The Wilmington morning star. [volume], July 10, 1947, Page 7, Image 7

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girl scout hut
near completion
Shack Is First Building
Erected In Whiteville
For Youngsters
Special To The Star
WHITEVILLE, July 9 — Con
struction of the Girl Scouts’ new
j!Jt on Burkhead street is pro
gressing rapidly and the build
up will soon be ready for use.
" The shack is the first ever to
ae erected in Whiteville solely
[0r young people’s activities and
Gir, Scout leaders are elated over
historic event.
Erection of the shack was made
potMble through a gift of $.1,000
py j. Herman Leder early in
;s)4d and the contributions of var
•c.;s civic organizations of White
viiie. together with personal dona
tiotis from interested persons.
Some money has also been earned
i,v me scouts themselves for the
purpose of aiding in the program.
former Mayor S. L. Fuller and
members of the city council grant
ed a 30-year lease on the Burkhead
itreet property, continuing Scout
activity on that site which was
first used by the girls in 1939.
'•This is truly a great project.
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STATE AIRLINES SAYS
INTENDS TO PURSUE
FIGHT TO ENTER CITY
State Airlines, Inc., yesterday re
affirmed its stand that it will
leave no stone unturned in its
fight to obtain permission from the
Civil Aeronautics Board to oper
ate into Wilmington.
That was stated in a letter re
ceived by Mayor E. L. White from
J. K. Gilbert, Jr., president of the
company. The letter, in thanking
the council for its recent stand
asking the CAB for a rehearing on
its decision to allow Piedmont
Aviation to come into this eity.
declared that action to carry the
fight for a rehearing,- will be map
ped at the next board of directors
meeting.
That meeting, added Gilbert,
probably, will be held early in
August.
Applewhite To Head
Wrightsville Lions
Joseph F. Applewhite, Wrights
ville Beach, was elected president
of the Wrightsville Beach Lions
club Tuesday night at the regular
meeting of the club.
Other officers named were: F.
G. Beach, first vice-president; Roy
Sandlin, second vice - president;
Bruce Hinson, third vice-presi
dent; Eugene E. King, sec-etary;
R. V. Whitehead, treasurer; Cecil
Robinson, lion tamer; F. M. Foy,
tail twister; and two directors, L.
T. Rogers and J. R. Robinson.
It is a part of the life of each girl
who is now a Scout and should be
come a symbol of pumlic pride,”
Mrs. David Smith, Girl Scout lead
er, said in commenting on the
work now in progress.
The shack will be ready for use
of the girls by the end of the
month, according to Mrs. Carl
Fore, committee chairman. 'The
interior will probably not be com
pletely finished for some time be
cause of the lack of funds to carry
on the building prgoram.
While no campaign for funds will
be made, Mrs. Fore said interest
ed persons may contribute now.
She expressed the hope that suffi
cient money could be obtained
through voluntary contributions to
furnish the work.
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T)RAG LINE USED
Swamp Lands Converted
For Agricultural Uses
BY BILL KEZIAH
Star Correspondent
SOUTHPORT, July 9 — Rice
Gwynn, extensive tobacco
planter of Brunswick county and
also an operator on the Fairmont
tobacco market, is doing a huge
reclamation'work that will convert
approximately six thousand acres
of Brunswick county swamp lands
to agricultural uses.
Living in the lower papt of
Brunswick and producing between
75 and 100 acres of tobacco yearly,
with other farm err,is in propor
tion, Gwynn has acquired a drag
line and at his own expense is
cutting out half a dozen canals
from Caw Caw Swamp through
swamp lands he owns.
Tapering from about four feet
in width at the bottom, the canals
are being cut 12 feet deep and are
12 feet wide at the lop. Several
miles of these canals or main
ditches have already been dug
by the dragline and when the work
has been completed quite a bit
of mileage will be involved.
The land being reclaimed, like
many other big areas in Brunswick
has never been farmed. The lack
of drainage precluding any sort
of farming operations. Of surpris
ing fertility, for crop production
the huge area is expected to out
rank almost any other farming
section of Brunswick county, once
the water is completely off. and
the land cleared.
It is understood that both the
dragline and a huge bulldozer that
Gwynn owns will be used in clear
ing operations when the canals are
all completed. The bulldozer as
well as the dragline, will be able
to uproot stumps and trees and
make everything ready for the
plow.
