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Vol. 1 No. 41
SEYMOUR JOHNSON FIELD, N. C.
September 25, 1943
Begin Fire
Prevention
Week Now
CampBhovoI
Variety Acts and
Dancing Sparks
Travel!^ Show
U80
Fin prevention Week wlU be ob- of Mew
Oemp Hi fredi oat
^irK Ci^, bit w 7 m e a r
3d War Loan Drive G oes Over Top
With Six Days Left; Finai Push
Expected To Reach Ail-Time High
wi« we- wik,, ui« seymoer With loM than fix dayg to go. Seymour lohnson Field went soaring over the top of
eervM ell over the netton (r o m Ila«t‘ntundey efter-t^^* quota in the War Bond Drive and surged on to reach new heights. Reaching the total
October s to tthiaveer, it wm;®®?“* ^“poeed of five vertoty ol 1103.000, bond soles on the field showed no signs of diminishing os personnel strove
Ql^j^f seta, the show •»**• * - , .
enaoubced by Poet 'o~hrefi^^> ^ tnsde e bit with
Jonea. fTrrrnilng tbe^Jf^.^ ^ in ittn sudlencs
Importance of preventing needless feeling bomeslek for
cooflagratlona. Oblef Janes oaoted 9^ ^2^
several startling figure wblcb' Autreaa of Oeremontos Jean
brought borne to nwryfyi ^ atatueeque blonde, bdd
waste of time, lives, and money I ^ together and did a small
Inv^ved in thme eaacropbes. loomedy bit later in the show. The
oounry. Enr. tweDtjr - four lnwSS'Si^Si^ routine, to pop-
^deetron l.Jll buUdllwe. me|“K„*^!i. ^ a™
Hie Important thing to remember 3^e“ns set. spm was
about thm is tSblM iut of eJ. i*helr^^ in ^b one tA them
Sirs™?. befeee Fire uid his pretty saaistsnt. Hiey did
varistkoa on ^Sdard
trlcka and then a few new ones
CSiief Jones of tbelr own, to the acoomnani*
ra& of a line of patter
w®ilt*d tbe audience to toe
2S?m ^ tnlsue dance numbtf. tovolv
** ^ wired tapeboea and eleotrto
gaitars was deroonstrated by Val-
Three fires e astouto — every Iot and Lynne. Connecting long
hour toe day.'40,000 lives a vnree to toelr shoes a^ toatne
year. Think what tlmt money would menta, they ptas^ed, aang, a nd'
mean put into War Bonds, nink danced, ending up with, a melodic
shat that precious time would Oeorge Oersbwto medley,
mean if used for toe war effort King, straight from
Fire la a needless and abameful Broadway, was tbe hl^iUgbt of tbe
waste of our country's resources, toow in bis cloetog spot Be and
It's up to each aafi every one of ICss Carter io6k over tbe stage
us to help prevent tires, and tola for a fast line of comedy tb a t
coming week is the beet time to,brought beUy-Isughs from tbe au*
start to. . Idienee.
for a new record in the notion's Third War Loon Drive.
fix MORE MYf TO go/
Prime knocker-downer of tbe
pins at tbe Bowling Alleys tor
tbe week ending Saturday, Sfo*
tember Utb. was Sgt Lawrenoa
Brown of tbe 9th Academlo wttb
a high tally of 354. Sgt. Brawn
thus won tbe Weekly Score
Prise for bowling of a cash award
of 93.00. Tabs are kqrt of all
scores turned to at toe Alleys.
Other Ugh scorers were P vk.
Tom Larello, 933rd ^AB. 343; PvL
Louis Oalli, 40to itesa, 338; and
Pvt. James X. UcOulloeh, ttn
Acad., 33L
Brig. Oen. Bdwln S. Perrin has
been amiototed deputy dilef of toe
al- staff. Army Air Forces. A suc
ceeds UaJ. Oen. Thomas J. Han-
ler. Jr.
Standing at attention os a ^peciol review formation
poaaed by lost Saturday were Colonel Donold B. Smith. Cap
tain William Shorpsteen. and Pfe, Virginia L. Hokenstod.
Captain Shorpsteen, Post Operations Ofiicer was awarded
the Distinguished Flying Cross for oction in the Solomons.
Pic. Hokenstod. Women's Marine Reserve Corps, received the
Air Medol on behalf of her husbond who was reported missing
in North Africa.
War Bond CNilf Tournament
Set For G’boroi Club Sunday
with 13 orgsnisaUoBS going tar
over toelr assigned amounts end
with bmomerable personal pur-
cheese of bl^vabie bonds, the
progress of toe drive bea been
raw. Top score-went to toe Big-
nel Corps Detachment vrtdch, wSto
a quota of $100, went more than
34 times over tt to reach tbe sum
of 93438. Second plaM went to toe
Headquartere and Headquarters
Squadron which multiplied its cell-
tag nve^old.
Ifotable. too. was tbs smsstng
record of clvUisn employees. Wttb
regular payroll deductloos of 10 per
oent and over, they pusb^ their ,
quota of 915,000 overboard and
reached toe total of 935,000 with
nwre bonds still betog h«Mg*«*
Tile foUowtog orgsrusattaoB met,
and to nearly all cases doubled
toelr set smooDts: Tbe Tto AI r
Fwce Band, llto Academlo Squad
ron. 38to Air Force Band, tOtb
Tndntog Wing, 39lrd Air Base
Squstiron, tl3to WAO Detdcbment
ICedlcal DeCsdnnent, Flnsnce De-^
partment, and toe 909tti Quarter
master Detarthiwent
Tbe drive to date has featued
Mveral dances, a tag day. and
special radio programs. ToKnorrow.
