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VOLUME XXXI No. 51
14 PAGES THIS WEEK
BEAUFORT. N. C, THURSDAY, DEC. 23, 1943
In Pacific
14 PAGES THIS WEEK
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
..FORTER C. MORRIS, Pfc.
USA, son of Mr. and Mrs. Guy
Morris, of Atlantic, is serving in
the Pacific War Zone. Foster is a
graduate of the Atlantic High
School. He entered the Service in
January, two years ago, and has
been in the Pacific since May,
1942.
Funeral Held For
Mr. Bob Dudley
Monday Afternoon
Robert Thomas (Boh) Dudley,
70, life long resident of C'niteret
County died at his home sever
miles out on the old New Bern
Road Sunday morning at 9:30.
Mr. Dudley had been in failing
health for the past year, but va
iaKen in on Saturday aiternoon,
and his family knew that the end
was near and were all with him.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Monday afternoon at 2:30
from Tuttle's Grove Methodist
Church with the Rev. Jerome Hun
eycutt officiating, and the body
was laid to rest in the Church Cem
etery. The choir of Franklin Me
morial Methodist Church of More-
Jiead City sang.
Mr. Dudley is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Cora Eubanks Dudley;
four children: Mrs. Earl Campen,
Miss Blanche Dudley, Henry T.
Dudley, all of Beaufort RFD, and
Johnnie Dudley, of Pollock Street;
two sisters: Mrs. Dallas Saddler,
North Harlowe, and Mrs. C. P.
Eubanks, Beaufort, RFD. His
brother, Griff Dudley, died about
five months ago.
BEAUFORT BOYS IN
THE SERVICE
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Duncan Sellers who recently
distinguished himself with feats ot
heroism in the European theatre of
war has been raised from second
to first lieutenant and has been a
warded the Distinguished Flying
Cross for "heroism of extraordi
nary achievement while particip
ating in aerial flight."
Bob Polk, V-l student at Chap
el Hill, is expected to arrive today
to spend the holidays with the N.
F. Eure's.
Robert F. Hudgins, Pfc. LISA,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hud
gins of Ann Street, was graduat
ed last week from a five months
course in aircraft maintenance
and repair at Seymour Johnson
Field, Goldsboro. Robert is a Beau
fort High School boy. He entered
the Army last April.
Talbert C. Dunn, Tfc, USA,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Dunn, of
Ann Street, graduated December
20th from a 17-week Kessler Fie
Airplane Mechanics School, Biloxi,
Miss., and is qualified as an ex
pert B-2-1 Bomber mechanic.
mam
Clyde Mason, Jr., of Atlantic
recently completed his aviation me
chanics course in Michigan and
his just had six days leave at home.
From here he left on Sunday for
Salt Lake City.
A telegram received by Mrs.
M. S. Snowden Sunday evening
brought the good news that Comdr.
Ernest Snowden is back in San
Francisco with Mrs. Snowden for
Christmas. His ordeis are to re
turn to the war zone immediate
ly after the holiday. He sent greet
ings to all of his friends here.
Lt. W. Lawrence Rudder has
been ssigned to a Naval Mobile
Hospital with a San Francisco address.
GLEE CLUB TO
SING CAROLS
FOR SHUT-INS
Members of the Beaufort High
School Glee Club under the direc
tion of Mrs. Charles Hassell will
sing carols Christmas night for
shut-ins after which they will be
entertained by Mrs. Hassell at a
hot chocolate party at the home of
Mrs. David Merrill on Ann Street.
NOTICE
Due to the congestion of the
mails and getting the paper out
one day earlier this week, num
ber of news articles arrived too
late for publication.
Our error: James Elwood War
ren, yivic, whose promotion to
first lieutenant was carried in this
column last week is the son of
George instead of Henry Warren.
T cofjimrlriTty, like the rest
fcTThas been shaken by the
of guns. This thunder echoes
niiouea-asjijQiice more celebrate
of the Prince of Peace.
this"Trev3paper sees no irony in
of waruTcKthe message of
hope that is Ghristnm.
