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THE ONSLOW COUNTY The News and Views Leads Id Paid Circulation, News and Views The Only Newspaper in the World That Gives a Whoop About Onslow County w Local Advertising, ^ National Advertising, Classified Advertising, Onslow County News. VOL. VII, MO. 61 JACKSONVILLE, N. C.. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY I.{, 1945 * PRICE 82.00 PER YEAR DOWN EAST WITH BILLY ARTHUR # Ualeigh — Wo were sitting around the breakfast table chat ting over a third cup of coffee the other morning, and someone told the story about the old man who always drank a cup of coffee before retiring every night. "Doesn't it keep you awake?" he was asked. "No." the old man replied, "but it helps." 0 About coffee and such. Sgt. Cy Levine came through with a goort one last Saturday while discussing the cigarette shortage. I told him I didn't care what they rationed next so long as they didn't get back to selling coffee for ration points. "Which do you like best?" Cy inquired. "Coffee or cigarettes?" "Well, a cigarette does go good with a cup of coffee," I confessed. "What do you do with the cigarette," he asked, "dunk it?" § For the first time in a number of months—well, a long time, any way— I cut myself while shaving the other morning. It was a brand new razor I had purchased, and hadn't become ac customed to the feel of it. and that's the reason. I think, that the flesh was nicked out of my chin. Now I've got some sort of a complex. I just can't shave with that razor with peace of mind. 1 fear I'm going to cut myself with every stroke. Therefore. I stroke the chin lightly, and if you see me going around with a bit of stubble on my chin, you'll know the reason. I'm scared. 0One of my favorite occupations is sleeping, and 1 just can't seem to pet enough work. Reds and work don't go so good together, you know, and yet they do. After a hard day's work, there's something good to look forward to. and that's a bed. But that's bad. When you go to bed. you've got to get up sometime. Rut that's good. Because when you get up. you go to work to make money to pay the monthly installment on the bed. ^Harvey Booth, manager of the American Telephone and Tele graph company here, really gets things done when his nieklc is involved. One of the pay stations at the Capitol wouldn't work recently, and there were complaints result ing when the contraption wouldn't return the money, if the call was not completed. Telephone men came up and worked around awhile, finally declaring the phone fixed. But still complaints came. Finally Mr. Booth decided he'd try it: so he deposited his nickle. and you know what happened. His five cents didn't come back either. The phone is fixed now. 0The appropriations committee is fast getting down to its last dollars with a number of requests for additional funds in the hopper. Rep. Alonza Edwards of Greene County made a pertinent sugges tion the other day as to the pro cedure his committee ought to follow in the matter. "We've got $1,800,000 left to appropriate." Edwards said .'and we've got re quests for $17,000,000. I don't know how to please anyone with that small amount of money: so I sug gest we forget the 17 million in requests, divide the $1,800,000 be tween members of the general assembly, and go on home." 0 Rep. Clarence Stone is having table trouble, it seems. Last week, he got eggs in his lap at a break fast given by Governor Cherry. So, the governor tried to square things by inviting Stone back for a second feast. When the waffles were passed. Stone took one, and as he was lifting it to his plate, the gover nor suggested he take a second. It met Stone's approval, and he started back with his fork, but the first waffle stuck to it, and the waffle and fork were in mid air headed for the service plate on a second trip. Nervous and hasty. Stone reached out with his bare left hand and grabbed hold of the waffle like a second base man smearing a line drive. He wasn't taking any chances. 0Writing in the Charlotte Ob server. Jake Wade, famous sports and General Assembly reporter, said Sunday: "The Stump Sound oysters served by Billy Arthur at his party the other night were the biggest I have ever seen.'' Wade was referring to oysters supplied the Onslowan by Capt. Mart Fulcher and others from Sneads Ferry for a party he gave last week for the members of the House and newspapermen. £John McLaughlin of States ville, permanent president of the Kennell club, told a story on Re publican Representative Charlie Honeycutt of Sampson County at the club's meeting the other night. "When the club was formed back when Mr. Odorus Mull was speaker." McLaughlin said. "Honeycutt came to me and asked why he, a Republican, was taken into the club along with the ig nored Democrats, and he the only Republican member of the club. I told him that when I was a child I used to hang