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Shot Accidentally Last Thursday , Evia Dixon
Was Rushed To Morehead City Hospital
Where It was Necessary To Amputate His Left
1 Leg; He Died Late Sunday Night.
He Was Returning From Duck
Hunting With Two Friends
Woodard Willis And Chaun-
' cey Adams When As They
Were Leaving Boat Gun In
Hands Of Willis Accidental
ly Discharged; First Fatal
Accident Among Carteret
Hunters So Far This Season,
in 1927 Stanley Dixon,
Father Of Dead Youth Was
Killed While On Hunting
Trip With A Mr. Buck.
FUNERALON MONDAY
Getting aboard a small boat Wood
ard Willis, Chauncey Adams and Evia
Davis Dixon sailed out on Bogue
sound hunting last Thursday. In some
manner as they were leaving the
boat upon their return to shore, a
gun in the hands of Woodard Willis
accidently discharged. The full load
entered Dixon's left leg above the
knee.
Rushed to Morehead City hospital
for treatment it was found neces
sary to amputate the leg just below
the thigh. Sunday night about 11:30
o'clock he died. He was 17 years of
age, the oldest of four children and
the sole support of his widowed moth
er Mrs. Viola Dixon.
Young. Dixon is the second mem-
ber of his family to die of gun-shot
wounds during a period of eight
years. In the Spring of 1927, his
father, the late Stan Uixon was ac-
cidentally shot while hunting with a
Mr. Buck. He died of the wound re
ceived. Funeral services for Evia Dixon
were conducted at the "Broad Creek
Cemetery" at 2 o'clock Monday af
ternoon. Last rites were conducted by
Rev. Mr. Palmer, pastor of the Holi
ness church there. Besides his moth
er, Stanley Iona and Rose Mae,
brothers and sisters survive.
(Continued on page four)
Wrath Of Independent
Fish Dealers Aroused
Covet in (j The
WATER FilOXM
By AYCOCK BROWN
"COTTIE MOURNS," The one act
play' about Ocracoke folk' present
ed by the Carolina Playmakers in
Morehead City last Week aroused
the wrath of many in the audience.
That was because many in the
audience were either natives of
Ocracoke, relatives of Ocracokers or
persons who have a more intimate
knowledge of the island costumes,
than say, Migjs Patsy McMullan,
charming daughter of Hon. Harry
McMullan. She wrote the play.
NOW FAR BE IT from this
columnist to condemn to harshly
something he did not see. Un
fortunately it was presented on Wed
nesday night and i,ne who happens to
pass the Beaufc c News office on
Wednesday night will see that it is
my night in the office and that is
the reason I di.l not see the play
Miss Patsy. But I surely have heard
some flare backs from people who saw
the play and who were seeing Ocra
coke when you were still romping
around in rompers and have been see
ing it ever since. Said one: "It was the
most disguisting thing I have ever
seen anyone who knows Ocracoke
umnlil no, pnnncet such a clot with
fn1h An " nnrl n not hpr "
(Continued on page eight)
Published in Carteret Co. f READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO Tlg-oBODY j WATCH Your Label
EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK
THE
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Here Next week
JUDGE WALTER SMALL
Judge Small will preside at the De
cember term of Civil Court which
convenes here next week. Opening
day of the court session has bee
postponed from Monday December 2
to Tuesday, December 3 at 10 o'clock
WILLIAM L. HATSELL
ILL AT HOME HERE
William L. Hatsell, operator and
composing room foreman of The
Beaufort News is ill at his home on
Queen Street. His condition is not
considered serious but he was unable
to work on Wednesday. The Beau
fort Jfews secured the services of an
out of town linotype operator to com
plete the typesetting for this edition.
A Statement Appearing In
News and Observer This
Week Indicated That N. C.
Fisheries Inc., Is Responsible
For Increase In Price Of
Fish; Local Dealers Have a
Different Version Of The
Story And Vigorously Deny
Report; Say Organization Is
Competitor
A statement by L. C. Salter, fish
ery economist and specialist in mark
eting with the United States Bureau
nf Fisheries which eave credit to
North Carolina Fisheries Inc., for the
increase in. the price of fish this sea
son aroused the wrath of many deal
ers in East Carolina. North Carolina
Fisheries, Inc.,- with headquarters in
Morehead City and plants at Belhav
en, Southport and Manteo started ope
rations a few weeks ago and since
that time the price of seafood has
been double, and even more in some
cases, than at this same period last
year.
"The beneficial effects referred to
by Mr. Salter as a result of the estab
lishment of the various cooperative
plants, are being felt only by North'
Carolina Fisheries Incc, and not by
the independent dalers," said a Beau
fort dealer this week. He did not;
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state whether fishermen who are sell-' sis makes for health. The accumulat
ing their catches to the cooperative ed pennies provide tuberculosis mirs
organization are being benefited, as isjes for a vast number of communities,
the belief of many persons in this j clinics supervised by specialists in
Section.
of Oil
. It was indicated by some
(Conti"ued on page eight)
BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1935-
Courthouse Annex In Beaufort
Local WPA Headquart
Over 500 persons in Carteret coun
projects. From an otlice in tne aoov e Duiiamg, iomn.eii;y. iu ""I"-"''
of WPA directs the work. Early thi s week Miss Sara Rumley was ap
nointed Supervisor of Women's wor k division of the WPA in Carteret.
