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crzi 11 nia AUF The best advertising medium published in Carteret Co. f READINGTOTHE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY ) WATCH Your 'o and pay your subscription PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY o NUMBER 30 VOLUME XIX 14 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1930 Some Reduction Made In County's Tax Rate The Budget For Next Fiscal Year Adopted Mon day; The Tax Rate Has Been Cut Twelve Cents; The Two Biggest Items In The Budget Are Debt Service And Schools. ALL DAY SESSION OF COUNTY COURT Considerable Variety Of Cases Tried; Several Were Convicted A short session of the Board of County Commissioners was held Mon day afternoon. Commissioners Bush all, Edwards, and Gaskill were all present. The principal object of the meeting was to adopt the budget for the fiscal year 1930-'31 and to fix the tax rate. These matters were attended to and a few other things of a routine nature. The Auditor's Annual Report and the Budget are published on another nape in this newspaper. From this report it can be seen that the tax rate has been reduced considerably for the next year. The rate last year was 2.42 and this year it is 2.30. This is the first time the tax rate has been reduced in several years. The two principal items of expense in the budget are debt service, $283, 765.00, and schools $301,120.00. The tax rate required for debt service is 99 cents and for schools is $1.00. The total budget for the fiscal year is $662,050.28. The poll tax is fixed at $2.00 and the dog tax is $2.00 for females and $1.00 for males. The report and budget can be found on page number five. Federal Expenses Reduction Sought Car Damaged Sunday Night In Collision Leo Layton, of Raleigh, was badly shaken up and bruised Sunday even ing about 7:30 o'clock when he ran his Ford coach into the rear end of a Chevrolet truck which was in the pos session of Lionel Smith, of Morehead City. The truck was said to have been parked off the hard surface with out lights and that Layton was unable to see it in the dusk in time to avoid it. Although the truck escaped with little damage, the car was torn up right much. Layton was taken to the Potter Emergency Hospital where he received treatment. Lionel Smith, in company with Miss Nell Congleton of this community, was on his way over here when the gas gave out They pulled over to the side of the road, and after getting gas was pouring it into the tank when the Layton car approached. Miss Congleton was knocked from the truck by the impact, but neither her nor Smith were inured. POTATOES-MELONS BRING IN WEALTH Tax-Relief Petitions Are Being Circulated Washington, July 30 A reduction of governmental expenditures below budget estimates to offset a possible decrease in revenue arising from bus iness depression is being sought, by President Hoover. After discussing the financing situation with members of his cab inet the Chief Executive announced they and the heads of independent agencies have undertaken 'a search inquiry into every branch of the gov ernment as to methods by which economies may be brought about for the present fiscal year without inter fering in the program of aid to un employment. ONSLOW MAN PRODUCES LARGE AMOUNT OF HONEY Jacksonville, July 27 L. W. Hawks, of Onslow county, by pro ducing during the last year 30,000 pounds of honey without paying out a penny --for help or -services has set a record for production without out side assistance. Mr. Hawks is one of the largest beekeepers in the county and plans this year to expand his business, County Agent N. M. Smith said. The apiarist is assisted by Mrs. Hawks, who does such jobs and wir ing frames and installing Shallow frames with foundations. Mr. Hawks does the rest of the work. The beekeeper's record for the year was sent to a large supply house, "I am confident," Mr. Hoover said, jwhich replied it was the largest ever "that we will find measures for very made by a single man. considerable reductions of actual out- j lay below the amount appropriated. Large Southern Fish What the amount may oe cannui, uc determined until we have completed our investigation." The budget for the present fiscal year was $4,203,354,457, five per cent above that for alst year. This is attributed largely, Mr. Hoover said, to the speeding of build ings, inland and waterways and pub lic works generally to assist in reliev ing unemployment and to the increas ed relief to veterans. HAVE PAID TAXES The following people have paid their taxes since the list was printed