MEWS-TIMES OFFICES Beaufort 1M Craves St. ? Phone Mil More head City m Arendell St ? Phone Mil CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES _? A Merfer of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (Eitablithed 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Established 1936) 39th YEAR, NO. 13 EIGHT PAGES ' MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1950 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS: Capt. John Wagner Forsakes Foreign Waters for Carolina and Snug Harbor By Oliver H. Allen Fishing boat captains are a dime a dozen in local waters. Core Sound, Pamlico Sound, Cape Lookout, Cape Hatteras -these wa ters are familial to each captain who sets sail out of Morehead City, Beaufort or ports down east. One captain who calls Morehead . City his home port, finds local wa ters less familiar to him than oth ers, though. The North Sea, the North Atlantic, the White Sea. the Grand Banks of Nova Scotia ? waters such as these were once as familiar as the palm of his hand to Capt. Gustav Wagner, skipper of the converted shrimp trawler, Robert Coker, that sails under the ensign of the Institute of Fish eries Research, from the old sec tion base site west of Morehead City. Captain Wagner came to More head City Sept. 1. 1948 to take over command of the Coker. His duties are. as he puts it in deep guttaral tones, indicative of native German, "to run de boat for de doctors and scientists, make all de gear dey need in dere vork, make nets for, catching shrimp, make dredges for oysters, take de here, dere and everywhere up de riv ers and around de sounds, for dem to do vot dey vant to do." hails Norincrn waters Life has given I few tumbles to the German-born captain in his 4B years. Born in Bremerhaven, Germany in 1802, he went to sea at the tender age of 13. Sincc that time he has fished the North Sea, the White Sea, the North Atlantic, the Grand Banks of Nova Scotia and more recently, the waters of the Atlantic off Virginia and North Carolina. He has fished aboard sail and power vessels, was a crew member aboard an occan liner when it was robbed of one million, 200 thousand dollars, and saw serv ice first in the United States Navy, then the United States Army, and finally back in the. Navy again. Wagner received his share of hard knocks from the Russians, even though he was fighting in armed forces that were allies of the Reds Two of his brothers were killed in action on the Rus sian front during the recent war and another is missing and pre sumed dead, Bs a prisoner of the Russians. The captain himself was wounded wljile serving with the Combat Engineers in Sicily in 1943. Bremcrhave was the port where Wagner first saw the light of day in 1902. He was bom of a fish ing family whose livelihood had always been found in the depths of the ocean. His father had turned to building contracting af ter his grandfather drowned at sea. but young Wagner decided to follow the sea as his forebears had. From Bremerhaven the 60-foot sailing vessel; sailed out 90 to See CAPI\ JOHN,1 Page Eight . Teen-Age Gob To Give Talent Show Monday Members of the Morehead City Teen-Age club will present i Tal ent Show for their parents and the public next Monday night at the recreation center. Teen-Agers will perform and the high school band and glee club ? will be featured on the program. Among special guests will be Mayor George W. Dill, and the fallowing members of the recrea tion center board of directors: W. C. Matthews, Walter Freeman, W. C. Carlton, Clyde Jones, and A. B. Cooper. Members of the town board of commissioners have also been invited. Following the program, Tecn Agers will be hosts to their par ents and other guests. There will be dancing, ping pong, bingo, the 1 reading room will be open ys well as the snack bar. In charge of the affair arc the following committee members: Mrs O. C. Land, Mrs Harold Wll lit. Suzanne Land. Louetta Lewis, Shirley Willis, Denny Lawrence, Enid Rose, David Freshwater, Mary Laura Guthrie, Jerry Nelson, and Mickey Woolard. . Adults will be admitted for 35 tents and Teen-Agers for 23 cents. Vehicle Registration Reported "TThe number of motor vehicles #nd trailers registered in Carteret ?ounty during the year 1949 total ed 4,593, according to ? report :St>m the North Carolina Depart ment of Motor Vehicles. The' Crab Point Home Demon sfration club will meet at 2:30 Thursday afternoon with Mrs. E. J. Dennis. Family Life leaders trill meet at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the