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VOL. VII, NO. 67
JACKSONVILLE, N. C., TI KSIUY. MARCH 0. 19-15
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WITH
BILLY ARTHUR
0 Raleigh—They were doing a lot
of arguing in the House the other
day about passage of the pharma
cists bill. And Rep. Peele of
Washington county said that the
measure should be passed because
the druggists make a definite con
tribution lo the health of the state.
"The druggist is the man who
corrects the dotors* mistakes." he
declared.
What lie missed saying was that
when the druggists don't correct
them, the undertakers bury 'em.
* *
0Rep. Sellers of Alamance obser
ved that he had received a letter
from a Hurlington drug .store which
listed cameras, soft drinks, alarm
clocks, notions, stationery, maga
zines and sandwiches on its letter
head.
"Far in the rear of the store."
he said, 'is a little cage and back
of it stands a white coated person.
If it wasn't for that, you wouldn't
know when you were in a drug
store." Sellers said.
£The tables wore turned on Gov
ernor Cherry the other day. When
he was Speaker of the House, ev
ery time the Governor would come
to address a joint session. Gregg
would answer the sergeant at arms'
notice that the governor was pres
ent by saying. "Let him approach."
Sergeant-at-arms H. L. Joyner
told the House and Senate Tues
day that the Governor was ready
to address the joint session.
"Let him approach," declared
Lieut. Gov. L. Y. Ballentine.
Gregg had had it put right back
at him. He grinned and bore it.
Q Rep. Bob Gantt of Durham—
he's the father of the celebrated
Duke football player—spoke in fav
or of the oral hygiene bill which
would admit women dentists to the
practice.
"In fact." he declared. "I'd much
prefer to have a woman working
in my mouth than a man."
# Rep. Oscar Barker of Durham
and I were walking down the street
the other morning and bumped into
one of the ladies who works in the
House clerk's office.
"Don't you need some Kleenex?"
she asked.
I was slow on the up-pick and
said I didn't, but in no uncertain
terms she corrected my impression,
and I went into Eckerds and bought
her some—one to a customer, you
now. Oscar did, too.
From there all the way to the
apitol—two blocks—every woman
we passed eyed us as if we had
something very rare, and then ask
ed. without any display of modesty
or fear, "Whcre'd you get the Klee
nex?"
So Oscar and I told them all
where they could get it. that there
was nlcnt.v left, and the gals picked
up their steps and moved in the
direction of the store. We almost
emptied the capitol of all women
employees when we tolrl them. too.
0Governor Cherry spoke to the
joint session on the hospital and
medical care bill the other day. He
said he wanted it passed with an
appropriation with which one could
really accomplish something. But,
he said, taking the appropriation
for the anticipated surplus at the
end of the fiscal year must in no
way jeopardize payment of emer
gency salaries to teachers anH state
employees. He was emphatic in
both declarations.
Looks like Gregg was accentua
# When the vote on the proposed
constitutional amendment permit
ting women to serve on juries was
taken in Lie Mouse the other day.
Rep. Gantt arose to explain his
vote:
• I may be losing my nerve. I
think this is a bad bill, but under
coercion I vote ave."
0 Reading Clerk Ralph Mongol*
probably attracts more attention
than any other person in the House,
save Speaker Oscar Richardson.
With his sing-song tobacco auc
tioneering chant Ralph captivates
visitors to the House chamber when
he reads captions of bills. Although
visitors arc probably confused.
House members know what he's
saying .... or supposed to be
saying . . . and Ralph does speak
and read distinctly when the sub
ject matter is to be broadcast.
The other day he was reading
the announcements, and of course
everyone was listening. It wasn't he
but the way the announcement
was perpared and handed to him.
together with the attention being
focused on the reading clerk, that
made the situation so amusing.
"The committee on banks and
banking." Ralph yelled very clearly,
"will meet immediately after the
session around Rep. Taylor's seat."
#Rep. Gantt says he thinks that
1 demoralize that section of the
House in which sit he, Cousin Way
land. Frank Taylor, Bob Bender
et als, and that he's going to move
that the Legislature vote nie one
third more salary and send me
home immediately.
I'll concur in that.
>The boys around the Sir Walter
ually sit up nights until the first
Jitiori of the News and Observer
comes ofF the press. Then, they
make purchase and retire to their
rooms to find out what the editor
ial page is wrong about this time.
