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VOLUME XVI
12 PAGES THIS WEEK
THE BEAUFORT NEWS THU RE DAY MARCH 3, 1927
PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY
NUMBER 9
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GOOD MANY BILES PASSED
BY LEGISLATURE LAST WEEK
Thirty Million Dollar Road Bill, Game Bill, New Judges Bill,
And Several Others Passed. Australian Ballot Bill
Killed By Nine Votes In House
(By M. L. SHIPMAN)
Raleigh, ' Febraury 28 Outstand
ing legislative accomplishments dur
ing the week was approval of both
branches of the State-wide game bill,
the Smith-Hargarett highway bill, the
creation of four additional judicial
districts, final enactment of the Great
Smoky park proposal, bill requiring
vehicles driven or operated upon the
highways of the "State to carry lights
at night, provide for the construction
of a bridge across the Cape Fear at
Wilmington, change date of motor
vehicles license from June 30th to
December 31st, bill to prohibit the
lending of money to bank examiners
by state banks and tenative accept
ance of the revenue bill, the machin
ery act and appropriation bill. The
Australian Ballot Bill met with ig
nominious defeat in the House and
will not be revived again during the
session, for that body applied a clinch
er which prevents, under the rules,
consideration of any bill of State
wide significance containing the sub
ject matter of the Falls measure.
More than a score of representatives
wanted their counties exempted from
the provisions of the bill and in the
, melee which followed a motion to
table prevailed by a vote of 58 to 49.
The Senate agrees to extend fran
chises to bus operators from three to
six years, but reopened the request
for permission for a 90 inch bus
width proposed in the Womble bill.
A spirited fight occurred in the
House on the $30,000,000 Highway
Commission bond issue endorsed by
Governor McLean, but it went thru
with a whoop on call of the roll. Rep
resentative Folger, of Surry, offered
an amendment reducing the amount
to $24,000,000, while Graham, of
Orange, wanted only $20,000,000 and
called to the attention of the House
the fact that the State debt is rap
idly approaching its constitutional
limitations, the session having started
out facing a bonded indebtedness of
$143,000,000, to which has been ad
ded $5,000,000 for permanent im
provements; $2,000,000 for the Great
Smoky Mountain park, and one mil
lion and a quarter for a Cape Fear
bridge. Another $30,000,000 would
bring the total to $181,250,000. Pro
ponents argued that many counties
that had loaned money to the State
Highway Commission could not be
reimbursed if the amount should be
reduced without retarding the road
building program and county inter
ests walked away with the committee
bill on its second and desicisive read
ing by a vote of 99 to 12. And the
Senate heartily concurs. The Smith
Hargett highway bill relative to the
location of roads, as amended in the
Senate and slightlty in the House,
was piloted through the latter body
by Pete Murphy by a vote of 78 to
24. The proposed $30,000,000 of
highway bonds is expected to com
plete the program of the construc
tion of around 5,000 miles of hard
surfaced highways and to repay "in
the neighborhood" of $17,000,000 of
county loans.
Only ten of the 109 House mem
bers voting had their names record
ed against the bill carrying appro
priation of $2,000,000 worth of
bonds of the State for purchase of
lands in the North Carolina and Tenn
essee mountains upon which the Fed
eral government may establish the
great Smoky Mountain Park. West
ern senators and representatives
supported wholeheartedly by their
constituents voted solidly for the
measure.
If the House agrees to the bill of
Senator Horton, of Chatham, Confed
erate soldiers and widows will re
receive the following pensions: Blind
and maimed, $420 annually; disabled,
$365; blind widows, $300; other wid
ows, $100; ten old servants, $200.
The total pension fund under the
Horton bill would be $1,500,000 in
stead of $1,200,000 recommended by
the Appropriations Committee. For
the past biennium it has been one
one million. Another bill of the
Chatham Senator which the House
will be called upon to okeh would
place the names of candidates for
congress on the State ballot.
