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t Jr. "a "i ,1 .1 V iAGE EIGHT (Third Section) Gfcn. Patton's Jeep Draws Visitors To Fort Knox . By RICHARD KUNZMAV United Press Staff Correspondent ;t FORT KNOX. Ky The four atu Jeep used by the late Gen 'George S. Patton, Jr . in World Wr I is still the way he always .wanted it spick, span and rarln' U go. The jeep and the command car which Patton roared across Europe as commander of the Third Army are preserved .ere in Patton Mu seum. The museum also contain-, about 200 German guns and tanks cap- . cured oy Fatton s armored units They were part of the general's personal collection After his t'eath in an automobile accident m Heid elberg, Germany, on Dec L'l. ir45. the armament was .-hipped here by the War Department, Museum Is Shrine It was thought fitting that f'oi t Knox, home of the Arnn s armoied st-uuui, snuuja oe trie .-i'e of a col lection which commemorate.-; the Army's most dramatic champion of the armored orTeiisiw- Patton Museum is alrcad a shrine of this 106-000-aere milt tary reservation. About ln.oo.i visitors a month sign their names in the registry book beneath tin insignia of the 42 divisions that were part of the Third Arms in THE WAYNESVTJLLB MOUNTAINEER PENNIES COME HOME NEWTON. Mass. I UP) Patrol man Miles A MacNeil, who had never been repaid for the many times he dug down to helD folks who didn't have carfare home, got a flicker of hope in the mail. A for gotten debtor had spent three cents io iipriv iour pennies borrowed a month earlier. Avviwuia " ' : FRIDAY TraoMm Ds Named ' Mm f Tine Year By SHERRv itnwty AP Newsfeatures Writer HoWooH'.l. Deplored ln En 1944 and 1345 The v.-illo of the museum are lined with photographs of "Old Blood n liuU" in war-time poses. Theie are dozen of battle maps showing ihe tactical historv of I nil d Ann units Man a i,itor stops to point a finger ,il a spot on one of the maps ami t -. , "My outfit was I ri;:ht line. I remeinber the time I'ation c "tie to inspect us and . ." Olu Srrgeant on Hand M Si;t Charles Parker. Concord. N C , a veteran of 26 years in the Ann', i, nni tiim custodian. He Wd . .1 I'll t .11 t'e.lllt linHar Holl.. m Ninth fiii Paik'r doe-n't know too much ' -i ho ut the hi-l-.n 0f Patton's jeep. 'r,"'""''er leading is 25.000! mile I'aikei helieve; it was used,' 't:iii..iau. ..iter Patton's death I hi l ine l Harmon, commanding . rfciiei.il 11 ' ISth Army which oc- I ( upieil ( ..-i many I i'.'ii"'! a great soldier."; -avs I'.ik. i I uas mighty proud j to light I.,, him It's a privilege to take tare of his collection and tell the ouiib recruits of the new Army ;' about h.m Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of. America, was man of the year in 1948. He' was chosen almost unanimously by vote of the editors of Associated Press newspapers. The farm boy from Missouri who prayerfully took over as chief executive when President Roose velt died in 1945, waged a fighting campaign and won an upset vic tory in 1948. He said he often yearned for his old seat in the V. S. Senate. But when the chips were down, he ignored the experts. He told his party leaders he would win and he did. He had traveled a long and twisted road to the Preside nrv In 1906 he went into partnership wim nis father and worked long hours to keep the family farm go ing. Eleven years later he was in World War I. He went to France as a captain in the Missouri na tional guard and was promoted to major before the war ended. After the war he filled in business and was long years pay ing off the resulting debt. But in 1932. with the help of the Pen. dergast machine in Missouri, he went into politics as a member of the county government in Jack son county. He was first elected to the U. S Top Personalities of the Yew HDf from . .j;vUiji RAY'S DEPT. STORE and RAY'S Super Market 1 fc T " - i IWSfT :- V-i yv'f T 1 X,- f f r; J: mv.rr&fnr cttmxTiAi rmrtmrnm. II UL v tC't. K . cu , ,, ,j,n.. "U'horii,, '""Sn tod,, ''v hum H,.n. I'n i, ...v , "J"Jood . ' i 11.111k,. 'I' lin " hav, lo i I i "I. CI'V i "''II'JUIK ' -V In, k. ''"T. of lorn II w, M tlx - (Hi , ""i. str, ir. ott tiiiil l"it in I '' "ullio end of ij Harry S. Truman J. Robtrtppvnhtimtr Sir Laurenc Olivier Senate in 1934. When the Pender-, place in the days ahead as the gast machine faced charges of dis- counterpart of the monasteries of honesty, Truman was nearly de- the early Middle Ages. Herbert Hoover ejnd Paul Hoffmen teated in the 1940 election. But investigators said suspicion never once pointed at him Truman said Tom Pendergast never asked him to do a dishonest thing. In the early part of the war he headed the Truman Committee which saved the nation millions of dollars by checking on war con tracts. In 1944 he took the nomina tion as vice president, which he did not want, in a compromise deal at the convention. His committee was formed at