if RATION DEADLINES
Meats—Red: Q5-S5 expire Mar 31;
T5-X5 expire Apr. 28; Y5-Z5 and
A2-D2 expire June 2.
POODS—BIue: X5-Z5 and A2-B2
expire Mar. 31; C2-G2 expire Apr.
28; H2-M2 expire June 2.
VOL. LXIV.
Young Veterans Among;
Those Heading Huff j
VFW Organization Here!
*
State Officials Os V F W Take
Pfcrt In Exercises. Garrett
Is Commander.
Three veterans of World War 11,
Stephen Glenn, Allyn S. Norton
and Louis E. Pulliam, are among
eight officers of the newly formed
Lewell Thomas Huff Post of Veter
ans of Foreign Wars here, installed
Saturday night at Person County
Court House, where charter exercis
es were in charge of State Command
er J.'Frank Warren, or Graham, as
sisted by Herbert W. Matthews, of
Greensboro, national extension offi
cer, and A. C. Ingram, adjutant
quartermaster.
Other VFW speakers included C.
F. Suttonfield, of High Point and E.
J. Reynolds, of Leaksville. Brief re
marks in praise of ideals of VFW
were given by L. M. Carlton, post
master here, speaking for his son.
Warrant Officer L. M. Carlton, Jr.,
a member of the Post, who is now
engaged in fighting in the European
theatre.
Commander of the new Post is C.
C. Garrett, veteran of World War
I. Other World War I veterans who
are among new officers are: Roy
Cates, Sr„ junior vice-commander;
Rev. Daniel Lane, chaplain; Will
Kirby, adjutant quartermaster and
Robert Whitfield, officer of the day.
Stephen Glenn, back from the Aleu
tians, is senior vice commander, Al
lyn S. Norton, formerly of Washing
ton, is historian, and Louis Pulliam,
formerly of the Air Corps in Africa
and Egypt, is guard.
Next meeting of the new Post will
be on Thursday night, March I, at
the Court House. Now in process of
organization is an Auxiliary for the
Pest. Post membership, including
many men now overseas, is report
ed as being close to one hundred.
SUB. .Lewell Hymas HuttJjJpM iy^
Imvingtnat’name fionors the
ory of Pfc. Lewell T. Huff, son of
Mrs. Emma Huff, of Hurdle Mills,
killed in action in Africa, December
10,. 1942, and regarded as the first
Person native son to lose his life in
that manner in World War 11.
Huff, it will be recalled, was
among several in an engineer corps
to volunteer to blow up a bridge in
North Africa under heavy artillery
fire. The Purple Heart award was
presented posthumously to his moth
er and a memorial service was held
at Mill Creek Baptist church, of
which he was a member. He was a
graduate of Roxboro high school.
Attendance at the organization
meeting of Huff Post VFW was
large. Invocation was by Chaplain
Lane and salute to the flag was led
by Mr. Whitfield, officer of the day.
In connection with the VFW pro
gram Mr. Norton, historian, issued
the following statement:
"National policy of Veterans of
Foreign Wars is to assist always in
helping the communities in which
it serves and to work in full coop
eration with other veteran and civic
organizations in the promotion of
true allegiance to the United States
and to preserve and defend the
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Hurt Three Times
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ROBERT W. HEDRICK
Pfc. Robert W. Hedrick, grand- I
son of Mrs. J. W. Brooks, of Rox
boro, and son of Mr. and Mrs. R.
F. Hedrick, of Woodleaf, has been
wounded three times, according
to information received by his j
parents. Hurt the first time in
France, in November, he was
again wounded there December 4,
and then received his third wound
in Luxembourg one month later,
January 4. Now recovered, he is
with Headquarters Company, the
26th Division. A graduate of Siler
City high school, he was a Junior
at State College, March 30, 1943,
when he entered the Army. Over- ‘
seas since last September, he has
received the Purple Heart and
an Oak Leal cluster.
