auditorium on Friday eve ning, April 21. Principal H. T. Sanders is directing the play. G. W. Fisher will be “Eddie”, r whose ambitions, hopes and romance furnish the laughs and tears. Linda Hickman will play , opposite him as “Ann Sherman,” } his ideal. Other members of the cast are as follow: William Barry, ’ Leroy Stanley; Grace Barry, Continued on page four I ; i [ L 1 I [ l i 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," April 20, 9:34 A. M. 3:47 A. M. 9:55 P. M. 3:42 P. M. Friday, April 21, 10:07 A. M. 4:25 A. M. 10:32 P. 51. 4:19 P. M. Saturday, April 22, 10:47 A. M. 5:05 A. M. 11:16 P. M. 5:00 P. M. Sunday, April 23, 11:36 A. M. 5:51 A. M. 0:00 P. M. 5:48 P. M. Monday, April 24, 0:06 A. M. 6:44 A, M. 12:34 I*. M. 6:47 P. M. Tuesday, April 25, 1:03 A. M. 7:43 A. M. 1:10 P. M. 7:56 P. M. Wednesday, April 26, 2:06 A. M. 8:44 A. M. 2:46 P. M. 9:06 P. 34