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VOL. VII, NO. 19
JACKSONVILLE, N. C.. Tl'KSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1913 PRICF- $2.00 PER YEAR
DOWN EAST
WITH
BILLY ARTHUR
# By.the time this gets in print,
I'll be long gone.
Nope, I'm not absconding as yet
—ain't got enough to go with or
for.
It's just that the General As
sembly has started, and I've got to
get on up that way and see what
can be done about making life
miserable for the people of the
State.
The boys again have been re
calling Ike Lanier's story of late,
You remember the one he pulled
on me about two years ago when
someone pointed me out to him as
the Onslow County's next represen
tative in the State Legislature.
"Well," Ike said, "one thing is
certain. When Billy gets up ta
Raleigh, the folks'll know Onslow
County's done sent all the men to
the army."
And. then, there's the one about
the father who was telling his wife
about leaving receiving a letter
from their son in some distant state.
"Mom." the father said. • Bill's
in the legislature, but he don't say
what fur."
In all seriousness, however, I'll
be in Raleigh about five days out
of the week for the next two
months, and hope that's all.
In my absence from the News
and Views, the business manage
ment as well as the editorial end
of the paper and concern will be
under the guidance of Mrs. Jean
Crankshaw. She will have the able
assistance of Mrs. Jane Dean.
Both Mrs. Crankshaw and Mrs.
Dean are well-known to the tele
phoning and visiting patrons of the
News and Views, and I beg of you
to give them your fullest coopera
tion.
They'll do a good job.
0 After seeing Newton Cook's
notes on how Reese Walter sells
insurance. I'm going to change my
racket.
Newt says that Reese has a sure
fire scheme for selling a policy in
three minutes, and he operates like
this:
1. Gives girl cigarette with com
ment "I got them to burn."
2. Lights cigarette for her.
3. Compliments her ring.
4. Gently says he was lucky to
day because he's collecting on an
insurance policy for a little on dent
in a fender. Policy's just like the
one he has for her.
5. Says it's therefore not only
the best but also the cheapest.
6. Punches the cash register.
01 got all industrious the other
night, inspired, too. and decided
to make a few New Year's resolu
tions; such as, swearing off this
and on that.
And I got to thinking just how
much fragile crockery New Year's
esolutions turned out to be.
j For instance, at the beginning of
044 I was determined that some
gal could come al^ng that leap
year and snatch me up. But 1
broke my resolution. Regardless of
who did it. it was shattered.
And. resolutions make you swear
off and swear on. and you break
the resolves and swear some more,
and about the first of February you
swear off swearing. Then, comes
March 15 and another income tax
payment is due. and you start
swearing all over again.
I was just about set to make up
my mind not to swear to anything
at all for the remainder of 1944
and all of 1945 when come this
blaring through the radio: \
"Stop where you are, buy a
Brock candy bar!"
Sung (?) to the tune of goodness
knows what.
That passed all right, but about
15 minutes later came: "Buy. Buy
Luzianne." Another one of those
tuneful things. And. of all things,
not content with ramming that
down my throat the Raleigh sta
tion followed it with another com
position by a mental two-year-old
entitled. "When You're Ready to
Chewsome Buy this favorite two
somp."
Now—
I can't understand what makes
me so impatient and inconsiderate
these days. Surely, it must be the
strain of the times, or something.
Radio listeners evidently like it;
so why should I be different from
all the rest? Why shouldn't I ap
preciate the drivel?
I want to be an average fellow.
But is that the price?
Must I adjust myself to thinking
that great, big he-men. as the voices
appear, just can't resist stopping
everytime they see a Brock candy
bar?
Even if I liked candy, pray tell me
where in the world can you find a
candy bar. more especially a Brock
bar. Fact is, I never heard of it
until those drivel dispensing death
disturbers started cramming it in
my ears with a shovel and tamp.
As for the chewing gum, that
simple melody simply stimulates
my appetite for something I can't
get and, come to think of it, don't
even want.
