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VOLUME XIX
8 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1930 PRICE 5c 5INGLE COPY
NUMBER 46
Commission Favors
Eight Months Term
Two Bills Will Be Submitted to The General As
sembly Which Will Make Considerable
Changes In Public School System; Plenty of
Candidates in Prospect
By M. R. DUNNAGAN
Raleigh, N. C, Nov. 10A State
wide eight months school term of
North Carolina, the last two months
of which may be suspended by the
County Board of Education when
the attendance will not justify con
tinuation, is embraced in one of the
two bills drawn up by the special
Educational Commission provided by
the 192!) legislature and to be sub
mitted to the 1931 body through
Governor ' Gardner. In another bill
which the commission offers in case
the General Assembly is not ready
to enact the eight-months bill, are
included provisions seeking to pro
duce efficiency and economy, as are
also included in the first bill.
Economy of operation is sought
through consolidation of administra
tive, units, of school terms and of
spending agencies, and by greater
aid from the State in current operat
ing costs. Savings are expected thru
suggested increases in teacher load,
by abolishing the experience incre
ment in teacher salaries, and in the
administration of the schools.
Both bills seek to eliminate fur
ther the small schools, in favor of
larger units, permit the transfer of
pupils across district lines within the
counties and allow distribution of pu
pils to equalize the teaching load. The
commission in its report, finds it "in
advisable at this time to create the
office of business manager or financial
secretary of the State Board of Edu
cation, one of the objects the com
mission was named to investigate
and report on.
Tax Supervisors' School
A school for the 100 county tax
supervisors is to be held in Raleigh
early in December, conducted under
the auspices of the State Board of
Assessment, to acquaint the supervis
ors with their duties and instruct
them in methods of handling the new
quadriennial assessment on real es
tate for next year, the board an
nounces. The county supervisors
will then be required to conduct sim
ilar schools for their township asses
sors and listers.
In adition, the State board is pre
paring a uniform blank on which re
turns of individuals are to be made
in all of the 100 counties and is to
provide, regulations for a more equi
table and even valuation as between
(Continued on page two)
Thomas Merrill Passes
Suddenly at Wire Grass
Although Thomas M. Man-ill, of
Wiregrass had been in failing health
for several years, his sudden death
yesterday morning nevertheless came
unexpectedly to his many friends in
that locality. Mr. Merrill was in his
eighty-fourth year, and until a year
or two ago carried his years remark
ably. During the past few months
he has b;en confined almost whole
ly to his home and often to his bed.
Mr. Merrill was an industrious farm
er and he deeply regretted having to
relinquish the management of his
farm. During the greater part of
his life he enjoyed fairly good health
and was able to provide well for his
large family. Mr. Merrill was a
friendly sort of man who greatly
enjoyed joking with those he came in
contact with. He lived throughout
an upright life and was always willing
to offer his help to those who need
ed it.
Funeral services were held at the
home of the deceased at two o'clock
this afternoon, with Reverend R. F.
Munng, pastor of Ann Street Metho
dist Church, conducting. Quite a
crowd of friends and relatives were
present for the last rites, and the mul
titude of flowers attested to the high
respect with which Mr. Merrill was
held by his many friends.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Susan Merrill; by two daughters,
Mesdames Chris Nelson and Dave
Nelson, both of New Bern; by five
sons, Messrs. Dora, Ernest, Sammie,
Kernie and David Merrill, all of
Wire Grass; one sister, Miss Malissa
Merrill and by one brother, Joe Mer
rill, of Wire Grass.
BIRTH OF DAUGHTER
Born to Mr, and Mrs. William J.
Dail, a daughter Mary Susan, Novem
ber 11, at the Potter Emergency Hospital.
Long-Distance Rowers
Stopped on Way South
Beaufort was visited Monday by
two young fellows who rowed a twenty-eight-foot
shell from their home
town Poughkeepsie, New York, elev
en hundred mils down here on a six
teen hundred mile trip to Daytona
Beach, Florida. No wonder they
thought of this rowing escapade, be
cause they live at Poughkeepsie where
so many national regattas are held
on the Hudson River, which is the
Thames of America.
These two young men Benjamin
Richard and Edward Butsko, by name
left their home the twenty-eighth
of September, and up through Sun
day evening when they landed at
Morehead City had rowed 123 hours.
Off Port Richmond, N. J., they were
swamped and had to swim about a
mile ashore, towing their shell. The
weather they said had been unfavor
able, so it took them two weeks to row
down the Chesapeake Bay.
While rowing by Princeton Uni
versity they observed the varsity crew
out practicing and fell in with them.
