THE ONSLOW COUNTY News and Views The Only Newspaper in the World That Gives a Whoop About Onslow County St.., '>8 The Nfwi and Vlew» Lead* I Paid Circulation Local Advertising National Advertlalnt Classified Adverttaln* Onslow County News VOL. MIL NO. 15 JACKSONVILLE, N. C., FRIHAV. MCI ST 31. 1945 MEMBER OF TIIE ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE $2.00 PER YEAR | DOWN EAST ^ WITH * BILLY ARTHUR i 0One of the boys out at Camp Engineers asked Eben Bell the other day what he thought of that atomie bomb. "It'd be just the thing ror clearing new ground," Eben told them. #One of the fellows was telling the story about a small-town mer chant buying a shipment of goods, for which he refused to pay be cause they were damaged on ar rival. The company proceeded to make him pay. so it wrote a letter to him, but got no answer. Then it wrote to the bank to determine the person's credit. Still no answer. Then it wrote a lawyer advising him to bring suit, and also address ed a letter to the magistrate. Still no answer. So in desparation it wrote the postmaster to see if the letters were being delivered. That was too much for the mer chant who replied to the company's letters that: In the small town he was also the postmaster and could assure them the letters had been received: as president of the local bank, he could safely say his cred it was good: and as the only law yer and magistrate for miles around he could assure them they did not have a suit. "And if I wasn't pastor of the church." he concluded. " I'd tell you to go to h ^Harvey Honey's back in his sec ond childhood, evidently. lie was going around the other afternoon blowing soap bubbles. 0That Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Meeks spent last week in Nag's Head without any clothes isn't as bad as it sounds. Or. as bad as Deane Taylor would have you believe. They just forget their suitcases. 0 Those now trash receptacles around town may be all right, but somebody's got to go around for awhile and take the mail out of them, it appears. Jim Collins was telling the oth er day about Mrs. Collins and Mrs. Roy McFatter coming down street, and as they passed the post office. Mrs. McFatter mailed a letter in what appeared to be a mail box. Down at the stoplight, she noted another green box arHl wondered about so many mail boxes around town. then, according to Jim. dis covered her mistake and had to go back and fish the letter out of the receptacle. 0Mrs. L. R. Turner stopped me 'lown street yesterday morning d issued a reprimand £ I didn't see you in school this rning." fit wasn't gunfire you heard in the vicinity of the Episcopal church the other day. It was just a bottle of champagne in untrained hands, One of the fellows who is clean ing up the lot beside the church where Mrs. Anne Price will move her home came across an unopen ed bottle of champagne that had beon there for goodness knows how long. He didn't know what it was. but someone else did. Thought he: I might as well try this stuff, may make the work a lot easier. So he sat down and began twist ing at the wire that holds the cork in. He broke the wire, and the con tents of the bottle took care of the rest—the cork blew out with a popping report, and the fellow fell over backward. He didn't know what had happened! ^Eldridge Hawkkins came up with this clipping the other morn ing. and we're passing it on: "A man is what a woman mar ries. He has two feet, two hands and sometimes two wives, but nev er more than one collar button or one idea at a time. Like Turkish cigarettes, men are all made of the same material, the only difference is that some are better disguised than others. Generally speaking, they may be divided into three classes: !.vs bands. bachelors, and widowers. An eligible bachelor is a man of obstinacy, surrounded w'ith sus picion. Husbands are of three var ieties—prize, surprise, and conso lation prize. Making a husband out of a man is one of the happiest plastic arts known to civilization. It requires science, sculpture, and common sense, faith, hope, and charity—mostly charity. It is a physiological marvel that a soft, fluffy, tender violet-scented sweet thing like a woman should enjoy kissing a big awkward stubby chin ned. tobacco and bayrum scented thing like a man. If you flatter a man, it frightens him to death. If you permit him to make love to you, he gets tired of you in the end. and if you don't, he gets tired of you in the beginning. "If you wear gay colors, rouge, or startling