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The Cleburne News 1943
NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEWS", Heflin, Cleburne County, Alabama
for NOVEMBER 1943 & DECEMBER 1943

NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, NOVEMBER 4, 1943

LOCAL News

Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Williamson of Birmingham visited the latter's sister, Mrs.
Grady Boyd, last weekend.
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Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Dodgen and son, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Dodgen and daughter of
Birmingham, Mr. and Mrs. G.R. Striplin and family, Mrs. Frank Boyd and
children, were the Sunday guests of Mrs. J.T. Boyd and daughters.
-----

Mr. and Mrs. Van Jackson and daughters of Carrollton, Ga. and Mr. and Mrs.
Woodrow Jackson and daughters of Bowdon, Ga., visited Mr. and Mrs. Curtis
Whitman and June, on Sunday.
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Mrs. Harry W. Davis of Marlin, Texas is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. Tom Boyd.
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Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Cole visited Mr. Cole's sister, Mrs. Annie Kate Johnson of
Opelika on Sunday.
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NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, NOVEMBER 11, 1943

BORDEN SPRINGS News
Nov. 6

Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Payne's many friends in this community will be glad to know
that they have moved back to their old home place. Mr. and Mrs. Payne have
been living in Waxhaw, N.C. for about the past 10 years. Mr. Payne has been
employed by the Seaboard Railroad for about 40 years, and has now retired.
-----

Frank Payne of Raleigh, N.C. visited friends here last week.
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Mrs. Sam H. Pollard had an operation in a Gadsden hospital on Friday.
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LOCAL News

Earl E. Davis, a Radioman of the U.S. Navy, is visiting his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John Davis at Hopewell.
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Pvt. Crandell Owen visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Marlin Owen on Sunday.
Crandell is stationed at Fort McPherson.
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Mrs. Sadie Whitten who has been working in Anniston, is visiting her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. L. Bowlin of Route 2, Heflin.
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Mrs. Sadie Whitten is very happy to receive a letter from her husband, Pfc.
Wallace B. Whitten, who was shipped across the first of August. She is waiting
and praying for the day of his return.
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Mr. and Mrs. E.E. Pollard and children of BIrmingham are now making their home
in Chattanooga, Tenn. Mrs. Pollard is the daughter of Mrs. L. Bowlin of Route
2, Heflin.
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NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, NOVEMBER 18, 1943

MISS MARY ROBERTSON JOINS THE WAVES

It was an interesting annoucement carried in The Birmingham News of Nov. 10 to
the friends in Heflin and over the county of Miss Mary Robertson. A picture of
Mary was also in the paper that told us she had joined the Waves and is an
officer candidate awaiting orders. Mary is the only daughter of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Jessie Robertson of this place, and is a native of Cleburne county,
receiving her early education in the schools here, graduating from the high
school.

She took her AB and MA degrees from the University of Alabama. She taught a
year in the high school here and in 1928 became Registrar of the University,
which place she has filled with satisfaction to the University and great credit
to herself. Mary is one of those persons who overflows any position she
accepts and has always been a conscientious and hard worker in her chosen
field, and we feel a justifiable pride in her unusual record.
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LOCAL News

Miss Sarah Helen Reid, who is an instructor in the production department of a
bottling company, in Anniston, spent the weekend with her mother Mrs. Frank
Reid.
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Mrs. W.B. Merrill received word that her nephew, Fred Jones of Frisco City, who
was lost in a bombing mission over Germany in August, is a German prisoner of
war.
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Mrs. Maurice Beason, who is better known as Cora, will leave the last of the
week to make her home for the present, in Williamsburg, Va. where Maurice is
stationed. He is second class officer in the Navy. He came down Tuesday of
this week and they will leave on Friday. Cora has many friends here both from
the standpoint of business, and socially who regret to see her leave.
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NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, NOVEMBER 25, 1943

CLEBURNE COUNTY BOYS IN THE SERVICE

Freeman H. Sprayberry, Gunner's Mate First Class, U.S. Navy, is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. W.S. Sprayberry of Route 1, Hopewell, Ala. He has been home on
furlough visiting his parents after completing a course in Electrical Hydraulic
Gunnery School at Norfolk, Va. Freeman received his present rate of Petty
Officer First Class upon graduating from Gunnery School and was handed a 15 day
furlough leave which he sure enjoyed very much.

He enlisted in the Navy in August 1941 and received his basic training at
Norfolk, Va. Since that time he has served with the Pacific and Atlantic
Fleet, except for a few months he spent in South America. He served one year
aboard the aircract carrier, U.S.S. Hornet and was aboard it when she carried
the Army planes to raid Tokyo in April 1942. He said the worst part of it all,
he happened to be aboard the ship Hornet when it was sunk in October 1942 and
after they abandoned ship and landed in New Caldonia and later came to the
States, he was assigned to a new ship. Since then he has served with the
Atlantic Fleet.

