Two Blue Marlin Hooked By Anglers Off Cape Hatteras Wed. June 22
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SEAFOOD Mrt. 6-23-38
Shrimp 6c Croaki lc
S Crab. 40.60c, Pin 2e
Flounderi 3c 6c
Bluet 3c S. Trout 6c
S. Mackerel 5C
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Volume XXVII
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Number 26
ORT NEWS
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Growers
COMMITTEE TO
STUDY MUTUAL
EXCHANGE PLAN
Would Help Little
Farmers Receive
Bettei Prices
Faced vv.th extremely
low prices for every variety
of produce trey have grown
this year a group of 'little
farmers' gahered in the
Courthouse last Friday
night and discussed the pos
sibilities of organizing a co
operative marketing associa
tion to protec t them during
coming seasons. County A
gent J. O. Ai thony presided
at the meeting.
Dr. C. W. Lewis and Pritchard
Lewis, both active in the efforts
of Beaufort Bu iiness Association
to establish thi Auction Market
here talked freely of the lack of
co-operation tha; had been given
by the farmers, despite the fact
that during the tomato harvest of
1937, the prices were held up to
about two or three times what
farmers are receiving for similar
products now. M -mbers of the
non-active Carteret Mutual Ex
change discussed the feasibility of
reviving that org; nization to in
clude the new org inization.
A committee appointed to study
the various angles involved in or-
ganizing a co-operative marketing
association who will meet at an
early date with J. 0. Anthony,
County Agent, and complete plans
includes: Dooly Salter, Merrimon;
Herman Merrill, Beaufort, RFD. ;
Roland Salter, Marshallberg; Cy
Eubanks, New Bern road; Willie
Laughton, Crab Point and Joel
Davis, Newport.
DIVORCES
Until today, several absolute
divorces, pach granted on the
grounds of two years seperation,
were ordered in the June Term of
Superior Court which this week
will close a two weeks mixed term
under the judicial guidance of J.
Paul Frizzelle, of Snow Hill, presid
ing jurists. Those granted div
orces follow: Nannie P. Jones
from George Jones; Lillian D.
Murphy from Elmo Murphy; Iva
M. Perkinson from Walter J. Perk
inson; George W. Dill Jr., from
Carrabel Dill; William C. Fulcher
from Lettie M. Fulcher; and, Polly
Guthrie from Clyde Guthrie.
Fishing And
All Outdoors
Br AYCOCK BROWN
DOLPHIN, Amberjack, Bonita,
Cero, Spanish Mackerel, Blues,
Weakfish, Sheepshead, Kingfish
(Sea Mullets), Croakers (Hard
heads) Sea Cass (Blackfish),
Flounders and Channel Bass
(Drum) are being caught in num
bers by anglers who go after their
favorite species in waters of and
adjacent to Carteret County this
season. The weather has not al
ways been exactly favorable for
offshore fishing, but when parties
get out after them with the ex
perienced boatmen and guides of
Beaufort, Morehead City, Marsh
allberg, Davis and Atlantic, they
always return to port with good
catches.
SUMMER CERO started run
ning down in Cape Lookout waters
several days ago and during the
past week some nice specimen
nave been landed. A fair sized Ce
rro or medium weight tackle is a
bout the sportingest fish that
swims in nearby waters. And so
far I have never heard of any Ce
ro being caught with rod and reel
north of Cape Lookout. I am not
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mm Rod
Of Produce May Organize
Older Farm
Annie D. Foreman
When 115 farm boys and girls,
each former members of the 4-H
Clubs of their respective locality
met in Raleigh for the 1938 con
ference of Older Youths at State
College, Miss Annie D. Foreman,
picture at the extreme right in the
photo was named president. Oth
er officers elected were reading
left to right are: Kenneth Huf
fines, Alamance County, secretary
Pauline Bowen, Pender County,
historian ; and" Manly White oT
Craven County, vice-president.
