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BRUNSWICK CROPS
APPROACH NORMAL
iCorn And Tobacco Report
; ed Improved During
Past Ten Days
Special to the Star
SOUTHPORT, June 17 — The
condition of Brunswick county
crops has been decidely on th' up
and up for the past ten days.
Where the first of the month found
■them two to three weeks behind
normal for that period of the year,
they are now approaching normal
in most cases. So far as good pro
duction goes, the farmers have
little to worry about, they say.
i The corn crop is especially good
tnis year and the acreage is large.
Many fields have already been
[laid by. However a lot of corn
[growers prefer to continue cultiva
tion as long as possible in order
that the crop may mature without
[being surrounded by too much
weed and grass growth.
Tobacco cropping and curing
has started in fields here and
there, but his work will not be
general until the first of July.
Along with early fields most grow
er* have patches of late stuff that
has to catch up.
The hog crop is much larger
than at any time in the past half
dozen years. Along with a greatly
Increased number of hogs feed
will be much more available and
the counterpart of many a pig
that was slaughtered during past
winters and falls will grow into
full sized hogs this year.
RED CROSS
i (Continued From Page One)
speeding emergency and rehabili
tation assistance to families af
fected by fires, floods, windstorms
or other natural disturbances of
major proportions.
[ How best to speed rescue work
and meet basic needs for food,
clothing, shelter and medical aid
Will be particularly stressed,
i “We will not be caught napping
if disaster should strike here,”
^aid Greer. “We’ll know our com
munity resources for meeting the
emergency and how we can best
operate in a coordinated plan if
gction Involving the Red Cross
and other community agencies.”
Committees Named
Committees who will take part
in the institute and the time af
•igned each, are:
’ Survey — Walter J. Cartier,
chairman, 10 to 10:50 a.m., Mon
day.
Rescue—E. C. Sneed chairman,
11 to 11:50 a.m. Monday.
Food—J. C. Pretlow, chairman,
1 to 2:50 p.m. Monday.
Clothing, Louis Shrier chairman,
Hymie Love co-chairman, 3 to
3:50 p.m M.onday.
Shelter—B. H. Marshall, chair
man, 4 to 4:50 p.m. Monday.
Medical and nursing—Dr. R. B.
Hare, chairman of doctors and
Mrs. Robert Swindell, vice-chair
man of nursing, 10 to 10:50 a.m.
Tuesday.
Central purchase and supply,—
Ben Merritt, chairman, 2:30 to
3:20 p.m. Tuesday.
Public information and fund
raising, Mrs. G. Warren Barrett,
chairman, 3:30 to 4:20 p.m. Tues
ilftv
Registration and information,
H. A. Marks, chairman, 4:30 to
8:20 p.m. Tuesday,
Full membership of all commit
tees is escpected to be in atten
dance.
Tuesday Session
At 8 o’clock on Tuesday evening
at the chapter house there will be
a general session of all commit
tees together with city and county
Officials, relief agencies, officers
and board members of Wilming
ton chapter, A.R.C. and all other
Interested persons.
It is the purpose at this meet
ing to give an over-all picture o'
disaster operations and how it re
lates to city and county govern
ments in this particular area, in
cluding Wrightsville Beach and
Carolina Beach,
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City Briefs
Another lax foreclosure suit was
brought by the city government
yesterday in county court, tnis
time against Charles Swett,
Thomas L. Swett and his wife and
other claimants to property at 11th
and Queen streets. The city asked
$72 back taxes and interest and
the sale of the property to satisfy
the judgment.
A1 Bowen, business manager of
the local telephone exchange said
yesterday that Southern Bell of
ficials have planned to complete
the installation of a dial system
at Wrightsville by July 24. Bowen
said the company planned to dis
tribute new phone directories
soon, also. Now that the recent
strike effects are over the com
pany is trying to install as many
residential phones as possible. All
business needs have been met, he
added.