The other evening I was late
getting around to buy one. and
they were sold out; so I started to
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Pvt. Mike G. Thomas, Beulaville,
Reported Killed In German Action
Q Pvt. Mike G. Thomas, son
of Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Thomas
of Beulaville, was killed in
action in Germany February
17, according to word received
by his parents. Private Thom
as entered service August 24,
1944. He had been in active
combat about three weeks at
the time of his death. Surviv
ing with his parents are the
following brothers and sisters,
Frank Thomas. U. S. Navy.
Bonnie Thomas of Warsaw,
Robin Thomas of Beulaville,
Mrs. Flavius Danley and Mrs.
Eugene Whaley, both of the
home.
Conference Held on
Oil for Use In
Tobacco Curing
0 Washington—AP—Seeking clar
ification of government policy re
garding the allocation of oil to
farmers for tobacco-curing pur
poses, R. Flake Shaw of Greens
boro. head of the North Carolina
Farm Bureau Federation, confer
red Tuesday with OP A officials.
After the conference, Shaw dis
closed that all farmers who have
not displaced modern curing
plants, such as automobile coal
furances, in .prder to install oil
burning plants, will be allowed
oil this summer.
Because oil burning plants are
labor-saving, every effort will be
made to get oil to farmers using
them. Farmers who have torn
down wood-burning furnaces to in
stall oil burning equipment will
be provided oil. he said.
Shaw made his trip in an at
tempt to clarify conflicting state
ments on this matter by OPA and
Petroleum Administration for War
officials. OPA will send a clarify
ing statement to district offices.
While here. Shaw also conferred
with OPA officials in an attack on
this year's watermelon ceiling,
which is $206 per thousand melons
as compared to $337 last year.
Shaw pointed out that last year
North Carolina producers did not
even average a price as high as
the lower ceiling.
Beacu.10 Southern states with
earlier crops had sold their melons
at the higher ceiling and by the
time North Carolina melons were
ready the price had dropped.
Don Mattheson of the Depart
ment of Agriculture appeared at
the conference to support Shaw's
assertions about the prices ieceiv
ed in the State last year.
Bayshore Estates Residents
Will Register and
Vole in Second Ward
£ Bayshore Estates residents who
will be eligible to vote in Jackson
ville's forthcoming town primary
will register and cast their ballots
in the second ward, according to
provisions of a bill introduced in
the House of Representatives at
Raleigh by Rep. Billy Arthur last
week.
Putting Bayshore Estates and the
newly acquired properly in the li
mits of the town of Jacksonville
and then in the second ward will
make that voting division one of
the largest in the town. The first
ward which takes in Ovcrbrook is
likewise a large ward, but until the
registration is held it will be im
possible to state which has the
most eligible voters.
The bill was given a favorable
report by the committee on coun
ties. cities and the towns Wednes
day and passed the House Friday.
It now goes to the Senate.
ACCEPTS NEW JOB
®Kinston. March 5—G. Eddie
Jackson, former supervisor of the
Hofmann Forest, who has been
cruisine and buying timber for the
Ilines Brothers' Lumber Company
here for the past year, will take
over his work as forester for the
J. Herbert Bate. Inc.. firm on
March 5. establishing headquarters
at Washington, N. C.. if was an
nounced here today. Jackson, a
forestry graduate of State Coli"ge
in the Class of 1935. came to Kin
ston from the Hofmann Forest last
March (J. and he said he had en
joyed his stay here, but felt he
should accept the new work, which
is a promotion.
REVENUE UP
Greensboro—AP—North Caro
lina's Federal internal revenue col
lections for February totaled $60,
426,747.65. an increase of more
than $5,500,000 over collections
for February. 1944. Charles H.
Robertson. Collector of Internal
Revenue for the District of North
Carolina, revealed late today.
Collections for February last
year amounted to S55.881.570.04.
which was $4.545,177.61 less than
the total for last month.
During first eight months of the
fiscal year beginning July 1. 1944.
the State's collections totaled
$555,628,897.44. an increase of S1
868.706.38 over the collections for
the corresponding period of the
previous year.
Red Army Advance
Traps 200,000 Germans
% London—AP—Two Red Armies,
carving through Pomerania to the
Baltic sea. were reported yester
day to have trapped perhaps 200.
000 German troops in sensational
gains of up to 62 miles that
brought nearer the zero hour for
the Russian frontal assault on Ber
lin.
