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VOLUME XXIV
EIGHT PAGES this WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THU RSDAY, June 27, 1935
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BIG EVENTS FOR
FOURTH OF JULY
IN THIS COUNTY
Edge water Club Will Present!
Midsummer Skeet Tourna-1
ment Featuring Open Cham-:
pionship Shoots For Men,
Women and Children.
BOAT RACES PLANNED
Three Classes of Sailboats to
Participate in Races to be
Presented by Morehead Boat
Club; Probably Motor Boat
Races Also With Dances at
Atlantic Beach
Starting Wednesday, July 3, a
three day skeet tournament will be
presented by Edgewater Club. The
first day will be devoted to practice
shooting with the championship shoots
on Thursday and Friday. While- skeet
ers are enjoying their sport out on
Edgewater's skeet field, lover of boat
races will be either witnessing or tak
ing part in Morehead Boat Club
events. An on the night of the
Fourth, Manager Bob Cordon of At
lantic Beach will present a big dance
in the "Casino by the Sea." It
should be a big Fourth for Carteret
county this year.
The skeet schedule for Thursday
will include the Sand Crab Champion-
ship of 100 targets and the Edge-
water ladies Championship. On Fri-
day the Flying Dolphin Championship
will be presented. Eight trophy cups
(Continued on page eight)
Coal Thrower Struck
Davis, Missed Hayes
Jerome Davis, of Davis Shore was
struck on top of his cranium the
other night by a piece of coal and
was given treatment by ,.Dr, . Chad
wick.. Considerable blood was lost
but no fractures resulted
unusual case.
It was an
Mr,
Davis and George Hayes, the'ern Carolina has not made its appear-
latter well-known night watchman of ance in this section yet. It is en
Beaufort were sitting in front of !.couraging news to parents interested
Owens Brothers State about 11 p. m. in the welfare of their children.
Suddenly from above came a hunk of '
coal about the size of a man's fist, J- c- Knox M- D- collaborating
which struck the button on the in- epidemiologist of the U. S. Public
jured man's cap. That may have Health Service sent bulletins to local
saved him. Some think that the health officials this week. In his bull
coal dropped by an unknown elimi- etin the disease is called 'poliomyeli
nator was aimed at Watchman Hayes tis' technical and hard to pronounce
who usually goes bareheaded at word which means Infantile Paraly
night and who would probably have sis- The bulletin in part follows:
been seriously injured if it had "At this time there is an unusual
struck his head. prevelance of poliomyelitis through-
out the State; however, most of it is
W. E. ADAIR BUYS NEW in eastern North Carolina.
FUNERAL CAR-AMBULANCE "Our knowledge of this disease
leads us to believe that there is a pos-
Mr. Adair and his son Bill return- sibility of there being a greater num
ed this week from Lima and Cincinn- ber of cases during the months of
ati, bringing with them a new fnn- June and July, probably the peak of
eral car and ambulance. It is a incidence being reached in the first
Studebaker (President Model) and is two weeks of August. If this dis
by far the finest conveyance of its ease should follow the expected
kind in Carteret county. (Continued on page eight)
BabsoriSays Soaking the Chain
Stores Means Soaking the Poor
TIDE TABLE
Information as to tne tida
it Beaufort is given in this co
jrnn. Tha figures are app.-o
imately correct and based on
table's furnished by the U. S,
Oeodetic 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 atl
he head of the estuaries.
High Tide Low Tide
Friday, June 28
6:00 a. m. 12:10 a. m.
6:35 p. m. 12:03 p. m.
Saturday, June 29
6:55 a. m. 1:01 a. m.
7: 25p. m. 12:54 p. m.
Sundry, June 30
7 :4
a. m. 1:46 a. m.
8:09
p. m. 12:42 p. m.
Monday, July 1
a. m. 2:29 a. m.
8:28
8:48
p. m. 2:26 p. m.
Tuesday, July 2
9:08
9:27
a. m. d:US a.
p. m. 3:10 p.
Wednesday, July 3
m.
m.
9:48 a.
10:00 p.
m. 3:47 a,
m.
m. 3:52 p,
Thursday, July 4
m
10:31 a. m. 4:26 a. m.
10:40 p. m. 4:34 p. m.
