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I f i: lijl I llll'llllll 'I '!- THE SIDEWALK SKIPPER' .' The usual unpredictable charac ter,, of Eastern Carolina's early spring weather has brought whh it Attic that it good tor dealers and fishermen of the area. With the exception of some traffic in hard Crabs and coon oysters and a dwindtirg supply of 'sea mullets, inly token catches have been un it aded en the dealers docks since th.fn first of February. Even the trawlers, the last to feel the pinch, find , the finny population offshore ! is declining rapidly. Bphaven Fisih and Oyster corn pan) in Morehead City, managed a tjilay of sea mullets, croakers, panrout, butterfish, croakers, and flounders, in their retail market. Pupk O'Neal, manager, is still send ing his own boats out but has been depending almost entirely on the deep-sea trawlers for his supply. Street Weatherington, of Noe's Fish ' company, says he is selling hard crabs locally, paying four and a half cents a pound, but hasn't handled many fish recently, while Utham Willis, at the Willis Fish Market in Morehead, says things ha've' been "pretty dull" and he expects they will continue to be until the middle of March. In the meantime his crews are working on the boats, wielding paint brush es 'on all of them and adding a new wheel house to the A. M. Wil lis 'tinder the direction of her skip per;1 Captain Stacy Willis. B. C. Guthrie, proprietor of the Ocean Seafood in Beaufort, looks upon this period as a slow begin ning rather than the end of a sea son., "We're just starting in," he says" and is sending the "Dixie B'put regularly on reconnaissance trips. Thawing interested spectators is a display of marine oddities on display at Ottis' market in More heM City. Brought in by the trawl er '''Victory," the iced specimens include a giant red snapper, grou pers, sea weeds, corals, and many organisms found in tropical waters add, pear the Gulf stream. OHis' is one of the first of the local markets to have fresh shrimp. Stilt small in size, they are selling for1 50 cents a pound, while the larger, frozen, variety retail for 70. "Ottis Purifov has thp remits. tiorj of carrying a wide variety of nsn. ana even now is displaying sea mullet, shad, flounders, hogfish, pah' trout, oysters, clams, crabs, and scallops. (Japtain Purifoy admits, howv ever,- that February has been "dull" and that he has been busy with remodeling the "DolDhin." which is to get a new galley, tables and chairs. He is also hav ing the Phillip and the Shearwater put ' in first class shape for the opening of spring fishing season. A. 'l. Chestnut, oyster specialist for Ihe Institute of Fisheries Re search in Morehead City, returned last Week from a meeting in York- tdwn, va., to whtch he was invited by Dr. Nelson Marshall, director of the Virginia Fisheries Labor atory of that city. Also attending the meeting, which was scheduled for the purpose of drawing up a program for the investigation of oystering methods and yield, were To..' A nr T T7- 1 n uo.nuuiciii, djiiuca augei, nan- cis Beaven, and George Badger. The 'Program agreed upon by the group is to be submitted to the governor. The investigation itself will, be carried out by Dr. Marshall arid , the laboratory staff. Di. Chestnut leaves today for Chapel Hill, N. C. where he will give a series of lectures to zoology students. Mrs. Chestnut and their son. Alfred, will visit relatives in Virginia during his absence. the trip to other fishing grounds, The smaller menhaden boats will remain tied up until mid-April and only Beaufort Fisheries and R. W. Taylor and Company plan summer fishing. Among the boats being readied for departure are the Sea King, whose skipper is Captain Fred Fulcher, to go to Delaware and the Kingfisher, with Captain Ashton Willis, scheduled to make the run to Florida in .May. Four of Har vey Smith's boats ' remain at the West Beaufort plant; three new ones are as yet unnamed and the Charlie Mason has just left the ways after extensive repairs Al Cubbage, office manager for this firm, is now in Louisiana. At the Morehead City Yacht Ba sin, Captain Charlie Bennett is tooling up twleve boats for Wal lace Fisheries and installing a 250 h p. Cummins Diesel in the C. P. Dey. This is the first engine of this type to be installed in this area. Hudson American radios are being installed on all the Wallace boats. Heating engineer Maurice B. Cook, consultant from Plainfield, N. J., will spend two weeks in Beaufort at the Sperti FOods plant, where a tunnel-dryer is being con structed to. speed up the drying of agar. A trial run for the new me thod, a departure from convention al handling of the seaweed jell, was postponed and is now set for