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JipEsra n ft Us iltW ef Co. ( If Willi T If TMlMMMM TTnfll'MI ""MltMKaiMMailMawWMM , ) 7" READING TO THE MIND La WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BO j WATCH Your label and pay year inscription The best advertising medium published in' Cartel VOLUME XXIV EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 193! ilCE 5c SINGLE COPY NUMBER 9 a j n to out mm teaman Offers Contract Jrom Railroad For Terminal Funds If Accepted Will Mean Cutting Strings From Approximately Two Million Dollars Allocat ed for Improvement of The Morehead City Port FUNDS MAY FLOW SOON Maurice R. Beaman, representing the Morehead City Port Terminal Commission presented to PWA of ficials in Washington yesterday a con tract from the Atlantic and North Carolina railroad, which if accepted, will mean cutting the strings from the approximately $2,000,000 allocat ed for the improvement of the port, according to a story from a Washing ton corespondent, appearing to to day's issue of the News and Obser ver. Mr. Beaman had hoped to receive a decision yesterday, but did not and is remaining in the city for a further conference. If the contract had been accepted two weeks ago it would have mant that money would have become im mediately available as it is, PWA funds have been diverted to direct Pederal unemployment relief on ac count of the delay by Congress in passing the works relief appropria tion bill. Of the total amount 1,550, 000 is for an expenditure by the War Department: $113,000 is Federal grant to the Morehead City Port Terminal Commission and the re maining $313,000 is a loan in the form of four per cent bonds. The proposed contract by the rail road, in which the State owns a con trolling interest, is in the form of a guaranteed contribution for the re payment of the bonds. The contract is based on self operation of the rail road but would not preclude another lease if a satisfactory lessor can be found. The road sometimes ago can celled its lease to the Norfolk South ern Railroad because of default in rentals. - - " The contract is based on estimates of receipts and operating costs which must be approved by the PWA. HOME ECONOMIST i- i V v J Youg school Boy CALL RELIEF WHEN E "SSSfteLi WrifM Ronaftvelt' T z 2 mcr ocnool Bound IBM WIM WUKh And the letter which originated in Carteret county is returned to J. G. Allen, local school official who has made some investigation into the child's plight, and believes that the child is justified and likewise great ly in need of eye glasses, that he re quested President Roosevelt to help him get. The youngster is one of eight children in a family that is un able to provide the glasses. He is in Chislers on Relief Who Re fuse Employment When Of fered Same May Discover That FERA is no Santa Claus Persons on Relief rolls who refuse employment when offered same, will be taken off the rolls unless they have a mighty good alibi for turning the fifth grade of one of the Carter- own the offer to go to work, accord- et county schools, says Mr. Allen and the letter follows: "I am a little boy twelve years old, almost are a kind man and often help the poor and will you please help to get me some glasses. Sos I can finish my studies. Mabey some day I can be a great man like you. My dady works hard to get bread. I have no warm clothes. Their are eight of us in fam ily. We life in a four room shack and when it rains we only have one dry room. I will close thanking you for what you have done for our govern ment." Mr. Allen said further that he be ing to Mrs. Malcolm Lewis, local di rector of FERA. Numerous com plaints have been made that it is al- t , i ii... i nrln T otv. musi impusiuie to secure servants or But only in the fifth grade. I am I k f certain , m thia ,st blind. I have heard that yoUwoers iro .ert'n !asses "L! seuuuu. Dui Liiis siiuaiauu tuum uc easily remedied if the person offer ing employment would just call up the Relief office and inform the of ficials there, when a person refuses to work. If this method is used a great many chiselers who are receiving food and other aid from the FERA will soon learn that this organization is not the Santa Claus they thought it was. In stead of talking it around the by ways and hedges, when an unemploy ed nerann rpfuses to work, those of- lieves he can arrange for an eye testlfering same can simplify matters by and suitable glasses for this child injcalling Mrs LewiSi u such a person me