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MONROE MARKET Cotton, short, ID M.50 Cotton, long, lb 31c to 32.00c Cotton Seed, bushel 70HC Eggs, dozen 28c to 30c Hens, pound 20c to 22c Corn, bushel $1-20 Wheat, bushel $1-60 WEATHER FORECAST Much colder tonight, temperatui itures below freezing. reezlng. ? Sunset today, 7:03 p. m.;' sunrise Friday, 8:U a. nv PUBLISHED ON MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS MONROE, N. C, UNION XX) UNY, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1943 SEMI-WEEKLY, ?2.00 A YEAR SEVENTIETH YEAR A; Pilot Fighters TeD Their Story Germany Has Her Crack Air men In North Africa For Us To Meet LEAD LONELY LIVES Em Is Pyle from a forward airdrome In French North Africa tells the "fol lowing Interesting story of experiences of our fighter pilots in that area: Although our fighter pilots are shooting down more German planes than we are losing, still they have a deep and healthy respect for the Ger man airmen. "They apparently brought their very best men to Africa," one of the boys Bald, "because the newcomers sure know their business. There are no green hands among them." American flyers who have been cap tured and then escaped report that there seems to be a sort cameraderie among airmen not in the air, but on the ground.. There is no camera derie at all in the air it's fight to the death and nothing else. The other night the boys were re calling stories from the last war. They bad read how Allied and German fighters would shoot up all their am munition and then fly alongside each other and salute before starting home. There is none of that stuff In this war. Our pilots really lead lonely lives over here. There is nothing on earth for them to do but talk to one another. In two weeks you've talked a guy out, and after that it's Just the same old conversation day after day. The boys hang around the field part of the day, when they're not flying, then go to their rooms and lie In their bunks. They've read themselves out and talked themselves out. There are no movies, no dances, no parties, no women nothing. They Just lie on their cots. "We've got so damn lazy we won't hardly go to the toilet," one of them said. "We're no damn good for any thing on earth any more except fly ing." Plying a fighter plane is not com fortable. There is so much to do, and you're so cramped, and you strain so constantly watching for the enemy. Also, fighter cockpits are not heated. The pilots get terribly cold at 25,000 and 30,000 feet. They don't .wear electrically heated suits. In fact, they cant even clothes, for. Impossible wear too heavy flyingl 2E2Lt SHMaB? their, bulk would ibakaI to 'twist around in theffcy regard to tlie lSuance, wTpthe aecond half, cockpit. They wear only their ordinary uniforms- with a pair of coveralls on top of these, plus flying boots and gloves. And they can't even wear really heavy flying gloves. "Our bodies don't get so cold. It's our hands and feet," one of them said. "Sometimes they get so cold, they're numb." "It's funny," said another, "but you're never cold when you're In a fluht. You actually get to sweating, and when It's over your underwear is all wet In back. Of course that makes you get all the colder afterwards." It's interesting to sit In with a bunch of pilots in the evening after they've returned from their first' mis sion. They're so excited they are prac tically unintelligible. Their eyes are bloodshot. They are red-faced with excitement. They are so terrifically stimulated they can't quiet down. Life has never been more wonderful. They tell the same story of their day's ad ventures over and over two dozen timet before bedtime, The other night one boy couldnt eat his supper. Another one couldnt go to sleep. The older boys listen patiently. They were that way not so long ago them selves. They know that battle ma turity will come quickly. Just drop In a few weeks from now. CHAPLAIN TEAGUE RECEIVES PROMOTION (Public Relations Office, Camp Sutton) Sutton's Camp Chaplain, Lieutenant Loyd W. Teague of Alexander County, North Carolina, left here at the be rlnnnv nf Jnniiarv to aitend a one month's course in the Chaplain's Training School at Harvard University and returned to find that he had been -a captain for