They could tell the truth with a
little song, if they must sing, like
this:
"What we can gat, we can't sell.
What we can sell, we can't gei. All
we're doing is offering something
we don't have to people who don't
want it."
Now, set that to music!
GOES TO GOLDSBORO
f T. Fletcher Little, business man
ager for the Onslow County Hos
pital since its opening, left yester
day for Goldsboro where he be
ame superintendent of the Citj
ospital. Mrs. Little and familj
a-ill move to Goldsboro next week
destroyed by fire
0The home of Miss Rachel He
witt at Nine Mile was destroyed bi
fire on December 14.
Scrap Paper
Campaign Gets
Started Today
0 The regular collection of scrap
paper is being started once again
in the residential districts of Jack
sonville.
Tried last year, the project had
to be abandoned, though with re
gret, due to the lack of proper
equipment and the necessary stor
age space to keep the large quanti
ties of paper.
The people of Jacksonville have
always wanted to do their part in
this important salvaging work and
will be glad to hear that it is now
possible.
Through the untiring efforts of
L. E. Rudisill. chairman of the
retail merchants committee of the
Jacksonville Chamber of Com
merce, arrangements have been
made for regular collections which
will begin today.
All of this has been made pos
sible because of the full coopera
tion of Camp Lejeune. Some time
ago the Reclamation and Salvage
office sent its trucks lo Jackson
ville and began the collections in
the business district. Tons of paper
have been reclaimed and the pro
ject has been a big .success with
all of the town's merchants pitch
ing in to make it so.
Now they have offered to have
the trucks tour the residential dis
tricts once a week and everyone is
asked to do his part in seeing to
it that not one scrap of paper is
wastd and that all papers are
bundled and tied, ready for the
boys when they come to our homes.
It isn't necessary to sort the
paper in any way. The boys will
do all that, but we have been asked
to tie the bundles so that the papers
will not blow about and make the
streets unsightly.
The camp trucks will tour the
Onslow Terrace and Ovcrbrook sec
tions on Tuesdays and the Piney
Green district each Friday. They
will continue the daily collections
through the business district each
day at 1:30 p.m.
The spirit in which the Chamber
of Commerce and Camp Lejeune
have cooperated to makp these nec
essary collections possible, is truly
a fine thing. Let's each of us do
our part in aiding all we can.
Pvt. Cecil G. Bryan,
Jacksonville, Home
On Furlough
PVT. CECIL G. BRYAN ^
0 Pvt. Ceil G. Bryan, son of Mrs.
Maggie Bryan of Jacksonville Route
1. is at home on furlough from
O'Reilly General Hospital in
Springfield, Mo.
Private Bryan was injured last
March in Texas and has undergone
several operations since. He will be
at home until January 6th. when he
will return to the hospital for
further treatment.
Whiskey Ration Book
Registration Held
Each Tuesday
£The Onslow County ABC Board
has resumed registration of individ
uals for the purpose of obtaining
whiskey ration books.
Starting today and continuing
for each successive Tuesday until
further notice, the ABC office in
the Agricultural Building will be
open from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. for
reg.is.trat ion.
Each person desiring to register
must bring his No. 4 food ration
book.
3rd Army Shattering
Attacks On Bastongne
today shattered a strong German
counter attack seeking to pinch oft'
Bastogne.
Other forces of Lt. Gen. Patton
were reported striking heavily in
the northeast to narrow the 13
mile waist of the Belgian bulge.
Supreme headquarters said that
the north flank on the Ahdennes
salient was quiet.
The large battles remained fluid
and indecisive.
Strike at Hamburg
0 Paris—AP—British based Amer
ican bombers today struck Ger
many supply lines and industrial
targets on the tenth successive day
of one of the war's greatest sus
tained aerial offensive.
The Hamburg radio went off the
air this morning, indicating that
the big port might be under attack
for the second time in 24 hours.
