Highway Commission Will Meet at Wilmington Soon Newport Rotary Club Changes Meeting Place The Newport Rotary Club will conduct its future meetings in the school lunchroom, according to publicity chairman Nathan Gar ner. Mr. Garner said that the club found the PTA Center hard to heat and inconvenient. The decision to move the meet ing place was made at the club meeting Monday night, when the Kotarians met at the Methodist educational building. C. S. Long was program chair man. He presented a film produced by US Steel. The title of the movie was Treasure Chest and it showed how cans are made. Student representative Tommy Howard met with the club for his last time. He said that he had en joyed his month's membership in the Kotury and that it had given him an understanding of the re sponsibilities and opportunities that come with memberhsip in the club. Visitors at the meeting were J. D. Murray and Gerald Mitchell of Morehead City and C. L. Teague and Willis Marshall of New Bern. Committee Lists i JC Candidates The nominating committee of the j More he ad City Jayeees suggested ! the following candidates for office I at the club meeting Monday night I at the Hotel Fort Macon: For president? Jerry Willis, Paul Cordova, Marion Mills anil Luther Lewis; for external vice president ? Gerald Murdoch and F loyd Chad wick; for internal vice president Bill Singleton and L. G. Dunn; for treasurer? Donald Davis and Dr. Berl Lewis; for directors? Hugh Porter, Robert McClain, Charles Willis, Rufus Butner and David Morris. Mr. Mills was appointed chair man of a committee to find a new ] meeting place. President R. O. Barnurn instructed him that if one is not available, he is to report that. Hugh Porter w a s appointed chairman of the teen-age roadco. a Jaycee-sponsored driving con test. Mr. Porter will arrange de tails and set a date for the event. Joe Beam reported that the com munity survey is , underway and should be completed within a month. The club continued Its plans to build picnic tables and benches at the new city park near the sec tion base, Camp Glenn. Club mem bers will build 10 tables and set them up at the park before the summer season opens. 13 Complete Course at Base Cherry Point?Informal gradua tion ceremonies were held at the Navy Supply office for 13 civilian employees who completed a 30 hour instructor's training course. The course consists of methods of instruction, teaching techniques, instruction processes, job analy sis and job breakdown, prepara tion of lesson plans, instruction outlines and materials. A. D. Aval lone, Morehead City, of the station industrial relations office, gave the instruction for the course. The 13 employees completing the course were Sllcn Olivier, George W. Wallace, Eita Stillway, Martin Gill, Marcille Johnson, Garland M. Morris, W. L. Carroll, M. C. Gar ner, Moses Pelham, James Ste wart, K. K. Kendrick, Juanita Register and George Mizesko. The Navy Certificates of Train ing were presented by Cdr. G. R. Brickley, (SQ, USN and Lt. Col. .N. C. Kingsbury. Ordnance Team to Give Instructions at Beach Bill Moore, deputy director of Civil Defense, Atlantic Beach, has announced that an ordnance team from Fort Bragg will come here April 15-18 to initruct Civil De fense workers in explosive ord nance reconnaissance. I Lt. George II. Burnett, command ing officer, ?4th Ordnance De tachment. Fort Bragg, with an in structional team, will arrive at At lantic Beach Monday, April 14, to make arrangements for the school. ' Raleigh, N. C. ? A public hear ing on important road matters in eastern North Carolina will high light the March 27-28 meeting of the State Highway Commission in Wilmington. The commission will be holding the fourth in its series of meetings outside Raleigh to allow local mu unicipal and county officials, as well as other interested road groups from east of Raleigh, the opportunity to express their views before the full seven-member com mission. Other such public hearings have been held under the commission's new policy in Asheville and Win ston-Salem. One other public hear ing was held in Raleigh in Decem ber for groups within a 75-mile radius ol the Capitol City. Highway Director W. F. Babcock has requested that all groups or individuals interested in appearing before the commission get in touch with him in Raleigh for a definite time period. Assigning such time schedules avoids delay and pre vents long waits by the various groups. Mr. Babcock said some of the eastern North Carolina grotips have already appeared before the commission at its Raleigh public hearing in