three weeks. He is senior military cleric on the post, ex ercising supervisory authority over the other chaplains and the seven Armv-buUt chapels on the area. Chaplain Teague is one of seven brothers, three of whom, besides him self , are Baptist. clergymen, me ev. J. TJ. Teague, of Powellsville, N. C; h bjw n a. Ttoafue. of Tavlorsvllle, ' . j ai zm t vf IWnu nf n. v., ana wt. w. ,t -vmmi. tvtba The chaDlatn is the nniv dm in uniform, ne receivea mi - B. A. degree from Wake Forest College fn icon and tnnir nu aovancea twa in at Southern Baptist Theological ' , nkanUtH Miiti rwiittnratoJL nriflT to his Army duty, included the Lake- wood Park Baptist church, Durham, V. C, tne First Baptist unurcn w Clover, a C, and the First Baptist Church -of Bnruoa Pme. N. O. He - UITU WtKauuv ' V1T1UWI Win", ... Corps chaplain, with a leeerre com mission as a first Uetuenant ta tne United States Army, and circulated Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and -Ten' . nessee. . ? expansion program, he was transferred ? from CCO duty to Camp Forrest, i me Btaaon uospnai. rouowmg ' this he was sent to Fort Ouster, Mich, . and subsequently to Camp Button, . where he was the first Chaplain to ; be assigned. - i 1 - ' Mrs. Teague, a native of Granite i Ml. N. C and a sraduste of Mere dith College, resides at present 'in Oranlts Falls, with five of their seven hllrfrn Tha twn eldest. Annie Kith- '. arine and Helen, are both freshmen At . Mara Hill College, Mars Bill, sr. C GERMAN BOMBERS LONDON 7 WEM ' - j v vi " tin Phi i - HI LONDON Although Incapable of breaking through London's anti aircraft defenses to strike at any vital- war objective, Nazi airmen Were still able to unload their cargoes of death on defenseless schools and kill many children. In the most recent retaliatory raid it left tfcis school in ruinB. Rescue workers are looking for bodies. This was tBe first time London had been bombed in months. (Soundphoto) THE RATIONING BOARD MAKES PUBLIC POLICY List Of Applications Approved At A Recent Meeting. The Union County Rationing Board has stepped up into the big business class, and In order to accommodate us growing Tine of customers, Is doubling the size of its office space. The ad joining store room Is being fitted up for additional offices. At the same tune more clerical help Is being put on. On the 16th Carter M. Preslar, principal of the Benton Heights school, will become chief clerk of the board. Mrs. Vann continues as senior clerk. Under her are seven Junior clerks. This comprises tne paia clerical force of the office. The board mem bers themselves receive ne pay what ever, not even traveling expenses. The hoard membershiD Is: W. C. Sanders, chairman; Smith Medlih, Marshville; Prank Harris, Monroe; H. H. Massey, Waxhaw; J. Howard Williams and Ed win Niven, Monroe. This board meets regularly once a week, and sometimes oftener. At its meeting Monday the boara issed the following order The Rationing Board anonunces oline rations: that where bus or train service is available, gasoline and tires will not be Issued for the transport tion of workers. The Queen City Coach company has recently added busses for the convenience of people in this esctlon. and the board recom mends that workers avail themselves of this transportation. Hereafter any aDDllcant for easoline or tires for oc cupational use must prove to the satis faction of the board tnat puDiic trans portation Is not available. The following applications for tires, tubes and recapping service were ap proved by the board February 8: Monroe Ice & Fuel Co.; Dr. J. W. Neal, Monroe; J. H. Richardson, R5, Monroe; Monroe Bakery; J. M. Mc Rorie. Monroe: Union Coach Co.; H. V. Norwood. R2. Waxhaw; Bruce H. Griffin, Monroe; W. Lee Williams, R5, Monroe; F. O. Ezzell, R3, Waxhaw; Miss Dora Richardson. R4 Monroe; Vlney Pressley, R3 Monroe; J. Silas Home, R3, Marshville; H. W. houis, Monroe; White Oak Acres, Monroe; Chares Helms. Rl. Indian Trail: J. P. Baucom, R2 Monroe; H. L. Fuller, Monroe; H. F. McCray, Monroe; Lester Winchester. Monroe; Will Qaither, Monroe; Boyle Construction Co., Camp Sutton; O. P. Keever, Marsnvme; v. V. Sutton, R3, Matthews; J. B. Whit- more, R3, Monroe; Marguerite wu llnms. Monroe: C. F. Gamble. Monroe; Jesse