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' VOLUME XXXII No. 1
10 PAGES THIS WEEK
BEAUFORT. N. C, THURSDAY JAN. 6, 1944
10 PAGES THIS WEEK
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SHORTAGE OF
KEROSENE EASED
TEMPORARILY
Dealers Receiving
Some Bui Situation
Remains Uncertain
Gasoline and fuel oil and kero
sene have been critical or threat
ened to become critical many
times recently. The kerosene sit
uation really grew critical at the
end of the past week when things
got to the point where no one had
.any. No matter what the gfs sit
uation, some comes in all the time,
! .but deliveries of oil, according to
' .dealers comes spasmodically and
.recently with long intervals be
tween. Mr. G. W. Huntley, independent
dealer, secured two tank t.-ucks
full this week by sending to the
terminal for it. When the news got
abroad he had a line up of from
fifty to seventy-five people with
buckets, bottles, drums, cans, and
what nots trying to get in on it.
Together with word of the short
age, stories came in of discrimina
tion, of plentiful supplies in Wil
mington which the Government
was holding out, and so forth. Our
dealers say that while kerosene
quotas have been cut more than
the other petroleum products, the
shortage is largely a matter of
shortage of transportation facili
ties and part of a problem that is
being felt elsewhere although
more keenly in communities such
as ours where it is used so gener
ally for cooking. T. T. Potter, of
Sinclair, says a man from as far
away as Southport approached him
trying to get some.
Mr. Huntley feels a number of
things added up to cause the short
age at this particular time. A
shortage of tank cars, labor, weeks
of bad weather during which rhip
ments were infrequent, a commu
nity at the end of the line and
less accessible than others re-
- suit, reserves depleted. Mr. Web
Bter Lewis, of Gulf, who has had a
small shipment this week lays it
to much the same sum total of
things, and Texaco, although still
without oil, expresses apprecia
tion of the problems of distribu
tion and are hoping for a supply
lor customers.
While the situation has eased
some, as Mr. Potter points out, af
ter the scare of last week the pub
lic will not give the companies an
opportunity to build up reserves
but will buy the oil up as fast as
it comes in and store it in their
homes the same psychology with
which grocers have grown famil
iar. At best the situation while it
has eased some seems to uncertain.
As one dealer says, limiting a cus
tomer merely seems to stimulate
him to send down his children and
friends and uncle and aunts to get
some for him so it all adds up to
letting him have what he wants in
the first place and it makes things
much easier for the harassed dealer.
Appreciation
Governor Broughton asked that
we make the urn anniversary,
Wednesday, January 5th, a day of
specf&l appreciation of the 3000
volunteer OPA worker in North
Carolina including Board Chair
men, Panel Meraben and all those
who have given their services vol
untarily in the interest of the work
in our Slate and of our own Coun
ty. I am deeply appreciative of the
tervicet of this group of men and
women in a situation without pre
cedent and one which ha not al
ways been eay. In expressing ap
preciation, I believe 1 speak the
entimenU of all the people of our
community.
Grayden M. Paul,
Mayor.
Installaton
Of Officers
"GREEN DRAGONS" ON THE PROWL
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NEW GUINEA U. S Navy Photograph As the sun sets beyond the South Pacific Islands,
Uncle Sam's nocturnal prowlers, the "Green Dragons," slip from their concealed bases in jiingle inlets,
for a raid upon Jap installations and Inter-island shipping. These PT-boats, manned by picked crews,
have played an important part in stemming and rolling back the Jap tide through the islands and now
are helping isolate the enemy garrisons by destroying his lines of communications.
In a service at Ann Street Meth
odist Church on Monday after
noon, the Woman's Society of
P.Viristinn Service installed officers
for the new year. Mis. W. S. Pot-J
ter had the service in charge and
the following officers were install
ed:
President, Mrs. .Ralph Eudy,
Vice President, Mrs. Jack Neal'
Secretary, Mrs. R. G. Sanders;
Treasurer, Mrs. Blythe Noe; As
sistant Treasurer, Mrs. Charlie
Britton; Christian Social Relations
Chairman, Mrs. I. N. Moore;
Spiritual Life Chairman, Mrs. F.
R. Bell; Student Work Chairman,
Mrs. R. W. Safrit, Jr.; Literature
and Publications Chairman, Mrs.
Roy Willis; Children's Work
Chairman, Miss Charlotte Sanders.
Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. E.
II. Potter.
After installation, Mrs. Ralph
Eudy took the Chair and lead the
Pledge Service for the new year.
