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VOL. 81.-—NO. 59._ WILMINGTON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 194L ESTABLISHED 1867
Jurors Blast
School Board
Report To Judge Carr
Again Cites Building De
fects Not Remedied
A New Hanover county grand
,ury yesterday again rapped
county school authorities for
failure to remedy defects in
buildings of the public school
system previously called to the
school authorities’ attention.
The grand jury report, pre
sented to presiding Judge Leo
Carr, specifically called atten
tion to unsafe and unsanitary
conditions in some of the school
buildings in the county.
Judge Carr directed A. L.
Meyland. clerk of court, to
write to the New Hanover coun
ty board of education and the
county superintendent of
schools, enclosing copies of the
report of the grand jury and
requesting them to study the
report carefully “as it indicates
there are some conditions that
demand immediate attention.”
After listing in detail the con
ditions at each of 21 New Hano
ver county schools, the grand
jury report emphasizes:
“It is specifically noted that
the above conditions have in
most instances been reported
by previous grand juries and no
action taken. This grand jury
feels that unless these unsatis
factory conditions are remedied
by the next term of Superior
Court that proper authorities
should be subpoenaed for ex
planation."
Only Tilestjn ana eraaiey
Creek schools were found to be
in “excellent” condition. Maffit.t
Village colored and Williston
primary schools were reported
in “good” condition.
William Hooper school was
reported “in deteriorated condi
tion due to lack of proper main
tenance. Floors unsafe for chil
dren, badly worn and rotted.
Building needs repainting and
rotted wood replaced. Cafeteria
in unsanitary condition due to
dirt and is inadequate. ■ . ■ •
plastering is cracked and dirty.
In general this school is in bad
condition.”
Some of the repairs needed at
other schools were only minor
ones but they have been re
ported before and no action was
taken. Leaking roofs, bad
plumbing, and poor drainage
head the complaints.
CHEST DIVISIONS
WILL MEET TODAY
Commercial, Service Group
Workers Ready For Kick
off Instructions
A joint kickoff meeting of the
Commercial and Service Em
ployees divisions of the Red
Feather campaign of the Com
munity Chest to collect $119,996
will be held this afternoon at
t:30 o’clock in the Tide Water
assembly hall, it was an
nounced vesterday by Charles
M. Harrington, general chair
man of the campaign.
These two kickoif meeun0»
are the fifth and sixth divisions
of the Community Chest which
have begun to solicit funds.
Publicity supplies for these
two divisions and the Industry
divisions which met Monday,
are being distributed this week
by the Boy Scouts.
George F. Hunt, Jr,, and L.
D Latta, chairman of tne com
mercial and service division
respectively, will preside joint
ly. Goals for the Commercial
division is $4,000 while the Serv
ice division has a goal of $6,000.
A special training film will be
shown by C. H. McAllister,
safety director of the Tide Wa
ter Power company.
Charles M. Harrington, gen
era! chairman, will give a brief
address to the joint divisions.
George L. Mitchell, chairman
of the Railroad division, an
nounced yesterday that the our
chasmg department of the ACL
has surpassed its goal and also
signed up 100 per cent.
The Weather
\ FORECAST:
South Carolina—Fair and mild tempera
tures Wednesday and Thursday cooler
to coastal section Wednesday night.
North Carolina—Clear to partly cloudy
jjod mild temperatures Wednesday and
Thursday. Cooler in extreme East por
tlor* We<inesday night.
| "meteorological data for the 24 hours
•nding 7:30 p. m. yesterday.
TEMPERATURES
|:3n a. m. 71; 7:30 a. m. 70; 1:30 p. m.
'■T ":30 p m. 71; Maximum 74: Mini
mum 67; Mean 70. Normal 62.
. HUMIDITY
1:30 a. m. 84; 7:30 a. m. 85; 1:30 p. m
78- 7:30 p. m. 93.
f PRECIPITATION
■ for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p.
