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(Mews 1 HE The best advertising medium published in Carteret Co. READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BOD; WATCH Your label and pay your subscription VOLUME XXI 8 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1932 PRIC1 S INGLE COPY - z&- ; NUMBER 14 - "I I Counties and Towns Have Reduced Debts Bond Issues Have About Stopped; Governor Gardner Says Local Government Commis sion 'Is Saving The People A Good Deal of Money i PLAN IS ADOPTED TO HELP TEACHERS Given Teachers To Be Accepted In Payment Of Taxes By M. R. DUNNAGAN RALEIGH, April 4 While North Carolina's counties, ctiies and towns t 1- X 1.1 ' were issuing new oonas iu me vuiai extent of $810,500, more than half n-P Tt'Viif'.h tiro a omKraoH 1T fwn lr.PlTlS. vnfod hxr tha npnnlp nf the unit. VOUCtiers the other ordered by the court, these same units of government paid off, in V.nn1 iininQl nn int.prpst.""S24.025- koo as jrinff the voar em! in? March! Perhaps the matter of most gener. 18, despite the fact that this marks j interest considered by the board the most trying period in local gov- f Co.untl Commissioners at their eminent in many years. meetln(? Monday was the school ques L . ... , .'tion. Superintendent Allen and chair In contrast to this small sum ot , , ... , ot j v, man Taylor of the Board of Educa- $810,500 issued in a year, the fir, j tkm ame before board year of the operation of the Local Government Act, these same govern- rm mental units issued new bonds to the , WM . , . - SPECIAL SESSION OF LEGISLATURE : IS BEING TALKED sum of $6,147,412.50 in ceding year, when there was little re striction on bond issues from a cen tral State body, as has been in the last year under the Local Govern ment Commission. This information is contained in a statement issued yesterday by Gov ernor Ov Max Gardner, after a con ference with and report from Charles M. Johnson, director of Local Gov ernment, in which Governor Gardner said : "There is no branch of the State government rendering a more con structive or worthwhile service to the people of this State than this Com mission, and no law was ever more needed," after saying it will be of in It seems That Something Must Be Done; Governor Against It LARGE DEFICIT IS CERTAIN By M. R. DUNNAGAN RALEIGH, April 4 Talk is heard again of a special session of the Gen eral Assembly, either before the elec tion, or after, when a new set of leg islators would convene, and even some State officials are wondering if it will not be necessary, in order to get the State over its first year of school operation. That new burden, in addition to the usual interest and bond payments, and other costs, is Tceeping the State Treasury in a tight place all readily admit. Although a special session may seem necessary, it is a safe bet that it will not be called, unless a greater emergency arises than is now appar ent. Governor Gardner is the only tha nro umtussiuii ui. me quesi-iun i power mat can can tne legislators lO Hie MIC-I j j i . i . - I .. , . .. .. . . I uaruciuaieu in DV tne memDerS OI o-othor at nthor thnn romilnr ececmn BOARD APPOINTS SCHOOL TRUSTEES Vacancies Created By Resigna tion of Hornaday And Ham ilton Filled t.st Fire Wednesday Sfcrogs Much Property the Board of Commissioners, County Attorney Luther Hamilton and Messrs Taylor and Allen. Attorney J. F. Duncan representing the Beaufort school was present and also submit ted some remarks o nthe subject. As the final outcome of the school discussion the board adopted a reso lution which said that "If the Board of Education authroizes the issuance of vouchers or other evidences of in debtedness to the teachers and other employees and creditors of the Board of Education authorize the issuance of the present year, not to exceed $5000.00, the Tax Collector be and terest to the people of the State to i is hereby authorized and instructed know somethinsr of the administra-ito receive as cash such vouchers or tion and the economies effected thru , evidence of indebtedness within the I limits above prescribed an dto apply the operation of this commission, - As an illustration of the effective- of the act, Governor Gardner i ness same to the 1931 taxes of the person last endorsing such voucher "or evi ,.ofi Mo-pV, 1 1931. and "uauor e ana is nereoy au to March 18, 1932, only $810,500 in tipw bonds had been issued by all; ' " i,l iJklJ., 1 4.1 J. il. pointed out that since the law w, - - - - thorized and directed to receive from the Tax Collector as cash such vouch- a i :j c i i i - i I- I r. -HJnnHiauthori" above Provided that the of which was to erect a new Haywood : u u ., u0 ; board of Education shall receive the county courthouse, the old one nav- . 