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Employed on the various projects sne
WHO WorK in sewing rooms or uumu ea.
Final Assets Oi
Marine Bank
Sold At Auction
If Sale Price Is Approved By
Court Depositors WiH uet
Their Final Dividend Checks
Before Christmas; Last
Checks Will Be Approxi
mately Seventeen and Half
Percent Making Total of
Seventy Seven and Half Paid,
For Every Dollar on Deposit.
Beginning in September call meet
ings were held by depositors of the
Marine Bank. At the first meeting a
Depositor's Committee was named
which met with the liquidating agent
which appraised the remaining assets
of the bank. These assets were p- (
nvniwrt bv the depositors committee, i
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This depositors coi u..i !v '
back at another call meeting ox u e , - .
depositors the percentage n thu , statement aked for has
opinion the remaining assets bhouldj M hope the in.
bnn- . . i (. 'formation Mr. Huntley has given will
The depositors at this second meet-1101' ,..',; u
.w n a r,1an of final liquida-
tion. Following this general plan the
depositors would be allowed to bid
their equity of their original deposits
on the remaining assets. The plan
was submitted to Superior Court and
approved and the remaining assets
were advertised, for sale November
25th. The assets were offfered in
dividually and as a whole and the
highest bid offered as a whole was
$2700. This bid was not satisfactory
so the sale was continued again on
Tuesday and finally disposed of to
the Town of Morehead City for $3,
(Continued on page four)
Annual Christmas Seal
Sale Starts Today And
Ends on Chrastmas Day
Schools of Carteret county will be
given the opportunity to secure health
books, charts, first aid kits, milk for
undernourished children or any health
material they select for each dollar's
worth of Tuberculosis Christmas
Seals sold during the campaign start-
ing today and ending on December
25, it was announced this week oy
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Mrs. J. G. Allen who win nave cnarge
of the sales again this year. For each
dollar's worth of seals pupils sell, the
schools will receive 75 cents. In the
Beaufort school, Miss Emily Loftin
will have charge of the high school
sale and Mrs. John Brooks of the
grades.
These tiny seals, sold for one cent
each have made possible an organiz
ed campaign against tuberculosis that
has been carried on with ever in
creasing emphasis year after year.
But they stand for something more.
for they arc truly health seals, since
whatever helps to prevent tuberculo
I chest diseases, and promote open-air
' schools and prevention. Aid is provid-
(Continued on page fivel
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ers In This Building
ty are now employed on various WPA
win supervise are neany -uu numtu
Countv Hoping
To Get School
Bus Equipment
George Huntley, Chairman of
The County Board of Edu
cation Makes a Statement
Regarding Crowded Condi
tion of school Buses As Re
ported in Previous Editions
of The Beaufort News; They
IIunUv Rerome Overloaded
Within Two Miles of School
House.
We asked for it and now we have
.n official statement pertaining to the
rrowded school bus conditions that
have existed in Carteret county. Ter-
haps some of those who objected to
their children riding to school in ov-
eiloaded buses will be objecting if
Vim- n,;i,Wn have to walk a distance
f , two miles if their home
ve a cieai " "
dicament the transportation division
of the county schools finds itself.
Improved equipment has been promis
ed by a promising State of North
Carolina. Just how soon it will show
up, remains to be seen. Mr. Huntley's
stat&ment follows:
"It seems now to appear that you
ntend making good your threat to
keep after the County Board of Edu
cation until seats are provided for all
pupils riding the school buses or un
til an explanation in writing satisfac
tory to yourself has been received,"
stated Mr. Huntley.
(Continued on page four)
Miss Dry To Report
ooon On 4-H Clubs'
'Cjie-Log' Campaign
A report soon on the 'give-a-log'
campaign to be conducted among 4-H
Club members in Carteret county was
promised in a communication receiv
ed this week from Miss Helen Dry,
ome aemonscrauon agent. w ....u
W will be asked to contribute a
home demonstration agent. Club mem
Via ncoil in tVio rnntriiprirn of the
. tno RM1lfnrf
aud tor.um building on the Beaufo
Community Center properties be
tween now and next March. In addi
tion to the campaign which Miss Dry
will conduct among her 4-H girls a
similar campaign will be started by
Hugh Overstreet w ith his 120 or more
4-H Club boys in Carteret, it is un
derstood. The auditorium which will be the
first unit of several buildings planned
will be on property bordering Tay
lor's Creek and Lenoxville Road
which was recently acquired by The
Town of Beaufort for a recreational
center. Although known as Beaufort
Community Center it will be avail
able for county wide patronage as
well as the State at large. As a mat
ter of fact one of the principal pur
poses of the Beaufort Community
(Continued on page five)
PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY
Morehead Citv
Has Open
Citizens Are Invited To See Report On Financial
Affairs As Compiled By Representative Of
Abrahams and Whitakers, The Same Firm
Which Audited Financial Affairs Of Carteret
County Recently
OCRACOKER PURCHASED
MORRO CASTLE PLANT
A lieht plant salvaged from the
steamship Morro Castle which burned
off the New Jersey coast several
months ago has been purchased by
Stanley Wahab and will be moved to
Ocracoke Island, reconditioned, and
used for lighting Wahab Village, re
sort properties owned by Mr. Wahab.
