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THE BEAUFORT NEWS BEAUFORT, N. C.
Thursday, July 8, 1937
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MEMBER N. C. PRESS ASSO.
THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1937
MoneyNot Politics
Saved The Railroad
Politicians talk quite a bit
and sometimes are elected to
office when there is a railroad
which they will save is involv
ed. When the show down
comes though, money good
old U- S. A. dollars talk the
loudest. The foregoing is the
current sentiments of many
persons hereabouts. The deal
for continued operation of the
trackatre which serves lieau
fort and East Carteret County
has been completed. Soon the
"Beaufort-Morehead City R.R.'
will run over the trackage
which Norfolk-Southern has
operated over for more than
25 years. Nearly three years
ago the fight for continued
operation of a railroad into
Beaufort began. The Cham
ber of Commerce led the fight
along with the Town of Beau
,fort. Norfolk Southern made
a proposition for the organiza
tion of new corporation. Those
interested would have accept
ed the proposition before the
operation had been abandon
ed, or that is what they say. In
the meantime every effort was
made to induce the Atlantic
and North Carolina to take ov
er operation of the short line
serving Beaufort and the com
munities of the east. The State
controlled A and N. C. never
favorably considered proposal.
The Colored Citizens
Deserve Consideration
It seems that the colored
citizens of Beaufort deserve
more consideration from the
Town than they i'requenlty get
Some of the most prompt and
steadiest tax payers of the com
munity are colored citizens. A
jrlance at the records in Town
Hall will reveal that this state
ment is true, let it appears
that little if anvthinc is ever
done for them. When Beaufort
went in debt to get paved
streets, a few years ago, the
additional thousands of dol
lars necessary to construct
same through the colored sec
tion of town should have been
borrowed. It would have been
easier to have borrowed it
then, than it would be now
but this does not alter the
fact that street conditoins
in the colored section are fre
quently in a deplorable condi
tion following rains, and need
improvements. The Town of i
Beaufort should also see to it
that proper recreation facili
ties are made available for the
colored citizens. It seems only
right that since many WPA
projects hereabouts will be of
vast benefit to the white citi
zens both from a recreational
and development standpoint,
that the colored citizens should
be shown the same considera
tion. Out back of Town there
are places available where a
recreational center could be
developed for the colored cit
izens. It should include a
mong other things a place for
the colored people to go swim
ming or bathing in salt water.
There is entirely too much salt
water hereabouts, for the col
ored people to ce without a
waterfront of Beaufort Chan
nel to Ann near the highway
drawbridge. That eye sore to
Beaufort's front door will nev
er be improved until a street
has been constructed. With
Federal money available for
this nature at this time and
with only a small expenditure
on the part of the town, the
route could be constructed at
very small cost. Such a street
would eliminate the turn-table
at the western terminus of
Front a turn table which
should be eliminated. The
distance between Front and
Ann is probably about 150
yards. At as mal cost a break
water could be constructed
and when the maintenance
dredging of the waterway and
owning radios, automobiles, good
food and clothes and enjoying the
comforts of life. This Nation No. 1
enjoys greater luxuries and better
life than any other pepole on the
face of the Earth.
But in the Nation, that 1 eall No. 2
is the lean and slowly starving people.
In this group of people we find hun
ger, disease, suffering and privation.
In this class are more than 10.U00,
000 in number, who have no homes
they can cull their own. They wear
dothing meted out to them that has
been cast on" long ago. This is the
Country within a country which our
President saw on January 20 as a
nation 'one-third ill housed, and one
third ill clothed and undernourish
ed." The WPA and the PWA can
do nothing with the situation.
Self experience is the best teach
the principal fishing grounds at cer
tain seasons of the year for the Cen.
tral Carolina Coastal fleet.
harmor begins the lower areas er." If the President of the United
could be built up. If the Street I States want we poor folks to get a
was constructed and the land i long at our best then he must leave
built up and properly land
scaped Beaufort would have
an entrance to town which
would really be beautiful
and the useful benefits derived
from development of the prop-j Harkers Island,
us alone. Vv e know our own way best
don't mess us up i$he does he'll
have to deed us.
Sincerely,
JIMMIE GUTHRIE,
erty should within a few short
years take care of all expense
involved.
