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it TT AUFORT IfilEW 3 The best advertising medium published in Carteret Co. f READING TO THE MIND 13 WHAT EXERCISE IS T TO THE BODY The WATCH ir label and pay your subscription 3 VOLUME XIX 10 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1930 BOARD CONSIDERS APPLICATION FOR POWERFRANCHISE Request of W. T. Davis Is Laid Over Until Next Monday BOND SALE POSTPONED WORK STARTED AT ATLANTIC BEACH May Drie.t Month jfWENTYNINEWERE For A Long Time Ljn . mT . mriTi rnmV lUiiiViJUAiLJj raw i The Board of County Commission ers held their regular monthly meet ing Tuesday and were in session most of the day. Those present were commissioners Bushall, Edwards and Caskill. The two vacancies on the board created by resignation of Messrs. Klein and Lee have not yet teen filled. An application for permission to run an electric power line from iBeaufort to Playview Beach, colored resortat Lenoxville, was made by County Attorney Jas. W. Mason on behalf of W. T. Davis. The board at first granted the permit and then later rescinded its action. Judge E. Walter Hill representing the Capt Lookout Construction Bridge Corporation came before the board and asked that the permit be rescinded on the ground that it would interfere with the sale of bonds on the part of his company. He said that the Cape Lookout Bridge Con struction Corporation had a State charter which permitted it to main tain a power line and it was expect d that this would afford a consider able revenue to the company and that if another permit was wranted to some other concern it would jeop ardize the sale of the bridge com pany's bonds. He said they had no objection to a permit being given Mr. Davis to light up Playview Beach but did not want it to have the authority to sell power to others. Action on the matter was deferred until June when the board will meet again. Messrs. Wiley H. Taylor, C. V. Webb and J. H. Workman represent ing the County Board of Education came before the board and submitted their budget for the fiscal year 1930 31. The amount of the budget pro posed is $236,020.28 which is. $1873-, 83 more than it was last year. The Board of Education, so it was stat ed, expects to get the sum of $81, 030.27 from the State Equalization Board next year. The budget was filed and will be taken up at the reg ular .meeting in July when the coun ty's budget will also be considered. The board received several com munications in regard to maintaining fire prevention service, Home Econ- omics and Farm Demonstration work. Action was deferred on these matters until the next meeting, The report of County Auditor Plint for the month was received and approved and that of the County Welfare Agent Mrs. F. C. Salisbury . was also received and ordered filed. No action was taken on the mat ter of selling bonds for $108,000 to be used to take up notes outstanding. Action was postponed until June 9 A number of bills against the county were audited and ordered paid. The Auditors report for the month of May is given herewith, RECEIPTS Sheriff 1929 Tax Delinquent Tax Courts Register of Deeds Bd. of Elections Miscellaneous Good Progress Has Been Made On Buildings; Bath houses Ready Soon A large force of men is now en gaged in rushing to completion the casino and bathhouses at Atlantic Beach. General Manager Cordon and architect Witschard, both of New York, are on the ground and giving their personal attention tp the job. Three buildings are going up at one time and the work has ad vanced sufficiently to give an idea of how the arrangement will be. In a general way the same plan is being used that was followed in the build ings that were burned last summer. However there will be changes in some of the details which will be an improvement. The ball room will be better ar ranged for the pleasure of the danc ers and also tho spectators. The dancing floor will be eight inches be low the level of a passageway that runs entirely around it and there spectators may Bit and be served with drinks and other refreshments if they desire. The Oliver Naylor or chestra of eleven pieces from Phil adelphia has been engaged for the season and will arrive in time for the opening. A wide veranda or porch will run entirely around the casino and will furnish room for hundreds of people to sit and enjoy the breez es and watch the ocean and bathers. The management hopes to have the bathhouses ready for use by Sun day a week and the whole place ready by July 1st. Bath suits and towels have been bought and