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VOL. VIII, NO. 17 JACKSONVILLE, N. C., FRIDAY. SI.I'TI.MIilU 7. 1915 member of thf. associated press PRICE $2.00 PER YEAH
POWN EAST
% WITH
I olLLy ARTHUR
,.°Jd ?b0Ut a Marine who
but 5hi C boots at Te"t City,
Who h»„lf 3 S?ec'al kind °f recruit
paiisn h t>e ln uniform be
h.e was a striker in one of the
decided hS H" l0ti" draft
thev u. .Was ?o1 essen|ial. *>
I A ,nH ,u ! re[,assified him to
Marine 1S >W hc a
Anyway shortly after pay day
last month, this ex-union workcV
thTtehi= ro his C ° anrt sai(l
mat his pay was wrong.
thi h™.° <,U€,s,ion<-d and this was
the boot s reply:
"Well, as you remember, sir we
th„ ,f ,Veral nighl Problems during
the last pay period where we work
creased"'® my Pay Wasn 1 in"
The C O ouldn't resist the temp
tation, so he yelled, "You mean
you didn't get time and a half for
over-time? ' He sent the boot down
V„?CS'mt'",al headquarters to
talk things over with the paymas
Before the thing was over, the
V caught the very dickens from
regimental headquarters, but he
said the fun was worth it.
©Brother Ed Provost got his wa
ter bill the other morning and did
nt like the amount it showed so
ilf (,(>wn lo ,ho ci|.v ''all
to tell Will Barry Hurst off
He walked up behind a uniform
ed man and, almost starting to
shake his fist, blurted, "See, here
Whereupon the new police chief
Paul M. Shore turned around and
a stranger faced Brother Ed who
later paid his bill without protest:
♦ Anent Dcane Taylor's red. white
5. b'u<" lilies- a f'iend of Mr. and
Mrs. Ramon Askew saw the story
in the News and Observer which
said that 011 the day after the Japs
surrendered Deane had "six lilies
in bloom—three red, three white
and three blue."
So. the friend wrote this letter
"My dear Mr and Mrs. A
Lamentation! Please give my
my sympathy to poor, poor Mrs
Deane Taylor. I ran rcallv know
how she feels because I've lived
with a moron ever since I was
born—guess who?
"And demented Mr. T— he al
ways was an intelligent looking
chap. There was that twinkle in
his eyes which is almost infallibly
an indication that a head contains
at least three or four tame, sober
irain cells. How, alas, the worst is
Known. Poor fellow—he can't even
add. Anyon-- with half sense might
trow two-tone water plants but it
requires those three or four brain
e ^ashing madly about in the
*ory to realize that 3 plus
equals 9. and not six.
please humor him. Agree
.m that 3 plus 3 plus 3 equals
6. and yes. he's Napoleon, too
Don't disillusion him. And. ye
heavens forbid, don't dare men
tion to him that I think he's off
the beam.
"... I really wrote to tell of
sympathy for poor Mrs, T—or does
she also think that 3 plus 3 plus
3 equals 6. Oh. dear, dear!"
0 Down at the Club Roanoke Is
land Tuesday, the Kiwanians ^took
in all the wallpaper on which' are
Indians, ships, (ents sea.
Dr. H. W. Stevens, who's going
to leave this section soon looked
wistfully at the water. Already he
wants to come back and go fishing.
And almost (?) bald Judge Har
vey Boney wanted one of those In
dian tents. He wanted it to keep
his wigwam.
(So corny has become some of
the stuff in this column of late . .
i. e. keep his wigwam . . . thai
several of the fellows, particularly
Bob Pinkston, are nicknaming me
Harvey Boney. Therefore, I've
made a resolution not to pun any
more. Being called Harvey is no
fun. Oops!)
Anyway, the fellows took in Moe
Aurillo's and Tom Shugart's place
from top to bottom, but yotf would
i have thought Deane Taylor was in
j Grand Central station—he walked
Sind so much. Did more walking
got fewer places than any
on.
And Jack Peck. Rudy Rudisill,
Pender Capps, Herman Falbaum
I up their cigars which, with the
I pipes of Parsons Carl Craig and
i F. N. Cox, necessitated turning on
the fans.
Other than that the conduct of
I the members was all right. How
ever, President Ramon Askew in
dicated he was plumbing without
a license. When Deane tried to
make an impromptu announcement
about the chamber of commerce
meeting, President Askew said,
"The chamber's out of order."
