North Carolina Newspapers

THE ONSLOW COUNTY News and Views The Only Newspaper in the World That (lives a Whoop About Onslow County i~i VOL. Mi \0. ')1 JACKSONVILLE, N. C., FRIDAY. JIM", I. IMI5 The News and Views Leads IB Paid Circulation Local Advertising National Advertising Classified Advertising Onslow County News PRICE S2.00 PER YEAR I DOWN EAST , WITH ! BILLY ARTHUR HComes this in the mail: The Hon. Wm. J. Arthur, Editor, News and Views Rag Sheet News and Views Bldg. Jacksonville, N. C. Honorable and Hear Sir: This is to notify you and your super-assistants, including the per sonnel of your composing room that no longer will you have to send your esteemed periodical to the undersigned for as of Thurs day, next, his name will be crossed olT the roster of this institution (St. Luke's Hospital. New Bern'. Please inform your girl Friday who does all the work anyway. Cordially yours. Wm. O'Byrne. 0 Now that censorship has been relaxed, we on the cast coast can talk about our security measures in force while at war with Ger mnay. The idea came the other after noon as 1 sat on the front steps of the house and looked at the celebrated air watch tower. Remember that? The air raid watch tower? Hardly anything around here in late years provoked as much dis content and concern as that little number squatting up on Court street. The idea was all right; the army located it there: and The function it was to perform in this area was to reduce the area of search for missing planes of our own. In that it served well: but around here you couldn't drive it through our local thick skulls that Camp Lejeune's radar and so forth wouldn't well protect little Jacksonville. it all seems so silly now. I mean the whole thing. Remember when Ennis Murrell had it tied around has neck and then he saddled it otT on the Ki wanis club? lie sank about $350 of his own money in getting it built, and then discovered there was no one to reimburse him. The Board of County Commissioners first flatly rejected it. and poor Knnis was almost the loser. The board finally paid off to quit hearing about it. And then the Kiwanians got all upset. In fact it almost broke up the club. Remember Hugh Over street resigned from the club be cause he couldn't undertake his four-hour watch? It got so that Kiwanians. who were responsible for one 24-hour shift per month began paying folks to sit it out for them. Even some with only a four-hour turn did the same, and the whole affair almost disintegrated. The boys argued they were going to quit; Ennis pleaded; others did the same. How come Camp Le jeune's radar couldn't pick up an enemy plane? Besides, who in the dickens wanted to bomb Jackson ville? It would be a waste, they argued. Besides what good did it. do to sit in that little house where you couldn't see anything in the first place? And it was silly, we con tended. to report nothing but those paratroop planes coming up from Peterfield Point. About » a.m. they d start, wind first glimpse it coming from bcliind the trees and over the city hall. It was right on you before you knew it. IF it had been a Jap or German plane, the whole town and camp would have been wiped out before the spotter could have seen it in the first nlace. Then, the transport plane would disappear behind the school, and the next time you'd find it, it would be about over the USO building headed for Peterfield to drop the paratroopers it had picked up there. Everytime you saw that darned old plane you'd pick up the tele phone and shout "Army flash." Sounds funny now. doesn't it? Down at Wilmington the gals would say "go ahead." Then you'd say "One, transport, high, west, 8 a.m." Five minutes later when you saw it again, youd say, "Army flash. One, transport, low. east, 8:05 a.m." All you reported was that darned old ship going around in cilices. In the middle of the night when you couldn't see planes, you were to report hearing them. Some of the folks would cat nap—patriotic, they were; asleep at their posts— and suddenly awake hearing a roaring noise. They'd "army flash" it. More darned old busses got cre dit for being airplanes that way. The folks got so fed up on it. it was necessary to recruit an army lieutenant out of Wilmington to come up and give us a pep talk, and the Kiwanians almost argued him out of the whole system before he got through. The folks just weren't taking it seriously, and it was the same way in other things. Along the coast we tried to get the boys interested in looking out for submarines. We gave one of the fellows down east a pep talk about the dangers of a sub getting close in and tor pedoing tankers and