-33 inches.
t Total since the first of the month
*19 inches.
TIDES FOR TODAY
'From the Tide Tables published by
S' Coast and Geodetic Survey).
HIGH LOW
"ummgton _ 9:17 a.m. 3:54 a.m.
9:31 p.m. 4:2S p m.
1!m|)0ro Inlet _ 6:53 a m 12:51 a.m.
<. 7:14 p.m. 1:22 p.m.
sunrise 6:29: Sunset 5:23: Moon rise
| i.p; Moonset 6:06a.
, lv«) stage at Favettevilie N C . at 8
I m. Tuesday 9.1 feet
or* WFATHEB On Pa*e Two
Communists Guilty
Of Aggression Acts
Rep. Marion Bennett Says Army “Service”
Report Lists 63 Incidents Against
American Troops At Trieste
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Oct. 28.
—(UP)—Rep Marion Ben
nett, R., Mo., said tr he
had been supplied ^
telhgence repor ^^ JPe
which revep’ 4$*’i\~ c had
been guilt- ^ ^ A ; armed
aggress; • American
troop at -^v ,e said one
American A ^ ,ed and “Num
erous others ^.jured.
Returning trom a six-week
20,000-mile tour, Bennett said
that it was his belief we should
maintain the strongest possible
Navy and Air Force and should
step up the production of the
atom bomb.
He said that it was his opin
ion o. y the Kremlin knew—if
anyone did—when the next war
wold start. Bennett said the in
cidents at Trieste were only ex
amples of the Communist pres
sure throughout Europe as they
pushed to see how far they
could get.
He brought home with him
a copy of the Army Intelligence
at Trieste, he said, and had been
report detailing the 63 incidents
shown other Army reports con
cerning Russian tank produc
tion. He said the estimate he
received was that Russia was
making “43000 tanks a month.”
Bennett said the report of the
Trieste incidents covered the
period from September, 1945,
to August, 1947.
“It is a state of cold war over
can and Yugoslav troops are
there,” Bennett said. “Ameri
separated by barbed wire and
armed patrols.
“It has the appearance of ac
tual war.”
Ports Authority Plans
Decision On Shipyard
BOY BLAMED
JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Oct. 28.
—(U.R)— A 12-year-old boy was
accused today of starting a
forest fire by pouring cleaning
fluid on a cat, setting it ablaze,
and turning it loose.
The cat ran into tall grass
and started a two-hour forest
fire. The boy’s father said he
has whipped him soundly and
will not permit him to leave
home to play for a month. Fire
Chief John A. Moran was not
certain whether he would press
for juvenile court action.
ROTARIANS HEAR
PLEA FOR GUARD
Cap. J. H. McDonald Urges
Club To Aid Recruiting
Drive In City
Members of the local Rotary
club were urged to join them
selves, if in the age limits and
to recommend that their sons
and employes join the Wilming
ton units of the National guard,
by Captain J. H. McDonald at
their luncheon meeting at the
Friendly yesterday.
With a complement of 100 of
a proposed 700 men at present
and two nationally recognized
units of the seven planned for
the city, Wilmington is lagging
in its “Minute Man” member
ship drive for the guard, ac
cording to Capt. Armstrong,
who pointed out that the guards
program is past the midway
point. The National organiza
tion was seeking 88,888 recruits,
a man a minute, during a two
month period.
In his talk, Capt. Armstrong
pointed out the comparative
weakness of United States
armed forces now compared
with VJ day, when this country
possessed the world’s mightiest
military machines on land and
on sea. He said that the army
and air force now only boast
900,000 of a proposed 1,100,000
men and that the navy, al
through still the greatest, has
most of its ships in port.
“The intention was to fill in
the gap with the organized re
serve of four million men, uni
versal military training, and
the National guard,” he ex
plained. He said that the guard,
which had 200,000 men before
the war, now wants 880,000
members.
