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Brunswick Between Bookends
Bv Eugene Fallon
the naturae gardens
OF NORTH CAROLINA. By
B. W. Wells. University of
N. C. Press. 458 pp. illus
trated.
To open Dr. Wells’ book is like
entering Sesame, or the wicker
gate of John Bunyan's "Great
heart". The prosiac world drops
away and one is transported to
an enchanted and perfumed land
where flowers nod, grasses wave
and herbs are everywhere under
foot. The real bonus in these
pages, however, is that this en
_ chanted terrain is not in the
'Swiss Alps or the Matta Grosso,
but right here in the Old North
State.
The author, who was for many
years professor of botany at N. C.
State College, correctly begins his
delightful odyssey down where
Tarheelia begins—at the edge of
the Atlantic. And if Wells first
examines the Outer Banks, he
does not stop his scrutiny until
he reaches Bald Head Island, that
gem astride Southport Harbor.
Wells gradually works his way
westward until stopped by the
Tennessee line, and mountain
laurel and rhododendron vie with
cattails and salt marsh sabbatia—
most exotic of Carolina wildflow
ers.
Every herb, flowering bush and
blossom delicate, are here; in na
tural wild state, of course and
tended by God. Wells proves that
North Carolina is, indeed, a gar
den such as was Eden, and, were
all of us cognizant with them,
medicines await the plucking
without charge. He devotes a
number of pages to the Venus
Fly-Trap, a carnivorous plant
which traps and devours living
food, and which is peculiar to
Brunswick County and this sec
tion of the state.
Of all the traveling botanist
saw in Tarheelia it would appear
that Brunswick County appealed
to him most. Although this vol
ume was published in 1932, Wells
was drawn strongly to Southport,
and moved here soon after the
close of World War II, purchasing
the old Kate Stuart home on the
waterfront, and spending several
summers therein. The great hur- j
ricane of 1954 wrought such havoc '
with the old home that Wells
sadly relegated it to the hammers j
of a demolishment crew, and re- I
tired to the college town of Wake
Forest, where he still resides.
In Natural Gardens the flora
native to Bald Head Island re
ceives careful and loving atten
tion, including four photos.
An interesting item mentioned
apropos Southport and other
coastal points in Brunswick, fol
lows in quote:
"Growing in a sand one may
meet a number of foreign plants
which arrived here in the early
What Is Arthritis?
By DR. ROGER W. PRICE
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ing from improper functioning. This is a mat
ter of faulty body mechanism arising from bad
posture, curvature of the spine, bones out of
place and other conditions which would induce
body unbalance.
Another factor that is often involved in
arthritis is faulty calcium metabolism. This means the body's ability to utilize
for its own purpose the natural calcium salts found in certain foods.
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days when ships dumped ballast
earth ashore. Growing like a week
along a street in Southport, is a
western gaillardia (G. lance-pop
py), together with the less com
mon spiny Mexican poppy. Spe
cies of yucca are also common.”
Professor Wells devotes a full
chapter to the “savannahs” of
southeastern North Carolina—a
subject much in favor with botan
ists and naturalists alike. Some
years ago this reviewer, following
a reading of Norman Way Teale’s
“North with the Spring”, journey
ed to Burgaw in search of the
“great Burgaw Savannah”—pur
pose, a feature in a Sunday news
paper.
Although there definitely is
such a great and brooding marsh
land, lying only a mile or two
from Burgaw town limits, an of
ficial of that town, when queried
as to its location, answered:
"You are way off your road. Sav
annah is located on U. S. 17, in
the State of Georgia.” P. S. I
found it and a story.
Since Southport and vicinity is
most fortunately located in re
gard nature’s bounty, and since
there are many garden clubs ex
tant in these precincts, Dr. Wells
fine book should find favor lo
cally.
The book is a recent acquistion
of the Southport Public Library,
which received it as a gift from
Miss Annie May Woodside.
Ernest Baldwin
Dies On Monday
Ernest L. Baldwin, a highly re
spected Whiteville citizen, died
Monday at 7:30 p. m. at Moody
Nursing Home in Lumberton. He
was 88 years old.
Mr. Baldwin was one of the
better-known citizens of White
ville, particularly among the old
er persons of the town and Co
lumbus County. He was seen for
many years at the Smith and
McKenzie firm and its successor,
Seth L. Smith and Co., where he
was employed for some 50 years.
He retired several years ago.
He was a member of Whiteville
Methodist Church and of Worth
ington Bible Class there.
Final rites were held Wednes
day at 11 a. m. from McKenzie
chapel by his pastor, the Rev. P.