The coach recognized the shell the
two young men were rowing as one
he rowed years ago, and told them
that is was built in 1880 fifty years
ago. Despite its advanced age it is
still in fairly good shape. The shell
is a ribbed boat, planked with three-sixteenth-inch
cypress strokes;" 'it' is
twenty-eight feet long, twenty eight
inches wide, and twelve inches deep.
A dangerous contrivance to travel in,
the seamen around here would un
doubtedly declare. All in all it only
weighs ninety-five pounds.
They carry a pup tent, blankets
and other light equipment so that
they can stay in the woods along the
way if necessary. They rowed fifty
two miles Sunday, which they said
was the longest distance traveled in
any one day. They have a letter of
introduction from the mayor of
Poughkeepsie which they will present
to the mayor of Daytona Beach when
they arrive at their destination.
Richards and Butsko the first a
plumber and the other a workman in
.t factory that makes milk separators
are both husky fellows, but they
?ay they do not want to repeat the
trip after this one is over.
Every now and then Rome one
comes through here trying to do
some stunt or other. Years ago when
the famous Captain Slocam made his
round-the-world trip in a sloop he
stopped here and had his boat haul
ed out.
Carteret Pastors Will
Attend Conference
The North Carolina conference of
the Methodist Episcopal church south
will be held in Henderson at the First
Methodist church from the nineteen
th through the twenty-fourth of No
vember. Bishop Edwin 1). Mouzon
will preside over the conference.
Mornings will be consumed by rou
tine business and other matters, in
the afternoons committee meetings
will be held, while in tho evenings
preaching and addresses will be giv
en. There is right much controver
sial matter that will come up for dis
cussion and decisions at this meet
ing, where 150,000 church members
will be represented.
At the concluding meeting the ap
pointments of two hundred preachers
will be read. Dr. Harry M. North,
Presiding tlder of the Wilmington
District, and a former pastor here in
Carteret County, is the only presid
ing elder scheduled for a change.
Reverends B. B. Slaughter, More
head City, B. B. Shankle, Straits, E.
L. Hill, Atlantic, R. F. Munns, Beau
fort, and William Barfield, Newport,
will attend the conference in Hender
son next week.
HUNT FISH BV AEROPLANE
Most every favorable day now peo
ple hereabouts can see Ernest Waters'
aeroplane leave here under the com
mand of Pilot Ralph Jordan and go
out in the search of menhaden. Thus
searching for this valuable fish is new
in this part of the country. But the
pilot in the aeroplane can scan many
miles of sea every day and report to
BLAZE BURNED
BELL-WALLACE
Laundry and Shipyard Along
With State Flagship Went
Up In Flames Friday !
A fire broke out in Morehead City
early last Friday morning and bei
fore the conflagration could be extin
guished the Bell-Wallace shipyard
and laundry along with the state boat
"Captain John A. Nelson" was burn
ed up. The fire was first discovered
about three o'clock in the laundry
boat house and an alarm was immed
iately sent in. When the Morehead
City firemen got on the scene they
saw that it would be a rather bad
blaze to put out, with the stiff north?
erly wind that was blowing. Th$
Beaufort firefighters were sent fof
and immediately responded; the
pumped salt water several blockj
from the front of the community a
cross where the fire was raging. I
is thought that the fire started in thi
boiler room of the laundry.
Aboard the state boat, which hac
been hauled up on the ways to be re-j
painted, was Captain Leonard Nelson!
brother of the fisheries commissioner
and Hulley Willis, steward of the!
boat. They were aroused just irfi
time to save themselves from thej
flames. While the shipyard and
laundry were burned to the ground
a part of the hull pf the state boat;
remained, but it is beyond repair.:
Several other boats were damaged !
somewhat. All of the houses in the'
vicinity were in danger of being;
burned, for flaring sparks and pieces
of wood were being blown all to the
southward of the flames by the stiff
hreeze and the natural draft formed
by the fire. ;,
Several times the home of Luther
Hamilton and several other nearby
homes were in danger of being burn
ed; they even caught several times,
but the firemen were miraculously
lable to extinguish them before they
got too serious. - Even the old AtlalU
tic Hotel was in the direct path of
the fire, but this too was saved by
the firemen. Boatmen who had their
craft moored at the docks to the south
of the hotel moved them, because
they were afraid that the flying
sparks would ignite them.
While the laundry and shipyard
were only partially insured, the "Cap
tain John A. Nelson" had no insur
ance whatsoever; so the N. C. flagship
was a total loss and the laundry and
the shipyard almost the same. The
laundry and the boat-buliding estab
lishment were the joint property of
Charles S. Wallace and John Bell. The
laundry has been serving Beaufort
ami Morehead City for several years;
the shipyard is well known here
abouts and in the north several
handsome yachts for northern people
have been built there.
