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Volume XXVI
Eight Pages
The Beaufort New Thursday, April 15, 1937
5c Per Copy
Number 15
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N. C. STATE EMPLOYMENT
SERVICE PLACES
212, 985
Placements In Carteret County
Ha Increased 252 Percent
During 2 Year Period
Approximately 212,985 place
ments have been made by the North
Carolina State Employment Service
and the National Reemployment
Service in the last two fiscal years
in North Carolina, according to a
report made public by R. Mayne Al
bright Acting Director. Of these, 61,
553 were placemnts in private indus
try. These figures are included in the
report made to Secretary of Labor
Frances Perkins by W. Frank Per
sons, Director of the United Statcc
Employment :Serice. This report
shows that approximately 9,000,000
job placements have been made all
over the country by the United
States Employment Services and Na
tional Reemployment Services dur
ing the two year period. Of these,
2,250,208 were placements in pri
vate industry.
During this entire period, the at
tention of the North Carolina State
ployment Service was devoted
vary largely to the services of pub
lic projects. It was only in the late
fall of 1936 thatt he North Carolina
State Employment Service wag reliev
ed of aome part of the burden "of
making relief placements and was
able to concentrate to a greater ex
( Continued on page eight)
t Civil War Days $
JiV BEAD FORI
By (Late) Jas. Rumley Esq.
T
ONE OF THE sad results of the
military occupation of this county, is
the suspension of our civil courts. No
judge of the Superior Court has ven
tured to come within the Federal
lines in this Judicial Circuit, since
the Yankee army made its appear
ance here ; and the Justices of the
County, who might hold the County
Courts by permission of the Military
Governor are not inclined to do so.
ALL DISPUTES therefore, arising
between citizens, and all classes of
(continued on page five;
1 IN WASHINGTON
WHAT
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UNITED STATES SENATOR
TTTR BIG DRIVE is on in Congress
for action on legislation that mar
have the effect of virtually reshap
ing national affairs. The fact that
this drive is along many fronts and
is without the noise of verbal "big
guns' does not lessen its significance.
And "behind the scenes" is mucb
feeling as legislative generals map
plans, form their lines, and prepare
for the "zero hour" of votnig on
moaanrea that affect all OUf Citizens.
THE SITUATION IN Congress is
all the more acute because Congres
sional procedure is naturally affect
ed by the acts of the legislative anu
inl branches of the Govrenment
What will be the final Government
nolicv with regard to the sit-down
strikers that may cause concern in
the South? What changes, if any, wm
b made in the President's court
plan before it comes up in Congress
for a vote? What will the supreme
Court do with regard to the Laoor
(Continued on page three)
IS
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PLACE
V I BY
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GOLF OFFICIALS TO
MEET FRIDAY NIGHT
Charles W. Eritton, presi
dent of Gulf Stream Golf Club,
has called a meeting of the of
ficials for the newly formed
organization on Friday night
(Apr. 16) at 7:30 o'clock.
The purpose of the meeting i3
to complete organization plans
which will be presented at a
general meeting of golf enthu
siasts in the Southwest Club
room of Community Center
auditorium next Monday night
Officials of the club besides
President Britton are Stanley
Woodland, vice-president; Ay
cock .Brown secretary; Jamea
H. Davis, treasurer; John
Crump and Dr. Darden Eure,
Morehead City, Blythe Noe, W.
D. Skarren and Phillip Ball,
Greens Committee. The group
will meet at Britton's Young
Man's Shop and from there go
to the Business Association
club rooms.
ROUND DANCE TONIGHT
- For the benefit of Beaufort Adver
tising fund a round dance, sponsored
by The Business Association will be
presented in the American Legion
Hut tonight at 8:30 o'clock. Good
Music. Adm. 25
GULF STREAM GOLF CLUB ORGANIZED
BY ENTHUSIASTIC GROUP MON. NIGHT
Charles W. Britton Elected President of Organization Which
Will Give Carteret Coast First Country Club Life;
Another Meeting Next Monday-
Enthusiastic golf-minded citizens
of this county gathered in the south
west end Club room of Community
Center auditorium building on Mon
day night and organized Gulf Stream
Golf Club; As a result of the organi
zation "of this unit of Community
Center the people of - Carteret will
have established a country club for
this coastal county, which in the past
has lacked such facilities.
Dr. C. W. Lewis, a member of the
Park Commission acted as chairman
of the gathering. He explained in de
tail the functions of the Community
Center and the necessity of organiz
ing the golf club, not as a separate
unit, but a unit within a unit. Fundi
derived from membership dues and
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Features Of
Explained By
DIXIE SODA SHOP
OPENS SATURDAY
Troy Johnson opens his Dixie
Soda Shop Saturday in the build
ing formerly occupied by Beaufort
Furniture Company on Front Street
adjacent to Lipman's Store. He and
his brothers have successfully operat
ed "Troy's Place" here for the pasl
two years or longer and their bus
iness has grown to such an extent
that increased facilities were neces
sary. Dixie Soda Shop is equipped
with a fountain, tables chairs, and
the interior decorating adds to the
beauty of the establishment. In addi
tion to soda fountain service, Dixie
Soda Shop will feature luncheonettes,
and Dixie Dairy ice creams. An open
ing special which should appeal to
youngcsters and oldsters who like ice
cream is advertised elsewhere in this
edition.
