THE ONSLOW COUNTY -; ,dVtew — The News and Views Leads O News and Views The Only Newspaper in the World 'That Gives a Whoop About Onslow County Paid Cimlatlon Local Advertising National Advertising Classified Advertising ^•'7 Onslow Cfriinty News VOL. Mil, NO. »«> JACKSONVILLE, N. C., HJiim. >;o\ i >mr.K 2:5. !«>I5 member op the associaixd press PRICE: 5c PER COPY $2.00 PER YEAH DOWN EAST WITH ^ BILLY ARTHUR $ .very now and then we on tlie news and Views eel calls for as sistance. and. naturally. w:> , hnk .first of our own friends, organiza tions and churches. But one backfired the other day when a young lady telephoned f ir informal ion. "Where can I go to get married in a Protestant church ;n Jackson ville?" she asked Mrs. L. E. Rudi sill, who holds down ili^ other desk. And. Mrs. Hudisill, being a Bantist volunteered. "There's the Baptist church But she was interrupted by the voice on the other end: "Anyone but that one. I'm a Baptist rnysrlf." 0 We were telling some of ihe fellows about tin* incic'ent ihe other evening, and one of them remarked that Kev. Carl B. Craig probably marries more folks here abouts than any other ministers. "That's because he nrobably gets there the quickest." Eldridge Hawkins spoke up. 0k Last week the secretary in ihe office of Warlick and Boney gathered up the mail and put it in Harvey's typewriter. Included therein was a card from Harvey's mother, advising she was in Chanel Hill and would be there until the 20th of the month, and to write her at Owen dormitory. Harvey had to go up to the Hill last week end and decided he'd look her up. Being an old Carolina student, he thought he knew his way around, but he couldn't find Owen dormitory immediately: and when he did after several hours, no one was there who knew any thing about a welfare institute Mrs. Boney was attending. Presently. Harvey ran into Presi dent Frank Graham, and Frank didn't know of a welfare session either. So. Harvey came home without seeing his mother. Monday morning. November 19. when he went to the office, he located the postal card, and sure enough Mrs. Boney said she was in Chapel Hill. Then, he looked at the date on the card and it was postmarked "July 11. 1945." Then Harvey recalled having received it during the summer. It never had been thrown away, and when the secretary gathered up the mail the card got with it some way. # In a set <^f suggestions sent out by Pine Lodge USO to the Wom an's club committee members ?n charge of the supper for U. • S. Naval Hospital patients appears this statement: "Remember v. be men you arc serving are hospital 'd men and will not eat as v "lily as the average Marine." £ rs. Sally Ward who prepared ™ .e-made biscuits for last Mon .y's party thinks that statement has been proven slightly incorrect. Her biscuits disappeared as fast as they reached the tables. One Marine reluctantly confessed he had eaten 17 at supper and an hour later he was in the kitchen asking whether there were any left-overs. A plate of 20 or more was given to him. and although no one counted this time, there were not many left. Who said they wouldn't eat heartily? 0 Speaking of foolish questions— were we?—this one captures the proverbial cake and causes this legislator (another question mark) to wonder how come appropria tions are made for people who ask just such questions. Timmons Jones signed a death certificate of a colored woman re cently and sent it to the State Board of Vital Statistics at Raleigh. Under the heading of 'Cause of Death". Coroner Jones wrote "Childbirth." Several days later he cot a let ter back from the board asking "Due to pregnancy?" 