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BEAUFORT, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1942
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
VICTIMS' BODIES
NEAR ORIENTAL
2 Army Aviators
Lose Lives When
Bomber Crashes
NEW BERN. July 13.
The bodies of two army avi
ators who lost their lives
when a two-motored bomber
crashed into Neuse river be
tween Oriental and Arapa
hoe Saturday afternoon were
recovered from the water to
day. The bodies were identified as
those of 2nd Lieutenant Eugene P.
Ulak, son of Mrs. Frances Ulak,
of Newark, N. J., and Sgt. Everett
C. Jackson, son of Mr, and Mrs.
Thomas F. Jackson of Corinth,
Miss., Route 2. i
Two other members of the seven-ton
bomber's crew managed to
escape with their lives. Master
Sgt. Stephen Schultz was reported
in a critical condition with a frac
tured skull at a Camp Davis hos
pital, Staff Sgt. J. L. Elrod es
caped with minor injuries.
i The bodies of the two men kill
ed in the crash were brought to
the Willis Funeral Home here to
t3 prepared for shipment to their
respective homes.
. The heavy plane was raised
from six feet of mud and about
15 feet of water by means of a
, Jiuge derrick.
i Capt. H. W. Powell, second offi
cer in command of the 79th Bomb
er Squadron, U. S. Army, to which
the aviators were attached at the
Marine Corps Air Station, at
Cherry Point, said tonight that a
board of inquiry will be held later
to try to determine the cause of
the crash.
Alida Moore Piver
Wins Americanism
Contest In Norfolk
Miss Alida Moore Piver of 526
Virginia Avenue, Norfolk, Va., has
been named the winner in the
fWhy I'm Glad I'm An Ameri
can" essay contest, sponsored by
the Chamber of Commerce.
-, The announcement of her $10
prize was revealed today by her
great aunt, Mrs. Charles Hatsell
of Beaufort. Miss Piver was born
in Beaufort and is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Josh Piver.
An excerpt from her prize win
ning essay "Why I'm Glad I'm An
American" stated: "As we live in
America, we are free to choose
our government, to observe our
different religions and to speak
our minds in matters concerning
present day life. Because we are
Americans, we have the right to
disagree with others and to speak
our own opinions. Where, but in
America can we disagree with the
opinions of government officials
and openly discuss with other peo
ple the management of govern
ment affairs. Public opinion oft
en is a deciding factor in the pas
sage of certain bills by Congress.
This free of expression is not tol
erated in the Nazi dominated and
conquered lands."
Belleview Canning
Company Operating
In East Beaufort
J The announcement of the Belle
yiew Canning Company that it
had leased the Trombetta Canning
Plant in east Beaufort has begun
an assembly line of canned toma
toes rolling at the rate of 2,000
Cans an hour.
; R. T." Hutchinson, one of the
managers of the cannery said to
day that this meant the daily ca
pacity would total 1,000 cases.
"We have planty of tin," he
lidded and said that he also had
plenty of labor. "But the" acute
problem is the farmers securing
enough pickers to take care of the
crop"
George Sharp and L. Frank Ro
per, also connected with the new
management stated that they will
purchase "all the tomatoes we can
get But we handle only ripe to
matoes." A cash market price will be paid
to those delivering ripe tomatoes
to the cannery which is located
next to Scarboro Safrit Lumber
Company.
4 Since the beginning of the scrap
collection campaign, Mit c h e 1 1
County farmers have gathered up
1,500,000 pounds of metal for the
war effort, says Farm Agent F. L.
iWoodard.
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GOVERNOR BROUGHTON is shown here with Santf ord
Martin, of Winston-Salem (center) chairman of Board of
Conservation and Development; and Capt. John A. Nel
son, of Morehead City, State Fisheries Commissioner dur
ing the meeting last week when the board had its annual
Carteret meeting in Morehead City. Governor Broughton
is the first State Governor to preside over a board meet
ing in Carteret County. (Cut courtesy News & Observer.
Photo by Sam Hood ) .
