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VOLUME XXIX; NO. 8.
BEAUFORT, N. C, THURSDAY, FEB. 20, 1941.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
Bell -Wallace of Morehead City Planning Big Expansion Program
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$40,000,000 Base For
Bank To Observe
Holiday Saturday
First Citizem Bank and Trut
Company here will observe Wash
ington's Birthday on Saturday and
be closed for the day. All mer
chants and patrons of the bank are
urged to attend to their banking
business on Friday, and to remem
ber that thousands of dolalri in
Holly Ridge checks will be coming
to the coast.
Rainy Day Alarm
Three blows from the fire alarm
sirene at 10 minutes till 12 o'clock
an rainy days indicates a "Rainy
Day Session" at Beaufort Consoli
dated School, it was stated here
this week. It means that when the
alarm is sounded that all depart
ments and grades at the school will
be throug with classes at 1:30 P.
M.
New Traffic Light
An approved "Caution Light'
has been erected at the intersec
tion of Lenoxville Road and U. S.
Highway 70 in the vicinity of the
Beaufort Consolidated School to
remind motorists to drive with
care. The School Board put the
matter of having a light erected at
that point recently to the Town
Board of Commissioners which in
turn secured the light. Tide Wa
ter Power Company has cooperat
ed by erecting the light at very
small cost.
Washington, D. C.
ENGLAND'S POSITION
IMPROVES
Little by little the British position
has improved. Gallant Greek vic
tories, the triumphant march of
British forces across North Africa,
the daring of the royal navy in the
Mediterranean, all have helped to
balance the scales of war.
In addition, Admiral Leahy's sea
dog diplomacy in Vichy is reported
to have had some effect upon Gen
eral Weygand, to whom he has
promised American gasoline and
oil; while the passage of the lease
lend bill is found to have tremen
dous reverberations throughout all
Europe.
Furthermore, preliminary reports
Indicate that the trip of Wendell
Willkie had a stirring effect, not
only upon British morale, but upon
Germany. The fact that the son of
a German sent an anti-Hitler mes
sage to the German people is bound
to percolate beneath the surface.
Germany cannot forget that it was
Amend."1 entrance into the World
war which finally turned the tide
and defeated the kaiser. And that
See Merry-Go-Round, Fage2
ALMANAC
HISTORICAL
EVENTS
FEBRUARY
22 Florida ceded to U. S., 1819.
23 Battle Bueno Vista, 1847.
24 Capture of Vincennes,
1779.
25 Shrove Tuesday.
26 Ash Wednesday.
27 15th Con. Amendment
posed, 1869.
Ind,
pro-
BIRTHDAY
Of Famous People
FEBRUARY
21 Cardinal Newman, 1801.
22 Geo. Washington, Pres. 1732.
23 Handel, musician, 1685.
24 Gen. John Burgoyne, .1723.
25 Enrico Caruso, singer, 1873.
26 Buffalo Bill, pioneer, 1846.
27 Henry W. Longfellow, poet,
J 1807.
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U. S.
To Be Constructed
In Eastern North
Carolina
In Counties Adjoining
The Carteret Coast
Although Carteret was not
mentioned in the announce
ment that sites in Onslow and
Pamlico Counties had been
selected for creating one of
the nation s largest U. b. Ma
rine bases, it seems only logi
cal that the western section
of this county will be includ
ed eventually in the plans
This may result in only a gov
ernment built highway and
possibly a bridge across the
Neuse connecting the land
and sea forces which will be
stationed in Onslow and the
air forces to be stationed at
Wilkerson's Point in Pamli
co. ! lkl
From the piopused camp site hi
the New River section of Onslow
to Wilkerson's Point is a distance
of 82 miles by established high
ways. The straight line distance
between the two sites is only 40
miles. Should a straight lins
highway be constructed from Ons
low to Pamlico, the route would
traverse Carteret County and al
most through the center of Croa
tan National Forest which already
has its network of CCC-construct-ed
dirt roads. Should the short
road be constructed between th?
land and sea force camp fnd the
air base as described, a bridge
would more than likely be con
structed across the Neuse from a
point near the rwith'of Slocum's
Creek to Wilkern's Point which
on the State Highway maps is indi
cated as Minnesott Beach.
