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I liCHT " THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1944 CIVIC LEAGUE MOVES TO PUT PLAYGROUND IN ORDER The executive committee of the Civic league met at the home of the president, Mrs. J. H. Summer, on Saturday afternoon at four o’clock. Since the meeting was called to dis cuss plans for the repair and re building cf equipment at the Marion Davis playground, representatives of the Mothers clubs of Newberry were in attendance. Members present at the Saturday meeting were enthusiastic in theii plans to do everything necessary to get the playground ready for the recreation of our boys and girls. The Civic league will move quickly in this undertaking, thereby demon strating the imp>ortance of this or ganization to the civic life of the city. The Marion Davis playground was built while Mr. Davis was serving as mayor of the city. The plot of ground which was developed into the lovely Margaret Hunter park was also pur chased by the city at that time. In this day of concern over juvenile delinquency, often accounted for be cause of lack of needed recreational facilities for youth, we can appreci ate the foresight of Mr. Davis in planning for the future of our boys and girls. The beautiful Margaret Hunter park and pool today gives summer recreation to hundreds of youth who otherwise might be class ed as delinquents. All playground equipment will be repaired and painted at the Marion Davis playground. The fence will be painted, and the attractive little house will be repaired and painted A couple will live in this house. The Civic league is taking the lead in this project, assisted by the city council, the Commission of Public works, ’all Mothers clubs and Z. F. Wright. When the project is com pleted, youth of our community will be greatly benefited and the memory of Mayor Marion Davis fittingly honored. PATIENTS AT THE COUNTY HOSPIAL Bom to Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Les ter, Newberry route 4, a daughter, Wednesday, March 1. Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Har wood, Newberry route 3, a son, Mon day, February 28. Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Amick of Chapin, a daughter, Tuesday, Feb- ruary 29. Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Kelly Goff, Newberry, a daughter, Saturday, February 26. Born to Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Long, 1926 Main street, a son, Marion Guy, Friday, February 25. Other patients include: Mrs. Pearl Putnam, Whitmire; Mrs. Anna Laura Pace, Helena: Mrs. C. E. Hancock, route 1, Newberry; Frank Stricklin, Clinton, route 2; Mrs. E. C. Barbee, Goldville; Miss Evelyn Nelson, Whit mire; Miss Mary Nelson, Whitmire; Mrs. Minnie Bellue, Whitmire; Rayon Mitchell, 1328 Milligan street, New berry; Nellie Bundrick, Prosperity; Mrs. Charles Douglas, Drayton St., Newberry; Mrs. Jack Gosnell, Whit mire; P. B. Bedenbaugh, Prosperity; Mrs. G. A. Gardener, Whitmire; Tow ard McCullough, 1721 Harrington, Newberry- Llovd Adams, Pomaria, and Mrs. Lloyd Smith, Goldville. FOR SALE—1 HAVE 7 MULES FOR SALE. H. C. HOLLOWAY. RITZ T H E A T R E THURSDAY and (FRIDAY Jean Aumont, Gene Kelly, Joseph Calleia —IN— ‘THE CROSS OF LORRAINE” FOX NEWS SATURDAY Gloria Jean, Ray Malone, Patsy O’Connor, The Jivin Jacks & Jills —IN— -MOON' IGHT IN VERMONT” Comedy “Desert Ghosts” UNIVERSAL NEWS MONDAY and TUESDAY Cary Grant, John Garfield, Dane Clark, Alan Hale, Robert Hutton —IN— “DESTINATION TOKYO” M. G. M. NEWS WEDNESDAY James Stewart, Hedy Lamar —IN— “COME LIVE WITH ME” Comedy: Tips On Trips PYLE APPEALS FOR FIGHT PAY FOR FIGHTING MEN AT FRONT By Ernie Pyle In Italy, Feb. 29—In my usual role of running other people’s busi ness, I’ve been thrashing around with an idea—honest. It's to give the combat soldier some little form of recognition more than he is get ting now. Everybody who serves overseas, no matter where or what he’s do ing, gets extra pay. Enlisted men get 20 per cent additional and offi cers 10 per cent. Airmen get an extra 60 per cent above this for flight pay. As a re sult, officer-flyers get 60 per cent above their normal base pay and enlisted flyers such as gunners and radio operators get 70 per cent. All that is fine and as it should be, but the idea I was toying with is why not give your genuine com bat ground soldier something cor responding to flight pay? Maybe a good phrase for it would be “fight pay.” Of any one million men overseas probably no more than 100,000 are in actual combat with the enemy. But as it is now, there is no official dis tinction between the dogface lying for days and .nights under constant mortar fire on an Italian hill, and the headquarters clerk living com fortably in a hotel in Rio de Janerio. Their two worlds are so far apart the human mind can barely grasp the magnitude of the difference. One lives like a beast and dies in great numbers. The other is merely working away from home. Both are doing necessary jobs, but it seems to me the actual warrior deserves something to set him apart. And medals are not enough. When I was at the front the last time several infantry officers brought up this same suggestion. They say combat pay would mean a lot to the fighting man. It would put him