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The Palm Beach Post from West Palm Beach, Florida • Page 35

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meeting In Jacksonville are Mrs. PALM BEACH POST-TIMES Page 36 Sua Max. IS. 1959 is holding up planting of Sunrise to which the federation contributed last year, but that it shouldn't be too long before it an be started. city parks, spoke on landscape de-1 sign and commended the women for the flower show they had Just held.

He also said that a lack of money Garden Circles Pick Officers Sheasley and Mrs. Hansen, wun Mrs. Ditterline and Mrs. B. F.

Reynolds as alternates. Marcus GeiKer. supervisor of Port Of Palm Beach Improvements Reflect Growth In Cargo Tonnage, Freight Handling FT. PIERCE St. Lucie County Federation of Garden Circles elec CAMERA CENTER'S ted officers at Thursday's general HAlSEYs, GRIff ITfl breaking up the train.

When the I Sweden. A good part of the sugar meeting. Re-elected are: president, is destined for distribution through Mrs. J. H.

Sheasley; 1st vice pres train gets to Jacksonville those cars Eoing to the mid-west can be out the country. ident, Mrs. Regner Hansen; 2nd At the time Wilcox was pointing out the different materials there ere 8.000 baes of cement, 12,000 dropped off without disrupting the train." The old tracks were where the new warehouse is now. It was necessary to move the tracks to DUTCH AUCTION SALE NOW IN FULL SWING! By HY WHITE Post-Times Staff "Here comes the ship!" And the whole Port of Palm Beach comes alive, swings Into action. As the ship leaves the Atlantic Ocean and heads into the Inlet it then turns in the turning basin and heads southeast.

Then it backs into Slip 1. This was the Joseph R. Parrott shin of the West India vice president, Mrs. Wilbur Jordan; treasurer, Mrs. W.

W. Hatcher; counselor, Mrs. Ezra Ditter-llne. New officers are: recording bags of sugar and 40,000 bags of beet pulp. In addition there was space reserved for 50 to 60,000 make room for the new warenouse.

secretary, Mrs. W. W. Mangham; i I 3 7 1 i i IV The tracks were moved west of and corresponding secre bags of cement from Belgium which was expected in two weeks. U.A.

1. tary, Mrs. J. L. Klnsey.

"If we had not had the new ware "By doing all our classifying Delegates to the Florida Federa house we would not have been west of U.S. 1 we nave reduced tlon of Garden Clubs April 8-10 Monday Is the Third Day Pricss cf Said able to take care of the beet the crossings on U.S. 1 by approxi mately 30 per cent," Wilcox con Fruit and Steamship Co. I It had to back in to get its stern (back end) against the bridge to unload its freight cars. "General cargo goes to Slip 2 as It doesn't have to back in, it heads in," Port Mgr.

Joel C. Wilcox cargo," ne added, xne ma warehouse is used mostly for Bahama Exclusive At Albeit' tinued. "This cuts down delay of autos using U.S. 1. When we re Hems Down 30 business." He pointed to items that were built the yard over here (west to be shipped to the Bahamas: NOTEi At a Dutch Auction Sale the prices go DOWN instead of In the past year terrific improvements have been made at the plumbing fixtures, shingles, lumber, ice cream mix, refrigerators, roofing paper and tar, light side) we added about feet of track.

"Now we have a total of 7 miles of track in the port. This increases our capacity here so we can meet the increased demand JOEL C. WILCOX port. These changes were made to 6ave wear on equipment and to for trade. We do all this track re Hungarian Music Kflvs time.

New equipment nas wooden doors, building material, second hand stoves, used furniture, including an old mattress and also an old auto radiator. location and maintenance with our been added, a new layout for roads and railroads have been made and own crew, Program Tuesday Wilcox told about his new fender "When we undertook Job of a new warehouse has been duiii. An evening of Hungarian music UP! modernizing the port we made our cost estimates on previous ac system which he designed, ine new system is wedded to the wall. He pointed out how the old The port is a sprawling mass of land covering 75 acres on the mainland, but it is not a sprawling tual handling costs. We estimated bomber tires are used to save the is being offered Tuesday at the Norton Gallery of Art.

