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Carteret County's Oldest NewspaperEstablished 1912
Volume XXVII
8 Pages This Week
The Beaufort News, Thursday, September 15, 1938.
5c Per Copy-
No. 39.
Local Boy Makes Good Record
Pitched For Davtona Beach Team
GEORGE BROOKS JR., has returned to his home in
Beaufort following a good record he made during the
summer as pitcher for the Daytona Beach Club in the
Florida State Loague. He played in 40 games and was
relief pitcher on the team.Of 22 games in which he pitch
ed he won 12 and lost 10. Brooks was farmjd out to
the Daytona Club by his owners the St. Louis Cardinals.
(News Photo.)
Work Begins On New
Unit At Fort Macon
Coast Guard Station
Nearly $300,000 To
- Be Expended On
Nearby C. G.
Projects
Davis Company Has
Started On Contract
Construction of Fort Ma
con Coast Guard Station's
new boathouse and launch
way started this week with
the arrival of the pile driver.
This unit of Fort Macon improve
ments has been contracted by the
E. L. Davis Company, of Beaufort,
and will represent an expenditure
of approximately $30,000. At an
early date the construction of the
new station building will begin.
W. F Martens Company, of New
port News, has this contract which
calls for an expenditure of approx
imately $54,000. Muirhead Con
struction Company, of Durham,
has the contract to build a new
equipment building at a cost of
approximately $13,000.
Each of the above contractors
will have their forces on location
at Fort Macon within the next few
days and before the building pro
(Continued orv page 8 )
What's the Answer?
By EDWARD FINCH
MhY IS IT DIFFICULT TO
WALK. SIRrV&HT wlin
YOUR EVES CLOSED ?
BECAUSE one of your legs is
shorter than the other one and
unless the eyes are open, enabling
the brain to direct your feet through
your eyes, the course of one long
. step and one short step will cause
you to walk in circles unless you
have trained yourself through dili
gent practice to pursue a straight
(Course. If you don't believe me, get
tapeline and measure your two
legs from hip to feet and then close
your eyes and take a walk with
out peeping! See where you land!
O Western Newipaper Union.
"5" "2!" TB a " t S,
i Fishing And
I All Outdoors
I By AYCOCK BROWN
LOCAL GUIDES tell me that
there are plenty of Spanish Mack
erel off Beaufort Inlet now and
that parties going after them with
trolling rigs are making good
catches. The season of 1S)38 will
go down in local piscatorial his
tory as the worst for bluetish fish
ing. Last year there were more
bluefish than mackerel. The pre
vious year giant Hatteras Blues,
the answer to any angler's prayer,
struck at Cape Lookout and fur
nished thrilling sport for all who
went after them and fish weigh
ing up to 10 and 12 pounds. But
this year the blues steered clear
of the Carteret coast for some
reason or other.
THE PIX OF the 92-pound tar
pon landed in a purse net by Capt.
John Noe was photographed and
this week it appeared in The News
and Observer. It was an excellent
publicity shot with a reader which
would not lead any angler from
the coast to believe they were be
inir rnuo-ht with rod and reel. In
cidentally, because of the tropical
nature of the fish taken, it gave
our nearby Gulf Stream another
plug. It is likely before that pic
ture stops it will be printed in pa-
(Continued on page 8)
0DIT1ES OF
THE WEEK
8 1-2 Lb. Sweet Potato
An eight and a half pound
sweet potato was brought to
The Beaufort News office last
week by Paul Beacham, of
North River Road. It was the
largest sweet recorded in the
county so far this year but
there might be larger ones
dug before the potato harvest
which is just beginning in this
county, is over. The Beaufort
News editor invites the grow
ers of large sweet potatoes to
bring their exhibits to his of
fice for publicity purposes
For publicity purposes the
sweet potato was photograph
ed, by the editor. To give a
comparison in the size of the
potato the editor got pretty
Miss Lois Lee to pose lifting
the giant sweet. If the pic
ture turns out good they will
probably be printed in many
newspapers of the country
and especially in North Carolina.
MuUet And Shrimp
Catches Very Goochg
MATHIS POTATO
ALMOST 1 PECK
Elsewhere in this edition is a
tory about the Paul Beacham
potato which attracted considera
ble attention when brought to
The Beaufort News Office due to!
it's giant size of eight and one-
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II a 1 1 pounus. w u i liku pumiu I
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small compared to the one which i j
-T- .r. i . . i e many local unemployed are Riven
L. T. Mathis brought to his cafe J ' ,
, ,. , j . i work corning the mullets or head
on front street and displayed this ! . , , . "
, u- i i i j nig' the shrimp,
week. His potato weighed 12
pound, and three ounces a record ! A conservative estimate on the
breaker in Carteret so far this ! number of mullets caught and
season. If anyone can locate a ' handled in Beaufort and Morehead
heavier potato than the one which I City since the "shift of wind"
Mr. Mathis dus on hi. farm, the ; which started the run early this
editor would like to see it. Inci-
dentaly if the Mathis potato had
weighed two pounds and 13
ounces more it would have been
exactly lpeck. A bushel of sweet
potatoes green weigh 60 pounds,
according to Mr. Mathis.
