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‘LITTLE FLOWER’ DEFENDS ACTION NEW YORK, March 22— <J& - Mayor F. H. LaGuardia said to night that his “hour of tolerance’ for amusement place closing wai intended to make the Nation-wid< curfew “workable, enforceable anc sensible'’ as it applied to New York City. “It is simply construing the ex isting regulations in such a man ner as to make it easily enforced,” he said in a broadcast. “Your Mayor is seeking to avoid recurrence of criminal activities, graft, corrupton and unlawful operations such tt were created by prohibition.” LaGuardia suggested that Con gress could create an “enforce able” curfew by establishing a license system fixing the hours oi operation. This “could even be inserted as a proviso in the Internal Revenue law,” he said. “We have had many, many such instances before. That would make it mandatory, lawful and enforceable.” He made no reference to the de cision of nearly all New’ York night clubs and theaters, and many taprooms, to close at midnight rath er thaks at one o’clock as hi* ac tion last Sunday permitted. -V Jury In Assault Case Dismissed For Night Superior Court Judge J. Paul Frizzelle yesterday permitted the 13-man jury listening to the case of Ernest Brooks. Jr., 15-year-old Negro of 901 Queen street charg ed w-ith criminal assault on a 28 year-old white woman to return home until court reconvenes al 9:30 a.m. today. Frizzelle instruct ed the jury not to discuss the case nor to read about it. Testimony w-as concluded yes terday with the questioning by counsel for the defendant of a Negro minister who stated that he knew the accused, and of the de fendant’s mother who testified as to the hours Brooks kept. Brooks, who was bound over to Superior court in Recorder’s court Tuesday, is being represented by Caswell Gates, Negro, attorney from Durham. Solicitor Clifton H. Moore is prosecuting the case. -V The beginnings of psychoanal ysis may be marked by two dates: 1895, when Dr. Josef Breuer’s and Dr. Sigmund Freud's Studien Uber Histerie w’as published and 1900, when Freud’s Traumdeutung was published. Sign of Changing Times I S/Sgt George A. Kaufman, Fort Smith, Ark., replaces a street sign, “Adolf Hitler Strasse,” in Krefeld, Germany, with one more appropriate today, Roosevelt Boulevard Red Cross Aide Recounts Work With Leathernecks I Joel C. McCurry, assistant field ; director of the American Red I Cross Service to the Armed For ces group at Camp Lejeune, told members of the Lions’ club at their regular meeting in the dining .hall of the Friendly cafeteria yes terday, what the Red Cross meant to him as a worker and to the thousands of boys served by the Red Cross service unit. McCurry traced a part of the history of the Red Cross. “The present conflict differs from oth er wars, due to the fact that more boys are taken farther away from home than ever before. The Red Cross is the only link between them and home,” he said. It was pointed out that a soldier can go to the Red Cross field rep resentative with a problem that he may hesitate to take to his com manding officer, “simply because here is no little bar between them.” In referring to the bar, McCurry was speaking of the insignia of a commissioned officer. The field worker cited several instances in which he had played a part in correcting a man's af fairs at home or elsewhere, that may have hampered his ability or efficiency as a Marine. He told of how the Red Cross field workers are doing the same throughout the globe where U. S. service men and women are stationed. "Once I was asked to offer an explanation of what to do and how I spend my day,” he said. “This was impossible, for I have been stationed at Camp Lejeune approximately eight months, and each day has been different, bringing before me new and dif ferent problems and needs of the Marines.” McCurry offered an example ®f the humorous side of his job in checking with requests for emer gency furloughs and leaves of absence. “One Negro Marine had bean absent without leave for about 16 days. He wired his com manding officer for a 10-day ex tension.” The speaker was introduced by H. A. Marks, chairman of the Red Cross Publicity Committee. L. D. Latta told his fellow-Lions of the accomplishments of the Home Service Division of the Red Cross in Wilmington, pointing out that approximately $18,000 was utilized by the local staff last year, most of which was part of a revolving fund which is used for loans to service men and their families. He disclosed that the Bed Cross Production Department, under the direction of Miss Allie Morris Fechtig spent more than $6,000 last year in supplying service men going overseas. Mr. Latta told the group today that of the $88,000, the quota for New Hanover county, approximate ly $40,000 of this would remain in Wilmington to carry on the work of the local chapter. John Pheil, musical director at the First PresDyterian church, was inducted into the club as a member, and was presented his membership pin by Dr. Herbert Codington. Guest at yesterday’s meeting was Luther Rogers, Jr., aviation cadet sationed at Brooks Field, Tex., who attended with his father. -V Nat Burton, Famous Song Writer, Dies HOLLYWOOD, March 22. —(IP)— Nat Burton. 43, who wrote the words for “The White Cliffs of Dover”, “Don’t Ever Change” and many bther songs, died of a heart attack in his hotel apartment last night. He came here about a year ago from New York. His widow, Doro thy; his son, Jerry, and his broth er, Billy Burton, an actors' agent, survive him. Funeral services will be held here Sunday afternoon. Proves Wonderful For Hching Skin! To promptly soothe itching, burning skin of Eczema, Pimples, Athlete’s Foot and similar akin and scalp irri tations due to external cause—apply Zemo—a Doctor’s highly medicated, inviribU liquid backed by 85 years’ success I Zemo also aids healing. Over 25,000,000 packages sold. First trial convinces I In 8 ■■■■ sixes. All drugstores. City Worker Efficiency Ratings To Be Released Within Few Days Wilmington City employes may have the opportunity late- this week to see what grades they have been given by their super ior officers for the first