Most of The New* All The Time VOL. NO. SIXTEEN THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community 4 PAGES TODAY Southport, N. C., The Pilot Covers Brunswick County March 7, 1951 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY $1.50 PER YEA* Red Cross Drive Now Under Way In The County Effort Will Be Directed To ward Contacting Every Po tential Contributor In The County REQUEST THIS YEAR TERMED REASONABLE Chapter Furnishes Important Link Between Families Of Service Men And Military Red Cross volunteers swung in to action all over Brunswick County today in the annual fund raising campaing. Every community has been or ganized for the campaign and the objective of this year’s ef fort is to contact every potential contributor. The fund drive, normally known at the membership roll call, is under the supervision of Rev. L. E>. Hayman, chairman of the Brunswick County Chapter. Chairman Hayman said this morning that Red Cross was not asking an exceptionally large a mount this year despite the tre mendous increase in work re sulting from the national defense emergency. This year’s quota was estab lished to meet the chapter’s needs in home service, Red Cross lead ers pointed out. It has been em phasized that unless “everybody gives and gives generously,” it may be impossible to continue a chapter office in Brunswick. If the office should be closed, it wpuld remove the most important link between the families of ser vice men and the men in military service. c-uapcer csnairman riayman has brought this situation to the attention of the public when he reminded that Red Cross op erates in Brunswick on a small budget which must be maintained if the chapter is to continue as the link between the home front and the defense front. “Perhaps • the families with , boys in the service would under- I stand the • ^situation more fully,' if they knew .that without the Red CrpsSntherc would bo no way to investigate . requests for . . leaves and furloughs and, all such con tacts would, have to be made from some .other county,”* Hay man stated. “Xn„.the present situation, if Red Cross did noth-' ingrrftore 'thap*, jboysdo this hatpe serVic'e, Jit "wufa ‘'merit contri butions from every family.” Ret^,, Crqs? . ligdefa are appeal ing to community chairmen and other volunteer workers to carry on an intensive campaign of sol icithtion this weeks They hope to receive reports by the end of the week. Brief Newt Flasket VAN OVERTURNS A huge 11-wheel van operated by the H. & W. Transfer Co. of Morehead City overturned on U. S. 17 between Supply and Shal lotte early this morning. No one was injured in the accident. BENEFIT SUPPER There will be a chicken sup per and oyster roast at Mt. Pis gah Baptist Church, Supply, on Saturday March 10. Serving will begin at 6 P. M. The public is invited. MOVE TO BOSTON Mr. and 'Mrs. Victor Bartels and two children have moved to Boston, the former home of Mrs. Bartels. A native of Southport, Mr. Bartels has held the post of adjutant with the Brunswick County Post of the American Legion. He has been employed by the Board of Education for the past two years. ELECTED ADJUTANT C. N. Sanders, teacher in the Southport high school, has been elected adjutant and treasurer of the Brunswick County Post No. 194, American Legion, according to W. R. Bomberger, commander of the post. Mr. Sanders was a Lieutenant in the Navy during World War II. The regular meet ings of the Post is held on first and third Monday of each month. RECEIVES PROMOTION Sergeant Kenneth T. Bellamy, of Supply, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Bellamy, Sr., has been pro moted to the grade of staff ser geant effective 16 February, 1951. Sergeant Bellamy who is em ployed as a senior disbursing Clerk in the accounting and dis bursing office of the Alaskan Air Command, arrived in Alaska in June 1949 from Lowry Air Force Base; Denver, Colorado. \ Cattle Project Growing GRAZING—Above is a portion of the herd of Brahma yearling heifers feeding along the fire lanes on the Riegel Ranch. At this age the animals do not show their character istic hump, long ears nor throat wattles.