North Carolina Newspapers

v. o The u--at ao v. Using indium published in Carteret Co. ( READING To' THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY j VA t-rf Your label and pay your subscription mJ VOLUME XIX 8 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1930 PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY NUMBER 47 Stale Engineers Of County's Highway System State Highway Commission Is Having Maps Made of County Roads In The State; It is Possible That State May Take Over AH Roads By M. R. DUNNAGAN Raleigh, Nov. 17 Carteret Coun ty's highway system embraces a to tal of 204.2 miles, of which 1.7 miles is unimproved, 153.1 miles is grad ed, none is sandclay or gravel and 49.4 miles is hardsurface, according to the recent survey made for Gov ernor Gardner's experts by the dis trict highway engineers. These fig ures are actual and are generally less than those shown in replies to Chair man R. A. Doughton's questions a few months ago. In addition, Carter et county has 32.1 miles which is be ing maintained as a part of the State highway system. The State highway system at this date embraces 9,040 1-2 miles, prob ably 60 per cent of which is hard surfaced, which includes oiled gravel and sandclay. The 100 counties have a total of 45,002 miles, of which U 12.7 miles are hardsurfaced, 14, 223.6 miles are topsoil or gravel, 18 080.55 miles are graded and 11,805 95 miles are unimproved, the survey shows. The State Highway Commission is making a set of maps of each county, which show the State highways, the four grades of county highways, the extent of use of each county high way, all towns cities, consolidated schools and streams, as a result of these surveys, and will present each eunty with a map. Many of the counties have never had a complete highway map before. Chairman Doughton estimates that the State commission could maintain the 100 county road systems as well as they are now maintained at about 75 per cent of the present cost of be tween $7,000,000 and $8,000,000, or for about $6,000,000, if the State should take them over. The extra one cent tax on gasoline amounts to about $2,500,000, the additional $500,000 allotment giving $3,000,000 to the counties. One more cent on gasoline, making the tax six cents a gallon, would about take care of the county roads, in addition to the State system, it is figured. But automobile owners will serious ly oppose any addition to the gaso line tax on the ground that they are (Continued on page three) Wise Young Owl Halts Trial in Court Hou?e An owl, that grum old bird that bears the reputation of having the wisdom of Madam Justice herself, decided to enact the role of presid ing judge here last Monday morning. Justice of Peace Henry Noe, several lawyers, defendants and witnesses and others that go to make up a trial resigned themselves to the court room in the county court house for the pur pose of settling a dispute. But lo and behold! When they en tered the room what should they see perched above the judge's swivel chair but a half grown black and brown striped owl. It was not at all perturbed by the presence of the gentlemen who had come to render a decision upon one of their number. What should be done about the wise young owl? Several suggestions were offered on how to dispose of the bird, for the trial was beiyg deferred by its presence. No one seemed to want to disturb the specimen of wild life, for the rapacious bird is form idible with his long sharp claws and bill. One of the lawyers procured a paste-board box and Llewllyn Phil lips climbed upon a chair and put the box up against the wall and over the bird. Then Dave Willis shoved a cal endar up between the box and the wall, thus making tne owi a prisons . W n Williams and Charles Stevens were also principals m capturing me creature of the wilds. Now the trial attendants will per haps be expecting the incarnation of Madam Justice herself in the court room, after this escapade with Na ture's wisest feathered inhabitant. COLUMBUS TREASURER CHARGED WITH DEFICIT Cerro Gorda, Nov. 19 Relatives nt rr r. PnHcliffe. denosed as Colum bus county treasurer October 30 af-'j asphalt; 1,000 miles have been sur ter a shortage auditors place above faced with gravel or some other all $20,000, are said to have posted $7,-! weather surfacing, not regarded as Kno hnnH for his annearance at Janu-! permanent. Only 475 miles rnnain ary term of crmiinal court. Make Sin vev All Road Sentences Given In Recorder's Court Family troubles 'brought two men into Recorder's Court Tuesday. One defendant was white and the other colored and both have court