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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-09
CITY BRIEFS

The Rev. Mckinley Hawkins,
Negro, of Kinston, will be guest
speaker at the Shiloe Baptist
church this morning at II
o'clock and at 7:30 O'Clock to-
night.
The S o u t h n Wilmington
Home Demonstration club will
meet Tuesday 2:30 O'Clock in
the home of Mrs. L. I. Landen.
Miss Nancy Ingram, assistant
Home Agent, will preside with
a program concerning the state
health program on Eat Your
Way to Health"
A. c. Hill, assistant regional
director of the American Red
Cross, Atlanta, Ca, will meet
with the executive committee
of the local chapter Monday 4
p. m. at the Red Cross home,
All S. Front street. The quota
for the 1947, fund campaign will
be discussed.
A city-wide fellowship meet
ing is planned for Monday night
at 8 o'clock at S~outhside Bap-
fist church. All Baptist Train
ing union directors are request
ed to have representatives at
this meeting. Reports will be
made from each union. Willie
Buck is director of the local
district.
Elder j. T., Williams will
preach at the Primitive Bap-
fist church, 507 Castle street,
tonight at 1880 o'clock.
Bishop J. H. Clayborne of the
Second Episcopal district of
AME churches, will preach at
Mt. Zion AME Negro church,
Fifth and Nixon street, tonight
at 7:30 o'clock, as announced
by the pastor, Rev. S. A. Fen
nell.
1t has been reported that a
yet unidentified steamship,
bearing a cargo of banak, wood
used in plywood manufacture,
for the Southern Box and Lum-
Der company, is due to arrive
here Feb. II. Wilmington is
the vessels first United States
port.
DR.. Harry Boon and Law
renee w. Boon arrived yester-
day by private plane from At
lanta to visit their father, Alex
ander Boon, of Chestnut street.
The Georgia visitors made the
trip in three hours and Is min
utes flying time in their Cub
Cruiser.
The Board of Directors of the
New Hanover County Tuber-
culosis and Health Association
will meet Monday at 4:3o p. nj.
in the Auxiliary room. st.
James Parish House, it was an
nounced yesterday by Miss
Lucy Nash, executive secre-
tary.
The Brotherhood Of the
Fourth Street Advent Christian
church will entertain the First
Christian Church Brotherhood,
with a banquet Tuesday night,
Feb. II, at $50 O'Clock in
Memorial hall. All men of both
churches are invited to attend.
The 10th anniversary meet
ing of the First Baptist church
Brotherhood class will be held
in the church building Thurs
day night at $3.50 o'clock, W. R.
Jones, president, said yester-
day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-09
HEADS PRESS CHR

WASHINGTON. Feb. 8.-(F-
Warren B. Francis, chief of the
Los Angeles Times bureau here,
was installed tonight as president
OF the National Press Club. He
succeeded Paul Wooten of the
New 0flAana T1mes-Picav1ine.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-09
BAVARIAN GENERAL DIES

MUNICH, Feb. 8. - Up - The
death of Gen. Franz Ritter Won
Epp, 70, chief of the famous Ba-
varian free corps" in Germany's
turbulent between-wars period and
a Hitler intimate, was announced
in the German press today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-09

Golf balls have an internal pres
sure OF approximately n and
lone-half tons.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-09
NO MANEUVERS

High ranking officials at Camp
Lejeune last night denied reports
that any troops had left the base
within the last "a hours to go on
maneuVerS,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-14

strictions may be placed on
other member schools particlp'
ating in Bowl gaces in order that
the whole Conference my share
in receipts.
The committee eliminated a
wartime ruling which permitted
schools not to count basketball
games against service teams
among the "a allowed during the
season "B" and freshmen bas-
ketbal players will be allowed
to pay as mixed team if the
school desires with a 12-game
limit. Only eight games will be
permitted if freshmen only are
used.
Another recommendation was
that team championships in gol1
be determined by round robin
tournaments. A Coference tour
nament to determine the indi-
vidual champion as is now the
practice will lbe continued.
Championships were declared
for 1947 as follows: Basketball,
swimming, baseball, fencing,
cross country and golf Texas !;
Track - AIM; Tennis - Rice,
and Football - Southern Me-
thodist.
The 1948 swimming tourna-
ment was awarded to AIM; fen
cling to Texas University, track,
tennis and golf to Rice, and
cross country to AIM.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-14
SWC LAYS DOWN
RIGID PURITY RULE

