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STUDENT NURSE
IN CITY TODAY
Miss Alice Maxwell On
Tour In Interest Nurse
Recruiting
An appeal for more young wo
men to enroll for nurse training
to help meet the critical shortage
of nurses in North Carolina hos
- pitals will be made here today
when Miss Alice Geraldine Max
will makes an official visit as the
recently named “Miss North^ Car
olina Student Nurse of 1947.“
Complete plans for Miss Max
well’s visit have not been an
nounced, but she is expected to
' speak before high school and
civic groups, calling for the sup
port of all local organizations in
the current nurse recruitment
campaign.
A twenty-one-year-old student
of Raeford, now in training at the
Baker-Thompson Memorial hos
pital in Lumberton, Miss Maxwell
was singled out in July by radio
and movie star Kay Kyser and
nine other contest judges as the
most outstanding student nurse
it. North Carolina.
Accompanying “Miss North
Carolina Student Nurse” to Wil
mington, one of the nine cities to
be visited in connection with the
recruitment campaign, are Miss
J. Virginia Miles, Raleigh, coun
selor. North Carolina State
Nurses’ association, and Louis M.
Connor, Jr., Chapel Hill, public
relations director, Hospital Sav
ings association.
The nurse recruitment cam
paign is under the sponsorship of
the Council on public education of
the North Carolina Hospital as
sociation for the State Nurses as
sociation with the cooperation
of the North Carolina Good
Health association and Hospital
Saving-Blue Cross.
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The United States produced
more than 58,000,000,000 quarts
of milk in 1946, as compared
with 8,000,000.000 in the United
Kingdom. 8,000,000.000 in Can
ada, and 4,500.000,000 in Aus
tralia
ONLV ONE RESIGNATION
Only once in Pennsylvania's
history has one of her governors
resigned Near death. Francis
Rawn Shunk resigned July 9,
1848, and died three weeks
later.
About 3,000 pounds of roses
are required to produce
one pound of attar of roses.
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j MISS ALICE MAXWELL
THREE VETERANS
SENT TO RAWLEIGH
FOR NAVY EXAMS
Three Southeastern North Car
olina men were sent to Raleigh
yesterday for physical examina
tion before being accepted in the
U. S. navy through the recruiting
office in the post office building,
it was anr iunced by James Para
dise, stat’on commander.
The local recruiting office has
sent 31 men to Raleigh this month
and have surpassed their 25-men
a-month total by six enlistees.
Sent to Raleigh for physical
examination were James Sibbett
of Boardman. a veteran who en
listed as Sl-c; Daniel Thomas
Mahn, of Rocky Point, and Wil
liam Floyd Hickman of Shallotte,
both non-veterans who enlisted
for three years service.
REALTY TRANSFERS
Harry Nemtzow to Clarence
Leon, lots 12, 13, block 25, Sum
mer Hill tract.
James O. Russ to J. F. Reed,
tract, Seagate, Harnett township
Carolina Coker Martin to Sam
uel Thompson, lots 16, 17, block
'0 Carolina Beach.
Lola Taylor Woole to Thomas
i-.L McIntyre, lots 42, 43, 44, 45,
Shore acres, Harnett township.
Beryha V. May to Foman Daly
rympie, lot 13, block 2, Wilming
ton Beach.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
Eleanor Gray Moore, 19, and
Meredith Raynor, 23, both of Wil
mington.
CAR REGISTRATION
RALEIGH, Oct. 20. — W —
A total of 4,740 new cars and
2.003 new trucks were registered
in North Carolina during Septem
ber compared with 2.360 new cars
and 1,250 new trucks in Sep
tember last year, motor vehicles
commissioner Landon C. Rosser
reported today. The September
registration brought the total
registrations for the year to 40,
788 new cars and 16.748 new
trucks.
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Obituaries
MRS. MARY S. MELTON
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary
S. Melton, 52, of Carolina Beach,
who died at James Walker Me
morial Hospital yesterday after
noon at 2 o’clock, will be held
Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock
from Yopp Funeral home. The
Rev. Ben Ussery and the Rev.
James McQuere will officiate.
Mrs. Melton is survived by her
husband, James R. Melton of
Carolina Beach; one daughter,
Mrs. Cliff Smith, Jr., of Carolina
beach; three sisters, Mrs. Bar
bara A. Jones of Carolina Beach,
Mrs. Anna Ruyickova of Szecho
slovakia. and Mrs. Edna Hudec
of Czechoslovakia; one brother,
Joseph Smajkal of Czechoslo
vakia; also two grandchildren.
