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NEWS-TIMES OFFICE 804 Arendell St Morehead City Phone 6-4175 CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES - 42nd YEAR, NO. 34. TWO SECTIONS TEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1953 .PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAYS Twelve Forest Fires Strike Eastern Part of County Carteret county foresters fought-* at least 12 fires over the weekend as dry weather and high winds in creased the danger and extent of fires. The largest fire was northwest of Williston. This fire started Fri day afternoon and was still burning Monday. Other fires were in the Smyrna area and near Harlowc. One start- ! ed Saturday morning near Smyrna but was under control by Saturday night. A second fire in the Smyrna area started Sunday and either burned itself out or joined the large fire near Williston. A fourth fire was reported north of the North River Saturday. Two or three fires have been re ported in the area around Har lowe and one was still burning yes terday afternoon near the Negro school on the North Harlowe road. Late yesterday afternoon anoth er fire was reported in the section between NC 101 and the Merrimon road. Fire fighters had been un able to check on the report at the time the NEWS-TIMES went to press. No estimate has been made as to the number of acres of timber de stroyed by the fires. Last April, foresters have report ed, there were 1,030 forest fires which caused damage in excess of $350,000. The month was marked by one of the heaviest and costliest series of forest fires in the state. The great damage in April, 1952, was attributed to the combination of dry weather and wind. Foresters point out that the same conditions are true this year and everyone should exercise great care in order to prevent the possible outbreak of really serious fires. According to forestry department estimates, nine out of every ten forest fires are man-caused. For esters particularly ask the public to be careful during the hazar dous months from April to June. Two Drivers Hud in Wreck. Lt. ^jg (""Anthony F. Kugaro, ex ecutive officer of the Conifer, and Major Frank G. Parks of Cherry Point were injured Saturday after noon when their cars met in a head on collision on the Fort Macon, road. Parks received a broken leg in the accident. He was treated at the Morehead City hospital and later transferred to the Cherry Point dispensary. Fugaro lost sev eral teeth and suffered a broken jaw He was treated at the More head City hospital and sent to the Marine hospital in Norfolk. Parks told Highway Patrolman W. E. Pickard that Fugaro's car sudenly swerved across the road and struck his car. Fugaro told witnesses to the accident that a bug flew in the window of his car and struck his face, causing him to lose control of the car. Patrolman Pickard said that Fu garo will be charged with careless and reckless driving. He will be tried after he and Parks are re leased from the hospital. Damage to Parks' car has been estimated at $500 and damage to Fugaro's car has been estimated at $700. Panels Will Filed The will of the late Jesse Pagels was filed for probate last week in the office of the clerk of superior court. Captain Pagels left $10 to his' daughter, Mrs. Homer Leinthall of New York, and bequeathed the remainder of his estate to his wife. Dora, who was named executrix. Clean Up Drive Opens At Low Tide Tomorrow Power Interruption Set for Morehead Electric power will be cut off in Morehead City eut of Twenty fourth street next Sunday after noon from 1 until S weather per mitting, George B. Stovall, district manager for Carolina Power and Light company an nounced today. The Interruption is necessary in order to raise the voltage in Morehead City from Z.3M volts to 4, ISO to meet the company's increasing customer load here. Mr. Stovall explained that it was thought the Sunday after noon stoppage would be the least inconvenient for most of the res idents of the city and would give the five crews which will make the change the necessary time for preliminary work Sunday morning. Service will be restored to the hospital first, the fire and police stations second, then the down town area followed by the resi dential areas affected. Mr. Sto vall emphasized that the Inter ruption will allow the company to give Morehead City electricity users better service in the future. Chamber Elects Warren Beck * Warren Beck, prominent More head City business man, was elect ed president of the Chamber of Commerce by the group's board of directors Thursday afternoon. Mr. Beck succeeds Grover Mun den who has been president for the past year. George B. Stovall was named vice-president Qf the group. Prioin to U>e election the direc tors voted approval of the budget committee's proposed budget for the year 1953-54. This budget calls for the expenditure of $12,000 dur ing the coming year. All of the directors were at the meeting which was held at the recreation center. Walter Edwards, H. S. Gibbs, jr., and Alvah Hamil ton, sr., newly elected directors, attended the meeting. Other di rectors are Bernard Leary, Mr. Stovall, George W. Ball, George Eastman, Mr. Beck, and Mr. Mun