This, That & The Other BY Mrs. Thbo. B. Davis It ha been interesting to see how flo r sacks, and feed sacks have increased in importance with the growing scarcity of white doth for household use. Most of us know about.making tray cloths, pillow cases, mattress covers, quilt linings, everyday sheets, aprons, towels, and other things of them; but until this' week I had not known of their being dyed for dresses. When told that the shirtwaist dress of deep violel color worn by a friend had been made from sacks, I was surprised iind pleased. We needn’t worry pi bout materials for housedresses, not if we have feed sacks on hand. On Tuesday morning of last week I went to Wakelon School to make a short talk to the Jour- i nalism Club, a high school organi zation. Mention has been made of . the work this group is doing in I getting out a school paper, but I had not realized their numbers | nor their good looks. Honestly, when I stood before them it was hard to keep from ! using that old hackneyed phrase. “As I look into your bright faces | —And they paid me the su preme compliment of attention. It j did me good to be with them for ; a few minutes and I am glad of j this opportunity to express pride I in what they are doing and what! they are trying to do in the fu- i ture. When I say that funerals are comforting do not think I am a sentimentalist or like to make any show of grief. But the necessity of planning those last rites, the urgency of tasks that cannot wait, the subconscious feeling that it is being done for the dear one j mourned, are to be preferred to the dreadful sense of futility known by those who receive tele grams saying that a member of the family has been killed in action overseas In such cases there seems literally nothing one can do to lessen the intolerable weight of griefs burden. Last Saturday night, during hours of wakefulness I thought of Charles Whitley’s childhood . . . of the first time I ever saw him, when he came with his mother i and Mrs. Eliza Stone to call on j me. He was two and wore little j yellow pants buttoned to a ruf- j fled white dimity waist. He saw! something under the porch and thought he wanted it. so tried crawling beneath the floor. I don’t know whether the little suit was ever the same again Later the Whitleys became our nextdoor neighbors. ... I saw in my mind Mrs. Whitley, sitting with hands clenched in her lap while out in the grove Charles and my sons climbed trees; I hear v d her say resolutely, .“I will not call him down. I am determined not to confine him to only the things I feel are safe ’’ . . . I remembered Charles playing football with our sons, Ferd and Barrie, and with Earl Antone —all in service now— ; and of their joy when they ac quired a real football instead of the oatmeal boxes they had been using in nractice. . . I saw' Charles again as he lamented with m 3 over my tulip bed having been raided of all its blooms, and re called hi< anxious look as he ask ed “Mrs. Davis, do you suppose if could have been Nancy who did it?” Nancy, his sister, w-as two then, and Charles was deeply re lieved when I told him that Nancy had never pulled my flow ers. and that if she had. taken the tulips she would have snapped off the flowers only; while the one who did get them had been careful to take as long stems as possible ... I remembered the Sunday when Charles had a spec ial part on the Mother’s Day pro gram at our Sunday school . . . the night when He won the de claimer’s medal at Wakelon with “I AM AN AMERICAN..” . . his smiling greetings when he came home from college or op leave af ter entering service. Last of all there came to mind h's explaining to me about the Pumle Heart awarded soldiers. Looking at th e one sent us post humously for our son he said. “Why. Mrs. Davis, that means a lot. You can be very proud of it.” His parents will have one, too. But pride, however well based, is a sorry substitute for a son. THE ZEBULON RECORD Volume 21. >'o. 22 With The Men In Service Charles Whitley Reported Killed First Lieutenant Charles V. Whitley. 22, only son of Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Whitley of Zebulon, has been officially reported killed m action in Belgium, January 3, 1945. He was with the 517th Para chute Infantry, having recently received the promotion to First Lieutenant. Lt. Whitley was a graduate of 1 Wakelon High School in Zebulon; ! a graduate of VPI, Blacksburg, Va., class of 1943. While at VPI I he was a member of Scabbard and Blade, honorary military fraterni ty, the Bachelor Club, the Tar j Heel Club, the Cotillion Club and was Cadet Captain of his ROTC company during his senior year. Lt. Whitley continued his mili tary training at Fort Benning, Ga., where he received his commis sion on July 26, 1943. After vol unteering for the Paratroopers, he ! received his boots and wings Sept. 3. 