7 , ' j . j nt,r'same "om the County Auditor as ing been condemned and the county ' authorities threatened with indict-: ment unless they built a new one, a motion offered by Commissioner and $250,000 to replace the burned jChadwick and seconded by Commis Raleigh Auditorium, a vote of theiSjoner styron was passed instructing people having approved the issue. ,tne. Tax Collector to advertise 1931 During the preceding year, March j taxes and sell the same on the first 18, 1930 to March 18, 1931, cities, Monday in June, counties and towns issued new bonds ' of $6,147,412.50. "This shows an im- A motl?n was Passed a I01 .a U1 ' ' ' , . tV am reduction in property valuation of A. portent trend in the decreed debt P 5 to $1o95l this of the State but the most important . , t j ' thing thai Ls taken place since the n llne wlth adjacent proprty. now law went into effect." Saia U0V-' A luuuun was paaacu icuuu..8 u ernor Gardner "s that the debts of the counties, cities and towns have been reduced by the payment of prin cipal and interest in the sum of $24, 125,522.85. In the past three years there has been paid around $15,000 000 in retirement of State bonds. It is well known that the debt of the counties, cities and towns is consider ably larger than the debt ot the State, and it is very significant that these units have roduoed their debt in a greater amount tHan the State. (Continued on page eight) SEVERAL DEFENDANTS FAIL TO APPEAR IN CITY COURT Only two cases were tried in City Police Court last Friday afternoon. There were four or five other cases on the docket but the defendants fail ed to show up and could not be tried. Mayor Taylor instructed the police officers to find these defendants and stated he would fine them $5 each for contempt of court. Roland Swain submitted to valuation of the Dora Norris tract in White Oak township from $4500 to $3500. A motion was passed relieving Ed. F. Gillikin of his dog and poll tax for 1931. A motion was passed reducing the valuation of a car the property of Troy Morris to $200. Motions were passed allowing Alex Pittman, of Merrimon, Ruth Lupton of Roe and Charles Hancock of Hark er's Island $5 a month from the Poor Fund. It was ordered that McCabe be admitted to the County Home. It was ordered that Miss Laura Ful- ford be relieved of $375 in valuation of property, the same having been list ed in error. The County Auditor was directed by a motion to that effect and passed, to cause a change to be made in the listing of the property of the Beau fort Lumber and Manufacturing Com pany of 43 acres at $300 per acre and improvements thereon of $10,000 a in lieu of former listing, j A motion was made and carried which directed the County Attorney times, and his opposition to it is well known. The question is raised that, if it should meet, it would have no program, and if it did, it would hard ly be started before another session; which might undo it. All agree the budget must be balanced, but hope is expressed that it can wait until the regular sssion, even though it is cer tain to be hard sledding. While revenue collections for the general fund for the first nine months of the fiscal year reached $14 835,243184 at the end of March, a-j bout $3,200,000 more than the $11, 641, 394.01 for the same period last year the needs for revenue this year are much greater and a deficit close to $4,000,000 is sure. Collections from income tax are larger as they aref rom franchise and license taxes, due to higher rates Uvia yarV but. in heritance taxes dropped. ,i ' Automobile taxes for highway op erations reached $16,846,046.52 in nine months, as compared with $15,- 121,387.51 for the same period last year, also due to the one cent gallon increase on gasoline. License plates sold number 310,000, about 35,000 less than last year this time, reve nues from the 1932 plates up to this time being $4,636,362.01, as