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J. W. NOELL, EDITOR
LI. W. C. Bullock
i
Reported Killed i
■ c
In German Area j
Son Os Prominent Family, {
Previously Listed Missing:. 1
Lt. W. C. Bullock, Jr„ 22, of Rox- j ’
boro, pilot of a B-17, squadron lead- 1
er and flight commander and based ;;
i in Italy since May 1944, where he 1
\ was participant in from thirty to :
I forty missions, has been reported 1 <
| as killed in action on August 29,11
I 1944, over Czechoslovakia, accord- ;
ing to an official War Department j j
message received here Saturday !.
from Adjutant General Ulio by;
1 ; members of his family. ,
The message, according to Gen. ,
! Ulio was sent by the German Gov- j,
j eminent through International Red !.
• Cross. Lt. Bullock had previously ]
' been reported as missing in action ,’ (
( ! since the same date of August 29, j
! 1944.
! j
; i A son of Mrs. W. C. Bullock and j.
IJ of the late Mr. Bullock, he grad- !
I uated from the University of !
North Carolina, Chapel Hill in
in August 1942, going to the Air
Corps in February 1943 and re
ceiving his commission in October i 1
of that year. He went overseas in 1
May 1944, having been promoted
to first lieutenant. He received his
j wings in Valdosta, Ga„ in Octo- i
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Sgt. J. V. King Has
fPofdHGoitectroii w
Church Night
For Scouts To
Be Conducted
Annual church 'night for thf Per
son Scout district, scheduled to
have been held two weeks ago, will
take place on Sunday night. March
11, at Edgar Long Memorial church
at 7:30 o'clock, two nights after the
annual Father-Son banquet, which
will be at Hotel Roxboro on Friday,
March 9. according to announce
ment made today.
Speaker at church exercises is
expected to be the Rev. W. C.
Martin, pastor of Edgar Long Mem
orial, while address at the banquet
will be by the Rev. J. Boyce Brooks,
of Roxboro First Baptist church,
this city. Tickets for the banquet !
are now being printed and will soon
be available for distribution to va
rious packs and troops, according i
to C. A. Harris.
Duplicate Plaque
For Person LSM
Received In City
The Person County War Finance
Committee just received an exact I
duplicate of the plaque placed in |
the LMS boat 299 launched in !
Charleston, S. C. sometime ago, ac
cording to announcement made to
day.
Person County won the right to
have its name placed on the plaque
on this landing boat, costing one
million dollars, by going over the 1
top in the sale of E Bonds in the j
Fifth War Loan Drive.
The boat is the type used for;
landing soldiers and supplies on in- j
vasion beaches. The LSM stand for
| Landing Ship Medium. The dupli
cate plaque is now on display at the
| Peoples Bank.
o
To Hold Rites
For Clayton Child
li
Expected to be held Tuesday is J
' the funeral for the four-months old 1
| infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs.! i
Alvin B. Clayton, of Longhurst. The |'
child died this morning at four i
o'clock at the home. Mrs. Clayton,
j the mother, is the former Miss Ruby 1
(Walker.
Funeral arrangements were in
complete this morning nnd other ,
i details aTe not known. 1
i o !’
i i
Gilbraltar, a British crown col- j
ony, has an area of one and seven- i,
eighths square miles. |i
. 1 '
®J)e Coimer=l4meSi
HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT
Trace Program
Os Tri-County
Health Service
Appraisal Os Ten Years Os
Health Work Given.
Subject of a Sunday feature story
yesteraay In the Greensboro Daily
News by Richard S. Bloch, of Chap- |
el Hill is the tri-county health de- |
partment of Person. Orange and
Chatham counties, which is now ob
serving its tenth anniversary. Pho
tographic detail of the story is a
large picture of the familiar
"Healthmobile”, frequently parked
on Roxboro's Main street in front
of the Person Department's office.
The Bloch story, which begins
with a description of the Chapel
Hill office of the Department, reads
as follows:
Outside, it’s just an ordinary j
Irame house, but inside, the main j
office of the Orange-Person-Chat-.
