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VOLUME XXV
EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEKTHE BEAUFORT NEWS THU RSDAY, APRIL 9, 1936
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NUMBER 15
Town App
Phone Lfa
Will Mean Elimination
Of Tolls Between
Morehead And
Beaufort
OCEAN VIEW" CEMETERY
INVESTIGATION ORDERED
The City Fathers of Beaufort have
agreed to the proposal of the Caro
lina Telephone and Telegraph com
pany as a result, tolls will be remov
ed between this town and Morehead
City at an early date. The decision
which caused considerable concern
several months ago was finally a
greed upon after a bitter fight on the
part of many citizens against the
proposal.
Had not the city agreed to the pro
posed change in service, U. S. govern
ment lines from Fort Macon, Cape
Lookout and points along the outer
banks would have been changed to
terminate at Morehead City instead
of Beaufort, bringing charges of 10
to 20 cents on calls to that area, and
likewise a similar increase to all
telephone communities of Carteret
county.
Officials of the telephone company
could not say today just how soon
the change would become effective,
but indicated that it would be only
a short time. Automatic dial tele
phones are now being installed in
Beaufort and Morehead City. The
final owrppment to the proposal on
the part of the town commissioners
was reached at their regular meet
ing Monday night. All of the com
missioners were present at the meet.
Mayor Bayard Taylor appointed a
committee composed of Seth Gibbs
and Frank L. King to investigate the
deplorable conditions reported recent
ly in connection with Ocean View
cemetery.
Every dog owner in Carteret coun
ty who does not have their dog vac
cinated is violating a Stat law. Per
haps Dr. C. W. Lewis, of the com
missioners had that in mind when he
made a motion that proper authori
ties in Beaufort secure dog serum
and to notify all dog owners to have
their canaines vaccinated at once.
Other matters coming to the at
tention of the commissioners were
more or less of a routine nature,
concerning repairs to streets etc. A
motion was passed authorizing the
city tax collector to start levying on
all personal property for tax due the
city.
BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Potts
of Beaufort RFD, April 5th, a son.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. John Web
ster Willis, of Beaufort at the More
head City hospital, April 6th, a
daughter, Joyce Ann.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Josey
of Beaufort RFD, April 7th, a son.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Alvie Ful
cher, of Harkers Island, April 7th, a
eon.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gas
kill of Beaufort, April 7th, a son.
"Laziness travels so slowly that poverty
quicly overtakes him."
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RAILROAD MANAGER
Crowell of the A. & N. C.
The above is a poor photograph of
a rather handsome man. H. P. Crow
ell who has been publicized through
out the country as being a "doctor
of sick railroads" has had as his pa
tient since last autumn, the Atlantic
and North Carolina. So far the A. &
N. C. has not been granted a certi-fl-ioto
nnemte the railroad but it
has been operated nevertheless.
Beaufort citizens wno were preset
at a recent meeting which Mr. Crow
ell attended pertaining to the contin
ued operation of the B & W were
impressed with the man, it has been
stated.
Fishing And
ALL OUTDOORS
By AYCOCK BROWN
LENOXVILLE ROOKERY is the
iv Kird aanctuarv in North Carolina
which is maintained by the Audubon
association But there are other sanc
tuaries and refuges for birds and
vou in the State. The U. S. Biolog
ical Survey maintains two waterfowl
refuges along the coast; one at Lake
Mattamuskeetfl stretching over near
ly 50,000 acres and another at Swan
quarter, streaching out over nearly
15,000 acres. Both are in Hyde
county.
IN ADDITION, THERE is in the
western part of thes tate, the Pisgah
National Game Preserve of over 98,
000 acres, where deer, elk, quail, tur
keys and other wild-life is under the
care of the U. S. Forestry Service.
The State Department of Conserva
tion and Development administers
some 25 or more game refuges in var
ious parts of the state. And as a re
sult wildlife generally is faring bet
ter today than it ever did before, in
North Carolina.
CONGRESSMAN MARION A.
Zioncheck, U. S. representative from
the state of Washington came to Beau
fort recentlv aboard a snorty look
ing Packard. He wanted to go fishing
and when advised that conditions
were unfavorable, he still insisted on
coins1. Capt. John M. Dickinson took
the congressman out aboard the yacht
"Idle-On" but no fish were landed.