March 10. Harry B. Parker, presi dent of Sptrti . Foods. Inc., will come from New York to be present when' the innovation is first put into use. John Glud, of Woods Hole, oys ter specialist for the Fish and Wildlife Service, looked over Car teret County's shore last week whjle on his way south. Accom panying him to Williston, where he talked to Dealer Elmer Willis of Williston, v ;.s A. L. Chestnut of Morehead City. From here Mr. Glub went to Bears Bluff Labora tory in Charleston to consult with Robert G. Lunz, Jr., its director. He will proeeed southward to Florida on a general reconnaissance trip designed to give up preliminary data for a survey of soft and hard shell clams. Mr. Glud, who is chief of the government's clam investigation, was formerly connected with the state of Washington and has made two trips to Japan in connection with shellfish investigation. Clam yield in North Carolina is said to have held fairty steady while in the North production has dropped sharply. Twelve species are to be found in this area, some of which, are being taken now and are selling for 35 to 40 cents a tub. CARTERET CQUNTY I N. C PAGE tflNE Svcet Pctatcas Prove Meat Source Of ko College Station Sweet potatoes could' prove to be An excellent source of additional income on many North Carolina farms this year, believes H. M. Covington, hor ticulture specialist for the State College Extension Service. Covington recommends, however, that farmers consider market out lets before planting them. The U. S. Department of Agri culture has requested farmers to increase their 1949 production of sweet potatoes by 12 per cent. Even if such an increase is planted, pro duction would still be about 10 per cent under the 1937-46 annual av erage. Covington says many farmers have the impression that sweet po tatoes cannot be cured and stored successfully in a tobacco barn. A tightly constructefl barn, he asserts is hard to beat for this purpose. All that is needed to convert a barn is to reinforce the bottom tier-pole and place a pole-roor of two-inch hoards on top of It. An .average, height 16 x 16 foot barn will hold approJcimately ?50 bushels of potatoes, the specialist points out. Covington says there are sever al excellent swevt potato growers in Pitt County. Last year, with unfavorable weather, J. J. Edwards of near Ayden-produced-3,3,1 -bushels of No. l's and 20 bushels of No. 2's per acre. Selling tor $3 and $169 per bushel respectively, hey bro ught Edwards ' gross return of $1023 per acre. Large yiejdg are nothing new to Edwards. Two years ago he' aver aged 404 bushels of U. S. No l's. per acre. He. also grows certified sweet potatoe seed. In 7 he Good Old Days fHIBTY-FIVE YEARS AGO ' 1 1. .1A.,M Mnvl fied the Beaufort News, now thp Carteret County News-Times, thai the bids fqr dredging Taylor's Creek would be let within the next few weeks. ' . W, P. Smith beaded the reorgan ized Chamber of Commerce, and J. F. Duncan was named to the committee to plan the organiza tion. . TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO A shooting affray took 'place in the Norfolk Southern passenger Station resulting in the death of one man and possible fatal wound ing of another. Mrs. Annie Gaskill announced through an ad in the newspaper that she was running for Register of Deeds pn the Republican ticket. TEN YEARS AGO Murals for the lobby of. the new post office building were to be painted by Simka Simkhovitch. Atlantic boys and Smyrna girls won the Carteret County basket ball tournament. Heavy rains the past week da maged thp county potato crop. FIVE YEARS AGO Junior Red Cross members of Beaufort graded school were giv ing a tableau. Among students taking part were Mary Lou Mason, Rosemary Ressent, Bruce Edwards, Sifrah NVson, Joyce Biggs and Margaret Ann Windley. Beaufort boy scouts enjoyed a father-son dinner in the Sunday school rooms of Ann St. Metho dist church. Carter Broad, staff member of the. Institute for Fisheries Re search who is working on shrimp, has Just spent two weeks on the shrimp trawler Penny making ob servations and gathering data on of shore shrimp. The Penny is at prssent operating out of South pert. V mere remnant of the record si! s 1948 menhaden fleet remains in Eastern North Carolina and the lewVessels left are, for the most part, only here until repairs and renovation make them ready for 'Am.. m! .