SEAFOOD MRT. 11-4-37
Shrimp 5c; Spots lc & 2c
Trout 2?4c; Croaker 2c
Bluet 5c; Flounders 6c
S. Trout 6c; S. Mulls 2H
J Mulls. 5c; Pompano 10c
ATTEND
GOLF TOURNEY
FINALS NEXT
SUNDAY AT GULF
STREAM LINKS
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Volume XXVI
8 Pages This Week The Beaufort News, Thursday, November 4, 1937
5c Per Copy
Number 44
Business Manager
Zion
Mason Succeeds John Sikes As Fisheriei
o
-a
Commissioners
Monday &
Several Changes In
Tax Listings Are
Ordered
NELSON APPOINTED TO
SUCCEED MORRIS
Tax matters, road matters
and other county matters claim
ed the attention of the board
of commissioners at their reg
ular monthly meeting here on
Monday. The December Super
ior Court jury list was also
drawn and will be found at the con
clusion of this story. The board met
again on Tuesday to take care of
some 'unfinished business.' Chairman
Smith, D. B. Willis, W. Z. McCahe,
E. H. Fulcher and Joshua Hardy,
the full board were present, accord
ing to the minutes. They received
pay for two days work.
Excerpts from the minutes prepar
ed by the clerk to the board follow:
City Grocery awarded contract for
supplying county home this month;
363 acres listed in name of C. A.
Parker, placed on tax books at valu
ation of $6 per acre to conform to
adjoining property: I. S. Garner will
be released of 17 acres listed thru
error; Wilson Golden will be releas
ed of $650 valuation on home listed
through error; Lots listed in name of
L. Garner were reduced in valuation
and lot of J. L. Edwards Hears plac
ed at valuation of $175; property
listed in name of W. T. Holmes, in
White Oak township was given re
lease of $175, due to error in listing;
five acres listed in name of E. R.
Lawrence, Straits township will be
placed on tax books at value of $10
(Continued on buite five;
Covering The
WATEMl FitOXl
By AYCOCK BROWN
JOHN SIKES did not resign his
job as business manager of N. C.
Fisheries, Inc., under fire and he is
definitely not going to leave More
head City, as some of ths gossips are
having it . . . And John Sikes is not
out of a job ... To expose his im
mediate or future plans would be
the betrayal of a confidence on my
part . . And I'm not that kind of a
guy . . . Regardless of what some of
you readers think about me . . .
Sikes has a better future now with
ihis current connections than he
would have with N. C. Fisheries had
he remained there even if that es
tablishment becomes the Fulton Fish
Market of the South ... As Presi
dent and Chairman of the Board of
Directors of N. C. Fisheries Inc.,
John Sikes will still have an oppor
( Continued on page eight)
TIDE TABLE
Information as t the tide
.at .Beaufort is given in this
column. The figures are approx
iniately 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 1 cality, that is
whether near the inlet or at
the heads of the estuaries.
High
9:17
9:27
9:52
10:03
10:29
10:45
Low
Friday, Nov.
a. m.
p. m.
Saturday, Nov.
a. m.
p. m.
Sunday, Nov.
a. m.
p. m.
Monday, Nov.
5
3:02 a,
3:42 p,
6
3:37 a
4:20 p
7
4:12 a
5:00 p,
8
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
4:50
5:43
9
5:35
6:32
a. in.
p. m.
11:07 p. m.
Tuesday, Nov
.11:27 a. m.
11:48 p. m.
Wednesday, Nov. 10
12:13 a. m. 6:31
12:34 p. m. 735
Thursday, Nov. 11
.2:04 a. m. 74
.1:26 p. m.
8:17
et
Tuesday
Honorary Member
Of Local Club
Mrs. Estelle L. Page
Mrs. Estelle Lawson Page
Greensboro and Chapel Hill who re-
centlv established a modern record
in women's golf when she won the
onalifvin? medal in the national
championship at Memphis, Tenn.,
for the second year n succession
has accepted an invitation to be an
honorary member of Gulf Stream
Golf Club here. Following her na
tional achievement Mrs. Page was in
vited by Gulf Stream Golf Club to
become an honorary member. In a
letter to Club Secretary Aycock
Brown, Mrs. Page accepted the mem
bership and stated that she hoped
soon to visit Beaufort and play the
new Gulf Stream links.