shipping along the coast, and we even remind him about the debris that was washing up on the beaches. Why a sub could come right in here and shell this little village, we told him. "Let em come," he said, stroking his chin. 0 Everytime Sam Munch gets on the phone he usually breaks into tiiis column. The other day he wanted to know when court opened, because he wants to charge a fellow with larceny—of his gal friend. He said the story I did for the News and Views last Tuesday was a bit confusing, but he admitted that he liadp't read it. Ralph Cul (Continued on rage Six) Youth And Nation Would Profit From Military Training, Judge Says £ For the sake of the youth of this nation as well as the national security, at least one year's com pulsory military service should be enacted by the Congress as soon as possible. Judge Henry I.. Stevens, former national commander of the American Legion said in an ad dress to the Jacksonville Kiwains c lub here Tuesday. Recalling statistics showing that 25 per cent of the nation's youth have been rejected as unfit for military service in World War II. Judge Stevens declared that it is "unpardonable that so many of our youth are 4-F and unfit to%do a day's work in patriotic service to this nation." They have been rejected because of mental defi ciencies or disease. Military training for at least one year between high school and college will assure this nation that it won't happen again, lie said, cit ing a few of the advantages Judge Stevens maintained that such training would insure better developed bodies and minds, in spire ingenuity, quicken sensibili ties. and give "a finer, higher, cleaner concept of this country and the obligation of 1 ho people to defend it in time of peril and trouble. This war. with all its hard ships and heartaches, has made better citizens of all of us." Guests at the meeting were W. E. Baggs and P. S. White, members of the newly organised Swansboro Kivvanis club; Fr. Gerard Freder ick. Jacksonville; Jack Raver. Charlotte: Hugh Ragsdale. Rich lands; and Lieut. W. Charles Goe of Pine Grove Trailer Park. Also present was Frank Maturo, representative of Kiwanis Interna tional. who is here assisting with he organization of the Swansboro ?lu b. Germans Gave Up Almost Everything, Petteway Writes 0 Many interesting sidelights on the mass surrender of Gorman soldiers in the last days of the European war are contained in a letter received this week from Pvt. Norman Petteway, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Petteway of Jackson ville. His letter follows in full: Germany May 4 (I'm nuts) Dear Mom and Dad: I'm fully convinced that the past two days have been the strangest and most unforgettable that I've ever experienced. Day before yes terday we were moving and the first thing we saw were lots of prisoners in open fields. There must have been several' hundred prisoners here. Then we saw one :>r two M.P.'s bringing them in by the dozens. A few miles on up the road we saw first five. ten. perhaps fifteen, and soon hundreds of Jerries coming in. They were coming so fast and there were so many that they completely stopped jur convoys. The strange thing was that they had no guard at all. They were just going back to surrender and nobody, it seemed, wanted them or knew what to do with them. They came on foot, on bi cycles. motorcycles, horses, carts, trucks, staff cars, recon cars, and ?very imaginable kind of vehicle. They were all smiling, laughing and really seemed genuinely hap py. I don't know how many we actually saw, but there were un told thousands of them. Every once in a while we passed huge slacks of rifles, gas masks, hel mets. bayonets, and all the other bric-a-brac of war. The really amusing thing was that the Jerry officers, still looking extremely smart and military, were giving the orders—keeping the German (Continued on Page 5) Japanese Resisting Fanatically As Yanks Finish Encirclement f|Guam—UP)—First Division Ma rines who Wednesday raised Amer ican flag in victory over Shuri cas tle, pressed a flank attack against son that fanatically was holding out against two divsions north and east of the ruined city. Advance patrols of the Fifth Division met slight opposition as they shoved the Western flank of the almost encircled enemy. HOPKINS SEES STALIN 0 Moscow —(/P)— Harry Hopkins, who came here on a personal mis sion for President Truman, met w'th Premier Stalin yesterday for the fourth time within a week. A well-informed diplomatic source said that the talks of Stalin and Hopkins had covered a great many matters and would have "a far reaching effect" in tightening col laboration