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THE STATE PORT PILOT
' A Good Newspaper In A Good Community_
The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
VOL. NO. SIXTEEN NO. 33
6-paces today Southport, N. C., Wednesday, September 6, 1950
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
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Whiteville Sells
Over 20 Million
Pounds Of Leaf
Market Is Less Than Four
Million Pounds Behind
Last Year But Is Close In
Number Of Dollars Paid
Out
LAST WEEK’S AVERAGE
HIGHEST IN HISTORY
Another Nine Million Pounds
Must Be Sold If Volume
Of 1949 Market Season
Is Equaled
The Labor Day holiday Monday
found the Whiteville tobacco mar
ket with sales totaling nearly 21
million pounds.
Both pounds and average fig
ures jumped last week as the
market auctioned 5,584,734 pounds
in a five-day period for $3,380,
601.28.
The market average for last
week was the best news of the
1950 season with tobacco going
for an average of $58.72. Mon
day’s average was $60.01 and the
other days were exceptionally
good.
The season total now stands
at 20,938,258 pounds, which is
about nine million short of the
total for the entire season of
1949. The market has paid out
$11,890,562.44, representing an
average of $56.59 per hundred for
24 selling days.
During the first 24 days of last
year, 24,845,012 pounds was sold
for $12,306,395.95 and an average
of $49.53.
Although the volume is nearly
four million pounds less than .in
the same selling period last year,
the amount of money paid out is
less than one-half behind. The
better prices have resulted in a
close race in the amount of money
distributed.
Sales Supervisor Dave S. Neil
son predicts a heavy volume to
morrow but expressed the opin
ion that there would be plenty of
room for the receipt of tobacco
and immediate sales during the
remainder of the week.
Brief Newt
j_Flasket
LIONS TO MEET
The regular meeting of the
Southport Lions Club will be held
on Thursday at 1 o'clock at the
Community Building.
SHALLOTTE LIONS
Tomorrow (Thursday) night is
the time for the regular meeting
of the Shallotte Lions Club at
the Anchor Hotel at Shallotte
Point.
CONDUCTING MEETING
Rev. Reuben Jones has been
preaching in Southport the first
three nights of this week. A
large congregation was present
to hear him on each occasion.
TEACHER CHANGE
Mrs. Mary Austin has replaced
Mrs. Barbara Craig as a member '
of tlie elementary school faculty
at Leland, having accepted the
third grade teaching assignment
following the resignation of Mrs.
Craig. I
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr. and Mrs. John E. Brown
of Winston-Salem announce the
birth of a son, John E. Brown, |
Jr., on August 27 at City Me
morial Hospital. Mi’s. Brown is
the former Marie Spivey of
Tliomasboro. ,
ANNOUNCE BIRTH
Mr. and Mrs. James D. Bell
amy, Jr., of Shallotte announce
the birth of a daughter, Lou
Nancy, at James Walker Me
morial Hospital. Mrs. Bellamy is
the former Virginia Russ of
Shallotte.
PUREBRED HOG
Troy O. Evans of Freeland has
recently purchased Evan's Star, a
registered Duroc boar, from
Ralph Winters, prominent Duroc
breeder of Clarksville, Tennessee,
according to a report from B. R.
Evans, Secretary of the United
Duroc Record Association, Peoria,
Illinois.
NEW MANAGER
H. T. St. George, who for the
past several years has served as
business manager for the Wil
mington-Cape Fear Pilot Assoc
iation, resigned that duty ef
fective September 1. and B. M.
Burriss was elected to take his
place. This does not in any way
affect the status of Captain St.
George as an active member of
the pilot Association.
i
Better Grazing
PASTURE.-—In Brunswick county there currently is
an important farm trend in the establishment of permanent
pastures, which in this area will give year-round grazing
for either dairy or beef herds.
Four Sailfish Caught
By Sportsmen Sunday
Wilmington Boat With Cap
tain Billy DeCover In
Charge Brought In Three
Large Sails For Outstand
ing Record
IDLE-ON PARTY
ALSO LANDS ONE
Other Fishing During Week
Has Been Spotty Due Per
haps To Unsettled Con
ditions Caused By
Storms
SAILFISH
Sailfish continued to be the
big news in sport fishing at
Southport during the past week,
with one boat, the Jim-Jam of
Wilmington coming in Sunday
with three of the big fellows.
On the same day Captain
Hulan Watts hstd a party aboard
the Idle-On who landed the first
sail of the season for . that craft.
This was a 6-ft specimen and was
landed by Burp Barrett of Shei
by. Others in the party were J.
