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VOU 74.—NO. 223. _ ^_WILMINGTON, N. C., TUESDAY MAY 20, 1941. FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867
Rent Level
Is Adopted
By Group
Will Use Scale in Effect
Here on May 1, 1940,
To Prevent Increases
PROCEDURE is given
Action Is Taken by Fair
Rents Division of The
Housing Committee
Thc Fair Rents sub-committee
j the Wilmington Housing com
, jttee yesterday adopted the rent
level in effect here on May 1, 1940,
aS the "cardinal principle” on
which it will operate in an effort
to prevent excessive increases in
rents in this defense- congested
area.
The group held that the normal
rental rate for Wilmington is the
one charged on that date and
"that no rents should be increased
1 due to the fact that the law of
supply and demand is no longer
operative due to the abnormal con
ditions” resulting from defense
program activity.
Following a meeting yesterday
afternoon, the committee issued a
statement outlining the procedure
bv which a strict control of rents
! will be sought.
The statement, pointing out that
maintenance of fair rents is vitally
necessary to the national defense
program, and that a curb on rent
Inking will tend to control other
commodity price levels in this
area, follows:
"As an underlying principle in
connection with the maintenance
of fair rents, the Community Hous
ing committee wishes to point out
that rents are only a part of the
cost of living and that a dispro
portionate increase of any portion
of the cost of living will undoubted
ly restrict the money available for
the purchase of other commodities
and services necessary for decent
living.
Serious Problems
“Rising rents and an inadequate
house supply, present serious prob
lems in many defense areas. The
only real remedy for such condi
tions is, of course, the most effi
cient use of the suitable housing
already in existence and the con
struction of needed new homes. It
will, however, not always be possi
ble to secure a sufficiently large
idditional housing supply with suf
ficient speed and steps have to be
fatten in the meantime to maintain
fair rents, in order to avoid serious
increases in living costs and the
lbwering of living standards.
“Maintenance of fair rents is re
quired by the defense program for
several reasons. In addition to
those stated above, it is necessary
that we undertake to prevent an
excessive labor turnover in defense
industries in order to prevent rent
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 4)
WALLACE FESTIVAL
GETS UNDER WAY
Thousands Attend Opening
Of Community’s Annual
Strawberry Fete
WALLACE, May 19. — Swelled
with thousands o£ visitors, Wallace
Presented an atmosphere of gaiety
tonight as its seventh annual
Strawberry Festival opened its five
day program of fun and pageantry
Paying homage to this section’s
chief money crop.
Tonight was designated "Farm
ers' Might”, and several thousand
farmers and strawberry growers
tyere on hand to hear W. Kerr
Scott, state commissioner of agri
culture, deliver an address on their
favorite subject, the problems and
methods of growing and marketing
strawberries successfully. Scott was
introduced by Mayor Aubrey Har
rell.
Dr. Charles Dearing, one of East
ern Carolina’s best known farmers,
Continued on Page Two; Col. 5)
Five Rail Unions Decide
To Seek Increase In Pay
CHICAGO, May 19— (£>)—Declar
,ng that the cost of living was ris
'ngl five big operating railroad
u^lons decided today to seek a 30
®er cent increase in the basic pay
ates of their 350,000 members.
Spokesmen calculated that, on
,.® basis of the 1939 payroll of
.000,000 for the classes of per
^nnel involved in the move, the
•^•ailds~if sranted—would put an
* htional $168,000,000 a year in
®lr Pay envelopes.
minimum raise of $1.80 a day
as set as the goal of the five
lio°! °!'ganizati°ns — the Brofier
g 0 of Locomotive Engineers, the
motherhood of Locomotive Fire
Raii and binginemen, the Order of
"ay Conductors of America,
the Switchmen’s Union of North]
America, and the Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen.
The unionists, in keeping with
provisions of the railway labor act
and current agreements, planned to
serve formal notice of the wage re
quests on the nation’s railroads on
June 10.
Representatives of the unions is
sued a statement which set forth:
“The wages of railway employes
are rapidly dropping below wages
paid to men in other industries.
“Soaring prices and the general
increased cost of living, including
rents and taxes imposed upon em
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 5)
Aliens Seized By U. S.
Striking with sudden swiftness all over the nation in the first
country-wide move to round up aliens who failed to comply with the
1940 registration act, government officials seized thousands of non
citizens and held an unannounced number for deportation proceedings.
