LEGGETT NEWS:
At home- for the christm.asf^holidays were Ralph Bfakei
Reginald Hyme.n and;Jujie iCQoncc.Mr. & Mrs. L.C. Hardy
announce the birth of.a. girl*, Pfc* David Hyde is new in Italy & E^gone
Allsbrook is in England, 'on Dec.- Igth the Leggett Highschoor.Juniors
gpve the Seniors a .Xmas banquet and dance. Mrs. Graham GuHy and son
return to Leggetts after spending several months in Vermont with Air
Cadet 0,- G* .Gully Jr. Pfc. Harvey Lee Whitley writes from a Naval Mo-'
bile Ho’^ital'in the Pacific that he has done what he went ever to do
and feils better about the whole thing. . .
PINETOPS NEl^S:. Among the boys lucky enough to eat Christmas Dinner
—^^ at home Were Pvt. Ed Stanfield, pvt. Vance Pitt and
Cpl. Wyatt L. Stallings, pyt. Johnnie Lane has returned to camp after
spending a 10 day furlough with his mother, Mrs. M. E. Lane. Boys and
Girls home from college for the holidays were Linda Cobb, Linda Bynum,
Virginia Jenkins, ’ Edward Pitt, Nprfleet Sugg,^Mary G. Isley and Julia
Pitt.
MACCLESFIELD Misses Ruth Peebles, Sophia Webb, Delanie Winstead,
^. Jean Webb, Edna Webb and Margie varnell were home
from their respective schools for the holidays. W. D* Pitt is home on
furlough after being,in l^iska, Aleutians. He was in a company that
sparked the invasion of this island. Mr. & Mrs. Irvin ' Felton announce
the birth of a boy; Mrs. Felton was former Miss Mozelle BriGgers.- sgt*
Wesley Webb is home on furlough for the first time in eleven ^months.
Mrs. Freddie Elrod has returned from Arkansas where she has been with
her husband who is soon to become an Air Cadet. Sgt. Wesley'Webb and
Miss Delanie Winstead were married Dec. '29, in Dillon S. C«; Mrs. Webb
was the daughter of Mr.' & Mrs, C.S. Winstead and Sgt. V/ebb is the son
of Mr. E^^rnest Webb,' all of Macclesfield,
•NEWS FLASHES
Pvt. Willard (Poss) Cl^rk has been
in Kidiak, Alaska and now is in An
chorage. Will, soon begin winter
maneuvers I50 miles through the ro
ughest country in Alaska.Was recen
tly at a Service club and saw where
Sgt. Dan Mizell had registered.
Twenty Members ofihe Tarboro Pilot
Club make bus trip to Seymour John
son field to attend a service mens
dance.* Mr. & Mrs. Clarence Wesley
Walters announce the birth of a
son. Mrs. Walters is the. former
Alice Whitehurst of Tarboro,
Senator W.G« OlaJ^k- and,W* G. Clark
Jr. made a gift of Ten Thousand
Dollars to the Town of Tarboro to
build white and negro curb markete
in Tarboro, The gift was made in
memory of their mother and grand
mother Mrs, Lossie Clark. This is
the first individual gift to the
Town since I760 when Joseph Howell
gave the Town the land for the pre
sent Town Commons.
Ernest E# Medford S 1/c has return
ed home from service overseas. Capt
Turner W, Battle, Sr. of the U. S*
Marine Corps dies in a hospital in
Camp Lejeune, New River. He had
been in the South Pacific for a yr
and was wounded in action. His son
Lt. (jg) Turner Battle, jr. is on
duty with the Atlantic Fleet.
William E. MiHinder^ age, 77,
dies at his homo on Ash Street.
Mrs, Lucille Doughtie Seymore ,
age 2^ dies of pneumonia- at the
hone of her parents Mr, & Mrs.
Wm, J. Doughtie. Alonza Alfred
Alford, age ^3 ^^ie^ at his homo
on Walnut St.
Tarboro pilot Club has a dance
at the Gym with orchestra for
fifty Seymour - Johnson Servise*
men. The Pilot Club furnishes
five members each month to help
Rotarians assemble the H^F.N,
Sgt* Jin Barnett along with a
number of other North Carolina
Service men had their picture
taken in a'London Service club,
and the picture duly appeared
in the News and Observer, Sgt.
Barnett is the husband of Mary
Vanice Laughlin Barnett,
KEEP ^ QUIET
Private Horner sat in a corner
Sipping a rum & cokc.
Shot off his mouth about head
ing south.
And a convoy went up in smoke
A batchelor is a guy who didn^t
have a car when he was young