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PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
BEAUFORT, N. C, THURSDAY, MCH. 19, 1942
BEAUFORT NEWS
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wan Sant Inc. Lets Contract
To Winston-Salem Company
Foundations Are Laid
For New Plant
Buildings
NEW INDUSTRY WILL
EMPLOY LOCAL MEN
Van Sant Inc., the new industry
now located in Beaufort, has
ra rHoH the contract for the
construction of its buildings to the
1- Tr.ton fnYIKtVUCtion Co.. Of
Winston-Salem, N. C. Work has al
started on the founda
r tions of several units, and ground
lias been cleared for the entire
.lank The concern will be located
on the north side of the Lenoxville
. highway a short distance beyond
,the Gulf Stream golf course. The
spur of the Beaufort and More
. head R. R. has been extended to
thia point and is being used to
f transport building material to the
f site.
?, An official of the Van Sant Co., j
stated this week -that the contract
ion would employ local labor for
the work of building. Also, local
' people will be employed for opera t
f ing the plant as soon as every
thing is in readiness. Between 75
'., and 150 men will be required de-
pending upon the amount of raw
,: material on hand.
The completed plant will con
sist of 10 or 12 units. Several
buildings will be warehouses tori
storing raw material and finished
products awaiting shipment.
Other buildings will house the of
fice, power plant and processing
departments.
The Van Sant industry, associa
ted with the American Chorophyll
Corporation, produces a product
extracted from a vegetable grown
in South America. The material to
be processed will be brought to
this country by freighter and will
probably enter through the port at
Morehead City. The product turn
ed out at the local plant will be
shipped to wholesale drug manu
facturers who will use it in the
iviftkinor of medicines and supplies.
There has been some talk locally
that this industry was being
erected by one of the large muni
inns rnmnanies and would manu
facture high explosives and other
war material. Van Sant officials
stated definitely that the concern
; in no wav connected with the
making of war materials. The
nearest their product could come
to the battlefields would be thru
base hospitals or some such me
thod. . This industry is not to be clas
;1 sed as a "war baby" as are many
'of the concerns being established
' in other communities. Being of a
) permanent character it will assure
the community of a steady source
. of income. Rather than stopping
operations after the war, the com
; pany will be able to increase in
size as the securing of raw ma
terial is made more easy.
Things Few Aetu Yorkers
Know About iYetu Y'orfc:
There is $4,000,000 in gold at the
bottom of the East river. The treas
ure was aboard a British ship that
tank there In 1870. Many attempts
have been made to recover the mon
ey, but they all failed . . . The
Bronx has its own flag . . . Every
body knows that the Statue of Liber
ty carries a torch in her right hand.
Know what she holds in her left?
It's a book representing Law, which
has on it in block letters the date,
July 4, 1776, signifying liberty based
on law . . . Next time you pass
Grant's tomb and you want to show
your friend how much you know
about New York, raise his eyebrows
by pointing out that the general's
body is encased in three coffins.
' New Tork has 36 buildings that
are 36 stories high or higher. There
are only 20 such buildings in the
rest of the country. (Yes, the Big
Town has the big buildings, the big
heads and the rest of the country
has most of the big hearts.)
The first New York census showed
that it had 1,000 people and 20
houses ... In the early 17th cen
tury, South, Water and Front streets
were covered with water, and Broad
See WINCHELL Page 7
RED CROSS FUND
PASSES $1000
New Contributions
Boost Total Of
Goal
The Beaufort Chapter's Red
Cross War Fund campaign has pas
sed the one thousand dollar mark
as the drive for this necessary
money came to an end. The total
rpnnrtpH this week by the chair
man nf the War Fund. E. C. Mc-
Connell, amounted to $1010.92.
Included in this sum are sev
eral contributions that were not ac
knowledged previously. Harker3
Island $7.00, Smyrna, $20.00, At
lantic $8.00 (in addition to $70.
00 noted before), Beaufort $12.00
Although the national organi
zation has announced that tne
drive is officially closed, contribu
tions will still be acceptable either
to local chapters or from chapters
to the national offices in Washing
ton. The local chairman urges all
who have been receiving the funds
in communities outside Beaufort
to report the final amounts as soon
as nossible.
The officers of the Beaufort
Chanter are verv pleased with the
response made by the people of
the chapter area. They also wish to
thank all who have given ot tneir
time to collect contributions..
ABOUT THE
Town
With
MACK CLARK
We went over to the USO build
ing in" Morehead City last Sunday
afternoon to take in the Open
House program arranged to give
the public an opportunity to see
what all is done there. We were
verv favorably impressed with
the building and the furnishings
and the variety of entertainment
nrovided for the Service Men. The
staff and the volunter committees
certainly deserve a lot of thanks
and appreciation from all of us.