The sullen group above are German seamen shown as they were taken
from the German Seamen’s Mission in Hoboken, N. J., for questioning
on Ellis Island.
County Adopts Resolution
For School Bond Election
a.
IS $500,000 ISSUE
Further Participation In
Development of Airport
Is Argued at Meeting
Approval of the resolution call
ing for a special bond election
early in July to pass on the. New
Hanover county school board’s re
quest for $500,000 to expand over
crowded school facilities was voic
ed yesterday by the board of coun
ty commissioners, meeting in reg
ular session at the courthouse.
The commissioners’ approval,
on motion by Commissioner Harry
Gardner, came after the board
had flatly rejected the proposal
of a New York bond attorney that
the school bond issue be submitted
to the voters simultaneously with
a proposed $100,000 bond issue re
presenting the county’s share of
the city-county auditorium-arm
ory. Opposition to submitting the
two separate issues in the same
election developed from Commis
sioner Gardner, who warned that
linking of the two proposals "would
seriously jeopardize” the school
bonds.
“In Bad Shape”
"The schools are in bad shape,
and this board has gone on record
as in complete accord and for the
full support of the school board’s
expansion program. I feel that
to link the two issues would un
necessarily jeopardize the school
bonds,” Gardner declared.
As a result of its action, the com
mission instructed County Attor
ney Marsden Bellamy to prepare
for legal publication notice of pub
lic protest hearings on the school
bond proposal, fixing June 2 as
the hearing-date.
By state law governing bond
elections, the bond issue cannot
be submitted to the voters until
a minimum of 30 days after public
hearing; thus, in all probability,
fixing the first week in July for
the election.
The half-million dollar issue will
enable the school board to increase
its present facilities to adequate
ly care for more than 3,000 addi
tional grammar, junior and senior
high school students. Specifically,
it provides for:
Erecting a new school building
at Sunset Park and equipping
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 6)
Possible Russian Aid
To Iraq Is Discussed
ANKARA, Turkey, May 19.
(JP)—The possibility of Russian
aid for Iraq was discussed for
an hour today by Soviet Am
bassador Vinogradov and Iraq
Minister Kamil Djailani at the
Iraq legation. The results of
the meeting were not disclosed
immediately.
SUFFER PROFITS
LEVYADVOCATED
Treasury Offers Proposal
To Help Finance Large
Defense Program
WASHINGTON, May 19. —
With the implied approval of
President Roosevelt, the treasury
urged congress today to stiffen the
excess profits tax to help finance
the defense program.
John L. Sullivan, assistant sec
retary, estimated before the house
ways and means committee that
by means of such a levy and 6 per
cent corporation surtax previous
ly proposed, $1,096,000,000 of a
new $3,500,000,000 tax program
could be raised from the earnings
of corporations. Ha said that if
the new departmental recommen
dations were adopted congress
might be able to readjust excise
taxes, in such a way as to soften
proposed levies on some commod
ities which do not compete with
defense.
At the same time, the official
department spokesmen concurred
in recommendations by other ad
ministration officials ten days ago
that heavier levies might be ap
plied to such consumer durable
goods as automobiles and mechan
ical refrigerators.
Both a stiffer excess profits tax
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 6)
WEATHER
FORECAST
North Carolina — Partly cloudy and
continued warm Tuesday; Wednesday
increasing cloudiness, showers and
cooler1 in west portion.
(Meteorological data for the 24 hours
enoing 7:30 p. m. yesterday).
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Temperature:
1:30 a. m. 61; 7:30 a. m. 65; 1:30 p.
m. 75; 7:30 p. m. 71; maximum 77; min
imum 58; mean 68; normal 72.
Humidity:
1:30 a. m. 90; 7:30 a. m. 84; 1:30 p.
m. 46; 7:30 p. m. 62.
Precipitation:
•Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30
p. m. 0.00 inches-: total since the first
of the month 0.85 inches.
Tides For Today:
..(From Tide Tables published by tJ.
S. Coast and Geodetic Survey). — —
High Bow
Wilmington__ 5:16a. 12:10a.
5:89p. 12.31 p.
Masonboro Inlet_ 3.24a. 9:30a.
3:5Sp. 10.02p.
