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revenue reports
SHOW DECREASES
Operating revenues for the
month of March this year, show a
consifierable decrease, Atlantic
Coaf: Line railroad officials an
nounced yesterday.
Operating expenses for the same
period show almost an equal in
crease. as compared to the same
more i, 1945, and a higher increase
during the month of March, 1944.
Heavy Decrease
Revenues in March, 1946, were
$11,638,894 while for the same
™°“tl’- last year they were $15,
299,498. In 1944 the company’s op
erating revenues totaled $15,368,
These proceeds for the period
Jan. 1 to March 31, this year to
taled $34,027,231, while for the
same period last year the com
pany realized a total of $43,169,267
or nearly $10,000,000 less in the
three months of this year.
This, according to official figures,
is a result of operation of the
Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast
railroad, which property the Coast
Line took over Jan. 1, this year.
Included also in the figures are
considerations for estimated wage
adjustments for the first three
months of the current year. These
figures have a direct bearing on
the totals, as an estimated $2,
884,913 will be paid the employes
because of the recent 16 cents per
hour wage raise recommended as
retroactive to Jan. 1, 1946.
Operating Revenue
Net operating revenues for the
month of March amounted to $690,
685 while for the same month last
year, the company realized a total
net operating revenue of $5,769,
268.
The amount required for taxes
during the month just passed, to
taled $500,000, while this item for
the same month last year totaled
$3,860,734.
Net Way Down
Net operating income for March
totaled $1,190,685, as compared to
March of last year when the item
totaled $1,908,534.
MORE ABOUT
TEACHERS
FROM PAGE ONE
Some of them have been teach
ing only a year or two while a
majority have five, 10, 20, or
more years of experience be
hind them. That they may have
brought some measures of un
derstanding to others of the
meaning of the books of the Bible
—our greatest literary heritage, is
the only reward they seek for their
efforts.
Answers Unfolded
When this reporter started out to
find who the men are who are
teaohing the Bible in Wilmington
Sunday schools and to obtain from
them, a brief sketch of their ex
periences, little thought was given
to the “why’s and wherefores”
which urge busy men to teach a
Sunday school class. But from this
doctor and that rate clerk the
answer was unfolded—they are
teaching because they enjoy
it — for the knowledge gained
—for the contacts made possible
among men from every walk oi
life.
That there is romance in the
teaching of the Bible was indicated
by more than one—that one gains
an education unobtainable else
where, from the 66 books of the
Bible. For enclosed within its
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pages, uicj ooj, ~-; ’
phase of life and thought is dealt
with, and every form of literature
included—stories, biographies, let
ters, orations, prayers, hymns oi
praise and thanksgiving, fierce war
songs, tender love lyrics, fables,
proverbs, epigrams, genealogies,
and chronologies.
Dean is Dr. Smith
Dean of Men’s Bible class teach
ers in Wilmington is Dr. W. T.
Smith, well known dentist with of
fices in the Southern building.
With a record of 43 years as a
teacher, Dr. Smith, who teaches
a class of over 50 men at the First
Baptist church each Sunday morn
ing, will tell you with a smile that
he has enjoyed every minute Of the
more than 2,000 hours that he has
spent teaching the word of God to
Baptist men of the community.
And during his long years of
service, Dr. Smith has spent many
additional hours of his leisure time
in the preparation of lessons—
hours upon hours in perusal of the
Bible, the International Sunday
school lesson, Peloubets’ notes
Baptist church notes—a la-ge task,
but to him a m rt interesting one.
In addition, Dr. Smith helped or
ganize some 35 years ago, a Sun
day school orchestra at First Bap
tist—an organization that has been
an integral part in keeping attend
ance up each Sunday.
Attendance Prize
To H. T. Wilson of the Atlantic
Coast Line staff and wholesale on
fectioner on the side. perhaps
goes the attendance prize among
Sunday school Bible teachers m
Wilmington. Now in his; 10th
as teacher of the Men s Bibie class
at Immanuel Presbyterian church
Wilson has 20 years of teaching
experience to his credit and bettei
still, has never missed a Sunday
morning in over 20 years. He too^
^ys he enjoys the experience and
only hopes1 that he is helping oth
erAnother professional man in the
20-year Bible teacher bracket is
nr J E Evans, Murchison build
ing dentist, who presides over the
Sin’s Bible class at St. Andrew s
Covenant Presbyterian church each
Sunday morning. A busy man who
gets a lot of personal emoyment
out of teaching the Bible, D •
Evans has the distinction of teach
ing the largest class m Wilming
ton—an average attendance o
arc ’ 100 men. He. like many
other Dime
ternational Sunday school lesson
which is printed in The Morn g
Star each Saturday morning,
“* BUld|p,»d, Much Time
Credited by his Pasto5\| *.e
T H. King, with spending mo
the preparation of the
Sunday school lesson than he does
in the preparation of a sermon,
JoseSh B. Baker, is now rounding
J 7„me 18 years of teaching.