B. Lewis, B. W. Jackson,. R. S.
Mostellfer.
It was a Wilmington party
aboard the Jim-Jam with Captain
Billy DeCover. Two of the fish
were caught by Linwood Rob
erts. One was a 52-pounder that
measured 93%-inches. The other
was a 30-pound fish. Arthur New
kirk had the largest of the trio,
a 53%-pound beauty that mea
sured 89-inches.
On the same afternoon Cap
tain Victor Lance came in from
a trip aboard the Moja sick at
heart because he had seen four
beautiful sailfish get away from
inexperienced fishermen aboard
his boat.
The sailfish business continued
good on Monday when A1 Wein
burg of Wilmington fishing with
Capt. Tom Murrell had a sailfish
hooked, then saw him strip his
reel.
Although there has been no
heavy result of the tropical storm,
the waters outside are badly dis
turbed and fishing yesterday and
today has been very poor. If the
hurricane threat abates soon, by
the last of this week conditions
should again be favorable for
more of the fall fishing that has
helped to make Southport famous.
Funeral Friday
For Local Woman
Mary Mary Anderson Died
i hursday Morning At
Home Here Following Ex
tended Illness
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary
Anderson were conducted Friday
afternoon from Southport Bap
tist church, with Rev. Reuben
Jones in charge. Following the
services the body was laid to
rest in the New Southport ceme
tery with the following active
pallbearers: Clude Ford, Tom
Floyd, Charles Williamson, Rob
ert Johnson, Homer McKeithan
and Harry Robinson.
The deaceased was the wife of
Hans Anderson and 'had been in
ill health for the past year. Al
though the couple had lived in
Southport for many years, they
returned last fall following resi
dence for a period of three or
foui- years—hr Sampson and Co
lumbus counties.
Surviving in addition to her
husband is one son, Frank Lewis,
(Continued on page 4)
Ready To Start
Work On School
An agreement finally has been
reached in the disagreement
over the location of a union
school for colored students near
Shallotte, and an engineer was
scheduled to be on the site this
morning to lay out the build
ing.
The structure will be located
on the Stanley property on
U. S. No. 17, which represents
a mid-point compromise be
tween the group wanting the
building on highway No. 130
and another faction who sought
to have it built, osfll'.JCtjonjas
boro,
By completing neecssary ar
rangerri'ents before the Septem
ber 1 deadline, the Wilmington
firm to whom the contract had
been awarded was bound to do
the work at the original figure
agreed upon. This is one fea
ture which had caused anxious
moments among Brunswick
county school officials, who had
kept an eye upon advancing
building costs.
Migratory Game
Laws Announced
Marsh Hens Included In List
Of Regulations Announ
ced Last Week By Federal
Department; Season Opens
October 2nd
Dates, bag limits, and shoot
ing hours for the 1950-1951
migratory game bird season ef
fective in North Carolina have
been announced by the U. S. Fish
and Wildlife Service, according to
Clyde P. Patton, executive di
rector of the North Carolina
Wildlife Resources Commission.
Following are the regulations
1 on migratory game birds:
Doves: September 16-September
30; January 1-January 15; daily
bag 10, possession limit 10; shoot
ing hours from 12:00 noon until
sunset.
Rails, gallinules (marsh hens):
, October 2-December 1. Daily bag
and possession limits: Sora rail,
25; other rails and gallinules,
15 of any species or combination
of species; shooting hours one
half hour before sunrise to one
hour before sunset.
Ducks: November 27-January 5;
daily bag 4, possession limit 8,
not more than one wood duck
permitted in the daily bag or
possession limit.
Geese: November 27-January
5; daily bag 2, possession limit
2 for Canada geese or white
fronted geese; in addition to
these, three blue geese may be
had in possession at any one
time. |
Coots: November 27-January
5; daily bag 15, possession limit
15.
Mergansers: November 27-Jan
uary 5; daily bag limit 25, no
possession limit after opening
day. Only American or redbreast
ed mergansers may be taken.
Note: Ducks, geese, coots and
mergansers may be hunted from
12 non until one hour before
sunset on opening day, and from
-one-half-—hour—before sunrise_to
one hour before sunset for the
remainder of the esason.
Woodcock: December 12-Jan
Continued On Page Four
Judge Stevens
Presiding Over
September Term
One-Week Mixed Term Of
Superior Court Convened
Here Tuesday With One
Outstanding Case Dispos
ed Of
ANOTHER WEEK
LATER IN MONTH
Trial Of Criminal Cases Will
Continue Through Satur
day With Several Inter
esting Cases On
Docket
A one-week mixed term of
Brunswick county Superior court
convened here Tuesday with
Judge Henry L. Stevens of War
saw presiding.
