Commissioners Did Not
Condone
Abstract of a Resolution as
; Commissioners Monday, November 18, 1935 t
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Commissioners Did Not Condone Management
of County Affairs Reflected by Report on
Audit; Auditor Now Has Privilege of Hiring
And Firing His Assistants, A Situation That
Did Not Exist Before
DAVIS IS COMMENDED
Recommended That Clerk of
The Court Secure Services of
Full Time Assistant Immed
iately; Tax Collector to Cor
rect or Amend His Present
Record System And Not to
Handle Bonds For His Own
Account in Payment of De
linquent Taxes.
In order that the public might un
derstand that the County Commissi-
are not condoning (that means
'forgiving') the management of the
county's affairs reflected by the Re
port on the Audit, as it relates to cer
tain officials of the county, The Beau
fort News is publishing herewith a
copy of the resolution passed by the
board at their meeting Monday. It is
understood that Commissioner Carl
T. Chadwick did not vote upon it3
adoption, although the minutes of the
recessed meeting as forwarded the
Beaufort News, failed to show how
the voting was registered.
A complete copy of the minutes
and the resolution follows:
The Honorable Board of
Commissioners of Carteret
County
County,
met in a reresspd meeting from Nov-
vember 6, 1935, with all members
present, viz: Chairman K. P. B. Bon
ner, C. T. Chadwick, W. Z. McCabe,
E. H. Fulcher, and Martin Guthrie.
Upon motion it is ordered, that
clearance papers be issued for the
office of County Auditor, so that bond
may be had.
Upon recommendations of the
County Attorney the bonds of Alvah
L. Hamilton, D. Ira Garner, and
George E. Gillikin, are approved in
substance and form and ordered ac
cepted and filed.
(Continued on page eight)
Carteret Qrowers Protest
"Unfair" Potato Allotment
Allotment PJSS "JSSZS
duction in Carteret ounty Would oe v, utFFDiscrimina-
&PX NS& Neighboring
States Protested.
Covvi inn The
WATEll JFHOX1
By AYCOCK BROWN
nc tup. neoole who made
reference to the incident thought it
was Lawrence Hassell, Clerk of Su
perior Court, who called me that ugly
name. Well it was not And for the
benefit of those who have asked me
questions about the incident here are
some answers: 1. No, he has not apol
ogized. 2. No, I am not going to sue
any one for defamation of character
at this time. 3. VTes, I may have
been a thief like Robin- Hood the
guy who stole from the rich and gave
to the poor. But if it was a case of
theft, I was only taking what already
belonged to the people. 4. No, I don't
think that the man who removed it
from the safe, during the absence of
the official of the certain office, so
that a citizen cculd see it, was called
a thief.
READ THE RESOLUTION passed
by the Board of Commissioners on I
Monday of this week tnere enaeu.,
the Lesson, called "Aud.tor's Opinion
of
rw Pnimfv Records." We are
becoming very wise this column and
I. Regardless of what you wme sdoui
county affairs one faction or another
will say: "You are playing us into
(Continued on page eight;
Offir.lc
Passed bv th Crt n j t
Published m Carteret Co. READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY J WATCH Your Label
EIGHT pages THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1935 PRICE 5c SINGLE CO!
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Morehead City
Also Had Audit
Tho firm of Abrahams and Whit
akers also audited the books of the
town of Morehead City. According to
information reaching this newspaper
today there is some very interesting
data that the people of .Morehead
City should know, in the audit. The
Audit is available in the office of the
City Clerk of Morehead City. If any
w int.iv.xtud thev should make it
a point to pay strict attention to the
excess credits, taxes collected but
unaccounted for, amount allowed a
former city official, the money due
the town that was "not on cash book
or ledger." The Beaufort News prom
ises Morehead readers a complete
story on the June 30, 1934 to June
30, 1935 Audit of Morehead City in
next week's edition , . , ."If a report
er is allowed the privilege of seeing
same.
