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VOLUME XXVI
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Law Is
By County
Commissioners Often
Go Into Executive
Sessions
"EVERY MEET SHALL BE
OPEN TO ALL PERSONS"
It is no secret to the people of
Carteret county, or to The Beaufort
News at any rate, that when matteis
of vital news importance are to be
discussed by the board of commis
sioners they go into what they term
as an executive session. At executive
sessions usually the members of the
j,qvH anil the countv attorney at
tend. What takes place at such meet
ings the public generally never know.
Executive sessions are contrary to
the Public Laws of North Carolina
None other than Julius F. Duncan,
dean of the bar in Carteret county,
has frequently told the editor of
this newspaper that it is a violation
of the law to go into executive ses
sions. On the other hand County
Atorney Luther Hamilton has often
contended that executive sessions
are absolutely necessary in the dis
cussion of certain matters.
The Beaufort News contends that
while it is unlawful Lo have execu
tive sessions, its contention being
based upon reliable information fur
nished by reliable attorneys, ,tbt
there is no law against members of
the board visiting around and agree
ing upon certain matters before
--their- wetiagTat wWartly
done before the 'now famous'-, meet
ings of this week when the 'now
famous' 'resolutions pertaining to
changes in the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board were piesented and
passed, without some persons who
probably should have known, bein;j
in the dark about it all.
This newspaper criticized the old
county board frequently when then?
was occasion to do so. It was just
as quick to praise any action worthy
of praise. This newspaper thought
perhaps with a change in the person
nel of the board that executive ses
sions would become a thing of the
past but on Monday the board
went into executive session and on
Tuesday at the suggestion of Chair
man W. P. Smith there was another
executive session.
And this newspaper representing
the people of Carteret county natur
ally could not have a representa
tive to cover the executive meets.
V. 0. Williams, local attorney, at
the request of The Beaufort News
submitted the following excerpt"
from the statute relative to "execu
tive sessions" of county commis
sioners: (Continued on page eight)
TIDE TABLE
Information as to the tldo
at Beaufort is given in this
column. The figures are approx
imately correct and based on
tables furnished by the U. &
Geodetic Survey. Some allow
Mires must be made for varia
tions in the wind and also with!
respect to the locality, that is
whether near the inlet or atj
the heads of the estuaries.
High Low
Friday, January S
5:08 a. m.
5:13 p. m. 11:25 p. m.
Saturday, Jan. 9
5:54
6:00
6:34
6:43
7:13
7:25
7:53
8:07
m. 11:28 a. m.
m. 12:15 p. m.
Sunday, Jan. 10
m. 12:16 a. m.
m. 1:01 p. m.
Monday, Jan. 11
m. 1:21 a. m
m. 1:43 p. m.
Tuesday, Jan. 12
m. 1:43 a. m.
m. 2:23 p. m.
Wednesday, Jan. 13
m. 2:24 a. m.
. m. 3:01 p. m.
8:34
8:49
Thursday, Jan. 14
9:12a. m. 3:03 a, m.
9:31 p. m. 3:38 p. m.
eight PAGES this WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THU RSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1937
Off
lcials
Violated
FIRST SOLID CAR
LEAVES TERMINAL
Forty five thousand pounds
of salt in 450 sacks, the first
solid car load of any commodity
to leava Morehead City's poi
terminal rolled westward to
Kinston Wednesday in an A. &
N. C. box car No. 21130, over
Atlantic and North Carolina
railroad tracks. The shipment
was made by Charles R. Allan,
owner of nearly 2,000 tons of
salt, which cams in November
to Morehead City from Sfax,
.Tunisia, marking the first for
eign shipment received at the
new port terminal. The solid
car load was consigned to
Gray and Oglesby wholesale
merchants of Kinston.
