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VOLUME XXIV
EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, SEPT. 26, 1935
PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY
NUMBER 40
Beaufort Group Asked
Governor To Consider
Local
Rail S
ituation
But His Excellency Said The
Matter Was Out of His Con
trol, But Indicated he Would
Do All Possible to Maintain
Rail Connections For Beaufort.
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BARDEN WAS SPOKESMAN
Following Lengthy Conference With
Governor Ehringhaus Delegation
Conferred With Utilities Commis
sion Official Who Expressed Sur
prise That State Nor A & N. C.
Had Taken no Part in Protesting
The Proposed Abandonment by
Norfolk Southern of Her Beu
fort and Western Trackage
Virogously fighting the possibility
of being left without rail service a
delegation of Beaufort citizens ac
companied by Congressman Graham
A. Barden went to Raleigh last Fri
day to confer with Governor J. C. B.
Ehringhaus to try and determine the
State's position on the proposed dis
continuance of operation of the
Beaufort and Western railroad be
tween this town and Morehead City.
While Governor Ehringhaus declared
that the matter was not under his
control he gave the delegation the un
derstanding that he would in every
way possible give his assistance to
Beaufort's plea.
He stated that he would have his
Commissioner Winborne of the Utili
ties Commission give immediate at
tention to the protest and also prom
ised to call H. P. Crowell, executive
vice president of the A. and N. C. and
ask him to receive a delegation of
Beaufort citizens and to give every
consideration to their requests. A
Beaufort delegation will soon lay be
fore President Luther Hamilton, and
Executive Vice President Crowell the
amount of business that now originat
es by rail from Beaufort and East
Carteret and other reasons with the
thought that the A and N. C. will as
sume operations of the route at the
'dollar a year' or 'nominal suh' rent
al basis, which has been reported
they have been offered.
Included in 'he. Beaufort, delega
tion for which, Congressman Barden
served aa spokesman were the follow
ing: Fre-rl Seeley, George W. Huntley,
George Ball, Dr. . S. Maxwell. Dr.
Cliff or 1 Lewis, Paul Jones, .lack
RAILROAD
What Other
PAPERS ARE SAYING
SHOULD TAKE IT OVER
Beaufort citizens should have the
sympathy and the support of the
State in their fight against the dis
continuance of the little three-mile-long
Beaufort and Western Railroad
which would leave the town without
any rail connections. A little tag of
a railroad, which is owned by the
Norfolk Southern, the line is or
ought to be an integral part of the
A. and N. C. system. There is much
to be said for the Norfolk Southern
in its plea to be freed from operation
of the little road since it lies, now
that it no longer controls the A. and
N. C, removed from the rest of its
system. The State, which has enter
ed into a new adventure in railroad
operation, may not wish to take on
this short line because two draw
bridges lie in its brief length beyond
Morehead to Beaufort, bit if the
State is really going to serve the sec
tion in which it will operate its rail-
toad, it should not only take over its
own property which the Norfolk
Southern has operated in the past,
but also the short lined owned by the
Norfolk Southern which is essentail
to the commercial welfare of Beau
fort, The State has taken on a job in
the A and N. C. and the Beaufort and
Western as a practical matter is a
part of that job. (News and Observer.)
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Important Port Business At Edge water Tuesday
History will be made in the sun palor of Edgewater Club on Otcober 1
when bids for construction of Morehead City's port terminal will be op
ened and canvassed. Such a large throng of bidders are included in the list,
the scene for Tuesday's business was transferred from the Port Commis
sion office in down town Morehead City, because of lack of space," Luther
Hamilton, general counsel for the Port Commission said today.
Resettlement Group
Will Continue Their
Work In This County
War Department To
Start Dredging Port
Ghannel Immediately
Covirinq The
WATER I'ilOXl
By AYCOCK BROWN
DREDGES OF THE U. S. War
Department will start operations on
the channel leading to the Morehead
City terminal site within a week or 10
days, telephoned General Counsel
Luther Hamilton of the Port Commis
sion, hot from Washington today. A
pine line dredge will be used at first
and later another dredge will come,
probably a hopper. The difference be
tween the two a pipe line outfit
pumps soil substance to a shore near
by a hopper outfit scoops it up and
takes it to deep water off shore where
it is dumped.
