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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, August 16, 1950 Sell Your Tobacco Of course, this following bit of expert farm advice will not sound so good if during the next few weeks prices for flue cured tobacco go up; but our advice to the farmers of our county is to grade their 1950 crop and get it on the market just as quickly as possible. Many of our farmers have got off to a discouraging start, because they have been busy saving the major portion of their tobacco while early market reports indicated that the best place for them to be was at the warehouse with a load of graded tobacco. Now most of the housing operations are over. We think that there is no time to wait around to catch your breath. Now is the time to sell, while the market is high. The border markets are the places to sell, because the warehouses in a given area want tobacco that is simi lar in type and quality. And finally, there is no point in waiting when tobacco prices are the best in history. Do not let the grading and marketing of your tobacco crop be one of the things you put off. It’s money in the bank—if you’ll put it there. Mass Chest X-Ray We get the impression that the Mass X-Ray survey which begins in Brunswick county on August 29 is one of the most thoroughly planned programs we have ever seen undertaken. The plan was born many months ago when the Brunswick County Health Of ficer met with a group of Brunswick county ladies and discussed the steps necessary to secure this service. There was a matter of local sponsorship, and since the health funds for the county al ready were budgeted, there immediately arose the necessity of raising money from voluntary sources. It was agreed that it was vitally im portant to Brunswick county to have this thorough screening for tuberculosis, and so the ladies set about securing the necessary cooperation to raise funds for putting on this program. Meanwhile, several months ago, Bruns wick county was placed on the schedule for five mobile X-ray units together with the necessary technicians for the early fall period. Soon thereafter, the first of a series of informational meetings was held; and these were followed by others both here and at Whiteville. No chance was taken that there would be anything slip-shod about any phase of searching out the county for unsuspected cases of tuberculosis. Last Friday two representatives of the Tuberculosis Section of the State Board of Health came to Brunswick for further preliminary work, and will be here until the program gets underway. All of this is necessary if during the 10-day period allotted to this county a total of 13,500 persons are to receive their free chest X-ray. This is the ob jective, and it is important that every adult know where and why and how to receive this service during the time from August 29 through September 9th. All of this work and planning and ex pense will be wasted unless our citizens realize that ultimately the final degree of cooperation reaches right down to their level; and that if the program is to be worthwhile, everyone over 15-years of age must visit one of the mobile units for his free examination. Hysteria will serve no useful purpose. Emotional displays build no character. What can be helpful is a new apprecia tion of the importance of example. / Sales Attitude Bill Meuse, one of the better known columnists, tells the story of how he walked into a drug store and said to the sales lady behind the counter: “I’d like a bottle of Old Spice shaving- lotion, please.” She wrapped it up, Meuse re lates, and he paid for it. She didn’t say “Thanks.” She didn’t say anything. Still they call her a sales lady. Let Meuse go on with his observations: At one of the many ticket windows in one of the largest railroad stations in the coun try, I bought a ticket. The clerk pounded his dater, pushed the ticket toward me and said, "Three dollars and twelve cents.’’ I paid it. He didn't say "Thanks.” He didn’t ask me if I would be interested in a round-trip. He didn’t try to sell anything. In fact, it seem ed like I was bothering him. The conductor took my ticket in glum sil ence. I was spending my money, but nobody seemed to appreciate it nohow. But I bought a package of cigarettes when I got off at my station. There was no wait ing—no delay—no frowns—and I got the right change. I got good service-^” and I didn’t bother anybody. It was a vending machine. And I got to thinking that clerks and those who serve the public had better wake up and try to be a bit more polite and a bit more salesminded if they want to keep their jobs. The cost of a vending machine is much less than the average salary of a clerk, and it is certainly good for several years. It does everything some of our so-called sales people do and with the help of a phono graph record, it could even say “Thank You!” RALEIGH ROUNDUP By Tom Outlaw SEATS . . . Would you like to buy a chair? The State will soon put on retirement the 170 chairs used by members of the General As sembly for more than 100 years. Like most antiques, they are beautiful items of furniture, pegged and glued as In the old days. If tire State sells them, they will bring a handsome price from people who sit casually, seldom, and who do not mind holding their breath as they lower themselves into historic pieces which have held many a noble posterior. A member of the Legislature of 1919 said they were worn out in 1900. The State was loath to part with them, preferring to rush a few of them out at intervals for repair. This has happened during sessions of the Legislature the member or members affected being forced to sit in regular chairs or do their thinking, while standing. There is doubt that they will be sold. Nevertheless, it is fun to think how fine you would feel having one or two of those chairs in your home. The tales they could tell would shake the very foundations of North Car olina officialdom. ATOMIC ENERGY.. .Roy Braden finally re signed his job as city manager of Raleigh two weeks ago to become associated with the Ato mic Energy Commission in Washington. Before coming to Raleigh, he was city manager of High Point. Raleigh paid him at the rate of $37.50 per day for his services. W. H. Carpen ter, 39-year-old city manager of Burlington, will succeed him on September 15. Meantime, the position is being handled by H. Palmer Edwards, 33-year-old city clerk and treasurer of Raleigh. Edwards is a son-in-law of Willard L. Dowell, who held this same job prior to becoming executive secretary .of the N. C. Merchants Association. The clerk-treasurer acting city manager and his wife, Sarah Broughton (a neice of the late J. M. Brough ton) Dowell, have a six-year-old daughter, Jean. NOTES.. .Final decision on the matter of divvying up a portion of the surplus.. .among the teachers.. .is being left to Governor Scott and should be settled about the time you read this.. .The State Board of Agriculture will meet here on Aug. 21 to go into budget needs for the coming biennium (1951-53).. .Raleigh is already getting excited about the annual Debutante Ball to be held here in September. .. The recent issue of Christian Century says that Olive Chapel Baptist Church out from Apex in Wake Coilnty is one of the 12 most success ful churches in America and is the most outstand ing rural church in the Southeast. . .the pastor is Garland Hendrix.. .Suppose you saw in Time how N. C. is tenth most populous State in Nation.. .Although the total for polio cases for N. C. now (Aug. 5) stands at 156, State health officials say the figure is “well below epidemic proportions”... Selective Service offices here report that draft boards are now functioning in 71 counties and that all 101 would be operating soon... The merit rating for teachers may come up in the Legislature again.. .A portion of the study (first of its kind in the nation) on merits of teachers has been made, but results have been kept a secret.. .Look for something Interesting on this later.. .The next step on how Research er Dr. W. A. McCall rates teachers studied in several counties is up to the State Bd. of Ed. . . The international emergency will delay Gordon Gray's becoming active head of the University until about Oct. 1. . .He is now special assistant to Pres. Truman... FISH FLASHES (Continued Fr^m 'rage One) CHARACTERISTICS ... Al though the color of this fish will vary greatly, depending upon water conditions, the basic hue is usually close to a bronze or brassy green. The belly will vary from milky white, to yellow, to a tattle-tale gray. Darker bronze or dusky mark ings, appearing as vertical bands or patches, serve as excellent camouflaging. Eyes are usually i splashed with red, occassionally white ringed. Since color cannot be taken as a guide in identifying the small mouth from the largemouth, here are positive differences: with mouth closed, the jaw hinge, or maxillary bone, at its rearmost extremity