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THOMAS B. DANIELS

Thomas Bagley Deacon) Daniels
54, died suddenly of a heart at
tack Saturday morning at 3:4s
o'clock in his Orion hotel apart
ment.
He is survived by his widow
Mrs. Ruth Daniels, of Wilmington;
a daughter, Mrs. Ann D. Sullivan,
of Fayetteville; one son, Thomas
B. Daniels, Jr., U. S. Marine
Corps; three brothers, William B.
Daniels, of Wilmington, John L.
Daniels, of Baltimore, and Mar.
tin L. Daniels, of Portland, Oregon;
and one granddaughter, Barbara
Ann Sullivan, of Fayetteville.
Funeral services will be held a
II o'clock Monday morning from
the Yopp funeral home with the
Rev. ]. Roy Clifford and the Rev
William B. Daniels, Jr., in charge
Burial will take place in Bellevue
cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be A. L
Meirs, Fred Mckinney, Bubbe1
Miers, James Bikeford, w. H. Guy
and E. M. Jeffrey. Honorary pail
bearers will include Marshal
Starkey, Bert Causey, Tom Skip
per, James RAFFERTY,, and Ear
Kelly.
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c. F. BIssINGER

Funeral services for Carl Fred
erick Bissinger, 80, who died Fri.
day in Norfolk, Va, were held al
divers Chapel in Norfolk Saturday
at pm. with the Rev. Mr.. Strick.
Ter officiating.
The body arrived in Wilmington
Sunday morning and was carried
to Andrews mortuary where it will
remain until 10 am. today. Inter
raent will be in Oakdale cemetery
with the Rev. Walter B. Freed Of
flciating.
Mr.. Bissinger was native Of
Wilmington. For the past 1S years
he had been connected with the c.
and P. Telephone company and had
been stationed in several Virginia
cities.
Surviving are his wife, the for
mer Miss Marjorie Roebuck, OF
Wilmington and Robersonville; his
mother, Mrs. F. A. Bissinger, OF
Wilmington; four sisters, Mrs. Her
bert Jones, Washington, D. c., Mrs.
John Killings Springfield, o. Mrs.
Neil McEachern and Mrs. j. o.
Broughton, both of Wilmington; and
one brother, Richard Bissinger OF
Wilmington.
Active pallbearers will be Oliver
Hutaff, John Deitrick, George F.
Tienken, Fred Hintz F. J. Duls
and Thomas Polvogt.
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GERARD DERUITTER, sR.

Funeral services for Gerard De-
Ruitter, Sr., 70, of Hudson Drive,
retired clerk of the Atlantic Coast
Line rai1rod company, who died
ut 10 p. m. Saturday in James Wal
ker Memrial hospital after long
illness, will be con d u t d
from Yopp funeral home today at
4:30 p m. Interment will follow in
Oakdale cemetery.
Mr.. DeRuitter was born in Dor
drecht, Holland on July IA, 1864
and had been in this country for
about % years. He came to Will
mington 81 years ago and had liv-
ed here since.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Louise E. c. N. DeRuitter; one
daughter, Miss Anna DeRuitter, of
Wilmington; two sons, Gerard De-
Ruitter, Jr., of Wilmington, and
Louis DeRuitter, of Cleveland, O.
Active pallbearers will be L. G
Bennett, Joe Phi. Verzaal, Hugh
Oosterwck, Dirk Boet, Vester Cal.
ney, Jacob Drevyn, Richard Braak
and Pete Braak. Honorary pail
bearers will include William Lee.
nuremberg, H. Verzaal, j. C. Joy.
ner, A. Ludeke, E. I. Tinga, H>r.
tram Quelch, DR.. H. A. Codington
w. F. Carpenter and O. H. Hen.
derson.
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FARMER IS KlLLEn
in HIGHWAY WREcy

