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k. 1" 0 fp tf F If AO lr UK J 1 The W advertising medium p-abliahed in Carteret Co. READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS 1 S, g S BODY l WATCH Your label and pay our subscription ' 3 ' VOLUME XXIV eight PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, JANUARY 1 ftS 5 PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY oi NUMBER 2 laroor. uraaraons nere n Meed of Improvement Engineers Suggested Only $17,500 For Main tainence to Appropriation Committee. That Amount Not Enough Residents Declare So Letters and Resolutions Forwarded to Con gressional Leaders Asking For More By AYCOCK BROWN The U. S. Engineers suggested such va small appropriation for the Town of Beaufort harbor maintenance that local citizens have been busy during the past week adopting resolutions and writing their Representatives in Congress to make an effort to secure more adequate funds for improve ments of this port. The amount according to a dispatch from Washintgon was only $17,500. And this amount was suggested in the face of existing conditions here, that is, the shoals on which boats frequent ly ground, the impossibility of deep draught boats to navigate Taylor's Creek on low tide or turn around and with every storm tide submerging the breakwater allowing sand to wash in to the harbor and form more shoals. And this pitiful amount also in the face of the fact the commerce of Beaufort that is the water shipments, is many times more than any other nearby harbor, according to statis tics. Hugh Hill local agent of the Balti more Carolina Line states that their boats have difficulty in turning a round. Officials of fish scrap factories on Taylor's Creek say that their boats have to tie up sometimes for hours at a time before proceeding with cargoes of fish. Resolutions have been adopted and forwarded by the Board of County Commisioners, by the Town Commis sioners, by the Rotary Club and Young Men's Business Club asking Congressional aid in securing the funds necessary for improvements a long with requests from other lead ing citizens in the form of letters. Each of the resolutions are similar. The one which has been forwarded by the Board of County Commission ers follows: Resolution Whereas, there has been construct ed on "Bird Shoal" in front of the eastern portion of the Town of Beau fort a breakwater, intended to protect ;the harbor of Beaufort from filling in, and whereas, the height of said breakwater is not sufficient to pro duce that result, but two feet at least may economically be added to it; And whereas, the shoal in front of Beaufort left from dredgings hereto fore made in the channel, tends to drift and fill up the channel, and al so prevents the harbor from being used as an anchorage and the turn ing of boats; And whereas, Taylor's Creek cut connecting Beaufort with Core Sound is of less depth than Beaufort's har bor, Be it now resolved by the Board of County Commissioners of Carteret county in regular me :ing this Jan uary 7th, 1935, asrenu : 1: 1. That we do requc var Rep resentatives in Congress i 'irocure necessary funds for raisi.. : the height of the breakwater at lea;.!, two feet additional: 2. That we urgently request the governing authorities to make pro visions for removing the shoal in front of the Town of Beaufort and placing same on Town Marsh, im mediately adjacent: 3. That we urge the cutting of Taylor's Creek and Beaufort harbor to a depth to equal the depth of the inland waterway approaching and deepening the bulkhead channel from Beaufort to an equal depth: so in creasing the usefulness of transpor tation. Robbers Broke Into Store Tuesday Night Thieves who entered the Richard Felton and SoVs store Tuesday night not only stoc'.cd up on clothing but they even entered the show window on Front stre t and selected a partic ular sweater. Officials of the store stated that the total loss was esti mated at about $100. Included in the loot was 400 pennies. The robbery ap parently occured while Night Watch man Hayes was off his Front 'Street beat. No arrests have been made in connection with the robbery as clues wero scanty. THE BEAUFORT NEWS $1-50 A YEAR I 3 O BARDEN ELECTION The many friend of Hon. Graham A. Barden will be in terested in a message received from the Congressman this week. It reads: Beaufort New Beaufort, N. C. Just been informed of my election to three following com mittees stop Rivers