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The Wrangell sentinel., 1954-02-05

I should be here for about three years or so, if the Army doesn't pull all the Paratroops out of Japan. If they do, we might get crack at Indo-China.
 We are part of the Prov Corp of Japan" now and come under the Marine Corps command. I'm qualified as a Senior Para chutist now and just knocked off my 5Oth jump.
 I'm thinking of dropping my counterfire MOS and going back 10 the line again. We are under going a terrific training program now which should last until July, and will include a regimental drop in Korea.
 just got back from a trip to "Kokura9 Sig Supply Dep. to pick mp equipment. We brought back two new jeeps. It was rainy and muddy but is cleared up now. We'll. I'm going to chow and then down 10 my house Gin Rum amotol for a fw jugs of Saki. or "Ackadoma."
 Write soon.
 Love
 Leroy P.S. The gloves are sure nice.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1954-02-05

they pointed the Sal April Yaion Army Congress for all people
 Alaska is to be held
The Wrangell sentinel., 1954-02-05
COMMUNICATION
* $ NO. 64 Maronda St.
 Dotroc Grar4a

NO. 64 MafOnda St.
 Patros, Greece
 January 20. 1854 Campbell Bros. Gen. Store Wrangell. Alaska Dear Friends:
 I am very we'll and hope this letter finds yCu well too. As you must know, l was living in the earthquake-ridden islands of Cephalonia, and I lost all per sonal belongings and luckily saved my life.
 Mir Campbell, please whenever you receive this etter show it to all my friends in Alaska. l am re- questing help in any way you and my friends can do so.
 1 will be obligated to you good people for the rest of my life and I pray to the Lord that all the good you and my friends do to me will be multiplied hundred times.
 Sincerely yours,
 HARRY MATOS Harry Mates lived in Wrangell for many years before returning
The Wrangell sentinel., 1954-02-05

Following is letter re- ceived by Roy c. Kuykendall, of Wrangell, from his son, Leroy, who is a Sergeant in the Paratroops, stationed in Korea:
 Jan. IT, 1854 Dear Dad:
 I received your letter yesterday and was sure glad to hear from you again. It had been long time since I had a letter from you.
 I'm sorry to hear that fishing has been so rough up there. I took a "short" discharge and re-uped for six years the 23rd oi last July for East command. My hitch would have been over the 12th of this month otherwise.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1954-02-05

Leroy P.S. The gloves are sure nice.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1954-02-05
Sincerely yours,

Harry Mates lived in Wrangell for many years before returning to Greece.
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Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1954-01-28
GuideWay
BY MRS. LESTER LONG
BY MRS. LESTER LONG

Mr.. and Mrs. Burmon Jenrette
of Tabor City visited MIR. and
Mrs. Lester Long Tuesday night.
Mrs. Donel Gore visited Mr.. and
Mrs. j. d. Stocks recently.
Mrs. Noah Hewette visited Mrs.
James Faulk Wednesday.
Lester Long and Dupree Jacobs
were Tabor City visitors last week.
Mrs. J. D. Long visited Mrs.
George Hewette Monday.
Jimmie Dale Long and Miss
Dorothy Long visited MIR. and Mrs.
Lester Long Thursday night.
Mrs. Donnie Canady and daugh-
ter, Betty, visited Mrs. J. D. Long
Tuesday night.
Mrs. Dean Long of the Pireway
section visited Mrs. Lester Long
Tuesday morning.
Earl Gore and George Hewette
made business trip to Tabor City
Friday.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1954-01-28
Manning Infant
Funeral Held

Kathy Jean Manning, three
month old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. c. Manning of Clarendon.
died Sunday at IL p. m. in the
Conway. hospital after an illness
of one day.
Funeral rites were held from
the Free Will Holiness church,
Tabor City, Tuesday at p. m.
by the Rev. Douglas Harrell. Bur-
ial was in the Forest Lawn ceme-
terry.
Survivors other than the par
ents include the paternal grand
mother, Mrs. Mae Manning OF
Tabor City, and the maternal
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Muir
ray Hyatt of Tabor City.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1954-01-28

quet which will be held in April
Jack Butler is now out of the
hospital, and we hope to see him
at school again soon. BY the way,
as most of you know, he was in
an automobile accident the other
Sunday.
Mr.. Columbo was well pleased
with the March of Dimes Cam
paign as the quota was exceeded
by S4l.00.
Our inter-mutual basketball
tournament will be coming up
soon. 1t seems as if the Junior
girls and the Senior boys have a
good chance of winning that "tin
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1954-01-28

cup" this year. but we can't be
sure. We hope the best team wins.
The eighth grade boys and girls
are doing pretty good for their
first season of basketball.
Since we are on the subject of
basketball we might mention last
Friday nights game. Evergreen
defeated our girls, yet our boys
came through with flying colors.
It's time to settle down to books
and say so long until next week.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1954-01-28
Guideway Show
Features Grand
Ole 0prY Stars