Locally, he said that the or
ganization is prepared to help
Wilmington in any civic func
tions from parades to flood and
disaster. He referred the Ro
tarians to the rescue work of
the guard in the recent New
England forest fires and Flori
da storms and floods.
The two units here recognized
nationally, he said, are Com
pany I of the 119th infantry and
Battery A of the 150th AAA bat
talion. Seeking recognition
now are Headquarters and
headquarters battery of the
AAA.
Stressing the point that mili
tary supplies, largely lacking
for the guard before the war,
are now plentiful here, Capt.
Armstrong said and explained
See ROTARIANS On Page Two
Chairman R. B. Page An
nounces important Meet
ing For Friday
An important decision on the
development of the northern ex
tension of the Wilmington ship
yard will result from a meeting
in Winston-Salem Friday noon
of the North Carolina States I
Ports authority, Chairman R.
B. Page, publisher of the Star
News, revealed yesterday.
The anouncement followed a
statement by the Maritime com
mission that the next move
in the negotiations to lease the
shipyard to the State authority
was up to Chairman Page.
An agreement covering leas
ing of the northern end of th
yard by the State for 75 years
with a few of five per cent of
the annual gross receipts going
to the commission was ap
proved by Howard J. Marsden,
chief of the Commission’s Ter
minals division, some two
months ago.
When State Ports Chairman
Page requested more favorable
terms at a later date, Marsden
halted preparations to ask the
Commission for power to nego
tiate a lease within the scope
of the original agreement. In a
letter to Page last week Mars
dn asked whether he should
submit the plan under the orig
inal proposal or ask for better
terms for the State.
To Provide Answer
The Friday meeting of the
authority will provide the an
swer to his inquiry. The new
terms asked by the State in
cluded paying of five per cent
of net receipts instead of gross
receipts from the operation of
the yard with payment starting
after improvements are paid
for, rather than immediately
See PORTS On Page Two
PEDESTRIAN HURT
NEAR HALLSBORO
John Jackson Suffers Bone
Fractures From Three
Automobiles
WHITEVILLE, Oct. 28. — John
Jackson, 52, is in Columbus
County hospital today with seri
ous injuries after being hit by two
separate motor vehicles at Halls
boro last night.
Highway patrolmen who in
vestigated the accident said Jack
son was knocked down by a
passenger car operated by Ralph
Durham of Atlanta, Ga. Then
was missed or straddled by an
other car immediately behind,
and while lying on the highway
was run over again by a third
automobile. Examination at the
hospital disclosed the fracture of
both bones of the right leg below
the knee, dislocation of the left
shoulder laceration of the scalp,
broken front teeth and multiple
bruises.
Information obtained by Pa
trolman H. L. Covington and J.
T. Watson indicated that Jack
son started across the highway,
became frightened and stepped di
rectly into the path of the on
coming vehicles. The vehicles at
the rear of the car which knock
ed Jackson down had no way of
knowing he was on the highway.
“Lady Across The Street”
Remembers Boy In Will
UNION CENTER, Wis., Oct. 28
_ (IP) — Seven-year-old Ronny
Markee, who used to run errands
for the elderly lady who lived
across the street, learned today
that she had left him $10,000 in
her will.
The bequest was revealed
when the will of Mrs. Effie Mc
Namara, who died last month,
was admitted to probate in
Vernon county court at \iroqua.
Mrs. McNamara, “the lady across
the street,” divided her $22,000
estate in half, one share going to
Ronny and the other to the care
taker at the McNamara home.
The youth’s mother said Ronny
spent considerable time at the
McNamara home, carrying water,
going to the store and running
other errands. At one time, Mrs.
McNamara sought to adopt the
youngster but his parents refus
ed.
Police Fight
Reds In Paris
Three Hundred Injured In
Bloody Street Battle
Before Meeting
PARIS, Wednesday, Oct. 29—
(AP)—Unofficial estimates of
the injured ranged from 40 to
300 early today after a bloody
street battle in which Paris po
lice beat back nearly 35,000 com
munists who attempted unsuc
cessfully to break up an anti
communist meeting.
