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BEAUFORT, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPT. 3, 1942
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InTheService
; Chief Machinist W. R. Moulton,
U. Coast Guard, stationed at San
dy Hook, N. J., Mrs. Moulton and
sou Warren Jr. are spending their
vacation with Mrs. Moulton's
mother, Mrs. Everett Guthrie on
Moore street.
, Warren H. Taylor, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Taylor, has complet
ed his basic training at Fort Eus
tis, Va., and been transferred to
Camp Edwards, Mass. James W.
Taylor, another son, is stationed at
Charleston, S. C.
J Laitnie E. Rhuc, Pvt. U.S.A.,
son of H. T. Rhue of Broad street,
"4s at Camp Poke, La., where he has
been assigned to Co. "D", 55th
. ;Armd. Inf. Regt. 11th Armd. Div.
j'wThe 11th is one of the newest Ar
mored Divisions.
William Arrington Jr. (Billy)
of the U.S.N.R. stationed in Nor-
jfolk spent the weekend in Beau
fort with his wife and parents on
1 Live Oak street.
Official notice has been sent
4 this office in regard to a promo
tion received by William Lennox,
son of Mrs. Mathew Owens, at
"The University of the Air", Cor-
,! pus (Jnristi, lexas. William is ex
pected home this
week for a ten
day fur'ough.
Word has been received here
that Lawrence Rudder, Lt. (jg)
U.S.N.R., is at present stationed
with the Dental Infirmary, Naval
Training Station, Norfolk.
Dr. Johnny Way arrived last
"f Friday from Maryland to visit
' with his mother, Mrs. B. C. Way
of 513 Front street. Johnny has
been commissioned Captain, U. S.
A., and is here awaiting orders.
He is a graduate of our Beaufort
schools. From here he went to the
University of North Carolina
ywhere he received his B.S. degree
iin 1934. After graduation he en-
Itered the University of Maryland
'and was awarded an M.D. in 1938.
He interned at St. Agnes hospital
in Baltimore, and since serving his
internship there has been on the
staff as Resident Physician.
Lije Lewis' Attackers
Turned Over To M.C.
The Marines who held up Lije
Lewis near Dover a week ago last
Monday were not in disguise but
were real Marines, They were
charged with assault with a deadly
weapon and turned over to the
Marine Corps officials for hand
ling. Mr, Lewis is reported dis
charged from the hospital and is
at his home in Dover.
AROUND
Town
With
MACK CLARK
The quiet of our last Saturday
night's reverie was shattered by
the eerie blatting of the fire siren.
We counted out four - five and
settled back in the easy chair as
we didn't feel like a walk out to
Pine and Live Oak corner.
Then in the time it takes a car
to travel from one end of town to
the other at an unobtrusive rate of
speed, the siren blatted one - four.
r ront ana moore streets, Demg a
little closer than the other we
started in that direction. The
only car visible in the vicinity
passed us, turned out its lights,
went around the corner and stop
ped. We realized that it would be
our word against the word of those
in the car, and having no oLher
proof we had to drop the matter.
CHILDREN AND NUTS
We understand that there are
children who have never been
taught the difference between
right and wrong; that there are
insane people commonly called
"fire-bugs" who set fires and pull
alarm boxes just to see the fire
See AROUND TOWN Pa 10
Floating Hotel
Passes Through
Enroute To
Washington, D.C.
TO BE HOME FOR
WAR WORKERS
The Hotel Aphrodite, of
Florida, a transient gue.it in
Beaufort over the week-end,
passed through the Beaufort
draw at 8 :00 a. m. Tuesday
enroute to Washington, D.
C, where it is to be used, ac
cording to report, to relievo
the housing situation.
A number of early risers skep
tically watched as two Jackson
ville, Fla., tugs eased its 55 foot
beam successfully through the 60
foot wide Beaufort draw. Those
who predicted trouble, however,
were rewarded by seeing the up
per forward railing, starboard side,
crash into the raised Railroad
draw with minor damage.