It Has Been Rumored That Beaufort-Morehead Highway Will Be Closed to Traffic
Ten days ago when the rum- gram that Mr. Waynick had
or first started the Beaufort not paid any attention, (insofar
Chamber of Commerce wired as Beaufort's Chamber of Com
Capus Waynick, chairman of merce knew) to the telegram,
the State Highway Commission, The editor urgently requested
requesting that all data pertain His Excellency to have the
ing to the possible closing of State Highway Department,
Beaufort-Morehead City road wire immediately, collect if nec
be supplied. That was 10 days essary the desired information.
ago. So far Mr. Waynick has
not responded to the telegram,
Neither has his office. That
kind ot management ot a pub-
lie office does not make Mr.
Waynick very popular with in-
terested citizens of Beaufort
who want the information a-
bout the road.
This week the editor of this tire Eastern end of a thriving i Local Highway authorities and wires are net answered or
newspaper wired Governor J. county , it seems that telegrams have expressed their views. the data requester' is not fur
C. B. Ehringhaus a night letter, addressed to Highway Commis- Even if such repairs were con-'nished.
He was informed in the tele- sioners and Governors would be templated, they have stated, it'
Infantile Paralysis
Cases Plentiful But
Not Along The Coast
Dr. W. S. Chadwick, public health
officer of Carteret county reports a-
gain this week that infantile paraly
sis, raging in many sections of East-
Babson Park, Mass. .June 28 Af
ter a mediocre spring season, retail
sales are finally responding to
the
warmer weather of the past
,tw0
weeks Mail order and
sales are showing the
chain store
greatest im
ct im
provement over last year,
In fact,'
the chains have had an enviable rec
ord not only during the recovery per
iod but throughout the depression.
The most unfortunate development
i n the chain store situation has been
in the matter of special taxes. Twen
ty or more states have placed such
taxes on the chains within the past
iyear or two. There has been a ris
ing wave of antogonism against the
big retail groups which has swept
from coast to coast. In spite of the
progress which the chain store has
made it a target for politicians. Just
as in the case of the public utility in
dustry, short-sighted political perse -
cution has been the reward for ca -
pable and progressive management.
Florida Passes Tax on
of Chains
Gross Sales
The most drastic chain store tax
which has come to my attention is
the one recently passed by the Flor
ida legislature. The bill levies an an
nual occupational tax on retailers
ranging from $10 plus 1-2 or 1 per
cent of gross receipts for single
stores to a $4UU license and a o per
cent tax on gross receipts each for
: chain stores operating as
many as
, sixteen or more units.
(Continued on page two)
Will This Bridge Leading Into
The next morning a collect tel-
egram (amount 32c) came
from Mr. Powell, the Chief Ex
ecutive s secretary
advising
that the Governor was out of
town on vacation,
In matters of this kind which
are of vital importance to not
only a municipality, but the en -
ousanus
Swept Loca
Propagation of Five Species of
Herons Seriously Retarded
By Loss of Many Thousand
Young Which Cooked Alive
On Monday
MANY SONG BIRDS DIE
Carteret County With No Fire War
den Service Should Consider Ser
iously the Establishment of Same
Following Disastrous Blaze Which
Destroyed Untold Numbers of
Wildlife and Hundreds of Acres of
Woodlands.
Thousands of young herons in the
Lenoxville rookery three miles east
,of Beaufort were cooked alive Mon
day when a forest fire which had got
ten far beyond the control of man
swept through the woods. It was pa
thetic to see the parent birds by the ,
hundreds, perched in trees ahead of
Lite names, as tuey new mil wie mu&e
over the swamp looking for their
young.
Apparently considered a minor in
cident by local government officials,
1. 1 il a . t 1. '
whom it seems should have called out
voiunteers to check the flames, the
loss of the Lenoxville Rookery nev-
1 ertheless was considered
an impor
tant breeding ground by the Audubon
Societv who naid Cant.. Davft Ondwin.
'retired mariner and carpenter, a
Hr-H rir nH
small stipend to act as warden of the
place. Nationally the story was con
sidered big. AP dispatches of the
loss bearing Beaufort date lines ap-
(Continued on page eight)
William Allen
Drowned Sunday
, William Allen, 25 year old resi
dent of Greenville, drowned in the
surf at the beach last Sunday. Of
ficials of Atlantic Beach stated that
, he was not registered at the bath
', houses there and that he was drowned
! outside of the life saving or roped in
area ot tne oeacn. xne oouy was
recovered by Donald Stallings, 18
year old wake rorest stuaent ana a
resident of New Bern who rushed to
the drowning man's aid and at risk of
jhis own dragged the body ashore.
