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voil VII, NO. 52 JACKSONVILLE, Pfc C.. FRIDAY, JANUARY 12. 1915 PRICE $2.00 PER YEAR
DOWN EAST
WITH
BILLY ARTHUR
t
0Herc it is another Friday, and
I've finally recovered from the Gov
ernor's reception. Takes me a long
time to get over those things, but
I'll never forget it—at least, not
long enough to be caught at an
other one.
Don't, please, get the idea that
the reception wasn't a brilliant and
fine affair. It's bound to have been.
Other folks said it was just wonder
ful. divine and other words you
usually find in an unabridged dic
tionary. But. still to me. it was
just so much time consumed stand
ing in line and shaking hands with
people I already knew and had
shaken hands with the day be
fore.
Protocol and receptions were not
made for me. and it was with ap
prehension. therefore, that I ap
proached the door of the Gover
nor's mansion.
"Whence came you?" asked the
ticket taker.
"From the county of Onslow on
the banks of New River, home of
fine people, oysters and Camp Le
jeune." I replied.
"What came you here to do?" he
asked.
"To atone for my county having
voted for McDonald in the Demo
cratic primary."
"After finding us worthy and
well-qualified, if not of good re
port. he admitted us into the outer
room: and there, we stood in line
as you do at Radio City Music Hall.
And I mean stood! That is. until
someone reported to Governor
Cherry that we were awaiting with
out and desired admittance."
"Without what?" came the ques
tion.
"Patience", was the reply. "Then,
we were directed into one of the
living rooms of the mansion where
there was a conspicuous cobweb on
the ceiling. Hilda having apparently
overlooked that room in the rush.
"After that, what was done with
you?"
We were pushed, by the impat
ient group behind who should have
known they were no more anxious
to get out of there than we were."
"And what did you do?"
t'usnea une people in iront ot
us."'
"After that, what was done with
you?"
"We were told to leave our hats
and coats downstairs, although I
wasn't yet quite sure whether I
wanted to trust them with this ad
ministration or not, and were di
rected up a flight of winding stairs
consisting of what appeared to be
17,564 steps.
"After that, what was done with
you?"
"We then went down those darr.
steps."
And ended right where we came
in, except that we were separated
by a chain from the group coming
in the door. I couldn't help but tell
he folks arriving that they had
>etter turn back then, because once ,
inside that inner room there was
no turning around. And little did ]
the attractive women know that :
their immaculate dresses, hair and
corsages would have to be fixed
again after going up those steps '
and standing, some more.
But the strains of music coming
from another room caught my ears.
Caught. I said. The strains really
took hold. Is that, I wondered, what
we appropriated $3,000 for? Fid
dlers?
But there was Gregg. He really
looked good. However you could
tell he didn't like that stiff collar,
and that he had probably practiced
for the occasion by wearing a horse
collar for two weeks. Boy, what he
would have given for a chew of
tobacco! You could see it written
all over his face. But Mrs. Cherry
was her usual lovely, beautiful
self.
From there on out it was some
thing! You were jerked from one
person to another, speedily, as if
the full dress suits the men were
wearing had to be back at the ren
tal agency by 10 p.m., or there
would be an extra charge.
Only three people, Lynn Nesbit
observed, didn't mind the hand
shaking—Lt. Gov. L. Y. Ballentine,
and Commissioner of Agriculture
and Mrs. Kerr Scott—"because you
folks are old milk hands, and ac
customed to this hand squeezing
business."
"What do you mean?" Mrs. Scott
demanded. "Kerr doesn't do any
milking now. I do it all."
And Sen. Joe Blythe wanted to
know if my mother was going to
stay with me and keep me on good
behavior.
"I'm always on my good behav
ior," I told him. "Turned over a
new leaf."
"What's on the other side?" Joe
asked.
And, moving on down the line, I
discovered what that $3,000 went
for—weak punch. And just one cup.
After that, the visitors were on
their own. And being on mine, the
exit was inviting.
Isn't fresh air wonderful.
