THE ONSLOW COUNTY _ News and Views Paid Circulation I f - /•k !! ! Local Advertising "u National Advertising ,»:'j,\ - Classified Advertising Onslow County News The Only Newspaper in the World That Gives a Whoop About Onslow Wuritg VOL. VII, NO. 80 JACKSONVILLE, N. C., FRIDAY, A PHIL 20,1945 PRICE $2.00 PER YEAR I DOWN EAST WITH • BILLY ARTHUR i §We persuaded two girls to slay with the children 'not mine, not the other night while we went out to dinner, and were explicit that we would be back in an hour"or just as soon as we finished. "Take your time," ore of them spoke up. "We're in no hurry. They're all playing bridge over at my house and get mad if we make any noise. So we'd rather be over here." 0And Bill Bondenhamer tells about the girl who said she charged 30c an hour to mind the baby be fore 12 midnight and 50c an hour after midnight. When he inquired why the dif ference, she explained, "Anyone's foolish enough to stay out after midnight is crazy enough to pay 50 an hour for minding the baby." 0 Buck Warren says the lower end of town ought to be pretty clean, because all the sand and dirt blows out of that section right by the post office and on up to the bus station and News and Views build ing. £Meri Ferguson refers to Ed Smith's shiner as his "Christmas eye." • Might as well repeat that any shade window two inches up from < the bottom is an invitation for a i he-man to look into. Folks whose 1 windows have the shades tightly 1 drawn have no trouble at all from ' peepers. j i 0 Sorry to have missed Hammond Koone's party Tuesday night. They say everything was fine, partic- | ularly Mrs. Koonce's pickles—and | that's what I go for. __ __ #The Camp Lejeune Globe offers this one this week: Old Time Mosquito (to young , mosquito): "And to think that when 1 was your age I could bite the girls only on the face and hands." / 0 During the recent campaigning for town offices. Mayor Clyde Sabiston sent back from Washing ton a telegram. It was really funny and a lot of us wondered where in the world he got the idea for it. Well, it's finally leaked out: It came off the stage of the Gayety Burlesque theatre which the mayor was attending. Vernon I. Thompson Of Richlands Passes ' Goldsboro Hospital Vernon T. Thompson. 35, Golds boro insurance agent, died at 11:55 Tuesday night in the Goldsboro Hospital following a short illness with rheumatic fever. He was as sistant district superintendent of the Gate City Life Insurance Co. Surviving are his wife; three chil dren, Kenneth. Roger, and Mary Thompson: his father, L. A. Thomp son of Richlands: two brothers, H. A. Thompson of Deep Run and K. D. Thompson of Jacksonville, and one sister, Mrs. A. B. Ervin of Richlands. Funeral services for the native of Richlands were conducted from Richlands Christian church yes terday afternoon by Dr. H. S. Hil ley, president of Atlantic Christian College at Wilson. Burial was in the family cemetery at the Thomp son homeplace. The deceased was a graduate of Richlands high school and a sec retarial school in Goldsboro. He had been associated with the Gate City company for the past 12 years. School Authorities Confer in Raleigh About Principalship % County and Jacksonville district school officials conferred Wednes day afternoon with state officials in Raleigh relative to securing a principal for local schools. Making the trip to Raleigh were A. H. Hatsell, superintendent of schools, G. W. Phillips and P. V. Capps. The conference was neces sitated by the resignation of A. B. Johnson, principal for the past two terms. The board was to have met again last night to consider applications for principal and teachers for the 1945-46 term. Sgt. Ralph Brinson Of Near Beulaville Is Killed In Action 9 Set. Ralph Brinaon, son of Mr*. G. T. Brinson of Beula ville, route 1, in action at « Inst the enemy In Europe, the War Depart ment has an nounced. Sit. Brlnson had been In Italy. He enter ed the Army February, 1944, and went over seas last Aufiut ^ liter receiving basic training at Fort Blandlng, FU. Mr. and Mrs. Brinson have another ton, Wayne Brinson, who is serving with the army in the Pacific. Three Morton Brothers in Service GEORGE A. MORTON. LESLIE MORTON. EMMITT H. MORTON. Three sons of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Morton of Jacksonville, Roul; 2, are serving in the armed forces. 