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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 5AGE EIGHT TUESDAY, MARCH 1. 194? m , m , , I f Li. . . -. Dry Dock to Go Covering the Waterfront WILMINGTON The U. S. Maritime commission is preparing Jo float a $400,000,000 surplus Na (y drydock to Wilmington for establishment and use in condition-' big surplus merchant ships in its large reserve fleet storage basin here, according to information re ceived today from officials in Washington. The Commission has completed its plans and the dock is being (prepared for movement from the West Coast through the Panama ; Canal. : Establishment of the dock here would necessitate the employment Of about 75 skilled workmen and provide an annual payroll of about $200,000, it was said. There are ' now 426 surplus merchant ships in ! the lay-up basin. j . Thwarted a year ago by the Navy who fesred the "grave Kus-1 sian situation," and by U. S. ship builders who contended that if the Maritime Commission uses its dry J docks, their business would suffer, j The Maritime Commission recently reactivated plans to float the dry- flocks from the Pacific to the East ; Coast. Only drawback is a possi bility that Congress may not ap propriate funds, the official said. However, the high commission official said that Wiiminrton's dry- j dock to be used at the Wilmington ' Reserve Fleet, is now being weight ed to turn on its side for floating through the Panama Canal on the (n.'.t Up of its slow journey to Vilming;on. It should reach Wil mi .gton by May 1, he said. f he oilier three docks have been ;;portiL,nid 10 iieaumont, Texas, james lliver, Va., snd Mobile, Ala., the official said. By Aycock Brown NAGS HEAD, N. C Ocracoke born Ira T. Wyche who left there shortly after the turn of the Cen tury paid a visit to the island a few days ago. He has two sisters at Ocracoke, Mrs. Elsie Tolson and Mrs. Martha Simpson. Shortly after he left the island Wyche got an appointment to the U. S. Military Academy and he be came a commissioner officer in the U. S. Army. Prior to his retire ment recently, he had attained the rank of major general and he was appointed to the post of Inspector General of the Army shortly after World Wur II. Stanley Wahib, another Ocra cokcr who had left, and made a success in business and then re turned to the island to spend the afternoon of his life was here at The Carolinian this week. He told me the story of Ira T. Wyche. Wyche was born on the island, October 11, 1887. or as some Ocra coke old timer might say, "The year following the wreck of the Clyde Line steamer Pioneer." His father was the Kcv. L. 0. Wyche who doubled as minister in the Ocracckc Methodist Church and school teacher. His mother was Miss Lorcna Howard, before leaf Growers Pay For Their Mistake ' Msny tobacco growers in the State tre now paying for a mis take which they made last summer, says Koy R. Kennilt, extension to bacco specialist at State College. Their mistake, he says, was that thev failed to have tobacco di seases identified when their fields j were att .eked during the growing j season. These men "think" they had black shnnk, Granville wilt, or some other disease, but they are not certain exactly what it was. Js a result, they don't know what variety of tobacco to plant in 1949 in order to prevent the disease from appearing again. Many other growers, however, fccted more wisely. They knew that a grower having any disease pre VE'.ent on his farm should have it identified while the diseased plants were still fresh and showed cha racteristic symptoms. So they found out positively wh?t disease was prevalent in their fields, and or the coming season they are ilanting varieties resistant to that disease. Mr. Bennett points out that iNorth Carolina tobacco grower lose many thousands of dollars an nually because of plant diseases. Nearly all of thisoss can be pre vented, he says, 'if farmers will obtain positive identification of each disease and then plant resis tant varieties. . Junior Order Mechanics To Meet ai Atlantic Beach her marriage, thn daughter of Capt James II. Howard who was keeper i in charge of the old Life Saving Station at Ocracoke (llatteras In let) since it wss first manned. Mrs. Wyche died al Ayden, N. C. when her pastor -husband wrs ii charge of the Methodist Church at that place. Due to lack of telephones in those days her parents on Or,' coke did not learn nf their dauyh trr's death, mother of the man whn was to become Inspector General of the Army, until several days after she was buried, whereupon her father had the body exhumed, taken to Ocracoke and re-buried. That was her second burial. Now her remans have been limip;! again, in the rear of the old How ard graveyard near the old churcii Koloiwing Mrs. Wvche's death Captain Howard, brought all the children, Klsie, Martha and Ira, tn Ocracoke and thry made their home near the Life Saving station at llatteras Inlet. "While visiting back home On cral Wyche will no doubt rem i lisce over his boyhood days spent there," said Wahab. Often dunne Ihc 20 years or more that I have known Stanley Wahab he has told me interesting stories about Ocra coke and occasionally they would include Ira Wyche, his boyhood