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Are you fighting mad about this war? Does it mean anything to you personal ly? Then dig down and buy more and more War Bonds. For Freedom's Sake Ml. i r 7ADT k t . One batik won dots not win . a war. JVeVe got tougher Vjk times afteorf. 3N Ah ivaroonas for Frttdom'j Sad 77ie Mosf Widely Read Newspaper TAe Central Carolina $ ' VOLUME XXXI No. 26 12 PAGES THIS WEEK BEAUFORT, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1943 12 PAGES THIS WELW PUBLISHED WEEKLY. CALVIN JONES NEW PRESIDENT INSTALLED TUE. Retiring President Gives Resume of Work For The Year Tuesday night was the last nicrht of the Rotary Year. Retiring President, W. Stan ley Potter, formally gave the gavel to incoming President, Calvin Jones, who will pre side at the first meeting in July. -' President Potter spoke to the group on "Fellowshipa nd Coop eration" and gave a resume of the work of the year. In addition to local undertakings with which peo-" pie are generally familiar, the Club has made a contribution to the Rotary Foundation, a fund for Rotary welfare around the world; they have contributed to Rotary relief in occupied coun tries; and are sending three sub scriptions to the Rotary magazine to prominent men in South Amer ica as a part of the program for a better understanding between us and our neighbors to the South. There were also reported three one hundred per cent attendances during the year when unusual and unexpected demands have been made upon all of the members. Dr. W. L. AVoodard, Secretary and Treasurer also made a report for the year. All of this followed one of Mrs. Pearson's good steak dinners. BEAUFORT BOYS InThe Service Sgt. L. D. Hittinger who has been stationed at Ft. Bliss, Texas, has been transferred to Camp Da vis. He was in Beaufort the first of the week visiting his wife, thi former Dorothy Day, who is with the Grayden Paul's but left Wed nesday for his new post. 0 Grayden Paul left Tuesday for Troy, New York, to enter Ren sselaer Polytechnical Institute, as a member of the Navy V-7. train ing unit. He will study mechani cal engineering as applied to aeronautics. ALL CARTERET TEACHING STAFF FOR 1943-1944 T. G. Leary Takes Vacation After Lining Up His Teacher for Fall Ensign Robert Hill, of the Naval Base at Norfolk, flew home last Friday to spend the week end with his pareiUs, Mr. and Mrs. R. Hugh Hill of East Front Street. Roscoe Miller, Seaman 1st class USNR, left for his ship after spend ing a seventy-two hour leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Miller of Broad Street. Brothers in The Army Lawrence A. Oakley, Jr., son of Mr.a nd Mrs. Jack Oakley of Front and Live Oak Street, has complet ed his pre-flight training at the San Antonio Aviation Cadet Cen ter and been transferred to Bon ham, Texas, for primary flight training. Staff Sergeant Maurice (Wilkie) Willis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Willis, of Cedar Street, who has been on maneuvers in Tennessee has been transferred to Camp Da vis for training in firing anti aircraft guns. Nrw teachers lined up bv Prinrina 1 Tom Leary for 1943-44 are: Mrs- Daley Ful cher, of Atlantic; Miss Mar inrie Gaskill. of Smyrna; Mrs. Roy Dickinson (Ellen Lupton), of Beaufort; Misf Mariorie Humphrey, of Beau fort; Mrs. Mildred Salter Lawrence, of Mammon; and Mrs. Charles Hassell, of Beaufort. Mr. Learv says he believes he establishing a record in that all of his faculty members this fall will ho frnra Carteret County. Mrs. Fulcher has been teaching in New Bern and Chocowinity. In the lat ter place she had the experience of directing the annual tulip festival. Miss Gaskill is brother of former Principal Gaskill, of Smyrna. She has been in the Wayne County schools for five years. Mrs. Dick inson comes to us from the Atlan tic School. Miss Humphrey leaves the school at Saratoga. Mrs. Law rence was a member of our fac ulty before her marriage and is taking up her work again while her husband is in the service. Mrs. Hassell has also been connected with the schools previously. The four teachers who have, re signed are: Mrs. Edward Nelson (Louise Hudgins), Mrs. Jim Rum- ley, Mrs. W. L. Woodard, and Mrs. John Jones, all of whom are leav ing because of household responsibilities. L 4 J ...-MM.. St-"? 