TUESDAY, SEMEttBI 11 CABTERET COtWTY NEWS-TtMES, MOftfiltEAD CITY Attn BBAuTOM, tf. C. PAGE SE7EN r Tar Heels Afloat Men Plan Three Cruises in . Bv Aycock Brown Even before yachts and pleasure cratt in the "tar Heels Afloat" llctilla returned to Morehead City from their first ainual Labor Day faruiae n the rivers of Neuse and Trent last weekend, officials of the group aboard were planning to have at least three cruises during 1949, according to Commodore N. Bennett of Morehead City Yacht Basin. 1 Early September hurricane warn .ngs, advancing a big blow that never materialized cut the lumber ft pleasure craft taking Dart in the cruise last week, but 33 trim vessels having a total value of early n million dollars did parti cipate. The Tar Heels Afloat sail ors rendezvoused here on Saturday Bbfore Labor Day. After local en tertainment committees playid host the flotilla was underway on the following morning for New Bern a-d Trent Pines Club. j t'On Sunday night the party was j royally entertained at Trent Pines I during a program in which the i site's chief executive, already an j honorary chief of the Cherokees, became an honorary admiral to iail over waters of his North Caro- j Una. One of the smith's outstand I ing humorists, Edmund Harding of Washington, played a rile and an important one in entertaining the guests while thev ate a special pre pared banquet at the club. Commodore Bennett said today that tentative plans call for three cruises next year to be held on Memorial Dav weekpid; Fourth ol ily weekend and again on Laboi Bay. Tar , Heels Afloat is a yachts ijfin's organization which includes ijpembers from all navigable ports within the state Beaufort Tops (-(Continued From Paee Three) crnne in to oscore on Bill Gillikin's At. ''Beaufort repeated with another tally in the third. Hester was hit damage one run. Consecutive himself out with a minimum of by a pitched ball and took secc:d cm Tracv Hooper's single. Hester c&me in on a passed ball and an ififlekl out. 3UiOther run for Beaufort in the fj(th made it 3-1, the tally being ajl earned run scored without a htt. Hooper walked, stole second tobk third on an iifield out, and came in on a wild pitch. iThree runs in the sixth, put the game on Ice for Beaufort. Gray Hassell singled and was sacrificed to' second. Hassell then reached tHIfd on an infield out and home ot( t wild pitch. iRay Hassell then walked and tqbk second when Hester was atftin hit by a pitched ball. A passed ball moved up both runners anil' a single by Hooper brought I m, two runs. K 'Shame eot himsslf in a horrible mess in the seventh frame, but got singles by Diem, Craig Lisk, and McNiel loaded the sacks, Swans boro beiig prevented from scoring bf tdme snappy fielding. Diem scored on Holt's high fly to center and a free pass to Robinson re loaded the bases. Sharpe then end ed the Inning by fanning Byrd and getting Hatchell to ground out to tHe second baseman. Johnson then took over for Beau fort and set the remaining six Swansboro batters down In order Saturday's Game R. H. E. Beaufuort 000 110 0406 11 4 iSwansboro .,000 000 30x 3 3 4 Sunday's Game R. H. E Swansboro 100 000 1002 0 C Beaufort .,..011 013 00x-8 6 3 (Continued From Page Three) to) put Morehead In front. Marshallberg tied things up at 2-2 with a run in the third. This was done on singles by St. Amartt, HollOwny, and Hawkins. Morehead went ahead again, however, with a lone marker in the fourth stanza. Ussery got a life On the right fieder's two-base miscue and took third on a passed ball. A single by Stoy scored him a few seconds later. The game was put . on ice when Morehead broke out for runs in the fifth session. Walks to Evans and Brinson opened the inning, and single by Benton scored and brought in a new pitcher. Singles by Salter, Hill, and Gard ner shooed in two more runs and saturated the sacks, another tally scoring when McKamey issued a free pass to Smith, forcing in a run, to make it 7-2. Marshallberg's final gasp came la the seventh frame, when it cored its third and last run on a hit by Hansil, a stolen base, an error by the shortstop, and an in field out. Saturday's Game' R. H. E. Marahallb'g 400 000 2006 4 M. Cltt 013 000 0015 9 4 Sunday's Game H..H. E. M. City ..,.02O 140 0007 9 1 Marshallbg 101 000 100-4 11 4 191 Morehead Splits IIirch:zd Sdlirj Cfcb Awards Trophies io 7inr.:rs cf Rqcss In the above photograph are pic tured six trophies awarded this vear bv the Morehead City Sailing Club in its summer series ana Labor Day weekend regatta. At the left is the sail skiff div ision trophy awarded to Captain Gib Willis, who had to win ere race this year to retain it. Cap