Soviet troops slashed to the coast
near Kolberg and Atkoeslin. 24
miles farther east. While other ar
mored units drove to within 14
miles of Stettin from the south—
triple advances that doom the
chance of a Nazi flanking attack
on the Berlin-bound Russian forces
massed along the Oder.
Americans Storm Cologne
% Paris—American tanks stormed
into Cologne yesterday, touching
off bitter street fighting, German
reports said.
Infantry of the Ninth Army cap
tured the Western approaches to
two Rhine bridges in the eross-riv
er suburbs of Duisburg in a vic
tory in which Romberg was taken.
In the south, the American
Third Army advanced up to three
and a half miles on a 30 mile front
between Pruem and Trier, captur
ing eight towns including Kopp,
47 miles West of Coblenz.
The Seventh Army cleared all
of Forsach, and fought into Stir
ing-Wendel and shelled SSarbru
ecken from mile and a half away.
German Planes Strike Britain
0 London —AP— Piloted German
planes struck at Britain early yes
terday in the first such blows since
last June 13.
The raids apparently were in re
sponse to Reichminister Goebbels'
plea for the Reich to summon the
last scrap of its staying power to
hold off disaster.
The explosions were heard in the
coastal region. Coastal anti-aircraft
guns fired at raiders racing in from
the North Sea over the Coast of
East Anglia. Some planes dropped
flares which were shot down
quickly.
Six German planes were shot
down early Sunday morning out of
the force—not considered large—
which hit at widely-separated
places in Northern and Eastern
England. One raider penetrated to
the London area.
Marines Hurl Back
Jap Counter-Attack
In Iwo Fighting
0 U. S. Pacific Fleet Headquar
ters. Guam—(AP)—Sturdy U. S.
Marines made limited gains in
northern Iwo Jima Sunday and
hurled back a Japanese counter
attack in which hundreds of
screaming Japanese were killed.
Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
announced today the enemy dead
numbered 12,864 as of (5 PM. Sat
urday, out of an estimated garri
son of 20,000. There were 81 pris
oners, the majority of whom were
Korean laborers.
Philippine Advances Made
% Manila — 'AP) — American
Doughboys pushed deeper today
into the mountains of northern Lu
zon. the reported headquarters
stronghold of Japanese Gen. Tom
oyuki Yamashita. as Gen. MacAr
thur disclosed that Filipino Guer
rillas had cleared the entire north
ern province of Nipponese troops.
Other Americans over came the
last Japanese resistance in Manila,
and continued their Eastward pres
sure to secure the city's water
supply area and occupied two more
Philippine Islands.
ENTERTAINED AT DINNER
#Mrs. A. M. Price, Miss Hathaway
Price, and Mrs. H. R. Lewis, en
tertained at dinner recently in
Swansboro. Their guests were:
Pfc. Elizabeth Collingham, Pfc.
Mary Woods, Pfc. Dorothy Klein,
Cpl. Anita Jones, Cpl. William B.
Cornelius and Mrs. John Murrill.
Incomplete Reports Show
Red Cross Collections
Are $1,246.05
# Unmistakable signs that the Red
Cross campaign is well underway
are tho increasing number of lapel
pins and window stickers which
are beginning to appear as the
campaign goes into its first full
week.
Although there were no com
plete returns available as of noon,
yesterday, many workers have
turned in partial reports in one or
two districts and it is expected
that this week end will bring in
many reports from those who really
started to work yesterday.
While tiie campaign is only six
days old. the special gifb com
mittee has turned in Sl.15fi.00:
Verona. $50.05; Folkstone, $19.75
and outlying Jacksonville. $21.25.
bringing the total of this first and
very incomplete report to $1,246.05.
North Carolina Puts
In Bid for Location
Of Rotary Headquarters
9 North Carolina put in its bid for
consideration as the location for
the headquarters of Rotary Inter
national yesterday when the Com
merce and Industry Division of the
State Department of Conservation
and Development extended an in
vitation to that organization.
For a number of years the organ
ization has considered the establish
ment of permanent headquarters,
and a special committee to study
the project was appointed by the
present l^otary administration.
Since Rotary fiitt was orgr.nized,
its headquarters have been in Chi
cago.
It is understood that several
communities in the State have put
in a bid for international head
quarters of the organization.
Rotary climbs are scattered
throughout the world, with a total
membership that runs into the
hundreds of thousands. Permanent
heflWquarters for Rotary would re
quire considerable space and em
ploy several hundred workers.