It was the first major political
street battle in Paris since the
bitter riots of 1936.
The Communists, responding
to a call in their newspaper L’Hu
manite to break up the meeting
in Wagram hall in Place D’Etoile,
sponsored by former Sen. Gus
tave Gautherot, besieged the
meeting place and were routed
only after they had broken
through three police lines and a
wooden barricade.
The riotous street scene began
a few hours after Socialist Pre
mier Paul Ramadier opened his
government’s fight for life in the
National Assembly chamber.
An official police statement
said eight policemen had been
injured although one foreign
correspondent counted 10 being
carried away from the fracas.
Estmates in the Paris press rang
ed as high as 150 injured on each
side.
There was no estimate of the
number of police and mobile
guard employed to protect the
anti-Communist meeting which
police permitted to begin its ses
sion after the fighting. More than
1,500 persons attended the meet
ing, which ended early today.
When the Communists first
drew up their forces before the
fight, there were about 25 000
of them massed at one end of
Avenue Wagram and 8,000 at the
other end.
food donT INS
N0W8P CENT
American Gifts To Europe
Equivalent To ?71
Pounds Per Capita
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28—(U.fi) —
During the past fiscal year the
United States sent food to other
nations at the rate of 8.6 per
cent of its total production, or
the equivalent of 271 pounds for
every man, woman and child
under the American flag.
The stupendous role Ameri
can farmers and food-pro
cessors are playing in feeding
war-torn Europe and Asia was
revealed in a survey made
available to the United Press
by Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D., Va.
It is based on figures sup
plied by federal departments
and agencies and may loom
large in Congressional consider
ation of President Truman’s
emergency aid and Marshall
long-range plans.
The greatest portion of food
stuffs—from wheat to nuts—was
shipped for civilian feeding by
U. S. Army authorities in the
Anglo - American zone in Ger
many, in Italy, and in the U. S.
occupation territory in Austria.
This total was 3,481,000 long
tons.
Other nations which shared in
the American larder were:
Britain, 1,652,000 long tons;
India, 1,003,000 long tons; the
Latin American republics, 2,
322.000 long tons, and France,
including French North Africa,
771.000 long tons.
The survey did not differen
tiate between those goods which
passed through the normal
channels of foreign trade and
were paid for, and those which
were supplied as outright relief.
Simons
Street
Three
Probe Taking On
Definite Pattern
Scenarists Refuse To Di
vulge Commuist Party
Leanings
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28—W—
In rapid-fire order, contempt ac
tions were started against three
more Hollywood screen writers
today after they defiantly refus
ed to tell the House Committee
on Un - American Activities
whether they are Communists.
Following up similar steps
taken against John Howard
Lawson yesterday, the Congres
sional probers of the movie
capital voted to recommend
contempt citations against Dal
ton D. Trumbo, Albert Maltz and
Alvah Bessie.
Loud sound effects punctuated
the hearing — the crashing gavel
of Chairman J. Parnell Thomas
(R.-N.J.), a buzz of cameras,
mingled boos and applause from
spectators, who again included
movie actors and actresses.
And through it all ran what
appeared to be a definite pat
tern :
The committee brings on a wit
ness. The witness won’t say
whether he is a Communist, or
ever has been. He is “excused”
from the stand. The committee
produces its records on him.
Then comes the contempt action.
Three-Member Group
This is a recommendation to
the full nine-member committee
to cite the witnesses for con
tempt of Congress. A subcom
mittee of only three members
has been sitting for two days.
Speaker Martin (R.-Mass.) or
the House itself can turn over a
contempt citation to a United
States attorney for prosecution.