hats, he hesitates to take you out. If you wear a toque and tailor-made suit, he stares all evening at another woman. If you are the modern type, an indepen dent woman, he doubts whether you have a heart. If you are surly, he longs for a bright mate. If you are brilliant, he longs for a play mate. If you are popular with men, he is jealous. If you are riot, he hesitates to marry a wall flower, but if you displease him, he never 'tils to tell you about it, especially vou are his wife." r> MVAL AT KELLl'M 0 Revival services at Kellum Baptist Church will begin Sunday. September 2. at 8:30 p.m. and continue through September 4 Services will be at 830 o'clock each night. The pastor, Rev. Henry V. Napier, will preach. McArthur In Yokohama; To Sign Peace Sunday fAtsugi Airfield. Near Tokyo— )—Gen. Douglas MacArthur ar rived in Japan Thursday and set up headquarters in Yokohama as Nippon's military ruler amidst the first alien armed forces ever to oc cupy the sacred islands. . Paratroopers, seaborne Marines, and Sailors swarmed out of the skies and in from the seas in an unbroken stream. They took Atsugi Airfield; ••an up the American flag over Yokosu ka Naval Base, Japan's second lar gest: rode Jap truck, into Yokoha ma: and began evacuating prison ers of war from the "black hell hole'' where "bestial beatings were common." The occupation is "going splen didly" MacArthur said. The Yanks were moving in or derly fashion "without bloodshed," and it was said that the Japanese seemed to be actinu in good faith. MacArthur called the cheers and music which greeted him the "sweetest music I ever heard." The Atsugi landings started at (> a.m. (5 p.m. Wednesday Eastern War Time.) Naval Forces Land . At the same hour, the tank equipped U. S. Fourth Marie Reg iment. augmented by 1.800 seago ing Marines and 400 Royal British Marines and bluejackets, hit the shore from landing craft around Yokosuka naval base. The landings were covered by the big guns of the Third Fjeet an chored in Tokyo Bay, including the big battleship Missouri, on board which Japan's surrender will be signed Sunday. Aboard the South Dakota was Admiral of the Fleet Nimitz. ready to sign the formal papers as representative of the United States. The juncture of the soldiers and Marines on the soil of Japan will be a dramatic finale to the war record of these units. The 11th Airborne Division fought the bit ter battle around Nichols Field in Manila to top off other campaigns. The original mem bars of the Fourth Marine Regiment once were stationed in China. Many di ed and others were imprisoned in the defense of Corregidor. Admiral Halsey rode the 45.000 ton battlewagon Missouri into Tok yo bay at 7:08 a.m. (6:08 p.m.. Tuesday, Eastern War Time). Names Of Gold Star Mothers Of Onslow Wanted By Legion #The Clarence Meadows Post No. 78 of the American Legion and Auxiliary are anxious to set in touch with the nearest of kin of each Onslow County man who gave his life in the service of his coun try during World War II. Please communicate with Mrs. W. L. Ketchum and Mrs. A. H. Hatsell, Jacksonville. The dinner, which was to be held on September 16, in honor of Gold Star Mother's is now sched uled for September 30. This is due to the fact that W. E. Baggs, com mander of the post, will be on his vacation during the time of the previously announced date. The dinner will be held at noon in the USO building in Swansboro. All Gold Star mothers are invited to attend. ARRIVES OX OKINAWA 0T5 Wayne M. Sandlin, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Sandlin of Verona, has arrived on Okinawa, according to word received by his parents. It was on that island that his brother. Pfc. John Mills Sand lin. was killed by Japanese shell fire several months ago. Pearl Harbor Report Levels Criticism At Marshal And Hull • Washington— (VP)--The Arm.v and Navy were ready to close the books on Pearl Harbor but Con gress kept up a furore over Amer ica's greatest naval disaster going with demands for courls martial and more inside information. ' Chairman Thomas of the Son ate Military Committee remain ed silent pending talks with War Department officials. Chairman May joined with Re publican members of the 'louse Military Committee in ."lamoring for a military trial to fix responsi bility for what happened Dec. 7. 