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Are you fighting mad about this war? Docs it mean anything ta you personal ly? Then dig down and buy more and more War R ,nds. For Freedom's Sake The Most Widely Read Newspaper Along The Centra8farolina Coast One batik won does not wia a war. We've got tougher times ahead, Buy More War Bonds fm for Freedom's Sol VOLUME XXXI No. 40 10 PAGES THIS WEEK BEAUFORT. N. C, THURSDAY, OCT. 7, 1943 10 PAGES THIS WEEK PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Ship Bears His Name Lt. (jg) D. W. CILLETTE in whose honor a destroyer escort launced in Quincy, Mass., in Sep tember was named. Lt. Gillette was an officer on the aircraft car rier Hornet on its missions in the Pacific theatre and was in four ma jor engagements before being de stroyed in the battle of Santa Cruz by an aerial torpedo from a Japanese plane. Gillette was at his battle station when the torpe do was dropped by a Japanese plane in a suicide drive. Gillette was born in Wilmington, son of Col. and Mrs. George W. Gillette. He entered the Navy in Septem ber, 1941, as ensign. His father served as Wilmington District En gineer from 1938-40 and is well known here. Since last December he has been New England Engi neer. (Cut courtesy Greensboro News). JURY LIST FOR OCTOBER COURT DRAYNMOHDAY Board Holds Short Session. Davis and -Pelletier Absent MORE ADDED TO DRIVE TOTAL Col. Dickinson Speaks to Rotes Col. Fairleigh Dickinson, of Rutherford, N. J., and Beaufort, Rnoke inf ormallv to Rotarians on Tuesday evening on Ihe war situa tion. George Stoval, of Morehead City, and County Agent R. M. Williams, of Beaufort, were guests of the club for the evening. Rotarians are sponsoring the Beaufort Troop of Boy Scouts and business before the club included discussion of plans for a father and son banquet. The names of 36 Carteret County citizens were drawn by the County Board last Monday to serve as jurors for the one week term of civil and criminal court scheduled to begin October 18th with Judge J. Paul Frizzelle, resident of the 5th district presiding. Names of those drawn follow : Beaufort: M. M. Eubanks, Ray mond Taylor, H. C. Jones, Sr. Beaufort RFD: Raymond Dick inson, C. R. Pake, W. B. Norris. Morehead City: Clyde Jones, John R. Laughton, N. R. Webb, M. S. Webb, Fred W. Willis, R. T. Willis. Newport: T. J. Jones, Joe G. Taylor (RFD), G. C. Pollard (RFD S. D. Edwards, R. L. Simmons, W . W. Quinn (RFD), W. L. Lockey. Atlantic: Ralph Morris, Ever- ton Mason. Harkers Island: Kenneth John son. Marshallberg: James M. Davis, Earl Davis, Wesley Hill. Smyrna: W. L. Smith. Davis: Leroy Davis, V. J. Mur phy. Merrimon : G. W. Pittman. Roe: John W. Goodwin. Sea Level: Henry Taylor, Malt by Taylor, Freeman Salter. Straits: W. H. Chadwick, Ira P. Chadwick. L. W. Pelletier, new member of the County Board from Stella was absent on Monday and Tilton Da vis, of Harkers Island was absent from the second consecutive ses sion. The rest of the board took up a few matters largely concern ed with taxes, and; adjourned in an hour and a half.' ' -f ' Tax adjustment was made for Gaskill Brothers, of Sea Level. The County Attorney was instruct ed to advertise and sell at public auction the remaining part of the County Home property. The Board accepted the tax collector's set tlement lor the 1942 tax year and 1943 tax levies were turned over to tax collector Eugene Moore. The bond drive last month gath ered so much momentum that re ports are still coming in from the County that serve to increase the total. Mrs. J. G. Allen, Chairman of the Woman's Division, reports $17,377.50 from Atlantic raised through the schools and by solici tation bv the local committee com- nosed of Mrs. Lambert Morris, Mrs. Dennis Mason, and Mrs. Clay ton Fulcher Jr. Smyrna reports S2.337.00 worth sold at their school last Wednesday when Jas. Davis, of the First Litizens Bank went down so that sales could be completed on the spot. These toge ther with the rallies in the County bring the total bonds sold through the Woman's Department to be tween $128,000.00 and $130,000.