Carteret Cripples
May Enter Clinic
The Pitt County Health Depart
ment wishes to call attention to the
regular, monthly State Orthopedic
Clinic held every first Friday, from
noon till 3 o'clock p. m., in the
Health Department offices, 215 W.
3rd Street, Greenville. The next
clinic will be held on Friday, Novem
ber 5th.
This clinic serves not only Pitt
County, but Beaufort, Hyde, Pamli
co, and Carteret as well. The clinic is
open to both white and colored.
All types of cripples are received
into this clinic for examination,
without cost, and where eligible,
given free treatment.
Dr. N. Thomas Ennett, Pitt Coun
ty Health Officer, requests that,
where practical, all patients bring a
note from the family physicain.
The Health Officer extends a spec
ial invitation to all physicians and
all welfare officers to visit the clinic.
GOLF TOURNEY
CONTINUES ON
SUNDAY NOV. 7
McQuaid Eliminated
OwensbyJ To Play
Lewis Next
Next Sunday is expected to wind
up the first Autumn Tournament of
Gulf Stream Golf Club which got
underway four weeks ago. Due to the
fact that most of the players in the
tournament are local business men,
it was necessary to play the elimina
tion flights on Sunday, when it was
possible for them to be away irom
their regular daily work.
T. McQuaid will play Pritchard
Lewis in the finals for first prize on
Sunday. Second flight for consolation
prize will see Piggy Potter and Bill
Skarren and Billy Mace and Ben
Jones in the lineup. Chairman Has
sell stated that it was probably that
only nine holes would be played in
the Consolation at which time two
players would be eliminated. The
last two players will then go nine
more holes for consolation.
The scores and elimination check
ed up last Sunday follow:
Skarren eliminated Hassell; Mc
Quaid Eliminated Owensby; Potter
elimnated Dr. Eure; Mace eliminat
ed Woodland and Jones eliminated
(Continued on page eight)
MAYOR APPOINTS
CIVIC COMMITTEE
Group Will Assist In
Taking Census Of
The Unemployed
Starting on Novembre 16 and con
tinuing through November 1:0 an ef
fort will be made to take a census of
partial employed and unimployed
persons and their occupations here in
Carteret county and throughout the
United States. The work will be car
vied on by the U. S. Postoffice offi
cials but a citizens coinmi tee is ap
pointed in each locality to lelp in the
work by giving the census widj pub
licity and ui?ing unemployed or par
tially unemployed persons to fill out
a report card.
The citizens committee is appoint
ed by the mayors of the various mu
nicipalities throughout t le country.
Mayor George W. Huntley announced
today that he had appoirted the fol
lowing committee foi Beaufort:
Pritchard Lewis, chairni in, Aycock
Brown, W. A. Mace, F. R. Seeley and I
Julian Hamilton. "This group will
work without thought of. compensa
tion and there will be i one, but in
order that they may help improve the
unemployed problem of ur communi
ty, it is hoped that the unemployed
will do everything possible to help
this committee and the postoffice
officials make the censis complete
in all details," said Mayor Huntley.
(Continued on page eight)
Beaufort Theatr 3
Will Be Enlarged
Preliminary work has started on
the enlargement of The Beaufort
Theatre building owned by Richard
Dickinson on Front street. Twenty-
two feet, will be added to the rear of
the structure and it will also te in
creased in height and a balcony will
be constructed on the interior for
the accomodation of colored patrons.
The main floor space will be enlarg
ed considerably allowing many addi
tional seats for white patrons, it was
announced. O. C. Lawrence is the
contractor who will do the work
which will represent an expenditure
of approximately ?5,500. Lang
Cooke Company, have a long time
lease on the building.
Barden And McGee
Carteret Visitors
Representative Graham A. Barden
and his secretary Tom McGee were
visitors in Beaufort and Carteret
county on Tuesday. While here they
discussed federal projects with inter
ested citizens. Congressman Barden
conferred with Joshua Hardy about
a road project in the Merrimon sec
tion. Later the Congressman and his
secretary vistied citizens in Sea
Level relative to a proposed project
there.
FREIGHTER TO SAIL SAT.
The S. S. Tzenny Chandris of
Chios, Greece, Capt. G. Coupop
antelis, is scheduled to sail from
Morehead City Saturday after
noon for Rotterdam, Holland, ac
cording to Port Supervisor W.
H. Smoak. At North Carolina's
only ocean port the Chandris is
taking on approximately 4,000
tons of scrap metal to complete
her cargo of 8,000 tons.
