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THE ONSLOW COUNTY News and Views The News and Views Leads IB 4 ' t Paid Circulation Local Advertising ' 4"»s National Advertising Classified Advertising Onslow County Newt The Only Newspaper in the World That Gives a Whoop About Onslow County VOL. VII, NO. 73 JACKSONVILLE, N. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1945 PRICE $2.00 PER YEAR + Keep The Red Cross At His Side—and The Red Cross Is You ' DOWN EAST I WITH BILLY ARTHUR #lf there are three things Capt Ed Provost prefers to do above all else, they are: 1. Smoke cigars. 2. Play setback. 3. Win at setback. It was easy to determine Sunday what had happened—he had done all three the night before at a be lated birthday party in celebration of his 75th birthday, which came on March 18. His daughter, Mrs. O. L. Russ, gave him a party and invited in aii the boys—Tim Jones, Frank Smith, B. J. Holleman, At ticus Hatsell, Roy Cox, John Gur ganus and Mr. Rass himself. Only Rufus Gaddy was absent. So Brother Ed and Hatsell took on all comers and they won a total of 12 out of 13 games played. For high score and birthday award, Capt. Ed was presented with i box of very valuable cigars, and now ne's puffing and bloving. fDr. C. Sylvester Green, editor the Durham, N. C., Herald who spoke at the Chamber of Com merce dinner the other night, told a couple of good yarns that Til pass on. One of them concerned a girl going into a drug store with an idea of purchasing some green lip stick. When told they didn't have it and asked if red lipstick would n't do, she merely said she'd keep on looking for the green. The idea of green lipstick arous ed the interest 6f the clerk, and he wanted to know what in the world a woman would do with it. "I'll tell you," she replied, "to night I've got a date with a rail road engineer." 0The other story concerned the army sergeant who turned over a mule and cart to a private and sent him off to get some material. When the private failed to re turn at the appointed time, the sergeant hit the ceiling, and when, long hours later, he did get back, the top-kick was boiling mad "I've got a good reason for being late," the yardbird exolained. "1 was getting along all right until a chaplain asked me fo.* a ride, and after that that darned mule lidn't understand a single word I said." 0 Breakfasting in Raleigh last week with Mrs. I*eon Gray and Mrs. Bob Pinkston, I jestingly ordered "bacon and scwambled eggs." And Mrs. PirtkstOn almost fell out of her chair. I didn't get it until Mrs. Gray ^ vised that out on their street. . ) a was making a desperate effort I^ oreak up a seige of baby talk. 0 Farley Carney went Into Mr. Jones' fish house down at Swans boro the other day to borrow a sack, and he said he would bring it back. But Mr. Jones told him to keep it. "You're lying," Brother Jones said in effect. "Your inten tions are probably good, but your're not going to get back with that sack, and I know it; so keep it." From there Farley went to Larry Stanley's place and wanted to bor row something else, and Larry told him the same thing; so, now, Brother Carney maintains that he's going to stop work and start tell ing lies, because it appears to him that he can get along better that way. 0Meri Ferguson says there's one b»d thing about voting for me for mayor, and that is that one will lose at least half of his vote. He said that the folks ougnt to call me "the little flower", * violet, for instance. ,§One fish story leads to another, and the Ocracake yarn of th? mine sweeping 562-pound shark has moved Captain Jlmmle Guthrie, salty correspondent at iaolated Barker's Island for the Beaufort News, to wit and ale: "The boys (the other day) after reaching the scene (Lookout Hook) they hove to and found It to be a shark, pure and simple. "The boys being that kind who would not quit, harpooned it near the fore fln with a real lance used primarily for whaling . . . The lutle pilot boats were cleared for real action, . . . and well they were, for the whole hook was a light blaze with a whirl of salt water way up the air, the men cheering, the real •war was on in Cape Lookout Hook. "When 5 hours had past by, the greatest of all sea monsters was taken ashore, it proved to b; a shark 30 feet long, and the oil In its liver alone filled six kerosene barrels. Its teeth were two inches long, it could easily awailow a fish barrel and weigh 3 tons. "The same shark due to exer tion md fightinj?, excitement .Irr' so forth, gave birth to 6 small sharks, six feet In length " And then to rub the atorv In good, on the proud Orracokera, Cap'n Jlmmle remarks: "I bet that Ocracoke shark was one of those baby sharks that got away. They ought not to kill baby sharks.'' 