The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-23
MANY SICHTSEERS
VISIT HOLLY RIDGE
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tourist traffic over U. S. highway
II.
There was little to thrill the visi-
tors here today as most of the
work was the laying of founda-
tons for general administrative Of
fees. One person moved a small
house up the highway from Will
mington via truck this afternoon.
Contractors again requested
sightseers and persons hunting
work to stay away from Holly
Ridge, as labor will be called
through the North Carolina State
Employment Service. It was en-
phasized that local common labor
will be exhausted before any from
outside Onslow county will be
hired.
Clearing Off Sites
Two shifts of workmen are now
busy clearing off the camp site
and almost have completed the
LOB. A large area just south of the
railroad station here has b e e n
cleared off and tractors and other
machinery are now being used in
the building of roads through the
section, which, when finished, di.
vide the are into tracts about
enc and a half times as large as a
city block.
The Atlantic Coast Line Rail.
road has already heightened the
side track at the station to a dis
lance of about 900 feet and wher
completed it will accommodate
about so car for storage space.
Other spur tracks are to be laid
out inside the reservation, with
roadways following them to facili.
tate loading and unloading opera
tons.
A temporary building has been
erected here for the State High
way patrol and these patrolmen
were kept busy today handling the
traffic, which has developed to
that comparable to a city.
c. c. Hines, Holly Ridge pos
master, said today that postal in
spectors have announced that
work on a building to house the
postoffice will be started in a few
days. The postoffice is now To-
Gated in his store and the volume
of mail is almost doubling itself
daily, he said.
, Many Transactions
He said that there has been con-
siderable transactions in real es-
tate in the past few days, although
none up to now have been made
public.
A four-room dressing station
which will provide medical care
for the workers on the camp, will
be formally opened tomorrow
morning at 8 o'clock, with DR.. O.
j. Lightheizer in charge. An am
bulance and two graduate nurse:
will be on duty.
The dressing station is the only
building completely finished up tt
now, although several others are
being used temporarily by con
tractors and Workmen.
The hospital, which is located
about 600 feet inside the camp
reservation and south of the Maple
Hill road, will be opened for "a
hour duty daily. Minor cases will
be treated here with major in
juries to be taken to Bullock hos
pital, which. is operating the dres
sing station.
Most of the camp site area has
been leveled off, as tractors have
been busy working day and nigh
here in grading the land. Today
workers were busy assembling
building equipment and machinery
such as Wheelbarrows and carts
Building material continues t
roll in hourly and it looks now a:
if visitors here next Sunday will
be able to e some actual build
ing on the camp itself.
1t will probably be a month be
fore the first soldiers who will b.
stationed at the Wilmington fir
ing center will arrive, it was an
nounced Saturday in Wilmington.