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EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1935 PRICE 5c SING ojOPY
NUMBER 49
VOLUME XXIV
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St
H
ores
oliday
isplay
oods
Read The Advertisements In The Beaufort
News This Week And Learn About The At
tractive Gifts Local Merchants Have on Dis
play; Many Novel And New Presents Are Of
fered Christmas Shoppers This Year And
Early Shoppers Are Getting First Choice
ONLY 16 MORE DAYS I,
SAILS AT 5 TODAY
Postal Officials Urge Everyone
To Mail Their Christmas
Packages Early to Avoid Last
Minute Rushes That Will Be
Bigger Than Ever This Year
Most of Beaufort's merchants have
already placed their Christmas gift
selections on display. Toylands have
been opened in many of the stores
and this year there are many useful,
new and novel gifts to select from,
and it looks like the Santa Claus bus
iness will be very brisk during the
next few days.
Local postal officials are urging ev
eryone to mail Christmas packages
early, to assure safe delivery before
Christmas Day and to avoid last min
ute rushes. Persons mailing packages
are also urged to insure packages
sent by parcel post.
! New style wheel goods, velocipedes,
streamlined wagons, minature auto
mobiles., and other mechanical toys
are on display in several of the stores.
Carteret Hardware, Noe Hardware
and Ben's Bicycle Shop are display
ing wheeled goods for larger children
and many for the tiny tots.
:'; R. Felton and Son have a variety
if useful erifts for men, women and
children in the clothing and novelty
ljine. This firm is going to give away
Racing automobile and a Shriley
fern pie doll .almost as big as Shirley
herself. Many other firms are giving
away presents this, year.'' Carteret
Hardware, will give -away a bicycle to
a lucky number holder; Joe House
Drug Store will give away a $100
radio; Wm. H. Bailey will give away
20 silver dollars; Noe Hardware will
give away a Cook Stove, a hunting
coat and a 22 calibre rifle and a rock
ing chair; Bell's Drugstore is giving
away a radio each Saturday night;
Mr. Bigga of Modern Shoe Rebuilders
will give away a streamlined wagon;
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As Work Bean On Terminal Site
Preliminary Work of Driving Piles Now Underway
Direct relief as distributed by the
local NCERA in Carteret county offic
ially ends at 5 o'clock this afternoon.
All clients who have applied up to
that hour today will ge given food
slips which may be cashed at the local
store or the Morehead City Store
Friday and Saturday. But under the
present set-up, that is all there
ain't no more.
It is understood that in Carteret
tv nnnroximately 250 families
now on relief or who are classed as
relief clients will receive no futher
aid! Included in this number is ap
proximately 100 clients who are class
ed as un-employable aged people, peo
ple with incurable diseases ana sucn.
They will suffer more than anyone
else.
Carteret county may make some
provision to take car of the unem
ployables, but so far no such steps
have been taken. Many of the NCERA
clients will have jobs within a few
days from the Works Progress Adr
ministration, but all in all there
spms no- immediate bright future
for the client to look forward to. The
local office will be closed to clients
after today. The administrative force
hut Seen slashed and only three case
workers remained employed. Relief
plionts can no loneer look to NLtKA
for food slips, medical services, mat
tresses,: comforts and other necessi
ties of life that a great many poor
people lack. The Good Ship Relief has
sailed.
Deriicks and pile drivers have been
sinking wooden piles for the past sev
eral days and excellent headway is
being made. On December 20, the
Baltimore Mail Line (Baltimore to
Hamburg Germany) is due to dock in
Norfolk with the steel from Gsimany,
according to Maurice R. Beaman
general manager of the Morehead
City Port Terminal.
Just how the steel cues will be
ment through Beaufort Inlet to the
terminal site. That would save much
time and time saved in this matter is
very essential to the port builders.
It is understood that the T. A. Lov
ing Company has let the dredging con
tract for 180,000 yards in the immed
iate vicinity of the Port Terminal
site to a Norfolk firm and the dredcre
to be used was at one time owned by
Dr. C. L. Duncan of Beaufort. but
UUSb U V V Lilt- i3UVV jilVJ ' fcy w j i w wiv ivii -
routed for transhipment to Morehead j officials of the T. A. Loving Company
n'. - T 1 . 1 .1. U ...,,.U,1 4-
Ulty irom INOnoiK lias not, ueen uti-;iuuiu nui ue icatiiuu lu u'jicmiilnc me
initely determined but probable that j name of the firm which will do this
same will be shipped via the inland i worn.
IVotovwau Mr- Ronmtin and Viis n- Morphrurl City has turned nver two
sociates are trying to make arrange- i offices in the Municipal Building for
ments with the steamship company tne use oi u. o. Army rinsnteeis who
ir.dei' th3 direction oi na
Millis of the Wilmington
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Chairman of Board of Commissioners Authoriz
ed to Effect Immediate Contact With A. M.
