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IRC IMEWS AUFO The best advertising medium published in Carteret Co. f READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO TI DY J WATCH Your label and pay your subscription VOLUME XIX 12 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1930 PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY NUMBER 30 11 ol Special Session Asked Oi General Assembly Many Petitions Are Being Circulated Through out The State Asking The Governor To Call Extra Session To Consider Tax Matters; Oth er Reforms Are Asked For Also. A determined effort is now under way throughout the State to induce Governor Gardner to call a special session of the General Assembly im mediately after the Novembsr elec tion to take some action on the mat ter of taxation. It is thought to be useless to ask for a special session un til after the new members are elect ed. It is assumed that the new members as a rule will be more dis posed to take some positive action on the tax problem, especially that of reducing taxes on real estate, now generally regarded as too high. Two petitions have been prepared by the State Tax Relief Association and are being circulated in every county in North Carolina. One of these petitions asks the Governor to call the special session. The other is addressed to the General Assembly and asks that the tax laws be revised so as to take some of the burden off real estate and also to enact laws that will give farmers and some home owners an opportunity o redeem their property which has been fore closed. This petition asks that the State take and operate all of the pub lic schools and the State Highway Commission take over and maintain all public roads and bridges as rapid ly as the revenue will permit. The petition also requests that a reform be made in the method of appraisal and valuation of property. It also de mands economy in government and that unnecessary offices be abolished. It is thought the petitions will have 100,000 or more signers. Judge E. Walter Hill.who is the president of the Carteret County Tax Relief Association informs the News that the petitions mentioned above are being circulated all over the county. He has also called a meeting of the association for Satur- Jones found it. Several blows from day at eleven o'clock. The notice a good-sized stick soon sent the rep reads as follows: I tile to the place where all good snakes NOTICE. A very important meeting of Car teret County Tax Relief Association will be held in the court house in j Beaufort, N. C, on Saturday, July 26, 1930. It is very much desired that every voting precinct in the county be represented by at least two persons. . No more important meet ing will be held and I sincerely urge any one who may be interested in tax relief on real property to be present at this meeting. Come to the courthouse Saturday, July 26, at 11 o'clock E. W. HILL, President Carteret Tax Relief As sociation. Eight boys and four girls have been elected as official delegates to the 4-H short course at State College, Aug ust 4 to 9, by the nine organized clubs of Polk County. ATLANTIC BEACH OWNERS PLEASED AND MAY INVEST MORE MONEY IN IT Atlantic Beach, Juiy 22 Eastern North Carolina has outstanding nat ural resort advantages at Atlantic Beach that far surpasses practically all other sections of the seaboard and the new owners of the property there will invest much more money to de velop the property as a real "Atlan tic City of the South," according to Daniel Lipsky, vice-president of the Manufacturers Trust Company, of New York and Sydney R. Newman, one of the senior partners of the law firm of Jonas and Neuburger, New York attorneys and financiers, who are visitors in the section. These New York representatives of the new Atlantic Beach and Bridge company are the first bank officials to inspect the new resort buildings, ex cept for R. W. Cordon, who is gener al manager of the place for the com pany. They state that they are much eased with progress there and are hi? 