1 " $ i i HERBERT DAVIS, of Harkers Island, has two ions in the U. S. Army. Pfc Donnie Davis (left) has been at Camp McCain, Miss issippi, for four months now; Cpl. Samuel Davis (right), the elder of the two, it serving "on a South Pacific isle." Samuel has been in the Army for a year and a half and has been in foreign service since September. Crabs A Natural Resource Not Yet Fully Utilized Commissioned Aircraft Warning Important Service (Part of an opening lecture of the Civilian Aircraft Warning System School in session at Wilmington this week) "The first prequi3ite of any ac complishment is to be thoroughly sold on your job. You must under stand the necessity for the under taking in hand. In addition to this, you must know the organization. You are here for a special pur pose. You are a part of the de fense of the United States and in as much as that part of the U. S. in which you are serving is clas sified as a vital defense area and the vital defense area is supplying men and materials to the fighting front, you are protecting the lives of relaives andor neighbors' who are carrying the guns and facing the dangers of mortal combat. "An army the like of which we have never known before will soon be in the field to fight our battles, so large that it will take the entire resources of this nation in men, women and materials, to form and support it. In order that this army may function, that the men in it may be supplied with the mater ials and subsistence inquired for maintenance, and the conduct of the battle, the source of their sub sistence and weapons must be pro tected. It must be protected so well that not once must our indus trial areas and the seat of our gov ernment be attacked. The men who leave our shores must leave hem with the utmost confidence that their base will be adequately pro tected, that they will never vant for guns, bullets, armor and food., on which their lives will depend. "We are fighting a war of sur vival with agressor nations who are merciless in victory. The final See AIRCRAFT Page 8 Newly commissioned Ensign Taylor O'Bryan has been in Beau fort this week visiting his grand parents, the N. W. Taylor's. Mrs. Clifford Fleet (Helen O'Bryan) and Miss Catherine O'Bryan, who went to Miami for his graduation on the 23rd, returned with him Sunday evening. Mr. Leary having cleared up the problematic matter of teachers, left Monday afternoon for his home in Alliance to spend several weeks. Mrs. Leary, Elizabeth Ann and T. G. Jr., accompanied him. Taylor goes to Atlanta Sunday and from there to San Diego, Cal ifornia, on the tenth. Taylor attended our local high school transferring t o Christ School, Arden, in his junior year. Following graduation he attended U. N. C. and during his senior year there applied for V-7 train ing. He was appointed, received his pre-flight training at Chapel Hill, and from there he was sent to Hollywood Beach, Florida, where he completed his training for Navigator, U. S. N. Air Corps. Mrs Joe Mason is feeling much better since she heard from Pres ton this week after two months of being out of touch with him. He is still in North Africa and is all right. Her son John, who went into the service since Preston is serving in Alaska. Ted Richards, Jr., has been ad vanced from Staff Sergeant to Technical Sergeant. This brings him next to the top in non commis sioned officers. He is still at Camp Crowder with the Telephone Div ision, Signal Corps. RATIO N BRIEFS COFFEE No. 21, Book I good for one pound until July 21. GASOLINE No. 5 "A" coupons good for 3 gallons but must last till July 21. "T" coupons expired June 30. SHOES No. 18, Book I, good for one pair through October 31. SUGAR No. 13, Book I, good for 5 lbs. through Aug. 15. Stamps No. 15 and 16, Book I, good for 5 lbs. each through October for use in home canning. CANNED GOODS Blue K, L, M, good through July 7. N, P, Q, good July 1 to August 7. MEATS, ETC. Red P Good. James Taylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Taylor is on convoy du ty and has been out of touch with his family since April. Sgt. Warren H. Taylor, another son, is station ed at Camp Edwards, Mass. His Gun Section had the distinction of a Visit from the President, Prime Minister Churchill, and one of our four star generals on the occasion of Churchill's recent visit here. Radioman 3rd class Robert Poulk, of Cairo, Georgia, ani the Section Base is one of the boys selected for training with the new Navy V-12 College Training Unit reporting at the University of N. C. on July first. Robert has been at the Base for the past thirteen months and has many friends to cally interested in him and his new assignment. Cafe Managers To Plan Course Jesse M. Heady, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Heady, of Smyrna, has completed a course at the Quar termaster