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Air Station Forestry Personnel
Keep Flames " Away from de Dooh 5
Cherry Point ? Forest fires are*
not only a problem to state offi
cials, but are a constant threat to
personnel on the massive Marine
Corps Air station here.
One morning not too long ago,
an emergency flare, fired to warn
pilots of impending landing dan
gers, struck a grassy section near
a runway here and exploded into
one of the largest forest fires ever
witnessed aboard this station.
Before the alarm had died down,
a small group of men in the station
forestry office were coordinating
the scores of men, tons of equip
ment and hundreds of gallons of
water that were needed at Hie
stricken area.
A few hours later, the alarm
sounded again. Another forest fire
had broken out in Havelock, endan
gering a -number of homes, includ
ing one which had just been built
by a local Marine.
The forestry office shifted Into
another gear. Weary, snyike
grimed men were pulled from ihe
Mill-raging station fire, positions
were juggled and equipment pulled
from areas where the flames had
died down. The men and fircfight
ing gear were rushed into Have
lock.
The Havelock fire was extin
guished in a short time, but it took
12 long, choking hours to put out
the onstation fire, which, without
proper handling, might have wiped
out Havelock and a goodly portion
of the base.
It's not often that the forestry
department is faced with two major
fires in one day. Fortunately, Tor
est fires aren't daily occurrences,
if they were, forestry's 47 personnel
would be ready.
Because forest fires constitute a
major hazard in this area of high!
octane gas and concentrated hous-j
ing projects, all of forestry's facili
ties are tuned for immediate action.
All personnel, regardless of daily
jobs, are rushed to fire scenes and
heavy tractors and 'dozers are kept
in top, ready-to-go condition.
Foresters receive fire-fighting
training from experienced govern
ment Forest Rangers, who travel
here to instruct them upon request.
In addition, the station fire depart
ment gives forestry smoke-eaters
lessons in how to combat fires.
As an added precaution, an
agreement has been reached with
the Federal Forest Service where
by Marine foresters will help com
bat forest fires in local areas. In
return, government foresters will
help with large on-sfcition fires, as
they did last February, and spot
crashey. ^ Often, forest rangers
nave spotted dur plane crashes and "
dispatched rescue parties before
local crashmen could reach the
scane.
When they're not fighting fires,
forestry personnel are divided into
three groups. All the groups are
under CWO F. A. Day, a busy man
who flaunts this multitude of titles:
Officer in Charge of Forestry,
Cherry Point Game Warden, Sta
tion Police Offieer, Wildlife Con
servation Officer, and, for off
hours. Scoutmaster for Cherry
Point Troop 82, Boy Scouts of
America.
Probably the best known and un
doubtedly the hardest working
group deals with daily landscaping
and forestry problems. This group,
under the guidance of T/Sgt. R. E.
Garrett, is 'responsible for the
transplanting of numerous shrubs
and trees around the station and
the maintenance of vast a?reas of
lawn.
In addition, the landscaping
group attends to four acres of nurs
ery stock at forestry headquarters,
conducts logging expeditions lor
the Public Works sawmill, fur
nishes firewood for various clubs,
operates a carpentry shop and is
sues tools to the various barracks.
Perhaps their most important
job is the saving of property and
wildlife before fires start ? and the
possible saving of pilots' lives be
fore crashes occur. To do this,
they continually cut fire lanes
through wooded areas. Such lanes
have repeatedly stopped raging
forest fires.
The lanes are planned for a dual
purpose. Besides acting as buffer
zones for fire?, they provide roads
of access to crash scenes. Forest
ers realise that the minutes saved
through use of these lanes might
mean the difference ^between life
NEWPORT
THEATRE
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY
Tuarrnrc coast guard
? with ?
BRIAN DONLEVY
and ELLA RAINES
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
"K 1AM ALL TIE WAT"
?with ? .
JOHN GARFIELD and
SHELLY WINTERS
SATURDAY
TRAIL"
?with?