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Dr. Archie Shaftesbury
Debunks Flea Circuses
WEEK OF FUN
ON THE BEACH
Casino Attractions
To Be Presented
Each Night
Frank LaMarr and his
famous orchestra direct from
the Arcadia Ballroom in
New York City opening for a
two weeks engagement in
The Casino of Atlantic Beach
last night delivered some real
musical goods to the dancers
and gained popularity im
mediately. Simultaneously
with the formal opening of
The Casino last night Manag
er Ed. Petry of the beach an
nounced the program for the
coming week.
Starting on Monday the first
Amateur night of the season will
be observed with a cash prize
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Few Criminal Cases
On Superior Court
Docket In Carteret
Few cases were on the criminal
case docket of Carteret's June
Term of Superior Court. Except
intr the few trials covered in a
story appearing in The Beaufort
News last week only two or three
other criminal matters came be
fore Judge J. Paul Frizzelle. It
was stated that eleven of a 12 man
jury voted for acquittal in the
case of Norwood Gaskill of Sea
Level, who was held in jail for the
grand jury on charges of rape,
which was later changed to as
sault on female. After deliber
ating for several hours the jury
could not reach a verdict so a mis
trial was ordered and Gaskill was
released under bond of $300 to
appear at the October term.
Louis Guthrie who was given a
9-months sentence from a lower
court back in 1937 started serving
hi3 term and escaped fro.n jail. A
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Alkwttuslh (Emmmtiufl
Youth Off
icers
Elected President
The retiring officers were Brent
Meadows, Granville County presi
dent; and Dorothy Banks, Jones
County, secretary. . The confer
ence was sponsored by the State
College Extension Service under
the direction of L. R. Harrill and
Frances MacGregor, extension
4-H Club leaders. Miss Foreman,
of Carteret who was honored by
beins elected president has long
been active in rural club work in
He Gave Scientific
Facts About Life
Of Tiny Insects
Flea circuses are a lot of
bunk and anybody who be
lieves the tiny imitating in
sects are actually trained to
perform the tricks they ap
parently do under glass in
sideshows tents at carnivals
or on the midways of county
fairs, just don't know their
fieas, according to Dr. Archie
E. Shaftsbury of the zoology
department of Woman's
College U. N. C, in Greensboro
who is conducting classes at the
Carolina Marine Laboratory on
Taylor's Creek here.
On Tuesday night Dr. Shaftes
bury was guest lecturer at the
Duke University Biological Labora
tory on Piver's Island here. His lec
ture was about fleas, and it was
the second in a series of Tuesday
nierht lectures on various subjects
to be presented at the Duke Lab
oratory during the current sum
mer. Dr. Shaftesbury is perhaps
the world's authority on fleas, not
the ordinary cat and dog fieas
which frequently change then
diet from canine or feline to the
ankles of human beings, but fleas
of all kinds, from those that haras;
a burrowing mole to an important
and deadly fellow which acts as
guest in the fur of wharf and ship
mts. The latter flea not so very
common in America except on the
West Coast is the one which car
ries the bacteria which when trans
ferred to a human being becomes
bubonic plague, the disease some
times called the black death, from
which a person has less than a 50
50 chance of living, once the di
sease is contracted.
Present at lecture on Tuesday
night were the summer school
students of Duke and WCUNC's
Carolina Laboratory and a few in
terested townspeople and the staff
and scientific guests of the U. S.
Fisheries Laboratory. Slides of
fleas and their anatomy project
ed on a screen were enlarged to
the size of the speaker. Until you
have seen the comparison of a
scientist such as Dr. Shaftsbury
whose thesis on fleas at John Hop
kins U.iiveraity mi yea.s age
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MARLIN
HOOKED
News From Hatteras
First Proof They
Are In Waters
Off N. C.
