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The News and Views The Only Newspaper in the World That Gives a Whoop About Onslow County Over 6,000 People Read VOL. XII, NO. 73 JACKSONVILLE, N. C. TUESDAY, MARCH I I. 1950 member of the associated press PRICE: 5c per copy Down East with & ( Billy Arthur Well, after having resided in New York a number of months and made frequent trips there in later years, this past week's trip up with the Unholy Triumvirate—Jim Tan ner, Buddy Phillips and Bruce Ab bott—was the best yet. And, that was because of one play, which should be a "must" on the list of every person from these parts. Because they are familiar with Navy life, more or less, and be cause they are North Carolinians— and more so, because of the sheer entertainment and laughs—none should miss "Mr. Roberts." Without doubt, it's the funniest play I've ever seen. And the acting of the entire cast is superb Of course, there's Henry Fonda, who has to do a good job to warrant his being starred as "Mr. Roberts." Too, there's Henry Hull, who does a remarkable characterization of the doctor. The lesser stars in the play—the swabbies, so to speak— are excellent in their parts. And not forgetting the captain of the ship against whom everyone has conspired, he is wonderful. But the splendid acting job is done by a North Carolinian—Mur ray Hamilton of Washington. N. C. —who plays the part of Ensign Pulver Stepping into the part va cated by David Wayne for movie work, young Hamilton portrays to perfection the ambitious and yet adolescent ensign fresh out of Na val Academy. It is Pulver who has consistently the best lines in the play, and the best scenes; and Hamilton carries them through to the perfection that made me proud of both his and my being Tar Heels. Everyone should see the play. "Touch and Go", a fresh musical is also splendid entertainment. But stay away from "Arms and the Girl." We left at intermission in spite of the good work and singing of Pearl Bailey. Another good show is the Dia mond Horseshoe. There W. C. Handy, author of the St. Louis Blues, and Irving Richardson, au thor of Sweet Adeline, surprise the audience with their personal ap pearances and renditions of the old favorites. On the same bill is Noble Sissel— remember him?— all In a presentation of an old-time minstrel. Eddie Davis is the same fas! comedian who will delight folks from this area at Leon and Eddie's. He's the best comic, to my think ing, up there. His show the night we saw it was featured by personal appearances of yours truly and Buddy. I had to straighten out the piano flayer, who cculdr.'t Tallow me— 'd who could?—but Buddy was ; Arthur Murray or Fred Astaire the show. BuC Jacksonville, North Caro lina. got plenty of publicity that night. Eddie mentioned the town and the state no less than a half dozen times during the show. I was on the twenty-first floor of the hotel—so high up that my nose bled. YVhen I went on the elevator, they had to put me in the room to cure the bends. The elevator was so fast going down that my underwear choked me. We had a little trouble getting to see all the things we wanted io. For one reason, Jim stayed on the telephone calling up the cafe to find out how much business was done that day. But one thing we've straightened out—and that's the poached and boiled egg business. Jim maintain ed that cafe folks didn't like to serve them when they were set up for lunch. That is, he maintained that until we got down to Weir's in Williamston, friends of Jim's. There we put the question. That fellow said he certainly did like to sell them—anytime as long as the folks had the jack to pay for them. From then on in home, we had peace and quiet. Not that Jim talked all the way back from New York—it just seem ed like it. particularly when he would wake up before Buddy and me and start giving us conversa tion. The trip across Cap# Charles Little Creek ferry is a break in the trip. But make the schedules at this time of the year, because, baby, it's cold outside at Cape Charles, and the weak coffee is a dime. And. may I add that Jane Russell looks just as well from the back as she does the front. Jane was on at the Paramount with Bob Hope in an in-person performance; and while they didn't set the world on fire, they were entertaining. Hope worked hard for the laughs he cot, but Jane got along all right with her songs. Rev. Robert Kirchgessner stop ped by the office Friday and said that everytime he picked up the paper we were always remarking about Art Inness