ARE WARNED TO
BUY THEIR COAL
Officials Say That
Rail Transporta
tion Will Create
A 'Shortage
WASHINGTON, July 15
Fuel Co-Ordinator Harold L.
Ickea has warned that house
holders should store their en
tire supply of coal for next
winter, getting their bins as
full as possible this summer.
Notwithstanding a 5,573,000-ton
increase in the nation's soft coal
stockpile during May, Acting Di
rector Howard A. Gray, of bond
Fuels Office said today the a
mount now in storage was not suf
ficient to guarantee adequate pro
tection against wartime shortages.
The bituminous coal division of
the Interior Department estimated
that on June 1 consumers held 67,
409,000 tons of soft coal in stor
age, against 61,836,000 tons on
May 1.
Meanwhile, mine production
See HOUSE HOLDER P 10
REA Bookkeeper
Will Attend Special
Accounting School
Miss Esther Dickinson, book
keeper of the Carteret-Craven
Electrification Membership Cor
poration, left Saturday, July
12 for Raleigh, m North Carolina
where she will spend the week of
July 13 through July 17 attending
a special Rural Electrification
Bookkeeper's School, according to
Mr. H. H. Lewis Jr., superinten
dent of the Cooperative.
The first four days of the school
will be devoted to a study of ap
proved standard accounting meth
ods used in rural electrification
systems throughout the country,
and on Friday the sessions will be
given over to general operations
problems.
Self-billing and member meter
reading, practices that have been
used in the CarteretCraven Elec
tric Membership Corporation for
eight months as well as in a great
majority of the 788 REA coop
eratives throughout the country,
are doubly important now with
conservation of rubber and gaso
line vital to the war effort. Sev
eral hundred thousand miles of
driving along the nation's 360,000
miles of REA lines are saved ev
Hardy Lewis Jr., superintenden
participation practices.
Part of the final session will be
given to a discussion of what REA
lines have done, and can best do,
in the war effort How to make
the best possible use of present
facilities and how to. prepare and
maintain the cooperative's rec
ords in such shape that quick ad
justments can be made to every
war emergency, will be discussed
at Friday's session.
Fruit
Total fruit production in the
1942-43 season will be nearly as
large as the bumper 1941-42 pro
duction, according to latest esti
mates of the U. S. Department of
Agriculture.
RURAL AREAS
URGED TO GET
IN P00LM0VE
Share-The-Ride
Movement Under
Way In State
RALEIGH, July 15 Resi
dents of smaller towns and
rural communities were urg
ed today by James S. Burch,
State War Transportation
Secretary, to use their own
initiative in forming share
ride clubs.
Burch pointed out that the cam
paign to save tires on wheels was
well organized in the larger towns,
through local War Transportation
Committees and Air Raid Wardens
of the OCD, but such organiza
tions did not exist in all smaller
tenters nor in rural areas.
"However," he said, 'most of
the State's population is still in
rural areas, and it is very import
ant that the share-ride movement
be extended into these sections. I
earnestly urge county farm
agents, PTA groups and similar or
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"Merit Award" To
Be Given Farmers
By Farm Security
A "Merit Award" will be given
next fall to all Farm Security Ad
ministration borrowers who reach
production goals set for them this
year in the nation's Food for
Freedom campaign.
Joseph Y. Allen, County Farm
Security Supervisor, said a cer
tificate will be given as evidence
that the farmer has put forth the
extra effort asked by the Secre
tary of Agriculture to help win
the war by all-out food produc
tion. The merit award certificate,
printed in red, white and blue,
suitabfe for framing, is an impres
sive certificate, signed by C. B.
Baldwin, national FSA administra
tor and Howard II. Gordon, re
gional FSA director. In addition
to appropriate words of commen
dation, the certificate bears the
following statement by President
Roosevelt:
"Our own objectives are clear;
the objective of smashing the mil
itarism imposed by war lords upon
their enslaved peoples the ob
jective of liberating the subjugat
ed nations the object, of estab
lishing and securing freedom of
speech, freedom of religion, free
dom from want, and freedom from
fear everywhere in the world."
