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60th YEAR, NO. 63. EIGHT PAGES
MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1961
County Agrees
To Township
Fire Contract
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0 Board Rejects Plan
For Three-Man Board
• Commissioners Hear
Tax Problems
County commissioners, in ses
sion at the courthouse yesterday
morning, agreed to contract with
the town of Newport for fire pro
tection in rural Newport township.
The board rejected a proposal
by mayor Leon Mann Jr. of New
port that a three-man board be
appointed to act as a liaison be
tween the county and town, keep
track of the number of alarms an
swered, property saved and prop
erty lost.
The contract will be for one
year, retroactive to July 1, 1961
and ending June 30, 1962. It states
that if either party wishes to re
scind, 60 days notice must be giv
en before the end of the contract
period, i
The county agrees to turn over
to the Newport town clerk and
treasurer each month the money
collected on the special tax levy
during the previous month. Voters
in the township recently approved
the special levy of 10 cents per
$100 valuation.
W. L. Pohoresky, who operates
a retail grocery at Newport, was
granted a refund of $60 for over
payment of wine license fees for
the past three years. He had paid
for an “on and off premises” li
cense when he needed only an
“off premises” license. ,
The board heard six tax mat
ters during the morning session.
George Ball of Harlowc has re
quested that penalties charged
him for failing to list property at
Harkcrs Island for taxes be waiv
ed.
He told tax officials he did not
know he was supposed to list the
property. The board did not waive
the penalty.
A tax matter concerning prop
erty owned by Thomas H. Russell
of Morehead City was tabled. Rus
sell, through a letter from his ac
countant, Josiah Bailey, claimed
that penalties against him for not
listing property were unjust since
the property was of no value dur
ing construction.
A letter from Beaver Shirt Co.,
New York, was read by Odell Mer
rill, clerk. The letter protested
the county’s request for additional
tax funds on the difference in
state and county inventories.
James Potter, county auditor, was
asked to investigate the matter.
Gerald Mitchell, Morehead City,
appeared to request a change in
tax valuation on property recent
ly bought by him. He had earlier
attended the meeting of the board
of equalization. The commission
ers agreed to make a change and
will notify Mitchell of changes in
the valuation.
The value on a building owned
by Clyde Everett Sr., Beaufort,
was changed to agree with an
identical building beside it, also
owned by Everett.
Commissioner Gaston Smith ask
ed John L. Humphrey, county road
superintendent, to open some ditch
es on a loop road at Stacy.
Mr. Humphrey said he would
look at the problem but he didn’t
have enough men to do ditching
until after weeds are cut along
curves which will be used by
school buses.
Tourists Inquire About
Lost Colony Information
Several presong have inquired at
the newspaper office recently
about the pageant, The Lost Col
ony. To help persons plan a visit
to Roanoke Island where the pag
eant is given, here is some basic
information:
• Performances are given night
ly (except Sunday) at 8:15 p.m.
through Sunday, Sept. 3.
• Persons wanting reserved seat
tickets may order them by phon
ing Theatre Box Office, Manteo
299, or writing to The Lost Colony,
Manteo, N. C. and enclosing a
check.
• General admission tickets are
NOT sold in advance.
• Admission charges: all re
served seats $3 each (including
children); general admission (12
years and over) $2; general ad
mission (6 to 12 years) $1. Chil
dren under 6 are admitted free.
Manteo may be reached by high
way and ferry from this county.
Tourists should follow highway 70
east to Atlantic where the ferry
BM Approved
The State Highway commission,
in session Thursday at Raleigh ap
proved a bid of $4,900 for enlarging
the ferry slip at Atlantic. The bid
was submitted by the Twin City
Predfittg Co., Beaufort.
Invasion Attracts Large Crowd
5W#;*2JRS
Under an overcast sky, crowds lined the Beaufort waterfront Saturday afternoon to watch the defend
ers of Beaufort town repel Spanish pirates. The day included guided tours, the invasion re-enactment, a
clambake and street dance. (More pictures of the invasion will appear Friday).
Sheriff Finds Boat Outfit
Bought with Rubber Check
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Three Drivers
Cited to Court
Three drivers involved in week
end accidents have been cited to
court by highway patrolman W. E.
