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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-27
COMMITTEE
OUTLINES PLANS
Chamber Of Commerce
Group Call For Soil Study
And Livestock Market

Re-establishment of a soil lab
oratory in New Hanover county
and development of a livestock
market in Wilmington were recon-
mended here yesterday as key
points in a six-part program to be
pushed by the agricultural COM
mittee of the local Chamber Of
Commerce.
J. Kyle Bannerman, Herman N.
Hayden, John Nuckton, County
Farm Agent R. w Galphin, and
P. Franklin Bell, the Chambers
assistant secretary, met yester-
day to draft the program through
which their committee aims to i'm
prove both county agricultural
facilities and general relations be-
See COMMITTEE on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-27
Tanker Blast
Victim Dies;
Probe Star<
Bennington Seama.
Succumbs To Injuries
AT James Walker
AWAITS ORDERS
Governm t Inspectors
Visit Vessel Anchored
In Southport Harbor

The explosion a n d fire
aboard the tanker Benning-
ton claimed it's seventh vic
yesterday when James F.
F a q | k ner, of Jacksonville,
Fla, died here at the James Walk
err Memorial hospital at $50 q. m.
Faulkner, sole remaining sur
vivor of those injured in the blast,
was brought ashore from the bat
tered tanker after she anchored in
the harbor at Southport on Wednes-
day. Six bodies were aboard the
vessel. Four of the crewmen died
instantly and two others succumb-
ed before the boat reached the
mouth of the Cape Fear river.
An official investigation started
yesterday on board the ship, an
chored in the river at Southport,
to ascertain the cause of the
laundering explosion which blew
gaping holes in the bow of the TO-
072-ton ship at 1926 p. m. Tues
day and set the vessel afire- 100
miles due east Of Charleston, S.
C.
Interviews Start
A. H. Pike and James H. Gal
loway, inspectors for the coast
guard and merchant marine ser
vice, went to Southport yesterday
to make a personal examination
of the damages and to interview
the officers and surviving crew
members. The investigation is ex-
pected to be concluded today.
Some of the crew members said
they believed the blast was caus-
ed by a spark from an electric
See VICTIM On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-27
LOW-COST MARK
Ships Constructed Here
ostUS.$1,5 sos, 0OOEach

ship yards building for the com
mission during the emergency.
The record of the Wilmington
yard came to light as Slattery cit
edthe figures in challenging an
ed the figures in challenging an
Kaiser that the Oregon Shipbuilding
company held the war time rec
ord for cheap production of Lib
erty ships.
The record of the North Carolina
shipyard showed that the contrac-
tors costs per ship. Meaning labor
and so forth, exclusive of materials
was $651.0 per ship. AS against
See SHIPS on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-27
CITY STILL
IN STRIKE THR0ES
Street Railway Employees
Walk Off Jobs AT
Pittsburgh Thursday

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 26.-This in
dustrial city's Gripping power
strike was still on Thursday night,
its effects sharpened by a shut
down of the street railway system,
despite dissolution of an anti-strike
injunction which had been a major
obstacle in the path of settlement.
Initial efforts to find a mutual
understanding in the power dis
pute failed late Thursday afternoon
when a two and one half hour
conference between officials of the
Duquesne Light company and an
independent union of employees end
ed with no agreement. A union
spokesman said, however, the con-
Goo STEET. On Pape Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-27
Shipyard To
ChangeH Hands
Next Month
IFS. Maritime Commission
Takes Over Local Build
ing Facilities Oct. 10
STANDBY BASIS
One OF 4 Yards In Nation
To Be Retained In Case
Of Emergency

The process OF putting the
$40, 900 North Carolina
Shipbuilding company plant
on a "stand-by'' basis will be-
gin shortly after midnight
october 8 when the United States
Maritime commission formally as
sumes possession of the yard, Of
tcials of both the commission and
the company said yesterday.
According to the commissions
plans, N. S. Ship will be n of
four ommission-owned yards in the
nation to be maintained in a state
Of near readiness for resumption
Of production in an emergency.
Tie huge yaco, owned by the
commission, has been operated by
te North Carolina company a
subsidiary of the Newport News
sainbuilding company.
It's transfer to the Real Estate
and Terminal division of the COM
mission will follow by one day the
delivery Of the 243rd and last ship
the SIS. Santa Isabel = to the
Grace Line of New York. Five Of
the six vessels built FOR this line
have been delivered. Sea trials for
the S. S. Santa Isabel have been
set for October 4.
In discussing the transfer, L. E.
goss, resident plant engineer of
the commission, said that a num-
Der Of present employees OF the
shipbuilding company will be hired
for t h e jobs Of maintaining the
plant on a''stand by" basis. A
list. with war veterans being Civ
Ell preference, is now being made
See sHIPYARD On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-27
SURGERY SCORES
Science Enables Child
To See By Others Eyes