School, Camp Lee, Va. and has been commissioned a 2nd lientenant, USA. Mr. and Mrs. Heady and Miss Arden Shell were present for his graduation. Heady entered the Army at Fort Bragg in March a year ago. Five months later he was made a technical sergeant and served with that rank until he entered Officers Candidate School. Heady is a graduate of the Mer chantvi'lle, N. J., High School. He was employed by - the Atlantic Coast Line at Wilmington before entering the Army. MAYOR SAYS DIMOUT TO BE ENFORCED Cafe Grading for Second Quarter Managers and owners of testau- rants, drug stores and boarding houses in Beaufort will meet on Tuesday afternoon, July 6th at 3:30 to discuss plans for a food handlers' course. At this meeting, to be held in the Episcopal Parish House on Ann Street, suggestions will be made on subject matter to be included in the course, which is beins: sponsored by the Carteret County Health Department. Wool Buyers to To be in Kinston There will be a representative of the Chatham Manufacturing Com pany at the Eagle Warehouse, in Kinston, July 8th. from 9:00 to 12 o'clock to purchase wool. There has been an order pro hibiting the sale of wool in small quantities and this will probably be the nearest point that our sheep producers will be able to find a sale to pool their wool this sum mer. Each bag of wool that is being offered for sale should have a tag both outside and inside with the name of the owner. The price of wool being offered for sale will vary according to grade and quali ty and condition; however, the basic prices agreed upon by the Chatham Manufacturing Company are as follows: Clear wool 53c lb. Light burry wool 48c lb. Heavy burry wool 40c lb. R. M. Williams, County Agent, is urging all sheep producers who have wool to offer for sale to meet at his office, not later than 8:00 o'clock on the morning of Thurs day, July 8th. It will only be nec essary to take one truck to Kins ton to carry this wool if our sheep producers will concentrate their wool at one point. Tomatoes Sgt. E. E. (Dick) Duncan, of Beaufort and Raleigh, has beer transferred from Miami to Camp Ripley, Minnesota. Typhoid Clinic at Harlowe o The County Health Department announces typhoid clinics at Con ner's Store, Harlowe, at 11 a. m on July 7, 14 and 21. County Agent Williams report.? tomato shipping at its peak with what promises to be a short crop. The winds earlier in the week dried up the tomatoes, but rain since then has helped considerably. Mayor Grayden Paul announces that definite ordders have come from Army Headquarters, approv ed by the Governor of the State and the President of the U. S., to the effect that dimout regulations must be enforced to the letter. He says the local police are pledged to enforcement and violators will be subject to a fine. Regulations in brief are: Black out and keep blacked out all lights visible from the sea from any an gle. Tnrn out all exposed outside lights. Black the upper half of your auto headlights. Run only on parking lights with with 6 or less candle power bulbs where lights are visible from the sea. ," Don't park with the front of your car toward the sea. Rating Grade Beaufort Coffee Shop 80.0 B Inlet Inn Hotel 90.0 A Owen's Lunch 74.5 C Sea Food Cafe 80.0 B . Morehead City Blue Ribbon Club Under Renair Busy Bee Cafe 82.0 B Busy Bee Lunch 83.5 B Carolina Lunch 76.5 C Davis Cafe 7G.0 C Green's Cafe 75.5 C Morehead City Cafe 80.0 B Morehead Villa Hotel 72.5 C Rainbow Inn 80.0 B Sanitary Market Cafe 86.0 B Water Front Cafe Under Repair Atlantic Beach Atlantic Beach Hotel Under Repair Idle Hour Lunch 83.0 B Money Island Beach Curie's Villa 80.0 B Horse Shoe Lunch 80.5 B COLORED Beaufort Gatlin's Cafe 70.0 C Quick Lunch 77.0 C Morehead City Anchor Inn 80.5 B Blue Bird Cafe 77.5 C Dudley's Cozy Nook 80.5 B Attending Army School This Week Mrs. William H. Bailey has been spending this week in Wilmington attending the Ground Observe! Aircraft Warning Reconsitior. School taught by Signal Corp. Army Officers. Attendance a'- the school qualifies a representative to teach other ground obss-.vew from local pofts to recognize air craft by name and number a- tney are sighted and reported to the Filter Centers and to distinguish training planes from local airports reporting them as such. This will relieve telephone lines of unnec essary telephone calls in an at tempt to identify them. When Mrs. Bailey returns she hopes to organize classes in Aircraft Recog nition with materials furnished by the Army and is anxious to see Beaufort again take her place in this service