Bill Monroe and his Kentucky
Blue Grass Boys from Nashville's
Grand Ole. Opry will visit Guide
way next Friday, Jan. 20, for a
benefit performance for the March
of Dimes.
R A. Callihan, March of Dimes
community chairman at Guidevay,
has scheduled the Monroe enter
tainers for program starting Fri
day evening at 8 o'clock.
Dressed in the outfit of a Ken
lucky plantation owner, Monroe
and his entertainers make a color
full appearance in their especially
show.
The group specializes in sacred
music, although variety is added
by switching to novelty and folk
ballad music.
Most of Monroe's numbers,
which he sings in high "falsetto,"
are of the older variety. His popu-
larity has been built up on the
traditional music rather than the
current hit tunes.
1--WE are counting on this pro-
gram to push us above our March
of Dimes quota" Callihan said in
announcing the Friday evening
show. However, we have no
thought of quitting as long as we
have an opportunity to help out
in this cause. We hope all those
who like Monroe and his Blue
Grass Boys will join us in the
school auditorium on this occasion.
You'll like the music and you'll
be helping a worthy cause"
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1954-01-28

The State Department of Motor
Vehicles revoked the driving priv
ileges of 1886 Tar Heel motorists
in 1858 for various traffic law
infractionS.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1954-01-28
williams School
Highlighis
BY NANCY HARDIE AND
NANCY RAXIS

Another week has begun and
things seem to be sorta quiet "a
round ole w. T. H. S. after a bsy
weekend. The seniors are still
waiting for their rings, which seem
to have gotten lost along the way.
The Juniors are making plans
for the annual Junior-Senior ban
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1954-01-28
CARD OF THANKS

The family of the late Issic
Wilson Long wish to thank friends
and neighbors for the sympathy,
the kindness and the beautiful
floral offerings given during thcir
recent bereavement.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1954-01-28

Over the past five years droughts
in the United States caused more
losses under the federal crop in
Surance program than any other
single hazard.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1954-01-28
CARD OF THANKS

l wish to thank everyone for the
many acts of kindness shown dur
ing my recent illness including the
visits, cards, flowers, food dishes,
and notes.
Mrs. Roland Stephens
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1954-01-28
TIE FORGOTTEN COIN

A nickel goes a long way these
days-you have to go long way
to find something it will buy.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-12-03
DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED.


IAN editorial by J. L. Tunnel, Swan Quarter N. c.
Do not be discouraged because you criticized have
been thinking recently why and where does much crlt
csm originate What promotes it Is disease Is it inner
ited is it semming from inferiority think safe to
say that ninety per cent Of originates from hatred ea
ousy and enity think in little criticism has
been helpful but in most it done with intention to
hurt HARM Destroy Criticism has hndered the progress
of the church than any thing except the Devil
himself has caused many tears to be she'd heartaches
and sleepess nights. has discouraged and prevented
thousands of people from being successful oneha of the
time words that used in ccsng could be used COM
pmenting, what different world would have. How
many smiles and friendly hand shakes would get
When person deserves it, tap him the shoulder and say
you did we'll 1t helps Do not get it in your head that you
please everybody 1t cannot be done 1t would be
road to failure to try Some people going
you regardless what you do what you you
gious and trying to live right will call you fanatic
If you smart and Industrious they will say you
greedy trying to get the whole world If you
tive and trying to accumulate they call you old mser
If not they call you spendthrift know people that
do not like you unless you belong to the church and
vote the same ticket they do.
You make your mind up that so long you
will attempt to do things this world you will be criticized
and talked about The only people that not criticized and
talked about those who do nothing Some great
has said Criticism is what you get when you have every
thing else. you have faith in what you doing and
you right then keep doing Let the remarks of
those who disagree envy go with the wind Someone
has wisely said Don't expain-you friends don't need it.
your enemies won't believe it. Of is desirable to be
liked by ALL but wrong to think that everybody will like
you and what you do
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-12-03
SOIL CONSERVATION
SUPERVISOR TO BE
ELECTED FOR HYDE

