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VOLUME LV. No. 16. MAXTON. N. FRIDAY. MAY 7. 1943. Subscription °nce $1.50 Per Year in Advanca The Best Advertising Medium In This Section ^ . I-iVJJ.\L ifcJUH Maxton, N. C. sh Chief Read By The People Who Buy Town Election Lacks Interest, Yet Develops Into Close Race Murphy McGirt Runner Up in What Turned Out to Be Very Close Race for Commissioner. Mayor Hasty and Board Go Back for New Terms of Office. In what had appeared to be an uninteresting election oi Town of ficials on Monday, May 3rd. de veloped into a close and interest ing race as far as the Commission ers race was concerned. There was only one new candidate for com missioner, Murphy F. McGirt, wdic ran against the entire field of in cumbents. The final vote indi cates that the voters had some difficulty in deciding betw-een Mr. McGirt, the aspirant, and Mr. E. P. Williams, the incumbent, as the results show'ed 70 votes for Wil liams and 69 votes for McGirt. Mayor W. H. Hasty, who has served for 16 years or more, had no opposition. However, J. C. Daniel, popular funeral director and civic minded citizen, received 16 write-in votes for mayor. Mr. Daniel in a statement to the press said, "I would be ungrateful if 1 did not express my appreciation to those who feel that 1 would make a good mayor. However, I was not a candidate. 1 did not aspire to the office and had no desire w’hatever to either be voted for or elected. Nevertheless I am appreciative of the kind gesture, but am content to remain in the private ranks and serve the people from there to the best of my ability.” The vote as cast in the election was as follows: For Mayor: W. H. Hasty, 82; J. C. Daniel (write-in vote, he not being a candidate), 16. For Commissioners: T. O. Evans, 98; F. C. Frostick, 89; R. B. Bul lard, 88; E. P. Williams. 70, and Murphy McGirt, 69. Thus the same mayor and commissioners are returned to office for the next two years. Robeson Tobacco News -n* . ; From Lumberton Area , Lumberton. May 4.—Tobacco transplanting time for the Lum berton flue-cured area has arrived, with tobacco growers hit by blue mold and short on plants, according to the crop condition report just issued by Jasper C. Hutto, super visor of the Lumberton tobacco market. Present favorable weath er conditions, however, have con tributed to the optimism of the farmers. It was the fifth seasonal tobacco crop conditions report issued by the Lumberton supervisor, who says the present is one of the crucial stretches of the tobacco growing period. Transplanting is in progress throughout the Lumberton area, the report says, with the scanty supply of plants growing well in the main, but having to fight the dreaded blue mold. Insects are reported all over the area, but these are said not to be doing any great damage except in isolated spots. "Tobacco farmers are going to be behind when their crop gets in the field,” the report says, “and they already know they are work ing against odds, but they arc pitting their skill against the prob lems and will do the best possible job. They are anxiously watching their beds to see the blue mold lift entirely as they have another eye on the signs that point to the best possible transplanting conditions.” Supervisor Hutto reports that transplanting will be at its heaviest in another week’s time, but that it will be May 15 and after before the crop can be out in the fields and on its way toward actual growth. Only through extra good growing conditions can the crop catch up with the two to three weeks delay, the supervisor says. -o Jackie Cogan At the Air Base Jackie Coogan, one of the first and most famous kid stars of the movies, having appeared in the star production, "The Kid” with Charlie Chaplin, and in other stellar roles, is now in uniform at the Laurin burg-Maxton Air Base, says “The Slipstream," the Air base news paper. Jackie Coogan has been in the Army for many months and shifted to the Air Forces last June. Coogan appeared at the Base theatre Friday night in the Troop Carrier first anniversary show. -o PIGS On January 1, 1942, there were 60,377,000 hogs on U. S. farms. It is estimated that the 1943 pig crop may total 125,000,000 as compared with 105,000,000 last year. Some body better grow some extra feed. Observation Tower Off 24-Hour Duty Array Places C ivilian Observers on j Stand-by Orders. C. A. Hasty, chairman of tlv Civilian Defense as it relates to the maintenance of the local ob servation tower for the spotting! and reporting of aircraft, has been! notified by the U. S. Arms that it will not, beginning last