George Edward Saleem, RM 1-c,
507 Chestnut st„ and Oscar Robin
son StM 1-c yesterday enlisted in
class V-6 of the inactive Naval
Reserve, local officials reported.
Ray Sweazy, Boy Scout execu
tive of the Cape Fear area, Boy
Scouts of America, will meet with
the group of scout leaders in the
Wilmington district on Thursday
night, the first time since he as
sumed his new position here. Mem
bers of the Wilmington district
committee and the scoutmaster’s
round table will hold a joint dinner
meeting in the Friendly cafeteria
at 6:30 p. m. on Thursday night.
D. J. Fulcher, administrative as
sistant, Wilmington District Corps
of Engineers, has been designated
to represent the Wilmington dis
trict at a conference to be held
in the office of the Division Engi
neer, South Atlantic Division, in
Atlanta. He will meet with the
group on June 19 for the purpose
of conducting a wage survey for
floating plant positions, which in*
elude such activities as dredge
boat operations.
A report that the U. S. Coast
Guard cutter, Mendota may return
to its Cape Fear river station
earlier than expected was made
yesterday by Mrs. Norman Qpsi
pnik_ Wilmington, wife of Mitchell
K. Opsipnik, who received com
munication from her husband that
he would probably be home June
21.
Last week the Coast Guard offi
cials in Washington reported the
Mendota was beginning on ice pa
trol off the west coast of Green
land, which was to last indefinitely.
Short movies dealing with the
final features of a canning school
conducted recently at New Han
over High school will be shown
this afternoon at 2:30 o’clock in
laboratory 108 at the high school,
Miss Ruth Blackman said today.
Rabbi Pizer W. Jacobs .pastor
of the Temple of Israel, return
ed yesterday from Stanton, Va.,
where he conducted a Golden
Wedding ceremony for a couple of
his former congregation.
! A special mounting has been
devised by means of which bicy
cle tourists can attach a camera
just above the front fork of the
wheel and snap pictures along the
way.
STATE MERCHANTS
ELECT OFFICERS
Judson H. Blount Of Green
ville Elevated To Pres
idency At Meeting
RALEIGH, June 17 —W—A res
olution that “we will do every
thing within our power to hold
prices in line” was unanimously
adopted by the North Carolina
Merchants association at its 45th
annual convention here' today.
The resolution says further that
the merchants “will pass on to
our customers thp benefit of every
reduction in the price of goods
at the supply level” and that “we
will continue to mark all goods
sold by us at the lowest possible
price consistent with a reasonable
profit.”"
Judson H. Blount of Greenville,
first vice president, was elected
president succeeding O. P. Mat
thews of Gastonia. The two - day
meeting ended tonight with the
annual banquet.
As usual, the merchants passed
a resolution condemning the sales
tax and asking the state’ law
maker to “repeal the tax in its
entirety”.
Other resolutions passed includ
ed a measure opposing the statu
tory increase in the rate of the
old-age and survivors insurance
tax (slated to go to two-and-one
half per cent on January 1, 1948»
and asking that the tax be frozen
at its present level of one per
cent; aiifj a resolution attacking
the favoritism accorded the “tax
favored” cooperatives and urging
a revision of present tax law’s to
require the cooperatives to pay
taxes on the same basis of as
sessment and at the same rate
as those imposed on other bust
nesses.
The delegates also passed reso
lutions disapproving the closing ot
bank on Saturday and condemn
ing the practice of “certain manu
facturers and jobbers in selling di
rect to the consumer at so-called
‘wholesale’ prices”.
Officers electd in addition to
Driskill of Charlotte, first vice
president. and John M. Carroll of
Asheville, second vice-president.
W. L. Dowell of Raleigh w’as re
elected executive secretary and
also was named to the newly
created office of executive vice
president. T. C. Hinkle of Lexing
ton w’as reelected treasurer.
Directors elected to the execu
tive committee, were: W. F.
Dowdy, New Bern; Leroy Allen,
Raleigh; John H. Smitherman,
Winston-Salem; C. C. Shell, Roan
oke Rapids; an^ D. R. Clark, Tar
boro. Blount also was elected the
state association’s representative
on the board of trustees of the
American Retail federation.
