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VOLUME XXV
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Audit For Quarter Ending December 31, 1935
Shows That an Average Profit of $1,300 Per
Month Has Been Realized Since First Store
Was Established.
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Enforcement Officers Have
Made A Good Record m
Cleaning up Infamous Boot
legging Sections of More
head Bluffs and Newport
Sections and Many Convic-
; tions Obtained
EXPLANATION IS GIVEN
7ABOUT PROFIT DISPOSAL
3 Carteret's ABC stores have shown
a gross profit of $6,796.06 during the
first five months of operation, it
-as shown by an audit for the second
quarter ending December 31, which
was presented to and accepted by
tie county board of commissioners at
tbeir regular monthly meeting Mon
day. This shows a total average prof-
. of over $1,300 per month since the
UrSt store opened on July 31, 1935.
Of the above profit the sum of
$628.44 was deferred for enforce
ment purposes in addition to the reg
ular five per cent permitted by law.
This was done with local control au
thority, said C. Lambert Skarren, dis
bursement officer and member of the
fcoard. He explained that the mini
mum amount that can be used for en
forcement purposes is five per cent
tut that in the discretion of the board
larger percentage may be used.
Carteret county had several meddle
some and troublesome bootlegging
areas, and as a result three enforce
ment officers have been employed.
I They have practically wiped out
iht, infamous .bootlegging joints of
thj Morehead Bluffs and Newport
I areas. Many arrests have been made
I -and several convictions obtained. In
i 'gone cases bootleggers carried their
rj cases to higher courts and several are
t now pending for trial before juries
of superior courts, ine next super
ior court convenes in Carteret county
on March 28. A considerable Bum
has been turned over to the county
in fines collected from convicted
bootleggers.
(Contnued on page eight)
A. and N. C. Will Also
Have Delivery Service
Like many other railroads through
out the country the Atlantic and
North Carolina railroad is inaugurat
ing the pick-up an 1 delivery of less
1 than carload freight wnere requesi
I ed, according to E. W. Dozier, traf
S fic manager of the road with head
I ouarters in Morehead City.
I Where the shipper or consignee
' elects to perform the service himself,
i he will be allowed five cents per hun-
dred pounds, Mr. Doziar stated. Fed-
eral authority for this privilege will
be found in a recent bulletin of the
Interstate Commerce Commission
No. A-3 which lists a few c-ccepted
commodities.
Among the excepted commo.i'ties
are high explosives, household go.-.ds
and personal effects, live animals o:
t ostraches, live poultry, live stock,
cotton, and certain cotton products,
I unmanufactured tobacco and certain
! fertilizer products. Norfolk-Southern
' tmd Southern railways have adopted
similar services of ' pick-up and de-
liveries in towns served by their
roads.
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money without man. w
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United States. 1847.
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WATEi M'EtOSl
By AYCOCK BROWN
AN INTERESTING story in this edi
tion of The Beaufort News (Page 1-2
second section) tells about Hatteras
as a port of entry back in the year
1859. The story was first printed last
week in The Dare County Times.
Few people realize that considerable
commerce was carried on between
North Carolina sound and river ports
and the West Indies during earner
days. Some of the old timers around
this section can tell you about it thou
gh, because they served before the
mast on vessels years ago in the West
Indian trade.
NORTH CAROLINA'S historical
events are not played up enough.
For instance in a Dictionary of Dates
published in London, which I have in
my library on ucracoKe isiana i
learned for the first time about Ihe
Hatteras Expedition. I had never
seen reference to same m American
hooks or histories. It has to do with
the capture of Hatteras Inlet by the
Federal gun-boats back in looOs.
There were two forts on Hatteras at
the time and one or two on Roanoke
Island. Ocracoke Inlet was protect
ed by a fort on Beacon Island which
was destroyed by the Confederates
when they learned that Hatteras had
been taken.- And that was the time
that two-thirds of Ocracoke, in
small and large sail boats fled to
Hyde County mainland, at Swanquar
teras refugees.
(Continued on page eight)
FREEZE ISOLATES
COASTAL ISLANDS
Rwti nt OrrarolcA nnd Hatter
as Icebound For Short Time;
C. G. Cutter Travis to Aid
Tangier Island Residents
Last Thursday boats could not
leave the islands of the outer banks
for their mainland terminus or for
fishing due to a blinding snow storm.
On Friday, Saturday and Sunday the
boats became icebound. While it
might have been possible to have
made thetrip to the mainland safe
ly, the small crafts of Ocracoke and
Hatteras, recalling a 17 day freeze
18 years ago, preferred remaining in
their home ports. Some of the fisher
men at Ocracoke reached their homes
on Core Sound Saturday, but theirs
was a one way trip.
