WILMINGTON WEEK
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Pepsi-Cola Company, Long Island City, N. Y.
Franchised Bottler: Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Wilmington, Inc.
^fati°nal Airlines i s marking
‘Wilmington Week.”
Due to the alertness of John H.
Farrell. city industrial agent
Wilmington is the first of 28 cities
to be so honored by the airline.
During this week the seat-back
pockets facing the air passengers
are filled with a 12-page folder
proclaiming Wilmington as “The
South s Year-Round Playground.”
Oddly enough, according to a
spokesman for the airline, both the
company and the local chamber
of commerce had virtually the
same idea simultaneously. On the
same day that John L. Morris of
the airline addressed a letter to
Farrell offering the plan, Farrell
had' written Morris requesting
folder distribution by the airline
at all ticket offices.
The final plan of reaching
travellers actually on the go was
greeted enthusiastically by the
local chamber of commerce and
won quick approval by both city
and county government.
BREAKFAST CLUB
Members of the Wilmington Aero
club are to make a breaxfast club
night to Georgetown, S. C. on Sun
day, according to J. D. McMeekin,
club member who is organizing
the flight.
Twelve ships, all carrying pas
sengers, will leave Wilmington at
7 a. m. on Sunday, it is planned.
Approximately 25 club members
are to make the flight. They are
scheduled to return to Wilmington
at 1 p. m.
CLAYTON NOMINATED
WASHINGTON, April 23 — yp) —
President Truman today nominat
ed Undersecretary of State Wil
liam L. Clayton to represent the
United States on the Economic
Commission for Europe,
Congratulations
WINNERS
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THANKS
VOTERS
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ROBERT S. LeGWIN
Pert City Items
Movies of the Intercodogiate
Basketball tournament in Madi
son Square Garden, New York
City, will be shown at a smokei
sponsored by Wilmington alumni
in the Amerifcan Legion home to
night at 8 o’clock. Expected lo
be present are coaches Evereii
Case and "Butler” Anderson both
of State and “Pop” Taylor, secre
tary of the general alumni assoc
iation.
Coast Guard recruiting officers
here yesterday reported that they
have received word from the Nor
folk headquarters that the local
station here will remain open until
June 1.
One-half of Wilmington’s quota
in the Southeastern North Carolina
Beach association’s membership
campaign has been completed, J.
J. Hudiourg, executive secretary
announced yesterday. He pointed
out that since there were few ac
tual solicitations being made, Wil
mingtonians were urged to re
sponed to letters mailed them.
Jack Lowimore, Harbor Island,
and Louis Hanson, Jr., 15 Colonial
drive are expected to return to
Wilmington Saturday from a hos
pital in Kingstree, S. C., where
they have been since an accident
on April 8.
Henry Von Ossen, assistant city
engineer, announced yesterday
that paving of Mercer avenue
would be begun toward the end
of this week. The work, constiting
of 1,000 feet, 20 feet wide, will
extend from Wrightsville avenue
to Colonial Village drive.
Wilbur R. Dosher, postmaster
in Wilmington, will be guest speak
er in a meeting of the Men’s club
of St. John’s Parish, Thursday at
6:15 p. m., in the Parish House.
Supper will be served by the
ladies of the church.
M. A Huggins, executive secre
tary of the Baptist State conven
tion of North Carolina, will be the
speaker at an associational wide
meeting of deacons in the churches
of the Wilmington association Fri
day night at 7:30 o’clock in the
Calvary church.
GO TO POLLS
WASHINGTON, April 23—(/P)—
Beaufort county residents living
outside the Washington adminis
trative school unit territory will
go to the polls Saturday to vote
on an additional tax supplement
to county school funds.
FUEL OIL
Dependable Since 1872
Phone 5261
STUDENTS ENTER
MUSICAL CONTEST
To Take Part In 28th An
nual State High School
Festival
Three New Hanover high school
students will represent Wilming
ton in the 28th annual State high
school musical contest and festival
to be held in Woman’s College at
Greensboro today.
The students have received an
A-l rating and were chosen by
the high school Glee club direc
tor.
Miss Rachael Cameron will sing
“Hallelujah,” by Mozart. She has
sung other solos for the school
class plays and for civic organi
zations in the city.
Robert Melton will sing “The
Road.” He is considered the high
school’s number "one tenor soloist.
Robert McKenzie will sing “I
Love Life,” by Irwin M. Cassel.
He has sung solos for civic orga
nizations throughout the city and
in school plays.
New Hanover high school’s Glee
club, under the direction of Miss
Mary Wolfe, will perform Friday
and they will end the contest stag
ed in the four day festival.
Miss Patty Jones was the only
other Wilmingtonian to take part
in the festival. She played the
piano Tuesday, and received an
A-l rating.
A mass number of bands repre
senting cities in North Carolina
staged a band parade yesterday
in Greensboro’s Memorial Stadium
and was the highlight of the four
day musical contest.
Sixty-two North Carolina cities
have participated in the festival
and before the program is complet
ed, there will be over 5,000 young
musicians taking part. This year’s
number of participants have more
than doubled the number of stu
dents taking part in the previous
contest.
KERMON SAYS AID
FOR RACING PLANT
* WILL BE AVAILABLE
Assurance that at least $1,000,
000 of the estimated $1,500,000
necessary for the construction of a
horse racing plant for New Han
over county have already been
received, according to Represen
tative Robert M. Kerman yester
day.
Under the terms of a bill pass
ed by the past legislature, a
special election must be called on
the horse racing measure. Ker
mon, who sponsored the measure,
said that he has been assu ed by
out of town interests that a great
er part of the money needed for
the racing venture would be made
available, if racing is made legal
by the referendum.
Kermon is slated to leave for
a tour throughout the east and
west where he will inspect racing
facilities in other cities.
