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VOLUME XXV
TEN PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1936 PMC ,1 SINGLE COPY
NUMBER 11
! J W H
Out Of State Trawlers
Are Catching The Fish
N. C. Sink Netters Find
Sink Netters Have Been Slow REPORTS ON WATERWAYS
Paying Licenses Due fo Gen
eral economic oncmois ,
And Fact They Have Inade-'
quate Protection Frcm Traw
lers. ;
New Fishing Grounds
Sink netters along the North Caro
lina coast are slow about paying the
Fisheries Commission the 50 cent per
hundred yards license this year. They
claim that since they have no pro
tection against the out-of-state traw
lers who pay no taxes, and who are
'breaking up the fishing' for sink
netters, that there is no reason why
they should pay any licenses. Of
course there is a reason, but youi
can't convince the sink-netters, not'
as long as they find schools of fish
during the day time that are scatter-;
ed after dark by trawlers dragging
within the three miles territorial lim
its of the State. !
Capt. John Nelson, fisheries commis
1 n
Fi iiiiirti'-r""-"""'
Centennial Celebration Planned
Gri id Jury Probes Bus
Siti!ltion But Does Not
Report On Bad Gov't.
PRESIDING JURIST
Old Fort Maccn Completed In 1836 Is 100 Years Old
Congressman Barden
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b.u.ici, ..u u.u i. -- -1' "'",who visited his home in
nsnermen ana aiso coueci me licens
es is in a peculiar situation. The North
Carolina Fisheries Commission which
has to depend on a group of legisla
tors for an operating budget has to
deal with people who think of the
A. Barden ;
New Bern j
last week-end stated that he had
reasons to believe that Beaufort will !
be allotted a 600 foot harbor with a j
depth of 12 feet." Widening of the !
harbor was asked last year, but disap- j
proved by U. S. Engineers an ap-
salt waters of the state anJ what it - , heftrin ' t which several Carter-
offers in the term or a weeK-ena par-iet citizen3 attondod was conducted in !
ty down at Atlantic or Wnghtsville ,Washin?ton a few daya ag0. Hope is j
Beaches. And incidently, unless Capt. heli fof the Ca Lookout bight pro
Nelson has given the Fisheries , Com- , aisQ u wa statad xhia project
mission some elementary schooling in would include the digging of a chan. j
icthyology, it is doubtful if a man on n&, fr(m Bay Jn Core Sound to j
the entire board of Department of iLookout Bight and prove of vast be.
Conservation and Derelopment knows tQ mM craft navigation interest. I
tne ainerence oween a u Atlantic has been promised a chan-
a menhadden or a speckled and and a nel the dsep watef of Pamlic0
grey trout. But the lack of coramer-'g-j and the Third District Repre
cial fish knowledge and a slashed bud- sentative ;3 aIso w01.king diligently
get is noi neiping oui me suuauon . . . ,f , D l l t oject and
now along the coast
About 10 years ago a Virginia traw
ler out of Hampton decided to sail
south of Hatteras and see what could
be caught in that area. Putting his
nets overboard very close to the shore
of Ocracoke island, that Hampton
fishermen sailed north loaded to the
'gunnels' after three drags. He spread
the news and within a year or two
Ocracoke had become the base for a
fleet of up to 50 such trawlers. About
seven years ago a group of
other waterway
the coast.
improvements for
Covin it's The
WATliU FIIOX1
By AYCOCK BROWN
The Pike That Leads To Fort
Flans are now underway to observe the 100th annier3ary of old Fort
Macon during the current year. Word to this effect was received in Car
teret a few da-3 ago from Tom Morse, superintendent of State Parks for
the Department of Conservation and Development. After a 12-year per
iod of construction Fort Macon was completed in 1836 at a cost of nearly,
one half million dollars. It was constructed to protect the town of Beau
fort and Old Topsail Inlet from enemy fleets and pirates and until after
the Spanish American War wa3 garrisoned. Early in the 20th century
the fort was de-commissioned and the armaments, cannon and mortars,
were moved to various courthouse lawns throughout tlje' country. Senator
Jo3iah Bailey determined for this newspaper last year that it would be
impossible to replace the specific guns th?.t once fortified the fort. CCC
youths after a period of two years partial u.-tored the old fort, complet
ing their job in 1935 and today it is one o: the most interesting historical
shrines in the United States. (Lower r'cture) This is the clay road
leading from Atlantic Beach Highway to Old Fort Macon. It was con
structed with CWA funds when Mrs. Malcolm Lewis was administrator in
this county. The road makes it possible to drive direct to the walls of
the ancient stronghold. The read was given to the State of North Caro
lina which has not appreciated the gift enough to date to pave same.
