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V- f - "P . 3E widows Mat The beat advertising medium published in Carteret Co. ( READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE B j WATCH Your label and pay rur subscription VOLUME XXIV EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1935 w rRICE 5c SINGLE COPY NUMBER 6 H In cl Expect Speedy Enactment Of Potato Control Bill When Presented To House In Letter to Beaufort News Representative Graham A. Bar den Gives Present Status of Potato Bill and Also Interest ing Data on Tabocco Situation As He Sees It. Relieves That Tobacco Crop Should Not be Increased Un der any Circumstances More Than 100 Million Pounds OPPOSED TO LARGE CROP Speedy enactment of the potato control bill is expected when present ed to Congress within the next few days, according to a letter from Rep resentative Graham A. Bard en, re ceived by the Beaufort Newf today, in which he discussed matters of vital importance to our District. "I have given considerable time to the potato situation and we hope to draw up a bill as near as possible like the tobacco bill," the Congress man whote. "At present we are try ing to determine the sentime it of the people." It is necessary to get a bill that everyone concerned will want to insure its speedy enactmen;." Our Congressman Barden was high in his praise for his colleague Representa tive Lindsey Warren of t ie First District who has devoted 10 much time to the potato measure and who wil introduce it to the House, prob ably next week. Approximately 80,000 acres is "Under the tentative bill, potatoes available in Eastern Carteret and would be classed as a basic , ommod- ?ar f this land 'Je taken over ity, production quotas woul.: be set and a tax levied on production in ac cess of the allotments," he st .ted. In regards to the tobacco situa tion Congressman Barden wrote a lengthy discussion. Part of which follows: "I have been very much c ncern ed also over the tobacco situation in Eastern North Carolina. The Depart ment announced some time ago that the crop would likely be increased to 700 million pounds. This has refer ence of course, to the flue curjd to bacco. During 1934 the crop consist ed of 540 million pounds. I have been and am now very much oppos ed to raising the crop to 700 million pounds. While the tobacco compan ies have estimated the demand to be 700 million pounds, I do not think we should increase the production to the figures of the demand for if this were done, we would find ourselves making the market a buyers' market instead (Continued on page eight) Boatmen Ask For Deeper Clubfoot Harlowe Passage Slaves Using Picks, Shovels and Wheelbarrows Started Clubfoot Canal Back in 1818; Completed in Three Years and Thus Aided Early Navigation. To reach New Bern before 1821 a person had to either go by stage from Beaufort or if traveling by water it was necessary to make the voyage a round the county through Core and Pamlico sound and the I'ruse River. Then Clubfoot canal conr.-:ing with creek by that name which empties in to the Neuse and Harlowe Creek which flows into the Newport was dug. This shortened the distance by water between New Bern and Beaufort a bout 150 miles. The original depth was four feet it is said. Until 1859 the only way to a creek by that name which empties by boat or stage. Then the railroad was built to Sheppard's Point at Morehead City. The canal was still of service though and back in 1884 and '85 the steam dredge Cyclops blew more dirt out of the ditch and it was again navigable for larger boats. Since that time the passage has filled constantly until now it is difficult for a boat of two feet draught getting through, except on flood tides. The canal is still used by roatmen wanting to take a short cut to New Bern or the Neuse, despite the fact that in 1909 Adams' Creek was dredg ed forming a !:nk in the inland water way and rurr.Ing parallel with Club foot. A few da:3 ago a petition signed by a great many persons who use the canal was presented to local FERA authorities. They want canal improve ments. It will be an asset to small i boat navigation, especially those that go to and from Newport and Neuse Rivers fishing. FERA officials are in vestigating and there might be a way for a project to be worked out where by inyrovements will be made. Im provements today would hardly made with picks and shovels. be OFFERS PARK LANDS 9 1 hit V.v,: D. W. MORTON - W. Morton who is attending a meet- ling of the North Carolina Forestry Association in Raleigh this week. While in Raleigh Mr. Morton will submit to National Park officials var ious tracts of land in this county which if approved may become a part of the National Forest Park System. SAM NEWBERRY IS CAUGHT AT STILL "Anyone who knows me knows I wouldn't have anything to do with the operation of a moonshine still," Samuel H. Newberry of Kinston is quoted as saying in a story appearing in the morning papers today. Mr. Newberry, leader of one of