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VOLUME XXV
TEN PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1936 P a oc SINGLE COPY
NUMBER 50
WW
IMy ABG Rumors
Are Proven False
Auditor's Report Gave
Liquor Stores Clean
Slate During Year
BEAUFORT STORE
GETS SPOTLIGHT
Frank P. Wall of the auditing firm
of Williams and Wall in Raleigh gave
a resume of the first fiscal years
business of the Carteret ABC stores
at a meeting of the County commiss
ioners here Monday and his report
branded the ugly rumors which had
been circulated hereabouts about
mis-appropriation of funds as absol
utely false. Rumors had previously
floated around the streets of Beau
fort and other places in the county
that anywhere from $14,000 to
$23,000 had been mishandled
Mr. Wall, a CPA member of a firm
which has a very high rating in Norht
Carolina explained in detail the en
tire setup of the Carteret liquor
stores. It was his firm which re
ceived $150 for installing the system
orginally and later made quarterly
audits of the stores until the fiscal
year ended June 30 of this year when
Carteret commissioners decided to let
their County acaountant James
Potter do the work. Williams and
Wall recei-ed $900 for their work
and not 1,525 as had been rumored,
During the first quarter of the pre'
sent fiscal year Potter did the work,
but it is too large a burden for a man
who has to attend to the financial
affairs of a county such as Carteret,
so the commissioners endorsed the
employment of Williams and Wall to
handle the ABC audits for the cur
rent fiscal year at a salary not to ex
ceed $400.
The ABC official who has charge
of disbursements and supervising
made a lengthy talk to those attend
ing the meeting. He charged that
four individuals, two of whom were
innocent parties to tha affair, started
the rumors and that their plan was
to throw the ABC store operation
into politics. This official had ten
dered a resignatior ;o Chairman W.
P. Smith, but later withdrew same,
a move which met with the approval
of all members of the county board
and the ABC board.
Operation of the Beaufort store
and warehouse was handled in a
very haphazard method, it was bro
ught out by the aduitor, who during
the quarter ending June 30, 1936
found approximately 100 errors in
the handling of stock. The three
previous quarters had not shown this
and Mr. Wall stated that in his opin
ion it was because the supervisor and
disbursement officer was confined to
his home with a broken heel string
which brought about the situation.
The ABC official who was under fire
stated that during this same time the
manager of the Beaufort store was
paying more attention to politics (it
(Continued on page Ten)
TIDE TABLE
Information as to the tide
at Beaufort is given in this
column. The figures are appro
imately correct and based on
tables furnished by the U. S
Geodetic Survey. Some allow
ances must be made for varia-
tions in the wind and also with
respect to the locality, that is:
whether near the inlet or at
the heads of the estuaries.
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Thursday, Dec 24
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RETAIL STORE BUSINESS j
IN CARTERET COUNTY IS !
GIVEN IN CENSUS REPORT
In Carteret county during
1935, a total of 211 stores had
total sales of $2,427,000, ac
cording to a final retail report
for North Carolina by areas is
sues by the Department of Com
merce's Bureau of Census in
Washington. The 211 stores in
The county represented 199
proprietors and 323 employees.
The total payroll for retail store
employees in the county a
mounted to $202,000.
Breaking down the total for
the county, the figures releas
ed show Morehead City with a
population of 3,483, as having
63 retail stores, which did a to
tal business of $905,000 in 1935
with 56 proprietors. The total
payroll for 138 employees a
mounted to $84,000 in More
head City.
Here in Beaufort 55 stores
did a total business of $913,000
and the total number of pro
prietors was 50. A total of
$92,000 was paid 92 employees
in the stores of Beaufort.
In the remainder of the coun
ty excluding Morehead City
and Beaufort, 93 stores had to
total sales of $519,0000 and to
tal number of proprietors 93.
Forty-four employees in these
remaining stores of the county
received only $26,000 in sal
aries. Waterfowl Gunners
Having Better Luck
Waterfowl gunners on Carteret
waters have had much better Iuck
during the past few days than at the
beginning of the season. As the sea
son advances, (and by the way there
is only one more wek) geese and
ducks arrive in Core and Pamlico
sound waters in larger numbers.
