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Volume XXVI
Eight Pages
The Beaufort News Thursday, March 18, 193
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Number 11
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Business Association
Will Tell World
About Beaufort
TRAILER TOURIST CAMP
WILL BE ESTABLISHED
The Beaufort Business Asso
ciation expect to tell the world
about Carteret county and es
pecially Beaufort during the
coming months. At a meeting
of this organization which is
composed of younger business
and professional men of Beau
fort, this week plans were for
mulated for advertising this
area. And one of the features
to be advertised will be a trail
er tourist camp located at
Beaufort Communtiy Center.
Work on the latter will begin
at an early date, same to occu
py the area just west of the
Community Center Auditorium
Several ways of raising funds for
this advertising campaign have been
suggested. One of the plans, that of
giving a series of square dances i:i
The American Legion Hut here, will
begin next Thursday night. In addi
tion to the dances, Beaufort fii ms
will give away prizes at the Thurs
day night dances to help create more
interest.
A committee will see to it that ev
ery resident of Beaufort who has
one or more rooms for rent to sum
mer visitors will be listed and ready
to refer to as summer vacationists
begin to arrive. In the past one of
the biggest draw backs for Beaufort
in attracting summertime vacation
ists haf been the lack of housing fa
cilities. By listing the rooms for rent
this situation will be aided materially.
THE RHUES OUTCLASS
FAMED EDDIE CANTOR
If you have ever heard Eddie
Cantor, the famous radio May
or of Texaco Town you have
no doubt heard him boast about
his five daughters and no sons.
The Eddie Cantors are good but
they are not in the same class
with the H. T. Rhues who livu
on the Perkinsp limitation at
the mouth of North iliver. Mr.
and Mrs. Rhue have not become
the parents of quintuplets, but
they are attracting attention
because of their progeny, any
way. This week they became
the parents of their tenth child
and their tenth boy. Dr. L.
W. Moore, attending physician,
other members of the medical
profession locally said it was a
rarity for ten sens in a row to
be born to the same couple and
even more rare that mishap
had attended none of the ten
births of ten successive boys.
The story attracted attention
of better dailies up state which
featured the story and to the
local correspondent for the As
sociated Press from the Atlanta
bureau came a wire asking for
photos of the parents and ten
sons. The story too, will no
doubt be picked up by Texaco
Town's famous mayor, Eddie
Cantor, who so frequently
boasts of his five daughters.
The Cantors have been outclas"
ed by the Rhues.
Civil War Days
IN BEAU FORI
By (Late) Jas. Rumley Eq. j
During the late summer of
1862 conditions in Beaufort
were going from, bad to worse.
Earlier in the year the entire
section was captured and occu
pied by Federal troops. Some of
the citizens of the County were
'joining the troops of the
enemy. Feeling was at a high
peak. This is a continuation of
the dairy of the late James
Rumley, Esq.
THE COURT ROOM has run with
shouts and hurrahs for Lincoln and
his reprobate crew, and groans of de
rision for friends of Southern rights.
NOW A RECRUITING office is
cpeneLin a house on Front street,
(Continued on page eight)
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Thursday Night
Square Dances
For the purpose of raising
funds which will he used to ad
vertise this historic town and
Carteret county.. The Beau
fort Business Mens Association
will sponsor a sciins of four
Thursday night square dances,
starting next Thuisday, March
26. The dances will be present
ed at The Amet can Legion
Hut with good r usic and .a
good time promisi d all who at
tend. In addition to the dance
on March 25, si nil ar dances for
the same bent lit ,v ill be given
on Api'll 1, Ap-ii 8 and A iril
15.
Special featu;es of next,
Thursday's d.ince will bo pres
ents given away .hrough cour
tesy of Charley Britlon of the
Young Man's Shop and E. D.
Ma: tin of E. D. Usvtin and Co.
The best iv.:in :':!).c.r will bo
p: escnted with a Dobbs Cro.-s
Cc'unt.'y h"t. p:ir of Brit
ton's Spec hi :;hoc will be giv
en in a Li.'':y nun ber contest.
Th;.' best woman d; ncer on th'.
floor, K. D. Mavtii Co., will
givu the ry latent tyle Spring
Hat, to he chosen by the win
ner. GETS IMPORTANT
BILLS RATIFIED
Rep. Fred R. Seeley
Four iir.poitant bil's ir.fci cdui jd in
the IUvjs? of Representative 3 by
Fm! II. S.'tley of Berufort were rat
ified by th Senats V.'cdner day. Im
portant to the fishing industry was
the bill which pi o vide j for sea-going
Fisheries patrol boat to protect ter
rotorial waters of State from non
resident trawlers. Another bill rat
ified puts a fine of ?500 to $1,000 on
violators of non-resident fishing
laws. Also ratified were bills allowing
county commissioners to deal direct
with bond holders and allowing ad
justment and bond settlements for
taxes prior to 1935.
