Next Week April 24-30 Is Clean-Up Week In C
arteret
Beautify Your
Premises During
CLEAN-UP WEEK.
April 24-30
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Carteret County's Oldest Newspaper. .Established 1912
Volume XXVII
8 Pages This Week
The Beaufort News, Thursday, April 21, 1938
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Number 16
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BOARD NAMES
POLL HOLDERS
FOR COUNTY
Registrars To Begin
Duties Saturday,
May 7th.
Registrars and poll hold
ers are recommended by the
various precinct chairmen
of Carteret county to the
County Chairman for the
Primary Election in June
and the General Election in
November were made pub
lic this week by D. W. Mor
ton, of the Board of Elec
tions. The list as recom
mended includes two Demo
crats and one Republican in
each precinct.
Republicans of the County will
have their convention on Satur
day, April 23, for the purpose of
nominating their ticket for the
various offices. Should the ticket
they nominate, not be contested,
the Republican poll holder named
this -week will not serve in the
Primary election, but will serve in
the General Election. If the Re
publican ticket is not Contested, a
third Democrat will be named to
serve as poll, holder during the
June Primary.
Registration Books in the var
ious precincts will be open on Sat
urday, May 7, May 14, and May
21, Saturday May 28, will be
Challenge Day and on the follow
ing Saturday, June 4, the Primary
Election. The list of Registrars
and pollholders follow:
Stella: L. W. Pelletier, regis
trar; J. C. Barker and Adrian
Morris.
Bogue: W. D. Smith, registrar;
L. P. Taylor and H. K. Norris.
Pelletier: J. C. Baggs, regis
trar; W. W. Buck and Herman
Taylor.
Broad Creek: Randolph Smith,
registrar; Cola Guthrie and Ray
Barbour.
Morehead City: Charles V.
Webb, registrar; W. R. (Teddy)
TVillia and E. Clayton Guthrie.
Wire Grass: Manly M. Eubanks,
registrar; S. C. Campen and Wil
bur Merrill.
Bettie: George W. Gillikin, reg
istrar; Theodore Willis and Har
vey Lawrence.
Newport: Lawrence A. Garner,
registrar; Theodore Willis and
Harvey Lawrence.
Newport: Lawrence A. Garner,
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This Is Busy Season
For Supt. J. G. Allen
Supt. J. C. Allen has re
quested this paper to call at
' tention to the fact that his
duties in preparation of the
closing of the schools and
plans for another school year
will be such that the public
cannot depend upon finding
him at his office for the trans
action of business except on
Saturdays until the week be
ginnig May 9th.
Small Admission To
Be Made at Ft. Macon
Thomas W. Moore, super
intendent of State Parks, in
Beaufort today, on business
toald a Beaufort News report
er that beginning May 1, a
charge of 10 cents admission
would be made at Fort Mac
on, to help defray the cost of
up-keep and the caretaker's
salary. Children under 12
years of age will be admitted
free of charge, he stated. It
is not unusual to charge ad
mission for entering State
Parks, and every North Car
olina Park, when formally
Ivt i opened will have a small ad
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r mission cnarge. oupennien
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uem morse was accompanied
to the coast by State Forest
er J. S. Holmes. While here
they visited Fort Macon.
OR. PRYTHERCH
A IN LOU1SIANNA
I Dr. Herbert F. Phrytherch, dir
Vtor of the U. S. Fisheries Lab
jatory on Piver's Island left early
is week for Terrebone Parish
d Lake Barre La., where he will
re scientific testimony in a law
i involving the oyrter industry
that state.
Duke University Marine Lab.