Luther Hamlton Who Returned
From Washington Today
Brought Word That One of
Two Dredges to Be Used in
Channel Work Will Arrive
Within Week or Ten Days
TO OPEN BIDS TUESDAY
GIVES HIS HELP
BEAUFORT'S PLIGHT
Beaufort residents urge that oper
ation of the Beaufort and Western
Railroad be continued when the State
resumes operation of its Atlantic and
North Carolina. The public has be
come fairly familiar with the story of
(Continued on page eight)
Baby Loggerheads
Are Doing Nicely
Work of the volunteer debt ad
justment committee in Carteret coun
ty is being continued and expanded
under the supervision of the Reset
tlement Administration. C. M. Hill,
(Newport, N. C, is chairman and ; S.
A. Chalk, Morehead City, N. C, sec
retarys of the local eomjnittee, '"
The debt adjustment' program, in
augurated in 1935 by the Farm Cred
it Administration, has been transfer
red by President Roosevelt to the
Resettlement Administration. An allo
cation of two million dollars from the
Works Relief Fund has been made to
carry on the program throughout the
nation.
Members of the volunteer commit
tee have received no compensation.
Many of them have even paid their
own expenses when, as was often the
case, their duty called for travel. The
allocation made for this work is to be
used to def l s- expenses of the vol
unteer committees and for supervis
ory services.
The county committees
Congressman Barden
Immediately upon his return to
New Bein today from Washington,
Congressman Graham A. Barden tel
ephoned the fecretary of the Cham
ber of Commerce here and stated that
were ap-,ne a i .,oltcn the I.C.C. ancle on
GENERAL MANAGER Morru
Beaman of the Port Commission who
went ot Washington with Mr. Hamil
ton could not be contacted for an in
terview. We did have quite a chat with
Mr. Beaman in the tap-room of Edge
water Club last Saturday night. Mr.
Beaman was telling me about the mis
takes I have made in running this
newspaper. For instance I ran a pic
ture of a hotel which was destroyed
in Beaufort back in the 70s by a hur
ricane and early this month I put a
streamer, "Tropical. Gale Due To
night" across the front fage. That is
bad publicity from Mr. Beaman's
viewpoint and I had to tell him that
I was running a newspaper and not
a publicity agency. However if Man
continued on page five)
Charles Jackson, assistant director of
Neal, J. 0. Barbour, Aycock Brown, j the U. S. Liureau of Fisheries took
U. W, Sat'rit, Wiley Taylor, Seth 'seveuil back to Washington with him.
Gibbs, Hugh done, Murray Thomas Those were written up in the Wash
and Dr. H. M. Hendrix. ; ington Star recently. The remainder
Following a two hour conference ' are on exhibit in the museum at the
with Governor Ehringh-".is, the dele-' laboratory. Anyone interested in ba
gation conferred with ot ials of the by loggerheads may see them if they
( Continued on. pge i ' rht) (wish.
The loggerhead turtles recently
hatched at the iiureau ot t isneries ( pomieu loi- tne purpose ot trying to tne pvopOSOj abandonment of the
Laboratory on Piver's Island are do- avert court liquidation by preventing j Beaufort and Western tracks by the
ing nicely and seem to enjoy life in , bankruptcy or foreclosure. It is their i ,NnrfnlW Southern TVio Tnwn nviH
the aquarium under the care of Capt. j duty to attempt to b ring debtors and i Chamber of Commerce have filed
Charles Hatsell, their caretaker. Thir-; creditors) together, to see. if an ami- proper protests against the abandon-
ty seven naicnea anu 01 inai numoer i 1 "' hujusuubiil, muiuauy sausioc-; menfc ancj sx Weeks from August 27
tory, can be arranged.
In addition to settling thou
of individual cases, including a num
ber in this county, county committees
have h:id great influence in the res
toration of credit stability and in de
veloping the practice, on the part of
all creditors, of making reasonable
j or on or after October .10 the I.C.C.
,iciwith the Norfolk Southern's answer
SLOOP PENGUIN
SAILING SOUTH
Dix Becker of the sloop Penguin
and a companion who needed a hair
cut sailed into Beaufort, Monday af
ternoon from Ocracoke. Tuesday at
dawn they sailed for points South.
The two youngsters left New York
several months ago, moored awhile at.
Washington, N. C, then went to
Ocracoke where they divided their
time between square dancing and tak
ing parties out for moonlight sails.
In Beaufort they would have sold
their craft and gone in for other lines
of endeavor, but there was no sale
and they are hoping to dispose of
the Penguin farther south.