The outstanding case disposed
of during the first day’s activi
ties was that charging William
Joseph Bellotte and Charles A.
Hutchinson with highway robbery.
The pair was convicted and each
defendant received 5 years on the
roads.
The defendants are two white
men who were charged with
sticking up Ben T. Ethridge,
young college student who had
hitch hiked a ride with them at
a point near Shallotte. There fol
lowed some fast action on the
part of the State Highway Pa
trol, which resulted in a road
block that led to their capture
within the hour near the Bruns
wick river bridge.
Louis Smith was convicted of
drunk driving.
In a third case disposed of
Tuesday Lester Sharpless was
found not guilty of highway rob
bery.
This week’s term of court will
continue through Saturday if
necessary and a second one-week
term will convene here on Mon
day, September 18. This term will
be for trial of civil cases only.
Expect Large
Pasture Demand
Brunswick County PMA
Chairman Believes That
This Year’s Total Acreage
In Permanent Pasture Will
Reach 2,500
Brunswick county farmers are
pushing plans for seeding a re
cord-breaking average to perman
ent pastures this fall says S. L.
Purvis, chairman of the Bruns
wick County PMA Committee.
Farmers who have not had soil
samples taken in their prospec
tive pasture fields should have
soil tests made at once. Most of
the farmers have had soil analy
ses made and are now applying
the recommended amount of lime
stone and fertilizers.
Mr. Purvis also states that
materials are being furnished
farmers through the Agricultural
Conservation Program. Farmers
are advised to contact the Coun
ty PMA office for approvals be
fore beginning any practice in
the county handbook. Farmers
may also obtain recommended
pasture mixtures from the coun
Continued On Page Four
Candidate
C. C. ROBBINS, Republican
•candidate for Judge of Recorder’s
courts, is one of the first men
to begin active campaigning for
the general election campaign.
Selling Time Is
Cut This Week
On Local Market
All Multiple Buyer Markets
In Border Belt Reduced To
4i/2 Hours This Week
For the four sales days this
week the Whiteville tobacco mar
ket, along with Lumberton, Fair
mont, Mullins, S. C. and other
markets with more than one set
of buyers in the Border Belt,
will sell only four and one-half
hours a day. All one-buyer mar
kets in the Belt will continue
selling five and one-half hours a
day.
The loss of one hour selling
time this week on the multiple
buyer markets will cause each
Market to lose the sale of 1200
piles of tobacco a day or a total
of 4,800 piles for this week.
Beginning Monday of next week
Whiteville will sell five hours a
day, gaining 600 piles a day, or
3,000 baskets a week. This re
duction was made necessary, ex
plained Sales Supervisor Dave
Keilson of the Whiteville market,
because of the overloaded con
dition of some of the buying com
panies’ redrying plants.
Mr. Neilson stated that the
Whiteville market would continue
to operate with three full sets
of buyers and that the market |
would continue full scale through- I
out September. He said no clos
Continued On Page Four
Shallotte Boy
In Navy School 1
Malcolm H. Hewett, airman
apprentice, USN, son of Mr. and
Mrs. H. B. Hewett of Shallotte,
reecntly began a 28-week course
of instruction at the Aviation
Electronics Technician-Electron
icsman School at the U. S. Naval
Air Technical Training Center,
Memphis, Tenn.
Hewett entered the Naval ser
vice Feb. 9, 1950, and received
his recruit training at the U. S.
Naval Training Center, San
Diego, Calif.
.Fishing Flushes
WHITE BASS
lepibema chrysopt
One of the least widely known
members of the popular panfish
family is the white bass—and yet
-—it is the largest of these “little
fishes.” It also claims the dis
tinction of being the only true
bass we have in fresh waters.
Probably the main reason for
its comparative obscurity is its
restricted distribution, but wher
ever the white bass is found,
there you will find fishermen who
sing its praises as a gamefish
worthy of respect.
It will strike a lure with
heavy impact and put up a
thrilling fight on light tackle.
And when one ot the larger two
or three pounders climbs on—it’s
a double-handful of fishing fun.
NAMES . . . Silver Bass, strip
ed bass, striped lake bass, sand
I bass, silversides, striper, barfish
I and gray bass.
CHARACTERISTICS . . . The
white bass can muster all the
qualifications necessary to be call
ed a beautiful fish. Not as
gaudily colored as some, neverthe
less, the contrasting' markings
make it outstanding, and the
usual remark of an angler see
ing it for the first time is, “There
is a clean-cut looking fish.’’
