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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21
Park Expansion Neglected

Remember when the city's incinera-
tor went blooey and the city used some
OF its property on the Front street ex-
tension, at the right driving south, for
a dumping ground?
The land was low, and the idea was
that by filling it's Greenfield park might
be enlarged. The refuse was covered
with dirt, and the people who had been
revolted by the eyesore while the dump
was in use, hopefully looked forward
to the day when this new acreage would
be Handicapped and planted as a part of
Wilmington's fine park.
Well, as of now, all that has happened
is that the old dumping ground has pro-
duced a great crop of weeds and under
brush and is little less of an eyesore
han when the city's garbage and trash
Was being unloaded.
Nor is this all. The gore between
First Street extended and the highway,
which was cleared of underbrush some
time ago is also becoming a dump. 1t
is a bit below grade, to be sure, and it
may be the intention to raise the level
by this means, but the trash accumu-
lating there is unsighted and certainly
does not give either visitors or resi-
dents a favorable impression of what
could so easily be converted into a
beauty spot. .
There is need for a more definite
program and greater speed in improve
ing this triangular strip.
The city has done much to improve
the floral beauty of Greenville Park
within the old established boundaries
1t is too bad that the gore and the
dumping ground have not had a more
prominent place in plans for further
Identification. The council is to be
urged to put these conditions on its
agenda for quick correction.
And while considering the parks
beautification, why wouldn't it be a gooc
plan to install varicolored electric lights
under the little waterfall at the lakes
spillvay, where they once gave specta
tors SO much pleasure?
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21
Star Program

State ports with Wilmington favored
In proportion with its resources. to in
clude public terminals, tobacco storage
warehouses, ship repair facilities, near
by sites for heavy Industry and S5-foot
Cape Fear river channel.
City auditorium large enough to meet
needs for years to come.
Development Of Southeastern North
Carolina agricultural and industrial re-
sources through better markets and food
processing. pulp wood production and
factories.
Emphasis on the regions recreation
advantages and improvement Of resort
accommodations.
Improvement OF Southeastern North
Cardinals farm-to-market and primary
roads. with a paved highway from Top
sail inlet to Bald Head island.
Continued effort through the City's In
dustrial Agency to attract more In
dustries.
Proper utilization Of Bluet1enthal air.
port for expanding air service.
De> elopment of Southeastern North
Cardinals health facilities. especially in
counties lacking hospitals. and includ-
ing a Negro Health center
Encouragement Of the growth OF COM
mercial fishing.
Consolidation Of City and County
governments.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21
acquiring, railroads and truckers would

acquiring, railroads and truckers would
profit in distributing the product.
The proposal has been incubating
ever since and o gives promise of
Matching. It is known that n of the
largest coffee roasting and distribut-
ing firms of the country has been max
ing a survey of the Carolinas for some
weeks. While there has been no public
announcement either of the survey or
its incomplete results, it is believed that
Wilmington is proving up satisfactorily.
Should this firm, or another, settle
on Wilmington as a favorable site for
a plant, it would be because green cof-
fee could be brought in at less expense
than at New York, the country's larg-
est coffee roasting center, New Orleans,
also a prominent center, and because
the needed site is available on the river
front.
Here is n more reason why the
State Ports Authority should be grant
ed possession of the northern part of
the shipyard property, both for it's ter
minals and for industrial sites.
The Maritime Commission, which
thus far has turned a deaf ear to the
proposal, places a severe handicap on
Wilmington's port development as long
as it refuses to surrender this section
of the shipyard, which would not be
essential in resuming shipbuilding in
an emergency, to the Ports Authority.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21

Candid Comment
One Of the hardest ssef..
a man to keep is his opiN-''
himself. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21
The Book Of knowledge
Department: - F A NJ l L A r
THIEGS.)
FIRST RAILWAY SAFETY
DEVICES

Soon after the development of
the raIiroaa ana OF Steam locomo-
tives early in the last century, the
problem arose as to how a moving
train might be slowed and brought
to a stop. Even at 20 miles al
hour, considerable momentum is
attained.
On some of the early trains it
was customary for the engineer,
upon approaching a station, to
summon a labor crew by means Of
the hiss of escaping steam through
the exhaust. By main force, the
laborers then would check the
speed by catching hold of the
train, while the station master
thrust a heavy pole between the
wheel spokes.
Quite early, however. moderate
ly successful hand brakes were in
vented. Real progress vas made
when, in 1843, George Stephenson
of England invented the steam
brake. In 1869 George Westing-
house, American inventor, COM
roenced working on what turned
out to be the highly successful
roodern air-brake system.
Railroad companies soon r e a l.
lied also the need of signaling de-
vices. Without them, collisions
we're bound to take place when
trains were travelling in opposite
directions on the same track.
In the days OF the single track,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21
Coffee Roasting Plant

