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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-12-06

Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Miller
and Mrs. Verna Church visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Reeves Church on
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-12-06

at Yokonola.
Pvt. Ernest Houck and family
visited his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Carr Houck this past week end.
The Valley settler., 1945-10-05
OCTOBER --5.--la45

NEWS ITEMS
 Mir. and Mrs. Archie stodler left by plane for the States on Friday of this we elk. They are returning to Mime ota. The Rev. 40. odegaard, Mir. and : Mrs. Oscar Beylund, and Lloyd Olson were entertained Sunday evening aftor services in the Ferdinand Weis gram hone.
 MEETING cF| THE CEMETERY COMMITTEE
 HELD ON THURSDAY
 another meeting of the represent atives Of vari ous organizati ons impr over1ent of the Cemetery was hel1 on Thursday evening.
 Ele ectton of officers took place Bill Bouwens Chairman Rev. Victor Alfsen Sec. & Treas. An Executive Comnt ttee was formed and plans were made for cleaning ID and stalking thacCemet cry. They plan to meet agai n week from Nonday in order to adopt the By Laws that are being drawn up by Ralph Noore, Don Irwin, Rev. Alfsen, and Francis Henry.
  If the word "lasting" appIi ed to |. peace doeSnIt mean any more than the word "7ermanent" for hair--we will soon be having, eGno ther war.
The Valley settler., 1945-10-05

If the word "lasting" appIi ed to peace doesnit mean any more than t word "7ermqnent" for, hair--we will soon be having slno ther war.
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ceived the Good Conduct Medal.

Checking vital cargo for his
army transportation corps port
company stationed on the English
south coat, Cpl Melvin L. Lopez,
"a, $40 w. Ash ST., Jackson, works
as cargo checker of the essential
supplies and equipment destined
for the continent.
He maintains records Of incom-
ing and outgoing shipments of sup
plies and equipment by listing the
number, weight, volume, quantity
and other identification data OF
each shipment as it arrives.
Before entering the army in
July, 1943, he was a student at
Touglaloo college. Cpl. Lopez was
recently promoted to his present
grade. He graduated from Lanier
high school. His fame was quite
established as a semi-professional
baseball player. His mother, Mrs
Mamie Lopez. lives in Raymond.
Technician 5th CIR. George Tillis
husband of Mrs Tuthie NJ Tillis
927 Hudson ST., Jackson. has serv-
ed for over two years overseas as
automotive mechanic win an en-
gineer regiment now at this South
Pacific base.
Before entering the army al
Camp Shelby in April, 194l, he was
employed by the A. j. Auto Re-
pair Shop, Jackson, in the same
sort of job to which the army has
assigned him. In January, 1943, af-
ter completing his basic training
at Camp Livingston, La, he left
the U. S. for overseas duty in the
South Pacific. At first he was sta
toned in New Caledonia, but few
months later he was sent te
Guadalcana1 He remained there
for fourteen months before return
ing to New Caledonia. BY keeping
his regimgents hundreds of trucks
in running order. Cpl. Tillis is
helping to complete in record time
the many construction jobs it has
undertaken at both South Pacific
bases.
Other Mississippi soldiers doing
their duty in the South Pacific are
Pfc. Nelson Kelker, son of Mrs
Bette Kelker of Utica, Rt box
$50, is serving with a quartermas-
ter service company at this base
His outfit handles incoming and
outgoing supplies.
Prior to his entry into the army
Pfc. Kelker was employed at the
Utica Stave Mill. He was indicted
into the army in September 1912
and received his basis training al
Camp Claiborne, La. Since being
overseas he has been awarded the
Good Conduct Meday for exemp-
larry behavior, efficiency and fidel-
ity as soldier of the U. S. Army
Together with the other mem
bers of his company, he is speed
ing victory by keeping the sup
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GERS, continuing to do the impos-
sible. called for supplies to be
dropped to them by parachute and
pushed on through the jungle.
During the monsoon period they
underwent untold hardships. The
average rainfall for this period
alone was ITS inches. This is more
than four times as much rain that
falls in the state of New York in
an entire year.
Everything was just one big mud
puddle. The engineers slept in wa
ter logged tents and jungle ham,
mocks or built bamboo shacks in
the quagmire.
Bulldozers weighing % tons slip
! ped in the .oozing mud and went
hurting off cliffs thousands OF
feet below. The hated purple leech-
es caused painful body sores and
malaria hit the men on all sides.
At one time, the lead company on
the road had 80 per cent of its men
hospitalied from malaria.
But, despite the impossible, the
Ledo road became an all weather
supply highway from India to
China, through towering jungled
mountains and across steaming
swamplands and rice paddles
lifeline to sustain the Chinese pee
pie in their battle against the Japs
The following construction data
gives a vivid picture of the amaz-
ing amount of work accomplished
in the tremendous project:
illrt The average of $4,000 cubic
yards of earth were moved for each
of the 1,044 miles completed With
this amount of earth it would be
possible to build solid wall three
feet wide and ten feet high in a
straight line from New York to
San Francisco.
Often it was necessary to carry
gravel as far at 80 miles and ii
would take a string of freight cars
extending from Washington, D. c..
| to Columbia, S. c., to haul all the
rgravel used on the road.
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Gainesville News
Rev. A. R. Thomas. Reporter

