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Croakers le
Sea Mullet 4c
Jack 2c
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Community Center
Friday Night
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VOLUME XXVI
SIX PAGES THIS WEEK
THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1937
PRICE 5c SING. fi OPY
NUMBER 4
Authentic Data On
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Gulf Stream
Recent Article' Placed
Stream's Position
Far Off Shore
LETTER TO REYNOLDS
BRINGS GULF NEARER
The Gulf Stream is nearer the
Carteret mainland than any mainland
north of Florida. As a matter of
fact the Gulf Stream is within 30
miles of Beaufort and Morehead City
the local Chamber of Commerce
learned with pleasure this week from
government authorities whose busi
ness it is to chart the various navi
gable waters of the United States.
The reason the local Chamber of
Commerce was pleased to learn that
the stream was so near the coast of
Carteret was because one of the fine
est books ever written about this
state and her natural resources,
"NORTH CAROLINA: Today and
Tommorow," edited by Paul Kelly
and recently published by the De
partment of Conservation and De
velopment would have people believ
ing otherwise. Near the beginning
of that splendidly written and elab
orate book is an article in which it is
stated that contrary to popular be
lief and frequent reports the Gulf
(Continued on page eight)
Warren Is Seeking
Coast Guard Raise
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 Repre
sentative Lindsay Warren is continu
ing his fight in behalf of the surf
men in the Coast Guard to get re
stored to them the- $1 per day suste
nance allowance which they former
ly received. The men in the 7th Coast
' ' Guard District now get' 60, .cents per
-4rjFwWl trnrte-d!s1fifets' f hey re
ceive 75 cents per day provided
they eat together. Mr. Warren is
seeking to get the one dollar per day
allowance restored without any re
strictions. He said today that he had
no hope of an appropriation for that
purpose as the Budge Bureau would
not approve the item, but that he
was hopeful by reason of certain
economies within the Coast Guard
that it might be possible by July. It
was Representative Warren who pre
vailed upon Admiral Billiard, then
Commandant of the Coast Guard, sev
eral years ago to make the one dol
lar allowance, but it was reduced
during the depression.
POULTRY CAR DUE
IN CARTERET SOON
Hugh Overstreet, county agent,
has arranged for a poultry car to be
at Newport on Feb. Srd-17th and
March 3rd, 17th and 31st. This
purchase of poultry is sponsor
ed every year at this time by
the Farmers Cooperative Exchange
of Raleigh, sales are paid for at the
car, and this is an excellent opportu
nity for farmers to dispose of sur
plus poultry.
IN WASHINGTON
WHAT
IS
TAKING
PLACE
BY
UNITED STATES SENATOR
..
IT IS CUSTOMARY, following
the inauguration of a President of
the United States for newspapermen
and radio commentators to seek out
members of Congress, Governors and
visiting dignitaries to ascertain their
views on the inaugural address. This
year was no exception, and press and
radio have carried to our 130,000,
000 people comment, on the message
of President Roosevelt. Any study of
the address and any analysis of the
comment' that has followed, reveals
clearly that the President's message
caught the tempo of the times.
, IT WAS A message of hope. It
was a well-phrased appeal to indi
vidual patriotism. It , was a docu
ment that went far beyond political
(Continued on page eight )
V
Uiven
May Send Potatoes
To Flood Victims
Plan were underway by
Red Croat officials to tend a
carload of tweet potatoes from
Carteret county to the flood
victims of the Ohio and Miss
issippi. Already railroad offic
ials have stated they would
furnish a car for the purpose
and that transportation would
be free. Legion and Red Cross
officials would solicit the pota
toes from farmers of the coun
ty. Many have already stated
that they would contribute to
the car load. As we go to press
Dr. F. E. Hyde, chairman of
the local Red Cross Chapter
was awaiting instruction from
headquarters of relief activi
ties at to where the potatoes
should be shipped. r
Treasurer Of Fair
Tom Kelly
Tom Kellv. nrominont in local
American Legion circles will again be
treasurer of the Legion sponsored
Carteret county fair here in Octo
ber, 1937. He served in that same
capacity during the very successful
fair of 1936, which was made pos
sible by the sponsorship of Carteret
Post, 99, of The American Legion,
which has members in Beaufort,
Morehead City and eastern communi
ties. This year the O. C. Buck expo
sitions will be the midway attrac
tion at the fair.
