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VOLUME XXXI No. 52
GUY POTTER JR.
DIES AS RESULT
OF ACCIDENT AT
BELLE, OA.
Funeral Services
Conducted Monday
Funeral services were conducted
in Charleston, W. Va., Monday
morning at 11 o'clock for Guy Dil!
Potter, Jr., 45 years of ago, who
was killed in an accident on the
night of December 24th.
Mr. Potter was driving a truck
near the Dupont Chemical Com
pany at Belle, W. Va., about 12
miles out of Charleston. He is re
ported to have nearly crossed the
track when a shifting engine of the
X. Y. Central Lines approached
and hit the rear end of the truck.
Mr. Potter was a native of
Beaufort and lived, here until 20
years ago..' He is survived by. his
wife who was Tanner Porter, a
former teacher in St. Paul's School
and in the Beaufort Graded
School. He also leaves four chil
dren: Roland Bell Potter, USA,
stationed at Ft.- Benjamin Harri
son, Ind.; Martha Potter, with the
FBI,, in Washington; G. D. Jr.,
and Ann both of Charleston. His
father, Guy Potter, of Charles-
ton also survives together with
one sister and three brothers : Mrs.
Eddie Webb' of Wilson, Tom Pot
ter, of Beaufort, Jack Potter and
Alonzo Potter both of Wiri.ton
Salem.
The Most Widely Read Newspaper Along The Central Carolina Coast
BEAUFORT. N. C, . THURSDAY, DEC. 30, 1943
Paper Salvage
Jaycees say they plan to make
their big post Christmas paper col
lection on Sunday, January 9,
and again they ask peoplet o save
old newspapers, wrapping papers,
and cardboard boxes.
Thanks
I wish to express my thanks
and deep appreciation to each and
everyone who helped to make it
possible for our boys to Bhare a
real Christmas with us at the
American Legion Hut I want to
thank the ladies of the Methodist
Church who sent home-made cakes,
those who sent in gifts for the
Christmas tree, the Legionnaires
who made all this possible, Mrs.
Bill Skarren, Mrs. Jimmie Fodrie,
and all the girls who helped to en
tertain the boys and make them
feel at home. I wish that each one
who contributed in any way could
have seen how much it all meant
to the boys who were with us dur
ing the Christmas season.
Bernice Jarman.
The FDA is considering the pos
sibility of increasing the supply of
margarine for civilian rationing
during the first three months of
1944.
RATION
BRIEFS
GASOLINE
A-8 coupons good through Feb
ruary 8.
SHOES '
No. 18, Book I, good indefinitely
for one pair.
No. 1 "Airplane" Stamp in
Beok III good for one pair.
SUGAR
Stamp No. 29 in Ration Book
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, P, and Q good
through Jan. 1. R good through
Jan. 29, S good Jan. 2.
FUEL OIL
Period 1 coupons good through
Jan. 8. Period 2 coupons good
' through Jan. 24, Period 3 coupons
god thrugh Feb. 21.
SPARE
"Spare" Ration stamp No. 1,
Book IV, good for an extra 5
Points worth of pork until mid
sight Sunday, January 2.
Large Catamount
Caught in Harlowe
On Christmas Eve
Jurney Conner of the Haiiowe
Section sets a few tiaps and to
save ammunition is accustomed to
make the rounds with a club in
stead of a gun. On Christmas. Eve,
he was surprised to find he had a
very fierce and angry catauount
or bob cat. The club wasn't
enough, so he appealed to his near
est neighbor, Sam Johnson, pro
prietor of the Friendly Earber
Shop in Beaufort, for a gun.
Johnson, his twelve year old step
son, Johnnie Street, and Graham
and Kenneth Fodrie, went with
Conner to shoot the animal. It
proved to be one of the largest in
the memory of old and seasoned
hunters of that section measuring
two and a half feet In height and
five and a half feet in length.
As they brought the bob cat out
to the highway, the party win met
by Mr. Harry T. Davis, Curator of
the State Museum, who acquired it
for the Museum in Raleigh.
The bob cat had been giving
considerable trouble killing domes
tic animals and deer and had been
seen a number of times before it
was captured.
