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VOLUME XXX NO. 21.
BEAUFORT, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1942
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
ufer Pessimistic After 2nd
LWKer e Four Colleges Will Be Housed
'Tom Thumb1 Convention
Held Here By Democrats
Trip To Observe Dim - Out
CITY TO ENFORCE
DIM-OUT TRAFFIC
LAWS, PAUL SAYS
Chief Longest Warns
Bicyclists Against
Night Traffic
Mayor Graydon Paul an
nounced Monday that the
City of Beaufort will co-operate
with the military and
State authorities in enforc
ing the 15 mile-per-hour and
parking-light restriction.
Concerning the use of bicycles,
Mayor Paul added that it is a
gainst the law to ride a bicycle at
night without lights "and the city
oficials wish to encourage people
not to use them at all unless abso
lutely necessary."
Chief of Police W. R. Longest I
also issued a statement concern
ing law enforcement in co-ordination
with the announcement that
proclaimed Beaufort in the
Eastern Military Area. Said Chief
Longest: "By request of the mili
tary authorities, the Mayor and
citizens, the ordinance applying
to bicycle riding at day and night
will be rigidly enforced."
City officials requested that op
erators of bicycles and automo
biles use caution in parking their
vehicles at night. Those who have
garages or access to alleys were
urged to use them rather than
parking their vehicles without
lights cn the streets and side
walks. This cautionary measure
is not only for the safety of mo
torists but pedestrians as well.
City ordinances regulating bi
cycle traffic date back as far as
1008 before the advent f, auto
joyriding and other motorized
four-wheel traffic.
Back eight years after the turn
of the century, the Board of City
Commissioners passed an ordin
ance prohibiting the riding of bi
cycles on the sidewalk; also, pro
hibiting the riding of bicycles at
night without lights. Later the
See DIM-OUT Back Page
Graduates' Problems
Discussed This Week
By Famous Educator
This week the Beaufort News is
proud to give its readers a three
column factual and inspirational
article on the problems of the
1942 graduate by Williard E. Giv
ens, executive secretary of the
National Education Association.
The high school graduate of
1942 faces more problems in a
changing world than any graduate
in many a decade. Mr. Givens has
tried to give inspiration to young
sters by discussing the problems in
a sane and sensible manner. Car
teret County citizens are urged to
read the story so they may be bet
ter qualified to discuss those prob
lems with youngsters in their fam
ilies or other graduates of their
acquaintance.
AROUND
Town
With '
MACK CLARK
We. looked back over the copy
of this column since we started
several weeks ago and discovered
that for the most part we have
either been running something
down or harping on the war, di
rectly or indirectly. So we asked
ourselves, "Can't you find some
thing good to say about the town
and the people in it?" Herewith,
we give you the answer. And we
will try, for one week, not to bring
in the war.
ITS TREES
The next time you come into
town over the bridge drive very
slowly and let your eyes take in the
beauty of Ann street. That long
avenue of tall, graceful elms lift
ing their branches heavenward to
meet and form an arc h and make
of the street a continuous arbor
of inviting shade and coolness.
Or, drive down Front street and
really look at the shorn tops above
the dwarfed and twisted trunks of
the scrub-oaks. There may not be
See AROUND TOWN Back
Assistant State Civl
ian Defense Director
Warns Coastal
Motorists
REPORTS FROM NIGHT
OBSERVATION CRUISE
W. F. Nufer of Goldsboro,
Assistant State Director of
Civilian Defense, stated here
last week-end that if motor
ists driving along the Caro
lina coast would observe the
parking light and 15 miles-
per-hour ordinance that the
traffic and shore lighting
conditions would be solved
perfectly.
"The use of colored lights on
automobiles is not official," Nu
fer stated. His statement con
cerned the present "fad of misin
formation" employed by coastal
motorists who are lining their car
lights with blue, green, yellow and
red paper ,
These observations were the re
sult of a two-hour cruise along the
coastline here last week which in
cluded Nufer, Captain Charles
Farmer of Raleigh, State High
way Patrol; Col. D. C. France of
Ft. Bragg; Lieut Schermerhorn of
Fort Macon; Mayor Newman Wil
lis of Atlantic Baaeh along with
Army and Naval officials from
the Morehead Citv Section Base.
