forfsecority,loo! Hi DtAUf UK ! Mijtwq fj! VOLUME XXXIII No. 49 7 he Most Widely Read Newspaper Along The Central Carolina tit : 12 PAGES THIS WEEK. BEAUFORT, N. C. THURSDAY DECEMBER 7, 1944 12 PAGES THIS WEEK State Health Dept. Suggests Permanent Typhus Control In West Parific AAA GROUP READY FOR 1945 Committeemen Zeal ous to Perform Duties Faithfully Special Commission Sessions Called in Beaufort - Morehead The 1945 reorganization meet ing of the County and Community Committeemen of the AAA last Friday evening in tht AAA offices in Beaufort postoffice building drew full attendance to discuss and prepare for the radical farm chang es expected next year. With Roland Salter in the chair, B. J. May, county director of the AAA. explained the new rules and duties of the committeemen. Spec ial stress was laid on the commit teeman's responsibility to help his neighboring farmers in the filing of applications for gasoline and ditching practice blanks. Those present at the meeting: County Committee: Roland Sal ter, D. W. Truckner, Lawrence A. Garner. White Oak Community : Herman K. Norris, James W. Young, Joe G. Taylor, Herman E. Taylor, Carl T. Taylor. Morehead Community: William J. Laughton, Fred L. Bell, James G. Murdoch, Robert E. Laughton, Thomas C. Oglesby. East - Merrimon Community: Gardner Gillikin, Mildred S. Law rence, Guy C. Gillikin, Hugh C. Pake. Newport Community: Leon H. Qui-nn, Cecil II. Pringle, Y. Z. Sim mons. Beaufort - Harlowe Communi ty: William J. Hardesty, Lionel N. Conner, Manly M. Eubanks, Ray mond Dickinson, Leslie D. Sprinkle. Typhus which has claimed one life and eight living cases in Car- i teret since July, today nears erad ication as the result of activities of Dr. R. K. Oliver, county health officer, supported by Mayor Ba ard Taylor of Beaufort and May or D. B. Willis of Morehead City. Announcement It hat been the practice of The Beaufort Newt, along with mott weeklies in the country, to con tinue over-due subscriptions of men and women in the armed ser vice no matter how long over due. The practice of continuing up paid subscriptions is now ruled ut by Amended Limitation Order L-240 of the Printing and Publish ing Division of the War Produc tion Board. PAID subscriptions are, howev er, encouraged as morale builders even to the extend that such sub scriptions are not included by the War Production Board in the to tal amount of newsprint tonnage chargeable to weekly newspapers. ' The Beaufort News will not cancel any over-due "Service" subscription until January IS, 1945 which should permit suffici ent time to check on the condition of the subscription. The "Service" subscription rate, as can be not ed on the editorial masthead, is specially priced at $1.50 the year. Source of the dread disease, the multitude of rata that infest the wharves, business sections and large parts of the residential sec tions of the two towns and their suburbs, will be completely damn ed for all time if the efforts of the trio meet whh success at special meetings of the towns' boards of commissioners called by the may ors. . Beaufort's special meeting has been set by Mayor Taylor for Monday night, Dec. 18 and More head City's by Mayor Willis for Tuesday night, Dec. 19. The May ors will lay before their respective groups a detailed plan submitted by the local health department in conjunction with the State Board of Health to both officials by E L. Hunter of the State Depart ment last Tuesday afternoon in Dr. Oliver's office. The plan outlined by Hinton has been and is being followed by Wil- son, Rocky Mount, Charlotte, Wil- mintgon and Concord and already the results in these fife municipal ties have proved its worth. A rat-proffing program not merely a rat poisoning program its cost in Concord averaged $40 per business section building unit. Offsetting the cost, Hinton point ed out that Concord, probably for the first time in its history, is now entirely f rte Of typhus and free of the daily economic toll exacted