Pickard.
Albert Ryan, Camp Lejeune, was
charged with driving after his li
cense was suspended and careless
and reckless driving, after his car
ran off the Lake road at 9:45 p.m.
Saturday. Ryan failed to make a
curve, the patrolman said. Dam
age to his car was estimated at
$150.
James W. Peeden, Cherry Point,
was charged with hit and run and
driving drunk at 7:35 p.m. Satur
day. Acordlng to the patrolman,
Peeden hit a 1957 Ford in the rear
and failed to stop.
Driving the Furd was Roland E.
Millis, route 2 Newport. The pa
trolman said Millis, headed west,
had slowed to turn into the Mason
town road from highway 70 when
he was struck from the rear. Dam
age to each of the cars was esti
mated at $250.
James T. Simpson, route 1 More
head City, was charged with driv
ing drunk after he was involved
in a collision at 1:30 a.m. Sunday
on highway 70 about four miles
west of Morehead City.
According to patrolman Pickard,
Simpson, in a 1956 Ford, passed
a 1959 Ford and sideswiped it.
Driving the 1959 Ford was James
L. Cannon, Havelock. Damage to
each of the cars was estimated at
$250.
No one was hurt in any of the
accidents.
Ralph Wilkins Kills
Rattlesnake Thursday
A 5-foot 2-inch-timber rattlesnake
with 14 rattles and a button was
killed by Ralph Wilkins on the
Laurel road Thursday evening.
Mr. Wilkins was mowing a ditch
bank on a tractor when he heard
the rattlesnake “singing.” He shot
the snake with a .22 pistol.
sails to Ocracoke. Then the high
way continues northward with two
more ferries taking cars across
Hatteras and Oregon inlets.
Manteo can be reached, from
this county, in several hours by
going the inland route (no ferries).
With no ferry delay, it can also be
reached in one day by using the
outer banks route (ferries).
For general information about
The Lost Coloney area, people may
write the Dare County Tourist Bu
reau, Manteo, N. C.
The Lost Colony tells the story
of the first English colony which
disappeared in 1587 after being
established by Sir Walter Raleigh.
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bait
HIGH LOW
Tuesday, Aug. 8
6:12 a.m. 12:07 a.m.
6:32 p.m. 12:15 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 9
6:58 a.m. 12:54 a.m.
7:14 prm. 1:01 p.m.
Thursday, Aug. 19
7:40 a.m. 1:37 a.m.
7:53 p.m. 1:45 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 11
8:20 a.m. 2:18 a.m.
8:28 p.m. 2:28 p.m.
► The sheriff’s department has re
covered a boat trailer and has lo
cated a boat and motor for which
Mrs. Robert Parker, Newport, was
given a bad check in payment last
month.
Sheriff Hugh Salter said he and
his deputies are looking for Eugene
H. Seagraves, who bought the on
tire outfit July 4 from Mrs. Park
er, and gave her a rubber check
for $1,295 on the Bank of Manteo.
Mrs. Parker reported that Sea
graves was driving a 1960 Chevro
let convertible with a Florida tag.
The sheriff’s department discover
ed that the car had been stolen
May 22 at Lakeland, Fla., from
William M. Combee.
Then about 10 days later the
boat trailer was discovered park
ed in front of Joyce’s motel at At
lantic Beach. It was hsainHPthat
the trailer had been put there by
Marion Wyatts, Raleigh.
He told the sheriff that he was
at Occoneechee harbor, Kerr dam,
in Virginia, July 15, to bring his
boat to Morehead City and Sea
graves lent him the trailer.
When sheriff Salter and deputy
C. H. Davis went to Occoneechee
harbor Sunday they found the boat
Mrs. Parker had sold Seagraves,
riding at anchor and were told by
Mrs. George W. Jaeger, who is
operating the harbor, that Sea
graves had bought a new boat and
motor and had left there on the
same weekend that he lent Wyatts
the trailer he bought from Mrs.
Parker.
The sheriff said that Seagraves
bought the new boat and trailer
with another rubber cheek on the
Bank of Manteo.
