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HUNTING SEASON
IS NOW ON
SEASON OPENS
TODAY
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77e Mo5f Widely Read Newspaper Along The Ccf Carolina Coast
VOLUME XXIX NO. 47
MANY RESPOND
TO RED CROSS
ROLL CALL HERE
J Early Signs Point
To Largest Drive
In History
1 189 Memberships In
f Now And More To Come
g The twenty-fifth annual
jRollCallof the American
i Red Cross now being con
; ducted by the Beaufort
i Chapter of the Red Cross
? shows early signs of being
i the largest Roll Call in the
i history of the chapter.
With unfinished reports from
only eight of the zones within
Beaufoi-t itself, the Volunteer
Workers have reported 189 mem-
i berships received.
a Besides Beaufort there are 17
if communities in the eastern part of
Carteret County participating in
tnc koii uau
i this year. These
' commun i t i e s
; and the Work
ers in (hem are
here listed:
Williston, Mrs.
Leslie Pake ;
' D a vi s, Mrs.
U1
RED CROSS
Stetson Mar-
phy; Atlantic, Mrs. Claud Davis;
Bettie, Mrs. Hugh Pake; Otway,
Mrs. Ehvood Finer; Marshallberg,
!rs. Leon Thomas; Sea Level,
Iss Marie Taylor; Smyrna, Mrs
lanche Willis; Harkers Island,
ra. Earl Davis; Merrimon, Mrs.
orge Martin; Stacy, Miss Era
e Fulcher; North River, Mrs. W,
JDail; Russell Creek, Mrs. C. S
jfers; Wire Grass, Mrs. David
irrill; Core Creek, Mrs. J. H.
jldrison; Cedar Island, Mrs.
ra Day and Mrs. Mattie Styron.
The Roll Call chairman, E. C
cConnell, stated today that he
ilieved it would be the commun-
iie&in . the . County outside of
Jeaufort that would put the
luota of the Chapter over the top.
The Chapter has been asked for
400 membership this year to assist
'with" the increased work of the
Red Cross caused by the national
emergency.
Library Closes
For Thanksgiving
The County Library closed to
day for the Thanksgiving holidays
.and will not open again until next
Monday, remaining closed on Fri
,'day and Saturday of this week in
addition to Thursday. Three new
books have been added during the
past week to the rental shelves of
the Library. They are: "The
Strange Woman," by Ben Ames
Williams; "They Came To A Riv
er," by Aleis McKay and "Ra
leigh's Eden." by Inglis Fletcher.
Notes of an
Innocent Bystander:
!The Story Tellers: The Sateve
post is publishing so-called humor
ous stuff from Wodehouse, who
wrote it between licks at Nazi boots.
Humor that comes out of that form
of environment doesn't make you
laugh. It makes you shiver . . .
If you want a note of thanks from
your mind let It drink Willkie's
smarticle in Reader's Digest. It's
common-sensational . . . William
Allen White's tug-at-the-hearticle In
the same issue Is a "must," too . . .
James W. Barrett's exciting book,
"Joseph Pulitzer and His World."
quotes the great publisher as say
ing: "Every reporter is a hope,
eyery editor Is a disappointment."
-
The Confession of the Week: H.
Allen Smith in the Nov. Cosmopoli
tan: "And talk about your gossip.
Why, we've raised gossip to a
fine art in New York. We put it in
the papers and pay the experts
fabulous . sums of money. And I
love it. I've always loved gossip.
So have you. Maybe you won't ad
mit it. Maybe you'll say gossip is
not polite, not noble. But don't try
to tell me you stop up your ears or
.run or hide in the cellar when some
one begins whispering about the
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iioing ioe ocuwujjie a wue uiu ai
Fred Phlebby's party Saturday
Bight."
'It was Friday night.
I See WINCHELL Page 7
MRS. THOMAS
BURIED HERE
She Died Suddenly
At Her Home On
Saturday
WAS MEMBER OF OLD
BEAUFORT FAMILY
Funeral services for the
late Mrs. Lelia Russell Thom
as, 59, wife of Charles Thom
as, State Highway and Pub
lic Works foreman in Car
teret County, were conduct
ed at Ann Street Methodist
Church on Wednesday after
noon at 3 o'clock with Rev.
