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EDITORIALS: THESE ARE GOOD MEN If jou are inclined to be critical sometimes when you see some of the cit\ employees riding or standing or sitting around apparently doing nothing don t be too quick to pass judgment, ihese are good men to have around for an emergency. Like Monday night. The temperature was below thirty—and that’s cold. oieover, there was a strong wind blowing. And it was dark. Then the lights went out in one section of town, and complaints began to pour in. It was after quitting time, of course, but the lights were out. Even more seri ous was the fact that in many of the homes, so was the heat. No lights;,,no heating; no cooking—the makings of a bad situation. But not for long. Before many minutes had passed Joe ^pencer, Johnson Cumbee, Brother Fisher and other city workers were out of their warm homes and off in search of the trouble. When they found it, there were poles to be climbed and painstaking repairs to be made. And this was quickly and efficiently done. Next time you feel critical about one of these fellows, ask yourself how you’d like to climb a light pole in 30-degree weather and work on a power line in the dark while the wind tries to blow you down. Just ask yourself that ques tion. , JUDGE MALLARD SPEAKS Judge Raymond B. Mallard spoke in no uncertain terms to Wake county jurors last week after they had persis tently refused to bring out a verdict for conviction in a single one of the several drunken driving cases for which they heard evidence. Beginning Monday morning each one of you put your hand on the Bible standing right out there, and lifted your land to Almighty God that you would well and truly try all cases that would come before you during this term and true verdicts give according to the evi dence thereon, so help you God.” Judge Mallard reminded the jurors that the court had been trying cases all week and that four or five of them had been drunken driving cases. “Not one, he said, ‘ has been a conviction.” If you don t believe officers just be cause they are officers, and if that is the kind of jurors we have, then this court and other courts are wasting time.” We join with Judge Mallard in being puzzled over the attitude of the average juror in the trial of a drunk driver. In our opinion, he is one of the most dan gerous hazzards on Our highways to day, and since each of us must travel in the normal pursuit of our business, to shield and protect him is to preserve and to propogate this major threat to safe driving. Judge Mallard is a fair, able and honest man, and he is a capable and re spected judge. It is good to hear him speak out against this persistent and pernicious practice of protecting the drunken driver. Why are they protect ed. ? A TERMITE IDEA ON TV ihe question was something’ of a gambit: W hat are you going- to do when they get pay TV? What are you going to do when you have to pay to watch your own set ?” The answers were quick: “Sell the thing,” Make it into a book case and sell the innards to these sput nik boys.” Then one in the group said seriously: “If they’ll refund me what I’ve inves ted in the set, if they’ll put in their own machine, pay for the current it takes, 111 be willing to pay for the shows I want to see. “I just can’t see~pnytrrg fur ;i for the power to run it for somebody else to be able to charge me to watch it !” Like the idea. Write your congressman. Write your friends, congressman. MR. LINCOLN SAID On February 12 many school child ren will take time to recall some of the great deeds and statements of the great Abraham Lincoln and thus note his birthday. No doubt many adults will re call something of the great Civil War president. Had he lived many people believe the South would have fared bet ter following the great war between the states. Belowr are tw'o quotes attributed to Lincoln that wre feel is most pertinent to present conditions. He is reported to have said: You cannot lilt the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer." “You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.” The above two very wise statements are as applicable today as they were when Lincoln spoke them nearly a cen tury ago. As so is the statement below concerning a man and the community in which he lives: “I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives; and so live that the place will be proud of him.” Well said Mr. Lincoln. FAILURES OF COMMUNISM What has communism accomplished? A terse and compelling answer to that question is provided by the distinguish ed historian and teacher Russell Kirk, in his new book, “The American Cause”, which the Chicago firm of Reg nery has published. Kirk states: “Although the Commun ists have preached brotherhood, in prac tice they have murdered many millions of innocent people. Although the Com munists have praised absolute equality The Slate Port Pilot Published hverv Wednesday Southport, N. C. JAMES M. HARPER, JR. Editor Entered as second-class matter April 20, 1028 at the Post Office at Southport, N. C., under the Act of March 3, 1870. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR .$1.50 SIX MONTHS . 