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rt rr T IriEW, The best advertising medium published in Carteret Co. READING TO THE MIND JB WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY 1 WATCH Your labe c pay your subscription VOLUME XX 8 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY S, 1931 PRICE Sc SINGLE COPY NUMBER 6 Beaufor ll oLq 35 .err: t v 1 i i School Legislation Stirred Up Orators Six Months School Act Aroused Great Interest; Finance Committees Are Considering Var ious Plans of Raising Revenue; May Have A Sales Tax; Road Question up For Consideration. M. V, DUNNAGAN Ralegihh, iob. 3 Rarely has there been so much interest created and so much oratory turned loose in the General Assembly of North Carolina as during the past week on the so called act which Axes the policy of the legislative body as requiring the State to take over and operate the six months school term, a measure which was adopted in both houses by healthy majorities. By it, direction is given to provide a bill raising the necessary revenue from sources oth er than advalorem taxes. While the school measure held the spotlight and consumed three fourths of the meeting time of both houses during the week, with three night sessions, a side skirmish, dealing with the reorganization of the State High- way Commission, taking over the county roads and raising the gasoline tax to six cents, was staged in com mittee and gives promise of taking .the center of the stage this week when Governor Gardner expects to bring it and the Constitutional Con vention matter before the General Assembly. The Appropriations committees have been and will continue active for some weeks, hearing departments, institutions and agencies of the State which are seeking more funds for operation the next two years than the Advisory Budget Commission al lowed in its recommendations in the Appropriation jjiii. rinance com- mittees are considering the Budget Kevenue mu, wnicn increases tne revenue about $3,000,000, and will soon take up the several sales tax bills which have been referred to it. From $10,000,000 to $12,000,000 in new revenue will be required to pro vide the State-operated schools, un der the measure adopted, and a sales tax may have to be restorted to. Active proponents of the school measure are inclined toward a sales tax, at the same time saying power and tobacco companies .should pay more taxes, income taxes should be increased and a tax placed on stocks in foreign corporations. They were successful in blocking amendments 'which would provide State operation of schools, when and if sufficient rev enue could be found without placing undue burdens on any of the taxpay ers of the State. Opponents of the measure, practi cally all of whom said they were not opposed to the State operating the schools, thought it sensible to make every effort to find the revenue be fore adopting a policy which they might not be able to carry through, only one or two references were made to the loss of local self-government through State operation of the schools, by which county and lo cal affairs would lose all authority in school matters. The distress from the economic depression is consider ed the main reason for such a dras tic measure. Close on the heels of the enactment of the measure came a bill directing! the court. the State Superintendent of Public! Chief of Police Longest who ar Instruction and State Board of Equal rested Piver was a witness for the ization to prescribe a minimum uni- State. He said that the defendant form scholastic standard for a six was "a walking, talking barroom" and months term, fix uniform salaries for that other than that he knew noth superintendents, principals and teach- nig against him. Judge Davis said ers and all costs determine the num-he regretted to have to punish the ber of high schools in each county, j man but felt it to be his duty to do create a central purchasing agent so and gave him six months on the for the schools, start bv May 1. 1932. 