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VOL. V. NO. 41. JACKSONVILLE, N. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1942. PRICE $2.00 PER YEAR
DOWN EAST
WITH
BILLY ARTHUR
0 Sidney Shaw still maintains
Jack Thompson is his friend de
spite what Jack did to him last
Thursday, and even though it was
a mistake.
Sidney, Jack and I had lunch to
gether, and Jack had duck, Sidney
and I steak. Jack departed our
company before we finished.
When I picked up my ticket, it
had 67c due, but Sidney's 78c.
"Thought we had the same thing,"
Sidney said suspectingly, "but
mine's more than yours."
For a spell we tried to figure it
out, but couldn't. Then, it dawned
on Sidney that Jack had picked up
the wrong ticket, paid it and left
Sidney with the higher priced
meal to pay for.
0The best sleeping these nights
is between 7 a. m. and dawn.
0 There's only one Thanksgiving
this year. Roosevelt's too busy
with the Japs to mess with Thanks
giving.
0Our curbstone war council has
nominated Tom Henderson for
general of the home guard, but
there is a suspicion of politics.
Personally, Tom has talked so
much about the home guard of the
last war that R. R. Tallman, Meri
Ferguson and us other curbstone
war council members feel there
must be something to such an or
ganization; and, since Tom seems
to be the only one hereabouts who
knows anything about it—or re
members it—he should be general.
Meri says Tom's already getting
into practice. During the day he
brings that old broken down walk
ing cane, according to Men, up
town and with it helps hold up the
bank building.
But the other Saturday night
about 11 o'clock Tom was up street
all diked out in finery and with
out his cane.
Meri thought the fellow wasn't
Tom. but it was—he was talking
about mules.
Tallman says if we can't get
Tom's approval by Washington for
general of the home guard, there's
a vacancy for him in the coast
guard—training dogs.
But Meri doesn't think we can
push Tom so far there, because the
trainer's got to have more sense
than the dogs.
Anyway you can depend upon
the curbstone war council to
straighten the thing out—about
this mci niag.
6 As long as I can remember
events and holidays distinctly,
Thanksgiving has been a day on
which 1 stuffed myself with tur
key, rice and gravy, and other
starches.
And every year about this time
when I sat down to do a column on
Thanksgiving, it went something
like this:
Folks, this year I'm thankful that
I've finally come of age. Yes, sir,
it wasn't until I was 21 years old
did I realize that a turkey had
anything but a neck.
Or—
I went out for Thanksgiving din
ner. and my host said he was thank
ful—thankful that I didn't come tc
eat with him but once a year.
Or—
With all my debts and obliga
tions. I've got something to be
really, really thankful for—that 1
am not one of my creditors.
But this time it's different.
1 thought of some lines and
words, but they just didn't seem
right for this Thanksgiving. To
have written them would have bor
dered on sacrilege.
A lot of us won'tbe able to feast
at home this year. Some of oui'
folks are across waters, some far
across the nation, and some close
by who will forego the travel to
save tires and gasoline.
Thanksgiving 1942, instead of be
ing a day of feast and celebration,
will be a day of sacrifice and grat
itude.
Instead of the entire family gath
ering around the festive board,
Thanksgiving 1942 will find lets of
homes with vacant chairs, some to
be forever vacant.
But there's still a lot to be
thankful for.
Thousands, even millions, of
American manhood are under fire,
sacrificing their lives to protect a
freedom that the Pilgrims sought
when they chose a landing at Ply
mouth Rock.
We can be thankful that we are
bred with a spirit, with a determi
nation, and with ability to fight
(8m DOWN KA3T on pagt four)
Marine Who Contributed Much To Local
Church Killed In Action In Pacific
Thanksgiving Will
Be Appropriately
Observed Here
0 According to A. H. Hatsell,
county superintendent of
schools, all schools in the coun
*»n Wednesday
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Thursday, No
Navy Renewing
Appeal To Citizens
For Binoculars
% Charleston, S. C., Nov. 3.—The
Navy is renewing its appeal to citi
bzens to contribute to the war ef
fort through the lending of binocu
lars that meet specific require
ments. The rapid expansion of the
personnel of the Navy has created
a need for these "eyes of the fleet"
that production cannot meet.
To "be acceptable to the Navy, the
binoculars must be of Zeiss jr
Bausch and Lomb manufacture in
the 6x30 or 7x50 sizes.