'ily gratified with the potential facilit' s of thes ite. "W hope to make Atlantic Beach a won lerf ul resort for the entire state," Mr. Lipsky says enthusiasti cally. "We are willing to spend considerable money here, in addition to our present invetments, if we can feel assured of the continued splen did patronage and interest of the sec tion. ' With such cooperation, the beach could easily become the big gest and best coastal resort in the Rotary Club Begins Endeavors For Year The Beaufort Rotary Club intends to increase its membership consider ably during the forthcoming year and to accomplish much for the com munity during this ensuing period, says President John Hornaday. On ly one representative from each pro fession or classification of endeavor may join this civic organization and consequently the Rotary Club is somewhat hampered in getting new members, although there are twenty five or thirty local occupations that are not represented in the Rotary Club. At present the organization is com posed almost wholely of business men who keep the ball rolling here in Beaufort. These individuals iln their everyday work do much toward the well-being and support of the community; and by joining them selves together in a civic organiza tion they hope to accomplish more for the community than each could do in the separate fields of endeavor. The sponsoring of a troup of Boy Scouts here is one of the accomplish ments of the local Rotary Club. H. C. JONES KILLS FIVE FOOT REPTILE NEAR HERE A five-foot snake of an underter mined species was killed yesterday oy Mr. H. iC. Jones of this community when he was tearing down an old barn on his farm preparatory to building a new structure. This snake was wrapped around a rafter and was in the process of shedding when Mr. go from their lowly mundane abode. It was brought to town and exhibited by Mr. Jones. The Gibbs brothers, who cultivate the Jones farm, must have made it unpleasant in the field for the reptile and it took refuge in the old building, DR. AND MRS. KORNEGAY LEAVE FOR NEW HOME Dr. George E. Kornegay and Mrs. Kornegay who have been living in Beaufort for about two years left Monday for Richlands in Onslow county where they will make their home. Dr. and Mrs. Kornegay made many friends in Beaufort and the surrounding country who regret that they have left and who wish them success in their new home. Rich lands is in the midst of one of the finest farming sections in eastern Carolina and it is said that there is a good field there for a physician. South." The firm of which Mr. Newman is a member has done a great deal of financing forresortR, including Long Beach at New York. He, too, is in terested in the local project, stating that the Carolina resort has every natural facility that the northern beaches have, with additional advan tages, including nearness to the ulf stream and east-and-west location. "Now that we have seen the resort for the first time, we are much im pressed with its possibilities," Mr. Newman says. "We expect to start immediately upon additional improve ments. For i istance, work was start ed yesterday upon extending the cas ino porch roofs for additional after noon shade. We will greatly appre ciate suggestions from the public and will endeavor to carry out all such recommended improvements. ' Accompanied by their wives, the two officials arrived Saturday morn- ing, motoring from Norfolk. They were highly complimentary about the good roads throughout the state. They say that they are especially gratified to find such a large number of high-typed citizens among the sev eral Jhousand at the resort Sunday. They are pleased with the early suc cess of the new resort and hope to de velop and improve it until it becomes the outstanding high-class coastal re sort of the south. First Vesper Service Decidedly Successful Some three or four hundred peo ple gathered on the lawn in front of the County Administration Building on the court-house square at 6:45 Sunday afternoon for the initial ser vice of the series of union meet ings that will be held each Sunday at the same time. Reverend R. i F. Munns, who conducted the vesper per services, spoke to the audience on "What it means to follow Jesus." A mixed choir from the various churches aided in the vespers. This mode of service, instead of the erst while meetings in the several church es, seems to be in far more popular favor. Reverend J. P. Harris will be in charge of the service next Sunday afternoon and Reverend J. A. Vache will conduct it on the following Sun day. Whenever rain occurs so that this gathering cannot be held on the lawn, the church-goers will assemble in the church of the pastor who ii in charge of the service that day. Not only do the members of the church es get the benefit of the two services on the Sabbath, but the various sects get together and the gathering be comes interdenominational an agen cy that promotes greater sociability within the community. TYPHOID EPIDEMIC NOW RAGING AROUND OTWAY Beaufort physicians have been de luged by people from the Otway sec tion coming in for typhoid treatment this week following