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The News and Views ■ ■ ■ ^ W W w W w The News and Views. The Only Newspaper in the World That Gives a Whoop About Onslow County ___ VOL. XIII, NO. 20 JACKSONVILLE. N. C. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1950 member of the associated press PRICE; 5c a copy Down East with Billy Arthur From someplace Sam Sacknoff uk up some definitions and put »em in the weekly Kiwanis bul Jtin. They are: Traffic Cop: One who whistles while he works. Detour. The roughest distance be ween two points. Diapers: Changeable seat covers. Dust: Mud with the juice squeezed out. Bald Head: Where there is no dying or parting. The Seven Ages of Women: The infant, the little girl, the miss, the young | woman, the young woman, the young woman, the young woman. The other morning a man ap proached Sam and wanted to fix his sewing machine. "I fix Ledor's machine." he added. "If you fix Leder's sewing ma chines. you can't work on mine," Sam declared. "Why?" the man asked astound ed. "VVe belong to different clans," Sco'.sman Sacknoff explained. Roy Lasitter felt D. C. Tripp's handsome sport shirt the other afternoon and inquired, "Is that the best one you could pick out of someone's laundry?" A1 Dickson of the Wilmington Star telephoned the other after noon seeking some information, and I confessed that I probably should be better armed with in formation when 1 go speaking out in public. "That's the way it is with a lot of us," A1 came back. "We usually spout the loudest when we know the least." Town Clerk Bill Starling wasn't in his second childhood and mak ing mud pies down town the oth er morning He v as merely learn ing something new—how to turn off some water that was doing a bit of damage in one of the stores. But Bill was dutifully down on his knees digging handfuls of mud from the meter box. Flash—Judge Harvey Boncy was down town at 9:45 a.m. Wednesday morning. I suspect the long court session of Tuesday caused him to stay up all night. Harvey told the story of the doc tor who fell in the well and hroke his collar bone. "The moral of that story," said he. "is this: doctors should attend the sick and leave the well alone." Mayor M. N. Lisk was up from Swanshoro yesterday telling about the first big mullet run of the sea son. "The mullet line radio was busy," he advised. "The boys sent a spy out and he spotted the fish by radio and there was all sorts of noise in the air." I asked the Mayoi; how things were progressing on pfiiitics down his way, d he discjoffcd thai ^ie had the exclusive agency in On 'ow County for 'Exit Oil That's ? oil you can put on the poli ians and when they are tossed -ut of office they don't bruise. I've got a good supply in ease they need any in Jacksonville." Timmons Jones passed as I stood in the doorway leading to the welfare office. "Trying to get on or off?" he asked. A local mother complained the other day that her daughter went down to the dance at the beach and didn't get home until an early hour in the morning. Doesn't she know that the mod ern girl lives in endless motion? Day in and night out. There's quite a difference in some of the girls today and the girls of yesteryear. It used to be that they'd take a cocktail and go out like a light. Now they take a cocktail and out go the lights. Even in recent years customs have changed. In 1947 a girl would inquire. "Please, mother, may I go out tonight?" In 1948. she said. "May I go out tonight; I'll be in by 10 o'clock." In 1949 it was "I'm going out tonight." This year — 1950—it's "Good night. old folks, I'll bring in the milk.'' But. as Guy L.angston said at trie Kiwanis meeting this week, par ents are not setting good examples. For instance, take the conversation at the breakfast table when junior asks. "Mother, tell me about dad dy?" And the mother replied. "Please. Junior, not while I'm eating." And when junior overhears his father employing his new secre tary: "Do you drink?" "No." "Do you smoke?" "No." "Do you eat hay?" "No." "Then you ain't a fit companion for man or beast." But it's the little things in life that break up families—little blondes, little brunettes, little red heads. Two lines Langston did omit from his safety speech were: Driving home tonight remember the inventor of whiskey is dead, but his spirit is still with us. And. it's all right to drink like a fish and drive provided you drink what a fish drinks. } mbrosa Condition Regarded Critical The condition of S. S. Ambrose, prominent Jacksonville citizen and former town