1 Pfc. George A. Morton has been a prisoner of war in Germany since Dec. 17. Seaman Second Class \ Leslie Morton is receiving training at Bainbridge, Md. Pfc. Emmitt^H. Morton is with the First Army in Germany. ' Radio Station Head Sees No Reason FCC Should Turn Down Application 0 Louis N. Howard, one of the wners of the proposed broadcast ng station for Jacksonville, told he News and Views Tuesday that le saw no reason why the Federal Communications C o m m i s s i o n hould not approve the application or a transmitter here. The application of the Jackson ville Broadcasting Company for lermission to construct a new 250 /att standard broadcasting station lere was filed with the FCC in Vashington Monday, according to Associated Press reports to the «Iews and Views. The company is owned by L. N. ind Ellis Howard, both of New Jern. each of whom owns one luarter interest in station WIIIT there. Here on business. Howard said an option already had been taken by the firm on a building and ad jacent property for the studios and the transmission plant. The building is the new brick structure owned by George Howard on N. C. 24 and the property is owned by the E. L. Cox heirs in rear of that location. He added that he thought the commission would hand down a decision at least within 60 days. The Jacksonville Chamber of Conimtl ce eridorsed the efforts to locate a station here. It would be comparable to those in New Bern and in Kinston, Howard said. Leipzig Falls To Yanks; Russians Near Berlin 0 Paris—(AP)—"Leipzig has fallen o First Army troops. Other American troops Thursday lad smashed the last organized •esistance in the Ruhr, culminating jerhaps the greatest single vic :ory of the war. The Third Army was driving iown into Czechoslovakia within gunshot of Asch. after bisecting Germany geographically, and cut :ing routes into the Nazis' hide iway in the Bavarian Alps. Americans fought through the streets of Nuernberg, now virtually surrounded. The British reached the lower Slbe River, within 1G miles of Hamburg. Hit German Targets J) London—(AP)—600 U.S. Eighth Vir Force heavy bombers and 550 fighters attacked German railways n the Southern Reich and Czech jslovakia Thursday for the fourth successive day. British and Russian bombers hammered Berlin in re Lays a^ain Wednesday night. Reds Capture Towns O London —(AP)— Russian troops japtured Seelow and Wriezen and advanced to within 18 miles of the eastern limits of Berlin, the Trans 3cean Broadcast announced Thurs day. Reporting a series of deep pene trations of the four-day-old Russian offensive by 2,500,000 Soviet sol diers, the Berlin radio announce RECEIVES PROMOTION % Reuben Holt,' son of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Holt of Jacksonville, has been promoted to technical ser geant in the army at Fort Bland ing, Fla., where he is now stationed. 7,988 Casualties on Okinawa Reported; Mop-Up Continues 0Guam—(AP)—American Naval. Army and Marine casualties of 7.988 in the Okinawa light were reported by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Thursday, as U. S. Marines overran the northern end of that strategic island and Doughboys, virtually, ended the conquest of little Ie Islet offshore. The Yanks had a firm grasp on the 10-square-mile islet and were eradicating the Japanese from dug-in positions and pillboxes. In three days 388 Japanese were killed on Ie. Tired and dirty-faced Doughboys on Southern Okinawa still were trying to crack the tough "Little Seigfried Line", four miles north of the capital city of Maha, amid a bitter artillery exchange. Land on Mindanao 0 Manila—(AP)—A second Amer ican landing on Mindanao focused new attention Thursday on that second most important Philippine Island. The Yanks drove ashore Tuesday at Malabang and Parang on the east shore of lllana Bay. against light