Now teacher of the Mens Bible
class at Winter Park Baptist
church Baker, who spends his
working day dispensing stamps to
Wilmingtonians at the postc.fice,
has been teaching the Bible now
for 10 years without a break and
previously had some right years
teaching experience in country
Sunday schools. He, like all others,
interviewed, said he thoroughly en
joys the work.
T. C. Ellers, who spends some
eight hours each day adding figures
and helping keep the records in the
county auditor’s office, puts in an
enjoyable as well as profitable
hour each Sundav morning as
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teacher of Men’s Bible class at
Fifth Avenue Methodist church
And he has been teaching the
Bible in Sunday schools over a
period of 30 years—a task that has
entailed many thousands of hours
of research and study.
Inspirational
Teaching a class of 40 to 45 men
each Sunday morning at First
Presbyterian Sunday school, G.
Dudley Humphrey, well known at
torney, finds the experience in
teresting, inspirational and help
ful. His class is now in its second
year of study of the International
Sunday school lesson series, a
series which takes seven years to
complete and embraces the 66
books of the Old and New Testa
ments.
D. H. Howes, assistant t6
Charles B. Newcombe as teacher
of the Men’s Bible class at Temple
Baptist church spends his work
ing days as an insurance agent,
but finds time each week to pre
pare a lesson just in case New
combe, secretary of the Scottish
Rite Masonic bodies in Wilming
ton, is unavoidably absent. Howes
has been teaching for some 20
years now and has enjoyed, he
says, every hour of the time he has
devoted to the effort of interpret
ing the Bible story to some 40 men
almost every Sunday. Before join
ing Temple, he taught Bible at the
First Baptist church Sunday school
and is a member of McClure Bible
class, which recently celebrated
its 49th anniversary.
Teachers Teach, Too
The teaching profession is also
indentified here on the rolls of
Men’s Bible class teachers. Edwin
Blakesley, Jr., principal of Wash
ington Catlett school is apparently
sold on the teaching profession for
he takes a busman’s holidy each
Sunday morning to teach the
Men’s Bible class at Grace Metho
dist church which has an average
attendance of 80. Blakesley, who
has been teaching Sunday school
for a quarter-century, takes from
eight to 12 hours each week to pre
pare his les on for Sunday morn
ing and he endeavors, he says, tc
make it interesting by drawing
upon modern conditions and prob
iems in teaching men of his class
the glories of living a cnrisuar.
life.
While there is only a small
class of men at Winter Park
Presbyterian church. R. T. Sin
clair, retired, enjoys the task oi
teaching the Bible there each Sun
day morning. And although he
generally follows the International
Sunday school lesson, he more
often draws upon his own thoughts
as they apply to the passage of the
Bible in auestion. for the subject
of his weekly lesson.
At Sunset Park
Earl Dye, who keeps more thar
busy each week day with his work
the freight claims department oi
the ACL. finds enough spare time
somehow to prepare a lesson foi
the Men’s Bible class at Sunsel
Park Baptist church of which he
has been teacher for almost a
year now, although his teaching
experience goes back a dozen years
or more, he having taught jumoi
and intermediate grades at Cal
vary Baptist Sunday school before
moving his letter to Sunset Park
church. With an average attend
ance of about 40 to 50 men each
Sunday. Mr. Dye says he gets a
lot of enjoyment and personal
good out of his experience
W C. Scoggins, superintendent
of the Spofford Mills, a busy man
during the week, can be found al
most every Sunday morning teach
ing the Men’s Bible class at Del
gado Presbyterian church Sunday
school. With almost a decade oi
experience to his credit as a Bible
teacher, Scoggins says that the
satisfaction obtained, is more than
enough payment for the many
hours required in the preparation
of a lesson.
Book of Prayer
Another busy executive who gets
a lot of enjoyment and personal
gain out of teaching the Bible in
Sunday school is C. B. Wilson, as
sistant auditor of the Atlantic
roast Line. Every Sunday morn
ing, Wilson presides over the Men’s
Bible class at St. John’s Episcopal
church Sunday school. The class
Df a dozen to 15 men, Wilson says
is now engaged in a study of the
Book of Prayer, and for that rea
son, he prepares most of his les
sons from a book called ‘‘Prayei
Book Reasons Why.”
Six days each wees, J. D. Hobbs.
Princess street barber, and loyal
supporter of everything that
smacks of Wake Forest college,
works at his trade, but on Sunday
mornings he teaches the Men’s
Bible at Tabernacle Baptist
church. While he has only had the
class for about a year now, his
experience goes back many more
years as a Bible teacher in coun
try church Sunday schools. He
like all other laymen engaged in
teaching, says it is a wonderful
and satisfying experience.
