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THE ONSLOW COUNTY News and Views The Only Newspaper in the World That Gives a Whoop About Onslow County The Newt and View* Leadi I Paid Circulation Local Advertlalac National AdmrtMnt Claaalfied Advrrtbtnr yt'-f '1 Onslow County New» VOL. VIII, NO. 1R JACKSONVILLE, N. C., TtJESH AY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1945 member of the associated press PRICE $2.00 PER YEAH I DOWN EAST WITH t ALLY ARTHUR 0One rainy morning last week I went waddling down street carry ing an umbrella, and L. E. Rudi sill said I looked exactly like a walking toadstool. 0 Did someone tell me this one or did I hear it over the radio: Marriage is like a hot bath: it isn't so hot after you get used to it. 0The laundry says it will re sume the pre-war practice of sew ing on buttons. Thanks, then I can stay single and be sure of having a shirt. 0 Stories about Virginia snake worshippers in the news lately recalled to mind the story that Solicitor J. O. Carr of Wilmington, U. S. District Attorney, used to tell. It was about a man who came upon a rattler, which had been almost beaten to death, and left to the vultures in the woods. He befriended the snake, mas saged its broken body, patched up its injuries and carried it home wrapped around his arm. The snake became very gracious for being restored to life. It wanted so much to explain to the friend how much it appreciated his care, cure and friendliness. Its desire to show appreciation was appar ent to the man as the rattler play ed with the children, drew near him at times and stuck out his tongue as if to express gratitude. The snake knew it would have a chance to repay the debt, and one night the chance came. Th? man heard a huge noise and rush ed downstairs to find that the snake had trapped a burglar en tering the house. Showing its gratitude the snake's head was wrapped around a piano leg. its body around the leg of the robber, and its tail was hanging out the window rattling for the police. £ One of the girls was complain ing the other night that a certain fellow around town always takes her out to dinner, to the movies and then to the drug store. "And when 1 get home he wants to kiss me good night," she said. "Do you think I should let him?" There isn't but one answer to that, dearie, lie's already done enough for you. 0And another letter, this one from Chester A. Kerr, executive director of the United War Fund of North Carolina: "Dear Billy: "I have just seen a clipping from •s and Views by Petteway, on ^2 hings we formerly did not It made me think that, in you have not already seen it, . might enjoy this from the St. Louis Post Dispatch: "THE OPA. "Cigarettes cost 38 cents each in Germany, razor blades are $1.50 in Chungking. A pair of shorts is $12 in Calcutta. In Java a sarong can't be purchased at any rate unless a hundredweight of cotton is also tendered. A cheap suit of clothes costs $148 in Italy. "In the U.S.A. we have the OPA. which, so far as we can make out from the printed matter, is dicta torial. stupid, diabolical, incon venient, meretricious, long-winded, improper, unfair, lopsided, irrele vant, legalistic, unconstitutional and bursting out at the seams. Be that as it may, you can get a cigarette for a penny, a razor blade for a nickel, a pair of shorts for six bits, a suit of clothes for $30 and a sarong for Lamour, toujours Lamour." 0The boys up Richlands way were crossed up Friday — the North Carolina Warehouse Asso iation, which sends down from Wilson the products for the ABC store, didn't have its big red truck on the run. They didn't notice that innocent looking truck com ing through town. But they got the word. Speak ing of speed of communications, telephone, radio and so forth, no news ever traveled as fast as do» s the word that the "ship's in." However, last week, as one fal low put it, they didn't send a ship —they sent the skiff. £ A quick change artist would have had nothing on Vernon Cowell Friday morning. Wearing his uniform as TSgt. A. V. Cowell of the 8th Army Air Corps he dashed into Margolis with a package under his arm. Hardly would you have had time to turn around until out he came again in slacks as Speck Cowell. 