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Deplorable Conditions Report
ed At Beaufort School; Hark
ers Island Bus Needs Re
pairs; Several Criminal Cas
es of Little Interest Disposed
Of By Court
Plumber In Trouble
Hon. Marshall T. Spears
Presiding over the March term of
iSuperior court in Beaufort this week
is Judge Marshall T. Spears of Dur
ham. He was appointed to fill the
place of Judge W. A. Devin of Ox
ford who became a Supreme Court
Justice following the death of Justice
Brogden. Judge Spears is a native of
Lillington. A Carolina man, he grad
uated from that institution with the
Class of 1913. In his charge to the
Jury on Monday Judge Spears stress
ed the importance of Highway safe
ty, stating that in 1935 there was a
11 per cent increase in automobile
fatalities in North Carolina as com
pared with" the previous year. It is
Judge Spear's first visit to Carteret
in an official capacity.
War Declared On
iV. If. FISilEJUES
In The Dare County Timet
Several of the school busses in
Carteret county are in faulty condi
tion the Grand Jury found this week,
but they made no reference to various
phrases of faulty Carteret county gov
ernment which has been exposed re
cently. L. C. Salter, foreman of the
grand jury presented his report to
Judge Marshall T. Spears Wednesday
afternoon.
The school bus situation for Atlan
tic, Smyrna, Beaufort and Harkers
Island, as found by the committe ap
pointed to investigate same revealed
the following:
Busses Nos. 8 and 34, Beaufort
school have poor brakes and two
lights out. Other four in good condi
tion. The fire alarm system at the
Beaufort school is completely out of
commission, 150 window lights in the
building are broken out, doors need
replacing and pracitcally all doors
and locks need repairing.
At the Smyrna school the commit
tee found six inches of water in the
basement, (which was comparatively
shallow considering the heavy rains
this week), but the building is other
wise in good condition. School buss
es No. 16 has front brakes too tight
and four lights out on No. 36. Nos.
20 and 15 were okay.
The Atlantic school building and
busses which serves that institution
were found in good condition. Only
two stop arms were found on the en
tire fleet of busses and several had
(Continued on page ten)
FARMERS TO HAVE
SEED LOANS AGAIN
JUDGING FROM Billy
(Continued on page two)
Arthur's
C.nre' orrnnnt nf the banquent extended
the heroic Travis crew Monday night,
'by City Buildeis in Morehead City, (
U Via ovunt- was auite a success. Ii
I Tt'M. IT n t- j would have liked very much to have I
Last Kites I Or lapt. heard B0at3wain Mate Nathan Vanger j
W. K. Hinnant Will Be
. . . p .j 'State Police party irom the slushy ice
Conducted Ull rnaay'of the Chesapeake Bay. And I had
sort cf figured on being present as the
Funeral services for Capt. W. K. , newspapers and the Associated Press
Hinnant, 56, will be conducted at St.'U), 3;ate for which I am correspondent
Paul's Church Friday afternoon at 4 . hu J wired assignments to cover the
o'clock with the rector, Rev. Law-.ban.vjtt, just as they had wired for
rence Fenwick officiating assisted by t'r.o story of welcome last Saturday
Piev. Worth Wicker of Greenville, a ar.d which was published in the after
former rector of the lo il Episcopal noon papeis of that day and the mora
church where the deceased v:as a mem ' ing- editions Sunday. But I could send
ber. nothing, because I was not extended
Capt. Hinnant who for the ;vst 35 an invitation to attend, end knew noth
years had been employed in ii.:'.-oad jng about what happened until the
service and held seniority on both the 'stories written by Morehead City and
Atlantic and North Carolina and Nor- xew Bern correspondent appeared in
folk-Southern, died suddenly in Golds print.