Pvt. Eddie Lovitt
Awarded Combat
Infantryman Badge
% With the Fifth Army. Italy
Private First Class Eddie B. Lovitt,
son of Mr. William J. Lovitt, whose
home is on Route 2. Jacksonville,
N. C.. has been cited by the 338th
Infantry Regiment of the 85th
"Custer" Division and awarded the
Combat Infantryman Badge for ac
tual participation in combat against
the enemy with Lieutenant Gen
eral Lucian K. Truscott, Jr.'s. Fifth
Army in Italy.
Standards for the badge are
high. The decoration is awarded
to the infantry soldier who has
proved his fighting ability in com
bat.
Three Murphy Brothers in Service
Three sons of Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Murphy of Swansboro are serving in the armed forces. Gar
land Murphy, left, entered the Navy last July and is stationed at Camp Peary, Va. Pfc. Paul A. Murphy,
center, entered the Army last June and is now in^England. Pvt. Vance P. Murphy, right centered the
Army in November, 1943, and is in Germany. _
1945 March of Dimes Will Get
Underway in Onslow County Sunday
#The 1945 fund-raising appeal of
the National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis in celebration of
the President's Birthday will be
opened officially throughout the
nation Sunday night by Basil
O'Connor, president of the National
Foundation, in a coast-to-coast
broadcast over a national network.
The appeal will continue through
January 31 and is the twelfth an
nual campaign in the war against
infantile paralysis, Onslow County
campaign director A. D. Leon Gray
said in announcing county plans
for participation.
"Last year", Mr. Gray said.
"America sustained the second
worst epidemic of infantile para
lysis ever to hit the nation in the
history of the disease. More than
18,000 people were stricken and
many of 1944's victims will re
quire medical care and treatment
for a long period of time. Many of
these victims were in the state oi
North Carolina.
"We do not know what is in
store for the county or any other
county of the nation in 1945. But
it is up to us. all of us. to value the
life, health and welfare of our
children by preparing now for any
eventuality."
"Onslow County was most for
tunate last year, because there
were only five of our children
stricken with the disease, and only
two of those have required con
tinued hospitalization."
Mr. Gray pointed out that were
it not for the dimes and dollars
contributed by the people to previ
ous anneals of the National Founda
tion thousands of children who are
now recovered from infantile para
lysis might still be disabled. "Treat
ment of the disease is expensive,
costing more than $500,000 in
North Carolina alone last year, but
it is the duty and privilege of all
of us to join in insuring every aid
for our afflicted children.
While our men and women are
engaged in winning the war abroad
it is up to'us at home to win the
homo-front fight against infantile
paralysis. Every participant in the
March of Dimes will help today's
children to go forward in strength
and health to fulfill their destiny
in tomorrow's America.
Mr. Gray is fast getting the cam
paign in full swing and definite
plans together with the list of Ons
low County chairmen will be an
nounced next week.
Americans On Luzon Stretch
Beachead 22 Miles;Drive Inland
9 General McArthur's Headquar
ers, Philippines — AP — Manila
>ound American infantrymen have
tretched their beachhead on Luzon
o cover 22 miles of the Lingayen
5ulf and have driven inland and
•aptured four of the island's key
owns. Lingayen City. Dagupan,
Malgdan, and San Fabian are al
ready in the hands of the Ameri
cans as well as one airfield on
he island.
Japanese reinforcements are re
sorted to be pouring up from the
south and struggling over bomb
cut roads toward the Agno river
line where the first major battle of
the campaign is expected to take
place.
So far the most damaging op
position has come from the sea
where Japanese planes and torpedo
boats hit several American ships
in a convoy which were bringing up
additional 14th Corps reinforce
ments.
British And ELAS
Leaders Are Reported
To Reach Agreement
0 Athens—AP — General Scobie
las announced that after a nine
rour discussion. British authorities
ind left-wing leaders have arrived
at a large measure agreement for
the term of the "cease fire order"
there.
Belgian Bulge Collapsing
% Paris—AP—American and Bri
ish troops have now advanced more
:han three miles into the fast col
apsing western side of the Belgian
julge from which Von Rudstedt is
staging a disorderly withdrawal.
Signs today were that the Nazi
commander is hoping to establish
i new line of defense west of the
German border extending fifteen
nils to Vielsalm.
