A Sailor’s Day at Sea Aboard a Grace Liner
THESE candid camera shots were taken at sea
aboard the S.S. Santa Lucia of the Grace Line,
while the seamen went about their duties, unaware
the pictures were being made, and portray the average
day in the life of a sailor aboard one of these liners.
The pictures show from left to right: A sailor swab
bing down the deck; Seamen doc.king the Santa
Lucia; A seaman standing lookout in the forepeak;
Photos by Robert E. Coates
A seaman washing down the superstructure; Ship’s
carpenter greasing a winch; A bos’n repairing the
gooseneck of a boom, and a seaman hoisting an inter
national code flag. Note how trim these men look,
either in their blues for cold weather, or their khakis
for tropical climates. The seaman on Grace liners
stand two 4-hour watches daily, with 16 hours of
leisure.
Mrs. R. M. Pair, who has been a
patient at Roanoke Rapids Hos
pital, is much improved and re
turned to her home Wednesday.
Dr. and Mrs. Malcolm Barden of
Rockingham were guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Fitts Tuesday.
Rev. and Mrs. J. L. Willis spent
Tuesday in Durham.
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Collier spent
the week-end with Mrs. G. A.
Wicker in Lillington.
Industry Organizing Schools
To Develop Skilled Workmen
SECRETARY o£ Commerce Roper’s
recent suggestion that indus
trial concerns give greater con
sideration to the organization of
plant or company schools for the
development of skilled workers
among their employees comes at a
time when many concerns are al
ready, well embarked upon such a
program, according to D. C.-Vander
cook, Director, Personnel Training
Division, International Correspond
ence Schools.
‘‘Within the past six months,”
Mr. Yandercook says, “industry has
become increasingly aware that a
Serious shortage of skilled labor im
pends in many lines in addition to
those in which it has already ap
peared. Since 1929 many of the
ol'fler skilled men have passed be
yond the active age or have died.
Other skilled workers have drifted
bff to other localities or into other
ways of making a. living. In the
meantime, the supply of skilled men
4as not been replenished. The prob
tem of re-training America is be
coming an urgent one if we are to
retain our supremacy in the many
fields of manufacture and produc
tion in which it has been recognized
that ,we excel."
Among the industrial concerns
<md associations which. Mr. Vander
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Langston,
Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Crutchfield
and daughter, Mildred, Mrs. Nettie
Morris and Russell Lyles spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. A. T.
Griffin in Rocky Mount.
Mr. and Mrs. Erik Bodin and son
of Norfolk were the week-end
guests of Mrs. Alice Cole.
Ralph Marlow was a business
visitor in Tarboro Tuesday and
Wednesday.
A group of apprentices during a
study period, and (below) a foundry
apprentice studying the intricacies
of'a blueprint.
cook lists as having established
training schools for the develop
ment of employees into skilled
workmen are The American Rolling
Mill Company, Frick Company,
Champion Fibre Company, Fox River
Valley Manufacturers Association,
E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Com
pany, General Electric Company,
Caterpillar Tractor Company.
During 1936, Mr Vandercook
states, there was an increase of 114
per cent in the number of em
ployees enrolled in apprenticeship
and general employee training pro
grams through cooperative arrange
ments made with the International
Correspondence Schools by more
than 2500 Industrial concerns'
throughout the country.' A__,
Legion To Visit
Tiilery On Arbor
Day Next Tuesday
The Weldon-Roanoke Rapids Post
of the American Legion has accept
ed an invitation from Tillery school
to attend Arbor Day exercises at
that school on Tuesday, March 2nd
at 2 o’clock.
Legion Commander McGeachey
has issued a call to all members of
the Legion asking that as many
carloads as possible from Roanoke
Rapids and Weldon go to Tillery
next Tuesday for the exercises. The
program will end at 3 o’clock and
Prof, jim crack proves that old American whiskey
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gets the artist's original drawing,
framed, for this Jim Crack idea.
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ing the horses race and trying to
guess the winner! Write for your FIVE,
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135 East 42nd Street, New York City.
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18
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^ STRAIGHT BYE AND STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKIES
MISSING S
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A missing army sergeant from
Ft. Bragg may be the “army of
ficer” referred to by a local girl
who returned here recently after a
trip South, local police think after
receiving news of the sergeant’s
disappearance the first of the
month.
The girl told about being picked
up by an army officer near here
and being taken to Augusta, Ga.,
where she left him and awaited
the arrival of relatives to bring her
home. Army authorities at Wash
ington reported to Chief of Police
Dobbins that no army officer from
this section had been transferred
to Texas, where the picker-upper
said he was going.
The police now believe the miss
ing Ft. Bragg man may have come
up in this section before starting
South. The following report is
from Fayetteville, near Ft. Bragg:
General Manus McCloskey, com
manding officer of Fort Bragg,
Sunday issued an appeal to all law
enforcement officers in North
Carolina an'd adjoining states to aid
in the widening search for Ser
geant James A. Doughtery, 51, who
disappeared February 1 and has
not been heard from since. Mili
tary authorities are without a clue
as to the possible whereabouts of
the missing man, and his close as
sociates say they can think of no
acceptable explanation for his
strange disappearance.
When last seen Doughtery was
sitting in his automobile, parked
on Hay Street, Fayetteville. The
car, a black Ford coach with red
wire wheels, carried Fort Bragg li
cense No. 494. No trace of the car
has been found.
sergeant uougntery is Known as
a high type of soldier. He would
have been eligible next year for
retirement after 30 years of honor
able service. He is married and
has four children. He is five feet
six one-half inches tall; weighs 150
pounds; has blue eyes, and brown
hair greying at the temples. He
all members wishing it will be tak
en on a tour of Caledonia State
Farm, the Tillery Farm and the
Federal Resettlement Project.
ERGEANT
IFFICER"
has a decided resemblance to Jim
my Durante, the actor.
Mrs. E. M. Rightmeyer of
Vaughan was the guest of Mr. and
Mrs. R. J. Rightmeyer this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bloom spent
Tuesday and Wednesday in Fay
etteville, N. C.
John Cunningham has been trans
ferred to Durham.
Rev. and Mrs. D. M. Sharpe of
Hertford were visitors in the city
Monday.
Mrs. M. D. Grant of Greensboro
is the guest of her daughter, Mrs.
C. L. Carlton, this week.
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