and Harbors stop Education atop and Library stop I am delighted with these assignments and am indeed grateful to the North Carolina Delegation for their support. Graham A. Bardt-n, Member of Congress. Nine Year Old Boy Escaped From Jail It may be the first time in the history of the State that such a thing .has happened, but a nine year old col ' ored boy being detained in the Car teret jail until arrangements can be made for entering him in a home for delinquent children, 'flew the coop' last week. He did not fly far though because in less than an hour, officers ( discovered the youngster sitting on the front row of a local theater tak ing in a Buck Jones thriler. When a nine year old can escape from a county jail it is time for some thing to be done about it. And some thing is being done. The Board of County Commissioners in their meet ing Monday ordered that the grates or bars of the jail be fixed more sub stantial. It seems that during the years the sills of the windows have rotted until the bar3 are no longer firmly in place. The windows will be more 'escape proof after the work is finished. It was not learned whether the of lcer who apprehended the youth al lowed him to see all of the show or whether he had to leave in the mid dle of a reel. Three other inmates of the jail threw their clothes out of the window and were apparently ex pecting to follow the youth but theirs was not a successful attempt. The youngster has been before Juvenile Judge awrence Hassell so many times that something had to be je'enc. All of the institutions for de llir.:.'.:nt children in the State seem !i3 b-3 registering a 'full house.' But jjudo Ilajsi'.l still hopes to have his ,your.o' kleptomaniac safely matricu-;!.-.tec! in one f.t some near date. MASONS INSTALLED NEW OFFICERS MONDAY NIGHT Officeis of Franklin Masonic Lodge wore instated Monday night, Janu ary 7, by C H. Bushall, Past Master, as follows: J. C. Rice, Worshipful Master, J. R Williams, Senior War den, Hubert Salter, Junior Warden, C. II. Bushall, Treasurer, J. R. Jin nett Secretary, R. D. Whitehurst, Senior Deacon, West Noe, Junior Deacon, E. M. Chadwick and H. G. Hill, Stewards and L. C. Howland, Tyler. Extensive repairs are being made on the lodge building, according to Secretary Jinnett, and they are look ing forward to a very prosperous year DISORDERLY DRUNKARDS SENTENCED BY TAYLOR Corn liquor and the reaction it has on persons who 'cant take it' without becoming disorderly resulted in three colored persons telling it to the judge in Mayor's Court Monday night. Edward Bullock (Dummy) Henry ;will help keep the streets clean for 10 I days as a result of the charge against him. The Judge sentenced Henry, and Chief. Longest court aide interpret ed the message by holding up 10 ringers and making a motion that any urie would have known meant shovel, ihoveL i Dave Davis might have gotten off a !rfttle lighter but he came into court about three sheets to the windward 40 for 20 days he will be included in the Sanitary department's staff. A .(miiir chanr against Wright TOWN MAY SECURE IEFUND FROM U. S. Town Paid One Third or Amount Used in Cutting Taylor's Creek ; Bonds Mature Soon By AYCOCK BROWN Due to the fact that Taylor's Creek has proven a valuable asset to all navigation bound t3 " and from j Core Sound a Resolution was passed by the Town Commissioners at their meeting Monday that a special attor ney be employed to investigate and ascertain the exact conditions of rec ords pertaining to same.. This will be done with the thought in view that a refund may be mad to the town from the government. Taylor's Creek was cut out many years ago. The government agreed to do the work if the town would con tribute one third of the estimated cost. Beaufort's share in the trans action was approximately $10,000 and to defray expense bonds were is sued and sold. The bonds mature shortly and as there will apparently be difficulty due to depressed condi tions, in securing money needed, the Commissioners passed the resolution. The project is not even inside the city limits and as it has proven far more value to navigation interests at large than to the town it is believed that when the situation is properly presented a refund will be granted. Other business coming before the board was of a routine nature. The board ordered that the street inter section at Live Oak and Broad be repaired. The town was asked to pay the per capita tax of the