The State Port Pilot
Southport, N. G.
Published Every Wednesday
JAMES 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.
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Wednesday, April 19,1950
A Day In The Life Of A
Lazy Community
Ask anybody who knows and he will
tell you that nothing ever happens in
Southport.
Take Thursday, for instance.
Of course, it was a busy day for the
women of the Southport Baptist church,
because they had company coming. In
fact, they were serving as hostess for the
annual meeting of the Woman’s Missio
nary Union of the Brunswick Associa
tion ; so it may be that there was some
• slight acceleration in the normal pace of
activity.
And in the middle of the afternoon
there appeared to be more than the nor
mal amount of scurrying hither and yon
as preparations were made for serving
a benefit barbecue supper to more than
two hundred twenty-five persons.
It may be that some of the late-comers
had to hurry a little, because at 3 o’
clock there was another benefit over at
the school house. This one wras an enter
tainment for the benefit of the Volunteer
Fire Department, and it didn’t require
too much preparation, since two out-of
town fellows put on the show.
Nothing ever happens around here,
but you take Friday—But that was an
other day.
Telephone Survey
This week Southern Bell Telephone
Co. officials are conducting a survey to
determine the degree of need and the
approximate cost of extending telephone
service into the rural areas of this coun
ty. In doing this they are following earli
er recommendations made by the Bruns
wick County Farm Bureau, an organiza
tion which has been unceasing in its ef
forts to expand existing communication
« facilities.
Naturally it is too early to hazard a
guess as to what wil result from this sur
vey ; but it is obvious that there must be
• some point of beginning if Brunswick is
• to be served by a telephone network,
- This may be that point.
: Need Of Service
Hundreds of yachts are now using the
intracoastal waterway through Bruns
? wick county each day bound homeward
1 after wintering in Florida. They seldom
_ stop this northward trek except for gas,
oil, water and galley supplies. They are
going home and in more or less of a hur
ry
In the fall things are different with
these same boats. Some of them are be
ing taken south for the owners who win
ter at various points. Others go for no
reason at all except to be taken out of the
ice-locked, wintery northern waters.
But all of them, regardless of the pur
pose of going, start out before the north
: ern freeze-ups come, and once they get
" as far down as Baltimore they take it
“ easy. It is not unusual for a yacht to
2 spend a week or two at some point in
Brunswick waters. They are out of the
freezing zone and there is no need for
- them to hurry on.
If an effort was made to interest boat
‘ owners and provide fresh water facilities
: for caring for them, it is believed that it
Z would not be a hard job to build up a re
gular wintering point for northern yachts
in Brunswick county. Town Creek has
some beautiful sheltered areas of ample
width and depth. The same can be said
of Lockwoods Folly river and of the Shal
lotte river, with the exception that a
channel would have to be dredged to
reach a basin area near Shallotte.
In any event the three areas have
fresh water that never freezes. The boats
that go south just to get out of the ice
would really prefer stopping at half-way
points of the long trip they now must
make to get accommodations in Florida.
Gas and oil companies with an already
big boating business in this area would
do well to provide really first-class ser
vice of which there is none now available,
to boats in Brunswick county waters.
Outstanding Achievement
The Brunswick Electric Membership
Corporation, a cooperative composed of
rural people long neglected in the mat
ter of electricity, has reached 5,700 con
sumers through 1,200 miles of lines. That
is an achievement of the first magnitude.
Manager E. D. Bishop has just announ
ced expansion plans to increase the miles
of rural lines to 1,700 and the number of
consumers to 7,500. And that is a con
tinuation of the REA plan to provide
electric service to all who cannot other
wise obtain service.
With this objective there can bo no
quarrel. How many of these consumers
would still be in darkness if there had
been no REA? The obvious answer, of
course, is that most of them would still
be without electricity.
The REA appears to be doing a good
job of meeting its obligations and is,
therefore, entitled to some wholesome
What About This ?
The Cancer Crusade, which inciden
tally should receive universal support
even if the contribution is limited to a
few dimes or a dollar, serves to remind
us of a rather frequent complaint heard
in recent years. The preachment heard so
often in the cancer fund promotion is
that people should visit their doctors and
be examined, and thus detect the disease
in its early stages. In simpler words, we
are advised to have frequent checkups
and in this way aid our physicians in get
ting at the case, if there be one, early.