tain Gib had only one challenge this year, a man from Marshall berg. Next to Captain Gib's trophv is the Shanghai trophy, won this year bv Toddy Parker, of Golds boro. The trophy is warded to the winner of - special comet race run annually on Labor Day. The big trophy in the center is the Blue Ribbon trophy awarded to the winner of the summer series in the comet class, donated by the Blue Ribbon club. Sammy Pou was this vear's winner. Diamond Lightship wer had been "So long, mate, and luck." No Beer for Joe Another twelve hours and the seaman on the galloping tanker would be in a safe port, swilling beer. But Joe would still be toss ing and pitching on the "Dia mond," sweating out the blow. For his orders were: "Remain on the station until re lieved, and keep the light burn ing." Joe gazed southward where a couple or three hundred miles down there the hurricane was boiling northward, fattening on the ocean. He looked at the sky. It. was overcast. . He looked at the sease-Khay were calm; calm--as they ever got which to a land lubber is a fright off Diamond Shoals. Maybe Joe wondered as hepaus ed there on the bridge why he ever left that North Carolina farm near Rich Square for a job like this hurricane and fog, monotony and loneliness. But more likely (i s ni'nd was on other things, like the disappearing tanker, or what the cook was preparing for lunch, or the storm off there to the south. For a man who can take two steady years on a lightship isn't the sort of man who has regrets. And to look at Joe now, graying slightly in his 41st year, strong of eye and build, tanned a rich mahogany by wind and sun, it's a little hard to believe that romance alone drew him to this joh romantic as tt may sound to a landlubber who has never spent a month on a ship that goes no place but is anchored forever, roll ing and pitching, in a rare spot of hell. Joe doesn't say so, for like all the men in the U. S. Light house, Service Joe doesn't talk much about himself, but the chief attraction of the lightship appears to lie in the prosaic fact that the men are granted 108 days of leave a year. They are aboard ship thirty days, then off eight. There's a 30-day vacation, too. It Comprise Crew The 17 men of a lightship crew go out to the Ship in the know ledge that they have a secure Job, three and a half months' vacation and not a great deal of work to do. Except in bad weather, like the Atlantic blow this week, chief oc cupation aboard the "Diamond" is cleaning, scraping,, painting and polishing. It's amazing the amount of "housekeeping" that has to be done. Wind and sea, laden With salt, would eat away the "Dia mond" If it wasn't for the day after day scraping, painting and polishing. "- .' The "Diamond" is one of two lightships that guard ships against the treacherous North Carolina coast. The other is the Frying Pan Shoals Lightship off Wilmington Other ocean sentinels in the O. S. ' Lighthouse Service dot the coastline from Florida to Maine, manned by the unpubllclzed ituv riners who make America's coasts safe for the shipping World. 1 They are symbols of the anger of the sea and of man's efforts to subdue it. . Ship Guards Graveyari ' "A Diamond Shoals . Lightship, guardian of the "Graveyard of the Atlantic," Is one of the most fa mous On the east coast and .cer tainly one of the most Welcome sights, to those ships that come, Within hailing distance s theyj piy up ana aown me snipping i In front of the Blue Ribbon trophy lies a plaque, the Gib Ar thur. Memorial trophy, awarded thin year to Thurlow Whealton. The trophy ii awarded to the win ner of the annual frecfor-all La bor Day race open to boats of all classes, operated on a handicap basis. The race, originally schc duled for Labor Day, was run off tltis Sunday. At the far right is the summer series handicap trophy, also won this vear bv Thurlow Whealton in his "Ace of Spades." In the background, to the left of the handicap trophy, is the sum mer series 16-foot trophy won by Buddy Baily. All the trophies pictured must be won three times before they can be permanently retained. lanes of the Atlantic. Her famous light, with its 15,000 eandlepower. blinks three times eveiy ek'ht seconds during dark ness and When fog holds i:i thick and tight her fog-horn keeps up S steady groan. As a further pro tection for shipf that pass in the night or in the thick day-fogs, there's a radio beam to steer the groping merehantism safely past the reefs. The first lightship to give warn ing of the treacherous diamond shaped reefs that lie off stormy Cape Hatleras was established as early as 1824. It was torn loose from its moorings a few times by hurrlncane