Years ago the Waccamaw Lumb
er company, operating at Bolton
on the lands now owned by the
Reigel Paper company, cleared
and turned over to corn growing
several hundred acres of land very
much like that which Mr. Gwynn
is now reclaiming. This Bolton
woodland was ditched and drained.
Draglines and bulldozers not then
having come into use, there was no
practical method of removing the
trees and stumps.
Confronted by this situation the
lumber company sent hundreds of
workmen into these drained, wood
ed swamps. The growth was all cut
down and allowed to lie and dry.
Several weeks later when all con
ditions would become appropriate
the several hundred acres were
set on fire and little would be left
on the surface of the ground but
ashes and charred stumps. With
too much in the way of stumps,
roots and the ground still too soft
for plowing, the Waccamaw com
pany would plant hundreds of
acres of corn on land that had
never had its surface broken by
plow or harrow.
This corn grown on unplowed
land was planted by what was
called the stuck corn method.
Across the great fields, with
stumps and logs still , smoking
ATTORNEYS ACT
AS PEACEMAKERS
Defend Two Women In
Court Later Halt Argu
ment Between Them
Attorneys Alton Lennon and El
bert Brown acted as defenders in
Recorder’s court yesterday for
two women then had to act as
peacemakers in the corridors of
the courthouse when the pair got
into an altercation at the conclu
sion of the healing.
Salina Bowen, 20, and Mary Lee
Carr, 22, both Negresses, charged
each other with assault. Salina
said Mary Lee attacked her with
an ax. Mary Lee said Salina went
after her with an iron bar.
The two were neighbors in the
800 block on Taylor street. When
the hearing was over, Judge Win
field Smith said suspended sen
tence should be handed out.
But he dismissed the case when
Mary Lee declared she had moved
out of the neighborhood., But that
didn’t stop them from going after
each other in the corridor. That
is until the attorneys pulled the
two women apart.
Margaret Galloway, Negress,
testified that she didn’t want Wil
liam Weems, 17, Negro, whom she
charged with assault, to dance
with her or to kiss her.
When she refused, he slapped
and kicked her, she declared. The
court assessed Weems the cost erf
the action. *
The court turned over for investi
gation to the welfare department
the case of George and Ruby Beh
ler, 520 Church street. The wife
had charged her husband with
nonsupport. He , contended she
would not cook his meals.
REALTY TRANSFERS
C. P. Prescott to Carter Gaines,
lot 14A block 33, Sunset Park.
Levy'Finberg to Clarence Pres
cott, lot 14A, block 33, Sunset Park.
W. E. Powell to W. J. McArthur,
lot 6 to 14, block 47, Carolina
Beach.
Frank Bellamy to L. D. Latta,
lots 81, 82, Shore Acres.
Maxine Nunlee to Matthew
Floyd, part lot 6t block 48, City.
John D. Ward to H. L. Higgings,
part lot 1, block 265, City.
George Melton to Earle Brach,
tract in Masonboro township.
Rogers Johnson to Jauntia Wild
er, part lot 4, block 188, City..
In 1946 the United States pro
duced 3.089,000 motor vehicles,
three times the output of the rest
of the world combined.
and with the ground still warm
from the fire of a day or two be
fore, fifty or a hundred colored
women would line Each with
a bag of corn at her wrist, each
holding a sharpened hardwood
stick in one hand. They were
strung out, each at equal distance,
along a long line or rope, with
knots tied to mark their places.
At a given signal the whole line
would move forward two steps,
each stake would be driven into
the soft earth and withdrawn. Into
each hole so left a grain of corn
would be dropped and the earth
patted down with the foot. In this
wa»y a row of corn, sometimes a
mile long, would be planted in a
minute or less and the planting line
would move forward for another
two steps, to plant another straight
row.
This land was not only planted
without benefit of plow. The corn
grew in the same way. Once or
twice during the growing season
workers would go through with
brush axes, cutting down all
sprouts. The corn grew on its own
and when the representative of the
Star-News was conducted through
those vast corn fields one hot July
day, in company \yith state offici
als, there was all but a lost group
of explorers in a corn field that
was subsequently found t0 be pro
producing 55 bushels to the acre.
Those vast corn fields at Bolton
are now growing in pine woods.
Mr. Gwynn, on his lands in Bruns
wick could, if he choose, plant by
the same method. With the drag
line and the bulldozer he will not
need to choose. He can clear his
land of the stumps and trees with
out burning and with other modern
machinery he can put it into shape
without the. vast amount of manual
labor that was required for stuck
corn planting on the wet lands
near Bolton.
