Carteret County News -Times
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A Successful Week Closes
Yesterday concluded the week-long County-Wide Cle?n-Up
campaign. The week slipped by rapidly but in that abort
span some notable things were started, if not brought to con
clusion.
The Beaufort town board appointed a sanitation board of
review to assist the county health department in getting as
many persons as possible to connect their homes to sanitary
sewers.
State highway trucks started to clear sides of highways of
rubbish, trash, and bottles.
Atlantic Beach commissioners were negotiating to find new
property on which to dump trash, to allow moving of the
, present visible dump.
New yellow trash cans will be moved soon to downtown
Beaufort.
The Beaufort town commissioners authorized the purchase
of wire baskets for disposal of trash in Ocean View cemetery,
and a perpetual care program there was approved.
Arrival of the asphalt spreader in Morehead City means
that dirt streets will be treated and housewives will find their
homes easier to Keep clean the whole year 'round.
Perhaps the "clean up" project which will have the health
iest and most far-reaching effect, if carried through, is the salt
marsh mosquito control program launched Friday night at the
Free Will Baptist church in Davis. At suggestion of the coun
ty health department a committee of residents of each eastern
Carteret community was appointed. Unfortunately, a mos
quito spraying program hoped for in Morehead City last year
was not carried through. If the down-east folks are successful,
perhaps Morehead City and points west can follow suit.
Yesterday youngsters in all schools participating in the
clean-up program were asked to return questionnaires where
on they were askd to state whether or not they helped rid
their homes of heaps of trash, cleaned the premises, and how
many hours they spent in the work.
Carteret's first County-Wide Clean-Up campaign can cer
, tainly be termed a success. Although suggested by THE
NEWS-TIMES, the county health department, Dr. N. T. Ennett,
health officer, and A. D. Fulford, sanitarian, deserve the credit
for carrying it through. To the schools, private residents, busi
nessmen who offered money-saving clean-up bargains, the
state highway department, and town fathers, we ei^end a
hearty thank you for full cooperation.
A Dock and 'Beaufort Bay'
With display of some enterprising energy aud a bit of
.capital, the water area in the back part of Beaufort to the
east of Gallants channel between the Fishmeal factory and
west Beaufort bridge, could become a haven for small fishing
boats and pleasure craft.
Because that area, known as Gallant's creek, is protected,
it is a natural as a safe harbor. Small trawlers anchor there
now, but without dockage space none other than fishermen,
particularly fishermen who live in the immediate area, are
drawn to it.
A small amount of dredging and a T-dock would make it
possible for small boats of this area and passing-through boats
to tie up. This isn't a new idea. Any Beaufort resident who
has close contact with the water and related industries has
' probably thought of the possibilities there. Years ago George
Taylor suggested to Beaufort Jayceet that they raise money
to build a dock and go through the necessary channels to get
areuging aone.
It sounds like a big undertaking, but if completed, the dock
would probably pay for itself several times over in a 10-year
period. One of the local oil dealers would be interested, no
doubt, in talking installation of gasoline tanks and pump.
Eventually a marine railways could be installed where a boat
owner could put his boat up, pay a small fee for using the
ways, and do his own scraping, painting, or tinkering. That
would appeal mainly to local boat owners.
v Beaufort recalls with nostalgia the many pleasure craft
"that used to, tie up here." The reason they don't any more b
because Beaufort's "front" waterfront is always full of com
mercial boats and there's no place for pleasure craft to go for
fresh water, gasoline or even any kind of rentable dockage
space.
In our opinion Gallant's creek is one of the prettiest nooks
of water in Carteret county ? from a distance. Clow up one
can see a few blemishes. The head of it, east of the west Beau
fort bridge is being filled in with sawdust, and along the shore
there is the usual flotsam and jetsam that collects at the
waterline. Since the town has stopped dumping garbage along
?the west and north shores, however, the situation has brighten
ed considerably.
One may believe that a dock the type of which we are
thinking, located on the south side of the creek and accessible
from town, would operate best as a private enj^rise. That
may be true, but the Jaycees may be the NRn medium
through which to work insofar as dredging is concerned. By
doing work themselves, they can cut labor coats, and with
their business connections, they can maneuver lower prices on
materials.
The Jaycees have done two.big jobs recently for the school,
institution of football and lighting the ball park. They have
sunk a couple thousand dollars in those projects. We're in no
, position to state whether this dock project would coat less but
it probably wouldn't cost more if the Jaycees donated their
labor and promoted the enterprise as a civic project. We feel
it bears investigation. The Jaycees have done the lion's share
for the school, perhaps they would be interested now in turn
ing their attention to a project with wider scope.