July 5, 1937.
Fire Alarm
The first fire alarm in several
months was answered by men of the
local volunteer department last night
when a shed at Beveridge's Wood
and Coal Yard near Beaufort chan
nel was partially destroyed.
Town Retires Bonds
(Continued from pa:.'' .i m
ed to only the business that was nec
essary. This consisted of the elec
tion of the town clerk. As only one
candidates name was presented T.
M. Thomas, Jr., was re-elected Town
Clerk. All other town employees were
to retain their jobs and salaries un
til the next meeting of the board at
which time if any charges were to be
made in the personnel they would be
made at that time. R. Hugh Hill on i
behalf of the fire department request
ed that if the town was able, to do
nate to the fire department a sum
with which to entertain visiting fire
men at a convention to be held here
next week. Upon motion it was or
dered that the town was to aid the
firemen up to the sum of $80. T.W.S.
G. W. DUNCAN
Beaufort, N. C
Our Mail Box
JIMMIE'S DREAM
Editor of The News:
With close observation and some
study my reading friends, a dream
suitable place to enjoy same.
Barden Honored
With A Tough Job
There are people hereabouts
who today are saying that they
helped send F. R. Seeley to the
Legislature, because they
thought he would save the
railroad. If he ever mention
ed the railroad while acting as
representative of Carteret in
the General Assembly, we
have no record of same. Yet
we know that Fred Seeley, as
president of The Chamber of
Commerce did work harder in
connection with the railroad
matter than any other person
involved. He attended all
hearings of the ICC- He spent
money out of his own pocket
to attend the hearings. He
made an honest effort to save
the railroad ... In the Town
elections many persons voted
for George W. Huntley and
helped elect him Mayor be
cause he had promised the
people to work with town of
ficials towards saving the rail
road. Huntley and Seeley
and their associates would
have probably saved the rail
road. They might have saved
it by employing more political
pressure.
In the meantime a private
corporation of Beaufort and
Morehead City men was form
ed and they have bought the
railroad and it will continue to
be operated, according to one
of the stock-holders, as it ha3
been operated. There will be
the same number of trains per
day running into Beaufort. An
able railroad man, H. P. Crow
ell, heads the new organization
owning the carrier. Under
the present set-up trains can
be operated into Beaufort at a
lower cost than before, be
cause of a possible decrease in
personnel. Beaufort's railroad
ig saved unless what some
"citizens anticipate comes true.
Some citizens believe the pur
chase was made with the
thought in view of scrapping
the carrier after a few months
operation. That may not be
the motive. Beaufort citizens
should be thankful that thev
have a railroad, regardless of
wno owns it or who operates it.
Beaufort citizens have been
shown that money got the
jump on politics. Money talks
louder than anything else.
The foregoing gives various
versions of Beaufort's rail sit
uation, past and present. Al
though we are wishing B-M. C.
K.R. the best of luck our con
tention is still unchanged. We
have said all along and still be
lieve that the State of North
Carolina, controlling owner of
A. and N. C. 6hould have tak
en over the Norfolk-Southern
owned trackage known as
Beaufort and Western.
Representative Graham A.
Barden, of the Third Congres
sional District was given a
high honor and a tough assign
ment when he was named by
his associates in Washington
the other day to fill a post on
the Labor Committee. A South
erner was sought for the job,
and many were clamoring for
it, but Speaker Bankhead and
the real leaders of Congress
saw in Representative Barden
the man to fill the post. And
Congressman Barden was not
even a candidate for a place
on the Labor Committee.
With all the CIO activi
ties tne principal iront page
news from our United States
these days, it is a dead cinch
that the Congressional Labor
Committee will be working ov
ertime to cope with the vari
ous situations arising in labor
circles. No communistic labor
group will get the support of
Graham A. Barden. He will
fight to the finish for what he
thinks is right and what Con
gressman Graham A. Barden
thinks right is usually the
views of the real honest and
true American citizen. Incident
ally Congressman Graham A.
Barden, insofar as labor is
concerned, will be front page
news from now on mark
those words. In bestowing
wis nonor, his associates gave
a post to one of the hardest
workers in Congress if any
one doubts this statement look
at the Washington record
and also observe the various
developments of North Caro
lina's Third District, since Bar
den became our Representative.