To Give First Radio
Sermon of New Series
If You Can't Shoulder
A Rifle, Get An Axe !
By Webb Waldron
There is a threatened shortage
of 2,500,000 cords of pulpwood
this winter. ' '.
We've got to make up that def
icit, or the armed forces will suf
fer. They need paper desperately
for parachutes, ammunition, in
cendiary bombs, anti-tank mines,
bomber insulation, surgical dress
ings, containers, a score of other
uses.
When Sattis Simmons, country
newspaper editor in the West Vir
ginia hills, read about this crisis,
he urged his community to "cut a
cord of wood for every one of out
boys in the armed forces." For
he knew that there was plenty of
usable wood in the vicinity-
thousands of acres. The newest
paper mill wanted all it could get;
but the men who might have been
cutting it were in the Army or war
plants. ' . j
The county has 1700 boys m
the armed forces. So Simmons hit
on his slogan: A cord for every
boy. Quickly it caught on. O. D.
Bennett,- who has three sons in the
service, said: "I'll cut three cords
singlehanded." Two bankers, a re
realtor, a doctor, a high school
teacher, the clerk of the county
court, a dozen others volunteered.
Men past military age, men who
were working for big wages in the
gas fields shouldered axes and
made for the wood lots.
Already the county has cut not
1700 cords but over 3000. Sim
mons figures that by February it
will have cut 10,000 cords near
ly six cords for every boy in the
armed forces !
In International Falls, Minneso
ta, another small-town editor,
Paul Anderson, has put axes in
the hands of a countryside. The
Alaska Highway had taken 1000
skilled lumber-jacks out of the
district. Editor Anderson headlin
ed the need in his paper. Fanner
Mel Johnson got together a band
of 20 farmers who plan to cut 3000
cords. Nils Envall has a gang of
eight men over military age. Al
ready they have cut 1300 cords;
they will cut 1000 more. Other
men, working alone, are cutting
10, 20, 30 cords apiece.
In other communities the rame
thing is happening in Maine,
Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Tenn
essee. But there are dozens of reg
ions where there is still plenty of
pulpwood that is not being cut.
And the pulpwood shortage will
hurt our military effort unless ev
erybody helps who can.
Every man who has a wood lot
or lives in a village accessible to a
pulpwWd tract is needed to lend
a hand, now if there is a paper
mill near enough to make haulage
practical. Even one day's work will
count. A man handy with axe and
saw can cut a cord a day. The
rankest amateur can cut half a
cord. One average tree yields
enough nitro-cellulose to provide
smokeless powder for thirty-five
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DR. STEVICK
GIVEN POST
IN RALEIGH
Former Carteret
Health Off icer
Assumer Broader
Field of Service
14 PAGES THIS WEEK
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
Receives Wings
Dr. W. R. White, Editorial Sec
retary of the Baptist Sunday
School Board of Nashville, Tenn
essee, formerly Executive Secre
tary of the Texas Baptists, and al
so Pastor of the First Baptist
Church of Oklahoma City, Okla.,
will inaugurate the fourth annual
Baptist Hour series of radio ser
mons at 8:30 EWT, Sunday morn
ing, January 2;
The Baptist Hour for 1944, ac
cording to S. F. Lowe, Chairman
of the Radio Committee of the
Southern Baptist Convention, will
consist of thirteen messages by
outstanding Southern Baptist pas
tors and leaders. These will be de
livered from January 2 through
March 26.
Army Certificate
For St. Paul's
Dr. C. P. Stevick, Carteret
County Health Officer, who was
granted a leave of absence from
the county on September 20 is now
Acting Director of the Division of
Epidemiology, State Board of
Health, at Raleigh.
. When Dr. Stevick left Carteret,
he had began an advanced course
at the School of Public Health,
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill. He completed this
course and took-up his duties in
Raleigh on December 13th.
