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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-20
Parker News
BY ]. E. PARKER

The weather is the most press
ing problem. that effects this
mountain section at this time.
Continued low temperature and
rains have made farm work al
most impossible and most all
work on the farm is approximate
ly 80 days behind usual schedule.
A drop in the temperature to II
above zero the fifth, probably
damaged the fruit crop and made
a temperature record for April
for the past rs years.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. L. Parker and
daughters, Joan and Walda, of
Hickory, visited home folks last
week, returning home Wednes-
day. He is employed by the Hic-
kory Packing Company.
A dispatch Friday informed this
writer that his brother, T. G.
Parker, II, died rather suddenly
at his home at Pikeville, KY, the
18th, from the effect of a stroke
of paralysis the 10th. With the
exception of occasional visits here
he had been away from this To-
cality for the past As years. Going
to Pikeville 40 years ago he en-
gagged in successful merchan-
tile career and by personally con-
Quoting the business, made fl
nancial success and only retired
from the business about two
months previous to his death. He
leaves wife, two daughters, two
brothers, w. L. of Mountain City,
Tenn, and this scribe; also sever
al grandchildren.
The recent cold wave has, no
doubt, damaged the early sown
tobacco plants but it is not believ-
ed that beds sown late have been
damaged.
Oscar Wilson, of Trade, of the
Sutherland community, passed
here Saturday en- route home from
his farm at Hemlock.
N. S. Woodland has returned to
Newport News, Va, to resume
work on the shipyards.
A recent letter to his parents,
M. F. and Mrs. Parker, Corp. Ben
F. Parker seems to be enjoying
life in India, where he is station
ed.
Planting of beans this year will
be far above normal and should
there be good season, all records
for this locality will be broken.
Considering the labor shortage
that will inevitably exist the
greatest effort ever made to pro-
duce food and Their farm products
is contemplated by the farmers of
this section.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-20
Crunpler News

Rev. Herbert Caldwell filled his
regular appointment at the New
River Baptist church last Satur-
day and Sunday with large at
tendance.
Rev. Paul Phipps delivered an
interesting sermon at the Healing
Springs Baptist church on Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Shepherd
and daughter, Elizabeth, and Mr.
Fred Graham, of Newport, visited
Mr.. and Mrs. M. Gaultney and
Mr.. and Mrs. A. F. Rogers, Sun
day.
Mrs. BERTHE Phipps visited Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Barton, this week
Mr.. Joe Parsons and son, OF
Virginia. visited Mr.. Jones Phipps
last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. B. Gaultney and
son, Bryant, visited Mr.. and Mrs
James Pollard, Sunday afternoon
Mrs. Alice Deboard, who has
been ill for some time, at the
Ashe hospital, has returned home
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-20
Personals

Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Mash and
children visited Mrs. Mash's pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. Edd Miller,
of Glendale Springs, Sunday.
Mrs. Larry Lyall and son, John,
are visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. H. Miller, of Jefferson.
Misses Ruth Tugman and Fran
els Tucker attended a welfare
meeting in Raleigh, yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. L. Kiser and
two children, of Jefferson City,
Tenn, arrived here last week to
visit relatives. Mr.. Kiser left on
Monday, but Mrs. Kiser and chill
dren plan to remain here for sew
eral days.
Miss Mary Dell Liddle, of 9th
clio, has accepted position with
the Western Electric Laboratory,
in Baltimore, Md.
Mrs. Carl Miller, formerly OF
this county, entertained several
guests at a birthday dinner last
week at her home at Kannapolis.
Guests were Misses Bessie and
Lucy Sturgill, Miss Patricia Mil
Ter, Miss Ann Moss, Mrs. Emory
Jordan and Master Ronald Jordan.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-20
Crumpler Woman
Gets Penicillin
Mrs. Worth Miller, Critically
Ill In Hospital, Given
Rare Medicine