are expected every day. Life savers, officers and watchmen will be provided and every thing done necessary, to insure safety and order at the beach. The popu larity of the place is shown by the fact that already people are going there every day. The most noticeable thing about the weather for the month of May was its dryness. The rainfall for the month was only .47 inches which is the dryest that it has been here for a long time. An average for May covering a period of twenty years is 3.18 inches. There were 23 perfectly clear days during the mpnth and the rest of the time it has been clouudy and partly cloudy. On the 14th there was a rainfall Of .36 inches which was the only rain of any consequence during the month. There was one hot day, the zUtn when the mercury rose to 88 degrees but most of the time the weather has been very pleasant. The tempera- ture figures day by day are the fol lowing: Play Presnted Thursday Even ing; Jule B. Warren ueiiver ed Address Friday Night SECRET BALLOT VOTEDSATURDAY New Way of Voting Gets First lest; Much Interest In Primary $31,963.27 424.61 157.52 126.60 116.00 57.81 Total DISBURSEMENTS Genl. Fund Roads Debt Service D. S. Direct Bd. of Education $32,845.81 $ 2942.95 1,527.89 10,873.00 6,500.00 11,001.97 Total $32,845.81 Respectfully submitted, W. J. PUNT, Auditor. Twn fish ON ONE HOOK CAUGHT BY J. W. MASON 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. Max. ' ' Min. 81 61 79 , 65 77 65 79 62 82 61 79 67 80 65 79 68 78 67 ....87 65 83 . 63 82 66 ,...79 67 79 62 77 67 83 69 82 72 ..81 72 88 71 78 67 '..80 59 81 68 81 71 79 58 76 58 80 . 62 80 ', 67 79 68 78 57 73 52 Clams May Be Caught In Forbidden Areas PRICE Sc SINGLE CC o2 V; a School Libraries Considerably llser NUMBER 21 The Beaufort High School audi torium was filled Friday night with friends and relatives who went to hear the address to the twenty-nine graduates, which is the largest num ber ever graduated, and to see the presentation of the diplomas. Kever end J. P. Harris offered the invoca tion and was followed by a selection by the Glee Club. Jack Humphrey, president of the Senior Class, deliv ered the address of welcome. Jule Warren, Secretary of the North Carolina Educational Association, who was the speaker of the evening, was introduced by the Reverend J. A. Vache.' Mr. Warren spoke to the gradu ates and the audience for thirty-five or forty minutes about the present educational system and the one in use about 1900. Although the ex penditure for educational purposes has increased many times in the past three decades, there has been ' a steady increase in the number of students, so that there has not been a very large increase in the cost per student, said Mr. Warren. The modern school, according to the speaker,- places more emphasis upon the "Three R's" than former ly and with additional study in many other departments, such as: the va rious field of science, home econom ics, vocational training, etc. Schools now not only teach those things that the students will be able to use in the process of making a livelihood, but also those that will increase their vocational and cultural capacities and make of them better citizens. (Continued on page ten) BOARD TRANSACTS ROUTINE BUSINESS (State Superintendent Public Instruction) Raleigh, June 3 The number of books in the public school libraries of the State has more than doubled within the past five years, according to the current issue of State School Facts, publication of the State u- perintendent of public instruction. There are now, 1928-29, a total of 1,153,326 volumes of available read ing material in elementary and high school libraries, whereas in 1923-24 there were only 549,075 library books in use. School Facte gi"es three possible explanations for this rapid growth in number of library books. First, the law makinir the distribution of the State's appropriation on the basis of $50.00 per school library instead of $20.00 as it had been prior to 1923. With this change was the increase of the State's appropriation from $3, 750 annually to $10,000. Second, the year 1922-23 marks the begin ning of the result of the requirement of a minimum number of volumes in library for the accrediting of a high school. And third, putting into ef fect of similar library requirements before elementary schools could be come standard. Although the number of volumes made accessible to the school chil dren of the State has increased, the number of libraries themselves has decreased. In 1903-04 there were, according to School Facte, 3,585 pub lie school libraries in both rural and charter schools. In 1928-29 there were 2,532 libraries in those schools. This decrease in number of libraries is a result of the consolidations ef fected during this period rather than the abandonment of any libraries. There were 2,137 rural libraries and 395 libraries in charter districts at the end of the school year. Cur rituck County with its six school li braries for white children leads the rural systems in average number of volumes available per pupil enroll ed. In the school libraries of this county there is an average of over five books to the pupil. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE HAS BEEN BURNING 0VERTHREE WEEKS 100,000 Acres Open Grounds And Timber Land Left Des olate By Flames DESTROYS MUCH GAME With the going down of the sun Saturday evening the end will have come to what prognosticators say will be the biggest primary ever hid in North Carolina. Due mainly to the contest between Senator Sim mons and his former supporter but now opponent, Josiah W. Bailey, pol iticians say that a tremendous vote will be polled. Conditions in Carteret county, so far as interest is concerned, appear to be about as they are elsewhere. That is to say there appears to be a lot of interest in the outcome of the struggle. However here it is not confined entirely to the Democratic senatorial fight. The contest be tween Judge Nunn and Mr. Frizzelle is attracting considerable attention now, as well as that between Solici tor Clark and his opponent Mr. Thos. Moore. Then too Congressman Ab- ernethy and his rival Mr. S. H. Hobbs of Sampson, the various candidates (Continued tn page five) '" Folks w1ir" 6"e"p"ermitted"'1;V catc clams in the erstwhile forbidden ter ritory around Beaufort and More head City this summer stated Fisl' eries Commissioner John A. Nelson Wednesday. Clams are to be found in rather large quantities within these forbidden areas. Permission will be granted only to those who will sell their catches to those who will bed the clams in unforbidden grounds un til next Fall; any one who peddles clams about the two towns from the forbidden territory will have the clams taken away from them, from them. This will be under the supervision of the subordinates of Capt. Nelson. Permission will be granted to clam in the southern area and then the north; dates will be posted later. By doing this, employment will be fur nished many people who might not otherwise have it. These clams, af ter they have been cleansed by be ing bedded elsewhere, may be ship ped or disposed of in any way they wish. Several People Come Before The Board and Request Va rious Kinds of Aid POLICE COURT. HAD SUM DOCKET FRIDAY AFTERNOON Police Court had only one lone of fender at its Friday evening session. W. O. Hartley, driver of one of the Gulf Refiining Company trucks, came before Mayor C. T. Chadwick for failing to stop at the interesection of Turner and Ann Streets. Upon the admission of guilt, he was fined two-fifty and cost or five days on the streets, and warned by the mayor to go his way and err no more. One or two other cases were continued until next session. About Three Fourths Potato Crop Shipped ONLY ONE CASE TUESDAY IN RECORDER'S COURT Tuesday while Messrs. James W, Mason and Robert L. Fritz were fishing out in Fort channel a curious . thing happened. Mr. Mason nooeu a fish, but when he started to haul it in, It pulled in a queer fashion. He kept brir?ing it closer and closer un til he hr. 1 it to the side of the boat And the-1 on the end of the line was a large Hack fish which a foot and a half shaik had bitten and was still holding on. Rather than turn loose of the black fish the shark permitted itself to be pulled on board the boat. Mr. Mason vouches that this fish yarn is, no fish yarn. BIRTH OF DAUGHTER Born to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Kellly last Friday a daughter, Frances Neal. County Recorder's Court had only one case for trial Tuesday. This was the case of James Johnson, young white man of Morehead City, indict ed on the charge of being drunk and firing a pistol on the streets. Johnson pleaded guilty to the indictment. Police Officer Seth Hughes testi fied as to Johnson's misconduct, but said he had never been in trouble be fore that he knew of and thought that the defendant had just got a lit tle too much booze aboard on this occasion. Judge Hill required him to nav the costs and continued pray er for judgment for two months with the condition that the detetiaant re main of