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EDITORIALS PLEA FOR MORE NIGHTS HOME »• Une or our casual callers came by a a few days ago with a plea that there are not enough nights in a week, or why should not clubs and such organi zations go sophisticated and have lunch eons so the tired male could have more noghts for hearth and home. He would not, he said, be a John Glenn with three nights within five hours, but rather balance the accepted custom here with more noon meetings and less after-work gatherings. Our friend has a point. Meetings af ter the day’s chores are done have a tendency to drag on and on and half of what’s said too often is extraneous palaver. These night assemblies, you may have observed, find instances where a person must leave to attend another the same night. And frequent ly, successive meetings are composed oi identical persons even though each has a different objective. When night begins to fall, thoughts of the male begin to turn, in all seasons, to the warmth of home and youngsters and the little lady frittering about get ting “supper” on the table. No wonder he grumbles when the program calls for dinner and conference at The Plaza at seven. Yes, his stomach growls at the call of evening but it also complains at noon. The youngsters are not at home then and the little lady, perhaps, is out for cards and luncheon. That sliced roast and withered salad from the kit chen counter ofter plays second fiddle to a hamburger up town. The very un balanced nature of such may make him a fireside devil when eventime falls. Plan your meetings and meet your plans. We are for more noon meetings and less night meetings. SOUND CHOICE FOR SUPREME COURT wnat would political strategists ot 1900 say if they could return today and find, as they would, a woman on the North Carolina Supreme Court ? The old boys with long beards and side burns would probably opine that it ain’t so. But it is. Judge Susie Sharp has up set the accepted whims of the male of other generations: “Your place is in the home.” Judge Sharp has been a Superior court judge since 1949 and a few days ago Governor Sanford appointed her to the state’s highest court. No one will question the appointment. Judge Sharp distinguished herself while on the low er court bench. Now the opportunity fof greater achievements in law are open to her. It would not be all imagi nation to predict that one day she might move onto a higher court. Since women were given the voting privilege August 2fe, 1920, they have made phenomenal strides in the hither to man’s world, and what they may ac complish yet one dares not predict. Their place may be in the home but, as Judge Sharp told a Charlotte group the other day, don’t devote all your years to your private life. Save a goodly portion of your time and energy for public affairs. They have been doing just that and there’s more to come. Governor Sanford has made an excel lent appointment and North Carolina applauds him for his decision. GOVERNOR ON RIGHT TRAIL NOW governor aaniora nas iinany got ms Quality Education program down to the level where he can expect some measur able results. By going to the children themselves, where he should have gone in the beginning, he has charted a course straight to the heart of the pro blem. The Governor covered the state last fall speaking to successive groups com posed in large part by adults, many of whom were there as a matter of cour tesy, but, certainly, there were many more who shared his concern about schools and were ready to initiate im provements. While Mr. Sanford was speaking under arrangements prepared by local groups, it was our opinion then, and now, that his appearances would have been more effective if he could have addressed the students themselves. He missed the boat that time but he got on schedule last Thursday with a tele cast to the children. A reporter earlier this week said five bags of letters from students through out the state arrived at the Governor’s office Monday. There is no telling how many more have come in since. One student wrote, after hearing the talk: “I really thought about it (edu cation) seriously for the first time.” Another admitted that the speech was not the mam torce behind her school "work: “My father said I am go ing to finish school if I am 24 years old when I do.” We •wonder, though, about the au thors of all those letters. Were they written by students who are already doing the best job of which they are capable of doing? ITow many came from those hovering about the passing grade, those who are indifferent and those who are disciplinary problems? A teacher volunteered the observa tion recently that maintaining descip line in the classroom cuts teaching time by as much as 50 per cent in some in stances. Such an instance may be rare but it does serve to point up the fact that discipline is one of the real pro blems in the better school program. When students responsible for the pro blem turn over a newr leaf, we will be making the desired progress. Young men literally “wore their hearts on their