Stanley Potter, pastor offic
iating assisted by the Rev. E.
C. McConnell, rector of St.
Paul's Episcopal church.
Mrs. Thomas died sudenly, Sat
urday afternoon at her home on
Turner Street, as the result of a
heart attack. She was well known
locally, a member of one of Beau
forts oldest families, and her sud
den death was a great shock to
relatives and friends.
Final rites were delayed until
today so that Lieutenant Ralph
Thomas, who was enroute'to the
the Philippine Islands for a tour
of duty could return home. He was
enroute to the west coast to board
ship at the time of his mother's
death, and Represenative Graham
A. Barden assisted the bereaved
parents in making arrangements
for him to return to Beaufort. H?
had gotten as far west as Chey
enne, Wyoming, when the death
message reached him. Lieutenant
Thomas arrived here Tuesday.
Arriving previously was Charles
Thomas of Tils'onburg, Ontario,
Canada. These two sons, and a
third, George Murray Thomas of
Beaufort RFD., survive, along
with her husband, Mr. Thomas.
Mrs. Helen Russell of the Russell
House, mother of the deceased and
one sister", Mrs. Ben Taylor of Max
ton also survive.
QUAIL SEASON
OPENS TODAY
IN CARTERET
Birds Are Plentiful
In Rural Section
This Season
TURKEY AND RABBIT
SEASON ALSO OPENED
With reports from the ru
ral mail carriers indicating
that there is a good crop of
quail this season along the
coast, nimrods who go afield
are promised some real
sport on the days of each
week that shooting will be
permitted. In Carteret Coun
ty shooting quail will be per
mitted through special law, only
on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sat
urdays. The other days, Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays will be
lay days, and it will be unlawful
to hunt quail. The season on
these flat fluttering 'bullets' of
the fields and sparsely wooded
areas opened today.
In addition to the quail season
opening today, and continuing un
til January 31, it is also lawful to
shoot turkey and rabbits in North
Carolina. There are no lay days
for either species of this game.
There will be more interest in
quail shooting than either rabbit
See QUAIL Page 8
Public Offices
Are Closed Today
AH public offices in Carteret
County, the postoffice and First
Citizens Bank and Trust Co. are
closed today in observance of
Thanksgiving Day. This is the
first year that North Carolina has
observed Thanksgiving Day so
early in November. Although
many states of the nation have
through Presidential proclamation
been observing an early Thanks
giving, Governor Hoey for North
Carolina let this State continue ob
iserving the original or last Thurs
day in November.
Then Governor Broughton, thru
proclamation, let the State observe
the early Thanksgiving with the
rest of the nation. This is the last
year, however, that any Thursday,
except the last in November, will
be observed as Thanksgiving, it
has been announced at the White
House.
Officials Present On Monday Night, November 10, 1941, Whe
Beaufort Junior Chamber Commerce Received Its ChaVK
THOSE WHO TOOK leading roles at the banquet on Monday night, November 10,
when Beaufort's Junior Chamber of Commerce received its charter are pictured above.
They are from left to right: Basil Whitener, president of the State Jaycee orgainzation
and a national director; James Potter III, president of the Beaufort Jaycees; Senator
John Larkin of Trenton, who made the principal address at the gathering, and Bill
Adams, of Wilson, State vice-president and East Carolina director. Whitener presented
the local group its national charter while Adams presented the State charter. (Photo
by Roy Eubanks Photo Shop).
ALAN VANN, USN,
IS BURIED HERE
Negro Sailor Said
-To Have Been On .
USS Kearney
HE DIED IN BOSTON
HOSPITAL ON NOV. 13
Although his relatives
here could not verify the
statement, Alan Y a n n,
chief steward's mate, U. S.
Navy, who died in a Boston
hospital last Thursday, was
believed to have been suffer
ing from shell-shock or in
juries received while serving
aboard the U. S. Destroyer
"Kearney," which was badly dam
aged near Iceland, by a torpedo
from a German submarine, several
weeks ago. Chief Vann, whose
nearest of kin lived in Beaufort,
where final rites were conducted
on Tuesday at the colored Baptist
Church with Rev. Brool.s officiat
ing, had been in the Navy for the
past 23 years.