An election will be held in Hyde
County next week to select Soil
Conservation Supervisor for the
county, it has been announced. The
term of the supervisor who is
elected will be from January /,
1856, to January /, 1858. Station R.
Clayton of PIONEER and Leon Bal
lance Of Lake Landing have been
nominated by regular petition.
Beginning Monday, December 6,
through Saturday, December IL,
qualified voters may cast their bal
lots for the candidate of their
choice at the following polling
places: Bill Harvey Cox's store,
Engelhard; ]. s. Jennette's store,
Lake Landing; Leslie O'Neaps
store, New Holland; C. M. Swim
dell's store, Fairfield; County
Agriculture Building, Swan Quar-
ter; Jarvis's store, Rose Bay; w.
E. Noble, Jr.'s store, Scranton; and
Allen Credle's store, Sladesville.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-12-03
THE WORLD is LONELY
FOR THEY ARE ASLEEP


be good to them.
l returned to my old lonely
home and many were the happy
things that l recalled about them
and many were the memories that
I cherished in my heart. 1 knew
they were both destined for better
things to come. listened to the
platitudes of their friends as they
reminded me that we must all face
death and it comes to us all, but
my grief was living thing inside
me and l could not control it.
I walked out into his little field
and looked at the dead grass and
l looked upon the brown corn that
rustled so proudly last summer,
but now it was dead and the tas-
sells were bowed to the ground,
and to me the world was a lonely
place indeed.
l returned to the house and my
sister told me over and over how
he became i'll in the night. She was
reused from sleep to hear him
walking around in the living room.
She arose hurriedly and he told
her he had been deathly ill since
2 o'clock in the morning, and I
looked on the old clock on the wall
that had stood there all fly life.
One of the things that I remem-
bered best was watching him take
out the big key and wind it each
Saturday night but now the death
ly quiet was accentuated by the
stiffness of the old clock. 1t stop
ped at 2 o'clock and I was afraid
to wind it again. l was afraid it
would never go again.
My sister told me how she had
hurried to a neighbours home a
quarter mile distant for help, but
he died at daybreak and I was not
there.
In the still small hours of the
night after we buried my father
beside my mother, who fell asleep
last June l, almost fell asleep.
All the others, worn by the cares
of the previous day, had been
sleeping for hours, but being an
old, old woman at heart l could
not sleep and for a moment I won
dered what had caused me to sit
up in the little old bed that l slept
in during my youth. Then l real
lied that it was only a very small
sound. 1t was just the tiny sound
that heart makes when it breaks.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-12-03
NEW CONVERSION FACTORS
AID IN CULLING OF COWS

Dairymen can get a reliable es-
innate of how much milk a young
COW will give at maturity by US
ing tables giving "age conversion
factors" which they can obtain
from the Department of Agricul-
ture.
cage conversion factors" can
not only help an individual farmer
decide whether young milk cow
is worth keeping, but also furnish
the means of making an early
analysis of her sire's desirability
as breeding animal.
The Conversion factors" used
by USDA in estimating a cows
capacity vary slightly with the
age of the cow and with different
breeds, but they are simple
enough so that anyone can use
them. Farmers can obtain tables
giving the conversion factors
from the Dairy Husbandry Re-
search Branch, U. S. Department
of Agriculture, Washington 25, D.
C.
These tables have been used for
many years by scientists conduct
ing the nationwide Dairy Herd
Improvement Associations sire
proving program.
Within the last year, the figures
have been revised to reflect more
accurately differences in produc-
ton of animals of different ages.
Ayrshire, Brown Swiss, Guernsey,
Holstein, Jersey, and Shorthorn,
are included.
The new conversion factors cut
possible margin of error in esti-
mating a cows mature production
to a minimum, according to a
DHIA spokesman.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-12-03