this week: John W. Wi lis, Beaufort; Moddie Croons, Merrimon ; Lester L. Hall and Ethel Mae Willis, and Eddie Lewis, Morehead City; E. G. Lawrence, Straits; Mrs. Josephina Smith, More head City; Wadell Lumber Company, Straits and Smyrna; E. F. Barbour, Oleta Fales, Beaufort. "MYSTERY MAN" RETURNED TO SOLDIERS' HOSPITAL Stoke Kempton, the "mystery man who was found down at Davis about two months ago, has been sent back to the soldiers' home at Hampton, Va After much deliberation the county officials decided it was better to furnish transportation than keep mon W in jail. Messrs. D. M. , n R Wheatlv took him to Monday. Rex and Charles Wheatly and David Jones accompan ied them. Taken At Fort Macon Fishing in the surf between Ocean Beach and the inlet, Saturday after noon, Gerard Mitchell and C. B. Thompson caught a tarpon which was estimated to weigh more than a hun dred pounds and which measured five feet and seven inches in length. Mr. Mitchell hooked the big fish, and a battle began in which it fre quently had all of the 225 yards of line on his reel. As soon as it was hooked the tarpon began a series of jumps out of the water in its effort to free itself, and the fishermen be lieve some of the jumps were fully eight feet above the water. After a half hour of effort to tire out the big fish. Mr. Mitchell called upon Mr. inompson, wno was nsn- ing with him, to help him land the fish, and the two of them succeeded in bringing it to shore by hand and without a gaff which is usually used. Recent reports tel of tarpon being seen in the vicinity of Elizabeth City. Catches are rarely made in waters this far north. ARROWHEAD MONUMENT UNVEILED AT OLL FORT Old Fort, July 28 An arrow head monument, a memorial to the hardy Pioneers who found the fort here in the Blue Ridge mountains from which this town grew and took its name, stood unveiled here today. The arrow head, 15 feet high, is mounted an a 15-foot stone base and stands before a clear pool in the bus iness section of Old Fort, the marker was unveiled by little Martha Nesbit, Judge Hill and Solicitor Duncan had a variety of cases to wrestle with in Recorder's Court Tuesday as well as a considerable number of them. It took all day to finish the job. An unusually large crowd was present in the court room and seem ed to be much interested in the pro ceedings. Johnnie Burch, who said that he is twenty years old and is from Greensboro first tried was in trouble on a bad check charge. He had no lawyer and admitted that he had sign ed his mother's name to some checks which were returned unpaid. He said he was in Morehead City on a vaca tion trip and that he had $80 when he first came but had spent it on liq uor parties and the like. The Judge gave him twenty four hours to make the checks good, also the court costs and a board bill at the Atlantic Hotel, a total of some $75 or more. He was taken to jail to wait until somebody came to his rescue. Failure to meet the requirements means that the young fellow will have to serve a six months road sentence. Richard Willis, who aparently has passed the three score and ten mark, stood trial on the charge of abandon ment of his wife, Dollie Willis who said that she is 30 years old. Mrs. Willis went on the stand and said that they were married two and a half years ago and that her husband left her three months ago and had contributed nothing to her support since that time except a sack of flour two pounds of lard and a little snuff. On cross examination by E. H. Gor ham attorney for the defendant Mrs. Willis said she had been married twice before her marriage to Mr. Willis, She .admitted thatvshe left-him, once and - went to Roanoke Rapids and stayed for several weeks but denied that she lived with another man while on this trip. Her fa'ther Z. M. Wil lis testified that his son-in-law had not lived with his wife or contribut ed to her support for several months. He said that she had mad spells, cry- ins spells and crazy spells all of which he thought was due to a dis ease which she formerly had but of which she. had been cured now. A question by Judge Hil as to the na ture of the disease brought the trial to a sudden end and the action was dismissed. A hard fought case was that in which W. E. Abbott, proprietor of the Hotel Charles , Morehead City was charged with the possession of 75 bottles of home brew and five pints of whiskey for the purpose of sale. Chief of Police Willis and officers Hughes and Salter testified that they made a raid on the hotel and found the booze and also an empty keg that smelled like liquor, a bottling