0Meri Ferguson says he wants to get back in business but that he's not going back until he can carry the watch instead of the em ployees. • T. Newton Cook wanted to know the other day if he hadn't read in the paper that property owners were liable to prosecution if they didn't keep their property clean and free of all weeds. "If that's so," he said, "I want to know where I can go to get a warrant for Ike Johnson and make him clean up his old garden. WAITING PERIOD INCREASED shington —0*P)— The OPA ;ed from three to six months, ve September 15, the "wait period" before a house pur chaser may evict a tenant in order to occupy the house himself. The six-month rule will be effective in all areas under Federal rent con trol unless the area director de cides that three months is ade quate. WAR HORRORS ROCKETING (ROCKET ATTAINS ALTITUDE Of I APPROXIMATELY 70 MILES I SPEED OF ROCKET THROUGH] IONOSPHERE-ABOUT 3000 MILES PER HOUR 1 ■twiuoht umit ISHOOTINO STARS Iauror^boreaus j HIGHEST POINT REACHED 8Y MAN—72,395 FEET I ANDERSON-STEVENS U. S. 1935 REACHES TARGET I 9:00 P.M. MONDAY! ROCKET LAUNCHED 2:00 A.M. TUESDAY Tojo Disclaims Japs' Responsibility For War 0 Tokyo—(/P)—Gen. Tojo, who as Japan's warmaking p r e m i e r launched the attack on Pearl Har bor. declared in an exclusive in terview today that American vic tors now could fix responsibility for starting the war but history might disagree. The one-time terror of Asia, now living quietly on a comfortable farm outside Tokyo, refused flat ly to discuss such questions as whether he expected to be tried as a war criminal and what de fense he was preparing. But he was willing to talk of many things in moods ranging from impassivity to laughter. Koreans Demonstrate 0 Tokyo—(/P)—Gen. Mac Art hur's softly but firm control spread through the length of Japan and southern Korea—but his policy of retaining and using the existing Japanese government set sparks flying in Korea. Koreans demonstrated against a "slap in the face" when Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge, whose 24th Army Corps landed at Jinscn Saturday, proclaimed the Jap administrative officials would continue in office. They had expected quick freedom from the Nipponese. Hodge ex plained that the Japanese staff would remain in office only to car ry out American orders, and would exercise no independent action. Navy, Coast Guard To Give Points For Overseas Service 0 Washington — (/P) — The Navy has authorized one-quarter point for each month of overseas and sea duty in a revision of its point system demobilization standards which will more than double the number of personnel eligible for immediate discharge. The Coast Guard may follow the Navy's lead and allow similar credits for overseas duty. The Ma rines, it was said, can make no change in their point score until their commitments in the Pacific are made clear. The Coast Guard just has announced a reduction of its critical score from 44 to 40 points for enlisted men and from 49 to 43 for officers. EPISCOPAL CHURCH 0Services at St. Anne's Episco pal church Sunday, Sept. 16th, it being the sixteenth Sunday after Trinity, are: church school at 9:45 a.m.; choir rehearsal at 10:30: morning prayer and sermon at 11 o'clock; evening prayer and ser mon at 8 o'clock. Plans are be ing made for the service the eve ning of the fifth Sunday, Sept. 30th, when the various churches >f Jacksonville will unite for worship at St. Anne's church, the service beginning that evening at 7:30. Farmers Are Urged To Plan! Grazing Crops For Livestock By CHARLIE C. CLARK Onslow Farm Agent ®The winter landscape in Onslow County prevents too many barren fields that should be growing something the year round. Too farmers think their year's work is done when they have harvested and sold the crops they planted in the spring. With the climate we have this kind of farming is wasteful of time, of plant food, and of the soil itself. We should be preparing the land now to plant crops that will permit grazing for all livestock, to make grain or hay. or gather nitrogen from the air and store it in the soil. It is good farming and profitable to keep our fields producing year round. There are several crops and mixture of crops that should be planted September 1 to September 15 that would furnish grazing for hogs. cows, workstdck. and chick ens from November 1 throughout the winter. Some of the mixtures that make excellent grazing and rates per acre are: Oats. 3 bushels and barley, 2 bushels. Jtye. i Dusneis anti Dariey, bushels. Oats. 3 bushels and rye, 2 bushels. Oats. 2 bushels, barley. 