Thursday December 18 1941
THE BEAUFORT NEWS BEAUFORT, N. C.
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CHRISTMAS eve. Streets white
with swirling snow flakes.
Marionetta, behind the counters of
the five-and-ten, peered into one of
the little ten-cent mirrors it was her
business to sell.
1 Marionetta was crying because
there was no Santa Claus. More
than anything she hated to go back
to the tiny basement flat that she
and mother and Jim called home,
and tell' Jim the truth.
' Jim, or Jimrny, as Marionetta al
ways called him, was crippled. Mari.
onetta insisted that he was too little
yet to know about Santa Claus. She
bad gone without her lunch for days
and days and saved her nickels and
dimes to buy the things Jimmy
wanted.
That very morning she had started
out to work, her precious savings
tucked away in her purse, her heart
all but singing out loud.
Then, when she got off the car,
someone in the motley crowd bumped
ber elbow and her purse was knocked
from her hand. Marionetta dived for
Jimmy shouted with delight.
, it, but another dived at the same
time and when she straightened up
a small, flying figure was crossing
the street. That was why her feet
lagged on her homeward way.
Her hand on the door of the base
taent flat, at the dirty tenement
house where she lived, she noticed
a big automobile drawing up at the
curb, and an elegantly dressed lady
. slumming. Showing off! She turned
her back on the picture, flung open
the door and stepped inside.
1 "Hello, Sis." Jimmy looked up
brightly. "Tonight's the night!"
. Marionetta looked dully at her
jnother.
"I lost my purse," she said tone
lessly. "Some kid snatched it this
, morning. It looked just like that
McCarty kid that comes here to play
with Jimmy so much but he ran so
last I couldn't be sure."
"Don't cry, honey," her mother
said. "We'll make out, somehow."
There was a knock. Mrs. Clancy
went to the door and opened it. There
. stood the lady of the big automobile,
her arms piled high with packages.
! "Is this where Jimmy Clancy
lives?"
"Yes, ma'am." Mrs. Clancy
stepped back. "Won't you come in?"
The lady stepped inside. She kept
; smiling at Jimmy, whose eyes were
. wide and bright
"I met Santa Claus down the
' street this afternoon, Jimmy," she
: said, "and he asked if I would bring
" these things to you. He said he
was going to be very busy tonight."
Jimmy was feverishly tearing at
;' the packages, which the lady had
dropped into a big chair beside him.
As his heart's desires emerged from
their tinsel wrappings Jimmy shout
ed with delight.
Under cover of Vhe excitement
Marionetta drew near the pretty
: lady and whispered:
"Tell me how you knew about Jim
my?" "Why, my dear, it's such a strange
story! This morning I saw a little
boy snatch a purse that someone
dropped, and when he ran away I
had my chauffeur follow him and
bring him back to me. He told me
he wanted to keep the money to buy
some toys for a little crippled friend
whose folks were too poor to buy
things for him. I promised him I'd
play Santa Claus to Jimmy if he'd
promise me to wait on that corner
for the girl who dropped the purse,
every morning at the same hour,
until he found her and gave it back
to her."
"Why," cried Marionetta, "did you
ever hear anything so like a fairy
tale? That was my purse, and it
really was Jerry McCarty, mother!
There was such a crowd he couldn't
see who dropped it. He'd never have
stolen but it wasn't stealing. And
just to think that a moment ago I
was doubting the Christmas saint!"
The lady laughed. Then in that
clear voice she said:
"Well, just to make you even more
sure of him, I'm going to bring a
famous doctor to see Jimmy the
day after tomorrow, and I'm going
to have him take Jimmy to a hos
pital and cure that bad leg of his.
The good Christmas saint doesn't
want to find him crippled when he
comes back next year."
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For Army Vehicles
It won't be long before the 3,
000 government vehicles at Camp
Davis will blossom out with new
license tags if Harold L. Manning,
civilian foreman of the Camp Da
vis paint shop has his way.
The five employees inside, the
paint shop have been working for
some time to finish the new red
and yellow paltes, which will iden
tify a vehicle almost down to the
correct platoon, and the produc
tion rate of 500 plates a dav has
been stepped up to over (300.
It's not a magician's trick, but
it's all done with screens, shellack
ed and with regimental numbers
cut out of the cloth. Paint is pour
ed along the sides of a frame, and
with a squee-gee, the paint is
spread over the cloth. Where reg
imental numbers have been cut in
the screen, paint seeps through to
the blank plates below. The fin
ished product is as smooth a job
of numbering as DaVinci himself
could do. Six plates can be paint
ed at a time, and two frames are
being worked constantly.
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has been numbered on the red
plate, the battery number or let
ter is painted in by hand, as are
the truck numbers, which are plac
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the large regimeptal number.
The painting job at Camp Davis
is never finished. The 12 employ
ees of the shop are kept busy con
stantly, fixing up soiled paint jobs,
and keeping new buildings tastily
decorated in governmental colors.
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the perpetual task of keeping
Camp Davis neatly painted. The
job is comparable to that of the
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The 1,000 odd buildings at
Camp Davis are guaranteed to
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but with additions in the form of
chapels, gyms, warehouses, being
constructed daily, the crew has
trouble just keeping even.
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4-H County Council
Holds Its Annual
Christmas Program
The Beaufort 4-H County Coun
ty Council held its annual Christ
mas party in the Home Agent's of
fice on last Saturday morning at
10 o'clock. The Eeaufort 4-H Club
gave a very interesting Christmas
program. It was as follows:
Poem: "Old Christmas" Kitty
Lynch.
Trio: Song: "Old Holy Night"
Sarah Dudley. Kitty Lynch, Jean
Springle.
Poem: "Christmas In England"
Sarah Dudley.
Christmas Story by Hans C. An
derson Manda Congleton.
Poem: "Christmas Everywhere"
Jean Springle.
After the program Christmas
gifts were exchanged and all join
ed in singing Christmas Carols and
playing games. The recreation was
led by Miss Evelyn Home, Home
Agent, and Mr. J. Y, Lassiter,
Farm Agent.
Delicious refreshments were
I cni-iinii. f-nnsistinor of Christmas
candy and "rosy apple Santas"
made by the Newport 4-H Club
members.
The next 4-H County Council
will meet Saturday, Feb. 14, at 10
o'clock in the Home Agent's of-
fice The topic for this mcetin!?
be ,.Poultry
Age Limit For U. S.
Marine Recruits Is
Raised to 35 Years
For the first time since the
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to this the Marine Corps was only
enlisting men who had reached
their 30th birthday.
This five year difference in ago
is expected to bring many men in
to the ranks of the Marine Corps.
Since the outbreak of hostilities
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will se.ve till the duration of the
emergency and then will be relas-ed.
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