Residents of Georgia, North and
South Carolina, and Nassau and Du
val counties in Florida, who possess
binoculars that meet the specifica
tions are requested to communicate
with the Public Relations Officer,
Sixth Naval District, Fort Sumter
Hotel, Charleston, S. C.
State Patrolmen
Here Volunteer
For Army Service
0 Fifty North Carolina State
Highway patrolmen, comprising
Troop A with headquarters in
Greenville, asked the Provost Mar
shal General of the U. S. Army
Thursday to accept them as volun
teers and assign them to military
police duty as a group. Ons'ow
County patrolmen are included in
Troop A.
In an individually signed petition
forwarded to W. H. Rogers, Jr., de
puty Highway Patrol commissioner
in the Department of Motor Ve
hicles in Raleigh, the group specifi
cally requested duty together and
urged that it be assigned to mili
tary police work.
Two Youths Held
For Stealing Auto
Near Richlands
0 George Edwards, Haw Branch
youth who is under a 12-month sus
pended sentence for larceny of an
automobile, was arrested Sunday
morning with C. P. Brinson of near
Richlands on a charge of stealing
the car of William Castleberry, of
Richlands.
The car was reported stolen Sat
urday night, and they were picked
up Sunday.
W. I. Taylor, filling station oper
ator near Richlands, swore out a
warrant against the pair yesterday
charging them with entering his
station and attempting to steal gas
oline. He chased them away.
School Children
Go En Masse To
See "Wake Island"
0 Jacksonville school children
marched en masse to the Onslow
Theatre early Friday afternoon for
a special matinee showing of Wake
Island, starring Brian Donlev/ and
Robert Preston.
Wake Island is the gripping story
of the assault and heroic defense jf
the tiny Pacific island l>y '.lie U. c.
Marinei.
0 In September. 1941, among Jie
First cadre of Marines who came
to New River was a young man
named Charles Wesley Perry. He
was a sergeant and a member of
the parachute division.
With Sergeant Perry when ho
arrived here was his church letter
which he immediately had trans
ferred to the Baptist church in
Jacksonville.
From that time until he left
with his division in June for over
seas duty. Perry was one of the
most faithful attendants of the
church, taking an active part in
the leadlership of the young peo
ple. When it was impossible for
the pastor to be present, young
Perry led prayer meeting or the
singing or filled in wherever and
whenever he was needed most.
Recently, a letter came to friends
here from his family in Enid, Okla.,
stating that Sgt. Perry had been
killed in action. From his letters,
they had assumed that he had been
on duty in the South Pacific.
Although Charles Wesley Perry
lived in Jacksonville less than a
year, he contributed that in his liv
ing which will live on and on in
the hearts of his friends.
Francis K. Kellum
Wounded In Battle
In Solomon Islands
9 Mrs. Bill Cannaday received a
letter from her son. Francis K.
Kellum, U. S. Marine Corps, a few
days ago advising her that he had
been wounded in one of the battles
at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Is
lands. Kellum said that he receiv
ed shrapnel wounds in the lung,
back, hip and neck. The letter was
written from a naval hospital.
Francis K. is one of three sons
Mrs. Cannaday has in the Marine
Corps. The other two are Winslow
and Virgil. She also has a son-in
law, Corporal Bob Watson, who is
a Marine, too. All four boys are
in overseas duty.
Funeral Services
For Mrs. Penn Morris
Held Thursday
0 Funeral services for Mrs. Pern
Morris, 83. who died at her home
early Wednesday morning after an
extended illness, were held at her
home Thursday afternoon at 4
o'clock. Interment followed at the
Jacksonville cemetery with Rev. C
B. Craig, pastor of the Jacksonville
Presbyterian church, officiating.
Pallbearers were B F. Morton,
Adrain Aman, W. D. Aman, John
Gurganus, Jim Sabiston, Clyde Sab
iston, W. T. Jessup and Timmons
Jones.
A native of Onslow County, Mrs.
Morris was the daughter of Cephus
and Annie Fisher and was born on
May 14. 1859. She lived in Jack
sonville all her life and was a mem
ber of the Jacksonville Baptist
church.
Welfare Department
On Foot As Sewage
Floods Its Office
0The Onslow County Welfare
Department had to evacuate its
quarters in the basement of the Ag
ricultural building last week when
sewage backed up from the river
into the building's basement.
J. W. Burton, chairman of the
county board of commissioners,
said the condition was brought
about by persons disposing of rags
and other heavy materials through
regular sewerage outlets which are
not capable of carrying the refuse
to the river.
