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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. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR .$1.50 SIX MONTHS . 1.00 THREE MONTHS .75 Wednesday, June 14, 1950 Mass Chest X-ray Please do not become disgusted if you see a great deal in this newspaper during the next few weeks about the mass chest X-ray program which will be conducted during the month of August by the Brunswick County Health Department in cooperation with the State Board of Health. Responsibility for raising the necessary funds for financing this important survey has been accepted by several organiza tions of the county, and already several of the projects have begun. There is a card party tomorrow night at the Com munity Building in Southport; there will be a “Jack & Jill” wedding at Shallotte on Friday night, June 16; and there will be a Fourth of July dance at Long Beach ; all of them for the purpose of raising money for the mass X-ray cause. Just as we believe in the importance of diagnosing and treating unsuspected cas es of tuberculosis, so do we believe it to be the duty of all good citizens to support the various programs from which the necessary funds for this work must be raised. If everybody will cooperate, this can be a friendly, pleasant way to under write an important undertaking. Summer Visitors When more than four hundred itcyal Ambassador members showed up Mon day for the first week’s program at the Baptist Assembly at Ft. Caswell it repre sented a group almost three times as large as had been anticipated. The offi cials in charge did some hasty scurrying about to accommodate the youngsters, and already have their sights set on an other overflow crowd for next week. At Caswell Beach, Long Beach and Holden Beach crowds showed up during the week-end in numbers sufficient to suggest near-capacity use of cottages and other housing accommodations dur ing the present week. The Southport sport fishing boats are having more trouble from the weather now- than they are from the fishermen. When conditions make it possible to go outside, they usually have a party. And there are the usual number of for mer residents and members of local fami lies returning for a visit during the most pleasant season of the year. All of which add up to a lot of visitors in town. This imposes upon each of us the obligation to be friendly, courteous and hospitable; for these are characteristics which have helped to give Southport the reputation which it enjoys. Has Possibilities Governor Scott was told a few days ago that a preliminary survey indicates that a proposed toll, super - highway across North Carolina would be a sound financial investment. In a word, an initial study of all the factors in the case by ex perts has indicated that the proposal has possibilities. It is proposed to build a super-highway running the length of the State from East to West and charge for the privilege of driving on it. Motorists and truckers who use it would pay the cost of construction and the interest on the bonds while they are maturing. Many citizens are familiar with the Pennsylvania Turnpike. It was built on the same plan and is paying out, accord ing to the information available to us. The Pennsylvania road is a six - lane thoroughfare. Three lanes on either side are divided by an ’’island” and the motor vehicle operator is concerned only with travel in the same direction he is going. There are no towns and cities to interrupt ■ iris journey. There are no gas-consuming traffic lights and, of equal importance, there are no hills and no sharp curves. The Pennsylvania Turnpike has no steep grades, no incline having more than a three percent differential. Likewise, if we recall correctly, drivers can see at least two thousand feet ahead on every curve. If a super-highway is built in North Carolina, it would provide uninterrupted travel from East to West. No one would be required to use it. That would be opti onal, depending upon whether the motor ist wanted to pay the toll and whether the length of the journey justified motor ing to a toll station and getting on the road. From this distance, it appears to be a worthwhile project. The benefits would be enormous and while it would be a lit tle odd not to have to slow down for1 every little village and not be bothered with the 20-mile-amhour spooners and Sunday afternoon loafers and the 40 second traffic lights, it would prove econ omical for across-the-State travellers and add to the safety of people in the small towns who are now endangered by mo torists who have some place to go and are constantly irritated by pokey drivers, careless pedestrians and hometowners who stop on the streets to let out passen gers, wait for Sister Jane to finish her shopping and load up the car with pack ages, and the young Johnnies out with their convertibles driving 10 to 12 miles per hour and looking to left and right to spot the girl of their dreams. The Error The typographical error is a slippery thing and sly. You can hunt till you are dizzy, but it somehow will get