' ham district health department is j
J alive with activity. Here from morn- |
; ing until evening, secretaries type
and file health records, doctors and
i nurses are busy testing and im- i
munizing children and adults against!
disease, instructing expectant moth
i ers. and aiding the crippled as well
| as the sick. Here also is thq head
: quarters for the district health offl
jeer, Dr. O. David Garvin, who keeps
in constant touch with the other
•four full time offices in the district.
| The health department was or
ganized about 10 years ago for the
twofold purpose of giving modern
health service to the area and ot
furnishing a field for practical
training of new public health work
ers. Today it serves three counties
and has offices located in Chapel
Hill, Hillsboro, Pittsboro. Roxboro
and Siler City.
(Turn to page 6 please)
Roxboro Man Collects Army
Patches Os All Types In
New Mexico.
"Patches are portable," says Sgt.
Judge V. King, son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. L. King of Roxboro, explaining
i, his Army hobby of collecting color
ijful GI shoulder insignia at Hobb’s
Army Air Field. Hobbs. New Mexico.
I where he is stationed.
. !
. I The sergeant, whose military job
at this desert AAF Training Com
-1 mand field is computing enlisted
payrolls and auditing civilian pay
-1 rolls, has collected approximately
250 patches in the last 15 months, j
1 "It wasn’t a new idea by any
means" continued the sergeant, “I
thought of it as away to brighten
’my life and at the same time to
• gather enough for a patchwork
•; quilt—a sort of a war trophy”.
But the collector found the his
tory of his vivid collection so in-
J triguing that he began doing re
; search on them—how each was de
: signed, the interpretation of the ar
rangement of the forms and colors,
j the organization that used each
patch and its whereabouts and ac
complishments.
j The library at Ontario, Gal., where ! !
King was attending civilian primary •
j school in aviation, the California
state library and even the Army ~
1 War College in Washington, D. C., i.
j all aided in this pursuit that "grows j J
by what it feeds on" —creative ferv- J ]
I or. |
Even though it might mean skipp- I
' ing chow Sgt. King was now squeez- <
I ing out from one to eight hours a c
day to get uninterrupted hours to I
work on his project. (
; Helpful buddies claim that King
j likes the 36th Texas Division patch, i
j but King himself says that his fav- r
j crite is the Eisenhower invasion i
patch, worn exclusively by members \
of the supreme aHied headquarters \
staff. c
| This colorful patch says King, \
depicts the struggle of the allies to
strike down the German menace by c
: displaying a flaming sword on at
black background pointing upward
to allied rainbow colors and a serene i
: blue background beyond,
j Attracting much interest at the I
Hobbs service club, Sgt. King's book I
J includes insignia of the first world |
war Units and the modifications
since their re-activation.
Sgt. King is a graduate of Rox
boro High School.
-i
HAS OPERATION
M. G. Johnson, of this city, un
derwent an operation Saturday at
University Hospital, Charlottesville,
Va.. where he is making satisfac
tory progress, according to Mrs.
Johnson, who spent the week-end
with him.
ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
Buddy, Goodbye
Hfu:
I jjyi wkm
Death separates two shipmates. A Coast Guardsman kneels in sor.
, row beside Ihe flag-draped body of his buddy who was killed during
| the battle for the Luzon beachhead. Japanese planes bombed a ( cast
Guard-manned invasion transport moving in to unload troops and
1 supplies on the Lingaycn Gulf, when this Coast Guardsman gave his
life. He was buried at sea.—Official U. S. Coast Guard Phcjo.
Person FSA Work
Receives Praise
|. : . . , ' :
Farm families under the Farm
Security program in forty counties
(including Person) are highly prais
ed for their 1944 accomplishments
by Miss Margaret F. Fuller, of Ashe
ville, area home supervisor, in a
special report sent today to the
Courier-Times.
Saying that families in the forty
county: area have saved in the past
year $1,205,548, Miss Fuller empha
sizes the fact that the families con
cerned have not hesitated in their
efforts to ' maintain their high food
I production and conservation re
i cords" and have in fact exceeded
their previous records’’.