by rats. Cost of rat control in Miami, Fla., he said is $1000,000 a year and also in New Orleans. In Mem phis, Tenn., cost runs to $110,000 a year. Typhus deaths in North Caroli na run to ten of every 100 per sons stricken. All other parts of the United States have four to fie deaths per 100 stricken. If Beaufort and Morehead de See TYPHUS Page 8 By Jimmie Guthrie . . Pf c. Mervin N. Hancock, son of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Hancock is now serving with the U. S. Army in the West Pacific. Two years and three months a- go he was inducted in the army and left for Camp Hulen, Texas, from which place he left for over seas duty. He is a good boy and has always been. He has served his country for a long time with courage and patience. He has never been home since he let two y"ers and three months ago. We hope he discharg es' his duty well and returns home soon. CARTERET BOYS IN THE SERVICE In South Pacific Earl C. Day, 1st class Uoats wains Mate USCG, of Lola, wlv has been stationed at Thimble Shoaal Light Station has been transferred to Capt Lookout Light Station. i Mrs. Madora Day of Lola, recciv ed word last week that her son Preston Day, 2nd class Boastwain Mate of the USN, who has been in a hospital in the Pacific since Aug-, ust with bad nerves, has arrived in thes tates, and his condition has improved very much. j Pvt. Charles E. Moore, son of Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Moore of Beau fort, has been transferred from Ft. Bragg to Camp Blanding, Fla. BEAUFORT HI-Y CLUB MAKES GOOD START TELEPHONE CO. FRANCHISE RENEWED Routine business was transacted at the regular monthly meeting, Monday night, of the Beaufort Town Commissioners with the lone exception that the Telephone Com pany franchise was renewed anri duly signed by Mayor Taylor and Clerk Thomas. The Hi Y Club of Beaufort High School has started on a good beginning this year. The new members have been enlisted in our club and have proved highly ener getic in progressing our activities. The new members are: Seniors; Bessie Joyce Norcom, and Betty Ward. Juniors: Edna Rae Leonard, Sallie Louise Mason, and Virginia Jones. Sophomores: pla Bell Dickinson, Sara Curtis Guthrie, Pauline Ma son and Pat Webb. Regretfully, our former leader, Mrs. McGinnis, has been unable to ie;..J us thio year, but Miss Marjorit-. Humphrey has filled the vacancy and we feel that we will progress under her guidance. Mary Louise Mason, . Club Reporter. Billy Arrington S lc, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Arrington, Beau fort, has been transferred from Little Creek, Va., to Solomon Na val Station, Md. Thomas Beachem S lc of the Merchant Marine, stationed at Norfolk returned to his post of duty Wednesday after spending 30 days furlough home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Beach- am, RFD. -3 S t - f Matt! 9. m PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Fire Sweeps Lof Sin Motor Co. Endangers All Of Beaufort POLITICS OR DOLE NO PART OF AAA David Woodrow Nelson, S lc USN, is now serving with the Am phibious Operating Unit in the South Pacific war zone. He enlist ed in the U. S. Navy in May of 1940. He is the son of Mrs. Callie N. Willis and the late Paul E. Nel son of Beaufort, N. C, Route 1. His wife is, Mrs. Marie Nelson of Beaufort. OFF TO FORT BRAGG Lt. Allen O'Bryan has notified his grand parents, the N. W. Tay lors of his arrival somewhere in Haiwaii. Lt. and Mrs. Daavid Mosier and and children left this week to vis it relatives in Greenville before returning to his post of duyt. Ayscue, New ABC Officer Achieves New Record Two illicit stills and five arrests on bootleg whiskey charges are the two-weeks' bag of Carteret County's new ABC law enforce ment officer M. M. Ayscue. Mr. Ayscue, a former member of the Greenville police depart ment, and Mrs. Ayscue expect to be permanently established in a Beaufort residence before Jan. 1. Mr. Ayscue was one of Green ville's best known and respected