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i rillc The best advertising medium published in Cartel et Co. r READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY 1 O V i Your label and pay our subscription VOLUME XXIII EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1934 etr o PRICE 5c SING m PY ucn NUMBER 10 County Wire Grass, March 6 Mrs. J. T. Norris one of theold est and most respected eiitzens of this community passed away at her home about five o'clock Monday af ternoon. Mrs. Norria has been in poor health for several months, but was taken worse Thursday night and suffered intensely until the. end Mrs. Norria or (Miss Jakie as she was known to her numerous friends) was the daughter of Mr and Mrs. Garson Dudley. She was 70 years old. In 1889 she was married to Mr. Thorn as Norria and to this union was born ten children, eight of whom survive. Mrs. Norris' kind deeds in sickness and trouble will long be remember ed and she will be greatly missed by the community at large. The funeral was conducted from the home at two o'clock Tuesday af ternoon with Rev. Luke Weathering ton and Rev F B. Brandenburg of ficiating. Her surviving relatives MORE RECEIVING DIRECT RELIEF Commissioners Have A New Chairman Dr. K. P. B. Bonner Appointed To Fill Vacan cy Caused By Resignation of W. M. Webb; County Attorney Asked to Make Proposal For Adjustment of Indebtedness; Tax Listers Appointed. Carteret county Eoard of Commis-liVlrS. J. I . Moms DiCS !i0"t:h?; ZJJZ m After Short Illness it ICtUib Ul Uz itfifeiiuiiiv" vi. it. Webb, who has been connected with the Federal Land Bank at Columbia, S. C. for some time, it became nec essary to put a new member on the board. Clerk of the Superior Court L W. Hassell filled the vacancy on the board by appointing Dr K. P. B. Bonner of Morehead City When the board met Monday it made Dr Bon ner chairman and he presided over the meeting. Thosepresent were com missioners Guthrie, Fulcher, McCabe and Smith. A resolution favoring mosquito control drainage and asking the U. S. Senators and the Representative in Congress to use their influence to have the work continued was passed. The board passed a resolution ex pressing their regret as individual members at the resignation of Com missioner Webb and commending him for his efficient and faithful service to the county. On suggestion of County Attorney Luther Hamilton the hoard instruct ed to prepare and sumbit to the i are: one sister, Mrs. Bill Dickinson, ! one third of the population in Pam- board at its April meeting a propos-ione brother, Mr. Tom Dudley, herl'ico, Currituck and Moore required al for an adjustment of the county's j nusoand, Mr. lorn ,Norns; eight chil bonded indebtedness, with the privil-, dren : Messrs. Corbett Norris of Have ee-o of associating with him such 10CK lex JNorns ot Beaufort; Will For January 10.2 Per Cent Had Aid; In Carteret County 24.4 Per Cent Dy M. R. DUNNAGAN R:ihi:;h, Mar. 6 -In January 10.2 per cent of North Carolina's popula tion was on direct relief, as compar ed with 8.9 per cent in December, and the number of families receiv ing such relief increased from 50,--042 in December to 65,852 in Janu ary, Mrs Thomas O'Berry, N. C. di rector of relief, reports. Cold weather and seasonal employ ment, the latter not overcome by CWA job placements, is considered largely responsible for the increase of nearly 10,000 families in January over December.. At the end of Janu ary 57,798 families were on the re lief rolls, as compared with 47,035 at the end of December. January and February show the largest relief rolls during the period of relief work. Stanly county continues to remain at the head of the percentage column as requiring less relief than any oth er county in the State. In January only 1.3 per cent of its population required aid. Cumberland, Harnett, Davidson, Union and Lincoln had less than 4 per cent of their popula tion on direct relief. Tyrrell con tinued at the other end of the list, more than half of its population, 52.8 per cent, being on the relief list, but this was a drop from the 71.7 per cent of that county's population on relief in December. More than counsel as ha considers advisable ;and Leslie of this place; Mrs. Austin jaid in January. aid in January. In 58 of the counties less than 10 per cent of the puopulation required subject to the approval of the board. ! Adams of North Harlowe; Mrs. Wal ter Stewart of Gloucester: Mrs. Hugh Carraway of Beaufort and