WHIP WILSON
ud ANDY CLYDE
Sooth Seas Epic
Debra Paget and Louis Jourdan star in "Bird of Paradise," filmed
in Technicolor and coming to the Kast Drive-In theatre Thursday for
a two-night showing.
and death for some injured pilot. '
Forestry's second group deals
solely with wildlife conservation.
The group's main interest lies in
a fish hatchery on the station.
Hatchery personnel receive ship
ments of large-mouth bass and
bluegills from federal and state
fishing authorities. The fish are
nursed into acceptable table >izc. '
then turned loose in Hancock and '
Slocum creeks for the enjoyment
of local Isaac Waltons. '
Injured animals also fall into the <
hands of this group. Kept 'it the '
forestry buildings, the animals are '
nursed back to health, then turned '
loose. 1
S/Sgt. J. B. Earle bosses the
wildlife conservation crew. I
The third forestry department is ?
Gunner Day's pet peeve, station <
police. Perhaps this group's tunc- '>
t ions can best be explained by Day I
himself.
"Policing is one of forestry's big
gest headaches," he explains, "and ?
it's so unnecessary." I
"We have 19 TAD men from sta- I
tion squadrons who do nothing but i
pick up empty milk-shake cartons I
and lipstick smeared tissues I
thrown around by careless people. '
"Nineteen men means approxi
mately 500 man hours a week," he i
emphasized, "and 500 man hours i
could build a lot of fire lanes and 1
other things that are really i
needed."
He eoncluded by urging person
nel to use Dempster dumpsters and |
other trash receptacles. S/Sgt. C. ,
J. Kebman, NCOinC of station po- <
lice, added an "amen."
Aiding outdoor groups is a pel
hobby of local foresters, the ma
jority of whom were once forest
rangers, landscapists, or florists.
For instance. Cherry Point Boy
Scout troops always find the wel
come mat out at forestry. Aside
from explaining many wildlife won
ders to the kids, foresters also help
out with overnight camping trips,
hikes, etc.
But whether they are helping a
kid win a merit badge or fighting
desperately to control a fast-spread
ing forest fire, forestry personnel
have the same main objective:
keeping the outdoors a better jflace
for animals to live in and humans
to have fun in.
Water Pistols Banned
Kuala Lumpur (AP) It's dan
gerous even to carry a toy water
pistol in Malaya while there's a
war on against Red terrorists. You
could be sentenced to death. Under
the state of emergency, capital
punishment may be inflicted on
persons carrying unlicensed fire
arms. Although it might be diffi
cult to class a water pistol as^i
firearm, it's nevertheless an of
fense to possess one.
Western Union
Official Visits
B. G. Dopson, Western Union
district superintendent for North
rqrolina and Virginia, conferred ,
Friday with Glenn Adair, communi
cations chairman of the Beaufort
chamber of commerce, and agreed
to request the Federal Communica
tions commission to approve a re
vised hour schedule for the Beau
Fort Western Union office.
The revised schedule will be j
rrom 8:30 a.m. to noon, 1 to 4 p.m. |
and 5 to 6:30 p.m. At present the
jffice opens at 8:15 a.m., closes J
at noon and operates from 1 to 6
p.m. Monday through Saturday.
In regard to installation of
Western Union clock service, Dop
son stated that 50 customers would
t)e necessary to make it feasible
For his company to offer the serv
ice. Adair said that Western Union '
has 67 clocks in Greensboro and
he doubted that as many as 50 cus
lomers could be found in Beaufort.
The chamber of commerce chair
man said that he expected to con
fer soon with M. A. Temple, West
ern Union district manager, who
is expected in the county within
the next few days.
German States Accept
Free Schooling Policy
Frankfurt, Germany ? (AP) ?
The American idea of free school
ing for everybody has at last been
accepted by every state in the U.S.
zone of Germany. American offic
ials -have been preaching this idea
to the Germans for six years -
ever since the war. But progress
was slow until the last year. Then
state after state began to fall in
line. Wuerttemberg-Baden was the
last to yield. It finally passed the
law in August, 1951.
So far, however, it is only a
promise in Wuerttemburg-Baden.
