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PAGE FOUR THE BEAUFORT NEWS BEAUFORT, N. C. Thursday, April 8, 1937 The Beaufort News published every Thursday at Beau fort, Carteret County, North Car. Beaufort Newt Inc., PublUW AYCOCK BROWN Editor Subscription Rtei; (In Advance) Due Year Six Months 75 Ilree Months 60 the above prices are for the first, second and third zones. In the fourth tone the rate is ?2.00 a year. Entered as second-class matter Feb ruary 5, 1912 at the postoffice in Beaufort, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. MEMBER N. C. PRESS ASSO. THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1937 an attractive finance offer. Each civic club in town is ex pected to push the "Clean-Up Week' movement and every citizen should lend their sup port by cleaning up around their own premises and thu. making a pretty little town even more beautitul. to designates a clean up week Model T. Metal And War Maybe when the person said it he was not being original be cause the same subject has been on the minds of many hereabouts since the shipments of scrap metal first started to arrive at Moreneaa uny rori Terminal for shipment to for eign countries, uut this lei low the editor was talking to over there at Port Terminal a few days ago looked at the huge piles of scrap, said some thing about the nation to which it is being shipped and then, 'I exoect to be dodging bul lets made from Model T's, be fore the finale is written to all of this." And that person probably had something in his statement. Already there is talk in Congressional circles a- bout prohibiting the shipment of scrap metal from this coun try to foreign nations espec ially foreign nations which might explode like a fire crack er that means WAR at some fu ture date. There is something .wrong with the whole picture as we see it. Seems that rates would be such that it would be cheaper by far to ship scrap metal to domestic foundries instead of munition makes in foreign lands. But that is .where the hitch comes into the picture. It is said that scrap metal can be shipped via More- head City and other south-At lantic ports from this and other states, cheaper by far than it can be shipped to toundnes in Pennsylvania. One is five or six hundred miles by American railroads the other is five or bix thousand miles by water, ,with a short haul by rail get ting trie metal to a place ot embarkment. Organization Of A Golf Club Next Monday evening at Beaufort Community Center everyone interested in Golf in Carteret county is expected to gather and formulate a golf club. There are upwards of people in the county, probably more, who are known to be golf players. The only trouble has been that there was no place to play hereabouts so now many players need to spruce up on their game. With the completion of Gulf Stream Golf Course at Beaufort Com munity Center during the earlv summer it is hoped that a club of players will be functioning. Being a member of Gulf Stream Golf Club will not be an expensive proposition, anci it is necessary to form such a club before the proper-upkeep of the course can be ex pected. Golf minded people from all over the county should make it a point to be at the or ganization meeting on Monday night. April 19 Through 24 Set Aside By Officials as Clean-Up And Paint Up Week in Effort to Beautify Beaufort Commissioners And Their Methods ' The "stab in the back" meth ods employed by one or more members of the Board of Coun ty Commissioners is becoming distasteful to the more intelli gent minded people of this community. Even in politics there can be some honor, yet for some reason this has ap- larently failed to sink home, t is agreed that as a whole the Board of County Commis sioners is composed of men of high standing in their respec tive communities. This being true why is it that they have few scruples when it comes to dealing with reputations and jobs. Lawrence Hassell, Clerk of the Superior has had a long and honorable career in the annals of county politics, why then should he have been sub jected to the humiliation of having his name dragged thru the public forum in a manner vhich caused both he and his family no end of embarrass nent? Why was he not con sulted by the Board in connec- lion with furnishing the addi tional bond of $5,000, which the previous Board had recom mended he give. In a letter written to Judge Paul Friz- zelle, Which bore the signature of Chairman Smith, Lawrence Hasselrs removal from office was sought'. Fortunately the matter has been adjusted to the satisfaction of all concern ed. In the future it is hoped that the members of the Board of