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The Most Widely Read Newspaper Along The Central Oj& Una Coast
I VOLUME XXXIII No. 41
10 PAGES THIS WEEK
BEAUFORT, N. C THURSDAY OCTOBER 12. 1944
10 PAGES WEEK
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
BEAUFORT HEWS
PICKED UP OH
STREET IN FRANCE
Pvt. Wells Finds
Copy of NEWS on
Stranger Brought
To Eng. Hospital
Guest Speaker
Once Prisoner
of Japanese
Pvt.. Rilllv Wells, brother of
Mm Fred Kincr. writes from 8
hospital in England:
"Today they brought a boy in
to my ward who was wounded m
Prance, and he had the Beaufort
Kms i his Docket. Seeing that
he wasn't from Beaufort, 1 asked
him where he got the paper, and
he told me that he picked it up on
the street in a little town some
where in France. I thought that
was strange for a little paper
from a little place but it just goes
to show that we sure get around.
I took the paper and got into the
corner and read it all the way
through. It was the first one I
have seen in almost a year.
"I was wounded in France June
(censor deleted) and have been a-
warded the Purple Heart. I have
a wife back there and a baby
which I have never seen the ba
by I mean.
"Well I will close saying here's
hoping for an early victory so we
crn all get back to our loved
ones."
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BEAUFORT PTA
MEETS TONIGHT
Mr . and Mrs. Ball
Will Entertain
Following Meeting
Harlan and Marian
Editor's Note: Mrs. Wells is
the former Virginia Gatlin. We
are happy to tell Pvt. Wells that
she and the baby can be seen any
afternoon walking in the sunshine
of Front Street, and the baby is
as sweet a bundle as one ever
saw in pink sweater and cap lying
up on snow white pillows cooinp
at each friend who bends over the
carriage to admire.
Rev. Garnett G. Phillippe. Wil
more, Ky., returned missionary
.v. China will soeak at Free
Grace Tabernacle, Harkers Island,
Saturday night, October 14th and
Sunday morning and Sunday night
October 15th.
The public is invited to hear
these illuminating and inspira
tional missionary messages by a
spirit-filled speaker. Rev. Phillioe
has been for years a missionary
with the Oriental Missionary So
ciety, serving in Canton, China.
He was a prisoner of the Japanese
and recentlv returned on the rep
atrition liner, the M. S. Giisph
olm, which arrived in New York in
December with nearly 500 mis
sionaries from the Orient. Brother
Phillipe has a definite testimony
of Gods faithfulness to him and
his family during the many months
of separation.
Beaufort PTA will have its first
general meeting of 1944-43 to
night at 7:30 in the auditorium of
the Beaufort Graded School, anu
meetings will be held at the same
hour each succeeding second Tnurs
day night of the month through
out the school year.
Folowing the meeting tonight,
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Bali will
entertain the group informally
giving mothers and fathers ant'
teachers an opportunity to get to
gether socially.
Officers of the revived orgaiiiza
tion are President: Dr. W. L
Woodard; Vice President, Dr. H.
F. Prytherch; Secretary, Miss Su
san Rumley; Treasurer, Mrs. Hugh
Piner. The following committee
Chairmen have been appoirted:
Program Committee, Mrs. F. R.
Bell; Ways and Means Committee,
Mrs. George Brooks; Membership
Committee, Mr. and Mrs. Burton
Daniels; Grounds Committee,
Mrs. J. K. Vanderveer; Enter
tainment Committee, Mr. and
Mrs. Raymond Ball; Publicity
Committee, Miss Marjorie Hum
phrey. These officers and Commit'
tee chairmen met at the home of
the David Merrill's last Thursday
evening for an organizational
meeting, and a number of tnair
men have alrealy called meetings
of their committees.
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GIVEN DlF. C.
Another Bft. Boy
Brings Honor to
Old Home Town
Harlan and Marian Murphy,
twin son of Mr. and Mrs. Manley
Murphy, Davis, entered the Navy
last January.
Milton and Clifton
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JOHN SKARREH
AWARDED DFC
APPLICATION FOR BASIC
BOOK
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Hilda Taylor
Featured in
"Hit" Magazine
Pick up forms R 534 from any
service station or the Local War
Price & Rationing Board, fill out
and return to Local War Price &
Rationing Board along with Cov
er from old A Book, also tire in
spection slip. A books will be mail
ed out around Nov. 8th.
EXPIRATIota OF "B-3" "C-3"
Please remember that the a
bove coupons expired for con
sumer use on September 30
Dealers may use such coupons on
hand to acquire gasoline from
their distributors on or before
October 10. During the same ten
day period dealers may present
the above expired coupons to theii
ration Boards in exchange for ra
tion checks.
