THE ONSLOW COUNTY The News and Views Lead* (■ News and Views The Only Newspaper in the World Thai (rives a Whoop About Onslow County Paid Circulation, Local Advertising. National Advertising, ^7 , Classified Advertising, Onslow County News. VOL. VII, NO. 63 JACKSONVILLE, N. C., IT ESI) VV. EEBIU \R\ 20. 1913 PRICE S2.00 PF.R YEAR | DOWN EAST ^ WITH * ( BILLY ARTHUR # Raleigh- Kenneth Phillips, manager of the Sir Waller Hotel, certainly married an intelligent cooperative girl. When she entertained members of the Sir Walter Cabinet last Tuesday afternoon, she fed them little sandwiches and a little bit of tea—just enough to whet their appetites at 5 p.m. And the gang went from the tea to the coffee shop and ate up everything in the house. 0 So scarce are the sugar points around the hotel that sacchvin tablets were served at the Cabinet luncheon, and are being offered to coffee drinkers by the waitresses in the coffee shop. 0 "Cousin Wayland" Spruill. the representative from Bertie which lies beside the rippling waters of the Chowan, prefaced a speech the other morning with this address to the Assembly: "The Lady from Cherokee (Mrs. G. W. Cover), the Brain Trust from Wayne 'Frank Taylor), the Czar of Nash (Tom Pearsall'. the Financier of Burke (A. B. Stoney). the Educa tor from Orange (John Umstead). and the Dictator of Rockingham (Clarence Stone)." 0 Maybe you can tell me what this means: In a bill amending the motor laws of the State appears this paragraph: "Words used in the singular shall include the plural, and plural the singuar. Words used in the masculine gender shall include the feminine and neuter. Words used in the past : nd present tense shall include the future." If that passes, there'll be no need for English classes any further, and by the same token we can abolish the math classes by just passing a law that two and two adds up to anything you want it. or N ice versa. # At the cabinet meeting .Tosephus Daniels was telling the ladic.> of the part they had played in hav ing important legislation enacted in the past. Praising their sponsor ship of social and moral legisla tion. Daniels recalled that the .first beer and wine in the State \vas a result of their efforts. "That came about." he said, "be cause there was a bootlegger up at Morganton ..." "Not only in Morganton. all over the State." interrupted Miss Bea trice Cobb. State Democratic exe cutive committewoman, whose home is in that town. 0 Bob Coleman is the lobbyist for the Champion Paper and Fibre company at Canton, and I've been idding him about his always in it ig me to supper after I had al ready eaten. "I'm careful about it." he ex plained. "If I see you picking your teeth. I issue the invitation; and if not I just pass you up." 0.rack Lyons, who used to live here and who is now working in Raleigh, writes Talbert and Tommy Jones every week. They are out in the Southwest Pacific. 4) Rep. T. E. Storey of Wilkes was disclaiming some newspaper re ports the other morning. "Don't you know," he asked representa tives from his county and mem bers of the committee, "that Ra leigh newspapermen hear and write more than we can think of saying?" H An attorney came down from North Wilkesboro last week and left two good stories in the coun ties. cities and towns committee. The first concerned a farmer up there in Wilkes county, which is predominantly Baptist. He was con fronted by a man who wanted to buy a mule, but didn't have enough cash. "I'll give you a note for the balance." the purchases offered. "You know, I'm a steward in the Methodist church." Since the Methodists were com ing into the county at that time, the farmer thought the buyer must be something like a presiding eld er or a bishop or something, and took the man's signature on the note. But is wasn't paid on time; so the farmer went down to Wilk esboro to look up the fellow. He was told that he had moved away and taken everything with him. that the man wasn't of much character. " But he told me he was a stew ard in the Methodist church," the farmer explained. "What is a stew ard anyway?" "A steward in the Methodist church is like a deacon in the Bap tist church," he was told. "Darned if I ain't last a good mule!" he exclaimed. ®The other story also was about a note, a suit for collection of which was going on in court. The defendant was on the stand. "I want to say this." he decalred. "I didn't give the note: and if I did. I've uaid it; and if I didn't pay it. collection is barred by the statue of limitations." #Up in Raleigh, folks eat what they call breakfast, lunch and din ner. I ain't had any supper since I've been up there. 