which reaches along the coast from Maine to Florida. Mrs. Bailey has found the meet ings inspirational as well as help ful. She says that as she lintens to the lecturers each day they make her feel strangely grateful to the faithful ones who have loyally watched from the Lenoxville Post even after others have become weary of well doing, and she hopes to see it remanned twenty-four hours a day for the duration. CRASH KILLS TWO CAPS Plane Wrecked as Test Flight Began Captain Harry L. Lund quist, of Gastonia, and War rant Officer David Stephen Williams, radio operator, of Wallace, were killed last ?nnrlnv morninc iust before noon in a crash over the Beaufort - Morehead City Airport Repair work had been done on the plane, and it was taking off for a radio test flight wnen the .-rasn occurred. The plane rose only a bout 250 feet before coming down. Both men were buried with mil itarv honors. The funeral of Cap tain Lunduist was held from the Funeral Home of Z. A. Hovis and Son of Charlotte on Wednesday morning; services for Warrant Officer Williams were conducted in Wallace Monday afternoon. Captain and Mrs. Lundquist came to Beaufort last September when the CAP Base was opened here. Prior to that time, he was connected with the Base at Man teo. The Lundquists purchased one of the new houses on the south side of Ann Street Extension and lived there with their four children and a son by a former marriage 1st. Lt. Harold Lundquist, who is also a CAP Pilot stationed here Warrant Officer Williams at the time of the accident had been pro moted from sergeant for just a week. He also came to Beaufort when the Base was opened here last September. Mrs. Williams and his baby daughter, Judith Ann, came in December and since the first of the year they have made their home in one of Mrs. N. VV . Mervyn's apartments at 306 Ann Street. Loss of Canned Crab Meat Once Imported From Japs Makes Attractive Potential Market S. S. Official at P. O. July 8th. POTATOES The Social Security Board rep resentative from the Wilmington N. C. field office will be at the Pest Office on Thursday, July 8tb, at 12 :30 P. M. All those desiring to contact the representative will please call at that time. Business Houses Close for Fourth The Bank, Post Office, Beajfort Mews, Court House, and practi cally every place of business in Beaufort will be closed on Mon day, July fifth, in honor of the 167th birthday of our Republic. Vice Commander St. Paul's 0 There will be a visiting rector here to hold regular services at St. Paul's Episcopal Church next Sun day morning at 1 1 o'clock. County Board To Meet July 12th The Board of County Commis sioners will meet this month on Monday. July 12th. The meeting scheduled for the first Monday will be postponed because of the Inde pendence Day holiday. i ' 1 At the American Legion Con vention held in Charlotte last week, Tom Kelly was elected one of five Vice Commanders for the State. Mr. Kelly has been long ac tive in Carteret Post 99. He is Treasurer and General Manager of the Legion sponsored Carteret Fair, is a Past Commander of the Post, and is at present se'rving as Adjutant of the Post. Mr. Kel ly lives on West Front Street and is connected with Carteret Hard ward Company in their Building and Lumber Supply Department on Live Oak Street. Dr. C. P. Stevick, Secretary of Carteret Food Advisory Commit tee has received a telegram from Hillman Moody, State Supervisor, Raleigh, urging consumers to eat more potatoes and food handlers to order all the market can stand a;i a temporary effort to dispose of the crop now running 35 per cent above last year. "Eat more pota toes and less of scarce commodi ties," says Hillman. Consulted on the local potato situation, County Agent R. N. Williams said this morning that 85 per cent of the Carteret potatoes are dug. The extension service as well as various other agricu'tural agencies and a number of the lead ing farmers have been exerting ev ery possible effort in order to stabilize the price of potatoes. Seasonal conditions this year and the increase in the production of potatoes in most of the potato producing areas has caused a sur plus of potatoes on the market at the present time. At any timt when supply of any farm commod iy exceeds the dem i'l.l, it s ; ually leflected in prices which a itMUuct ormg.s. .' ceording to C. C. Hillman, of FCX, at Washington, the Food Di--ribution Administration has c-.'as-1 to take potatoes until fi ther . itice. F'o ; price for Government bought prime potatoes has been yi.'l'y. There are also two comm.-.