an outbreak of that disease there. Quite a number of cases of that kind have been re ported around Otway and Mr. and Mrs. Van Gillikin and daughter of that community are in the Potter Emergency Hosital here with typhoid fever. It is the first epidemic of this kind hereabout in several years. BOUND OVER TO COURT Bennie Buck of the Newport neighborhood was tried before Jui tice of the Peace " Henry Noe this morning and bound over to the Re corder's court under a $100 bond. The charge against him was driving a car while' under the influence of liquor. COASTAL TWINS LOSE TO BATTERY D OF NEW BERN The Coastal Twins lost yesterday afternoon by the skin of their teeth to the Battery D. team of New Bern by a score of 7-6 after leading the entire game, which was played in New Bern. The first of the ninth inning began with the score 6-5 but the Battery D nine took the lead and won the game. Morris for the los ers knocked a triple and a double. Three hits were made by the winners and eleven by the Twins. Batteries: D: C. Reel and Ferebee; Twins: Mcintosh and Potter. Snow Hill and the Twins will meet on the local field tomorrow afternoon. FOURTEEN TURTLES CAUGHT BY CAPTAIN STACY DAVIS Those fourteen Logerhead turtles in Core Sound yesterday must have thought Gabriel was blowing his trumpet for the end of time when they were caught in a long-net haul by Capt. Stacy Davis, of Harkers Is land, brother of Leslie Davis of this community. Five of the Logerheads were brought here and C. V. Hill now has one at his store on Front Street, All of these reptiles were good-sized; they were about two and a half feet long. It was rather a coinci dence to catch as many as fourteen at one time in a school like Captain Davis demonstrated yesterday. ROXBORO NEGRO IMPLICATED 4 IN SLAYING OF REV. MR. LEE Durham, July 23 Willio Sloan Roxboro negro who will next week go on trial for the murder of an aged negro woman in Person county, is now thought to be connected with the murder of E. Frank Lee, pastor of Calvary Methodist church here. Last January, according to reports, W. F. Burgess, captain of the local; police detective bureau, arrested Sloan after it was alleged he had mur dered the aged negro woman, Phoebe Gillis, and assaulted her granddaugh ter. Officers making the investigation refused to divulge any information as to how the negro slayer is connect ed with the slaying of the local min ister, other than the proof that they have, which is to the effect that Sloan was in the neighborhood of Lee's home the night the slaying took place. A cooperative carlot shipment of 149 lambs was made by a group of Jackson County farmers recently. ROSS EXPLAINS HIS PROPOSITION Says Highway Commission Would Work Roads With County's Gas Tax Funds For about a year past reports have been in circulation from time to time that tue State Highway Commission had offered to take over all of the roads and bridges of Carteret Coun ty and maintain them without any expense to the county. It was alleg ed that Mr. Charles Ross, General Counsel for the commission had made this sort of propostiion at a mass meeting held in Beaufort in June 1929. Chairman C. H. Bushall has inform ed the News that in order to get the matter straight he wrote a letter to Mr. Ross asking him what he did say at the mass meeting. His reply is given below. Mr. Bushall states that the gas tax money allotted to Carter et county for the fiscal year 1929-30 amounts to $26,640 and that the coun ty has spent less than this amount on the roads. He says that if all of the bridges were put in first class condition that it would require a much larger sum and that the North River bridge alone would cost very much more than the gas tax fund a mounts to. The gas tax money, says Mr. Bush all, is used for debt service, that is to pay on the county's bonded indebt (Continued on page eight) Onlv One Case Tried In Court Tuesday Due to the fact that some cases were continued Tuesday's session of Recorder's Court proved rather short. Only one case was actually tried. Lee O. Layton and Emma Lee Willis who were arrested Saturday night about 10 o'clock in the Atlan tic Hotel submitted to a charge of disorderly conduct. The man was represented by attorney W. O. Wil liams. The girl who is a daughter of Wallace Willis of Morehead City, and who said she is eighteen years of age, had no attorney. Judge Hill fined Layton $25 and costs and par oled the girl in the custody of. her father. For thirty days she is not to leave home except with one or the I other of her parents. I The case against Richard Willis charging