Fire Department, amounting to $22.50 and this the board agreed to do. I . The Board also allowed James Mason and C. R. Wheatly $50 each as attorney fees in the recent case of Town vs Graham Duncan. JUDGE PAUL WEBB HAD LIGHT DOCKET TUESDAY Only two cases were disposed of in Recorder's court Tuesday. Steve Wilson, colored was charged with non-support of his illigitimate child. Found guilty he was ordered by the court to pay $6 per month towards the support of the child and also pay physician's bill to mother of child who was the prosecuting witness. Dowdy Austin of Morehead City charged with- assault was ordered to pay only the costs of the court as the matter had been previously set tled between the prosecuting witness and defendant. NEW BERN MAN HELD IN DEFAULT OF BOND Jerry Frappier, white man of New Bern was being held in county jail Thursday in default of $300 bond. He was arested Wednesday by Sher iff Elbert Chadwick on a charge of registering under a false name in a Morehead City hotel and he also fac es an immorality charge according to the warrant. His trial is scheduled to come up in Recorder's Court on Tues day. BIRTHS Ition was brought in this week. It Born to Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Swar- measured 19 inches in length and was ingen, of Beaufort, January 6th, a '12 inches at the widest point. The son. i shell weighed 31 ounces and the oys- Born to Mr. and Mrs. E, T. Law-,ter 16 ounces. It was tonged by Gar rence, of Otway, January 7th, a ; land Harris in Far Creek, near Engle daughter. jhard, and is on display at R. S. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Delmas ' Spencer's store at Englehard. The Willis, of Atlantic, December 28th, condition of the shell led oystermen a daughter. to believe its age to be around three years. Clams 'Coaxed' To Open Mouths Under Plan Developed in TeSts B7 AYCOCK BROWN -No longer will the busy housewife have to use walnut-cracking methods 'to open clams. Drs. Vera Koehrmg .and Herbert F. Prytherch of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries here have de veloped an improved method. The clams are put to sleep or nar cotized. Then, while relaxing with mouth open a knife can be insert ed and the meat removed while the bivalve is still alive. This method, Dr. Prytherch explains, not only offers a humane way to treat the seafood delicacy but also an easy and simple method to remove the meat without trouble. The clams are immersed in a warm bath of fresh water or sea water hav ing a temperature of 105 degrees F. The temperature may fluctuate from C0 degieps rr ""il W Fnnld iept within tn;a tiv x,e beurr 'BALL COMMITTi' MAKING PROGRESS P Vv m m mm w mm Id and New fashioned Uances Floor Show with Out-of-Town Jazz Band Will Be Featured Much interest is being shown in the Roosevelt birthday ball scheduled for January 30. A variety of danc ing and entertainment is planned for the occasion. The ball will be held in the auditorium of the Courthouse. annex, rive hundred ticKets are be ing printed and if the sales are as good as expected Beaufort will have a fair contribution to add to the con certed drive throughout the country against infantile paralysis. Meeting with Wilbur Willis general chairman of the local ball committee on Monday night in Charles L. Skar ren's office Misses Daphne Paul, Mary Taylor Hinnant and Mildred Johnson were appointed to assist Miss Virginia Howe in staging entertain ment including a floor show. A Virginia Reel will be presented and start the dance at 8 oclock in the evening followed by the floor show. Old fashioned dances after floor show will continue until 10 o'clock. No orchestra has yet been selected but negotiations are under way with several up-state musical outfits says Mr. Skarren and the one selected will be annonuced later. Tickets will be priced as follows: $1 for men and 25 cents for women. Refreshments will be sold at the dance and all profits from every source above expenses will be con tributed towards the drive against infantile paralysis. A huge 40 pound birthday cake with 53 candles, will be on display and numbered tickets will be sold on same. At midnight the numbers will be pulled, the lucky number winning the cake. ESCALLOPS PLENTIFUL IN CORE SOUND TERRITORY Escalloping has been very good in Core Sound during the past several weeks according to reports of local seafood dealers and fisheries officilas. It is said that they are more plenti ful