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During Past Weekend Confederate Arms Salvaed The Confederate blockade run ner Ranger gave up a portion oi her cargo of arms and munitions during the past weekend after lying buried in sand and water off Holden Beach for the past century. Members of a U. S. Army Beach Reconnaisance Amphibious Team recovered the cargo in div ing operations carried on under the eyes of hundreds of curious residents and weekend visitors at the Brunswick county beach re sort. Chief object of interest was a case of muskets which was dug up out of the sand Sunday. Paro doically enough, once having brought the case of weapons to the surface, members of the sup porting crew hurried ashore with the cargo to bury it again as quickly as possible in the wet sand. This was to prevent ex posure to the atmosphere, which would set up rapid deterioration. A contact was made with the folks in charge of diving opera tions of Port Fisher, and arrange ments were made to have a truck come to the Brunswick beach to take the case of firearms to the laboratory where they could be cleaned and preserved. The operation is the first of any consequence attempted on any of the wrecks off the shores of Brunswick county, although diving operations have been un derway for some time off Fort Fisher. There is no connection between the local weekend activity and that of the salvage operations off the coast of New Hanover County. The local efforts were carried out by the Army team from Fort Eustis, Va., which was at Sunny Point last week on rou tine training operations. Word of the interesting recoveries being made at Fort Fisher prompted a request for permission to Un dertake a similar project at one of the known wrecks off the LISTEN, NEIGHBOR! firs* i!!S d.° S?me,hin9 ,or our «"•»*■ TRADE IN BRUNSWICK. 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The Sunday operation paid off ! with recovery of the large case of muskets, and although there was no definite indication as to the condition of the weapons in side, there was a feeling that several valuable rnuseum pieces may have been recovered from their watery resting place off Holden Beach. The ship used for the salvage try is an LCU. 1st Lieut. Lidge O. J. Johnson, a native of Rock ingham, is the commanding offi cer and is in charge of the crew. There were 11 divers aboard and 10 additional members of the crew. In fact, there is more than a suspicion that a love for antique weapons may have played an im portant part in the salvage plans that were carried out during the past weekend. Lieut. Johnson con fessed Friday afternoon that one of his most cherished possessions is a Confederate musket that he purchased several years ago from a neigh “I didn’t have any money’ worked him in one of during shape fi in the 1 matter Wheti be an an arm will op< frontier! tions re: fact ha the car| federate Johnson said, ‘‘so I a deal to work for arden to pay for the gun.” iMohnson said that he cleaned p and has it in good shape. 1 .ve even fired it,” he said pr< It ms ; many a day before weanons recovered past weekend is in ing, but; they are now s of specialists in the reclamation and pre servatio f object^ brought up from thftean’s epths. this wll- turn out to resting side trip for roup in | this area on a routir mission or whether it up ner i and exciting f undewater explora ns to t seen. But the been t tablished that of son: f of the Con lockade inners remains relatively intact. The JfcuiBIS iitt in \at the “Geronimo” • • • . . . or whatever it is you say when you dive in a SCUBA rig. Here one of the men starts down for an other look at the sunken wreck of the Confederate blockade runner Ranger. municipal dock in Southport Sun day afternoon to take on supplies before departing for the return trip to Fort Eustis, but several i members of her crew made them selves a promise to return one ! day to the center of activity of I the Confederate blockade. West Coast Trip Includes Side I Visit I o Honolulu And Hawaii Miss Britie Holden of Shallotte has returned from an entensive tour of the Western States, in cluding Hawaii. She and two of her friends with whom she teaches in Leesburg, Florida, left there July 4 for Cali fornia. En route they saw the Painted Desert, Petrified Forest, , Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam and Las Vegas, where they attended the Red Skelton Show. After arriving in Los Angeles, they spent several days with Mr. and Mrs. Elbert H. Gray and took several tours of Los Angeles, Hollywood, Santa Monica, Long Beach and Burbank. The itinerary called for a trip to Seattle and Alaska but was Waterfront This seems to be the summer for photogenic sea turtles, for al ready we have had access to good closeup pictures of these huge denizens of the deep taken by too local photographers. We used one a couple of weeks ago taken by Rees Swan over on Bald Head Island. This week we saw an other set of good pictures that had been taken by Dan L. Wal ker of Long Beach. Each also had a shot of youngsters burrow ing in the sand in search of turtle eggs. But the crowning assign ment was turned in by Walker Sunday. When asked why he had n’t done something he was sup posed to do during the weekend, Walker’s lame excuse was, “I was watching a turtle nest, waiting for the eggs to hatch so I could get a first-minute picture of the little turtles.” and you know something, we think he probably was doing just that! changed to a trip to Honolulu, Hawaii. A complete tour of the island, attending a luau kodok show, International show place, and many more interesting places made the trip a memorable one. Upon returning to the mainland the tour was continued to a more Northern route. A few points of interest were Yosemite National Park, Great Salt Flats, Salt Lake City, Yellowstone Na tional Park and the Grand Fet ons. Read It In The State Port Pilot Speaking: of Dan Walker, he has his hands full planning for the forthcoming N. C. Crab Der by, scheduled for Long Beach on Saturday, August 25. Dan'l is an idea man of the first magnitude, and he has tried to come up with some new ideas for sidelights to the main event. One of these is a crab-catching contest, limited to kids 12-years-of-age. Another is a crab relay race, limited to little boys, with the object being to pass a live crab instead of a baton. And he was trying to think up some details of how to have a contest for men, the ob ject being to reach a hand into a simulated king crab nest and pick up a live crab without looking. Somehow, we just cannot see this latter competition drawing many contestants, since to catch a crab is perilous enough when you are looking him straight in the eye. Ed Royal went on a photogra phic mission Sunday with the Army boys aboard the LCU that was operating at the site of the wreck of the blockade runner Ranger off Holden Beach. Ed got some good action pictures, but that was not all. 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