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)AY, OCTOBER 7, 1943 (One Day Nearer Victory) THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER Ptgt S H See Here Kriyate Hargrove! by rianun nargrove CHAPTER VII ,f the nicest things about 0 01 . i.;W in Hotter ,W 1 in D'""'u" itself in half an hour by filling ud tthen when it comes his turn to the extra space in its trousers. Do Kaypee. The boys will miss him ' your trousers fit you bum? He mm hi 's one of the best-liked : straightened the pleats in the back vf tnerc. i of the overcoat and gave the tail 0nt of the sere-pants near hum in unneeessaril v vicious vanlc. "Did I say they didn't?" I groaned, raising by arms despair ingly. "Just because somebody else says you stretch the coat in the hack so the man will think it fits right in the front, you have to go picking on me!" "Me pick on you?" he screamed. "It's a wonder my nerves ain't com pletely shot! Do I come around and put signs on the door saying, 'Walk Up One Flight and Save Five Dol lars?' Do I throw gunny sacks on your bed and ask you to take up to. knowledge that its numDer-one 1 !.,! Buster Charnley, K Hroo around after supper and SSational fat. It's like rtrnm home to listen to Bus- to .low and mournful drawl, and r .kimr drv humon is a pick- ... tku pnd of a long, hot moon. jBS!t,r came prancing up me line, trie Ouier evening iu a .L...'0t!.rtpH at the back of his y and enveloped his face from Dose down. ghat's eating you, Walter," I ied him, "besides tnat egg- nrV ... ,..., u. .... Uaving nere, uuy : ue sang. k,0won t set- me around ior inree laths. And wnen you see me, mu II see stripes on my sieeves J a hvk oi prosperity un my Ln-cut Tarheel face!" Re man behind mm wanted to . to the mashed potatoes, so Lter hail to move on down the !(,Il-'": t!u' wnule story Irom one :thf kaypees while I waited for a :o make his evening call. Of tie 310-odd men in Battery C, ,tBrn hail lu n selected for three I me. '.I. .inirxr lit Vnrt Cill HUla- ' SflU J li L 1 1 iiiii'in'f. - i . ki.., vain- ua. At the end of their three n:h, they will come back as gun. In instructors, with a non-com- ssioned officers rating and a spe- blists extra pay on top ot tnat. Walter Charney's little boy bttr was one of the two men feted. 1 was chopping kindling for sikfast when Buster came around (tin, and I painted Fort Sill as a s! of pack rabits, gophers, and Slesnakes and assured him that littery C was sending him to ItJool to cut down the grocery bills. we hadn t been insulting each ler in a Inendly fashion for lars, I would have told him that tisn't particularly astonished and bt I was sure he'd make a good btractor and the kind of non-com- Isiioned officer the boys borrow loney from. Battery c will miss Ole Buster iile he's away. The cooks will as him because he always re wbers to compliment them when ( likes the meat loaf or the cherry Mler. lhe mess sergeant will Ms him because he livens the iilvict I lost the fight," he said. I reckon I had it down better than You won the argument, though," any man in the whole Army. Then 'im i'?1' they started fh's 'minute Army," I d like to use the sergeant's with a bunch of green ignorant name, but he made me promise not ' Yankees and I had to teach them what they had to know!" The bull session nodded wisely and Corporal Ussery went on. "Now this young Corporal Joe Gantt, for instance. Now, this Corporal Gantt when he first came in, was one of the greenest rookies in the bunch. But he snapped out of it and made corporal in four months." "Was that soldiering " a vnir-o 'Heavens to Betsy, Thomas," I j broke in, "or handshaking as the complained, "you're getting to be j Latins used to say, mittus flop the fussiest old maid in the outfit. pus?" I'm not sduirming!" j "Much as I can't stand Gantt. In the first place, my man," he 1" nave to admit it was soldiering "I told the Old Man," he said, "that I got the shiner playing base ball." "How can I fit you into a coat," moaned Supply Sergeant Israel, "with you fidgeting around like a race horse at the post? Stand still, dern you, stand still!" said, "don't call me Thomas or try to get overjy familiar with your el. i hat s the way it is. You sweat your head off hammering the drills ders and betters. In th. second and the ialisthenics and the mili place, don't argue with me. In thejtal'' courtesy and guard duty and third place, don't fidget in the first !,ni physical hygiene and the man- place. And in the fourth place, don't agitate me unrx eessarily. I'm at the end of my patieiuy with you and