THE ONSLOW COUNTY News and Views The Only Newspaper in the World That (lives a Whoop About Onslow County PtM NatlMal Adnrtttac. CluatfM AdmrtHac. Onslow County Ntws. VOL. V. NO. 103. JACKSONVILLE. N. C.. FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1943. PRICE $2.00 PER YEAR DOWN EAST ^ °nly 177 more days until Chriit Oo your shopping early. .shall F. Clark says he's found a sure cure for his rheuma tism: "The local draft board sent me a 4-F," Marshall says, "and everyone tells me that's a sure cure for all my aches and pains." 0That gang out in Seattle. Wash., who several years ago conceived that "Bundles for Congress" gag. thought up another this year and staged it on Wednesday. It was "Mother-In-Law Day". How far they got with it. and how successful it was evidently depended upon their mothers-in-law. The only reason I'm dragging it in here is because the news story reminded me of a yarn about a mother-in-law going to visit her son and his family, the child of which met her at the door. She rushed in. put her arms around the little boy and kissed him. Bue he drew away without an expression. "Don't you know who I am?" she asked "I'm your grandmother on your father's side." "You won't be around here long." the child replied, "when you find out you're on the wrong side." WITH BILLY ARTHUR 0 Sunday is July 4th. a precious day in our history, because on that day long years ago—and not so long at that—our forefathers as serted their independence, an in dependence and heritage for which we are now fighting to preserve. But even that date gives rise to a story now and then. And this one concerns the widow who ap plied to the welfare department for support. When asked what year her husband died, she replied "1776". Think clearly." the official urged in an effort to help her recall the necessary information. "It wasn't that far back." "Yes, it was in 1776." "Lady, go home," he advised, "and come back tomorrow, and in the meantime get the date of your ^band's death definitely in your d." ^ he day following she returned -Ma imaiKiiateb «dr«iNeping up with things. 'My subscription is about out," he said, "because I subscribed with you along about bean time, and the beans are about gone now. So I know my paper's about expired too." 0 It must be grand. Anyway Lottie Margolis and Mu riel Ketchum delayed going to lunch—they both like to eat, you know—long enough to watch for a bandsome Marine to return to his maroon Cadillac the other day. They Just wanted to see what he looked like—again. (Continued on page three) hold these truths to be self-evident Trouble is you can't wrap barbed wire and the Dee ration of Independence up in the same package. Tom Jefferson could have told you that, and he wrote the second and almost invented the first. Tom Jefferson was no shrewil Yankee from up Massachusetts nay, just a level-headed fellow who worked a Virginia farm between inventing gadgets and being President of the United States. He liked to go stand on a green hilltop and smell things growing. He liked to look at the blue mountains and figure how there was room beyond them for al most every man on earth in those days to be his own boss. Tom Jefferson would have known you could not put folks behind barbed wire and have the Declara tion mean anything at all. Of course, Tom was wrong about some things, too. ftp-livptt to wee the firn and had his doubts. He never thought the Declaration of In dependence would work with railroads tearing across the country and banks and stores and factories in almost every town. He had an idea a man could be free only on his own farm. But he wasn't altogether wrong; not by a sight. He knew that if a body could invent a better gun to shoot gophers with, somebody else might come along and tinker with the idea and end up with a gun that would kill more people. He could have almost told Orville Wright that a crackpot named Hitler would take that little man-carrying box-kite ut Kitty Hawk mid try to turn il into something to conquer the world. Folks in America hud priority on the Declaration Of Independence but Jefferson would he first today to agree that tliey can no longer have exclusive right to it. The immortal truths in il are either self-evident for all people or for none. It has tak en a lot of teaching to convince us that Li Hoy Foo has got to he secure on his Yangtze farm if there is to he an end to air raid drills in Seattle and Palm Beach. To