In a letter to Thomas J. Shaw, Jr.,
faZsJieiate editor of the Courier-
Times, Miss Fuller is more explicit
about Person’s part in the progress
ive report and she commends high
ly the work of Mrs. Florence J.
Hamilton, local home supervisor,
who is now ill and has for several
weeks been a patient in Duke hos
pital.
Miss Fuller, in discussing the Per-
Ison part, has this to say:
"This is the time of the year
i when the FSA Supervisors in charge
of the home management work in
the various counties review with the
families on the FSA program the
progress, or lack of, it. made during
the year.
"Mrs. Florence J. Hamilton, Home
i Supervisor in Roxboro. has been ill
and has not had an opportunity to
get the record from Person County
to you. I thought you would be in
terested in the figures for the area
and that you would be interested
in just how Person County com
pares with the figure for the State.
"Margie Brown (colored) Assistant
FSA Supervisor, sent me the fig
ures for the survey made in Person
County. The 320 families on the
Baby Bonds, Come
Os Age Reports
Gordon C. Hunter
The original Government Baby
j Savings Bond that went on sale ten
| years ago is nearly grown-up now, |
j according to Gordon C. Hunter, of
I Peoples Bank. Series A Bonds will
begin maturing on March Ist, and
the Treasury Department announc
ed today that as they mature, the
owners can take them to almost any
bank and get $4.00 for every $3.00
originally invested.
If the owner decides instead cf
accepting cash, he can immediately
reinvest all or part of the proceeds
in Series E Bonds. If he holds these
until maturity, ten years hence, he
will earn about 77 percent interes*
on his original investment over the
whole twenty year period.
The Peoples Bank will be glad to
cash any of the Series A Bonds ma
turing March 1, 1945.
| - /Uotta < Hte. Way
- off things, Dr. John Fitzgerald, gardener and turkev hunter :
of note, has bought a motor. This motor can be hooked on to a ,
plow and same motor will then pull the plow and garden, can be
plowed if only some one will walk behind the plow and hold It 1
up. What we want to know is who is going to walk along behind
and hold up the plow? We know that John can’t do it. 1
This same motor can also be attached to a lawn mower and the l
motor will run along and puli or push the mower and cut the grass. ]
Some one has to stay behind the mower and “sorter" keep it in
the path and once again we ask the same question. Who is go- ,
ing to do that? ’
Since John is going to have no vegetables at his home this
summer we invite him to came to our house and get a good sup- '
ply as soon as our well worked garden comes in. 1)
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1945
. FSA program there canned 136,000
; quarts of fruits and vegetables, or
■ ail average of 425 quarts per family, j
; This is practically tops, the average
■ for the 40 counties is 475 per fam
ijily; however, you know most of the
si counties are in the mountains and
they have a higher average per
. | family as they do not have the long
. j growing season or the winter gard
. J ens that the families in the Person
section have.
•; "Tile Person families dried 11.520
11 bushels of food and stored 10,240
. | bushels. Beef and pork killed
1 amounted to 230,400 pounds. With
this record I think that Mrs. Ham- ,
ilbon and Margie, as well as the
'’FSA families on the program, should
. jbe commended for the good work
accomplished.”
Miss Fuller’s general area report
continues as follows:
, In 1944 the 5.813 families in forty |
I counties in this area averaged cann- j
■ ing 478 quarts of fruits, vegetables
and meats per family or a total of
. 2.782,000 quarts. In order to have a
more adequate diet, these families
did not stop with canning this
, amount; they stored 185,019 bushels
iJ of such foods as potatoes, onions,
.apples, cabbage, pumpkins and
.; turnips. They also have 29.065 bush
; els of dried beans, peas, peanuts j
jand fruit. This stored and canned
, foods at market value would mean
I a saving of approximately $1,205,-
, 548.00. or an average of $208.00 per
, family banked on pantry shelves, in
jcellers, bank houses or holed in the
J ground. Os course all of the FSA
families have adequate milk and
butter as they average 2.1 cows per
family. Thus, with their chickens
1 and eggs, pork and beef (800 killed
beeves) to say nothing of their
cornmeal, wheat, molasses, as well
as winter gardens, the FSA home
makers have no difficulty in pre
paring three nutritious meals a day
which include the Basic 7 Food
groups.
