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q n The best advertising medium published in Carteret Co. f READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY J V H Your label and pay your subscription VOLUME XIX 10 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1930 PRICE 5c SINGL SPY NUMBER 10 7 Port Terminal Meeting Is Called For Monday County Board Will Consider A Resolution Which Provides For A Bond Issue For Construction Of Ship Terminal. The question of the issuance of $100,000 in note- of bonds was rais-1 ed at a meeting of the Board of County Commissioners Monday All members of the board were present when Chairman Bushall called it to order. Shoitly after the board had convened H. S. Gibbs, secretary of the Poit Commission of Carttret county, presented a resolution from this organization which requested that the Board of Commissioners author ize and issue bonds or notes "when, if and as needed by( the Port Com mission." There was considerable discussion by members of the board of the port question at the, morning session. Judge E. Walter Hill read the spec ial act which created the Port Com mission in 1927 and discussed it . - briefly. W, G. Mebane stated that in his opinion it would be very unwise to add any thing to the county's in debtedness without an absolute as surance that a port would be estab lished. At the afternoon session the board took the matter up again and decided that 'it was of sufficient: importance to hold a special meeting and give all who desired to be heard an opportunity to express themselves. The meeting will take place in the county courthouse Monday evening at 8 o'clock. The public is invited to at tend and hear the discussion. The Port Commission's resolution, and al- so the one which the County Board will consider are printed verbatim elsewhere in this newspaper.- ( Mrs. Mollie ' Hasketf of Newport came before the board and asked for some help on her taxes, stating that she was unable to earn any thing and , could not pay the tax. She was in-j formed that tne I'oor neuei runu; for the fiscal year had been exhausted and that nothing could be done for her at present. Reverend L. C. Garner of Newport appeared before the board and asked for some tax relief. He said that his health is bad and that he cannot work and is unable to meet his tax es. tie was miormea mat tne Doaru,the Kotary uub at tneir regular could not do anything for him at this weekly supper Tuesday evening at the time. " j Davis House. The occasion was the State Fisheries Commissioner John ! investiture of the members of the two A. Nelson stated to the board that Captain W. D. Gaskill of Ocracoke wanted to lease some oyster bottoms in Carteret county and asked to have, an expert oysterman to inspect the bottom. He said the Fisheries Board would pay the expense of the inspec tion. Milam Willis was appointed to do the work. Chairman Bushall said that he had received a request to have five cit izens appointed to attend a tax re lief meeting to be held in Raleigh He was instructed to appoint soon. the. cpirirjiittee. ii2iLj&$Z& ' Marshallberg sent .rCiOfO'for rental for two jw "" " . '-3Vnl'n.A V rtftllnttr hOB Ui'V&$ biU was allow - ed ; fei, Reports oS&llte County Auditor, the Welfard Agent and Tax Supervisor ; cates. Then Mr. Bailey presented to were read, accepted and ordered filed, j Scout Master B. L. Jones and Assis-t-A number of bills were audited and. ant Scout Master J. O. Barbour, Jr., the board adjourned subject to the! their certificates of offices, and also call of the chairman. 'awarded the tenderfoot badges to the following sixteen Scouts the first DR. GEORGE W. LAY TAKES (mentioned in each patrols are the RALEIGH TEMPORARY POST j Patrol Leaders: First Patrol: Edmund ( , j Barbour, Fletcher Eure, Shearon Chapel Hill, March 2 Dr. George Harris, Hugh Jones, Leslie Moore, Lay, who retired from active duty as Gilbert Potter, Clarence Styron, and rector of the Episcopal church at Rex Wheatly; Second Patrol; David Ronnfnrt. a vphi- and a half aeo. has Jones, Richard . Bloodgood, A. B. accepted the temporary rectorship of the Good Shepherd church in Ral eigh for the next six weeks. He oc cupied the pulpit at today's services. Dr. and Mrs. Lay will live at the Mansion Park hotel while they are in Raleigh. Dr. Lay was the rector of St. Mary's school at Raleigh for 11 years, resigning in 1919 to go to Springfield