1941. when the Taps destroyed a major segment of the Pacific fleet. Sparks Merger Drive Q Washington—(/P> —The Pearl Harbor report sparked a new drive in Congress for merger of the armed forces. Supporters of the movement termed the report "con vincing evidence" that a lack co ordination existed between the Army and Navy. They said the situation would not have existed had the Army and Navy been working together under one head. Presented Ultimatum 49 Washington.—(/P)—The secrets of Pearl Harbor have been bared by President Truman, revealing criticism striking • into high levels of the government. General George C. Marshall. Chief of Staff was hit by an Army board on the ground thai he failed to alert Pearl Harbor fully before the Japanese struck that bastion Dec. 7. 1941. Cordell Hull, former Secretary of State, was said by the same board to have presented the -Jap anese with what they regarded as an ultimatum at a time when the Army and Navy were trying to stall for time to get prepared. "Started the War." This, the board said, "touched th? button that started the war," though it quickly added that war was inevitable and imminent any way. President Truman, making pub lic reports of Army and Navy in vestigators of the sneak Japanese attack, strongly defened Marshall. 50 did Secretary of War Stimpson, who added that the implied crit icism of Hull was wrong and "un called for." Calls for courts martials to shed further light on the biggest mili tary disaster of U. S. history im mediately were renewed in Con gress. President Truman reserved decision on this point. T. W. McCree, Sr., Passes At Veterans Hospital, Fayetteville ®T. W. McCree, Sr., of Charlotte and Sneads Ferry died Tuesday morning at the Veterans Hospital at Fayetteville. Husband of the former Miss Lila Mae Justice of Sneads Ferry, Mr. McCree had been residing in the Onslow community for the past several years. Previously he resided in Charlotte, where fune ral services were held yesterday. He is survived by his widow, three sons. T. W. McCree, Jr., USMC, now on Siapan, Seaman First Class Robert U. McCree of the U. S. Navy. James McCree of Sneads Ferry; and one daughter. Miss Eleanor McCree of Sneads Ferry. Charles Brooks New Swansboro USO Director; Other Changes Reported 0 Charles Brooks of Washington. D. C.. has become director of Swansboro USO club, succeeding P. S. White, who has resigned to teach school at Tarboro. Brooks, who has been in USO work for the past 3M> years, form erly was director of the Anacostia club at Washington and the Brook lyn Central USO club in Brooklyn. He is employed by USO-YMCA. White had been director of Swansboro USO for the past year and a half, prior to which he was principal of Swansboro school. The change this week is one of a series in USO personnel now underway here. Miss Lois Buell. who has been director of New Bridge Street USO for the past 18 months, will be transferred to a new club on Sep tember 15. Her successor has not yet been named. Other changes include: Miss Madeleine Sinco of Sykes ville, Pa. who will succeed Miss May ColLon at Pine Lodge USO in three weeks. Miss Colton. a sum mer worker, has returned to Jersey City. N. J. Miss Regina Bradley, Boston, Mass., who has completed summer work at Tallman Street USO and returned home. Her successor also has not been named. Miss Jean Ransbottom, who has been at New Bridge Street, since last September, is awaiting trans fer to another club. Task Not Finished "It is abundantly evident that our mission has not been wholly fulfilled", according to National USO President Dr. Lindsley F. Kimball, who called upon volun teers, staff workers, and each member agency of USO to carry through to final completion our joint responsibility. Continued service in Alaska, Hawaii and the Pacific, in areas adjacent to military hospitals and to troops in transit, as well as at permanent bases along the Atlantic Seaboard, was foreseen by Dr. Kimball. "There are hundreds of USO clubs in areas adjacent to the military hospitals and it is clear that the services rendered through these clubs must continue for many months, although the num ber of hospitalized personnel will decline now that hostilities have ceased. The USO-Camp Shows Hospital Circuit and probably its hospital sketching program must also be retained for a somewhat indefinite period." "Within a few months, it will be possible to eliminate entirely or greatly reduce the USO over seas installations along the Atlan tic Seaboard except those serving permanent bases." Jacksonville Stores To Close Labor Day, Be Open Wednesday # Jacksonville's public offices and places of business will observe Labor Day Monday with an all-day holiday. They will be open all-day