Docember. The hearings are scheduled on Thursday, March 27, beginning at 2 p.m. Additional hearings will be scheduled Friday morning, begin ning at 9.30 a.m. The regular bus iness meeting of the State High way Commission will follow the public hearings on Friday. Both tin- public hearings and the com mission meeting are to be held in the New Hanover courthouse. Mr. Babcock said those who plan i lo appear before the State Highway Commission should document their requests in writing where possible and submit maps showing their proposals. In addition, the chief spoU . man for each group should include his name and address. The director pointed out that such docu ments should be left with the com- j mission for its subsequent discus sions of the highway proposals. Bookmobile Will Travel Monday Miss Dorothy Avery, director of the county library, has announced the bookmobile schedule for Mon day and Tuesday of next week which is National Library Week. Monday: Harlowe ? book stations in the homes of Mrs. E. R. Bowlin and Mrs. John Ives; Mill Creek ? hook station in the home of Mrs. J. C. Skinner; Newport route 2? hook station in the home of Mrs. Madge Reynolds; Masontown ? hook station in the home of Mrs. Harold Simmons; Nine-Foot Road ?book stations in the homes of Mrs. Alice Simmons and Mrs. Daisy Cannon. Tuesday: Mrs. Monroe Willis, bookmobile librarian, will be work ing in the county library. Off His Back Montrose, Colo. (AP)? The buck skin shirt that Chief Ouray of the Ute? wore at a peace treaty in Washington in 1880 has been re turned to the Utc Indian Museum at Montrose. JOIN AND SERVE ' held at the church Monday morn ing and will continue through the week. Miss Sadie Louise Harris, a stu dent at ECC, Greenville, spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. II. N. Harris. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Smith Sr. were in Beaufort Saturday. Mrs. Calvin Johnson and daugh ter of Beaufort visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Taylor Mon day. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Ipock and baby of Ernul spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Adams. Mr. Gordon Becton of Harlowe Tilled the appointment in our church Sunday morning in the capacity of layman. Mrs. Becton accompanied him. Billy and Jimmy Adams of New port News, Va., spent the week end with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Adams. Mrs. Ruth Smith attended a supper in New Bern Wednesday evening honoring retiring postmas ter, R. R. Eagles. It was given by post office officials. Mr. and Mrs. Red Ellen and children of Winston-Salem and Mrs. Betty Simpkins and son, Joseph, of Newport News, Va., vis ited relatives and friends in the community Saturday and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bardcn Tay lor carried their son, H. B. Jr., to Wilmington Monday to see Dr. Sidbury. George, Nancy, LaVonne, and Jean Huntley of Beaufort visited their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Smith Sr. last week. Small Demand Harrisburg, Pa. (AP)? Officials of the Pennsylvania Farm Show notified Lock Haven restaurateur Jacob Kohlberger that they would have no place for his entries at the 1958 show because there just wasn't enough interest in his class. Kohl berger owns 34 buffalo. SEASONED FOR FLAVOR! ' " ? ?? GILtS tuytet ?/*ec^ <?P| Hfct w l' Qeaeofi? for |S ff JJgy/Of' THE IDEAL BLEND FOR ALL TYPES OF DRINKING WATER! In the Act Danville, Va. (AP)? Frank Allen Goff, 24, of Lynchburg got too ex cited at the wrestling matches here ? and it cost him $10. Officers testified in municipal court Guff ;limbcd to the apron of the ring and started a wrestling match of his own with one of the performers. VFW Commander To Visit Sunday AtGoldsboro Goldsboro? Members of the Vet erans of Foreign Wars from all sections of eastern North Carolina will gather here Sunday to honor Richard L. Eoudebush of Indian apolis, Ind., commander-in-chief of the 1,300,000 member VFW or ganization. It will be the first visit of the 39-year-old livestock dealer to Eastern Carolina. Every post in the area is expected to be repre sented. Attending from this county will be Ervin E. Lupton, Morehead City, fourth district commander; William Vance FUlford, Beaufort, Jones-Austin post commander; Al F. Thomas, Beaufort, national aide dc campe; Ralph Whitley, More head City; Freddie Snooks, Beau fort, and William McKay, Beau fort-Morehead causcway. Commander Roudebush will ar rive in Goldsboro at noon and a luncheon is scheduled for him at 12:30 at the Hotel Goldsboro where he will be greeted