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Round The Town With Ben McDonald The nicest thing about a trip around Southeastern North Caro lina is the people one meets. While up - country the other day, n and about the places served by ;hP Star and The News, I heard story typical of those living in .pis 'ine section of the country, ’ft illustrates the friendliness and thoughtfulness practiced by the residents in every community. It js another example of the gener Psity and unselfishness of these people. This story comes from Ivanhoe, Sampson county, and is a salute r E. Fisler, of that com munity. , ..,44, four Army airmen were killed in line of duty near his home and he felt that something should be done to perpetuate their memory. He immediately set to work to raise funds for a marker and in a short time his idea won wide acceptance. “My neighbors and myself were deeply distressed over 'this acci dent,” Fisler said, “And wanted to do something to honor the memory of these men. We felt that this was the least we could do for those who gave their lives in our midst in order that we might some day again enjoy peace and happiness”. Fisler made an appeal for funds in the Black River Presbyterian Bicycles REDUCED Models For Boys and Girls STANDARD SIZE $55.00 Now $5g.oo Now Sz^.^-50 Buy Them On EASY TERMS Through Service We Grow 3rd. & Chestnut Sts. Phon<± 5214 NOW you can buy good/¥ear TIRES on EASY TERMS Come in, buy one two or a set of these famous long wearing Goodyears. Opening a budget account with us is simple, no red tape. Easy terms are available on most everything in the store so . . . COME IN! SHOP OFTEN! LOW DOWN PAYMENT • PAY AS YOU RIDE SAVE MONEY! Liberal Trade-In GOOD USED TIRES i _ _ ! Cor. 3rd & Chestnut I/Ial 5214 church on the Sunday following j the accident, and a sizeable ! amount was donated towards the purchase of the marker. Other nearby churches and communities contribute^ liberally and the fund necessary was soon raised. Although the funds were donated by Sampson county citizens, the marker was erected on the spot nearest the accident, which places it on a dirt road in Bladen county, seven and one half miles south east of Smith's store, known in the old days as the Wilmington— Fayetteville stagecoach road. The plot was given by Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Graham, who reside near by. According to witnesses of the crash, which occure^ late in the afternoon of August 27, 1943, the concussion from the explosion of the plane was so great debris was scattered over a five - mile area. Although a search party was or ganized immediately, it was not until the next day before the wreckage was found. Fisler has been in correspondence with the immediate survivors of the fliers and has received many touching letters from their wives and par ents, all expressing themselves as highly appreciative of the wonder ful thing he and his neighbors did in erecting a memorial to com plete strangers. They plan a pilgrimage to the site soon. The marker was erected in April, 1944, eight months after the accident. Congratulations In line with the progressive spirit so evident in Wilmington, radio station WMFD has just been dropped by the station, on the Gastle Haynes road to congratu late R. A. Dunlea, owner-manag er. He and the whole staff were j quite happy over the FCC ap- i roval. • ! “Well, for the last 12 years the policy of the station has tu an ser vice. We have tried to give the listening audience the type of pro grams it wanted. During the last four years, we have tried to get our power increase so that we would reach a greater majority of people and thus spread the name of Wilmington with our stronger power, we will go beyond Fayet teville and New Bern in that di rection and southward to George town, S. C. However, we will still be guided by our original policy— service to the listeners. We hope to be on the air with our increas ed power by the end of the sum mer”, Dunlea said. IN CLOSING: Well, that about does it for this week but I’ll be around in the same column, same space, this time next week. In the meantime, get your radio dial tuned to 1400 at 1:30 p. m. today when the Star and the News will present the Sunday Star-Newsreel over WMFD. Walter Winchell (Continued from Page Six) the Post was an evening gazette that was very prissy dull and pe dantic. The two organs clashed over the type of news each pub lished. ■ft. reporter in tne hinterlands summed up the battle between the two papers this way: “What can you expect of a city in which every morning tile Sun makes vice attractive and every night the Post makes virtue odious.” There are several incorrigible “journalists” among the Washing ton newshawks who have devel oped a dirty method of black-jack ing competitors. . .When they are scooped on a yarn they phone the politico involved and give him a distorted version of what has been published. Then they send a de nial of the original story. Dog-eat-etc. During the Civil War one of the sharpest Dixie p a ragraphers was George Prentice. He aimed most of his barbs at editors. . .His at tacks infuriated one editor to the point where he fired a shoi at Prentice but missed. . .Mr. P. re ported the incident in one line: “His aim was as rotten as his newspaper!” Among the epic journalistic pier sixers was the one carried on by Joseph Pulitzer and Charles A. Dana. Pluitzer referred to Dana as Charles Ananias Dana, and Dana would refer to Pulitzer as Judas. They even attacked each ether’s personal appearance and the type of clothes they wore. . . One day Dana editorially growled: 'Pulitzer wouldn’t know the truth if it hit him on the head."’. . . Pulitzer countered: “The truth would never get that close to Dana!” When Dana’s NY Sun ripped into the Grant Administration, edi tor Henry Watterson cracked that “the word sun has become so hateful to Grant—he now loathes the whole solar system!” Strife among newspapermen these days can be filed in the taffy-pull category when compared with the Hatfield-McCoying (de cades ago) between the Herald and the Tribune. . .The potency of the abuse the Herald heaped or the Tribune can be judged by this: The attacks finally roused citizens to take mob action against the Tribune. They stormed the paper’s building and caused great damage. But the Tribune prevent ed a second attack by swift action. . . .The following day the Trib une’s edifice was transformed into a fortress; every reporter was armed. Guns protruded from its windows and arrangement was made to drop shells on any at tacking party. This is a country editor’s classic reply to a city publisher who in sisted cities have better newspa pers because they have larger staffs: ‘‘The great city papers think they are smart in having a large staff, and although we have not published ours before, we shall do so to take the conceit out of the city brethren. This newspa per’s editorial staff consists of: managing editor, V. S. Wilson; city editor, Vic Wilson; news edi tor, V. Wilson; editorial writer, Hon. Mr. Wilson; exchange editor, Wilson; pressman and foreman, the same Wilson; devil, a picture of the same Wilson; fighting edi tor, Mrs. Wilson.” Before 1939 Denmark had the highest export per capita of any country in the world. A third of her population earns its living by fanning or fishing. ] __ ,! IS . 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