not going to church, and added that Art attend <J church Thursday evening. ' i«v. MortiiMr Olovar To Spaak Tbirsday The Reverend Mortimer Glover. Rector of St. James Church of Wil mington, will be guest speaker Thursday night at the fourth pro gram in a series of Lenten services at St. Anne's Episcopal church here. The programs, which begin at 7-90, consist of evening prayer and Litany each Thursday. Lejeune High Captures Class B' Championship; WhiteOakMakes Finals Camp Lejeune's scrapping, well-drilled basketball leam from Jacksonville won the State B championship here Saturday night be fore approximately 1,500 fans by defeating Matthews High, 37-25. rloyd Propst. high-scoring for-' ward for Camp Lejeune, was nam ed on the Greensboro Daily News all-state team. Me was the only Class "B" player selected for the honor. Propst was credited with providing the necessary points in giving Lejeune the championship. He has scored an average of 22.7 points in 24 games this season. Meanwhile, the boys basketball team from White Oak school was slated to enter the finals of the annual Star-News Southeastern tournament against Bolivia last light. The White Oak boys, called the "Cinderella team" by Wilmington sports writers, were not conceded any chance at the tourney's begin ning. Representing the smallest school in the tournament, the team has successfully defeated Dixon, 55 to 38, Long Creek-Grady, 22-18, and Leland 34-29. The Dixon boys, who were de feated by White Oak. knocked White Oak out of the county tour nament several weeks ago by a one point margin. The team is coached by C. M Ward At the half, Lejeune was ahead by a 24-13 margin. Lejeune jumped into a 2-0 lead and never was head ed. The Matthews team, represent ing the western section of the State, had a miserable night at the free throw lane and that hurt them. Coach .J C. Ellington's Lejeune five was too speedy for the taller westerners. Star Forward Floyd Propst had 18 points and was just about the whole show for the win ners. Propst also turned in a great job on rebounds along with Joe Bar linger. Ronald Hodge, a six-foot freshman, also played well. Propst Again Bobby Phillips, a six-foot five inch center, led a Matthews drive which narrowed the Lejeune lead to 26-17 shortly after the third quarter *ot underway. But then Propst hit with his specialty, a one hander, and Lejeune was off again. Mostly it was Propst's one-hand ers and five free throws by differ ent players. Actually. Lejeune missed only two free throws in the last half and the Matthews team never did offer any serious resist ance. Bill Privatte, a tall boy, and Earl Williamson, played good de fensive games for the losers. Lejeune lost out in the finals of the State Class B finals last season to Trinity. The boys vowed at that time they would be back and take the championship home. They did a good job of doing that night. The speedy Lejeune five worked smoothly and set up numerous plays which befuddled Matthews' team considerably. Propst averaged 22 points per game during the regular season. Camp Lejeune G. Ft. Pf. Tp Propst. f ----- 5 4 3 14 Hodge, f 2 1 2 5 Brown, f 0 0 0 0 Crouch, f 0 0 0 0 R. Frucci, c — 2 2 4 6 A. Frucci, c — 0 0 1 0 Barringer, g 1 0 0 2 D. Simpson, g - 3 2 1 8 H. Simpson, g _ 1 0 1 2 Munch, g 0 0 0 0 Totals 14 9 12 37 Matthews G. Ft. Pf. Tp Green, f 0 0 3 0 Privatte. f 4 0 2 8 Funderburk, f 0 0 0 0 Gardner, f 0 0 0 0 Phillips, c 3 3 2 9 Garland, c 0 0 0 0 Mul I is, g 3 2 3 8 Williamson, g _ 0 0 1 0 Forbis, g 0 0 0 0 Black, g 0 0 0 0 Totals 10 5 11 25 Half time score: Camp Lejeune 24, Matthews 13. Free throws missed: Propst 3. Hodge, A. Frucci, Barringer, Pri vatte 3, Williamson 3, Mullis 2, Phillips, Green. Lejeune Marine Admits Another Local Theft Pfc. Norman Kystad, marine thief-of-aU-trades, add<>d another item to his list of admitted thefts in this area this week. Chief of Police Clyde Cook reported this «veek. The 19-year-old marine. Cook said, had confessed to stealing three "juke box" selection attach ments from the outside of the Whistle'n Pig, on the outskirts of Jacksonville, last fall. Two other marines were impli cated in the early morning theft, Cook said, but Kystad refused to identify them. In addition to the latest charge, Kystad is being held by Camp Lejeune officials for the theft of $1200 and a safe from the American Cleaners, the robbery of an automobile belonging to, Dick Bender, of Jacksonville, the rob bery of the Western Union office in Kinston and the burglary of two Kinston homes. Council