WOMAN'S CLUB MEETS
0 There will be a regular meeting
of the Jacksonville Woman's Club
on Thursday afternoon at four
o'clock at the USO Pine Lodge.
WHOLE BLOOD
0The Red Cross Elood Donor now
supplies whole blood to the armed
forces in addition to providing for
the plasma program. Whole blood
is flown immediately to the war
theaters. Plasma is derived from
whole blood and is an effective sub
stitute for it in giving blood trans
Pfc. Odell Jones,
Reported Missing,
Is German Prisoner
0 Pfc. Odell Jones, son of
Mrs. Snow Jones of Ma.vsville,
is a German prisoner of war.
accordihk to word received re
cently. He had been reported
missing in action since Decem
ber 17.
>Irs. Jones has received a
letter from him. written Jan
uary 2. 1945. in which the
Onslow prisoner wrote:
"I know you will be glad to
hear from me ! am well and
Retting along fine. I am asking
for food, smokes, candy, gum,
also cookies. You will have to
see Red Cross. Love. Odell."
Mrs. Lucy Hunnings,
Sister of Onslowan,
Passes at Kinston
# Kinston—Funeral services for
Mrs. Lucy Lorraine Hunnings. 46.
wife of C. E. Hunnings of 411 East.
Lenoir Avenue, who died in a local
hospital at 2 p.m. Saturday after a
lengthy illness was held from the
late residence at 3 p.m. Monday
with burial in West view Cemetery.
The Rev. Clifton T. Rice Free Will
Baptist, and the Rev. Edwin F.
Mosel.v, rector of Si. Marys Episco
pal Church, officiated.
Surviving are her husband: two
daughters, Launa and Lucille of
the home: one son. Thomas of the
home: two sisters, Mrs. W. I. Tlobbs
of Sneads Ferry and Mrs. L. T.
Howard of Warsaw, and a brother,
William Wells of Kinston.
Sgt. Sam H. Allison, Maysville,
Killed On European Front
0Sgt. Sam II. Allison, hus
band of Mrs. Mary Jo Allison
of Maysville, has been report
ed killed in action on the Euro
pean battlefronts.
BOARD MEETS TODAY #
#The regular monthly meeting of
the Onslow County Chapter. Amer
ican Red Cross. Board of Directors
will be held today at 3 p.m. at the
Federal USO Building.
Onslow in Second
Education District,
According to Bill
' Mcling to ;i iil introduced in
the (ii'iiiTii! Assembly las' week.
Op -' a Count\ v oiild be placed in
the second educational district of
the ;iie.
The districts, called for in a con
st;' unal amendment adopted by
the- people at last year's election,
will serve as basis for appointment
of members of the State Board of
Edu at ion.
In the district" with Onslow
Comity would be Brunswick. Car
tel Craven. Duplin. Greene,
Jo;.' -'on. Jones. Lenoir, New
Hanover. Pamlico. Pender, Samp
son and Wayne.
Mrs. Bertie Collins
Oi Near Jacksonville
Succumbs to Illness
f^"\!rs. Bertie Collins of near
Jacksonville, died at her home
Thursday afternoon after a long
illness.
Funeral services were held from
the home Friday afternoon at 3:00
p.m. \ ith the Rev. Pollard, Jack
son\ i!1 r< Primitive Baptist minister,
officiating. Interment followed im
med.a1 ely after in the family ceme
tery.
She is survived by her husband.
W. r. Collins; five sons, Charlie,
Ben.' • . Fred. Tom. and Ralph, all
of n ' :r Jacksonville: four dauj.i
ters. Miss Flla Collins of Mays
villi Airs Mary Kellum of Jack
sonville. Mrs. Gladys Jenkins of
Maysville and Mrs. Thclma llan
sley of Newport.
She is also survived by one sis
ter. Mrs. F. C. Cannon of Bear
Creek and four brothers, Ernest,
Jolmny. Kacler and Kouter. all of
near lacksonville.
CWO John T. King
Deiached, Will Go
On Overseas Duty
©('WO John T. King, win has
been at Camp Lejeune for the past
44 months, has been detached for
overseas duty, effective yesterday.
His departure leaves only two of
the original post command at the
base—Capt. Morris E. Miller and
CWO Warren Hinkle. Captain Mil
I.' is the oldest in point of .service
Camp Lejeune, Ilinkle next, and
King was third. All three have
he. i• and are now attached to the
quartermaster department.