0 Had I known what It would take to get the street improved in front of the Price, Koonce and Warn residences and the Newa and Views' building, I would have announced - mayor six montha ago. \ Iven Chief of Police W. B. Hurst i/ ilized what I waa thinking yea .rday morning when the bulldoter appeared on Court street and started grading and cleaning up a three-month old hole. "See what happens,' said he. "the minute you Ale for mayor we start fixing up your atrMt" • American Third Army Tanks Racing Through Broken German Plain Lines 0 Paris— (AP)— The American Third Army had closed within six miles of Frankfurt on the main yesterday and sent its tanks racing through broken German lines on the flat Central German Plains within 250 miles of Russian lines. The First Army to the north ex ploited another breaktnrough of decaying German defenses compar able to the victory at St. Lo, ad vancing three miles nearer Berlin over night from the Remagen-Bonn sector. The American Ninth Army ad vanced five miles deeper in Ruhr past Duisburg deepening its lower Rhine "front to at least ten miles. Russian Offensive Launched # London—(AP— A fourth Rus sian offensive has been launched toward Germany's southern moun tain redoubt, Berlin announced to day, and Moscow dispatches said the enemy has shifted divisions from Italy and the we>»f:n front to defend Vienna against a not too distant attack. Two Russian armies already had overrun four-fifths of Hungary be low the Danube and thev spear head was within 36 miles of the Austrian Border and 77 miles southwest of Vienna. Berlin broadcasts said new as saults had been sprung north of the Danube in Slovakia. TSgt. Willie E. Morton, Jacksonville, With Mars Task Force in Burma 0 General Sultan's Headquarters, Burma— T-Sgt. Willie E. Morton. Route No. 2, Jacksonville, N. C., is a member of the Mars Task Force fighting the Japs in Burma who have made a record for foot slog ging GI's in the father theaters of war to shoot at: Since February 1944, these in fantry men, the only American ground combat unit in action in Southeast Asia, have marched more than 1,000 miles over what is descirbed as some of the worst ter rain in the world, to drive the Japs out of North Burma and down to ward Lashio, starting point of the old Burma Road. The men, all originally volun teers with Maj. Gen Frank D. Merrill's Marauders, are now at tached to the 475th Infantry Regi ment, a unit of the Mars Task Force, commanded by Brig. Gen. John P. Willey, of Hampton, Va. Volunteering for service with the Marauders during the early stages of the North Burma campaign, they marched more than 700 miles in four months, much of it through trackless jungle and mountains. The final lap was a 20-day forced march over a 7,000 foot mountain, which brought them to the Myitky ina airstrip on May 17, 1944. Tliey attacked the strip the next day and then participated in the 78-day siege of the key city. Many of them marched into the city when it fell on August 4th. They had fought and licked the Japs during one of Burma's worst monsoon seasons. In November the men, now part of the newly constituted Mars Task Force, hit the road again. This time they marched more than 300 miles, going into action at Tonkwa in mid-Decemiber, and again ,a month later in Central Burma, where they caught the Japs in a surprise attack on the Burma Road itself. 30 miles below its junction with the Ledo Road. They were in action from January 19th to February 5th in a pUicer thrust that trapped more than 700 Japs fleeing south toward Lashio after American and Chinese troops had cleared the lifeline to China. The men participated in an ac tion that resulted in the capture of the Jap strongpoint of Loi Kang, a village 2,500 feet above the floor of the Hosi Valley, where the at tack started. After this engagement was over Gen. Willey made the following statement: "The Mars Task Force has cov ered the most hazardous terrain in Burma ever traversed by an Amer ican unit. A magnificent job of marching over rugged mountains, followed by an equally magnificent job of fighting. The morale is un believably high. They did, and are doing, a grand job and I feel very proud to oommand a unit of this caliore.' American Troops Reported "Attempting" Landings in Rijkuku Chain of Islands #Guam—(API—American troops, supported by intensive bombard ment from a large carrier-battle ship task force, are "attempting" landings on Okinawa group in the Rykuku chain, only 325 miles south of Kyushu in the Japanese homeland, the Domei News Agen cy reported without confirmation yesterday that an aerial bombard ment of several of the Ryukyu Is lands, including Okinawa itself, and of air bases in all of the south ern Japanese home islands of Ky ushu, Shikoku and Honshu, pre ceded the reported landings. 