den. Joe DuBois is secretary and man ager of the chamber and Albert Gaskill is treasurer. Important additions or increases in the new year's budget are for the advertising and publicity area and the industrial development funds. Last year a total of $1,378 was spent on advertising and pub licity, while this year's budget calls for the expenditure of $2,000. In the industrial development field, the chamber proposes to spend $1,000 during the coming year in attempting to locate sm?ll industries in Morehead City. Dur ing the- past year the chamber spent $52.24 in this area. Other smaller raises in various fields are also planned. This year's budget was set at $9,495 but due to the lack of funds from member ships. expenditures were held to $8,629.94. The chamber and its various committees are busy planning for the coming summer tourist season. ? Plans have been virtually com pleted for the clean up of Jhe More head City waterfront, Joe DuBois, manager of the Morehead City Chamber of Commerce, reported to day. Various civic organizations have indicated their willingness to help in the clean up and are cooperating with the Chamber of Commerce and the town. The clean up will start at approx imately 2:30. Mayor George W. Dill, jr., has or dered the town's street cleaning trucks and crews to help in the op eration by picking up the trash as it is thrown out of the mud. Under the plan members of civic organizations and other interested citizens will don boots and gloves and throw the trash and garbage out of the mud onto the sidewalk where the street crews will pick it up. Also sponsoring the drive is the Finer Carolina committee for beau tification of Morehead City. "The Chamber of Commerce is vitally interested in this project not only because it affects our sum mer tourist trade but also as a health measure," Mr. DuBois said. Many civic leaders recently have commented on the unsightly and unhealthy condition of the More head City waterfront. Some have pointed out that the town has used the waterfront as a kind of garbage area. Each section of the waterfront will have one man in charge of the clean-up in that section. Mr. Mr. DuBois announced that Gordon C. Willis, Ottis Purifoy, Bill Ballou, Bill Styron, V. J. O'Neal, Joe Rose, Tony Seamon. Hubert Fulcher and Jerry Schumacher have expressed willingness to supervise the clean up in their sections of the water front. Everyone who wants to see a cleaner and more beautiful water front should come out tomrrow f^ernoon, Mr. DuBois usged. Spotted Shrimp Not Yet Ready, , Survey Shows A survey of the spotted shrimp which can be caught only at night has been completed by the Institute of Fisheries Research of the Uni versity of North Carolina and the commercial fisheries division of the Department of Conservation and Development. The survey was made to deter mine the size and quantity of the shrimp and to aid in setting the opening of the night shrimping season for spotted shrimp. W. A. Ellison, jr., director of the institute, reported that five boats made the survey in Bogue I Sound, Core Sound, and the lower part of Pamlico Sound. The re sults of the survey showed thai the shrimp were not yet available in commercial quantities. Temporary* licenses were grant ed to the boats making the survey I by the division. These licenses 1 have now been revoked. It was ! pointed out that some fishermen, i not licensed for the survey, took advantage of the survey period to do night shrimping. The opening of the night shrimp ing season which normally runs from the middle of May to July | has been left at the discretion of i Kirkpatrick. commissioner of com ! mercial fisheries, and George R. 1 Ross, director of the department of Conservation and Development. In the past night shrimping for the spotted shrimp has added an estimated $250,000 to the income of fishermen. The spotted shrimp can only be caught at night. It was first discovered by the institute in 1950. During the daylight hours, the shrimp evidently burrows in the mud. In the fall the adult shrimp spawns at sea and the larvae are carricd back into the estuarine wa I tejg near the sounds where the ' shrimp develop through the winter. | In the spring, the shrimp starts | migrating toward the ocean and it is during this period that it may be caught in the sounds. The Institute of Fisheries re search is engaged in a study of the life-cycle of this shriny> at the pres ent time. It was upon the recom mendation of the institute that the Conservation and Development board first allowed night shrimping for ttic gpuWl shrimp* in 1061. Third Freighter Scheduled For Port with Fertilizer The Morehcad City port terminal is expecting its third fertilizer ship around the middle of May, J. D. Holt, manager of the port, report ed this week. Mr. Holt said that the Allied Chemical and Dye company has or dered th^ freighter Costoslos, a Greek ship, to discharge a cargo of sulphate of ammonia at the Morehead City port. The exact amount of tonnage involved was not known, but Mr. Holt said the cargo would be substantial. The Costoslos is scheduled to arrive here between May 15 and May 20. This wi'I mark the third com mercial frieghter to use