0 Loon Brusiloff. who was band master of the First Marine Divis ion band, was here Saturday visit ing friends. He was remembered up and down the main drag, down at Dixon and Fulcher's Landing for the work that the Marine band did back in those days, playing for all sorts of parties and school func tions and really entertaining mid making happy the folks in the hin terlands. But that wasn't what I started out to tell. Leon, now a major and returned to inactive status, was telling a story of how the boys of the First Divsion really have a warm snot in their hearts for these parts. They'd cuss and gripe—Col. Harvey L. Miller used to say he wouldn't have a marine in his outfit who wouldn't—but they'd always want to get back here if just for a few days. Anyway. A1 Schmid. the Phila delphia boy who spent a winter at Tent Camp before going to Guadal canal and to other campaigns be fore losing his sight in battle, was down at Parris Island recently on a personal appearance tour. But let Leon tell it from here on out: "He was a little ill at ease at first. You could see that, and I walked up to him and said. Al. the boys in the band here want to play a number just for ,^ou. They have returned from a successful engagement at the Double Eagle Grill.' What do you want 'em to play?' Al's face beamed up. and he laughed out loud and said. 'Major, play Roll Out the Barrel. Double '^qgle . . . Roll out the Barrel. ^ >se were good old times.'" V. The Marines provided a hum orous. and yet a touch of realism, to the exhibition of the pilotless airplane at Peterfield Point last week. (Continued On Page Six) Prominent Citizens Wiii Be On First Broadcast H More than a score of prominent people of Jacksonvi le. Camo Le jeune and New Bern will appear "n the dedicatory program >f Ra.'i > Station W.J NT when it goes on the air for the first time at 8 p. m. Monday. With Hep. Graham A. Barden of New Bern making I he principal -id dress. others on the progarm will include: Maj. Gen. .Tehn Mar ton. commanding general. Brig. Gen A II. Noble, chief of staff. Lt. Col. K. A. Clark. Special Services Of ficer: Maj. Mary Parks, command ing officer :>f the Women's Re serve. Kiwanis club president-elect II. P. Cotton. Lions club president II C .Johnson. Sunt, of Schools A. II. Hat sell. Woman's Club Presi dent Mrs. O. L. Puss. County At torney John D. Warlick. Rev. Carl B. Craig. Fr. Charles McLaughlin. PTA president Mrs. Ralph Cald well. Chamber of Commerce pres ident Deane C. Taylor. USO di rector George See. all of .Jackson ville; chairman of the board of county commissioners IT. M. En net t. of Sneads Ferry: State Sena tor I). I.. Ward of New Bern: Mrs. James A. Odom. Midway Park, president of the 12th district Fed eration of Women's Clubs: Ameri can Legion Commander W. E. Baggs of Swansboro: Mayor M. N. Lisk of Swansboro. Mayor Hex ward Campbell of Molly Ridge: and Mayor E. W. Taylor of Richlands. Musical numbers will be offered by the New Bern high school band under the direction of Prof. Don ald Smith, by MTSgt. and Mrs. Kenneth Wilson of Pine Grove Trailer Park. Camp Le.jeune: and Lt. Russell Merseth of Seymour Johnson Field. Goldsboro. Billy Arthur, state representa tive and editor of the News and Views, will be master of ceremon ies. Open To Public The program, which will be broadcast from Tallman Street USO beginning at 8 p. m.. will be open to the public with seating ac commodations for approximately 300 persons. After the dedicatory broadcast, open house will be ob served at the studios on N C 24. No invitations are being issued. W.JNC is owned and operated by the Jacksonville Broadcasting com pany. which was issued a construc tion permit by the Federal Com munications Commission on August 17. Of Modern Lines The exterior and interior of the building are beautiful and of mod ern design. The lobby is ol curved lines and leads in one direction to studio A. which is furnished in blue, red and gold. Indirect light ing effects add to the beauty of the building throughout. Located in the center of the building is the control room hous ing the broadcast transmitter, stud io' console and other equipment. From the transmitter runs a five wire overhead transmission line leading to the 150-foot antenna, de signed^ by Dan Trueblood >f WG BU, Goldsboro. and aDvid llardi son. chief engineer of station WHIT. New Bern. From another direction in ihe lobby one enters the news studio, offices and engineer's work room. Behind the control room is a trans mission library containing over 6.000 records. In one corner of the lobby is a small news room where stands the United Press teletype The