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green fees will be used solely for the
operation of the golf club and the
up-keep of the Gulf Stream links.
Charles W. Britton was named
president of the newly formed club.
Others in nomination for this post
were Will Webb of Morehead City
who asked to be withdrawn as a
nominee, Charles Hassell and Stanley
Woodland. Stanley Woodland who
failed to show up for the meeting,
but who is a golfing enthusiast and
has practiced a bit on the uncomplet
ed Gulf Stream course before it was
necessary to close same to players
recently, until grass on the fairways
started growing, was named vice-pres
ident.
(Continued on page two)
A Ship Flying The Union Jack
Made History At New Terminal
The Britisji S. S. Waziristan made history for the
new $2,000,000 port development at Morehead City
when she cleared last Saturday loaded with 6,800 tons
of scrap metal consigned to Yowata and Kobe, Japan
by Luria Brothers Company of Philadelphia. It mark
ed the first export cargo to leave the port. Through
the courtesy :of Charles Parker, ace staffer and pho
tographer for The News and Observer we are permit
ted to reprint the adjoining history making scenes.
Stern of the Waziristan moored beside the pier, with
her Union Jack waving in the breeze is shown in photo
at left. In the lower left photo is shown Capt. John
Lloyd, genial skipper of the vessel, whose home towns is
Wallasey, Cheshire, in far away England. Posing
with him is Qapt.. Ira Willis of the port terminal's
pilot staff. At lower right longshoremen are shown
unloading the Jkietal from freight cars onto the freigh
ter with huge jbuckets made from halved boilers. Two
vessels are duie, at the new terminal this week end for
similar cargoes' ior similar destinations, it was announc
ed Tuesday.
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Health Dept.
Dr. Reynolds
Civic Leaders Present
At Meeting With
Commissioners
Cost Approximately $12,000
, Representatives of various civic
clubs of Carteret county, several
members of the medical profession
and the Board of commissioners met
at the courthouse on Monday to hear
Dr. Carl V. Reynolds of the State
Board of Health explain health acti
vities. For some time the civic clubs
and the medical profession of Car
teret have been sold on the idea of a
full time and standard health depart
ment. Establishment of same has
been left up to the board of county
commissioners for Carteret who con
trol the budget, etc., and about all
that they have done so far when the
matter has been broached is to look
stupified, with porhaps an occasion
al "But where w ill we get the mon
ey?" spoken by sume of them.
' First of all and as printed in The
Beaufort News sometime ago upon
information furnished by Dr. K. P.
B. Monner, the cost of maintaining!
a sianaara neaitn department would
be approximately $12,000 per year.
Of this total amount the state and
federal government would pay about
half. But still the commissioners
have been un-moved. They find timo
to start all sorts of arguments among
themselves and ways to meet other
expenses but so far they have ap
parently not taken the county's
health seriously.
At the present time 51 counties in
( Continued on page eight)
New Harkers Island
Ferry Schedule Begun
Beginning April 11th, the Harkers
Island ferry schedule will be as fol
lows: Lre. Island Lre. Gloucester
8:00 AM 9:00 AM
12:00 Noon 1:00 PM
6:00 PM 6:30 PM
The summer schedule with an ex
tra trip will be put on June 1st ... .
UNLESS LOCAL INTERESTS ASSUME
RESPONSIBILITIES LINE IS LOST
Two More Vessels
Coming For Scrap
Two more vessels will arrive
at Morehead City Port Termi
na this week-end to take on
cargoes of scrap metal for ship
ment to Japan by Luria Bro
thers of Philadelphia. On Fri
day the S. S. Fernwood (nat
ionally not announced) is sche
duled to arrive. On Sunday
the Swedish Motorship Sand
ham will arrive. This announ
cement wac made on Tuesday
by H. P. Crowell, managing
director of the port terminal
upon information furnished by
Port Traffic Manager E. W.
Dozier. Mighty mountains of
scrap metal is piled high on ter
minal property, several thou
sand tons in all, awaiting ship
ment, and it understood that
with the two vessels here load
ing at the same time, that all of
the metal will not be moved.
