THE ONSLOW COUNTY News and Views The Only Newspaper in the World That Gives a Whoop About Onslow County if -, The New* and VI*wi Lead* 1 Paid Circulation '"''H-j Local Advertlalnf J"'V.V National AdrertWlK ClaalBcd AdrertUgf Onslow County New* 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 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.