DALLAS, Tex, Dec. 13.-WP)-
The faculty committee of tn e
Southwest Conference today
adopted a more string not "puri-
ty code' for athletics of member
schools han that of the National
Collegiate Athletic Association
ishly entertained.
No outside remiuneuative Jobs
for athletes are permitted du-
ring the school year, the
scholarships consisting only of
employment providing board,
room and laundry. Nor will the
athletes be permitted to accept
gifts such as clothing or be law
ishly entertained.
The executive secretary of the
conference was given power to
name an investigating commit
tee, or initiate an inquiry of his
own concerning any questio-
able activities. He is to study
and make recommendations for
penalties to the faculty commit
tee. The penalties may apply to
the school or the Individual, or
BOTH
The group voted to name
five member committee from
the schools athletic directors to
study distribution of Cotton Bowl
receipts, the mapority of which
now 60 to participating schools
All schools in the Conference get
q small share besides the hos.
team. It was indicated that re-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-14
rRANBERRIES lST
TURKEY SECOND
4, Distinctive As The
~ Favorite
Bird
Bv LEW STANLEY
Ap Newsfeatures

BoRDENToWN' N. J''-G0od
I.terrjes virtually bounce to
+s u, thanksgiving tagle.
~ rron more distinctively Amer
p han the traditional turkey,
Nsn 7OOO.0O0 pounds of the tart
'"1rv SUM- with the tang are being
's..ts'1med each year in the Unit
ed States
oood cranberry must bounce,
eynerts say. To be classed as
I.' crsde A, it must hop on and off
r3,b4 u.P1 designed "bounc-
Ias boards
y Not only do cranberries get the
.onnce they are scalped, flooded,
.D.raved. busted, bitten by bees,
.,ppooned, .paoT padded, bathed, pulped,
~~ ~,trsined. cooked and chilled be-
,orp reaching you sa sauce, jam,
ieiIy. juic-, cocktail mix or in the
~ Tace cream has also been de-
,;red from the deep red mem
nor m Of the heather family. Even
In,..ks ~ can be made from cram
hsrry wax, if you like that flaw
+ all adds up to an industry
.o,servatively Valued at $4,000 =
400 supporting 100000 persons
nroducing an annual crop worth
Sl6O0O0O0.
So ingrained in American liv-
;ng is the berry which grows in
,b9 % that the U. S. Weather Bur-
oau maintains a special warning
,orvice when frost hits the cram
berry bogs,
Then the elaborate water sys-
TENS installed by all cranberry
rowers flood the bogs, protect
jng the berry vines from cold
Sometimes when the frost des-
cends suddenly, it is too late.
New Jersey, third largest pro-
ducer of cranberries, had to cut
its l947 estimate of yield from
$4,000 barrels to about $4,000 aft
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-14
DR.. LIZ LECCETT
SEES EN- ALL
Gray Haired W o m a n
Physician Still
Alive
BY LARRY MARTHEY

