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Volume XXVI
Eight Pages
The Beaufort News Thursday, June 17, 1937
5c Per Copy
Number 24
Over 3000 Club
Buys Surplus Spuds
To Stimulate Price
Members a idantic Beach Today
Annual Meeting
Held In Casino
Judge Luther Hamiltoi
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AUCTION MARKET
TO OPEN FRIDAY
Growers Should Bring
Tomatoes Only In
Tub Baskets
Tl. Beaufort Auction Market,
sponsored by The Beaufort Business
Association will open bere Friday
at 10 o'clock and be avail
able to all growers provided they
bring tomatoes in uniform paca.
aid the small scale grower who has
no packing facilities, the Business
Association is also establishing adja
cent to the Auction Market, a pack
ing center where experts will give in
structions in the proper grading and
picking of tomatoes. Farmers are
..rJ to brins their tomatoes to the
Auction Market in bushel tub bas
kets, so a uniform pack will be of
fered buyers. Hugh Overstreet, coun
tv farm aeent who is co-operating
in the market in lard cans, dry-goods
boxes, barrels or sacks, as it is es-
niial tn avoid roufirh handling and
bruised tomatoes if the market is
to be kept up.
Covering The
WATER FllOJSl
By AYCOCK BROWN
FOR THE INFORM. TION of Mr.
Utley or the Twin City Daily Times,
writer who wrote&der the caption
"Luther Hamilton Named Special
Judge By Hoey," the following para
graph: "He has taken such an import
ant part in county politics in past
years that Aycock Brown, editor of
The Beaufort News sometime ago
dubbed him as the "Kingfish" a term
that provoked the ire of the leading
Morehead Citizen." Luther Hamilton
was first called "Kingfish" of Car
teret by Wade Lucas, ace political
writer of Raleigh who does a weekly
column on state capital activities
each week for The Charlotte Obser
ver. He was called "Kingfish" of
Carteret after this columnist had
told Lucas that Hamilton was exactly
that here in this coastal county. And
insofar as provoking the judge
thats a lot of bosh. Being called
"Kingfish" pleased Luther Hamilton.
He might not admit it, but it did
nevertheless. The stories which pro
voked Hamilton more than anything
else this columnist ever wrote was
the enlargement of a statement he
had made 'not for publication' in
Raleigh about 'worms with sharp
(Continued on page four)
Carteret Committee Is
Appointed To Take
Care of Buying
George W. Huntley, G; W.
Ball and O. W. Lewis have
been appointed a committee
by the FSCC to supervise the
f cumins nntatoes tor
the Government in Carteret
County. Sam A. Thomas will
have charge of the actual buy
ing of the spuds. On Wednes
day when the first potatoes
u.iVit tVio farmers re-
weie uu"Bu " - i
ceived 80c per oag. rau
co mo will he made direct
to the producer from the gov
ernment.
The following story relative to
th nvprnment having potatoes
from farmers was released in Ral
eigh this week in a special dispatch
to The Beaufort News:
The Federal Surplus Commodities
Corporation is seekki.ig to boast Irish
potato prices in Eastern North Caro
lina this season by removing surplus
spuds from a crop more than twice
as big as in 1U36.
Surplus potatoes will be purchased
in an endeavor to stimulate the mar
ket and assure the growers a fair re
( Continued on page eight)
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Smoked and Purple
and purple colored
gladiolus from the Haynes
quality Gladiolus farm along
with many other colors of flow
er of the same species were
used today in decorating the
speakers stand of The Casino on
Atlantic Beach where hundreds
of representatives of Home De
monstration and 4-H Clubs of
the 12th District gathered in
Annual convention. The un
usual colored gladiolus created
much favorable comment from
those attending the meeting. To
produce pink, and yellow and
commonplace colors of gladio
lus is no hard job even for the
amateur gardner but to deve
lop smoke colored and purple
glads is another thing. That is
why Hayne's quality gladiolus
decorating the rostrum of At
lantic Beach Casino today creat
ed so much favorable comment
from the hundreds of delegates
gathered there. S. E. Hayne of
Hayne Quality Gladiolus Farm
is a professional glad farmer. .
but he smiled broadly as he dis
played the smokes and purples.
State Home Agent
Delegates From Six
Counties Are In
Attendance
tip Casino on Atlantic
Beach was the rendezvous to
day for over 2,000 Home Dem
onstration UlUD memoers nwus
the six counties comprising
the 12th District. It was als
the rendezvous for 4-H club
members from the six counties
comprising the 12th District.
Perfect Gulf Stream weather
made everything ideal for the
very successful gathering
which was still in progress as
we cro to Dress today.
High spots of the meeting were
scheduled to be speeches by State
Senator E. V. Webb, of Kinston,
Miss Ruth Currant, state home agent,
Raleigh, Mrs. Hubert Boney, of
Teachey, president of the N. C. Fed
eration of Home Demonstration
Clubs and Mrs. A. R. Blow, district
president of Vanceboro.
