The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-27
LEGION SELECTS
CAROLINA BEACH
Executive Committee Off
cially Names 1947 Con-
vention Site

DURHAM, Jan. 26. Up The
next state convention of the North
Carolina department of the Ameri-
can Legion will be held at Carolina
Beach and the dates will be June
l5-l6-17, State legion commander
William M. York, of Greensboro.
announced today at the meeting Of
the executive committee of the de-
partment in the ballroom of the
Hotel Washington Duke.
The meeting was held in corjunc-
ton with the annual post officers
conference which began here today
and which will end tomorrow night
with a banquet and dance.
Colonel Paul H. Griffith. of I'm
iontown, Pa, national commander
OF the American Legion, and Mrs.
Norton H. Pearl, of Detroit, Mich,
national president OF the American
Legion Auxiliary, will arrive here
tomorrow to address the closing
sessions Of the conference.
Today's sessions of the conference
were primarily concerned with
meetings and reports from the
legion's standing committees
Colonel Wiley M. Pickens of the
North Carolina veterans commits
sion, and chairman of the boys
state committee Of tile legion, re-
ported at the executive committee
meeting that the next boys state
convention will be held at the Uni
versity of North Carolina and that
the dates will be June 8-15 inclus-
i've.
Commander YORK also announc-
ed that he had appointed the per-
sonnet of three of the most import
ant standing committees OF the de-
partment as follows:
Rehabilitation committee: r. f.
Stevens, of Goldsboro, chairman;
C. A. Pennington, Of Oteen, Nathan
Patla, of Hendersonville, and Dr..
w. C. Ward, of Raleigh, as medical
advisor to the committee.
State Senator Gordon Gray, Of
Winston-Salem, was named on the
publications committee to succeed
Claude S. Ramsey, Of Asheville.
who resigned because OF his duties
as national committeeman of the
North Carolina department. Other
members are Broadus Griffith, OF
Charlotte, and r. N. Wingate, OF
Salisbury.
Colonel Pickens is the new chair
man of the boys state committee.
Other members are the Rev. Her
bert Spaugh, of Charlotte, Cecil
E. Cook, principal Of the Durham
High school, and DR. E. H. H.. Wels.
Of Guilford College.
State Headquarters
State Senator Joe Blythe, Of Char
lotte,. reported on the plans for a
proposed $3.50, 900 memorial head
quarters for the state department
of the legion. The executive COM
mittee voted several months ago to
construct the building lin or near
Raleigh" State legion headquart-
ers have been maintained in Ra-
leigh since 1929. Senator Blythe
said more detailed plans regarding
the raising of funds will be an
nounced later.
Acting on behalf Of American Lee
gion Post, 1850, Fort Bragg, r. E.
Stevens, of Goldsboro, offered a
resolution asking that the state
department executive committee
ask the national legislative COM
mittee of the legion to ask Congress
to amend the present laws to IN
clude pensions for the widows and
orphans of deceased retired enlist
ed personnel of all branches OF the
service. It was unanimously adopt
ed.
The annual memorial services
we're held tonight by the legion and
the auxiliary in the First Baptist
church, with Dr.. Frank S. Hickman,
dean of the Duke University max
ing the address. Commander York