JERRY HEWLETT
Funeral services for Jerry Hew
lett, 59, Wrightsville Beach,
who died Friday, were held yes
terday afternoon at 3 o’clock in
the chapel of Yopp Funeral
Home.
The Rev. J. E. Allard officiat
ed, assisted by the Rev. R. L.
Sturgis. Interment followed in
Bellevue cemetery.
Mr. Hewlett was a member of
the American Legiar. Post No.
10 for 28 consecutive years.
Active pallbearers were J. E.
Walker. R. A. Ashworth, Silas
Sneeden, Addison Hewlett, Jr.,
Ed Patrick, and W. D. Wilson,
and J B. Edwards all members
of the American Legion.
Honorary pallbearers were
Norwood Westbrook, and mem
bers of the American Legion Post
No. 10.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Helen Hewlett; one daugh
ter, Mrs. A1 Brousuard; two sis
ters, Mrs. Alma Flake of Clin
ton and Mrs. George Baltzegor.
GROVER C. BARNES
Funeral services were conduct
ed Monday afternoon at 2:30
o'clock from the chapel of the
Peacock Funeral Home in Chad
bourn by the Rev Robert Melton.
Interment followed in Green
Lawn cemetery.
MRS. LENA W. SELLARS
Friends were notified here yes
terday of the death of Mrs. Lena
W. Sellars, wife of R. L. Sellars,
Savannah. Ga. Mrs. Sellars was
a sister of Mrs. J. J. Mclr.nis, and
Mrs. B. W. Applewhite, Wilming
ton.
HAROLD HALL
ELIZABETHTOWN, Oct. 20
Funeral services were held
from the Elizabethtown Presby
terian church at 3 p. m., Monday
for Harold Hall, victim of a fatal
highway accident between Faye
tteville and Lillington Satur
day night. The Rev. R. H. Poole
wras assisted at the services by
the Rev. R. Z. Newton and the
Rev. A. D. Frazier.
A fighter pilot during World
War II, decorated and commend
ed by tht Army Air Force, Hall
is survived by his parents. Mr.
and Mrs. J. O. Hall of this city,
and three brothers; James of
Tarboro; Eugene, student at
ECTC, and Jack, at home.
MRS. MAMIE BRYAN MURPHY
BURGAW, Oct. 20. — Mrs.
Mamie Bryan Murphy, 73, widow
of the late T. W. Murphy, died
suddenly at her home in Charity
Crossroad community, near Rose
Hill. Saturday night.
Funeral services will be held
frcmi the home church at Chari
ty Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock,
with the Rev. Dretison Wood, as
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(Department: — Animal Life)
THE HORSE DOMESTICATED
FOR WAR AND PEACE
We do not know when ancient
men first made friends with
horses. For a long time men
hunted them for food; in one
place in Europe which was in
habited by men of the Stone
Age, bones of thousands of
horses have been found. Much
of the meat used by the poorer
people of Europe is still that of
horses.
It is not hard to imagine how
the first horse was tamed. Some
ancient man may have trapped
- foal with its mother or a
young colt that could be easily
tamed. Probably it was some
time after this that peoples in
central Asia taught horses to
draw carts. Then they were
hitched to war chariots Around
2000 B.C., horses were used to
draw chariots in Mesopotamia
and Egypt. The Assyrian horses
were of the European or Asia
tic type, with heavy heads,
while those of the Egyptians
were of the lighter, more beau
tiful type, which probably de
veloped in northern Africa.
Horses were not ridden at
first, nor were they tamed for
use as early as donkeys. Per
haps men learned first that they
could ride donkeys, then they
tried the swifter, more powerful
horse. This knowledge spread
throughout the world wherever
horses were found, to China
and Britain and through North
Africa.
Once horses were used in bat
tle to draw chariots and to
carry riders, it was found that a
tribe with horses could conquer
peoples without such an advan
tage. The Greeks had both cav
alry and chariots, and by the
time the Romans brought the
known world under their rule,
horses were possessions of all
the peoples of Europe and Asia.