Appropriate $50 For
Legislative Purposes
The Carteret county board of
Commissioners voted on Monday
to appropriate $50 to the East
Carolina Association of County
Commissioners to be used in the
fight to protect the financial in
terests of the counties in the
matter of revenue from the sale
-ef liquor, and other legislative
matters. Daily press report in
dicated that Pasquotank had
done likewise. , In . counties
where the ABC revenue is lar-
this purpose were bemf made "'
this week, it was indicated in a
letter received by the Carteret
board
Representative
Fred R. Seeley
Fred R. Seeley of Beaufort is rep
resenting Carteret in the General
Asspnibly this year in Raleigh. He
left here on Tuesday, but was call
ed back to Beaufort on business
the day of the inauguration of Gov
ernor Hoey. Representative Seeley'a
Carteret is one of the most important
counties in North Carolina from a
legislative standpoint. He has a bitf
job in Raleigh this year, but the ov
era-helming vote which gave him the
office in November U proof that the
majority of the peonle have much
faith in his ability to serve Carteret
well.
Canadian Reads About
Beaufort? Plans Visit
From Montreal, Canada, came a re
quest this week for literature about
Beaufort. The letter written by J.
E. Riley, and addressed to the Sec
retary of The Chamber of Commerce
follows:
"Dear Sir: I am a retired ship
ping man 64 years of age, but still
active. I want to spend two months
in a warmer clime. Sometime ago I
read of your town in the Montreal
Herald. Will you please mail me
printed matter you may have, but
more important I should like to know
what rates are charged by one of the
smaller but good hotels or boarding
houses."
The short course for tobacco grow
ers will be held at State College, Jan
uary 18 to 22 and hundreds are ex
expected to attend.
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Make Blued
Carteret's Number One l;rie
nggptf to
Representative Barden Shakes
Representative Graham A. garden
editorially as being Carteret Num
left New Bern last Sunday for Wash
of Congress Tuesday. In theabove
shown shaking hands with Speaker
ed last summer.. Mr. Barden'3 seer
nd Miss Emma Gibbs Morrisey, ste
capital to open his office. i'
Cahoone Assisted In
Attempts To Refloat
Grounded Greek 3 S
Setting his coursa by an out o
date chart which gave a d:(s:vnt
location of Frying Pan Shoaii light
ship the skipper of the Greek S. S.
Mount Dirsys ran his vessel aground
on the shoals off Cape Fear several
days ago. The Coast Guard cutter
Modoc of Wilmington and the, If 5
foot patrol boat Cahoone, uadliiC.
command of Capt. A. Jonansen 01
Advance Base "A" Morehead City
sailed to Fiying Pan and made
efforts to refloat the steamer.
When their efforts proved fruit
less the craw .of 31 aboard the ill
fated vessel wer landed at the Quar
antine station near Southport, anr!
the Steamer will be a total loss, it is
believed.
The Mount Dirsys was loaded with
a cargo of iron ore. She was 03
days out of Koi'.thothan, India, where
the ore was taken on. She was
bound for Wilmington, Del. Thei-2
is a possibility that her skipper got
his Wilmingtons mix?d up, although
no statement was made to that ef
fect. The assumption is made since
the course of the ship was via the At
lantic and not the Pacific and Pan
ama Canal route.
Dr. K. P. B. Bonner Resigns
From Commissioners Board
"I could not sit on a board and
be a party to acts actuated by petty
politics and personal spite, and I
refuse to bea rubber stamp man,"
said Dr. Kemp Plummer Battle Bon
ner to the News and Observer cor
respondent here Tuesday following
his resignation from the Carteret
County Board of Commissioners.
The resignation ended 2G yeais
in the public life of Carteret county
Suzie The Seal
Mounted Now She It Displayed At Fisheries Lab
Last year the harbor seal in the above photo was captured by fisher
men near Ft. Macon Coast Guard station after she had strayed far
from her native Labrador shores. For several weeks she was kept a
live in the sa!t water pool at the U. S. Fisheries Laboratory on Pivers
Island.. .Shortly after the big snow she died. Sent to Raleigh, State
Museum taxidermists mounted the seal which had been named Susie
and a few days ago the mounted speciman was sent back to the Fish
eries Laboratory for displayed in the marine collection there. (Pho
to by Dr. Herbert F. Prytherch.)