Conviction carries « top punish
See PROBE On Page Two
COUPLE ARRESTED
ON CHECK CHARGE
FBI Arrests Man, Wife For
Obtaining $50,000 In
Four-Year Period
NEW YORK, Oct. 28. — (&)— A
husband and wife, whom FBI
Agent Edward Scheidt said acted
as a team in passing more than
400 fraudulent checks for $50,
000 in cash and merchandise,
were ordered held for federal
grand jury action today when ar
raigned before U. S. Commission
er Garrett W. Cotter.
They were identified as James
A. Moloney, 50, and Mrs. Barbara
Moloney, 48, of New York City.
The man was held in $1,500 bail
and the woman in $500.
Both were arrested yesterday.
They were arraigned on charges
of violating the national stolen
property act. The husband also
was charged with conspiracy to
vi late the act.
Scheidt, head of the New York
FBI office, said Mrs. Moloney in
duced shopkeepers to cash fraud
ulent checks in excess of pur
chases made.
Her actions were the results of
an idea her husband had while
serving a prison term for fraud
on Riker’s Island, Scheidt: .id. He
added Moloney told the woman
where and how to have the fraud
ulent checks printed and used
names of fictitious business firms
in inducing merchants to cash the
checks.
Along The Cape Fear
FIRST EXPERIMENTAL
FARM—On September 15, 1853,
General James Iver McKay, one
of the greatest statesmen ever
to issue from the Cape Fear
valley, passed away in Golds
boro, at the age of 61. He had
become ill while returning from
Tarboro where he had attended
court as a witness in a criminal
case. His body was borne to
his home amid universal evi
dences of sorrow along the route
of the cortege. Perhaps the larg
gest demonstration of the public
mourning for the great states
man occurred in Wilmington.
When the contents of the
general’s will became known,
it was revealed that the “Watch
dog of the Treasury,” was in
truth charitably disposed toward
his fellow men. Disposing of a
dozen great plantations, the
general’s will directed that after
his wife’s death his home place,
“Belfont,” be turned over to
trustees to be used as an ex
perimental farm for the bene
fit of the poor and the orphans
of the country. It is believed that
this was the first experimental
farm in the Cape Fear valley.
FREES SLAVES—The general’s
will also provided that slaves he
had inherited or acquired by
marriage be hired out by his ex
ecutors to raise funds for their
transportation to the colony of
Liberia. As soon as the necessary
funds could be raised, the exe
cutors were strictly ordered to
take the steps necessary for the
transportation of the slaves to
Liberia under the direction of
the Colonization Society.
In the reasonable length of time
the executors did raise the
money needed for the trans
portation of the slaves to Li
beria and the terms of the will
were carried out to the letter.
Old residents of Elizabethtown
used to tell of the vivid scenes
they recalled of the Negroes
leaving for Wilmington to board
ships for Liberia. Some of them
left their homes in the Cape
Fear valley only after great
crying and mourning by which
they gave vent to their distress.
In latter years, however, one
of the Negro women returned
I See CAPE FEAR On Page Two
Recommends Eighth
For Super-Highway;
More Writers Cited
CAPT. A. N. MONSEN MRS. MARY S. CHIDIAC
ABOARD THE STORM-BUFFETED DC-4 plane, missing be
tween Ketchikan and Juneau, Alaska, are Captain A. N. Monsen,
pilot, and Mrs. Mary *S. Chidiac, purser. The four-engined trans
port carried 13 passengers, including an infant, and a crew of
five. (International Soundphoto) .
Signal Flares Buoy
Hopes Of Searchers
HE DIDN’T KNOW
HEANOR, England, Oct. 28.
—(U.R)— Isiah Wilcoxen, 74, and
blind, thanked the little girl
for helping him across a Hean
or street.
He didn’t know snub-nosed
June Smith, 6, couldn’t hear
him. He didn’t know she had
pushed him out of a speeding
car’s path and was killed.
She was buried today.
