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THE ONSLOW COUNTY iVl ■ mm 0 The New, and Ylewi Lud( b JMews and Views ehs,.. W JW '•"■'p. Classified Advertising, The Only Keeper In the World That Gives a Whoop About Onslou, County "% > OL. \ II, NO. 50 JACKSONVILLE, N. C.. FRFI)AV~ |\M VI{\TT<m ~ PRICE 82.00 PER YEAR I DOWN EAST WITH j BILLy ARTHUR 01 think it would be interesting to know who years, probably cen turies ago. ate the first raw oyster. Now. he was a brave person, if there ever was one. And a hero, too, because he lived to tell our ancestors that raw oysters were n't as bad as they looked—they couldn't be— so we, too. could en joy the delicacy. Oh. I like oysters, raw, fried, steamed, roasted and stewed, al though I must admit it was a long time before I could eat one raw. I threatened to try it often even if it killed me. but never command ed the courage until one night I got one in my mouth. After that I didn't need any courage. The oyster took care of that. You know, to eat one raw, all you've got to do is get him on the fork and in your mouth, throw your head back, and he'.? what we used to say in Cabarrus county—et. But. just think, now. The oys ter brought up from the bottom of some bay or river is a dirty thing to begin with. From the outside, especially to the first per son who ate an oyster. I know he didn't look any too good: and I'll bet he just about defeated the in quistiveness of the brave one who wanted to know what was on the inside, and tried to open him. without an oyster knife. Forget mat you ever ate an oyster. Reecall a look at one in a just-opened shell. Now. isn't that about the worst looking thing you ever saw? And just think about all the things the first person who ate one ran over in his mind before downing-house. Surely, the first thing he thought of doing was throwing it away, and the last thing was eating it. And don't you think it must have required considerable forti tude (intestinal) to make up one's mind to cat it? Just to put it in his mouth? Of course, after he got it in his mouth he couldn't do anything else. The oyster was gone—down —eaten. I'm not mad about anything or crazy—I just think we ought to erect a monument to that fellow, whoever he was. that ate the first oyster and introduced us to one of the finest foods ever discovered. An up-state reader, knowing an Eastern Carolinian's appreciation of an oyster sends in this with no credit line: To A Wild Oyster I gaze upon thy beauty, little beast, And ask thee as I contemplate thee, "What a dull life must be thine," But then, who knows, ' it tie crustacean creature, rhaps thy life has been eventful, d mayhap a heart of gold ' 3S beneath that mother-of-pearl digging thou hast on thee. Hast thou loved? And hast thou been loved? What strange and cruel prank of the Gods Hath made thee as thou art— Cold, disdainful, little caring what the world May think of thee? What wringing of the heartstring has brought the tear That formed the radiant pearl within thee? There must have been a tear That there should be a pearl . . . But then .... Perhaps thou hast no pearl. Then, if thou hast not. Thou art a helluva lousy oyster . . Thou fossil! ! ! CLIPPED: 0"Over the hill trailed a man be hind a mule drawing a plow. The clodhopper was broadcasting. Said the man to the mule: "Bill, you are a mule, the son of a jackass, and I am a man. made in the image of God. here we work, hitched up together, year in and year out. I often wonder if you work for me or I work for you. Verily, I think this is a partner ship between a mule and a fool, for surely I work as hard as you, if not harder. Plowing or cultiva ting, we cover the same distance— but you do it on four legs and I on two. I, therefore, mathematical ly speaking, do twice as much work per leg as you do. "Soon we will be preparing for a corn crop. When the crop is har vested. I give one-third to the land lord for being so kind as to let me use his small speck of God's uni verse. One-third goes to you, and the balance is mine. You consume all of your portion, with the ex ception of a few cobs, while I di vide my third among seven chil dren, a dozen hens, two ducks, and a banker. If we both need shoes, you get 'em. Bill: you are getting the best of me and I ask you: Is it fair for a mule, the son of a jack ass, to swindle man, the lord of creation, out of his substance. And come to think of it you merely help plow and cultivate the ground, while I alone must cut, shock and husk the corn while you look over the pasture fence and 'Hee-IJaw' at me. "All fall and most of the winter the whole family, from Granny to the baby, work from morning to night to help raise money to pay taxes and buy you a new set of harness and pay the interest on the mortgage on you. And, by the way, whaj do