Quite a large number of out of state
hunters have been to Carteret this
year. Last week Jack Neal Dr.
Herbert Prytherich of Beaufort and
Rowe Metcalf and George DeVoe of
Greenwich, Conn., spent three days
hunting during very unfavorable
weather, but they killed quite a num
ber of ducks and geese. Early this
week Lawrence Hassell, B. A. Hoft
and Blythe Noe killei seven geese
down in Core Sound near Cedar Is
lanl. Information Is Given
License Plate Buyers
Patrolman I. T. Moore of the State
Highway Police headquarters in
Morehead City stated today that pat
rolman this year would not issue re
ceipts to auto license plate buyers
this year. They went on sale in
this state December 15, and persons
in this locality may obtain same from
the Morton Motor Company in New
Bern. The State Law requires that
all new plates which for 1937 arc
painted black with yellow numerials,
must be displayed by January 1. The
State Highway Police will not honor
any receipts this year, as in the past.
The prices are the game as last year
but patrolmen will have nothing to
do with issuing or taking orders.,
they will have plenty to do arresting
you if you drive with a 1936 license
after midnight, December 31, accord
ing to current information.
Our Christmas Number
The Christmas edition of The
Beaufort News will be printed on
Wednesday, December 23, and mail
ed to all subscribers Christmas Eve
morning. Subscribers in Carteret
county will receive their Baufort
News by noon Thursday. Local sub
scribers will get their paper Wednes
day afternoon or night and The Beau
fort News will go on sale at news
stands in Morehead City at the same
time. This i3 being done for our
advertisers benefit primarily., al
though we of the News have Christ
mas shopping, egg-nogs and such
things to take up our Thursday.
STORES OPEN LATE
Most of Beaufort stores were stay
ing open late nights since Mondav
of this week, and business is increas
ing daily, despite rainy, murky wea-
ther.
Rattlers Grow Large In Carteret
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They Killed Quail
Dr. H. M. Hicks (left) and!
shown in the above photo folio
county recently. In addition
Hicks shot the rattlesnake whi
inches. The largest rattlesna
six feet nine inches, so the Car
world's record, according to
State museum in Raleigh.. (Cut
News and Observer).
The Zavorah
On Cruise To
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Cout iinif The
WATEll FIIOA1
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FOR A WEEK or more I have fre;
ted with a painful thumb. Each time
I punch the keys of this typewriter
it feels like someone u driving need
les through the leeward side of my
palm. That is one reason why some
of the stories in this edition seem to
reach a certain point and then stop
abruptly before the climax. Of course
I could dictate the stories to a typ
ist, but I am a poor dictator. Seems
that I have to be looking at the key
board of a typewriter, (and I am a
look-at-the-keyboard kind of typist)
before I can put much thought into
what I am writing.
THAT TRIM LOOKING yacht
with the tall mast down at the In
let Inn wharf today is the Tioga of
Boston, owned by Harry E. Noyes.
She is bound south to Jacksonville
and Miami. A look at the vessel
would make a person think she was
brand new. As a matter of fact she
was built four years ago in Lynn,
Mass. Her hailing port is Marble-
head.
THE SEAPLANE which landed
here Monday came from Long Island
the previous day. She first landed in
Morehead City, and tied up there fcr
the night. Next morning a certain
kind of gas was needed to refnel the
plane, a kind which was not avail
able in Morehead City the reason she
came back to Beaufort. From here
she flew to Miami for the races.
where many of the planes you have
seen passing overhead recently were
bound.
DREDGE ARRIVES AT
ATLANTIC THIS WEEK
Delayed because of work at Cape
Hatteras, the Reliance, dredge of C.
Walker Hodges Dredging Company
of New Bern, left the cape this week
enroute to Atlantic to begin cutting
a turn basin and channel to the In
land Waterway.
