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foes rovk CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES, BEAUFORT AND MORE HEAD CITY, N. C FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1941: THE SIDEWALK SKIPPER Operating under difficulties is the staff of Captain John Nelson, recently moved from the old infir mary building at the section base to the adjacent, and larger, build ing just north of it. Plasterers and carpenters ply their trades on all sides in an effort to convert it for peace-time purposes but Cap tain John, his business-like Girl Friday, and Mr. Webb are installed with their desks and filing cabinets and seem to work unhampered by it all. Nearby, the FisJief.es Institute folks are tackling the problems of shrimp and oyster populations with efficiency and dispatch. Doctors Taylor, Coker, Roelofs, and Chest nut, have been moved forward from the rear of the building and now occupy the former fish com mission offices. Assisting them are Carter Broad, Jim Yount, and Charles Newton. Dr. Coker is at present in residence at the Insti tute, while the Roelofs' Newtons, and Chestnuts are installed in new homes in Morehead City. The group recently took a pretty rough trip up Pamlico Sound and report the newly acquired "Victory II" to be cminentlv seaworthy and prac ticable for their needs. With the bottom dropping smack out of the shrimp market and prices skidding from thirty and thirty-five down to twenty, thenco to eight cents a pound, things look pretty dull for the shrimpers. A paucity of food fish isn't helping matters. Small boat owners turned to helping out the menhaden fish ermen the first part of the month, when thoy were coming in heavy laden and low in the water, and it wasn't unusual to see one of the larger craft coming in like Mama Duck with a string of small-boat ducklings single - filing after her. All in all, June was n good month for menhaden, with the old-timers terming this the "best season in twenty vear." Several successful trips a day have been made by some of the bcits, the "Bonner L. Willis" in particular. Bring a conversion job she comes in at a conspicuously dif ferent angle, her bow digging In to thp wnter. A few mullet and a smaller amount of flounder lire coming in and, while there are plentv of shrimp, most of the bovs feel they can't afford to go out with the ante so low. "Demand seems to have dropped with size and quantity" is the way Charles Davis puts it. All the Davis boats are tied up and will remain so for several weeks or more. Both the "Jerrv" and the "Ava Lee," of Davis Shore, brought in a load of 19.000 menhaden, in the absence of a more edible cargo and set what may have been a record run for the smaller craft. The skipper of the Wnllis Broth ers has been having his troubles, having been towed in twice in one week as a result of engine trouble. Even the dowager Sickle, owned now by David Jones, was similarly served by the Coast Guard. LIVIIIG ROOII PpvK WiUHeaUy lR -Tf Illl be market day pretty soon so here it is!... Our big July Clear ance Sale your opportunity to save from 25 to 50 per cent on new iurniiure.. We will let our reputation vouch lor those important in ner details ol good materials and workmanship . . . and the fabrics are out ot this world . . . really decorator type styles that yon can harmonize to a point where your results will be breathlakingly beaitiiiuL . Don't pass up this sale-CC.IE IN TODAY! Neuse river shrimping is rei ported to be good, but there ilso the "take" Is negligible as so many dealers have stopped buy ing for another month. Among the few boats running out of Beaufort and returning with shrimp are the "Gigi," belonging to Earl Holden, of Vandemere, and the "Ruth," also of Vandemere and skippered by Guy Lupton, of Len noxville and Cedar Island. That new "yaller" get-up of Har vey Smith's boats comes as some thing of a surprise when seen for the first time but is a result of efforts to counteract the soiling ef fect of gurrie in the water, which so soon sullies the sides of freshly painted craft. Until it is proved undesirable for some reason, boats from this plant' will be painted thusly in the hope that it will look better longer than the traditional white. Between the devil and the deep are the dealers of this region, ac cording to Dealer L. G. Hardesty, who says that while fishermen ex pect the same price for