Two hundred and forty feet
long, four stories high, with 75
rooms in addition to those for the
crew, the hotel made a spectacular
appearance in Fort Macon Chan
nel last Sunday. Beaufort people
focused their binoculars on it as
soon as it appeared and the sup
positions started as to what it was.
Some thought it a huge grand
stand, others a floating Naval hos
pital, a Naval training ship, a show
boat, and some had it right.
There is nothing shabby about
the Aphrodite. On close inspec
tion as it passed through the draw,
it appeared in good condition,
rooms have regular size windows
(two to a room) and doors open
ing out on balconies with a prome
nade on the first floor. Above
equipment suggests a roof garden
with frames for awnings all sur
rounded by a railing.
Based on the forty-odd hours it
took to pass through here, it is in
teresting to surmise just when the
hotel will reach its new port and
war workers iwill begin to explore
its balconies and promenades and
cavort on the roof.
BAND CONCERT
MONDAY NIGHT
Rotarians Plan
Labor Day Concert
For Front Street
Monday evening from
10:30 to 10:45 our Beaufort
boys will give a band concert
at the corner of Front and
Turner streets follow i n g
which a loud speaker will
bring the President's Labor
Day radio message to the
group.
The Rotarians are spon
soring this celebration, and
it is expected that a large
crowd will flashlight their
way through the darkness to
attend.
H. H. LENOX
DIES IN TEXAS
Word has been received that H.
H. Lenox, father of Arthur and
Harold Lenox, died in Corpus
C'hristi, Texas, last month while on
a visit with his sons. Mr. Lenox
was originally from Kentucky but
at one time made his home here.
At the time of his death he lived
in Washington and was visiting his
boys. Mr. Lenox, apparently in
good health, was taken ill, remov
ed to a hospital for operative pro
cedure, and never recovered.
Mrs. J. S. Correll
Speaks To Rotes;
No Meeting On 8th
At the regular Inlet Inn dinner
meeting of the Rotarians this
week, Mrs. J. S. Correll of Raleigh
and Morehead City gave the group
a highly interesting talk on ' Music
Appreciation."
Business before the Club in
cluded discussion of plans for a
civic celebration on Labor Day.
Mrs. Pierson will be away on
the 8th so there will be no dinner
meeting of the Club next week,
but members are asked to call by
the Inn and make up their weekly
attendance.
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LIEUTENANT COMMANDER W. S- CHAD WICK, Officer in Charge of the Naval Re
cruiting Station at Memphis, Tennessee. Wi :h him on his right is Lieut. E. E. Keith,
State Recruiting Officer, and on his left Lieut. C. F. Hackney, State Public Relations
Officer,
DR. HYDE'S SISTER
RETURNS TO U. S.
Miss Jane Hyde
With Homecomers
Aboard Gripsholrn
When the Gripsholrn arrived
in the U. S. from the Far East
Tuesday, August twenty fifth,
with 1500 homecomers, Mi3s Jane
Hyde, sister of Dr. F. E. Hyde was
amoung the 680 Protestant Mis
sionaries aboard.
Miss Hyde has been in China
with the Board of Foreign Missions
of the Presbyterian Church for 35
years so long that she thinks of
China as home. She has been sta
tioned in Nanking (occupied
Xhina) and for some time has been
very much restricted in her work
as colporteur, but like many of the
missionaries was glad to remain
with the people with whom she had
cast her lot as long as her Board
felt is wise. The group left Japan
on a Japanese ship bound for Por
tugese East Africa. It was there
that they transferred to the Swed
ish ship that brought them home.
On board the Gripshilm Miss Hyde
saw her first new spaper for a
year, received her first mail from
home in a year, and for the first
time since War was declared, she
heard the radio.
Miss Hyde is at present visit
ing her sister in Pennsylvania. She
will not be able to make plans for
her future until after conferences
with her Board, but the Hydos are
looking for her in Beaufort some
time in the fall. She has visited
here before. Her last visit was sev
en years i?o. Friends of Miss
Hyde are looking forward to see
ing her again and everyone is hap
py with the Hydes to hear of her
safe arrival in this country.
Carteret County
Tire And Bicycle
Quotas For Sept.
