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VOLUME XVI
10 PAGES THI . VEEK
THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY FEB. 24, 1927.
PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY
NUMBER S
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NORTH CAROLINA
TRUCK CROP BIG
IN YEAR 1926
Over Ten Million Dollar Was
Received Last Year For
Truck
IRISH POTATOES FIRST
Raleigh, Feb. 21 Farmers in this
State received a total of $10,272,550
for commercial truck in 1926, or 2.7
percent of the value of all truck in
the United States. The 1925 truck
crop value was only $8,073,840 of
2.1 percent of the total for all states.
These amounts do not include sweet
potatoes, vegetables produced for
home consumption or sold in less
than carlots.
Twelve thousand car loads of com
mercial truck were shipped from 55,
450 estimated acres, which indicates
a gross return of $185.25 per acre.
Lettuce had the highest per acre val
ue, $533.30, while watermelons had
the lowest,$21.65.
For the past season early Irish Po
tatoes ranked first in the total com.
mercial truck value of the State.
Strawberries were second and lettuce
third.
The outlook for early Irish pota
toes this season is not very promis.
ing. There is a possibility of heavy
production, due to good prices last
year, cheaper seed this season, and
low prices for other farm crops. Un
less production is considerably re
duced from the 1926 crop, potato
prices are likely to be low, due to. a
large quantity of old potatoes on
hand. It appears that early in June
will be the best time to market North
Carolina potatoes, as at this time
there will be the least competition
from other states.
Considering all commercial truck
crops sold off the farms where grown,
North Carolina probably doubled the
above estimated value of commer.
cial truck. If all truck grown and
consumed .including home gardens)
be included, the figure would be
more than quadrupled. Airplane
photographs taken by the Crop Re
porting Service showed clearly that
back yard gardens in our townB are
literally full of various vegetables
that aggregate a tremendous factor
in understanding the. small demand
for fresh vegetables in our North
Carolina towns.
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Bills Are Aimed At
The Ku Klux Klan
Rileigh, N. C. Feb. 23 Bills to
outlaw the Ku Klux Klan from North
Carolina were introduced in both
branches of' the General Assembly
Tuesday by me nwho two years ago
were staunch supporters of the hood
ed order.
Introduction of the bill in the
House was greeted by a wild burst
of handclapping and applause.
The Senate bill was the product
of Rivers Johnson. Rules were sus
pended and it was placed on the cal
endar for a special order Wednesday
morning. '
In the House Rev. Oscar Haywood,
former grand lecturer of the Klan;
introduced a similar measure. The
House refused to suspend the rules.
Dr. Haywood in pleading for the
expedition of the passage of the
measure told the lawmakers that
forces outside the State would en
deavor to embarass members of the
North Carolina General Assembly
unless the bill was put through at
once.
Senator Johnson, who introduced
the bill in the Senate was one of the
Senators who led the figkt against a
similar measure when it came up two
years ago and caused a bitter fight.
The bill makes unlawful the ex
istence of rny order with a secret
membership or devoted to the wearing
of disguises.
The bill contains five sections, the
fifirst one m&kes it unlawful to mask
outside of lodge rooms. The second
section makes one, so masked, guilty
of a felony and punishable by fine
and imprisonment and - in case ' of
grand larceny guilty of fine and pun
ishment, . .
The third section provides that no
coporation or associations, or society
covered in the bill may own proper
ty, money, fixtures, lands and the like
by virtue of a charter of a national
or sovereign body; that in event of
dissolution of the society in the State
the property may be sold under res
olution of its members and returned
to the individual members in propor-
tion to their contribution toward pay
ment. If you want to buy something,
vant to sell something, have found
sDinethir.g or lost something tell it
New Building Started
On Front Street
Ground was broken Monday for
another business building on Front
stieet. This time it is Mr. D. M. De
noyer who will erect a new building.
