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VOLUME XX
8 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, OCtOBER, 1, 1931
PRICE Sc SINGLE COPY
NUMBER 33
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GARDNER PROGRI
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FOR SAVING FOOD
A GREATBENEFH
Associated Press Gives Credit
To North Carolina Gov
ernor
HAVING SURVEY MADE
By M. R. DUNNAGAN
RALEIGH, Sept. 28 North Caro
lina sprang into national prominence
the past week as a result of Gover
nor Gardner's Live-at-Home program,
through a national survey conduct
ed by the Associated Press to show
how the states of the Nation are pre
paring for what is expected to be one
of the hardest winters within the
memory of man.
The third paragraph of the story,
written in New York, is devoted to
the North Carolina program and Gard
ner the only Governor mentioned,
is given credit for the movement
which resulted in an increase from
1,250,000 to 4,600,000 containers
this year, filled with fruits and vege
tables by the rural women in the
State in adition to canning done by
city and town women. Also, Gover
nor Gardner pointed out, the increase
in food and feed crops over 1929 was
$16,500,000 in 1930 and $25,000,000
in 1931, as estimated by the U. S.
Government.
"This $25,000,000 which would
otherwise go for food and feed will
now stay in North Carolina, at a
time when it would be hard to get,
with cotton selling at six cents and
tobacco low," Governor Gardner said.
He also spoke of the increased ac
reage planted in cane and the large
Bupply of molasses that will result.
As bad as the depression has been,
Governor Gardner has said that it
has been the greatest possible ally
and aid to his live at home program.
"As bad as conditions are in North
Carolina, we will be better able to
stand this winter than any other
State in the Union," Governor Gard
ner said. "I am having a survey
made in every section of the State to
get all possible information relative
to unemployment and am preparing
to have all forces and the conscience
of the State prepare for feeding the
hungry this winter," he said.
Although criticized for saying a
year ago that the State is facing the
most critical period since the Civil
War, his critics are now beginning to
agree with him. Also, all agree that
his live-at-home program, launched
in January, 1930, with a dinner at
the Executive Mansion of all home
grown food, with 200 newspaper
folks as guests, will, in reality, be
the salvation of the State.
No Extra Section
; Calls for mass meetings of grow
ers in more than 100 communities to
adopt resolutions petitioning Gover
nor Gardner to call a special session
of the General Assembly to take ac
tion on cotton acreage reduction, and
also on tobacco growing, issued by
N. C. Bartlett, secretary of the East
ern Carolina Chamber of Commerce,
apparently, at this writing, got little
response.
Governor Gardner's home county
of Cleveland, largest cotton growing
county in the State, refused a reso
lution calling for a special session
and instead adopted one against a
session as "expensive and useless."
Three persons are reported to have
attended meetings at Laurinburg,
Scotland county, and Windsor, Ber
tie county while meetings failed to
materialize at Goldsboro and Hender
son. At Dunn 200 or 800 farmers ap
proved the session but split over the
plan. At Smithfield, U. Benton Bla
lock, president of the American Cot
ton Cooperative Association, express
ed personal preference for the Texas
plan of reduction. Resolutions for
the session were adopted at St Paul's
Maxton, Mr. Olive, Enfield, Tarbpro,
Greenville and Smithfield.
Secretary "Bartlett announced lat
er that he had reports that 60 meet
ings were held, out of 142 callad, and
that all but one, in Cleveland county,
adopted resolutions calling for the
special sessidn, most of these appar
ently favoring the Texas plan of re
duction. A meeting of editors, farmers and
business men of the east, meeting
Friday at Goldsboro, went on rec
ord as oDDOsing a special session.