An associated press story from
Washington on Monday relative to
tne proposed Marine base leiVoff
as follows:
"Assurance of speedy congres
sional action on the $40,000,000
authorization requested by the U.
S. Navy for construction of a ma
rine base and air station on the
Eastern coast was given r,oday by
Chairman Vinson, Democrat Geor
gia, of the House Naval Affairs
Committee."
Legislation carrying the auth
orization was expected to be called
up on Wednesday or today. As
the House prepared to debate the
Navy bill, its appropriations com
mittee gave consideration to a re
quest for an appropriation of $1,
500,000 to acquire land for the
two Marine projects.
BARDEN REVEALED
SITE APPROVAL
A comprehensive story, and one
of the first to reach the coast rela
tive to the Marine base in printed
form, appeared in News and Ob
server on Sunday under Portei
McKeever's by-line. This story
follows:
Washington, Feb. 15. A 100.
000 acre site in Onslow County has
been selected and approved for
one of the largest Marine Corps
bases in the country, Representa
tive Graham A. Barden revealed to
day. President Roosevelt and Secre
tary of Navy Frank Knok have giv
Eee MARINES, Page 8
Roof Collapses At
Beaufort Ice Plant
A general alarm was sounded by
the Fire Department here on Wed
nesday when the roof over the
cold storage department of the
Beaufort Ice Company collapsed.
Workmen renovating and install
ing new equipment at the plant
were heating the storage rooms to
dry the moisture from the room?
and it was feared that this would
cause the structure to catch afire.
No one was injured and no esti
mate of the damage was given.
Ex-Service Men To
Register Saturday
Saturday, February 22, i gen
eral registration day for ex-serv-ice
men all over the United Statei
for the defense program. In
Beaufort Carteret Post 99, has the
proper blanks for filling out and
all ex-service men are uri?eJ to
register.
They Will Be Directors Of Seaside Summer Schools
Three WCUNC Units Corning To Beaufort In June
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DR. SHAFTESBURY
ANNOUNCEMENT WAS made in Greensboro on Saturday by Dr. W. C. Jackson,
dean of administration of Womans College, U. N. C., that three summer school units
will come to Beaufort in June. Dr. A. D. Shaftesbury, associate professor of zoology,
will be in charge of the work atCarolina Marine Laboratory again this year from June
2 to July 12. From June 1 to June 28, Miss Jean Brownlee will direct the Seaside
School of Modern Dance in Community Center here. Gregory D. Ivy, head of the Art
Department at WCUNC will conduct classes in painting at the Seaside Art Colony
from June 2 to June 28. The WCUNC units are in addition to the Duke University
Marine Laboratory on Pivers Island under direction of Dr. Pearse which will have two
summer sessions and an inc reased enrollment here during the coming summer.
CARTERET IS
GETTING BIG
PAYROLL NOW
Camp Davis Project
Is Bringing New
Money To Town
1,000 MEN FROM
COUNTY AT WORK
Approximately 1,000 per
sons from Carteret Courfty
are now employed on the
Camp Davis project at Hol
ly Ridge and there are still
jobs available for those who
can qualify for certain spec
ialized forms of employment
according to W. C. Carleton,
manager of the N. C. Em
ployment Bureau at New
Bern and the branch office
at Municipal Building in
Morehead City. The branch
office will be open daily to
register workers.
With salaries ranging from $28
per week to upwards of $50 and
even $100 to some, the weekly pay
roll to Carteret citizens is over
$30,000. Merchants in Beaufort
and Morehead City are making
i preparations to cash all checks of
I workers when pay day comes each
week-end. James Davis, cashier of
First Citizens Bank and Trust
Company here has stated tnat if
the necessity arose, and if it would
be of service to the merchants and
workers, that he felt officials of
the banking house would consider
keeping open during late after
noon and early evening hours on
the week-end.
Until today, however.no definite
announcement to this effect had
been made. Wise merchants will
have plenty of cash on hand th'3
week-end however, because there
will be thousands of do'.lars in
checks to cash, it was indicated.