around Tinker's livery stable up there in the Brushy Mountain section of Ire dell County, and one day I asked Mr. Tinker why he kept a goat in there with all those mules. He said that the goats kept the mule.' (Continued on page 4) Camp Lejeune Celebrates 2nd Anniversary of Women's Reserve 0 MARINES DEPART—A January graduating class steps smartly clown the parade grounds in its final review of "Boot camp". V '"np Lejeunc — i nis 11 u g c North Carolina Camp, chosen by the Marine Corps for the training of all women Marines is marking the second anniversary of the Marine Cdrps Women's Reserve today by proceeding with •"busi ness as usual." "Business includes the indoc trination and training of new re cruits who are being trained as replacements. The flat terrain of the Carolina coastal region and the mild winter permits the con tinuous drill instruction which is an important part of Marine training. Since July. 1943. when the Recruit Depot was moved here from Hunter College. New York City. 16.857 women from all pans of the nation have come to this famous Tar Heel base for train ing. Another( important part of the Marine Corps' education of the woman Marine is showing her the training received by Combat Ma rines in order that she will under sianci ine wotk 01 me i^urps. uh Camp Lejeune's extensive ocean front and inlets the Marines practice amphibious landings and through the swampy areas of the camp they learn tactics suitable for South Pacific jungles. Many phases of the training are observed by the women Marines in recruit depot. At the present time there are approximately 2.400 lady Marines stationed here. Of that number 900 are attached to the Schools and 1.500 arc stationed here as members of the post troops per forming duties which include typing, filing, clerical work, driv ing. post-exchange work, commis sary work, and many unusual jobs inc 1 u d i n g photo-lithographing, machine operation, carpentry, ra dio repair work and plumbing. Reviewed by Major General Marston, Commanding General of this Camp. Brigadier General Al fred II. Noble. Commanding Gen eral of the Training Command Canadian First Army Pushes Through Kleve 0 Paris—(AP) —Canadaian First Army troops pushed beyond the ftevasted Seigfried Line anchor city of Kleve today, leaving groups be hind to mop up the last nests of snipers. In center of the front the U. S. Fourth Division cleared half the major road function of Pruem be hind the widely breached Siegfried Line. This fortified traffic center is eight miles inside of Germany. Between focal points of battle, floods loosed by German breaching of Schwammenauel dam flood gat es. immobilized the U. S. Ninth and the British Second Army lines, up along Roer. which was a ramp aging river two miles wide at one point. Russian Drive Continues # Lonon—(AP)— Russians, encir cling Breslau except for a 15-mlie gap. drove on unchecked across Silesia today and the Germans said Marshall Ivan Konev's tanks had broken into Bonzlau only 74 miles from Dresden, capital of one time Kingdom of Saxony. The smash took the First Ukra nian Army forward almost to Bob mer river and three-fourths of the way across lower Silesia to within 22 miles of Czechoslovak frontier. Two kingpins of Berlin's defense along Oder, Kuestrin and Frank furt. were beginning to wear away under incessant day and night ar tillery pounding. Compromise Manpower Plan 0 Washington—(AP)—A compro mise Manpower Control Plan which would give satutory prop to the present War Manpower Com mission Recruitment Program was reported under preparation today. Its avocates think it may attract enough votes in the Senate Mili tary Affairs Committee to displace the Work-Or-Jail Bill for which the White House generals and ad mirals have asked. 118 North Carolina Hatcheries Cooperating With Poultry Plan 0 North Carolina ranks among the top states in the number of hatcheries cooperating with the National Poultry Improvement Plan, having 118 hatcheries for tho 1944-45 season, it has been an nounced by Dr. William Moore, head of the Veterinary division of the State Department of Agri culture. Although this figure is high, explained Dr. Moore, it is 13 less than the number cooperating with the plan last season. Total chick capacity of these hatcheries is approximately 7,000,000. he said. HOSPITAL BOAD MEETING £The regular meeting of the Ons low County Hospital Board of Trus tees will be held at the hospital on Wednesday, February 14, 10:30 A. M. Japs Reported Trapped Between Pasig River And Manila Bay 0 Manila—(API—Manila's bitterly resisting Japanese defenders were trapped in a narrowing triangle be tween Manila bay and the winding Pasig river today as increasing numbers of American troops and armored divisions poHired in for the kill, aide by artillery and Ma rine dive bombers. Maj. Gen. Verne Mudge's First Cavalry division columnjs have thrust deep into south Manila