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Many Thrills
Of Carteret
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THRILLS GALORE will be presented on the midway of the Le
gion sponsored Carteret County Fair to bo presented in Beaufort
during the week beginning October 10. "Tilt-A-Wheel" is a riding
device.
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ALWAYS A THRILL-giver at
mortorcyclists ride the "wall-of-death."
team is pictured above.
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THE WHIP, another riding device which attracts young and old
thrill seekers, will be featured on the midway this year.
AND THE SIDE-SHOWS Some of the best are touring with
the Art Lewis Shows which will be the midway attraction of the Le
gion sponsored Carteret County Fair in Beaufort, October 10.15.
Prices And Demand g
For Both Have
Been Good
T , . .
iuuiietinsr ana snnmpinfe
has been exceptionally good
in Carteret waters during
the past several days and as
a result not only are the fish
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tiVTYiravi roo)l71n(T nrntlt rilir
moma wouw oe i,u pounus.
More than half of these mullets
were brought to Southgate Termi
nal in Beaufort and prepared for
shipment by Taylor and Holland.
Mullet fishing slowed up la.st
week-end and it is predicted that
no large numbers will be taken un
til the next shift, but as the mul
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For Patrons
County Fair
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any fair is the motor-droma where
The "Wall of Death"
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ns Of Legion To
"o Be Members;
Meet Tues.
ns of the American Le
will meet at the Legion
in Beaufort on Tuesday
5r3 t, September 20 at 7
jo'iock for the purpose of or-
ganizing a rifle team, it was
i-tated today by Legionnaire Joe
DuBois. Main discussion at the
meeting will be a Legion Son pro
gram for 11)30, which will include
the organization of a Rifle Club
and the training of a rifle team to
represent Carteret Post !)9 in the
Junior National Rifle matches.
"Plans for obtaining and equip
ping an indoor range are under
way and details for practice will
be completed Tuesday," Dubois
said. Boys from Morehead City
and Newport will meet at the
Morehead City Postoffice at 6:15
o'clock where cars will be waiting
to bring them over to the Legion
Hut in Beaufort. Every boy in
the county, whose father is a vet
eran of the World War is eligible
for membership and is invited to
attend the meeting whether or not
he is a member of the Sons of the
Legion.
Joe House Drug
Store Moves To
New Site Today
Joe House Drug Store which has
been located in the Duncan Build
ing at the corner of Front and
Turner streets since 1929, moved
into new quarters today at the
corner of Front and Craven
streets. The store is occupying
same site where the former post
office was located until it moved
into the new Federal building re
cently. The new location ;s convenient
to the hospital which occupies the
second floor of the building. It
is also larger than the former
quarters, being two feet wider and
10 feet longer. Since the new
postoffice building was opened
there seems to be a trend on the
part of business down-town to
move eastward along Front Street,
and it is quite likely that the
drugstore at its new location will
note an increase in patronage.
Joe House has been In the drug
store business in Beaufort since
1919. He came here shortly af
ter his discharge from the Army
following the World War. For a
few years he was associated with
the late Dr. Duncan in the drug
store business, finally entering
business for himself in a building
which formerly stood where Stan
dard Oil Company is now located.
Later his store was moved into the
building now occupied by A & P
Company. In 1929 he moved to
the Duncan building, and last
night, his firm was moved to the
corner of Front and Craven.
ADDRESS BY WHEATLEY
Using as his subject "Know Thy
self" Attorney C. R. Wheatley
made the opening address at the
Colored High School here this
morning. The auditorium was
filled to capacity with 315 students
parents and friends. Prin. Hodge
plans a progressive school year.
WAR. GAME
County Observers
Are Named By
Bailey
Announcement of the
names of special observers.
the telephone numbers and
location of such telephones
of lookout stations for thej
Joint Anti-Aircraft and Air
Corps maneuvers next month was
made this week by W. H. Bailey,
chief key-man for Carteret Coun
ty. These appointed observers
anJ interested citizens are urged
to attend a meeting at the Court
house here Friday night at which
time commissioned and non-commissioned
officers from Fort
Bragg will be present to explain
plans for the War Games, includ
ing the use of telephones, and the
pa:t each observer and citizen is
expected to play.
Carteret County is divided into
14 squares, 12 of which will be
stationed with observers during
the maneuvers, at four hour inter
vals during the day and night. Ob
servers for the 12 stations have
(Continued on page Four)
Five Years Ago Today
Hurricane Played Havoc On Coast
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HURRICANE winds and highwater played havoc on the Caroli
na coast five years ago today. This is the anniversary of the Sep
tember 15th, 1933, hurricane, which not only left death in its wake
but also damage to property which ran into hundreds of thousands
of dollars. The above photo shows what the winds did to the local
school building, but this damage was light in comparison to some of
the destruction left in the hurricane's wake. The Carolina coast
recovered in a hurry from the effects of the blow. While much
damage was done by the hurricane there were some good effect
from it such as cutting of Drum Inlet through Core Banks across the
sound from Atlantic, which is apparently of a permanent nature.