— (Star-News cut.) Brahma Herd Doing Well In Brunswick Use Of Timberland For Cat tle Range Has Been Profit able Venture For Riegel Paper Company TIME FOR-NEW CROP OF CALVES NOW Brahmas Have Become Es tablished As Choice Breed For Production Of High Quality Beef With a great many choice steers sold since the herd was started four years ago, the Rei gel Paper Company now has a herd of 150 beautiful Brahma cows and heifers on its ranch at Honey Island in Waccamaw town ship. Only two cows have been lost since the start of the experi ment at raising cattle in the com pany’s woodland. In addition to the present herd of 150 cows, heifers and pure-bred bulls, new calves are now being dropped al most daily. The cows are all bred at a time that will result in the calves all coming during a short period of the spring mon ths. This permits better care and attention towards: the yovfngsters than would be the case were com ing every week of the year. A bout 100 calves are expected this spring. None of the cows are milked following the arrival of their calves. The youngsters get it all (and this results,in a rapid start towards beef in the case of the rnqles, and an equally good start towards growth and a herd ad dition in the case of the heifers. With plenty of milk as a. star ter and continuing for some mon ths, the calves grbw rapidly and the switch to pasturage is grad ual. The company has some 500 miles of fire lanes through its woods and much of this mileage has been seeded to pasture gras ses. Normally the Brahmas would require little if any feeding dur ing the winter months. This past winter has been an exception. The excessive cold in December killed or held back most of the green growth. Considerable feeding has had to be done since the cold but the pasture grasses are now coming back strong. The Green Swamp in which 1 continued on page two) Varied Docket Tried In Court Cases Covering Variety Of Offenses Disposed Of Be fore Jqdge W. J. McLamb Here Monday A variety of cases were dis posed of here in Recorder’s court Monday before Judge W. J. Mc Lamb with the following dispos tion being made of cases: Harry Daniels .assault with deadly weapon, motion for jury trial, bond set at $500.00. Bennie Caldon Powell, posses sion, costs. Donald E. Hatcher, reckless operation, fined $25.00 and costs. Martin Whitfield Sullivan, reckless operation, fined $25.00 and costs. Willie Edward Hewett, public drunkness, fined $25.00 and costs. E. L. Lovett, larceny of auto, not guilty. E. L. Lovett, drunken driving, no operators license. Guilty of public drunkness and fined $25.00 and costs, 10 days stay. R. C. Hewett, public drunkness fined $25.00 and costs. R. C. Hewett, larceny, not guilty. Alex Hart Jones, Jr., reckless operation, not guilty. Languish Walker, exceeding road limit, prayer for judgment continued due to circumstances. Eddie P. Green, exceeding load limit, prayer for judgment con tinued due to circumstances. | Lloyd E. Leonard, exceeding [load limit, prayer for judgment continued duo to circumstances. 1 ! Oversize Eggs Her Specialty Mrs. Carl D. Andrews of Route X, Supply, has a Hamp shire Red hen that appears to have set out to establish a re cord of some sort. Six days each week she lays an average size egg for a Hampshire. On the 7th day the hen puts forth an extra effort and rewards her owner with an egg about twice as large as the regular daily offerings. Mrs. Andrews brought one of the extra efforts to this office Monday. It was four and a half inches long and weighed four ounces. Prom all accounts the hen has not heard of the 5 or 6 day week, nor does she ob serve the Sabbath. She does full work, and some over-time. Five Youngsters Get Probation Southport White Boys Given Hearing Before Juvenile Judge Sam T. Bennette For Robbery Five young boys, all living just outside of Southport, were before Sam T. Bennett, judge of the juvenille court, Monday charged with breaking and robbing the store of Herbert Johnson on Route 130 near the intersection of the Caswell Road. Evidence supported by the con fessions of some of the boys showed they had broken into the place 3 or 4 times, getting ciga retts, candy, chewing gum and other articles each time. They were caught shortly after one of these robberies and they re turned part of the loot. Taking their ages into account and the fact that they have not previously been in trouble, Judge Bennett held the case open. Mean while it was ordered that each of the boys attend church and school regularly. They are to show their