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j M. City Jaycees Sponsoring Beauty Show At Beach Casino Friday Night HPtt ftw Whir a T7 tttvtt News SEAFOOD MRT. 7-14-38 Shrimp 3-5c Croks lc S. Crabs 49-60c Plrs 2!z Flounders 3c 6 Blues 3-5c S. Trout 6c Mackerel 5c J. Mulls 4c HELP BOOST MOREHEAD CITY'S COASTAL FESTIVAL TO BE HELD AUGUST 10-12 Carteret County's Oldest NewspaperEstablished 1912 .r0. Volume XXVII 16 Pages This Week The Beaufort News, Thursday, July 14, 1938. 5c Per Copy Number 29. Conservation Dept. Adopts New Game Laws i i Will Choose Queen From Ten Beauties Coastal Festival Gets Underway August 10 Ten beautiful girls, who won in a popularity contest endine Tuesday, staged by Twin City Times, will be the contestants in a beauty con- test at Atlantic Beach Casino ; on Friday night. Judges from out of town and out of Carteret County will select from this group two winners. The first selected will bear the title "Miss Morehead City" and will preside as queen of the Coastal Festival to be presented in Morehead City and Atlantic Beach on August 10 through August 12. Winner Number One will also represent Morehead City at the Wilson Tobacco Festival to be pre sented during August. The second winner will bear the title "Miss Morehead's Companion" and will also go to Wilson. (Continued on page 8) Cudacatcher Sails For Ocean City, N. J. Rowe Metcalf and party sailed aboard his fishing cruiser, Cuda catcher early today for waters off Ocean City N. J. For the past several days the party waited for favorable weather to fish the Gulf Stream off Cape Lookout, but were able to get out only on one day. One dolphin was landed. Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Metcalf on the cruiser north are Jack Neal and Christopher Janes,, of Beau fort. C. of C. Select Miss Beaufort Miss Lucille Thomas who was selected as tie most beautiful member of all the senior classes in Carteret County, during the Junior-Senior Prom presented by the management of Atlantic Beach on Friday night May 6, was unani mously selected as "Miss Beau fort" by the Chamber of Com merce directors at a meeting Tuesday night. She will hare the honor of representing Beaufort in the first annual Coastal Festival, sponsored by The Junior Chamber of Commerce in Morehead City, August 10-12. Miss Thomas was also selected as the candidate to represent Beaufort in the Wilson Tobacco Festiival next montV, if this town decides definitely to en ter contestant.. ."Miss Beau fort's" companion at the Tobacco Festival will oe on of three beau tiful Beaufort girls. What's the Answer? Br EDWARD I1NCH .YiWlS Trlt ORIGIN 0FTHE&E9fMAN" AT awlddingT THIS custom dates back to the time when men bartered for their brides and took with them their beat frierds to aid and advise them in the negotiations. It was assumed that the prospective bride groom was under great strain and that he needed assistance both men tally and physically for the days im mediately preceding the ceremony, o his friend, the "best man" of the two. acted las hw personal guardian until th ktrnt t ! j. A Seagull Told Me Marianne Is Home After completing a series of suc cessful singing engagements in night clubs and cocktain lounges at Providence, Bos- on, New Bedford Portland and otV er New England chief, Miss Mari anne Taylor, tal ented .daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bayard Taylor, returned to Beau fort this week to spend a vacation with her parents. Marianne She was at one time a member of The Beaufort News family, and conducted the column "A Seag ull Told Me" which caused plenty of excitement locally when tiie paper was pub lished each week. Tonight in The Casino on At lantic Beach, Marianne will be guest artist on Aycock Brown's "Professor Quiz" program which starts at 10 o'clock. .. AlthougK urged by many of her friends to be guest artist on beach programs since her arrival in town, Mari anne prolonged accepting the in vitation until she could appear on a program with her former boss of the editorial department of The Beaufort News. RECORDER HAS BUSY SESSION Several Cases Are Tried; Several Continued Milton 'Thunderbolt' Joy ner. kitchen employee now of Atlantic Beach Hotel, but formerly of the Busy Bee Restaurant in Morehead City was charged with "feloniously, knowingly and designedly by false pretense and representation of a subsisting fact, calculated to de ceive, intended to deceive and did deceive Theodore Economan by securing from him wages amount ing to $5 when no wages were duo, which had been previously .paid the said defendant, said mon paid the said defendant, said mon ey being obtained by said defend ant from said defiant without com pensation." In Recorder's Court Tuesday the defendant was found guilty and he was given a six months suspended sentence and ordered to pay the costs of the court. .Several other cases were tried during the session