his suggestion after he had been turned down when he sought to reactivate his commission in the Army reserve. So, instead of be ing a colonel in the Army dur ing the war, he finally became commander in chief of all the 1. S. forces as President of the United States. I In the 1946 elections, the He ! publicans gained control of both I houses of Congress. Faced with : hostility from the legislators, he hammered at a program which in cluded long range housing, in creased legal minimum wages, a civil rights program, government backed health insurance, federal aid for education and other things. He denounced the Taft-Hartley law and income tax cuts. On this program. he won the 1948 elec tion. In other fields The AP editors chose the following men: George I Marshall, foreign affairs; J. I Robert Oppenheimer, science; Philip Murray, labor; Henry j Ford, II. industry: Herbert Hoov er and Paul Hoffman in public j service: Norman Mailer, litera- tore; and Sir Laurence Olivier, J entertainment. Marshall now is recovering from an operation in Washington. For . another year. he had headed the ! V S Stale Department. He was the general in charge of U. S. oper ations In the cold war iust h had been thief of staff for the V S. Army in World War II. He had tuled himself out of the race for Presid. nt and spent the vear meeting Ihe louf.h problems of a divided world. In 1947. The AP editors chose him man of the year for hi, work Oppenheimer is director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He also continues work with L'. S. and world groups which seek to control the atom bomb. Returning from Europe Oct. 30. he said. "Men of our times will never have a sense of security again. " 1I0 was wartime director of the Los Alamns IV j M., laboratory where the first j atom bombs were built. He feels that education, especial ly in universities, will be of great ! help. In his latest trip to Europe j he found fears not so much of ; atomic war but of "occupation, en j slavement, civil war and destruc f tion." He also found a feeling that the universities must take their Murray was again elected head of the CIO in November. His union won a wage boost in the steel in dustry in July. Through the year he kept up a running fight with the left wine In the CIO H hank ed Truman and denounced Wallace for his third party bid. Action of the November convention showed full victory for , Murray's right wing forces. The labor leader who came to this country as an immi grant coal miner sumrised dele gates with the vigor of his attack on Red elements. Ford continued to direct the auto empire founded by his grand- latner. jjuring 1948 he toured Eur ope, visiting Ford plants there. He also accepted the post of eh airman of national community chests. Votes of the editors were even ly divided between Hoover and Hoffman in the public service field. Hoover, the only U. S. ex President, has worked hard on his government reorganization commission. Hoffman was head of the Studcbaker Corp. but left to direct the U. S. program for aid to Europe. Mailer, a Brooklyn bov who went to Harvard and then to the war in the Pacific, rocketed to fame when The Naked and the Dead" was published. It was on best seller lists for many weeks. Reviewers hailed the book as a rough and tough piece of realism about war. Mailer says it is really a highly symbolic work on the conflict be tween the beast and the seer in man. , Olivier headed the entertain ment vote because of thn rn lefts r.r his "Hamlet," a motion picture, in the United States. Olivier himself , spent nine months of 1948 in Aus-1 tralia with members of his London "Old Vic" company. His tour was hailed as a smashing success Hp I is now back in London wh. ic j Vic" will feature his acting I after the first of uu. yar "i M Killl) YOL'NG BIT GOOD MllYSVILLE. Kan ,(.,.. Kansas' youngest court n p.Mlri k ranked as nine of the best Kchwn Lurking, 18, in an international Gregg shorthand cont.sl for hit'li school students, ranked lioth uu of some 25.000 participants. II,. , , handle witnesses s,ri;i L-i iiu n,. i. 225 words a minute mi ASPHALT -cij HUK ESTI.MAI FRADY TILE CO, i?ox m H'aynesville I'liones 783-R or I ANNOUNCEMENT - As is our custom, tlic- WAYNE SVII.Li; COUNTRY CI INN is remaining open, on the Knrop,,,,, Han. th out the Winter months. KalCS IS'J.dh Vcr J);;V 'llii; :n,(ir;.MLNT i s sbqib& I I 1 home vorship BoBW IRE BIRO WHO COLLECTED ALL THE EARLS' SWORMS M tUTM BffavvJe I 1L I EACE on earth . freedom . . . friendships . . . loved ones . . . happy children ... the thoughtfulness of those about us . . . let's preserve all that is Christmas and whot Christmas really meons for all the days to come. And may all these blessings be yours to enjoy. C. E. Ray's Sons v- If LjCTTTC, Al -C k)BAR U.4.11 i ' h. " " Coeujucr b. . . IT rw rKQM 8 CHA. 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