There was no suffering for lack of
food reported, despite the fact that
supplies of some merchants were run
ning low. Most of the merchants in
the Outer Banks communities stock
up two or three times a week and had
the freeze continued, perhaps the
same conditions would have been
prevalent along our coast as at Tan
gier Island in the Chesepeake Bay.
The 125-foot Coast Guard cutter
Travis, under the command of Capt.
P. A. Short was summoned irom ner
Morehead City base to proceed to
Tangier Island on February 4 was
proceeding there under full power.
She was summoned after the larger
Unaga had moved as close to the is
land as the bay depth would permit.
About 1,200 residents had been ice
bound there for about two weeks, it
was reported. -
WEATHER PROHIBITS
BASKET BALL GAMES
Cold weather caused postponements
in the schedules oi at. raui s anu
Beaufort High last week. St. Paul's
Thursday night game with Morehead
City High at the latter place and
Beaufort High's double bill court bat
tles with Newport High here last rri
day night were moved to later dates.
St. Paul's has won two and lost one
and the local Highs have won two
and lost two in Carteret County Con
ference play.
Tomorrow, Friday, night begin
ning at 7:30 Smyrna ,Highg and the
locals engage in twin-bill in the
Beaufort gym.
READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE
.
THE BEAUFORT NEWS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1936
Beaufort: Many Years Ago
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These Scenes Once Adver tised A. & N. C. Railroad
Many resident.! can recall th- time when an oyster factory was ocated
adjacent to the channel on t.ie western end of town. The top photo show
ing this factory was made many years before anyone had dreamed that a
State Highway bridge would be built from Beaufort to Morehead City.
The A. and N. C. railroad which ended at Morehead City featured the
town of Beaufort in advertisements of those days. The lower picture
shows Bird Shoal Island, on which fishermen used to have net racks,
and Beaufort's harbor and waterfront in the background. The old circu
lar showing the above and other pictures was loaned the Beaufort News
by Miss Eliza Howland and Roy Eubanks rephotoed same for making
tno abovu cut.
-:POUT TERMINAL FLASHES:-
About 35 per cent of the German
steel piles have been driven, although
progress has been slow recently due
to weather conditions.
Dredge Neverest contracted by T.
A. Loving Company to deepen term
inal harbor to 30 feet has completed
about one third of job.
The Manhattan and Comstock em
ployed on Old Topsail inlet channel
have, been digging rather ' stoady de
spite unfavorable weather during the
week. .
American steel anchorage piles
(300 tons) consigned p Port Te-rmi-
FISHERIES PLANT
MAKES NEW LOANS
Four new loans made to North
Carolina fishermen by N. C. Fisher
ies Inc., were recorded in the chattel
mortgage division of the Register of
Deeds office this week. This makes a
total of 27 loans made by the organ
ization, that have been recorded in
the Register of deeds office. Each
of the new loans mortgages were giv
en on boats. Names of borrowers, a
mount and colateral follows: Leon
Willis, $85, security boat Eloise;
Gray Willis, .$180, security, boat Ed
ith Gray; John Brooks, $90, security
boat Andrus; and Billie W. Lewis
$249.43, security, boat Tyki.
If You Are An Electric Rate
Kicker Then Read This
Electric rates now in effect in
Beaufort are the franchise rates a
greed upon by the city when the Tide
.Water Power Company purchased the
electric and water plants, except that
optional rates have been introduced
since then whereby some conditions
permit the use of current at even
lower costs than under the franchise
rates, according to information in a
letter received this week from F. A.
jMatthes, president of Tide Water
Power Company with home olhces in
Wilmington.
Mr. Matthes gave the above expla
nation at the request of the editor
of The Beaufort News who from time
to time has heard complaints about
what some people believe is exces
sive electric rates. One thing about
electricity the more killowatts you
use. the lower your general expense
!.around the homo becomes. This is
on of the arguments that appliance
solesmn offer when ttiey sell you
Three Cases on Docket
Of Recorder Paul Webb
Only three cases were on the docket
' of Recorder's Court this week.
i The case involving Matthew
Brown
iand idie Johnson,
charged wtih
violating the prohibition law was nol
prossed with leave. Upon payment of
half the Recorder court costs, the full
costs of Justice of Peaca and officer,
payment of license for the last quar
ter of 1935, judgment was continued
in the case of W. O. Hartley, charg
ed with operating a motor truck with
improper licenses. A. D. Davis, charg
ed with driving an automobile while
drunk will be tried at a future" "ses
sion of recorder's court.