Pullen & Company to Arrange For Early Be
ginning as Possible of The Undertaking; Will
Be Employed to Make as Complete and De
tailed Audit as Practicable.
COUNTY AUDITOR
USES AUTHORITY
route same to Cape Lookout Bight
and there unload on barges for ship-
Covvrinn The
WATERFRON1
By A YCOCK BROWN
AN INTERESTING . BOOK that
gives a different1 perspective I on -life
as we know it down here c.;.. the coast
is Ed Bell's, "Fish ion The rteepie,"
published'!; last week.,. by f Fa. i; and
Rinehart M New York andw:.::S is
retailing-for $2.50 per copy. In that
book you will be carried from your
present Environment to a Tennessee
'hill-billy' town and into the throes
of comedy, tragedy and drama.
hrine-iner the niles from Germany to will wo:
ior Ralph
office. (Eubanks-News Photo.)
A
atsy Admires
Ocracoke Folks
THE StORY IS built up around
two nrincinal characters, a girl named
Pete, who, was,.born a,f weeks, af-J
l,C l liCi HlVbiici w
named 'hackles' the son of-. rt
of a ne'er do well who . operated a
brickyard and took on a bit ot build
ing contracting from time to ' timei
Life as it is lived in 4 small Inland
town that has a brickyard, a ceme
tery, a group of CmpheUites is por
trayed through th' pasea.; And there
are moments pf;;ntensis .l()ving---wel
but not wisely WtnejJtji if . hate and
meanness and momeW f cojnedy. Jt
is the first bookby the -i adthor ':'Ed
Bell, whb has apparently Jived among
such characters as he writes about .
KEMP PLUM:.! 3R Battle Bonner,
M n nd chaii.an of the carterei
board of icommir,. ioners tried to con
vince me the other da that between
th two audits recently given space in
this newsDaDer. Carteret's affairs
were in, a much better shape thai
Morehaad Citv's financial affairs, we
the matter, but merely
1ietnA) Our ctnlr comment is ;i;hat
the Morehead City official who. asked
us to run -the story, at least treated a
trtM In m more diplomatic man
ner than the Carteret official who call
ed a pelsdia' dawa ithlrf.: because. M
(Centiaaed en page eifht)
NEW SEATS FOR
LOCAL THEATRE
'aui nlimVi-smiTia seats , are now
being' installed at the Seabreeze thea
r. Thev will reolaee the old-fash
ioned wooden seats that have been in
use there for years. . L. Paul own
er of the theatre that has been in
Beaufort before pictures learned to
t.ilk stated that he was making the
.Via.itra bpcafian he wanted his natrons
to sit ia; comfort, as they witnessed
the show? he presents each week iay
afternoon and night' '
AntVnr tViinir that owner W. L.
rnwii.- .. . . O . .. .
nPaut ia offering hi3 theatre patrons is
first run .shows for Carteret county.
During' the' week of TJecember 9,he
is presenting the following feature
pictures: Monday and Tuesday: '''Or
chids to You" featuring Jonh Boles,
Jean Muir and Charles Butterworth;
Wednesday and Thursday (10 cent
bargain days) Warner Oland .in
"Werwolf of London" and on Friday
and Saturday Ann Rutherford -In
'.Waterf rpnt Lady.;' f uture patrons
f tinei Seabreexa will Uee good pic-
-urea and sit in eomfort on plush-
spring, seats. ,;' j
Because A Great Many People Took A Comedy
Serious, Miss Patsy McMulian, Talented
Young Playmaker Of Chapel Hill Writes The
Editor of This Newspaper And Gives Some
Interesting Explanations About The One Act
Play "Cottie Mourns," Recently Presented in
Morehead City.
In the first place the plot and char
acters were not really based on the
people from the island of Ocracoke.
Mis McMulian is happy to have the
opportunity to correct that .impres
sion. The scene of the play was set
at Ocracoke by others than Miss Mc
Mulian and the foreword to the act
was written by someone who thought
it would lend color to say that she
!had spent many summers down there
on Ocracoke Island.
: - It seems that not so many years a
gO $iss McMulian heard the story of
a wbman living in an outlying .com
munity who had been married six
times' and was preparing to take on
another husband; but the sixth hus
band over whose body she was doing
a bit of courtin' turned out to be dead
drunk but not dead. He recuperated
and so the 'i'seventh heaven' the wo
man anticipated was forestalled by
the -"coming to life" of the sixth. It
was not the intention of Miss i Mc
Miitlan to ive to the Deoole of Ocra
coke characteristics that do - not be
long to them, she stated in her Iet-
cr. But read the letter
County Auditor J. J. Whitehurst
who, as the result of a resolution
nassed by four members of the Board
of Commissioners on November is
(the fith did not vote) was given au
thority "to organize in his own dis
cretion the personnel of his office"
used same day or two later by giving
Mrs. Eva Bravaldo a 15 days written
nnf! -t-Viat- Vior services were no long
er needed. The 15 day period expired
Wednesday, December 4, and today
Mrs. Bravaldo is out of a job de
spite the fact that according to her
contract she was employed for a per
iod of two years to an office then
known as "Assistant to County Aud
itor." Her contract would have ex
pired in December 1936.