Italian Ground Taken
0 Rome—AP—Fifth Army troops
pressing forward in the Sechio river
area of the Italian front today re
captured all ground taken by the
Nazis in their recent heavy attack.
Allied headquarters announced
that on the Po valley front. Eighth
Army troops continued to move
forward north of Facnza.
Red Shock Troops
Hurl Germans from
Half of Budapest
0 London — AP — Hard-fighting
Russian shock troops today hurled
the Germans out of two thirds of
Buda, the western half of Buda
pest, and neared the Danube em
bankment in the center of the
burning Hungarian capital.
Soviet forces were battling
amidst sdenes of slaughter un
rivaled since Stalingrad.
Nazi radio commentators told
today of Russian plans for a big
winter offensive, and said the Red
Army was massing men and mate
rials on the way to Krakow.
CONGRESS MEETS TOMORROW
By Associated Press
0 Signposts, pointing toward
trouble have been erected in ad
vance as Congress, which assem
bles Wednesday, faces one of its
most important tasks, the under
writing of the world's efforts to
ward peace.
168 PERSONS KILLED
By Associated Press
£ Swelled by a train wreck in Utah
which took about 50 lives, the New
Year's death toll stood yesterday
at at least 168 dead for the t.tree
day week end.
)
American i-orces
Mopping Up Leyefe,
Nip Bombers Attack
0 Mac Arthur's Headquarters, Phil
ippines — AP — American dough
boys, mopping up Leyete, today
resorted to warfare of American
Indian style, moving rapidly by
night and striking1 isolated Jap
resistance pockets at dawn.
The total of Japanese dead on the
bloody island has been brought to
117.997. it was announced.
Meanwhile, the Japanese hurled
new air assaults at American ship
ping and installations on Mindoro
Saturday, but 14 of the 32 attack
ing pianos were reported to have
been shot down.
No mention was made of Amer
ica damage or casualties by the
announcement.
American Margin Increases
0 Aboard Halsey's Flagship—AP
—Close coordination between Bri
tish and American fleets will draw
the noose around the neck of Japan,
is the hope of Admiral Nimitz. He
stated today that "The British fleet
is not coming over here for any
Pacific purpose. They will carry
their share of the load and they
will be plenty aggressive."
Nimitz also declared that he ex
pected the American margin over
the Japanese fleet^to increase with
every engagement.
KiwanisClub to
Install New Officers
At Meeting Today
% The Jacksonville Kiwanis club
wijl resume its regular meetings
today with a luncheon at the USO
Pine Lodge at 1 p.m.
At this meeting the installation
of officers will take place.
Ramon Askew will be installed
as President, succeeding Billy
Arthur, Horace Cotton as Vice
President. K. T. Knight, Jr., as
Secretary, Harvey Boney as Trea
surer and the following to the
Board of Directors: J. H. Aman, B.
J. Holleman, K. T. Knight, G. E.
Maultsby, L. E. Rudisill, Steve
Stefanou and Gautier Jackson
FRIDAYS FIRE
0The fire last Friday morning
was reported to be on Durwood
Aman's boat. It is said thai the fire
started in the cabin and burned
one of the mattresses. Little dam
age was done.
LI. (jg) Earl F.
Home, Richlands,
Killed in Action
#Lt. (Jg) Earl F. Home. 22.
was killed in the crash of a
Navy PBY partol plane in the
Mediterranean theater on Oct.
15, his relatives have been not
ified. Previously, he had been
reported as missing on that
date. He was co-pilot of the
plane. Lt. Home was a son of
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. florae of
Richlands and the husband of
the former Betty Brown, who
now makes her home with her
parents at Portsmouth, Va.
Surviving also are a younger
brother, Charles, of the home,
and a sister, Mrs. II. It. Yan
cey of Norfolk. Va. lie enter
ed the Navy in 1942 and was
married Oct. 12, 1943, going
overseas the next month. In
August of this year he spent
30 days at home after being
injured slightly in a crash
landing. He returned to duty
last September 26.