L. Helms, R4, Monroe; Hurley Marsh, Rl Box 37, Marsnvuie; win a. Rorie, R4 Monroe; rcoya i?wm, Marshville: Flovd A. Moore. RB Mon roe; 8. C. Helms, R3, Marshville; 8. M. Ashcraft. Monroe; W. P. Hawfleld, RS Monroe: W. M. Plyler, Rl Wax. haw; W. O. Helms, Rl Wlngate; Mrs. W. W. Stephenson, Indian Trail; F. W. Slmnson. R2. Marsnvuie; J. a. M&ckev. R3 Waxhaw: Monroe Bakery; John W. 8 tames, RS Monroe; O. B. Strewn. R3 Marshville: J. W. Sutton, RS Matthews: Stafford M. Parker, Rl Wlngate; L. D. Oswald, Monroe; Paul J. Jackson, Monroe; Rev. Samuel Long R3 Monroe; J. H. Taylor, R3 Monroe; C, R. Yow, R3 Monroe; Fete J. wu' UamS, R3 Monroe; Mrs. J. O. Mathe son. Wlnsate: John W. Starnes, Mon roe; W. O. Holmes, ta Monroe; v. a. Rlmnson. Jr.. Monroe: L. M. Walters, Monroe; W. R. Hill, R3 Marshville; L. J. Williams, RS Monroe; J. A. Mills, R3 Marshville, Mrs. MR Dei . Ayese Helms.- Monroe: Sam H. Madgum, Rl, Monroe: Jack Dickerson,f Monroe; b. I Tarlton. MaraQvuia: O. a. uoairey, Rl Waxhaw; F. O. Kimbrell, Indian Trail: Henderson Roller Mills: Heath Davis,? RS, -Monroe; . J. O. Bneed, Marshville;. L. B., Baker, Marshvule, wmcnesier xtucuhk in, xnwiuuv, Vann L. Hlnson, RS, Monroe; Oscar Kenlghan, R3, Matthews; n. b. caate Highway Comm, Monroe; B. L. Lowery Wlngate r H. V. Norwood, R2, Waxhaw; Helms Transfer, Monroe; A. Hi Helms, RS. Monro Zeb w.- Griffin, Rl Mon roe; R. 8. Deese, Indian Trail; & B. La than, Monroe; cnarns utue, Mon roe; Clarence Hasty, Rl Indian Trail. Bicycles Annie J. wuuams,. Maran- ville; Jimmy Lee Eflrd, Marshville,--. Rubber footwear Rlcnaro u. nenrj, Monroe, i -x -'. V,. ; AH people can and should be just, merclTul; they should never envy, el bow, slander, hate, vt try to .injure, but always should try to Mesa their f?Uow-mprtali Mary : Baker. Bdfly. ''Newborn must be registered tora- Honing book I to. a montn. . 1 Grew warns against a : "Jl-itsu peace offensive by Japan.. GET THROUGH TO SCHOOL MONROE HIGH DOWNS MARSHVILLE BY 40-22 The Monroe Girls Lose To All-Stars. (By Louise Pigg) Last night, February 10, In the local high school gymnasium the Monroe high school boys' basketball Ave de feated the Marshville high school team by a score of 40 to 22. Both teams played the fastest game of their careers before a cheering crowd of around 300. The Marshville line-up was as fol lows: Keith Snyder (F), Ray Greene (C). Fred Plyler (F), Charles ivey (U, and Rayford Curlee (G). Monroe launched her second team: Blankenship, "Little" Trull, Presson, Bill English, and Edgeworth. After a few minutes ol piay, Marsn- ville led with the score 7-2 and Mon roe's first string went In. The score at the end qf the first quarter saw the visiting team In front with a 9-2 lead. Monroe played on teamwork, the best ever, and held ,the top number in the scoring at tne nan, zz-ik. i never saw a faster game. EUis Trull ed.ln -the, goal Coach Donald McKenzle played Center for M. H. S. with Frank English and Ellis Trull as forwards, and Jim Howie and iTana Simpson guarding. Snyder and Greene starred In the Marshville line-up and Snyder bagged a goal for a long shot from center. With ouick maneuvering the Python varsity made the score 35-20 with only three minutes playing time in the final quarter. McKenzie put in his seconds and Bill English and Hunter Presson raised M. H. S.'s score to 40 just before the final whistle. M. H. S. Girls VO AU-stars The feminine Python team saw de feat In last night's game against the All-Stars of Monroe. Misses Frances Canipe, Jackie Boyd, Heidi Thompson, and Betsy Crieder,- all of the high school faculty and Frances Heath, Jean Dobson. and Lydia Stewart play ed on the All-Star team. The Pythons lined up Sarah Shute (C), June Ruth Harris (F), Sarah Coble (F), Virginia Doster (G). and Frances Ross (O). The All-Stars took a qulcK jeaa and at the half the score read 23-12 in their favor. Thev kept their lead and the game ended 39-22 with the Pythons on the short end. June Ruth Harris and Sarah Coble were the highlights on the M. H. S team. That Harris girl has what It takes, plus a little more. Miss Frances Canine showed herseu wortny or De Inn the girls coach. Misses Jackie Boyd at forward and Lydia Stewart at guard were outstanding also. KILLS HIS WIFE AND THEN SHOOTS HIMSELF Indian