naval reserve
TO TOUR TROPICS
Wilmington, Char I e s t o n
District Men To Sail
Jan. 20
CHARLEfTON, S. C., Dec. 20.
—Naval Reservists of the Sixth
Naval district will have an op
portunity to take part in a mid
winter cruise to tropical waters
beginning January 20 aboard
the USS Pocono, it was an
nounced here by Rear Admiral
L. T. DuBose, USN, District
Commandant.
The Pocono, with 100 Naval
Reserve men and 10 Naval Re
serve officers aboard, in addi
tion to her regular Navy corn
P'ement of officers and men,
willjvisit San Juan. Puerto. Rico
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and Guantanamo, Cuba, in the
course of a cruise of over 30
days. She is scheduled to return
to Norfolk, Va., February 24
and will disembark her reserv
ists at that port.
The quota of 110 Naval Re
servists making the cruise will
include men from the First,
Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth,
Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Na
val Districts and the Potomac
River Naval Command. The men
will receive 14 days active
duty pay, subsisence during the
entire cruise and pay and travel
expense during travel to and from
the embarkation and disembark
ation points.
Reservists assigned to the
cruise from North and South
Carolina and Georgia, the three
states comprising the Sixth Na
val District, will report to the
U. S. Naval Base, Charleston,
S. C., on January 20 for em
barkation.
The Pocono will meet First,
Third, Fourth, Fifth Naval Dis
trict and Potomac River Naval
Command Reservists at Nor
folk, Va., January 16; will em
bark Seventh Naval District Re
servists at Key West January
26; and Eighth and Ninth Naval
District Reserves at New Or
leans February 2, in addition to
the Sixth Naval District quota
at Charleston.
The Reserves will have ouprr
tunity for 17 days of under way
training at sea, aboard the ship
in addition to opportunities to
visit southern seaport cities and
liberty ashore in Puerto Rico
and Cuba.
Naval Reservists in the Sixth
Naval District who wish to take
part in the cruise should direct
their requests to the Director of
Training, Sixth Naval District,
U. S. Naval Base, Naval Base,
S. C. prior to January 5.
NEWSIES GUESTS
OF PUBLISHER
Annual Star and News
Christmas Party
Scheduled
Monday mght the 135 carrier
boys of the Wilmington Star and
News will be the guests of Mr.
R. B. Page, publisher of the pa
pers at the Carriers annual
Christmas party and banquet, it
was announced last night.
The publisher of the papers
has for the past several years
treated the “young merchants”
to the annual banquet The boys
who deliver the finished product
will have an opportunity to
meet’ “the boss” and talk with
him.
Plans were completed last
night for the annual affair to
be held at the Famous club at
7:30 o’clock, Wallace E. Pruett,
circulation manager of the pa
pers has arranged the program.
Publisher Page will serve as
master of ceremonies for the
banquet. The invocation will be
given by the Rev. Walter B.
Freed, pastor of St. Pauls Lu
theran church. The Rev. Freed
will also deliver a Christmas
message to the youngsters.
Guests invited to attend the
banquet include, Col. George W.
Gillette, chief of the Wilming
ton Ports Authority; Judge H.
Winfield Smith, judge of Re
corder’s court; J. Walter Webb,
general manager of the Star
News; Miss Margaret Leeu
wenburg, A1 G. Dickson, Roy
Cook, J. L. Allegood, Claude A
Sikes, Charles Mallard, Fred D.
Fisher, Mrs. Mary Priest, and
Mrs. Lois Jeffords.
Miss Evelyn Futrelle, J. W.
Sheron, E. S. Smith, R. M.
Foster, L. Steadman Vick and
W. E. Pruett.
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What To Get The Old Man
For Christmas Is Problem
With Christmas just four days
away and most women leaving
their hubby’s shopping to the
last minute, making certain that
rich uncles, old sweethearts
and prominent friends are taken j
care of first it’s time for a re- j
minder to the fair sex of what
not to get the old man.
