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VOL. VII. NO. 83 JACKSONVILLE, N. C., Tl KSDAY, MAY I, 1915 PRICE $2.00 PER YEAR
•down east
£ WITH
| BILLY ARTHUR
fit looks as if the "Men's Night"
program of the Jacksonville Wom
an's club is all off. if the present
attitude of some of the members
continues.
When the matter came up last
week, some thought that the en
tire expense of the occasion should
be borne by the four women who
are in charge of the program for
the next meeting, when Men's
Night was originally planned.
They balked on account of the
heavy expense of the affair, and
asked members to pay $2 to foot
the bill for them and their hus
bands or male guests. But the wom
en so far have indicated they don't
approve of that.
Don't they think a good hus
band or a good man is worth $2?
0 Jesse Jones possesses two tal
ents I never before knew he had.
In the first place, I knew he
hailed from Onslow County—in
the White Oak section—and that
he is a good lawyer. But didn't
know before what a good Lions
district governor he's making and
that he's a good story teller.
He caught Wesley Morton of
New Bern, who also comes from
the White Oak section, the other
evening at the Lions charter night,
and told about the time they used
to play together.
On one occasion, Jesse recalled,
there was a protracted meeting in
the neighborhood, and in those
days a Baptist protracted meeting
usually lasted until the chicken
and ham gave out. which was about
two weeks. While the adults were
getting religion inside the church.
Jesse and Wesley were having a
meeting of their own on the out
side. and got imbued with the spirit
of baptism themselves. So they
proceeded to immerse and baptize
whatever they could find around
the yard—a dog. a chicken, and a
goose. But the cat stumped them.
Every time Wesley would pick
up the cat, it would scratch him.
Finally, with tears streaming down
his cheeks, he held the cat up be
fore him, and suggested: "Jesse,
let's just sprinkle the cat and let
it go to hell.
0 Jesse also told of seeing Mayor
nominate and Mrs. Ramon Askew
over in Richlands the other night,
and went up to congratulate him.
"How's th politician?" Jesse said
he asked Ramon.
"I'm just fine, thanks," Mrs.
Askew replied.
S Congratulations arc in order to
» Lions club. So there they are.
For a long, long time I've had a
<ng for the Lions because of
^ t worthy project—aid to the
W id. They concentrate on that;
» other projects are a sideline;
that one they will do well—all over
the state and nation.
It should not. however, detract
from their field of service here,
which is wide open. The club is
in a position to show what a new
baby can do. and it doesn't have
to be spectacular. The results will
speak for themselves.
% Edward Farnell found this bit of
confusion to add to the old one
about the fellow pouring the bot
tles down the drain:
PAUL DEHN'S TYPIST IS OFF
ON HOLIDAY
My typist has gone on hir holiday
My tipyst has gohn on a spree.
Mx typish hap gone oh hyr haliduy.
O gring bacq m! hypist to me.
Bling bac? oK &ring back
Oh bynK b4cK my tipisth to mi
tu mo.
Brung bicq ocsling 8acK
Oh blynK ba"K mg tV^pys? tp
m/O demn—
0 Steve Stefanou denies that his
application for a shoe stamp is to
replace those he wore out while
awaiting the arrival of that new
son.
0 Edward Farnell produces this
gag for your laugh meter:
A father thought it was about
time to lecture his young son, who
was both scatterbrained and frivo
lous. He said. "Jimmy, you're get
ting to be a young man now, and I
think you ought to take life more
seriously. Just think, if I died sud
denly. where would you be?"
And the son answered, "I'd be
here. The question is, where would
you be?"
01 was telling a fellow the other
day about having gotten up early
and fixed my breakfast.
"You should get married," he
advised, "and then you wouldn't
have to fix your own breakfast."
"I'd rather go without it," I told
him.
01n the recent rains the water
stood miles wide and hundreds of
feet deep in front of the News and
Views building; that is, as far as I
was concerned when I attempted
to get from the street into the
office. I had to walk feet upon
feet to by-pass the stream in the
street.
unce or iwice 1 contemplated
calling on General Patton to come
to Jacksonville and establish a
beachhead across it, but I finally
found a piece of one by four that
reached across the water.
