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pa?;e four In a single hour, a 105 - mm. shock to relatives and frie cannon can fire more than three Surviving are the pare tons of steel, and Mrs. Warren H. Mc two sisters, Mrs. Henry H BUSES EXPECTED Wilmington and Mrs. B. 1 TO ARRIVE TODAY of Southport; three 1 (Continued From Page One) Dickie McKeithan, of S( any trip. ! Shelby McKeithan, of tl Until after Christmas it is Army, and Horace McKei thought that most of the mailjHollis, N. Y. transportation win nave to be The active pall bearer: done by truck. Heavy passenger funeral were: Hugh Price movement of this time of the _ , ?? .. _ , . year, and also the heavy mail, Cox Eari Wescott Calvm makes it practically impossible to Herbert Swain andJohnm carry both passengers and mail honorary, Boss Leonard, in the same bus. Guthrie, Charlie Hickman, Price, George Walton a FUNERAL HELD FOR Watts ACCIDENT VICTIM ? _ . 7 (Continued From Page One) Know I he marines L wiiminotnn until ahout three I Because They Too months ago. when she went to' (Continued From Page New York to work. She was aj Transport Joseph T. Die) highly esteemed young woman 34,000 tonner that playe< and the news of her death was a i Part 'n carrying and ????????????? ; troops. Walking with a stick, c QUoaf MiiciV a wounded le?- the offico' kJUCCl lfl UoH, erwise hale and strong. New. Hits Received 'clmed to talk about his ur v 1 | been wounded, other than weekly I that the injuries would n BRAXTON'S lh . !? ?uit {h? Cofst G which he is intensely de\ I MULES-MULE! ! H^n IMsm !We have plenty of i TENNESSEE ] .... The kind that will plei good mule for any purpose. Ages 11 sure to see our mules betore train !: Also We Have On Hand Severs j! Seth L. Smitl WHITEVILL h A Small] Can Save i A whispered rumor can cause your tire can ruin the entire < We have learned to do witho longer. None of them are moi depends on the care you give quickly you have repairs mac as often as required?sometin single tire?just so they can c j fighting men in the same fasl TL~ U^i HI T1 lYIdKe liie Dual UI iJ Don't expect your tires, placed by new ones. There ji the armed services first, and o until the latter part of 1044. 1 spection?careful inspection L to tell tire ailments ? and lie sign of a leak or damage. An enough. Expert Tire Inspection Will Let Expert Repairing Will Insure Yt We are equipped with tir We know how to diagnose the learned much during the emei and experience which is at yoi cracks must be vulcanized bel aged tire may prove a costly We don't work miracles?but you come to us in time. Fully Realizing the Drastic Fire most in Tire Service. We Indept on Wheels and Will Continue to tain Motor Transportation. Black's S< W. C. BLACK, Prop. T Member?National As? 'J :nds. | expects to serve his full 30 year nts, Mr. and then come home to Southpor Keithan; and live on his farm a few milei inson, of;from town. Mrs. Bomberger ani 3. Price, Barbara, their 4year old daughter brothers,! are here with him from Mobile foi nithport, his ten days leave from duty. Shi be U. S. is the former Miss Marilyn Drev ithan, of j of the well known Drew famih of near Southport. 5 at the i. Buddy Southport Women Fail To Wescott Support Their Fighting Mer e Drew; | lContinued From Page One) ' I to reorganize. The local chaptei Dillard WaS as'<et' t0 comPlete a" quota; nd Sam on hand at that time befort Christmas as the dressings wen ? sorely needed by the armed for anded ces. This meant that Southporl k Part was asked to complete 105,00( One) dressings before the holidays, (man, a' Since October, not quite half ol 1 a big this number has been completed, landing j 'it is a disgrace to the womer xt'a ponnnt haf^l |OI Lilt' WWII II1CII i V iwing to' up our boya to the extent oi is oth-1 spending only a few hours eact He de-1 week folding dressings for them,' having says the chairman. "The mair i to say burden of the program has faller ot force 'j to the comparatively few ladies uard, to'who are faithful despite the ap' 'oted. Heparent lack of interest on the 3-MULES | ! I +**** ]] """ " li j ^ | .v. * j ( fine fresh 1! MULES || ise anyone wanting a jj 3 to 5 years old. Be if ng or purchasing. ) < il Traded-In Mules. >; l & Co. ! li E ) I F*gg**)ncyg??yK *?***?? Repair V 1 ^ Your a panic or spoil a good reputatio casing and lay up a costly and e ut many things?we have learned re important than tires. The exist your tires?how often you have tl le. The armed forces are also he les as many as four sectional rep; ontinue to give service. We civiliai lion?by making our tires last. 1ft Tirpfi Yon Hav worn out through carelessness or ist aren't any. Those that are beinj nly a few will be available for ci four tires MUST last. They will i >y men who have the equipment >w to cure them. Tires must be r ything less than doing- everythin You Know Your l ire Aili >ur Future Driving?Delay e spreaders that make a tire tell il >se cracks and breaks and how to re gency on how to make tires last li ur command. Leaks must be repai 'ore they spread. A few hundred mi drive?cause the break to spread sc we can save you heartaches in y Situation, We Pledge to Ci indent Tire Dealers Have 1 do Everything Within Our irvice St. elephone 