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I FATHER and son I killed jn wreck I whiteville, n. c. 12. _ 1 1 l- collision a mile and a hal 9 :r^ cl whifeville on highway 8i 9 e*S]i-i5 a m- today took the live; 9 *; ,’0 white men and resulted ii I Incus injuries to 2 Negroes. 9 ^ ddad are C. W. Baits, 47, o: 9 . ,Cad in Pender County, anc 9 hZ. year - old father, B. W. 9 « The older man was killed 9 Pi'ntly.' while his son died short 9 f^ier the collision. 9 The injured, both patients at the Irimbus County hospital, arc I rfde Munn, 25, and Chester Car 9 U 37 both of near Acme. 9 Sergeant J. B. Pridgen of t h e I . highway patrol said that I liL was driving a 1938 truck in 9 ’• direction of Wilmington when I f collided head - on with a 19-JO ■ c e i truck driven by the young I PBa„s. The Batts truck was laden I tobacco. Investigation showed I !‘t the collision occurred on the I outh side of the center of the I !“a(i phdgen said. ■ Carter claimed that he was i leCp at the time of the accident d jufm was unable to explain “ Pridgen anything about the cir ^ sill i r» 1 ;g0Mi trucks were demolished. • ■ yunn's injuries consisted of cuts r% face and probably a broken c-"!e: Carter sustained a broken il ;,,w arm, cuts on the left ear and head cuts. Coroner Paul Avant has not set ■ j date for the inquest. ^B funeral services lor both of the ^B Bjtts, will be held at 4 o’clock B -ijs afternoon at the Hampstead B Method:sf church. The Rev. J. C. ■ itMedbee. assisted by the Rev. C. ■ j, Myres. will officiate. M Winford Batts is survived by his .1 widow. Mrs. Opal Batts; three B tons Chancy, Blaney and Clarence B Batts and one daughter, Jacklyn B Satis. fl B. W. Batts is survived by his ■ vidow, one son, Dewey Batts; five I daughters. Mrs. Willie Mobley, Mrs. Arthur Langley. Mrs. Annie Aman, Mrs. Francis Foy and Mrs. Roy Goiey; 19 g/andchildren and one greatgrandchild. Active pallbearers will be Atwood Saunders, L. W. Howard, Frances Foy. Jr.. Roy Riggs, J. H. Ganison, Lester Hansley, Jed Saunders, Ray mond Hughes, Amond Shingleton, H. Hansley, Howard Simmons, Paul Simmons and C. T. Howard. Honorary pallbearers will be J. F. Howard, James Howard, Sr., Rodrick Sidbury, J. W. Saunders, John Howard. D. A. Howard and Jheriff Brown. ROTARIANS HEAR NAVY MAN SPEAK Construction and operation of dry docks was discussed by Command er H. B. Buse, in charge of naval operations at the dry docks here when he spoke to the Rotary club at its weekly meeting yesterday. The club voted to send entries to 1 the civic club tennis tournament to febe held September 18. I Six visitors present at the lunrb eon were: Dr. L. J. Yelton and Dr. R. 0. Glenn, both of Moun tain City. Tenn.; Lt. C. J. Shannon IV, U.S.N.: Paul Reynolds of Ens ley. Ala.: Tracy Walker of Clinton: and Allen Jones of Columbus, Ga -V Commission Vacancy | Filled By Governor RALEIGH. Sept. 12 —— Gover nor Broughton today announced the appointment of Mrs. W. T. Bost, tr.T.c state welfare commissioner, as a member of the Unemployment Compensation Commission for a term expiring July 1, 1945. The appointment fills a vacancy caused by the resignation of Mrs. Ethel H. Fuller, of Durham. ^rs' Bost resigned early .... _beaufighter rockets blast liner rex _ ___ THE ONE-TIME LUXURY LINER REX, pride of the Italian tourist trade fleet, is-shown here burning near Trieste i chin'et"fTg uB®aufghtei's had °Pened UP on the big Ship which has been in Nazi hands. The big •~--e-ls reported virtually destroyed. OWI Radionhoto. .' (International Soundphoto) COUNTY SCHOOLS TO OPEN MONDAY New Hanover county schools will open at 8:45 o’clock Monday morn ing, with a teaching staff of 405, ■and an anticipated enrollment equal to or more than the 14,700 pupils enrolled last year, H. M. Roland, superintendent of schools announced yesterday. The entire school system staff will contain a personnel of 623, in cluding cafeteria assistants, office help, day nursery supervisors, truck drivers, and others. Roland said. The county this year will have 21 more teachers, allotted by the state on the basis of the increased enrollment. There are approxi mately six vacancies yet to be fill ed on the teaching staffs of ele mentary white schools, he explain ed. Indications are, according to Roland, that there will be a larger first grade than ever before; the reason being that New Hanover’s birth rate within the past six to eight years has mounted in un precedented fashion. Roland is of the opinion that the high number of first pupils in the first year class will continue for several years to come. j-fuc mi,ipciiiiy uj uic idsc in uic number of first grade pupils, prac. tically all rooms in the new build ings constructed here since the de fense period began will have to be utilized, Roland commented. Two new schools in Maffitt Vil lage will be put into operation this fall. One, that for Negro pupils, was briefly occupied at the close of last year, but the building for white youths will be opened for the first time. The Board of Education has completed its building program, an expansion made necessary by the unusual