Hacks His Wife To Death Near Lnmberton. An Indian hacked his wife to death with a butcher knife and axe and then blew out his brains with a shotgun at his farm- home near Lumberton Tuesday night after he was said to have found his wife and a neignoor man together in an automobile. The dead Indians are Jasper Oxen dine. 30. who was paroled last Fall from State Prison after serving some time on a second degree murder con viction and his wife, Janie Oxendlne, 28. Eight-year-old twins escaped from tha home immediately after tne siay lng and suicide and rushed to the home of their father's brother nearby and told their story, tt was revealed in Lumberton Wednesday morning by Sheriff E. C. Wade. Sheriff Wade announced this morn ing that Alex Hayes, 40, a tenant farmer, is being neia in jail lor m veatlgation.. The Sheriff said that he is the man whom- the dead man accused of being with his wife. The Sheriff said that his investi rations revealed that Oxendlne trail ed his wife and another man during the early part of the -night, took her away from the other man, made her go back home with nun ana were in the boms the- slaying and suicide took nlace durins the night. The woman's body was badly hacked up with a butcher knife and axe, the head being almost severed from the body. . ' When the sheriff arrived he found both bodies lying on the floor m pools of blood and the bloody ass leaning against the wau near the door. Ferris. AAA head, stresses need for sports la wartime. .. THE WAH IN BRIEF Rnssians, atekdily advancing. seise Chngnyev, ft miles southeast of Kharkov, aAd Volchansk, 36 miles northeast Kharkov. Un confirmed Borne !. report says Rus sian marines set for rear attack from Black sea coast. Japanese Islands adjoining Gua dalcanal attacked by United States airmen. New dnve In South Pa cific indicated bf the navy. General Alexander says "Eighth army still advancing" on Rom mel in Tunisia. Axis broadcasts indicate alarm at prospect of gen eral Allied attackifroni east. Amer ican bombers raid airdromes at Candia and Kattelli Pediala on Crete. Nazi planes Mmb London and English south ioast destruction, casualties considerable. RAF re- tallates, smashing! at railroad yards in Caen, France. Big Bitter Farm Fight Is brewing Farm Organisations Object To Pegging Prices At Parity Levels IS JUST ONE EXCEPTION The Administration drew a sharp line today against further advances in farm prices and ' thereby set the stage for a bittle struggle with power ful agricultural leaders in and out oi Congress. The speech of Economic Stabiliza tion Director James F. Byrnes last night was interpreted on all sides as an Administration declaring that It was ready to do battle if necessary to preserve Its present farm ana iooa price and production policies. Those policies, In short, are designee i stabilize agricultural prices at a level called parity, by means of such devices as ceilings to keep prices from going too high and floors to keep them from going too low. ' There Is one general exception to these policies. It Involves crops need ed In volume far n excess of past levels. The Administration says it realizes that farmer's need returns greater than parity o meet extra ex penses Involved In sfepping up produc tion of sucn crops, at woum maKe up extra xpensfvnt tne loan pi what It calls benefit - arid mcentrve payments. The farm payments, lor wnicn oe- tween $500,000,000 and $800,000,- 000 from the Treasury may be needed, would take the place of increases In ceiling prices and hence in food prices which otherwise would be nec essary. These policies are opposed ay lour major farm organizations and Con gressmen from agricultural states. The farm groups are the American Farm Bureau Federation, the National Grange, the National Cooperative Council, and the National cooperative Milk Producers Federation. CAMP SUTTON IS GOING FORWARD IN BOND SALES (Public Relations Office, Camp Sutton) The ace bond-sales promotion team in the Area Engineer's office nere, Lieutenant Fred C. Hensley, executive officer, and James H. Glenn, admin istrative assistant, today announced spectacular new successes In their pa triotic assault on the pocketbooks of the civilian personnel In their depart ment, featuring the discovery and ex