Mrs. E. W. Clement
Made Onslow "General"
In Blue Slar Brigade
# Mrs. E. VV. Clement has
been named the Onslow Coun
ty General as a result of hav
ing sold 205 bonds having a
maturity value of $54,150.00 in
the Blue Star Brigade which
ended on December 30th, it
was announced by Mrs. C. E.
Warn and Mrs. David Sabiston,
co-chairman, yesterday. A com
plete !i:-.t of the final results
will be given Friday.
ABC Whiskey
Coupon Value for
January Announced
# Effective January 1, ABC ration
coupons will revert to their original
value of one pint per coupon. Dur
ing the latter half of December
(the holiday season) each valid
coupons was worth two pints.
" Coupons No. 5 and 0 will be
valid during the period January
1-15 for one quart or two pints, or
one fifth, or two tenths of all whis
key or Scotch.
"Coupons No. 7 and 3 will be
valid during the period January
16-31 for one quart or two pints,
or one fifth, or two tenths of all
whiskey or Scotch."
"Homeward Bound"
Messages Offered
By Wesfern Union
0The Federal Communications
Commission has approved a
"Homeward Bound" telegraph ser
vice which will be offered by Wes
tern Union to military personnel
returning from overseas, it was an
nounced today by R. C. Patterson
local manager of the telegraph
company.
The new service, providing fif
teen fixed-text messages, will be
available at certain debarkation
hospitals, reception centers through
which men returning from over
seas will pass, and separation cen
ters from which they will receive
their final military discharges.
The "Homeward Bound" messages
may be sent at a special 25c rate
from these debarkation points to
any Western Union destination in
he United States.
5 Negroes Leave
Today for Induction
At For Bragg
0 Five colored registrants will
leave today for induction at Fort
Bragg. They are: Ernest Bathea,
Robert Wilson Waters. Clyde Ven
ters, all of Jacksonville: Doctor
Love Simmons. Hubert; and Rich
ard Saunders, Richlands.
EPISCOPAL SERVICE.
0 Services at St. Anne's Episcopal
Church next Sunday. January 7.
being the first Sunday after the
Epiplany, are: church school 9:45
A. M., and celebration of the Holy
Communion and sermon at 11 o'
clock. Choir practice Thursday ev
ening at 7:30.
RECEIVES DISCHARGE.
0G. L. Mattocks, who has been
in the army and stationed at
Camp Shelby, Miss., has been gran
ted an honorable discharge. He ar
rived home Wednesday.
Pfc. Osborne G. Blizzard,
Of Beulaville, Wounded
In Mediterranean
0 Pfc. Osborne G. Blizzard of
Route 1, Beulaville. has been
wounded in action in the Med
iterranean area according to
word received from the War
Department by his mother,
Mrs. Addie D. Blizzard, of the
same address.
6th War Loan
Campaign Closes,
E Quota Not Met
QJ. (\ Thompson, chairman of
the Onslow County Sixth War
Loan Campaign, yesterday an
nounced that the sale of Series E
bonds now stands at $122,096.25,
again-I the quota of E bonds of
$303,000.
As of yesterday, the overall pur
chase of bonds had gone to $669,
206.25. which is far in excess of
the county quota of $384,000.
Thompson stated tih;l a complete
and final report will be forthcom
inin a few days.
Jacksonville School
Paper Makes First
Appearance Here
#T'u> first issue of the .Jackson
ville high school paper is off the
pre- - under the editorship of Ro
bin Ann Kellum.
An attractive and well-gotten-up
school paper, it carries news of
the classes, advertisements and
chatter that interests the reader.
The staff of the paper is as fol
lows:
Editor-in-chief Robin Ann Kel
lum: assistant editor. Walter Sabis
ton: business manager. Everett
Walos>: advertising staff. Catherine
Hem erson: Robert Sanders: Gene
Kotv.ce: art editors. Max Hyder
and Betty Potteway: humor editor.