O. Lee, with burial in Whiteville
Memorial Cemetery.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Oliver Gore Baldwin; a son,
Maurice Baldwin, both of White
ville; a daughter, Mrs. Edward C.
Darden of Rockingham: a broth
er, C. L. Baldwin, Washington, D.
Bolivia Residence
This is the attractive brick home of Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Willetts in Bolivia. The
tall evergreens in the front yard have caused considerable comment because of
the fact that at this season of the year they take on a distinctive bronze cast.
Many new and modern homes have been constructed at Bolivia in recent years.
—(Elgie Clemmons Photo.)
State Population
5 Million in 1967
While the exact time is un
predictable, North Carolina’s
population is expected to hit the
5 million mark in 1966 or 1967.
“Certainly, it should be no
later than the first half of ’67,”
says Dr. Selz C. Mayo, head of
the Department of Rural Soci
ology at North Carolina State
College.
“Incidentally,” Mayo added,
“North Carolina’s population
should reach 5 million at about
the same time as the Nation’s
population reaches 200 million.”
North Carolina had 4,556,155
people in the census of 1960, or
12.2 per cent more than in 1950.
Mayo bases his estimates for fu
ture growth on these figures.
“The growth of North Caro
lina’s population during the past
century and a half is an exciting
story,” Dr. Mayo said.
In 1800, less than a half mil
lion people lived in the state. By
the census of 1870, the popula
tion was up to one million.
The second million was record
ed in the census of 1910, the third
million in the census of 1930, and
the fourth million in the census
of 1950.
C.; two sisters, Mrs. Bessie B.
Kelly and Mrs. Sally B. Harrel
son, both of Whiteville; and two
grandchildren.
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Trends In Food Buying
Today s homemaker spends 20
per cent of disposable income for
food compared to 28 per cent in
1945. Of this amount one-fifth
goes for non-food items such as
While the number of Tar Heels,
is increasing rapidly, Mayo points
out that the State’s rate of
growth was considerable under the
national average during decade of
the ’50’s.
This was because the state had
a net loss from migration of
330,000 people. One immediate
tangible result of this migration
was the loss of one congressman.
To make North Carolina’s pres
ent growth pattern more mean
ingful, Dr. Mayo described what
is likely to happen within one
year—1962, for example.
“During these 12 months,”
Mayo explained, “the natural in
crease (births minus deaths) of
our population will be sufficient
to build a city the size of Dur
ham.
“We can expect to retain
enough of the natural increase
to produce a city about the size
of Wilmington. But we will ex*
port (lose by migration) enougb
young people to produce anothei
community about the size of
Burlington.”
household appliances, linens, cloth
ing, pet food, china, toy items,
drug items and patent medicines.
Mrs. Ruby P. Uzzle, consumer
marketing specialist for the N.
C. Agricultural Extension Ser
vice, says in 1945 the U. S. dis
posable personal income per capi
ta was $1,075 and in 1962 it was
$1,947. Food expenditures in 1945
were $244 and in 1960 were $388.
Mrs. Uzzle says farm families
buy 60 per cent of food they
consume and grow only 40 per
cent. There is also an increase in
the number of meals eaten away
from home.
“One of the definite trends is
that the Americans are eating
more of the foods they want and
have better diets,’’ reports Mrs.
Uzzle. "The average American
eats 1500 pounds of food a year
which is 100 pounds less than 50
years ago.”
Other factors adding to com
plex problems of food buying are:
1. About 34 per cent of work
ing women are married.
2. 35 per cent of the food dol
lar is spent for convenience
foods.
3. At least five per cent of
the food dollar goes for frozen
foods.
4. Larger stores with more
Mrs. Thomas, 71,
Dies On Saturday
Mrs. Lillian Weston Thomas,
71, widow of G. W. Thomas, died
items to select from. Increased
number of decisions to be made
from alternative choices.
5. Fifteen to twenty cents of
the food dollar spent for non-food
items.
Saturday at Dosher Memorial
Hospital. Final rites were held
Tuesday at 1 p. m. at Williams
Cemetery, Leland, by the Rev.
Paul Odum.
Survivors include two sons,
Ernest Thomas of Southport and
Willis Thomas, Wilmington; a
brother, Alfred Weston of Rich
lands; a sister, Mrs. Lizzie Efney,
Richmond, Va.; and 11 grand
children.
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Confederate Congress met here from 1862 until final ad
journment. A famous statue of George Washington, by
Jean Antoine Houdon, stands in the Capitol rotunda. Tour
ists enjoy the Confederate Museum, where Jefferson Davis
lived during the Civil War, the Lee House, Edgar Allen Poe
Shrine and St. John's Church where Patrick Henry Said,
“Give me liberty or give me death."
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