into a proud category and make him feel that somebody ap preciates what he endures. Obviously no soldier would ever go into combat just to get extra “fight pay.” That isn’t the point, There is not enough money in the world to pay any single individual his due for battle suffering. But it would put a mark of dis tinction on him, a recognition that •his miserable job was a royal one and that the rest of us were aware of it. When a message announcing that a serviceman is wounded, killed, missing, or a prisoner of war is re turned to the War Department be cause the next of kin has moved and left no forwarding address, Red Cross Home Service attempts to lo cate the 'person named. “DESTINATION TOKYO” “Destination Tokyo”, a picture that should make us want to take a per sonal trip to Japan and throw our own bombs, will open at the RITZ theatre Monday and Tuesday. The new film which stars Cary Grant and John Garfield, is the story of an American submarine the USS Copperfin, operating against Japan, and of the men aboard her. The film features Dane Clark, Robert Hutton and Warner Anderson. During production, the set of “Des tination Tokyo” was closed as tight as a conning tower against any and all visitors and just what prodigies Mr. Grant, as commander of the “Cooperfin,” performed in his under seas craft, could not be revealed un til the Navy said it was all right to release the picture. The chief theme of “Destination Tokyo” is the part olayed by the “Copperfin” in send ing aircraft-based bombers winging their way to Tojo’s home town. For this reason. Cary Grant, John Garfield, John Ridgely and other members of the cast, all male, were under constant surveillance. The script was as secret as a military message. Serving as technical advisor for (the film vtf>s Commander Dudlfcy Walker Morton, sub captain who at the time had just returned from a patrol on which he put 20 Jap ships under the water, blew up a Jap sub marine, and destroyed an unannounc ed number of enemy fighting craft. For these exploits he received a Distinguished Service Cross from General Mac Arthur, the Navy Cross with two stars, and a Presidential Citation. WELLS Theatre Wont to learn a skill? Would you like to be a radio operator, a skilled stenogra pher, an airplane mechanic, an expert driver? In the Woman’s Army Corps you have a chance to get valuable Army training— training that may pave the way to bigger pay, better jobs after the war. TODAY find out about all the WAC offers YOU—the interesting jobs, the chance to meet new people and see new places, and to help your country. APPLY at any U. S. Army Recruiting Station. Or write The Adjutant General, 4415 Munitions Bldg., Washing ton 25, D. C. (Women in essential war in dustry must have release from their employer or the U. S. Employment Service.) THURSDAY ‘THE FALCON IN DANGER” Tom Conway and Jean Brooks Added: Comedy & “Cue Wizzards” Matinee 9c-25c Night 9c-30c FRIDAY and SATURDAY ROY ROGERS and “Gabby” Hayes in “SONS OF THE PIONEERS” Added: Masked Marvel and Comedy Admission 9c-25c all day ' MONDAY and TUESDAY Thrilling Spectacular Drama! “DESTROYER” Edward G. Robinson, Glenn Ford and Marguerite Chapman Added: Latest Pa the News Matinee 9c-25c Night 9c-3dc WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY “SARONG GIRL” Ann Corio, Bill Henry, Mantan More land, Johnny “Scat” Davis and His Orchestra Added: “This Is America” Short OPERA HOUSE SATURDAY “LAND OF HUNTED MEN” Ray Crash Corrigan, Max Terhune and Dennis Moores THE PHANTOM and COMEDY Admission 9c-20c all day I give up. If any of my many ad mirers have TEN well-roostered lay ing hens they want to swap for TWENTY fine virgin hens just see me. No species of fowl barred ex cept sparrows and bantams. I’m sick and tired of feeding $l-a-sack feed to a bunch of non-laying hens. In spite of Tom Harmon’s and H. O. Dicksinson’s declarations that they were going to find me a rooster I still haven't a rooster and I am now thoroughly convinced that hens won’t lay without the slautary influence of an up-and-at-’em rooster. In all fairness to these hens I want to swap I must say they have possibili ties. I do get about three eggs a week and I attribute that to a roost er separated from my hens only by a wire fence. He might have prom ised the best looking ones among them something. You know roosters are right much like men along that line. So, if you want to swap just come in here and see me. I will not only make the swap with you, but as a sort of bonus, I will let you sit on my lap awhile—if you are a woman, of course. “MR. HEADQUARTERS” HEARS FROM AN ARMY WIFE The following letter from Jimmy Wiseman’s collection of printable and unprintable literature (mostly the latter) is said to have been written by an army wife: Mr. Headquarters, United States Army, Washington, D. C. “Dear Mr. Headquarters: “My husband was induced into the surface long months ago, and I ain’t received no pay from him since he was gone. “Please send me my elopements as I have a 4 months baby and he is my only support, and I kneed it every day to by food and keep me enclosed. “I am a poor woman and all have is at the front. Both sides of my parents.are very old, and I can’t suspect anything from them, as my mother has been in bed 13 