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Conservationist Wants to Know I Drainaae Needs of County Farmers By M. H. OWENS Soil Contrrvalioalst We certainly have had a wet win ter. This brings out our great need (or cropland drainage in this county. Many farmers have done a lot of drainage work in recent years, but there are thousands of acres still needing tile, open ditches or both. Cropland drainage is necessary in order to carry out other needed conservation practices, such as crop rotation. As soon as the weather clears, Mr. Willis Rob- \ erts will start , putting in tile with his ma- | chine We have had so much i rain, he is be hind in t h i s : work. Each year we have requested that you let us know your, drainage needs or problems as M. H. Owens early as possible. By gelling your requesl in early you can be more assured of getting the work done. This will alw save the contractor time, expense and trouble, and make it easier on the Soil Conaer vation Service workers. If you have need for tile or open dltchea, you can get information about the assistance available by contacting one of the Lower Neuse Soil Conservation District supervia ors for Carteret county. The su pervisors for 1960 are Ralph Creech of Newport, Harry Lockey of New port and Milton Truckner'of Pel letier. Milton Trnckner is the newly elected supervisor who took John Young's place. You can also get the available assistance and information by con tacting the Soil Conservation Serv ice office located in the postoffice building in Beaufort. Again, I ask you to please let us know your drainage needs as early as possible. Open for Business Little Hocking, Ohio (AP)? A 78 year-old church building here is open every day but Sunday. Built in 1881 as a Baptist Church, it was converted to a postoffice 24 years ago. Chalk Du?t Sfudent Council Plans Pin Order, Next Paper By JOANNE ALLEN The student council decided at its last meeting to order pins for the members. They also set the date for the publishing at the next Seadog Review. A project of the council is to sec that the flag in front of the school is raised and lowered each day. Two girls from Morehead were guests at the last FHA meeting. They were Johnice Parker and Pam Atkinson. They explained how they reeeived their junior and chapter degrees. The club voted to sell dish cloths as a money raising project. We have more champs at Beau fort high school. Both our boys and girls won the county tourna ment. We are very proud of the girls. It was the first time they had won the tournament in ten years. It was a thrill to all the girls, but especially to the seniors who were playing their last game. Fat Lupton carried the trophy around all night as her prized pos session. We're real proud of you, girls The boys' win did :?>t surprise many people. They performed like real champs. They have complet ed one round of championship play for this year. Tomorrow afternoon they will be playing in a prelimi nary game at Kenansvillc. All of you that can, be sure to go to the game and cheer for the Scadogs. They need your support now that they are beginning their very important journey to cham j pions. Part of their success depends on you, so be there if you can. Home Demonstration Newt March Club "Meeting Will Show New Way to Thrift By FLOY G. GARNER Home Economics Agent Would you like to be called smart and thrifty? Most homemakers continually strive to strctch the dollar and many achieve a high degree of smartness and thrifti ness. Homemakers today are fac ed with many decisionmaking problems that were unknown only a few years ago. Today's home maker is in greater need of assist ance and education than yester day's homemaker because of these problems. Spending the family money wise ly is only one of the complicated problems that confront us today. What to eat, wear, or furnish the home with are also areas that oft en puzzle the family manager. The Home Demonstration pro gram strives to assist homemakers in making decisions in all areas UI IIUIIItMIIttKIIlK. Decisions that are rewarding for her and her family. Shall I dis card this chair, table, or chest of drawers? This is a ques tion that will be Floy G. Gamer confronting many homemakers as the spring