Funeral Services
For Mrs. Sabiston
CARTERET BOYS IN
THE SERVICE
QUOTAS
Autos C
Bicycles . 2
Tires Passenger
Grade I 180
Grade III 181
Tubes 122
Trucks
Tires 61
Tubes 50
Mrs. Minnie Dickinson Sabis
ton died at her home at Core Creek
Monday afternoon following an ill
ness of several weeks from pneu
monia. The funeral was held Wed
nesday afternoon at three o'clock
from Core Creek Community
Church of which she was a mem
ber. Rev. W. Y. Stewart, her pas
tor, assisted by Rev. John R. Poe
of the Methodist Church wei-e in
charge of the services, and the
body was alid to rest in the Core
Creek Cemetery. Eight trustees of
the Church acted as pallbearers.
Mrs. Sabiston was a native of
the Core Creek Section. At the
time of her death, Bhe was in her
seventieth year. She is survived
by her husband: Mr. Guy M. Sab
iston; five daughters: Mrs. David
Bell, Harlowe; Mrs. Beryl Tosto,
Beaufort; Mrs. Robert Slater.
Beaufort; Mrs. Hilda Simpson,
Morehead City; Miss Minnie Sabis
ton, Core Creek; three sons:
Douglas Sabiston, South Carolina;
Neal Sabiston, Beaufort; Guy M.
Sabiston, Jr., Camp Glenn ; two sis
ters: Mrs. Rosabelle Langdale,
Core Creek; Mrs. Joseph Smith,
Mill Creek; and by four brothers:
Francis and Kenneth Dickinson, of
Beaufort; Curt Dickinson, of Core
Creek; and Charlie Dickinson, of
Kinston.
BRIEFER
RATION
BRIEFS
J -i GASOLINE
A-8 coupons good through Feb-
' ruary 8.
I SHOES
f No. 18, Book I, good indefinitely
for one pair.
No. 1 "Airplane" Stamp in
Book III good for one pair.
SUGAR
Stamp No. 29 in Ration Book
IV good for five pounds of sugar
until January 15. This stamp m
marked "Sugar."
CANNED GOODS
Green D, E, F, Book IV good
thru Jan. 20.
MEATS
Brown R and S good through
Jan 29, T good Jan 9.
FUEL OIL
Period 2 coupons good through
Jan. 24, Period 3 coupons good
through Feb. 21.
SPARE
"Spare" Ration stamp No. 2,
Book IV, good for an extra 5
points worth of pork through
Jan. 15.
Last week's Court was brief
this week briefer with the number
of spectators down to almost un all
time low.
William Ed Potter (colored)
charged with larceny of the auto
mobile of Mrs. Pauline Ross from
near the Gulf Service Station was
the only person tried. The case
was continued from December
28th in order to give the defen
dant an opportunity to summon
witnesses in his behalf. Potter
claimed he took the car temporarily
to go to his sister-in-law who had
sprained her ankle and was on his
way to return it when apprehend
ed. His sister-in-law and only wit
ness testified that he did come to
hear aid in the car. Unfortunate
ly, Potter has a record of convic
tions stacked against him for lar
ceny in the past. After corsider
able deliberation the charge was
changed to temporary larceny, and
he was given six months on the
Court House grounds.
Other cases on docket were con
tinued for one reason or another
chiefly because of absence of
witnesses.
Earl Dickinson, Boatswain's
Mute -st CI., son of Mr. and Mrs.
Earl Dickinson, of Core Creek,
has not been home now for thres
years nor in the States for two
until this Christmas when he naa
a few days with his sister, Mrs.
Charles Young (Esther) of Fres
no, Calii.
l'vt- Nnthaniel R. Mason, USA,
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Mason,
of Atlantic, has graduated irom
the Parachute School, Fort Ben
nin,r r.a. His fifth and qualifying
jump, a night tactical leap iden
tical to actual combat won; in Sic
ily, completed his lour weeks of
jump training.
James G. Murdoch, Jr., son of
J. G. Murdoch, of Wildwood, was
recently appointed a Naval Avia
tion Cadet and was transferred to
the Naval Air Training Center,
Pensacola, Fla., for intermediate
fight training. Upon completion of
his course he will receive his Navy
wings with designation of Naval
Aviator and wil be commissioned
either an Ensign, USNR, or a 2nd
Lieutenant, USMCR.
E. C. McConnell, Chaplain USA,
has been promoted from First
Lieutenant to Captain. He is sta
tioned in California.
Graham Duncan, Jr., USCGR,
who has been stationed at Ocra
coke for the past month spent the
week-end here with his family.
Tommy Russell, 3on of Mr. Nat
Russell, has completed a four
weeks course in Diesel Engineering
at Chicago has been assigned to
Newport News. Mrs. Russell, the
former Iris Willis, of Morehead
City, accompanied him there.