0As long as Harvey Boney can
take three county commissioners
—H. M. Ennett. chairman, Victor
Venters and Thomas Marshall—to
I the Kiwanis meetings, he's got a
\ majority vote of the board for
j staying in as judge of recorder's
' court.
#Farm Agent Charlie Clark
bought a seat cushion for his of
fice recently for $3.00. and asked
the Board of Commissioners to
pay for it. But the bill went back
to him, payment refused; he could
pay for it himself.
However, Commissioner Clayton
Petteway personally ordered a
water cooler in keeping with
%>aign promise he would put
the courthouse if he had to
himself. But he didn't; the
, did.
; MORE DUTCH MARINES
0New York,—(/P)—Arrivals on
t the troopship Alcott here Sunday
' Included 511 members of the Ma
, rlne Corps of the Royal Dutch
; Navy who will be trained at Camp
| Davis, N. C.
Truman Asks Congress
To Keep War Powers
0 Washington —UP) —President
Truman called upon Congress
Thursday to keep his war powers
in force for reconversion "emer
gency" as he laid down a 21-point
legislative program.
It included "limited" tax cuts
next year and proposals to achieve
full employment.
Truman told legislators, assem
bled for the first peacetime ses
sion in four years, that the war
will not be over on the home front
until its economic impacts have
been eased.
Henoe, he said, proposals ^o
abolish wartime controls by declar"
ing the war officially at an end
would lead to "great confusion
and chaos in government."
KEEP TRIESTE FREE
% L<ondon— »(/P) — Competent
sources said that 1he British, con
fident of American backing, hop
ed to present to the forthcoming
meeting of the Foreign Ministers
here a plan for internationaliza
tion of Trieste, which would en
able landlocked Central Europe
to use the city as a free port.
RATIONING TO END
0 Washington— (fl5)—OPA told
Congressmen that "most ration
ing will end this year" while rent
control will be scrapped in 75 to
100 cities within four or five
months.
County Board Asks
Highway Commission
Maintain Peru Road
# The Onslow County Board of
Commissioners Tuesday asked the
State Highway and Public Works
Commission to maintain and keep
up the Sneads Ferry-Peru road.
The action of the board places
Mrs. Mamie Lewis. Peru resident
who has asked that the road be
closed, in the position of now
carrying her fight to the district
highway commission offices in
Greenville. Mrs. Lewis, who did
not get to the board meeting.qp
time this week because of auto
mobile trouble, had requested 1he
board at the August session that
the road be closed to the public.
She contended that her property
was being trespassed upon. Other
residents of the Sneads Ferry sec
tion contended that the road had
been public for more than 100
years, and that there was no need
for it being closed.
BETTER LIVING BOOST
£ Washington — (/P) — Th« climb
toward better living got a boost
Thursday. OPA is handing out
more meat, cheese, butter. But the
War Manpower Commission said
2.000.000 war workers have lost
their jobs since Japan's fall, many
have been rehired. News from in
dustry and government alike was
good.
Harlsfield Appointed
Norge Distributor
For Jacksonville
0 Hartsfield Jewelry company in
Jacksonville has been apointed lo
cal distributor for Norge electrical
products and Arvin and Farns
worth radios, it was announced
yesterday by Raymond and C. W.
Hartsfield, owners of the firm.
The Hartsfield company, one of
Jacksonville's oldest business
establishments, handled electrical
products before the war but be
cause of shortages did not promote
them during wartime. They are
now resuming their place in the
electrical appliance sales field
here.
In making the announcement,
the Hartsfields said that a com
plete line of Norge appliances
would be carried in stock just as
soon as they become available. As
other electrical appliance manu
facturers, Norge is now reconvert
ing from war-time to peacetime
production.
General MacArthur
Will Raise U. S. Flag
In Jap Capital Today
0 Yokohama — (TP) — Gen.
MacArthur will enter Tokyo
Saturday (Friday, U. S. Time)
with initial occupation forces,
the U. S. First Cavalry Divi
sion.
He will raise over the Am
erican Embassy—his head
quarters—the flag that flew
in Washington Dec. 7, 1941,
and later at Casablanca, Rome.
Berlin and from the battle
ship Missouri when Japan sur
rendered.
The cavalrymen will enter
Tokyo from positions around
their perimeter rather than in
one large unit, headquarters
said. The first cavalry strength
is estimated at 15,000 men,
full strength.