school report cards to Supertendent of Welfare Edward Sexton each month and to stay at their homes at night unless they are accompanied by one or the other of their parents. Negro Fatally Cut Saturday Chester Williams Bell Dies Upon Reaching Hospital In Southport As Result Of Knife Wounds Chester William Bell, 30 year old negro, died here in the Dosh er Memorial Hospital early Sun day morning immediately after being admitted. His death is said to have resulted from cuts and loss of blood from a knife wound, allegedly inflicted by Henry Wil liam Davis, age 21. Both negroes live on the Howell Point road out from Route 130. Coroner John Caison states that both were at a negro juke joint two and a half miles down the Howell's Point road Saturday night. There is said to have been drinking at the place and quar rels arose. Davis is reported to have drawn a pocket knife and to have slashed at Bell. The point of the knife caught Bell in the throat just below the left ear, the gash extending across his throat and shoulder to the right arm cavity. Bell is credited with not having had a weapon of any sort. Officers found Davis at his home shortly after Bell was brought to the hospital. He pro fessed not to know that Bell was dead. He is being held in jail Continued On Page Two Tobacco Parity Prices May Be Higher In 1951 Bureau Of Agricultural Ec onomics Predicts Slight In crease Above 1950 FORECAST PREDICTED ON DEFENSE SITUATK Price Increase Of Last Ji And Extra Tax Of Thi Cents Taken Into Con sideration The Bureau of Agricul Economics predicted Friday parity prices for flue-cufed bacco next June will probably 1 a little above the record ' average price of 54.7 cents pound for last season’s crop. The BAE noted that the Ja 15, 1051* parity for flue-cure was 54.1, or eight percent higher than the June, 1950 level. Continued strong domestic de mand and export demand far* both flue-cured and burley to bacco are foreseen by the Bur eau of Agricultural Economics. Basis for this view is that theft experts expect a continuation in 1951 of the higher levels of in come and employment arising from national defense program. Thus .they anticipate a hew peak in U.S. cigarette production which reached an all-time high of 392' billion in 1950—a mark five bil lion above the previous record set in 1948. These predictions take into ac count the manufacturers’ price increase of last July and the Treasury Department’s recom mendation of a three-cents a pack increase in the federal cig arette tax, which is now seven cents a pack. As for export prospects, the, BAE report points out: “Stocks of U. S. tobacco a broad are low relative to con- ] sumption requirements .and tjie j improved dollar exchange position ' of the United Kingdom and other countries is expected to enable i foreign purchasers to buy ipore tobacco from the 1951 crop thm in the 1950 season.” Late Camellias Blooming Well Late Varieties Of This Flow er Apparently Escaped Worst Of December’s Freezing Damage Although the late fall and win ter blooming camellia buds suf fered heavy casualities from the cold in early December, things are working out beautifully for the late blooming varieties. Bill Hyatt, horticulturist at Orton and resident of Southport, says that the nursery and gar dens at Orton now have many camellia bushes in full bloom. With species of the flowers that bloom in late February, March and some in early April, the buds were so small when the Decem ber cold came along that they were not injured. The coloring of the flowers is fine. There should be a continuous display of beautiful cemellia flow ers from now on through March, the horticulturist says. Sundays and also week days are bringing out a lot of tourists and other visitors to see them, despite the (Continued on page 21 Visitor WILBUR A. PIKE lions Governor Here Thursday For Two Meets district Governor Wilbur A. Pike Attended Luncheon Meeting At Southport And Dinner Meeting At Shal lotte f. District Governor Wilbur A. Pike of- Pikeville, Governor of District 31-E, was guest at the luncheon meeting of Southport Lions Club Thursday. In lieu of a formal speech, Governor Pike brought along a transcription of a very forceful 'speech on Lionism made recently ;Jby Edgar M. Edgbert, 2nd vice president of Lions International, f During the afternoon the visit ing