1 remember once, how he didn't
want to go away from home, but
he had four small children and
feeding them was a big problem,
and so he must go to a place which
to my young eyes seemed far dis
tant. / got out of bed real early
on the day he planned to leave and
hurried to the kitchen, but he was
not there.
I ran out into the yard calling
him as hard as l could. 1t was a
spring morning and the sun was
just coming up, red gold over the
treetops. / ran out to the road and
Il could see his tracks in the sand,
and looking toward the sunrise, l
sam him walking along with his
carpentry tools slung over his
shoulder in an old tow-bag. l call
ed and called and ran after him
but he was too far away to hear
me. He never looked back and l
stood in the road and wept. !
watched him until he walked
around the curve in the road out
of my sight.
Last week l stopped by my little
country store that now stands va
cant and lonely beside the road. !
saw beside it the hydrangea that
my mother planted there and re-
call how it bloomed in profusion
last summer. But now it was dead
dead, dead, and the cold wind
sounded a lonely wall around the
corners Of the building. Little
brown leaves fell from the oaks
that 1 once loved so dearly and
scarcely touching the earth, they
were blown away.
Last week l look on the last
work that he did in this world. ]
looked on his last handiwork on
my mothers grave. / saw how he
had made a slab of cement and
polished it to the smoothness OF
glass and painted it snowy
white, and I saw the marble mon
ument that he had placed there
with loving care. 1 saw them lower
him into the open grave beside
her, and l saw the flowers that he
had planted for her, only inches
away.
Last week I walked away and
left them sleeping side by side
and l got down on my knees and
prayed to God and l asked him to
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-12-03
COLD WEATHER TIME
TO GET RATS ON RUN

Greater need for wood and
shelter during the winter makes
mans familiar enemy, the rat,
more vulnerable to control meas
ures.
Ratproofing of buildings and
removal of trash piles or other
possible shelters will leave the
rats literally "out in the cold"
Then if food supplies are elimi-
mated, there will be no reason
for Mr.. Rat" to wait around.
To complete the job, it's good
idea to eliminate the rats as well.
Otherwise they will simply mi
crate to another spot in the
neighborhood.
Anticoagulent poisons are
acceptable to rats. This, plus the
fact that they can be handled
with a fair degree of safety and
ease, is making them popular as
a tool for rodent control. Like all
poisonous substances, however,
these chemicals must be kept out
of reach of children or domestic
animals.
Warfarin and pival can be pur-
chased in prepared bats or
bought in powder form to be
mixed with yellow corn meal m.
equal parts of yellow corn meal
and rolled oats, at a rate of one
part of the chemical concentrate
to 10 parts bait. Up to five per
cent sugar may be added to whet
the rats appetite.
To be effective the poison must
be consumed on several success
sive days, so other food which
may compete with bait should
be removed, insofar as possible.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-12-03
OTHER EDITORS
Chapel Hill News-Leader)

"a $35 week payroll is of no
benefit to any town."
This is the flat statement laid
before the Ahoskie Rotary Club
by Dick Lewis of the State De-
partment of Conservation and
Development.
Mr.. Lewis warned his audience
that many towns have brought
in industries which promised to
pay $50 a week, but actually paid
only $35.
Those communities viii c h
have been straining their ten
dons to get northern factories
and firms to come south might
pay heed to these warnings.
The race for new industries is
on, and rash promises have been
made on both sides while the
competition for more payrolls
continues.
North Carolina, being among
the most rural of all the states,
is well advised to balance its
thousands of farms with more in
dustries, and it certainly needs
more plants to convert its plenti-
full raw material into finished
goods.
Yet it can pay too high a price
for the industries it seeks. BY
counting and bringing in "leech"
or carpet bag" firms, it can
pauperize its own people, mean
time burdening the community
with enterprises which become
parasitic in order to exist.
In fact, there is evidence that
some North Carolina towns in
their anxiety to attract any and
all industry have imported tu-
mors that might have been left
elsewhere, meantime losing i'm
portant and self-respecting COM
panies to neighboring states.
To community that has be-
come habituated to a slow agri-
cultural life, industry" may
have magic sound. But it would
obviously be better for town to
put up with what it has rather
than make concessions" to fac
tories that are more likely to
drain rather than build up the
life of the community.
Complete Investigations on
both sides would avert many a
disappointment in the task of
bringing industry to Nerth
Carolina.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-12-03