BAD WEATHER MADE fishing
conditions along the coast last week
end unfavorable. If anyone caught a
fish with rod and reel in this section,
it had not been reported late Monday
when this column was written. Unless
i marked change is noted in the
weather this week, it is doubtful that
many if any channel bass will be land
ed on the full moon of April. The
moon was full Monday and tides are
right, but wind and weather are not
so favorable. The next best bet for
surf casting for channel bass will be
(Continued on page two)
Championship Game
B. H. S. Meets Snow Hill
here Friday in Championship
baseball game, at 3:30 o'clock
it was announced as we go to
press. Beaufort High has won
all games so far this year.
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Easter Monday Will
Feature Opening Of
Soft Ball Schedule
The Beaufort Soft Ball League
opens its regular schedule at 6:00 P.
M. on Monday, April 13. The open
ing fame brings together the Lard
Slingers of C. D Jones Co., and the
Shoe Horns of Lipman's Dept. Store.
On Wednesday afternoon at the
same hour the Fire Quenchers of the
Beaufort Fire Dept. meet the Paint
Dabbers of the Carteret Advertisers.
The last of the opening series of
games finds the Stamp Lickers of the
Beaufort Post Office opposing the
Club Aces of the Beaufort Business
Association.
Considerable interest is being
shown by Beaufort citizens in this
fascinating sport. The practice ses
sions held thus far have been well
attended by both players and specta
tors. Those who have been working
towards bringing the game of Soft
Ball to Beaufort, ask the continued ;
support of the citizenry of the town !
(Continued on page four) !
oAdditional Red
cISleeded To Aid
Peter Carraway Offers
Laboratory Big Turtle
An extra large Loggerhead captur
ed by Peter F. Carraway of Merri
mon may be added to the marine ex
hibit in the salt water pool at the
U. S. Bureau of Fisheries on Piv
er's Island. In a letter to the editor
of The Beaufort News Mr. Carraway
stated that he had the big reptile
which was under a 'death sentence'
unless Dr. Prytherch wanted it for
his collection. Dr. Prytherch stated
that he did want the turtle so by this
time perhaps Mr. Carraway has .Al
ready brought the loggerhead to
Beaufort, where it may spend 'life
imprisonment' in the salt water pool.
Dr. Prytherch is especially anxiou3
to have an e.xtra large speciman,
this one weighs less than one hun
dred, the letter stated.
Oysterman Is Suing
Fisheries Officials
Currituck Courthouse, April 8
Complaint was filed here Monday
before R. P. Midgett, clerk of Cur
rituck county court, by W. J. Mid
gett of Belhaven asking $10,000 ac
tual and $5000 punitive damages and
naming John A. Nelson of New Bern,
North Carolina 'Fisheries Commission
er, Thomas Basnight of Manteo, As
sistant Fisheries Commissioner, the
National Surety Company, bonds
men, and Wayland Baum of Wan
chese as defendants.
The complaint, drawn up by D. L.
Russel of Manteo, alleges that the
plaintiff was arrested while on his
oyster sloop the C. A. Sparks on
March 15, 1936 while enroute to
Elizabeth City with a cargo of oys
ters for market.
The complaint sets forth that the
plaintiff suffered "great anguish, de
gredation, humiliation, shame and
disbrace" as a result of the alleged
illegal arrest and deprivation of his
liberty by Thomas Basnight, Assist
ant Fisheries commissioner.
George Spence of Elizabeth City
will appear with D. L. Russell as
counsel. (News & Observer).
Political
Paul Webb indicated weeks ago
that he would be a candidate to suc
ceed himself as judge of Recorder's
court ... or those were his inten
tions at the time . . . And (it is writ
ten that) Tom Wade, ex-representative
to the General Assembly, ex
clerk of Recorder's court, ex-sheriff
and ex-cashier of a bank, now en
gaged in the insurance and real es
tate business at Morehead City has
an eye on the job ... It is not a
bad job at that, with a salary. that
exceeds a centrury note per month,
for only four working days . . . un
less there are five Tuesdays . . . .
Wonder if when Carteret's represen
tative was learning the ABCs during
the last Gen'l Assemblage, he- was,
by chance, promised anything polit
ically back home? .... Mr. Seeley
who declares that he just could not
leave his work to serve as Carteret's
representative ... if he was a can
Million And A Half
Tomato Plants Will
Be Grown In County
The largest tomato crop in the his
tory of Carteret and probably any
Eastern Carolina county is now in
the process of being set out on farms
east and north of Beaufort. The
complete acreage will run over 500
and which means that more than a
million and a half plants will be, or
are now being set out.