Of course, this dock-space idea goea hand in hand with
over-night accommodations for boating tourists. It's difficult
which to say should come first. But the night lodging project,
with a new hotel in mind, has been kicking around for a long
time and perhaps the thing to do would be to get the people
here first and then the demand for more overnight accommo
dations would create the impetus to bring those accommoda
tions into being.
Hard work and a couple thouaand dollars, plus ? new .
name, "Beaufort Bay" for Gallants creek, may be the gim
mick that will restore Beaufort as one of the better place*
to stop overnight while traveling the inland waterway.
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Sou'easter
BY CAPTAIN HENRY
All the town equipment is being
painted yellow ? even Sam's
wheelbarrow. The uniform color is
making us look as though we really
have some municipal equipment to
look out for?
The police car isn't yellow ? yet.
It was suggested the other day that
it be painted green and white. The
suggestion came from a sixth grad
er at Beaufort school.
Among the pretty gardens here
about are George Brooks's, in the
spring when the azaleas, camellias,
and wisteria are blooming; Snow
den Thompson's rose gardenCpaint
ted buntings visit the Thompson's
back yard ? you know those birds
that the Carolina Bird club comes
here to look for on occasion), and
John Staton's aide yard is right at
tractive. The tulips there several
weeks ago were pretty as a picture.
Right now the best I can do, it
seems, is raise a bumper crop o f
sand spurs.
"Who are those beautiful little
youngsters?" asked a stranger of
a little boy
, "They're the doctor's kids," re
plied the lad. "He always keeps
the best ones for himself."
Voter to Senator: You promised
me a job!
Senator: But there are no jobs.
Voter: Well you said you'd give
me one.
Senator: Tell you what I'll do.
I'll get a commission appointed to
investigate why there aren't any
jobs and you can work on the com
mission.
With summer upon us it's hard
to recall those days just a while
back when everyone was sneezing
and rushing to the drug store for
the cold remedies. Remember?
A couple of germs were hititng
Words to Remember
Booker T. Washington, Ameri
can educator (1858-1915): One les
son that I have learned is this:
great men cultivate love, only little
men cherish a spirit of hatred. I
have also learned the assistance
given the weak makes the one who
gives it strong; and that oppression
of the unfortunate makes one weak.
I have resolved that I will permit
no man, no matter what his color
might he, to narrow and degrade
my soul by making me hate him.
Joe Willard Krecker, editorial
writer, Harrisburg, Pa.: Mounting
tax burdens are a sign of danger,
a proof that all is not well. Exces
sive taxes usually are the rock
upon which government is wreck
ed. It concerns us all from a moral
and patriotic standpoint.
it up on a bronchial honeymoon.
Two bugs on the edge of the larynx
were jazzing a ragtime tune; while
back of the teeth in a solo game,
sat dangerous Dan Kerchoo, and
watching him admiringly was the
light of his life, that lady known
as Flu.
Cell Inmates Become Eager
For Death in Russian Prison
By William L. Ryu
Lot of Two Article*
Rome. (AP) ? A political prison
er in a Soviet prison soon becomes
ready, and even eager, for death
to end his physical and mental tor
ture.
"11 they brought my own death
warrant to me and said to me,
'Here is your death warrant,' I
would have signed it gladly to end
the torture," aays Claudio De Mohr,
Italian diplomat who was a pris
oner for six years.
The long procession of Com
munist confessions, looked upon by
the civilized world as a phenome
non, is no mystery to De Mohr. He
confessed. He tells why:
De Mohr was released late in
1BS0 from Soviet detention which
began when he was captured in
Bulgaria in 1M4. He and IX other
Italians were placed in Lefortovo
prison.
In Lefortovo, as in all Soviet
prisons, everything out of the ordi
nary is done by night, suddenly,
without previous warning: the
Marches, the questionings, even the
infrequent shower baths.
Itenrrf Grill tags
Suddenly, 1b the desd of night,
men snd women guards descend
upon a cell, with strong lights
which blind prisoners accustomed
to perpetual semi-darkness. The
prisoners ? there are three to a cell
?are required to strip naked and
stand with faces to the wall while
guards go through the cell.
But this Is not the worst. The
most dreaded occurrence Is the sud
den questioning.
