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j5' jssjj jjpjj The best adverting medium published in Carteret Co. ( KKA1UNG TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY - WATCH Your label and pay your subscript! VOLUME XIX 8 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1930 PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY NUMBER 43 Democratic Landslide Over Carteret. County Election Was Fight Between Former Democratic Administration and Present Republican One; Was One of Hottest Campaigns Ever Held in Carteret County. FIX BOUNDARIES FOR GAME REFUGE ON CORE BANKS II a n e s - Lassiter Reservation Will Protect Wild Fowl Life In the election held Tuesday the Democratic candidates were carried into office on a high wave of votes that completely submerged their opponents. Every candidate received a good majority -although as usual some candidates were given larger majorities than others. The Dem ocratic vote ranged from 2677 to 3033 which was gotten by C. L. Abernathy who led the ticket on his side. The highest vote on the Repub lican side was given to Jas. H. Davis who got 2108, votes. The tabulated statement giving the vote in appears on page eight of this news paper. The campaign this year was one of the hottest that has every taken place in Carteret county about the Democratic PENSION LISTS MAY BE PURGED WILL BE VALUABLE REFUGE Raleigh, Nov. 4 Formal establish ment of the Hanes-Lassiter State Game Refuge on "the banks" of Car teret county, the first State reserva tion of Its kind in the South for the protection of migratory water-fowl will be carried out immediately with CAN CURE SWEETS ' IN TOBACCO BARNS Carteret Will Likely Take Up Practice of Storing and Cur ing Tubers in Tobacco Barns First Water Used On Flames In 18 Months IRISH POTATO GROWERS MEET the rjostinir and markinir of its boun daries, Col. J. W. Harrelson, direc- pose they were nrst originated ior. Ever since away back yonder when tobacco became so valuable that it was used as legal tender and grown in the very streets of the co lonial metropolis of James town, some sort of curing house has been used by the growers fo the weed to I prepare the leaf for market, for a long long time these curing houses or "tobacco barns," as the growers call them, were only used for the pur- County Potato Farmers Agree to Reduce Acreage in Carter et Next Season Guilford Exposures Bring Mat ters To Head; 1700 Vete rans Alive Yet By M. R. DUNNAGAN . Raleigh, Nov. 4 Purging more carefully the lists of Confederate detail I veterans, widows and colored servants pensioners of the State, in the 100 counties, to eliminate any who may have died, will probably result from the disclosures and charges against The battle raged Mason W. Gant, clerk of Superior records of the former Court of Guilford County, in later administration and the j distributions of pension checks. present administration. The Repub- Distribution of these funds is in lican nominees made a thorough the hands of the State Board of Pen canvass of the county and charged the J sions composed of the Governor, the Woodland Huntly board with gross i Auditor and the Attorney General, mismangement of the county's affairs the Auditor being designated more and also intimated strongly that;pnrticularly as distributor. Each corruption had been practiced by thatcounty has a board, composed of Con administration. Clerk of the Court federate veterans or sons or daugh Ilassell was also accused of in-Iters of veterans for one or two of efficiency in his office. The Dem- the places, which is directed to meet ocrats came back with charges of annually and purge the lists. Often extravagance by the board now in Unjg s merely a matter of form, de charge, or the Bushall board as it is tails being handled by the clerk of ' commonly called. The Democrats the court, say the result of the election is aj The Generai Assembly appropriat vindication for their administration I eJ $200,000 for such pensions for and that the public did not believe thei th(J fiscal year 1929-30 and, on the accusations made against them. Rep- !assurnption that several veterans ublican managers say their aeteat was i ,d di reduced the amount to tor of the Department of Conserva tion and Development, announced to day. Definite steps along this line were made recently by a visit to the area by Robert Lassiter, Charlotte manu facturer and sportsman and donor with Mrs. Lassiter, formerly Miss Hanes, of Winston-Salem, of the tract with conservation officials. In