eveni mat uneresieu ciuzens wui iwn colored boys stole a brief case out of the car of a person in Beaufort on business last December. They did not know how to work the zipper fastener that opened and clos ed the case so instead of returning same they threw it overboard. It was never found. The case contained sev eral thousand dollars worth of notes and negotiable paper. The two boys were found and found guilty of theft when tried be fore Juvenile Judge Lawrence Has sell. The only thing he could do was order them to jail until some juve nile institution would take them. That was in December. The boys seemed to like jail life and county board. But Judge Hassell ordered them released two weeks ago be cause feeding the youngsters was quite an expense to the county. This week came word from Morrison Training School at Hoffman that the boys could be admitted there. On Thursday Judge Hassell was draw ing up the proper papers to enter the boys in this institution and they will be leaving in a few days for more free board, but this time on the State. WILL PACK CRABS IN MODERN PLANT send in same a total of $7.50 to cov er the cost of materials only. MISS BLYTHE BURNETTE Miss Blythe Burnette, of Royston, ' Ga., who is a graduate of Home Eco-1 v nr-UT nomics from the University of Geor- 1 W ILiN 1 I tltivsil 1 gia and has been employed in this MI TI FQ ARRIVF 111 VUUW T U PTA RESOLUTION ADOPTED TUESDAY refusing gainful employment is on re lief rolls, they will be taken off, if an investigation reveals that the per son was not justified in refusing the employment. EARL MASON HAS AMBITIOUS HENS connection with the Georgia Power Company for the past five years will ! be at the Beaufort High School, I Mules are scarce down in this sec- read v tn pive anv one emprt sue- tion of the country, lhere are proD- -. r 0 , gestions on food problems, planning any I01KS QOWn ncre alon& ine Down on Ocracoke island last win- meals and parties or assist in plan-'coasl tnat nave never even seen one ter one of George B. Howard's hens ning better and proper lighting for .of these long eared beast ot burden, ..d twQ eggg daiyi 0ne was soft shell vour home. Tide Water Electric except on pictures where they were .v. Mhar. haj.A w;a hn crnt into the Company sponsors her coming here. I representing the Democratic party. I papers for her achievement. It is not surprising that a hen will law two eggs daily on Ocracoke. Most any thing can happen there. .But now Carteret county has a hen that laws two eggs each day. miat is 'eight hens lay nine eggs each day, and it all sifts down to the same thing. Earl Mason, who lives on North River road. He first told the story to Mr. Rumley the feed and and will arrange interviews for any!There are a great many people up in one with Miss Burnette. Boat "Snap Dragon" Was Built By Capt; Burns Near Beaufort But this "Snap-Dragon" was not the mountains and Piedmont who have never seen a Banker Pony so that squares that. ;,The 28 reaching here this weekfa board a railrciad stock" ear will "be turned over to Carteret county rehab ilitation cases. If after the end of a year the rehabilitation case wants to own th animal they have been HARD CRABS ARE CANNERY BOUND loaned, they have the privilege of ,seed man on Front street. Mr. Rum ley passed the story on to the Beau- the famous provateer according to a', , . ' 00 TTti orriun1 : Ro... book published back in 1905 by de-jfopt the muiM were quartered and scendants of Capt. Otway Burns ; vq:0j tw j h whose tomb is one of the interesting bei distributed to farmers! fort News reporter. historical markers in the town of who will hitch them to plows and' This Meeting Marked 20th An niversary of Founding; Mrs. A. J. Flowers Makes Inter esting Talk. A party honoring the 2Uth anni versary of the organization was a feature of the Beaufort Parent Teachers meeting held here Tuesday night. Mrs. Wheatly president of the group presided and the monthly prize was given to Miss Louise Hudgins' room 1-1 for having the most par ents present. A yearly attendance drive ended with this meeting and prizes of $5 each was presented Miss Hudgins teacher of grade 1-1 and Miss Nellie Lewis' grade 6-1. Miss Mamie Wolf of grade 4-2 reecived prize of $2.50 for 75 per cent at tendance, while Miss Lena Duncan, senior grade and Miss Loftin and Miss Bowers received H each for having 50 per cent attt-.i'.ance. After the business ii.. ting M. Leslie Davis read a resolute, i which was adopted by those present. It