For itis the everlasting rveme of Christmas tKat
makes itsuch a vital force in outlives. That hope
is one or a never ending period ot reace on fcarth.
While it is truehatsthcolumns oft-lrjs paper
since last (piristmashave beedominated bythe
effects of the war lords on ournormal waybf.
living-we kno thatthe peace-loving "little"
men of goodwill far outnumber the eyil.
These "little" people "are theXcitizenssOf this
community and other communities like nAnd
it w as for these same "littles' peoplesthat Cn'rist
came into this vorklM943 years ago. N
So Christmas belongs to them andnot to
those who plunge the world intq darknes
Let this true spirit of Christmas dominate
your thinking and you can say to all your
friends as we now say to you- ;
Real Estate
TRANSFERS
According to a letter just re.
ceived by Mrs. Sophronia Mason,
mother of Preston Mason, said
that he was now in England. Pres
ton has been in the North African
and Sicily war zones for several
months. He has also been over
seas for about a year.
RATION
BRIEFS
GASOLINE
A-8 coupons good through Feb
ruary 8.
SHOES
No. 18, Book I, good indefinitely
for one pair.
No. l "Airplane'' Stamp in
Bok III good for ones pair.
SUGAR
Stamp No. 29 in Ration Eook
IV good for five pounds of sugar
until January 15. This stamp is
marked "Sugar."
CANNED GOODS
Green D, E, F, Book IV good
thru Jan. 20.
MEATS
Brown L, M, N, V and Q good
through Jan. 1 R 1TOod Dec. 26.
FUEL OIL
Period 1 coupon good through
Jan. '3. Period 2 counons (rood
for 10 gallons per unit.
J SPARE
I "Spare" Ration stamp No. 1.
pook IV, good for an extra 5
Points worth of pork until mid
fight Sunday, January 2.
It had been hoped that Capt.
John Morrison would celebrate
this Christmas by the family fire
side at home. Latest reports are
that he is still hospitalized abroad
although the War Department
has notified the family that he has
been evacuated from the active
area to another hospital. So far as
is known he is still be is still be
ing treated for burns and lacera
tions. His eyes were affected, but
it has been learned that they are
all right, and he feels in time that
he will be entirely well.
Cpl. Jim Bob Sanders is expect
ed to arrive from Ft. Bragg- on
Saturday night to spend the week
end with his family.
Donald Williams, S 1-c USN.
will spend Christmas aboard one
of the ships in the Merchant Ma
rine somewhere in the Atlantic.
Neil Windley left last Thursday
to return to the Merchant Marine
Academy at Great Neck, L. 1.,
after spending leave at home. He
and Joseph had the past week-end
together in New York before he
reported for duty.
J. Ky Beam, V-l student at
Duke, is due to arrive on Thurs
day and be in town until Monday
for the Chriftmas celebration.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Taylor re
ceived word on the 16th of Dec
ember that their son Sgt. Warren
Taylor had landed safe somewhere
in England. Their otlier son, Jas.
W. Taylor, Boastwaiii Mate 1 cl.
who was in the battle of Sicily,
but who is now in Louisiana.
White Oak
T. E. Vinson to International
Paper Co., lot 17, $130.
Newport-
Mrs. Daisy V. Koonce et vir to
Frank Dennis, et ux 1-2 acre $75
Robert G. Hay, et ux to Walter
Whitley, et ux 20 acres $5146.
C. C. Hill, et ux, to D. M. Stag
ings, 1 town lot $auu.
' Sene Irene Jones, et vir to G. L.
Mann et ux, 13 a $10.
More head
Susan Bethea, et al, to Jeffer
son Stamps et ux, pt. lot 14, 15,
blk. $1.
Farmstead Corp to Lee A. Mur
doch, 144 acres $7000.
Farmstead Corp, to Dennis
Bryan Turner, 170 acres, $6800.
Kathleen Irons, et vir, to J. G.