WARSAW, April 23.-One r...
was killed and two crlticallT T'soA
jured in wreck involv;no M
and a Penn Lane loggino edI'
near Warsaw, at the Ken.o s.gvS
railroad crossing, Saturdav ', ri-I
it was revealed. "'sAE
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis StoLo,
Ella Pridgen, an aged Negro ' sna
man. were returning to their bo wv.
in a cart when they We're e +u,ae
by the logging truck, which ," Nc
driven by Negro, it was r.., way
ed. 1t is said that there wer t'0I''
lights on the cart. The trncl. H., 10
badly damaged. IL way
The three injured were r,,,,.,
to the Goldsboro hospital sstur r5sa
night in critical conditions 0'uay
Mr.. Stokes died after reacs and d
the hospital. Last reports state tb.s
Mrs. Stokes is unconscious - U's'
"A well known farmer, Mr.. stoL,.
was the son of the late Mr. ' sss
Mrs George Andrew Stokes. H. a' u
survived by his wife, the forn ~ Is
Miss Sarah Hurst; one son l peE
Stokes, U. S. Army; and two - si.
tiers, Mrs. Cortez Blackmore s wv
Mrs. Bryant Best, both Of VS.. anu
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Asheville Brothers,
On Same U. S. Bomber,
Are Reported Missing

ASHEVILLE, April %. - R -
Two Asheville brothers who had
been placed in the same bomber
crew through efforts engineered by
themselves about two months ago
are missing in action over Ger
many, according to War Depart
ment messages received by the
parents here.
They are First 1t. James Frank
Russell, 10, and Second 1t Robert
Phillips Russell, 81. They were sen
to England for combat duty short
ly after the older brother was as
signed as navigator to Frank B.
"a Liberator crew. The 19-year-old
lieutenant was serving as co-pilot
on the bomber.
The messages received by the
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Rus
sell, stated that the brothers have
been missing over Germany since
April 8. The telegram concerning
the pilot was received late yester-
day and the other message was re-
ceived by the family today.
Lieutenant Phillips Russell is
former reporter on the Asheville
Citizen. Both airmen attended the
University of North Carolina
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Anzio Beachhead Radio
Station Goes On Air
During Nazi Smelling

NEW YORK, April % R -
Radio Station JJRP went on the
air during a German lombard
ment today for its first transmits
sion from the Anzio beachhead to
the United States.
NBC Reporter Ralph Howard
smoke on the historic transmission
shortly after 9 am. Eastern Wal
Time, reporting that just sever
miles away American troops Of
the Fifth Army were improving
and mopping up positions in face
of strong enemy resistance.
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CRASH VICTIMS
ARE IDENTIFIED

PHOENIX, Ariz., April 23.-3P
-Four of five army filters killed
Yesterday when their light bomb
err crashed at Phoenix intersection
were identified today as majors at
.ached to the western sector fer
rying division, Salt Lakv City
Utah.
Two civilians, Rosalie Ruiz, 4
and Walney A. Colvin, 81, were
burned fatally when flaming gas
oline spewed from the hurting
wreckage and fired a residence
and a passing automobile. Four
other members of the Ruiz family
were burned.
The majors were listed by the
public relations office at nearby
Luke Field as:
John J. Kraemer, 81, pilot, hus-
band of Mrs. Audrey Kraemer, San
Antonio, Tex.
Harvey Colcord, II, 10, husband
of Mrs. Mary Alice Colcord, Dali
las, Tex.
Seth V. Duncan, 40, husband oil
Mrs. Maude L. Duncan, Conway
Ark.
Frank P. Churchill, 81, husband
of Mrs. Nancy Churchill, Burling-
ton, vt.
The fifth airman was Capt.
Stanley M. Tucker, 40, of Jersey
City, N. j., whose brother, 1t.
Col. Ollie E. Tucker, is attached
to ferry division headquarters at
Cincinnati, Ohio.
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MISS EMILY L. HEWLETT