'roads. Piver's defense was that he to reassess and equalize the property values in all counties, and levy an ad valorem tax of 20 cents on the $100 property valuation all over the State, the proceeds to be paid into the State Treasury and the State paying the balance of the " cost. County commissioners could add 20 cents for longer terms, higher salar ies or other costs, and cities could supplement the term and pay teach ers what they desire. The counties and districts would not be relieved of their bond and debt service. County Government Bill County government would be fur ther improved and cities, towns and special tax districts brought under State financial control, as counties now are, by bills introduced, with ad- ministrative sanction. Uniform blanks for records and bookkeeping systems would be established in all counties by the County Government Advisory Commission and banks named as de positories would be required to fur- ( Continued on page 8) FIRE DESTROYS SCRAP FACTORY (Biggest Oil and Scrap Factory in tne county urns to the Ground One of the most disastrous fires in the history of Carteret County took place today when the plant of the Beaufort Fish Scrap and Oil Company was destroyed. The fire began short ly after-two o'clock and in an hour or so the main buildings were destroy ed. Night watchman J. B. Dickinson had made his usual rounds about two o'clock and a few minutes later he heard a noise discovered that the fire had started. He called Superinten dent Sam Morgan and Warren Moul ton, who live in Beaufort, and they and other men went to the scene but were unable to do anything to stop the flames. The main building, where the fire started, was of wooden construction and was completely burned. Much ma chinery and equipment was ruined. The boiler house, which is a brick building, is about the only building of 'much consequence not burned. Some 15 to 20 tons of scrap were burned and also 5000 gallons of oil and one purse seine. The piers were also burned. Fortunately the company's fleet 0f fishine boats were at New Bern, The Beaufort Fish Scrap and Oil Company's plant was probably the largest in the county. In fishing sea son it employed several hundred men on the boats and at the factory. No accurate figures as to the loss sustain ed can be given atthis time. Men who know a good deal about the mat ter estimate it as high as $150,000. Some insurance was carried but prob ably not enough to cover the loss. The origin of the fire is not known but some employes of the factory say they believe it was of incendiary origin. The factory is located on Newport river more than a mile from Beaufort and the local fire depart ment could not do any thing to stop the fire. W. B. Blades and A. Marks of New Bern are the principal stock holders of the Beaufort Fish Scrap and Oil Company. H. C. Jones of 'Beaufort also owns considerable stock in it. Road Sentences Given On Liquor Charge A short session of Recorder's Court was held Tuesday. The only case tried was that of a young man, Julius Piver, on the charge of having liquor in his possession for the purpose of sale. He submitted to the charge ! and threw himself on the mercy of uau a wim aiiu lwu uiuiuieu uu was selling liquor to support them. A bad check charge against L. K. Piner of Morehead City was continu ed until next Tuesday He was re . : e - j 4. J quired to give a $100 bond. FIGHTERS AND DRUNKS FEATURE POLICE COURT City Police Court last Friday af ternoon was rather easilydisposed of as there were only a few cases and these all submitted' pleas of guilty. They were the fololwing: Carlton Garner and John "Clam" Noe fighting. Neither was hurt and Mayor Taylor thought $1 and costs would about fit the case. Tom Rhodes, colored, drunk and fighting was sentenced to pay a fine lof $1 and costs, Howard Rhodes, fighting, drew a sentence of $1 and costs. Tom Eric charged with drunkeness also got a sentence of $1 and costs. COUNTY TREASURY NEEDS SOME HELP Taxes Slow Coming In; Large Sums Due Schools, interest on ' Bonds And So On The regular monthly meeting of the Board of County Commissioners was held Tuesday Chairman W. M. Webb, Commissioners C. T. Chad wick, L. C. Carroll, Martin Guthrie and W. W. Styron were all present. Perhaps as important a piece of business as was transacted was the passage of a resolution' offered by Commissioner Chadwick that the Tax Collector be advised that "tax sale certificates will not be accepted in payment of taxes on personal prop erty in settlement of taxes for the years 1930-31." "And that tax sale certificates to be acceptable to the board shall apply only to real estate after the exhaustion of all personal property as required by law." This means that farm equipment, boats, machinery, or any sort of personal property, shall be sold to pay taxes before selling lands. Auditor J. J. Whitehurst made a report to the board, or "tale of woe" as he called it, which showed a num ber of unpaid bills and other debts. From this it appeared that the coun-J ty is now in arrears $49,520.88 