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Will Be Completed Early In June
Duke UniTertity's new Marine Laboratory on Piver'i Itland
here will be ready for ute with the opening of the summer quarter
on June 13, it has been announced. Work is progressing rapidly on
the new coastal unit of the great University which will include a lab
oratory, lecture and recreation hall, dormitories, dining hall, pier,
boat and pump house and other structures. In the top picture is
the new pier with Beaufort in the distance. Below is shown the site
of the laboratories where the boat house is n earing completion and
two other buildings are well underway. Dr. A. E. Pearse of the
Duke faculty who will be director of the local laboratory ' ' was in'
Beaufort over the week-end making an inspection of the buildings
now under construction. He was accompanied by Miss Nell Dooley,
chief dietician of Duke.
own Starts
Cleaning Up
J. B. CONGLETON
TRIED TUESDAY
Rape Attempt Case
Continued Until
April 26
John B. Congleton, an
swering charges of public
drunkenness on the State
Highway in Recorders Court
on Tuesday heard Judge
Paul Webb tell him that he
was a general nuisance and
advised him to stay in his
part of Town and away
from the business section.
The defendant plead guilty.
Judge Webb ordered prayer
for judgment and continued
for 30 days. If John B. Con
gloton is arrested again for
public drunkenness or on
any other of the nuisance
charges he has frequently been
arrested on during the past many
years, he will, if he is taken to
Recorder's Court have the 30
days he did not get, but could
have gotten on Tuesday, added to
his new sentence in the event he
is given a new sentence. That
should be a tip-off for local peace
officers.
Foster Smith, appeared in court
to answer charges of assault. with
intent to rape. The prosecuting
witness, Ruth Styron, 17-year old
Morehead City girl. She testified
that Smith, whom she did not know
personally, but had seen him a
round Morehead City, and had
known him as a person nick-named
"Tarzan" came up behind her
on a dark street and attempted to
rape her, but unsuccessfully. E.
Walter Hill, the attorney who
got a 30-year sentence for Robert
Pasteur when it was generally be
lieved he would get the gas cham
ber, represented Smith. After
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Historic Cemetery
Is Included In
Campaign
Although National Home
Beautification and Clean-Up
week will not officially be
gin in Carteret county until
next Monday, Town of Beau
fort officials got their part ot
the campaign underway this
week by employing a crew
of workmen to rake-up and
clean up historic old Live
Oak Cemetery. Next week
the clean-up campaign will
be officially observed thru
out the county, especially in
Beaufort and communities
where there are Home Dem
onstration and 4-H Clubs.
When Struther's Burt the fam
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CABBAGE MART
Carteret County cabbage grow
ers and cabbage growers through,
out the country which are harvest
ing at this time are taking a lick
ing. The prices are so low that
many farmers will probably not
cut their crops at all, except per
haps to feed to pigs. Row and
Jurney of Baltimore adrised the
Auction Market Wednesday - that
the prices there were only 40-60;
that demands were light and ship
ments were heavy.
Former Dean Noe
To Visit Mother
Former Dean Isreal H. No of
Memphis, Tenn., who has recently
been taking treatment at John
Hopkins Hospital as the result of
a 22 day absolute fast in January
will visit his mother Mrs. Susan
nah Noe here at an early date, ac
cording to a dispatch from ..Mem
nhi aonearing in the ..newspaper
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Inside Route To
Cape Is Assured
The inside route to Cape
Lookout via Core Sound and
through the 'drain' of Shack
leford Banks wa assured this
week when the project bearing
appropriation of $50,000 was
included in the Rivers and Har
bors Bill. Congressman Graham
A. Barden in a wire to Aycock
Brown, secretary of The Cham
ber of Commerce stated that he
was expecting actual dredging
of the project to start before
or during the early summer.
Excerpts from the Congress
man's wire follow: "Improve
ment from Capt ,' Lookout to
Back Sound carrying fifty
thousand appropriation definite
ly in Bill and will stay in it
Rivers and Harbors Bill went
to the House . today carrying
Drum Inlet improvements at
$50,000 but of course it is im.
possible to get this incorporated
in Appropriation Bill for this
year."
Will Establish
Art Colony Here
GREGORY D. IVY
Pictured above is Gregory D.