Monday, be necessary to man the post on a twenty-four hour basis. This does not mean, however, that the ipost is being abandoned. It means [that the person in charge for each [particular day must go to the post i between the hours of eight a. m. [and nine a. m. and report by tele phone, as before, that this post !is "STANDING BY," If for that particular day the Army desires that the post be manned for tin next twenty-four hours then such an order will then be given. In this event the captain in charge for that day must notify his'com plement of observers to report for duty at their designated hours. While this will relieve the ob servers to a large extent from duty, all observers must hold themselves in readiness in the event that the Army ordi rs that the post return to a twenty-four hour duty. Last Chapter In WPA Is Written The Works Projects Admimstra-j Ilion (WPA) ended its 8-year S9, 042,928,000.00 April 30. That depression-born service produced a great volume of construction buildings, roads, airfields, etc. Its sewing projects for women brought out millions upon millions of gar ments. It did many other useful things. But the WPA proved a curious mixture of good and evil. It wasted many millions. It had a harmful influence on politics. But princi pally it tended to instill in many— not all—an artificial attitude to ward work, which fortunately the: demands of the war have offset.! Old timers on the WPA passed the! word on to new comers to slow down, or the job wouldn’t last. [ Many settled down to a career' on the Government,” even at its| low work-relief wage. "Two ofi my men went on the WPA,” re-j marked a business agent of the carpenters' union not long ago. "It ruined two good carpenters.” Jobs may again have to be pro vided by the Government in periods of business slump. Out of an ex perience costing nearly $1,00,P00, 000 a year for close to a decade, ways) should be found to preserve the morale of the needy who have to have help through no fault of their own. The Government has a responsibility beyond supplying! work and money. It must give its! help in a way that preserves char acter. Cigar Business Shows a Pickup Confronted by the contradictory facts that cigar factories are work ing on greatly increased schedules | and that cigar sales measured by! revenue stamps remain stationary, the Cigar Institute of America rea- j sonably concludes that American soldiers and sailors are developing a taste for cigars. Those purchased by the government for the use of men in service require no tax stamps and it is obvious, the in stitute holds, that the smokes which cannot be accounted for in What Your Bond Money W ill Buy' The $18.75 with which you buy a $25 War Bond will pay for: 7‘*> life preservers, or— 1/10 of an Army mule. 1/3 of a propeller de-icer. When you buy a $25 War Bond for $18.75, $18 goes immediately into guns, planes and equipment, the Treasury says. -o DEMONSTRATION G. D. Scroggs, Clay county, grew cowpeas on 2 acres of a 6-acre field, cut them for hay, and then limed the two acres. He planted the whole field to wheat and esti- i mates he will make as much on i the 2 acres as on the remaining i 4 acres which were in com last i year. ! Prof, and Mrs. Key Both In Service The following news item clipped iTum a South Carolina paper will Ik- of great interest to the many friends of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Key. former members of the Presby terian Junior College faculty. Prof. Key was in service during the last war. and is now connected, in the armed service, with the American Red Cross at Fort Jackson, S. C. Several instances of father and -on serving in the same outfit have been found at Fort Jackson, but the first case of a married couple, with the wife a member of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps and the husband holding the position of assistant field di rector of the American Red Cross, was reported at the post today. Third Officer Wilma Howie Key has been assigned to Fort Jack son’s WAAC recruiting station and assumed her duties at the post Monday. She is the wife of Edward Key assistant field director of the ARC. assigned to an organiza tion at North camp. Fort Jack son. A native of Rockingham, N. C., Lieutenant Key attended George Peabody College for Teachers at Nashville, Tenn., and susequent ly taught school at Jacksonville. N. C.. her last station before joining the WAAC. On January 12. 