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TOWN TALK 1.. -• .3 , ^ / > Biggest and best MU meet staged at pool 15tVi and l6th, Adolph kelfer stole shox>r. More serviae men than ever before here, Tar- boro boys team,^Paul Godfrey, Gene Clark, Ed Hart, .Bruce Fountain Clyde Howard, Creighton Brinson, Bil^ferHudson, Walter House .and Virgil Newsome won first place without a coach. j^ilton Brown, ’’Monk” CJodfrey and Charles Stapleton due mountain of cx»edit, back ed up by expert reporting by Lewie Heilbroner, J.C. Martin exnd Red Hamper worked nite and day along wit-h linesman Sheffield and Pitt. The pilot Club and Service Wives were in there pitching to see.'all visitors housed. So off goes our hats to Milton and ”Honk»» a major publicity stunt - a swell show.' Wm, Pittman, Jr., 1^ yr, son G-us Pittman, colored, drowns at R.R. bridge. Colored Peggy Savage, 11 yrs., killed by truck in Pr^nce- ville, front aiennis. Billy Kelly of RaleigUb Marine, wins I50 meter aAU medly. Firemen . Ike, Ben and G-eo. invited editor to breakfast, mullets, gus Andrews, U. S. Inf., guost, cnroute for the supermen, but says ho is ready. Says army life no place for sports- only rugged guys. Warrant Officer & Mrs. Lester Wil son visit parents, Fred Hills. Jno. B, Hyatt celebrates S5th birth day. The famous team, Mrs. W. C, Bogey -Mrs. w. Rob»t Worsley, prepared chick at Coca Cola AAU Banquet. It had to be good. Roy Thigpen exhibits twin cantaloupes from one stem. W. E. Fussell with amphibious outfit at Camp Bradford, ,Va. Dr. Henry Dwire, V., P. Duke Univ. dies. Lt. Ralph Whitlai?k in Ga;hos pital from injury in South Pacific. Mrs. Joe Pehner and “ Service Wives win u. S* Army award for "e” Bonds sold. Carl Go ere h pre sented award at AAU meet. Linwocd Jones discharged from army on accounts of wounds- now at home. East Car. Council Boy scouts post pone plans summer encampment on account infantile paralysis in State. Pvt. Guy Frank Alford wounded on D Day, French invasion upon inquiry, Mrs. R. B. .Peters, Sr., informed us that the beauti- ful flower display on the altar at Pres. Mem. Church on Sunday, the 16th, was placed in honor of you service men. A real glowing tribute. Cliff Ruffin on Ga. Tobacco market. Emily Dancy Eaton, colored, aged 99> dies, Ruth Ballard, Red Cross, guest speaker at service Wives meeting, Kiwanis Club met at Leggett and have k-5 farmers as guest, Negro recreation centcr opened on v* E* Fountain, Wil son Street, lot, e. C. T. C* athletic coach, Lt, John BOyd Chrls- tenbury killed in port Chicago, Calif, explosion, Allen S. Du pree training at u. S* Maritime Service Sta, at Shcepshead. Pfc., Bill Savage In New Britian. Says unlike ’’movie” islands we s,ec- no pretty women, but insects galore. Thanks HFN, Hats off to Mrs J. ?• Sadler, who receives thank-you letters from Col, C. B. How- Capt. A. T. McLean of Bragg In re re ception to men here on War Bond Drive. Pay glowing tribute to her and her accomplishments. Louis KiHebrew, son of the late Mr. & Mrs. Mark Killebrew,, formerly reported wounded in the French Invasion, is now officially reported dead Louis was a member of one of the oldest families in Eastern Carolina 1 a youth of sterling charac— and a stalwart .boy who numbered his friends , ' by the' hundreds, A paratrooper, he plunged in*- ' ^ to the fiercest of the landing operation and re- * ports are that he went down with his fac® toward Berlin, and leaving behind a pattern that, if followed in fact, will glorify the sons of Edge combe and the entire nation.
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