Tuesday. Three cases were bound over to Superior Court because the defendants de manded a jury trial. These cases included charges against Ernest Quinn for reckless driving and Harvey Hamilton for assault with deadly weapon and driving an au tomobile while intoxicated. The next Superior court is in October. (Continued on page four) WoVk On Lookout Project To Begin About August 15 Dredging of Cape Lookout and Back Sound drain project will be gin sometime next month accord ing to announcement made this week by Representative Graham A. Barden. In a letter to the Secretary of The Chamber of Commerce here he wrote: "I have just been informed by the Engi neering Department that work will commence on the cut from Cape Lookout to Back Sound near Har kers Island about August 15." This project will be of great ben efit to the fishermen and naviga tion interests of this section. When completed it will offer an all weather route from the Sound to the Atlantic Ocean. It will probably be the only place in the worId whePe it is possible to iro - ,,. t . u:u seas wiithout traversing an inlet. II LI I 3 Fishing Columnists To Be Guests Aboard The Hatteras . y.r. - wyw.-f . . -y. . yftWofWfr MW.nW WdW iirirn ri T fi """ .,.jMitfWited They Will Get Dope Before returning to his home in Rocky Mount this week J. L. Home, Jr., told the editor of The Beaufort News that he planned to invite several of the outstanding outdoor and fishing columnists of the country, including Ray Camp, of the N. Y. Times, Don Stillman, of the Herald Tribune, Fred Fletcher, of The Daily News, Ray Holland of Field and Stream, Mor ris Ackerman, of Ackerman's Spottsman Guide, Van Campen Ileilner, field representative of American Museum and other out-( standing writers for a cruise of several days in fishing waters of the Gulf Stream off Cape Hatteras New York Columnists Play-Up Marlin Catch First Tuna Taken Off Block Island By Taylor O'Bryan The first tuna taken with rod and reel off Block Island on the New England coast this year was landed a few days ago by Taylor O'Bryan, of Beaufort, son of Mrs. Hill Patrick and grandson of the N. W. Taylors. The fish weighed 23 pounds and an account of the catch was printed in a Prividence R. I., newspaper which was re ceived here by Mrs. T. Murray Thomas, Jr., former resident of Rhode Island. Taylor has been fishing and cruising off the New England Coast for the past several weeks with Dick Dickinson, aboard his 47-foot cruiser "Tarheel" of Beau fort. At an early date Dick will point the bow of his cruiser south ward, and the Tarheel will base in Beaufort for some big game fish ing off Cape Lookout. Fishing And All Outdoors By AYCOCK BROWN HUGO RUTHERFURD of Alio mouthy.N. J., has brought angling fame to North Carolina's coast. He is the man who after weeks of exploiting waters of the Gulf Stream off Hatteras, finally land ed a blue marlin on last Friday. Prior to Friday he had while fish ing with his brother John Ruther furd and guided by Emile Eggi man, of Spring Lake, N. J., and Lloyd Styron, of Hatteras, hooked three marlin and raised three oth ers. LAST FRIDAY afternoon the first catch was made. The huge fish weighing 439 pounds and meas uring 12 feet one inch was gaffed forty minutes after the strike. Location of the catch was at the western edge of the Gulf Stream 16 miles off Hatteras and four miles southwest of Diamond Light ship. Other measurements of this mightiest of all game fish in cluded a girth of 54 inches and a tail-spread of 47 inches. Tom Eaton, Hatteras sportsman and power magnate telephoned the story to this columnist on Satur day but failed to make a contact be?-?" nil dry Saturday, your columnist 13 out with Bill Sharpo (Coilxmueil on psir 8) On Big Game Fishing and Cape Lookout, aboard the Pa trol Boat "Hatteras" pictured above. All of the columnists and writers mentioned and many oth ers are tremendously interested in the fishing off North Carolina, es pecialy since the first blue marlin was landed at Hatteras last week. The cruise is tentatively planned for sometime in August. Mr. Home is chairman of the commit tee on advertising for the Depart ment of Conservation and Devel opment. Fishing and All Outdoor Columnist Brown, of The Beaufort News was the first man to receive an invitation. Beaufort Shares In Publicity With Hatteras Fishing and outdoor col umnists on several of the New York papers played up the story about Hugo Ruth- erfurd catching a blue mar lin off Cape Hatteras last Fridty. The stories were wired the newspaper colum nists by Aycock Brown, edi tor of this newspaper, and, as a result Beaufort shared in the pub licity break which will result in many big game fish hunters com ing to the waters off Cape Look out and Cape Hatteras. Fred Fletcher of the New York Daily News column "OUTDOORS" said in part: "Hugo Rutherfurd, well known big game fish hunter, after many unsuccessful at tempts, yesterday