When Julius Caesar landed in
Britain he found the Britons—
horse, foot and chariot — array
ed against his landing. These
horses of the British Isles had
most probably been brought
across the Channel wnen tne
the Celtic people came. Al
though horses had reached Eng
land during the Ice Age. when
the isles were connected with
the continent, they had later
been exterminated.
It was only about two
thousand years ago that the
Arabian tribes got horses, pro
bably from Egypt. They throve
in Arabia and when, about 630
A.D. the Arabian tribes set out
on their career of conquest,
they were mounted on swift
hardy horses far superior to
those of their enemies. Thus
they were able to sweep through
North Africa, the Middle East
and Spain. Not until they met
the heavily armored cavalry of
the French, under Charles Mar
tel. were they stopped.
The Arab horses were care
fully selected and cherished b'’
their owners. Many modern
Arabian horses have pedigrees
sisted by the Rev. John Long of
Wilmington, and the Rev. C. T.
Rogers of Rose Hill, officiating.
Interment will follow in the
Charity cemetery.
Mrs. Murphy is survived by
four daughters, Mrs. Della Bal
lard, Mrs. Annie Moore, Mrs.
O. H. Estes, all of Wallace, and
Mrs. N. Warren of Rutherford
ton; three sons, D. T. Murphy,
Wallace; A. D. and V. W. of the
home; 14 grandchildren and five
great grandchildren.
ERNEST HAROLD MILLER
FAIR BLUFF, Oct. 20.—Ernest
Harold Miller, 43, died Monday
morning at 10 o’clock at his home
here following a short illness.
Funeral services will be con
ducted Tuesday at 3 p. m from
Hinson Roads Baptist church by
the Rev. B. G. Early of Cerro
Gordo. Interment will follow in
Meares cemetery, here.
Surviving are three sons,
Harold of Fort Bragg, Jack of
Bladenboro, and Bill of Fair
Bluff; his mother, Mrs. N. J. Mil
ler of Fair Bluff; two brothers,
Robert E. and Boyd A. Miller of
Wilmington; a sister, Mrs. Walter
Black of Hope Mills.
MRS. MARTHA P. WALTERS
TABOR CITY, Oct. 20. — Mrs.
Martha P. Walters, 61, of Nixon
ville, S. C., died at 1:30 a. m. at
the home of her son, Gordon Walt
ers.
Funeral services will be held
Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock
from Tilly Swamp Baptist church
with the Rev. Oscar Hardwick of
ficiating. Burial v ill follow in the
church cemetery. She is survived
by four daughters, Mrs. Henrietta
Cooper of Fairmont, Mrs. Nellie
Elvis, Route 3, Conway, S. C.,
Cecil Walters of Longs, S. C., and
Lillian Walters of Charleston, S.
C.; two sons, Gordon L. Walters
and Robert Walters of Longs, S.
C.; five brothers, Lenny, Callie,
and Ira Thomas, of Nixonville, S.
C., Tommie Thomas of Conway,
S. C., and Raymond Thomas of
Wampee, S. C.
MRS. MARY MARGARET
WILLIS
Mrs. Mary Margaret Willis, 73,
died at her residence, 108 North
8th street, last night at 8:35
o’clock.
She is survived by one daugh
ter, Mrs. J. A. Davis of this city,
two sons, M. E. Willis of New
York city, and Wallace Willis, of
Morehead City.
Funeral services will be an
nounced later by Yopp Funeral
home.
Former Sgt. Creston A. Row
land, recruiter for the local Reg
ular Army and Air Corps in the
Post Office building yesterdaj
received a promotion as Staff
Sgt., it was announced by Lt
Charles J. Markus, station com
mander.
It requires skill and nerve to stick to a bucking broncho.
Thoroughbred horses rounding the turn on the homestretch at
Belmont Park, New York.
going back to the days of Mo
hammed the Prophet. Horses
were members of the family,
fed on the best food the Arab
ians could supply. They were
and are, splendid creatures, in
telligent and docile, with great
powers of endurance. Arab
poets often sang of their horses.
The Arabs did not want to sell
their prized horses, especially
the better ones, but about 1700
several were taken to England.
From these the famous English
racers, hunters and carriage
horses have been derived. Am
erican race horses are mostly
but some 'Arab horses were
brought to America direct
from Arabia.
The horses that were taken to
America by the Spaniards were
partly of Arab stock, though
the blood was mixed with that
of coarser breeds. Thus it was
that horses came back to the
land of their beginmngs. So Tie
wild horses in Afnerica today
show the characteristics of the
Arab steed, but most are poor
er animals, often quite ugly in
appearance.