Service units, and general
headquarters also will move
Saturday. The Fighth Army
headquarters will remain at
Jewish New Year
And Holy Days To
Start This Evening
# Beginning on Friday evening.
Jewish personnel will celebrate the
traditional New Year Rosh Hash
nnah which ushers in the Holy
Day Season. At Camp Lejeune
the first worship service for the
Holy Days will be held at Friday
evening. It will be followed by two
services on Saturday, at the Camp
Chapel, Area 4. Hadnot Point.
The last service of this two-day
celebration will be held on Sunday
at Area 2 Theater.
These services begin the ten
penitential days during which
time the Jews seek to make peace
with themselves, with their God.
and with their neighbors. This
year the celebration will have a
more than usual significance be
cause the ideal of the Jewish Holy
Days is the ideal on which the
entire Judaeo-Christian ethical
character of our civilization is
based—an ideal of "Peace, peace
to those that are far and to those
that are near."
All Jacksonville stores operated
by Jews will be closed from (i
p.m. tonight until Monday morning.
Cheney Electric Co.
Gets General Electric
Appliance Franchise
0 Cheney Electric company o t
Jacksonville has been appointed
General Electric dealer here, it
was announced yesterday.
C. V. Cheney, owner of Cheney
Electric company, said he had
made extensive plans for the sale
and servicing of G-E's many elec
trical appliances, which are now
in production and which will be
on the market here in the near
future. He has been in the elec
trical business for the past 17
years, almost two years in Jack
sonville.
At the same time Cheney an
nounced that P. M. Dennis, well
known resident of Onslow County
for several years, had joined the
sales staff of the firm. Formerly
associated with the Jones-Onslow
Electric Membership corporation
Dennis recently returned from
Pearl Harbor where he was en
gaged in war work.
Cheney said this district and
Jacksonville will be supplied with
G-E's complete line of electrical
appliances as soon as the manu
facturer can convert from wat
production to manufacture of new
appliances.
ASSIGNED AS PASTOR
0Mrs. I. S. Taylor has been as
signed as pastor of Holiness chur
ches at Baar Creek and Verona.
REA To Build 250 Miles Of Lines
To Serve 1,000 Rural Customers
0 Approximately 250 miles of
power lines serving more than
1,000 families will be constructed
by the Jones-Onslow Electric
Membership Corp. in five counties
in this area, it was disclosed yes
terday by Fred Harmon, REA
superintendent.
The new construction will be
accomplished with $301,000 allot
ted the corporation by the Rural
Electrification Administration this
week, Harmon said.
The Jones-Onslow will begin
the project possibly in the late
winter or early spring when, it is
believed, materials will be avail
able in quantities sufficient to
complete the work economically
without interruption.
Harmon said the power line ex
tensions would be made in Onslow,
Jones, Lenoir, Duplin and Pender
Counties, Pender being a new field
for the corporation which now is
serving rural customers in the
other four counties.
New Non-Stop Mark
Set From Honolulu
To Washington By B-29
0 Washington,—(aP)—A new rcc
ord for nonstop flight from Hon
olulu to Washington was set wher
a B-29 landed at the capital 11
hours and 21 minutes out of Haw
aii.
This lowered the record estab
lished by another B-29 command
ed by Maj. Gen. Curtis E. Lamay
then chief of the 21st Bombei
command and now chief of staf:
of Army Air forces. That fligh
took 20 hours and 15 minutes.
The B-29 making the new rec
ord. the "Lady Marge," came hen
from Guam carrying film and oth
er records from Tokyo. The mater
ial had been flown to Guam froii
Tokyo by another Superfortress.
School Enrollment
Here Tops Richlands
For The First Time
0For the first, time in history of
the Onslow County school system,
the first day's enrollment at .Jack
sonville schools topped that at
Richlands.
A unique figure, a total of 999
students reported for school on
the opening day here, fifteen more
than attended at Richlands. In the
past Richlands has been the most
heavily populated school district,
but the influx of population here
has caused Jacksonville to go to
the front.
MacArthur Demands
Full Information On
American Prisoners
0 Aboard The U.S.S. Aneon.
Tokyo Bay—(/Pi—General Mae
Arthur in one of his first acts as
Japan's military boss demanded
information of all Allied war
prisoners. 6.000 of whom appar
ently have been moved recently
from the Tokyo area.
