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, for5ir security, too! t r Beaufort NEs ' 1 3 i i 'iirj i VOLUME XXXIII No. 34 RECENT SURVEY OF AGRICULTARE III CARTERET CO. MADE BY F S A I I 746 Farms in Co. fi 19,300 Acres Under Cultivation 1 he Most Widely Read Newspaper Along The Central Carolina Lggt 10 PAGES THIS WEEK BEAUFORT, N. C THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1944 10 PAGES THIS WEEK PUBLISHED WEEKLY. A County wide survey of agri culture in Carteret was recently made by Hubert Jernigan, County FSA Supervisor, and Jean U. Mor rison, Associate FSA Supervisor, to glean facts for the Committee formulating the 19J5 FSA Pro gram for the County. Results give figures of interest regarding farm ing in Carteret. There are now 746 farms in this county with 19,300 acres in culti vation and in improved pastures. Two hundred and fifty of the farm ers are tenants, and the rest land owners. Most of the farms are not larre ones in fact 600 of them , are 30 acres or less. Farm labor is very scarce since many farm boys ire in the Armed t orces. yet iarm ;rs have continued to farm and in crease production. A few figuures prove this fact: This year there were 2,100 acres of Irish potatoes; 2,500 acres in Sweet potatoes; 2,000 acres in fresh vegetables; 5,500 acres in corn, and 1,800 ac res in tobacco. This is an increase of about 35 per cent over 1910 in ( the food crops. Livestock has also increased. Poultry has gained from an average of 50 hens per family to 85 ; eggs have made about a 33 per cent gain and broilers, 66 per cent. Feed crops have not increased sufficiently in the county to taka care o f livestock needs. This is the weakest point in Carteret farming. More small grain is need ed to be grown and better pas tures made availible. The FSA Committee has recommended that special attention be given to this ir. working out the 1945 plans for FSA borrowers. Already some of these borrowers are making loans . and getting ready to plant this grain in September. Of the 250 tenant families that are in this county, there probab y are some who want to become land owners. Any one interested can obtain full information through the local FSA office located in the Court House Annex or from Coun ty FSA personnel, Jean D. Mor rison and Hubert Jernigan. COUNTY LIBRARY MAKESREPORT 31,188 Books Circulated in Year Ending July, 1944 During the fiscal year of the Carteret County Library ending July first, 31,188 books were cir culated in the County for home use according to the statistical re port prepared for the U. S. Office of Education, Washington. Of these 16.617 or 53 per cent were read by children. One thousand three hundred and twenty-two Frank Robinson's Boys Abroad A &k -' I - .,.?;.. f . JA I ... M : I V H f. M ,MMM- III. IBI-ir '"-- MM Frank Robinion, Jr., S 1c, USN, and Robert Robinson. Pvt. the two on of the late Frank Robinion, Chief Electrician USN, who w accidentally killed in November, 1942, are i 1.1 w : ia,il u.;wJ K a serving abroad, rranK emerea me ry - . nponle used the Library during the trainni at Charleston. S. C, ser ved in Puerto Rico, ---- - ., , " . , ...... on one of our battleship in tne fa cine since me vear with 357 new or registered borrowers. A total of 471 volumes were ad ded to the shelves durine the year bringing the number of books for circulation at present up to 6, 864. Approximately $400 wo:th of new books are on order. The County Library is housed in the Town owned bililding on the Corner of Broad and Pollock Streets. It was supported for the year 1943-44 by a Town appropria tion of $150, a County appropria tion of $1,000, and a State grant of $1,484.35. Bv means of the Bookmobile and in cooperation with the schools, the Library is serving 11 schools, 39 scheduled Bookmobile stops throughout the County, 3 Army Camps, and the Morehead Citv Li brary. The work of the Library is di rected by the following members of the Board of Trustees appoint ed by the County Commissioners: Miss Lena Duncan. Chairman Mrs. Wardie Woodard. Secretary, Mrs. H. C. Jones, "Treasurer, Rev. W. Y. Stewart, and Mrs. Robert Taylor. USA, Mate both boot" and has been winter of 1943; FRANK RICE DISTINGUISHES HIMSELF ABROAD Violators of Game Laws Heard C. D. Cuthrell, Highland Park, appeared before Justice of the Peace Frank King last Thursday charged with hunting game out of season and with out a hunting li cense. WiF. Dixon of Beaufort was also heard on the same charge. A fine of $5.00 and costs was im posed suspended on payment of costs amounting to $6.90 each. They were also ordered to buy a hunting license. RATION BRIEFS GASOLINE A-ll good through Nov. 8. SHOES No. 1 and 2 "Airplane" Stamps in Book III good indefinitely. SUGAR Stamps No. 30, 31 and 32, Book IV, good for 5 pounds of sugar in definitely. No. 40 good for 5 lbs. canning sugar through February 28, 1945. Stamp 33 good Sept. 1. 