5 Jap War Plants Hit 0 Twenty First Bomber Command Headquarters, —(AP)—Five of Ja pan's big war industry plants in Nagoya were left wrecked bv Sun day's B-29 Demolition Raid. Bomb er command headquarters announ ced yesterday. Two Onslow County Men With Engineer Battalion In Po Valley in Italy 0 With The Fifth Army. Italy— Pvt. James R. Hardison of Sneads Ferry and Pvt. Clifton L. Leacraft of Swansboro. are members of the 387th Engineer Battalion which re cently has been operating a saw mill and a rock quarry in the Ser cfcio Valley near the Po plains of Italy. The outfit ha* also ben re pairing military highways feeding the Fifth Am y front. The 387\h lias harvested millions of dollars worth of crops on inun dated plantations in the United States, served in North Africa, le apired railway equipmant in Na ples, went ashore at Anzio on D Day, aided in construction of an airport at Nettuno, helped build up the supply base of Anzio, rescued sailors from a sinking ship, helped put the ports of Cititaveccnia, Or betello and Piombino into opera tion and rescued many timber bridges on the Arno River by open ing a dike when the river flooded. After being put asore at Oran. Northern Algeria, in April, 1943, the battalion laid oil pipes, built a quartermaster depot and filled 100,000 sandbags to be used at gas oline dumps. rne engineers landed .n naiy October 10, 1943 and spent three months opening a rail line and fill ing craters in the Naples area. Wading in on D Day, the men of the 387th spent the entire four months of the existence of the An zio beachhead unloading infantry and tank landing craft and build ing up the huge reservoirs of sup plies that enabled the Fifth Army to go to capture Rome without pause after the breakout from tne beachhead. They saw Anzio developed al most overnight from an obcsure resort village to the eighth-ranking military discharge port of the world, handling greater traffic than the port of London. When a German bomb hit an in coming infantry landing craft, the engineers ran to the sinking boat over a portable footbridge and eva cuated wounded sailors and cargo, while enamy artillery fire and bombs fell in the area. To enable themselves to main tain roads more efficiently, the men improvised a steamroller, the business end of which is mfde cf four wheels taken from a huge German gun carrier. They built a timber brdige at Civitavecchia and helped to oper ate bridge depots at Piombino and Orbetello to supply French find American engineer units. As the front advanced, they moved this equipment forward to Po^gibonsi, to the Arno River near Florence and to Fireenzuola. It was at ihe main bridge depot along the Arno River that the flood inundated their supply stocks, and the men paddled about in assault boats get ting whatever vfns needed to fill orders. Lieutnenant Colonel John T. Or tino, Seneca, Falls, New York, com mands the battalion. Pvt. Hardison is the brother of Nattie Hardison of Sneads Ferry and Pvt. Leacraft is the son of Mrs. Hager Leacraft of Swansboor. Holly Ridge Business Men Sponsor Ticket for Forthcoming Election 0 Twenty-five businessmen of the town of Holly Ridge met Friday night and nominated Heyward Campbell, local barber, formerly of iVhiteville, as a candidate for mayor in the forthcoming town election. Commissioners nominated by the group were J. J. Hudiburg. C. Bruce Hunter, John D. Jenkins, I.