0 Mrs. T. Newton Cook is mista en. Just because I'm in ltaleigh i no reason for her to believe that .'m not going to keep tab on how much traveling she does. It's about time she's headed home. 0 A lead pencil does not contain lead, but graphite. Pfc. Hardy V. Stanley, Richlands, Reported Killed in European Area Pfc. Hardy V. Stanley of Kichlands has been reported killed in action in the Euro pean theatre according to word received by his mother. IVIis. Eva R. Stanley of Riehlands, from the War Department. Miss Kate Bender Assislant Cashier Of First-Citizens Bank ®Miss Kate Bender has boon named assistant, cashier of the Jacksonville branch of the First Citizens Bank and Trust company, it was announced yesterday. An employee of the company for the past seven years. Miss Bender has served four years as bookkeeper and three years a.s teller. She is one of the few wom en officials of the company. State and Onslow Spent $312,456 in 1943-44 School Year 0Per capita costs of instruction in the Onslow County schools runs SI4.87 per year in expenditure of local funds and $38.77 per year on State funds, a survey issued by the State. Department of Public In struction .showed last week. In all $3.12,456.27 was expended in Onslow County during the 1943-44 scholastic term. That in cluded $44,839.47 in current ex penditures from local funds, $14,871.70 in capital outlay of lo cal funds. $'16,215.77 in debt serv ice met by local funds, and $236,529.33 in total state funds expended. Total local expenditures were $75,926.94. and the enrollment, for the year was 5,739 pupils. Marines Land On Iwo Jima; Secure Beachheads # U. S. Pacific Fleet Headquar ters Guam- -iAP)—American Mar ines. carrying the Pacific war to Japans very doorstep with an am phibious landing on low .lima, era dicated Japanese defenders from their pillboxes with flame throwers as they seceured beachheads on 'he samll but strategic island only 750 miles south of Tokyo. The Yanks swarming ashore in hundreds of landing boats after three days of thunderous warship bombardment, engaged, enemy in stiff battles with carrier planes and land based bombers furnish ing close support. 7.000 Americans Freed © Manila- 'AP'- Manila Bay was all but back in American hands Monday but in the city itself, some 7,000 civilians were released in a now dramatic rescue, while 1 ha Japanese still clung grimly to the walled Intramuros section. The Navy's Seventh Fleet warships steamed to the entrance of the bay to bombard Japananese forc es on the Cavite Shore. Gen. Mac Arthur disclosed in a communique. He also reported mopping up pro gress on Corregidor. Fortresses Raid Japan Washington — (AP>—Approxi mately 100 Superfortresses raided Japan yesterday. Japanese Imperial Headquarters said, most of them striking at the Tokyo area in the wake of a two-day bombardment by Carrier Aircraft. The broadcast of the enemy communique, recored by the FCC. claimed ten Haiders were shot down. Canadians Advance On Duisburg; Scots Capture Road Center 0 Paris — — Kilted Scots fought into the center of the heav ily fortified road center of Goch Monday as Canadian First Army advanced to within 25 miles of Duisburg, world's largest inland port and western portal of the rich Ruhr Arsenal. Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., widened his U. S. Third Army front in western Germany to 32 miles, and farther south the Sev enth Army fought back two miles into the German Saar Basin. American First and Ninth Armi es still were inactive. Russsians Near Berlin 0 London—(AP)—Russian troops grounded out new gains within 16 miles of the industrial city of Goer litz on the road to Dresden today and edged nearer Berlin from the southeast after capturing six way Rail Centers in Sagan in a bloody two day fight. Other Russian troops advancing toward Danzig broke into the out skirts of the Vistuala River strong hold of Grudziadz. city of 50.000 which is 57 miles from the Baltic port. New Prisoner Of War Camp Will Be Opened In North Carolina 0 Wilmington, — A new prisoner of war camp is expected to be op ened at Whiteville soon with a complement of from 250 to 300 German prisoners, Lt. R. H. Hazel, officer in charge of the camp at the old Marine hospital, said to day. He explained that approximate ly 100 of the men would work on the tobacco farms in the White ville vicinity. "Lightening the load on the Wilmington camp a whole lot. " Lieutenant Hazel said that he had been informed that no more barracks would be furnished the local camp, but a mess hall, badly needed, might be made available. He disclosed that there was a pos sibility that he might be able to house more prisoners during the summer months by use of tents. Referendum After War Provided in Measure Presented in Senate # Raleigh—AP—A bill to make the state bone dry in the event prohibitionists carry a referendum to be held six months after the war has been introduced in the Senate. Alcohol, brandy, whiskey, ru:n. gin. beer. ale. porter wine or any other beverage having more than one-half of one per cent alcoholic content would bp outlawed. Nor could they be advertised. The 4,000-word bill was intro duced