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ORlM ( 1 11 MJ b READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE I 1 WATCH Your label and pay your subscription M3 if:, VOLUME XIX 10 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1930 E ZE 5c SINGLE COPY NUMBER 14 rj lEMJF J he is as Tax Relief Meetings Called For Saturday County Meetings To Be Held And Then Another Meeting In Raleigh; Citizens Urged To At tend And Perfect A State Organization; Taxes May Be Higher If Something Is Not Done. The tax reduction movement in North Carolina is still going forward. As stated in the News last week a .meeting of representatives of about half the counties in the State was held in Raleigh March 31 and April 1st. The meeting was addressed by Governor Gardner, Revenue Commis sioner A. J. Maxwell and others. Resolutions were adopted and an Ex ecutive Committee appointed. An other meeting is to be held in Ral eigh April 21 and in the meantime a call has been issued for county meet ings to be held at every county seat at Beaufort the meeting will be held at 2:30 P. M. Saturday, April 12. The resolutions adopted at the Ral eigh meeting are given below and al so the call for the County Seat meet ing. TAXES ON REALTY MUST BE RE DUCED. TO THE FARMERS AND LAND OWNERS OF NORTH CAROLI NA: If you have not organized for tax relief, do it now. Our Committee wants every farm and home owner to go to his County Court House at 10:30 a. m. on Saturday, April 12th, hold a mass meeting an indignation , , , . , ,, . . s , . ,. ., , . flames under control the intense heat meeting if he likes organize a , , , , , , . , i t v i- e a ..would have spread to the western County Tax Relief Association, andl . ., ' , , , . . , send as many delegates as possible to the State Tax Relief meeting in Raleigh at the Sir Walter Hotel at 11:00 o'clock Monday, April 21st. The sale value of all lands has seen seriously impaired by the sys tem of taxation in this State and the unjust burden -placed thereon ; your, homes and farms are now at stake. The present high tax rate is likely to be still further advanced in 1931 to i STILL CAPTURED NEAR raise an additional four million dol-j - HAVELOCK SATURDAY lars required by the State Govern-' ment to meet the demands for that! Deputy Sheritf John Take captur year, unless our entire system of ed a hundred-gallon distilling plant levying and collecting taxes and val-'last Saturday near Havelock in Car- uations on property is changed and other sources of revenue provided. This is no idle talk. Nothing else can be done under the existing law. The strong arm of an unjust system of taxation has been raised and the necessities of increased revenue have already been declared, and the blow, which will further depreciate your (Continued on page 10) TO CHANGE ENTRANCE BUOY AT OCRACOKE Washington, D. C, Apr. 7 The Commissioner of Lighthouses has ad vised Congressman Lindsay Warren that early this summer the Depart ment, will p:tnhlie;l tha flrrnpnlru Tn let Entrance Gas and Bell Buoy in place of the -present gas buoy now marking the entrance to Ocracoke Inlet. Tho nPw rUrt nf n,r.u , Inlet prepared by the Coast and Geo- detic Survey at the instance of Mr. ! Warren, shows a much greater depth; nulaa'-e succeed mmself. in the inlet than t.,c old charts, and L Mr,T Moore 13 the son of Mr- and with the discovery xf the new fish-j ,rs' L Moore of New Bern- ing grounds off the isla.id in the oc- IIls father 13 one of the leading at ean, commerce through the inlet is ,TneJs f thls section of the greatly increasing. Mn Moor was educated at the V. M. 1 1, and the University of N. C. He TWO COUNTY STUDENTS ON began the practice of law in 1922 UNIVERSITY HONOR ROLLland was the Solicitor of the Craven Two Carteret. Countv students nt the University of North Carolina made the second quarter honor roll. They , were Miss Clyde Duncan, daughter of Dr. and Mr?. C. L. Dun- can, of Beauofrt, and Mr. Eugene L. Gaskill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eu - gene Gaskill, of Sea Level. It is considered a great honor to make the honor roll, because the student must attain the mark of B on all subjects to get on the honor list. ' MUD SHOWER CAME TO ALL OF THIS SECTION A mud shower visited this section Monday fternoon. Clean cars and store wir :"ows were splashed with mud. It is thought that this was caused caused by a high wind stirring the dust up from the ground, espec- ially where the farmers have plow- ed, and when it began to rain it was converted into mud. Dispatches from said to be 