FISHERMEN SEEK
NEW PROTECTION
Shrimp Trawling Now Threat
ens Fishing Industry
The Beaufort News has been ad
vised that many fishermen along the
North Carolina coast will meet be
fore the Board of Conservation and
Development at their biennial meet-
BASE BALL
Wilmington Pirates
vs
SUNDAY, JULY 11th
3:30 P. M-
Beaufort
AT BEAUFORT
Admission 15 and 25c
the other night brought to my mind j ing in Morehead City on next Mon
day, July Z, requesting that they
enact proper laws to prohibit traw
ling for shrimp from the East side
of Beaufort Inlet to the N. C.-Va.
line. The reason for this proposed
action, according to Earl Davis, civ
ic leader of Harkers Island is be
cause the trawling is destroying small
fish, which otherwise would grow to
maturity and stabilize the future
fishing industry along the coast.
"Some of the men who are oppos-
eu io sucn a destruction, own most
of the shrimp trawls" said Davis. On
Harkers Island, for example, there is
an average of two trawls per boat
yet they are opposed to the use of
same. I his action started hpfm-o ih
Legislature met, probably hastened
action on the part of the Legislators
in providing a suitable patrol boat,
or at any rate had a lot to do with
obtaining same, in the opinion of
Davis. Prohibiting non-resident traw
ling will not remedy the destruction
of fish in and around Cape Lookout,
"Tennyson's Dream of Airy Navies:"
I dipped into the future,
Far as human eye could see,
Saw visions of the world,
And all wonders that could be. '
Saw the Heaven's filled with com
merce, Argosies of magic sail,
Pilots of the purple twilight,
Dropping down with costly bale.
Heard the Heavens filled with shout-
i ing,
And there was a ghastly dew,
From the nation's airy navies,
Grappling in the central blue.
The pen picture of this English
poet more than a half century ago
has proven more than prophetic. His
visions of the airy navies is real
ized on a gigantic scale but the
War Drums, the furling of battle
flags, and the federation of the world
seems farther removed than ever.
Shortly before the Civil War, Ab
raham Lincoln said that "a Nation
half slave and half free could not
survive." He was probably looking
down thru space, he could see the
predicament in which a Nation could
be thrust, when its representatives
would permit it to be cast into the
hands of the receivers, that is, when
the Nation should be divided in half
Nation iNo. 1 employed with all
its inhabitants living in luxury and
Front Should Be
Extended To Ann
A street project for Beaufort
which would serve a useful
purpose would be the exten
sion of West Front along the
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BEAUFORT,
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N. C.
Sale Of Tailor Made
SUITS
Extra Pair of Trousers with Each Suit
Purchased
HUNDREDS OF FINE FALL FABRICS
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SNWTHFIELD
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BEAUFORT
RESOURCES
FAYETTEVILLE
CLINTON
ROSEBORO
RALEIGH
NEW BERN
FRANKLINTON
Cash on Hand and Due from Banks $ 2,554,560.47
u. b. Government Securities $ 2,019 775 00
(Direct and Fully Guaranteed)
State Bonds 4,067,500.00
FpZTt1 B,dS r-TA-3.383 644.21
Federal Land Bank and Other
Marketable Securities 1,507,501.16
Less:
D $10,978,420.37
Reserve 322,754.12
$10,655,666.25
111,924.46
Accrued Interest on Bonds
Loans Secured by Marketable
Collateral j Qg7 346 g4
Other Loans and Discounts::::;;;;" 2,952,952.83 $ 4,040,299.47
Banking Houses, Furniture and
t lxtures 289 761 81
Less: Reserve a-c Depreciation':;:": 29;739!61 260,022.22
Other Assets 42552(.
$17,626,728.11
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock Preferred $497,500.00
Common 267,650.00
Surplus
Undivided Profits
765,150.00
350 000.00
330,140.95
Rpqcruo o r-f ox- . . ooU,
pTT "curu owCK inurement 'und 82.500 00
DEPOSITS0 CCrUed and UnearneI Interest, etc. .
153,194.01
15,945,743.15
$17,626,728.11