Navy Research Man Spends
Leave in Morehead City
By BOB SEYMOUR
Chief Hospital Corpsmaa Wertfe
L Cappa, USN, is spending ? M
w leave with hl? family In Mara
he?4C?ty. Chief Capps Sm Jtwt
returned from Egypt, where he
hid been attached to a medical
reaearch unit siaea lfc?.
The Naval reaearch unit with
which Chief Capps woHted was eon
cerned with any virus of miliary
importance, particularly Allan flu.
Chlaf Capps wat a jnember of
the active research staff, collect
ing, identifying, growing and teat
iag specimens. He has been doing
research work for the Nlvy for
the past 1* yeirs.
After gnduiting from Summer
field High School aear Greensboro
is 1939, Chief Capps joined the
Navy. As soon ai he finished boot
training, he wis seat to hospUil
corpsmaa school.
Varied EduciUoa
Ills education in the Navy has
been wide and varied. He has
studied at George Washington Uni
versity under the top virologists
of the world and has worked in
remote laboratories with well
known doctors who were "pulling
their hitch" In the service. He has
learned French, Italian and Span
ish on his own.
One of these service connections
has paid off well for Chief Capps.
He worked for two years with Dr.
Duard L. Walker, now chief of
the micro-biology section at the
University of Wisconsin.
Dr. Walker has asked Chief
Capps to come to work for the
university as soon as he retires
from the Navy next year. Here he
will have the opportunity to com
plete work for bis bachelor's de
gree and work on a master's de
gree under the GI Bill.
Chief Capps plans to spend his
last year in the Navy at the Naval
Medical Research Institute, Be
thesda, Md., doing research and
teaching young sailors to carry on
his Job.
Base of Operations
Chief Cappa uses More head City
at his base of operations His wife,
the former Miss Ruth Benfield of
Greensboro, Uvea at 1305 Shepard
St. with their two daughters, Nan
cy Ellen, IS, and Jane Ana, 10.
Both girls attend Morehead City
School.
Mrs. Cappa says that she wants
her husband to work at the uni
versity "at least until both of our
daughters finish collect. "
For Chief Cappa, retirement will
oaiy mean the opening of aew re
search work to be accomplished
He will still be under 40 when he
geta out of the Navy and can look
forward to many years of .ufeful
work. ?
School Lunch
Menus Listed
a -i i
rww^ri OCBMI
Mood*;: Fried bologna, black
eyed peas, stewed potatoes with
onions, carrot atick, peanut butter
cookies, milk.
Taetday: Sausage patllet, tur
nip greeas, candied potahwa, corn
bread, el teed beet*, peachea, cook
ie*, milk.
Wednesday: Baby butter beans,
Vienna sau*efe, tomato soup, eat
bage-earrot-raisin salad, bat rolls,
gingerbread, milk.
Tharsday: Spaghetti with meat
sauee, string beans, deviled eggs,
cabbage-carrot -pickle slaw, choc
oiite puddlm. milk.
FrUays Turkey ealud, greet
?weet potato puctdmg, mux.
fonnw Cowl OvardsmM
Can Join Local ftMwv*
Wen who have ban released
from tbe Coast Guard within U>?
last few years are urged ta con
tact their loeal Coast Guard re
Farmers arc Elioibl* ?
NrOaiTa Refunds
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Official Issues
Report on Death
A. B. Robert ?, chairman of the
More head City Hospital board of
trustees, yesterday released a
statement relative to the death of
the year-and-a-half-old girl. Char
lotte Ann Isaac, who died Wedaea
day night in the Morehead City
Hoapital.
Hospital officials said that Ray
B Isaac, father of the child, prob
ably la a <listraught state of Bind,
?rat saying that the child died be
cause the supply of oxygea la Ike
tent in which the child was placed,
ran out.
Following questioning of hoapital
personnel by David Willis, adminis
trator, assisted by George McNeill,
Morehead City attoraey, and In
spection of the equipment being
used to treat the child, Mr. Roberta
released the following statement:
"An Investigation into the death
of Infant Charlotte Ana Isaac,
made today at the Morehead City
Hoapital by Mr. Willis, admit* stra
tpr, establishes that the child died
as a result of pneumonia as a Com
plication of measles.
"Further, that the oxygen tent
which the child was occupying was
be big furnished oxygen in normal
supply and that such death was la
no way connected with any failure
on the part of the equipment or
personnel of the Morehead City
Hospital."
Brownie Troop
Tours Newspaper
Members of Brownie Troop 283,
W. 8. King School, visited THE
NEWS-TIMES Tuooday afternoon.
They toured the editorial caAee
and mechanical department. Each
Brownie was ftven a slug Of typo
with her name.