in that section than ever before. The price which has been as high as $3 per gallon was only $$1.60 Thurs day. Inlets cut through Core Banks during the September hurricane of 1933, many of which are still open, is believed to have resulted in so many of the bivalves there this year. MOREHEAD COPS FIND BIG CACHE OF LIQUOR Sixty seven and a half gallons of corn liquor was found by Officers Ire dell Salter and William Lewis of the Morehead City police force a few daks ago. This is the biggest cache of booze that has been found by police officers of this section in some time. Just who the liquor belonged to was not determined as no arrests were made. MAMMOTH OYSTER I SHOWN AT WASHINGTON (- Washington, Jim. 9 The largest j oyster ever reported seen in this sec- results. After clams are placed in warm water, additional heat is ap plied to compensate for such cool ing as they may produce. In the experiments conducted by Drs. Koehring and Prytherch, 100 per cent of the clams have opened their shells in from 10 to 20 minutes and when removed from the bath a few minutes later were completely narcotized and unable to close their shells. They open about one half inch and the meats are removed with comparative ease. This treatment does not kill the clams but merely puts them in a re laxed narcotized state from which they will soon recover if returned to cool sea "-ater. There is no shrink age of apparent loss of tissue fluids and the meat is in the some condition n whn ow,,H raw. County Officials Had Busy Meeting Holiday Controversy Over Tax ton and Chalk Looked ently Ended Peacefully; Road and Ferry Del egations From Various Sections Made Re quests; Fifty Four Year Old Man Will Pay No More Poll Tax - " - MR MEBANE ILL .Suffering from .a .lingering ailment, W. G. Mebane editor jf the Beaufort News was tak en to Morehead -City .hospital lasv Saturday. He is being con fined there -for .observation. His condition was not reported as serious by hospital officials. ..Aycock Brown, formerly of Ocracoke, is directing -the .af fairs of the News in Mr. Meb ane's absence. Falling Wheelbarrow Injures CCC Employee Joe Fulcher, 30 year old local en rolled employee of the Fort Macon :CCC camp who has been in a New Bern hospital since January 4, will be discharged Friday and allowed to return to camp it was stated here to day. He had one of the most unusual accidents on record. A wheelbarrow being pushed by "Red" Brown of Wil son along the top wall of the old fort slipped from his grasp and went tumbling down into the moat which is being filled with sand. Fulcher happened to be directly be neath the falling 'Georgia buggy' and Red's warning shout gave him only a brief instance to dodge. The full weight fell;., directly. . on .Fcher's back because he did not dodge quick enough, but at that he probably sav ed his neck by bending over quickly. For 45 minutes he was knocked out. Dr. Laurie T. Moore the camp physician reached the scene a few minutes after Fulcher had regained consciousness and as a safeguard he ' ordered that the injured man be tak en to iNew Bern where X-rays could be made. The X-Ray showed no frac tures but it was thought best to al low Fulcher to remain in the hosptial until definitely determined that no complications would set in. As far as could be determined from CCC officials by telephone (and they did not seem inclined to talk about the matter for publication) the acci dent was unavoidable, and "Red" Brown was absolved of all blame, ex treme cold weather having numbed his hands that held the shafts of the wheelbarrow, causing same to slip. Fulcher is a married man. His home is in Morehead City. MARRIAGE LIENSES Jackson Mobley and Marie Vinson Morehead City. Haywood Bell and Thclma Fuller, Newport. ' Cecil L. Peterson, Beaufort and Mary C. Adams, Morehead City. Many Cases Flu In County Now Fort Macon CCC camp is under Quarantine as a result of an influenza epidemic. Dr. Laurie T. Moore statod Thursday. There are about 150 boys enrolled there at present. Nine are in hosptials but none were reported to be in serious condition. An epidemic of a mild form of in fluenza seems to be general in Car teret county at present. When only 160 of the 450 pupils enrolled went to school in Newport Wednesday, of ficials of the school decided to close until Monday. It was thought by Superintendent Joslyn of the Morehead City school, on Monday the December resolution that his institution might have