The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-17
GRADING MACHINES
R UNLOADED AT
HOLLY RIDGE CAMP
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Quarter-m1le.
Must Register
Construction officials urged work
men not to flock to the camp site
All workers will be employed through
the NOSES, they said, and Workmen
flocking here are merely Impeding
the work. Workmen should register
with the NOSES in their home
towns. they said, and will be called
from their home towns as they are
needed.
Considerable grading and the cree
ton of temporary offices, a first
aid and dressing station and the
buildings must be completed before
work on the army buildings proper
can be begun, they pointed out, and
If will be several days before the
number Of men to be employed be-
comes of any size.
Most of the workmen who came
here today we're sent back to their
homes to register with their home
NOSES offices and as a result Will
mington's NOSES office had a lana
office rush.
All day long there was a queue
of men standing in front of the Of
flee. waiting to register or re-reg-
lister.
A city police officer assigned to
keep order there estimated that
seven persons entered the office
ten minutes during the day.
NOSES officials said approx
mately 100 new registrations were
taken and that several hundred
other persons were re-registered.
In Wilmington Col. Montgomery
announced there will be 900 army
buildings on the camp site when it
is complete. This will include bar
racks, mess halls, headquarters, post
utility buildings, post headquarters,
an SOO-bed hospital, warehouses, fire
stations and other miscellaneous
buildings.
All buildings will be frame, he
said.
Preparations Pushed
Meanwhile preparations were be-
ing rushed on all fronts to get the
ball to rolling so that construction
can 60 forward apace when work
is begun on the army buildings
proper.
The Tide Water Power company
had two crews of men building {
three-phase, 1000 volt line which
will serve the construction camp
during the period Of constr tion.
Final arrangements for a perma.
nent line for the camp proper have
not been completed yet.
Work of building a 50-car stor.
age track at Holly Ridge was be.
gun by the Atlantic Coast Line
railroad.
Heavy equipment arrived here
by train from Wilmington and par
of it was unloaded.
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A telegraph office was set up in
the railroad station which w a S
moved here from Edgecomb, and
will be opened for service as soon
as a permit for an emergency
station is received from the Fede.
raj Communications commission.
The Carolina Telephone and Tele-
graph company was busy extend
ing its lines from Jacksonville to
Holly Ridge but today there was
but n telephone. It was located
in the store of c. C. Hines, post.
master, and was busy constantly
To Improve Postoffice
Uncle Sam began to move in
anticipation of the heavy inflow
Of mail which will hit the post
office here both during construc.
ton and after the camp is es.
tablished. The postoffice depart
ment notified Hines that an in.
spector will be there in a few
days to determine what added ia
cilities Viii be needed to handle
the mail.
The army looked also to the
day when men will be stationed
here and announced that Col
James B. Crawford and Lieut.. Col
Samuel L. McCroskey, who will
report here Dec. %, will be execu
tive officer and plans and training
officer respectively.
From Wilmington came report!
The jnf111nnoa ~ 49, =
ready be felt there. Inquiries TO,
rental property have increased from
10 to Is per cent, according to w
M. Hewlett, chairman of the Will
m1ngton Real Estate board. Som,
property owners there, he said, ar;
inclined to raise rental prices, bu
added, I'VE do not think this i.
]ustifiable at this time"
Within a week, he said, the rea
estate board will begin it's surve,
OF property in Wilmington to de
termine just what facilities ar.
available and what are needed.
Owners Of business rental property
ne said, are discussing maxim.
changes in their property to maxi
1t suitable for use as restaurants
cafes, recreation places and for sucl
other uses as may become. needle,
when the camp is in operation.
At the same time plans were be
ing made there for functioning o
the Wilmington Defense Council, ap
pointed by Mayor Thomas e. Cooper
TO secure additional national defens
projects for this section of the state
to secure new private industries an
to see that the growth of Whining