North Carolina Newspapers

II If m II L MILS DMUr UK 1 M PWP' 7 he Most Widely Read Newspaper Along The Central Carolina Coast VOLUME XXXJH No. 15 12 PAGES THIS WEEK BEAUFORT, N. C. THURSD AY, APRIL 13, 1914 12 PAGES THIS WEEK BALLOTS FOR MAY PRIMARY GOING TO MEN 'ABROAD NOW i Ballots Sent Only On Request of Man Or of His Family In anticipation of the May 27th rrimary, the Board of Elections of Carteret County is already sending out ballots to tho?e of our men and women who are in fo" eign service, but ballots go out on ly on appliaction of the man or woman or his immediate family. Elsewhere in the paper is. a very simple blank form which if filled out by a member of the im mediate family of any man or woman will insure a ballot being sent. The only thing the family cannot assume is the designation of the voter's party. When the re quest is received from other than the voter himself, both tickets are sent out with instructions to de stroy the one that the man or woman does ont want to vote. Upon receipt of the application, the voter is considered registered although he may not have been registered previously. Ballots go out from here free of charge in franked envelopes and of course are returned free. To expedite matters, the Govern ment has promised that air mail delivery will be furnished wherev er feasible. State tickets are going out now. After the date of filing has passed ed if there promises to be any contest, tickets for the County Primary will be added. SCHOOL CLINIC APRIL jO-21 All First Graders For September 1944 Asked to Attend The annual pre-school clinic will be held at the Beaufort School on Thursday and Friday, April 20 and 21 beginning at 9 o'clock, for chil dren who expect to enter school next year those who will be (5 years old on or belore Uctocer I, 1944. Children whose last names be gin with A through M are asked to attend on Thursday, April 20; those whose last names begin with "N through Z Friday, April 21. The spring pre-school clinic has become an institution here. At tendance in recent years shows that mothers have begun to re gard it as an important step in pre paring a child for his first school experience. Children will be exam ined, physical problems indicat ed, means of correction suggested, and the cooperation of the Health Department will be given in an effort to get every child in the best possible physical condition to profit from work in the fall. Girl Scout Court of Honor A RARE TREAT PUBLISHED WEEKLY. r., J FRONT RANK BBS SENIORSFOR 44 Superlatives Named By Fellow Classmen Members of the Senior Class who know fellow seniors better than any other group have gotten together and named their "super latives" for the Class. They reveal to the world not only members match ess in intellect, native gifts, promise of future success and such but make public members who eat the most, grumble, and are pesti ferous generally. Pretiest Emily TaySrar. 1 '!fl Most Hansome Billie Davis. Cutest Patsy Ruth Hill; Er nest Guthrie. Most likely to succeedBobbie Jeanne Duncan; Horace Loftin. Most intellectual - Bobbie Jeanne Duncan; Horace Loftin. Best Dancer Betty Euth Hus sey; Herbert Parkins. Best Sport Jtyce Springle; -John Duncan. Most Athletic Joyce Springle; Ernest Guthrie. Most talented Joyce Johnson; Horace Loftin. Best Figure Mary Anne Ow ens. Best Physikue John Duncan. Quietest Marray Cariaway ord ; John Duncan. Wittiest Agnes Peterson, Er nest Guthrie. Most Popular Mary Frances Morton, Billie Davis. Best all around Joyce Springle John Duncan. See SENIORS Page 8 RA TI OH BRIEFS GASOLINE A-9 Coupons good through May 8. SHOES No. 18, Book I, good through April. No. 1 "Airplane" Stamp in Book III good indefinitely. Another shoe stamp good begin ning May 1. SUGAR Stamps No. 30 and 31, Book IV, good for 5 pounds of sugar indef initely. No. 40 good for 6 lbs. can ning sugar through February 28, 1945. CANNED GOODS I Blue Stamps, Book IV, A-8 through K-8 good indefinitely. I MEATS I Red Stamps, Book IV, A-8 through M-8 good indefinitely. f FUEL OIL J Period 4 and 5 coupons good through September. REMINDERS Date for filing 1944 Declara tion of Estimated