initial program will be broadcast over the Tobacco Net work. making the Jacksonville pro gram available to approximately IX '*.000 listeners. Local Personnel Personnel of Jacksonville Broad casting company are: Louis N. Howard and Ellis Howard. New Bern, owners: Lester Gould, sta tion manager: Paul Parker of New Bern acting program director: Ed Cox of Wilson, chief announcer: Earl Lewis of New Bern, news ed itor: Charles Holt of Montgomery, Ala., and Earl Nightengale of Jacksonville annoncers: Dons \ 11 red of Winston-Salem, traffic manager: Virginia Murphy of Low ell, Mass.. continuity writer: Carl Pigott of New Bern, continuity; and David E. Hardison of New Bern, chief engineer. The transmission equipment was installed by William Greer of the radio engineering firm of George C. Davis. Washington. Walter F. Lanier Funeral Conducted Sunday Afternoon % Warsaw—Funeral services for Walter F. Lanier. 61, of the Beu laville community were conducted Sunday .afternoon from Bethel Presbyterian church by Capt. Ben Rose. Army Chaplains Corps and former pastor of the Bethel Pres byterian church, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Potts of Wallace. Inter ment was in the family cemetery. Surviving are his wife, the form er Ida Aman; three sons. W. K. Lanier of Burlington, and Raleigh. Lanier and Winfred Lanier, both of the home; one daughter, Mrs. Ida Mae Smith of Beulaville: two sisters. Mrs. L. J. Albert son and Mrs. David Batchelor: both of Beulaville: three brothers. Enos, Liston and Herbert Lanier; and five grandchildren. ISSl'E WILDING PERMIT fThe City of .Jacksonville has issued a permit lo R. W. Watson to erect a garage at a cost of $500 at 203 Bayshore. Forest Researcher Does Rescue Work In Holmann Area £ I*n'»l lemiiKin, who is at tached to the Appalachian Forest Experimental Station at Asheville, is now in Ilof m inn Forest doing sime res cue as well ;is research work. I.enimon's inspection of the forest takes him into the depths of the 81,000 acre Slate College experimental tract ev ery clay, and almost every day he comes out with someone's lost deer hound. The dogs evidently have been lost from packs of hunt ers and abandoned. When he limls them, or they find him. the dogs follow him out of the forest. I.einmon turns them over to Nash Thomas, near Kirhlands. Don't fret excited, however, because your dog: probably hasn't found Lenimon yet. So far the rescued dogs have been plainly tagged and their own ers notified. 25 Naval Hospital Patients Entertained By Jacksonville USOs O The fourth weekly party for .'25 Naval hospital paiients of Camp Lejeune was held Monday, at the ISO Clubs in Jacksonville. The patients who attended w.-re: Pre. Louis Grant. Pfc L. G. Mc Gill. Pvt. R. L. Knipers. Pvt K L. Wray. MAlc W. II. Strickland. HAlc John Lucas, t'vt. Dan'ild Westrick. Pic. II 11. Sellers. Pvt. I. ii. Me Fart and. SCic H. S. Gor don. SCHc I. C. Roberts. SClc \V. A Wright. Ssit. Harold VV. Hai:.er, Pfc. N. F. Marshall. Pvt. K. R. Leech. Pvt. John Hulkeley. Pvt. Carl Seidel. ItAlc Charles Ingle. Pvt. Alexander Petrie. T-S-.;t. Ed ward Wade. Pfc. John Dobriskie. Pfc. R. L. White. HA2c R. II. Wal dron and Col. C>. L. Vallely. Half nf the group was entertain ed at Now Bridge St-eet CSC) dur ing the afternoon. Cofee and a lovely cake, made by Mrs. David Sabislon. were served. Bingo was played with cigarettes given as prizes, other contest, consisted of ping pong bounce, tooth pick con test. rolling pennies into a match box. dropping clothespins in a milk buttle, and bean balancing. Hostesses for the afternoon were Mrs. George Wendell. Mrs. .1. C. Pettewav. Cpl. Peggy McGreevy and Cpl. Clare Sermak. Mrs. David Sabiston was the Gray Lady in charge of this "roup. Hostesses who served at the Federal I SO during the afternoon included: Mrs. George See. Miss Betty Watson. Miss Bettv Jones, and Miss Shirley Goff. Several of the patients enjoyed making shell jewelry to send home as Christ mas gifts. Incidentally Pvt. L. Campbell of Texas took much kidding about the pin and earring set he made for his "sister-in-law". Others engaged in singing, table tennis, dancing