Battle for Hungary Seen
£ Moscow—AP—The final battle
"or Hungary seemed strongly indi
cated to be in the immediate offing
oday as German troops staged an
all-out effort to reach the Nazi gar
rison in Budapest.
Germans are facing threats of
aeing outflanked by Russian troops
advancing strongly north of the
Danube.
Allies In Upper Burma
0 Southeast Asia Command Hdq.
—(AP)—British troops have seiz
ed the Shwebo airport, while Alli
ed troops are reported to be occu
pying completely the last large
Japanese Bastion in Upper Burmo,
north of Mandalay.
IAPS IN U. S. CLOTHES
0 Somewhere in the Pacific—(De
layed)—Two or three Japanese
killed on Guam by a Marine patrol
xerc wearing the summer uni
■orms of the Marine Corps
—khaki garrison cap. shirt and
trousers, and field shoe, according
:o Sgt. Harold A. Breard, Marine
^orps combat correspondent.
Kiwanis Committees
For 1945 Are Announced
At Recent Meeting
0The Jacksonville Kiwanis Club
announced the 1945 committees
and chairmen at their regular meet
ing at the Pine Lodge USO last
Tuesday They are as follows:
House Committee: Deane Taylor,
chairman; Steve Stefanou. C. W.
Conkling, Jack Koonce and C. V.
Cheney.
Program Committee: Z. E. Mur
rell, chairman; Father W. S.
O'Byrne and Gautier Jackson.
Business Standards: Sam Lcder.
chairman; W. H. Bodenhamer, and
G. E. Maultsby.
Public Affairs and Relationships:
Maurice Margolis, chairman; E. T.
Meeks. Jr., James Murrill and Roy
McFatter.
Agriculture: J. H. Aman, chair
man; and J. M. Stingley.
Boys and Girls and Underprivi
leged Children: F. N. Cox. chair
man; Dr. J. P. Henderson and Dean
Sullivan.
Attendance: Rev. A. D. Leon
Gray, chairman; Jack Peck, L. E.
Rudisill and L. A. Pittman.
Finance: W. L. Ketchum, chair
man: P. V. Capps, J. C. Collins, and
J. C. Petteway.
Music: J. C. Thompson, chair
man: C. B. Craig, Reese B. Walter
and G. E. Maultsby.
Inter-club relations: Reese B.
Walter, chairman; J. it. Carroll,
Tom Shugart. Raymn\d Hartsfield,
and Herman Faibaum.
Citizenship and Vocational Gui
dance: Judge Harvey Boney, chair
man, and James Kalanzis.
Publicity: Sam SacknofT. chair
man: Billy Arthur, and Gautier
Jackson.
Education: A. B. Johnson, chair
man; and C. B. Craig.
Support of Churches: Dr. L. R.
Turner, chairman; and Carl W.
Hales.
Classification and Membership:
B. J. Holleman. chairman; Dr. H.
W. Stevens and John D. Warlick.
Good Cheer: E. D. Knauff, chair
man; James Lynch. Morris Trach
tenburg and Bob Hartsfield.
Post War Planning: T. Newton
Cook, chairman: A. T. Griffin, E.
J. Petteway, George Buchanan and
Lou Katzin.
An interesting program was pre
sented by Z. E. Murrell who held
a question and answer quiz pro
gram on the subject of "Know Your
Town."
J. C. Thompson, accompanied by
Mrs. Ramon Askew led in the group
singing.
Guests present at the meeting
were: Rev. L. Grady Burgiss, R. S
Pinkston, Mrs. Ramon Askew and
J. H. Havens of Tarboro.
MAKES HONOR ROLL
0Miss Marie Coston. freshman
of Maysville. was one of seventy
eight students to make the honor
roll at Elon College, according to
announcements made recently by
the registrar's office.
Adrian Smith, Formerly
Of Hubert, Reported
Seriously Wounded
# Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Smith
of Delco, formerly of Hubert
in Onslow County, have been
notified by the War Depart
ment that their son, Corporal
Adrian Smith, was seriously
wounded in Germany on Dec.
18.