These FSA families and the home
management supervisors in charge
of the educational program in these
counties are to be commended on
their excellent contributions made
(Turn to page 6 please)
Sgt. Berry Now
At Miami Beach
S.-Sgt. John Lambert Berry, 32,
of Timberlake, has arrived at Army
Air Forces Redistribution Station
No. 2 in Miami Beach for reas
signment processing after complet
ing a duty outside the continental
United States.
Staff Sergeant Berry returned to
America Jan. 22, from 31 months
service in the European Theater. He i
is a son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Ber
ry of Timberlake, and is the hus
band of Mrs. Margaret B. Berry,;
2004 Hart St., Durham.
$2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Two Young Men
From Roxboro
At Seminary
Are Two Os Eighty-Five
North Carolinians At Bap
tist Seminary At Louis- j
vi lie.
William F. West, Jr., and Rich-.
ard K. Young, both of Roxboro. who
are second-year students at the i
Southern Baptist Theological Semi
nary. Louisville, are two of 85 stud
ents from North Carolina who are
now attending the seminary.
Mr. West, a graduate of Roxboro
high school, received his A. B. de
! gree in 1943 from Wake Forest Col- !
• lege. The First Baptist Church of
Roxboro licensed him to preach in
1942.
Mr. Young, a graduate of Bethel
\ Hill high school, received his A. B.
degree in 1943 from Wake Forest ■
College. The Providence Baptist
Church of Roxboro licensed him to
preach in 1941. He formerly served
as assistant pastor of South Knox
ville Baptist Church of Knoxville,
Tenn.
Mr. West, is the only son of Rev.
W. F. West, former pastor of Rox
boro First Baptist Church. The
Wests several months ago moved to
Hartwell. Ga., former home of Mrs.
j W. F. West, Sr.
Pfc. Harris Hurt
Ffc. John E. Harris, son of Mr.
and Mrs. E. L. Harris and husband
of Mrs. Alma Harris, was slightly
wounded in action in France on
February 4th. according to a tele
gram received by his wife from the,
War Department,
Previous report said that Pfc. 1
Harris was suffering from trench J
foot.
Many In Scouting
Make Advancement
Highly Successful Court Os
Honor Staged Friday Night.
1 Twenty-four Boy Scouts in the
, Roxboro District received merit
badges and membership cards at
(J the February court of honor held
1 Friday at Person Court House, ac
; cording to a report filed today by
• Gus Deering. court of honor chair
man, who said that the session was
one of the most successful in the
; recent history of Scouting here.
Other court officials who were on
1 hand for the meeting were Henry E.
O’Briant and the Rev. E. C. Maness.
Another leader present was Dr. Rob
| ert E. Long, scoutmaster of Troop
49, who stressed the Scout role in
(the coming salvage collection,
March 4. when tins, fats and paper
j will be collected. He also stimulated
i | interest at the court by showing
films dealing with Scouts at work.
Additional guests present includ
ed parents of a number ol Scouts.
First Class Scout Reginald Jones,
of Troop 63, was among those re
ceiving merit badges, as were First
Class Scouts Bobby Crumpton and
Howard Fox, of Troop 49, and Gus
Deering, Jr., of Troop 24. Advanced
~ to First Class was Eugene Wade, of
Troop 43. who received a badge for j
business reading. Jones received his j
! for electricity and chemistry. I
Crumpton's was for canoeing and
Deering’s for woodwork.
! Advanced to second class rank
were: Sidney O’Briant. of Troop 49;
James Earl Gentry, of Troop 24;
Billy Johnson, of 49, and Donald
Smith, of 24.