Mass., wh re he had charge of a large Episcopal congregation while the rectoi served as a chaplain in France with the United States army. Shortly aiter the war ended he was called to,. Beaufort, where he had charge of the church there and the mission at Morehead City. : " BIRTH OF DAUGHTER Born to Mr. and Mrs. George Nor- com on Friday, February 21, a daugh - ter, Jean Whitehurst. RESOLUTIONS IN REGARD TO PORT Port Commission Revives Inter est As To Proposed Termi nal The General Assembly of 1927 passed an act creating a body called "The Port Commission of Carteret County." This was done at the in stance of Cangressman Abernethy and the Board of Commissioners of which J. E. Woodland was then chair man. The act named as members of the commission Charles S. Wallace, H. S. Gibbs, F. P. Klein, A. B. Mor- tT4.1 T A U i'8' " " ?' w. a. mace, ine cnairman 01 me board is Charles S. Wallace and II. S. Gibbs is its secretary. The board met recently and adopted the resolu tion which is given below. The text of the resolution on the subject which " u """T" auu which win ire kuitsiucicu uiviiutxy evening also follows: RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE PORT COMMISSION OF CARTER ET COUNTY, IN SPECIAL SES SION, CONCERNING ESTABLISH MENT OF PORT TERMINAL AT PIER NO. 1, BETWEEN BEAU FORT AND MOREHEAD CITY, NORTH CAROLINA. "Whereas, Chapter 245 of the Public-Local Laws of 1927 authorizes the' Conntv of Carteret to establish ovt j "Whereas, Section 6 of said Act pvovides that tne Port Commission may request the Board of Commis- (Continued on page five) Boy Scouts Guests At - Rotary Club Supper The sixteen members of the local Boy Scout troop were the guests of patrols and the presentation of the tenderfoot badges to them. Between the courses of the supper the Rotarians and Scouts joined in singing of some Rotary songs. After supper and the Rotarians had finished with their part of the evening, they turned the remainder of the program over to troop No. 15 of the Scouts, which they are now sponsoring. The Scouts recited their oath in concert, and then various members gave portions of the laws and other hins which they are re(luired to learn. President J. H. Workman, of the Rotary Club, presented the charter rvf iho trnnn tn Mr. Wm. TT. Bailpv. ... ... . chairman 0f the Committee and !then presented iteemen Messi d to the three commit- Messrs. Bailey, F. R. Seeley and J. A. Hornaday their certifi- Hooper, Cecil Paterson, Caldwell Ty- ley, Edgar Swann, Edward Arring- ton-and Charles Gillikm. CRABBING SEASON OPENED TUESDAY AT MARSHALLBERG The crabbing season opened here in the county Tuesday, when a ship ment was made from Marshallberg. The weather has been decidedly un favorable thus far for the crabs to get out of 'their hibernating state and for the crabbers to venture lortn in j search of them. If the weather con tinues to be good like it was yester- : jay and is today, it is very likely that ' arger shipments wlil be made with- ! in a few days. I Mrs. Grace Whitehurst and mother Mrs. Mary Merrill who have been ; spending the winter in McCall, S. C, returned home Wednesday. Police Court Has 1 Growing Business For the past several weeks few de fendants have been up before Mayor Chadwick for the breach of social propriety. This week however, there was a turn of the tide. Nine of the unfortunate bretheren came up In Police Court had their cases weighed on the scales of Justice, and were meted out their punishment. The first to come up was a white youth, Thornton Darling, charged with the theft of a Ford car on Feb ruary 22, which was owned by Miss Lucy Dixon. He readily admitted his guilt. Mayor Chadwick bound him over to the Superior Court under a bond of $200. Alonzo Fulford, Negro, charged with stealing a watch, admitted his guilt, but told the court that he would like to explain himself. He was not able to make plain to the court what he was driving at, however, so he "was put under a $200 bond for the Su perior Court. Charles Henderson, Negro, ' was charged with the possession of intox icating liquor for the purpose of iale, Several so-called witnesses were ex amined, but no one seemed to know anything aboout it. Chief Longest testified to the fact that he found many jars in the Henderson house that bore evidence of having had liquor in them shortly before and that a coffee purcolator on the stove contained a mixture of water and