Supports X-Ray Program Sponsors Contest The Onslow-Pender district mass x-vay program, which is scheduled to begin in the two counties next month was endorsed by the Onslow County Council of Home Demon stration Clubs in a meeting of the group Thursday at the Agricultural building in Jacksonville. The council also voted to sponsor a contest among members of the county clubs on "-2 Reasons Why I'm a Home Demonstration Club Member." Members of the clubs. Miss Edith Harris, County Home Agent said, will make a list of 12 reasons why they participate in club work. A winner in each club will be selected and her entry will be entered In a county finals. Miss Harris said. District and state finals will also be staged in the contest. The On slow winner will participate in the district finals and if she wins there, will be entered in the state contest. Final plans for the district fed eration meeting, which will be held in Jacksonville on April 21, were also made at the meeting. Miss Harris said. Miss Iris Davenport, woman's editor of the Southern Agriculturist magazine, will be the featured speaker at the morning session of the meeting. A tour of Camp Lejeune has been planned for the afternoon. Aproximately 400 women from surrounding counties are expected to attend ihe meeting. $27,420 Savings Bonds Sold In Onsiow County Last Month, Ellis Says Total U. S. Savings Bonds sales in Onslow County for the month of February amounted to $27,420. Of this total $26,850 were in E Bonds: $370 in Series F Bonds; and $200 in Series G Bonds, Albert J. Ellis, Savings Bonds Chairman for On slow County announced today. Total Savings Bonds sales in the 100 counties in North Carolina were as follows: Series E $3,824, 595.75; Series F $282,939.00; Scries G $1,493,500.00; Total $5,601,034 75. The county chairman said that the 1950 U. S. Savings Bonds spring campaign to be known as the Inde pendence Drive, will get under way May 15 and run through July 4. The Liberty Bell will be the campaign symbol, and "Save fot Your Independence," emphasizing the traditional American faith in thrift, will be the campaign slogan. High School Baseball Practice Opens Monday Approximately 20 Jacksonville boys turned out for baseball prac tice at Jacksonville high school Monday, Coach Tex Lindsay re ported. An interesting schedule. Lindsay said, including games with county teams and teams from surround ing counties has been planned for the season. A list of the candidates and their positions will be released next week, he said. Cotton Mills Changing Old Southern Tradition CHAPEL HILL, N. C.——A deep-rooted tradition of the South —the cotton mill village—is disin tegrating. Southern cotton mills, which for years have rented scores of village homes, are selling the dwellings to workers. The break-up of this mill-worker relationship, often termed "feud aiistic" by its many critics, is de scribed in g book recently publish-, ed by the University of North Caro lina Press. Harriet L. Herring of the university is the author. Pride in home ownership and individuality are qickly reflected, the author says. She notes: "Some of the people paint thejr houses soon after purchasing them even if this not particularly necessary, us ing a different color from the neighbors and often putting a trim ming in bright contrasting colors." Census Leaders Are Announced In Onslow County Mrs. Hales, Miss Barbee Selected For County Posts Mrs. Carl W. Hales of 408 Bor deaux St., Jacksonville, and Miss Viola Barbee of Richlands wili serve as crew leaders for the 1950 census enumeration in Onslow County, Nere E. Day. district sup ervisor. announced this week. Mrs. Males and Miss Barbee will attend a crew leaders training course in Goidsboro this week un der the direction of Hugh Bell, of Washington. The course, Day said, covers a period of eight days of intensive and technical training in 1950 censsu taking. A training period for the Onslow County enumerators. Mrs. Hales said Saturday, will begin in Jack sonville on March 25. The enumer ators for the county, she said, will be announced later. The workers will begin the 25th census taking on April 1 and will continue for ten days. Other crew leaders in this dis trict are Hopic K. Beamon, New Bern: Mrs. Arabel C. Borden. Goidsboro; Mrs. Tressie E. Camp iTrll. Clinton: Coleman Carter. Gar land: R. K. Chase, Eureka: Kodolph Duffy. New Bern; Be mice A. Far rior, Kenansville; Bertie M. Far rell. Clinton: Mrs. Melta D. Herring, Clinton: Earl G. Johnson. Harkers Island; Murvin R. Jones. Mt