dignitary was conducted by %oite Chairman J. T. Denning and the Rev. H. M. Baker, and old friend, on a tour of points of in terest in this part of Brunswick bounty. In the evening the group at tended the meeting of the Shal lotte Lions club, and once more the district ’ governor waived his bwn speech-making in the inter est of presenting the transcrip tion. In letters of appreciation re ceived folloWing his visit, Gov ernor Pike declared that he had thoroughly enjoyed his trip to i Brunswick. Truck Farm In Full Operation Three Lindner Bros. Have Started About Their Busi ness On Farm Near South port In Dead Ernest George, MMilton and Edwari Lindner, Long Island, N. Y., mei who have devoted their lives ti the growing of truck crops hav moved to Brunswick county am are going right on at their ol< vocation of truck farming. Starting out here three year ago by growing early plants fo: their Long Island farm, they be came interested in Brunswick They bought the old Dr. J. A Dosher home just outside of town (Continued on page 2) W. B. KJEZIAU Our ROVING Reporter Despite his poor start and quick stop last year, Clerk of Court Sam T. Bennett is enthu asistic over the March 21 out board motor boat marathon race from Southport to Myrtle Beach. He has not yet decided whether he will personally enter the race, but he says it will be a shame if nobody enters to represent Southport and the nearby beach es. Last year Sam borrowed a game warden’s rowboat, loaded it to the gunnels with gasoline cans and jugs full of gas. Just when reports began to come in of the first of the winners reach ing Myrtle Beach, Sam’s boat was found hidden in a ditch about a mile down the waterway from Southport. He had made his way home through the woods on foot. Quite a number of bathers are said to have taken to the water at the Brunswick county beach es during recent days, and [to have pronounced it fine, but styll a little chilly. A large number #f up-state residents who have had summer cottages at the beaches have been spending a few days looking after their property and getting things in shape for the summer. Owners of building lots have also been looking around with an eye to building. It ap pears likely that a lot of beach activity may start up soon, re pairing and painting present hom es and starting up with new ones. Being fishically inclined, our most valuable reference is the book, North American Game Fishes, written by Miss France sca La Monte, associate curator of fishes at the American Muse um of Natural History in Wash ington. We have an autographed' copy of the book and this office would be turned wrong side out if anybody misplaced it. Miss La Monte has visited Southport twice in the past two years. In a letter this week she states she does not know yet whether she Continued On Page Four Letter Of Appeal Is Received From Greece Southport Woman’s Club ^Vill Take Lead In Supplying Some Needs Of Family At Salonica LETTER OF APPEAL The Woman’s Club of South port recently received a plea for hefp from ancient and storied Salonica, Greece. Mrs. Popi Apostolidou wrote the letter and when it was read to tHe Woman’s Club the mem bers decided that this plea must not be allowed to go unanswered and are inviting the members of the Woman’s Club and citizens of Brunswick County to help provide .clothes for the this family. Anyone vvho has articles of clothing that might be of help to these - people are urged to bring them or send them to Mrs. H. M. Baker Chairman of the International Relations Depart ment of Woman's Club at South port and the club will see that they are forwarded on to Mrs. Apostolidou. It is hard to improve on the eloquence of the letter so it is printed as Mrs. Apostoli dou wrote it, knowing that many will want to share in alleviating the plight of this family in Greece. "Salonica 2-12-51 "Dear Friends: I take the free to write you this letter and I hope to have an answer from you. "Realy I was not a poor worn | an before the war my father was employer in the post office here but never were laky of foods and clothes. But now is different, the war was for everybody bad and for us too. I was married with a man who was rich in Bulgary. I His father was commerce of smoke but the Bulgarian exile him out from his country because he was Greek and they shoot his father. Since 1933 we