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THE ONSLOW COUNTY ■■ H M Tfc* Mm ami Tim I,Mil tat | _ % J 9 hUOmMa. JNews and Views mm w Oaatew Cwtmtj Km. The Only Newspaper in the World Tb"t Gii en a Who«p About Onslow County VOL. V. NO. 42. JACKSONVILLE, N C ,FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27 1942. PRICE $2.00 PER YEAH DOWN EAST WITH BILLY ARTHUR #Tom Henderson, (earinc March 15 when hell have to report hit in come for 1M2 and what he has on hand, changed his story about his worth the other day and tried to pin it on Brother Ed Provost. "You misunderstood," Tom told me as Meri Ferguson and I ambled up the street. "I asked Mr. Prevost how much it would take lor nim >.o retire on, and he said $30,000, and 1 told him then 1 knew he was worth that much, because he had al ready retired." "Maybe you did tell him that," Meri chimed in to assist me, "but you also said you were worth about $100,000" (M. A. Cowell asked Judge John Burney to be excused from jury duty Monday because he was a member of the fire department and the Judge replied in effect: "You Just sit where you are uf here, and if the fire alarm sound: we'll close up court and go wl' you." • When Ed Smith wis the po~. that be down in Marinei lection, and when he strove to get better appraisal for land condemned by the government for the Marine base, he frequently called himself Beth B. Edwards. Now. Ed has come to Jackson ville and opened a store, and the name Edwards has stuck. In fact, R. R. Tallman has named it the Jottem Down store, with Lum Edwards and not Seth Ed wards the proprietor. 9 Maurice Margolis was all jet to make a business trip to Miami last week-end, and he was looking tor ward to the Florida pleasures In ad dition to business. "Miami, hot ziggety dog," thought Moxie. But when he started out Sunday morning, he was madder than all get out. The man he was to meet in Miami had done him a favor, had come up to Jacksonville, Fla.. to save Moxie some time and money. "Doggone it!" Maurice ex claimed disgustedly, "Ain't gonna ■•t to go to Miami!" Q Nothing gives one greater relief, a more rested mind, or a pleasanter appearance and treatment of man kind than putting on an old pair of shoes after wearing a brand new set around all day. New shoes won't bend under my feet. The sides come up stiffly and cut my ankles. My feet get hot sliding on the soles which refuse to bend. I put 14 new wrinkles in my fore head and draw my lips down, and when someone speaks. I snap at him. Nothing is funny. Nothinf is peaceful. No position is comfort able; just that gripping, snatch ing, scratching on my footsies sore. Then, dearly beloved, X remove one of them. My toes wiggle auto matically and seem, to exclaim: "What a good boy you are!" And the other foot, still encased in that hard shoe, hollers: "Lemm: out, lemme out of here." Then, I put on the old pair—cool and cozy, loose and roomy and soft —and stand up in them, and my feet seem to swoon, exclaiming softly: "Oh!" And then draw it out long, like: "Oh-h-h-h!" That's when I'm thankful I'm easy on shoes and have to break in a new pair only about every six months. ° %1 always get a new pair of shoes that's comfortable, because I don't give two whoops about what size my feet appear to be, so long as they are cozy. The women, however, they try to crowd a number six foot In a size 3 1-2. They could get along all right with that size if the backs were out of the shoes. One woman was trying on nu merous pairs in a local store the other day. And none seemed to meet exactly her demands. "I've a hard foot to fit," she said to console the salesman, somewhat tired of trying to please her. "Not as hard as your head," !>e retorted. But the payoff is the woman who sends her husband down street to buy a pair. You always have to ox change them, so clerks say. He says he wants a 3 1-2 for his wife, and suddenly picks up one of the displays on the long rows of boxes, and says, "This is the size •he wear*, I think." The size is a five. And regard (8m DOWN CAST on pag* ttmri F. T. Woolard, Jr., Veteran Of Seven Naval Battles In Pacific, Here On Visit More Than $5,000 In War Bonds Sold At Tuesday Ball # More than $5,000 in war bones and stamps were sold in,Tuesday night's mammoth Bond Ball, spon sored by Women in War Work in f $ Sr County, at New River Tent I 5 o Mrs- J»mes A. Odum is 0 chairman of Women in War **! £;• o o 5. proximately 200 Marines and 3* £ 1 officers, civilians and their 0 es attended the dance and floor S' w held in the spacious recrea ^ n hall number two. Admission 7-is by purchase of a war bond. £*uring the evening stamps were