19 applicants for this po Washington and New Bern said that 1 sition and Mr. Robinson's friends are the same thing occurred in those cit- ies. When the shower was over cars looked as if they had been driven ov- J j : j i the appearance, of never having been washed. Summer Home Burned At Morehead City Morehead City April 8 A con flagration which threatened the most popular residential section of More head City awakened the citizens of the town this morning about 2 o'clock a two story building owned by a Mr. Keel of Stokesville, was razed to the ground. The fire department, which responded immediately, kept the flames under control. There were no occupants in the house at the time. It was used by Mr. Keel as a summer home. It was not learned whether the structure was insured. Private residences in the Sunset Shores section of the town were threatened, as was one of the larg est filling stations in town, that of Geo. M. Piner, where large .quanti ties of gas, oil and tires were stor ed. N ear the burning building also was located the wholesale tank of the newly-established Shell Gas Com pany, containing many thousands of gallons of gas, and had not the local have caused a loss unprecedented in the history of Carteret county. The spreading flames ignighted a small residence on the corner of jArendell and Twenty-Third streets, j and the. roof was burning rapidly when the firemen. Jurned a stream, of Water' on "it. " ' r " ' " teret county. It had been raided a bout two weeks ago and the still de stroyed, but in that interval it had been replaced with another. About 1400 gallons of beer was found (with the still. No one was captured with the contraband goods, but it is thought that the two guns that were fired in the vicinity before they reach ed the scene was a signal of the ap proaching officers. Pake also assist ed revenue officers from New Bern to capture two stills just across the line in Craven County. YOUNG NEW BERN LAWYER CANDIDATE FOR SOLICITOR 71)18 lssue of the News carries the annuncement of Mr. Thomas O. , 00e1.r the Democratic nomination for Solicitor of the fifth judicial dis- ctl Position is now held by Mr" Da.v!d Clark of Greenville who is j County Court from 1924. to 1928 1 IT., -.-I jl. TT 1 f""Meu in me U. . Army in ; 1918 and is a member of the Ameri !can Region. I ; NEWPORT TEACHER HONORED 1 BY EDUCATIONAL BODY I Newport, Apr. 8 Friends of Miss Margaret Pierce here were gratified recently to learn of her appointment j as secretary of the High School ' Principals and Teachers Unit of the IN. C. Educational Association. Miss ! Pierce is a member of the faculty of .the Newport school and her home is I in Beaufort. I DENNIS ROBINSON IS NOW : . DEPUTY U. S. MARSHAL I i Mr. Dennis Robinson of Atlantic is now a United States deputy marshal. On Saturday he went to Raleigh and was sworn into office. There were rather proud of his winning out ov. er so many competitors. Mr. and Mrs. David Duncan of Ral eigh spent the week end here visit ing relatives and friends. LOWER INTEREST ON BACK TAXES Delinquents Will Not Have To ray Twelve Percent; Must Pay Up Though A resolution was adopted by the Board of County Commissioners Monday which will make things some- what easier for delinquent taxpayers. Under the law a penalty of twelve per cent may be charged on delin quent taxes but the law also gives the power to county boards to adjust such taxes on a six percent basis. The board has elected to do this and the resolution referred to is printed below All members of the board were present at the meeting Monday except Captain Denaid Lewis who has resigned. j Two other resolutions were adopt ed by the board. One was that fin which regret was expressed at the resignation of Captain Denard Lewis. The other was a c6py of a resolution sent by the Bladen board which ask ed that the State of North Carolina take over and operate the public schools. The board seeiried to be heartily in favor of this method of conducting the schools. E. L. Nelson of Merrimbn township came before the board and asked for a readjustment on the valuation of some land from which he said the timber was cut off several years ago. The matter was referred to the County Tax Supervisor. J. M. Holland of White Oak town ship also wanted a reduction in valu ation on land on account of the tim ber having been removed. This was referred to the Tax Supervisoralso. L. L. Leary of Morehead City asked to have a change made in valuation of some property. No change was made. Ruth Nelson, represented by her father C. W. Willis, asked