The observation included the wa
ters near Cape Lookout and down
from Atlantic Beach near Salter
Path.
"Beaufort was more visible last
night than during the last inspec
tion," continued Nufer who was
down here last April 20 for his
first observation cruise. He stated
that many lights in houses or
stores were plainly visible. "More
head City was less visible this
time," he said.
After the observation cruise
Nufer and officials drove to At
lantic Beach and along the high
way west of Morehead City. Con
cerning the colored lights on the
highway Nufer said: "It would al
most blind us to approach such a
car whose driver was speeding
thinking probably that his more
efficient lights gave him the right
to drive faster."
Explaining again that the color
ed lights are "not official," Nufer
stressed that "it is the amount of
light that we're concerned with,
and not the color. Those who
must drive at night must be edu
cated; 'lume,' or the glow of light
that can silouhette a ship at sea is
still visible. We are still experi
menting to see how bad the situa
tion is, but at present the motor
ists will have to observe the ordin
ance requiring the use of parking
See NUFFER Back Page
Tires and Retreads
Issued By Local
Rationing Board
New Truck Tires issued May 13:
Elmer D. Willid, Williston, long
distance hauling wholesale.
Alvah B. Taylor, Sea Level, long
distance hauling wholesale.
L. Y. Safrit, Beaufort, defense
work.
Carteret Fish Co., Beaufort,
long distance hauling wholesale.
E. C. Ballou, Morehead City,
long distance hauling wholesale,
Retread Tires issued May 13:
William Scott McLeish, defense
worker, Morehead City.
William Fulton Abbott, defense
worker, Newport.
Ira Thomas Willis, defense
worker, Williston.
Harry T. Dover, defense worker,
Morehead City.
H. L. Little, defense worker,
Beaufort.
Albert B. Harris, defense work
er, Beaufort.
Harold B. Smith, defense work
er, Beaufort.
Nat Estes, defense worker,
Beaufort.
J. C. Norrisr defense worker,
Newport.
Kenneth Willis, defense worker,
Williston.
A. R. Anderson, defense work
er, Newport.
David Howard, defense worker,
Morehead City.
N. S. Edwards, defense worker,
Atlantic Beach.
Stephen Guthrie, defense work
Salterpath.
Truck Retreads:
Alvah B. Taylor, long distance
hauling Sea Level.
Norman Taylor, dealer in wood
and coal, Morehead City.
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NOE UNIVERSITY The house shown above is the Memphis, Tennessee, home of the
new University of Practical Living, Inc. The educational institution will have as its pres
ident, Rev. Israel H. Noe, formerly of Beaufort. The home formerly belonged to the late
Martin Condon of Memphis and was constructed at a cost of $100,000. (Engraving
courtesy of the Memphis Commercial Appeal.)
Army Issues Official
Lighting Regulations
HOSPITAL WING
GETS UNDER WAY
T. A. Loving Under
Contract To Build
32-Bed Addition
In Morehead
; Work is being rushed on a 32-
bed addition to the hospital at
Morehead City, in order to com
plete the building by June 5 30
days after the job was started C.
L. Vickers. regional director of
the Federal Works Agency, an
nounced today.
Additional hospital facilities are
urgently needed at Morehead City
to provide emergency treatment
See HOSPITAL Back Page
Home Demonstration
Curb Market Opened
The new Home Demonstration
Club Curb Market building locat
ed on the corner of 13th and Evans
street in Morehead City was open
ed Wednesday morning.
The Curb Market in Carteret
County was begun 11 yean ago
when Miss Virginia Sloan was
Home Agent in the county. This
Saturday, May 23, marks the
Eleventh Anniversary Celebration.
Miss Margaret Clark, a former
Carteret County home agent, who
worked so hard for the building
has been invited to attend. A cake
will be given to the person holding
the lucky ticket.