Rev. and Mrs. Wiley Jones mo-
tored to Crystal Springs Sunday,
March II, to attend the funeral of
Mrs. Jones aunt who passed away
a few days ago.
Mrs. Carrie Thomas and Mrs.
Halle Lackey were Sunday visitors
in the home of Maggie Thomas.
Mr. and Mrs Henry Bailey and
family were Sunday visitors in
Gatesville on March IL, visiting
their daughter-in-law, Mrs. Joanna
Bailey.
We are happy to say that the
new modern home of Mrs. Ether
lene Holman of this community is
completed and ready for USE Mess
rs Brent and Elree Brown, build
ers.
Mr.. Virgil Lackey made a short
visit in the home of Mr.. Louis
Skiffer Sunday on business.
We are very much in sympathy
with the Tteward family in their
great loss in the passing of their
dear mother and wife, Mrs. Ste
ward, wife of Mr.. Dorfhas Ste
ward, long time resident of Hope
well. She leaves to mourn her pass
ing husband, children and other
relatives and friends. Interment
was at the Brushey Creek ceme-
terry, Sunday, March II. We say,
sleep on Mrs. Steward and take
, your rest. Rev. A. r. Thomas.
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Troops Played
Major Role In
Engineering Feat

| Negro troops of the service of
supply constituted about IS per
cent of the more than $1,000 SOL
diers used in the construction OF
the now famous Ledo Road, the
war department announced.
Hailed as "the greatest engineer
ing feat in the annals of the Unit
ed States Army" the Ledo Road
connecting the vital ports of india
with the interior of China, stands
today as one of the most strategic
road arteries in the world.
In building this road the services
of supply once more have done the
impossible. When Brig. Gen.
Lewis A. Pick arrived in India to
take over the job Of pushing the
road into China he was told on all
sides the job was impossible.
1--WE heard the same story all
the way from the States, he told
his staff. It's always the same =
the Ledo Road can't be built. Toe
much mud, too much rain, toe
much malaria. From now on we're
forgetting this defeatist spirit. The
Ledo Road is going to be built
mud and rain and malaria be dam
ned"
It did seem impossible. The
graves of the dead along the Ledc
Road testify as to how impossible
it was-the road is 1,044 miles
long-and there is grave of ev-
cry mile. But the road was build
in record time.
A detachment of Negro engineers
Of the 823rd general service engin-
eer regiment, using British anc
Ameriman equipment, egan work
on the road at Ledo, near Assam
India, in December 1912, and wher
the first convoy from India tc
China rolled over the completed
broad Is months later, a Negro
Technician 5th CIR. Richard Bar
nett, of York, S. c., was driving
the lead vehicle.
Of the 1,044 miles over which
the men worked in the two years
only AZ miles Of it were in friendl,
territory. In March 1943, Negro en-
gineers, after completing Al mile
OF the road, received information
that large Japanese patrols wer,
Operating just above their point.
| Security patrols were sent GU
land preparations made for battle
when it was learned that a larg,
contingent of Japs moving in thei
direction had been forced to with
draw when their native porters ant
elephant contractors deserted tn
expedition, taking the elephant
with them. The engineers put dow
their rifles and once more begal
to push the roadfarther into Jap
anese territory.
But the Japs were only one o
the obstacles to be overcome il
building this road, for the engin
GERS, along with supporting servic
[ troops, were operating in enem
territory at the long end Of one Q
the longest supply lines in tn
world.
Supplies were first carried to tn
front by mule packs but discour
aging stage was reached when eve
the sturdy footed little mules bog
ged down and fell over the hig
cliffs. At this point native cal
riers were used to keep the sur
plies moving. then the rains cam
and even the jungle bred native
49, -
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plies moving.