Contempt Case Due
For Trial Tuesday
Stanley Hancock of Barkers Is
land will probably appear in court
the next time he is a witness in a
iieu On Tuesday he was scheduled
t appear in the case of Delmar
Willis, charged with drunkenness
Hancock was present at the time
Deputy Johnson arrested Willis. He
was subpoenaed as a witnss, but
failed to appear. Now he faces con
tempt charges, and no telling what
he outcome will be.
The case against H. A. Tolson,
charged with reckless driving and in
jury to personal property was contin
(Continued on page four)
. . a. mfoir" ollnt-
Protest against me mixc -
ment nf Irish Potatoes allowed North
Carolina in comparison witn aajoin-
. ' ..j..he Warren Potato
IMg 8Hn "
Control Act was registered here Mon-
Carteret growers,
tf .11 j. :inH oirmn
The action loiiowea imni
f Pamlico. Beaufort And
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Craven Counties, each heavy produc
ers of Irish potatoes. Signea oy .
growers the following telegram was
sent to A. E. Mercker, Bureau Agri
cultural Economics, wasningion, .
0. Schaub, Director Extension Work,
Raleigh, and J. B. Hutson, .niei
sion Tobacco, Rice and Potatoes,
Washington: r.,--"We,
the potato growers of Carter
et county, in mass meeting Vf
he potato allotment for North Car
ina as unfair compared with neigh
.oring States. We favor the Warren
Bailey Potato Act one hundred per
cent. We are protesting me u.......-
nation against our state in favor of
neighboring states. We respectfully
ask for a fair deal."
Carteret's average annual crop is
1,200 acres or about 150,000 bushels
Tf the nresent AAA propos
al is carried out the acreage and pro-
Hnctio wiU be cut approximately 50
Carteret has been increasing
Pcen
Adjoining states that come unoer
the AAA program which have been
reducing their acreage eacn season
have-not been materially affected, it
was stated by Mr. Overstreet, county
farm agent.
.-. Whereas, the Board of Commissioners, while recognizing certain handicaps incident to the
..offices, is of the opinion that, notwithstanding such handicaps, by
f U- .......
T responsioie heads ot
e and more satisfactory record
TALLEST IN
Pona l-latioi-it I.icht
CAfS-' a w - o '
Since it was completed in 1870, C ape Hatteras Light has been the tall
est lighthouse structure in America and the tallest brick tower of its kind
in the world. It is 198 feet from the base to the lantern and to the tip-top
of the lightning rod on the roof it is about 215 feet. The famous old
lighthouse will be ite-commissioned on January 1, for fear that it will
become undermined during some orf-shortr storm.
A structural steel tower, construct
ed nt-. a much lower cost has been
several hundred yards north
west of the brick tower. When the
chnncd is made one or two men will
nlce rhartre of the light where three
men are now employed. Capt. Uneka
Jennette has been keeper of the fa
mous old tower for the past 15 years.
His is an interesting job ana a
lonely one. From the bridge around
the lantern at the su-nmit of the tow
er he has been hosi to hundreds of
visitors each year. He will point to
his visitors a speck on tne water
miles away and tell them that it is
Diamond Lightship, guardian ot the
1 nf thp Atlantic," just as
his own tower is another guardian of j
treacherous Diamond Shoals which
People Buying Early !
Only 28 Shopping Days
Left Before Christmas
The pnrlv bird catches the worm.
vi wVn wants a worm? Nobody !
The early Christmas shopper catches
the pick of the gifts. But who wants
the pick of the gittsv averyoouy
And for that reason Carteret county
should start doing their Christmas
.(.nnninir riirht now. Many people have
already started their shopping. Many
will say: "But the Christmas goods
have not arrived yet." But many oi
tiAa nraaont vmi will buy. are on
muo .1 j
the shelves of local merchants, drug-
glsts, naraware u., v.
Llers and grocery stores the year
around. And many stores are already
displaying their Christmas goods.
roteret. Hardware has already
made a Christmas display of wheeled
made a inrisuus
goods in their show window. The big !
bicycle Will De given owaj j-ivc? v"
Monday night before Christmas.
