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Attend Carteret County Fair In Beaufort-Oct. 10-1 5 ANGLERS USE LIGHT TACKLE AND GIVE THE FISH A CHANCE CITIZENS PATRONIZE HOME MERCHANTS AND BRING PROSPERITY Carteret County's Oldest NewspaperEstablished 1912 Volume XXVII 8 Pages This Week The Beaufort News, Thursday, September 29, 1938. 5c PerjCopy NUMBER 41. May Get Federal Aid For Seafood Industry Fishermen Asked To Attend Hearing On Monday MEET TO BE IN MOREHEAD CITY Evidence and suggestions from fishermc l and oyster t men will be asked by the ! government committee on Merchant Marine and Fish l tries at a meeting in More ! head City next Monday morning in the Municipal "Building at 9:30 o'clock. The j , hearing comes to Morehead City I as a result of efforts on the part , .' qL Congressman Graham A. Bar . den, who is vitally interested in the welfare of those engaged in , ,he important seafood industry t Wong the coast. To be present at the meeting end presiding will be Congressman r S. O. Bland, chairman of the Com- mittee of Merchant Marine and ,(f isheries and Congressman (Lind-f- sy Warren, a member of the eom t mittee, who is representative of Ahe First N. C. District. I i In a wire to The Beaufort News island other newspapers in his dia- 'trict which are interested in the T seafood industry, Congressman i Barden on last Friday sent the f ol fv? lowing telegram: V "I requested Congressman 1 J S. 0. Bland, chairman of the f Committee on Merchant Ma f' (Continued on page 8) t Covering The Waterfront By AYCOCK BROWN GUEST COLUMNIST of "Cov ering the Waterfront" this week is Ralph Howland, Associated Press staffer from the Charlotte Bureau who with Mrs. Howland were vacationing in Beaufort last week end. With them were Mr. How land's mother and father. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Howland of Henderson former residents of Beaufort. In his column, the Associated Press man tells how that great news agency covers a story. .war stories ' in general and hurricane stories in particular. WHILE THE black figure of war strides menacingly into the interior of Europe, America counts its dead after an event which threw another great fear in to the coastal regions. THIS SECTION of the North Carolina coast, which any "land lubber" from "upstate" would necessarily admit was the most beautiful, was, indeed, lucky when last week's hurricane de cided to invade New England. A hurricane, as war, always means suffering and, in most in stances, death. WHEREVER THE two are conjoined, there arises a news story which takes right of way over all others. Most newspaper men don't like to "cover" such (Continued on page 8) What's the Answer? By EDWARD flNCH l!kv CAN WE. BENEFIT BY A TOOTHACHE ? THE toothache is beneficial in that it warns the system of a condition that will wreak havoc if not corrected. A tooth aching is a tooth going bad and bad teeth are the cause of severe ailments such as stomach trouble and blood poi soning. They serwi also as a breed ing place for germs which, when once given the opportunity, can eause grave illness and even death. Wttrn Mtwapaper Union. FLASH! According to radio news flashes heard here around noon a tevere storm struck the city of Charles ton, S. C. today.. .Heavy property damage and many lives were lost, was reportsd. It is said to be the worst disaster since the earthquake in 1886. No details are available as we go to press today. Two Congressmen Wishing To Help Seafood Industry CONGRESSMAN BARDEN CONGRESSMAN WARREN The two Representatives pictured above, Congress man Graham A. Barden of the Third District, and Con gressman Lindsey Warren of the First District are hop ing as a result of a meeting scheduled to be heldd in Morehead City, at the City Hall, on Monday, October 3. at 9:30 o'clock, at which Congressman S. O. Bland, of Virginia, chairman of the Federal Committee on Mar chant Marine and Fisheries will be present, that those engaged in the oyster and fishing industry will be pres ent in large numbers to of fer suggestions as to what may be done from a Federal standpoint to help the indus try. Every person interest ed in the seafood industry are urged to be present to offer evidence and give sug gestions. FISH STORY Best fish story reaching The Beaufort News recently was brought to town last week-end by David Gaskill, of Ocracoke, who guides fishing parties and operates the Pamlico Inn on the island. "During the hurricane last week (which did not strike with full force at Ocracoke) the tides were unusually high on the island," said David. St. Julian Springs, of Myrtle Beach and Dave Nuttall, of