Auditor Whitehurst gave no reason
for her dismissal in the written no
tice other than he was taking action
in accordance with the resolution
passed by the Board of County Com
missioners on November 18. Mrs.
Bravaldo, a widow, with one daughter
and an aged mother as dependents
hac been employed in the County Ac
countant's office for about five years.
Her salarv was $90 per month. Mrs.
Nellie Windley is temporarily success
or to Mrs. Bravaldo, Auditor wnite
hurst, phoned the Beaufort News.
Mrs. Bravaldo telephoned the edi
tor of this newspaper and stated that
she in no way held The Beaufort News
responsible for the loss of her job.
Information had come to the editor
that he was responsible for the change
in personnel at the Auditor's office
due to the fact that he printed ex
tracts from the county audit recently
without getting permission from the
Auditor to look at same.
Sdito:- oi The News:
I thank you for the paper you
sent me referring to the recent one
act comedv. "Cottie Mourns." eiven
by the Carolina .Playmakers at More
head City and written by me.
From your column I gathered that
some members! of the audience took
the comedy seriously and thought the
plot and characters were really based
on the people from the island of Ocra
coke. .'.V '
I am happy to. have an opportunity
to correct that impression, first, be
cause of my sincere love and admira
tion for the people there whom I
fcnow. In the second place, the plot
and characters are,: obviously, not
drawn from Ocracoke or from any
one person. Several years ago I heard
the story of a woman living in one of
our outlying counties who had been
jiiarried ix times and was preparing
to take unto herself a seventh hus
band; she was forestalled by the "com
(Continued on page eight)
FIVE NEW BABIES
ARRIVE AT OTWAY
GOVERNOR HERE TO
TESTIFY IN
Hia Excellency! Joha; Christopher
Blucher Ehringhaus was in Beaufort
WAHniwidav as an. interested party
and toi offer teStimony in the case of
Hood, Commissioner, against Wewoy
nd White a Hertford firm, which in
volves the disposal of approximately
16,000 acres of Carteret timDenana.
Judge ;Walter Small appointed Juni
us Grimes of Washington, as referee
in the case and being referred, nat
urally His Excellency did not have to
testify. Other out of town attorneys
and parties interested in this case in
cluded John H. Hall., Jr., r. W. Mc
Mulian. J, B. McMulian and R. Clar
ence ,;Dozier of:'' Elizabeth City and
Rufus M. Riddick, Charles' Whidbee
and Thomas S.' White of Hertford.
They stopped at the Old Davis House
while m town. Other cases disposed
at hv Judjra Small will be given in
next week's edition.
Pr
iissian Jimperor Aboard Mnp
tlitit Sailed To Moreliedd Citv
-ongfellow, the Wit and Went worth
The Famot Mthmticmn Were
Abir AbefK S-V S. T Son-Sprite
Wbtdt Sailed From New York
: To Morehead City Yean Ago
Longfellow, the poet, Wentworth
the famous mathmetician and King
William, the emperor of Prussia were
aboard the steamship "Sun-Sprite
which called at Morehead City years
ago, if there is any foundation to an
account of someone who wrote in
longhand of experiences on a voyage
from New York to Morehead City.
Bill Blades Parkin operator of The
Sea Breeze has a hobby of collecting
old letters and coins. In a batch of
letters he loaned the editor of the
Beaufort News recently was an un
signed account of some child who
had made the -voyage from New York
to Morehead City.- The account was
unsigned, so just who the author was,
The community of Otway led oth
er Carteret towns and communities in
'blessed events' during the past week.
Five little babes were born there dur
ing the past week according to the
reports given by local physicians to
Hav. The Droud narents of Otway,
and the date of their baby's birth and
sex follows: Mr. and Mrs.- C. Tom
Gillikin, December 3, a son; Mr. and
Mrs. Hardy Lawrence, (at M. City
hospital) November 30, a son; Mr.
and Mrs. Augustus Lawrence, Decem
ber 1, a son; Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester
W. Lawrence, November 29, a son;
Mr. and Mrs. Warden Roe Gillikin,
November 30, a son.
Other births in the county during
the past week as reported by local
nhvsicians were: Mr. and Mrs. Tilman
Taylor, Sea Level, (M. City hospital)
December 1, a daughter; Mr. ana
Mrs. Norwood Roberts of Portsmouth,
November 24, a daughter; Mr. and
Mrs. Luther Gaskill of Roe, Novem
ber 28, a son.
