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It's a Different Story When The Guard Trains These Days By GENE SMITH The story «f the National Guard and its two weeks of active duty has changed drastically in the past 20 years. Oldtimers who served in the Tar Heel Guard prior to World War II often express disbelief at the tales told by the modern Guardsman who returns from Fort Bragg. The Morehead City Nation al Guard unit came home Sunday. They recall, often with fond me mories, their 15 days of leisure training, recreation, fellowship and an enjoyable time had by all. Today’s counterpart finds little time for recreation. When it comes, it comes late in the after noon—at the end of a very long arid tiring day. The Morehead City Guardsman often chooses to re lax and to rest from the day's ri gors. By the time he is ready for organized play—horseshoes or vol leyball—the daylight is fast leaving and he prepares for next day’s training, cleans his rifle and boots and goes to bed early. Battalion commander Lt. Col. Charles Summerlin of Goldsboro said this week he “had seldom seen the enthusiasm as high as it is with the individual Guardsman this past week. I am constantly amazed at their ability to leave the farm, the store or the seashore and blossom almost overnight in to a well-trained, qualified infan tryman.” Even the current hot war in Southeastern Asia has had its in fluence on the Guard and More head City’s unit in the past two years. The rifle platoon, under the lead ership of Lt. Ted Perritt, or an other officer from the counterpart unit in Jacksonville, patrols the trails in a surprisingly realistic manner, being “attacked" by gue rillas, fighting a small brush battle and either “losing” or “winning,” depending upon their ability to de fend and fight off the enemy. Attacking from either the flanks, rear or front of the squad, the sud den burst of gunfire—blank cart ridges—wheels the squad into bat tle. At exchange of gunfire, rifle men constantly shift positions in the. underbrush as the M-l shots are joined by the constant burps burps of the machine guns and the short staccato bursts from the BARs and the battle is decided. The realistic touch adds interest and enthusiasm for the individual squad member who otherwise could quickly become borred by the constant dry-run practicing. Following each “battle,” a cri tique is held and the officers ex plain who won and why. Resuming the patrol, each “casualty” vows that he will not make the same “fatal" mistake again. In the weapons squad, the crew has been busy. The four-man teams manning the 106mm re coiless rifle and the 81mm. mor tars have been engaged in service practice most of the week. For the former artillerymen, the transition is not too difficult. For the 106 teams in particular, it has been a case of economy training —accomplishing the same results but costing the tax-paying public less money. Rather than firing a projectile costing almost $45 per round the recoiless team fires an M-l rifle cartridge, costing less than five cents, and gets the same results on a reduced range. A special bore reducer permits the use of the cartridge and gives the same tar get effect on a distance of 75 feet that it would on a real projectile traveling more than two miles. j “These new approaches to the training, said Lt. Patrick D. Con ner, “have created an enthusiasm not seen before in several jrears. | At times the men seem to be hiv ing as much fun as Boy Scouts on their first camporee. And learning at the same time.” The 15-day training period Start ed June 9. Regular Army officers, awire of wh*t a rifle and .weapons i>latooii should be doing, and now it is ac complishing its work, graded each unit daily. “For the first week we averaged 93.5, a score several polttts higher than averaged before for the first week,” said It. Per ritt. ‘‘But the calibre of training this year is correspondingly higher than it ever has been.” iHe bompany ended iti intensive training period Thursday after noon. Friday was spent in remov ing Fort Bragg dirt, dust and mud, from company equipment. Load ing of equipment for the return to Morehead City was done Satur day and the unit departed Sunday morning at 8:30, arriving at the arttiory in Camp Glenn at around l * fr m. Overlooked, but certainly not for gotten by the 4l men of the two platoons, will be pay call. They wil receive full pay and allow ances equal to regular Army fbr their two weeks. Very few will collect the greenbacks and silver, and walk away telling himself how “easy it was to earn the money this yeir." The khowiedge the unit is a member of a first line division, L thd brick 30th Infantry, ifaakes k P'Svwumwel: b Visitors tb Tour Duncan House This is the Duncan house, at the east end of Front street, one of the famous old homes of Beau fort which will be open to the public during the Old Homes tour Friday and Saturday. It was built in 1790. Gases Affect Marine Driver A Camp Lejeune Marine who be came ill from residual effects of fumigation, was reported Friday to be improving satisfactorily at the Navy hospital, Lejeune. According to officials at the Morehead City port, vehicles com ing in from the Mediterran«n dur ing the past couple weeks have been undergoing fumigation by a commercial firm. After the vehicles are fumigated at the port in a “pre fab tent af fair” for three days, they are checked to be certain that they are safe for human occupancy. Somehow, a field ambulance ap parently wasn’t cleared, but a driv-1 er assumed’ it was and headed off to Lejeune with it. He became nauseated but got to Lejeune and was hospitalized. His illness is be lieved to