North River Home
Demonstration Club
The North River Home Demon
stration Club held its monthly
meeting at the home of Mrs. Jessie
Wade, Thursday afternoon, Febru
ary 13, with twenty members pres
ent. The following leaders reported:
Mrs. Bessie King, who told us
where and how to select baby
chicks for 1941; Mrs. Julian Ful
cher, food conservation leader,
who guided each member in mak
ing their family canning budget to
be filled this year; Mrs. R. W. Sa
frit, Sr., who assisted Mrs. Fulcher
in giving a report of Dr. Ernest
Branch's lecture on "Health of
Our Children" and, too, led a dis
cussion of how North River Club
might be made stronger. An enun
ciation and pronounciation drill
was directed.
During the business session the
club made definite plans to raise
money to help construct the Curo
Market building.
The major lesson demonstration
was Bedroom Arrangement and
the Home Medicine Cabinet.
Edna Beachem led the group in
See H. D. CLUB, Page 8
MISS BROWNLEE
CHRISTENING
The 1 OS-foot menhaden vessel
"Dewey" constructed by Bell
Wallace Shipyard in Morehead
City for W. M. Webb was chisten
ed by little 9-year old Patricia,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon
Webb at a colorful launching at 2
oclock this afternoon. The keel
for the vessel was laid last Septem
ber and the craft, a sea-going beau
ty has been named Dewey in hon
or of Capt. Julian Dewey Willis
who will ba its masteV and who is a
veteran employee of Mr. Webb.
The Dewey which is expected to
be ready for service sometime in
April will represent a total invest
ment of approximately $55,000
including construction and install
ation of motors and equipment.
Covering The
Waterfront
By AYCOCK BROWN
IT HAS BEEN estimated con
servatively that more than $100,
000,000 is spent annually by the
shipping interests of the United
States alone because of fouling
growth which attaches itself to the
bottoms of ships. The money
is spent to place the ships in dry
docks where the bottoms are
scraped and where new paint is
applied. In the past the most ef
fective paint was of a copper base.
THE FOULING OF ship's bot
toms is an accumulation of plan',
and animal organisms which at
tach and grow on both wooden and
metal vessels. This accumulation
of material consists of many spe
cies of animals and plants, which
find the bottom of a ship or boat a
favorable place to live. Although
of many species, the boat owners
along the North Carolina coast
usually are bothered most by bar
nacles. An ordinary inshoiv bar
nacle in its live state as the reader
has probably seen them on the bot
toms of boats or attached to pil
ings or rocks are not very pretty.
These same barnacles, however, il
placed in boiling water change to
beautiful colors of various hues.
Offshore vessels, such as DiamonJ
Lightship, are bothered by another
species known as the goose-neck
barnacle, a member of the family
which is very colorful in its live
state, like every form of sea-life
which has the Gulf Stream as its
habitat. Barnacles are not the
only worry ship masters have to
contend with in the way of fouling
growth. There are boring worms
and other parasites which if not
bothered would eventually sink i
ship or boat.
FOR A NUMBER of years in
Beaufort at the U. S. Fish and
Wildlife Biological Laboratory a
series of tests to determine the val
ue of different types of paint
coatings for steel plate and sheet
aluminum used in ship and airplane
construction and also wood, have
been made. x
THE WATERS IN the vicinity
of Beaufort are adapted for such
tests due to the quantity of marine
life existing in the sounds, harbors
and nearby ocean. If the proper
See WATERFRONT, Page 8
PROFESSOR IVY
ENGINEER HAS
BEGUN STAKING
FOR RE A LINES
Home Wiring Loans
Available For
Members
Approved Contractor
Must Do The Wiring
Actual staking of the dis
tribution lines of Carteret
Craven Electric Membership
Corporation lines was begun
by the engineers this week
and will proceed steadily in
those areas in which all ease
ments to place poles on the
landing - owner s property
have been secured.
Construction of the lines will be
gin within ten days after the con
tract has been signed by the REA
Administrator. The contract is
to be let to the low bidder after a
public letting, which will be an
nounced in a tew days. J he en
gineer reports that with favorable
weather conditions all lines and
houses that are wired shouid be lit
up by early summer.
