The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-01
Seven Bo1vl ENGAGEMENTS Are Scheduled For Today

from OPA the black-eye for the
city: principal violator in thO
state.
Employment: The draft ate in
to the city's manpower, but took
no married men until November,
and had absorbed no married
men with children by December
30. Traffic in the local office OF
the United States Employment
Service was record, as it began
in February to handle shipyard
referrals. But labor's principal in
fluence was to inaugurate, May
Is, the labor sterilization act that
halted wholesale exchange of jobs,
and kept Wilmiuston's workers at
their war tasks. In II months,
there were Is, 400 job placements
made.
Education: The county had
more students than ever before
about 1880. New Hanover High
school was reported as being the
largest in the state from the stand
point of enrolment. Eight scien-
tific child care centers for children
of warWorking parents functioned.
Chestnut street school was open
ed. New Hanover teachers were
granted $4,000 in war. bonuses.
The ROTC unit was given high
ranking. School children played
: their part in all the war activities
. in which the city had its finger
employment, scrap drives, bond
drives, campaigns.
Health: The new Health center
on Fourth street was occupied;
more births were recorded than
in any year in county history
more than 1900; the city-county
health officer reported malaria on
:, the wane; in the closing days of
1 the year mild flu swept the area,
: the casualty list reaching toward
| 10000. James Walker Memorial
hospital witnessed the completion
: of its new annex, but it remained
: idle at the end of the year fol
| WALL VI CdQlplIlCllt.
e Civilian Defense: Saw the mi
, tiation and elimination of dim-out;
II projected trial blackouts that va
v ried as failures, the first in Feb
. ruary to outstanding success, thu
r last on December g; saw relaxed
activity by the end of 1943 in thu
: filter center, the. warning services
and the patrols (hut this did no
affect the vigilance of the mill
, tary) 49,
New churches sprang up-ther,
were eight new edifices in tn,
! city. On Easter Overlooking con
) gregations-the largest on recort
here-attended services. The in
fluence of the church was fel
when the Ministerial association
took a firm stand on Sunday bee
y banning, Sunday horse racing, ant
began to send delegate to pro
- nounce the invocation at City coun
10 Gil and County commissioners
=, meetings.
- The outstanding new laws in
:, volved: the elimination of bee
- wines on Sunday in the city AM
. county; new methods of electin
officials at Wrightsville and Caro-
Ic lima Beaches.
N Agencies and organizations bud
i. ded: The Council of Social Agen
Q cies, the Social Service Exchange
,s the Credit Bureau of the Mer
chants association, the Communi
:. ty Council, the postwar planning
J. groups. Some organizations fold
IS ed: The National Youth Admins
70 tration training center, the Foo
X Stamp office, the remnants o
e the WPA. The famous Thalial
e dramatic association was revived
IS Agriculture had its problems
): Killing freezes three times in tn,
r spring; the loss Of go carloads o
r carrots because the government
l. had ill-advised local farmers. Blu
there were 5000 Victory garden
C under cultivation in the summer
it to help alleviate the food short
S age.
d Weather had its extremes: Tn,
!; series of spring cold snaps, thu
n soaring midsummer temperature
r the long, rainless autumn, and il
o mid-December the lowest temper
Q atures since 1884 and the heavies
early snow since 1871, when thu
r Weather Bureau was established
st There were outstanding visitors
: DR.. No Yong Park, Chinese scho
n lar; Chester Morris, Constanc.
n Bennett, Lionel Stander, motion
= picture stars; Governor J. M
e Broughton, Ex-Governor Clyde R
!. Hoey, and acknowledgements
d R. Gregg Cherry; Major Bobby
e Jones, Mrs. Eddie Rickenbacker
n DR.. Archibald Rutledge, Viscoun
l. Hon. Bernard o. Schonegeval, for
merly of the African parliament
y industrialist Charles A. Cannon
1t Mrs. Woodrow Wilson-and final
~ ly Viscount Halifax, British am
!; bassador to the United States, ane
d the British Composite Anti Air
: craft Battery, which made two
visits and as many parades.
y In the world of sports, New Han
& over High was recognized for its
$. football team-which lost only one
n game, and was the best clever