were my estate able, l should hope
to give a better account of my
well-wishes to a general good. My
hopes are, | shall not want assist
ance from good patriots, either by
their good word or purses. Tues
day the third of May, the Rowan
oke presented his child to the min
lister before the congregation to be
baptized, which was solemnly per-
formed in the presence of all the
Indians, and the child left with
me to be bred up a Christian,
which God grant him grace to be-
come! At their departure, VIC ap-
pointed a further discovery by sea
and land, to begin the first of
July next. God guide us to his
glory, and England's and Virgin
las honour!
Sir, if you think good to ac-
quaint the states with what is
done by two Virginians born, you
will honour our country. / have at
this instant no present worthy
your acceptance, but an arrow
that came from the Indians inhab-
iting on the South-sea, the which
we purpose, God willing, to see
this summer, non obstarte peri
culo. / am lastly, Sir, sutton to
you, for some silk-worms eggs,
and materials for the making of
silk, and what other good fruits,
or roots, or plants, may be proper
for such country. Above all, my
desire is to the olive, some trees
of which could we procure, would
rejoice me; for wine we cannot
want for industry. Thus desiring
to kiss your hands, with the fair
hands of my virtuous country
woman, the worthily to be honour
ed, Mrs. Virginia Farrar,*3 l hum
bly, take leave, and ever remain,
Sir,
Your true honourer, and affection
ate servant to be commanded,
FRANCIS YARDLEY.
For the worshipfull John Farrar,
Esq. at his mannor of Little Gid
ding in Huntingdonshire.
y Currituck Inlet; ~ Resident;
10 Daughter of John Farrar.
"Mrs." was in the seventeenth
century used for unmarried la
dies.
Narratives of Early Carolina
1650-1708.)
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-12-03
&%9E5IIj8
G.aN43GTla
BLOCKADE OF CHINA WILL
BE AT THE RISK OF WAR
To The Editor:

To The Editor:
Senator Knowland reminds me
of farmer who, because he lost
calf, killed his whole herd. A man
who proposes a blockade of China
at the risk of war and the lives of
millions to secure the release of Is
Americans who made an unauthor-
lied landing in China is more dan
gerous to the U. S. than Senator
Mccarthy; such irrational citizens
should not occupy places of prom
inence in our national life. We
have everything we need to build
a heaven for Americans right here
at home. This is our challenge: to
come home and build for the well
fare of America rather than for
the destruction of China. We can't
go to heaven by detouring through
hell. We are always wrong kill
ing and destroying, always right
building for human happiness.
Let's build roads, schools commu-
nifty houses, homes to replace
shacks and slums, security for ev-
erybody, the good life for all.
VERNON WARD
Ransomville.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-12-03
HYDE NATIVE DIES
TUESDAY IN COLUMBIA

Reuben Berry, a native of Fair
field who has been making his
home at Bath recently, died in the
Columbia Hospital at $3.50 am.
Tuesday. Funeral services were
scheduled for 2 pm, Thursday, at
the Christian Church at Fairfield,
conducted by Rev. Joe Brickhouse,
assisted by Rev. Smith of Bath.
Interment is to follow in the Fair
field Cemetery.
Mr.. Berry is survived by: his
wife, Mrs. Alley Berry; two daugh-
tiers, Mrs. Mary Williams of Fair
field and Mrs. Edna Lee Ormond
of Bath; one son, Reuben Berry,
Jr. of Columbia; nine grandchil-
dren; one brother, Jimmie Berry
of Fairfield; and one half-broth-
err, Joe Harris Of Engelhard.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-12-03
PURITAN
Continued from Page One)

lea. The committees cover commu-
nifty interests from education to
rural churches, new industry to
youth programs.
During the regular monthly
meeting the local farmers are eat
ing and talking with the local
businessmen. At the close of the
meeting each man has better
problems. This leads to a better
understanding of his fellowman's
business and social relationship be-
tween people of the different pro-
fessions.
THE detectives of Ruritan are
descriptive of the entire organiza-
ton. Ruritan strives to promote
fellowship and goodwill to unite
individuals to work for the COM
"unity, to inspire each other. and
above all, to encourage the ideal
of service as the basis of all wor-
thy enterprise.
"Ruritan is jestly proud of the
tremendous strides taken during
the past few years. Each year all
clubs are asked to prepare a COM
munity service report showing all
projects completed. 1t is when all
OF these reports, representing
thousands of worthy profess, are
reviewed that Ruritan can be as
sured of their place in the life of
a rural community"