small shrimp as large, they bring a much lower price to the middle man. Lo cal shrimp have been running 45 60 to the pound. Similar shrimp arc selling in Georgia and South Carolina for eight cents a pound, according to an itinerant Chicago buyer. Hardesty has been paying 12 cents for the mullet he is get ting and 15 to 20 cents for flound ers. Chief activity of the Beaufort Quirkfreeze plaift these days is re frigerating cars for shipping cab bage, tomatoes, and potatoes, ac cording to Engineer W. Ottis Wil lis, major dnino of the engine room. Ice is also being shipped to Norfolk at the rate of 195 to 210 Mocks per car. Small amounts of fish and shrimp are being stored for individuals. Still turning 'em out, hot wea ther or no, are Captain Wes Noe and Cecil Skarren over at the bridgeside Noe yard. Recently get ting a going-over was the Stella Mae, owned by Eddie Culver, while the Barbara Ann, belonging to Mark Mason, of Lennoxville, is possessor of a new cosmetic job. Mason is now fishing with the menhaden fleet in Mississippi but will return to run his own boat in the fall. Kvan Merrill's boat, name less but trim, has been repainted, along with Druggist Jones' "Lucky Star" and a couple of Lambert Morris' purse boats. Morehead dealer E. C. Ballou, undaunted by the ban on local boats fishing South Carolina wa ters, has taken his six boats to Thunderbolt, Ga., where they will shrimp during the rest of the sum mer. Quiet-spoken Alvin Lupton is "first mate" to Lloyd Goodwin in the operation of Ballou's Ocean Grill these days. More fish are to be found in Morehead Citv showcases than in those of the Beaufort dealers, for PIECES That Have Stepped From i -. f I j " f . tfUlii mliiPMHH I, nlnMy II , . . I , , .... h fo SO Per some reason. Puck O'Neal, for in stance, besides selling bait shrimp for 20 cents less per pound than the table variety, is featuring blue fish, Spanish mackerel, flounders, grey trout, crab meat, clams, oys ters, and soft crabs, all taken lo CroaUn Is baying shrimp at the present time and holding It for future reference and higher prices. Count on these runs 55 to 70 a pound. An imposing array of rubber stamps over the wrapping desk at this plant gives some idea of what they hope to deal in. Neatly rack ed and plainly labeled, they in clude such items as "Jumbo shrimp, oysters, herring roe, shad roe, mackerel, whiting, spots, trout, sea mullet, crab meat, lump and claw crabmeat, croakers, bluefish, and hogfish. They hope to begin buying food fish when it is avail able in larger quantities. Ever on the alert for a new diea, Tony Seamon and Ted are now marketing their own brand of sea food sauce. Selling for 30 cents the half pint and 50 cents a pint, the product is a result of long ex perimenting and demand on the part of customers who have been bringing all manner of containers, from ice cream cartons to Mason jars, in which to carry home the spicy concoction. Peppers, sweet relish, tabasco, Worcestershire, freshly ground horse radish, and ketchup, 'are the main ingredients and the stack of neatly-labeled jars on the counter seems to be diminishing with encouraging ra pidity. The SFM is running two boats of its own and buying from others as well. Thus they are able to say that they have "plenty of all j Kinos. included m their pis'-a-toria' roster are bluefish, 'or "5 cents z pound, Spanish mackerel for 40 cents, flounders for 40 cents, mullet 30 cents, hogfish 25 cenfs, spots for 2b cents snd shrimp for 50 cents. C. A. Gathman, University of Miami Marine laboratory, is work ing on the life history of the grty trout (weakfish) with special re ference to its relative rowth rate in cold and warm waters. Most of Mr. Gathman's information comes from a microscopic study of scales taken from either side of the dorsal fin. He notes and interprets the growth lines much as botanists can tell the growth history of a tree bv studying the rings seen in a cross section of the trunk. Recently Gathman made a re quest of the Duke University Marine Laboratory for scales of grey trout from this area. Since thft fish was out of season, shrimp trawlers were contacted and, although they were catch ing very few per drag, several of them saved all the weakfish from their "trash" with the , re. suit that Gatham was supplied with the 100 specimens he need ed. Captain Bill Ballou is also buy ing from others, and running one of his own boats. At his cafe they are featuring what he terms as "the onlv smorgasboard in North Carolina," the main feature of which is variety and the pri- Decorator Cent OFF It a fa 1 'ifflttf.W':-! vilege of eating "all you can hold" for the nominal price of 75 cents. One to 3 meats, 12 to 16 vege tables, tea, dessert, and drink make up the menu each day. In Ballou's next door market are to be found all manner of locally produced foods. In addition to a goodly array of seafoods one may buy vegetables and fruits brought in by farmers who supply the cafe. Among them are eggplant, melons, corn, onions, tomatoes and Cab- bage.