compar ed with $5,308,240 for 1931 plates at this time last year. Federal taxes colected in North Carolina largely from cigarettes, al so slumped, the first nine months of this year showing receipts of $176,- 695,768, or $17,615,110 less than the $194,310,878 collected in the same period last year. March collections this year were $20,402,953, or $3 378, 491 less than in March last year. In fact only one of the nine months in the present fiscal year was as much for the same month the year before, November.. (Continued on page five) At the regular monthly meeting of the City Board of Commissioners Monday night two new members of the board of school trustees were ap pointed. The appointments were to fill vacancies caused by the resigna tions of J. A. Hornaday and Julian Hamilton. The place made vacant by Mr. Hor naday's resignation was filled by the appointment of Blythe Noe. In Hill was elected to fill the Hs.ji. vacan cy. Several representatives oi fire hose manufacturers came before the board and submitted samples and prices. After considering the various bids the board decided to purchase 1000 feet of hose from the Goodrich Rubber Company at $1.10 a foot. George Woolard came before the board and asked to be relieved of tax es on his property. He said he was unable to sell the property and owing to the conditions of his eyes is not able to do much work. Action on the matter was deferred. .Wiley H. Taylor asked permission from the board to put a no parking sign in front of the Beaufort Groc ery Company's store. There was no objection to the request. The board went into executive ses sion to consider the matter of the ac cident which happened to Officer D, M. Jones when he backed the city automobile overboard. Mr. Jones ask ed for an investigation of tho matter and voluntarily stopped work a few days. He was restored to duty and the board appointed Commissioners Rumley and King to investigate the matter and report later. Large Acreage of Timber Lands Burned Over; Church, Dwellings And Other Buildngs Burn ed; Beaufort And Morehead City Firemen Help Fight Flames Deal Has Been Closed For Lumber Plant Site A deal was closed here yesterday between the Scarboro-Safrit Lumber Company of Mount Gilead and own ers of land on the Lenoxville road, just out of the corporate limits ot Beaufort, for a site for a lumber manufacturing plant. The property referred to is owned by the Beaufort Realty and Investment Corporation and was formerly known as the Gef- froy tract. The lumber company has leased the land for one year with privilege of five years and with priv ilege of buying it if desired. The News is informed that the lumber company also closed a deal recentlv with F. M. Simmons of Charlotte for a tract owned by him which is adjacent to the other prop erty acquired. A railroad siding is to be run to the site of the proposed plant and the work of grading the land for buildings is to start right a way. It seems probable that it will not be very long before the plant will be ready to start work. FIRE ALARM WHISTLE MOVED TO THE CITY HALL NOW i and Auditor to investigate the rela ' ' tion of the Beaufort school district The fire alarm whistle which has to the county Board of Education been located at the city power plant with the school district as referred for' several years is being moved to to the budgets and make report' at I Cedar Island the fire station House next to the city next meeting of the board. 'Harlowe hall. Men have been working on it! Hunting Quarter PAVING IS BEING LAID ON NORTH RIVER FILL It will only be a short time now until' the job of paving the North riv er bridge fill will be completed. The work of grading the fill is practically done and a State Highway Commis sion force is now at work laying the asphalt paving. When finished this will be one of the longest and best bridges in the State. North river at this point is nearly a mile wide. More than ten years ago the coun ty built a wooden bridge there and while it has done good service it could not last much longer. In fact it has been regarded as very unsafe for some time. North River is a very broad and pretty sheet of water. It is a good place for fishing and bathing and no doubt will be used for these purposes extensively as time passes. JONES ROAD CASE GIVEN A RE-HEARING There were