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BEAUFORT, N. C, THURS., SEPT. 17, 1942.
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
State-wide Blackout To
Be Held This Month
NEWPORT TRIPLETS WERE SIX ON TUESDAY
PfoclanMoB Concerning
Restricted Military Zone
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BEAUFORT BOYS
InTheService
Norman C. Skarren, recently
commissioned 2nd Lieutenant aft
er a three months' training period
at Ft. Benning, Ga., has been
transferred to Camp Walters, Tex.
5G Bn. I.R.T.C.
Otis Mades, Seaman 1st Class,
USNR., stationed at Charleston,
spent the weekend with his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Suthey Mades
on Turner street.
Ralph Davis, Pvt. USA, station
ed at Camp Butner, spent last
weekend with his parents, Mr. and
Mi's. Clarence Davis of Highland
Park.
Joseph Windley, Pvt., U.S.A.,
has been transferred from Ft.
Sill, Oklahoma, to Camp Young,
Indio, Calif.-
The Moore brothers, sons of
Mr. and Mrs. E. 0. Moore of
Marshallberg, are getting further
and further apart. Cpl. Maurice
Moore, formerly an assistant in
the First Citizens Bank and Trust
Company, has crossed the Atlantic
with our troops and receives his
mail through the New York Post-
office; Pvt. Reginald Moore
(Shirley's husband) has gone west
with a new address :n care of the
Post Master at Seattle.
After being out of touch for
over four months, Robert Hudnell,
Boatswain's Mate, 2nd CI., U.S.N..
has been able to get in touch with
his family here. On duty some
where in the Pacific at the time
he wrote, he had just heard from
here for the first time since April
17. His thoughts are now turned
towards t,he West Coast. If he
lands there, he-feels he is going
to come to Beaufort even though
lie has to fly to make it. Friends
of Mrs. Hudnell, formerly Bertha
Barbour, are rejoicing with her
over the good even though abbrev
iated news she has heard.
Ben Arrington, son of "Miss
Tettie Arrington, has enlisted in
the Navy and is now in Raleigh
awaiting assignment to his Train
ing School for his first six weeks
of training.
See SERVICE Page 10
.
Perry Reavis
Goes To Dunn
Perry Reavis, for two years
manager of the Beaufort Theatre,
leaves today for Dunn, the home
office of Stewart and Everett The
atres Inc., where he will manage
the theatre until he is called into
active service by the Air Corps.
Mr. Leonard Register succeeds
Mr. Reavis as manager. He comes
to us from Dunn and Goldsboro
and finds he already has many
friends in Beaufort He is making
his home with the Bob Sutherlands
on Moore street Dewey Fuquay
of Lillington will be the new op
era tor.
AROUND ,
Town
With
MACK CLARK
Reader Vivian Anderson, writ
ing in the Twin-City Daily Times
last Friday, took exception to our
column of August 27 and attempt
ed a little chastisement. We were
literally accused by her of raising
the "Race Question" and of die
tating the Negroes' place as being
"beside the kitchen range."
Reader Anderson seems to think
that we advocate kitchen drudg
ery for the colored woman and an
afternoon of bridge for the white
woman. .
SET ARIGHT
We will attempt to set you all
aright as to our meaning our
words were first prompted by the
increasing inability of anyone to
hire domestic help. (We could
just as easily have said plumbers
or carpenters or soda-jerkers).
We hope we are not race-prejudiced.
And we believe in everyone
having an opportunity to advance
according to his ability.
, Our main point was one of re-
ee AROUND TOWN P 10
Civilian Defense
Officials Working
Out Plani For Test
T.parlpra nf Civilian De
fense throughout North Car
olina are assembling in Ra
leigh today to map plans for
the State-wide blackout to
be held later this month.
The nieetine will be addressed
by Governor Broughton, Regional
OCD Director Chas. H. Murchison,
Brig. Gen. Eric Fisher Wood, and
members of iState and Regional
defense staffs.
In addition to planning the
first complete State blackout, the
new Citizens Service Corps pro
gram will be launched with the as
sistance of staff specialists from
the Atlanta regional office, State
Director Ben E. Douglas announc
ed. The gathering will mark the
first assembly of such a represen
tative lyroup of Home Front lead
ers in North Carolina since Pearl
Harbor. It will be tha second meet
ing of the State Council of'Na
tional Defense since the entry of
the U. S. into the war. The chair
man of the council, Col. J. W. Har-
relson, will deliver the address of
welcome at the beginning of the
meeting.
