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f Brunswick Between Bookends , By Eugene Fallon BLOCKADE RENNERS of the CONFEDERACY. By Hamilton Coehran. Bobbs Merrlll, N. Y. 350 pp. Illus trated. Some time ago a novel by thi author of this book was briefl; examined in this column. It pain ed us to give “The Dram Tree” j poorish recommendation to ou: readers, but it is with an eas; conscience that we laud thi; work. In the imaginary world of thi novel, Cochran floundered fron Smithville to Southampton; fron Key West to Grand Cay. Whei he sticks to factual history— and particularly such history a; the Confederate blockade-runninf from the North Carolina coast— the boy can do no wrong. In this work our own Smith ville is mentioned no less than i dozen times; almost as many a the larger port of Wilmington Some of these references are o considerable length, since South MEN'S STORE THE HOME OF GLEN-MORE CLOTHES FACTORY TO YOU ! 123 N. Front Street WILMINGTON, N. C. port, then as now, is the eye for the needle that is the great and shining Cape Fear River. Bruns wick readers thus can, by project ing themselves in reverse, take part in the heroics which centered ; about this area. Such projection r 11 think well worth the effort. t In the spring of 1861, Lieuten . ant John Wilkinson resigned his , commission in the U. S. Navy. 5 Heading for Richmond, sailor | John accepted a commission in _ j the Confederate States Navy. His : j first duty was pleasant enough: 1 1 to sail to England and purchase 1 a steamer suitable for running ‘‘blockade. He acquired the “Giraffe”, a fairly new steam ’ freighter, paying for it with cot ’ ton. Wilkinson had the ship re fitted at Glasgow, Scotland, and sailed her back to Nassau, where, - after picking up two Southern 1 pilots—one from Wilmington and 5 one from Charleston, S. C.—he • made a run for the Old Inlet en - trance to the Cape Fear. The Giraffe just did make it, almost , grounding once or twice. During part of this time a jittery look out kept reporting imaginary ships, breakers, and finally a rock. The pilot from Wilmington (actually a Brunswick County man) was reported to have lost his patience and to have exclaim ed, “God Almighty, man, there ain’t a rock as big as my hat along the coast of the whole d—d state of North Carolina!” The lookout is described as being a "mountain man” and should be pardoned for seeking rocks where there weren't any rocks . . . To prove just how important PEACOCK FUNERAL HOME 24-Hr.~AMBULANCE—24-Hr. SHALLOTTE, N. C. Day Phone PL 4-8253 Night Phone PI 4-249T was Southport and other Bruns wick areas during the Unio: blockade, I quote from Cochran’ book: “When the blockade of th Cape Fear River became a seriou objective of the Union Navy, botl entrances to the river were close ly watched by Union cruisers From Smithville (Southport), botl groups of blockading vessels coul be distinctly seen. This gave out ward-bound blockade runners ai advantage, for they could tak their choice as to which inlet t use, depending on the position of the Federal men-of-war . . the soundings both north am south of the river entrances wer deep and remarkably regulai With a light-draught steamer th pilot could run her close to shor with little danger of goinj aground.” As things wore on during th war and the Southern cause be gan to falter, a serio-comic thinj came to pass beginning up a Wilmington and terminating righ here at Southport. It seems to many Confederate soldiers, sick ened with the starvation and th slaughter, stowed hopefully awa; aboard blockade runners at Wii mington, remaining hidden unti the ship made either a Europeai or West Indian port, when the; would emerge as free men in i foreign-held country or island. Si many were successful at this sub terfuge, that a regular fumigatioi station was set up at Smithville to flush the stowaways from thei: secret berths. There are many such incident; related in this excellent book and, as stated above, many witl a Smithville connection. This re viewer will go as far as to stab that he has never read a mori interesting compilation on thi subject of running the blockade The illustrations found in thii volume are a thing of joy an< add much to the work; many o these graced earlier books print Here's what dHmsmfiF'Jf has cfonat At last count there were 1,499,927 Chevrolet trucks over 10 years old still working—424,381 more than any other make. 1962 CHEVROLET JOBMASTER TRUCKS built better...work longer! When Chevrolet builds a truck, it builds a quality truck. This policy makes sense. Chevrolet trucks work a long time ... cost less than many other makes to operate and maintain over the years . . . con sistently bring a higher trade-in price . . . and, as a result, are bought by more people. 