RALEIGH ROUNDUP
By Eula Nixon Greenwood
WAR TALK . . . Visitors from North Caro
lina in the Nation’s capital last weeek were as
.c nded at the amount of war talk heard in
Washington. WTiile we get good doses of this
type of conversation via the press and radio
here in the Old North State, it certainly isn’t
the main topic of conversation. We still have
the weather, Kerr Scott, the Senate race, and
what the preacher said last Sunday. In Wash
ington, Desease, nothing else seems to matter.
You hear it from drivers of taxicabs and right
on up the line to U. S. Senators and various
members of the Cabinet.
If the war atmosphere hangs as heavily over
Moscow as over Washington, then some kind of
shooting war seems. to be just around the cor
ner. It is to be hoped that this is the same
corner around which prosperity sat in 1930-31. I;
NOTES . . . Reports reaching Raleigh are to
he effetct that Senatorial Candidates Willis
Smith and Frank Graham are running neck
and-neck in most of the counties, with Graham
having good strength in the upper Piedmont
area of counties and Smith exceedingly strong
in the mountain counties (with the exception of
Burke) and in the Lumberton-Gastonia group
of counties along the S. C.-N. C. line . . . Gra
ham also seems stronger in the Northwestern
North Carolina counties, with Smith holding
his own in the northeastern and central east
ern counties . . . It now begins to look as if
the race may be largely decided by the sheer
physical endurance and strength of the two
men ... As the days become warmer and the
battle becomes more vigorous, Dr. Graham will
think longingly of the relatively quiet academic
life at the University and Willis Smith will re
gard law practice as a safe and sane existence
. . . The Senatorial race of two years ago kill
ed J. M. Broughton . . . J. C. B. Ehringhaus
was never a strong man after the 1932 race
with Dick Fountain; and Foundain was never
the same after that ... Dr. Ralph McDonald
was an invalid for several months after his
1936 campaign with Clyde R. Hoey ... We have
only three ex-Governors now living . . . Mor
rison, Hoey, and Cherry . . .
. . . There is some disappointment that Rob
ert R. Reynolds is not waging a more aggres
sive campaign ... but he says he’s doing a lo
of speaking before civic clubs . . . and plans t
strat on a tour of courthouse speeches ver
soon now, beginning in Raleigh. . .
. . . Rumor persists in Washington that Pre
sident Harry Truman will fit Dr. Frank Gra
ham into an important, and comfortable, pos
ition in Washington if he loses out in his bi
for another four years in the Senate .
. . . State Board of Elections Chairman Char
les M. Britt is still in search of ways to remov
some members from the local boards of elect
ion . . . Evidently, Gov. Kerr Scott is stickinj
right with his appointee in this regard . . . an
a meeting of the State Board is being held her
on April 13 . . . While the mountain countie
have been most in the news with the anticipat
ed changes, you may see trouble in some otbe
counties ... and this is all regarded as in
jurious to Frank Graham’s chances of being re
elected to the U. S. Senate ... but the ball i
rolling on these election board matters and an
parently cannot be halted . . . Graham ma
have the strength to weather them
... Did you see about Sen. Clyde R Horv’
Sr;VhVntCri0r Dcpartmcnt and praisinj
11 Frank HamPtion’s decisio:
a irgmia Electric & Power, and not th
Federal Government, should build the $27,000.00
aam at Roanoke Rapids, N. C. ? ... and die
Roving Reporter
{Continued From Page One)
stand. In the first place there
must be a sharp, clear photograph
of the matter to be reproduced.
Before the photograph can be us
ed a metal engraving or plate
must be made. Engraving plants
are far and away too costly for
the small newspapers and even
for some dailies. The picture has
to be sent somewhere to an en
graving plant. Per inch the cost
of the finished plate is three or
four times as much as this paper
gets per inch for advertising. For
this reason, pictures are not gen
erally used in this or other small
newspapers that cannot afford en
graving plant or pay the cost of
the making of engravings.
We said it here last week, and
it is worth saying again: “Some
other beaches may blow away
and some may wash away, but
those down here in Brunswick
were put right here to stay.’’
This claim is founded on the fact
that the weather maps of the
United States Department of Ag
riculture show that no hurricane
has struck the Brunswick coast
in 125 years. Such storms strike
at Hatteras above us, or at Char
leston below. Strong winds never
sweep in over the waters of our
southward fronting beaches. Un
dertows are unknown in the gen
tle surfs. Drowning has never
claimed the life of a young or old
bather at any of the Brunswick
county beach resorts.
nunareas or people living- out
side of North Carolina, and hun
dreds more in distant parts in
the State take this paper. We
take it for granted that they
subscribe because they are in
terested in some part of Bruns
wick county. Where we are cor
rect, we would certainly appre
ciate it if those interested folks
would do some'press agenting for
us. When you find something in
the paper about some place or
something in which you are in
terested, why not pass your copy
on to some friend you know, who
may also be interested in Bruns
wick county? A word from in
terested people to other people
who may become interested will
be generally helpful and will not
hurt the friends who speak such
words.
