State Auto Licenses
Sates Pass MSlion
Drivers. Cautioned to
Remove 1951 Plates
, From Cars
New license tag sales have perked
up over the entire state the Depart
ment of Motor Vehicles reports.
The department’s registration di
vision said that 1952 tag sales had
passed the one million mark, while
remembering that last year only 926,-
288 had been issued as of the same
date.
'Department licensing officials prais
ed North Carolina motorists for se
curing their new plate promptly.
They also cautioned driver’s against
leaving their old 1951 front tag at
tached to their car. Violators are
subject to prosecution, they said, and
the old tag should be removed at once.
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■George Armstrong Custer belongs
a to the great company of adventurers ,
Who gave us the West—early trail
blazers like Kit Carson and Jim
Bridger, and the solders who came
afterward and wrested it from the
Indians.
However, he was far from being the !
tough backwoodsman like Carson and
Bridger. He was as at home in New
York and Washington drawing,rooms
as on the frontier. As a hunter he
took part in those fabulous shooting
raids on big game. His letters to his
wife were filled with accounts of
these trips.
Writing of the Army’s expedition on
the Yellowstone, he said: “I killed
and brought into camp 41 antelope,
four buffalo, four elk, seven deer—
also captured alive a wildcat and a
porcupine, amiable creatures I still
possess.” He was an hmateur taxi
dermist and enjoyed supplying nat
uralist societies with animal speci
mens.
■Custer was born in 1839 at New
Burnley, Ohio. His father was a farm
er and had his heart set on George
becoming a minister. But the boy’s
head was filled with ideas of out
door sport and dreams of glory. When
he graduated from school at first
he tried teaching. Then he secured
an appointment at the U. S. Military
Academy.
HU record there, according to Mor
an Tudury, one of his biographers,
was far from impressive. He was
lively rather than studious. When he
graduated it was without any honors
at all. He was last in a class of 34.
But three days after he left West
Point he found himself up to hU neck
in the Civil War. His first engage
ment was a complete route for the
Federal Army but Custer was one of
the few men who distinguished him
self by his cool. behavior. Now his
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rise to fame began.
For four exciting years he was in
the thick of all the fighting. Once
he had two horses shot from under
him in 15 minutes. At 24 he was
made a brigadier general. When
the war ended a lot of heroes disap
peared into obscurity of civil life.
Not Custer. He was commissioned
lieutenant colonel and assigned to the
Sev’enth Cavalry which was being or
ganized for duty in the West. It suit
ed him perfectly, for it was the one
spot left in America that still offer
ed plenty of opportunity for heroes.
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THE CHOWAN HERALD. EDENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1952.
This Week’s Poem I
By WILBORNE HARRELL
GENESIS OIF LIBERTY
The God of worlds that are to be took
chaos in HU hands,
And molded mountains, breaking sea,
and fashioned desert sands;
And then in space of Eden’s fields,
blue skies, and streams and wood,
Created lasting peace for men—and
then He .called it, “Good”.
He gave dominion o’er the land and
all that swam the sea,
And courage, too, He gave to man, a
soul to make him free;
The heritage of liberty, to call thU
soul his own,
The things he earns by sweat of brow,
the things his lands have grown.
And man has loved thU precious gift
bestowed on him by God,
And nurtured well for those less
swift tffe freedom of the sod,
Os mountaintop, the wind and rain,
the eagle on the wing—
-0 land where faith and justice reign,
of thee this song I sing.
MASSES SUNDAY IN EDENTON
CHURCH AND MARINE CHAPEL
Quinquagesima Sunday, February
24, The Most Holy Sacrifice of the-
Mass will be offered at 7 and 11 A.l
M., in St. Ann’s Catholic Church,
Edenton, and at 9 A. M., in Marine
Air Station 'Chapel, near Edenton,
each mass including sermon on “The
Holy Sacrament of Matrimony,” Holy
Communion, followed by Rosary for
Peace, Sunday School, with confes
sions for half hour before each ser
vice and Saturdays 7 to 7:30 P. M.,
and 8:30 to 9 P. M., in church, stat
t ed Father F. J. McCourt, pastor and
Auxiliary Chaplain. Week-days mass'
! in church at 7 A. M. Thursdays study,
'(discussion classes meet 7:30 to 8:30
’ P. M., in rectory. Choir practice Sat
-1 urdays 1:30 P. M., at church.
. con’s of his military defeat at the
1 Little Big Horn. He was the only
} one of the 211 dead cavalrymen on
. the field who had been unscalped and
- unmutilated by the Siouz —a sign of
i their respect for him. So instead of
- thinking of it as disaster let’s remem
ber it as the last gallant stand of a
1 superb American fighting man.
1,500,000 Veterans
Under
Drop Os Only 16 Per
Cent Shown Than
Previous Year
Nearly 1,500,000 World War II
veterans were training under the GI
Bill at the close of 1951—a drop of
only-16 per cent below the 1,700,000
total of a year ago, a Veterans Ad
ministration survey disclosed. 1
The decline was appreciably less
than that which occurred from 1949
to 1950, VA said. End-of-year en
rollments in 1950 were 26 per cent
under the 1949 figure of 2,300,000.
The peak of the huge veterans’
training program came at the end
of 1947, when more than 2,500,000
veterans were enrolled in schools,
on-the-farm or on-the-job.
The on-the-job training total drop
ped below the 100,000 mark for the
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first time since January, 1946, VA
said.
If veterans continue to complete .
their GI Bill training at the saepe ,
rate as they have in the past, VA
predicted, future enrollments will take .
much sharper drops. I
EGG PRODUCTION HIGH
North Carolina farm flocks pro
duced 103 million eggs in January.
The estimated 9,422,000 layers in
farm flocks during the month pro
duced an average of 1,156 eggs per
100. Weather conditions during Jan
uary were generally favorable to egg
production with above normal tem
peratures prevailing throughout most
i of the month.
How He Knew
A man fell into a coma and it was
several days before he awoke. Later
he spoke of his experience to a party
of friends.
“Oh, yes,” the young man said in
reply to a question. “I knew all the
time what was going on, and I also
knew that I wasn’t dead, because my
feet were cold and I was hungry.”
“I see,” said one of his friends
thoughtfully. “But how did that
make you think you were still alive ?”
“Well,” answered the man, “I knew
that if I were in Heaven I wouldn’t
be hungry, and that if I were any
where else my feet wouldn’t be cold.”
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lashed night, the transport
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The lives of ell its passengers
are dependent on the proven
ability and dependability of
its alert, lean-eyed pilot.
You can depend on the
proven ability of our profes
sional staff, and the proven
dependability of our organiza
tion Careful consideration of
individual needs is an inherent
part of every ceremony
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tractors have with the throttle wide openl
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creep in heavy going without stalling or
shifting gears. You can slow down to
cross a headland furrow without stopping
or shifting.
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