two Re publican factions in Lenoir county, formrely of Carteret county, where he has dabbled a bit in politics prob ably turned red in the face when of ficers raided a still where he happen ed to be 'visiting' early this week. Four other persons were there eith er visiting or operating the 'shine plant.' In all the various occupations of those arrested were, lawyer, form er policeman, farmer, tenant and a Negro. In all probabilities the former Car- teretian ihad nothing to do with the operation of the still. Maybe the blaze of the fire beneath the copper hrttlo facinated him or the odors steaming through the atmosphere. We would never accuse a judge of good liquor going to a moonshine plant for securing booze for immed iate drinking purposes. Mr. New berry wr.3 probably out po!itic-ing. INFANT DIED TUESDAY Funeral services for Alton Hodges, age 18 months, were conducted Wed nesday afternoon at Ocean View cemetery. Due to the nature of the disease services were conducted pri vately. Alton was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Hodges. He died in Morehead while enroute to St. Luke's Hospital in New Bern. MARRIAGE LICENSES Howard Congleton and Nellie Spear, Beaufort. Henry H. Scott and Ethel Boyd, Morehad City. Frederick Fulford, Morehead City and Helen Lane, Newport. Augustus A. Fuchtel, Birmingham, Ala., and Dorothy E. James, New port, N. C. BIRTHS Born to Mr. and Mrs. Otis Willis of Beaufort RFD., Feb 4th, a daugh ter. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Haye of Beaufort RFD. February 2nd, a son. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Cicero Jones of Harkers Island, February 6th, a daughter. WAFFLE SUPPER The Euzelian Sunday school class of the Baptist church will give a waf fle Bupper at the American Lesion hut on Friday night, February 15, it was announced this week. Blythe Noe Has A 43 Pound Bobcat In Cage He Alto Hai Some Stuff in Fruit Jar That U Neither Linseed Oil Nor Corn Liquor. Jude Small caught the bobcat in a steel trap on his farm out at Core Creek way last Friday night. He brought it to town on Saturday and gave it to Blythe. blythe put the an imal in a one inch mesh wire enclosed cage and invited people to come and see the one animal menagerie. He also let people tell him whether the stuff in a fruit jar was crude or re lined unseed oil. It was neither. A pocosin on the Small farm is a live w.ui bobcats. Many have been ciuie'ii, th re this season and they are usually killed when taken from a trap. The one he caught Friday night was a big fellow, one of the larg est ever caught in that section. Rath er' than kill this large specimen he brought it into town to Blythe. Aycock Brown of the Beaufort News saw the bob-cat He also saw the fruit jar. He is interested in bob cats because they make news. So do fruif jars. He is interested in what is in fruit jars but not as much now as he used to be. Blythe in addition to being a hard ware store keeper is a taxidermist. To be a taxidermist you have to have use of some sort of funny smelling liquid, pernaps it is a sort of em balming fluid. They call it SO-2. The liquid was in a fruit jar. Blythe said, "What is it, crude or refined linseed oil." Aycock took a smell. A few minutes he recovered. MAYOR TAYLOR SENTENCES SEVERAL BOOZE IMBIBERS James Davis, colored charged with drunkenness will perhaps appear in court on schedule next time he is summoned. He was not there when called by court aides on Monday night and for contempt he was sentenced to 10 days m the street tr given priv ilege to pay his way out at the rate of 50 cents per day. He was also giv en five days for dunkenness. Con tempt and drunkenness equaled 15 days or $7.50. He paid. So did Dick Weeks. He was charg ed with drunkenness, arrested last Saturday night. Sentence 10 days. Paid $5. Ike Simmons colored paid $5 on a similar charge and dodged 10 days of street work. Those who did not say were David Parker, James Collins, Calvin Stanley, Lharlie laylor and Luce Johnson, all colored, each charged with drunken ness, each assigned to 10 days on the streets with the exception of Johnson who got off with five days. Ernest Spnngle .white, got off with five days. The charge against him was drunk and disorderly. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Charity Credle Bradham to Mrs. S. H Overby, 1 lot Moreehad City, for $100. C. S. Maxwell and wife to L. E. (Dock) Thomas, 1 lot Beauofrt. for $500. c overing The Water Front By AYCOCK BROWN MR. MEBANE COMES HOME ON FRIDAY Our editor, William Giles Mebane, who has been confined to St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Richmond for the past three weeks, where he underwent an emergency operation for an in testinal ailment, will be transfer red to the Morehead City hos pital Friday for convalesence. MILLION POUNDS FISH THIS WEEK Approximately 1,000,000 pounds of food fish, trout and croaker have been caught by fishermen off Beaufort Inlet this week. The catches consisted mostly