The House has passed the revenue
act on its final reading and the Sen
ate must do likewise within the next
few days if the Assembly expects to
complete its task by the and of the
wefk, the date fixed by many mem
bers for final adjournment. A num
ber of important amendments have
been written into the committee bill
which the Senate will bs askef-to
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Croatan At Work On Long De
ferred Project. Inlet To
Be Deepened
The U. S. E. D. dredge boat Croa
tan arrived in the harbor Tuesday
morning and is now at work making
a turning basin in the western end of
the harbor. This project which has
been talked of for many years is now
about to be realized. The depth of
the basin will be 13 feet and it will
cover a very considerable area.
The turning basin will be a great
help to the big menhaden boats, the
freight boats, yachts and other craft.
Traffic in the harbor has increased
greatly in recent years and at cer
tain times vessels have been put to
serious inconvenience for lack of
room. Boatmen say the turning basin
will be a great help. They also say
it would be still better if the shoal
in front of town could be removed
as this would give a great deal more
harbor room. There seems to be no
funds available for this project
though at present It is reported that
another dredge will arrive soon and
start work on deepening Beaufort in
let The report is that this is to be
made 20 feet deep which will permit
I veowns ox jargt; tonnage 10 come in
tne aaTbor.
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New Realty Project
Gets Under Way
Work on Beaufort's latest surbur
ban subdivision. is. now making good
progress. The subdivision is known
as Highland Park and is the tract of
land on the outskirts of the town
formerly known as the Hancock place.
There are forty three acres in the
tract, 1900 feet on which front on
the highway going north, out of
to"wn.
The streets being laid off in High
land Park are 70 feet wide and they
are being well graded. The News
understands the sidewalks will be laid
and water lines run through the
property. The land is high and well
drained. Some of it is adjacent to
the railroad siding and can be used
for business purposes. The other is
well suited for residential purposes.
The property is owned by George J
Brook, J. S. Duncan, J. F. Duncan,
and W. A. Mace.
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OHIO BUSINESS MAN
IN TOWN LAST WEEK
Mr. H. D. Bokop of Fort Defiance,
Ohio, spent a day or so in town last
week looking after his business inter
ests in the county and also combining
a little pleasure trip with it. Mr.
Bokop has been here a number of
times before and says he enjoys his
visits to this section. He is the prin
cipal owner of the Defiance Box Com
pany, which concern owns about 8000
acres of land in Carteret countv. He
I k now 73 years of age and has prac-
I tically retired from business. How
ever he is a very healthy man and
j gets a great deal of enjoyment out
of life. Mr. Bokop is much interest-
j ed in the development of this section.
tie is a regular subscriber to the
Beaufort News and says that he keeps
posted on what is happening in this
section through it columns.
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
NOT VERY NUMEROUS
Not very many realty deeds have
been recorded at the office of the Reg
ister of Deeds this week. Of those
recorded half were in Beaufort. The
record up to Wednesday is as follows:
G. W. Huntley and wife to F. E.
Willson, 1 lot Beaufort, for $1000.
G. W. Huntley and wife to F. E.
Willson, 1 lot Beaufort for $10.
G. W. Huntley and wife to F. E.
Willson, 1 lot Beaufort, for $10.
W. P. Smith and wife to Richard
Felton, part lot Beaufort, for $10.
Thos. Gold to J. B. Gould, tract
Cape Lookout for $10.
E. H. Gorham, com. to J. H. Bec
ton,. 1 lot Morehead City, for $141.
A. N. Stenger and wife to J. B.
Dawson, 2 lots Morehead Bluffs, for
i$5. .
Thos. A. Dudley and wife to Well-
i .ngton Wiikins, 1 lot Morehead City
ifor.$l.
TRAINING CAMPS
FOR YOUNG MEN
TO BE OPERATED
Seven Military Camps For
Fourth Corps Area To Be
Maintained
MEN'S EXPENSES PAID
Atlanta, Ga., March 1st. The War
Department will operate seven Citi
zens' Military Training Camps in the
Fourth Corps Area during the sum
mer of 1927, for the training of young
men between the ages of seventeen
and twenty four years. These camps
will open on June 15 and close on
July 14,1927.
Four thousand young men will be
selected to attend these camps from
the Fourth Corps Area, which com
prises the states of Tennessee, North
Carolina, Saouth Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana.
In the state of North Carolina
young men from the counties of Bun
combe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Hay
wood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon,
Madison, Swain and Transylvania
will be assigned to Fort Olgethorpe,
Georgia, . Applicants from other
counties will be assigned to Fort
Bragg, North Carolina.