The collapse of the South Carolina
lesrislative effort,- following that of
Louisiana, seeking a complete cot
ton growing holiday, probably had its
effect on the North Carolina move
' ment. Growers are thinking more of
- Governor Gardner's earlier sugges
tion of national action which might
have resulted in a uniform plan in
this country, with the treaty power
of the U. S. government back of it
to come to terms with othr cottor.
growing countries. If the South
giv-.s up its monopolistic cotton grow
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Notwn, wtbmj
In Kecorder 8 Court
No case of unusual interest was
tried in Recorder's Court Tuesday.
In fact there was no real contest ov-
er any that was tried.
Manly Fulcher of Morehead City
tried on the charge of possessing a
half pint of whiskey said that he
found tha bottle and smelled it and
did not drink it. It must have been
pretty strong stuff though as Chief
Nelson said Fulcher was drunk and
rather obstreperous. Judge Davis
told Fulcher that he could serve 30
days sentence working around the
courthouse grounds.
Tom Noe of Beaufort was given 15
days to be worked on the courthouse
grounds or at the county home. The
charge against him was possession
and transportation. Chief Nelson
of Morehead City said Tom was over
there and that he saw him taking a
drink out of a jar that he had hid
den in some weeds and that he was
pretty well "lit' up. Tom denied the
accusuation strenously and said that
he had not taken a drink of liquor
in quite a long time.
The case of Waylan Gillikin, young
Coast Guard man charged with aban
donment and nonsupport of his wife
Vida Merrill Gillikin was heard. No
witnesses were put on the stand but
there was a good deal of conferring
between Attorney C. R. Wheatly rep
resenting the lady and C. L. Aberne-
thy Jr., representing the defendant
in an effort to reach a compromise.
Finally an order was drawn which di
rected Gillikin to pay $186 hospital
bill for his wife and give her $20 per
month hereafter. The court made
the order but the defendant refused.land aply. By living at home, work 'the old National Bank of New Bernjpacity to be operated by Mr. Lewis,
to agree to It and took an appeal to , . . . . evpivisiiio- cpnnmnv. hp'fn an giuumeiit on fhpW stock tolas he has been usiner one of that size
Superior Court.
The case against Jim Chadwick,
colored, charging indecent exposure
was continued to next Tuesday.
The case against Elbert Gillikin
charged with, slandering Katherin
Simpson was continued until next
Tuesday.
Home Agent Matter
Is Not Settled Yet
Vice-Chairman of the Board of
County Commissioners C. T. Chad
wick, says that he was misquoted in
the News last week with reference
to the Home Demonstration Agent
matter. He says that he told Mrs.
Estelle T. Smith of Raleigh, who is
the State Supervisor of Home Agents
in eighteen counties, that the mat
ter would be left to the discretion of
the county board and should be
brought up at the next regular meet
ing. The News reporter got his infor
mation from Mrs. Smith who said that
she had been instructed to get an.
other woman to replace Miss Sloan
who has resigned the place of County
Home Agent. The State pays a con
siderable part of the salaries of the
Home Agents. The News has heard
that a good many women in the
county favor having a Home Agent
but does not know whether a major
ity favor it or not. At any rate the
decision as to whether one shall be
employed or not rests primarily with
the Board of County Commissioners.
WORK STARTED ON FILL
The dredge "Never'est," owned by
Dr. C. L. Duncan, wag taken up
North river Monday and has started
work throwing up the dirt fill for the
bridge there. The contract for the
work was let to a Jacksonville, Flor
ida concern and . this - company has
made a contract with Dr. Duncan to
do this work. The time required for
the work will depend largely on the
character of the material to be mov
ed. The woodwork for the bridge
has been finished and is in use.
BIG TAX REDUCTION
OBTAINED IN WILSON
WILSON, Sept 26 The county-
wide tax'rate for the year 1931 was
fixed at 90 cents on the $100 voc
ation by the Board of County Com
missioners in special executive ses
sion this week, according to an an
nouncement maae Friday by W. J.
Boykin county auditor, who also an
nounced the levy made for each bud
get submitted to and approved by the
board.
