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EDITORIALS: TIME FOR THOUGHT A group of Brunswick county offi cials met Monday night to work out plans for a series of public meetings to be held during the remainder of this month for the purpose of answering questions about the Pearsall Plan, which wili involve a vote on an amend ment to the State constitution at a gen eral election on September 8. A total of four amendments will be submitted, only the first of which has anything to do with the school situa tion. The other three were passed at the last session of the General Assem bly for submission to the voters at the next general election. One of these is an amendment to allow limited neces sary compensation for members of the General Assembly. The second is an amendment changing the date for con veiling the General Assembly from Jan uary to February. The last of the three is an amendment authorizing a mar ried woman to exercise powers of attor ney conferred upon her by her husband. Needless to say, by far the greatest interest will center in the first amend ment that is printed on the ballots. It is a constitutional amendment authorizing educational expense grants for private education and authorizing local vote to suspend local schools. These are serious propositions, and require thoughtful study if they are to be properly understood. We do not urge anyone to take our word for a single one of these proposed amendments, but we do invite all of our citizens, both white and colored, to plan to attend at least one of these public meetings. ONE MINUTE TO READ—LIFETIME SECURITY We’ve talked polio serum until we feel like it should be streaming out of everybodie’s ears. But apparently it isn’t, for the general lackadaisical atti tude taken has caused another drive to be undertaken. For over a year the Salk serum has been available. It has been declared safe and practical by every health ag ency of any standing in the land. It has been free for the asking. Yet despite all of this, too many people have failed to protect their children against the frustrations and pain of once healthy frames twisted, numbed and made useless. The fear and trembling wrhen a com munity has a polio outbreak is great. Remember 1944. Schools couldn’t open. Children were isolated. A living para lysis of community spirit and activity ensued. Authorities in the state medical soci ety say these tragedies can be ended. Dr. S. F. Ravenel, chairman of the soci ety’s committee on poliomyelitis says, “WHEN 75 PERCENT OF THE ELIGI BLES IN ANY AREA HAVE HAD TWO INJECTIONS IT WILL BE VIR TUALLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR PARALY TIC POLIO TO GAIN A FOOTHOLD IN THAT SECTION.” There can be no excuse for those hav ing control over children from three months of age through 19 years old to take the slight amount of time to guard their futures against polio. Prevention alone is the answer now. There is no cure. Polio shots alone are the answer. The clinics start Tuesday. The sched ule has been printed once. It appears again in this issue. Clip it out. Use it. Insure your family against polio. Urge others you know to do so. Remember, 75 percent having tbe shots insures against epidemic. A VERY SHORT RETURN Anyone who thinks typical business men devote much or most of their time to counting- the profits would do well to read a report made by the National Association of Manufacturers. The average manufacturing company, this report shows, spends most of the working day paying off the costs of do ing business—materials and supplies, wages and salaries, taxes, etc, Only about 19 minutes of that 8-hour day are left in which to earn profits. And only about half of those 19 minutes result in dividends for the owners—the rest of the “profit minutes” are used for reinvestment in the business. By contrast, wages and salaries take two hours and 19 minutes, taxes a trifle more than 43 minutes. The workers and the tax collectors do a lot better than the owners when it comes to dividing up the money business takes in. The owner, whether an individual or corpo ration is successful if he saves his shirt. MORE PEOPLE DEMAND MORE PAPER A speaker addressing the Seattle Chamber of Commerce recently made the statement that paper production would double within the next 20 years. To prove his point he said, “Every baby born today creates a lifetime demand for at least 15 tons of paper.” We don’t know how many cords of pulpwood it takes to make a ton of paper but we know that if the above statement is true that our farmers will have to double their efforts in tree planting in order to keep our county near the top in the production of pulp wood in the state. The county’s great forest resource is truly a blessing and should have the interest of every citizen in helping to protect young trees from forest fires, diseases and other things that causes tree destruction. We should show the same concern over tree destruction as we do over blue mold on tobacco beds and boll weevils in cotton. It is more important now and will be even more important tomorrow that we “keep our forests green” and grow ing. TRIMMING THE PORK CLOSER “Give the lady what she wants.” That has long been the policy of the meat industry. And fashions in meat have changed just as have fashions in dress or anything else. Back near the turn of the century, for example, the fashion in meat called for a liberal covering of fat to meet the requirements of people who did much more manual and outdoor work than The State Port Pilot Published Every Wednesday Southport, N. C. 