EDITORIALS
RELIEF WHERE NEEDED MOST
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Chairman Merrill Evans of the High
way commission made a speech at N.C.
State college a few days ago and in the
course of his remarks, said that in all
of his experience in highway work he
had found only one man, just one, who
did not want a paved road in front of
his home. Chairman Evans did not iden
tify the man, but we would certainly
like to know him. He is, we would say,
one in four million.
The main objective of the chairman’s
talk, however, followed the line that
everybody and every section of the
state are asking for more and better
roads and the only way, if there is an
other way, to satisfy the requests is to
find a method of building better roads
for less money.
Mr. Evans said he was not-suggesting
new taxes to meet the demands and
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neither was he intimating an increase
of the current tax.
He came straight to the point on one
matter when he said that the 18 mem
bers of the commission do not always
agree on highway problems and that
there, is no hope that the state’s four
million people could be expected to
reach common agreement on how high
way funds should be spent.
He admitted that the people in the
Coastal Plain “have a good case” in
their assertion that this section has been
forgotten and that development of the
area is being retarded because of the
lack of adequate highways.
Southeastern North Carolina does not
wish to aggravate the highway problem
but-it would like to know that it is be
ing-retnembered in plans to bring relief
where relief is needed most.
LAG IN FOOD PROCESSING
Wade Lucas, veteran publicity man
for the Department of Conservation and
Development, has raised some interest
ing questions about the state’s progress
in farm production and processing
plants. Mr. Lucas feels that there is
room for improvement in both fields
and cites figures to prove his conten
tions.
Take meat, for one. He says there
are 150 livestock slaughtering and
meat processing plants in North Caro
lina and these houses handle about 300
million pounds of livestock every year.
Yet, the state must import two thirds of
its meat requirements despite the fact
that three years ago North Carolina
ranked 11th in hog production, 33rd in
sheep and lambs, and 38th in cattle. lit
one commodity, however, we are first:
the curing of country hams.
It is his belief that more processing
plants and better marketing facilities
will bring further advancements in this
phase of the state’s economy. Gross in
income from farm products in 1961 was
$1.2 billion but, quoting Agriculture
Commissioner L. Y. Ballentine, the po
tential is $1.5 billion.
While Mr. Lucas did not get into the
subject which his comments suggest, it
is the thinking in some parts that lands
converted to the growing of trees,
through the federal $10 per acre per
year for 10 years plan, could serve the
state’s four million people better if such
lands were retained for year-to-year
food production. At least, more live
stock and similar types of farming
would provide more jobs to keep North
Carolinians at home. Migration has al
ready imposed a heavy toll on our
population.
LITTLE FOLK, PETS AND NEWS
Once every year the Goldsboro News
Argus publishes a special edition cover
ing the whole of its Wayne county and
containing news about everything
from feeding a lonely pup with a nip
pled bottle of milk to big Seymour
Johnson Air Force Base where jets and
flop-winged B-52’s are based.
At the helm of the January 30 edi
tion are Gene Price, managing editor,
and the inimitable Henry Belk whose
editorials about barbecue, hush pup
pies, sausage canned in fat and chicken
broth to season greens never fail to
merit “first reading.”
But about the puppy and bottle. Up
at the top on page one is a picture of a
lady and her pets. She could be about
four. She’s wearing a floppy straw hat
and a jumper, a jumper that’s easy to
slip on and take off, and the kind that’s
convenient when little folk get in a
hurry as they do sometimes. There’s a
shoe on one foot, can’t see the other,
and she’s sitting on a one-seat bench,
the kind of bench that you just kick
yonder when it’s in the way. There’s a
sort of pleased grin on the little lady’s
face as that hungry pup with soulful
eyes gets his dinner from the bottle held
at just the right angle. At her feet a
grown-up pup and a black and white
kitty dine from the same bowl.
Messrs. Price and Belk call this:
“Feed-Up Time In Rural Wayne.”
That’s the News-Argus, and how proud
we are that they, too, remember that
little folk and their pets are the biggest
story of all.
Plug For Old North State
The Christian Science Monitor says
history is on the rise. More people want
to know what happened where, and why
Uncle John and Aunt Susie went West
when they could have brought up their
brood at home along the Atlantic. Says
The Monitor:
“They are finding that history is not
just Plymouth Rock and Independence
Hall, but also is Olathe, Kan.: Stutt
gart, Ark.; Bertie County, North Caro
lina, and their own small communities.”
Thanks for the plug.
WESTERN EUROPE 'GONE AMERICAN'
Western Europe has “gone Ameri
can” and it is all due to the $40 billion
in aid the United States has poured into
those countries since World War II.