Leonard Hitch: goofy gossip editor,
Juanita Ketchum: boys sport editor,
Hcatinck Phillips: girls sport edi
tor. Mona Chadv. ick: news reporter
for 12th grade. Dorothy Miller;
news reporter for 11th grade,
Eleanor Aman: news reporter 1'<t
10-M. Jackie Collins: news reporter
for 10-R. Anne Yopp; News re
porter for 9-C, Charles Marshall;
news reporter for 9-B. Jim Bullock:
news reporter for 8-15. Roxie Hood:
news reporter for 8-S. Mary Alice
Carmichael; news reporter for 7-1.
Rose Marie Dilworth: news reporter
for 7 W. Wayne Larson: typists,
Maggie Gould: Mona Chadwick
and Carole Morton.
Red Cross Board
Of Directors To
Meef January 9
0The regular monthly meeting ol
the Onslow County chapter of tlu
American Red Cross, board of di
rectors will be held at the Eln
Street USO on Tuesday, Januarj
9. at three p.m.
AI TO LICENSES
H All 1944 motor vehicle licens1.
plates are good through Januarx
31." T. Boddie Ward. Com miss in net
of the State Department of Motoi
Vehicles, said in a reminder tc
North Carolina motorists.
"This extension of time was pro
vided for by a special act of the
1.943 General Assembly," Ware
said.
Commissioner Ward issued the
reminder in answer to a numbei
of inquiries received in his officc
recently in regard to the expira
tion date of 1944 license plates.
HUNTERS ARE FINED
0 Colon Stubbs. .James and Glenr
Heath and Allen Riggs, all of Hu
bert, were apprehended by Count\
Game Protector W. I. Mallard lasi
week and fined $10 and costs i'oi
hunting without licenses. The>
weile tried by Magistrate Tim
mons Jones.
Camp Davis Turned
Over To Air Forces
Dr. Mike J. Palmer,
Optometrist, Will
Open Office Here
0 Dr. Mike J. Palmer announces
the opening of offices in Jackson
ville Saturday of each week begin
ning January f>. for the practice of
optometry. Dr. Palmer's services
will include the examining of the
eyes, prescribing of glasses and
nther optometric procedures essen
tial to the correction of visual defi
ciencies.
He will be located up stairs over
the ISO and The Onslow News
and Views, next to the bus station.
Dr. Palmer graduated from the
Northern Illinois College of Opto
metry Dec. 1.5 1939. passed the
State Hoard of Examiners July
1940. Since that time he has prac
ticed in Charlotte for four and one
half years, being associated with
Palmers' Optometrists. On Septem
ber 18. 1944 he opened offices in
the Willetts Building, 120 Princess
St.. Wilmington.
Since there is an acute shortage
of visual refractionist, and all pro
fessional offices close in Wilming
ton noon of each Saturday, Dr.
Palmer is sacrificing his Saturday
morning practice in order to give
a full day in Jacksonville. His
Jacksonville office will be equip
ped with the latest and most ac
curate diagnostic instruments and
equipment.
Dr. Palmer is secretary and trea
surer of the Southeastern Alumni
Association of the Northern Illi
nois College of Optometry, member
of the Wilmington Lions Club.
Junior Chamber of Commerce and
the Methodist Church.
Miss Laura Beatty
Announces Schedule
For This Week
# Following is the Home Demon
stration Club schedule for this
week a.s announced by Miss Laura
Beatty. agent.
Monday, office all day.
Tuesday. 10:30 a.m.. Dixon Boys
and Girls club: afternoon, office.
Wednesday. 10:30 a.m.. Jackson
ville Boys and Girls club: afternoon
at 2 p.m.. llaws Run club with Mrs.
Trixie Leary, hostess.
'1 hursday. office all day.
Friday. 10:00 a.m.. Kinston
Agents Training school.
Saturday, Office and market.