( A whole meal may be as sembled from the produce and seafood displayed. The mackerel fillets are especially recommended and sell for 60 cents a pound. Stone crabs at four dollars a dozen are the good word at Ot tls's Market, where a brand aew freezer is now in operation. A 500 pound-capacity York, it will be used mostly for shrimp. Small boats in the Morehead area have been getting two-forty a thousand for menhaden. Looking for better; pickings or nettings by the miudle of August is Latham Willis, of Morehead, who states they are operating one boat, "The A. M. Willis" and get ting a few shrimp and a "very few fish." Camficld Willis will take the "Miss Sally" out when things pick up. A record catch of amberjack for the season is the claim of Ottis Purifoy for Mose J. Forman, of New Bern, who took a party out in the "Shearwater" recently. The City Fish market has moved next-door-but-one from its old lo cation, where there is more room. Mr. Hall is occupying the building formerly housing Sam Parker's Grocery. A new fish net preservative called Rot-ban is being tried out bv the Division of Commercial Fisheries. According to its man ufacturers, the product dries in 36 hours and is guaranteed to do a better job, besides being more flexible than tar. The newly commissioned "Albat ross," fisheries research vessel of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Ser vice, has been sent to make an in tensive study of fish concent ra- Halpass Commercial Refrigeration SALES & SERVICE 103 NORTH 14th ST. PHONE M 9391 BEAUFORT'S BIGGEST BELL'S DRUG STORE BEAUFORT the Pages of Magazines . MJ MWml tions on New England waters and determine, if possible, "reasons for growing scarcity of market fish during recent yearm." Come South, Cap Krug, Come South! Add to the list of good advertis ing for seafood: the booklet put out by the Fish and Wildlife ser vice in Ketchikan, Alaska, which is titled "Alaskan Seafood Recipes' and is sixty-Odd pages long. It features all kinds of mouth-watering recipes, including "salmonbur gers" and shrimp-stuffed potatoes. Going from Key West's "turtle burgers" to Alaska's salmonbur gers must be to run the gamut of the whole burger family. Anyone know a new one? Invited to a July the Fourth celebration by Ambassador James C. Dunn, was our friend "Riley" Willis, who opines that Rome is "very pretty in the summer but I had rather be back on the "Jer ry" with Dave." Buying seaweed from fishermen at Stacy is the Sperti plant at Len noxville, which finds that agar from Carolina seaweed is definite ly superior to that of Florida weed in quality and color. Assurance of an adequate supply of local weed would do much to help this venture to capacity production. Manager Leahy is doing a bang-up job, from all reports, and has taken up re sidence ft the cottage near the plant. Pipes are now being laid for the stickwater which may pro vide the second product so neces sary for year round production and solvency. President Harrv Parker and Chemist Baker were recent vi sitors. Jane Eliot. F.nelish noet who died in 1805, is known for a single ballad, "The Flowers of the For est", which she wrote on a wager witn her poet brother. An ostrich eoc weiehs about three pounds. The empty shell can hold the contents of 18 eggs of domesticated fowl. BRING US YOUR NEXT PRESCRIPTION BELL'S DRUG STORE BEAUFORT IF tTfT'Wf'V The JLyylio Oil IT IS ALL YOURS AT A GREAT SAVING IF YOU-- Transportation Is The Problem . . Call Your Oil Dealer Today . . . Secure a Large Storage . Tank. Buy Oil In Summer Stay Warm In Winter. old-type home heater with this amazing automatic furnace. No expensive ducts. No dirt. No ashes.1 Perfect system for all sizes of 1-story homes. 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