The life of an Ashe County
woman possibly was saved at the
Baptist Hospital, Winston-Salem,
last week, when Army authorities
at Greensboro and Winston-Salem
teamed to fill and deliver a rush
order for penicillin despite an ac-
cident that injured three of the
occupants of the Office of Flying
Safety staff car.
The patient, Mrs. Doris Miller,
of Crumpler, wife of w. B. Miller,
contracted staphylococcus pneu-
monia Monday after she was taken
there for surgery. She was in a
very serious condition, and when
she failed to respond to usual
treatments physicians decided to
administer penicillin, the new
wonder drug" which had already
been given there in several other
cases.
But to get penicillin through
the normal procedure, calling doc
tors on the government committee
controlling the drug in Boston to
obtain their approval, and then
having the shipment made by air
mail would have taken from "a to
48 hours.
So after getting authorization
from Boston for an order of the
drug, physicians contacted the
nearest Army medical officer,
controlling a supply of penicillin,
at Greensboro, and borrowed the
drug for administration to Mrs
Miller.
The office of Flying Safety
which at that time had staff car
agreed to deliver the order
Speeding to Winston-Salem, the
car skidded just outside of the city
limits, overturning, and injuring
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-20
Sexton Is Given
His Commission

Aviation Cadet Richard War
rem Sexton, son of Mr.. and Mrs
Buford A. Sexton, of Lansing, was
recently commissioned a Second
Lieutenant in the Army Air Fore
es at Turner Field, Albany, Ga,
Colonel John B. Patrick, Com
handing Officer.
Turner Field, an Army Air
Forces Pilot School, (advanced
two-engine) is one of group OF
Air Bases, which composes the
Army Air Forces Eastern Flying
Training Center. 1t is here that
Aviation Cadets are sent for their
final phase of training which Gull
inmates in their receiving their
much coveted wings and commits
sion as Second Lieutenant in the
Army Air Forces.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-20

! Mr.. and Mrs. L. l.. Snat1ey, OF
Jefferson, had as dinner guests,
Sunday, Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. With
erspoon, Misses Lula and Leona
Marsh, Ilene Dixon, Wilma and
Alma Grace .Witherspoon.
Miss Gladys Shatley, of Wins
ton-Salem, is spending this week
with her parents, at Jefferson.
Zeb Witherspoon, Jr., has re-
turned home from the Ashe hos
pital, where he received treatment
for an injured ankle received in
a bicycle accident, Sunday.
Mr.. Dewey Sells has been indis-
posed at his home here this week.
Mrs. Lane and daughter, Susie,
are visiting the formers parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. E. R. Sturdivant.
Mrs. Reid Sturdivant has re-
turned from the Wilkes hospital,
where she has been undergoing
treatment.
Mrs. Dewey Sells and Miss Hell
en- Sells spent the past week end
in Winston-Salem.
Miss Edith Pierce has returned
from a visit to Portland, Maine,
with Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Mcneil.
Mrs. Mcneil, who will be re-
1membered as Miss Carrie Taylor,
returned home with Miss Pierce
for short visit.
Bradley Goodman, OF WEIGH, W.
Va, visited relatives in the coun-
ty, on Tuesday.
Mrs. Ralph Barker, of West JET
ferson, who has been visiting her
husband at Camp Shelby Miss,
for several days, has returned
home.
Eugene Miller, of Laurel Bloom
cry, Tenn, visited his parents,
Rev. and Mrs. Finley Miller, OF
Milan, last week.
Miss Johnsie Parsons, who has
been employed at Duluth, Mimi.
for some time has returned home
Miss Phyllis Sharpe, of Char
lotte, and Mr.. and Mrs. GWyn
Graham and little daughter, Sally
of Bakersville, spent the Easter
holidays with their parents, DR.
and Mrs. A. C. Sharpe, of Creston
Mrs. Powell, and two daughters
are visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Todd.
Mrs. Venie Hardy, of Pulaski
Va, spent Sunday night with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Stanley.
Dinner guests Of Mr.. and Mrs
Robt. Stanley, Wagner, Sunday,
were Mr.. and Mrs. E. o. Woodie,
and daughter, Jackie, West Jeffer-
son, Mr.. and Mrs. D. L. Doven-
barger, Mrs. Evezetta Good, and
Mrs. Venie Hardy, Of Pulaski, Va,
Misses Hazel Black and Ruth
Stanley, of Glendale Springs.
Mrs. Bill Harvey, and children,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Burl Waddell,
of Knoxville, Tenn, are visiting
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. E. A.
Waddell, Of jefferson, this week.
Mr.. Waddell has been i'll at the
Ashe hospital fer the past two
weeks.
Mrs. Fred Ray visited friends
here and at Jefferson, Saturday
Mrs. Ira T. Johnston is visiting
her mother and other relatives,
at Vale Crusis, this week.
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three occupants.
A quick check, however, dis
closed that the pencillin was safe
and a second car was sent i'm
mediately to rush it to the Hos
pital.
Late reports on Mrs. Miller's
condition show that she is i'm
proving.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-20
Classified Ads