Its law provides that the present
tuition fees will be reduced grad
ually every year for five years un
til they are wiped out in 1956.
Bavaria, also slow in adopting the
principle, has a law providing for
free tuition beginning with the
next school year. The free school
ing extends only through element
ary and high schools in most states.
But Hesse carries it clear through
the university.
Children must still pay tuition
in most of the British and French
zones.
Eyesight problems are found to
be four times as common in eighth
grade as in first grade.
SHOW STARTS AT DUSK
Two Mile* West of Morehead City On Route 70
TUESDAY ? WEDNESDAY
"ALONG THE
CHEAT DITODE"
KIRK DOUGI.AS
VIRGINIA MAYO
THURSDAY ? FRIDAY
"GOODBYE. NT F
JOAN CRAWFORD
ROBERT YOUNG
COMING SUNDAY AND MONDAY
KAXDOLPH SCOTT
? in ?
TORT WQBTH"
Plant Disease
Clinic Does
Rushing Business
Stale college's plant disease
clinic, formally organized this sum
mer for the first time, has been
doing a rushing business.
Farmers of the state, plagued by
crop diseases, have been sending in
plant specimens at the 1 rate of
; about 50 to 100 per week. Most
of these have been tobacco, which
| has been hard hK by black shank
and a number of other ailments.
J. II. Jensen, who heads up the
college's plant disease work, say*
that by the end of the season,
something like 1,500 letters cover
ing disease diagnosis will have been
written.
I Although free diagnostic and con
I sultation service has been available
on an informal basis for many
years, the plant disease clinic was
operated on a formal basis this
summer for the first time.
Under the new plan. 10 staff
members take turns at conducting
the clinic for a week at a time.
Their schedules are arranged to
avoid interference with their ex
I perimental and diagnostic work in
| the field. A trained plant patholo
gist has been on call during all
working hours.
Both farmers and disease spe
cialists like the idea so well that
the college will set up a full time,
permanent plant disease clinic be
ginning next year.
A special room for the work will
be set aside when the plant pathol
ogy section moves into the new
biological sciences building on the
campus next spring. It will be
equipped with microscopes and
other laboratory apparatus needed
in diagnosis. There will be mounts
and specimens of the different dis
eases, maps showing how the dis
eases have spread and where they
are most serious, and a display of
bulletins and other literature.
So far as is known, the new plant
disease clinic will be Ihe only one
in existence operating on a perma
1 nent schedule,
i
Agriculture Scientists Say
Freezing Tenderizes Meat -
Washington (AT) U. S. De- 1
partmcnt of Agriculture scientists
have announced that freezing
seems to make beef somewhat
more tender than unfrozen cuts.
R. L. Miner and O. G. Hankins
of the bureau of animal industry
report that they studied the ten
derizing effect df freezing on a
variety of representative cuts from
veal falves, 500-pound steers, 900
pound steers, three-year old barren
heifers, and 12-year-old cows. In
general, they said, natural tender
ness which decreases with age of
the animal, was increased by freez
ing.
In these experiments all the beef
was "aged" at temperatures just
above freezing. Tenderness was
measured by a mechanical shearing
device. After aging, samples from
the same animals were frozen and
tested after thawing.
EAST DRIVE-IN
THEATRE
Oae-Half Mile Eist of Beaufort
On nighwiy 7?
TWO SHOWS NIGHTLY
Also Selected Short Subject?
Children Under 12 Admitted Free
LAST TIMES TONIGHT
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JONG SOLMQN^
DEBORAH KE1-STEM GMGH|
WEDNESDAY
THC STOtT Of A MWSON LAW THAT PUT
A GUN M TMt HANDS Of A CONVICT
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THURSDAY ? FRIDAY
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REMEMBER!
EACH TUESDAY MI61T
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rim Stow Starts 7.-N F. M.
Tarmtor Krtin
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Your State and National Forest and
Park Services provide nice recrea
tion areas for YOU! ... be nice too !
?keep it green and clean!