1.00 THREE MONTHS .76 they have established absolute despot ism. Although the Communists have aped Christian charity in words, they have resorted to theft and confiscation in actuality. Although the Communists have promised Utopia, they have deliv ered whole nations to mortal torment. Although they have talked unendingly of peace, they have thriven by war.” Communism is a philosophy of pure materialism. Yet Communism in prac tice has misearbly failed to better the material living standards of the people. And article in U. S. News & World Re ports tells this story. It takes a Russian factory worker 306 hours and 35 min utes to earn enough money to buy .him self a suit—the American factory work er can earn the suit in 22 hours and 9 minutes. It takes that Russian worker 19 minutes to earn the price of a cake of soap, as against 3 minutes for the American. It takes the Russian 3 hours and 23 minutes to make enough to buy a pound of butter; in our factories the figure is 21 minutes. So it goes, down the roster of practially everything in or dinary use. Jn terms of human values and better ment, Communism lias been not only a failure but a ruthless despoiler. ttv, PRACTISE SAFETY^ PROTECT YO CHILPRENj Don't leave hot APPLIANCES WHERE PULLER OFF. AVO/P U VKING UTENSILS OR ’EY CAN BE EASILY WRY ANO SCARS ( STREET LIGHTS Continued From drews. In commenting upon feceive work, James D. „„„„ president of Shallotte Lions „ said, “Its the fastest working co mittee I ever saw. I appOinl them at one meeting, and befl our next session the lights been purchased and installed.” WACCAMAW OPENS Continued From Page One] dent of the PTA, Tony Weldon Hall, principal of school; Mrs. Hall, and nice Odom, senior English were the chaperones. The Waccamaw students tiated the practice of serving 1 refreshments after basketb games to the visiting players the beginning of the basket season. It has offered the studf many social opportunities, and definitely proven its value. will prove to ficiail. PLANE SERVICE Continued From Page One license now. He is married to the former Millicent Ward of Manteo. They have three children, two girls, 5 and 2 years old and a son 3 years old. The Browns live at the corner of Clay and Canal. They belong to the Episcopal church. Rhyne says the plane is equip ped with radio equipment geared to the Forest Service frequency. Later it is hoped to all public address equipment. “We feel the plane will be the most valuable addition of equipment in recent years to the Forest Service in this section,” he said. “Flying over fires, the plane acts as eyes of the ground forces. Photographs made from planes have been valuable in forest fire law enforcement work.” On large fires the plane will be used to direct fire fighting activities, and to find the best locations for control lines. When haze or smoke prevents the lookout towers from covering all areas, the plane can be used to locate and investigate burning that is being done. On other days, the plane will be available to assist fire fight ing forces where needed most. Normally 'the plane will operate from Whiteville, being based at Sledge field near Brunswick. Brown arrived in Whiteville Jan. ,13 'to report for duty, and on Jan. 18, he got an all day taste of fire fighting from the air, in this area, by flying fires at Poiey Bridge and in the Smyrna section. The Poiey Bridge fire dam aged about 40-50 acres, the Smyrna blaze about 24-30 acres. 1957, flying in the northeastern section of the state. JEANNE MITCHELL Continued From fage One which recalled her many times after the Franck, made it clear that the audience shared her feel ings. “Miss Mitchell concluded her program with the first New York performances of works by two Norwegian composers. A three movement Sonatina by Robert Orr seemed pretty disjointed to this listener and not very original. Two Norwegian Dances by Sigurd Lie were simple and attractive without any great pretentions. Miss Mitchell played both works with sympathy. Her accompanist was Eugene Helmer.” Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell were in New York to attend this concert. SCOREBOARD AND Continued From Page One ed to her, may be turned in at the office of this newspaper or Time c nd Tide Continued Fr m Page One correspondingly small—four pa es—but there certainly wasn’t a shortage of news that week. Tor instance; Douglas Jones had recently 1 ecome the first Eagle Scout in the local history of scouting. N3 vernal Boy Scout week had com menced Sunday with the local poop members attending church en masse. D. I. Watson had justf graduated from an Amy tech nical school in Amarillo, Texas. Clarence Simmons had captured some six bushels of shrimp a ad #00 pounds of whiting in one re cent day’s trawling. And th| Hospital Auxiliary was raising funds with which to purchas# a new, much-needed sterilizer. Gasoline, tires, even bicycles had been rationed due to the in ternational situation, but now the last straw seemed to have come up. Shoes were being fattened. Captain T. J. Tobiasen, USA, had recently been promoted to the rank of Major, Joy Arnold had become the bride tof Ceorge Gregory, and the Coast Guardsmen had avenged themselves against the Naval officers. Score: 38-28. Rarely has a better example of woman’s indominable spirit been revealed than in a feature story in The Pilot of February 11, 1948. Despite seemingly impassable roads, the Mill Creek Home Demonstration Club had met at the appointed place, its members arriving there via h®rse and cart. That issue also noted the construction of the county’s third air strip—this one at Cause landing. The other two: Shaliotte and Windy Point. Miss Annie Mae Woodside and Mrs. Lou H. Smith had return ed to Southport after a three-week visit to Cuba. W. Kerr Scott had announced his candidacy ifor. the gubernatorial nomination; the N. C. Little Symphony was to make three county’ appear ances; and the foul weather made the re-opening of school still indefinite. February 11, 195.3, found the dikes at Sunny Point going up. Hie incorporation of Lonp teach Was being seriously discussed; the Reverend Clarence Warren had spoken at the last meeting of the Southport Lions jpub; and Ray Walton had replaced Thomas St. George on the County Board of Education. Sprott Brothers of Sanford were discussing plans to erect a modern brick structure in Southport to house a new furniture store, Mi’s. Margaret Mclt^ken had been installed as Assoeia tional Missionary for the Brinswiek Baptist Association; and Barbee’s. Incorporated, of Id upon Village had a crop of thriving tropical fruit trees on its h^ds. Not Exactly News | - - — During the past week we have been receiving some