police officers and has to his cred it a long list of achievements in the line of duty. SHORT TERM FOR SUPERIOR COURT WAR RATIONING GUIDE Week ending December 9th PROCESSED FOODS Blue A-8 through B-2 (Book 4) now valid at 10 points each. Good ;to the post of to any of its mem Legion Post Playing Santa Carteret Post 99, American Leg ion, is cooperating with Eddie Cantor and his "Time to Smile" radio program to give a Christmas gift to every serviceman and wo man in a hospital in the United States. The Post, through Post Com mander R. H. Hill and Auxiliary President, Mrs. Raymond Ball, urges civilians to purchase suitable gifts, have them packed at the store where they are purchased, list enclosed contents and turn ov- indefinitely, MEATS, FATS Red A-8 through S 5 (Book 4- now valid at 10 points each for use with tokens. Good indefinitely. SUGAR Sugar stamps 30, 31, 32, 33 am1 34 food indefinitely for five pounds each. Stamp No. 40 good for five pounds canning sugar until Febru ary 28, 1945. SHOES Airplane stamps No. 1, 2 and 3 valid indefinitely. FUEL OIL Period 4 and 5 coupons from last year and period 1 coupons for this season now valid. GASOLINE ' A-13 coupons valid through De cember 21. Rationing rules now require that every car owner rite his license number and State on all gasoline coupons in his possession, ed if desired. bers or leave at any one of the Beaufort drug stores. The deadline is Sunday, De cember 10, if you wish your gift to arrive in time for Christmas Day. Suggested gifts based on a poll taken among patients is: Hankerchiefs, olive drab socks, ties and scarfs; toothbrushes, toothpaste or powder, razors and razor blades, hair tonic, jacknives, cigarettes, pen and pencil sets, cherker and cribbage boards, pak er chips, stationery, cigarette light ers and casse, soldiers buckles and belts, shaving kits, pipes, zip per bags, shoe shining kits, hair brushes and bill folds. It is very impdrtant that each package must have a list of contents listed on the outide, it must be opened and a list attached before presentation. Your personal card may be enclos- Carteret County's Decembei Term of Superior Court convened and adjourned in record time Mon day, December 4th, when Honor able R. Hunt Parker, Presiding Judge, cleared the few cases, on the calendar. Divorces were grant ed in the cases of Mary Frances Taft vs George Leroy Taft; Car rie Wiley vs John E. Wiley; John Cox vs Alverta Cox; and Julia Frost vs Ernest Frost. A consent judgment was render ed in the cases of Kilburn vs. Wil liams, and Goldman vs. Loftin Mo tor Company. All other cases of the calendar were continued for the term. Mrs. Eva Bravaldo, Assistant to Clerk of Superior Court L. W. Hassell, served in his absence in the Superior Court Room for the first time as Acting Clerk. Mr. Hassel continues to improve at the Fayetteville Veterans Hosptial. Pfc Ossie Ashman USA, station ed at Fort Monroe, Va., is spending several days here with his fiance, Miss Gwendolyn Whitehurst. He will return this week to awaait his r.jw assignment. Seven Carteret County youths left last Friday for Fort Bragg from Selective Service headquar ters in Morehead City. They are: Harry Quinton Simmons, New port; Ottis Kittrell, Beaufort Rt. 1; Ralph Leo Dudley, Beaufort, Rt. 1 : Stuart McGuar Morse, Stel la; Charles Eric Moore, Beaufort; Robert E. Lee Khue, readier; Cecil Ray Powers, Morehead City. HERMAN HOWLAND BURIED Lt. J. M. Larrick flew, from New port, Arkansas to . ...Cherry. Poiil and spent last Thursday and Fri day with the W. A. Smith's of North River Road. DR. BONNER APPOINTED Dr. K. P. B. Bonner, Chairman of the Carteret County Board of Commissioners, was appointed by the Board at its regular monthly meeting on Monday, December 4, to assist Dr. Robert K. Oliver, County Health Officer, in establish ing tuberculosis facilities for Car teret County. Routine and tax matters were discussed at the meeting, which was attended by all of the commis sioners. Settlements