have some money then the Germans ruin us and now we are very poor. Salo ! nica is a very cold town and be I lieve me we pass through the j winter without fire and warm clothes. I have two childrens a girl Elianaz of five years and a boy Tony of 8 years old. They I are bar footed and always they ! are ill of cold. But of all us my | husband suffer more than any other because he is obliged to go out and find some work and his dress are of summer time and very very use and it is very j bad because he can’t find a work ' and we suffer very much. We | live in a home with another fami I ly and we have only one room, I but I don’t mind for that, only II pray the winter to go over be cause we suffer of cold. They give us clothes of the packages (Continued on page Two) Begin Planning For Outboard Motor Races -f-i - —" -mmi" Former Keeper Gets Recognition F. Mollycheck, who retired several weeks ago from the lighthouse service of the trea sury department, has received the Albert Galjatin Award from Secretary John W. Sny der in recognition of 27 years service. Mr. Mollycheck, who has mov ed t'o his old home at Mt Plea sant, S. C., was in Southport Saturday for the purpose of moving the last of his posses sions from the Garrison build ing. He said that he received a nice letter from Vice Admiral Mer lin O’Neill, Commandant of the 5th Coast Guard district, re garding his retirement. Captain Bellamy Returns To Duty Former Skipper Of Henry Bacon Reports For Work With Wilmington Office Of U. S. Army Engineers Capt. W. E. Bellamy has re ported to the District office of the U. S. Army Engineers in Wiumington for resumption of duty and has been assigned to the U. S. E. Dredge Josenhans now working at New River. Captain Bellamy has put in a total of 32 years in government service, all of them in the Wil mington district save fbr 16 mon ths during 1945-46 in Guam, Okinowa and Honolulu. Captain Bellamy is best known in Brunswick as the skipper of the old Henry Bacon, a job he held from 1929-42. Following his duty on the vessel he served as superintendent working out of the Wilmington office from July, 1942, to July, 1944. Begin Planting Seed For Plants Sheppard Farm On River Road Is Busy Place Now With Preparations Under way For Sowing Tomato Seed Operation tomato seed plant ing is due to get underway at the Sheppard plant farm during the coming week, and in this case planting of the seed beds is not so simple as it sounds, since the beds cover a total of 80 acres. Calculations of the New Jersey Southport man has to take in the getting of his seed in the ground, have them to sprout, come up and grow to a size just right for planting just when the danger of frost is over on the tomato farms in northern states. If the plants grow to suitable size before danger of frost is over in the north they hive to be held here until the danger is over. If they are too small when Continued On Page Two Last Year’s Inaugural Event Staged By Myrtle Beach Club Proved Outstanding Success And Outlook Is Even Better RACING ENTHUSIASTS SHOWING INTEREST Stanley Edgeworth Is Presi dent Of Sponsoring Club And Is Hopeful Over Prospects With provisions made this year for two extra high powered classes of outboards, 25 h. p. and 33 h. p., President Stanley Edge worth of the Myrtle Beach Out board Motor Club Is expecting a greatly increased list of entries for the annual outboard race from Southport to Socastee, S. C. The event takes place this year on March 21 and the differnt classes of boats will begin to leave Southport at 10 a. m. The course from Southport to Socastee is approximately 60 miles in length, just right, ac cording to the boatmen who par ticipated last year, for a mara thon race. Socastee is on the in tracostal waterway, along which the race is to be run, and is just a short distance from Myrtle Beach. Competition wil be in six class es with the boats of the lighter pow'ered class leaving Southport first. Restrictions are that only stock motors and utility boats will be accepted for entry. Boats may be entered in the following classes: 7y2 h. p.; 10 h. p.; 22 h. p.; 25 and 33 h. p. Last year, according to Presid ent Edgeworth, approximately 50 boats were entered for the first of the annual events from (Continued on Pago 3) Mrs. Grace Jones Claimed By Death Member Of Prominent Local Family