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PAGE EIGHT Boone Man Had Ringside Seat at Bombing of Pearl Harbor. It is Revealed Sergeur.i Ear! C. Miller. son of Mi' and Mrs James E. Miiior ha-i a ringside seats when the Japs blew up Pearl Harbor, and lire following story .dipped from a service men's paper will be of interest to the many friends of Sereeant Miller in this community: "One move solder at AOTS who has persona! scorn to settle with the Japs is Sgt. Ear- C Miller, and v 'v working in the Ordnance. "Sgt. Miller is another member of thi smai! group ot officers and enlisted men here which was at Pear! Harbor on Dec. 7. 1741. "A native of Boone, N. C.. he entered the service in September ?940. and :r November of that year he was sent to Hi wait where he was stationed at Kick am Field ar.d assigned tc Air Corps Ordnance. With the exception of taking part in several secret missions after the outbreak of the war. he remained in Kickaai until he v. as sent back to the Stuu in May cf this year. Or. one of these missions of which he can still say nothing. Sgt. Miller participated m a major engagement! and wears a star or. one of his several service ribbons. Or. that day which will go down ir. infamy' the .-ergean*. and several other men :.r, ordnance- wore still in their barracks, just before starting out or. another day's work. When the wave s of Jap planes started coming over the harbor they had a ringside. if hazardous seat. Hickam Field is almost right beside the harbor. 80 they didn't long have time to watch the attack, for Hickam was next on the Japs" bombing list. Sgt. M: 1 k r and several of his buddies started out across the field to reach their station, but had to stop to seek refuge from strafing under a chapel.' "From then- they ran to a ditch' nearby. Seconds later the chapel was blown to bits. They finally readied the Ordnance depot, and began furiously taking bombs out to planes.' Most of these ships never left the ground. Sgt. Miller saw one'Jap pilot swoop low to strafe a barracks area, try desperately to regain altitude. fall and crash into the side of a hangar. "The Sergeant stayed on at Hickam through the period of reconstruc-, tion 111 the islands, saw the intense efforts that were made, first for defense. and later for offense. "The people over there are just praying stow for the Japs to corne back.'" he M.srl.W-i AMJ k?l ujinv*] A Gl APPALA< auyo. .uouvrci anu utiud^iuiaug mwears throe service ribbons?Asiatic Pacific. American Theatre of Operations and Pearl Harbor His preselli ambition? To get back! overseas. only lie wants to try the other side this time. Sergeant Millers present address! fyj is: Sgt. Karl C. Miller ASN 0396795 -167th Base Iiq. & Air Base Sq. j Alberquerque, New Mexico. WATCH THE LABEL on your paper as it shows the date your subscription will expire and the date your paper wilt be stopped unless sooner renewed. The Democrat is operating strictly on a cash in advance basis. There are no exceptions to this rule. i ~ ~~ L00KEE FO Direct From "T 1 WILLIE Hj EVANS BAZOOKA PLAYER lew HAMILTON HM BOOGIE |^^HB BEATER VIOLIN or STARS OF THE NE I MAKE PIC M One Day CTAm Truck Driver a Mrs. Margaret C. Sever, of Ilia] of some of her nine children betwe for the Miami .Air depot of the Air granted a leave of absence to arrar INSTITUTE (Continued from page one.1 Ail the lunch rooms formerly operated under the 1YPA are in operation. The Federal government has appropriated certain funds to oc adminsterec by the State Board of Education for the reimbursement of all school lunch rooms for food. No money may he used for personnel. Aonlications for the following lunch rooms have been approved: Valle Cruris. Bonne Demonstration School, Appalachian High School. Watauga Consolidated and Cove Creek Elementary. Other applications are expected to be approved within the next few days. The attendance in all schools of the county for the month of September was unusually good. This was partly due to the fact that several schools adopted the half day schedule for the first week or two of the session. The weather has been exceptionally good and no bus has failed to operate. Parents are earnestly urged to make whacver sacrifice is necssary in order that their children may attend every day possible. For obvious reasons enrollment is below hat of any previous year and is there fore the more important that the ntetidancc lie kept high so that the standards of the school will not suffer. The State has made provisions for nine months and twelve months for every child. Transportation and books are furnished free A hot lunch can be had b\ a big majority of the children a! very low cost or no cost. II we fail to take every advantage for our children we will fail to do part in preparing the next generation to carry on. The education of hundreds of thousands of youth is being interrupted by circumstances beyond their control. We owe it to those in s.