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Volume No. 17
THE STATE PORT PILOT
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14_6-Pages Today SOUTHPORT, N. C. W&IESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1956 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
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Uemo Caravan
In 7th District
Rally On Frida]
Courthouse In Whiteville I
Scene Of Democratic Par
ty Conclave, With Bruns
wick Well Represented
LEADING OFFICIALS
PRESENT AT MEE1
Dignitaries Included Botl
United States Senators
And Congressional Nom
inee Lennon
The Democrats flying squad o
high state party officials rounder
the halfway mark in a series o
Democratic district rallies witl
their appearance in Columbu
county, Friday.
Despite heavy competition o
other activities crowds from thii
and other counties in the Seventl
congressional district nearly fill
ed the courtroom for the speak
ing program.
Earlier, some 300 persons tool
part in the barbecue held at th<
National Guard armory.
Foxes And Chickens
Keynote speaker, Senator San
f. Ervin blasted Republican care
of the nation’s interests in th(
Japanese textiles imports situa
tion saying “expecting the Jap
anese to put on voluntary quotas
of exports to the U. S. is like
letting the fox guard the chick
ens.”
The junior North Caroline
Senator, Kerr Scott, exhibiting
handsfulls of strong, black, plug
tobacco, couched his oppositior
to “the disciples of Cousin Ezra
(Benson)” by suggesting “we use
some of this to worm them out.’
He hit the Soil Bank as a good
program gone into politics with
all of the benefits landing in the
midwest, “they’ve written the
South off.”
Congressman-nominee Alton A
Lennon of Wilmington received 8
rising ovation as the first of the
three main speakers on the hour
long program.
No Independents
Using the fervor of an oldtime
religious meeting he implorec
Democrats to see that others
vote Democratic, "You can’t back
Eisenhower as an independent;
he’s running as a Republican and
has embraced all that the Re
publicans stand for.”
Lennon called the national
ticket the strongest possible
ticket.
Avery Thompson, chairman oi
the Columbus Democratic execu
tive committee opened the pro
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Brief Bite Of
LNEWSJ
BACK TO KEY WEST
Six of the W. S. Wells & Son
trawlers have gone to Key West
for the winter fishing. Other local
boats are preparing to go soon.
BREAKS ANKLE
While practicing football last
week, Lee Aldridge, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Alrdige, had two
bones in his left ankle broken.
He will be on crutches the re
mainder of the football season.
CHANGE IN DATE
The Social Security represent
ative from Wilmington will not be
in Southport on Monday, October
22, due to circumstances beyond
control. He will be here on Mon
day, October 29 at 11 o’clock.
GOOD FISHING ,
The Yaupon Beach fishing pier
reports that folks really have
been catching fish for the past
week. Blues, spots, pompano and
a few trout have been coming on
the pier just as fast as the
sportsmen could get their hooks
and lines into the water.
BREAKS WRIST
Mrs. Ben Torrance broke her
right wrist Sunday morning when
she fell while returning to the
house after going outside to pick
up the morning paper. She was
reading and did not notice the
family Boxer dog that was sleep
ing near the steps. She stumbled
over the animal and fell.
BAND CONCERT
In their first open-air concert
of the season, held in Franklin
park at the City Hall Sunday
afternoon, but Brunswick County
Training School Band, under Di
rector S. S. Biggs, gave a pleas
ing performance. This year the
band has 40 instruments. With
the training and reputation that
has been built up during the past
three years, the organization is
looking foiward to a successful
season.
School Again
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EMERGENCY—This is the Southport City Hall, and
has been used for that purpose for the past 20 years. It
was the old high school building, and had been turned
over to the city in 1936. Crowded conditions in the pri
mary grades made it necessary last week to move one of
the first grades into a room that had been used by the
American Legion. Now a portion of the building is back
to its original use—as a school.
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Unusual End To
Court Case Here
Mistrial Ordered When Dis
covery Is Made That Jur
or Had Heard Discussion
Between Judge And Law
yers.