Now, I have my own Remagen
bridge, and can go and come across
he Rhine anytime I please. I only
pe it doesn't collapse with me
) the middle of it sometime.
0Gautier Jackson was telling
what D. Sam Cox had done for
Wilmington the other afternoon
and got twisted up on the name of
the county. He called it "Hand
over" County. ✓ •
Jacksonville Lions Club Dedicated
To Making Town A Better Place
0The Jacksonville Lions club was
pledged Thursday night to cooper
ation with every agency, club and
institution in making this com
munity a better place in which to
live.
"We're here to serve," President
H. C. (Ike) Johnson declared in
receiving the charter for the re
cently organized 24-member club
from District Governor Jesse Jones
of Kinston, ' and we hope that this
town will be a better place in
which to live, to work and to play
by virtue of there being a Lions
club here."
The charter was presented in
impressive Charter Night exercises
held at the Tallman Street USO
and attended by approximately 100
Lions and Lioneses from Jackson
ville, Richlands. Kinston. Kenans
ville together with local invited
guests.
Rev. John R. Poe, Methodist
minister of Trenton, who made the
principal address of the evening,
said that the key to the success of
any civic organization is the will
ingness of the individual members
to serve. Sucess is in the joining
of hands to bring service to the
community and to the state, he
added, saying that it is in times
like these that all organizations
can unite "in healing society's
wounds and start building a world
in which we would like to live—
a world of peace."
Jesse D. Paschal, president of
Boy Scout Court
Of Honor Is Held
At High School Gym
0Ten members of Boy Scout
Troop 20 in Jacksonville were
awarded merit badges at the Court
of Honor held Thursday night in
the high school gymnasium.
The badges went to Charles
Marshall, Van Murrell, St.ratton
Murrell, Linwood Peed, Willard
Greer. Charles Henderson, Arthur
Langley, Sammie Trippe, George
Howard and Richard Jackson.
Linwood Peed was also advanced
to first class scout, and second class
badges "went to Sammy Trippe,
Johnny Pollard. George Howard.
Harold Gleitz, Jimmie Maultsby
Wilton Bush and Edward Chad
wick.
Tenderfoot' badges were award
ed Scotty Humphrey. Billy Aman
Lester Simpson, Wayne Larson
Leonard Larson. Graham Darden
Eddie Nelson, Franklin McFatter
and Donald Swinson.
the Kinston club which sponsored
the Jacksonville organization, pre
sented President Johnson with a
check for a gong, to be purchased
when the war is over and metal
again is available.
Musical selections were offered
by Miss Mary Herring, violinist,
during the meal, and the invocation
and benediction were pronounced
by Rev. A. D. Leon Gray and R.
F. Brendle respectively.
B. B. C. Keslsr acted as toast
master. and Mayor Clyde Sabiston
welcomed the guests.
Officers of the club are: presi
dent. H. C. Johnson: first vice
president. J. Hedrick Aman: second
vice-president. Charles D. Koonce;
third vice-president. C. L. Sabis
ton: secretary-treasurer, C. F.
Rawls: tail twister. G. E. Gardner;
and lion tamer, W. C. Capps.
Directors are: W. Durwood
Aman. Herbert M. Eastwood, R. fc.
Holt, and C. L. Sabiston.
Charter members of the club are:
H. C. Johnson, J. Hedrick Aman,
C. L. Sabiston, W. C. Capps, G. E.
Gardner. C. F. Rawls, W. A. S.
Aman, Frank Fields, Carl Harris,
W. B. Quincy, H. W. Seawell, Sam
Starling.