«on Sessoms anri E. D. Darrah This group is expected to have opposition from members of the present board and the present mayor, L. E. Coleburn. Present members of the board are John Smithson, N. H. Modinas, A. H. Stafford and Hunter. A. B. West presided at last week's meeting, and speeches were made by the nominees, declaring their intention to put Holly Ridge back on the map, and to cooperate with the churches, schools, civic organizations and Camp Davis au thorities in uplifting and deveJop iug the community. Pvt. Lewis Cowan, Jr., Wounded in Action Against Nazis March 2 #Pvt. Lewis W. Cowan, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Cowan of Jacksonville, was wounded in action in Germany on March 2, according: to word received from the War De partment Saturday. Pvt. Co wan, who has been in the Army only since last June, had been in four major en gagements prior to being wounded. Pfc. Cyrus W. Sheperd, Jacksonville, Awarded Infantry Combat Badge 0With the Fifth Army, Italy— Private First Class Cyrus W. Shepard, son of Mrs. Nellie P. Shepard. whose home is on Route 3. Jacksonville, N. C., has been cited by the Anti-Tank Battalion of the 10th "Mountaineer" Divi sion and awarded the Com jat In fantryman Badge for actual partici pation in combat against the enemy on the Fifth Army front 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. The handsome badge consists of silver rifle set against a back ground of infantry blue, enclosed in a silver wreath. Richlands Seniors Will Present Play Friday, April 6th ^ Richlands high school will pre sent its annual senior play. "Miss Jimmie", at the school auditorium on Friday night, April fi, at 8 c'clock. Members of the cast are Lucille Blizzard, Sara Alma Taylor, Dorothy Millis, Fraulein J2rman, Helen Brown, Cecil Hill, Warren Taylor, Jr., Eva Mae Padriek, and Ralph Gurganus. EPISCOPAL CHURCH 0 Eastertide services at St. Anne's Episcopal Church are as follows: Good Friday. March 30th, the "Three Hour" service, commemo rative of our Lord's Cross and Pas sion, commencing at 12 o'clock, noon, and ending at 3 p.m. Every one is cordially invited to attend, and may enter, leave, or return as they desire, but it is requested that they do so. as far as possible during the singing of a hymn. Easter Day. April 1st, Churc'.i School at 9:30 a.m., during which the children will present their Lenten Mite Box offering. At 10:30 celebration of the Holy Eucharist, with appropriate Easter music, and sermon by Chaplain Edgar L. Pen nington. CONDITION SERIOUS 0Roy Lasitter suffered a heait attack in a Norfolk hotel Friday. He was taken to Lee's Memorial hospital where his condition Sun day was reported by his office here to be serious. Mrs. Lasitter, whom he had gone to Norfolk to bring home: is with him. ABC STORE SALES 0 Sales at the Onslow County ABC store amounted to $59,500.15 during the month of February. NOW AT WILMINGTON #Sgt. Ousley L. Cooper, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Cooper of near Jacksonville, is now stationed at Blumenthal Field, Wilmington, N. C. He had been in Michigan. TO PLAY AT LEJEUNE • Chapel Hill—"Play-makers' Poly phonic Pastimes", a clever musical revue of the Gay Nineties which was written by Douglas Hume of the Carolina Playmakers' staff especially for presentation at serr vice camps in the State, will be given at Camp Lejeune theatre and hospital on April 2-3-4. 01n 1914 the United States placed an embargo on potatoes from all countries to prevent the importa tin of powdery scab. H Mrs. J. F. Starling Requests Leave as Welfare Dept. Head 0 Mrs. J. F. Starling, superinten dent of public welfare here since 1935. has requested a leave of ab sence. effective May 1. A suecssor is row being sought by the State Hoard of Public Wel fare. . Mrs. Starling came to Onslow County as Emergency Relief Ad ministrator and became welfare su perintendent when Onslow County later set up such a departm?ni, and since that time has served ably and well. Camp Davis Veterans Plan Recreational Tours Beginning This Week 0Plans are being made for educa tional and recreational tours for Air Corps men. now stationed at Camp Davis, the former anti-air craft center in Onslow County, re cently taken over by the air corps, as a rest camp after service over seas. 11 is understood that large squads of men will form the tours. From Southport, visits by boat will be made to Bald Head Island, owned by Frank O. Sherrill of Charlotte. Fishing trips will also be made, according to cians. The movement will likely begin this week, with visits to Orton Plantation Gardens on the Cape Fear River, eight miles above Southport. Owing to the unusually mild weather, the azaleas have come in full bloom a full three weeks earlier than usual. Easter Sunday will see the flowers at their best, witn the azalea flowers blending their beauty with that of hundreds of late-blooming camellia bu.shes. Tom Roach Leaves Camp