JUDGE BURGWIN
PRESIDING JURIST
Court Officials Express Be
lie# That Term May Con
tinue Throughout Re
mainder Of Week
The one week term of Superior
court for the trial of civil cases
got underway Monday morning,
with Judge W. H. S. Burgwyn
presiding. Two suits for divorce
were heard during the forenoon.
In the afternoon the case of
John Henry Bellamy vs Corbett
Package Company got underway
and the afternoon was spent on
this case before a mistrial was
ordered.
At about 5 o’clock the judge
dismissed the jurors hearing the
case, ordering them from the
court room while he discussed
several points of law with the
attorneys. While this conference
was in progress a member of the
jury came back into the court
room and was present during a
portion of the discussion between
judge and lawyers. This led to
John J. Burney, Jr., attorney for
the Corbett company, asking for
the mistrial.
Honey Cheers was withdrawn
as a juror by Judge Burgwyn
and a mistrial was ordered.
Mrs. Eva Mae Barnhill was
granted a divorce from her hus
band, James Liston Barnhill on
the grounds of adultry. The lat
ter is now serving from 30 to 40
years in the State prison follow
ing his conviction on a charge
of rape.
In an action for damages fol
lowing an automobile accident,
Clevie Hewett was awarded $500
from Ivory Johnson.
A decision was returned for
the plantiff in the case of Mrs.
Ava Milliken vs Mrs. Cora Lee
Tripp et als.
Court officials predicted this
morning that this court session
will continue through the remain
der of this week.
Special Study Is
Made By Welfare
Psychiatric Treatment Avai
lable On Limited Scale
for Limited Number Of
Persons Under Public Wel
fare Program
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Some parents and teachers in
this county and across the State
may be able better to help their
children in school this year be
cause of the results of more than
2,500 psychological tests and serv
ices given during the past twelve
months by psychologists of the
State Board of Public Welfare.
Sixteen of these services were
given in this county.
Nearly a third of the services
given by the five psychologists
of the State Board were given to
children who had some educa
tional problem. These children
were referred to the county de
partment of public welfare,
through which the psychologists
work, either by the school auth
orities or some interested person
or organization. Guidance for the
teacher and parents is given by
: the psychologists as a result of
the tests given each child.
By means of traveling clinics,
jthe Division of Psychologists
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> Storm Brings
Heavy Rainfall
• A storm which the U. S.
Weather Bureau did not
classify as being serious
■ enough to earn one of the girl
names assigned to hurricanes
has been hovering over this
area for the past 48-hours,
with heavy rains the chief re
sult thus far.
i Advisories from the Weath
, er Bureau indicated that tides
i 3-feet above normal might be
! expected, but these have fail
ed to materialize. It was pre
: dieted that winds up to 40
: mph could be expected, but
' these have occurred only in j
[ gusts.
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Plans Progress
For Rodeo Dance
Queen Will Be Crowned At
Charter Boatmen’s Ball
And Program Of Awards
Here On October 27
The Charter Boatmen’s Asso
■ ciation rodeo and dance will be
staged on October 27 at the Com
, munity Building in Southport.
The fishing season is in full
activity, and while fishing parties
will continue to come and will
have the thrills of the big ones
on Frying Pan Shoals and the
Gulf Stream, the dance and the
program of awards promises a
pleasant social evening. Billy Mel
ton and his orchestra will furn
ish the music for the rodeo dance.
This is one of the best bands in
this entire area.
The awards, some twenty of
them, will be given out during in
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baiety Meeting
At Sunny Point
Group Hears Talk Upon Im
portance Of Making Saf
ety A Matter Of Personal
Responsibility
A safety meeting was held at
Sunny Point Monday at which
time the importance of safety in
every phase of operations was
given great emphasis by several
speakers, inculding Col. Frank T.
Edson, the new commanding of
ficer.
S. C. King presided over the
meeting and presented Lt. Col.
V. M. Lancaster for the invoca
tion. A. E. Freeman, section
laborer who is also a preacher,
sang a spiritual.
