EDITORIALS
STATE SERVICE HELPS SMALL TOWNS
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The Department of Conservation and
Development has provided a truly help
ful service in making municipal plan
ning engineers available to small towns
and communities for guidance in de
veloping and planning for the future.
In so many instances, small corporate
bodies, short of funds and technical
know-how, just don’t have the money
to retain experts for laying out streets,
establishing a workable plan -for utility
expansion and the setting aside of spec
ific areas for residential, commercial
and industrial growth.
But the federal government has re
cognized the plight of such communities
with appropriations whereby the gov
ernment will pay two thirds of the cost
of such planning and the municipality
pays the remaining third. This is where
C&D comes in with their engineers. The
funds will finance the planning work.
It is popular to excoriate Congress
for loose spending, but in this instance,
we feel that such funds are well aimed
and will be well-spent.
Generally, the big city has a prepon
derance of taxable property to meet its
maintenance and expansion needs, but
not so with the small communities.
Small towns are doing well when they
are able to keep their bills current.
The hiring of planning specialists at
$40, $50, even $60 per day is out of
the question. So, helter-skelter building
goes on at the builder’s will without a
comprehensive plan and with no regard
for what is best for the future.
Then, as the years pass, problems
arise and grow. Every town in Bruns
wick county has such problems, and
many another, for that matter, is suf
fering the same pains. Money for the
remedy ? It isn’t there.
Such conditions not only hinder
orderly growth but they also become
barriers to other people and businesses
that might see a future here as a resi
dence and place to establish a commer
retained and the debt limit raised.
WHAT ABOUT THE COFFEE BREAK ?
If advancements in the world con
tinue at the present rate, 40 years from
now the average worker will put in a
28-hour week, take three-day week
ends, have four weeks for a vacation
while machines keep production going.
Just some of the predictions carried
in an article in the Readers Digest by
Robert O’Brien.
The population by 2002 will be such
that we will need 12 times as much
aluminum, three times as much timber,
twice as much iron and two and a half
times as much water. By then nuclear
power plants will be converting great
volumes of sea-water to fresh water,
and at least half of our energy will
come from atomic power.
In transportation, jets will cross the
continent in a little over an hour, pneu
matic pipelines will carry our freight,
a rocket belted to your back will take
you to work and moving sidewalks will
carry you up and down the street.
You won’t dial the phone, just speak
and you will talk to and see your party.
You’ll be able to cook your dinner
while taking a ride through the coun
try, and it is probable that a single in
jection, or a pill, will immunize you
against all communicable diseases.
Forty years from now, the Digest
says, trips to the moon will be common
place.
But there’s this about things to come:
If man is farsighted enough not to de
stroy himself, he could remake himself.
Only the passing years will answer this.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES STATE
The current issue of the National
Geographic magazine features North
Carolina in the lead article and covers
the state from the mountains to the sea
in sparkling photographs and descrip
tive narrative. It is good reading and
an honor to the Tar Heel State.
The whole state is there—from the
Outer Banks to the scenic highway
along the crest of the Blue Ridge moun
tain chain. In between is apt coverage
of the industrial, commercial, cultural
and spiritual activities which make -the
Old North State tick.
Pictures and stories tell the tobaco
co story from planting to warehouse
floor, how mountain people became
skilled craftsmen through the necessity
of making themselves things they could
not procure otherwise, and there is the
story of education and research, all of
which is helping the state forge ahead
as a balanced commonwealth, a good
place to live, work and play.
Any country, and particularly any
state, which earns such recognition
must have something the publishers of
National Geographic believe their mil
lions of readers would like to know
about.
While the publishers have paid
North Carolina a glowing .tribute with
the article, the story, no doubt, will be
worth millions of dollars to the state in
attracting more tourists to see and hear
about what we have here and what we
are doing.
North Carolina is grateful for the
honor. Now let us do an even better job
of living up to what has been said
about us.
NOTHING TO HIDE
The North Carolina prison depart
ment made it plain that the state had
nothing to hide when a delegation from
Rhode Island came here for a first-hand
look at how prisons in the state are
operated and how prisoners are treated.
The whole matter stemmed from pris
on escapees who were caught in Rhode
Island and sought to evade being re
turned to North Carolina to finish their
term by claiming cruel and inhuman
treatment.
What conclusion the visiting delega
tion reached after looking at state pris
ons is not known, so far, but it looks as
if the escapees have made suckers out
of their Rhode Island captors.