Bennett et ux, lot 9, blk 80 $2,-
000.
II. G. Loftin, et ux to Nancy
Mason, 1 portion Gordon Street,
$10.
Farmstead Corp, to Robert G.
Hay, et ux 2 tracts $1,000.
T. B. Dameron, et ux to Arthur
Midgett et als, lot 11, sq. 113, $2,-800.
Alma S. Guthrie ct ux, to Eva
C. Harker, lot 13, sq. 52 $10.
Maude V. Mansfield to Ivey L.
Woodcock, lot 12 sq. 65, $10.
T. B. Dameron et ux, to Duffy-
Wade, lot 12, sq. 113, for $10.
Morehead Dev. Corp. to Mary
Harker, et al, lot 16 blk, 96 for
$10.
Beaufort
Daisy R. Hatsell to D. C Rich
ardson, pt lot 58 OT, $10.
C. Z. Chappell et ux to F. R.
Bell'pt lot 181, OT $1.
W. O. Noe et ux to Leon B.
Merrill, pt lot 39 NT. $10.
T. M. Thoams, Jr., Tr, to Thom
as G. Willis, pt. lot 82 NT, $50.
George Daniels et ux to Leon
Gaskill, 1 tract Stacy, $300.
Sara P. Brooks, et al to Roland
Davis, et ux, 1 tract Davis $10.
COUNTY COURT
Rotary
Rotarians dispensed with their
regular program and sang carols
at their weekly meeting at the In
let Inn on Tuesday of this week.
Next week because of the Christ
mas holidays there will ba no
meeting.
In Recorder's Court Tuesday
considerable time was devotsd to
the case of Thomas Oglesby, of
Crab Point, charged by four boys
with assault. Trouble arose over
a recent fire on Oglesby 's place in
the middle of the night which
neighbors beat out. Afterward
they sat around to see if it would
start up again. In the meantime
Oglesby heard them, shot a gun in
their gc.eral direction. The boys
went up to his place, there was
some talk. Oglesby says he was
scared and mad, didn't recognize
them, and didn't know what it was
all about. The Judge found Ogles
by not guilty, he apologized to the
boys, and the case came to a close
with everyone's attitude pretty
good.
The case of William R. Willis,
of Morehead City, hangin? fire for
several weeks was settled by chang
ing the charge from reckless driv
ing to speeding and Willis paid
the costs of $11.50. Willis ran into
a jeep between Stanley Lockbart's
Place and Morehead City as it
turned off into the Rifle Range.
Edgar Willis was involved in an
accident in which he was said to
be driving while under the influ
ence of intoxicating liquor. Wit
nesses testified to the fact that he
had been drinking, but Willih him
self said that it was his car, but
that Monroe Gillikin of Otway was
at the wheel. The Court ordered a
warrant issued for Gillikin and the
case was set for nextTuesday. Gil
likin was said to havj gone to N.
Africa on a labor job, but the
Judge was not convinced and
seemed to expect him next week.
Two colored men, King Webster,
of Florida., and Jesse Cherry, of
N. C, were involved in a liquoi
case. Officers cruising near Core
Creek Bridge found a truck with
no tail light, signalled for it to
stop. As it slowed up, Cherry
threw cut jars of liquor on the
shoulder while Webster drove.
Webster was found guilty of driv
ing without lights, having in his
possession and transporting non
tax paid liquor, and Cherry was
found guilty of aiding and abet
ting in the liquor charges. Webs
ter was given four months sus
pended sentence, surrendered his
drivers license, and paid all .-osts.
In case of Cherry prayer for
judgment continued on payment
of costs.
FISH DEALER
ROBBED OF $600
M0NDAYN16HT
Office of Davis'
Entered While Men
Were Packing Fish
Monday night between 11 and
1:30 Davis Fish House, Front
Street, was robbed of approxima
tely $600 while from 35 to 40 peo
ple were packing fish in the build
ing. The money that was taken
was locked in the little office above
the fish house proper, and the
room was evidently entered with a
pass key or through one of the
back windows. An unusually large
sum was in the building because
it had been withdrawn in antici
pation of a trip to Southport the
following day to make a down pay
ment on machinery. About 1 :30
Mr. Oliver Davis went up for mon
ey to pay some men and discover
ed the loss. Mr. Davis immediate
ly called Chief of Police Longest
at his home.