Fifty-five cents was slashed off the
1930 county-wide tax rate, and 56
was cut off the 1930 Wilson Town
ship rate by the commissioners. Last
year the county-wide ratew a $1.50
and the Wilson Township rate was
$1.54, but the latter was reduced to
98 cents this year.
RESUMES OPERATION
WILSON, Sept. 26 The Wilson
v-..tj.: mills resumed opsration this
week after a suspension since spring.
IFORMER SENATOR
GIVES INTERVIEW
Agriculture Offers Good Oppor
tunities Ex-Senator Sim
mons Thinks
NEW BERN, Sept. 28 "I doubt
if there ever was a better time for a
man to begin farming, especially in
this section," former Senator F. M,
Simmons declared in an interview
here the other day. The retired
statesman is following what he
preaches to that effect. Although 77
years old, he is devoting himself en
tirely to his farms and is preparing
to move from his old home in town'er bank officials is Wednesday Octo-
to a place he has fitted up for mm -
self and Mrs. Simmons on a farm just
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life-long wish," he said. I've farmed
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many years but most of it hitherto;
was at long distance. Now I find
happiness and contentment in full
time farming.
"Eastern North Carolina has the
natural resources for becoming as
rich an agricultural area as there is
in North America and the State as a
whole can maintain parity with or go
beyond any other State in both vol
ume and variety of agricultural pro
duction." The Senator is of opinion that
many national and world-wide read
justments will have to be made be
fore present economic difficulties will
be overcome entirely.
"But at this time the small farm-'sent
er is probably in the best basic posi- j
ticn of all. In this section he can :
produce the bulk of the things he
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can bt-come an independent citizen
in a very short time and withstand by the bank. This case started some
any sort of depression. Now is the weeks ago qnd is being heard by
time for folks to hold on to their Special Master Earnest Green. At
farms and for beginners to sink the ( torney W. jBRcUse of New Bern rep
foundations of their lives-into the 'resents several H the stockholders in
soil. This also is the time for farm-J this case and is puttnig up a strong
ers to prepare for the better econ- fight alleging gross frauds on the
omic conditions which must come a- part of certain county officials and
bout in some way, somehow, ultimate-j others. In this case J. F. Duncan of
ly." 'Beauf ort is appearing for the receiv
Local Farmers Going
Strong Or BrOCColi
Last season several Carteret farm-jui
ers planted about fifty acres in early
and late broccoli the first ever rais-
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not bring much, the farmers netted
about a hundred dolars an acre after
paying all expenses. This season &
bout a hundred acres have been plant- fourteenth of September when a car
ed over in the. Crab Point section and of seventy-one porkers were shipped
the plants have already broken thru to Richmond. Returns were receiv
the ground and are growing splend- cd September 18 which showed that
idly. About the same number of the seventy-one hogs had netted the
acres will shortly be put in the North farmers $8I?4.71, which County Farm
River and Old New Bern road sec-; Agent Hugh Overstreet seemed to
tions. The growers found that the thik was a good price for this season.
"early bird catches the worm," so
they are planting the broccoli two or ,
three weeks earlier this year than,
lats; and because the early variety
sold much better last year, none of
the late is being planted this season,
This crop promises to be one of
the most profitable of any of the
truck that Carteret farmers have tak-
en to growing in the past few years,
W. L. Arthur, who lives at Wildwood,
has gone in heavier than any other
Carteret farmer with twenty-hve
acres, followed closely by li. W. Hunt me increase, more ana more iarm
ley and W. S. Savage, with twenty ers are becoming interested in this
acres each. It takes a good deal of phase each year, and Mr. Over?treet
labor to harvest the crop and so the says that in the coming years hog
following farmers are only planting 'raising for shipping purposes will be-
... .a van .
from two to eleven acres each: E. G.
Campen, C. T. Eubanks, J. P. Thorn-
as, Henry Lewis and Bernard Phelps,
H. F. Carraway, Manley Eubanks C.
R. Pake, Andrew Gillikin, Dr. C. S.
Maxwell, Geo. A. Oglesby, D. S. Og
lesby, W. J. Loughton and Lee Ful
cher. A host of others are planting
smaller amounts.
