I he Pilot Covers
unswick County
VIE TEN NO.
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ichting F
3e Held,
: Held August 12-14
Blanks, Programs
Personal Letters
Been Mailed To
Owners In Foui
era States
BLE CONTACTS
rtADE LAST WEEK
ntatives Of Carolina
Club Raced Last
In Savannah Regatta
is growing daily in the
regatta which is to be
August 12-13-14 under
mrship of the Carolina
'lub. of Wrightsville
ek entry blanks, a copy
acing program and a
etter were mailed to a
it owners in North Carith
Carolina. Georgia
ia. Leading newspapers
states already have be e
publicity to the com
Ifc event.
Iscveral members of the Carols
Yacht Club were in Savan
h last week to enter the races
I there. They spent a good
lit of their time talking up
I- race at Southport. and as
ranee was obtained from sevral
boat owners that they will
r here in August. More importlit
was the fact that as a refilt
of their efforts the Southporl
tee will be given official recogition
next season by the South
[tlantie Yachting Association.
Local plans for the proper enSrtainment
of guests and for
tcuring trophies for the race
tinners will get underway in
9most this week uild no pains
fill be spared to make this the
iggest three-day event in the
Istory of Southport.
Little Bits
Of Big News
News Events Of State,
Nation and World-Wide
Interest During Past
Week
ear ch
Sixty planes from the U. S
S. Lexington scanned the lonely
south Pacific sea Tuesday
in a gigantic "last chance"
search for some sign of Amelia
Earhart and Fred J. Noonan.
lost eleven days off tiny
I Howland island. f rom tiic
I broad flight deck of the airI
craft carrier the planes rockI
eted and spread spokewise, in
I the greatest search the navy
I had attempted.
State and local officers capI
tured the man they accused of
I the Fourth of July slaying of
I a Lancaster policeman after a
I furious 30-milc chase early
Tuesday in which the suspect
I escaped a hail of gunfire only
I to wind up seriously hurt in
I the wrecking of his automoI
bile at Georgetown, S. C.
Lieut. Leo Jenkins, identificaI
tion officer of the state highway
patrol, said the captive
I was Robert S. Smith, 38-yearI
old escaped North Carolina
I convict, convicted of murder
I and charged with participation
I in several bank robberies.
^ With two companions, M.
I M. Gromoff, Soviet aviation
I ace. is scheduled to land at
I Oakland airport this (WednesI
day i morning to complete a
I non-stop flight from Moscow
I over the North Pole. Tuesday
I night the fliers were reported
I bearing the northern border of
I the United States. Three compatriots
recently made a simiI
lar flight.
miner ease Forecast
The crop reporting board said
^Saturday the July 1 condition of
193" tobacco crop indicated
reduction of 1,420,943,000 pounds
his year which would be about
Per cent larger than the 1936
The board said, however,
B^e indicated production was not
^fcbeve production during the 1928
^Jr-d 1932 period, adding that
with the increasing demand and
^ ""derate stocks, supplies of most
Bvpes are not expected to be ex^Kessive."
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lice Chief, is recovering from the t
effects of a stroke of paralysis, 1
suffered recently.
Floating Prep S
Southport <
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Sailing Schooner Of Captain
And Mrs. William
McD. Pond Spent Friday
Night In Southport Har>
I bor
NOW HAVE NEW AND
LARGER SCHOONER
Indria, Which Was Here
For Past Two Seasons,
Has Been Traded For
The Polaris, On Way
To Newport
Captain and Mrs. Wm. McD.
Pond, originators of the Pond
' 1 Floating School, were here Friday
night and Saturday on their
new ship, the Polaris, with a
full class of boys aboard.
Captain and Mrs. Pond are
! better known because of their
training ship, the Indria, with
which they embarked on the venture
of spending each summer ;
sailing to various ports with a
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Severe Storm
At Longwood
. r
Miss Sallie Britt Received
Severe Shock When
Lightning Struck Near:
Home Of Her Parents
j
The Longwood section of the |
county was visited by a severe' ;
wind and electric storm Saturday it
afternoon which caused some 1
crop and property damage. \
Miss Sallie Britt, student at I
Waccamaw high school, was
knocked down and received a se- I
vere shock when lightning struck <
a tree near the home of her par- j i
erits, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Britt. \
Although the wind did sorm I
damage, the good that came I
from the rain more than com- i
pensatcd for the harm. There |
j was no hail in the cloud.