Everyone is invited to come to
the Curb Market each Wednesday
and Saturday morning from 8:00
to 10:00 o'clock to buy fresh veg
etables, fruits, meats, home-made
breads and cakes, flowers, and
handicraft articles. x
Sugar Rationing
(id
A total of 19,3Si persons ap
plied for sugar rationing books,
John D. Brooks, Sugar Rationing
Custodian for Carteret County,
stated Wednesday.
Of this total 290 were declared
to have excess sugar, thus calcu
lating 19,061 essential users resid
ing in the County.
Also, 1,637 stamps were remov
ed from books when applicants
had excess sugar on hand.
OPEN AS USUAL IN
SPITE OF RE-MODELING
The Vogue, operated by Mrs.
Alberta Chadwick and Mrs. Vera
Smith, is open as usual in spite of
the re-modeling. The popular la
dies' ready-to-wear store on Front
Street is having its floor refiniahed
and the walls and ceiling re-painted
in the color scheme of blue. The
walls wil be painted a sky blue;
the dress cabinets and mirror bord
ers will be Alice blue.
The management stated that the
work wil be completed within a
week, but that they are open to
3erve the public in the latest
styles in women's fashions.
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Proclamation By Gen.
Drum Making East
Coast A Military
Area Ends Dim
Out Controversy
PARKING LIGHTS AND
15 MPH ARE LAW NOW
Lieutenant General Hugh
A. Drum, Commanding: Gen
eral, Eastern Defense Com
mand and First' Ar,mjg in, ac
cordance with War Depart
ment instructions, this week
issued a proclamation de
claring the area included in
the Eastern Defense Com
mand, which extends from Maine
to Florida, inclusive, as a Military
Area, designated as the Eastern
Military Area.
The proclamation declares that
the protection of American com
merce and that of the United Na
tions from danger of or destruc
tion by enemy attack involves the
effective control of artificial
lighting along the Atlantic and
Gulf Coasts and for a reasonable
distance inland. For the purpose
of such control, the proclamation
adopts the existing restrictions and
orders of the Commanding Gen
erals of the four Corps Areas of
the Eastern Military Area.
General Drum wishes to empha
size that the only restrictions of
any kind promulgated in the cur
rent proclamation are in respect
to the control of lighting. No
evacuation of any kind is ordered
by this proclamation. It contains
no restrictions upon civilians, be
they citizens or aliens, except in
respect to lightir,?. The rules and
regulations of the Department if
Justice for the conduct and con
trol of aliens of enemy nationality
remain in full force and effect.
Restrictions of Shore Lighting
For the purpose of preventing
silhouetting of friendly shipping
to the advantage of enemy subma
rines and pursuant to instructions
from the Commanding General,
CdStern Dt'aime Command and
First Army, the following lighting
restrictions for that portion of the
See ARMY Back Page
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PHILIPPINES
CAST INDIES
In Honor of Those
Who Died for America
SATURDAY, MAY 23
The Girl Scouts will assist the
American Legion Womans Auxil
iary in the sale on Saturday. BUY
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FLOWER FIESTA
IS HUGE SUCCESS
Beaufort Woman's
Club Holds Annual
Flower and Art
Exhibit
The Flower Fiesta and Art Ex
hibit which is an annual event of
the Book Department and Wo
man's Club at Beaufort took
place last Thursday at the Inlet
Inn from 3:00 to 5:00 and was a
huge success from the standpoint
of flower and art displays as well
as the interest manifested by the
large number in attendance. The
lobby was transformed by green
ery and flowers into a veritable
flower garden, attractive out-doov
furniture was used through the
courtesy of the Eastman Furni
ture Co., of Beaufort. The floral
exhibit was most varied and color
See FLOWERS Back Page
War Bond Quota
Goes Over The Top
With one more week to go, Car
teret County has exceeded the
$25,000 goal set for the entire
month, I. E. Pittman county chair
manman of the War Bond Cotnmit
te stated this week when announc
ing that total May sales have a
mounted to $32,450.