Dr. Stevick received his Md. at
Duke University, in 1936.. Ho and
Mrs. Stevick and their young
daughter came here from Greens
boro where Dr. Stevick had a per
iod of Public Health experience
with the Greensboro City Health
Department. Dr.' Stevick pursued
the organizational work here with
energy and intelligence that in
spired confidence arid made for
him a host of friends throughout
the county who will be delighted
to know that he says he hopes to
come back as Health Officer again
after the war. . .. .
Dr. Stevick was in town on bus
iness last week. He expressed his
regret at having- to leave Beaufort
and Carteret, and it is mutually
pleasant to know that his new du
ties with the State Board of
Health will necessitate his making
frequent visits here.
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...Set. Rovall M. Barbour, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Barbour, of
Gordon Street, recently completed
a six week's course in aerial gun
nery at the Army Air Field, .Har
lingen, Texas, and was awarded
his silver Aerial Gunner's Wings.
Robert Lee Humber Makes
Annual Report On World
Federation Movement
5 States Have Endorsed World Federation
Movement In Entirety, 7 others on Rec
ord as Favoring Some Kind of World
Order
BEAUFORT BOYS IN
THE SERVICE
St. Paul's Episcopal Church has
been awarded an Army certificate
which reads: "In recognition of
the patriotic sacrifices of St. PaulV
Episcopal Church in giving the
services of Edward C. McConnell
that he might serve God and Coun
try in the armed forces of the
United States" and is signed by
Brigadier General W. R. Arnold,
Chief of Chaplains, United States
Army.
The certificate is sixteen and a
half by twelve and a quarter inch
es in size and is handsomely en
graved. It was blessed by Dr. Ed
gar Jones at the Christmas Eve
Service and will be framed and
given a place in the vestibule of
the church.
COUNTY COURT
John Davis
Very 111
Aviation Cadet John Davis, son
of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Davis, sta
tioned at St. Petersburg, Floiida,
has been gravely ill this week with
spinal meningitis. '1 he latest re
port received this afternoon is that
his temperature dropped some yes
terday and continues down this
morning with the same improve
ment for another twenty-four
hours the doctor hopes that he will
be out of danger.
BIRTHS AND DEATHS FOR
NOVEMBER
WHITE
Townships Births
Beaufort 10
Cedar Island 0
Harkers Is. 2
Harlowe . -.- 0
Hunting Quarter
Davis 0
Stacy 0
Atlantic No
Marshallberg No
Merrimon No
Newport - 3
Straits 0
Morehead s. 16
Total 31
Total Year to Date 473
COLORED
Beaufort . 3
Morehead 2
Total 5
Total Year to Date ..70
You can eat your cake and
have it, too if yon invest
your CHRISTMAS savings
In WAR BONDS. Keep on
BACKING THE ATTACK.
Recorder's Court on Tuesday
was brief very brief.
William Ed Potter (colored) of
Beaufort, was charged with taking
a Ford belonging to Mrs. Pauline
Ross, an employee of C. D. Jones
Co., which had been parked near
the Gulf Service Station and op
erating it while under the i'-ilu-ence
of intoxicating liquor on De
cember 23. Mrs.' Ross saw Pot
ter pass the store in the car. and
called to Roland Salter who had no
trouble in stopping him in the
slowly moving traffic of the crowd
ed block.
Potter had neither witnesses nor
lawyer and the case was continued
in order to summon witnesses in
his behalf.
Harry Gaskill, fisherman of
Beaufort, plead guilty of taking
clams from the restricted territory
in front of the Post Office. Gaskill
acknowledged familiarity with the
law but said he thought it applied
only to taking clams to offer for
sale. Player for judgment contin
ued on condition he pay oilicer's
costs of $1.80 and not to violate
the shell fish laws for a period of
two yars.
CHANGE RATION FOR EATING
PLACES.
More than 400,000 commercial
eating places will be affected by a
new OPA rationing program to go
into effect in 1944. At present, the
size of an eating establishment's
food ration depends upon the num
ber of people served, regardless
of whether they are served food or
refreshments alcoholic and soft
drinks, milk drinks, coffee, etc.
Under the new plan, the establish
ment's food allotment will be
based solely upon the number of
persons served food. Rations for
refreshments will be based on the
number of servings of refresh
ments alone.
