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VOLUME XXIII
EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1934 PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY
NUMBER 5
Federal Aid For Schools
Plan Being Considered
A Six Point Program Is Being Prepared; The
Object is to Help The States Keep Up Schools
During The Depression; North Carolina
Would Get A Large Sum
MANY CANDIDATES
EXPECTED TO RUN
There Will Be Contests For
Judgeships And Other Po
sitions. Primary June 2nd
By m. r. dunnagan jTomato Growing Plans
raleigh, Jan. 29-An ambitious; Submitted To Farmers
six point program for education in j
me unuea 01.a1.e5 i ucmg
out by a special Federal Advisory I
Committee on Emergency Aid in Ed- j
ucation to be presented to Congress,
By HUGH OVERSTREET
County Farm Agent
A meeting was held at Newport
By M R. DUNNAGEN
Raleigh, Jan. 30 Nine superior
court judges, three supreme court
STATE ROAD FUND
ONE THIRD USED
Up To January 1 State
Used $3,645,000 Of
Allotment
Had
Its
By M. R. DUNNAGAN
RALEIGH, Jan. 29 Approximate
ly two-thirds of the $391,000,000
justices, two State officials, 20 dis- apportioned for State highway work,
trict solicitors and 11 congressmen 0r 8251.788.000 had been allotted to
are to be elected in the off-year elect
ion next fall and subject to the pri
mary in the spring.
The three members of the supreme
court bench are Chief Justice W. P.
Stacy, and Associate Justices Heriot
Clarkson and W. J. Adams, who, so
far as is now known, have no
wheich. would involve expenditures , Monday night to discuss the tomato announced opposition. The two
for educational purposes oi prooaDiy , contract being offered to the farm
, more than $500,000,000 in the next prs nf Cart Pniinhr tw vmr w
18 months, and oi wmcn worm aro- the Crockett Package Corporation of ;servln& unuer appuiime.u, aim
i - . tpo nnn nnn, . 1 i f 1 nr T.,1. ...... C1..4... . .......
State officials are Stanley Winborne,
public utilities commissioner, now
lina would receive from $8,Uul),Uuu Baltimore.
to $10,000,000. according to esti
mates nv de by educators in Raleigh.
The pi posed program includes a
doption tf what was for a long time
used in North Carolina almost exclu
sively, the distribution of funds for
public education on an equalizing ba
sis. Because North Carolina was the
only state which used the equalizing
fund on a large scale, the services of
Dr. A. T. Allen State superintendent
of Public Instruction, have been
sought and utilized in working out
the plan proposed..
The six-point program that is now
Mr. Howard Crockett of the
Crockett Package Corporation and
Mr. H. A. Patten, County Agent of
Craven County, discussed the provis
ions of the contract and told of the
experience of other counties in this
proposition over a period of the past
five years. The farmei-s of Craven,
Pamlico and Onslow counties have
already secured the acreage allotted
to them for this year.
We found quite a lot of interest in
the growing of tomatoes commercial
ly as it will give our growers a new
t .L.. ; :ii c i, . u n
proposed is outlined briefily, as fol-, " " I lZ'yZ, Z
j0Wg. Icash at a season of the year when it
T! A federal appropriation of j is Vw," t a- .,
$50,000,000 to be allocated during I . Crckett stated ln ord,e'
.. j ; . to know how many seed to buy, he
rna vasi ivf.-.-1-..a nrrnrnintr lci -Trier- .
gency needs in the several states, to
be secured by special provision in the
relief act or by separate appropria
tion, administered preferably by a
board headed by the U. S. Commis- j
sioner of Education. North Carolina ;
could secure funds under this head
cr.ly for additional teachers, about j
15,000 of which could be added. i
2. A federal emergency appropria I
must know the acreage our growers
are going to plant at the earliest pos
sible moment.
Information about these contracts
and contracts will be available at the
following places:
Newport Edwards Drug Store.
C. S. Long, Agricultural Teacher.
Beaufort County Agent's office.
All available information on the
Charles M. Johnson, State Treasurer,
to fill out a two-year period of unex
pired term of John P. Stedman, who
resigned before his inauguration. So
far there has been no announced op
position to either of these. Both are
expected to run.
But in superior court races many
candidates may be expected, both for
the judicial seats to be filled, and for
the solicitorial jobs. Eleven judge9 779,000
. l ... ii,,,:-. '
win iiul navu lu luu, men leima ca-
tending until 1938 in 10 cases, and
until 1936 in one instance. Nine oth
ers must enter the pdimary and elec
tion, and some of these are cer
tain to have opposition.