In a recent article, the Saturday
Evening Post says youngsters have
been converted to blue jeans and T
shirts, farmers are coming to town, city
folk are becoming suburbanites, the
supermarket is catching on like a prair
ire fire, and the neighborhood cat has
grown so prosperous that he’ll hardly
stop to say hello these days. In fact,
the article observes, Old Tom is even
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, If. C., and
other Post Offices, under the Act
of March 3, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Brunswick and Adjoining Counties
and Service Men . $2.00 per year
Six Months .... 5J1.5Q
Elsewhere in United States — $8.00
Per Year;—-6 Months_$2 00
snubbing the garbage pail now.
Aside from American dollars, an
other American contribution, the auto
mobile, is having a lot to do with the
rebirth of those countries which so late
ly were torn by war’s ravages. The gro
ceryman is seen about the countryside
Sunday afternoons giving his family a
spin along flower-lined paved high
ways, lakes are dotted with sailboats,
whole families are flocking to beaches
and the barbecue grill is standard
equipment for everything outdoors.
Consumer buying is on the boom.
Customer demands are growing, and in
this appears another American import:
credit, installment buying. The average
Englishman today owes $.‘>3 on install
ment purchases, the German, $22, tiie
Frenchman, $16, this compared to $212
owed by the average^ American for such
purchases. Savings, however, are said
to be high and there is no runaway in
flation.
People are not afraid to lose their
lives, but they are afraid to lose their
licenses. — Connecticut Police Captain,
William A. Cruber.
If the w’eather is cold enough an over
coat as heavy as a horse blanket seems
as light as a nightshirt.
An open mind often sifnifies an
entity one.
“Miss Smith! How Many Times Must I Tell You Not To
Put Minor Calls Through This Green Phone!”
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STATE HIGHWAY DEPT.
Time and Tide
Continued From Page One
Agent with the F.B.I.
Southport Lions had sponsored an old time fiddlers convention;
a young lady from Gautemala was a “summer’ visitor in town—
during the month of February; and Southport boys and Bolivia
girls had won in their respective divisions of the Brunswick
County Basketball Tournament.
There was good news in The Pilot for February 20, 1952: A
dicision had been made to exclude St. Phillips Church and Bruns
wick Town from the land being acquired for Sunny Point Army
Terminal, thus leaving these shrines available to the public at
all times. The drive for hospital building funds had stopped off
with an even $11,000.
Members of the N. C. Bird Club was planning a visit to this
area, using the housing accommodations at Caswell as headquar
ters; Waccamaw was to be the scene of the annual basketball
tournament; and a strange swimmer had been spotted in The
Cape Fear River off Southport—a big, red hog. Nobody knew
where he came from, nor where he was headed on his self-pro
pelled voyage.
A Southport soldier, Carey Spencer, had survived a spectacular
plane crash in Seoul, Korea. That story, wit ha picture, was on
the front page of The Pilot five years ago. The first highway
fatality of the new year had been recorded late in the second
month.
A Shallotte Point boat, the Bon-Jon, had been having good
luck fishing for red snapper; the Southport Fire Department was
in its new headquarters building; and once more Waccamaw gym
was the scene for the Brunswick County Basketball Tournament.
MORE SIGNERS
Continued From Page 1
portation costs, through their
compliance with the advice of
government agricultural experts,
explained Price.
The ASC manager took the op
portunity to urge farmers to
make their requests for pre
measurement services as soon as
possible. “We have trained report
ers now in the field,” pointed out
Price. “Remember that March 15
is the deadline. Don’t wait until
the final hours. Weather may foul
us up.”
TEMPLETON HEADS
Continued From Page 1
stated with great earnestness:
"We look forward with every con
fidence to the continued growth
of Long Beach. We feel that wTe
have the largest and the finest
residential island-property on the
lower North Carolina coast. We
intend to do everything in our
power to enhance our holdings
and bring Long Beach into the
public eye in the manner it xle
serves.”
SHALLOTTE LIONS
Continued From Page 1
finest civic club meetings I have
ever attended. The spirit was all 1
that Lions International strives
for.”
Hubbard added that he “would
be derelict of duty if I did not
make public acknowledgement for
the work done by the program
committee, or mention, the won
derful entertainment provided by
a singing group from Boys
Home.”
FLOATING LAB HERE
Continued From Page 1
particularly W'ith Dr. Willie Ver
rier, medical director for St. An
toine’s hospital at Jeremi.
All members of the medical
group arc volunteers. Why Haiti? I
Dr. Vandiviere explained that a |
new vaccine, developed in Duke j
Hospital laboratories, will be test- I
ed for full effectiveness in Haiti, I
where patients have hitherto re
ceived absolutely no modern drugs
Jr vaccines. “This is the best test
possible,” said Dr. Vandiviere
earnestly. “We know what we’ve
?ot, but we need field tests to
show the public what we have
come up with.”
Aboard the HATX at Southport
in addition to Dr. Vandiviere were
Dr. John Glenn, a radiologist
whose home is Charlotte; two
registered nurses, a laboratory
technician, a biostatistian and an
epidemiologist. Dr. Vandiviere is
a native of Chapel Hill, and all
the female members of the group
are also Tar Heels.