Jenpings Randolph of Washing
ton, assistant to the president of
Capital Airlines and former con
gressman from West Virginia,
was speaker at tonight’s banquet.
He told the merchants that “we
should create w’ithin the govern
ment of the United States a de
partment of peace. Such a de
partment would be headed by a
secretary w’ho would be a mem
ber of the cabinet.”
The Weather
Weather bureau report oi temperature
and rainfall for the 21 hours ending 8
p. m.p in the principal cotton growing
areas and elsewhere:
Station High Low Predp.
WILMINGTON_ 85 68 — '
Alpena _ 64 42 —
Asheville _ 80 54 —
Atlanta _ 83 60 —
Atlantic City_ 79 59 —
Birmingham _ 87 56 —
Boston _ 72 56 —
Buffalo _ 72 45 —
Burlington _ 74 4fi —
Chattanooga _ 84 S3 —
Chicago_ 66 53 .64
Cincinnati _. 75 52 —
Cleveland_71 50 .01
Dallas_94 67 —
Denver_— 56 —
Detroit _ 70 At .06
Duluth_ 83 49 —
El Faso __ 98 66 —
Fort Worth _ 94 68 —
Galvestin _ as 73 —
Jacksonville _ 90 88 —
Kansas City_91 87 .08
Key West _ 86 77 . 02
Knoxville_. 81 58 —
Little Rock_ 89 64 —
Los Angeles_ 83 58 —
Louisville_ 77 53 —
Memphis _ 90 64 —
Meridian _ 92 81 —
Miami _91 77 1.32
Minn.-St. Paul_ 78 59 —
Mobile _ 90 72 —
Montgomery _91 83 —
New Orleans_ 90 70 —
New York_ 76 59 —
Norfolk ---- 78 64 —
Philadelphia_ 78 58 —
Phoenix_ 105 75 —
Pittsburgh _ 74 52 _
Portland, Me. _ 68 44 —
Raleigh _ 82 81 —
Richmond _ 79 57 _
St. Louis_81 62 .18
San Antonio __ 95 — —
San Francisco _ 73 55 —
Savannah _ 89 84 —
Seattle_ 70 35 —
Bampa - 84 75 .35
Vicksburg_91 32 —
Washington___,_ 77 36 —
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legion;
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unamimous. The motion was ap
proved and passed.
For Youth Program
Galloway, who has had 20 years
of Legion activity, thanked the
delegates for their participation
in the election and said lje hoped
the opposition within the depart
ment would cease. ;
He promised the Legionnaires
the maintenance and the expan
sion of the rehabilitation program
and said he advocated the expan
sion of a youth program in the
State.
The rew commander, who will
head 70,000 Legionnaires1' in North
Carolina predicted a great year
for the department.
Also elected at the last business
session of the convention were
division vice-commanders, dele
gates to the national convention,
district commanders and other of
ficers.
Vice-commanders of the five di
visions in the State are: First, K.
E. Stokes, Northampton; second,
Floyd Chadwick, Sr., Morehead
City; third, Thomas Banks, Gar
ner; fourth, Joe Greer, Charlotte,
fifth, J. P. Bush, Lenoir.
National Delegates
Delegates to the national con
vention to be held in New Ycrk
August 29-31 are Paul Younts, re
tiring executive vice-commander;
William M. York, retiring depart
ment commander; Wiley Pickens,
new executive viee-commander
and Galloway, the new depart
ment commander.
Other officers elected are Robin
Kirby, Charlotte, national execu
tive committeman; Robert Trex
ler, China Grove, department
chaplain; Edgar Bain, Goldsboro,
historian; Lewis Parker, Eliza
bethtown, judge advocate.
District commanders, vice com
manders and delegates to the na
tional convention are:
District No. 1, Frank M. Harris,
Elizabeth City; D. C. Berry, Eliza
beth City; Stephen H. Alfred, Eliz
abeth City.