ploits of a new tactical genius re cruited for the campaign, timekeeper Archie D. Moore, of Waxhaw. The initial nhase of the War Bona sales effort was climaxed with the achievement of 100 percent participa tion in the 10 percent pay reservation plan among the civil service personnel and the $3,000 purcnase maae oy mou roe's ex-salvage yard operator, Harry J. Howard. The second nhase of the drive began with Lieutenant Hensley's realizing that although the civil service staff had been thoroughly canvassed, the nurchajw and hire" contingent Ol workers, consisting of men employed at an hourly wage, had hardly been heckled at all. Not office workers, thev could not be stimulated by post ing graphic charts of bond buying performances even If such charts could be worked out to fit their fluctuating pay-roll. . The personal attack. Lieu tenant Hensley thought, was indicated. Accordingly he dispatched uienn, a former Proctor and Gamble sales manager to select a lively assistant and- proceed to the attack. Glenn picked Moore, a timekeeper In the of fice, who Is the son oi Mr.- ana mis. Roy Moore of Waxhaw. A brief sortie together netted them fifteen signatures of assorted construction workers and purchase of bonds will amount to ing them. This morning Moore ventured out on his own hook, braving sub-freezing weather. ' and circuiatea among tne carpenters in the area. When he re turned, two nours later, ne was cnuun to the bona, but triumphant. He had run out of application blanks and had talked thirty carpenters out of 30 per cent of their salaries. The SO percent which these men authorised to be ao- stracted from their salaries for the purchase of , bonds wil lamount to nearly $3,000 a month in actual money deductions. Glenn pointed out. Almost half of the carpenters agreed to buy four S2S Bonds a month, tne rest oio nearly as well. How much of this performance was inspired by the saga of the bond-huvin Howards It was Impossible to determine, much of.lt undoubtedly was, much was Just as surely spontaneous. ; Outstanding .among the-, men who needed no one's example to spark them was John W. Birmingham, who had some time ago started bond buying in a big way. The amount of his Advises Against Quick New Jobs Misunderstanding Of Order Causing Many To Leave Necessary Jobs PLENTY OFT LEFT Thousands of North Carolina work ers during the past week have left their Joiw in many cases jobs in es sential industry in a rush for the shipyards and aircraft plants, Gertrude K. Clinton, state director of the Unl- ted States employment service, said , today. The migration followed the recent warning of War Man Power Commis sion Chairman McNutt that married men 18 to 38 in certain nonessential Industries and occupations face the draft unless they transferred to es sential work. "The trouble is," Mrs. Clinton said, "that these workers either failed to read what Mr. McNutt said, or failed to understand It." "In the vast majority of cases, these workers who are moving already were employed In essential Industries. "Mr. McNutt's order," she explained, "applied only to 29 occupations and employes of 36 kinds of businesses. And even in the cases of these non deferrable businesses and occupations, draft registrants have until April 1 to register with the United States em ployment service, and until May 1 to transfer from nondeferable work to essential industry." Mrs. Clinton, after a conference with officials of state selective service headquarters and representatives of the war man power commission, offer ed three suggestions to workers: 1. Don't shift to a new job unless you are sure you are in a nondeferra- ble occupation. If you -are in doubt, ask your employment service office or your local draft board. If you are not In one of the nondeferrable occu pations, the chances are you are mere valuable to the war effort and there fore less likely to be drafted right where you are. 2. Don't shift without registering with your employment service office. That office not only knows where the Jobs are; it also knows about housing con ditions. 