There are between 15 and 20
different species of birch tree in
the United States.
WE RE WILLING TO SETTLE
THE TELEPHONE STRIKE
RIGHT NOW
Since the big disagreement with the
Union is over wages, we have offered to
submit the fairness of our wages to an im
partial group of citizens in the South and
abide by their decision.
' Such a board of arbitration would decide,
among other things, the extent to which
recent wage settlements in other industries
have a bearing, if any, on telephone wages
in the communities served by Southern Bell.
Some of these industries have stated that it
will not be necessary for them to increase
prices, but since the Telephone Company is
a regulated public utility, telephone users
must pay in rates for service what the Com
pany has to pay out in wages.
We think our offer to arbitrate is the
best way to stop the strike and the fairest
to employees and Telephone customers alike.
But the Union has refused this offer.
[ Why?
' Apparently, the reason is that the-South
ern Federation of Telephone Workers, a
Southern Union composed of Southern men
and women, cannot move without the ap
proval of the National Federation of Tele
phone Workers, with which it is affiliated.
And it looks as if the National Federation
of Telephone Workers wants nation-wide
power for itself over an essential industry
through nation-wide bargaining.
The Southern Federation is the Union
with which our contracts have been signed.
They have made a long list of demands upon
the Company, but certain of these demands,
they tell us, cannot be decided through ne
gotiations between themselves and us alone.
They must be settled on a rational basis.
In effect, therefore, the Southern Fed
eration is being operated by “Remote Con
trol”—by persons remote from Southern
interests, Southern responsibilities, and
Southern conditions.
The Company believes that settling
Southern wage matters in the South by
Southern people—on the basis of conditions
prevailing in the South—is the fair way to
handle the wage question.
If the Union would agree, the strike
could be ended immediately—employees
could get back to work—and the public could
get normal service.
ALL THIS COULD BE DONE IF THE SOUTH
ERN FEDERATION OF TELEPHONE WORKERS
WOULD SIT DOWN WITH US, ENGAGE IN FREE
AND UNRESTRAINED NEGOTIATIONS—AND
ACT FOR THEMSELVES.
Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company Incorporated
TESTIMONY BEGINS
IN CASE INVOLVING
400 ACRES OF LAND
Questioning of witnesses began
yesterday afternoon in the private
case involving the possession of a
400-acre tract of farm land in Co
lumbus county, being tried in U. S.
District court here.
Valued at $15,000, the land has
recently been sold to the Mullins
Lumber company of South Caro
lina. Joseph P. Waller of Balti
more. plaintiff in the case, is seek
|inK to make recovery of his share
of the land as he alleges a deed
of transaction from A. E. Waller
to Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Turner was
made without his knowledge.
Defense attorneys E. K. Proctor,
Issac Wright, and Walter Powell
allege statute of limitation laws
prohibits the plaintiff from seek
ing to establish a parole trust ac
tion. since he took no action for
the past ten years.
The case will be continued this
morning with more witnesses be
ing called to testify.
It is estimated there are more
" 90 million fibers in a pound
of cotton.
BLISS NOMINATED
WASHINGTON, April 23 _ (/P) —
President Truman Today nominat
ed Brig. Gen. Raymond Whitcomb
Bliss to be surgeon general of the
Army, with the rank of major gen
eral. Bliss will succeed Maj. Gen.
Norman Thomas Kirk, whose term
expires May 31.
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The human ear'is sensitive to
sounds from 16 to about 16,000 vi
brations per second.
Could Cleopaira Drink a Pearl
with Stomach Ulcer Pains?
An intriguing story ol Cleopatra is the
one where an admirei praised the beauty
of two of her pearls, whereupon afcg
dropped one into a glass of wine mt
drank it She would hardly have done
this had she suffered after-eating pains.
Those who are distressed with stomach
or ulcer pains, indigestion, gas pains,
heartburn, burning sensation, bloat and
other conditions caused by excess acid
should try Udga. Get a 25c box of Udga
Tablets from your druggist. Firjt dose
must convince or return box to us and
get DOUBLE YOUR MONEY BACK.
Saunders Drug Store and drug stores
everywhere.
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have a Coke
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IOTTIED UNDEE AUTHORITY OP THE COCA-COIA COMPANY IY
WILMINGTON COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY
Who wants the
“Closed Shop”?
NOT THE PUBLIC.., A 1947 nation-wide poll revealed that only 1 out of every
10 people favors the closed shop—which requires every worker in a company to
belong to a union BEFORE he can be hired.
NOT THE WORKERS . . . The same poll disclosed that only 1 out of every 10
of the nation’s manual workers favors the closed shop.
NOT EVEN THE MEMBERS OF UNIONS . . . According to this same study,
among union members themselves only 1 out of every 5 favors the closed shop.
THE PUBLIC has learned by bitter experience that the closed shop, together
with industry-wide bargaining, gives union leaders almost unlimited power
power that can stop the production of goods, shut off an essential public service,
and put the health and comfort of hundreds of thousands of people in jeopardy.
MANUAL WORKERS as a whole know that the closed shop can deny them the
right to work in their chosen jobs—unless they join a union.
UNION MEMBERS themselves have found that the closed shop means they must
forfeit their individual freedom and follow union dictation, whether they agree
with the rightness of such dictation or not!
IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST, as well as in the interest of both industry and
labor, the National Association of Manufacturers believes that all forms of
compulsory union membership should be prohibited because they are contrary
to the American way of life.
1” Write for your copy of “Americans Won't Stand for Monopolies,” which |
includes the foil text of NAM’* program for industrial peace and national
I prosperity. Address: NAM, 14 West 49th Street, New York 20, N. Y.J
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MANUFACTURERS
For a Better Tomorrow for Everybody