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NTY NUMBER 8 TRENTON, N. C„ THURSD, VOLUME XX I?-; "’^1 e7 \ <1 M ■ '• Hi 1 1 i v - m #1 Postal Workers Wade Through Mail The TVenton postal workers have diligently workfd to sup ply the citizens of their area with a fast and efficient postal ser , vice. ( Mrs. James W. Collier, the acting postmaster, states that thevolpme of mail handled in the Trenton office is the largest in the county mainly because Trenton is the county seat. Also having the federal offices adds many more letters to the volume of mail handled hy the Trenfton postal clerks. Mrs. Collier was appointed acting postmaster fol .. ir ii Mrs. Jama* Collier 'tends h the business of running the post of fice. ■Rajpws.^ ' mmmmm Mrs. Elridge Sumrell, experienc ed postal worker, greats every one with a friendly smile and fast service. lowing the death of Postmaster Marvin W. Thomas in Novem ber. The two clerks, Mis. Elridge Sumrell and Mrs. Agnes Huggins, handle an estimated 3,000 pieces of outgoing mail per month. The second class post office moved into the new Federal Building about a year ago. MrsvElridge Sumrell and Mrs. Agnes Hufegins have had years of experience in the postal ser vice. Mrs. Sumrell has been [working with the Trenton Post Office since 1941, while Mrs. Few Arrest in Jones During Week Johnny 'Taylor Jr. of Mays ville was arrested during the past week fojf, being publicly drunk. Harvey Allen Gaitier and Archie Roland Gray, both of Kinston were arrested for driv ing under the influence. Huggins now makes plans for re tirement after 32 years of serv ice as a postal worker. The JONES JOURNAL would like to extend its congratulations to the hard working postal staff. Mrs. Agnes Huggins, with 32 years of experience, is an expert at posting mail. j Polly Larkin's Husband Named Dean East Carolina School of Business William Lowery Recieves Masters Wilson Lowery, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Lowery of Tren ton, N. C., was among the forty one University of North Caro lina graduates receiving Masters degrees in Business Administra tion. Mr. Lowery was a 1962 graduate of Jones Central High School, and he recieved his Bachelor’s degree from the Uni versity of North Carolina in 1966. As an undergraduate, Mr. Low ery was initiated in Phi Beta Kappa and Beta Gamma Sigma honor societies. He was also rec ognized as being one of the top five men in his graduate school class. Mr. Lowery is planning to pursue a business career with the International Business Ma chines Corportion. MITCHELL IN VIET NAM , Private First Class Albert A.! Mitchell Jr., whose parents live on Route 2, Trenton, was as- i signed May 22 to the 1st Caval-1 ry Division in Vietnam. East Carolina University- an nounced today the appointment of Dr. James H. Bearden as dean of its School of Business. Dr. Bearden, assistant dean for administration and development since last October, will assume his new position,Sept. 1 as Dr. Elmer & browning, the outgoing dean, takes a new post at Mar shall University. ECU President Leo W. Jen kins, commenting on Dr. Beard en’s appointment, said: “I am very enthusiastic about Dr. Bearden’s . potential in this capacity. He is. very close to the business community and also very knowledgable in the aca demic world of business and business theory.” Dr. Bearden joined the busi ness faculty in 1959 and has di rected the school’s Bureau of Business Research since 1964. He is the author of a college textbook on personal selling, published in 1967 and adopted for use at ECU. He is 34. The pew dean, a native of Mario, Alabama, holds a BS de gree from Centenary College of Shreveport, La., an MA from East Carolina and a PhD in marketing and economics from the University of Alabama. Dr. Bearden is married to the former Pauline Larkins of Tren ton, daughter of District Court Judge and Mrs. John D. Larkins of Trenton. The Beardens have two children and make their home in Greenville at 106 Crown Point Road. DIVORCED Lillie Bill Cox was granted a divorce from Floyd Cox on the grounds of one year of sep aration. Vietnam veteran Recalls Experiences Hell is Not Strong Enough W ord for V ie tnamese W ar Pittard Says editors Note: The following ar ticle by f r*nk Pittard represents about as close to a first-hand ac count df the-Vietnamese War as one can get. Pittard left Vietnam June )Q after serving in com bat zones for 12 months. He re turned^ his job with this pap er this week, and we asked him to put down in -his own words some of his impressions and ob servations. We commend it seri ously to the thoughtful - reader because it includes much that all of-us should be-giving our most careful attention to in this flection year. - By FranlrPittard You have tb live through a year'in hell — Viet Nani — to know „ what it’s like,: but even thipvBM you; get home, s$£e an&| aound§ it all seems -Hke a distant, unreal dream. And the » ords never come that say just what war, “1968 style,-” is-like-. 