When the pipes got stopped up,
the refuse was backed up in the
sewerage lines, and the basement
of the Agricultural building, which
sits low, flooded.
The Welfare Department last
week was operated by its personnel
afoot.
0An improved design for a bomb
fin in mass production will save
enough steel to build two Liberty
Ships.
Fuel Oil Coupons
To Be Distributed
At High Schools
0 Persons who have filled out
applications for fuel oil my get
their coupons from the high
school in which they reside
next Monday and Tuesday, No
vember 30 and December 1, the
Onslow ration board announced
yesterday.
Applications were supposed
to have been all in last Satur
day.
Board personnel emphasized
that coupons would be distrib
uted at the township schools
and not at the ration board
office here. The schools are in
Jacksonville, Swansboro, Dix
on, Richlands and White Oak.
Coffee Sales Now
Frozen; Rationing
Begins November 29
0 Coffee sales will be frozen from
Saturday at midnight until Novem
28. the Office of War Informa
tion said recently. Beginning No
vember 29, coffee may be purchased
with stamp No. 27 of the War Ra
tion Book (which was issued this
year to sugar customers.)
If a person has been ineligible
to receive a War Ration Book be
cause of an excess of sugar, he may
receive a book containing only cof
fee stamps—Nos. 17-28.
The first ration allotment of cof
fee will cover the period from No
vember 29 until January 31. Only
persons over 14 years of age will
be permitted to use these coffee
stamps .
Consumers who havr> stocked up
on coffee will have to count all
above one pound they have on hand
November 28 as part of their ration,
OP A officials said. Deduction of
stamps to cover excessive coffee
supplies held by individuals will
be made when they apply for War
Ration Book No. 2, which will be
issued sometime around the first of
the year.
The coffee rationing regulations
will provide that each customer
must retain in his ration book lor
later surrender, a coffee stamp for
each pound of coffee he possesses
in excess of one pound. When he
applies for his war ration book No.
2 he will be required to declare
the amount of coffee he had on
hand at the start of consumer ra
tioning. The registrar will remove
from his book stamps to cover the
excess supply and in this way the
consumer will be unable to con
tinue coffee purchases until he has
used up his stock on hand at the
rationed rate.
L-oitee stamps in tne ration books
belonging to children ineligible to
buy coffee must be left in the
books and surrendered at the time
War Ration Book No. 2 is issued.
All consumers who have not
registered for War Ration Book No.
1 (the first book issued), must do so
by December 15. This basic ration
book must be obtained to receive
any coffee or sugar and no one will
be able to obtain Book No. 2 unless
he has Book No. 1.
Consumers requesting Book No.
1 must submit proof of identity,
proof of their present address, a
record of their previous addresses
since May 4, 1942, and statements
that they have not registered pre
viously, along with their reasons
for not having registered.
GIVES ORPHANAGE CUP.
0 Clinton C. Clark, electrician at
Marine Barracks, and graduate of
Oxford Orphanage in 1941, has
presented the athletic association
of the orphanage with a loving cup
in memory of Charles Herbert
Long. Jr.. who was fatally injured
this fall in a football game between
the orphanage and Durham High.
Long was formerly of Burgaw, and
was to graduate with the orphan
age class of 1942-43. This is the
second cup presented the orphan
age by Clark this year, having pre
viously presented one to the de
bating society for the best speaker
each year.
COURT TERM BEGINS.
0A two-weeks term of Superior
Court opened here yesterday with
Judge John J. Burney presiding.
New Hospital Described
By Stevens In Detail
University Of North Carolina 'B' Gridders
Play Camp Davis Thanksgiving Day
#The Carolina "B" team, ironmen
or "zeroes," as they call themselves,
have a date at Camp Davis Thanks
giving Day, and they're all pepped
up. as this is one game they'll be
the starters.
The kickoff is set for 2:30, and
the Camp Davis officials are invit
ing the public to share the 5.000
seats with the service men, with no
charge for admission.
The Camp Davis eleven, which
went to Chapel Hill recently and
trounced the "B" team of the Navy
Pre-Flight School, includes a num
ber of former college stars.
The Tar Heels will use their sec
ond and third teams, or everybody
except the 11 starters against Duke
for the injured Captain Joe Austin.