Free to Palm Beach Art League members, and with tickets available for sale to the public, this concert will pre on past experience that the labor mess. It is a weu organizes wall and the pilings from cost would run to we a already bought our five-ton hy smooth-running institution in which the whole area is Interested and pays taxes to keep going and is administered by the district board draulic erane at a cost of $22,000 He showed how in moving the sent Jules Gyorl, his wife, Hilde-gard, and their two young sons. "Bv using the crane instead of tracks he straightened them out and eliminated the curve in the DrScholl's Sandals An operatic and musical theater nf mmmlssioners. consisting of muscle power our labor cost for the job was $12,000. The crane naid for itself on this one Job.

It old tracks going to the transfer Chairman C. Markhara Langham, performer from Hungary who not long ago escaped Communist rule, bridees where the cars are loaded with Built-in Comfort! on the ferry. This, he explained, has a useful We of 10 or more Gyori has already achieved much Vice Chairman Gleason JN. Mam, baugh. and Billy B.

Bun orrptjirv-treasurer. reduced wear on the tracks. years. It is now in oauy use ai notice concertizlng here in Florida The West India Fruit and Steam the Dort. he possesses a wide repertoire, The port also owns 90 acres of Enjoy complete sandal freedom, yet more restful support than the finest shoe could givel The exclusive built- Then Wilcox explained now time but in the concert to come be will ship Co.

accounts for about 50 per cent of the tonnage at the port. and money were saved by the use land on Peanut island. As one leaves the port adminis emphasize music of his native1 of the crane in handling the rails The company carries everything up arch and cupped heel cradle your land. Dances in native costumes tration building and heads north that were moved. one could think of to and from It's fun! here's how it works: Prices Reduced 10 EACH DAY for 10 Days! Auction Sale Started Friday, March 13 and Ends Tuesday, March 24 at 5 :30 P.M.

"Advance Bids" accepted with a 10 deposit (and full refund if you're All Merchandise in Good Operating Condition All Merchandise Clearly Marked If "Used" All Dutch Auction Sales Are Final Our Usual Service, Demonstration, Instruction Included With All Sales First Bid At "Today's Price" Takes The Item SEE OUR WINDOW FULL OF DUTCH AUCTION VALUES 1 They'll Be 10 Less Each Day IF We Still Have 'em! every make walking a real pleas he sees how the old custom duuq- will be included in the program. The group will be accompanied at "It takes eight to 10 men to lift Cuba. The Radian Fuel Co. ac Ina has been converted into a ure prevent that 'letdown' feeling of ordinary sandals. Ideal casual footwear rails." he said.

"They handle counts for about 25 per cent of the the piano by Mrs. Amy Pomeroy. warehouse bv nutting in a ware tonnage, moving oil mostly from Concert time is 8:30 p.m. house door that is 12 feet high. At Aruba and Venezuela The first half of the program rail in five minutes when they first start to work.

Toward noon they are taking 15 minutes. After dinner their time is seven minutes A ship with cars can be unloaded for home, street, or recreation. WOMEN: Tn, Red. White or Black MEN: Tan, Brown, Black ffv this time ramie had been storea in it, about 180 bales, Wilcox said. Then he went on to show the new will include all Hungarian works: three operatic arias, a group of and re-loaded in 45 minutes, Wil but later it is a total loss.

cox said. The West India, Co. track arrangement. On the other hand," he contin makes 45 sailings a month to and soldier songs and folksongs. The last half will Include one offering in Italian, one in German, several in English and will close with Hun AX 1 ued, "the crane takes three men from Cuba "In building the new warehouse," Wilcox explained, "it was necessary to take up 10,000 feet of to do the same work, but the erane "All the changes that have been is steady; There is no loss of time made in the past year, "Wilcox garian songs and dances.

storage and classification iracus and it lifts the rails better said, "are reflected in the effici 4 PI "TP "The classification tracks are nspd where trainloads are made higher. The same saving is made Molded Sola BUILT-UP ARCH Cupped Hail ency at the port. We are able to handle more cargo than we could OPEN GOLF CHAMPS NEW YORK (UPD-Wfflie An in other loading operations. ud." he went on. "The engine Wilcox indicated the new apron have without them.