Fully two years ago John Colluci
discussed Wilmington's industrial ex-
pansion in an Illuminating address be-
fore the Kiwanis club. Among plants
which would add materially to the city's
economic rating and which would be
to the advantage of the manufacturer
as well as the city, he said, is a coffee
listing establishment. The port would
lsnefit, the payroll would be we'll worth
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21
BY T EDSON

WASHINGTON. - Much exag-
gerated comment will probably be
made on the Supreme Court de-
cision upholding the Interstate
Commerce Commissions first
class freight rate equalization Or
der Of May 1915.
By this order class" freight
rates on most manufactured goods
will be increased 10 per cent in
the ''official" railroad rate terri
tory northeast of the Potomac,
Ohio, and Mississippi rivers. n
the Southern, Southwestern and
Western Trunk Line rate terri
tories east of the Rockies class
freight rates will drop 10 per cent.
Rates in the Mountain-P acific ter
ritory west of the Rockies + not
directly affected.
Some effort has been made to
build this up into an industrial
revolution in the U. S., changing
the pattern of the entire economy.
Extravagant claims have been
made that this order will cause
chaos in the industrial Northeast.
Roughly half the U. S. population
and nearly three : fourths Of the
country's business, measured in
dollars, is concentrated in this
rich area which has up to now
enjoyed the lowest freight rates.
Equally extravagant claims
have been made that the new ice
order should give the South and
the Midwest an industrial boom.
Southern states in particular have
led the long fight against the
preferential freight rates enjoyed
by the Northeast.
Strangely enough, it mas not
Leen the railroads who fought the
ice rate change order when it was
issued two years ago. They had
prepared their tariffs in compli-
ance and filed them with the ICC
when nine Northeastern states
filed suit in federal court at Utica,
N. Y. seeking an injunction to
prevent the order from being put
into effect. Gov. Tom Dewey OF
New York was one of those woo
brought the suit, and this fact was
used against him politically in the
West.
Correctly appraised, the SUI
preme Court decision approving
the ICC order is merely the first
step in carrying out a long-needed
unification of the American rail-
roads freight rate schedules.
Historically, these schedules
have f'just growed' as American
commerce has spread west from
the eastern seaboard where the
first rei'~ce6c we've built. and as
the number of products carried by
American railroads has grown to
its present many thousand items
of diversified freich4.
For almost all the go years of
its existence, the ICC has been
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21
A Dream Come True

Friends of education here have long
dreamed of a junior college, and some
of them have implemented their dream
with good work in its behalf for years.
The Star has been a consistent ad.
v%ocate, the college having been one of
the prime projects for Wilmington's
development, kept daily before the pub
lie in the program on the editorial page
until the war, and by frequent exploita-
ton editorially and in the news columns
throughout the war years.
With the fighting ended, the New
Hanover County Board of Education
enlisted the cooperation of civic clubs
and other organizations in bringing the
proposal before the Board of County
Commissioners, whereupon the county's
governing authorities called an election
at which the voters too endorsed the
project and authorized a small tax for
college maintenance.
This done, it became necessary to
work out a program and find quarters.
Buildings at Bluethenthal airport were
turned owe to the school board, but
could not be prepared for occupancy
Immediately. With the cooperation of
the North Carolina University, the
board finally arranged to conduct the
college in the high school and is now
able to announce that classes will be
held there, with the opening of the
next regular school year.
1t is a temporary arrangement, to
be continued only until the school au-
thorltles can complete a rehabilitation
program at the airport and occupy it's
own plant there. The fact that the
board has overcome many obstacles and
is to start college courses in the fall
Is a highly creditable accomplishment,
indicating the boards intense interest
in the undertaking.
The advantages of a junior college
to all southeastern North Carolina have
been recognized throughout the area
itself and the state. Parents will no
longer be compelled to send their off
springs away to continue their educa-
ton after graduating from high school.
lhls will mean a great deal, not only
to family circles but to the business
community as we'll. Furthermore, the
college will draw students from sur
rounding counties, who because the
school will be close to home. NAV spend
week-ends with their families and
among their home town and rural
friends.
Yes, the junior college dream has
come true. Wilmington has passed an
other milestone in it's development.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21
Who Pays The FREIGHT?

