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T1IE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAIN EER Promoted JflawfffidDflD Sou . & In U. S. Marines Tie lhmB$ (One Day Nearer Victory) THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, i9l1 X f - If LT. SAMUEL C. WELCH, who received his commission as second lieutenant on December 12th, from the Officers Candidate School of Fort Benning, Ga. Ensign James S. Queen Has A 12-Day Leave Ensign James S. Quetn, TJ. S, Navy, left here Tuesday for Brook lyn, N. Y. after a 12-day leave of absence. lie and Mrs. Queen have been the guests of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John M. Queen. Ensign Queen, who volunteered in the service, has been on active duty since July, when ha was com missioned an Ensign. ; Immediately after he was sent to an Officers Training: School at Northwestern University. From Chicago he was transferred to Norfolk where - he was attached to the Amphibian Force of the Atlantic Fleet. A short time ago he was transferred to Brooklyn, awaiting transporta tion to some naval base overseas Ensign Queen was accompanied to Brooklyn by Mrs. Queen, who will remain with him until he sails, While he is in the service she will reside with her parents in Raleigh, Promoted Cpl. Samuel C. Welch Receives Commission Cpl. Samuel C. Welch, TJ. S. Army, was commissioned a second lieutenant at the Officers uanai date School of Fort Benning, on December 12. Lt. Welch volunteered the first of the year and was inducted at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. He was stationed at Leavenworth for seve ral months where he served as an interviewer of new recruits in the personnel division. From Fort Leavenworth, he was transferred to Camp Walters, Texas, for basic training. In Sep tember he was sent to Fort Ben ning. Prior to his entering the service he was senior examiner in the tenth district of the Federal Home Loan Board, with headquarters in Topeka, Kan. His territory extend ed from South Dakota to Northern Texas.. Lt. Welch left Sunday for Camp Croft, where he will be stationed, after a visit here with his aunt, Mrs. J. Howell Way. KENNETH H. MOORE, U. S Army, who has recently been pro moted to sergeant. f PVT. WILLIS C. BECK, who ia in training at Parrls Island. Former Resident Receives D. F. C. Award Ensign. Hilliard C Smathers, of; 'i Marianna, Fla, former resident of Waynesville,. has recently received the Navy's Distinguished Flang( -Crn from Admiral Nimitz. He y & is the son of the late Mr. anl Mrs. Will Smathers, of Waynesvlle, - Ensign Smathers enlisted n the Navy in, 1926, and Fas had a long evnpripnc.fi . in . flvinc. - He was at I Pearl Harbor during the attack and also saw duty in the battle of the Midway. During his Navy career he has visited -France, EBg!andr Norway, Finland, Honolulu, Cuba Haiti, Honduras, and was awarded a med al for service in the second Nica raugaun campaign. . He was co-pilot on one of the large Navy planes which flew from San Diego to Honolulu in rJ.W. He was stationed for a time at Pensa cola, Fla. Commissioned 2 7 Sergeant Kendrick LalUnui ivciui no From Panama Canal iSLaii ifc11"" t will, U. S. Ari Corps, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jarvis Caldwell, nas re-,? tu, retnrnprt irom a veara uuiy .t on the Panama Canal. He is now stationed at McDade Field, Talla hassee, Fla. Sergeant taluweu nas oeen m the service since the fall of 1940. He was graduated from the Way -nesville town ship high school the spring of the same year. jJ.IL Morrow, U.S.Xav, ppenas u Day Furlough LT. THAD CHAF1N, JR. " Waynesville Man Is Made Aerial Gunner A graduate this week of the Harlingen Army Gunnery School in Texas, who qualified as an ex pert aerial triggerman after five weeks of intensive training and now wears the silver Wings of a Gun ner Sergeant is Joseph H. Smith, Pvt. Willis C. Beck Stationed At Paris Island Private Willis C. Beck, U. S. Marines, is stationed on fans is land, where he is taking his boot training. He volunteered in Oc tober at the recruiting station in Asheville. i Prior to his entf ring the service he was employed at the Newport j