Ivy, head of the Woman's Col
lege, V. N. C. Department of
Art. He will establish a Summer
Art Colony at Beaufort begin
ning June 6 and continuing
through July 5. The Students
will be given a course of painting
out doors while here, although
The Community Center Auditor
ium will be used for lecture per
iods and on rainy days by the
class. Mr. Ivy is a native of Mis
souri and a graduate of the State
Teachers College of that State. He
received his M. A. at Columbia.
The course given here will be the
first such course given in the
South.
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.
High Low
Friday, April 22
1:01 AM. 7:38 AM.
1:29 PM. 7:55 PM.
Saturday, April 23
1:58 AM. 8:31 AM.
2:29 PM. 8:55 PM.
Sunday, April 24
3:01 AM. 9:23 AM.
3:31 PM. 9:53 PM.
Monday, April 25
4:01 AM. 10:14 AM.
4:28 PM. . 10:48 PM
Tuesday, April 26
4:55 AM. 11:03 AM.
5:19 PM.
Wednesday, April 27
5:43 AM. 11:41 AM.
6:05 PM. 11:52 PM.
Thursday, April 28
6:29 AM. 12:31 AM.
6:49 PM. 12:38 PM.
The Tip Topper
Out of 41 Rotary Clubs in the
189th District, the Beaufort Club
was the tip topper during the
month of April from an atten
dance standpoint. Only other tip
'ofpar in the District was tV
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Did Poorly Baked Bread Play
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Confederates Surrendered April 26, 1862
Next Tuesday, April 26, will mark the 76th anniversary of the cap
ture of Fort Macon by U. S. Troops under the command of General
Burnside. The garrison in the fort were under the command of
Confederate Colonel White. One of the Companies of the garrison
was composed of Beaufort and Carteret citizens who had volunteered
in '61 and called themselves the old Topsail Rifles. Early in April
of 1862 Colonel White ordered that only bakers bread, cooked in the
Fort's oven be served the men. The bread was unfit to eat. It
caused discontent and near mutiny in the : garrison. It's quite a
lengthy story, but through a bit of research' The Beaufort News
editor has made this week he believes that the lack of guns being
placed on the landward side was not the only reason why the fort
ress was captured so easily. The discontented men of the garrison
probably had lost their fighting spirit because of event which took
place before the battle and events' which poorly baked bread played
a role.
Eighteenth Foreign Vessel
Arrives At Ocean Terminal
MILLER TALKS
TO ROTARIANS
Officers Elected For
New Rotary
Year
Modern school problems
in a most humanly interest
ing manner were discussed
by Principal Ralph E. Miller
at the weekly meeting of
Beaufort Rotary Club on
Tuesday night. His short af
ter dinner speech was the
highlight of the program.
During a business session the
nominating committee an
nounced nominees for Ro
tary Club officers during the
year beginning July 1, and
M. Leslie Davis was elected
president. Dr. Clifford Lewis
was elected vice-president;
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C OF C BANQUET
Plans were completed at a meet
ing of the board of directors of
the Chamber of Commerce on Mon
day night for the banquet which
will be held on May 16. Gover
nor Clyde R. Hoey will be the af
ter dinner speaker at the banquet
which will be held at 6 o'clock in
the evening at the Community Cen
ter Auditorium building. ..A deli
cious seafood dinner will be serv
ed. Members will receive formal
announcement of the banquet by
mail this week.
Morehead City Club. Beaufort's
attendance was 98.67 per cent
while Morehead City which in Feb
ruary was the tip topper had a
percentage of 97.90. Thirteen
clubs were listed in the 'gay nine
tie' 19 were in the 'nice eight
ies' six wre in the sweet seven
ties' and one club, Wake Forest
was in the 'slow sixties.' Beaufort
club has IS members. Morhead
C?ty hii 37 members.
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W Hoi.tomrt,. tin,
Nyugat of Budapest
Will Load 7,350
Tons of Scrap
The S. S. Nyugat, of Buda
pest, Hungary, arrived at
Morehead City Port Termi
nal Wednesday, from Rot
terdam, The Netherlands.