of trout and croakers and were taken in sink nets. The local prices paid for the fishes were five and one, that is five cents for trout and one cent for croakers. With catches good in this section, the fleet at Ocracoke dwindled considerably occording SOON TO BE REPAIRED ''y TO!))1T1 COURTHOUSE ANNEX After renovation of Carteret's couSrthouse which is progressing rapidly, repair work on the Annex will begin. This structure was. built originally for a schoolhouse. At present the Home Demonstration and County Farm Agent and Carteret Board of Education have offices in this building. Ap proximately $10,000, FERA funds, is being used in renovating the two buildings. The President's Ball was presented in the auditorium last week and on Monday of this week the county commissioners granted re cently organized Beaufort Boy Scouts the privilege of using one of the .rooms as their meeting place. This Bird Carrie Its Own Light For Finding Tiny Fish Julian Brown Who Cams to Town Monday for Purpose of Adjusting Taxes Tells Newsman About Strange Night Bird. A bittern, (we call 'em quawks down on Ocracoke Island) carries his own search light, and fishes at night by wading in the shallow water, accord ing to the astounding information gained from Julian Brown of Mar shalberg who was in town this week. The astounding part of his story was the statement that they carried their wTi .light so that-lfexcan catch fish after dark. "The bitterns fish after dark. In stead of having special sort of eyes for seeing at night, they part their breast feathers and from the skin be neath the feathers a glow, a sort of phorphorescene light, is revealed which attracts fishes, the size the bit terns want to guzzle down into the region of their stomach," said Jul ian. Hereafter when its dark and you see a light over on the flats, do not be too sure that it is someone flounder ing or a will-o-wisp." It might be a bittern fishing. Julian came to town to tell the commissioners that he is 63 years of age and that he does not want to pay any more poll taxes. The county com missioners granted his request and by so doing this one time pony man of Atlantic Beach becomes automatical ly eligible for any $200 a month pen sion that Mr. Townsend might get through. Incidently the county commission ers have reduced by $1000 the valu ation on Julian Brown's famous is (Continued on pago eight) to reports from there, ' In covering the waterfront I note that the above boxed head for this column is covering too much space on the front page and it won't happen again," so that is that . . . Fishermen have been getting the breaks down in these parts this week. Trout ;and croakers have moved south from Ocracoke way to Cape Lookout and so has the fleet. It looks good to see so many boats along the waterfront discharging finny cargoes during the late afternoon and early evening this week. Something I am in favor of for Beaufort is a 'dead cat brieade.' Just who is supposed to remove the carcasses of felines that meet violent deaths as a result of being run down by motorists, I do not know. But something ought to be done about it (Continued on page five) j, c ' W &! JIM 'i y,' No More Chickens For Sweet Petuna And Alex Edwards That Is; No More Until They Do An 18 Months Stretch For Purloining Mr. Merril's Plymouth Rocks It was Saturday night. Alex Edwards and Robert Campbel, alias, "Sweet Petuna" wanted a chicken dinner Sunday. Not only that they probably wanted a bit of change and chickens can be bartered. Instead of operating locally they went five miles in the country on the Harlowe road to Mister Merrill's place. Mr. Merrill had several thor ough bred Plymouth Rocks in his coop. They were not just ordinary dominicas but blue blooded stock. There was a heavy dew on the grass Saturday night. Mr. Merrill saw foot-prints and followed them into town. He told the "Law about j it. The "Law" has been fretted much 0f late by chicken robbers. None have been caught that is not until Sunday. Chief Longest and Jailor-Deputy Chaplain got on the trail. Suspicion led to Sweet Petuna. Sweet Petu na has bee-n a bad egg in his life. He recently completed a road sentence in this county for manslaughted in Lee county. Since completing his term he has been following the straight and untaraveled except for dickering in stocks other people's poultry stock. He has not been on the black list of the local "Law." Beaufort's Chief of Police is a reg ular Sherlock. He studied tracks, fol lowed them towards Sweet Petuna's humble domicile out back. There he compared boots, shoes and wondered why there were a few feathers in an empty sack lying on the floor. Ply mouth Rock feathers. With very cir cumstantial evidence Ghief Longest suggested gently that Sweet Petuna tell all. Finally he cracked and impli cated not only himself but also Alex. Then he guided his captors to various places where chickens whole and de capitated were found. A few recov ered alive were returned to the Mer rill