The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-09
Beat Pickups
BY PHIL WRIGHT

pickering with grasping syndl-
..ta agents on an offer of "a or
~ thousand bucks for 261 of these
.o1nnns per annum is NOT the
,asson after dusk did not ap-
near last Sunday.
I'd settle for "a thousand, 1 said.
That would give me two thou
s.nd per month, a little quick cal
cnus told me. and with pay dirt
Ike that Miss Woodbury. Oouise's
sister in City Manager Jim Ben
ennis office) wouldn't have to give
Mo matches to light cigarettes.
Does she smoke cigarettes?
"Heavens, no. But she carries
soares, especially for buns.
She gave me a light.
I thanked her and thought of
HE old lean days, back i'll 1945,
when covering the beat at City
Hall, Mrs. Mary Switzerland, city
clerk (wife of Julian Switzerland,
piDev Grove. former official in
The shipyards but now a big truck
fine baron and manager of a Will
nington Beverage concern) gave
me a match and a five-cigarette
package of complimentary Gigs
which someone nad sent her.
A spelling book, borrowed ove1
Is years ago was this week being
routed back OF its original owner,
Walter Hatch, United States Dep
uy commissioner, by way of the
Offices of Harry Fales, Whining
ton.New Hanover county bureau
Of Identification.
Entitled 40 Lessons in
Spelling (Which any modern
word welder would literally give
bis eye teeth to know and COM
mand) the book shows slight signs
Of usage.
"Don't tell Waiter who left the
book for him, the borrower told
Miss Marjorie Tant and Hayward
Startling, technicians in Fales Of
flee.
Woman's phobia for Woman
was brought forcefully to the fore
again this week when slightly
wet-two-year-old Toni Reynolds,
niece Of Miss Inez Hopkins in the
Offices of Adrian B. Rhodes. balk-
ed at ministrations of Medic Mary
Brock at Sidbury's Baby Hospital
on Wrightsville Sound.
It was not that Doctor Brock is
not a kind and pleasant lady,
Toni had expected to see the
doctor MAN and instead, was
met by the woman.
And Ada Mccullough of Rhodes
Office also, gave her version of a
lady defendant in Recorders
court who unused what woman
would want a woman lawyer to
know all about her personal af-
fairs? H-m-m-m.
Shirley Anderson, former head
'echnlcian in the James Walk
CT Memorial hospital operating
room, who journeyed last month
10 a St. Louis hospital to take
post graduate studies in her pro-
ieSSon, wrote back that she was
a little nervous her first days in
The Blues city.
by the Grace of God and The
luck Of the Irish, the patient
!lVed' she wrote friends follow
ing her first duty of administer
Hs the anesthesia. but the adj
mastering nurse is still suffer-
tng."
Hard driving r. A. Ashworth,
cssldent senior engineer of the
Sate Highway Department was
lO' concerned at being listed in
Dcdl journals as Estate Ccnstruc-
ION Engineer-not as a matter
" cause outside displeasure-but
sala Ashwortn, Next time I get
plOmoted, Id rather get the sal
eeIy mat goes along with the
ne uses the telephone a lot
Usually on the receiving end-and
IgsS ne gets things done.
finally got hooked on the 'se-
ueV message for a dime," cam
Saisn TO get a key to unlock Rich
%u door, but the lighter hit de-
'ls ars; that its no use.
lAeyl never get the door
opea- l. has a Yale lock and Rich
~ iS d Harvard man." they say.
p a city pensioner, s2-year-old S.
noolnson walked into J. R.
clSoEI office the other morning