the port since its opening last August. The Navy and Marine Corps have used the port extensively during man euvers affecting men and equip ment from the two nearby ma rine bases at Qimp Lejeune and Cherry Point and the Standard Oil company has leased a part of the port for petroleum. Until the first of March however, the port had not been used by commercial ship pers. The first two ships were also fertilizer ships. Both of them were German vessels bringing potash from Hamburg, Germany. Mr. Holt said that the port of ficials were encouraged by the fact that the last cargo unloaded is getting a good distribution through out North Carolina and the South. Parts of the cargo have been ship ped as far as Kentucky. No action has been taken as yet on the Ports Authority proposal to build tobacco warehouse space at both the Morehead City and Wil mington ports, Mr. Holt reported. Earlier this spring the authori ty recommended the construction of additional tobacco storage space in order to make the ports better equipped to compete for the to bacco export business originating in the tobacco section of North Carolina. Tide Table Tides at Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Tuesday, April 2$ 7:35 a.m> 1:43 a.m. 7:53 p.m. 1:37 p.m. Wednesday, April 29 8:10 a.m. 2:22 a.m. 8:29 p.m. 2:11 p.m. Thursday, April 30 8:46 a.m. 2:59 a.m. 9:05 p.m. 2:47 p.m. Friday, May 1> 9:25 a.m. 3:37 a.m. 9:46 p.m. 3:27 p.m. Retired Bush Pilot Visits Here A retired Canadian bush pilot and his wife came through More head City on the inland waterway this week en route to Ontario from Florida aboard a 32-foot, outboard powered, converted oyster ga rvej>. Mr. and Mrs. Michael de Blicquy berthed their comfortable boat at the Morehead City Yacht Basin for the night as unseasonally cold weather forced them to turn <on their heaters. Mr. de Blicquy aaid that his craft would make seven knot* or eight miles per hour with out difficulty. He has run his out board motor more than 600 hours at full throttle. They first saw Morehead City last fall when they were on their way from Georgian Bay, Ontario, their home port, to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The trip takes almost six weeks as the de Blicquy* croas Lake Huron and Lake Ontario, go through New York on the Erie Canal, and come down the inland waterway from New York City to Florida. . Mr. de Blicquy described himself as one of the first men to spend his entire life flying. When asked if bush flying in Canada were not a very difficult operation, be said, "Ob no. You just fly from A to B carrying supplies and then back again." He casually added to this rather laconic description of bush flying remarks about landings in freezing weather, hours of flight over deso late wilderness, navigation prob lems in finding one particular lake, and plane maintainence. He la a native of Belgium while Mrs. de Blicquy was born on the "old sod" in Ireland. Both have lived in Canada many yean. They brought up their two sons, one of whom now flies with the Boyal Ca nadian Air Force, in the bush of northern Ontario. No longer an active pilot, Mr. de Blicquy explained that normal pilots are forced to retire some where between 45 and 55. "We took medical examinations every six months, and you know if a doc tor really looks pretty close, he ran find something wrong with al most anybody," he said. He added that the older pilots had trained to many young pilots during the war that commercial flying companies now can take their pick. During the last war, Mr. de Blic quy was a test pilot on the famous Canadian Mosquito bomber which was made of molded plywood. "It was a fine airplane but hard," he declared. He explained that a "hard" plane is one "that forgives no mistakes." Bush flying, though, was evident ly this pilot's true love. Before the war most of the flying was to and from gold mines and logging opera tions. but today uranium takes up most of the bush pilot's time. In addition to flying in northern On tario, Mr. de Blicquy also flew on the west coast of Canada in British Columbia. "This was awful," he said. "Really this was the most frightening kind of flying. One minute all would be clear and the next you would be in a mountain pass with clouds covering every thing and all you could do was lit and hope." In the early days a bush pilot 1 had to b? his own mechanic. He told of many (lights in winter when the pilot would have to care for his plane as the thermometer dropped to 40 below zero. "Every thing freezes then, oil and all." He set a record by flying one plane for eight years, logging more than 4,200 hours of flight time. "The worst thing about bush fly ing was borqdom," he said. "When you got up and set the plane you would go nuts if you couldn't read." While on such flights, Mr. de Blicquy read books and glanced at his instruments every five min utes or so. A retired pilot's life is not a com pletely happy one. "You miss it awfully, particularly if you have an office job," he said. "On the boat I don't miss it, but my wife misses her flower gardens, so there you are," he added. In Toronto he has been manager of one of the Canadian flying clubs which train young people to fly