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TWO_.__ CHERRY PROMISES HUGH ROAD PUNS (Continued from Page One) merce and social life. Cherry said that the state now stands on the threshold of a great challenge, "a challenge to develop in North Carolina an outstanding network of roads which will bring the greatest good to the greatest number of our people.” To meet this challenge, he said, "our plans are to respond to the needs of the people. With the com ing of spring, we hope to secure an adequate amount of equipmen and personnel to start on this vas program of secondary road im provement. "Of course, tt will be Impossible to make all the needed improve ments in one year. I have high hopes, however, of showing mark ed improvement in the secondary road system by the end of my ad ministration in 1948.”__ m m * Mm Hit; WiJLMiJNUXUlN MUltiNiXNU OlrtR, - --- I STORIES CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE_ _ 1 .... Bowles and Reconversion CIVIC CENTER ISSUE LOOMS (Continued from Page One) thereafter he worked in several cotton mills in Massachusetts, New York and Maryland. With Commerce Department Later he entered the service of the U. S. Department of Commerce and the chambers of commerce in many cities. He helped new manu facturers establish new industrial plants in San Francisco, Houston, New Orleans, Cleveland, and Wil mington, Delaware. In Muskegon, Michigan, he brought in several new plants, in cluding General Motors new A-C sparkplug distribution center. Farrell has also assisted many manufacturers in marketing their products not only at home hut abroad, and for the past several years he has specialized in indus trial promotion, maintenance, and expansion for large companies such as General Electric and Du Pont. Settlement Wanted But regardless of who eventually receives the appointment, Farrell or someone else. Councilman Wade expresses hope that quick action will be taken on the problem. Concerning tha issue of the audi torium, city spokesmen predict that a decision will be made as to the type of building desired. It is further predicted that complete study of a means for financing the structure (estimated cost is $782, 000) will be forthcoming. 'Site Selection First But the selection of a site should, according to some officials, be considered before going into the matter of financing the building, since the site will determine to a large extent the type of structure to be erected. Among the sites suggested by city officials, citizens, and various organizations, are: The Old Marine base hospital, 8th and Nun streets, Pembroke Jones Park, opposite the high school, the block on which the city hall is located, the area between 13th and 14th streets on Princess street, the Greenfield lake vicinity, and South Front street lots._ -“ I Weather Table 1 (Continued from Page One) WASHINGTON. Feb. 13.—(/P)—Weather Bureau report of temperature and rain fall for the 24 hours ending 8 p.m. in the principal cotton growing areas and elsewhere: Station High Low Prec. WIL-Ul-MilON _. 51 S3 I'-'IO Asheville _ 51 23 0.00 Atlanta _ 58 33 0.00 Birmingham _ 83 29 0.00 Chattanooga _ 59 25 0.00 Chicago _ 48 26 0.00 Cincinnati _ 53 IS 0.00 Cleveland _ 47 29 0.00 Dallas _ 61 50 0.01 Denver _ 35 18 0.03 Detroit _ 46 28 0.00 Jacksonville _ 67 41 0.00 Kansas City _ 54 40 0.00 Key West _ 76 65 0.00 Knoxville _ 53 26 0.00 Little Rock_ 55 34 o.OO Los Angeles _ 62 36 0.00 Louisville - 57 24 0.00 Memphis - 57 34 o.OO Meridian - 70 31 O.00 Miami - 72 53 o.OO Minn.-St. Paul _ 22 14 0.07 Mobile - 66 44 0.00 Montgomery---- _ 33 o.OO New Orleans- 67 47 0.00 New York- 42 27 0.00 Phoenix - 57 3g 0 „o Pittsburgh- 45 24 0.00 Portland, Me. - 38 16 o.OO Richmond-49 26 0 00 St. Louis - 49 35 0.00 San Antonio- 70 53 0 24 San Francisco- 54 35 oioo Savannah - 61 40 0 00 Seattle- 47 34 0.00 Tampa - 76 50 0.00 Vicksburg - 65 29 0.00 Washington _ 45 24 0.00 WILMJ SAVE 19 MILLION (Continued from Page One) 636,867.35 while the Peoples Building and Loan, with an ap proximate equal number of share holder participants, had as of this date, over $3,084,334,000 on deposit. Some 3,000 shareholders hold cer tificates of deposits to that amount in this 40-year-old institution. 