landed the first blue marlin captured via angling north of F lorida and the largest of this species tak en north of Bimini. It weighed 439 pounds, meas ured twelve feet, one inch in length, with a girth of 54 inches. The fish made five jumps before being gaffed af ter a forty-minute battle Ray Camp of the New York Times also gave the story a play in his column. And on Monday night he spoke of the event during a fishi-ng broadcast over one of the N. Y. broadcasting stations. Each columnist carried Beaufort date lines with the story but gave the exact location of the catch (16 miles east of Hatteras and four miles southwest Diamond Light ship) which is about 75 miles northeast of Beaufort. Also using the story was the Associated Press and the United Press. Donald Stillman who writes the column "Rod and Gun" in the N. Y. Herald Tribune made the fol lowing comment: "Undoubtedly the big news of the week-end was the tak ing on rod and reel of a 439 pound blue marlin off Beau (Continued on page eight) HILL BABY TAKEN TO HOSPITAL The young son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Hill was taken to Dr. Sid bury's Hospital in Wilmington last night for treatment. Mr. and j John Hill, Mrs. Seth Gibbs, and I M: Chas. Hill carried the child there. PARISH HOUSE OPENS SUNDAY It Was Formerly Dormitory Of School St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Beaufort will open and use its newly recon structed Parish House for Sunday School service this coming Sunday, July 17th. The former dormitory building of St. Paul's School standing to the west of the church, has been remodeled and made into a most serviceable parish house. On the first floor are an auditorium for assembly and church gatherings, a kitchen, guild and auxiliary meet ing room and church office. The second floor is divided into nine class rooms for Sunday School use, and rest rooms for men and women. This type of building has long been needed by St. Paul's Church and when the School property was returned to the Church several months ago the Rector and Vestry began making plans for the remod eling of the dormitory. Funds for the work were secured by the Rev. E. C. McConnell from mem bers of St. Paul's Church and from the American Church Building Fund. With the moving of the Sunday School from the Church to the par ish house the organization and functioning of the Sunday School will be changed considerably. Uni form series of lesson material will be used throughout the school. Beginners will be provided with sand tables and other kindergar ten equipment. Many of the class es will use the newest hand work projects and teaching methods, Plans are being made to purchase specially prepared hymnals for Boys and Girls. These contain hymns for all ages of children as well as one from the regular Church hymnal, and also material for building worship services cen tered about events familiar to children. The Superintendent, C. H. Bushall, who has been confined to his home for several weeks, is ex pected to return fort his opening. New Game License Combined Will Be Offered For Sale Combination hunting and fish ing licenses' will be offered for sale in Carteret and other counties of the State beginning August 1, and the sportsman who indulges in both hunting and fresh water fishing can save money by buying the combination permits. There is no license fees for salt water fishing in North Carolina. The new license badge combin (Continued on page 8) I Covering The I Waterfront l By AYCOCK BROWN BEAUFORT IS wishing More head City and the Junior Chamber of Commerce every success with their coming Water Carnival. The Jaycees, sponsors of the event should be given every co-operation by the citizens of Morehead City. Staging such a carnival takes plenty of work, but with such Jaycees as Benard Leary, Dee Gee Bell, George MacNeill and their associates behind the proposal, it is bound to be a suc cess. Beaufort will give her moral support, and will also en ter a Miss Beaufort in the beauty contest. ON FRIDAY night in The Casi no on Atlantic Beach, Morehead City's "Queen of the Carnival" will be selected from a large num ber of entrants. At the same time two contestants to represent Morehead City in the Tobacco Festival of Wilson during August will be selected. The winners in the preliminary contest on Friday night will be selected by three judges from out of Carteret Coun ty. They will be selected not on (Continued on page 5) Board Members Visit New Duke Lab. Here John Sikes Hurt When Auto Jumps John Sike$, former president and general manager of N. C. Fisheries, Inc., in Morehead City, had a very nar- row escape ( s ff? ' from serious in jury last week end when the car in which he was riding with Stewart Blow, o t Edenion,! jumped a canal from the high way near Vance boro, Luckily, a car contain John Sikes ing relatives happened tn pass al most immediately and