will be directly below the eye of the smallmouth. On the largemouth, the maxillary ex tends beyond the eye. Also, on the check of the large mouth there are 10 oblique rows of scales, where the smallmouth has 17 rows, the largemouth has no scales at the base of the dorsal and anal fins while the smallmouth does have these. In addition, the dorsal fins are different, since the soft and spin ous dorsals of the largemouth are separated by a deep notch, while on the smallmouth the separation is very slight. RANGE . . . The original na tive habitat of the smallmouth was from northern Georgia and Alabama to southern Canada, and from the eastern seaboard west to Manitoba. Now, thanks to ex tensive transplanting, this bold battler delights anglers in near ly every state in the Union and many parts of Canada. . When seeking a scrap with a smallmouth, pass up the sluggish, unattractive waters and try your luck in the faster moving streams where the clear waters rush over rocky or sandy bottoms and swirl around such cover as undercut banks, boulders or logs. Deep, clear pools and the foot of riffles are excellent feeding places. In lakes, better luck will be had along rocky shore lines, sandy or pebbly stretches or gravel bars running out into the depths. SIZE . . . Topping all marks for a world record, the 14 pound lunker, taken on rod and reel by Walter Harden at Oakland, Flor ida, February 9, 1932, has an ex cellent chance of standing for all time. Continued From Page One done much to create a favorable impression among North Carolina Baptist about the program at Ft. Caswell and it is expected that Caswell will grow larger year by year without much difficulty. A great deal of the opposition has been replaced by a spirit of gratitude for the action of the General Board in buying this pro perty and those who have visited Caswell this first season are now ambassadors of good will for the Caswell Baptist Assembly. LOCAL FISHERMEN (Continued From Face One) Mrs. F. Mollycheck with a 6-lb black drum and 5-lb. 91|2-oz sheephead; Mrs. Davis Herring, 14-oz. crocker; Joe Swain, 2-lb. 8-oz. black drum; Ralph Molly check, 11-oz. crocker. One of the most outstanding catches of the 1950 rodeo was the 64-lb black drum caught by O. L. Washam of Whiteville while fish ing from the quarantine station I at Southport. <<*;■ tttflHUH POULTRY SALE (Continued from page one) already laying. Most of them have been vaccinated against fowl pox. Twelve boys and girls are carry ing this type project and will put 12 choice pullets each in the show. That means 144 top notch pullets six months old will be available for sale at auction at 11 o’clock on September 16. One hundred dollars in prizes will be given for showing the birds. TRAFFIC COUNTS Continued From Page One $10.00 and costs. Ollie Godwin was charged with reckless operation, but the case was nolprossed with leave. William Jennings Bain, charged with drunken driving, pleaded guilty to reckless operation .He was fined $100.00 and taxed with costs. FIRST SAILFISH OF Continued From Page One returned for a Sunday trip and came in with 65 blues and mack erel. The Friday trip for the Idle-On, of which Captain Hulan Watts is skipper, showed 9 king mackerel, 5 baracuda and 2 bonita for James Lackey and party of Myrtle Beach, S. C. On Saturday Dr. Mendert of Dallas, Texas, and James Johnson of Lumberton had 80 bluefish and mackerel. On Sunday a Myrtle Beach party comprised of J. O. Bowles, D. J. Bowles, S. T. Russ, John Thomas, Carl Pridges and W. E. Henstes came in with 69 blues and mack erel. But getting back to the sail fish. No catch has been made thus far this season by a South port boat, and both the Idle-On and the Moja are getting ready for the big try. Each of these craft has been on the railway during the past week for a thor ough check and for the purpose of having her bottom scraped and painted. Both Captain Lance and Captain Hulan Watts wants to be the first to report a sail fish catch for the 1950 season. SCOUT OUTING Continued From Page One entering the Scout Movement since June 30, 1950. Assisting Commissioner West in the direction of the Round-Up will be District Commissioners George A. Tenuta, Wilmington; Beverly Paul, Rocky Point; J. N. Gibson, Jr., Gibson; Luther Clark, Clarkton; Paul Blake, Lumberton; and J. A. Maultsby, Sr., White ville. High Point Men May Emerge The Winners In 500 Bill Blair And Jimmy Lewal len, Driving 1950 Lincoln And Mercury, File Entry Blanks For Darlington Race DARLINGTON, S. C.