were made ir: the matters of taxes due in the name of B. J. Mann, Newport Township, and J. Kelly Gillikin, Marshallberg Township. List Takers for the January 1945 Tax Listing Period were ap pointed for the various townships as follows: Mrs. Eunice Paul, At lantic 8nd Sea Level; John D. Brooks, Beaufort; Mrs. Dora Day, Cedar Island; Miss Libbie Pond, Davis and Stacy; Mabel Davis, Harkers Island; J. Raymond Ball, Harlowe; Irvin Moore, Marshall berg; Peter Carraway, Merrimon and Lukens; Charles V. Webb, Morehead; Prentice Garner, New port; George W. Davis, Smyrna and Williston; Gerald Whitehurst, Straits; and Sam B. Meadows, White Oak. Lt. Sidney Thomas Richmond, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A. Thomas of Ann Street, who was injured in India while she was serving with the U. S. Army Nurs ing Corps is considerably imrov ed. She has been transferred from an army hospital at Coral Gables, Fla., to another at Tuscaloosa, Ala. Her sister, Mrs. Joseph Sebes is now with her and will accompany her soon to Beaufort where Lt. Richmond will pass a convalescent month. Funeral services for Howland, of Craven street, were held from Ann Street Methodist church Wednesday afternoon. The Beaufort Masonic Lodge had charge of the committment rites. The seventy-three year old cit izen died suddenly of a heart at tack at his home Monday after noon, after having spent one of the brightest days of a period of failing health. , .. Prior to,, retirement ..he... was... tinner. Surviving are one daughter, Miss Marybelle Howland and two sisters: Miss Liza Howland and Mrs. J. T. Beveridge. The Agricultural Adjustment Administration, commonly known as the AAA, it not a political or ganization nor subject to any sort of political control, it does not tell farmers what they can and can not plant, nor does it give farmers money for nothing as commonly supposed, B. J. May, head of the Carteret County AAA told fellow members of Beaufort Rotary Club in regular weekly dinner ses sion Tuesday evening at the Inlet Inn. The AAA, functioning since 1 1933, has helped farmers get rid of surpluses, assisted farmers in improving their oils. In the lat ter matter, Mr. May said, that the AAA has given farmers soil im provers not as gift or dole but on loan. Since 1937 average production on all crops has increased 21 per cent while farm income has gone up 50 per cent. Functions of the AAA have touched and influenced every phase of community life Mr. May said, pointing out that oyer $260, 000 in payments and salaries have t.n Carteret during the I olovon vpnra nf the nroeram. that Herman I., ' :.ij: POACHERS, OYSTERS, AGAR KEEP DR, PRYTHERCH BUSY the payroll of those, including the elected committeemen, who have had the administrative responsibi lity has amounted to more than $60,000 and that A. C. P. and Parity payments to farmers in the countv has amounted to more than $180,000, Mr. May said. A round table discussion on the current Tuberculosis Seal drive revealed that 250 letters address ed to Morehead City residents, sealed and stamped in Beaufort and turned in at the Morehead City Postoffice with the thoughts sav ing time and labor on the part of both the Beauforta nd Morehead Postoffics, were refused by the Morehead office on the grounds, said to be legal, that the stamps had not been purchased there, For rescuing an injured trapped in his burning plane, Ser geant Reuben R. Garvin of Beau fort has been awarded the Soldier's Medal, according to a dispatch to The Beaufort News from a com mand unit of the Ninth Air Force Dsfense in France. The award, presented by Briga dier General William L. Richard son, commanding the Ninth Air Defense Command, cited Garvin, who despite flames and danger of explosion, helped remove tha pi lot from the crashed plasj to safe ty. Pfc. Roy C. Merrill, U. S. Ar my, tationed at Camp Wo!ters, Texas, arrived Friday irijh'- to spend furlough with Fiis parents, Mr, and Mrs. Clem Merrill, of Moore Street. Besides