His sister, Mattie Vann Wil
liams, who was interviewed by a
Beaufort News reporter, said that
while she had heard that Chief
Vann was aboard the Kearney,
that she had not received any of
ficial notice to this effect. She
said that in the last letter from her
brother, he said that he has been
aboard a ship near Iceland, train
ing young colored sailors serving
as stewards, and that he was being
sent back to the United States for
hospitalization in the Naval Hos
pital at Boston. Jack Williams, a
white enlisted man accompanied
the body of the late Chief Vann to
Beaufort where it arrived on Mon
day. This young guard of honor,
Mattie Williams said, was a very
fine young man whose home is in
Lexington.
Mattie Vann Williams said she
raised Alan from a small boy, be
ing his oldest sister. His parents,
the late Isaac and Millie Vann, had
died while he was quite youn0-. Al
though reported to have been mar
ried with a wife and child living in
Boston, neither accompanied the
body of Chief Vann home. In ad
dition to his sister Mattie, another
sister, Ella Parker, and two broth
ers, Owen and Isaac of Beaufort
also survive. Interment of the
body was made in Ocean View
cemetery.
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH
THANKSGIVING DAY
SERVICES 10 O'CLOCK
The annual Thanksgiving Day
service will be held in St. Paul's
Episcopal Church on Thursday,
November 20th at 10 o'clock A.
M. The usual custom of bringing
gifts of food, to be distributed
among the less frtunate, will be
fllwed by the cngregation this
year.
BEAUFORT, N. C, THURSDAY,
It '4' P
COVERING THE
WATERFRONT
B, AYCOCK BROWN
Guest Columnist this ycek is J.
Hammond Brown, president of
the Outdoor Writers Association of
America. ' His column appears
regularly in the Baltimore News
Post, of which he is outdoor edi
tor. He has fished at one time or
another on just about every foot
of the North Carolina coast, and
his column which follows, has to do
W'th the future channel bass crop
of this State.
By J. HAMMOND BROWN
THE CHANCES are that North
Carolina is not going to wait until
its channel bass are all but disap
pearing from ts Outer Banks be
fore taking stops to insure a suc
cession of the crop.
WHILE SURF casters range all
along the coast from the Carolinas
north to New England and also
while the one big thrill to which
all of them look forward is the tak
ing of a bass gamester from the
surf, few of them stop to think
that practically all of the channel
bass crop conies from the Maryland-Virginia-Carolina
sector and
that the North Carolina waters
probably produce 75 per cent of
this same crop.
WITH A concentration such as
this, unless there is care exercised
at the source, it is very easy to
start the species on the downward
grade. Unfortunately it is just
such a situation that has now de
veloped along the North Carolina
banks.
A FEW FAR-sighted anglers
saw this situation developing and
gave warning several years ago.
As a consequence, tne Morth Car
olina conservation autnorities in
turn warned the watermen of the
coast that unless they showed a
greater tendency toward decency
in their taking of channel bass, it
would be necessary to take steps
compelling them to observe good
sportsmanship.
NO NOTICE was taken of this
warning and during the present
season, the bass have been slaugh
tered to no good purpose as usual.
So if strict regulation irks them
in future years they have only
themselves to blame.
See WATERFRONT, Page 8
ACP BULLETIN
NOW AVAILABLE
The Agricultural Conservation
Program Bulletin for 1942 is now
available at the county AAA of
fice, according to Roland Salter,
member of the Carteret County
AAA committee.
The Bulletin covers all provi
sions of the conservation program,
including information on payments
and deduction rates, said Mr. Sal
ter. It also contains full details
with regard to soil building practices.
NOV. 20, 1941
HEAD OF CAA
IN BEAUFORT
ON VACATION
' Physician " Advised '
Him To Rest In
Our Climate
HE WAS FORMERLY 2ND
ASST. P. M. GENERAL
Harllee Branch, former
2nd assistant postmaster
general under James Farley,
and at present chairman of
the important Civil Aero
nautics Board in Washing
ton, D. C, is spending a va
cation in Beauiort, resting,
on orders of his physician Dr.
