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THE ONSLOW COUNTY 73 Tk N««i Hi Vtefi Uili I J I l Ngws an<^ Views OmIiw Contr Wm. The Only Newspaper in the World 7bit Gii js a Whoo p About Onslow County VOL. V. NO. 52. . JACKSONVILLE, N. C.. TUESDAY. JANUARY 5, 1943. PRICE f2.00 PER YEAR DOWN EAST WITH BILLY ARTHUR £"Stop thief!" I yelled at Horace Herman the other day. He looked utterly amazed. "What do you mean.'" he de manded So, I had to tell him that Mrs. Dorothy Huff had asked me to tell Horace, if I saw him, to bring her pocket book back. O Elliott Petteway got in some On slow County hams last week, aiul "Pop" McCarthy asked: "How. do you finance one, through C. I. T.?" 0John Warlick related a story the other day about an unidenti fied man being run over and killed one time. In an effort to establish his identity, an autopsy was order ed. and in the man's stomach doc tors found a piece of shrimp and two grains of rice. "We've got it." he exclaimed, "he's from Charleston. South Caro lina." Buck Warren then wanted to know "if he was from Charleston, where did he get the second grain of rice?" 0Tom Henderson declared that the folks around here probably would be better off if I were M give up both the legislature and newspapering. 0 Many are the experiences re lated by the sportsmen during the 1942 hunting season in Hofmann Forest. R. C. Adams, a herdsman on the forest, tells about using his last four buck shot on a wounded buck only to have the buck turn around and chase him up a pine tree. Many yells brought the deer hounds and they chased the deer away, but not far enough away, so there was some more yells. A nearby hunter came to the rescue and bagged the six point buck and then helped Adams down from the tree. This happen ed near the end of the last open day in Hofmann Forest and was a fititng climax to a season in which .f72 deer had been slain. When it was all over there was still enough bucks left to chase the hunters up a tree. Lonnie Griffin tells this one: He ;as standing in a dee rtrail and shot both eyes out of a big buck coming down the trail. The deer came on. ran over him. knocked him down, tore his clothes almost off him and in the excitement his gun fell in a mud hole. The buck fi nally gave up after the dogs pulled him down a few feet away. One sportsman reported walking up seven deer at one time, shot at five of them, and they all got away. One can imagine what happened t<» his shirt-tail. There is a difference between venison and der meat. Venison is meat killed on a road or that some one gave you. Deer meat is that killed many miles from the nearest road and has to be brought out through briars and mud. 0 We were talking about send ing Meri Ferguson to Raleigh to take my place in the Legislature. "I can't go." Meri declined the offer. "I'm too busy." "Busy!" Tom Henderson. Clay ton Petteway and I exclaimed in unison. "Yeh, I got to stay here and look after Mr. Ed Pre-voost," Meri advised. "He and Tom ate liable to get in trouble if I leave here." 0This is one time I've got *o eat my words, but in doing so it and they were good eating. I mean that what I had to >ay about Mrs. B. T. Taylor's heat less or fireless fruit cake I'm now retracting. But. I'm glad in a way that I did make fun of the idea, because as a result I got a real good piece of cake. Remember? She was telling me and Durwood Aman about it, and we expressed our skepticism. Well,* the other day she brought a piece of that cake in for me to eat. Brother, I ate both the cake and my words. It was good. 0 "What's the first thing you're joing to do when you get to Ra leigh?" one of the folks asked mc the other day. Jack Walsh didn't wait for me to answer. He seemed to know exact ly what. Having been around this State all his life and being a na tive of Pinehurst, Jack knew. "The first thing he's going to do is find out where the comptroller'6 office is," Jack advised. "Then he's going to get in line and sign up for his pay. The first question he's going to ask is how much can he draw before the first month is out. Then, the next thing is spend all he makes before the session even gets going.'' 