Charlotte, who were on the island at the time of th storm, after channel bass, stood on the front porch of the Inn, cast their lures into the front yard, which was covered with the high tide.. -One of them, (Caskill did not say which) felt a strike and reeled in a 38-pound channel bass. It is a good story whether you believe it or not. if CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO HAVEBANQIET To Be Held Next Tuesday Night At 7 O'clock EXPECT SPEAKER FROM FT. BRAGG. Approximately 125 per sona including members and their ladies, a few invited guests and members of the board of directors of the Eastern Carolina Chamber of Commerce ara expected to attend the autumn meeting and banquet of the Beaufort Chamber of Commerce at Community Cen- iter Auditorium next Tuesday night (October 4) at 7 o'clock. Tickets for the banquet are now being sold by Mrs. Martha Lof tin, treasurer of the local Cham ber of Commerce. It has been tentatively arrang ed to have an officer from Fort Bragg, probably the commanding officer, to make the principal ad dress of the evening. This ad dress which will not be long and drawn out, but to the point, will (Continued on page 8) Carteret Project To Be Included In Highway Letting Bids have been asked by the State Highway and Public Works Commission for surfacing 5.07 miles of Route 101, beginning at a point 658 feet east of the bridge over the U. S. Inland Waterway and continuing to the Craven County Line. The date for the letting has been tentatively set for October 4. The project calls for a stabi lized base course with bituminous surfacing. For some time the work of grad ing this link in Route 101 has been underway. When paved it will give the Carteret share of the road an excellent route, but there are still 10 or more miles to be paved before- it connects with U. 5. Route 70 at Havelock in Craven County. Until the Craven section is also paved, the route will not be the useful highway it should be by diverting trofic this way in stead of over the present outlet from the coast over Route 70, which during the summer months is heavily traveled. Major Gillette And Cong. G. A. Barden Inspect the "Drain" Major George Gillette, District Engineer of the U. S. Engineering Deuartment in Wilmington and Representative Graham A. Barden were here on Monday for the pur pose of inspecting the Cape Look out Bight and Back Sound project. At the present time the work on this project which when com pleted will offer an eight foot deep outlet to the ocean from inside waters without the necessity of going through an inlet is progress ing nicely. Cost of the work now underway will be paid for through an appro priation of $50,000 obtained by Congressman Barden. It will be a boon for small boat navigation interests, giving them an all weather route from the higs-seas to the protected waters of Core Sound and thence to the various communities of the county includ ing Beaufort and Morehead City. In the past it has been possible on very high tides for shallow draft boats to go through the route which is known by the residents of the Core Sound region as "The Drain." With a depth of eight feet it will be possible for practi cally all boats using the harbors of Morehead City and Beaufort and other communities to use the route. Carteret Lumber Going In Worlds Fair Buildings Carteret lumber is being used in the construction of buildings at the World's Fair grounds now be ing erected in New York City. Lumber and Building Supplies Corporation have shipped one car load there and have orders for several more car-loads. Outdoor Writers On Cruise In Gulf Stream Aboard Hatteras iu1-.f.lTiv t"to-,i iitiii iM -yi mil niMrif iirntv- i mn . n n .'f NORTH Carolina's Fish eries Patrol Boat "Hatteras" sailed from Morehead City Monday afternoon with a group of Outdoor and Fish ing writers aboard for a cruise up the Gulf Stream via Cape Lookout to Dia mond Shoals and Cape Hat teras. Aycock Brown, edi tor of The Beaufort News, along with Johr Home chair man of the State Advertis ing Division and Bill Sharpe, director of the Division are acting as hosts to the cruising columnists. Defense Command Issues Instructions To Observers In Warning Net Area ""Fort" Bragg, N. C.September 26. Brigadier General Fulton Q. C. Gardner, Defense Commander of the coming Joint Antiaircraft Air Corps Exercise, announced to day that instructions have been issued to the selected observers who will report the flights of all nivnlnnps in t.hp warnins net area during the active hours of the Ex- nrfistv (lurini? the neriod October loth to 15th, inclusive, in is.su - imr the instructions General Card- iiur outlined the procedure care - I fully in order that all might be I f u'.lv informed regarding the de - tajis The nrea included in the Warn- : vt A.. ...ill Uo K,-,,.l,..l K,r llilj CL .