North Carolina Newspapers

( Thi even Columns s SEAFOOD MRT. 4 1-38 Shrimp 8c; Croaks 1c S. Crabs 25-50 Pin. 2c Flouni. 3-6c H. Crbs. 2c P. Drum, 5cj S Trout 10c Attend Chamber Commerce Bowling Tournament Next Tuesday Night Carteret County's Oldest NewspaperEstablished 1912 Volume XXVII 8 Pages This Week The Beaufort News, Thursday, April 7, 1938 5c Per Copy Number 13 Week The Beaufort Neva Goes S 11 HE MAUFOEII NEWS Many Candidates To Seek Public Office Much Interest Being Shown In Coming Elections Several new candidates for public office in Carteret county have announced offi cially or otherwise during the past few days. Each of the candidates announcing have been Democrats. In the meantime members of the Republican party in the county are sitting tight, waiting until the County Convention on April 23 be fore nominating their candi dates for office. L. W. Hassell, clerk of superior court in Carteret County has, an nounced his candidacy for re-elec tion to this office. He has been clerk of superior court in Carter et since 1921, and although he has many friends who .will be stand ing by to help keep him in office, it is predicted that he will have ' one of the hottest fights of his career. D. B. Willis of More head City is his oponent for the job of clerk. Although no one has officially advertised in The Beaufort News that they will be a candidate for the office of Recorder's Court judge, Paul Webb, the incumbent, stated this week that his adver tisement would appear next week. He plans to run for re-election. It has been stated that A. Baker Morris of Morehead City and W. 0. Williams of Beaufort will be his opponents for the Judge's job. 1 On Saturday, April 23, Carteret County Republicans will have their Convention for the purpose of electing a Chairman and Secre tary and to nominate candidates for public office, ittle news has been heard "about possible candidates from the Republican front of the County. Charles H. Bushall is at present chairman of 'the County party and A. L. Wil son of Newport is the secretary. The Republican Convention will probably be featured with speech es by leaders of the party in this county. Political candidates who have advertisements appearing in The Beaufort News today follow: C. Ghermann Holland and Elbert M. Chadwick for Sheriff; W. P. Smith, J. W. Stewart, Raymond Davis, Cleveland Davis, Martin Guthrie and George W. Davis for county commissioner; F. R. Seeley for re-election to State Legisla ture; L. W. Hassell, for clerk of Superior Court and Charles L. Skarren Jr., for State Senator. EATING PLACES MUST CLEAN UP Public eating placet in Beau fort are either cleaning up or doting up according to E. C. Hub. bard, District Sanitation Super visor for the State Board of Health. Sanitary intpectiont are made regularly in accordance with the requirements of the State and Hotel Cafe Law. A re port given The Beaufort Newt to day by Mr. Hubbard it about the worst publicity this town hat had in teveral yean. According to Hubbard't turvey there it only one Grade A eating place here. There it one Crade B and four Crade C eating placet in Beaufort and lis too low to be graded. Eating placet scoring from 90 to 100 points are award ed Crade At 80 to 60, Grade B 70 to 80 Grade C Six placet with ratingi of lett than 70 pointt were cloted by Inspector Hub bard. They are! Dixie Soda Shop, 63.0i Kozy Nook Cafe, 63.0; Fen- derton't Cafe, 58.5; Joe't Place 48.0; Oden't Cafe 44.0; and Friendly Cafe, 43.0. The latt four placet named are colored eating placet and incidentally the only olored eating placet in Beaufort. Other eating placet and the scoring pointt according to the surrey of Inspector Hubbard fol low: Seafood Cafe, 90.0; Ann Street Inn, 85.0; Troy't Place 76.5; Matbit Cafe, 76.0; The Beau fort Cafe, 70.5; Ye Olde Inlet Inn, 73.5. The word "cloted" uted in the foregoing does not mean that tbe placet of business are cloted, but that their lunch countert have 'been ordered cloted. U. S. Fisheries Take Over Weather Duties Of Late Thos. Duncan Duties of the late Thomas Dun can who served as weather dis. playman here for many years have been taken over temporarily, and probably permanently, by the U. S. Fisheries Laboratory on Piver's Island. The Fisheries for several years has served as co-operative observers for the weather bureau. With the duties of displayma.n added to the weather duties al ready performed by the Fisheries Laboratory, will help centralize weather data. Daily reports will still be posted on the postoffice window, and the Laboratory group will also send the daily re ports to Barkers Island, part of the duties of the displayman. Co-operative observers at the Fisheries Laboratory have in the past been of much aid in furnish ing day-by-day weather statistics of this section. Efforts are being made to increase the weather fac ilities now available at the U. S. Fisheries Laboratory, it was stat ed this week by Dr. Herbert F. Prytherch, director. GOLF TOURNEY