Operating cost derson, Bob Jones and Ben Hogan are the only players ever to win has been reduced. We have re comes in and picks a car from here," he pointed out, "and one from over there. In this way they at the new warehouse was paved when the new warehouse was duced our payroll by $19,500 a the U.S. Open Golf Championship built. It is 500 feet by 80 feet, vear.

Because of the excellent con four times. Hogan holds the all- are put together in proper sequence for the train. This is done Then he pointed to the new ware dition of the physical plant less TE 24883 313 DATURA ST. time lowest winning score tor 72 house. to maintain trim on maintenance will be required in the next two yean." holes -278.

We planned on having the maxi (woioht. distribution) mum cubic footage for the money available," he began. "So we went Then he explained this more in detail. One car of machinery will weigh 20,000 pounds. Another will weifih 90,000 pounds.

In putting Into a pre-engineered steel build Glades County ing. Instead of using a cement floor we used eight inches of road rock thorn on the shin if all the 90,000. and two inches of class A pound cars are on one side and the ones on the other the Roads Completed MOORE HAVEN Albert asphalt plant mix. This is the same material used in topping our ship will be off trim. The same is true with fore and hiehwavs, Open Monday and Friday Mil 9 Rogero, State Road Dept.

district board member, announced that "Asphalt cost us about one-third What concrete would. Since we use aft. If weight distribution is not correct the ship will be down at work has been completed on the $166,256 road construction project thp hnwlfront or the stern loacm pneumatic tires on our equipment and pallets, the asphalt is suitable on SR 720 and SR 731. The project When a ship arrives here the cars are unloaded. They are again to our needs.

He explained that the pallets are wooden forms used to stack cargo extends from the Charlotte County line east and south 10.8 miles to its intersection with State Roads 29 and 78 north of LaBelle. material. choose from Sparkling eyelets in pastels or white Liberty lawns in charming prints Batistes and other cottons in prints or plain (3k llllk classified. But this time it is done according to destination. Those going to New York are grouped together so they can be picked up by the engine.

"Say there are 100 cars in the train." Wilcox said, "10 going to Standing inside the new warehouse one is struck by the tre The contract wes executed June 2. 1958 with C. T. Stockton, mendous storage space, and the stacks of material that greets the Hlaleah. Work consisted of clearing, grading, grubbing, laying marl eve.

There are sacks of beet pulp, New York, 12 to Cincinnati, 12 to Chicago, and so forth. They are base, paving, construction oi dratn-asa structures, grassing and refined sugar and cement; pulp from Denmark, sugar from Cuba so an entire group can mulching. and cement from Belgium and be removed at one time without Invest In Your City-Join the Chamber of Commerce Jjry First Shoeing of Spring a great burtt of fashion raws touched off by I. Miller. Shoes that walk a new path, reveal a new-found color scope i all designed with an eye to what'i going on above them.

2. White Tyrol trimmed in white reptile. 29.S5 left Eyelet shirtwaist in yellow or blue. 35.00 center Batiste in pimk or blue with pleated and skirt, lace edged. 49.95 right Liberty lawn in assorted prints.

59.95 Better Dresses, 2nd Floor Bag in "Kahnite Krystal" by Chas. Kahn. 15.00 Bags, 1st Floor I. White calf with multi c-m Hi-4ftx lave 2 r.W Vf Kw '41 olor vamp. 2S.8S 4.

White, twitted vamp, ealf tn mid-high heel 27.03 I TE 3-4523 3 FLOORS OF FASHION Vv A'.

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