James M. Harper, Jr., editor
of The State Port Pilot, talked
for a- few minutes about the im
portance of safety. He told of
the complete confidence that resi
dents of this area have in their
freedom from danger from Sunny
Point because of the safety meas
ures that are employed at that I
installation. He praised the mill-'
tary leaders and civilian workers
as well for the enviable safety
record that has been made dur
ing the first year of operation and
reminded his listeners that safety
is a personal thing. He said that
if the good record is to be con
tinued, each man must realize
that he has a personal responsi
bility.
Col. Edson was introduced, and
spoke briefly to the assemblage.
Soil Bank Plan 1
Is Similar To!
ACP Practice!
Both Programs Administer
ed By Agricultural Stab]
ilization And Conserval
tion State And County'
Committees
FARMERS OFFERED
COST-SHARING AID
Full Information Regarding
Program And Eligibility
, Available At County
l Office
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Cost-sharing for conservation of
‘ soil, water, forest and wildlife
f available under the conservation
i reserve of-the Soil Bank is similar
[ to the cost-sharing provided by
the Agricultural Conservation
Program, reported Mrs. Ada L.
- Vamum, ASC office Manager,
this week. Both programs are
administered by Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
State and county committees.
“Practices for which cost-shar
ing is available under the con
i servation reserve include vegeta
' tive cover, planting trees, con
structing dams, pits or ponds for
. storage of water”, she said. “In
» carrying out these practices, far
mers are encouraged to use ma
terial or methods which will also
benefit wildlife where the conser
vation benefits are otherwise
‘ equal.”
Cost-sharing ror conservation
practices has been offered to
farmers and rachers for the past
several years through the ACP.
Practices in the ACP include
many additional conservation
measures particularly adapted to
local problems not included in
the conservation reserve.
The cost-share rate for prac
tices included in the conservation
reserve may be as high as 80
percent of the cost. The conserva
tion reserve practices may also
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Injured Seaman
Brought In Here
Man Hurt In Fall Aboard
Ocean - Going Ship Is
Brought To Hospital By
Coast Guard
Suffering from injuries sustain
ed in an 18-foot fall into the hold
of the Steamship Marine Skipper,
James Long, a 45-year old sea
man, was brought in Thursday
evening by the Coast Guard 83
footer. He was taken to the Dosh
er Memorial Hospital and it is
understood that he is now out of
danger.
Long had fallen into the hold
of the vessel late Thursday mor
ning. The captain called while the
vessel was some distance up the
coast and asked that the Coast
Guard meet his ship off the bar
at Southport and take the in
jured man off where he could be
hospitalized. The little vessel re
sponded promptly and met the
Marine Skipper 10 miles out,
where a transfer was speedily
effected and the boat returned
with him to Southport at 8:30
p. m.
One of the Kilpatrick’s ambul
ances was waiting at the dock
and the transfer to the hospital
was made within a few minutes.
The Coast Guard 83-footer has
been performing especially valu
able service during the past year.
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William H. Murdough, Chief of
he Explosive Safety Division at
■Sunny Point Army Terminal, was
i member of the graduating class
September 28 at the Ammunition
nspectors School, Savanna Ord
lance Depot, Savanna, Illinois.
'She course attended by Murdaugh
is one of six weeks duration, 240
classroom hours, and is titled
(iuided Missile Training Course
(iuided Missile Training Coure No.
<. Murdaugh, with his wife and
I ft O children, resides at Yaupon
1 Seach. Murdaugh has had seven
1 sen years of Civil Service em
j loyment, the last year of this
1 me having been spent at his
] resent home station, Sunny Point
rmy Terminal.
highway Forces
Plan Paving Of
Several Roads
Commissioner Heide Trask
{Announces That Funds
?For Five Paving Projects
Will Come From Highway
Surplus Fund
Heide Trask, State Highway
Commissioner, has announced
ths* five important paving- pro
jects will be carried out in Bruns
wick county from funds that have
been alloted from the highway
surplus funds recently by Gover
nor Luther H. Hodges.