between the United States and Soviet Russia. AT NAVAL HOSPITAL 0 Marilyn Maxwell, popular sing er of screen and radio entertained patients at U. S. Naval Hospital, Camp Lejeune, under the auspices of USO-Camp Shows Wednesday. Pfc. John M. Sandiin Wounded in Action On Okinawa Island £ I'fr. John Mills Sandlin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sandlin of Verona, has been seriously wounded in action on Okinawa, the War Department advised yesterday. A member of the celebrated 27th Infantry Division of the U. S. Army, he was wounded on May 19. He is a medical aid man in the unit. White Registrants Leave Wednesday For Pre-lnduction Exams ® The list of white registrants leaving for pro-induction physical examinations at Fort Bragg on June follows: Rode I i Mtirvin. Holly Ridge: Pur ril H. Shopard. Maple Hill: Harold Powell. Philadelphia: Robert Ed ward Davis. Wilmington: .Jonas Gray. Pink Mill: Marvin Edward Howard. Sandston. Va.: Leo Foun tain. Riehlands: Miekle Thomas Frazier. Newpori News. Va.: Leon Brown. Beulaville: Carl Leo Fut rell. Riehlands: Robert Williams. Catherine 1. k*r: Joseph Cuiston Brown. Jacksonville: Horace Kali h Murrav. Riehlands: Silas .Tarman. Jr . Riehlands: Hillarie Louis Pad getl. Maple Hill: John William Pike. Riehlands: Bonnie Bryan Robinson. Jacksonville: Meriwether Lewis Ferguson. Jr.. Jacksonville: Edinond Russell Jar man. Ri'chk mis: Cyrus J. Lanier, Jacksonville: Angus Derrick Hat sol!. Silverclalo: Oliver John Pea cock. Jr.. Jacksonville: Starkey Stokes Shaw. Jr., Riehlands: Ver non Dalhart Lloyd. Jacksonville: J-Minis I.";:'l l?ansloy, Folkstone; Columbus Bright. Maysville: John McCoy Carter. Hubert.: Ulysses Morton. Jacksonville- nnifnn Park er Morton. Wake Forest: M. A. Cowell. Jacksonville; Arlon Crews, Richlancls. SSgl. Reginald Poole, Jacksonville, Awarded Bronze Star In Europe #SSgt. Reginald M. Poole of the 90th Division and 3rd Army, son of Mr. and Mrs. Duke Poole of Clayton and Jacksonville, has been awarded the Bronze Star for heroic service in support of operations from Dec. 12 to 16. 1944 in vicinity of Pachten, Germany. During the Saar River operations SSgt. Poole offered invaluable as sistance in keeping an infantry battalion supplied at all times though the crossing sice and entire supply route was constantly illu minated by flares and subjected to intense fire. lie led carrying parties over the route leading across the river each night and carried food and ammunition to the battalion. On two occasions when heavy artillery and mortar fire inflicted heavy casualties on the party, ho organized the men and continued on the mission. His heroic service contributed to the fighting efficiency of the battalion and was in accordance with military tradition. Banks Lumber Mill At Richlands Badly Damaged By Fire 0The lumber mill owned by B. F. Banks at Richlands was badly damaged by fire Tuesday after noon. Damage wa« believed to have boon approximately $10,000 or more. Starting in the planing mill, the fire spread to the dry kiln and destroyed both sections of the mill together with some stock therein. Firemen from Jacksonville re sponded to the plea of Richlands for assistance. One truck with men was sent up. Both fire departments encountered difficulty in combat ting the blaze because of the dis tance between the nearest fire hy drant and the mill. Baptist Vacation Bible School Will Have Commencement # The commencement exercises of the Daily Vacation Bible school at First Baptist church will bo held tonight at 8 o'clock at the church The program will include songs, departmental work, salutes to the flags and Bible, quotations, re views of Bible books, presentation of awards and an exhibit of the handiwork. POPE TO BROADCAST 0 Rome—(/P)—The Vatican radic will broadcast on June 2J an adi dress by Pope Pius XII to the Col lege of Cardinals. The cardinals will pay their respects to the pon tiff on that occasion, which is St Eugene Day and the Pope's name day. Pfc. Milton King, Richlands, Liberafed From German Prison Pfc. Milton Kinff. son of Paul Ki;1# of Richlandroute two, has be#»n liberated from a German prisoner of war camp, th«> War Department an nounced this week. USD Council Group To Moke Sfudy Of Survey For Nursery <f§ A committee of »!ie USO Coun cil is making a study of a nursery survey a; Midway Park and will report to the council at its next meeting, Mem' ers of the com mittee are Dearie C. Taylor, Mrs. G. E. Gardner and Mrs. W. L. k o I chum. They were anpoir'ed by Council Chairman 15. .J. llolleman at ]ast week's council meeting at Newberry S'reet L'SO when Hie survey pre pared by Lieut. Helen McGraw, ofl'icer-in-harge of Camp Children's school was submit led. An effort to st'cuvi1 a nursery here .0 accommo date children of v isiting and shop ping service |>' rsonnel was pro posed some time ago. New members of the council are Deane Taylor. Harvey llonev and J W. Bfoad.hur.