City Council Hears Fire Department Vacancies and Budget Cuts
The council discussed filling four fire department vacancies with candidates including C Faircloth, considered wage and civil service steps, and approved deducting two sevenths of Tidewater Power Co street lighting charges for nonuse. Discussions covered street safety at Fifth and Red Cross, health budget savings, and upcoming bond and ordinance issues.
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Messrs
H. W. Wright
E. K. Barbill
Shepherd
W Merit
Tidewater Power Company
Counsilon McCaig
Ie City
Fifth
Red Crossels
Bradshaw
Ruark
McCaig
Merritt
Rapid
Red Cross
MccCaig
Suncil
Alth Board
Meetee Oo
Bicey
Durham
Flour buyers forced to take cereals under state rule
The State Food Administrator J. G. Cormick approved a rule requiring buyers of wheat flour to purchase cereals or barley flour as a combined sale. The ruling, described as iron clad, carries heavy penalties for violations. Page asks for wide publicity and notes all administrators will meet in Raleigh.
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Suyer
J. G.cormick
Aaary A. Page
Raleigh
Uck
Y .Diministrator
Raielgh
Pageant Inspires as YWCA Elects Directors and Publishes Reports
The Young Women's Christian Association held a well attended meeting in the Hemenway school auditorium to present the pageant Christ in America showing Columbia's victory. Directors elected for three years include Mesdames Peschau Pittman Weeks Rountree Bellamy Sprunt Covington. The program featured Miss Mary Worth as Columbia and the Boy Scouts under B B Cameron, with a chorus and the singing of America.
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America
Columbia
Young Women’s Christian Association
Hemenway School
George Peschau
Milton Pittman
C. D. Weeks
George Rountree
John D. Bellamy
Robert Ruark
W. H. Sprunt
C. C. Covington
Sue Hall
Mary Worth
Association
Boy Scouts
B. B. Cameron
Beaty
Nancy Anderson
Columbia Victorious
Sons of America
The
Association Glee Club
Girls of America
Miss Byrne
Pauline Wiliams
Edward H. Munson
J. B. Sidbury
Vonnie McLean
Ige Association
W. H. Pemberton
Ethel Wood
Howard B. Branch
F. G. Rose
W. G. James
Cooleeries Club
Maul
Elizabeth Haile
Walter Sprunt
Steel Earnings Drop in fourth quarter
New York reports United States Steel Corporation total earnings for the quarter ended December 31 declined to 59,724,125 from 68,243,784 in the prior quarter. The drop reflects weaker steel demand and market conditions, with the company detailing quarterly performance and outlook.
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New York
United States Steel Corporation
Wilmington aims to host Hurley visit with housing ready
The Wilmington Chamber of Commerce and Rotary Club urge Senator Overman to invite Edward N. Hurley, head of the United States Shipping Board, to Wilmington. They note vacant housing and docks, plus ample water frontage, to ease wartime port expansion and freight congestion in New England.
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Hurley
United States Shipping Board
Wilmington
New England
Congress
Norfolk
Atlantic
Newport News
Washington
D. C
Lee S. Overman
Washington, D. C
Chamber of Commerce
Edward N. Hurley
North Carolina
Marcus W. Jacobi
Wilmington Chamber of Commerce
DAA
Rotary Club
Senator Overman
Senator Lee
Overman
Rotary Club of
Gatien
Ketarians
Heny
Primary race centers on Register of Deeds seat and local offices
Local political chatter centers on candidates for Register of Deeds including Henry Horne B F King Sr Walter Blair and incumbent John Haar with Gafford and L Clayton rant as contenders. Constable John H Davis seeks re election and Justice G W Bornemann aims for renomination amid a crowded field.
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Themeelyée
Henry Horne
Office of Register of Deeds
Horne
B. F. King
King
Sheriff's Office
Walter H. Blair
Register of Deeds
Blair
John Haar
Haar
Register
John W. Gafford
L. Clayton Rant
General Assembly
John H. Davis
Wilmington Township
G. W. Bornemann
Wilmington Agency Seeks Government Recognition
Louis T. Moore serves as secretary and J. C. Williams as president in a government backed effort to recognize the Wilmington agency and utilize its services where feasible.
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Wilmington
Louis T. Moore
J. C. Williams
Smileage Campaign Extended One More Week
The Smileage campaign is extended for one more week as Rotary Club volunteers expand a 100 member committee to boost sales of amusement tickets for the soldier boys. Books are on sale at city stores with guidance from campaign headquarters urging public support.
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Rotarians
Rotary Club
Southern Railroads Seek Higher Steel Rates for Exports
Washington January 20 applications filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission request increases in iron and steel rates from Southern producing points to South Atlantic and Gulf ports for export. The proposed boosts range from 15 cents to $1.76 a ton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
South Atlantic
Gulf
Interstate Commerce Commission
Southern Railroads
Catarrh Enemies Treated by S S S Remedy Promise
An advertisement denounces local catarrh remedies like medicated atomizers and douches as ineffective. It urges readers to use S S S from the Atlanta laboratory, claiming it treats the disease at its source and offers long standing praise.
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Saint Laboratory
Atlanta, Ga
Colored community leagues grow across North Carolina
One hundred twenty colored community leagues operating in eight counties under the Extension Department of the Bureau of Tuberculosis and the Jeanes Fund. Florence C. Williams leads as general supervisor with work focused on health sanitation nutrition and school improvement through rural supervisors and youth programs. Rowan and Buncombe lead with ten leagues each. a large Negro Masons meeting praised the effort while noting a shortage of rural supervisors to expand into more areas.
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Raleigh
N. C
Extension Department
Bureau of Tuberculosis
State Board of Health
Jeanes Fund
Educational Department
Florence C. Williams
Rowan and Buncombe Counties
Lodge of Negro Masons
Plas
Footwear Bargain Sale At Wilmington Shoe Co
Wilmington Shoe Company starts a ten day sale to close out lines and make room for spring stock. The firm offers fine shoes at low prices and urges customers to visit to benefit from the bargains.
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Wilmington Shoe Company
Plans to raise women farming labor corps in New York
Plans are underway to recruit an army of women aged 16 and older to work on farms in New York next summer. The effort aims to mobilize a large female workforce for agricultural tasks during the season.
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New York
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FWY Council
TAME
Tidewater Power Co
Tog
Chamber
Register Deeds Office
Walter Blair
Wilmington Savings & Trust Company
Madamoiselle
Dainty
U.S
Walier
Corbett Co
Daint
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