After spending his leave, he returned to the East Coast to join the fleet
again. He says for us to just keep 'em rolling on the home front and you can
bet your bottom dollar Uncle Sam's Navy will be right out there giving the Axis
hell on every corner.
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Robert Freeman Harris, Seaman First Class, U.S. Naval Reserve, son of Tarpley
Parker Harris of Route 1, Hopewell, Ala. has received a letter of commendation
for the brave devotion to duty and aggressive fighting spirit which was
displayed while a member of the Army Guard Unit aboard an American merchantman
during the recent assault on Sicily.

The 22 year old Alabamian, was presented the commendation last month by the
commanding officer of the U.S. Armed Guard Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. in behalf
of Admiral Randall Jacobs, Chief of Navy Personnel. Annoucement of the
presentation was made by Eighth Naval District Headquarters, New Orleans, La.

" A report of the experience reveals that although the vessel was subjected to
a vicious attack by 30 enemy planes, the men of the Navy Gun crew countered
with tremendous barrages of accurate, deadly fire and that the gun that you
personally manned completely shattered the entire tail assembly of one German
Junker 88 and sent it into flaming destruction.", the citation read.

Admiral Jacobs added in his commendation to Harris that "your courageous,
skillful conduct under fire on the above occasion was in keeping with the best
traditions of the Naval Service."

Seaman First Class Harris enlisted in the Navy on Oct. 21, 1942 at Birmingham.
He was born July 12, 1921 at Hopewell, Ala.
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LOCAL News

Mrs. Oran Ellis and children of Atlanta were guests on Sunday of Mr. and Mrs.
Ross Moore. Mrs. Ellis was the former Ruth Stephens of this place. Mrs. B.F.
Dorman and Mrs. B.F. Caffey of Choccolocco were also guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Moore.
------

Miss Lucille Clay is here for a two weeks visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
M.P. Clay. Lucille has a good position in Washington, D.C. where she has been
for more than a year.
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Mrs. Otis Agee (Eunice Norton) left last week for a stay of several days with
Otis, who is stationed at Camp Gordon, Fla.
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Everett Norton from San Antonio, Texas is here on a 15 day furlough to visit
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Norton.
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Miss Lena Haywood is spending this week with her brother, Mr. and Mrs. Gaither
Haywood of Clifton, Ga.
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NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, DECEMBER 2, 1943

FUNERAL AT CORINTH CHURCH ON TUESDAY FOR MRS. PHILIP HATFIELD

Funeral services were held at Corinth church on Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 23 at 2
o'clock for Mrs. Philip Hatfield of near Macedonia, who died at her home early
Monday morning. She was 84 years of age. She had been an invalid for the past
two years but was not taken seriously ill until a week prior to her death.

Ministers officiating at the services were the Rev. Leonard Burson, the Rev.
Andrew Eason and the Rev. Parrish. Burial was in the church cemetery.

Survivors include her husband and four granddaughters, Mrs. C.C. Knowles of
Bowdon; Mrs. Elsie Richardson of Bowdon; Mrs. Bernice Middlebrooks of
Austell; Mrs. Amon Walker of Bowdon; two grandsons, Earl Robinson of
Hightower and Arnold Robinson of Bowdon; and a half-sister, Mrs. McIntosh of
Hopewell. Her only daughter was the late Mrs. Mattie Robinson. The
Bowdon, Ga. Bulletin, Nov. 25
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LOUIS WESSINGER IS GRANTED PROMOTION

The following item was clipped from The Anniston Star of November 25:

Louie Wessinger of this city has received a promotion in the Department of
Internal Revenue. He is now in charge of the Montgomery Office and has nine
counties in his district. Mr. Wessinger has worked in the Anniston and
Birmingham offices of the Department of Internal Revenue since he joined the
forces, close to two years ago.

Louie Wessinger is the son of former Heflin residents, the Rev. and Mrs. W.S.
Wessinger. Rev. Wessinger was the Methodist minister here some years ago.
Mrs. Louie Wessinger is the former Miss Helen Adams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
J.L. Adams of Heflin. The Cleburne News extends congratulations to Louie for
this deserved promotion and recognition.
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LOCAL News

SEARCH ON FOR QUARTET WHO SAWED WAY OUT OF CLEBURNE COUNTY JAIL

Search was being made here last weekend for a quartet of prisoners, three of
them negroes, one white, at liberty after sawing the bars of their cell at the
Cleburne county Jail last Thursday. Sheriff Ewell Norton said that the white
prisoner was Luther Champion; the three negroes were Robert Blake, Sam Blunt
and Robert Robinson.
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NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, DECEMBER 16, 1943

LOCAL News

Mrs. James Haywood spent last week in Anniston with her son and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Ocie Haywood, who returned home with her and spent Sunday here.
-----

Mrs. Pauline Haley has returned from an extended visit to her uncle and aunt,
Mr. and Mrs. John Striplen, who live in Texas.
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Mr. and Mrs. Benton Adams left Wednesday for New Smyrna, Fla., where they will
spend two weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Winfree and little daughter Penny.
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NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, DECEMBER 30, 1943

LOCAL News

Pvt. Roy Norton of Camp Geneva, Neb. is on furlough and is spending time with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H.G. Norton of Rt. 2.
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Sgt. Len Gray is home on his furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Gray. Len is stationed at Walnut Ridge Army Air Field in Walnut Ridge, Ark.
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