trying to protect his half tame mallards from poachers, Dr. H. F. Prytherch had a busy several days this week. Monday he addressed the State Council of War Agencies at Ral eigh on the diverse, yet related, subjects of oyster biology, oyster post-war plans, the Agar industry, the menhaden industry and recent pilot i mullet growing experiments. Tuesday Dr Seal Drive Shows Progress MM 3c and Mrs. Chailes Eldad Moore of Beaufort Rt. 1, annoiiuc-; the birth of a son James Walker, on December 1, ut Morehead City Hospital. Mrs. Moore is the form er Charlotte M. Czaj.i of Chicago, 111. MERCHANTS GIVING FULL COOPERATION All merchants in Carteert Coun ty are displaying the colorful mer chant consumer posters in their stores according to reports reach ing Miss Elsie Nelson, ration ooard price clerk. Pvt. Arnold W. Salter has re turned to his service post at Camp Polk, La., after a visit here with his wife and children and his par ents, Mr. and 11k, M. O. Salter of Broad Creek. James C. Steed, son of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Steed, 120 Queen St., recently graduated from' the Aviation Radio school at U. S. Na val Air Station. Jacksonville, Fla., and was promoted to Seaman Frist Class in the U. S. Navy. Entering thu Navy April 2G, 1944, he received his recruit train ing at Jacksonville, Fla., before being transferred to the Naval Air Technical Training Center here. Steed is now a qualified Avia tion Radioman and ia scheduled for Operational Training. He will prob ably 3ee future service as a Na val Airchewman. Carteret's Tuberculosis Seal Drive is well underway with re ceipts from the solicitation by let ter coming in stadily, according to Mrs. Martha Loftin, chairman of the drive. The goal is $1,800. Sale of bangles to school chil dren is progressing well and sale Prytherch attend I of Seals at booths in various places in tne county may com Dine w et, a record for Carteret. ed a conference at Washington, N. C. called by Capt. John Nelson to discuss oyster shell planting. Clyde P. Willis, AHH 3c and Miss Marilyn Bevan of Lake City, Florida, were married on Nov. 23, in the Baptist Church at Lake City. Mr. Willis is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Willis of Marshall berg,, and is stationed at the N. A. S. at Lake City as instructor. Marine Sergeant George, H. Herbert, whose wife lives in Beau fort, recently was graduated from rifleman class in the Fleet Marine Force at Camp Lejeune. Sgt. Herbert was thoroughly schooled in infantry tactics and weapons and is now qualified as a rifle platoon non - commissioned officer. IN PHILLIPINE INVASION Royce Vincent Emory, Cox US NR has been awarded a citation for taking part during the Philli- MRS. JAMES CANADY SERIOUSLY ILL Mrs. James Canady, wife of the manager of the Beaufort A & P store and president of the Beau fort Rotary Club, is seriously ill at a Kinston Hospital where she was removed from Morehead City Hospital last when efforts there failed to achieve desired results. Mrs. Canady will be given another blood transfusion tomorrow. Volunteer Firemen of Beaufort, Morehead And Marine Field Endanger Lives Fighting Blaze Fire of undetermined origin to tally destroyed the extensive build ings of the quarter-century old Loftin Motor Company last night. A general alarm was sounded at 8:45 p. m. and the all-out blasts at 12:30 a. m. but until late this morning smoke still curled angri ly from the charred debris and members of the volunteer Beau fort Fire Department were main taining alert watch. Horace G. Loftin, president ot the company which has made Ford automobile history in Carteret County, estimated damage thi morning at more than $20,000. Besides the buildings, flames consumed eight automobiles, wrecker, a stock of new tires, a great quantity of paint, irreplac- able tools. The Loftin Motor Company will continue, Mr. Loftin said but rue fully added that the repair depart ment of the concern, the life-saver for many a Carteret automo