De Mohr went through three in
terrogations. Each lasted for
nights on end, sometimes for
weeks, without letup. Here Is how
it went:
At 10 p.m.. all prisoners were
required to lie on their bunks for
the night. Suddenly st 11 p.m.,
guards would swoop down. The un
lucky prisoner wss taken off to
the prison office for interrogation.
How ItMWsi Gees
The first interrogation estab
lishes the biography. Where were
you born? What were the names
of your father, your mother, your
relatives? What were your fath
er's political views at the time?
What did your parents talk about
in those days? What did your
family reed? What did their
------
friends read and say? What were
the names and addresses of all your
friends and relatives from the timtf
of your childhood?
Many of the questions were ludi
crous and impossible to answer,
but the reply "I don't remember"
is not accepted. This questioning
can go on for many days. But it is
not yet the real thing.
For De Mohr the real thing came
when the questioning got into the
period of his service as a diplomat
in Sofia, where he was press at
tache. The Russians demanded a
full list of his informants, a full
list of every person he knew in
Bulgaria, a full description of all
his "spying" activities. Everybody
questioned is considered a spy.
Each day at dawn he was taken
back to his cell. During the day
it is forbidden to sleep. He was
allowed to ait down or to stand up
or to pace the tiny aisle between
the wooden bunks of the cell. But
he could not Ik down. If he fell
asleep sitting down, the guard
awakened him roughly.
Ready to Sign Anything
At the end of two weeks of this
treatment, without sleep and with
food rations cut, the prisoner is no
longer able to understand what is
happening. He is not capable of
thinking clearly. Toward the end
of the treatment, when the prison
er is signing the confession, he is
actually temporarily insane, De
Mohr says.
The worst questioning for De
Mohr came In IMS, conducted by
a man the prisoners called "the
terrible commissar," whose name
was Purenkov. At one point in the
endless questioning, Purenkov's
tone suddenly changed to wheed
ling, and the questioning went like
this:
Q. What would you do U you
were suddenly freed?
A. I have no hope of getting
out of here.
Q. Well, just suppose you did
get out What then?
A. I don't know. I suppose I
would do anything I could to make
a living. v
Q- Ha, ha! You have "L'Oncle
Sam." (He said it la French).
A. What do you mean?
Q. I mean the Americans. You
can go to America. You can join
their service. They will give you
manay, as automobile, aa apart
ment, anything you want. (Dc
Mohr was puzzled. Where was all
this leading. Suddenly Purenkov's
tone changed again and he became
furious).
"You will be damned carelul!
You must decide between them and
us." He paused. Then he shouted :
"But it doesn't matter. In 1951 we
will settle accounts."
Did Korea Change It?
This was in IMS, before Korea.
Perhaps, says De Mohr, something
has happened since then to change
the Russian mind. Perhaps it was
only the braggadocio of a minor
bully.
Sometimes a prisoner is tough.
The Russians explain that they
have plenty of time and plenty of
experience with tough cases. They
break all of them. Sometimes the
questioning is wheedling. Some
times there are blows. Sometimes
the guard grinds his heel into the
toes of the prisoner. Always there
is the threat of the "kartsa," a
tomb like box in the cellar, with no
food for days at a time in tbe freez
ing cold.
After completion of the interro
gation, there is a written report,
in Russian. If a prisoner does not
know Russian, he must take the
interpreter's word for what is in it.
It runs anywhere from 20 to 70
pages, and the prisoner must sign
each page.
The Road Home
In September 1090, the prisoners
were summoned before an import
ant looking official who might have
been Beria. For the first time in
aix years, they met their colleagues
and were unable to recognise them.
One of tbe prisoners was told
his wife had died in prison in 1IM5.
They told him it wss cancer. He
said it was impossible, but there
was nothing to be done about it.
The terrible Purenkov told them
there had been a revolution in Italy
and that Palmiro Togliatti now was
head of the "Italian People's Re
public." The prisoners feared then
they were going home to Commun
ist trial and death. But they were
supplied with Russisn papers on
the trip west, and from the at
tacka in them on Italian govern
ment officials, they knew it could
not have been so. The prisoners
were taken to Vienna, and after
much Soviet red tape, seat borne to
Italy.
ON THE HOUSE
BY DAVID a BAAKUTHEX
(Last of Four Article* on Finishing Attkf)
ONE OF THE BIGGE8T problems in converting a storage attic into
living space is the provision of adequate light and ventilation. If a house
is small ? of the Cape Cod type, for example ? and only one or two
additional rooms are to be created with a stairway more or less centrally
located, double windows at each end of the boose may suffice. In this
case the stairwell would be artificially lighted. Cross ventilation could
only be obtained by leaving the doors of each room open.