They came to Onslow County
when the post command- then New
Kiver Marine Ba.se— was located at
Montford Point, and maintained
headquarters in cottages that were
former summer residences: and.
being such, the run^edness of Ma
rines in the cold of winter had to
be forcefully displayed.
Mrs. King, who has been work
in.: at the sales commissary at
Camp Lejeune. v\ ii 1 continue to
reside at Midway Park.
Aichie D. Shepard,
Chinquapin, Succumbs
To Long Illness
^ \rchie D. Shepard age 39 of
Chinquapin died early Sundav
)!':■ ning in Parrod's Hospital at
Ki'iston. lie had been in declining
health for two months and con
tra vied pneumonia form winch he
never recovered. He was buried
Monday afternoon in the Fountain
ce.ectery with i.ie Reverend David
ILoisley, Free W :!! Ba Hist minis
ter. and the Reverend W. Guv
• ... ^s. Primitive liapii-t minister,
of I eiating. lie survived by his
wife. Mrs. Viola Shepard. three
sicp-ehlidren, Mr... Clarence Br/:.,i
of Kichlands, Graham and 5-.
woi.d Fountain of the home, his fa
ther: Riley Shepard of Chinquapin
and the following brothers and
si.siiTs: Roland. Isaac and Posey
Sin pard. Mrs. Lee Baysden. Mrs.
Ji-rry Futrelle and Mrs. Dunnie
Wood of Chinquapin. Mrs. T. C.
luiwards, Alton Lanier and George
Shepard of Beaulaville. Stephen
Hiepard of Jacksonville. John,
Bur! and Ivey Shepard of Wilming
ton. Mrs. Bertie Matheny of Indiap
olis. Indiana and L. L. Shepard of
Detroit Michigan.
Telephone Rate Hike
Approved By Chamber
Mike J. Padgetl, Well
Known Farmer of Haws
Run, Passes al Home
0 .Mikv' J. Padgett, well known
farmer of Haws Run died Last
Thursday afternoon at his home
after a long illness.
Funeral services were held from
the home with the Rev. W. A. Wal
ton. Baptist minister of Maple Hill,
officiating. Interment followed in
the family cemetery.
lie is survived by his widow and
four children: Mrs. H. L. Raynor
and Mrs. H. C. Padgett of Maple
Mill. Mrs. Lloyd Gurganus of Rich
lands and Travis J. Padgett of
•Jacksonville. Thirteen grandchil
dren also survive.
Onslow County Making
Remarkable Progress in
Oyster Development
©Onslow County has made re
markable progress in development
of oyster culture, acording to Dr.
II. F. Prytherch, director of the U.
S. Biological station at Beaufort.
Speaking at a joint meeting of
the House of Representatives com
mittees on conservation and devel
opment. oysters and commercial
fisheries at Raleigh last week. Dr.
Prytherch said that leased oyster
bottoms and their development by
private capital are now producing
some of the finest, oysters available
on the Atlantic coast.
Dr. Prytherch pointed out that
Onslow County now has. because
of aciuisition of New River bottoms
by the Navy Department, a com
paratively small acreage of oyster
bottom land to be leased— approx
imately 8.000 acrcs. However, from
that small acreage, the proceeds
from the sale of oysters more than
doubled those resulting from Hie
sale of oysters taken from public
grounds, it was estimated. And the
public grounds are more than dou
ble the privately owned leases.
The director of the biological
station is now trying to encourage
the U. S. Marine corps and the
Navy Department to promote the
culture of oysters on New River
bottoms which adjoin Camp Le
jeune.
Jacksonville Senior
Class to Present
Play on March 16
6) .Jacksonville high school Senior
Class will give a play on Friday.
March 16. at 8:00 p.m.. entitled.
"Mama's Baby Boy."
The characters are as follows:
Frances Green. Johnny Peacock,
(lene Koonce. Candace Hatsell.
Doris Humphrey. Headrick Phil
lips. Carolyn Fields. Mona Chad
wick. Carol Morton, and Enid
Pet te way.
ANY EXTRA TOWELS?
$ At the recent meeting of the
Women's Auxiliary of the Onslow
County Hospital, it was brought
out that a serious shortage of bath
towels was handicapping the staff.
Unable to obtain an immediate
supply, the Auxiliary was asked tc
help in the emergency and each
member pledged to contribute at
least one. if it had to come from
her own home supply.