Young Man's Shop
Has Easter Sale
On Page 3 of this edition is a
page of attractively priced Easter
Bargains for men and boys at Char
lie Britton's Young Man's Shop. This
full page advertisement gets a page
one reader because it happens to be
the first full page any individual firm
has inserted in The Beaufort News
since the depression end since the
present editor came to the News. We
have on several occasions had full
page ads sponsored by church and
paid for by various firms taking space
on same, and on one or two occasion?
we have used Community Booster
full pagers. But it took Charlie Brit
ton to take a full page individually.
Turn to page three and see the
many attractive bargains in work
and dress clothes for men and dress
and play suits for boys which he is
featuring. The Young Man's Shop
starts its Easter Sales on Saturday.
Dress shirts 88 cents; work shirts 49
cents are only two of the headliners.
Lieut. Snowden Here
Lieutenant Ernest M. Snowden
who has been stationed att he Pens
acola, Fla., airbase for the past year,
is here on a visit to his mother Mrs.
M. S. Snowden.
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Local Concert Band
To Present Program
Next Sunday; 2 P. M.
Flint's Concert Band composed of
local school students will present a
program at the Beaufort Graded
School Auditorium next Sunday af
ternoon at 2 o'clock. Local music lov
ers, especially those interested in
this splendid band made up of local
boys and directed by Mr. Flint are
urged to attend the nrogram.
This is the fir st of a series of pro
grams which will be presented by the
band and if they prove successful,
Director Flint will remain in Beau
fort during the coming summer to
continue teaching the band-members
music. Director Flint has made splen
did progress with the local boys. He
formerly directed the famous St.
Paul School band and many members
of his present organization were or
iginally in that group. Mr. Flint or
ganized the very famous Lenoir
School Boys Band which frequently
plays for major football games and
other attractions in this and nearby
states.
The program for Sunday follows:
Columbia March, K. L. King; Extem
pore Overture, by Al Hayes; Roses
of Memory Waltz, by Benard Hamb
lin; Mooning Seranade, by K.- L.
King-. Trumpet Solo, by Leo Mathis;
Garden of Eden Overture, by George
D. Bernard; Song snd speaking;
Spinning Wheel, by B. B. Hall; Bar
itone Solo, by E. H. Edwards; Alone
For You Waltz, by B. McFalls; Fond
Hearts Serenade, by K. L. King;
Bass Solo, R. T. Dickinson; Fidelity
March, by K. L. King; Song and
j Spaking; Recollections of Stephen
j Foster, by Bayer; At the End of a
I Day, by George J. Rafael, American
j Triumph March, by Wliitenmyer and
Stars and Stripes.
CARTERET SPRING
COUNCIL MEETING
The Spring meeting of the County,
Council of the Carteret County Fed
eration of Home Demonstration Club
is to be held in the Home Agent's
office, Beaufort, on Friday morning,
March 26.
The president, vice-president, Sec
retary and treasurer of each club in
the county and all county, project
leaders are urged to attend this
special meeting.
Officers of the County Council are:
president: Mrs. S. E. Hayne of the
North River club; vice president:
Miss Annie D. Foreman of the Core
Creek club, secretary: Mrs. Tom
Potter of the Smyrna club; tresnurer
Mrs. Pauline Wade of the Smyrna
club.
Organize Golf Club
Plans are now underway to organ
ize the Gulf Stream Golf .Club ..in
Carteret county. Any person interest
ed in golf will be eligible for mem
bership, regardless of where they
live. It is believed that approximate
ly 75 members may be lined up in
Beaufort and Morehead City. The
Gulf Stream Golf links at Beaufort
Community Center is proving to be a
mighty popular place on these Spring
days. Although yet uncompleted,
playing is allowed on several of the
greens, tees and fairways. About 40
people were playing there last Sunday.
REPRESENTATIVE SEELEY GETS
PATROL BOAT FOR FISHERIES
Craft to Cost $25,000 Will Be Used In War
Against Non-Resident Trawlers Who Fish
Territorial Waters of North Carolina
OTHER IMPORTANT BILLS PERTAINING TO
CARTERET COUNTY RATIFIED BY SENATE
By wire and letter to the press of
Carteret county Representative Fred
Seeley advised today of four impor
tant bill which hare been passed by
the House of Representatives and
Senate. Important not only to Car
teret but the entire coast of North
Carolina and the fishinf industry es
pecially was a bill to appoint $25,000
to purchase and outfit a boat for the
Fisheries Commission, suitable for
patroling territorial waters in an ef
fort to prevent non-resident trawlers
from operating.