by Senators Rose of Cum berland. Mathenv of Ruthp'-fV Wither* cf C'b w laiid. Ilea.,.. . ... Robeson and Edncy of Madison. "This article." said the bill, "shall bo liberally construed to the end that the use of intoxicating liquor as a beverage may be 'pre vented." Liquor for non-beverage purposes and sacramental wines are exempt. Possession of liquor would be prima facie evidence that it is for sale, unless a person has it in his own home for his own use or that of his bona fide guests. Any person transferring such beverage would be liable to have it and his vehicle seized. The liquor would the!, be destroyed and the vehicle sold. Nor could liquor be kept in clu brooms. The first conviction of manufac turing liquor would be a misde meanor, punishable in the court's discretion, and the second would be classed as a felony, punishable by imprisonment of from four months to five years. Violations of other sections of the bill would be considered mis demeanors, punishable in the court's discretion. Should the people vote for a dry state after the scyvicemen and women come home, provisions of the law would go into effect 30 days later. "The governor of North Caro lina shall find and determine the date on which hostilities in the present war between the Allies and the Axis powers shall cease." the bill read, "and shall then call said election at a date to be named bv him. which shall be at least six months after the date of cessation of hostilities, as determined by the Governor, and he shall issue his proclamation, stating the date of cessation of hostilities, and the date on which said election is to be held, and such action shall have the effect of fixing the date of such election, and shall be conclusive as to said dates." The referendum would be held under the general election laws. Benefit Card Party For Red Cross to Be Held at Midway 0 The Woman's Club of Midway Park will sponsor a benefit card party in the Community Building at Midway Park Friday evening, March 2 at 8:00 o'clock. Handsome prizes, generously do nated by Onslow County mer chants, will be awarded through out the evening, and if or high score for men and women. Committees in charge of this affair are: Mrs. W. C. Edison, chairman: Mrs. Paul O. DeRagon, ticket sales: Mrs. A. W. Gawthrop, entertainment: Mrs. Eduston Wil liams, refreshments; Mrs. K. T. Knight, door: Mrs. George Moore and Mrs. Philip Eisenman. decora tions: clean-up, Mrs. Floyd Suther land. Mrs. James A. Odom, president of the Woman's Club, announces that all receipts from ticket sales will be contributed to the Red Cross War Fund, expenses for the affair, including decorations, re freshments. tickets, etc., will be borne by the Woman's Club. Pfc. Edward M. Carter of Beulaville, Reported Wounded in Action Q Pfc. Edward >1. Carter of Rculaville lias been reported by the War Department to have been wounded in action in Europe. Ilis wife. Mrs. Myrtle S. Carter has previ ously been notified. Mrs. Hilda Rawls Succumbs,- Funeral Services Conducted 0 Airs. Hilda Stanley Rawls, well known local woman, died at her home here Saturday morning after having been unconscious for 65 days. Death was the result of car bon monoxide poisoning. Fun-era! services were held from the home Sunday afternoon by Rev. L. Grady Burgiss, pastor of First Baptist church, and burial was in the Jacksonville cemetery. •Mrs. Rawls was 23 years old. She is survived by Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Stanley: her parents, three broth ers. Pfc. John Stanley. U. S. Army, stationed in Texas. Pvt. Mitchell Stanley. U. S. Army in France. Les lie Stanley of Clinton: and one sis ter, Mrs. Fst-olle Silence of Jack sonville. Mrs. Rawls was asphyxiated in an automobile on December 14. and was taken to the Ons'ow County hospital where she remained until January 20. when she was taken home- She never regained consci ousness. Higher Oyster Taxes Proposed in Bill Offered in Assembly fit Two state-wide measures afTect in residents of Onslow County were introduced last week in ! lie North Carolina General Assembly. One would change the fees for licenses of oyster boats, boats us ing purs:' seins or shirred nets, and for various other fishing appli increase from $2.50 to $5.00 - • s ' on '•nniiii"' pack ing. shucking and shipping oysters, escallops, clams, crabs fish and shrimp, change the purchase tax on various types of sea food, and remove clam- from the lisl of foods no' taxed when taken from private beds, increase the license tax on trawl boats, increase the tax on non-resident menhaden boats and tax the purse seins on such boats. The other would make any per son, "not being the bona fide owner thereof who shall enter upon the land of another.'' and cut remove or injure any valuable wood or timber, liable to the owner for double damages, and if such act is wrongfullv and wilfully done, additional punitive damages