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l fj n gi 111 J. li Mess J j 4f The best advertising medium published in Cartel et Co. READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY .1 5 - TCH Your label and pay our subscription VOLUME XXIII EIGHT PACES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THU RSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1934. PRICE 5c SIN 3 COPY NUMBER 6 A Glance At The News SCHOOL PROJECTS n J STAND APPROVED K)t I he state Capital Textbook Commission's J o b About Finished; Governo: Has A Nevv Automobile. Talking of Moving Confederate Monument Starts A Row. Tobacco Tax Collections. Show Large Increase By M. R. DUNNAGAN RALEIGH, Feb. 5 The Elemen tal Tpxthook Commission, in ses sion here Friday and Saturday, for the purpose of evuluating the vari ous history texts offered b ythe pub lishers at public hearings January 19 20, has practically completed its work and will meet again, probably Feb ruary 1G-17 to complete its report to be subbmitted to the State Board of Education. The texts have been stud ied from the. viewpoint of suitability for North Carolina school children, and the outline course of study, which the commission proposes to sub mit to Dr. A. T. Allen, State super intendent of public instruction, at an early date. All members were in at tendance, including Clyde A. Erwin, chairman; Mrs. A. R. Wilson, secre tary; H. M. Rowland, E. H. Hartsell, C. C. Russ, Miss Nena DeBarry and Miss Elizabeth Black. World War veterans will get no moie consideration in the public works program as to permanent em CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS BY MRS. O'BERRY REORDERS COURT TRIED FEW CASES Fifteen Projects Outside Beaufort Have Official Sanction of Cal And Hugh Whaley Acquit ted of Having Liquor For Sale ." Coldest WsS.er Here Experiential In Years The coldest weather that has been felt in these parts for a number of years was experienced on January 30 and 31. On the 30th the temper ature dropped to 12 above zero and it went down to 16 on the 31st. Con siderable ice formed on Gallant's i Onlv thrpft r nspa wptp nn the dock . .. n . . . nnanlr T,V T?!rn a r A r,i Vin, ,'wlir.a et ot the Kecoraers uourt luesuay v... PAYROLLS HAVE ei oi irie rvecoruei a iuuu i umuaj i , nP.P..rn morning. Two of these were tried and of water. The mild weather that hud ULtKLAStU , , . j nrnvnilpri fnr apvpral weeks had caus- ine ouier conunueu. r- - r , A Leo Dixon, indicted on the charge ed many flowers to bloom nnd these Carteret . . ,, r, iiulwrn Villpd bv thpj mid Some dam- PROJECT FAVORED BY COUNTY BOARD Resolution Adopted Endorsing Highway And Railroad To Cape Lookout From all indications county has been about as successful) NeWDOrt submitted to the 'age to growing crops also occurred as any county in the state in secur- , , , . ., nr-pnrdincr to renortu L . . ' . . charee and was eriven a 30 dav lail . accoraing 10 reports, ing oiticial approval ot LwA pro- . , , , . , . . . XT . j , 0 i. i. 'sentence, judgment suspended on his jects Up to date 87 projects have . , !. . , : 1 i j i i payment of one half the costs and CWA j'ob and was permitted to ress on a good many of them. Over 800 men are working on the CWA and mosquito control jobs and this of course means a very good pay roll three weeks ago reached $16,000 but for the past two weeks it has been around $10,600. The falling off has been due to the shorter hours and to some extent to unfavorable weath- The rainfall in January was not excessive, 2.54 inches. It has been ciuite drv for several months and a LWA job and was permitted to . . ,,,, th, ,:,, uW make ; payments until the full amount jfrom th& northeast"n days durinK is paid, which is $9.50 Mr. Smith who hg monlh an(J from the southwest 11 days It was from the southeast JUDGE G. A. BARDEN Former Judge G. A. Barden of ployment than other citizens Com--Nen. Bcrn -3 apparentiy a strong con missioner of Labor A. L. Fletcher has . , . th Democratic nomina- been informed by Washington autnoriti(m for Congress in the Third Dis. itics, the letter reading: "In our pro trict jucige Barden informs the cess of tapering off, and in the case Newg that he hag maJe a canvass of of temporary reduction