initial opposition, and grabbed 35 miles of the coast line. On Luzon, American troops con tinued a clean-up on the outskirts of Baguio. LIBRARY OPENED 0 A library was opened Monday in the Community Center of Pine Grove Trailer Park's "B" Village. Camp Davis PRO Explains Function Of Air Forces' Convalescent Center 0 The Army Air Forces redistri bution and convalscent center at Camp Davis is designed to take the returned airman's mind off combat and prepare him either for return to active duty or separation from the service. Lieut. Charles Moxey, public relations office, told the Jacksonville Kiwanis club at its weekly meeting at the USO Pine Lodge Tuesday afternoon. Likening a combat airman to a clock that's wound too tight. Lieu tenant Moxey, a man himself dec orated for heroism and meritorious service on numerous occasions, said the airman like the clock could break and be unfit forever or be unwound easily so that he would be in working condition again. To better fit the airman for fur ther duty or for a return to civilian life, the Camp Davis command of fers him rest, education, physio therapy, occupational guidance, studies and hobbies. Gradually he is guided away from the tenseness of combat back into his former ha bits and occupation. Lieutenant Moxey explained. All the cases at Camp Davis will be ambulatory, and no cases of mental disorders will be treated there, according to the speaker. Lieutenant Moxey's talk follow ed the club's going on record as doing what it can to have A. B. Johnson retained as principal of Jacksonville schools. Johnson rec ently tendered his resignation. The motion was made by Rev. Carl B. Craig and seconded by Rev. F. N. Cox. Action on the mo tion was opposed by Billy Arthur who contended that it was not in the Kiwanis club's authority to dic tate to the committee and that such action would be embarrassing both tb Johnson and a member of the committe who was present. His substitute motion that the mat ter go over unil the next meeting did not receive a second, and Craig's motion was passed by a few scattered ayes. There were no dis senting votes. Twenty-four Kiwanians respond ed to Reese B. Walter's invitation to attend the charter night pro gram of the recently organized club in Kinston tonight, and it was announced that the Kiwanians would attend services at the Pres byterian church Sunday morning as a part of the club's support of the churches in their spiritual aims. K. T. Knight, Jr., county chair man of the cancer control drive, asked all-out Kiwanian support in the campaign to meet Onslow's quota of $450, and President Ra mon Askew appointed Rev. Craig as chairman of Kiwanis education and G. E. Mualtsby as chairman of inter-club relations committees. Guests at the meeting were W. C. Bryan of Jacksonville, M. Mat fus of New York and Reese Wal ter of Kinston. J. J. Hudiburg Named Holly Ridge Rotary Club's President 0J. J. Hudiburg Tuesday was jlected president of the Holly *idge Rotary club for the 1945-46 fear. He will succeed Hey ward Campbell, who is now president. Other officers elected were Julius Segerman, vice-president; John D. Jenkins, treasurer; Leon Sessoms, secretary; Joe E. Tucker, sergeant-at-arms; and C. C. Hines and Heyward Campbell, directors. The elective officers also serve as directors. One new member, D. D. Darrah, -vas taken into the club, which nad as its program movies of St. Petersburg. Fla.. supplied by the club in that city. The club sent the following let ter to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt: 'Your dear husband and our friend has not left us. He shall be with us as living today. Yes, a guiding light for right; emulating all that our country stands for. •"We. little people, cry openly in sur mutual sorrow. But glory in the realization that his ideals shall carry throughout the ages of his tory. He symbolizes a beacon for all the world to follow. Right against might. "We marvel that one man can so sincerely do so much for the entire world. "Our thoughts go out to you. who we know helped in this full life of accomplishment. "Completely, sorrowfully, we