would be allowed. Thev were introduced by Sena tor Hampton and Rep. Whitfield respectively. Hoiiy Ridge Rotary Club Fleets New Members At Regular Meeting £ The Rotary Club of Holly Ridge elected three new members at their regular meeting Tuesday, Feb. 13th. Allen B. West fills the classification of laundryman; James Porter Ward, public safety: and Dewey D. Justice, kindred fishing industry. Dave Cohen proposed that road markers reading '"Welcome to Holly Ridge and Camp Davis" be put on U. S. No. 17 Highway at both entrances to Holly Ridge, and the committee composed of Col. Potts, Harold Jones and Dave Cohen are seeing that this is done. Haywood Campbell, president of the club, reported that the Rotary sponsored infantile paralysis drive in Holly Ridge and vicinity in spite of the diminished population the amount to date being $1.77.69. Special credit is due to the work of L. D. Brinkley who assisted the Rotary Club, and Julius Seger man, chairman, and Harold Jones. Guests. Major Donald S. Joyce, Major Geo. C. Burns and Lt. L. A. Miller, all of them of the present air forces and station complement gave brief talks outlining the pro posed reactivating and hospitaliza tion program now starting in the camp. Mr. F. P. O'Croley gave a very interesting talk explaining to the new command that this entire Wilmington-Holly Ridge area was geared to accommodate the larg? influx of returnees expected from overseas duty. A party was planned for officei and enlisted personnel to attend : wrestling match in Wilmington Friday night and the Rotary Civil obtained 32 tickets for our new army residents. Mr. O'Croley ad vised that the military affairs com mittee of Wilmington would be hosts for all before the event. CARDINALS RECEIVE I.ID 0The Jacksonville Cardinals have recently received an invitation 1o participate in the Kinston tour nament. They will play Vancebort there on February 28 at 8:30 p.m. PROMOTED TO SERGEANT # .1 R. Pittman, son of Mrs. Jerry Pittman of Jacksonville, route two. has been promoted to sergeant ir the army. He is now in Europe. Pvt. Wesley Morton Awarded Decoration For Actual Combat © •' • • • i the Fifth Army. Italy— I'; i! c \\"eslc\ Morton. whos:1 brother. Jesse Morton, lives on Ron!e L!. -Jacksonville. N. has been ciied by the Sfilst Infantry Regiment of the 91st "Powder River' Division and awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge for act u a 1 participation in combat again.-t the enemy with the Fifth Army in Italy. Standards for (lie badge are high The decoration is awarded to the infantry soldier who has proved his fighting ability in com bat. The handsome badge consists of a silver rifle set against a back ground of infantry blue, enclosed in 'i silver wreath. Pv;. Morton was wounded in 'he I! iitan rampaign on September la-i year and has been also awa-d ed the Purple Heart. Heien Bryan Named New Presidenl of Alpha Kappa De!ta • Miss Helen Bryan of Jackson ville is one of the thirteen seniors, attaining the highest honor as u:ii radua• cs in the field of sociology at Ii. • Woman's College and has been i-. -Jailed as a mcm b. - of Alpha Kappa Delta, honor ary fra'crnuy whose purpose i- lo s;.tale ami promote SOcU)IOg\ . Prerequisites for membei ;hip are a high scholastic average and approval by a chap'er comminee the UnivvrsMy o:' North Caro lina, Chapei !11!! During an initia tion program Glenn R. .Johnson, head of the -laiology department, spoke on the background and se" up of the organization. From this group the following officers were selected: president. Miss Bryan: vice president. Mi i'elk: and secretary-treasurer, Miss Katzenberg. An Explanation a An explanation— On January 26, the Now-, ;.nd Views published the following story in its columns: "The town of Ilollv Ridge is in a quandry! One member of l no Board has moved away: :i second member, Julius Sigerman. has re signed: and a third. John Smiths •••. will leave sometime next wcel*. ac cording to reports received from ;!iat town. •"This will leave just the mayor and one member of the Board active. "One citizen this week requested • ruling from Attorney General Harry McMullan. as to how the town should proceed in order to operate legally." in the February fi is-ue. tho Xews and Views published this letter: "Holly Ridge, X. (\. "January 31, 1945 'Dear Mr. Arthur: "For your information, the Town < !' Holly Ridge has been function . lg in harmony since July and lias ad five commissioners: J W. Smithson, E. F. Sanders. X. 11. Mo .:inos. \V. II. Dyson. J. J. Segerman ,nd Mayor L. K. Coleburn. The \acancies caused by the resignation tif Commissioners Dyson and Seg erman have been filled for some me by the appointment of Allen II. Stafford and C. Bruce Hunter io serve the unexpired term until he next municipal election. "In the future, please avoid pub lishing any false and ridiculous ,-latements made by someone, whr in my estimation, is not reliable and truthful in his statements. Tim is a true and bona fide letter am ran be proven by the Town Com missioncjjs whose names appea above. "N. H. Modinos, "Commissioner." For the information of the New and Views readers. Mien II. Staff "rd was sworn into office durin the week of February fi. and ( Bruce Iluntei was sworn into ot fice on Tuesday night. February i: Cpl. James Blizzard of Beulaville, Reporied Wounded in Europe 0 Cpl. .Tames Blizzard of Beu laville has been wounded in action in the European theater according to- word received re cently by his mother. Mrs. Ad die I). Blizzard of Beulaville from the War Department. 