I ain't feeling in no holiday spirit anyway." I buttoned the handsome winter blousi- and he stepped back to in spect it with the eye of an artist. "Every time my wife gets mad at die has her picture taken to to me. The oieture 1 trot to day showed she's going to eat my heart out unmercifully when I can't put off my furlough any longer and I have to go home. And with do mestic difficulties on my hands, I have to fit your winter uniforms." He yanked at my coattail, stra ightened the collar and scratched his head. "Hargrove 37 long," he yelled to the boy at the desk. "Man that is born of woman," I comforted him, "is of many days and full of trouble." "Git off the platform and into this overcoat," he sighed. He held the coat while I got into it and he slapped my hand for fidgeting again. "Sometimes I wonder why I got to so much trouble keeping you boys dressed right. Here I spend the whole afternoon wiping sweat out of my eyebrows, just to see that your clothes fit you and you won't look like a bunch of bums which your are. "Do you know what some un grateful kitchen termite said the other day? He started putting it around that the Army could double r back from a rpcent 1oq one of the most glorious shin 's that ever darkened n into a door?" T asked him. GaV. 9 ITllv thp urrnno- oncurr ' ' . ---- " ""'T'CI f rtplied simply, "or rather, the :er he didn't want." 1 looked at his face- his teeth pall there and his jaw was still fonepiwe. I looked at his hands knuckles showed the marks of pTTice. w in a party." he went on. n this fellow who lives next I the cuffs two inches? ' ' niy folks wants to know "With my thankless job, it's a u the morale in the Army?' wonder I haven's collapsed before '"'nt.' I tell him; 'excellent!' this. I wish I was a permanent me up and down sort nf kitchen nolicp instead of a supply jme-lik,. and wants to knnw sere-pant. Hare-rove - .'i7 long! 'tad the matrnvina otvio VI. YT'" put hou- nnur it ; nrii t tn I sPnil all my time with the1 "This batter is my baliy'' Cor ind I believe what T ep mnm noral Henrv Ilsserv said, loosening ivhat 1 read.' his belt for a real hull session. I've Mte"ts on from there makinc watched it grow from thutty-one at the Army and the coun- men to what it is now. It was hard aril t r;t- suckers wp avo fv ni-L- bniMina- tin this h:itt(rv to j . aui 5v '"irv ni .... j - W tUllc for What's nnt nnrth whllt it is now hilt it's Worth it n? fur in the first, nlnpp T when von look- around and see what en Politely for a whilp Uiieo!ii'vp Honp " hough ufnt to look rowdv. I stand and decided to loosen its belts. Us- mUCh as T rati nn ks t o-t. ,..oc trvinrl nn q cry in tf hls fpet. It isn't long be- "When I got here, there wasn't nis three brothers join the anybody else but the instructors. j, ""e oi me Drotners ne spent iour weens eaung uusi finger ring in my eve." iand running rabbits. There I was i otner. i told him, "that ain't i I'd spent thurteen months learn- iiiaia it uaage. nng tne oiu uim aim wuuw iu wnmt; SPECIAL COFFEE ual of arms into them. They're all clumsy and awkward as a bear in an egg crate at first, but then you can see th m, aTter a wnile, snap ping into it and getting better and better. By the time we've had them thutteen we. ks, and they're ready to be assigned to their posts, they're as keen and alert as a bunch of West Point cadets. They're extra good cooks and better soldiers." "Isn't a good soldier a specialist at griping and growling?" some body asked him. "When a soldier can gripe," the corporal announced in a pontifical manner, "he's happy as a pig in the sunshine. When he doesn't gripe there's something wrong with him. That's another thing you learn. When you first come here, you didn't know the first principles of griping. You griped about the clothes; you griped about the beds; you griped especially about having to go to bed at nine o'clock." "Griping is an art, just like goldbricking is an art. Before you leave here, you learn that you don't enjoy griping a bit when you spread your energy all over every where, griping about everything. Yyou learn to choose one thing and specialize in griping about that. "If you want to be a specialist at griping, you have to get on your toes. You get to where your clothes are comfortable. Where you used to think the food was terrible, now you pretend that you don't get enough of it. You like the beds and by nine o'clock you're sleepy. So you have to find some thing special to gripe about. If you haven't got any originality at all, pick you out one special non com and griep