-hool to give them the very best possible training in the shortest time if the standards of education in this country are not to suffei. Flags are being placed in all of the larger schools in Watauga county. Any teacher desiring a flag may see County Superintendent S. F. Horton for rilsthS ir. ftrprtinrt r?f n fine* pole. Buy War Bonds LKS - HERETO Roxy Theatre in Atian HE HICKORY NUT '' ' >f* B jM E*-^'" ii >1 STAGE ? IN PERS< W YORK STAGE AND RADIO ! TURKS BY COLUMBIA IN HC Only, Wednesday Oc E SHOWS AT 4:00, 8:30 and 16:3 JARANTEED LAUGH ATTRAI :HIAN THEATRE, BO WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVE Mother of Nine Jflj^HNHIyftHOT 39^Qflg|21 ^Lg^^^BSEi'T i^HHSI cah, Fla., checks up on the behavior en runs. She drives a l'--ton truck Service Command. She will soon be ige for the birth of her tenth hild. f> * -1 1 1 * 1 rvicK.enu<?civer For Greater Efforts In Scrap Metal Drive I Captain Eddie Rickenbacker. air; ace of Worid War I, urges redoubled efforts in the current scrap metai drive. He says: "Having visited ali the battle ! fonths throughout the world, includ-1 ing Russia, it is evident to me th3t the ever-increasing demand for munitions and war weapons will bring about a demand for scrap iron and steel during the balance of 1943 and 1944 unparalleled in the history of any nation?We in America, on the home front have millions of tons of scrap iron and steel lying about idle and being dissipated by the elements ?If every man. woman and child over ten years of age gave only one hour of their time to his salvage drive then1 would be millions of tons available for the protection ot our , fighting men." NEW BOOKS Following are brief reviews of some of the new hooks now available at the Watauga County LibraryBombs Away, by John Steinbeck. The selection and training of men ; lor our air force, from bombardier to : pilot. Join Steinbeck visited training centers all over the country to gather material for this book. Well illustrated by a photographic airman. Into the Valley. John Hersey. A reporter's account of a skirmish j on Guadalcanal when the U. S. MaI rtneS meet the enemy. This is an interesting storv of men ill battle by the author of "Men on Battaan," which the library will have j ready soon. Other new books ready for circu| lation are: I The Song of Bernadette by Franz Werfel: Dress Rehearsal, by Quentin : Reynolds: Blind Date With Mars by , Alice. Leone Moats. It is reported that a concentrated I protein product, similar to deyhdra| ted egg white, may be derived as | a by-product of a new alcohol proj cess in sufficient amount to supj ply 20 million adults. [EY COME!!! ta, Georgia* S" I CHUBBY ROE Star of Bass Banjo and Balloon Juda Canova's Only Rival FULL SCREEN PROGRAM ON SHOWS SIGNED TO LLYWOOD <lnkni> Will rlUUCI falW 0 P. M. :tion? ONE, N. C. saaa RY THURSDAY?BOONE, N. C' j Payments to Dairy Producers Made | On Sales Records j i , AT- f "mM.r; nf Vatstiva entm - I I ty should keep accurate records of | sales of whole milk, cream, or but! ter in order to obtain payments j which will be- made to farmers by | the War Food Administration to offset increases in dairy feed costs since September 1942. it was said today by W W. Mast, chairman of the County AAA Committee. ' This payment was announced ; sometime ago by the War Food Administration. and at that time farmers were asked to maintain records of all sales." he said. "These ivcoixl-are essential if farmers arc to receive their payments. The rate oi payment in all North Carolina counties has been set at 40 cents per ! bo pounds for whole milk and 5 cents per pound for butterfat. Since pay tnents are based on poundage, dairymen should make certain that records furnished them by buyers show the hundredweight, and not merely 'he quantity of butterfat in the milk." Payment to producers will be made by draft direct upon submission to the County AAA Chairman of satisfactory evidence of the quanJit' nf T-r-.ilL- nr Kit ft oi-f-lf en] r! P r-tic. enl rates will be applicable to sales during October. November and December. Mr. Mast said statement normally furnished producers selling whole milk to cooperative associations, milk distributors, or evaporated plants, cheese factories, or other concerns will constitute satisfacory evidence, provided the statement shows the quantity of whole milk delivered. Likewise, he said, receipts furnished | producers by creameries for buttertat will constitute satisfactory evidence Producers selling milk through | retail outlets or selling butter to consumers, local stores, or others 'should obtain receipts from the buyers or other evidence of sale. Payments on sales of butter will ' be at 80 per cent of the bulterfat rate, since there are about four pounds of butterfat in five pounds of butter. Payments on sales of cream will be made at 20 per cent of the rate on butterfat. since there is about one pound of butierfat in five pounds of cream. Chairman Mast said it is expected thai first payments will cover October deliveries of dairy products, but the exact time will depend upon availability of necessary forms which will be forwarded to County AAA Committees as soon as they can be printed. Dairymen will not bo required to submit evidence showing actual q'.iantitics of feed purchased but are asked by the War Pood Administration to keep such information on a