District No. 2, John A. Holmes,
Edenton; Perry Hughes, Colerain;
Kermit Layton, Edenton.
District three: J. M. Hayes,
Plymouth; Joe Winslow, Roberson
ville; Floyd Cohwon, Columbia.
District four: Walter Snell, Wash
ington; L. B. Gowan, Greenville;
June H. Rose, Greenville.
District five: H. H, Steed, War
renton; H. C. Futrell, Enfield; J.
G. Madry.
District six: L. G. Whitely, Wil
son; W. H. Williams, Rocky Mount;
Z. V. Morgan, Wilson.
District seven: Albert J. Ellis,
Jacksonville; Henry G. Gibbs; Jr.,
Morehead City; R. Hugh Hill,
Beaufort.
District eight: W. V. Westmore
land, Goldsboro; Paul LeRoque,
Kinston; E. H. Bain, Goldsboro.
District nine: Clifton J. Knowles,
Wallace; Paul Williams, Pink Hill;
Dr. John D. Robinson, Wallace.
District 10: Charles Trott, South
port; Harry L. Mintz, Southport;
Charles M. Trott, Whiteville.
District 11: R. O. .McCoy,
Fayetteville; Stewart B. Warren,
Clinton; George E. Mason, Fort
Bragg.
District 12: E. L. McBride, Ab
erdeen: Laughton Caddell, Hoff
man; Vance T. Henry, Hamlet.
District 13: Morrison Peterson,
Red Springs; L. A. King, St.
Pauls; F. K. Biggs. Lumberton.
District 14: Glen C. Davis,
Lewisburg; George M. Morrison,
Henderson; R. C. Young, Kitrell.
District 15: Norman B. Grant
ham, Smithfield: Robert J.
Pleasants, Cary; Phillip R. White
ly, Wendell.
District 16: Dave Holmes, San
ford; George Franklin Blalock,
Durham; T. H. Grimes, Siler City.
District 17: Egbert L. Haywood,
Durham; Dr. Ben A. Thax
ton, Roxboro: Owen Robert
son, Chapel Hill,
District 18: Wade Lowe,
Farrington; Cy Compton, Mebane;
Tom Coble, Graham.
District 19: Robert D. Byrd,
Greensboro: H. T. William, Reeds
ville; Dr. Glenn Scott, Leaksville.
District 20 ; Robert Brunrh,
Asheboro; O. J. Marley, Lexing
ton; Wade Phillips, Lexington.
District 21; Leighton Brown,
Troy; W. H. Morrow, Albermarle;
R. A. Crowell. -Tr., Albermarle.
District 22; Oscar B. Shelley,
Monroe; Frank O. Little, Wades
boro; Erwin Price, Monroe.
District 23: Grover C; Boden
hamer, KernersviUe.
District 2 R. N. Wingate, Salis
bury; H. W. Thompson, China
Grove; F. Scarr Morrison, States
ville.
District 25; J. A. P e 11 i g r e w,
Concord; Lawrence Zieverink,
Charlotte; Thomas W, Bird,
Charlotte.
District 26: W. L. Ingold,
Taylorsville; W. Parks, Colvard,
West Je tiers on; Garland Ful
bright, Stoney Point.
District 27: John G. H. Geiger,
Hickory; John L. Frailey, Cherry
kvllle.
District 28: E. L. Walker, For
rest City; Griffith Smith, Shelby;
Durham Davis, Shelby.
District 29: F. B. Ribett, Val
dese; Austin Crund, Lenoir; J. p.
Bush, Lenoir.
District 30: No report received
from caucus.
District 31: Cecil Dobson,
Marion; J. E. Melton, M a r i o n;
S. E. Proctor, Marion.
District 32: L. C. Hall, Kenton;
Isaac Strickland, Oten; Rose A.
Lynn, Charlotte.
District 33: Nathan Patla, Hen
dersonville; Isham Henderson,
Tryon; Ralph Fisher, Brevard.