you care about the mort gage?. Not a d—m! You onery cuss, I even have to do the worrying ^bout the mortgage on your tough, igrateful hide! \ "About the only time I am your .tter is on election day, for I can /ote and you can't. And after elec tion I realize that I was fully as great a Jackass as your papa. Ver ily. I an# prone to wonder if poli tics were made for men or jack asses—or to make jackasses out of men. (Continued on Pagp Six) First Army Gains Below Rochefort; Third Halted £ Paris — < AP) — The American First Army tanks and infantry di visions are biting deep into the northern and southwestern tip of the Belgian bulge at Ardennes. The famous 101st Airborne Di vision is facing heavy German counterattacks around Bastogne, These counterattacks have halted temporarily the Third Army advan ces to the south where Von Rud stedt has thrown 200,000 men in cluding arimored and infantry di visions. 13th Attack on Reich 0 London —AP— Allied bombers, apparently the United States 15th Air Force flying fortresses and Li berators from Italy, today made the 13th straight daylight on the Reich. Russians Give Ground 0 Moscow — AP — Russian forces have been forced to give ground in the last few days as mobile warfare rages between Budapest and Vienna. Huge German tank and infantry forces marked the first counter offensive on the eastern front since October, as they sought to break through the Russian lines to relievo the surrounded garrison in the Hungarian capital. FXAS Reactions Awaited 0 Athens—AP--Reactions of left wing ELAS followers are eagerly awaited here as indications of Gen eral Nicholas Plastiras' chances of restoring peace. Plastiras is reported having re tained four important posts in ad dition to the premiership. ELAS followers have previously insisted on filling these posts. Two New Landings Made by Americans On Mindoro Island 0 McArthur's Headquarters—AP— Coordinated air blows today smash ed at southern Japan, from For mosa and Ruykus along a solid arc of 2.000 miles down through Luz on. Luzon is the mostly highly prized island of the Phillipines by the Japs. General McArthur today disclos ed two new landings have been made by Amriean troops on Min doro. the closest approach to Manila. David Samuel Moore, Father of Local Woman, Dies at Aulander # David Samuel Moore, father of Mrs. C. V. Cheney of Jacksonville died last Wednesday afternoon in Aulander following a heart attack. Funeral services were held at the Methodist Church in Aulander on Friday and internment was in the Windsor cemetery. Use of V-Mail Urged to Conserve Critically Needed Space 0 Use of V-mail by civilians in writing to service men overseas must be stepped up in 1945 to con serve critically needed transport space, the Office of War Informa tion reported today on the basis of facts from the Army and Navy. While the total volume of Army and Navy V-mail, incoming and outgoing, is almost twice that of 1943. recent drops in the use of the microfilm service by both serv ice men overseas and civilians at home has been of concern to the Army and Navy. Reasons pointed out by high ranking officers for the importance of extended V-mail use by the pub lic included: 1. The increase in the numbers of service men now overseas, with a consequent rise in the volume of mail to be handled. 2. The need for the maximum utilization of cargo space of all kinds, especially in air transport. 3. Extension of supply lines as action progresses in both theaters of war. 4. Continuing importance of a .steady, frequent flow of letters to service men's morale. Rear Admiral Joseph R. Red man. USN, Director of Naval Com munications. said: "The Navy V-mail service was inaugurated to supplement and case the problems of transporta tion in the establishment of good mail service in wartime. Although the American public has been con tributing faithfully in all phases of the war effort, with the crisis at hand, renewed efforts must be ex pended. The public is asked to share the air-mail space by using V-mail: and in this manner to cur tail the present air-mail load, which on occasion backlogs and hinders the goal for which the Navy is striving—getting the big gest morals builders of all—mail — to the largest Navy afloat." Old Saying Is Brought Up to Date By Former Governors % Washington, fAP)—Said the for mer Governor of North Carolina to the former Governr of South Car olina: "It's a long time between cigar ettes." The exchange took place as the two former governors—Clyde R. Hocy of North Carolina and Olin D. Jhnson of South Carolina—met t take their seats in the U. S. Sen ate. Not that it matters to Hocy per sonally. He doesn't smoke. But he was thinking, he said, hat his State produces about 60 per cent of the nation's cigarettes and grows a lot of tobacco. Also, the former Tar Heel