MENHADEN FISHERMEN
BACK FROM FLORIDA
Several of the menhaden fishing
vessels that have been on the Florida
coast all summer returned here the
first of the week. They were, the W.
M. Webb, Captain Willie J. Willis,
the Gladys, Captain Dan Caffrey; the,
Deutchland, Captain Tom Willis. The
boats had fairlv eood success catch-
ing fish but owing to low prices not
much money was made by anybody,
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NO PICNIC AT BAY VIEW
The News has been asked to state
that the nicnic nlanned to take place
Saturday at Bay View will not be
given, mere has been consiaeraDie
?ickness in the neighborhood and it
was decided best not to have the pic
nic at this time.
There ars 570 different paying oc
cunations i nthe United States today,
and women wojjc & 5J5 $ ISgjfclfifii iakjjje Andrews, Bethgl, N. C.
WILL BE TRIED
New Bern Business Men To Be
Tried In Federal Court
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The October term of Federal court
which convenes at (New Bern October
12 has on tts docket a case that
promises to! be of considerable inter
est to peopfe of this entire section as
well as Craven county. This is the
case in whibh several former officials
of the defusct National Bank of New
Berne are to go on trial.
The date set for trial of the form
Der 14th, the men were indicted by
the Federals grand jury last April.
xne reaerawgrniiu juiy iwt,
mer president of the bank, Hugh P,
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Heal, former vice-president,
Rea, former vice-president, E. H.
Meadows, jihri Haywood Jones form
er directors Griffin and Meadows are
named in thVee counts and Beal, Rea
and Jones Jri one count each. The
men are charged with having misap
propriated funds In making loans to
insolvent corporations in which they
were officers. The items mentioned
specifically are $4000, $6500 and
$4000. Sixty three witnesses have
been summonsed for the trial. The
defendants are represented by attor
neys W. B. R. Guion and R. E.
Whitehurst. , District attorney W. H.
Fisher and his assistants will repre-
the Government.
Another suit of much interest in
connection with New Bern bank and
county matters is that in which Crav-
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pay amount alleged due the county i
er of the bank. x. u. warren,
j county attorney appears for the coun
tv. An oral arsrument of the mat-
ter is to be heard at some time in
tne near xuture ana n gives promise
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Kecent Ohlpment HogS
First Made This Year
The first shipment of hogs by Car
teret County farmers was made the
I This shipment of porkers was made
up by E. G. Campen, of Wire Grass,
and Rufus Oglesby, D. S. Oglesby,
Jr., and George A. Oglesby, of Crab
roint.
i wr. uversireei says mat ne expects
the farmers of Carteret ounty ,,to
make a good many more shipments
through the fall and winter. - This is
just another agricultural project that
has been developed during the past'share the fellowship and make their
'few years among th Carteret Coun- jpersonai contribution toward the
iy iarmers ana one mat is steaouy on
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come one of the major income pro-
,ducers the local farmers will rely
upon. This, too, is a product of the
program of diversification begun a-
bout a half dozen years ago here in
Carteret County.
BUILDING IN PROSPECT
AT ATLANTIC BEACH
Indications are that considerable
buliding will Boon get under way at
Atlantic Beach. The company that
owns the property has let a contract
for a 32 room hotel and is thinking
of erecting a barracks building for
the use of Boy Scouts.
The contract for the hotel was let
to E. F. Taylor of Goldsboro, who
says it will be a $25,000 job. The
management is also considering the
erection of a storage garage and a
nmng station near tne entrance 10
i the parking area. M. L. Wright, now
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number of teachers are planning to
build a house on the beach for
community clubhouse to be used by
themselves and friends.
MARRIAGE LICESSES
David Bell and Mildred Lockhart,
Morehead City.