Included on this list is the
Makatoka-Juniper Creek road, a
distance of 9.6 miles. Another
project is the paving of the How
ells Point road, a distance of
6.2 miles. Provision is also in
culded for paving the Taylor
road, a distance of 1.9 miles; the
Bozemantown road, a distance of
2-miles; and the Bethel Church
road, a distance of 1.2 miles.
A total of 20.9 miles is included
in these five projects.
Commissioner Trask said that
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Agitation For
Short-Cut Road
One Mile From Intersection
Of Beach Road And High
way No. 130 To Intersec
tion With Highway No.
87 Asked
With more than a hundred
heavily loaded tractor-trucks here
this week, efforts are being re
vived to have the State Highway
Commission build a short cut road
from the junction of the Long
Beach and Caswell Road with 130
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W. a KM*H
Our
ROVING
Reporter
Among the compensations for
being a newspaper man are the
letters received each day from
people renewing their subscription
to the paper and writing us about
how much they depend on Tire
Pilot. Following are excerpts
from some letters' received this
| week: Mrs. Glenn S. Kauser,
' Jackson, Michigan—“I depend on
The Pilot to keep me in touch
with my home town and each
week I look forward to its ar
rival as an old friend. From Mrs.
Winnie W. Hood, Waynick, Va.—•
“I inclose check. I just can’t do
without The Pilot. There’s no
place like home and nothing like
the home town paper.” From Mrs.
Albert M. Hewett, Supply—“I am
sending my subscription for The
Pilot. I enjoy reading it very
much.”
For the more than 30 years
that we have been a resident of
Southport we have had hundreds
of people tell us that it was re
markable how well Southport
people got along with Navy men,
and Navy men have frequently
reversed that with praise of how
well they got along with South
port people. Another angle to the
same thing is that dur ing the past
few years we have personally
been completely surprised at how
well the Army people and South
port folks get along with each
other. The Army and the many
folks who have come to Southport
to work with the Army have be
come Southport folks in every
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Negro Is Lucky
To Get Arrested
Wild Automobile Ride Results In Danger From High
Voltaare Electric Power Line
Jesse James Gore, 26-year old
Bolivia Negro, ran into a power
pole and also a variety of court
charges last Tuesday night. He
has i>een in jail and is scheduled
to be tried Monday on charges
of drunken driving, speeding 90
miles per hour, having no opera
tor’s license and failing to stop
for red light and officer’s siren.
At that, it is said that he
should be thankful at not having
been roasted in his wrecked car,
on top of which the broken power
line rested.
The story is that Patrolman
Seth Thomas was on the highway
that leads from Ash to Grisset
town. Near the residence of Mr.
and Mrs. John B. Ward he met
a car, driven at reckless speed
.
and allegedly swaying from side
to side of the pavement.
The officer was forced off the
road and he immediately turned
around and set after the car.
Near the residence of Mr. and
Mrs. Amos Walton the fleeing car,
traveling at 90-miles per hour,
left the road and cut down a
power pole.
Gore was not injured, but he
found himself imprisoned in the
car with the sizzling wire on top
of it. It was about an hour be
fore REA workers from Shallotte
arrived to cut off the power and
get him out. Once he was out of
the car he walked over to the
patrolman with his wrists held
together, where he was to receive
the handcuffs.
Farm Election Is
Slated Tuesday
Farm Bureau
Meets Tuesday
, The annual county-wide
► meeting of the Farm Bureau
will be held at Shallotte high
school Tuesday at 6:30 p. m.
k All Farm Bureau members
5 are invited to attend and
* bring their wives. Member
r ship cards should be brought.
All people who are interested
in joining Farm Bureau that
r have not been contacted are
i urged to come to the meeting
at that time. A free barbecue
supper will be served.
; An important proposal is
r being considered concerning
the expected new cut in to
bacco acreage allotments and
> how some of the cut might
L be obsorbea through the soil
. bank program. All interested
farmers should be present to
P help develop this proposal.