GREAT WOMAN PASSES
A great woman passed to her reward
at Crossnore last Saturday and she will
be remembered there and througout
the state as long as there are mountain
people in Western North Carolina.
Mrs. Mary Martin Sloop and her phy
sician husband chose the mountains and
their people as their field of service
and, among other contributions, foun
The State Port Pilot
Published, Everv 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., and
other Post Offices, under the Act
of March 3, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Brunswick and Adjoining Counties
and Service Men . $2.00 per yea?
Six Months . $1.50
Elsewhere in United States — $3.00
Per Year;—6 Months _ $2-00
ded the famed Crossnore school with
the sale of old clothes donated by
friends from far and near. Both wife
and husband were physicians and they
ministered to every need of those about
them—physical, spiritual, cultural and
educational.
They went to this backwoods coun
try on horseback as bride and groom
and spent their remaining 53 years
working writh underprivileged children
and the needs of the sick. Dr. Sloop, the
husband died just a year ago.
Mrs. Sloop was American Mother of
jthe Year in 1951 and the North Caro
lina committee said she was the first
citizen of North Carolina.
The Crossnore school started in a
tent and now has 25 buildings, and
there are a hospital and a dental clinic
now where the son, Dr. William Martin
Sloop, dentist, and a daughter, Dr. Em
ma Sloop Frink, physician, are active.
When a call comes to your door for
old clothes, remember Mrs. Sloop and
what those garments may mean to an
other.
*Our Business Is None Of Yours!*
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GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS
Time and Tide
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sentative Odell Williamson, had introduced a bill, in the State
Legislature to abolish Rural Policemen for Brunswick.
It had been cold in Southport, with the official Weather Bu
reau figures showing a low reading of 19-degrees on Monday of
that week. Shallotte was to be the site of the annual basketball
tournament, scheduled for two weeks hence; quail hunters had
reported a poor season—and were puzled; and there was a story
which said; “Early Fishermen Have Good Luck.”
The front page picture in The Pilot for January 30, 1952,
showed a Whiteville man with a big turkey gobbler he had
killed while hunting in Brunswick. Wiring of the Southport gym
had been completed by a corps of volunteer workmen.
There was some similarity between the weather of 10 years
ago and that of the past week. Springlike temperatures had
given way to a 22-degree reading and this is what happened
over the past weekend in Soutrport. A Brunswick County girl,
Miss Hilda Hewett of Supply, had been crowned “Miss James
Walker”—she being a student nurse at the Wilmington hospital.
Her picture also was on the front page.
Five years ago this week Representative James C. Bowman
had left for Raleigh and duty in the General Assembly. His was
a front page photo. There also was a front page piece about the
Heart Drive, and Kirby Sullivan was the chairman.
There was a premature headline: “Ferry To Begin Operating
Soon.” It had reference to a private promotion, not to the State
Highway project now under consideration. Ernest Parker had
been appointed solicitor of Recorder’s Court; warm weather had
brought on a flood of camellia blossoms; and 20 rooms were
being added to the Yaupon Beach Motel during the off-season.
ROUTINE CASES
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sentenced to 30 days in the com
mon jail, with sentence suspended
for 2 years on condition he re
main sober and be of good be
havior and pay fine of $10 and
costs.
Dalton R. Norton drew one to
two years in prison on a charge
of manslaughter, with sentence
suspended upon 3 years probation,
payment of $125 for court attend
ance of prosecuting witnesses and
the costs of the action.
David Price drew 3 to 5 years
in prison for breaking, entering
and larceny, and larceny of auto.
Harry Pickett, charged with
possession of whiskey for sale,
drew 12 months on roads with
sentence suspended for 5 years,
plus a fine of $200 and costs.
Joseph James Ellis pleaded guil
ty to breaking and entering and
was sentenced to 3 to 5 years in
state prison, with sentence sus
pended for 5 years on condition
defendant make restitution to the
Union High School of $650, plus
the costs of the actioin.
SHALLOTTE WILL
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local event; or a decision may
be made to cooperate with the
Shallotte Jayces in holding just
one event this year in Brunswick.
General chairmen for the Shal
lotte pageant are David Gause
and Billy Gurganus. Chairman of
entries is Sam Inman.
SOUTHPIRT HAS
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of finger-printing.
Some 30 police officers attended
the special school and classes were
held from 9 till 11:30 a. m., and
from 3 till 5:30 p. m. daily.
SEED AVAILABLE
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year in the cooperation on the
part of farmers and sportsmen
in the matter of providing feed
for wildlife. He also said that
Brunswick was the best county
in this district, then added “and
that must mean we were the best
county in the State.”