"This boat should be ready by Sep
tember 1," said Mr. Seeley, "and
it is hoped to cure an intolerable sit
uation such as has existed hereto
fore.'' A bill to prohibit non-resident
boats from trawling within the terri
torial limits and placing fines of from!
New List Takers And
Assessors Appointed
For Carteret County
Last takers and assessors for Car
teret County were appointed by the
board of founty commissioners at
a meeting here this week. Actual
listing and assessing is scheduled to
start on April 1, according to state
law. Any citizen who fails to list
his or her property aie subject to
penalty.
Thirty two persons in the county
have been given employment as a
result of the appointments. The town
ships and list of appointments fol
low: Beaufort township , C.
A. Clawson and Irvin W. Russell.
Merrimon township: (Lukens)
Hugh Salter, Henry Banks, and B. C.
Hardy.
Straits township: (Gloucester)
Gerald M. Whitehurst, Henry Chad
wick and Richard Leffers.
Smyrna township: (Williston nad
Marshallberg) George Walton Davis.
Charles S. Willis and H. H. Hancock.
Hunting Quarter township: (Atlan
tic, Sea Level, Stacy and Davis)
Joseph W. Mason, J. L. Salter and
Hamlin H. Davis.
Cedar Island township: (Roe and
Lola) Duffy Day.
Morehead City township: (includ
ing Wildwood) C. V. Webb, R. W.
Wallace and W. C. Murdock.
Newport township: H. D. Garner,
G. C. Garner and W. H. Bell.
White Oak township: (Bogue,
Stella and Pelletier) Mrs. Laura Han
cock, W. D. Smith and W. W. Buck.
Harkers Island: Charles T. Nelson
Clayton Guthrie and Cecil Nelson.
Harlowe township: G. C. Bell, Ray
mond Bull and Roy Mason.
Portsmouth township: Mrs. Abner
Dixon.
Appointments of the list takers
and assessors was the only business
of any importance coming before the
board during their recessed meeting
here, which was the second meeting
of the month.
Unusual Revival
Meeting Planned
An unusual feature of the religi
out revival sponsored by and begin
ning at Ann Street Methodist church
next Sunday, March 21, will be two
open air street corner services dur
ing the afternoon. Rev. William
Stewart, eloquent speaker and pastor
of the Methodist Episcopal church in
Morehead City will bt the principal
preacher. He will be assisted by Ann
Street Methodist church's pastor
the Rev. C. T. Rogers.
In addition to the regular revival
services at the church, the Rev. Mr.
Stewart will preach at the corner of
Live Oak and Ann streets at 3
o'clock. That is a thickly populated
area of Beaufort, and it is also near
the route leading to the partially
completed Gulf Stream Golf course,
where many persons are playing on
Sunday afternoon during these
Spring days. If some of the golf
ers on their way to the links would
stop and hear the street corner ser
vices, it woulJ be front page news.
At 3:45 o'clock similar services
will be conducted at the corner of
Orange and Railroad streets. Every
one is invited to attend and take
part in these services.
$500 to $1,000 for violators was also
made into law by Senate ratification.
Important to Carteret county was
a bill ratified which vill enable the
Board of County Commissioners to
negotiate direct with the bond hold
ers looking forward to a settlement
of. the outstanding debt by the re
duction of same.
As a result of Legislative action ,
Carteret county, .and the towns of
Beaufort and Morehead City will be
enabled to negotiate settlement by
receiving assessments for uncollect
ed taxes prior to 1935 and to accept
bonds in payment provided 1936 is
paid in cash.-
"Non of these bills were easily
secured,'' wired Representative Seeley.
arden
Paul Believes In
News Advertising
We have never resorted to
high pressure salesmanship in
in an attempt to get advertising
for The Beaufort News and
we have never put up a plea
that persons and firms should
take space because they would
be supporting their home-town
and county seat newspaper. We
have as matter of fact let the
merits of The Beaufort News
act as salesman, and we have
had splendid results.
Take Paul Jones for instance.
He seldom fails to take his reg
ular space each week for C. D.
Jones Company and that is
probably the main reason why
C. D. Jones Company is the
leading retail grocrey firm in
Carteret county. Paul believes
in advertising where it counts
most. Last Friday night, 24
hours after the Thursday edi
tion had gone o press Paul
said:
"I am sure that people read
The Beaufort News each week.