Joseph R. White, Colraine, N. C,
Carteret Farmers Will
Cure More Sweets
Sweet potatoes of the Porto Rican
variety have long been one of Car
teret's stable crops but until quite
recent years little was done in the
way of better storage of the tubers
so that they could be saved utnil the
spring months when they sell for the
highest price. A number of years ago
a couple of storage and curing hous
es were built and operated, a few
more year before last, and others.
last year.
More farmers are coming to realize!
that building of a curing and storage
house is a very good investment,
since according to County Farm
Agent Hugh Overstreet the difference
between uncured and cured potatoes
... - congtruc.
dition to the assurance the sweets
will be saved through the winter in
the houses regardless of climatic
conditions.
This year three houses have been
built that will cure and keep twenty
six thousand bushels in the prime of
condition until they are marketed in
the spring. E. G. Campen, out at
Wire Grass, is now finishing up a
seven-thousand-bushel-capacity house
and is using a furnace and flue heat
ing system. M. S. Snowden, local
farmer, is now constructing a nine-thousand-bushel,
'forced-air curing
and storage house out at his farm a
bout two miles up the old New Bern
road. O. W. Lewis, over at Otway,
has constructed another ten-thousand
bushel house this year and will use
forced air to cure the sweets. This
is the second house of the same ca-
a "
ior tne past three years,
When the farmers rely wholly upon
the banks" to keep the potatoes,
many rot and often all in "bank"
are lost.. ..But not only do cured
sweets keep, bet4- duirng the win
ter but they also bring a much bet
ter price than those stored in "banks"
Many People Hear
Evangelist Stevens
In the Kevival Services that began
at the First Baptist Church last Sun
day morning, Evangelist Herman T.
Stevens pf High Point, is drawing un
usually large congregations. His gos
pel messages ares trikingly simple but
intensely interesting to young and old
alike. He is presenting from night
to night special messages for chil
dren that have proven most popular
for the junior members of the con
gregation. Mr. Stevens has been engaged in
evangelistic services continuously all
this year. Many of these meetings
were return engagements. He came
to Beaufort from his meeting with
the First Church in Statesville which
closed last Friday night. During this
i ,..;.. f.n moei,a jr,n. fi,Qr,a
were fnrty njn0 additions to the
church many of t"hem beijlg heads of
familiesfcl"is laborshave been rich-
ly blessed in the service of the Lord.
The message in song by the com
bined choirs during the evening serT
vice is proving to be a very effective
and inspiring part of these services.
The public is cordially invited to
SUcccss of this kinedom work
TIDE TABLE
Information aw to the tides
at Beaufort is given in this col
umn. The figures are approx
imately correct and based on
tables furnished by the U. S.
Geodetic Survey. Some allow
ances must be made for varia
tions in the wind and also with
respect to the locality, that is
whether near the inlet or at
the heads of the estuaries.
Hiffa TW Low 1 id.
Friday, Oct. Z
11:02-. m. .4:36 a. m.
11:09 p. m. 5:30 p. m.
Saturday, Oct. 3
11:22- a. m. 5:24 a. m.
11:52 p. m. 6:25 p. m.
Sunday. Oct. 4
12:16 a. m.
12:57 p. m.
6:19
7:29
Monday, Oct. 5
1:30 a. m. 7:25 a.
2:10 p. m. 8:35 p.
Tuesday, Oct. 6
2:46 a. m. 8:37 a.
3:19 p. m. 9:38 p.
Wedneiday, Oct. 7
8,:52 a. m. 9:47 a.
4:23 p. m. 9:33 p.
Thuriday, Oct. 8
4:50 a.m. 10:52 a.
5:19 p. m. 10:33 p.