BEGINS MAY 1 The annual Spring Tourney of Gulf Stream Golf Club will begin on Sunday, May 1, it was announ ced this week by President Charles R. Hassell. All golfers expecting to take part in the Tourney are requested to turn in their qualify ing 'score at anytime before that date. This will be the second tournament of Gulf Stream. Golf Club and will be played on the en tire course, not just six holes, as was the case during the Autumn tournament. Only six holes were open to players last Fall, but the three re maining fairways and holes are getting in good shape now for use. The Medalist will receive a prize and each winner of the Flights will also be given awards. Local merchants are contributing funds with which to buy prizes, it was eta ted. His U. S. Coast Guard Reserve Bill Passes Senator R. R. Reynolds Good news to the enlisted per sonnel of the U. S. Coast Guard will be the contents of a telegram received late Wednesday by Ay cock Brown from Senator Rob ert Reynolds. It follows: "Glad to inform you that this afternoon I was successful in having passed by the Senate my Bill S-2206, providing for the creation of Coast Guard Reserve and Retire ment of enlisted personnel and transfer to this Reserve after 20 years service. It has been a gen uine pleasure to have been of service to the enlisted men of the Coast Guard in this connec tion. Kindest regards." Robert R. Reynolds, USS. While this docs not mean the measure has been adopted, it does mean that a migh ty , important hurdle towards its adoption has been crossed. Rep resentative Graham A. Barden and Senator Reynolds who have worked hard for the creation of a Reserve and the Retirement meas ure, certainly have the gratitude of hundreds of North Carolina Coastguardsmen for the interest they have shown in this matter. Duke Marine Laboratory Opens Here On June 23 Director Dr. A. S. Pearse When Duke University Marine Laboratory opens for two sum mer sessions on Piver's Island, 150 yards across the channel from historic Beaufort on June 13, Dr. A. S. Pearse will be the director. Dr. Pearse is an outstanding au thority on zoology, biology, and marine science. He is a member of Duke faculty and it was large ly through his efforts that the great University at Durham es tablished the local unit, which is now under construction. In Who's Who many paragraphs are devot ed to the career of Dr. Pearse. Later we will give our readers a more complete and interesting story about Dr. Pearse.. DAVIS WINNING DEBATE HONORS From Campbell's He Goes To Norman Oklahoma Thomas Ivey Davis and Joseph Tally of Campbell's College are leaving on Fri day for Norman, Oklahoma, where they will enter the National Phi Rho Pi foren sic debating tournament. They will represent the South-eastern division of Phi Rho Pi having won first place as debaters at Lees McRae College, Banner Elk on March 19. Tom Davis is the son of Mr. and Mrs. M. Leslie Davis of Beau fort. Since he graduated from the local high school he has been making outstanding scholastic records at Campbell's College where he and his brother M. Leslie Davis, Jr., are students. The Southeastern Division of Debaters is made up of students from Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennes see and West Virginia. There were 10 schools represented at this years' tournament with more than 30 persons computing for the eight honors. Campbell's College with Robert Brewer and Tom Davis won the men's debate with Joe Tally tak ing first honors as extempore speaker. The Campbell team won two and a half points out of a possible three and two of the three silver cups offered. DAIRYMEN MEET Dairymen of Carteret county met in the office of the Farm A gent on Tuesday night for the purpose of considering plans of a co-operative organization to pro tect their interests. Dairy Special ist Sheffield of N. C. State Col lege Extension outlined the meth ods of procedure for such an or ganization. After a lengthy dis cussion those present voted unan imously to proceed with the for mulation of a Co-Operative Com pany. H. L. Joslyn of Morehead City, was chairman of the meeting. ihf:Yf , Local Unit's Staff Announced Early This Week DR. A. S. PEARSE TO BE DIRECTOR During the summer of 1938 Duke University plans to offer courses in biology and opportunity for research as their new Marine Labora tory on Piver's Island here, according to official announ cement received by Dr. Her bert F. Prytherch, director of the U. S. Fisheries Labor atory early this week. Dr. A. S. Pearse of the Duke Zoo logy department will be dir ector of the University's new seaside unit here. Other members of the staff of the Marine Laboratory during the 1938 summer season will be Dr. H. L. Blomquist, Duke Botanist and Dr. I. E. Gray of the University's zoo logy department. In the printed announcement identified as an April 1938 Bul letin of Duke University, a leng thy description of the new Marine Laboratory and the courses of fered was given. Those who