But. the attitude of the citizen
rv on a couple of matters leaves a
lot to be desired. First, a number
of people seemed to think that the
demonstration of how to handle an
incendiary bomb was put on for
their amusement. Some thought it
was very funny when we were told
that one of the best precautions
we can take is to spread a layer of
sand on the floor of our attics.
And others laughed when the fire
men giving the demonstration used
a blanket to shield himself as he
moved up to turn the spray on the
burning bomb. We're not wishing
anyone any bad luck, but it
might do some of us good to have
to put out a few of those white
hot pieces of hell.
The second matter is something
marred the otherwise colorful and
impressive ceremony of the mas
sing of the national Colors and
the flags representing the organi
zations that are taking a part in
the USO program. Only about one
out of ten people there seemed -to
know the words of the pledge of al
legiance or how to stand and give
the salute.
There is no better sympton ot
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Carteret County Oil
Dealers To Observe
Much Shorter Hours
Carteret County gasoline
filling station operators met
at Piner's Gulf station in
Beaufort on Tuesday night to
discuss ways and means of
operating their places of bus
iness due to the gasoline and
oil situation brought about by
the sinking of tankers by en-
submarines along the
ntic coast.
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r. Finer stated tms morn
ing that with one exception, all
agreed to open their stations
at 8:30 in the morning and
close same at 8:30 at night.
The oil stations will be closed
all day Sundays. Oil dealers
on their gasoline supplies.
It was also annonuced from
Washington today that gaso
line would be rationed on the
Atlantic seaboard just as soon
a the necessary cards could
be printed.
Reported Missing
After His Vessel
Was Sunk Off N. C.
On Tuesday morning news
was received in iSeauiort
from Ocracoke Island, that
the- navigation licenses of
Third Mate James B. Gas-
kill, was found, on tae beach
where they had apparently
been washed ashore only a
short while before. Yet the
licenses were reported to
have been absolutely dry
and appeared to have not
been in water. It is a mystery
which had not oeen explain
ed when news was received
here.
It was a mystery, because
James Baughm Gaskill, pictured
above, who is a native of Ocra
coke Island was officially reported
missing by the Navy on Saturday,
following the sinking earlier in the
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A WEEK OF THE WAR!
War Production Chairman Nel
son said man-hours now being put
into military production coma . pe
doubled if all equipment involved
were used 24 hours a day. He ask
ed manufacturers for monthly re
ports to show how rapidly indus
try is being converted to war work,
the degree of utilization of equip
ment and any factors interfering
with maximum production.
The WPB reported 95 percent
of the radio and phonograph indus
try, which ceases civilian produc
tion April 22, will be completely
converted to war work before June
30. Production of communica
tion equipment needed by the mil
itary services is expected to exceed
a rate of $125 million a month by
th end of the year.
Chairman Nelson announced 31
regional conferences of Labor and
Management representatives from
prime contracting plants engaged
tanks and machine tools will be
held during the next two weeks.
The meetings will lay plans to
meet or exceed the production
goals announced by the President.
The WPB ordered the production
of domestic laundry equipment to
Racing Against
lime and tide wait for no man,
new
freighter, was launched at
would be at 5 p. m. That
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laying the keel for the next ship, and In this war, time Is Important.
The launching was made at the California Shipbuilding yard, Los Angeles.
Submarines Account for Two
More Vessels On N. C. Coast
Explosions Plainly
Heard In Beaufort
And Vicinity
NINE ARE KILLED
AND 60 RESCUED
Two more merchant ships
were torpedoed off the At
lantic coast early Sunday
with the loss of at least nine
lives, the navy disclosed yes
terday. Two seamen were
listed as missing and were
presumed to have been hit
whila in a lifeboat.
Six lives were lost in the sink
inc of an American merchantman
of medium tonnage which was way
laid by three enemy submarines
that sent two torpedoes into her
engine room. One projectile struck
beneath a lifeboat as it was being
lowered and blew the boat, occu
pied bv six men, to bits. Thirty-
three crew members, 29 of them
uninjured, were landed at More
head City., after being adrift on
life rafts from three to nine hours.
The other vessel, carrying a
crew of 36, was torpedoed at 1:22
A. M. Eastern War Time, the sixth
naval districtt said, after the tar
get was outlined by red and green
Very lights from a submarine.
Three were killed and five report
ed missing, although three of the
five were said to have been picked
n n hv resuce craft. Fifteen of the
crw were injured and nine were
still under hospital care yester
day at Charleston, S. C
The dead from the three-way
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be discontinued by way 10 so me
entire capacity of the industry can
be devoted to war production.
The WPB said during the three
months following Pearl Harbor
more than $72 billion had been
made available for the war effort
Appropriations by Congress and
additional funds made available
through the RFC were larger than
all the funds authorized for de
fense during the 18 months before
the attack. The total for the 21
months amounted to almost $140
billion.