official, was reported yesterday to be critical. He is a patient at Duke hospital in Dur ham, where he underwent an op eration recently. Hospital Will Get $50 On Water Bill, Must Pay Remainder, Aldermen Decide Cardinals Slate Ten Games For 1950 Season The Jacksonville Cardinals will play ten games this season, eight i of them in the East Central Athle tic Conference and two non-con ference games with Swansboro and Camp Lejeune The first game is. scheduled next Friday with Mount Olive there. Other games scheduled. Coach Lou Savini said yesterday are: Sept. 22, Selma here; Sept. 29, Faison, here; Oct. 6, Wallace, here; Sept. 13, Smithfield, here; Oct. 20, open; Oct. 27, Warsaw, there; Nov. 3, Burgaw, there; Nov. 11, Swansboro. here; Nov. 17, LaGrange, here; and Nov. 23, Camp Lejeune. here. The schedule for other teams in the conference is as follows: Sept. 15—Faison at LaC.range. Sept. 22—LaGrangc at Warsaw. Mt. Olive at Faison. Burgaw at Smithfield. Sept. 29—Mt. Olive at Wallace. 1 Selma at LeGrange. Warsaw at Smithfield. I Oct. 6—Warsaw at Selma. Smith field at Selma, Burgaw at Mt. Olive. Oct 13—Mt. Olive at Selma. Wallace at Warsaw, Burgaw at La Grangc. Oct. 20—Selma at Faison, Bur gaw at Warsaw. Mt. Olive at Smith field. LaGrange at Wallace. Oct. 27—Wallace at Selma. La Grange at Smithfield. Faison at Nurgaw. Nov. 3—Mt. Olive at LaGrange, Smithfield at Wallace. Nov. 10—Selma at Burgaw, Camp Lejeune at Wallace (non-confer ence). Nov. 11—Faison at Warsaw. Nov. 17—Warsaw at Mt. Olive, Faison at Wallace, Southport at Burgaw. Nov. 23—Wallace at Burgaw, Selma at Smithfield. County Tax Notices Mailed This Week The Onslow County tax notices for current levies were being mail ed out this week, and the 195C books were turned over to Tax Collector Thomas J. Marshall. At the same time the tax col lator reuorted to the Board of Commissioners that $41,028 re ii dins uncollected of the 1949 levy of S213,598.60. That makes a grand total of uncollected taxes amount ing to $90,511 for the nine-year period of 1941-49. Marshall reported collections of S171,659.19 on the 1949 levy. Swansboro Street Paving Underway liardsurfacing of a number of Swansboro streets is now under way. Mayor M. N. Lisk reported >c sterday. Surfacing of Water street was started Thursday and others in the project arc Walnut. Elm. Sixth, part of Broad and First or Hotel street. Aldermen Vote To Stop Giving Free Water It was the Town of Jacksonville versus the County of Onslow at the monthly town board of alder men meeting Tuesday night and the big question was the water at the Onslow County hospital which the town has been providing free , for a number of years. The issue of whether the hospi tal should pay for its water has been pending since the aldermen placed a meter there early this year and discovered that the bill averaged at least $100 each month and for the past three months has totaled $893. Tuesday night the board voted to give the hospital $50 of their water bill and charge them for the i rest. "If we do that.'' the alder-j men agreed, "they will have the1 leaking spigots fixed over there and put their water usage on a sound basis." The new ruling will go into ef-! feet on October 1 and will be in cluded on the bill to be mailed; out on November 1. The motion to charge the hospital was made by Alderman M. A. Cowell and seconded by W. L. Ketchum. It passed the board without opposi tion. As a matter of fact, one alder man. J. Dewey Edwards, made a previous motion to charge the hos pital for the entire amount. "The county is charging us for every thing they can get." Edwards said. "They're throwing the book at us, why shouldn't we charge them." He later withdrew the motion. Two months ago, the county board of commissioners passed a motion which would have forced Jacksonville and other towns in tiic county to pay for lodging their prisoners in the county jail here. Following that action, the town officials first began the discussion of charging for the water. The state attorney general's office, however, ruled that such a charge would not be legal. The fact that two local doctors, G. E. Gurganus and W. C. Stain back, rent offices in the hospital and pay no water bill was also criticized by the aldermen as far as water consumption there was concerned. "Why should we furnish water free to them for their offices?" the aldermen asked, "when we don't furnish water to any other busi nessman in town." Too, insult was added to injury when Town Attorney E. W. Sum mersill reported that the county commissioners in their meeting Tuesday morning had requested the town to furnish water for the courthouse, jail, and agriculture building. Since Jacksonville gets arrest fees for prisoners lodged in the jail. Summersill reported, the com missioners thought the town could furnish the water for nothing. "I doubt however," he continued, "that those fees for one year would pay the water bill for one month." No action was taken on that suggestion. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 4) SUC Refuses To Reconsider Tidewater Case The Stale Utilities Commission Wednesday denied the petitions of the towns of Beaufort and White ville to reconsider their order for $200,000 rate increase for Tide Water Power company. The commission voted on the petitions three to two, just as they did in approving the increase. The towns are now expected to take the case to court, probably in New Hanover county, home of the power company. Beaufort presented its petition to the commission on the behalf of Jacksonville and ten other southeastern North Carolina towns which have protested the rate in crease as "unwarranted and un justified." At a meeting early last month in Morehead City, mayors, town offi cers. civic leaders and businessmen from a dozen Southeastern North Carolina towns agreed to go to the State Supreme Court if necessary to get relief. To coordinate their efforts, they organized a Tide Water Rates Pro testants Association, and to finance the fight each town pledged itself to share the casts. The Utilities Commission order, issued last July 28, authorized Tide Water to raise electric rates in 16 Southeastern counties $200,000 a year. Tide Water had asked for $320,200. The order went into ef fect immedately, despite protests. Residential rates were lifted $117. 000 and commercial rates $98,000. Industrial rates were dropped $13, 200 a vear. The order, like yesterday's ruling, was signed by Chairman Stanley Wtnborne, Commissioner Fred Hunter and Commissioner Edward McMahan, over the ob jections of Commissioners Jos hua James and Harry Westcott. In acting on the petitions, both groups held firm to their earlier petitions. The majority repeated the increase was justified. The minority, James and Westcott. re peated the decision was open to question. Beaufort and Whiteville contend ed first in petitions and later in oral argument that the order was "unlawful, unjust, unreasonable and unwarranted." and claimed the commissioners who signed it failed to justify their stand with findings of fact and law. Beaufort and Whiteville enter ed petitions under a commission regulation which limits such ap peals to parties which were parties »o the original hearing. With the exception of Newport, the towns now associated with Whiteville and Beaufort did not enter officials protests at the hearing last year. The towns had anticipated the (CONTINUED ON PAGE 4) Board, YFC Supporters Argue Over Courthouse The Onslow County Board of Commissioners Tuesday stood firm I on its charge of $75 per month rental of the Courthouse for the Youth for Christ Saturday night meetings, and postponed until the October session a scheduled attempt to settle differences in audits of ; the office of the clerk of court. The abbreviated session developed into a noisy and unnecessarily j personal affair, all to no good result—the commissioners stood firm in their charge; and Youth for Christ supporters were equally as steadfast in their opinion they had been definitely and determinedly | mistreated. Small World: Former Staff Member Is Quantico Writer Mrs. Kitty Brown who recently 1 resigned as society editor of the | Quantico Sentry has been sucecd- i ed by Mary Bowen Caputo, wife of Maj. Anthony Caputo. A graduate j of the school of journalism of the | University of North Carolina, Mrs. j Caputo was for some time reporter and society editor of the News and Views of Jacksonville, N. C. It's a small world. Back in the early forties, the News and Views employed a charm ing girl reporter, native of Burgaw, who had just graduated from the University of North Carolina. She was Miss Mary Bowen. Mary made quite a hit among the peo ple of Jacksonville, but Editor Billy Arthur made one big mistake. That, however, ended in Mary's favor. One bright morning one silver star was pinned on Brir. Gen. Allen Hal Turnage, and Mary drove Billy's car out to Tent Camp where Billy made the general's picture standing before the old Gurganus residence, then the general's tuarters. While the plcturo was being arranged, a tall handsome Ma rine