H. L. Cowell, A. G. Walton. Jr.,
Thomas Marshall. Kirby Thomp
son, Russell Brendle, A. T. Griffin,
Jr., W. H. Cannon, B. B. Kosler,
W. Durwood Aman, Herbert M.
Eastwood, R. E. Holt, and Charles
D. Koonce.
Twelve Candidates
File for Office in
Holly Ridge Primary
0 Twelve candidates filed to seek
the office of mayor and five posts
on the Holly Ridge Town Board
of Commissioners in the past three
weeks that saw the total registra
tion for the May 8 primary reach
approximately 180 names.
Candidates for mayor arc L. E.
Coleburn, incumbent, and Hayward
Campbell.
Candidates for the town board
are: N. H. Modinos. John Smith
son, Allen Stafford. C. Bruce
Hunter. Dave Cohen, John J. Hudi
burg. E. F. Sanders, Leon Sessoms,
John D. Jenkins and D. D. Darrah.
The present board is composed
of Coleburn. mayor, and Stafford,
Modinos, Sanders, Hunter and
Smithson.
Voting will take place in the
game room adjoining the housing
project grocery store from 8 a.m.
to 6:30 p.m. on May 8.
Nazi Defenses Crumbling;
Peace Reported Sought
# Paris—(/P)—'The U. S. Seventh
Army was rapidly reducing Mun
ich and other armies were over
running the decaying defenses in
Germany, Austria and Czechoslova
kia Monday while high ranking
Nazis were reported seeking peace.
Hamburg was mcnanced gravely
by the British crossing of the Elbe,
20 miles southeast of that second
largest German city.
The Russians closed toward
fresh linkups with the Western
Allies.
Field Marshall Alexander's
armies in Italy were turning a
Nazi retreat in the southernmost
of the European defenses in to a
rout at positions 135 miles across
the Alps from Gen. Eisenhower's
'forces.
0 London —(/P)— Russian tanks
have smashed into the Tiegarten,
Berlin's central park which has
been converted into an under
ground fortress, the Oslo radio said
Monday.
Moscow reports said the fall of
the capital was imminent. A wave
of suicides and desertions whittled
the ranks of the capital's defend
ers, and a Russian squeeze mauled
the German garrison into a flame
swept 18-square-mile pocket—all
that remained of Greater Berlin's
431 square miles.
Southeast of the city, the Red
Army finished the liquidation of
an encircled enemy group, captur
ing 40,000 prisoners, Moscow said.
INTERVIEW NAVY APPLICANTS
f A traveling procurement party
will visit the U. S. Navy Recruiting
Station in Raleigh on Friday, May
4 and Saturday, May 5 for the
purpose of interviewing officer
candidates for the Naval Reserve
and WAVES, according to Lieut.
Comdr. D. P. Whelchel, USNR, di
rector of Naval Officer Procure
ment for the Sixth and Seventh
Naval Districts.
CHARGED WITH ASSAULT
% Mrs. Hugh Sandlin of near Rich
lands was charged last week with
assaulting Miss Effie Davis Koonce
Richlands school teacher. She will
be given a hearing in county court
this week. It is said that Mrs. Sand
lin objected to her daughter hav
ing been vaccinated for typhoid
and struck the teacher.
Doughboys Doggedly
Fight For Airfields
On Southern Okinawa
0 Guam —(/P)— American dough
boys. enraged over a Japanese
pilot's suicidal attack on a help
less Navy hospital ship evacuating
their wounded buddies, fought
doggedly Monday for two airfields
—immediate objectives on South
ern Okinawa.
Japs Bombed Again
% Guam —(JP)— Hitting by day
light, a force of 100 to 150 super
fortresses bombed Japanese mili
tary installations on Honshu and
Jyushu from medium altitude
Monday. They also attacked Tach
idawa. army air arsenal 25 miles
west of Tokyo.
Polish Issue Again
Strains Relations
At Frisco Parley
£ San Francisco —f/P)— British
American-Russian relations teeter
ed on the rim of another crisis
Monday with the Polish issue again
building up behind the scenes of
the United Nations conference.
Efforts of Latin American na
tions to have an invitation issued
for Argentina to join the confer
ence appeared to bs forcing a
showdown this time.