and card games. The feature of the afternoon was a quiz game conducted by Mrs. George See. Members of the Kiwanis club who provided transportation for the party were: /.. F. Murrell. G. K. Maultsby, Raymond llartsfield. A. Turner Shaw. Maurice Margolis, J. C. Pettewav and Sam Leder. Junior hostesses who attended the dance at Pine Lodge were: Mrs. Doris Cannady. Miss Lula Hurst Cole. Mrs. N S. Day. Miss Mabel Kennedy. Miss Muriel Ketehum. Miss Annie Laurie Koonce. Mrs. Jane Lewis, Miss Helen Padley. Miss Janie Paschall, Miss Feenie Sabiston. Miss Fay Sasser. Miss Dorothy Turner. Miss Annie _\\ ard Warliek and Miss Hazel V\ ilker son. Music was provided by the Montford Point orchestra. Mrs. W. L. Ketehum was the Grey Lady in charge at the Pine Lodge activities while Miss Mary Baxter. Red Cross recreation worker, stay ed with the group throughout the day. The supper, which is always a "major" activity of the program was served by Mrs. Charles D. Koonce. Mrs. V.. K. Murrell and Mrs. Sally Ward. A menu of meat balls and gravy, potato salad, green peas, biscuits, cake and coffee was served. , In innumerable instances the patients have tried to express their appreciation for the kindness of the citizens of Jacksonville in making these parties possible. One of the men present last Mon day said as lve left "We re not like other Marines any more for it isn't the week ends we look forward to now—Monday is the day we like!" 42 Deer Are Slain By 200 Hunters In Hofmann Forest HForty-two door wore killed in llofmann Forest during the last two-day hunt November lfi-17. it was announced yesterday by Su pervisor .1. M. Stingley. Some 200 hunters participated. 8 Onslow Veterans Of World War II Honorably Discharged l" "h< On-low ("ounlv veterans of World \\';>r II recently wore a.var V.I discharges and aiv Home again. They include: Boatswain Mate Second Class Alvin William Brown of Onslow ("ounlv who was discharged ! nun tln> Navy November I'fc. Iluy C. Wiggins, Jr.. of Riehiands, route two. wiio nterod the \:nu Fchnnrv 12. 1 !»4lf. .wis a surgical technician at Normandy, Norl hei n i-'rnnce. \" ' e: ".\s. \ he Rhinoland atul Central Kurope. who wears the \;norican i": c tie \ n :or\. Good C. m 'm t and K \ MKT with five l',S modal- and .vin> was (Iischa; '4i'd NV\ ember i:i I'fc. George H. Dixon, colored of Kit hi n tored the service January 22. 15)42. was a '.'iiard. who wears .he KAMI'. ]' and Good Conduct medals and who was discharged Novem ber 8. T-r» Bay K. Koonee, Jr.. of Jack sonville. who enicred ihe army Angus! IV li)42. w;,- a plnrmicy technician, who wears ihe I'. \MKT. Victory and American Theatre medals and who > as discharged November 9. IM'c, Willis Carter of Beulaville, route two, \'.ho entered (lie service August 17. 1941, was a duly sol dier in thf Western Pacific, who wears i.he Victory. Xsia'.ic Pacific with one BS. the American De fense. American Theatre and Good C '.induct medals and who w.-'s discharged -November 7. Pvt. Cecil A. Taylor of Rich lands, who entered the service January 1L .1941. was a truck driver, in Normandv. Northern France. Rhineland. \rdrennes and Central Europe, who Wears the Good Conduct. American Defense, \merican T h e a ! re. Viclor\. EAMET with five BS and the Purple Heart medals, who has wounded near Alsd. rf. Germany. November 17. 15)44. and who was discharged November (> IM'c. Horace A. Brown, native of C'vpress ("reek and now of Sue'tis Ferry, who entered the service April (i. 194!'.. wa> a surjv-al tech nician at Normandy Northern France. Ardrennes. Rhineland and Central Europe, who wears the EAMET with five US. the Good Conduct and the Victory medals and who was discharged Novem ber 10. I'fe. Thomas Hill :»f Swansboro. who entered the servici October 14. 