HOUSE NUMBERS
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places of business in Southport
be numbered.
If the home owner desires, the
visiting Jaycees will put up the
numbers for them in a suitable
place, clearly visible from the
street. This will be done only if
requested by the owner.
The Jaycees also have for sale
three types of mail boxes, and
since these will be a convenience
for each home owner once delivery
' begins, they hope to be able to
; place a number of these in mak
| ing their calls.
E. W. Godwin’s Sons
“EVERYTHING
TO BUILD THE HOME”
Phone RO 2-7747 — Castle Hayne Road
WILMINGTON, N. C.
BRUNSWICK HAS
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well below the national average,
with $51 monthly being the aver
age here.
Only 56 dwellings in Brunswick
County contained basements,
which is about average for a
rural county in the South. And
the fact that out of a grand total
of 6,616 housing units only 101
were trailer homes, prove that
Brunswick’s population is def
initely not of a nomadic or tran
sient type.
A rather sad commentary is
that there were more automobiles
in Brunswick County than bath
tubs; and, whereas only 143
households boasted air-condition
ing, there were 3,681 TV sets ih
Not Exactly News
One of the most attractive roadside displays we have seen
lately was near Supply Tuesday. Some out-of-county salesman,
pleased with the prospects for stopping Southbound motorists on
U.S. No. 17, had cherry cider—a product that definitely must
have been imported—in clear, glass jugs, and sparkling in the
sunlight. The stuff looked good enough to drink . . . Also on
Tuesday we had our first real prevue of Spring: As‘we passed
one of the school grounds during recess we saw the boys—and
girls, 'foo—playing baseball. They had even brought their gloves
and bats to school with them.
Lest we become too smug with the degree to which Southport
has become civilized, let us report that twice during the past
week, and at two widely separated parts of town, we have seen
the bodies of big, fat possums who had been run over by automo
biles while working the town for garbage . . . We are not the
only one who misses the pro basketball broadcasts that had been
a regular Sunday afternoon feature until this year. We have had
numerous others to complain, and we tell you—if you are inter
ested in a change—like we told them: Don’t complain to the
newspaper, write or call the TV station, so they can write or call
the network officials. Maybe by next year we can get basket
ball booked back as a replacement for opera and faith healing.
-..This morning on the way to Whiteville we ran into a succes
sion of highway betterment projects, most of them having to
do with widening shoulders on the road. That was the case be
tween Southport and Supply, and the little delay was well worth
the promised improvement . . . That reminds us that we hope
the highway forces can and will devise some method to drain
the ditches alongside Highway No. 130 and Highway No. 87 near
Southport. The stagnant water they contain makes a bad adver
tisement for the entire area as tourists and other visitors ap
proach our town and neighboring beaches.
Last night we were in Whiteville, and since Southport was
scheduled to play Leland in a basketball doubleheader, we decided
to come home the long way and see the games. When we got
to Leland, the gym was dark *and the school ground was desert
ed. We thought the games must have been called off due to the
incipient flu epidemic. But when we got to Southport there were
lights in the gym and cars were parked all about. We got there
in time to see the last few minutes of the boys game after chas
ing around our elbow to get to our thumb ... In making a pitch
Tuesday night before a meetirtg of the Whiteville Merchants
Association, Mayor J. K. Powell, who was plugging for establish
ment of an ABC Store-in his own city, warned: “If we keep
right on sitting down and doing nothing about it, the next thing
you know they will have Ash incorporated and will have a
special act passed by the legislature to build an ABC Store
there.”
Mrs. A. M. Barnet, who is visiting her daughter in Westfield,
N. J„ celebrated her birthday last week with dinner at the Molly
Pitcher Hotel, Red Bank, N. J. . . . “The Colossus Of Rhodes” is
the weekend show at the Amuzu (which is getting along all right
with Bill in charge while Breman is in the hospital) ... A lot
of farm boys and girls will be able to see “Tomboy And The
Champ” free of charge next Wednesday and Thursday at Holi
day Drive-In. One of the Shallotte merchants is giving away
tickets for this performance.
the units, far more than double
the amount of telephones.
Citizens of Brunswick went
clean and ate well, acording to
the statistics, with just under
4,000 washing machines, and al
most 2,500 home food freezers
installed’.
VISITS PARENTS
Miss Sarah Jane Butler, student
nurse at Rex Hospital in Raleigh,
spent the past weekend with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. D. Butler,
at Leland.
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