Christopher Jones, Army Trans
port Service, stationed at Newport
News, has been ordered to Chicago
for a four weeks course in Diesel
Engineering. Mrs. Jones and Kit
will remeain in Nswport News
during his absence. The Jones,'
incidentally, share a duplex house
with the Richard Wisham s.
MR. STOVALL SICK
Mr. George Stovall of Tide Wa
ter Power Company has been at
Walker Memorial Hospital since
the first of the year for observa
tion and treatment Mrs. Stovall is
with him there. Mr. Stovall was a
patient at the Morehead City Hos
pital prior to going to Wilmington.
Albert Chappell, son of Mr and
Mrs. C. Z. Chappell, completed his
course in aerial gunnery in Jack
sonville in December. Following
his leave he was ordered to Chic-
opcague, Va.
Air Cadet Harry Paul was trans
ferred from St. Petersburg, Fla.,
to Athens, Ga., on January first
for pre-flight work.
Lt. Norman Skarrcn has been
transferred from Camp Van Dorn,
Centerville, Miss., to Seattle, Wash
Word has been received of the
safe arrival in England of Cpl.
Jack Barnes, US Army Air Corps.
Marion L. Lwis, Army Trans
port Service, Norfolk is spending
a -week with his grandmother and
grandfather, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur
Lewis.
Mrs. Ethel T. Brummit, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Taylor,
of Turner Street, left Tuesday for
Camp Oglethorpe, Ga., to enter
the WACS.
Miss Hilda Smith, USA, station
ed at Camp Butner, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. I Smith, of
Smyrna, has just been promoted
to the rank of First Lieutenant.
School Stamp
And Bond Sale
The School Stamp and Bond
Committee report a pale of $675
worth of bonds and $225 worth of
stamps made on the first Tutsday
of the new year.
Jayc5e8 To Collect
Paper Next Sunday '
Jaycee Paper Collection
will le made Sunday after
noon, January 9th, between
3 p. in. and night. Bundle
scrap paper and put it on the
porch .
COUNTY BOARD
The Board of County Commis
sioner) met in unusually brief
sessioi on Monday morning with
a 100 per cent attendance in
spite c f the deluge.
Tax settlement for Morehead
City which was to come up was
deferr ! until the February meet
ing. Other business consisted of
eleven tax adjustments: Jordan
Lewis, Stacy; Floyd Willis, Atlan
tic; Al'iert and George Way,
Harker; Island; Darcy Willis
More-he id City; Albert Gillikin,
Otway; Clifford Guthrie, Markers
Island; Mrs. Nathan Lupton, Ced
ar Island; Mary Styron, Harkcru
Island; Bessie Reels, Meri'mon;
and Seliiia Fulf ord.
LIST TAXES
THIS MONTH
All taxpayers 6f Carteret Coun
ty arc called upon to list their
real and personal property this
month with the list takers of their
respective township. Mr. John D.
Brooks and Mr. F. R. Seeley will be
at the Court House throughout the
month to serve taxpayers of Beau
fort Township.
Failure to list subjects the tax
payer to indictment by the Grand
Jury and a ten per cent penalty
will be charged.
CHIEF ILL
Chief of Police Walter Longest
has been confined to his home
since Thursday of last week be
cause of illness. The report today
is that he is improving although
slowly.
THREE MEN HELD
FOR DECEMBER
HOLD-UPS HERE
Two Bound Over to
March Court, Third
To Be Heard Soon
PUBLISHED Y'EEKLY.
Hundreds M&Ose
Property In County
Hundreds of persons in Carteret
County who are failing to pay the
executions against their property
will lose same unless . they pay
their taxes for the years 1937,
1938, 1939 and 1940. This is indi-
ed by the fact that Sheriff C. G.
Holland is selling property on Jan.
10th and 12th of executions which
are unpaid before that time and
which have been advertised in this
paper for the past four weeks. Per
sons owing should pay before
Monday on property which no pay
ments have been made and before
Wednesday on property on which
partial payments have been made
but not paid in full. The Sheriff
will be forced to put buyer in
possession and original owner out
of possession following sale.
December Weather
Chester Gibson and Jack Wil
liams, both colored, admitted in
Mayor's Court that they had a
part in the hold up of Joiner (col
ored) and the attempted hold up
of Cecil Dudley (white) last
month, and both were bound over
to the March Term of Superior
Court.