Fort Macon Coastguardsmen under
command of Capt. Elmo Stewart used
artificial respiration methods on the
body but were unable to bring it back
to life. The victim was the son of
.M- and Mr3- Fred A1Ien of Green-
' ville. Recently he had been working
in Durham but at one time M Wl
engaged in the construction of cot -
tages on Atlantic Beach.
Beaufort Be Closed To
given attention by their offices, -
their secretaries, or the State
or Department of State which
are represented.
The rumor started about two
weeks or more ago. A resident
of Beaufort was in the State
Highway office in Raleigh. He
was told that the road from
Beaufort to Morehead might be
closed and possibly a free fer
ry started while repairs were
'made on the bridges. It is un
derstood that b ederal Water
way authorities have said the
aravvs ana pnes Deneatn tne
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GENERAL ALARM!
Another general alarm was
sounded by the local fire depart
ment shortly after noon today
to summon volunteer firemen to
the scene of a forest fire which
had spread towards North Riv
er road and endangered the
homes of Albert Willis and A.
B. Perry. Back firing meth
ods, the booster truck and chem
icals were being used and the
firemen some IS or more were
still fighting the blaze as the
Beaufort News goes to press.
SANDHILLS TO Bl
First Blast Was Fired Wednes
day on Money Island Beach
Which Promoters Say Will
Be "Free to Surf Bathsrs
Forever"
Work on "Money Island Beach' a
new development located at the old
Ocean Beach properties is progressing
rapidly and the promoters expect to
Vinva t Vl a Vinfal Anon 4-V n knnAh m
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i """""V w summer season
passes. A dynamite expert from
Of H
7 "uro"1 13 on tne Deactl months in the common jail, to be as-
at present and Wednesday the first '.ed to the S.H. and P.W. Commis
blast was fired toward the leveling oil sion He immediately appealed and
of the sandhills. j bond was fixed at $300. The def en-
Stanley Woodland, Morehead City dant abandoned his appeal however
and Paul Cleland of Kinston are su-
pervising the making of the beach
They are a part of a group which in-
eludes Major Matt Allen, Ernest V.
Webb and others in this State who
have taken over the properties.
The old ocean beach hotel is be
ing rolled to the eastward some 100
yards and it may be that the building
will be completed and ready for oc-j
cupancy long before summer passes.
Allen in Kinston this week stated
that a unique plan of financing made
the resort possible. The Money Is-1
land Bench properties includes over.
100 acres. j
The DuPont blasting expert will
level the sandhills, after which streets
will be laid out and lots sold. The
"a free beach forever" idea meets
with favor locally among people who
oppose the present system of charging
25 cents to all persons going to At
lantic Beach for surf bathing. Man-
: ager Bob Cordon of the beach, hovr-
ever, has steadfastly reepated that
the 25 cent charge was not so much
(Continued on page fire)
Traffic?
m
-si
For Bridge Repairs
seems that it would not be nec-
essary to close the road to traf
fic. Other bridges are repair
ed without closing them to traf
fic. A fair example of this is
the Atlantic Beach bridge. Ev
eryone who has driven that
route knows that the bridge
work is carried on daily, with
out closing the span.
Regardless of whether plans
are underway for closing the
span or not, it does not seem
that a public office is being op
erated as it should be when a
i
unamuer ot uommerce or a
' J t n
, town s newsnaner wires tor m-
.formation of vital imDortance.
ROTARY TO OFFER
DONKEY BASEBALL
Morehead and- Beaufort Repar
ians Will Clash in Unique
Baseball Games This Week
end Aboard Donkeys
Rotarians of Beaufort and More
City will me-et on Friday and Satur
day night in the most unusual base
ball clashes ever presented in this
section. Members of the two clubs
will play ball, but instead of running
to the bases they will ride donkeys.
That is an actual fact, 12 genuine
Mexican burros will be brought here
for the games.
On Friday night at 8:15 o'clock the
first game will be played in Morehead
City High school ball park. On Sat
urday night at the same time a re
(Continued on page five)
DROPS DEAD
Linwood H. Springle, Turner Street
resident dropped dead on the street
near his home at 5 o'clock this af
ternoon. iNo details of his death
could be learned other than the cause
was heart trouble.