1942. was a duty soldier in i he Eastern Mandates, who wears the Asiatic-Pacific with one BS and the Good Conduct medals and who was discharged October 26. WSCSC TO MEET MONDAY 0 The Woman's Society of the Christian .Service Circle Number One will meet Monday afternoon at H o'clock with Mrs. Raymond Askew. All members are urged to attend. Sl'MMOXED BY OP A {J) Mrs. Lettuce Lewis of near Jacksonville has been summoned to appeal1 before the OPA :in Raleieh November 29-30 to answer charges of violating OPA regula tions. STRIKES HOLD I P SOLDIERS 0 Washington 1 P> The War de partment said that strikes and shorter working hours on both coasts had delayed shipping to bring soldiers home from overseas. It also said that strikes had delay ed production of railroad troop kitchen cars and "critically need ed" troop sleeper cars. Power Off ® Pouci will he turned off in Jaeks'mviile from I i o'clock m»dn> it I'ridav night until 2:30 .1 in. Saturday morning so t'1 i the Tide Water Power (om|;.'i!\ ' in install new trans forn.t- ii was announeed > t-siIn [{«>> Me J'hatter, in el; ::«• of the Ioeal TWP operations. The public is bring advised in ar?\a'"er so thai it will not he rm-'l by power being off. '! ioh m i v he completed in 1< than '11 • hours, Me Phat aid. Mrs. ",;!!'e Wilson DeligMs Kiwanians With, V>nn Program P \no niii last of Mrs. Billie \'. .hi"-, delijhlful musical program was enjoyed by the .lacks')' !!.•» Kiwanis elu!) Tuesday, but thi- Mie with an added fea ture—MT<-_:1 Kenneth Wilson at the pi !. Sjt Wilson is Mrs. Wilson's better half, and shortly they w. return to civilian life and rai . he having only recently returned rom overseas. Mrs. \\ I son. who has appeared for the Kiwanians ■•in several oc casions. ant: six selections as her parting umbers. after .vliicii the club ■ • i ••:ii fully hroke into "Blest Be Tiie Tie That Binds." Her generous appearances here abouts ai rect ill years hroii'jht ex pressioi of appreciation "roni the club men i)ers Clues' at the meeting included Judge \\ :Iter Bone of Durham. Carl A Venters of Jacksonville. Jesse limes of Kinston. Eddie Mills o! Minnesota, and Kiwanian Paul Le union of Tifton. Ga. Pullman Cars To Be Few For Christmas Travelers This Year 0Chi< Fewer sleeping (Mi* ;!(■. modations will be avail able foi holiday travelers this year than v. any previous Christmas season. George A Kelly, 'vice president of l he Pullman companv. dec In-red. Pullman and the railroads face their mos; ("Vieal soon in .he next iwo months. Kelly said in a statement. wilh an estimated 000,0(11) veterans roni Kurope and the Pacific seheduled 1 fi reach is count: v (11ji• i11_ \11\e:nI>i■ r and De cemhs r. Dunn:: tin- Christmas sea son. ahout 151.000 of the nation's estimated 208.000 berths will he avail i )le exelusivelv to the mili tary. ic said. Doing the earl' months •>!' 1940. he said, more than 500.000 voter.ins are schedit'led io arrive mom dy at west const ports, and 90 p r cent of them are expected to : ie Pullmans to their home stations. Civil Courl Term To 8e Reconvened Monday Morning 4P A Ao-w eek term of civil court got underway here ' 'tis week, but was -nspended Wednesday for the Thanksgiving holidays. It will be reco voned Monday morning by Jiid'-.r W alter Bone of Durham. A jury returned a verdict up holding the valadit\ of a will in the case of Amelia lenkins agauist Kate Humphrey, and in another ca.se Clara Thomnson was award ed a ^>.'531 verdict in a case against W. M. Mozingo. Mozinuo. in (urn. was awarded S30 damages in a case against James \ndrews. Mo/ingo was also awarded a to tal iSO 11 a ca.-e involvin poss: -.sion of an automobile. D. R ileal 1 was the del mdant. Tin two divorces granted dur ing I-he term were in the cases of Men i.oiiin Whit !e\ , gainst Gladys Wh ev and M. W. ("aider again.-! Rachel Carter. Three Of Seven Provost Brothers Home At Hubert After Duty In Army ©Three members of North Caro lina's "First Family of World War II" have been honorably discharg ed from the Army and are home again. They are Edwin, George and Roland Provost, three of the seven sons oT Frank Provost of Hubert who were in the armed forces of the nation at one time, and the largest number of a sinele family in North Carolina serving in World War IT. Edwin Provost recently was dis charged after serving IK months in the European theatre with the army. George Provost came home several weeks ago after three years in the Southwest Pacific, and Roland arrived about the same time from Panama where he was stationed with the Army for four years. The other four sons are Edward, who is in the Merchant Marine: Roy in the army. Daniel in the Marines, and Fred in the Navy. Governor Cherry Calls On Citizens To Buy TB Christmas Seals ® K.ileigh— f.