--t. who aiv oper ating committee chairmen of .New liridge Street. Travelers \id and Newberry Street L'SOs. The resignations of M A. Cowell. Kev. A. I). Gray, Clyde Sabiston and John l>. Wa'lick from the c unci! were received. Arlhur Is Appointed Chairman Education Committee Of NCPA £ Billy Arthur, editor and pub lisher oT the News and Views, has boon named Onsiow County chair man of the Education Committee o! the North Carolina Prqss As sociation. State chair nun of the commit tee is Dr. C. Sylvester u;een, edi tor of the Durham. N. C.. Herald who spoke at the first annual Jack sonville Chamber of Commerce banquet here in March. Roy McMillan Coming To Launch Symphony Campaign June 11th «R. !. McMillnn, prominent Ral eigh attorney, who is activo chair man of the North Carolina Sym phony Fund for the expansion of the activities and usefulness to the State of the North Carolina Sym phony Orchestra, and Dr. .T. O. Bailey of the University at Chapel Hill. Director for the Fund, will arrive here June 11 to begin the local campaign. Chairman for this county is Mrs. L. II. Sylvester of Richlands. Mrs. E. W. Summersill of Jacksonville and Mrs. ,J. E. Steed of Richlands. EPISCOPAL SERVICE ® Services at St. Anne's Episcopal Church next Sunday, .Tune 3rd. being the first Sunday after Tri nity, are instructions for Baptism and Confirmation at 10 a.m.: choir rehearsal at 10:30 a.m.: and cele bration of the Holy Communion and sermon at 11 o'clock. Informal e ening services at 8 p.m., begin ning the "Ministry of Healing." This ancient ministry of(1he church which in recent years' has fallen into disuse is beinj.. revived, and is destined to open up vast fields of rvice to humanity in which it is the rightful province of the church to minister. Pvt Kenneth Blanton, Brother Of Lo£al People, Dies Abroad ®Willard — Pvt. Kenneth A. Blanton. 20. son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Blanton of Willard, was killed in action in Germany on April 20. his parents have been notified by the War Department lie had been overseas since last March and was serving with an infantry division. Surviving are his parents: a brother. Forrest Blanton of Wil lard. who received his discharge from the Army in January, and six sisters. Mae Blanton of Camp Le jeune, Mrs. Earl Price and Mrs. Vance Fryar of Clinton. Mrs. Ader son Wallace of Rosehill, Mrs Dock Blalock of Jacksonville, and Mrs. Louise Hail of the home. John Aycock To Be Assistant Pastor Of Methodist Church £John Aycock of Littleton, who was graduated from High Point College last week, will arrive to day to become student assistant pastor of Trinity Methodist church here for ten weeks this summer. Aycock will enter the school of ministry at Duke University next Fall. Trial Of Meadows Opens !n Superior Cojrf On Thursday weH \nlame T!r»m;.s Sha-v. ?A, USMC, t.f Brooklyn, N. Y.. in l. si:l<"i ' "i Superior Court he: ! .•!'• ; -ledge Merry I,. Ste ve."1 at noon yesterday after selection of a fury V.acl required ail t; e morning session. i-; • the trial a special venire of 50 i;i' situs coining :'rom Richlands. W: Oak and Stump Sound to\. '-'lip. was drawn, and from it the i;; v vas so't 1. '* <ii.■ itr■ J. Abner Barker- is pro. cuti . ' Ih • ease alone, «.! th'j. .h Marine Corps captain froi Camp Lejeune is sitting as an ..i!vis( r. Meadows is defended by counsel eon,; "sed of Join I). War'iek and E. V\ Sumnvrsill of Jacksonville and Hi vers I). Johnson of Warsaw. lv two other eases this week, a verdict of noi guilty was returned by a jurv in rase against H. X. Polls charged with involuntary <ru -:.,ii•_!.1in connection with the d -ath of a child on U. S. Higli w;iy 17 a directed verdict of acquit tal was -landed down in the rob bery avid larceny case brought by Minnie Cavirfc-s jagainst Johnny Crawford. The gr nifl jurv. reported for the ten", on Tuesday afternoon but said it had no recommendations to make. because, with one exceptiOli, its reconiinendations . f ''March term had not been carried, out. Th.g exception was at the jail where some repairs had been made. Tw of the recommendations not earned its last report wore pro viding comfortable chairs for county home inmates and the Town of Jacksonville securing a place of it ; own to lock up drunks. New members of the grand jury at this term were C. M. Ervin. S. P. Venters, R L. Parker, Carl Coston. J. l erov Henderson. Ray mond Phillips. A. D. Daughertv. W. II. Padgett, and Robert F. Scott. Those who served at the March and the May terms were P. B. Petteway. Maurice Trachten ber A. I). Capps. 