1 bush el. and crimson clover, 20 -lbs. Italian rye grass. 20 lbs. and crimson clover. 20 lbs. Italian rye grass. 40 lbs. Crimson clover. 30 lbs. Do not plant wheat before No vember 1 because of the Hessian fly. Do not plant barley on wet nn tured land. Any mixture or com bination that you want to use is all right, the important thing is to seed approximate 5 bushels per acre. To receive the maximum grazing it is necessary to plant as early in September as possible and to fertilize. Apply 200 to 400 lbs. of a complete fertilizer such as 5-7-5 at planting time and top dress with 100 to 150 lbs. of nitrate of soda six weeks after seeding. If crimson clover is being used be sure and inoculate the seeds. Mixtures of small grain except wheat seeded and fertilizer as above should furnish grazing from November until May. The more grazing and green feed your livestock consumes the less dry feed and grain you will have to feed which means more profit. Make every acre of your farm work for you every day in the year. WAIN WRIGHT PROMOTED % Washington.—The Senate approved four-star rank Thursday for General Johnathan M. Wain wright who won time for America in the defense of Corregidor. Government Affairs Commiffee Named By Local Chamber #A government affairs commit tee of the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce on Federal functions and activities was appointed by President Deane C. Taylor at the September meeting at Tallman Street USO Thursday night. The committee is composed of Ran; n Askew, chairman. J. H. Aman, P. V. Capps, W. L. Ketchum. E. M. Canady. Deane Taylor, James A. Odoivi. Hugh Ragsdale, N. H. Modinos, Billy Arthur. Henry A. Tolson, and Gautier Jackson. The committee was appointed at the suggestion of the United Stales Chamber of Commerce, with which the local chamber has voted io affiliate. L. W. Howard, Age 90, Dies At Holly Ridge, Funeral Conducted $ L W. Howard. 90-year-old resident of Onslow County, died at the home of his daughter. Mrs. C. 1?. Bush at Holly Ridge, Sep tember 6. Funeral services were held at St. Phillip's Episcopal Church at Tar Landing by Rev. David Ilan sley, pastor. Mr. Howard is survived by his widow and eleven children: Ro bert. who is somewhere in the Pacific: Luther and William of Galveston, Texas; .T. W. of Wil mington; Levi of Bowden; Vance and Kader of Holly Ridge; Mrs. Harry Wilda of Jacksonville. Fla.; Mrs. George Lloyd of liowdon: Mrs. George Hansley of Wilming ton: and Mrs. C. R. Bush of Holly Ridge. Forty-five grandchildren and 28 great-grandchildren also survive. Pallbearers were Cecil Everett of Wilmington, Novia llorne of Kinston, John Brown of Sneads Ferry. Guy Everett, Mack Davis, and Major Davis, all of Holly Ridge. Onslowans Scheduled Back In America Aboard Queen Mary #New York.—Onslow County ser vicemen listed below were schedul ed to arrive on the Liner Queen Mary at New York yesterday. The list was compiled by The Associa tedo Press from advance convoy passenger lists and it is not a cor rected list as to date of sailing or date of arrival. Port authorities ask that rela tives and friends of the men not contact the port authorities for further information, as that is not available. The Associated Press does not have additional informa tion. nor does The News and Views. The list follows: Pfc. Robert C. Barker of Mid way Park. Pfc. Jesse M. Walton, route one, Jacksonville, _ u .« AP Newsfaclurcs ROCKETS which could carry either conventional or atomic bombs anywhere in the world arc no longer fantasy. A German rocket, planned, but never launched, would have operated as shown in the upper drawing prepared by the Air Power League. Below is a drawing prepared for the July, 1944, issue of Radio Craft magazine which illustrates the operation of a radio controlled rocket. Gen. H. H. Arnold re ported recently the Allies had developed such a rocket, guided by television, which would find its target by radar; Radio Craft artists say they ex aggerated the size of the me chanical features in their draw ing to show more of the details. The Air Power League