M. Godwin.
Gasoline Clerk.
War Price & Rationing Board
Carteret County.
Hilda Taylor, former Beaufort
girl, comes m for publicity again.
In December, 1944, "Hit the Ser
vice Mail's Gazzette55 she arcts a
double page showing her at El
Morrocco with Air Corps pilots, at
the Stage Door Canteen, singing
at the gay 51 Club (New York
City), writing songs, and relaxing.
"She has the glamor to dazzlj the
eys and well as gladden the ears
of those who hear her songs, and
she has the brains to write those
songs herself" says the script..
Hildah Taylor is an native of
Goldsboro but liven 'in Beaufort
and Wilmington before going to
New York in 1941. Her first suc
cesses were as a photographers
model Not satisfied with model
ling, she has made good as a song
writer and knows what it is to
sing over topflight stations.
Hildah loves New York and
"the way New Yorkers treat a
southern girl." Still as she says,
"She gets homesick fairly often
especially for the smell of those
marshes around Beaufort and for
the sound of the Atlantic as it
j beats hard on the Carolina Coast."
DALLAS BLAKE
LOSES LIFE
IN GERMANY
In Beaufort Last
June For His
19th Birthday
Milton and Clifton Styron, sons
of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Styron, Da
vis, and twin cousins of the Mur
phy boys, entered the Navy just a
month before they did. This gives
Davis the honor of two sets of
identical twins serving in the U.
S. Navy from a population of 400
people.
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RATION
BRIEFS
GASOLINE
A-ll good through Nov. 8.
SHOES
No. 1 and 2 "Airplane" Stamps
in Book III good indefinitely.
A new shoe stamp will become
good November 1.
SUGAR
Stamps No. 30, 31, 32 and 33
Book IV, good for 5 pounds of su
gar indefinitely. No. 40 good for
5 lbs. canning sugar through Feb
ruary 28, 1945.
CANNED GOODS
Blue Stamps, Book IV, A-8
through R S good indefinitely.
MEATS
Red Stamps, Book IV, A-8 thru
K-5 good indefinitely.
FUEL OIL
Period 4 and 5 coupons now
valid for current season will re
main valid throughout the coming
heating year. Period 1 coupons
for next season are now valid.
NOTICE
Eyery car owner must write
his license number and State in
advance on all gasoline coupons
in his possession.
Rent Control
All persons renting, or offering
for rent, any living quarters what
sovere must register each dwell
ing until with rent control office in
their rent area. Persons who feel
that they are being overcharged
for rents may submit complines
to OPA. Complaint forms an av
ailable at the local War Price and
Rationing .Board if your area loes
not have a rent control office.
Rev. W. E. Anderson
Speaks at Meeting
Of Local Clergy
The Clergy Conference of Beau
fort and Moreehad held its month
ly session on Monday morning at
the Civic Center. Th'i subject (lis-
i cussed was Religion and Pleasure
i vs The Pleasuvs of Religion.
Leader: The Rev. W. E. Ander
son. In November, the Rev. M.-O.
.Alexander will read a paper on
"The Ministry of Music."
Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Blake, Mul
berry Street, were notified last
week by the War Department that
their son, Sgt. Dallas Blake, Jr.,
USA, was killed in Germany on
September 20th. No further de
tails have been received.
Dallas graduated from the Beau
fort High School in the clasj of
1942. At school he was always pop
ular with the girls and boys with
whom he was associated and main
tained a scholastic standing that
placed him in the upper quarter
of his class. He was a member of
the Glee Club, Vice President of
his class in 1941, and Class His
torian and member of the cast of
the Senior Play in his last year.
The folowing year he attended
Gayers Business College in Char
lotte. Dallas entered the Armv at Fort
Bragg and was trained at Camp
Walter Texas. He was in Beauof rt
during the past summer for a vis
it which included his 19th birth
day, June 25. He went abroad
July 10.
Surviving are Dallas' parenta
and one ssiter, Martha Blake, of
Beaufort.
CARTERET BOYS IN
THE SERVICE
From Belgium Mrs. Joe Mason
has received a copy of the cita
tion of Sergeant Preston's unit
which reads in part: "The ' 20th
Engineer Combat Battlion was
attached to the Infantry with the
mission of clearing the beach with
in the tidal range of the beach from
vicinity (deleted by censor) on 6
June, 1944. In the execution o
this mission, the battalion came a
shore under savage artillery, mor
tar, rifle grenade, machine-gun,
and small -arms fire. Working at
times ahead of the Infantry, the
Engineers cleared a beach exit
through antitank ditches, road
blocks, and minefields to insure
the infantry's uninterrupted ad
vance. Although continuously sub
jected to hazards of enemv fire
and sniper activity, and despite
heavy casualties and loss of vital
equipment, the battalion by splen
did foresight and technical skill
gallantly accomplished its difficult
mission."