Edgewater Club's Sun Parlor Will be
Scene of Opening and Canvassing
Bid Received For Port Terminal
Construction. If Bids Are Approv
ed Tuesday Actual Work Will Com
mence on or Before October 20.
Many Persons to be Given Employ
ment.
"There are no more obstacles in the
way," said Luther Hamilton, general
counsel for The Morehead City Port
Commission upon his return from
Washington today, "and it now looks
like clear sailing for work to begin
on the terminal. The War Department
advised Mr. Hamilton in Washington
that the first of two dredces would
arrive within a week or ten days and
the channel work, for which $1,555,-
000 has been allotted will begin.
Contracting firms from throua-hout
the East have offered bids for ' ;he
work and these bids will be opened
and canvassed next Tuesday in the
sun parlor of Edgewater Club, ac
cording to the understanding Mr.
Hamilton has had. While the notices
that have been inserted in various
periodicals in the East read that bids
would be opened at Morehead City
Port Commission's headquarters (sec
ond story of former Marine Bank
building) such a large number of
contractors will be present that the
scene has been moved to Edgewater
Club, to avoid the crowding and
where ample space is available.
(Continued on page five)
ci:i-.!v'r.3 will have an!
oti'i'i1 their argument!
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y Horse Charlie Would
Have Taken Me On Home5'
adjustments
tion.
to avoid court liquida
!a-
Royall Talks About
Morehead Terminal
In an informal talk before the Ro
tary C. b hero Tuesday evening, Ro
tarian 3". Ben Royal of Morehead
City gr.ve an outline of the tremen
dous work that will bo done in the
That Is What Mr. Willis Said
After He Was Arrested By
to questionaire returned will set a
place and date for heaving. At that
time Beaufort
opportunity to
against the proposed uimmlomufnt.
Congressman Barden has given his
service and help in this matter be-'
cause he believes we i'.re due the rail
r-crvicc. jm idently it whs with him as
Farmers who are in financial (lis- spokesman for a Beaufort delegation'
tress should consult a member of that a two hour t'onfennee v.i'h;
their county committee. The commit- (iovernor Khrinelinus was given ia.-t
tee members for this county are: C, Friday with subsequent conferences!
VV. Huntley, Beaufort, N. ('., George , with 'Commissioner Stanley Winborne!
W. Ball. Hugh Overstreet is ex-oilieio and Clerk It. (). Self of the Utilities!
manager of local committee. Commission and Attorney General'
A.K.F. Seuwell.
Amber jack, Cero And
Dolphin Are Caught
Fishing from the schooner Luther
M. Werner, (Edgewater Club's char
tered vessel) in the Gulf Stream Sun
day, Larry I. Moore and party of
New Bern landed three cero, two dol
phin and Hi amberjack. One of the
amberjack hooked, (but he got away)
was reported as beinsr the largest.
fish any one in the party had ever
seen. The October fishinar in the Onlf
usually results in larger fish being
taken and ought to attract Gulf
Stream fishermen.
3al)son Says Rising Sales
Belter Business
A Highway Patrolman Last Last Rites Sunday For
Saturday Night. ! Sterling P. Chadwick Wnlopn Yp, nirl
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Elijah Willis, a respected citizen
and taxpayer of eastern Carteret coun
Funeral services for Sterling Price'
Hancock Chadwiek, 28, were conduct- '
ed last Sunday afternoon at St. Paul's
Boys May Join CCC
New plioihilitv mips, -frtr rnn(
buildirvr of the Port Terminal. His.t.v was arrested and iailed last Sat-! ,.vnn ,.,uu u"nrt t. ' : rnn i
. . - . . ! - jintiijc, wjui uic ivt: v. Lici vv i cute rcu- "iv-ii Pinion ii iii vuu uain nuw ai-
outlined covered many phases of the.nnday night on a charge of operating M.ick vector) conductjng the rites. ! low boys 17 years of age to enlist,
proposed work which will start with-'a two-wheel cart pulled by a horse iHe died here Friday afternoon. Hi according to announcement received
m 20 days after the bid for con- named Charlie on the public highway assiff came as a shock not only to this week by Mr. Gossard, head case
struction has been accepted. Briefly near the North River brirlae. Ha had1 :a t rJ..c,,.l u... a tn,.,a u.. u..i.. : r.J.-L. ..
people now on relie the odor of whiskey on his breath and Eastern Carolina because he had a i quota of white and colored boys will
naturally since Morehead City is re
ponrihle for t'i.' neraly half million
dollars it will t '-e to build the term
inal, evident af that town will be.
