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Page Two Two Speakers Heard At Club Meet Today o Two speakers are scheduled for ■today’s meeting of the Thursday -Literary- Club this afternoon at 5 o’clock in the home of Mrs. F. A. Michael, 75 Liberty Street. Mrs. Michael will speak on “In lIMBaBBSSESBESIIIIIIIIIIBIIIIIIIIIII ! PRINTS-PRINTS I ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ mi m M/l ■ • £ Good Selection in V \ \ * ; HOUSE \i \ • ■DRESSES V\ | » • now in stock. Va 1 ■ * Priced at W' * * ■ $1.95—53.95 * 5 RICE’S QUALITY STORE | Anything BUILDING SERVICE “ fr; Repairs & Construction Honorable■ l " m „„, SEE-CALL or WRITE i Agent For | [anchor stokers! John He Robertson II _ daG ,:^rv^ c f ■ • P. 0. Box 66 Montreat, N. C. \ If I if ' i »niiMii ■■■ilii.i 1i it n ' a '' | dia” ar.d Mrs. Fletcher Cannon ! will talk on “Phosphates.” The i meeting will begin promptly in ; order that there may be plenty of time for both talks and mem i bers have been asked to be on time. Read The Ads. Miss Dorothy Potter Writes Some i Red Cross Experiences In Service Miss Potter recently visited Mrs. Mary Aleshire, of Oak Knoll, Black Mountain, N. C. This letter will be run in installments each week. Watch for it—you will enjoy reading her experiences ii the Red Cross with the service men of the U. S. Armed Forces Written exclusively for The Black Mountain News. (Continued from last week) Two other arm amputation cases when paired had a right and left hand between them. . . . so . . together they made a belt. Then they argued who should have it and settled that by making anoth j er. A ward of officers, bored with reading and each other, finally ( condescended to learn square knotting. So avid became their in terest that they spent hours daily tying knots and view with each other in creating new designs and products. They introduced coast er sets and shopping bags. After the knotting struck a ward it was most amusing to see yards of cord streaming from springs of top bunks, screws on the ceiling (ov j erhead), sides of bunks and any place on to which cord could be tied. One of our craft displays inad-j vertantly helped an exhibitor over a difficult mental hurdle, he had lost a leg, was just 2, and had a great deal of unschooled artistic, ability. With much coaxing he consented to submit for the exhibit an unfinished satirical cartoon of. two doctors walking away from two amputation cases discussing the remarkable progress of science. He was awarded second prize and was completely bewild- j ered but eventually he changed from a caustic critic of everything ial, pleasant passenger. Army and medical into a congen j The guessing of the number of, beans in a bottle would cause many bets ar.d arguments and in troduced very original methods of determining the exact number ! without axrtulaly counting the! beans individually. A bottle filled with beans went onto each ward for a day with an attached list for the patient’s name nad his guess. I saw one patient carefully weigh a single bean in one hand, the filled bottle in the other, think with great concentration and then hastily scrawl his guess! Individual interests merged in- 1 to group activities daily. Special service musical instruments were massed fro evening jam sessions and roaming talent shows. Bingo, monopoly, bridge, cribbage and all manner of games, including any where from an entire ward down to two players, were in progress on some ward at all times during waking hours. Local Red Cross THE BLACK MOUNTAIN NEWS chapters “back home” kept me supplied with handsome gifts for birthdays and prizes. A ward nurse would present the gaily wrapped birthday gift to the cele brating patient with a backgruond of male voices banging away at “Happy Birthday.” On one such birthday celebra tion activities terminated in up roarious gales of laughter and the nurse was much embarrassed- The birthday march, sound effects in cluded, ended at an empty bed. No one had informed the birth da yer of his part in the celebra tion. My daily high spot was P. A. program of 15 minutes, dubbed by someone “Potter’s Patter.” In visiting wards, talking and chat ting with patients, and knowing the ship’s permanent personnel, I garnered considerable personal items—human interest—and then added interviews with a variety of people. The Army dietician, ship’s steward, a doctor formerly with the medical “platoonics,” Stores (the old time seaman re plete with lore and adventure), a mate from the bridge all vouch safed information and experiences. I also had a P.A. talent show of patients and detachment. Some of their talents were questionable but they at least varied the ward routine nad conversation each evening. It was the policy of the Master and our Commanding Officer to broadcast to the ship our desti nation and any other vital inform ation that necessarily cannot be given on board a troop transport. Pursuant to this policy the bridge daily provided me with daily in formation as to total distance covered, knots per hour, wind di rection, air and water tempera- j ture . . . which I broadcast on my program. Each new load of patients brought new experiences for all of us- One of our detachment men, acting as a guide in loading patients, found he was leading his brother whom he hadn’t seen in two years. Two patients, former buddies from Camp Carson, Den ver, met accidentally in my of fice and spent the entire trip busi ly reminiscing. Two other pa tients had met when members of the same battalion in the States. They had gone through three dif ferent Army camps, overseas, in- to action and been wounded to gether. The wounds were both in 1 the right thighs. They were then | transported to England in the same hospital, and, to end this I “sameness,” we took them home |in the same ward. One patient, i walking aboard the St. Olaf, glanced at a cargo ship alongside and suddenly realized that it was the one on which his father was first mate. The father had signed on that particular ship hoping to get to England and see his son- They met if but briefly. One of our crew members Ideated his soldier son in an English hospital and talked with him. And an other reunion was arranged for a brother nad sister . . . he, a new i lpy embarked patient, and she a nurse at a nearby Army station hospital. i Each trip volunteer patients helped me with my work, keeping the library open and in order, in structing in crafts and running innumerable errands about the j ship. Each of these men present i ed a variety of experiences and personalities. One had a habit of often gazing for long periods through our lone office porthole- Finally I commented on it. “Oh . . . you see I’ve been thinking about the United States and wondering what it’ll be like. I don’t remember a thing about it.” “How come?” I queried. ,j “Ohhhh .. . they tell me I was i found in a French houes that had ■ j 1 a direct hit from an 8. Guess I was buried under rock ’n stuff for a day or so. Wasn’t hurt a bit but I can’t remember a thing about myself or what I’ve ever [ done.” [ He paused thoughtfully—“ They , say I’m married—but I can’t be i lieve it—and that my father died . last year . . . since I’ve been over , here. It’s funny but I can’t im agine what he looked like or any thing. I have a mother though. , They say I live in Virginia. It‘s going to be funny to see a coun ,: try and people and folks I can’t , ! remember.” ,! 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