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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."
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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. ^