Represents Clerks
W. H. Cox, salesman at the X
Department store represents the
clerks of the city as a Bible teach
er and enjoys each Sunday morn
ing at Calvary Baptist church
where he teaches the Men's Bible
class. With an attendance of 30
tr, Snnitav Cox sains fine
attention through his able inter- ^
pretation of the Internationa] Sun
day school lesson. He has been
teaching the Bible m Sunday
schools for 25 years now.
The above is by no means a
complete record of all lay Bible
class teachers in Wilmington. There
are more and representing many
walks of life. Efforts by this re
porter to contact them all proved
unsuccessful, but a few of those
who teach regularly are known to
enjoy the work. Among them are
R. S. McKeithan, who teaches at
Trinity Methodist Sunday school,
William C. Cronnenburg, a retired
gov'rnment employe who teaches
the Men’s Bible class at St. Pau- s
Lutheran church: Carl Seitter,
well known Castle Hayne truck
farmer who teaches at St. Mat
hews Episcopal: W. K. Rhodes
Jr., attorney, teacher at S-nset
Park Methodist; J. H. Bordeaux
farmer, who teaches at Epwortr
Methodist Sunday school; J. F
Johnson, shipyard employe who
presides over the Men’s Bible class
at Gibson Avenue Methodist Sun
day school and A. T. Wrench,
teacher at Wesley Memorial.
Laymen teachers all, these men
ar serving and like it—business
and professional men following in
th footsteps of the venerable Bede,
who spent the greater part of his
lif the translation of St. J^hn s
Gospel, in order that men down
through the ages, might under
stand the beauty of its lines.
Obituaries
JOHN RUST EATON
Funeral services for John Rust
Eaton, Sr., superintendent of con
struction for the city engineering
department, were conducted from
the chapel of tne Ward Funeral
home here at 10 o’clock Friday
morning, the Rev. EJc;r.r Fisher, .
pastor of Trinity Methodist church |
officiating.
Interment was in the family
cemetery at Franklinton.
Mr. Eaton, who died suddenly
Thursday morning in a local hos
pital, is survived by his widow,
Anabel Smith Eaton; a daughter,
Sarah Anne; a son, John Rust
Eaton, Jr.; three brothers: _W. A.
Eaton, Franklinton; I. S. Eaton,
Raleigh, and T. G. Eaton, Greens
boro; threj sisters: Mrs. Maylon
Temple and Miss Sarah Eaton,
Zebulon, and Miss Janet Eaton,
Wilmington.
Active pallbearers at Friday s
services from the chapel were C.
C. Smith, E. D. Smith, Harry
Smith, Leon D. Smith and R. P.
Smith. Honorary pallbearers in
cluded J. A. Loughlin, Robert S.
LeGwin, L. R. Armstrong, Dr. L.
J. Meredith, Dr. H. A. Codington,
Henry von Olsen, Leo Marshall
and Judge H. Winfield Smith.
JOHN J. HUCKS, JR.
Funeral services for John John
son Hucks, Jr., 22, of Charleston,
S. C., who died from injuries re
ceived in a truck wreck in Tucson,
Arizon.a, were conducted from the
chapel of Andrews Mortuary Fri
day afternoon by the Rev. William
Crowe, Jr., pastor of the First
Presbyterian church. Interment
took place in Oakdale cemetery
He was the son of John Johnson
Hucks, Sr. and the late Edna Di
vine Hucks of Charleston.
Besides his father he is surviv
ed by one sister Miss Edna Hucks
of Wilmington.
Pallbearers were A. C. Divine.
R. J, Divine, E. H. Divine, J. S.
Divine, Jr., R. C. Divine and
Thomas Lancaster.
CHARLES S. BRITT
Charles S. Britt, of Raleigh, and
formerly cf Wilmington .died at
1:10 p. m., Friday in Raleigh.
Funeral services will be con
ducted Sunday afternoon at 3:30
o’clock from the Baptist Taber
oacle in Raleigh.
Mr. Britt is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Ruth Smith Britt, four
daughters and one son.
SELECT CHURCH
Grace Methodist church has
been selected as scene of a
district church missionary con
ference sponsored by the board
of missions and church exten
sion, to be held here May 16,
according to the Associated
Press from Durham today.
City Briefs !
BIBLE CLASS MEETING
The weekly meeting of ihe
Men’s Bible class of St. An
drews - Covenant Presbyterian
church, Fifteenth and Market
streets, will be held Sunday
morning at 9:45 o’clock. Dr.
J. E. Evans is the teacher. All
men of the community are
cordially invited to attend.