He said that Mrs. Jaeger is hold
ing the Parker boat at Occonee
chee at request of the Federal Bu
reau of Investigation which she
had called in.
Lions Club Hears
About State Port
Walter Friedcrichs, operations
manager at the state port, was
guest speaker at the Morehead
City Lions club meeting Thursday
night. The club met at the Hotel
Fort Macon.
The speaker reported an increase
of 67 per cent in handling tobacco
exports over 1960. He said the
port had a 58 per cent increase
in the number of ships entering
and that the port had been forced
to turn away tobacco shipments
for lack of space.
For the latter reason, he said,
port personnel are keenly interest
ed in the coming bond issue which
will allow expansion of the ports.
A past president’s pin and cer
tificate were presented to C. E.
Edwards. Grayson Bullock was
welcomed as a new member.
Guests were Ed T. Berry III of
the New Bern Lions club, Ernie
Marcus, Harry Shadle, Darrell
Morse and Raymond Bayer, all of'
the Havelock club.
Civitan Club Hears New
High School Proposals
H. S. Gibbs Jr., member of the
Morehead City school board, spoke
to the Civitan club Friday noon
about the new high school propos
ed for Morehead City. Mr. Gibbs
spoke of the location ' of the
school, the size and types of build
ings it would have and the finan
cial requirements needed to make
it a reality.
In the business session the club
discussed the forthcoming state
convention to be held here Aug.
18-18.
“We won’t have any surplus. I'm
just hoping we have enough,”
Grayden Paul, Beaufort, said yes
terday about the financial status
of the Beaufort Historical associa
tion after Saturday’s Spanish pi
rate invasion.
“We need some members to
meet expenses,” he said. “Only
70 people joined out of the 200 we
asked for. Fixe dollars isn’t too
much,” he added.
Estimating that 2,500 to 3,000
watched the invasion, Mr. Paul
said the clambake was also a suc
cess. (Figures of how many at
tended the clambake were not
available at press time.)
Persons aboard Howie Whitney’s
schooner, Heart’s Desire, who took
part in the invasion celebrating the
1747 invasion of Beaufort by Span
ish pirates, were Sgt. William
Richardson, Sgt. Leonard Horgan,
Sgt. Pete Hagemann and Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Robeller and their dog,
Mura. Firing the Lyle gun were
Mr. Robeller, sergeant Horgan and
sergeant Hagemann.
Aboard the shrimp trawler, Bev
eridge, as gunners were Ed Rob
inson and his son, Grier. The
“cannon” the Robinsons fired
came originally from a wreck at
Ocracoke and is owned by Mr.
Robinson. It was used in last
year’s invasion re-enactment.
Spanish pirates who invaded
Beaufort were Bobby Hudgins, cap
tain; Paul Jones, Earl Willis,
Claude Morning* Neal Willis, Ger
ald Woolard.
Bryan Loftin, Eddie Snooks, Al
len Willis, Jackie Chapman, Larry
Kirk, Bill Morgan and Frank Lang
dale.
I. C. Cobb Sees
Object in Sky
T. C. Cobb, who lives at Pine
Knoll Shores, saw an object in the
sky Sunday night that he believes
was the Russian space ship carry
ing spaceman Gherman Titov.
Mr. Cobb reports that his daugh
ter was watching television and
asked him to wash the salt off the
antenna, as the picture was not
clear. He said about 7:15 p.m.
he was standing on the roof of his
house, facing east, spraying the
hose on the antenna.
He noticed something straight
through the antenna that was
bright like a star, but was sort of
triangular shaped. Mr. Cobb stay
ed on the roof about 10 minutes
and the object was still visible
when he climed down.
it was not until yesterday morn
ing when he read the newspaper
accounts of the space flight, that
he realized it was probably the
space ship he saw.
False Alarm
The fire alarm answered Friday
night from Box 42, Pine and Queen
streets, turned out to be a false
alarm.
38 Children Get Reading
Certificates at Library
Having completed the junior
reading course at the Earle W.
Webb Jr. Memorial library, More
head City, 38 members of the sum
mer reading club were awarded
certificates at a social hour in the
library Friday morning. Fifteen
members who have not finished the
course will be awarded certificates
later.
