AGE TWO
THE BEAUFORT NEWS BEAUFORT, N. C.
Thursday December 18 I94,
IN NORTH CAROLINA PINE WOODS
AND BARE FIELDS VAST DEFENSE
PROJECTS HAVE BEEN CREATED
Millions Of Dollars
Spent During
Past Year
By CHARLES PARKER
RALEIGH, Dec. 15.
North Carolina has convert
ed pine woods and bare
liehLs into vast defense es
tablishments. At Fort Bragg alone, G2,
000 troops are training on
tie nation's largest artillery
post which was expanded
irom a garrison of 3,000 less than
18 months ago. Camp Davis sprang
up in six months from an Onslow j
County pocosin and now 20,000 j
officers and men are being drill-1
ed in anti-aircraft tactics there. J
Coastal property near Jackson-j
ville, formerly dominated by hunt-,
ing lodges, is being converted in-1
to the New River Marine Barracks !
to accommodate 18,000 troops by I
scheduled completion date, June, '
1.42. At the same time Cunning-j
ham Marine Air Base near New j
I'vm is due to be ready for train
ing Marine flyers as well as serve
ss a major Atlantic Coast air
base.
A base for Navy
constructed at a cost of $6,000,000
near Elizabeth City, also is due
for completion in June, 1942, and
bec. nie the base for this observa
tion army of the Navy. At Eliza-
bet'; City the Coast Guard Air
Base, completed in 1P40, has been
serving for months as an inter
mediate stop for American-built
warplanes being ferried overseas.
Coast Guard patrol planes, their
importance tremendously increas
ed by the declaration of war, are
based here.
Pope Field, at Fort Bragg, and
Sykes Field, near Charlotte, form
vital links in the Army's air de
fense organization.
Naval repair and supply bases
at old Camp Glenn, near Morehead
City, and Fort Caswell, near South
port, are being prepared for serv
icing smaller craft on defense
duty, and the Quartermaster Sup
ply Depot in Charlotte is handling
a huge volume of Army materials.
Manning these establishments,
constructed at cost exceeding
$120,000,000, will be 105,000 of
ficers and men. Plans for expan
tion, which may be executed rap
idly in the light of war develop
ments, could easily double person
nel and bring a recurrence of the
construction boom which marked
the initial stages of the program.
In addition to the faiclities of
federal armed forces, there are 40
State guard units numbering ap-
pioximately 2,000 men and oi li
ters. They have headquarters in
the chain of armories built by
WPA over the State in the last
three years. There are 27 of these,
built at a cost of $2,000,000.
In North Carolina the actual
military feature of defense, be
cause of the large troop concen
trations here, have overshadowed
industrial developments, but from
the beginning of the national
emerf.oncy the State's productive
capaci'y has been geared to the
needs of national defense.
War orders have placed the tex
tile industry on an over-time basis
to fill more than $40,000,000 .in
contracts for cotton and woolen
products essential to outfitting
fighting forces.
Demands of war have revived in
dustries dormant, or languishing,
since the first World War. created
new ones and spurred production
to new levels in enterprises es
tablished in the State within the
last decade, particularly those of
the chemical industry.
Shipbuilding, a major industry
in 1918-10, has been revived at
four points, the largest being at
Wilmington where the North Car
olina Shipbuilding Ca. is building;
37 cargo vessels of 10,400 tonr,
capacity. The first, the Zebulon
B. Vance, was launched on Decem
ber 6, exactly 5 1-2 months after
the keel was laid in the then un
completed yard. There are 4,500
employees now at work in this
yard and the number is expected
to be increased to 7,000 as work
on hulls, on nine ways, progresses
simultaneously with the fitting out
of vessels already launched.
At New Bern, Manteo and Eliz
abeth City, boat works are engag
ed on contracts for smaller craft
for the Army and Navy. Contracts
for shipbuilding to date total $00,
000,000. Pulp for containers essential to
war shipments is being produced
by mills in both the eastern and
western parts of the State, and
000,000 has been invested in
t'ae war-bred Ecusta Paper Com-
any near Brevard which was com
pleted just in time to save the U.
S. lobacco industry from a crit
ical shortage of cigarette paper.
This plant is now producing paper
in quality and quantity sufficient
to make the cutting off of imports
barely noticeable.
Ethyl-Dow Company, extracting
bromine from sea water below
Wilmington, is producing an es
sential element of high-test gaso-
j line, and huge Enka Corporation,
j near Ashevilie, is making rayon
j to fill part of the breach left by
! cessation of imports of silk from
Japa n.
The plant of the Dayton Rub
ber Company, recently completed
at Waynesviile, may be converted
to production of synthetic rubber
if necessity dictates.
Automotive assembly and body
plants are engaged with $3,600,
000 in motor vehicle contracts.
The Corbitt Motor Company at
Henderson is the chief producer.
Little known plants, such as the
Edwards Rail Car organization at
sanrorn, are suo-contracting air
craft parts.
The Carolina Aluminum Com
pany at Badin, subsidiary of the
Aluminum Company of America,
has increased capacity and is turn
ing out this essential war mater
ial in record volume, and the
Aluminum Company this fall com
pleted the first hydro-electric proj
ect begun after declaration of the
national emergency, the 22,500
kw Glenville plant in western
North Carolina,
blimps, being!. th Carolina leads the South
in n,vui u-cictw ic (jurter generation
and its installed capacity of more
than a million kilowatts, hydro
and steam, is turning wheels of j
war industries throughout the
southeast.
