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EDITOR EARNIIART JRESIGNS SHALL THE HFN CONTINUE? War ends; Bill comes back and Geo /You as Edgecombe County service requests a well deserved leave of ; meh are to answer this question absence as HFN Editor, Geo has As long as there are any service spent a lot of words telling you men \^ho are retained in the ser what you have done - now let me vice against their will we will tell you what Geo, has done. .Go- . try to supply you news from ing under the theory that a busy .home if you want it. Many of man does the best job we got the * you are out - more are about to busiest^*nian in town to edit the : get out - address change over HFN. We‘got Geo* Hesult we had a night - the job will be hard wonderful paper but it kept Geo’s ^ but if you want it we want you nose to the proverbial grindstone to have it. The Tarboro Rotary until it was shinier than a'-babys ^ Club believes in finishing any backsides after ten banister trips job it starts to a final and Night after night Geo. and his definite conclusion, wife v7ork until wee hours; Sunday ; is just a day you work 100fo on ) the pa^er. Geo fought one war you ' IF YOU WANT THE HOME FRONT NEWS know but the first one wasn't as FILL OUT THE FOLLOWING AND MAIL hard on him as this one. His heal ' TO HFN, TARBORO, N, C. AT ONCE, th was none too good and his job as City wa^p’^"^e^ac^t-ljr ayx ['—r J ' rest cure by itself without tak^ I STILL WANT THE HFN'AND THE ing on all his other many civic ADDRESS YOU ARE USING IS RIGHT, duties. Then all of the dear ' people (in civilian clothes} did not like Geo’s stories and had ■ MME SEHTHTW much to say on his ruining the — morals of the Armed forces and of course this worried our Geo more I STILL WANT, THE HFN AND THE than a little. Of course we are FOLLOWING IS MY CORRECT ADDRESS a little prejudiced in Geo’s fav or and we think if all the laughs ■. that came from Service Men as a ' ' / result of HFN jokes were put to- ^ ffiNK NAMS ^ 55n gether the blast would rival the atomic bomb. And we believe in ^ ■ . service men .laughing each and every time, they can. Lets remem- ' ber George x\rhen we come home; all of us like to hear a good word so , : give George the • best words you have. He has done a magnificent NEWS OF SERVICE MEN job and we are proud he lives in : our town and is an Edgecombe citi 'Cpl, Ella M, Sanders of Tarboro zen. And Geo, knows exactly how is in Honolulu with the Marines you feel- about not getting out Eugene Allsbrook, after service right this minute. In World War in North Africa, Sicily and One he was marching with the Army France is home; Also Claude of occupation, further and fuiplJier Cherry is-back fro^ oyer seas. En away from home and'pfkss'in^ giiys'^ sign Wiiiianl (Bob Bob) Gilliam all the time who were going the is stationed at Ft, Pierce, Fla other way ... .who were going home Sgt. Russell Dew is now in Cal. Yes he knows how you feel and he ^ after 2 yrs of overseas service will not think V-J day or any • Joe D, Barnett, USNR is in the other day of any importance, has Pacific. Drew Howell, USNR is come to'pass until every last man, on a Destroyer with the Atlanta •vv'ho wants to come home is home, ' fleet. Brothers Esley G, Korne- Our best and snappiest salute to gay and Carl- L, Kornegay, USNR your Ex-Editor of the HFN. met recently at Pearl Harbor. Jesse Arnold, Jr, and his broth er Jimmie met on ^am recently. After the meeting the two go to see their Brother in law Capt, Earl Stirewalt also stationed on Guam Chas C, Williams, USNR is stationed on the aircraft carrie r the USS Intrepid whose record includes SO enemy ships sunk or damaged. BUILDS BRITISH BAHRi\CKS; Pfc. Richard Babcock, USMC, wounded twice ^ ~ by shrapnel; jav/ knocked oat of place^by 40 mm gun;. recovered 100% is on the way to China;there he will spend some several months building British Bks, He does not wa nt to build British Bks; he wants to come home. Why can’t the Brit ish build their ovm Bks. etc etc.
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