Local Boat Owner
For Name I
Captain Bill Wells is look- ,
ing for a good name for his
new forty-five foot party
boat that is being constructed
to replace the ill fated
Summer Girl II, which burned
last month at Hockville,
South Carolina.
And Captain Wells has
turned thumbs down on the
suggestion that the new
craft, largest in the local
fleet except the menhaden
t boats, be named the Summer
Girl III. He believed
there is a jinx in the title.
Five years ago, in August, ,
1932, the first Summer Girl j
ran afoul a wreck off j
i ST.
A Goc
;es today Soutl
Border Market
Opening Is Set
For August 10th
Tobacco Association Of Tht
United States Last Weelt
Fixed Dates For The
Opening Of Markets
GEORGIA MARKETS
TO OPEN JULY 2S
Opening Date In This Section
Falls On Thursday;
This Is Usual Opening
Date For This
County
The tobacco markets of Colunv
jus county and the South Carolina
markets will open on Tucslay,
August 10th, it was dccidec
ny the Tobacco Association ol
;he United States in meeting al
Jld Point Comfort, Va., last Frilay.
The openings for the belts
,vere:
Georgia, July 29.
South Carolina, August 10.
Eastern North Carolina, Aug
>6.
Middle Belt, Sept. 16.
Old Belt, Sept. 30.
Virginia Dark Belt, Nov. 29.
E. J. O'Brien, Jr., of Louisville
Ky., president of the association
leclared today provisions of tht
Black-Connery "fair labor stanlards"
bills might handicap Ann;rican
tobacconists in meeting the
:ompetition of foreign group to
jaccos wun mgn laooi- cosis.
Addressing the association's
i7th annual convention, O'Brien
idvised members to acquaint
;hemselves with the content ol
he bills, introduced in congress
Hay 24, "as they vitally affect
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chool In
3n Way North
CARRIER PIGEON
IS FORT RESIDENT
Fort Caswell has apparently
acquired one permanent
resident from Florida. A carrier
pigeon with two bands,
one inscribed, "Carrier 331,"
and the other, "Florida Registration
718, A-U-86," came
down over there early last
week and has been making itself
at home.
The bird must have been
treated very kindly in the loft
in which is was reared. Without
any apparent fear it will
alight on and feed from a person's
hand. Thus far it has
shown no disposition to resume
its journey. Like the improvements
over there, it evidently
has come to stay.
Land Duty For
Coast Guards
Kept Busy Helping Strand'
ed Motorists Who Were
Having Trouble Negotiating
Unimproved Beach
Road
Oak Island Coast Guardsmcr
;ame forth in a new role Friday
'or they spent much of the daj
ind part of the night at the task
>f rescuing cars and trucks frorr
lolcs, in which the said machines
vent aground while on the waj
:o or from Fort Caswell.
Saturday morning a reprcscnative
of the Pilot was invited
jut Fort Caswell way to sec
vhat the state was doing tocards
keeping up its part of the
our-mile of dirt road, and how
.he rest was being kept up by
lf body at all.
The state's part of the road
(Continued on Page 4)
Looking
:or His New Craft
Wrightsville Beach and sank.
Her namesake was a total
loss when fire gutted her
frame last month. Now Captain
Wells is waiting for a
suitable new name.
The other party boat in
the Wells fleet is now at
Wrightsville Beach carrying
cut parties. This is the 41st
consecutive summer when
there has been at least one
of the Wells boats at the
popular resort. When the
new boat is completed, and
that is expected tp be within
the next couple of weeks, she
will be carried to Wrightsv.llc
for the remainder of the
season.