The first of May and the open
ing of the Brunswick county
beaches will be followed by a lot
of surprises on the part of people
who were visitors last year and
who come again this year. This
surprise will be over the great
amount of new building that has
been accomplished in the year’s
time, and which is still going on
faster than ever. But folks have
not been just building homes at
the beaches. They have been
building them all over Brunswick.
It is a good indication of the
present economic stability of the
county to note the great number
of new buildings of all sorts.
Jerry Ball and Archie Thornhill,
public relations men for the Stan
dard Oil Company in Charlotte,
put on a fine show here Thurs
day night under the sponsorship
of the Southport Volunteer Fire
Department. A nice sum was
raised and the audience had a
great deal of fun. As usual when
these fellows come to Southport
they take, no money out of town
with them. They pay their own
expenses while here and have
everything put up as prizes, from
automobile tires down to washing
and greasing jobs and engine oil.
Every cent that was taken in
went to the Fire Department.
Jerry and Archie are coming back
this year, they tell us, and on
that trip another show will be
staged either at Southport or
Shallotte, depending cn there be
ing a public cause in need of help.
The burning of the Wells fish
house last week had the effect ol
showing Southport people that
there is a good fireboat on the
river. The fire had made aston
ishing headway before it was dis
covered and reported. The Volun
teer Fire Department may be
pardoned for not getting- there in
time to do anything. The same
can be said of the Coast Guard
Cutter. Both got there a little
late, owing to the late report of
the fire. The loss from the fire
was not great and the point of
this paragraph is simply that the
Coast Guard Cutter and Skipper
Austin and his boys are standing
by to help in moments of fire
on or near the river.
Hugh Morton, Wilmington's
best foot forward, was a visitor
in this office the past week. He
is a wheelhorse in putting over
the Azalea Festivals and in other
things like that. Backing his push
and energy he is deservedly
credited with being about the
best amateur photographer in
North Carolina.
Jimmie Woltz, now a year-round
resident of Long Beach and en
gaged / building homes except
for th£ three months when he
will be on the Fairmont tobacco
market as one of its leading
auctioneers, tells us that he is
now building two houses at the
beach. He has more to start just
as soon as he can finish the pre
sent structures. Building opera
tions at Caswell Beach, Long
Beach and Holden Beach are now
the highest peak have ever reach
ed.
Myrtle Beach, about the best \
known beach on the coast in
hundreds of miles in either di
rection, has identical strands and
a background like those of Hol
den Beach, Long Beach and Cas
well Beach in Brunswick county.
The only difference is that Myrtle
Beach got its development start
long ago. The Brunswick beaches
are only beginning with their’s,
and they have much more to start
and continue with than Myrtle
Beach ever had. There is the
great game fishing on Frying
Pan Shoals off Southport and
within easy reach of the Bruns
wick beaches. Added to that is
the mighty Cape Fear River inlet
with its passageway for boats of
all sizes at all times, into the in
tracoastal waterway and the Cape
Fear river. The river is an esset
to the development of the Bruns
wick beaches.
Running up and clattering down
the 100-foot stairway of the Bald
Head lighthouse Sunday, may not
have been in keeping with our
age. In fact, we sort of anticipat
ed having a Charley horse the
next morning. The anticipations
were not realized. The morning
after our photographing friends
left we awoke up feeling as chip
per as a chicken that has found
a fishing worm.
Squire J. C. Tucker of Leland
was here Monday and was kind of
concerned about his subscription
to this paper having run out and
somebody in the office having
lopped him off the list. It is a
good time to say here that a
great many subscriptions expire
each week. There is absolutely no
thing personal in anybody’s name
being taken from the list. The list
is checked over regularly for ex
piration dates. When the office
finds a subscription that has ex
pired it is taken off in the belief
that the subscriber would have
renewed it he wanted to keep
getting the paper. The lables
show all subscribers when their
time is out.