1 You have to see a buddy "with his insides ripped out, and feel the closeness of death, before war and its hell sinks, into you and'it’s a feeling that can nev er be totally recalled; maybe that's, for the best. One year of misery. A year spent in mud, rain and about anything else nature can send your way. Imagine you are awake in a ^shallow hole; you are wet, it’s raining and the wind, is Mowing, and there is someone out there who is going to kin you If you get careless. That’s a GI for 365 of the most miserable days on earth. ... !heu needs to-come up with a quote a lit If .the are, at least one third never bo ther. If a scorpion bites you; all anyone can do is watch you suffer, but it usually isn’t fatal — you just think you’ll die. And you can’t forget the dogs — most units have one. We had one, he came down with rabies and several of us guys had to suffer through those painful rabies shots. But Charlie’s your no. I head ache — he’s a thorough little soldier. He’ll kill you a dozen different ways; but usually he’s after your-guts in just a few ways; with a- mortar, booby traps or a rocket. He doesn’t liken to fight close in, and he won’t let you see him often. But he’s there — and, especially up around the 1>MZ, he has lots of buddies. Being with the 1st Air Caval ry, I was involved in most of the big operations — Khe Sahn, Hue, A-Shau Valley, Quang Tri, and where ever we ran into him, I was always impressed by two facts; (1) How Tough he was, and (2) How tough and vicious a GI is after he’s been shot at for a while, harassed, and Ijved with jhell. He’s blood thirsty, and the best soldier on earth. Nev er forget that: But Charlie is good at his sneaky war. And he’s supported by 99 per cent of the people, have no .'doubt about that. Re member he’s Vietnamese just like all the natives and we’re the oustsiders. So he can hit us at night Tjr and be a farmer, knee deep in his rice paddy by day. He .can never win the war that way. But a lot of good guys won’t come home and. we’ll nev er win either. Just no krsy un we kill eve child there ■inEflii fctl a . W. • man, woman [we are per fectly capable of doing that. So he puts out his traps by night and we look for him by day and send out our killer teams and ambush squads at night. He’s not as smart all the time as he should be — like the night he mortared us but made the mistake of setting up his mortars where we could see them — we gathered up the re mains of their bodies at day break. But sometimes he’s ingenous —like timing a mortar and rock et attack to go at exactly the moment satchel charges placed in our ammo dump by infiltra tors exploded. The infiltrators were killed — but so were a couple fine American boys. > . He’s tcugh — you can shoot - ..him full of holes and he’ll live and never even bleed. We are killing a lot of his pals, at least 10 for our one. Our fire power gives Juan no chance. Combat, Viet Nam style is crue in so many ways. Sgt. Gary Fry, a real good friend in my unit from Southern Pines, was killed by a booby trap with only 2 days left in the field — or a corporal in a bunker, with not a scratch on him, but dead from a concussion — or many other great guys dead. I should be — but somone, somewhere wanted me to live. But so much for the combat side of the 365 days. Words can never do it Justice. Just who are we suppose to be defending? Certainly not the South Vietnamese; they could care less for us. They look at Americans as “money ma chines.” |1.0© and you get a Coke or beer. $10.00 and you lave a fifth of whisky. And dope, or pot as its called, is an .? v «, '.;y everyday item for sale any where. Mama-Son’s (women) sell for any price the GI wishes. These people in many regions are so primitive,, a soft-state side American cannot imagine. All the people, except for the rich few, live in straw, jungle type huts with the pigs and filth that accumulates. These are people whose value on life is nile, who exist 6ri a day to day basis and want no other life The children are beggars — all they know in English is “gim mie.” They want our money; and us out. A country where ev ery village has a “sin city,” and VD is high. There are exceptions — I once saw a mother carry her child, whose stomach had been blown open, 5 miles to a GI outpost for medical treatment. But that’s the exception. These people seem to care for nothing..We never could figure out what we were doing there — unless our only reason was to establish a U. S. military base in that area of the world. So much for a people who all put together are not worth one GI. The soldier has everything that money can possibly get to him. For the guys in the field, all the cigarets he needs are given him. We had 4 men who smoked in our section and they were given 10 cartons a week — needless to say, many were thrown or given away. Candy, shaving gear, all given to him; with at least 25 per cent thrown away. And I’ll bet there has never been a war where you shot at Cftarlie at night and had char coaled steaks next day. Flown to Continued on page 5 c :'v. ,c
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