11 Persons Arrested On Whiskey Violations Protests of Local Clubs and Persons Answered by Arthur f A letter to local parties and organizations in answer to tlicit protests against passage of a law which would have made discretion ary revocation of driving licenses on first connection was released last week by Rep. Biilv Arthur. The letter follows: "I have purposely waited to make answer to the action of the Kiwanis Club and the Woman's Club with regard to their opposi tion to a bill introduced by Rep resentative White of Chowan and signed by me and others, because of the misunderstanding thai has arisen only in Jacksonville about the measure. "This measure was a sincere ef fort, and a good one too. to prevent drunken driving on the highways. I fear that the purposeful mis leading statements, both editorial and news, which appeared in The News and Observer, were the cause of it. That newspaper has appar ently. in the opinion of the major ily of the legislators, endeavored to impose its editorial inconsisten cies upon the people of Eastern North Carolina, and r am sorry to have to make this charge. "The bill that came before the House would have made it possible to revoke a man's license on a first offense for a period of time, or not at all, In the discretion of the judge, depending upon the degree of drunkedness. and to be revoked upon a second offense would have been mandatory. As the law now stands, and the one we were trying to amend, the person is not always tried for drunken driving although that was the charge on which he was arrested. It has become throughout the State a political football wherein prominent people appeal to the solicitor of the courts and the solicitor pleads them guilty and careless driving and the judge imposes sentence in keeping with the charge and the men continue to operate their rno !',VTS'2cnl and vico President, „ ' A' E.vin of Onslow countv. n t .1 v 0 countv and C. S. Dixon of Greene county. C 'net attention of the meeting was devoted to the annual report "t the secretary-treasurer showing '".ms io approximately ],000 bor tot-iw'" lhc t.e,Tit0,'5' loans tolling approximately $1,200 000 It was shown that .-. good number o^ loans had been liquidated dur ,rB«, e,'?ast.ycar- lhat being one of the objectives of the association. The report stressed the impor ance of securing new loans that tile association may prove of maxi mum benefit to tile farmers of this territory. It was pointed out that an of the farmers of the territory should take advantage of the op portunity to secure loans when needed through the Federal Land Bank and the National Farm I.oan Association, and the advantages are a long period to pay and the opportunity to repay the loans at. any lime and end the payment of interest whenever payment is made. The loans, it was said may be repaid in full or in part with he same advantage of ending in terest and without extra charge President Moseloy presided over the meeting Wdnesda.v morning. Three More Stills Seized During Past Week in Nine Mile and Belgrade Sections 0 Deputies Sheriff James Likens and Willis Johnson, last Monday seized two stills in the Nine Mile section. One of the stills was in operation and the other had been used just previous to the seizure. Both were of the 50 gallon gaso line drum type and at one, six 50 gallon barrels were destroyed while at the other two 50 gallon barrels were destroyed. Late Thursday afternoon De puties Likens and Johnson seized a still in the Belgrade section which they said must have been in opera.ion just prior to the seizure, that contained 13 50 gat. drums. This still was the steam rig type. No arrests were made. Col. Lewis B. Puller Given New Command At Camp Lejeune § Camp Lejeune.—Col. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, colorful Marino hero and only officer in the corps to have been awarded four Navy Crosses, has been named command ing officer of the infantry training regiment at Camp Lejeune. Colonel Puller, recently return ed from three campaigns in the Pa cific, took over active command this week to follow Col. William N. MeKelvy. Jr.. veteran of the First Marine Division, who has been as signed as CO of the Specialist Training Command at this camp.