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PHEASANT FARM
AT CAMP GLENN
Fifteen Hundred Ring-Neck
Pheasants Have Been Rais
ed at Carteret's Only
Game Farm This Year
By JAMES G. WHITEHURST
Since Carteret County people be
gan going in for a diversification of
en years or so ago, much has been
accomplished in these lines. Now
Carteret nas a pneasant iarm operat
ed where over fifteen hundred of the
beautiful ring-neck game birds hive
been raised this year. Chickens,
ducks, geese and turkeys have been
raised commercially around these
raised commercially around tnese
ventured to try raising birds of this
or similar species hereabouts.
W. Bailey, Jr., who has been liv
ing at Bogue Park for some years, in
the spring of 1930 decided to try
producing the ring-necks down here
on a commercial scale. Before mov
ing to Morehead City from up North
he had been a farmer, but had never
raised any kinds of birds except the
ordinary run of poultry. After a
good deal of investigation Mr. Bailey
fenced in several acres of land to
the northeast of the Camp Glenn
school building, purchased about a
thousand pheasant eggs and set them
in incubators. Over six hundred
hatched and grew to the age of about
six weeks.
Then his trouble began the kind
I of trouble that a beginner usually
'gets whether he expects it or not.
!ln this case Mr. Bailey found out that
there was a lot to learn about rais
ing the ring-necks. Shortly before
the trouble began he turned them out
oil range upon which cucumbers had
been srrown the same season, ana
many of the cucumbers had been left
to decompose ther on . the ground.
AH f.sjMdden the pheasants began ,
dying up at the rate of fifty a day .
and Mr. Bailey was unable to ascer
tain what was causing the fatalities.
He examined the dead birds and
those that were sick, showed them to
ICounty Farm Agent Hugh Overstreet
and even sent some of the dead ones
to State College. After a while he
noticed that the flies had blown the
decaying cucumbers and that the
birds were eating the magots. He
then only had about a hundred ring
necks left out of the original six
hundred. The number of deaths then
gradually diminished after he remov
ed them from the decaying cucum
bers until he was able to raise sixty
two of the pheasants.
This year Mr. Bailey began with a
hundred and twenty-four hens and
thirty-one cocks, which produced six
thousand eggs. He set thirty-five
hundred of these in incubators. Some
thing went wrong with the hatcher
and he lost three settings of five hun
dred eggs each. Out of the remain
ing two thousand eggs he hatched a
bout seventeen hundred baby pheas
ants and has raised over fifteen hun
dred, which is by far a better aver
age than many producers of chickens
can boast of.
Mr. Bailey likes his location just
fine; not only does he think it well
adapted for pheasant raising, but
next year in addition to raising the
ring-necks, he is considering raising
quail the common bobwhite variety.
Last year Mr. W. C. Willet, of the
Carb Point section, found a nest of
quail eggs and gave them to Mr.
Bailey. He set them under a bantam
hen and nearly all of the eggs hatch
ed, but after the bobwhites were
turned out with the ring-necks they
got in an affray and only five quail
survived. Mr. Bailey thinks that both
kinds of birds can be very success
fully produced in Carteret County if
they are kept in separate pens.
In addition to setting thirty-five
hundred of the ring-neck eggs him
self, he sold quite a number to pro
ducers elsewhere. He also let some
farmers "up the Sound" have six
hundred to try, but they were un
successful and only ' raised about
eighteen or twenty birds. The birds
themselves reach maturity at five
months and sell for about ten dol
lars a pair, the price fluctuating with
the conditions of the country. Mr.
Bailey sold three hundred of his ring
necks some time ago, but they were
only about fifteen weeks old and
brought two anda quarter a piece;
last year he said these same birds of
m. j about the same age sold for four or
m. ,five dollars a piece. The market for
these pheasants are among those who .
wish to begin raising them, those
stocking game preserves, and those
who desire to have a few of these
birds of brilliant plumage about their
yards.
The baby ring-necks are quite un
gainly feathered creatures without a
hint of their future beauty. They
keep their "ugly duckling" look? rn-
m. I til they are about seventeen or
m. .(Continued on page eight)
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