1943. He was stationed at Ft Benning and Camp Mackall be-! fore going overseas in May, j 1944. He w r as in front-line action: in Italy and for three months ini Southern France before going to Belgium. Lt. Whitley is survived by his parents and one sister, Miss Nan cy Whitley, all of Zebulon. 15th AAF IN ITALY—M-Sgt. I Neil P. Chamblee. of Zebulon. N. C.. has served overseas more than 30 months with his P-38 Lighning fighter group. He is armanent section chief in one of the group’s squadrons, Sgt. Chamblee has been with the group since before it came overseas in June. 1942, and has-been through( the Algerian-Mnrrooan, Tunisian,) Sicilian and Italian campaigns, thej Air Battle Over Europe, land- i ings in Southern France, and ope-: rations over the Balkans and Greece. For outstanding missions during these operations, his group has been cited three times receiving Distinguished Unit Citations for missions over Foggia and Averse in Italy, and Ploesti, Rumania. His group has flown more than 1,200 missions, the most recent of them in support of 15th AAF Irate operations over the Bal kans, Northern Italy. Austria, France and Germany. The fight er planes have operated primarily as escort for the heavy bombers, and also have flown long-range, low-level bombing and strafing missions. His group has a great many “firsts” to its credit, among them the first enemy plane shot down over the North Atlantic by an American pilot, the first ship sunk by an American fighter olane. ; nd the first fighter group to fly 1,000 missions in the thea ter. It Ts the oldest fighter group in the AAF and its commanding officer. Col. Arthur C Agan, was among the first American offi cers to go overseas after Pearl Harbor. Sgt. Chamblee is the son of Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Chamblee of Zeb ulon. N. C. C. Wayne Collier, husband of the former Marv Iva Gay of Zebulon, is with a night patrol which recently underwent an un usual experience in Northern Italy. They have two small daugh ters. Mrs. Collier with the chil dren is with her parents, the B. E. Gays, for the duration. Before entering service eight months ago Collier, a graduate of Wake Forest College, taught school at Stokes i and Polkville. The account of action was fur nished by Public Relations. The patrol, from the 338th Reg iment. Rsth (Custer Division of the Fifth Army, was sent to raid a house occupied by Nazis When the Yanks neared the house, a maehinegun oDened up without sign or warning. Soon, another maehinegun started fir ing from their lpft and the Dough bovs were caught in crossfire m a bare field. The nearest cover was behind a cliff 150 yards away. “I was a member of the ad vance detail and we had proceed- Zebulon, N. Friday, January 26, 1915 ed to within 15 yards of the house when the maehinegun opened up,” Collier said. There was rifle fire, too, because I could hear them slamming their bolts.” The patrol then decided l > makg a run for it and headed for the cliff, which was a 75-foot j drop. The Yanks reached the cliff and travelled hand over hand be hind its protective cover as they watched tracer bullets go over their heads and heard mortar shells explode in the dfaw below They travelled 200 yards' in this manner, found a path through a minefield and finally reached the trail which led them to their com pany command post. 15th AAF In ITALY—It is rap idly becoming the prime ambition of 2nd Lt. James C. Gregory, Zeb ulon, North Carolina, to go over Belchhammer, Germany just one time with all four engines turn ing over. Lt. Gregory, 15th Air Force p'- lot, has been over this tough tar get twice and each trip was made with engines out. Gregory was .lust turning lor his first run on the important oil refinery center when two engines quit cold and he went over a poor last in the formation. The flak was heavy but it didn’t get that all-import ant third engine. It did hit the fuel lines and gasoline was gush ing from the bomb bay as the Liberator staggered off the target for home. For three hours tha crew alternately sweated out the two engines and the swiftly van ishing fuel supply until Gregory righted a friendly fighter field and brought the crippled bomber down for a tricky landing on a short runway. The second trip wasn't much : better. This time an engine quit | well before target time and Greg- j ory had a good view, through the heavy flak, of the damage others , had done as he dropped his bombs. I The flak accomplished only minor , damage but an hour later anoth- : er engine gave up and once more ! Gregory fought to