Gov ernor wanted to bring up to date what the North Carolina Governor said to the South Carolina Govern or. Several years ago at a Governor's Conference in Albany, N. Y.. he lamented the scarcity of cokes, saying "It's a long time between cokes." Hoey really likes his cokes. OPA Answers Our Questions About New Rationing Program The following questions and answers explaining tighter wartime food rationing were issued today bv the Office of Price Administra tion: Q. What foods are effected by changes in the rationing program? A. Five canned vegetables. *mo.st kinds of meat, butter and sugar are affected. O. What canned vegetables are added to the ration list? A. Canned peas. corn, green and wax beans, asparagus and spinach now require blue ration stamps. This change went into effect at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, December 26. Q. Are canned fruits affected by the changes? A. On January 1. blue point values for most canned fruits will be reduced. Present point values on canned fruits remain in effect until that time. '"Q How is butter affected? A. The point value of butter was raised to 24 points a pound at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, December 26. Q. What is happening to the meat rationing program. A. Beginning December 31, about 85 per cent of the civilian meat supply will require red points as compared with about 37 per cent, at present. Q. What change is there in sugar rationing? A. All outstanding sugar stamps and home canning stamps and cou pons except sugar stamp 34, were canceled at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, December 26. Q. Were any other ration stamps canceled? A. Yes, at the same time, all blue and red ration stamps that became good before December 1944 are no longer good. Q. Why were these older unused stamps canceled? n. civilian supplies 01 sugar, butter and commercially canned fruits and vegetables are at the lowest point since the war began. Meat supplies are declining. Sup plies for 1945 are not large enough to permit spending of old unused stamps, which apparently were not needed at the time they were in tended for use. Cancellation of old stamps at the start of the new pro gram is a means of seeing that each consumer gets the fair share out of 1945 supplies he is entitled to. Q. What should housewives do with old stamps that are no longer good? She should destroy invalid stamps immediately. OPA says "Don't give your old stamps to anybody." Grocers are not permitted to ac cept them. Q. How will the rationing of additional foods help consumers? A. The whole purpose of ration ing is to assure consumers their fair share of things that are short during wartime. Sarcities of some items in stores—such as bacon and other meats in many sections of the country—meant that limited rationing controls were not getting scarce items to consumers in all areas, nor were supplies in any one area being divided fairly among all consumers. The addition of certain scarce food items to the ration list will help a more even distribution. The move is for the protection of people on the home front. Q. Why were some canned vege tables returned to rationing? A. As more of our armed forces go overseas they require larger amounts of canned goods because fresh fruits and vegetables are harder to get. This has left for civilians, on December 1. about 56 per cent of the commercially can ned vegetables available a year earlier. If rationing had not been resumed, it is estimated that stocks of canned vegetables would have disappeared three to five months before the 1945 pack became avail able. Q. How does the cancellation of all red stamps made good before (Continued on page six) Pvt. Hardy Stonely, Richlands, Killed In Germany 0 Pvt. Hardy Stonely of ltich lands was kiMed in action in Germany on December 6, ac cording to word received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will Stonely. from the War Depart ment. Pvt. Stonely has been in the Army since the spring of 1943 and overseas more than a year. Blue Star Brigade's Final Bond Figure Announced at $196,425 #.The Blue Star Brigade, held by the woman's division of the Sixth War Loan campaign, came to a close this week after a close race between Mrs. E. W. Clement and Mrs. J. C. Thompson for the Ons low County Generalship with Mrs. Clement winning out for the title as the final sales tallying $196,425 were counted. Mrs. David Sabislon and Mrs. C. E. Warn, co-chairmen, did a won derful job and aided greatly in making the drive the success it has turned out to be. Following are (he final sales and ranks attained by the ladies: Mrs. E. W. Clemenl. Lt. General, County General. 205 bonds, $54, 150.00. Mrs. J. C. Thompson. Lt. Gen eral. 167 bonds. $33,150. Mrs. II. M. Ennett. Sneads Ferry, Colonel. 