the party making the preliminary survey of the property were State Gams Warden Charles H. England, District Warden G. A. Nicholl of New Bern, Federal Game Protector W. L. Birsch and Carteret County Warden Clyde Mason. A force of workers has been engag ed to mark off and post the boundar ies of the refuge before the first day But ever now and then someone de vises new ways of using old things, and this is just what the course of j time brought to the erstwhile tobac co curing barn. But what this time? .Well, some ingenious fellow began experimenting with ways and means of preserving the Porto Rican sweet potatoes.. Eventually the light dawn ed upon the seeker that if the pota toes were placed in something and the temnerature kept anywhere from ninety to one hundred degrees Fah renheit for ten days, the potatoes would be "cured." Then if the tu bers were housed out of the draft in a dry place but still be properly ven tilated,, the potatoes would keep a year or two with very little chance of them freezing. The preserved po Late sleepers were aroused about seven o'clock here Monday morning by the blare of the fire alarm, which blew 16, or the corner of Turner and Front Streets. The first trucks re- ij ;,.Uv nml the firemen found that the causing of the alarm j A group of Carteret County Irish was located in the building alongside potato growers met in u.e cum i-iuum of the bowling alley which was being ; of the courthouse at two o clock used for selling roasted oysters and j Tuesday afternoon to hear the out the like The business was being op- look for the potato crop to be plant- erated by Carl B. Chadwick, but thea iaie tnis wmier uuu iwivwu -building was owned by Dr. George round the first of next June discuss Davis led by men from the U. S. Depart- The blaze was quickly gotten un- ment of Agriculture and also the der control and extinguished. Al- State Department. A half a dozen though the main part of the building or more local and visiting men spo :e, was not damaged beyond repair, the but the main speakers were A shed on the back was burned consid- Mercker, agent from the Federal Do- erablv It is said that the tire was ijuiuhuih,, uuu . 6.. started from the furnace in which the oysters were roasted; this fur nace was built right on the wooden floor of the building, and it is thought that the floor got too hot and became ieniehted. This hre caused one ot the lieau cultural economist for the same na tional department. Reduction of Crop Recommended The gist of these two speeches was that it would be prudent for the Irish potato growers to reduce their crop at least ten per cent, but by fort Fire Department's coveted rec- means to grow any more than they ords to be broken. Lacking sixteen did last season. These men showed days, no water has had to be pump- the farmers by charts how they had ed on any fires here in eighteen come to this conclusion. It was de months. All fires in that time except itermincd, they said, by the present $1,030,000 for the fiscal year 1930 31. The number of veterans living now ierawtmt" 4, 700- average 1 about 17 to the county, while the wid- ows number three or four times as due to a lavish use of money illegal voting and the Australian ballot law. They point to the fact that two candidates at Morehead City were permitted to mark ballots and that iiionjr auaLUbcc iuo ntic . uuubcu niany. which should not have been counted, j General fund revenues collected Several persons were voted in Beau-lfor the State during the first four fort who have not lived here in a ;months 0f the present year, ending number of years so it is claimed. jOctober 31, amounted to $5,004,- 1957.09, an increase of $32,480.56 Democrats Carry State 'over the $4,972,430.53 collected for r !the same period last year, the report y Large Majority of a. J. Maxwell, commissioner of I revenue, shows. The gain the past Charlotte, Nov. 5 Democratic can- month offset a loss for the month of didates for state and congressional ! September, as compared with last offices who piled up commanding year. leads in early reutrns from yester-1 Automobile tax collections, on the day's election continued to add to j other hand, amounted to $4, 882,653, them today as the counts were com-;31 for the first four months of the pleted and reported from outlying 1 fiscal year, a decrease of $440,337. districts. :91 from the $5,162,991.22 collected .T,..;ii wiiiinm Tinliov, the nart.v's in the same period last year. Con- wild-fowl season, Monday, Novem ber 3. A