EDITORIALS
MR. STEVENSON STATES THE CASE
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Between 1945 and 1960 some 38 na
tions were given their political freedom
by Western Europe powers, principally
Britain and France.
The former occupying powers have
gone even further. They have contribut
ed much to the economy of the emer
gent countries helping them to establish
self-sufficiency in food production,
health, education and industrial know
how.
The populace of the new nations
have a voice now in their own govern
ment and how the resources of their
countries will be used.
How well these nations make out in
shaping their own destiny will come to
light as the years advance. At least the
opportunity is theirs now. Elsewhere is
a contrasting picture.
Since 1920 the Soviet Union has tak
en control of 17 countries and parts of
eight others. They have offered no free
dom of self-expression and no choice
The State Port Pilot
Published Every Wednesday
Southport, N. C.
JAMES M. HARPER, JR. . Editor
Sintered as second-class matter April 20, 1928
at the Post Office at Southport, N. C., and
other Post Offices, under the Act
of March 3, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Brunswick and Adioining Counties
and Service Men . $2.00 per year
Six Months ..-... $1.50
Elsewhere in United States — $3.00
P*r Year;—« Months .. $2 00
for a better future or how the resour
ces of any of the counti'ies may be used.
On the contrary, they are living in slav
ery, agricultural output is dwindling
and people are starving.
The U.S. Ambasasdor to the UN
Adali Stevenson, stated it wrell the other
day. He said:
“First, the Sino-Soviet bloc today em
braces the largest colonial empire
which has ever existed in all history.
“Second, the Communist empire is
the only imperial system which is not
liquidating itself, as other empires have
done, but is still trying energetically to
expand in all directions.
“Third, the Soviet colonial system is
one of the most cruel and oppressive
ever devised.
“Finally, the Soviet colonial empire is
the only modem empire in which no
subject people has ever been offered
any choice concerning their future and
their destiny.”
Too Much Togetherness
In Milwaukee the other day a judge
awarded a woman a divorce from her
58-year-old husband because she objec
ted to sleeping with a third party in
the bed. The third party was the family
dog and the woman, not objecting so
much to the dog, but she was allergic
to dogs. It was a threesome together
ness that she could not stand.
The judge made the woman (her
husband’s third wife) give back a pic
ture of his second wife which he also
insisted sleeping with.
A wife, a picture of a former wife,
and a dog are too much for one bed, un
derstandably. It is a rare bed which is
not crowded by three, but four, we
would think, surpasses even the bounds
of the space age.
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ed to a medium sharp point. The
plant but the upper leaves taper
cured tobacco had medium body
with orange color. The per cent
reducing sugar, nicotine, and total
alkaloid was medium with fairly
low nitrogen to nicotine ratio.
Speight G 3 is rated as having
moderate resistance to black
shank, susceptible to Granville
and Fusarium wilt.
Speight G 10—(developed from
a cross of Ox. 1-181 x Speight
42) produced a high yield of to
bacco with relatively good tex
ture. The plant was medium low
in height, with a high leaf num
ber, a low number of ground suck
ers and a medium number of leaf
axil suckers. In the medium broad
and long leaves at the bottom
of the plant, medium long and
narrow pointed leaves toward the
top. The cured tobacco had medi
um body and a fairly rich orange
color. The per cent reducing sugar,
nicotine and total alkaloid was
medium with a relatively high
nitrogen to nicotine ratio. Speight
G 10 is rated as having high re
sistance to black shank, suscep
tible to Granville and Fusarium
wilt.
Coker 80 F—(developed from a
cross of Coker 187-Hicks X
(Coker 139 X Hicks) produced a
medium yield of tobacco
with fairly good texture
It was medium in height,
with a high leaf count, and a low
number of ground suckers and
high number of leaf axil suckers.
It had medium width leaves to
ward the bottom of the plant
but narrow pointed leaves toward
the top. The cured tobacco had
medium body with orange color.
The per cent reducing sugar was
medium, nicotine and total alka
loid high with a low nitrogen to
nicotine ratio. Coker 80 F is rated
as having high resistance to black
shank, moderate resistance to
Granville wilt, susceptible to
Fusarium wilt.
Roy R. Bennett, extension to
bacco specialist at State College,
pointed out that only limited in
formation is available on the new
varieties.
If a farmer is satisfied with his
present variety, Bennett suggests
that "he stay with it” until he
has had a chance to gain some
experience with the new tobacco.
“It is better,” Bennett said, “to
grow a small acreage of any new
tobacco the first year than to go
into large scale production im
mediately.”
TUG LOSES TOW
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the river channel.
But all's well that ends well,
and the reluctant flatboats were
whipped into line, the marker re
placed on its permanent position
and the pipes sailed along to
their destination.
APPLICATIONS FOR
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Recently Neils Jorgensen, act
ing postmaster at Southport, and
a postal inspector interviewed rep
resentative citizens as to the de
sire and the need for mail de
livery in Southport.
Earlier the Southport Jaycees,
Time and Tide
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appropriately, there was a front page picture of the Nativity.
On the editorial page there appeared a long version of The
Christmas Story.
In the Letters To The Editor that week was one from Mrs.
Susie S. Carson thanking us for an editorial we had written in
support of Bookmobile Service for Brunswick. That was 15 years
ago, and now we have a bookmobile. Mrs. Carson is a member
of the board of trustees for the library. They had killed a deer
inside the city limits at Shallotte, nnd the annual Christmas
party has been planned at Orton Plantation.
The date was December 19, 1961, and the Christmas rush was
on. This had even extended to Recorder’s court where Judge W.