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 their descendents of today do. Now customers want a minimum of fat—and the meat industry bows to their wishes. Pork is a good case in point. During the first half of this year the number of hogs which went to mar ket increased about 18 per cent over a year ago—but pork volume was only about 13 per cent higher. This indi cates, according to the American Meat Institute, that the industry has an in creasing recognition of consumer pi-e~ ferences in supplying a leaner type of meat. The industry generally has adopt ed a closer trim for pork—which means that it takes more hogs on the hoof to produce a given poundage of pork cuts ready for the stove. Along with this advance, hog pro ducers, agricultural colleges and others have developed an increasing interest in meat-type hogs. Last wear these came to nearly 20 per cent of the mar ket supply—about double the 1954 pro portion. 1 he upward trend is continuing this year. The lady gets what she wants ! ROVING REPORTER Continued From Page One first person we see each day is John McRoy. One of his jobs is to keep the business part of town cleaned up and he gets at the work early to avoid working through the heat of the day. Fri day, when we got around to the office we found John waiting for us with 3-ten cent cigars that he wanted to gi ve us. The almost daily fogging has undoubtedly been a big preven tive measure against mosquitoes. There are few about Southport, so far as we know. It is also not to be doubted that so long as the town is covered with vacant lots, covered by weeds and bush es and have a lot of tin cans, bottles and old automobiles that hold water the fogging will have to be continued or in a few days they will be swarming with pests. A good idea would be for the city to demand that owners of vacant property be required to clean up and keep such places clean. Sometimes we are surprised, al ways gratified, at the evidence of appreciation of the State Port Pilot that comes from far afirj near. People sending in their re newals, and sometimes those wlp subscribe for the first time, ha+j a kind word to say about the paper. Often the subscription comes from someone who just got a paper at the office or from one of the news stands or the office while in town. They like it so much they send in their subscription in order to keep up with what is going on in Bruns wick. As for former Brunswick people who take the paper, well, it takes two mailbags to carry it to them. This week, with his renewal, came a note from Janies A. Pearce of Pennsakuen 5, New Jersey. He said: “We enjoy very much reading about the home folks and what is going on in the little town by the sea—South port.” The short cut road from Orton to 87 will soon become a finished reality. The bridge across Moore’s Creek has been completed. Sloan and Grannis, contractors from Fayetteville, have finished their grading work and the E. B. Towles Company of Wilmington were to start the paving work this past Friday. One thing that causes us to feel a personal in terest in this project is that it will bring access to the fresh water springs on Allen Creek two miles nearer to Southport than they now are. In this connection, there is a whole lot of interest in the springs and the big volume of freshwater that is to be had there. We get personal or written inquiries about the water almost every day. Our friend G. V. Barbee of Yaupon Beach was recently traveling the eastern part of the U. S., looking for development ideas he might apply to Yaupon Beach. In Maine he was especial ly struck by a sign which read: “If there is anything that makes a Maine man mad it is Northern New Hampshire.” This 'ign mov ed the Yaupon Beach man to re mark to us on his return tc Southport and Yaupon Beach, “J thought of you and Wilmington just as soon as I saw that sign It reminded me very much ol home.” A pleasing occurance during this past week was the interest shown by Mrs. Miriam Rabb travel editor of the North Caro lina News Bureau, and Bill Gul ley, Photo Editor of the same department, in Yaupon Beach near Southport. Both of them were making their first visit ir this area and both assured us it would not be the last, in fact they expect to re' urn within th< next few weeks. Although they did not get to see G. V Barbee developer of Yaupon Beach, bott spoke highly of the course he was following In the establishment of a permanent beach resort town. They were also much interested in the production of the South port sport fishing craft and ex pect to return and go further into that. One of the freshwater lakes in the 550-acre tract acquired from the Caswell-Carolina Corporation by the Barbee, Incorporated, last week, is believed to have great development possibilities. It is about 600 feet in length and the suiTOundings provide an ideal in land site for a park with boats for skiing, etc. The area is also talked or as anording a beautiful setting for a church or churches. With the purchase of the 550 acre tact by Yaupon Beach, the resort now has an even 1,000 acres of high and dry wooded land, exclu sive of a considerable acreage of marsh land, lying back of the beach along the waterway and the Elizabeth River. If one will pardon us for say ing so, the three or four storm wrecked and unrepaired buildings at the entrance of the highway into Long Beach are the best possible scarecrows that man’s mind could devise. Folks who are alergic to storms readily take fright upon seeing them. We feel that with the town incorporated YOU CAN PROFIT BY OUR HIGHER DIVIDEND RATE Every dollar you save with us means increased income and added dividends for you. Open your savings account with us today. Add to it regularly and reap a harvest of higher earnings. Your Savings Account with us is as safe as if it were in Fort Knox . . . because it’s insured by an agency of the Federal Government up to $10,000. Open a protected Savings