about him. "Now, you take Private Har grove, for instance. First came here, he griped about me telling him he was carrying his rifTe wrong. Now he gripes when I tell him he's carrying it right. He might have something there. He still carries it like it was a 75 millimeter gun. He's getting so shiftless, even at griping, that he can't find anything to beef about except not getting any mail. I'm going to write all his creditors, so he won t even be able to gripe about the mail." "That reminds me," I said. "Did ' I tell you boys what Sergeant Tay lor told me about Ussery today?" "Nine o'clock!" Ussery shouted. Lights out! Break it up!" i II xTiinjl rdiinf.f Mnftti famlina Somewhere on the wild coast of for thp of sccuring an ab- South (aroina the battalion in sout(, fivorcf from the dcfendent which I eook is bemg treated to a upf)n statutorv Krouri(is. wee kend to combine business with And sai(, ((.fendent will further pleasure. We can romp in the At- :ts.Up tuat he is rpnnjrp( tn antic while we get a "taste of the appear before the Clerk of the nun tne wina Diowing tne Court of said County at the Court Kitcnens ana pup tents House in Waynesville, North Caro lina, on the 15th day of November, probably seen them rolling noisily but smoothly through town large canvas-topped trucks with a fold ing bench down each side inside. You'd expect to be hauled out of one of them, beaten to death, at the end of a 130-mile trip. They give a tolerably bumpy ride, just tolerably. When we started pitching camp, about a quarter of a mile back from the beach, we found the place al ready inhabited by cannibals. These creatures, which masquerade as harmless flies and even camou flaed by the harmless sounding name of sand flies, must have vam pire blood back in the line some where. I don't hear and grudges against the easygoing, good-natured house fly in fact, 1 feel rather cruel when I squash one for tickling me but it arouses my pioneer fight ing spirit to see a stunted horsefly light on my bare leg, make himsely sassily comfortable and start drain ing off my life's blood. But what can you do? Slapping one only serves to make him mad at you. At night we sleep, or at least we simulate sleep, in pup Unts made by our own hands with lov ing care, blood, sweat, tears, two pieces of waterproof cloth, two lengths of rope, and a handful of turned lumber. 1 share my little duplex with Private Warren, the new student cook who told me the story about the man at the boarding house. When I stumbled homo last night, primed to the gills with a blend of sand and salt water, 1 discovered that we had an overnight guest! The chief eook on our shift, in the task of packing the tiold kitchen, had neglected to put bis own field pack (tent half, blankets, etc.) on the truck, so be decided to drop over and have us put him up for the night. A pup tent, as you probably don't need to be told, will accom modate two men, provided neither of them walks in his sleep. If three men are to sleep in one tent, at least two of them must be mid gets or babes in arms. Cooks should never sleep two to a tent, because of their tendency toward plump ness. We arranged ourselves in the tent by wrapping knees around the tent poles, putting all feet out side for the night and raising one side of the ten high enough to make a rustic sleeping porch of the whole affair. The guest proved to be one of those loathsome creatures who pull all the covers to their side of the bed. We had quite a lot of trouble with him, since he slept in the middle and rolled up in both our blankets. We remedied this by waiting until he started snoring, then recovered our blankets, rolling ourselves in them and throwing a raincoat over him. The three-man arrangement was very uncomfortable for a while. When I finished opening my eyes by scooping the sand from them, I found that I had rolled through the open side of the tent and spent the night under a myrtle bush ten yards down the slope. During my first off hour, I suc ceeded in getting a tan which must have darkened the very marrow of my bones. My chest, back, and leo-s looked the color of a faded danger flag and smcllod like the roast pork that the cook forgot to NOTICE OF SUMMONS In The Superior Court North Carolina, Haywood County. Lyndon Bryson vs Margie Bryson The di'fendent in the above en titled action will take notice that an action as above has been com menced in the Superior Court of State College Hints To Farm Homemakers By Ruth Current N. C. State College To distribute the wear on sheets we suggest to homemakers that they put the small hem at the top of the bed at least half of the time. To protect sheets from snagging and tearing we suggest that a mat tress cover be placed over the bed springs. Remember too that a bit of adhesive tape carefully bound over a rough place on the spring will also help to avoid a tear. Wash rag or chenille rugs just as you wash blankets; let them drip dry. When hanging, fold over line and fasten two clothespins down each hanging side, pinning double thicknesses. Shake or brush when nearly dry to fluff up. Wash curtains as you would silks. 