CHICAGO, Sept. 26-U.H-Betty
Goudy, "A, a farmers child, saw
the world for the first time Thurs
day, using the eyes of a still-born
baby.
The nervous lips of the physician
removing her head bandage was
the first thing she saw.
whats that?" she asked, touch
ing them.
"You are locking at my mouth"
said DR.. Richard Peritt.
1--WE always wondered what a
mouth looked like, she said.
The corneas from a stillbo-n child
were transplanted into her sight
less eyes three weeks ago. She
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-27
President In
With Leaders
Chief Executive Sees No
Reason For Special
Congress Session
TERMS PRICES FAIR
Reporters Hear Hope Ex-
pressed That Farmers
Will Sell Livestock

WASHINGTON, Sept. 90
R-President Truman, TAX
ing a stand in disagreement
with some Of his own party
leaders, declared emphatically
today price ceilings on meat
should not be raised or scrap
ped.
With the meat shortage
producing grave new compli-
cations, the President issued
a statement saying:
l.. The shortage is not due to-
price control but to an "extraordi-
narily large slaughter" in July and
August when price controls were
temporarily off.
2. There will be a "greater
quantity and better quality of meat
in the near futurs."
8. Present livestock ceilings are
flair and equitable"
In addition to this statement, is
need for a special session of Con-
President told reporters he saw no
need for a special session of con-
gress to remedy the situation. He
also expressed firm hope that any
growers withholding cattle and
hogs will now release them for
market.
With that statement, issued at
his news conference, the President
expressed firm hope that any
growers Withholding cattle and
hogs will now release them for
market.
Even as the President was TAX
See PRESIDENT on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-27

has been blind from birth. DR.. A.
Triolo. director of the crippled
children's division of the South
Dakota State Board of Health, ar
ranged the operation.
Today Dr.. Peritt removed the
bandages as Betty's parents, Ed
mund and Gertrude Goudy, Arte-
sian, S. D., stood by, tears in their
eyes.
II hope she recognizes u.s." Mrs.
Goudy said, trembling.
She didn't know that Betty's sight
would come gradually, as does a
new born child's.
See SCIENCE on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-27
LANES CoTTRELL
Sept. 26. :

WASHINGTON, sept. 20 =
Thomas L. Lanier, assistant comp
troller of the North Carolina snip
building company, Wilmington, N.
q anpearing as a witness Thurs
dav before the HOUSE commission
on Merchant Marine ana flsner-es
holding hearings on profits on war
time builders, testified that his
company had built 1926 ships for
81, sos, 900 each.
According to Maritime Commits
sion Auditor William Slattery, the
North Carolina company turned out
ships at the lowest average cost
per vessel of any Of the numerous
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-27
The Weather
FORECAST

FORECAST
South Carolina and North Carolina -
little change in temperatures Fri
day.
eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Burcau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 pm. yesterday.
Temperatures
1870 am. 70; 1880 Am. 81; 80 pm. 81;
1880 pm. rs. -2~ss4za4s4-
Maximum 81. Minimum Sc; Mean III
II.
Humidity
1880 am. So; 1880 am. "a; 1880 pm. s.;
7:30 pm. 86.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1880 pm
900 inches
Total since the first of the month -
11.27 inches.
Tides For Today
(From the Tide Tables published by U.
Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington ----- 1880 am. sos am.
10:46 pm. $40 pm.
Inlet BIB ON. 1:57 ON.
1925 pm. 2:1s pm.
Sunrise sos; Sunset 6:o4; Moonrise
Z :08 am; Moonset 7:06 pm.
River Stage at Fayetteville, N. c. at
am. Thursday, 1871 feet,
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-27
AlongThe Cape Fear

While Larry Hirsch, whose
daily column-Along The Cape
Fear-remains on the sick list,
Roy Cook, Star staff member,
brings Along The Cape Fear
readers an eyewitness account
Of the damage wrought by the
explosion aboard the tanker
Bennington.
Along with Chick Hosch, As
ISOLATED Press staff writer,
and Dudy Faircloth, AP photog-
rapher, Cook was the first
newspaperman to board the
stricken vessel 40 miles off the
coast.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-27
BY O COOK