North Carolina tire and tube
quotas for September are 900 new
tires, 7,793 recaps, and 3,490
tubes for passenger vehicles. A
total of 1,849 Grade II passenger
tires will be available for war
workers. Trucks, buses, farm
equipment and such will receive
7,027 naw tires, 7,549 recaps, and
7,620 tubes. Bicycle allotment is
1,316 new adult machines.
Carteret quotas are: For pas
senger cars, 3 new tires, no grade
II tires, 46 recaps, 27 tubes. For
trucks, 59 new tires, 50 recaps, 51
tubes. Six new adult bicycles are
allotted.
Duke Summer
School Folds For
Another Yera
Dr. A. S. Pearse, Director of the
Duke University Summer Group
at Fivers Island, together with the
last of the research students, left
Tuesday after completing work of
another season at the Duke Marine
Laboratory. This leaves just three
families to inhabit the Island for
the winter: The Prytherchs, four
strong; the Humms, three strong;
and the Noes, four strong.
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AGE FOR
BEGINNERS
"Children to be entitled to
enrollment in the public chool
must be six year of age on or
before October first of the year
in which they enroll, and must
enroll during the first month
of the school year" Sec. 22Yt
Public School Laws, 1941.
At a special meeting called
yesterday to consider sereral
problems pressirg for solution,
the County Board of Education
unanimously directed that each
and erery principal and first
grade teacher be instructed to
comply strictly and literally
with the law a quoted abore.
The same number of teachers
will be employed at Bettie, Da
ris, and Williston for 1942
1943 as were employed in those
particular chools for 1941
1942. Looking
Backward
BEAUFORT 20 YEARS AGO
School was scheduled to open on
Monday, September 10, with pro
vision made for 400 elementary
children and 100 in the high
school. Lenoxville children were
to be brought in every day by boat.
Teachers announced for the year
were: Elementary School Miss
Eva Thomas, Miss Olga Long (Me
bane), Miss Annie Morton, Miss
Anni May Gibbs, Miss Lessie Ar-
rington, Miss Malta Clark (Hick
ory), Miss Iva Modlin (Aulander)
Miss Barbara Edwards (P.ocky
Mount). Hif-ch School Mrs. John
Chadwick, Miss Emily Loftin, Miss
Annie Lee Webb (Chapel Hill).
Public School Music Miss Isabel
Clark (Candor). Principal C. W.
E. Pittman.
N. H. Roberts was principal of
the colored schools. Mrs. Nettie
Hawkins Tate (Norfolk), Miss
Lucy Jones, and Miss Olive Bays
more (Windsor) were teachers.
The paper carried a notice of
the "Beaufort Town Library" over
Martin and Kings Store. Hours:
Tuesdays and Fridays 9 to 12 and
2 to 4.
A Personal : Mr. and Mrs. U. E.
Swann and' little son Edgar left
Monday for Iredell County where
they will visit Mr. Swann's rela
tives. In the Ads: W. P. Smith was
offering Queen Quality Shoes as
the last word in footwear for the
ladies.
Status Of
Sugar Coupons
Coupon No. 8 Good for five
pounds August 23 through October
31.
Special certificates issued at
Rationing Office for sugar for
canning and preserving 1 lb. per
person for preserves and jellies; 1
Ik. for every 4 quarts of canned
products.
BOOKMOBILE
SCHEDULE
WPA Bookmobile
Touches Every
Village In County
The Bookmobile with a
collection of approximately
4,000 books operates in con
nection with our Carteret
County Library in an effort
to make the Library acces'
sible to as many people as
possible.
Four days of the week it travels
over the County touching every
community in it. The driver is
Miss Josephine Willis, of Straits,
and Miss Elizabeth Simpson, of
Beaufort, accompanies her as
clerk. The follov!ng is Mieir
schedule:
Monday
Bettie Church 9;0C-9:30.
Bettie Cleveland Gillikin's
Store 9:40-10:00.
Otway Mae's Place 10:10
10:30. Smyrna Chadwick's Store
10:40-11:15.
Marshallberg M e t h o d i s t
Church 11:30-12:30.