Patrolman's Father Was Register
Of Deeds In Orange For 65
Patrolman John Law of the Stata
Highway Patrol who ha recently
been detailed to duty in Carteret by
Lieutenant Jones, commander of
Troop. "A", is. the. ton of the late
John Laws of Hillsboro who had a
world's record as a holder of publie
office up until his death several years
ago... For 64 years he was Register
of Deeds in Orange county. He
was elected to the office dur-ing
or shortly after the War between
the States while still a young man.
During the years that he served he
would sometimes have opposition a
round election time, but John Laws
was an efficient and popular Regis
ter of Deeds, not unlike our Irwin W.
Davis here in Carteret, whom no one
has been able to defeat during the
past several years. Death was the
only candidate that ever defeated
John Laws.
MANY PUPILS HAVE
DEFECTIVE VISION
Thirty Nine Examined
In Clinic Here
This Week
A free eye clinic was held in Beau
fort October 29th by the State Com
mission For The Blind, to provide
glasses for those children of Carteret
County whose defects of vision were
a handicap to progress in school work
and whose parents were unable to
bay the necessary glasses. These
were furnished free by the State to
children on the free school book list
whose sight was extra poor, while
other children, needing glasses badly
but unable to get them on account
of the needy circumstances of their
parents, will receive them thru con
tributions fiom various organizations
and clubs. The principals and teach
ers of all the County schools aided
by making preliminary tests of child
ren with poor sight and sending them
to the clinic with their parents for
further examination, acting under in-
structions from Superintendent J. G.
Allen.
The tests and examinations were
carried out by Dr. O. H. Johnson, of
Morehead City, for the State Com
mission, assisted by Miss Mary C.
Williams, R. N., of the Commission
at Raleigh, while the measuring was
done by Mr. Wilson Wilbur, of the
American Optical Company, of Nor-
(Continued on page eight)
War Against Drunken
Drivers Is Underway
At least two persons charged with
drunken driving have been arrested
in Carteret county by Patrolman
Jkihn Laws since he was detailed to
duty in this" section last week. Thesa
drivers will have an opportunity to
tell it to the judge in Recorder's
couit next Tuesday. While Patrolman
Laws was detailed here primarily to
help eliminate drunken driving he has
several other duties such as giving
instruction to the local school traf
fic patrol, giving driving tests to ap
plicants for licenses and aiding in
law enforcement generally on the
highways of the county.
Parents Invited To
Visit Local School
On Friday Nov. 12th
All parents of pupils attending
Beaufort Graded School are extend
ed an invitation to visit the class
rooms of their children on Parents
Day, November 12, it was announced
today by Mrs. D. F. Merrill, presi
dent of the Parent-Teacher Associa
tion. Parents Day at the school is
sponsored by the PTA and it is hop
ed that many parents will avail them
selves of thu opportunity to visit
the school and observe the class
room activities, especially the acti
vities in the rooms where their chil
dren are pupils.
Parents Day is a feature of Amer
ican Education Week which will be
observed throughout the nation from
November 7th through the 1 3th.
Members of the PTA will act as hos
tesses on Parents Day, greeting the
visitors and shov nig them to the
rooms where their children are locat
ed Years
The foregoing information was not
furnished this newspaper by 27-year
old Patrolman Laws now on duty in
this section.
Years ago while John Laws, Regis
ter of Deeds would be transcribing
records into massive books in his
office on the first floor two young
sters, in their early teens would fre
quently climb the stairs and ladders
to the cupulo of the Orange county
courthouse to watch the mechanism
of the historic old clock presented to
Hillsboro by King George III, before
the Revoluntionary War, or to count
the eggs in the pigeon's nests or cap
ture squabs.
Those two youngsters were young
John Laws and Aycock Brown, child
hood olavmates. And thus this
storv about a famous Register of
Deeds.
Re
O 4
Etlective Nov. 1
He Resigns From
N. C. Fisheries
John H. Sikes
John H. Sikes who has resigned
from N. C Fisheries, Inc., on Novem
ber is shown above sitting at this
office desk in the Morehead City
plant. He is credited with introduc
ing many improved methods for
handling North Carolina fish. Most
widely advertised of his products he
placed on the market were Carolina
Seafresh Fish Fillets. In the lower
photo is shown a refrigerator car in
which 25,000 pounds of fillets were
shipped to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, last
fall, the first car load shipment of
prepared fillets to ever leave North
Carolina. Sikes has not publicly an
nounced what his future plans are,
but lie will continue to make his
home in Morehead City Incidentally,
Le is still president and member of
the board of directors of N. C. Fish
eries, Inc.