1943. she reported to Daytona Beach. Fla., for her military train ing as an auxiliary. After finish ing basic training, she was- select ed to attend officers' candidate school at Fort Des Moines. Iowa, where she was commissioned as third officer April 3. She reported to the Fourth Ser vice command in Atlanta. Ga., and it was there that she got her assignment to the Fort Jackson recruiting station of the Womens Army Auxiliary Corps. May Slash Farm Prices Soon New increases in the general evel of prices received by farmers -aised the question today of •vhether the Government may lave to invoke more rigid methods if price control if President Roosevelt's hold - the - line order ugainst inflation is to be followed. Food Administration officials .veighed a report of the Bureau tf Agricultural Economics that farm product prices advanced nearly 2 per cent between mid March and mid-April. Tentative figures compiled by Lhe bureau indicated that farmers received nearly SI.400,000.000 from rommodities sold during March, compared with about $982,000,000 in the same month last year, bring ing the total income to about $4, Xi.OOO.OOO for the first three months of the year, as against $3, 000,000.000 in the corresponding quarter last year. Federal farm officials, who ex pressed hope that agricultural prices would level, pointed out that most commodities having a iirect effect on the cost of food nad been brought under price veilings. They explained also that it was not unusual for prices iif many farm products to ad vance at this season and decline t few weeks later when new crops started moving. Some Declines Noted. Not all farm commodities ad vanced between mid-March and mid-April. Increases were limit ?d principally to fruits, pota toes, corn, hay, other livestock feeds, flaxseed, peanuts, dry teans, wool, chickens, beef cattle md sheep. Commercial truck Tops, hogs, veal calves, lambs, iggs and wheat declined, while laity products held steady. The demand for farm products luring the next several months, it prices prevailing under pres ent ceilings, will remain in excess >f supplies available, the Bureau if Agricultural Economics said, idding, however, that rationing vould minimize the pressure of he excess demand. Supplies of farm products re named relatively large, the bu eau said, with seasonal declines n crop stocks and downturns in ivestock slaughter being offset n large part by seasonal in reases in the production of dairy ind poultry products. PASTURE D. S. Rhyne of Gastonia reports hat one hour of grazing on 10 icres of pasture by his dairy herd s giving him an extra 25 gallons if milk per day, according to As istant County Agent W. Z. Smith. News Bits From The AirBase Army chow is the next bes1 thing to home-cooking, accordinf to a group of Flora Macdonalc College girls from Red Springs who visited the Laurinburg-Max ton Air Base recently for a gle< club performance. . . . After i matinee appearance, the girls wen guests of the soldiers and realli I took over the chow line. . . The 392nd Base Headquarters ant Air Base Squadron has a Victory Garden all its own and most an^ afternoon you'll find some of th< boys digging or planting in tw< plots covering about 12Va acres They're looking forward to fin< crops of butter beans, beets, strinj beans, potatoes, collards* toma [ toes and corn. . . . Lieut. Willian M. Wheeler is in charge of tin Victory Garden project. . . . Th< base’s new finance officer is Cap tain Francis L. Linton who come here from Bowman Field, Ky. where he served for more that a year in a similar capacity. . . He replaces Lieut. Carl M. An drews who is enrolled in an Arm; course at Duke University. . . The men got a big kick out Q Soup to Nuts,” New York music* comedy revue which was stages recently at the base theater b; USO-Camp Shows. ... A 200-unit $400,000 housing project for bas< civilian employees is to be erectet soon. . . . There will be 35 to 4< buildings. . . . All of this is it addition to a 34-apartment pro ject now nearing completion. . A popular canine character hen is Thor, the Great Dane pet o Lt. Stanley B. Virkler. . . . Ii spite of his 150 pounds, Thor i one of the friendliest ' guys” oi the post. . . . Captain yrancis B Mayer, base adjutant, ordered i service badge with four stars fo; his mother who has four soqp ii the service. . . . Later, he receive* the badge from the firm with tto notation that any one with fou; sons in the Service doesn’t hay< 'to pay for such an item. . . *Satt jball is moving into the limeligti [with a neight-team league sood ^ get underway. ... An occasior of note was the celebration of the | fifth birthday of Fritzy, German shepherd collie mascot of the 392nd 'Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron. . . . You