-4 4 R&iichols' I 1 k J $1.90 pint Code-i No. 292 j I Dm ttraight WMiktp h Mi prat bet srs t yssrt sr asrs sis'; " w wawj, rWfW IwrtraJ Spirftar 10 Straight Writ I (tyIrmi!4SUn!lrtirU4tr I I jrtart M, S tro fhfctir I 1 vmti tU. It pmf. I The "Bernice Grey," a 40-foot Core'-Sound-type trawler owned by Sterling Dixon of Stacy, is now equipped with' a 3-cylinder G. M. motor and a Michigan wheel in stalled recently by the Machine and Supply company of Beaufort. Designed for coastwise commercial fishing, the "Bernice Grey" will take her place in the local fleet in March: Irishmen Still Seek Homes In United Slates DUBLIN, Eire (AP) Irish men are leaving for the United States by the thousands. In one recent week nearly 700 of them caught America-bound boats at Cobb and the United States consulate in Dublin re Itorted it has a waiting list of several . thousand" applicants. Last year 6,872 cut their ties with Erin's, green isle for a new transatlantic home. The number of Irish migrants to .the United States has increased swiftly since the end of the war. In 1945, 546 of them went west. Migration climbed to 1838 in 1946 and 5,562 in 1947. Last year's migration list reminded Irishmen of the hightide of mi gration to the United States in the late 1920's. Agencies Receive Permits To Solicit During the month of February licenses were granted by the State Board of Public Welfare to eight organizations to conduct fund raising campaigns through public solicitations for- the sup port of their programs, it was announced yesterday by Dr. Ellen Winston, Commissioner. Seven of these organizations were re-licensed in accordance with provisions of the state soli' citation law. They are the Boys' Clubs of America, the Brevard Girl Scout Council, Hebron Col ony of Mercy, the National Rec reation Association, the North Carolina Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Tuscarora Council of the Boy Scouts of America, and World Stu dent Service Fund. The Carolina Conference As sociation of the Seventh day Ad ventist, which has state head quarters in Charlotte, is receiv ing its license for the first time to solicit funds for medical, wel fare, and educational projects. The total sura which these eight organizations will seek from the public in North Carolina is $133, 922, , It was also announced that dur ing the month of February the State Board of Public Welfare of ficially notified the president of the Girls Vacation Fund at 853 Broadway, New York City, and the treasurer and director of the China's Children Fund of Rich mond, Virginia, that since these respective organizations have not qualified for a licenses to solicit funds In North Carolina because of, failure to file information in conformity with provisions of , the state solicitation law, their soli' citations made by letter appeal are In Violation of this statute. MISPLACED GLAMOR. . . . Don't try to fasdnalt your boss by over-exposure of your charms. He won't appreciate It as rnvch as you may think. Tfrws from March 1 Mr. and Mrs. Vance Chadwick and son, Vernon, accom panied by Mrs. Kate O'Brien, have returned ' to their homes in Wash ington, D. C. Mrs. Gerald Whitchiirt, Strait, spent the day with Mrs. Henry Chadwick. Mrs. Miles Willis of Smyrna and her sister Mrs. Henry Chad wick. entertained their mother, Mrs Sydniy Whitehurst on her birth day, February 22nd, at the home of Mrs. Chadwick in Gloucester Friends railed to wish her n hap py birthday, and she received gifts and many greeting cards. Mr. and Mis, Marvin Fulford have recovered from their recent sick spells and arc able to be out again. Mrs. Oliver Chadwick our ns"ii; tanl post-mistress was in charge of our postollice Wednesday, and Thursday while Mrs. Lester Pigott was confined to her home with a severe cold. Mis. Hilda Cillikiu and daughter j Lucille and Mrs. Floyd Chadwick j of Smyrna visited Miss Florence I Pigott at the J. S. Pigott store Mon ! day afternoon. Capt. ('has. Nelson of Morehead City called on his daughter Mrs. Osborne Pigott and grand daughter, Lida Mae, Monday. Mrs. J. O. Edwards nd Mr. and Mrs. George Bunting called on our new residents, Mr. and Mrs. McGcc at Straits. Mrs. Robert Chadwick spent a lew days last week with her bro ther, Mr. Tilden Jarvis and wife in Moreluad City. Mr. J. T. Willis of Morehead City was in our community Sunday. The Women's Society of Christ ian Service, met at the church last Thursday night. The fifteen mem bers present arranged to have a pie-supper this Friday night, March 4th ut the Straits and Gloucester stores. The proceeds will be used toward a steeple. People here wish to congratulate Mr. Robert G. Lowe who w.on the Man of-the-Year award for More head City. Bob is a former resident of Gloucester and we wish rim success as City executive secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. Be Sere 1o Start Ycvr CbJtks this Year C3 my fezia srASiziA a::aEMTTS ' I'll t, Hi c -A'l J. C. G. GilSHiLL J. C. UIHTK D CQIIMII7 , foven & So. Front Sis. 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