cast our eyes to Heaven, in the hope that we too, shall have our sniall part in fulfilling that destiny towards which he directed us. As all the world has expressed their heartfelt thanks, let us idd, we know he was your sweetheart, and our friend." Script Dance Will Be Held Tonight Af Midway Park 0 A script dance will bo «held at the Midway Park Community build ing tonight from o p.m. to 12 mid night, the proceeds to go to the Cancer Control drive now under way in Onslow County and the state. The dance is sponsored by the Midway Park Woman's club, which is sponsoring the campaign in this county this month. An orchestra from Camp Lejeune will furnish the music. To further raise funds in the drive, the club will hold a bridge luncheon at the Community build ing next Wednesday afternoon at 1 o'clock. Reservations must be made in advance with Mrs. Paul DeRagon at 634 Butler Drive, South. Prizes will be awarded at bridge and rummy, and there will be a prize drawing also. The campaign got underway this week as the mail solicitation was started with members of the Mid way Park club, assisted by three members of the Jacksonville club, getting out the airmail stickers which are being sold to raise funds for cancer control. Mrs. G. B. Moser is county com mander, and K. T. Knight, Jr., is county chairman. Solicitation by a committee of the Jacksonville Woman's club was started in the business district Wednesday under the direction of Mrs. R. E. Smith, local chairman. She was assisted by Mrs. Ralph Caldwell, Mrs. J. C. Thompson. Mrs. L. R. Turner, and Mrs. Carl Hales. A house-to-house canvass will be conducted, starting Monday, Mrs. Smith said. General John Marston of Camp Lejeune and Capt. J. R. White, USN, of Camp Leejune and the Naval Hospital have given permis sion for "silent collectors"—recep tacles—to be placed about the base; and Maj. Mary Parks has granted permission for the W'R's to make canvasses of Trailer Park, Paradise Point and Midway Park residences. At Richlands. the Lions club will be in charge of the campaign, with E Steed in the lead. Pfc. Colon Raynor Of Holly Ridge Is Missing In Action 0 Pfc. Colon Rayonor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Rayonor of Holly Ridge, has been re ported missing f in action against the enemy in Europe, the War Department announ ced yesterday. Pfc. John T. Whaiey Of Near Rlchlands Wounded in Europe Q * fe. John T. Whaiey, son of Mrs. Annie Kinnon Whaiey of Rirhliinds, route two. has been •wounded in aetion against the Germans in Europe, according to a War Department an noujircment, this week. Edward Lee North And Jack North Are Injured in Wreck f A truck loaded with ice driven jy Edward Lee North of Rich lands ran off the highway, down in embankment in the Wooding :on section on the Richlands lighway Monday afternoon, in juring a brother, Jake North, whe was with him. Both men received treatment at a Kinston hospital. Edward Lee who suffered a broken leg and la erations, remained in the hospital The steering gear was thought tc have given way and caused the accidetn. Assislance Arranged In Onslow County For Returning Veterans f An agricultural advisory com mittee has been organized in Ons low County to give assistance t< returning war veterans, w-ho an interested in obtaining aid in agri cultural problems, said R. W Shoffner. in charge of Extensior farm management at State College So far. however, the Onslow com mittee has not been called on fo: for assistance, it was said yester day. The Onslow committee wa: formed last October, composed o Fountain Taylor. Richlands. routi two; A. H. Batchelor, Richlands route one: G. R. McGowan. Jack sonville,! route one; H. C. Riggs Hubert: Archie D. Home. Beula ville. route two: A. T. Redd. Jr. Maysville; G. A. Walton. Jackson ville. ,rfls.ite one: D. C. Holland Silverdale: iVT. F. Duff. Folkstone O. G. Richardson. Richlands; am Hugh Overstreet farm agent. An executive committee com posed of Taylor. Walton. Dufl Richardson and Overstreet wer named. Since that time Overstreet ha been succeeded by Charles