Commissioners will be a bit more considerate and thought ful in their efforts to play the game of politics. Bard Of Ocracoke Is Dead In the death of Simie O'Neal down on Ocracoke early today the island lost another famous citizen who had during his life played an important role in the life of the community. He was perhaps the most wide ly known person to ever live on Ocracoke Island, with the possible exception of the late Capt. Bill Gaskill who ODerat ed The Pamlico Inn there for years. Simie distinguished him self as an island character be cause of his keen wit, the way he got across coastlore stories to listeners, whether they were his next door neighbors or Vice President Garner. Arkansas' Joe Robinson, or any number of great and near great person ages. Simie could truly be called the 'Bard of Ocracoke.' His passing will sadden the hearts of many friends thru out the country. Press Qlccinings STATISTICS Last year, aviation officials report, scheduled airlines were flying 20, 000,000 passenger miles per passen ger fatality. Certainly that is a lot of miles. It means that the traveler could expect to fly 1,000 miles a day for 60 years before it would be his turn statistically for a fatal aerial accident. Statistics surely should be encouraging, but yesterday in Gal lup, N. M., the report came in of the findnig of the wreckage of a big plane in the mountains. Last week . . . and the week before . . . Statistics are excellent. Indeed at this season they seem to be almost too good (News and Observer). April 19 through April 24th has been set aside by town officials as "Official Clean-Up" week in Beau, fort. All civic clubs of the town are expected to co-operate during this week in helping Beaufort dress up for the coming tourist season. Local dealers will advertise "Clean Up Week" offering bargains in paint, lawn implements and other things needed to help make a pretty little town, still more beautiful. Mayor Bayard Taylor stated today that the Town would issue circulars to be placed in the homes of Beaufort urging cooperation on the part of property owners during clean-up week. The Sanitary Department of the town will work overtime if nec essary to help make "Clean-Up Week" a success. The Chamber of Commerce, The Beaufort Business Association, The Woman's Clubs and church organiza tions will be asked to lend their ef forts. The local Boy Scouts will be asked to give their assistance and after a week of it Beaufort is not expected to look like the same town but a much cleaner town.' Property owners who would like to paint their houses but feel thai they are not financially able to do so because of the lump sum of cash necessary, will find local paint dealers reday to offer same on a finance ba sis. One of the biggest attractions to out of town visitors is the Colonial architecture of local homes, frequent ly criticized frr lack of paint. Clean Up Week in Beaufort, it is hoped, will bring about a generous use of paint. Carteret Pirates (Conitnued from page one) All boys not older than 17 on March 31st 1937, who wish to try out for the team are requested to regis ter NOW either with Vernon Paul, at House Drug Store, Beauofrt or Tom Wade at Huffhams Drug Store, More head City. with him aboard the Fearl D. Evans of Newport News when he was master aboard that craft. Capt. George onee owned a trawler. It was an old converted coast guard chaser. But the vessel was a white elephant. On the fisst cruise into North Carolina wateis the craft caught fire and sank about a mile off Ocracoke's shore line. Capt. George has had some tough breaks during his life. CAPT. J. LLOYD, master of the S. S. Waziristan, in his quarters aboard the freighter last Friday proved to be a wonderful host. Bob Lang and myself had gone over to visit the skipper and his ship which has taken on a cargo of scrapped Model Ts etc., said to be consigned to munition makers in Kobe and Yowata, Japan. Visitors generally were not allowed to go aboard the vessel, but news, papermen whose stories mean news as well as publicity for a freighter of a port, and a theatrical man who wanted to hand out passes to every visiting 'Limey' aboard the craft were given a warm welcome. CAPT. LLOYD HAILS from Liver pool. He did not have the complete English brogue that some of his crew used freely. He did have plenty thrilling stories to tell about his ex periences aboard vessels sailing the four oceans and the seven seas and the Hudson Bay. Making a late sea son run out of Hudson Bay a few years ago the ice pack caught his vessel, the Bay Eskimo, and onto the bergs went the skipper Lloyd and his crew and passengers (including