whiskey. C. R. Wheatly appeared for the defendant, questioned Chief Longest about the proportion and.a mount of liquor contained in the per culator. The conclusion of it all is that Henderson will be detained un der a $100 bond for Recorder's Court. Sam Richardson, charged with be ing drunk on February 24, admitted his guilt, and was fined two dollars and a half plus cost or ten days on the' streets. T John Marshall, charged with be ing drunk on the twenty-s;eorfd of February, admitted his gu$t. Because he--had been up three . tt& "b'eftre,. Mayor Chadwick sentenced him to ten days in jail with street work dur ing the day time. Johnise Ellison admitted being guilty of the charge of drunkeness on the twenty-fourth of February, and was given the privilege of paying two dollars and a half plus cost or ten days sweeping the streets. W. T. Oden, colored, admitted the charge of being drunk, and received the usual sentence of two-and- a half plus cost or ten days. Rudolph Parkin, up for speeding, admitted guilt and was sentenced to pay five dollars and cost or 15 days pushing a municipal broom. Upon payment of cost the warrant for the disorderly conduct of Edward Williams, colored was withdrawn. The cases of Herbert Fulcher, S. A. Thomas, and W. W. Stanley were continued until next Friday after noon. Population Increasing Vital Statistics Say Births in Carteret county during the month of January were just twice as many as deaths according to sta tistics published below. Beaufort led in both deaths and births with More head City second. The figures are furnished by the Bureau of Vital Sta tistics. , tistics. Towns Deaths Births Beaufort 5 6 Mofchead City 3 4 Newport 1 Townships- Beaufort 1 3 Cedar Island Harkers Island , 1 Harlowe Hunting Quarter Davis Hunting Quarter Stacy 1 Hunting Quarter Sea Level 1 2 Hunting Quarter Atlantic Marshallberg 1 Merrimon Morehead Newport 2 2 1 1 1 4 28 Portsmouth Smyrna ' 1 Straits 1 White Oak 14 BEACH STOCKHOLDERS CONFER Mr. George S. Eyer of New York was here last week and held a confer ence with the local stockholders in the Atlantic Beach Corporation in re gard to reopening the resort for this summer. As yet no definite decision has been reached about the matter so far as the News has been able to learn. CITY BOARD HAS MEETING MONDAY Motion Made To Rescind Gas Franchise Action ; Smith and House Withdraw Resigna tions The City Commissioners held their regular monthly meeting Monday morning with Mayor C. T. Chadwick presiding and Comissioners Willis, Taylor, Mason and Chaplain present. No measures of very great conse quence were taken up. A special meeting was held on Jan uaiy 25 to consider the granting of a gas franchise to D. L. Thompson; the gas plant to furnish both this city and Morehead City. It was passed at that time, but, as the law requires two readings at regular monthly meetings it was again taken up and passed at the February meeting. City Attorney M. Leslie Davis informed the Board that the Morehead City Commissioners had voted negatively on the measure and, as it is out of the question for a gas plant to be erected here without the cooperation of Morehead City, he thought it his duty to instruct the Board as to what had already taken place. A motion then was offered by Willis, seconded by Chaplain, and passed to rescind action concerning the grant ing of the franchise. Mr. Ed. Potter came before the Commissioners and asked permission I to connect two separate sewers to take care of the waste from the Beaufort Ice Plant and the rainfall. He said that when there is a .moder ate rain the sewer overflows in the street. Permission was granted to make the necessary change. A motion was carried to bring a bout an adjustment or reduction in the records of the frontage of W. L. Arrington's lot on Ann Street. Commissioner Willis made a mo tion to get Miss Addie Mason to list taxes. Commissioner ,Taylp,r,,.object- ed .the grt-unf 4$j economy,. After deliberating at some lengto St' was de cided to save the hundred dollars that it would take to procure the aid in listing taxes and let the Clerk do the work. At the February meeting an understanding was reached by which the Clerk would pay for all clerical hire, if any were necessary. Mr. John Dickinson owns a home here pays poll tax in this township, and lives here a good portion of the time, but has his car and boat, the "Idle-On," listed in the Marshallberg