College Revises
Circular on Hogs
The Slate College Extensive serv
ice's popular circular on "Raising 1
Hogs in North Carolina'' has just
I been revised and brought up to
I date, and single copies of the new j
publication are available on re- |
quest.
J Authors of the circular, which is
j 17 pat?#?s in length and is illus- i
trate:! with photographs and draw
ings. -are Jack Kellev, specialist in
charge of extension animal hus
bandry, and H. A. Stewart, in
charge of swine research.
' Kelley* and Stewart point out !
that the swine industry furnishes a*]
part of the food supply for most
North Carolina farm families and
the income from cash sales is of
considerable importance. Hogs,
they add, are grown in every Tar
Heel community and in 1950 the
state ranked second in the South
and 15th in the nationjn number |
Take
Ten ?
And
Relax
Any day . . . any hour . . . our
sodas, ice cream and other ]
sweets are sure to be just what |
you want and need!
Here you'll find anything found
at a first class fountain. Our
sandwiches are superb.
Morehead City Drug Co.
Arendrll St. Morehod City
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? WEDNESDAY ?
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BEAUFORT
THEATRE
Building Last
Month Costs $8,100
j Permits issued by A. B. Roberts,
building inspector (or Morehead
i City for the month of September
! show another slump in building ac
tivities. Estimated cost of new
buildings amounted to $8,700. Vliis
is a slight increase over the month
of August which had a total of only
$4.900.
Permits cover the buildings of
four small houses and a garage I
apartment, as follows: Clyde Ed
wards, Bay stree:, $300; C. H.
Piner, 14th street. $4f>0; H. K. Wil
liams, Bridges street. $2,400; J. W.
Guthrie, 10t)i street, $400; George
Merton, 23ri street, garage apart
ment, $2,400. Charles Markey.
building for a barber shop, $500.
of hogs produced.
The circular covers such points'
as selection of stock, sow testing,
management of the breeding herd,
care at farrowing time, feed re
quirements. shade, sanitation, and
preventing losses at marketing
lime.
Good pasture, say Kelley and
Stewart*, is the cheapest single
source of feed for hogs. On the
basis of experience and experimen
tal results,. Ladino clover is the
best single grazing plant for swine.
Single copies of "Raising liogs
in North Carolina " issued as Ex
tension Circular No. 238 (Revised),
may be obtained from the local
county agent or by writing the
Agricultural Editor, State College
Station. Raleigh.
Repairs: Mrs. Iona Ballou, $2,000
and B. D. Tillery. $250.
The corresponding month (or last
year show the issuing of permits
amounting to $76.400 with a total
for the first nine months of 1930
of $531,250. Total for the current
nine months is $398.584.?
Government restrictions went in
to effect Oct. 1 under the con
trolled materials plan which covers
many items of building material
for which special permits will have
to be obtained where any large
amount is needed. The start of
government restrictions is net ex
pected to effect building now up
der construction.
Squash Salad
For a different kind of salad
scrub Zucchini squash clean but lo
not peel; slice and cook briefly
just until tender-crisp. Drain and
marinate in French dressing before
serving on salu i greens.
[? CITY ?} ?->^
Mitchum
r Jane Russell
'His Kind
oi Woman"
WEDNESDAY
ESTHER WILLIAMS
"Three Husbands"
TIIIIRS ? FRI.
"I WAS A
COMMUNIST
FOR THE
FBI"
Because of difference? in eleva
tion, New Mexico has climates com
parable to the lower Hudson Bay
area and to that of New Orleans.
? M0BEHEAD?
Last Times Today
GREGORY PECK
"CAPTAIN
HORNBLOWEH"
WED.-THUES. FRI.
EDMUND O'BRIEN
DEAN JAGGER
"WAR PATH" .
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HAVE FUN . . .
DOWN OUR WAY
Enjoy i relaxing evening at
Bowling. It tones you up . . .
keeps you nice and fit. Make
it a habit. Start tonight. We're
open late.
For your added pleasure
we have a completely stock
ed refreshment bar.
The Idle Hoar
"Just For Fun"
ATLANTIC BEACH, N. C.
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