special feature of the ref uge will be the inclusion of a strip of Pamlico and Core sounds, parallel ing the land area in the zone in which the waterfowl will be protected. This strip will bo approximately two miles wide, extending the entire length of the refuge. Buoys will be anchored in the sounds and lines will be run from these structures. Although a definite survey of the refuge area has not been made, it is believed that the total area in which game will be protected will extend for a distance of approximately nine miles along the sound and ocean of legal shooting of the migratory ftatoes, because they would thus keep better, naturally sold higher; they were also sweeter. For curing these "sweets" there was a special kind of house invented that would turn the green, easily freezable tubers into sweet, hard- to freeze delicacies in the course of on ly ten days. But a good many of the small farmers did not want to con struct -curing houses, even though tney would pay for themselves in one season. Many of the growers only produced a thousand or fifteen hun dred bushels for sale. How could these be cured, without a . curing house? Another ingenious chap scratched the one Monday have been of a minor nature and have been extinguished by small quantities of chemicals. The quickness wvth which each alarm has been answered duringthe past few years was has only been a credit to the fire company but also to the citi zenry of the town. During the period of the past 18 months, there has been between two and three dozen alarms given. A few of these have been false and several economic conditions or tne country, by the amount of northern old pota toes that will be put on the market late next spring in competition with the southern tubers, and many other thing's entering therein. They said that in the past that growers who re ceived good prices one year, very HKeiy mcreasea tneir acreage tne 101 lowing year; this section has exper ienced two moderately good potato seasons and indications procured were assists, but the major part ofithrough questionaires sent out show these were small fires resulting from stove explosions and the like that have been extinguished by chemicals. T)AJirea, Colonel Harrelsen states jJ? neftd and started the cog wheels is one of the riches on the. Atlantic !i nis grey matter moving memty coast m migratory -waterfowl (Continued on page fou;:) life. October Was Pleasant Weather Figures Show Continued on page five !sT. PAUL'S CHURCH HOST TO WILMINGTON CONVOCATION senatorial nominee, bade fair to pass the 100,000 majority his campaign election. Additional returns, however, were slow coming in, many of the count-1 . ers giving up their task after George 1 xhe Convocation of Wilmington M. Pritchard, Bailey's republican op-jCOnvened here yesterday morning at ponent, conceded victory to the dem-; ten o'clock at St. Paul's Episcopal ocratic nominee early today. jChudch with a large number attend- On the basis of incomplete and un-,jng. Holy Communion was at ten official returns, A. L. Bulwinkle, of j o'clock, followed by a business meet Gastonia, democrat, appeared to have jng from ten-thirty until one o'clock, unseated Charles A. jonas, of Lin- Between one and two o'clock a delic colnton, republican, representative jous luncheon was served at the Rec from hte ninth congressional district, jtory by the Woman's Auxiliary of St. Reports from 187 of the distrief's Paul's Church. There was. also an 248 precincts gave Bulwinkle 35,756 afternoon Bession from two until and Jonas 27,786. -four o'clock. They included partial returns from j The Reverend W. R. Noe, execu the mountain countnes which cast the' tive secretary of this Diocese, was The Tainfall in this section during October was rather light according to the . report of the U. S. Weather Station here, it having been 2.35 inches. There were 22 clear days during the month. The prevailing winds were northeast and northwest. The temperature during the month was cool but not excessively so. The lowest temperature recorded was on the 26th and was 38 degrees. The highest was 82 degrees on the 13th. The month's temperature record day by day follows: Max. 77 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. .72 .73 .71 .72 .71 .75 .73 .76 .75 .74 .73 .82 .79 .73 .80 .80 .74 .70 Min. 62 55 56 56 58 50 53 57 60 59 heaviest republican vote and indica-;one of the main speakers at this 20. 