WANTED-Pasture for the sea-
son for Is to 20 COWS. Prefer
boundary accessible to highway.
Write box IS, West Jefferson, or
see Joe F. Neal. 4-20-1tp
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CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank our many
friends for kindness and help dur
ing the illness and death of our
father, J. H. Ashley. Also for the
beautiful flowers.
The Children
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-20

atives at Creston over the week
end.
Mrs. H. N. Walker and daugh-
tiers returned to their home at
Whitetop, Va, after spending sew
eral days in the community.
Miss Edna Phillips spent Sun
day afternoon with Miss Iris Par
sons.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-20
BIRTH ANNOUNCED

Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Hurley
are the proud parents of a son,
Thomas Lane, born at the Ashe
hospital, April IL.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-20

Misses Jennie Clyde Worth and
Colleen Little, and Mr.. Hal Col
ward, were in North Wilkesboro,
on Saturday.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-20

Money spent for War Bonds goes
to the front. Sometimes it provides
spectacular equipment like planes,
oft times it buys a runty donkey
like this American soldier is taking
ashore in, Italy. The quicker your
dollars 60 into action, the sooner it
viii be over. Buy More War Bonds.
u. S. Treasury Department
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-22
Clifford Russell

ARMADA - Clifford Russell,
aged %, passed away suddenly
at his home last Sunday morn
ing.
He was born in Port Huron,
the son of Carson and Ethel Rus
sell. They moved to Armada
when he was a small boy. Cliff
ford attended the Armada public
school, graduating in 1894.
In 1886, he married Ger
trude Moore, Of Armada. To this
union two daughters were born,
Donna Jean and Patricia Ann.
He had been employed at Cont
mental Motors, Detroit.
Funeral services were held at
the home at 1857 West street,
Armada, Tuesday at 2 pm. Rev.
John Adams. officiating.
Surviving is his widow, Ger
trude; two daughters. Donna
Jean and Patricia Ann, his
mother, Mrs. Ethel Carson, and
a host of friends.
Burial was in Willow Grove
cemetery, Armada, with funeral
arrangements in charge of Tiff
fanny funeral home.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-22
Elmer LuchtlIlUii

Funeral services will be held
Thursday afternoon from the
home at 1929 Griggs avenue,
Detroit, for Elmer Luchtman,
age AZ, who died Monday at his
Detroit home. Mr.. Luchtman is
well-known locally and in Wal
denburg, where the Luchtman
family has resided for many
years. He had been ill for sew
eral months before his death.
Mr.. Luchtman is the son of the
late John Luchtman, and his
step mother. He attended
schools in Mount Clemens.
In addition to his step-mother,
he is survived by three sisters,
Mrs. Theodore Gastmeier of
Mount Clemens, Mrs. Mabel
Park, Mrs. Carl Hannah, both
of Detroit; two brothers, Flight
Officer John Luchtman Of Las
Vegas, New, and Aviation Cadet
Carl Luchtman of California.
Rev. c. l.. Kemp of the Faith
Lutheran church, Outer drive,
Detroit, will officiate at the
funeral services. Burial will be
in Clinton Grove cemetery.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-22

bills Tavern" on Broadway.
of which Kursteiner was so
proud, was placed in charge of
his wife when he entered the
army. She managed ii up 20
the time of her death, and now.
without power of attorney or
other legal sanction. Kurstein-
er's brother. Ernest, is endeav-
oring to keep the establishment
running for the sake of Bill"
and Sandra.
Ernest Kursteiner finds this
situation trying. He is a FORE
man in Seattle shipyard work
ing on War contracts and came
here on the occasion of his
sister-in-laws death. He OBJ
tanned temporary leave which
has been repeatedly extended by
shipyard officials, but his con-
tinued absence places him in
jeopardy not only with the ship
yard but with the War Man
power Commission and his Sc
lective Service Board. -
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-22
piqued Air Force
Gusts Reporters