"GOOD MORNING, gentlemen,
these were the words that greeted
DR.. Thomas M. Hall, James
Walker Hospital Inferno, and I
when we boarded the tanker Ben
nington, about 40 miles at sea at
9:45 O'Clock Wednesday morning.
These words were spoken by the
gentleman pictured on page three,
Henry B. Wilson, 4~9-year-old able
seaman from Cumberland. Md.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-27

Wilmington and v~icinity-Clear to mart
ly cloudy Friday and Saturday; little
change in temperature.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-03-07
Butner's Disposition

once more pronOunCCment comes
from Army sources about the dis
position Of Camp Butner, even to the
extent of fixing a date. Latest or
ders are that the we'll known war
training center is to be d~eactlvated
at the earliest practicable time. not
later than April 80.
Not long ago the date was an
nounced as March /, and then was
denied. Later indications were thai
Butncr would remain more or less
indefinitely. Now comes another
switch IN plans. And even these are
subject 10 change before arrival Of
the date named.
Meantime, the State of North Car
DINA already has set IN motion
efforts to acquire the hospital
property as soon as it is discarded
by the government, abandoning =
five million dollar Installation in
favor OF another and similar hospital
ON the edge of Duke University's
campus IN Durham. If the govern
ment is to walk out on the hospital.
the State is quite definitely the
logical heir to the great and modern
medical center.
FARMERS who We're uprooted from
ther homes and plantations on the
reservation ought to have the pri-
}IIege of buying back their old
property if they still want it. and
'ley may have the chance. But first
thefe must be some sort of stability
with respect to the governments
plans as to precisely when it Will
move out. That may be April 80. or
even SIX months later. Only the gov
eminent can answer as to that-if
1t can.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-03-07

his projects. the President would do
well to play the political game ac-
Cording 20 the rules and not encour-
age the church to mix in politics.
That IS what he seems to- us to be
doing when he goes to a convention
like that at Columbus and makes the
kind of appeal he did Wednesday.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-03-07

Each pellet in a new type shot
gun she'll is a tracer bullet. Soon we
may hear OF a hunter getting lost in
the fog caused by his misses.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-03-07
Hints on Etiquette.

DO look behind YOU when YOU so
through a door SO that you do not
slam Ii IN the face of another per-
son behind you.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-03-07

White shirts, according to an item,
have become the biggest black mar
ket commodity. Mighty conspicuous
che, too, we'd say.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-03-07
GRAB BAG
One Minute Test.

l.. Who died 10y drinking hemlock'
> Whose death was brought about
by an asp
3. Who met death by means of
d pillow
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-03-07
A Lift For Today

Behold the Lamb of God which
takoth away the sim of the world
John l29.
CHRIST is the revelation of Cod.
love TO man.
We thank Thee, O Holy One. that
Thou has revealed thy love for man
kind through Thy SON, Jesus Christ.
The sun. olctronic experts say. is
making noises. The old sports, it
seems, have turned into sputters.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-03-07
RATES

Mail SUBSCRIPTIONS. Payable in
advance. | year $500, SIX months
$500. 5 months $500.
Per Copy .-... Dc
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1946-03-18
MARYSVILLE, ST. MARYS PLACE z EACH
.ONLEACUE TEAM; SUNBURY new MEMBER

Marysville and Marion st. Marys
moncpoliZed the all Mid-State Lea
que basketball team, selected by
the leagues four coaches at the
annual league meeting, last We'd
nesday. Each school placed two
boys on the first all-league team,
while the fifth choice was from
Redwood.
First and second team choices
made by the coaches were:
First Team
Bob Wintersteller, st. Marys,
forward. Frank Diehl, Marysville,
forward. Nick Wall, Redwood,
center, Leo Robinson, Marysville,
guard. Tom Moran, st. Mary,
guard.
Second Team
Dean Scheiderer, Marysville, for.
ward. Don Tenant, Mt. Gilead
forward. Bob Lancaster, Mt. Gil
cad, center. Bob Irwin, st. Mary,
guard. John Cheney, Redwood,
guard.
OF the first team choices, all but
Moran were unanimous. The latter
and Irwin were in a close contest
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1946-03-18

for fifth position on the team, with
Moran finally getting the selection
During the meeting, Sunbury
high school was voted into League
membership, and will start conlpe-
tition beginning with the 1916 foot
ball season.
All officers were reelected, in
cluding G. l.. Kingsmore, Marys-
vile, president; R. D. Fetter, Rich
wood, vice president; and D. b.
Noble, Mt. Gilead, secretary-trea-
surer.
Football schedules for 1916 were
approved, and the leagues first
basketball championship awarded
to Marysville. No trophy will be
presented yet, however, since none
are available for the time being.
In addition to the League trophy,
Station WMRN, of Marion, has do
mated $100 for a rotating trophy,
and none of the companies manu-
featuring these items will do any
specialized work at present. The
WMRN trophy is to be kept by the
school winning it two out of three
times.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1946-03-18
DELAWARE, GILEAD
TO MEET TONIGHT