69 tions were the 1928 republican ma-j meeting. He was born and reared jorities there had been sharply cut. ihere in Beaufort and will be remem- Jonas, refusing to concede defeat, ibered by a goodly portion or the old er citizens of the community Buth the local and visiting repre sentatives were enthusiastic about the gathering and seemed to enjoy had onlv one statement to make: "I'm going rabbit hunting and wil wait for the final figures," he said. The onlv other present republican district BDDeared to be returning to 'the social contact here as well as the the democratic fold. Zebulon B. 'church work. Among those present Weaver, democrat of Asheville, was were a good number of EpiscopaHgo. 70 leading Brownlow Jackson oi iienaer-.notaoies oi casern uno, 'v son, republican. Pritchard, the sena-jend J. A. Vache, rector of the hos torial nominee, carried the district tess church was obviously pleased for the republicans in 1928. - with the results of the meeting. Other democratic congressional nominees appeared safely "in.' 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 62 59 65 66 62, 61 68 72 74 31. .62 and finally hit upon this Why not cure and store these small amounts ef "sweets" in tobacco barns? The tobacco would ' a out of the way by the time the potatoes were harvested. It was tried out and has proven suc cessful throughout the potato-produc ing area of North Carolina and to bacco barns are used extensively for this purpose, especially down in Brunswick County where scores of them serve both the tobacco and po tato purposes each year. The tobacco barns here in Carter et County can be used for curing the "sweets," says County Farm Agent Hugh Overstreet. They have the barns; the fuel and the time requir ed to fire the barns is negligible, so it would be to the potato growers' advantage to use them for this pur pose, thinks Mr. Overstreet. Last year Mr. M. S. Snowden, one of Carteret's progressive farmers, used a tobacco barn on New Bern Road in which to store a portion of his potato crop in bushel hampers but he did not cure them. He is now storing a portion of this year's crop in the same barn. When boards are placed on the lower inside poles which are about four and a half or five feet from the floor, these barns 6 'sixteen-foot ones will hold about a 59 thousand bushels. Within the next 63 two or three seasons the tobacco 06 ' barns may come to be more extensive 6:liy usej for curing potatoes here in j Carteret, thinks Mr. Overstreet (i(5 59 49 52 49 44 45 49 39 38 42 59 63 53 45 School Libraries Are Growing Fast BIRTHS OF THE WEEK "Closed on account of hard times" i was the sign Sumpter County (S. C.) Born to, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Whit officers found near a still they locat- ey 0f Harkers Island October 26, a ed. Every utensil of the well-equip- giri. ped liquor maker was on hand, but j Born to Mr. and Mrs. John Styron there was no mash, and no operators 0f Lola, Friday, October 24, a son. were present. j Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ivey Willis The man who breathed thru a glass of Beaufort, Saturday, October 25, tube for ten years is now dead in a son. Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He was Hugh; Born to Mr. and Mrs. John Wade Keenan, whose windpipe was remov-'of Williston, Sunday, November 2, a ed and a glass tube substituted. son. MARRIAGE LICENSES and Da- Adrian Scott, Marshallberg Lucy Whitford, Bridgeton. Matthew Collins and Delzora vis, Beaufort. Wesley W. Wilson, Marshallberg and Sadie H. Pake, Beaufort. BIRTH OF SON Born to Mr. and Mrs. Josiah C. Chadwick, Wednesday, November, 6, a son, in Wilmington, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. Chadwick formarly lived here in Biaufort, but moved to their new home last Spring. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Sarah Jane Garner to Asy Edgar Garner, 35 acres, Newport Township, for $10. John D.. Brown and W. C. Gor- ham, Trustees, to M. U Mansneld, 1-2 lot Morehead City, for $225. W. C. Gorham, Commissioner to M. L. Mansfield, 1 lot Morehead City, for $137. W. P. Guthrie heirs to R. H. Guth rie, 1-7 acre Morehead Township, for $50. Edward C. Carlson to Minnie Gar ner, 1 lot ueauiort, ior (State Superintendent Public Instruction Raleigh, Nov. 3 Nearly one hun dred and fifty thousand volumes were addd-toMjUc8cbiMal,sUhfflries,r of the State during last year, it is learned today from the office of State Superintendent A. T. Allen. These figures represent all the high schools of the State, both rural and city, those elementary schools receiving State aid, and