The graduates of the White Course
who have been recommended for the
Blue Corps in the Field Artillery,
Cavalry and Coast Artillery, will be
sent to the camps where last trained.
All young men between the ages a
bove designated who can pass the re
quired physical examination, and are
of good moral character, which must
be certified to by some prominent and
reputable citizen who is presonally
acquainted with the applicant, are
elgible for selection for these camps.
In case the ppplicant is under twenty
one years of age, the consent of his
parent guardian, or nearest relative
is required. .
The purpose of these caiiips is to
assemble ambitious young Americans
for thirty days annually, and to train
them in citizenship, self-relance, in
itiative, good fellowship, moral and
spiritual conduct, and how to work
hard and efficiently. The moral and
religious influence of these camps are
kept at the very highest standards.
Attendance at these camps consti
tutes no obligation of future military
service.
Scholarships to leading universi
ties, colleges and preparatory schools
t1irm,rfcr,i,t tv, TTt,ifj e. 7 , . , j t i I two miles long and runs through op
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warded annually to young men at-1
t-eniino. fiti,.,i twjiu r
tending Citizens Military Camps.
These camps were inauguarted bv
the late President Roosevelt. They
have been sponsored and endorsed by
Presidents Wilson, Harding and Cool
idge, and by the leading churchmen
and educators of the United States.
The sons of Presidents and of labor
ers all have an equal chance, and eat,
drill, and bunk side by side.
The mornings are devoted to mili
tary training, calesthenics and in
struction in citizenship, hygiene, first
aid and marksmanship.
Afternoon are set aside for ath
letics, baseball, swimming, wrestling,
tennis, etc. Every man must com
pete in some form of athletics. Can.
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February Was A Mild Month
But March Makes Bad Start
Poets and near p ets have often
gone into raptures over snow storms.
They are not to be blamed for this.
A snow storm is one of nature's most
interesting and beautiful phenomena.
In places like Beaufort, where snow
storms are somewhat rare, they are
novel and rather pleasant experiences
There have been two or three light
falls of snow in this section this
winter, which is more than usual.
Yesterday another snowfall occurred.
It had rained pretty nearly all night
and yesterday morning between ten
and eleven o'clock it began to snow
and kept at it intermittently all day.
But for the fact that most of the
snow melted as U fell it would have
been several inches deep. As it was
the earth was covered with about an
inch and half of it' As soon as the
sun got up a little way in the heavens
it began to melt and this afternoon
it is practically all gone.
Although March came in with a
rush and a roar of bad weather it
was preceded by one of the mildest
Februarys ever felt in this section.
For eight days the thermometer went
to 70 degrees or better and there
were only three days in the month
that could have been called cold.
Flowers bloomed profusely and the
fruit trees all came out in full bloom.
BOARD FAVORS
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Abernethy Introduces Bill For
$55 000 For Harbor Im
provements It seems that if all the improve
ments that are designed take place,
Reaufort will have a
sure enough I
hnvW one of these days. Accord
ing to a telegram received by the
News Tuesday from Congressman Ab
ernethy the U. S. Board of Engi
neers has favored a project to deep
en the channel from the present In
land waterway to the bulkhead and
also to provide a 12 foot channel in
front of town ranging from 100 t,i
400 feet wide. Congressman Aber
nethy has introduced a bill in Con
gress calling for an oppropriation of
$55,000 to have this work done.
Mr. Abernethy's message reads as
follows :
Washington, D. C. Mar 1, 1927
W. G. Mebane,
Beaufort, N. C.
Board of Engineers for Rivers and
Harbors and Chief of Engineers have
recommended project which I intro
duced in Congress providing for
channel twelve feet deep and one
hundred feet wide from Inland Water
way through Gallants Channel and
Bulkhead and for channel twelve feet
deep and ranging from two hundred
to four hundred feet in width in front
of the town of Beauofrt at estimated
cost of $55,00. The District Engi
neer recommended that Beaufort pay
one half of the cost. I secured elim
ination of this recommendation and
the government will pay all the cost.
CHARLES L. ABERNETHY.
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Story Writing Contest
Expires March 15th.