Miss Emily Louise Hewlett, OF
219 South Front street, died at IL: IS
o'clock Friday morning in James
Walker Memorial hospital after
a long illness. Sc was an employe
of the Carolina Stamp and Print
ing Co.
Surviving are three sisters, Mrs
Katie Meade and Mrs. Lena Cole
man, both of Norfolk, Va, and
Mrs. Claudia Nipple, of Baltimore,
Md.
The body will remain at the
Yopp funeral home where services
will be held Monday afternoon at
8 o'clock. The Rev. J. F. Herbert
and the Rev. T. H. King will Off
ciate and burial will take place in
the Masonboro Baptist cemetery.
Active palbearers will be J. M.
Bass, Ashley Jackson. Nathan
Haskell. Sr., Earl W. Brown, E.
Farrabow, and Bert Kite. Honor
airy pallbearers will be L. T. Lam
den E. Norfleet. Frank Sherwood,
william Fox, H. L. Ritter, Dock
Stanland, and R. M. Kermon.
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HEAVY BOMBERS RIP
BATTERED CONTINENT
Continued from Page One,

SiN
ers into France and Germsnv h.
the third time within = weo .g'
hitting the German rail and in'
dustrial cites of Dusseldorf and
Brunswick, the German industr;.I
city of Mannheim and the Frpncs
rail center of Laon, 90 miles north,
east Of Paris.
An all-day cross-channel efsr.
sive, possibly the biggest Of tbs
sort the Allies yet have attemn4
ed, continued today.
Gwen in the greatest dsvs NJ,
the battle of Britain there wa,
nothing like it," one Channel Oh.
server commented.
For one period of three bonr,
in .ile afternoon the sky was never
empty of planes.
RAJ Bostons and Mitchells AMI
Spilfire fight2e bombeIs sunJlr.
N ented the TO. avs Of Amalicaa
/ git and medium b0mbers and
fschters.
The opposition was 50 neglq.)a
that one group af Sp'tflres ejeo...
i-'s Marauders broke away licking
for combat and swooned moa ,
German E-boat crew sunbathing on
the Seine. They pumped the boat
full Of cannon shells. An importar
railroad viaduct near lie Haue
was hit twice directly by Cana.
dian Spitfire fighter-bombers.
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RUSSIAN ARMIES
SAID REFORMING
Red Forces Capture Sum-
NIT Overlooking Be-
seiged Sevastopol

LONDON, Monday, April 24.-lP'
A Crinean dispatch said yester-
dav the Red army had captured a
summit overlooking besieged Sc
vastopol, while the conviction grew
in Moscow, London and even IN
Berlin that REFINING Russian arm
les on the Polish-Romanian fronts
soon would launch another often
sive, perhaps coordinated with Al
lied lunges in the west and south.
The Soviet high command, in
one of it's shortest bulletins in a
year, again reported no important
changes on the eastern front. But
both Russian and German dis
patches noted increased Soviet
aerial activity of type which
usually precedes major ground op'
erations. The Russians were de-
clared striking at German troop
concentrations, key rail functions
and other rear-line targets.
The German-controlled Scandi.
navian telegraph bureau quoted q
Berlin spokesman as saying the
Nazi high command expects a
general offensive which will de.
mand superhuman efforts by Ger
man soldiers"
Since March the Russians have
announced the killing or capture Of
approximately $4,000 Axis troops,
and this number probably will ex-
coed 100000 when the Crimean tai,
lies are completed.
In ten months the Red army has
driven inside Estonia and Roma
mia and penetrated halfway tc
Berlin in it's 50O-mile overland
March from Kursk to the Luck-Ko.
wei sector of old Poland.
The present lull is the first since
last summer except for a com
paratively quiet period just before
the Russians leaped the Dnieper
River in the Kiev sector.
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OBITUA ARIES

conducted at the grave side in
Exum cemetery at p. m.
Surviving are seven sons, Lacy
McKeithan, of Greelyville, S. c.,
C. E. McKeithan, of Hardyville, S.
c., J. D. and Roy McKeithan, both
of Freeland, and Lloyd McKeithan,
U. S. Navy; and two sisters, Mrs.
Martial McKeithan, of Bladenboro,
and Mrs. Fannie Simmons, of Fort
Mills, S. c.
Active pallbearers were Odell
Bennett, Aaron Inman, ]. D. Mill
Ken, Kelly Little, R. B. Coleman
and Jim Little.
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AMERICAN MOTHER