While the pledge campaign has
been in its second week's prog
ress, the reports from activities of
the various committee members in
the County are incomplete.
When the complete figures for
May are tabulated for the War
Bond thermometer, possibly the
mercury will jump out of the top,
June Calendar
Arranged By Bar
The Carteret County Bar As
sociation met at the courthouse
Tuesday to et the ca!ndar for the
June term of Superior court. The
term wil run for two weeks, the
first week being for both criminal
and civil cases and the last for civ
il alone. The first session will be
held Monday, June 8.
Judge J. Paul Frizzelle of Snow
Hill wil preside over the ter n,
it was announced today.
CAT COLLECTOR WILL
BE IN TOWN NEXT WEEK
Mr. Mark Gupton, collector of
stray cats for laboratory purposes,
will be in Beaufort next week.
Mr. Gupton says that he does
not want anyone's pet cat, but if
you have any cats that you want
to get rid of he wil be glad to take
them off your hands. He stated
that the cats he collects are not
mistreated but are killed by chloro
form and embalmed for laboratory
purposes. Mr. Gupton is a disabled
World War veteran and does this
kind of work as a means of livelihood.
EVANGELISTIC
IN CARTERET
Church Vacation
School Is Featured
At Atlantic, Cedar
Island, Sea Level
The evangelistic services pre
viously announced for Atlantic,
Sea Level, and Cedar Island, got
underway Monday of this week.
Mrs. Georgia Frost Barnes of Lu
cama, well-known in Carteret Co.,
is again the director of music,
Church vacation school and the as
sistant to the pastors of these
meetings.
Rev. L. D. Hayman, pastor of
Atlantic will preach all of this
week at Atlantic and will also be
preacher for the services at Cedar
Island, beginning June first. Rev.
L. H. Weatherington, pastor of the
Free Will Baptist Church at Sea
Level, will be the . preacher the
week of May 24th to 31st. Mr.
Hayman will assist in the revival
at Sea Level since this one will be
a union of the Methodist and Free
Will Baptist Churhes.
In each of these efforts Mrs.
Barnes will be the leader of music
and youth work. Also will be spe
cial soloist through the series. For
the Atlantic Church, Miss Josie
Little of Newton, N. C, will be
special pianist and will be accom
panist for Mrs. Barnes. The hours
of service niw in- progress are each
afternoon three to five o'clack for
youth work, and each evening at
8:30 a service for every one.
This is the third year in success
ion that Mrs. Barnes has assisted
in the Atlantics Methodist Church
and she is more popular with the
congregation and community this
year than any of the previous
visitations. And she is eagerly
awaited at Sea Level and Cedar
Island where she holds a large
place in the heart of every one in
these communities. The outlook is
good for a deepening of spiritual
life in these sections as the re
vival interest is growing daily.
Typhoid Clinics
To Be Scheduled
During the summer months the
Carteret Health Department will
hold a series of clinics throughout
the county for the administration
of typhoid and smallpox vaccine,
and diphtheria toxoid, Dr. C. P.
Stevick announced Wednesday.
The first series of clinics have
already been started at Otway,
Smyrna and Marshallberg.
The second series will start as
i jllows:
Health Department, Courthouse
Annex, Beaufort,, 9 to 12 a. m.,
May 23.
Health Department, Courthouse
Annex, Beaufort, 9 to 12 a. m.,
May 30.
Health Department, Courthouse
Annex, Beaufort, 9 to 12 a. m.,
June 6. 1 ' ,-.. i
H.e!th Department, Courthouse
Annex, Beaufort, 9 to 12 a. m.,
June 13.
Bettie School, Monday, 9:15 a.
M., May 25.
Bertie School, Monday, 9:15 a.
m., June 1.
Bettie School, Monday, 9:15 a.
m., June 8.
North River School, Monday
10:30 a. m., May 25.
North River School, Monday,
10:30 a. m., June 1.
North River School, Monday,
10:30 a. m., June 8.
Broad Creek Methodist Church,
Thursday, 11:30 a. m., May 28.