Nearly 5,000 Students
Enrolled In Carteret
County Schools Today
Covering The
Waterfront
By AYCOCK BROWN
IF THERE IS a worse stretch
of highway in the whole state sys
tern than that 'Main Road' over
on Harkers Island, I would hate
to dtive my car over it or even
m'y"ex-cart if I had an ex-cart.
The citizens of Harkers Island
who are also citizens of North
Carolina an;i pay for automobile
licenses, gasoline road tax, etc.,
deserves something better than
what the mighty State Highway
and Public Works Commission
is giving them. With the shell
base, a sort of corduroy type of
road, over which you cannot drive
safely at one-third the speed limit
being shaken to pieces if you do
it would not be such an expen
sive proposition to pave the route.
I invite the State Highway and
Public Works Commission to Har
kers Island. If I could get them
in a car going say 20 miles an
hour over the so-called Marker's
Island road, I believe I could, by
threatening not to go slower, get
a promise that the route would be
improved not someday but im
mediately. IT LOOKS LIKE some of the
politicians hereabouts who go to
the island begging for votes 'round
election time would have the pull
to pave the Main Road of Harkers
. And incidentally, on a trip
to the island last Sunday I made a
batch of photographs of the ferry
(Continued on Page 4)
Fort Bragg Issues
Bulletin About
Maneuvers
While :, Joint Anti-Aircraft
Air Corps Exercises
will h-2 ! !'. at F urt Hragr
during the pt-riod of October
.'5-20 the principal phase will
be lK5tv.i en October 10-15, it
was stated in a communication to
The Beaufort News from Briga
dier General William Bryden's
headquarters at Fort B.-a;g this
week.
This exercise will include the
formation of an aircraft warning
net encircling Fort Bragg with a
radius reaching to the North Caro
lina Coast, manned to a large de
gree by civilian personel, it was
stated. The function of the net
will be to warn the defended area,
in this case Fort Bragg, of the ap
proach of aircraft to provide for
interception by defending pursuit
aviation and defensive artillery
fires.
Practically all of the Regular
Army antiaircraft artillery and a
, (Continued on page Four)
Hunters Be Ready To
Good Breeding Pays
With Laying Stock
Nearly 5,000 students re
turned to the class rooms of
Carteret County schools to
day. These schools Irange
in size from the one teacher
and less than a half dozen
pupils-school at Portsmouth,
on Ocracoke Inlet, to the
large consolidated institu
tions in Beaufort and More
head City with several hun
dred students matriculating.
In these schools ranging
from Portsmouth to Pelle
tier, communities nearly 100
miles apart by the ocean
route are employed nearly
150 teachers.
With the possible exception of
one or two additional teachers who
have not yet been named for the
various schools the complete list
along with work or grades follows:
BEAUFORT SCHOOL
R. E. Miller, Prin.
Miss Myrtle B. Piver and Miss
Louise Hudgins, 1st; Mrs. Helen
P. Hatsell and Miss Emma Jean
Daniel, 2nd; Miss Susan Rumley
and Miss Margaret Knowles, 3rd;
Miss Lessie Arrington and Miss
Edna Johnson, 4th; Mrs. Mary
Gray Hill and Miss Edith Lewis,
5th; Miss Nellie Lewis and Miss
Gertrude Styron, 6th; Mrs. Flor
ence T. Brooks and Miss Appie
Daniels, 7th; Miss Rachel E.
(Continued on page Eight)
TIDE TABLE
Information as to the tide
at Beaufort is given in this
column. The figure are ap
proximately c. ri-jt and bas
ed on cabl-M famished by
the U. S. Geodetic Survey.
Pome allowances must be
n-.j ie for variations in the
wind and also with respect
to the locality, that is wlu-th
er near the inlet or at tho
head of the estua-.f.
HIGH LOW
Friday, Seplember 16.
12:07 A. M. 6:17 A. M.
12:43 P. M. 7:27 P. M.
Saturday, September 17.
1:09 A. M. 7:26 A. M
1:47 P.M. 8:35 P.M.
Sunday, September 18.
2:21 A. M. 8:38 A. M.
2:58 P.M. 9:38 P. M
.Monday, September 19.
3:38 A. M. 9:47 A. M.
4:10 P. M. 10:39 P. M.
Tueiday, September 20.
4:47 A. M. 10:55 A M.
5:13 P. M.
Wednesday, September 21.
5:46 A.M. 11:38 A.M.
6:08 P.M. 11:57 P.M.
Thursday, September 22.
6:38 A. M 12:28 A. M.
6:58 P. M. 12:53 P. M.