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WILMINGTON IBMCM!** WfK*. WILMINGTON, N. C.J9Mi m WMFD AT ?:* T. U. DAILYDUKE OFFICIAL TO SPEAK HEREVice President Of University To Be Guest Of Grace Methodist ChuchHerbert James Herring, one of the state s leading educators, will speak at the Grace Methodist church Sunday morning at the 11 o'clock services, it was announced here yesterday.He is the vite-presidenl of Duke University and dean of Trinity College there.Herring, who served as associate professor of speech from 1925-43. is being brought to the city under the auspices of laymen of the church in observance of annual Laymen's Day.He has indicated he will devote his remarks to Stewardship in the church as emphasis is being placed on that phase of church work during 1947.An original Pender county resident, Herring comes to Wilming-i ton with a long church and scholastic career behind him.I Elected in 1946 to his present position in the university. Herring at 49 is one of the more prominent educators in the country.He received his higher academic training at Duke, graduating with an A. B. in 1922. He received his A. M. from Columbia university in 1929.From 1922-24 he taught in Reynold's high school. .Winston - Salem and began his career at Duke In August of 1924.He counts in his lodge and college affiliations membership in the Rotary club, ODK, Red Friars (local). Tau Kappa Alpha. Sigma Epsilon. Phi Eta Sigma, and is a Phi Beta Kappa.He served as Grand Praetor of Sigma Chi, his college social fraternity, in the years 193t-41. He was a member of the college conference executive board, 1944 and was North Carolina Registrar s association president 1938-39. He was a member of the advisory committee of the House of Representatives committee on education in 1944. He is married and has two children, Virginia Frank and Herbert James II.City BriefsNAMED TO DEAN’S LISTAmong the Wilmingtonians named to the Dean’s list of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hiil for their scholastic records mring the quarter recently ended are: Heyward Bellamy. Thomas G. Lynch, and Wayne Spencer.RELEASES REPORTThe payment of disability benefits to insured workers o'.ring periods of total disability is recommended by Social Security Administration in its eleventh report, according to N. A. Avera, manager of the Wilmington office of the Social Security Administration. In making this recommendation for the inclusion of disability insurance, the report said that the wage loss suffered by permanently disabled workers and their families probably runs from $1,500,000,000 to $2,000,-000,000 a year. •OFFICIAL ILLG. L. Smith, local custom official, was admitted to James Walker Memorial hospital yesterday.ENLIST IN RESERVEHenry Edward Hufham, GM • 2-c; John Louis Tharp, SF 3-c; Leonard Waddell Wells S 2-c; and Thomas Jackson Cress. MME 3:c; have enlisted in the Organized Surface Division 6-29 of the Naval Reserve, local officials reported yesterday.LEGION TO MEETAmerican Legion. Post No. 10, will meet tonight at 8 o'clock in the Legion Home on Dock and Third streets. Commander W. K. Stewart ‘ .Jr.. announced last night. A quartet will furnish the entertainment during tonight's mfeeting, the commander added.TO MAKE SURVEYCol. B. C. Snow, Wilmington District Engineer, will leave today for Fort Bragg where he’ will assist in the study of converting army barracks into civilian housing units there. A proposed new school will also be studied.RETURNS TO CITYLt Henry Bost, officer in charge of the United States Naval Reserve Recruiting office has returned from a business trip to Charleston.PASTOR TO SPEAKThe Rev. Charles A- Maddry, pastor of the First Baptist church will %ieak. Friday afternoon at 2:15 o'clock in Grace Methodist church during the program of World Day of Pray-RETIRED ENGINEER REGAINS VOICE ON THOUGHT SUGGESTIONOrdered HeldBRIDGEPORT, O., Feb. 19—tJP)— A retired railroad engineer who suddenly regained his voice after 35 years of silence used his treasured possession today to tell newsmen how it happened.Al Burk, 82 years old, related he was sitting in a rocking chair in his apartment in this Belmont coun-.. community yesterday when something just told me to try to speak.” 'I. discovered,” he asserted, 'that my voice was there.First I looked around to see who was talking.”Burk, who had just recovered from a heart attack suffered a month ago, was unable to explain the recovery of his voice, lost in a railroad mishap on Nov. 11, 1911.Special To The Star NEW BERN, Feb. 19.—Hearing evidence in connection with the death of Roy Ware, Negro, on February 1 as a result of a pistol wound, a coroner's jury presided over by Coroner Raymond Pollock, Jr., found that Ware came to his ceath from a pistol shot fired by Cicero Jones, Negro, and recommended that Jones be held without bond for action by the Craven county grand jury. The shooting took place at a local mill where both Negroes were employed.CHAMBER OFFICIALS OF STATE WILL HOLD 1ST REGIONAL MEETSTILL SCARCESince 'the sugar industry of the Philippines will need to be largely rebuilt, sugar production is not expected to return to prewar output for at least three years.THURSDAY, FEBRUabv^ |SPOFFORD MILLS GRANTS PAY HIKEroll of the company by year, Davis said. Snd -approximately ten , t TO ALL EMPLOYES -ease in wages to ^jployes of the mil]. An increase in the wages of all The hike i: employes of the Spofford Mills,Inc. went into effect on Monday,«0SiHolmes Davis, Jr., president of the mills, said last night.The move will increase the payine nike in wages s Davis said, in Une -5 3*. creases being given *•« v in the SouthDial 2-3311 F^NeM,pap;rFOB EXPERT REPAIR ON HOME AND AUTQ RAIHrTSfcKVlUL ortAKo FOR ITSFl P l-ASK YOUR NEIGHBOR BumCorner 7th and GRACE Sts DIAL2-\7faJOINS COAST GUARDCharlie Herman Bordeaux. S 1-c yesterday enlisted in the United States Coast Guard, local recruiting officials reported. Bordeaux, an ex-Army man, will be sworn in here and sent to Mayport, Fla., for basic training.WILSON. Feb. 19—(.fi—Chamber of Commerce officials and members from 24 eastern North Carolina towns will gather here Friday for the first in a series of regional meetings of Chamber of Commerce executives of the state.'The meetings are designed to stimulate a wider interest in the work of commercial organization and the possibilities for their development in North Carolina.Speakers and their topics include: W. C. Guthrie, of the State Department of Conservation and Development, “Rural Industries; Lloyd Griffin, executive vice-president and secretary of the North Carolina Citizens association, Looking at Legislation,” D. S. Glol-trane, assistant commissioner of the State- Department of Agriculture: “The Agricultural Outlook”; and Harry J. Kruz. 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Wilmington Morning Star
Wilmington, North Carolina, US
Thu, Feb 20, 1947
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