57 bonds. $3,575. Mrs. W. L. Ketchum, Major, 34 bonds. $12.80O. Mrs. Russell Brendell, Major, 35 bonds, $2,575. Mrs. John D. War lick, Major. 38 bonds, $3,150. Mrs. C. D. Koonce, Major, 31 bonds, SB.225. Mrs. Hiram Leonard. Richlands, 1st Lt., 1 bonds. $6,650. Mrs. W. L. Humphrey. Verona, Captain. 24 bonds, S2.000. Mrs. T. Newton Cook. Captain, 21 bonds. SI.700. Mrs. W. Y. Richardson. 1st Lt., 17 bonds. $6,125. Miss Mary Stefanou, 1st Lt., 19 bonds, $2,375. Mrs. David Sabiston, 1st Lt., 17 bonds. $4,700. Mrs. Leon Gray. 1st Lt., 16 bonds, SI.750. Mrs. Vernon Alligood. Swans boro, 2nd Lt.. 12 bonds, S450. Mrs. Lillian Russell Ray. Bear Creek. 2nd Lt. 12 bonds S3.100. Mrs. J. R. Gurganus, 2nd Lt., 11 bonds. $8,025. Mrs. C. E. Warn, 2nd Lt., 10 bonds, $375. Mrs. Gussie Rawls. Verona, 2nd Lt.. 10 bonds. $625. In addition to the women listed above, other members of the Blue Star Brigade in Onslow County are as follows: Mrs. Adrian A man. Mrs. R. S. Pinkston. Mrs. Dolores Tilbe. Mrs. L. P. Matthews. Mrs. Brady, Mrs. Eleanor Leslie, Miss Mary Herring, Mrs. Ralph Wolfe, Mrs. Ramon Askew. Mrs. G. E. Gurganus, Mrs. Ephraim Stoin. Mrs. Walter Mor gan, Mrs. Bill Crowe, Mrs. E. J. Petteway, Mrs. W. E. Harrison, Mrs. Edgar Koonce, Mrs. H. M. Loy, Mrs O. L. Russ Mrs. Don Starkey, Mrs. W. E. Sabiston, Mrs. Z. E. Mur rell. Mrs. Donnell. Miss Frances Batson, Miss Anne Yopp, Max Hyder. Aaron Farnell. Jr. Miss Anita Lewis, Miss Hilda Martin, Mrs. Townsend. Mrs. June Watson, Mrs. Doris S. Keller, ]Vlrs. Leslie Lovejoy, and Mrs. James Johnson, all of Jacksonville. Mrs. Vernie Brown. Mrs. Ben Brock. Mrs. Whit Davis. Mrs. Vic tor Venters. Mrs. Paul Marshburn, Mrs. Dan Russell and Mrs. Nathan iel Sylvester of Richlands. Mrs. Heyward Campbell. Mrs. Julius Segerman, and Mrs. Beasley Nelson of Holly Ridge. Mrs. J. F. Foster and Miss Mar garet Jones of Swansboro. Brig. Gen. David L. S. Brewster Awarded Legion of Merit 0Camp Lejeune— Brig. Gen. David L. S. Brewster, USMC, who was the first commanding officer of the Marine Barracks here, has been awarded the Legion of Merit for service as chief of staff of the administrative command, Fleet Ma rine Forces. Pacific, from June 9, to August 24. 1944. Pfc. Charles Daves Of Jacksonville, Wins Promotion in Italy 0 With the Fifth Army. Italy— Private First Class Charles C. Daves, son of Mrs. Annie Pearl Daves, who lives on Route 1. Jack sonville. North Carolina, has been promoted to staff sergeant. He is a squad leader with the 91st "Powder River" Division of the Fifth Army in Italy. £ South Africa as a whole is an elevated region, more than 40 per cent of its area being mo.-e than 4,000 feet above sea-level. 0The peacock, inhabitant of Cey lon, Burma. Malaya and Java, was imported into Greeoe by Alexander the Great. Rev. L. Grady Burgiss, New Pastor of First Baptist Church £ The Rev. L. Grady Burgiss of Greensbi : ». has arrived to take over the ministry of the First Bap tist Church here in Jacksonville. Rev. Burgiss, a native of Yad kin County, has been the pastor of the Maunolia street Baptist church in Greensboro for the past .six years. Prior ti) that he was the pastor of the Arlington and Honda Baptist ehurcluw near Elkin. Mrs. Burgiss, the former Miss Annie Cooper of Iredell County, is a graduate of W.C.T.C. at Boone and has taught for .several years in North Carolina schools. Rev. and Mrs. Burgiss have one son. Samuel, who just celebrated his first birthday. They will make their home at 208 Stratford Road, in the Bay Shore Estates development. Three Marine Officers Are Decorated and Cited at Lejeune 0Camp Lejeune—Three M.irine officers recently returned from overseas were decorated and cited here for their achievements in com bat. They are: Lieutenant Colonel McDonald I. Shuford. 30. of Georgetown. S. C.. received the Bronze Star Medal for directing a special weapons group of a Defense Battalion on Vella La veil a Island. Major Carl M. Johnson. 26. of Salt Lake City. Utah, received the Bronze Star Medal for directing a 40mm. gun battery attached to a defense battalion on Vella Lavella Island which drove off repeated Japanese attacks and helped ac count for 42 Jap planes shot down during the operation. Major William M. Tracy. 