bet, there was a swell cake with five candles on it. . . . Fritzy’s master is Corp. Read Wilson, former Asheville <N. C.) radio announcer. . . . Pic. Wally Jacobs, boarding a bus at nearby Lumberton, met two sol diers who discovered they lacked >0 cents to pay fares. Private Jacobs dug in and helped them out. Next morning when Jacobs reported to work he found an envelope on his desk and when he opened it, out rolled three dimes! iVlaxt’on Firm Is Reorganized Pates Supply Company Furniture Store Transfers Assets to New Corporation. The Pates Supply Company, In corporated, owner of the furni ture store operated here since last June under the name of Pates Supply Company, Incorporated with Mr. J. F. McDonald as man ager, has transferred its assets in the business to a new group of stockholders who have been grant ed a charter from the State of North Carolina. The name of the new company is Service Trading Company, and the transfer was made effective at the close of business on April 30th. The duly elected officers of the new enterprise are R. H. Liver more, president; G. E. Bracey, vice president; M. P. James, secretary treasurer and manager, and J. F. McDonald, assistant secretary - treasurer and manager. It was announced that Mr. M. P. James will still be in charge of the Pates Supply Company cotton office and business here, and that this change is not to be considered as having any connection with the Pates Supply Company cotton busi ness, which has been in operation here, with Mr. James as their representative, for quite a few years. Ration Board Has Blanks for Retailers Mrs. Clyde Lanning. price clerk of the Red Springs District Ra tioning Board, has announced that the blanks for registering meats and fats by retailers are now avail able at all rationing boards in North Carolina. Local merchants of Maxton and surrounding com munities are requested to call at the Maxton town office, where Mrs. Lundsford, clerk of the Max ton board will distribute these blanks. • t Womans Club To Have Meeting T • M i\ton W'nniiinV Club will , • the home of Mrs Henry Ca:-- Friday. May 11. at 1T> Celock Mrs. VV. A. Webb, chan man ot the fine arts department, will haw charge of The program i; lor the afternoon. She will give 1 an illustrated talk on "America’s Heritage of Song.'' This resume I brings in briefly songs Irom the |j American Indian to World War II r|siich us. the Cowboy ballads, spir ituals. Puritans, songs of Washing ton's time. Sea Chanteys, Stephen u Foster songs, college songs, hymns. J $ong> of World War I and II. jjThert* will be guest soloists. Plans rlpr next year's club calendar will ^ he discussed, committees named ^ ^nd business of interest to each , -nemher transacted. A full at > tendance is desired. •, "Mrs McClelland will give an •'■interesting report of the State 'Federation meeting at High Point. The hostesses for the afternoon ire: Mrs. Carter. Mrs. LaMotte. ;l:vlrs. J L. Currie. Mrs. J. M. Pat person and Mrs. Fred Solomon. rotest Lewis U Vlaxton Citizens P . Against John L. r,| ] A representative group ol Max p'on Citizens joined with other com prnunmes and towns of Robeson ^ ounty in a protest against John l;i ,Le«i-. leader of I he United Mine vork. r- Union. As the deadline U 10 a. m. .Saturday morning) ap j'uroacned and it appeared certain ijthal Ja w is was not going to relent |jin his demands that the mine work ers being given a new contract call ping for a S2.00 per day increase m | wage, citizens of this county wired |;oift Representatives in Congress purging that something be done to j stop John L. Lewis. The tele bgran from Maxton citizens read as follows: "Hons. Robert R. Reynolds, aJosiah W. Bailey, United States ■(Senator, and J. Bayard Clark Member of Congress, Washington and daughters of Robesor county are serving and fighting on every front, both at home and abroad, to preserve the liberties of the American people. Their parents, relatives and friends are paying taxes and purchasing War Bonds to the limit of their ability {o sustain them. We have talked with many such parents, relatives and friends and with men faced with armed service under the Se lective Service Act, and believe the citizens, including all races, of this county would have you as our representatives in Congress deal effectively with John L. Lewis if the existing law is inadequate to effectually conirol both employers and employees engaged in all war work. We would have you try to repeal and put through effective laws for that purpose. Farmers are penalized for violating rules of the Farm Administration: mer chants