playmate. Wahab's father was al so in the life saving service and stationed at what is today knowi as Hatteras Inlet Life Boat Station. They together probably remem ber the great August storm of 1899 which many an islander still re calls as "the worst to ever strike Ocracoke." During the winter that was to follow the great storm an other tragedy occurred on the is land. This was the wreck of the British tramp steamer Ariosto, bound from Cuba and other parts on this side of the ocean to Liver pool with a general cargo includ ing sugar and lumber. The wreck of ihe Ariosto claim ed the lives of 27 crew members. The wreck is said to have intro duced the first fruitcake (one that had been sent the ship's chief en gineer as a Christmas gift) to' many of the life savers who res jued the few survivors. The ship had wrecked on a Christmas eve and early in 1900 the wrecki lg commissioner and insurance adjust ers came down to the scene of the wreck to salvage what cargo possi ble, and sell same at vendue. Young Ira Wyche and Stanley Wahab were among the salvagers who piled lumber along the beach. The pile they built uo was sold aid their share of the money received Aas, Wahab recalls, the first dol- I lars they had ever earned, during I their young lives. I Wyche and Wahab both aspired to be military men. Wyche realiz ed his ambition to go to West Point. Wahab did not realize his desire'; to enter the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. Still Wa hab. now in retirement, did not do so badly for himself. In business he made, what in the the terms f any coastal resident who knows him, a fortune. During the first World War, Wyche had attained the rank of ieulenani colonel. Now retired "rim Ihc Armv he makes his home in Pinehursl near the home of his good friend General George C. VnrshHI. The Life Saving families who 'ived with their children at the old Ocracoke (llatteras Ink!) Station had to have a sc hool for I he young :'ers After the small buildi g used as a school room was destroy ed during the August Hurricane if 1899, permission was granted y the government for the mule i' able to be used as a class room. Thus. Ira T. Wyche and Stanley Wi'hab, both successes in Iheir re spective fields of endeavors, can 'race their earlv education back lo -mile stable. Wahab recalls that a "hocHe Potter of Pamlico County was their teacher in the mule stable. Ira Wvche. oerhaDS finds little change in Ocracoke village. The pmmunity today is hardly larger, from a population standpoint, than when he lived here during his in . if 4 Key C 3..--- ! S to Better KsSmS! I Living. .... Jum$M y g B aJltffi " r b s&y smkmm f Wh B 1 is n youth , It was announced today by For (rest G. Shearin, State Secretary of the North Carolina Junior Order United American Mechanics that this group has decided to hold their annual State council session in the Morehead City-Atlantic Beach area ps a result of an invitation issued earlier by the Morehead City fchamber of Commerce. I Convention bookings have been substantially ahead of the same period last year. The first such gathering for the new year will be jitaged on the 25th of February at tvhich time the winter meeting of the North Carolina Elks associa tion convenes. R. G. Lowe, Chamber of Com merce Secretary, states that de finite dates have been assigned to groups in each month through September with present bookings heavy for June. Resort facilities and accommodations are expected to begin their seasonal activities shortly after the first of May and ire preparing for several groups before the traditional season open er on Memorial Day week-end. 6 . 1 County Receives $3,120 in January ABC Money The county's share of ABC money for the month of January, iai $3,120.47, James Potter, audi tbr, ha reported. Amount to the towns and hospital were as follows. Beaufort $772.68; Morehead City, 1149.27; hospital, $449.27; Newport, 432.92. ISales' totaled $45,867.55. At each store they were as follows: Beau fort, $16,889.10; Morehead City, $19,579.60; Newport, $9,398.85. Gross profit was $12,011.87, state sales tax, $3,898.74. ' ' Sales last, month .were lower than in December. 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MOREHEAD CITY 9 B I B n B B n B B B n B B B B B B B TA B I Carteret County News-Times Through its accurate news reports you are informed twice every 'week of all the news of every town and com t. unity in Carteret County and, besides that, of all the state news which has a direct bearing on the well being of Carteret County. In its editorial columns the important topics of the day in Carteret County are fearlessly analyzed, inter preted and made readily understandable. And iis features include a complete full page of comics in black and white every Tuesday and a complete eight page section of comics in color every Friday. Through its advertising columns you are enabled to choose freely and widely what you want and from whem you want to buy it at prices within your budget. In the service of Freedom the CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES is dedicated to improving your life safeguarding your liberty helping you in the pursuit of happiness. . 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