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Advocate Archives
This week’s look back into the Advocate archives takes us to 1933 when the cranberry crop took a bad turn, to 1943 when three British airmen were lost in crash off Provincetown, to 1957 when Cape Air broke its previous record for passengers and numbers of flights in a season and to 1962 when a new fishing boat was added to the Provincetown fleet.
Oct. 5, 1933
Poor Cranberry Crop This Year
With the arrival of autumn days the cranberry season has again come into its own. But this year the popular berries are under a handicap. With strikers at the Upper Cape, and a few sifting to the lower part nearer Provincetown, cranberry picking is at its lowest ebb. In addition to this, heavy rains have flooded many cranberry bogs and ruined the crops. Warm weather has also injured the long suffering berries — so altogether consumers will suffer this year.
Along the new road, so called, and other regions in town, many of the bogs are completely submerged in water left from the heavy rain storms during the middle of last month. Cape cranberry growers are facing a big loss these days. Together with rain and out of season warm weather the cranberry crop has become scalded.
In some parts of the Cape almost half of the berries have been affected. They are not entirely lost, for after screening, scalded berries can be culled from the good ones and used for canning purposes.
Oct. 7, 1943
No Trace Is Found of Missing Fliers
Planes and Blimps Search Cape End Area in Careful Hunt
Although there has been much air activity both by planes and Navy blimps over the Cape End, no announcement has been made of any trace of the crashes that brought death to five British airmen during routine flights from two New England bases Sunday.
The 1st Naval District Public Relations Office said three of them, two officers and an enlisted man, were missing after their plane plunged into Cape Cod Bay about five miles west of Provincetown.
The plane, which was based at the Squantum Naval Air Station, sank almost immediately, and searching aircraft failed to detect any trace of the men or their craft.
The other crash killed two British pilots when they plunged into a swamp at North Pownal, Me., after a two-plane collision in the air. The planes had been stationed at the Brunswick, Me., naval air base.
Oct. 10, 1957
Airline Sets All Time High
Air traffic in and out of Provincetown during the 1957 season on Provincetown-Boston Airline broke all records for previous years, according to figures released today by airline President John C. Van Arsdale.
The local airline began its 1957 season operations on May 17 and completed them on September 29. During this period 1,315 flights were operated between Provincetown and Boston with only 25 being cancelled due to weather during the entire season.
The record season saw 8,608 passengers flown between Provincetown and Boston, compared with 6,137 in the same period during the 1956 season. This increase of 2,471 passengers represents a 40 percent gain over the 1956 figures which were a record until this year.
Oct. 4, 1962
New Boat Due for Fishing Here
A new fishing vessel, 92 feet, 7 inches in length overall, will soon be fishing out of Provincetown, skippered by Captain George Adams of 488 Commercial Street.
The 18-year-old craft is now in Boston. It is the Blue Waters, and Captain Adams said the vessel will be in Provincetown in about a week, getting ready to put to sea. The skipper plans to go fishing for ground fish when the vessel is ready.
Captain Adams said he owns one-half of the large vessel. In the meantime, necessary papers are being prepared and a corporation formed to operate the Blue Waters, which will keep its name.
The fishing captain said the craft will be out for days at a time but will be fishing out of Provincetown, with the Cape-tip as its home port. He said he has been looking for such a vessel for some time.
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Oct 4th, 2007