records j of considerable extent. Fairly Wilson the colored defend ant plead guilty to the charge of an assault on a female, his wife Mary Wilson. The woman testified that she came to Beaufort Saturday night and that Fairly got mad about it and hit her witlfhis fist. She said he also threatened her with an ax. He ad mitted hitting her but denied the ax part. Wilson was also tried on the charge of hitting Nellie Wilson who is his niece. He admitted his guilt in this case also. Judge Hill first thought of giving Wilson the chance to pay a fine of $100 and costs but decided that as there were two assaults upon women road sentences would better fit the crime. For hitting his wife the defendant was given four month? on the roads and on the other charge he got two months more. Elijah Fulcher, who is a Morehead City man, was givp n four months on the roads for assaulting, with a dead ly weapon Clem Smith also of More head City. Elijah made quite a plea in his own behalf to the court and seemed to think that he has been a victim of hard luck. He has been indicted on several criminal charges and at present is serving a jail sen tence for stealing a gun. It appear ed from his evidence that a few days ago he jumped over the jail fence, as he had done more than once, and went to hunt for his wife. He found her in the woods with a small girl and Clem Smith. He said the woman was sitting in Smith's lap on a stump. He became very much infuriated and at tacked Smith with a knife cutting him four or five times but no serious injury was done. Smith admitted being in the woods- with the woman but denied giving any provocation for the cutting. A case against Clem Smith charg ing attempt at rape was noil pross ed at the request of Solicitor Dun can. Beaufort-Los Angeles Highway Is Proposed (New Bern Sun-Journal) United States Highway 70, with its eastern terminus at Beaufort and its proposed western terminus at Los An gcles, is shown in a half page map in the Los Angeles Examiner of Sunday, October 19. A copy of that paper hqs just been received by II. R. Shriv er of this city from his niece, Mrs. Alvin Stafford, who lives in Los An geles but who was a visitor in New Bern last year. The map shows the piesent western terminus of the road in central Arizona, but tells of enthu siastic response to the plan for ex tending it to Los Angeles. Jack Howe, automotive editor of the Examiner says: " A transcontinental highway link ing the Atlantic and the Pacific coasts it; almost an airline from Beaufort, N. C , to Los Angeles, by extending U. S. Highway No. 70 as proposed in the Examiner automotive section of July 27, stirred such a spontaneous response all along the line that a na tional organization is already being formed to support the project and as sure its success. "A letter of inquiry broadcast to chambers of commerce and highway officials with a reproduction of the xxamintr map niuucu we ouininS fact that the entire route of more than 3,000 miles from coast to coast, is almost completely paved or hard surfaced. The returns disclose that the U. S. No. 70 transcontinental highway, including the proposed ex tension from its present terminus at Holbrok, Ariz., into California via the Sunkist trail and Blythe-Mecca links, would be approximately 3,114 miles long. Of this mileage 1,639 miles are paved with permanent type pavement, such as concrete or rock ! dirt, graded roads. Municipal court Tries Lone Case, t or the tirst time in several weens, i Police Court convened in the c'tyi hall Fridav afternoon to try a dock-, et of some, three or four cases.1 On account of several of the defendants being out of town fishing, only onej . of the cases came up for trial. J (Crop Reporting Service) Viola Roberts, colored woman, Raleigh, Nov. 17 Now that piac- rnnvlrtoH nf heina- disorderly. Really all of the 1930 crops are har- Judgment was suspended upon the vested, we have a first opportunity payment of the costs in the case. for looking at the situation from a The following cases were continu- preliminary production standpoint, ed until the next session of Munici- i North Carolina was fortunate in ex .l Court FHHflv afternoon: Bennie periencing relatively little of the Willis, Herbert Springle and Warren ; drought situation. Even those coun Henry ties of the Piedmont Belt that did i suffer are in much better shape than WniTflT' 17 A rmIIATf most of Tennessee, Kentucky and I til II K H AK ill lf Virginia. The Fall has been favor- 1UV11 M. lumiau 1VH ' GROWING ASSET Was In Its Infancy Half-Dozen Years Ago, But Has Grown Rapidly Since Then Carteret County farmers have large While