Corporal Smith has been in
the army for 17 years, has seen
duty in all parts of the world
and has been in combat for ZVi
years in North Africa, England,
Germany, Holland and Bel
gium.
A brother, C.G.M. L. G.
Smith, USX, is on a destroyer
overseas. A sister, Lt. Ruth
Smith. A.N.C. is on Saipan
and another brother. Pfc. Jul
ian Smith is in the army at
Camp Gruber, Okla.
Corporal Smith is the broth
er of Mrs. Rob Hartsfield of
Jacksonville.
Supertorts Attack
Enemy Installations
On Malay Peninsula
0 Washington — AP — Superfort
resses yesterday started thunder
ing across the Bay of Bengal to
hammer at Japanese military in
stallations on the Malay Peninsula.
The size of the attacking force and
the specific targets were undis
closed in the communique.
Camp Davis to Re-Open
Immediately as Air ForGe
Convalescent Center
#Camp Davis, which was recently
closed after being used for more
than three years as an anti-aircraft
training center, will be reopened
immediately under the jurisdiction
of the Army Air Forces for con
valescent Army Air Forces person
nel and in connection with the dis
tribution center program.
Announcement to this effect was
made tonight by Rep. Graham A.
Barden, who stated that the War
Department general staff had offi
cially authorized him to make pub
lic its decision regarding these new
uses for the $40,000,000 camp site
in Onslow and Pender counties.
It was Congressman Barden who
four years ago announced the Army
plans to build an anti-aircraft fir
ing center near Holly Ridge. Con
struction work was rushed there by
as many as 24,000 employees to
make the camp ready for the arrival
of the first soldiers during early
April of 1941.
The first important military in
stallation to be started along the
Carolina coast during the current
World War period. Camp Davis
brought the first war boom to this
State. Holly Ridge grew from 28
residents to a thriving incorporated
town of several thousand citizens.
Planned originally as a training
camp for anti-aircraft regiments,
the military post expanded far be
yond its original specifications and
became the most complete anti
aircraft center anywhere in the
United States. Last summer, how
ever, the War Department an
nounced its decision to close the
camp gradually, and since that time
other government agencies have in
speced it with a view to determin
ing its suitability for their varied
purposes.
PROMOTED
£ Darry H. Leaven. 21. of Jack
sonville has been recently promoted
to the rank of sergeant in the South
Pacific.
Leaven has been overseas with
an all-Negro Army company for
more than a year and is now sta
tioned in New Guinea.
Adrian Earl Gurganus,
Jacksonville, Reported
Wounded in Philippines
0 Adrian Karl Gurganus, 21,
of Jacksonville has been
wounded in action according
to information received by his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. James
Henry Gurganus of Koute 1,
Jacksonville, from the chief of
Naval personnel.
Gurganus, a Gunners Mate
third class, served aboard the
destroyer Reid which has since
been reported lost in the Phil
ippine campaign.
He is a graduate of Jackson
ville High school and has serv
ed four years in the Navy.
Chamber of Commerce
Board Meets at
Elm Street USO
0 A special meeting of the Board
of Directors of the Chamber of
Commerce was held Tuesday night
at the Elm St. USO building at
8 p.m.
E. J. Petteway, new president,
called the meeting to order and
turned it over to John Arnan, who
was unanimously re-elected chair
man of the board.
Plans were discussed for the first
six months of the coming year but
the meeting had to be adjourned
before plans were completed, to
re-convene at an early date.
Members present were: John
Aman, Ramon Askew, Harvey
Boney. Carl Hales. L E. Rudisili,
W. Conkling. Deane Taylor. E. J.
Petteway and James Kalanzis.
Jacksonville Boys
And Girls Teams
Lose to Swansboro
#Im a fast and spirited double
header played at Swansboro last
week, the Swansboro boys and
girls basketball teams defeated
Jacksonville boys and girls. The
Swansboro girls won 20 to 12,
while the boys won 21 to 8.
The Jacksonville teams were un
able to get through the air tight
defenses thrown up by the Swans
boro boys and girls.
Frances Odum led the offensive
for Swansboro girls with 11 points
with Virginia Parkin a close sec
ond with 7 points.