Lieut. Charles W. Stevens, Jr.,
B.24 pilot, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles W. Stevens, Front Street,
has been awarded the Distinguish
ed Flying Cross for extraordinary
achievement while on a bombing
mission over enemy occupied ter
ritory on June 20.
Lieutenant Stevens' aircraft.
suffer?d a direct hit on the bomb
ing run which damaged the nose
section, killed the navigator and
bombadier, knocked out No. 3
engine and windshield. Lieut. Stev
ens maintained sufficient control
of his aircraft to leave his forma
tion safely and jettison his bombs.
Over the English coast the No. 1
engine also failed, necessitating a
landing on the beach which he ac
complished without further dam
age to his aircraft or injury to hn
crew.
His citation reads in part: "The
superior airmanship, courage, and
sound judgment displayed by Lieut
enant Stevens on this occasion re
flect the highest credit upon him
self and the Armed Forces of the
United States."
Lieutenant Stevens was previ
outly awarded the Air Medal.
Lieutenant Stevens was gradu
ated from the Morehead City
High School in the class of 1935
and was given the Rotary Medal of
honor for the best all round stu
dent in his class. He attended West
Point Preparatory School, Ft. Dix,
N. J., and Wake Forest College.
I He entered the Army Air Force in
1941, received his wings and com
mission in August 1913, and has
been overseas since Mav 1944. His
wife the former Wilma Walks:.:, of
Charlotte makes her home with
her parents during his absence.
Beaufort Boy Also
Holds Air Medal
With Three Oak
Leaf Clusters
Captain John H. Skarren, 25
year old command pilot on an
Eighth Air Force B 17 Flying
Fortress, has been awarded the
Distinguished Flying Cross for
"extraordinary achieve m e n t'
ANOTHER PAPER
SALVAGE DRIVE
STARTSjUNDAY
Have Paper Out For
Jaycees at 1:30
Jaycees met in regular session
Monday evening over another of
Mrs. Pierson's steak dinners to
discuss many things but especially
to make some decision as to wheth
er to push the paper salvage cam
paign in Beaufort again.
The ChaL-man of the Salvage
Committee continues to present
while cn heavy bombing attacks tne need lor paper salvage in sucn
on German military and industrial a way that a civic minded group
can scarcely turn a deaf ear, but
previous lack of wholehearted co
operation here dampens the enthu
siasm of the boys for this civic
service.
tar-gets and in support of Allied
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The town as a whole deserves
no gold star for the part it has
played, but Jaycees are willing to
get under the project again. That
means that for the next few weeks
they will jump up from their good
Sunday dinners and without tak
ing time to relax in their easy
chairs will" rush out and cover the
town picking up and storing pa
per. They don't mind that even
though they are precious hours to
anybody who works. From you
they ask only that papers be col
lected, tied securely (becaus9 tha
boys are not able to handle them
otherwise), and put out on the
; porch or at the curb by 1:30 Sun
' day afternoon, October 15, and
o-round forces. He also hold-s the each Sunday thereafter until fur-
Air Medal with three Oak
mother, Mrs. Lillian Hendrix. ex
pects to go with them.
Pvt. Leslie T. Mann, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Vernie W. Mann. New
port, wounded in the Southwest
Pacific, and recipient of the Pur
ple Heart for wonuds received in
action, is now a patient in Moore
General Hospital, Swannanoa, N.
C.
Leaf ! ther notice
Clusters. , .1
John is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Bill Skarren of Ann St.,. His wife.
Mrs. Lorraine Skarren, lives at
5016 Montrose Avenue, Chicago,
111. John is a graduate of Btau
fort High School, and attended
both the Ben Franklin University
m asnington, v. w anu w"..
Carolina State University. Before
joining the army in July 1941 he
was an accountant lor tne iiooa
year Tire and Rubber Company.
He won hij -..ir.gs and commission
at Columbus, Miss., in October
1942.
The organization for soliciting
for the War Fund Drive was also
1 perfected at Monday's meeting,
and Jaycees have each taken a dis
trict for which to be responsible.