The certificate will be awarded
families farming with Farm Secur
ity loans when they have reached
production goals set up in their
1942 farm plans, Mr. Allen point
ed out.
"To reach the Food for Free
dom goals, the farm families will
find it necessary to make every
hour and every acre produce the
largest possible amount of food
and fibre," the supervisor said.
"On the whole tire families have
set high goals, when one considers
the difficulties faced by many of
these farmers. The award will be
the Department of Agriculture's
recognition of exceptional Service
under difficulty."
WATERWAY CAN
BE USED BY
COASTALSHIPS
University Geolog
ists List Advantages
Of Dredging, Wid
ening, Straightening
CHAPEL HILL, July 15.
"The. Inland Waterway
Can It Be Used For Coastal
Shipping?"
This question repeatedly
raised by Governor J. M.
Broughton and others in the
face of disastrous submarine
attacks off the Atlantic
Coast, particularly off North Car
olina, is answered today m an ar
ticle published in "Popular Gov
ernment," the magazine of the In
stitute of Government, by two
members of the University of
North Carolina Department of
Geology, Profs. F. C. Erickson and
J. C. McCampbell.
After tracing the waterway
through North Carolina and dis
cussing its limitations as revealed
in the United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey the authors con
clude: "It is not to be assumed that
the Inland Waterway can replace
the regular off-shore shipping
lane. Rather it should be thought
of as an arterial route whereby
small vet indispensable amounts
of vital commodities could be safe
ly amassed in eastern markets. At
least it can be utilized to prevent
the pail from running dry."
Among the reasons given for the
limited present usefulness of the
canals are their depth of 10 feet
seven feet for the alternate
route through North Carolina
relatively sharp turns, narrow
drawbridges, the fact that long
sections of canals are limited to
one-way traffic, and that the en
tire waterway is affected by tides.
Dredging, widenjjag anil straight
ening the canals would quickly re
pay the work involved because of
the increased volume of vital com
modities the waterway could han
dle and because planes and naval
vessels now used for patrol and
convoy could be released for war
duty, it is pointed out.
The article is illustrated by a
map drawn by Professor Ericksor
Promoted
MR. B. H. NOE of Beaufort, who
is connected with the Home Secu
rity Insurance Co., of Durham, has
been promoted to Superintendent
in the Washington District effect
ive July 6th. Mr. Noe's office will
be in New Bern, however the local
agents will be connected with his
staff. The first year that Mr. Noe
was with the company he won the
trophy for yeadership in the In
dustrial Dept., the second year he
won the leadership award in both
Industrial and Ordinary depart
ments. The first half of 1942 finds
him holding the same position.
Public Hearing
On Mullets Set
For Next Monday
The matter of catching mullets
with purse-seines will be discussed
in Morehead City Monday, July 20
at 10 A. M. before the Commercial
Fisheries Committee of the De
partment of Conservation and De
velopment, Capt. John A. Nelson,
State Fisheries Commissioner an
nounced today.
The meeting will be held in the
city hall where the firt hearing
took place last week.
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ROTARY HEARS.
ABOUT MALARIA
CONTROL WORK
Delfido Cordova
Tells Local Citi
zens About County
Health Program
Last Tuesday night at the
Inlet Inn during the weekly
meeting of the Rotary Club,
Delfido Cordova explained
to the club the set-up of ma
laria control program being
carried out in Carteret Co.,
under the direction of the
County Board of Health.
The same program i3 being
carried out in seven dilrerent
southern states. Twenty-six men
and women are employed until the
first of September. The work is
mainly educational.
The speaker explained how ma
laria is transmitted from a sick
person to a well person by the bite
of one species of the Anopholes
mosquito. "It is only the female
mosquito of the quadrimaculatus
that transmits the disease in North
Carolina, as far is known now. Con
trary to what is commonly be
lieved, the malaria mosquito likes
to lay its eggs in fairly fresh, clean
water, and not in polluted, stag
nant pools. These eggs develop in
to 'Wigglers' that attach themsel-
ver to rubbish, grass, flotage and j
live close to tne top ot tne water
so that they can get food and wa-
ter. Science has found their habits
in development and has also found
how to destroy the mosquito at
this stage."