trying to straighten out this mess.
1t has achieved some unification
of rules and regulations, but not
of rates. Its order of two years
ago was only a first step in this
direction. 1t affects perhaps 5 per
cent of the railroads total ton
mage.
ICC can now proceed with The
rest of its program. 1t has already
directed the carriers to work out
a uniform rate classification to ap-'
ply to the whole country. The rail-
roads are now at work On this
tremendous job. Gradually, rates
on commodities other than manu-
featured products which make up
class freight will be considered in
dividually and brought into proper
relationship with the class rates.
This may require several years.
Rates Oh raw materials - coal,
grain, ETC., half the roads ton
nage-will not be affected.
In the meantime this first equal
ization of freight rates on manu-
featured goods-10 per cent higher
in the Northeast, 10 per cent lower
in the South and Midwest-is not
expected to have too great an eff
feet on prices. Small manufacture
ers in the Northeast who ship only
in this territory will pay 10 per
cent more. In general, transpor-
tation charges represent about 10
per cent of final costs. So a n
per cent average price hike might
be justified. In the rest OF the
country east of the Rockies a SINH
la. price drop would be in order.
But this equalization of freight
rates should not mean that estab-
lished industries in the Northeast
will start moving to the South or
Midwest to gain the advantage CT
lower freight rates. The eason is
! simple. On inter-territorial move
ments of freight from the North
east to the South and Midwest,
eastern shippers have just as
much to gain from the lower
Southern and MidWestern rates as
they have to lose by higher rates
within their own territory.
Viewed in this light, New Eng
land manufa cturers of razor
blades, cutlery, clothing, hard
ware, or machine tools have
something to gain under this new
order because they will receive
the benefit of lower rates on long
hs uls south and west. The North
east should, therefore, keep all its
present industry because it is still
growing.
On the other hand there is now
ar incentive for new industries to
develop il the South and Midwest.
Lower freight rates within these
territories will enable such indus
tries to compete with the estab-
1ished Eastern manufa cturers on
more even terms.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21

HAL S"itNIluS SdIS Ia
trains in a classification yard.
invention was nothing mor than
& red and white disc placed upon
a pole. BY day the raising of the
red disc indicated danger, while
the white one by night told the
engineer of an approaching train
that the track was clear ahead.
The first semaphore signal was
used in England in 1871: and in
1868 the modern block system was
operated in the United States On
the line between Philadelphia and
New Brunswick, New Jersey
The latest device is the auto
matte train stop. A rod extending
down under the engine comes in
contact with a raised rail as it
approaches a danger signal. This
contact completes an ELECTRIC CIR.
cult which automatically locLs all
brakes, bringing the train to a
stop.
copyright, 1916, BY The Gro
lier Society Inc; based upon The
Book of knowledge
distributed by United Feature
Syndicate, 1nc.j
TOMORROW: - Does a Plant Go
to Sleep?
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21

the staff signal vas adequate.
There would be but one staff on
e given stretch Of road between
two stations. On that section no
train could move unless the signal
staff had been placed in the hands
of the engineer by the station
master. At the end of the particu-
lar rul the engineer would give
the staff to the station master,
who in turn would intrust it to
the engineer of a train ready to
start in the opposite direction.
This device proved no longer
practical with the coming of
double tracks and more frequent
train schedules.
In 1884. the first system of fixed
signals appeared in England. The
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21
Star Dust
For Thought