News Shipbuilding and Dry im Company. Young Beck is the son of Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Wck oi me Balsam Road, and is a graduate of the Waynesville Township high school. At Camp Butner . ,',nn of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Smith of and Mis. Thad I nann, oi - -- - PFC. T. J. Starnes Visits Wife Here Kenneth II. Moore, U. S. Army Is Promoted Kenneth H. Moore, formerly of Fort Jackson, who is now stationed at Fort Blanding. Fla., has re cently bten promoted to sergeant, it was learned in a letter to his family. ! Sergeant Moore is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jess Moore, of Way : nesville. Prior to his entering the service he was a student at the Waynesville township high school, where he was prominent in athletic activities. He played on the foot ball team. Private First Class T. J. Starnes, of Paratroop regiment at Fort Bragg, recently visited his wife kere, the former Miss Margaret Kelly. PFC. Starnes is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Starnes of Greeneville, Tenn. Prior to en tering the service he was employed by S. R. Freeborn, of the Asheville jyt IUghey CiUnter Has Supply Company. . ; Vm0Ugh t Home Reclassifications Made During The Past Wek Eighty men were placed in class 1-A during the past two weeks by the local draft board. In the group were included the follow ing: Dewey Smith, Carl Deweese, Bill Williams, Clyde Luther Stamey, Clifford Logan Presnell, David Mar vin Cook, J. T. Rich, Samuel Quin ton Rurnitt, Lloyd Terrell Derrick, William Porter Gentry, Walter Nathan West, James Ernest Har rell, James Herman Mitchell, Hugh Benjamin Smith, Thurman John son Sanford. Gerald Ray IJryson, Pearson Monroe Ewart, John Thomas Cagle, James Ethron Evans, David Francis Smith, Oscar Howell, Hardin Leon Price, Euzelle Robinson, Albert Lee Phillip, David (Jreen, big 'A of Mr Wavnesville, who was commission id on 'December I'ith at Fort Ben ning. Sergeant Thad Chafin, Jr, Receives commission He was promoted to sergeant and received his diploma at brief exer icises and, unless held over to serve !as an instructor, will depart im 'mediately to join a combat crew aboard a bomber. Graduates From Keesler Field As Mechanic pvt. William W. Massey, son of Lt. Edgar Duckett, U. S. j Private Hughey Gunter, U. S. Will Spend Holidays Here Air. Corpv spending ;.a i5,day r w furlough with his parents, Mr. und Lt. Edgar Duckett, U. S, Navy, Mrs. J. L. Gunter at their home on arrived this week to spend the route 1, Waynesville. Christmas holidays with his wife j Pvt. Gunter has been in the ser and two children and his mother, vice since July and was inducted Mrs. E. T. Duckett. ,at Fort Jackson. From Jackson he Lt. Duckett, entered the service was transferred to Keesler Jfield, in September and was sent to Miss. He is attached to the ground Newport, R. I., for training. He has recently been transferred to Norfolk, Va. Prior to his entering the service, Lt. Duckett was mechanical engin eer at the Paper Board Mill, of Sylva, ..'.. Claude G. Davis, U. S. Navy Now Stationed In St. Louis Claude G. Davis, Chief Warrant Officer, U. S. Navy, has been trans ferred back to the United States after serving cn the Pacific battle front. He is now stationed at St. Louis, where he is on the. Aviation Cadet Selective board; ' Officer Davis has been in tie. ser vice for the past sixteen years, and has served in ports all , over the world. . He has been stationed in European waters, in Africa, on the Island of Guam and was 32 months on Asiatic 'Waters. ,-''-Ha : was :at Pearl Harbor when the Japs made their attack on December 7, 1941. He 13 the. son of Mr. and Mrs. C &. Davis, of Hazelwood,,and is married and has two ehildreiii- force of the Air Corps. He is now stationed at Sheppard Field, Texas, where he is taking special training. , Son-In-Law Of Local Man Promoted To Major Captain William C. McGuffin, U. S. Medical Corps, former Ashe ville physician, who 3 now station ed at Camp Claiborne, La., has re cently been promoted to Major. Major McGuffin is the son-in-law of Tom Campbell of Waynesville. His wife is the former Miss Martha Campbell: Major McGuffin volun teered two years ago and entered with; the rank of Captain. Ralph Howell Moody Now At Ft. Washington Ralph Howell Moody, route -one, Waynesville, formerly stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, entered ' the Officer Candidate School, the Ad jutant General's School, Fort Washington, Maryland, for a twelve week intensive training course on Dec . 