Civil War Batis
By (Late) Jas. Rumlsy Esq.
Synopsis
Heavy cannonading in the dir
ection of New Bern on March
13, 1862 indicated to the people
of Beaufort that the 'war' had
at last reached this section. On
March 15, New Bern was cap
tured. On March 17, the Con
federate steamer Nashville,
which had run the blockade to
reach Beaufort, having lately
come from England via Ber
muda, sailed from this port safe
ly; General John G. Pake with
1,500 troops occuDied Carolina
City on March 22 and on March
24 a detachment under a flag
of truce came to Beaufort to
invite citizens of the town to
Carolina City for a conference
On the night of March 25, two
companies of U. S. troops oc
cupied Beaufort. Promised by
General Burnside that the oc
cupation of Beaufort would in
no way corrup the rights of citi
zens. But with the occupation
of the town, the situation be
tween slaves and owners be
came tense. Several acts of
outrage were published in the
foregoing instalments the last
being the entrance of Dr.' King's
home by the Federal troops
under the pretense of looking
powder. This is the diary of
the late James Rumley Esq.,
written here in Beaufort dur
: ing the ' Civil War.
' Third Installment.
NOT SATISFIED with a fruitless
search for powder, and the plunder
of 15 barrels of corn from the pri
(Continued on pace eight)
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TILLIESEt ;FQR BIG PARTY:
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JVhat goes on? Left to right: Nancy Nichols, impersonating TlIHe
?Ti,,er' beta? drawn by Buss Westover. Westover is permitting
Wile to go to the President's Birthday Ball, January 30, in the per'
.son of Nancy. .. ., . . . Z '
PRESIDENT'S BALL
on friday mm
Skunk Ernul And His "Swing
sters" Will Make the Music
For Dancers
Previously announced for Satur
day night, January 30, the local Pres.'
ident's Ball will be given atlhe Com
munity Center here on Friday iight
January 29 instead, it was anJFsuncea
today by C'Lambert - Skarre ball
chairman. - This is the ' third year
that a President's Ball has been pre
sented in Beaufort and in the past
they have attracted a large number
of dancers.
Proceeds from the ball, above ac
tual expenses are used in the fiht
against Infantile Paralysis. Thirty
per cent goes to the national com
mittee while 70 per cent is retained
locally to be used in the fight against
this dreaded disease. The balls are
given each year throughout the
country on President Franklin D.
Roosevelt's' birthday. Giving the
balls for the benefit of infantile
paralysis sufferers was originally his
idea.
Excellent music by "Skunk Ernul"
and his "Swingsters" amplified thru
an AP Sound system is promised pat
rons of the ball. His orchestra plays
for a similar ball in New Bern on
Saturday night. Admission will
$1.00.
be
Challenged To Play
The Beaufort Rotarlans have
challenged the Morehead City
Rotarians for a game of bas
ket ball to be played on next
Tuesday night at the gymna
sium in Beaufort. Tom Hood
stated today that :s would not
know until tonight whether the
challenge would be accepted.
feathered dynamite"
Excerpts of a story about .quail hunting in Carolina
by Corey Ford and Alastair MacBain, in the cur
rent edition of Colliers Magazine.
Corey Ford and Alastair Mac
Bain, magazine writers of national
note came to North Carolina quail
hunting a few weeks ago. As the re
sult of that huntimr triD this State
and the excellent quail shootnig to
be had within our boundaries has
been jriven nublicitv in Colliers. The
National Weekly, which is perhaps
the most widely reai? weekly maga
zines in America.
Feathered Dynamite is the title of
the Ford-MacBain story which is
given prominence in the current edi
tion of Colliers. Under this caption
is the following subhead: "This is
once you wont mind getting up in
the mornings we're off to hunt ouail.
the fastest, trickiest, most satisfac
tory game birds. We're in the right
place too. North Carolina''"
quail are Increasing annually,' due toH
souna conservation mesaures. Come
along, your're sure of a shot."