Olive. David O. Lancaster. Goidsboro; Mrs. Alice (J. Moore, Vandemere: Thomas H. McGowan. Wallace: Mrs. Norma R. Sawyer. Buprgaw; William M. Thomas. Beau tort; and Mrs. Christine W. Williams. Pink Hill. Baseball League Formed Friday At Meeting Here Organization of the Tri-County baseball league for the coming sea son was launched at a meeting of four 1<»49 club representatives Fri day light. Local and community teams in this section desiring entrance in the league should notify President Leon Justice, Jacksonville. Route 1, before March 24. The team rosters may carry twenty local .slayers. Maple Hill won the pennant last year, the first of the league. Repre sentatives of the four club were present at Friday's meeting. In ad dition to Maple Hill, the clubs were Southwest,, Verona and Ly man. A committee composed of Carl Gurganus, Roscoe Sandlin, James Wooten and Leon Brown »vas rain ed to direct the 1950 organization Geneva Ward Selected To Represent County In Azalea Festival Geneva Ward, of Swansboro, was selected to represent Onslow bounty in the Wilmington Azalea Festival. Saturday morning in an elimination contest held in the Ag riculture Building in Jacksonville. Miss Ward will he a guest duritr.' I he three-day festival and will serve as an attendant to the festival queen. Other girls in the contest Saturday were Mary Louise Tan icr. representing Jacksonville high school, Peggy Ann Cox, represent ng Ilichlands, Betty Claire Grant, representing Dixon and Peggy McKeel. representing White Oak. fudges for the contest were Miss Lovelace Wallei, assistant home agent for Craven County, and Paul Cox. assistant farm agent, also of Craven County. The contest was sponsored hy the home demonstration club wom en of the county. Urgent Need For Additional Hostesses At Club Stressed i Auto Wrapped Around Pole; Three Are Killed Throe persons perished in this wreckage of ai autnmohilp which lef< (he highway near Shelby, N. at high speed and literally wrapped itself armr.d a pole. (AP I'hoto). School Faculty To Present Show On Friday Night Footlight Frolics, an all faculty entertainment will be presented by by the Parent-Teachers Associa iitn Friday night, March 17, ut the .Jacksonville High School Auditor ium at 8 o'clock. Proceeds from the presentation will go to the Band fund which >1 a major considera tion of the Parent Teachers Asso ciation. Mrs. W R 1.ingle. Finance Chair man, is in charge of the program which will include members of the faculty from both elementary and high school. Feature® on the program will be several chorus numbers as well as songs and dances. One portion will be made up of a black face skit and both comic arfd dramatic read ings will be given. Several solos wil also be sung. Memory of an impromptu pro gram staged by the faeul.y last year as a benefit and put on for the s'.udents makes all the school children anxious to see this year's lollies, which should be even bet ter. Ticke.s for the entertaiment may be secured at the door and will be sold at 50c for adults and 25c for school children. Early in the year the Parent Teachers Association voted to make a band for the school a major pro ject and since that time plans to secure funds for basic instruments, music and other necessities for beginning a band have been made. Proceeds from Friday's program wil go to this fund in order that before the next school year opens all tnav be in readiness to .s.art a i mail band. Who Wears The Besf Sailors Or Marines? Jacksonville Policemen Fred Parker and Hush Henderson no ticed an unusually large number of men gathered around the corn er of New Bridge and Court streets Saturday night about mid iiiKht. The gathering had all the markings of an impending free for-all so the officers stopped to investigate. The trouble? A sailor had In formed a marine that the uni iW.iu; of the lh-«. Navy are made of better material than those ni the II. S. Marine Corps. The ma rine didn't agree and the crowd was waiting around to see the right. The two passed a few blows. I'arker said, before the crowd was dispersed. Who wears the best material still hasn't been de cided. Scottish Rile Master Masons Give Parly More than two hundred and fifty Scottish Rite Masons took part in a dinner, arranged by Charlie Sells, at Midway Park Community center Friday night. Present for the occasion wen- C. A. Seifert. secretary of New Bern Scottish Rite bodies; G. Farrow. New Bern, director of work; and Carl Bunting and Charles Dissell, officials of Sudan Temple. In the past two years. Sells