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>d Newspaper I
lport, N. C., Wednesda
Approve Sunday
Sale Of Beer
[Members of the city Board
of aldermen in regular session
here Thursday night voted
to legalize the sale of beer
within the city limits on Sunday.
This ordinance becomes
j effective July 22, 1937.
With every member of the
I J hoard present for the meeting,
Sam Watts and William
Jorgensen were the only ones
who opposed the measure.
Motion was made by J. J.
I.oughlin and was seconded
by Eddie Spencer.
County Court In
Weekly Session
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Numerous Cases Were Dis.
posed Of Here In Recorder's
Court Wednesday
Before Judge Joe W.
Ruark
Several eases were disposed of
here in Recorder's Court on last
'Wednesday before Judge Joe W.
Ruark.
,1 An action of nol pros with
: I leave was taken in the case
against Arthur Davis, colored,
1 who was charged with transporting,
possession and sale of intoxi
| eating liquor.
Brooke Cailihan, white, pleaded
guilty to charges of driving a
1 j motor vehicle while under the in
fluence of intoxicating liquor. He
was required to pay a fine of
1 i $50.00, the costs of the case and
his driver's license was revoked
I for a period of 12 months.
] George Barber, white, pleaded
guilty to charges of being drunk
and disorderly and resisting an
officer. He was required to pay
a fine of $10.00 and the costs of
[ his case.
The case against Kendall Cox,
white, for trespassing was dis!
missed.
F. A. Hall, white, pleaded guilty
to charges of transporting liqjuor.
Judgment was suspended
upon payment of the costs.
A. T. Jones, white, charged
with operating a motor vehicle
I while under the influence of liquor,
was called and failed. Capias
issued.
J. O. Smith, white, was found
not guilty of charges of violating
the stock law.
, Henry Peterson, white, was
j found guilty of assault and was
I required to pay a fine of $10.00
I and the costs. He appealed to
Superior Court.
Causby Smith, white, was found
not guilty on charges of making
an assault with a deadly weapon.
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Dogs Are Menace
Form Worst Possible Con1
ditions For Improving A
Crop Of Wild Game In
Brunswick County
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! I STRAY C ATS AND 24
The stray cat constitutes one
i j of the greatest menaces facing
j t he young crop of game and
, birds produced this year in North
i Carolina, says J. D. Chalk, Commissioner
of Game and Inland
\ Fisheries.
"Over this State, and parti
cularly in areas which produce
i game, unwanted cats arc numer>
ous and especially active at this
' j time of the year. The most deIstructive
of the small game prc
Idators, cats slay countless thouI!
sands of upland game birds and
: I small woodlot animals each year.
. This is a form of waste which
> penalizes not only the landowner,
r \ whose land is enhanced by the
-! pi esoncc of game, but also the
hunters who depend upon upI
land game for recreation and
sport. I might add, too, that the
carelessness of landowners in
permitting stray cats to prowl
their game acres and hunters
who allow their dogs to run loose
I at this season, place a heavy
1' burden upon the State in its ef'
forts through the Game Division
(Continued on page 4.)
Mayor Urges New
Clean-Up Campaign
Elsewhere in today's paper is
an advertisement in which Mayor
J. D. Ericksen calls upon all
property owners to clean up their
vacant lots, haul off unsightly
rubbish and otherwise improve
the appearance of Southport before
the date for the beginning
'of the yachting regatta.
There are good prospects for
a large number of visitors for
the three-day racing program,
\ and the mayor is anxious for
them to carry away a favorable
, impression of Southport.
POR'
n A Good Com
y, July 14th, 1937
Go Slow Selling
Timber Advises
County Agent
County Agent J. E. Dodson
Joins With Forest Warden
Dawson Jones In Ur- j
ging Farmers To Sell;
Timber As It Developes
STEADY GROWTH ALSO
WILL PROTECT MILLS
Pulp Mills Offer Permanent
Market For Forest
Products If Farmers
Are Wise In Selling
Crop
A protest voiced last week by
Forest Fire Warden Jones against
farmers and landowners disposing
of their timber lands to {
"pinhookers," was echoed Friday
by County Agent J. E. Dodson,!
who called attention to the fact
that only six per cent of the land
area of Brunswick was under j
cultivation and protested against
the possible vacating of more of(
,it with the statement:
"Our farmers should retain
their lands and market their timber
to the mills gradually, as the
mills call for it. In this way they
I will make vastly more than they
| are now making by selling their
i land, both that which is timbered
and that under cultivation, to
speculators who will sell it to'
the pulp mills at about double j
what they are paying for it."