Advanced to tenderfoot rank were: j
James Wrenn, David Barett, John- j
nie Johnson, Coy Monk, Bernice j
Ray Wrenn. Edward G. Mooney and'
John Irving Brooks, all of Troop J
63, Brooksdale; also, Bobby Kerr •
and Henry O'Briant, Jr., both of •
Troop 49. and Clayton Witherspoon.
; James H. Wright and Bobby Buch
i anan. all of Troop 24.
G. I. Bill olfßights
Will Be Agency Topic
i
Claude Luquire, of the United
States Employment Service office,
! Roxboro, will be chief speaker Wed
nesday at noon at Hotel Roxboro
for the February session of the Per
son County Council of Social agen
cies, at which he will discuss varied
aspects of the G. I. Bill of Rights.
Mr. Luquire said today that he
expects to handle the Agency pro
gram in a question and answer form.
Program chairman is Mrs. T. C.
Wagstaff, who will Introduce the
speaker. Expected to preside is the
Rev. Rufus J. Womble, chairman,
who is soon to leave for new work
in Richmond, Va.
Government Offers
Explanation For
Delay Os Awards
Local Citizens
Urged To File
For Horse Show
(
Industrial Arls Class Making
Fence For Show.
March 27. one month from tomor- •
row. Tuesday, is last date for filing
entries in the first annual horse
show, sponsored by Roxboro Kiwan
is club as a benefit for under-priv
ileged children, Saturday, April 7.
at Roxboro Higli School athletic i
field, according to announcement
J made today by Jerry L. Hester, of :
; the public committee.
As many as twenty-eight class en- i
i tries are provided for under the
published program and all entries i
j should be mailed or sent to J. J. ,
(Dick i Woody, this city. The show
will be held between the hours of
one-thirty in the afternoon and ,
; eight o'clock at night.
C. L. Shuford and the Industrial
Arts class of Roxboro high school
are making the show fence and
other special equipment will also
be provided.
Chairman of the show is Mr
J Woody, who points out that the j
Roxboro affair will be staged on Sat- i
urday after the Easter Monday show |
at Asheboro and that for this rea- ,
Ison many exhibitors from Atlanta.
(Turn to page 6 please)
I Luquire Repeats
Appeal For Work
i In Camp Butner
An urgent call for civilian workers
1 is being made by the L T . S. Army
! General and Convalescent Hospital
1 i located at Camp Butner. North Car
;olina. This information was releas
’ ed by A. L. Fristoe. Civil Service
1 j Representative. These workers must |
be secured immediately in order!
1 that combat casualties arriving from
■ ;the European Theatre of Operations
may be cared for.
i j A large number of these positions
(are now available, of which up
, | point ments can be made immedi
' j ately to applicants who qualify.
1 These positions offer an unusual
: professional opportunity to partfci
pate in the rehabilitation program
for the war-wounded. A critical
shortage now exists for these civil
■ ian workers in positions as Register
ed Nurses, Nurses Aides with Red
1 Cross certificates, Occupational
Therapy Aides, who are graduates l
I of Vocational College or Teachers
College, may qualify. Stenographers,
and Typists, Civil Service examina-
I I tions are required for the two latter
(positions. This is an urgent appeal
|to those who can qualify to offer
their service toward this great;
cause, says Fristoe.
For further information regarding i
these positions, please contact near- ;
est Civil Service Representative or
U. S. Employment Service, or A. L. j
Fristoe. Civil Service Representative,!
care of Civil Personnel Office, Camp '
Butner, Telephone extension 2224.1
All applicants for these positions j
1 must comply with War Manpower
j stabilization program.
1 USES representative is Claude
' Luquire. whose office is in Person |
' Court House. Mr. Luquire joins Mr..
. Fristoe in saying the need for hos- j
pital workers at Butner is urgent.
“Sparky” Vogler
Sets Record On
Plane Repairs
William ‘'Sparky” Vogler of Mt.
Airy, nephew of Chester Vogler of 1
this city who is connected with the j
Courier-Times, has established quite 1
a record since his induction in the
U. S. Army. "Sparky” has received
a citation for breaking the world's
record for sending back into action
the largest number of battle dam
aged planes.