by. Till the forms are off the presses it is strange how still it keeps; It shrinks down into a corner and it never stirs or peeps. The typographical error, too small for human eyes, Till the ink is on the paper, when it grows to mountain size. The boss he stares with horror, then he grabs his hair and groans, The copyreader drops his head upon his hands and moans— The remainder of the issue may be clean as clean can be, But that typographical error is the only thing you see. Euka Voice. There are 3,745 Red Cross chapters and 4,668 branches in the U. S. and in sular territories. RALEIGH ROUNDUP By Eula Nixon Greenwood There is some feeling here that Gov. Kerr Scott will be the next U. S. Senator from Eastern North Carolina ... by appointment before 1954 or by election at that time . . . Four of the big newspapers in the State were for Frank Graham; Asheville Citizen, Winston Salem Journal, Durham Herald, and Raleigh News & Observer. The High Point Enterprise and the Charlotte Observer were strong Smith papers . . . Grady Cole, WBT’s morning drawl er, was all out for Smith . . . Smith people ad mit now they had weak organizations in sev eral counties and they ran completely out of funds five days before the Primary and were forced to cancel advertising here and there. — KNOWS HIS SIGNALS . . . About 35 years ago over at the University of North Carolina, a young guy learned his football signals. His name was Graham A. Barden. They called him "Hap”, and he knew his way around on the gridiron. Now back to an incident of last fall. John L. Lewis’ coal - miners were on strike, thousands of families were cold, and industry was throttled. Finally, Uncle Sam called them back to work and asked Lewis to do the same. He called in a loud voice. The miners didn’t budge. The Government was all set to throw a back-breaking fine at the union. However, the judge decided that proof that Czar Lewis gave the miners secret signals to stay out of the pits was lacking. The consensus of thousands of people is, nevertheless, that Lewis while giv ing lip service to Uncle Sam used a word com bination or a key word to let the miners know he was only kidding when he called. Congressman Hap Barden is the new chair man of the committee gently beckoning to Mr. Lewis to come and sit with them. Representa tive Lesinski, who died suddenly several days ago, looked kindly on the miners’ boss, but the man who has succeeded him as committee chairman is not of the lavor-can-do-no-wrong school. Consequently, Lewis may be subpoenaed for some sharp and searching questions. Bar den knows his signals and if his committee can prove that Lewis indulged in the fine art of calling them, both union and eyebrows are in for trouble. LEGAL TENDER . . . Sat the reporters around the master. “Sir”, asked one with im pish innocence, “can money be used to buy votes?” It was Friday afternoon in the Governor’s office. His Excellency was feeling particularly unctuous and somewhat philosophical. He an gwered the question: "No hnf yr,,, jt for things that might get votes.” Yes, roads, for instance. Roving Reporter (Continued From Fag« one) his other work. Tobacco has been making re markable strides in growth, ac cording to Register of Deeds Amos Walton. So have other crops. Conditions are now believ ed to be about where the average farmer would hope to have them. In a way of speaking, everything looks well among the farmers and it is believed that they are about as well satisfied as farmers can get to be. The most inexpensive and most efficent fish-scaler we know of is not on the market. It has to be made. And a nice thing about it is that every home has the mak ings handly. There may be a good many people who have made and are using them, but our first sight of one was during the past week when we happened on Floyd Dilsaver industriously using one on a flounder. All material need ed to make one is a piece of wood for a handle, three or four bottle caps and the same number of small nails. Nails the caps to the piece of wood, rough side out, and you have a useful fish scrap er. When they have not been busy looking after their store which has not often happened the Par ker boys at Supply have been en gaged in growing a garden and some field corn just back of the store. In addition to the garden they have a patch of nearly a quarter of an acre of corn that County Agent A. S. Knowles is credited with saying was the best in the county. The interesting point is that the boys did all of the plowing with a garden plow that they had to push. Mr. and Mrs. John Ortman and children of New Jersey came a round by Southport Saturday just to see the old place where they lived for two years during the war. As an ensign Mr. Ortman was stationed at Fort Caswell and the couple had an appartr ment in the residence now owned by Dr. L. G. Brown. Their little three year old son and daughter, who was three when they lived here, were with them when they came in Saturday. They were on their way to Miami, Fla. Mrs. Elizabeth Fogleman of Burlington has just completed and moved into one of the nicest