The stores this season, with
practically all wartime restric
tions off manufactured goods
are overloaded with choice gifts
for the man of the house, but
poor old dad generally ends up
with a motley assortment of
gifts, two thirds of which he
can’t Use, and the balance of
which he would’nt if hecould
Why it is that a sensible in
trovert-type guy, who never
harmed a fly in his lifetime or
at least until he got married, has
to put up with ties of varied
colored descriptions that gener
ally look like a nightmare out
of Dali has never been clearly
understood by the ‘weakened’
male sex. So if he never wears
ties or wears only solid colors,
don’t let that smooth talking
salesman put one over and wrap
up that rainbow affair with the
totem pole in the middle. Pop
doesn’t want it, and if he se
cretly did, he’s long since lost
the courage to wear it anyhow.
Then there’s men who smoke
and men who don’t. All men
don’t smoke just because tobac
co is sold in a so-called men’s
shop probably. The fellow who
hates the smell of nicotine is
going to fight down a lot of
words Junior shouldn’t hear
when he opens the beautifully
wrapped can of tobacco or the
cartoon of toasted treasures.
Yet, women will continue (to
consider pipe rings the essence
of manhood, and gifts to the
pants-wearer will still be domi
nated by smoking packages.
Some men play golf. They get
tennis raquets for the Yuletide.
Tennis players rake in the shot
guns and hunters are general
ly given gifts which have no
bearing on the sport. This
usually happens because the ,
hunter is generally considered i
to have all he needs in that de- ;
partment or he wouldn’t be a
hunter, so the missus kicks in
with something akin to a pair
of ash-trays and a cross between
a nosebleed and Great Dane.
The men with heavy beards
rarely get shaving equipment,
but are tendered the best in
toothpaste and gum massage
stuffs. The fact that their teeth
have long since been put in the
dentist’s wastebasket means
nothing. So watch out. And for
gosh sake’s give the bald man a
comb and brush just to make
him feel good. It won’t. And it’s
been done.
Men are easy to please. They
like what they’ve got or they
wouldn’t have it. Anything that
adds to what they’ve got and
gives them a more complete en
semble makes them happy. The
clotheshorse doesn’t care for a
new pair of slippers, because
he’ll be tickled with a shirt even
if he’s got a couple of dozen.
And the fellow who likes to read
his paper by the fireplace, ain’t
in the market for stickpin. He’ll
take the slippers.
There’s one gift that always
pleases most men. It pleases
them when they’re glad and
when they’re sad and when
tthey’re rich and when they’re
poor, and there are several dif
ferent brands to choose from.
Give the guy a break this
season.
Petroleum Group
To Tell Of Oil
Shortage Tuesday
O. Y. Kirkpatrick, repre
senting the Petroleum? Indus
tries committee, will broadcast
an address over station WPTF,
Raleigh, Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.
for ten minutes to tell what the
industry is doing to deviate the
oil shortage and to describe
what is the cause of the situa
tion.
HONOLULU—WP) _ The War
Assets Adminstration will put
$19,000,000 in surplus goods on
sale this month in an effort to
cut down on huge military stock
piles left over from the war in
the Pacific.
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J. C. Penney Firm
Announces Christmas
Special Payment Plan
i The Board of Directors of the
J. C. Penney company have au
i thorized a special payment of
two weeKs' extra salary, tor ail
full- time associates who have
been employed for the full year
of 1947 and on a proportionate
basis for extra and part-time as
sociates and for those employed
less than a year All Penney as- j
sociates throughout the com- j,
pany share in this payment ex
cept those who are mem hers of
the management staff and
whose earnings are determined
largely by the company’s long
standing profit-sharing plan.
E. H. Southerland, manager of
the J. C. Penney company store
said that 50,000 Penney associ
ates, all over the United States
will participate in this payment,
including 40 of the Wilmington
store. He further emph-5 '■7^ ’
that this was not a Christm^
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bonus in t h e usual sense and
was non-recurring. It is being
made in recognition of the un
usual busirfess and economic
conditions which exist todav.
The company some years ago
substituted a thrift and profit
sharing plan for the more usual
Christmas bonus and into th s
plan is annually paid a proport
ionate share of company earn
ings.
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[Proudly [Presents
Programs for Christmas
The transmitters of ABC stations from
coast-to-coast again will turn, figuratively,
into Christmas trees pointing into the win
try skies as they carry Yuletide Messages,
Music, Drama and Gaiety into millions of the
nation’s homes during the holiday week.