DEMOCRATS PICK
1948 SIH TODAY
City Of Brotherly Love
Has Edge For Party Con
vention Next Year
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. — «P)
— The Democrats will get to
work selecting a 1948 party con
vention site tomorrow and it
looks like Philadelphia. But San
Francisco will be bidding for
it, too.
The Democratic National com
mittee, facing other decisions
for the Presidentian campaign
year, will gather here for two
sessions tomorow. Besides pick
ing a convention site, it will:
1. Select a convention date, ex
pected to be in early July.
2. Elect Senator J. Howard
McGrath of Rhode Island to suc
ceed Postmaster General Robert
E. Hanegan as committee chair
man. Hanegan, chairman since
January, 1944, is giving up the
comittee post because of ill
health.
3. Consider a recommendation
of a subcommittee headed by
Frank M. Hale, Indiana Com
mitteman, to increase the con
vention delegate bonus for states
which went Democratic in the
last Presidential election. Final
approval of the delegate appor
tionment will be up to the con
vention itself. The 1944 conven
tion had 1,176 delegates.
4. Act on resolutions praising
the administration of President
Truman, who is expected to be
the party’s Presidential nominee
next year.
Philadelphia’s bid for the Dem
ocratic convention—it has already
won the Republican convention
for the week starting June 21—
will be presented by a group of
100 headed by Mayor Bernard
Samuel, a Republican. Their of
fer will be the same as that made
for the Republican meeting—
$200,000, plus $50,000 for enter
tainment expenses and a free au
ditorium.
San Francisco interests will be
handled by Mrs Edward Heller,
California national committee
woman. Mrs. Heller said she
will “try to match’ Philadel
phia’s bid, but will not cam
paign for the convention “in the
sense of canvassing committee
members.” She said the Cali
fornia climate would be a fac
tor in her bid.
Ships, Planes Redouble Ef
forts To Locate Missing
Airliner
KETCHIKAN. Alaska, Oct 28—
UR)—1The sighting of a smoke
column and signal flares at two
separate points in the radius of
Alaska’s greatest sea and air
search spurred hopes today that
some or all of the 18 persons
aboard a missing Pan-American
DC-4 may have survived a forced
landing.
Searching air and surface craft
were ordered to concentrate on
Dundas and Graham Islands
where fishermen reported spot
ting what may have been signals
from survivors of the transport
plane that vanished Sunday.
The area was Southwest of
Ketchikan, in the opposite di
rection from which veteran pilot
Capt. A. N. Monsen radioed he
was heading after abandoning
attempts to land at the Annette
Island airport near Ketchikan
during a lashing gale.
A column of smoke curled up
from sparsely-settled Dundas Is
land in Chatham sound, one
fisherman reported.
The flares were reported sight
ed on Graham Island, off the
coast of British Columbia.
At least 20 military, com
mercial and private planes
scoured the area under leaden
skies, and a fleet of surface ves
sels including private fishing
craft and seven Coast Guard
cutters probed the fiord-checked
coast. But search officials said
they held only slender hopes for
the five crewmen and 13 pas
See SIGNAL On Page Two
DRY ICE MAY END
FIRES IN MAINE
Two Planes To Attempt
Flame Extinguishing
Task Early Today
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. — m
— Clouds hovering over Maine
will be sown with dry ice tomor
row in hopes they will rain and
extinguish fores 1 fires which have
cost 15 lives and millions in prop
erty damage.
Navy officials said two plan.-;
probably will be used in the first
attempt in extinguishing fires
with the dry ice method that has
been tried widely for aiding
crops.
Weather Bureau officials said
conditions for rain-making may
1 more favorable tomorrow or
Thursday than on any day since
the fire started. But they added
“conditions won’t be ideal.”
The method involves dropping
small amounts of dry ice into the
clouds. This reduces the tmpera
ture of the suspended moisture
until ice is formed, setting off
formation of ice crystals over a
wide area. The moisture reaches
earth in the form of rain.
If Beds Keep Coming In
Folsom MayUndo “GW”
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Oct. 28.
