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9 MERCHANTS PLAN YOUR 1939 Advertising PROGRAM NOW LEADERS IN MERCHANDISE BUSINESS ALWAYS Advertise Carteret County's Oldest Newspaper, .Established 1912 O V Volume XXVIII 8 Pages This Week The Beaufort News, Thursday, January 12, 1939. 5c Per Copy l. Number 2. Personal t Owed By On Tax "County Board Makes Ruling At Meet 9 On Monday Most interesting motion order during the Board of County Commissioners' meet ing on Monday follows: "The Auditor and Tax Col lector are instructed not to pay any bills for personal services or salaries to any persons, firm or corporation, until such persons, firms or (corporations have paid their taxes in full for the current and past years." Most of the meeting at which all com missioners were present was composed of routine matters. Following: is summary of other matters before the Board on Mon day. Request State Highway and Public Works Commission to take over and maintain road from Will Gillikins corner in Otway running parallel with No. 70 for approxi mately 3-4 of a mile. ( Freeman Brothers low bidders for supplies to county home during current month. Auditor Potter instructed to release the value of buildings on Mamie B. Barker lands, known as the Hunter and Barker tract for 1934 to 1938 inclusive, due to claims that building had been de stroyed during storm. The First Citizens Bank and Trust Company was designated as depository for Carteret funds. This two banks in the county have apo thecated $40,000 in government and state bonds as security for the funds. R. W. Taylor and Company Tax suit will be adjusted for $3,500. (Continued from Page 8) Covering The Waterfront I By AYCOCK BROWN ' LAST WEEK I went to Fort Macon and made photographs of Diver L. H. Barnes, of Norfolk who is employed on the launchway job at the Coast Guard station. Just how the pix will turn out and their news value I will not know until I see the contact prints blown up considerably. The prints will show him in diving suit, emerging from water and being greeted by pretty Catherine O'Bryan. A pro- foceinnal Hivpi pnminir from t.hp t'Nvater looks like a "Man from Mars" who has fallen overboard. DIVER BARNES was with Capt. Mogg here a few years ago when they made efforts to salvage cotton from the Thistleroy which sank on Lookout Shoals many years ago. Tad Davis, who is building the launchway told me about the time Diver Barnes went below at the Thistleroy wreck, (Continued on page 8) What's the Answer? Br EDWARD FINCH D EFORE the time when people ac-- quired individual names they were known simply by the symbol of thsir tribe or clan. This symbol was usually an animal, as for in stance, the lion, and the people of that tribe which had adopted the lion as their symbol were known merely as Lion. They put the lion on cloth ihg, bodies, cooking utensils, any thing belonging to them much as we would write our name on our per sonal possessions. Each tribe had its own pole on which was carved their "totem" or "family token" by which they were known. Western Newspaper Union. Service Salaries County Will Apply Of Each Delinquent Anthony Advises Farmers To Wait "Do not be in too big a hurry to purchae your sup plies at the County Agent's office wiM be able to obtain lime and superphosphate and charge against the 1933 Soil Conservation checks at a con siderable saving per ton. Farm Agent Anthony advises farm ers today. "We should have complete details next week," he added. Baptist Minister Here Is Honored REV. B. F. GEHRING, popular minister of the First Baptist Church of Beaufort, was elected president of the pastor's conference of the Atlantic Baptist Association, at a meeting in New Bern on Monday. He succeeds Rev. Raymond A. Thompson, of New Bern. Several Carteret ministers featured in the meeting which was held in the First Baptist Church of the Craven capital. Highlights of the meeting as re ported by the Sun-Journal on Monday afternoon follows: J. L. Mauney, of Pollocksville, was named vice president succeed ing Rev. W. B. Sprinkle of Mar shallberg; W. I. Johnson of Svvans boro, was elected secretary and treasurer succeeding Rev. G. C. Hedgepeth, of Morehead City who was named publicity director. Rev. R. Cole Lee, pastor of the First Eaptist church of Morehead City, discussed the persecution of Baptist in Rumania. In reality it is a pure case of ecclesiastical per secution under the pagan claim of patriotism, Rev. Mr. Lee stated. In Rumania all Baptist churches have been closed and many of the pastors have been thrown into pri son. The orthodox Catholic church numbers 13,037,365 and the Greek and Roman churches over 1,000,000 while Baptist have reached the number of 70,000. This country became a member of the League of Nations and signed the treaty by which it gave full re ligious freedom but Rumania is at the crossroad of religions, the minister pointed out in discussing the undelying causes and the re sults of the extensive program of persecution of Baptist in that country. The conference recommended that a petition be sent to the Ru manian ambassador to the United (Continued on page 8) Mattress Covers Are Made ByNYA Girls For State Eighteen girls employed on NYA projects in Carteret are now making mattress covers for the State Sanatorium. It is not cost ing Carteret County a cent for the girls to do this work and they are not only doing a worthy job, but they are, or many of them are learning for the first time needle work art. Sanatorium furnishes the materials for making the mat tress covers. The mattress cover project is only one form of work now under way by the NYA in Carteret