gales and was finally wrecked in 1837. - . , Not for 70 years was another lightship sent out .to Diamond Shoals. Lightship Anchored Again Then in 1827 a lightship was again anchored in the lonely, storm-churned spot. And there's hnen a lightship there ever since, riding out 'the hurricanes of 1936 and 1944, saving the lives of count less ships and men. The lightshiopcrs seem to agree that Diamond is the least desirable spot on the Atlantic although you won t get any of the Diamond crew to agree. Yet, it is not a surprising judg ment that Diamond is the least desirable spot since it has "two days bad weather to one anywhere else." ' But fair weather or foul, it's Just about the same to the Diamond crew which is made uo In the majority of North Carolinians. This week as the hurricane plowed up the east coast and it looked like Diamond would take the brunt of the storm, Joe Vaughn waited out the blow as calmly as a man settling back to watch a movie. Down in the radio room, with a 30-mile wind lashing the lightship and the seas running high, Joe sat Sown at the radiophone to talk to this writer who was waiting out the storm at the Ocracoke Coast Guard Station. I had a good picture of Joe sit ting inside his 128-footer with the wind mouhtlng up. A couple weeks before I had gone out to the lightship aboard the cutter from the Ocracoke Coast Guard Station. It had been calm that day, hot with the wind dowi to a butterfly's breath, but the Diamond was roll ing and pitching like an unbroken horse, Captain Goes Ashore Captain Cyrus Cray of Ro danthe, skipper of the Diamond was aboard that day. But when Radioman Benjamin O'Neal con tacted the Diamond for me thisi week he was told that Captain Gray was on leave and that Chief Bosun's Mate Joe Vaughn was in charge. Then came Joe's voice cracking through the static, calm as you please. "What's it like out there?" we asked Joe. "Not bad, not baoV he said. 'Twelve to fifteen foot waves. But we've only see green water two or three times," . "Green wotefl" ltjald to Benjamin.- ' 9 "Thai mermV e explained, 'that the waves haVe broken over the ship." , ! Joe. laughed. ' ' supplies Arrive St Weekly-. ; , We talked to Joe a long time, asking him all about his lightship, learning that he is serviced twice a indnth from Portsmouth, Vs. At those times, a tender casts Tidewater Results Saturday, September 11 Beaufort 6, Swansboro 3 Marshallberg 6. Morehead City Sunday, September 12 Beaufort 6, Swansboro 2 Morehead City 7, Murshnllberg ; Rotary (Continued From Page Cue) bv suicide planes 75 miles fron Okinawa in the East China Set. lie was rescued after an hour i the water. His ship, the USS Abele, wr on patrol duty during the invasio of Okinawa, when 25 Japanese planes attacked. Aided only b two small landing craft, the "ti can" fought valiantly for its lifi shooting down six enemy plane, before being crashed by two Kam ikazes. Eightyflve of his ship mates lost their lives, Bryan said when the ship broke up and sanl in two pieces three minutes aftei the first h.t. Bryan was unseath ed. In closing, the reporter emphi sized his personal desire and the desire cl U.e entire JV.VW'i 1 Mr staff to render constructive service to the communities in this area, hryau saia lie leit tlie Holds of education and church related jour nalism to enter small-city news piper work as a Christian laymen intent upon making his commm tion to the schools, churches, civil organizations, business houses, and other organs ol community life. As a student at Mercer univcr slty, Bryan was editor of the .SIL HOUETTE, literary magazine, lea ture editor of the rmnmiK npw;nn- j per, and illustrator for the annual. lie was president of the Baptist Student Union of the st: tc o Georgia during his junior year. Jay Ky Beam to Become Lieutenant in Marines QUANTICO, Va. Marine Cpl. Jay Ky Beam, son of Mr. am. Mrs. C. L. l!eam, Heaufort, was recently selected here at the Ma rine Corps Reserve Officers' Train ing school to become a second lieutenant. off from the lighthouse depot near the Portsmouth Navy Yard, weave down through the busy waters ol Norfolk harbor, and heads out to open sea and Diamond. She brings mail, magazines and newspapers for the Diamond. crates of gree.1 vegetables, fresh meat, bags of potatoes and flour, curtons of bread and cigarettes, a huge laundry bag, oranges, apples, peaches; i even watermelons for these Carolina boys like their watermelons. These provisions are brought alongside the lightship and hoist ed aboard, no easy task In the pitching sens, and they're always pitching out at Diamond. Just as we were about to close down our conversation with Joe we asked