Miss Lithian Norris; sixteen grand children BOUNTIES WILL BE PAID iBY GAME COMMISSION A motion offered by Commissioner Smith to rescind the resolution, which was adonted at the Februarv 5th meet ing, in regard to remitting penalties : ami two great grand children. on 1932 and 1933 taxes was carried unanimously. An .order was passtd to allow Har ry Lupton $5.00fro m the poor fund. A motion was passed to the effect The News has been informed by that Dutty Hhodes be dropped iromlBlakely S Pond, County Game War the county poor list. j den, that the Carteret Game Commis- A motion offered by Commission-! sion wiil pay out bounties on preda er Guthrie was passed admitting tory animals and birds, such as wild Manly Fulcher of Morehead City to!Cats, hawks and crows. Theres hould the County Home, subject to a pyhs- be bounties on stray cats in Mr. ical examination. i Pond's opinion but he says that it A motion offered by Commissioner jmight encourage some to kill pet cats. bmith was passed tnat tne irst-v.it- The reason that Carteret County izens Bank and Trust Company be Game Commission can offer bounties Carteret county, the report shows, had 24.4 per cent of its population on relief in January. In this county 907 families were given relief dur ing January, at a total cost of $7, 169.58, while at the end of the month the number of families on relief was 835, a smaller numberft naturally, than the total given relief during the month. Not Many Deaths In County In January CWA WILL STOP IN THREE WEEKS Laying Off Workers Rapidly; New Organization Is Being Planned Liquidation of the Civil Works Ad ministration in North Carolina, and other states, is going forward at a rapid rate. Latest reports were that 5,000 men will be dropped from the rolls in North Carolina this v.eik. Carteret county of course will lose as many workers in proportion to pop ulation as any county. A few weeks ago 977 were employ ed in Carteret county on the various projects under the CWA. The first cut brought this number down to 703, the second made it 450 and this week only 388 will be left on the pay rolls. The biggest cut was on the salt water marsh drainage, which at one time had 300 men employed. Most of this work left unfinished. A few of those dropped from the salt water drainage, about 15, will be put on fresh water drainage projects and some of the skilled workers will be put on school work and other jobs. Work on the Fort Macon road is going ahead and every effort will be made to finish the job by the first of May, so the News is informed At present 60 men and five teams are working there More teams are want ed and $6.00 a day will be pair for a a pair of mules or horses and a driv er. An effort is being made tov get a Civilian Conservation Camp estab lished at Fort Macon which if done would bring 200 young men there for several months. Reports from Washington are that the Civil Works Administration is ex pected to end on the 30th of March. Those who live in the large cities will be the last to be dropped. H. L. Hopkins, the director of the CWA in the United States has announced that some kind of an organization is be ing set up which will furnish work for those, who cannot get any lese- where. It is; said that most , of the I projects, now under way will be fin-1 ished. Wage will be at local pievail- mg rates. Last week the pay roll lir Carteret county was a little over $8000. This week it will be consider ably lower. ww. rt w High ochoo yers Start Spring Practice U 0 u :-. c. s Us made the depository for county funds,, when proper security has been given to the county. A motion was offered and passed that the county would subscribe for a page advertisement in the Carteret County Herald at a cost of $25.00. Commissioner Fulcher offered a "motion to put the Ed Martin farm on the tax books at a valuation of $2000. Commissioner McCabe ofu.ed a motion, which was passed, that Coun ty Tax Collector Alvah Hamilton be remitted for $3.75 for years 1931 and 1932 anda release of $1.73 for year 1933 on personal property of D. B. Garner. A motion was pas-"d authorizing County Auditor Whiteh.st to adjust a Beaufort School specLl tax mat ter involving $85. Upon motion duly made and car ried the following List Takers, were appointed for the year 1934. Portsmouth Township Mrs. Ab ner Dixon. Cedar Island Township J M. Goodwin. Hunting Quarter Township El mer Salter Smyrna Township Elwood Willis Straits Township Richard Lef fers... Harkers Island