Thus, the "B" team, which will
be making its lone appearance in
the Wilmington area, includes the
whole of Carolina's famous sopho
more fireball club, thus several
non-starting veterans who rank with
its most dangerous climax-runners
and passers.
One of those is Johnny Pecora,
the 170-pound Warsaw flier, who
has been hurt most of the season,
but who is one of the flashiest per
formers in the Tar Heel backfield
when he is in shape, as he is now.
The probable starting lineup for
Carolina's zero-busters is Tandy
and Sparger, ends: Stringfield and
Jones, tackles; Byrum and Karros,
guards; Jordan, center; and Wright.
Pecora, Webb and Croom, backs.
Utilitymari Croom, though first
sub at wingback, was Carolina's top
fullback and ranked second only to
Billy Myers in ground-gaining. Tan
dy. while a sub. scored the first
touchdown against Duke on a 10
yard end-around. And Karros and
Byrum have been alternating at
guard all year.
Croom is from nearby Kinston,
and Jones and Byrum call Edenton
home. Other standouts for the
zeros include: Walt Pupa. 190
pound triple threat; Sam Arbes,
188-pound line-buster, and the
speedy Rivers Johnson, who like
Pecora. comes from Warsaw.
Victor B. Capps, 36,
Killed Instantly
Early Sunday Morn
0 Victor B. Capps, 36, of Wilming
ton. was killed instantly early Sun
day night when two railroad cars
ran over him at Wilmington. Mr.
Capps was a native of Onslow
County.
Mr. Capps, a car inspector for
the Atlantic Coast Line railroad
was at the Smith Creek yards at
the time of the accident.
Funeral services took place Mon
day afternoon at 1 o'clock at the
residence and burial was in the
Capps cemetery at Sneads Ferry.
The Rev. J. Roy Clifford officiated.
Mr. Capps is survived by his
wife. Mrs. Lena Andrews Carj s
of the home; his father and mother,
Mr and Mrs. E T. Capps of Sneads
Ferry; two brothers, Adrian and Al
ton of Sneads Ferry; one half
brother. Pender Capps of Jackson
ville; two sisters, Mrs H. M. En
nett and Mrs. A. C. Canady, both of
Sneads Ferry and two half-sisters,
Mrs. W. R. Page and Mrs. A. »1.
Ketchum of Wilmington.
Active pallbearers at the funeral
were: H. M. Ennett. A. C. Canady.
A. H. Ketchum. W. R Page, W. L.
Batson, L. L Howard, Jr.
Honorary pallbearers were: C. T.
Jordan, Jack Costin, J. M. Brinkly.
Forest Lennon. Alton Powell and
Howard Caison.
j Firing Notice |
0The following firing warnings
have been issued by New River Ma
rine Barracks;
November 20-December 1, in
clusive, danger area; Area bounded
by Verona road on north, Verona
road and Mill creek on eait, and
New River on south.
Mrs. Dave Sabiston
In Charge Of Rent
Office In Onslow
% Mrs. David Sabiston of Jackson
ville has been appointed in charge
of the Onslow County Rent Control
office, and forms on which rental
property must be registered will ar
rive in the near future. The sign
up was to have started Monday.
When one secures forms, here is
the procedure to follow:
Use a typewriter or print plain
ly the answers. After filling out
the form, please do not fold it,
shake the carbon paper out and re
turn it to the area rent office, by
mail or in person. If mailed, 't
must be sent in a large envelope.
When the registration form ?s
received at the area rent office it
will be carefully examined, and if
it appears to be in order, one copy
will be mailed back to the landloid
and one to the tenant. The original
will remain in the rent office.
If a statement is not in order —
that is: if it is illegible, or contains
inconsistencies, it will be stamped
"void" and returned to the land
lord with a statement as to why the
form was voided.
A new statement will then be re
quired.
The statement asks the rent that
was charged on the maximum rent
date. March 1. 1942. for this area,
and asks the landlord to write the
maximum legal rent which will be,
of course, the same rent that wa«
charged on March 1. 1942, with
certain exceptions.
These exceptions include the sit
uation when the dwelling unit was
either vacant or owner-occupied on
March 1 and two months preceding
that date, but rented sometime be
lore ucioper i. in tnis case, tli3
landlord must report the first date
rented during this period. This
rent becomes the legal rent, sub
ject to review by the area rent di
rector.