13. F. Petteway. H. V.'. Gurganus. L. D. Stubbs, J. G Parker. II. II. Cole. W. R. Lewis. - V. Monday sev,?n d>"Drees were granted, including those in the cases of Mary Brown vs. Dexter Brown. Ruby Jenkins vs. George Jenkins.. Annie If. Stutts vs. Stan ley Stutts, Eula H. Bell vs. Carl Bell. Parker Wiliams vs Helen Wil liams. J. 1). Riggs vs Mary Riggs, Vera Forkham vs Franklin Jackson Andrews. Lieuf. Mary Dickson Named New PRO At Camp lejeune ® .Second Lt. Mary C. Dickson, MCWR. has he.cn appointed Camp Public Halations Officer 10 succrd Capt. Henry I'. Childress, who has left Lejeune for overseas duty. Assistant Public "Relations Offi cer for tlie past sewn months. 1.t. Dickson spent nine month;- ; s a sergeant in the Public Relations Office at \tlanla. Ga. Father O'Byrne Will Reassume Duties Here, Temporarily, However ©Hew William S. O'Byrne. C-ath priest at the Infant of Prague Chapel, will resume his duties here this week end. however, onlv temporarily in \v o: a pr. scribed rest. Fat.ier O'Byrne was dis charged from M I,;.ue's hospital in New Bern yesterday after hav ing been tin re f -r several months on account of illness. Rev. Gerard Frederick, who has heci. temporarily in charge here, will leave during the week end f ir a vacation at Silver Springs, Maryland. Pfc. Riley Hood Is Liberated From Nazi Prison Camp ©Pfc. Riley llood, husband <>f Mrs. Rosa llood of Kiclilaitds, has been liberated from a German prisoner of war camp, the War Department announc ed today. Sgt. Car! Jones Dies In English Hospital First Reported Missing © Sgt. Carl Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. Galloway Jones of Maysville, has died in a hospi tal in England, presumably of the effects of wounds or mis treatment while in a German prison camp. First reported missing in action in Belgium since De cember 22. Sgt. Jones wrote his family two weeks ago that he was in a hospital and was getting all right. This week the family was notified of his having died. No other details were immediately available. Additional Funds Voted School Building Project Camp Davis New Building, Repair Projects Started., Tola! Si600,000 $ Camp Davis- Construction of throe large Camp Davis projects, totaling S1.G00.0U0. was started this week. Captain K. C. Hoagland, as sistant resident engineer ."or ihe District office of the Corps of U. S. Engineer's, has announced. 'I'';;- three projects include con struction of five 1.200-man mess halls for enlisted personnel and one 2,000-man rness hall for of ficers: remodeling 20 barracks for convalescent patients at the hospi tal. and remodeling < f bar racks for returnee enlisted men and officers. The .1. A. Jones Construction Co. of Charlotte was low bidder on the rr.es$ hail project. \V. A. Foster of Burlington. N. C. was awarded the contract on the convalescent barracks and part of the returnee barracks. Thompson and Street were low bidders on the remainder of I he eturnee barracks. Completion dates for the three projects have been set at August G for the mess halls and July 11 on both barracks jobs. The contractors are faced with the problem of completing the work as speedily as possible in order to provide adequate facili ties for incoming servicemen at the convalescent center. W. A. Simon, contractor, of Wil mington. has been awarded the contract for renovation and re conversion of buildings and other facilities at Sear's Landing. The area will be devoted to recrea tional purposes and will provide bath houses, showers and other conveniences to returnees. It was explained that some ef the larger buildings were being reconverted into officers' clubs. The contracts, according to one company spokesman, will involve some new construction, but the majority of the work will be re pair. renovation and remodeling of existing facilities. Hospital Tag Day Grosses SI, 135; All Reports Turned In 9 Tag Day. sponsored by the Onslow County Hospital Auxiliary, brought in a total of SI.135.75. it was announced yesterday by Mrs. M. A. Co.vell, finance committee chairman. Mrs, Cowell. enthusiastic about !he response to the campaign for funds, paid tribute to the work of her committee composed of Mrs. .Fames Qdum. Mrs. Alien Gleitz and Mrs. L. P. Mai thews. The breakdown of contributions by communities follows: .1 ac-fcson ville. S6.96.8.9; Midway Park. $235.48: Verona. $42.70: Richlands. S31.50: Sneads Ferry. 