Shortly before or immediately
after the cessation of hostilities,
the Japanese moved the prisoners
away from military targets, near
which they had been placed over
repeated Allied protests in an at
tempt to force the Allies to desist
from raiding the targets.
MacArthur's first general order,
issued through Japanese head
quarters calling for the immed
iate disarming of the nation and
surrender of all military forces,
showed his concern for the prison
ers.
Among other things it demand
ed immediately the "location of
all camps and other places of de
tention of the United Nations
"prisoners of war and civilian in
ternees."
The Japanese were told to see
that all prisoners were well fed.
housed, clothed and given medical
care "until such responsibility is
undertaken by the Supreme Com
mander of the Allied powers."
U. S. Share In Nazi
Reparations To Be
Smallest Of All
# Berlin — (/P) — The American
share of Gorman reparations, it is
predicted by financial experts, is
likely to be the smallest of any of
the four occupying powers. Amer
icans' eventual recompense from
the defeated enemy is expected
to be about five per cent of that
of the Soviet Union, one half of
Britain's and somewhat less than
that of France.
Surrender Signing
Thoroughly Covered
By Newspaper Folks
By RICHARD CUSIIING
#U.S.S. Missouri Tokyo Bay—(.*P)
—The greatest crowd of news
correspondents cameramen and
radioeasters of the entire war cov
ered the momentous formal sign
ing aboard this mighty warship
Sunday morning.
Representing a dozen Allied na
tions as well as Japan more than
315 in all perched on various van
tage points of the huge superstruc
ture and deck to view the scene
from all sides.
Flash bulbs blazed movie cam
eras and radio recorders ground
in seemingly unending sequence
from before 8 a.m. when the first
top-ranking army and navy men
boarded the ship until well after
the closing of the ceremony at
0:18 a.m.
Then newsmen dashed to the
wardroom of the destroyer Taylor
alongside and began the wired
flow of hundreds of thousands of
words en route to shore from the
Missouri. *
The story was undoubtedly the
most thoroughly covered of the
war in all theaters. Every prmy
and navy accredited correspond
ent was permitted to attend the
ceremony for which there was
ample space on the great foredeck
of one of the world's mightiest
warships.
They were perched high in the
conning tower which is the equiv
alent in height of a six-story build
ing on guns bridges and even
platforms suspended from the side
at deck level. All had an unob
structed view not only of the sign
ing but of the signatories arriving
by the starboard companionway as
well.
Covering the historic event were
154 accredited newsmen and 102
navy plus 30 Australian and Eng
lish, 18 Russians, seven Chinese,
four Japanese (two newsmen and
two photographers, permitted by
General MacArthur to attend! and
a few others.
The Russians flew to Yokohama
Saturday night from Vladivostok.
The Associated Press provided
world-wide coverage with 13 news
men and photographers aboard.
They were Spencer Davis. Murlin
Spencer, Al Dopking, Hal Boyle,
Russell Brines, Richard Cushing,
Hamilton Faron. Richard K. O'Mal
ley, Duane Hennessy, Morrie
Landsberg Charles Gorrie Frank
Filan, and Max Desfor.
Ernest S. Thompson
One Of Seamen In
Occupation Of Japan
0On The U.S.S. Shangri-La In
Tokyo Bay—Ernest S. Thompson,
seaman, first class. 124 Stratford
Road. Jacksonville, N. C.. is serv
ing on this aircraft carrier, which
is part of I lie powerful Pacific
Fleet completing the first stages
of the occupation of Japan.
Under the operational control of
Admiral William F. Halsey, USN,
the Shangri-La, with Ifi other
carriers. : ix escort carriers. 12
battleships 20 cruisers and more
than 290 other U. S. ships, is help
ing take over control of the Japs'
big naval bases.
The Shangri-La had a prominent
role in the air strikes against the
Jap homeland just prior to the
surrender.
Red Cross Nurse
Will Be Retained
At Midway Park
£ The Red Cross nurse will be
retained at Midway Park, it was
decided at a meeting of area and
local officials with representatives
of that community here Wednes
day morning. Mrs. J. W. Burton,
chairman of the nursing services
committee of the Onslow County
Chapter. American Red Cross,
presided at the meeting.
The local chapter now is making
an effort to secure a capable per
son with public health experience
to take the job at Midway Park.