and most nicely furnished homes on the eastern end of Long Beach. The structure is two and a half stories and is furnished with everything in the way of modern conveniences. "Everything except a telephone,” Mrs. Fogleman told us Saturday afternoon, “and we hope to get that soon. I haven’t checked over my bills yet, and 1 really do not know what the place and furnishings cost. But, it is all paid for and I am very pleased at what I have.” Early last week the Winston Salem Journal, under a full pag> heading, printed answers to a question of, “What is Wrong With North Carolina Beaches?” About every beach in North Carolina was represented in the answer and some in South Carolina. No body appeared to have seen any thing wrong with the beaches in Brunswick county, as no griev ance against either Long Beach or Holden Beach appeared in the answer. The question and answers gave us the opening to write the Journal and tell all and sundry of its readers that there is noth ing wrong with the Brunswick beaches, and why there is not. Just four days after the letter was mailed to the Journal we re ceived a letter from a Winston Salem Real Estate man, asking all about the Brunswick beaches. We have been getting sort of typewriter weary answering that and other like inquiries that have come in regarding the Brunswick beaches. Just two weeks ago it was reported in this paper about Mrs. Lessie Thompson, of the Standard Oil Company at Covington, Ken tucky, coming to Long Beach and buying a waterfront building lot. She was planning to build a large home at the beach this fall and move there to make her perman ent home. Well, Miss Thompson came in from Kentucky again last week and bought two more build ing lots adjoining her first one. She advised us she was buying them for firends in Kentucky who are also planning to build at Long Beach. It would hardly be believed a bout beaches anywhere except those in Brunswick county. The rule of things is that it just can't be done so near salt water. R. f. Plaxco, manager of the Bruns wick Navigation Company, is pro ving it can be done. This year he planted wire grass on the lawn of his summer residence at the beach. The grass is growing nice ly there, within about J50 feet of the ocean high water mark. Mrs. Don Whithead, wife of an instructor at the University 0f North Carolina in Chapel Hill never caught a fish until one day last week. Then she and her hus band went fishing on the beach at Long Beach. The first fish she ever caught proved to be a four -and—one-half pound—drum.—Sm.g' then she was invariably proved a companion when Mr. Whitehead went fishing. That has been every day. One day the couple got 55 bluefish while surf casting from a point on Long Beach. Brunswick farmers are really in the middle of things now. Much corn Is being laid by, tobacco is calling for real attention and var ious late crops are being planted and early ones harvested. The ex tra work always comes at what seems to be the warmest part of the year. It will really be hotter three or four weeks from now when tobacco harvesting is in full swing, but by that time folks will be more used to the heat and not feel it as badly as they do now. It is all a matter of getting acclimated to the change in sea sons. The meeting of the State Parks Committee here and at Long Beach yesterday may have been of tremendous economic import ance to Brunswick county and all of Southeastern North Carolina, as well as to the State at large. If the Parks Commission makes a Seashore Park out of lower Long Beach many thousands of tourists and visitors will be drawn to Brunswick county each year. Out of those visitors and tourists a reasonable percentage will rea lize the attractiveness of the Brunswick county coast line. They will aid in the general develop ment oT lands, the value of which have not been known or recogniz ed. Since the sport fishing started up early in April the only two week ends when the weather was not too rough to permit fishing have come along when J. W. Thompson stayed at his home in Raleigh, or else went somewhere else than Southport. Most sports men have to take their fishing over the week-end and on holi days. For the past few weeks the weather has been beautiful enough on week days, but let a Saturday come along and with it comes Jim Thompson, and with Jim Thompson comes a strong west or northeast wind. The fellow must have forgotten to pay the preacher, and some body should get out an injunction against his coming at a time when it breaks up everybody’s fishing trip. Many a straight and compara tively little-used stretch of North Carolina lyghway has bridges a third or more wider tjian the heavily traveled brid ges on curves across the Cape Fear at Wilmington. It has al ways been a mystery how the bridges could survive the traffic without a high record of fatal ities and property loss. This will probably be made up for at some time in the future by a real, major disaster occuring. Sooner or later, and it looks like sooner, there will have to be something mare than just a two-way Cape Fear. The situation is