—High Point, North Carolina is the name of the town. Remember it. Be cause it may produce the winner of the first annual Southern Five Hundred strictly stock car race here, Labor Day. Noted all over the South as WARNING TO OUR CUSTOMERS There are some unauthorized agents going around the county soliciting work for our company. We have no agents. We pick up your work ourselves, and we pass along to you in savings what normally we would have to pay out in commissions. Deal direct with .... BAREFOOT MATTRESS COMPANY LELAND, N. C. I 1 111 SCHUJR&TZ' T ☆ TRUE ENDURES When planning a memorial, beauty of material and design should be of first consideration. For nnlaai a memorial is beautiful, it fails in its purpose—that of perpetuating a beloved memory. It is equally important to know that the beauty so carefully planned will endure. ITe can supply cemetery memorials of ifit- 1 tinction carved from the best of monumental materials by the leading artisans of America, King Marble & Granite Co. 802 S. 17th St. — Phone 4613 Wilmington, N. G. We overheard a conversation between a couple of Whiteville fishermen last week. One of them was telling- his buddy that even when you are playing hooky from church on Sunday morning you get a portion of the service brought to you at Southport. “There I was fishing from the dock up at the quarantine station, “he said, “when ’bam’, church music starts playing. And there I sat fishing and practically like being in church until the chimes in the Baptist steeple stopped playing.” Art Newton almost missed getting his driv er's license last week when one of the examin ers told him to pull over and park in a for bidden area while he was taking his road test. “The book says not to do that,” Newton said. "That’s o. k.”, the examiner replied. "I just want to get some cigaretts.” He got out and Newton got nervous. So he moved to a new spot and waited. After a time he walked back to where he had let the examiner out, and found that official standing there in righteous indignation. “For a time,” said the young South port photographer, “I thought I was going to fail to qualify.” The Rev. L. D. Hayman, who ownes a wider assortment of small boats than any man we know, was looking around this week for a suit able craft on which to use a new 14-hp out board motor that some of his relatives have a hot-bed of automobile racing, High Point put in its bid for na tional honors today by nominating two of its favorite sons as drivers in the gruelling 500-mile classic at the Darlington International Raceway. They are: Bill Blair and Jim my Lewallen, a pair of dirt track favorites who will drive a 1950 Lincoln and Mercury, respectively, in the Labor Day competition. Blair is the veteran of the two, with nearly 15 years of experience behind him. He. divides his time between strictly stocks and modi fieds with such success that he has been able to make a full time job of it. It is not unusual for Bill to corral between seven and 10 thou sand dollars during a successful campaign. Jimmy has not had the exper ience of his teammate but is fast becoming one of the better known pilots in the South and South east. He devotes only part-time to the racing game, working as a mechanic in High Point the rest of the time. Bill and Jimmy will be driving cars owned by Sam Rice, co-own er of the Martinsville,Va. speed way, one of the most modern racing plants in the United States. Prior to entering the pro motional field Sam campaigned as a chauffeur over all the promin ent dirt tracks of the south. Blair and Lewallen are only two of more than 250 drivers who are expected to make the qualify ing run starting Aug. 19 and continuing through Sept. 2 here. A record purse of $25,500 is be ing offered for the event. NOT TO BE ENVIED The New York Giants have lost more World Series than any other team. They were tHe losers in eight series, and won four. SCHOLARSHIPS FOR Continued From Page One vide educational benefits or schol arships to dependent children. These scholarships are provided by the State of North Carolina 1 and are awarded by the North1 Carolina Veterans Commission. brought down and left in his custody . . . Metropolitan columnists have their regular rounds of the night clubs in their search for material, but we are convinced that the best stop for a small town newsman is at his local barbershop. Unless, of course, he had access to some of the small talk that goes on at the beauty parlor. “All The