some the lesson may not even yet he clear. Tom Jefferson lived to be an old num. He invent ed a lot of things. Had he lived longer, he might have inventeil the telegraph, the electric light, may he even the radio and the airplane. Anyway, he could have guessed they were coming, that the . world would grow smaller, that in time the validity of the Declaration would be challenged not only by Tidewater Tories hut by men and ideas across the whole world. He would have known there could be no compro mise. He would have known that you cannot wrap barbed wire and the Declaration of Independence up in the same package. He would have known that the world cannot exist half-slave and half-free. Looked at Tom's way. our war aims are not hard to figure out. They are as simple as his Declaration of Independence. And as moving anil majestic, li e trust this is the last fourth of July it will ever be necessary to have to point them out. New Dollars And Cents Ceiling Prices Go Into Effect Here On Monday, July 5 Two Marines Hurt When Hit By Taxi On Highway U.S. 17 $Two Marines were painfully in jured. perhaps seriously, when struck by a Yellow Taxi station wagon on U. S. 17 about a half mile from Tent Camp Wednesday night about 11 o'clock. They were Sgt. Kenneth C. Clark and Sgt. B. J. Leskauskas, both of M-3-25. Clark suffered a concus sion. lacerations and a broken lefi leg. and Laskauskas only visible lacerations. He was to be given a more complete examination early yesterday. The taxi was driven by W. F. Ez zell of Jacksonville, against whom no charges were made, according to State Highway patrolmen. They said the two marines were walking on the right side of the road and go ing in the same direction that the taxi was headed. Marine Given Nation's Highest Battle Honor For One-Man Stand # Washington.—For a one-man stand which, the Navy Department said, contributed "In large measure to the virtual annihilation of a Jap anese regiment," PISgt. John Bas ilone, USMC, was awarded the Con gressional Medal of Honor, the na tion's highest battle honor. Basilone, t'.e Navy said, held a strategic machine gun position for three days and nights without rest or food against a Japanese regi ment During the fight, which took place in the Lunga area of Guad alcanal last October, Basilone piled up 38 Japanese bodies in front of his machine gun. £ New dollar and cents ceiling prices for all foodstuffs now being sold in Onslow County grocery .stores and meat markets go into ef fect Monday. July 5. it was an nounced yesterday by the local OP\ office. Every merchant has been provid ed with a copy of the new price schedule applying to canned vege tables. fruits and fruit juices, cook ing and salad oil, lard, shortening, milk, sugar, dairy and poultry pro ducts. baby foods, and vegetable juices. Simultaneously new ceiling prices will go into effect on pork cuts. New ceiling prices for beef and beef cuts and lamb went into ef fect on June 21. The shopper may ask to see .the price ceiling schedule which every merchant has available and which is open for public scrutiny. Mrs. B. T. Woolard, who is in charge of retail prices, said yester day that she had made a superficial investigation here and found that Jacksonville merchants, generally, were in line, although on some items price cuts would have to be made. Enforcement officials of the State OPA office are expected here im mediately to make an investigation of prices merchants are charging, she said. Crop Measurement By Farmers Works Satisfactorily, Says £ The system whereby farmers are measuring their own crops for AAA compliance is working out satis factorily, according to J. D. Moore, chief AAA clerk. As of last Saturday, measuring was 41 per cent complete in the county, compared with 15 per cent < at the corresponding day last yearJ Malaria Control Education Will Be Offered In Onslow 0 Miss Hat tie Peart Mallard of Trenton, malaria health educator of ihe U. S. Public Health Service, nas been assigned to Onslow Coun ty to stage a malaria control pro gram during the months of July and August. M iss Mallard has just returned from Memphis. Term., where she A'as given a two-week course on ma laria, its control and community education designed to eliminate if Onslow is one of 100 counties in ihe L'nited States to get such a pro gram. Miss Mallard, who came here on Wednesday said she would work Doth with organized clubs and groups as well as individuals