It was hoped that Representative
Graham A. Barden of the Third Con
gressional District would be present
and deliver the main aaaress oi
(Continued on page five)
His Salary Will Be Approximately $22.4$ per Day
Pleasant news to many Carteret cit izens, when they read their Wednes
day momnig papers was the announcement that Governor Hoey had ap
pointed Luther-Hamilton of Wo'reh ead" City, ( K native of Atlantic) to
'the important post of Special Superior Court Judge. Supporters of Lu
ther Hamilton, who is a politician of note, will be pleased to learn the
news. On the other side of the fence politically from Mr. Hamilton the
news will also be received pleasantly because they know that it will keep
this important leader of Carteret from the county when his political
followers need him mostly around election time. With Luther Hamilton
gone the Carteret Republicans might say "We have things sewed up now."
But there is another Democratic faction which might keep voters on the
Democratic side of the fence. Judge Hamilton goes on the Superior
Court payroll July 1. His salary will be $8,000 per year or about twice
as much per day as the women on WPA projects receive here at the
present time for their semi-monthly payroll periods.
MESSAGE IN A
-BOTTLE-
Mrs. Estelle Smith
Mrs. Estelle T. Smith of Raleigh is
District Home Agent for the North
Carolina Federation of Home Dem
onstration Clubs. She has held this
important position for several years
and as a result is widely Known in
cosatal counties. Success of today's
annual meeting of Home Demonstra
tion and 4-H clubs on Atlantic Beacn
was due largely to her efforts.
III WASHINGTON
1 WHAT
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TAKING
PLAC2
BY
UNITED STATES mim
35,000
THE HIGH DEGREE of Congrea
sional interest in the labor situation,
Tefiected in the current hearings on
a proposed minimum hour and wage
law, in the studies of strike develop
ments, and in numerous legislative
plans for stabilizing labor conditiorti,
is evidence that progress is being
made in the effort to improve work
ing conditions and strike a meduim
as to the respective rights of capital
and labor.
ALREADY THERE ARE indica
tions that under the drive for union
ization of all workers and the plans
of employers to meet this wider or
ganization of labor, the public gen
erally will, throueh the forces of
I Continued on page eight)
Sometime when you have
nothing else to do start count
ing from one and see how long
it takes to reach 35,000. It is a
two or three hour job for the
fastest counter, probably long
er. But that is the number of
tomatoes an average profession
al wrapper will wrap and pack
in one day. The professional
wrapper will continue from ear
ly morning until he or she has
wrapped 300 lugs containing an
average of 118 tomatoes each.
Sometimes the days work will
not be finished until after sun
set. An average wrapper wilt
wrap and pack a lug in two
Minutes or 30 per hour, day in
and day out. They receive four
cents per lug or about $12 per
day.
It may sound like easy money,
but its a job which takes much
practice to perfect and reach the
professional stage. This week a
group of wrappers and packers
arrived from Florida and Geor
gia to take care of Carteret's
green-pack tomato harvest from
East Carteret's 600 tomato ac
res. Wrapping and packing sta
tions have been established at
George W. Huntley's place and
S. M. Jones Company's place,
Continued on page four
On June 5, 1937 Chief officer
L. A. Bass of the S. S. Gulf
breeze threw a bottle overboard
containing a message in Latitude
32 degrees and 42 minutes north
and Longitude 78 degrees andll
minutes west with instructions
in several languages, (including
the Scandinavian) for the find
er to forward same to nearest
U. S. Consul, the U. S. Hydr
graphic office or the Navy De
partment. Early Wednesday
morning June 16 (U days
later) the bottle and its mes
sage was picked up from the
water in Beaufort Harbor tyr
Capt Jack Willis, who owns a
dock and several fishing skiffs
for rent at the west end of Front
Street in the town of Beaufort
The bottle had drifted approxi
mately 150 miles from near the
mouth of Cape Fear River to
Beaufort Inlet and through nar
row channels to Capt Jack's
wharf in less than 12 days. Capt.
Jack, a splendid man to con
tack, if .waa .are .olanning a
Sheepshead fishing trip for
warded the message to the U. S.
Hydrographic office in Wash
ington. Rural Electrification
Specialist Is Coming
D. E. Jones, rural electrification
snecialist from the State College Ex
tension service will be in Carteret
county on June 25 for the purpose of
explaining the demonstration of ap
pliances and equipment operation
and electrification of home and farm
demonstrations. Mr. Jones is benig
brought to Carteret through the co
operation of Hugh Overstreet Farm
Agent and Miss Margaret Clark,
Home Demonstration aeent. It is
ouibe likelv that he will brine his
demonstration car. The exact points
of demonstration have not been de
cided upon as we go to press today,
but this information may be obtain
ed from the Farm or Home Agent
early next week.
