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{ Defense Director Seeks 'Watchers' Edward S. Nelson, county civil defense director, reported today that volunteers are Hill being sought for Operation gkywatch. Persons are needed to scan the hcivens and report on planes, the direction they are flying, the speed, and wtyat kind of aircraft they are. This is part of a nationwide pro gram started in July to fill the gaps in the country's radar system. In charge of the program in the county is Charles Hassell, Beau fort. who informed Nelson that he had received no volunteers to date. Nelson said that some persons have told him they could "help out" on one night or another, and he was glad to receive their cooperation, but added that many more volun teers who can offer a definite time for skywatching are needed. Nelson said that with the close of the summer season he hoped that there would be more interest in Operation Skywatch. "Who knows, we may latch on to some flying saucers!" declared the civilian defense director. Terminal (Continued from Page 1) the Army corps of engineers for permission to build a 700-foot pier with a 695-foot tee. Several Objections Objections to the proposed proj ect came from several quarters, however. Navy interests could not agree, part of the, area had already been leased to the Navy for a land ing ship dock, and it was also re ported that the state frowned upon a development so close to the More head City port which could jeopar dize expansion, if necessary, of the state port facilities. In the application to the Army corps of engineers last year, Avia tion Fuel Terminals asked permis sion to build a steel piling pier 1,230 feet south of the northeast point of the present turning basin, the pier to be 702 feet long and 19 feet wide. The turning basin was specified at 95 feet wide, 1,300 feet long and the depth 32 feet. Hog Cholera (Continued from Page 1) Fescue pastures. He said, "I cer tainly hope that we can continue to move forward in this direction. As more pastures are developed, we can expect a greater buildup In our livestick population. A greater livestock program always furnishes a better balanced farm program." Several Carteret county farmers have increased their herds of regis tered Hereford beef cattle, accord ing to Williams. Dyon Simpson has purchased a polled registered bull. I)r. Luther Fulcher has purchased nine registered heifers and a bull. Leonard Safrit bought six bred heifers, and Murray and Bill Pi gott bought two heifers. Highway Patrol Transfers Sgt. Sprnill to Fayettovillo Sgt. V. L. Sprnill of the State Highway patrol, New Bern, has been promoted to .technical ser geant and transferred to Fayette ville Sergeant Spruill was ?t? tioned in Carteret county prior to his transfer to New Bern. Sgt. C. L. Teague. Charlotte, has been transferred to New Bern. He was recently promoted from the rank of corporal. ? ? ? v ? 11 . 1 1 ; - Plant Scientists Detitettip New Grass for Livestock Better grass for the range (center) was produced by crossing blue wild rye (I.) with squirrel tail grass (r.) By Rennie Taylor Berkeley, Calif. (AP) ? Scientists have produced in the laboratory some new species of grasses which they believe will grow wild on the range, competing ^a^^nst weeds and -bruttt arid providing new sources of livestock feed. Plant breeding In the laboratory usually results in varieties which need cultivation or at least watch ful supervision of humans. The idea of a bred plant that can do better than hold its own against the tough vegetation of arid wastes is a forward step in man's effort to control natural processes. Plants Change These new types, like many natural varieties, apparently have a built-in ability to fit themselves into different environments. Seed from a single variety, sown in one locality, eventually yield offspring varying slightly from those produced by the identical seed in another location. Each kind seemingly works toward becoming better adapted to the place or ihe climate in which it started lo grow. This is one of the fruits o| ex periments in which scientists learn ed how to make sterile hybrids fer tile. Dr. G. Ledyard Stebbins, jr., geneticist in the University of Cal ifornia College of Agriculture, tells about it. Hybrids, or crosses between one kind of living thing and another, usually are sterile. Using two dif ferent methods, Dr. Stebbins and associates induced fertility into several types of plant crosses. Hybrid Produced One was a cross between blue wild rye and squirrel tail grass. The natural rye plant does well in the California foothills but can not stand drouth. Squirrel tail grass is drouth resistant but has spikes on it that makes it danger ous for stock feed. The result of the ^ross was a plant resembling blue jvild rye that was drouth re sistant and had spikes less formid able than squirrel tail grass. These first crosses were sterile ? seedless. Dr. Stebbins propa gated them by cutting off stems and stocks and coaxing them to grow, alongside some of the parent blue wild rye plants. This association with the parent evidently did some good. Among 48,000 blossoms produced by the second-generation hybrids the ex perimenters found a single potent seed. The lone seed produced a plant with a few more good seeds. From those beginnings the new plant has grown successfully in several places and it stands to become a new spe cies of forage grass, Dr. Stebbins said. The geneticist also reported on another way of producing fertile new plant types. It is lone by doubling