Chester Gibson, colored, arrest
ed for alleged assault on Tim
Taylor, colored, last Monday night
with a piece of spring from under
an automobile and with a brick is
being held for questioning in the
Davis robbery as well as the hold
up of Richard Smith about 1 :30 last
Sunday morning, another hold up
an hour earlier the same night on
Queen Street, and the attempted
hold up of Cecil Dudley on Mon
day night.
Taylor, assaulted by Gibson,
was so seriouusly injured as to
require medical attention, and he
is the one who was able to identi
fy Gibson as his alleged assailant.
Gibson some months back was
convicted to entering the Standard
Oil Service Station.
CAROL SERVICE
GREAT SUCCESS
Christmas Music
Splendid Part of
Christmas Week
Colored Inductees
Twenty-five colored inductees
eft December 22nd for Fort Bragg
as candidates for the Army.
Twelve of the men were from
Beaufort.
Beaufort: Leon Davis, Lorenzo
Fulcher, Zedekiah Hodge, Mat
thew Godett, Able Nolan, Wesley
Ingram, George Ed Turner, Bill
O'Neal, Daniel Rhodes, Obed
Richardson Stanley, Tim Taylor,
Thomas Allen.
Morehead City: Osborne R. Hes
ter, Melvin James Willoughby,
Rufus Hester, Benny Williams,
Earl Lawrence Bccton. Haikless
Alexander Wooten.
Mamfield: Arriiee Jones, Hay
wood Johnson Bell.
Stella: Allison John Hatchell.
John Arthur Burton.
Harlowe: James George, Merri
mon: Clifton Reel, Bachelor: Billy-Presley.
The Carol Service at the Beau
fort Graded School Monday after
noon gave a delightful hour or
more for all those who were out
and an excellent audience attend
ed. The music was given at one
o'clock for the school body and
reepated at 2:30 for the public.
The stage of the auditorium was
transformed into a cathedral with
stained glass windows and was
ligted with candles. The sixty
five members of the Glee Club in
their grey robes marched in and
took places against this back
ground while nearly one hundred
and fifty more boys and girls in
red robes of carolers occupied
the first rows of the auditorium.
Mrs. Grayden Paul at the front
of the stage and before the altai
lead the Christmas narrative from
a script, which she hergelf wrote,
pausing at intervals for the songs
which incudes a beautiful stlec
tion of the old carols and new
Christmas songs. "Gloria In Ex
celsis" and "O Holy Night" in
which the entire two hundred voic
es were used showed excellent
training and perhaps received the
most praise of any of the numbers.
The entertainment was not of
the kind in which there were many
stars, but lovely music in which
all had a part. The work of Bitsy
Brooks, Third grade, who carried
the solo part in the Primary num
bers deserved special mention
but on the whole the comment was
on the splendid training on the
part cf Mrs. Chas. Hessell and
the excellent cooperation given by
the boys and girls.
North Car. State
College Hints For
Farm Homemakers
By RUTH CURRENT
SAVE PAPERS
The maximum price of corn has
been raised 9 cents per bushel ct
Chicago by the OPA to give a more
normal flow of corn into terminal
markets and through distributive
It won't be long now ! Watch
for announcement of Jaycees re
garding paper salvage day early
in January. Collect newspapers.
wrapping papers, boxes, sort in
separate piles and fasten toeether
so that when collection Sunday is
named, they need only be put out
on the porch.
LIBRARY HOURS
The Carteret County Library
will be open each Monday and
Tuesday from 12:30 to 5; each
Wednesday, Thursday and Fri
day from 10 to 12:30 and from 2
to 5:00; and each Saturday from 9
to 12. It will not be open on
Christmas Eve. The Bookmobile
will not operate December 20 and
21 nor December 17 and 28 be
cause of Christmas.