A considerable number of articles
written by children in the rural
schools have been received to enter
the prize contest put on by the
News. These articles are to be pub
lished in this newspaper and it had
been intended to start them this
I week. However it has been decided
to extend the time until March 15
inorder to give all schools that have
not yet entered the contest an oppor
tunity to do so. t
Contestants for the prizes may
write on any subjects they choose but
fiction with a local flavor is suggest-
j ed as the best field. The stories '
,tt , , ..,
Write as clearly as possible, on one
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side of the paper and use pen and
ink. typewriter or a good pencil.
There is time enough yet to get in
the contest and those who wish to en
ter should get busy and get their
compositions into the News office by
the 15th of this month.
APPOINTED U. S. COMMISSIONER
Attorney S. H. Newberry of More
head City has been appointed Unit
ed States Commissioner by Judge I.
M. Meekins. A Federal commission
er is something like a justice of the
peace. Persons charged with vio
lating Federal laws are first tried be
fore a commissioner and sent to
curt or discharged as the case may
be.
The rainfall for the month was 3.19
inches. The average for February
is 3.86 inches. The temperature
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Max.
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i COUNTY DEBT CONTROVERSY
Will Validate $1,250,000 Bend Issue But Commioiioners Cannot
Issue Any More Bonds Without Vote of The People. Most
of The Money Will Go On County Dabt
ACCUSATION ANSWERED
Mr. Editor of The New:
In the Carteret County Her
ald of last week there appear
ed an unwarranted and libel
ous personal attack upon me.
I would confine my reply to
the paper in which the article
appeared but for the fact that
quite a number of extra copies
were sent out to non subscrib
ers who will not get a copy
of that paper this week.
The facts are as follows: I
do not own a car. I was sim
ply a passenger in Mother
man's car; Mr. Hancock did
not go to Raleigh in our car
and had no earthly right to
claim a return trip with us.
Our car was loaded for the re
turn trip before we even saw
Mr. Hancock. At the time we
left there were several other
Carteret County cars still in
Raleigh, more than one of
which had ample room for Mr.
Hancock. The attack was un
warranted from any stand,
point and it is evident that it
was made with malicious in
tent. U. E. SWANN
PERMITS TC WED.
Mariage licenses recorded at the
office of Register of Deeds R. W.
Wallace up to and including Wed
nesday are as follows:
J. R. Sadler, Lowlands, N. C. and
Delania Gillikin, Otway, N. C.
J. A. T. Simmons, Beaufort and
Carrie Johnson, Beaufort.
Daniel Yoemans and Myrtle Rose,
Harkers Island.
M. H. Garner and Dorcas Swain,
Newport.
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LENOXVILLE ROAD IS
NOW ABOUT FINISHED
The work of grading the county
road from Beaufort to Lenoxville has
been finished. The toad is broad
and well graded and while it is rath
er rough for cars in some places, it
can be used and a good many cars
have been over it. It is more than
j en ianas, wooas ana marsnes. mere
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are ten fills on the road and culverts
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order to give drainage. The News
has not learned whether the board of
county commissioners intend to pave
the road or not.
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FRONT STREET RESIDENCE
IS NOW BEING MOVED
. The job of removing the residence
cf Mr. W. P. Smith from its present
location on Front street to one on
Queen street began Tuesday. Mr.
M. N. Woodward of La Grange has
the contract and it is probable that
he will finish the work in about ten
days. After the residence has been
moved construction will start on three
stores on the Front street property;
two of which will be erected by Mr.
Smith and one by Mr. Richard Fel
ton. Mr. Woodward will also move
the residence of Mr. James Rumley
from Front street to a lot on Queen
street formerly owned by Ann Street
Methodist church
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POLICE COURT HAD
FEW DEFENDANTS MONDAY
Only four defendants faced Mayor
Thomas in Police Court Monday af
ternoon. All were convicted.
Rosa Belle Pigott charged with
47 I having been drunk said that she was
45 j not intoxicated but sick. Chief of
52 1 Police Longest differed with her how-
47 j ever and said that she had imbibed
48 too freely. The Mayor decided to
48 let Rosa Belle off with the costs in
44 the case amounting to $4.85 with the
43 j understanding that she would leave
43 j town before next Saturday. She
53 said that she would certainly leave
54 and that she is going to New York.