However, that is a bare minimum alteration. When attic finishing
contemplates the addition of an upstairs bath and a center hall, more
windows are necessary. With a pitched roof, these windows can only
be provided by building out dormers.
Modern houses built with expansion attics usually have dormer win
dows already constructed. Whether you have enough of them is another
matter, since dormers are relatively expensive to build. They involve
painstaking framing, meticulous carpentry and careful flashing to keep
them weathertight.
The two general types of dormer windows are the gabled and the
shed styles. Gabled dormers usually look the best on the front of a cot
tage and involve less risk in altering the design of the facade. But being
comparatively narrow inside, they provide only enough headroom for
reaching the window.
A SHED DORMER, on the other hand, ean be almost as wide as the
house and literally raises the roof, adding considerable headroom to the
interior. It is easier to build and can provide as many windows as you
want to squeeze in.
Shed dormers are usually built on the back of a house, because in
front they tend to change the entire appearance of a facade and can turn
a cottage into a two-story house. Front shed dormers can be most suc
cessfully built with an architect's guidance to produce a unified design.
In such cases wide shed dormers both front and back have transformed
small houses into good-sized dwellings.
The widest shed dormers are usually started about 2 feet in from the
rakes of the roof and about equal dj^nce or more up from the eaves.
- ? '
Start of framing for a shed dormer, showing skeleton of studs and
rafters before old roof is removed and remaining framing members
arc placed 16 inches on centers. 1 ? New sole plate. 2 ? Doubled end
rafter. 3 ? Studs. 4 ? Top plate. S ? Rafters, nailed to ridge and notch
ed over top plate.
This tends to hide a rear shed dormer from street view, maintains the
original roof line at the gable ends and provides a low knee wall under
the windows.
FRAMING for this type of roof-lifting involves a doubling of end
rafters ? that is, the first rafter in from each end of the main roof. A
new sole plate to support the framing studs of the dormer's front wall
is then laid out on the attic floor along a chalkline where the new knee
wall will rise. This sole is carefully measured off and marked every
15 inches on centers for studs. The sole is then nailed to the attic floor
structure with 16-penny (16d) nails).
End studs or corner posts are then raised from the sole, through holes
cut in the roof, and nailed squarely upright to the doubled rafters. Other
studs are similarly raised, except where window openings will occur,
and they are nailed with 8d nails to existing rafters. This framing is
surmounted with a double plate of 2 by 4s. Cripple studs, under win
dows. window sills and window headers are installed and the front wall
framing of the new dormer is complete.
Holes are then cut every 4 feet along the ridge to accommodate new
rafters. These members will be 2 by 6s. They are cut at ends diagonally
to square with the aide of the ridgeboard, angle depending on the pitch,
and notched to fit over the front top plate with enough overhang remain
ing for adequate eaves.
When one rafter is cut to fit, it is used as a pattern for the rest.
One rafter every 4 feet on centers i> then nailed in place with lOd nails.
This gives a skeleton frame for removing the old roof within the dormer
space.
BEFORE CUTTING any of the old rafters or starting to remove th<>
roof, the ridge is supported temporarily by 2 by 4 props or adjustable
jackposts. Shingles are then taken off by starting at the ridge and re
moving one course at a time.
With the sheating, or shingle lath bared, it can be salvaged for re
use. A good way to do this is to drive the old nails through with a nail
set. This should prevent cracking of sheathing boards. With the ridge
firmly propped, the old rafters are sawed out near their ends and the
remaining butts at U.e ridge are pried off with a crowbar.
Remaining rafters and studs are then installed; sheathing and roof
ing are applied; window frames and all flashing installed; insulated and
siding are added and you are ready to finish the interior walls.
ANY SPACE that remains between roof and ceiling in an attic fin
ishing job must be kept thoroughly ventilated. Sunlight on a roof quick
ly superheats the air under a roof and unless that attic space Is amply
ventilated attic rooms can become unbearable, almost no matter how
much insulation is used.
If it Is necessary to acreen ventilating louvers to keep out squirrels
or birds, it is wise to use nothing finer than quarter-inch net. If you
want to use insect screening, figuTe on msking the louver space twice
the size needed, for such wire cloth cuts down air movement by one-half.