climb in school enrollment, Roland declared. Each of the new structures has been equipped in a manner equal to or better than the set state qualifications for ele mentary schools, even though the work was done under wartime han dicaps. A meeting of white principals was held yesterday morning and a meeting of Negro principals yes terday afternoon. A county-wide meeting for white teachers will be held Friday after noon at 3 o’clock in the New Kan over High school auditorium. H;gh school teachers will gather F'nday morning at 8:30 o’clock. Freshman Day is set for Friday at 9:30 a.m., when newcomers to New Hanover High will be orient ed. Negro teachers have been canea for a session at Williston Industrial High school Friday at 12 noon. New Hanover’s school board is comprised of Dr. John T. Hoggard chairman. L. T. Landen. J. C. Roe, Mrs. C. L. Meister, E. A. Laney, and Cyrus D. Hogue, attorney. Administrative personnel in cludes Mr. Roland, J. W. Grise, assistant superintendent, 1. T. Hamilton, assistant superintend ent, secondary schools, Mr. Pen der Durham, supervisor of text books and reports, Wallace West, supervisor buildings, grounds and transportation, and lone Pinner, secretary. Heading the ROTC units this year will be Lieut. Seymour Odens, with Lieut. Eugene Lacock direct ing the band and Richard Dobson directing the Junior High' band. A complete list of school person nel and announcement of the trans. portation arrangements will be re leased soon. -V One spot in the Papta Desert of Peru has not had a drop of rain in more than 45 years. this year as head of the Welfare department and was succeeded by Dr. Ellen D. Winston, formerly of Meredith college. City Briefs TICKETS ON SALE Tickets to the Benno Rabin off concert on October 18 are now on sale at Kingoff’s and (iurr’s jewelry stores. The concert will be sponsored by tbe New Hanover High school or chestra. ENLIST IN NAVY The local Navy Recruiting station announced yesterday that it has enlisted four 17 year-old boys so far this week. The boys are: Robert Stewart Thomas and David Leslie May nard, both of Maxton; Wil liam Wade McArthur of Lau rinburg and Coy Jackson Moore, of Atkinson. -V Purse Containing $75 Left In Phone Booth; Owner Requests Return A plea for the return of her change purse containing ap proximately $75 which was left in a telephone booth in the Murchison Bldg, yesterday af ternoon was isssed last - night by Mrs. Leroy Robert Shaw, Who, with her hlusband, a Blue thenthal Air Base sergeant, is staying with Rev. and Mrs. James Lawson at their home, 308 South Second St. Mrs. Robert Shaw said there were no-identification papers in the pur?e, ^ijd the the person who found it at first would not know to whom to return it. She returned to the telephone booth 15 minutes after she left and discovered her loss, but the purse was gone at that time. FARMERS LAUDED BYDEANJ5CHAUB RALEIGH, Sept. 12—W— North Carolina farmers, who started this year 74,000 workers short, have done an excetional war job, Direc tor I. O. Schaub of the State Col lege extension service, said today. Schaub said growers began the year with 24,000 fewer workers than a year previous and planted crops that would require the labor of 50,000 more workers than in 1943. “Farmers have worked long er hours than ever before and have made better use of machinery. The work has not been finished but we are over the hump. The job couldn't be done but we are doing it,” he said. -V WAC MOTHER ESCAPES DOTING SON ATLANTIC CITY— <A>) —When a priva*e returns from a furlough three days ahead of time, there must be a reason. Explained WAC Pfc. Brydie B. Hyland, 47, of Boston: “My son, Cpl. Robert Hyland, arrived home about the same time I did. He was so proud of his uniformed mother that he took me to every show in Boston and showed me off at just about, every night club. He just wore me out. I came back to rest up before going back to duty.” --V The old Spanish mission at San ta Barbara, Calif., has been in use continuously since its founding. PrettiestWAC HERE'S LOVELY Pvt. Kathleen Mc Cann, Detroit, Mich., who wa* chosen the prettiest WAC in the country in competition with thou sands of other beautiful service women at the New Jersey State Fair, Trenton, N. J, (International) CONTRACT AWARDED BY HOSPITAL GROUP RALEIGH, Sept. 12_UP> —1The State Hospitals Board of Control has awarded a contract to the Rogers Construction company, of Smithfield, and others, totaling $18,534, fo rthe construction of an abattoir a tthe hospital for the in s£he at Goldsboro. ■ .R: M, Rothleb, business manager for the board, said the general contract calls for the expendi ture of $10,634 for the build ing alone. Other contracts call for $475, tor electriciiy, $2,000 for plumbing and heating, $3,114 for refrigeration, and $1,500 for other equipment. The 'plant is being constructed to take care of livestock slaugh tering on the hospital’s farm. The hospital maintains about 600 hogs and at present has 173 beef cattle in addition to its diary herd. -V The sun’s diameter is 109.1 times the diameter of our earth. - — ——*M 