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and PEG KNIGHT will fojDl like working up steam again next year!
There's a n^w card and magazine and book shop in Atlantic Beach, between tho
dell and the ice crcam shop, near the ABC store. RUTH I’JETHERSPOON of Durho
as opened it - she and her husband have a summer home on the beach and Joe
commutes weekends. Our MRTHA FLYNN, good friend of Ruth’s, is helping her
out occasionally in the shop and told us there was too be a complete line of
American greeting cards as^ well as several out-of-town newspapers and some
locally done crafts in stock.
Have you noticed tho Yard of the Month sign in LORRY DAYTON'S yard? That
was awarded by the Morehead City Garden Club, and wo are for sure proud to
have that lovely PKS yard recognized for its outstanding quality. Lorry
tells us that several residents, with permission of the owners, have cleared
underbrush on vacant lots* This not only enhances the appearance of neigh
boring property but helps cut down on the mosquito population for which we
are also grateful.
Public Spirited Citizens: ALLEN MITCPIELL and ERIC HASSEL have taken on the
responsibility for the life raft and ring at the Mimosa beach. This means
putting them out every morning and taking them off the beach every evening.
Thank you both. We all know how valuable that ©quipnont could be*
You remember that the electorate voted to increase;: the number of County Com
missioners. Running for nomination for County Commissioner is DOUG FLEMING
of Atlantic Beach, son of PKS resident. Lib Fleming, He is the only Bogue
Banks resident seeking the nomination, Doug who is owner-manager of
Fleming’s Motel in Atlantic Beach was presented an award by the Morehead City
Jaycees as 197o Outstanding Young Businessman - Carteret County Chamber of
Commerce*
Don’t know about you, but we' keep getting completely confused about the pur
poses of and goin^on around the FISHERIES of our area. Decided it was time
to get into depth on the subject. If you are FISF7;RY knowledgeable, skip
over all this ’cause it will be elementary.
Let’s start with the DUKE 14ARINE LAB on Pivers Island (just over the Beaufort
causeway and to your right). Here are represented several departments of
Duke University’s main campus, including zoology, botany, and chemistry, with
emphasis on oceanographic aspects of those fields. A full time research and
teaching faculty stays right on the island, and the flow of students in and
out is constant. In tho spring, for example, visiting international scien
tists come to usG th^. vast facilities the lab has — these people arc often
from underdeveloped countries that ne^d help in solving difficult local
oceanograpnic problems. All yea.r long the lab houses students from other
private universities who take courses for credit back at their own schools.
In summer usually three concentrated terms are offered and courses arc avail
able on both undergraduate and graduate levels. And always present are
research scientists on their own various grants, working on specific projects
Now then — we come to tho INSTITUT.3 OF MARINE SCIENCES at Camp Glenn, which
oilers the same kinds of things on a somewhat smaller scale, and is primarily
a research facility for tho University of North Carolina faculty members,
along with lab technicians and assistants \>jorking on grants under those fac
ulty people, although tv;o 6 week summer sessions are offered for Chapel Hill
students.
Tho building, Robert D. Coker Hall, contains research labs, classrooms, lib-
rary, p otographic darkroom, research collections, special x-ray equipment,
etc,, and the institute also operates a ^7 foot deisel powered, extremely
well equipped research vessel (of course, Duke has its research ship, tho
Eastward, too).
along here — are you still with us? Wo come to the UNITED
COI'MERCE DEPT. OF NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION’S
ilONAL hARpiE FISHERIES SERVICE, also on Pivers Island. At: this ono thoy
u y fisheries for tho southoastorn states, focusing on the ecology of tho
,, coast, what grows in them, th.ir pollution by heavy
study offshore sports fishing and, of course, commer-
By Gspociapy monhadon, and the habits, migrations, etc., of fish,
o? thnt with North Carolina State University, graduate studon^
won It Tl in the lab, and in summortimi, teachers, as
well ae othor studu-nts, even from high schools, arc employed there,
division OF MARINE FISHiSEISS, Camp Glenn, is con
lav/ statutes and regulations for Coastal waters. TheV ar
-ers, they have a research and development department which sends
rawier and small boats for statistical information about bodies of