2,500 Depositors Oldest of the three, the Co-op erative Building and Loan asso ciation has approximately 2,500 shareholder depositors holding cer tificates worth $1,501,313.84, as of December 31, 1945. This associa tion, with 47 years of business to its credit, likewise showed excel lent progress in 1945, over the previous year. Savings deposits in commercial banks of the city as of January 1, 1946, which totaled over $10, 287,810.00, were fairly evenly di vided between the Morris Plan Bank and the People Savings Bank and Trust company with totals of $2,236,448.48 and $2,895,839.00 re spectively. Largest savings on de posit in commercial banks is that listed by the Wilmington Savings and Trust company with a total of $4,655,522.75, as of January 1, 1946. The Security National Bank, which does not cater to savings accounts, nevertheless has over $500,000 in savings deposits of Wilmington people. To Build Homes While the total savings in the commercial banks of the city are very definitely in the category of outright savings accounts, those which make up the staggering to tal of over $8,138,180.00 on deposit with the three building and loan associations, are more or less def initely marked for future construc tion of new homes or purchase of existing houses. In commenting on the success of the building and loan movement here, W. M. Hill, secretary of the Peoples Building and Loan associa tion and Frederick Willetts, sec retary of the Co-operative Build ing and Loan association, both es timated yesterday that over the past 25 to 30 years, fully 80 per cent of the homes which have been built in Wilmington, have been constructed' through savings participation in building and loan associations here. ALONG THE CAPE FEAR (Continued from Page One) ' Mrs. Lynch, that you found them so well worth waiting for.) “TOUCH OF HOME’’ — Well, Mrs. Jones solved ihe mystery for us, and she also told us how Leland gets the Star. She sends it to him by air mail, to give him “a little touch of home” up there where snow is the rule instead of the exception. We’d kind of like to drop in on him and Mrs. Lynch some evening while they’re reading the Star in front of the fireplace, not only to talk over old times in Wilmington with them but also to get the satis faction of seeing, with our own eyes, that somebody likes to read the paper as well as we do. DNSLOW CITY BOND VOTE SET TODAY '(Continued from Page One) ' 'or the explicit purposes named re verts to the city, under the reso utions. Officials have pointed out that Jacksonville’s only method of irainage has proved unsatisfactory .vith water standing in some sec lions of the city. In addition, some property own ers in the city do not have proper sewage facilities or none at all, they disclosed. Estimated Cost The estimated cost to property owners of the bond issue has been set at 34 cents per $100 dollar valu ation by Mayor Raymond Askew, who pointed out that the proposed tax rate would amount to $1.44 per $100 which he said was still lower than the 1942 tariff. With approximately 630 names on the registration books and pub lic interest high in the election, of ficials were tonight expecting a heavy vote. Termed Important Mayor Askew joined with other members of the Board in terming the election important to the fu ture of Jacksonville. City officers urged that all registered voters make a special effort to get to the polls tomorrow. MAYOR LIFTS I BUSINESS BAN (Continued from Page One) 1 said "we still are exerting every effort to bring the tugboat opera tors and workers together. These efforts are continuing and will con tinue.” Schools Still Closed The lifting of the shutdown or der did not affect schools, which will remain closed. The ban on normal business ac tivities was revoked with the same suddenness with which it was or dered. O’Dwyer and City Health Commissioner Ernest L. Stebbins made the announcement on the city radio station WNYC shortly before 6 o'clock. Stebbins said New York had only a half million gallons of heavy fuel oil on hand when the edict was issued last midnight—"less than a fourth of daily needs.” He said tugboats seized by the Fed eral government brought in 2,600, 000 gallons today. More Tugs To Operate Stebbins said the Office of De fense Transportation had assured the city many more tugs would be in operation tomorrow. Lawrence C. Turner, assigned by the Federal government to seize and operate idle tugboats, said his men had brought 13,000,000 gallons of oil into the city during the past three days. "It is increasing every day and we will continue to increase it,” said lurner. AUTO WORKERS REFUSE LATEST GM OFFER DETROIT, Feb. 12—(£>)—General Motors corporation and union rep resentatives of its 175,000 striking production workers were within one cent of agreement in their wage dispute tonight, but observers fore saw little chance of a speedy set tlement. Walter P. Reuther, vice president of the CIO United Auto Workers and head of its GM department, led other union delegates from the meeting room today immediately after the company made an offer of an 18 1-2 cent (16.5 per cent) in crease. Demand 19 1-2 Cents “We will not be back until you are ready to offer 19 1-2 cents,” he declared. This was the figure recommended by a Presidential fact-finding board that studied the dispute that idled GM production lines on Nov. 21. “We’re fighting for something more than 19 1-2 cents an hour don’t get the idea we’re only one