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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, August 24, 1962
THE NEW BERN MIRROR
Published Every Friday at 510 Pollock Street
New Bern, N. C., by the Solo Owner
j. GASKiLL McDaniel
-Editor and Publisher
On« Year.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
$2.50 Six Months.
-$1.25
Entered as secondiats ntail at Now Bern April 4,195t,
under itie act of March 3, 1879.
PRESERVING THE PAST
Are your favorite pictures beginning to fade out? Are
you fretting over the problem of where to store the mounting
mass of records that you must keep, and concerned with clip
pings that are yellowing and disintegrating with age?
Could be that you New Bernians are in the same fix that
the State’s department of history finds itself today—except
that the State’s relics and records concern more than 4,500,-
000 North Carolinians.
And the 59-year-old history department is crammed into
and spilling over parts of four separate buildings that were
never designed for the department’s highly technical and
specialized functions.
That’s why the department needs a new building, it plain
tively asserts, if it is to keep pace with the tremendous surge
of historical interest in Tar Heelia that has blossomed over
the past 10 years.
Historical
Gleanings
-By-
ELIZABETH MOORE
OYSTER BOAT RETURNS, 1896
Irwin Allen, Captain of Schooner
Marvin D, White, makes affidavit
that the oysters with which said
schooners is loaded were caught
with hand tongs only, in February,
1896; that said oysters were taken
from JUDITH NARJROWS in Hyde
County by F. Jennett, and M. F.
Haskett; that he has this day sold
to Montgomery & Company 82
bushels. Feb. 29, 1896. Sworn to
before J. B. Parsons, Deputy In
spector of Shell Fish.
The gathering of valuable, permanent and irreplaceable
documents the past few years has exhausted the space that was
adequate, if not scientifically designed for correct storage,
when the department moved into its present headquarters
in the Education Building in Raleigh 23 years ago.
Because these valuable records, containing the seed and
the foliage of the State’s history, have always come first in
the allotment of space, department workers and their equip
ment have suffered the consequences. Scholars and genea
logists have likewise suffered in the fight for space.
As a result, a tiny area designed as a telephone booth
is now a workshop, and the most valuable collection of North
Carolina maps in existence (2,500 in number) is now housed in
a public hallway beside cluttered desks.
The department’s research area, where the public has ac
cess to records, is much too small. Even the microfilm reading
area, where there are only four microfilm machines, is en
tirely inadequate.
This current year, because the microfilm machines had
previously been assigned to interested parties, vexed and dis
appointed would-be researchers have shown up from Baton
Rouge, Richmond, Washington, Dallas, and Birmingham, as
well as from our own cities like Winston-Salem, Mount Airy,
New Bern, Greenville, and Edenton.
North Carolina’s records are irreplaceable. They are not
like books, of which numbers of copies exist. If destroyed, the
records are gone forever—records valued at millions of dol
lars, which go far back into the Colonial period and which
are the only records of much United States history as well
as State history.
At present, the records are deteriorating. Trunk lines of
State’s heating system, carrying heat to State buildings beyond
the Education Building, run through the old records area. In
the winter time in particular, the heat generating from the
pipes and the resulting low humidity are slowly eating away
the paper. A properly constructed building, with temperature
and humidity controls would easily solve this problem.
North Carolina isn’t the only state with a great historic
background to be faced with such a problem. The difference
is that North Carolina—-so often the leader in the South and
sometimes in the nation—is lagging.
New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississip
pi either have or are getting adequate history buildings. Many
Tar Heel visitors to Columbia, S. C., have seen the elegant new
building that our sister state recently erected.
This year Georgia let a contract for a $6,000,000 struc
ture. New Jersey in 1964 will open a new bulding as part of
the commemoration of its 300th year. Incidentally, North Car
olina will observe its own 300th anniversary a year earlier.
If a new state history building went up, this very action
woud release some 60,000 square feet for other state agencies
to use—about 40,000 square feet in the Education building,
and 20,000 feet elsewhere. According to the State Department
of Administration, the State is now paying a whopping $77,-
000 annually for much needed rental space in Raleigh.
Within a few years, it appears, this saving would pay back
construction of a history building.