two women ) while the Bay Eskimo was crushed to pieces and went to the bottom. The luckiest break in the world for those 52 survivors was after a cold night on the ice, their rescue early next morning by another vessel coming that route. Everyone Should Help During "Clean-Up-Week" Every citizen of Beaufort should co-operate during the week of April 19 through the 24 which has been designated by Town Officials as official "Clean-Up Week." Many spots in Beaufort look rather shab by just at the present time and now that Spring has arrived it is time to clean up those shab by places. Many of the fine old homes in Beaufort need new coats of paint. Local deal ers are ready to co-operate with onyone who wishes to paint their homes. If you do not have the ready cash, your dealer can- probably offer you STATE PORTS LOSE Recently, says the Kinston Free Press, forty carloads id tobacco for export left that city ever one rail road, and it was enroute to ports out side of North Carolina. Nor is the neighboring city's paper convinced that that was a record movement. On the contrary, it believes that it may have been far from a record move ment, for many millions of pounds of tobacco are sold there every year and the foreign manufacturers zet a large part of it. The fact that the tobacco moves to a port outside the state isn't the fault of the railroads. They, of course, encourage business where they may get the most out of it. Dealers and shippers customarily have traffic experts to see that they are not paying exorbitant rates. And the service offered has a lot to do1 with where the business goes. The Free Press, however, points out that North Carolina loses by the tobacco going to Virginia and other ports. And it is convinced that some thing should be done about clearinc the tobacco through Morehead City and Wilmington. Enough tobacco is exported from Kinston, Wilson, Greenville, Rocky Mount and other North Carolina markets, it adds, to to add materially to the tonnage of the two North Carolina ports. This section and the state has been watching with a great deal of interest the manner in which cargoes of scrap iron ar being handled at Morehead City. Everything is in readiness there for the handling of other cargoes as well. (The New Bern Sun-Journal). Re-EIect Allen (Continued from page one) whereby any information regarding the schools can be readily obtained. Those in charge of selecting men to represent the county on its board of education took to heart President Roosevelt's slogan of having new blood on its committees and appoint ed Dr. Larry Moore as a member of the board. The members laready on the board likewise believed in the President's slogan and chose Dr. Moore as their chairman. It is an honor to our county to have for the chairman of its board of eduction a man, who knows the situation con fronting the schools as does Dr. Moore and who is willing to make the sacrifice of his personal work to give the time necessary for this office. WATERFRONT (Conitnued from page one) group fetching the net aboard, and later Roy snapped oil-skinless John Sikkes and myself making faces at each other. ABOARD THE TRAWLER I found my friend Capt Walter George in command. He is one of the better fishermen and in the old days I fre quently went out of Ocracoke Inlet Beaufort where they will do mission ary work for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints for the next several weeks. Elder Buswell comes direct from Utah where he was active not only m church work but also he is an energetic Boy Scout leader. Elder Goodman had for the 10 months been located in eastern Kentucky doing similar church work, until he came to North Carolina and centered his labors around Wilming ton for the past five months. FOR SALE ONE LOT IN HIGH- land Park, Conveniently located and suitable for building. Apply C. M. Jones, Beaufort, N. C. IF HE HAD BEEN an American skipper he would probably asked us to have a 'shot' and that would not have been news. But when he used the English phrase"Have a spot!" I saw what looked like a black faced news feature for the daily press, Probably you saw the story in lasts Saturday s New and Observer. The skipper, his vessel and the port made front page on the same day in the Greensboro Daily, but it was a dif fertn story.. it was one of those kind of stories which make the operators of river ports scratch their heads and wonder what will be what in ten more years in North Carolina insofar as ports are concerened. THAT SPOT WAS a brand of American made spirits which anyone can buy from the ABC shelves of the county stores "I am sorry I cannot offer you a drink