cent apart,” Reuther told newsmen. GM spokesman — who estimated that the company’s latest wage of fer would involve $64,750,000 an nually—declined comment on the union’s departure. Mediator Glum Special Federal Labor Mediator James F. Dewey, who has been here since Jan. 28 seeking a solu tion to the strike, was glum when queried about the new develop ments in the GM-UAW picture. “I’ll just have to keep on mediat ing back and forth between the parties and now is when I’ll have to mv real work.” he told news men. Reuther, asked during a press conference what Dewey would have to do to get bargaining resumed, said, “he’ll have to give us assur ance that General Motors is not go ing to bargain on the President’s recommendations (19 1-2 cents). We are not going to bargain on those recommendations.’’ The latest GM wage offer—made on the 84th day of the strike—was the first since Nov. 7 when it offer ed a 13.5 cent increase—approxi mately 12 per cent. ri’H'BBURGH IN DARK BY POWER STRIKE PITTSBURGH, Feb. 12 — (U.R) — v,rUudIed around candles a“d, ^Mights in thousands of darkened homes tonight as a crip pling Power strike began to take full effect in the industrial Pitts burgh area —I J Today And Tomorrow & (Continued from Page One) 1 “ >f thirteen years. His argument lor the Soviet system is not that! t has raised the standard of bfe >f the people but that it has creat 'd the industrial basis of military n jower much faster than this has n jver been done or can ever be »> lone, by private capitalism. Stalin does not pretend that the Russians live better, or nearly so t veil, as do the people of western e Europe and North America. Nor $ Joes he argue that the Soviet in dustrial system is as productive, t jven for military purposes, as the j American. His argument is that a 3nly by the Communist method j could there have been in so short ( a time so much military industrial power in so backward a country. He would admit that the American Industrial system is stronger than the Russian but he would point t out that it took us fifty to sev- f enty-five years to develop it. He has told the Russians, and j his remarks will be pondered in all the industrially backward but densely populated countries of ‘ Asia, that Communism, Russian ‘ style, is the one and only quick j way for a backward people to be- 1 come a great military power. Though Russia has not had an 1 election, as we understand elec- 1 tions, it has had a plebiscite to ratify the continuation of Com- i munist party rule. Stalin in his address has told the people that what they are ratifying is the plan of the Communist party to carry out at least three and perhaps four new five-year plans in which guns will have priority over butter. * * » The calculation is quite plain. The basic measure of military in dustrial power is steel production: in the post-war era — at the out side by 1970 — the Russians intend to reach a capacity of 60,000,000 tons. This is about the American capacity’in 1940. It is three times tile Russian capacity in 1940. It is more than the combined capacity of the British Empire, Germany, and Japan in 1940. It is, therefore, a huge military potential. More over, and this is the significant point, there is no possibility that anywhere in the Old World can there be in the coming generation any industrial development to match the Russian. In Britain, western Europe, even including western Germany, there is no com parable possibility of development. There is none in China or in India. Salin did not speak of popula tion. But if he had, the relative superiority of Russian military power in the next decades would be even more emphatic. Accord ing to Robert Strauszhupe, in his excellent and reliable book, ‘<The Balance of Tomorrow,” the num ber of men of military age (twen ty-thirty-four years) will be de clining in the white population of the British Empire, in France, 1 western Europe and Germany. It ; will still be increasing strongly in , the U. S. S. R. So Stalin’s calcu lation combines man power and ‘ industrial power, and there is no ] ground for supposing that the Soviet Union lacks the means or ’ the will to pursue the plan of ' military superiority. ’ Copyright, 1946, New York Tri- i bune Inc. MAMA NEEDS PARKING PLACE1 (Continued from Page One) ' dren in mamma’s absence that mamma often thinks twice before leaving little Mary with grandma. So the problem still exists. Mrs. LeGwin, in her complaint, went on to say that some New York stores have kiddy parking places, and there’s one in Richmond, Va., too. But since she doesn’t do her shop ping in New York or Richmond, she is still confronted with the juggler’s task of balancing that big bag of groceries with one hand and her little girl with the other. 