The property is the vacant lot be
tween the Beaufort Banking and
Trust Company's building and that
of Mr. W. S. Chadwick on the east
side. The new structure will be
one story in height and will have a
handsome front. It will be divided
into two rooms. Mr. Denoyer ex
pects to have the building ready for
occupancy in a few months. He will
also erect a nice building shortly on
his Turner street lot.
Police Court Items
Mayor Thomas had only two cases
to try in Police Court Monday after
noon. Charles Clawson pleaded
guilty to a charge of speeding. He
was let off under a suspended judg
ment and the costs. Joe Fulford
charged .with cursing and disorderly
conduct' got off with a suspended
judgment and the costs.
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Pecan Planting Should
Be Done Now
Pecan Planting Week is to be ob
served in North Carolina again this
spring and February 21st to 26th.
has been designated as the time by
the Department of Horticulture and
the N. C. Pecan Growers Society of
Raleigh. It is expected that trees
will be planted tiround hundreds of
homes in the state by the end of that
period.
Planting Week was first observed
in this state last spring and result
ed in at least 5,000 trees being set
out mainly on the home grounds and
around farm lots.
A few pecan trees around the
homes will yield the best of all the
nuts for food and return a cash rev.
enue besides. The time from set
ting out the trees to gathering .the
nuts may be shortened at least fle'
half by planting right varieties and
giving- them a little care.
There are floor yard trees yielding
as high as 70 pounds of choice nuts
at 7 years of age and older trees
yielding as high as 700 pounds in a
single year. These trees coAt noth
ing to ggrow or fertilize. They use
the fertility around yards and barn
lots that otherwise would go to
waste and convert it into the most
valuable fruit crop in the south.
The Society has arranged to sup
ply choice specimens of budded trees
at very reasonable prices and can
send direct to planters any number
of trees from a few up to as many
as they may want.
Plant pecan trees now and save a
whole, year. The longer you delay
the longer you are putting off an act
that will bring you much pleasure
i and a great deal of profit.
I The Society at Raleigh will send
I any information desired about pecan
I trees.
HUGH OVERSTREET,
County Agent.
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Real Estate Transfers
The following transfers have been
recorded in Register of Deeds office
since last week:
Luther Hamilton, Commissioner to
John Robinson, part lot Beaufort for
$105.
Browning Piner and wife to Dan
iels and Maxwell, 1 lot Beaufort, for
$10.
Bogue Development Corp. to Wm.
D. W. Bishop, 1 lot Morehead City
for $5000.
Morehead Bluffs Inc. to C. W.
Hodges, 7 lots Morehead Bluffs, for
$6000.
W. H. Lee, Trustee to John E. Barbour,-2
tracts near Newport, for
$5000. s
.L. H. Pringle to E. W. Meadows,
2 tracts, White Oak ownship, for
$2001. . . '
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
Only one permit to wed has been
issued by Register of Deeds .R. W.
Wallace since last week, that was to
W. B. Guthrie and Emma Rose, Hark-
er's Island. '
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CONFEDERATE TEA.
The ladies of the U. D. C. will have
a Tea Saturday afternoon and night
Feb. 26th. in the store on Front street
formerly occupied by I. N. Moor,e.
chicken salad suppers, ice cream and
j cake, sandwiches, pies, cocoa, tea
and conee. uome ana neip us.
in the waht column of the News.
Ycu willbe surprised at the results.
BOND QUESTION
STILL UNSETTLED
Senate Committee Has Not Act.
ed On Carteret County Bond
Matter As Yet '
At the time f going to press no
action had been taken by the General
Assembly on the question of validat
ing the million and a quarter bond
issue for Carteret county. As stat
ed in the News last week thi3 ques
tion was debated Tuesday a week ago
before a sub-committee of the Sen
ate Judiciary committee. Those who
favored the bond issue and those who
opposed it had their say before the
committee. The bill had already
passed the house.
The end of the session is now near
by and some action on the bond bill
will have to be taken very soon and
may happen any day now. Both
the proponents and opponents of the
bond issue have been at work, quiet
ly but actively. Each side hopes to
win but neither is sure of it. Let
ters a plenty have been going to. the
senators and several persons ' have
been to' Raleigh recently in the in
terest of one side or the other.