in un paid interest and principal on bonds ind notes now past due. A motion; was passed to renew a note for $110,--000.00 due shortly at the Hanover Bank and Trust Co., of New York. It appeared that the county owes the Board of Education the sum of $55, 876.68. Some taxes are being col lected but a large sum remains on the tax books still. A delegation of citizens from Mer rimon township came before the board and reported that the roads in that community are in very bad shape. " Surpervisor Charles. StyroW wanted to know if the roads were not in the best condition that they had been in for ten years. No one a- greed with that statement, but it was said by one citizen that they were better than they had been in two years. Messrs. J. M. Carraway and E. L Nelson said money now being spent was largely wasted an dthat it was necessary to dig a ditch five feet wide and four feet deep to carry off the water. They were instructed to (Continued on page five) VITAL STATISTICS FOR THE COUNTY SHOW GOOD GAIN IN POPULATION Vital statistics for Carteret county for the month of December show al most twice as many births as deaths. There were 22 deaths and 41 births. Morehead City led the list in both re spects. The number of deaths for the year 1930 reported in the county was 182 and births were 408 which shows a gain in population of 226. The figures as reported by the reg istrars are given below: . For December 1930 No. No. Town Deaths Births Beaufort 2 4 Morehead City 8 9 Newport 0 0 3 -6 ... Cedar Island 1 0 Harkers Island 0 2 j Harlowe ' 0 0 Hunting Quarter . Davis 0 2 Stacy 0 0 Atlantic 2 2 Sea Level 0 1 Marshallberg 0 0 Merrimon 0 '. 1 Morehead 3 - 7 Newport 0 0 Portsmouth 0 . 0 Smyrna 0 2 Straits 2 3 White Oak , 12 22 41 Total For The Year . No. No. Town . Deaths Births iBeaufort 37 80 Morehead City 51 91 Newport 3 3 Townships - Beaufort '.18 37 Cedar Island 7 1 Harkers Island '3 21 Harlowe 7 13 Hunting Quarter-" ' Davis 3 5 Stacy " 2,8 Atlantic 5 12 Sea Level - 4 6 Marshallberg 5 14 Merrimon 2 7 Morehead 12 34 Newport 8 . 15 Portsmouth 0 0 Smyrna 4 11 - Straits 12 18 White Oak 9 32 182 408 TAXPROPOSEDON PACKERS OF FISH Bill Requires License Tax From Packers And Trucks Handl ing Sea Food A bill has been introduced in the House by Carteret's Representative Honorable Luther Hamilton to:amend the fisheries laws. Its main features are to provide a license tax on deal ers and packers in fresh fish and to regulate the transportation and sale of sea food in trucks. A3 the matter may be of considerable interest to some readers of the News the provis ion of the bill are given below: The General Assembly of North Caro lina do enact: Section 1. That Section eightheen hundred and ninety-two of the Con solidated Statutes, nineteen hundred and nineteen, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows : "An annual license tax for the year beginning January 1st in each year, to be collected by the Division of Commercial Fisheries of the Depart ment of Conservation and Develop ment, is imposed on all persons or dealers who carry on the business of canning, packing, shucking, or ship ping sea products enumerated below, as follow: Oysters $5.00 Escallops 5.00 Crabs 5.00 Fish 5.00 Shrimp .... 5.00 And on all retail dealers in fresh fish, whether caught within the limits of the State or wherever" located $2.50 All persons, firms, or corporations hauling fresh seafood in trucks for inland markets shall pay an annual license tax of fifty ($50.00) dollars per' truck so .operated, whether the pSrsoris, firms, or corporations oper ating said trucks are hauling to in land markets, either in or without the State. No such truck so hauling seafood to inland markets, whether for retail or wholesale trade, shall be operated at all unless it shall be of the refriger ator type, and lined inside with gal vanized iron and covered all over. This provision shall not apply to trucks hauling seafood of less than five hundred (500) pounds at one (Continued on page five) MRS. J. P. C. DAVIS DIES IN NEW BERN Friends here were shocked at the sudden death of Mrs. J. P. C. Davis at her home in New Bern last Satur day. Mrs. Davis had been in good health until an attack of angina pec toris about two weeks ago, from which she had recovered and seemed to be in almost her usual health. Friday she suffered another attack, from which she again rallied, but Saturday she had the third attack and death came in less than twenty minutes. A short funeral service was held at the house Sunday afternoon and