good behavior and not- vio late anv criminal low or tne state Court recessed to meet again June 24. Between two-thirds and three fourths of this year's Irish potato crop has been harvested. Although it was first expected that the dry weather had seriously curtailed the total, the digging has proven that there is a shortage of only about ten or fifteen cent of the average. The shipments so far, including those that will be made today, include 164 carloads from Beaufort, and 25 sent from Morehead City and Wildwood. This makes 189 carloads that have left Carteret County against an av erage of two hundred and fifty car loads. The yield this year has been sur prising in many instances, consider ing the extremely dry weather. M. S. Snowden planted 45 barrels, ac cording to County Farm Agent Hugh Overstreet, and has dug 700 barrels of primes. Messrs. W. S. Savage and G. Wi Huntley have also produc ed excellent crops. Elbert Chadwick of Gloucester planted two barrels and harvested 45 barrels of primes and a of seconds. These have been bringing from three dollars and seventy-five cents to four and a quarter a barrel yes terday and today. During the next few days the rest of the crop will be shipped. The city Board of Commissioners met Monday morning in their regu lar monthly meeting, with Mayor C. T. Chadwick and Commissioners Tay lor, Willis, Mason and Chaplain pres ent. Nothing of very great impor tauce was taken up by the Board; only routine business was transacted. Mrs. F. C. Salisbury, County Wel fare Agent, came before the Board and asked it to sanction an Associat ed Charity Organization. One of these was organized in Morehead City about four years ago, according to Mrs. Salisbury, and it has been very successful in dealing with the charitable causes in that city. It would be financed by subscription from all of the local merchants and from an appropriation of the city Board. Whenever one of the mer chants would be called upon for aid by some one, he would refer them to the head of of the - Associated Charity, and if aid be deemed neces sary after an investigation it would be given by this institution. This would do away with needless medi cants. Mayor Chadwick informed Mrs. Salisbury that the Board would take this matter up later, but this was (Continued on page five) FACILITIES FOR 'VISITORS - ARE BEING INCREASED zManager Purser of the Inlet Inn has made arrangements whereby the dining room of the Inn will be reop ened on June 12. For some weeks it has been run as a rooming house and guests could secure rooms by the day or week. Mrs. John S. Barnes of Clayton will have charge of the dining room. With the Inn operat ing again in addition to the other ho tels and restaurants that are in bus iness here in Beaufort will be in po sition to take care of quite a good many summer visitors. Besides the hotels there are the free camping grounds east of town which it is ex pected will be used quite extensively. DAVIS IS CANDIDATE FOR REGISTER OF DEEDS Througft an absolutely un intentional error the News last week ommitted the name of Mr. Irvin W. Davis, of Davis, among the list of Democratic candidates for Register of deeds. Mr. Davis was one of the first to announce himself for this office and is a strong contender for the nomination. His friends say that his chances for winning are very good. The News regrets that Mr. Davis' name was omitted last week. Miles and miles of the Open Grounds and the timberlands to the east of Beaufort, aggregating some thing between seventy-five and a hun dred thousand acres of good forest and the very best game preserve in this section, has been swept by devas tating fires for the past three weeks. Twenty-three acres of the Open Grounds, the sanctuary for thous ands of doves, quail, and Chinese Pheasants, has been reduced to an inferno of leaping flames and smold ering ashes. Since its beginning, which was probably of an Incendiary nature, the Open Grounds, which is composed largely of peat from one to eight feet deep, has been changed from a coveted homes of wild life to a liter al flaming hades. This has wrought depletion and devastation to many of the inhabitants of this game pre serve. They fled before the engulf ing, licking tongues of fire to more safe grounds. But not all of them were able to flee some of them were caught, trapped within the walls of fire and were burned to death; and others were bewildered by the smoke and deliberately ran back into the flames. Five deer were found dead in one place as a result of burns and