The Wahab family of Ocracoke trace
their ancestry back to 17G7 when
Ahab Wahab, a sailor was shipwreck
ed on the island. Stanley Wahab a
great-great-great grandchild of Ahab
Wahab was born and reared on Ocra
coke island but for the past several
years he has lived in Baltimore where
he heads a large chain of retail furni
ture stores. He is one of the most
successful men ever reared on the lit
tle island. The light plant he pur
chased from the famous ship will be
installed before the summer season of
193G, it was stated.
REPENTANT POKE
WANTS FREEDOM
Poke Johnson, Beaufort's Public
Nuisance No. 1 is ready to make any
sort of promise if the law will only
let him out of the caliboose where he
has been sobering up for the past
two weeks. He would promise not to
drink any more ABC or moonshine,
hiot to be a disorderly conducted per
son nor a l'ublic isuisance ino. l u
only he is given his freedom. In Re
corder's court Tuesday his case was
discussed by Judge Webb, Chief
Longest, Prosecutor Davis and At
torney E. Walter Hill. The latter
was attorney for Poke.
Poke solemnly promised Attorney
Hill that he would not drink any
more. If he believed the promise he
was the only one in the courtroom
(Continued on page eight)
Instructions Are Issued For
1936 Potato Crop Program
Mimeographed Applicat l o n
Forms Will Be Available
About December 1 And
Hugh Overstreet, County
Agent Says It Is Advisable
For All Potato Growers To
Fill Out Same as Quickly As
Possible.
At a meeting of County Agenti
held in Raleigh on November 23 pre
liminary instructions were issued in
regard to the 1936 potato program,
and we were advised that mimeo
graphed application forms will be
available for use in the counties a
bout December 1st. It is advisable
that the potato growers cooperate in
supplying all information necessary
1 A these fomg as ick.
filling
ly as possible. Several meetings will
probably be held in each county . as
soon as these form arrive, at which
time the program will be explained in
detail. Meanwhile farmers should
make every effort to obtain the nec
essary data on potato sales and acre
age.
Information required in the appli
cation includes the number of acres
of potatoes in the years 1932 to 1935
nclusive, the total production during
yei u
il . .1 -l A
uuai sales during inese years, il is
also necessary in cases where the
farmer intends planting potatoes on
farms where potatoes were not grown
during these years, to show the acre
age planted and potatoes produced
by him during the years 1934 and
(continued on page five)
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NUMBER 48
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Small Discrepancy Shown And
System Used During Past Re
ported Bad, But Generally
Speaking Accounting Of
Morehead City Revealed A
Town Operated Very Eco
nomically PRAISE OPERATIONS
"The sum of $23,042.43
owed Morehead City by the
Port Commission was paid
Wednesday afternoon follow
ing a meeting of the Port
Commission," it was stated
last night by Mayor H. S.
Gibbs.
."As stated in previous audit reports
we do not see how the current
operations of your Town could be
handled more ecomically" was the
comment of the Abrahams and
Whitakers representative who re
cently audited the books of the town
of Morehead City covering a period of
one year to June 30th, 1935. Mayor
H. S. Gibbs of Morehead City who
happened in the City Clerks office as
a reporter was copying some notes on
the audit stated that same was avail
able to the public and that the public
in general are cordially invited to see
it. Not only that but if there are
some things about the report that
citizens do not understand Mayor
Gibbs, or his City Clerk. A. H.
Joyner will be glad to give their
help for a clearer understanding, it
was stated.
By retiring bonds bought at a dis
count the bonded indebtness of More
head City was reduced from
$960,000 on July 1, 1934 to a total
outstanding indebtness of $877,000
.s of June 30, 1935. This figure
was reduced further by bonds owned
(continued on page five)
TIDE TABLE
Information oi to tne tia
"t Beaufort is given in this a
mr.. Tlu figures are npproi
imately correct and based .
tables furbished by the U. b
Geodetic Survey. Some alio
I
ances must be made for varia
tions in the wind and also witt
respect to the locality, that it
whether near the inlet or ai
he head of the estuaries.
High Tide
Low Tide
Friday, Nov.
29
10:09 a.
10:30 p.
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m.
3:42 a.
4:41 p.
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Saturday, Nov. 30
10:57 a. m.
4:29 a.
5:30 p.
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Sunday, Dec. 1
m. 5:27 a.
m. 6:23 p.
11:20 a.
11:44 p.
12:13 a.
12:35 p,
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Monday, Dec. 2
m. 6:36 a. m.
m. 7:19 p. in.
Tuesday, Dec. 3
1:13
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Wednesday, Dec. 4
m. 8:56 a.
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Thursday, Dec. S
3:27 a. m. 9:59 a. m.
3:45 p. m. 10:05 p. m.
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