the body then carried to Richmond for burial, services being held from the church there Monday. Surviving Mrs. Davis are her hus band, John P. C. Davis, an only daughter Mrs. Broaddus; Massey of Richmond, Va., - three sisters, Mrs. Charles Skarren of Beaufort, Mrs.' J. C. Biggars of Seattle, Washington. Mrs. Nelson Woolford of New Orleans and three small grandchildren, Broad dus, Jr., Charlotte Bruce, and John Davis. - Mrs. Davis was just fifty-five, a na tive of Beaufort, daughter of Susan Robinson and Capt. Jack Roberts. She spent her girlhood in Beaufort and married John P. C. Davis, of Beaufort in 1900, since that time making her home in New Bern. Mrs. Davis was active in church and civic life in New Bern, and she was beloved by a large circle of friends there, in Beaufort and in Richmond, her daughters home, who mourn her passing. POSITION IN RUSSIA OFFERED WM. S. MORTON William S. Morton, former Beau fort man now living in Chicago has been offered a very fine position with the Russian government. He has been offered the position of superintendent of maintenance of way for the rail roads of Russia, nil of which are own ed by the government. The position carries a salary of $18,000 a year and is good for three years. Mr. Morton is the son of Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Morton of Beaufort. He has not de cided whether he will go to Russia or not oAirport Offers Big Opportunity For Development Homan Thinks Lawmakers Pay Visit To The Penitentiary By CARL GOERCH The most important thing done by the legislature last week was adop tion of Representative MacLean s school bill. It specifies that the State shall pay the cost of financing all schools for term of six months. The only thing about the bill that hasn't been decided as yet is where they re going to get the money. The legislature has a lot of con fidence in MacLean. They figure that he, being Scotch, wouldn't advocate any measure unless it was strictly economical, so they passed the bill without giving it much consideration. Their confidence is justified. You see, heh's from my own county, and I've known him personally for a long, long time. They tell me around home that he used to put a mirror in front of each of his children's plates when they were eating dinner, so they'd think they were getting double por tions. George Ross Pou, Superintendent of the State Prison, had about 150 members of the legislature out to an oyster roast last week. A lot of Raleigh folks, when they saw the va rious senators and representatives heading for prison, breathed a sigh of relief. They were very much dis appointed when they saw the same crowd heading back to town again an hour or so later. Mr. Pou told his guests some inter esting facts about the prison. He is partieul.aiuuQs..4o,J3Ut bis idle prisoners to work. It's ill right for members of the legislature and other politicians not to be doing anything useful, but he claims that the pris oners ought to be doing something to help pay for their keep. When he told the expense of maintaining the present old building and the excessive cost oi operating tne various camps ;au the way to tjj6 coast somewhere on the present basis, it made a big!in the North Harlowe settor I spot impression on his listeners. Here ted a still smoking up a storm of gig are some of his recommendatonSjgie jujce we g-iinlpseI about eight in which the legislators as a whole seem- cipient forest fires fllew over one ed to endorse 1. That a new central prison plant built on an economical scale, be erect ed at Cary. 2. That an adequate parole sys tem be adopted so that paroled pris oners will be followed up and 'Check ed and double checked" to see they (Continued on ptge five) BULB GROWING IS GETTING STARTED New Industry For County Gets Under Way; Will Plant 22 Acres A new industry for Carteret coun ty that promises to be of consider able value in the near future start ed here recently. This is the grow ing of gladiolus bulbs and the flowers. Several weeks ago H. B. Avery of Cumberland, Md., and S. E. Hanes of Wilson, New York leased some land on the Pinner place, formerly the Howland place, about three miles from Beaufort on North river for the purpose of cultivating gladioli. They have already planted about 17 acres and expect to plant 22 acres in all. They are not . in partnership however altough they have leased land on -the same farm. To plant gladoli costs about $1500 an acre, which includes bulbs, labor and ferti lizer. It takes about 1000 pounds of high grade fertilizer