Capt. Fournier led the offensive
for the Swansboro boys scoring 10
points with Charles Odum, a close
second with 6 points.
Aman for the Jacksonville girls
with 8 points and Hitch for the
boys with 6 points held the honors
for the losers.
Following are the line ups:
Swansboro boys: Fournier. Se
well. Parkin. Tolson, Odum. Smith.
Hill and Benton.
Jacksonville boys: Koonce. T Tok
ens, Sabiston. Beasley, Hitch, zan
ders, and Waters.
Officials: Privitte and Yopp.
Swansboro girls: F. Odum. Mid
get, Stewart, Stanley, Parkin. Wig
gins, Smith. Young, V. Odum,
Avery Brown, and Corbett.
Jacksonville girls: Aman, Pette
way. Yopp. Batson, Chadwick, Gur
ganus, Barber. Kele.hum, Hender
son, Losta, Morton and Reavis.
Robert Hollingsworth
Of Beulaville Wiih
Army in Holland
#Cpl. Robert A. Hollingsworth,
son of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Hollings
worth of Beulaville. is serving with
the Army in Holland.
Cpl. Hollingsworth entered serv
ice in November of 1.943 and has
been overseas since last August
Richlands Boys,
Beulaville Girls,
Split Double Header
0 Richlands, Jan. 9.—Beulaville
and Richlands high schools match
ed victories in a basketball twin
bill here this afternoon.
Pansy Shepard led Coach Ann
Marby's Beulaville sextet to a 27-13
decision in the opening game. Mar
garet Marshburn was high scorer
for Coach A. I,. Parker's Richlands
team.
In the other contest, Coach B. J.
Johnson's fast-stepping local quint
chalked up a 25-10 verdict over the
Richlands boys. Nethercutt led
Beulaville's scoring.
AfTlNFANTILE PARALYSIS
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1945 JANUARY 1945|
SIJN MOM Tort VVIP IMUBS »0t
TO
KEEP
AMERICA
STRONG
JOIN THE MARCH OF DIMES
Gold Star Certificates
To Be Issued By Legion
Mrs. L. K. Smith
Tells Red Cross
Of Overseas Experiences
0 Mm Littleton K. Smith of
Rochester. N. Y.. veteran of seven
teen months overseas service with
the American Red Cross, spoke be
fore the Board of Directors of the
American Red Cross at their meet
ing on Tuesday afternoon and out
lined the work being done in the
Pacific to provide "in camp" ac
tivities for service men overseas.
An excellent speaker, Mrs. Smith
told of her travels and experiences
to an appreciative audience, many
of whom plied her with questions
at the close of her talk.
Enlisting as an able-bodied re
creational worker. Mrs. Smith was
one of the first two women Red
Cross workers to be assigned to a
Marine base in the Pacific. She
and her companion worker arrived
at their base with no supplies ex
cept a piano and two ping pong
tables to set up recreational facili
ties for the battle weary men who
came. saw. and stayed to help build
a place to house them.
"It was months before all of
our supplies arrived," said Mrs.
Smith, "and during that time we
practically became beachcombers
trying to get things together to
give the boys the things they
needed most."
In the seventeen months, they
were there five Red Cross clubs
were established and are today
being used to full advantage by
service men who Mrs. Smith des
cribes as being mighty apprecia
tive.
Mrs. Smith is the wife of Ma
rine Captain Littleton K. Smith
who has just returned himself from
overseas.
She is making tentative plans for
a return to the South Pacific to
carry on the work being done there.
Dixon High School
Loses Double Header
To Camp Lejeune
# Camp Lejeune—Camp Lejeune
High School again notched up an
other victory by beating Dixon
High School last Friday at Area
2 Gym in a doubleheader. The girls
took the first game by g}n 18 to 15
score. Franck. of Lejeune. took
honors with a total of 10 points.
Howell. Godwin, and Macon shared
honors also. Dickens, of Dixon, was
best for the losers with 12 points.
The Camp Lejeune boys paced
the Dixon boys to a 40 to 24 score.
Hardisty. Anderson, and Robinson
of Lejeune held the honors with
Hardisty making 12 points while
Caldwell of Dixon was high with
10. Dixon was leading in the 1st
quarter 10 to 9 but the Lejeune
boys rallied in the next three quar
ters.