Sunrise 5:07a.; sunset 7:10p.; moon
rise 2:‘05a.; moonset 2:21p.
Cape Fear river stage at Fayette
ville on May 19, at 8 a. m., 9:25 feet.
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 5)
Four Army
Fliers Die
[nCollision
Two Light Bombers Collide
High Above Little Town
Of Rains, S. C.
ON TRAINING FLIGHT
One Craft Shattered by Ex
plosion and Other Is De
stroyed by Fire
RAINS, S. C., May 19.—(/P)—A
collision of two light army bombers
high above this little eastern South
Carolina town, followed by fire and
an explosion, cost the lives of four
fliers today.
Army authorities at the Savan
nah, Ga., air base, from which the
planes had taken off on a training
flight to Langley Field, Va., said
the victims were: Second Lieut.
Frank B. Ralston, Pittsburgh, Pa.,
Second Lieut. Allen J. Mbore, Reno,
Nev., Sergeant David L. Boyd,
Frost, Texas, and Corporal Herbert
O. Pruitt, Collinsville, Miss.
Plane Shattered
One of the planes was shattered
to bits by an explosion as it landed
atop a deserted tenant house, and
the other caught fire and was so
thoroughly consumed that eyewit
nesses at first ‘were certain there
had been six men killed.
Lieut. Moore jumped in his para
chute but it failed to open and he
died of a broken neck while being
taken to a hospital at Mullins near
here. Seemingly, witnesses said,
Moore was too near the ground
when he pulled the cord of the
parachute.
Witnesses said the two planes,
leading a flight of six bombers, ap
parently were thrown together, as
if by a gust of wind, just as they
emerged from a cloudbank almost
directly above the Rains school
house. Both appeared to be out of
control immediately thereafter.
Another Burned
The first to fall crashed into an
open field near Arial’s Cross Roads,
about a mile and a half from here
on the Mullins highway. Seme
spectators said the pilot seemed to
be trying for a pancake landing
in the fieldrbuT.'t'Rev'"added, srrtbke
was pouring from the plane, indi
cating it was on fire before it
reached the ground. As it struck,
flames shot up and consumed it
quickly. The bodies of the occu
pants could be seen in the charred
wreckage several hours later.
The other, from which Lieut.
Moore leaped, fell a mile and a
half farther to the northeast, strik
ing the empty house and exploding.
The plane and its occupant were
blown to bits.
The flight began from the Sa
vannah air base at 10:30 a. m., and
it was 11:40 when the accident oc
curred. Two of the remaining four
bombers continued on to Langley
Field, while the other returned to
the Savannah base.
Moore was married and had es
tablished a home in Savannah since
his assignment to the base there.
His body was found a half mile
from the shattered wreckage of
his plane.
Mrs. Inez Smith of Mullins took
the flier into her automobile and
started for the Mullins hospital but
he was found dead upon their ar
rival.
Guards were posted around the
wreckage to keep back the curious
pending arrival of army authorities
to take charge.
Defense Housing Fund
Approved by Senate
WASHINGTON, May 19. — (£>) —
The senate approved today a
$174,409,630 urgent deficiency ap
propriation bill which includes
$150,000,000 for national defense
housing.
The measure was returned to the
house for consideration of $660,000
in senate increases.
KILLED BY TRACTOR
CHADBOURN, May 19.—Jerome
Britt, about 30, was fatally injured
nerr here this afternoon when the
tractor he was operating overturn
ed, pinning him under the heavy
machine. He died shortly after the
accident in the Columbus county
hospital.
French Batteries Fire On British
Planes Over Syria, Nation May
Open Drive On De Gaulle’s Forces
- a. _ _
BRITISH BOMB BASES
Fate of France’s Colonial
Empire May be at Stake
In Middle East War
NAZI PLANES DAMAGED
Britain’s Status in Syria Re
mains in Question; Con
suls Stay at Posts
LONDON, May 19.—(UP)—With the
British bombing Syrian airdromes
as bases for the German air force
and the French high commissioner
in Syria accusing his ex-allies of
“criminal aggressions,’ ’the fate of
France’s whole colonial empire
may be at stake in the conflict
taking shape in the Middle East.
The British generally accepted
this as the fateful implication of
the reported German domination,
of Syria, next door neighbor of oil
rich, strategic Iraq.