KENT. Ohio-M.D-Dr. Eliz-
abeth Leggett is one woman who
doesn't mind toiling all day over
a cold gridiron-of the football
variety, that is.
For the gray-haired doc" has
missed only one Kent State Uni
versity football game since 1885
in her unique role of team physi-
clan and ex-offcio "Guardian
Angle" for injured Golden Flash
gridders.
Miss Leggett may be seen
regularly at KSU practice ses-
sions-at home or on the road
as she trots briskly across the
field to aid an injured athlete.
On the bench at scheduled games,
the soft-spoken little lady has be-
come as familiar a sight to local
fans as the squad members.
"She's like a Guardian Angel
looking over our shoulders,'' as
serts grizzled trainer Joe Begala,
a member Of the Kent State fac
ulty for the past 16 years. cal
though we don't always need her,
there is comfort in knowing that
she's on the bench"
DR.. Leggetts philosophy that
mo sport in the world is worth
an injured athlete has paid off
with remarkable record during
her dozen years at the university
and she takes understandable
pride in the fact that there never
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-14

eI iGCeHL colo spells.
The bogs are low sandy mar
shes concentrated in theCape Cod
section of Massachusetts,, north
ern Winconsin, centeral and south
Jersey, and portions of Oregon
and Washington.
Usually land which the ordi-
nary farmer would scorn, a bog
must be 'scalped'' or completely
cleared, and sanded about every
four years to grow the berry
found in wild abundance by the
PILGRIMS near Plymouth when
they celebrated the first Thanks
giving.
Every acde of cranberries re-
pulres from one to two active
hives of bees for pollination.
Harvest time, from September
to November, brings thousands of
migratory workers to pick the
vines with box-like teethed
scoops.
Picked and sorted by hand and
bouncing boards, about 80 percent
of the berries 60 to canneries to
spare the housewife the job of
preparing the sauce.
Arriving at the plant the ber-
ries are padded through huge
washing tanks, cooked to pop the
skins, pulped and strained, cook
ed again, canned and cooled in a
mechanical process lasting eight
minutes.
1t was Trenton, N. j., dress
maker, the late Mrs. Elizabeth
F. Lee, who first saw the COM
mercial possibilities of proc
essed cranberries. In 1917 she
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has been a serious KSU injury

has been a serious KSU injury
during her career there.
Passing along a tip to injury
plagued coaches, she declared: ::
"One specific point I've noticed
is that the better the team, the
less injuries there are"
Duties of taking X-rays, dag
nosing injuries. and prescribing
treatments represents only part
of the job to Doc" for the play
ersfeel she also is a vital cog in
KSU football machines in her
role of companion, critic and ra-
bid fan.
DR.. Leggett, who received
bachelor of science, doctor of
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-14

medicine and master of science in
medicine degrees at the Univer-
sity of Minnesota, has no new
plans for the future.
I'D miss the students too
much" she sighs, ''If l ever
tried to do anything else"
The doctors affection has been
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-14

gave grocers free samples of her
sauce to get orders.
Today, her nephew, Enoch F.
Bills of New Egypt, manages the
Bordentown, N. j.. plant Of the
countrys largest cranberry CO.
operative, the National Cranberry
Association, headed by Marcus
L. urann of Hanson, Mass, and
John c. Makepeace, Warelam
Mass
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-14

richly returned. In fact members
of the 1888 Golden Flash team
spurned a bevy of beautiful
blonde nominees and named their
gray-haired physician as Sweet
heart" of the annual PigSkin
Prom
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-14
TANK MEET SLATED

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va =,
Dec. 13.-(P)-University of Vir-
ginia swimmers will open slate
of six dual meets against the
tankmen of North Carolina State
on January 10 at Raleigh.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-14

Cape Town, site of a Dutch vic
tually station in the II cen
tury, is still called the tavern
of the seas"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-14
"Othe1s" !"