lieutenant, the general's aide, began a conversation with Mary. Thai developed Into court- j ship and marriafre, and Mary went into the Marines, so to I speak, and Billy went back to work. Her husband. Maj. Anthony Cap uto, has made an enviable record in the corps both as an officer and in extra-curricular activities as a basketball coach at Camp Lejeune and then Quantico, where he was transferred a couple of seasons back. Not so long ago. the News and Views began publication of Quan tico news, and the author was Kitty Brown, who writes for the Sentry. She resigned recently, and a suc cessor fired in her first news Wed nesday of this week with this note: Dear Billy: I have just taken over as soc iety editor of tlie Sentry from Kitty Brown. ThU week's issue is my first. Unless I hear from you I shall mall you each week's copy on Monday afternoon. Tony and I were delifhted to hear of your marriaffe and both of us wish to extend our most sincere congratulations. We are lookinc forward to meetlnv Edith in the not too distant future. Sincerely, Mary. as tor tne scneauiea nopca-ior settlement with Clerk of Superior Court J. R. Gurganus. it was delay ed pending Auditor Sidney Shaw for the eounty getting together in person or by mail with R. L. Steele for the clerk and ironing out sev eral apparent differences. Meantime, Clerk of Court Gur ganus told the News and Views yesterday that he did owe the county $282 and was ready to pay that. However, he was not dis posed to pay another cent unless a jury said so. And, the clerk ap peared inclined to ask the court himself in January to have the mat ter settled once and for all. As for charging the Town of Jacksonville for care of its prison ers in the county jail, the commis sioners asked through Town Attor ney E. W. Summersill that arrest fees now going to the town be given instead to the county, if that is legal. A delegation headed by R. B. (Jack) Turney. director of the Youth for Christ appeared in pro test against the bill for $150 rent and to ask that it be abolished or reduced. The delegation was com posed of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Lloyd, Leinster Whaley, Rev. Lee Whaley, Alton Rhodes and Mrs. Clifford Padrick. The matter boiled down to "make the rental reasonable" or the Youth for Christ will have to cease using the courthouse auditorium on Saturday night for its rallies. Turney offered to pledge the move (CONTINUED ON PAGE 4) $17,000 Spent On Hardsurfacing Of Town Streets Work Completed On Three Streets; Others Started ' The paving of Jacksonville < j streets is becoming a full tim^ j business according to a report made by Mayor Herbert East wool at the town board of aldermen meeting Tuesday night. Paving coMins approximately ; 917.000 has already been com ■ pleted since the town adopted the plan for hard-surfacing the j streets whereby property owner* pay the costs for paving in fr«nt j of their property and the town | pays for paving the intersections. ! Of the $17,000, Eastwood said the town will pay $2,000 for the inter 1 sections with the remainder com- i I ing from property owners through j either direct payment or assess j ment. ' Three streets in town have been completely hard-surfaced and parts of six other streets have been completed. Plans are i being made now for paving i Woodland Drive and part of Bor deaux and Ann streets. Property owners living on other streets, Town Clerk W. D. Starling re ported, are in process of collect ing funds for work on other streets too. The meeting Tuesday night was practically a complete street meet ing- Requests for paving or im proving at least four streets were presented to the town by resi ! dents. Coleman Bynum appeared for the residents on Woodland drive to secure assurance that the ! town would put in necessary wa ter and sewer lines there if the residents furnished the cash for hardsurfacing. The money was ready to be turned in, Bynum said, but at least one resident wanted to know for certain that the town would put in the lines. The board voted to do so on a motion made by Aldermen M. A. Co well provided 75% of the resi dents pay for the paving in front of the property. Too, the board agreed to open the remaining half of Murrill Circle on the northern end of Court street which opens into Highway 17. The new half will run on the left side of Mrs. Lucy i Warn's home. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 7) Group Rehires Miss Bagby, Will Reopen Library Reopening of the Jacksonville public library and the employment of a recreational director until next July were effected by the Jacksonville Recreation commis sion at the September meeting at Pine Lodge Tuesday. The two matters were accom plished simultaneously with the employment of Miss Helen Bag by as director of the youth center for the current fiscal year. Miss Bagby had been full-time direc tor for the summer months, and so enthusiastic has been the praise of the center and activi ties during that period that she was continued for the remainder of the fiscal year. At the same time, it was decided to open the library with her as librarian. However, the date for opening of the public library will be contingent upon its being re stocked with up-to-date books and reclassified by Miss Dorothy Wight man, the district librarian. The library has been closed since May. When it is reopened, it will serve the reading public three days per week. HollemanPlane Found Crashed In Delaware $25,000 Building To House Belk Store Planned Erection of a modern $25,000 j store building adjacent to Jackson ville post office on New Bridge! street to accommodate Belk's De partment Store was announced yes terday by G. P. Johnson of Jackson ville and Dr. George Johnson of Wilmington. Announcement of the proposed building:, construction of which is expected to begin with a mat ter of days or weeks depending on materials, came simultaneous with incorporation of the firm— Belk's Department Store, Inc., a mercantile business, author ized capital stock of $100,000, subscribed stock of $300 by W. H. Belk. Jr.. John Belk and Irwin Belk. all of Charlotte. W. B. Beery of Wilmington, who is associated with Belk Williams. Inc.. in Wilmington and who will be one of the principal owners of the Jacksonville store, told the News and Views yester day that 'plans for the store have not been worked out in detail.'* "Generally speaking, it will be a nice store that will appeal to the discriminating shopper, and will be comparable to our Wil mington store. We hooe to be able to stale a definite policy and plan within a week or so." "We have been anxious to lo cate a store in Jacksonville, and sincerely hope that the public will receive us with the same enthusiasm we have in securing one there," Beery said. The building will have a 75-foot moderntile glass front with a vast amount of window display, and will bo 125 feet deep It will be one-story ?»nri of brick. The building will be attractive j and modern throughout and air conditioned and will have indirect | lighting. J. L. Goodman will be the con-1 tractor j A small amount of brick has ; already been hauled onto the ; site, but construction will hard ly begin until materials are on ' hand to proceed with the struc ture. At present cement and steel are the materials which have not arrived. But Johnson said yes terday he hoped materials would arrive In time to begin founda tion work In a matter of days, possibly a week. However, the delay in materials could hold up start of construction a week. Beef Cattle Program Discussion Planned At Tuesday Meeting Farmers interested in purchas ing beef cattle were urged yester day by County Agent Charlie C. Clark to attend a cattle meeting Tuesday night at 7:30 in the Agri culture building here. A full discussion on the county cattle program, the potential costs and the prospects for raising cat tle in Onslow will be held, Clark said. In addition, the possibility of fiinancial assistance through the Farmers Housing administration will be discussed by Paul Parks, supervisor. Park and Clark emphasized, how ever, that the meeting is for all farmers, whether they intend to secure loans to purchase cattle or not. Yates Creech of the Production Credit association will be invited to attend the meeting, Clark said, as will Warren Taylor and E. M. Canadv of the First Citizens Bank and Trust company. Jacksonville Businessman, Three Passengers Killed In Plane Crash The bodies of B. .1. Holleman. prominent Jacksonville businessman ind three servicemen companions were found late Wednesday in a corn 'ield near New Castle. Del., amid the wreckage of I Jo] Ionian's four passeneer Navion plane which had been the subject, of a four-state search since Sundav morning. Two of the servicemen passengers on the fatal holiday flight to New Vork were identified yesterday morning by the Camp Lejeune public information office as HM3 Carl P. Fielding, 24. and HM2 Arthur E. Fach. 24. both of Brooklyn. They were attached to headquarters bat alion, Second Marine Division at Camp Lejeune. The identity of the bird