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VOCATION SCHOOL SEEN FOR G. I.’S Several Cities Joining In Move To Provide Training While Wilmington and New Han over county discuss further the idea of a unit of the Greater Uni versity of North Carolina locating in Wilmington to alleviate the crowded conditions caused by ap plications of returned veterans, those locally who wish to start school may apply at another school, it was announced yester day. Greenville and other cities In the state are planning to open vo cation schools for veterans soon, it was announced by Col. Wiley S. Pickens, state director of the state veterans commission. May Apply Meanwhile veterans who wish to attend school, and have been un able to procure admittance to any of the other schools, may apply to the Veterans Administration for admittance to one of the other FUEL OIL standard Oil "ESSOHEAT” Oil Burner Service HUGHES BROS. FUEL CO. Dial 7774 DIAL 2-8675 for Electrical Service Contracting - Repairing Residential or Commercial Brooks Electrical Co. 312 Southern Bldg. FARRAR TRANSFER & STORAGE WAREHOUSE DIAL 5317 TIRE RECAPPPING ; AUTO REPAIRING PAINTING-BODYWORK | SHELL ; Safii-Service Co. ! 3rd and Grace Sts. \ Julius Wenberg I J Jimmie Weuberg ] FOR SUMMER SPORTWEAR See Our Lines of Men’s Swim Trunks And Slack Suits FINKELSTEIN'S Corner Front & Market We Teach WATCHES To Tell The Truth EXPERT Watch and Clock Repair Fast Depenable Service. The JEWEL BOX Wilmington’s Most Popular Jewelry Store. 109 North Front St. 1872 1946 WILMINGTON LODGE NO. 319, A. F. & A. M. A STATED COMMUNICA TION of this Lodge will be hold en (THIS) TUESDAY, JUNE 18th at 8:00 p.m. Members are urged to attend. All qualified Master Masons are cordially in vited. By Order of the Master. Louis V. Swann P. M., Secretary Cellophane Bags Satchel Bottom-Moisture Proof ^■lb. bags....$4.76) 1 -lb. bags. 6.55 1000 2 -lb. bags . 8.60 1-lb. square bottom <r n c Cellophane Bags ^ Q . " _ ner 1000 DAVID JACOBI SUPPLY CQ. 17 South 2nd St. Dial 9451 I schools, which is established to operate during the 1946-17 term, Leonard W. Barrett, local sta.e Veteran Commission representa tive, taid yesterday afternoon. Prescriptions Barrett who has also been work ing on a plan to have prescriptions, issued veterans under the Blue Cross plan, filled locally, reported that there is a bright outlook for this. Prescriptions of such nature have been sent to the Winston Salem regional office to be filled, Barrett said. This requires some additional time in filling, as com pared with time consumed should an arrangement be made to have them filled locally, the represen tative thinks aside from detracting a “sizeable amount” of business from the area. VFW WILL AWARD CITIZENSHIP DISC Pat O’Crowley To Receive Medal At Regular Meet ing Wednesday Night The James A. Manley post, Vet erans of Foreign Wars, will award a citizenship medal to F. P. O’Crowley, Wilmington business man, at the regular meeting of the Post Wednesday evening, E C. Snead, post commander, said today. The citizenship medal has been awarded only on one previous oc casion when it was given several years ago to G. H. Hutaff, Snead said. The citation accompanying the award will indicate that the medal is awarded for “outstanding serv ice t° the community.” The post's plans for acquiring the USO building at Second and Orange streets for a home have been temporarily suspended This action was deemed necessary when the priority of organizations and groups was announced and the non-profit organizations, such as the VFW, were placed third on the list. CITY MERCHANTS SCHEDULE MEET FOR TOMORROW A special meeting of the Wil mington Merchants association has been called for 10:30 o”clock to morrow morning. P. Franklin Bell, secretary, announced yesterday. Although the complete agenda for the meeting has not been dis closed as yet, Bell said the mer chants would probably discuss the business of the recent state mer chants convention at Wrightsville Beach. It is also possible that the mer chants will discuss the possibility of rationing the sale of canned milk for infants’ use only in line with a recommendation received last week from the Production and Marketing division, U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture, Raleigh. Start Of U. S. Court Delayed For One Day The starting day of this month’s special civil term of U. S. District court has been changed from Mon day, June 24, to Tuesday, June 25, it was announced yesterday by J. Douglas Taylor, clerk of court. The only case so far on the docket is the complaint of H. A. Levenkron, New York, versus Hardin and Ramsey, Georgia — a suit to force payment for services Levenkron rendered to the Georgia firm in the interior finishing of 400 houses at Maffitt Village. Widow Of Quisling Denies All Charges OSLO, Norway, June 17.—(IP)— Mrs. Maria Quisling, 46, widow oi the Norwegian traitor Vidkun Quis ling, pleaded innocent Monday to charges of collaboration with Nazi occupation authorities. Mrs. Quisling also pleaded inno cent to charges of being a member of Norway’s Nazi party, taking furniture and silver belonging to the royal family and inducing her husband to use about $300,000 of government funds for his estate. SQUIRTED ALONG LONDON, June 17. —(/P)— Jet propulsion has been applied to the outboard motor. It’s the “aqua jet.” The manufacturer, R. M. Parkinson, Cheltenham, Gloucester, said Monday “the boat is simply squirted along by a powerful jet of water issuing from a nozzle in the underwater housing.” Flying Boat Hull Reaches Destination! LONG BEACH, Calif., June 17.— (U.R)—The 60-159, hull of Howard Hughes’ $20,000,000 plywood flying boat rested safely Monday at a graving dock where the experi mental plane will be assembled. The 200-foot hull waE inched across a pontoon bridge Sunday night, completing a 28-mile jour ney from Hughes’ factory near Culver City, Calif. The two wing sections, each 160feet long, previ ously had been moved to the dock. Movement of the torpedo-sheped fuselage took two days and was witnessed by an estimaied 100,000 persons on its mile-an-hour jour ney. There are more deaths from electric shock during the summer than in any other season, due to the moistness of the skin. Three Army Fliers Die In B-25 Crash FORT KNOX, Ky., June 17.— UP)—Maj. Gen. Hugh J. Gaffey, 51, and two Army lieutenant^ died and four other service men suf fered injuries in the crash of their B-25 plane at Godman field here late Sunday night. 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