has taken in 52 members of the Scot tish Rite and 42 members in the Shrine. Toast master for the enjoyable oc casion was George YV. Faville. mas ter of one of the Scottish Rite degrees and a icadin;; York RiL Mason here. Alaskan Field Tests Prove Ability Of American Armed Forces In Cold BY CLARKE BEACH WASHINGTON i.V) Ameri can taxpayers spent $1,200,000 on the rocent war games in the Can adian Yukon and Alaska, in addi tion to the regular running ex penses of the 3.110 IJ. S. ground and air personnel who took part. What did they get for their money? This correspondent was there for the first week as an observer. It was time enough to see some thing of what the Army and A it Force were learning. Since 1940 the military men have been work ing more and more on the problems, of fighting and flying in the Alas ka area. Since 1947 they have had occasional field tests, involving a few hundred men. These 1950 ex ercises. however, were the first large-scale tryout' for men and equipment. The maneuvers proved that a large force of men could be quick ly transported by air into the Arc tic, ready to live and fight in frigid temperatures. A battalion (750 men* was flown from Camp Carson. Colo., a distance of 2.600 miles to Whitehorse, Canada, with all their arms, equipment, cold weather, clothing and sleeping bags. Officers said it was the longest airlift of fully armed men ever attempted. In addition 2.000 men were trans ported by truck in midwinter from the United States to Alaska over the Alaska Highway. The trip went off smoothly, without traffic tie ups or other serious incidents. These achievements are important because they prove the feasibility of one phase of America's strategy for Alaskan defense. The U. S. plan is to garrison the territory with relatively few troops, then depend on rapid and heavy rein forcements from the Slates in ease of trouble. Men with no Arctic experience proved that with a few months' in doctrination they could live, fight .ind keep healthy in the deep snows, in temperatures ranging f;om 20 to 57 below zero. At the base-camp they tried out the new James way Shelters a two-layer, qmiled semi-cylindrical tent, insu lated with fiber glass. In the field :h,y lived in eight-sided five-man ti nts. The outer layer was canvas, the inner layer was nylon. An oil stove, its smokestack the tent-pole, kept the inside quite warm. White felt snow boots got their first large scale work-out. and a sizeable number of frost-bit'en feet resulted. Maneuver leaders belived, however, that the boots were good, although they had to be worn with care. Men who were frost-bitten, they said, had failed to use the proper precautions. In that climate you must use the utmost care to see that no moisture from sweat, snow or water ever reaches the ieet. Almost half of the weasels, the tracked vehicle built specially for Arctic use, broke down by the end of the first week. This was antici pated. however. A new type of Arctic vehicle is now being design ed. 'The thing we learned the first day here," said Lieut. Col. Lloyd J Hellmann. chief umpire, "was that good truck drivers are the key men in this kind of war." Fourth Of Quota For ARC Drive Already Reported Reports received by Fund Cam paign Chairman Carl Venters show ed that approximately one fourth of the Ked Cross Fund goal of ?!!, 158.00 has been raised. Oniy a small number of divisional chair man have reported complete cov erage of their ureas, but the Chair man urges all workers to finish their territory during I he first part of this week, if possible, in order thai full reports may be on hand by the end of .he »veek. Chairman \ enters. Chapter Chairman A. Turner Shaw and Ex ecutive Secretary. Mrs. Grace Gawlhrop attended a meeting of workers for I he Swansboro area held Saturday night at the Baptist church in Swansboro. Mrs. Law rence Kirkman. chairman for this section, reported I hat approximate ly $50.00 had been collected prior to (hat time and that none of the vvork< rs had completely covered their assigned sections. The amount collected to date, however, rep resented a larger sum than that community had raised at this stage in previous drives and prospects for the remainder of the drive were good. Sickness prevented several of Mrs. Kirkman's workers from at tending the dinner meeting Satur day night, but those attended en joyed a delicious chicken 'iinner and discussed phases ol ihe overall •virk of Red Cross that will be helpful in the drive in many ways. Special gifts from business house << in Jacksonville passed the $500.00 mark during vlie week end and Carroll liryan. who heads thai division, expects a full report from his workers ibis week Early reports from Camp Le jeiine. released by the Field Di rector Carney, place the figure raised ;>t approximately $2,000 00. A contribution of $25.00 by (he fack.