Marines Apologetic for Wounds;
Eager to Return to Own Outfits
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(Marine Corps Combat Corresp.)
OKINAWA (Delayer)—The walk
ing wounded are apologetic. Some
are even ashamed of their wounds.
“Just a scratch, Doc,” the youth
ful Marine from Texas says, show
ing a forearm split open by a snip
er's bullet. “Put a patch on, so I
can go back to my outfit.”
The weary physician examines
the arm. The Marine watches
stretcher-bearers carry a white
faced, unconscious Leatherneck into
the first-aid station. The doctor
motions for a hospital corpsman to
dress the Texan's arm. Then the
physician bends over the man on
the stretcher.
“Where’s he hit?” the Texan
asks, nodding his head toward the
man on the stretcher.
The corpsman looks up. “Mortar
shell fragments in the stomach.”
Starts for Entrance
The Texan is silent as the corps
man wraps bandages around the
injured arm. As soon as the ad
hesive tape is on, the Marine
jumps up, mumbles, “Thanks,” and
starts for the entrance.
“Where are you going?" the doc
tor asks.
\tsacK to my outm, tne marine
replies.
“You’re going to remain here
for a while. There’s danger of in
fection in that arm.” The doctor
again leans over the man on the
stretcher.
The corpsman points to a cot
and tells the Marine to lie down.
The Texan, staring at the man
with the wounds in the stomach,
starts to protest, but the corps
man says no arguing. Sheepishly,
the Texan lies down on the cot.
Ohio sticks his head into the first
aid station. He winks at a corps
man. “They got me, pal,” he laughs
as he limps on inside. “Maybe I’ll
get to go home.”
Sees Man on Stretcher
The corpsman has the Ohioan
roll up his trouse'rs leg. The flesh is
torn above the ankel. The laugh
ing Marine starts to wisecrack but
he sees the physician working on
the man on the stretcher.
"What hit him?” the Ohioan
asks.
"A doctor will examine your leg
in a moment.”
“That poor guy is really shot up.”
A physician comes over and ex
amines the Ohioan’s wound. “All
it needs is a bandage,” the Ma
rine says. “The corpsman can put
it on.”
The doctor dresses the injury.
“Go lie down on a cot,” he orders.
“There’s nothing wrong with
me,” the Ohioan argues. The' doc
tor walks away to tend to another
patient.
“Come on, Mac,” the corpsman
says, impatiently, “take the ^rid
cot.” Before the Ohio Marine can
open his mouth the corpsman says:
“I know, I know. But there’s
danger of infection.”
Cotton Report As
Of July 1.1945
The acreage of cotton in North
Carolina in cultivation on July 1, es
timated at 595,000 acres, is less than
for any year since 1872. Farmers
reduced their cotton crop 170,000
acres —• or 22 percent — below that
of last year and 305,000 acres—or
30 percent—below the ten-year
(1934-43) average. The acreage of
cotton grown in this State reached
a peak in 1925 when farmers had
in cultivation 1,802,000 acres—three
times as much as grown this sea
son.
The acreage of cotton nas been re
duced 50 per cent or more from a
year ago in the heavy tobacco pro
ducing counties of eastern North
Carolina. A material shift from cot
ton to peanuts occurred in all ma
jor peanut producing counties.
Farmers in the lower Piedmont,
where cotton is the main source of
income, reported only a slight re
duction in acreage from a year ago.
Growers experienced considerable
difficulty in getting a stand of cot
ton this spring. As a result, the per
centage of the acreage that had to
be replanted was probably the high
est on record. Many producers had
to plant as many as three times.
Stands at the present time range
from “fair” to "average,” with
growth irregular for this season of
the year.
HOSPITAL NEWS
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at the Roanoke Rapids Hospital
this week:
Mrs. Johi Reid, Mrs. Harold
Bloom, C. T. Johnson, and S. M.
Thompson.
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Mrs. W. L. Bryant, Conway; Mrs.
Lawrence H. Clary, Valentine, Va.;
Archie M. Bendall, Emporia, Va;
Rubin Chitty, Murfreesboro; Mrs.
Elvira Davis, Seaboard; Charles W.
Jones, Gasburg, Va.; Mrs. Minnie
Parks, Jackson; Mrs. Evelyn Wood
ruff, Ante, Va.; and J. L. Wright,
Littleton.
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