re-establish normal social contacts with their community. They can come to the
Station Club on Tuesdays and Thircsdays from ten until about three. They have lunch
se:cved by area church and civic groups, and volunteers play cards with them, teach
simjjle crafts, or take them on short day trips. The Club is sponsored by
Ca2rberet Tech, has one paid employee, Mrs, Bailey, and volunteers. They need more
volunteers, pairticularly those who can help with transportation. They need craft
material, sewing supplies, refreshments such as cookjas or juice or potato chips.
They could use help with painting the club, which is in the old railroad depot in
Beaufort, to make it more attractive. Other PKS volunteei:^ besides Ann are Jean
Miller and Mary and Bill Doll,
,EET A NEIGHBOR: Mabel Hemphill moved to PKS la^ September, Her home on Oakleaf
is beside that of her sister and husband, Gert and Ed Warner, and a visit to it is
a glimpse into the fascinating and fruitful life Mabel has led. Her memories of
Peru are vivid and pleasant to her even though the five years she spent there,
part of^the time in a 1^,500 foot high mining company community were back in the
late thirties when she and her husband went on two week jungle hunts camping out
near the Amazon River in ba,mboo huts bu]J.t by bushboys especially for the occasion.
Since her husband’s death, Mabel has worked for the Department of Defense in
Washington, D, C, as a Military Research Analyst, which has kept her for the past
28 years constantly in touch with both World and National affairs, and sharply
informed and knowledgeable on many subjects,,,,Used to working in an office nine
and ten hours a day, Mabel never had time before to nurture a garden. Now, with
the same vitality she put into her intellectual life, she is reaping her first
crop of radishes, pointing proudly at her rose bushes, and delightfully describ
ing her expertise with an ax when she had to clean out some underbrush on her
lot. One of her neighbors has nicknamed her the "lumberjack",,,,,Mabel is also
allowing herself time for golf and bridge these days; one can see that she will
never be idle. She is an interested and interesting person,
IX)N BROCK REALTY IS MOVING —- Don Brock and Charles King have purchased the
building at 710 Arendell, next to the post office. It will be converted into an
office complex with off-street parking, and Don Brock Realty will be operating
from this location beginning May 1, l97^, Don will continue to handle the
Roosevelt*s accounts receivables, and his address will remain the same: P,0,Box
736, Morehead City, N, C, 28557,
BIRTH NOTE: Ten Lab puppies hiave been born to Bagleys* Dog, Oakleaf Drive!
THE BEAUFORT HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, in which more and more PKS people are taking
an interest, is becoming quite active under the leadership of Mrs, David Cloud of
Beaufort, A money raising luncheon style show was held in the Josiah Bell House
(that's the yellow one in the restoration area on Turner St*) on Wednesday April 24,
A guest of honor was Sally Poole Thomas, whose I83O homestead has been donated by
Urban Renewal to the Historical Association and is to be moved eventually to the
restoration area,,,,,The i\ssociation welcomes new members, Nancy D, Russell re
ceived dues of $5,00 at 111 Marsh St, Meetings are held the 4th Tuesday of each
month at the Josiah Bell House, 8:00 P,M, Cu2?rently needed are volunteer
hostesses for the Joseph Bell House (that®s the red one on the other side of the \
street} it*s been restored and furnished) from 1 to 4 daily, and volunteer workers
in the newly opened THRIFT SHOP on Front St, in downtown Beaufori: (11 to 1) And -
if anyone is about to dispose of any straight or folding chairs, they*d be
welcomed on loan or as a donation by the Association, (They can be dropped on
"Hhe porch of the yellow house),
■^J^T AND WHO ARE THE TARHEEIS? Do North Carolinians all walk in the hot sunlight
^own the middles of the streets thrnugh those repair trails of black gook while
the stuff sticks to their feet? Actually notj in reality, this State, between 1720
s-nd I87O, led the Nation in the production of what are called "naval stores",
t'riree products useful to the Country, and always mentioned in geography books: tar,
pi'fih, and turpentine. Although in later years North Carolina became famous for
otlTier thinks like pines and tobacco, the tar thi.ng got started when the State was
an infant,,,,,,The legend about the British Army heading back north toward Yoi^k-
town and wandering into hot boiling tar emptied there just before their arri\'al
to keep them from salvaging it is as good as any, although the Civil War version
about the Confederate General, noticing how rugged and determined the North
Carolina troops were and how they wouldn't give up in spite of Yankee fire, and