110-J WH1TEV1LLE, ociation of Independent Tire Deale THE STATE PORT PILOT, s'part of the majority of our ir t citizens. Very often supervisors si s are on duty with only one or two w 1 workers appearing. If our boys ir . fought with the same degree of w r | interest our women are backing b; 3 them up we would not have such ai r good news from the fronts." H r j 'After Christmas a renewed ef- al jfort is to be put forth by those e< i in charge of the program in the tt hopes that the women of South1 port will support their fighting 01 r men as they should. Jjj , News Reporter Printer Tells Interesting Story ol 'I (Continued From Page One) tj " while Willie is there. ', So long as there is plenty of o( ) cussing, mostly from Willie, in jt the back office, the front office F knows that everything is running n smoothly and there is nothing to p( l! worry about. It is wiien wimeu, [ pipes down and the rest of the J jj. f shop workers follow suit that the i front office knows" something has st ' gone wrong and Willie is intent on i fixing it. He never learned his tc i job, the job has been built up pl s right around him and he is one of ^ the most vital cogs. He is literal- w 11 ly a part of the job. al A few days ago Willie was in- h, ! terviewed regarding his long ser- b. | vice with the News Reporter. The | reader will make note of the fact a( ! that he only got into the sixth w I grade in school. He never finished th that grade, going instead to work u] ! in the printing office. There he a| got a better education in some tc ! things than the average college b( graduate has when he gets his ]e diploma. In response to the in- p, jquiry as to his work with the ' paper, Willie sat down to his (j favorite Intertype and turned out a| : the following story with about as w i much speed. and accuracy as any ti high powered typist. A si WILLIE'S STORY hi I was 47 years old this October tt 22, 1943. When I was 14 years g: old, I had reached the 6th grade I p, b WHEN YOU BUY OR p; TRADE ^ CARS?Pay CASH? With a loan * e n from ir BRAXTON'S ? I n STANDARD RATES * STANDARD TERMS ? FRIENDLY SERVICE 11 Ci mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ti n b p ! I ire it g< in. A small leak in 01 ssential automobile. t! to make things last n ence of the nation j tern inspected?how iving tires repaired | airs are made on a I is must support our e neglect, to be re^ made are going to vilian use?at least require frequent inand the knowledge epaired at the first I g possible is not iiient? a Is Dangerous :s innermost secrets. ;pair them. We have anger?a knowledge red quickly. Small les driven on a dam> it is beyond repair, our tire problem if ve You the UtKept the Nation Power to Mainition , n. c. rs SOUTHPORT, N. C. i the Whiteville school and I Tel :opped there in order to go to we ork in the News Reporter print- stoj ig office. The paper at that time wh? as a weekly, owned and edited woi y Mr. T. Larry Gantt. He was in ssisted by his daughter, Mrs. j elen Himms. I was 14 years old afti t the time and the rest of my hea lucation has been picked up in the le printing office. of The first four weeks and more Lit! r less since then, I held the en- tie able position of Printer's Devil, whi very printing shop has one and S le duties run to everything from to veeping the floor to cleaning vill it the cuspidors. Most of the old a f me printers were dovoted to R. leir chewing tobacco. Very few Bes them smoked. When they did niai was mostly pipes. cou When I had advanced in my Wh iting as a Printer's Devil to the; erei sint where I could be trusted to j wit y and learn how to set type, go ley gave me a box of pied j bes rpe. In those days all type was | exp it by hand. ing After the type had been used h . naiur if had to be W. P tPlllll w?. r-, ? it in its proper box in the cases. I ber Tien it got spilled or mixed it jear as referred to as being "pied" *91 id it was a tedious job to Wo indie this pied type and get it of ick into the proper boxes. Some whi mes a great deal of pied type Bee cumulated before some one f??' ould come along and undertake j >e degrading job of getting it m0 ipied. Well, to make a long story tur x>ut pied type short, I learned did i clean out the hell box, as the fro ix of pied type was called. In1 " arning this I also learned the | the roper boxes for all letters. ? I was soon on the road to setng type. It was disheartening, t first. I had to be sure that the ords were properly spaced, that le letters were not upside down, ccuracy had to come before ?eed. I remember how after I id worked for some months, and lought I was pretty good, I was iven something to set into type, thought I would show how exsrt I had become an finished that >b in short order. Pride comes sfore a fall. After I carried the I roof to Mrs. Minims I was crestillen at being called to her desk nd receiving a dressing down. I as ordered to distribute the type i its proper cases and reset the :ory, following copy. We had a good press, taking >ur pages at one operation. That leant that when we were printig an eight page paper, four ages would be run off and the >rms removed from the press, he forms for the other four ages would then be put to bed nd the other side