From Sunday, December 21, through Sun
day, Dec. 28, ABC and WMFD will bring
many of the best known voices in the coun
try to its listeners — President Tsuman,
Lionel Barrymore, Bing Crosby and a host
of others — each in his own way wishing a
Merry Christmas to his fellow Americans.
FOLLOWING ARE HIGHLIGHTS OF A NUMBER OF THE RROADCAST: -
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21st—6:30-7:00 P. M. — THE GREATEST STORY EVER
TOLD, in the fourth of its Christmas Cycle series, will present “NO ROOM
AT THE INN”, a drama which recounts the b'rth of the Christ Child.
7:00-7:30 P. M. — CHILD’S WORLD, with Helen Parkhurst. will present
children of United Nations’ officials in a discussion of Christmas in their j
native lands.
8:00-9:00 P. M. — “A DREAM SET TO MUSIC.”
MONDAY, DECEMBER 22nd — TINY TIM’S CHRISTMAS PARTIES — 4:30
5:30 P.M. — Heard each weekday throughout the Christmas season, pre
sent choirs and glee clubs of schools and churches in different parts of the
country. Today’s broadcast will feature the Branscome Choral.
9:00-9:30 P. M. — PAUL WHITEMAN’S “ON STAGE. AMERICA.” wil'
present the choir of the Boyschoir School of Columbus. Ohio in Christmas
music. Whiteman will conduct the orchestra in Ken Darby’s musical setting
of Clement C. Moore’s “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” the first line of which
is “Twas the Night before Christmas.” John Lazar will be featured.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23rd — 4:30-5 :00 P. M. — TINY TIM’S CHRISTMAS
PARTIES will present the Missio n Dolores Bovs’ Choir from San Francisco.
6:45-7:00 P. M. — “CAROLS FOR CHRISTMAS.”
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24th — 4:15-4:30 P. M. — “C\ROLS FOR CHRIST
MAS.”
4:30-5:00 P. M. — TINY TIM’S CHRISTMAS PARTIES will present
carols by the choir of the Plymout h Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn.
5:00-5:30 P. M. — National Christmas Tree lighting and greetings to the
nation by President Truman. Musi c by U. S. Marine Band and 50-voice Glee
Club; talk by Associate Justice E. Barrett Prettyman of the Court of
Claims.
6:00-6:15 P. M. _ NITE BEFORE CHRISTMAS.
8:00-8:30 P. M. — LIONEL BA RRYMORE as Scrooge in Charles Dickens’
“A CHRISTMAS CAROL.”
8:30-9:00 P. M. — The Lynn Murray Christmas Show.
9:00-9:30 P. M. — Abbott and Costello Christmas Show.
9:30-10:00 P. M. — Jack Paar Party.
10:00-10:30 P. M. — PHILCO RADIO TIME _ Bing Crosby will sing the
Christmas songs with which he is associated and present a dramatization
of “THE SMALL ONE” by Charles Tazwell.
10:30-11:00 P. M. — Henry Morgan Show.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25th — 9-10:00 A. M. — The BREAKFAST CLUB will
present special Christmas fun with Don McNeill, toastmaster, and the
Rrpfikfjissi Huh rnsf
10-10:25 A. M. — MY TRUE STORY will present “The Ragged Cloak,”
a story about the first Christmas on earth.
10:25-10:30 A. M. _ THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL.
11:00-11:30 A. M. _ BREAKFAST IN HOLLYWOOD — Tom Brene
man, host, will entertain hospitalized veterans and distribute Christmas
cheer.
11:45-12:00 Noon — TED MALONE.
12:00-12:30 — THE FIRST CHRISTMAS.
12:30-1:00 — THE WORLD SAYS MERRY CHRISTMAS.
1:30-1:55 P. M. _ THE LITTLEST ANGEL.
3:30-4:00 P. M. _ THE PAUL WHITEMAN CLUB — Christmas records
w;ll be featured and Christmas greetings from many of the best known re
cording stars will be heard.
4:30-5:00 P. M. — INTERNATIONAL CHRISTMAS — Students from
several nations will describe their Christmas celebrations; music by a stu
dent chorus will be heard. The International House on Riverside Drive will
be the scene of the broadcast.
5:45-6:00 P. M. — THE HAPPY PRINCE.
7:30-8:30 P. M. — WTT mtvcton CFOtrs TN CHRISTMAS CAROT c
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