1 CANNED GOODS Blue Stamps, Book IV, A-8 through Z-8 and A-5 througii F-5 good indefinitely. MEATS Red Stamps, Book IV, A-8 thru Z-8, A-5 through D-5 good indef initely. FUEL OIL Period 4 and 5 coupons good through September. During Octo ber unused coupons may be ex changed at Ration Board for new 1944-45 heating season coupons. NOTICE Every car owner must write his license number and State in ' advance on all gasoline- coupons in his possession. Rent Control All persons renting, or offering for rent, any living quarters wiiat ( sovere must register each dwell ' ing until with rent control office in . ' their rent "area. Persons who feel I - that they are being overcharged f i for rents may submit eompUints i to OP A. Complaint forms ar? av- ailable at the local War Price and Rationing Board if your area .toes pot have a rent control office.. Holds Air Medal Recently Awarded Oak Leaf Cluster Robert entered the Army at Ft. Bragg in 1942. He was trained at Camp Attlebury, Ind., and ordered to England last spring. He is now serving in France. CARTERET BOYS IN THE SERVICE BICENTENNIAL Neal Windley, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Windley of Craven Street, graduates from the U. S. Merchant Marine Academv at Kings Point, New York, tomorrow, August 25th, and will be com missioned an ensign, USMC, and be given a third assistant engi neers license. Neil was a member of the class of 1941 of the Beau fort High School. He entered thi: Academy 22 months ago. Follow ing graduation he will have an other two weeks of duty at Kings Point after which he will be home on leave. HATTERAS BACK III NC SERVICE Governor Broughton Taken to Ocracoke On First Cruise Back in Guy Dickinson, Mo. M.M. 3-c, son of the G. R. Dickinsons, sta tioned in New Guinea, recently spent a furlough in Australia and had the pleasure of running into Ramey Davis on the street. Thev visited together for a couple of hours. TS Louis Styron, son of Cupt. Vernon Styron of Front Street has arrived safely in England. His brother, Guy M. Styron BM lc is serving somewhere in the Pacific. Cpl. Roland Bell Potter, USA, of Charleston, W. Va., and nep hew of T. T. Potter, is serving in England. A release from the 8th Air Force Bomber Station, England, states that Tech. Sgt. Robert Frank Rice, B-17 Flying Fortress Engineer and top turret gunner has been decorated with an Oak Leaf Cluster to the Air Medal for con tinued achievement in battle over Europe. Sgt. Rice has seen action over enemy targets ranging from vital objectives in central Germanv to military installations and robot bomb sites along the French Coast. His Fortress group holds a Presidential Citation for gallant ry in action. Sgt. Rice is the son of Mr. Ad rian Rice, Broad Street, and broth er of Mrs. Lillian Shoemaker. His brother, Pvt. Charles S. Rice. USA, was drowned in Rock River, 111., in early July. " Rice attended Beaufort High School. He entered the Armv at Ft. Bragg in October, 1942, and since then has received technical training at air centers all over the United States including the schoti at Armarillo, Texas, and Lock Heed Vega Air Craft School. Bur bunk, Calif. He has been abrouJ since April of this year. Gatlin Bringing Something Special For Aug. 31, Dance Simon Gatlin, enterprising col ored "promoter" is bringing "Lit tle Beau" and his all star orehes tra to Beaufort for a Labor Day Dance at Gatlin's Cafe, Thursday, August 41. Dancing from 10 p. m. until 2 a. m. Admission per per son, spectators $1.00. Joe Turner "World's Greatest Blues Singer" (Decca Recording artist) and Shelia Guyse will be the vocalists. White friends who want to hear something good are invited to attend. Reservations will be made for them. four War Bond Investment Is Your Investment In America Lt. Mary Bowen Brooks, ANC, is having an interesting expert ensce in a Naples hospital housed in a building used for the Olym pic Games. She writes of a recent visit to Rome: "I've never seen such destruction as was evident in all the little towns captured. We made the trip in a jeep and stay' ed at a hotel a very nice hotel just like being back in the States- wonderful mattresses, bed linens, and everything. We saw Musso lini's Health Center which is very beautiful, then saw St. Peter's. I I though Westminister was beauti ful, but it's nothing compared with St. Peter's. All the paintings are done with mosaics. We climbed to the dome, looked down on Vatican City. Then we visited the famous colosseum and saw the building from which Mussolini made al his public speeches. Without a daubt they have the most beautiful apart ment buildings I've ever seen in any place." Among the 105 women in the armed forces receiving awards and citations to date in this war i.