4AJAUAA1VIXV11) All W* Shipyard Assured Of Work For Year The North Carolina Shipbuilding company has sufficient contracts with the U. S. Maritime commis sion for vitally needed ships to as sure its operation during the com ing 12 months, officials of the com pany announced yesterday. . Because of the peace-time value of the vessels being built here, there is little or no likelihood of any cancellation of contracts, it was said. Even in the event of an early European peace, there would not be a letup in present product'on pressure because of t h e impor tance of the AKA combat cargo vessel program now underway here. Neither would the yard’s force be reduced to any appreci able extent, officials added. The statement that the yard— largest of North Carolina’s war born industries — faces another busy year is in keeping with a recent announcement by Ralph A. Bard, Undersecretary of the Navy, that the Navy’s production pro gram is still increasing. The AKA type combat cargo vessels now being delivered have a most important place in the Navy’s plans for prosecution of the war against Japan. Every effort, it was explained, is being made to see that all a; e delivered on sched ule. Undersecretary Bard appealed to all workers in the Navy’s ship yards and shore establishments and private plants and shipyards engaged on naval work, such as the Wilmington one, to "stay on the job” during the coming twelve months. He called for “work and more work” as he pointed out that the last six months of 1944 will show an increase in production of approximately 10 per cent over the first six months of the year and the program for the first six months of 1945 will be approxi mately three per cent greater than the first six months of 1944. “We expect this production pro gram will be carried out and it is not expected that the ending of the war in Europe during this pe riod will affect this program. Our battle of production will end only with the defeat of Japan,” he de clared. In discussing the continuation of operations here during the next 12 months, officials recalled that dur ing Wilmington’s shipbuilding days of World War I, the keel of the fir6t vessel was not laid until No vember 2, 1918—just nine days be fore the Armistice. She was not launched until September 1, 1919, yet operations continued until 1921 —approximately three years after the war was over—when the last ship was delivered. Additional work was also assigned after the Armistice. The Wilmington yard, which launched its first ship, the S. S. Zebulon B. Vance, a few hours be fore the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, will send its 177th, the U. S. S. Suffolk, down the ways Thursday. Included in this number are 126 Libertys, 36 C-2 type and the AKA’s. -V McCOLL HAS FIRST MECHANICAL PICKER RALEIGH, Sept. 12 —(ffi— The first mechanical cotton picker in the Carolinas is now in operation at McColl, S. C. The picker is owned by J. W. Hamer of Dillon county. Reports last week show that the machine picks 1,200 to 1,600 pounds of seed cotton and hour, or eight to 10 bales per day, with a bale of cotton per acre open in the field. C. L. McCaslan, extension gin specialist at N. C. State college, said the machine picked the cotton without damaging the plant and unopened "bolls. There were no more burrs in the seed cotton than with hand picking, h€ said. TOBACCO MARKETS REMAIN BLOCKED WILSON, Sept. 12.—(JP)—A ma jority of tobacco markets in the state’s eastern belt remained blocked today because of increas ingly heavy offerings, while prices for all better quality grades were firm compared with the previous day’s sales, the War Food Admin istration and the State Department of Agriculture said. | Prices for some lower, quality [leaf, lug and nodescript grades showed fluctuations, with about as many increases as decreases,-WFA said. Some ■ common green leaf grades were down from' one to two cents a pound, and best thin non Idescript' partially regained losses | quoted cat Monday, v The general quality of offerings was slightly lower as more- com mon and nondescript grades- were reported sold, WFA said. There al so was a decrease in the percent age-of fine quality lugs. Bulk of -the sales was comprised of. common to fair leaf, low to good lugs and non descript.. , Sales yesterday totaled 6,499.916 pounds at an average of 41.74 Sea son sales through the same date to taled 50706,357 pounds, averaging 41.26 a pound. Average prices per pound on a limited number of representative U. S. grades, compared with Mon day's prices: Leaf: good lemon, 47 unchanged; fair lemon, .46 unchanged; . low lemon. .46 up one; fair orange, .46 .unchanged; low orange, .44 un changed; common orange, .42 un changed; common green (lemon side), .36 down two; common green (orange side). .35 down one. Cutters: fair lemon, .*7 Unchang ed;' low lemon, .46 unchanged; low orange, .46 unchanged. Lugs: fine lemon, .46 unchanged; good lemon, .45 unchanged; fair lemon, .44 unchanged; '' good or ange, .45 unchanged; fair orange, 44 unchanged; low orange. .40 up one. 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