Other exceptions include—when
the dwelling unit has been con
structed since the maximum rent
date and before October 1. or sub
stantially changed between dates
by a major capital improvement,
then the rent put down is the first
rent charged after the construction
or alteration. The same holds if
the accommodations were changed
from unfurnished to furnished, or
the other way round. In all these
exceptions, the rent which the land
lord puts down is the first rent
charged—he also puts down as the
maximum legal rent and explains
this in section E of the statement.
Units in these cases are subject '.o
review by the area rent office.
Housing accommodations which
must be registered at this time in
clude. houses, apartments, flats,
tenements and all similar dwelling
unis. Hotels, rooming houses, and
boarding houses are also included
in the registration, but the landlord
fills out a different form.
In the event that a tenant sub
lets to one or more persons, not
members of his family, the tenant
must then submit a registration
statement.
Instructions for the tenant, list
ed on his copy of the statement,
tell him that unless otherwise noti
fied by the area rent director and
attorney, he is to pay no more rent
than the maximum legal rent as
stated in the section marked by the
green arrow.
In event that the tenant disagrees
with any of the statements on the
form, he is to list his objections
and return his copy of the state
ment to the rent office within 15
days. If the tenant agrees with
the statement he does not return
the copy.
TAKE SCOTTISH RITE.
f W. A. S. Aman of Jacksonville
and Grady Smith of New River took
Scottish Rite degrees in New Bern
last week.
0 Details of the $307,700 hospital
including construction and equip
ment, to be erected in Jacksonville
were presented in detail yesterday
to the News and Views in a prepar
ed statement by Dr. H. W. Stevens,
head of the Onslow-Pender District
Health Department.
Construction is expected to start
this week on the site of the Shady
Grove trailer camp.
Details of the new hospital as
presented by Dr. Stevens follow:
Approved plans furnish a fifty
bed hosupital, a thirty-bed nurses'
home and a health center contain
ing adequate clinic facilities. The
hospital will be constructed and
equipped to take care of major sur
gery and any emergencies. Ade
quate facilities for delivery service
and the treatment of all general
diseases will be provided. In the
planning and preparation of the
building and facilities it will fur
nish has been put forth a consid
erable amount of study and effort
to make it one of the most modern
small hospitals in the State of
North Carolina. Where it was pos
sible, dual purpose installations of
equipment and facilities were pre
ferred.
Bed space in the new hospital
is planned for forty beds in the
two white wings and ten beds in
the colored wing. There will be
ten private rooms, seven semi-pri
vate rooms and seven four-bed
wards. The seven wards containing
four beds each was made possible
by the new and modern conception
of smaller wards being included in
all modern hospitals; thus giving
more privacy and seclusion in the
wards and affords better nursing
care to all the hospital patients. In
each of the three wings for patients
in the hospital will be a utility ster
ilization room, a diet kitchen, and
a nurses' chart station. Adequate
bathroom and toilet facilities are
spaced throughout the building for
both the patients and the public.
Another large wing of the hos
pital containing the surgical serv
ices offers a major operating room,
minor operating room, anaesthesia
room, large central stilization room,
utility room, and locker rooms for
nurses and physicians. Separate,
but close by is a labor room and a
delivery room. There is also an in
fant nursery room containing six
bassinettes and two incubators for
the new born. This room is of most
modern construction allowing for
proper ventilation and humidity.
Adjoining the nursery is an infant
utility room for the proper bath
ing. care and medical treatment of
babies.
/vii oi me administrative offices
of the hospital are separated to one
side at the main entrance, thus as
suring proper maintenance and the
best type of business administra
tion without interference with the
medical facilities.
To the west side and closest to
the city is an entrance for the pa
tients and ambulantory emergen
cies. A large emergency room has
been provided with the proper clin
ical facilities. Nearby is the Ro
entgenology department contain
ing an all-purpose X-ray of consid
erable expense with a fluoroscopic
machine. Dressing rooms, develop
ing room and viewing room are in
cluded in this department.
The dining quarters of the hos
pital personnel is adjacent to the
main kitchen which composes an
other wing of the hospital build
ing. This part is designed in the
best modern planning to facilitate
(Continued on Page Four)
Joe Carter Shows
Collard Grown In
Five Short Weeks
0Joe Carter exhibited a hand
some collard in the News and
Views office last Thursday morn
ing. and said it was the product of
but five weeks growth. He had
just harvested several rows from
his collard patch out N. C. 24 to
ward Swansboro.
In all Carter has some 65,000
collard plants set out on an eight
acre tract.
Which ia a lot of collarda!