boro, Wednesday, the result of a
Farmers of Carteret county will be
happy to learn that there will be an
other seed loan this year. Roy Hines,
of Washington, N. C, representative
of the U. S. Department of Agricul
ture notified Hugh Overstreet, county
agentt his week that the loans would
be available and that proper applica
tion blanks would arrive on March 19
or 20th. Fanners are urged to please
wait until those dates or until they
have been notified by Mr. Overstreet
of the arrival of the blanks before
making an unnecessary trip to his of
fice for same prior to that time. The
loans this year will range from a max
stroke of appoplexy,
He was born at Black
OX'E MEMBER OF the Travis crew
Creek in'wh0 was in his cups last baturaay
Wilson county on December 21, 1880 night in Beaufort was telling every
(continued on page five) lone who would listen m the drug
; store and along the streets about the
' rescue. The crew was only doing
iwhat they are employed to uo, aa
that is to perform their duty. But
Hearst papers and then others put
(Continued on page four)
NINE INCH RAIN
HERE THIS WEEK
Beaufort and the entire coastland
tried to do a Pago Pago in the way
of rainfall this week. Pago Pago is a
dot in the Pacific where it rains so
much and so frequently a very suc
cessful stage play, "Rain," had as its
setting, the tiny island. In 48 hours,
according to an official report from
the local weather bureau on Piver's
Island, over nine inches of rainfall
was recorded. Six and six tenth inches
fell on Tuesday. As a result the pota
to crop might suffer and the back lots
of Beaufort look like the Great Lakes
or the Thousand Islands. The north
easter which passed us going north
imum of 3200 to $500 depending on blew half a gale but no damage was
the number of tenants on a farm, it
wai stated.
reported. But low lanr'.s are submerg
ed
Croatan Sound Light House
a.rr TL.TC SH
WHAr 22 L .
"Children havt wore need of !ood
models than oj severe crui-s
MARCH
rx ' 12 5,000.000 Carr.tsis Hero
-Rjrain- Jr.mision (ounded.
304
-rv 13. a
.il cl Russia's troops joir.
revolution. 1517.
1 Q 14 Spniih o)dicn capturt
the city of Mobile, 1780.
, .. , IS Columbia completes hu
SM firmt vovjm. retching
Spain, 1493.
jt a . f " r p . ,
JO VCt OI WWSiw
the weft roint minuwj
Academy, 1802
17 Firit glider Bight in th
Unked Stitej, 600 Jeetl
. A 1884.
It Congreu grant! first pen
ion to Revolutionary
War retains. 1818.
GULL DROPS A CLAM
ON CHARLIE'S HEAD
Charlie Hawkins, colored em
ployee of the U. S. Bureau of
Fisheries was walking acros the
proptrtie on PiTera Island thi
veek when he waa itruck on the
head with a clam, dropped by a
gull. The clam did not break and
Charlie is getting along nicely. It
is the first ime in the history of
this section of the coast that a
gKH has ever treated anyone in
just that manner. Last year a
gull dropped a five pound trout
on the wharf of C. V. Hill, a
local merchant, and during the
past winter the road to Atlantic
Beach has been literally covered
with broken cla:n shells that
these sea-birds have dropped, but
deliberately dropping one of the
hard bivalves on top of a per
son's head is an entirely new
trick.
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llligtBeifjgig iff:--
HEAD
FISHER
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. John Sikes
The editor of The Beaufort News
has frequently been referred to as
one of the leaders in the fight brought
on by the independent
dealers against N. C.
