The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-04

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folk, to remove 10 shoals in the
Atlantic ~Intercostal waterway from
Morehead City to the Cape Fear
river, was received yesterday by
the Wilmington District Corps of
Engineers. The firm offered to do
the work for $27, 1875. 78, it was re-
ported.
An anniversary party, celebrat-
ing the tenth anniversary of the
Wrightsboro Home Demonstration
clubhouse, will be held tonight
at 8 o'clock in the clubhouse by
members of the Home Demonstra-
ton club. Mrs. Mary Lee McAllls-
ter, southeastern district home
agent, and Miss Verna Stanton,
assistant state home agent, are
scheduled to speak.
twenty-five applications have
been received from New Hanover
.county All club members to at
tend the state camp at Camp Mill
stone. July 1928, according to
Nancy Ingram, All club director.
Though lettuce and a few other
truck crops are bringing higher
prices this year, R. W. Galphin,
county farm agent, said yester-
day that New Hanover farmers
were receiving slightly lower
prices for most vegetables this
summer than last.
The last monthly meeting of the
Girl Scout council, Cape Fear
area, will be held today at 1880
am. in the conference room Of
the Tidewater building. The ex-
ecutive meeting is scheduled for
10 am. today in the conference
room, according to Girl Scout of.
ficials.
Wilmington's police department
yesterday came in for adverse criti
cism from Harry E. Fales, ir
charge of the city-county bureau oil
Identification. It would be better
for police officers to patrol the city
on foot in larger numbers than al
present, he said, and added patrol
automobiles should be left at head.
quarters for emergency calls.
Four arrests, together with the
seizure of one automobile, were
made during May by the Whining
ton Alcohol Tax Unit agents in
raids upon eight illegal stills.
Agents reported yesterday that
about 1000 gallons of mash were
destroyed at the stills which had
a total capacity Of $500 gallons.
Only one gallon of the finished
product was found.
Organized Surface Division No.
500 OF the Wilmington Naval Re-
serve is scheduled to meet Thurs
day night at 8 o'clock aboard Pa
troll Craft No. 776.
Greenfield Park will be the scene
Of the filming of the movie my
Home Town." this afternoon, with
Don G. Parisher, Park Motion Pic
ture Productions, New York, in
charge. Expected to Participate
are Mayor +. L. White, City Man
ager j. R. Benson, J. E. L. Wade,
city councilman; John H. Farrell,
city industrial agent; Paul Smell,
engineer; Peter Browne Ruffin,
Wilmington Terminal warehouse;
and DR.. W. Houston Moore, chair
man, Greenfield Park development
committee.
Rabbi Samuel A. Friedman will
speak over WMFD Thursday night
at 1880 o'clock. He has chosen
American Jewry's Supreme Cam
paign" as his theme.
The June meeting Of the Viii
mington Engineers club scheduled
to be held today in the Friendly
cafeteria at $50 o'clock, will be
featured by an address on radiant
heating by T. c. Cooke, official of
the Tomlinson company, Durham,
Ben Merritt, secretary, reported
yesterday. Cooke, a member Of
the North Carolina Society Of En-
gineers. is a past president of the
Durham Engineers club. The four
high school winners of the engi-
neers' contest will also be present
as guests Of the club at to1nor-
rows meeting.
The state office OF the Civil
Aeronautics administration will
move into room 124 in the GUS
tomhouse June IS, Addison Hew-
lett, chairman of the New Hanover
county board Of commissioners,
said yesterday. Joseph Norwood
will head the office.
James Russell Candill, cox, of
Wilmington, yesterday enlisted in
class We of the inactive Naval Re-
serve, local officials reported.
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