Account with us today. Southport Savings & loan Association W. P. JORGENSEN, Sec’y -Treas. SOUTHPORT, N. C. Not Exactly Metes Roadside stands do a big business in several sections of North Carolina, especially where there is a heavy flow of tourist traffic. A few years ago Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Johnson started one at their farm on highway No. 130 near South port. Later June Smith added one a short dis tance out this same road. This season there has been another roadside merchant doing good busi ness at his location between Shallotte and Ash, also on highway No. 130 . . . Celosia—the proper name for cockscombe—continues to be the favor ite flower of George Lindner, who each year pro duces a spectacular crop of these beautiful and unusual plants at the Lindner Farms near South port. We suppose that a rose by any other name smells just as sweet, but a few years ago what we now know as hurricanes were called equi noxial storms . . . The garrison grounds in Southport were given a good cleaning last week by the grounds crew from Sunny Point. Now sev eral loads of topsoil are being hauled in to level the low places in that site . . . One of the prettiest views from Southport this summer is across the harbor at night toward Caswell Bap tist Assembly when it is all lighted up. The lights on the municipal dock in Southport look pretty in the foreground. We don’t know much about “Bottom Of The Bottle, which is the Tuesday-Wednesday movie at the Amuzu. However, we are interested in the fact that Joseph Cotten, who is one of the stars, is the son of a former Southport resident. Furthermore, Ruth Roman, the lady lead, recent ly was in the news as a member of the passenger list aboard the Andria Doria, ill-fated Italian liner which sank last month off New York har bor . . . “To Hell And Back,” Thursday-Friday show at Long Beach Drive-In, is the real life story of Audie Murphy, the star . . . The audience was warm in its praise of “The Lady Pirates," original musical comedy written and directed by Lew Hardie and presented by a local cast Thurs day evening. The Rev. L. D. Hayman—who becomes Capt. Hayman when a fishing party shows up for a trip outside aboard his charter boat Silver Spray —has further proved his versatility as a farmer with an excursion into the realm of bee-keeping. Honey is one of the most delicious products of “Dun-Moving Farm,” the Hayman home near Southport . . . The biggest shows on television this week and next are the two National Conven tions and the biggest stars are the leading politi cians of both parties . . . Mrs. Miriam Rabb, spe cial feature writer, and Bill Gully, photographer for the State News Bureau, couldn’t have picked a better time for a visit to Southport than Fri day afternoon. Fishing parties were taking their days’ catch off the boats by the tubsfull. the officials can and should do something, to prevent such wreck ed buildings being allowed to re main at the head of the main street. Such things scare visitors away. In the normal course of sum mer events reports should be com ing in of good catches of mullets and spots being made by the shore fishermen along the Bruns wick coast. Such catches may be being made, but we just have not heard of them. Such fishing adds a lot of attraction to the coastal sectioji in the'late sum mer and early fall. They bring a lot of visitors to the Brunswick county coast and fishermen who make good catches will be doing us a favor if they make reports. The other day a county offi cial remarked to us that the tax building at Southport is a good one but that it is not suited for some of the purposes for which it is used. He pointed out that the welfare offices are upstairs and that sick and old folks are much inconvenienced in reaching these officials. It was his idea that the county could well sell the tax building and use the money for building a half-L at the north end of the court house. This building could be so arranged that the welfare office, as well as the tax office, could be on the ground floor. PHOTOGRAPHER AND Continued From rage one Myrtle Beach folks, frequent vis itors to Southport for the fish ing, had about 600 bluefish and mackerel which filled 9 fish box es. The boxes filled all of the rear compartment of a station wagon—3 boxes deep. The Myrtle Beach party was out aboard the Idle-On III, Cap tain II. A. Schmidt. Mrs. Rabb and photographer Gulley weer both inteersted in the combination of sport and food fish production. The catches in several instances ran to a retail value of two or three times the boat cost to the party. VENTOR RETRUNS Continued From rage One rived. Among these families are Mr. and Mrs. Huey Edwards and their son, Donnie. Donnie has had much of his schooling here and should make a valuable addition to the high school football squad this fall. A few of the families of em ployees on the boat, outside of those who are now using trailer homes, have secured houses in Southport. About all will be set teld down by the last of this week. The dredge employs three crews and works around the clock. McKEITHAN DEATH Continued From Page One Cemetery near Gause Landing with the Rev. Jesse Hilburn, Jr., officiating. Mr. McKeithan is survived by his parents, one brother and two sisters. Charter Bus For Trip To Durham The Brunswick County Sub* District of the Methodist Youth Fellowship has chartered a bus to carry at least thirty boys and girls to Durham Friday for a Methodist Youth Rally. Attending a week-long confer ence at Duke University this week are David Peters and Jimmy Harper of Southport. The Rev. R. H. Jordan, pastor of Trinity Methodist Church, :s assistant dean of the school. Read The Want Ads
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