from the east and Maj. Gen. Robert Beightler's 37th Infantry fight along south Manila Bay shore. Airborne 11th division yanks are battling around Nichols Field. Air Blows On Japan O Washington. —(AP) —American. British and Chinese planes from Superfortresses to fighters have destroyed or damaged 164 Japan ese planes an spread ruin through target areas of the Rangoon dis trict of Burma, the Shantung pen insula of China, and at Ota. Jap an. in 24 hours of major action, it has been announced. In addition, Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's planes destroyed a num ber of parked enemy planes at Ta kao airdrome on Formosa and sank two ships in adjacent waters. PASSES EXAMINATION 0Jack Koonce lias passed the State Insurance examinations and is now manager of the T. B. Koonce Insurance Agency located in the Bryan Building in Jack sonville. Jacob Cicero Lanier of Chinquapin Serving With Navy in Pacific Area JACOB CICERO LANIER 0.Jacob Cicero Lanier of Chin quapin, electrician's mate first elass. is with the Navy in the Pacific. He entered service in October, 1941. and went overseas last November. Lanier, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Lanier of Chin quapin. is a graduate of Chinqua pin High School. I it* re, imc enure Lamp uenerai Staff, and high ranking women officers, 1,200 women Marine" staged an impressive review Sat urday afternoon in honor of the second anniversary of the Marine Corps Women's Reserve. Although the anniversary is to day, the parade was held on Sat urday so that it would not inter-' fere with the working day of the women Marines who have replaced combat Marines in many of the jobs on this camp. Of the 1.200 women Marines participating in • the review, ap proximately 800 were members of the .permanent post troops and the other 400 were members of the basic training unit here. Major Mary L. Parks. Command in" Officer of the Women's Bat talion here, acted as regimental commander, and Major Dorothy Molt, Commanding Officer of the Marine Corps Women's Reserve Schools, acted as Adjutant for the Review. Public Warned Not to Use Social Security Cards As Means of Identification ^Occasional complaints, that so cial security account number cards are improperly used as identifica tion for check-cashing purposes, today led N. A. Avera. manager of the Wilmington office of the Social Security Board, to issue the following cautionary statement: "The social security account number card is not intended to serve as identification for check cashing purposes, and should not be accepted as such. "A social security card is issued to any person who applies for ii. It is issued for one purpose and only one. That is to identify a social security account on which the wage record or the possessor may be posted as credit toward old-age and survivors insurance benefits. The account number is used with the person's name to identify his social security ac count, because many people Inu - tile same name but no two can have the same number. The So cial Security Board, in paying benefits, requires that the bene ficiary identify himself fully." Camp Lejeune Officers Named Honorary Members Of Chamber of Commerce 0 At a recent meeting of the Jacksonville Chamber of Com merce honorary memberships weiv extended to Major General John Marston. Lt. Col. R. H. Pepper. Lt. Col. Harden, Lt. Col. Beal and Capt. Lloyd. The Chamber of Commerce ha extended these memberships in a continued effort to cooperate witli the base and extends a cordial invitation to these officers to at tend their meetings Capt. Preston H. Robb Returns to Jacksonville From Pacific Duty 0 Captain Preston H. Robb of Onslow Terrace. Jacksonville, has recently returned here after serv ing more than thirty one months in the Pacific theatre. Captain and Mrs. Robb came to Jacksonville in October, 1941 and Mrs. Robb has been making her home here while Captain Robb was overseas. Captain Robb has reported to Camp Lejeune for duty. good coxnrcT medal #Cpl. Arthur J. Everette. son of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Everette ot Jacksonville, recently was award ed the Good Conduct Medal. He is serving with the Fifth Army in Italy. 0 Norway declared its independ ence from Denmark and Sweden in 1814 but the union was not dis solved for 91 years. Pvt. Grover B. Blake, Jacksonville, Wounded In Southwest Pacific # Pvt. Grover B. Blake of Jacksonville has been wound ed in the Southwest Pacific, area according to word re ceived recently by bis mother, Mrs. Katie P. Blake oi Jack sonville from ihc War Depart ment. Miss Marcilla Robinson, Formerly of Jacksonville, Passes in Wilmington & Miss Marcilla Robinson. 