Broad Creek Methodist Church,
Thursday, 11:30 a. m.. June 4.
Broad Creek Methodist Church,
Thursday, 11:30 a. m., June 11.
Bogue Community Building,
Thursday, 1:00 p. m., May 28.
Bogue Community Building,
Thursday, 1:00 p. m., June 4.
Bogue Community Building,
Thursday,
Stella,
May 28.
Stella,
June 4.
Stella,
June 11.
1:00 p. m., June 11.
Thursday,
2:30 p. m.,
2:30 p.m.,
2:30 p. m.
Thursday,
Thursday,
BUY U. S. DEFENSE
BONDS AND STAMPS
Eleven Precincts Out
Of 27 Represented
At Meeting Here
Last Saturday
JUDGE HAMILTON
SPEAKS TO GROUP
The Democratic conven
tion last Saturday at the Car
t e r e t County Courthouse
looked like the turn-out at a
football game of which the
score had already been an
nounced in advance.
The lack of Republican opposi
tion, however, did not retard the
enthusiasm of the Democratic
delegates from 11 out of the 27
precincts.
The election of officers for the
Executive Committee of the Car
teret County Democratic party
held after the session named : "Ir
vin W. Davis of Davis, chairman;
Mrs. Clayton Fulcher of Atlantic,
vice-chairman ; and James B. Long .
of Morehead City, secretary.
The delegates from the 11 pre
cincts who attended the conven
tion presided over by Irvin W. Da
vis of Davis, re-elected chairman
Executive Committee Cart e r e t
County Democratic party, includ
ed: Beaufort, Atlantic, Davis, Sea
Level, Morehead City, Marshall
berg, Straits, Harkers Island, New
por, Broad Creek and Wildwood.
In spite of the fact that the
court room wa3 barely half-filled,
Judge Luther Hamilton of More
head City, principal speaker, stat
ed that "there are five or six more
here than I expected to attend."
Judge Hamilton's remarks were
prefaced by Capt. John Nelson,
North Carolina State Fisheries
Commissioner of Morehead City,
who stated: "This is the smallest
Democratic convention I've ever
been in."
Judge Hamilton did not' blame
the small attendance entirely to
the lack of Republican opposition
in the coming general election. He
stated that the rationing of tires
and gasoline was equally respon
sible for the lack of attendance.
The principal speaker continued
by saying: "I would hate very
much to see the Republican party
See DEM. Back Page
Drivers License
Exams To Be Held
At M. City Thursday
State Highway Patrolman John
Laws stated Wednesday that be
ginning Thursday, May 28, exam
inations for drivers licenses will be
given at the city hall in Morehead
City.
Although the date has been
changed from Friday to Thursday,
examinations this week will be
conducted at the usual date.
Applicants between the ages of
16 and 18 must be accompanied by
one of their parents or guard;ans.
Editor's Note: Car - operat
ing aspirants who hope to do much
driving in spite of rationing should
be accompanied with a car, an X
card and four good tires).
I TIDE TABLE
T Information as to the tide ?
X at Beaufort is given in this &
X ;olumn. The figures ai'e ap- x
v proximately correct nrt
J based on tables furntahad by
t the U. S. Geodetic Survey.
So meallowaflCen must
made for variations in th'
X wind and also with rospoc
y co the locality, thai is whetl
er near the inlet or at the
. head of the estuaries.
Friday, May 22
1:28 AM 6:00 AM
2:09 PM 8:20 PM
Saturday, May 23
2:20 AM 8:55 AM
3:45 PM 9:23 PM
Sunday, May 24
3:19 AM 9:50 AM
4:06 PM 10:25 PM
Monday, May 25
4:22 AM 10:43 AM
5:06 PM 11:23 PM
Tuesday, May 26
5:23 AM 11:38 AM
6:01 PM
Wednesday, May 27
6:20 AM 12:21 AM
6:54 PM 12:31 PM
Thursday, May 28
7:14 AM 1:17 AM
7:45 PM 1:24 PM