ONSLOW PERMIT
APPLICATIONS UP
Thirty-Nine Requests On
File; Other Expected
Tomorrow
ACKSONVILLE, Aug. 9 —
police Chief W. B. Hurst today
;;ad 20 new applications for taxi
operators’ licenses to go with the
;3 aierady on file when the City
council lifted its limit of 5C in its
Tuesday night session.
Chief Hurst said that he is hav
r, a number of the application
blanks prepared to have on hand
j!); t.;e expected rush for applica
•ions.
No new taxi permits nave been
■ ranted in Jacksonville for more
ran a year. The limit of 50 was
by the previous city council.
and none of the 50 outstanding at
time have ever been revoked
When °ne °- the local ta ci opera
died, the permit was prompt
v reissued to his wife.
The taxi wrangle has been ed«
• ruling in Jacksonville for more
ban two years with one sine
claiming that 50 cabs are enough
for a city of this size and de
claring that an excessive number
could help promote vice, while
be other side was contending that
a man has the right to make an
bonest living and saying that the
number of cabs would automati
cally regulate itself to the num
ber who could make that living,
•be chief said.
About 31 percent of all motor
• ruck' n the United States in 1945
ere u-ed on farms.
Petticoat Brigade Rules House
In Woodrow^ WilsonHutOffices
By ROGER CONANT
Star-News Staff Writer
The “petticoat” brigade rules
the roost at Woodrow Wilson hut,
a survey made by a Star-News
reporter shows.
The women out-number tee men
employed there, by a score of 7
to 5, but all seven women admit
that while *they are in the major
ity, the minority is the ruling seg
ment and as such they take the
orders the men-folks give.
Who are these bachelor girls?
Well there is the pretty bind
job, Mary J. Christie, who, in ad
dition to doing stenographic work
for the Chamber of Commerce,
poses for pictures that grace the
covers of propaganda folders. Her
most striking pose shows her with
a fishing pole, standing in the surf
and wearing little besides a bis
smile.
Miss Christie’s co-worker on the
C. of C. typing job is Elizabeth
P. Powell. Her side-line activity
■s giving the signal to stop work,
match coins and send the loser
for the cokes and nabs. This vio
lent work must be done twice
daily.
Then there is Louise Verzall who
sits at the desk bihind the counter
that contains all the rtophies won
by the Wilmington Junior Cham
ber of Commerce i nits varied en
deavors. She being one of the
younger females in the hut, it is
usually her legs that carry the
body htat brings in the above
mentional nabs and cokes.
Another lovely in the “jernt” is
Mary E. (Violet) Gano. She takes
shorthand notes from the industri
al traffic manager. Her hardest
task is to look mean when she
should. A native of this section
she can relate more history about
Wilmington and its environs than
most persons twice her age, which
is
The Southeastern North Caro
lina Beach association has its sec
retary in the low white building
on Fourth street. She is Vivian
Fisher and if ever the SENCBA
had a loyal tub thumper, she’s it.
Her boss, whose name makes no
difference, spends so much time
out of the office she usually gives
herself the dictation and then
transcribes her notes.
Velva Ray, the newest feminine
addition, does her bit for the Wil
mington Port Commission. Seated
at her desk behind a closed door
at the back of the reception room,
the only times she comes out is
for the mid-morning and mid-aft
ernoon rest periods.
The last name but most impor
tant female worker is Lois Mintz,
who does the work for the city
industrial agent. She is a walking
and talking encyclopedea, the out
standing qualification for such a
post as she holds. Statistics can
reel from her memory like a swift
mountain stream.
The five males who earn their
bread and butter by bossing these
women will be dealt with in a sub
sequent story.
Light rommy nighties, a shirt
and diaper and several light cov
ers instead of one heavy one may
save baby wailing. Baby doesn’t
need to be swaddled’ advises a
pediatrician.
G^re seats
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AIRCRAFT CARRY
ODD CARGOES
--
Sample Bottle Of Rye And
Load Of Birds, Just
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By CYNTHIA LOWRY
AP Newsfeatures Writer
Carrying oddly assorted cargo
seems to be an air-age specialty.
For instance, British Overseas
Airways carried a sample bottle
of rye whisky to the homegrourfds j
of scotch whiskey; TWA whisked
75 birds from Egypt to America,
and Pan-American stuffed five
small planes inside a big DC-4 for
a Miami-Brazil jaunt.
A number of Stockholm resi
dents have discovered they can
get quick dry-cleaning service by
patronizing—by plane— New York
City stores. During a temporary
bread shortage in New York last
Winter, a number of travelers re
turning from wheat - short and
bread - rationed France carried
long sticks of baked goods under
their arms.
One airline sent a cargo of rain
bow trout eggs to the Palestine
Purchasing Commission for use in I
restocking the River Jordan and
also forwarded an assorted selec
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the pools of the royal palace at
Alexandria.
Emperor Haile Selassie received
an air shipment consisting of a
jewel-encrusted saddle for his fa
vorite horse; and a number of
crocodiles traveled as air cargo
from Cairo to a zoo in California.
While plenty of sensible articles
do some plane traveling, some
sound rather odd: a single bras
siere to Bangalore, two bottles of
Milwaukee beer to Ceylon, an em
brella to India.
A thoroughbred Brazilian favor
ite, Endeavor, was flown to New
York for some Belmont racing
this season; 10,000 earthworms
were hurriedly shiped through
the clouds to Panama to relieve a
threatened earth - worm famine
facing three North York - bound
duck-billed platypuses.
Plenty of flowers are flown from
stem to market, but an outstand-'
ing bit of horticultural flying was
a chestnut tree from Paris’ j
Champs Elysees to Los Angeles.
A grapefruit tree was carried by j
air from the southwest to Saudi1
Arabia where agriculturists want
ed to experiment with its produc
tion possibilities.
Cocktail’s at a publisher’s party :
were cooled by 6-million year-old
ice, chipped on order from an
Alaskan glacier and flown in a
cooler to Manhattan. But at about
the same time, another plane was
winging its way across India car
rying insecticides for a writer.
And when a soda pop shortage
developed recently in Caracas dur
ing the baseball season, a rush or
der from the United States kept
the Venezuelart umpires on their
toes.
Meat pie tops are mighty good
use for biscuits, plain or with herbs
and special flavors. Why not try
parsley biscuits to top that meat
pie, or a Celery Seed crust?
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Listed below are a few examples of the savings during our
August Fur Sale.
FUR SALON ~ SECOND FLOOR
Reg. $275 Brown Squirrel_$199.00
Reg. $250 Black Dyed Kid -- $189.50
Reg. $325 Grey Dyed Kid_$249.50
Reg. $325 Sable Dyed Marmot-$250.00
Reg. $400 Silver Fox Jacket-$325.00
Reg. $425 Sable Dyed Muskrat--$349.00
Reg. $475 Silver Blue Muskrat_$395.00
Reg. $750 Black Persian Lamb —*-$650.00
Reg. $895 Natural Mink Chevron- $750.00
Reg. $195 Mink Kolinsky Neckpiece_$125.00
Reg. $700 Natural Russian Sable Neckpiece ....$595.00
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