re- (Continued on page 8) Academy Of Science To Hear His Speech Dr. H. F. Prytherch Dr. H. F. Prytherch, director of the U. S. Fisheries Laboratory on Pivers Island will deliver the principal address at a meeting of the South Carolina Academy of Science in Charleston on Satur day. He stated today that he had been asked to lecture on scien tific oyster farming. Dr. Prytherch is one of the world's outstanding authorities on oysters and oyster culture, and his address should be of much interest to the South Carolina scientific group. TIDE TABLE Information as to the tide at Beaufort is given in this column. The figures are ap proximately correct and bas ed on tables furnished by the U. S. Geodetic Survey. Some allowances must be made for variations in the wind and also with respect to the locality, that is wheth er near the inlet or at the head of the estuaries. i" jj?:. J. 1 W High Low Friday, April S 2:12 a. m. 8:50 a. m. 2:50 p. m. 9:09 p. m. Saturday, April 9 3:26 a. m. 9:51 a. m. 4:03 p. m. 10:15 p. m. Sunday, April 10 4:35 a. m. 10:48 a. m. 5:05 p. m. Monday, April 11 5:32 a. m. 11:18 a. m. 5:57 p. m. 11:42 p. m. Tuesday, April 12 6:21 a. m. 12:15 a. m. 6:45 p. m. 12:31 p. m. Wednesday, April 13 7:06 a. m. 1:05 a. m. 7:30 p. m. 1:16 p. m. Thursday, April 14 7:49 a. m. 1:50 a. m. 8:11 p. m. 1:57 p. m. Botanist f (Mi j K. Aa-iL'a " Jt Dr. Hugo L. Blomquist A member of the staff of in structors at Duke University Ma rine Laboratory during the sum mer of 1938 will be Dr. Hugo Leander Blomquist, who is also a member of the faculty at the fa mous University in Durham. He is a native of Sorsele, Sweden, and a graduate of the University of Chicago. He served as a Musi cian during the World War with the U. S. Army, but has spent most of his career at old Trinity, now Duke University. Here during the coming summer he will give instruction; in '. botany. And in Carteret county Dr. Blomquist will find botany subjects galore to discuss with his students. ART SCHOOL TO OPEN JUNE 5TH Gregory Ivy Will Bring Students To Beaufort The Woman's College of the University of North Car olina definitely announced this week that a course in painting out of doors would be given at Beaufort starting June 5 and continuing thro ugh July 5. Gregory D. Ivy head of the Woman's Col lege Art department was scheduled to return to Greensboro today following a two day visit in Beaufort attending to preliminary plans. Approximately 35 students will be here to take the course which "will be un der the direction of Mr. Ivy, it was stated. "The aim of this course is to study the problems encountered in landscape painting, the hand ling of form, volume, space, light and color and the organization of compositions emphazing the theor ies, methods and techniques of post-impressionism, cubism, and other recent trends in painting will be studied," Mr. Ivy told a Beaufort News reporter. Stud ents taking the course may work in both oil and watercolor. Mr. Ivy was accompanied by Mrs. Ivy. He is a native of Miss ouri and a graduate of the uni versity in that State. He studied art in New York and spent many summers at the art colony in Pro- vincetown Mass., before taking up his duties at the Greensboro branch of the University. It will be necessary for the art students coming to Beaufort to find quarters in local homes and boarding houses. That was a mat ter which Mr. Ivy discussed with Aycock Brown, secretary of -the Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber of Commerce is co-operating with the Woman's College in the establishment of the sum mer art colony in Beaufort. On Wednesday Mr. Ivy was shown over the Community Center properties. While the courses he will teach in art will be out of (Continued on page 8) County Board Holds Regular April Meet GOLF OFFICIALS DRAW UP RULES Officials of Gulf Stream Golf Club met in the club rooms of Beaufort Business Association last Thursday night and drew up new rules and regulations for the organization. The meeting was presided over by Dr. W. L. Woodard, chairman of the Greens Committee. Copies of the rules will be given each member along with new membership cards at an early date. The officials decided that members failing to pay their monthly dues by the 10th of the month would be placed in non- member status and have to pay the regular green fees, for play ing privileges, on the links. Stanley Woodland of Morehead City was the only official not pres ent at the meeting, but he sent as his proxy C. G. Owensby one of the outstanding players of the club and a member of the greens committee. Treasurer W. A. Mace told officials that a motor driven lawn mower had been ordered and would probably be placed in service this week. Recorder's Court Four cases were disposed of in Recorder's Court on Tuesday and according to one judgement, Car teret has disposed of a person who had been arrested on charges of chicken stealing. That was the case of Tom Noe. He was given his preference of 12 months