hotpr agent's of fice. Mrs. Cotinne Grimsley. Ral eigh, will conduct the meeting. Capt. John Wagner lends a hand with gear on the Albatross. The Albatross is the federal government's research vessel which is now doing exploratory work in North Carolina waters. ? Photo by John Hemmer. Carteret County Has Its Own Little Flowering Plantation Two Cars, Dozen Eggs Smashed In County Wrecks A '47 Plymouth was demolished, a '49 Chrysler damaged to the extent of $600 and a dozen eggs smashed in three week end acci dents in the county. The Plymouth turned over at 10:30 Saturday night on highway 70 one-half mile east of the Carter et county line. The driver, Nor man O'Neal Hill of Beaufort route 1, received a cut on his head, was | treated at Cherry Point dispensary ' and discharged. Richard Gillikin, of Beaufort, who was riding with | him, was uninjured. Charges Filed Hill is being charged with speed ing and reckless driving. Accord ing to Patrolman W. J. Smith, jr., who investigated, Hill and Gillikin were proceeding toward Cherry Point when Hill apparently lost control of the car as he started around a curve. The Plymouth weit over to the left side of the road, skidded 45 feet, shot 52 feet across the road again, skidded 45 feet on the right side of the road and upset. A '49 Chrysler driyen by Hazel McCUry of Holly Ridge ended up in the pine woods at the highway 24 and 70 intersection at 10:15 Saturday night. Miss McClary received knee and ankle injuries and she and Marine Sgt. Bernard F. Maurcr of Camp Lejeune were taken to Morehead City hospital for treatment. No other passengers were in the car. The caf, damaged to the extent of (bout $800, is owned by Sgt. Maurcr. Miss McClary, age 19, See TWO CARS, Page Three 500-Acre Fire Causes $160# Loss Five hundred acres of woodland and marsh between Brown's creek' and Turnagin bay burned Thurs day and Friday. The fire was put out by E. M. Foreman, Obie Tur ner, both of Core Creek, and four members of the International Pulp company forest crew. Mr. Fore man is the county fire warden. Two hmdred of these acres were merchantable timber and young growth estimated at $1,600 in val ue. It is believed the fire was de liberately set. South River folks said oystermen from Belhaven are resoonsible. Mr. Foreman said that people try to burn off that marsh every spring and he always expects fires to occur, unfortunate as they are. The fire fighters were taken to the scene in Will Hardy's boat. South River, and they had to walk about a mile to reach the blaze. The fire was put out about 2 o'clock Friday afternoon by the use of back pumps and swatters. The property is owned by Mason beirs and the International Pulp company. Carteret county's own (lowering | plantation is just a short ride 1 northeast of Beaufort on route i 101. At Copeland Nurseries can, be found camellias to equal the beauty of any at Wilmington or Charleston, S. C. B. F. Copeland. owner and man 1 ager of the nursery, specializes in camellias, but also has a gen- 1 eral nursery stock and azaleas. Be- ? I cause of the warmth of this win | j ter Mr. Copeland expects his j camellias to stop blooming by the i end ol thi*. month. ^J genius. ? This chart will include the work j done by the Penny which covered the waters from inshore to 10 fath om? from Tubb's inlet north to Cap e Lookout, and also scattered courses north of Lookout and north of Hattcras at Wimble shoals. Color Key On the proposed charts, blue color will indicate clear water, ycl- j low will indicate trawlablc, waters but possibility of damaging nets, and red will show dangerous areas. Mr. Ellison stated that it is hoped arrangements can be made to have Dean Bumpas. ocean o grapher with the Woods Hole O ccanographic institute, come here for one month this summer to supervise sound hydrographic work. He will establish stations, Mr. j Ellison said, which will throw the most light on the effect of out pouring of sounds on occari cur- 1 rents. Legionnaires Hear Talk by C.L. Beam Veterans' benefits are greatly endangered by some of the recom mendations to Congress made by the Hoover commission, county veterans' service officer C. I,. Beam told Morehcad City Ameri can Legionnaires at their meeting Friday night in the Legion hut. Mr. Beam explained that if the recommendations of the Hoover commission concerning the Veter ans Administration are carried out the Veterans Administration would be split into five branches, thus making it more difficult for vet erans to get service from the gov ernment. The