asserts rockets might go faster than the earth and reach targets at a time earlier than the launch "* ing hour.' Capl. R. W. Near Dies Af Guantanamo Bay; Capl. Hagerdon Leaves £ Capl. R. W. Near. Depot Quai term ay tor at Camp l.ejeune i.w years ;mo, died suddenly at Guar tana mo Bay. Cuba. Thursday, ac cording to word received here. H was quartermaster at that Marin Cm* base. Capt. R. E. Hagerdon, who ha been Depot Quartermaster a Camp Lejeune for the past eigh months, has been detached to lil the post vacated by the death o Captain Near. Captain Near wa well-known in Jacksonville. Pfc. Kinsey Simmons Home On Furlough; Abroad 21 Months 0 Pt'c. Kinsey Simmons, who ha been in France for the past 2 months, is home on 30-day fui lough visiting his mother, Mr: Blanche Simmons. CEILING ON T>I>T 0 VV.ishington—(/P)—A one-poun "bomb" containing DDT, the wai developed insect killer, will coj $4 at retail. The CPA fixed thi eeilinu price, explaining that sma volume production will begin lat in the summer. The "bomb" dis penscr contains DDT under gc pressure. It is intended for house hold use. Steady Prices Reflected On Leaf Markets Last Week; Average Down By The Associated Press 0 Unusually steady prices for most grades and extremely heavy volume marked sales on eastern North Carolina's flue cured tobac co markets during the week end ing Friday, the U. S. and State Departments of Agriculture re ported. However, demand weak ened slightly for a few lower qual ity grades, causing these to de line $1 a hundred pounds. Only three days of sales were held during the week. Monday was observed as a Labor Day holiday and Tuesday was declared a mar keting holiday by the Bright Belt Warehouse association. Monday will be observed as a holiday each week until congested conditions in redrying plants and warehouses has been relieved. The volume for the three days of selling amounted to 27,902.856 pounds, averaging $43.25 a hun dred. This average was 26 cents lower than the previous week's average, and the decline was at tributed to lower prices for some grades and to a larger percentage of inferior quality offerings than the previous week. Gross season sales now total 108.339.025 pounds at an average of $43.50. . . Recent Heavy Rains Tax Operations Of Town Department # Recent heavy rainfall has taxed operations of the Town of Jacksonville water and street de partment, but Superintendent W. B. Hurst yesterday asked for the public's indulgence "and we'll get around as quickly as we can." A number of emergencies, such as breaking pipes particularly af fecting water and sewer systems, have arisen in the recent rainy period, and have prevented the town from removing surface water or keeping open some of the drains. What with inclement weather and a labor shortage. Hurst said the department was doing the best it could for the present, under those conditions. Water and sewer interruptions must be re paired first, he said, because of the health menace. After they are repaired, the other clean up and clean out work will be at tended to as quickly as possible. Hofmann Forest Deer Hunting To Be Limited 5 Cases Diphtheria Reported In Onslow, Pender Health Area # Five eases of diphtheria have been reported to the Onslow Pender County District Health Department recently, according to Dr. H. VV. Stevens, health officer. These cases, said Dr. Stevens, should never have occurred as the disease is easily and entirely pre vented by immunization of every baby at six months of age. The parents of any child that develops diphtheria shows gross neglect in caring for their children's health, he said, adding that every baby should receive two doses of diph theria toxoid beginning at six months of age. This small preven tive medical care saves lives, doc tor's bills and protects others. Immunization clinics are held in the Onslow and Pender depart ments at the following points every week: At the Burgaw Health Center every Saturday morning; Atkinson Health Center every Tuesday afternoon; Richlands Health Center every Thursday afternoon and in the Jacksonville Health Center on Monday and Saturday mornings. Onslowan, Prisoner Of Japs, Is Found At Manchuria Camp % Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Huffman of Richlands, have received the first official word