"FREEZE" SWEET POTATO
PRICES.
Fresh sweet potato prices have
been frozen at all levels from
country shipper through retailer
on the basis of the individual sell
er's "high" for the five-day period
from December 17 through De
cember 21, 1943. This action was
taken by OPA because prices at
terminal markets recently had
been advancing at an inflationary
rate.
Officer Candidate
Word has beei. .received from
the Public Relations Office of the
U. S. Maritime. Service Officers
School, Fort Trumbull, New Lon
don, Conn., that Eugene R. Willis,
son of Mrs. Eva Willis, of Smyr
na, has enrolled as an Officer Can
didate at the School. He is taking
an intensive course in Engineering
which will qualify him to take an
examination in March for his
merchant marine license as 3rd
Assistant Engineer on ocean-go
ing vessels.
Elmer B. Dudley, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Luther Dudley, Route 1, was
promoted to fireman second class
upon completion of his recruit
training at the Great Lakes Naval
Training Station. Following leave
at home he will be reassignedi .
Following completion of his
work at Cornell University, Odell
Merrill has been assigned to Camp
McCain, Mies. .
Mrs. Betty Rogers
Dies in Greensboro
Mrs. Betty Hendricks Rogers,
72, died Tuesday at two o'clock in
the afternoon at Wesley Long
Hospital, Greensboro, where she
had been a patient for five days.
"Miss Betty" was the daughter
of the late Mr. and Mrs. William
H. Hendricks- of Beaufort. She
was a trained nurse having receiv.
ed her training at a New York
hospital. She was twice married.
Her second husband John P. Rog
ers died about five years ago short
ly before she became a resident of
the Masonic and Eastern Star
Home, Greensboro, where she' was
iiving at the time of her death.
The body was brought to Beau
fort from Hanes Chapel, Greens
boro, yesterday and taken direct
ly to St. Paul's Episcopal Church
from which services will be con
ducted at three o'clock to-day by
the Rev. Edgar Jones and burial
will be in the family plot at Ocean
View Cemetery.
Pvt. Leonard Safrit, of Camp
Blanding, Fla., spent part of last
Saturday and Sunday here with his
family.
Sgt. Harry Mizelle, USA, of
Baltimore, spent from Wednesday,
the 22nd until Monday, the 27th
in Newport with his parents.
Lester Hittinger graduated from
the Anti-aircraft School, Camp
Daves, December 23rd and was
commissioned Second Lieutenant,
USA. He spent Christmas here
with Mrs. Hittinger, the former
Dorothy Day, and with his little
daughter, Dianne. He leaves on
Friday for Camp Polk, La.
Miss Eddy Leaves
After two years with the Car
teret County USO, Miss Frances
Eddy leaves the local organiza
tion and has gone to her home in
Newtonville, Mass., for a month's
rest after which she hopes to go
abroad again either with a USO
group, in a non-combat area, or a
Red Cross group, in a combat area.
Miss Eddy is succeeded by Miss
June Johnson, of Madison, Wis., a
graduate of the University of Wis
consin, and an experienced librar
ian who recently took the USO
orientation course in New York
and is serving her first appoint
ment in the organization. ,
Miss Eddy served abroad in
Unoccupied France with the Ann
Morgan group prior to her period
of service with the USO here.
She has done effective . work in
Carteret and won the affection of
all those who have worked with
her in the interest of our service
men.
Cpl. John W. Gillikin, Ornnge
Street, has completed the Flexible
Aerial Gunnery Course at the Ar
my Air Forces Flexible Gunnery
School, Laredo Army Air Field,
Texas, and received his Aerial
Gunners wings.
SENDS MOTHER ROSES
FOR CHRISTMAS
James Austin, who is with the
U. S. Army somewhere in the
Southwest Pacific sent his mother,
Mrs. Moses Austin of Turner
Street, one dozen American Beau
ty roses for her Christmas present.
James has recently been on combat
duty out there.
Julian Hamilton, Jr., arrived on
Monday from Pasco, Washington,
to spend a five day leave at home.