-cial grades bought by the Govern ment. Grade I is 85 per cent primes, 15 per cent No. 2's. Thest bring $1.15. Grade II is 80 per :ent primes, 20 per cent No. 2 s These bring $1.05. There is aiso a 2nd or B Grade bringing $1.35. CRAB AUTHORITY PeEARSON TELLS OF POTENTIALITIES We once imported 11,000,000 pounds of canned crab meat annu ally from Japan. That's out. At home we can only about 500,000 pounds a year. We can say "It's the War" and get along with some thing like one twenty-fifth of what we once used, but to supply that deficit is an attractive potential market, and crabs are here. It's a luxury marekt, too. Nothing of which the top grade brings $1.50 a pound is a poor man s dish. Jap anese silk was out, we substituted nylon and rayon j Japanese agar was out, we found our own waters could furnish agar. What aDOUt crab meat? Now, the nearest concentrated centers for processing craos are in the Chesapeake Crisfield, Maryland, and Hampton, Virginia. They not only process their own crabs, but they send trucks down here in the spring and get our crabs to process. They ve been at it a long time. They control avail able markets, equipment is set up, colored pickers grown up in tho industry have become to expert that the best are said to pick a hundred pounds a day. Crabs are available there in such quantities that they are dredged for in deep channels in winter as well as warm weather making it a year round in- dustry. Even when not dredged, the trot line there has become mechanized making it possible for one boat to bring in from 10 to 20 barrels of crabs a day. Instead of primitively putting out the line and bringing it in by hand and taking crabs from each piece of bait with a dip net, a motorized boat with simple patented machin ery lets out a quarter of a mile of line with 600 or more pieces of bait in about the time it takes to travel that far and reels it in by the same power knocking the crabs off outomutically into a steel net basket. Smyrna Boy Covers Much Territory Norman D. Gillikin, Storekeep er, 1st class, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Gillikin, of Smyrna, has seen action in both the Atlan tic and Pacific. He enlisted in 1939, served in the southwest Pacific until the past April, and since then been in the Atlantic. He has writ ten of meeting Neil Willis, of Beaufort, and Guy Willis, of Smyrna. The latter had lunch with him recently in Rio de Janeiro. It would take considerable en terprise to establish such an indus try here, but the crabs are in our waters a resource not fully ut ilized for lack of picking houses and processing plants. Sterling Harris, interested in canning the meat in South Carolina, is said to be undertaking something of the kind at Belhaven. If he establish es a plant there, it will be a mean3 of saving this excessively perish able food when the market is glut ted or transportation fails; on tho positive side when crabs are plen tiful and labor abundant, it will stimulate crab catching in excess of market demands foi- canning purposes. N. C. crabbers catch but 3,000,000 pounds annually as compared with the 25,000,000 of Virginia crabbers and ranks only fifth in production among the states, but development of pro cessing plants offer an opportunity for expansion. ! John C. Pearson, Assoehto Aq i uatic Biologist, U. S. Fish and , Wildlife Service, who has been at river's Island in charge of crab icH-a'.ch mucs last November is not here to stimulate expansion of ! the industry, but he would be in terested in seeing the it expand so j as to utilize this natural resource ! Mr. Pearson doesn't profess to know nil about crabs, but h lives as close to them c; p s.v.Y.e v.i.h out becoming aquatic. Li. : is i;i his laboiutoty where he is con I star.tly surrounded by tanks of live I crabs. Ey clo.-e observation he in tends to ve: if y knowledge of them which has hitherto been only cir cumstantial. K-i is especially in terested in spawning habits. When a crab hatches more than a million it becomes a matter of con hiderable interest to conservation to know whether a crab spawns once or twice, and that is but one of the problems on which he is working. Because Mr. Pearson is so close to his crabs, whatever he tells U3 about them holds considerable in terest. The baby crab is much like his mother but pin point in size, and as a member of a family of over a million children, he doesn't get much pampering, but like Topsy, he just grows, that is if he is lucky enough to evade hi3 See CRABS Page 8
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