Some conference leaders were
privately fearful of a deadlock.
Soviet Foreign Commissar Mol
otov was reported to have told his
big-power colleagues—Stettinus of
the U. S.. Eden of Britain and
Soong of China—that lie is willing
to have Argentina invited if the
Warsaw government of Poland also
is asked to send a delegation here.
Britain and the United States,
whose leaders also assume support
of China, are determined against
this Polish arrangement.
CHAMBER TO MEET
0The April meeting of the Jack
sonville Chamber of Commerce
will be held at the Tallman St reel
USO building Thursday night a
8:30 o'clock.
Kenneth Mann Comes
To Jacksonville As
Full-lime Fireman
0 Kenneth Mann, for eleven
years a member of the Wil
mington fire department will
become fireman and chief in
structor for the Jacksonville
volunteer fire department on
a full-time basis, effective to
day, it was announced yester
day by Department Chief W.
D. Aman.
For the past four years,
Mann has been chief of the
fire department at Camp Davis.
Aman said that Mann's
duties would be to instruct
volunteers in proper fire fight
ing technique and maintain
and keep in good repair the
town's fire fighting equipment.
Mann's salary will be $175
per month.
Complete Program
For Richlands High
Graduation Announced
0 Commencement exercises at
Ivichlands high school will be held
on Friday night. May 11, at 8
o'clock in the form of Class Day
exercises, it was announced yester
day by Principal D. G. Shaw.
The finals program will start
Sunday when Rev. Talmadge C.
Johnson of Kinston will deliver the
baccalaureate sermon in the school
auditorium at 8 p.m.
The program for the baccalaur
eate sermon will include the invo
cation by Rev. E. H. Cannady and
selections by the school glee club
under the direction of Mrs. O. E.
Bell. The diplomas will be presen
ted by Principal Shaw.
The commencement exercises
will be a play "Gypsy For a Day"
in which members of the senior
class will have parts. They include
Ralph Gurganus. class president,
Billie Cox. salutatorian, Fraulein
Jarman, Sarah Alma Taylor, Helen
Brown. Warren Taylor. Stacy Foun
tain. Frederick McGowan, Irene
Koonce, Red Sanders, Cecil Hill,
Eva Mac Padrick. Dorothy Mills,
Ralph Barbee, Lizzie King. Daisy
Mae Beddard. Lucille Blizzard.
Margaret Taylor, Ida Brown and
Ma\*is Futrell.
Douglas Allen. Dalton Baysden,
Arthur Davis. Stacy Swinson, Ja
mes Whaley, John Rand, R. P.
Whaley. Earl Warren, Neal Home,
Percy Brown. Kenneth Frazelle,
Alvin Jenkins, Ruffin Manning,
Harvey Manning and William Pitt
man.
Solo parts will be carried by
Fraulein Jarman. Stacy Fountain
and Sarah Alma Taylor.
Also on the program will be
Jean Gurganus, president of the
junior class, and Obeda Hood,
class representative. Lois Pittman,
Myrtie Stroud, Gertrude Stevens,
Annie Saloma Petteway, Dorothy
Lanier, Carolyn Jarman, Madge
Baysden, Jean Gurganus, Obeda
Hood. Minnie Lee Jarman, Laura
Bell Howard.
Edna Bryan, Myrtle Home, Ann
B. Nicholson, Julia V. Ferrell, Vel
ma Huffman, Vivian Taylor, Mar
ie Clark, Sadie Brown, Maxine
Baysden, Swannie Sandlin, Mar
garet Mozingo.
Cleilie Thompson, Lillio Grace
Thompson, Gladys Lec Canady,
Christine Cox, Joyce Newbotd, Hel
en Huffman, Ester Howard, Mar
garet Howard. Nancy Metts, and
Melbaline Baysden.
Mascots for the senior class are
Martha Ruth Mills and Carl Rags
dale. Mrs. J. R. Taylor will be in
charge of the music, and D. J.