of forces, the j thu entire district and hR8 had gvat. question arises as t owhether or not ifyin(? assuvanccg 0f SUpp0rt in ev veterans have preference for perma- e).y county Judge 'Harden represent- nent ampioyment. ine uenerai toun- d Craven county in the last session j very early date thereafter, so that sd of Tublic Works informs me that ; of the General Assembly in the House these greatly needed repairs can be ' all preference aaccorded veterans . an(J tQok a conspicuous part in the accomplished as speedily as possible. pertains to miuai employment, aim . lebate3 and in the enactment of Mr. Henry Guthrie of Morehead City 1'itteen additional proje schools outside of Beaufort were ap proved recently by Mrs. Thoma3 O' Berry, State CWA Administrator, bunging the number of projects ap proved by Mrs. O'Berry, other than for Beaufort, to 21) projects involv ing the employment of 305 men and the expenditure of $60,433.00 for la bor and $17,320.60 for materials, ap provals to date totalling $83,753.60 for the repair of the schools of the county. A project has been approved for practically every school, both white and colored, and requisition is being made this week to the purchasing a gent of the local CWA for the nec essary materials, it is tiope-d tnat ap proved bids can be brought from Raleigh certainly by Monday or Tuesday of next week and that ma terials can be placed on the site at a swore out the warrant asked that the defendant be dealt with lenient ly. I The case of Cal and Hugh Whaley iin which they were charged with' ! having liquor in their possession . I for the purpose of sale was contest ed 1U1 14., - 1 one day, west two, northwest five and north one. There were 10 clear days during the month. Temperature figures day by day are as follows: ed rather vigorously and ended in an acquittal. Judge Webb said that in his own mind he believed the defen dants to be guilty but that he did not consider the evidence strong enough to warrant conviction. The testimony in this case wa;i given by Sheriff Chadwick, Police of ficer Peletier and Louis Swain. They searched the barbecue stand of the defendants, which is located west of Morehead City in the woods a short distance from the railroad crossing. No liquor was found in the place but five half gallon jars were found 54 steps from the place on the ground under some pine tops. A small quan tity was found in the men's sleeping , , 'quarters. The defendants did not go DacK , 4. , , ... i on meg ianu ami meir HiLorney Charles Stevens argued that the State had not made out its case, in IN BANK CASES Ccmmissioner Hcod Gives Out Information Relative To Lawyers' Charges is exhausted at the time of employ- r important measures.- ment. Selection , for continuance, on, .. . . any job or project requiring reduced -1.' ," ' " ' , V -working forces should be made pure ly on the basis of marit, and neces-! A TTApTCIVO VVEQ sity for work to be performed." ill llilillLIO FlJiJkJ Franchise taxes are due the State one month after the amount of the tax has been computed and the tax payer notified. Secretary O. S. Thomp son, of the State Board of Assess ment, states, in reply to criticism in some papers of the State frcm cor porations that sufficient notice is not given before collection is turned ov er to the sheriff. The tax is due 30 days after computed and the taxpay er notified. A second notice follows the first 10 or 15 days later, and a bout 30 days later the statement is turned over to the sheriff for collec tion, Mr. Thompson states. The min imum franchise tax is $10 and the minimum penalty is $2 with interest, he shows. Mrs. T. Palmer Jcrman, Raleigh, assistant collecteor of internal reve From time to time there has been discussion as to what fees lawyers were getting for their services in connection with defunct banks. Re cently Commissioner Hood made public a statment showing what fees had been paid in th cases of lo7 'closed banks in the State. Eleven 'of the closed banks have been liquid ated in full. Costs for attorneys' service for the four closed Catreret County banks is supervisor in cnarge ot projects outside of Beaufort. . J. a -."