sold by the hostesses. Guests at the table of Major Gen eral and Mrs. Julian C. Smith in cluded Col. and Mrs. George R. Rowan, Col. and Mrs. S. A. Woods, Jr., Lieut. Col and Mrs. John R. Lannigan, Lieut. Col. James T. Wil bur and Capt. and Mrs. Homer W. Sharpenburg. The floor show was staged by Lieuts. Robert Troup and George Burns, and the training center or chestra furnished the music. Henry Barbee, 77, Of Near Maysville, Passes Saturday £ Henry Barbee. well-known resi dent of up White Oak river section, near Maysville, died at his home Saturday morning at 10 o'clock aft er an extended illness. He was 77 years old. Funeral services were held from tha home Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock by Rev. Mr. Woody, Baptist minister of Maysville, and burial followed in the Maysville cemetery. He is survived by his widow, for merly Miss Emma Humphrey, and three adopted sons, Johnnie Stan ley. Jimmie Bcsden and Leroy Simms; two sisters, Mrs. A. B. Cox and Mrs. Kata Cox; and five brothers, A. F. Barbee, C. G. Bar bee, Baxter, L. M. and Charlie Bar bee. Those attending the funeral from Richlands were: Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Barbee. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Barbee and daughter, Lucile, Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Barbee, Mrs. Ethil Craft and children, and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Frazelle. Child Wasn't Lost, Had Just Located More Good Company 0A ten-year-old lad saw another boy he liked here last week, and strayed away from his mother, who found him two days later at the Trailer Camp. The mother who was said to have been busy shopping in Jacksonville didn't notice that her son had got ten out of her sight until too late. She came by the News and Views to insert an advertisement about a lost boy, then reported the inci den to ^Sheriff B. Frank Morton, but there were no clues as to where or how the lad departed. The young traveler had joined the company of another child and accompanied him to the Trailer Camp. Knowing how worried they would be should their son leave under similar circumstances, the host's parents notified officers here, and the child was safely re turned. Cpl. Thomas M. Banks Of Richlands Now With Army Abroad • Cpl. Thomas M. Banks, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Banks of Rich lands, is seeing service abroad, ac cording to a note to the News and Views from him. His location was not indicated. Corporal Banks received training at Camp Walters, Texas, and was later rated an expert rifleman of the 98th Infantry at Fort Lewis, Wash. 0 "Sure, you get scared" when Jap planes and bombs come sailing at you, F. T. Woolard, Jr., elec tircian's mate, first class, whose ship was later sunk, said here this week while on a visit with his brother, B. T. Woolard, on Onslow Tarrace. Although a veteran of Pearl Har bor, Marshall Islands, Wake Islatd. Midway, Marcus Island engage ments with the enemy, young Wool ard admits that even the expe rience of having been under fire before doesn't remove the possi bility of fright. "But you go on about your work, figuring it's a job to be done, and you do your best," he explained. Woolard wears a gold star on his right arm, the star of a survivor, be cause he was among the survivors of the U. S. S. Blue, a destroyer, the sinking of which off Gnadal canal has been announced by the Navy Department. In the actio, 1, 25 of his buddies were killed. "Do you get another star if you survive another sinking?" he was asked. l aon t want any more, ne re plied frankly, because he was one of the last 13 men to leave the ship 42 hours after it had been hit. They had remained aboard in a futile salvage attempt when word came that the Japanese were en route to shell Marine positions and try to land more troops on Guadalcanal. The entire crew of the Blue was taken to an advance base "wh *re we lived in a coconut grove for five days, We had to wear helmets all the time, because the coconuts dropping out of the trees would hit you on the head," he said. La r he and the remainder of the crew were brought back to the United States for a furlough. Woolard enlisted in the Navy in January, 1039, and was with the fleet in Pacific waters before the U. S. entered the war with Japar. In fact, the Blue was at Pearl Harbor on the morning of Decem ber 7 when the Japs struck, "and we were the third ship to get out of the harbor. We went out with one engine going, while getting up fire in the other," he explained. The Blue was in six engagements before being fatally struck, and Woolard's post chanced to be above deck in most