»Farm Loans May
Re Reinforced
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Change In Loaning Policy
t Of FHA Means New Op
portunities For Certain
Eligible Farm Families
The farm ownership loan serv
Iice which has enabled many
Brunswick county farmers to buy,
enlarge, or improve their farms
with 40-year loans has recently
, been expanded to enable the
Farmers Home Administration to
serve the credit needs of a larger
number of farm families, George
W. Knox, Jr., the agency’s county
supervisor, explained this week.
Under recent legislation loans
1 may now be made primarily to
' refinance existing debts of owner
operators of farms no larger them
family-type. In the past the agen
cy only refinanced loans when the
refinancing was incidental to the
1 making of real estate loans for
the purchase or improvement of
family-type farms.
Knox said the loans for refinan
cing will help farmers who have
adequate rea lestate security and
who are otherwise in a sound
position but who are unable to
meet their present credit obliga
! tions and need credit on more
favorable terms and conditions
than are currently available from
other lenders.
When debts are refinanced by
the Farmers Home Administra
tion under this program, the re
payments will be scheduled over
periods up to 40 years according
to the borrower’s ability to repay.
Interest, or interest plus insur
ance charges, will be 4% percent.
The regular credit services of
; the agency including loans for
the purchase and improvement of
1 family-type farms are continued.
Private lenders supply most of
the funds for the agency’s faim
real estate loans under the insured
loan program. The lender receives
3 Vi percent interest and the Gov
ernment charges an additional 1
percent for insurance. The Farm
ers Home Administration makes,
services, and collects the loans.
The new law also provides loan3
for developing and improving
farms that ar smaller than fam
ily-type. To be eligible an appli
cant must be an established farm
owner, carrying on substantial
farm operations and spending a
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* Farmers Go To Polling
Places In Each Township
On That Date To Cast
Ballot For Farm Leaders
For 1957
VOTING IN PROGRESS
FROM 8 A. M. TO 6 P. M.
List Of Designated Polling
Places Given, Along With
Complete List Of Nomi
nees For Office
ASC committee elections will
be held all over North Carolina
on Tuesday, October 23, Voting
will be in progress from 8 a. m.
to 6 p. m.
The designated polling places
for the 6 townships in Brunswick
County are: Lockwoods Folly, J.
E. Kirby’s Store; Northwest, Ap
plewhite’s Store; Smithville, Mid
way Station; Shallotte, Grisset
town, (Parker’s Store); Town
Creek, G. L. Skipper’s Store;
Waccamaw, Waccamaw School
(Agriculture Bldg. Veterans
Workshop).
The final slate of nominees for
positions on the Community Com
mittee in each community as is
follows:
Lockwoods Folly township:
Aldreth Phelps, Carl Holden,
James H. Galloway, Thomas A.
■ Stanley, Henry C. Williams, Bed
i ford Ludlum, H. Bert Bennett,
Murphy Hewett, Garland Clem
mons, John Albert Norris, A. R.
. Mooney, Rotha Cheers.
Northwest township: George
Skipper, Charlie Sykes, Johnnie
| Ganey, Homer Chadwick, C. D.
Brown, Elmer Aycock, Charlie
Harvell, Relmor Potter, Arthur
Sue, Rufus Stewart, Paul Brown,
Herbert Skipper, J. R. William
son.
Smithville township: Carl Ward,
L. P. Richardson, Franklin Cox,
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Policemen Have
Busy Week-End
Variety Of Troubles Lead
To Busy Time For Chief
Louis Clark And Police
man Charlie Johnson
The city police blotter shows
quite a bit of roughness occurred
over the week end. Summing it
up-, a colored woman is alleged
to have bounced a rock off of
her husband and in return he cut
her on the foot with a pocket
knife; a couple were arrested for
adultry, and a colored man was
pulled in for arming himself with
a shotgun and threatening may
hem to several who restrained
him from having a domestic spat
with his wife.
In all, Chief of Police Louis
Clark and Policeman Charles
Johnson made half a dozen week
end arrests.
