ABC SALES SHOW SHARP DECLINE New Hanover Drops To Third Place In March Sales RALEIGH, April 2 - (/P)—Alco holic Beverage Control stores m 25 North Carolina counties report ed a sale of $2,971,834.35 for the month of February — this was a drop of about $81,000 from Jan uary’s total of $3,052,518.40, Carl Williamson, state ABC chairman laid today. Durham led the list of counties in total sales for February, with $379,671.70. Wake county was sec ond, with a tc^al business of $344, 845.50. Totals for othP1- county February sales: Beaufort — $79,767.70; Bertie — $93,769.85; Carteret — $48,527.60 Chowan — $37,301.15; Craven — $86,424.65; Cumberland — $245, 769.30; Dare — $9,048.15; Edge combe — $136,721.60; Greene — $22,621.15; Halifax — $166,463.75 Lenoir — $157,830.35; Martin — $63,852.40; Moore — $111,525.95 Nash — $118,983.85; New Hanove —$232,939.55; Onslow — $63 713 Pasquotank — $70,939.65; Pitt — $146,267.85; Tyrrell — $10,794.55 Vance — $116,815.10; Warren - $48,136.10; Washington — $31,984, 15, and Wilson — $147,119.75. Gord Davidson, sturdy defense man of the Cleveland Barons in the American Hockey League, is a locomotive fireman in the sum mer months? IN BOTTLES AND AT FOUNTAINS repr.-Cola Company, Long Island City, N. Y. j Franchised Bottler: Fepsi-CoJa Bottling Co. of Wilmington, Inc. This Funny World I ■■ HI >11 | 4*? MeNaotht Syndic***. Ine.-'©liberty “Certainly I’m taking the ladder! 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