BRUNSWICK CORN
CROP INCREASES
Yield Expected To Be Five
Bushels Per Acre More
Than In 1946
Special to the Star
SUPPLY, July 9—Two very in
teresting statements with regard
to the Brunswick county com crop
have been made here this week.
Dr. Miles, head of the soil test
ing laboratory at State College,
following a visit here stated that
he was very pleased at crop con
ditions. He gave it as his opinion
that this years corn crop will pro
duce five bushels more to the
acre than was produced in 1946.
The other statement and figures
were from county agent J. E. Dod
son. He said the increase per
acre would also apply to an in
creased acres of ten per cent more
land in corn than was grown in
1946
Both men list several contri
buting factors as responsible for
the increased production per acre.
More of the farmers grew winter
cover crops, they used more lime
stone, more and better fertilizers
and had the advantage of a good
growing season.
Regardless of how large a cam
crop is produced this year all will
be needed. The farmers have
more hogs and other animals to
feed. The floods in the mid-west
means a very short crop out there,
with little or none to import to
this part of the country. This
year brought an almost total fail
ure to the corn crop in Ohio and
Indiana, according to reports.
Supplementing this years fine
crop in Brunswick is every indi
cation of a bumper peanut and
sweet potato crop being produced.
These crops and additional pasture
for grazing will aid largely in tak
ing care of the greatly increased
number of hogs and livestock.
Prospects for a big hay crop, are
also growing brighter day by day.
Carolina Beach Board
To Appoint Officials
At Next Regular Meet
CAROLINA, BEACH, July 9 —
Appointment of H. M. VonOesen,
Wilmington, as consulting engineer
for the town of Carolina Beach
was made last night at the initial
regular meeting of the new board
of aldermen, with Mayor A. P.
Peay presiding.
VonOesen, a member of the city
engineering department in Wil
mington who at present is taking
over many of the duties of J. A.
Laughlin, city engineer, during the
latter’s prolonged illness, is ex
pected t0 be consulted frequently
in connection with the expansion of
the beach's water and sewerage
program.
Appointment of those to fill five
other appointive offices was held
over until the next meeting after
the board went into executive ses
sion for more than an hour.
Up for re-appointment are Bruce
Valentine, chief of police; Mrs.
Alice Strickland, clerk; Emmett
Bellamy, attorney; W. H. Hardy,
superintendent of streets; and G.
R. Wood, superintendent of the
water department.
DR. IRWIN GIVES OPINION
CHAPEL HILL, July 9—(JP)—It
is up to America to assume the
economic leadership of the free
dom loving peoples of the world,
j anti, if she fails to do so, capital
| istic democracy will probably be
| doomed, Dr. William A. Irwin, of
Nev; York, educational director of
the .\mencan Institute of Banking,
tola rolina Bankers confer
ence 1 address at its dinner
sessi .. ,re tonight.
ODOM SENTENCED
CHARLOTTE, July 9 — yp) _
Francis C. Odom, recently ac
quitted of the fatal shooting of
Herman Satinover, a bootlegger
of record, today was found guilty
of conspiracy to violate the liquor
laws and sentenced to two years
imprisonment.
WHITEVILLE LIONS
TO SPONSOR SHOW
Exposition To Be Pre
sented Again This Year
By Civic Club
Special To The Star
WHITEVILLE, July 9 — The
Whiteville Lions Club, sponsors of
the last year’s giant Merchants
Exposition, are laying the ground
work for this season’s show in a
much larger scale, according to
H. B. Barbee, president of the
local club. The exact date has not
been set, but tentative plans call
for the show sometime near the
close of the tobacco sason.
The 1947 exposition will be held
in Moore’s Warehouse in White
ville, which is in the late stages
of being completed for the com
ing tobacco season. This year’s
display will feature some of the
fanciest and most decorative
tiimmings ever put on in White
ville. stated Barbee, and will be
highlighted by six separate stager
attractions.
National concerns have inquir
ed as to spacing facilities in order
to secure room for national adver
tising as well as state distribu
tors. With this \icrease in demand
for advertising booths the show
promises to have a varied and
wide selection of entertainment,. .
Also planned are several more
game attractions and ccmfortable
rest stations throughout the ware
house.
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