Wednes day. instead of closing at 1 p.m. The holiday will find the post office, bank and town and county buildings closed, and the Onslow Hoard of Commis sioners. scheduled to meet on the first Monday of each month, will meet Tuesday morning, September 4. instead. Camp Lejeune will also ob serve Labor Day as a holiday. Tobacco Farmers Told To Hold Up Sales; Plants Are Crowded ^Wilson—The board of gover nors of the Bright Leaf Tobacco Association will meet in Raleigh at the Sir Walter Hotel at 11 o'clock on Saturday morning to discuss the possibility of calling a warehouse tobacco iiliday. Notice of this meeting was sent to the members of the board by F. S. Royster of Henderson, presi dent of the association. In the notice he said that he re gretted having to call the meeting but that some relief appears nec essary. Rut this afternoon it was :ndi cated that few farmers were heed ing this warning. For. despite the sale of millions of pounds of weed the warehouses were still glutted to the doors. 0 Rocky M»ount,— (/PI —L. L. Gravely, president of the Tobacco Association of the United States, which controls the tobacco auction system, lias appealed to farmers to slow down on their deliveries of the 1945 crop to market "or facc a tobacco holiday." In a statement. Gravely said re drying plants throughout tho part of the flue-cured belt now operat ing were in a congested condition. With acute labor shortages now prevalent, he added, only a slowing down of grading and deliveries to tell markets will ease the situation. Plants Overflowing; He said that during the pa^t week 20.000.000 pounds of bright leaf tobacco were marketed in ex cess of the total redrying capacity. Markets in both North and South Carolina Border Belt and the Eas tern Carolina Belt arc- now block ed to capacity, with some markets reoprting enough leaf on hand to last week, he said. Provost Marshal Speaks At Kiwanis Meeting Tuesday 0Maj. Thomas G. Letchworth, Camp Lejeune provost marshal, spoke at the weekly meeting of the Jacksonville Kiwanis club at the USO Pine Lodge Tuesday afternoon. Maj. Letchworth spoke on the work of the provost's of fice. The club heard two delightful vocal solos by Miss Naomi Conk ling. who was accompanied at the piano by Mrs. E. \V. Summersill. H o u s e Committee Chairman Deane Taylor reminded Kiwanians thla they would meet at the Club Roanoke Island during the month of September, the day and hour the same as it is now. Four members of the proposed Kiwanis club at Morehead City were present. They were Ilatold Webb. Dr. E. P. Spence, Bill Cherry and Frank Reams. Other guests were Frank Smith of Jack sonville and Dr. A. M. Fountain of Raleigh. OPA Office Closes All Day Saturdays, Report Resignations ^Starting tomorrow, the Onslow Office of Price Administration will be closed every Saturday, it. was announced yesterday by Mrs. Ivy O'Quinn. chief clerk, who re ported that three members of the staff had already resigned and soon would reduce the number of per sonnel in the office. The Saturday closing of ration offices is state-wide and in keep ing with an order of District Di rector Theodore S. Johnson, it was said. With the end of gasoline ration ing and elimination of some food stuffs from the ration lists, the office force here was to have been reduced from nine to six persons. The resignations of Mrs. P. S. White of Swansboro to teach school and Miss Kathleen Kochelle because of illness already has lowered the number of paid em ployees. Mrs. B. J. Holleman. Jr., is expected lo leave about Septem ber 15 to accompany her husband to his new Army Air Forces post. It was also announced that the Richlands office of the Richlands office of the OPA has been closed. All Office of Price Administra tion business in the future will be conducted in the office here. Two Onslow Vets Scheduled Back In United States HENRY A. DAVIS §Np\v York—Onslow County war veterans listed below were sched uled In arrive this week on the SS Georgetown Victory. The list was compiled by the Associated Press from advance convoy pas senger lists and is not a corrected list as lo date of sailing or date of arrival. Port authorities ask that rela tives and friends of the men not contact the port authorities for additional information, as this is not available. The Associated Press does not have additional in formation, nor does The News and Views. They were: T5 Haywood B. Jarman, Jack sonville. Pfc. Henry A. Davis. Holly Ridge. Scheduled to arrive at Newport News aboard the SS Rock