farmers are seterely handi ly begun to desert or abandon the old capped by the low prices received for practice of planting one or two major practically all of their products, con crops each season and of letting their sidirable relief was experienced in land lie idle during the winter. They North Carolina by increased acreages are beginning to take up more and more the newer practice of growing, truck crops and keeping something growing the year 'round. When a 1 Hve-at-home program. A wide ex man depends wholely on one or two pansion in these programs is expected major crops and they happen to pan next year. out bad, the farmer is out entirely;' Corn, being the principal crop in but if he has a half a dozen or more acreage and distribution in North truck crops that as a general rule Carolina, shows a much better yield nearly always sell well, he can work than was expected, particularly in the better, because he has a good chance southeastern half of the State. Even of getting well paid for his labour, i in fairly dry counties, the yield has Right now the agricultural part ;of been fairly good. Together with the Carteret County is undergoing mark- 10 percent increase in acreage, the ed revolutionary changes. Not only corn crop is good this year. The are they turning to trucking more : drought conditions in the Mississippi each year, but new machinery and Valley territory greatly reduced the new methods are being taken up and yield of the country at large, result used more now than ever before. Ejv-!ing in 20 percent less production than en half a dozen years ago then Was 'last year and 22 percent less than the comparatively little trucking done ' five-year average; in fact, the 1930 hereabouts, but since then things have crop is the smallest since 1901. It improved wonderfully. I (Continued on page three) Broccoli, a salad green that is in great demand in the North, had nev- 7 jer been planted around here until this Fall. Fifty-five and one-half ac-! Continued on page five ! Home of K. W. Wright Burns at Wire G raSS The large and beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. K. W. Wright, of Wire Grass, burned to the ground about nop.n hist Friday. Mr. Wright wa in the kitchen waiting for his wife to finish dinner, when some of the neighbors ran over and ii.formed them that their home was on fire. He went to investigate and found the whole roof ablaze. Because the fire had progressed too , over and where the class of struc far and there being no fire-fighting tures have justified it, a new rating equipment at hand, they were unable has been made. The newer rate was to extinguish it. All of the house- made according to the kinds of ma hold furniture, and the windows and tc-rial used in constructing the build doors of the lower floor were saved, ings and according to where they are The structure was insured. located. The greater cut was made Mr. and Mrs. Wright have been liv-on the dwelling houses, which aver ing there only about two or three aged about forty percent. years, having moved here from Vir-! ginia several years ago. ; held in the Free Will Baptist church FREE WILL BAPTISTS here in the mornings at 11 o'clock TO HOLD MEETING HERE and in the evenings at 7 o'clock. There are eleven Free Will Baptist A district meeting of the Free Will church, s in Carteret county and this Baptist denomination will be held in constitutes a district in itself. A Beaufort Saturday and Sunday No- good attendance is expected at the vember 29 and 30. Services will he meetings to be held here. REVALUATION OF REAL ESTATE WILL BE MADE IN ALL COUNTIES NEXT YEAR According to law and custom in North Carolina a revaluation of all real estate is made every four years, The year 1931 is the year when this will be done. This to be done in ev- ery county in the State. The State Board of Assessment has sent letters to the chairmen of the boards of com - missioners with reference to this mat- ter As there is a good deal of in .. in th quhieet the letter is nub - lished below and reads as follows: Chairman, Board of County Commis sioners, Dear Sir: The Boards of County Commission- ers of the several counties of the State will, under the present Machin ery Act, at their regular meeting the first Monday in December, begin to set up the organization for the reval- uation of all real estate for purposes of taxation for the ensuing four years. The revaluation work is to begin on January 1st. All real prop erty will be assessed with relation to itsvalue on January 1, 1931, and will be listed with reference to its ownership on and after April 1, 1931. NO GREAT DAMAGE