follows: RESOLUTION WHEREAS, The Parent-Teachers Association of Beaufort, N. C, in regular meeting, wishes to take this means of commending the State sup ported eight months school term, and WHEREAS, it wishes for our Law Makers now assembled to know its keen interest in our schools, and WHEREAS, it is greatly concern ed about future development of its own school, as well as the schools of the whole State, IT IS THEREFORE RESOLVED: That as a school body it recommends the following as of vital interest to the schools of our State: 1st. Adequate teachers salaries based on the 1929-30 salary schedule, and be based on annual salary basis insetad eight months' basis. 2nd. Provide safe and sufficient truck transpo.tation for the children. 3rd. Suffic: .nt funds for larger and better librari.s and shool equipment. 4th. Thae teachers be allotted on basis of daily memberships and not on daily attendance. RESOLVED FURTHER: That Rpaufort. Quite recentlv the actinei , , i L , " start renaoincaxing minga m wie near editor of this newspaper was told that ;-,.. .1.. - l. r-i... irutu'e- me iamous snip was ouiii. near uiuu- cester and that members of the Pick' ett family in that section could prove it Historical records show that Capt. Burns acquired a Baltimore clipper the "Levere" in New York, fitted her Rector of St. Paul's B. H. S. Senior Class Has Play on Friday A comedy in three acts will be pre sented by the Senior class of Beau- Visits Prison Campitorium on Friday night, March 1. The title of the play, "Kicked Out of Col lege" has not only a large cast of characters, but there will be many ad- Bogue Sound Trot Liners Had Good Luck Early ThU Week and Keceiv cd $2 per Barrel for Crustaceans The hard crab season has started and on Tuesday morning of this week, the Beaufort branch of the New Bern Seafood company receiv ed over 100 barrels, mostly from points along Bogue sound. If weather conditions remain balmy there is no telling how many barrels of these pinching crustaceans will be taken within the next few days. They are said to be unusually numerous in surrounding waters at the presnt time But the tides must be right for the trot liners to catch them in any quan tities. Apparently the full moon tides are just rite, considering the num ber caught this week. The only pa thetic part of this story is the fact that all crabs caught must be shipped to canneries elsewhere. The bulk of the local seafoodery buys are at pres ent beink shipped to Hampton or Norfolk. Not so pathetic, however, is the prices being paid. Each barrel con tains approximately 250 crabs. The current price this week was $2 per barrel. This is not an established price as it fluctuates on marketin .conditions. Willis Seafood Company Estab lishes Morehead Cannery That Should Benefit Those Catching Hard-Crabs A modern hard crab cannery has been established in Morehead City by the Gordon C. Willis Seafood Com pany and was opened to the public this week. It is hoped that this can nery will answer a great need for this section. Only this week several hundred barrels of hard-crabs caught by Bogue sound trot-liners were ship ped to Norfolk and Hampton cenner- ies. Perhaps the new plant will, if they pay prices equal to the Virginia buyer, get the bulk of the hard crab business of this section. Features of the new plant are the modern methods employed at the can nery. It is thoroughly sanitary, being equipped with metal topped tables and painted white throughout. The pickers must wear white uniforms and white caps and sit at their work instead of standing. The work room faces the water and is separated from the cooking room, where the crab meat is prepared for the cans. Each picker is known by a number. Each batch of crab-meat will bear a slip on which the number of the pick er is placed so that any mistake in grading can be easily traced. The product is put in one pound cans as is picked and classified into four groups; No. 1, the back fin, No. 2, Special, No. 3, white meat and No. 4 claws. As soon as cans are sealed they are placed on ice for retail trade or shipment. Crab-shells too will be shipped, to be used in serving devil ed crabs. The Rev. Mr. Lawrence Fenwiek, out as a privateer and changed the :rpptnr nf St. Paul's church conducted name to Snap Dragon. She played an services for the 19 inmates of thejditional in the cast, including singers imoprtant part in the War of 1812, state Highway Prison camp on 'of the first grade boys and girls and Covering