Mr. Dodson did not think the |
mills were unfriendly to the far-1
mers and landowners. His idea j
was that they would just as soon |
have the timber -owners keep
their lands and timber, selling i
the timber as it was needed.
But, with speculators buying up
land and timber and having one
mill to bid against another, fore-1
ing them to take both land and!
timber if they arc to be assured
of a future supply, the mills have
little or no alternative but to |
buy both land and timber.
Land owners with suitable tim- j
ber now available have a market)
that will pay them handsomely.
And if they retain their lands
and take suitable precautions
they will obtain a good yearly
income from the timber alone.
This without their usual farming
operations being interferrcd
with.
Begin Listing
Elderly Needy
Citizens Who Have Been
Receiving County Checks
Asked To Visit Welfare
Office To Apply For Old
Age Assistance
| Officials wish to request all
Brunswick county people who.are
i receiving county checks, if they
I are over 65 years of age, to
come to the office of the Welfare
Department as soon as possible
where applications for Old
J Age Assistance may be made
'out. If such people find it impos
sible to go to tnis omce, n m i
requested that they write the
Welfare Department to that cfI
feet in order that a represents- ,
tive may call on them, for the
purpose mentioned above. Much j
; time can be saved if these people
can possibly arrange to go to |
the office, since the working staff :
j is very small and obviously much
more progress can be made -when j
j people go to the office. The Wei- j
fare Department has been extre- ,
mely busy this week receiving
applications from blind people
and old people and widowed mo- j
thers.
Officials desire to point out that,
no case will aplications be re- j
ceived for the real applicant ex- |
cept ir. person. A number of
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Northwest Club
Wo wen In Meeting
The North West Home Demonstration
Club held its monthly
meeting at tne home of Mrs. W.
C. Biggs. The meeting was called
to order by the president, Mrs.
G. O. Gay lord.
! The meeting was opened by i
singing "America". The Club
Collect was then repeated. Mrs.
R. f. Peterson gave a talk on
colors and bedroom furnishings.
I Mrs. J. J. Peterson gave a read- 1
ing on growing number one watermelons
and strawberries. Mrs.
, W. C. Biggs gave a talk on
i "healthful exercise in your home". |
Mrs. Vinie Robbins gave a talk
on "childrens styles".
The meeting was then given to
(Mrs. Marion S. Dosher, home
agent. Mrs. Dosher's lesson was
I on, "Furniture you can make".
I The meeting then adjourned.
Cooling refreshments were served
by Mrs. W. C. Biggs.
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munity
PUBLi
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R. E. SENTELLE
Former South]
Forms L;
VISITING PARTY
HAS GOOD LUCK
For the number of persons
doing the fishing and the size
and number of fish in their
take, Capt. E. D. McGougan,
W. (>. Mar lev and M. L. Marley,
.Jr., of Lumber Bridge,
made about the prettiest blue
I1SI1 C'ttlCIl OI uie j cur, muing
from the boat of Cupt.
Hulan Wafts here -Monday.
In addition to Spanish mackerel,
they brought in 112
large blues, this catch completely
filling two of the larger
sized galvanized wash
tubs, without any ice or anything
except the fish composing
the filler. The men making
the catch were immensely
pleased at their fine take.
Checking Farms
For Compliance
Work Of Checking Farmi
For Compliance Undei
Conservation Program
Got Underway First Oi
Month
The work of checking compliance
on some 130,000 North
Carolina farms which are cooperating
in the agriculture conservation
program got under way
this month.
Information gathered in the
check will be used to determine
the amount of soil-building and
diversion payment each growei
is to get, said H. A. Patten
state complancc supervisor a1
State College.