The information came out of Ral
eigh yesterday that the Senate com
mittee on water commerce had re
ported favorably the bill sponsored
by Congressman Abernethy to permit
Carteret county to issue $100,000
worth of bonds for port terminals.
This bill passed the house several
days ago and authorized the board
of county commissioners to appoint
a port commission of seven members
and to issue bonds. It seems to have
been amended by the senate commit
tee so that the board of commission
ers can issue only $25,000 worth of
bonds and the remainder will have
to be voted upon by the people.
Must Lew Hio-her Tax
Y' Much 'is being said and much sis
being written about our tax rob-i
lem and the - present burdensome
taxation in this county. , Carteret
county seems to be watching itself
tie up in a mass of hard knots. Bonds
are issued by the wholesale for al
most everything by county officials
without a vote of the people. Criti
cism goes on from year to year and
public officials fail to give the tax
payers of the county an accounting
of the money that is being expended
by them. At least, as the News says,
none that is easily understandable to
the average citizen.
Here is the way I figure the coun-
TAX RESOURCES OF
Total assessed valuation ' for 1926
County tax rate i .-
Total tax on property .
Total number County polls
Poll tax rate .
Total Poll tax
Total property and poll
County license taxes (estimated)
Total tax revenues
Deduct for uncolected taxes and Sheriff's Com
missions, 12 per cent , 35,181.74
Cost for selling delinquent property (estimated $1,200.00
Balance
COUNTY'S BOND OR NOTE INVESTMENTS
Loan to town of Beaufort
Loan to town of Morehead City
interest at 5 1-2 per cent
Total Resouces
LIABILITIES OF
Bonds and Notes outstanding
Less credits to Morehead City and
ii.vestments
Net Indebtedness $2,759,700
Interest at 5 1-2 per cent
Singjng funds needed to take care of bonds
say 30 years . .
Amount tax money needed for bond obligations
FStimated Cost of county government, schools,
roads, bridges, etc.
Total for all purposes
RECAPITULATION.
Amount tax money needed 473,773.50
Amount tax from all sources 267,449.44
DEFICIT $206,324.06
Is is well for the County and its towns to consider that "whatsoever a
man soweth that shall he also reap" applies not only to individuals but also
to communities, towns, counties, states, nations, and the world. And also
that "a good name is rather to be chosen than great riches."
CITIZEN.
Chamber of Commerce,
Directors Meet!
A meeting of the board of direc
tors of the Beaufort Chamber of
Commerce was held Tuesday night in
the offices of Dr. C. S. Maxwell. Sev
eral business matters were discussed
the principal one of which was that
of the annual meeting. It was dis
cided to have this meeting soon and
invite some prominent person to be
present and address those present.
An arrangement to have a supper
served by some organization will also
probably be made.
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Competitive Examina
tions For Coast Guard
A competitive examination for the
U. S. Coast guard service are to be
held June 20th to 25th at various
places, thsee to be announced later.
Young men who pass the examina
tions successfully and who get the
appointments will be sent to the
Coast Guard Academy at New Lon
don, Connecticut for three years.
These cadets get $780 a year and
one ration per day. Each summer
they are taken on an extended prac
tice cruise. High school graduates
should be able to pass the examina
tions. Officers in the Coast Guard
Service get the same pay and allow
ances grade for grade that army,
navy and marine officers get. .
Young men who aro interested in
this matter can get further informa
tion by writing Congressman Charles
L. Abernethy.
Another bond bill that has passed
the house and is held up in the Sen
ate is that authorizine the town of
Beaufort to issue $125,000 in bonds
! for funding debts already contract
I ed.