about their son. Pfc. Isaac Kempster Huffman. U. S. Army, since he was reported taken prisoner by the Japs in the fall of Bataan. His name was among oer sonn-el listed by an American camp commander at the Hoten mukden camp in Manchuria, ac cording to a telegram from the adjutant-general, Edward F. Wit sell. The War Department promised further information would be for warded as fast as it is made avail able. Only one or two brief Red Cross messages were received from Huffman during his entire . internment. In his last letter, writ , ten last winter, he was reported, . safe and well. : Stamp Sales Show Small Decline In | Month Of August 5 # Stamp receipts at Jacksonville post office amounted to $4,049.46 during August, Acting Postmaster Frank A. Smith reported yester day. They represented a decrease of $149.11. compared With the cor responding month of last year. Last August's receipts of $4,298.57 included sales of $327.50 at Mid way Park, which is not now a , branch of the local post office. I Quisling Condemned To Death; Will Face , 10-Man Firing Squad t #London—f/P)—The Oslo radio ? announced Monday that Vidkun 1 Quisling had been convicted on 2 charges of high treason and con - d-emned to death. The sentence s will be executed by a military - firing squad composed of 10 sol diers firing 10 bullets. Leaiherneck Duck Has 133 Points And Getting Discharge O Chicago—(/Pi—Siwash., the leatherneck (lurk that waddled ashore with Yanks at Tarawa, Tinian, and Saipan. has 43 points more than her master's 90 and was taking a last quark at Marine life today. The waddling mascot of the First and Second battalions, Tenth Marines, joined the ser vice in a New Zealand pub in March, 1943. when Cpl. Fran cis Fagan of Chicago won her in a raffle for a shilling. Since then. Fagan calculated, she amassed this point score: Overseas service, 20 points; 2(> months of duty. 26: three major engagements. 15; de pendents (12 ducklings hatch ed during a furlough at a Wilmington. 111., duck farm) 72—total 133. She picked up a taste for beer in her pub days, Fagan said, and she'll probably have a few to celebrate her honor able discharge. Cpl. Ray Fisher, Back From Overseas, Is Honored On Birthday 6 Ray Fisher of Verona, a return ed veteran from the Pacific theater, was honored in the home of his mother. Mrs. Lonnie Fisher. August 31st. his birthday, by a family reunion and birthday din ner. The birthday cake baked by his mother was a beautifully de corated coconut layer. He receiv ed many presents including a fifty dollar bond. Ray had just returned home from the South Pacific with an honorable discharge. While in combat overseas he received sev eral" ribbons and medals. They were: The Purle Heart medal. Purple Heart ribbon. Asiatic Pacific ribbon. Liberation of the Philippines ribbon, three Bronze Service Stars, and the Good Con duct ribbon. He also has six over seas stripes. Check Your Dairy Production Payment Drafts, AAA Advises 0 Farmers in Onslow County should make sure they haven't mis placed any dairy production pay ment drafts. If they find any such checks that haven't been cashed, H. C Riggs, Chairman. Onslow County AAA Committee, asks that the drafts be cashed promptly to help simplify the Commodity Cre dit Coropration's bookkeeping. Calling attention to the difficul ty of keeping accurate records un der such a Nation-wide program. Riggs said that recent report showed that over 32 000 dairy drafts issued before November 1, 1944, \Mcre still outstanding on June 30. 1945. This means that some farmers have cached some where—perhaps forgotten— thous ands of dollar's worth of ready money. Almost 2 million farmers par ticipated in the dairy program last year. It would sem profitable for anyone who has forgotten whether he cashed his dairy prod uction payment draft: to do as Riggs asks, and "take a look around." Rail Reservations Can Now Be Made 14 Days In Advance 0 Notice of a change in the ODT regulation covering advance res ervations in sleeping cars and in reserved-seat coaches has been received by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad office here. Under the change, effective Sep tember 9, passengers traveling by railroad may make reservations for Pullman and reserved-seat coach accomodations 14 days in advance of departure. The