- 00 on the grand total for the Coun ty of $499,138.25. Missing Persons Dr. F. E. Hyde, Chairman of the Beaufort Chapter of the Red Cross, has bee nasked by Mrs. Hel ena Harrington, of Brooklyn, N. Y., to help locate Ronald J. Sum mervill and his brother Jack. They are sons of Ronald J. Harrington. Mrs. Harrington remarried and the two boys were adopted by their stepfather, David Summervill, when they were small children. They once lived in Beaufort. Their mother's maiden name was Julia Linke. Ronald was born in New Bern, July 1921 ; Jack in Nashville, N. C. If you can help in the mat ter please communicate with Dr. Hyde B-338-1. RECTOR FOR ST. PAUL'S Rev. Edgar Jones of Fair Haven, New York, will arrive in Beaufort tomorrow to serve as Rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Mrs. Jones will accompany him and for the present will make their home at the Inlet Inn. RATION BRIEFS GASOLINE ' No. 6 "A" coupons good for three gallons of gas until Nov. 21. SHOES No. 18, Book I, good indefi nitely for one pair. SUGAR No. 14 Book I, good for 5 lbs. through October Stamps No. 15 and 16 good for 5 pounds each through Oct for use in home can ning. Housewives may apply to ration board for more if necessary. No. 6 "A" coupons good until Nov. 21. ' CANNED GOODS Blue U, V, W, good through Oc tober 20. Blue X, Y, Z, good through November 20. MEATS, ETC. Brown C. D, (New Book) good until October 31. FUEL OIL Period No. 1 Coupons for 1943 44 good now through December. NEWPORT SALES AT BOND RALLY Tax Collections Improve In County Nearly a year ago the Universi ty of North Carolina News Letter sent out to the press, ranked the 100 counties of North Carolina according to ratio all uncollected county taxes bore to the total tax levy for the year of 1940. Carter et was at the bottom of the list save one and that was Craven. In our county it showed total uncol lected taxes to June, 1941, to be $542,692 nearly two and a half times the total levy of $192,978 for the year of 1940. A campaign was inaugurated last fall to get in these back taxes as well as cur rent taxes. In the light of these facts, figures presented to the County Board on Monday by Aud itor James Davis Potter are inter"- esting. They go back over a per iod of seven years and show the percentage collected of total taxes levied from June to June of each year with a record of better col lections for each consecutive year. Collected 1936 ..J...f.. 43 i937"-.,;i-;..'j1.- si 1938 . 52 . 1939 53 1940 60 1941 67 1942 85 Eighty thousand dollars are said to have already come in on the 1943 levies. Bureau of Public Relations. U. S. War Department WRECKING JAP SUPPLY LINE AT WEWAK Daring low altitude flying by bombers of the U. S. Army Air Forces in a surprise raid on Wewak harbor sank many Japanese ships. These dr matic photos show how Americans dealt a heavy blow to Nipponese supply lines in New Guinea Left, this ship, already the target of two American bombers, is approached by a third which icorej a direct hit. Right, the same ship, shattered by bombs and on fire, is in the last phase of its set (Army Air Force Photo.) WILLIS GUILTY OF ASSAULT A!!D TRESPASS AT SMYRNA SCHOOL Board of Education Prosecutes H. I. Boy For Making Trouble JOSEPH WINDLEY IMPROVES ON REEL INVENTED Local Boy Working To Better The Reel Invented by Him And Corporal Mason CAPT. MORRISON INJURED IN ASIATIC AREA We are listing some of the New port sales which gave such a lift to the bond drive Wednesday night, September 29, helping by $31,675 to send the Carteret to total to the official figure of $499,' 138.25 more than $100,000. over our quota. Lack ol space prevents listing every one of the generous list of prizes, but many small ones unlisted added up and helped great ly to swell the total for the even ing. One country ham, donated by W. R. Mann and others, to L. C. Carroll for. $5300. One ton of Swift's fertilizer, by C. M. Hill, Rep., sold to M. T. Mill for $2200. One 10 pound roast donated by L. N. Conner, sold to C. J. Taylor for $1600. One pig by Raymond Simmonb and Leon Garner sold to George W. Ball for $1000. One cake by Mrs. C. M. Hill, to C. R. Garner for $1000. One box shells by C. M. Hill, to C. J. Taylor for $850. One mule bridle by L. C. Car roll, to C. J. Taylor for $600. Three boxes cartridges by C. M. Hill and J. Stancil Bell, to Geo. W. Ball for $650. One box candy and 1 box pea nuts by Wilbur Garner, to J. R. Ball for $550. One half ton Baugh's fertilizer by