The WATER FIIOXT By AYCOCK BROWN HARDY PAKE DIED THIS AFTERNOON and was finally captured by the Eng lish and taken to England where mem bers of the crew (the ancestors of many persons along this section of the coast today) were confined in Dartmocr prison for duration of war. After the war Capt. Burns built 'North River Road last Sunday after-; a special feature will be College noon. He was accompanied to the Khythmn, presented by twelve gins, camp by a group of singers from the i The scene of the play is in a col- church. Services opened with the hymn, "Bless be The Tide That Flows," ending with "God Be With You Till lege town. The cast follows: Booties Benlow, A Popular Senior Claude Wheatly. several ships, rli plant was in or: We Meet Again." The subject of Mr. iaa neseuune, xne conege cui-up near Eeaufort. One of the crafts he Fenwick's talk was :"Jesus Christ, Gray Hassell. built us'.ng 'the timbers of staunch; the same yesterday, today and for Leviticus, the ace of spades live oaks which came from Shackle-1 ever. "Of several prayers, one from i Philip Taylor. ford and Bogue banks was "a small! the Praver Book of the Episcopal Scotch McAllister, a hard student two masted schooner sail boat, nam-! faith, for Prisoners was most fitting ing her the "Snap-Dragon" and put a ! for the occasion. center-board in her, the first ev-; The 19 inmates of this prison camp er known in this section. She could all Negroes responded to the various hymns, by singing songs and spirit uals of their own Race. It was very beat any boat in Core Sound." Work on Beaufort's Harbor Begins Soon Elizabeth Ramsey. Shorty Long, on the glee club Mildred Dickinson. Silvers Madge, a happy junior Charles Rice. Mr. Benjamin J. Benlow, Booties' impressive and each prisoner showed Ifather Robert L. Davis, religious pro- much interest in the gram. This camp is under the supervision of Phnrlpa Thnmna. TVip mnrfllfi nn- On March 15 the district army en- jp vis Hirpntinn i9 rxseA th hpf gineer's office in Wilmington is to j of any similar camp in North Car0. open Dias on a contract 10 ureuge:linai He shows a great deal of inter. approximately 63,600 cubic yards of !est in his prisoner8, and his prisoners, material from the Beaufort harbor all of which are Grade-A class, have and approximately 52,700 cubic yards ; fc deal respect for their irom oouin xviver. ine nrsi namea ' guardian. worK win give tseauiorx a cnannei and a basin before the city twelve feet in depth. That in South River will provide a channel of seven feet to Aurora. ASARIAH MASON MARRIAGE LICENSES Death came as a shock to residents of Sea Level when Asariah Mason 70 died Saturday afternoon, February 16. Although suffering from a com- Alonzo Collins and Susan Bryant, plication of diseases for some time Beaufort. j his premature passing was expected Leamon Eubanks and Beulah Dix- by no one. on, Beaufort. Mr. Mason was never married. He James W. Morton, East Walling-, lived alone in Sea Level near a well ford, Vt., and Daisy V. Villis, More- known repair shop. His disposition! head City. Mr. Sandy McCann, coach of the dramatic club Douglas Merrill. Officer Riley, from the Emereld isle Odell Merrill. Mr. Gears, of the Speed Motor co. Fred Davis. Jonquil Gray, the little chauffeur Mary T. Hinnant. Betty Benlow, Booties' sister Mary Sue Rudder. Mrs. B. J. Benbow, her mother, a politician Lucille Hill. "Ma" Baggsby, a popular landlady Ethel Conway. Mrs. Meditabel McCann, a jealous wife Helen Jones. Selina McCann, aged thirteen Vir ginia Stanton. Miss Juliet Snobbs, the college ste nographer Arnecia Wiley. Mile. Mimi Fleurette, a French cos turner Julia .Thomas. Salamanca Spivins, a black wash lady Louise Bailey. Students Glen Carraway; Fred For Thirty Years He Was Fore man of the Late C. P. Dey's Fertilizer Plant The State Port, Virginia Carolina Line steamer was still aground near New Inlet today. She stuck there early this week. CG 228 went to her assistance but the low tides of this week made it difficult working with the craft. The Edward G. Farrington of the N. B. & C. Line also rendered aid but together the two could not pull the one out to deep water. Hugh Hill showed me over the Far rington this morning while she was laying here discharging cargo before continuing northward. The vessel is built entirely of steel. She is electri cally driven and has a tonnage of a bout 400. Capt. Wise her Master show ed me through the pilot house. There is a big wheel for steering but it is