have been caused by the residual fumigation gases in the ambulance. Statewide TV Hook-Up Frankfort, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky expects to have a statewide edu cational television network opera ting by the end of 1963. Two Injured When Car Skids, Crashes Two Marines stationed at Camp Lejeune were injured Thursday flight about 11:30 when their car skidded on wet pavement and hit a ditch on highway 10 six miles West of Morehead City. Patrolman W. E. Pickard report ed that the men, John Lott and Raymond Walker, were taken to Morehead City hospital and then transferred to the Cherry Point Ni val hospital. He said that both men received cuts and bruises. Walker, who was reported as the driver, told police that he put on brakes as he was heading west and the car went into a skid. Pa trolman Pickard said the car did not turn over, but estimates that $800 to $1,000 damage was done. Trip (Continued from Pg. 1) and getting her autograph. Today, June 18, with an early start, we had a guided tour through Forest Lawn cemetery in Glendale, Calif. There we saw the Last Sup per, paintings and sculptures by the world’s greatest artists. We went to Farmer’s Market in LA and had lunch. This is another beautiful place with only the finest produce that can be grown. There are no seconds there. This afternoon we toured Los Angeles, going through Hollywood and Beverly Hills. We saw the Will Rogers estate which is large and beautiful, the homes of Max Fac tor, Dean Martin, Gloria Swanson, and many others. We visited UCLA, also saw the blue Pacific ocean, which made us all sick for our good old Atlantic Beach. Tomorrow we will leave here for Yosemlte National Park and San Francisco. It’s a wonderful trip. People everywhere we stop tell us these boys and girls are the best I ACROSS 1. Sp. aunt 4. Jack of clubs in loo T. Watch pocket 10. Limitless 14. Notch 15. Weight 16. Bone 17. Carol 18. Child: slant 19. Heir 20. Avail 21. Trifling 4 amount % 22. Skin 28. Electrical engineer; abbr. £ 24. Heroic " champion goddess or truth 29. Reliable 31. Chess pieces 32. Heb. letter 33. Ballad 34. Nourished 35. Rodent 36. Rom. pound 37. River island 88. Rabbit fur 39. Doubting 42. Drunkard 43. Red, deer 44. Consult DOWN I. Thin, light gauze Solution to Prldijr’i Puzzle 8. Siberian river 9. Essenceof life 11. Work unit 12. Signify assent 19. Anclellt dive 18. Mettle measure 19. Misde meanor 21. Remote 22. Secreted 24. Cushion 25. Uproar 26. Shrinking 27. Pelagic 28. Vindicate 29. Gratified 30. Fertile *t>°t 32. Tapestry 34. Evergreen 35. Headpiece 37. Energize 38. Equivoca tion 40. In like manner 41. Perform 9. Carve 8. Expiate 4. Before: prefix 8. Verb form 6. Moderated i. Winnow !QE2E3QQSI 3 LJLJUliLJUbJ UUU □□□□ □□□□□□ u F 0|l | F U S A F L c eH T behaved group they have ever seen. We have had a few sore throats and temperatures, but Dr. Taylor gave a pill and continued on. These are the finest boys and girls in the world. I’m proud of every one of them. We will see you July 2, if we don’t decide to stay. Boys and girls on the trip are the following: Mike Salter, Shelton Brown, Ben Horton, Frank Reams, Bobby Freeman, David Lewis, Buff Chalk, Charles Jones. Dickie Day, Billy Styron, Randy Powers, Kenneth Broadhurst, Greg Rice, Jim Chalk, Silas Thorne, Borden Wallace, Jimmy Swann. Linda Taylor, Grace Roberts, Faye Sanderson, Mitsy Nelson, Lani Davidson, Bridgett Beck, Bet ty Lou Seamon, Connie Snipes. Mary Lou. Nelson, Frances Mor ris, Beth Baugham, Judy Swindell, Maurine Lewis, Catherine Taylor, Jody Freeman. Joanna Broadhurst, Carol Aker ley, Pam Atkinson. Chaperones, be sides Mrs. Taylor, are Mrs. Grace Jones and Mrs. Pauline Snipes. Crewman Hurts Armbl Winch Guy wan., tUVii was Ufertto lilorehead City ttbspltrit early yes terday morning after injuring his arm in a winch aboard a fishing trawler, the Ocean Watre. The Coast Guard picked ufc Wil lis and transported him to the MoreHehd City waterfront near Capt. Ottis’s Fish market., Froth there, Coast Guardsmen carried the injured man by stretcher to the hospital. , , The Coast Guard station at Fort Macon reported three Other assists since Tuesday. On Tuesday Coast Guardsmen aided two cruisers with engine failure. The Camp Sea Gull, captained by Lester F. LewiS, Morehead City, developed engine trouble about one mile southwest of Beaufort inlet. But when the Coast Guard irriv ed, the cruiser had already made repairs. The Coast Guard stood by and escorted the boat to Morehead City. The second cruiser was a 25 footer captained by Henry Mac Farlane. The boat was moored at Harkers Island bridge, and was taken in tow to Marshallberg. The only other assist durihg the past week was to a 1950 model beach buggy belonging to Everett Ingram Jr., Morehead City. The Coast Guard was called to pull the car out of a sand mire Friday about one mile west of the Iron Steamer pier. Coast Guardsmen used a pick-up truck on this one. Making the assists were Robert F. Scarborough, BM3; Billy R. Smith, EN1; Michael F. Shepherd, FNEN; James F. Crawford, SN; Anthony Crawley, FA; and Percy D. Mason, BMC. Wins Scholastic Honor Helen Gail Minter, a student at Appalachian State Teachers col lege, has been named to the dean’s list for the spring quarter. This means that the student is carrying the required number of hours arid has made no grade below C. The goingest people... Go fresher wit! GoRC.-the goingest cola of the made the fresh protected way. leading 3. brisk W bracing, fresher tasting Go Royal Crown-best buy in town! I I Other rirte products of Royal Crown Cola Co.: Diet-Rite Cola, Nehi, ✓
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