Gloucester Joe Pigott's Store
12:45-1:00.
Straits Post Office 1:30-1:45
Markers Island Picturo Show
2:00-2:45.
Tuesday
Russell's Creek G. R. Russell's
Home 9:00-9:30.
Wire Grass Mrs. Susan Mer
rill's Home 9:40-10:00.
Wire Grass E. G. Campen's
Home 10:15-10:40.
Core Creek Community House
10:50-11:15.
Harlowe Ivey Taylor's Store
See BOOKMOBILE Page 10
Louis Hooper Dies
Sunday At Ocracoke
Louis Hooper, son of Mr. and
Mis. Fred Hooper of Marsh street,
died at Ocracoke early Sunday
evening of a heart attack. Funeral
services were conducted from the
Hooper home at 5 o'clock Monday
afternoon by his pastor, Rev. W.
Stanley Potter, and he was buried
in Ocean View cemetery.
Mr. Hooper was born Septem
ber 1, 1913. The greater part of
his life had been spent here. He
was married to Rebecca Gillikin.
daughter of Capt. and Mrs. Fred
Gillikin of Marshallberg. Mrs.
Hooper and two children, Barbara,
aged five, and Sallie Louis, an in
fant, remain to mourn him. He is
also survived by his parents, one
brother, A. B. Hooper, and one sis
ter, Mrs. Archie McDade.
Robert Hooper and wife of Ab
erdeen and two aunts from Ocra
coke were in Beaufort for the
funeral.
Louis Warren To
Sing On Radio Sun.
Louis Warren who sang two se
lections over station WHIT in New
Bern last Sunday will again he on
the air next Sunday afternoon
sometime between three and four
o'clock. He invites his friends
be listening for him.
VOLUNTEERS ARE
NEEDED FOR WAR
FLIGHT TRAINING
Legion Cooperating
In Nation-Wide
C. A. A. Training
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.
Thousands of volunteers
were called for today by the
Civil Aeronautics Adminis
tration, to be trained for the
Army Air Forces as flight in
structors, transport, glider,
and liaison pilots.
Trainees need not meet the
stringent physical requirements
for combat cadets, and may be
from 18 to 36 years of age. They
will be enlisted in the Air Forces
Reserve, under a program begun
July 1, and now entering its sec
ond session. The 12,000 posts of
the American Legion are cooperat
ing in the recruitment drive.
"Boys who a year ago had never
been off the ground before taking
CAA training are already flying
cargo to our armed forces in all
parts of the globe, and the same
chance is open to those enrolling
now," according to Charles I.
Stanton, Administrator of Civil
Aeronautics.
Training begins at one of the
600 colleges participating in the
CAA program, with room, board,
and a complete flying course pro
vided by the CAA. After from 8
weeks to 8 months of CAA instruc
tion, they enter Army flying
schools and have the opportunity
of qualifying for a commission, or
for the rank of staff sergeant with
flight pay.
Both novices and men with some
flying experience are wanted. The
latter will enter CAA training at
an appropriately advanced stage
Pilots with 150 or more hours can
See TRAINING Page 10
Former Beaufort
Girl To Represent N.
C. In Beauty Pageant
Miss Hilda Taylor, who as "Miss
Wrightsville Beach" in the 1941
Coastal Festival, was crowned the
winning beauty, is scheduled to
represent North Carolina in the
annual National Beauty Pageant in
Atlantic City this year, it was re
vealed in a letter from her to a
friend in Beaufort this week.
Should Miss Taylor win first place
in the National Pageant she will be
crowned Miss America, 1942.
Miss Taylor is a native of Beau
fort. She attended the Beaufort
Public schools. She is an accomp
lished singer and for the past sev
eral months she has been living in
New York City where she has been
singing and modeling.
No Social Moron He
F. R. Seeley was among this
week's volunteers for airplane
spotting.