Died Early Today In Dosher Memorial Hos pital Mrs. Grace Dosher Jones, wife of Robert L. Jones, of Long Beach, died here in the Dosher Memorial Hospital at 6 o'clock this morning. She had been in bad health for several years but her condition only became serious a few days ago. She was the only child of the late Dr. J. Arthur Dosher, for whom the Dosher Memorial Hosp ital is named, and of Mrs. Grace K. Dosher, also deceased. Surviv ing her is her husband, Robert L. Jones; a son, Bobby Jones of University of North Carolina, a daughter, Mrs. Raymond Hold craft of Elmer, N. J., and two grandchildren. Tentative arrangements this morning were for the funeral services to be held at Trinity Methodist church Thursday after noon at 3 o’clock with the Rev. Morwood Jones officiating, assist ;d by other ministers of the town. Burial will follow in the North vood cemetery. Foresters Open Fire Prevention Drive In State Effort Is Directed Toward Preservation Of Timber Resources Of North Caro lina PROMOTIONAL MATTER AVAILABLE FOR USE Persons Desiring Special Supplies Should Contact County Forest Warden Dorman L. Mercer Ably assisted by the zealous if somewhat mythical "Smokey”, the fire-preventing bear, Stats and Federal foresters of the Southern Region fired the open ing gun of the 1951 Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention Campaign on March 1, State Forester W. K. Beichler of the N. C. Depart ment of Conservation and Develo pment’s Division of Forestry, an nounced today, "Our war against this prime home-front enemy is unrelent ing”, State Forester Beichler de clared. “The threat of other war overseas fighting against com munist fees—may develop into a long struggle, requiring heavy I drain on all our resources. The production of wood cannot be maintained or fully increased to meet essential needs so long aq careless or malicious people bum more timber each year than all our pulp mills use”. Beichler said the new campaign would follow a pattern similar to that of last year. Special pos ters, publications, stamps, blot ters, bookmarks, and car cards in new design again will be used. Mats will be provided for spon sored advertisements in news papers and periodicals. Scripts will be provided for radio pro grams. Radio transcriptions in the new Jelly Elliott series will pro vide both entertainment and tim ely fire prevention messages. “At the start of this current campaign,” the State Forester said, "We wish to gratefully ac knowledge the splendid coordin ating effort of the Advertising Council of America in enlisting the widespread support of indus try through varied forms of ad vertisement, including the alloca tion of radio time to reach an (Continued on page 2) Commissioners In Session Monday Tax Matters Took Up Most Of Time For Members Of County Board At Session, Here This Week The board of county commit r sioners were in regular session. Monday with all members, pre- ’ sent. On motion of H. O. Peterson, second by R. L. Raboh, it was * ordered that* E. J. Prevatte be, authorized to make a deed to R. I. Mintz for a tract of land near' Navassa, known as the Sol Atk inson tract, the total price of $250.00 having been paid in full. It was ordered that a port of the Mary F. Wells Estate in, Northwest township be sold to' C. D. Wells et ux for the sum of; $90.00. This amount being paidi this date it is ordered that a deed1 be made to C. B. Wells and wife.; Ordered that Laura Clemmons > be allowed to buy the S. J. Clem-, mons estate lands by paying $40.00 this date and $50.00 every three months until the sum of $336.81 is paid in full. Tide Table Following la the tide table for Southport (luring the next week. These hours are approxi mately correct and were furn ished The State Port Pilot through the courtesy of the Cape Fear Pilot’s Association. High Tide Low Tide Thursday, March 8, 8:27 A. M. 2:08 A. M. 8:43 P. M. 2:29 P. M. Friday, March 9, 9:07 A. M. 2:51 A. M. 9:24 P. M. 3.08 P. M. Saturday, March 10, 9:45 A. M. 3:33 A. M. 10:03 P. M. 3:47 P. M.” Sunday,. March 11, 10:22 A. M. 4:14 A. M.:' 10:43 P. M. 4:24 P. M. Monday, March 12, 11:00 A. 4:56 A. M. 11:23 P. M. 5:04 P. M. Tuesday, March 13, 11:40 A. M. 5:39 A. M. 0:00 P. M. 5:46 P. M. Wednesday, March 14, 0:08 A. M. 6:28 A. M. 12:26 P. M. 6:33 P. M.

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