"The two principal ways are by
covering the water with oil," Cor
dova said, "that keeps the air away
from them, and the other is by
dusting with paris green, when the
wiggler takes it as food they are
poisoned."
Cordova emphasized the fact
that the malaria mosquito does its
biting at night. "Homes should be
mosquito - proofed. That means
that all windows and doors should
be completely screened with 16
strands to the inch. Screen wire
with larger opening than that is no
protection against Malaria mos-
quitos. All other openings, such as
fireplaces, cracks in walls or floors
ought to ge stopped. The premises
See ROTARY Page 10
Rubber Salvage
Brings In Total
Of 120,000 Lbs.
Carteret County's rubber salv
age drive will add 120,000 pounds
to the nation's supply toward the
defeat of the Axis.
In announcing complete figures
this week P. H. Geer, county chair
man of the rubber roundup, said
he was delighted with the way
neoDle responded to the call of
the federal government for scrap
rubber to aid in the war effort.
The figures covered rubber car
ried to various salvage depots dur
ing the Victory campaign which
was paid for at the rate of one
cent a pound. Geer has been busy
this week checking receipts of the
various centers and preparing to
move the scrap material to central
ization points.
Liquor Sales More
Than Double Here
Carteret County's Alcoholic
Beverage Control store sales dur
ing June of this year were $33,
899.15 as compared with sales to
taling $14,784.50 in June of last
year, according to a statement
which has just been issued by the
State Board of Alcoholic Control.
Three stores are operated in Car
teret County, one in Beaufort,
one in Morehead City, and one in
Newport.
Sales in Craven County increas
ed from $11,621.90 in June of last
year to $43,688.85 during June of
this year. In other counties in
which defense work is underway
in North Carolina the increased
were: Durham from $91,295.10
to $190,576.85; New Har.ovcr
from $73,492.25 to $162,239.40;
Onslow from $12,840.05 to $55,
976.55, and Pasquotank from $19,
012.25 to $42,462.50.
Sales for the entire state in
creased from $614,915 in June of
last year to 1,258,393.75 in June
of this year.
The Sampson County tobacco
crop is good, and proper weather
conditions during the next few
weeks will assure excellent cur
ings, says J. P. Stovall, assistant
farm agent.
1
lay Pee Trying Cases
Out 0! Jurisdiction
Stopped By Hamilton
Capt. A. W. Styron
Died Tuesday
CAPT. AUGUSTUS STYRON,
who for many yer hai been keep
er of Coait Guard stations on the
Virginia and Carolina coasts pass-
ed away early Tuesday morning at
his home at Lenoxville. Capt. Sty
ron has been retired from active
service for several years, on ac
count of ill health, nd has recent
ly been at Norfolk and Baltimore
hospitals. He was sent home a few
days ago to await the end. Many
men are sad today, they mourn
with his good wife Mattie of his
passing, his comrades in the Coast
Guard service, also many friends
and acquaintances pause to pay
tribute to his memory.
Capt. "Gus" as he was known by
his friends, wil be greatly missed
by the people of Cedar Island, his
old home, which he never forgot
and held dear to hi heart. Since
he retired from the service he
built a summer home at Lenoxville
where he was living af the time of
his death.
Funeral services were conducted
this afternoon from his old home
on Cedar Island, by Rev. W. E. An
derson of Morehead City, assisted
by Rev. Luke Weatherington of
Kinston. Interment was made in
the family cemetery on Cedar Is
land. Pall bearers were members
of the American Legion and Coast
Guard men, the Legion having
charge of services at the grave.
The floral tributes were many
and beautiful and attested the es
teem in which he was held through
out the county. Capt. Styron was
64 years old and had served twen
ty five years in the U. S. Coast
Guard. He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Mattie Styron of Lenoxville,
two sisters, Mrs. Dave Day, and
Mrs. R. L. Daniels of Cedar Island.