-Pt —Governor Cherry has called upon the citizens of this stall- to buy and use Christmas seals to help make possible the complete eradication of tubercu losis m Nona Carolina." The North Carolina Tuberculosis association, which is conducting its annual seal sale between No vember 1!) and December 25. uses 95 per cent of the seal funds for a \ »r!h Carolina health program. Cherry said. S( HOOLMASTKItS Ml I T 41 1":ie November meeting of the Onslow County Schoolmasters club will be held at Odum's Oyster Roast at Swansboro November 2\). City To Consider Bond Referendum Call Tonight Clean-Up Effort Opens In Jacksonville Monday % A six-da.V city-wide e!ea.' i-up c;jir.ibegins in )ackso : villc Monday in an e!Tort to lidy •,he nufMicip.ility for ;he Chi i -itnias season. It will continue '« l\rouuh November 30. Sponsored by the •lael'j.'jonville Woman's dub. the clean- »;> drive ; fleds e\ ,t\ residence -.'id busi ness place mi I lie city, and w ill load up io a Christmas home-lighting contest also lo be sponsored by the o! 111; Beginning Monday, city trucks will carr\ away all tra? h and gar bage placed in receptacles in front of residences or in the usual places down street. Property owners are urged lo clean lip. but 1o make certain that all trash is in cartons or cans so that it can be easily transported. In a recent proclamation. Mayor Ramon. Askew called on Ihe citi zens to put on a holiday dress by tidying all premises putting cans and jottles in sacks and place other rubbish in boxes or cartons on the streets where they can be hauled olT by the city trucks. Ask Supreme Court lo Unseat Glass, Virginia Senator 4) Washington -(.-V)—The Supreme Court was asked to declare vacant t'1" Senate seat of ailing. 87-year oJd Carter Glass. Virginia Demo crat. beca::.>i of his three-year absence from the Senate floor. .lohn Locke Green. Republican leader of nearby Arlington coun ty. Ya.. appealed from the Virgin La Supreme court, which had refused to unseat the veteran legislator and require Governor C. VV. Har den to call a soerial election. Glass" term runs to 1949. Green brought to a new climax a conlroversy over the senatorship i ng ap proximately twenty tons of lime each year for the past several vears and is well pleased with the r. suits both in crop growth aud yield. Burton also recommends the use of erotalaria on deep sandy soils to build and help maintain fertil ity of the soil. Burton said. "This deep sandy area 'St. Lucie fine sand-soil type", was producing aJjout five bushels of corn per acre before usiim erotalaria: after growing one crop of erotalaria and turning it into the soil, this same are;; produced fifteen bushels of corn 1o the acre." .1 K. Steed. Jr.. of Richlands. rec ommends obtaining fuel and flue wood by selective cutting. "This a ver\ uood practice." says St ceil, "instead of clear cutting when ob taining fuel or flue wood, cut crooked, diseased and inferior trees, leaving the healthy, well formed trees to grow to maturity. If the stand is too thick, a syste matic thinning even five or ten years will increase the growth of the stand by letting in more sun light and reducing root competi tion for the remainder of the stand.' Develop Range Finder For Blind Cameramen; Undergoes More Tests # Hollywood- r/pi- Film Camera man Joseph Walker says ho lias invented a compact photoelectric range finder thai will enable blind persons 1o determine by sound the nature, size, direction, and distance of manv near by objects. Walker said in an interview that the device, housed in a small car rying case, has been turned over to the Braille Institute of Amer ica for further testing and devel opment He explained thai light reflected from objects is picked up by two motion picture camera lenses set in the front of the box. The light activates the photoelectric cells and produces buzzing sounds which a sightless person may Learn to interpret. National War Fund Some $4,600 Short 01 Its $9,000 Ouota e \ total Of $-1.381.07 has been raised in Onslow Coun ty's National War Fund cam paign, it was announced yes terday by Chairman T. New ton Cook. The fund is some $4,GOO short of the Si).000 quota set for I SO and other national agencies and local organiza tions. including" the Onslow County Council of Community Ser vices. Several communities are yet to report. Cook said, and the colored division will continue its effort until the first of De cember. However, the funds they turn in will not raise the total amount up to the quota. 