seldom used. Instead there is a little handle that a baby could operate, which is used for steering the boat. Stricken with pneumonia a few days ago Hardy Pake, well-known resident of Beaufort died this after noon in the Morehead City Hospital. While his condition for the past two davs was considered critical, his death will be a Ereat shock to his many friends here. Surviving is his widow, Mrs. Pake and nine children Time of funeral services had not been announced when the Beaufort News went to press today. jwas general kind with those whom he 'Davis; John Gillikin; Roland Long- ' associated with and was an interest- est. CIVIL SERVICE EXAMS. The United States Civil Service Commission has announced open com petitive examinations as follows: Assistant statistical clei-k, $1,620 a year, departmental service, Washing ton, D. C. Chief dietitian, $2,300 to $2,900 a year, head dietitian, $2,000 to $2,500 a year, staff dietitian, $1,800 to $2,- 160 a year, Public Health Service and Veterans' Administration. Full information may be obtained from the Secreary of the United States Civil Service Board of Exam iners at the post office or custom house in any city which has a post office of the first or the second class, or from the United States Civil Ser vice Commission, Washington, D. C. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE The new road from Atlantic Beach to Fort Macon is beautiful and bumpy. And crooked. The bumps will be taken out by the time heavy traffic starts on the road in the summertime. But the curves around sand dunes, through youpon and scraggly cedar thickets and marshes will not be elimianted. I predict 15 major accidents on that five mile stretch this coming summer and at least three deaths unless the road is policed well by traffic officers. The Fish and Oyster Reporter, na tional trade journal for fishermen and oystermen used our editorial on "Keeping Drum Inlet Open." A man in Erie, Pa., wrote asking if we would advise him if a person could make from $300 to $2000 per year in this section trapping for fur bearing animals. Anyone who wishes to tell this professional trapper whether he can make that much or if some farmer in the county would like to have the fellow's address a stamped envelope or card sent to this column will get immediate response. Sunday skeet shooting is still proving popular. Last Sunday there were many cars parked on the fill between Morehead City and Beaufoit enjoying this recreation. The wind was in the wrong direction last Sun day for the popping guns to be heard very plainly over here in town. copies of this RESOLUTION be sent ; RADIO PROGRAM ON SALES TAX; ing story teller. He was the son of: Members of Women's Party -Ag io our Representative and our two 1 the late Isiah and Armesa Mason and atha Gillikin, Minnie Harvey, Myrtle! SENATORS, urging their hearty co- Tonight, rebruary 28th, at 7:15 is survived by one brother, C. W. Powell, Helen Salter, operation in making these impor- ( o'clock Dr. Ralph W. McDonald, rep- Mason of Stacy and three nieces and1 tant things, possible, for our schools, resentative from Forsyth county will two nephews all of Morehead City,1, The above Resolution was unani--'speak on the General Sales Tax and and another niece Mrs. Abbott Salt mously passed by the Beaufort Par-- explain the McDonald-Lumpkin Tax, ter. Funeral services were conducted ent-Teachers Association Feby. 19th. j proposals which have been offered as Sunday afternoon in Bay View cem (Continued on page tight) I a substitute for the sales 'tax. etery. BIRTHS Born to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Dan iels of Atlantic at Morehead City Hospital, Feb. 25th, a son. Wiley II. Taylor, treasurer of the Beaufort Chamber of Commerce, requests that all members of the or ganization please stop by his office in the U. S. Postoffice building and pay their dues. Members will realize that this is a practical plan as, while, itw ould take considerable time for Mr. Taylor to visit each member per sonally, everyone can easily see him while calling for their mail and thus help create an efficient system. Mr. Seeley overlooked me in his address of welcome to new members of the Rotary Club last Tuesday night. He had seen me there so much that he probably though I was already a member. But I was not. Two new members were taken in last week. One was the Rev. Mr. Rogers of the ethodist church. The other was Aycock Brown of this waterfront column. (Continued on page eight)