Township Clay ton Guthrie. Merrimon Hugh Salter Merrimon Township Hugh Salt er. Beaufort Township G. W. Dud Jey and to be supplied. Morehead City Township Chas, V. Webb. Harlowe Township Raymond Ball. Newport Township to be sup plied later. White Oal: Township W F. Taylor. this year is because that each county gets back a percentage of its license money from the department. The bounties are as follows: Wild cats, $2.00; hawks, except fish hawks, 25c; crows, 15c. As the nesting season will soon be gn it is a good time to help to get rid of these pests and receive a little money for expenses. Every hunter knows that every means more game can be approved and money received from Mr. Pond and Mr. L. W. Has sell, Treasurer of Carteret Game Commission. Towns Beaufort Morehead City Townships iBeauf ort one destroyed r.pdur Island These bounties ' Harkers Island The January report of births and deaths for Carteret county, as fur nished by the State Bureau of Vital Statictics, shows that only 12 deaths occurred during that month. There were 32 births, nearly three times as many came into the world as depart ed from it. The report in detail follows: Deaths 1 2 Two Murder Cases Will Be Tried Next Week Harlowe Hunting Quarter Davis Hunting Quarter Sealevel Hunting Quarter Stacy Marshallberg Merrimon Morehead Births 6 8 2 1 3 No report Noreport 0 0 6 2 0 0 Total 12 32 The first three days of Superior Court which convenes here next Mon (Newport day, have been set aside for the trial Portsmouth of criminal cases. There are two mur- Straits der eases on the criminal docket a good many others of one sort and an other. At this writing there are five, March 6, 1934.. prisoners in jail and several deftnd ants are out on bond. Charlie Chadwick, young Negso man of Beaufost, is to be tried for his life on the charge of killing Chas. Wesley also colored and of Beaufort. Testimony at a preliminary hearing was that Chadwick had been roini?ir d r c m:u I I . w o m, lulu ivvigii FIGHTING LIQUOR CAUSES TROUBLE HEAL ESTATE TRANSrURS By A. R. RICE Spring must really be here be cause the resounding crack as bat meets ball, and flying dust as a play er slides into second and the thud as ball sticks in catcher's mitt were evidences out at Highland Park all this week beginning Monday, for the High School boys started the training grind of that Great American Game, baseball. About 20 men reporte-d to Coach William II Potter for opening drills, including most of last year's veterans These were augumented by several likely rookies under fire for the first time. Early practices show A. B. Hoop er at first, Leslie Moore at second, Gray Hassell, short and Richard Bloodgood, third. Ray Hassell be hind the bat assisted by Charlie Sty ron and Roland Longest and George Brooks, pitchers. Frank Rice and Richard Chadwick in the outfield round out the same lineup as last year"s team with the exception of Bloodgood at third. Ralph Thomas, regular third baseman, is ill, but will return in a few days. With this com bination and a pitcher and newcomer filling in the outfield, Coach Potter has a well balanced team that should give the outfits in its District plenty trouble, for as is well known, Beaufort High is a member of Dis trict No. 3 of B. Class State Cham pionship Elimination. This District in eludes New Bern, Morehead City, Trenton, Pollocksville and White ville. Beaufort is bracketed with New Bern for a series of three games, the winner to oppose the Morehead City, Pollocksville, Trenton victor, April 13th. Whiteville, who drew a bye, plays the only No. 3 District Conference game that means anything to them when they meet the conquer or of this group. The ultimate win ner of the District goes up against the champions of District No. 2 which consists of Roanoke Rapids, Weldon, Elizabeth City, Edenton Apex and Wendell, And so on until the" finals which will be ' played at Cha-pei Hill and- pits-th Eastagain?t the West to decide the Class B State Champions. (Continued on page eight) rAX COLLECTIONS ARE INCREASING State Gets More From General rund And Highway Taxes Report Shows W G. Hipgins and wife to Eugene Meadows, 30 acres White Oak Town ship, for $1. Joshua Salter and wife to J. C. Salter, 1 acre Newport Township, $80. Joshua Salter and wife to J. C. Salter, 1-3 acre Newport Township, for $25. Mrs. Nannie Small to Gladys Small, 1 lot Morehead City, for $1. Mrs. Nannie Small to Mabelle Small, 17 1-2 acres Harlowe Town ship, for $1. Orpha