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SHORT ATTENTION GETTERS:
1. Don't forget the Arts Council - you can still join and make culture a
bigger part of our community. per person to GLENDA J0N3S, 302
Virginia Ave,, Morehead City, N.C. 28557. You will receive a member
ship card and lots of warm feelings*
2* SNUG HARBOR at Sea Level, the new home for many retired seamen and sea-
women, welcomes visitors who have time to spare and care. Call BETTY
ANGER there for information (225-^^11)
3. Local migrant workers are desperately in need of clothing and blankets.
This winter has been especially difficult for these people who live in
less than desirable housing and have had less work than usual. Take
articles to COMNITY ACTION (728-4528) in the annex of the County Court
House in Beaufort, between 9 and Monday through Friday.
NELL CRUtiLEY has offered to tell us monthly of what she calls ‘’Happenings
at the Marine Resources Center," and she suggests you mark your calendar
accordingly.
This month: DR. NED SMITH announces nev; “EI'IERGY HOURS": Monday, 9 to
Friday, 9 to Saturday, 10 to and Sunday, 2 to 5* Closed other days
until further notice except for special meetings, movies, etc.
The Center personnel in PICS and the ECU Title I Environmental Education Pro
gram are continuing the public forums on Tuesday evenings at 8:00 p#m., pre
senting "THE 200 MILE LIMIT" April 1 through May. Details on subject matter
later.
A new Movie Series starts March 10, 7i30 i v/ith "Mutiny on the Bounty",
the original, with Clark Gable and Charles Laughton, and on March 24, "Cap
tains Courageous", v/ith Spencer Tracy.
DR. ROBERT BRYDEN, Dana Pr®fessor of Biology, Guilford College, GreeBsboro,
N.C. has joined the Center's research staff, and will work there for about
six months to develop a manual for the identification of the shallow water
marine invertebrates of the rl.C. coast. Other current projects include
research on the control of mosquitoes and biting flies (hoorayl) by DR,
RICHARD AXTELL, Dept, of Entomology at N.C. State University, and also
monitoring of groundv/at§r levels on Bogue Banks by DR. E. WAYNE SKjIGGS, Dept,
of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at N.C, State University,
The "Always" Happenings at the Center:
Free Aquarium
Exhibits of coastal life and processes
Available auditorium, meeting rooms, library, classrooms, nature
trails, and field trip facilities.
Thanks, Nell!
INTERESTED IN VOLUNTEERING FOR RESCUE SQUAD WORK? Starting March 31 a course
for emergency medical technicians will be offered at Carteret Technical Insti
tute especially for Pine Knoll Sholres residents. The class mil meet on
Tuesday and Thursday evenings, West Campus, Vocational Bldg., Room 2211, from
7-10 p.m. and ivdll run for approximately thirteen weeks* Residents in
terested in taking this course should call John Thompson (726-2483) or Bill
Uebele (726-^02^?)*
CONSOJikTIoN in these arctic days; modern charts of waters surrounding the
Outer Banks are much the same as those made by the 15th century European ad
venturers who anchored in the bight of ’’Cape Hatorasck." That tidbit was
in an article we found in the Milwaukee Journal recently, from the Washington
Post Service. It went on to say, however, that details of the landscape do
change. Ben Dixon MacNeill’s "The Hatterasman" says that there was a night
of such wind that a ridge 50 feet high and at least 400 years old, 2 million
cubic yards of sand, just blew away. On the morning we were reading this,
it v;as thirteen below (wind chill factor minus 6o) in Wisconsin, and we could
believe, frankly, that the whole world could blow away in maybe 15 minutes,
and probably would. One felt as if he were living in a script by Rod Ser-
ling in which the ice age came and removed all forms of life once again,
leaving only bleak and v/indswept lands.
Anyway, getting back to the Outer Banks - at the height of the Battle of the
Atlantic (you may know all this already) in 19^2, German submarines le,ft as
many as five ships at a time burning within sight of Hatteras Light, and un
til the tide of the battle turned that summer, the beaches were knee deep in
oil sludge through which Banksmen trudged to retrieve the bodies of 2000
sailors.