Lejeune; Son Joins Coast Guard 0Tom Roach, senior civil service officer with the Puhlic Works De partment at Camp Lejeune. for the past two years, left yesterday for Washington for reassignment. He was accompanied as far as Norfolk by Tom Roach. Jr.. who ►yesterday enlisted in the U. S. Coast Guard. Both Mr. and Mrs. Roach were well-known in Jacksonville. Mr. Roach has been chairman of the board of governors at Midway Park. Miss Ella Downing Goes to Fayetteville As USO Director 0 Miss Ella Downing, who has been director of the local USO Travelers Aid for the past two and a half years, will leave Jacksonville on April 1, when she will become director of the USO Travelers Aid in Fayetteville. Mrs. Josephine Hull Burns, now director of the Hamlet USO Travelers Aid, will succeed Mi&s Downing. Mrs. Burns has bee l v/ith Travelers Aid for sometime, hav ing been director in Columbia, South Carolina, with the USO Staff with the Army on maneuveis in Tennessee, and was at Golds boro for a short time before that unit was closed. Mrs. Burns arrived in Jacksonville yesterday and will assume full charge of the agency on April 1. OFFICERS INSTALLED 0 Following the regular services at the Jacksonville Presbyterian Church Sunday, the following of ficers were installed in the Wom an's Auxiliary: Mrs. G. E. Maulrs by, president, Mrs. J. H. Waters, Mrs. A. V. Cowell, Mrs. Dan Bright, Mrs. J. J. Cole, Mrs. O. N. Washburn. Mrs. A. E. Aman, Mrs. Mrs. J. S. Walton, Mrs. A. H. Ryals, Mrs. W. H. Bodenhamer, Miss Elizabeth Smith and Mis. Dean Sullivan. Sgt. Cyrus Morton Reported Wounded While Serving in Philippines #Sgt. Cyrus Morton, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Morton of Route 1 Jacksonville, has been wounded in action while serv ing in the Philippines, accord ing to word received from the War Department duriug the week end. Sgt. Morton has been award ed the Purple Heart for his wounds. He is one of five sons of Mr. and Mrs. Morton who arc in the service. Two other sons are also in the Philippines and were thought to be near Cyrus at the time he received his wound. He has been hospitaliz ed somewhere in the Pacific area. Arthur And Askew Running For Mayor Petteway, Sparks To Open Restaurant In Henderson Bldg. 0 Elliott Petteway and DeWitt Sparks, local businessmen, have leased the Henderson building on Did Bridge street and will cpen a restaurant and club there in the immediate future. The building formerly housed Henderson Soda Shop and a bowl ing alley. According to tentative plans, a cafe will be operated on the ground floor while the bottom floor will be a restaurant on a club basis, requiring membership for admittance. The latter feature of the new enterprise, it is believed, will mee. a long-felt need for someplace-to go and something-to-do in Jackson ville. H. C. Riggs, Onslow AA* Chairman, Outlines Cotton Growers Protection #Tlic new Federal all-risk crop insurance program now being of fered Onslow County cotton grow ers is an important help in stabil izing the economy of communities, according to Herbert C. Kiggs, chairman of the 0'iiljw County AAA committee. "The new insurance program nut only offers individual growers pro tection against the unavoidable hazards to cotton growing, but helps to keep the community in a healthy condition as well," he dec lared. "We all remember the terrible droughts of 1934 and 1936. Many farmers were completely wiped out during these years, and those who managed to keep going had little or no crop to sell. As a result, they couldn't meet mortagage payments and other obligations. They could n't buy machinery, furniture, cloth ing, or other necessities. "Whole communities suffered from these crop losses," he added, "but with crop insurance it need n'r have happened. Crop insurance would have protected crop invest ments and would have absorbed the economic shock to the commu nities. The present program offers cot ton growers a choice of coverage of 50 or 75 per cent of their average farm yields, and protects against such unavoidable hazards to crops as drought, floods, storms, frost, wildlife, snow, excessive rainfall, hail, fire, lighting, wind, plant disease, winterkill, and insects. The insurance program is admin istered locally bv the AAA, and growers have until April 10, 1945 to apply. Carolina Coach Co. May Occupy Garage By Last Next Week £The huge modern garage now being erected here by the Carolina Coach company will be occupied probably the latter