are indicted for OPA viola tions; individual citizens are pun ished for tax evasion and helpless prostitutes arc imprisoned in mili tary areas. All of which is right. We ask that such like justice pre vail in the seats of basic war in dustries.” The above telegram was sent on Friday, April 30th, and the same day Representative J. Bayarc Clark, who represents this district in Congress, sent the following telegram to C. A. Hasty, chairman of the Robeson County Board ol Commissioners and one of the co signers of the telegram of protest: ”C. A. Hasty, Maxton. N. C. Have sent to the President the splendid wire signed by yourself and others with an expression of my own opinion that it correctly states this sentiment of 100 per cent of the citizens of our district of over 300,000. Am also making it a part of the Congressional Record. Before Pearl Harbor the House of Representatives passed and sent to the United States Sen ate a bill that would have made impossible in any essential indus try the condition to which you refer. In my judgment the House stands ready, in addition to broad war powers already conferred upon the Chief Executive, to do what ever may be wise or necessary. To avoid expense 1 am not sending the wire, as I should like, to each of your co-signers, and will ap preciate your advising them as far as you can of the contents hereof. J. Bayard Clark, Member of Con gress.” Birth Announcement i> - Sgt. and Mrs. J. J. Hunckler an nounce the birth of their daughter, Patricia Ann. The baby was born on May 1st at the Laurinburg Hos pital. Sgt. and Mrs. Hunckler are making their home with Mr. and ■Mrs. D. H. Evans of Maxton. Local Library Faces Crisis The Senior Woman- Club < Maxton has announc'd iha: unlo the citizens <>! Maxton contrihuo to the supjxat ol the Gilbert Pat jterson Memoual Library tin j library will have to he closed Heretofore the Federal Govern ;ment has been paying the librarian The building is donated by th< members of the Patterson family Since its organization the library i has been built up to include sev eral thousand volumes ol goo< reading material. At the present time, more so than in the past people are using the library. Sol diers wives and strangers in our midst are finding the library very helpful. 1 Unless sufficient money can bt raised to pay the salary of tin librarian and the upkeep of thi library then the library will hav< to be closed. A committee com posed of Mrs. Annie Williams. Miss Marguerite Townsend. Mrs. Alton Greene. Mrs. McBryde Austin and Mrs. Henry C arter is seeking to raise the necessary funds lor this cause. They feel that it is a worthy cause and one that should not be overlook'd by the citizens of our town. State OPA Office Acts To I lalt Poultry Prices Raleigh. May 7. Twelve court actions have been begun against violators ot price ceilings on poul try in tho first 10 days of an in tensive drive to stamp out black market sales of fowl. Norman C Shepard, head of the legal divisior of the Office of Price Administra tion of Raleigh announced today. In addition, many other poultry sellers ha\e received warnings that unless they stop over-the-ceiling sales, proceedings to suspend theii licenses will be instituted or othei legal remedies pursued. Confer ences resulting in compliance agreements have also been usee effectively. Injunction suits have beei 'brought against poultry price vio ! la tors at all levels of distribution 'and defendants include fowl grow ers. country shippers, wholesaler and retailers. In battling the black market ir live poultry, the Office of PriCt Administration has made three major changes in the regulation; relating to poultry price ceilings 1. Reduction and simplipatioi of the number of classifications oi live poultry, with slight lowering of a few prices. 2. Provision for payment of the hauler the man who buys th farmer’s chickens and market them in town. 3. Making the maximum prices f. o. b. rather than delivered. The changes represent a simpli fication and tightening of the price regulation to make it more easily understood and enforceable. of ficials of the State OPA said today adding that detailed informatior is easily obtainable from local wai price and rationing boards of dis trict OPA offices. Live broilers and frayers now are treated as one classification with the ceiling price set at 28Vi cents per pound. Formerly broil ers had been 28 cents and fryers 294. Live hens are in one classi fication instead of two. w’ith £ top price of 25 cents. The previous prices were 24 cents for light hens and 27 for medium and light These prices are for