The state boat was bought in 1928
for twenty-five thousand dollars, the
money having been appropriated by
the General Assembly of 1027. This
was built by its original owner for a
; family yacht at a cost of approximate
ly a hundred thousand dollars. It
was about seventy-five feet long and
was a first-class yacht, royally fitted
out in every respect.
New Seafood Business
Opens Up In Beaufort
A new concern is preparing to op
en up this week hire in Beaufort in
the Southgate Terminal Building and
it will do business under the name of
Beaufort Fish and Oyster Company.
Captain Chauncey G. Willis, well
known business man who was reared
at Williston and who has until quite
recently been head of the Carolina
Freight line with boats running be
tween here and Norfolk, will be the
manager of the establishment. A
wholesale business in all varieties of
seafood will be carried on.
The place in the Southgate Term
inal which will be used by this new
company is having modern equipment
built in. Long lines of shucking
tables, sinks, and all other things
necessary for the opening and ship.
all other Tnr.,1 form, nf .p-fA,
now being installed. There are sev
eral that are intimately connected
with the business but Cooper Davis,
of Smyrna, is on the scene and is su
pervising the installation of the equip
ment. MARRIAGE LICENSES
Carl R. Powers and Reva Bell,
Morehead City.
John E. Holston, Charlotte, and
Madeline Larke, Morehead City,
iine capiams oi tne nsn Doats, where-
as individual skippers of the boats jca11 the special term lor some date in
are rather limited in the area thev'APriI- Tbe county has spent con-
can cover in that amount of time.
SCALLOP SEASON
TO OPEN MONDAY
Bogue Sound Now Teeming
With Scallops; These Nor
mally Bring Much Mon
ey to Carteret
Those folks around Morehead
City, Beaufort and Harkers Island
who are accustomed to catching scal
lops during the fall and winter will
not be disappointed this season like
they were last, according to Capt.
John A. Nelson, State Fisheries Com
missioner, who says that it has been
reported to him by many folks who
follow the water for a livelihood that
there are quantities of scallops now,W. Hassell D. 74, D. M. Jones R. 121;
in Bogue Sound proper and around.
Harkers Island. In round numbers
there was alinut n hundred thousand I
dollars worth of scallops caught in j
Carteret County two seasons ago, but j
last year there were only about nine
thousand dollars worth caught.
This marked decrease in the a
mounts taken and sold was the re
sult of a heavy freshet during the
fall of 1928 during which time the
scallops were in the midst of spawn
ing. The spawning season begins in
the early fall and continues until a
bout the first of January. - Although
there were not many of the bivalves
caught last fall and winter, there were
enough of the adult scallops to pro
duce the spawn from which grew the
large number that are now in Carter
et County waters.
Carteret Produces All N. C. Scallops
Carteret County is the only section
of Coastal North Carolina that produc
es scallops in commercial quantities.
If they grow at all elsewhere in the
Old North State, it is only a scattered
few here and there. Here in this
county they have for a good number
of years been one of the main staffs
of life, especially during the cold win
ter months after Christmas when all
other water industries have a slack
reason along with those who follow
agriculture for a living.
The digging of the inland waterway
channel down Bogue Sound has caus
ea a greater circulation ot salt water
in mac nome oi tne scallops and has
helped more to decrease the death
rate of the bivalves than anything
else, says Captain Nelson. Fresh,
brackish water means death to the es
callops, while salt sea water means
life and a greater percentage of the
spawn to grow to maturity.
Season Opens Mondaj
Normally the season for catching.j
the scallops begins the first of Janu
ary and runs on until the beginning
of May: the Department of Conser
vation leaves it up to Captain Nelson
to say how many day?; a week these , passed quietly, with the exception of
can be caught. However, if the sup-two whistles blowing at eleven
ply and demand justifies it, Captain o'clock. The banks were closed, but
Nelson may open the season earlier. ' a11 otnt'r businesses went on as if it
On account of there being a large were aTy othcr day. This was in
supply of scallops now; the Fisher-1 markcd contrast to the day twelve
ies Commissioner is going to permit ! ycarF aK when the agreement was
the catching of thess bivalves two i reiH'hed to suspend the Great War.
days a week Monday and Wednes- Whistles blew that day a dozen years
day beginning the 17th of November a- bon flres were made, and a trem
Later if the supply of scallops holds ! or of excitement was shaking the en
out sufficiently and the demand is tlre community. Every one was tall;
strong enough, the number of days a ! ln then about what had just hap
week may be increased accordingly. : pe;",ed' but this 'ear SHmu of the I)e0
It is thought by those who closely !'Iu ht're 1,1 Btufol,t wanted to know
follow tin. wat.ni- th.it. rhp mnnov that. wbilt t was a11 abt when the whis-
will be made from the scallops this
fall and winter will come in rather
handy; others say that it will likely
be a good boost for local business.