Two Blue Marlin, might
iest of all big game fish, were
hooked by a party of New
Jersey anglers along the
western edge of the Gulf
Stream about 17miles off
Hatteras Inlet late Wednes
day and that, regardless
of how you feel about it, is
the biggest news for anglers
to ever break along the
North Carolina coast. Tom Eaton,
formerly of Winston Salem, the
man who pioneered in Gulf Stream
fishing off Cape Hatteras, and
liked the Outer Banks so well that
he returned there to make his
home and constructed a power
plant which furnished electricity
for several of the Hatteras sland
communities, operates a commer
cial fishing enterprise and a boat
line to Englehard on the mainland,
telephoned the story to his friends,
the editor of this newspaper.
In on the hooking, the first of
ficial hooking of blue marlin off
North Carolina where anglers for
years have been hoping ,o be the
first to sight, hook or land one of
these big game fish were Hugo
Rugherfurd, a member of the
United States Tuna Team and his
brother John Rugherfurd of AH
amuchy N. . J., and Emile Eggi
man of Spring Lake, N. J. They
were fishing from aboard their
twin-Kermath powered cruiser,
Mako II, equipped with outrigg
ers. Lloyd Styron, veteran Hatt
eras guide was with the party. For
bait they were using whole Span
ish Mackerel on regulation marlin
tackle.
The party had first come to Hatt
eras last November on a sort of
prospecting trip, liked the lay of
the fishing grounds and then re'
turned several days age to start
their fishing expedition. On six
days out they saw no marlin but
they continued to fish for them.
They are experienced marlin ang
lers. Hugo Rughefurd baa caught
or fished for them in Bimini.Cuban,
Florida, Tahitian, New Zealand,
Philipines and Nova Scotia waters.
He knows his marlin and that is
why fishing columnists on New
York and Miami newspapers were
waiting for bis story. And here is
the story:
The first fish struck and was
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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 LOVv
Friday, June 24
4:32 AM 10.34 AM.
5:05 PM.
Saturday, June 25
5:30 AM. 11:39 AM.
6:00 PM. 11:33 PM.
Sunday, June 26
6:27 AM. 12:36 AM.
6:53 PM. .. . 12:31 PM.
Monday, June 27
7:22 AM. 1:30 AM.
7:46 PM. 1:28 PM.
Tuesday, June 28
8:16 AM. 2:20 AM.
8:40 PM. ' 2:22 PM.
Wednesday, June 29
9:12 AM. 3:03 AM.
9:34 PM. 3:16 PM.
Thursday, June 30
10:06 AM. 3:56 AM.
10:27 PM.
4:09 PM.
Cooperative Market
Finest Resort
Paul Moore's Orch
Pictured above is Hotel Edgew
ater, formerly Edgewater Club
and before that the Morehead
Villa. Operating again this year
as a hotel, the Edgewater is help
ing in a big way to relieve the
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Various Versions Given
For Pony Extermination
Local Men See
Joe K-O Max
Sitting somewhere in the Yank
ee Stadium last night to view tha
slaughtering of a white German
by a brown bomber from Alabama
were three residents of Beaufort.
They were Paul Jones, Bob Lang
and Jack Neal. The party left
Beaufort late Sunday for New
York. They will return home on
Friday.
Art Colony Head
Talks To Rotes
Gregory D. Ivey, head of the
summer art colony hero which is
composed mostly of- advanced
WCUNC students was guest speak
er at the Rotary meeting on Tues
day night. He gave an interest
ing account of the prograss that
has been made by thes tate-owned
Woman's College art department
since it was established in 1935.
He also was high in his praise for
Beaufort as a summertime loca
tion for an art school.
They Operate Grade A Restaurant
y ii ,umm .in . m-yw. jmm "SpVyJpr ',f
fit!;- t!s ,Jl$
, Capt. John Willis and His Starr
Pictured above is Capt. John R, Willis, native of Portsmouth,
N. C, who for the past many years has been engaged in the restau
rant business in Beaufort. Hii Seafood Cafe is a Grade "A" eat
ing place. Pictured with Capt. Willis is his manager Miss Ruby
Taylor and hsr assistant, Mirs Mary Powers. (Eubnks-News
Photos.)
