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j.v OCTOBER 20, UM Don't Let Our Boys Down Get In Your Scrap I Battle 1,1s Suffer void Agon' f From Area Describes P'rScenes That Take Wounded scribe tne bu. I i nf the untold uf- !,!ur brave men from the f " Mrs. Mrs. Cosky ia rjafter the Pearl Harbor Kt to work among the men brought back from there Cali! fornia hospitals. "It was horrible. Some ourned to a crisp. Many mangled. Severe pain on every hand. Those men paid a price," she said. She told of some of the precau tions now being used on the west coast, and the general reaction of civilians to the war in that area. "I had a close friend living at Pearl Harbor on December 7. When the raid started, this wo man took her four-year-old son and with other women and children went to the cane fields. They got flat on the ground, and my friend covered her small son with her body for four hours. The agony they went through, as the Japs flew so close the ground that she .... lrm rTT a tXTT?17T '. . r . , ; 1 " : . r - ' , i, - ; - ; . fere's No Time To Lose, There's Just lime 10 win four Scrap Will Help Win the War-Get It In NOW! IUNK MAKES FIGHTING WEAPONS One old disc will provide Bcrapsteel needed for 21Qsemi automatic light carbines. One old plow will help make one hundred 75-mm. armor-piercing projectiles. One useless old tire provides as much rubber as is used in 12 gasmasks. One old shovel wQl : help make; 4 hand grenades. :f f f f HYSt National Bank "The Friendly Hank" CLOSED WEDNESDAY TO GATHER SCRAP Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation L IP' Two Weeks from Junk to Ships for Victory 1 SffHfi Two weak after jtecl v- ready to help build a victory Ship 7T JL donated to National 2 t W Salvage urtve y ArriveX at local jralvage depot Eight day lalerj Har been rolled info a Steel plate and if on Us vwjy To a jhip-yara GoeJ to yard of dealer in Xcrap iron and Xteel Twelve hourj later: IS part of a jteei ingoi I . Four doyj later: rJLj Ircharged into a fc -xmmm j leei rurnat What Made iVcirs Years Ago FIVE YEARS AGO . 1937 Scout work erowine rapidly in Haywood county, according to A. W. Allen, Scout executive. Southern Railway is ursred to run excursions so that visitors can see foliage in mountains. Indians may take action in their council regarding Soco Gap route. WPE exhibits receive many com pliments locally. Vocational , industries from State College praise work of teach- could see the aviators plainly. Of course, every plane was machine punning every person in sight. Fortunately, my friend and her son escaped Injury." It is Mrs. Cosky's ambition to join the navy and work on board ship with sick and wounded being brought from the battle front. Her husband is a marine engineer, and at present is night superintendent of a large ship building yard in California. Mrs. Cocky is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Cabe. ers in local schools. Tour party: passing through here is given, copies of Hymn of the Great Smokies, by Miss Mar garet Stringfield, Court house is to have name put on at early date. Dr. L. H. Lancaster, Presbyter ian missionary, discusses life in China today. William McCracken is in Kansas City as N. fi.: winner in FF A contest. Building & Loan Goes Over Top On Bond Quota Th Havwood Home Building and Loan Association is over th top in the purchase of war sayings bonds, according to a report receiv ed at State League commiwee headquarters yesterday. The Hay wood association has purchased bonds in excess of its assigned quota is connection with the luiv nnnnnn war bond Durchase pro gram being sponsored by the U. S. Savings and Loan League, ana th. Mnrth Pamlina Building? and Loan League. This program calls for the purchase by all uuiiaing and Loan Associations of $100,- 000,000 in war bonds between June 30 and December 81. The North Carolina association have been re quested to purchase $1,915,000 in bonds, and in turn quotas have been assigned by counties to the individual associations. The Haywood Home Building and Loan Association is an approv ed issuing agency for the sale and distribution of war bonds to the public, and its purchase of bonds at this time for its own account has no relation to its activities in the sale of bonds to the public. Five From Ilaywood Attending Ashevilie College This Year fmm Havwood enrolled at Ashevilie College. They are Miss Eva Jane Rogers, daughter ol Mr. ana urs. m tj Rnn. of Oahtree: Miss Flora Belle Walker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. H. WaUer, oi Fines Creek; Miss Dorothy Janes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Janes, of Waynesville, root 2; Miss Betty Kogers, aaugnier oi Mr ant) Mm M. R. RoSTerS. of Crabtree; and Miss Louise Henry, daughter of Mr. ana Mrs. uraay W. Henry, of Waynesville, route 2. MUses,' Rog'ers, Walker and Henry are members of the senior class. Miss Walker is a home eco nomics major while Miss Rogers and Miss Henry are grammar and primary majors. a state as populous as Massachusetts, full-grown and huge forests are growing on thou sands of acres which once grew other crops for food. The re planting in trees was done almost entirely by Nature. The famous "Bottomless Pit" in the Big Room of Carlsbad Caverns National Park in southeastern New Mexico is 700 feet deep. activities with Glenn Frazier, can didate for governor, scheduled to speak. i Way Kinsland installed in Salis bury as vice commander of State American Legion. Bethel will hold fair with Clar ence Poe, editor of The Progressive I Farmer, as principal speaker. Five Haywood county educators receive honor at teachers' meeting in Ashevilie. TEN YEARS AGO ' 1932 Deeds for Park lands placed on record and will take 90 pages. Civitan, Rotary and Boosters clubs will meet here on Friday. No damage done by heavy rain fall here during week, with a fall of 2.60 inches. Haywood county 4-H Club boys win first place at judging cattle at State Fair. Canton youth kills self while trying to avoid police. : County Republicans plan spe- MEAT LEFT-OVERS FOR THRIFTY MEALS Beat the increased cost of living with your meat left-overs. Valu able suggestions for tasty dishes will be found in a helpful column for housewives in October 25th issue of The American Weekly The Big Magazine Distributed With' NEXT SUNDAY'S BALTIMORE AMERICAN On Sale At All Newsstands Open All Day Wednesday-- Just For UNCLE SAM This Office Will Be Committee Headquarters, Giving Information and Acting As Clearing House for the All-Day Drive To Get More Scrap. CALL 17 (Sorry We will not transact any business for ourselves Just Uncle Sam's) HAYWOOD HOME BUILDING & LOAN ASSOCIATION Phone IT Mal" s,reet itisiLwe ft A real estate man from South Bend Said "We'll bring this war to an end If all of us fra On that old 'dotted line' When Uncle Sam asks us to lend." Oar Umd will hm wortk a lot ,tfit'i kept tnml Hip 7 6 Bond aota . . P"' roui iwKxmt Into Urn Doaxu ,e7 pay dojl V.B.TrtartlMr. Two Good Things Are Coming - - VICTORY ' going to win this war by sac , 8 and down right hard work start- Mm 1 all of lible. us will get all the scrap A New FOOD Coming soon will be a new and delicious food one all the family will enjoy, and need. Watch this newspaper for details. Get Out Scrap Now--It Is Needed By Our Fighting Men pESStLSIV WAYNESVILLE At Waynesville Coal Co. PHONE 272 CANTON Clyde Street PHONE 2713 Get Your Scrap In NOW!
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