- Besides the CWA work, which car ries a good pay roll with it, the di rect relief in Carteret county a mounts to a good deal of money. The exact figures are not available but the News is reliably informed that it somewhat exceeded $10,000 in Janu ary. It was also large in December. When the CWA work started 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. C. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. Max. .61 .63 .48 -52 .68 .69 .68 .07 .60 .53 .54 which opinion the court agreed with ( 24 him. The case of Jeff Garner, charged with driving a car while under the influence of liquor was continued un til next Tuesday in order to give 25. 26. 27. 28. 29 thr4efandnl to. opportunity to .pqrian'-...""""""" duce his witnesses. "S9aSaSSff5S INCOME TAX TIME ARRIVES Persons who are lucky enough to have to pay income taxes will be in terested in the information that a representative of the U. S. Internal 270 I Revenue Department v. iil be in Beau- families that were on the direct re- fort Monday and Tuesday of next lief were removed because men in : week. He will assist those who may the families got jobs. However some 'need help in preparing their income .00 56 54 57 .53 52 02 57 55 65 64 64 63 69 64 62 ...63 .4.4.47 1M , fn Mnvfli fornlinn. hack frnra a are riven below: also the amount trip to Washington, states that she 1 of cash collected up to January 1st. will not resign as North Carolina na- j Frm0 t;m6 t0 time there has been tional Democratic committeewoman. ' discussion as to what fees lawyers President Roosevelt had voiced disap- were getting for their services in proval of committeemen and women connection with defunct banks. Re practicing law before administrative centy Commissioner Hood made pub officials and department- in Washing-1 i;c a 8tatement showing what fees ton, but the disapproval apparently had teen pajd n the cases of 157 does not extend to official in the!cjose(j banks in the State. Eleven of states, or so Mrs. Jerman was inform' ci0sed banks have been liquidat ed. So she plans to continue in both , ed ;n ,f un. posts. Former Governor O Max Gard , Costg for attorneys services for ner, national committeeman, resigned , , . . Carteret County banks are given below; also the a mount of cash collected up to Jan uary 1. I i Bank of Beaufort, Beaufort, doted j Sept. IS, 1931. I Amounts paid seven months, nded I Jan. 1, 1934 to Independent Auditors .88 per cent some months ago, before the Presi dent's views were made public, and thus avoided criticism reaching oth ers. A special committee of the State Board of Health, Drs. G. G. Dixon, Aydenj J. N. Johnson, Goldsboro, and Hubert Haywood, Raleigh, is making a special study of the proposal to bnvo th Ktnt.A hoard assume respon sibility for a minimum standard of Department Auditors, $bJ.uu or i.iy all health work inthe State. Dr. J.'per cent; All attorneys, $1,135.00 or M. Parrott, State health officer, said 1 3.15 per cent. Total cash collec it was not the purpose to centralize tions to Jan. 1, 1934 $68,942.25. the workfi but to make the office here j a clearing house for all health mat-! Beaufort (Banking and Tru.t Co., ters in all counties. Health measures; Baufort, doted Dec. 29, 1931. and disease prevention are State-! Amounts paid seven months, ended wide in their nature and there should j Jan. 1, 1934 to be a central stpervision of a more. Independent Audtiors .42 per cent progressive health program, he said, j Department Auditors, $69.70 or .27 A mountaii- haa been made of the- per cent; All attorneys, $420.00 or mole-hill sugr ition that the Confed- .26 per cent. erate Monumit, located on the west! Total cash collections to Jan. 1, em center side of Capitol Square! 