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nal, from Carnegie Company of Pitts
burgh, which has been icebound in
Norfolk harbor for the past several
days, was expected to leave there to
day, despite the fact the inland
waterway reported still frozen.
Gahagen No. 5 on Inlet-Terminal
channel project has created large is
land between Morehead and Beaufort
and is reported to be moving about
20,000 yards daily.
Maurice R. Beaman, manager of
Port Terminal confined to home in
Morehead City today due to illness.
Luther Hamilton terminal counsel
has jbjeen jlj for past several days..
OTWAY'S GILLIKINS
JAVING BAD LUCK
Carteret's new welfare department
had as its first cr.s:, Mrs. rrisciiia
Hillilnn. 43-vear old widow of Ot-
way, who sunered a iracturea nip
when she slipped on frozen snow on
r.hfi hack norch of her home there
Tuesday. The Gillikins of Otway are
having some bad breaks this winter.
Elijah Gillikin, lost his home as the
insult of fire a few days ago. He and
his family had moved into the humble
three room cottage of Mrs. Pnscilla
Gillikin, about 12 in all were living
in a rather distitute condition. And
then on Thursday additional hard
luck struck the family. Mrs. Gillikin's
condition is not considered serious,
elpctxic stoves, heaters, vacuum
cleaners, irons, fans or refrigerators.
Tide Water Power company has
completed its new lines down east as
far as Smyrna. A few nights ago an
electrical show was staged in that
community in honor of the arrival of
electricity. Mr. Matthes commented
on this new line now under construc
tion and bound east. He said:
"We are looking forward to serv
ing 400 customers on our Atlantic
line when it is completed. This line
is to be 50 miles long and most mod
ern of its kind. Other extensions are
nlonnArl Knf tho sontinn vrll mention
ed is not inciuaea in me immeuiuw
future."
The section vour editor had asked
about was, if a line would be extend
ed at any near date to the Core
Creek section. There are many farm
ers in that area who would welcome
the advent of electricity for their
homes.
Beaufort Had Nineteen
Clear Days In January
Despite the fact that January
brought the first snow of any conse
ouence for this section in 18 years,
the past month as a whole registered
far better weather than many parts
of the State, For instance there
were 19 sunshiny days during the
month, nine clouv davs. one over
cast and two partly cloudy. The
highest temperature during the month
was on January 3 when the mercury
climbed to 66. The lowest tempera
ture was on the night of January 28
when the thermometer registered 15
(Continued on page fire)
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Extracts From The
Lookout
October 23, 1908
Horace H. Hamlin, now publisher
of The News in Clearwater. Florida
was the editor of the Lookout, which
carried, the slogan over the title on
Page One, "Reaches Carteret County
Like The Tides.' the dog-ears, (they
are those little boxes at either end
of the title of a newspaper on page
one) carried the slogans "There's
just "one way to cover Carteret
LOOKOUT," and "Keep your eye
on Cape Lookout and Beaufort Har
bors. The October 23, edition was
Volume 1, No. 47.
The contract for Carteret's court
house which was let in April 1907
under the administration of Messrs.
W. S. Chadwick, W. N. Bell, W. F.
Taylor, A. Lee and Allen Taylor, com
missioners was completed . . and on
Monday last Ex-Governor Charles
Brantley Aycock, made the principal
address. He spoke lor two hours to
an immense audience.
A photo of Charles S. Wallace,
who was born at Portsmouth, and
had moved to Morehead City at the
age of 14 was carried on the front
page. Mr. Wallace had started in the
fish business in 1895. on a carjital
of $100 of which was borrowed. As an
illustration of the manner of the man
(continued on page five)
ANOTHER RAIL HEARING
SCHEDULED FOR FEB. 17
Finance Docket No. 10934
which embraces the application
of M. S. Hawkins and L. H.
Windholz, receivers of the Nor
folk Southern railroad for per
mission to abandon operation
over the line of the Atlantic
and North Carolina railroad
company, application for per
mission to abandon the line of
the Norfolk Southern between
Morehead City and Beaufort
and application of the A. and
N. C. for authority to resume
operations of its road, is the
title of a proceedings assigned
for further hearing, as the case
may be, on February 17, 1936
at 10 o'clock in the courthouse
at Beaufort before Examiner
Prichard.
The above announcement
was received by the secretary
of the Chamber of Commerce
Wednesday from George B.
McGinty, I.C.C. secretary. Pre
viously a hearing was held in
Beaufort on November 11 and
12 in connection with the ap
plication for abandonment of
the trackage between Morehead
City and Beaufort by the Norfolk-Southern.