District 34: Dan Tompkins,
Sylva; Joe Bandle, Franklin; Bob
Anderson, Hayesville.
District 35: William J. Hoblitzell,
Andrews; Freeman Bradley,
Cherokee; Frank W. Swann, And
rews. i •'
In the session before the elec
tions began the Legion delegates
passed resolutions endorsing
President Truman’s military train
ing program, the voluntary army
recruiting plan and the amend
ment to public laws 483 and 312
to include pensions to widows
and orphans of deceased or retir
ed veterans of both World Wars.
Also endorsed by the Legion was
a program for an adequate mer
chant marine, and the movement
to stop shipments of the drug,
streptomycin out of the United
States.
In a short speech before the
delegates Gov. R. Gregg Cherry
urged the veterans to “join hands
and work for the common good of
the nation and the Legion,
S3M HU
ifc .
GIVEN LIFE AND NEW HOPE through the kindness of friends and neigh
bors, Bobby Quinn, 2%, of Los Angeles, walks to meet his mother, Mrs.
Jessie Quinn. A few months ago Bobby couldn’t even get out of bed. For
six months out of his two and a half years he was in the hospital, a vic
tim of nephrosis. Friends contributed to a welfare fund which helped
pay for the costly treatments needed to start Bobby along the road to a
happy and active childhood. (International Soundphoto)
eriefly when grease for the fish
Cry being held in the yard ad
joining the city hall, burst into
Elame. The fire department raced
around the comer from the city
building and extinguisned the
blaze before any damage was
done.
Meeting with the Legionnaires
all four days of the convention
was the Auxiliary which yester
day elected Mrs. Floyd Chadwick
of Morehead City to the State
Auxiliary presidency. She suc
ceeds Mrs. Thomas Bird of Char
lotte.
Vice presidents elected at the
meeting were Mrs. F. R. Matzno,
Woodland; Mrs. F. K. Biggs, Lum
certon; Mrs. Lee Hooper, High
Point; Mrs. E. P. Rhyne, Hickory
and Mrs. Allen Luther of Ashe
all e.
The convention got underway
ast Saturday with the 40 and 8
roitures’ “wreck”. The conven
;ion program for the succeeding
iays included a beauty nageant,
several dances, fireworks display,
mock invasion of the beach by
narine forces, parades and a fish
Cry.
WORLD NEWS
ITALY TREATY RATIFIED
PARIS, June 17—(A>)—The Coun
cil of the Republic, France’s up
per house of parliament, unanim
ously ratified the peace treaty
with Italy tonight, completing leg
islative action on the treaty ratifi
cation.
BRITAIN ACCEPTS
RUSSIAN
LONDON, June 17—{/P)—Emanu
el Shinwell, minister of fuel and
power, told the house of commons
today that Britain had accepted a
Russian offer of diesel and fuel
oils for consumption in the United
Kingdom. The quantities, Shinwell
told a questioner, are not deter
mined, but they will be small.
LAW PASSED UNANIMOUSLY
HELSINKI, June 17—(fP)—A law
allowing Finland to apply for mem
bership in the United Nations was
passed unanimously by the parlia
ment today.
EGYPTIAN COMPLAINT
CAIRO, June 17.—(A5)—Mamdouh
Riad Bey, minister of trade and
commerce, said today Egypt had
sent the United Nations security
council in New York a complaint
-egarding the evacuation of Brit
sh troops from Egypt and the
Anglo-Egyptian , Sudan question,
Re said an Egyptian delegation
would leave for New York before
toe end of June.
FIRE ESTIMATE IN U. S.
NEW YORK, June 17. —The
National board of fire underwriters
today estimated fire losses in the
United States in May at $56,545,000,
a seasonal decrease of 16.9 per cent
Erom $68,029,000 during April.
REDUCTIONS MAY BE
EXPECTED
WASHINGTON, June 17. — (A>)—
Reductions of more than 25 per
cent from present air freight rates
may be expected when the schedul
ed airlines file new tariffs to be
come effective August 1, the air
transport association said today.