(Continued on page lourj
N. C. Fisheries Is Having
Ups and Downs, It Seems
i j r:i Dint Mervilv Alonsr And Prices Have
'"BeTn GoodlVo; FUh since It Opened ; Southport DUgrunt
led Over Inactivity of Plant There Manteo And Eliza
beth City Newspapers Run N. C. Fisheries' Advertisements
Whil town fathers of disgruntled
Snnthnnrt were Dlanning a trip to
Paloih this week to protest inactivi
ty of the ERA N. C. Fisheries project
and while the Manteo plant was carry
ing complimentary or otherwise a full
page advertisement in ine uare
ty Times and a half page in The
lElizabeth City Independent, ine
MA,..V.iaH Citv nlant wnicn "
main plant of the organization was
sailing merrily along accorain w i"
the offices affected, the Report
condition "
AMERICA
iMiiir ii it mi mm jrifiiml 1 -
house. Buxton. N. C.
forms the "graveyard."
From the tower, too, can be seen
schools of porpoises playing in the
water below or maybe a whale and
most any time dozens of funnels
from passing steamers far off shore.
Time was when as many as a hundred
sailing vessels could be sighted at one
time but the dnys of sail have pass
en except on rare occasions.
When Cape Hatteras Light was
built it was a mile and a quarter
from the highwater mark of the oc
ean. Now it is within a pebble's throw
of the water and during most any
off-shore storm the hisrh tides or ev
en the surf comes directly to or sur-
'rounds the base of the toweT. That is
why it is being de-commissioned
Cut loaned by F. C. Salisbury.
Rites For Minister
In Church Where He
First Held Services
In the Freewill Baptist Church of
Russell's Creek where he first held ser
vices over 50 years ago, last rites
were conduueted thb afternoon for
Rev. Warden Whitfield Lewis. He
died late Tuesday night following an
illness of about 12 weeSs. He was 86
years of age. Rev. S. H. Styron, Pine
Level, who studied for the ministry
under the deceased conducted the
services, assisted by Rev. J. W. Mor
gan, Rev Lawrence Fenwick, Rev. R.
N. Hinnant and Rev. Mr. Anderson.
Rev. Mr. Lewis was born a few
miles from Beaufort but during his
ministry of 50 years or more he held
charges in many sections of Eastern
Carolina. He retired from the minis
try several years ago. At onetime he
several jcois -
served as a Carteret County Commis-
sioner, ourviviug 10
. . ,
"lu"luc"
formation gained from John Sikes
late Wednesday. Mr. Sikes is manag
ing director of all the plants of the
organization which are located in
Morehead City, Southport, Belhaven
and Manteo.
Amontr the Southnort complaintants
was Mayor John Erickson,wbo point
ed out that town officials, belore tney
handed over $4,600 toward an elab
the
orate canning plant on which
(Continued on page four)
and application of more time,
on the Audit should and would
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About Fifty Persons Employed o n Beaufort
Community Project at Present Clearing away
Underbrush and Preparing For Construction
of Auditorium Which Will be First Unit of
Buildings Planned
TO LET CHANNEL
BIDS ON FRIDAY
Bids for the inside dredging
from Fort Macon to the More
head City Port Terminal site
will be let in Wilmington on
Friday. Whether a private
dredging company or a govern
ment dredge will get the job
depends on the differential.
Private dredges must come
within 25 per cent of govern
ment estimates to secure the
job. This work will be carried
on by pipeline dredges and is in
cluded in the $1,555,000 allot
ment by the U. S. War Depart
ment for the deep channel
from beyond Beaufort Inlet
to the Terminal site. Later the
T. A. Loving Company, build
ers of the terminal will let a
dredging job of 180,000 cubic
yards at the site of the termi
nal. Date for that letting has
not been announced.
Hancock Represents
Open Ground Owners
The University of Chicago appoint
ed C. E. Hancock as their special rep
resentative for properties known as
the "Open Grounds" m nortneast
Carteret county this week. The tract
contains 03,000 acres and is in reali
ty a vast pocosin ban-en of trees but
matted with sage brush. There are
plenty of rattlesnakes and deer m
the Open Grounds and a few birds.