The line up: Dixon: Darrow. Faw,
Kirkman. Lewis, Caldwell and
Camp Lejeune: Anderson, Wilburn,
Robinson. Bove. Hardisty, FLctt,
Roach. Hwffine. Nelson, Bowcrsock
and Webster.
Red Cross Will
Move to New Quarters
On January 15th
£ The Onslow County Chapter of
the American Red Cross will move
their offices to their new quarters
located on the second floor of the
News and Views building on Jan
uary 15th.
Mr#. Grace Gawthrop, executive
secretary of the chapter, made this
announcement today.
Their offices were formerly lo
cated in the Jacksonville fire de
partment building.
Clarence Williams
Of Richlands Arrives
Safely in England
0Pvt. Clarence R. Williams, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Lam Williams of
Richlands. Route 1. has notified his
parents that he has arrived safely
in England.
Pvt. Williams entered service in
the Army in December of H)42.
He went overseas in October.
Louis H. Marshburn,
Home After More Than
Two Years Overseas
LOMS II. MARSHBURN
0 Louis Haywood Marshburn. Sic,
of Jacksonville, Route 1. is at home
on leave after more than two years
spent overseas and has seen action
in the Atlantic. Mediterranean and
Pacific areas.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
L. C. Marshburn and was graduated
lrom the Rich lands High School
in 1942.
The Marsh-burns have two other
sons in the Navy Vernon, serving
overseas and James W., at Bain
bridge. Md.
Jones-Onslow Electric
Membership Corporation
To Erect Sub-Station
0 Erection of a huge sub-station
for the Jones-Onslow Electric Mem
bership Cooperation is expected to
be started in the near future, ac
cording to L. E. Wooten, head of
the firm which has the contract for
the job.
The sub-station will be erected
on a site about 100 yards from the
present Tide Water Power Com
pany sub-station on Cheney Creek.
Shecluled to start January 1. con
struction is being held up pending
the arrival of transformers, which
are now expected almost any day,
it was said. Only several weeks will
be required to complete the job.
It will be the REA's first sub
station under the new set-up. Be
fore erecting its own generating
plant on North East Creek, the REA
purchased its power from Tide
Water. Then, when the Navy De
partment purchased the REA hold
ings. the co-op reverted to its ori
ginal source of power supply.
Kirby D. Phillips,
Verona, With 8th
Air Force Command
^ An VIII Air Force Service Com
mand Station. England—Recently
promoted from Corporal to the
grade of Sergeant, Kirby D Phillips
of Verona is serving as an aircraft
welder at this strategic air depot
where battle damaged fighter
planes of the Eighth Air Force are
repaired and reconditioned. Thru
his daily work in repairing flak
riddled planes. Sergeant Phillips is
participating in the uninterrupted
aerial offensive against the enemy.
The .son of Mrs. Annie Phillips.
Verona, he entered the service in
July. 1942 and received his basic
training at Clearwater. Florida.
Later stationed at Key Field. Miss
issippi. and Drew Field, Florida,
he was assigned overseas duty with
the VIII Air Force Service Com
mand in November. 1943.
Corporal Phillips is married to
the former Miss C.craldinc Pate of
Pollocksville.
REVENUE CLIMBING
£ North Carolina's revenue collec
tions from all sources totaled
855.677.88 last month, compared
with $9.172.050.71 for the same
month a year ago—an increase of
7.45 per cent.
Total collections for the first six
months of the current fiscal year
were S42.101.250.80. an increase of
$1,149,383.05 over collections for
the same period a year ago.
Rep. Billy Arthur Named on
Thirteen Committees in House
£Rep. Billy Arthur of Onslow
County this week was named on 13
committees of the North Carolina
House of Representatives.
House Speaker Oscar L. Richard
son named the Onslowan to the
important finance, conservation and
development, commercial fisheries,
and oyster industry committees.
Others on which he was named
are: corporations, counties, cities
and towns, drainage, expenditures
of the House, institutions for the
blind, insurance, manufacture and
labor, library and printing.