In order of number of district,
those whose terms expire January 1,
1935, niclude Judge Frank Daniels,
Goldsboro, of the Fourth district,
who has reached the retirement age.
He has not decided whether to be a
candidate again or to retire. If he
runs, no opposition is expected. If he
retires, Solicitor Clawson Williams,
Sanford, is expected to be a candi
date, and Norman Shepherd, Smith
field, is expected to run for solicitor,
and there will doubtless be others for
states and contracts had been award
ed using $215,100,000 of this in the
first six months of the operation un
der the recovery act, the January is
sue of American Highway shows.
The table shows that $30,993,319
had been paid in cash to the 48 states
up to January 1 in the public works
program. The apportionments amount
ing to 63.9 per cent of the total au
thorized and 54.6 had been placed
under contract. The projects approv
ed reached 5,287 and 4,494 ofthese
had been let to contract. In Decem
ber the men actually employed reach
ed 129,346.
North Carolina had been appor
tioned $9,522,293 and up to aJnuary
1 $3,645,000 of this, or 38.3 per cent,
allotted for approved work, which em
braced 112 projects. Contracts had
actually been awarded to use $2,-
of the apportionment, of
29.2 per cent, on 91 projects. Pay
ments of federal funds to this State
to aJnuary 1 reached $394,816, and
this State had spent on construction
only during the period $455,000.
This does not include maintenance.
In December 2,446 men were actu
ally employed on these projects.
Kansas alone of the states had 100
per cent of its allotment approved
and under contract. New York had
approval for 93.8 per cent and Dis
trict of Columbia 97.3 per cent of
their allotment.
Fort Macon Project
Has Been Approved
Large Sum Allocated For Renovating the Fort
And For Improvements To Area Around It.
Civilian Conservation Camp May Be Estab
lished There. Road Work Is Being Pushed
County's Population
Makes Good Increase
The annonucement from Raleigh
that Mrs. Thos. O'Berry, State Direc
tor of the CWA, had approved an
. -n 'application for $30,000 to be used
Information furnished by the Bu-for renovating and improv-mg Fort
reau of Vital Statistics of the State , MacQn &nd h dg around .
PnorJ f WanltVi cVin.v that, hivt.hs in 1
" n........ means that this work will now go
Carteret county for the month ofi. , W1 T .rr-hitt.
has been assigned to look after this
! project. The road which is being con-
December and for the 1933 far out
number the deaths. From the report
it appears that there was a gain of
200 in the county's population. The
figures are given herewith:
December 1933
Still
the school year
..o . - -l ui t i 1 mot u icrop will be furnished the grower as
1934-3o, available July 1, 1934, to be 1 .. , , . . ,
,, . ' . . ,. , . .', , . t- soon as his contract is signed,
allocated to be distributed objective- T . , . . , f , . ,
r , , . , Vi e must have at least two hundred
lv. based upon reasonable evidence
of needs and resourcesTand distrib
c:c3 contracted in this county in
order to get a packing plant located
TO DELIVER ADDRESS
AT LINCOLN DINNER
Greensboro, Jan. 31 Harold Mc-
1 Gflglij, of . Coffeyville, Kan., Repre-
Judge w. u narris, iwieisn ox i. al District jn that State, has accepted
Seventh, comes up for election, with an invitation to deliver the principal
no announced opposition so far. So- addre5S at the flfth annual State.
licitor J. C. Little may be oppnsed, d Lin.,oln n,v .,:.. in oP()n,.
Towns Deaths Birth
Beaufort 4 13
M. City 9 11
Township
Beaufort 1 2
Cedar Is. 1
Harkers Is. 2 1
Harlowe 1 1
Hunting Quarter
Davis 0 0
Hunting Quarter
Stacy 1
Hunting Quarter
Sea Level 2
Hunting Quarter
Marshallberg
Merrimon 2
Morehead 2 10
I Newport 1 4
1 Portsmouth
Straits 4
24 52
The Year 1933
Thomas Ruflin Raleigh, and W. MboroMon
uted by a board headed by the U. h.'. nthovWo it ;n K ,WMM Lumpkin, Franklinville, being men-
ftfth ' J j. I T. A TM LUnl. AT,.