took them 10 a hospital in New Bern. Sikes was hurt worse, but not seriously. He had concussion of the right shoulder, but X-ray examinations showed no broken bones. The Sikes recently moved from More head City to Edenton where they now make their home. ROTARIANS IN QUIZ CONTEST Guest Artist Will Be Presented By The Professor Quiz teams from the Beaufort and Morehead City Rotary Clubs are schedule to compete in the reg ular Thursday night "Professor Quiz" contests in The Casino on Atlantic Beach tonight. Tonight also, The Professor is planning to present a "guest artist" on his pro gram. The guest artist will be Miss Marrianne Taylor, who is visiting her parents in Beaufort, following a series of singing en gagements in Providence, R. I., Boston and Portland, Maine. Incidently the Quiz period to night will continue for only about one half hour or less and will start at 10 o'clock. Since the first Quiz was presented The Pro fessor has been learning things, and one of the main things he learned was that the programs dragged along. To offset drag ging tonight he will be assisted in distributing questions by Miss Rachel Piner. On Tuesday night at the regular meeting of the Beaufort Club, Rotarian Leslie Davis appointed Graydon Paul, Graham Duncan, Ben Thomas, Fred Seeley, and Dr. W. L. Woodard for the team with Dr. Lewis and Gary Allen as al ternated. Rev Bill Stewart, pre sident of the Morehead City Club informed the Professor that their (Continued on uage 8) Workmen Will Be Transferred From Community Center WPA activities at Beaufort Community Center will cease at the end of this payroll period it was stated yesterday by District Supervisor Pratt who was in town on business. The workmen now employed there will be transferred to the Mullet Pond project which i3 under construction near the U. S. Fisheries Laboratory entrance adjacent to the Morehead City Beaufort causeway. Transfer of the workmen was :r.ere!y routine, and not due to the fact that officials from the Dis trict offices had been to the Com munity Center on several occasions to find various workmen and bos ses apparently doing not much of anything. Anyway, the work on Community Center is about fini fied. Later a group may be sent there to put some finishing touch es on the various units. Some of the workmen now em ployed on Community Center will he transferred to projects in More head City, it was stated. T1 h .1 Fishermen Appear During Meeting On Monday North Carolina's board of conservation and develop ment visited Pivers Island and the new Duke Universi ty Marine Laboratory and the Fisheries Laboratory on Tuesday afternoon before concluding their biennial ses. sion which got underway in Morehead City's municipal building on Monday. This was one of the highest of the high-spots of the meeting. Many of the Board members did not even know that Duke was es tablishing a marine laboratory at Beaufort, and many who did know could not realize its present sig nificance until they had visited the project, seen the students at work and met Dr. A. S. Pearse, the director and Dr. Gray and Bloom quist of the faculty. The board members were told that the five (Continued on uage 8) Atlantic Beach To Be Summer Capital As reported in the Beaufort News last week members of the North Carolina Council of State an I taeir wives will be guests of State Auditor George Ross Pou and Mrs. Pou during the week-end of July 30 at Atlantic Beach, thus temporarily establishing a summer state capital on the beach. Plan's for the entertainment of . these distinguished guests are now being made, and they include a dinner party at the beach hotel. Among those expected are Gov ernor and Mrs. Clyde R. Hoey; Lieutenant-Governor and Mrs. W. P. Horton; ,Secretary of State Thad Eure and Mrs. Eure; State Treasurer Charles M. Johnson and Mrs. Johnson; Attorney-General and Mrs. Harry McMullan; and Superintendent cf Public Instruc tion Clyde Erwin and Mrs. Erwin. Special Features To Be Continued Special entertainment features at Atlantic Beach are proving so successful tHat Manager E. G. Pe try is planning to continue them each week, including Amateur hour every Monday night; Girl Break Dance every Tuesday night; Professor Quiz, every Thursday night; and Children's dances, front 9 to 10 every Friday night. TIDE TABLE Inforn.itlon as to the tide at Beaufort is given in this column. The figures are ap proximately correct and bas ed on cables 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, July 15th 9:50 10:03 10:28 10:41 A. M. 3:44 A. M. P. M. 3:51 P. M. Siturday, July 16 A M. 4:19 A. M. P. M. 4:30 P. Sunday, July 17 4:54 A. M. P.M. 5:15 P.M. Monday, July IS A. M. 5:32 A. M. 11:06 11:20 11:48 P. M. 6:05 P. M. Tuesday, July 19 A. M. 6:19 A. M. P. M. 7:03 P. M, 12 01 12:35 12:50 1:29 1:48 2:31 Wednesday, July 20 A. M. 7:11 A. M. P. M. 8:07 P. M. Thursday, July 21 A. M. 8:08 A. M. P. M. 9:12 P. M. i