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Volume XXVI
Eight Pages
The Beaufort News Thursday, May 6, 1937 1S37
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MANAGEMENT OF ATLANTIC BEACH
WILL HONOR HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS
Approximately 1,400
Invitations Are
Issued
MANY ENTERTAINING
FEATURES SCHEDULED
Approximately 1400 invitations
have been issued to the Second All
County Senior Class Dance and En
tertainment to be held at the Atlan
tic Beach Casino tomorrow evening
beginning at 8:30 P. M. Last minute
plans and details for a pleasant and
swift moving evening have been com
pleted by the Beach Management
and the Senior Class Dance Commit
tee and, wheather permitting, tomor
row night's affair promises to be one
of the most largely attended and en
joyable events scheduled at the
Beach this season.
Mnsie for the occasion will be
furnished by Billy Darst's ten-piece
orchestra from State College. Aycock
Brown will preside at the "mike"
and direct a varied program planned
for the pleasure of the spectators as
well as for the dancers. Competent
out-of-the county judges have been
engaged to determine impartialiy
the winers of all prizes, most of
which this year, will be confined to
members of the senior class.
Among the most popular features
of the evening will prove those
dances in which the girls do the
breaking, a square dance under the
direction of Ralph Nelson, of At
lantic, in which only veteran square
dancers will be used, and a brief
entertainment featuring local vocal
talent and dances by Miss Callie
Byrd, of Mount Olive. Miss Byrd is a
successful pupil of tho famous Car
los Dancing School in New York
City and has proven popular on the
stage both north and south. '
Invitations to the dance nave
been at a premium even among the
more sedate of the county and most
of those invited will probably at
tend. Invitations are by card only
and have been rigidly restricted to
proved by the President of the class
in the respective high schools and ap.
(Continued on page five)
Fishing And
ALL OITDOORS
By AYCOCK BROWN
THE BLUES ARE beginning to
run. So far they are not running in
such numbers that it would warrant
a person here to advise a non-resident
angler to make the trip to the cosat.
But blues are running just the same
All commercial fishermen are making
catches of blues in nets at the pres
ent time. Down at Atlantic this week
Capt. Jim Morris said they were be
ing brought in daily. At local fish
houses and over a t N. C. Fisheries
Inc., the netters are bringing blues
to market So that is a good sign. It
wont be long until they are running
for a fare you well and then will be
the time to tell your friends who are
coming to the coast trolling, to make
it snappy, if they are seeking these
gamy blue bullets.
FOLLOWING THE Nor'easter ear
ly this week the channel bass start
ed running in the surf at Drum Inlet
That is the informatoin which reach
es this column through Blythe Noe
who outfitted a Mr. Murphy and
nartv from Asheville. They fished
Wednesday with Herb Morris Atlan-1
tic guide, and caught three small
drum, the largest weighing 11 pounds
In addition to the drum or channel
bass, a good sized flounder and some
blues were taken by the party surf
casting. It all goes to show that the
surf at Drum Inlet is teeming with
fish, and a good bet for the angler
this week-end. (If weather and wind
are favorable) is to try Drum Inlet
ITS THE MATING season for fox
es. I am sorry now that I did not go
with Dr. Moore on that series of calls
down East and to Merrimon on Tues
day night But there was the election
and the hopes of getting the final re
turns before the News and Observer
deadline, which was keeping me in
town. Dr. Moore said that he. saw
three fox?. When foxes start gal
avanting around and occasionally ap
pear before your headlight? , on a
night drive through the country at
thia Bpasnn von mav rest assured
that they are out for love. Someone
who heard Dr. Moore tell the story
asked why he did not take a gun a
long and kill some of the foxes. But
Dr. Moore is not that type of person.
Even if they are predatory animals
which might eat any number of quail
(Continued from page o&e)
A&N.C To
Show New
Engine
Will Be Exhibited At
Morehead City All
Day Sunday
LARGEST ENGINE EVER
TO OPERATE ON ROAD
The largest locomotive to ever
operate over Atlantic and North
Pornlina trackaee will go on publia
exhibit in Morehead City Sunday,
and everyone is extended a cordial
invitation by H. P. Crowell, president
and general manager of the "Old
Mullet Line" to board and inspect
the eneine. it was announced today.
It is one of three Baldwin engines
...mtiv ninvhnsed bv A. and N. C.
due to increasing business over the
now independently operated road, it
was stated.