70. died last Friday al the home of a brother in Wilmington following :i long illness. Miss Robinson was formerly of Jacksonville where she lived for many years. The funeral was held at the home of her brother. \Y. .1. Robin son of near Scot Hill at three p.m. on Saturday, conducted by the Rev. Lonnie Yopp. Primitive Bap list. of Jacksonville. She is survived by six brothers. Frank. Charles, and Lester of Jacksonville: Kelly and Louie of Burgaw and Jack of the home. Schools to Cooperate With Navy Dept. in Training Men for Radar Service 0 Chief G. W. Stewart. Navy Re cruiter for this area, who is at the Jacksonville Post Office each Thursday morning, announced that the Navy Recruiting Service for the state moved today to acquaim education leaders with the Navy's Raio Technician Program. This is a course by which selecte men are trained to become operators and maintenance men for radar devices, and high school principals, Lieut, an higth school principals. Lieut. W. YY. Templin. .Jr.. recruiting and induction officer, spoke of the "ur gent need" for more Radar men and outlined subjects to be studied in preparing for the Eddy Aptitude Test. This is a test base on mathe matics. physics, electricity, radio and shop practice to determine an applicants aptitude for this type of training. The outline of subjects to be studied is given as follows: Mnthe •matics: arithmetic and algebra, with ability to use addition, sub traction. multiplication, division, with emphasis on fractions, deci mals. roots, ratio, proportion and percentage, algebraic solution up to quadratics, exponents and alge braic fractions. Physics: general principles and practical application of the laws of heat, light, sound, mechanics, and magnetism. Electricity: familiarity w i t h simple direct current circuits, and with various terms, definitions, general laws and types of circuits, as well as an understanding of the practical application of such terms as voltage, amperage, cap acity. resistance, and wattage: knowledge of the elements of A. C. electricity. Radio: nomenclature of com monly used parts, broad principles of transmission and reception of radio waves, and the vacuum tube theory. Shop Practice: use of common hand tools, including hacksaws, drills and files, soldering, and precision instruments, micrometers calipers an gauges. The Eddy Test is given daily at: the New Bern recruiting office to Navy volunteers and to selectees who have passed their physical examination for military service. Applicants scoring successfully are eligible for nine months of training in the operation and maintenance of radar devices. At the conclusion of training, they can be promoted to t he rank of second class petty officer. Pvt. Eddie B. Lovitt of Jacksonville Awarded Good Conduct Medal % Pvt. Eddie? B. Lovitt of Route 1. Jacksonville, has been awarded the Good Conduct Medal while serving overseas. Pvt. Lovitt is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Lovitt of near Jack sonville and has been overseas for th? past fourteen months. He is with the infantry and has currently been in action in Italy. Cpl. Allan B. Gawthrop Reported Wounded in Action on Belgium Front 0 Mrs. Grace Gawthrop, ex ecutive secretary of the Ons low County Chapter of the American Red Cross was noti fied Friday that her husband, Cpl. Allan Gawthrop, had been wounded in action somewhere in Belgium on January 24. Cpl. Gawthrop has been in the Army since July. 1943 and went overseas in October o? last year. lie was serving with the First Army, County Schools Get $190,000 Appropriation Camp Davis Hospital Will Be Ready for Use in Three Weeks 0Maj. Donald S. Joyce. who •ommands temporarily the 1079th \rmy Air Forces base unit at -'amp Davis, said that the A A F itation complement stall" was .u;rad ially taking shape and predicted hat the base hopsital would be eady for use by convalescent lirmen in about three week>. "We'll be ready to go ahead in he hospital in about three weeks." le said. "We have civilian main enance crews at work now reno vating and reecjuipping it." IIow .•ver. Major Joyce pointed out that lie first convalescent soldiers are not expected to arrive for about .wo months. Five members of the station complement already have .joined Major Joyce, who arrived at Camp Davis last Friday. The officer said :>thers are expected late this week and that between 10 and 20 would arrive the first of next week. Oscar L. Schneider, MM2c Of Swansboro, Participated In Invasion of Luzon # Aboard A Coast Guard At tack Transport At Luzon 'Spec ial! —Coast Guardsman Oscar L. Schneider. Machiust's mate. 2c. of Swansboro. X. t'.. won't have much trouble recalling his most anxious moments during the in vasion of Luzon. Schneider who works below decks \\*ith fellow members otf the "black gang", got that funny feeling in the midriff when the grim announcement came over the lookout telephones that a Jap torpedo boat had sneaked in to embattled Lingaven Gulf un der cover of darkness. He couldn't see the searchlight stab through the darkness as it caught the fleet Nip craft, nor could he see sheets of tracer fire