George Huntley is devoting about
60 acres to tomatoes this season; J.
H. Kinsey and Don Briglin of Ft.
Meyers, Fla., have leased a total of
over 250 acres; the Gibbs brothers
have almost 100 acres and the com
bined acreage of other farmers
brings the total to over 500. Mr.
Huntley returned on Wednesday
from Ft. Myers, Florida bringing
300,000 tomato plants. The majority
of plants being set out in Carteret
are coming from Florida. The total
yield should be heavy, if the farmers
get any sort of break at all, and har
vesting will begin late in June.
Cross Funds Are
Tornado Victims
Beaufort Chapter Has Gone
Oyer Top In Drive To
Secure Quota For
Flood Relief
MOREHEAD TREBLES QUOTA
Beaufort's chapter of the Ameri
can Red Cross has gone over the top
in raising funds for relief of flood
sufferers, with a total of $212.43 be
ing collected to date. The original
quota for the local chapter was
$200 for flood relief, but since the
devastating tornadoes in Greens
boro, N. C, Gainesville, Ga., Tupelo,
Miss., and other southern towns dur-i
ing the past week National headquar
ters of the Red Cross have urgently
requested that more funds than ask
ed for at first be raised. In the mean
time Morehead City's chapter of the
Red Cross has more than trebeled
its quota of $50.
Mrs. Bloodgood, secretary and
treasurer of the Beaufort Chapter
stated that within a week would be
published amounts from various
schools which has not been turned
in to date. The amount given from
Lola, on Cedar Island, which amount
ed to $8.60 and made a human in
terest story that the Associated
Press sent throughout the country
has since increased to $10.60 and
Roe, on Cedar Island contributed
$13.70. Those good folks down there,
although none are wealthy, have
given what they could. They have
not forgotten the Red Cross which
helped them to the tune of many
thousands of dollars following the
hurricanes of 1933.
Hundreds of persons have been
killed in the tornado stricken towns
of the South quite recently and the
Red Cross has been on the scene
rendering aid since that time. Addi
tional funds are needed to carry on
the work and if anyone who has con
tributed to the f!ood fund, who would
also like to hi";) the tornado suffer
ers, Mrs. Bio lgood end Dr. Hyde
will accept av. ! appreciate th ? dona
tions. The Be ufort News of.'.Je will
continue taki ? contributio -.s for
Flood and Tci'nado sufferers
Round - Up
didate . . . and ... if he was elect
ed, was in a huddle with Luther
(Kingfish) Hamilton at the court
house on Tuesday . . . They were
probably discussing the lumber bus
iness . . . Charles Lambert Skarren
might choose to run for prosecuting
attorney of recorder's court ... If
elected he would turn back into the
county treasury part of the monthly
stipend, ($75 per) because it is just
too much money he believes, for the
amount of work involved . . . Pros
ecutor M. Leslie Davis also wants
that job back again . . , James Davis
Potter was elected for his ability as
an auditor . . not his ability as a
politician . . . We heard the rumors
63 to who all wanted to be county
accountant . . . but we actually knew
who would get the job last Thurs
day at 2:17 P. M. . . A brain truster
told us . . .And all is quiet on the
Republican, front. A.B.
.New
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Takes
POLITICAL PROPHET
Goerch of The State
The State Magazine in Raleigh
owned by Carl Goerch is conducting
a gubernatorial straw vote. In this
week's edition 42 counties had giv
en McDonald a majority over other
candidates seeking the governor's
mansion as their home for four
years. Of over 4,500 votes tabulated
to date the results follow: McDonald,
1,977; Hoey, 1,505; Graham, 934;
McRae, 115. Boxholders in Beaufort
received ballots in the mail today.
Coa t inn The
WATER FROST
By AYCOCK BROWN
THERE HAS BEEN some talk go
ing the rounds that a 30-foot road
might be constructed from Atlantic
Beach highway to Old Fort Macon,
where in all probabilities the U. S.
Public Health Service will establish
a Quarantine station and maybe a
custom house. Our suggestion would
be to pave the road which already
leads from Atlantic Beach highway
to the fort, and use some of that
money that might be expended on a
30-foot wide route at other localities
in Carteret county, Merrimon, South
River or Cedar Island.