and maintain interest in flying. Aa if to declare her love of flowers and gardening. Mr*, de Blicquy had the cabin of the boat decorated with flower*. Morehead City Commissioners Extend Time for Registration \ Migrant Laborer Shortage Seen Frank Nance, farm labor place ment interviewer for the state em ployment service, says that there will be a shortage of labor this : spring in Carteret county. The labor interviewer said that there has been a similar shortage every year but that the labor situ ation this year will be worse than in most recent years. He says that many farmers will lose crops be cause of the labor shortage. Several factors have contributed | to the labor shortage, according to j Mr. Nance. The major reason for the shortage is the fact that the cabbage season here has coincided with an early tomato season in Florida. In previous years, Florida has been the source of most farm labor for the harvest season in the county. This year, no workers are available in Florida. Housing for migrant workers has ; been another factor in the shortage. Some of the housing in the county j has been considered inadequate and I has been condemned by health au thorities. Mr. Nance says that the condition of some labor camps has made it difficult to obtain workers. He says, however, that farmers who have constructed new camps or who have remodeled old ones will have few worries when it comes to ob taining laborers. Mr. Nance says that since Florida labor is not available he is being forced to recruit most of the labor force from within the state. He says that he hopes to obtain enough workers from the Lumber ton and New Bern areas to handle most of the crops in the county. He also hopes to get some workers from with the county although the county's labor pool is small. Beginning this week, Mr. Nance will maintain an office in a trailer near Tom's service station on Live Oak street, Beaufort. At this of fice, he will handle the placement of workers with farmers who need help with their crops. Field Appears Complete As Filing Deadline Nears ! As yesterday s deadline for filing^ approached, it appeared that all j candidates had filed for the May ! 5 municipal election in Beaufort. | Three fijjings at the end of last week brought to 18 the number of candidates who will be on the bal lot. Charles Hudgins filed Thursday afternoon for town commissioner and also filed the name of William Skarren for town commissioner. Marcus Mason filed Saturday for town commissioner. Clifford T. Lewis, a member of the present town board, is running lor the office of mayor, left open | by Mayor L. W. Hassell's decision 1 not to seek reelection. He is op 1 posed by Hoy Eubanks. Mr. I^ewis is running as a mem ber of a slate made up of commis ' si oners James Rumley, Dr. W. L. j Woodard and Carl Hatsell, all seek ing reelection: Gerald Hill and W. ! G. Temple, seeking to fill vacan I cies on the board; and Earl Mason, running for reelection as judge of I the town recorder's court. The seven candidates are the only ones openly running as a unit. None of the other candidates have as yet banded together to seek elec tion. The members of the slate are also the only ones who have yet issued a public statement of their principles. They said in the state ment. We are all property owners and taxpayers in the town of Beau fort and, as such, are interested I ih efficient, economical govern ( ment. We believe in a government : that will render equal service to all I at the lowest possible cost. We | stand for our town saving money through prompt payment of its | bonded debt. Furthermore, we feel that citizens of Beaufort deserve, and are entitled to, the best in town government and, if elected, shall continue to work toward this end." The other candidates for seats j on the town board are Willie Lewis, *r., Richard Smith, J. L. Range, Gordon Hardesty, Wyon Gray Lew is and W. J. Mishael. Bayard Taylor has also filed to oppose Mr. Mason in the election for judge of record er's court. While none of these candidates have yet begun active campaigns, they are expected to do so as pub lic interest in the coming election .mounts. Mrs. William Willis, who has served as registrar for the election, says that registration was heavy on Saturday, the final day for vot ers to register for the election. Mrs. Willis also reported that there were no challenges of any registrations. Rotary Club Hears Boy Scout Leader District Commissioner R. B. How ard of Morehead City discussed the Boy Scout program at last week's meeting of the Newport Rotary club which sponsors the Newport Boy Scout troop. Mr. Howard told the Rotariant, "The boys of today are the leaders of tomorrow. Anything we do now to help these youngstters means that we are building for a better tomorrow." After the meeting. Mr. Howard, Gordon Willis of Morehead City and B. J. May of Beaufort met with the Newport troop committee to \ make plans for the year. Bicycle Parade Set lor Friday G. T. Windell, principal of the Morehead City school, has an nounced that the school's bicycle safety club will hold a parade Fri day afternoon through the business district. Mr. Windell said that about 100 members of the