of them. It was his task to reair what damage was done to the ship while in combat. In the Guadalcanal fight, he had been away from the spot where the tor pedo hit only ten minutes, having been ordered to another section of the destroyer. The Blue took part in the ord inal landing of troops on Tulagi, and shuttled between Tulagi and Guadalcanal carrying supplies un til engaged in the fatal fight, in which one of three torpedoes found its mark and tore away about 60 feet of the stern. "We weer sometimes at sea is much as three months at a time, and we had some successful fight * with the Japs. At close range. Their ships are good, and they have good fire power, but we toik them," he said reservedly. "At one time we were attacked by 40 Japanese multi-motored bombers in one action, and not one of them scored a hit, and 38 of them were shot down. Anti-air craft fire is pretty accurate if they are not flying too high. This time they came in low from the sea and over the mountains on Guadalca nal. We picked up the sound of their motors and were ready 'o: them when they swooped over the mountains and down upon us." Campaign bars earned by Wool ard include the national service medal for service prior to the dec laration of war, naval expedition ary force medal, and Pearl Harbor decoration. Jancsics-Brawner Rites Performed #Pvt. Frank J. Jancsics, stationed at New River, and Miss Pauline Hilda Brawner, both of Quaker town, Pa., were united in holy mat rimony at the Catholic church here November 21 at 8 p. m. Rev. Fath er William S. O'Byrne officiated. Joe Selby and David B. Car mody witnessed the ceremony. $1,000,000 Mark Passed By New River Bond Sales # Employee* of Contractors Contract and the Navy Depart ment construction group at New River have purchased S1 185,000 in war bonds through payroll deductions, it was dis closed yesterday by the bond department. Practically every person on the project at one time or an other has purchased bonds through payroll deductions weekly. At present the deductions amount to approximately $25. 000 weekly, approximately $13, 000 under the 138,000 peak weeks when the project was going full blast. The decline in deductions is because of the number of employees now be ing smaller than several months ago even. Honor Roll For Second Month Of School Announced £ Honor roll for the second month at Jacksonville school was announced this week by Principal A. B. Johnson. The honor roll fol lows: First grade: Billy Turlington. Annie Burt Walton, Bobby Simp son, Jean Ervin, Miriam Prescott, Shirley Kellum, Howard Canipe, Alvin Padrick and Sheila Simpson. Second grade: Harold Waters, John Drew Warlick, Jr., Charles Henderson, Aubrey Cowell, Jr., Louis Sewell, Jr., Anne Ruffin, Marilyn Lawson, Geraldine Hard in, Grace Cottle, Faye Justice, G. J. Kellum, Nita Hall and Selma Ruth Stephens. Third grade: Jack Yopp, Sadie Dixon, Annie Faye Marahburn, Bob by Greer, Mary Helen^Simth, Deant Mitchell, Mildred Jenkins, Ann Henderson, Troy Hudson and Alene Williams. Fourth grade: Douglas Bailey, Gilbert Benton, Franklin McFatter, Mary Jo Core, Pat Dexter, Betty Ann Jackson, Helen Turlington, Lavern Morton and Patsy Patton. Fifth grade: Norman Falbaum, Jerry Katzin, Valeria Arrington, Jean Cavanaugh, Naomi Cole, Ken neth Jenkins, Jean Morton, Eloise Lanier and Mary Elizabeth King. Sixth grade: Wilbur Carlisle, An thony Gurganus, Charlie Hender son. Carlton Rowe, Ann Teague, Mary Alice Carmichael, Pearl Wal ton, Edward Arthur and Donald Fu trell. Seventh grade: Evelyn Bailey and Erline Griffin. Eighth grade: Velma Collins. Max Hyder, Catherine Henderson. Robin Ann Kellum, Juanita Ketch urn, Alma Sabiston and Ann Yopp. Tenth grade: Stratton Murrell, Enid Petteway. Corwin Bennett, Gene Koonce, Mona Chadwick, Doris Humphrey and Eleanor Lockamy. Eleventh grade: Parker Morton, Jean Tallman, Evelyn Tallman, Sara Yopp, Peggy Webb and Ed ward Cole, Jr. Twelfth grade: Jean Petteway Carolyn Lockamy, Eleanor Craig, Geraldine Pearson, Evelyn Wells, Elizabeth Smith and Kathleen Ro chelle. 