Rubber, Gasoline And Oil
President Roosevelt in a letter
to State Governors proposed speed
limits of 40 miles per hour be es
tablished throughout the country
to conserve rubber. He also pro
posed the states enact regulations
requiring frequent checking of
tires to insure repair and retread
ing at proper times. The Office of
Defense Transportation and De
partment of Justice offered their
assistance to local business enter
prises seeking to pool delivery ser-
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Time And Tide
we're told. So the Zebulon Pike,
five In the morning Because uw oc
would have meant a 12-hour delay in
BEAUFORT MAN IS
FIRST IN LOTTERY
Hugh Pake Has Num
ber One In Third
Drawing
Hugh Gordon Pake of
Beaufort RFD 1 was the first
man in Carteret County to
have his number drawn in
the national lottery for the
third Selective Service draw
ing conducted in Washing
ton this week. Although
Pake's serial number is 441,
his was the first of those re
gistered in the county to
come out of the goldfish
bowl. I
Pake is a married man with two
children, but barring failure to
pass the physical examination, he
will be liable to call to the service.
Under new regulations deferment
is no longer granted men with tam-
ihes.
The serial numbers of all men
registered in the county have been
posted at several points in Beau
fort and Morehead City. The order
list. i. e. the order in which serial
numbers were drawn, will be post
pH at. the Beaufort News Office so
that it will be possible for anyone
to determine his order number Dy
checking the two lists.
Chamber Commerce
Elects New Officers
' The anual meeting and banquet
If the Beaufort Chamber of Com-
erce was held at the Inlet Inn on
Monday night. The primary item
01 ; DUSiness luuuwuis me umiici
Wi i the election of officers. Result
of he voting placed a new set of
officWs in charge of the Chamber's
plank and activities for the coming
yeaij. The new heads are President
R. Hugh Hill; Vice-Pres. Jacob
Miller, Secretary, G. W. Duncan;
Treas. Mrs. Martha Loftin.
Folowing the business meeting
Mayor G. M. Paul addressed the
gathering on the subject of Civil
ian Defense. After outlining the
the latest setup as suggested by
the State Civilian Director, Mr.
Paul urged that members of the
Chamber cooperate with Beaufort
plans.
Most Of County
Officials Will
Seek Re-election
Although none have officially
anounced their intentions, it was
stated today at the County Court
House that all of the office hold
ers of Carteret County, with the
exception of one or more com
missioners would run again for
the offices they now hold in the
Primary which will be held on
Saturday, May 30.
The following Democrat? which
are now in office will be in the
race; L. W. Hassell, clerk of court,
C. G. Holland, sheriff; Paul Webb,
judge Recorder's court; M. Leslie
Davis, solicitor recorder's court.
The membres of the board of
commissioners could not be con
tacted as we go to press today.
YOU'D BE SURPRISED to see
the way things begin to pop around
2 o'clock in the morning at the
Grayson home.
DRAFT LIST
The draft list containing
the serial numbers as prepar
ed by the Carteret County
Draft Board is posted in front
of The Beaufort News office.
This list has been posted for
the past week and quite a
number of people have been
around and found their num
bers and names.
OLD DOCUMENT
L. W. Hassell, Clerk of Su
perior Court while searching
through some records yesterday
ran across a document dated
1880 which was the inventory
of the late Capt. Thomas Dun
can. The document contained
39 sheets legal cap paper writ
ten in long hand and when plac
end to end this document meas
ured 27 feet in length. The pa
per was signed by Win. B. Dun
con and Thomas A. Duncan,
Executor
Spence Will Not Run
For Seat In Congress
Dr. Zeno Spence of GoldsboroJ
pictured above, announced today
that he would not be a candidate
for Congress in opposition to Rep.
Graham, present incumbent. On
page two of today's paper he says
that he will support Harden, tie
does, however, continue to lavor
the Townsend plan and says now
is the time to enact the measure.
25 MORE
It has just been an
nounced as we go to
press today that the al
lied forces had shot
down 25 more Jap
planes over Burma to
day. ONE OF WRECK
VICTIMS DIES
Vannie Styron, 45, of Harkers
Island who was in an automobile
wreck last Wednesday died in the
Morehead City Hospital Tuesday
afternoon at 3 o'clock. Funeral
services were conducted from the
home Wednesday afternoon at 2
o'clock by the Rev. Mr. Harris,
pastor of the local Methodist
church. Interment was made in
the community cemetery.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Callie S. .Styron and three
ohildren, Misses Bernice, Lila May,
and Gherman Styron, all of Har
kers Island. His Mother, Mrs. Al
vania Stvron and a sister, Mrs.
Carlie Guthrie also survive.
Pall bearers were members of
the Junior Order, of which he was
a memoer.