speaker asked each member of the Legion to acquaint himself with the Hoover report and also to write bis representatives in Con gress asking them to become fully familiar with all the rtmifici tions of measures carrying out the recommendations, before vot ing on them. County agent R M. Williams and assistant county agent A. W. Stni son explained 4-H work and a pro posed calf-pig chain for county ? II clubs. The men voted to en dorse any action taken by the county agent's officc in regard to a pig chain which has been of fered to 4-H members by Sears Roebuck company. II. S. Gibbs. jr., chairman of the Legion ticket committee for the (>lay. -It's a Date." disclosed that a profit of $95.20 had been realiz ed from the production. Heads Duke Drive Skinner A. Chalk. Moreheid City, has been named chairman of Duke University's third annual fund drive in this area. Goal for tht drive Is $130,000. Robert Morris, young pianist ol Atlantic. will appear as soloist when the North Carolina Little Symphony under the direction Oi Benjamin Swalin plays at Beau tor tonight at 8:30. Mr. Morris will be featured in Mozart's Allegro movement of the Concerto in D minor for piano and orchestra. The concert will be given in Beaufort high school au ditorium. Mr. Morris was named one of the winners of the annual audi tions contest held by the Sym phony society in Raleigh last fall His appearance as a soloist at an evening concert is a unique event. It is notable since Mr. Morris has played with the Little Symphony as a child soloist at aftcrnoov con certs in past seasons. His Beau fort concert marks his first season as an adult soloist with the North Carolina symphony. First Appearance in 194G Seventeen-year-old Robert firs appeared with the State symphony in the spring of 1946. after beinj. chosen a winner of the annual Symphony auditions for childrei that year. Last season Robert ap pearcd with the orchestra in New Bern and Smithfield to pby some of his original compositions at the children's concerts. Robert has studied with Mrs. Charles L. Abcrnathy, jr., of New Bern, as well as with Austin Con radi of the Peabody conservatory and Alfred Newstead. He studied at the .lulliard School of Music in the summer of 1948. In the com petition of the National Federa tion of Music clubs, Robert has received a superior rating for his work for many consecutive years. Interested in Composing Robert is interested in music not only as a pianist but also as a composer. lie hopes eventually to make composition his life work. Right now Robert lists his occupa tion as "high school." He will be graduated from Atla itic high school this spring. In high school he has been a class officer and manager of the basketball team. In his spare time he collects recordings and the lit erature of Charles Ives. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Mor ris of Atlantic. Warm Weather Brings Freaks Warm weather has produeed freak crops of young tobacco plants on several farms in the county. County Agent R M. Wil liams disclosed yesterday. He said il is extremely unusual for even one tobacco seed to take root of its own iiccord and producc a plant, mainly because cold weather ordinarily kills the seed before il has a chance to germi nate. Nevertheless, (his week at least half a dozen farmers reported that new tobacco plants had appeared on their farms, plants that had not been set out but had grown from seed of last year's crop. Some of the new plants meas ured as high as six or seven in ches and had leaves extending as far out as eight or ten inches. One farmer reported that an entire field had sprouted in new plants. He said he had enough of them to set out a crop of at least 100 acres. The most unusual instance was reported by Cecil Oglesby of Crab Point. He did not plant a tobacco crop at all last year yet this week found new plants coming up in fields where a crop had been plant ed two years ago Evidently the seed had remained in the ground for a year and a half before ger minating. None of the formers intend to use the new plants to begin their 1950 tobacco crop, Williams ex plained. Instead, they will use plants which have been set out in beds and nurtured with fertiliser to produce a better leaf. Old Pictures Wanted Persons having photogrkphs of state landmarks which were taken in the Tally 1900s are invited tc submit them to Carl Goerch for publication in The State. The pic tures should be mailed to Robert G. l.owe, manager. Morehead City chamber of commerce. They will be returned.