90 Onslow Men To Ft. Bragg On Monday Kiwanians Get First-Hand Solomons Dope; Elect J. C. Thompson President I Receives Commission 0 Above is a picture, furnished by the Marine Corps, of William W Loy, Jacksonville, who has been promoted to the grade of second lieutenant. Lieut. Loy is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Loy of Jack sonville. a graduate of Elon Col lege and a former business man oJ Jacksonville who enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve severa months ago. Prior to leaving Jacksonville, he operated Loy Elec trie company. Christmas Seal Campaign Will Be Conducted By Mail 0The Christmas Seal drive, i< raise funds with which to comba tuberculosis, will be conductec largely by mail in Onslow Count} this year, it was disclosed this wee.1 by County Chairman A. T. Grif fin, Jr. Griffin gave brief tentative plan: of the campaign at the regulai weekly meeting of the Kiwanis cluf at the Community House Tuesday An effort will be made, he said to raise the money by mail, rathe 1 than conduct the campaign througt the schools or by personal solicita tion. Sixty per cent of the funds rais ed in the drive will remain in On slow County for combatting tuber culosis, Griffin said, and with the coming of the new hospital to Jack sonville there will be ample facili ties as well as a demand for sucf money. Ernest Thompson Stationed Aboard President's Yacht 0 Ernest Thompson, son of Mrs Beatrice Thompson, who is in tht U. S. Navy, is now stationed aboar: the Potomac, the yacht of Presi dent Roosevelt at Washington. Marked Increase In Local Telephones Reported As New Directories Issued £A marked increase in the nura ber of telephones in Jacksonville was reported by Manager H. N Kerman of the Carolina Telephuru and Telegraph Company here a: new directories, the first ever is sued separately for the Jackson ville-Swansboro-Hichlands - Hollj Ridge group, were distributed ti subscribers. At the close of October this yeai year the Jacksonville exchange hac a total of 571 subscribers, exclusivi of Marine Barracks and Contrac tors Contract telephones That fi gure was 382 more than the 18t subscribers listed at the close ol Ostober 1940—before the boom be gan with Camp Davis construction It also represented a fain of more than 250 over the 250 subscriber! listed during the corresponding pe riod last year after Marine Bar racks construction started. Richlands now has 80 telephone; compared with 66 in 1940. and Swansboro 27 compared with 25 two years ago. Holly Ridge, which had no ex change but one telephone crediteci to Jacksonville in 1940, now has 611 phones. Kerman said there are more ;har 100 applications for telephones foi Jacksonville alone at the prese-i time, but that priorities and wai regulations forbid their installa tion, except in specific instances. In the past Jacksonville, Rich lands and Swansboro exchange: have been listed in the director} with the New Bern group. This year, however, a separate directors was put out by the telephone com pany for those three communitiei plus Holly Ridge. 0 While the Japanese soldiers are good, very good, they are nothing compared with America's fighting men. Col. George R. Rowan, who commanded one of the Marine units in the successful attack on the Sol omon Islands, told the Jacksonville Kiwanis club at its weekly meeting at the Community House Tuesday. The club elected J. C. Thompson, owner and operator of the Onslow and State theatres, president for 1943 to succeed Marion A. Cowell. who is closing out a very successful administration. Colonel Rowan, who is now chief of staff to Major General Julian C. Smith at New River, went into the Solomons with one of the attacking forces on the first day. August 7. The Japs were taken completely by surprise, he disclosed, and so surprised were they that the Ma rines landed on Guadalcanal met no resistance on the first day. How ever. fierce resistance was put up at Tulagi. While there was resistance in force later, the toughest assign ment came after landing, and that was combatting the jungle as well as the Japs, Colonel Rowan said. Onslow woods in their densest, like they are down near Onslow beach, are like a city park compar ed to jungle and woods on Guad alcanal." he said, "and in the clear ings. the grass is five and six feet high and grows in clusters, and it's tough to get through." ine japs, ne aisciosea, niae in the jungles by day and fight by 'nTghf Jnd finding them there is al most like looking for the proverbial needle in the haystack. While they are good fighters, obedient to death and taught that if they are taken prisoners they may not return to Japan after fhe war, the American soldiers are more resourceful, of higher mental ity, morale and morals. Colonel Rowan said. "The Japs will not surrender, having been taught that if they are taken prisaners they will be tor tured and eventually put to death. On the night of August 21, they at tempted a crossing of the Tenaru river on a sand spit about 300 yards wide, and we killed—later counted —670 Japs in the one area not more than 300 or 400 yards square. The rest jumped in the ocean. And when the Marines put out to cap ture them in boats, the Japs would duck and drown rather