0 A column conducted in the Salis bury Post by News Editor John W. Harden has recently collected from other North Carolina news writers DOWN EAST on P«C* fovi At Least, They Won All Their Fights How many native Jacksonvillians in the above picture do your old timers recognize? They constituted the Jacksonville baseball team of the year 1920. We asked one of the members, Charles Duffy Koonce, if we could quote him on saying that they won all their games that season. He said: "Nope, but you can quote me on saying that we won all our fights!" Reading from left to right, standing: Roy Dixon of Jacksonville: Charles D. Koonce of Jacksonville; John Koonce. now a druggist in Blackstone, Va., Ernest L. Cox, with the F. D. I. C. in Chicago; Lieut. J. J. Cole, with the army engineers, stationed at Wilmington; Alton Ketchum, who is with an automobile con cern in Ayden; and Harry Frehn, high school teacher coach, now living in Nashville, Tenn.; kneeling, left to right. Edwin Ward, associated with the N. and W. railroad in Roanoke, Va.; R. N. Summersill, U. ft. Army, stationed at Fort Meyers. Fla.; and Johnny O'Quinn, address unknown. Jacksonville School Reopens Wednesday, Says Johnson 0 Jacksonville school which dos ed last Thursday noon due to a lack of conditioned school busses, wi 1 > reopen tomorrow morning, accord ing to A. B. Johnson, principal. Johnson stated that six of the 10 regularly used busses have been re paired and that two or maybe three more will be ready for use by Wednesday morning. One bu-: has been sent to a Maysville gar age. permission for such unusual proctti'Uie having oeen given Oy tile State School Commission, said Johnson. Onslow busses are usual ly repaired in the Onslow County school garage. As stated in Friday's paper, there has been great difficulty this jcnool year in replacing worn parts on school busses due to inability to get spare parts which is in turn due to the inability to get priority ratings becouse of the fact that Jacksonville school has only an A 10 rating. Sidney Shaw Now In Navy; County Now Needs Auditor 0Sidney Shaw uf Rocky Mount, whose original home is near Rich lands, was commissioned an officer in the U. S. *Navy last week and has reported for duty. Sidney, who has been the ac countant who has audited the rec ords of Onslow County for years, was called into service suddenly; and therefore, the county is on the spot. He was right in the midst of two important audits, which he will '■>? unable to complete, so the county now is looking around for some body else. Sidney has made a rec ommendation that the county em ploy his former associate. Army Officer Explains Allotments To Dependents 0 Atlanta, Ga.. Jan. 4.—That the United States government takes care of the families of those men who are missing in action is shown by the thousands of dollars paid i'l allotments each month to the de pendents of these men. according to Lt. Colonel J. H. Bush. Army Emergency Relief Officer, head quarters. Fourth Service Command. Under present law allowance to families of missing men can be paid for only 12 months. At the end of that time the head of the depart ment concerned is authorized lo make a finding of his death, which procedure will enable the payment, following the finding, of the six months gratuity provided by law. Since there is no hope of getting the Japanese government to give a complete list of American prison ers taken at Bataan and Java by the end of 12 months period, it is believed that the Secretary of War will extend allotments for a longer period, as will the Navy, for the Army and Navy will make every ef fort to prevent injury to national morale. In obtaining the allotment or gratuity there must be absolute proof of the right to it, the wife or widow being required to produce a certified copy of the marriage rec ord and affidavit showing that she was the wife of the man at the date of missing or dead. The wife or widow is the natural beneficiary and the first to receive considera tion. 11 there is no widow then the minor child or children receive the gratuity, and after that any other dependent relative who may haye been previously designated by the soldier or officer as the benficiary. In order to prevent an attempt to obtain money by fraud the forego ing is strictly adhered to, with a fine of $2,000 and several years' im prisonment. 