poultry sole to wholesalers. If a producer sells to a retailers, he may add 1V4 cents per pound, and if to an ulti mate consumer, an additional 2C per cent mark-up. The hauler, under the new’ regu lations, is to be paid on a gradu ated scale, if the haul is in ex cess of 20 miles, but to be eligible for this payment, he must sell tc consumer located in the towr where the poultry is to be con sumed. Heretofore no provision was made by OPA for payment oi the hauler. The hauler is also re quired to have with him in his truck a statement showing the quantity, grade, weight class, price paid, and number of each type ol poultry being transported, and the name and place of the farmer or seller and of the buyer. Formerly the maximum prices for live poultry were delivered prices, but that has been changed to f.o.b. A digest of the new regulations is being prepared by the OPA for distribution to growers and hand lers, it was said yesterday. Mean while, complete information is available from the price clerks at the local war price and rationing boards or from the OPA offices in Raleigh and Charlotte. i The retail prices of poultry, the OPA explained yesterday, are based entirely upon markups and thus vary. Silver Wings Posthumously Awarded To Parents of Maxton Boy News and Views THIS COLUMN Since taking over this post I have been trying to find out what the purpose oi this column was. I have about decided that it was intended to gi\e the editor an avenue of e ;capt as well as a chance to express pei >onal views. That is exactly what 1 >hall use it for. We see things and hear things that wouldn't be worth a darn as a news story, edi torial or advertisement, but it does impress us as being interesting. For example nobody would read a story. if written to itself. al>out the bench along side of The Stab Bank. Yet that very bench has been the sea ’of learning debates lies, fish stories and a whole lo* of other things for the past several years. In fact when I finished high school, right at the beginning of the depression. Mr. Mack Mc Kinnon told me that if I would spend just three afternoons a week on that bench that 1 wouldn't need a college education. Well. I didn't follow him to the limit in his advice, hut 1 have visited the bench often, consecutively, constantly and frequently and the things that are discussed and told at that FORUM would make the encyclo pedia writers blush from lack of knowledge. Only a few know it but onh afternoon 1 heaid 'not saw) a 15-pound catfish caught on that bench. Whereupon «no man got up. threw his hat on th* sidewalk and declared. "I’m going home. A decent . liar hasn't got a chance in this crowd. " HE HAS OUR PERMISSION AND BEST WISHES. We pro pose lo have our say against the (Saboteur, John L. Lewis, on the 1 editorial page of this paper, but we heard one man make this statement, “I tope that every shovel of-coal that wasn't mined 'because of John L. Lewis's treason able strike order will have to be shoveled in hell, and that John L. Lewis will b< the man doing the shoveling, and. while I would hate to be in that terrible place. I would love n> b»- in charge while he was doing the shoveling." ANSWER TO C. A. PAUL. C. A. Paul, popular writer in The Charlotte News always ends up his column h\ asking this question: "What ever became of—" Last week he asked. What ever became of the fellow who was tougher than a lighiwood knot?" . . . Well, Mr. Paul, our guess is that they are all. or lastly becoming so, in Uncle Samms s Army. Navy. Marines, Coast Guard, etc. LANGUAGE WE LIKE. It's not what you sa>. but how you say it that count> The romantic orations ot the bashful bachelor carries all the charm and weaves 'the same spell that ot the more ardent Romeo if spoken at the right moment and in the right place. But what we liked most was this quoted paragraph in Presi dent Roosevelt’s speech Sunday night, "I want to make it clear that every American miner who has stopped mining coal no mat ter how sincere his motives, no matter how legitimate he may be lieve his grievance to be—every idle miner, directly and individual ly, is obstructing our war effort." That hit the nail on the head. Properly spoken, no holds barred and was square from the shoul der. It’s result? Well here’s a statement, as reported by the As sociated Press, from one miner, “By God, if that’s how- it is, we’ll be back diggin' coal harder than ever. 