117
Hotel In N. C.
estra Is Featured
housing situation which arises
in this resort area each year. Paul
Moore and his 14-Piece Orchestra
from Raleigh are featured at
Hotel Edgewater.
Believe Stock Will
Be Taken From
Outer Banks
With the wild bulla and
banker ponies and their pro
posed extermination along
the Outer Banks of the
North Carolina coast making
current headlines in the
news the question has been
asked in various sectors:
"Why must they be extermi
nated?" Dr. Herbert F. Prytherch, dir
ector of the U. S. Fisheries Labora
tory here says that is is because
the wild and semi-wild animals
might transfer disease to domestic
stock and that they cause the
fever tick to be numerous along
the Banks and although nothing
serious has ever resulted from
the bite of the ticks to-date, they
might eventually bring on some
thing in the form of a disease simi
liar to the spotted or Rocky Moun
tain fever.
City Clerk Murray Thomas who
has been dealing in Banker ponies
as a sideline for many years is of
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dDWM(B
INMATES WILL
BEPLACEDIN
PRIVATE HOMES
Because they think it will
mean a great saving, Carter
et County Commissioners at
their regular June meeting
decided to close the County
Home for the Poor just as
soon as suitable arrange
ments can be made to prop
erly care for the inmates.
Just how the proposal will go
across with the citizenship of the
County is not known, although
there have been some comments,
relative to the proposal. It was
pointed out at the meeting of the
commissioners on Wednesday June
8, by representatives from the Wei
fare Department that at the pres
ent time there are only seven in
mates of the Home and that ar
rangement can be made through
Old Age Assistance to board these
inmates in private homes, a sys
tme which is said to be used satis
factorily in several of the coun
tries of the. State at a great saving
to Carteret.
The resolution dealing with the
proposal follows: "Whereas, it has
been called to the attention of the
Board of County Commissioners
of Carteret County, that the
County Home can be closed and
the inmates cared for by Old Age
Assistance or other means at a
great saving to the County, Now,
therefore, be it Resolved, that the
County Home, be closed when suit
able arrangements can be made to
properly care for the inmates of
the Home." One of the objectors
to the proposaTls' Capt. George -Lewis,
superintendent of the
County Home for the past sev
eral years. He contends that there
are in reality 13 persons being
taken care of at the County Home.
It looks like 13 is going to be un
lucky for somebody.
Following the Wednesday meet
ing on June 8, the commissioners
adjourned until the following Mon
day, at which time they took up a
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Red Cross Drive
One dollar will provide clothes,
food and shelter for a destitute
Chinese boy or girl for an entire
month.
So far the Beaufort Chapter
has received only $6.00 in contri
butions for the stricken, suffering
Chinese. $5.00 has been sent in to
Headquarters from local funds.
We feel sure our people want to
do more than this for such an ur
gent need, so we are making
another appeal. Funds will be re
ceived by Dr. Hyde, Mrs. M. E.
Bloodgood or at the Beaufort
News Office.
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covering i ne m
Waterfront x
By AYCOCK BROWN
IT WAS A real pleasure for me
to meet Mr. and Mrs. Lindsey How
land of Charlotte who arrived in
town a bit thirsty Sunday evening.
On Monday morning it was a real
pleasure to show them the various
and sundry sights of Carteret
County, Lindsey is an Associated
Pressman from the Charlotte Bu
reau. Being a sort of legman fof
the AP it was only natural that he
look me up when he came to the
coast. Most newspapermen do look
me up when they come down here,
because during the past 10 years I
have had an opportunity to serve
them at one time or another when
news is breaking on the coast.
ONE THING hard to get across
up state is the fact that Carteret
County not only is important as a
commercial fishing center but also
as a produce farming area. I
wanted to impress Lindsey so we
rode out on the Atlantic Road
and saw the tomatoes being har
vested and later the three pack
ing houses here from which a
hundred or more solid car loads
of tomatoes have been shipped
during the past two orthree weeks
But I figured Mrs. Howland
would be interested in seeing some
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