THE BEAUFORT NEWS THU RSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1936
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NEW EQUIPMENT
FOR LIGHTHOUSES
Through It They Will Notify
Mariners How Close They
Are Approaching
Washington, Nov. 18 "Self an
nouncing" lighthouses and lighsthips
that tell the mariner just how close
he is approaching them, even when
a pea-soup fog shuts them from view,
make up the latest equipment of the
United States Lighthouse Service in
its fight for greater safety at sea.
"The vital element of this recent
contribution to safer navigation,
now coming into wide use, is a combi
nation of signals which tells the nav
igator his distance from dangerous
reefs or shoals," says a bulletin from
the Washington, D. C, headquarters
of the National Geographic Society.
Tots on Atlantic Coast.
"Twenty-nine stations sending such
signals, scattered along the Atlantic
and Gulf Coasts from West Quoddy
Head, near Eastport, Maine, to the
Southwest Pass of the Mississippi
River, recently, participated in the
most elaborate demonstration of
their use ever arranged. They oper
ated continuously during daylight
hours to give all passing ships the
opportunity to test out the new meth
od, and judge of its accuracy.
"In the stress of making harbor in
a fog, shipmasters are too concern
ed to rely on an unfamiliar method.
The tests by distance-finding obser
vations were made in good weather
and in daylight because it was real
ized that, when the accuracy of the
now method was immediately reveal
ed by bearings taken irom visiDie
landmarks, mariners would gain
enough confidence in the signals to
rely on them later when fog would
obscure the station sending them.
"When approaching land in fog,
it is often possible to hear sound fog
signals from a lighthouse or light
ship; yet, because of the vagaries of
sound traveling through fog, the
hearer may be unable to aetermme
with any accuracy his distance from
the sending station. This difficulty,
which has caused many sea disasters,
is greatly reduced by the new 'distance-finding'
signals, wheih really
are "distance telling' signals.
'"Two signals are sent simultane
ously a radio beacon signal and an
other by sound. The mariner notes
the time that elapses between arriv
al of the radio signal, which comes
in first, and reception of the sound
signal. By calculations based on this
lapse of time, he can determine how
many miles he is from the sending
station. The signals can be picked up
by all ships fitted with radio dire:
tion finders or even simple radio
broadcast receivers, if they can be
tuned to the proper wave length.
Sound signals are sent, of course, by
the usual fog horn or siren.
First Use of the Signals.
"This method of distance-telling
was first tried out by the United
States Lighthouse Service in 1929,
at Cape Henry Lighthouse, Virginia,
and Pope Reef Lighthouse in the up
per end of Lake Huron.
"The following year seven addi
tional stations were placed in opera
tion on the Great Lakes, where mar
iners already were making frequent
use of radiobeacon signals for calcu
lating their positions. The use of
distance-telling facilities was but an
other step. In 1931 ten more stations
were given the new equipment, in
cluding two on the Pacific Coast: the
Blunts Reef Lightship, California,
and Grays Harbor Lighthouse, Wash
ington. . , ...
"Blunts Reef Lightship lies a short
way off Cape Mendocino, a promon
tory which must be rounded by all
ships bound up or down the coast.
Because of reefs extending seaward
from the Cape, ships must keep well
offshore. Calculation of distance was
formerly difficult when fog obscured
everything. With the new signal,
mariners can compute accurately
their distance from the lightship and
reefs, and avoid steering too close ii
shore.
"At Grays Harbor Lighthouse,
Washington, vessels entering the bay
from the open Pacific must pass thru
a narrow entrance formed by two
jetties. When fog conceals the shore
ships seeking the entrance are in
danger of running aground. The
new signals, sent from the light
house close to the jetties, will enable
ships to approach them with great?i
safety.
. "In 1935, nineteen lighthouses and
lightships were given the new distance-telling
equipment in dadition
to those already in operation. By the
New Orleans, Nov. 18 Probably
one of the most curious sights in this
picturesque city is the turtle shop in
the Old French Market.
Every night, approximately 1,000
pounds of snapping turtles are
thrown upon the chopping block to
be cut and sold for making stew or
soup. This scene has been going on
since the market was established,
nearly 100 years ago.
The turtles, of two distinct varie
ties, the Cowan and the Loggerhead,
are caught in fresh water marshes of
Baton Rouge.
Fishermen patiently wade through
marshes wherever thoy see bubbles
comink to the surface, they probe
with long rods until they hook the
struggling turtle. Some of them
weigh as much as 300 pounds. Then
begins the job of pulling them out of
their holes or the mud where they
have burrowed.
Once they are caught mo.st of th.
tuitles are penned, frequently on
shallow barges f iled with water anu
mud. In this way they are kept aliva
until they can be delivered to the
market in the wniter, when prices are
nearly double what they are in summer.
Ii is just a short journey for the
turtle from life in the swamps to th
stew pots of New Orleans.
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that on the
17th day of November, 1936, I did
lease to C. W. Fodrie of Beaufort,
N. C, the following described oyster
bottom.
Lease No. 204
Located in Newport River, Car
teret County. Beginning at a stake
about 50 feet east of Clifford Rock
in the Newport River and runs S.
52-50 E. 795 feet to a stake; thence
S. 27 degrees W. 183 feet to a stake;
thence N. 53-15 W. 805 feet to a
stake; thence N. 30 degrees E. 188
feet to the beginning, containing 4.37
acres.
This the 17th day of November,
1936.
JOHN A. NELSON,
Fisheries Commissioner.
4U2-17-36
NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that on the
17th day of November, 1936, I did
lease to Phillip K. Ball of Morehead
City, N. C, the following described
clam bottom.
Lease No. 20S
Located in the White Oak River,
Carteret County. Beginning at the
southeast corner of lot No. 28 of J.
S. Jones sub-division and runs S.
30-30 W. 100 feet out into the White
Oak River; thence along the north
ern edge of the Inland Waterway N.
60-15 W. 740 feet; thence N. 28-16
E. 100 feet to a stake on the shore
line; thence with the shore line 741
feet to the beginning, containing
1.76 acres.
This the 17th day of November,
1936.
JOHN A. NELSON,
Fisheries Commissioner.
4tl217-36
Bertie County f ramers have plant
ed one of the largest acreages of
winter legumes ever before seeded
in the county, advises C. W. Uvar
man, assistant farm agent.
One hundred Clay County farm
ers last week reported soil improv
ing practices done since the compli
ance supervisor visitde their farms.
end of 1936 at lea3t 27 other sta
tions will be so equipped, bringing
the total to 73."
Dr. Clifford W. Lewis
Office Tel. 442-1 Res. 347-1
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