N. Jones to W J Willis, 1 lot Beaufort, for $1. C A. Oden, Mortgagee to Minnie D Huntley, part lot Beaufort, ' for $139.16. BEAUFORT POSTAL SAVINGS IS PRETTY LARGE SUM After the closing of the banks in Beaufort a year or so ago at once there was a rush to deposit money in postal savings. The deposits increased steadily from the beginnng and on December 31, 1933 it had reached $148,817.00. Twelve months before that the sum of $131,943.00 was on deposit in the postoffice here which shows how the deposits have grown. Two per cent interest is paid on post al savings and three per cent is paid by the banks. What effect the recent opening of a bank here will have on the postal savings deposits remains to be seen. MRS JOE PIGOTT IS DEAD GOOD DOCKING FACILITIES Beaufort got two new piers by reason of, CWA activities and other projects, Vre under way which it is sad will be finished One of the piers is located at the foot of Turner street and the other at Craven street. The The Standard Oil Company recently enlarged and improved their dock nt the foot of Turner street also. Beau fort's water front is nvw well p: vided with docking facilities. with Wesly's daughter against the wishes of the latter, that they had an altercation nad that the killing fol lowed. This occurred October 22nt. The other trial for murder will be that of James Foscue, colored man borhood on Same Day Air ed In Court Two cases were tried inRecorder's Court Tuesday, both from the same nMo4iVnrJinrH whirh inKA-1 thai'. A of the upper North River road sec- brand of fightnig liquor must be on tion. He is charged with having kill- ona,,o-, , w ,,;t,r ed his wife Nellie Foscue the latter part of December. A considerable number of civil cas es have been set for trial to begin Thursday if the criminal docket is out of the way by that tim. Judge Frank A, Daniels of Goldsboro will nreside over the court. Judge Daniels recent- One of the affrays took place at the Log Cabin, near Morehead Villa, and the other at a dwelling house in the vicinity near the Norfolk Southern railroad. The rows occurred Satur day night week before last. According to testimony brought out at thetnal of Orfie Best, propria MARRIAGE LICENSES ly announced that he would not be a tor of the Log Cabin who was tried candidate to succeed himself on the fro an assault on Ed Sharpe, several bench. His term expires this year. persons were mixed un in the row. Orfie said that h ehit Sharpe with his fist in self defense. Sharpe testified that somebody hit him with a chair and he still bore on his head some j scars of battle. A -warrant was is sued for Marion Best for his part in (Continued on page fire) George A Ball Jr. and Edith An derson, Beaufort THE NEWS $1.50 A YEAR Mrs. Lyda Pigott, wife of Captain Joe Pigott died late yesterday at her home in Strait, after an illness of some length. Mis. Pigott wa3 around sixty years of age and the daughter of Mr James and Zilphia Chadwick of Straits. She was a faithful member of the Methodist Church, and funer- j al services will be conducted from that church Friday, exact hour not j decided upon at time paper wnet to press. Mn. Pigott is survived by her hus band, Captain Joe Pigott, and five children, Mr Dan Chadwick of Green ville, Mi-. Murray of Straits, Miss Jo sie, teacher at Newport, Miss Flor ence of Sratis, and Mrs. Lillian Willis of Gloucester, a brother Mr. I Ira Chadwick and a sister, Mrs Hen ry Chadwick of Straits. By M. R DUNNAGAN Ralegh, Mar. 6 Increase of more than $4,000,000 in general fund col lectons and of more than $2,000,000 in the highway fund for the first 8 months of the present fiscal year ov er the same period of the last fiscal year is shown in the February report of Commissioner of Revenue A J. Maxwell. In the eight months through Feb ruary, the general fund collected $12 181,964.60, as compared with $7, 964,129.91 in the corresponding eight months of the year before, while in the same period the highway fund collected were $16,432,459.15, a3 compared with $14,267,069.20 for the corresponding earlier period, an increase of $2,165,389.95. The sales tax collections in the eight months, on sales made in the first seven months of its operation, reached $3,786,200.79, of which $468,534.63 was collected in Febru ary, on January sales, a drop from the collections for December. The beverage tax on 3.2 beer and wine now reaches $223,042.96, almost a quarter of a million dollars, collected in 10 months for sales made in nine