when I was a poor boy selinI
newspapers in front of a swanN
business mems restaurant a ttf
tain Well-knoWn f%lnancier recen'y
related to his friends, q told N.Y.
self that someday | would be 'Nn
and famous, and when | was
would walk into the restsmsp,
and order the finest, most expen
sive meal I could get, and peopl'
would say. What a rich man HI
really must be somebody
We'll, as you know, did mSi'
a lot Of money, and I did becon'
more or less we'll known, But
had moved away to New York il
the intervening years, and it wal
a long time before l stood beloI'
that restaurant again.
II had just closed an l!ngortan
deal that had kept me octlpie'
the better parts of three days an
three nights, and l Was teell'i
terrible and looked it. l was IN
shaven, unkempt and Impressed
I said to myself, NOV
I'll 60 in there and have ''
meal
1T was Sunday afternoon and
the place was closed to the ge1s'
al public, but l had been to-1 m'
even on that day a certain num-
Der of diners could be acccnlH'
dated if they would KNOCK a. Ii,
side door and ask admlllaAcs' !
knocked on the door, and a fHa
soon appeared. He looked al '
rather doubtfully, but finally op'r
ed the door and baee me lolu'
him to the back OF the o0l-u'.s,
"A moment later | was s''1g
ing at the end OF a long ns an.
somely-appointed bar. A09u' ~,
prosperous : looking citizens T NJ.
eating and drinking mere %
man who had admitted me Sls,,
ed down at the far end OF 'ns ! ~,
Catching the eye of the W. i,
stationed there. he called Ua ", 4
tones which could be n 1nr'
throughout the place; 4
George! Here's another O OS
those birds looking for a 0@l'''
Feed him up ..a,
The financier sighed Nsail.
WELL" he concluded, ".i'., 4, +,
was at last-having a medi -" ,,r,.
swankiest restaurant in tne ~"
and some of the biggest n'A nh
the city were watching MS' Il,
somehow, boys, the tnFi'
gone"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21
ne Doctor Says
KITCHEN ACCIDENT
TOLL UP TO 60oa
BY WILLIAM A.. O'BRIrN

Six thousand persons vsr. D.
IN me Kitchen in l946 and Killed
more were injured, acc ~,,u man,
tics. ) Stats.
Burns and scalds are tb,
frequent type of kitcbeH we to6a
with falls occupying seco "ry'asa1
Home injuries and deattp place.
most common among cbiId IaS az
Old persons. Most a~ccjdent.r and
caused by carelessness saa az,
housekeeping. ''i0 pooi
Burns usually result fron,
iessness in handling gasoljn. ears.
kerosene. One hospital roe 'ht
that IN a large series of ,sp0'ls;
burned patients from r,, p.Is'e!
tricts over two-thirds wer. d.
jured by gasoline fires WIZ u
Children scald themselv..
ciufchlng projecting pan hass-sgI
on the stove. Other chij5re r'al'
scalded On washdays ~ faYla IL
tubs Of hot water left OH ths ss a'
Asphyxiation occurs vhsr '''''
lighted gas jets are turna, w.
Common cause of asohyxjatiIo, W
night is a coffee pot wbj(k ~.
over and extinguishes the WY
flame as the victim dozer n -
waiting for the coffee to bo. @4A
Carbon monoxide aspbvyiss.
may result from gas lets DS.
burn with too high a flan. "a !,
poorly ventilated kitchen rr
a defective lighter pilot. Cssb m.s
ing units should have an e,,,.
vent to the outside. '
Kitchen falls result from ,.
perry Waxed floors, scatter , Way
objects left lying around, and t,'
over projecting pieces of vor, n.y.
linoleum.
II a factory owner had 4 ro,.
as dangerous as a kit.acl ia W..
building, he would put wp,r~ M,
signs on the doors and walls y.
would post instructions for s,
use of the various pieces Of cam,
ment and lie would hold irst,,
ton classes on general ssrs,
practices for everyone who N.
tered the room.
QUESTION: I clean nv te,
with salt ana soda dissolved |,
hot water. Win this ero0p A,
enamel?
ANSWER: Salt and soda !,
recommended by many dents,
in place of toothpaste and o,
powder. They will not erode h,
enamel.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21
GOOD MORNING

learned through success, but through mis-
adventure.-A. B. Alcott.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-03-07
JEWS IN
SPORTS
By Haskell Zimmerman (JTA2