5. Upon successfully 'completing this course he will be commissioned a 2nd lieutenant, adjutant . gener al's department. There are 220 students receiving training in one of the four courses taught in this school, namely, administration, classification, postal, and machine records. Sergeant Moore has a brother, Owens, Ransom Virgil Ford, Sam Private J. R. Moore, who is also in! ui ij0uis Mills, Raymond Lee Set the service. He is stationed at j zer Marvin Hubert Parton, Homer Camp Wnlters, Texas. Lfe Brown. Herbert Whitney Burnette, Jr., James Everett rrady, (harles Mitchell Garrison, Wilce McGaha, Raymond Ray Franklin, Shook Henry Rathbone, Amos Rich, Jr., John Head. Jr., Garfield Phillips, Jr., Clay Horace Conard, Gilmer Massie, Ensley Roosevelt Robin son, Coy Grooms, Henry Paul Webb, Rufus Earl Cochran, Char lie Avis McPeak, Floyd Woodrow Conard, Thurman David Lincoln Haynes, William Carlyle Davis, Howard Joseph Truitt, James El mer Harris, Robert Eugene Gib son,. . Charles Arthur Sidney Hartsell, Bonner Franklin Rabb, Paul Oliv er Hedrick, Frank Wallace Bry son, Samuel Daniel Robinson, Claude Medford Phillips, Robert Dee Lowe, James Riley Hicks, Rob ert Edward Norris, Grover Luther Golden, L. C. Sutton, Robert Elburtus Lee, Char lie Bryant McCall, Robert Edward Parson, William Dewey Mehaffey, Low Parton Jerry William Mc Elroy, Rufus Ford Hannah, Char les Bryan Medford, Donald Moody, Richard Ray Shoaf, and Medford Addie Grasty." : Placed in 3-A,weie: William Oliv er" Plemmons,' Joseph- Lafayette Kirkpatrick,; Doyle Cagle, . and James Everett Underwood; .' Placed in class. 2-B were Roy Carver, 'William Vester Walker, Clyde Birchfield, Hugh " Turner Francis, Clarence Everett Arring ton, Kelly Lee Howell, and Howell Mitchell Garrison. "': .. ' Placed in- class. 2-B were: Roy Carver, ' William 'Vester.- Walter, Clyde Birchfield, " Hugh Turner Francis, Clarence Everett Arring "ton,. Kelly Lee Howell,', and Howell Mitchell Garrison. , . v Placed in class 3-B were: Joe Howell Moody, Gilbert Riley,' Rat- cliff Clinton Kinsland. Billy L, Saylors, John Clinton Rider, Hugh Hyde Constance (enlisted in navy), Claude Ervin Smathers- Reeves PVT. BENJAMIN (TTSHAW, of Miiggie, visits in county. Pvt. Benjamin K. Cutshaw Spends Furlough Here Private Bei.janiin f ulsli.iw . "n of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Cutshaw. of the Maggie section, licently sieiit a few days fuiiough in the couiit.v with his parents. Pvt. Cutshaw has been in the Service since September, 11, of this year. He was first stationed at Fort McClellan, Ala., and is now attached to the Lightniing. fivix ion at Camp Butner. Prior to his entering the service he was a student at the -'Wayne.-ville Township high school Lt. Hal Marley Visits Mother At Christmas Sergeant Thad Chafin, Jr., was p William W. MaSsey commissioned a reuuu nrUiw.... n December 12, at the Officers can didate School at Fort Benning, Ga. Lt. Chahn has been in the ger .. loft .iruf ivl'i, u'Hin. iiavjiiK v " - . . .. ... ,. x x in here with Company "H , National , Mrs. waller Massey, route two, iius Guard Unit in September, vjiv. .ween receive uijivma.-iruiu He was stationed at Kort Jackson -, ler r lem, iviiss. Birpiane iiictumiii; until Septemler of this year when ' school. He was one of the 100 re he was transferred to Benning, reiving diplomas denoting their where he made an outstanding successful competition of 16 week's record in Officers Candidate School, (intensive training. Lt. Chaliii spent a ten-day leayo here with his parents following his . , , promotion to lieutenant. He hasi.lesse Urooks Lands has returned to Kort Benning where Safely Overseas he w ill serve." as an instructor. Prior to his entering the service he hold a position with E. Ray's Sons Department store. I.t. Chntin is the grandson of Mr. ami Mrs .1 H. Boyd. Mr. and Mrs. Phil Brooks of Bal sam have received news that their son, Jesse who has been in the army for 2 years, has landed safely overseas. He is a machinist.