G. W. Huntley, president of the
Cooperative has received word
from Washington that $5000 ad
ditional has been allotted to this
project and will be available to
members for loans with which to
finance the wiring of t' ir houses.
Any signed member may borrow
80 per cent of the amount neces
sary for his wiring at 6 per cent
interest over a period of five years,
with semi-annual payments.
The Cooperative, however, in
sists on having only a wiring con
tractor approved by them doing
this type of work. Money is avail
able from this fund with which to
make plumbing installations . . . .
Miss Esther Dickinson of Core
Creek has been employed as office
clei k and stenographer for the Co
operative. Library Debt Fund
Increases Slowly
During Past Week
Contributions to the debt-liqui-!tertained
dating fund being raised by the !
Woman's Club in behalf of the Car-1
teret County Library, increase'! 1 its regular meeting. The meeting
slightly during the past week. It 1 was held at the studios of Roy Eu
was erroneously reported iast week , banks, the Rotarians being enter
that Beaufort Hardware Compan
contributed only $5. The amount
should have fceon $10 which this
firm donated. Omitted from the
list of contributors last week, also
was the name of Huntley's. George
W. Huntley of this firm was oj.e
of the first to made a donation and
his donation was $10.
The goal for $200 which was
needed to liquiilLe the debt in
curred for materials purchased by
the Woman's Club to be used in
renovating the library is still not
realized. This does not speak
well for the interest the citizens
who should hrve contributed freely
and wiped out the debt within an
hour or two after the canvas for
funds began.
Those making contributions
See LIBRARY FUND Page 8
Bidding For Construction Of
Two U. S- Mine Sweepers
Employment Would
Be Given Many
Carpenters
VESSELS WOULD BE
136 FEET IN LENGTH
Bell-Wallace Shipyard in
Morehead City has submit
ted bids for the construction
of two U. S. Navy mine
sweepers and if the contract
is awarded this plant, one of
the most important marine
railways and boat building
firms in North Carolina al
ready, will begin a gigantic
expension program immedi
ately, it was learned author
atively by The Beaufort
News this week. Already
the bids have been submitted
and February 26 or immedi
ately thereafter it will be
known definitely whether
the contracts have been let
to the Carteret firm. .
Bids for s-iall boat construction
in the government's fleet expan
sion program have also gone in
from Barbour and Meadows of
New Bern and the Elizabeth City
Iron Works, another marine con
struction firm on the Pasquotank
River.
The mine sweepers which the
Morehead City firm would build
would be 13G feet in length, or 31
feet longer than the beautiful new
menhaden vessel now under con
struction at Bell-Wallace Shipyards
for W. M. Webb. The 105-foot
vessel under construction for Mr.
Webb is sceduled to be launched
within the next few days. It will
be named the "Dewey" in honor of
its future ekipper. -
Should the contract be awarded
Bell-Wallace for the construction
of the mine sweepers or mine lay
ers the present facilities will be in
creased by the construction of ad
aitionai anu larger railways, new
sheds and the installation of new
equipment. At present 32 persons
are employed at the shipyards.
The new contracts would mean em
ployment for a total of 250 to 300
skilled and semi-skilled shipwrights
ship carpenters, painters, machin
ists and laborers. The present
wage-scale would be increased to
the government wage scale which
for carpenters would be about $1
per hour. The present scale for
carpenters is 60 cents per hour.
The mine-sweepers would be of
wood construction. This means
thrnght here in Carteret county
ana n nearby counties skilled boat
builders would be given an oppor
tunity to work. The time limit
for construction of this type vessel
See Mine Sweepers, Page 8
Adjt- Sadye Brewer
And Her Band Here
Today and Tonight
Adjutant Sadye Brewer of the
Greenville, N. C, Corps with hec
band, will be visitors in Beaufort
this afternoon and have charge ot
the Services at the Hall (American
Legion Hut) tonight at 7:30
o'clock. Adjutant Brewer has a
very good band and is alsj a very
able speaker. She will visit Mar
kers Island with Captain and Mi.
Farmer during the afternoon.