Johnson is senior class director.
Member^ of the glee club are:
Obeda Hood. Ester Thompson,
Marie Clark, Ellen Thompson. Ar
leen Jarman, Charlotte Humphrey.
Llia Bell Crooms, Sidney Grace
Brinson, Margie Taylor, Sadie
Brown. Evangline Hunter, Betty
Bryan, Mavis Sanders.
Margaret Marshburn, Irene Hum
phrey. Edith Futrell, Ann Borden
Nicholson, Maxine Baysden. Carrie
Baysden, Edna G. Marshburn,
Marjorie Taylor. Jean Poplin. Mar
garet Brock, Julia Steed, Betsy
Canady, Rachel Carter.
Dorothy Venters Faye Sylvester,
Doris Petteway, William Whaley,
Nancy Cox. Jane Frazeile, Louise
Warren. Alice Sylvester, Letricc
King. Ethel Mae Jarman, Mary
Francis Bell and Melbaline Bays
den.
ABC Board Announces
May Liquor Ration
Same As For April
0The May liquor ration in North
Carolina's 25 ABC counties will re
main at the April level, the ABC
board has announced.
"Coupons No. 21 and 22 will be
valid any time during the month
of May for one quart, or one fifth,
or two pints, or two tenths of any
whiskey or Scotch.
"Coupons No. 23 and 24 will be
valid any time during the month
of May for one quart, or one fifth
or two pints of gin, or one fifth
of Private Stock, Prince George or
Cedar Brook.
"Imported and domestic brandy
rum, cordials, fruit flavored gin
fruit, flavored brandy, and sloe
gin will be ration free."
Pfc. Nolan D. Yeomans
Killed in Action in
European Fighting
0 Pfc. Nolan D. Yeomans,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Yeo
mans of Hubert, route two.
has been killed in aetion in
Europe, according to an an
nouncement by the War De
partment.
Pfc. Yeomans entered serv
ice in December of 1942 after
having attended Swansboro
high school.
He lias three sisters. Mrs.
C. C. McCausIey, Mrs. Robert
L. Midgett and Miss Christine
Yeomans. all of Hubert.
Nazi, or No Nazis,
When Onslowan Sees
Deer, He's A-Shootin'
0When an American patrol goes
hunting for Nazis, and it includes
an Onslow County boy. you can
bet your bottom dollar they're
going to take a shot, at a deer—
no matter whether or not they see
any Germans.
According to reports from the
99th Infantry Division in Germany,
the First ai d Second Platoons of
Comp- ny "G", 393rd Infantry Re
giment were ordered by Captain
William Smith, Henderson. N. C.,
to make a reconnaissance in a
thickly wooded area to round up
stray Germans.
The platoons advanced through
the woods cautiously expecting to
meet the enemy. Suddenly the for
est was alive with gun fire; every
one in the rear thought the patrol
had encountered at least a com
pany of Germans. Instead, a large
deer had been routed from the
brush and taken care of in a short
time by several patrol members.
The marksmen included Private
James Henderson of Jacksonville.
Private Harold E. Morris. Lone
Reck. Wisconsin, found a baby
carriage and rolled the carcass
sitting upright into the kitchen.
Capt. Paul Stevens
To Make Graduation
Address at Dixon
O Capt. Paul Stevens, chaplain at
Camp Davis, will make the com
mencement address at Dixon school
graduation exercises on May 12 at
8 p.m., it was announced yester
day by Principal C. Bruce Hunter.
The finals program will begin
Sunday afternoon at 4 p.m. when
Dr. C. D. Barelift. Methodist min
ister of Wilmington, will deliver
the baccalaureate sermon in the
school auditorium.
Class night exercises will be
held Friday night. May 11. at 3
p.m.
Sandy Graham Named
Highway Commission
Chairman by Cherry
0 Raleigh—(/P)—Governor Cherry
Monday appointed A. H. (Sandy)
Graham, HilLsboro, chairman of
the State Highway Commission.