years with one doctor, and won’t take another. “My husband is in charge of a spittoon. Do I get any more than I am going to get? Please send me a letter and tell me if my husband made application for a wife and child and please send me a wife’s form to fill out. “I have already written Mr. Rose- velt and got no answer, and if I don't hear from you, I will write Uncle Sam about you and him.” RIGHT CONFUSED Gov. J. M. Broughton was in the mountains of North Carolina on a Fourth War Loan bond drive. Sight ing a mountaineer in a field, plowing a mule, the Governor approached him and said, “Good morning, sir, I’m Governor Broughton.” “Never heern tell of you,” was the response. “Heard about the war?” the Gov- rnor asked. “Naw, don’t believe I have.” “Ever heard of President Roose- elt or of Churchill?” came the next uestion. The mountaineer shook his head i the negative. “Ever heard of Pearl Harbor?” ontinued the executive. 4 i XT.. ... . n. T neither,” said the plowman. “Well, sir; I am selling War Bonds so we can win the war for Roosevelt and Churchill and avenge Pearl Har bor,” explained the Governor. “Giddap!” said the farmer as he addressed his mule, leaving His Excellency standing there. At the other end of the field the plowman’s wife awaited with a drink of water, or something. “Who’s that feller?" she asked her husband. “Chap by the name of Broughton. He’s got a friend named Roosevelt who got into a mess with a gal nam ed Pearl Harbor over on Church hill and axed me to sign his bond. I jes’ plowed off and left him.” NOTICE OF JURY DRAWING We the undersigned jury commis sioners of Newberry county, shall on the 9th day of March, at 9 o’clock a. m., in the Clerk of Court’s office, openly and publicly, draw thirty-six names to serve as petit jurors for the Court of General Sessions, which will convene in Newberry court house on the 20th day of March, 1944, at 10 o’clock a. m., at the same time and place we shall also draw twelve names to serve as grand jurors for the ensuing year. H. K. Boyd, clerk of court P. N. Abrams, auditor J. R. Dawkins, treasurer. February 26th, 1944. MARION T. FELKER Marion Thomas Felker, age 32, died in Columbia early Wednesday morn ing. He is the son of the late H. L. Felker and Mrs. H. L. Felker. Be sides his mother he is survived by the following sisters and brothers: Mrs. D. D. Counts, Miss Mary Fel ker, Miss Helen Felker, and Mrs. Benjamin Rubenowitz, also John W. Felker and James H. Felker. Funeral services were held Thurs day afternon at 3 o’clock from the McSwain Fun>ral home with Rev. J. W. Carson officiating. Interment followed in Baxter Memorial ceme tery. THE SPECTATOR (Continued from page 4) some time and thought to remedial legislation—to doing some acts of justice—as well as to devote so much energy and resourcefulness to appro priating money? The General Assembly has some sturdy men in its membership, many of who are too modest, while the pushful members rush in with all the measures and money, to gratify pressure groups. My regard for the two houses is so great that I say in good will that there was a time—1932—when the people retired many members who were conspicuous among the “Golden Spenders”. And the new General Assembly cut the appropriation bill in half. That is what happened, some good men falling with the Golden Spend ers. When the people turn, they some times make a clean sweep. SOch things have happened. And who knows? If there is anything as clear as the noonday sun (on a bright day in Au gust) it is that this Appropriation Bill will not stand when the recession comes. And when the cuts come they they will come thick and fast. Let all members who were in politics or business in 1932 tell the youngel members what’s what. The political repercussion may not be quite as bad; but even 25 per cent as bad would be disastrous. And that’s bad enough. The General Assembly ought not to delay in giving to merchants fair treatment. There is no reason why the merchants should be taxed on a valuation of 31 12 of actual value while the rest of us pay on values ranging from 10 1-2 per cent, with a State average of 19 per cent of value. This Floor Tax measure passed the Senate and is in the House, in the Ways and Means Committee. The merchants ought to speak out frank ly and vigorously. If the State, which has no property tax now, can not give this small measure of justice to the merchants, without a pressure demonstration, then let the merchants make a demonstration. Our General Assembly has been sympathetic to the teachers and to the aged; why not do justice before we practice generosity? Two bills call for delayed justice; one is this discrimination against merchants; the other is the failure to repeal the emergency THIRD mill of the Capital Stock Tax. Singularly enough, the General Assembly has been increasing the appropriations for school buses and school teachers and school terms, but completly dis regards the obligation to repeal the third mill of the Capital Stock Tax which was put on as an emergency measure to pay the teachers in 1933. How does it look—when this tax on business, an emergency tax in time of deep depression—for the teachers, remains on the books, while millions of additional dollars have since been paid to