S. D. Edwards, Rep., to M. L. Mansfield for $700. One box gun shells by J. I. Miz zelle, to M. T. Mills for $700. One can salt fish by Taylor Fish Packing Co., to W. D. Heath for $500 . One five dollar bill by Leo Hig gins to D. I. Garner for $500. Five qts. Pennzoil motor oil by Moses Howard, to L. N. Conner for $500. One box gun shells by J. I. Miz zelle to C. J. Taylor for $500. One half gal jar country saus age by Mrs. Claude Garner to L. N. Garner for $350. One pair ladies panties by Miss Julia Hill, to J. R. Ball for $300. Five pounds Sugar by Mrs. J. Stancil Bell to Jesse R. Garner for $500. Two pounds steak by Hill's Meal Market to G. W. Ball for $300. PRISONERS MAY HELP FISHING INDUSTRYHERE Dr. Prytherch and Mr. Carlton Work On Labor Problem W. C. Carlton, formerly of Beaufort but now in Wash ington with the Man Power Commission, has an area that covers the same three states as those covered by Dr. H. F. Prytherch in his ca pacity as Coordinator of Fish eries., He and Dr. Prytherch have been in touch with one another during the wetk in regard to the possibility of using Italian prisoners to help solve the problem of la bor for the fishing industry in Carteret County. As a rule the plan is for the Army to estab lish a camp unit of something like 250 persons from which men are taken out to designated locations daily. Plans are as yet tentative but it is considered possible that 50 or 75 may be assigned to help in the local situation, and another 50 or 75 ass'igned to the Chesa peake fishing communities. "We just got tired of see ing the men work so hard ' connecting and disconnect ing and always fighting with the wire" is the explanation Cpl. Joseph Windley and Cpl ilulvin Mason, made when.. asked how they stumbled on the idea behind their recent much publicized invention of the handy device to fac ilitate wire communcations within an armored field artil lery battery. The device is a wire reel which can be made of spare parts at prac tically no cost. The reel consists of a wooden spool with capacity of 300 yards of wire mounted on a metal frame. The whole assembly can be traversed 360 degrees since it is mounted on the M-7 carriage with only one bolt. Principal ad vantage of the reel is the speed with which it permits telephone connection between the battery ex ecutive and the gun sections. It eliminates much of the foimer difficulties of wire laying. The ease with which slack in the wire can be let out or taken up al so makes possible movement of an M-7 for short distances without breaking phone connections. Successful use of the new wire reel has led to its adoption by oth er artillery batteries in the 5th Armored Division. Cpl. Mason has recently been transferred from Pine Camp to Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. Since then Jo seph has given study to the mat ter and has improved the reel fur ther. He writes that four officers from Headquarters have been out to see the improved attachment with a view of adopting it in the improved form. Mrs. John Morrison, mother of Captain John Morrison, of Gener al Claire L. Chenault's "Flying Tigers" received a cablegram Sat urday saying that her son had been seriously injured in the Asi atic War Area. Neither date nor details of the accident were given. A second cablegram on Tuesday brought the good news that he is "making normal improvement and receiving the best of medical care." Captain Morrison's wife is also in Beaufort spending some time with her mother at her home on Ann Street. BEAUFORT BOYS IN THE SERVICE INDUCTEES Inductees reporting to Ft. Bragg on October 6th for exami nation for the service were: BEAUFORT: Lewis C. Styron, Elmer Davis Rhue, Johnnie Paul Yeats (RFD 1), Dallas Walter Lawrence (RFD 1), Luther Ed ward Turner (RFD 1), Elmer Bry ant Dudley, Richard Travis Smith, Henry Wilson Hatsell, Noah Law rence (RFD 1). NEWPORT: William Stanley Lockart (RFD 1), Albert Windell Hardesty, Ladell Rigrgs (RFD 1), Roy Darold Taylor, Richard Gray. MOREHEAD CITY: Russel Earl Bunch, Jr., Kenneth V. Wain wright STACY: Ross Harris. HARKERS ISLAND: Lester Fair Hamilton. GLOUCESTER: Hubert Clay ton Chadwick. SEA LEVEL: Otis Garland Elliott. Tuberculosis Case Reports Increased Since January first 1943 a total of 37 cases of tuberculosis of all types