of Scotch, but the Customs officials sealed it up when we came into port," apologized Capt. Lloyd as he showed us the Locker which will not be unsealed until the foreign vessel is beyond the three mile limti, on her way to the 'land of the Sun.' Of course the skipper had been perrnftted to remove as many bottles as he thought he would desire while in port, but guests of a skipper has many toasts to drink to. One can drink to the King, and immedia tely another toast has to be drank to the President. And then there is one to the ship, and one to the flag and one to the port and one to a bon voyage and so on.. that is the reason the skippers of foreign vessels when they come to a port, might run low, on what the Britishers calls "spots." THE WARZIRISTAN is named for a providence in north India. She is owned by the Hindustan Steam Ship ping line, but is operated by Commo i Brothers Ltd. of Liverpool. Organ. ally she was in the British Colony trade of the East, but for several years now she has been plying the North Atlantic, having transported many cargoes of grain, coal nitrate ets., from Canada to the British Isles, Her last voyage before she took on 2,500 tons of scrap in New York, sail ed to Norfolk and refueled, and then came to Morehead City to complete her cargo of scrap (some 7,500 tons all told) was the run from River Plata in S. A. to New York with maize. CAPT. LLOYD took Bob and my self up on the bridge and explained about the chronometers, the sectants and the various courses on the chart. He 'shot the sun for us with the see tant.. and then came the represen tative from the wholesale grocers so we made our departure. That night the skipper and some of his crew came over to The Beaufort Theater (all of them had invitations) and were guests of Manager Bob Lang. Sailors aboard the Waziristan are paid nine pounds per month. In American cash that equals $45. The firemen receive nine pounds and ten shillings. A member of the crew signs the ship's articles for a period of three years. Seldom does a British er "jump ship' when in some foreign port, if his vessel flies the English ensign. Other nationalities aboard a British ship are more likely to aban don the vessel while in a foreign port and before expiration of the ar ticles. Most of the crew of the S. S, Waziristan were English. There was a Greek sailor and one Jap aboard, and I believe a Swede or two. CAPT. LLOYD'S family live near Liverpool. He likes to talk about Mrs. Lloyd and their 20-year old son who is not following in his father's footsteps. He likes to show you pho tographs of the various ports he ha? visited. What appealed to me mostly, aboard the vessel, was the chart room and navigation intruments. If Capt. Lloyd had said, "Mr. Brown ihoose what you wish aboard thn vessel, and you may have it with my compliments." I would have looked towards that beautiful Custom sealed locker and thought about its con tents and then gona into his sleep ing quarters and chosen the Eider down coverlet. Eider-down coverlet3 are as light as the feathers of which they are stuffed but warmer than a half dozen blankets when you slide beneath one on a cold winter night. Seabreeze KIDNEY COLIC, GRAVEL STONE, Put, Kidney and Bladder Complies- tions yield quickly to GRAVVO Sold by JOE HOUSE DRUG STORE. Beaufort, N. C. 8tM13 SHOE POLISH The white season is on and our line of White Polish is complete in liquid and tubes at Prices of 10c and 25c WILL NOT RUB OFF MODERN SHOE REBUILDERS BEAUFORT, N. C. THEATRE TWO MISSIONARIES ARRIVE IN COUNTY Elder J. Robert Buswell of Salt take City, Utah, and Elder Paul L. Goodman of Arizona have arrived in Help Advertise Beaufort Attend SQUARE DANCE TONIGHT at the AMERICAN LEGION HUT Benefit Beaufort Advertising Fund OTHER SQUARE DANCES Thurs. April 8 Thurs. April 15 Thi ad contributed to the Advertising Fundi by THE BEAUFORT -HEWS Friday and Saturday April 9 10 Johnny Mack Brown in BAR 2 BAD MEN" Admission 10c-15c Monday and Tuesday April 12th and 13th Franchot Tone in "Love On The Run" Adm. 10c-15c-25c tuitu Wednesday and Thursday April 14th and 15th Spencer Tracy, Jean Harlow Adm. 10c- 15c Friday and Saturday April 16th and 17th TARZAN ESCAPES' Adm. 10c- 15c NEXT SUNDAY SPECIAL Dinner AT THE Beaufort Cafe ALL FOR ONLY 50 Cents ROAST TURKEY BAKED CHICKEN FRIED CHICKEN 4 Vegetable Side Dishes Dessert and Coffee Private Dining Room on Balcony For Parties THE Beaufort , Cafe (In the Heart of Down Town Beaufort) Let Us Fill Your PRESCRIPTIONS They are of vital importance to you and to us 3 REGISTESED DRUGGISTS ALWAYS AT YOUR SERVICE F. R. 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