Rate To
Meet Expenses Citizen Says
ty's tax resources and financial stand
'ing from the total assessed valuation
of property on the tax books and
from the figures of auditors Dixon,
Buss and Carter and others publish
ed in the News recently. I figure
that with 12 per cent added for un
collected taxes and sheriffs commis
sions' (which is a low estimate on
this), the county tax rate needed to
take care of bonds and notes out
standing against the county and the
cost of county government, schools,
roads, bridges, etc., should now be
around $4.25 on the hundred valua
tion instead of the present levy of
$2.25.
CARTERET COUNTY
...$12,558,986.
$2.25
$282,577.18
2651
$4.00
$10,604.00
$293,181.18
3,500.00
$296,681.18
$ 36,381.74
$260,299.44
$20,000
$110,000
$130,000
7,150.00
CARTERET COUNTY
- ' 2,889,700
Beaufort
130,000
$267,449.44
$151,783.50
91,990.00
$243,773.50
230,000.00
$473,773.50
END OF LEGISLATIVE SESSION
DRAWS NEARAND NOT MUCH DONE
A Good Many Small Bills Have Passed. Still Working On Rev.
enue Bill And Other Measure. Better County
Government Bills On 1 he Ways
Seven Candidates After
Morehead City Office
Several applications for the posi
tion of postmaster have been filed
for the Morehead City office so the
News is informed. The candidates
for the position are the present post
master Cleveland L. Willis, S. H. New
berry Wil,iam H. Styron, John A.
Klein, Henry S. Gibbs, U. S. G. Bell,
Verr.cn O. Paul. The time for filing
applications expired on the 15th of
February.
The Morehead City office is a pres
idential office and pays $2400 a
year. The Civil Service Commission
does not appoint but selects the three
best qualified names and submits
them to the postmaster-general for
appointment. By an executive order
of the President made on October
14th, 1921 persons who served in the
World War have a preference of five
points. Messrs. Gibbs and Newberry
have this preferense.
Close Inspection Need
ed To Detect Mange
Washington, D. C Acting on
statements from the leather trade,
which reports serious losses in hides
owing to demodectic mange, the Bu
reau of Animal . Industry, Unite 1
States Department of Agriculture
has requested its inspectors through.
out the country to be on the alert in
detecting this ailment.
Demodectic or follicular mange, as
the same trouble sometimes called,
affects principally cattle, hogs and
goats, though sheep and horses are
sometimes attacked by , the mange
mites. One banner reported- that
from 4 to 35 per cent: of hides from
yearling cattle showed visible injury
from mange.
Since the external lesions in live
animals are often small, obscure, and
covered by hair, the symptoms and
direct economic losses are not pro,
nuonced. This may explain why
farmers and even veterinarians may
not have become adept in detecting
the lesions find recognizing their
true nature.
As a means of determining the ex.
i tent and distribution of this live
stock ailment the Bureau of Animal
industry has instructed its inspec
tors stationed at public stockyards to
furnish monthly reports showing the
number and species of animals ex
amined and the degree of infection
found. Other persons interested may
obtain from the department, on re
quest, directions for detecting dem
odectic mange in livestock and for
obtaining and mailing samples of
mites, eggs, and secretions for lab
oratory examination. The studies
are being conducted by the Zoologi
cal Division, Bureau of Animal In.
dustry, United States Depatment of
Agriculture.
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WAGONS MUST CARRY
LIGHTS ON HIGHWAYS
After July 1 it will be a misde
meanor to operate any sort of ve
hicle at night on a North Carolina
highway without a light.
The House Tuesdr.y night passed
the Senate bill to this effect and
thereby marked the end of a strug
gle that has arisen time and again
in North Carolina General Assemblies
ever since the general use of auto
mobile. Previous to the present session ev
ery effort to require a tail light on a
wagon has fallen before the spectre
of the farmer vote.
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THE BISHOP'S CRUSADE.
The Bishop's Crusade conducted at
St. Paul's church closed Sunday ev
ening with a sermon by Reverend
Frank Dean of Wrightsville, N. C, Mr.
Dean conducted the services here for
a week and drew large congregations
that greatly enjoyed his preaching.