passenger, a Marine, was still unknown at noon yesterday. Town Will Open Rest Of Circle On Court Street The long-standing problem of A'hat should be done with the end if Court street which runs into! Highway 17 was settled at the nonthl.v meeting of the town board ; »f aldermen Tuesday night when ■ he officials voted to open the re gaining half of the street known is Murrill's Circle. The street, when completed, will circle the home of Mrs. Lucy Warn it the end of Court Street, pro viding two entrances into the high way into town. The problem of completing the street has been pending for some time. The town at onetime proposed to move Mrs. Warn s home and continue the street j straight into the highway. Permission for that move, how ?ver, was never granted and Tues-! jav night Billy Arthur, D. C. i rripp and W. M. Mangum, prop- j erty owners on the st ;r^, appear- : ?d before the aldermf^Tgand re- J quested that the boai, pnake a decision one way or y other. ! whether they were goinj^ o com plete the circle or carry t^e street straight through to the hij hway. Billy Arthur, who spoke for the group, tolrj the aldermen that "we've been waiting and waiting for some kind of action to be taken on the street and wed like to know one way or the other about having the pat ins done before winter. Dust from Court street on the northern end. he pointed out. is damaging machines both in the News and Views plant and the Southern Cleaners which are located on the unpaved end of the street. Aldermen M. A. Cowell then moved that the street be construct ed on both sides of Mrs. Warn's house in order that something de finite on completing the street could be done. His action was sec onded by W. L. Ketchum and pass ed without any opposition from the board. Four Club Meetings Slated By Home Agent One Home Demonstration club | meeting today and three next; week were announced yesterday by Miss Lillian Swinson. county home agent. The Haw Branch club rreets i today, and on Tuesday, the S<>uth West club will meet. On Wednesday the Bell Oak club will meet with Mrs. Graham Eu bank and the Sand Hill club will meet on next Friday with Mrs. Archie Rouse. All of the meetings will begin at 2:30. MASONIC Sl'PPER A Masonic supper for Master Masons and their ladies will be given tomorrow nisht at 6 o'clock at the Community building in Mid way Park All Master Masons are invited to attend, it was announced yesterday. New Teacher Explains Meaning Of Music To Jacksonville | (Editor's note: For the first time in several years, plans have been made for the formation of a band in the Jacksonville schools. In addition, the new music teacher, Robert S. Gas* kins, will rive instruction in vo cal as well as Instrument In struction. Following Is an article by Gaskins on the proposed pro cram. BY ROBERT B. GASKINS First of all let us see where mu sic fits into our lives, what does it mean to our every day way of life? ! Is music something that is for a I talented few or does it cover the i masses of people? What can a well i rounded music program in the schools mean to the town, and what part will the town play in the music program? These are questions that are being asked by many people in the Jacksonville area these days and this article is designed to give the people of Jacksonville a clear conception of just what the music program will be and what the aims and objec tives of this program are to be. Let us take a look at music and see how it fits unto the "Basic Objectives of Education". (1) Mu sic contributes to health, the pas ture that a person uses when he sings is a very fine example of one thing that will be a contribut ing factor in his health, he sits or stands erect, feet flat on the floor; his respiratory and muscular sys tems are held erect and exercised in a free and easy manner. A healthy mind is the way to a healthy body and music gives a person an outlet for nervous ener gy and a way to relax and forget his troubles. <2> Music develops command of the fundamental pro cesses, through music a person can develop control of the eyes, ears and other parts of the body that can not be developed any other way. (3) Music is a profitable vocation. A person can earn extra money by playing in bands and singing in choirs; there is also a large professional field open in I performance, theory, composition and teaching. <4> Through learning to play together in a band the in dividual is better prepared for "Worthy Home Membership" for through the harmony of thought gained in music harmony of living together