James Petty, husband of Georgia
Petty Of 295l Vernon Ave-, Chi
cago, has been promoted to corpor-
al. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Floyd Petty of Sardis.
Prior to his entry into the Army
Cpl. Petty as carpenter at the
Lord, Bushnell Company of Chica-
go. He was indicted in November,
l943. and took basic training at
Fort Warren, Wyo. Upon complet-
ing his training in the States he left
for duty in the South Pacific. At
present Cpl. Petty is the company
artificer for his unit.
Pfc. Eddie L. Terrell, son of Mrs.
Rosie Terrell, Hollandale, Rt. /,
box 339, is finding the work OF
truck driver for quartermaster
service company mighty interesting
and comparable to the work he did
in civilian life. Previous to his en-
try into the army. Pfc. Terrell was
attendant at the Sinclair Filing
Station. Hollandale.
Terrell attended the Hollandale
high school here he played on the
varsity footwball, baseball and
basketball teams. Because of his
athletic experience he has become
an important player on the batta-
lion teams.
Pfc. Terrell entered the army in
September 1912 at Camp Shelby,
and was Immediately sent to Camp
Claiborne, La, where he received
his basic training. He was shipped
overseas in March, 1943.
AS a member of the quartermas-
ter service company, he is speeding
victory by keeping army motors
rolling.
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Harding's "444"
Recommended
For Rheumatism

Made and distributed by Harding
Drug Company, the HARDING'S
444 TONIC is recommended for the
Blood and for Rheumatism.
All persons with minor blood dis
orders and rheumatic conditions
arising from blood deficiency and
systemic imprities will find that
this famous tonic will give relief.
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"444' is we'll balanced combi-
nation of tests medicinal ingredi-
ents which are favorably accepted
for their value in treating minor
blood disorders.
Persons suffering from rheuma-
tism and minor blood disorders are
advised to get bottle of "444" at
Harding Drug Company
500 E. Pearl ST., or call 3-2444
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Durant News

Miss Leola and Miss Ceola were
very proud to have as their guests,
Sunday, Miss Irish Pearl Adams,
and Miss Clara Bow Anick.
Mrs. Nellia Butler CASTOR Of
Chicago is visiting her mother, Mrs.
Minnie Butler.
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jackson Soldiers
Doing Their Part
In All Theatres

With U. S. Army Forces In the
South Pacific - Pfc. Robert Kelly,
husband of Mrs Beatrice Kelly of
Jackson RI 6, box 1894, is doing an
excellent job as post exchange clerk
for the quartermaster service COM
pany at this base.
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Dried peas and beans are mex
pensive energy foods. Among vege-
tables, they rank nearest to meat
eggs, milk and cheese as body
builders.
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Bride OF LIST. Sgt. L. E. Knauss

AS post exchange steward, Pfc.
Kelly is responsible for thousands
of dollars worth of merchandise
His efficient way in operating the
Post Exchange has made fine
reputation for him and as result
customers from all branches of the
service are constantly there.
He entered the army in 1912 at
Camp Shelby, and was sent to
Camp Claiborne, La, for his basic
training. In March, l943, his out
fit was shipped overseas. Since be-
ing overseas he has received the
Good Conduct Medal for exemplary
behavior. efficiency and fidelity
His work in boosting army morale
and SO, indirectly, shortening the
war with Japan.
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Be sure that farm livestock and
poultry have an adequate supply
of good clean water, the Extension
Service advises.
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Another soldier in the South Pa
cific is Pfc. David MCGOWAN, Jr.,
son of Mr.. David MCGOWAN, ST.,
Jackson, Rt. 6, box 388, who is SER
wing with quartermaster service
company at this base His outfit
handles incoming and outgoing
supplies, Pfc. McGowan's specific
job is that of area guard.
Prior to his entry into the army
Pfc. MCGOWAN was employed at
the Evans Product Company, Jack
son. He was indicted into the army
in September, 1912 and received
his basic training at Camp Clai-
borne, La. He was shipped over
seas in March, 1943, and has re-
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-03-17
BETHLEHEM SCHOOL DONATES
TO RED CROSS DRICE

