rtSE FOUR THE BEAUFORT NEWS BEAUFORT, N. C. Thursday, Dec. 21, 1944 TheBeaufort News Published every Thursday by THE CARTERET PUBLISHING COMPANY 120 Craven Street Beaufort, Carteret County, N. C. Lockwqod Phillips, President, Wm. L. Hatsell, Vice President Eleanore Dear Phillips. Sec.-Treas. Mail Rates (in advance): $2.00 a year in Carteret County, $1.25 six Months; $2.50 elsewhere in the United States and Canada. $1.50 six months; addressed to Carteret men and women in the armed ser vice outside the County. $1.50 a year. Entered as secend-class matter February 5, 1912 at Beaufort, North" Carolina, under Act of March 3, 1879. Nat'l. Advertising Representative American Pre.. Association North Carolina i ' MISS ASSOC IAI10N Lockwood Phillips Editor Wm. L. Hatsell Bus. Mgr. Thursday, Dec. 14, 1944 PEACE " and on earth peace, good will towards men." Germany will celebrate its sixth war Christmas on Mon day. We shall celebrate our third. But when our children are taking their first peep at the Christmas tree Germany will be deeply immersed in Tues day and in Tuesday's troub les.. Tuesday's troubles are troubles of the world, troub les of man. Christmas Day joys are joys of a philoso phy so great that the man is a fool who attempts to qual ify them. " peace, good will They have been given us. But we are as a man with a fertile field, with seed, with a hoe but so lazy that we lie' in the sun and starve. A CARD OF APPRECIATION I wish to send by thanks to Mr. -and 'Mrs. Blakely Wade of Lenox ville Highway in sacrificing their car and time by driving my baby to Wilmington Hospital Thursday night. Thanks to you and Addie Lou CmHrin, I am sure I can always have you folks for good neighbors, as my baby Jimmy Walker is doing well and hope to have him home for Christmas. Mrs. Charlotte Moore, Lenoxville Highway, Beaufort, N. C. ANN ST. METHODIST HOST TO BISHOP Ann Street Methodist Church will be host to a bishop of the church for the firstt ime in five years the Rev. W. tSanley Potter, pastor, announded today when Bis hop W. W. Peele of Richmond, Va., attends the Carteret County-Eastern North Carolina Conference "Crusade for Christ" on January 4 at 7:30 in the evening. The Rev. R. W. Bradshaw, chairman of the Conference "Cru sade for Christ" will be another guest as will Professor B. H. Childs, Ph. D., of Duke University. FIGHTS WITH BATTERED 135th Pfc. Dannie Davis, a rifleman, is a member of the 135th Infan try Regiment which recently mark ed its 338th day in combat ac cording to a dispatch to The News from the Fifth Army in tlaly. The regiment is a unit of the IX Gen. Clark's "Red Bull" divosion of the Fifty Army. Davis has been in the thick of things at Algiers, Hill 609, the Volturno and Rapido Rivers. Cas sino, the Anzio beachhead, Rome. Pba and the Gothic line. Only 600 of the more than 3.000 Minneso ta National Guardsmen who com posed the original 135th Regiment are in the present organization. The repriment has lost 1,000 killed and several thousand wounded but Dannie Davis is goinit strong The regiment has been overseas 1,000 days and has fought 388 days. ABC BOARD INCREASES RATION FOR HOLIDAY Liquor ration coupons No. 3 and 4 are valid for the purchase of one firth each or two pints each of do mestic or Scotch whiskys, accord ing to an announcement by E. G. Rawlings, supervisor of the Car teert ABC Board. This action has doubled the quantity of liquor that may be bought. COFFEE SHOP PLAYS HOST The Coffee Shop will close Christmas Day afternoon at 2:30 for the day. However Mr. and Mrs. Lee will be plenty busy for at 5:30 in the afternoon they will be host to all the Marines stationeJ at Beaufort airfield. The Coffee Shop will be closed evenings here after after 8:30. Informal DANCE . t- SMYRNA HIGH SCHOOL GYMNASIUM XMAS MIGHT DEC. 25 8:30 UNTIL Sammy Guthrie' Orchestra Adm. $1.50 a couple or $1.00 per person DRUG STORES CLOSED CHRISTMAS DAY Beaufort's drug stores will be closed all day on Christmas Day. The stores are the Joe House Drug Store, Bells' Drug Store and Guthrie-Jones Drug Store. SCHOOL XMAS HOLIDAY STARTS TOMORROW AT NOON Beaufort schools will close to morrow at noon for the Christmas Holidays and re open on Monday. January 1. The hour from 11 until noon to morrow will be devoted to Christ mas parties in all the graded school rooms. High school students will hold their party in the auditorium with their Christmas tree on the stage. icicictcicci('tcitcc)(ctec!cecee,cic!ee'ctcieiece n NOTICE DUE TO NEEDED REPAIRS WE 1 WILL BE CLOSED FROM DEC. 23 TO JAN. 1 IDEAL DRY CLEANERS JOHNSON-SAUNDERS CLEANER.1 ir At Christmas per' haps more than at any other time in the year we realize what it means to be an American to myth of Santa Claus. k And at Christmas the members of this organ' i;ation realize partiou' larly what your patron' v v worship as we please, to age has meant to us, and go about our daily pur' we take this opportunity suits unfettered, to take time out to pay homage to Jto thank'you while wishing you all a most Merry the beautiful M PI I Christmas. ' mr ' fill trm WW y y Itf ft I Morehead City I Ik t vir tLaes. 3 Piece Living Room buites S$t 1 Made Wilh Sp"ngs feCJI e,, thi. very .m.rtly .tyled .uite ha. pre-war con- 14? I .truetion in the cu.hion.. back.. nd b..e.. 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