Fisheries, Inc. This has
been especially true
where references have
been made in newspa
pers throughout the
State. The edtior of
The Beaufort News
makes no apology to
J anyone for various stor
ies he ha3 written a-
bout the operation of
the N. C. Fisheries. We
' do no believe in unfair
comDetition in t n e
printing trade, fisheri
es, the merchandising
of stock or as for that matter any
thing unfair.
Through the columns of The Beau
fort News we try and give all sides
to controversies. Another angle on N.
C. Fisheries, Inc., was printed in The
Dare County Times of Manteo, last
week. It was undobutedly written by
D. Victor Meekins, a capable news
paperman and one who has taken a
different slant on this fisheries situa
tion. We are glad to reprint in part,
his story. It appeared under the cap
tion "War Begun On Only Plan To
HelD Fishermen Yet." It follows:
"War was begun on the North Car
olina Fisheries, Inc., an organization j
that has plants at Manteo, Belhaven,
Morehead City and Southport, and j
which was organized to help tne
fishermen who were down and out,
(Continued on page two)
Wreck Victims Show
Steady Improvement
Miss Eloise Freeman and Herbert
Clark, the victims of a serious sedan
truck crash last Saturday night were
reported as improving, by attaches
of Potter's Emergency Hospital where
they were taken following the wreck.
Miss Freeman suffered fractures of
the process of both upper and lower
jaws, the loss of several teeth and
numerous lacerations to face. Mr.
Clark's skull was fractursd. Mis3 Ir
ma Lee Grant and Leslie Moore other
occupants of the sedan were less ser
iously injured. George Lawrence and
other occupants of the truck were not
hurt. The wreck occurred Saturday
night at the corner of Live Oak and
Front Streets as the young folks were
returning from the basketball tourney.
TWO-HEADED DIAMOND I
BACK TERRAPIN DIES
TIDE TABLE
Information ai to tne tldo
it Beaufort is given in this coi
imn. Thj figures are approi
imately correct and based or
table's furnished by the U. S
Godetic Survey. Some allow
ances must be made for varla
tions in the wind and also witl
respect to the locality, that It
whether near the inlet or a'
he heads of the estuaries.
Modern Appliances Replacing Screwpile Light Keepers
Years a'o light boats were placed at stategic points along the navigable
routes' of various North Carolina sounds. Then screwpUe structures like
Croatan Light pictured above replaced the light boats. Lonely keepers
lived aboard the structures for many years but today with the exception
of Crdatah and Pamlico Point light and possibly' one', or two others, all are
opeiated-automatically. The nearest screwpile lights to Beaufort are lo
cated, at Harbor Island atid Neuse River entrance. Other lights of-this
tvue are located at Bluff .Shoals, Oliver Reel, Gull Shoal and Long Rock.
(Cut loaned, for publication 'through, courtesy. The Dare County Timw of
Manteo.)
The two-beadfd Diamond Back
terrapin at the U. S. Bureau of
Fisheries Laboratory s dead.
Since it was hatched during the
Autumn of 1933, thousands of
persons, have seen the little fel
low. Just wh-tt caused the dual
headed reptile's demise, Dr.
Prytherch! director of the labor
atory, has not determined. May
be the two heads fighting for
food, starved the one body to
death. During the past 30 years
approximately 100,00 terrapins
have been hatched in the prop
ation pens on the Island. To
date throe, dual beaded speci
mans have been Scr4&
m.
m.
m.
m.
iw&sMhw.siaiisi liilill.s
High Tide Low Tide
Friday, M?rch 13
5:17 a. m.
11:13 p. m. o:0S p. m.
Saturday, March 14
m. 6:02
m. 5:50
Sunday, March IS
a. m. 6:55
p. m. 6:45
Monday, Match 16
a. m. 7:58 a. ra.
p. m. 7:57 p. m.
Tuesday, March 17
a. m. 9:01 a. m.
p. m. 9:08 p. m.
Wednesday, March IS
3:27 a. m. 9:01 a. m.
3:52 p. m. 10:17 p. m.
Thursday, March 19
4:33 a. m. 10:58 a. m.
4:56 p. ra.
11:40 a.
11:55 p
12:25
12:39
1:17
1:36
2:19
2:42