Delaware and, Mt. Gilead junior
high school teams will play for the
championship of the invitationaI
basketball tournament in the Ma.
rysville high school gym at $3.50
pm. today. Redwood and Marys-
vile will play a consolation game
at 7:30 pm.
Delaware came from behind in
the second half to defeat Redwood
25 to 10, in a semi-final game Sat
urday night, while Mt. Gilead
edged Marysville, q to 20, in the
other semi-final.
Both games dished out plenty OF
excitement for the fans.
Marysville held an early lead a.
gainst Mt. Gilead, and was in
front 8 to l at the end of the first
quarter. The Indians forged ahead
the second quarter, and enjoyed
a slight margin most of the remain
ing "a minutes. The score was s
to z at the end of the half and Ia to
13 at the third quarter, in favor of
Mt. Gilead.
Redwood started out against
Delaware as if they would win cas-
lily. However, the Senators rallied
strongly in the third period, and
went on to win easily in the last
frame. The score was 7 to 2 in
favor of Redwood at the end of
the first quarter, and II to 7 at the
half. Delaware was ahead, Is to II
at the end of the third period.
In preliminary rounds, Friday,
Redwood defeated London, % to
A; Delaware won from Marion st.
Marys, 25 to 20; Mt. Gilead wallop-
Mechanicsburg, 40 to Il; and Ma
rysville edged Plain City, 20 to 16.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1946-03-18
COUNTY SCHOOLS FACE TEACHER SHORTAGE
COUNTY HOME OPERATION Is $16,9O6,
BUT NEARLY HALF IS SELF SUPPORTING

implements, machinery and tools
$209.90; burial expenses, S177.5O;
repairs, $1546.11; other expendi-
lures, $3703.14.
Receipts Listed
Receipts included S5557.29 from
sale of farm produce ,$1727. .1O
from expenses of inmates paid by
themselves or their friends, and
$150.87 from other sources.
In addition to operating expens-
es, new mower cost S161 and a
stoker, $1211.
Gross annual per capita cost was
$422.65, and the net per capita
cost, $236.78.
Total population during the year
was SO, 3S men and 81 women. OF
these, 80 were in the home at the
beginning of the year and 35, 20
men and Is women, were received
during the year from townships
and two women from state insti-
tuition. ........
Five men and three women were
discharged during the year, two
men ran away, six men and three
women died, and one man and
three women were sent to state
institutions.
Inmates By Ages
By age groups, the inmates were
as follows: r.
One woman between 16 and 25,
one man and two women between
25 and IS; eight men and one wo-
man between As and IS; II men
and IA women between 65 and IS,
and three men and four women
over IS. -.
There are only six inmates,
three men and three women, who
are without physical or mental
impairment, the report shows. All
of the others are epileptic, feeble
minded, disabled by old age, of dis
abled by deformity, blindness, or
deafness. ~.
Thirty-Seven of the inmates, 19
men and 18 women, were born in
Ohio. All of them white.
Physical property of the home is
valued at 500, ,440, compared with
$97 sos last year. Assets are land,
$4,000; buildings, $67, 200; furni-
ture, $5400; machinery, $4,000; live
stock. $3240; and agricultural inn
plimentS, $4600.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1946-03-18
REDWOOD BOY CHIEF OF STAFF
WITH FAMED 32ND DIVISION in JAPAN

ision now engaged in occupational
duties in Japan, his talents and
training have now brought him to
the highly important post of. div
iSion chief of staff.
Col. Ports is the son of Robert
A. Ports, Sr., of Redwood, and
the late Mrs. Julia Phillips Ports.
He went through the Eighth grade
at Flatwood school where his faith
er went and, which the SEN
ior Ports now owns. He went to
Redwood high school for one year
and graduated from North High
in Columbus. He went to Ohio
State university for eight quar-
ters, then to West Point, where he
graduated in 1880. He was mar
ried to Miss Kathryn O'Brien, of
Tulsa, on January II, 1888 and
Susan Merrill Ports was born on
Sept. 1, 1912. When the colonel
went overseas his wife and daugh-
ter went to live with her mother
and sister in Tulsa.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1946-03-18