Z, , ui. v ,f n !or those contracting to haul
, n ., icrop to New Bern, which of course
3. Recommendation that federal
funds in a substantial sum (inside
reports say $400,000,000 is the fig
ure considered) to be distributed a
mong the states to help meet the
their tioneu. judge a. in otacK, jionrue, ;
surse ' 13th, may expect opposition from So-
' ! i n T Til. III! T) 1. ! 1, :
wr,n1,l nanocaitato on ovtvn fnut trt llCltOT 1 JJOn l'lUUips, HllL-K.HlSim 111,
day nig!;t, Fcbru; ry 1;
WELL BLANKETED
present emergency and v"ep the
schools up to standard uuring dis
tressed period. This would be distrib
uted by a board headed by the- U. S.
Commissioner of Education, first, of
a flat sum objectively determined;
second, a supplemental sum weighed
to meet the needs of hte poorer
states; and, third, that 10 per cent
be reserved to meet exceptional and
unforseen needs.
4. Local funds should be. released
for school maintenance by refinanc
ng school district, municipal or coun
ty corporations, where the loan is to
be used for educational purposes and
provided the loan restr, on the secur
ity of delinquent taxes, frozen as
sets in closed banks or c.er accept
able security.
5. Out of any new appropriations
for public works not less tha;i 10
per cent should be allocated for
buildings for schools, colleges and
other educational enterprises, such
grants made available provided an
approved survey has been made and
shows the need for the buildings, and
thAt surveva be made where they
have not been, under direction of the i suspended.
the grower. It is hoped that our
people will plant at least two hun
! dred acres, and in case they do, we
! feel sure we can get a canning plant
tor ditterent commodities located m
the county next year.
We have made a very thorough in
vestigation of this proposal and feel
safe in recommending it to our growers.
POLICE COURT NEWS
The cold wave did not stop the
holding of City Police Court Monday
night. The following cases were tried
and liquor was the trouble in most of
them .
Roy Potter and Cal Turner, color
ed, disorderly conduct, guilty and
sentenced to five days work on the
streets.
Al Vann, colored, driving car fast
er than 20 miles an hour; guilty, $5.
or 10 days on the streets.
Alvin Congleton, drunkenness, $5.
or 10 days on the streets.
Charlie Howell, drunk, $500 or 10
days.
Will Parker, colored, drunk, 5 days
on the street force...
John Davis, slapping a boy under
provocation, guilty and judgment
and Union L. Spence, Carthage,
which may make a lively race. Judge
J. M. Oglesby, Concord, of the 15th,
is up again and has no announced op
position so far.
more
Judge T. B. Finley, Wilkesboro, of
the 17th, has reached retirement age
and announces he will not run again.
The candidates are already announc-
Towns
Beaufort
M. City
Township
(Beaufort
j Cedar Is.
I Harkers Is.
I Harlowe
j Hunting
! Davis
j Hunting
I 'Stacy
i Hunting
Deaths Births
Still
births
1-4-
1-4
1-4-
A large number of blankets have
been distributed to destitute people gea Level
in Carteret county and the demand Hunting 1-4
tor them is still large. Last tall tol-j Atlantic
lowing the hurricane, the Red Cross Marshallberg
distributed through the Beaufort Merrimon
chapter 1G00 blankets and the More- j Morehead
head City chapter distributed a good Newport
many also. In recent weeks through Portsmouth
the Federal Emergency Relief 600
ed, J. Hayden Burke, TaylorsvilJe, more blankets have been given away,
and J. M. Ragland, Spruce Pine, and I ,
there are many others. Judge Mich
ael Schenck, Hendersonville, of the
28th; Judge Pender A McElroy,
of the 19th, and Judge Felix Alley,
Sr., Waynesville, of the 20th are all
up for eight-year terms, Judge Alley
now filling out the unexpired term of
the late Judge Walter E. Moore,
which ends January 1, 1935. Judge
R. Hunt Parker, Halifax, who is fill
in? out the late Judge C. F. Mid-
CONTRASTS IN WEATHER GREAT
Straits
Provisional.,
25 75 5
53-80 .2
13 2G 1
4 4 1
10 26 1
2 14
4 3
4 7
8 6
8 6
6 8
6 11
19 61
11 26 1
6 27 1
189 389 12
istructed to Fort Macon is a different
project and good progress is being
made on it under the direction of H.
L. Oxley the engineer in charge.
'State Forester J. S. Holmes of the
i Department of Conservation and De
velopment has general supervision of
i all of this work.