NEW YORK, April 23- tR -
Mrs. John MacFarlane Phillips OF
Pittsburgh, Pa, today was chosen
the American Mother for 1914 by
the American Mothers Committee
of the Golden Rule Foundation
The announcement was made by
Mrs. Harold V. Milligan, chairman
of the committee, and DR.. Charles
v. Vickery, president of the foln-
dalton which annually sponsors Sc
lection of the American mother
and various state mothers.
The committee said she was
chosen because "she has for more
than 30 years given herself un-
stintedly to social welfare work in
her own community and city" She
has three daughters and two sons.
all college graduates and all mar
ried, with five grandchildren. all
doing their parts in the war effort.
the announcement said.
The American Mothers Commit
tee, of which Mrs. Sara Delanu
Roosevelt, mother of the President.
was honorary chairman at the time
of her death, was formed 'to hon
or our mothers by doing for less
fortunate mothers that which we
would have them do for our moth,
ers if conditions were reversed. >
Mrs. Milligan said.
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HEALTH OFFICER
WILL COME SOON
Continued from Page One)

has been made in the interest Of
constructive improvement of an
expensive institution.
DR.. Elliot has been agreeable to
an evaluation of the administration
and has STATED that after the opin-
ion of the Public Health authority
has been given, and in the event
that it is advisable, he will sub
NIT his resignation.
--V-
No quadrupeds are native to the
Micronesian islands.
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DIES OF WOUNDS

LUMBERTON, April 23,-CP-
Willis Edwards, 30, assistant man.
ager Of a department store, died
early today of a shotgun wound at
the home Of hewitt Stone, 40, his
uncle. Sheriff Slyde Wade said
Stone was being held. Wade and
Coroner D. w. Biggs quoted Stone
as saying Edwards committed
suicide.
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FIRING NOTICE

Notice of firing to be con-
Quoted by Antiaircraft Artillery
Training Center of Camp
Davis: Place - New Topsail
Inlet firing point, Sectors No. 2
and 4. Fl. Fisher firing point,
Sector No. 3 Holly Shelter fir
ing point; Danger zone -
Water area known as Sectors
2, 4 and to include a distance
off shore of 10000 yards at Fl.
Fisher and 10000 yards at New
Topsail Inlet. Also Holly Shelf
err area; Dates - April rs
through % from 8 a. m. to 5 p.
m. at Fl. Fisher. April %
through 20 from I'm. to 5 pm.
at New Topsail Inlet April "A
through 20 from 8 am. to 5
pm. at Holly Shelter.
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EDMUND sCHULTHESS

BERN, April q -lR- Edmund
Schulthess, rs, former president of
Switzerland and leader in the
development of federal old age in
surance, died yesterday.
He was president of Switzerland
in 1917, 1921, 1928 and 1888. He
was representative at the world
economic conference at Geneva,
in 1922, and chairman of the dele
cation at the 1880 Geneva confer.
ence for reducing international Gus
toms barriers.
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FIRING NOTICE

Notice of firing to be conduct
ed by Headquarters Antiair-
craft Artillery school of Camp
Davis April % to 30, inclusive:
Place - Sears Landing firing
point, Sector No. 2; Daily from
8 a. m. to II p. M; Danger
zone - Water area known as
Sector No. 2 to include a dis
lance offshore of 25 900 yards at
Sears Landing, and the air area
above the water up to an al
titude of $4,000 feet.
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IS MEN ARE LOST AS
LIBERTY SHIP SINKS
Continued from Page One)

and that the latest accident showed
something is structurally wrong"
used on Alaskan and other north
with the Liberties when they are
ern voyages. He added that they
'seem to work all right else
where"
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WEATHER
Eastern Standard Time)