coop., mourning the loss of their feathered kin. Monday morning they told it to Justice King. Tuesday morning to Judge Webb and on Wednesday A, M. they had both matriculated in the common jail of Carteret county for an 18 months course in road engineer ing. 23 Years Ago IT APPEARED IN THE BEAbFORT NEWS, FEB. 8, 1912 The Norfolk and Southern railroad was planning to conduct its fourth !"Home-Seeker3 Excursion" into Car teret county. Railroad officials stated thejt excursions had resulted in many northern farmers locating in Eastern Carolina. The excursion planned for March 5 would bring prospective home seekers from the State of Ohio. An anti-liquor league which had re cently organized was meeting every Tuesday night in the, you guessed it Methodist church and the public was urged to take part in the discus sions and helping the work of ridding the town and county of strong drink and the evil results that follow in its wake. Word has been receivod here that (Continued on page five) TAXES LOWERED ON VILLA HOTEL AT MONDAY MEET Luther Hamilton Explained Possible Advantage of Allow ing Reduction, But Commis sioner Chadwick Voted No, While Four Voted Yes MARCH TERM JURORS DRAWN Considerable Business Transacted During Meeting; Tax Collector Will Go Off Commission And on Salary County commissioners in regular February meeting Monday gave the new owners of Morehead Villa a break. Delinquent taxes on the prop erty for the years 1931-32 were ordered adjusted and wil be paid on the same basis as the 1933-34 tax able values. The reduction amounts to 33 1-3 per cent The total valua tion for the building is approximately $150,000, and the taxable valuation of all furniture amounted to $20,000. The commissioners reduced the valu ation of the furniture to $7,500. When the taxes are paid, it will be ona total valuation of about $160,000 for the real and personal properties .for the years 1931, 32, 33 and 34. This was the biggest arguments of the day and carried the meet on to wards sunset. Commissioner Carl Chadwick voted "No" to the order, he is only one of five. The four "Yes" men won. Commissioner Chadwick offered no objection to the reduction in the valuation of furni ture, but he contended that if More head Villa was allowed a 33 1-3 percent discount for delinquent taxes that all other inns, taverns, hotels, in the county should be granted the same privilege. County Attorney Luther Hamilton asked the board to make the reduc tion. Morehead Villa has recently changed hands. The new owners are going to develop a country club which wil bring" many outside presons into Carteret county, persons who will help or are in position to help the county, persons who will spend mon ey in the county, "Attorney Hamil ton stated. Four of the commission ers saw the situation through Hamil ton's eyes. But Commissioner Chad wick went on record as opposing the reduction. It was one of those four out of five affairs though, so his "No" had no effect. Quite a bit of business was trans acted by the commissioners. First of all come Julian Brown. His story is written elsewhere under a 14 point Cheltenham head. (We printers know the meaning of Cheltenham). Motions were passed and the Com missioners will request the State High way take over and maintain the road from the Primitive Baptist church in Otway to Route 10: to take over and maintain the road from Wallace Quinn's Fisheries to James White hurst's place in West Beaufort. Other things the Commissioners lid included: ordering that judgement against Carteret county by Wales Engineering corporation, amounting to $851 be paid; that Dr. Chadwick (Continued on page eight) Dorothy Sabiston Was Not Born In Carteret The Movie Actress was Born in Birmingham but Her Father i Native of Core Creek Dorothy Sabiston, the movie ac tress was not born in Carteret coun ty. Nevertheless, her father was and this makes a story. The acting editor of the Beaufort News had heard that some movie actress was born near Merrimon. Newspaper editors are apt to hear most anything but the story sounded interesting. Dorothy Ellen Hardesty in the 7-1 grade of Beaufort school came to the rescue and reported in a very efficient manner the connection Miss AVress Snhisfrnn 1ifli with the rinn wrote: "Dorothy Sabiston, was born in Birmingham, Ala. father (here our; -"ter slip ped, because shes co mention his name) was born at Core Creek and lived there until just before he married a lady from Birmingham. He now works with the Slose-Sheflield ! Steel and Iron Co., of Sheffield, Ala. I Dorothy became a movie actress 14 ! years ago. Dorothy Hardesty is a second cous in of the actress and is named for her. Delphine Eubanks is also a sec ond cousin. They are both pupils in the elementary school of Beaufort "Dorothy's father has the following relatives in Carteret county," contin ued our reporter. They are: "Dave. JJohn and Guy Sabiston brothers and one sister who lives in Rocky Mount.
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