They begin to collect next Mon
day night. ,
Linwood Goodwin, son of M
and Mrs. Dorris Goodwin. Roe. ar
morer of a B-24 Liberator squad
ron, 15th AAF, Italy, has been
promoted to the rank of corporal,
Corporal Goodwin entered the
Service in April, 1943, and attend
ed armament school at Lowrv
Field, Colo., and gunnery school
at Harlington, Texas. He is a
. I graduate of the Atlantic High
. school and prior to entering the
Carlton Rhue, USN, serving in Service was employed as a feld
the Pacific, has been advanced er for the N. C. Shripbuilding Co.,
from GM 3-c to GM 2c. 1 Wilmington.
You'll Help, if You
Have a Heart
Mr. Adair Hurt
In Accident
Last Friday afternoon about
4:30 W. E. Adair with James Da
vis, an employee, was driving ir.
his Dodge car on the New Bern
Road near the old Canal Bridge
when his car skidded down the
embankment injuring both occu
pants and completely demolish
ing the car.
At Morehead City Hospitai i;
was found that Mr. Adairs right
jaw bone was split, his nose was
not only broken but had been pierc ed
with a stick, and he suffered
from lacerations and bruises al
though no other bones were brok
en. Davis suffered bruises and two
cuts one of which required fivc
stitches. Mr. Adair has spent a
most uncomfortable week, buc the
report is that he is making as sat
isfactory progress as could be ex
pected. Davis was not hospitalized.
Ira Gillikin, S lc, USN, s.n of
Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Gil'iiki.'i.
Smyrna, has just spent a l.Vdf
leave at home following four
trips "across." He returns to hi.-i
The National War Fund, as Drac ship on Monday. Ira's leave i'U'lud
tically everybody understands by j id his birthday which his m .thti'
this time, is a sort of global com- , made an occasion to Kit his friend.-!
munity chest through which Amer- ' together with axki and ice cu-am.
icans are privileged to back, with
their money, a score of agencies as
I widely varied in purpose as USO
clubs for servicement, relief for
the distressed masses of China
Word has been received by Mr. I pvt. j0hn E. Wiley, USA, son of
Mrs. Elizabeth Wiley, Turner St.,
recently home on leave following
17 months as a wire comnrmica
tions non-com in the Mediterran
ean theatre, is now being process
ed through the Army Ground ana
Service Forces Redistribution
Station in Miami Beach where his
next assignment will be determined.
and Mrs. Dave Willis, grandpar
ents of Frank Nance, USMC in
the Pacific, that he is getting a
long all right after being hospit
alized from shell shock.
Captain Skarren. is a member
of the group cited by the Presi
dent for its historic mombing of
the Muhlembau aircraft assembly
plant at Brunswick, Germany.
This group also participated in the
3rd Bombardment Division England-Africa
shuttle bombing of
Messerschmitt aircraft assembly
plants at Regensburg, Germany in
August, 1943, for which the en
tire division was awarded the
Presidential Citation.
Rev. G. V. Stephens
To Hold Meetings
Cork Seedlings
Z,500 cork oak seedlings are
now available at the State 'Forest
Nursery for farmers and 4-H
Club members who might be inter
ested in securing some of these
seedlings in numbers of 15 to 100
per person. Applications may be
made through the County Agent's
Office.
Rev. G. Van Stephens, pastor
of .the First Baptist Church at
Warsaw, will do the preaching in
the Protracted Meetings at the
Beaufort Baptist Church begin
ning October 16 and continuing
for ten days. Services will be held
each evening at' 7:30. Emphasis
will be placed in the singing of
gospel hymns and the Baptist
Quartet will sing special selections
at every service. b
Tha congregation extends a
cordial invitation to every oua to
worship with them, and a special
request that visitors feel free to
come. . .-i, .,.! j- f-
and local welfare work. Probably
most of us are more familiar
with the USO than with any other
single organization indebted to the
National War Fund. Millions of
American boys, from the Aleutians
to Brazil, have dropped in at USO
headquarters to write a letter, see
a movie or just rest between trains.
But the fund also contributes to
War Prisoners Aid, without whose
assistance many American boys in
the hands of the enenry would be
in a desperate condition; not to
mention groups which have help
ed keep the spark of life and hope
alive in the peoples of conquered
Europe.
The $250,000,000 which the Na
tional War Fnud seeks for these
purposes, domestic and foreign, is
raised through personal subscrip
tions and 10,000 community chests
in cities which link their local
welfare programs with the Fund.
Nobody will be left out, and it is
our belief that nobody wants to be.
Saturday Evening Post.
1 Pvt. Alonzo S;dce; Ft. Dliss.
Texas, is visiting his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Tom Salter, Davis. He
leaves for Missouri on the 18th for
I reassignment.
