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S,, CLARK & SONS HA VS FIRE . ’TARBORO BOY DSGOHATED While the swimmers swam at the from a far advanced air base in swimming meet S. 01^^15: & Sons The South Pacific comes the in- two store building^’ burst into formation that the Air Medal was flames. Local fireman battled the awarded S/Sgt Geo* W. Killebrew, blaze all night and are,to be tha of Tarboro for his exceptional nked for saving, the main store service in ’’Thirsty Thirteens’'of from serious damage aid preventing the Air Force that had such an the fire from spreading to other important part in wihnin^ the ba buildings. Estimated damage was ttle of Guadalcanal, set at -150,000 which was fully covered by insurance. The Ladies . JAP BOHBE'HS BESTED Ready to Wear Dept, was destroyed completely and the Hardv/are Dept. . Capt, d« Moore, while in Hew' almost a total loss. It was be^ Calodonia, looked up Pfc, will;* e lieved that the fire started by a T* Phil?uips and thereafter whijo defective cloctric . Cablo in the at G*uadalcannl souftht & four.c; upstairs sectdon. It is expoctpd sgt. Vincent Batts* .how did jye that the store will be fully re- know thoir addresses *i why Kc .. paired by Jan, 1st, 19^^*^. found out in the HFN of com-.-x * Later Capt Moore of the LADIES CIVIC CLUB.ORGANIZED nnd Sgt. Batts of the USMC fo..:v: . • themselves in the same Campax,ir' Tarboro has organized a pilot Club The Battory commanded by Capta;.:i for business and professional wo- Moore shot dovm a Jap Bomber c/t- men of the city. Pilot oluba are the 1^1-th and then discovered sr- members of a national organization Batts*. Battery had shot down tvc with the object of Community Ser- bombers dpys before. The Capb. vice* The Officers of the Local says “this goes to show you the Club are: preo. Phoebe J. Ha^^ris, Karines nre hard to biwtt” it ■ 1st Vice-Pres: Athlea Boone, 2nd shows Ye Editor that any Maccles Vice-Pros. Myrtle Prescottj Eocor field fighter is hard to beat, ding Sec. Josephine Arnold; Corr^ ' esponding Sec. Elizabcch Ruffin; Treas. Anne Lovelace. Directors; CURIOUS TO ME Marian Watt, Delores Cobb, Janie Allsbrooks, Christine V/hitehead, Camp Van Dorn Newspaper: »Free Dene Creech Gretchen G-rantham mail not bearing the proper re- The first civic project undertaken turn address will be returned to by the group has had a most succe the sender.” ssful beginning. A dance',with re** freshments,was had at the comniuni MISS E^ LANIOUS ty House for visiting service men ^ In the future eaoli Sat. night Johnnie Pender, USN of the Paci- from 3:30 Until 11:30 the club fic has eaten gOat meat until he will offer similar entertainment bleats 8c feels strange hprd knots at the same place and X'/ishes the upon his head. Jasper L. Fulford HFN to advertise their invitation uSN was with the first outfit of to all service men,local or other «sea Boes» to leave the states; wise who are visiting in Tarboro has been '16 months on an island to attend any or all of those in the Southwest pacific—-motes entertainments. , spend spare time’ wishing the ocean would turn to beer & the DOOLITTLE READS HOME FRONT NEWS mountains to ice cream—has seen ^ Laraours, LaMarrs or in .fact 1st. Lt. Eugene Simmons, ex Edge- any white woman for the lb men- combe Tobacco Auctionr-^er, Radio ths. s/sgt*sam R. Brown of some- * Announcer, Furniture Man & Play- where in the Pacific gives ^'ho boy ( ex not intended to prefix censor a fit every time Sgt playboy) spread the HFN on a bull Sam would write HFN(abrcviation) etin board either in Africe or in the censor would cut it our; it Sicily & who should stop &read1he could have been a code you ki:ow World*s Widest Circulated News- cpi^ Joseph Everett has been in paper but Gen. Doolittle.You know the Air Corps 6 months & in A3.as if the:Tokyo;Terrorizer would wr- ka 24 months; mailed Ye Editor fte Ye Editor a personal request the Glazier Gazette has got ho would be put on the mailing the Japs out now and soon will list and be able to read the HFN be showing the tourists around sitting down). Gene is afraid th cpl. PauJ. J. Hartman has been in at if both Hal and Dinksie should Africa for 9 months & sends wo3d come overseas he will need a pay to those who call the American raise. - deserts hot should look over his fox hole for real heat* , A JAP IS A SAP WHO CHOKED ON A MAP -5-
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