nftl,nnimnAitrmi T7 .. , Corn Did Very Well; Tobacco Showed Increase In Acreage And Yield , ... it. ,. i: i ,. auiei or tne narvesimy ui musi, liui and fairly favorable for the prepara tion of fields, looking to the seeding of small grains. The cotton crop is more nearly picked than usual at this season. Late pastures were fairly good, following late summer drougr4., conditions in the livestock counties. of food and feed crops, and feed crops, as advised by Commissioner Graham's "diversi- fication" and Governor Gardner's KeClUCe Insurance Kate About 40 Percent Here As was predicted by the corps of cf of rt in an ronpa vntincr mon tv n wot-a .here in August, the insurance rate here on dwellings and other similar buildings have recently been reduced nbout orty Per cent 0f urse the rate on tne newer cia.-s 01 ouiidings used for businesses have similarly been cut, but not as much. Some of the older wooden buildings used for various businesses, on account of the material they are constructed of, have not been reduced at all. The town has been entirely gone This schedule for the valuing of real estate was set up so as to give ample time for' a thorough and painstaking valuation of all the real estate in each county to be completed in time for the Boards of Commissioners of the several counties to have before 1 them accurate information as to the total value of properties in each coun- ty when the time comes to make up 1 their lew of taxes, and so that the' making up of the tax books would not be delayed in the revaluation year. Section 400 of the Machinery Act provides that the Boards of County Commissioners of each county shall i on the first Monday in December, - 1 1930, appoint a county supervisor of taxation, who shall be a free-holder in the county, an experienced and practical business man with a know ; ledge of the valuation of real and personal property in the county, and who shall have been a bona fide resi dent in the county for at least twelve months. It is also provided that in counties where there is an auditor, tax clerk, (Continued on page three) WILL HAVE SPECIAL TERM In a letter received by Chair man Bushall of the Board of County Commissioners a few days ago Governor Gardner stated that he would call a special term of court to try the county suits against the Simmons Construction Corpor ation and others next April. The session of court is to be gin April 13 and may run three weeks if necessary. Chairman Bushali wrote the Governor in reply that this would be satis factory to the county. It is understood that Judge G. V. Cowper of Kinston will be the presiding judj, s. BEAUFORT HARBOR TO BE IMPROVED Prospects Good For Large Turning Basin And Deeper Channels Prospects seem good that a large improvement to Beaufort harbor will soon be under way. The same applies to Morehead City harbor also and to other dredging work in this part of the State. The Rivers and Harbors act of this year carried a provision for the expenditure of $55,000 on work in Beaufort harbor. In order to pro ceed with the work specified in the Rivers and Harbors bill it is neces sary for Congress to pass an enabling act that is appropriating the money It is-thought that the session of Con-j gress which meets m' December will make the appropriation so as to get work started on the various river and harbor projects early next year. President Hoover is in favor of doing all the public work possible in order to relieve the unemployment situa tion as well as to, get the improve ments made. ' It seems therefore that the bill appropriating tl5e"money' will for rivers and harbors will be passed promptly, unless a wrangle over something else should develop and a filibuster started which would delay all legislation. District Engineer Harry T. Pater son was in Beaufort last Friday af ternoon and while here consulted with a number of property owners in re gard to the proposed harbor improve ments. He desired to get permission from owners of riparian rights for dumping the refuse taken from the haibor. This permission was readly obtained. Engineer Peterson said that it is proposed to make a turning basin 400 feet wide beginning at the foot of Craven street and going to the channel which runs from Gallants Point to the Bulkhead. This channel i also to be made twelve feet deep for its full length. This will give Beaufort a fine harbor and one which is much needed owing to the fact that much larger boats are used here now than in former years. Mr. Paterson said work would probably start here early next year. Scouts Will Have Court of Honor Tuesday Night The Court of Honor of the