-i Capt. Maude Carraway (Mrs. Mar vin Rosene), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Carraway of Merrimon who has been home on leave fron Kodiak, Alaska, this summer. Maude was given the Legion cf Merit a medal which recognizes "extraordinary fidelity and essen tial service." Explicitly, her award was made for "ability displayed in organization and administration of the Army Nursing Corps in Alaska. Gray Osborne Davis, son of Mrs. Mildon W. Davis, Marshall berg, has been promoted to Corp oral in a unit of the 5th Air Force Service Command in the South west Pacific. Davis wears the Good Conduct Medal and an Asiatic' Pa cific Theatre ribbon one bronze star. Davis is a graduate of Louis- burg College from which he holds a certificate in Accounting anJ Business Administration. He also attended the Army Administra tion School, South Dakota State College. He is assigned to the Quar termaster section of his organization. Lathan Willis, Chief Mo. M. M.. USCG, is preparing for duty with See SERVICE Page 10 'S FIRST GIFT TO EDUCATION IN NORTH CAROLINA Dr. Hornaday Wants Gala Day Planned Celebrating Event Dr. Clifford L. Hornadav de serves credit for the reminder that this month marks the bicen tennial of what is conceded in the history of education in North Car olina to be the first endowment for education in the State. August, 1744, is the date on the will of James Winwright of Beaufort in which he gave land and money in order that the generations follow ing him might have educational opportunities, . .. There is no evidence that the school wis ' ever established by this legacy. Just what happened is buried deep and can only be un earthed by patient research work However, as Dr Hornaday says, "Of the many gifts made to the cause of education in North Caro lina during the past two centuries, to a public spirited citizen of. Beaufort goes the credit of having been the leader in these benefac tions an honor that should not be overlooked." ; ,... Dr. Hornaday feels it wouii be a fitting thing for one or all of our civic organizations to arrange for a gala day this fall celebrating the fact that the first gift to edu cation in North Carolina was re corded here. It would be an occa sion worthy of a great meeting with one of the leading educators of the state as a speaker. Such meeting would give an impetus to the educational life of the com munity today. He goes on to say that on such a gala day a bronz tablet could be appropriately placed in thet own giving the main facts of the stqry. The following is a copy of Wingate's will making the educa tional provision: "I will and appoint that thf yearly rents and profits of ail the town land and houses in Beaufoit Town belonging unto me, with the other land adjoining thereto (which I purchased of John Pin dar) after the decease of mv wife, Ann, to be applyed to the uses hereinafter mentioned forever (t." wit) for the encouragement of a sober discreet qualiifyed man to teach a school a( least reading, writing, vulgar and decimal arith metick in the afors'd Town o Eeaufort, wch said man sh A be chosen and appointed by the Chair man (or the next in commission) of Carteret County Court and one of Church Wardens of St. John's parrish in the afores'd County and their successors forever. Also I given and bequeath the summ of fifty pounds sterling (provided that my estate shall , be worth so much after my just debts and oth er legacys are paid and discharg ed) to be applyed for the building and finisning of a cronitable house for a school and dwelling house for the said master to be erected and built on some part of my land near the white house which I bought of the aforesaid Pindar, f.nd my true intent and meaning i that all the yearly profits and ad vantages arising by afores'd town lotts and lands thereunto adjoining as afores'd with the use of the said land for making and improving a plantation for the planting and raising corn, etc. (if the afore said Master or teacher of s'd. Governor Melville Brouton, who is vacationing on the Coast, left at noon yesterday for Ocra coke aboard the Hatteras on her first cruise since she was returned to the State of North Carolina by the USCG last May. The Hatteras has been out of State service for almost thirty months. She was first at New Bern serving the U. S. Army and since July, 1942, when coastal sinkings were at their height, she was turn ed over to the USCG for coastal patrol. Since the return of the Hatteras in May, Capt. John A. Nelson, State Fisheries Commissioner, says she has been at the Barbour Boat Works, New Bern, undergoing a thorough renovation. Captain of the recommissioned Hatteras Lt Captain Jess Pagel, of Queen Street, Beaufort. With the Hatteras back in ser vice, the Nelson is the only one of the State boats still used bv the Coast Guard. Of the other N. C. patrol boats, the Pungo is also sta tioned at Morehead Citv and the Croatan, usually stationed at Man teo, is temporarily at Moiehead City. The Albemarle is at Edenton. the Ocracoke at Belhaven. the Neuse at New Bern, and the Atlan tic at Gloucester. '-''.