ny haskell Zln
Sid FEEDER of the Associated Press
travelled out to RumsOn, N. j. last
Sunday to visit the cOnvalescing
Mike Jacobs. Sid tells us that
Mike is getting about the house
rather easily and except for the
paralysis of his right arm, shows
little sign Of the long hospital or
deal he recently underwent. ia
cObs informed FEEDER that he was
gaining his strength rapidly and
by the summer time would be back
in the harness at Madison Square
Garden. The fight promoter told
Sidney of some of his boxing plans
which include a June heavyweight
title defense by champion Joe
Louis.
While Michael takes it easy at
his beautiful estate the goth Cen
fury Sporting Club continues to
function smoothly under the guild
ing hand of Sol Strauss, Jacobs
cousin and lawyer. Strauss, who
bears striking facial resemb-
lance to Mike, except for the fact
that he is completely bald, is a
highly tensed individual who often
spouts legalistic double talk. Pos
sessed of the same irascible temp
erament as his matchmaking
cousin, Strauss likes to do all the
talking and wants everybody to
listen. The other day. he pulled
something new on the hard boiled
Metropolitan newspaper men wher
he called them together for a con.
ference and started by saying
"Now, what I am about to tell you
is off the record" Naturally thi:
made a wonderful impression upor
the boys covering the boxing beat
You can readily see that the Mad
ison's Square Gardens boxing pro
motions are left in very capable
hands. Actually the goth Century
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-03-07

the two-day third annual conven-
ton of the American Association
of English-Jewish newspapers.
The assembled editors and pub
fishers protested the British policy
of delay and repression in Pales-
tine and urged the British Govern
ment not to impose martial law
in the Holy Land. The association
also went on record in support of
the $17O,OOO,OOO U. ]. A. campaign
and pledged the full editorial and
news resources of it's member
papers to the drive.
Jewish Book Month, which is
sponsored by the Jewish Welfare
Board, in the future will designate
one week of the observance as
Jewish Press Week, during which
the contribution of the Anglo
Jewish newspapers to the COM
munity will be stressed, it was an
nounced at the meeting. The asso-
citation extended congratulations
to two of it's members, Irving
Rhodes of the Wisconsin Jewish
Chronicle and Ben Neustadt of the
Ohio Jewish Chronicle, on their
25th anniversaries as publishers.
Philip Slomovitz, editor of the
Detroit Jewish News, was re-
elected president for third term.
Other officers are Robert Gamsey
of the Inter-Mountain Jewish
News of Denver, first vice-presi-
dent; Albert w. Golomb of the
American Jewish Outlook of Pitts
burg, second vice-president; Mr..
Rhodes, secretary; Leo H. Frisch
of the American Jewish World
of Minneapolis, treasurer. In adj
dition to the officers the following
are members of the executive COM
mittee: Joseph G. Brin of the Bos-
ton Jewish Advocate; J. I. Fish
bein of the Jewish Sentinel Of
Chicago; Mr.. Neustadt and Eli
Jacobs of the Jewish Review of
Buffalo.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-03-07

After a quarter of a century of
Saturday night basketball the
Philadelphia Sphas moves it's play
ing date to Thursday evenings.
From now on the Sphas share the
bills at the Philadelphia Arena
with the Warriors of the B. A. A.
hoop league. Philadelphia is be-
ginning to get an over abundance
of basketball fare what with the
Warriors and Spfas playing pro
ball, and the collegiate double bills
running in Convention Hall. Then
too, the University of Pennsyl-
vania plays before big crowds at
the PaIestra> while VillanOva
draws well to it's home games.
Due to the fact that the American
League expanded several weak
sisters got into the loop and din't
help to pad attendance at the
Sphas games in the BrOadwOOd
Hotel. Therefore, it was deemed
to play the Sphas and
Warriors on double header bills
at the Arena to much larger
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-03-07
Anglo-Jewish Publishers Asks US. To
Secure Jewish Representation at U.N.

MILWAUKEE, (JTA-Resolu-
lions callig on the U. S. Govern
ment to utilize unused wartime
immigration quotas for the admis-
sion of displaced persons and urg-
ing the U. S. representative at the
United Nations to take the lead
in securing Jewish representation
there when the Palestine question
is discussed were adopted here at
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-03-07

crowds than normally attend a
single game in which either the
Warriors or Sphas are featured.
This double header professional
basketball trend, started in Phila-
delphia, is beginning to extend
throughout the country. Wherever
a b. "A. A. team is located the
tendency today is to have either
an American League quintet or a
leading cOlOred aggregation team
up with them to give the fans a
complete evening of basketball
fare.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-03-07

Irving Mondschein and John
Vislocky continue to vie against
each other every Saturday night
for high jump .honors in the East.
AS of this writing the boys have
split even in six high jump duels.
We like the way Vislocky sits
down between his jumps, places
his head between his legs, and
prays. Perhaps that is why Of
late, Vislocky is beginning to clear
the bar at higher heights than his
Jewish opponent.