William Crowe, Jr., Wilming
ton, is following some ideas that
are in line with our own. Recent
ly Mr. Crowe purchased the old
Rev. C. N. Phillips home in South
port. Still more recently he has
converted it into two nice apart
ments for rent. He tells us that
he advertised in the Saturday Re
view of Literature offering two
apartments at Southport for rent.
His advertisement had hardly ap
peared, he says, before he re
ceived ten inquiries from northern
and eastern people who want to
move here. Mr. Crowe states that
he wishes he had three or four
nice apartment houses like the
one he has, and that he could
quickly fill them with very de
sirable people.
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Not Exactly News
Billie McDowell is a pretty fair left-hand
pitcher, so it was something of a surprise when
a visiting Shallotte team led by "Black Jack”
Robinson jumpped on him like a merry-go
round in a game here last week. But now the
secret is out. Coach Carmichael of Shallotte
also is a lefty, and has been pitching to his
boys a lot in batting practice. McDowell was
just throwing them some more of the fare they
were fattened on . . . Biggest sport fishing
news of the season thus far has been the nice
catches of speckled trout made at Holden Beach
in the inland waterway.
When he climaxed the Volunteer Fireman
Benefit show Thursday night presiding over an
auction sale of donated commodities, Jimmie
Woltz of Long Beach gave many of his firends
their first opportunity to hear him practice his
profession. In the fall he is a tobacco auctio
neer on the Fairmont market . . . Seems like
Principal Harry T. Sanders can’t stand a sea
son when he has no more than one coaching
chore. Right now in addition to his work with
the Southport baseball team he Is coaching the
annual senior play.
Walter Sellers, young Supply man, is earning
himself quite a reputation as a builder. Cur
rently he is constructing a nice cottage at
Long Beach for Mr. and Mrs. Richmond Gal
loway . . . FOUND DEPT.: Rocky, the sassy
little Boykin retriever belonging to Mr. and
■Mrs. Tommie Gamer. A Southport friend spot
ted him gamboling about the lawn of his new
owner In Wilmington and reported his where
abouts . . . Dogwood is now at the height of its
beauty in Brunswick.
If you asked him the nature of his business
C. G. Ruark, Southport merchant who keeps
store next door to the Amuzu theatre, probably
would answer without hesitation that he is a
hardware dealer; but at show time his big busi
ness is in ice oream and hot peanuts . . . And
speaking of the movies, “Dancing In The Dark”
starring William Powell, is the feature at
traction Thursday and Friday at the Amuzu . .
An old favorite of ours and one of the best
wartime movies, “Guadalcanal Diary”, plays on
the same days at Shallotte theatre.
More houses are under construction at Long
Beach at the present time than at any other
period in the history of this development. Dr.
R. H. Holden says that the same condition pre
vails with respect to Holden Beach. We are
planning to go down there to have a look for
ourself sometime soon . . .The Rovin’ Reporter
lead a photographic expedition to Bald Head
island Sunday morning and experienced some
difficulty in explaining just how the place
earned the reputation for being sub-tropical.
Owner Carl Watkins was over at Long Beach'
during the week-end getting the pavilion in
shape for an opening early in May. He hopes
to have the dining room open full time and
full scale this summer; and bingo (the legal
kind) may be added as an amusement feature..
Here several days ago, R. B.
Babington, prominent insurance
man of Gastonia, told us that he
had a new year and a half old
boy coming along for us to train
as a fisherman. For several years
Mr. Babington has been accusing
us of having taught his oldest
boy how to fish. One result of
this teaching was that John’s dad
had to buy a place at Howell’s
Point so that he could go there
each summer and have some fish
ing.
Even at our age we are learn
ing that when we get dates or
events mixed some one is bound
to correct us. And such cor
rections are welcomed. Three
weeks ago we had a stox-y re
lative to old ships and president
William Howai-d Taft’s visit to
Wilmington and Southport. George
W. Rapplyea had * told us he
thought the visit was made in
1912. Following publication of the
story A. E. McKeithan of Atlanta,
Ga., wrote us and cited that the
date was November 9, 1909. He
said the fact that he went on an
excursion to Wilmington on that
date. Now comes H. B. Clemmons
of Ashland, Kentucky. He says
that Mr. Keithan’s date of Nov.
9, 1909, is right. Mr. Clemmons
tells where a marker can be found
at 3rd and Princess street in
Wilmington, where Mr. Taft
spoke. Mr. Rapplyea who has
been around most of the world
since the event happened was
short in his memory by about
three years. Kentucky and
Georgia had it right.