3. Keep your head. There is plenty of time, even for the man in a non- deferrable occupation. And if you are in an occupation that you think may be added to the nondeferrable list later, you'll have plenty of notice in the newspapers and On the radio.,. Tne Tremenaous smnr mat nas- ioi- lowed the McNutt order threatens to upset 'the entire man-power situation in the state, Mrs. Clinton said. Thou sands have registered for new Jobs at the employment offices in the state 800 in Charlotte in a single day and other thousands have rushed direct to the war plants. "What people seem to forget is that food and clothing are esesntial as well as ships and aircraft," she said, and quoted the selective service as saying that not one man in a thou sand would improve his deferment chances by moving from the farm to a shipyard. "The reason is that foot! is essential as well as ships, and the man on the farm knows how to pro duce food but usually he has no idea of how to build ships. There has been an especial rush of married men with children from cot ton mills to the ship and aircraft cen ters, Mrs. Clinton said, in many cases from cotton mills employed chiefly or entirely on war contracts "which certainly is essential work." "Married men with children in tne nondeferrable occupations must trans fer to war industry," she concluded, "but they have more than two months in which to do it. In most cases, men in other occupations and businesses will best serve their own interests and their country by staying where they are." CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH ITEMS Friday night-at 7:30 in Phlfer Hall of Central Methodist church the young people of the church will hold a Val entine party. The party is to be spon sored by the Wesleyan Service Guild, of which Miss Dorothy Plyler Is presi dent. Members of the young people's department and the Guild are all in vited. Soldiers are especially Invited as special guests. Mrs. S. C. Duncan will be the guest speaker at the meeting of the Youth Fellowship of the Church Sunday eve ning at 6:15. Mrs. Duncan will give a review of Lloyd C. Douglas's latest book, The Robe. The young g people of the church are delighted to have Mrs. Duncan review this book, and they are glad to invite others besides young people to hear Mrs. Duncan's discus sion of this interesting book. Come and bring a friend t The Methodist Youth Fellowship of union county held its February meet' lng in Central Methodist church Mon day night. Methodist churches from over the county were represented at the meeting, Hubert Starnes of Prospect Metno- dist church was elected president of the Fellowship, -to complete tne un expired term of Mrs. Jesse Mas Clonts, who resigned in January to go wiw her husband who is in the service. Miss Betsy Lee of Central Church, Monroe, was chosen vice-president at the Monday night meeting. McNutt calls for 65,000. women In year for nurses training. earnings now . going into financing Axis ruin has reached the astounding total of 93.4 percent, mors than which vea Lieutenant Hensley ana ?. Glenn i could hardly bops Tor. . Bir mingham is a Monroe resident and has been working in the Area En s-lneert department ..for several months. CHANGING TIMES There is an old adage that runs something like this: "Times change and we change with the times." This statement was never more true than it is today. To assist in keeping up with the many changes now confronting us, you should read your local newspaper, ft is a medium by which you can keep yourself informed in this section of some of these changes what is be ing rationed and the expira tion dates of ration coupons. Your local paper also tells you what you want to know about the people you know. WPB says that a second cut on print paper will be come effective April 1st. This means that papers can only be sent to subscribers whose subscriptions are paid in advance. Look at the label on your paper. If it reads HFeb43 it means your subscription expires with this issue. We want to continue sending you The Enquirer. How ever conditions require us to discontinue sending it to those in arrears. Your renewal now will be appreciated and your won't miss a copy. If you wish you may mail in your renewal. C. L Gulledge Dies Suddenly In Store Just as The Enquirer goes to press news comes that Charles L. Gulledge dropped dead at 6 o'clock this afternoon of a heart attack while in Be Ik Brothers store in