While at the remote island, the
American party will visit the
mountain fastnesses, a backward
land where superstitution runs
rife and modern conveniences are
practically unknown. Haiti is
known as the land where the
black art of voodoo was practiced
and still is to some extent—so
much so that Dr. Vandiviere ad
mitted with a smile that his par
ty, on its trips into the backward
mountain country “take along a
Voodoo priest”. The doctor has
tened to add that “he goes along
more as a public relations man
than for any professional help he
might give . . .”
Since the Haitian-Ameriean
Tuberculosis Institute is a volun
tary organization and the cost of
converting the Navy vessel into
a floating laboratory and carry
ing it through the first year of
operation is estimated at some
$70,000, the N. C. Tuberculosis
Association, Inc., will welcome
any donations forthcoming from
any reputable source, said Dr.
Vandiviere.
BOARD PROCLAIMS
(Continued From Page One)
Goff said that the county is
progressing rapidly in the organi
zation of “fine community clubs
led by trained leaders.”
The assistant farm agent point
ed out that in Brunswick County
there are some 2 500 youngsters
between the ages of ten and
twenty who are eligible for 4-H
Club membership.
HOLIDAY FOX HUNT
Continued From Page One
I love people. This hunt has two
purposes: we get these sports
men to rid us of a surplus fox
population, and many of them will
succumb to the blandishments of
our exotic isle and return here
on a more permanent basis.”
Walker said that the motels
on the strand were “already filled
to overflowing but that room will
be made available in privale and
public quarters “even if some of
us beachcombers have to sleep on
Not Exactly News
Tuesday is the day that almost everyone neglected what he
was doing to keep an eye focused on a TV set or an ear glued to
a radio. It may be the most momentous days in the history of
the United States, this day when Marine Corps Lt. Col. John
Glenn made three trips around the earth . . . Part of our time
was on a trip to Whiteville, and as we crept along Highway No.
17 at a speed barely above the minimum limits, noljody passed
us. Even the Southbound tourists were tuned in.
Speaking of television reminds us of how much we enjoyed
the final quarter of the Telephone Hour program Friday night.
It was a Salute to Glenn Miller, with Tex Beneke, Ray Eberly
and the Modemaires. They had to be good back in the thirties to
still sound that way during the sixties .... We were taken to
task the other night by Mrs. James Eaton for remarks we made
here about opera on Sunday afternoons and expressing our own
preference for pro basketball. “I just want to tell you that there
is at least one opera listener in this area,” she declared.
Rarely do you go to a football game in Chapel Hill without
a dog straying on the playing field to interrupt play. Friday we
had the same problem here when Bones, the big shaggy-dog pet
in the Howard family, strolled casually across the floor at the
high school gym. This created some amusement for the specta
tors and considerable embarrassment for the Howard boys, Foxy
and Rip, who are members of the basketball squad . . . And
while on the subject cf pets, we greatly prefer dogs to cats. None
theless, we feed the unclaimed cats on our block on the theory
that it is better to have cats than rats. Imagine our disgust this
week when we caught a mouse in a trap, put him out where the
cats could find this tasty little morse’ and they left him unmo
lested for two days. They didn’t even know what it was!
The Brunswick County Basketball Tournament begins here
Tuesday night and continues through the week, save only Wed.
nesday night. That makes it tough on some of the local fans who
like to go see the ACC Tournament, which also will be in pro
gress next week in Raleigh . . . “Second Time Around” is the
weekend show at Holiday Drive-In at Shallotte.
Men In Service
James R. Heustess, son of Mrs.
Heustess, Southport, recently
joined the Army, according to
M|Sgt. Hand the local Army Re
cruiter in Wilmington. James at
tended Southport High School
prior to his enlistment. From the
Army’s 59 career groups, he chose
radio repair as the field in which
to receive his guaranteed train
ing. After being sworn in the
Army at Raleigh he was trans
ferred to Ft. Jackson, S. C., to
start his basic training.
the sands.”
Figuring that there will be at
least two dogs per hunter, close
to a thousand living things—not
counting the quarry—will be en
gaged come tomorrow and Wash
ington’s Birthday.
On Friday evening at 5 o’clock,
a great feast will be laid before
the ' press and distinguished visi- I
BANKS CLOSED
The Waccamaw Bank and Trust
company and the First National
bank wall close their offices
Thursday in observance of George
Washington’s birthday.
C. Bion Sears, president of the
First National Bank of Whiteville
announced today that W. Carl
Batten, assistant cashier has re
signed his position effective Feb
ruary 28.
tors on the boards of the Yaupoa
Village skating ring.
Walker was quite enthusiastic
about his Master of the Hounds.
"This man Schilling has hunted
foxes all over the fox country. He
has even risen at dawn in Eng
land (Arkansas) and ridden to
the sound of ancient horns (old
Texas longhorns, that is). I tell
you this is not only a magnificent
sporting event—it is the biggest
off-season social smash Long
Beach ever enjoyed!”
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