l Clark, Jr.. as county agent and a a member of the committee. •'These committees are com- se of progressive farmers represt i1 ing all sections of each county, he explains. "Their function is t advise with veterans who come t them for assistance in selectin farms, getting started in farming \n choosing the best type of farn ing .suited to tlic locality, and i becoming established in farming a a vocation. ' The returning veteran shoul first contact the county agent, wh is the secretary rganization meeting. The 1945-46 erm will be Hunter's tenth con :ecutive year at Dixon. Luther Ennett of Sneads Ferry ^ ,vas elected chairman of the dis- ^ rict committee, other members of ^ vhich are W. M. Hardison of Holly n *idge, Alton Capps of Sneads r Ferry. J. G. Parker of Jacksonville, ^ *oute three, and Capus Hobbs of r Folkstone. The committee will consider the c ?lection of teachers at a subsequent j meeting. r I Second Nurses' Aid * Class Will Start J Here This Afternoon \ 0The second Nurses Aid course, t sponsored by the Onslow County £ Chapter of the American Red a Cross and the Onslow County Hos pital Auxiliary, will start at the r hospital this afternoon at 2 o'clock, f Mrs. Clifton Weaver, a register- c ed nurse, will be the instructress : for the course. 1 Mrs. George Gurganus. auxiliary j. nurses' aid chairman, said all ap- j plicants are supposed to be at the s hospital this afternoon to begin j work. There are said to be 15 reg- t istered for the class. Jones Twins Expect To Come Home After Okinawa Operation 0Talbert and Tommy Jones, twin j sons of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Jones j of Jacksonville, are now on Okina- j wa. where the Army and Marines ] are trying to drive the Japs off ; that important island. On a card to Billy Arthur, edi tor of the News and Views, the two Navy corpsmen write that they hope to get a rotation furlough home after that operation. ASK HIGHER CEILING ® Raleigh—'AP)—A motion that the 1945 allocation of flue-cured tobacco to the companies be made on the basis of 110 per cent of the crop estimate and urging that the stabilization program guarantee an average of no less than 39 nor more than 41 cents a pound for Georgia-Florida growers and not less than 43V> nor more than 451,<£ cents for growers in the rest of the flue-cured area was adopted by •farm leaders here yesterday. Pfc. Alex A. Jacobs Of Near Maysville Wounded in Action #Pfc. Alex A. Jacobs, son of' Mrs. Mary L. Jacobs of Mays ville. route one, has been wounded in action against the enemy in Europe, according to a War Department announce ment. :: Joe Bynum Has Narrow Escape • When Shell Fails to Explode 0Army Air Forces, Pacific Head quarters—Thanks to the failure of a Jap anti-aircraft shell to explode and the failure of one of the plane's bombs which it struck to detonate, Technical Sergeant Ly nell Bynum, Maysville, North Car olina. left waist gunner-engineer n of the 7th AAF Liberator bomber, i- Miss Traveller, has completed 40 i- combat missions in the Central and a- Western Pacific. d Miss Traveller was making a 11 bomb run over an Iwo Jima target when a 120 milimeter Jap shell J, shot up through the plane'e open s. bomb bay. ricocheted off a bomb, i- ripping off the fin, bounced off a iy bulkhead and emerged from the it side of the craft. ul "Those were the most anxious moments we spent during our 40 m missions," said Se/geant Bynum. k. "Although the bombs were of the r, delayed action fuse type, we 8. weren't sure but the one the shell r. hit wouldn't explode any instant, id It was a mighty jittery situation k- until bombs were released." 