Sterling Ruffin. Mrs. Branch, his
wife, is also here and they are
stopping at Inlet Inn.
Working under tremendous
pressure in Washington for the
past several months, brought on a
Harllee Branch Will
Speak To Rotarians
Harllee Branch, head of the
CAA Board, and former second
assistant postmaster general, has
accepted an invitation to be guest
speaker at the regular supper
meeting of Beaufort Rotary Club
next Tuesday night, November 25.
His talk will probably hinge on
civil aeronautics.
spasmic stomach ailment, which
the high CAA official has suffered
from at various times in recent
years. Consulting his physician,
Dr. Ruffin, who is a North Caro
linian, that has gone to the top in
capitol medical circles, he was ad
vised to go either to the far South
or to Arizona for an extended
rest. Because he wanted to be
near Washington, in the event his
presence is needed, he told Dr.
Ruffin that if given his choice, he
had rather come to Beaufort. Dr.
See CAA HEAD Page 8
CORE CREEK COMMUNITY
CHURCH DEDICATED TO
BE OBSERVED ON SUNDAY
Dedication of Core Creek Com
munity Church, Inc., will be ob
served on Sunday, November 23,
at 11 o'clock. Official program
for the event which will mark the
consecration of the second non
sectarian church in North Caro
lina was announced today, by Rev.
W. Y. Stewart, the pastor.
Features of the program will be
music from the new Hammond
Electric Organ and Maas Cathed
ral Chimes by Mrs. Graydon M.
Paul, organist and singing by the
choir and congregation, under the
direction of Mrs. W. Y. Stewart,
director.
iMptllOfllt At
iTACluuulfel Al
Voice Upposition lo War
S. A. CHALK IS
NOW CHAIRMAN
OF S-S BOARD
S. A. Chalk of Morehead City,
member and vice-chairman of the
Carteret Selective Service Board,
became chirman of the Board on
last Friday following the resigna
tion of C. G. Gaikill of Beaufort
who resigned due to pressure of
his personal busines. New man on
the board, succeeding Gaskill, is R.
Hugh Hill, prominent business
man and World War veteran of
Beaufort.
The other member of the board
is William H. Bell of Newport.
Mr. Gaskill's resignation was ac
cepted by Selective Service Head
quarters in Raleigh. He devoted
much time to the job during the
year he served, playing an import
ant role in organization work for
the establishment of offices, reg
istration of eligible young men in
Carteret for Selective Service and
other work in connection with the
boards operation.
Mr. Hill took oath of office at
the Carteret Selective Service
headquarters in Morehead City in
the presence of former chairman
Gaskill, new Chairman Chalk,
member Bell, Appeals Agent J. F.
Duncan and Board Secretary Mrs.
Floyd Chadwick.
Dr. Stevick Tells
Rotarians About
New Health Dept.
Although Beaufort Rotary club,
along with other civic and fellow
ship organizations of Carteret
fought hard for a long time, be
fore they were able to induce the
County to establish its Health De
partment, it was not until Tues
day night that many got a clear
insigh.t ca, what the Department is
Dr. Charles P. Stevick, head of
doing and what it plans to do.
the Health Department who re
cently moved to Beaufort, who
was officially becoming a member
of Beaufort Rotary Club on Tues
day night, was also its chief speak
er. He gave a clear and concise
account of all the aims and ob-
ORDINANCES
Text of new Health Ordinances
and Laws relative to Health in
Carteret County will be found on
Page 3 of this edition. Persons
are urged to read these ordinances
to learn more of the new health
laws now effective in Carteret.
jects, and the present operation,
which includes clinics, the preven
tion of communicable diseases
through inoculation, the drive
against venereal diseases, the
many new health ordinances, and
present and future plans for the
improvement of sanitation facili
ties in Carteret.
He had a very complicated sub
ject, and it took longer than the
usual time allotted guest speakers
at Rotary, to get his message
across, but he did get it across in
a most easy to understand manner.
Judging from his remarks Car
teret is benefitting greatly from
the new Health Department.
Morehead City
Postoffice Is
Showing Gains
Increased population accom
panying the national defense pro
gram in this section has resulted
in enlargement of the post office
service in Morehead City.