DR. GRAHAM A, BARDEN, Jr., M.D.
announces the association
of
DR. JAMES H. PEOPLES, M.D.
in the practice
PEDIATRICS
Office at 414 Johnson St.
By Appointment
New Bern
The Mirror Advertising Pays!
Similar affidavits made by:
Captain Irwin Allen concerning
oysters taken from BAY RIVER in
Pamlico County by John Jones,
Marshall Jones, Amos Whealton,
and Rufus Simpson, sold to George
iN. Ives and Son.
Captain J. R. Bateman of schoon
er Defiance, taken from waters
of Pamlico Sound by B. A. Sadler
and J. P. Spain, sold to Montgom
ery and Company.
Captain Emanuel Davis of
Sharpio Mary E. Reeves, oysters
taken from waters of BRANT IS
LAND in Pamlico River by Elijah
Davis, Basil Hamilton and Simon
Davis, sold to C. T. Watson, C. S.
Wallace and George N. Ives &
Son. Others taking oysters from
water E. L. Davis, Barno Davis,
Wiliam P. Davis, and Robert Har-
ker.
Captain A. G. Fulcher of Sharpio
Ella Horton, oysters taken from
waters of HARBOR ISLAND, Car
teret County, by Henry Slater, Mil-
ton Lee and A. G. Fulcher, sold
to Thomas Dainels, C. T. Watson,
Sarah Webster, Diamond Calloway.
Captain M. R. Fulcher of Schoon
er Mary Ruffin, oysters taken from
••nirator-Starfer and Ragulator
Rabullding and Rapaira
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IHIBII
Village Verses
TOUGH ON SNOOZERS
Once we complained in a stuffy pew.
Sweltering like a steaming stew;
Our tempers soared with the temperature.
To a point where saints might not endure.
Then air conditioning saved our plight,
But fleeting indeed was our delight;
Now we’re complaining, just as of old—
Saving the church is much too cold.
—JGMcD.
waters of CORE SOUND, Carteret
County, by J. O. Mason and Eph
raim L. Fulcher, sold to L. A. B.
Davis, M. W. Chapman, David
Speight, J. L. Pater, Samuel Elli
ott, C. S. Wallace, Geo. N. Ives,
W. S. Idlett, Thomas Davis, and
Sarah Webster.
Capt. Thomas Gaskill of Schoon
er Julia F. Hill, taken from waters
of BRANT ISLAND, Pamlico Coun
ty by Norman Gaskill, Lorenzo
Gaskins, William Salter, and sold
to D. D. Winfield and others.
Capt. David Gaskins of the
Schooner Dolphin, oysters taken
from BAY RIVEIR, in Pamlico
County by Raymond Potter, R.
Flowers, and B. Jones and sold
to Montgomery and Company.
Capt. W. D. Gaskill of Schooner
J. F. Norris taken from waters of
SOUTH ISLAND, by J. W. Gaskill,
J. W. Hopkins, J. G. Sadler, sold
to Montgomery and Company.
Capt. S. B. L. Hathaway of the
Schooner H. Hill, taken from the
waters of SOUTH ISLAND, in Pam
lico County by James Overton, and
Amos Sadler, sold to Montgomery
and Company.
Capt. J. S. W. Hellen of the
Sharpio Nina Dare, waters of
NORTH RIVER by J. S. W. Hellen,
James T. Gilliam, and sold to
George N. Ives and Son.
Capt. Mike Hill of the Schooner
Sarah F. taken from the waters of
CORE SOUND by Joseph Wallace,
Joseph E. Salter, and Carrawan
Nelson, sold to L. A. B. Davis.
Capt. P. C. Jones of the Schooner
D. C. Willis, taken from the waters
of BAY RIVER, Pamlico County
by Council Moseley, Paul Jones,
Joseph Richardson, John Ives, John
Fulford, and sold to George N.
Ives and Company.
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Capt. W. Lewis of the Schooner
Sea Flower, taken from the waters
of CORE SOUND in Carteret Coun
ty, by W. Lewis, Jorabel Lewis
and Wadell Lewis, sold to Sarah
Webster, David Speight, C. T. Wat
son, D. D. Winfield and others.
(Continued next week)
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