such as to make it in order for New Hanover and Brunswick county to work jointly for addi tional river crossing facilities. To avoid road, as well as the present bridge conjestion, it might be a good idea to look in to the practical nature of a bridge from Kures Beach to the Brunswick side of the river and Route 130. This would relieve Nos. 74-76 and 17 of much of the tourist and pleasure riding traffic in the vicinity of Wil mington. Right at the point of merger of Caswell Beach with Long Beach could be found one of the beat ocean pier fishing spots a long the coast. Trout, bluefish, flounder, sheephead and many | other varieties about there and the place should be developed for the hundreds of peaple who are now coming here to fish and who do not like to go out on boats. An illustration of the good fishing may be found in the fact that One afternoon this week Don Whitehead, an instructor at the University of North Carolina, and Mrs. Whitehead fished there a couple of hours. Using cast ing rods they stood on shore and pulled in 55 bluefish. One of the features of the first game o fthe season between the Southport and Shallotte juni ors Thursday afternoon was a “five-bagger” hit by David McRoy. With the bases full the South port third baseman drove a long fly to left cen ter and set sail. He missed first base by about a foot, and everybody, including the umpire, caught him in the act. He rounded the bases for for a homer that didn’t count, but had time to make it back to first safely to validate the three runs he had knocked in! Pilot Hall Watters of the Brunswick Navig ation Co. has added a new wrinkle to turtle egging. His early morning runs along the beach reveal the tell-tale tracks of a nest-bound tur tle, and all he has to do is bide his time until low tide, land on the beach and gather up the booty. Mrs. George Whatley has a strawberry barrel. No, not a barrel of strawberries, a strawberry barrel. It is a novel method of cul tivation developed by setting plants in holes bored in the side of a barrel fulled with rich dirt. Not only is it an unusual method of plant' cultivation, but it has a practical side. The Whatleys have enjoyed several strawberry des serts this spring as a result. “Bright Leaf”, which had its spectacular pre mier in Raleigh two weeks ago, is the Sunday Monday feature at Shallotte theatre . . . “Adam’s Rib”, starring Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn, is the Thursday-Friday fea ture at the Amuzu . . . Carl Watkins is making plans for gala holiday dance at Long Beach Pavilion on July 3rd . . . Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Ramsaur have exploded the theory that good gardens will not grow on the sandy soil of Southport. They have a variety of fine vege tables growing back of their house. Monday we heard a bugle blow and we saw a Southport boy loom into view bearing the in strument. Which reminds us of the fact that we hate to see the idea of a band for Southport high school perish without another try . . . Ronnie Hood was visiting here during the past week, and it is believed that he will be a stud ent—and a valuable addition to the football squad—at Southport when school opens this fall ... We think that ‘'Bill Grady’s Mail Boat" at the Holden Beach ferry is good news photo material. And speaking of news pics, Art New ton has been hitting the upstate dailies with monotonous regularity. Cooperating merchants of Shallotte find that the Wednesday afternoon holiday causes little inconvenience to their customers, who already are accustomed to these summer closing hours. Many summer visitors are here and this week the first crowd is attending a Baptist Assembly session. What we would like to have happen is for the menhaden boats to be able to serenade them with whistle blasts denoting good catches which thus far have been conspicuous by their absence. BRUNSWICK MAN (Continued From Pa?e One) few years. He said that State wanted and needed some outstand ing players, but if State couldn’t offer them the training the boys wanted and needed for their fu ture career, they didn’t want them. On the other hand if the [ player can’t do his college work in addition to play ball, the col lege didn’t need them. "First, last and always State College is a place of athletes and others to secure an education and their athletic program is secondary.” Lester Lowe presided over the meeting until he turned the reigns over to the incoming president. He appointed an athletic com mittee composed, of K. Clyde Council, chairman, Charles D. Raper, Leroy Mintz, Wallace Dickens and Jack Council. State College men attending the meeting were: Deke Baggett, D. J. Brady, John M. Council, Jack Council, H. M. Dickens, Wallace Dickens, James Garrell, Charles E. Land, Lester V. Lowe, Bob Meares, C. D. Pickerrell, Charles D. Raper, Philip Strole, Bobby Sessions, Jim Sessions, Charles Lennon, Paul Hinnant, Coach Feathers. C. D. Bryant, N. B. Chestnutt, Herbert Collier, H. M. Stott, C. G. Towsend, Horace Green, Tom Rhyne, W. S. Huggins, Graham Harrelson, Clyde Council, Martin Lowe, Leroy