Following the meeting, which
will be adjourned in time for all
except those living at consider
able distance, to return home to
day, there will be a broadcast over
a State network including the fol
lowing stations: WPTF, Raleigh;
WBT, Charlotte; WSJS, Winston
Salem; W B I G, Greensboro ;
WDNC, Durham, and possibly oth
ers. The time of the broadcast is
10:30 until 11 P. M. and the speak
ers will be Governor Broughton,
Regional Director Murchison and
General Wood.
X-Ray Examinations
To Be Given By Co.
Health Department
A Westinghouso Fluoroscope
has been recently installed in the
office of the County Health De
partment in Beaufort for use in
examining venereal disease pa
tients, tuberculosis contacts and
foodhandlers.
Early heart disease in Venereal
Disease patients can be found only
by X-Ray examination. All new
patients admitted to the venereal
disease clinic will be X-Rayed.
Tuberculosis can be easily cur
ed when found in the early stages.
At this early period very few, if
any, symptoms are present. X-Ray
examination is the only certain
means of diagnosing the disease in
this early, easily cured, stage.
Dr. C. P. Stevick, County Health
officer, has recently returned
from the North Carolina Sanator
ium where a two week course was
given in fluoroscopy under the
supervision of Dr. P. P. McCain.
No Eat, No Meet Is
Way Beaufort Rotes
Beaufort Rotarians met Tues
day evening for the first time in
two weeks. Their week's "vaca
tion" was due to the fact that Mrs.
Pierson was away and the Inlet
Inn dining room was closed.
James Canady was program
chairman for the occasion. He in
troduced Mr. Ralph Lewis and Mr.
E. R. Daniels of the Coca-Cola
Company who spoke briefly to the
group and showed the Coca-Cola
picture on War Bonds "The
American Way."
Rotarian Jack Oakley proposed
cooperation with the Government
drive for old keys starting the col
lection with 100 which his son had
collected as a child. These are to
be placed in a container on the
counter at the Tide Water Power
Company office and others are in
vited to add to them.
J. R. Saunders, of the First
Citizens Bank and Trust Co., was
appointed chairman of a commit
tee to ferret out the most astute
Rotarian checker players to repre
sent the club at the Checker Tour
amnent to be given at the USO
building tomorrow night at eight
o'clock.
DRISKILL'S WHEREABOUTS
Dave Driskill who operated the
air taxi service out of Manteo and
Beaufort during 1941 is with the
Air Corps. He has been doing pa
trol duty on the Mexican border.
but is now stationed at Wilming
ton, Delaware, as a test pilot
Jean (left), June (center), and Joan (right), the three attractive daughters of Mr. and
Mrs. Charlie Garner of near Newport celebrated their sixth hirthJav I. t...j
(Sept. 15). They also entered the Newport school last week. The above photo was
snapped by Photographer Leon Mann Jr. on their fifth birthday last year.
RESPASS HOME
ENTERED MON-
When Discovered
Intruder Strikes
Miss Respass
Around three o'clock
Monday morning someone
entered the 'home of Mrs.
Bessie Respass on Pollock
street. The intruder made
his entrance by cutting the
screen from the kitchen win
dow. His next step appar
ently was to unlock the front door
to facilitate his get away. Ignor
ing Mrs. Respass' room on the first
floor, he went to the one of Miss
Ruby Respass on the second floor.
She roused, asked who it was,
reached for her flash light, but be
fore she could use it, he took it
and turned it in her face so that
identification of him was impos
sible. She screamed, at which he
struck her a glancing blow with a
bookend and made his escape.
Miss Respass was badly shock
ed and frightened, but fortunately
not severely injured.
The matter has been reported
to Mayor Paul but there have been
few clues on which the authorities
could work in trying to solve the
I matter.
NEWPORT BOY
AMONG MISSING
Mr. and Mrs. Ivah Haskett of
Newport have received word that
their son, Quinton Thedore Has
kett, Machinist's Mate, is among
those of our men who have given
their lives in the Pacific.