has been reported to the County Health Department. These case3 are mostly early or healed cases and reflect the results of the educational and case finding programs being carried out in the county under the sponsorship of the County Tubesculosis Associa tion. The average case reports up to 1941 have been approximately 5 to 6 per year. Early diagnosis prevents doaths from tuberculosis. If all the indi viduals who now have early tuber culosis unknown to themselves could be found . and put under treatment today no further deaths from tuberculosis would occur in this group. The County Tuberculosis Asso ciation is continuing its program more actively than ever to keep the disease on the rua and make the tuberculosis mortality rate dwindle to zero in Carteret Coun ty. CnV-FATHERS E. E. (Dick) Duncan has been transferred from Camp Ripley, Minn., to Camp Barkley, Texas. Crip Jones, Army Transport Service, stationed at Newport News, spent last Friday and Satur day in town on business. Ben Taylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Taylor of Maxton and grand son of "Miss Helen" Russell enter ed the Army last month at Ft. Bragg and has been sent to Camp Blanding, Fla. City Fathers Monday night heard a report of a committee ap pointed at the September meeting to investigate activities at the Rec reation Center,, Broad and Pollock Streets, following complaints which had been filed. The Commit tee reported no disorder inside the hall. The only problem has aris en from men and boys hanging around outside. A motion was made and carried to offer the Rec reation Hall to the USO to operate Pending a decision in the matter, a police officer will be stationed outside the hall on the nights when dances are in progress. Merchants on the southside of Front Street were invited to be present to discuss parking prob lems but as only Mr. John Steed of Pender's and Mr. Jas. Rumley of Rumley's Feed tSore appeared, no action was taken. A committee was appointed to see if something can be done a bout drainage in front of the fish houses on Front Street. No other business came before the Board except that the Mayor and Chief of Police were author ized to employ an additional policeman. Edward Arrington, USN, of Newport News, Bpcnt last week end here with his parents. Fox Loose Since those rows of palms sprang up along the Inlet Inn be tween morning and night, we thought we would be surprised at nothing. We were though yester day when we saw a fox frisking (without benefit of cage) on the Inn lawn. To all appearances he and Mr Stevens were playing hide and seek aroung a clump of yuc cas. They seemed the best of friends but apparently the fox was the kind of friend that keeps his distance for up to the time we go to press he is still running around the back yard, this time, without benefit of cage in spite of ingeni ous traps and enticements devised to get him back in captivity. The wandering fox is one of three motherless babies that Mr R. H. Stevens brought from Cher ry Pcint in May and bottle fed. He accidentally got out yesterday and seems to enjoy being on his own. Tech. Sgt. Eugene Gaskill, from the Classification Center at Ft. Bragg, former principal of the Smyrna School visited Beaufort this week. Fairleigh Dickinson, Jr., now full Lieutenant, of Rutherford, N. J., and Beaufort, is still in the southwest Pacific where he has been since last April a year ago. Prisoner Word has been received that Tech. Sgt. Andy Noe, son of Rev, and Mrs. Alex Noe, reported miss ing in action since early August, is at present prisoner of the Germ an government. Sgt. Noe was en gineer on a Flying Fortress. Recorder's Court Tuesday morning was devoted large ly to the case of Amos Willis, 21, of Harkers Island, heard on the charge of assault and trespass on the Smyrna school grounds. Willis, never a student at the Smyrna school, seems to have had a strange obsession for appear ing at the school on special occasions and at other times and causing trouble, inree occasions were brought out on which he made trouble last vear on one of which Deputy Sheriff Murray Thomas had to bring him to Beaufort. On September 30 (last Thurs day) Wilis with three friends drove up to the school grounds. Witnesses testified that he got out of the car, summoned