DUKE MAY START
LAB NEXT MONTH
U. CnPiettmvrill Ada fre
tige To Beaufort As Marine
Biological Center; Will
Be Located on Pivers
Island
Actual construction of Duke Uni
versity's marine biological labora
tory will probably start next month,
according to Dr. Herbert F. Pry
therch, director of th.3 U. S. Fisheri
es Laboratory here who has been
closely associated with Duke, officials
in plannnig the university's biological
unit here. The laboratory, first unit
of which will represent an expendi
ture of approximately $50,000, will
be located on the southern tip of
Piver's Island, on Duke owned prop
erty. C. B. Markham, Messrs. Brower
and Whitford Duke officials were
here last week making, plans for the
construction of the biological center,
( Continued on page eight)
Polk Johnson, Local
Public Menace Gets
One Year Road Term
Charged with being a public nui
sance, a habitual drunkard, disturb
ing the peace, resisting an officer
and also being a menace to the public
Polk Johnson, who graduated from
one course of several months on the
chaingang March 11, was tried before
Recorder Judge Paul Webb and given
a one year sentence, after being pro
ven guilty of the various and sundry
charges named earlier in this para
graph on Tuesday.
For the next 15 days, however,
Johnson will be incarcerated in th;
county jail, during which time efforts
will be made to see if he can be plac
ed in a Veterans Hospital for the en
ebriate cure. If unable to place him
in a Veterans Hospital ho is schedul
ed to again martriculate for a road
term. Johnson, if by chance he is
a stranger to any reader of this news
paper is the one legged colored man
who is a fairly good fellow while he
sober but every thing he was charged
with when drinking Whieh is fre
quently. Three other cases were on the dock
et Tuesday. Charged with violating
the prohibition law and then alleged
ly trying to bribe ABC Enforcement
Officer George Nelson resulted in a
30 day continuance in the case of
Ted Dowdy, who was placed under
bond of $200 during that period.
Jesse George was given 90 days at
the county home at labor for violat
ing phohibition laws. The case a
gainst Robert Gray, charged with
reckless driving and injuring two
small children out on the North River
Road several days ago was contin
ued until the May 11 term of court
at which time the outcome and the
extent of injuries suffered by the
children is expected to be known.
Order Authorizes N. S
To Quit Operating
Within 90 Days
SOLUTION OF PROBLEM '
STUDIED BY CITIZENS
Unless private or other inter
ests form a corporation under
certain terms and buy it out
right, or unless it is leased by
interested parties at a very
nominal rental, Norfolk South
ern Receivers will quit operat
ing over the 3.17 miles of
trackage known as Beaufort
and Western at the expiration
of 90 days from April 13. The
decision effecting this situation
was announced in Washington
Tuesday by Interstate Com
merce Commission officials.
With the abandonment of the
railroad by Norfolk Southern Receiv
ers Beaufort will move backward ov
ernight to the same predicament
she was in 30 years ago, insofar aa
this form of transportation is conv
cerned. The decision was made after
a valiant fight on the part of Beau
fort and Chamber of Commerce of
ficials which sta:ted SO months ago.
Congressman Graham A. Barden of
the Third District had assisted local
interests in the fieht to retain rail
jseryice for. Beaufort and East Car-
xerer county, taking a leadnig role in
each of the four hearings conducted
before I.C.C. Examiner John Prich
ard, not as a paid representative but
(Continued on page four)
Covering The
WATERFRONT
By AYCOCK BROWN
IF A FEW OF the old timers in
Beaufort back in the 1850s had not
been so darn scared that the engine
and trains traversing the proposed
railroad would smoke up the town,
run over the children, run over the
cows and chickens and the pigs whichr
were wallowing around in the sand
and muck Beaufort would have bt
come the Eastern terminus of A' and
N. C. and Beaufort would have be
come a great port years and year
ago.. and Beaufort would not be rail
roadless 90 days from April 13, itt
the year of our Lord, one thousand
nine hundred and thirty seven.
BUT SUCH IS such. It is a pilf
we have to swallow it seems. The
home towners are seldom the leaders,
and never the most progressive citi
( Continued on page eight )
TIDE TABLE
Information as to the tide
at Beaufort is given in this
column. The figures are approx
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 end also with
respect to the locality, that is
whether near the inlet or at
the heads of ths estuaries.
High Tide Low Tide
Friday, Arr. 16
11:53 a. m. 6:35 a. nu
12:24 p. m. 6:46 p. m.
Saturday, Apr. 17
12:54 a. m. 7:39 a. m.
1:31 p. m. 7:56 p. m,
Sunday, Apr. 18
2:05 a. m.r 8:41 a. m.
2:48 p. m. 9:09 p. m,
Monday, Apr. 19
3:25 a. m. 9:39 a. m.
4:03 p. m. 10:10 p. m.
Tuetday, Apr. 20
4:34 a. m. 10:35 a. mv
5:03 p. m. 11:04 p. nt,
Wednesday, Apr. 21
5:29 a. m. ,
5:50 p. m. 11:25 a. rd,
Thursday, Apr. 22
6:15 a. m. 11:58 a. rA-
6:33 p. m. 12:11 p. r.