THE ONSLOW COUNTY
News and Views
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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«iNe<h.thc pro
per date, and the questioner, inter
ested in her error, asked why she
had said 1776.
"1 always date my independence
from the year of his death." she re
plied.
§We were talking about ceiling
prices the other day. and it was
generally agreed that stores
charge varied prices for beef.
'They say that it's different cuts
of beef that receive varied prices."
one of the conversants said, "but
regardless of the cuts, it's all bull."
'So are the ceiling price notices
in some stores." said another con
versant.
£Miss Hattie Pearl Mallard, who
is here trying to educate the folks
about malaria, says that the mos
quito which spreads malaria "does
not operate in day time, doesn't
sing, and doesn't hurt when he
bites."
I'm not worrying, because if she's
right the mosquitoes we have up in
Onslow Terrace are not malaria
bearing. They operate at all hours,
oblivious to wages-hour laws, sing
like the very dickens and hurt like
the mischief.
0From the New River Pioneer
comes a story about Lieutenant
McGuire of the signal battalion,
who is an old Carrlbean fisherman,
explaining just how the Puerto Ri
cans fish.
"They get." he said, "a ripe ban
ana and a green banana and a
small boat. They go out in the
boat, to a quiet spot and lean over,
holding the ripe banana about three
feet above the water. Then they
make a noise like a banana. The
fish, upon hearing this banana
noise look up and see the ripe ban
ana and leap for it. The Puerto
Rican then plugs up the hole the
fish leaped through with the green
banana!"
§L E Reed of Hubert came in
the office the other day to renew
his subscription, and showed us
it some folks have a way of
) >ping 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.