Operation of the Union county
Home during 1945 cost $16,906.55
annual report of Mckinley Haines,
superintendent, shows. However
receipts from other sources other
than the county treasury were
1926, leaving a net of only
S9471.29 to be paid by the county.
Expenses during the year in
cluded;
Superintendent'S salary, $1015;
matron's salary, $1015; othe r
wages, $3632.18; medical attend
ance, $3.50; groceries and provis-
ions, $2052.44; fuel and light,
S1522.94; dry goods, clothing and
footwear, $234.57; furniture and
4 Gus d furnishings, $30.50;
drugs and medicines, S95.S3; to-
bacco, $175.28; live stock, S515.50;
feed, grain, fertilizer and other
far mSupplies, $829.66; vehicles,
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1946-03-18

AS the game was going into the
closing minutes of the fourth
quarter, a Bradford boy attempted
a shot which fell far short and
would have gone out of bounds
except that it hit one of the re-
ferees and bounded back onto the
playing floor.
Two Magnetic boys, who could
easily have recovered the ball, fail
ed to do so because they were sure
it was their ball out of bounds any
how. But Martin Weaver, Brad
/ ford's capable center, picked up
the ball and easily dropped it
through the net for an unguarded
shot
If the referee Was standing out
Of bounds when the bali hit him
and those who were at that end of
the floor said he WeaVer's
basket should not have counted.
1t had to go out of bounds to hit
the official. But the basket was al
lowed and it tied the game at 27-all
to throw it into an overtime per-
iod.
Capt. Jim Gibson and other
Magnetic players Immediately pro-
tested the decision, but to no a.
vail. There was some talk at the
time of carrying found protest to
the Ohio High School Athletic
Board of Control. or the Athletic
Commissioner. Had the basket
been dis-allowed, the game would
have been Magnetic's by two
points without an overtime.
Team Evenly Matched
AS far as the rest of the game
was concerned, it was a well-play-
ed, exciting contest between two
evenly matched teams. In fact, it
would be impossible to hand-piCk
two teams and have them more
perfectly paired
Both were of the same height,
almost player for player; both
were eXpertly coached; both were
fast; both handled the ball superb
ly; both played tight defensively;
and the general style of play of
the two teams was much alike.
1t was a fair, SpOrtsmanlike
game and that the referee incident
marred the closing moments is
much to be regretted.
Bradford went into an early lead,
although Magnetic scored the first
points on a neat basket by Dallas
Black But the Railroaders steam
ed right back, using a quick break
which gave them several good
scoring chances, and were in frotn
II to 6 as the first quarter ended.
Continued on page 6, col. -
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1946-03-18

Robert A. Ports, present chief
of staff for the 32nd (Red Arrow
Infantry Division and former field
commander of the 126th Field Ar
tillery during the bitter northern
Luzon campaign, has just been
promoted to the rank of full col
onel, climaxing a brilliant military
career that began with his grad
uation from West Point as a 2nd
lieutenant in 1880
Colonel Ports, a native of Col
umbus, and a member of the class
of 1927 at Ohio State university
before entering the army, is now
rounding out two years of service
overseas in the Pacific area where
he distinguished himself in the
role of his profession, that of an
artilleryman. He holds the silver
star, bronze star and air medals,
all gained during the Villa Verde
fighting in the PHILIPPINES, the last
of the great actions in which the
32nd participated. With the div
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1946-03-18
COUNTY'S YOUTH
MARK 4-H WEEK

Union county All club members
joined. with the 100000 other
All club members in the United
States in the observance of Nation.
al 4-H club week, March 2-10.
Throughout the county All club
members, parents and advisors are
working and planning for a better
All club program in 1916. Some
clubs have already organized and
worked out program and plan
of work for the year, according
to County Agent, D. B. Robinson,
The All club program is that
part of the Agricultural Exten-
sion Service which deals with rur-
al youth. It's main objective is
to help the rural girls and boys
become a more desirable citizen.
Each girl and boy plans home
making and farming program. This
program may include several pro-
jects. The purpose of the project
is to help the girl and boy get
stared and grow in homemaking
and farming. Last year, 588 of the
rural youth who started projects
in the county completed them.
According to figures released by
w. H. Palmer, state All club
leader, Union county has "a per-
cent of the rural youth enrolled
in All club work, which is more
than any other county. Any COM
inunity not having a All club in
action and interested in having
one organized should contact
either Mrs. c. F. Diehl, the home
demonstration agent for Union
county after June 1, or Mr.. Rob
inson at the Agriculture Extension