outfit and some empty jars. They also tes tified that they had had reports that the defendant was selling liquor and home brew. The defendant Abbott went on the stand and said he did not know the whiskey was in the hotel and intimat ed that it belonged to a bell boy who he said had run away. He admitted the ownership of the home brew. How ever the alcoholic content of this had not been ascertained and the Judge said he did not know whether it was more than half of one percent or not. That count in the indictment was dis missed. Solicitor Duncan and Mr. Hamilton had a hot fight over the whiskey charge but this also ended in acquittal for the defendant. Several prominent citizens including Dr. C. G. Ferebee, Dr. B. F. Royall, E. A. Council, R. H. Dowdy, W. Hufham, R. A. Cherry went on the stand and testified as to the good reputation of the defendant. Bennie Buck of the Newport sec tion charged with driving a car while under the influence of liquor was con verted. Hejs to pay the costs and not drve a car for ninety days. James Boone of Mansfield was a fot,i in tho Npws last weeK, 'there was supposed to have been a About $60,000 Received By .meeting of the Carteret county ax Growers For Yellow Barks Relief Association in tne coun-roum And Melons in Thirty of the county courthouse at eleven Days jo'clock last Saturday morning. Judge . E. Walter Hill, president of the or- Two lucrative or "velvet" crops ganization, and five ladies and three are now being shipped from this i men were present I or tms meeting. county to northern markets. These j Not even the vice-president and sec are the renowned Bogue Sound wa-;retary were there. Judge Hill said termelons and the Yellow Bark sweet ! he could not understand why the potatoes which are being cultivated i people absented themselves from here more extensively than hereto-j what should have been an organized fore. Over four hundred acres of 'effort to reduce taxes, unless per land around Bogue Sound, Newport haps the meeting was scheduled too and in the vicinity of Morehead City was planted in watermelons; and there is a gjpod acreage of early sweets. The past two weeks has been one hundred and sixty carloads of melons leave Carteret County for northern points. Growers received from six- early in the day. There is a state-wide movement afoot now to get Governor O. Max Gardner to call a special session of the legislature immediately after the November election for the purpose of reducing taxes on real property, guar anteeing a fair and just appraisal ty to five hundred dollars net for system for all classes of property, these carlots, according to the grade. Culls netted the farmers in the nigh borhood of sixty dollars a car, while the most fancy of those grown were sold for as high as six hundred and twenty dollars a carlot not deduct ing the freight from the latter, how ever. taking over the public schools of the commonwealth, and for the gradual acquisition of the roads of the coun ties as soon as possible. Although the purpose of the local meeting was unaccomplished Saturday, Judge Hill will circulate the petitions to the 'Governor and to the General Assem- LIGHT AND WATER BIDS REFUSED BY 'MUNICIPAL BOARD Two Companies Offered Hun dred And Eighty Thousand Dollars Each For Utilities MANY PEOPLE CONCERNED There are approximately fifty more !bly through the twenty-six precincts carloads left in the fields that will; during the next fortnight. Only probably be shipped if they remain property owners will be requested to high enough to justify this. Some sign these petitions. of these growers have made nigh on to three thousand dollars on this one crop alone. The majority of these were shipped from Mansfield, whil a good portion left Morehead City Municipal Court had a very light and a few were freighted from Wild-docket Uy when jt convened Fri. ONE-LEGGED MAN FINED FOR DUAL DRUNKENNESS wood. Howard Lewis raised sixty ac res of excellent melons at Cedar Joint, and the Taylor Brothers of the Bogue Sound area had about day afternoon. Only one defendant came before Mayor C. T. Chadwick. J. H. Johnson, colored, was charged with being drunk on both the first of eighty acres devoted to the melons : July flnd the twenty.flrst 0f the dn several tracts of land . So far this season seven thousand bushels of Yellow Bark sweet pota toes have been shipped from this section via" the Norfolk,' Baltimor"e and Carolina freight line; these went in eighteen hundred barrels and six teen hundred hampers. Earlier in month. He submitted to the dual charges and was assessed two-fifty and costs or