335: Holly Ridge. $03: and Swansboro, $1. Chiang Kai-Shek Resigns As Premier, Soong Is Successor 41 Chungking —(IP)— Chiang Kai Shek resigned Thursday as pre mier and turned the post over to Acting Premier .T. V. Soong in a move viewed as step toward solidi fying China at a time when th< Allied Nations are applying tre mendous pressure on Japan fron' all quarters. Chiang retained the post a: President of China and now wil be able to concentrate on mil it an tasks. Chinese Recapture Towns 0 Chungking— (/P»- Chinese fron dispatches reported Chinese force: had recaptured Ishan on the Ka wingski-Kqcichow Railway. 43 mil ess west railhead of Liuehow. for mer site of the important Ameri can Air Base. Another Chinese column strik ing northeastward along the high way from Inclo-China reportec within 55 miles of Liuehow. Two Richlsnds Men Wounded In Action Before Victory Day © Two Richlands young men were reported this week as having been wounded in action in Germany before V-K day. They w.rc Pvt. James F. Bait*. husband of Mrs. Maggie Rat's of Richlands. and Pvt. Clayton M. Brown. husband of Mrs. Nannie li. Brown of Richlands, route one. New Hours New ration board hours, which went into effect yester day. will Rive the public one hour more each day in which to be served by the Onslow County Office of Price Admin istration. Mrs. Ivy O'Quinn. chief clerk, said that the office now is open from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. to serve the public. The old hours were from 8 .a.m to 3 p.m. British To Intervene In Middle East To Preserve Peace £ London — UP) — Foreign Secre tary Anthony Eden told Commons Thursday that Britain "with pro found regret" had ordered its commander in chief in Middle East" to intervene to prevent fur ther effusions of blood in the in terests of the security of the whole Middle East". French-British Rift Seen H I'aris—f.'Pi— The current crisis in Syria and Lebanon holds the potentiality of bringing France into a direct collision with Britain, responsible French sources said as the French cabinet met in emer gency session to study situation. The French no longer hide the belief that the situation in Lebanon and Syria was "artifically created" and declared, if pressed, they can produce documentary evidence to prove it. Reports reaching Cairo said heavy fighting had erupted again in Damascus and that French and Arab troops were locked in clashes throughout the country of Syria. Apprehension Evidenced 0 San Francisco — (/P) — Bloody fighting in Syria put to its severest test Thursday the good neighbor policy on which the United Na tions are seeking to erect a new world loague to keep peace. The outbreak in Levant arouse new apprehensions of many dele gations over the ability of big powers to work out world interests in a friendly unselfish manner. Mrs. David Sabision Leads Bond Sellers; Purchases Lagging 0 Mrs. David Sabiston. pat riotically out to out-sell all other contestants in competi tion of the Blue Star Brigade was elevated yesterday to the rank of lieutenant-general, it was announced by Mrs. Deane C. Taylor, chairman of the Women's division in the 7th War Loan »rive. However, the fine spirit of Mrs. Sabiston and other con testants is still far from making a dent in the overall Onslow County quota of $510,000. Tuesday's report showed only $69,287.25 in bonds bought in this county during the drive. Later reports had not come in by mail yester day noon. B. J. Holleman Elected President Of Jacksonville Airport Directors 0 B. J. Holleman was elected president of the board of directors of the Jacksonville Airport at a meeting here Monday night. The airport is at present in process of incorporation. Other officers elected were: Dr. G. E. Gurganus. vice-president: W. A. S. Aman, treasurer; L. E. Rudi sill. secretary; and Raymond Har-ts field, chairman of the board. Other members are Robert Cravens and Ellis Gates. New members taken in Monday were Z. E. Gurganus, Jack Koonce, Nicholas Kalanzis and B. J. Holle man. Jr., the latter two in absenti since they are now members o the Army Air Corps. The election of officers followe' almost by one week the acquisino of 240 acres of land at Iiawksid for the proposed airport. At the same time, Cravens, wh is a lieutenant in the Civil Ai Patrol and in charge of the Iocj wing, announced that more merr bers were needed for the Cade CAP. That organization last Sur day held an outing at White Lak< It is planned to hold similar oul ings in the immediate future. £ In special joint session with the Onslow County Board of Educa tion. the Board of Commissioners Wednesday voted a $40,000 supple ment to the SI90.000 already ap