The Wilmington morning star. [volume], April 07, 1946, SECTION-A, Page 5-A, Image 5

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HUNT FOR SLAYER !
OF WOMAN PUSHED
Officers Center On ‘Leads’
picked U p I n H o m e
Town Of Miss Kennedy
WAYNESBORO, PA., April 6
(/P-- The seach for the srvangler
of 19-year old Betty Jane Ken
nedy centered today on -‘leads”
picked up in her home town, Ha
ger:'.own Md., with reports that
an -mder.tified man had made
threats against the girl.
A tipster whose name Hagers
tow poiice did not disclose said
he had reaid a man talking about
Be- Jane with the declaration:
“Wait until I get my hands on
her:” |
T lice Capt. William H. Peters
0> Hagerstown said he also was
seeking a companion of the man
aho made the threat.
The girl s nude body was found j
Thursday a short distance from a
secondary highway near the Penn
s' vania-Maryland line.
Although the girl was reported
fussing from home since Sunday j
right, police established that she
hed been seen in Hagerstown—
gbeir 12 miles south of Waynes
eoro—at about 11:30 p.m.. Wed
nesday nine hours before her
body was discovered.
Authorities discounted rumors
which would link the case with
Earl McFarland, Snood-stranler of
t girl government employe, who 1
escaped recently from jail in Wash
ington, D C., where he awaited
execution. I
District attorney Leroy S. Max- .
Tell of Franklin County, Police
Chief John Dodson of Waynesboro,
ar.a Pennsylvania state policemen
assigned to the ca^e, declared
there was no evidence that McFar
land had ben in this section.
eastern publishers
END TWO-DAY SESSION
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field of the farmer and his place
in the current scene. Their ad
dresses were broadcast from the
assembly room of the Federal
USO club, where tonight’s ses
sions conc.uded the meeting.
Port Work Reviewed
i: his capacity as chairman of
(he Po.ts authority, Page review
ed the work of that body _ since
its inception in March, 1945. He
assured the association and the
• radio audience that the authority
was "making • every effort to turn;
its dreams cf modern ports into
realities as soon as passible.”
Charging that development of
the stae's water-borne transpor
tation has been neglected, Page
told of extensive development:
planned or underway at other At
lantic and Gulf ports. As an ex
ample, he cited the progress be
ing made by Charleston, S. C.
A $15,000,000 program is being
pushed and, in addition, the Pal-;
rnetto sca-side city has the use j
o' the Army’s former great port
of embarkation. The South Carolina j
Ports autnority, he added, has an ,
operations fund of $43,000 a year.
North Carolina’s authority, he add
ed. "does not have a cent.”
He told of the creation of the j
North Carolina State Ports autho- j
ntv through enabling legislation |
El the last session of the legisla- j
lure. The seven-man board, he con- j
tinued. is empowered to engage
in promoting, developing con- |
structing, equipping, maintaining ;
and operating the state's ‘‘long
neglected harbors and their ter-1
mmol f o n i 1 i + i ac ’1
In a general manner, this au
thority means the same to the
establishment and operation of mo
dern state ports as the state high
way an d Public Works commis
sion means in the building and j
maintenance of our hignways. It j
is patternedp after authorities that j
have been functing successfully for
years in New York, Virginia, South
Carolina, Georgia and numerous
other states. This means ol state
Port improvement is time-tested,
has ft nctioned throughout the years
elsewhere with millions of dollars
hi savings to the residents of the
fortunate states.
Surveys Underway
“The preliminaries of a com
prehensive survey of North Caro
kna's potential water-bourne ton
nage have been put underway by
exeperieneed representatives of
“”o nationally-known engineering
firms—Robert and Company, of
Atlanta, and the Frederick R. Har
ris Company of New York. This
is the first phase of a general sur
VPV. made possible by a recent
it of $90,000 from the Federal
W"j.'ks Agency. These companies
v/ill find for us what raw and
ufactured products and other
commodities should be moving
igh our ports. They will tell us
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V'ords tney are surveying the fu
ture job.”
“The second phase of the over-all
survey is to determine modern
terminal improvements necessary
to handle this traffic. This will in
clude cost estimates of docks, ware
houses, bulkheads, roadways, rail
road trackage and other many faci
lities that go to make a modern
port,” Page declared.
After all surveys and studies are
completed it will then be the pur
pose of the authority to see that the
needed port facilities are financed
and erected. Under terms of the
act under which it functions, it may
seek a direct grant from the Fed
eral government or through the
Reconstruction Finance corpora
tion or through the sale of self
liquidating bonds, Page said.
The Farmer’s Plight
Whitfield, an outstanding
authority of farm matters and him
self a highly successful agricultu
rist, discussed what he described
as “the unfortunate position of the
farmer in today’s economy.”
“The farmer, and this is particu
larily true of the men who till the
soil in our section of the state, is
at the bottom of the economic lad
der. He is, essentially, a producer,
yet as a producer he has little or
no say over the markets he serves.
“Compare this with the manu
facturer, also a producer, of fabri
cated goods. He had a decided
voice in his markets, and for that
reason is on - reasonably secure
economic footing,” Whitfield said.
Farming is a business, Whitfield
continued, and as a business the
farm needs the one economic step
that will place it on a par with
other businesses — in this instance,
Whitfield declared — processing
plants to assist in the control of
nis markets.
“Given the means to process his
products, hence to remove himself
from the vagaries of the market,
-he farmer can end his present
plight of being at the mercy of
ouyers who know that farm pro
ducts are highly perishable, hence
of temporary value.”
Urges Cooperatives
As a solution, Whitfield urged the
newspaper publishers to aid and
encourage farmers of their res
pective district in the formation
of bigger and better cooperatives,
both in the form of marketing faci
lities, but also in processing plants.
He included livestock in his over-all
discussion of farm products.
Prior to the radio broadcast, an
afternoon session heard a talk by
Ed Anderson of Brevard, publisher
of five Western North Carolina
weekly papers on the subject of the
weekly and its stature in the field
of national advertising.
Anderson asked the publishers of
weeklies to give serious thought to
the matter of a campaign to ac
quaint national advertisers with the
potency of the rural, weekly press
as a medium of advertising.
“There are approximately 9,000
weeklies and 600 small dailies in
the United States, representing 52
per cent of the nation’s population,
yet they manage to get less than
one-half of one per cent of the total
rational advertising budget,” An
derson declared.
Earlier today the newspapermen
sere guests of the Marine corps on
a tour through Camp Lejeune. Their
host, and representing Mpj. Gen.
John Marston, who wras ill, and
Capt. T. J. Sanders, post public
information officer. The associa
tion's members had lunch in the
main mess hall and later enjoyed
hospitality of the Officer’s club. An
afternoon session of the association
was conducted in the camp school
house with President Phillips pre
siding.
The meeting opened last night
with a party in the Club Copa
Cabana here.
Blood-letting or cupping was
used as early as 413 B.C. to treat
disease.
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