18 Years Ago Approached on the situation, C. L. Efird, manager of Efird’s de partment store here, recalled that some 18 years ago Efird’s started just such a “Park-Ur-Kiddy” es tablishment on the second floor. Ruth Waters, now a nurse at it then just newly graduated om nursing school, was m charge id the late Dr. Ernest Bullock sed to drop around once a montn i check up on the kiddies. „ “It was a sort of a free clinic, fird said, “and Dr. Builock ould weigh the babies andgive 3vice to the mothers, But it aver amounted to much. W ever had but four or five babies i stock at any one time. Toddlers Need It Perhaps that is the reason for] ie failure of the venture—it cat red to babies rather than to tod lcrs* As another mother put it: “I■ cer linly wouldn’t leave a tiny baby i someone else’s charge, but with child of two or older I wouldn t esitate a minute, provided of ourse, that I knew he was left m ood hands.” No Hitching Posts Well, it seems that if some en erprising person will just rent a ig room somewhere in the mid le of town and put some slides, wings, hobby-horses, and a tram d nurse or two in it, he can make dm self a pot of money. Mamma an’t tie junior to a hitchmg-post, ven if there were some left in own, and she certainly can’t strap iim to a parking-meter, drop in a lickel, and expect to k®e? 0UJL°! he Child Welfare court the next [ay. He’d not only make that pot of noney but be doing the mothers of Wilmington yeoman service too. Vnd he might even boost the sales of all the local merchants, for, as mother store manager viewed the situation yesterday: “We’d probably sell the mother, twice as much merchandise as we 3o now without the kids pulling or their skirts.” Here’s wishing you luck, mam, ma. STEEL POLICY SLOWED DOWN ’(Continued from Page One) risers in doing so—that the legality ot the steel price directive might be questioned if it were issued in advance of the overall wage-price formula, applicable to industry generally. The latter statement, designed to Lift the price line to permit s«l dement of wage disputes, still was oeing written tonight, and Collet declined to take responsibility for ;he steel price action until it was romplete. Porter To Move Up Paul A. Porter, now chairman of he Federal Communications com mission and former OPA rent di rector, is slated to step into Bow es’ job as OPA administrator when Bowles moves into Collet’s post. (Friends of Collet have stated hat he sees his reconversion job is “two thirds complete,” and is rilling to step ouit to make possi >le a dramatic White Houe dem mstration of its intentions to lold a new price-wage line. (These persons said that the ad vancement of Bowles, staunch hold he-line advocate, was expected to illay criticism which might other rise follow the pending upward re vision of price levels. Compose Differences (Pollet, although on Bowles’ side n the wage - price controversy, Lras declared ready, by leaving his ost, to give Mr. Truman a chance o compromise the differences be Director John W. Snyder, who ad vocates a “flexible” price policy.'1 Collet was reported planning to quit the government “within two or three days,” to return to his fed eral judgeship in Missouri. Wednesday Deadline Top economic advisors were said to be “shooting at” a Wednesday deadline, however, for completion of the new formula on which the administration pins its hope for restoring peace in steel, autos, and other strike-torn industries. The issues were represented by one official as having been “pret ty well shaped up” at late confer ences last night and today. The conferees turned to the role to be played by the new wage stab, ilization board by calling W. Wil lard Wirtz, chairman of WSB, into the White House conferences. A major stumbling block today and yesterday was the issue whe ther wage controls, as well as price ceilings, should be imposed in the new formula, one govern ment officials disclosed. The tentative decision, it was said, was to reject any flat per centage wage ceilings and employ machinery comparable to that usee by the old War Labor board. Entry of the wage stabilizator board into the high-level confer ences was generally regarded as i hint that execution of the new po! icy might be handed over to {hi; agency. STANDARD SLASHE'If* GASOLINE PRICE® r '(Continued from Page ^ jB a cent per gallon will be Pas5 Hi individual service station'^1 i to the motorist will be UD ?Pe:'1-B 1 tors, it was indicated by the w ■“‘B 1 announcement. “ wtl&H I The saving to Wiiming. I operators will approx: ■■B ! per month. M H f One of the largest Standard B I service stations iu Wdmi-v,.,"I \ terday had received no offic-'H I tice of the price-reduction*'.'HI owner said. 'K 1 Other major oil company w I j nals in Wilmington, contacted »^B the question of the wholesale ..’H 1 reduction, said their compa^H 1 had not been notified of a: v ■ reduction. 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