. Ford and McBairt did their hunt
ing in the Piedmont area, and they
were highly pleased with their var
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COASTGUARD OFF
TO FLOODED AREA
Motor Lifeboats And Many
Men Sent From This
District
Approximately 50 coastguardsmen
aboard 15 motor life boats have gone
to the middlewest flood zone for
rescue duty. In the northeast section
of the state the men and their boats
entrained from. NorfolkFrom. the
southern section, that is from Creeds
Hill to Oak Island, the men and their
boats entrained from. Wilmington.
From Coastguard Advance Base A
in Morehead City, th 125 foot pa
trol boat Cahoone under the com
mand of Capt. Jenkins with a crew
of 17 men sailed yesterday for New
Orleans where it will be one of many
(Continued on page two)
This Announcement
News to Beaufort
An announcement appea.i":
in the Twin-City Herald Wed
nesday read as follows: "No
tice Effective January 28th
until further notice, highway
traffic will be closed on the
Beaufort causeway from 12:00
midnight to 5 A. M. Bridge
under construction. State High
way and Public Works Commis
sion." Just why those in author
ity did not notify The Beaufort
News is not known unless they
were under the impression that
it would bring protests from the
citizens of Beaufort. And that i3
what it did, so today Chamber
of Commerce officials in Beau
fort have wired authorities ask
ing that the bridge not be clos
ed to traffic for more than cue
hour at a time.
ious bags of feathered dynamite. It
would have been the same story if
they had hunted in our eastern sec.
tion of the state or the western area
because North Carolina, from the
mountains to the sea is truly a quail
hunting paradise.
Excerpts from the Ford-MacBain
story follow:
"There is only on bird in Caro
lina. To be sure, there are warblers
and orioles and larks, there are buz
zards wheeling overhead and turtle
doves COOine in the cornfields hnf rn
your native Carolinian these myriads
of feathered songsters, rendering
their matutinal chorus within ap
proximately a shoe's throw of your
bedroom window each morning, sim
ply don't belong in the same orni
thologieal league. When they say
'''birdf jfowji.-here.in the South, they
mean just one thing. They mean
quail t . ; . ' ; h :
" . . . And that is why as the
snows pile higher in the North and
(Continued on page two)
n
Flood
How Groups Responded
Mrs. M. E. Blood?ood telephoned
The Beaufort New3 office just as we
err tn Tirana tnrlav ttnri CAVA A. Com
plete list of the contributions to the
Kea uross Dy groups. Names oi in
dividuals were omittd due to lack
of space to print same. The list
follows : ' '
Beaufort Graded School ' $41.80
Local Chapter Fund 25.00
American Legion 15.25
Church 4.00
Rotarv Club 7.50
Junior BYPU 1.00
Ruth Bible Class 4.50
Barbours Machine Shoe 4.50
C. D. Jones Co. 12.00
Individual Gifts $135.65
Total
$256.20
Given Important Post
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Graham A. Bard en
Representative Graham A. Bar
den, of this Congressional District,
and youngest member of the North
Carolina delegation in Washington
was selected last Friday to the post
of 'official objector.' It is one of
the most responsible and unsought
positions in the House. It will be
his duty to watch all bills on the
private calendar and consent calen
dar and see that none except meri
torious ones pass. This is only one
of the important committee posts
which Congressman Barden holds in
the House,
Soil Conservation
Meet Here Saturday
"Hugh Overstreet, county agent,
is calling a meeting of all the farmers
in Carteret for Saturday, Jan. 30th,
at 2:00 P. M., at which time the Soil
Conservation Program for 1937 will
be presented to them. H. A. Patten,
former agent of Craven County and
at present in Raleigh with the Soil
Conservation Program will be here
to talk to the farmers. All farmers
in the county have been notified by
Mr. Overstreet, and any one inter
ested in this program is invited to
attend."