Onslow Distributors'
Tobacco Appreciated
By Maj. Gen. Smith
£ A shipment of Prince Albert
smoking tobacco donated to Ma
rines in tiie South Pacific by Ons
low Distributors of Jacksonville
brought a letter of appreciation
from Maj. Gen. Julian C. Smith,
former commanding officer of
Camp Lejeune.
The general who led the Ma
rine division which received the
gift, has written a personal letter
to M. A. Cowell of the Onslow
Distributors, thanking him for the
donation.
General Smith is now on duty at
Marine Corps Headquarters in
Washington.
Listing of Property for Taxes
Will Get Underway Immediately
0 Listing of property for taxes
will get underway in Onslow Coun
t\ immediately, according to the
list of time and places the list
takers will sit, Which was an
nounced yesterday by L. I). Sewell,
tax supervisor.
The lisi takers already have been
schooled and are ready to go to
work listing property for taxation
and persons for polls. In addition,
an important farm census will be
taken.
Places where the list takers will
bo ind the hours are as follows:
Swansboro Township — Hubert,
January 8-9-10-11-12-15. 9 a.m. to
4 p.m.: Bear Creek. January 16-17
10-19-22-23, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Morris
Store, January 24-25-26-29-30. 9
a.m. to 4 p.m.: Swansboro, January
1-2-5-6-7-8-9-12-13-14. 9 a.m. to 4
p.m.
Jacksonville Township — John
Swinson, January 8. 9:30 a.m. to 4
p.m.: Dixon Store. January 12. 9:30
a.m. to 4 p.m.; Cross Roads, Janu
ary 22. 9:30 to 4 p.m.: Tar Landing,
January'30, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Hen
Leo Parker. February (>. 9:30 a.m.
to 4 p.m.; Half Moon February 14.
9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Jacksonville,
March 1, 9:30 a.m to 4 p.m.
White Oak Township—J. C. Bar
bee. January 8-10-11-12. 9:30 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m.: Belgrade, January 16
17-18-19-20-21-22-23-24. 9:30 a.m. to
4:30 p.m.; Strands Store. January
6th through February 2. 9:30 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m.: E. B. Marshalls. Feb
ruary 6th through February 13th
9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Silverdale
February 14th through February
23, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.: Jacob
Mortons. February 26th through
February 28th. 9:30 a.m. lo 4:30
p.m.: Ree.ses Store. March 2 through
March 7th. 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.:
Piiiey Green. March 8th through
.16th, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Stump Sound Township—H. M.
Ennett Store, January 9, 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m.: .). II. Justice Store. Janu
ary 10, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.: A. C.
Canacly. January 11. 10 a.m. to 4
p.m.: A. A. Everett, January 18, 10
a.m. to 12 noon; L. F. Dixon. Janu
ary 18, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.: A. G.
Scwell, January 24-25. 10 a.m. to
4 p.m.: A. Z. Thompson. January
30-31, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Nora Ever
ett, February 14-15, 10 a.m. to 4
p.m.: M. I). Davis, February 20. 10
a.m. to 4 p.m.: Fred Sanders Store,
Feb. 21. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Holly
Ridge Home Store. February 22,
10 a.m. to 4 p.m
Richlands Township — Batchelor
Store, January 8, 9:30 a.m. to 4
p.m.: J. N. Craff. January 9, 9:30
a.m. to 4 p.m.; C. Lake. January 10,
9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.: C. E. Fountain,
January 11. 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.:
Langley Store. January 15. 9:30
a.m. to 4 p.m.: A. T. Taylor, Janu
ary 16. 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Jarman
Fork, January 17, 9:30 a.m. to 4
p.m.: Pittman's Store, January 18,
9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Heath Store,
January 22. 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.;
Rhodes Station. January 23, 9:30
a.m. to 4 p.m.; Gum Branch, Janu
ary 24. 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Adam
School, January 25, 9:30 a.m. to 4
p.m.