Making the tour were the fol
lowing (Miss Pranks is Brownie
" troop leader and Mrs. Monroe, a
mother):
Ruby Pearl Horton
Arleatha Bryant
Jeanette Alberta Becton
Alva Lee Scott
Laratta Jones
Willette Bryant
Misa A. Franks
Sharon Laverne Monroe
Deborah JR. Monroe
Genera Reyes
Ophelia Herman
Helen Doratha Mann
Mrs. Henrietta Monroe
' Hamburg-American Line
Honors Guests Tuesday
The Saarland, Hamburg -Ameri
can ihlp making it* first call at
Morebead City, was tbe scene of
a cocktail party at, noon Tuesday.
Among those attending the fcarty
were Mr. and Mr?. D. tea* WU
liami, Raleigh; Mayor George Dill,
Or. B. F. Royal, D. G. Ball, Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Holt, Bob Hicks,
Walter Frtederichs, Bill Davfes,
and Walter Zingelmann, all of
Morehead City.
LockwOod Phillips, Beaufort; Ro
bert OardM and W. C. Radford,
Southern Railway officials. New
Ban; Peter Ruff in, Wilmington;
and tobacco exporters.
Officers at Um ship ware boats.
Wyon 0. Lewis Specks
Tba MarshaUber|M e t h 0 d 1 s t
Men's Club heard Wyoo 0. Lewis,
?Mat speaker, at their meeting
Saturday tdgM. Mr. Lewis mad*
t talk oa The Boek of Ufa. He wa?
S&TtL*rjT,w fto*r'
A nipper tt baked bam waa
aarrad ly Cbartea D. Harris Jr.
ni'VwnSry, Trej D. Moon,
reported that "cat wair canto ksd
bean aaat to E H. Dark and Will
Murphy, dob members wbo had
beet la tba boepttal.
Pert Calendar
Rotterdam and sailed yesterday.
SaarlaMI ? Sailed from state
port yesterday with tobacco (or
Hamburg and wood pulp (or
frieste.
Melda? -Sailed (ran state port
Wedtesdarwlt* a cargo ?l dairy
products (or Casablanca and
Trieste.
Vera Cms? Due today at state
Ctt to bad knocked dowa hogs
ads tot Cuba.
Amu Matrsk *- Due at state
port tomorrow to load tobacco
(or Bangkok.
Ksao Scrantoa ? Due at state
port Sunday with a cargo o( pe
troleum products for Standard
Oil.
C. A. Stone Heads
Emeritus Club
C. A. Stone, Morehead City, was
elected president of tbe Emeritus
Club at the meeting Monday night
at the civic enter. Other officers
Cor 19SS-S9 ire C. B. Wide, vice
president, and R. P. Warren, sec
retary -treisurer.
A membership committee wis
appointed. Members are W. S.
Ktdd, G. W. Huntley, Mr. Wade
and ). W. Kellogg
Named to the committee to plan
the dinner meeting April 21 were
N. L. Walker, Mr. Kellofg and
J. R. Herring.
ASC Manager
Speaks to Rotarians
B. J. May, manager of the coun
ty ASC office, was guest speaker
it the Newport Rotary Club meet
ing Monday night. Mr. May dis
cussed the services offered by his
office and showed how he helps
fanners help themselves.
Mr. May was the guest of pro
gram chairman Harry D. Lockey.
Other visitors were Tommy Pot
ter, Beaufort, J. R. Sanders and
T. D. Lewis, Morehead City, and
A. L. Lindall, Winchester, Va.
Secretary - elect Bob Montague
was appointed to fill the term of
secretary Derryl Garner, who has
resigned from the club.
Publicity chairman Nathan Gar
ner says that negotiations are un
derway to make the new school
cafeteria a permanent meeting
place for the club since the pres
ent arrangement there is a tem
porary one. '
Part of Inland
Waterway to Close
Wilmington ? Boating Interest!
were reminded Monday that the
Atlantic Intracoaital Waterway be
tween New River Inlet and Bear
Inlet will be closed to navigation
from midnight tonight to midnight
Tuesday, according to an an
nouncement by the Corps of en
gineers' District office here.
Col. H. C. Rowland Jr., district
engineer, said a permit had been
issued to the Marine Corp* at
Camp Lejeune to have exclusive
ilae cf the waterway during this
poriod for special training.
Colonel Rowland said he had
been advised that the Marine
Corps will station patrol craft at
New River Inlet and Bear Inlet
to warn others away from the
closed portion.
lie also explained that in the
event the closed period Is short
ened, a notice to this effect will
be broadcast through Norfolk and
Charleston by the Marine Corps.
Driver's License Examiner
Releases New Schedule
David Morris, driver's license
examiner, announces the follow
ing schedule for examinations ef
fective April ?:
Mondays at Harelock, Tuesdays
Ml Wednesdays at the municipal
building, Morehead City, Thurs
days and lYidays at the county
courftouse, Beaufort.
under the pramnt schedule, Mr.