County Agent A. S. Knowles
told us Monday that one of his
clients had called at his office
and advised him that the Rovin’
Reporter had it in the State Port
Pilot for him to go around and
see what ailed the client's calf
that could not see. The agent
claims he has now had every
kind of a call on earth. For our
part, all we know about it is that
on? of our fan readers near Sup
ply wrote us and told us his calf
was blind and couldn't see. He
asked us what he should do about
it. Not being very hep to blind
calves, we replied through the
paper, telling the county agent
to go around and see what ailed
the calf.
BAPTIST WOMEN
Continued From Page One
leader; Mrs. L. M. Clemmons, Bo
livia, assistant young peoples lead
er; Mrs. L. J. McKeithan, Bolivia,
Royal Anbassador counselor; Mrs.
Rifton Sellers, Supply, G. A.
Counselor; Mrs. A. S. Knowles,
Supply, Sunbeam counselor; Mrs.
Ruth Gay, Southport, and Mrs.
W. H. Mintz, Leland, Y. W. A.
counselors.
MALCOLM FRINK
Continued From Page One
nothing of any car being behind
him until his machine was struck.
The Ford was the property c
William Kincaide of the Oak Is
land Coast Guard Station. H
stated that Frink had borrowe
the machine.
SENIORS PRESENT
Continued From r-age One
Claire Potter; Beatrice Barr;
Lena Ward; Mabel Warren, Joa
James; Mrs. Granville, Rebecc
McRacken; George Jones, Robi
Hood; Tommy Granville, Tomm
Bowmer; Sally Davidson, Cathei
ine McRacken; Mr. Merritt, Bobb
Spencer; Miss Dalrymple, Pegg
f Arnold.
e SURVEY BEING
1 Continued From Fage One
officials
It is hoped that results of the
present survey will either make
it possible for Southern Bell to
’’ expand its facilities into this new
a area or will cause to leave the
1 way open for the organization
a of a co-op.
y
In television a channel is the
y invisible path over which a station
y sends its signal.
CATHOLIC INFORMATION
Is Our Lord Still On Earth ?
When Saul was knocked off;
his horse, before he became St.
Paul, he heard a voice saying to
him:
“Saul, Saul, why persecutest
thou me?” And he said, “Who
art thou, Lord?” And he said, "I
am Jesus whom thou persecutest”
(Acts 9:4-5).
Now, as far as he knew, Saul
had never persecuted Christ. Our
Lord had been put to death sev
eral months before, as everyone
knew, and from the Bible we
know that He had gone up to join
His Father in Heaven. And yet
Saul was accused of persecuting
Jesus, when -all he had done was
to throw Christians into jail.
Saul later found out that Our
Lord had once said, “As long as
you did it to these, my least
brethren, you did it to Me” (Matt.
25:40).
So, after careful thought, and
directed by the Spirit of God Him
self, he finally wrote: “Now you
are the body of Christ” (I Cor.
the sufferings of Christ, in my
12:27). “Who now rejoice in my
sufferings for you, and fill up
those things that are wanting of
flesh, for His body, which is the
church” (Col. 1:24).
That’s pretty plain. It means
that the Church is the body of
Jesus. What else can we take out
of those words?
But if the Church is His body,
it must act as He acted. It must
forgive sins. It must make its
home with the poor, rather than
with the rich; it must cry out
against oppression, wherever it
be; it must speak as one having
authority; it must refuse to be
overrawed by the people it would
save; it must have a kind of
ancient youth, an unlimited sup
ply of energy, which must grow
with maturity; it must have lite
in abundance to give away; it
must have a permanence which
resists persecution; it must be
cordially hated by the powerful
ones of this world; it must do
and say, throughout the ages,
everything that Jesus did and
said.
We Catholics believe devoutly
that our Church is the mystical
body of Jesus. We believe that
our Catholic Church is the abid
ing presence of the Savior in
our midst. Each of us thrills at
the knowledge that we are a part
of that body, a cell, sharing our
faith with the hundreds of millions
of our brothers, living and dead,
and enjoying the interplay of
other-worldly energy between the
Head and members of that body.
For further information on
Catholic beliefs, write to: P. O.
Box 351 Whiteville, N. C.
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LEGGETT’S
Southport, N. C.
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CANDIDATE FOR
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
I I wish to announce that I am a candidate for nomi
nation as a member of the Board of County Commissio
j ners on the Republican ticket subject to the will of the
voters in the Primary Election on May 27. If nominated
and elected I pledge myself to fulfill the duties of this
important office to the best of my ability.
C. W. KNOX