6 White Onslowans Leave For Induction In Army Nov. 29th # Six white registrants will leave for induct ion at Fort Bragg No vember 2D: They are: Calvin Arestis Coston. Jr., Sneads Ferry: Jesse Thomas Moore. Jr.. .Swansbo.ro: Warren 1.eland Horne. Jr.. Beulaville: William Cornelius Yopp. Sneads Ferry: Kenneth Clayborn Turner. Rich lands; H. J. Daughlry. Jack sonville. The list of white registrants leaving for preinduelion physical examination at Fort Bragg: Henry Kendall Fisher. Sneads Ferry: Douglas Jennings Kellum, Jacksonville: Jonas Junior Brin son. Richlands: Robert Keith Rains. Midway Park: Lerov Stan ley Gibbles. Jacksonville: Charles Swinson Taylor. Mavsvillc: \dolph T.ouis Wetherington. Silverdale: Jesse James Watson. Swansboro: Stevie Earl Wells. Richlands: Hal Newton Troll. Richlands: Carlton Louis Humphrey. Richlands: Wal ter Donald Howard. Jacksonville: Richard Fletcher Dew. Midway Park. USO Travelers Aid Will Cease Operations Here November 30 # After three years service here, the USO Travelers Aid will close November 30. it was announced yesterday by Harvey Boney. chair man of the operating committee. The decline in the personnel at Camp l.ejeune has reduced the calls for this war emergency serv ice to a minimum, according to Bonev. In the three years the USO Travelers Aid has been in opera tion in .Jacksonville, it has given services to more than 133.000 travelers passing through, accord ing to Mrs. Josephine Burns, direc tor. During the early war years when the housing problem was more acute, this agency set up housing files through which more than 34.000 persons were helped to find living quarters. "Mrs. Burns and hor predeces sors here have been talented and capable people Much of the com fort of service men in our com munity can be attribn'ed to Mrs. Burns and Ihe Travelers Aid staff. It has been a pleasure 1o work with them and to have them in our midst." Boney said Mrs. Burns will leave soon for another post with I SO-Travelers Aid. In speak in a of her work. Boney said. "Our contact with Travelers Aid has aiven us much insight into the problems of mov ing people, and we hope t hat Jacksonville will continue to keep its interest in this problem alive." Travelers Aid has been assisted in its months of service by its operating committee consisting of Boney. Rev. Carl Craig. Carl Phil lips. Mrs-. Dan Bright, and Mrs. /. K Murrell. If and when Travelers Aid serv ices are needed after 1 his opera tion closes, arrangements have al ready been made with the Federal I'SO and New Bridge Street USO clubs to give assistance, Mrs. Burns said. GENF.RAl. PATCH DIES § San Francisco. Texas. • i/T> — Lieut. Gen. Alexander M. Patch, .1 !•.. commanding genera] of the Fourth Army with headquarters at Fort Sam Houston, died in Brooke General hospital from pneumonia. ATTK N I>S CON VK NTI ON # James A. Odom. secretary of Ihe .lacksonville Chamber of Com merce. attended a convention of the Carolina Motor club at Char lotte this week. 0 The Board of Commissioners of the City of Jacksonville tonight vviii consider calling a referendum to decide if bonds shall be issued for approximately $108,000 with which lo make necessary water and sewer line extensions and in stall curbs, gutters and stonn d rains. If issuance of bonds is favored in the proposed referendum, the town could realize permanent im provements amounting to $U85, 027.57. including $90,038.77 in water and sewer line extensions and $1.94.988.80 in drainage facili ties. The latter figure, as in a pav ing proposal, would depend large ly upon cooperative efforts of prop erty owners on each street. The figures, studied by Mayor Ramon Askew and Commissioners Jledrick Aman and J. C. Collins Tuesday night, are taken from a very comprehensive report of municipal improvements prepared by City Engineer Herbert East wood of the engineering firm of William F. Freeman of High Point. Seven needed "improve ments" in the eity were rec ommended for immediate and future accomplishment at a total cost of S597.019.57. in cluding, in addition to the aforementioned two items, paving in the amount of $146. 