372 Deer Were Killed During Thirteen Hofmann Forest Hunts, Says Jackson 0 Three hundred and seventy-two deer were killed during the 28 open days during the 1942 season in the Hofmann Forest. The last hunt was 'one of the season's best. Thirty-eight deer were killed and every party had plenty of venison and reported that they left plenty of deer for next season. There was a total of 2,159 hunting days put in on the forest during the 1942 season. This includes all sportsmen regardless of whether they bought their permits, obtained them through the hunter's work program or were forest officials. Many of the permits secured through the hunter's work program were not used. Several of the lo cal sportsmen killed their limit be fore the season was over while oth ers found employment in the local defense program and could not g?t« leave to hunt Four hundred and seventeen daily work permits were used. Deer were plentiful in all parts of the forest. The largest number were killed along the nine mile streak on the Roper road. The Gum Branch and upper White Oak River hunts were also unusually good. Sportsmen from all parts of North Carolina took a part in the hunts. Several parties came to forest from Charlotte, Greensboro, Durham, Elon College, Raleigh, Smithfield and other localities, however, most of the hunters were residents of either Jones or Onslow counties. During the entire year there was only one person prosecuted for vio lation of the game laws on the for est. This was the first case in the last four seasons. Guides were not used on the Hofmann Forest in 1942. The local hunters invited all sportsmen that wanted to hunt to join their parties. At the end of the hunt the game was divided and every party mem ber received a hunter's share. This divide-the-game-hunt proved very satisfactory. This is the eighth year that hunt ing has been controlled in the 84, OOO-acre Hofmann Forest. Hunting has improved each year. The for est is operated as a demonstration forest for the Division of Forestry, North Carolina State Coltoga. Alvin Morton Cut By Unknown Negro Late Sunday night 0 Alvin Morton. 20-year-old son of Sheriff and Mrs. B. Frank Mor ton. was attacked and painfully cut by an unidentified colored assailant on the old Hubert road Sunday night about 11 o'clock. Young Morton sustained seven knife cuts about the face, arms and neck, necessitating a number of stitches. Dr. J. P. Henderson, who attended the sheriff's son said the injuries were not serious since the cuts were not deep. According to Sheriff Morton, his son. accompanied by Mrs. Doris Sabiston. drove up in Sandhill church yard to turn around. When they did, a Negro wrested open the right door of the sheriff's automo bile. which Alvin was driving, and started to attack the couple with an axe. Morton leaped across Miss Sabis ton. immediately began to fight the Negro and finally succeeded in making him drop the axe. When they were fighting on the ground, the Negro inflicted knife wounds, jumped ftp and ran. Bloodhounds were used and fin gerprints were taken off he axe handle yesterday in an effort to track the unidentified person. Robbery evidently was his mo tive. It was stated that the Negro said nothing when he opened the door or while fighting. James W. Mason, 52, Brother Of Onslow Woman, Succumbs 0 Morehead City, Jan. 4.—James Wallace Mason, 52, head of the Car teret County Rationing Board and prominently identified with coun ty, professional and church life, died Saturday morning at 2:30 at his home in Beaufort after a brief illness. Funeral arrangements Sun Jay were being withheld pending com munication with his son, Janes, who is in the Navy. He was the son of C A. Mason and the late Louise Mason of Atlan tic. He attended the University of North Carolina and Wake Forest College, graduating in law in 1920. He had practiced law in Beaufort since graduation, serving as county attorney of Beaufort. He also served as school attendance ofncer He joined the Baptist church at an early age and was an active and influential member of the Beaufort Baptist church, having served as deacon for several >cars and as teacher of a woman's class of thd Sunday school. He was married in 1922 to Sally Best of Goldsboro, who with three children, James. Jr., Rebecca Best and Sally Louise, survive. Also surviving are his 91-year-old father, C. A. Mason of Atlantic; five sisters, Mrs. John L. Smith, Mrs. John D. Smith and Mrs. C. C. Edwards of Atlantic, Mrs. John G. Jones of Beaufort and Mrs. H. I*. Justice of Sneads Ferry; two broth ers, Thurman and Willie Mason of Atlantic and several nieces a.id nephews. Alice Foy Evans, First 1943 Baby, In Onslow County 0 A check-up with all county doctors Saturday noon showed that no baby was born in On slow county on New Year's day. The first and only birth reported so far was by Dr. G. E. Gurganus. The name of this little 1943 Miss is Alice Foy Evans, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Macon Alonza Evans. Mr. Evans is assigned to the Uni ted States Navy, stationed at Camp Lejeune. Little Miss Evans arrived at 7:15 on January 2. Rightfully she deserves the title of "Miss Onslow County of 1943." More New Books Have Been Added To Public