sleeves” during early celebrations of Valentine’s Day. World Book Encyclopedia relates that men chose their "valentines by drawing slips of paper with names from a vase. Each young man then wore the paper with his lady’s name on his sleeve for sever al days. CUBA'S LEAN, HUNGRY LOOK When a fellow starts meddling with a man’s stomach there’s sure to be trouble. When there isn’t enough food to satiate that gnawing in the mid-sec tion the gnawed-on, like the animal of the forest, becomes fearless in his search for food. Cuba’s Fidel Castro says his Russian connections have let the people of Cuba down and blames an “economic block ade” for his recent food rationing edict. Russia is hungry, too, but that is not The State Port Pilot Published Every Wednesday Southport, N. C. JAMES M. HARPER, JR. ... .... fcd-tor Entered as second-class matter April 20, 182u at the Post Office at Southport, N. C., and other Post Offices, under the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Brunswick and Aaioining Counties and Service Men . $2.00 per yeat Six Months ... $1.50 Elsewhere in United States — $3.00 • Per Year;—C Months.. $2,00 the likely reason for withholding any promised assistance. Communism thrives on chaos. There is plenty of it in Cuba now but not quite enough for the Soviet masters to move onto the scene. When the time is right they will. Castro is not fooling his people with oratory. Oratory and food do not make compatible bedfellows. Too much of the former and too little of the latter‘spells trouble where it will do the most dam age. Perhaps the bearded dictator is be ginning to reap some of the wrath he has sown in grabbing hold of the Red coattail. Julius Ceaser said he could handle the fat and sleek but beware of the man with the lean and hungry look. When beans and rice are scarce, that lean and hungry look follows. Castro’s time to beware seems to be here. LAST MAN We like the one about the fellow^ who hastened to his bomb shelter w'hen the nuclear attack came. Days later he re appeared to find the land flattened and no sign of life of plant or animal. Soon he realized he w'as the only person left living in the world. Then he took out his pistol and blew his brains out.— “Hey! You’re Supposed To Be Carrying, Not RidingP5 TWO MEN SEEKING Continued Prom Page 1 to run for that office if it is vacated by Bellamy in accepting appointment to his new job. W. J. McLamb already has an nounced that he will be a candi date for the Democratic nomina tion for Recorder. SOUTHPORT MAN Continued Prom Page 1 with the latest techniques in teaching both science and mathe matics. Only teachers with an out standing record and the ability to assimilate knowledge quickly and easily are selected to par ticipate in the special courses sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Spencer is a graduate of Ca tawba College and this is his sec ond year as a member of', the faculty at Long Creek High School. LOCAL LIBRARIAN Continued From Page 1 In conclusion the librarian com mended the Shallotte Lions for their sponsorship of the new li brary branch in their town, and congratulated them on the pro gress being made. Tentative open ing of the branch has been set for the week of April 8-14. JAYCEES SEEK Continued From Page X of 21 and 35. The Southport award will be presented at the Charter Night banquet of the Jaycees during early April. Harold Aldridge is serving as chairman of the DSA committee of the Jaycees. LONG ANNOUNCES Continued From Page One conversation that the final work ing plans will be submitted to the State Board of Education by the end of this week, and that he expects to have the plans ap proved and returned by the last of next week. At that time bids will be advertised for a period of ten days. Supt. Long expressed his pleas ure in the developments. “These added facilities are very badly needed in our schools. We are making every effort to expedite the work. Children simply cannot be taught without the proper fa cilities for learning.” Broken down, the necessary school improvements will cost $10,000 a classroom (six new classrooms); the toilet rooms (two) will cost $5,000 each, and the sewage disposal for Shaliotte school will run to $7,500. PUBLIC HEARING (Continued From Page One) provement of the Southport yacht basin; the establishment of a small boat refuge for use in time of emergency; and the erection of a bulkhead along the South port waterfront as a measure to control erosion. General Glore says that he has considerable evidence to present at the hearing, but reminds the citizens of Southport that this is a time when their full support is needed. “I hope we have the place filled with interested spec tators,” he said. Enough broiler chickens were produced in the U. S. in 1961 to give every American a whole fried chicken once a month. America’s national forests had a record 102 million visits in 1961. The number is expected to be nearly 115 million in 1962. Brunswick Gets Wide Publicity Several Places Of Interest In This County Written Up In Christian Science Monitor In