The House got down to work
Wednesday after marking time the
first two days of the week, await
ing committee appointments, the
Governor's message and introduc
tion of local and public bills which
committees can begin considering.
Both houses have already passed
the war bonus bill extending the
bonus to state employees, and the
emergency war powers bill.
0 Commander Z. E. Murrill and
Adjutant W. E. Baggs of the Clar
ence Meadows Post No. 78, Amer
ican Legion, announced today that
the Clarence Meadows Post will
issue a Gold Star certificate in the
name of the American Legion for
every Onslowan who has made the
supreme sacrifice for his fellow
men and country.
These certificates, which will be
presented to the next of kin or
emergency addressee will serve as
a fitting and permanent tribute to
the memory of the service person
who has lost his life in action.
The certificates, which were
viewed in this office, are beauti
fully designed and suitable for
framing and will be engraved with
the name. rank, date and place of
death and the name of the person
to whom it is being issued.
All of the necessary data and
information about the deceased
will be gathered here in Onslow
County by the Clarence Meadows
Post and forwarded to national
headquarters for certification and
engraving.
Members of the post are co
operating in a sincere effort to
compile the histories of Onslow
service people so that a permanent
record can be compiled and kept
for future use in the history of
3nslow County and solicite the
help of all Onslowans who can fur
nish any of the information needed.
This newspaper will be glad to
aid in gathering the records and
will cooperate with the Clarence
Meadows Post to see that all rec
ords are turned over to headquart
ers and that each service person
eceives the recognition due him
for his service.
Members of families of service
3eoplc are requested to furnish
he following information: full
name, rank, age, place and date of
death, branch of service, date of
?nlistment, name of parents, and
ho full name, address and relation
ship if any of the emergency ad
dressee to whom the certificate is
:o be issued.
All information will be filed with
headquarters and will become an
important page in the history of
Dnslow County.
Persons who can furnish the nec
essary information are urged to
*end it either to W. E. Baggs at
Box No. 73. Swansboro. or to the
office of the News and Views in
Jacksonville who will in turn, see
hat it reaches the proper persona
n charge of this project.
Plans are underway for the pre
sentation ceremonies and will be
announced at an early date.
Jacksonville Elementary
School Broken Into;
Robbed of Money
0 A. B. Johnson, principal of the
Jacksonville schools has announced
.hat the elementary school was
Droken into and robbed last Tues
day night.
The money, amounting to $84.50
was all in coin and had been wrap
ped for banking. It was taken from
a locked drawer which had been
rudely forced open.
The police department is making
a complete investigation.
Red Cross Board
Of Directors Holds
Monthly Meeting
#The regular monthly meeting of
the Board of Directors of the Am
erican Red Cross. Onslow County
chapter, was held in the Elm Street
I1 SO building on Tuesday after
noon at three o'clock.
The business meeting was presi
ded over by vice-chairman, E. J.
Petteway and Mrs. Grace Gaw
throp. executive secretary of the
chapter.
Mrs. L. K. Smith, guest speaker,
gave an interesting talk on the
work being done by the women re
creational workers, overseas.
Board members present were:
Mrs. Gawthrop. E. J. Petteway, J.
C. Petteway. J. C. Thompson, Mrs.
Annie Gilfoil, Mrs. W. Y. Richard
son. Mrs. P. S. Rudie. Mrs. James
Odum. Mrs. G. W. McHenry, Brig.
Gen. A. H. Noble of Camp Le
jeune. Mrs. Kirk Holland of Silver
dale and Judge Harvev Boney.
Duane and Reginald
Poole of Jacksonville
Are Serving Overseas
0 Duane Poole. S2c. USN, has no
tified his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Duke Poole, of Jacksonville of his
safe arrival in Hawaii. Poole is con
nected with Ships Service and ex
pects to be stationed in Hawaii for
some time.
Another son of Mr. and Mrs.
Duke Poole. SSgt. Reginald Poole,
is serving with the Third Army
under General Patton.
COMMUNION SERVICE
£ A communion service will be
held at the Antioch Presbyterian
Church on Sunday afternoon at
three o'clock.
Rev. Carl B. Craig will conduct
the service, .