complaints about some of the information gleaned from our tide table. Seems as though we had the times for high and low water reversed, and it caused confusion; particularly to one fellow who came down to do some oystering at low ticie (newspaper time, that is) only to find a full four feet of water covering his favorite oyster rock. Well, we are happy to report that Capt. Fred Will ing of the Cape Fear Pilot Association has been by to counsel with us about the preparation of this information, and starting today we are just about ready to guarantee that it will be correct. News of our advance in subscription rates has met with various reactions. One fellow came in Saturday, asked if it is true that we have gone up to two dollars for local subscriptions; and upon being assured that we have, he decided against renewing and walked out. On the otherhand, Capt. Reubin Drew of Brooklyn, N. Y., wrote us a note saying that the advance—to three dollars in. his case—was perfectly well justified; and to give emphasis to his complete agreement, he enclosed a check for a dollar and one-half to supplement his earlier subscription payment . . . Mrs. Leila Shirey and Laura Lee St. George have moved across the street and are now operating the soda shop; and it’s still a popular haunt for the teen agers. Some bird dog notes here at the tail-end of the season: Robert Thompson lost his fine young pointer, Mike, when he develoyed a brain disorder ancl died last week . . . Jimmie Prevatte, Edgar Finch and Hubert Livingston made a trip to Kan napolis Saturday to pick out a new pointer pup for Jimmie. Incidentally, Edgar is in the bird dog business with a German pointer . . . Prettiest piece of retrieving we have seen this season was performed Friday afternoon by Floyd Kirby’s Susie, who swam out into a small pond and dug a winged bird out of a stump hole before bringing it in. Incidentally, it was the first time Floyd, Jr., had been able to go hunting since his automobile accident at Clarkton several weeks ago. Orders are being accepted for season tickets to the Atlantic Coast Conference Basketball Tourna ment in Raleigh, and several local fans already have sent in their requests . . . Seems to us that everyone who goes from New York to Florida must fly, for there is a steady stream of passen ger planes overhead during recent weeks . . . This George Hamilton, IV, who flattens out and holds on to the last syllable of “Why Don’t They Un dersta-a-a-nd,” is a former student at UNC . . . Word from Chapel Hill is that Jim Varnum is getting in shape for the indoor track season. The other day he ran against Dave Sime, the Duke flash, in a practice meet . . . Five shrimp trawlers headed out of the harbor at Southport Monday morning,*? but any thought that they were local was purely wish-thinking. They were up-state boats on their way to Florida and Texas shrimp ing grounds. nay be given to one of the Junior harden Club members. The purchase price is $425, and the first contribution of $5 was made from the Garden Club treas ury. Harry D. Sell, Southport electrical contractor, has agreed to install the clock without charge. SAVINGS AND LOAN Continued From Page One of their funds. 4. The home mortgage loan portfolio was increased by $204, 191.94, in 1957, bringing the total of home loans outstanding to $1, 268,813.67. 5. Reserves were increased to $86,953.71. In reveiwing business prospects for 1958, Mr. St. George said the outlook for savings and the avail ability of home credit was more favorable than during 1957. RICHARD O. EATON Continued From Page One visor on the staff of the Beach Erosion Board. —*itotoi)liHiifin—to_ttieiwtoei slup to several technical societies, Mr. Eaton is a member of the Tidal Hydralics Committee of the Corps Plants Brighten Yards In Winter Your back yard needn’t suffer that drab look next winter or thereafter if your property can accommodate a few more trees or shrubs. Plantings that retain berries into the frigid season or boast interesting bark patterns will add the proper dash of color to the home grounds scene. Among the best trees and of Engineers, the Council on Wave Research of the Engineering Foun dation, and is Chairman of the Committee on Coastal Engineering of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He has served as a consultant to the State Depart ment, foreign governments, and private industry on harbor pro jects on the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of South America and in West Africa, as well as to field offices of the Corps of Engineers on numerous harbors on the coasts of North America and on the Great Lakes. shrubs known for their winter fruits are the Washington haw thorn, some of the flowering crabapples, the mountain ash, the common winter creeper euonymus and Japanese multiflora rose. Any and all of these have color ful fruit that makes excellent bird food. Home owners shouldn’t feel disappointed if the berries grad ually disappear. Some of the trees and shrubs that offer pleasing contrast by unusual bark patterns are the birches, golden willows, red wil lows and several species of cherries. These should be planted in conspicious places to showcase the beauty of their trunks. Trees with flaking bark con tribute colors ranging from near white to dark brown with many shades of subdued yellow. These include the sycamores, Russian olives and the stewartias. The week-end gardener intent upon starting a winter color scheme this spring should also include some of the hardier and more colorful shrubs. Redosier dogwood, yellowttwig dogwood and Scotch broom are among the good choices. ■ksKS 1 yoiH S^^SHS»^a. -■A^®r \ 111 M That's Exactly What Our Generous 1 Dividend Payments, Compounded Semi-Annually, Mean To You! OPEN A SAVINGS ACCOUNT WITH US THIS WEEK! Southport Savings & Loan Association W. P. JORGENSEN, Sec’y.-Treos. SOUTHPORT, N. C.
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