than be cap tured. We must have killed 1,000 that night, because later some 100 bodies washed up on the beach. "At Tugali only four or six pris oners were taken by our troops and on Guadalcanal we didn't take many, only some civilian workers," Colonel Rowan said. "It has been a tough job for the Marines. They have been on the island in combat for more than 100 days. In the last war American troops didn't stay in the front lines more than two weeks at a time. But the Marines have been supplement ed now by some Army forces, and are getting some relief." On Guadalcanal the Americans hold a strip about three by seven miles wide. Other officers elected by accla mation on report of the nominating committee were: Billy Arthur, vice president; Dr. H. W. Stevens, treas urer; A. T. Griffin, Jr.. secretary; and Sam Leder. H. P. Cotton, A. J. Ellis, Ramon Askew, Z. E. Mur rel, J. H. Aman and B. J. Holleman. members of the board of directors. TOM KEATING RESIGNS. 0 Tommy Keating, assistant direc tor at the USO building in Jackson ville, has resigned, effective No vember 23. and has left for his home in New York. He expects to be called soon for Army duty. His successor here has not been named. WITNESS MOVIES. #A large group of persons were entertained at Midway Park Friday evening by an outdoor movie, 'One Night in the Tropics." % Ninety white men have been called by the Onslow County Se lective Service Board No. 1 to re port at the board offices here No vember 30 at 7:30 a. m. to be sent to the induction station of the U. S. Army at Fort Bragg. The men called for service in the Army are: George William Aman, Leslie Hubert Williams, Clarence Dail Wayne, Harvey Claude Hunter, Loyd Vance Marshburn, Sutton Mobley, Leon Joseph Henderson, Nelson Futrell, William Howard Johnson, Walton Howard, Hiram Loving Barber. Lee Grant Smith, Leslie Hatch Lanier, William Carl ton Stanley, Hubert Hayes King, Elijah Murrill Cox, Jr., William Cox Shaw, Thurman Jones, Clay ton Bland Horne, William James Hall. Philip Ray Fountain, Arnold David Davis, Willie Barbee Davis, William Melvin Perkins, Sam Pike, Ernest Lee Waters, Cecil Glenn Bryan, Grover Ed Sermons, Harry Raymond Liverman. Levy Leroy Howard, Andrew Jackson Mercer, Willie Garland Jenkins, Carl Hay wood Newbolds. James Franklin Adams. josepn justice Henderson, Wil bur Hunter, George Bruce Brax ton. Hebrew Gray, Robert Edward Suggs, Earl Warren Collins, John William Justice. William Culbert Padgett, Leslie Albert Carter, Dave John Edwards, Raymond Wells, Raymond Leary, Walter J. Brown, Charley J. Frazelle, Ralph Stevens Fail, Marvin Jones, Milton Edwin Jarman, Ourant Green Whaley, Lo renza Washington Hobbs, Lonnie Marshburn, William Frederick Er vin, Jr., Roland Vanderburg, Rex Harding Avery, Willie Delma Cos ton, Lonnie Graham Newton, Fred die Walter Barbour, Bryan Hugh Plner. Marvin Lee Humphrey, Cal vin Wesley Willis, John Elsey Bat chelor, Kampster Clarence Howard. Guy William Rhodes. Walter Ray Sanderson, Roy Lee Holt, George Allen Morton, Odell Jones, Raeford Arthur Sandlin. Ofra Sechrist, James Charles Can ady, William Cyrus Waller, Edward Thompson Cole, Jessie Lee Croom, Lonnie Hubert Collins, Hardy Hen derson Norris, Carl Sandlin, Roy William Goins, Jack Lyons, Adol phus Warden Umstead. William Theodore Jackson, Paris E. Stin son. Garland Luther Harris, Claude Robert Rutherford, Aaron William Miller, Camille Alfred Boncher, Kenneth Grover Twyman, Hubert Franklin Parker. Methodist Church To Be Painted, Get New Appointments % Improvement of Jacksonville Methodist church by painting anrl installation of new appointments will get underway probably next week, according to Rev. A. D. Leon Gray, pastor. The pastor said the entire inte rior will be given a new coat of paint, and a carpet will be laid on the floor. Fourteen new pews also have been ordered and will replace an equal number of benches now used. More Volunteers For Red Cross At Richlands Needed 0 Mrs. H. H. Aman, chairman of the Richlands chapter of the Red Cros, announces that with the aid of the base at the school house, at tended by teachers and pupils and the base at the community hous". 3 200 of the 4,000 quota of bandages for November are made, and there are still several days to get the others up. She said these band ages are made by the faithful few. and the aid of other women and girls is needed and solicited. One thousand bandages weer made last week WRAP FOR MARINES. 0 Christmas wrappings are avail able at the USO club now for the Marines in order that they may send their packages in attractive holiday wrappings.
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