Haskett was 23 years of age and
had been in the Service for three
years. He was a native of New
port nd a graduate of the Newport
High School. Besides his parents,
he leaves three sisters and three
brothers and a host of friends to
mourn his death.
Piver's Employees
Pledge 10 Percent
For War Bonds
In response to the drive to get
all government employees to
pledge 10 percent of their salaries
for Wir Bonds, the six men em
ployed at the U. S. Bureau of Fish
eries, Piver's Island, have gone
over the top 100 percent. This
staff does not reppresent many
men, but 100 percent cooperation
can't be improved upon. Four of
the men are Veterans of the last
World War and find satisfaction
in having even this small part in
the present conflict.
Jaycees Eat
Barbecue Again
The Jaycees met Monday eve
ning at the Community Center
with 100 percent attendance. L.
C. Davis and Crip Jones were in
charge of arrangements and an
other barbeque supper was enjoy
ed. Routine matters were discuss
ed. The new Service Members
Plaque is ready to be placed in
the Legion Hut. The following six
names are engraved on it: Julius
E. Adair, John P. Butler, Wiley H.
Taylor Jr., Graham W. Duncan
Jr., Clarence H. Guthrie, William
H. Potter.
In Canada no one enjoys a net
income of more than $30,000,
taxes takes the rest.
Looking
Backward
From
BEAUFORT NEWS 1922
Beach Party
A sail and trip to the ocean
beach was given last Saturday aft
ernoon by Mr. and Mrs. C. W. E
Pittman complimentary to the fac
ulty of the Graded School. All the
teachers were not able to attend,
but the following were members
of the party: Misses Edwards,
Clark, Long, Loftih, Modlin, Webb
and Thomas. Others in the party
were Mrs. Guy D. Potter, Mrs.
William Darling, Messrs. G. W.
Duncan, Thomas Potter, Gerald
Dickinson, and W. G. Mebane.
Fine Catch Of Mullet
A good catch ot mullets was
made last Monday by several of
the boats in the Beaufort Fish
Scrap and Oil Company. The total
catch amounted to about 90,000
pounds. The Pilgrim, 50,000;
Balster, 30,000; W. B. Blades, 7,
000; and the Marks, 3,101, j
Editorial
Without a doubt one of the best
things that has ever happened in
Beaufort is the installation of the
water and sewer lines, a feat that
will soon be finished. And now if
Beaufort had about $100,000 to
put in paved streets, the old town
would soon be moving up into
Class A.
PersonaU
Messrs. Ben Jones and Dick
Duncan left Tuesday morning for
Trinity College where they will be
students.
Misses Lena and Sallie Duncan
left Tuesday afternoon for New
port where they will teach in the
graded school.
Robert D. Arthur
Drowned In Norfolk
Robert Dalton Arthur, 19-year-
old son of Mr. and Mrs. James Ivy
Araur oi ueauiort lu'u, was
drowned Sunday in Norfolk. The
body was brought to Beaufort and
the funeral was conducted from
the Free Will Baptist Church at
Bettie Wednesday afternoon at
4:30 followed by burial in the Bet
tie cemetery.
Young Arthur was employed by
the American Dredging Company
aboard the dredge Pennsylvania.
He was drowned while swimming
after a skiff that was adrift. Ac
cording to the doctor and coroner
he was taken with cramps and was
unable to save himself.
Rev. Arthur Bridgers,
Florida Minister, At
St. Paul's Church Sunday
The Rev. Arthur Bridgers, f son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Bridgers of
Morehead City and rector of the
Episcopal Church in Hollywood,
Fla., will be the guest preacher at
St. Paul's Church, Beaufort, on
Sunday, Sept. 20.
The Rev. Mr. Bridgers has been
taking his vacation in Morehead
City for a number of years and
since his ordination to the min
istry has usually preached once at
St. Paul's Church during his va
cation. This year he will speak to the
congregation at the 11 o'clock
service this Sunday. A special in
vitation is extended to Mr. Bridg
ers' many friends in Morehead
City to attend the service and
hear his message.