At shortly after 9 o’clock Sat
urday they were called to the
Cafe of Herbert Brown where
Leverene Suggs was alleged to
have thrown a rock at her hus
band, Daniel Suggs. In return
Daniel sent his spouse to the hos
pital with a bad cut on her foot
j from his pocket knife. Both are
waiting a settlement of the mat
ter in court.
Soon after, someone reported
from Tom Frink’s place that
Moses Glassman of Key West and
Susie Hankins were living in
adultry in a house near the Frink
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Expect Delay In
Decision About
Cut In Acreage
Several Leaders Express
Concern Over Mounting
Surplus Of Tobacco In
Stabilization Hands
DECISION COMES
FROM WASHINGTON
Belief Expressed That Noth
ing Will Be Done On This
Important Matter Until
After Election
Questions about the 1957 tobacco
season that have been in the
minds of tobacco farmers for
some time are beginning to get
public consideration from govern
mental and agricultural experts.
Congressman-nominee Alton A.
Lennon recently said that during
his swing around the Seventh dis
trict the questions mostly put to
him concerned tobacco acreage,
is there going to be a cut, who’ll
be cut, how much, and what is
going to happen to the tenants.
No Decision Now
Friday, A. Y. (Stag) Ballentine,
North Carolina’s commissioner of
agriculture, said that at that
time he’d heard no official talk
or even conjecturing about an
acreage cut.
“That decision has got to come
from Washington,” he said, “and
I don’t think they’ll say anything
about it right now because of
politics.”
In Raleigh, L. T. Weeks, gen
eral manager of Flue-Cured Stabi
lization Corp. a government-fi
nanced, farmer-operated organiza
tion, said he felt a 25 percent
cut "would be helpful.”
Weeks spoke after reporting
that this season will end with
50 to 100 millions pounds addi
tional added to FC stocks. He
said the ultimate level “is too
much tobacco for a sound pro
gram.”
Up To Benson
Here in Whiteville, W. P. Hed
rick, marketing specialist, told
Rotarians that producing what
the market will buy is a key
problem. He indicated a change
in production methods will also
have to come about to eliminate
the so-called pale slick tobaccos.
Officially, the question of to
bacco acreage for 1957 is up to
the U. S. Secretary of Agricul
ture.
Last year farmers approved
oontrols for three more years in
face of a 12 percent acreage cut.
Strong consideration was given to
20 percent. The 20 percent cut
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Commissioners In
Session Monday
The Board of County Commis
sioners were in their regular mid
dle of the month session Monday.
The minutes show the following
business as having been trans
acted.:
It was ordered that the James
L. Hooper lands in Northwest
township be sold for the sum of
$309.75 to D. L. Scoggins.
Ordered that Tom Fields and
wife be allowed to buy 7 acres,
more or less, of the Mack Bryant
Estate for the sum of $70.
Ordered that Lee Carter of
Smithville township be reneved of
$1,700 valuation, due to an error
in listing.
A road in Town Creek town
ship, running from U. S. 17 to
Town Creek Loop Road, approx
imately 1.4 miles in length was
approved and recommended to the
State Highway Commission for
surfacing.
Tide Table
Following Is the tide table
for Southport during the next
week. These hours are ap
proximately correct and were
furnished The State Fort Pilot
through the courtesy of the
Cape Fear Pilot’s Association.
High Tide Low Tidf
Thursday, October 18,
6:36 A. M. 0:29 A. M.
3:56 P. M. 12:55 P. M.
Friday, October 19,
7:17 A. M. 1:09 A. M.
7:35 P. M. 1:38 P. M.
Saturday, October 20,
7:58 A. M. 1:49 A. M.
8:16 P. M. 2:21 P. M.
Sunday, October 21,
8:41 A. M. 2:29 A. M.
8:57 P. M. 3:05 P. M.
Monday, October 22,
9:26 A. M. 3:12 A. M.
9:44 P .M. 3:51 P. M.
Tuesday, October 23,
10:16 A. M. 3:58 A. M.
10:37 P. M. 4:40 P. M.
Wednesday, October 24,
11:10 A. M. 4-48 A. M.
11:36 P. M. 5:35 P. M.