present limitation is five days. bardner And tllis Meet Unexpectedly At Camp Stoneman 0G. E. Gardner of Jacksonville, who is a member of the field serv ice of the American Red Cross, recently arrived at Camp Stone man. Calif., all alone and knowing no one. but not for long. He walked into the Officers Club one evening and got one of the surprises of his life when he came face to face with Lieut. A. J. Ellis, also of Jacksonville. The two Onslowans reside in adjoining barracks and Gardner writes that he and Baby Face (Lieut. Ellis, who recently re covered from the mumps) spend hours every evening together, re hashing old times around here. 0 Twenty-one open days lor deer hunting in Hoi'mann Forest will be permitted this year, it was an nounced today by Supervisor J. M. Stlngley. The number of hunting days is 11 less than for the 1944 season, but forest officials said it was nec essary in view of the fact that 35,000 acres of the reserve will be closed to all hunting this year. That area is all of the forest which lies in Jones County and in the extreme upper end of Onslow that was burned over last winter and spring. It is all of that area north of the Quaker Bridge and the White Oak river roads. The deer hunting season in the forest, an 84.000 acre experimental tract belonging to N. C. State Col lege. will begin with a six day hunt. October 1-6, inclusive. The other hunting days will be Octo ber 19-20. November 2-3, 16-17, 22-23-24. December 7-8, 21-22, and December 31-January 1. Last season a total of 403 deer were killed in the forest. In 1943 a total of 469 deer were killed. Camp Davis Hospital To Be Reopened For Use By Marine Corps ®The Camp Davis Hospital, re cently taken over by the Marine Corps, will be reopened "in the immediate future" as a unit of the medical department of Camp Le jeune. it was announced by Rear Admiral L. Sheldon. Jr., USN, me dical officer for the Fifth Naval District. He said the 2,000-bed hospital wouuld be used for Marine, Navy and Royal Netherlands Marine personnel of the two camps. Sheldon completed a three-day inspection of the Camp Davis hos pital and the dispensaries and hotel at Camp Lejeune. Frank Hines Dies At Holly Ridge ' After Long Illness 0 Frank Hines. prosperous and well-known farmer of the Holly Ridge section, died at his home (there Friday morning after an extended illness. He was 67 years old. Funeral services were held from Stump Sound Baptist church Sun day afternoon at 3 o'clock by Rev. R. W. Gurganus, pastor, assisted by Rev. E. F. Pollard, Primitive Baptist minister of Jacksonville. Burial followed in the church cemetery. Mr. Hines is survived by his widow and one son, E. J. Hines of the home; three brothers, C. C. Hines, Riley Hines and Isaac Hines of Holly Ridge; four sisters, Mrs. Carolina Davis, Mrs. Delia Rhodes, Mrs. Effie Hardison, all of Holly Ridge, and Mrs. W. E. King of Vinton, Va. Active pallbearers were L. W. Bishop. W. M. and Clyde Kardison, Percy Padgett, Jerry Sanders and Alex Blake. World s largest Plane Capable of Circling World With 2 Slops 0Long Beach, Calif.—(/F)—A new American sky giant, designed for war and peace and capable of circling the globe with only two stops, took to the air last week. The Douglas C-74 Globemaster, Army version of the PC-7, which is now on commercial order, was test-flown before a group of mili tary and Douglas technical experts. Douglas spokesmen said it is the world s largest land plane, has a maximum range of 7,800 miles, has four engines, a wingspan of 173 feet, is 124 feet long and 43 feet high. Its gross weight is 155, 000 pounds. The commercial version will carry 108 passengers and a crew of 13, with a modem galley serv ing full course meals aloft, dress ing rooms and cargo compart ments. Among its features are rever sible propellers, enabling it to taxi backward as well as forward. After landing it can back into its hangar. * *'*4 The plane has a speed of more than 300 miles an hour and can handle a useful load of 30 tons. You Can Slaughter i All The Beef You Desire, OPA Says # Washington--(/P) — AH li mits upon the slaughter of livestock ended today, with a sharp upturn In animals going to market. This action by the OPA per mits slaughterers to kill as much livestock as they like. It means more meat for civilians.