by the mayor and other city officials. At 2 o'clock he will speak at the VFW Post Home and at 2:45 a reception will be held in his honor at the post home which is located Richard I. Roudebush . . . national VFW chicf on Mt. Holly Highway, one mile south of Goldsboro. State VFW officials scheduled to greet Commander Roudebush in clude J. M. Wallace of Gastonia, department commander; Wesley Cullipher of Elizabeth City, senior vice-commander; Paul Henley of Greensboro, junior vice-command er and Otis N. Brown of Greens boro, past national comniander-in chief. Mr. Roudebush will come here from Lincolnton where he is sche duled to speak Saturday night. He plans to leave at 5 p.m. from the Fayetteville airport to continue his official visits to other southern states. Dodo was the name of a bird that formerly inhabited the Is lands of the Mauritius and Reunion in the Indian Ocean. The Dodo has been extinct since 1681. County Fishery Experts Speak at St. Louis, Mo. The annual international meet ing of the North American Wildlife Conference was held in St. Louis, Mo., recently with Dr. William E. Fahy of the University of North Carolina Institute of Fisheries Re search serving as discussion leader for the session entitled Marine and Coastal Resources. In this session seven papers were presented. William W. Neely, U. S Soil Conservation Service, Walter boro, S. C., pointed out the danger in draining a certain type of soil along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Such soil is incapable of producing any crop except wildlife. Re-flooding of such drained areas does not convert the land to its original condition because chemi cal reactions have occurred. Such drainage is termed irreversible. Dr. Carl J. Sindermann, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Booth bay Harbor, Me., described a fun gus infection in the Gulf of St. Lawrence fishes which is damag ing herring and alcwifc popula tions. William II. Massmann, Virginia Fisheries Laboratory, Gloucester Point, Va., discussed the distribu tion and abundance of young-of the-year and yearling gray trout in the York River system of Virginia. James E. Sykes, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Beaufort, N. C., described and discussed certain problems relative to the Atlantic coast striped bass fishery and the status of his laboratory's biological research. Dr. William W. Hauler, Depart ment of Zoology, N. C. State Col lege, Raleigh, presented a broad picture of the striped bass in rela tion to the multiple use of the Roa noke River in North Carolina. Durbin C. Tabb, The Marine Laborotary, University of Miami, Fla., discussed man-made changes* in Florida estuaries and their ef fect on shotted trout populations. Dr. Royal D. Suttkus reported his findings concerning the species inake-up of Gulf of Mexico men haden. A species previously thought to be restricted to the At lantic coast has now been found in the Gulf. The menhaden fishing industry in the Gulf rests upon three species, although one at pres ent provides the greatest part of the citdt. ; ? - Street Sweeper Fails To Move Truck off Street Hampton, Va. (AP) ? Otis L. Sumler found out his street sweep er won't sweep up everything. Police said Sumlcr's sweeper collided with a 7'/^ -ton wrecker truck. The wrecker lost its right fenders, but was not swept from the street. ft inen QUANTITY RIGHTS RESERVED Meal prices are as high as we can remember them ever, being. We at Piggly Wiggly will not try to make you think otherwise, but we will assure you that you will get the best and most meat at Piggly Wiggly for your money. This week's special meat items are an example of what we arc doing to keep your cost of living as low as possible. FRESH PORK picnics -=; 35/ l Jamestown Pork I Fresh Pork Boston Butt Sausage RL0b? 39/| ROAST - 39^ Plymouth Brand Salad Oil Ql 59^ Frosty Acre* Frozen Pot \Q? Turkey H Chicken "ch ? ~ Florida Green Cabbage Tender Select Beef LIVER * 39^ Sweetheart Beauty SOAP 2 Reg. Ban 19 1 Plymouth Whole Bean COFFEE 75' NABISCO Fancy Crest ?COOKIES" " * Cello Bag PilUbury ? White, Yellow, Chocolate Cake Mix 2 56/ Plymouth Brand Salad Dressing <* 39/ Acclaim Full Fashioned 51 Ga., IS Dn. HOSE 59/ Save 30c Pr. Store Hour*: 8 A. IH. to ( P.M. ? Clow Wednesday 1 P.M. Open Friday* 'til 7 P.M. 14th and Arendell St. Shop M/iqfitf Regularly

Page Text

This is the computer-generated OCR text representation of this newspaper page. It may be empty, if no text could be automatically recognized. This data is also available in Plain Text and XML formats.

Return to page view