Beaufort High To
Play Burgaw Here
Beaufort High School foot
ball team meets Burgaw High
on the local athletic field Friday
afternoon at 3 :30 o'clock. Foot
ball fans are urged to attend
this game which promises to be
the best of the season to date.
A small admission charge will be
made at the gate.
CARTERET POST
WILL OBSERVE
ARMISTICE DAY
Parade In Morehead
And Banquet In
Beaufort
An Armistice Day celebration
sponsored by Carteret Post 99 of
The American Legion will be observ
ed in Morehead City next Thursday,
November 11. A feature of the cel-
LEGION SERVICES
The annual Armistice Day
services of the American Legion
will be held at Ann Street Meth.
odist Church next Sunday morn
ing (November 7) and all Leg
ionnaires and World War vet
erans are urged to be in atten
dance. The Rev. C. T. Rogers,
pastor of the church, will deliver
the sermon. At similar services
held at the Methodist Church in
Morehead City last year, over
65 veterans and Legionnaires
from all parts of the county at
tended. ebration will be a parade starting
at the Morehead City school bouse at
10:30 including veterans, school
(Continued on page eight)
pi a
feu. mi mi n mi in. mn ur m tit mtmr -n nr f- -ftt
Was
Sikes Still President
And Member of Board
Of Directors
MASON IS RESIDENT
OF BEAUFORT
John H. Sikes, former North
Carolina newspaperman who
organized North Carolina Fish
eries, Inc., in 1935 and has di
rected its operation since it
was established, has been re
lieved of his duties at his own
request, it was announced in
Morehead City late Wednes
day. Zion Mason of Beaufort,
Sikes' assistant as business
manager for the past year and
a half was named to succeed
Sikes and has taken over his
duties, as of November 1, it
was announced.
Sikes stated that he was not at
liberty to discuss his future plans
at the present time, although if it
will be of interest to anyone local
ly he will be glad to do so on or a-
bout January 1, 1938. He will con
tinue to live in Morehead City and he
will continue to serve as president
and member of the board of direc
tors of Fisheries Inc.
With government money back in
1935 the ex-newsp?p; n. n who had
been serving as unector of publicity
for the NCERA with headquarters in,
Raleigh, came to the coast and did a
marvelous bit of promotional work
which within a few months resulted
in the creation of North Carolina
Fisheries, Inc. During the early days
of the organization's operation, criti-, '
cism was frequently directed at the
Fisheries. Those criticisms came
(Continued on page four)
Unhinfj And
ALL OUTDOORS t
By AYCOCK BROWN
THAT BEAR which Murray Thom
as and a group of sportsmen bagged
up near Havelock shortly after the
season opened has been mounted by,
Blythe Noe, local taxidermist . .
Drop by Noe Hardware store and see
the head of this bruin . . It looka
more like a huge grizzley than the
black bear that it is . . . This Have
lock bear wegihed around 300 pounds
when it was slain . . .It might have
been carelessness on someone's part,
but on Monday night down east in
the Thoroughfare section a gigantic
forest fire was underway . . . Some
body might have set that fire pur
posely to chase bewildered deer to
within gunshot range . . And if that
is the case, it is a very unsporting
case . . .
Post Office Will Be
Completed Next July
Beaufort's new Federal Build
ing will be completed in July
193S, according to information
furnished Aycock Brown, Sec
retary of the Chamber of Com
merce by Congressman Graham
A. Barden today. Congress
man Barden advised Secretary
Brown that the contract which
has been let to A. Farnell Blair
of Lake Charles, Louisiana, calls
for completion of the work
within 240 days from receipt of
notice that he has been award
ed the contract. This notica
should have reached Mr. Blair
on October 26. Exactly 240 days
from October 26 would place
the completion date on June 27,
193S, but with allowances for
Sundays and holidays, the new
structure which will not only
house the Post Office but also
other governmental offices, will
probably be completed in July.
County Employees Must
Show "They Paid Taxes
As a result of a motion by a
member it was ordered by the
board of commissioners here this
week that all county officials and
county employees are required
to produce their 1936 tax re
ceipt paid in full to county aud
itor, before their November sal
ary will be paid.