Income and Vic tory Tax extended to April 15. t, Regular Tire Inspections not re quired after April 20. Short Session For Recorder's Court Salter Path rarely figures -In the Court, but Miss Charlotte Willis, formerly of Salter Path now of Morehead City appeared before Judge Webb on Tuesday charged with driving a motor vehicle in a careless and reckless manner. In driving through a narrow section of the Salter Path road, one of the property owners alleged that she ran into his posts on one side of the road and then into a fence on the other. Testimony revealed that Miss Willis was learning to drive, and her mishap was due more to inexperience than reckless ness so as she had no permit, the charge was amended to driving without a license or learners per mit, and she paid the officer's iosts of $5.00. William Branch, grey haired colored man of Harlowe, was charged with having non-tax paid liquor in his possession, but as he had no previous appearance in Court he was dismissed upon payment of the costs amounting to $26.25. I ! " v " ' V ' . f FOR MARIANS Lt. Hill Tells of Life in Pacific Joyce Biggs and Pat We b receiyrd thir Outdoor Badges from Scout Leader Ann Neal at the Girl Scout Court of Honors held at the Recreation Center on March twenty-fourth. Lined up ba;k of them are Beaufort's sixty odd Girl Scouts. Follow ing the rituals, the girls enj ved games and dancing under the direction of Mrs. Neal and her assistant, Mrs. Willie Ipcck. Mr. James B'ggs added to the excitement of the evening by takingflashlight pictures of the group. We are indebted to him for the above picture. PASTOR OF CORE CREEK CHURCH HAS NARROW ESCAPE JUNDAY Car Turned Turtle In Waters of Sound CARTERET BOYS IN THE SERVICE Lt. Claud Wheatly left Wednes day after spending ten days leave at home. Social Security Tax Returns During the month of April, em' ployers who are subject to the So cial Security Act, will make their pay roll tax reports for the first quarter of 1944. Each employer, concerned, is required by law to report the name and account num ber of every employee, and the wages paid him during the previ ous calendar quarter. This tax return is sent to the Bureau of Internal Revenue: and then, the wage data shown there on is transmitted by that Agency to the Social Security Board, where it is recorded in an account, maintained by this Board for each individual worker. Benefits which will be paid in later years to the insured worker or to his survivors will be based upon his wage rec ord. An employer who fails to in clude in .his tax return, the Mainl and account number as well as the wages of each employee may un wittingly cause the loss of bene fits, later on, to an employee or to his family. A Message to Employee Your employer is getting leady to make his social security tax re port to the Government for tho first quarter of 1944. This quarter ly tax report must include your name, your social security ac count number, and the amount of your wage earnings during the months of January, February, and March. The Social Security Board has set up an account for yon. Ev ery three months your wage earn ings are reported by your employ-, er and they are credited to your social security account. Upon this wage record is based the payments to which you may be entitled af ter you reach the age of 65 and retnre. It will serve also as the basis for payments to your surviv ors, in case of your death. Make sure that your employer knows the number of your social, securi ty account card. Eastern Star Members of the Beaufort Chap ter of the Eastern Star are invited to mete with the Morehead City Chapter this evening, April 13th, at 8 P. M. Guests for the evening will be the Deputy Worth Matron who comes from Greenville. Rev. W Y. Stewart, pastor of Core Creek Community Church, is recuperating at Morehead City Hospital from sho-.