PUBLIC NUISANCE, Public pan
handler and public dypomaniac No. 1
recently appeared in Beaufort after
doing a stretch in prison. Public nui
sance No 2 also appeared a few days
before. Already No 1 is making reg
ular swings up and down Front
street, causing women to tremble
with fear when he is nearby and
causing strangers whom he seeks to
panhandle wonder just what kind of
town Beaufort is that would allow
such a thing to roam at large. One
taxpaying merchant of Beaufort siz
ed the situation up in connection
with No. 1 the other day when he
said, "Prison is not thj place for that
bird, he should be placed in nn in
sane asylum."
AND IT IS A safe bet that should
he do bodily harm to someone or
possibly commit murder, he would
land up in the criminal insane de
partment of some state institution.
(Continued on page five)
Negro Bootleggerette
Fined on Booze Charge
Pearlie Odum who ha3 quite fre
quently featured in court scrapes a
rising from her failure to dodge the
law on various liquor charges, told
it to the recorder on Tuesday and
paid fines land costs amounting to
$26.85 when found guilty.
George Lawrence, of Otway, who
owned the truck and Leslie Moore of
Beaufort who was driving the auto
which featured in a serious crash
here several weeks ago were found
not guilty on charges of reckless driv
ing when their cases were called on
Tuesday.
Robert Raynor, Morehead Negro
will be tried on April 14, on a charge
of violating the ABC law to the ex
tent of three and a half gallons of
whiskey and assault with intent to
kill upon the person of an enforce
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Over
Job
Whitehurst Resigns As
Accountant During
Monthly Meet
Of Board
ROUTINE MATTERS ARE
DISPOSED OF BY BOARD
County Accountant J. J. White
hurst is no longer county accountant.
He tendered his resignation to the
board of commissioners at their reg
ular monthly meeting Monday. Be
fort the meeting ended James Davis
Potter was elected by the board to
fill the vacancy caused by the resig
nation, and to "serve at the pleas
ure of the . . . commissioners with
salary same as now provided in the
budget, and subject to all orders and
regulations now controlling for the
conduct of the affairs of the office,
with corporate surety bond, regu
larly conditioned as now provided by
law, in the penal sum of $10,000."
County Accountant Potter's salary
will be $2,000 per year.
Street rumors had it that a number
of persons were seeking the job of
Carteret county accountant. Includ
ed in the "prospects' prior to the
meeting Monday were: "Kid Hill,
Newport; Llewllyn Phillips and
Frank Kline, Morehead City; W. A.
Allen, Bayard Taylor and Tom Kel
ly, and James Potter, Beaufort and
Lambert Morris of Atlantic. Only
three of the above, Taylor, Kelly and
Potter actually filed application
with the commissioners. The board
. ..Continued on page elgnt)
In Their Opinion
-A RESOLUTION-
Upon motion be it Resolved:
That in accepting the resigna
tion of the County Accountant,
J. J. Whitehurst, the board of
Commissioners desires to make
reference to the fact that for
approximately two years the
County Accountant, on account
ing facilities, was required to
of the lack of available bank
carry on in his office in effect
the banking business of the
County, thus adding to the bur
den and responsibility of the
office; that the board takes
cognizance of certain other
handicaps under which the
County Accountant has had to
conduct the affairs of his office
during the past several years,
and desires to express its ap
preciation for the faithful ser
vice rendered during the per
iod of his incumbency.
TIDE TABLE
in ioi mat ion a, to tne tific
it Beaufcri is gi' en in this c
imn. Ihi figures are appru
imately correct r.d based
tabids furnished by the U. S
Geodetic Survey. Some allow
ances must be made for varta
tions in the wind and also witt
respect to the locality, that is
whether near the inlet or a
,he heada of the estuaries.
High Tide Low Tia
Friday, April 10
10:11 a. m. . 4:17 a. m.
10:33 p. m. 4:05 p. m.
Saturday, April 11
10:49 a. m. 4:54 a. m.
4:40 p. m
Sunday, April 12
11:13 a. m. 5:39 a. m.
11:31 p. m. 5:22 p. m.
Monday, April 13
11:59 a. ni. 6:31 a. m.
12:18 p. m. 6:21 p. m.
Tuesday, April 14
12:49 a. m. 7:27 a. m.
1:13 p. m. 7:35 p. nu
Wednesday, April 15
1:48 a. m. 8:29 a. ra
2:19 p. m. 8:47 p. m
Thursday, Aprjl 16
2:54 a. m. 9:27 S. nv