for some help on her taxes. No action was taken on the matter. J. C. Salter asked for aid from the Poor Fund. He was allowed $5 a month for May and June. . v "" i. M.' Willis asked for revaluation of some land sold by him to More head Bluffs and taken back. No ac tion was taken. Henry M. Piner of Williston was appointed oyster bottom inspector. The expense of this office is to be met by the N. C. Fisheries Commission. County Auditor Flint read his re port and the same was adopted. Mrs. F. C. Salisbury, Welfare Agent read her monthly report. A petition of C. S. Bryan for cor rection of his tax listing so as to conform with the judgment of the Su perior Court was granted. Resolution Whereas Chapter 204 sec. 7 1929 (Continued on page five) Radios Are Used In Good Many Schools Raleigh, April 7 Through the use of the radio new avenues of know ledge, are becoming available, and schools are beginning to make use of these vehicles in broadening the cur ricula and in keeping the school chil dren informed of up-to-date events happening outside of the school, ac cording to a statement made today by A. T. Allen, State Superintendent of Public Instruction. A number of schools have radios as a part of their regular equipment now, Supt. Allen contnued. Although information pertaining to the use of this kind of equipment is not asked for on our regular blanks, we were particularly interested in the degree to which the schools made use of the radio during the live-at-home week. To this end we sent out a blank to each of the superintendents asking them the number of radio sets used in the schools and the number of per sons who heard the live-at-home speeches over the radio. Although only about fifty per cent of these reports have been returned they show that around 300 radio sets were used and that irom 100,000 to I 125,000 children and others heard these radio speeches through radio sets in the schools. In other words, over ten per cent of the total school enrollment listened to the speeches broadcast from Raleigh. From the reports which have al ready been received, Gaston County leads all others in the number of ra dio sets used. It reports that 13 ra dios were used and that 6,000 listen ers heard the live-at-home speeches through these sets. Durham and Wilson Counties, each had eight ra dios in use in their rural schools with 2,400 and 4,000 listeners, respective ly. Harnett had 6 radios and 2,000 Among the city schools, Greenville, Leaksville and Lexington, each report four radios in use with audiences of 1,700, 1,750 and 2,000, respectively. BOARD FAVORS SALE OF TWO CITY UTILITIES Sale Would Alleviate Present Financial Condition TWO VOTED AGAINST SALE The Board of City Commissioners met Monday morning with Mayor C. T. Chadwick presiding and all mem bers of the Board present. A reso lution was offered by Commissioner Willis and seconded by Dr. Maxwell to sell the electric light plant and the water works subject to a vote of the people. The town treasury is some what deplete now and it was stated in the resolution that the money re ceived from the sale of these utilities would remove or alleviate the present financial embarassment. If the elec tric light plant and water works are sold they will be subject to taxation like other property and will yield a revenue to the city treasury. Bids will be invited and in the meantime the Clerk to the Board was instruct ed to prepare a statement of the phys ical condition of the utilities and also to show the assets and the liabilities of the Water and Light Commission. This resolution was passed with all commissioners voting. Maxwell, Tay lor, and Willis voted in the affirma tive and Chaplain and Mason in the negative. There was considerable discussion before the resolution was adopted. A motion was made by Mr. Willis and seconded by Dr. Maxwell to pay Bryan Arthur $20.00 for one year's service as building inspector. It was carried. Commissioner Willis made a mo tion, seconded by Dr. Maxwell, and later carried for the Clerk to adver tise for sale all property that has uncollected taxes standing against it on the tax books. A motion was made and carried to allow Henry Green to have a dance to make money to the extent of seventy-five dollar's to "clean ' the color ed cemetery. Commissioner Taylor made a mo tion to adjourn and meet again at 2:30 o'clock the same day, but the latter meeting was called off by the Mayor. Bad Check Cases Only In Recorder's Court Bad check cases predominated in County Recorder's Court Tuesday. In fact they were the only kind on the