27. of Meriden. Conn.. received the Bronze Star Medal for directing a 90mm. anti-aircraft battery of a defense battalion on Renclova Is land in the British Solomon Islands. All three officers arc now at tached to the Training Command at this camp. Charles G. Clark Succeeds Overstreet As County Agent 0 Charles G. Clark, formerly of Durham county, has succeeded Hugh Overstreet. as county agent of Onslow County. Clark is a graduate of State Col lege and was formerly with the State AAA and served a;-; agent of Johnson county. Overstreet served Onslow County for the past eight years in this capacity before his resignation to retire to his own farm in Pender Emergency Crop and Feed Loans Available Tc Onsiow Farmers 0 Applications for emergency crop loans (seed loan ;* are now avail able to farmers in Onslow County. The office for receiving applica tions for Onslow County, will be announced within the next few days. Farmers who are in need of funds for crop production purposes, or for the purchase of feed for livestock, and who have been unable to obtain adequate financing from other sources, including a produc tion credit association, should con tact W. F. King, field supervisor, in charge of this county. Loans approved now may include funds for immediate disbursal to meet early spring needs, such as, the preparation of land, the pur chase of fertilizer, or the planting of the early food or feed crops advocated by the Extension Service of the Department of Agriculture. Funds to meet later crop produc tion expenses may bo disbursed as needed. Emergency crop loans are made to farmers, either owners or ten ants, who own or can make ar rangements to obtain land to farm: who own or have the use of work stock and equipment with which to farm, and who can give a first lien on the crops to be financed as sec urity. Loans to finance the pur chase or production of feed for livestock and poultry are also avail able under the same general terms and conditions, except a first mort gage on the .stock or poultry, to be fed. is required as security. King, field supervisor for this Department of Government, has served the farmers of Onslow County for several years and sug gests. should they need or require crop loans for the year 1945, should contact him. A more detailed announcement as to time and location for receiv ing applications, will be made within a few days. PEANUT SHELL CORK 0U.S. scientists have developed a substitute for cork, made from pea nut .shells, which should make Am erica independent of foreign source and put more money into the pock ets of U.S. peanut growers. 0 China's silk culture has flour ished for 4,000 years. Cherry Recommends Preserving Tax Structure Jacksonville Would Be Main Line Point on Daily Plane Service 0 Gastonia, Jan. 4—Jacksonville will he one of 40 mainline points in five states to be served fully with daily mail, passenger, and express schedules by recently-chartered South East Airlines, Inc.. of Gas tonia. N. C.. under proposed plans for operations in the Carolinas. Virginia, Georgia, and Tennessee, it was announced today. A pilot-controlled company with licensed pilots, as officers and di rectors and in top management posts, South East Airlines has filed application with the Civil Aero nautics Board in Washington for a certificate of public convenience and necessity and representatives of the Gastonia company will ap pear in Washington at a prelimi nary hearing on the application January 22. Besides offering full daily pas senger. mail, and express service to 40 communities in the five-state area, South East proposes opera tions to provide daily mail and express "pick-up" service for an additional 68 smaller communities in an area extending from Rich mond. Va.. south to Charleston, S. C., and from Wilmington. N. C., west to Chattanooga. Tenn. R. B. Babington. Jr.. prominent Gastonia business man who pio neered in construction of Gaston County's first commercial airport and in the establishment of Pied mont Airways, Inc.. in 1927. is president of the recently-chartered airline company. Latest type Beechcraft aircraft will be used by South East in the operation of its five-state 'feeder line" service, which has been so planned as to not only offer com plete local service along its routes but to connect conveniently with through airlines covering the en tire nation. Charlotte will bo the terminal of the company's operations, but prin cipal offices, headquarters, hangars, and repair and maintenance shops will be located in Gastonia. Six main-line routes will provide daily passenger, mail, and express service for Jacksonville and 39 other communities in the five-state area. Route No. 1. a "circle route" from Charlotte, will provide daily schedules for Gastonia. Shelby. Ashevillc. and Hendersonville, in North Carolina. Clnttanooga. Tenn., Gainesville and Athens in Georgia, and Greenwood. Columbia, and Rock Hill in South Carolina. Charlotte and Norfolk. Va.. will be terminals for Route No. 2. with two points in North Carolina, Statesville and Winston-Salem, and four in Virginia. Martinsville. Roa noke. Lynchburg, and Richmond being served as intermediate points. Norfolk, Va., and Charleston. S. C., will be the southern and north ern terminals, respectively, for Route No. 3. the South East "coas tal route", which will serve North Carolina and two South Carolina communities as intermediate points in the Carolina coastal region. These include Elizabeth City. Eden ton. New Bern. Jacksonville, and Wilmington in North Carolina, and Myrtle Beach and Georgetown in South Carolina. Cpl. Roger Hill, Beulaville, Wins Bronze Star Award 0 The War Department lias an nounce.1. the award of the Bronze Star Medal to Cpl. Roger Hill of Beulaville. Cpl. Hill is a member of a ground force unit, now overseas at an un disclosed point. Junior Red Cross Sends Medical Kits To European Schools 0 Washington. D. C.