Not only members of the Episcopal
church but those of other denomina
tions attended the services.
Advertisers in the News get re.
suits because the paper circulates a.
mong the well to do and influential
people of Carteret county.
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Two hundred and forty fruit grow-
ers attended the fruit growers con.
j ference recently held at Mt. Aairy in
Surry County.
(By M. L. SHIPMAN)
Raleigh, Feb. 21 With only elev
en working days remaining of the
sixty days for which legislators may
draw perdiem the General Assembly
of 1927 faces a busy period and has
finally realized that it must stick by
the job from early morn until late at
night if its task shall be completed
when the last "pay day" rolls around.
Representatives Murphy and Turling
ton handed out timely warnings re -minding
the House that fully ten days
would be required to put the revenue
bill through both branches and that a
mass of major mattes were yet to
be considered. Monday morning
sessions were resumed today and to
night the House is considering the
Snaith-Hargett highway routing bin
as a special order, this bill having
passed the Senaie with some of the
objectionable features eliminated.
On Thursday nighc the House
slaughtered the Senate bill providing
for 27 judicial districts. by a vote -of
46 to 27, but Rspreseniutive Ever
ett, of Durham, lodgod a motion Fri-
!f.y morning to reconsider in the hope
thai-a t least four add'tional districts
may be provided and this proposal is
t( he debated tomorrow. The House
hv also recalled th-j agricultural in
teMst rati bill fror: the tablo to
' 1 ?'-h it had previously been sent.and
.. al disposition ol that will be made
1 o-gday, alti.is with Jvx Winston's
1 amendii tax law on the fish
ir'r industry. Kuf K.ntr-.'.Ive Mur
phy was drafted to pilot the highway
bill through the House and Represen
tative Everett of Durham is bent on
securing additional districts with fair
prospects of success.
The House passed to the Senate on
Friday the Sutton State wide game
law which went kiting through the
popular branch by an overwhelming
vote. The bill provides for a game
commission with regulatory powers
ever the hunting of game in every
county of the State, the commission
to be clothed with authority to make
special regulations for counties re
questing it after hearings and inves
tigations. The House would also
keep dogs out of hotel bedrooms.
The Senate has been the busy body
during the week, having put behind it
the Great Smoky Mountain Park
bill; the increased judicial disrticts
proposal; to change the registration
date of automobile license ( later
passed by the House) bill to amend
the State banking laws introduced by
henator Koyal, of Wayne which
would authorize the Corporation Com
mission to liquidate State banks that
fail. A bill by Senator Johnson of
Duplin, would deprive the Governor
of the right to fill vacancies for
Uni'ed States Senator and require a
primary for the selection of candi
dates to fill unexpired terms of Sen
ators who may die or rssign. A
number of House members consult,
ed feel that such an inovation would
be untimely and unwise.
Chairman Graham of the House
finance Committee has reported out
the revenue bill and this will have
the right of way in "committee of
the whole" until it is ready for Sen
ate action. Chairman Turlington of
the committee on appropriations has
also completed the final draft of that
measure which does not require u
roll call. Five bills designed to pro
duce better and more uniform coun.
ty government, recommended by Gov
ernor McLean, are under considera
tion. -Approval of these measures,
the Governor feels, would improve
methods of administration of the
fiscal affairs of counties by uniform
accounting systems, prevention of
deficits, balanced budgets, and econ
omical and business like management,
providing finance acts to limit indebt
edness similar to the municipal fi
nance act, place a limit on county
indebtedness and improve tax col
lecting systems.
To Governor McLean is due in a
large measure the credit of the pas
sage of the Great Smoky Park bill
with the following safe guards; Gov
ernor and Council of State must be
satisfied that the interests of the
State are safeguarded Tennessee
must buy its share of the land and
additional money secured before the
bonds are issued. It is freely ad
mitted that Governor McLean "rung
the bell on this highly significant
proposal and brought together con
tending in both branches of the As
sembly on the question, leaving the
opposition with little or nothing to
fight about. Only one vote was cast
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