season approaches. A decision will be made. Many good pieces of furniture will be discard ed. Others will continue to be un willingly used because the family budget will not expand sufficiently for replacement. Would you be Interested in tee ing what you can do with that old piece of furniture? making a new piece from an old one? Attend the March Home Demonstration :lub meeting that is most con venient for you and see slides of actual pieces before and after ren ovation. You may have some real treasures in your home or even in the attic. It seems a shame to discard fur niture on hand or to invest, per haps unwisely, in new furniture without thoroughly investigating the possibilities of renovating old furniture. One can realize great savings this way and have interest ing and attractive furniture. Be tfcrifty and smart? restore the old or discarded furniture you al ready have. The money saved can be used for new fabrics, paint or ?ccessorics that will give your home that new interest you want. A workshop on making new fur niture from old will be held in the county later in the year. The March program will give you ideas and information that will help you decidc what piece you will want to restore during the workshop. Don't miss the March club meet ings! The Jim Millers arc putting to use their knowledge of upholstery work. Mrs. Miller is a member of the Russells Creek Home Demon stration club. She attended a re upholstery workshop last year taught by the home furnishing spe cialist from the college. Mrs. Mil ler and her husband have just com pleted re-upholstering a soft that was in real had shape. Today it looks brand new and actually is as good as new. With Mr. Miller's assistance dur ing his off hours, the entire unit was renovated and made strong and sturdy. This was really the first job the Millers had attempted by themselves but they should feel proud and happy over a job beau tifully done. Arc you looking for someone to make slip coven? Mrs. Luke Turner does beautiful Work. Mrs. Turner i> a member of the Mar lowe Home Demonstration club, and she learned the art of slip cov ering in a workshop. Learning by doing is a good method of learning. However, we sometimes find the "doing" not to our liking. Mrs. Turner says that is not true with her. She really enjoys making alip covers since she learned how to give them a professional look. That is prob ably the secret to why those five chairs and three couches she has done look so nice in their new cov ers. A Morehead City man, Paul Ed ward Dingess, North 13th Street, has been informed by the North Carolina Department of Mdtor Ve hicles of the reinstatement of his driving privileges. Teachers Should Get Application For April Exam Carteret teacher* planning to take the National Teacher Exami nations on April 9 should immedi ately obtain application forma, H. L. Joslyn, Carteret superintendent of schools advised today. Appli cations to take the tests and bul letins describing them can be ob tained from the county board of education office or from Dr. Rich ard S. Spear, New Bern High School, New Bern. Thousands of North Carolina teachers and college seniors pre paring to teach will be taking the examinations at 20 examination centers throughout the state as part of a study of teacher prepara tion being made by a committee of the state board of education. Mr. Joslyn emphasized that while the examinations may be taken at state expense by any teacher certified before June 20, 1959, the examinations must be taken by all Carteret County teachers who: ap ply for a higher class of certifi cate during the period beginning June 20, 1959, and ending Feb. 19, 1961, or apply for certification in a new field or capacity during this period. These requirements are based on a resolution passed by the 1959 General Assembly. The National Teacher Examina tions arc prepared and adminis tered by Educational Testing Serv ice, Princeton, N. J., the non-prof it agency which is conducting the testing phase of state-wide re search into teacher preparation for the state board of education. The tests yield scores on professional knowledge, various aspects of gen eral education, and subject-matter preparation. At the one-day testing session all , candidates will take the common | examinations, which include tests in professional information, gen- ; eral culture, English expression, and non verbal reasoning. In addi tion, candidates will take one or! two of the twelve optional exami-. nations offered, if there are op- j tional tests available in their teach ing fields. Each optional exami- j nation is designed to measure mas- ! tery of subject matter taught in certain elementary school grades or high school subjects. The state board of edaralioa'i committee investigating the qual ity of teacher-preparation in the state is headed by Dr. R. R. Mor gan, Superintendent of the Moores villc City Schools, and its study director is Dr. W. J. Scott, a high school principal until he took over his new duties last December. The committee membership in cludes David J. Rose, state sen ator, 19S9, Goldsboro, C. J. Bar ber, president of the North Caro lina Teachers association; Miss Lois Edingcr, teacher and vice president of the North Carolina Education association, and Miss Lois Lambie, president of the Classroom Teachers Division of NCEA. Bookmobile Route Listed The bookmobile schedule for Monday and Tuesday has been re leased by the Carteret County pub lic library: Monday: 9:30-10:00? Crab Point; Wildwood, 10:10-10:30 ? Whitley's service station, 10:40-11:00 ? Wild wood Church. 11:10-11:25? Glenda Pollock ; 12 : 15-3 00 ? Newport school; 3:05-3:35? Newport branch library. Tuesday: Harlowe, 9:10-9:25? Mrs. Emma Oglesby, 9:30-9:50? Mrs. Haiel Ives. Mill Creek, 10:05-10:30? Mrs. J. C. Skinner's book station, 10:40 11:05? Mrs. Lida Dail's book sta tion; Route 2 Newport, 12:10-12:25 ?Mrs. Madge Reynolds. Masontown, 12:30-12:40? Mrs M. L. Simmons, 12:45-1:05? Mrs. May ola Piner, 1:10-1:25 ? Mrs. Verna Gould. Nine-Foot Road, 1:35-1 :50-Mrs. Keturah Lewis, 2:00-2:20 ? Mrs. Alice Simmons, 2:30-2^45 ? Mrs. Daisy Cannon, 2:55-3:10? Mrs. Cor nell Garner. JACQUINS IOCK AND RYE $1.95 PINT OWMI MCQUIW 1 a*. WMU. WWMA. Kmha Feb. 22? Ocracoke Island found itself rather isolated last week dur ing the stormy weather when the dally mall boat remained in Atlan tic, coming back In on Saturday with three days of mail. The week ly freight boat from Washington suffered rudder damage off Wieh ard's Beach in the Pamlico River and had to go back to Washington for repairs on Friday. It arrived at Ocracoke on Sunday morning. On one stormy day the Hatteras Inlet ferry did not make its usual runs, but operation was resumed promptly the next day. People attempting to come to Ocracoke have also been held up by the ir regularities of the Oregon Inlet ferries during recent days. Several new accommodations for summer tourists are going up at Ocracoke. R. S. Wahab is build ing a new six-unit motel which will be called Wahab Motel. It is located quite near to Wahab Hotel. Another six-unit motel. Pamlico Motor Lodge, is being built by Mrs. Helen Robinson of Baltimore, a native of Ocracoke, who will make her home in part of the lodge. Mrs. Helena Willis has converted several of the rooms in her home into tourist accommodations and will rent them under the name Harbor View House, because of the location of her home on the beau tiful harbor, known locally as Sil ver Lake. Albert Styron is building a new two-bedroom cottage which he If plan* to rent tin Daisy Gaskill U making additions to ber cottages on tbe harbor, known aa the Wag on Wheel Cottagei. The Old Home stead cottage* on the village itreet, property of the late E. Carleton Kelly, are now owned by nephews and a niece, Samuel Jr., William, Charlie and Howard Jones, and Mr*. Norvel Scott. These will be rented to tourists this summer under tbe manage ment of Mrs. John Dearing, a member of the school teaching staff, who lives near the Old Home stead. At it* February meeting, Ocra coke School PTA voted to spend ?bout $200 (or some up-to-date map* (or the school, replacing old one* and buying new ones (or all ot the grades, primary through high school. It also voted to pur chase some (olding tables. At its March meeting the organi zation will enjoy its annual pot luck supper, which is always a happy occasion. Mrs. Dicie Wells, president, will make (inal plans (or the supper through various com mittees. On