A special invitation is extended to
school children. Many modern day
school children have seen locomo
tives only as they passed along the
rails, and few have ever been ex
tended the privilege to enter the cab
and inspect the apparatus. For that
reason, persons who are familiar with
engines will be on hand to explain
in detail the various gadgets in the
Two of the new engines, Numbers
601 and 602 have already been de
livered. They were purchased in Mich
igan, but since arriving, on A and N.
r. tmckaiye. both have been painted
black with a slate color on the boil
ers. The cabs are green trimmed in
roA A third and similar engine will
nnnn he delivered to A and N. C. it
urns atatpd-
These new engines in railroad lan
guage are not classed in horse-power
but in tractor effort. The tractor
effort of 601 and 602 is 86,000. That
thev can null a string of 125
cars loaded with a total tonnage of
approximately 5,000. The engines
carry 7,000 gallons of water, 12
tons of coal and are 63 feet long
from coupler to coupler.
With three new engines added to
tho rnllinor stock recently, the total
number of locomotives purchased
since H. P. Crowell became general
manager of the nidependently op
erated A. & N. C. has increased to
11. Previously four switching en
gines and four road locomotives have
been purchased.
Two PreSeason Dances
Have Been Planned For
Atlantic Beach Casino
Two pre-season dances have been
planned for Atlantic Beach Casino
during the first half of May, it was
announced this week by Bob Connell,
managing director of the resort.
The first of these dances will be pre
sented on Saturday night and will
feature Billy Darst and his orchestia.
On Friday night this same orchestra
will make the music for the second
annual all-county Senior Class Prom,
which is of an invitational nature.
On Saturday nizht. May 15, Joe
Davis and his 8 piece orchestra will
play for another script dance in the
Casino. This May 15 dance is spon
sored by the Junior Chamber of
Commerce of Morehead City and
Beaufort Business Association. Ad
vance sale of tickets for this latter
dance is now on. Tickets may be
purchased at House Drug Store. The
Young Man's Shop and Bell's Drug
Store.
Ferry To Be Out Of
Service Next Week
The Harkers Island Ferry will be
taken out for repairs on Tuesday,
May 11th. The ferry wil make the
regular noon trip and will then pro
ceed to Morehead City to be hauled
out for repairs. It is our intention
to have it back in service in time tc
make the regular noon trip on Thurs
day, May 13th, according to informa
tion furnished this newspaper by
Roy J. Hart of New Bern, district
engineer for the Highway depart
ment.
Sixteen Randolph farmers recent
ly received 58,400 pounds of TV A
triDle-sunemhosnhate to use in dem
onstrations with soil improving crops
and pasture grasses.
Fillet Adverti
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New Experience For'
In the above photo you see Leslie
Biebel, announcer, Claiborne Mtfn
gum talented tenor and Lucy Biebel,
his accompanist dressed in oil-skin
clothing furnished for the occasion
of Chasles V. Hill of Beaufort,
board attawler handling a net in tfy?
ocean off Beaufort Inlet. They are
the radio stars who advertise Caro
lina Coast Sea Fresh Fillets over
Station WPTF in Raleigh on Tues
day, Thursday and Friday morningf
at 8 o'clock for N. C. Fisheries, Inc.
Spending the week end with Mr. and
4-H CLUBBERS TO
RALLY SATURDAY.
Kings And Queens Will Be
Crowned; Flower Show
To Be A Feature
Carteret County 4-H Rally Day
Program will be presented at Beau
fort High School on Saturday, May
8, at 1:30 o'clock, it was announced
today. Coronations of 4-H Junior
and Senior queens and 4-H Junior
and Senior Kings will be the out
standing feature of the program.
Four- H clubbers will have complete
charge of the program exercises with
David Garner vice-president of the
4-H County Council and president of
the Newport Club officiating.
During the afternoon the' 4-H
Clubs of the County ure to entertain
the court with stunts and playlets
and the Home Demonstration Club
Women are to stage a Fashion Re
vue. From one to four o'clock the
public i3 cordially invited to view
the Flower Show sponsored by the
4-H clothing exhibit displayed in the
front entrance rooms of the school
building. A special invitation to at
tend the program is extended to the
public.
Try To Unionize
If a mysterious phone call reach
ing The Beaufort News office just
as we go to press today has any
foundation, efforts were made in
Morehead City on Wednesday to or
ganize a union among the shirt fac
tory operatives there.
Newly Elected Officials
To Go In
Huntley Elected Mayor
With Majority Of
142VotM
LONGEST RE-ELECTED
A total of 988 votes were polled
in one of the most hotly contested
rnuniciDal elections ever staged in
Beaufort on Tuesday of this week. Of
the total number voting 463 ballots
were cast by women and 525 by men.
Every office on the ticket was sought
by more than one person, and the
defeated candidates know that they
have many friends who were voting
heavy for them even though they
lost
Closest in the race was for thj
office of Mayor. George W. Huntley
with 559 votes, won over his oppon
ent A. T. Gardner with 417 votes.