Morris is Mi Morehead City Mon
days, at HavaJeek Wednesday, and
In Bakutet Thursday and Friday.
After Sunday, Pastor Will
Spend Week at New Bern
j\#%mirL3S
tomorrow morning tt M:30 it
which time they will auk* dW
latte tteit Mr ??* 0pMm>M tt
MM church Much JO. TIM chlWrwi
will direct the children in consid
ering church membership. Chil
dren who decide to become mem
ber! of the church will be re
ceived at the morning service
Kerch JO. At thia morning eervice
the Rev. Frederick Herbert, Mn
a f the pastor, will preach. The
Rev. Mr. Herbert ie pastor ai the
Wattamaw charge, eeoeUtbig at
tour Methodiet churches la Ceium
bua County.
On Cuter (loader the pa?t?r wil
preach morning and night At the
morning eervice the adatta who
are applicant* for church mem
bership will to received bath bf
baptism, profession of faith and
letters o t traaefer. At 4 p.m. par
ents will bring their bsbtes and
young children for christening.
The Mat KYF will hold iU
Spring Retreat March 2M? at At
I an tie teach. Punpaae at this Re
MM II ? plan programs mi at
I I i^fa I. * - - iLa - ? **_ _ ?j
Iw iM fUSSifi Mr. AMI
Mr*. Walter Merrie w? ??NNhe.
Two Freshmen
WmTopPlaces
In Essay Contest
winners In the Morehead City
phase of the 1858 essay contest km
"Vision and Highway Safety" were
announced today by Dr. R. E. Out
law, Morehead City eectest chair
man for the North Carolina Op
tolnetrtc Sottety.
The first place winner was Fred
Willis Jr., a freshman, second
place was awarded to Joan Guth
rie, also a freshman.
The winner will receive a cash
prize of |14, and second place win
ner will receive $5.
The winning essay selected from
each high school now will be en
tered In the district competition.
One winner will be chosen from
each educational district to com
pete in the state contest,.
A $500 U. S. Savings Bond, plus
an all expense paid trip to the
North Carolina State Optometric
Society's annual banquet, will be
awarded to the state winner. A
$100 bond will go to the second ;
place winner, and the third place
essay wili earn its author a $50
bond.
Judges of the local contest were
David Morris, county driver li
cense examiner; Ruth Peeling, edi
tor, Carteret News-Times; Len- !
wood Lee, principal, Morehead
City Graded School, and Dr. Out
law.
In announcing the winners, Dr.
Outlaw lauded all of the contest
ants for their outstanding essays.
"The quality of writing was ex
cellent, and the students showed a
keen interest in their subject," the
contest chairman said. "Selection
of the best essays was one of the
most exacting tasks ever under
taken by the Judges."
"Without the help of the teach
ers and principal," he said, "the
contest could not have been suc
cessful, and the society owes them
a debt of gratitude."
District Nurses
Meet at Hospital
Carteret nurses were host Tues
day night at the Morehead City
Hospital to district 21, North Caro
lina State Nurses Association.
The meeting, originally sche
duled for February, was postponed
until this month.
Mrs. Louise Morgan, Morehead
City, was made a director the
organization. Others from this
county appointed to committees
were Mrs. Edna Heslep, legisla
tion; Mrs. Lottie Oglesby, consti
tution and by-laws.
Miss Vivian May, program and
entertainment; Mrs. Oglesby, ser
vice and service fund; Mrs. Clara
Daniels, Mrs. Dorothy Ipock, and
Mrs. Morgan, membership.
Mrs. Fonnie Oxford, Kinston,
president of the district, presided
The next meeting will be Tues
day, April 22, at the Jacksonville
nurses' home. The district en
compasses five counties.
Farmers are Slow
In ASC Sign-Ups
Leu than one-fifth of the three
million dollars allocated to North
Carolina under the 185* soil bank
conservation reserve program has
been spoken for, according to B.
J. May, county ASC office man
ager.
Carteret farmers have been re
luctant to sign up under this phase
of the soil bank, despite their eag
erness to a ? c ? p t government
money under the acreage reserve !
phase.
Mr. May says that participation
in the conservation reserve phase
of the soil bank will reduce the sur
plus of basic commodities and
bring farmers better prices for the
products.
Pood Transferred
BM/1 Eugene Pood, USC6, has
received orders to report to Seat
tle, Wash., on May 13. He will go
from there to Juneau, Alaska,
where he will be in charge of the
lighthouse. Pond has been station
ed at Fort Macon Coast Guard sta
tion and at the Atlantic Lifeboat
station for the past three and a half
years.
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