827.17: water purification plant, $41,010: additional sewer clarifier, $21,168: side walks, $66,554.83; and town hall, $37,412. The figures in clude additions of 10 per cent or more for contingency pur poses. Although probably immediately staggering to the taxpayer's imagi nation. it is to be remembered that the recommejidations are on a long-term basis, and that the only immediate recommendations are for utilities extensions and drain age. Tantamount to Referendum As for paying, which the engi neers recommended to accompany the drainage work, that figure will almost assuredly be omitted from the proposed referendum call. Un der present statutes, according to City Attorney John D. Warlick, whenever 51 per cent of the prop erty holders on any street within the corporate limits agrees to an assessment for paving, that is tantamount to a referendum, and the city can legally issue bonds to finance its part of the work. It is the same plan which has been employed here in the past with property owners only on that street affected by the paving paying two thirds and the city one-third of the cost. That same procedure will bo followed as to curbs and gutters for the most part, but since drain age more affects and applies to all of the city than does paving it separate street or block, it must be included in a town-wide refern dum. Therefore. 45r'r of the total drainage cost would be requested in the referendum. The water and sewer line ex tensions would make possible the immediatf extensions of facilities t Cheney Heights. Bayshore Estates and lo the Tallman prop erty on Marine Boulevard which is now by-passed by sewer lines to Overbrook. City In Position Voting a bond issue now. it was pointed out. would put the city in a position of being prepared to take advantage of Federal funds if and when they become available for a post-war public works pro gram. In that case the city's share in the work would be further re duced. And, since the water and purification plant; and sewage elarifier could be considered ex tensions of the water and sewer project, financed by referendum approved bonds, the city could also take advantage of federal funds to secure those improve ments. it was said. Adjourned Meeting However, because two members of the board were absent no action was taken on the proposed referen dum Tuesday night. The meeting was adjourned to meet again to night when, it is hoped, all mem ber^ will be able to be present. The report to the city board, asked of the engineer recently, is very comprehensive. It includes the cost of paving and installing drainage fae ities on every street in the city, with the cost of each separated As for the purification plant, tho present water supply is said to be ample «.nd of good quality How ever. the engineers recommend that when funds are available that the plant be expanded to reduce hardness of water. As for the sewage disposal plant, the report pointed out that the present plant is in general adequate for the pit .-.out load. Some need, it. was said, is felt for an additional clari fier unit, and any considerable increase in load will make it es sential This work is not recom mended for immediate construc tion. .1 APS TESTED ALLIED GUNS # Nagoya. .Japan (TP) A recov ery team of the U. S. 25th divi sion found that at the end of the war the Japanese were testing American. British and even Rus sian artillery at the big and ef ficient Konakayama p r o v i n g grounds 65 miles east of here. The American and British types ap parently were captured.