The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-06

Sealed bids for the purchase O.
a 1910 Ford sedan now owned by
the Wilmington office of Alcoho.
Tax Unit, will be accepted at the
customhouse ATU headquarters
starting yesterday. The car i.
stored at Macmillan and Cameron
garage.
New developments in prefabri
Gated steel buildings for more con
ventionally = shaped commercial
Industrial and residential construc'
ton will be discussed at a meet
ing of the Wilmington Engineers
club, scheduled for tonight at $50
o'clock at the Friendly cafeteria
when the club me It's with F. A
Matthes Steel Products corpora.
ton, according to Zen Merritt,
secretary.
Wilmington Boy Scouts will be-
gin a traffic survey of downtown
streets in the city on Thursday
under the direction of James Tay'
lor. Scout field executive, Scout
officials announced.
Organization of a New Hanove,
county Farm Bureau Auxiliary is
scheduled to get underway at the
monthly supper meeting of the
New Hanover county Farm Blu
reau, R. w. Galphin, farm agent
announced today. The supper
meeting will be held Thursday a
8 o'clock at Trails Inn instead o,
the Wrightsboro clubhouse as IA!
been the custom in the past. A
the same time plans will be laio
for the Farm Bureau membership
drive scheduled to get underway
September 1, he declared.
Miss Wayne Ferguson, Winston
Salem resident, who has been suf
fering from a cas- of lockjaw fol
the past month, is today under the
doctors care at Kure's Beach.
Dale Spencer, director of the
Wilmington College, said yesterday
that final preparations for the
opening of the college in Septem
Der is now underway at the loca.
high school where college classes
will be taught after high schoo.
hours.
The Church of God, former
church tent located on south 18th
street, has been moved to 18th
and Wooster streets, Eugene Cam
eron, a member, said yesterday.
F. L. King, vice-president, yes
terday awarded the 25-year en-
blem for continuous service to M
M. DesChamps, Atlantic Coast
Line Railroad chief of Property
protection. DesChamps originally
entered railroad employe July Is,
1922.
Installation Of two test dolph1ns,
to be used for ship storage moor
ings, in the Brunswick River lay
up basin is now underway, officials
of the Wilmington District Corps
of Engineers reported yesterday.
Coincidental with his resignation
as a member of the board of di-
rectors of the Southeastern North
Carolina Beach association, Ken
Noble, Wilmington publicity agent,
yesterday offered the services OF
his agency gratis to SENECA for
the duration of. the associations
fall fishing rodeo, it was announc-
ed.
Harold B. Abrams operating the
Anchor Hardware store, instituted
suit in New Hanover county SUI
perior Court against the Epting
Appliance company yesterday seek
ing S1,314 for what he said were
unsatisfactory gasoline driven
lawn mowers which he said he pur-
chased from the plaintiff and lat
err sold to customers. The plaintiff
said he was obliged to repay the
customers.
Commissioner George Trask at
Mondays weekly meeting OF the
county commissioners presented
a motion that the welfare depart
ment of New Hanover county pay
the state scale to end any dispute
between the county and the state
over a 1896 check. 1t previously
was reported that Commissioner
Trask moved that the check be re-
turned to the state.