-k and minor injuries received last Sunday af ternoon when his car left the Causeway between Atlantic Beach and the Morehead City draw. Mr. Stewart was returning home and had given a lift to sev eral Service men and women. As he rounded the curve, the car swerved, rolled down the bank turning turtle in the canal on the left, and partially submerged in several feet of water with but the wheels sticking up in the air. .Service men with desregard for themselves of clothes rushed in. lt was at first feared that he had been crushed under the wheel but the men were able to relerse him. Suf fering from bruises, shock, and cold he was wrapped in blankets and taken to Morehead City Hos pital in the car of Dr. H. F. Pry therch who drove up behind en route from the Fort with his fam ily. Injuries to other passengers were minor. The fact that Mr. Stewart went off the Highway on his left and that he could remember nothing of what happened, suggests that he was ill at the time that he lost control of the car. The report to day is that he is making a satis factory recovery but the date of discharge is indefinite. Those present were impressed with the solicitation and quick ac tion of the service men. Had the accident occurred at high tide, re sults would have probably been very tragic. Pvt. William Chadwick, has! been transferred from Camp Liv ingston, La., to Stateii Island, X.f. Lt. Hill Talks To Boys and Girls in Chapel Wednesday Boys and Girls of the Beaufort Graded School listened with rapt attention Wednesday alternoon when Lt. Robert Hill, recently re turned from the Pacific, visited his alma mater for a Chapel program and talked to them about what is taking place in the Pacific. His informal talk was beautifully a dapted to the age and experience of his audience and it gave them a most worthwhile forty minutes or more. Raymond P. Nassef, Private, USA, son of Mr. Farris Nassef, ia reported wounded in the Mediter ranean Area. CONTRIBUTIONS TO RED CROSS REACH ALL TIME HIGH HERE Late Returns Bring Total to $5066.31 Rotarians had an outstanding meeting Tuesday evening when they had as their guest Lt. (jg.) Robert II. Hill, Naval Air Corps who has just returned covered with glory from the Pacific. Following fellowship together around the dinner table, Robert, looking fine after injuries receiv ed early in the year, spoke inform ally to the home folks about places he has been, circumstances umler which our boys live, and things they are doing in so far as war time ethics permitted. When he fin ished, the group sat around and asked questions which he very graciously answered in all the de tail possible. Robert has a broad knowledge of the war. He has been in the Service for four years this coming July and has served both aboard a Destroyer in the North Atlantic and with the Naval Air Forces in the Pacific. It was for his achieve ments in the air in the Solomons last fall that he was a-warded the Air Medal one of the two specific decorations for feats of heroism in the air. CITY FATHERS PLAN TO REMOVE OVERHANGING DEAD LIMBS Work Underway On Authorized Repairs On Streets of Town School Chldren Continue to Buy Stamps and Bonds Lt. Lester Hittinger has been transferred to Alexandria, La., and Mrs. Hittinger (Dorothy Day) and Dianne have gone to be with him there. " ' J. Ky Beam, V-12, Duke Uni versity, spent the Easter week-end with his parents, the C. L. Beams. Jimmy Jarman, V-5, Newberry College, S. C, spent the week-end with his mother, Mrs. Bernice Jar-man. John Davis, son of the M L. Davises, completes his "Loot" training at Bainbridge, Md., next week and will' have ten days at home before being reassigned. Mrs. Lonnie Dill has received word from her .husband in Eng land that he has been promoted to the rank of Captain, USA. Lt. Stuart Jones, son of Dr. and Mrs. Edgar Jones has been transferred from Ft. Kriox, Ky., to Ft. Bragg. ' Richard Bloodgood has been transferred from Liberia to Cairo Egypt and raised to the Captain, USA. rank of Cpl. Preston Mason, stationed in England, has been awardod the Good Conduct Medal for "exem plary behavior, efficiency ual fi Se. SERVICE Page .; Tho War Fund for the Beaufort Chapter of the Red Cross has climbed to $5006.31 $306.31 over the quota assigned. Since our issue of last week, Marshallberg returns have risen to $103.45, Rus sell Creek has sent in $6.30, Bark ers Island sent in $71.35, and the staff of Rose Five and Ten