NEW YORK, Aug. 22-(P-
Three American war CORE
spondents and one artist accred-
tied to the Ninth Air Force in
France have been ordered out of
that theater of war apparently
because their work has not mea-
sured up to standards set by
publicity minded Ninth Air
Force officers in the higher
ranks" the New York Herald
Tribune said today in a copy
righted dispatch.
The correspondents were
Stanley Frank of the New York
Post, Gordon Gammack of the
Des Moines Register and Lee
McCardell of the Baltimore Sun,
and John Groth, artist for Par
ade.
"The order is the aftermath
of long series of threats in
dulged in by certain Public Re-
lations officers of the Air
Force" Herald Tribune Core
spondent Jack TAFT wrote. Cor
respond ,nts have been told that
they must confine the bulk of
their activities to coverage of
Ninth Air Force News. 1SoG
who did not, it was made clear,
would have to seek reassign-
ment elsewhere"
The order was signed by Col.
Robert Parham, in charge of the
Air Forces public relations, and
contained no explanation for the
action, the newspaper said.
The War Department at
Washington said it had received
no information concerning the
correspondents.
Taits account added:
"We, at first, were inclined
to treat the threats made against
some of the correspondents here
as a joke. 1t seemed inconceiv-
able that one group engaged in
this war would consider public
ity for itself more precious than
giving the United States the
story of this war, whether it be
the air story, the ground story
or a combination of both"
The Sun said McCardell was
with Bede Irwin, Associated
Press photographer, when the
latter was killed by fragment
from an American bomb which
fell short of its objective.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-22
Soldier Still Writes Long Dead Wife

in England August 6. In it and
preceding letters addressed to
his wife he asks why he has
heard no news from home. The
ANONYMITY of an APO. address
cloaks his actual whereabouts.
AS near as the Kursteiner
family can gather from Bills"
irregular letters, he was sent
from base in England to
France where he was wounded
and placed in a French hospital.
His unit moved on and his mail
apparently followed it. BY the
time the soldiers French hos
pital address had been substi-
tuted for his normal address,
Kursteiner was sent to England.
apparently TO another hospital,
He wrote later indicating he had
left that hospital and was
attached to different unit-yet
his mail, including cables and
kilograms, failed to catch up
with him.
ON HIGH SEAS
When Mrs. Kursteiner died
June 81 after brief illness. Pvt.
Kursteiner was on convoy
bound for England. All records
Of the army unit were sealed.
and his outfit was "lost" for two
weeks after arrival in England.
BY the time Kursteiner's first
overseas address was sent here
by him, and a swift reply sent
by cable, he was in France.
County Red Cross officials
point to a record list of commun-
icationS sent in an effort TO
notify Kursteiner of his wife's
death. They also obtained the
aid of national headquarters in
steiners' domestic affairs are
st. Louis, Mo.
In the meantime, the Kur-
sadly jumbled. The daughter,
Sandra, motherless at seven, is
being cared for by Olive Kur-
steiner's mother. Mrs. A. B.
Allen. Five-year-old Marlene
Simms, motherless daughter of
Mrs. Kursteiner's brother Marv-
in (now in the South Pacific)
had been ward of BILL" and
Olive Kursteiner, and almost
like their own child. She is also
being cared for by Mrs. Allen.
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Obituaries

when they left the farm 10 make
their home in Mount Clemens.
Mr.. Eschenburg was active in
the affairs of the Township serv-
ing in various offices.
He Is survived by his wife,
Lena Grewe Eschenburg; four
daughters. Mrs. Clarence Mil
Ter of Richmond, Mrs. Leslie
Miller Of Mount Clemens. Mrs.
Edwin Tom of Detroit and Mrs.
Walter Selk Of Mount Clemens.
Also surviving are nine grand
children, seven sisters, Mrs.
Charles Frendt, Mrs. Albert
Do!>,, Mrs. Lilly Stark, Mrs.
John Harms. Mrs. Eldon Kieh-
Ter, Mrs. Thomas Calhoun and
Mrs. Erwin Taepke; six brothers,
Henry, William, Carl, John,
Paul and Harry Eschenburg.
An only son, Clarence, passed
away on July z, l94l.
Services will be conducted
from the family home, Sc High
Street, Mount Clemens, on We'd
nesday, at l:50 p. m. and $50
o'clock at the Macomb Luther
an Church, of which Mr.. Eschen-
burg was a devoted and faith
full member. Rev. George Sc
bald will officiate, with burial
in the Clinton Grove Cemetery,
under the direction of E. A.
Schwarzkoff, Utica.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-22
Jops
Killed in
Morionos

u. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Aug
22-(P)-Japan's futile defense
of Guam, Saipan and Tinian cost
her 44,956 troops killed-10 to
l for American lives lost in this
bloodiest campaign of the Pa
cific war.
Adm. Chester w. Nimitz an
nounced the new total yester-
day in reporting new deaths in
continued mop-up operations on
the three captured Mariana Is
lands.
The Pacific fleet commander
also reported new bomber
strikes from the Kurile to the
Molucca Islands were without
aerial opposition. The raids in
cluded record blows at Halma-
hera and Boeroe Islands in the
Moluccas.
In fighting through Aug. II, a
total of 4,470 Yanks had fallen
to secure the captured Msrianas
Islands. A total of 20,345 Ameri-
can wounded and 721 missing
also was reported. Nimitz said
98l additional Japanese had
been killed on the three islands.
Clean up operations have con-
tinued since August 9.
Strong Liberator forces from
the Southwest Pacific smashed
ITO tons of bombs Sunday on
Halmahera, 800 miles south of
Mindanao. Warehouses were de-
molished, and large explosions
erupted.
Other Liberators the previous
day hit Namlea airdrome on
Boeroe, 200 miles southwest of
Halmahera, with 95 tons of
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-22

bombs. Eight grounded plans
were destroyed or damaged.
In additional raids in the
southwest, nine small japanese
freighters, transports and coas-
tai vessels were sunk or dam
aged, and 10 barges probably
destroyed. One of them was hit
off the southern Philippines.
Bombers from the central
Pacific's 7th Army Air Force
made their first raids on zap in
the western Carolines and Ala
magan in the Marianas Satur-
day. They also bombed Pagan,
where intense antiaircraft fire
was reported.
On the same day Navy Ven
turas bombed and strafed air.
fields on Paramushiro, in the
northern Kuriles.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-22
Dayton LuCrOir

Funeral services will be held
tomorrow at 3 p. m. from the
ID. N. Cooley Funeral home for
Dayton LaCroix, IS, who died
suddenly at his home in Detroit,
Sunday. Mr.. LaCroix was born
in Algonac and graduated from
Mount Clemens High School.
He is the son of William La
Croix, and the late Julie, who
lives at 20 Moross avenue,
Mount Clemens. He was en-
ployed at Detroit war manu-
featuring plant.
Besides his father he is sur
vived by sister, Mrs. Eloise
Langhout of Mount Clemens.
Rev. John L. Bearce of the st.
Clair Shores Baptist church will
officiate. Burial will be in
Warren cemetery.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-22
Infant Is ScaIded
by Boiling Water

UTICA - A 16-months-old
Utica girl is in st. Joseph Hos
pital, Mount Clemens, in seri-
Gus condition with burns on her
face and chest suffered when
she was scalded with boiling
water on Friday evening.
The child is Judith Kreps,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Rich
ard Kreps, of TIES Van Dyke,
near Utica. She was admitted
to the hospital at 8:45 p. m.
Hospital attaches said the
child was playing in the family
kitchen when accidentally
scalded by the water which boil
ed over on stove.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-22

Fred A. Eschenburg, a we'll
known and prominent resident
of Macomb County passed away
at the Henry Ford Hospital, De-
troit, late. Saturday night at the
age of IS years.
He was born in Germany.
When small child he came with
his parents to America where
the family settled on a farm in
Macomb county. He was one of
IA children and his was the first
death of the brothers and sis
tiers.
Following their marriage,
MIR. and Mr.. Echenburg settled
on a farm on the French road
in Macomb Township where
they lived until three years ago
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-22
Jackson Infant

r Funeral services were held
this afternoon at 2 o'clock for
the infant son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Jackson, 1913 N. Broadway,
Mount Clemens, who died short
ly after birth Sunday at the
Mount Clemens Maternity hos
pital.
Besides his parents he Is sur
vived by a brother, George. Flu
neral services were in charge of
D. N. Cooley Funeral home.
Burial was in Clinton Grove
cemetery.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-22

A doorless pre-fabricated
portable garage has been level
oped which permits entrance
and exit of automobiles by tilt
ing one end of the garage with
weights and pulleys.
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pronged French invasion front,
and the fact that Kursteiner was
apparently separated from his
unit on at least two occasions in
French and English hospitals.
are the principle reasons why
he has not been contacted, Red
Cross officials state.
His latest letter nome-and
all Of them add to the heart
break of his family-was dated