given ,iref eree-. Then will come
Carteivt but much skiled labor will
have to come from outside the coun
ty. F.)C the new residents coming to
work on the terminal site, housing
facilities must be furnished. And it
happens that the housing situation is told a court official that when he look
very ncute not only iii Morehead City ed out of the bars of th Garter
lut Beaufort and the county at large, jail, he just could not understand
. iwhy a tax payer and citizen should
A car of limestone was delivered to ,have to be humiliated in such a mxn
Yancey County farmers by the coun-j'nei'' was onlv a few miles from
ty agent last v?oL ' (Continued on parr five)
so a .wide circle of friends.
he said many
rous win oe given employment anil an empty bottle in the cart
charge ot drunkenne was also
brought against, him. While it is not: A member of the Beaufort Fire Do
especially news when one is arrested partment for many years both the
for d.-ivin-.r an automobile while drunk local department and .M.neh.' ul City's
u is rauier unusual wnen a person r ire , i oparinienr. too:; a part, in tne ()
is ..h.ir-e:! with opeating a horse and funeral po 'session and s-jrvicei. It :
cart under the influence of whiskey.
be allotted for Carteret county, and
as it will probably be the last enlist"
tnent for some time Mr. Gossard ad
vises persons interested in joining
to make the proper applications at. his
immediately.
Mr. Willis was very much grieved
for the treatment h& received. He
s their honor to a d ..; i ; i .e 1 memoer. j Unmarried, a widower or a divoiv-
Just as the body was !ow.:ed into ed man is classified as unmarried. A
the grave, the local Fire D.-p-tr'nient married man applying for enlWt-ment,
(Continued on page five) .though livinjr separated from his wife
. -is considered married unless he can
FOOTRAI 5 FPmAV showgal separation. Former enroll
r I ; ees with as much a3 foul. monthg con.
'tinuous service and holding "honor
Coach Dellinger's Beaufort High! able discharges" are eligible for re
football players will meet the Ayden enrollment. Further information may
High team there on Friday afternoon, be obtained at Mr. GossawVs office
fToTEorrow). hern in Beaufort.
Famous Statistician Says T.hit
Autumn Trade Is Making Up
For Lost Time; Better Trade
Reports From All Parts of
Country
ISA By ON PARK, MASS, Sept. 2(5
Preliminary reports of September
trade now coming to my office are
distinctly encouraging. Average sales
for the country as a whole are run
ning ten per cent ahead of la-t Sep.
tember with the best reports coming
from the West and the Pacific Coast.
In all sections, the backbone of this
improvement is rural trade.
September Trade at Recovery High?
$s every reader realizes, retail
traide is the acid test of business im
provement. The fact that local mer
chants are hiring more clerks and buy
ing more delivery wagons is concrete
evidence that business is recovering.
That is why the volume of a.des
should "e followed closely, not ju-t
by merchandising people, hut. by all ,
business men. To give readers a per-i
spective of retail trade sine? that'
Coolidge Boom, I. am listing in the
table below some depart meat store
statistics. These give annual sales
from 1920 through 1934 and the
monthly figures since January 1,
1934:
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TIDE TABLE
Information a to tae tim
BMufort is giv en in this co
(mrr. Thj figures are aon.-oi
imately correct and based cm
table's furnished bv tha IT. a
Geodetic Survey. Some allow
ancea must be made for varia
tions in the wind and also wiil
respect to the locality, that L
whether near the inlet or a
he heads of the eatuariea.
Currituct sheep growers have be
gun drenching their animals for
worms especially where the sheep
jyrazo on small pastures.
High Tide Ldiv Tid;
Friday, Sept. 27
7:50 a. m. 1:40 . in.
8:00 p. m. 2:05 p. m.
Sturdy, S?pt. 23
3:33 p. m. 2:42 p. m.
S:33 a. m. '2:42 p. m.
s:ri'l a- in. 2:14 a. m.
'':3' P- m. 3:18 p. m.
MonJy, Ss;t. 31
9:21) a. m. " 3:13 a. in.
9:41 P- i.i. 3:54 p. m.
Tueaiy, Oct. 1
10:03 a. m. 3:41 a. m.
10:17 p. m. 4:29 p. m.
Wednesday, Oct. 2
10:43 a. m. 4:12 a, m.
10:56 p. m. 5. -10 p. m.
Thiurday, Oct. 3
" " 4:48 a. m.
11:27 p. ru 6:01 p. m.