Meredith Gillikin (senior from Otway) to the corner of the grounds and struck him without provocation. A fight followed in which Meredith received superficial injuries suf ficient to make it necessary for Principal John Hamilton to bring him to Beaufort to receive medical care. Principal Hamilton, Mr. Clark, Meredith Gillikin, and a number of high school students were put on the witness stand by Prosecuting Attorney Alvah Hamilton repre senting the Board of Education. The defendant had no counsel. He plead guilty to assault but called two witnesses to try and establish the fact that the assault took place . i. t. : u Jude Webb found Willis guil ty on both counts. He sentenced him to one year in the common jail of Carteret County to be as signed to work on the roads of the State but suspended it on con dition of good behavior and that he be put on probation for a per iod of two years and pay the costs of $28.55. The only other case was that of John Henry Pritchard (colored), of Beaufort, charged with reckless driving. He plead guilty and paid the costs of $11.50 The case of Lillian Chadwick allegedly stabbed by Nelson Ful ford (both colored) was continued until next week. The woman is still in the hospital and could not appear. FISH Mullets are reported to have been coming in this week in mod' erate catches but not so many as were reported a month ago when we had our first shift. Several fish erment off the Fort brought in 40,000 pounds and other small lots were reported. Capt. John Nelson says spots are coming in also but not as many as might be expected at this time of the year. Quality, however, is gogod and fishermen are getting 8 centt a pound which is considera bly more than that ol other years. Shrimp are coming in in quauti ties both here and at Southport but not so many as were reported a month ago. MAYOR'S COURT Mayor Paul's Court Monday morning was brief. Sid Willis, Morehead City taxi driver, charg ed with picking up Beaufort pas sengers without a Beaufort license failed to appear. A warrant was signed and sent to Morehead City to be served on him. The case of Nelson Fulford, colored, chr.rged with stabbing Lillian Chadwick, could not be tried as the woman is still in the hospital in New Bern and could not appear. Kini:n:R;n;:;:::njKa:::Kut TIDE TABLE LIBRARY The Library Board asks us to announce that the Bookmobile will not operate after the 12th of Oc tober for lack of funds. The libra ry will b open from 12:30 to 6:00 each afternoon and from 9:00 to 12:00 aSturday mornings during this month after which it will he closed unless funds are made avail able for its support. County to Get More Farm Machnery Members of the Carteret Cour-1 : ty WSDA War Board met recent- h ly with the State War BoaicI a: Raleigh in the interest of yetting j more farm machinery allocated to the County. With growing scarcity of favm labor there has been an increased demand for more and heavier typu machinery. The State War Board gave the local Board an encourag ing report with regard to getting relief in this connection. Mr. Wil liams says we have been promised more during the coming year as a much larger supply of steel and other vital materials have been al located for this purpose. The larg est demand at present is for farm tractors. There are 26 applications on file now for these. "Trying to farm without the necessary equipment adds greatly to our farmers' problems in pro ducing the necessary food and feed crops to wage an all out vic tory," says County Agent Williams. Information as to the tide at Beaufort is given in this column. The figures are ap proximately correct and are based on tables furnished by the U. S. Geodetic Survey. Some allowances must be made for variations in the wind and also with resnect to the locality, that is heth er near the inlet or at the head of the estuaries. i-.IGH LOW Friday, Oct. 3 3:50 AM. 10:14 AM. 4:25 PM. 11:03 PM. ' Saturday, Oct. 9 5:02 AM. 11:23 AM. 5:23 PM. : 12:01 PM. Sunday, Oct. 10 6:06 AM. 6:33 PM. Monday, Oct. 7:03 AM. 7:28 PM. Tuesday, Oct. 7:54 AM. 8:18 PM. 12:25 PM. 11 12:56 AM. 1:23 PM. 12 1:45 AM. 2:15 PM. Wednesday, Oct. 13 8:43 AM. 2:31 AM. 9:05 PM. 3:05 PM. Thursday, Oct. 14 9:30 AM 3:15 AM. 9:52 PM. 3:51 PM. """"SSI
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