(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 7:30 pm, yesterday.
Temperature
1870 am, 60, 7:30 am, So, 1870 pm, 72,
Maximum IT; Minimum ST. Mean ST;
Normal IS.
Humidity
1:30 am 81, 1880 am, 100, 1880 pm, IS,
80 pm, 10.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 73O pm,
600 inches.
Total since the first of the month.
1.78 inches.
Tides For Today
(From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
High Low
Wilmington ------------ 1l:O5a 5:54a
l1:23p 6:04p
Masonboro Inlet ----- 8:56a 2:48a
9:17p 2:57p
Sunrise. $50 am. Sunset, $50 pm,
Moonrise, 7:01 am, Moonset 1853 pm.
WASHINGTON April %. -(P)- Wea-
ther bureau report of temperature and
rainfall for the "a hours ending s pm,
in the principal cotton growing areas
and elsewhere:
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CAPT. r. A. WACO

RUENOS AIRES, April 23-R-
Capt. Ricardo A. Vago, SO. who
served for two months in 1943 as
minister of public works in the
cabinet of deposed President Pedro
Ramirez before resigning, died to-
day.
The retired naval officer was
naval attache at the Argentine En-
bassy in Washington from 1926.
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WRONG NIXON

James "Jimmie" Nixon, Of
1919 Orange street, wishes to
state that he is not the same
James Nixon, Negro, who. was
sentenced to two years on the
county farm in Recorders
Court Friday.
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NINE DIE IN OIL
REFINERY BLAST
CONTINUED from Page Onel

Continued from Page One)
the city, but police reported the
fire apparently was under control
two hours after the first blast
which occurred at 1.45 o'clock
Central War Time) and that it
appeared no other units OF the re-
finery would be involved.
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ALEXANDER McKEITHAN

Funeral services for Alexander
McKeithan, u, who died at his
home at Freeland Saturday at $50
D. m. after a short illness. were
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VETS PLACED

RALEIGH, April % -R- State
Manpower Director J. S. Dorton
said today 805 World War II vet
Grams were placed in essential work
during March by the U. S. En-
ployment Service of the War Man.
power Commission.
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ALLIED AIR CAMPAIGN
NEARING 'FRUITION'
Continued from Page One)

II, 1943 when less than $50 Ameri
can bombers, unescorted, flew 4O(
miles over the sea to bomb 3
Focke- Wulf factory in Bremen
the statement said. The plan call
ed for the U. E. Eighth Air Force
to destroy the German aircraft
industry through precision bombing
in what everyone knew would
be a costly and bitter campaign -
The Raj, in the meantime, was
to maintain its bombing of denser
concentrations of German industry,
and to supplement daylight precis.
ION attacks with night assaults up
on industrial centers directly con-
nected with aircraft manufacture
ing.
The worried German high COM
mand, on the basis of its defeat by
the Raj in the Battle OF Britain
decided that fighter planes were
the answer to the Allied air threat.
It's plan, the Allied statement said,
called for quadrupling OF the
monthly output of single engine
fighters by April, 1914. Also part
of the plan was the wide dispersal
of plane factories.
The Germans succeeded IN doub-
ling their fighter production by
July, 1e43, but six Eighth Air Force
raids brought their plan to stand
still, the airforces said. Inc mai
Illustration of the Nazi plan came
to the end of February by eoordi-
mated blows by the Eighth and
18th Air Forces on factories pro
ducing over 60 per cent of known
single engine manufacture and
over 80 per cent of known twin
engine manufacture"
English claim discovery OF the
Palau islands.
francisco de Orellana was the
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City Briefs
DAUGHTERS OF AMERICA