part ol next week. Opening of the garage will mean that full divisional operation faci lities will be located here perma nently. Six mechanics and their families will move here from Kinston in addition to a number of regular drivers and their fam ilies. Maintaining division operations here on a full scale was necessary in order that the company can institute through service from Jacksonville to Washington. D. C.. without change. That service will begin about April 15. Venton Moore Loses Sight of Righi Eye From Escaping Gas 0 Venton Moore, well-known civ il service employee at Camp Le jeune. probably suffered the lo'S of his right eye while working on a refrigerator motor at his homo at Midway Park Monday night • Sulphur dioxide gas in the re frigerator escaped and struck him in the face. The sight of his other eye is said to be impaired also. Moore came to Onslow County three years ago and operated a cafe across from Shady Oaks, on the New Bern highway. Lat-jr he went to work at Camp Lejeune as inspector for the Navy, and went over to civil service when the con tarct was completed. Ration Chairman Warns Motorists They Must Help Conserve Gasoline 0 Concurrent with its announce ment that A-15 gas coupons are valid from March 22 through June 21. G. E. Jackson, chairman of the War Price and Rationing Board again reminded motorists of the extreme need of conserving all gasoline possible. "With our war leaders stepping up offensive action on every front," said Board Chairman Jackson, "gasoline takes on more impor tance than ever as a war weapon. 1 One single raid on Japan. Berlin or other targets can consume a million gallons of gasoline—and we here at home have to see that the gas- ' oline is there to be used." Warning against buying or sell ing gasoline without coupons. Jackson announced: "The gasoline Black Marketer is not only cheat ing his neighbors of their fair ' share of scarce gasoline: but in effect he's draining it from the tanks of our pilots over enemy 1 targets." He also cautioned all motorists applying for supplemental B or C \ rations to be sure to bring their : mileage rationing record with their ' application. Those whose mileage records have been misplaced may secure duplicates from the local ; board, if they apply now. Mr. and Mrs. Clement Return to Home in Waterville, Maine #Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Cljmeut, who have been spending the winter in Jacksonville, left Friday to ic turn to their home at Waterville, Maine. Mr. and Mrs. Clement havr> been spending the winter months in Onslow County for years, staying each time with Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Marine. Until gasoline be came short three years ago, it was their custom to go from here to Florida to follow the big league baseball teams through spring training. Both Mr. and Mrs. Clement have taken an active part in the affairs of the town. Mrs. Clement is al ways active in the Woman's Club and the Methodist church, and this year distinguished herself during the Sixth War Loan drive by becoming Lieutenant General of the State of North Carolina. LUMBER CATCHES FIRE f A pile of lumber in the back yard of the Mrs. E. L. Cox residence caught fire from undetermined origin Thursday, but was extin guished by firemen before much damage was done. Onslow County Red Cross Drive Returns Over the Top With $26199.02 0 The Onslow County Rod Cross campaign for funds which has been underway since March 1. met and passed the county quota of $24,000.00 during the past i'ew days. E. J. Petteway, chairman of the drive, has expressed much satisfac tion with the results of the cam paign and with the work don?, both by civilian volunteers and the Marine personnel at Camp Le jeunc. "The drive is by no means over. Petteway said, and many people will still come forward, 1 feel sure, in the next and final few days of the drive. There are also several communities which are still incomplete in their reports and when the final tally is made. Ons low County should h:.ve really a fine showing." Petteway again pointed out the fine job that is being done at Camp Lejeune among the boys who really know und appreciate the value of Red Cross aid on the battlefront." Following is a breakdown in township participation as of noon, yesterday: Camp Lejeune $16,000.00 Jacksonville 7,140.85 Folkstone - - 50.75 Verona 7120 Maysville 40.30 Sneads Ferry . __ 305.60 Midway Park _ 80.60 Swansboro _ . 