Library 0 New books which have recently been added to the shelves of the Onslow County Public Library in clude a variety of interesting and timely books. The books now in circulation are: "Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis.'' David Me. Pot ter; "Min Is a Weaver." Elizabeth M. Baity; "See Here, Private Har grove," Marion Hargrove; "Victor Hugo," Mattthew Josephson; "Staff Nurse," Lucy Hancock; "The Tnree Bamboos." Robert Standish; "Ride the Man Down." Luke Short: "The Rest of My Life With You." Faith Baldwin; "Hostages," Stefan Heym; "Signed With Their Honorur," Jas. Aldridge: "Silvertip's Strike." Max Brand; "Chescent Carnival. Frances Parkinson Keyes; "The Day Must Dawn," Agnes S. Turn bull; "So Your Husband's Gone To War." Ethel Gorhanv. Get Thee Behind Me." Hartvvell Spenee; "Men With Wings," Joseph Cottier; "Big Doc's Girl," Mary Medearis; "Heaven's Not Rar Away," Ursula Parrott; "Tap Roots," James Street; "Storm Over the Land." Carl Sandburg: "Below the Poto mac," Virginia Dabney; "Small Town South," Sam Byrd:" "Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benet," "The Road to Fulfillment." Benja min Rush. "No Brighter Glory," Armstrong Sperry. For Children: "Andy Jackson," Augusta Steven son: "George Washington: Boy Leader," Augusta Stevenson: "Here Comes Kristie," Emma L. Brock, "Smoky. The Cow Home." V ill James; "White Stars of Freedom." Mirii Isasi: "Trailer Trio," Emma A. Jacobs. 0 The 150 million copies of War Ration Book No. Two. now being printed, would fill four freight trains of 30 cars each. Income lax Information 'Editor's Note—This is one of a series of articles explaning the Federal income tax. returns on which must be filed by March 15. The News and Views urges your reading of this and subsequent ar ticles to appear weekly.) # WHAT IS INCOME TAX? The federal income tax is. as the name implies a tax levied up on incomes, and it is payable in relation to the amount of income. Income, for Federal income tax purposes, means in general any compensation for one's services, whether the compensation be in money or in goods or other ser vices; it includes also the net val ue received for the product of one's labor, as farm produce in the case of a farmer; income from investments; profit from business operations; and other gains from sales and exchanges of goods and property. Certain limited categor ies of income are. however, tax exempt, and to the extent of such exemption are excluded in com puting the tax. Because of exemptions from the tax given to persons having less than certain stated amounts of in come. as well as because of var ious deductions and credits allow able, only a small proportion of the number of persons receiving income have until recently been subject to the tax. Thus, ol the estimated 55 million persons in this country who received income in one form or another during the calendar year 1941. only some 26 million persons were required to file Federal income tax returns for that year, while of these same 26 million, more than 9 million were not taxable due to credits and deductions allowable. As a result of the lowering of exemptions, many more persons are now subject to the Federal income tax than before, and for Woman's Clothing, Blood May Lead to Murder A Statement Q For the next few weeks your editor-publisher will be out of town—in the State Legislature to which he was named in the re cent elections. It will be impossible for him to be two places at once—here and in Raleigh; so he asks your con tinued faithful support of the News and Views and his fellow workers, who will carry on in his absence Mrs. Mary Lily Blake, G W. McCarthy, Wade Higgins, J. P. Boyd and Walter Jones.' It is the hope of the publisher to add another member to the staff in the immediate future. That should have been done long, long ago, but our plans didn't pan out—and now we're temporarily on a spot—short at least one employee. But these are trying times. Every businessman we know is short of help or could use another person. But our own Uncle Sam has a use for them right now, and thank God they are responding to make the vic tory quicker. Meantime, help us along. If you come across a news story, or even hear of a tip, telephone it in. If you need to advertise, or printing done, we're still at ii Bring it around. Your needs can still be filled. Meantime, we'll oe doing our best to make you proud of us. Thanks. Adler's "Visited"; Suit, Shoes And Money Are Missed £ Somebody is wearing a new outfit today, courtesy—well, not exactly courtesy — of Adler's Cash