-lie Mill LC uwuin.tw MJ wnnni.Fir.H. WILSON. RAL - EIGH, SILER CITY, ROCKING HAM, LUMBERTON, and WIL MINGTON (all inclusive). This area has been divided into squares, eight miles on a side. One tele phone has been selected in each of these squares to be known as the Observation Post in the partic ular square. Locations of these Observation Posts have been' care fully plotted on the Defense Com mander's operations maps. Gen eral Gardner emphasized the fact that only calls from these selected Observation Posts will be of any across country towards Fort Bragg it will be the duty of civilian ob servers to report their position, di rection of flight and number of planes sighted. Civilian observ ers will make their report by tele phone direct to the District Chief, who in turn will relay the mes sage to the "Army." These mes sages will be known as FLASH messages and will have right-of-way over all other messages, es pecially on rural lines, which in most cases are party lines. Relative to the concentration of (Continued on page 8) Weather Vane To Be Erected Here On Fed. Building Bids are being asked for the construction of a weather vane to be placed on top of the Federal Building Cupulo here. Postmas ter W. H. Taylor stated this week that because there were no expert weather vane specialist in this sec tor, the date for opening the bids have been deferred until about the middle of October, so that con tractors at distant points might have a chance to bid. The job must be finished within 39 days after erection work begins. This vane will not be an ordinary cheap affair, but a device sturdily built which will be in keeping with the general architecture of the build- ng. -:''iff' ' V;. I I 1 tiy J SIXTY PURSUIT PLANES DEFEND U.S. ARMY POST 200 "Enemy" Planes Will Try And Capture It Oct. 3-17 Approximately 60 pursuit ' dalles will be Used in the 1 coming war games between the Anti-aircraft and Army 1 Air Corps as a defense ; against the "enemy" it was ! stated here by Lt. Weber, aide-da- ! camp of General Bryden last week. He indicated that the Air Lorps will have 200 or more "enemy'' ... . T 1 f I 1 1 Pllinea staged at Langley field in Virginia. The game will be for the "ene my" planes to come down the coast probably off shore and then head landward and across country to Fort Bragg where they will try and "capture" the Anti-aircraft corps. The games will start on October 3, with the principal part being played between October 10 (Continued from page one) Local Pictures Are Published In Many Papers Of Country Dozens of new and newsy pic tures made in Carteret County have been published in newspapers throughout the country recently. In the Detroit Free-Press and the Pittsburgh Press recently have ap peared full-page rotogravure spreads showing art and biology students on the coast at Beaufort attending summer classes. These same pictures, made by Bill Sharpe using a Leica camera have hi : published in the rotogravure sec tions and feature sections and feature sections of other newspa pers in this and other states. Pictures of Miss Lucille Thomas and Miss Opal Merrill have ap peared in the Washington and Philadelphia papers, showing them posed in the freezing roem of N. C. Fisheries, Inc., in Morehead City. During the past few days pictures of Miss Lee, holding a record size sweetpotato, and another of her gazing into the rain fiuage of the U. S. Fisheries Labo ratory on Pivers Island have been At lantic Beach scenes showing published in many newspapers. Life Guard LeRoy Guthrie and "Curley" Wallace appeared in the Sunday papers last week. Goggle fishing pictures featuring Major Farrell and Dr. Prytherch and Miss Lucille Thomas have been printed in just about every news paper in the country. The pix were made in Beaufort. Waf-on's Bond $1,500 MusfsFace Grand Jury s SUDDEtasJATH FOR NKWPORT BOY SATURDAY Battered Body Of Ralph Spence On Highway DIED IN MOREHEAD CITY HUirilAL The battered body of Ralph Spence, 17-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Spence was found on the highway near the eastern outskirts of the town ot .New port last Saturday morning about 1 o'clock. A passing mo torist picked the body up, (the youth was still breathing) and brought it to Morehead City. At 7 o'clock Saturday morning the youth died. It was the second violent death in Carteret County in less than a week. Op Monday afternoon at his home in the Stella section, 22-year-old