County Boy Scouts will hold its first meet ing in the Scout hall here in the Count Court House annex next Tues day evening at 7:00 o'clock. Com posing the Court of Honor are: Rev erend J. A. Vache, Chairman, Dr. 1!. F. Royal, H. L. Joslyn, J. H. Work man and Dr. S. F. Hildebrand, Win. H. Bailey, who is District Commission er, is exoflicio secretary of the Court of Honor. The purpose of this Court is to .examine those scouts who present themselves either for promotion in 'the ranks before they they reach the First Class Scout stage, or to deter mine whether they are eligible for merit badges after they become First Class Scouts. This is the first Court of Honor ever to be organized in Carteret County. JUDGE MEEKINS REFUSES TO ALLOW ATTORNEYS FEES Raleigh, Nov. 19 Claims of the three attorneys involved in the re ceivership af the Tri-State Tobacco Growers' cooperative for $25,000 fees I today was denied by a United States district court order signed by Judge I. M. Meekins. The three attorneys have been al lowed $5,000 fees each, but they sought additional compensation. The attorneys are P. W. Glidewell of Reirfsville, N. C; E. P. Buford, of Lawrenceville, Va. and the late Wil liam M. Person of Raleigh and Louis-burg. MOREHEAD WILL VOTE ON SALE OF FACILITIES Will Submit Sale of Light and Water Plants to People for Decision BEAUFORT REJECTS BIDS The town board of commissioners met at ten o'clock a. m., in the city hall Wednesday morning with Com !...:: ri,J;n T.,l,. anA Wil- JM1&S1UI1C1S imiMam, m.iv. .... lis present and Mayor C. T. Chadwick presiding for the purpose of rec liv ing and opening bids submitted for the Electric Light and Water facili ties of the town. The Utilities En gineering & Management Company of Charlotte, made an apptaisal some time ago ol these and a repre sentative, Mr. G. II. Bishop, was pres ent Wednesday. Two bids were received and open ed, one from the Tidewater Power Company, of Wilmington, for $185, 000, and one from Robert R. Living ston, of New York for $250,000. After little discussion, a motion was offered bv Commissioner "Willis to take the bids under consideration. There was no second to this, Then Commissioner Taylor made a motion which wa- seconded by Com missioner Chaplain to not take any of the bids under consideration. Mo tion carried. A t this meeting were two or three dozen people, six or eight were rep resentatives of the bidding compani es, while the lest were townspeople who were inteiested in whether the bids would be submitted to a vv 'i of the people for confirmation or rejec tion. Bids were received and optned and likewise rejected at a meeting here the twenty-ninth of last July. At that time both the Tidewater Power Com pany and the Western Power, Light and Telephone Company,. , of Salina, Kansas, -offered $180,000 each. Will Call Election The commissioners of Morehead City received bids for their light and water facilities at a meeting held in the city hall at 7 o'clock Tuesday ev ening. At that time the Tidewater Power Company bid $295,000 and Robert R. Livingston $350,000. These were taken up and discussed in an ex ecutive session and the commission ers unanimously decided in favor of submitting the highest bid to a vote of the people of that city. City Clerk Perry Godwin informed the News that no date had been set for the refeiendum, but that it would very likely be held in just a short while. On the night of July 28, the More- lin,l ru.. ; icau uiy commissioners also receiv ed bids that were rejected. The Western Power, Light and Telephone Company ofiud $285,000, and the Tidewater Power Company $205,000. The amount of the latter bid has not been changed since July. Neither the Morehead City nor the Beaufort light and water ' facilities are making any money, it is said. It is tlr.' opinion of some that the plants could he operated by private com panies in such a way that the rates would be reduced, and that the mon ey received from the sale of these fa cilities would help the municipal gov ernments mightily. TIDE TABLE Information to the tides at Beaufort is given in this col umn. The figures are approx imntjly 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 Friday, Not. 21 8:24 A. M. 1:46 A. M. 8:46 P. M. 2:42 P. M. Saturday, Nov. 22 9:08 A. M. 2:30 A. M. 9:31 P. M. 3:25 P. M. Sunday, Nov. 23 9:51 A. M. 3:13 A. M. 10:17 P. M. 4:09 P. M. Monday Nov. 24 10:36 A. M. 3:59 A. M. M. 10:47 P. M 4:54 P. Tuesday, Nov. 25 11:06 A. M. 4:47 A. M. 11:23 P. M 5:41 P. M. Wednesday, Nov. 26 12:00 M. 5:40 A. M. 12:13 P. M. 6:31 P. M. Thursday, Nov. 27 12:59 A. M. 6:38 A. M. 1:08 P. M. 7:22 P. M.. Ah