Monroe. Mr. Gulledge is survived by his widow; four sons, Emmett, Her man and Ben Gulledge of Monroe and Lee Gulledge of Mint Hill, and three daughters, Mrs. Beid Mc Geeb.ee of Marshville and Misses Dale and Lucy Gulledge, teach-, .in state, schools. Funeral arrangements' have hot" been made as The Enquirer goes to press. MRS. TEALIE BAUCOM MEDLIN On Sunday, January the 24th at 6:15 p. m., the death angel visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Helms and claimed Mrs. Helms' mother, Mrs. Tea lie Baucom Medlin, who had been making her home with her daughter and family for the past five years, since the death of her husband, Luther Medlin, who died January 13, 1938. She Is survived by two children, Mrs. Elmer Helms of near Unionville and a son, Charlie Medlin of Conocord and six grandchildren, Martin Helms of Charlotte, Mrs. Nannie Pressley. Mrs. Dessie Furr, Mrs. Irene Buff all of Concord and Mrs. Lela Reed of Norfolk, Va., and Miss Addle Bell Lit tle of Union county and six great grandchildren, four sisters and one brother survive. The brother, W. S. Baucom, Mrs. H. F. G. Tomberlin, Mrs. F. B. Poplin, Mrs. John Sutton, Mrs. Gus Kiker all of this county. MRS. B. M. HOWARD Mrs. Ben M. Howard, 65-year-old resident of R2, Marshville, and well- known In this county, died at her home at 6 o'clock Friday morning aft er an illness of several weeks. Funer al rites were conducted at the home Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with Rev. John Blalock officiating, and burial was in the cemetery at Pleasant Hill Baptist church in Union county. Mrs. Howard was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Billie Edwards of Union county. In addition to her husband she is survived by nine daughters, two sons and a stepson, these being as follows: Mrs. J. C. Brooks and Mrs. C. A. Poplin of Oak boro; Mrs. D. S. Baucom of Polk ton; Mrs. J. A., Cox and Mrs. Marion Brad- shaw, Thomasville; Mrs. H. J. Napier, Marshville; Mrs. O. C. Stegall, Marsh ville; Mrs. B. S. Baucom of K anna polls; Miss Louisa Howard of the home; U. C. and D. A. Howard of High Point; H. M. Howard of Arkan sas and M. L. Howard of Oakboro. Two brothers also survive, these be ing J. A. and Brack Edwards of Polkton. ALVIA KENNETH WILLIAMS The death angel visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Loyd Williams on Saturday morning, February 6, 1943, and took away their precious baoy Alvla 'Kenneth. He lacked four days being nine months old. He had whoop ing cough and pneumonia and de veloped meningitis before he died. He leaves to morn his loss his par ents and five brothers and one sister, Oren Lee, Hoyle, Leamon, Jlmmle Wayne, Aubrey Gene and Kathleen and his grandparents C. A. Hyatt and Mrs. L. W. Williams. Funeral was conducted at Antioch Baptist church Sunday at one o'clock by the pastor, Rev. Mr. Botan. Burial was in the cemetery. Harris-Wells funeral home was in charge. ' HUGH A. MXAUSIN Hugh A. McLaurin, 6T, died at his hime in Chariots last night after an illness of about two years. Mr. McLaurin had lived In Char lotte since 1811 and had been with the Belk Stores company for almost 23 years, serving first as chief - auditor and later handling the tax work of the company. : He went to Charlotte from Oainesvnie.-Ga, where he was agent tor the Southern Railway Sys tem He is survived by Mrs. McLaurin, 7,01 uosmgs Are Streamlined Superintendent Broome Says Sermons And Addresses To Be Eliminated TO BE ONLY ONE DAY Rural school commencements will be streamlined to the ultimate in Union county this year, according to Super intendent K. H. Broome, of tne county system. And as for such scnooi ena approach events as tne colonui ana happy junior-senior banquets well, there just won't be any, but some of the schools will have basket picnics. There will be school breakings, but they will not be the usual community gatherings, it is already apparent, said Mr. Broome. Superintendent Broome stated today that he had been informed by ration ing officials that the essential driving regulations will permit only the grad uates and their parents the privilege of riding in motor vehicles to the graduating exercises. No gasoline may be properly used, it was pointed out, by students or oth ers in driving to