MUST FURNISH BOND
rhere Appeared to be Some
Sort of Misunderstanding of
The Official Bond Heretofore
Required to be Given by
Clerk of Court and Must
Have Another $5,000 Bond
By January 1, Making Total
Of $10,000.
A certified public accountant will
be employed to make an audit of the
clerk of superior court's office which
St. George Abrahams pondered over
for three davs and thea stated it
would be impossible to give an intel
ligent concensus ot conditions. Kut
Lawrence W. Hassell who has been
in that office for a number of years
stated at the time that it was possible
to audit the office. Just how soon
the work will commence has not yet
been learned.
In the meantime Mr. Hassell has
been instructed to secure an addition
al $5,000 bond. It seems from a res
olution passed by the Board of Com
missioners in their regular monthly
meeting Monday that there has been
some misunderstandine about the
bond required heretofore. Since 1921
the clerk has given bonds in varied
amounts from $5,000 as a minimum
to $15,000 as a maximum. A resolu
tion in connection with this bond fol
lows:
WHEREAS, there appears to be
some misunderstanding as to tne a
mount of the official bond heretofore
required to be given by the Clerk of
the Superior Court of Carteret Coun
ty: and whereas, it appears that the
bonds heretofore given during the
tenure of his office since 1921 have
varied in amounts from Five Thous
and ($5,000.00) Dollars as a mini
mum to Fifteen Thousand ($15,000.
00) Dollai-s as a maximum, but that
from an examination of the records
it appears that since the year 1926
the amount of bond was intended to
be, and should have been, in the penal
sum of Ten Thousand ($10,000.00)
Dollars; and whereas, the Board is
of the opinion that bond should be
provided by the Clerk of the Super
ior Court, regularly conditioned as
now required hy law, in a penalty of
not less than ien Thousand ($iu,
000.00) Dollars; now, therefore, upon
motion, be it
(Continued on page eight)
MRS. BLOODGOOD IN HOSPITAL
we, are at loss to Ttnow.
Neither i i thirn - mv date that
would indicate Just what year the ar
ticle was written. But judging from
certain incidents in the account of
the voyage, it must have been just
after the War of the Confederacy.
Probably fiw : people in Carteret
county know that steamships called
at Beaufort and Morehead City years
aoo. An a matter of fact hoth More-
head and Beaufort were ports before
a port development m this section
was ever dreamed of. The Clyde Line
-now t ie Clvde-Mallory Lines at
one time had regular sailings to and
from Moreehad City. Passengers were
taken aboard or disembarked at the
hotel pier' in Morehead City. The ac
count of the voyage aboard the bun
Sprite which had aboard the three
notables . mentioned above, follows:
It had been very hot and dusty all
(Continued on page eight)
Mrs. M. E. Bloodgood, Red Cross
Roll Call chairman for Beaufort and
Eastern Carteret county was operat
ed on early today in Morehead City
hosDital. Her physician, Dr. Frank E.
Hyde stated she was getting along
nicely folowing the operation.
MRS. CLYDIE LAWRENCE'S
HOME DESTROYED BY FIRE
The home of Mrs. Clydie Lawrence
of Otway was completely destroyed
by fire Monday morning about 10:30
o'clock. She was away from the house
at the time. Mrs. Lawrence is a wid
ow and has one child. It is under
stood that some insurance was carried
on the property.
TIDE TABLE
Information a to tne tide:
U Beaufort is given in this cot
imn. Thd figures are appro
imately correct tud based oi
table's furnished by the U. S
Geodetic Survey. Some allow
a. ces must be made for vsria
tions in the wind and also witl
respect to the locality, that ii
whether near the inlet or ai
Jie heads of the estuaries.
High Tide
4:32
4:50
5:30
5:48
6:24
6:41
7:15
7:30
a. m.
p. m.
Low Tide
Friday, Dec 6
11:01 a. m.
11:01 p. m.
Saturday, Dec. 7
m.
m.
8:04
8:18
8:49
One hundred of the 550 club
members of Cleveland County took
part in the health pageant presented 1
during the recent county fair at Shel- 9:36 a.
by. 9:52 p,
; Sunday, Dec.
a- m. .
p; m. '
. 'Monday, Dec
a. m. ' ,:
p. m. ,
Tuesday, Dec
a. m. v r ,
p. m.
Wednesday, Dec
a. m. '
11:58
8
11:55 a. m.
12:52 p. hi.
9
12:47 a.
1:41 p.
10
p. m.
m.
m.
1:36 a. m.
2:28 p. m.
11
2:23 a, m.
9:05 p. m. 3:13 p. m.
Thurday, Dec. 12
m. 8:10 a. m:
m, ... 3;5$ p- ra