Mintz, B. Hewett, A. S. Knowles. BAPTIST BOYS OVER Continued From Page One ing. Already more boys had re gistered than they anticipated. Camp personalities this week in clude: Rev. Yancey Elliot, Camp Pastor, from Sanford; Dr. Alex j Herring, from China; Dr. W. W. Lawton, from China; Dr. George Bowdler from Argentina; Rev. Alex Pasetti representing the Home Mission Board; Rev. Boyce Brooks from Albermarle; Rev. E. N. Gardner from Henderson; Rev. John Link from Mars Hill; Rev. I W. L. Blanton from Kannapolis; Rev. W. B. Pittard Jr., Franklin ton; Rev. Furman Rivers, Char lotte; Rev. Guilford Daughterty, Raleigh; Rev. Lewis Williams, Wadesboro; Rev. H. M. Baker, Southport: Mock Hedrick, Lexing ton; Mrs. B. W. Jackson, Raleigh, and Lee Reinhardt, Forest City. 1 PARK COMMISSION Continued From Page One have expressed unqualified ap proval of the plans. A brief summing up of the state of things is that the Income and Home Association, owners of the 13-mile long Long Beach, are off ering the State some 400 acres of SCHEDULE WB&BBUS LINE Southport, N. C. EFFECTIVE TUES., JAN. 20, 1948 WEEK-DAY SCHEDULE LEAVES SOUTHPORT • * 7:00 A. M. 9:30 A. M. *1:30 P. M. 4:00 P. M. 6:00 P. M. LEAVES WILMINGTON 7:00 A. M. *9:30 A. M. 1:35 P. M. 4:00 P. M. 6:10 P. M. 10:20 P. M. *—These Trip# on Saturday Only. **—-Thi# Bus Leave# Winnabow at 6:10 Daily. - SUNDAY ONLY - LEAVES SOUTHPOBT 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. valuable land, without cost, for development as a State Park. This includes some beautifully wooded land, bounded for two miles or more by the Intracoastal waterway, Lockwoods Folly Inlet and by several hundred yards of beautiful bathing beach, from the Inlet east. This area is con venient to some choice year-round fishing in the ocean, inlet and at the mouth of Lockwoods Folly river and the inland waterway. Oysters and clams are also avail able in abundance for the taking. By various parties in on the conference the visitors weer.told that if they took and used the lands being offered them they would be getting a wonderful coastal park site. That they would aiding in the ultimate develop ment of some 35 to 40 miles of the most choice beach resort area in North Carolina. CASWELL ASSEMBLY Continued From r»age one Mrs. C. D. Bain, Dunn; Mrs. F. I A. Bower, Morganton; Mrs. E. j W. Holmes, Farmville; and L. L. Carpenter, Raleigh. Mrs. John D. Holmes of Raleigh will be in charge of the music. SPORT FISHING Continued From Page One than for all other days put to gether, there are more dissatisfied parties than there should be. The suggestion is again made that whenever possible parties try to come on week days, es pecially while the week-end bad weather continues. There seems to be plenty of large Spanish mackerel and blue fish close in to shore. Their pre sence is substantitated by many fine specimens being taken in the nets of the commercial boats. Boatmen believe there is fine sport fishing waiting on the wea ther and the present outlook is that much of the wait for weath er is over. SEVERALCASES Continued From Page One ving. Found guilty of reckless op eration and fined $50.00 and costs. Isia Davenport, no operator’s license, fined $25.00 and costs. William Lipton Gore, posses sion for purpose of sale, Six mon ths on the roads, suspended on payment of a fine of $200.00 and costs and good behavior for a period of two years. Car ordered sold, subject to a lein of $240.00. GREENSBORO MAN Continued From Page One years and a half. In addition to his father being in the hospital, his mother has not been very well and he just could not leave them to come back to Southport. Recalling that he lived here nine years, he says he would rather live here than anywhere else on earth, and he has been at a great many places. He hopes to come back some time. Mentioning that a lot of Greensboro folks have places at Long Beach, Bob says he knows many more who are going to. build there. Concluding his letter, he sent his best regards to Captain John Eriksen, Bunn Frink, Bill Kincaid and everybody In South port. CALLED TO LOUISINA A. E. Callender of Lockwoods Folly township was called to Baton Rouge, La., Monday after noon by a message announcing the death of his mother, Mrs. Clara Callender. Mr. Callender left by plane for Baton Rouge early Tuesday morning. Mrs. Callender was 76 years old. WILDLIFE CLUB The Brunswick Wildlife Club will hold a meeting at Bolivia high school Thursday, June 29th, at 8 o’clock. All hunters, fisher men and sportsman are cordially invited. There will be a speaker from Raleigh and there will be a moving picture. New club of ficers will be elected. KINGS ELECTRICAL SALES CO. AHOy, OUTBOARD skippers/ L v has the sensational new SCOTT-ATWATER ! 5W OUTBOARDS £» All Four Shift models have the COMPLETE SHIFT • Neutral, Forw«id, Full Control Reverse— that’s the complete Shift, greatest outboard im provement in history! To back up, to start in Neutral, you just Shift the lever. Now there’s a Scott-Atwater Shift motor for every boat and budget. 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