(TP)— Gov. James E. (Big Jim)
Folsom now has six beds in which
he can rest comfortably.
The last, “about eight feet long”
.nd made of valnut. came as a
gift from the Corpus Christi, Tex.,
furniture dealer. Mrs. Ruby El
lis, the governor’s sister and of
ficial hostess, said it will be sent
to the family home at Elba, Ala.
Thus, added Mrs. Ellis, “he’ll
have a comfortable place to sleep
most any place he visits frequent
ly in Alabama.”
The Alabama chief executive
requires special beds because he
is six feet eight inches tall. He
already has oversized ones at the
mansion, at hotels in Montgomery
and Birmingham, Ala., and Ashe
ville, N. C., at G.ulf State Park,
and his home in Cullman.
1980 Population
Placed At 90,000
Auto Registration May
Double Here By 1960,
Planner Says
A multitude of recommenda
tions were presented to the ctiy
planning board last night by
George W. Simons, Jackson
ville, Fla., planning consultant,
chief of which was the improve
ment of Eighth street into a
multilane semi-express street
or super-highway.
In presenting a 232 page book
of the master plan to the board,
Simons predicted that the city’s
maximum population would
reach 90,000 by 1980. It will
have twice as many automo
biles in 1960 as at the present
time, he added.
Other recommendations in
clude additional park and rec
reation facilities, schools, reha
bilitation and slum clearance,
beautification and other traffic
aids.
Simons prefaced h is discus
sion of the final draft of Wil
mington’s master plan, which
he said anticipates the needs of
the city for a number of years,
by declaring that “No plan is
a rigid instrument, and any
plan must be ready for change
from time to time.”
We ve tried to maintain the
character and dignity that Wil
mington now has,” he ex
plained. “Wilmington is a dis
tinctive community—a commu
nity with personality. You have
a rich background, and in the
future you will want to main
tain it.”
Tracing the city’s historical
background, the plan itself esti
mates that the future popula
tion will not be static, but will
continue to grow. From the 1946
population of 47,480 to all indi
cations normal growth of Wil
mington will give it a popula
tion minimum of 54,000 and
maximum of 90,000 by 1980,
Simons pointed out.
He said that the city has
shown a flattening or tapering
off of growtn since 1920.
See 1980 On Page Two
TOBACCO MARKETS
HOLD LAST SALES
Price Trends Prove Irregu
lar With Gains, Losses
Evenly Divided
By The Associated Press
Tobacco price ttrends were ir
regular yesterday (Tuesday) as
the markets held final sales be
fore closing down for a sales holi
day which resulted from banning
of American tobacco imports by
the British government.
However, announcement tha ,
plans had been made for the gov
ernment to enter the market and
buy the tobacco normally pur
chased by British buyers brought
from Fred S. Royster of Hender
son, chairman of the Flue-Cured
Marketing committee, a statement
that the markets probably would
reopen next Monday.
The Federal and State Depart
ments of Agriculture announced
that the three remaining markets
of the Border Belt held final sales
for the season Tuesday and that
they would not reopen after the
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And So To Bed
A local man, who is unfor
tunate enough to have a
night job, was sleeping
soundly the other morning
when the telephone rang
until he t nought it would fall
from the table.
The sleepy - eyed man
trudged to answer the phone.
“Please deliver me a truck
load of white sand,” the
voice demanded. “Sorry,
sir, this is not the sand com
pany,” our hero yelled.
Back to bed and about 15
minutes later the phone again
began to jangle. “Will you
please send my groceries?”
a female voice asked. “No,
man,” our still sleepy friend
replied.
Five minutes later the
same thing happened only
this time it was the tele
phone company checking the
line. You guessed it, our
hero removed the phone from
the hook and went back to
bed.
Then the door bell began
to chime. “What the -)&$(-|$
is it now?” he yelled as he
jerked the wires from the
bell.