Saturday night a postponed Valentine's program and dance brought in $65 to the junior class. Features o( the evening's enter tainment were two short plays, Blind Date, starring Betsy Carole Styron, Stella Spencer. Ronnie Van O'Neal, and Billy Garrish, and Sitting Tonight, starring Ann Esham, Bnnda Ballance, James Barrie Gaskill, and Rudy Austin. These were greatly enjoyed. Pro ceeds ot the evening will assist the juniors in their plans (or giving a banquet in honor of the graduating class. On March 1 Circle No. 1 of the Woman's Society of the Methodist Two Women Talk Via Ham Radios New Hartford, N. Y. (AP>? Ev- 1 fry d?y at 3 p.m., K21Y call* 1 K2TDG. Radio hami in the Bing- 1 hamton and Utica areas of upatate 1 New York know that Grandma ii going to talk to Peg. I Grandma? a> ahe is known on J the alrwavea? ia Mrs. George Gil- ' hert of Binghamton. Peg is her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Huggina of > Church will meet io the church recreation hall. Hostesses are Mrs. Mabel Gaskill, Mrs. Rebecca Spencer, Miss Lela Howard, and Mrs. Bertha O'Neal. Several Ocracokers were home from the Norfolk area for the weekend: Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Beasley and granddaughter, Ellie Brigman, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wil der, all visiting Mrs. Eleanor Bur rus; Mr. and Mrs. Russell Wil liams, visiting Mrs. Elnora Bal lance; Carolyn Jane Garrish, vis iting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Garrish. Lawrence Bal lance and Theodore Mutro arrived Sunday for a visi{ with their fam-| ilies. Miss Leita Mae Willis of Atlantic; visited Mr. and Mrs. Herman Spen cer this past weekend. Friends here were glad to learn that Jesse Garrish, hospitalized in Richmond, is getting on nicely. Mrs. Garrish and their son, Dan ny, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Peyton and Mr. and Mrs. Nor ton Hamilton while they are in Richmond. New Hartford, wife of the Utica College basketball coach. The daily coaversatioas began two years ago. Even a recent trip to the hospit al to give birth of her fourth child (ailed to disrupt Mrs. Huggins' iaily radio routine. She had a re ceiver installed in her hospital room, and got messages from her mother. Mrs. Hngglas also listened to her husband and children calling from heir home radio room during her lospital stay. When conditions are good, Grand ma in Binghamton, Peg at home in New Hartford, and Coach Huggins from his car in Utica minige three-way converiationi. Every T?evUy Mr*. Huggini and other women radio ham* in a hall dozen other citie* hold a coffee break discussion about repaperlng walls, pickling cucumber* and auch. "Thi* is a hobby that ia very rewarding and very enjoyable," *aya Mr*. Gilbert. "You meet people in all walk* of life." The constitution of Panama wa* amended in 1918 to elect provincial governors. S?R-V? F&SSH JEAFOOD ' DRESSED AND DELIVERED Open 24 Hour* Just Call ? Phone PA 6-4020 Ifs Economical to Serve Delicious, Easy to Prepare Seafood. Have Some Today! OTTIS' FISH MARKET 8th and Enni St*. Morthud City PIGGLY WIGGLY SPECIAL BUYS THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY GOLDEN RIPE Bananas 10 U. S. NO. 1 "B" SIZE WHITE POTATOES I 25 & 59/ Fre?h Local Collards LB 1 0^ Tide Water MIX OR MATCH Orange Juice ?-Oi. C?n Tide Water Pineapple Juice UOt- C4n For Welchade Grape Drink CaB J1 .00 FRESH NATIVE PORK LOINS ? 8-12 Lb. LEAN CENTER CUT M PORK CHOPS 49^ LOIN HALF y Lb. LOIN END i 2 to 2Vt Lb. / Lb. TURKEYS - 49' Home-Made Sausage 3 it? j 00 Fresh Corned Pork Sides ? Back Bone ? Shoulders I Plymouth Ice Cream Gal. Vanilla Chocolate Strawberry 55< PLYMOUTH PURE COFFEE s 3 9* LIMIT ONE WITH *5.M ORDER FROSTY ACRES BISCUITS LIMIT S CANS PER CUSTOMER I CAN C U each r PLYMOUTH Salad Dressing 29 1 LIMIT ONE WITH $5.(0 ORDER CHATHAM LILY FLOUR 'Zt iy> Price* Effective Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Feb. 25, 26, 27 1400-1402 ARENDELL ST. MOREHEAD CITY, N. C Gwaltney Pure LARD 4 pki. 45* Chef Boy-Ar-Dee Spaghetti ai Meat Balls Spaghetti and Instant Sanka COFFEE 79? Easy Monday Starch 2 <*? 29? ?w~ ~ ~ ^ No matter how cold it is outside ^ w, ^ f- t & - * v' ' t ? there's always a warm welcome at > mKKM - wigglyl A