Mr. Seeley is frankly in his sev
enties. At that age, so they say,
it's mighty hard to rise above the
love of arm chair comforts and
unbroken rest to answer any cull
ior nigni service, out Mr. seeley
does not ask any special indul
gence. Instead he has assumed re
sponsibility for the one o'clock to
four o'clock watch each Wednes
day morning. Wednesday, armed
with his flashlight and flit gun, he
walked the mile and more to the
tower and stood watch until he was
relieved at 4:30, then walked
hack. This walking was not for
the fun of a hike but for conser
vation of giis and rubber and is an
other argument for tlcse who ad
vocate moving the watch lower
nearer to the center of tliiiua.
Mr. Seeley is showing a splendid
spirit. He gives a comforting feel
ing that a certain watch is taken
care of and responsibly so for the
time boirg, but these Woodi.rds
are an insatiable people not per
sonally but in the interest of De
fense. We are an unstable ptople
at present and there is never a
lime when they can lean back
with the feeling that things will
run themselves. Every day brings
problems caused by changes in
either regulars or substitutes. If
you feel the urge to serve, call
them at 334-6 and learn how you
can help best.
At a meeting of the director of
Carteret Fair held this week it was
decided not to hold a fair this year
due to the blackout, shortage of
gas and other conditions caused hj
the war. Carteret Fair has been
held for the past six years under
the sponsorship of Carteret Post
No. 99 American Legion. A con
tract was signed with World's Fair
Shows to plajr the midway but the
contract was cancelled this week.
Beaufort Citizens
Collect Scrap Rubber
And Iron For Defense
Mayor Graydon Paul expresses
himself as pleased with results of
the drive for scrap materials for
which he issued a call in THE
BEAUFORT NEWS of August 13.
Six thousand pounds of scrap iron
have been ferreted out of homes
in Beaufort and vicinity and for
warded through Paul's Hachine
Shop to junk dealers by which
route they will finally have a part
in making weapons and tanks and
jeeps and ships for defense. An
other 15,000 pounds of rubber
have been accumulated at the re
quest of our Government and is
awaiting collection by govern
ment trucks as needed.
Noe Reunion To
Be Held This Month
The annual Noe Family Reunion
will be held in Beaufort sometime
between September 6 and 10, it
was stated today by Captain John
E. Noe, master of the menhaden
fishing vessel Leland Mills. The
family reunion, usually held dur
ing mid-August, was postponed
this year due to the fact that an
automobile accident had prevent
ed the Rev. Israel Noe, rector and
founder of St. James Cathedral,
Memphis, Tenn., from being pres
ent. In the automobile wreck one
of the daughters of the former
dean of St. Mary's Cathedral, was
slightly injured.
Head of the Noe family is Mrs.
Susan Noe, 92 year old mother of
Captain John, and four Episcopal
rector sons, namely Israel of Mem
phis, Alex of Bath, Raleigh of Wil
mington, Tom of York, S. C. All
are expected to be present with
their families. There are five gen
erations of Noes living in Beau
fort. Watchman Willis
Now On New Job
Former Police Officer David
Willis asked us to state through
the News that he went on his new
job as night watchman last Mon
day night. He is being paid by the
merchants of Beaufort to look out
for their property during the
night, which is very necessary at
this time due to the scarcity of
light in Beaufort.
I TIDE TABLE I
Information as to the tide
of Kfimifnrf 5a orivon n ihlo
column. The figures ae ap- J
proximately correct and are
based on tables furnished by
the U. S. Geodetic Survey.
So meallowances must 10
made for variations in tht
wind and also with respect
to the locality, thai is whet!
er near the inlet or at tin'
head of the estuaries.
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HIGH LOW
Frid.ty
Sept. 4
3:58 AM
4:28 PM
Saturday, Sept.
5:05 AM
5:27 PM
Sunday, Sept.
G:01 AM
6:18 PM
Monday, Sept.
6:48 AM
7:03 PM
Tuesday, Sept.
10:07 AM
11:00 PM
S
11:03 AM
11:57 PM
6
11:53 AM
12:45 AM
12:47 PM
8
1:28 AM
1:34 PM
7:32 AM
7:44 PM
Wednesday, Sept,
8:12 AM
8:24 PM
9
2:05 AM
2:17 PM
10
2:43 AM
2:53 PM
Thursday, Sept
8:52 AM
9:01 PM