Albert Pratt (colored) said to
be ringleader of the sang and who
admits implication in the Decem
ber epidemic of holdups is being
held elsewhere for safe keeping
and will be brought here for a
hearing as soon as the Sheriff's of
fice has completed working up
necessary information on the case
The offense for which Prate was
arrested was for stealing a pas
senger car which he wrecked on
the other side of Morehead City,
near Mansfield. His pocket book
left in the car led to his identifica
tion and questioning. It is said
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OVER THE GOAL
Mrs. Martha Loftin, of Beau
fort, Seal Sale Chairman for Car
teret County announces that the
County went over the top in the
37th Annual Tuberculosis Christ
mas Seal Sale final reports of
which are being made this week.
With a goal of $1200, already
$1300 has come in with a few let
ters still unheard from.
Joking"
No Town Board
Meeting Monday
The Town Commissioners did
not meet on Monday, January 3rd.
because of the illness of several
members. Their regular monthly
meeting is now scheduled for next
Monday, January 10th.
Speaker Sunday
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Young Joe King, born to Mr
and Mrs. Fred King, of Moore
Street, on December 29th has c
name about which thre is a story
for those interested in local trivia.
This very young Joe's grandfather,
some several times removed, is
said to have been a native of Port
ugal. So attractive was he as a
child that sailors took him from his
nurse, caried him aboard their
ship, and brought him here. The
little felolw could not communi
cate his name, but because he was
always merry and full of jokes
the nickname "Joking" was given
him which has stuck and account
ed for a long line of Joe King's a
mong us. .
MRS. BETTS' FATHER
DIES IN RALEIGH
Dr. Ralph A. Herring, of Winston-Salem,
will be heard on the
program of The Baptist Hour next
Sunday morning, 8:30 to 9:00
o'clock EWT over Stations WPTF,
of Raleigh, and WBIG, of Greens
boro. His subject will be, "The Pri
macy of the Spiritual." "
Dr. Herring, pastor of the Fir3t
Baptist Church, of Winston-Salem
is past Vice President of the
Southern Baptist Convention, now
President of the N. C. Baptist
Convention, and also serving as
Trustee of the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary, of Louis
ville, Kentucky, and N. C. mem
ber of the Foreign Mission Board
of the Southern Baptist Conven
tion. J
Funeral services were conduct
ed in Baleigh on Tuesday for Jo
seph II. Mitchell, father of Mrs. J.
P. Bette, of Front Street, by Rev.
Howard McLamb pastor of the
Fairmont Methodist Church, and
burial was in the Clayton Ceme
tery. Mr. Mitchell died Sunday morn
ing at the age of eighty-six years
folowing a long illness. He is sur
vived by one son: H. Mitchell, of
Raleigh; and by seven daughters:
Mrs. Betts, Miss Bertie Mitchell,
Mrs. W. A. Jones, Mrs. H. R. Cox,
Mrs. E. H. Roberts, of Raleigh;
Mrs. C. T. Pugh, ol New Bern;
Mrs. C. E. Bellman, of Hunting
ton, Ind.
ITEMS NO LONGER RATIONED
Pressure cookers and feed grind
ers and crushers have been remov
ed from rationing. Because the
supply of pressure cookers will
not meet all uses, the approval of
the War Food A dministration is
necessary for purchases of pres
sure cookers for other than food
preservation uses. Application
should be made to the Director,
Office of Materials and Facilities,
War Food Admiinistration, Wash
ington, D. C.
December weather day by day
as reported at the Beaufort Sta
tion, U. S. Department of Com
merce, Weather Bureau, Pivcrs Is
land. Max. Min.
1 65 38
2 63 42
3 65 46
4 68 44
5 67 49
6 69 47
7 73 50
8 71 50
9 69 56
10 70 54
11 67 43
12 62 38
13 63 43
14 56 39
15 Snow 60 29
16 43 17
17 37 21
18 50 21
19 50 27
20 57 35
21 59 32
22 59 44
23 50 33
24 54 29
25 50 29
26 60 42
27 55 45
28 57 42
29 53 24
30 58 45
31 - 55 32
DAIRY MAY STOP
MILK DELIVERY
WITH JANUARY
Mgr. Says 17-cent
Ceiling Price Does
Not Cover Cost of
Delivery Service
Beaufort may be without any
delivery of pasteurized milk by
the end of this month. Whether it
has it or not, according to H. P.
Scripture, Manager of the Dixie
Dairy, will depend upon whether
Washington approves their request
for a raise of one cent in ceiling
price a request supported by tho
County Board of Health and al
ready approved by the Atlanta
Regional Office.