'We'll be doing it for the boys out there fighting, and for the U. S. A Imagine the Presi dent of the United States cornin’ right out saying that he is talking to every one of us. Why he must l have meant me." His wife added, ! “He’s a wonderful President, he is." NOW YOU TELL ME. What three "great big beautiful dolls" were sitting on the benches be tween this office and the post of fice the other night about show time? ... Is there anything at tractive up town at 1:30 in the morning except for those who have to be up at that time of night? Why those who drive taxpayers' cars or taxpayers' gas and tires make no effort to conserve? . . . What pot is boiling that is about to run over? ... In fact the grease is getting hot and one po tato Is already fried. . . . Well, now ytu tell us. We don’t' yet right fully know. . . . And another'thing, what became of the fellow who always signed his love letters. United State* Goverament Pre sents Silver V\i»(fs to Parents ot .Janus K. Morrison, Junior, Missing Sincf1 February After Plane ( rash in Mississippi River. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Morrison, parents of Janies E. Morrison, Jr., have received from the United States Government the Silver Wings which are pinned on every flyer who finishes his course as an Army flyer and is commission ed a Second Lieutenant in the Air Force. Had James Morrison lived 'and let us all hope that he still lives, although he has been re ported as missing since February 2Kth after a plane crash in the Mississippi River) he would have received his Silver Wings on March 26 1943. Mr. and Mrs. Morrison, along w.th Army olfieials, have prac tically abandoned all hope for the sail tv ol their young son. Despite of the anxiety aroused in such cases Mr. and Mrs. Morrison and family have displayed a loyal and brave attitude which bespeaks it self ol the son they gave to “this great cause.'' James Morrison is not dead. He shall live forever in the memory and minds of those of us who loved liberty and freedom. His Silver Wings are but the em blem of the character he left be hind. and of the character which becomes his parents and forebears. o I\ J. Cl Announces Summer School Plans An accelerated double session of summer school will be held at Presbyterian Junior College tins summer. The first term begins June 7th and ending July 19th. The second term will be from July 19th through August 30th. Courses will be given in freshman and • sophomore levels, in the college t [department, and in the 10th, Tlfb, * and 12th levels in the preparatory ' department. High school students may ac celerate both high school and col lege education more than one third. According to present regu lations students who complete two years of junior college by their eighteenth year will be allowed to finish professional training and be inducted into the Army in some capacity w hich will use their ad ditional preparation. A large number are expected to take the accelerated summer busi ness courses. Last year every stu dent successfully passed the Civil Service examination in typing at the end of summer school. Women will be admitted to the summer school. The national government recog nizes the need that a continuing supply of young men shall be train ed for the professions in many fields, including engineering, bac teriology, chemistry, physics, math ematics, meteorology, architecture, radio, sanitation, agriculture, for estry, pharmacy, optometry, medi cine, dentistry, veterinary, and theology. (See Selective Service Occupational Bulletins 10 and 11. amended March 1, 1943.) There is provision that a student may be deferred until he has completed his professional training, provided he is far enough along in his course when he becomes subject to draft. This means that all stu dents who hope to prepare for a profession should accelerate their educational progress to the great est degree consistent with health and thorough work. -o IN THE SERVICE Seaman Third Class Julius E. Rogers has been assigned to the Sperry Gyroscope Service school in Brooklyn, N. Y Seaman Rogers entered the Navy in August, 1941. Hasty Wall, of the United States Coast Guard, Manhattan Beach Training Station, of Brooklyn, New Y'ork, has been chosen, along with 149 others, out of ten thousand for seamanship school. Mr. Wall and Rogers, mentioned above are. nephews of the Hasty family. Maxton Man Promoted in Marines Albert Bruce Bracey, of Maxton, who is serving with the Marines in Cuba, has been promoted to technical sergeant, it was an nounced today, A graduate of Rowland high, school, Sgt. Bracey is a brother of Council Bracey of Maxton. ‘■Your tame but desperate lover?’*’ . . . C. A. Paul might answer that in The Charlotte News.
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