Ready to Fight
General Henri Dentz, high com
missioner for the Vichy govern
ment, declared by radio last night
that "the army of the Levant is
ready to oppose force with force.1'
He called upon Syrians to resist
‘criminal aggressions” of the Brit
ish who are "attacking our air
dromes without warning.” German
planes, he added, landed in Syria
under terms of the 11-months-old
armistice.
“I have been ordered to defend
the sky and the land of the Levant
states. That mission I’ll carry out
inflexibly.”
Even before the high commis
sioner had spoken, French anti
aircraft batteries fired on British
planes yesterday when they again
bombed airports at Palmyra, Da
mascus and Rayak—airports which
the British charge are being used
as stopping stations for German
warplanes going to .Jthe aid. of
Iraq’s rebellious premier, Rashid
Ali.
No Hits
The Beirut, Lebanon, dispatch
which reported the firing said no
hits were scored.
A large sky transport and a big
Heinkel bomber were destroyed at
Palmyra and other Nazi aircraft
were bombed and machine-gunned
at other fields, a Cairo communi
que said.
British status in Syria remains
in question. As far as is known in
informed quarters, British consuls
still are at their posts and no rep
resentations of any kind have as
(Continued on Page Four; Col. 5)
MARINES PATROL
WOOD FIRE AREA
Major Challecombe Says
Some of Fires Have Been
father Suspicious’
JACKSONVILLE, May 19.—(iP)—
Major Arthur D. Challecombe, com
mander of the advance Marine units
at the base being built near here,
said today a day and night patrol by
Marines had been ordered following
the outbreak of nearly a dozen forest
fires, some of them of “suspicious”
origin.
Sheriff B. P. Morton reported the
recent arrest of two men who had
been placed under $200 bond each on
charges of deliberately setting sev
eral fires.
“Some of the fires on our lands
have been rather suspicious,” Major
Challecombe said, ‘'but I would not
attempt to say that any of them
were deliberately set and I do not
believe the people moving from the
area were responsible.
“Some of these people are a little
hurt, of cours.e, having lived on these
places all their lives, but I have
been impressed by their cooperative
spirit.”
Fishing Boat Explosion
Is Termed ‘Unavoidable’
LITTLE RIVER, S. C., May 19.—A
coroner’s jury early today returned
a. verdict of “unavoidable accident”
in the tragic fishing boat explosion
which yesterday caused seven per
sons—all North Carolinians—to lose
their lives 12 miles at sea off the
Little River inlet.
It was the worst sea accident in
the history of northeastern South
Carolina, and one, villagers here
feared today, that would seriously
cripple the town’s principal indus
try—chartering fishing parties.
The coroner’s jury verdict, reached
early this morning after a hearing
that lasted the greater part of the
night, absolved Capt. Douglas Sabis
ton- owner and skipper of the ill
fated Nightingale, of responsibility
for the explosions and fire that forc
ed 35 men, women and children pas
sengers into the sea, seven men and
boys to lose their lives by drowning.
Fourteen persons were injured.
Meanwhile, still dazed and talking
in hushed tones, villagers of this lit
tle place discussed the accident, re
counting testimony presented to the
jury last night and re-telling again
and again tales of heroism of the
rescuers.
A 61-foot sea-going yacht—once,
under a former owner, one of the
fastest rum-runners on the coast—
the Nightingale put to sea out ol
(Continued on Page Three; Col. V
VICHY MAY GRANT
PASSAGE TO NAZIS
LONDON, Tuesday, May 20.—
(/P)—France may hand back the
former German African colonies
of Togoland and the Cameroons
and then grant Nazi troop pas
sage across French territory to
strike at the “Free French”
forces of Gen. Charles De Gaulle,
an authoritative source said
early today.
Commenting on a Vichy aife
nouncement implying Franc?
was ready to begin action in an
effort to regain French Equator
ial Africa now um'er the De
Gaulle banner, he said.
“Only a small force could
march across the French Sahara
desert, but even a comparative
ly small, mobile force could be a
devil of a nuisance in those
parts.”
French headquarters here saw
German instigation behind the
Vichy announcement. While re
ticement about this new develop
ment, the “Free French” earlier
had charged that Vichy col
laboration with Germany was
“neither free nor legal, and con
sequently cannot be considered
as binding on the French peo
ple.”