to be was rescinded and the schedule will closed. No session was held on Wed-1 remain as it has been, starting at nesday, when o -y 300 of 700 pupils the island and returning there on last reported. Influenza, colds, measles .run during the afternoon, and whooping cough were listed as A motion was carried that the causes for decrease in attendance i county issue a voucher to Dr. Chad- Lthat day. However on Thursday when the school again opened only 75 of the. total enrollment were absent. CCC APPLICANTS ACCEPTED Thirty-one CCC applicants who left Beaufort Thursday morning for Washington, N C, with Mrs. Malcolm Lewis and Miss Sarah Rumley passed entrance examinations and were ac- cepted for service. They were detail- d to various camps, Mrs. Lewis st-ted upon her retain. Matter Between Hamil Interesting but Appar Convening at 10 o'clock on Monday morning the Carteret county board of commissioners had a busy day. a was the first meeting of the new vear and continued until after sun set. Quite a few motions were duly made and carried. Some were of a humorous nature, other more serious. Of the arguments presented before the board one of the most interest ing pertained to a tax matter. S. A. Chalk of Morehead City ap peared before the board and gave his version of a tax mauer pertaining to property on Harkers Island. Dur ing the afternoon Alvah Hamilton, county tax collector, appeared and gave his version of the matter. It was quite a lengthy argument, but in the end the board upheld Mr. Ham ilton's side of the matter as Mr. Chalk was advised by Chairman Bonner to notify his clients, the Planters Bank and Trust Company of Richmond, Va., (payers of taxes on the Harkers Island property) that they were not due the refund that had brought a ,bout the argument. Freeman Brothers of Morehead City was low bidder for providing the county home with supplies during the month of January. Commissioner Chadwick stated that it appeared to him that several of the items priced at a certain figure on this bid sheet had been changed, but at the prices offered' the county will save money during January by buying the food supplies from the Morehead grocer. Julian Brown, one time in charge of ponies for beach riding at Atlan tic Beach appeared before the board to ask that the taxes on his Brown's Island, near Marshallberg be lowered. Mr. Brown stated that the Septem ber hurricane of 1933 killed off all grasses, killed trees and left the place in a general devastated condition. He did not state whether the island is still used as a bird rookery for what it was one time famous. Commission ers Guthrei and Chadwick were ap pointed as a committee of two to in vestigate the valuation by looking the property over. George Lewis, superintendent of the county home appeared before the board with a complaint about one Manly Blount Fucher, an inmate there. Fulcher was first admitted af ter a sting-ray had given him the works several months ago. Thes ting ray wound is said to have healed and as Fucher is inclined to spend some of the week-ends away from the inst itution, a. w. o. 1. so to speak, the board ordered Dr. Chadwick to ex amine the man and if found phyiscal ly fit he will be given a diploma and discharged as a ward of the county. Concerning Roads j Upon motion duly made and car I ried the State Highway Commission was requested by the Commissioner to make improvements in the f ollcw- farm to Newport river; from Route No. 10 through Masontown west of i Newport; Gloucester from Guy Chadwick's store west approximately three fourths of a mile. Another highway operation prob- 1cm came before the board. Quite a delegation appeared in reference to the proposed change of schedule of the Harkers Island ferry. At the De cember meeting of the commissioners a resolution was passed to ask the Highway Commission to change the schedule so that instead of starting at Harkers Island on the first morn ing run the ferry would start at Gloucester. No action was taken and wick for unpaid servis. The amount involved was $657. Fred Lewis is not 33 year old. Ac cording to records he was that age and it was necessary that he pay poll taxes. It was brought out before the meeting that Mr. Lewis is 54 years of age and from now on he has no more pol taxes to pay. The Commissioners voted that Misi 'es Bessie, Alda end Lillei Robinsot. of Atlantic be granted $5 sac'- month ly from the county's poor f nr 1. They (Continued on Page 8) L