suffocation. Others were seen hob bling about on burned and blister ed feet and legs some of these will probably survive. In some places in the peat, the fires would apparently burn out or smoulder; but would be burning un der ground, and in a little while would crop out in full force again many feet away. As high as sixteen men worked there fighting fire in an endeavor to stop the conflagration, but most of the time only a few men were fighting. In a good many in- stancesM; Fred Mosher was the sole contender with the flames near the western part of the Open Grounds Unless a good rain comes, the whole place will undoubtedly continue to burn. Thousands and thousands of quail and doves and many Chinese pheas ants were nesting in that tremendous opening. All of the eggs and any young that had hatched out are a total loss. These birds will likely nest again if they can find a place. A good number of wild turkeys were setting over near South River were very likely burned along with their eggs and young; the turkey hens will remain on their nests and burn up before they will flee for their lives. Smoke has been sweeping a good portion of the county. Monday night the smoke was so dense between Have lock and Newport that Dr. George Kornegay had to spend the night at the former place. The same even ing the road between North River and Smyrna was almost impassible on account of the smoke. Although it has not been as bad here in Beau fort, the town nevertheless has been smoky, especially early mornings. Deer was seen swimming Oyster (Continued on page ten) MARINE BIOLOGY STULENTS WILL MEET HERE IN JULY Following a custom begun several years ago, a group of biology stu dents of the North Carolina College for Women will spend two weeks be ginning July 21 here in Beaufort studying- marine forms of life in the High School laboratory and over on Piver's Island at the United States Bureau of Fisheries. This will be under the direction of Archie D. Shaftsbury, a member of the facul ty of N. C. C. W. The students who will do tnis wors are the following: Misses Virginia Clark nf Charlotte. Annie Black Williams of Fayetteville,ylizabeth Poteat of Arden, Iris Nelson of Grif: ton, Grace Lindsey of Lexington, Frankie Jo Mann of Canton, and Irene Bolick of Hickory. ROY WILLIS ACCUSED OF FIRING SMYRNA WOODS BIRTH OF DAUGHTER CLIFFORD LEWIS GRADUATES AT VA. MEDICAL LUH-fcut A warrant has been issued for Roy Willis, Smyrna youth who is said to be somewhat deranged, which alleges that he set fire to the woods down in that neighborhood. As yet he has not been apprehended, because he is in hiding and the officers have not been able to locate him. The woods, as dry as tinder, soon caught fire and blazed up. Wallace's Fish Factory was endangered and a warehouse, a number of drums of gasoline, and a portion of the dock went up in flames, while the people around there organized and fought the fire. Thru their efforts the factory was saved from destruction. The warrant for Willis was sworn out by Game Warden Clyde Mason, of Atlantic, and the trial is scheduled for the latter part of the month. TIDE TABLE Information au to the tides at Beaufort is given in this col mnn, The figures are approx imately correct and based on tables furnished by the U. S. Geodetic Survey. Some allow ances 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. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Brooks a daughter Monday. The in fant has been named Daphne Rose. . Among the list of graduates of the Virginia Medical College of Rich mond. Va.. was Clifford Whitfield Lewis of Beaufort son of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Lewis. The graduation exercises took place June 3rd. Dr. Lewis has many friends in Beaufort who are pleased to learn of his suc cessful completion of his college course. LOFTIN'S AD CORRECTED Through an error the Loftin Mo tor Company ad in some of the pa pers read, "Ford Cars and Tractors Reduced." This should read "Ford Cars and Trucks Reduced." The tractors remain the same price. In a portion of the papers this has been corrected. High Tide Low Tide Friday, June 6 4:03 A. M. 9:57 A. M. 4:35 P. M. 10:54 r. M. Saturday, June 7 4:59 A. M. ivai a. m. 5:28 P. M. 11:06 P. M. Sundajr, June 8 5:51 A. M. 11:47 A. M. 6:16 P. M. 11:35 P. M. Monday, June 9 6:38 A. M. 12:36 A. M. 7:101 P. M. ' 12:18 P. M. Tuesday, June 10 7:22 A. M. 1:19 A. M. 7:44 P. M. 1:05 P. M. Wednesday, June 11 8:05 A. M. 2:02 A. M. 8:25 P. M. ' 1:44 P. M. Thursday, June 12 8:46 A. M. 2:42 A. M. 9:07 P. M. 2:25 P. M.