convert it into a flaming torch. "All of us down below breath ed easier when they got thai Jap boat," the Ooast Guardsmen said. Members of the black gang don't limit their spine-tinglers to the torpedo boat episode by any means. Since this vessel has been in the gu aerial bombs have been dropping with various de grees of nearness virtually from morning until night. "We thought at first they were our guns." they recalled. "Imag ine our surprise when they told us differently!" The Japs got their first lick ing when the convoy reached the approaches of the gulf on D-Day minus one. Telephone talkers on lookout stations relayed to the black gang accounts of how Jap planes were shot out of the air both by flak and by Yank fight er planes. II continued that way into D-plus-one. Farm Agent Urges Farmers to Purchase Fertilizer Early 0 Farm Agent Charles Clark to day warned local farmers to pur chase their fertilizer early because of the acute labor shortage in fer tilizer plants throughout the South. He pointed out the "War Food Administration estimates a 10 per cent shortage of nitrogen cxi^ls. plus a 15 per cent shortage of superphosphate, but then- is 20 per cent more potash than was available last year. EPISCOPAL CIU KCUES 0 Lenten services at St. Anne's Episcopal Church are announced as follows: Wednesday. February 14th, (Ash Wednesday . first day of Lent, celebration of the Holy Communion at 10:3;) a.m.. Chap lain Edgar L. Pennington, cele brant: Litany and Penitential Of fice at 7:30 p.m. The choir is re quested (to be present for the evening service, as the choir practice will be held immediately after the service instead of on Thursday evenings as heretofore. There will be no other evening Service this week. Next Sunday. February 18th. being the first Sunday in Lent, church school at 0:45 a.m. and morning prayer and sermon at 11 o'clock. After this week, the week day Lenten services will be held each Friday evening at 7:30. with choir practice following immed iately. thereafter, until Good Fri day. when the traditional "Three Hour" service will be iheld in commemoration of the Cross and Passion of our Lord and Saviour, commencing at 12 o'clock, noon. Ministers of other churches in Jacksonville. Richlands. and Swans boro, have been invited to par ticipate in the "Three Hour" ser vice. each giving the mediation on one of the "Words from the Cross." Everyone is invited to invited to attend these services. Brushes Death . I—fcn 'III Machfnist Mate 2 c R. J. Dar den of Jacksonville, Onslow County, counts himself among the Navy's luckicst war surviv ors. Darden was one of six men rescued from a crew of 260 when the USS Monaghan. de stroyer. was swamped by a Philippines typhoon. He spent three days and three nights clinging to a life raft in moun tainous seas. And now, Darden, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Darden, has been returned to the States by plane and soon will be home on furlough. He is a veteran of several battles in which the Monaghan took part before it succumbed to the storm. Mrs. Nora Humphrey, Mother of Local Man, Dies Near Deep Run £ Kinston—Funeral services fo Mrs. Nora Harper Humphrey. 72 a iclow of Edgar Humphrey o tear Deep Run, who died at he no me at 11 a.m. Thursday aftc i week'-; illness, were held Iron [he residence at 4 p.m. Frida: with burial in nearby Harpe cemetery. The Rev. Lloyd Vernor Free Will Baptist ol' Kenansvillc officiated. .Mrs. Humphrey was a daughte :>f the late Wendell and Emmalin ray lor Harper if Lenoir Count and had been a member of tii Deep Run Free Will Baptist Churcl )fr HO years. Her husband diet lboul 45 years ago. Surviving are four sons. Osca ind Edgar of Deep Run. Lott o Winston. Rout:? 1. ancl James o Jacksonville: one stepson. Join Humphrey of Little River. S. C. wo daughters. Mrs. F. C. Taylo ind Mrs. Alert Langslon: and tw< jrothers. Simpson and Jame Harper, all of Deep Run: 26 grand children and 40 great grandchil Iron. Alton Ray Home, HA2c, Now Stationed at Portsmouth Naval Hospita # Alton Ray Home. HA 2c. USNI has returned to the L7. S. Nav; Hospital. Portsmoutii. Va.. wher he is stationed, following a vis with his parents. Mr. and Mr Edward Home. here. He enlere the Navy February 23. 1044 an spent six months overseas, part cipating in the invasions of Noi mandy and Southern France be fore returning to the States. War Dogs Will No Longer Be Used to Detect Buried Mines 0 Atlanta Ga The training i war clogs for the detection < buried en imy mini's has been di continued by the Quartermasti Corps, it was announced today 1: Headquarter-. Fourth Servi< Com ma 11 (I The training of dogs for th purpose was .started little nun than a year ago and it was di covered that the dogs could d tect a certain percentage of bin it mines, it is explained. Howcve continues the report, tests uncli field conditions in theatres < operation showed that while t! do as could find a good percent v of buried mines, the percent a.; was not high enough to justify tl use of men and dogs as a su' stitute for more efficient mccl anical devices. Training of scout and mcs.