The former German colony of
Togoland was split between
France and Britain after its un
conditional surrender during the
World war. The French obtained
about two-thirds of the territory
located between the British Gold
Coast colony on the west and
French Dahomey on the east.
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 6)
London Radio Indicates
Zamzam Might Be Safe
AMERICANS ON BOARD
Berlin Radio Claims Large
Liner Sank En Route From
Brazil to Capetown
NEW YORK, May 19.—(a-)—1Two
London radio broadcasts heard
here tonight indicated the possi
bility that the Egyptian liner Zam
zam, 26 days overdue on a voy
age to Africa with 322 persons
aboard, including 138 United States
citizens, might be safe.
A short time later the Berlin
radio was heard to state that the
Zamzam had sunk “en route from
Pernambuco (Recife, Brazil) to
Capetown,” but this report was
substantially the same as the one
the German station broadcast
earlier in the day under a New
York dateline. At that time the
source Was given as the official
British announcement that the
ship was “presumably lost.”
“May Be Safe”
Although there was no official
word that the Zamzam had been
heard from since leaving Recife
(Pernambuco), Brazil, April 9 for
Capetown, where she was due
April 23, a commentator on the
British radio said at 7:59 o’clock
(EST) tonight “the Zamzam may
be safe after all.”
The commentator, in the broad
cast recorded at the Columbia
Broadcasting System’s short wave
listening station, said:
“It’s good news by the way that
has just come in that the Zamzam
may be safe after all. We were
not less sorry than you about the
presumed fate of the Americans
on board; let’s hope it’s true that
the gallant band of disinterested
workers have in fact escaped the
fury of those modern pirates, who
took their orders from Berlin.”
There was no explanation of the
source of the "good news.”
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 3)
AOSTA, TROOPS
FALL TO BRITISH
Force Defending Ethiopian
Stronghold Surrenders
After Long Siege
ROME, May 19.—(A>)—The Duke
of Aosta and his troops defending
the Ethiopian mountain stronghold
of Amba Alaji have surrendered
to the British after enduring a 40
day siege, the Italian high com
mand announced today.
Defense of the towering fortress
on the road from Addis Ababa
north to Asmara was hopeless, the
Italians said, but the beleaguered
garrison held out as long as it
could to tie up British forces need
ed on other fronts.
When capitulation was arranged,
it was said, food and water had
been exhausted, the injured lay ex
posed and untreated on the sum
mit, British forces were growing
stronger and the isolated Italian
I strength gradually was being de
! pleted.
Italian reports described the de
fense of the 9,000-foot high fortress,
280 miles northeast of Addis Ababa,
in terms of heroism and said the
British had paid military honor to
the soldiers and the Duke of Aosta,
jviceroy of Ethiopia, who command
ed them.
“The garrison at Amba Alaji,”
i the war bulletin said, “after hav
ing resisted beyond all limits and
| (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3)
L '
Zamzam Is Reported
Headed Back to N. Y.
PALESTINE, Tex., May 19.—
(JP)—Dr. W. R. Minter, a Pres
byterian minister, said today he
received a confidential report
through congressional channels
last Thursday that the Egyp
tian freighter Zamzam had
changed its course and headed
back toward New York rather
than risk attack by Nazi
raiders.
The ship, with 150 Ameri
cans aboard, is long overdue at
Cape Town, South Africa.
Dr. Minter said Iris source
disclosed the ship turned for
New York after having head
ed for Cape Town, Soutli Af
rica, from Receife, Brazil.
Minter’s daughter, Mrs. Tins
ley Smith, is believed to be a
passenger on the vessel with
her husband. Dr. Smith, and
their 16-inonth-old son.
TWO NEW DEFENSE
STRIKES DEVELOP
• 1
Workmen at Lorain, Ohio,
Yards of American Ship
building Company Quit
(By The Associated Press)
Two major labor disputes directly
affecting defense production develop
ed yesterday.
One was a walkout of AFL work
ers at the Lorain, Ohio, yards of the
American Shipbuilding company
which is constructing six submarine
net tenders for the Navy and has a
$7,000,000 order for Navy mine
sweepers.
The other was a CIO strike at the
Apollo Steel company, Apollo, Pa.,
affecting 900 men and stopping work
on $100,000 of defense orders, Includ
ing galvanized sheet iron for the
Navy.