It is hoped, and plans are afoot, to
establish a Civilian Conservation
Camp at Fort Macon. This camp
would mean that 200 young men
would be stationed there for prob
ably a good many months. Accord
ing to information furnished the
News the improvements planned for
Fort Macon will make it a very at
tractive place.. The road of course
will make it accessible and it is
thought thousands of people will vis
it there this summer and that its
popularity will increase from year
to year.
Last week the CWA pay roll in
this county took a considerable drop.
The week before it was virtually $16
000 and last week it was a little ov
er $10,000.00. On account of unfav
orable weather it may be less than
$10,000 this week. Reducing the
hours of work caused about 40 men
to give up their jobs voluntarily.
I Registrations up to Wednesday m
j the county were 2900 and 880 ', of
' these have been provided with jobs
by the Reemployment Service, here.
?.!: Byvd Wade director of this ser
vice informs the News that it is
j likely that farmers in this section
will soon ned a lot of workers for
j cutting brocoli and persons who
I wish work of this sort should see him
I Last year laborers from out of the
I county were brought here for cut-
! tine hrnrnli nnH it i Vinnp -1 that tViia
will not be necessary again.
DIRECT
RELIEF IN
LARGE
COUNTY
Floating Museum Will
Some very great contrasts in weath
er have taken place in this vicinity
recently On Friday the 26th, it was
warm and spring like, so much so in
fact that two young ladies of Beau
fort donned their bathing clothes and
took a plunge in the water at the
Inlet Inn dock. They reported the and on special request, the floating
In the month of December 758
families in Carteret county recevi
ed Federal aid in the form of food,
clothing, drugs and the like. This
relief amounted to 8,395.18. In the
month of aJnuary the News under
stands that practically $10,000 was
j expended for direct relief for which
no work was dnnA nt oil Mro Mai.
Remain Until Monday colm Lewis, County CWA director
i informs the News that she has reas
on account of the bad weather jon to believe that some people are
that prevailed for two or three days, jing his relief who are not en-
uueu tu ii ana mai investigations are
being made. If it is found that fraud
yette's term in the Third, is also up! fine. They were Misses Helen Jones! will be here until Monday morning. (Continued on page five)
water rather cool but the air was museum, the two masted ship Eugie,
for an eight year term.
All 20 solicitor offices are to be fill
ed and probably most incumbents
who seek reelection will have oppo
sition. Solicitor C. L. Williams, 4th
district, is not epected to have op
Office of Education, the cost to be
charged to the public works appro
priation for school plants. Grants for
such projects should be made on the
100 per cent basis, while major at
tention should be given to the needs
of rural schools.
Howard Rhodes, forcible trespass,
continued..
BIRTHS.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Nel-
son of Harkers Island, Monday, Jan
uary 29, a son.
6. Federal appropriation or alio- j Born to Mr and Mrs. Charles D.
cation of $30,000,000 to assist stu-,Hill of Beaufort at Potter Hospital,
dents to attend institutions of higher . Monday, January 29, a daughter,
education for the period ending July Born to Mr. and Mrs William Lew
1, 1935, either by a separate provis-jjg of Beaufort and Morehead City, at
ion in existing acts or a separate ap-1 Morehead City Hospital, Sunday,
propriation. January 28, a daughter.
North Carrllna might expect close i Born to Mr. and Mrs.. Tom Kelly,
to $10,000,00 ) of this amount in the of Beaufort, Wednesday, January 3L
next 18 monf .3, if the legislation, asa daughter, Julia Bell
proposed, is enacted. The bulk ofi Born to Mr nad Mrs. Wm. B. Dud-
the sum would come froA the $300,- ley of Davis, Wednesday, January 31-
000,000 as a tax reduction fund for , a daughter
1934-35. By a normal division, this
State would receive $6,000,000 to
$7,000,000, but upon a basis of ratio
State director of the camp'iign,
He said that several of the coun
ties have already signed 75 per cent
of the growers and that many others
are rapidly approaching this figure.