The majority was 142. .
Candidates elected on Tuesday will
be installed into office in July.
Bayard Taylor, present mayor did
sers Go Fishing
These Radio Stars
Mrs. John Sikes in Morehead City
recently, the group were dressed as
fishermen and taken off shore on a
trawler where they actually experi
enced the thrill of catching fish in a
net, similar to fish which make the
Carolina Coast Sea Fresh Fillets they
have been advertising And incident
ally sales have picked up consider
ably for this frozen seafood product
from North Carolina waters since
their program was established. (Eiir
banks-News photo).
MAN WOULD BE
ELECTROCUTED
IF CONVICTED
Probably the man who entered
several Beaufort homes last night
and made meager hauls of smalt
change does not know it, but he was
committing one of North Carolina's
capital offenses. If arrested and tried
for first degree burglary, the crima
he committed by entering homes
where people were sleeping for the
purpose of theft, the person in ques
tion and incidentally the person now
being hunted wolud be sentenced to
death in the lethal gas chamber.
Among the homes entered were:
W. V. B. Potter's ; Capt. Charles
Case; Tobe Clawson; Hugh Jone.s,
Eill Skarren and probably others not
reported as we go to press today.
Local authorities are making an ef
fort to apprehend the burglar. No
large sums of money were taken
from any of the homes entered. The
burglar had a peculiar characteristic,
instead of ransacking the house gen
erally he only unloaded the trousers
in bedrooms where people were a
sleep. In the Potter home he remov
ed less than a dollar in charge from
the trouser pockets. He did not touch
the vest in which a much larger sum
was located. Mrs. Norcom, at the
home of Capt. Case, was awakened
by a strange man who entered her
room. The man said that he was de
livering groceries and made a quick
getaway. It was learned today that
one or two burglaries occurred in
Morehead City last week.
SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEWS
Office In
July-
not seek re-election snd the only
candidate in the line-up Tuesday for
re-election was James Rumley, alder
man, and Chief Walter R. Longest,
vote.
Chief Walter R. Longest, who has
held this office for several years,
was re-elected with a majority of
231, over his opponent James H. Da
vis. The vote in the race for chief of
police follows:
Longest, 600; James H. Davis 369.
Commissioners elected and the
number of votes each received as fol
lows: E. H.. Potter, 623; L. C. Da
vis, 628; G. M. Paul, 614; James
Rumley, 543; John T. White, 590.
Defeated candidates for the office
of commissioner and their vote fol
lows: C. H. Bushall, 452; J. C. Rice,
356; F. L. King, 315; Mrs. Maud
Chadwick. 829; and L. B. Willis, 301.
Tallying of votes was not complet
ed until after midnight Generally
speaking, the election was conducted
in a very orderly fashion.
Eugene F. Moore Is
Now Tax Collector
THRTY EIGHT TO
GRADUATE AT
B. H. S.
Baccalaureate Sermon
To Be Preached
On Sunday
Beaufort High School's annual
commencement program will begin
next Sunday afternoon when the
Rev. W. Y. Stewart of the Franklin
Memorial Methodist Church of More
head City delivers the baccalaureate
sermon. The Baccalaureate sermon
will bep reached in the at 3 o'clock
in the afternoon and the public is
invited tw b present.
In the graduating class this year
are 38 persons, of which 26 are girls
and 12' boys. The class roll follows:
Misses Blanche Bell, Josephine Betts,
Maude Bloodgood, Mary Bowen
Brooks-, ETeanor Carraway, Evelyn
Davis, T&elma Dickinson, Jewel Eu
banks, Hilda Gillikin, Daphne Hardy
Vivian- Harvey, Ruby Heplar, Opal
Merrill,. Louise Morton, Helen O'Bry
an, Vera Pake, Elizabeth Respass,
Irene Sabiston, Lucille Safrit, Hel
en Simpson, Golda Small, Rowena
Smith, Ruby Smith, Margaret Taylor,
Marian Taylor, and Mary Mason.
The boys in the graduating class in
clade: George Carraway, Richard
Chadwick, Charles Davis, Leslie Da
vis, Gray Dudley, Ed Hancock, Bor
den Mace, Clyde Merrill, William
Thomas, Elwood Warren, Gerald
Woolard and John Parkin.
Special music will be renrered by a
trio composed of Misses Mary Bowen
Brooke, Maude Bloodgod and Rowe
na Smith and the High School Glee
Club under the direction of Mr3.
John Brooks.
Graduation exercises will be held
on Friday evening at eight o'clock.
At this time the certificates, awards
and Senior diplomas will be present
ed. Miss Golda Small is Valedictorian
and Mr. Elwood Warren is Salutator
ian. , ;
Oldest Mother
To Be Honored
All Mothers in Carteret coun
ty over the age of 60 years are
extended a most cordial invita
tion by Manager Robert G.