Judge Webb Eliminates cBeaujort's
Outstanding Panhandle- r7. Bunyon
Judge Paul Webb, Carteret's Re
corder Court jurist made himself j
popular with a great many local peo
ple Tuesday when after hearing the
evidence in a case against J. B.
(John Bunyon) Congleton charged
with assaulti found the defendant
guilty and sentenced him to 12
and Beaufort's most outstanding pand
handler and dypsomaniac has already
left for Lenoir county.
) .
Ifc 13 . god riddance. Numerous
times since Congleton conipktej an
other road sentence and n turned to
. . . . . . tt 1 been a newspaperman, lou c!i
have gone m against him. He hasi., '. ,, , ,
even threatened women and begged
. . . . ,
from evMyone who looked like they
would give him "bread and meat" i
money, as was always his plea It '
uaa ucni bciiu uv ui incut, iil.li.eili . . .
here that many yachtsmen have quit jah10W! ktter of introduction sign.
j bringing their boats to Beaufort pri
marily because they were pestered
'with a begging dysomaniac.
Congleton, (he is far better known
as John Bunyon) could have been
charged with highway robbery, ac
cording to Lawrence Hassell. It
seems that he threatened or tried to
take a tambourine filled with small
change from a Salvation Army man vacation in the South, that he had
last week-end. For his trial the de- relatives in Raleigh and was a native
, f Concord. He had secured his con
( Continued on page eight). . . (Continued to page four)
LITTLE INTEREST
SHOWN IN COMING
LIQUOR ELECTION
United Dry Forces, Reported in
Elizabeth City This Week
To be Heavily in Debt and
Calling on Churches for
Support, Have Spread a Bit
of Propaganda Locally
SATURDAY CHALLENGE DAY
Quite a Large Number Seems
To Fayor Control, and Other
Counties Voting This week
Have Gone Wet, But Out
come in Carteret is Doubtful
One wet said, "That fellow who
claims to be such an exponent of the
dry law, has taken drinks with me
several times." And the man speak
ing was not talking about coco-cola
either. Several Drys have said, "the
getting of liquor control would mean
only one thing the return of bar
rooms." The Beaufort News has
said nothing concerning the election
and will say nothing unless it is said
in paid advertisements at the rate of
25 cents per inch which will be class
ed as political advertising and must
be paid in advance. We will still
run 300 words or less in our mailbox
column but for heavy advertising we
must abide by the rule in the fore
going sentence.
Quite a number have registered for
voting in the coming election to be
staged on July 6. Saturday will be
challenge day. The local 'drys' or
those in favor of no control, are so
Jar waging a sort of silent fight.
Things are expected to get more in
teresting during the coming week.
Two counties voting under the new
control law this week went wet 10 to
1. Judge Frizzelle said the liquor
laws are invalid. But yet there are
several elections to be held in East
ern Carolina during the next few
days, and it seems likely that they
will go off as scheduled. The two
counties that have voted control ex
pect to open liquor stores within the
next few days.
TOMATO PRICE IS
ON THE DECREASE
Approximately 5,000 lugs have
been shipped from Carteret county to
date, one packer stated, who added
that local price today varied from 75
cents to $1.25 per lug, depending
largely on the size and quality of the
tomatoes.
In the Huntley packing house near
the corner of Lenoxville Road and
Atlantic highway many of the toma
toes are being prepared for shipment.
A Mis. Lackey of Florida packs the
majority of those leaving here and
so expert she is in this art that it
takes sevenl graders busy keeping
her supplied with tomatoes.
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By AYCOCK BROWN
I AM J T NATURALLY Sum
suppose. I thought I had out grown
tut. dgu where I would let a check
flasher gyp me but I learned too
late (to catch the man) that I am
just another sucker. "Mr. Laurens
E. Calvert" who said he was "news
editor of the New York Times" car
ried me for a ride last
ride cost five bucks.
week. The
IN WALKS A MAN whom I recog
nized immediately as being or having
can tell
; mem every lime. vv e ail iook
ok more
or less like freaks of the human
race. "Mr. Calvert" had all the ear
marks of a newspaperman. And he
had a good racket too. First he
cd with the names of Frank Smeth-
urst, managing editor, and Frank
Daniels, treasurer, of th News and
Observer. Naturally the names were
forged but we were too dumb to re
member how the Smethurst and Dan
iels signatures really look and we
have seen both many times.
MR. CALVERT SAID HE was on
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