Hill was Pfc. George T. Boyd of Sneads Ferry. Scheduled to arrive at Newport News. Va., August 31 aboard the SS Cody Victory is Pfc. Ned Tay lor of Richlands. Jeps Ban American Jazz From Radios, Promote Classics 0 San Francisco—(/Pt—Japan will welcome American occupation forces—but American jazz is a bit too much. Despite its popularity in prewar Japan, it will henceforth be sun planted by the music of "whole some" bands, Domei news agency said in a dispatch quoting the newspaper Yomiuri Hnchi. Still, "working people must lau ,h," Domei's broadcast ac knowledged so Tokyo metropoli tan police are doing their best to rebuild and reopen the cities' movie theaters. Only 80 oi 252 escaped destruction by American bombs. September Liquor Ration Books Values Announced By ABC £ The September liquor ration was announced yesterday by the Onslow ABC Board. The ration for next month is as follows: "Coupon Nqs. 37 and 38 will be valid any time during the month of September, 1945, for one quart or one fifth each, or two pints or two tenths each, or any whiskey or Scotch. "Coupons Nos. 39 and 40 will be valid any time during the month of September, 1945, for one quart, or one fifth each, or two pints each, of gin, or one fifth each of Private Stock, Prince George. Five Stripe or Cedar Brook. imported and domestic spec ial! ies. imported and domestic brandy, rum cordials, fruit flavor ed gin. fruit flavored brandy and Sloe Gin will be ration free." 12 Trash Receptacles Placed On Corners About Jacksonville £The Town of Jacksonville has purchased 12 trash receptacles and placed them on street corners about town. Their use to keep the town free of trash is urged by town authorities. Comic Strip Kings To Appear At Camp On September 18-19 0 Comic strip cartoonist Milton CanifT is due to put in a personal appearance at Camp Lcjeune. Sep tember 18-19. With him will be Arthur "Bugs" Baer. famed humorist and writer; Rube Goldberg, creator of the fantastic inventions and. of late, an editorial cartoonist, and Otto Soglow whose ' LiUle King" draw ings in the Sunday comics and magazines have always been rib ticklers. They will sketch their creations before audiences at the Naval Hospital, Courthouse Bay and Hadnot Point. Clearing Laundry Site; $300,600 Permits Issued Humphrey Brothers Meet In Pacific After Being Separated Two Years 0 Willi the 81st Division on Min danao Pfc. Woodrow Humphrey and his brother, Bainster, Seaman 2c. both of Jacksonville. N. C\. after a separation of more than two years recently met on a Pacific island. Bainster is a member of the crew serving aboard an LST. He saw his first action at the beach head on Leyte through the sights of a 20mm. anti-aircraft gun mounted on his ship. Since ihat time he has participated in the battles for Luzon, Iwo Jima. and Okinawa. Woodrow, a veteran artillery man, has seen action in New Guinea. Morotai Island, the Mapia Islands and on Mindanao. His unit. Battery A. 149th Field Artillery Bn.. was in direct support of the Infantry on Mindanaos Sayre highway. The servicemen are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Humphrey of Jacksonville. Seaman E. I. Riggs Home On Furlough After Pacific Duty 0 Edgar Riggs arrived at his home in New Bern Tuesday. Au gust 21, and visited his parents. Mr. and Mrs. E. I. Biggs at their home at Bear Creek last Wednes day and Thursday. Riggs has been serving on the USS Everett in the Pacific. He returned to Alemeda. California. July 27 where leave granted until September 6. N. C. Marine Saves Lives Of 3 Persons Af Carolina Beach # The timely appcarance and su perhuman eforts of Marine Ser geant Charles E. Lee of Route 1. Advance, and Camp Lcjeunc. North Carolina, saved the lives of three youthful bathers at Carolina Beach, North Carolina, on Sunday. Aug ust 12. Battling a swift current and rough breakers. Lee dashed into the surf three times and each time returned with an exhausted or un conscious swimmer The Sergeant and his wife. Mrs. Frances Wain Lee. of Granite City. North Carolina, were strolling along the water's edge, some distance beyond the safety zone under the surveillance of the life guard, when they heard a cry for help. Taking just a second to size up the situ ation. Lee caught sight of two struggling figures a short distance beyond the breakers. He swam out to the one who seemed to be the worst off and after hauling him to safety returned to the other boy who was still struggling helplessly in the rough water. Upon reach ing the beach with the second