- mville Woman's Club which was voted at its meeting on Thurs day represented the first donation from a civic organization. Rev. L. B. Manning, above, is conducting revival services at the Free Will Baptist church in Jacksonville this week. Rev. Manning, a well-known evangel ist, conducted services here two years ago. The services, which begin each night at 7:30, will continue until Wednesday, March 22. Response Termed Disappointing By Mrs. Burton Chambers Issue Statements To Support Program Urgent need for additional sen ior- hostesses to conduct a vvell rounded recreation program as a c immunity-wide project for serv ice ncrsonnel at the NCCS club was voiced yesterday by Mrs. I. VV. Burton, chairman of the volunteers committee. "Response to the first call for volunteers lias been disappointing in some respects, particularly as to number." Mrs. Burton said. "More volunteers are needed to conduct the program and thereby ease the entertaining burden now carried by a loyal few." Two volunteer senior hostesses only are needed for each night in the week, and as a community project, the Jacksonville Cham ber of Commerce and the Jack sonville Jaycees have mapped a house-to-house canvass for them. The NCCS club, formerly the USO, is being kept open as a re creation center for Camp Lejeune personnel through the cooperation )f the U. S. Marine Corps, which is maintaining the huge center, the National Catholic Community Serv ice which is appropriating some $17,000 this year for salaries and other expenses, and a group of vol unteers who act as hostesses and supplement the operating person lel. The Jacksonville Chamber and Jaycees. in a statement issued jointly yesterday by M. A. Cowell and Rev. Robert Robert Kirch Ressner. liaison committee chair man and president respectively, "feel that the need of volunteers is worthwhile and should be met as a community-wide project." ' because of the number of service personnel who use the club and thereby move in and out of Jacksonville and do busi ness here, it is felt that the XCCS club deserves the whole hearted support of the commu nity. particularly the people in business." The NCCS club provides a place where service personnel can obtain wholesome recreation through dancing, card playing, skating, checkers, letter writing, instruction, cral'ts and hobbies. "In the partici pation. a vast number of service men visiting Jacksonville thereby do not take part in activities that eventually might lead to trouble," the statement said. At the outset almost all ihe ■hurches of Jacksonville offered io furnish volunteer receptionists and hostesses at the club, but the de mand now exceeds Uie supply. That works a hardship on ihe faithful few who are striving to maintain and upbuild good relations between Jacksonville and Camp Lejeune. "Therefore." the statement said It is felt that the appeal should made on a sensible business like basis and not through the churches, because, actually, no reli gious program is being conducted at the NCCS club, rather one of whole.-ome entertainment only. "It is lor that reason that the chamber and the Jaycees have un Icrlaken this house-to-house can vass for volunteers senior hostesses. The more hostesses who volunteer ihe less work it will be or nil and the belter program that can be pre sented." the Jaycees and chamber said. Hadnot-Sandlin Post To Eloct New Officers For VFW Thursday New officers of the Hadnot-Sand lin VFW Post 9010 will be elected Thursday night a: the club's home, it was announced this week. Nominations for the nine officer were made last week. A. J. Claus. R. F McCoy. W. E Day. and Hiram Rasnick are candi dates for post commander. A. I. Smith and O. D. Walbrown are running for senior vice commander and C. C. Fulp, R. F. Hill, E L, Stickie, Jerry Garrity, W. E. Day and Paul Glade are running for election as junior commander. Other candidates ar?: for quar termaster, Anthony Gailanella, and jC. X. Forrer: For judge advocate, C. C. Swearinger and J. D. War lick; for chaplain, E. H. Granath and A. W. Sellers; for post surgeon, W. E. Day and L. J. Eddy; for a i two year trustee, J. P. Burnette and C. C. Fulp; and for three year I trustee, R. F. McCoy and A. W. i Sellers.