Forms have been furnished
from Washington on which will
I Continued on nagc four)
Outline Rules For
Of Charit
In an effort to obviate what
has been a serious evil, at least
financially to the county, in connection
with the operation ot
the Brunswick County Hospital
the Board of Health at its last
meeting in Southport took this
matter up from every angle and
at the close of the meeting certain
definite regulations were set
up and agreed on by all parties
as to the admission of patients
into this hospital as so-called
"county patients".
Comparative figures studied
showed that Brunswick was
spending in some instances as
high as six times as much for
hospitalization purposes as other
counties of similar population.
The condition of the county's
treasury, the ability of the taxpayers
to pay, the condition of
the hospital's treasury, and the
iteeds of the hospital operating
under such a load, all combined
to create a situation calling for
drastic change in the machinery
of admission into the hospital of
people who canot pay their bills,
It was decided, therefore, in
tire future to admit only such
ratinrfs as meet the following
qualified.'ions:
1. A written request from a
reputable physician for admissior
as charity patients.
2. That case be thoroughly investigated
by Welfare Officer before
being accepted as a charity
case
It will te seen after a study
of the a'-ove regulations that the
first requirement is a requesl
.OT
[SHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
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esentative
icticc In Newton
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L. F. KLUTZ (J
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port Attorney jj
aw Partnership:
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Representative R. E. Sen- ]
telle Forms Law Partner- <
ship With L. F. Klutz, Of 1
Newton, Effective July!
15th j]
PLANS TO WIND UP ,
LOCAL PRACTICE ,
Says Will Retain Citizen- ,
ship In Brunswick Coun- |
ty Until January 1st, i
1938; Will Then Go i
To Newton
In a letter this week to The! <
State Port Pilot Representative
R. E. Sentelle announces that he
has formed a partnership in law
with the Hon. L. F. Klutz, of |
Newton.
The partnership, as far as
practice is concerned, is effective;
" from July 15, but Mr. Sentelle j
plans to retain his citizenship in (
Southport until January 1, 1938.
Between now and then he says
) ihat his time will be divided between
Southport, Canton and
Newton. After winding up his (
s law practice in Brunswick he
r j plans to take up residence in
l Newton and transfer his citizen- '
F ship to Catawba county.
Mr Klutz, with whom Mr. Sentelle
is affiliated for the prac-;
. tice of law, is one of the most1
t prominent Republicans from his
section of North Carolina. Four .
' i times he has represented Cataw
ba county in the Legislature. He
i has a brother, Paul Klutz, who
i is a resident of Brunswick coun-1
> iy. I
! I (Continued on page 4.)
I J
RETLRN HOME
, ( The Reverend E. M. Hall and ;
; family returned home last week
I following: a three week's vaca- I;
' tion during: which they visited ,
I : their son, Edgar, in Philadelphia j
land relatives in other states. ,
Admission
:y Hospital Patients;
; | from a physician and later an i
investigation by the Welfare Of- 11
ficer must be secured. A case j i
.1 \\ hich is decided to be a county ' ]
'case must be strictly a pauper j
ease, and the physician will doj
his work free of charge. This |
I is one of the reasons why a re- ,
i quest from a physician is requir- I
I ed since it is asking too much ,
. of our doctors to work as they j
j have been doing heretofore, for j1
II no renumeration at all, in many j 1
cases where it has been found ,
j later the patients could have paid
| something.
i The above steps have been tak!