per acre for the crop. It is the purpose of Messrs. Avery and Hanes to ship both bulbs and flowers. They will be able to put their flowers on the market one or two weeks earlier than growers far ther north. They have arranged with the ice plant here to put their flow ers on cold storage during the ship ping season. County Agent Hugh Overstreet has received a letter from another man who is interested in growing gladioli and he is expected here Thursday to see if he can get a suitable location for the business. He wants to lease or buy 60 acres of land. Farmers and business men in this section are much interested in the experiment and are hoping that it will prove very successful. Mr. and Mrs. Avery have moved here and are occupying the Gibbs residence on Front street. Mr. Hanes expects to move his family here also. Subscribe to the News $2 a year. By KID HOMAN New Bern, Feb 4 Could I have my way I'd sentence every inhabitant of Beauofrt, Morehead City and environs to an airplane trip at least 2000 feet in the air that they might view the lovely setting and gain a greater idea of the tremendous undeveloped re sources of this section as a resort. and a terminus for state and coastal plane travel oh, I know that's mod ern talk but it's only a question of a short time when the town without some sort of airport will be just as decadent as a town without a garage and filling station was a few years back transportation by air express, passenger, even freight, as well as mail it's here and as each year passes planes will increase tenfold they're hatching 'em out now faster than they can be counted. Beaufort is an ideal spot for a ter minus for up-state planes they won't come, though, until adequate facili ties are provided and Beaufort has that opportunity just a bit of co operation between the civic organiza tions, the county and city and Ernest Waters there's more work to be done on the West Beaufort landing field and with co-operation, more than cash a good field can be pro vided right now it's a bit danger ous it's small, narrow, and there s some dangerous overhead wires. New Bern has developed a high class field, Kinston is building one, Goldsboro is talking airport, Raleigh has a good field, Greensboro, Char lotte, Winston-Salem the state is dotted with them flyers can travel over th e eastern part of the state when they can have places to set down on fishermen, sportsmen, tour ists would find Beauofrt ideal we know that. " " . Saturday afternoon Ralph Jordan, pilot for Ernest "Waters, picked me up at the New Bern airport, hopped into the air 2000 feet and we flew away for Beaufort farm lands and woods spread out beneath us in gro- tesque crazy-quilt patterns streams, ponds and iakes jntersect the terrain near Havelock and the plane squatted like a duck into an air pocket drop a flock of feet and all my underwear rolled down to my shoe tops as we dropped and rolled up again when we hit the bottom of the ethereal hole Newport and immediate vicini ty is a vast layout of cultivated fields looks mighty prosperous and attests the fact farmers work in that vicinity. Swinging in over Morehead opens a panorama of symetrical streets vast water resources every bar in Bogue Sound and the harbor is vis ible for miles from our altitude Beaufort, just ahead, is a reptition of Morehead's beauty miles and miles of water now we know why Cleude Wheatly is web-footed. But, gee, opportunity resource golden millions are still wrapped up in this section's sounds, oceans, beach es miles and miles of undeveloped farm lands, resort possibilities a classified, mapped airport brings its quota of visitors and publicity and today wealth rides in the air. . TIDE TABLE Information aft to the tides at Beaufort is given in this col umn. The figures are approx imately correct and based on tables furnished by the U. S. Geodetic Survey. Some allow ances must be made for varia tions in the wind and also with respect to the locality, that is whether near the inlet or at the heads of the estuaries. High Tide Friday, Feb. Low Tide 6 10:34 A. M. 4:17 A. 10:49 P. M. 4:40 P. Saturday, Feb. 7 M. M. 11:07 A. M. 5:14 A. 11:26 P. M. 5:27 P. Sunday, Feb. 8 M. M. M. M. 12:00 M. 12:21 P. M. 6:14 A. 6:18 P. 9 Monday, Feb. 1:01 A. M. 1:22 P. M. 7:17 A. 7:15 P. 10 8:26 A. 8:18 P. Tuesday, Feb. 2:06 A. M. 2:30 P. M. Wednesday, Feb. 11 3:13 A. M. 9:36 A. 3:35 P. M. 9:25 P. Thursday, Feb. 12 4:17 A. M. 10:42 A. M. 4:39 P. M. 10:29 P. M. M. M. M. M. M.
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