in an jffort to curb malaria. The educa ional program will revolve around protection from the malaria bear ng mosquito as well as doing away vith breeding places. "Our prob em is as much with the pest as it s with malaria itself," she said. Reason for Onslow being select ed as one of the 100 counties in he United States and of seven in tforth Carolina for the educational program is that much emphasis now s being placed by the U. S. Public health Service on malaria control, >articularly in areas, where are lo cated large war plants and military :amps, she said. VEW LIBRARY BOOKS. O Among the new books being add »d to the shelves of the Onslow bounty Public Library this week ire the following: "Undertow." An le Brooks; "Spice Box." Grace L. Hill; "The Forest and the Fort." iervey Allen; "Dawn's Early -ight." Elswyth Thane; "Jake Jome." Ruth McKenney; "Careless lapture." Jean Randall; Mrs. >arkington." Louis Bromfield; Stairs of Sand." Zane Grey; "Ex us« roe, Mrs. Meigs." Elizabeth torbett. Kiwanians Start Cigarette Fund At Weekly Gathering £The Jacksonville Kiwanis club inaugurated its cigarettes- for-ser vice-men program with a quiz at the weekly meeting at the Pine Lodge Tuesday afternoon. The quiz was conducted by Billy Arthur, club tail twister, whose job it will be to keep order and see that members observe strict rules of eti quette at club meetings. Violations of any rules and regulations will subject members to a fine of five cents. A total of 80 was raised at the quiz program. The club proposes to raise funds and purchase cigarettes direct from the manufacturer at a cost of about five cents per pack and send them to service men abroad. President J. C. Thompson pres ented the charter of the Jackson ville Boy Scout troop to Scoutmas ter. G.E. Jackson, and certificates to troop officials: Jackson, scout master,Grady Whicker, assistant scoutmaster, and Z. E. Murrell, Jr., A. B Johnson. Rev. A. D. Leon Gray, and Horace Kerman, chair man. who compose the scout com mittee of the club which is sponsor ing the troop. " Rev. T. (). M. Wills. ci"ilian Pres byterian chaplain, who has been meeting with the club for the past month, expressed his pleasure at having met its members and said he hoped to be able to come back some day. Rev Mr. Wills left Wed nesday for his home at Portland, Ind. NEW CLEANING PLANT. £ The Royal Cleaners, a new clean ing and pressing establishment, will be opened Monday in the new building adjacent to Rivenbark Grocery. George Gasque, who has been working with the Rainbow Cleaners, is owner and manager. NEW PAINT JOB. 0 Fleishman's of Jacksonville has had the front of its store painted white. "Work or Fight" Meeting Will Be Held Monday Construction Of 50 Apartment Units Here Started On Jarman Property Wednesday • Construction of so apartment •mils on the ,)arman proerty be tween the new by-pass highway and v. S. 17 toward New Bern was started here Wednesday by Dwight Phillips, real estate developer who ■s also head of the Chaney Develop, nient Company. Completion of the apartment or duplex units, to be included in 13 buildings on the site, will be in about six months. Phillips said yes terday. When opened the new units will offer additional housing facilities here I he Chaney Development com pany now operates Overbrook Phillips also said that his office had made a house-to-house canvass at Overbrook to determine who had roomes for rent and how many. Thus, persons desiring rooms can call at the office of the company at the project site and secure what information is available "We're trying our best," Phillips said, "to help out with this housing problem in every way possible " Dan Cupid Having Tough Time Around Here These Days • Dan Cupid has a tough time around Jacksonville these days One couple planned to be mar ried this week-end The bride-to be went down to get the marriage license one afternoon, and arrived after the office had closed Her health certificate expired the next day; so they had to wait a while for a new blood test. Finally they decided to have it made at the base and save time. The bride-to-be arrived at the bus stop early Tuesday morning art' almost wore herself out waiting for the bu.s That was the way the trans portation system went on a two hour schedule, and she. knowing tew people arounn had to stand there and take it They finally made it. however Recently another wedding almost went askew when the bride- and groom-to-be