club, with their bicycles decorated, will take part in the parade. The parade will begin and end at the school and will follow an as yet undetermined route. Mayor George W. Dill, jr., and Chief E. J. Willis of the Morehead City police will lead in an open car. Traffic along the route of the parade will be handled by Capt. Herbert Griffin of the Morehead City police department and High way Patrolman W. J. Smith. Prizes will be awarded to the students with the most attractive, most original and most comical dec orations on their bicycles. The prizes will be awarded by the More head City Jaycees who are cooper ating with the school in sponsoring the club. Judges will be Warren Beck, president of the Morehead City chamber of commerce; Mrs. M. T. Mills, jr., president of the Junior Woman's club; and Paul Geer, president of the Jaycees. Donald Davis Named to Order Donald T. Davis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Abram Davis of 504 Bridges street, Morehead City, has been named a member of the Order of the Old Well at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The order was founded four years ago to honor juniors and seniors who have participated in numerous ac tivities. -f The Morehead City town board, at a special meeting Friday after noon, decided to extend until this Friday the period in which voters can register for the coming municipal election. The action was taken when it appeared that many of the candidates were confused about the state election laws particularly those relating to registration of voters. At another meeting Saturday night, all the candidates gathered to hear an explanatufi of the state election laws. The extension of the time limit for registration will allow more voters to register for the election. Many"* who are eligible to vote have not registered. Town officials believe that many people think that be cause they are registered on the county books they are also register ed on the town books. The offi cials have emphasized that this is not true, and have urged people to check to see that they are registered. Residents of Morehead City may register at the town ball every day this week. Grady Bell, registrar, will be at the town hall until late Friday afternoon to accommodate those who have not yet registered. Voters must, by state law, register in person, and no person can regis ter for another. Challenge day will be Saturday. The field for the election was reduced Saturday when A. L. Brin son announced that he was with drawing from the race for town commissioner. Mr. Brinson said that his job would not allow him to devote the necessary time to the office if he were elected. Mr. Brinson has asked that his friends give their support to four other candidates, Leroy Guthrie, V. J. O'Neal. Thomas Wade and Ted Garner. He said that they favor the .same principal for which he stood. When asked for comment, Mr. Garner said that he wanted to make it clear to the public that he is an independent candidate and is not running with any other group of candidates, including others men tioned by Mr. Brinson. Since Mr. Brinson withdrew from the race, there are now 12 candi dates seeking election Co the five places on the town board. The present commissioners, D. G. Bell, Dr. John Morris. M. T Mills. W. L. Derrickson and S. C. Holloway, have filed for reelection. Opposing the incumbents are D. J. Hall. W. E. Cottingham, R. Doug West, Mr. Garner. Mr. Guthrie, Mr. Wade and Mr. O'Neal. All other town officials have filed for reelection and are unop posed. They are Mayor George W. Dill, jr.; A. B. Roberts., jr., and Gordon C. Willis, hospital trustees; George H. McNeil, judge of re corder's court; Alvah L. Hamilton, sr., assistant judge; John E. Lash ley, clerk of court; and Herbert O. Phillips, III, court solicitor. Harkers Island Man * To Face Three Charges Tommy Rose of Harkers Island was arrested Saturday by Beaufort police for public drunkenness, re sisting arrest and assaulting an of ficer. Rose allegedly struck Lt. OHs Willis when Willis and Chief Carlton Garner attempted to arrest him. Rose is free on $100 bond and will be tried today in municipal recorder's court. Roland Samuels. Negro, of Co lumbia, S. C.. was arrested Sunday for public drunkenness. He is free on $25 bond. Roy Fulford of Har kers Island was arrested yesterday morning for public drunkenness. He is being held in the county jail. Sport Fishing Industry * Is Booming Along Coast Sport fishing is becoming one of the largest industries in coastal regions of the United States, the Wall Street Journal reported in a review of big-game fishing in Florida last week. The Florida Chamber of Com merce estimates that the 1952 crop of fishermen spent $300 million in that state for everything from boats, bait and charter fees to real estate. The Florida sport fishing indus try has mushroomed since the war. The 1092 estimate was up $100 mil lion over the 1951 business, and the fisherman now contributes al most as much to Florida's economy as the combined citrus and cattle industries. As a side issue of the fishing craze, Florida boat works are boom ing with orders for sport fishermen and conversions of other pleasure craft to