no trials in Recorder's Court Tuesday. There was a re-hear ing of the F. C. Jones case which was tried last week. Mr. Jones was tried on the charge of obstructing a public road, was convicted anda fine of $15 mposed. His attorney Luther Hamil ton then asked to be given opportu nity to show -that his client had not violated the law and promised to pro duce Supreme court decisions to sus tain his position. CRYSANTHEMUM IN BLOOM Among other freakish things of the year is a chysanthemum plant in bloom here in Beaufort. This is a plant at the home of Mr. John M. Wolfe on Orange Street. VITAL STATISTICS REPORT SHOWS VERY FEW DEATHS DURING WINTER VITAL STATISTICS 14 Double. The vital statistics report for Car teret county for the months of Janu ary and February shows remarkably good health for the people at large. In the two months there were only twenty deaths reported in the county while at the same time there were 63 births. The weather for these two months was unusually mild and pleas ant and it is thought that this ac counts for the lack of much illness during the winter. The detailed report as furnished by the State Board of Health below. Towu FEBRUARY Death Town Beaufort M. City Newport Tovrh1jM- Beauf ort Death 1 0 2 ' given Still birth 1 1 for a day or so and will soon have it installed. A representative of the Gamewell Fire Alarm Company is here looking after the job. While tVe work of moving the ap paratus is going on any one who may be so unfortunate as to have a fire should call telephone 13-L which is the fire station number. The fire whis tle in Moreehad City is also being moved to the city hall there. BIRTHS STYRON-PROUSE Announcements have been received here of the marriage of Mr. Manly J. Styron of New York, formerly of Carteret County, to Miss Louise Prouse of Cambridge, Md., ok Suday March 27. After the ceremony the young couple left on a tour of the mountains of West Virginia.. Mr. and Mrs. Styron will make their home at the Hotel Bancroft Apartments in New York City. Mr. Styron is the son of Mr. and and Mrs. Joel Davis, ! Mrs. Wesley Styron of Beaufort R. Born to Mr. Sunday, March 27, a daughter, Mary F. D, Elizabeth. I Davis 0 Hunting Quarter Stacy 0 Harkers Is.' Sea Level 0 Hunting Quarter Atlantic Marshallberg Merrimon Morehead Newport Porthmouth Smyrna Straits White Oak 0 1 0 0 5 1 1 0 0 10 Birth 5 5 1 2 0 1 No report. 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 2 2 23 Beaufort 2 M. City 3 Newport 2 Towmhips Beaufort 0 Cedar Island 0 Harlowe 1 Hunting Quarter Davis 0 Hunting Quarter Stacy 0 Harkers Is. 0 Sea Level 0 Hunting Quarter Atlantic 0 Marshallberg Merrimon 0 Morehead 0 Nwport 1 Porthmouth 0 Smyrna 0 Straits 1 White Oak 0 10 1932 Birth birth Still- 7 5 2 1 0 3 No Report At the hearing Tuesday Mr. Hamil ton read a number of decisions which held that an ordinary path or cart way is not a public road in the mean ing of the law. It appears that to be made a public road a roadway has to be declared as such by the Board of County Commissioners and has to be under the control of the public au thorities. Judge Davis, and attorney W. C. Gorham representing the other side, agreed that this was the mean ing of the law and Mr. Jones was de clared not guilty. Mr. Gorham stated however that under this construction of the law not many roads in Car teret county could qualify as public roads. Citizens of Smyrna, Marshallberg, Gloucester and Straits fought desper ately all day yesterday to save their homes and other property from de struction by one of the worst forest fires this county has ever experienc ed. The fire was fim.lly gotten un der control but only after it had done a great amount of da: cage. About five square miles of timber land was burned, probably doing a vast amount of damage to wild life. The home of Leon Lewis at Marshall berg was completely destroyed, and the small house ar i barn of Tom Jones, a short way .p the same road was also destroyed 1 y the forest fire. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis were spending the day at Newport md their children were in school. They would have lost everything except for the work of their friends and neighbors in remov ing their household effects to safety. The large barn of el Gillikin caught from sparks and wan destroyed. The historic Star Church, which had not been used recently was burn ed to the ground. At Gloucester, the fine home of Robert Chadwick caught from sparks and won burned. Mr. Chadwick expresseu his appreciation to a representative of the News for the splendid work d ane by the Beau-1 fort Fire Company's men in moving his furniture and o her valuables to a safe place. This heme was partially covered by insurance. No insurance was carried on other buildings that were lost in the flames. As most of the mer yesterday were out crabbing it was necessary to have help. Calls came to both Beaufort and Morehead City Fire Departments for help, and a truck left from each . place, with corps of nen. While they ; were unable to get witer to pour on the fire, they stood by and assisted in making back fires, and.carrying things to safety. The children of Marshall berg, Gloucester and - Straits attend ing the high school at Smyrna were held in Smyrna until late in the ev ening before it was though wise for the trucks to travel the roads. Beaufort and vicinity were wrap ped in a thick blanket of smoke ob scuring the sun most of yesterday, and the ashes fell all over the town. ALLEGED BANK ROBBERS HAVE BEEN CAUGHT ELIZABETH CITY, April 6 Om er L. Partee, of Charlotte and W. R. White, of Cove City, were under ar rest here today after escaping jail at Kinston March 21. Officers said they were awaiting trial on a charge of robbing a gro cery company safe when they sawed the bars of their cell and escaped in a stolen car. Police also said they were suspect ed of being implicated in the robbery of a bank at Newport the night of their escape. PRELIMINARY TRIAL IN SHOOTING AFFRAY TOMORROW In City Police Court tomorrow af ternoon (Friday) a shooting affray that occurred Saturday evening in the section of the town occupied by col ored people will have a hearing. A warrant charging Walter Chad wick of Beaufort with an assault with a deadly weapon upon Will Haz el, young colored man, and one charg ing Henry Ricks with drunkeness will be heard. Young Ricks lives in the country near Beaufort and it is al leged that he and Chadwick were to gether when the shooting took place. They were put under arrest by Chief of Police Longest and spent the night in the city jail. JOHNSON TO OPPOSE ABERNETHY IN RACE I 2 1 0 1 0 4 40 POLITICAL CONVENTIONS As stated in the News last week the countv Republican convention has been called for Saturday afternoon at two o'clock. The convention will elect a county chairman and secre tary and will elect delegates for the State and Congressional conventions. Chairman L. J. Noe has issued a call for the Beaufort precinct meet ing also. This meeting is to be held Friday evening, the 8th at 7:30 o'clock. It will meet in the city lull. RALEIGH, April 3 State Senator Rivers D. Johnson, of Warsaw, vet eran of more than 20 years of public service, including eight years as sen ator from the ninth district, Satur day said he would seek the Demo cratic congressional nomination in op position to Charles L. Abernethy, vet eran representative from the third North Carolina district. Last week, during tfebate on salary cuts in Congress, Abernethy declar ed that he was opposed t Aitting the pay of congressmen and asserted his constituents would renominate him without opposition. Johnson was one of the leaders of the economy forces of the last North Carolina general assembly. TIDE TABLE Information at 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 la whether near the inlet or at the heads of the estuaries. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS C. V. Cowper, Trustee to F. L. Eu banks and wife, 1 lot M. City, for $100. V. A. Bedsworth to Carrie M. Bedsworth 4 lots M. City, for $10. R. L. Pigott and wife to Elbert M. Chadwick, 11 acres, Straits Town ship, for $2000. High Tide Low Tide Friday, April 8 9:22 a. m. 3:13 a. 9:34 p. m. 3:07 p. Saturday, April 9 9:53 a. m. 3:47 a. 10:07 p. m. 3:42 p. Sunday, April 10 10:26 a. m. 4:27 a. 10:45 p. m. 4:20 p Monday, April 11 11:01 a. m. 5:11 a. m. 11:06 p. m. 5:05 p. m. Tuesday, April 12 11:31 a. m. 6:00 a. 11:57 p. m. 5:56 p. Wednesday, April 13 12:26 a. m. 6:56 a. 12:57 p. m. 6:56 p. Thursday, April 14 1:31 a. m. 7:57 a. 2:07 p. m. 8:05 p. m. m. m. m. m. m. m. m. t m. m. m., m,'
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