Preceding the awarding of cer
tificates by Mrs. Virginia Brad
burry, assistant librarian, a re
corded story was played. Ice
cream and cake were served in
the social room. The table dec
orations were ceramic figures of
Peter Rabbit and Flopsy and Mop
sy. Favors were a bookmark ami
colored baskets with mints.
Board Defers Action on New
Proposal Regarding Hospital
Seven Piers Will
Sponsor Contest
During Derby
• Prize Money to Go
To Biggest Fish, Crabs
• Contest to Open
At 12:01 A.M. Aug. 25
During Morehead City’s two-day
crab derby, Aug. 25 and 26, the
seven ocean fishing piers on At
lantic Beach will sponsor a "Crab
Fish Angling Contest.”
According to Norwood Young,
publicist with the greater More
head City chamber of commerce,
prizes of $50, $25 and $12.50 will
be given for the largest blue crabs
caught while “hook-and-line bot
tom-fishing” from any one of the
piers during the two days.
The same amount of prize mon
ey will be given for the largest
edible fish caught from the piers.
The entries will be weighed as
soon as they are caughty Then
they will be iced and given an
"official weigh” at 7:30 p.m. on
each day of the derby.
The official weighing will take
place at the Atlantic Beach police
station. Judges will be Dr. A. F.
Chestnut, director of the Institute
of Fisheries Research, Morehead
City; one of his assistants, and
Mr. Young.
The crabs, Mr. Young said, will
be measured from point-to-point.
If two or more crabs should be
the same size, they will be weigh
ed on a metric scales. If there
is still a tie, the prize money will
be split.
Anyone who pays admission to
any of the following piers -on the
days of the derby will be eligible
to enter their catches: Triple-Ess,
Oceanana, Sportsman, . Morehead
Ocean, Iron Steamer, Thompson’s
Emerald Isle pier and Bogue In
let pier. The pier owners have
provided the prize money.
Catches must be verified by fel
low fishermen. No plugging catch
es, shark, king mackerel, tarpon
or cobia may be entered.
Any crab or fish found to con
tain lead pellets or other foreign
objects to up weight will be dis
qualified. Barnacles on the crab
will be considered legal weight.
Pier operators or pier personnel
must accompany the entries to the
official weighings at 7:30 p.m. De
cision of the judges will be final,
Mr. Young emphasizes. Fish, he
said, will be judged by weight
only, not length or girth.
The prizes will be awarded after
Saturday’s official weigh-in. The
contest opens officially at 12:01
a.m. Friday, Aug. 25, and closes
at 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 26.
Lt. John Riddell
Reports Transfer *
Of Two Officers
Lt. Kenneth Depperman, USCG,
who has been stationed at Fort
Macon Coast Guard station since
September 1959, has received or
dc for transfer.
He will report Sept. 20 to the
Coast Guard cutter Sweet Gum
at Mayport, Fla. Lt. John Riddell,
who announced the transfer Thurs
day, said it is not known as yet
who will replace lieutenant Dep
perman here.
Also to be transferred from Fort
Macon is Ens. Frederick M. Cas
siano, who has been assigned as
commanding officer of the Fort
Macon group vessel at Southport.
Ensign Cassiano is relieving Lt.
(jg) Holland at Southport. Lieu
tenant Holland is being transferred
to Key West, Fla.
The summer reading club, the
first to be organized at the library,
was arranged and carried out by
Mrs. E. A. Council, librarian, and
Mrs. Bradburry. It proved of
more than usual interest to young
readers, many of whom had not
taken advantage of the library,
Mrs. Council said.
Several children of summer vis
itors, who enjoy the library, en
tered the club but were not here
long enough to complete the
course.
To create more reader-interest,
many new books were added to
the library,, both in the junior and
adult departments.
Mrs. Council says that the sum
mer reading club will be conduct
ed next season.
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Everyone Invited
To Oath Ceremony
Everyone who is interested is
invited to attend the oath-taking
ceremony by sheriff Hugh Salter,
as federal marshal, at 8 p.m.
Monday, Aug. 14, in the court
house, Beaufort.
Sheriff Salter said yesterday,
"Some people are waiting for
invitations. There won't be any
formal invitations. Anybody who
wants to *eome is welcome.”