He also named Merrill Evans of
Ahoskie, First District commis
sioner; John Clark. Greenville,
Second; Dr. Guy V. Gooding, Ken
ansville, Third: John Hackney,
Wilson, Fourth, among others.
COLEBURN STRUCK
0 Mayor L. E. Coleburn of Holly
Ridge was struck in the face with
a blackjack by an unidentified sol
dier at his place of business last
Thursday night. Coleburn. who
suffered two black eyes, said he
was struck when he caught the
soldier in the act of a "peeping
•torn."
RED CROSS MEETING
0The regular monthly meeting of
the Onslow County Chapter. Amer
ican Red Cross. Board of Directors,
will not be held today.
IN 48 HOURS
0 Paris—(.4®)—More than 125,
000 German soldiers have sur
rendered in the past 48 hours
to American, British and
French troops under General
Eisenhower's command. Allied
Headquarters announced yes
terday.
Property Values Up
$1,323,166 In Onslow
Villa Hotel At Morehead City Is
Purchased By Jacksonville Men
^ Purchase of the Villa Hotel at
Moreheacl City by L. J. Katzin and
Walter W. Morgan, both of Jack
sonville. was announced here in
day. The new owners will take
over operation of the popular hotel
today.
Purchase was made from W.
Lunceford Long, prominent North
Carolinian who has owned the
hotel for the past three years. It
has been operated under lease by
him.
Morgan and Katzin recently pur
chased Camp Branch near More
head City, but have sold ofT a
part of the property and equip
ment thereon.
The Villa Hotel was built back
in the 1920's when the boom was
on both in Eastern North Carolina
and in Florida. It always has been
a popular resort hotel, situated as
it is on Bogue Sound.
Cadet Civil Air
Patrol Unit Begun;
Meets Tomorrow
0Organization of a Cadet Civil
Air Patrol unit here was started
Friday night at Jacksonville school
with 18 members present.
The group will meet again Wed
nesday afternoon for drill on the
school grounds at 2:30 o'clock, and
again on Friday evening, according
to Bill Johnson, organizer. R. S.
Pinkston and James A. Odum arc
adult leaders.
Sgt. Leon P. Sewell
Of Swansboro With
Army Buying Staff
0 Headquarters Service of Supply,
Kunming, China—Horses from Ti
bet for the armies of China arc
bought with textiles and scrap me
tal in the effort to give Mr. U. S.
Taxpayer a square deal for his
war dollars battling in this far
away corner of the world.
China may have the highest cost
of living in the world but there are
those in the U. S. Forces here
abouts who stand guard to see
that Uncle Sam's money is spent
as efficiently as possible.
The Army found an answer. To
prevent unnecessary purchases and
payment of excessive prices a Cen
tral Purchasing and Procurement
Authority to control all buying for
all U. S. Forces in China has been
set up by Services of Supply under
command of Major General G. X.
Cheves.
Among the enlisted men assigned
to CP & PA is Sgt, Leon P.
Sewell, Swansboro, N. C. Sgt.
Sewell is a graduate of the Swans
boro high school. Before entering
the Army in May, 1942. Sgt. Sewell
was employed as clerk by B. P.
Davis, Swansboro. In March, 1944
Sgt. Sewell left the United State?
for overseas duty, and arrived in
India in April. 1944. With the
formation of the Central Purchas
ing and Procurement Authority
some months ago. he was assignee
to duty with that organization at
a clerk.
TSgt. Gerthie Kennedy
Of Beulaville Wounded
In Action in Europe
0TSgt. Gerthie E. Kennedy,
husband of Mrs. Vertie M.
Kennedy of Reulaville, route
two, has been wounded in ac
tion in European fighting, ac
cording to the War Depart
ment.
Pfc. Edwin R. Williams
Wounded in Action
In European Regions
0 Pfc. Edwin R. Williams, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Wil
liams of Beulaville, route two,
has been wounded in action
against the enemy in Europe,
according to an announcement
by the War Department.