METH. CHURCH NOTICE
of
11 AM. Foundation Stones
7:30 PM. The Christian Way
Life.
The children's entertainment
and Christmas party was held at
the Church Wednesday afternoon.
Make the most of every crumb
and crust Dress up your stale
bread by using it in escalloped
aisnes, in puddings, or as French
toast. For example, serve toast
just as you might serve waffles
ano top with a syrup of or fruit
sauce.
Or, serve French toast for a
main dish with creamed meat or
vegetables. Remember, too, that
dry bread cubes can be used in
escalloped dishes and dressings,
they will require a little added
moisture. Such cubes also brown
nicely for croutons.
And, crumbed dry bread may
be used instead of cracker crumbs.
Make more one-crust and few
er two-crust pies; or, use lattice-
pastry strips for the top crust.
A pleasing variation of the one-
crust pie is a cobbler, or a deep
dish pie. To make it, partly fill a
baking dish with lightly sweeten
ed fruit. Cover with dough and
bake in a hot oven until the crust
is brown.
Or as another idea, bake pas
try separately in little squares or
diamonds and serve as a topp'ru
on sweetened fruits of various
kinds. Add the pasteries just be
fore serving time, so they will be
crisp.
If you eat a peeled orange oi
divide it into sections, you get
more vitamin C than if you juice
it.
Dust hangs downward, sc
when you brush walls, brush up
ward. That prevents smearing and
streaking.
An ordinard 2-inch paint brush
is just the ticket for whisking
dust from abric- a- brae, book
tops, baseboard crevices, wood
carvings, and window sills.
USO TAKES OVER
LEGION HUT ON
JANUARY FIR
Club to be Unit
Of Carteret USO
For some time negotia
tions have been underway
between the USO and the
members of the American
Legion regarding operation
of the Legion Hut by the
USO. nans have now been
completed and Mr. Carty
Swartz announces that they
will take over the first ot the
year, in the meantime, jvir.
Edwards, of the USO, in
charge ot buildings, will go
over the property, make rec
ommendations regarding
any changes to be made to
the interior, and also, sug
gest additional furnishings.
The Hut was completely and
beautifully renovated in the fall
of 1942 and since then has been
used as a club room for service
men from nearby posts. Mrs. Ber
nice Jarman has been acting as
hostess and it is hoped by the USO
officials that she can be retained
as hostess of the new club. The
club will be under tha direction of
Mr. Swartz, Director of the Car
teret County USO, and there will
be local committees appointed to
look after immediate interests of
the club as with the Atlantic
Club which also operates as a
unit of the Carteret County USO.
The present plan is to have the
building open from four or five
each afternoon until eleven at
night and from one until eleven
over the week-ends. Announce
ment of specific activities will be
made from time to time. Already
with an honorable record of ser
vice, affiliation with the larg
er organization promises to make
possible greater opportunities for
service.
Holiday Hours
There will be a general closing
of all placet of business on both
Saturday and Monday in celebra
tion of Christmas. The Bank will
be closed on both days. The Post
Office will be closed on Christmas
day. .
Our boys must keep on fight
ing: we must keep on buying-
WAR BONDS until vlo
torylswon. Keep on BACK
ING THE ATTACK.
8 TIDE TABLE
Information as to the tide
at Heaim it is given in this
column. The figures are ap
proximately correct and arc
based on tables furnished by
the U. S. GeodHic Survey.
Some allowances must be
made for variations in the
wind and also with respect
to the locality, that is wheth
er near the inlet or at the
head of the estuaries.
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New Year's
Eve Dance
There will be a New Year's Eve
Dance in the Smyrna Gym, Dec
ember 31 from 8 P. M. to?. Har
ry Wright and His Orchestra will
furnish the music. The dance is
being sponsored by the Smyrna
P. T. A.
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Tuesday, Dec- 28
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Wednesday, Dec. 29
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