J. McLamb had heard charges against a variety of pre-holiday
[ celebrants. A Shallotte man, Capt. Ruffin Redwine, had been de
corated for heroic action in Korea, and his picture was on the
front page of The Pilot
Here in Southport the folks were getting ready for the Christ
mac programs, one of these being a pageant on the lawn in
front of the Southport Baptist Church with live animals in the
cast. Both the Baptists and the Methodists were preparing can
tatts.
It was the day after Christmar when The Pitot came out five
years ago. The biggest headline ofl all was concerning the sudden
death of Sam T. Bennett.
There was a shortage of news, so treatment was given to the
football conference in which Southport would be a participant the
coming season; there was announcement of a tarpon tournament,
with the big rush still eight months hence; and preparations
were being made for explorations of rumored off-shore fishing
grounds.
BEST WISHES
To all our wonderful friends—
here's Hoping your Christmas
tree is big and bright and your
. - day is filled with all the glad*
ness of this holiday season.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
E. W. Godwin’s Sons
“EVERYTHING
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WILMINGTON, N. C.
headed by its president, Kirby
Sullivan, had laid the necessary
groundwork towards getting this
service by accepting responsibility
for numbering houses. City forces
have been erecting street signs.
Two letter drops were installed
in a further move by the city to
meet government requirements in
the matter.
SENCland GROUP
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C. Johnston, Shallotte, Industry;
Mrs. Ina Mae Mintz, Boliiva, and
Mrs. Gilbert Reid, Winnabow, A.
S. Knowles, secretary.
GREETINGS FROM
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up at times needed to further the
needs or aims of the many or
ganizations, church and civic, that
exist. These all contribute to a
better community, better life and
better world. This betterment of
the world's peoples was, after all,
the purpose of Him whose birth
we celebrate during this season,
and whose preachings we should
all heed throughout the year.
“To all the people of this area
I wish a most Merry Christmas
and Happy New Year for 1962,
and that safety will be your
watchword.
“Sincerely,
“JOHNNIE D. DUFFIE
“Colonel, TC,
“Commanding”
GLEE CLUB IN
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took on deeper tone, with the
hosannas all directed to the Prince
of Peace in such lilting numbers
as “The First Noel”, “Away in a
Manger”, "O, Little Town of
Bethlehem”, “Silent Night” and
“Oh, Come All Ye Faithful.” The
last two songs were rendered
twice, with the large audience re
quested to join in the choruses.
This audience-participation was
accorded only one song from the
opening group, the semi-classical
“White Christmas.”
BRUNSWICK VOTERS
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reasonable return for their crop
when they abide by the program
provisions.” ,
Price added that the Agricul
tural Conservation Program ini
tial sign-up will begin on January
2, 1962, and will continue through
January 16. “All Brunswick far
mers who plan to carry out the
approved ACP practice in 1962,”
said Price, “are urged to visit
the ASC office and file their re
quest during this sign-up period.”
Not Exactly News
“What Clo you think of a man \mo is in sucn a hurry to got
off from home and get a cup of coffee that he locks his dog and
his keys up in his car when he goes into the cafe”? That was
Dan Harrelson talking, and it was Saturday morning. Without
awaiting our answer, Dan said that earlier that da,y George Sav
age had driven to one of the local restaurants, leaving his dog
behind, and also leaving his keys in the switch. His dog didn’t
like being locked up, so he began pawing at the window. In the
process he locked the door from the inside, so when his master
left the restaurant he found that he had been locked out of his
own car. There was nothing to do but go home to get the other
set of keys, and when he provided the necessary neighborly cab
.service, Dan had learned the whole story.
One bit of Christmas decoration in a rural area that impressed
us is at New Britian Bridge, where there is a string of colored
lights across Highway No. 130 . . . Continuing this festive motif,
the nearby Kingtown Community Development signboard is ap
propriately festooned with greenery.
Another thing we noticed on the way to Whiteville today was
a lone white heron sitting in the tip-top of the tallest tree we
could see beside the highway in the Waccamaw River swamp. He
looked for all the world like just what he probably was—a lonely
sentinel . . . The Christmas parade in Southport last week drew
a big crowd and withal was an enjoyable event. The “float” that
stole the show however was the sled being pulled by “Bones”, the
big airdale with the “shiny” tail.
The way we remember it, planting tobacco beds is something
that was the first thing on the farm program after the first of
the year. But no more. Already we have se£n several beds in the
process of preparation . . . When we were in Brunswick Cold
Storage at Shallotte this morning' we saw some hams covered
with an orange colored, crystaline substance. Inquiry led to the
information that this is a compound for sugar-curing hams.
We hate to be in bad tas'te, but at the risk of being just that
we must observe that a pair of buzzards we saw scavaging a
meal from the highway one afternoon were getting just what
they deserved—a mess of dead skunk, which had made one gal
lant effort before he died . . . And while on the subject, Dr. Al
len Graham came by the other afternoon to report that his big
pointer, Jake, not only had found a pointed quail that afternoon,
but that h« had “caught” a skunk, too. One ,whiff, and we knew
it was so!
On the movie front this week “Blue Hawaii” is the Thursday
Friday-Saturday feature at the Amuzu . . . “Two Rode Together”
is the weekend show at the Holiday Drive-In at Shallotte . . .
Don’t forget the dance Saturday night at the Dions Club build
ing. Those who have heard them, say this is a top-notch orches
tra that will be playing.
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full of good cheer
that our many friends have
a bright Christmas holiday•
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