Store. Whoever he is entered Adler's early Thursday morning via the skylight and went away with a new suit and a pair of shoes, along with three silver dollars. So far that's all that has been missed. It was the third time in recent months thai Adler's was "visited" via the skylight. RETURNS HOME. O Miss Eloise Morton has returned to her home at Carolina Beach aft er spending several days with Miss Helen Humphrey at Verona and her grandmother. Mrs. Myra Mor ton in Jacksonville. the calendar year 1942 it is esti mated that "more than 35 million persons will file Federal income tax returns. To the large number of persons now subject to the Fed eral income tax, who have never reported income before for Fed eral tax purposes, an understand ing of the law and applicable reg ulations is of prime importance. An income tax return is a decla ration on the part of the taxpayer of his total taxable income for the year, together with the various deductions, exemptions, and cred its to which he is entitled. It is in reliance upon voluntary disclos ure. and the integrity of taxpayers generally, that ihe cost of admin istration of the income tax can be kept at a minimum. Though the return is a voluntary statement, any person who willfully makes a return which he does not believe to be true and correct in every ma terial matter is subject to the pen alties provided by law. The first requirement of the law is the filing of an appropriate re turn. For individuals generally, this must be done by March 15 following the end of the calendar year. The return must be filed with the appropriate Collector of Internal Revenue for the district in which is located the legal res idence or principal place of busi ness of the person making the return. Under the present law every singkt person, and every married person* not living with husband or wife, having a total income (earn ings, together with other income) of $500 or more, and married per sons living with husband or wife throughout the taxable year, who have an aggregate income (total earnings of both husband and wife, together with other income) of $1200 or more, regardless of the amount of net income, must file a return. Landslide Business In Wedding Licenses Done Over Holidays 0J. M. Murrill, county register of deeds, did a landslide business business in the marriage license department during the month of December, issuing 52 licenses, all white. Those issued for the past ten days are as follows: Ernest Carter Pink Hill, to Hazel Whaley, Rich lands; James Monroe Marshall, Oil slow County, to Connie Corinne Hargett, Silverdale; Archie \V. Brown, Raleigh and New River, 10 Elizabeth Jane Ward, Teachey; Her bert C. Richman, Jr., Camp Davis, to Bessie M. Davies, Riverton, N. J.. Douglas Fairbanks Sutton, Jack sonville, to Belle Hurst Farnell, Jacksonville; C. C. Donato, New River, to Anna Danilowicz, Mount Carmel, N. Y.; Angelo De Paola, New River, to Janie Christine Adams, New Bern; Allen H. Pul sifer. Camp Davis, to June Estelle Whitney, Skowhegan, Maine; Allen A. MacFarlane, New River, ,o Grace Hannigan, New Haven, Conn.; Thomas F. O'Donnell, New River, to Jeanne Murphy, Utica, N. Y.; Henry Hugh Kelly, Nash ville, Tenn., to Ida Earle Piercc, Jacksonville; Paul Norbert Smith, Camp Davis, to Aleta Nadine Doane, Battle Creek, Mich.; Paul Smith, New River, to Nyla Reed, Selden, Kansas; Alexander Z apu powsky, New River, to Olga Shu ark, Perth Amboy, N. J.; C. E. Penn, New River, to Jacqueline Boney, Kinston; Elmer E. Carpen ter, New River, to Betty Lou Cox; Akron, Ohio; John J. Oros, Jr.. Camp Davis, to Margaret Knox Gilbert, Statesville; H. D. Ke'uer, New River, to Lillian Thomaswicc, Rossford, Ohio; J. J. Lougen, New River, to Louise Wolf, Buffalo, N. Y.; W. R. Brassman, New River, to Charrylyn Dobson, East Earl, Pa.; Thomas F. Morris, ^anip Davis, to Dorothy E. Rowan, For est Hills, N. Y.; Horace C. Parks, New River, to Jean Lewis, Chicago, III Robert Jouglin Riles, New Riv*c:, to Shirley Ann Trawick, Jackson ville. Fla.; George N. Howell, Camp Davis, to Carol Carter, Roanoke, Va.; Poseph A. Brozowski, New Ri er to Carrie Mae Whiteker, Con cord; Howard T. Ludlam, New River, to Charlotte Norris, Dayi n. Ohio, and Robert C. Snyder, New River, to Lois Carolyn Hitzelberg er, Utica, N. Y. Two New Teachers Added lo Jacsksonville School Faculty §A. B. Johnson, principal oi the Jacksonville school, has announced the two following new teachers who will be added to the Jacksonville school faculty when school resumes Wednesday: Mrs. Richard Williams of Holly Ridge replacing Mrs. Louise