At the ocean terminal she
will take on a cargo of 7,
350 tons of scrap mstal for
shipment to a North Euro
pean port. The Nyugat is
the first vessel flying the
Hungarian flag and the
eighteenth ship under a for
eign flag to call at the new
port terminal which was
completed in November
1936.
Scrap metal for the cargo is
being furnished by Ben Schwartz
Inc., of the Newport News. This
firm has approximately 9,000
tons of scrap metal at the More
head terminal at present. Mr.
Schwartz told a Beaufort News
man today that his firm shipped
approximately $800,000 worth of
scrap metal through the port of
Morehead City last year.
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CAPE LOOKOUT
WON BOAT RACE
Fort Macon Oarsman
Drops Out From
Exhaustion
With only a 22-second
margin the surfboat crew of
Cape Lookout Coast Guard
station won a race from Fort
Macon over a two mile cour
se near the latter station
Wednesday afternoon. Cox
swain Roland Styron of the
Fort Macon boat said that
his crew lost because one of
their oarsmen, Surfman
Theodore Willis fell out
from exhaustion and also be
cause Coxswain Dan Yeo-
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CARTERET FISH
TO TRAVEL IN
AQUARIUM CAR
Group of Collectors
Here on Special
Pullman
Fish of many species will
soon leave Carteret waters
for Chicago in special tank
to keep them alive aboard
the most unusual Pullman
car in the world. This Pull'
man, the "Nautilus" owned
by the John G. Shedd Aquar
ium in Chicago reached Be
aufort early this week under;
the command of M. V. May
er and is now sidetracked at
the railroad station. Dur
ing the next few days Mr.
Mayer and his four assis
tants along with Leslie
Whitehurst, local boatman
will be busily engaged in cap
turing the specimens of salt
water sea life here whose f u
ture home will be in an aq
uarium hundreds of miles
from the nearest salt water.
The "Nautilus" as seen by the
person passing over the Beaufort
drawbridge has the appearance of
just another Pullman coach, but
a visit aboard the $44,000 marine
life palace is quite different from
any thing that the average person
has ever seen. Half of the car kas
been converted into comfortable
living quarters for the erew
aboard, including berths, a galley,
and dining compartments. But
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Billy Hill Took
An Unusual Ride
Billy Hill, the 3-year old
son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C.
Hill of Newport took a very
unusual ride in his father's
truck on Tuesday. The truck
was parked in the backyard
of the Hill home. It had been
left in gear. Young Billy
climbed into the driver's
seat turned on the switch and
stepped on the starter. The
motor started and so did the
tiuck. It headed for the barn
and crashed through the first
wall, but did not stop. In
stead it crashed through three
move partitions of the barn
and came out on the opposite
side, before the motor stall
ed. Mrs. Hill va3 frightened.
She rushed to the truck call
ing Billy. He was not scratch
ed. His pet goat which had
been knocked from one stall
to another was not hurt. The
truck was damaged only
slightly but the barn was
in a very wrecked condition
The moral to this story is
not to leave your car in gea"
if you have any small chil
dren who are liable to decide
to take a ride. They may not
be as lucky as lucky Billy
Hill.
Fishing And t
All Outdoors
"f By AYCOCK BROWN f
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FIRST CHANNEL Bass of the
season were taken at Drum Inlet
last Jum'ay by William Noe and
R. Hende:son fishing with Capt.
Ammie Willis of Davis. They were
casting from the surf, using cut
bait, and fishing the high tide
which came about noon on Easter
Day. Kino of thj copper colored
beauti.i were V-r.ded, and they
were baauties, bacauss each weigh
ed between 25 and 28 pounds.
Bringing their catch back to Beau
fort the anglers and the channel
bass were photographed by Roy
Eubanks and it is likely that the
catch will be used in several of
the papers of the State before
many days have passed. Up-state
newspapers and up-state anglers
are mighty interested in channel
bass fishing along the coast.
MERRS. GILLESPIE and Grear
er of Tazewell, Va., came to Beau
fort over the week-end to try tha
Spring fishing. They were not ex
pecting to make any mighty cateb
es. As a matter of fact their trip
here was primarily for the purpose
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