THE BARNACLE-A
MENACE TO SHIPS
Dr. Prytherch
Interested In
Research Import
ant In War Effort
During the pust four yearn the
thousands of visitors passing over
the bridge connecting Piver's Is
land with the Causewuy have little
dreamed that they were passing
over a structure beneath which ex
perimental work of untold import
ance in the War effort has been
H'oing on since as lor.'g ago as the
year before the Germans invaded
Poland. In these waters a series
of marine studies witS anti-fouling
paints has been conducted by the
Aluminum Company of America
with which the U. S. Fisheries Bio
logical Station have been cooperat
ing. At last these groups have
DR. H. F. PRYTHERCH
found how to control one of our
national enemies an enemy of
Allies and Axis powers alike,
namely, the little animal known as
h.Manus or lowly barnacle to you.
(le is, however, but one of a host
of over 64 kinds of marine animals
and plants whicli cause serious
fouling of ships and hydroplane
See BARNACLE Page 10
"Can't Kill A Jap
With A Horn"
A subscriber from New Jersey
sends the following clipping from
the New York Times with the
comment, "Maybe it's one of Miss
Nannie Geoff roy's boys. She used
to tall them to take band lessons
saying 'When the next war comes
you won't have to tote a gun'."
"You can't kill "a Jap with a
bugle, declared a typical North
Carolina boy who joined the Ma
rines to avenge Pearl Harbor.
"In a bitter letter to Represen
tative Bonner the youth wrote that
iie received a horn instead of a
rifle at Parris Island because he
had three years' experience in a
North Carolina band."
HUBERT FODRIE
WITH HOME SECURITY
Hubert Fodrie who has been em
ployed with the Adair Funeral
Home for the past 11 years has
severed his connection with this
establishment and has accepted a
nnaition as county Field Agent of
The Home Security Life Insurance
Company.
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MORE SELECTEES
TO FORT BRAGG
ON MONDAY
Another Group of
Carteret Men Up
For Examination
Another etoud of Carteret
County Selectees reDorted
to Ft. Bragg on Monday for
examination. The following
are the boys by communi
ties: Beaufort: Edwin D. Martin Jr.,
William C. Gillikin, David Warren
Modlin, Wilber Wilson Rhue, Leo
land Gillikin, John Styron Mason,
Theodore Laurence, John Leland
Perry, Alphia Patrick Wooten,
Barney McCoy Dixon, Hubert Sal
ter, Evan Wilkins Norwood.
Morehead City: Charlie Smith,
Herbert Willis, Marshall J. Hill,
Albert Jones, William, Forest
Bell, Lathan Willis, Bonner Guth
rie, Alfred W. Pittman, John Bat
tle" Tomlinson, Roy Edward Bar
nard. Newport: Marion W. Best, Ray
mond Johnson Riggs, Elbert Ire
dell Garner, Randall Fletcher Hall,
Clarence Levi Watson, Johnnie
Jerome Jones, Williard Lee Kit
trell. Atlantic: John Nelson Jr.
Marshallberg: Leslie Guion Le
wis, William Loren Hill, Woodrow
Wilson Pratt, Joe Robinson.
Harkers Island : Fernie Yeo
mans Jr., Troy Willis.
Davis: Elmo Murphy.
Stella: Harris Hayes Watson,
Ivey Willis.
Lukens: Ivey Pittman.
Infantile Paralysis
Meeting Held
In Greenville
On Tuesday night, Sept. 15, a
meeting of representatives of the
County Chapters of the National
Foundation for Infantile Paraly
sis was held for the estern coun
ties in Greenville.
, Those attending the meeting to
represent the Carteret County
Chapter were Mrs. George Hen
derson, Mrs. W. I. Loftin, Miss
Josephine Sykes and Dr. C. P. Ste
vick. 'i i
At the meeting Mr. Warren D
Coss of the National Foundation
was the principal speaker. Mr
James T. Barnes of the "State
Crippled Children's Agency" also
spoke. A movie on the work of
the National Foundation, "A Re
port to the People," was shown.
Activities of the chapters were
discussed, and ways in which chap.
ters are assisting afflicted individ
uals were presented.
Junior First
Aiders In Action
Rita Fay Hussey and Betty Jean
Tyler are voted last week's junior
heroines. One of those very warm
days a group of children were
whilin,r away the time in the wat
er before the old Davis House.