for another report on the weather out there where he was sitting. "About 50-mile-pcr-hour winds in flaws and the sea's runnin' high," he answered. "How do you feel, Joe?" A low chuckle floated through the crackle of the radiophone. "Fine," he said. "We ride out the sea exceptionally well." I said, "Luck and thanks." Joe said, "Roger," a term I had n't heard since the blit2 days back in London when our pilots used to say everything Was oksy. I knew what he meant and somehow I didn't fed so tense any more about that hurricane south of us. So I said, "Roger," and hung un. I looked out the Window. A light wind was beginning to Churn the sound. In Ocracoke Harbor the fishing boats were tied and things were battened down tight. The floor was solid and steady under my feet. But Out there J.Mrty miles in the Atlantic, in the path, of the storm, Joe and a lot of other guys like him were rolling and pitching. All the ships were safely in port, sheltered and tied down, but the lonely men of the lightships watch ed and watted with orders that blaze their cardinal principle: "Keep the light burning." in High Qualil Line of All FRZST C3AE2 FE3ZEH mm mm M2EDM in.575; . - Vfeeltly Visit Afccul the Base Navy Supply Nip-Ups Miss Fanny Forehand added the ring which means "For Keeps" Saturday night at 8:00 p.m. to Mr. Thomas Mylett in a very quiet :eremony. Best of luck to both 01 you. Mr. and Mrs. M. J-. Gill are back after traveling around North Caro inn on their vacation. The first veck was spent sightseeing in the Jmoky Mountains and the second eeW at be'itiful picturesque Vagshead Reach Mr. and Mrs. Barney Fones nre back after hav ng spi-nt a delightful vacation at 'he old homestead in Washington, D. C. We are glad to have Rill Car roll hnk with us and lo leain lhrt his wire is improv'ng after undergoing n operation in Ra leigh. Recent trips included Jean nd Dick Tuttle visited all the 'IstorieRl points of In'erest in Washington Mary and Bill Weeks notored to the western part of the Htate in their new Pontine Ber nice and Mike Dropullch visited . '-.fives ( PHfqbure. and while there, attended the game between v nii'iign ami I'lUsburg -- Gladys Ipock visited friends in Rale'gh - Helen Jody a'tended a dmce a' '"olumbia, S. C. Borden and Nofman Wade and Al Shrubar re ported a wonderful time surf fish ing over the weekend. Of course, we didn't see the fish, but Borden says thev had quite a catch Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Lamm motored lo Grecivllle on Labor Dnv t i enroll their sons, Burlon aid Gene at Et.'TC. Good luck. boys. Navy Supply welcomes Mvs. Vi'ginta II. Denmnn, nice to have you in our midst, Virginia. Public Works Doings Looks like September is a popu lar month for vacations. Jimmie Gasklns, of our eigineering sec tion. Is spending his leave in New Bern with Mrs. G. and young Jim mie, on account of the polio s;'.:"i tion. Russell Dorrler Is off to Wisconsin to visit members of his family; Alvin Hansen is making a trip to Iowa; and Wm. A 'derson is pending a while in Durham, N. C. Owen Guion got in that fishing trip last week with friends from Charlotte anil Raleigh; and Allie '"ook and ,lim Whitcomb altended the Shrine convention in Ashevilte. Also taki ig off for points north, east, south, and west are Thomas , Russell. Horry R. Smith, Roy Mit chell, Milton Miiell, Wm. G. Har rcll, Milton Banks, and Ivey V. Haskett. Jake Ragan and Ralph Wells both made jaunts to Rich momi. end Chas. J. McCotter is barfrftn duly-trt Water Treatoient after a short leave. It is with sincere regret that we learned of the death of John Mit chell, after undergoing an opera tion in Houston, Texas; and of Jot Owens, Sr., who died on August 31 in the New Bern hospital after a brief illness. Public works Welcomes Herbert V. Jones, Joseph Padley, Allen S. Conner, Claud R. Dixon, II. C. Las siter, and Lee W. Griffin, who are taking positions in the shop sec tions. Also Julius Hardison is transferring to our department from Overhaul and Renair . . . . Howdy! Also "happy landing" to Dozier Henderson, who has resign ed On the sick list were Rny""'' G. Paul, of the plumbing shop, Roy C. Hall, of water treatment, and J. D. Willis, of Central heat ing. Also Mark Potter, of the machine shop, was recently out with a foot complaint. It was deep regret and a sincere feeling bf loss that we learned of the sudden death of Elmer Jot Owens, leadingman engineman, hoisting and portable, public works department. - .Reporting for duty at this sta tion in the early part of 1943, Mr. Owens worked for the public works department steadily until the time of his death. He suffer ed a cerebral hemorrhage while at work Friday, August 27, and died in St. Luke's hospital, Tues day, August 31, A native of Norfolk, Virginia, the deceased was the son of Mrs. L. T. Smallwood, of New Bern, and the late Captain Clare ice Owens. Surviving are his mother; his wife, Lucille Simpson Owens; a son, Elmer Jot Owens, Jr.; a daughter, Mrs. W. G. Hardison, of . 