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Speaker Bankhead's Hand
whom The Beaufort News spoke of
01 One friend in last week's edition
gton to be on hand for the opening
photo Representative Barden is
tV. B. Eankhead as" Congress adjourn
tary, Tom McGee, of Mount Olive,
icgrapher left last week for the
i kipper Wrote That
Samnanger Had Fine
Trip Down To Chili
Without any hullabaloo, (because
;ho was not the first foreign ship to
cuter that port) the S. S. Samnan
ger of Bergen, Norway docked in
Wilmington this week with a cargo
of nitrate consigned to W. H. Pryde-.
at the CaDe Fear river port from
ChilLV ... '
In""!' letter., 'fa'v, Aycocf: Browii
editor of The Beaufort News, Capt.
T. Hermansen, master of the vessel
wroto from Cristobal, Canal Zon3
this week stating that his vessel and
;:.:;o :ivs pacing lii rough the Pan
. :.ia Cr.r.i! at the and was e::
p&cted at Wilmingto:; on January 3.
"I certainly had c sv.-cil time n
Morehead City and I would bj very
pkasod if my s'lip v.m ordeied to
your port with a cargo of nit: ate
Wo enjoyed a fine trip cown to
Chili," wrote the genial master of
the first foreign essel to enter
Morehead City's new port terminal
in November. Th Samnanger
brousrht a cargo of salt from Sfax,
Tunisia, to Moreh?ad City. Capt
Hermansen state ! that he would like
to have copies of The Beaufort News
containing pictures of his ship, the
port terminal and his salon and same
have been forwarded.
to: the Morehead City physician.
For the past three years, until the
January meeting of the county
board, Dr. Bonner had been chair
man of the group. At the January
meeting W. P. Smith of Beaufort
was elected Chairman and Bonner
was made vice chairman.
The Text of i.r. Bonner's Utter
of resignation will be found on page
eight.
Comns Home
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Commissioners Met
Monday and Tuesday
ABC Official Makes
Comments About
Situation
BELIEVES "SMITH WILL
TENDER RESIGNATION
Charles Lambert Skarren Jr., Car
teret county ABC official who has!
been more or less in the spotlight at
recent controversies involving the
County Board of Commissioners vs
the ABC Board said today that " it
is felt that Chairman W. P. Smith
will tender his resignation at an
early date."
He gave several reasons one be
ing that "Smith oversteps authority
vested in him by the Public Laws of
North Carolina, in that he presented
resolutions to the board in connec
tion with ABC law which was not
vested in the board under Public
Laws of 1935 by repeal of the Tur
lington Act."
"Smith presented resolutions to
appoint J. J. Whitehurst, ex-county
auditor who resigned under fire af
ter an audit reflected discredably on
his record," Skarren stated, adding
that "Smith had presented Mr. White
hurst's name as disbursing agent to
conduct the affairs of the ABC
stores in the face of his record as
appeared in that audit." Skarren
was referring to an audit made by
Abraham and Whitakers several
months ago. t . : 1
"The ABC Board acting at the re
quest of Chairman Smith at the meet
ing held December 14, combined the
office of disbursing agent, warehouse
manager and book-keeper. Frank
Klein,, ex-city clerk v "of ''-.Morehead
City was appointee! "td flll -those' po
sitions at a stipulated salary of $150
per month," it was ?tat?d by Mr.
Skarren. , , . J
Commenting on Mr. Kleins record
Skarren stated, "It was Mr. Klein
who while acting as clerk of More
head City worked out a system
which has enabled, rot only More
head City, but Beaufort and Carter
et county to take in thousands of
dollars worth of bonds which other
wise would not have been curtailed."
High in his praise for Klein and
his ability, Skarren said, "Klein is
also an outstanding accountant and
business man however the Board of
Commissioners disapproved M r.
Klein as disbursing agent and now it
appears that in addition to the $150
Mr. Klein will receive for acting as
book keeper and warehouse manager,
an additional $50 per month will be
paid J. J. Whitehurst as disbursing
agent, bringing the total to $200."
"The red light district of More
head Bluffs area wilj no doubt re.'
appear as the result of one of Chair
man Smith's resolutions adopted by
the Board Monday has done away
with the law enforcement to elimi
nate the illicit liquor traffic in Car
teret county," said Mr. Skarren who
added, "It will be recalled that the
purpose of the Pasquotank Act was
to control li:uor instead of profit by
operation of stores."
In the foregoing paragraph Mr.