Jesse Watson Jr. had come to his death as a result of shotgun wounds inflicted by his father J. W. Watson, Sr. On Saturday afternoon Coro ner George W. Dill held a prelimi narv hearing into the death of young Spence. Evidence as to the probable cause of his death was lacking, but as the almost lifeless body was found on the highway, it is being assumed that he was struck by a hit and run driver, perhaps a truck. The chest and skull of the youth was fractured. Tin Charge OF Plans For C. of C. Banquet C L. BEAM, cashier of the First Citizens Bank and Trust Company here is chair man of the committee in charge of plans for the au tumn meeting and banquet of the Chamber of Com merce to be presented at Community Center Audito rium next Tutsiday night at 7 o'clock. Also on the com mittee with Mr. Beam a;-a Aycock Brown ard Graydon Paul. It is tstlmtisd that about 123 persons, including members of th: conization their iao: guests will i visiting .? r,-.-esent. Beaufort-Morehead Storm Pictures On Daily's Front Page Photographs which r.in;ra;i cvou nd a huriieane that did r.ot strike this area, but which loft a half billion collars in property damapre and the los3 of 500 or more lives in its wake up in Nek England, were printed on Page 1 of the Greensboro Daily News last Thurs day. The photographs were made by Aycock Brown, editor of The Beaufort News, who shot the pic tures early Tuesday morning, had finished into negatives by Roy Eubanks by noon and were en route on the afternoon mail. The photo of the Oil Tanker was made with Brown's PD16 Agfa, a set lense, candid camera which sells for $5. The weather flags and the clouds over Beaufort were made with George Eastman's Ko dak Vollenda, by Brown. if J Coroner Not Sure Shooting Was Accidental JESSE WATSON WAS KILLED BY FATHER A Coroner's Jury selected by Coroner George Dill on last Friday found that J. W. Watson, Jr., 22-year old Stel la farmer came to his death as a result of shot-gun wounds inflicted by his fath er, J. W. Watson, Sr. The fatal shooting occurred about 4 :30 o'clock on the afternoon of Sep tember 19. The senior Watson was bound over to superior court under bond of $1,500. Whether the grand jury finds a first degree. second degree murder of a man slaughter charge against him re mains to be seen. On the jury which bound the 69 year old farmer over to superi or court were Earl Willis, George J. Nelson, Bert Mears, Frank Crowley, Alfred Pittman and Louis Swain. The hearing was held in the offices of Coroner DilL Those testifying were Mr. Watson against whom the charges are pre ferred, his wife Mrs. Watson, Clarence Watson, 18-year old son and Lockweed Watson another son aged 29. Motive for the killing could nev er be clearly determined. Mr. (Continued on page 8) Fishing And All Outdoors By AYCOCK BROWN GUEST COLUMNIST for "Fish ing and All Outdoors" this week will be J. Hammond Brown, fish and Hunting editor of the Balti more News-Post. As this column coes into type, J. Hammond Brown, Aycock Brown and a group of northern fishing and hunting writers are aboard the patrol boat "Hatteras" exploiting waters of the Gulf Stream off Cape Look out and Cape Hatteras. As a re sult of this cruise the North Car olina coast will receive much pub licity in the future. His column I follows: By-J. Hamcnd Brown GREETINGS from one Brown to another. Giad to hear that an other member of our tribe is inter ested in fishing. Received your copy of the "News" and read the fishing items with much interest. Am taking occasion to refer to some of themin my current col umn. IN MY SUNDAY column I at tempt to cover fishing news all the way from Novia Scotia down to the Bahamas and Florida.' For a long time I have believed the area just off Hatteras to be the "hot (Continued on page 8) TIDE TABLE Information as to the tide at Beaufort is given in this column. The figures are ap proximately cor. ect and are based on taW.s furnished by the U. S. Gciid-'tic Survey. Some allowances must be made for variations in the wind and r.lso with respect to the locality, that is wheth er near the inlet or at the head of the estuaries. HIGH LOW Friory, Soplein oer 30. 12:07 A. M. 6:20 P. M. 12:42 P. M. 7:16 P. M. Saturday, October 1. 12:58 A. M. 7:21 A. M. 1:33 P.M. 8:15 P.M. Sunday, October 2. 2:00 A. M. 8:23 A. M. 2:33 P. M. 9:10 P. M. Monday, October 3. 3:08 A. M. 9:23 A. M. 3:36 P. M. 10:02 P. M. Tuesday, October 4. 4:11A.M. 10:20 A.M. 4:32 P. M. 10:50 P. M. Wednesday, October 5. 5:03 A. M. 5:20 P.M. 11:12 P.M. Thursday, October 6. 5:45 A.M. 11:36 A.M. 6:03 P. M. 12:00 P. M. ;a(t,.''
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