52 Louis Cotton charged with drunk
47 i eness pleaded guilty. He said he
57 1 didn't know where he got the liquor.
The Mayor gave him the choice of
, paying $10 and costs or serving five
j days on the streets. He chose the
j former.
Captain Aleck Mason and Fiei
1 Lloyd were tried o nthe charge of
; fighting. The evidence showed that
a fight did take place but neither
i party showed much signs of it. They
were let off with the costs amounting
Soto $4.25 each.
The controversy that has been rag
ing in Carteret county for several
veeks about the county's indebted
ness apparently came to an end in
Raleigh last week. Two opposing
delegations of citizens after wrang
ling practically all day Friday final
ly agreed on a bill that was in the
nature of a compromise. Neither
side could have things exactly its own
way and on the advice of Senators
Hargettand Tapp both made conces
sions. The bill which Representative Bell
had passed through the House of Rep
resentatives was held up by Senators
Hargett and Tapp who refused to
allow it to pass unless changes sat
isfactory to each side were made in it.
The new bill was drawn on Friday
afternon by attorney M. Leslie Davis
and County Attorney Luther Hamil
ton. Those who participated in the
conference and the discussion about
the bill were, on one side Chairman
of the board of commissioners J. E.
Woodland, County Attorney Hamil
ton and J. R. Morris. Those who
were on the other side and who were
against enlarging the county's indebt
edness any more than could possibly
be helped were attorney M. Leslie
Davis, Wiley H. Taylor, J. J. White
hurst, W. G. Mebane. Contractor
Simmons was in Raleigh and much
interested in the proceedings but did
not take an active part
The bill finally agreed upon pro
vides that $1,250,000 worth of bonds
may be issued. That $850,000 of
the money shall be used to pay debts
already made. This leaves $400,000
for road purposes. It restricts the
board of commissioners from issuing
any bonds or notes without a vote of
the people, except $50,000 that may
be used for current expenses. It
also peimits the borrowing of $20,
000 to be paid on the school build
ing bought by the county from the
town of Beaufort. It provides that
the county may employ an engineer
whosa salary shall not exceed $250
a month. It may also employ assist
ants fur the engineer at salaries of
$4 a day each. The bill also requires
the board to use any money collect
ed from the State Highway Commis
sion, the towns of Morehead City and
Beaufort only for the purpose of pay
ing the county's debts.
The text of the bill as agreed upon
by both sides reads as follows:
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT
TO VALIDATE CERTAIN BONDS
OF CARTERET COUNTY AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSE.
The General Assembly of North
Carolina do enact:
Section 1. The resolutions adopt
ed by the board of county commis
sioners of Carteret County on the
tenth day of January, one thousand,
nine hundred and twenty-seven, au
thorizing the issuance of one million
two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars of highway bonds of said county,
for the purpose of funding outstand
ing temporary indebtedness incurred
for highways (approximating eight
hundred and fififty thousand dollars,"
end for the purpose of fulfilling the
highway contract set out in the i so
lutions, and providing for the levy of
a sufficient tax for the payment of
said bonds, are hereby validated, and
the said bonds may be issued and the
said special tax Wied in accordance
with said resolutions.
Section 2. That the board of com
missioners of Carteret County is here
by authorized and directed to pay to
the board of trustees of the Beaufort
Graded School District, from any
funds now on hand or which may here
after come into its hands, the sum of
fifteen thousand dollars for the pur
pose of paying for the school build
ing and grounds situated in the court
house square in the town of Beau- .
fort, as per contract entered into and
agreed upon October fourth, nine
teen hundred and twenty six, said a
mount to supplement the balance of
contract to be hereinafter provided
for in section three.
Section 3. That excepting the
bonds provided for in this act, it shall
be unlawful for the said board of
county commissioners of Carteret
County, excepting by a majority vote
of the votes cast in an election es
pecially called for the purpose to is
sue or sell at either public or private
Eale any bonds, notes, debentures,
or other evidences of indebtedness
binding upon the said county of Car
terest in excess of the sum of fifty
thousand dollars, and this amount or
any part thereof only in anticipation
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