on the roads or banishment from the county for a period of two years. If he fails to leave the county he must serve the sentence accord ing to the court order. A six month suspended sentence was given in the case of Clyde Longest charged with larcency. Another six months suspended sentence was given in the case of John Andrews, charged with bas tardy. Upon motion of the attorney for the defendant the charge a gainst Vance Hill, for reckless driving was non-suited. Libby Ward and Claud Wheatley appear ed as attorneys in this case. Barden To Deliver Commencement Talk Graham A. Barden Representative Graham A. Bar den, of the Third Congressional District will make the commence ment adJi'ors at Smyrna Graded School on Friday night, May 13, it wan announced this week by Frinaipal GaaUill. Students of the school and citizens of the area which includes the Smyrna Con solidated School will be pleased to learn that they will have such an outstanding person for the com- i mencement address. R;v. R. N. I Hinnant of Micro will deliver the baccalaureate sermon on May 8. MORE THEIVERY More thierery was attempted in Beaufort this week when the railroi d station was broken into on Tuesday jr itht. Attempts had been cade io break into the sta. tion on Mqadty night, according to L, W. Jonje agent. Tbe would be robbers 'mored the safe from the office into the warehouse and attempted to open it without success. After ramsbackliag the station office the robbers depart ed. Railroad detectives and locla officers are working on the case, according to Mr. Jones. 7 : Matters Of Routine Nature Disposed Of By Group Tax and road matter claimed most of the atten tion of the Board of county commissioners at their'April meeting on Monday. Chair man Smith was appointed a. committee of one to act with County counsel in makinsf proper adjustments as cir cumstances of case may re- quire, in connection with suits pending for tax collect ion, to be aproved by the Court. Routine matters before the board during the April meetings follows: E. D. Hardesty to bar given reduction on his property value for amount of timber sold from said lands, the amount hav ing been paid to Carteret in taxes; City Grocery was the low bidder for supplying the County Hom during the current month; Taxes for M. S. Webb estate from 1929 through 1934 settled for $100; , Amendment to resolution passed at February meeting requiring tax listers to apply al lof the salary to ceived for services on delinquent taxes (if they owed such taxes) provides that the listers shall be required to pay only half of sal ary received on such taxes; W. Z. McCabe and County auditor ap pointed committee to adjust pro perty values of M. H. Willis and J. B. Adams, Morehead township; Valuation on Simeon Smith's truck truck was reduced to $100 by Board through motion. The old 1920 tax records now.. storecLat.entrance of Court Room i were ordered removed to Old Board of Education office and suitable shelves be provided for storing them; Upon motion of Board the salary of Charles W. Stevens who has headed a WPA indexing project and incidently has been doing a splendid job, will be increased to 60 cents per hour; State Highway Department will be urged to take over and make part of county system the Davant road in Gloucester neighborhood; Let ter of March 11 from Chairman of State Highway Commission with resolution presented to Board by Chairman and memorandum, embodying additional data on co unty claim for roads taken over by Highway Commission was adopted A committee was appointed by the Board to attend the sale of county property on Pollock street for $500. The stock of merchandise at Beaufort Department, store for 1937 is to be valued for $3,200; Superior Court costs due W. R. Longest and C. G. Holland will be settled for 75 per cent of bill ren dered; Recorders court costs to these two Beaufort officers will be settled at 50 per cent; W. Z. McCabe and D. B. Willis were ap pointed a comittee to investigate property values of T. S. Dixon and W. R. Barbour in White Oax town ship; Highway Commission will be requested to take over and main road in White Oak township known as B. S. Taylor road, and Shanklin road to Bellville; Com missioners McCabe and Willis will investigate property values of L. D. Gore in Morehead township; County auditor was instructed to issue a release on property listed in name of George Credle for 1927, 1928 in Marshallberg town ship; Various bills presented for payment were ordered paid when (Continued on page 8) URGE CORRECT TAX LISTING During the month of April all property in Carter et county, according to law, must be listed. If an indirid ual fails to list, that individ ual is subject to indictment by the Grand Jury. If the individual fails to list cor rectly, that is his or her fault, and will causa troub le for the parties concerned at a later date. Citizen are urged to list their property personally, not let someone Is do it, and to list fC correctly.