DAUGHTERS OF AMERICA
Cape Fear Council "a Daugh-
tiers of America will hold Its
regular meeting tonight at $500
in the Junior Order hall. All
members are urged to attend.
WINS TO MEET
The Woman's Missionary So
ciety of Southside Baptist
church will meet Tuesday af-
ternoon at $3.50 at the church.
The Junior and Intermediate G.
A. and Sunbeam Band will
meet at the same hour at the
church.
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-~s+t4-> - Th'h-s&~gsA{sa~ y
PRINCESS ELIZABETH, heiress-ap-
parent to the throne Of England,
will celebrate her eighteenth BIRTH
day April 81, at which time she
Will receive the title Of a duchess,
In addition, she will become a
member OF the Council Of Regency.
Photo copyright by M. W. Elphin-
stone. (Internnt;ennn
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WINS TO MEET
STILLMAN HOME

S1ILLNfAN 11OVIE
Petty Officer Third Class Da-
vid Stillman, USN, arrived here
yesterday to spend a ten day
leave with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. John r. Stillman, ST., at
their home, 207 N. 22nd Street.
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Nuremberg was long known as
the Jewel Case of the Reich"
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About 80 per cent of all men
in Canada between 10 and As are
in the Canadian armed services.
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English claim discovery OF the
Palau islands.
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francisco de Orellana was tn

firSt White comm anuer 70 u o11
Verse the Amazon basin. -
Laurel outlook., 1944-12-20
COUNCIL PREPARES
TO CURB VANDALISM
Property Destruction Mounts
In Recent WeekS-Reward
System Being Adopted

Youthful vandalism in recent
weeks has reached such a degree
that the Laurel city council at its
session Tuesday evening took of
ficial cognizance of the situation.
Immediate outgrowth was a meas
ure to set up a reward system as
a means to stop further damage
and destruction of private and city
owned property. Details of the
system have not been disclosed.
Members of the council are author
lied to place it in operation.
The vandalism is said to be the
work of a few local and "outside"
youths. A group from Billings
came to Laurel recently to "raise
Cain" and did a certain amount of
damage. They were brought be-
fore the county probation officer
and were compelled to pay for the
damage they had inflicted.
The council is preparing to deal
strenuously with the situation.
Laurel outlook., 1944-12-20
CEMETERY BECOMES
PROPERTY OF CITY
Transaction Finally Completed
Tuesday Night-BOard OF
Seven To Administer

The Laurel cemetery, privately
owned some 35 years, became the
property of the city Tuesday night
when the city council completed its
share of the deal. The transaction
had been in the process of making
for months past. By it, title to
the unsold portions of the cemetery
tract passes from the former pro-
prietors, C. L. Morris and G. E.
S~ettergren, to the city.
The purchase price was $4,000, Of
which $1,000 came from city funds.
The balance, $1,000, was made up
by contributors, including the form
er wners A complete list of the
contributors and their amounts is
to be announced later.
Mayor Thomson with approval OK
the council appointed a cemetery
board of seven members, composed
of three members of the council and
four others. They are ]. j. Parker,
Fred Feuerbacher and Peter D.
Thomson, representing the city, and
c. w. Laird, Fred w. Graft, J.
Melvin Williams and j. C. Durham.
Laurel outlook., 1944-12-20
METHOD|STS SEEK
CHURCH ADDITION
Proposal For Postwar Period
Would Double the Size Of
Present Building

The Laurel Methodist church re-
Gently announced a proposed build
ing and expansion program when a
prospectus was mailed to members
and many friends of the church. The
postwar project calls for rebuilding
the sanctuary and the revision and
addition of educational and recrea-
ton rooms and equipment, making
the proposed plant twice the size
of the present church building.
A canvass for funds will be made
in the near future.
A building and improvement com
mittee, elected by the official board
of the church, consists of Mrs. o.
X. Chapman, Edward L. Coombs, c.
A. Cromwell, Fred w. Graft, For
rest Hill, w. Theodore Johnson,
Harold E. Richardson, M. o. Roys-
don, Miss Florence M. Shirk, Mrs.
Kenneth F. Walker, Rev. M. j. Will
cox, j. Melvin Williams, Paul H.
Wilson and o. M. Void.