(Copyright, 1946, By The Gro
lier Society Inc., based upon
The Book Of Knowledge)
(Distributed By United Feature
Syndicate, Inc )
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Taken From Life
The Lions clubs at Southport, |
Wallace and Burgaw and the
Civitan club at Chadbourn have
accepted the invitation of the
Ogden Civic club to send their
presidents and secretaries to a
meeting at Ogden Tuesday,
November 18, at 7:00 p. m. for the
purpose of organizing a South
eastern North Carolina Civic
congress. E. W. Johnson, the
Ogden secretary, is writing oth
er clubs as fast as he can ob
tain the addresses.
At the first anniversary din
ner of the Chadbourn Civitan
club, John E. Courtney, Civitan
lieutenant governor, paid warm
tribute to the purpose of the
proposed Southeastern North
Carolina Civic congress and pre
dicted it would develop into a
welcome power and influence in
the further development of the
region. Courtney said that the
fact that the Ogden Civic club
is an independent organization
is to be interpreted as a chal
lenge and that, in all probabi
lity, the next time we visit the
Ogden Civic Club we will find it
transformed into the Ogden Ci
vitan Club. We replied that we
would not be surprised because
the president of the Ogden Ci
vic Club, Jack Stanley, told us
he had a brother-in-law in the
Chadbourn Civitan club.
G. W. Spayd, a leading blue
berry grower, whose farm is lo
cated at Montague is now going
in on a rather big scale for
Porto Rican sweet potatoes
grown from certified seed. He
says the potatoes must be good
because they have converted
his wife, who was somewhat
prejudiced against sweet pota
toes. She now serves them re
gularly at her own table.
A fine spontaneous tribute was
that paid Rich, the chairman of
the newly formed Pender county
Boy Scout district, when, at the
organization meeting in the Bur
gaw courthouse, every man pre
sent spoke up emphatically say
ing Rich was the best possible
man for the chairmanship. It
was an outstanding collective
praise of the work of Rich for
the development of his county.
We were much interested in
the comment of Superintendent
H. M. Roland that the main
''ause for a smaller enrollment
in the 12th grade is poor home
environment, often a broken
home. It has been noticeable in
the past several years that a
growing number of homes seek
to shift the responsibility for the
children to the school. The finest
school in the world cannot be a
satisfactory substitute for the
home in the rearing of children,
as superintendent Roland stresses,
unless the school is supported and
aided by the home, children will
continue to drop out of school be
fore completing the 12th grade. II
is gratifying to note that the pre
centage of drop outs which was
running as high as 88 per cent
in other cities does not exceed
40 per cent in Wilmington. That
is high praise both for the
schools and the homes of Wil
mington. ,
While opinion among educa
tors differs as to the distribution
of grades into elementary
schools, junior high schools and
senior high schools, personally
we believe the city school sys
tem 25 years from now will be
of the 6-4-4 plan with six grades
in the elementary school, four
grades in the junior high and
four grades in the senior high,
The deciding factors will be the
time when departmentalization
of studies should be introduced,
the preparatory value of a jun
ior high for a senior high and oi
a senior high for college and the
astonishing differences in study
and recreation and social atti
tudes of age groups. This pre
diction is conditioned on the jun
ior high and the senior high be
ing adjacent or close to each
other so that athletic fields, lab
oratory equipment, work shops
and the like may be used in
common, and that in some
courses teachers may be inter
changeable. At present opinions
in educational circles divide
about 50-50 on the advisability of
a junior high.
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The New Hanover county
Board of Commissioners voted
Monday morning to join the city
council in underwriting the cost
of entertaining navy personnel in
the city associated with the three
day celebration of Navy Day con
cluding on October'27.
Requests for abatements of
county taxes occupied the major
portion of the business session
and the remainder of the business
included the hearing of routine
reports and requests for road im
provements.
The commissioners granted a
beer license to Henry J. Clark on
Market street road and deferred
action on a request for a beer li
cense by M. M. Shelly of Mason
boro. Among routine matters was
the approval of a justice of the
peace bond for Lt. Earl Saunders
of the city police department.
One out of every five persons
in the state of Massachusetts is
foreign born, with Canadians
topping the list, followed by Ital
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