township. Attorney Davis was asked the law on such, and he said all such property should be listed wherever a person makes his home. The Board was informed by County Auditor W. J. Flint where the car and boat were listed. A motion was passed to make the city books conform with the coun ty books in this respect. A thousand-dollar car was listed as belonging to Mrs. N. W. Taylor, and as she did not own one, a motion was passed to remove such from the books. Commissioner Willis instructed the Board that Messrs. W. P. Smith and Joseph House had withdrawn their resignations as members of the Water and Light Commission which they had tendered some time ago. FEBRUARY POLICE REPORT To the Hon. Mayor and board of Commissioners: Gentlemen : I beg leave to submit the follow ing police report for the month of February, 1930. We have made 18 arrests and col lected fines and costs to the amount of $97.15 and paid same to the May or and clerk as follows: Arrest Tines Cost Longest Holland 12 I? 18 $28.50 22.50 $16.40.22 29.75 j 23 $51.00 $46.15 Styron None Of the 18 arrests made 2 were; sent to the Recorder's Court; 2 to ! the Superior court ; 2 were withdrawn or dismissed, and 3 were assigned to work on the streets. Respectfullfy Submitted,' W. R. Longest, Chief of Police. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS M. City B. & L. Assn. to Ulrich Mallison, 1 lot Morehead City for $1000. M. City B. & L. Assn. to Ulrich Mallison, 1 lot Morehead City, for $400.; R. ' C. Fodrie et al to Cole Chev rolet Co., 1 lot Morehead City, for $300. E. H. Gorham, Trustee to Bank of Moreh:a j City, S acres Morehead Township, for $350. Service Motor Corp. to Coastal Oil j- , it . j. IHA. wo., tract Ecauiort, ior Business Was Light In Court Tuesday Only one case was tried in Record er's Court Tuesday and that resulted in an acquittal. This was the case of Charles Henderson, young colored man who operates a cafe on Broad street, tried on the charge of selling liquor- . , , Chief of Police Longest raided the place recently and said that he found some jars that had contained liquor and that the precolator had the odor of whiskey about it. Alonzo Fulford, colored, testified that Henderson had sold some whiskey to Sam Richard son on one occasion. Police officer Holland said that Henderson had the reputation of selling liquor but that in other respects his character was good. Henderson, the defendant, testified that he did not sell any liquor to Mr. Rirhnrdsnn or anybody else. He said the jars were left in his place by a woman. Richardson testified for the defense and said he had not bought any liquor from the defend ant but that Fulford did get some for him. H. W. Peterson said he came along at the time Chief Longest raid ed the restaurant and that he tast ed the liquid in the percolator but that he did not notice any liquor in it. Judge Hill said that the evidence was very contradictory and while he felt the defendant was guilty he did not see how he could convict on the evidence before him. Attorney C. R. Wheatly appeared for the defendant. An indictment which had been standing for some weeks against Charlie Taylor, a young Sea Level man, was taken up. The charge is that he was drunk and disturbed an entertainment that was in progress at the schoolhouse there during the hol idays. . Others connected with the affair have been tried. It turned out though that some of the State's prin cipal witnesses were not in court and Solicitor Duncan asked for a con tinuance. Attorney Luther Hamil ton appearing for the defendant want ed the case disposed of at once but the' conrt ruled otherwise: '' The -defendant gave a bond of" 5100 f orchis appearance on the 18th. February Provided Very Fine Weather The weather for February in this locality was about all that could be desired. The rainfall was very light, only 1.27 inches, and there were twenty days of sunshine. Only three times during the month did the tem perature go below the freezing point and then it did not stay there long. One day the thermometer rose to 72 degrees which was not as warm though as was reported up the State where at places the temperatures of from 80 to 82 were reported. The prevailing winds were northeast and southwest. . The temperature figures day by day read as follows: , Max. 1 51 2 58 3 58 4 62 5. - 63 6 59 7. 58 8. 55 9 56 10. 63 11. 58 12. 62 13. ...64 14 62 15 53 16. 