Smith in the third grade, and Mrs. Charles Sanford of Florida replacing Mrs. Juanita Hargett in the sixth grade. Mrs. Smith resigned to icturn with her husband to their home in Chadburn where he has accepted a position. Mrs. Hargett resigned ;o join her husband, Bill Hargett, who is stationed with the U. S. Army at Camp Crowder, Missouri. Mrs. Sanford is the former Miss Ella Walton of Southwest where she is now residing with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Walton. Her husband, who is with the U. S. Army, has been transferred to over, seas duty. Mrs. Lezi* Davis Buried At Bear Creek Christmas Day 0 Mrs. Lezia Davit, 71, who died in St. Luke's hospital, December 23, was buried in the Queens Creek cemetery Christmas afternoon, fol lowing services in her home at Bear Creek. Rev. A. L. Benton officiat ed Mrs Davis is survived by her husband, two sons, Ed J. Davis and Victor Davis of Hubert, and two daughters. Mrs. Bertha Smith of Hubert, and Mrs. C. K Howard of Maysville, IB grandchildren and It great-grandchildren. # Sheriff B. Frank Morton is still trying to solve what is now a mystery but may be a murder. A woman's practically complete outfit with blood nearby was found beneath Chaney Creek 1 bridge on U. S. 17 Saturday morn ing, but there was no trace of a corpus delecti. Not even a drag of the creek bottom near the bridge disclosed any body. But the clothes and blood still provoke a continued investigation, and a careful watch of the river. If there has been a murder and the victim tossed overboard, t|je body should come to the top the water in the next few da I Notified by a colored min Sheriff Morton went to the bridge and found a woman's dress, slip, brassiere, corset, pants and a pair pajamas beneath the bridge:. Nearby there were splotches am' a pool of blood, which the sherii was confident is human blood There was none on any of the clothes, save on a strap of the slip, he said. But, footprints nearby indica ted no struggle, the sheriff stated, and there were no bloodstains on the highway or down the embank ment that might have indicated a body was taken from an auto mobile on the road and tossed in the creek. The quality of the clothes was described by Sheriff Morton as being "fairly good," but he could not tell whether they belonged to a white or colored woman. He said there had not been any report to him of any woman being missing. "It may be a murder," he said. "We can't tell yet." Anyway, it's a mystery. Magazine "Look" Says Jacksonville In Meed Of Nurses :—^ #In its January 12 issue, Look, one of the nationally circulated picture magazines carries a ref erence to Jacksonville, N. C. If true, or not. the reference does not make the community look any too good with respect to nurses. But the News and Views wonders what figures were used and where they were obtain ed. In any event. Look says "Stead ily increasing is the load trained nurses carry today. The case ol' boomtown Jacksonville, N. C. is not unique." Then the magazine goes on to show that where there used to be one nurse for every 233 persons in Jacksonville or On slow County—we haven't gotten that straight yet from the article —there is now only one nurse per 1,833 people. The News and Views admits that the nursing and doctor sit uation, too, for that matter has been bad. But. the doctors and nurses available have served faith fully and ably, and whenever call ed on in an emergency the Ma rine corps has made available its facilities. We want to believe that the fig ures are purely guess work, made during the time construction of Camp Lejeune was at its peak; and we do sincerely believe that when the building period is over and the Marine hospital, now un der construction at Hadnot Point, is completed and its facilities plac ed at the disposal of service men's families now residing in Jackson ville, the picture will appear dif ferent—better. Royce M. Baldwin Gets Promotion To Army Sergeant 9 Camp Lee Va . Jai. 4.—Hoycc M. Baldwin, son of Mrs. W K. Bald win of Tueapau, S. C., has been pro moted from technician fifth grade to sergeant in Camp Lee's quar termaster replacement Training center. Sergeant Baldwin is projeolionisi with the technical training 3->rvie ■ and is attached to headquarters company quartermater replacement center. He was formerly projec tionist-assistant manager of the On slow theatre, Jacksonville, North Carolina. Sergeant Baldwin was inducted June S, 1942, at Ft. Bragg N C., and arrived at Camp Lee on T ily 4,1942. He it married and his vife resides at 220 Lawrence Street, Pe tersburg, Va.