9 - - T:i:;'s Grj Fcoisiufis "A" MEATS FC22S 1m. - n - 576i . . a. Inspection Lane Opens In Beanforl Today Motor vehicle inspection will be conducted in Beaufort on highway 70 near ;:.e school build, n today, tomorrow and Thursday and in Morehead City in front of the mun cip.il build in", Vent. 1M1, according to an announcement today by st. te highway patrol heudquaiters hi Morehead City. Sept. 10 was the deadline for motor vehicle inspection of mo dels tliioiirh '36 and mndeN '47 an4 '48. This is the last time for inspection of Ihese models in this area and owners of these cars will be prosecuted for v'n lation a'ter (hr current irsper ti.,,, rorifvi Mnt'ir vehicles of fort on or before Sept. ."0. mclel '37 and '4fi s'mhiH be In spected in Morehead City and Beaufort on or before Sept. 30. Family Soecfelisl Will Conduct Training Session Mrs. Corinne J. Grimsley, exten sion sucfialist in fami'v relntioi-s. State College station, Raleigh, will conduct a training session at 2:30 tomorrow afternoon In the Inmo agent's office, Beaufort, on "The Art of SW vinij Young." Attending the sessioi will be family life pro ject lenders. Mrs. Carrie B. Gillikin, home nent. has annniin-ed the follow ing homo demonstration club meetings for the week: Mill Creek, 2:30 this afternoon with Mrs. C H M-"" ISeHi" 7::i0 this evening with Mrs. Ileber Golden, Crab Point, 2:30 Thursday aftemoo l with Miss Alice Laughton. Merrimon, 2:30 Monday after noon with Mrs. Flossie l'ittm'"i. ''rei"-!ss 7 3D Monday night with Mrs. C. A. Merrill. Lt. Brooks J. Liles Assigned to Hawaii WHEELER AIR FORCE BASE. T. II. Lt. Brooks .1. Liles h is recently been assigned lo the 81st fighter wing. Wheeler air b se. He was transferred fr.'in Ross well. N. M., where he was assigned to Walker air force b: so. During the war. Lieu'enant Liles served 10 months in the European theatre as a P-51 pilot , completing 70 combat missions, and destroy ing three enemy planes, damaging Lawronceburg, S. C; a sister, Mrs. Earl Smith, of Raleigh; and a brother, Louis Smallwood, Jr., of Bogota, N. J. 1 ELK'S. EST UYS ID) Values Galore -Like Never Before! Chambray the newest Fall shades in both solid colors and prints. Fast colors. The perfect fabric for back-lo-school wear. SPECIAL - 100 Pet. seamed blankets. Size 84." Priced at on'y- Yardstick gingham in checks, and stripes. Fast sanforized shrunk. ifj m;.h" - -St n tidy Roads, Taxes 'Continued From Page OneV rrcr" thit nt'topinh'los ft"en b" the government to disabled vet erans are tax exempt. There are four veterans in this couiuy pos sessing such curs. Upon the request of Commis sioner Wallace Slyron, readjust ment of the valuation of the Mcr vie Nelson property, Atlantic, was; deferred until the next meeting of the board of equalization. Com missioner Styron was appointed a! the August meeting to investigate a request for valuation change. Luther O'Neal, owner of the property at 208 Marsh street, Beaufort, appeared to clear up what he assumed was a back tax problem but was informed by the board that the tax money should j have been taken out of the sale I price of The nroperty, The pro perty was sold at the court house door in June 194,. The nntter was referred to Al vah Hamilton, county attorney, for "sal isfartory settlement." Rtvmond Lewis agreed to oav $335 in settlement of $374.09 taxes , owed on the Capt. Thomas Lewis, Sr., estate. Ninety five dollars in settlement of beck taxes was ac cepted from J. W. Hancock, Mark ers Island, and $80 from I.onnie , Whitley, Harkers Island. 1 Valuation on the Robert L. Her ring property. Front street exte id ed. was reduced from $3,100 to $2. 800. Granted to the county jail keeper was $1.50 per day for meals for inmates, a raise of 50 I cents per day. six. He was awarded (he DEC, the Air Medal wi'h seven clusters, and the Purple Heart. ! His wile, Betty Ruth, is the daughter of Mrs. Marguerite Hus sey, 121 Craven street, Beaufort. 'i,i n mis tn )..- h ! husband in the very near future. j The average adult heart is about five inches long and three and a half inches wide ' USE COAL And Gel the Most and Most Satisfying Heat For Your Home Let us solve your Winter healing problems by filling your bins now villh choice Coals from our present large stocks. 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