the travel section of Fri day's Christian Science Monitor, one of the Nation’s prestige news papers, there is a story about the forthcoming Wilmington Azalea Festival. There is an appropriate picture of blooming azaleas, and the text of the story tells of places of interest in and around Wilming ton. It is interesting and signifi I cant that about one-half the space I has to do with places in Bruns i wick. The following is quoted from the article in The Monitor: “At Brunswick Town time and elements leveled the houses, and earth, vegetation, and the drift ing sands covered them. The foundations of the houses, mark ing off the streets, are now being excavated, and many relics re covered in the process are be ing collected in a small mu seum. The ruins of St. Philip’s Church, which alone remained above ground, have long been a familiar landmark. “But the stormiest chapter of Wilmington’s history is told by the grass-grown ruins of the massive forts which guarded the mouth of Cape Fear River when Not Exactly News ! ... Talk about your seed which fall upon rock and fallow ground, but Crawford Rourk of Southport has a case which confounds the principal that they will not grow there. He has a rock which was dredged from the bottom of the Capt Fear during the build ing of Sunny Point, and from it is sprouting a cedar tree, the seed for which came from a parent tree standing nearby . . . . We have heard of women doing a man’s job, but we saw it in action Tuesday when we passed a garden near the highway lead ing from Supply to Shallotte and saw a lady pushing a garden plow. Basketball fans get a break this week when WECT telecasts the Wake Forest-Ohio State basketball game from Louisville. That is Friday night, and the only complication we would like to see would be to have our interest divided between that city and Durham, where we hope Leland will be playing in the semi finals of the State Class “A” Tournament . . . Incidentally, it has been a long time since anything has come as near pleasing everybody in Brunswick as this appearance of the Leland team in the championship tournament. It is the first time a Brunswick county team has got this far--and everyone is pulling for Leland to go all the way. Incidentally, it will be a case of a former Leland coach work ing against his ora brother and his former players if Leland ever meets Yadkinsville in the tournament, for Nelson Best is coach at that high school this year and his brother, Joe Best, has taken over his coaching reins at Leland ... There were lights in the river last night, with a ship tied up at the Caswell dock. Ben Blake, former Southport High School athlete, is currently engaged in spring football practice at Carolina, where he hopes to be a member of the varsity squad next fall. Report is that he has been shifted from fullback to halfback . . . This might be a good place to mention that the Men’s Fashion Show scheduled for Friday night of this week will be postponed one week due to the conflict with the Wake Forest-Ohio State telecast. On the movie front, “Second Time Around”, with Debbie Rey nolds, is the Friday-Saturday show at the Amuzu . . . Down at Shallotte, “The Day The Earth Caught Fire” is the weekend at traction. . . . We hear sounds that make us know that the BCT band is getting ready for the Azalea Festival parade. Wilmington was the jConfedera- 1 cy’s main port through whifch the < blockade runners supplied the Southern armies. For years these forts withstood continual attacks I by the Union Army and Navy, surrendering only in the last months of the war. “Fort Anderson’s vast earth works are adjacent to the ruins of Brunswick Town. Fort Cas well now is used as a religious assembly ground by the Bap tist State Convention. “Fort Fisher, an earthen for tification, suffered much deterior ation from wind and weather through the past century, and has been severely eroded by the en croaching sea. But measures are being taken to stop the erosion 1 and to restore, if possible, at least c partially, the remaining bastions a of the fort by 1965. A handsome $ r.onument commemorates t h-e ite." ETown Loses WINSTON-SALEM — Eliz abethtown’s Yellow Jackets, Waccaniaw AA and District 4 champs, bowed out of the State AA Basketball Tourna ment here, Wednesday night, as Northwest Forsyth down ed them, 63-48. Fat Jessup and Eddie Smith each had 13 points for the Jackets and Newton Scott had 21 for the Falcons. Family income in the U. S. in 960 averaged $5,620—four per snt above 1959. Urban families veraged $5,911, rural non-farm, 5,620, rural farm, $2,875. 3p3j3K: ANNOUNCEMENT Compounded Quarterly This proposed new Rate of Dividend will become effective April ; 1. We have reached this decision after careful consideration of all of the facts involved, and this step is being taken in the firm conviction that we will be able to continue to adhere to our policies of sound man agement and service to our custom ers. Southport Savings & Loan Assn. W. P. Jorgensen. Sect.-Treas. SOUTHPORT, N. C.
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