docket. Only one case was ac tually tried though because the de fendants in the other cases were not in court. G. W. Baker of Greenville and Leland Mason of Atlantic were tried on the charge of having given worth less checks to several fishermen. Ba ker was acquitted on the ground that there was no evidence that he had given any checks at all or connect ing him with the affair in any way. The only witness for the State was Bert Styron of Morehead City. Mr. Styron testified that he had sold fish to Leland Mason and was given bad checks signed, G. W. Baker by Leland Mason. Attorney Gaylor of Green ville said that this did not incrimi nate his client and insisted that he be discharged. The court rather reluc tantly it appeared, dismissed the warrant. Baker did not go on the stand at all. Mason went on the stand in his own defense and said that he was the agent of Baker and authorized to buy fish and give checks in Baker's name. He bought a good many fish and most of the checks were paid but some of them proved to be worthless. He said he had no idea tha checks were bad until they came back. The action in this case was dismissed but several other cases against Baker were continued and Solicitor Duncan said he would issue other warrants unless the defendant did something a- bout the checks. It seems htat some $400 to $500 worth of bad checks was paid out to fishermen in Carter et county. A case in which the Willis Seafood Company charged S. Y. Weaver of Dunn with a bad check was dismissed because the court and attorney a greed it did not come under the pro vision of the bad check law. It seems that there was some dispute about the fish and Weaver ordered payment on the check to be stopped. Other cass were continued. Mr. Dick Duncan spent the week end lure with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Duncan. Mr. William Potter, who is attend-; of Beaufort, ing Carolina spent the week end at George V. Willis and Leola Law home. !Tcncc, of Morechad City. County Style Show To 3e Given May 23rd. A style show will be staged here in Beaufort on the twenty-third of May for and by the women of the County for the purpose of selecting a dress made from Borden prints which will be entered in the state and national contests later. Any woman in Carteret may enter any dress she desires in the style show regardless of what kind of material it is made from, but only dresses made from Borden prints will be eli gible for the contests. The exhibits will be divided into house, afternoon and evening dress es, ensembles, and childrens' clothes. This show will bring the women of the various communities together and let them know what each is doing in the way of dressmaking. Mrs. Jane S. McKinnon, State Home agent, will deliver an inspira tional address to the ladies in the court house at eleven o'clock that day. Following this will come a pic nic dinner on the grounds. Miss Willie Hunter, clothing specialist, and Mrs. Estelle Smith, District Agent, will also be here for the oc casion. In the afternoon the style show will be put on. All ladies in Carteret County are cordially invit ed to attend. FAVORABLE REPORT ASKED FOR DEEPENING INLET Congressman C. L. Abernethy has sent the press, which includes this newspaper, a copy of a letter writ ten by him to U. S. District Engi neer W. A. Snow asking him to make a new report in regard to a 30 foot channel for Beaufort Inlet. He stresses the importance of the mat ter of creating a deep water port here and urges Major Snow to make a favorable report. The Board of Engineers had previously asked for the report. Secretary R. B. Wheatly of the Beaufort Chamber of Commerce has had some eorespondence- with Sena tor Simmons in regard to deepening the- inlet and other har-bor improve ments. The Senator has promised to use his influence also for these much desired improvements. Atlantic Hotel Will Open Last of Jum The Atlantic Hotel, popular re sort hotel in Morehead City which has served the tourist for many years, will again open its doors to the public on June 22, according to information received from Mr. D. G Bell, the manager. It will open somewhat later this season than it has of late years. The Atlantic Ho tel will help take care of the crowds that will come to this section to at tend the various meetings scheduled to convene in Morehead City this summer. There will be an opening ball on the night of the twenty-second of June, and will be followed by a meeting of the undertakers asso ciation on the 24, 25 and 26. The photographers association will meet there