Value of its 400,000 kiklowatt
steam capacity was demonstrated
in the water power shortage of
1941, and additional steam plant
facilities are under construction,
an example being the $6,000,000
plant of Carolina Power & '.ight
Company under conrtruetion neat
San ford.
Curtailment of imports of stra
tegic minerals has revived mining
in Noitli Carolina, which prior to
the California gold rush in 1S49,
was the nation's leading gold pro
ducer. Value of minerals from
North Carolina mints is expecte.i
to reach $20,000,000 in 1941,
Although bauxite, the ore or
aluminum, is not found in quan
tity in North Carolina.
deposits of olivine bearing a
percentage of manpsinm in
the western part of the State and
processes ate now under develop
mentfor extraction of this lighter
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than-aluminum metal.
Chromite, the ore of chromium
is being produced from veins of
olivine by portable outfits, one
now in operation at Democrat, N.
C, producing a grade of ore de
scribed as matching in quality the
product formerly imported from
Turkey.
Until the Japanese invasion, the
U. S. imported chromite from the
Philippines.
Increased production of chro
mite is expected to follow use of
the magnetic methods for locating
this mineral.
Mica, essential insulation for
spark plugs and radio senders and
receivers, is produced in volume in
North Carolina.
A long list of refractory mater
ials are also produced fro:r. North
Carolina mines.
North Carolina leads the nation
in production of wooden household
furniture, in the industrial spot
light again as defense priorities
limit use of metal in this industry.
The nation's pipe smokers are
being supplied despite closing of
customary foreign sources of briar ;
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and pipes made from laurel root
dug from North Carolina's moun
tains are matching in quality the
imported product. Three plants
are turning out pipe blocks in
western North Carolina and ship
ping them to northern factories
for finishing.
The problem of feeding soldiers
and defense workers placed new
emphasis on truck farming and
production of food and feed crops
showed a marked increase during
the last year. To meet problems
of marketing, the State Depart
ment of Agriculture entered upon
a program designed to facilitate
rapid handling of farm perishables
through strategically located whole
sale centers.
Timber production more than
doubled during the heavy defense
building demand, and non-military
building in the State during the
first ten months of 1941 amount
ed to $20,000,000.
Demands of the defense pro
gram further accelerated North
Carolina's transition from an ag
ricultural state to the South's lead-
That when the present war
started, U. S. cigarette manufac
turers expected difficulty in get
ting enough cigarette paper, pre
viously imported from France.
Now a company near Ashevilie, N.
C, using flax, makes enough cig
arette paper to scpply about half
of America's needs and other sim
ilar factories supply the remaind
er. That Dr. Louise Stanley of
the U.S.D.A. says the American
people should improve their diet
by using
Twice as much dairy products
milk, cream, butter, cheese, etc.,
as they use today;
From 1-4 to 3-4 more tomatoes
and citrus fruits, and
About twice as much of the
leafy, green, and yellow vegetab
leas. That farm foreclosure sales
during the fiscal year, ending June
30, were the lowest in seven years.
That sales of pneumatic farm
service tires are expected to reach
an all-time high of $34,000,000 for
1941, compared with $22,000,000
in 1940 and $18,001,000 in 1939.
That Germany now begins ra
tioning potatoes, a mainstay of
the German diet and the only food
product not heretofore formally
rationed.
That U. S. farm property loss
from lightning averages around
$10,000,000 a year. Properly in- M
stalled and maintained lightning) Srf
rods are highly efficient in pre
venting lightning damage.
That textile experts believe
that Japan will never regain her
lost silk markets here; that devel
opment of substitutes nearly al
ways results in more or less perm
anent disaplacement of the old pro
duct. That a mechanical stone
picker (tractor), which picks all
sizes of stones up to eight inches,
is now on the market. The Pro
gressive Farmer.
1. Keep in cool rooms free from
drafts, a temperature of 50 to 65
degrees being best.
2. Because they need light very
much, keep near windows, prefer
ably on the south or east side.
3. Keep humidity high in room
where they are kept. This can be
brought about by placing flower
pots on wet sand, and by placing
pans of water near them.
4. Water thoroughly but not
too often. Soak soil when water
out.
put the
and leave alone until it i,rjes
Best way to water is to
pot in a pan of water anA i.
soak up what is needed. U
5. Avoid using the decorative
glazed pots, or pots without hole
in the bottom for drainage. The '
look better than regular 'fl0w
pots, but are far worse for th
plants. The Progressive Farmer
F. R. SEELEY
RESIDENTIAL CONTRACTOR
BEAUFORT, N. C.
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SUITS, COSTUME SUITS,
SWEATERS AND BAGS.
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PHONE M-453-1 MOREHEAD CITY
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HOUSE PLANTS
At best, plants kept in the house
during winter have a hard time.
Some of the things that will help
are as follows:
ing industrial producer, a position
accorded it by the 1939 industrial
census which showed it led the
South in total wage earners (3.24
percent of the national total), in
wages paid (2.19 percent of the
national total), and in value added
by manufacture (2.12 percent of
the national total).
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