COMING TO THE
-CASINO-
Tommy Baker, sensational
er who has thrilled many East
Carolina audiences with his per
formances, will appear in The
Casino on Atlantic Beach for
one week, beginning July 3,
according to information an
nounced by Billie Burke his
booking agent and manager,
young Rocky Mount tap danc
Tommy appeared on Major
Bowes "Amateur Hour" and
was immediately given many
engagements, some of which he
is now filling in ,New York. He
will be accompanied to Atlan
tic Beach by Miss Iris Green,
rhythm singer who is now ap
pearing at the Paramount in
New York City, it was stated
There will be no extra charge
for their acts in The Casino
same being presented as added
attractions each night.
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Mr
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Harkers Island Case
Attracted Attention
Miiss Ruth Currant
Miss Ruth Currant is State Agent
for the N. C. Federation of Home
Demonstration Clubs. Raleigh is her
headquarters. Today on Atlantic
Beach she played an important role
in making the sixth annual district
meeting of Home Demonstration
Clubs the most successful ever held
at this fast growing and famous
ocean resort.
6-H0LES
Fishing
ALL Uilt&liOHSl
Br AYCOCK BROWN
s ON PAGE TWO of this edition we
are running the cut and mat of first
Gulf Stream catch made during 193t$
off the coast at Cape Lookout. It
is an exact reproduction of the cut
and story as it appeared in the New
and Observer last Sunday. In news
paper circles we call such a reprod
uction a filler and the news and
photo has no significance other than
it shows the first catch from the Gulf
Stream one year ago.
ON THE SAME DAY the photo
appeared in the up state daily, a
party from Beaufort, Jack Neal, anl
Christpoher Jones with Frank Kug
ler and Brownie Kugler of Washing
ton went to the Gulf Stream off
Lookout with Capt. Guy Lewis aboard
his seaworthy party boat The Piggi
and landed five dolphin. They wer
the first of the season to be landed
with rod and reel off the Carteret
coast and also the N. C. Coast. 0
Sunday also, Advertising Promotion
Expert Todd of the Charlotte Obser
ver, fishing with a group of friend
off Cape Lookout at the wreck of tha
Thistleroy landed two Amberjjack.
Then came Monday and unfavorable
Thistleroy landed two Amberjack,
are no more Gulf Stream tales to
tell.
(Continued on page eight)
Sii
The Harkers Island situation which
brought three defendants to trial in
Superior Court this week on charg
es hinging around prostitution has
been disposed of, for the time being
at any rate. John Jones on three
charges involving prostitution was
given a year on each count or a total
of three on the roads. His daughter
Nellie Jones on charges of adultery
Was placed on probation and must
appear in October term of court and
show that she has been behaving.
Brady Lewis, charged with adultery
was placed under a $300 bond to ap
pear in court in October to show that
he has not violated probation.
To Buy And Pack
W. T. Freeman of Plymouth was
here early this week completing ar
rangements for buying and packing
tomatoes. He will establish a pack
ing station in Southgate Terminal
building on waterfront street. He
will buy from the Auction Market.
. . . i . L.i. r..if
iix holes ot tne a-noie
Stream Golf Links at Beaufort
Community Center are now op
en for players and local and vis
iting golfers are mighty well
pleased with the layout. A large
crew of WPA workers ere now
engaged in completing the
course. Ph p Ball, field engi
neer of t 51 WPA and designer
of Gulf Stream Links statsd
this week that he would soon
start working on sand traps and
Hunkers for the fairways already
.complet ;d. The sand-greens are
in fine hape and are kept that
way h i daily dragging. In some
of the fairways the well-hit ball
gets quite a bit of roll which
is an esset to any player's score.
The Gulf Stream Golf Club
house is being completed this
week. Capt. Jim Rumley who
operated hotels in Beaufort for
a number of years will be resi
dent supervisor of the club
properties and maintain the
club house. Quarters are pro
vided in the clubhouse for the
resident supervisor and his fam
ily. Also provided in the club
house and to be thrown open to
members and players on this
week- end perhaps or early next
week at latest is a lounge room,
. lockers, and shower and retir
(Continued on page five)
TIDE TABLE
Information as t. the tide
at Beaufort is given in this
column. The figures are approx
innately correct and based on
tables furnished by the U. '.
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 Lovr
Friday, June 18
4:05 a. m. 10:08 a. ro.
4:57 p. m. 10:56 p. m.
Saturday, June 19
4:55 a. m. 10:57 a. m.
5:33 p. m.
Sunday, June 20
5:47 a. m. 11:45 a. tb.
6:08 p. m. 11:45 p. m.
Monday, June 21
6:27 a. m, 12:31 a.
6:47 p. m. 12:32 p. nw
Tuesday, June 22
7:07 a. m. 1:15 a, nv
7:25 p. m. 1:14 p. m
Wednesday, Juno 23
7:44 a. m. 1:55 a. m
8:01 p. m. 1:68 p. m,
Thursday, June 24
8:23 a. ro. 2:34 a. m.
8:38 p. m. ; 2:34 p. m.