full year’s work under the merit-rating sys tem authorized by the City Coun cil in 1943. Ratings for 1944 in the Police and Fire departments may be ready for inspection by department members tomorrow or early next week, it was announc ed yesterday. Notification will go to all City departments as soon as their marks have been computed and recorded. City Manager A. C. Nichols said. Each employe will be shown only his own mark, up on application to J. Fred Rippy, administrative assistant to the Manager. No lists will be posted. The ratings range from a the oretically possible 100. which rep resents perfection, down to an eqully unlikely zero standing for incredible incompetence. The di visions are 100-90, outstanding: 90 80, excellent; 80-70, good; 70-60, satisfactory, and below 60, unsat isfactory. If dissatisfied with the mark he received, any employe may go to his department chief and be given a detailed account of wherein he failed to measure up. Most of the grades computed thus far, according to Mr. Rip py, fall into the middle groups, "good” and "satisfactory”, as was described as a normal dis tribution in texts consulted while the system was in the making. Used in conjunction with sen iority records and occasional spe cial factors to furnish grounds for promotion or demotion recom mendations by the City Manager's office and the Council, the ratings are derived originally from ques tionnaires filled out by department chiefs and officers. The questionnaire chart used by Wilmington, one of the first ci ties in North Carolina, or the South as a whole, to use a merit rating system, was devised by Mr. Rippy under the direction of the City Manager. It contains fea tures taken from a number of standardized charts used by oth er cities, coming closest to the form employed in Saginaw, Michi gan. It Is of the variety known as "trait rating” systems and semi graphic in its appearance. Twelve qualifications are listed vertically down the side of the chart, be ginning with “Promptness in re ported for work” and ending with "Contacts with public”, between which lie such items as "Initia tive”. "Capacity to develop”, "Re liability” and "Attitude toward other employes”. Across the page from each qual ification stretches arow of five “boxes”, each containing a sug gestive comment on the employe’s possible standing in the particular quality under question. The sug gestions, from left to right, run from bad to good, or vice versa. In the successive boxes for "Per sonal appearance”, for instance, they read: “Takes genuine pride in appearance”, "Well-groomed” "Presents a good appearance”, ‘.‘Often neglectful of appearance” and "Usually unkempt, slovenly or careless”. A department chief gets one of these questionnaires for each of his subordinates at least once a year. He fills it out and turns it in at the City Manager'* office. Another supervisory officer in the department will rate the syne man, also, so that two separate chatts are filled for each em ploye. A check-mark on a box in each row shows how the offi cer has rated his man in each quality. In the "Personal appear ance” row, a check on "Takes genuine pride” wins a man ten points; one on "Unkempt” gets him two. Too many two’s add up to "Unsatisfactory” on the rating sheet. Ratings werg taken in 1944, but since it was the system’s first tri al, the results were kept by the City administration to check the test’s reliability. This year’s will be the first made public. The system is "merely to aid the management in determining employe activity and efficiency, said Administrative Assistant Rip py. who after his employment in 1943 was put at once to corres ponding with Kalamazoo, Michi gan, Dallas, Texas, Cincinnati, Ohio, and San Diego, California, to find what kind of rating sys tems they employed. Mucn fur ther research in Mosher and Kingsley's "Personnel Administra tion”, the “United States Efficien cy Rating Manual”, the Interna tional City Managers’ Associa tion’s “Public Personnel Adminis tration” and similar weighty tomes preceded the final formu lation of the Wilmington system. The merit-system-was one of a set of City personnel rules and regulations, largely aimed at more uniformity of departmental policies, passed by the City Coun cil September 22, 1943. -V Social Disease Paper Read At Medical Meet A paper on Social disease was read by Dr. Paul McCain of Sana torium to members and guests of the New Hanover County Medical Society at their dinner - meeting Wednesday at the Cape Fear club. Dr. J. C. Knox was elected to membership, and Dr. J. Howard Smith of James Walker hospital was priposed for membership. BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS 1. NAME YOUR COFFEEPOT! Whatever type coffeepot you use... to get best results... use the right grind of fresh coffee. 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C., IN PENDER COUNTY Items to be offered for sale to the highest bidder will include: 2 tractors, 2 tractor discs, concrete mixer, grist mill, feed mixer, hammer mill, electric sander, International Dieseil motor, gen erator, 50 electric shallow well pumps, 11 fire extinguishers, 42 cross cut saws, 39 forks, 233 axes, 614 shovels, 85 lug hooks, • 65 bush hooks, 90 mattocks, 27 potato hooks, 30 fire rakes, 40 grubbing hoes, 227 miscellaneous handles, 320 lin, ft. well cas ing, 303 ft. steam pipe, 853 lin. ft. iron rod, 1660 In. ft. strap iron, 7186 lin. ft. molding, 519 FBM lumber, 3020 bolts, 1450 lbs. nails, 30 iron kettles, 15% squares of asphalt roofing, 27 rolls roofing felt, 4 Duo Therm water heaters and electric cooling system for. dairy, pipe fittings, electric supplies and fixtures, blacksmith equipment, copper tubing and brass fixtures, builders hardware, paint, acetylene welding outfit, wrenches, taps and dies, plows and cultivators, 6 buildings to be removed from premises, auto mobile parts, tractor parts and supplies, terra cotta, 1700 lin. ft. galvanized pipe, 4 bath tubs, 5 commodes, 9 flush tanks, 5 sinks, 10 lavatories and other plumbing fixtures and supplies, 8 parcels of land near community center and other miscellaneous items. 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