Anyone who can spare a fail
sized turkish towel from her home
supply, please send it to Miss Wise
at the Hospital. She s;iys that al
though white is preferred, colored
towels will be most welcome tor
in this emergency.
Pcsial Receipis at
Jacksonville Office
Gain in February
0 !receipt-* at Jacksonville
post oilier in February showed a
je*:iin of S243.59 over the corres
pondinl; month of 1944. Postmaster
H. C. Warlick announced yester
day.
Receipts for the month amounted
lo S4.801.31 against S4.557.72 dur
ing the same period last year.
it was the second increase in as
many months of 1945. In January
this year stamp sales amounted to
$5,091.80. which represented a gain
of $992.73 over sales of S4.099.07
in January of last year.
Mrs. Jarvis T. Coman,
Mother of Local
Resident, Succumbs
# ATrs. Jarvis T. Coman. mother
of Mrs. T. New ton Cook of Jack
sonville. died at her home at Lake
Junaluska last Monday after hav
ing been ill since January 10. She
was 62 years of age.
Mrs. Coman had returned from
a Philadelphia hospital, where she
had been receiving treatment on
Saturday prior to tier death.
A life-long i^esicSent of Lake
Junaluska. Mrs. Coman was promi
nent in religious and social life of
the community, and a highly re
spected resident who wielded much
influence.
Funeral services were held at
Long's Chapel, Methodist Church,
at Lake Junaluska on Wednesday
morning, and burial followed in
the VVaynesville cemetery.
She is survived by her father,
Phileatus Howell of Stuart's Draft.
Va.: her husband of Lake Juna
luska: two daughters, Mrs. Cook
of Jacksonville and Mrs. Charles
L. Ferguson of Washington. D. C.:
one son. James If. Coman. member
of the State Highway Patrol sta
tioned at Sanford: and two sisters.
Miss Ethel Howell of Stuart's
Draft, and Mrs. Mauney of Bir
minham, Ala. and two brothers.
Ben and Paul Howell of Stuart's
Draft.
Colored Registrants
Go To Fort Bragg
For Army Induction
Q Colored registrants who left for
induction at Fort Bragg yesterday
were:
Nathaniel Leo Williams. Rich
lands: John Gordon Williams.
Sneads Ferry: .lames Madison
Mills. Richlands: Louis Henderson,
Jacksonville: Kdward Wallace Fon
ville, Jacksonville: Henry Willis
Parker. Jacksonville: Henry Cox.
Jr.. Camden. N. J.: Marvin Day
Everett. Sneads Ferry: Charles
Edward Parker. Richlands: William
Douglas Canady. Jacksonville:
Louis Guy. Jacksonville: George
David Dudley. Jacksonville: Char
lie Harold Parker. Richlands: Har
rison Sinclair Foy. Maysvillo: John
B. James. Jacksonville: and Bruce
Thompson. Jacksonville.
PROMOTED
#Sgt. Francis F. Dixon. USA.
was recently promoted to his pres
ent rank. lie received basic train
ing at Fort McClcllan. Ala., and
went overseas last September.
Since then he has served in five
counties and i< now with the Ninth
Army in Belgium. A resident of
Maysivllle, he is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. A. R. Dixon of New Bern.
Chamber Directors Oppose lemporary
Post Office North Of Bus Station
#Tlie Jacksonville Chamber of
Commerce yesterday released a Id
ler to Postal Inspector Robert
Overing at Kalcigh tor this district,
who was informed that the cham
bers board of directors was op
posed to the post office leasing
property north of the bus terminal.
The letter said that the board
"unanimously" opposed the pro
posal. and that the directors felt
that the present building was
"adequate to take care of the needs
of the community" for the time
being. That is. until a Federal
building could be erected in tin
town.
The board made no mention of
leasing property offered move
within what is now the center of
the town, and but confined its let
ter entirely to the offering north
of the bus terminal. That area,
the letter said, is undeveloped and
inconvenient to reach.
"At a meeting of the Board of
Directors of the Chamber of Com
merce, held February 23rd, 1945,
I was instructed to write you con
cerning the proposed change of the
Post Office location in the Town
of Jacksonville, North Carolina.
"We will endeavor to express
our views in connection with this
change.
"The Board voted unanimously
that until such time as the Federal
Government is willing to build a
Federal owned building in Jack
sonville. that present location and
building ar? adequate to take care
of our needs, as well as any tem
porary building you could acquire
elsewhere, and for this reason we
find it would save the taxpayers
money to use the present facilities.