-,'.m' L&iwCaCT. Sgt. Fillmore Lawrence. USA Medical Corps, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Lawrence of Betty, has recently returned to Hawaii from the Gilberts where he served for the past year. He was thet when the Island was taken in No vember, 1943. Sgt. Lawrence en tered the Army at Ft. Bragg some thing over three years ago and has been serving abroad for the past two years. He ii a graduate of the Smyrna High School and had competed two years at N. C. State College, Raleigh, at the time he entered the Army. ROTES Rotarians will meet next Tues day evening at the Inlet Inn at 6 :45. Everyone is urged to be pres ent to talk over plans for the work of the club for the fall and winter months. August Canning NEAL WILLIS HOME FROM PACIFIC AREA Recommended For Shore Duty After 5 Yrs. in War Zone Robert Neal Willis, Chief Radio man, USN, son of Capt and Mrs. Jack Willis of Turner Street, who is homo on a 30-day leave reports to Camp Lejeune early in Septem ber. After four years of service in the Atlantic and almost a year in the Pacific, he has been recom mended for shore duty. Neal comes back wearing be sides his American Area ribbon, a 4-year good .conduct medal, an Asiatic-Paciftcibbon with two stars for major engagements, an European-African ribbon with one star, and a Pre-Pearl Harbor ribbon. Neal entered the Navy in 1939 and immediately following his "boot training" he went aboard ship and learned radio work not in any school but on the job. He has served on seven ships and has ris en to the status of Cnief in charge of all radio on whatever shin to which he 13 assigned. Neal left the Marshall Islands in May, was hospitalized for two months at Pearl Harbor, for almost a month at San Francisco, and three weeks in Oklahoma. He has never teen wounded but is suffer ing from "combat fatigue" follow ing his long period of active ser vice in the war zones. He expect j 30-days of relaxation at home to take him far along the road to complete recovery. Mrs. Willis, the former Evelyn Jones of Morehead City, is spend ing the month in Beaufort. MR. MOORE AT DUKE This is an unusually busy time" for the housewife on a farm in Carteret County. Recent rains have made the tobacco, as weli as the gardens, grow. The acute la bor shortage makes it necessary for farm women to work in tobac co on an average of four or five days each week. This leaves very little time for even normal house keeping and still less time for the canning. Mrs. Jean D. Morrison. Associate FSA Supervisor, is mak ing the suggestion that this ques tion be considered by the entire family, and let the canning become the responsibility of all of them and not just the mother. " If the other members (rather and help prepare the vegetables and have a good supply of fuel on hand, she can accomplish much more on the one day she can have at home to can. - - According to Mrs. M01 rison when a family really seriously con siders the question of what they" will eat this winter, they can see how important it is to prepare their food now. She also points out the fact that with the garden producing lima beans, snap beansi, field peas, and late corn and toma toes, it is an excellent time to make the soup mixture that the family will enjoy on cold winter days. Mrs. Morrison also states that soup mixtures can be safely canned without a pressure cooker, The N. C. Agriculture Extension Servict fiB the following recipe : Use four parts of the mixed vege table, beans, corn, etc., with five parts f tomatoes. Season with salt and allow to boil on top of the stove for ten minutes until it is thick as you like. Fill hot steri lized jars and proceed in hot water bath for 1 1-2 hours. Where one has a pressure cook er, lima beans, corn, field beans, any 01 the non-acid vegetables may be canned safely without ad ding the tomatoes. Figure out with the family the best day for your i canning. Get all of the family to! help yourself and Uncle Sam this 1 winter. I SHOOTING CASE AT BLACK CAT HEARD TUES. Elihu Found Guilty Only of Carrying Concealed Weapon Alice Branch Lassiter (colored), Beaufort, discharged from the Morehead City Hospital on the 16th following injury in a shoot ing at Black Cat Beach the pro ceeding Saturday night, appeared as prosecuting witness against her boy friend Elihu Fisher, Beaufort, charged in Recorders Court Tues day