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The echo., 1947-09-01

Americas most widely discussed
singing star is the featured vocalist
with Lucky Miilinder's sensational
entertaining orchestra. Former head.
line soloist with Wings Over Jor-
dan, Paul's spine-tingling rendition
of you Can't Put Out The Fire By
Tanning The Flame" new Decca
recording by the Dynamaestro and
his band, is headed for top popu.
larity in the nations juke boxes
and on disc jockey radio programs.
Millinder and his aggregf'ion
featuring curvaceous Anisteen Al.en,
"Bulimoosc" Jackson end B.cc.scn-
ridge will soon be seen i'm this ,nr-i-
tory. An extra added attraction iii
be the Lucky Milinder I941 Va
tional Talent Discovery Quest. oprn
TO all local singers, instruments, IS,
vocal and playine quarteis. tr,ns,
ETC.. who seek n career in show
business, as we'll as fabulous pr.ze
awards.
The echo., 1947-09-01
MRS. MARTHA DURR
SUCCUMBS

Mrs. Martha Durr, the loving wife
of Mr.. M. A. Durr of Toomsuba, Mis-
sissippi died Sunday, July q after
an illness of nine months. During
this period she was confined to her
bed for eight months and was al
ways found cheerful and jolly.
She held membership in New Hope
Baptist Church for forty-three years
Joining at the age of sixteen. She
Mrved in the capacity of president
of the Missionary Society and the
Red Circle and was chairman of the
Board of Finance.
In view of the fact she was Bap-
fist and her husband c. M. E., she
felt it her duty to serve in both chur-
ches and she obtained great JOY and
pleasure in doing SO. The name OF
Mrs. Martha Durr" to all of those
Whe know her meant service.
She was affiliated with the Chris
Continued on page
The echo., 1947-09-01
LABOR DAY l947
by
Ruth Taylor

Labor day is typically American
institution, bearing no resemblance
to the labor days" observed in Eu-
rope. 1t is not 'class" day, draw
ing distinctions between a downtrod-
den lower class" and a thin upper
crust of leisured and priviledged in
dividuals. 1t is, instead, a day when
the nation as whole does honor to
those who labor And that includes
virtually every one of us, regardless
of class, creed or color.
This country was founded on the
theory that a nation could be welded
out of materials from all over the
world. The elder nations owed their
origin to grouping of various peo-
Piles of the same stock or tongue for
protective purposes, or to wars of
conquest, where dominant group
seized power n d assimiliated. or
overlooked minority factions.
Not so America. For the most part
this nation was founded on hard
work. For it took Labor of all kinds
to carve a nation out of virgin will
derness, to make roads through
trackless forests, to cross mighty riv-
ers, to find passes through the snow
crowned mountain heights and to
subjugate continent. 1t was Labor
that cleared lands, and built town
ships, clustering around those fore
runners of civilized life, the church
and the schoolhouse.
Our aristocracy has always been
made up from those whose work was
good, and who by their labor of body
and mind made easier and better the
paths of those who followed. Our
scorn has always been for the idler,
for the man who took advantage Of
what others had done, without con-
The echo., 1947-09-01

tributing either of hand or brain to
the common welfare. The men and
women whom we have chosen to
honor have been those-no matter
from what group they came-who
have worked hard and done most for
the common good.
For this reason Labor Day is not a
day set apart for any one group but
a day which all may celebrate. We
have learned that only those things
which are earned are enduring that
there is a task for each ond every
one of us. Knowing this, let us on
this Labor Day in the year of our
Lord, 1947, rededicate ourselves to
the task set before us, and so labor
that we may pass on to the next
generation a nation better and stron-
ger for GU rhaving lived and toiled
therein, and heritage of accom-
| plishment to spur on to greater labor
and greater accomplishment those
who follow
The echo., 1947-09-01
NEWS RELEASE