Connie Lewis, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Pritchard Lewis, of Front
street, overconfident about her
swimming, got into water over her
head. It came near being one of
those tragedies that break the
hearts of a people, but Rita Fay
and Betty Jean remembering theii
first aid training felt that some
thing should be done and when she
failed to come up, they went down.
She was on the bottom and had ap
parently given up but they boosteo
her up and raisd her by her hair
until they got her above water
and to Mr. Eubanks' boat tied to
the pier. They then clung to the
rope until they were able to get
Connie safely in the boat. Both
.rirls were sustained in their ef
fort by their Junior First Aid
training under Mrs. John Brooks.
It should be most encouraging to
all those who have worked hard to
make the community First Aid
conscious to think that perhips a
little girl is with us today who
might not have been except for
their work.
Status Of
Sugar Coupons
After September 21 there will
be no more special certificates is
sued for sugar for canning.
Coupon No. 8 Good for five
pounds until October 21.
Bogue Banks
Declared A
Military Area
1. Pursuant to Public Proc
lamation No. 2, Headquar
ters Eastern Defense Com
mand and First Army, Sept.
7, 1942, Bogue Banks, bound
ed on the East by Beaufort
Inlet and on the West by
Bogue Inlet, is hereby de
clared a restricted military
zone. All similar banks, islands on
North Carolina Atlantic Coast are
included in this zone.
2. All persons entering or re
maining in this or any zone of the
Eastern Military Area are enjoin
ed to refrain from acts of hostil
ity, from giving information, aid,
or comfort to the enemies of the
United States, from interfering by
word pr deed with the military ef
forts of the United States or the
processes thereof; and to comply
strictly with the restriction and
orders which herein or may here
after be issued by the Command
ing uenerai, Eastern Uetense
Command and First Army.
a. No person not in the Armed
Forces of the United States enter
ing or remaining jn any portion
of any restricted zone shall have
in his possession without authori
zation by competent military au
thority any of the following:
(1) Firearms.
(2) Weapons or implements of
War or component parte thereof.
(3) Ammunition.
(4) Bombs.
(5) Explosives or materials
used in the manufacture of ex
plosives.
(0) Short wave radio sets,
which have a frequency of 1750
kilocycles or greater or a fre
quency of 540 kilocycles or less,
(7) Radio transmitting sets ca
pable of being used for the send
ing or transmitting of radio sig
nals, communications or messages
See PROCLAMATION P 10
Monroe Gillikin
Home Is Robbed
Very early Monday evening, be
fore 9 o'clock, the home of Capt.
Monroe Gillikin, 708 Ann street,
was entered and a wallet contain
ing $120 belonging to a Coast
Guard boy who rooms there was
stolen. There was no one in the
house at the time, and it was not
locked. Mrs. Gillikin and Hilda
had left for a short walk.
If this is the work of the same
theif who entered the Respass
house everything seems to be
gravy as far as he is concerned,
but it has been interesting for the;
past three days to see so many
townsmen and townswomen get
ting out their old rusty revolvers
and polishing them up and loading
them. The town may be a trifle
short of male protectors, but
wasn't Kipling usually right? Re
member, he said "The female of
the species is more deadly than the
male." !'?
TIDE TABLE
Information as to the tide
fat Beaufort is given In this
solumn. The figures ae ap
X proximately correct and ar
X based on tables furnished by
f the U. S. Geodetic Survey.
X So meallowances must '.'
made for variations in the
. wind and also with respec'
J to the locality, thai is whetl
j- er near the inlet or at the
head of the estuaries.
HIGH LOW
Fridy, Sipt.
18
9:02 AM
10:03 PM
2:40 AM
3:2G PM
Saturday, Sspt.
3:f,G AM
4:39 PM
19
10:13
AM
PM
AM
11:03
20
11:21
Sunday, Sept.
5:11 AM
5:40 PM
Monday, Sept
6:15 AM
6:44 PM
21
12:07 AM
12:24 PM
Tuesday, Sept. 22
7:11 AM 1:01 AM
7:36 PM 122 PM
Wednesday, Sept. 23
7:01 AM 1:50 AM
8:24 PM " 2:13 PM
Thursday, Sept. 24
8:47 AM 2:34 AM
9:08 PM 3:00 PM
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