- . ."'';' PFC - Frank M. Saunders Visits Family Here Frank M. Sergeant James Rathbone Is Given A Promotion days m liazelwood with his family. He was recently promoted higher than a master sergeant. . I nv.it. fust lass, rraiK n. First Sergeant James E. Robin- Saun.leis, l . h. Air i orps, naua Hon wno js stationed at Camp Blan. I furlough during the Christmas holi- iVm FIll . Spent Christmas' holi ilays rn spiTit several uhjm mi-it.-I w itii Ins w ife and mother, Mrs. Allie Saunders, of Hazelwood. Private Saunders has been in the service sine- November 2nd, and took liis liasic training in St. Pet ersburg, Fla. lie is now taking ihUigical training at the Lawson l.eiiernl llosjiital in Atlanta. Prim: to his entering the service Pvt. --Saunders was employed by thv l nairiista Manufacturing Company. Lt. Wm. Medford Reports For Duty At Boston (. Wijli.im Medfor.l (junior glade I 'Itrk otl'ieer. ', . S. N'aV.V, left Saturday for Boston where he re port. -,t foi duty at tn Boston Navy S'arils. lf was ..accompanied by Mrs. Medford, who will remain wi'li him for several weeks. I.t. Medford had spent the past 'three weeks h' re visiting 'relative. He had just, completed' a several I weeks-training course ut Princeton. I J. B. Morrow, r. S. Navy, u left Sunday for Norfolk, ifo, spending a 13 day furlough hen with his parents, Mr. and Mm. Q F. Morrow, of Medford Farm, Young Morrow volunteered a Columbia, S. C, last year, and hu been on active duty in AfrtM waters. Cpl. Woodrow A rrinRton Spent Christmas Here Corporal Wooilrow ArnrrjDB son of Mr. and Mis, Woodm Ar. rington Of the llellwouil r.iad nen the Christmas holidays here. Cpl. Arrington. ofjhe U. S. Air Corps, has been in tre service for the past 18 months. r was at tached to the 3o;t Fitfhwr Wuf in New. Orleans, fu six months and with the 3rd Air Force in Tampi for the past 1U nioiiths. JU h recently bi'en. transferred to tbt 444th Fighter Sciuadron at th Spence Field Air Basi in Moultrie Georgia. Cpl. Arrington is anxious for an opportunity to fight the Japs and he is optimistic about the duration. Lt. Henry Clay Dunavant Returns To Fort Jackson Lt. Henry Clay Dunavant has returned to Fort Jackson after spending a week with his mother, Mrs. Crews Moody at her home on the Dellwood Road. He was also joined during his week's visit by Mrs. Dunavant, of Canton. Pvt. Thomas L. Howell Has Visit From Wife Mrs. Thomas LV Howell,, teach er in the - Waynesville Township schools, spent he' .Christmas holi days with her husbandV Private Thomas L. Howell, TJ. S. Air. Corps, who is stationed at Amarillo Field, Texas. Y - ': . '. . . Pvt. Howell has been in the ser vice. sines November 2, and was inducted at'-Camp 'Croft. "From Croft he was transferred to Miami, for basic training..' He is- now at tached to the Engineering. Corps of the Air Corps and is taking special training at Amarillo. Field. Pvt. Howell is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Howell of Dellwood. Prior to his entering the service he was employed at Enka.. Sergeant and Mrs. Frank Bry son have been spending a few days as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bryson. Sgt. Bryson, U. Si Army, is now stationed at Camp Carrabella, Fla. C. Jack Davis, Air Corps U. S. Navy Now In States C. Jack Davis, first class airplane mechanic, U. S. Navy Air Corps, is taking a special course of study in the Curtis-Wright Corp., in Co lumbus, Ohio. He has been in the service for the past four years and was at Pearl Harbor when the Japs made their attack last December. Young Davis is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Davis, of Hazelwood, and was a student in the , high school here before joining the navy, . Lt. Hal Marley, I!. S. Air Corps, who is an instructor at liunter Field. Ala., spent the Christmas holidays here with bis mother. Mr. F. H. Marley, at Oak Park. Lt. Marley has been in a:ive service for the past two years. Hr was a lieutenant in the 10 1st Cal vary, National Guard Unit of New York City. In 1942 he transferred to the Air Corps and received his wings in October of this year. Wo received his basic traininir at Gunter Field and his advanced in-' l'niverity. Btruction at Camden ' and Moody 1 - - Fields. iron i iuii ;ian nas Prior to his entering the service !Cw,n Fnrpio-n Sprvirn he was in the insurance business in New York City, Sergeant Kendrn k Caldwell has .leiuiiied to camp after spending a il2-ilaV furlough' -with his parents, in the navy), Norman Dewey Pess, j jir ;4,,, Mrs. .1 K Caldw. 