Those who contributed to the
Red Cross drive for Bethlehem
school were:
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Mrs. Laura B. Russum
Mrs. Genola S. Redd
Sponsoring
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In 1889 Pfc. Kelly graduated

In 1899 Pfc. Kelly graduated
from the high school department
of the Piney Woods Vocational
Training school where he played
on the varsity football and basket
ball and baseball teams. Prior to
his entry into the service he was
employed by the w. G.. Avery
Body Plant Of Jackson.
Evening star., 1945-05-27
Our Most Serious Good -Neighbor Problem
Lies Deep in the Soil of the Argentine

Spain to make the infant settle
ment of Buenos Aires the sole COM
mercial port of entry for the whole
vast region drained by the estuary
of La Plata. Mrs. Rennie does not
touch the colonial period and deals
only briefly with the revolutionary
epoch, really beginning her story
with the harsh tyranny of Rosas,
the grim dictator who first welded
an archaic federation into a work
able political organization, though
to the chief profit of Buenos Aires.
Then follows an account of the rise
OF a rancher aristocracy based on
profuSe land grants which par
celed the illimitable, unsettled PAM
pas into vast estates worked by
half-Wild gauchos cowboys who
were feudal retainers of their
scarcely more civilized overlords.
The latter half of the 10Th CEN
tury transformed primitive Argen-
tina into one of the great food
producing areas of the world, thanks
to the steamship and refrigeration
The land-grant lords became fabu-
lousy wealthy, though most of them
lived luXuriously in Buenos Aires or
in Paris, leaving their estates to
hired managers. Meanwhile, immi-
grants poured in, tending to form
an urban working or middle class,
while the English supplied the cap
ital. got virtual monopoly on all
utilities and tied Argentina to Brit
ain by a quasi-colonial economic
nexus under which Argentine beef
was exchanged for British manu-
factured goods.
The present century has witnessed
a subtle transformation in Argen-
tine national life, due largely to the
impact of the two World Wars, even
though in both conflicts Argentina
succeeded in maintaining neutral
lty. A native industry arose, to-
gether with increased agriculture
a rising middle class and a self
conscious working population. How
ever, the normal results of those
changes did not have free play owing
to the continued dominance of the
rancher aristocracy. which profited
by free trade and the British beef
market. But the aristocracy has
been rapidly losing it's wealth and
ability. Its ascendancy was finally
broken by the coup d'etat of June
4, l943, which brought to dictatorial
power the army, with its special
ideas of authOritarianism and ag-
gressive nationalism. Mrs. Rennie
makes it clear that the roots of this
disquieting ideology go deep into Ar
gentine soil and are no mere Fas-
cist or Nazi importations. That is
why the problem is so serious for
the United States and the other
republics of Latin America. The
present regime is portrayed by the
author as, in sense, a return to
the tyranny of Rosas. who is in
fact a nationalist hero today.
Evening star., 1945-05-27
There Is No Easy Formula for Getting
AIonq With Russia States Luuterboch

presses another book on Russia, so
completely objective, yet sympa-
thetic, that I do not see how even
the professional dissenters can find
fault with it. Unlike Mr.. White
Mr.. Lauterbach does not make ex-
tended comparisons with what he
saw in Russia and anything else.
A Different Approach
Boiled down to their essence, the
techniques of the two may be illus
trated thus: Mr. White might write
Today I visited the Red Star Widget
Factory of Smolensk. 1t makes
100000 widgets each year. With
the same machines and the same
number of workmen the model
Widget Factory of Wichita produces
100000" Mr.. Lauterbach would
write: "It makes 100000 widgets
each year. Period"
Mr.. Lauterbach first went to Rus
sia briefly in 1885. Last year he
Continued on Page C-50
Evening star., 1945-05-27