CO REPORTS NEGATIVE
RESULTS
NORFOLK, Va., June 17. —(TP)—
The Coast Guard tonight reported
negative results after a two-day
search of the area between here
and Washington, D. C„ for a two
passenger plane missing since
early Saturday when it took off
Erom the south Norfolk airport on
a flight to Washington and Boston.
STATE
(Continued From Page One)
hospital and later removed to Ap
palachian Hall, near Asheville.
Solicitor Silent
Solicitor Carlyle has not indicat
ed what part, if any, young Cot
trell, the third party in the “Love
triangle” will play in the trial of
Mrs. Miller. The solicitor would
not say if Cottrell had been ques
tioned in regards to the shooting of
Miller.
The Wiggins Negro is still con
fined to the Robeson county jail in
default of a $15,000 bond.
RETAILERS
(Continued From Page One)
in some cases “in years” and
that some merchants are slipping
pieces of bacon out of already
wrapped packages before selling
them.
J. C. Parker, president of the
Grocers association, said that or
ganization has written the state
department in Raleigh asking that
a checker be sent here to check
all stores.
State officials of weights and
measures previously had appear
ed before the commissioners in
answer to Simmons’ charges.
howelT
(Continued From Page One)
Chest council board and the board
of the associated charities.
Guests at the luncheon included
Raymond Smith. Danville, Va.;
Paul Reynolds, Ensley, Ala.; Al
lan Nelms, Raleigh: J. N. Stewf
art, Hickory; J .J. Hudiburg, Hol
ly Ridge; J. T. Jieweger, Wil
mington, and Dick Hidband, San
ford.
deIked
(Continued From Page One)
process would go far towards
solving critical newsprint short
ages, and that they would “re
verse the old method of building
mills far from consumers and
build up new mills near large
cities where both the consumers
and the waste paper supplies are
concentrated.”
.— 1 -1
In a period when railroad ter
minals in Washington, D. C., han
dled 120,000 train arrivals and de
partures, the capital’s air terminal
handled 180,000 planes, military
and civilian.
PRESIDENT.. This is a
recent portrait of Juan D. Peron,
president of Argentina and long
praalMlrt to.tte political affairs, j
*6 PROOF • 75% GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS
AMERICA
(Continued From Page One)
sent to President Truman, Secre
tary of State George C. Marshall
and other high officials telegrams
declaring the seamen were “lock
ed out by the shipowners’’ and
adding:
“The arrogant refusal of the
shipowner* to bargain in good faith
with our unions demonstrates
clearly that they rely on the Taft
Hartley bill to destrcy the labor
movement.”
Operators here have labeled the
stoppage a “pure, simple, unadul
terated strike.”
Government officials in Washing
ton said no shipment of grain or
coal for Europe had been delayed
so far in the maritime dispute, but
W. R. Godber, Interstate Com
merce Commission agent here, an
nounced restrictions on shipments
of coal to three east coast ports.
Free Sailing Assurance
Godber said coal shipments to
New York, Philadelphia and Balti
more would be allowed only if
there were assurance that the ves
sel for which the coal was destined
would not be tied up.
Assistant Secretary of Labor
John W. Gibson planned talks with
both sides here in an 'effort to
end quickly the stoppage involving
five CIO unions with 200,000 mem
bers. The stoppage began last Sun
day midnight when contracts of
the unions expired.
Unions involved beside the NMU
are the Inter-national Longshore
men’s and Warehousemen’s union,
the American Communications as
sociation which is negotiating with
employers on both coasts, the Ma
rine Engineers Beneficial associa
tion which has agreed to a one
year contract extension on the west
coast and is negotiating for a si
milar agreement on the east coast
and the Marine Cooks and Stew
ards who also are seeking an ex
tension of their contract.
The NMU and ACA are asking
20 and 15 per cent wage boosts
respectively as well as other con
tract gains.