New Development In
West Morehead City
B. B. Montague of Goldsboro who
recently bought the old Cooperage
properties once owned by Standard
Oil near the western limits of More
head City has made considerable im
provements in the area. Since last
Autumn he has had a force of men
landscaping the seven acres which ad
ioins Bosrue sound and nt some iu-
ture date the property will be sub
divided and sold to home builders,
according to Roy Lasiter, Morehead
City real estate dealer. Sinoe imprvoe
ments on the property began, Mr.
Montague's average has been avound
$400 weekly, it was stated.
At an early date he will construct
a steel pier, for the use of home
builders in the development. This
will probably be the first steel pier
ever constructed in the south and
surely the fiftt in North Carolina, Mr.
Lasiter stated. Mr. Lasiter stated that
the real estate business was picking
up in Morehead City now. A New
Yorker re-antly purchased building
lo 3 there ,id will construct two
stre bui.
p e have
property
' gs. Other northern peo
30 recently purchased
Vvi Wf Titpr
Carteret's Future
Depends Largely on
The Men You Put
In Public Offices
and Pay Your Subscription
NUMBER 6
Several Other Matters Includ
ing Resolution to U. S. Engi
neering Board For Deepen
ing Drum Inlet to 12 Feet
Given Attention of County
Board at Regular Meeting
Monday.
MRS. EVA BRAVALDO
FAILS TO GET PAY
Mrs. Bessie Henderson- of More-
head Citv was elected superintendent
of public .welfare in Carteret county
at a joint meeting of the board ot
education and board of commission
ers. She was elected following a mo
tion offered by Charles V. Webb and
seconded by W. Z. McCabe. Follow
ing this election and upon motion it
was ordered that the superintendent
of public welfare be empowered to
appoint an Assistant Welfare Officer.
Mrs. Ruth Roberts, who has been
connected with public relief work in
Carteret countv for sometime was
given this appointment by Mrs. Hen
derson. The exact salary that will be paid
the welfare officers could not be
learned, but I. W. Davis, clerk to
the board, stated that the superinten
dent would receive from $ao to $izo
per month according to her qualifica
tions. The superintendent's salary
will be born partly by Carteret and
partly by the State Board of Chari
ties and Public Welfare. Mrs. Rob
erts' salary will all come from the
State. The apopintment of Mrs. Hen
derson came as no surprise to many,
who knew prior to Monday that she
was slated for the job. She has had
experience in Red Cross work.
Each ' of the five county commis
sioners were present at the meeting
Monday. One of the important mat
ters coming to their attention was the
ordering of County Attorney Hamil
ton to draft a resolution approving
and urging depth of 12 feet on Drum
Inlet and A. L. Hamilton was ap
pointed to collect satisfactory infor
mation regarding same for the Board
of Engineers, Washington.
(Continued on page eight)
Smyrna School Getting
Out Interesting Paper
Smyrna High has the distinction of
being the only school in the county
which publishes a school paper. The
paper consists of eight or more mime
ographhed pages. It is published
monthly. Its name is "The Smyrna
Coaster." The make up of the paper
is as follows: Community News; "Our
Page" which gives the work of the
various grades; Jokes; and Editor
ials, with an interspersion of Ads
throughout the paper.
The material for the paper is writ
ten by the students and Principal,
with an. occasional article by some
( Continued on page eight)
TIDE TABLE
Information an to tne tirfa
it. Beaufort is given in this eoi
imn. Tha figures are appros
imately correct r.d bated oi
table's furnished by the U. S
Geodetic Survey. Some allow
inces must be made for varl
dons in the wind and alto wit)
respect to the locality, that i
whether near the Inlet. ox v
he head of the et.oarie.
iigh Tid
Low' Til
Friday, Feb. 7
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aoiisiieo
8:24 a. m. 1:56 a. m.
8:38 p. m. 2:28 p. m.
Saturday, Feb. 8
8:58 a. m. 2:87 a, m.
9:14 p. m. 3:04 p. m.
Sunday, Feb. 9
9:31 a. m. 3:15 a. rn.
9:18 p. m. 3:40 p. m.
Monday, Feb. 10
10:02 a. m. 3:54 a. m.
10:23 p. m 4:14 p. m.
Tueaday, Feb. 11
10:32 a. m. 4:31 a. m.
10:59 p. m. 4r46 p. tt.
Wednesday, Feb.
12
6:08
5119
a. m.
p. nt.
11:06 p. m.
Thursday, Feb. 13
11:34 a.
11:45 p.
m.
m.
5:49
5:56
m.
a.