of the paper.: he Dress had to be run bv hand. I s we had no motive power. Grant lore, serving as man power at lc crank on the large fly wheel ould turn out about fotir hundred rints per hour. Charlie Gayle, ow living at Scotland Neck, did le feeding of the press. We had o folder and the papers had to e folded by hand after being rinted. After I had been there about a ear Mr. Gantt bought a gasone engine from Mr. Oscar High, t stepped up the printing to bout eight hundred an hour, that eing about all that we could feed ito the press by hand in that me. A few years later Mr. Gantt ot a type setting machine. It as called the "Junior Linotype." t didn't work long and was a >urce of constant trouble while ; did. The boy that Mr. Gantt ot to run it left and since no tie else in the shop knew anyling about it. Mr. Gantt sent the lachine back to the Evening OR YOUR... Christmas Tree Pine Tops Holly Mistletoe ? SEE ? DAVID MOORE .cave your orders at Fhe State Port Pilot Office RADIOS A few table model radio-phono combinations A few cabinet models A few battery sets complete with battery and aerial. A few phonographs and record players. NO MORE FOR DURATION BRAXTON'S egram in Rocky Mount. While They bought a new had the machine we never type with a much w pped setting type by hand, even production than tt m it would work the machine Several years ago tt lid not set over seven galleys another standard ir ten hours. to the shop. Along Irs. Minims died and shortly bought various o sr losing his daughter the printing office macr 1th of Mr. Gantt failed. He sold least of these new paper to Mr. Joseph Little, the web perfecting Wilmington the year that Mr. i prints and folds tie ran for Congress. Mr. Li- complete at one ope bought a new and better press, I was born and ra ich served us many years. ville. To tell the loon Mr. Little sold the paper j been outside of Coll Attorney Jack Greer, of White-1 or Whiteville very e. Mr. Greer kept it for only started to work f ew weeks and then sold to Mr. j Reporter 33 years aj F. Beaslcy, of Monroe. Mr. I am called to print islev bought the first linotype J neighboring counties chine ever brought to this, types or omer rei nty, a Model "K" Lintoype., chinery. en it came in I helped the | ctor install it and he stayed; h me two days. After that, I 001 I along with the machine as U\JLil t I could and finally became iert in handling it and produc-! JAAI J type. ! DUL1 fr. Beasley sold the paper to ? B. Keziah who ran it a num-! See our displa; of years. During Mr. Beasley's now. ly ownership (he bought it inj There will 6) we became involved in enough to ?< rid War I, I was on the point ri being drafted but Mr. Keziah, c , ,. ' > was in charge since Mr. Santa d sappo isley first bought the paper, little gill, me deferred for awhile. I was SHOP EARLY illy booked to leave on the Late shoppers rning of November 11th. That d i S a p p o i 11 ned out to be Armistice Day. I; Christmas, n't go and didn't miss a day; m my work. B>I1 A VTi 'he Lewis Brothers took over DiXnA 1 ' paper after Mr. Keziah sold it. j MgHKCaxxsmBEff You can help Santa a lot get your shopping plans earlier than usual vis: Stores. There is a wealth of gift wartime conditions ? n things you'd expect und< withal a wide variety o make Christmas shop] worthwhile. For your convenience in your friends elsewhere, chants this year have \ wrap-for-mailing service 111IV?-*- w? Just carry your gift pa< purchase, for wrap-to-m; route before mid-Decen REMEMBER-i You Are Always Wei Christmas or AnytimeLet us Help You-We WILMINGTON RETi Retail Division Cham WEDNESDAY, DECEMBFPg H model Inter- I was married to rider range of Hooks, also a native of Hi? ''^1 ie Model K. ty, on February 21 ley added still J have had eight children 10de' mfacfjne!dead and four are with it they! , ^ mir.g. ther modern boys a 0 S'rls. The _ - our sons is now serving , lines. Not the armed fQrces ?? ^? machines Is ^ g 3 press, which ? flo tSL ? IF linC[noJ iHlUuLittl! imbus County WWfc '* 1 little since I Do tiiis?Try 3-oUrpos,y,. I j or the News I^ (I) shrinks swollen go. Sometimes sP?rhcs irritation, (3) ing offices in frnnsicnt nasa[ ?on^Mion ? f " . bnngs greater breathing to fix lino- comfort. You'll like u,-? "VtB J "ractory 111a- it. Follow directions "**$ II in folder. VA'TD0|w|: o 11 n?nV i w urrv About money' p. S Christmas shopping | Get a loan on yo# r j ii car- Pay back 'n small f of dolls monthly paymentj. No red tape. i not be No endorsers requiN i around 30 minutes service, lon't let cash in your hands in unt your mediately. Your car fully covered in event -of accident or will be ; ioss by fire or ^ ^ ted this n Braxton Auto r\jki)c? Service JIN O LOAN DEPARTMENT D IT; MTA CLAUS Is A BUSY FELLOW-Making v Ready for CHRISTMAS r ^ this year if you will 5 arranged to make its to Wilmington ;s available despite laybe not all the sr normal times but f practical ideas to ping pleasant and j: i i _ senuing presents to Wilmington mer- Bj vorked out a free f| ; at the Chamber of K| 2kages there after I ail and get them en- E iber. m ^ . . .. ... Kgj Icome In Wilmington ij re Ready To Serve I UL MERCHANTS I ber of Commer^ I
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