- Medical kits valued al $87,500 are being pur chased by the American Junior Red Cross National Children's Fund for immediate shipment to schools in Yugoslavia. Greece. Belgium and other countries. Chairman Basil O'Connor of the American Red Cross announced today. The kits are sent both to liberated and enemy-occupied countries through the Joint Commission of the Inter national Red Cross Committee in Geneva. Each medical kit. large enough to serve 400 children, will contain approximately 30 items, such as aspirin, boric acid, scissors, soap and gauze. Only institutions able to control their use will receive them. This latest project of the Na tional Children's Fund, maintained by voluntary contributions, is an other way in which the Junior Red Cross is participating in the re habilitation of children in the liberated countries of Europe. Plans already have been com pleted for Junior Red Cross mem bers to pack in their classrooms gift boxes containing some 10.000,000 needed educational supplies for European children. Kiwanis Club Installs New Officers al Regular Meeting £ Installation of the? new officers for 1945 was the key note of the Jacksonville Kiwanis club at their regular meeting on Tuesday at the USD Pine Lodge. In the absence of thet immediate past president. Billy Arthur. J. C. Thompson took charge of the in stallation ceremonies and introduc ed the following new officers: Ra mon Askew, president; Horace Cot ton. vice presient: K. T. Knight, Jr.. secretary and Harvey Boney, treasurer. The Board of Directors is made up of: J. H. Aman, B. J. Holleman, K. T. Knight. Jr., G. E. Maultsby. L. E. Rudisill, Steve Stefanou and Gautier Jackson. Immediately following the instal lations Mr. Askew addressed the members of the club and expressed his appreciation to all members for the support they have pledged the Kiwanis Club in an effort to make 1945 a banner Kiwanis year. Fifty members and three guests were present and all joined in the community sing led by Reese Wal ter. At the board of directors meet ing which followed, three new members were accepted by the club: namely. Bob Hartsfield. J. R. Carroll and Jack Koonce, all of Jacksonville. Rev. A. D. Leon Gray Appointed Temporary Manager of Hospital 0 Rev. A D. Leon Gray was ap pointed temporary manager of the Onslow County Hospital, here, at the meeting of the board of trust ees this week. T. Fletcher Little, former man ager of the hospital who recently resigned, has become business man ager of the Goldsboro General Hos pital in Goldsboro. Rev. Gray will replace Little until a successor can be obtained. Camp Lejeune Exceeds Quota in Sixth War Loan Campaign ® Camp Lejeune—Staging a whirl wind finish and breaking all rec ords. Camp Lejeune went over the top in the Sixth War Loan Drive by subscribing $304,700. maturity value, it was announced by Capt. Helen Perrell. war bond promotion officer. For the purpose of establishing working units and quotas, the camp was divided into ten groups. Lead ing the groups were: First. Service Battalion ($26,150, Second. Infantry )Training Regiment ($22,725). Third, Women Reserve Schools ($20,450). Civilian personnel on the base came through with flying colors by subscribing $35,775 for the drive. Board of Commissioners Appropriate 10 Per Cent ol ABC Proceeds for Hospital 0 At the regular Board of Com missioners meeting here last Tues day. the board voted to appropriate 10% of the proceeds of the ABC store for the maintenance of the Onslow County Hospital. A decision was reached to post pone action on the new school building in Dixon until the budge! for the coming year was completed in June. The board appointed Clayton Petteway to take the responsibility of seeing that the OP A office was sufficiently warmed so that the of fice personnel could work in com fort. That office was forced to close two days during the past month due to lack of heat. Fire Causes Damage To Shaw Farm Near Richlands 0Fire destroyed considerable property, fertilizer, corn and ha> together with several outbuilding* on the Shaw farm near Richland; recently. Fire fighters who volunteered tc help, were unable to check th< blaze which started in the wood! near the Shaw farm. Considerabh damage was done to the surround ing woodland tracts. By RALPH L. IIOWLAND # Raleigh — (API — Governor R. Gregg Cherry told the North Caro lina Legislature Thursday in his inaugural address that "the present tax structure should remain as it is," and called for a state-wide referendum on the sale of liquor. • The Iron Major" of Gastonia, who gained distinction in the first world war and came home to pro minency in legal and legislative circles, was the second governor of North Carolina to take the oath during wartime. The other was Zehulon B. Vance, in 1862. Cherry, returning to the hard hitting ♦*ctics of his speakership days in a V7, also asked the assem bly to: . Make a study of current policies, with the view of framing a declara tion of North Carolina policy in respect to all federal matters, for eign and domestic. Keep appropriations in the com ing biennium within the availab ility of estimated revenues. Make provision for payment of the general fund indebtedness of approximately $52,000,000 out of an anticipated surplus of $70,000, 000 and place the balance in a postwar reserve fund. Make provision for a constitu tional amendment granting equal rights to women, including jury service. Continue the war bonus to state employes. Pay beginning teachers with A grade certificates at least $125 a month, with increments for exper ience. Raise the compulsory school at tendance age from 14 to 16. Enact legislation particularly beneficial to war veterans. Study the best way to adequately develop the wild life, inland game and fish preserves of North Caro lina. Enact machinery for fiscal con trol of the public school funds, since the recent constitutional amendment made no provision for a comptroller. j Create a departing t of state police and public safety, embrac ing the present department of state police and public safety, the high way patrol, bureau of investiga tion. drivers' license bureau, safety division, fingerprint bureau of state prison, and possibly other agencies. And. while awaiting a liquor re ferendum. provide for controlling liquor shipments through the state in violation of the law. Surrounded by the Supreme Court, constitutional and other high state officers. Cherry referred to the days of Vance. "The question then." he said, "was not one of surplus, but one of scarcity. The question then was not when will the global war end but when will civil strife cease." He said he was "reminded that the end of the war is nowhere in sight. I know that with at least 300,000 of our sons and daughters enrolled in the heroic effort to drive back and defeat the foes of democracy, the progress of this war claims the first attention of tnc hearts of our people throughout the state. Any program of progress for the peacetime perid . . . due to the demands of this unfinished war, must be held in abeyance. It be comes my first duty, therefore, to dedicate, without reservation, our energies, our fortunes and our lives to a continued effort toward win ning this war." Recalling Vance's appeals to the U. S. Senate for a restoration of self-government to North Carolina, Cherry said the people must now keep in mind the relation between the state and federal government, both in the time of war and in time of peace. "We ought to cooperate with the federal republic in all of its endea vors founded upon true functions." he said. "On the other hand, the federal republic owes us the duty of recognizing the functions and the duties not expressly assigned 1o the republic. We cannot, for ex ample. acquiesce in a policy, the consequence of which is to impair the revenue of the state or to de termine the character of its social institutions. The people of North Carolina have far more power in these fields, better understanding and decidedly a clearer duty than the republic, so far as our people are concerned. "I recommend that each house of the General Assembly appoint committees on federal relations to consider all matters in which fed eral policy in North Carolina may be involved and further to make studies of current policies, with the view of framing a declaration of North Carolina policy in respect to all federal matters, foreign and domestic. This declaration of policy, of course, should be directed to that period of peace which we hope will not be delayed too long. In the meantime, it should be our duty to frame a state policy, clearly defin ing and intending to preserve North Carolina's functions and respon sibilities. of course setting out our faithful adherence to the federal union and to the federal policy witthin the limits of the powers granted and contemplated in the Constitution." Cherry then reviewed the growth of the state's fiscal policy and said that now. with the possible excep tion of Delaware. North Carolina is the only state in the Union which provides nine months and (Continued on page five) 4 i