TWO STATION BOA1S
MISSED THEIR TRAIN
The Ocracoke picket boat stopped
at Morehead City this morning to re
fuel before continuing to her home
station. A motor life boat with crew
of three men from Kmnekeet sta
tion stopped at Fort Macon to await
orders before continuing to her sta
tion. Both of the foregoing boats
had started for Wilmington to en
train for the flood area of the mid
dle west, but reached there too
late to catch the. train, which would
have transported them, it was report
A NEW SUBSCRIBER
IN TELA, HONDURAS
Added to the subscriDtion list nf
The Beaufort News this week was
Jack A. Taylor, of Tela, Honduras,
Central America. He i? the son of C.
B. Taylor, high official of the United
Fruit Co., who lives in Boston, and a
grandchild of the N. W. Taylors'
here in Beaufort. Mr. Taylor is not
the only subscriber we have, in for
eign lands. Each week copies of The
Beaufort News go to Mexico, Cana
( Continued om page two) j
Citizens; Helip
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Victims
Receive Contributions
From All Sections
Of Carteret
RED CROSS OFFICIALS
SURE OF LOCAL QUOTA
Citizens of Beaufort have respond
ed freely in the drive now being con
ducted by the local chapter of the
American Red Cross for funds to add
the flood victims of the middle west.
The initial quota for the local chap
ter was $60. It was raised in less
than 60 minutes. The the quota waa
doubled and again contributions giv
freely by all solicited was easily
raised. : ; . : , .. , . :t .j
The last message called for a quo
ta of $300, or five-times the original
amount asked early Monday and as
we go to press today Mrs. M. E.
Bloodgood, chairman of the drive for
the Beaufort chapter which includes
the communities in East Carteret
were within a few dollars of the a
mount needed. The total amount
raised until noon today was $256.20,
said Mrs. Bloodgood, but even be
fore this edition goes on the street
the total quota will probably bo
raised and over the top.
So far the communities in East
Carteret have not reported. Collec
tions in those communities uusally
made through the schools are always
generous, because the contributors
are people who have been aided them
selves during local disaste -, by this
same American P?d C:o:3.
During a drive last year for funds
to aid the victims of tornado razed
towns in this and. other Southern '
states the citizens of Cedar Island
were among the largest contributors,
according to population. Back in
1933 Cedar Island was right in the
path of a hurricane which caused
thousands of dollars in damage, and
which received. Red. Cross a.id hardly
bS&r thi w!n4 died put. ..
Citizens in Eastern communities
may make their contributions to their
local school pt church officials who
in turn Will send same into head
quarters here, it was stated! ' f'f
(Continued on page five) '-
Quail Hunting Good
In County Recently
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Quail are plentiful and the gun
ning for these birds has been very
good in Carteret county during the
recent mid-winter warm weather.
Local, county and visiting sportsmen
have frequently gone afield and bag
ged their limit without any difficulty.
Stanley Secombe and L. E. Combs of
Connecticut and New Jersey return
ed to theih homes this week after
shooting quail for several days with
L-oocn Lhadwick over his splendid
bird dogs. Mr. Chadwick told a News
reporter that the hunting was fina
while the out of state residents were
here. - '
TIDE TABLE
Information & to the tid
at Beaufort is given in this
column. The figures are appro
imately correct and based on
tables furnished by the U. S
Geodetic Survey. Some allow
ances must be made for varia
tions in the wind and also with
respect to the locality, that is
whether. .near, the inlet- -or at
the heads of the estuaries.
High Tide Loi
Friday, Jan. 29
10:00 a. m. 3:52
10:25 p. m. 4:18
Saturday, Jan. 30
10:38 a. m. 4:36
4:59
Sunday, Jan. 31
11:06 a. m, 5:21
11:14 p. m. 5:41
Tide
m.
m.
m,
m.
Monday, Fab. 1
m. 6-08
11:46 a.
m.
m.
11:55 p. m. 6:26
Tuasday, Feb. 2
12:27 a, m. . 7 .00
12:35
118
1:20
2:07
2:15
P- nu 7:15
WaAaetday. Fab. 3
nu
m. 7:45 a. nu
p. m. 8:08 p. m.
Tbaraday, Fab. 4
. m. 8:49 a. m,
p. m. 9:01 p. m.