| en with the hope that the hospi- ,
tal can be saved for service to
those who actually need the ser,
vice, and at the same time not
i deny worthy needy people the ,
attention necessary. It is hoped
further that those people who
i are able to pay will use the |
Brunswick County Hospital when j j
I hospitalization is necessary as the
ultimate success of the institu- 1
tion absolutely depends upon its 1
' use by people who can and do j
pay their bills. Brunswick Couni
ty Hospital is not a county instii
tution under control of officials |
: by any means. Brunswick coun- j
ty officials simply use the hos- '
i pital as an institution into which
i they place their charity cases, j
1A serious and definite curtail-1
ment in spending for hospitaliza- I
tion must and will be effective
' immediately. Doctors and citizens
are urged to study this matter i
r i carefully because wholesale ad
> | missions as charity patients will
: j not in the future be made. ;
Most Of The News
All The Time j
$1.50 PER YEAR
Lights - Water
Now Available ,
At Ft. Caswell
New Diesel Engine Installed
To Furnish Electric
Power To Houses And
Buildings At Fort
NEW WATER TANK
HAS BEEN BUILT I
Seventy - Thousand Gallon
Tank Constructed To
Provide Water For
Caswell Residents
Fort Caswell, streets and many
)f the buildings, is now lighted
jp as it was when thousands of
S'orth Carolina soldiers and many
,'rom other states trained there,
rhe costly dynamos Installed by
die government and formerly operated
by steam boilers are now
Del ted up to an 80-horsc power
liesel engine and an abundance
)f juice is being produced for
ighting purposes, the operation
Df electric tans, ice boxes and
Dimerous small motors.
rhe reconstruction of the light
ind power plant was under the
tersonal supervision of Mr. Rinck
>ne of the right-hand men of S.
D. Chase, who is the financial
backer in the regeneration that
s going on at the former government
property.
Of no less importance than the
ieht and nower. a seventv thou
sand gallon water tank has been
;rected on a steel tower to hold
vater for fire fighting and drinking
purposes. The tank and cast
iron mains that are laid underground
all over the property are ,
now being flushed with water
from the deep well that the government
slug two miles back on
the property. This well is said
to furnish the purest and best
drinking water to be found In
this section.
The work of making .the j;ecos- ,
sary small repairs to the water
mains, erecting the tank and
connecting, has been under the
supervision of H. H. Thomas,
who has general charge of all
reconstruction work. Under his
supervision the past six months
has seen the expenditure of many
thousands of dollars for material,
labor, furniture, etc.
Several of the buildings are
now completely finished, furnished
and occupied. Included among
these is the former government
hospital building, now being used
as a hotel.
Dr. J. A. Dosher
Returns Home
Popular Physician Returned
To Southport Saturday
After Being At Johns
Hopkins And At Oteen
Dr. J. A. Dosher returned home
Saturday after being away for
several months at Johns Hopkins |
Hospital, Baltimore, and at Oteen ' I
near Asbcvillc. I
Mrs. Dosher was at Oteen for I
the past two weeks visiting her B
husband. She learned that his I
condition had shown such favor- IE
able improvement during his stay I H
at the mountain institution that jl
le could come home. B
Captain and Mrs. I. B. Bussels 9
eft Friday morning to bring Dr. I
md Mrs. Dosher back to South- jl
aort. They arrived in Black I
fountain Friday afternoon and I
spent the night. The return trip fl
aegan Saturday afternoon about jl
(Continued on Pace Four) I
[Tide Table I
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| Following is the tide table I
j for Southport during the next I
I week. These hours are appro- fl
[ ximately correct and were fur- I
nlshed The State Port Pilot
1 through the courtesy of the I
I Cape Fear Pilot's Association. I
j High Tide Low Tide I
Thursday, July 8
Thursday, July 15 I
I 1:32 a. m. 7:54 a. m. I
I 2:10 p. m. 8:30 p. m. I
Friday, July 16 I
2:23 a. m. 8:51 a. m. I
3:01 p. m. 9:36 p. in. jl
Saturday, July 17 I
3:19 it. 9:15 a. m. flfl
3:55 p. m. 10:28 p. m. jjfl
Sunday, July 18 jfl
4:22 a. m. 10:35 a. m. Jl
4:49 p. m. 11:17 p. m. |B
Monday, July 19 fl
5:21 a. m. 11:22 a. m. jl
5:39 p. m. IB
Tuesday, July 20 H
6:12 a. m. 12:05 a. m. jl
6:24 p. m. 12:08 p. m.
Wednesday, July 21 B
6:55 a. m. 12:51 a. m. B
7:02 p. m. 12:53 p. m. B