'e Sergeant Bynum also described as the "prettiest sight he ever saw" the destruction of a Jap fighter plane by 7th AAF P-38 Lightning fighters which was es orting Liberators on a mission to Iwo Jima. "A Jap fighter, a Zeke, was pre paring to make a pass at our for mation when it was jumped by two Lightnings. Gunfire from one P-38 started the Jap plane smok ing, bursts from the second Light ning set it afire. Phosphorous bombs it was carrying exploded, a wing dropped off and the plane crashed into the oean." Sergeant Bynum flew his first combat mission against Truk in August last year, and has also hit such targets as Yap, Hahi Jima, Chichi Jima and Iwo Jima. Miss Traveller has been credited with sinking a Jap cargo ship off Chichi Jima. He flew the majority of his missions over Iwo Jima during the pre-invasion pouitding to which the 7th AAF subjected the island. Sergeant Bynum's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bynum, live in Maysville. He attended Maysville high school prior to entering the armed service. 0 Onslow County's quota in the forthcoming 7th War Loan drive will be $510,000 of which the E bond quota has been tentatively set at $400,000, it was announced yesterday by J. C. Thompson, campaign chairman. It is the largest quota ever assigned the county. The drive will be held May 14 through June 30—six weeks this time instead of the usual four. But all bonds purchased during the months of April, May and June will count to ward the quota. However, a de termined effort will be made throughout the nation to at tain all quotas during the six week period, Thompson said. | J. C. Thompson, who has suc jssfully directed five of the six far Loan campaigns in Onslow ounty, has accepted the appoint lent as permanent War Loan chair lan, it was announced here Tues ay by Leo H. Harvey of Kinston, ;gional chah-man. Thompson will serve in a dual apacity during the Seventh War oan drive as the campaign chair lan and as permanent chairman, larvey said. "We feel indeed fortunate in aving Jack as a permanent chair lan. which is a year-round job nd as campaign chairman," Har ey stated. "He has done a wonder j1 piece of work in the previous rives." Mrs. Deane Taylor will head up le women's division in the eventh War Loan drive, it was nnounced recently. Harvey, a prominent business lan and banker of Kinston, con ?rred with Thompson here Tues ay. He was accompanied by Hay ood Weeks, Kinston banker who ; originally from Swansboro. "During the next drive the E oncl quota is again high", the reg inal chairman said. "Emphasis is till being placed on efforts to each the small investors rather tian the large ones." Towrr Has Applied For Police Radio, To Increase Patrol Town °' Jacksonville has pplied for permission to install a £ ,CJmad,°' and tHt> 19«-46 budt ' will carry an appropriation for ncreasmg the police force by at east one person, Mayor Clyde >abiston disclosed at a spccial Sonday rfighf.toWn commissioners Called ostensibly to hear a masc Is^ ■■rrim,nst What was described " tcr,meK wave" now underway vf" serv^c^^'^nlf han mPmhC'Url°U,S pcrsons- other nan members of the nrocc ° AUhoueh' h"eJd/d the s«si°n Although he did not make anv .pecific request of the board Smith recounted what took pla« laS Jert' Th n'Sht When he and Hu" d t Thompson, a Tide Water Power company employee were by a serviceman whom they found on the roof of thp Smith residence. Their gun taken away from them and th» assailant fled. the oueht'tht„Sai2 hc. !hou6ht the town ougnt to provide better strni and'Ui8 thc residential districts before n "d m'"h and beer plac" ueiore 11 p.m. He said also that £ffP™ * ^Ten^an'S was°not answered.y ha" te'eph°ne tl.p'w01 SabjStor' Pointed out that had ,htr ocluct'on Board already naci the town s application foi« «/ ditional street Hghls' but woufd not release them; and that the town could not legally close win* it w« .Ttail,?ops before 11 p m It vvas then that he disclosed the ^anized for a town of 870 peoDle has been able to grow as fast as the community and stay on friendw terms with 60.000 or more service we hav^had"" m°re tr°Uble than folk^e°hrf S- farback as 1906 had around hcre',nfndnno o^cma^and n?,.0"e organization has been or he" aid.ab'e t0 prevent it entirely," Mayor Sabiston stated that CamD Lejeune authorities already had in fr i , a P'an to increase its pa the town residentiai districts^ Speaking as a member of th« County°* Hospital8, ^Biu/ A^hur boardetn'nS i'J0" and ""ked the ard to consider alloting at ]»«•? MwjifsSSS street^would be im5e.°n Co^e^'