Vogler is 31 years of age and has
been in the army About two years. I
His father Is John Vogler of Mt.
Airy.
0 Fatal Highway
Accidents
IN PERSON COUNTY IN 1945
HELP KEEP IT 't’HAT WAY
DRIVE CAREFULLY!
Allegation That Person Soldi
ers Have To Buy Medals.
Not True.
Satisfactory solution to a story
dealing with alleged delay in con
nection with the presentation of
awards and medals to men in ser
vice who have returned to the Unit
ed States before presentations could
be arranged, is revealed today by
Gordon C. Hunter of, this City, who
several months ago became interest
ed in at least two local instances of
delayed presentation of awards.
Initial inquiry was made by Mr.
Hunter through Sen. Josiah W.
Bailey several months ago after
D'avid Lawrence White and Romey
Powell, returned veterans from Hur
dle Mills and Roxboro. approached
Mr. Hunter inquiring about lack of
receipt of previously awarded med
als and citations. Their story in
cluded a report that they had heard
they would have to buy their ..own
medals. White, incidentally, has been
awarded the Bronze Star,
i Clarification of War Department
policies in connection with the pres
entation of medals and citations to
service men prior to their discharge
is contained in the following letter
I from Brig. Gen. Robert H. Dunlop,
acting the Adjutant General, who
has said to Mr. Hunter:
"The War Department has issued
: instructions that all overseas com
j manders be supplied with decora
| lions in order that presentation of
I awards may be made promptly,
i However, due to uncontrolable con
ditions. transportation and supply,
some delay in the presentation has
j occurred and will continue to occur.
For those individuals who have re
turned without having been pre
! sented with decorations, provision
j has been made for the submission
by them of copies of orders an
i nouncAg iue ifcaat.'r - using such,
copies as a basis for requisition up
on the nearest quartermaster. This
procedure prevents delay in presen
tation.
“Plans are now underway in the
War Department to provide that
recipients of decorations will immed
iately be presented upon their ar
rival at a distrbiution station in the
United States.
■‘You may rest assured the Depart
ment is fully cognizant of the situ
ation you deserve, and every effort
will be exerted to overcome that
condition."
In reply, Mr. Horton said in part
Gen. Dunlop:
| "I note from your letter that
I "Plans are now underway in the
War Department to provide the re
: cipients of decorations will imme
-1 diately be presented upon their ar
j rival at a distribution station in
J the United States."
I think this will be a great im
provement. for I know a number
of young men in this county that
have returned to civilian life from
hospitals that have on high awards,
according to their discharge papers,
but have never received the citation
or award. Since these awards are
given for bravery and, undoubtedly,
help morale both on the home front
and overseas, you can readily see
tlie effect that a number of wound
ed boys could have coming home
and having to make inquiries
through the draft board, the Amer
ican Legion, and other agencies,
how to go about getting their
medals.
Mr. White, son of the C. C.
White's, wounded at Anzio and
since discharged has not yet M
j far as it is known, received his
medal, but in any case he will
i not have to buy it himself.
o ?
Ernest Thomas
Has Promotion
Ernest D. Thomas, husband of
; Mrs. Frances Loftis Thomas, has
j been promoted to the rank of Sea-
I man First Class. Seaman Thomas ;
enlisted May 23, 1944 and receiv
ed his training at Camp Peary, Va, ■
and Newport, R. I. He left for OV- J
erseas duty January 4 and is now
serving somewhere in the Pacific.
o Jhl
Enos Slaughter
Goes To Utah
Sgt. and Mrs. Enss Slaaghter,
whs have been visiting Mr.
! Slaughter’s mother, Nn, ZaSssk' I
Slaughter here, have im* *a ,J
J Chicago, where Mrs. Knee Slaught
er will have residence with her J
1 family, while Bgt. Slaughter h -
Stationed at an ORD camp fc*
Utah. Sgt. Slaughter, formerly w’J
star with the St. Louis OurilhwU,
has been stationed tat Tons fee
over a year,
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