Cent Store contributed $46.62. Chairman Potter again wishes to express appreciation to all those who had any part in the drive. Those who have so gener ously given will be interested in the following paragraph taken from a letter received from Jo seph Windley giving an idea of what the organization is moaning to our boys. Joseph is stationed in England and sights he is seeing srggests that he is near London: "The Red Cross is doing a wori- aeriui job over here, if it were not for them, I don't know what the soldiers would do. For one thing, we would have no place to go when we go in town." MASONS ENJOY LARGE AFFAIR WED. EVENING New Bern Scottish Rites Bodies Give Brilliant Party The School Stamp and Bond Committee reports $325 worth of bonds sold on Tuesday of this week and $131.15 worth of stamps. Miss Edith Lewis' Fifth Grade lead with Mrs. John Brooks Seven th making second place. Last week's returns, unreported, showed Mrs. Irene Quinn's Fourth leading and Miss Susan Rumley's Third making first place for the month giving members of her grade the exciting reward of pass es to the Beaufort Theatre. In the delayed monthly meet ing of our Town Commissioners last week, clearing the overhang ing dead limbs from our trees and road repairs were the only topics up for comment other than rou tine matters. Authorization was granted to have the dead limbs cut out of trees along the streets. This is a matter which has been giving con siderable concern to thoughtful citizens who appreciate the risk involved in the increasing number hanging over our heads and ex tending over roofs bordering the streets. The question of labor for the job looms big at present. The men now employed by the Street Department keep busy with other problems, and the authorities will have to go outside that group for help. As soon as it can be secured, they promise that it will be taken care of. Dirt roads have been grnded preparatory to using the newly acquired marl, but bad weather has necesitated re-grading before proceeding with it. In the mean time attention has been turned to repairing holes in the graded streets. First experiment will be in filling holes with the marl which if properly handled is said to hold; if not, steps are to be taken to take care of the holes by other mean3. DECORATED Dalton Wallace Smith, aviation pilot, USN Air Corps, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland Smith of Stacy has been awarded the Distinguish ed Flying Cross. This medal is giv en for "heroism of extraordinary achievement while participating in an aerial fight" and is one of the two specific decorations giv en for service in the air. Smith's award was made for heroism while serving as bamba dier on a Navy patrol plane in the South Atlantic last July. An ene my sub was sighted and sunk by bombs exploding under the con ning tower. Smith is now stationed at Key Xr i. T71 - ' 1 - "est, x-iunua. SENIOR PLAY AT SMYRNA SUCCESS - Class Superlatives Named. Egg Hunt For Lower Grades MARRIAGE LICENSE. John H. Stark, Oswego, N. Y., to Marion R. Talbot, N. H. Donald Dart, Colorado, to Bet ty Lee Morse, Colorado. Finley J. White, Pennsylvania, to Carolyn Orr, Pennsylvania. George J. Lehmann, Newark, N. J., to Anne M. Leyda, Pa. Arnold S. Alfono, Hoboken, N. J. to Mary Hudson, Rockingham, N. C. Onions Ceiling Price for three pounds of yellow onions effective April 17 will be .31 according to a report received from Raleigh this week. U.S.M.C, PLANE LOST ON SHOAL IHBOGUE SOUND Many People From Beaufort and M. C. Witnessed Accident Saturday afternoon at three o'clock a U. S. Marine Corps fight er plane from Cherry Point was lost in the shallow water of Tar landing Bay (bet.veen Bcgue Banks and Morehead City). The plane was flying at a high altitude when with a noise that suggested distress and caused people to look up, it went into a spin and fell to the ground at a tremendous rate of speed and with such impact as to bury the engine in the mud. A search began for the missing plane immediately. No official statement has been given out -to the press and the name of the pil ot is being withheld pending noti fication of