Meanwhile, bulkheading, although
delayed by inclement weather, is be
ing continued, it was said here yes
terday. SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEWS
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Penn Marshall of Raleigh are
wing a bird hunt in Carteret
to the birds they killed, Dr.
ch measured six feet seven
ke ever killed measurod only
teret reptile was almost a
Harry Davis, curator of the
printed through courtesy of
Ties Up Here
Los Angeles
Crew of Five Aboard
Schooner Yatch Are
Interesting Folks
A writer, an artist, an interior
decorator, the scion of a family of
wealthy lumber barons and a man of
leisure comprise the crew of the
schooner yacht Zavoiah of Vood.
Hole, Mass., which arrived here early
this week and is tied tip at the Ink-t
Inn wharf waiting for suitable sail
ing weather. From here the craft
will sail leisurely southward touch
ing the many islands of the West
Indies and thence through the Pan
ama Canal and onto Los Angeles.
They expect to arrive at the latter
place aiound the first of March
1937, a Beaufort News reporter wa3
told by a member of the crew.
The personnel of the vessel are
the following: C. J. Hubbard, skip
per and owner; Paul D. Rust, Jr.,
first mate; Dick Covoll, second mate;
and Harold Olsen and Dwight Shep
ler, seamen. That i3 what they will
tell a visitor at any rate, although
there is really no rank or station a
board the boat.
At the present time it is the -Ian
of the crew to go to Los Angeles,
but if they happen to run across any
old gold laden Spanish Gulleons en
route they might hange their pians
and become treasure salvagers.
Winky a dog and Tony a kitten are
mascots aboard the craft. They left
Woods Hole during the rainy weath
er on November 25, had rainy weath
er on the cruise down and it was
rainnig when they reached Beaufort.
But the sun is shining again today
and in all probabilities the Zavorah
will point her bw seaward and sail
southward from Beaufort Inlet as
soon as their sails dry out.
Chef de Gare
Wm. H. Bailey, Beaufort jeweler
and Legionaire has the distinction of
being the newly elected Chef de Gare
of the New Bern Voiture of the 40
and 8. Next meeting of the Voiture
will be in Beaufort, sometime in
January.
Those In Need
All persons who are in need of
Christmas aid are urged to register
with Beaufort Women's Club officials
at the Legion Hut The Hut will be
open from 9 o'clock until 5 o'clock
each day for this purpose.
State WPA Gives
Air Port AoDroval
Firms To Observe 2
Christmas Holidays
The Rotary Club of Beaufort
sponsored and circulated a pe
tition to all the merchants and
business men of Beaufort ask
ing that they cooperate in clos
ing their place of business, not
only for Christmas day but for
Saturday following. It is under
stood that the Rotary Club of
Morehead City will sponsor a
similar petition.
The merchants and business
men who supported the petition
are as follows: Pender Grocery
Co.; A. & P.; C. D. Jones Co.;
Owens Grocery Co.; E. D.
Martin & Co.; The Vogue; R.
Felton & Son; Davis Bros.;
Rose's; Johnson-Saunders Dry
Cleaning Co.; Independent Dry
Cleaning Co.; Sam Lipman &
Son; Jas. D. Rumley, Agt. ;
First-Citizens Bank & Trust
Co.; Beaufort Barber Shop;
Modern Shoe Rebuilders; Betts
Bakery; Miller Furniture Co.,
.Beaufort Fwraituxe Co.: Ideal
Dry Cleaners; Service Barbet
Shop; The Beaufort News; R.
Henderson Garage; Paul's Ga
rage; Paul's Machine Shop; J.
W. Chadwick Shoe Shop; G.
W. Duncan; C. R. Wheatly;
Willis Hardware Co.; Noa
Hardware Co.; Een's Bicycle
Shop and Carteret Hardware
Co.
If there are any other mer
chants desiring to sign the pe
tition flease notify THE
BEAUFORT NEWS,
JOSLYN TO LEAD
COMMUNITY SING
H. L. Joslyn, of the Morehead
City Schools will lead the Commu
nity Sing there Sunday afternoon at
2:30 o'clock,, it was annonuced to
day by W. C. Carleton of the Beau
fort School. This Community Sing
should be of interest to all music
lovers, as many talented singers will
take part. The Community Sing
will feature Christmas carols, it was
stated.