President Approves
Bill For Addition
To Smyrna School
In a special wire to the Beaufort
News this week, Congressman
Graham A. Barden reported that
President Roosevelt had signed
the recently approved WPA pro
ject providing for the erection of
an additional building and the im
provement of present buildings at
the Smyrna school.
The project calls for the expen
diture of $4.86U.OO which sum
wil provide for an excellent annex
to the present facilities and will
nut the existing building in a
state of good repairs.
TIDE TABLE
Information as to the tide
at Beaufort is given in this
i-olumn. The figures are ap
proximately correct and are
based on tables furnished by
the U. S. Geodetic Survey..
So meallowances must
made for variations in the
wind and also with respect
to the locality, that is whetl
er near the inlet or at the
head of the estuaries.
HIGH LOW
Friday March 20
11:34 AM. 5:20 AM
11:50 PM. 5:2H FM
Saturday, March 21
5:58 AM.
12:09 AM. 6:07 PM.
Sunday, March 22
12:2!) AM. 6:42 A AM.
12:48 PM. 6:52 PM.
Monday, March 23
1:09 AM. 7:33 AM.
1:30 PM. 7:42 PM.
Tuesday, March 24
1:53 AM. -8:29 AM.
2:19 PM. 8:38 PM.
Wednesday, March 25
2:47 AM. 9:29 AM.
3:21 PM. 9:39 PM.
Thursday, March S6
3:50 AM. 10.27 AM.
4:22 PM. 10:38 PM.
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SPEED ZONES
BEING SETUP
Highway Signs
Are Now Being
Erected
Highway engineers are
erecting signs designating 35
and 45 miles per hour speed
zones authorized at the Feb
ruary meeting of the State
Highway and Public Works
Commission, Ben Prince,
Chairman said today. A to
tal of 180 zones in 65 count
ies has been designated as
"speed zones", with a maxi
mum sped limit of 35 mph in
155 zones and a top limit of
45mph in the remaining 25.
Areas zoned inciuaeu mc ir
skirts of many incorporated
towns, as well as principal state
highways passing througti some
unincorporated towns, and other
places in which congested traffic
conditions or hazards proving dan
gerous to the traveling public pre
vail Prince said.
Listing excessive speea as
cause of most of the serious and
fatal automobile accidents on the
highways of the State, Governor
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J. M. Broughton in a prepare
statement today called on all citi
zens to observe the speed limits
established in these zones. Mem
bers of the Highway Patrol ana
other law enforcement agencies of
the State, he said, have been in
structed to enforce the speed
limits set up for the zoned areas.
His complete statement is as fol
lows: 'Excessive speed is undoubtedly
the cause of most of the serious
and fatal automobile accidents on
the highways of our State. Under,
the law as it has existed for a nuia
ber of years, the maximum speed
limit in North Carolina is sixty
miles per hour. Only the General
Assembly can modify this limit,
and it probable that some modifi
cation will be made at tne next
session of the General Assembbly.
However, the State Highway
and Public Works Commission haa
very wisely been given under the
law the power to designate special
zones or areas of danger and to
fix a modified speed limit in such
areas and to post appropriate
signs in connection therewith.
"In January, of this year, I con
ferred with the State Highway
Commission and called attention
to the tragic increase of deaths on
our highways. It was suggested
that the Commission through ita
engineers complete as early as
possible the work already begun
in connection with fixing such
danger zones and modifying the
speed limit in all sucn zones. 1 am
pleased to learn now that this,
work has practically been comple
ted and that highway signs indica
ting modified speed limits are be
ing placed in all military areas,
congested traffic areas, at danger
ous curves and intersections, and
at other places where the traffic
hazard is great. These signs will
plainly indicate to the travelling
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40-IIOl'R FIGHT
The furious battle over the bill to
suspend the 40-hour week in war
plants caused a personal rift be
tween two house leaders that may
take a long time to heal.
When Rep.- John McCormack,
Massachusetts liberal, was elected
Democratic floor leader, one of his
strongest supporters was a col
league who had nothing in common
with McCormack except friendship
anti-New Deal, anti-labor Rep.
Gene Cox of Georgia.
It was with hushed astonishment,
therefore, that the house listened to
Cox's bitter attack against McCor
mack during the stormy debate over
the anti-40 hour proposal. His voice
strident in anger, Cox denounced
McCormack on the ground that his
opposition to abolishing the 40-hour
week was "not good sportsmanship,
and I wonder if it is good lPider
ship." "I have honed." the Georgian
thundered, "that at some time the ;
gentleman from Massachusetts '
would come to a realization that he
is supposed to speak for the major
ity of this house rather than for
somebody else."
Friends ruehed to McCormack'a
defense, but he made no reply. Next
day, however, under McCormack'
lpgjfirshjp, the bilLwas defeated 226
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