months. Inhertance taxes in eight months are $285,919 about $80,000 short of those of the similar period of the year before; licenses taxes are $1, 275,840, about $152,000 above those of the earlier period; franchise taxes reached $5,899,967, about $85,000 more than in the earlier period, while income taxes n the off-season of the seven months, amounted to $710,933, or about 50,000 more than for the corresponding eight months in the fis cal year before. The sales and beverage taxes of just sightly more than $4,000,000 ac counts for practically all of the in crease so far this fiscal year over col lections to this date in the last fiscal year. Increase in the other forms of taxes' would be less than $200,000, but for the sales and beverage taxes. Gasoline tax collections in Febru ary were $141,498 above those of the February before, while total auto motive tax collections in February reached $1,604,827.03, as compared with $1,455,469.80 for February, 1933. Receipts from sale of the 1934 li cense tags, plus the bus tax, at the end of February had reached $5,170 015.94, an increase of $1,034,571 ov er the $4,135,444 collected at the end of February 1934. ILLUSTRATED CHURCH TALK BIRTHS Born to Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Noe, at their home on New Bern road, March 4th a daughter. IBorn to Mr and Mrs Clem Lewis, Straits, March 4th a son. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Powell, Beaufort, March 4th, a son. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tay lor, Beaufort, March 6th, a daughter. WANT TO BE POSTMASTER Republican County' Convention Called County Chairman D. M. Jones has issued a calif or the county Repub lican convention to be held Saturday, March 24. The convention will meet in the county court room and will be gin at two o'clock. Precinct meetings j to send delegates to the convention : are called forFriday night the 23 of the month. The purpose of the meeting is to elect a county chairman and delegates to the State, Congressional and Ju j dicial conventions. Mr. Jones has. been chairman for severnl years and j says thatwhil e ho appreciates the honors which the party has paid him on various occasions that under no circumstances will he be a candidate to succeed himself as chairman. Se-v-eral persons have been suggested for the position but no one seems to be making a campaign for it. The Republican State convention is to meet in Charlotte April 3rd. A full State ticket is to be nominated at that time, a chairman elected and a platform adopted. The candidates are J S Duncan of Greensboro, W C Meekinsof Hendersonville and A I Ferree of Ashboro Mr Duncan has filled the office for the past four years and his friends are working hard to reclecthim Reports are that a pretty hot contest is in prospect.. Jack Honrine of New Bern will give an illustrated talk in the Free Will Baptist church at Morehead City Sunday night on "The oldest church in North Carolina." The church referred to is St. Thomas' church at Bath which was built in 1734. The public is invited to attend. Catawba County cotton growers expect to get between $80,000 and $85,000 this year from their rental and parity payments. TIDE TABLE Information as to the tides ar. Leaut'oit is given in this col umn. Tht figure ere anjvron Imately correct and 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 is whether near the Inlet or at the heads of the estuaries. Greenville, March 4 Eleven per Tcii'i made formal application for the position as postmaster of Green vile, it was revealed here today. The term of the present postmaster, H. R. Mumford, who has served 12 years, expires March 22. The naming of a successor is expected soon. The largest acreage yet seeded to lespedeza is being planted in Lincoln County this season for both soil im provement and hay. , Top dressing small grain with quick-acting, soluble nitrogen ferti lizer will help to overcome the ef fects of the recent cold weather. High Tide Low Tide Friday, March 9 1:56 a. m. 8:40 a. m. 2:14 p. m. 8:45 p. m. Saturday, March 10 3:10 a. m. 9:46 a. m. 3:30 p. m. 9:57 p. m. Sunday, March 11 4:28 a. m. 10:50 a. m. 4:51 p. m. 10:47 p. m. Monday, March 12 5:35 a. m. 11:06 a. m. 5:56 p. m. 11:47 p. m. Tuesday, March 13 6:32 a. m. 12:08 a. m. 6:51 p. m. 12:40 p. m, Wednesday, March 14 7:22 a. m. 1:03 a. m. 7:40 p. m. 1:27 p, m. Thursday, March 15 8:09 tun. 1:55 a. m 8:28 p. nu 2:11 . m.
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