234.00 Swansboro (colored) 12.75 Silverdale 76.70 Holly Ridge 560.00 Hubert 117.20 Bear Creek 36.75 White Oak ... _ _ 47.00 Richlands 850.00 Piney Green (colored) _ . 5.00 Theater contributions 570.32 Grand Total .$26,199.02 0 Billy Arthur, editor and pub lisher of the News and Views, and Ramon Askew, owner of the Jack sonville Auto Sales, filed Friday as candidates for mayor in the Town of Jacksonville primary to be held next Tuesday, April 3. Two other candidates entered the primary seeking nomination as members of the Board of Town Commissioners—W. D. Aman from Ward 3 and J. C. Thompson from Ward 2. Aman is now a member of the board. Their entering the field made a total of nine candidates for the board and two for mayor. Th2 con tests now are as follows: For Mayor—Billy Arthur and Ramon Askew. For Commissioners—Ward 1: H. L. Cowell and Coleman Bynum; Ward 2: J. C. Collins. G. E. Maultsby and J. C. Thompson; Ward 3: B. J. Holleman and W. D. Aman; and Ward 4: Maurice Mar golis and Hedrick Aman. In announcing his candidacy for mayor, Arthur said: "My candidacy as mayor of the Town of Jacksonville was prompted by a desire to lend whatever as sistance is within my power and ability to build a town government that will keep pace wit'i the growth and development of our community. "With that in mind, I favor a general improvement of the town's Functions and services without any increase in taxes, and that includes, among other things, regular gar bage and trash collections in all sections of the community. "An immediate clean-up and :own beautification program cam paign. such as fostered by various ;ivic organizations here, would be launched immediately. "Streets in all sections of the .own should be improved and main lined in good condition; and that, :oo, without any increase in the :ax burden. "I favor also better cooperation A'ith authorities at Camp Lejeune, which is Onslow County's and Jacksonville's largest industry and which directly or indirectly af fects every citizen of the town and ;ounty. "If nominated and elected, I will lold regularly scheduled meetings the Town Board of Commis sioners. according to the provision :>f the town charter, and they will )e open to the public. Notice of special meetings will be given in advance, and there will absolutely ae no closed sessions. The public attendance and constructive criti cism will be invited. Minutes of :iic board meetings will be duly published after every session, and a financial statement will be pub lished at regular intervals. "In soliciting your vote and support in this all-important pri mary and election, I want it dis tinctly understood that I am the candidate of no particular faction or person, but that I was motivated by a personal desire to, at least, try to do something to improve our community." There are approximately 650 registered eligible voters of the lists, following the close of the registration period last Saturday. In all there are some 800 names on the books, but some of them are duplicates and some belong to per sons who have since moved The large registration was alto gether the results of intense ef forts on the part of the Jackson v lie Chamber of Commerce and Kiwanis club to make certain that the people of the town be register ed and vote in the forthcoming primary—next Tuesday, April 3. In announcing his candidacy, As kew said: "By request of a large number of citizens of Jacksonville, I was urg ed to enter the April 3 primary for mayor. I had no political ambitions, but rather the civic interest in the future growth and develop ment. of our town and a continued good relationship with the local military authorities from our near by camps. "If elected I will fulfill the of fice of mayor to the bes* of my abilities, and without pressure from any factional groups. I pro pose that there be a five-year pro gram mapped out by the citizens, mayor and council for a cleaner more progressive community." /^ballon Copper Still Is Destroyed; Two Men Arrested 4) A 75-gallon copper still and eight barrels of mash were de stroyed by sheriff's officers hack cf Overbrook Friday. Grover Fisher and Carl Hancock were arrested by officers when they came to the site while the officers were there. The two men will be given a hearing in Record er's Court. SPECK COWELL PROMOTED #A. V. (Speck) Cowell of Jack sonville has been promoted to technical sergeant in the Array. He is now stationed In £p£Und,
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