propriated to finance additions and repairs to Dixon. White Oak and Swansboro schools. The important decisions were made in a session marked by ex tremely close votes, and at one time it looked as if the board of education would reject the entire matter by a vote of 1 to 0. The commissioner vote was three to two, with Chairman H. JVT. Ennett casting the deciding ballot, after Commissioners J. C. Pette way of Jacksonville and W. Vic tor Venters of Richalnds had vot ed against the appropriation motion made and supported by Commis sioner Harry -Moore of Swansboro and ',sceonded by Commissioner Thomas J. Marshall of White Oak. The commissioners' action came after the Board of Education had voted three to one to request a supplemental appropriation to fi nance the projects, bids on which the education board rejected earlier this month on the grounds that they were too high. The action means that the board of education will spend $240.000— the $230,000 appropriated by the board and SI0.000 for capital out lay contained in the current bud get -for $226,906.55 in school buildings and repairs, plus $11, 34r> architect's fees. The bids the board rejected earlier would have called for ex penditures of $264,408. including architect's fees. However, in the interim, changes were made in the plans and specifications—it was emphasized that they will not af fect the buildings structurally or in the service that they will per form. At White Oak the building was reduced in size by 28 feet, and at Dixon six feet were taken off the size of the building. Other omissions of paint, hardware and plumbing were effected by the architect at all three units to re duce the construction costs. What It Means The work will include six addi tional classrooms and cafeteria each at Swansboro and White Oak and 13 additional classrooms and cafeteria at Dixon. supt. a. n. Matseil explained the purpose of the joint meeting at the outset, explaining that all the board of education could do at first was to reject the bids, because the original appropriation was in sufficient to do the work it de sired. "Now, it's a question of whether the board of education desires to risk for a larger appro priation." Chairman W. L. Ketch urn said, asking for an expression of the members. 11. I.. Wiliams, Sr.. Swans ooro representative on the education board, pointed out that in what ever action the group took it should be remembered that the contractors had not lowered their bids but that certain sacrifices had been made by the schools. He said he was not "in sympathy with it now. because we are .^ot getting what we started out to get."How ever. he called for unanimity of action and cooperation for the eventual betterment of the county taking the glory or the responsi bility. whichever it might be. ra ther than satisfaction of personal interests, as a team. He was ad dressing his remarks to the educa tion board, but they aoplied to the commissioners as well. It was Williams, who, to "save daylight" because of the lengthy discussion, made the motion that the Board of Education request an additional appropriation from the Board of Commissioners to finance the school building projects. C. Graham Jones of White Oak sec onded it. Superintendent Hatsell called for the ayes, but no voiec was heard. He paused at least 30 sec onds and called for the noes, and Hugh Rags dale cast a resounding one. The superintendent and Chair man Ketchum apparently were skeptical of the parliamentary pro cedure and asked if that was the way the vote stood. 1 to 0. aeainst requesting additional funds. Where upon C. Graham Jones of White Oak said lie had voted ves on the first call, but apparently was un heard. That made the count 1 and 1. M. F Duff of Stump Sound add ed an aye. and Williams, criticiz ed their lack of spunk in not speak ing out in the first place. He then east an aye vote to get the mat ter before the county commission ers. Commissioner Moore was ready with a prepared resolution appro priating the funds. He filled in the amount of $40,000 and read it, to be seconded by Commissioner Marshall He and Moore voted for i the appropriation and Petteway f and W. Victor Venters of Rich lands against: then Chairman En l nett broke the tie by quickly vot i ing yes. 5 There had been no question what the commissioners would do. ) It was freely spoken around the i* courthouse that the reason the 10 1 a.m. meeting was more than a half - hour late starting was the absence t of Commissioner Marshall who fa - vored the appropriation. As it was, . the joint session did not start Until - after 11 a.m., although the educa (Continued on page six)