Nashville, Tennessee: Three checks
totaling SGT $1,000, were presented to
w. M. Duncan, Treasurer, Meharry
Medical College, Nashville, Tennes-
see, by Charles H. Bynum, Director
Interracial Activities of the National
Foundation for lnfantile Paralysis,
representing the organizations pre-
sident, Basil OConnor.
The checks comprise three recent
grants from the National Foundation
to the college to further the fight
against infantile paralysis. They will
finance a service program In physl-
cal therapy, maintenance OF a teach
ing and service department in ortho-
pedic surgery, and will underWrite
instruction in pediatrics for under
graduate and postgraduate students.
Attending the presentation in the
physical therapy department were
DIR. Don Clawson, President, Mehar-
ry College; Miss Marjorie Franklin
Mr.. C. w. Preston, and Mrs. Bryant
physical therapists, Meharry Medl-
cal College; Mr. H. H. Miller, Super
intendent, Hubbard College; and
DR.. William p Hardy.
Mr.. Bynum disclosed that besides
the recent grant to Meharry Medical
College, the National Foundation,
since 1899, has granted and appro-
priated more than 81, 100000 to Ne
gro institutions. Among these in
stitutions id e d by the National
Foundation or its chapters are: Tus-
kegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama,
North Carolina College, Durham;
Collins Chapel Memorial Hospital,
Memphis; Hubbard Hospital, Nash
vile; Saint Mary's Infirmary, St
Louis, Missouri; Saint Augustine
Hospital, Raleigh, North Carolina;
and Provident Hospital, Chicago, Ill
The echo., 1947-09-01
WhoOWns Business?'
By GEORGE S.BENsoN {
hsssdsnt Of Harding College
Ssarey Aradnsas

"WHO OWNS American corpora
tions?" That was the lead sem
tence of an Associated Press
story released the other day.
Point of this story was that the
people own business. Stockhold-
ers of five big companies in repre-
sentative fields added together
number l,684,868, or enough peo-
pie to make the fourth largest
city of the United States. That
is correct. the people do own our
corporations. 1t is right for peo-
pie to own our business.
have often contended that in
America you have the people
owning the wealth and resources
of a nation IN much more direct
and complete manner than you
could ever have under any Of the
socialistic dream lltopias. This
is the straight answer to the
Communistic dodge that the peo-
pie are the state. to which must
be added the fact that in tOtalita-
rian countries the state owns the
people. In America the people.
in very real way. own the
wealth and resources of the ma
ton.
Vested" IF YOU WERE to
Interests combine the popula-
tions Of Nevada,
Wyoming, and Delaware, accord
ing to the Associated Press story,
you would still not have as many
peopleyas own the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company.
A city composed of the 100000
A T e. T stockholders would be
the tenth largest IN the country.
Moreover, it. is significant that
this corporations stockholders far
Outrank IN number ITS 100000
workers.
This is generally true of Amer
lean corporations, and when you
add the Sturkhuldpr> 70 tht en-
pluyers, You strengthen vnur p,c-
tore Of America as a p,arr ~ here
,he masses have vested t,,'-t-
ealS IN lht wrath at thr u.i ..n.
IT,. sto, Nh"idcIs oi Lhr uIreSt
The echo., 1947-09-01

railroad in the land, the Pennsyl.
vania, outnumber the employees
almost four to three. They live
in every state of the union, and
on the average own 60 shares,
representing an individual investe
ment of about 1900.
Economic WE THINK of Gene
Freedom eral Motors, biggest
automobile manufac.
turers, as having lot of EN-.
ployees. Yet, except for brief
period at the peak of armament
work during the war, General
Motors stockholders have out.
numbered employees for II years.
More than a third Of General Mo-
tors individual stockholders have
holdings of 10 shares or fewer,
No single person owns more than
l.5 per cent of all General Mo.
tors stock. !
While it is remembered that
sometimes large blocks of stocx
will be owned by other companies.
it must be kept in mind that
these companies in turn hav.s
many stockholders. Notable also
is the fact that many educational.
charitable, and religious institute
tions, as well as non-proft asso>,
Citations and foundations, are on,
the rolls of big" business. No
one knows just how many perso rs
may be dependent upon the sue,
cessful operations of our corpora
tions. In the truest sense, all &c
US are, either directly or indi.,
rectly.
Most of the nations wealth haS
its source in the enterprise Of :.
carefully conducted business. !
cannot imagine why any freq
American would wish to trel,
what we have in this country io-
anv part Of the vague econor's
systems that have sn"dUecd 81 Y
tauurc. Not "riN ta.r ihr~e % -
- >y,trn, th.rd to r.aiuce O. y
dressings 'n. 'rcn ll". 10. N
t",m I'd l ~ .t'Ve Sra
h4t tl.,v '..,- ~4r. -att.s H.
81. SO Dt ,,..,'r.c ::,un.ia.
The echo., 1947-09-01
FORMER MERIDIANITE BREAKS
HIS NECK IN FALL