abandonment was continued until next Tuesday. Attorney Luther Hamilton repre senting W. E. Abbott of Morehead City asked for a continuance for his client. Mr. Abbott is the manager of the Charles Hotel. The charge a gainst him is that the police search ed his place and found 75 bottles of home brew and about five pints of whiskey. His case is set for next Tuesday. EXCESSIVE TEMPERATURES NOT GREATLY FELT HERE The hot wave that has prevailed all over the country for the past week or ten days has not been so rampant at Beauofrt and vicinity. At many places in the Middle West, the North and South temperatures have been re ported ranging all the way from 95 to 112 degrees, which latter was re ported from Columbus, Ohio. According to the figures of the U. S. Weather station here the highest temperature of the recent spell here has been 92 which occurred yester day. Tuesday the high was 88, Monday it was 90, Sunday 88 and Saturday it was 86. A fine south westerly breeze all the time has made it very pleasant for those who could sit in the shade and enjoy it. Mr. and Mrs. iJ. II. Noe returned last night from a ten days' visit to New York and several other north ern cities. ATLANTIC HOTEL TO CELEBRATE ITS FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY The venerable Atlantic Hotel, one of the oldest hostelries in North Car- 0intif win celebrate its fiftieth anni- versary July 31st to August 3rd in clusive. Mr. D. G. Bell, manager of the hotel, has arranged an appropri ate program for the occasion. The anniversary program will be gin Thursday evening with a banquet at 7 o'clock. After the banquet a concert will be given in the ball room by Madam Marie De Kyser to which the public is invited. Special invita tions have been issued to persons who were guests of the hotel for fif ty years aj;o. Governor and Mrs. Gardner, Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Bailey and a few others have been extended invitations. Any one who wishes to attend the banquet may do so by no- Jtifying the management and purchas- ing tickets. On Friday afternoon YOUNG WOMAN ASCENDS WATER TANK ON WAGER The next time Chief of Po- ' lice Longest starts betting he will perhaps use more cau- tion in picking out his fellow contestant, judging from his betting affray Wednesday af- ternoon. Misses Dora Ful- cher, of Williston, and Nettie Willis, of Morehead City, who work in Sheriff Davis' office, were waiting for a way home out on the courthouse square across from the city hall. Chief Longest happened a- long and began talking to the girls; in the course of their- conversation he bet Miss Willis that she wouldn't climb the first section of the tower of the water tank. She took him up on this and not only climb- ed the first section but contin- ued to the top and walked a- round the porch up there. It is said she is the first woman to do this feat. Chief Longest wouldn't tell what the prize of the bet was. Another Harlowe Still Captured Late Monday Sheriff James H. Davis surprised six colored men Monday afternoon when he dropped in on their place of production for a little business call and the colored hosts unsociably took flight like a covey of quail that had been warned 6f the enemy's ap proach by the snapping of a twig. The liquor still was located on the Harlowe-Newport road just off High way No. 101. Although the distill ers took French leave before the sheriff could get close enough to pos itively identify them, he neverthe less has an inkling who they were. The still indicated that it had been run the night before, but it was not in operation at the time the officer called on them. Twenty bags of meal, a mule and cart were found a long with he three or four, hundred gallon still. John Carter, North Harlowe Negro, owned the mule but claimed that the animal had been stolen from him. Another distilling plant was captured just across the road from this one early in the spring. CHILD STRUCK DOWN BY AUTOMOBILE WEDNESDAY Miss Edith Nelson, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Nelson, was painfully injured yesterday after noon when she ran out in front of a car driven by Charles Styron, of Morehead City, and was knocked down by the impact. She was im mediately taken to the Potter Emer gency Hospital and upon an examina tion it was found that her skull was slightly fractured and she suffered several bruises and cuts. The acci dent was said to have been unavoid able and the driver was not held. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Sadie Webb Wood et al to Louise Proctor, Part lot Morehead City, f $500. Joseph Lewis to Orpha C. Salte., 2 acres Hunting Quarter Township, for $50.' Joseph Lewis to Marietta Styron, 3 acres Hunting Quarter Township, for $500. John Taylor and wife to W. G. Styron, 1-2 acre Hunting Quarter Township for $50. Robert Ripley, of "Believe it or Not" fame says that the Liberty Bell was not rung on July 4th, 1776, be cause the Declaration of Indepen dence was neither signed nor pro claimed on that date. Independence was proclaimed and the bell ut rung on July 8th. there will be a beach party and orches tra concert and that evening at 9 o'clock there will be a historical re vue after which there will be danc ing. On Saturday morning there will be a bridge party for ladies at 11 o'clock and the anniversary ball will take place that night. The Atlantic Hotel is one of the best known hotels in North Carolina and in the olden days it used to draw patronage from many of the southern states. It was at one time the regu lar summering place of governors, senators. Judires. bie business men land their families. Morehead City in those days was known as the "sum mer capital" of North Carolina. De spite competition from many resorts Jthat have sprung up all over the land the old Atlantic still enjoys a large patronage. COUNTY TAX RATE ! WILL BE REDUCER Budget And Tax Rate To B Adopted Monday After noon A special session of the Board of County Commissioners was held est the courthouse Monday. Commis sioners Bushall, Edwards and Gaskill were present. The final county budget was read but not adopted because the law re quires that the tentative budget shall be left open not less than twenty days before final action is taken. Mr. Dunning representing the Ser- pell Lumber Company came before the board and asked ,f or an adjust ment of some tax matters. Action was deferred. Attorney H. P. Whitehurst of New- Bern asked for a revaluation on the property of Edwin Joseph in More- head township. The valuation was not changed. Attorneys A. D. Ward and Ernest Green made a strong plea to the board to reduce the valuation on a note for $27,000 of G. W. Huntley in favor of Mrs. S. P. Hancock. The board took the position that it did not have the right to make the change. It is possible that an appeal will be taken to the State board that handles such watters. The matter of distribution of the County Poor Fund was considered by the board. The following named persons will be relieved of their 1929 taxes out of the fund; W. S. Davis, Beaufort, James F. Willis, Harker'a Island, Dallas Robinson, Atlantic, J. Luther Garner, Newport township. A motion was passed by the board to continue the delinquent tax ar rangement as to penalties, which ex pired July 15, until November 15. The County Attorney was instructed to proceed to advertise delinquents. A motion was passed to renew a note for $5000 at the Beaufort Banking and Trust Company. A joint meeting of the Board of Commissioners and the Board of Ed ucation was held at which Reverend W. B. Everett was elected County Welfare Agent fo rthe fiscal year 1930-31 at a salary of $75 a month. Mr. Everett is a Free Will Baptist minister and lives in Morehead City. The board will meet again Monday afternoon at. 2 o'clock to take final action on the budget and to fix the tax rate for next year. The under standing is that the rate will be re duced. LIFE SAVING TESTS GIVEN DAILY AT INLET INN DOCK Training for life saving tests will be given every afternoon at the Inlet Inn dock under the auspices of the Beaufort Rotary Club. Those who will give the instruction are Misses Louise Hildebrand and Margaret Dill and Fletcher Eure, Hugh Jones, Lon Hill. The tests will begin at four o'clock. SMYRNA BAPTISTS HAVING PROTRACTED MEETING NOW The Reverends Frank Stegall and J. P. Harris are conducting a protract ed meeting at the Smyrna Baptist Church. Services began Monday night and will probably continue un til the middle or the latter part of next week. TIDE TABLE Information ai. 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 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. High Tide Low Tide iFriday, July 25 7:10 A. M. 1:09 A. M. 7:41 P. M. 1:03 P. M. Saturday, July 26 8:05 A. M. 2:00 A. M. 8:33 P. M. 1:59 P. M, Sunday, July 27 9:00 A. M. 2:50 A. M, 9:24 P. M. 2:55 P. M. Monday, July 28 9:54 A. M. 3:39 A. M. 10:16 P. M. 3:53 P. M. Tueiday, July 29 10:50 A. M. 4:27 A. M. 10:49 P. M. 4:53 P. M. Wednesday, July 30 11:12 A. M. 5:17 A. M. 11:48 P. M. 5:54 P. M. Thursday, July 21 12:07 A. M. 6:09 A. M. 12:47 P. M. 6:58 P. M.
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