The oath will be administered
by superior court judge W. J.
Bundy of Greenville.
Defendant Pays
$100 Speeding
Fine Tuesday
Speeding proved to be costly to!
Elwood Boney Jarman Tuesday in
county recorder’s court. Jarman J
was fined $100 and court costs by |
recorder’s court judge Lambert R. i
Morris.
Also paying $100 and court costs j
was Maurice D. Carlisle, charged |
with drunk driving. The state.
amended the charge to careless
and. reckless driving on which the
defendant was convicted.
Manley Garner, charged with
public drunkenness, was the re
cipient of a 30-day jail sentence.
Garner’s jail term was suspended
on payment of court costs and 12
months’ good and sober behavior.
Other defendants, their charges
and the findings of the court were
as follows:
See COURT, Page 7
Drivers Cited
By Policemen
Charges were filed against two
drivers in a pair of accidents in
vestigated Saturday by the More
head City police department.
In the first, which occurred near
the REA building on Bridges street,
Earl Donald Farmer was cited for
following too closely.
Farmer's car, a 1956 Chevrolet,
ran into a f961 Simca driven by
Bennie Way Lewis as Lewis was
making a left turn into the REA
driveway. Both cars were headed
east.
One passenger in Farmer’s car
and two in Lewis’s suffered bruises
and scratches and were treated at
the Morehead City hospital. They
were Robert Quick, Beverly Lewis
and Lizzie Frost.
Damages to Farmer’s car was
estimated at $200 and that to
Lewis’s'at $600. Patrolman J. C.
Steele was the investigating offi
cer.
In a Saturday afternoon accident,
police charged Donald Fox, Atlan
tic Beach, with failing to yield the
right of way.
According to police, Fox, going
south on 21st street, entered
Bridges street and collided with a
car being driven by Robert James
Daniels, Morehead City. Both men
were driving 1959 Fords.
Police estimated damage to
Daniels's car at $500 and that to
the Fox auto at $50. Police chief
W. H. Griffin investigated.
Architect Wants Authority
To Proceed Further
County commissioners took un •
der advisement yesterday morn
ing a proposal by George Watts
Carr, architect for the proposed
county hospital.
Mr. Carr proposed that the coun
ty board give him permission to
proceed with further-detailed hos
pital plans, the county not to be
obligated to pay him for the work
until bids for the hospital are re
ceived.
Other parts of the proposal were
that his firm, now a partnership
and about to become a corpora
tion. would be authorized to han
dle the hospital job and that should
the site of the hospital be changed
from the Webb location, roads,
site plans, walks and parking
areas would be laid out at no cost,
but no other changes would be
made at no cost.
Moses Howard, chairman of the
board, said that Mr. Carr confer
red wit.h Bud Dixon, chairman of
the hospital board of trustees,
Charles King, Charles Harris and j
Mr. Howard Saturday night. He
said that he felt that to give Mr.
Carr authority to proceed with ad
ditional work would be an indi
cation that the board has already
approved the preliminary plans.
Mr. Howard said that the pre
liminary plans have not been ap
proved and he was advised that
the county should not approve
them until the Medical Care com
mission gives its approval.
Mr. Carr claims that the county
has to approve first, then the
plans are submitted to the MCC.
“If we tell him to go ahead with
further plans, then we owe him
25 per Cent of his total fee right
now," Mr. Howard said. "Whether
he would demand it or not, 1 don’t
know.’’
Mr. Carr made no comment.
Commissioner Skinner Chalk
said, “We’re incurring expenses
we don’t know whether we can
handle if we give him authority to
proceed. I don't approve of au
thorizing any further work with
litigation in process.”
The commissioners recalled that
they have already gone on record
not to proceed with anything else
in relation to the hospital except
steps necessary in the lawsuit filed
by certain Beaufort residents.
Mr. Carr contended that he was
trying to assure the county the
$100,000 it has been allocated by
the state if the contract for the
hospital is let prior to April 30,
1962. He said that if the lawsuit
is not settled early, he will be un
able to get things in shape to ask
for bids and have the contracts
let prior to that date.