the next of kin, but the body of the pilot and the plane en gine are reported to have been buried in something like fifteen feet of mud beneath about eight een inches of water. Scottish Rites Bodies of New Bern entertained Masons, their wives, and ladies of the Eastern Star of this area on Wednesday evening at an informal sealood buffet supper served in the dining room of the Harvey Smith Fish Factory, West Beaufort. Four hundred and fifty guests represent ing all the nearby communities supped together and afterward danced to the music of Harry Wright's orchestra. Serious mat ters were confined to a brief bus iness session for the men during which time the ladies were enter tained with Bingo. At seven o'clock, just prior to the supper hour, the business sec tion of Beaufort was roped off and the Shrine Patrol from New Bern in full regalia gave an exhibition drill. Mr. Gibbs Files For Legislature Wedneidny kfternoon Hon. H. S. Cibb succumbed to the pres sure brought to bear by his friends and consented to file as candidate for a third term in the N. C. Mouse of Representatives. If no one else files between now and Saturday af ternoon, Mr. Gibbs will be elected to represent Carteret County by default and there will be no contest. Carteret Ministers Hear Thoughtful Paper by Dr. Bunn On Monday of this week the Carteret Ministerial Association heard a thoughtful paper by Dr. J. H. Bunn, pastor of the First Eaptist Church of Morehead City on "The Need for a Puritan Re vival." Dr. Bunn brought out the out standing features of the original Puritan Revival with the empha sis placed on the Cross; their reac tion to the ceremonialism of tho religion of the day; the lack of true spiritual interest in religion; the feeling of the Churches rf thi day that they had a monop'y on religion and that the Grace of God could come only through already established channels; thtir sim plicity of worship; and the ideal of "working out our salvation." Most of the Puritan philosophy was good, but our God todav is not the austere God whom they kne neither is there the prejudice a gainst ceremony today which they felt. Instead all churches tend to express their reverent feolings with greater ceremony in their worship. But the Puritan pholos ophy was a worthy one and Dr. Bunn emphasized the necessity of regarding all work with religious devotion and of taking into what ever work is at hand the ideals for which the church stands. Last Friday evening the Senior Class of the Smyrna High School presented "The Red Headed Step Child" directed by Mrs. Aleeze Smith with the following cast: Mrs. Edith Russell, Russell's second wife Alice Mason. Mrs. Oliver Woodruff, her friend Janice Pake. Mrs. Emery Scott Dolene Gil likin. Briggs the Russell's butler Vincent Gillikin. Lucia Russell, their daughter Martha Willis. Dudley Russell, their son Mar vin Pake. j Richard Russell, a financier Clarence Salter. Elisabeth Russell, Richard's daughter from the West Hester Gillikin. George Garrison, presumably Lucia's admirer Lester Davis. - Ethel Ashley, society girl reari Davis. Lucille Christy Daphne Pake. Flora Farnum, Dudley's inamora ta Audrey S. Betters. See SMYRNA Page 8 ! TIDE TABLE i Information as to the tide f ut Uer.ufort is given in thij column. The figures are ap- : pioximately correct and uro based on tables furnished by 5 the U. S. Geodetic Survey, j Some allowances must h? -made for variations in tie , wind and also with rcsnect i ';o the bcr.fuy, that is vtheth- or near the inlet or at the tl he?.d of the estuaries. I t Eggs The volume Of eggs has exceed ed expectations, and collecting routes as well as storages are tax ed to capacity, reports Hazel Meacham, Extension marketing specialists at State College. Eat more eggs. HIGH LO . 14 Filda;', April 12:40 AM. 7:10 AM 1:07 PM. 7:12 PM. Saturday, April 15 ' 1:38 AM. 8:y0 AM. 2:11 PM. 8:18 PM. Sunday, April 16 2:45 AM. 9:17 AM. 3:19 PM. 9:32 PM. Monday, April 17 3:55 AM. 10:25 AM. 4:30 PM. 10:45 PM. Tuesday, April 18 5:03 AM. 11:28 AM. 5:35 PM. 11:52 Pit- Wednesday, April 19 6:06 AM. 6:35 PM. 12:24 PMl " Thursday, April 20 7:03 AM. 12:54 AM. 7:28 PM. 1:17 PM.