Kings Men” is rated to be one of the best movies in recent months. It plays Thursday and Friday at the Amuzu. Broderick Crawford is the star . . . The 10-Years-Ago flash-back in the Wilmington paper last week recalled the time that Waters Thompson and Leila Hubbard won the waltz contest at Lumlna. What’s more, they probably still could . . . “The Man On The Eiffel Tower” is the Thurs day-Friday feature at Shallotte Theatre. Charl es Laughton and Franchot Tone are the stars. Carl Watkins purchased a sturdy little in board job last week and probably will be using it for a combination of business and pleasure as he runs sight-seeing parties from the Davis Creek landing at Long Beach . . . Buddy Brown reports that he has forsaken fishing, shrimping and other related enterprises and now is devot ing his full time as watchman for the Sanders Products Co. . . . And how did you like these recent sample days of fall weather? Columbus Man Given Bronze Star For Heroic Achievements In War Two Southeastern North Car olina men have been awarded bronze stars for heroic achieve ment in combat in the Korean war. Cpl. William H. Strickland, Whiteville, was awarded the med al for action in Korea June 27 July 12. An announcement from General headquarters said that Cpl. Strickland accompanied Maj. Gen. John H. Church to Korea at that time and “worked under extremely difficult conditions without regard for his own safety as driver and bodyguard for the commanding general of general headquarters, advance command.” Pfc. James D. Batten, Bladen boro route 3, was also given the medal. He is a member of the 24th Infantry division, now in action in Korea. Cpl. Strickland is the son of Rev. and Mrs. R. W. Strickland of Evergreen. CATHOLIC INFORMATION Don’t Apologize •! Surely, we expect an apology from the man who has kicked our bunion or who has sat on our derby, but we don’t expect an apology, ever, from a man just because he doesn’t go to our Church, and we are irked, believe us, when someone ends up a discussion of religions with the remark: ‘‘After all, we’re heading for the same place in the next life, but by different roads.” That means he thinks one Church as as good as another, which is the blamedest piece of bad logic we’ve ever heard! We expect a man to be positive the the faith he holds is identi cal with the truth and that when another Church contradicts his be lief, that other Church is wrong, absoluately. There is nothing es pecially praiseworthy about a broad-mindedness that can abide six different answers to the same problem. We Catholics, it has been said, are as narrow-minded as the multiplication tables. Six times six is thirty-six and not one point more nor less. There can be only one answer—and religious truths are no different from the truths of mathematics. Truth is one! For example: Either Jesus was God or He wasn’t. You can hold to one of those, but can’t have both. Any Church which holds the one contradicts any Church which holds the other; and you can’t say that the one Church is as good as the other because, obviously, one’s right and the other’s wrong. How could anyone respect a God, enjoining truth on us and claiming to he Truth- Itself, who was equally pleased with those who worship Jesus as the Sec ond Person of the Blessed Trinity and those who honor Him as being a notch or two above Abe Lin coln? We just use that for an example, but the same thing could be said of all the truths of religion. Honestly, we have the greatest respect for all our devout Prot estant neighbors, setting off for Sunday School each week witl) their Bibles tucked under their arms; but we have no use at all for the mealy-mouthed person who welcomes all, minister, rabbi, and priest, with equal smoothness because he considers them all' equally worthless. Get convictions and hang ontcj them. Make sure they’re right! Prove them first to your own satisfaction, and then let no one shake you. Be tolerant of others, always, but not to the point of allowing that they also have tha truth; for if you have the truth, and they differ with you, how can they have the truth, too? For further information or| Catholic beliefs and practices, write P. O. Box 351, Whiteville, N. C. Hmmc Yes! If You Can’t Stop Your Car Or Truck, Bring It To Us For Expert— HYDIAUIIC-VACUUM POWER BRAKING Brake Service Power Brakes, Air and Vac., To Fit Any Truck Job and Bendix Eclipse Brake Lininq For Any Truck or Trailer. 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