got crossed up on their Plans. While he was going to At lanta to mee, hcr she Mme ^ to meet him. She could wait until he got back, however Lejeune Marine's Brother Cited For Bravery On Guadalcanal Island • MtSgt JamesC. Hoover, USMC 27-year-old brother of Corp. John A. Hoover, orderly to Brigadier General James L. Underbill, ha-s been Cited for "repeatedly risking bis life on Guadalcanal." according cific atch from the Sou»i Pa Sergeant Hoover is a flight me chanic He was praised by Col. P h. Smith, commander of a Manne aircraft group in the South Pacific as "an eXample of courage ^ skill and for "outstanding hero ism in his profession. i Miss Eloise Walton Opens New Business And Buys War Stamps 0 A new enterprise opened on New Bridge street Tuesday morning:. It was owned, man aged and operated by Miss Elo ise Walton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Walton. But the capital was furnished by her grandmother, Mrs. E. H. Wal ton. Little Miss Walton discover ed that hee grandmother was cutting and throwing away flowers, so plentiful were they at he.- home at Southwest. So the young lady had aV «e for business. She got her grand mother to give them to her, and she offered them for sale in the door of her residence. In less than two hours, Eloise had sold $2 worth and went forthwith and invested it in war stamps. John G. Bryum Dies At The Home Of His Son Near Belgrade £John G. Bryum. 66. former Craven County resident, died early Monday afternoon at the home of his son. J. A. Bryum. at White Oak. near Belgrade. He had been in ill htalth for more than a year but suf fered a stroke shortly prior to his death. Funeral services were held from the graveside Tuesday afterjioon at 5 o'clock in the family cemetery near Fort Barnwell. Mr Byrum is survived by one son. .J A . and two daughters. Mrs. Ju lia Fate and Mrs. Susie Mae Willis, both of Ernul. Marines In Field Get V-Mail In Nine Days, Write To Them % Somewhere in the South Pacific. - -Marines at this base, always anx ious to hear from home, are now receiving V-mail letters from the States in just nine days, thanks 10 the new V-mail field laboratory re cently installed here. This V-mail uni! is the first of several Marine-Navy units actually to go into full operation in the field. It handles a large volume of two-way traffic despite difficulties aith power and water, vital operat ing necessities in the printing of the tiny rolls of film. ro CAMP ROBINSON. ARK. 0Pvt. Osborne Williams of Rich iands. Rt. 2. recently inducted into he United States Army, has been assigned for training to the Medical Replacement Training Center at -amp Robinson. Ark. His training vill embrace twelve weeks, after vhich he will be assigned for duty o some Medical Department organ ation. War Bond Allotment Pledges At Camp Pour In, June Cash Sales At $35,000 £Cash sales of War Bonds in June reached a new high—$35,000—Cap tain Harold J. Fox, Camp Bond Of ficer. reported, adding that hun dreds of allotment pledges are reaching his office as Camp Le jeune s War Bond campaign reach ed the half-way mark. Group agents in each battalion are completing their canvass and in most cases, he said, results are "coming up to expectations". Som~' organizations have put on highly impressive campaigns with excel lent results. First Airdrome held a mammoth mass meeting recently, complete with band. The Commanding Offi cer, Lt. Col. Peter J. Negri stressed the advantages of bond purchases and details of the allotment plan were explained by Capt. Fox and Lt. H. B. Gross, group agent. After the meeting members of the Bond Office staff interviewed individual members and several hundred pledges were signed imme diately. Capt. Fox believes this organization Is well out in front iji the campaign. Several hundred have been sign ed up by QMClk Baker in the QM Battalion. Capt. Fox said, and good progress is being made by outfits in Tent City. Col. Louis R. Jones published an exceptionally good memorandum explaining the merits of the allotment program and many of his men are finding time on top of a strenuous training program to do a good job of canvassing their outfits. Lt. Rockefeller of the Women's Battalion makes regular weekly vis its to the Bond Office, making large purchases of War Bonds and Stamps at every visit. She has devised a system of stamp purchases with a sub-agent in each barracks. This system, Capt. Fox said, has account ed for several hundred