"We are definitely opposed to the
location north of the Bus Station,
for the reason that it is an undevel
oped area, and very inconvenient
for the public to reach as during
the wet spells, the streets, being
of dirt, are almost impassable, also
the congestion around the Bus
Station and no sidewalks would
make it very inconvenient."
0 The Jacksonville Chamber of
Commerce Thursday night recom
ric ided to (lie State Utilities Com
mii-sion that the request of Ihe
L'a/olina Telephone and Telegraph
i-ompany for increased rates here
jc allowed.
The action of the chamber, how
?\er, came only after considerable
liscussion resulting from disclo
sure that the company has listed
1 property assessment for taxes
vithin the town of $30,000 against
i listing of $240,000 for the coun
v. and the membership of the
Chamber wanted to know how come.
The request of the CT&T, ap
proved by the chamber member
ship. sets forth the following
schedules:
Residential service—one party
'rom $2 to $2.35: two party from
51.50 to $1.75; multi-party from
>1.75 to $2.50.
Business service—one party from
53.25 to $4.00; two party from
52.75 to $3.50; and multi-party
'rom S2.25 to $2.00
The rates, according to the pro
posal of the telephone company,
vould be in line with those now
n effect in New Bern, Greenville,
lvinston and Wilmington, while
racksonville's present schedule is
n line with those now current
n Swansboro.
Without the granted increases,
he proposal stated, it would be im
possible for any extension of serv
ces here, particularly in the newly
leveloped portions of Jacksonville.
5. T. Me-eks, Jr.. local manager of
he telephone company, said that
engineers already have worked out
complete plans for extending serv
ces, but that final approval would
)e up to the War Production
3oard.
James Kalanzis inquired as to
he reason for the difference in
issesments in the town and coun
y. and was told that they were on
i wire mileage basis, and that
there natilrally was more com
pany mileage outside the town and
iVithin the county than within the
.own limits alone. Me maintained,
nowever. that the company's hold
igns in Jacksonville .surely amount
ed to more than the listed $30,000.
With further reference to tax
assessments. L. J. Katzin. chair
man of the post-war planning com
mittee. said that had been studied
with the hope that revenue might
be obtained to assure post-war de
velopment.
President E. J. Petteway ap
pointed a zoning committee com
posed of Billy Arthur. John D.
Warlick and C. V. Cheney, and the
group also went on record as being
determined to make every effort lo
get townspeople registered and out
to vote in the forthcoming town
election.
Cooperation of Camp Lejeune
authorities in making known store
hours in Jacksonville was promised
and a letter was read from Maj.
Gen. John Marston regarding ex
pansion of facilities for entertain
ing Negro service personnel in
Jacksonville. The matter was re
ferred to B J. Holleman's civic
and public affairs committee.
Deane C. Taylor, membership
committee chairman, reported 122
renewals and new memberships,
including two from Holly Ridge.
Two Jacksonville
Murines Meet on
Island in Pacific
§ Two Jacksonville young men
now in Hie Marine corps, have met
on a Pacific Island, according to
word received here this week.
Set. Robert Bartholomew, son of
TT. C.. Bartholomew who is employ
ed at .T. B. Pettewav and Son store,
has written his father that he and
Li. Tom Studdert, former News
and Views employee, have become
quite close friends.
By accident, they got together
and began reminiscing about North
Carolina, then the Eastern part of
the State, and finally hit at Jack
sonville.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
0 Special Lenten services will be
held at St. Anne's Episcopal Church
Friday evening, March 9th. at 8
o'clock, consisting of the second of
fice of instruction and sermon.
Sermon subject: "The Church and
the Inter-Racial Problem." Choir
practice immediately after the ser
vice.
Services next Sunday, March 11,
being the fourth Sunday in Lent,
are: Church School at 9:45 a.m..
morning prayer and sermon at 11
o'clock. Sermon subject: "The
Third Temptation."
Plans are about complete for the
"Thiree Hour" service on Good
Friday, March 30th, commencing
at 12 o'clock, noon, and ending
at 3 p.m. in commemoration of our
Lord's Cross and Passion. This
service will be conducted along the
same lines as last year, and is one
in cooperation with the Eastertide
program of services planned by the
Jacksonville Ministerial Associa
tion, details of which will be an
nounced later.