Reflections in a Mirror, by
Charles Morgan. CMacmillanD A
collection of essays on life and let
ters Rather previously brilliant.
Evening star., 1945-05-27
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington. D. G..
SUNDAY. ~. 1945

own world will already have become
a common, and perhaps daily oc-
currence.
And as the rocket is developed for
peacetime application, so at the same
time, one gathers on reading the
book, it will become a much feared
and formidable weapon of war, for
the bazooka and jet plane, and the
robot bombs which rained down on
England, are but preliminary evi-
dences of what destructive capabili-
ties lie in rocket power.
Mr.. Pendray promises that in
the age of rocket power, 1--WE shall
reach great attitudes, and we
shall move at velocities almost be-
yond our present imagining :"
Evening star., 1945-05-27

man of means accounts for this
incongruous result. When the shy
heroine is possessed of the quality
of leadership and placed in a sit
uation where each step she takes is
an uphill fight, the reader wants to
follow her answers to these prob
lens.
Beatrice Rivers meets Henry Tel
ford at the tail end of the 1853
summer social season in London.
Telford, son of newly rich family
whose social inferiority has been
impressed upon him at every OPP
portunity by snobbish neighbors in
WarWickShire, has come to London
expressly to marry some one who
would add distinction to his name
Attending the last party of the sea-
son, he meets Beatrice and impul-
sively, though she meets none of his
obvious requirements, proposes She
accepts him as a means of escape
from impossible home conditions,
including the melodramatic one of
the young stepfather trying unsuc-
SS.''o1 oiAf w etblcANh 1llfn wal w.
The story is that of Beatrice and
Henry; of the three boys and one
girl they bring into the world, Bea-
trices favorite son being killed in
an accident and being replaced by
the adoption of poor fisherman's
son after the fisherman saves the
two remaining boys from drowning,
and of those coming into contact
through the years with the Telfords
at the family estate of Barton. Chief
among these are Beatrice's unWorld- |
ly. scholarly brother, Walter Rivers:
his unprepossessing wife Fanny and
his irascible but loyal servant PoWys.
The plot is clear, but the charac-
ters lack firmneSs. The author ap-
pears unable to decide what she
wants them to be like and jolts the
reader with actions completely out
of keeping with original presenta-
tions of the characters. And Mrs.
Voynich also fails to convince us
the things her characters do have
sound reasons.
Though the events are placed in
18th century England, Mrs. Voynich
has failed to catch the spirit and
atmosphere of the period. A few
references to Swift, the inclusion of
one or two customs of the time are
not enough to place the people in
that century.
Mrs. Voynich's style is smooth and
carries the reader along pleasantly. |
Not as much can be said for the |
dialogue.
This novel is the earlier story of
those who came after in Mrs. Voy-
nich's "The Gadf1y," published in
1897 There is a note at the end of
this story explaining the events be-
tween the two books. Readers of
Put Off Thy Shoes" will undoubt-
edly want to read the earlier work. |
Evening star., 1945-05-27
THESE ARE THE RUSSIANS

! 11C0G AItG he nOSO1ANo
By Richard E. Lauterbach
(Harper's;: $3.)
Reviewed by JOSEPH H. BAIRD.
Recent literature on Soviet Russia
has been productive of high degree
of controversy, reminiscent of moth
ing quite so much as the theological
disputes of the Middle Ages.
An author may write objectively
or even critically of the United
States, or Great Britain, or France
or China, and escape with nothing
worse than the dissenting opinion
of some of his fellows. But let him
jot down a few unfavorable obser-
vations about the Soviet Union and
he is likely to find himself the OBJ
ject of pursuit by literary posse,
hot for his blood.
A case in point is William L.
Whites recent Report on the Rus
slams" Personally the Emporia
writer's volume left me with no
feeling that he was trying to pillory
the Russians. He said they were
technically backward as compared
with Americans. but even Soviet
publications have been known to
admit that. He found them overly
suspicious, but he also noted their
cordiality. He found them ILL
dressed and ill-housed, but he also
paid high tribute to their courage
and devotion in the war, the root
cause of their economic distress.
No Malice Inv0ived
If Mr.. White made any error, il
seems to me, 1t was one of judgment
rather than malicious intent.
refer to his constant drawing o1
comparisons between everything he
saw in Russia and its American
counterpart. But, on the whole, his
book impressed me as good report
ing-a camera study rather than 8
distortion in oils.
Nevertheless, the Council or
Soviet = American Friendship ha
found it advisable to issue broad.
side attacking Mr.. Whites volum,
as The Book the Nazis Like"
There has now come from tn,
Evening star., 1945-05-27

Here is an absorbing novel in spite
of many serious faults. 1t is like
the unattractive eyes, ears. nose and
mouth of a person combining to