1934, $J61, 827.46. here be moved to Nash or one of the j other four-acre squares, equi-distant : 3enk of Morehad City, Morehead others were added so the relief roll is still large. As is well known there has been considerable complaint about the giv ing out of jobs and furnishing food and supplies of various sorts. This applies not only to Carteret but to counties and states all over the Un ion. A committee, whose member ship is unknown to the News, tax papers. This information is fur nished the News by C. H. Robert son, Collector of Revenue, Ralegih. EXTENSION SERVICE PROPOSED Atlantic Christian College of Wil son, N C, proposes to do extension work in Carteret county and Prof. R. S. Proctor of that institution is has coming here to explain the matter in been apponted to investigate com- detail The subjects to be taught are plaints and make reports on them to government, history and sociology. Mrs. O'Berry, the State director. Only 1200 Caswell County tobacco growers signed the preliminary a greement last September but 1300 have signed the adjustment contract so far. from the six-acre Capitol Square, j The suggestion was made by the ar chitects which drew the plans for im proving Capitol Square, which are now being carried out as a CWA project, when the plans were started under direction of former Governor A. W. McLean. He vetoed the sug (Ceatuiued on page eight) City, dosed Mare! 1, 1933. Amounts paid svtn months, ended Jan. 1, 1934 to Ir,dcpeii''fnt Au.litovs 8.95 per Pprtment Auditors ?26.16 or .59 per cent; All attorneys, $3.75 or .00 pre cent. Marine Bank, Morehead City, doted Sept. 9, 1931. Amounts paid seven months, ended Jan. 1, 1934 to Independent Audtiors 2.01 per cent; Department Auditors $47.65 or .09 per cent; All attorneys, .26 per cent. Total cash collections to Jan. 1 1934, $84,286.76. Prof. Proctor will he here Monday night and a meeting beginning at 7:30 o'clock is to be held in the an nex of the county courthouse. The public is invited to attend the meeting. MARRIAGE LICENSES Kooch Taylor, Sea Level and Car rie Guthrie, Stacy. John L. Hammerstick, Fernandina, Fla., and Christal Merrell, Morehead City. Congressman McGugin of the third district Kansas who will speak at the Lincoln birthday dinner in Greensboro Monday night. Advertise it or you may have to keep it. B. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Town of Morehead City to J. Forbes, 1 lot M. City, for $10. R. B. Rice and wife to Ellen Rice Mann, et al 1 lot Morehead City, for $10. MANY CARTERET TEACHERS BENEFITTED BY FEDERAL FUNDS Mrs. Lida Wallace, of Morehead ed teachers whose applications were City, has been employed to handle made out on the proper form and all weekly reports, payrolls, corres- duly approved by Mrs. Lewis as need pondence, inquiries, etc., in connec- ing employment. Twenty-six teachers tion with teachers employed by the have been approved to date for Car CW A in its program of Teachers 'teret County by the State Department Unemployment Relief. Mrs. Wallace and most of this number have been has an office on the first floor of the Municipal Building, Morehead City, where she can be reached Monday successful in the formation of their classes and are at work. These teach ers are being paid from 1 Federa through Friday between the hours of .funds handled by thes tate and mail 1:30 P. M. and 5:30 P. M., or over ed out from Raleigh rather than telephone by calling the City Clerk, (from CWA funds allocated to this telephone No. 77 before 5: P. M. ' county and paid out by the local di Both those teachers employed and rector. It now appears that all assist- any others seeking employment ants to the teachers in charge of TIDE TABLE Information at to the tioe ut Beaufort is given in this col mn. The figures tre app.-ox imately correct and based on table's furnished by the U. S. Geodetic Survey. Some allow nnces must be made for varia tions in the wind and alpo with ro.pect to the locality, that is whether near the inlet or at the heads of the estuaries. The Board of Commissioners of Carteret county gave its endorsement to the proposal to connect Cape Lookout and Harkers's Island with a railroad and highway by adopting a formal resolution to that effect Mon day. The resolution sets forth that such construction would help relieve unemployment, will encourage com mercial activity, will help relieve State of high freight rates, will af ford the U. S. Government the means of saving what has already been expended at the cape and will help foreign traffic by creating a great port there. The resolution was adopted unanimously. Those present were Vice-chairman W. P. Smith, commissioners Fulcher, Guthrie and McCabe. The board adopted a resolution permitting the Community Club to use lot No.. 48 for the purpose of building a community house and that the lot