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See your Chevrolet dealer for trucks that keep running and running! Elmore Motor Co. Inc. Phone CL 3-6406 BOLIVIA N. C (Manufactories No. 11 Of Hybrid Corn Yields Dollars Hybrid com research at North Carolina State College has meant many millions of dollars more income for Tar Heel Farmers. I "Since 1936, when Dr. G. K. Middleton began the first pro ject, the college has spent a mil | lion and a quarter dollars for re . j search on hybrid com,” says Dr. j Paul H. Harvey, head of the Field 3 Crops Department at the college. “Today, the state’s com pro , ducers are getting 16 million dol ' lars a year more income through ’ use of hybrid corn; for at least 1 25 per cent of the average yield of 48 bushels per acre in the • state may be credited to use of 1 hybrid com.” 1 Nationally, says Harvey, hy brid com has brought com yield 1 increases that mean 500 million 5 dollars more income a year to 1 corn producers. “In its hundred 3 years of existence, USDA has • spent one billion, 800 million dol 1 lars on research,” says Harvey. 3 “Hybrid com alone has paid • many times over for this re 3 search.” 3 From 1936 to 1942, Harvey and > Middleton collected varieties of corn from all over the Southeast i and the combelt states in de - veloping the basis for a hybrid r com program. “World War II t stimulated the development of t the most promising combina > tions,” says Harvey. After the war, the program was 3 given new directions. Better 7 breeding procedures and new ap ■ proaches to disease problems were 1 developed. i Many hybrids were released in 1 the 1946-59 period. And the col i lege’s genetics program got un > der way, headed by Dr. H. F. ■ Robinson. l Official - com variety tests, , started by the college in 1942, • have continued, since. The pro gram recently was reorganized 5 under the direction of Dr. Guy Jones. ’ Dr. Donald L. Thompson is . testing many early-maturing hy brids from Tennessee, Virginia and Indiana—at the Lewiston and Waynesville experiment stations. “Several of these hybrids look j very good,” says Harvey. ' One of the most promising is . NC14034, which has yielded 112 bushels per acre at several loca ’ tions. Its plants are 100 per cent erect and com ear height is a low 49 inches. Thompson also is doing re search to develop stronger com stalks that will withstand high winds. After three years, he has come up with a stalk whose strength has increased from 500 to 800 pounds of crushing pres sure. But some of the Mexican races of com will withstand up to 2000 pounds. One research project, on dwarf corn, may prove of value al i though dwarf com is mostly a “novelty” hybrid so far. It stands about 24 inches off the ground, and some use has been found in the mountains for it. “One of the Latin American ed in London, New York and Paris, at a time when the sails of both the Confederacy and its blockade-runners had scarcely set. The volume is available at the Southport Public Library. races grows 15 to 20 feet tall,” says Harvey. “Genes from dwarf corn have reduced it to about seven feet.” In the vast and complex task of developing better com, one great question has stayed in the background since George H. Shaw developed the first hybrid com in his Princeton, N. J., garden in 1910. It concerns heterosis—the increased vigor or capacity for growth displayed by many cross bred plants and animals. “When we understand heterosis, we’ll know why we can get such tremendous boosts in com yields,” says geneticist Robinson. “Clear ing up this mystery will lead the way to new breeding methods.” Part of the answer may be found in the college’s complex program of genetic research on com—on the nature of gene ac tion, yields, plant shape and size. "Much of our research is a com bination of statistics and mathe matics at a very high level,” says Robinson. Out of the research may come new methods of breeding other plants, and even of breeding ani mals, he believes. “Internationally, there are 11, 000 different com collections,” says Robinson. “The patterns of their influences are unpredict able; but somewhere in there is the com of the future.” South’s Forests Growing Faster The forests of the south today are growing at a rate one third faster than a generation ago. This and other new facts about forest development in the south from 1935 to 1960 are contained in a booklet, “Miracle in the Southern Forests,” which has just been released by the South ern Pulpwood Conservation asso ciation. While a tremendous amount of wood has been harvested for