The coastland times., 1951-11-23
BRIDGE GROUP
TO MEET NOV. %
AT COLUMBIA
Gov. Scott Principal Speaker
Wednesday of Next Week
in TyrreII County

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COLUMBIA.-The First Annual
meeting of the Alligator Croatan
Bridge Association will be held in
Columbia on Wednesday, Novem-
ber %, in the Columbia Theatre
with the business session starting
at 1000 am. to be followed by a
program scheduled to start at
11:15 am. and to be concluded with
a luncheon at 80 pm. in the Co.
lumbia High School auditorium.
The program will open with the
assembly singing "God Bless
America" The Rev. Norman
Knight will offer the invocation.
Greetings will be brought by Paul
Liverman, Mayor of the town of
Columbia and Lewis L. Combs,
Representative from Tyrrell Coun-
ty.
Appearing on the program for
the response will be the following
directors of the association, Melvin
R. Daniels of Dare County, Rus
sell Swindell of Hyde County, John
Edwards of Martin County, w. ].
Woolard of Washington County
and M. C. Paul of Beaufort Coun-
ty.
w. S. White of Manns Harbor,
President of the Association, will
preside over the meeting and pre-
sent the directors and guests.
Mrs. w. S. Caravan, Secretary
of the association, of Columbia,
will give a report of the associa-
tion.
Miss Dorothy Jones of Creswell
will sing "The United Nations
Hymn" and will be accompanied
by Mrs. w. H. McClees.
The principal address will be de-
livered by Governor W. Kerr
Scott of Raleigh.
Representative A. G. Anderson
from Martin County, director of
the association, will introduce the
speaker.
The program will be concluded
by singing "The Old North State"
followed by the dutch luncheon to
be held in the high school audi
torium.
During the business period
which will be held prior to the
program, various committees will
make their reports and new off
GERS elected.
The Alligator Croatan Bridge
Association was organized in
Manns Harbor a year ago for the
purpose of working for the i'm
mediate construction of bridges
across the Alligator River and
Croatan Sound. Since it's organiza-
tion members of the executive
committee have held nine meet
ings and have also held a confer
ence with Governor Scott, urging
construction of these two bridges.
Officers of the association are
w. S. White of Manns Harbor,
President; P. D. Midget, Jr., of
Engelhard, Vice President; Mrs.
W. S. Caravan of Columbia, Sec
retary; H. E. Newland of Plym-
outh, Treasurer.
Directors are: Beaufort County,
Max Thompson and M. C. Paul;
Dare County, Melvin R. Daniels
and C. L. Midget; Hyde County,
N. w. Shelton and Russell Swim
dell; Martin County, John Ed
wards and A. G. Anderson; Tyr
rell County, Floyd E. Cahoon and
Julian H. Swain; and Washington
County, w. j. Woolard and R.
Bruce Bateman.
The directors of Tyrrell are
making plans for the annual meet
ing with Floyd E. Cohoon as gen.
eral chairman and Julian Swain
as chairman of arrangements for
the dinner. The dinner will be
dutch dinner with tickets selling
for one dollar each. Reservations
and tickets may be secured from
any member of the board of direc-
tors in any of the six counties
which are members of the associ-
alton. Tickets for the dinners were
placed on sale in the various coun-
ties this week by Mr.. Swain with
the directors.
PASTOR TO START