Skarren was referring to a Resolu
tion adopted which reduced the sum
for enforcement by ABC Board to
only 5 per cent of profits.
New Years Baby
Late last Thursday night
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Golden of
Bettie sent to town for a doc
tor. The doctor, and a nurse ar
rived. Slmitly ifter 12 o'clock
the Goldens became the parents
of a nine pound baby boy. The
little fellow was Carteret's
New Year Baby, the first born
in this county during 1937.
Mormon Missionaries
In County For Awhile
Elder Evan W. Hansen, Salt Lake
City, Utah, and Elder Ruben F. But
ler, Pima, Arizona arrived in Beau
fort this week and will be in the
county for two or three months do
ing missionary work for the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Unknown to the public generally
the Latter-day Saints have a church
in Carteret county. It is located on
Harkers Island where there are many
members of that faith.
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Chairman's Statement
Probably Squelched
A Damage Suit
WHITEHURST APPOINTED
DISBURSEMENT OFFICER
Trouble between the Carteret
county commissioners and the Car
teret ABC board were smoothed ov
er, temporarily at least, on Tuesday
when the commissioners change 1
their minds about the auditing of the
liquor board's account. When a
certain resolution was adopted on
Monday a sentence in same indicated
that Chairman W. P. Smith was in
structed to get in touch with the Lo
calcal Government Commission and
a "reputable" auditing firm for the
purpose of effecting an audit of the
liquor business of the county. On
Monday too, a motion was passed re
scinding an order of December 14
which was an agreement that Wil
Hams and Wall, accounting firm of
Raleigh were to be granted a con
tract to audit the ABC books of the
county during the current year.
An authentic story in The News
and Observer Tuesday morning us
ing excerpts of the now famous res
olutions which were passed in such
a hurry on Monday, aroused the
wrath of certain individuals con
cerned. Frank Wall of Williams and
Wall was on hand at he commi
sioiiefs meetnlg Ti; -L. and mada
no secret of the fact that the word
"reputable" used as it had been in
Resolution No. 4, adopted on Mon
day was no compliment to his firm.
Direct questions were fired at the
board members by Mr. Wall who ap
peared with Attorney W. O. Wil- .
llami "Things? wefie "getting rfiighty;
interesting from a news standpoint
at that open meeting perhaps too
interesting because Chairman Smith
suggested that an executive session
be held. Following this executive se3
sion the following statement was re
leased by Chairman W. P. Smith:
"My attention and the atten
tion of the Board of Commis
sioners of Carteret County has
been called to a statement ap
pearing in the News and Obser
ver of this date, under a Beau
fort headline, in which it might
be inferred that the Commis
sioners of Carteret County have
not been satisfied with the aud
it that heretofore had been
made of the affairs of the ABC
Board of the county, ani that
the order by the Board of De
Continued on page four
This Baffling Lingo
An AP Assignment
A nassignment received by Ay
cock Brown, central coast Associate
ed Pressman this week would sounJ
awfully baffling to thj average per
son, but not to a correspondent who
understands the language of bureau
managers of the world's largest new
agency. The assignment:
"Please wire what chancs get
ting Rodanthe ChrUtmas hct
and tending Journal Building
Atlanta with bill. Uncare for
man who hat teen beaiti kneel
unlets ha ttanding by Chrittmat
tree in that cillage with chil
lun Regard- Attociated Prett.
Eagle-eyed Associated Pressman u
Charlotte had picked up an inter
view with George W. Hay, Beaufort
nightwatchman, who made an unusu
al story for leading morning papers
of state last week. Hay had invited
local correspondent tj visit around
with him on Old Christmas eve
night and see 'all living beasts movff
on stroke of twelve.'
Assciated Press had previously
given the world a story about Old
Christmas observance down at Ro
danthe on Hatteras Island sent in
by their Beaufort correspondent,
and the Southern AP photo bureaa
in Atlanta had requested newspic
ture. As George Hay lives in Beau
fort where Old Christmas is not ob
served, and as Rodanthe is nearly
100 miles by water from Beaufort,
the local correspondent transferred
assignment to Associated Pressman
Earl Dean and Victor Meekins down
on Roanoke Island, much nearer,
Rodanthe and Old Christmas.