ALL DAY SERVICE
The Wesleyan Methodist
church, 18th and Castle streets
will hold an all-day meeting,
April 28.. Dinner will be served
on the grounds, and the Rev.
S. T. Bayse will be the prin
cipal speaker at the morning
and night services.
BRIDGE WINNERS
Seven tables were played at
the bridge club sponsored by
the Citv Recreation depart
ment. The winners as an
nounced by Mrs. Elizabeth W.
May were: R. L. May, Mrs.
Nell Walsh. Mrs. R. M. Browd
er, Miss Appie Daniels. Ed
ward Dr usto, Mrs. Hazel
Tnimc a nrl Mice Ms rv Franrps
Fey.
DANCE. PUBLIC INVITED
The public has heen invited to
attend a special Saturday night
dance at the Lake Forest Com
munity center tonight. Danc
ing will be from 8 to 11. There
will be a small admission
charge.
LAST TEACHERS’ MEETING
The New Hanover County
classroom teachers will hold
their last meeting of the current
school term on Monday, 5:30
p. m., at the Lake Forest pic
nic grounds at the foot of Jack
son drive. A weenie roast will
highlight the meeting.
ENGINEERS CLUB
The Wilmington Engineers
club will hold its next meet
ing on May 8, instead of May
1. as previously scheduled. The
program will include a demon
stration of modern lighting by
the Westingliouse Electric cor
poration and the awarding of
prizes amounting to $50 to New
Hanover High school students
submitting the best essays on
scientific subjects.
SAMARITAN BIBLE CLASS
The Samaritan Bible Class of
First Presbyterian church will
be taught by A. E. Gibson on
Sunday, 10 a. m., at Gilmour
hall.
REPLACEMENT
Mrs. Ruth Woods, 1507 Nun
street, has been temporarily
assigned to the local Veterans
Administration office, fourth
floor T’de Water building. She
replaces Miss Bessie Hollowell,
who is absent due to illness.
U. C. T. MEET
Cape Fear council. 374, Unit
ed Commercial Travelers of
America, will meet Saturday
night at 8 o’clock in the Odd
Fellows hall.
The Recreation department
of the Lake Forest center will
hold a round dance in Com
munity hall tomorrow night for
the purpose of raising funds
for the Lake Forest baseball
club.
SATURDAY PAPER DRIVE
Eugene Edwards, district
commissioner Boy Scouts of
America, Cape Fear Area, to
day announced^ that organiza
tion would conduct a paper
scrap drive Sunday afternoon
beginning at 12:45 o’clock.
LEGION HOP
American Legion Post No.
10 will hold a dance in the
Legion Home. Thi”' and Dock
street, Saturday night, it was
announced today b; Harry
Dosher, dance chairman.
FIREMEN DINE
Mem'ers of the Carolina
CAN DID ATE
FOR
CONGRESS
7th Congressional
District
W. S. (Billy) Britt, candidate
for Congress. A farmer, busi
y
ness man and able lawyer. Born
on a farm in Robeson County.
His motto: “Fair treatment to
all, class legislation to none.” ,
Give him your vote and your
support. j
Beach Fire department will
hold a turkey dinner at the
Sea Gull grill, Kure beach,
Saturday night at 6 o’clock for
the benefit of the department.
FAVOR TIME CHANGE
Members of the Wilmington
affiliate of the Protective Trav
elers’ association, meeting last
night at the Famous club, en
dorsed a resolution favoring
North Carolina adoption of day
light saving t:me.
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COAST L CLUB
MAY STAGE DANCE
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Members Name Bob Koos
er Chairman Of Enter
tainment Committee
Bob Kooser has been appointed
chairman of the entertainment
committee, Atlantic Coast Line
Employes Club, Miss Vashti Gorn
to, president, said today.
Committee members include
Misses Martha Bellamy, Mary
Symmes; J. S. Webb, Jr., and Jack
Whitton.
The committee will continue
negotiation now in progress with
various orchestra booking agencies
in an effort to secure a prominent
band for the club’s first social
occasion since the beginning of the
war.
Plan Dance
Tentative plans call for a dance
at Lumina the first week in June
in honor of returning Coast Line
war veterans.
The Employes Club was origi
nally organized in 1930 and includes
all personnel employed by the rail
road in the general offices here,
and those on the Wilmington dis
trict, approximately 2,500 presons.
The club became inactive at the
beginning of the war and is now
in the process of reactivation.
Family Affair
Miss Gornto said that families
of members of the club will be al
lowed to attend the party. It was
understood that the wife may bring
her husband, or the husband who is
an emloye, may bring his wife.
The dance and party will be the
annual celebration of the club.
Prior to the club’s recess for the
war years, members were treated
to an excursion to some interest
ing point, and various other cele
brations.
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