Visitor Scathingly
Criticizes Appearance
Of Local Community
£ The appearance of the Town of
Jacksonville was bitterly criticized
before a meeting of Chamber of
Commerce and Woman's club rep
resentatives here Thursday after
noon by D. Sam Cox. who calls
North Carolina his homo and Wil
mington his place of abode right
now.
Cox. who authored the once
popular children's st :ty — Blackie
Bear—and who lately has been do
ing special advertising work for
various chambers of commerce in
the state and south, came here to
talk about a pamphlet proposed by
the Jacksonville civic organization.
In discussing the possibilities of
Onslow County. Cox declared that
first Jacksonville would have to
clean up and get to lonk like some
thing before it could expect any
one to slay here any longer than
he had to.
He termed the town "filthy" and
the people apparently possessed
with a "good-for-nothing-what's
the-use" attitude that has resulted
in little good being accomplished
recently.
"The job of doing something in
Jacksonville and really building a
fine town and county should be
much easier here than anywhere
else." he declared. "The govern
ment has handed you everything;
you didn't have 1o gn out and buy
a thing to .cot all this money and
this large town; all you had to
do was'take it. If ii hadn't been
for the government, this town
would have slid in the river.
"My suggestion is that you get
rid of this don't care attitude and
start cleaning up these filthy
places. Start on the streets, clean
them up, and get the garbage col
lected: make this place look like
you're proud of it."
Then, he indicated, the job of
selling the town and county would
be much easier. This section of
the state, particularly this county
is well-adapted for agriculture,
especially now types, including
berries and fruits and vegetables
not now produced. A ready market
for fresh produce in quantity is
available at nearby camps, anci
there are any number of other
possibilities, lie said.
AYCOCK BKOWN HERE
£ Aycock Brown, former editor o!
the Beaufort News and a formei
well-known North Carolina news
paperman who is now with Nav>
Intelligence, was here Thursday.
Camera Arthur Gave To Marines
Went Through Some Hectic Times
0A Speed Graphic camera which
Billy Arthur, News and Views edi
tor donated to the First Marine
Division when it shoved off for the
South Pacific in the summer of
1942. went through the Solomons,
Russell Islands. Cape Gloucester
and Australia and is now probably
a museum piece of Folmer-Graflex
Corporation.
That was the word brought here
Friday by Sgt. Jerry Koepplinger
of the Leatherneck staff, who is
in Jacksonville to do a picture story
on "the old and the new town,"
aimed at enlightening members of
the First Marine Division who
once were stationed here.
Koepplinger was a photographer
in the intelligence section, headed
by the late Lt. Col. Frank Goettge,
of the First Marine Division when
it was in the then handsome anc
fine and comfortable quarters
known as Tent Camp.
When the division left for th<
South Pacific, they were short sev
eral cameras, and Arthur, who hac
made hundreds of photographs o
their operations, donated his trust}
camera.
Later tlie division came into tw<
new cameras, and the Arthur gif
was an extra around that sav
plenty of service, because every
one used it. "When we parted wit!
it. there was a hump in the bel
lows, there wasn't any leather or
it. it had a makeshift sunshadi
held on by tape, and the shutte:
wouldn't work. We sent it up t<
the Graflex company to let then
see it." Koepplinger said, addinj
that Popular Photography did i
story on it in recent months.
0 Real and personal property
valuations in Onslow County total
$12,482,150 this year, an increase
of $1,323,166 over 1944. figures
compiled by County Auditor J. J.
Cole showed yesterday.
While there were net increases
in real and personal property valu
ations in all of the five townships,
there was a decided decrease in all
livestock, according to figures
taken during the January tax list
ing period. The decrease in dollars
anc) cents amounted to $51,059.
In Stump Sound township, real
estate values went up while per
sonal property values declined,
and that was the only township in
which a decrease in any property
valuations was noted. However, the
increase in real property more than
offset the decrease in personal, the
latter evidently being caused by a
gradual shut-down of Camp Davis
during the latter part of 1944.