1 Put curtains of fine material such as lace and scrim in a net bag to wash. Starch keeps them fresh, crisp, and clean longer. Use a large kettle so that all curtains' for one room can be starched even- i ly and at once. Do not hang cur tains on the line to dry but roll up in a sheet. Iron when damp dry. In hanging sheets out to dry, put large and small hems together; swing large hem over the line, with small hem on the outside. Place clothespins at one-foot intervals. Straighten selvages. When remov ing, fold sheet crosswise again, and it is ready for ironing. Hang tablecloths lengthwise, put ting selvage edges together. Pin closely, like sheets. Hang guest towels singly with a third over the line, and with em broidered part or colored edging at the bottom. Hang bath towels singly, a third over the line. Shake when dry to fluff up nap. Do not iron towels. For handkerchiefs, napkins and washcloths, hang two or three over each other by the hem, not by th corners. While a jury was being impan neled, a prospective juror was ask ed: Attorney Are you a married man? Prospective Juror Yes, sir, about 52 years. Attorney Have you formed or expressed an opinion Prospective Juror (interrupting) No, sir, not for about five yeara. Buy War Bonds and Stamp. watch. After that, the surf and the sun went their ways and I went mine. (To be continued) PLEASE SEND A f m M HANGER with EVERY l6l1Lr3l garment cleaners it is not that we don't want to furnish them, u 4 i tu ,- Main Street but you know, they re not available. For Quality Workmanship PIlfkriA 11 Send Your Carmfvts To Vs. rllOIlC Alt) field sand mt alike, it will be nice to get back to Fort Bragg for a taste of the food we eat. A vexed soldier here don't grate his teeth. He crunches them. We made the trip here in lor ries, which are the mechanical age s nearest approacn in appear 1943, and answer or demur to the Complaint, filed in said cause or the plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in said Complaint. C. H. LEATHERWOOD, Clerk Court of Haywood County ance to covered wagons. You've 1 1326 Sept. 23-30 Oct. 7-14. tom where I sit iy Joe Marsk Grandma Hosklns knows a lot about history -but when we asked her where the first brew ery was built in America, she wouldn't take sides. MYon tea," aays Grandma, "wherever the colonists settled, one ot the first things the thought about was food and beer ... In fact, one reason why the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock was becanse the Mayflow er was rnnnin' short of beer." Well, that was a new one on us, but Grandma showed it to us just as it was written iu uie Mayflower's log. And it seems that all through our early American history beer sort of tempered the hardships and helped to make us a toler ant, moderate people. From where I ait, beer b the American drink of moderation and friendliness kind of a sym bol of our personal liberty. n ) 1943. BREWING INDUSTRY FOUNt TIC.'l. North Carolina CommrttM Wgor H. Bain, Stat Director. 606-407 Injurunc. Bldg., Raltlflh, N. C ! rtz-j? J!ff i " ffffml WJr $ Vfelf! 1 mMOii'VUSVWfLLJI 1 MMMHMStHSI mm YOU THE PEOPLE WANT THE TRUTH . . . And our policy is to give you the facts as they stand. No coloring of war news or Untrue statements will take you unaware. You have placed your confidence in us and we hold that trust sacred. This paper, in its editorial columns, and local merchants, in advertising, are cooperat ing with the government by running important messages pertaining to war bond campaigns, to recruitments for the service, to salvage drives, to rationing, and to black markets. In this way we, the newspapers are the tie between the government and the people. We are a free press and you as a free people demand the truth. You will never be rocked into a state of false security by our editorials or news. You shall get what you want TRUTH. The MOUNTAINEER A Modern Newspaper In A Progressive County
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