>cng( dogs, whose performance again the Japanese already is creditc with the saving of hundreds < American soldiers, will be co tin ued. Adrian Earl Gurganus, Jacksonville, Reported Wounded in Action % Adrian Earl Gurganus, CM 3c of Jacksonville has been wounded in action, the Navy Department announced last week. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Henry Gurganus of Route 1, Jacksonville. ^The Onslow County Board of Commissioners, last week, voted to appropriate S 190,000 for the erec tions of additions to several schools in the county. Following the advice of Attor ney General Harry McMullan that such was the proper procedure provided that the county had col lected all the monies for the bud get and providing that there were surplus funds in excess of the budget needs, the board went ahead with the appropriations. Superintendent of Schools. A. 11. Hatsell has presented prelimi nary sketches and estimates of the proposed improvements and new buildings for approval. SI 12.000 of the appropriation will go towards improvements in cluding thirteen additional class rooms and a cafeteria in the Dixon school. This school has long been in need of extensive repairs and improvements and the overcrowd ed conditions there have seriously impaired the class room work. Built to house approximately 375 pupils, it has lately been accom modating an average of 700. Much credit is due the people of Holly Ridge land Dixon for their efforts to obtain better school accommodations and their untiring efforts have played a large part in seeing the appropria tion through. The Dixon-Molly Ridge P.T.A. together with the Rotary Club of Holly Ridge have repeatedly brought these conditions to the attention of tile School Board. Much of the credit is due to Mr. Hayward Campbell, president of the Holly Ridge Rotary Club and to Mrs. R. McCree of Dixon. Min. Hayward Campbell. Mr. C. C. . Mines and Mr. Bruce Hunter, to gether with many others. A large delegation from Dixon . and Holly Ridge was present at . the board meeting and everyone ( was more than pleased with the . board's decision. The proposed improvements for the White Oak school include six ' additional classrooms and a cafe teria and for the Swansboro school. , a lhomd-cconomics room tand a , cafeteria. Bids will be let as soon as the , iviorities arc available and com . plete plans have been drawn, Mr. I Hatsell said. Two Men of Nine Mile Section Are Held on Illegal Whiskey Charges 0Last Thursday afternoon Dcpu . ties Sheriff James Likens and f Willis Johnson arrested and took into custody Vance Guinn and Dexter Brown whom they found operating a still in the Nine Mile section. Both are being held on charges of manufacturing and possessing I non-tax paid whiskey for the pur pose of sale. The deputies de stroyed eight barrels of beer in operation and two and one half • gallons of whiskey. Two other men seen at the still made their escape. 1 Earlier in the day. Sheriff Mor • ton and Deputy Likens seized a still in the Hawkside section con 1 taining four barrels of mash. This " still was not in operation at 1 lie " time of the seizure. Thursday afternoon Deputies Likens and Johnson seized and destroyed a still in the Piney Green section. Three barrels of beer were destroyed. Deputy Li kens pointed out the fact that the beer was being made in 50-gallon gasoline drums. Naval Hospital at Camp Lejeune to Have Two New Wings 0 Camp Lejeune — Construction. ■s has already begun on additions at 0 the United States Naval Hospital here that will increase the capacity of that, facility by 250 beds. The (l plans include two new wings, one '• for women and the other for '* neuro-psychiatric patients. The '' project will be complete within e six months. 0 The wings, according to Captain c; .1. R. White, i MC» US\. Medical 0 Officer in Command of the hos )_ pital. will be constructed at each end of the present hospital build ing and will be in exact conform ity with existing architectual fea tures of the large edifice. c(. The east wing, on which con '' struction has actually begun, will be used entirely for the care of neuro-psychiatric patients. Captain. While explained. The west wing, he added, will be a new develop ment for women which will be complete with isolation ward. Tt will also have an open ward space. The new structure, each iden tical with dimensions of 176 feet by 40 feet, will be joined to the present structure bv connecting corridors that will follow the exist ing architectual designs. The ma teral used will be hollow tile with brick facing. The interior walls will be finished in plaster. Ap pointments for each wing will be the same as those prevailing in the present wards.