Japanese Cabinet
Calls Election For
January 20 To 31
By The Associated Press
0 The Japanese cabinet decided
a general election will be held in
Nippon January 20 to 31, and the
Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri Hochi
urged "spontaneous and vigorous
action" toward forming a demo
cratic government.
Tokyo radio broadcasts, heard
by the FCC, reported the cabinet's
election decision. It said the gov
ernment would summon the na
tional Diet to an extraordinary
session early in December to re
vise Japan's election laws, and a
nation-w ide census probably would
start November 1.
Transportation Delay
May Cause Increase
In Number Divorces
% San Francisco. —(/P)—Delay in
providing transportation to Amer
ica. for 7.000 Australian brides of
U.S. servicemen may result in a
sharp rise in the divorce rate of
these couples reports Charles K.
Gamble, commissioner of Red
Cross activities in the southwest
Pacific.
Most of these men who mar
ried Australian girls already have
received discharge from the ser
vices because of their long terms
of duty." Gamble said. "Vet only
1,076 wives and 311 children had
reached :!ie United States by the
end of June."
Wainwright Amazed
At Display Of Air
Might In Tokyo Today
§U.S.S. Missouri. Tokyo Bay—
(/P)—A gnunt American lieutenant
general stood by the Admiral's
cabin on this historic ship watch
ing low flying American aircraft
in the grey skies.
"We could have used some of
those," s;ud the general. Jonathan
"Skinny Wainwright, as he stared
at the symbol of American might
which vindicated him and the boys
of Bataan and Corregidor who
fought under him.
In his pocket was one of the
pens used by General MacArthur
in signing the historic Japanese
surrender document. On his face
was a proud smile.
"I am flying to the Philippines
to take the surrender of Lt. Gen.
Tomoyuki Tamashita. then T am
going home to see my wife again."
Wainwright told an Associated
Press correspondent.
Wainwright, recently released
from a Japanese prison camp,
wore none of his ribbons but his
experience was etched deeply in
his sharp, keen face. As he faced
General Yoshijiro Omczu, one of
the Japanese signers, he stood
erect in his neatly pressed uni
form.
It was different than the last
time Wainwright faced a Japanese
general. Umezu, tight lipped and
silent, wore campaign ribbons but
his samurai sword was absent—
token of surrender.
Wainwright had encountered
many blustering enemy command
ers but Umezu was treated with
formal courtesy by all generals.
"You can imagine how I feel
today." Wainwright commended
after the ceremony.
RESIGNS AT BANK
0 Mrs. Melvin Willard has resign
ed her position at the First-Citi
zens Bank and Trust company.
L. L. Stevens Leases
Jacksonville Airport
Survey Town Needs For Projects;
Increase In Taxi Permits Voted
% Looking toward post-war im
provement of Jacksonville, with
the aid of Federal funds, the Town
Board of Commissioners Tuesday
night instructed Engineer Herbert
M. Eastwood to make a survey of
the needs so that the work can be
accomplished in the order of its
importance and as funds become
available.
The board also decided to in
crease the number of taxi permits
allowable for the town from 42
to 50. That action came after a
lengthy discussion in which appro
ximately 30 taxi drivers partici
pated.
Eastwood will investigate and
plan for additional water and
sewer lines, storm sewers, curbs
and gutters, sidewalks and street
paving projects. Members of the
board feel that Federal funds will
be available to local governments
to conduct the work. The funds
would be supplemented by ;own
monies either on hand or from
bond issues.
The survey, it was thought,
would determine the importance
of the work that must be done
here in the near future and will
enable the town to launch sensibly
the most needed projects first.
The increase in the number of
taxi permits was voted after sev
eral persons who wish to go into
the taxi business here contended
that it was not fair to limit the
number of cabs, that it was the
same as limiting the number of
firms doing a certain type busi
ness. They pointed out also that
some who wish to operate taxis
are World War II veterans and
are entitled to work as they please.
Members of the board have
taken the position that 42 taxis
are a sufficient number to handle
the business originating here and
to operate over the town streets.
But the compromise was effectcd
to raise the number to 50.
Miss Kate Cutting
Named Supervisor
Of Onslow Schools
0 Miss Kate Cutting, president of
the Southeastern District Teach
ers Association, has been ap
pointed supervisor of schools in
Onslow County, it was announced
yesterday by Supt. A. H. Hatsell.
Miss Cutting, originally from
Salisbury, will have teachers and
the coordination of the teaching
program under her direction, llat
sell said.