JUDGE SINCLAIR SAID
"DONT PAY THE FINE"
The guardian of a Negro World
War veteran whose mind was effect
ed as the result of the war, was in
structed by Superior Court Judge
N. A. Sinclair here last week to not
pay a fine or costs put on the Negro
by a lower court here in Beaufort.
It seems that someone sold the
Negro a hunting license and he was
permitted to have a gun. One day
he started gunning fcr some of his
home folks his wife perhaps. The
result was his arrest and the subse
quent trial in one of the lower courts
of the town or county. The costs of
the court in the case mounted t5
$40.
The guardian of the Negro, refus
ed to pay the fine until he had seen
a higher court jurist. Judge Sin
clair told the guardian not to pay
the fine that the Negro had no
right to have a gun, and the blame
fell on the person who sold him the
license as much as anyone else. The
Negro draws a pension of $100 per
month from the government. He is
of average mentlity most of the
time but has spells pejhaps sim
ilar to the one in which he ran amok
recently and landed in a lower court.
Santa Correspondence
Quite a number of letters to Santa
Claus sent in care of this newspaper
came in to late for publication this
week. But the send rs of this cor
respondence need h no fear that
Santa will fail to see the letters in
print. Next week', edition cf The
Beaufort News will come out on Wed
nesday instead of 1 nursday.. approx
imately 36 h 1 .fore the jolly old
Saint starts making his rounds to the
homes of little boys end girls every
where.. .The Editor
LIGHTS FOR PARKING
The Town of Beaufort had lights
placed on the Ramsey lot at the cor
ner of Queen and Front this week.
Free parking is allowed on the area.
Project To Be Located
West of Fort Macon
C. G. Station
INITIAL COST TO
BE ONLY $28,000
An airport for Carteret county to
be situated just west of Fort Macon,
Coast guard station has been approv
ed by George Coan, state adminis
trator of the WPA. The project
which calls for an initial expenditure
of $28,000 after state approval this
week, was sent to Washington for
the approval of WPA officials there.
It is understood that the prelimi
nary project will include the con
struction of a 200.000 yard fill,
and a runway 500 feet wide and
3,000 feet long of which a strip 300
feet wide will be oil treated for
landing planes. The remainder of
the dredged area will be sodded.
At a later date, said a person who
has had much to do with drawing the
plans for the project, hangars and
lighting equipment will be construct
ed in a subsequent project and also
a landing platform for seaplanes will
be constructed. Plans for the hang
ers, have already been drawn.
Farmers Who Fail !
To Pay Seed Loans
Subject To Arrest
it i
In Carteret c-: .'..!
i 14,000 in
loans to farmers for the purpose of
buying seed fyas extended by the
Federal government in 125 instanc
es. So far, according to news fur
nished this "newspaper, 14 of the
loans are still unpaid.
The Federal Government wakes
no tones St'ftUt prrtSUtlng those'
who borrow money to buy" seed -and
then who sell their crops with
out repaying their obligation. There
are several instances on record in
this and nearby states during the
past two months where such borrow
ers of seed money were prosecuted.
In Carteret, unless some sort of
arrangement is made by the 14 who
have failed to pay their seed loans,
they will each face charges which
must be aired in Federal Court.
And Federal Courts usually have
little sympathy with persons who
are answering charges in same.
BANKING NOTICE
Due to the fact that the First
Citizens Bank & Trust Co., of
Beaufort will close Thursday and
at the regular time 2 p. m. and
will not be open for business a
gain until the following Mon
day; they will close Thursday at
the usual time 2 P. M., but will
open again from 5 p m. to 6
p. m. for the purpose of tak
ing in deposits only. This is be
ing done for the benefit of our
customers who will probably
have a surplus amount of cash,
on hand and would not like to
carry it over the week end, a
bank official stated.
BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Dorri9
Guthrie of Atlantic, December 15, a
daughter.
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DECEMBER
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52' great poet. born. 1807.
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moon, 1849.
19 British troops captar
Fort Niagara from United
States, 1813.
20 Texas declares its fnda.
t-ftXl pendenca from Mexico,
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21 Pneumatic tires for bi
cycles are first introduced,
1890.
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