52 Min. 29 48 42 44 49 40 42 39 38 48 37 37 53 43 40 27 26 35 37 40 43 t iy i j !'J 17 18. 19. 20. 21. 43 59 64 65 0; i 2 69 70 70 67 24. 52 i 25. 55 55 47 43 I 20. 27. 61 28. 18 Superior Court Will Convene Here Monday The March term of the Carteret County Superior Court will convene Monday morning: Both the criminal and civil dockets will be tried in this session which will last for only one week. There are no really outstand ing cases to be tried at this time Judge R. A. Nunn of New Bern will preside over this court. There are seven men being retain ed in the county jail now four white and three colored. Miss Maybelle Neal has returned 1' 'I home after visiting relatives in Laur inburg. d f EXPERT ADVISES ABOUT WRITING Home Demonstration Workers Hear F. H. Jeter State Col lege Agricultural Editor (Estelle Chadwick County Publicity Chairman The principles of news-writing were studied by twenty-eight repre sentatives from the home demonstra tion clubs of Craven, Carteret, Jones and Pamlico counties, under the di dection of F. H. Jeter, Agricultural Editor of State College, at a meeting held in New Ber on Monday, March 3rd. Women attending from Carter et County were: Mrs. David Merrill of Wiregrass club; Mrs. Raymond Ball of the Harlowe club; Miss Nina Hardesty of the Core Creek club; and Miss Estelle Chadwick of the Straits club; and Miss Edith Powell, home demonstration agent. Publicity chairmen have been ap pointed in each club in the counties having home agents. It will be the duty of these chairmen to report to the local and state papers any regu lar club meeting of especial inter est, activities of club members, or community meetings in relation to club work. -sJ' Mr. Jeter says that any news story must tell the whole story in the first sentence or surely in the first paragraph in order to interest the busy, the tired, the poor and the rich folks who read the same newspaper. The story must tell who, what, where, when, and how in a brief clear style. It must be accurate. All names and addresses must be correct in order to have the proper local interest. Spell ing must be correct. Simple, brief sentences must be used rather than a great many adjectives, superlatives and stock phrases. He further says that a news article must have certain other qualities.' Some of these are: 1, written without prejudice; 2, writ ten impersonally; 3, written in good " taste :not.,throwing off on other peo-;.. ; pie and. not U. g angV4, o.. Wmg....- circumlocution; 5, use active verbs instead of passive; 6, use concrete words instead of abstract; 7, get all facts possible and select enough to make a good story; 8, timeliness. The editor, too, must have consid eration as well as the reading pub lic. He would like articles typed in double space or written with ink in a legible hand. A margin of one and one half inches should be left on the left hand side of the page and an inch o the right hand. Three to four inches should be left at the top of the page so that the editor will have room to write headlines. TAYLOR'S CREEK CHANNEL MAY BE MADE DEEPER A bill to make a survey and exam ination of the waterway connecting Core Sound and Beaufort Harbor has been introduced in the House of Rep resentatives by Congressman Aber nethy. The purpose in view is to have the channel widened and deep ened to twelve feet. Mr. Abernethy states that he will do every thing pos sible to have the bill passed. The factories located on Taylor's Creek are using larger boats than they did some years ago and a deeper channel would be of considerable advantage to them. TIDE TABLE Information as to the tides at Beaufort is given in this col umn. The figures are approx imately correct and based on tables furnished by the U. S. Geodetic Survey. Some allow unces must be made for varia tions in the wind and also with respect to the locality, that is whether near the inlet or at the heads of the estuaries. High Tide l-ow "ds Friday, March 7 12:17 A. M. 6:44 A. M. 12:32 P. M. 6:41 P. M. Saturday, March 8 1:23 A. M. 7:51 A. M. 1:41 P. M. 7:46 P. M. Sunday, March 9 2:37 A. M. 9:03 A. M. 2:59 P, M. 8:59 P. M. Monday, March 10 3:52 A. M. 10:13 A. M. 3:59 P. M. 11:11 P. M. Tuesday, March 1 1 4:58 A. M. 10:50 A. M. 4:58 P. M. 11:14 P. M, Wednesday, March 12 5:57 A. M. 11:18 A. M. 6:06 P. M. 12:08 P. M. Thursday, March 13 6:50 A. M. 12:19 A. M. ' 7:11 P. M. . 12:57 P. M. 1
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