He insisted that he would want
no more money, beyond that al
ready obligated for preliminary
plahs, until bids arc requested.
Commissioner David Yeomans said
bids may be requested, received,
rejected or other complications
may arise that would mean the
county had to pay Mr. Carr wheth
er the hospital was built or not.
Mr. Chalk suggested that Mr.
Carr write in his proposal that
no charge would be made to the
county beyond the cost of prelimi
nary plans and strike out the part
“until bids are requested." Mr.
Carr was not interested in that
proposal.
He said that he would be the
majority stockholder in the corpor
ation to be formed. Asked wheth
er’ the county would owe him for
work already done or whether
See BOARD, Page 7
Eggplant Clown
Mrs. Elsie Murdoch, Wildwood, admires nature’s comedy, an egg
plant that developed into a head like a clown’s. Bln. Murdoch op
erates a fresh produce stand at Wildwood.
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Maine Plant
To Buy Seaweed
From Fishermen
Marine Colloids Inc. of New
York and Rockland, Maine, has
arranged with fishermen east of
Beaufort to buy seaweed.
The form especially desired is
Hypnea musciformis, which grows
on shells and eel grass in shallow
water. After the mature seaweed
breaks loose from the shells and
eel grass, the shells and grass be
come the “grounds” for another
crop of the weed.
The weed is dried on chicken
wire racks. Then it will be ship
ped to the Rockland plant where
extensive experimental work in
red algae is in progress.
The commercially valuable "jel
ly” substance extracted from sea
weed is used in numerous ways in
foods, cosmetics, drugs and other
products. Dr. Harold Humm, mem
ber of the faculty at Duke Marine
lab, holds the patent on the pro
cess of removing the valuable ex
tract. (The patent is assigned to
Duke university.)
lip to 50 per cent of the dried
weight of the seaweed is extrac
tive, he explains.
Collecting the seaweed are fish
ermen of Marshallberg, Stacy and
Harkcrs Island. Sold by the pound,
10 pounds of wet weed, when dried,
will equal about 1 pound. The
weed can be harvested from June
1 to Oct. 1. The Maine factory
wants five to ten tons this sum
mer.
Dr. Humm repdrta that a small
I plant will grow to maturity in two
to three weeks.
During the second world war,
when this country’s supply of algae
from Japan was cut off, many
Carteret fishermen harvested sea
weed which was processed in the
Lennoxville plant now owned by
the Sperti corporation.
Farmers Collect
Grain Payments
Final payments in the federal
government's small grain program
were disbursed beginning at 8 a.m.
yesterday in the ASC office, Beau
fort.
B. J. May, ASC manager, said
30 farmers called at the office to
collect their final checks in the
first hour. The total paid in this
county in the grain program is
$42,085.86. Being distributed now
is $21,843.05.
Paid to farmers signing up in
April was $20,242.81. One hundred
fifty-seven farms are participating
in the ’program. Acres involved
total 1,285.4.
Under the “corn and sorghum
grain program,” farmers are paid
for taking feed-grain land out of
production and if an approved con
servation practice is carried out
on the land, receive a support
price on the small grains they har
vest this year on other acreage.
Newport township has the largest
number of farms participating, 64.
Others are White Oak, 50; More
head, 23; Beaufort-Harlowe, 18,
and East-Merrimon, 2.
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Ski Show Set
For Aug. 26
The ski show during the week
end crab derby at Morehead City
will begin at 12:30 p.m. Saturday,
Aug. 26, and end at 1:30.
The show will be staged by the
Carteret Outboard Runabout asso
ciation, Tom Adams, Beaufort,
commodore.
Chairman of the show is Bob
Butler, Morehead City. Mr. But
ler says the show is tentatively
planned to take place between the
Jefferson hotel and Capt. Bill’s
restaurant on the Morehead City
waterfront.
The show will open with the
COBRA quintet, five girls on wa
ter skis carrying COBRA pennants.
There will be a saucer amVchair
act, shoe skiing, barefoot skiing,
stunts, and skiing by children of
COBRA members.
This will be the second show to
be staged by the COBRA club. The
first was given on the Beaufort
waterfront last summer during
Beaufort’s 231st anniversary cele
bration.