Christmas Seal Drive
Reaches 90 Per Cent of
Onslow County Quota
§K. T. Knight, chairman of the
Onslow C ount y Tuberculosis
Christmas seal drive, yesterday re
ported that the total returns to
that date has reached $1,800.28, or
90'; of the quota of S2.000.00
Knight stated that the returns
had begun to come in a little bet
tor now that Christmas is past, and
expressed the hope that all those
who had not already made their
returns, will do so as soon as pos
sible.
Returns from sale of the seals,
now stand as follows: Midway Park.
$336.00; Richlands. $117.00: Holly
Ridge. $71.20: Camp Lejeune,
$179.17. Jacksonville. $312.29;
Maysville. $27.50: Verona. $6.00;
Sneads Ferry. $1.00: Silverdale,
$3.00; and Beulaville. $1.50.
The school children of Jackson
ville have turned in $44.62 from
their sale and Reese Walter of
Jacksonville reports the sale of
Health Bonds as follows: Jackson
ville. $626 00: Holly Ridge. $25.00
and Richland.-.. $50.00.
Superlatives Chosen
By Senior Class of
Jacksonville School
0Thc Senior Class of Jackson
ville high school has chosen its
superlatives as follows:
Prettiest girl. Eleanor Lockamv:
most handsome boy. Gene Koonce;
most studious girl. Edith West;
most studious boy. Stratton Mur
rell: most popular girl. Mona
Chadwick; most popular boy. John
ny Peacock: best all around girl.
Mona Chadwick: best all around
boy, Newton Hardin; most likely to
succeed girl. Candace Hatsell: most
liloely to succeed |boy, Stratton
Murrell; cutest girl. Margaret
Mock; cutest boy.' Headrick Phil
lips: best: dressed g'Lrl, Carolyn
Fields: best dressed boy. Johnny
Peacock: biggest girl flirt. Carole
Morton: biggest boy flirt. Gene
Koonce: class baby. Grace Justice:
and class baby, Ray Daugherty.
N. C. Ranks Second
In United States
In Peanut Growing
0Nor1h Carolina ranked second in
the production of peanuts in 1944.
harvesting 360.825.000 pounds to
Georgia's 693.900.000 pounds, it
was announced recently by the sta
tistics division of the State Depart
ment of Agriculture.
The North Carolina crop this year
was 20 per cent larger than last
season's 301.920.000 pounds and 31
per cent above the 10-year average
of 275.038.000 pounds.
Total acreage devoted 10 pea
nuts. which are produced commer
cially in this State in only the East
ern counties, was estimated at 283.
000—13.000 acres less than the
296.000 picked and threshed in
1943. but 46.000 more than the
average harvested in the years
from 1933 through 1942.
The yield per acre for the 1944
crop was estimated at 1,275, pounds
as compared with 75 pounds in
Georgia.
In 1943. North Carolina placod
third in peanut production in the
nation, being surpassed only by
Georgia and Alabama.
Total production of peanuts in
the United States in 1944 was
2.177.670.000 pounds; in 1943, 2,
184.760.000 pounds.
Red Cross Strives
To Raise War Fund
180 Million Dollars
0 American Red Cross operations
at homo and abroad will roach
their wartime peak in 1945, Mrs.
Grace Gawthrop. executive secre
tary of the Onslow County Chapter
of the Red Cross, said yesterday
in announcing that the minimum
goal for the Rod Cross War Fund
to be raised in March, 1945, had
boon fixed at $180,000,000 for the
nation.
E. .1. Petteway is chairman of
the Onslow County campaign this
year.
"Our new budgets." Mrs. Gaw
throp said, "represent an appre
ciable increase in the services wo
will render in Europe in the Pacific
and at homo, but we have been able
to keep the total 1945 goal slightly
under the one for 1944 because of
oversubscription of our earlier cam
paigns and certain economics in
this year's operations.
"It is our intention that Red
Cross stay with our troops until
all of them are returned home and
continue to serve them through
their adjustment back to civilian
life. For this reason we must ask
the American public to consider
our goal of $180,000,000 as an
absolute minimum," she said.