file. Area rates an; based in part on the proportion of purchased feed fed to the dairy cows and additional information on this factor will prove helpful, he concluded. ju. S. Ships Sink Or Hit 460 Jap Ships Amoricun submarines, carrying the war evert into home waters of Japan have sunk or damaged 400 Jap vessels, since the war began, the navy said Tuesday. The report contained 148 enemy ships not previously listed as struck by torpedoes in the war against the Japs. The navy totals show that 319 Jap ships have been sent to the bottom, ninety-eight ships sunk, 5 probably and 105 others damaged since December 7, 1941. The new reports of sinkings arid damaging of enemy craft, included ninety-eigh ships sunk, five probably sunk, and forty-five damaged. Previous communiques had listed 221 as sunk, thirty-one probably sunk, and j sixty as damaged. Secretary Knox, explaining the announcement ' of the 148 additional craft, sunk or damaged, said that prompt announcements of sinkings by submarines provide "means of help to the enemy and they are withheld for that reason." He added there no longer any information of value to the enemy in the new announcements. which means that the submarines which inflicted the heavy losses have completed their war patrols. On these patrols the submarines have operated throughout the Pacific area and the navy said in the "enemy's closest home waters.' GENERAL ELECTRIC HAS 72.000 WOMEN IN EMPLOY Schenectedy. ? General Electric and its affiliated companies at present have approximately 72,000 or 38 per cent women in its employ, four times the number before the war, a statement issued by the company recently revealed. This number is equivalent to the total number of all employes of the company in 1939. Two of its apparatus plants have nassad tfa*? 50 nmarlr m male employes, one which is engaged in the manufacture of electric meters and aircraft instruments now employing 56 per cent women. Employees now total 192,000 which is two and one-half times the total in 1939. At present approximately 36,000 employees are in the armed services. , , ? ? ... > t. - ? ... ? .. Jap Finschafen Invasion f Fails: Bag: 24 Nip Planes s Aiiic.t troops and airmen have * in at back an attempted Japanese ^ landing near Finchafen, New Quinea . and destroyed twenty-four of thirty- ^ f ee planes bent on destroying Allied shipping. The Japs sent three troop-laden j, barges tit toward the Finschafen _ beach before dawn Sunday. Heavy ^ fire from Australians, who had cap-!., lured the farmer Jap base on Oct. 2. r sank iwn of the barges. The third v disappeared but General MacAr- ,j r.ur's communique said the enemy s troops Wt're largely destroyed. A headquarters spokesman said: that the Japanese still have a eon- i saJerable force in the Satlclberg area: v about fifteen miles northwest of C Finschhafen Two attacks from that l c I^5^ I ~ Above are the "Hickory Nuts cians corning to the Appalachiar 27th for 3 performances on stage Atlanta these "Folks" play anyi /J^ALACHjAN Shows at 2:15. 4:00. 7:15. 9:00 | i Phone 170 Boone. N, C. j == .- I Thursday j BETTE DAVIS?ERHOL FLNN, JOHN GARFIELD { and all the Warner Stars Including | i EDDIE CANTOR. JOAN LESLIE. BOGAKT ! SHERIDAN AND 30 Others in ! "Thank Your Lucky Stars" YOU'LL THANK YOUR STARS THAT YOU SAW IT! ALL STARS - ALL FUN \ FRIDAY?BARGAIN DAY GANGWAV,^^ trnor Borsey^;# AM j i SATURDAY AT 11 O'CLOCK j I TIE IMREE BES?HiTEERS thundering MB UMKKI JHV Vfi ML wihwip 7B Q SATURDAY NIGHT?7:00 P. M. KEN MAYNARD HOOT GIBSON in "Wild Horse Stampede" ON STAGE HILLBILLY JAMBOREE AND QUIZ SHOW PRIZES FOR YOU? LOADS OF FUN ? m OCTOBER 21. 194.3. rea were repulsed by the Austral ans. Enemy air attacks were no more uceessful. Thirty-five planes were enl against shipping in Oro Bay. tllied fighters intercepted and shot town twenty-four and probably detroyed six others Four allied Higher planes were lost but one of the lilots was saved. The late communique added nineeen planes to the 104?probably 147 -destroyed last Friday and Satur lav. 11 told of another attack on We vak, a Jap base some three hundred alios Northwest of Finsehhafen. in irhich fifteen grounded planes were lestroyed and four Jap fighters were liol down. The aggregate tonnage of 8 itniortant processing vegetables for rhich estimates had been made on October, snow a decline of 9 per ept below 1942. says a BAE report. /'fi. " sensational "hillbillie musi1 Theatre Wednesday October . Direct from Roxy Theatre in thing that has a tune in it. OWL SHOW SAT. NITE 10:30 P. M. MONDAY -TUESDAY BATAAN HEROINES We haven'! space to tell you about this WHALE OF A PICTURE So let us say?you sec it! CLAUDETTE COLBERT PAULETTE GODDARD VERONICA LAKE IN "So Proudly We Hail" YOU'LL NEVER FORGET YOU'LL ALWAYS REGRET IF YOU MISS THIS SHOW OF SHOWS Highly Recommended by all who ' have seen it! Walter Winchell Says: EXCELLENT! SEE IT! WEDNESDAY ON STAGE The Hickory Nuts" First Professional Stage Show in a Long Time They Personally Gurantee to Leave You in Stitches 4?BIG ACTS FULL SCREEN PROGRAM Direct From Boxy Theatre in Atlanta to Too mi i ?a??
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