The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-06
Beat
Pickups
BY PHIL WRIGHT

Newspapers policy shaperS
frown on it, but its fun to spec
ulate on what is going to happen.
In City Hall circles rumors
were rife this week that Col.
Royce R. McClelland, former po-
lice department representative on
the Civil Service Commission, C.
Heide Trask, c. M. Harrington,
E L. White, n d Jim Barker,
Wilmington industrial barons are
vieing for honorS on the city's
swelling roster of office aspirants?
Some predicted that McLelland
would file h intentions before
nightfall; some said tn e others
would wait until the last minute.
and others still wondered about
the hi : perennial politician Jim
Wade and when he would toss his
top hat into the now seething
council pot.
Inside story on the whole mat
ter is that at an executive SEES
sion the other night, the Whining
ton Progressive Citizens league
voted to sponsor its own slate OF
officer candidates which it plans
to file officially before the dead
line.
Carolina Beach, laboring for
months under the lack of drain
age conditions, today comes up
with even another and what S
described by some as a more
pressing problem.
The thriving resort has no bank.
City clerks and secretaries
there with an overplus of NICOLA,
other than the regular petty cash
accounts which they a hide
behind a tin of sardines during
their of hours, must come into
Wilmington Or some other nearby
town on the mainland and secure
such securities.
This not only takes time from
theic routine work. but officials at
the resort say there is always the
chance that they could be hijack-
ed. However this has put no extra
ereases in the brow Of His Honor
Thomas Groom, the mayor.
There is no conjecture a b o u t
Wilmington's City Manager j m
Benson getting home sick for his
Swan Quarter paradise e r
gong to live in the hills with his
"namesake" uncle James Ben
son, a Methodist preacher whom
We wrote about a week ago.
1t has come to light that the
now estimble Mr.. Benons took a
great spell of Inconsistencies en-
his first few days he was away.
At Is he couldn't quite make
himself Immediately accustom-
ed to the lack of the chant of the
brook frog, and the sing OF the
grass : hoppers and mosquitoes,
habitating beautiful Lake Mata-
muskett, and his older brother, R.
/. Benson, town clerk now at
Wrightsville Beach, went to live
with Uncle Jim while Whining
tons Jim went home for a balm
ing visit.
But from Carolina Beach comes
the most heartening word IN
many a day.
While Wilmington politicians
wait until the last minute, with
only seven candidates to d a e,
Carolina Beach is already seeth-
Ing with a grand total of Is candi-
dates for council, a month before
election date.
Town Clerk, Mrs. Alice Strick-
land said that candidates e
literally "springing fl behind
punches of seaweed the other
night" deadline date for official
" filing their intentions Of be-
coming members of the resorts
governing body.
and to make things roster, the
oeach's roster includes every ore
OF tn e towns present governing
body, which fact backs up an old
saying by Wilmington's Postmas-
Ter Wilbur Dosher that "a mans
heart should be where his hat is"
By that Dosher explained that
ne meant that wherever d man
makes his home, or wherever ne
Is stopping, he should put h S
shoulder intellectually to the