Mr. Hancock hopes to eliminate
some of the unlawful poaching on the
property
Dredge Henrv
On Bulkhead Channel Project
Major Ralph Millis, District Engineer of Umrngton Wired
This Newspaper Answer to Simple Question That Field En
gineer Would Not Give About Nature of Work Now Under
way at Bulkhead: Gives Other Facts About Comstock And
Miscellaneous inrormaiion.
TTvorvnnA here assumed that the
dredge "Henry Bacon" was out there
ot ths Bulkhead doing regular main
tenance work, but the editor and re
porter of The Beaufort News casual
ly dropped by the local U. S. Engi
neers office Wednesday expecting to
get something authentic for a squib
in this edition. When asked n tne
"hi? dredsre off there was on regular
maintenance work" the man whose
nam a we did not bother to get but
who said he was engineer replied, "I
can't tell you a thing, you will have
to see Capt. Bellamy aboard tne
dredge." However, the man who said
he m-a engineer did say that the
'dredge's name was the "Henry Bac
on."
Apparently the engineer expected
me to charter a boat and go off to
the dredge and interview Capt. Bell
nmv the m aster . when he probably
knew or will know before he finishes
this story that "dredge masters are
not authorized to give out miscellan
eous information." Now if The Beau
fort News representative could have
only contacted a deck hand he would
probably have gotten his information
without going to the expense of wir
ing Major Ralph Millis of Wiiming
ton. Deckhands are probably not au
thorized to give out information, but
they at least would answer sue it a
simple question if they knew. Prob
ably the Honorable War Department
will take cognisance of their local
field engineers attitude towards r-
porters and pin a medal on him or
(Continued on page eU-t)
proper conduct of the affected?
effort and diligence on the
have reflected a more credit-1
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MANY PROJECTS STARTED
Over 150 Women Employed in
WFA Sewing Kooms; uver
100 Men Planting Oysters;
Repairs to Courth o u s e,
Schools And Roads Are In
cluded in Projects For This
County; Tom Kelly, Super
visor Stated That About 500
Working at Present
About 50 persons were working un
der WPA supervision on the Beau
fort Community Center project today,
according to Tom Kelly supervisor of
work in this county. As matter ot
fact a crew of workmen have been
busy there all this week engaged in
clearing away underbrush in prepara
tion for the work that will begin short
ly on the rustic log auditorium to
be constructed and which will have a
seating capacity of approximately
600 people, with a dining room, club
room and other features. More work
men will be placed on this project as
equipment is acquired, it was stated.
When the work on the building and
the Community Center gets well un
derway there will be up to 75 carpen
ters and 300 laborers working on the
project which is expected to be com
pleted by next March, at a cost of
$15,000.
In the meantime local committees
are making arrangements to secure
the poles or logs to be used in con
struction of the building while other
committees are making arrangements
to get large logs which will be saw
ed into timber by another committee
in charge of renting a sawmill for
the purpose. The Chamber of Com
merce and the Beaufort Business
Club are working jointly as commit
tees to secure the necessary logs and
(Continued on page eight)
Bacon Now
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TIDE TABLE
Information ah to tne tidei
,t Beaufort is given in this col
,mc. Th3 fieures are approx
imately correct and based oi
table's furnished by the U. S
Geodetic Survey. Some allow
ances must be made for varia
tions in tho wind and also wiU
respect to tbe locality, that i
whether near the inlet or at
;he heads of the estoaries.
High Tide
Low Tida
Friday, Nov. 22
5:27 a. m.
5:35 p. m. H:42 p.
m.
Saturday, Not. 23
6:05 a. m. 11:45 a. m.
fi-ifi n. m. 12:29 p. m.
Sunday, Nov. 24
6:42 a.
6:53 p.
m. n:zi a. m.
m. 1:12 P- m.
Monday, Nov. 25
m. 1:07 a. m.
m. 1:53 p. m.
Tuetday, Nov. 28
7:20 a.
7:35 p.
8:01
8:13
8:41
8:55
m. 1:45
a. m.
p. m. 2:34 p. m.
Wednesday, Nov. 27
a. m. 2:22 a. m.
p. m. 3:14 p. m.
Thursday, Nov. 28
9:24 a
9:41 p
m. a:ui a. m.
m. 3:56 p. m.