She comes here from Bladen
County where she was a principal
last year. Miss Cutting, who has
taught in all grades from the first
through the twelfth in her ex
tended teaching career, is a grad
uate of Salem College and holds
a Master's degree from Columbia
University.
GOES TO TENNESSEE
% Miss Carole Weaver. Red Cross
—U. S. Public Health Service
nurse in Onslow County, has gone
to Tennessee on emergency nurs
ing work during a typhoid fever
epidemic.
| Frederick Ketchum,
I Is Expected Home
On Furlough Soon
FREDERICK KETCH l:M
0On The U.S.S. Phoenix in the
Pacific—Frederick K-etchum, ra>
dioman, second class, USNR. Jack
sonville. N. C.. is coming back to
the United States.
He's a member of this fighting
light cruiser which is returning
home for overhaul and to give
leaves to the crew.
The Phoenix escaped damage in
the Pearl Harbor, attack, then
fought through the New Guinea,
New Britain and New Georgia
campaigns.
In the battle of Surigao Straits,
she was the closest heavy ship to
the Jap fleet trying to steam
through the passage and she shot
it out with the leading Jap battle
ship—without getting a scratch.
At Leyte Gulf one of our destroy
ers went down and her torpedoes
were released accident ly. Two
passed ahead of the Phoeni*. two
astern—and none in the middle.
At Mindoro, the USS Nashville,
next to the Phoenix, was hit by a
Kamikaze, but not the Phoenix.
On the way to Lingayen. two tor
pedoes and several Kamikazes just
missed. At Corregidor and Balik
papen she was straddled several
times by big shore guns.
Luckiest of all—after two years
in the Southwest Pacific, the
Phoenix was en route home when
peace was declared.
Cpl. Earnest Justice
Of Sneads Ferry Is
Home On Furlough
#Cpl. Ernest A. Justice, son of
Mrs. Mary Justice of Sneads Ferry,
has arrived home on furlough
after having been in the army two
years and seven months and over
seas for the past 19 months. Upon
completion of his furlough, he
will report to Fort Bragg for re
assignment.
Camp Lejeune Uses Famed DDT
To Rid Coast Of Pesky Mosquito
0 Armed with DDT the Marines
have invaded approximately 50.
000 acres of North Carolina swampy
coast-lands in a mosquito extermi
nating program which, in a year,
has decreased the number of mos
quitoes sixty-percent.
This program is being carried
out at Camp Lcjeune. the Marine
Corps' huge east-coast training
center here in Onslow County.
Although DDT has been used
in several North Carolina cities
and towns on experimental bases
in the past few months, the pro
gram at Camp Lejeune was the
first all-out Malaria Control Pro
gram. using DDT to be conducted
in the state.
DDT made its debut at Camp
Lejeune in the spring of 1944.
and since the beginning of its use
the number of mosquitoes in the
control area* which includes all
inhabited and biouac areas, have
shown a sharp decline. Records at
the Malaria Control Office show
a sixty-per cent decrease in adult
mosquitoes and pestiferous insects
from July. 1944 to July, 1945. The
number of mosquitoes is dropping
daily and the Malaria Control
Station, through the use of DDI'
and other mosquito control meth
ods. have hopes of bringing the
number to a minimum in the near
future.
Through experiments at this
base it has been found that DDT
is completely successful in exter
minating the adult mosquito as
well as other insects, but it has
also been found that DDT alone
cannot solve the mosquito prob
lem. Therefore it has been necea
sarv to devise other means of con
trolling the mosquito larvae before
it reaches the adult stage. This if
being accomplished by the use ol
larvacidal operations, clearing of
brush, drainage, filling in low
lands. etc.
The amount of work done ha.'
been tremendous. Since the inau
guration of Malaria Control here
there have been some 4.500 acres
of brush cleared. 402.000 lineal
feet of hand ditches dug. 295.00C
lineal feet of dynamite ditches
made. 175,000 lineal feet of drag
line ditches constructed, 175,QCK
acres of low-lands filled.