By townships, the valuations fol
low:
Total value personal property in
Jacksonville township in 1944,
S946.883; in 1945, $1,254,064, an
increase of $307,181. Total value
real estate in 1944. $2,495,104; in
1945. S3.445.104, an increase of
$950,447. Total increase, $1,725,628.
Richlands township total value
personal property in 1944. $606,851;
1945. $693,940. increase of $87,089.
Real estate value in 1944, $1,798,
491; 1945—$1,943,973, an increase
of $145,482. Total increase $232,571.
Stump Sound township totkl
value personal property 1945—•
$376.64-: 1944—$402,132, a de
crease of $25,487. Real estate 1944
—$1.095,706: 1945—$1,135,726, in
crease of $40,020. Net increase
$14,533.
Swansboro township total value
personal property 1944—$199,776;
1945—S215.614. an increase of $15.
838. Real estate 1944—$557,279;
1945—S624.526. an increase of $67,
247. Total increase of $83,085.
White Oak Township total value
personal property 1944—$353,894;
1945—$355,275. an increase of
$1,381. Real estate .1944—$907,141;
1945—$936,836. increase of $29,
695. Total increase $31,076.
There was a decided decrease in.
all livestock as shown in the fol
lowing statement: value of mules
in 1944—$288,755; 1945—$272,880,
a decrease of $15,875.
Value of hogs 1944—$115,947;
1945—$96,373, a decrease of $19,
574.
Value of milk cows 1944—$41,
400: 1945—$37,670, a decrease of
$3 730
Pouitry 1944—$75,520: 1945—
$63,640, a decrease of $11,880. To
tal decrease, $51,059.
29 White Registrants
Go To Bragg May 8
For Pre-Induction Exam
% The list of 29 registrants leav
ing for pre-induction physical ex
aminations at Fort Bragg, May 8,
are:
Leo Franklin Humphrey, Jack
sonville: Charles David Fresh
water, Hubert; Timothy Harold
Huffman. Richlands; Ralph Martin
Pearce. Richlands; Cleveland Bell
Phillips. Hubert; William Nobel
Capps. Sneads Ferry: Joseph Tho
mas Millis. Holly Ridge; Haywood
Pittman. Richlands: Gordon Moore
Cole. Swansboro; Curtis Davis,
Richlands; Carl James Futrel,
Richlands; Ray Cawell Melville,
Maysvillc: Ivy Delbert Rawls,
Maple Hill: James Bright. Mays
villc: Bryant Holland, Maysville.
Stephen James Simpson, Rich
lands; John Adron Kelly, Hubert;
Alton William Stanley, Swansboro;
.ludson William Parrish, Coats:
Charlie Walter Ervin, Maysville;
Herbert Guy Howard, Richlands;
James Edward Meadows, Swans*
boro: Henry Clifton Justice, Jack
sonville: Tommy Garvey, Rich
lands; William Gullie Coston, Ver
ona: Woodrow Wilson Littleton,
Jacksonville; Nathan Obey Bailey;
llolly Ridge; Baxter Bach man Lisk,
Swansboro; and Charlie Everett
Odum, Maysville.
Louis C. Marshburn,
Prominent Onslow Farmer,
Dies At His Home
0 Louis C. Marshburn, 60. of the
Half Moon section, near Jackson
ville, died at his home there fol
lowing a lengthy illness.
Mr. Marshburn was a prosper
ous farmer, well known through
out. Onslow County. He had re
sided in the Half Moon section for
the past thirty-five years.
Funeral services were held at
the home on Saturday afternoon
at 4 p.m. conducted by the Rev.
t*. N. Cooper, Baptist minister
from Rich Square, N. C. Interment
followed in the Marshburn cem
, tery near the home.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Eliza Marshburn, and six sons;
• James, Vernon and Louis Jr., all
i serving in the armed forces over
seas; Sutton, Willy and Arthur, all
; of Jacksonville. Two brothers also
i survive: Johnny and Bryant Marsh
burn, both of Jacksonville.