September 3nb. win see the ^y-
tog of toe Bond Oolf Tournament
et Ooldeboro Countiy Club, wtto
several matches between offlcets
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61 Bowls 254
I USD Starts Classes
For Wives la Town
m ooUeboratlon with eeversl olv-
to organlsstiooB. toe UB.O. has
started a program deaigned to give
servlcemen'e wives courses to a
variety d subjects to fill toelr
free hours. AnnoUDeed this week
by -'Ofias Ruth Bonunann of t b e
Goldsboro U80. toe scbedule goes
Into effect within toe next few
weeks. Some clsssee have slresdy
started, but eU will be wltoout fee.
nvneb, Cooking and NutrltloQ,
Infant and Pre-Natal Care, Sew-
tog and Dressmaking, and instntc-
tton to arts and crafts are ell
GueiiiUas, USA
Hit Together
I Day wU
the Oiddsboro Oou -C.ub on Sun
day. September 38. The public ir
cordially tavtted and toe tariff will
be a purchase of 91.00 to W a r
Stamps.
Tbe program win open at 1:45
with a idiot-maktog exhthitlon by
Lt. Horton Smith. Lt. Smith, one of
golf's greatest names, bat twice
won tbe ICastere’ Tournament,
held armually at Augusta. Ga. to
addition to that covetM bestor, be
Iso has two wins to his credit to
toe Pinehurst (N. O.) North ami
South Open and has weU
up in every major tournainent to
American golf. Be was a member
of every United States Ryder Clip
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Strong Yugoslav guerrlla forces
were report^ fighting German
troops in toe streets of Trieste and
threatening Plume to en appar
ently coorldnate drive against two
Italian poris at toe northern end
of tbe Adriatic.
Tbe action was part ct a series
of new I'areups by partisan arm-
tee against Nasi occupying forces
at scattered points along some 400
mllM of toe eastern Adriatic
shore, all conceivably inaugurated
with Allied approvaL
A™? - -
The Fttih Army lamsceeu a fBO-
aeale effenslve agataei German
pesltleM guarding toe
raalc 4e Naptee. It was ennenneed
Friday, wbOe AlUed meter terpede
beats stabbed tote Talena Harbor
en toe eeast ef Albania and eank
tteo eesmy veeeels
Bed Arsay
Tbe oQ^ught by Lt. Gen. Mark
W. Clark's American and Brittsb
soldiers from their hard-von
Saieriio positions was accompanied
by an totenslflcatfam of toe hloekade
of toe waning German ppsltloo on
toe island of Oorsloa- 'Ibere RAF
Beanflghfors siloed into Oennan
air ‘ - ... -
to evacuatto the enemy forces and
shot down seven of tbe planes.
Tbe communique from Oen.
Dwltot D. Blsenbower’s hMdquar-
ters eakl tbe Fifth Army had cap
tured OUveto-Oitra, 34 eaitt
of Saierno, wbile Matera, 36 mUee
northwest of Tbranto, had been
captured on tbe British nxmt.
AWamura OaptmCd
An official announcement laid
Altamura, 43 -miles northwest oC
Taranto and 10 miles north of
Matera, also had been captured.
Tbe drive against Naples, Italyb
second greatest port, was launched
after a period of coneoUdatton ef
toe Allied ^ringboard and while
the Germans were reported iOfiged
to larye-Bcale desnoUtlana,' ap>
parentiy with tbe Idea of
the harbor installations useleas
irtm toe Alllec occupy toe ol^.
The Red Army has reached the
Dnteper In force.
I A dispatch to toe Army news
paper Red Star said Buaatan
troops first reached tola Mg ob
jective through Novomoskovsk to
tbe lower Ukraine on toe upper
jelbow of the river to a drive from
Poltava. Tbe capture of Novo-
‘ PHdar.
Manned. Taught by Arthur
Grenier, tbe classes m F r s n e h
havs already bo«n started. Xn-
listed men’s sad officers' wives,
as wMl as WBiien not directly con
nected wl^ Sigmioar Johnson Field
have been aWsnding, and future
Claeses, USae Bornmenn etresaed,
are open to an women vriw are to.
terested. Tbooe deeiroue of ettad-
tog classes, ebe said, could con
tact tbe U80 to town by phone al
either 535 or 856.
Two tochntetane from too atoff
of toe Wayne County Health Oo-
partment have voluntec.ed tbelr
ssrvicee a# toatructore ter too to-
fant Oare and Cooktog
They are Mias Romatoe Hick a
and lira. w. D. Swanson, experts
to their partlcuiar fields.
With space for classrooms di^
Dated by toe Goldsboro eehool
system and the Red ftrann. courses
are open now for students. Tlznei
have oecn tentative set for the
evening, but will depend on toe
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Church Hour
With toe Initiation' two weeks
ago of a special "Oiarab BouF*
here on toe field, attodanoe at
avvloes has increased more than
IM per cent, tt was stated by
Chaplsin Lester B. Olson.
Xncoitreged by toe settlM atode
of several tree hours eaehsbnday,
msn tram aD over toe post have
bum comtog to ohurcb with Mm
tufularity. Services at Cato-
oUo, Jewish, and Protestant chapels
were packed to capacity, and
totoer attendance la expected to
be even greater.
6806 and 1315 on Sundays, and
rarrespoodlng hours on Satunfay
for persons of toe Jewlto hSi
have been designated as teS
for wortolp. Several asrvlces to
SBuadnm areas have hew att^ml.
eo. wtto equal enroees.