con version into thousands of pro ducts since 1835, the report said, the south still has more trees than it did a quarter of a cen tury ago. This “miracle” has occurred, it was noted, largely through the efforts of professional foresters, including pulp and paper in dustry foresters, and state and federal government foresters. These men, the booklet said, “sought out the nearly two mil lion private land-owners in the south to urge wise management of existing forest lands and plant ing of trees on idle lands.” Among the specific results of these cooperative efforts 9 25-year period were (1) the con version of more than nine million acres of idle land into profitable forests; (2) development of co operative forest fire control, bj state and federal agencies, which today covers 9.5 acres out of every 10 acres in the South, and (3) development of a multi-billion dollar pulp and paper industry. Forestry research, the booklet said, has also been a part of this “miracle,” and “it will be even more important tomorrow.” It was pointed out, for example, that WEST VIRGINIA The State Capitol at Charleston was built in 1932 at a cost of $10,000,000. It is one of the newer and more im pressive State Capitols. The dome, illuminated at night, is 300 feet high which is higher than that of the national Capitol. The building consists of 33 rooms and occupies sixteen acres. The chandeliers in the House and Senate chambers contain 10,000 pieces of rock crystal each. The gold-domed building is a beautiful sight to see. It is flank ed by office buildings built in 1952 and 1954. They face the Kanawha River. A guided tour service is available. THE AVERAGE AMERICAN FARMER HAS THE EQUI VALENT OF 48 MEN WORKING FOR HIM IN THE FIELDS AND IN HIS HOME THROUGH THE USE OF ELECTRICAL DEVICES. Compliments Of BRUNSWICK ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION SERVING BRUNSWICK, COLUMBUS, ROBESON and BLADEN COUNTIES “Community Owned ... Community Built... Community Builders” * Students—Clip this Ad for your scrapbook. improved strain* of trees are be ing developed. They will have such qualities as a greater im munity to disease and insect at tack, the ability to grow to us able size faster, and a greater yield of wood fiber per cubic foot. Today, the report said further, the south leads the world in the production of pulpwood, and as for the future: “The south’s new economy of the forest is secure in the hands of the ‘miracle-mak ers’—in partnership with nature, supported by a stable and ever growing pulp and paper industry, to meet the needs of a growing population.” A WANT-AD For House of Representatives | After thoughtful consideration, I have decided to announce as a candidate for the Democratic Nomination for member of the House of Representatives from Brunswick County, subject to the will of the voters in the May Primary Election. I am making this race in the thought that I can be of service to my county and to my fellow citizens. I believe that Brunswick County has a future for un limited development if we will all work together to help make it possible. That will by my purpose if you pay me the honor to nominate and elect me to this position of responsibility and leadership.' Odell Williamson - NOTICE - OF MEETING OF THE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION & REVIEW The Board of Equalization and Review will meet at the time listed below for the purpose of hearing all complaints concerning assess ment on property values for 1962. PLEASE — If you are going to meet the Board, come in the day designated for your Township, as that is the ONLY TIME you can see them. PLEASE—Cooperate with us in this matter and the Board will cooperate with you. Time of Meetings is From 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to Sec tion 1105 of the Machinery Act, Public Laws of 1939, an Adjourned Meeting of the Board of Equalization and Review will be held for: MONDAY, MARCH 12th Northwest and Town Creek Townships TUESDAY, MARCH 13th Smithville and Lockwoods Folly Townships WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14th Shallotte and Waccamaw Townships The Board shall, on request, hear any and all Taxpayers who own or control property as sessed for Taxation in the country with re spect to the valuation of such property or others: and shall perform such other duties as required by the Machinery Act with re spect to assessing and Listing Property for Taxation. No Notice Will Be Mailed To Taxpayers Except in Cases Where Their Valuation Has Been Increased or Decreased by $100. or More. D. H. HAWES BRUNSWICK COUNTY TAX SUPERVISOR
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