keep altitude wdh only two engines. This time the gac supply was amole and the Carolina pilot brought the heavy bomber all the way home where he made a perfect landing witn two dead engines. Lt. Gregory, the son of Mrs. Helen S Gregory, Zebulon. enter ed the Air Force after his second year ai North Carolina Slate. He won his pilot's wings at Turner i Field, Georgia, and several months ago came to Italy to fly combat with Co. John P. Tomhave’s Lib erator Group. He has flown nine missions, and wear the Ai r j Medal. Capt. Dwite Debnam has report ed at Yorktown. Va.. after leave snon< with relatives here. His wife, the former Gloria Massey, went to Yorktov/n with him. Sgt. Charles Winstead arrived last week on furlough after a per iod of service with the XV Air Force in TtaW His friend. Set. Marvin Post of Florence. S. C. i s+ooned over a night and day in Zebulon. Pvt. B. Aaron' Lucas snent a fur lough at home en rente from Camp Planding Fla., to Ft. Meade.' Md. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Lucas. Fldred Rountree. f7SN came Sundav for a few Have clay with his wife and habv daughter at the Oren Massey home. PPOMOTtoN Howard K. McDev?tt. formerly of .Walnut, has been promoted to captain in the Alaskan Division, ATC. AAF. He entered service as a private in 1941. leaving his studies at WCTC. Cullowhee He was assigned to the ATC. Jan. . 1944 and served in Montana until transferred to Alaska. The chief work of the Alaskan Division!*; ferrying U. S. lend-lea.se combat aircraft to the Russia" Air Force via the Yukon in Canada and Alaska Cant. McDevit t is with the Administration Dept, of this force. Capt. McDevitt’s wife, the for mer Gertrude Carter, and their baby son. Steven Jeffreys are here with Mrs. McDevitt’s moth er, Mrs. Urtrice Carter. Basketball Last Friday night Wakelon played its first games on the home court in about three years, meeting the Bunn teams in a double header return game. It was evident from the beginning that the Bunn girls were winning since 13 out of their 18 points vcre scored in the first half of . the game. They showed unusual skill on free throw-shots, making ; 8 points that way. However, their coach said the score here. (18-41 was their lowest this year. They had defeated another opponent I j last week 33-30. In the boys’ game the scoring! was more uniform throughout, t but the Wakelon quint was unable , to do as well in the second half on .the game as in the first. The 1 final score was 34-16. The Wakelon line up in these names is similar to that in games j olaved previously at Bunn and Middlesex. Girls C-F Massey F Winstead F Lewis C-G Driver' G F.ddirs j G Horton: Boys C-F Fowler F Richard--' F Greene M-G Duke G Hopkins Substitutes: Gill for Winstead Winstead for Massey. Bobby Duke for Finch: Hinton for Bunn; Croom for Massey. Tn "imps plaved at Bunn on December 2ft end Middlesex .Tan. 1” the scores were also in favor of our opponents as follows: Girls Wakelon 5 ftunn 23 Wakelon 5 Middlesex 23 Bops Wakelon 21 rtonn 36 ICnl-nlor) 1 Middlesex 2ft ' Baptist Hour Speaker Dr. Louie D. Newton, Baptist Hour speaker for next Sunday, February 4th. will have Dr. J. H. Rushbrooke of London, Fnglandfi as his guest in the broadcast, as announced by the Radio Commit tee S. B. C., S. F. Lowe, Director, Atlanta. Georgia. Dr. Rushbrooke is President of the Baptist World Alliance, and his five minute message comes from London, England, via short wave. This broadcast is heard in NORTH CAROLINA over Radio i Stations WBIG, Greensboro; WP TF, Raleigh; WS.TS. Winston- Salem, and WWNC, Asheville, .8:- 30 A. M. FWT. Sundays. CHURCH NEWS BAPTIST CHURCH 10: Oft Sunday School 11:00 Morning Worship. Ser mon: “Is It Up To Us?” 6:45 Training Union 7:30 Evening Worship. Sermon: “The Pure In Heart.” HEPHZIBAH W. M. S. The W. M. S. of Hephzibah I Church met Jan. 19th at Com munity Center with 40 members j present. An unusually good program was given by Mrs. Henry K. Ba ker on “A Century of W. M U. ( Work." Rev. Caudle urged that we do our best this Centennial year. Mrs. Caudle gave many Scrip tures with explanations of a good j year’s work for Christ in W. M U. Mrs. Oris E. Horton presided over the business meeting, and appointed all committees for the year. Mrs. Theron Martin was elected vice president and Mrs. Theodric Martin was elected sec retary and treasurer. Hot doughnuts, nuts and coffee were served by Mesdames Amos i Dean, Theodric Martin, Buck Todd, Charlie . Scarboro, Berry Horton and Irvin Privette J -50 Per Year, Payable In Advance Onion Hope Most people in this community ■" e busy w g tobacco beds, while a few have already done so. We : i v d quite a few peo ple moving out of our section for the j