It appeared that a crisis might be
reached tonight in the strike of
greatest concern to defense officials
—that by CIO and AFL machinists
which has shut down 11 shipyards
and drydocks in the San Francisco
area and halted work on $500,000,000
worth of defense orders.
Governor Culbert Olson of Califor
nia will address a meeting of the
1,700 strikers and ask them to re
turn to their jobs. AFL metal trades
leaders have indicated that if the
strike is not settled then they will
go past the picket lines leading a
back-to-work movement among the
15,000 other employes of the yards.
The machinists want $1.15 an hour
with double time for overtime in
stead of $1.12 and time and one-half.
PRESS ASSAILS U. S.
Admiral Darlan Leaves For
Paris to Continue Nego
tiations With Nazis
WILL FREE PRISONERS
Germany Believed Asking
France to Re-Establish
Control Over Colonies
VICHY, France, May 19.——
French anti-aircraft batteries were
reported tonight to have begun fir
ing on British warplanes over
Syria and official sources here in
dicated an imminent French of
fensive attempt to regain empire
territory now held by ‘‘De Gaullist
rebels.”
These swift and significant de
velopments came as Admiral Jean
Darlan left suddenly for Paris pre
sumably to continue Franco-Ger
man collaboration negotiations and
the German-controlled Paris press
again assailed American diploma
cy as “flour blackmail.”
“France cannot permit a foreign
power to intervene" against her
efforts to get back the territory
held by Gen. Charles De Gaulle
and his followers, an official
French information office state
ment said.
Messages Cited
The statement particularly cited
messages written by “rebel
French” military 1 e aders and
dropped by English planes on Syri
an towns as proof “that one of
the objects of English politics is
to separate Syria from metropoli
an France.”
A dispatch from Beirut, Leba
non, said French batteries ha d
fired at British planes yesterday
following a warning by French
General Henri Dentz, Syrian high
commissioner, that Syria would
meet force with force.
(The British have been attacking
Syrian airdromes where German
planes admittedly have been land
ing with French approval enroute
to aid Iraqi forces battling the
British).
To Release Prisoners
Germany already has agreed to
release approximately 100,000 of
the 1,800,000 French prisoners of
war, and Telemondial, an official
news agency, said “still more im
portant results of the negotiations
would be announced soon.”
Just what France is going to
concede to Germany is not pub- *
licly known, but there long have
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 7)
GERMANS ATTACK
BRITISH VESSELS
Claim Action Off Island Of
Crete Throws Light On
Expected Developments
BERLIN, May 19— (#)—Heav.
German air attacks on British
ships off the Greek island of Crete
"throw a significant light on ex
pected military developments” in
the eastern Mediterranean, the
German commentary Dienst aus
Deutschland said tonight.
The high command reported that
a British cruiser of the York class
and two destroyers were damaged
by direct hits and two small mer
chantmen were sunk. Six large
merchant ships including a tanker
also were “so severely hit thai
further loss of shipping space can
be reckoned with.”
German planes also attacked
British air bases at Crete, and
Dienst aus Deutschland accepted
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 1)
Group Is Named To Seek
Defense Coordinator Here
Appointment of a special four
man committee to collaborate with
agencies of the city, county, state
and federal governments in find
ing a public official familiar with
local conditions to serve as co
ordinator of all Wilmington defense
activities was effected yesterday
at a joint meeting between the
Wilmington Defense Council and
the board of county commission
ers.
To serve on the special commit
tee are R. B. Page, defense council
chairman; Hargrove Bellamy,
mayor-elect; Addison Hewlett, Sr ,
chairman of the county commis
sion, and Louis T. Moore, acting
secretary of the Wilmington cham
ber of commerce.
The proposal that the position of
defense coordinator be given to
some person already in the em
ploye of a governmental agency—
either city, county, state or federal
—came after the board of county
commissioners, meeting with the
defense council, rejected, pending
further consideration, a request for
county participation in a $10,000
defense coordination budget.
As outlined to the board of com
missioners by representatives ol
the defense council, the coordina
tion budget would provide a $4,000
a year salary to a full-time coordi
nator, and $0,000 a year for stimu
lated expenses such as office per
sonnel and travel. The county was
asked to appropriate $5,000 toward
the budget, the remainder to be
requested of the city. I
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