This has. been true during the past
lucrative scallop seasons.
GOVERNOR GARDNER REQUESTED
TO CALLSPECIAL COURT TERM
Cases Against Simmons Construction Corporation And Others
To Be Tried Next April If Special Term Is Called; Final
Meeting of County Board on 28th
There was considerable speculation
during the recent campaign as to
whether the county suits, as they are
called, would be dropped if the pres
ent board of commissioners should be I
defeated. Action taken by the board
at its meeting Monday indicates that
'the suits will be tried next Apnl,
Readers of the News will remem
ber that Judge Moore who presided
over the October term of court here
suggested that a special term should
be held to try suits against Simmons
Construction Corporation, former
county - attorney Luther Hamilton,
former auditor W. L.' Stancil, form
er county engineer George J. Brooks,
assistant engineer C. K. Howe and
former members and chairman of
the board G. W. Huntley. In line
with this suggestion from Judge
Moore , the board adopted a resolu-
" lesurauiig uuvcmui usiunw eu
siderable money for attorneys' aud-J
Correct Totals Given
In November Election
When the News went to press last
v,.mi,nr PWt ion of Davis and Salter
Path had not come in to the Hoard
of Canvassers and therefore could not
be included in the tabulation publish
ed in last week's paper. These re
turns were brought to the Board last
. ...... w
Friday and are now given herewith
The various candidates and the offices
they were seeking along with the , every year. Between the first ot the
number of votes each polled are as year and the coming of warm weath
follows: ier nme carloads were shipped, which
Davi For U. S. Senate, J. W. brought the producers eleven thous
Railev D. 70. G. M. Pritchard R. 123: and dollars. Now the raisers have be-
For Congress, C. L. Abernethy D. 73;
W. G. Mebane R. 121; for Clerk L.
for register of deeds, I. Vv. Davis V.
109, Eric C. GaskillR. 85; for county
surveyor. S. P. Chadwick D. 7"). J. E
Gillikin R. 118; for coroner, G. W.
Dill D. 74, L. J. Noe R. 120; for sher-
iff, E. M. Chadwick D. 76, James H
Davis R. 121; for judge recorder's
court, M. L. Davis D. 78, E. W. Hill
R. 112; for solicitor of recorders
court, Llewellyn Phillips D. 75, G. W.
Duncan R. 119; all Democratic can
didates for Board of Commissioners
polled 77 votes, while the Republi
can ones received the following:
liusnall 11 ua-KUl 11, Lincoln izu,
Edwards 121 and Lewis 120; for N. ' 12 1)espite the faet that the Crab
C. Senate, W. F. Ward D. 75, I. M. : pojnt um, fv p G)enn sections do
Hardy D. 73, J. H. Mewborne R. 120; ' t have the ,K.,t t.drn-pro,lucing land
Representative, Luther Hamilton D.,in Carteret County, farmers living in
76, N. H. Russell R. 118. ! those communities produce practical-
Salter Path: Bailey 51, Pritchard i ,,n tu u0 ci,i,i ,., tu-, vi,..
1, Abernethy 52, Mebane 0, Hassell
H.T -1 .1 TT 11
51, Jones 1, Irvin Davis 51, Gaskill
1, S. P. Chadwick 51, Gillikin 1, Dill
51, L. J. Noe 1, Elbert Chadwick 51,
J. H. Davis 1, M. L. Davis 27, Hill 25,
Democratic Commissioner candidates
all 51, each and all Republican Com
missioners 1 each; Phillips 51, Dun
canl, Ward 52, Hardy 52, Mewborn
0, Hamilton 52, Russell 0.
County Totals for all candidates
Pritchard 2005, Bailey 2936, Mebane
2160, Abernethy 3158, Mewborne
1796, Ward 2908, Hardy 2802, Rus
sell 2080, Hamilton 2870, Gaskill
2028, Irvin Davis 2958, Gillikin 1929
'S. P. Chadwick 2912, Noe 1952, Dill
1 2947, J. II. Davis 2230, E. M. Chad-
wick 2822, Jones 1946, Hassell 3080
Hill 2034, M. L. Davis. 2964. Dun
can 1994, Phillips 2904, Bushall 2026,
Norman Gaskill 2024, Lincoln 1983,
Edwards 2085, Lewis 2048, Webb
3020, Guthrie 2930, Carroll 2970,
Styron 2885, and C. T. Chadwick
2968.