Mr.. Dave Bordeaux, brother to
Mr.. John Bordeaux of the 855 Taxi
Co., accidently fell off his wagon at
his home in Hattiesburg and broke
his neck. Funeral services were held
in Hattiesburg.
He leaves a wife, one brother Mr.
John Bordeaux and one sister, Mrs.
Sadie Freeman and host of other
relatives and friends.
The echo., 1947-09-01
FORMER BUSINESS COLLEGE
MANAGER NOW TEACHES WAC
STENOGRAPHERS

Fort Ord, California - Technical
Sergeant Louise B. Jones of New
York City, formerly business mana
ger of the Chicago Branch OF Cor
tez Peters Business College is con-
Quoting an off-duty class for steno-
graphers at Fort Ord, California.
Assigned as a court stenographer
in the office of the Ford Ord Post
Judge Advocate, Sergeant Jones was
recently transferred from Camp Bea-
lie, California The classes which
provide stenographic training for in
terested WAC personnel tipping and
shorthand, have won high common
dation from ranking Fort Ord Of
ficers and from the Troop Informa-
ton and Education section.
Sergeant Jones has developed a
three-phase program which is adapt
ed to the needs of students on ele-
mentary, intermediate and senior
levels. Dividing her instruction
equally between the basic subjects
of tipping and shorthand, Sergeant
Jones conducts two classes each day,
fou rdays week.
Prior to her entry on active duty
with the Women's Army Corps, Ser
geant Jones had also won experience
as a newspaper woman and had en-
gagged in social work as an investi-
gator.
The echo., 1947-09-01
ATTEND NATIONAL BEAUTI-
CLANS MEETING

Mesdames Rosana Russell, owner
of the Calmeas Beauty Salon, Bertha
Knott of the McLendon Beauty Sa-
lon and School, and w. A. Reed OF
The McMurtry's Beauty School at
tended the National Beauticians'
meeting which was held in Balti-
more, Maryland.
The echo., 1947-09-01
uEHARRy GETS Three CHECKS
:10IAL|NG $67,670.00
ROYAL. SHOE SHOP IN NEW
HOME

The Royal Shoe Shop, with Mr..
Leon PRESLEY as proprietor, is now
in its new location, 1904 p AFifth
Street. Mr.. Presley will be glad to
greet his many, many friends in his
new home where he specializes in
the same first class service that he
has given THROUGHOUT the years.
The echo., 1947-09-01
IN CITY FOR FUNERAL

Mrs. Emily MeLamb of Kansas
City, Missouri was called to the city
on account Of the illness and death
o fone of her aunts. Funeral SER
vices were held Sunday, August H..
Mrs. McLanb has returned to Kan
sas City.
The echo., 1947-09-01
Local Lodge
News

Reverend J. E. Grace of Lodge No.
SO is leaving no stones unturned in
that he has added three members.
Mrs. c. M. Mayfield of Waynes-
boro has added four new members
since the Convention. From all in
dications she plans to carry one of
the prizes being offered back to her
lodge.
The echo., 1947-09-01
RETURNS TO CHICAGO

Mrs. Ora d. Young, wife of Mr.. D
B. Young of Chicago, Illinois, has re
turned to the windy city after spend
ing a lovely vacation with her par
ents, other relatives and friends in
the city. She was accompanied by
her two small children.