The customary colorations of
the white bass vary but little and
the aforementioned “clean-cut
lok” is the general earmark.
The back is iridescent green,
gradually shading into a bright
silver on the sides and then into .
silvery white on the belly. The '
older and larger the specimen,
the deeper these shadings be
come.
The large, brightly contrasting j
eyes add much to this fish’s ap
pearance an dthe touch of gold !
therein probably gave this fish j
the last part of its name, chry
sops( which means golden. Gen
erally, five or six distinct dusky
stripes line the sides of each fish |
and these are responsible for the i
nickname of striped bass.
Continued On Page Four
Public Slow To Cooperate
With Health Officials In
_Having Chest X-Rays
Farthers Given Last
Chance At Soil Fund
Brunswick County Farmers Urged To Make Application
For Soil Conservation Payments
Brunswick County stands a
chance to lose $15,312 if it is
not claimed for soil improvement
practices, PMA authorities said
here today.
If application is not received
for this fund, which provided for
the purchase of legume and pas
ture seeds, lime, superphosphate
and fertilizer, it will be trans
ferred to counties where the de
mand is greater than the amount
of money on hand.
S. L. Purvis, county PHA chair
man, again directed attention to
the fact that more than 4000
farmers have not availed them
selves of this assistance. This
means that nearly two-thirds of
the farmers have failed to apply
for a share of the fund.
October 13 has been set as
the deadline for an equal distri
bution of the fund based on acre
age. After that time, interested
farmers will be given an opport
unity to obtain assistance above
the specified allocation for each
acre.
"We are aware,” the PMA
spokesman said, “that there are
some farmers who would be 'glad
to accept an increased amount
of assistance, but such a practice
is not the aim of this program.
More good will be accomplished
if every farmer, who has not
previously made application, will
apply for his portion of the
assistance money.”
As explained by the PMA of
fice last week, through this
program, PMA helps to reduce
the out-of-pocket cost of the
several items for soil improve
ment. Lime was cited as an ex
ample. The cost of lime is 8 cents
per pound. If the farmer buys
under this assistance program,
he pays the merchant three cents
and the PMA office pays five
cents.
Purvis stressed the importance
of making application for the as
sistance during the next two
weeks.
Total Enrollment For
County Schools Off
---'U
Mercury Drops
Here Tuesday
I _
The mercury came to rest in
' the high fifties here tjiis mor
ning as Southport citizens shiv
ered in the grip of the first
cool spell of the season.
One reason for the effect was
the suddeness of the change,
which is believed to have come
about as a result of the weath
er disturbance caused by the
tropical storm in Florida. On
; Monday the temperatures had
reached the 87-degree mark and
failed to come below 82-degrees
during that 24-hour period. By
6 o’clock yesterday afternoon
the reading was 61-degrees,
representing a 21-degree drop
in the minimum.
No winds of unusual velocity
were felt here during the night
despite the fact that the iocal
weather observer was ordered
yesterday to display northeast
storm warnings.
Ladino Clover
Is Good Grazing
County Agent A. S. Knowles
Recommends This Crop
For Good Results For Cat
tle In This County
“Ladino is the queen of pasture
plants. It grows rapidly when
moisture is ample, grows over a
long season, is highly nutritious,
and possibly supplies more total
grazing per acre than any other
pasture crop’’, says A. S. Know
les, county agent.
Ladino cannot, however, be
grazed too close. Rotational graz
ing is essential for best results.
Most farmers divide their ladino
pasture into three sections and
at regular intervals change cows
from one plot to another. Such
a schedule under normal rain
fall conditions assures luxurient
pasture day after day and week
after week. Farmers who do not
have an ample supply of ladino
pasture can make money by pro
perly seeding some in October.
One pound of seed per acre when
seeded properly in a compact
seed bed gives a good stand, but
for the average farmer two
pounds per acre along with ten to
twelve pounds of tall fescue is
recommended. This last seeding
plan gives more assurance. Dairy
men who have used ladino pas
ture say that it produces more
milk than other grasses, carries
more cows per acre, and reduces i
the amout of grain ration re- !
quired. ]
“If you are interested in seed
ing ladino, take a soil sample
for analysis to determine amount
Continued on page four
i
I Southport And Waccamaw
Show Gain In High School
I Membership And Shallotte
Has Gained Few Elemen
tary Students
PARENTS URGED TO
ENROLL CHILDREN
Superintendent J. T. Denn
ing Stresses Importance Of
Having Students Enroll
At Beginning Of New
Term
Brunswick county school of
ficials were concerned this week
over the fact that enrollment ap
parently is down from last year’s
opening figures, County Super
intendent J. T. Denning is mak
ing an appeal to parents of
school-age students to get them
started immediately.