with assault with deadly wea pon with intent to kill. When Alice was taken to the Hospital at four o'clock in the morning, she said that she "was raking leaves in the fire and tho bullet went off." She told a differ ent story this week dismissing the first simply with the statement that she gave it because she was "so excited." The story that Alice and told on Tuesday was that they had walked away from the others in the party, Elihu stumbled on some thing, found it to be a gun. look ed in the gun, she grabbed it in. play, and the gun went off. They seemed to be on perfectly harmo nious terms and professed to havo been on the best of terms ori the. morning of the accident. Asked in greater detail about the guo Elihu said he was "scared and threw it away." Pressed as to whether he didn't carry it with him, he said that he "never toted a gun since I was born in the world," although other testimony was given to the effect that he has had the reputation of carrying on? ever since he came here in April. Charge was changed from assault with deadly weapon with intent ta kill to carrying a concealed weap on to which Elihu submitted and paid costs of $13.35. W. M. Eellam (white) Morehead City, was charged with driving ra car and trailer recklessly causing a collision with a car driven by Mrs. Becton (white), Morehead City, resulting in damage estimat ed at $450, Defendant was judged not guilty, ,,, 1 Jeanette James (colored), Beau fort, lost a h-n and charged Annie Pafkir with larceny1. Seven wit- nesses lost from one day to two days work to have it out. Jeanette was sure that her hen was in An nie's coop and ran ug and down In recognition when she stood out- side; Annie claimed the whole matter a frameup as she was sup posed have taken the hen in June and charges were not preferred until this month. Annie was judg ed not guilty. , Jessie Cherry (colored), Beau fort, who appeared just five weeks ago for assault on his wife with a pint bottle half full of vinegar and who declared at that time his intention of separating from her forever, again appeared for assault on his wife. She failed to show up. and the case was dropped. Other cases on docket were min or traffic violations that did not reach th Court Room. INDUCTEES Mr. I. N. Moore was taken to Duke Hospital early last Friday morning for observation and treat ment. The report today is that he is still undergoing a series of ex aminations. Mrs. Moore accompan ied him to Duke and will remain with him there. and improve same) be entirely for the use and benefit of the s'd mas ter and his successors during his and their good behavior. Also that the s'd master shall not be obliged to teach or take under his care any siholar or niholars imposed on him by the Trustees herein men tioned or their successors or bv any scholars orscoolars imposed hii erty to teach and take under his care such and so many schoolars as he shall think convenient and to receive his reward for the teach ing of them as he and the persons tendering them shall agree The following Carteret mer. have had their preinduction exam inations and reported at Ft. Brag? for duty today: BEAUFORT: Jo seph House, Jr., Willam Ear'. Guthrie, Alton Willis; BEAUFORT RFD: Cleveland Brondell Gillikir, Washington Gray Dudley, Curtis Randolph Pake, Lest jr Allen Gil likin, Carvey Douvell Gillikin, Justin Clark Pake, James Pittman Lewis; MARSHALLBERG: Ches ley Hill, Frank Woodson ?ak', Norris Aubrey Hill, James Morrij Willis; STRAITS: David Monron Chadwick; WILDWOOD: Freder ick David Bell; MOREHEAD CITY:'Troy Wilson Swindell, Clyde Earl Gaskins, Jr., HARKERS IS LAND: Guy August Willis; GLOU CESTER: Guy Leslie Gaskill. CAREFUL DON'T TRY THIS school shall think proper to plant Probated March Court 174445 Don't give away, soil r destroy that coal or wood bi'.ning equip ment you have just m order to get a fuel oil ration, because OPA has authorized local rationing August 13, 1944 boards to withhold the ration un der such circumstances. TIDE TABLE Information as to the tide at Beaufort is given in this column. The figures a.'e ap proximately correct and ura based on tables furnished by the U. S. Geochtic Survey Some allowances niuu . made for variation" ia '. f wind and also wh'.i : to the locality, that is v, lietli er near the inlet or at tho head of the estuaries. l.IGH i-O. F? Uy, Aug. 25 12:43 AM. C:52 AM. 1:15 PM. 7:36 PM. Saturday, Aug. 26 1:30 AM. ' 7:36 AM. 2:05 PM. 8:32 PM. Sunday, Aug. 27 2:25 AM. 8:29 AM. 3:02 PM. 9:35 PM. Monday, Aug. 28 3:26 AM. 9:31 AM. 4:04 PM. 10:40 PM. Tuesday, Aug. 29 4:33 AM. . 10:37 AM. 5:08 PM. .' ;V I 11:42 PM. Wednesday, Aug. 30 5:39 AM. 11:43 AM. 6:08 PM. Thursday, Aug. 31 6:38 AM. 12:40 AM. 7:06 PM. 12:45 PM.
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