Sgt. Jesse Metcalf has been
transferred from Cherrv Point to
Pollocks viile.
Earl Ray Willis, GM. 2c, USX,
left Tuesday for Now York ofter
spending leave here with his moth
er, Mrs. Earl T. Willis. Ann Suva
Extension. Earl has traveled 129,
509 miles on the seas since he en
tered the Navy and wears be-ides-his
American ribbon, a European
African Middle Eastern Area Rib
bon and an Asiatic Pacific ribbon.
His father, USCG, is serving a
broad and Donald, S lc, USN, is
in California expecting to be sen'
across.
NATIONAL WAR
FUND DRIVE
STARTS MONDAY
Methodists of
North River Plan
55th Anniversary
The 55th Anniersarv and Home
Coming of North River Methodist
Church will be celebrated on Sun
day, October 15th, with services
followed by a basket dinner on
the grounds. Church School will
be at eleven o'clock and the Rev.
W. Stanley Potter will preach at
twelve. Dinner will be served at
one o'clock. Plan to attend and
bring a well filled basket. You
are welcome.
Quota for Eastern
Part of County
Will be $5,000
Frank Robi:;son writes of meet
ing Jimmy Luvin and Jackie Sew
ell in Pearl Harbor.
Claude Wehatiy, son of Mr
ar.l Mrs. C. It. V.'heatlv has ei-n
promoted lo the lank of Canrain.,
USA. Claude ha? lecentlv been nt.
Camp Pickett, Va.
W. C. Carlton enl:sted in the
Navy six weeks ago with the rank
of lieutenatn (jg) and on the 20th
of this month completes a course
at Ft. Schuyller, New York, after
which he will have a few weeks m
Washington as Aide to the Com
mandant. He then goes to San
Diego, Calif. Mrs. Carlton, the
former Helen Hendrix, and her
two children plan to accompany
him when he goes west and her
VIOLATOR OF
GAME LAW HEARD
Winfield Lewis of Newport, was
brought before Frank King, J. P.
by Game Warden Davis and chare
ed with Hunting Game Without
License. Found guilty and paid
fine of $10. plus $6.90 cost and
ordered to buy a license.
FREE MOVIE
Director Axtell of the Carteret
County USO announces that Fri
day night, October 13, at 8 o'clock
Front Street from Orange to Crav
en will be closed to traffic for an
outdoor showing of a moving pic
ture telling about the War Fund
Drive which begins next week.
The National Wf.r Fund Orivo
of which Mayor Bayard Taylor is
County Chairman gets und.ei'wav
next Monday, uctoner 1(.
Locally, Jaycees have assumed
the responsibility of raising Beau
fort's quota and have crganizca
their committees so that they can
the 16th.
They have appointed the follow
ing to solicit for Bc-aufort: Biliy
Mace, Pollock to Queen: Calvin
Jones, Queen to Craven; Henry
Hatsell, Ciaven to Orange; John
Hcync-s and Ralph Eudy, Front
Street Business Section: Jim
Wheat ly, Orange Street West;
David Windloy, Ocean Breeze
Park; David Clawson, Pollock to
Marsh: Leonard Register, Mash to
Live Oak-. Charles Hassell, Live
Oak east; Mrs. N. F. Eure. High
land Park; Mrs. D. M. Denoyer
and Mrs. Halsey Paul to help with
Live Oak east.
T1DETABLE
Information as to tho tide
iit P.e:ufort is given in thh
column. The figures are ap
proximately correct and aro
based on table.? furnished by
t!ie U. S. GeodHic Survey.
Some allowances must be
made f.v vorhtinr, in
wind ai.d also wi'.'n re-vet
o the locality, that u wheth
er near the inlet or at the
head of the estuaries.
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Fritay, Oct. 13
0:32 AM.. 12:25 AM.
6:46 P.M. 12:44 PM. ,
Saturday, Oct. 14
7:13 AM. 1:06 AM.
7:26 PM. 1:28 PM.
Sunday, Oct. 15
7:52 AM. 1:43 AM.
8:0! I'M. " 2:08 PM.
Monday, Oct. 16
8:28 AM. 2:18 AM.
8:41 FM. '2:46 PM.
Tuesday, Oct. 17
9:03 AM. 2:51 AM.
9:16 PM. 3:21 PM.
Wednesday, Oct. 18
9:39 AM. 3:23 AM.
9:51 PM. 3:58 PM.
Thursday, Oct. 19
10:12 AM. . 3:55 AM.
10:26 PM. 4:34 PM.