ten days with the street force on the first charge and five dollars and costs or ten days clean ing the streets on the second. John son, a one-legged Negro, seemed to rvcfar fVio in at-Q 1 lm an t nlnn A"f nav- the season the growers received as : . hia fine tQ working out the puni. high as twelve dollars a barrel, hut;shment they have gone down now to eight. Cage; af,ainst Charlie Chadwick for the past three weeks this variety ;and Jda chadwick were both contin of the potato has been dug and sent j ued untiJ the next sesgion of city to the more oesiraoie marseis 01 tne j Court northeast, n-acn year larmers wno grow early sweets get good prices for ; crpvircQ at their produce; there sems to be less," itp CHURCH SUNDAY fluctuation in the selling price of this BAPTIST CHURCH SUNDAY Next Sunday will complete three P. Harris I at the Beaufort Baptist church. A product than any other grown here i . In the last thirty days something j y pastorate of Rev J . ut 4...,(. Iva ri ! at the Beaufort Baptist lars have been received by Carteret rr i i? i.L VnlUm- lOr Lilt; lllUlUUlg acivitca 0.0 iuiivwo. County growors for their Yellow. & , r, i j u i f ,. n,nj - "Three Years and The Past, by Mr. Barks and about forty thousand for rru vnJ. ,i , ,. 4.ti ;vt,M. Leslie Davis; "Three Years and L.ie ineiu.is, limiting a wuw.. -J-rr, . M tt tt. K, . thousand dollars. This much mon- """" " " ' ey has been made on these two crops, nre is. " " with one fourth of the melons still See" Ls- Jr. L. L. Leary Special v, a , w f music will be arranged for the. ser- toes something like a thousand or fifteen hundred bushels yet to be dug. vice. Tne puonc is coraiany invn ed to attend this service. ANNOUNCE BIRTH " n j Mr. and Mrs. Harry x. -1 da hter of Mr. and Mrs. John Nes- Beaufort announce the birth ol a , daughter of Mrs, daughtf July 24. Anne Blanche, Thursday, REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Luther Hamilton, Comm. to L. W. Pelletier et als 20 acres White Oak Township for $200. Emma Jones, widower to Dr. Oscar D. Jones, 1 lot Morehead City, for flOO. Shepards Point Land Co., to T. D. Webb, 16 lots Morehead City, for $1. Sudie C. Webb to Mrs. Addie Da vis Woodard, 1 lot Morehead City, for $500. High Point Ins. and Real Estate Co., to Union Realty Co., part lot Morehead City, for $10. M. R. Geffroy and wife to Beaufort Lbr. & Mfg. Co., tract Beaufort, for $10. I T. E Gibbs and wife to Betty Dud-1 ley and husband, tract Beaufort! Township, for $1. I S. C. Gibbs et al to Annie May Gibbs, tract Beaufort Township, for $1. Annie May Gibbs to S. C. Gibbs, tract Beaufort Township, for $10. S. C. Gibbs et al to Laura Gibbs, tract Beaufort Township, for $1. S. C. Gibbs et al to Margaret SENATOR SIMMONS RETURNS HOME THIS WEEK Washington, July 30 Senator Fur nifold M. Simmons of North Carolina who has been recuperating in a san itarium, today returned to his office for a brief period and said he planned to leave for his home at the end of this week. Mrs. Simmons has been at tiie san itarium for about six weeks and the veteran North Carolina senator said her presence had much to do with his decision to enter the hospital for brief treatment. "As a matter of fact," he said, "I am in better physical condition now than when I was working on the tar iff, because I have had a little rest." He is following a schedule which calls for his presence in his office only a few minutes each day. After deliberating for several months concerning the advisability o? disposing of the electric light and wa ter systems of the city of Beaufort, the local Board of Commissioners em ployed the Utilities Engineering & Management Company of Charlotte to make an appraisal of the munici pal plants and thirty days ago the Board advertised for bids on the lo cal utilities. The commissioners re -served the right of rejecting any or all bids submitted to them for con sideration. The Board met at two o'clock Tues day afternoon at the city hall for the purpose of opening and consider ing such bids as were submitted to them Mayor C. T. Chadwick stated the purpose of the meeting to those present, but as there were only two bids in and another was expected they adjourned until five-thirty o'clock the same day. At the second session the Mayor and Commissioners Mason, Chaplain, Willis and Maxwell were present. Mayor Chadwick opened the bids from the Tidewater Power Company, of Wilmington, N. C, and from the Western Power, Light & Telephone Company, of Salina, Kansas the oth er expected bid was not presented. Mayor Chadwick announced that both companies offered $180,000 each, and asked what they wished done about it. The Board immediately and un animously rejected both bids upon. the motion of Commissioner Willis and seconded by Commissioner Max well. - Following the second . meeting Mayor Chadwick told G. S. Bishop, manager of the Utilities Engineering & Management Company, that the jBoard had been offered as much as two hundred and fifty thousand from some one right here in Beaufort. Mr. Bishop said that he thought that the city would receive some higher bids than those received Tuesday in a short while; whereupon Mayor Chad wick asked that his firm continue to get any desirable bids it could. Some time ago a former Board was offer ed two hundred and sixty-five thous and for the water and light system. Similar action has been taken by the Board of Commissioners of More head City and with meetings held both Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning. The same companies that put in bids here also made offers for the Morehead City plants. Two hun dred and ninety-five thousand dollars was offered by the Tidewater Power Company and two hundred and eighty five thousand by the Western Power, Light & Telephone Company. At the meeting Wednesday the Morehead City Board decided to defer action on these for thirty days. IBeaufort receives its electricity from the municipal plant on the corn er of Pine and Hedrick Streets, which comprises three Fairbanks-Morse Die sel units: one 120 horsepower, one 240 horsepower and one 600 horse (Continued on page four) r'RTH OF DAUGHTER Born to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Perk inson of Marshallberg, Thursday, Ju ly 24, a daughter. BIRTH OF DAUGHTER Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Wil lis, Beaufort, Sunday, July 27, a daughter, Nancy Lou. BIRTH OF SON Born to Mr. and Mrs. Guy Smith of Beaufort, a son, Wednesday July 30th. Margaret Burgin, only white child nnrn in the Fort. Twenty Indians, led by Chief Carl Standing Deer, of the Cherokee tribe, took part in the unveiling ceremony by smoking the pipe ot peace. L,eK--a k it that chiefs of the two tribes, once bitter enemies, had nev er before formally smoked the peace pipe. BIRTH OF SON Born to Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Mor ton of North Harlowe, Monday, July 28, a son. , , SI S. C. Gibbs et al to Kutn uidds, tract Beaufort Township, for, $1. T . y-l 'V V T E. Gibbs and wile to s. uidds and wife, tract Beaufort Township, for $1. tried on the charge of driving his car ', Gibbs, tract Beaufort Township, for in a reckless manner and damaging the car of A. A. Dove, colored man. His attorney A. B. Morris contended that the cars struck each other acci dentally and succeeded in getting his man acquitted. Berkley Willis of Atlantic was tried on two charges, that of disorderly d transportation and pos session of whiskey. He was defend- A Kv ntt.nrnevs Alvah Hamilton ana . . ,. j.i To,.. W Mason, ine aisorueny conduct incident occurred in iront oi the store of B. F. Small of Sea Level. Mrs. Small testified that he used pro fanity and invited her husband to come out in the road to fight The (Continued on page five) ASHLEY FODRIE CAPTURES CARRIER PIGEON IN YARD TIDE TABLE Information aw 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. A carrier, pigeon alighted at about noon Wednesday in the yard of Ash. ley Fodrie, who lives at Core Creek about ten miles from here. Mr. r od- Tie snread bread crumbs on the ground and with the ad of" a dip-net was able to capture the bird. It was a young, full-grown, indigo-colored pigeon that hunger, judging from the I way he ate the crumbs, caused to V , j ,.n u n;y,h come down for food. On one of the and wif X I bird's legs was a red celluloid band " ' and an aluminum one with the fol- Vr rihbo and wife to T E. Gibbs? lowing inscription: "Pal-au 30-4057' and' wife tl wSt Unship, .Evidently Pal had either strayed away anu wut, irai.1. rom hom(j or wag Qn h)s way back G. W. Huntley and wife et al to"' - g;.lCrt-"td.r"Si15 I MARRIAGE UCENSE. u. w. nunuey B F Gibb- Bayboro, N. C. and TTiin Luella Wiliams, Morehead City, N. C. High Tide Low Tid Friday, Aug. 1 1:07 A. M. 1:49 P. M. Saturday, Aug 2:09 A. M. 2:53 P. M. Sunday, Aug. 3:10 A. M. 7:02 A. M. 8:05 P. M. 2 8:00 A. M. 9:12 P. M. 3 3:50 P. M 4:12 4:46 5:07 5:37 5:56 A. 6:28 P. 6:40 7:05 8:59 A M. 10:13 P. M. Monday. Aug. 4 M 9:57 A. M. 10:27 p- Tuesday, Aug. 5 M 10:49 A. M. 10:50 P. Wednesday, Aug. 6 M 11:58 A. M. 11:42 P. Thursday, Aug. 7 A. M. 12:39 A. P. M. 12:26 P. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. AllUlB" mow