In The Good Old Days
THIRTY-THREE YEARS AGO
G. D. Cantield was elected mayor
of Morehead City. Commlsaloners
were G. L. Arthur, Kllby Gutbrle,
W. R. Wade, W. W. Roberta and
H. C. Davia.
The county board of education
met Present were Dr. C. N. Ma
?on, Dr. Ben Royal, C. P. Dey and
secretary of the board, L. B. En
nett. They decided that Beaufort
high school would be permitted to
employ an additional teacher next
term and salariea would be in
creased.
C. H. Bushali waa elected Mayor
of Beaufort Commlaskmera were
Dr. C. L. Duncan, W. A. Mace, J.
H. Whitehurst, A. F. Doane and
G. D. Potter.
TWENTY-FIT* YEARS AGO
D. M. Jam was atoeUd mayor
of Beaufort. Newly-elected com
mix loners were E H. Potter, J. J.
Whitehurst. C. T. Chadwick, R.
Hugh Hill and Holoway Mason.
A delegation of Morehead City
resident* appeared before the
county board of education^nd ask
ed it to approve an appropriation
of $65,000 for a new school build
ing.
Luther Hamilton was re-elected
mayor of Morehead City. Commis
sioners were Charles H. Freeman,
Durwood B. Willis, Gilbert Willis,
Dr. K. P. B. Bonner and W. M.
Webb.
TEN YEARS AGO
Beaufort high school held Its
graduation this week. Senior class
president, Bobby Stephens received
the junior chamber of commerce
award far ciUunship. Mils Mary
TODAY'S
BIRTHDAY
JOSEPH HOWARD McCON
NELL, bora May 13, IMC, at Ches
ter, S. C, son of s college dean.
rresiaeni 01 um
National Broad
casting co., he
has had charge
of the expansion
brought about
b y television.
Graduate of the
University of
Virginia Law
school, where
he was football
coach and scout.
he became a member of the legal
staff of the NRA during the de
pression.
r? THEY MAKE SEWS .
| STAMPS I
By Syd Kronlsh
THE NEW KINGDOM of Laos
one of the component parts of
French Indo-China ? has issued a
series of new stamps emphasizing
the charm and beauty of its women.
There are four stamps for regular
postage and three airmails. They
ate bi-oolored and bi lingual. The
airmails are very large and show a
lovely Oriental girl with a weaving
loom. Six postal tax stamps de
picting a temple were also issued.
TO COMMEMORATE the 500th
anniversary of the birth of Leo- 0
nardo Da Vinci, Italy has issued a
new stamp which bears a reproduc
tion of Da Vinci's famed self por
trait. This brown-orange adhesive
is 25 lire. As is customary, the
same stamp was overprinted AMG
FTT for use in the Free Territory
of Trieste.
PORTUGUESE explorers sailed
the seven seas and left behind
them a fabulous history of adven
ture and discovery. Some of these
men appear on a new series of
stamps from Cape Verde, a Port*
guese island colony off the west
coast of Africa. Eight of the
stamps bear portraits of the ex
plorers in pairs. Two of tke stamps
illustrate maps, reports the New
York Stamp co. ?
BOLIVIA has issued a set of
six airmails and six regulars hon
oring Eduardo Abaroa, a miner
who led the people against a
Chilean invasion in 1879. He was
killed in the fighting. Later a
statue of him was erected in the
capital. La Faz. Each of the
stamps in this series shows Abaroa,
with rifle raised, as he appeared
during the battle.
TO COMMEMORATE the 200th
anniversary of the founding of the
Vienna Zoological Gardens, Aus
tria has issued a 1.50 schilling
stamp, reports Edwin Mueller. Thii
dark green stamp shows the
"Breakfast Pavilion" of the Zoo,
which is located ill the gardens of
the former imperial palace of
Schoenbrunn. The frame of the
stamp consists of palm-type
branches which hold nine differ
ent animals.
Lou Mason and Spicer Norwood
were presented the American Le
gion awarda by J. Raymond BalL
?
Dr. W. L. Woodard, chief lir
raid spotter, announced a new
schedule for watchers. Ladiee
would watch from 7 a.m. to 5 pjn..
Boy Scouts from 5 to T pjn. tad
individual men at night
The first fatality because of the
dim-out in Beaufort occurred when
a cyclist hit a car.
FIVE YEARS AGO
A. H. Craig was elected mayor
of Newport and commiuioiiert
were David McCain. C. E. lUllis,
Henry Edwards, V. M. Rhue and
H. A. Wilton.
Lewie, David Jones
rill.