11, of lion (enlisted in navy), LeRoy hetzer,ij)lltr (enlisted in navy), Thomas I.eti.iir j Yue Caldwill volunteered in York, Charles Mitchell Garrison. l;t' and has been in foreign ser- Luke Alvin ' Swangcr. Horace 'vi,:,, fr the lavt, year. Eugene Messer, Gilmer Janus Set- i sta'ionpd in Florida for .tV zer, Glenn Zackrine Clarke, Kl'ord j ji, '-sent. Whil heie he and his Sutton, James- Paul Phillips, (mother visaed his falher and bro WaUcer Lee Chambers, Hanly 1- ithei. Raymond Caldwell, who arc lison . Sanford, Robert Edward tempi ned in a ship yard at Wilm Potts. WUburn Alexander amp-ins;t on bell. Berlin Arvine Conner, Law rence b. Leatherwood, William 1 Jack Davis Home For Clyde Owens, George Albert Dock- jrst Time In Three ery, J nugn aiawiai, iaiik Ledford, Walter Houston Plem mons, Lawrence Edward McElroy, Troy James Stevenson, Carl David Mooney, Lewis Earl Patton, Ver ner Frank London, Charles D. Lance, Glenn Waites Cuthbertson, and Wilburn Franklin. Kirkpat rick. - Placed in class 2-C were: John Foy Carver, Benjamin Karlisle James, Robert Clifton Ferguson, Elmer David Hendrix, Keith Dale Ketner, Glenn Silas McCracken, Joseph Howell Way Welch, and Robert Taylor Rogers. Placed in class 1-C were; James Way Hendrix, Harry Benjamin McCracken, (enlisted in the navy), Lane Arrington (enlisted in the army), Mont McNabb, Jr., (elisted row Arrington pavid Defe Green, Charles 1. Ketner,. Woodrow -Clarence Camp bell, Harry Fain .McCracken, Carl Franklin Messer, Billie ,Lee Potts, Charles Arthur Green, .Victor Curtis Nobeck, Jerry Jarvis Price, Willia mEdward ' Johnson,. Joseph Houston '; Leatherwood, R 0 b 6 r t Gudger Palmer. . . ; ' " ; -' Homer Owen Dewitt Talmadge Rathbone, James Edward, Hendrix, Foch Rogers, Ed Samuel Bright, Theodore Roosevelt Grant, Ralph Hannah, John Lewis Moody, James Thomas Reeves, James Erastus Howell, Rubin Jay Kirkpatrick, George Frank Scates, Rufus Mc Gaha, Hobert Ernest Hance, and Charles Lee Pressley. -v Placed in class 4-F were: Bruce Gates, Carroll Newell James, Ber lin Clarence Estes, James Ray Cope, Vaughn Raleigh Conard, Cessar Morrow, Robert Allen, Jr., Wilburn Roy Wright, Frank Ben jamin Crawford, James Robert Wright, Frank Curtis, John .' ly McCracken, Joe Lyton McE. y, Hubert Turner Davis, William Con ley Mehaffey, Robsrt Foster, Ralph Edward Ford, Tommie Fie, and Furman Hiram Wyatt. Years From The Navy ' Jack Davis, who is in the L. S. Navy, left Saturday for Columbut-, Ohio, after spending the Christ mas holidays in Hazelwood with his. parents, : Mr., and Mrs.-.Spur-i geon Davis. ' Young D avis ' who has been - in the navy, for the past four years, is taking special training at the Curtis Wright Corporation in Ohio. This was his first visit home in three venrs. I He was accompanied back to Ohio, by his sisters, Misses Cathe rine and Anna Jean Davis, who will spend a few days with him. Cadet Ben Colkitt To Spend 2 Days Here . Aviation Cadet Ben Colkitt, Jr., will arrive on Friday morning for a two day leave here with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Colkitt. Cadet Colkitt is stationed at Ana costia Field Naval Reserve Avia tion Base, near Washington, D. C. He has been in active service since July, and received his pre-flight training at the University of Georgia.:- -;.'--.', : -) ..rw'l- Nl sif $ THEY WANT Service Emblemed STATIONERY Packaged and Ready To Mail To Men In the Army -Nav - Air Forces -Marine Gold cmbo&sed official emblems of each bnvh.o.f-.1 vice on 50 sheets 50 envelopes. Doxed in $1 patriotic boxes. 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