Carteret County
Schools To Open
Thurs., Sept. 10th
The schools of Carteret County
will open Thursday, Sept. 10, at
the usual hour, 9:00 A. M., accord
ing to an announcement following
a recent special meeting of the
Board of Education. The White
Oak school will, however, ooserve
the opening date of the Swansboro
school, to which the high school
pupils of the White Oak district
are transported, this date to be
announced later by Onslow Coun
ty school officials.
Over 500 tons (9 cars) of coal
are now being unloaded or are on
the way. Deliveries are being
completed during the summer this
year for the first time and bins are
being taxed to their capacity upon
the assumption that a shortage of
coal or of coal cars may exist next
February, the month during which
supplementary shippments are us
ually received here.
Supt. Allen said his Board is
exercising every precaution to
guarantee the comfort of pupils
and teachers and the uninterrupt
ed operation of the schools includ
ing the operation of school buses.
Recovered
Animals killed in England dur
ing bombing raids are butchered
as soon as they are found, in some
cases ever before the "all ciear"
signal has been sounded.
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Defendent Tried
By Earl Mason In
Justice Of Peace
Court Is Dismissed
TRAFFIC VIOLATOR
GETS HABEAS WRIT
By SAM HOOD
The jurisdiction of Jay
Pee's in traffic cases was
brought to light in the court
of Judge Luther Hamilton
last Saturday when it was
found that Earl Mason, local
Justice of the Peace, had
tried, found guilty, and fin
ed a defendant of violating
the state speed laws without
having the jurisdiction to do
so.
According to the facts of the
case, H. L. Riggs was arrested on
July 4 by State Highway Patrol
man R. R. Chitty who charged the
defendant with speeding in a re
stricted zone.
Patrolman Chitty brought Rigga
before the court of Earl Mason
who ordered the defendant to pay
a fine of $10 plus court costs set
at $5.30. Bond was set at $50.
Riggs appealed and was brought
before Judge Luther Hamilton last
Saturday upon habeas corpus pro
ceedings. Judge Hamilton ruled
that "the Justice of the Peaca
hearing the original matter has
exceeded his jurisdiction" and
"that the process is defective in
the matter substance required by
law making: such process void."
In other words, the case was
dismissed against Riggs since the
Justice of Peace has jurisdiction
on traffic cases only when the mo
torists fail to stop at a stop sign
posted on the highway if and wtien
he is arrested. Riggs was arrested
for speeding in a 40 MPH zone.
According to law, the Justice
of the Peace, when having such
cases brought before him should
have bound it over to a recorder's
court or superior court, saying
that he had no jurisdiction over
the case.
According to court records, Ma
son has tried over a hundred cases
within the last three months, the
majority of them being traffic
charges, and only four have been
found not-guilty.
MR. JOE EDWARDS WITH
LOCAL BARBER SHOP
Mr. Joe Edwards of Washing
ton, N. C, is now connected with
the Beaufort Barber Shop. Mr.
Edwards is an expert barber of
many years experience. Mr. T. P.
Allen, proprietor of the Beaufort
Barber Shop stated that he felt
fortunate in securing the services
of such a man at this time, due to
the scarcity of skilled men at this
time. With Mr. John Wolfe this
makes three barbers on duty at all
times at this shop.
TIDE TABLE f
Information as to the tide
at Beaufort is given In this
solumn. The figures are ap
proximately correct and are
based on tables furnished by
the U. S. Geodetic Survey.
So ineallowaiices must
made for variations in t'.it
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, J'
AM
PM
ily 17
11:46
11:53
5:26 AM
5:37 PM
Saturday, July IS
6:05 AM
12:27 PM
6:25 PM
Sunday, July 19
12:34 AM 6:48 AM
1:12 PM 7:21 PM
Monday, July ZO
1:20 AM 7:39 AM
2:02 PM 8:24 PM
Tuesday, July 21
2:11 AM . 8:36 AM
3:00 PM 9:29 PM
Wednesday, July 22
3:13 AM 9:36 AM
4:04 PM 10:33 PM
Thursday, July 23
4:21 AM 10:37 AM
5:09 PM 11:57 PM