According to Mr. Scripture, the
increase of one cent will bring the
price only to the eighteen cents
granted in January, 1943, and in
operation until August of last
year.. On the basis of the eighteen
cent price contracts with farmers
and labor were made. In August,
OPA cut their price to seventeen
cents when expenses were more,
wage scales everywhere higher,
and the Dairy found it impojsibla
to cut back to the basis on which it
had operated when milk previous
ly sold for seventeen cents in
stead, the Dairy professes to havo
been operating in th red.
The County Health Department
has supported the Dairy in their
request for the raise because they
feel the increase will be necessary
in order to expect the milk to ineas
ure up to required standards.
In the event the request fails to
go through, Dixie will continue to
sel milk wholesale to dealers and
restaurants, but say they will cut
delivery in the interest of economy
as it is the only cut they can make
that will not effect the quality of
their product. The Government is
expected to signify approval or
disapproval of the request by the
end of the month.
Cull Laying Flock
To Increase Profit
Culling the laying flock at fre
quent intervals during the entire
year removes those hens which are
"eating their heads off" yet art
not laying. And such culling
means that profits are increased
considerably, says T. T. Brown,
Extension poultryman with the
State College Extension Service.
Some of the hens are paying
excellent dividends by a Wonbtant
production of eggs while other
hens are eating into these, profits
by not laying any eggs or only oc
casionally. "With the present high
prices for feed, it is especially de
sirable to remove from the flock
all thin, undersized, light-weight,
and otherwise unthrifty hens,"
Brown says.
He points out that it is compar
atively easy to determine whether
a hen is in. good laying condition.
The comb of the laying hen ij
bright red and enlarged. The eyes
are clear and bright, giving the
head an appearance of alertness.
On the other hand, the comb,
face and wattles of the non-laying
hen are shrunken, dry and pale.
The entire head appears lon and
beefy, and tho eyes are not clear
and bright. The low producer is
also comparatively inactive and of
a wild disposition.
Summing up all these points,
Brown says that the principal
things to watch are health, pres
ent laying condition, past perform
ance, and the future possibilities
as layers or breeders. Unless c
hen is healthy and vigorous, she
cannot be expected to lay profitably.
"This year it will be increasing
ly hard to make good profits from
poultry and constant culling is
more important than ever before,"
brown says.
Miss iRivenbark
Resigns Dec. 31
Miss Virghia Rivenbark resign
ed from the Carteret County
Health Department effective De
cember 31st and left on Tuesday
for her home in Watha. Her plans
for the future are not definitely
formulated, but before taking up
work of any kind, she plans to rest
at home for a month.
Miss Riverbark is a Rex Hospit
al graduate. She took the Public
Health Course at Chapel Hill and
has been in Public Health work
since the spring of 1941. She
came here in September, after
serving in Roberson County.
Dr. Oliver, Director of the De
partment, plans to fill the vacancy
due to Miss Rivenbark's resigna
tion during the month, but her
successor has not yet been named.
Time
The greatest crop losses in.
North Carolina are caused by
growers not doing farm job3 at
the proper time, says R. W, Shof
fner, Extension specialist in farm
management at State College.
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TIDE TABLE
CHANGES IN STOVE RATIONING.
Eligibility requirements for ra-
tionined heating stoves have been
widened. A consumer who has a
heating or cooking stove that can
not be used satisfactorily is now
eligible for a stove rationing cer-
tificate. Ration certificates also
may be issued for stoves to heat
premises where essential communi
ty activities, such as volunteer
Red Cross work, are carried on. A
ration certificate now may be is
sued to a landlord who wishes to
buy a stove for the use of an eli
gible tenant.
Information as to the tide
at Beaufort is given in thi.i
column. Tho figures are ap
proximately correct and are
1 based on tables furnished by
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Some .allowances must be j
made lor variations in the tl
il wind and also with respect !i
V to the locality, that is v, heth-
j: er near tho inlet or at the fj
S; head of the estuaries. II
HIGH
LOW
Friday, Jan. 7
7:00 AM. 12:33 AM.
7:012 PM. 1:28 I'M. ,
Saturday, Jan. 8
7:47 AM. ' 1:21 AM.
7:58 PM. 2:15 PM.
Sunday, Jan. 9
8:31 AM. 2:07 AM.
8:42 PM. 2:58 PM.
Monday, Jan. 10
9:11 AM. 2:49: AM.
9:24 PM. 3:38 PM.
Tuesday, Jan. 1 1
9:48 AM. 3:31 AM.
10:04 PM. 4:16 PM.
Wednesday, Jan. 12
10:25 AM. 4:11 AM.
10:44 PM. 4:53 PM.
Thursday, Jan. 13
10:11:01 AM. 4:50 AM.
11:21 PM. 6:30 PM.