the number of chromo somes or heredity carriers in plant cells. Poison Helped Colchicine, a poison derived from a common plant, is used to bring this about. The poison interferes with cell division, the basic me chanism of growth. It does not, however, interfere with the process by which a cell doubles the number of its chromosomes just before di viding. ? A colchicine poisoned cell keeps on working internally. Its chromo somes reproduce themselves uulit thus has a double set of heredity carriers. Under certain conditions this dvergrown cell will shake off the effects of the poison, again double its chromosomes and :livide into two cells, each of which will have twice as many heredity carriers as the parent cell before it was poisoned. These new double-heredity cells continue to reproduce fheir kind indefinitely and they build them selves into a plant resembling that of their untreated ancestors but having important differences. The process has been used to improve grapes, bananas, pineap ples. But it can also increase the chances for producing a fertile hy brid in case it is crossed with some other species of plant. It multi plies the probabilities for the pair ing-off of chromosomes from cells of another plant species Into a com bination that wil| produce a new type of individual. ABSENTEE BALLOTS FOB VOTERS 01 THE AHMED FORCES NOW BEING MAILED All AkudM Voters Mud B? At Least 21 Years Oi Age Any tbiralN voter whose permanent residence it in Carteret county may secure a ballot by writing the CARTERET COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS, or by having the letter of request written by and, signed by his father, his Mothet, his brother, his sister or his wife. Each letter must state the absentee voter's regular Voting Precinct, state his full military address, and, if written by other than himself state re lationship of the writer to the absentee voter. BALLOTS ARE MAILEB MIECT TO THE VOTEH EXCEPTION: Applications fee civilian absentee ballots will not be accepted before October 1. CARTERET COUNTY BOARD or ELECTIONS , . mnwT.Ec 1 Wood Products company hat re ported, that three recent ad* in THE ttEWg-TIMEH brought him $990 worth of dullness A contractor who had never before heard of the eoaapany bought MO worth of clear eypreas after It was advertised. He also purchased other material worth Aiidtlrr ad for porch decking brought sale* totalling 1600. A third ad sold $200 worth of f oar-melt roofing. Peuej* store in New Bern acid five suits as a result of one ad. these stilts were advertised caiiusivvij lu i nr. urn.T TIMES. Court (Continued from Page 1) was sentenced to six months on the roads {or drunken driving and causing an accident. Th? sentence was suspended on condition that he pay $12? and costs. The prose cuting witness will receive $29 for damages to his car. Ralph Willard Riggs was fined $25 and costs for driving with an improper muffler and with no driv er's license. Franklin K. Brinson i paid costs for operating a truck with improper lights. Fined $50 Roy Bratcher was fined $50 and costs for speeding. Ernest Brown paid $10 and costs for careless and reckless driving. James O'Neal paid costs for passing a stop sign. Clifford Reels was fined $25 and costs for driving with an improper ! license. James L. Goldtn paid costs 1 ior the same offense. I Luther Glover was fined $10 and costs for public drunkenness. Har vey A. Dagenhart was fined the same amount for being drunk and disorderly and resisting arrest. Hi ram Springle paid costs for disturb ing the peace and being drunk in a public place. Charge Nol-prossed The prosecution nol-prossed with | leave the assault charge against Elton Smith. Cases were continued against Lowell Ray Hacker, Primrose Ma son, Haritte Thompson, Odell Ply mouth Mason, Charles Taylor Hen derson, Elbert Thomas, Francis Arthur, Harold O. Powell, Cecil Merrill, and George Worthy. Bonds were forfeited by James 1 Stanley McCluskey, Lillian Pitt- < man, Johnnie Lockie and John W. , Tyson. Ex-Preside id Receives Pin At Beanforl Rotary Meeting > Glenn Adair, president of the Beaufort Rotary club, presented the pnst president's pin to James Davis at the meeting Tuesday night. Davis served as president of the club during the year 1950-51. Adair conducted an informal qui/ program on New Zealand which has more Rotarians per unit of population than any other coun try in the world. Guests at the meeting were Al vah Hamilton, sr., D. Cordova and Grady Rich of Morehead City and Edward Peterson of Clinton. ? ? n .,1 ... . . ? Newport Seniors Have p Arrived * Have you ever been very happy to receive an honor that you have long looked forward to? I'm sure you have and I'm sure that you can imagine the excitement art happi ness that we felt that bright Sep tember mornihg oi the second. We were no longer tip riling senior class on this big .morning of un lives. We were "The SMot, Class." We, the senior class of New|)ort high elected our class officers on this day. They ate president, Prances Craig; vice-president, Billy Widgeon; secretary, Rachel Sun dine; treasurer, Ray McCain, and reporter, Jackie Edwards. On these we have placed the re sponsibility of leading us through a succefiful year. A year m which we wish to put forth all efforts to wards getting a school annual, hav ing a successful senior play and sponsoring a number of dances to rais? funds. We are also looking forward to a trip to Washiufton, D. C? which at the present is only a dream. We were very delighted to wel come two new students Into our