Yesterday I advertised a Chip
so deal in my regular ad. We
had 540 of those deals on hand
and I hoped to dispose of same
by Saturday night. But people
saw the ad in The Beaufort
News and today we sold 510
of the 540 special ceals, and as
a result some of our Saturday
customers who re id the ad and
want to buy Ckapso will be
disappointed because we will
be so'.d out of the special deal.'
NOW BACK WITH
HIS FIRST LOVE
Aubrey E. Shackell
Once you get the smell of printers
ink in your nostrils "ire chances are
you will continue to be a printer
even though you migh: go into other
fields from time to time. Take th-?
case of Aubrey E. Shackell, Atlantic
Beach's most popular manager, who
guided the destines of that resort
during its banner year of 1936;
Shackell made good on Atlantic
Beach. He was making good with
Manufacturer's Trust Company too,
and the announcement in the morn
ing papers stating that he had he
come managing editor of tlu' Tarheel
Southerner, a real newspaper in a
real town, came as a surprise to
Shackell's many well-wishing friend
along the coast But no surprise tj
one who has ever had printers ink
phobia.
Dave Bell's Road
Force Donates $5
Dave Bell's Road force out in the
Harlowe section, which is composed
mostly of colored laborers raised $5
and contributed same this week to
the Beaufort Red Cross Chapter's
flood relief fund. This brings the
total funds raised by the local chap
ter to $619.76 or far above their
quota in te recent drive following
the middle west disaster. In addition
to donations of money garments and
a car load of sweet potatoes were
forwarded to the stricken zone by
The American Legion and citizens of
the county through the Red Cross.
Recent cold weather in Rocking
ham County has killed much of the
lespaleza that started growing dur
ing the warm weather of mid-winter.
Plants. -
A
bout
rites
ation
Portsmouth Likely To
Be Included On The
Inactive List
ADMIRAL WEASCHE HAS
"SUPER-STATION" IDEA
A copy of a letter received by
Representative Graham A. Bar
den from U. S. Coast Guard
Commandant reached the editor
of The Beaufort News this week
It is similar to another letter
received by Representative Lind
sey Warren from Admiral Weas
che which appeared in The Dare
County Times last week and
which we hast set up for inser
tion in this edition prior to re
ceipt of copy forwarded by
Congressman Barden. The
text of this letter will be found
under the caption: "How Mod
em Methods And More Machines
Tend To Drive More Men Out
of Jobs," on page 2.
The story which appeared in
The Beaufort News last week
about he possibility of Ports
mouth Coast Guard station be
ing placed on the inactive list
along with seven others along
the North Carolina coast and
the feasibility of keeping Ports
mouth active because of its im
portance to thousands of men
who fish from small craft in ad
jacent waters of iae sound, in
let and ocean attracted consid
erable attention along the Cen
tral Carolina coast and even as
far away as Washington, D. C.
In Washington, D. C, Third
District's Representative Gra
ham A. Barden took the matter
(Continued on page four)
Marg's Mary Dies
At Duke Hospital
Last week Miss Mary Willis
of Harkers Island passed thru
Beaufort enroute to Duke Hos
pital for a series of operations.
In Bell's Drug Store she left
word for Ayccok Brown to write
her up in the piper because she
was going to Duke. Like fre
quent stories which have to do
with well known and well liked
persons the writeup was ommit
ted from last week's edition.
And for this edition it is a dif
ferent story.
The daughter of Margaret
Willis, she was early in life re
ferred to on the island as
"Marg's Mary." As she grew
older she became widely known
to summer vacationists visting
Harkers Island and Cape Look
out. Because of her friendliness
and witticisms, she was popular
to everyone who knew her. The
seriousness of her ailment was
not generally known Following
the operation at Duke and her
death surgeons reported a can
cerous condition which was in its
last stages.
The body of Marg's Mary was
returned to Harkers Island Wed
nesday and burial services were
conducted for one of the widest
known and best liked residents
of that community. She wai 40
years of age.
Covering The
WATER Fit M
By AYCOCK BROWN
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THE WEEKLY tide table is omit
ted from this edition. The official
book from which we dope the tides
each week has been misplaced. Prob
ably it Will show up next week, but
if such is not the case we will secure
a new book. If you have not been in
a newspaper office it might be hard
for you to understand how a book
could be lost. That is because you
have not seen the average editor's
desk. With the possible exception
of Carl Goerch's desk when he was
publishing the Washington ProTess,
I believe mine is the most cluttered,
up editor's desk on record.
(Continued on page eight )
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