At Leland the elementary
school enrollment is 341 as com
pared to 343 for this time last
year. The high school enrollment
is 70 as compared to an enroll
ment of 77 last year.
At Bolivia there Is no com
parative figure for the elemen
tary school, but the high school
enrollment shows a gain of 2
students with 92 this year as
compared to 90 in 1949.
Southport has identical figures
of 277 for the elementary school
Continued on page four
Association To
Meet On Sunday
Special Session Of Bruns
wick Baptist Association
Called To Consider Finan
ces Of Baptist Hospital
A special session of the Bruns- !
wick Baptist Association will be I
held Sunday afternoon at 3:30 \
o’clock at Supply Baptist church,
with two projects being the main
points for discussion.
One is consideration of plans
for the Simultaneous Revival
which is to be held at all points
east of Mississippi river in March
of next year among all of the
Southern Baptists.
The other problem which will
be discussed is the matter of
raising money among the Baptist
people of this State for the N. C.
Baptist Hospital in Winston
Salem.
When the North Carolina Bap
tist Convention in special session
voted to refuse the grant of
$700,000.00 from the Federal gov
ernment for the hospital mem
bers of that denomination agreed
to accept the responsibility of
raising this amount,
i A large part- of the business
of the Sunday session at Supply
will be to decide about plans for
raising the necessary quota for
Brunswick county.
i
Less Than One-Half Of To
tal Number Expected
Have Had Free X-Ray
Made With Work To Con
tinue Only Through Sat
urday
CITIZENS URGED
TO SPEED WORK
Painted Out That This Is
Most Effective Method By
Which Tuberculosis Can
Be Completely Wip
ed Out
With only four days remain
ing in which to complete the job
of making a chest x-ray of all
persons over 15 years of age in
Brunswick county, a tabulation of
figures here this morning reveal
ed that only 3,996 pictures were
made through the first six days.
It is estimated that there are
13,500 persons in the county who
fall into the age group for which
the survey is intended. It is con
sidered about average to take 60
percent of the eligible persons,
which means that it was normal
to assume that in Brunswick
county at least 8,000 persons
would have a chest x-ray.
On the basis of these figures,
the job is less than one-half com
pleted, with only the remaining
days of this week to round up
the folks who are making th<
Brunswick county record looS
bad.
The total for Tuesday was only
529, which is at the rate of only
106 pictures for each of the 5
mobile units operating in the
county.
The work in Southport has been
handicapped to some extend by
having the current shot off at
several times last week, but no
more interruptions of service here
are anticipated as the unit re
mains in operation through Sat
urday. The unit also will remain
at Shallotte for the remainer of
this week.
One of the units will be locat
ed at Leland high school Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday; an
other will be at the D. B. Ed
wards home at Exum Friday and
Saturday; and a third unit will
Continued, On Page Four
Shallotte Man .
In Mediterranean
articipating in mock battle ope
rations in the Mediterranean
aboard the attack cargo ship USS
Montague, a unit of the United
States Sixth Fleet, is Otha M.
Ludlum, seaman, USN, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Mancy Ludlum of
Shallotte, who united with Eng
lish sailors to afford tactical
training to members of American
and British fleets in the Medi
terranean Area.
Spread over a period of four
to six weeks, the exercises stress
ed battle efficiency during air,
sea and amphibious attacks. The
U. S. Sixth Fleet operates under
the command of Vice Admiral
John H. Ballentine and is a divi
sion of the U. S. Naval Forges,
Eastern Atlantic and Meriterran
ean.
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 tbe courtesy of the
Cape Fear Pilot’s Association.
High Tide Low Tide
Thursday, September 7,
3:36 A. M. 9:51 A. M.
4:11 P. M. 10:47 P. M.
Friday, September 8,
4:35 A. M. 10:49 A. M.
5:04 P. M. 11:37 P. M.
Saturday, September 9,
5:38 A. M. 11:41 A. M.
5:53 P. >1. 0:00 P. M.
Sunday, September 10,
6:18 A. M. 0:32 A. M.
6:40 P. M. 12:30 P. M.
Monday, September 11,
7:04 A. M. 1:04 A. M.
7:25 P. M. 1:18 P. M.
Tuesday, September 12,
7:49 A. M. 1:44 A. M.
8:08 P. M.-2:04 P. M.
Wednesday, September 13,
8:34 A. M. 2:25 A. M.
8:51 P. M. 2:50 P. M.