dollars in stamp sales and a large number of bond sales. Cash purchases may be made at the Bond Office in Building No. 1 at Hadnot Point or from group agents which have been appointed in each battalion. In either case, Capt. Fox said, the purchaser's out fit receives credit for the sale. 0 Carrying out Governor Brough ton's program for seeing that every able-bodied person in this section goes to work, Billy Arthur, chair man of the Onslow County "work or fight" committee, yesterday call ed a meeting of representative citi zeis at the courthouse Monday aft ernoon, July 5, at 2:30 o'clock. Governor Broughton, in a July 4th proclamation, called on the peo ple of the state to dedicate them selves to the task of seeing that ev ery able person works and makes some contribution to the war effort. While the public is invited to the meeting Monday, special invitations have been issued to the following: Chairman H. M. Ennett, Thomas J. Marshal, Harry B. Moore, Dan W. Russell and M. A. Cowell, members of the board of commissioners; Sheriff Frank Morton; Police Chief W. B. Hurst; Mayor Charles E. Warn. J. Hedrick Aman, W. D. Aman. J. C. Collins and G. P. John son. members of the town board of commissioners; Roy Baron, employ ment officer at Contractors Con tract; E. W. Hemmingway, N. C. Employment Service Officer of New Bern; Farm Agent Hugh Over street: Mrs. Jesse Starling, welfare superintendent, John D. Warlick, J. C. Thompson and Rev. S. L. Stanford. It is hoped that some plan can be devised whereby loafing can be eliminated as nearly as possible and whereby absenteeism can be abol ished altogether. Asserting that his "Work or Fight" proclamation was "no idle gesture," Governor Broughton Wed nesday night declared that he would use every power at his command to support the mayors, sheriffs, and public officials in their efforts to insist upon idlers going to work. The governor, speaking from the mansion over a state-wide radio hook-up- recalled that his proclam ation a week ago had asked that July 5 be set aside as a day of ded ication throughout the state. He asked that organization of commit tees be made to "plan to the end that every able-bodied person . . . shall be enrolled for active farm or industrial work." . . .1 urged that every county committee and chairman in North Carolina plan thoroughly for the meeting that is to be held on Mon day. that you search out those places where idlers hang out, whether it be in smokeshops, pool rooms. beer joints loafing places of any kind and find out why it is that they are not at work," the governor coifl And if they still stubbornly re fuse to work in this hour of national danger. I want to say to you that with whatever power I may be vest ed in by virtue of legislative action, 1 intend to support the mayors, and sheriffs and public officials in their effort to insist upon these id lers going to work."' Governor Broughton said that North Carolina is confronted with perhaps the most critical labor shortage in its entire history. As specific examples, he pointed out that 2.000 people are needed it once in the potato-growing area; 1,500 to pick beans; ultimately 25, 000 will be needed to harvest cot ton and 10,000 to harvest tobacco: and 10.000 in addition to the pres ent availability to harvest hay. In addition to this total of near ly 50,000 people needed on our farms, we have a desperate need in industry," the governor said. Sawmills are in desperate plights he said. All the state's sawmill industry is producing virtually its entire output to meet government needs—lumber to ship guns and munitions. He said that 1,500 men are need ed for military construction; 500 in shipbuilding; 3,000 in textile plants; 3,600 in sawmills; 3,000 for food processing; 35,000 in tobacco re drying plants. Railroad construction badly needs men to handle Navy shipments, be added. Yet, he said, " . . .in scores, in deed, hundreds of our counties, cities and towns, idle men and wom en, both white and colored, are to be found sitting around, idling, loaf ing, while work badly needs to be done." "... I call upon you, all of you, to respond to this call. Use your extra hours to work and let us do the job in North Carolina in a fit ting way and in keeping with our traditions." LEAVES FOR COLLEGE. #N. E. Day. Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Nere E Day of Jacksonville, left yesterday for Chapel Hill U» enter the naval training college.