James Mason, USNR, somewhere
in the Southwest Pacific has been
promoted from 1st CI. Fireman to
Mo. M.M. 2nd Class.
LIBRARY HOURS
The Carteret County Library
will be open each Monday and
Tuesday from 12:30 to 5; each
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
from 10 to 12:30 and from 2 to
5:00; and each Saturday from 9 to
12.
Mr. Alexander
To Preach at
Baptist Church
Rev. M. O. Alexander, of Ral
eigh, will be in Beaufort Sunday,
January 2nd, und will speak at
both the ' morning and evening
services of the Beaufort Baptist
Church. .
PUBLIC WANTS ALARM
CLOCKS.
"What are some of the shortages
which have bothered you most?"
Nearly 5,000 persons throughout
the country were asked this ques
tion, in a recent survey of con
sumer requirements made by the
Office of Civilian Requirements,
The most serious inconvenience
and hardship is caused by the short
age of alarm clocks, although
shortage of food affects the great
est number followed in order of
numbers by elastic, galvanized
ware, some textile products, and
alarm clocks. " Most of the needs
brought out by this survey can
and will be met," Arthur D. White
side, vice-chairman of OCR, said.
Three years ago on the
27th of December, a group
of local people met on Davis
Island. The occasion was the .
launching of the World Fed
eration Movement by Robert -Lee
Humber, international
lawyer who until world con- .
ditiohs prevented made his
home in Paris. On Wednes
day he returned t6 Beaufort
fnr tViP third time to make to
that group, a report of. what,.
has been accompnsnea dur
ing the year.
Mr. Humber's report' becomes ,
more explicit with each passing
year for accomplishments become,
less general and more bpetific.
Two years ago North Carolina a
lone had endorsed his resolution
for a World Federation of Nations
patterned after our own Common
wealth of States. Hon. Si Gibbs, of
Morehead City, had the distinction
of introducing the resolution in
the North Carolina Legislature,
and. ours became the first govern
ing body in human history to en- ,
,.dorse a resolution for World Fed
eration. To-day five state legislatures
have actually endorsed the doc
ument North Carolina, Maryland
Alabama, Connecticut, and Rhode
Island; and seven others havs com
mitted themselves to some kind ot
world order New York, Vermont,
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, and Montana.
Mr. Humber offers his resolution
as no blueprint of government but
a principle which supplies the defie
iency of other attempts to product
and maintain order in the world. -In
1939, when the bottom drop
ped out of everything, we had
tried a League of Nations, we had
tried a World Court iie had treat
ies galore, but not one had any
compulsory jurisdiction, The de
ficiency tq be supplied, says Mr.
Humber, is law and for world law,
there must be world government.
After this war our choice will bo
between a revised version of the
status of 1939 or we must plough
in the furrows and supply the de
ficiency. No community on earth, Mr.
Humber, points out, can exist with
out law city, state, nation. Thero
is no WORLD law in life, and to
day gangsters are at the helm. To
suppress crime in our country, , we
deal wth individuals, not with com-
munities; to hold a nation (the ,
larger community) responsible for
violations cf world laws, will al
ways mean war, but by holding the
individual within that nation re- "
sponsible, law and order . can be
established. To call the individ
ual to answer a charge as an indi
vidual there must be laws with
compulsory jurisdiction and accej- .
sible courts in whijh the charge.
can be heard. Just a's a local offen
der is tried in our local couit, an
offender against our national gov
ernment in a nearby Federal
Court, so tnere will be established
nearby courts for hearing viola- '
tors of World laws. '
Mr. Humber began with a resu--'
me of principles and objectives. .
On this' background,-he gave a de
tailed story of r.t'complishmcnts
for 1943 beginning with work in '
Maryland following Christmas of
last year when the. Legislature of
that' State was the second io go on,
record as endorsing the resolution
in its entirety. He then reviewed
the adoption by Connecticut and '
Rhode Island. On the New York
Campaign he dwelt at length aa
one of great significance. He men
tioned the high caliber of the men
in the Legislature at Albany and ,
his feeling that the movement had
taken a definite step forward when
the resolution passed there. He
spoke of the warm reception ac
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