The county agents in the 67 cot
ton growing counties were asked to
rush the campaign through as rapid-
NO RECORDER'S COURT My as possible in order that a suffic-
Nro session of the Recorder's Court jjent number .tf contracts would be
of children to percapita wealth, the was held Tuesday. This was rue to signed by Wednesday for the secre
amount would increase. 'the. fact that there were no cases itary of agriculture to adopt the plan
North Carolina, for instance, it is ready for trial. Warrants have been I for this year,
shown in ' the National Industrial issued for several persons and it is The asrents have been siirnini? con-
Conference BBoard Bulletin, had in expected that some of these will be tracts much faster than they have
inon t i.u ei Tm nnn : l m j ; i ... . -
naa lime to give tnem nnal approv-
and Evelyn Norcom. The ship will sail Monday for Wil-
Monday night a terrific northwest- mington where she will be for some (
er swooped down from Alaska, or time and then possibly go farther
maybe the North Pole and the tern- south.
perature dropped to 12 above zero, j Quite a large number of people
the lowest it has been here in a num-'have visited the vessel since she has
position, but will run for judge U ber ot years. After two days of cold oeen in ceauiori ana me iews mis
Judge Daniels retires, opening up the weather the mercury took an upward heard many say they were well pleas
contest. Solicitor Little, Raleigh, may shoot and today a southeast wind'ei with the exhibition thereon. A
be opposed. Lee Carr, Burlington, ' brought warm weather and a much large collection of marine fauna and
may be opposed by James Patton, Jr. 'needed rain. j flora and a great many interesting
nuvhnm if Rnlipitnr Phillina. Rock-1 relics and curios of various kind?
ingham, runs for judge, his post will Advertise it or you may have . comprise the collection. Captain T. j
(Gontinuefl on page el&&t) to keep it. jU. Alvord ana ur. w. a. Kruse, iorm
orhr of the teaching staff of Roches-
COTTON SIGN-UP SEEMS '
and exhibits are in charge and ex-
TO BE FORGING AHEAD iPlain t0 vi'.i1t0ls any, thin-? th;y ;vi;'"
. . to know. The vessel is at the Inlet
1.. V TJ TTTTCU .01--1K1JI -IE-. TT 1 ..1. O lllTl dock.
RALEIGH, Jan 29 The cotton 000 approved contracts have already
sign-up campaign in Sorth Carolina been reported to Washington, he
is going over thetop, according to said.
reports received in the office of i The approved contracts cover be- The cotton acreage reduction con
Charles A. Sheffield of State College, 'tween 35,000 and 40,000 acres with tractg are now in the office of Mr.
an average annual prociucuon oi a-
TIDE TABLE
Information ab to the tide
at Beaufort is given in this col
umn. The figures arc approx
imately correct nnd based on
table's 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 fc
whether near the inlet or si
the heads of the estuaries.
COTTON CONTRACTS READY
bout 20,000 bales. Under the con
tract, about 15,000 of these acres are
to be retired from production and
the poundage cut by 12,000 bales.
The object of the sign-up has been
to place most of the State's 1,500,
000 cotcon acres unJcr contract and
limit the 1934 acreage to
acrej.
Hugh Overstreet, County Agent, and 10:28 a
he will be glad to sign up any one
who wishes to sign this reduction.
Due to the small acreage of cot
ton grown in Carteret, it is optional
with the grower whether or not he
signs the contract, but any grower
vho planted cotton in 1933 and is
839,000 cooperating in the tobacco reduction
of acreage will not be expected to
1930, tangible wealth of $4,719,000
(Continued on i asm eight)
in court next Tuesday.
For this reduction, the rental and increase his acreage planted to cot-
parity payments should amount to iton above that grown by him in 1933
So, 000,000 od more In addition, the
growers are expected to get some
$17,000,000 through increased prices
attributed to the itctirities of the md-
al before sending them into Mr.justment program.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Doycie Rice, Morehead City
Letha Fodrie, Beaufort, RFD.
and
High Tide
Friday, Feb.
9:53 a. m.
10:15 p. m.
Saturday, Feb,
m.
10:52 p. m.
Sunday, Feb.
10:59 a. m.
11:05 p. m.
Monday, Feb.
11:33 a. m.
11:45 p. m.
Tuesday, Feb,
12:18 a. m.
12:30 p. m.
Wednesday,
1:11 a. m.
1:24 p. m.
Thursday, Feb
2:13 a. m.
2:28 p. ra.
Low Tidi
2
3:45
4:0S
3
4:23
4:40
4
5:03 t.
5:12 p.
m.
m.
m.
m.
5:50 a.
5:52 p.
6
m.
m.
6:46 a. m.
6:43 p. m.
Feb. 7
7:50 a. m.
7:47 p. m.
8
8:56 a. m.
8:58 p. m.
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