9The United State?? Army Air
"orec will take over Camp Davis,
luge military installation in Ons
ow County, and make of it a re
lisposition and convalescent com
mand. it was announced yesterday
jy Col. Adam A. Potts, command
ng officer.
Official notice of the new oc
cupant of Camp Davis came late
Saturday as the Army prepared to
Iraw the curtain as of December
51 on the post; that converted the
ower end of Onslow County into
i very prosperous section since De
cember 1940.
Redisposition and convalesent
command concerns it-self with re
urned wounded fliers. While giv
ng them medical care and treat
nent, the command also instructs
hem in schools of various types,
naking them better equipped to
rain men. to return to combat, or
o enter civilian life again.
At what strength the camp will
je maintained could not be stated
■ esterday. but it was believed here
md at Holly Ridge that the 2.000
)ed hospital at Camp Davis in
lucnced the Army Air Force's de
cision.
When the Air Forces will of
icially take over by sending in its
)crsonnel was not known definite
y yesterday, Colonel Potts was
"holding on" as commanding of
icer until relieved. It is unlikely
hat he. a popular commander who
H'omoted the interests of this sec
ion of the state along with carry
ng out his official duties, will be
•etained at Camp Davis.
"I want to take this opportunity
o express my deep appreciation
or the splendid cooperation the
3<?ople of this section have given
he Army and me," Colonel Potts
;aid yesterday, "and to wish each
ind every one of them a very
lappy New Year.''
Wade J. Everett,
Former Onslow County
Tax Collector, Dies
®>Wade J.,Everett, 45. -of Sunset
^ark. Wilmington, died at the
James Walker Hospital in Wilming
on on Thursday, December 28,
after a short illness.
Well known in Onslow County,
VIr. Everett was the county com
missioner of Stump Sound Town
ship from 1939 to 1940 and served
as Onslow County Tax Collector
n 1941. For almost three years,
worked at Camp Davis.
He is survived by his widow. Mrs.
Wade J. Everett: two brothers,
Rodolph D. Everett of Holly Ridge
and Don W. Everett of Wilming
;on: and three sisters. Mrs. Evelyn
Yopp of Sneads Ferry. Mrs. Millie
Smith of Sneads Ferry and Mrs.
Ora King of Hampstead.
The funeral was conducted by
Ihc Rev. C. E. Baker. Baptist min
ister of Wilmington, from the home
on Saturday. December 30th at 3
p.m. Burial was in the Stump
Sound cemetery.
Navy's Seabees
Third Birthday
Is Celebrated
% Norfolk, Va.—The Navy's Sea
bees—the world's fastest and most
skillful construction men. who'll
drop hammer and saw to pick up
a gun in the twinkling of an eye—
have just celebrated their birth
day. Some of the first Seabees were
trained near here at Camp Allen
and Camp Bradford. Later, an even
larger training unit was established
at Camp Peary, to which men from
the original camps were transfer
red.
An organization that has been
matured by it? participation in
every major amphibious invasion
from Guadalcanal through the cur
rent Philippine campaign, the Sea
bees have grown from an original
force of only 3.300 men to one of
more than 234,000. Today, more
than three-fourths of them (75.2
per cent1 are overseas, fighting
shoulder to shoulder with the Army
and the Marines.
Woody Simpson Now
Second Lieutenant
In Marine Corps
©Quantico, Va., Dec. 21.—Marine
Second Lieutenant Woodrow Hans
Simpson, son of
toria Hurd of 319
Bordeaux street,
Jacksonville, N.
C., has been gra
duated from the
Fifty Sixth Of
ficer Candidate's
Class, Marine
Corps Schools
here.
Lt. Simpson at
it e n d e d Wake
est, N. C. where he majored in
law. He enlisted in the Corps Jan
uary 29, 1941 and joined the Of
ficer Candidate's Class August 30,
1944 from Camp Lejeune, N. C.
His wife, the former Dorothy
Drew Warlick, resides in Jackson