Postmaster Harold Webb an
nounced that Mrs. McDonald Wil
lis, who has served as a substitute
See M. C. POSTOFFICE Page 5
A cordial invitation ha3 been ex
tended the public to attend the
services. The program follows:
Prelude; Processional; Respon
sive Reading; Gloria; Prayer;
Hymn ; Te Duum Laudamus, by
Pastor; Solo, by Dr. J. O. Baxter;
Scripture Reading and Hymn.
Consecration of Church and
Properties and prayer of consecra
tion, by the pastor; Hymn, Ser
mon; Recessional and Postlude.
As this story was written it
could not be learned whether Col
onel F. S. Dickinson, who gave the
church to the community would be
present for the dedication.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
fmif PrpnrP
OniereilCC
Rev.W. S. Potter Is
Re-Appointed To
Local Church
FEW CHANGES MADE
ON CENTRAL COAST
North Carolina Methodists
in annual conference at Dur
ham last week, went on rec
ord again as opposing Amer
ican involvement in the war,
and on Friday Bishop Claire
Purcell read his ministerial
list of appointments as the
meeting adjourned. Beau
fort Methodists were happy to
learn that their pastor, the Rev.
Stanley Potter was re-appointed
to the pulpit of Ann Street Metho
dist church, where he has not only
been a popular minister, but a re
ligious leader in the community.
Rev. L. D. Hayman, pastor of tha
Methodist church in Atlantic and
supply minister for Cedar Island
and other nearby eastern churches
was re-appointed to that charge,
where he has proven to be a much
liked religious leader.
Rev. C. S. Boggs, popular young
minister of Newport for the past
three years was transferred ta
Aurora. He leaves Newport with
the satisfaction of knowing that
he has made many friends and has
carried on his duties in a most
worthwhile manner. The Rev. J.
R. Poe will succeed Rev. Mr. Bogga
as Methodist pastor in Uewport.
Rev. L. E. Sawyer returns to
Marshallberg as pastor. In More
head City the Rev, T, G. Vickers
is succeeded by Rev. J. H. Miller.
The Rev. Mr. Vickers, now a lieutenant-colonel,
has been transfer
red to the U. S. Army as chaplain.
The Rev. M. O. Stephenson returns
as pastor in the Morehead Cir
cuit. Down on Oeracoke Island,
Rev. W. R. Dixon succeeds the
Rev. W. H. Brady. The island min
ister also has the Portsmouth
See METHODIST Page 8
Local Jaycees
Attend Meeting
In Greensboro
Among those attending the re
cent state-wide convention of the
Junior Chamber of Commerce in
Greensboro were two delegates
from Beaufort which only recent
ly received its charter. They were
Julius Adair, local mortician, and
Perry Reavis, manager of Beau
fort Theatre, Attending the con
vention also were many state and
national leaders of the Junior
Chamber of Commerce organiza
tions in America.
The local delegates returned
with new ideas for the advance
ment of the Beaufort Jaycee or
ganization. Beaufort was the only
town in the central coast region
represented at the meeting.
Wfcshineton, D. C.
BRITISH AND V. S. POMCX
U. S. diplomats are not shouting
it from the housetops, but there have
been two important occasions when
the British put a very restraining
hand on American foreign policy,
and checked major moves in the
South Atlantic and the Pacific.
One move was last May when it
became conclusively apparent that
the Vichy government was the tool
of Hitler and when many U. S.
strategists favored the taking of
Martinique and the Azores, and per
haps even a landing force at Dakar
in French West Africa.
But the Churchill government pro
tested that this would take U. S.
ships away from transporting sup
plies to the Battle of Britain; would
focus American attention upon an
other part of the world. So Roose
velt kept out of the South Atlantic.
The second move was about two
weeks ago when Mr. Churchill tele
phoned' the President to advise
against any showdown with the Jap
anese in the Pacific. His advice
came shortly after the new pro
Nazi cabinet took office in Tokyo.
Churchill urged that the battle in
Europe was the main show and tha
United States should not get ab
sorbed with side-shows.
Regarding this Churchill advice,
there continues to be a wide rift
igsjeie. fcs Roosevelt administration.
See MERRY-GO-ROUND P 7
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