? =2tf Terrapins Move North Beaufort-bred terrapins are now "back home" in the Terrapin State, Maryland. The atomic age finally caught up with them. The concrete pens on Fivers Island at the Beaufort Fish and Wild life Station have to be used in radio active experiments on fish. So the ter rapin were moved out several weeks ago and pent to the state which bought them in 1948. Maryland wanted the turtles but didn't have a place to put them then, so they were boarded at Pivers Island. Now University of Maryland re searchers have decided to undertake a program to make the terrapin popular with housewives as well as with gour mets. In the late 19th century terrapin was a rare delicacy. "Diamond Jim" Brady and his contemporaries paid fabulous prices for the diamondback turtle and soon it was faced with extinction. But this love of the turtle by the ?lite was not always the case. In 18th cen tury Maryland terrapin was eaten only by slaves and despised by Chesapeake Bay fishermen because it interfered with their net hauling. The Maryland scientists' decision to study terrapins will undoubtedly in volve eating the critters. They are go ing to. try to decide whether terrapin meat should be canned, boiled, blanch ed, pickled, frozen or jellied. A Baltimore newspaper columnist, Robert Farquhar, suggests that they may even look into the possibilities of terrapin "hot dogs" or terrapin barbe cue. But the manager of Baltimore's famed Maryland Club, where terrapin has been served to the aristocracy of the Free State since 1857, shakes his head in doubt. The terrapin, he says, is too delicate to survive manhandling. It takes six different operations, lasting eight to nine hours, before it's ready to serve. The secret of lucious terrapin, he added, is sweet trotter irrrd sherry. Should the Free State scientists hit upon something which would make the terrapin appealing to the American housewife (we seriously doubt that they will), terrapin catching may be come worthwhile in this neck of the woods. It seems as though Carteret waters should have more than their share of terrapin, 'cause every once in a while those fences on the water side of the pens on Pivers Island got holes in 'em and a few happy terrapin would wave a flipper toward the Fish and Wildlife lab, and with a cheery good-bye, take off. Forest Fire Takes Its Toll Although no accurate estimates have been made as yet, the recent for est fire in the county is known to have caused thousands of dollars' damage. The destruction cannot be reckoned alone on the basis of today's market price of the timber because dollars of income that would have been distrib uted over the next 20 years have been wiped out due to destruction of young saplings as well as big pines. And the hunter may find slim pick ings in the eastern part of the county this fall. The fire brought horrible death to hundreds of the forest crea tures, deer, bear 'possum, 'coons, rab bit, quail and squirrel. Because of the county's participa tion in the state forest fire control pro gram, fires that start in our woodlands don't have free run of the county any more. Although the recent fire was put out by Hurricane Carol's rain, the vali ant work of fire-fighters kept it con fined to an area that would have been considerably more than. 5,000 acres if efforts had not been made to check it. We predict that the paper com panies' estimates of the loss will be con servative. The assessed valuation of timberland is $5 to $8 an acre, which is ridiculously low. Efforts to increase that valuation have always met with objection on the part of the paper com panies who attempt to prove to the county that their land "really isn't worth much" after all. Yet the county participates in a state forest protection program which aids the paper companies, as well as other timber owners, in checking fires. The county hopes that owners of timber land will give contributions to support that program but many of the timber owners refuse. They say they pay their taxes and won't pay any more. They conveniently forget that their valua tion ion timber acreage is only a frac tion of what it should be. The county recognizes that the tim berlands provide employment for resi dents of this area, but so do many other businesses which pay their taxes on the basis of a fair valuation. In this day and age the price of tim ber, pulpwood and wood products is high. No woodlands is wasteland. And because every human being benefits from proper care of woodlands, gov erning agencies are-willing to help-bear the cost of conserving the forests. Own ers of such forests should not take ad vantage of this public interest. There was a tremendous dollars and cents loss to all of us as a result of the recent fire. More than, figures will show. Mens Waistlines * (From the Washington Post) A recent scientific study has backed up what women have long been saying to the unheeding ears of their husbands ? that they ought to eat their salads. Nearly, one third of 600 men in indus trial plants whose diet was studied in a two-year survey by a team of Rutgers University scientists were low in Vita min C ? which is found in citrus fruits, tomatoes and leafy green vegetables. A|bout one fourth of of the men were deficient in calcium needed for sound bones and teeth and found to a large degree in milk. Even more significant, 44 per cent of these men were over weight. Obesity -among Americans has been causing much concern to health and medical authorities. About one fifth of the population past 30, it is estimated, is over-weight. The Rutgers study would indicate that men's waistlines especially need attention. It is signifi cant that the men surveyed were indus trial workers ? presumably not desk sitters, and were in the working-age brackets. Poor selection 6f food was blamed for the inadequate nutrition of these wage earners. Too many, the survey showed, went in for the coffee and sweet roll breakfast, and leaned heavily on soda pop and candy bare for be tween-meal snacks. This not only in creased weight, but cut down appetite for foods oontainlng vitamins and min erals. Unfortunately the survey did not determine who was responsible ? the men or their wives ? for the "snack" breakfast having succeeded the tradi tional American repast of ham and eggs. Carteret County N?ws-Tim?s WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Hum o I TU Baaatet Nm (M. 1812) nd Tb? Twin CUj Tiam (Eft. ISM) Pablkbad Taaadayi and Mdlji by lit Cartarat PoMfchtoi Cl?fJ. lae. SIM Arwddl St. Marahaad City. N. & LOCI WOOD PHILLIPS ? PUBLISHER ELEANORS DEAR PHILLIPS - ASSOCIATE PUtLUER RUTH U PEELING - EDITOR Rail Rata: In Cartarat County and adjoining eooatiaa, 9SI SLSi aaa Booth; alaawhora S7.0P a? paar. <400 alx i ' af Awocltoad Praaa ? Orator Waakltoa - LC Ptm . - ft k attttod ndaMy to aaa for n|rtllnlln 1 tool -??*??????? ? " .ua .. ,Lf , ij. j_ Z/?. ?? ???' ?? - 7/ie Readers Write August 27, 1954 To the Editor: Tuesday, Aug. 24, and Friday, Aug. 27, 1954, the Carteret County News-Times went on sale. Until that time, we the property owners on the north side of Atlantic Beach proper, were willing to live and let live. We didn't want to cause any trouble or be nasty, but now it is different. We feel that we have the right to defend ourselves. Rather than go to court at Snow Hill, N. C., under Judge Frizzelle, the mayor and town Board of Al dermen advised us through our le gal counsel, that the proposed an nexation of our area would be dropped. That, as far as we were concerned should have ended it, but No ? the Mayor, Town Board, also the Carteret County News Times (see editorial in paper dated Aug. 27, 1954) insist on keeping it going and being uncomplimentary, unjust and downright nasty, so we km*