The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-16

Keep running. and dive under be-
fore you have a chance to change
your mind. There!! It isn't so cold
now that you're so numb you
don't feel it! But, don't give up.
Honest-to-goodness summer will be
here before you thaw out, and then
the sands will quit blowing and the
water will warm up. But the boys
playing football will still continue
to charge up and down the beach,
molesting the tan-seekers. All these
things go to make up a perfect
summer. 1t just wouldn't seem
right without them.
I saw one of these football games
going on at Wrightsville this past
Thursday. Pat Howe, Liston Mills,
Macon Rice, and three other fellas
I didn't know, we're having quite a
game. They pulled a play once and
were stumped as to what down it
should be, o. who was to have the
ball, or something like that. But
they consulted the group CT experts
who were onlookers at the game.
These judges were none other than
Billy McIlwain, Pop Thomas. Fred
die Block, Piggy Dychess, and
Charlie Sasser. Bert Nisbet and
Dickie Dunlea walked by before the
game was over, but they weren't
there in time to be consulted on
any Of the plays in the game.
Monday afternoon Mary Ann
Spillman will undergo an appended
tony at the James Walker Memoir
ial hospital, and she wants all of
her pals to be sure to come to see
her as soon as she can have visi-
tors. Mary Ann has been on the
beach on the house party since this
past Sunday, but she came up town
Thursday night. But, she didn't
leave soon enough to be minus
quite a lot of sunburn. It seems
that Thursday morning Mary Ann
went to sleep on the beach-and
she was just sleeping OF one side.
When she woke up, only one side
of her face was a brilliant red, and
the back of one leg. Hurry and get
owe your operation, Mary Ann,
and finish browning the other side.
We should be quite proud of one
of our local girls, who although she
may not want to be classed as a
teen-ager, might not mind too much
being mentioned here. Miss Bar
bara Marshall, a student at the
Westminster Choir school, will be
a member of the choir that affords
the background music for the pro-
duction of the Lost Colony" which
will be presented at Fort Raleigh
on Manteo during the summer. #
you have never seen this pageant,
then plan to do so at your nearest
opportunity. It's the most thrilling
spectacle I have ever seen. The
year we were there, it poured down
rain about halfway through the per-
Torrance, but not one soul left, so
breath-taking was the acting which
was executing.
From the black smoke that bill
lowed from the waterfront and
floated in massive clouds above the
city this past Wednesday you would
have thought that the entire water
front was burning. But on closer
inspection, we found that it was on
the property Of the Stone Marine
Railway company across the Cape
Fear from down town Wilmington.
Sarah Anne Eaton took time off
from her iop as secretary for Win
field Smith to come down and see
what was burning. I saw Francis
Chadwick there, too, but he had to
hurry back to work and couldn't
stay very long.
In days of not so long ago, dres-
ses with the middle out were strict
ly taboo! But now it seems as if
these mid-riff dresses are quite the
thing of the day. l even saw one
down street the other day. Of
course it was on somebody. and it
looked real nice. But somehow I
still think they were fashioned for
beachwear or for dates in the sum-
mer.
Going to the beach seems to be
all there is to dc now. I saw Jean
Cross, Coota Lewis, Diane Costel-
10, Kathryn Hunter, and Nancy
Cross. Also saw Wade Harriss who
has been a stranger for quite some
time.
You just can't keep good people
down, and it looks as if North Car
olians r always making the folks
back home mighty proud of them.
Recently Miss Martha McCaig,
daughter of w. D. McCaig, I'LL
Princess street, was given a special
medal in recognition to the Red
Cross members. The medal was
awarded by Pope Plus XII, while
Miss McCaig was in Rome. She is
a graduate OF New Hanover High
school and Converse college. Hav-
ing served in Naples and later in
she expects to return to Will
mington in July.
Although she wasn't here very
long, Miss Martha Johnson, student
at the University of North Caro-
ina, stayed about a week with her
parents, MI. and Mrs. N. M. John
son at their home in Winter Park.
Miss johnson has returned to
Chapel Hill where she will attend
school and add credits to