sport fishers. One Miami firm reports that it will build at least SO such craft this year after a record 40 last year. Boat builders in other sections of the country who ship their products to Florida by rail have also felt the boom. Hundreds of their cruisers will be sold there this year. Fishermen who don't own their own boats can easily charter one. Rentals average around $60 per day, which includes requirements from gas to captain but does not include food and drink. Expenses {or the avid fan who owns his own boat run consider ably higher. One fisherman who has tried his luck up and down the coast has estimated that his ex penses per fish have averaged $1,000 for blue marlin, <750 for tuna, *500 for white marlin and $250 for sailfish. While sport fishing in Florida is carried on the year round, many fishermen head north as the sum mer sets in to fish off North Caro lina, New Jersey, Maine and Nova Scotia, the article continued. The Journal story described some of the long-range promo tional activities which real estate groups and others Interested in the tourist trade have started in order to keep the fishing business in high gear. Islands and marinas, city docks and publicity have combined to keep the fisherman conscious of his desire to fish. Engineers Plan ? Bombing Areas A request for the establishment of five danger zone areas of navi gable waters near the south, side of the mouth of the Neuse River in Carteret county has been made by the commandant of the Fifth Naval district in Norfolk. The U. S. Army corps of engi neers announced that areas are Rattan Bay, Point of Marsh Pen insula and Pamlico Sound. All five danger areas would be circular target and bombing areas with radii of one half mile with the exception of the first area which would have a radius of 1.8 miles. The center of the first area would be latitude 35 20' 12" north, longitude 76?28'00." The second area's center would be at latitude 35?01'24" north, lon gitude 76?29'36" west; the third center latitude 35?04'36" north, longitude 76? 28' 12" west; the fourth center latitude 35' 01*37" north, longitude 76 25' 12" wes*: and the fifth center, latitude 34* 58*51" north, longitude 76 23' 13" west. These areas will be used as tar get and bombing areas by marine aircraft. Live and dummy ammu nition will be used. The first and second areas will be closed to fish ing and navigation at all times. Prior to target or bombing opera tions the area will be "buzzed" by a plane to warn unauthorized ves sels that they are in a danger zone. The third, fourth and fifth arcti will be open to navigation at night and will be patrolled during the daylight hours. The regulations will be enforced by the commander of the Cherry Point Marine Corps air station and such agencies as he shall designate. A map showing the proposed dan ger areas may be seen at the office of the corps of engineers in Wil mington or in the post offices at At lantic, Oriental and Vandemere. Anyone having an objection to the establishment of the danger zones should communicate with the corps of engineers. Objections will be received at the Wilmington office of the corps un til May 22. Research Group Holds Meeting Marine scientists from the eas tern United States were in More head City over the weekend for the ninth semi-annual meeting of the Atlantic Estuarine Research society. Scientists attending the two-day meeting at the division of commercial fisheries came from re search laboratories ranging from New Jersey to South Carolina. The 54 scientists heard papers on a wide range of subjects relat ing to marine biology and chemical . oceanography. Among the scien tists presenting papers were T. Rice and G. B Talbot of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife service station at Pivers Island, J, D. Costlow and C. G. Bookhout of the Duke Ma rine laboratory at Pivers Island and A. B. Williams of the Institute of Fisheries Research, Morehead City. At the business part of the meet ing, James B. Engle of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife service. Annap olis, Md . was elected president of the society. He succeeds Dr. J. L. McHugh of the Virginia Fisheries laboratory, Gloucester Point, Va. David Cargo of the Chesapeake Bi ological laboratory, Solomons, Md., was elected secretary-treasurer to succeed Dr. A. F. Chestnut of th? Institute of Fisheries Research. The society was formed in 1040 in Morefcead City. The organise tion founded by 22 scientist* engaged in research on the fsih eries of Chesapeake Bay, the sounds of North Carolina and their estuarine tributaries. The group meets twice yearly at research laboratories, in Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. At the informal meetings, member* discuss mutual problems and mat ten of common interest. The meetings also serve to eliminate overlapping of activities by the various laboratories. Originally, the members of the society came from only Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. b?t , the society haa now expanded to . include scientists from other states. It now has a membership of 7S a active and eight honorary members, jj
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