bile, is necessarily out of business for a long time to come, certainly until War Production Board, re strictions on purchase of nef tools is lifted. More than hatf the member ship of the Beaufort Fire Depart ment were on the job witnin nve minutes after the fear-raisinff general alarm "33" was sound4 Hose from two pumpers vera thrown on the building, back and front, and Chief Hardy Lewis, Jr.. disposed his men at all danger points. Flames- shot more -than 100 feet into the air and sparks float ed southward over house tops, vr en to Front Street. Chief Hardy's thoughts were equally divided be tween fighting the Loftin fire and protecting the neighboring resi-, dences and the Ann Street Metho dist Church. Had the fire occurred on either last Saturday or Sun day evening the entire Town of Beaufort might have been ewept, according to firemen. i! Sgt. Thomas P. O'Neill with his crash truck crew from Beaufort Marine flying field and & pumpet with a full complement headed by Chief Warren Guthrie of Morehead City wee simultaneously on the job fifteen minutes afte the gen eral alarm. Both crews pitched into tho nip and tuck battle and time after time a Marine, a member of the Beaufort department or a mem ber of the Morehead department took his life in hr n i to dash into one or another of the flaming buildings with hose and axe. Corporal Walter H. Addy of the Marine crash crew sustained the only injuries, and they slight But the possibilities of injuries ware ever present ova a. m it y not at all on the m'ris of Shr.v.f O.er See FIRE Pug.- 8 CARTERET'S FIRST GIRL DRUGGIST. When Miss Evelyn Salter, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Salter of Stacy is graduated from the University of North Carolina phar macy school on Dec. 17, she will become the first Carteret girl to have achieved the right to handle the druggist's pastel and mo tar. After a year's apprenticeship i:i a drua- store, probably in one of TIDE TABLE Information as to the tide at Beaufort is given in thn column. The figures are ap proximately correct anrt tn based on tables furnished by the U. S. Geod;tic Survey Some allowances must be made for variations in the wind and also with reject to the locality, that is v. eth er nei) the inle. hem! nf tne es unr pine invasion., hmory s citation Carteret s drug stores, she will erads in part: From: The Com- become a full fledged pharmaels.. manding officer To: Royce Vin-j cent Emory, Cox. USNR. Subject: SGT. PRESTON MASON MIS SI-NJ :ich LOt Leyte Invasion, 20 Oct. 1944, Phil lipines Islands. 1. My wholehearted congratu lations are extended to you for the splendid manner in which you fulfilled your duties during the subject, mentioned invasion, you truly lived up to the American spirit in coming "Back With Mac" 2. You, as an individual mem ber of the crew of LST 738, de serve all the praise that goes in to the navy's phrase "Well Done." John T. Barnett, Commanding Officer. Emory is thes on of Mrs. Delia Emory of Roe. He entered the ser vice in November 1943, and re ceded his LST training at Camp Bradford, Va. MAY BE WAR PRISONER Sgt. Preston Mason, son of Mr and Mrs. Joe Mason of Ann Stveet, Beaufort, may be a prisoner of war according to information reaching the Masons from the War Department. The Depart ment reported Sgt. Mason missing as of Nov. 6. The Alasons are in receipt of a letter from their son dated Nov. 6. P. T. A. MEETS TUESDAY The December meeting of the Beaufort Parent-Teachers Associa tion meeting will be hied on Tues day evening at 8 o'clock in the high school auditorium. An interesting program awaits. Friday, Dec. 8 S:22 AM. '-34 AM. 3:32 PM. 10:00 PM. 4:19 AM. 10:32 AM. Saturday, Dec. 9 4:26 PM. 10:48 PM. 4:26 PM. 10:48 FM. Sunday, Dec. 10 C:09 AM. 11:27 AM. 5:17 PM. 11:35 PM. Monday, Dec. 11 5:55 AM. 6:07 PM. 12:16 PM. Tuesday, Dec. 12 6:38 AM. 12:16 AM. 6:51 PM. 1:03 PM, Wednesday, Dec. 13 7:21 AM. 1:00 AMT. 7:36 PM. 1:47 PM". .. Thursday, Dec. 14 8:01 AM. 1:40 AM. 8:18 PM. 2:30 PM.