the teachers and the schools? Frankly, the pressure groups op erating for the teachers and the aged are not the only pressure groups which have political weight in this State. We have only to remember the visit and demonstration of four thousand merchants against the Sales Tax, about six years ago. It is not a pleasant thought that simple justice should be denied our merchants and incorporated enter prises, unless they use John Lewis pressure methods. This General Assembly has too many level-headed men to deny jus tice to any group of taxpayers. These taxpayers seek no favors; they ask justice. What say you, gentlemen of the General Assembly? Do the mer chants and incorporated enterprises ask justice in vain? RETURNS HOME Mrs. Tom Hayes returned to her home, 1230 Crenshaw street, last Friday after being a patient in the Columbia hospital for two weeks. Mrs. Hayes underwent a major op eration on her hip and will have to remain in a cast for several weeks. S. C. HOUSE VOTES ITSELF INCREASED PAY Columbia, Feb. 29—The House of Representatives snubbed the State Senate today as it voted itself $74,- 000 “extra pay” expense money. A concurrent resolution sent to the Senate named War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes South Carolina’s representative at the peace table. The Byrnes resolution called at tention to Russia’s action in recreat ing provinces whioh could have a like number of votes at the peace conference and the British empire and its dominions which also would have a voice. The House resolved that the Unit ed States should have 48 represen tatives at the peace conference and named Byrnes as the state’s repre sentative. Representative Horne, of Richland sponsored the amendment to the de ficiency appropriaion bill which made provision for $600 “extra pay” for each member of the House, but failed to provide a similar amount for the Senate which passed the de ficiency bill last week without an extra pay provision. Senator Edgar A. Brown, chairman of the Senate finance committee, had described the measure as a “skeleton bill” to be completed in free conference. The House sent the bill to its ways and means committee where it was likely that $27,600 more would be added so that the senators would get their share of expense money. The constitution provides that legislators get $400 for each 40-day legislative session. It has been the custom of legislators to vote them selves expense money for work be yond the 40-day constitutional limit. Meanwhile the Senate agreed to debate tomorrow a resolution which would fix a time for electing two members of the Winthrop college 'board of trustees succeeding Mrs. George M. Stuckey of Bishopville and Angus MaCauley of Chester. Senator Baskin of Lee sought to block debate on the resolution in order to call up a bill by Senator Leppard of Chesterfield which would abolish the present Winthrop board and substitute it with a Leg islature-elected board. Senator Sims of Orangeburg, chairman of the Senate education committee, answering a charge that the Leppard bill had been delayed in the committee, said his group would meet tonight to act upon the measure, but predicted that a move to revamp the board would not get anywhere inasmuch as the House already had killed a similar propo sal. The Senate reversed a previous vote and killed the Elerbee bill to reduce membership of the State Public Service commission from sev en to three members. AN ALPHABET OF LIFE A—Act promptly. B—Be courteous. C—Cut your worry. D—Deal Squarely E—Eat what is wholesome. F—Forgive and forget. G—Get religion. H—Hope always. I —Imitate the best. J—Judge generously. K—Knock no one. L—Love somebody. M—Make friends. N—Never despair. O—Owe Nobody. P—Play occasionally. Q—Quote your mother. R—Read the Bible. S—Save something. T—Touch no liquor. U—Use discretion. V—Vote independently. W—Wateh yourself. X—X-ray yourself. Y—Yield to superiors. Z—Zealously live. When an emergency occurs in a serviceman’s family and his presence at home is essential, the Red Cross, at the request of his commanding of ficer, will assist the man requesting the furlough by verifying the need. Inquiries regarding the safety, welfare or location of servicemen may be made through the Red Cross when families have been unable to get a response to letters or cables through regular channels. ATTENTION, Farmers We have on hand any analysis of SCOCO fertilizer you need, also Nitrate of Soda. You do not have to wait. We can give you prompt service at all times. We also have CALdSUTRO for grain and other crops. CahNitro contains nitrate, ammonia and pow dered dolomite. Cal-Nitro has the quick action of nitrate, the long-last ing qualities of ammonia, and all the values of dolomite. We know that it is a good product. The Southern Cotton Oil Co. R. A. Feagle R. C. Floyd For Your Spring Sewing ... We have complete assortments ot all kinds of piece goods; materials for pretty Spring and Summer dresses and materials for home furnishings. You will find'sewing not only easy but economical as well, and you make your dress from a wide variety of pat terns and materials. We close Wednesday afternoons at 1 o’clock and Saturday nights at 8 o’clock. Carolina Remnant Co. aid well Street Newberry, S. C.