standard elementary schools. According to figures for the State as a whole there were 1,153,326 volumes in elementary and high school libraries in 1928-29. The 150 000 added during 1929-30 makes ap proximately 1,300,000 books now a vailable. The number of volumes added to high school libraries ranges from more than 3,000 in Wake County to none added in another county. Bun combe County which added a total of 2,887 books to its high school libra ries is second to Wake in this res pect. In all there is a report of 63, 944 books placed in high school libra ries of the State from July 1, 1929 to July 1, 1930.. The additions to elementary school libraries are greater than those of the high schools. Tabulated figures indicate a growth of 81,419 books Guilford County with 5,772, Meck lenburg County with 4,384, and Rich mond County with 3,584 lead in ad ditions among the elementary school libraries. The amount expended during the year by high schools for n.w library books wa i $64,261.2-1. The elemen tary schools spent approximately a similar amount, $64,180.31. This is a total of $128,441.55 expended for library books for recreational reading and curriculum support in the North Carolina public schools during the year 1929-30. The State assisted in this growth in the amount of $8,200, and the remaining amount was raised locally. that the farmers in this district are contemplating an increase in acreage next spring. The law of supply and demand al so enters into the business of market ing potatoes. Usually, they said, large crops bring poor prices, while small crops bring higher prices. The agricultural advisors suggested that the potato acreage be reduced, but that other products be raised. Before this is done, however, they said it would be wise to find out from the State' arid Tede?al Departments what the outlook for the forthcoming sea son for the contemplated crops before the farmers do their planting. Conditions Should Improve One of the most interesting mor sels of information given by Doctor Bean, was a chart on which was graph ically portrayed the four periods of depression m the past ten years. These came in 1920, 1923, 1926, and 1929. The first three of these reach ed the turning point for the better at the end of about fifteen months. Judging from this, said Doctor Bean, the conditions now are at the lowest ebb and within the next few weeks should begin to show a marked in crease in activity, not only in fann ing alone, but also in all of the manv divisions of production in the country. Although the election probably caused many of the potato growers to remain away from the meetine. those attending nevertheless seemed to be the leaders and were evidently willing to co-operate in reducing the acreage. A vote was taken and show ed a willingness toward co-operation. TOWN COMMISSIONERS FAIL TO HAVE MONTHLY MEETING RAISING ORANGES IN BEAUFORT A fine specimen of a Florida orange raised right here in Beaufort was brought into the News office yester day by Reverend W. W. Lewis. Mrs. Lewis planted the seed from an orange several years ago and the bush has begun to bear. There are several persons in Beaufort wha have orange trees but they are not of the same variety as that exhibited by Mr. Lewis. On account of the inability of sev eral members of the Town Board of Commissioners to be present the reg ular monthly meeting was unable to be held. This was deferred until Wednesday afternoon but the same reason prevented the meeting. " No time has yet been set for this Board to convene for the November meet ing. The election not only played havoc with the Commissioners meet ing, but a general turmoil has result ed this week from the autumn election. TIDE TABLE Information aw to the tides at Beaufort is given in this col umn. The figures are approx imately correct nnd 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 "de Friday, Nov. 7 8:08 A. M. 1:40 A. M. 8:27 P. M. 2:29 P. M. Saturday, Nov. 8 8:46 A. M. 2:18 A. M. 9:07 P. M. 3:12 P. M. Sunday, Nov. 9 9:29 A. M. 3:00 A. M. 9:51 P. M. 3:59 P. M. Monday, Nov. 10 10:17 A. M. 3:47 A. M. 10:43 P. M. 4:50 P. M. Tuesday, Nov. 11 11:07 A. M. 4:41 A. M. 11:13 P. M. 5:46 P. M. It is claimed that the State of Tex as poduces enough cotton to put cot ton stockings on every woman in the United States. Maybe it does, but try and do itl 11:47 12:19 1:00 1:31 M. M. Wednesday, Nov. 12 A. M. 5:45 A. P. M. 6:47 P. Thursday, Nov. 13 A. M. 6:55 A. M. P. M. 7:52 P. M.
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