Rotary Entertains
Dr Ralph MacDonald
The Beaufort Rotary Club en-
Dr. Ralph MacDonald
former candidate for governor of
North Carolina. Tuesdav nieht at
tained by Mr. Eubanks, Aycock
Brown, Jake Miller, anil Dr. J. O.
Baxter, Jr., at an oyster roast.
The club reported on hundred per
cent attendance, and all members
were well pleased with the roast as
a variation over the regular din
ner. Last week at the meeting of the
club, the members were enter
tained with very interesting talki
on Lincoln by Harry Paul and Miss
Mary Johnson, students of Beau
fort School. Mr. Paul emphasized
the life and times of Lincoln, while
Miss Johnson referred in particu
lar to the personality and charac
teristics of the great humanitarian.
Both talks wer well planned and
presented, and indicated consider
able research on the part of the
speakers.
Pilot Saves Self
And Champagne As
His Plane Crashes
Although his Fairchild moao
coupe seaplane was almost demol
ished, Pilot Robert Love, of Bos
ton, Mass., escaped without a
scratch in a crash on the water
front at the foot of Marsh Street
last Friday afternoon. Love wk
had flown the plane from Savan
nah on Friday, heading north from
an air cruise in Florida, and tV
West Indies, had circled the har
bor and was banking to come do wo
on the water at the CAA-approred
seaplane landing float when the
motor died out and the plane
turned topsy-turvy on the beack. .
A pick-up truck from Inter Gty
Air Service of Boston came down
on Monday to carry the midialwul
plane back to Boston.
Mr. and Mr. A. Bemis of Bos
ton, traveling companions of Love
were in a similar seaplane, bt
they landed safely. It was stated
that damage occurred only to the
plane, and not only did the pilot
escape without a scratch, but that
also four bottles of champagne
aboard were unbroken.
At the beginning of 1941, there
were two bale3 of cottoi in th
world for every bale likely to be
used during the year, estimates the
U. S. Department of Agriculture.
Man About Town!
Acm) Yorkers Are
Talking About:
The hush-hush divorce of Seth
Parker (Phil Lord) and his current
blaze. Bonnie Doone, former "Hon
eychile" on the Bob Hope stanzas
. . . The $1,000 bracelet Chaplin
gave a Powers model named Jean,
. . . The witness in the Hauptmannj
case who brought "new evidence"!
on the Lindbergh snatch to Dewey's;
office . . . President Wilson'r
daughter, once active in N. Y. lit-
erary circles, who has joined a
Brahman nunnery in Pondicherry,
Indo-China . . . Quentin Reynolds"
standing order of posies to Betsy
Cushing Roosevelt every day. Ha:
calls her "the ideal woman."
The $40,000 a month it costs to'
keep the Normandie and its crewr
docked in NY. The coin comes from '
the frozen French funds here . . .
Capt. Patterson's plan to erect the
biggest independent radio station;
within six months . . . The soon
due consummation of the merger of
two newspapers (B'klyn and Man
hattan) now that they've applied to
the RFC for a $2,000,000 touch.
Erskine Gwynnrls czrZ2.-?ZZZ A'
See VVinchell hage
TIDE TABLE
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Information as to the tide
at Beaufort is given in this
L-olumn. The figures are ap
proximately collect and are
bas d on tables furnished by
the U. S. Geodetic Survey.
.So meallowances must be
made for variations in the
wind and also with respect
to the locality, that is wheth
er near the inlet or at
head of the estuaries.
the
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Friday, Feb. 21
4:28 A. M. 10:49 A. M.
4:47 P. M. 10:59 P. M.
Saturday, Feb. 22
5:29 A. M.
5:45 P. M. 11:48 P. M.
Sunday, Feb. 23
6:23 A.M. 11:58 A.M.
6:35 P. M. 12:40 P. M.
Monday, Feb. 24
7:07 A. M. 12:37 A. M.
7:20 P.M. 1:25 P.M.
Tuesday, Feb. 25
7:50 A.M. 1:37 A.M.
8:02 P. M. 2:05 P. M.
Wednesday, Feb. 26
8:29 AM. 2:18 A.M.
8:41 P. M. 2:41 P. M.
Thursday, Feb. 27
9:06 A. M. 2:57 A. M.
9:21P.M. 3:16 P.M.
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