rehearsals for any commencement or other special school entertainment programs. This is ex pected to eliminate many of the class plays or other dramatic events that are traditional parts of school closing programs. In most schools of the county sys tem there is usually a series of events covering from two to four or five nights, with maybe a day-time program here and there. It has also been customary to have a baccalau reate address and exercise on a differ ent date from the graduation, usually on the previous Sunday. These have been eliminated. However, Mr. Broome said that school officials have worked out a plan whereby the entire end-of-school pro grams can be condensed into one day. Already, said Mr. Broome, a few of the rural Parent-Teacher groups have deferred holding any meeetings since the non-essential driving restrictions for the sixteen eastern seaboard states were made effective several weeks ago. Earlier in the term, others had but the number of meetings in half in order to save tires and gasoline. The superintendent is communicating the ruling on Parent-Teacher meetings to school and P.T. A officials over 'the county, but, frankly, he Sees no way of carrying on with any mors meetings this jreav . " ' - Jrot ny of the county scnooia ,ny ol nil un SlWwrtMASMSimifl close April 13th. Some have surmized close April 13th. Some have surmised that driving restrictions might be eased with the approach of spring and warmer weather, making less fuel oil necessary for heating purposes. But Washington officials have agreed the past week that no easing up is in sight. In fact, they see Increasingly heavy shipments of fuel overseas to help deliver the knockout blow for Hitler and Mussolini planned by the United Nations military chieftains at Casablanca. Mr. Broome states that it became necessary on January 29th to send the county gasoline trucks to Midland for gas, as none could be had in Union county nor in Charleotte, which shows something of the serious situation. Of. course, there will be no basketball tournament this year. 61 COLORED MEN LEAVE FOR CAMP IN FEBRUARY Selective Service Boards Furnish The Names Of Tnose Dho Go. The two Selective Service boards In Monroe furnish a list of 61 colored men who are to leave Monroe some time in February for camp to be in ducted into the military service of the United States: Local Board No. 1 Oscar Lee Giv- ens, Masselon Auston Guin, Dudley Lee Brooks, Robert Foster McCauley, Willie Thomas Craig, Richard Eugene Henighan, Willie Ernest Vinson, Prin tess Greene, Detroy Richardson, Douf fer Funderburk, Fred Wallace Thomp son, Coleman Thompson, William Blakeley, Osle James Cunningham, John Emmon Baker, Willie James Mc Donald, Walter Porter, Jr., Hosea Mor rison, Robert Lee Morrow, Seatch Mil ler, Grady Sullivan, Roscoe Coving ton, Daniel Evans McCain, Sylvester Gannon, Daniel Junior Blount, Robert Baxter Houston, William Morris, Rob ert Grier Dunn, Edgar Led better, De ren Little. Local Board No. 3 Paul Jenkins, Heath Smith, Pelgia Lee Galther, Charlie Jones, Willie Moore, Henry Winfield, Lonnle Lotharp, Tomie Rush, Woodrow Wilson Blakeney, Abraham McKeyton, Jack Leroy Taylor, Lonnle Marsh, Quenton Chambers, Kelly C. Belk, Sam Ingram, Jr., George Edward Crowder, .Paul Blakney, Roy West? Lotharp, Lee Roy Huntley, Howard Huntley (Transfer), Jones McConnte Williams, Roy Lee Banner, Therlow Huntley, Parnell Byrams, Olin Pur lelse Knox, Joe Henry Brewer, Bobble Lee .Marsh, Samuel Smith, Jewel Mor- ny. three sisters and tour brothers. At last reports funeral arrangements had not oeen made, : - . j , WILLIAM & TYSON -William B. Tyson. 7L died at his home near Monroe at 1:45 o'clock this morning, after a serious illness of three weeks. --.' Funeral will be held at II o'clock a. m. tomorrow (Friday) conducted by Rev. Dan Grant, in Salem Baptist church and interment will be In the church cemetery. - . - -- Surviving are his widow, the former Miss EUa Marsh; three daughters, Mrs. Falrley Watktna, Miss Ruth Tyson and Miss Kathleen Tyson of the coun ty; six sons, Oscar Tyson of Erwin. N. C, Leo, George, J. D. and Robert Tyson of the county, and Frank Tyson of Fort Bragg. . ' ..
The Monroe Journal (Monroe, N.C.)
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