Armistice Day Passes
Rather Quietly Here
Armistice Day in this community
ties began their blasts.
Captain Thomas Thomas, of Laco
ma, New Hampshire, spent Teie-day
and Wednesday here visiti:.g friends
and relatives.
itors' and engineers' fees in prepar
ing these cases for trial and .members
of the board said that they thought
the suits ought to be finished and letj
it be known whether there is anymer-
't in them or not. The resolution is
given below.
Attorney E. H. Gorham came be
fore the board and .asked that a re
fund be made to Mrs. M. C. Mans
field on her 1925 taxes. The request
was denied.
Superintendent R. L. Fritz of the
Beaufort Grade School appeared be
fore the board and asked that a bal
ance of about $3000 due from special
taxes in the Beaufort district be paid.
He was informed that there was no
money in hand to pay the amount bu'.
could have a note if he wished it.
The chairman and clerk to the board
were authorized to sign the note for
the amount due the school.
The report of Miss Virginia Sloan,
County Home 'Demonstration Agent,
Continued on page five
CARTERET RAISES
HOGS FOR MARKET
Farmers Have Made Industry
1
of Raising And Shipping
Porkers to Northern
Markets
Carteret County farmers not only
raise hogs for home consumption, but
they ship thousands of dollars worth
gun shipping the hogs to northern
markets again.
Tuesday a car was loaded at J." . re
head City, all of the hogs having been
raised at Crab Point. The market
price was quoted that day as being
from nine to ten cents a pound. This
is slightly lower than the normal
price, but it was even then consid
ered to be quite reasonable. Although
the price fluctuates somewhat from
time to time, it nevertheless remains
within reasonable limits.
Those who shipped hogs Tuesday
and the number each disposed of are
as follows: J. R. Laughton and Son,
30 head; D. S. Oglesby, Jr 20; Ce-
i , n,.-leShv. 14: and Will Lauirhton.
J 11
inity.
Farmers in other parts of Carter
et County should r iise hogs for ship
ping, thinks Coin ty Farm Agent
Hugh Overstreet, because the prices
received for the hogs either on the
hoof or butchered and cured are al
most always fairly stable. Corn that
cost the farmer when labor, seed,
interest on investment and rent of
land is added in the neighborhood
of seventy-five cents a bushel doubles
itself when fed to porkers.
Farmers on North River and the
old New Bern roads and those living
up around Newport have an equal
chance to grow good corn and feed it
to hogs, says Mr. Overstreet. The
porkers even save the labor of har
vesting sometimes, when the produc
ers turn their swine out into the
corn field shortly after roasting ear
season. Other than the corn, the
growers do not have to feed the hogs
anything but a little fish meal; this
is done because the corn is not rich
enough in proteins for the growth
and development of the animals.
In recent years the farmfolks ov
er in the Crab Point and Camp Glenn
areas have made quite an industry of
hog raising and as a result they have
been well paid for their efforts. This
is just another form of division of di
versification. Farm Agent Over
shoot says that he sees no reason in
the world why the farmers in other
section;- of Carteret cannot profiit
ably raise swine like the agricultural
ists at Crab Point and Camp Glenn
are now and have been doing the
past few years.
NO CASES TRIED TUESDAY
IN RECORDER'S COURT
There were no trials in Recorder's
Court Tuesday. In f;u-t only one case
was set for trial. J J. Frizzelle of
Morehead City on a charge of aban
donment was supposed to be tried
but he was not in court and the case
was continued nr.til next Tuesday.
TIDE TABLE
Information ai, to the tides
at Beaufort is given in this col
umn. The figures are approx
i mutely 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 Tida
Friday, Nov. 14
2:16 A. M. - '.8:13 A. M.
2:43 P.M. 8:54 P. M.
Saturday, Nov. IS
3:25 A. M. 9:28 A. M.
3:50 P. M. 9:51 P. M.
Sunday, Nov. 16
4:24 A. M. 10:34 A. M.
4:49 P. M. 10:43 P. M.
Monday, Nov. 17
5:19 A. M. 11:01 A. M.
5:42 P. M. 11:33 P. M.
Tuesday, Nov. 18
6:08 A. M. 11:31 A. M.
6:30 P. M. 12:25 P. M.
Wednesday, Nov. 19
6:55 A. M. 12:17 A. M.
7:18 P. M. 1:13 P. M.
Thursday, Nov. 20
7:40 A. M. 1:00 A. M.
8:02 P.. M. 1:59 P. M.