Lang to be his guests at the
Beaufort Theatre's Monday
matinee showing of the screen
production Seventh Heaven,
featuring Miss Simone Simon
and Mr. James Stewart. Moth
er's over the age of 60 will be
admitted free of charge. They
will be requested to register
their names and ages in a regis
tration book in the Theatre
foyer. To the oldest Mother at
tending this matinee showing of
the screens most glorious love
story, will be presented a life
time pass to the theater with
the compliments of the manage
ment. Presentation of the Pass
to the oldest Mother will be
made immediately after the mat
inee before patrons leave the
theatre.
The oldest mother attending
the show will also be honored
with appropriate gifts from F.
R. Bell's drugstore, Joe House
Drug Store and Troy Johnson's I
Dixie Soda Shop. The Spence3
of Morehead City Floral Com
pany will furnish a flower for
each Mother over 60 years of
age attending the show and a
boquet for the honored Mother.
CHERRY HOTEL TO
BE OPEN BY 15th.
The Cherry Hotel in Morehead
City which has been completely ren
ovated during the past few months
will be opened by May 15, it was
learned authentically today. Name of
the party who will lease the hostelry
was not disclosed, but it is under
stood upon reliable information, that
the building will be leased within
the next few days to a resident of
this county. Several thousand dollars
have been spent in rebuilding, re
decorating . and refurnishing the
structure, 7 . , iiajiUSJlSSD
Commissioners, Approv
His Bond; Attend
Other Matters
JUNE TERM JURY DRAWN
Eugene F. Moore of Marshallbergr
who was recently appointed by tho
Carteret County Board of Commiss
ioners to succeed Alvalt L. Hamilton
as tax collector was sworn into office
on Monday, following approval of
his $25,000 bond by the board. He
was sworn into office by Mrs. Eva.
Bravaldo, deputy clerk of superior
court. Miss Mildred Whitehurst was
named assistant to Mr. Moore.
Alvah Hamilton, the retiring tax
collector had held the office since
July 1931, when it was formed. Hft
was assisted by Mrs. Hamilton. Moore
was appointed early this year, but is
was necessary to audit the office, be
fore the change in management was
made.
Several other matters, mostly of a
routine nature were disposed of by
the Commissioners on Monday. The
Jurors for the two weeks etrm of
superior court in June were drawn.
Their names and addresses will be
found following this story. Several
tax matters wereb rought to the at
tention to the attention of the borad.
W. E. Hare will be re-imbursed
for tax payments for the years 1931
35 inclusive in the sum of $25.63 a
gainst certain properties in Morehead
Bluffs which were erroneously listed
to and in the name of Mr. Hare. The
tax collector was. a'jthoiized to cor
rect the assessment roll accordingly.
Delegates interested in the im
provement oftfte West Beaufort road
which leads to indrstries doing al
most a million dollars annually ap
peared before the board seeking improvement-
of the route. As a result
the State Hhway and Public Work
Commission- will be urged to shell
the road.
( Continued on page eight)
Covering The
WATER FROM
By AYCOCK BROWN
ONE OF THE niftiest tricks I have
seen this year Is the hydraulic water
pressure fish scaler over at N. C.
Fisheries. The apparatus was de
vised by Donnie Davis of Davis, fore
man of the filleting rom at the N. C.
Fisheries Inc. plant It consists
of an endless chain conveyor
with spike at intervals to which the
fish's tail is fastened. Through one
box the fish slides and one side is
scaled by a powerful pressure jet of
salt water. Out of that box the fisb
comes half scaled and an operator
turns the fish over and through an--other
box the fish is taken, coming
out completely scaled and dropping?
into a basket
( Continued on page eight)
TIDE TABLE
Information as t 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 and also with
respect to the locality, that is
whether near the inlet or at
the heads of the estuaries.
High Low-
Friday, May 7
4:53 a. m.
5:21 p. m. 11:10 a. in.
Saturday, May 8
5:51 a. m. 12:01 a. nt,
6:16 p. m. 12:05 p. m,
Sunday, May 9
6:41 a. m. 12:56 a. in.
7:07 p. m. 12:58 p. m,
Monday, May 10
7:34 a. m. 1:47 a. m.
8:00 p. m. 1:48 p. m.
Tuetday, May 11
8:29 a. m. 2:38 a. m.
8:53 p. m. 2:39 p. m.
Wedaetday, May 12
9:23 a, m. 3:29 a. m.
9:48 p. m. 3:41 p. m.
Taunday, May 13
10:19 a. m. 4:21 a. mv
10:41 p. m. 4:23 p. m.