Charges Meeting
Meanwhile, the New York World
Telegram said Harry Bridges, pre
sident of the West Coast Interna
tional Longshoremen’s and Ware
housemen’s union held a secret
meeting here yesterday with top
Communist party officials.
William Z. Foster, the party’s
national chairman, was present at
the meeting in the apartment of
Murray Winocur, secretary of the
CIO maritime joint policy commit
tee and a leadt in the current
maritime stoppage, the paper said.
However, a public relations of
ficer at Communist party head
quarters said the story was “not
true” and Winocur denied he had
seen Bridges yesterday.
Asked about the story, Curran
declared:
“Neither the Communist party
nor any other outside group will
be tolerated, interferring with this
union’s struggle to improve the
wages, hours and working condi
tions of its members.”
Curran said Bridges was “sup
posed to be” in San Francisco.
In San Francisco, a spokesman
for Bridges said the story was
"a flat lie.”
The NMU president’s instruc
tions to his men to continue main
tenance. work on their vessels but
not to sail them remained in ef
fect. Under this policy, he esti
mated 700 ships were tied up.
However, shipping activity con
tinued brisk on west coast. The
ILWU agreed to a one-year con:
tract extension there and its mem
bers remained at work. 5ut the
union agreed to cooperate in a
formal strike call if one is issued.
Most west coast vessels are man
ned by AFL seamen. These men
also continued on the job.
The Hampton Roads port at Nor
Small Shipment Of
General Electric
AUTOMATIC
Washing Machines
It soaks, washes, rinses,
damp dries 9 lbs. of dry
clothes.
THE LAST WORD
IN WASHING MACHINES
GREGG
BROS.
110 Market St. Dial 9655
NOTICE
Trucks, Drays and Public Vehicles
New license plates due June 1st, 1947, for
all trucks, drays and public vehicles. Cost
$1.00 per truck per year.
C. R. Morse, Tax Collector
FIVE CHARGED WlTu
ROBBERY BOUND 0Vt
TO SUPERIOR COUR*
Special To The Star
LUMBERTON, June 17 n
whie women and two whit
all residents of the Lumbe-"6 lr't:i
tion, were bound over to“CRSE:'
wick county superior court 11T
when they faced charg„ otS’!i
in connection with t'.e -heft ^
iron safe, said to contai, 5 E«
from the store of Obie Tv'004
near Shallotte. '
The five persons being
the Brunswick count-, ;j
fault of bonds rangings f‘ lr' k
to $500 are: Henry Willis ?15(11
Willis, Mrs. Martin Willis l?13
Willis and Emm a Willard’ ^
The defendants were
Friday, June 6 at Lumber™''1
Fayetteville. It is alleged " asl
broke into and robbed Th?'7
store on the Morning 0f jURejPl
SHORT-SAMPLERs
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dy contained quite a bit ot W00|,
alcohol, a poison. So hean-j
were held t0 decide whether ”
wood alcohol content should be
brandy labels.
Well, it turned out that in mak.
ing brandy a little wood alcohol
inevitably turns up. if it did
it wouldn't be biandy. But • ,
amount is so small (about 002
percent) it’s harmless.
The Internal Revenue men r;il
haven’t decided how much wood
alcohol is too much.
Most of the liquor can be teved
chemically. It’s only occasionally
that , the most delicate mechanism
of all, numan taste buds,
be employed.
Did any chemist ever work to
hard he needed radar to find :na
way home?
“No,” said the I R. man,
he explained why. "The kind ot
stuff we get is so bad nobody
could possibly want to drink it.'1
Islands within the geographical
boundary of New Zealand a:»
Campbell Island, Solandcr Island,
the Three Kings, Auckland, An.
tipodes, Bounty and Snares Is
lands; while islands annexed to
New Zealand are Cook Islands,
Kermadec Islands, Niue Island
and other small islands, making
New Zealand’s total aggregiti
103,934 square miles.
folk, Va., reported at. least 111
ships ready to sail were tied up
when their NMU crews walked
off. Several tankers and colliers,
not affected so far by the atop
page, left the port.

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