youth the Marine learned that the boys he had just saved had been trying, unsuccessfully, to rescue a girl. Lee and a life guard, who had been attracted to the scene by the commotion, spotted the girl, by her white bathing cap, a good dis tance out beyond the breakers. For the third time the Marine en tered the water and assisted the guard in brining the unconscious girl to safety. Exhausted after his harrowing experience, Lee rested while the girl was revived through artifical respiration and then, quietly and unnoticed, left the scene without learning the identity of the people he had saved. Sergeant Lee, who has served in the Marine Corps since July. 1942. was on duty in Cuba for 27 months as gun captain in an anti-aircraft unit. He was returned to the States in December, 1.944. and is on duty here at the War Dog Training School. The veteran Marine is the son of Mrs. Curtis W. Lee. who also lives at the Advance address. He was graduated from the China Grove High School and prior to entering the service he was employed by the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Com pany in Winston-Salem. Cox. I. J. Parker Home On Furlough After 15 Months Of Duty 0Cox. I. J. Parker. USNR. son of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Parker of near Jacksonville, is spending a 30-day furlough at home after having served with the Navy in the At lantic for the past 15 months. In honor of his return and in honor of his father's 60th birth day. a barbecue dinner was served at the home Sunday. All near rela tives. except Sgt. Hubert Parker who is in England, were present. After completion of Coxswain Parker's furlough, he will report to New Orleans for duty. Richlands Merchans Join Local Chamber, To Form Association ft Ray Brown, president of the Richlands Lions club, this week A'as named chairman of the Riclv ands group of members in the Jacksonville Chamber of Com ■nerce who will form a retail mer chants committee and solicit nddi ional members in Richlands. 1-Ie automatically becomes a Tiember of the chamber board of ;iirectors, and the new members hey secure in Richlands wilt elect mother member of the board. Al •eady signed up as members of he chamber in Richlands are Brown. J. E. Steed. Jr., H. A. Ragsdale, II. S. Brown. B. W. Brock and Dick Sylvester. Deane Taylor, president of the Jacksonville chamber. James A. Ddom. secretary. Mayor Ramon \skew and E. T. Meeks. Jr.. met A'ith the Richlands people Tues day night and assisted in the organization. Taylor said the same procedure Aould be followed at Holly Ridge and Swansboro and in other com munities where interest in the civic organization is evidenced. J. H. Aman Re-Named President Onslow Tuberculosis Group #John H. Arnan, Jacksonville merchant, has re-elected president of the Onslow County Tuberculosis Association at its meeting this week. Other officers re-elected were Miss India Gurganus. secretary, and Mrs. Hayward Campbell of Holly Ridge, Mrs. Lillian Ray of Hubert. Mrs. Dewey Justice of Tar Landing. Miss Bertha Morton of Jacksonville, route two. and Mrs. Leon Sylvester of Richlands, mem bers at large of the board of di rectors. Date for the campaign, which will be headed by Kenneth T. Knight, Jr.. of Midway Park, for the sale of Christmas seals to com bat tuberculosis has not yet been set. but the drive for funds prob ably will start at the latter part of November. The group voted to employ a paid secretary for the campaign. Ordinance Provides That Owners Must Keep Lots Covered O A town ordinance now in force provides that all property owners must keep their lots, vacant or oc cupied. free of weeds, trash, and junk. Street Superintendent W. B. Hurst said yesterday. His statement followed a request by some local persons that some thing be done by the town to clean up property. Hurst pointed out that the ordi nance provides that the properties be kept clean and free of weeds so that the health of the community would not be impaired by insani tation or breeding places for mos quitos and flies. Red Cross Sewing Rooms At Lejeune To Open Sept. 4th #Mrr John Marston. chairman of the Camp Lejeune Auxiliary of the American Red Cross, yester day reminded women of the re opening of the work rooms on Tuesday, Sept. 4th, in Building 132 at Camp Lejeune, for sewing, knitting and surgical dressings. Every woman on the Post is ex pected to take some part in this Red Cross work, she said. These rooms will be open for work every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs day from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Red Cross work room at Midway will also re-open on Tues day, Sept. 4th. and will be open for work every Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Cheney And Ampere Electric Companies End Joint Operations # The Cheney Electric company adn the Ampere Electric company, which have been operated by C. V. Cheney for the past several months, have separated. The Ampere Electric company ownership has reverted to C. T. Bridges and J. C. Robinson. 