the first three days of July, and the Firemen on the eighteenth of August. The Atlantic Hotel is one of the best known seashore hotels in North Carolina and has been the gathering place of many associations and con ventions in the past. It was first re ported that the lease had expired and that it would not be opened, but Mr. Bell told the News this week that this report is erroneous and that the At lantic will open on the date state.d in the foregoing. CLAMMING SEASON EXTENDED The season for shipping clams has been extended from the first of May to the first of June. This will per mit the county clammtrs to catch many more bushels of clams and to ship them to northern markets. It will thus give an extra month of em ployment to those who are accus tomed to catching clams. CATHOLIC CAR HERE The St. Peter Chapel Car of the Catholic Church is here now and is sidetracked at the endge of the ap proach to the highway bridge. It has been here several times before and occasionally stops at Newport and Morehead City. MARRIAGE LICENSES Register of Deeds Robert Wallace issued the following permits to wed this week: Rudolph Parkin and Mildred Willis COUNTY SCHOOLS JOIN IN DEBATE Three Schools Participate In Triangular Contest; New port Wins Twice The debating contest held Friday evening in the auditorium of the Beaufort Graded School was won by the representatives of Washington Collegiate Institute. The opponents were a couple from the Farm Life School located at Vancebero. Three of the debaters were young ladies, the other a young man. There were very few people present to hear the debate but the lack of an audience did not seem to dampen the ardor of the speakers. They were all verv much in earnest and acquitted them selves well. The subject of the debate was: "Resolved; That the proposed con stitutional amendment authorizing the classification of property shall be adopted. The affirmative side was taken by Misses Lois Yeomans and Salina Ballance of Washington In stitute and the negative was upheld by Larry Hill and Miss Reba McLaw horn, of Vanceboro. All of the speakers agreed that land is now tax ed too high but they differed as to the remedy needful to cure this evil. The affirmative speakers contended that if a lower rate of taxation should be fixed for certain kinds of wealth that much property now es caping the tax books altogether would come out in the pen and add so much to the State's revenues that the land taxes could be reduced very greatly. The business of the judges was to decide which side made the better argument and not to decide upon the merits of the question. Two teams from the Beaufort Graded School were abroad the same evening debating the same subject and their efforts were crowned with victory in one case and defeat in the other. Miss Laura Eure and Mr. Ed Ratcliffe spoke for the affirmative side at Washington against Vance boro and- won. Misses Hattie Lee Humphrey and Mary Catherine Hol land appeared on the negative side against Washington at Vanceboro and were defeated by a two to one de cision of the judges. Teams from Newport and Atlantic clasht d also on Friday evening and Newport carried off the honors in both cases. At Atlantic the New port debates were Miss Nellie Gar ner and Mr. Joseph Taylor and they spoke for the negative side. Atlan tic was represented by Miss Reba Morris and Mr. Allen Nelson. The Newport team at Newport took the affirmative side and the speakers were Miss Annette Garner and Mr. Walter Garner. The Atlantic speakers rep resented the negative side were Miss Mattie Day and Mr. Francis Taylor. The contest is a state wide one and the schools that had two winning teams in the .preliminaries will send them to Chapel Hill for the finals. NO POLICE COURT HERE LAST FRIDAY AFTERNOON On account of the inability of the officers to get any of the offenders and witnesses to attend, there was no Police Court here last Friday after noon. All cases were continued un til this week. TIDE TABLE Information a& 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 rnces 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 Low Tide Friday, April 11 6:33 6:56 7:21 7:42 8:05 8:27 A. P. A. P. A. P. M. 12:12 A. M. M. 12:29 P. M. Saturday, April 12 M. 1:05 A. M. M. 1:14 P. M. Sunday, April 13 M. 1:54 A. M. M. 1:56 P. M. Monday, April 14 8:48 A. M. 2:40 A. 9:10 P. M. 2:37 P. Tuesday, April 15 9:31 A. M. 3:24 A. 9:54 P. M. 3:18 P, M. M. M. M. Wednesday, April 16 10:14 A. M. 4:08 A. M. 10:37 P. M. 4:00 P. M. Thursday, April 17 11:00 A. M. 4:52 A. M. 11:42 P. M. 4:45 P. M