class. They are Glenda Parrlsh from Harnett county and Marianne Baldwin who comes to us from a Junior college III Salemburg. lift txnciAHcr or us. maus tnm Wfimreu nihvw I ? ? ? * ii ? i . ? | 5. KOHL -EE. An AP Newifeature* Pictograph If you are o baby the*# days you con oxpoct to livo much longer than grandpa did, on the average. But these Metropoli tan Life figures show that if you are grandpa now, your overage future life will not be much longer, on the average, than was that of your own grandfather. Agricultural Leaders Will Meet Thursday Carteret county agriculture lead ers, leaders in education and in | other fields will attend a North Carolina Accepts the Challenge meeting at the home agent's of fice, court house annex, Beaufort, at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon, Sept. 11. Attending the meeting will be C. S. Mintz, district farm agent, and John Crawford, program planning specialist, extension service, Ral eigh. Invitations to the meeting were mailed this week. "North Carolina Accepts the Challenge" is a program launched by state agricultural interests to improve farming in North Caro lina. Next Thursday's meeting is the fourth that has been held in this county since the program got under way the beginning of the year. The Snick Everyone Loves Home from school and straight to th? milk! No toodarl It tastes so (well and packs juit the right vitamins and energy young bodies need and grow on. Welcoifce your young sters the healthy and Ah, so delicious way ? with a glass of MAOLA milk . . . and leave loads more for "isMMidt." Order from us or from your favorite grocer. Maola Dairy Bar Phope 6-3434 N. 18th St Morehead City, N. C. Sculptor Does Impossible; Makes Porcelain Figures Visalia Calif. (AP)? Experts told Mrs. Hester Sibley it was impossi ble to hand-sculpture porcelain fig ures, but they were a little late with their advice ? she had al ready made a hobby of it. Porcelain is a little harder to work with than ceramic clay, said Mrs. Sibley, because it dries out faster and requires a higher tem perature for baking. But she found nothing impossible about hand scupturing her beautiful figurines. Her pieces- of porcelain retain sharper detaH than ceramics and also 'have a pleasing translucent appearance. Spitsbergen is bleak, mountain ous and more than half covered with perpetual ice, says the Na tional Geographic Society. / " School Boys and Girls ... Typewriter* will help you to do your work fatter and neater. Your teacher appre ciate* typewritten as aifnment* b e c a u * e they are ea*y to grade. And if your typing ability is lack ing, practice at home will greatly increase your speed and Ac curacy. We have PerUkU aai Standard typewriters. > ?W and WED POB SALE or rOB BERT . Owen G. Dunn Company Phone 3197 N?w Barn lit - x ? On our high school (acuity we were tery glad to find the new (aces of Mr. Edward Comer, prin cipal. Miss Louise Woodson, and Miss Mae. imager. Need we uy that we were also enthused to see the facea of thooe two who have been with M4 a number of years already. Mr. Wayne Benton and Mr. C. S. Long. Now last but not least (as the saying goes) for senior class sponsor none other than Mr. Wil liam H. Skarren, formerly o( Beau fort. Jackie Edwards, Class Reporter. Girl Wins Trip. Follows Brother to Cdmald Isle Boston (AP) ? Miss Christine Thompson saw her brother off re cently for a visit to their home in County Galway, Ireland. Then she went to an Irish Coun ties Field day in nearby Brookline where she took a chance of a prize. To her surprise she won. The prize was a round-trip plane ticket to Ireland. She packed up immediately to try to beat her brother to the Emerald Isle. \ Arrested for Drunkenness Billy Williams, colored, of Beau fort was arrested Tuesday on a charge of public drunkenness. He ( . was arrested by Chief Carlton Gar ner of the Beaufort police and re- ! leased on $35 bond. Tacker Arrives The Esso tanker Chattanooga ar rived yesterday from Baytown, Tex., with a cargo of gasoline and ! diesel oil. From Morehead City it will go to Bermuda with a load of j aviation gasoline. William Penn ilendrd Whiskey *2.10 rUITI >3.35 Pastor-Carpenter Chadron, Neb. (AP) - The ver ?satality of its pastor is giving a boost to the Church of the Nazarene here. The Rev. Ralph Myers, 70, is a combination minister anil mas ter carpenter1 He serves not only as the pastor, he also is building a new church structure for the congregation. I ~ t Let us renew the life of your favorite chair with new upholstery. We have a wide selec tion of lovely ma terials for slip covers. D. A. Freeman Phone 6 4036 808 Fisher St. Morehead City BUY WITH COMFIDENCE Buy the names you know and depend on for best service. FRIGIDA1RE Refrigerators Ranges Water Heaters Automatic Washers Food Freezers EASY Washers ZENITH Radios TV IRONRITE Ironer KITCHEN AID Dishwasher MYERS Water Softener YOUNGSTOWN Kitchens Sound Appliance Co. 1406 Bridges St. Phone 6-4452 Morehead City, N. C. Our Invisible Craftsmanship . . . Collision damage ' vanishes SO COM PLETELY und*r the skilled hands of our auto body tech nicians, that you'd never know you . were in an acci- ? lent I EMERGENCY SERVICE ALWAYS AVAILABLE <> _ Whether it's A dead battery ? or some thing more scriou, rely on us to come to the rescue, ANYTIME! Established rate* assure you of reasonable cost far our services. Tape our phone number inside your (lore compartment: 2-3711. tOrtlM MOTOR CO. ? ? t> PHONE 2-3711 ' CRaVeN STREET BEAUFORT, N. C.
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