shall be so used as long as the community house is maintained. Another resolution adopted by the board was to ask the CWA for funds to be used in draining Hull Swamp near Wildwood. Carteret county has a new Home Demonstration Agent now. She is Miss Helen Dry and was presented to the board by Mrs. Estelle Smith, State Demonstration Agent. The board accepted Miss Dry and will pay $50 a month of her salary the remainder of which is paid by the State and the Federal government. A motion was passed by the board that whrere tax suits are pending and where the taxes have been paid be cancelled of record in the office of the Superior Court Clerk. Commissioners Smith and McCabe were appointed a committee to as certain the tax values on the Ed Martin farm and to authorize the I County' Auditor to adjust the taxes - j til UVVIllg Yt It'll AtJUlV. ,-J-( A. motion was passed, to relieve tax. r A motion was offered and passed that Mrs Ellen J Mann and W W. Styron be allowed $5.00 each from the poor fun:!. A committee report recommending the release of $50 per acre on the 35 acre Mansfield tract was adopted. The following men were drawn for jury service fo.- the March term of couit: J. I. Jlizell, Morehead City; Al bert Murphy, Davis- J E. Pi ner, .New port; C. E Dail, Beaufort; W. P. Freeman, Morehead City; Ira S. Morris, Atlantic; J. E. Taylor, Sea Level; John D. Goodwin, Roe; V, Taylor, Sea Level; Floyd Johnson, Beaufort; Alfred Dixon, Portsmouth; J. E. English, Morehead City; Mack Salter, Stacy; George Hardy, Lukens; J. R. 'Ball, Newport, RFD.; W C. Murdock, Wildwood; R. T. Willis, Morehead City; H. T. Dudley, Beau- L C Fulcher, Newport, RFD;. Luther Mason, Stacy; Willie Johnson, New port; Gordie Styron, Sealevel; J T. Norris, Beaufort; A. E. McCabe, Newport, RFD.; Roy Godwin, Beau fort; W. C. Gillikin, Beaufort RFD.; John S. Jones, Peletier; Tyre Moore, Marshallberg; Carl Lewis, Barkers Island; Ben W. Irvin, Stella; B. S. Pond, Davis; William Fulcher, Stacy; R. J. Chadwick, Gloucester; Jno. B. Davis, Smyrna; Charlie Salter, Beau fort, RFD.; Carl Bell, Bogue. Min. 48 40 38 40 44 52 55 55 49 38 36 40 43 39 35 35 34 30 37 46 45 42 50 36 41 54 50 ; 531 27! AGED CITIZEN DIES Feb. Feb. snouia appiy to mis. Wallace lor in formation and instruction. Although County Superintendent J. G. Allen was noitfied in December that Carteret County's quota in the Teacher Relief Program would l;o only 4 teachers, has. nevertheless. Total cash collections to Jan l,j approved and sent into Raleigh ths from her present quota of men or 1934 $6,365.13. applications of all properly certificat- money. 7:37 a. -6 P. (Nursery schools mut hold North Carolina Teachers Cei i'ficates, thus enabling their salary to be paid from 7 the Federal funds appropriated for this purpose mid disbursed from the '8:29 Raleigh office, Mrs. Lewis being at 8:48 present unable to pay such assistants High Tide Friday, 25 a. m. :42 p. m. Saturday :39 a. m. :54 p. m. Sunday, Feb. m. m. Monday, Feb. m. m. Tuesday, Feb. m. in. Wednesday, Feb. 14 a. m. 2:08 p. m. 2:38 Thursday, Fb. 15 9:16 a. m. 2:59 9:38 p. m. 3:22 5:45 a. 6:01 p. 6:43 a. 7:00 p. Low Tide 9 10:03 a. m. 10:05 p. m 10 10:49 a. m. 11:07 p. m. 11 11:13 a. m. 12:08 p. m. 12 12:16 a. m. l:0.i p. m. 13 1:14 a. m. 1 :52 p. m. Williston, Feb. 1 Mr. Zephnhh Willis, age 77, died at his home Tues day afternoon following an illness of several years from the infirmatives of old age. Funeral services were held from the church at 4 o'clock and were con ducted by Rev. Sam Leffers. Inter ment took place in the family bury ing ground. He is survived by his widow, Mi's. Katie Willis, two son;f Eugene and Stacy and one daughter Miss Mina Willis. STATE FORESTER INSPECTS FORT MACON PROJECT i'ii. m. State Forester J, S. Holmes of Raleigh was down Monday on an in spection trip of the Fort Macon road and other work there. Mr. Holmes also looked after the planting of some live oak and other sorts of trees. Ha informed the News that he thinks there is a very good chance of es tablishing one of the Civilian Conser vation Camps at the fort. This bring about 200 young men there for an indefinite period. THE BEAUFORT NEWS $1.50 A YEAH
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