0 Clearing the site on Court street for erection of the new plant of the College View Cleaners and Laundry was started yester day as Building Inspector Herbert Eastwood reported that, permit* involving $300,600 in new con struction and repairs had been issued since July 13. The College View Laundry and Cleaners building, permit for which was issued in the amount of 59,500. will be erected by J. L. Goodman, contractor. It will be rushed to completion so that it can be occupied this fall, laundry of ficials said. Other building permits issued in the past several days included those to: A. H. James, $2,000 store on lower Court street. A. W. Wiggins, $500 store and fish market on Railroad avenue. Hargett Devane, $650 garage on Branch street. Governor Spencer, $850 dwell ing on lower Court street. W. C. Chadwick, $800 garage on Will avenue. Mrs. Anne M. Price. $500 re moval of residence from Court street to Ward-Darst Plaza. The permits already issued for 5300.600 in construction and re pairs include the new residences now being erected by the Graham Building corporation, but the Clyde Building corporation which will build residences in the Bayshore Estates area has not yet applied for construction permit, Eastwood said in explaining that the large figure includes a number of small projects as well as several large ones. He said that the police depart ment would cooperate with the building inspector in reporting all new construction and in ascertain ing whether the structures were being built in accordance with the State of North Carolina building code, particularly as it refers to wood said persons who have build ings now under construction and who have not applied for permits should do so immediately. He said that one warning would be issued, and after that the builder would be liable to prosecution. The new laundry building, to go up next to the News and Views, will be approximately 48 x 140 feet. The removal of the Price resi dence from Court street to Ward Darst Plaza beside St. Anne's Epis copal church will make available a choice business lot opposite the bus station. Brown And Whicker Resign Post Office Jobs; Rhodes Named #The resignation of two em ployees of Jacksonville post of fice. effective September 1. were announced yesterday by Acting Postmaster Frank A. Smith. J. Parsons Brown has resigned to work with Quinn-Miller Furni ture company, and Grady Whicker has resigned so that he may attend school, Smith said. Only one place has been filled, that of Brown. To replace him John K. Rhodes of Jacksonville, who is civil service, has been em ployed. Smith did not know where the other replacement will come from because the civil service list here is practically nil. New govern ment regulations provide for the employment in public offices only those persons who are veterans of World War II and qualified under civil service. No civil service per son who is not a veteran may be employed. Ruffin Hall, Negro, Killed In Collision Of Trucks Thursday # Ruffin Hall, Pleasant Hill Ne gro. was killed almost instantly in a collision of two trucks about one quarter of a mile above Jar man Fork on N. C. Highway 58 last Thursday evening about 6:30 o'clock. He was the third victim of auto mobile accidents in Onslow Coun ty last week. Pfc. Helen Shalovich of Camp Lejeune and John Moody, Charlotte Negro, were fatally in jured Tuesday night. August 21. State Highway Patrolman O. H. Lynch said that Hall, driving a pick-up truck, was attempting a U-turn in the middle of the road when his truck was struck by a log struck driven by Manly Pierce, Richlands, Route one. Hall suf fered a fractured skull when thrown from the truck. Coroner Timmons Jones ruled that an inquest was not necessary and exonerated Pierce of blame. SANDERS BUYS RESIDENCE §Mr. and Mrs. I. Dan Sanders have purchased the Warn street residence of Dr. and Mrs. H. W. Stevens. The Stevens will move to Wilson about October 1 when Dr. Stevens will become health officer of City and County of Wilson. ^