Generally, the unit works like
this: A survey is made of the en
tire area to determine the density
location and breed of mosquitc
larvae to he exterminated, and the
most feasible method of proceed
ure Where practical drainage
ditches are dug low-lands filled ir.
and brush cleared. But these
methods an only be successful
over only a small portion of the
large area under control. Thus il
is up to the oiling crews and the
DDT-fog-generating machine te
cover the remainder of the camp
The DDT fog-generating ma
chine, in operation since early thi:
year, has been tested and usee
here with great success. The ma
hine. mounted on a truck or jeep
traveling at the rate of one mill
per hour dispenses one hundret
gallons of DDT solution an hour
The area blanketed by the fog i
governed by the wind, but on th«
average it v. ill cover approxim
(Continued on page 4)
0 L. L. Stevens, veteran pilot and
flying instructor with more than
3,500 hours flying time, this week
leased the school, training rights
of the Jacksonville airport, effec
tive October 1.
At the same time, B. J. Holle
man, chairman of the board of di
rectors of the airport, announced
that a 70x80 steel hangar had been
ordered and that 2,000 feet of the
first of three runways probably
would be completed this week.
Holleman said that the airport
would be ready for operation by
the time government restrictions
on private flights over this section
of the Eastern Seaboard are lifted.
Since the war is over, Holleman
figured the government soon would
lift all restricted flying areas.
Stevens, who will come here
about the middle of September,
has been at Burgaw with his broth
er for the past year. He began fly
ing 1937 and later spent 17 months
in the Army Air Corps. Prior to
that he was civilian pilot at Padu
cah. Ky. He has had flight and me
chanical experience with planes
from one to four engines.
Stevens will bring one four-pas
senger plane here for charter ser
vice, and later one or two smaller
ones for short flights and training.
He will offer plane service and re
pairs, and both he and the airport
corporation will represent plane
manufacture -es for sale of ships.
Two thousand feet of the first
runway are ready for flights. When
completed it will be 3,700 feet long.
Two others of 4,200 and 5,000 feet
lengths will also be built, Holle
man said.
Eugene Williams, 8,
Drowned At Willis
Landing On Sunday
# Eugene Williams, eight-year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
W. Williams «f Midway Park, warn
drowned Sunday at Willis Land
ing, near Swansboro.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday at Guilford Memorial
cemetery at Greensboro, former
home of the family.
The child is survived by his par
ents. and four brothers and two
sisters.
2 Marines Present
Musical Program At ^
Kiwanis Meeting
# A fast moving musical show
was given by Pfc. Jimmy Griffin
and Pfc. Tommy Jacobucci, guitar
and banjo players of Camp Le
jeune. at the weekly meeting of
Jacksonville Kiwanians at the Club
Roanoke Island Tuesday.
Griffin and Jacobucci gave their
own arrangements of popular and
old time songs that drew rounds
of applause. For their final num
ber. they played Carolina Moon
which the club sang with Billy
Arthur leading.
The resignation of Dr. H. W.
Stevens, who will leave the middle
of September to make his home
in Wilson, and the return to the
club of A. H. Hatsell, a charter
member, were announced.
Guests at the meeting were Mrs.
James A. Odom. Mrs. Deane Tay
lor. Mrs. Mary Lily Blake, G. W.
Phillips. Chief of Police Paul
Shore of Jacksonville: Capt. Char
les Ferguson, USN; Kiwanian W.
E. Baggs of Swansboro; J. Paul
Burton and Kiwanians Bill Stanley
and E. C. Chambliss of Wilming
ton; Julius Segerman of Hollj^
Ridge; W. Victor Venters of Rich
lands; Thomas J. Marshall of
White Oak; H. M. Ennett of
Sneads Fefry; John Morgan of
Wilson; and Jack Stevens of Bur
gaw.
New Gray Lady
Class Will Start ' '
On September 17
f A new class for instruction of
Gray Ladies of the American Red
Cross, Onslow County Chapter
and Camp Lejcune Auxiliary, will
begin September 17, it was an
nounced yesterday by Mrs. Alfred
Noble, Gray Ladies chairman.
Mrs. Noble will conduct the in
struction work, which will be held
three days weekly, Mondays. Wed
nesdays and Fridays until the
course is completed.
A number of volunteers from
Jacksonville and Onslow County
are wanted for the course. In the
past, 1he greater part of Gray Lady
activities has been borne by mem
bers of the Camp Lejeune Auxili
ary. Although the war is over, the
wounded are beginning to return
from overseas. They will be
brought to the Naval Hospital at
Camp Lejeune, and possibly to the
I recently acquired hospital at Camp
Davis. The work of the Gray Lad
'< ies is just beginning.
Volunteers are asked to get in
" touch with Mrs. Noble at Camp
Lejeune before September 17.