with others is brought about. >5' A person who can play or sing has a wonderful way to make the best use of his leisure time, he can enjoy playing in bands or singing in choirs as long as he lives. »6> A person learns the true meaning of democracy through his participation in music organizations; he becomes a bet ter member of the community and works side by side with other peo ple as he has done in the music organizations. Last of all music builds ethical character. The rigid disciplinary requirements of group performance build the qualities of honesty, integrity and punctuality from all those who participate Thus we see that music does con tribute to all seven of the "Basic Objectives of Education." (CONTINUED ON PAGE 4) j\ ueiaware i.ivii /\ir ratroi pilot spotted the wreckage which was scattered over a 200 foot area about seven miles from Wilmington, Del. The pilot, a prominent business man of Eastern North Carolina, was owner of the Jacksonville Air port. Inc., and had had his trans pori license about a year and a half. He was regarded as a cautious pilot, after having learned to fly when he became interested in the airport and its development. Almost single-handedly in late years he has promoted the air port to a place of comparative prominence as a center for char ter (lights, and at the time of his death was nearing agreement with the Civil Aeronautics ad ministration to designate the field a feeder-field where tickets could be purchased anywhere in the nation and passengers flown to airline centers. Holleman came to Jacksonville in 1934 as owner of the RivervieW hotel, a popular inn for sportsmen in those days, and operated it untit the early Forties. Prior to coming here he was in the automobile busi ness in Smithfield and Raleigh. He was a native of Johnson County. Later he owned and operated the New River Oil company here and branched out into the real estate business, acquiring inter ests in several buildings here abouts. He was past president of the Jacksonville Kiwanis club and a eharter member, a former secre tary of the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce, and Onslow direc tor of the East Carolina Regional Housing Authority. That author ity Is now, at his behest, work ing on a low-income housing pro ject for the community. As a churchman, he was chair man of the Board of Deacons of Jacksonville Baptist church and its treasurer. At the time of his untimely death, he was serving as lieutenant governor of the Seventh District of Kiwanis. The piano was saici to nave nosed over in a field several hun dred yards from the Delaware river and to have disintegrated. The ship apparently crashed in stormy wea ther. a spokesman said, and it ap peared that the plane was trying to make a turn when it fell. The piano had been missing stnee 8:35 Saturday night when it left Salisbury, Md., after re fueling for Teterboro, N. J. More than 100 CAP, Coast Guard, and air-sea resoue unit pilots had combed the river and sea coast areas of New Jersey, Delaware. Maryland, and eastern Pennsylvania since the Teter boro airport reported that the piano was overdue there at 3:15 Sunday morning. State police roped off the area from hundreds of spectators as New Castle coroner William Smith. Jr.. removed the four badly mangled bodies to a Wilmington morgue. Smith said that the three servicemen were in uniform and that the watch of one man had stopped at 8:22 (probably daylight saving time on which Camp Le jeune operates or 9:22 EST), indi cating that the islane crashed at (CONTINUED ON PAGE 7) Kiwanians Remember Holleman At Meeting Jacksonville Kiwanians Tues day took cognizance that B. J. Holleman, Sr., past president of the club and lieutenant gover nor of the seventh division of Kiwanis. was missing while on plane flight and prayed for his safe return. Rev. L. Grady Burgiss. Kiwan ian and pastor of Jacksonville Baptist church of which Holle man is a member, road the poem of David from the first chapter of 11 Samuel and repeated the solemn words: "How arc the mighty fallen . . . "< Memories) they were lovely and pleasant in our lives . . . j "We are distressed for thee . ." Rev. Carl B. Craig, pastor of ! Jacksonville Presbyterian church and a Kiwanian, too. associated with the prominent Jacksonville man. led In prayer. Rev. Mr. Craig prayed that "we are all in Thy hands al ways, Whether walking or flying . . . we pray for rescue but we I commit their safety into Thy ! hands. Thy will be done . . . { We're thankful for him and what he means to our community."