Co unty. Most of the 18 girls em ployed on this particular project, however, were formerly engaged in making shell souvenirs, a project (Continued on Page 4) Leader In Fight To Get Electric Lights On Island i 1 ty I tP" $ 1 4 ' EARL DAVIS and the del egation from Harkers Island including James Waite, H. B. Hunter, Walter Davis, Sol Willis, Maxwell Willis and Walter Yeomans who went to Raleigh Wednesday to complete plans with the REA for taking electric en ergy to Harkers Island, did a good job. Upon their re turn to Beaufort they report ed that their delegation had been assured that $50,000 had been allocated for the project and that work would begin at an early date. At torney Alvah Hamilton ac companied the group to Ral iigh and Representative 5eelev and Senator Larkin with them at the appeared hearing. ... REA officials were advis ed last nisrht by Davis that ) e had contacted Kilburn of Tidewater, who had given issurance that this utilities which serves this section, would furnish power at not more than two cents per KWH. If arrangements could not be made with Tide water, REA was ready to es tablish a plant on the island similar to the one which was recently constructed on Oc racoke. Earl Davis has been the leader in the fight for electric lights on the island. Ji'he Beaufort Chamber of Commerce has also been ac ive in helping the islanders get the project through. ViSews fhoto.) Fort Macon Will Be Most Complete Unit Of C. G. In District When the work now underway at Fort Macon Coast Guard Sta tion on Beaufort Inlet is complete, it will be the most complete unit of the Service in the Seventh Dis trict. Approximately $100,000 is being expended to make it the most outstanding of the new super-stations along the coast in he Seventh District. Already completed and turned over on Wednesday of this week was the new equipment building constructed by the Muirhead Con struction Company of Durham and Richmond at a cost of approxi mately $12,000. This same con struction company has the con tract to build a similiar equipment building at aproximately the same cost at Cape Lookout C. G. Sta tion. Now under construction at the Fort Macon Station is the new boat-house and launchway which is being built by the E. L. Davis and Company at a contiact price I of $29,000. The building itself has already taken shape and at;De IeveiODea OOOn present the launchway is under construction. The latter const ruction which is partly under water demands the work of a deep se diver. Capt. L. H. Barnes of Norfolk is the diver on the job. When completed the launchway and boathouse will be the most complete unit of its kind in the Seventh District. Already the W. F. Martens Company of Norfolk who have the contract to build the new station are doing excavation work for the building. This contract calls for an expenditure of $52,000, and the work will be completsd within 12 months. Another improve ment for the station, a job to cost approximately $4,000 will be the dredging of the creek leading to launchway. SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEWS $1.50 A YEAR Paul Jones Band Will Make Music For Coming Ball Paul Jones and hi 10-piece or chestra will make the music for the President's Ball which is plan ned to be presented in Beaufort Community Center on Saturday night, January 28, it was announc ed today by Charles Case, Carter et County Chairman of the event. At the present time Chariman Case is naming committees who will as sist in the management of the ball and the "MARCH OF DIMES" a feature of this and similar events which will be held throughout the country late this month for the purpose of fighting infantile par alysis. BRIEF MEETING HELD BY TOWN BOARD MONDAY Trash, Bike Routes, Liquor Matter Discussed With the liquor and beer drink ing situation in the downtown a rea greatly improved since the De cember meeting, when the Board of Town Commissioners took under serious consideration the mattei' of closing all beer selling places on Front Street, no action on the proposed matter as planned last month was taken. However, the situation was discussed. It was de cided to have a liquor zoning law passed if the State Legislature did PM alLstat"t! Pvingmunici. pannes ttuuiui a.v iu ai.i cases. such The meeting on Monday night was brief. A number of bills were read and ordered paid including the per capita tax for the Fire De partment. The trash and garbage situation was brought up again ana it was i decided after discussion to publish a schedule on what days the trucks woud be on certain streets for the purpose of removing garbage and trash so residents of the various (Sections could act accordingly. The question of children riding on the sidewalks otner than in the business section was discussed and the board decided that it would be better for the children to ride the sidewalks, than to force them into thes trees where they stand a chince of being run over by an automobile. Chief Longest was authorized to instruct the other officers to the new ruling. No action was taken on the mas ter of cleaning the stones in the old cemetery and cleaning up samo but each member of the board was asked to find out the best method of doing this and what prepara tion was used in cleaning moss and mildew from stone. Until the Town of Beaufort can square an old past due account with Tide Water, it was ordered that the street lights of Beaufort be turned off at 1 o'clock in the morning. During the Chi'istmas hoildays the lights have burned all night, or until 5 o'clock in the morning. SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEWS $1.50 A YEAR Leaky Harkers Island Ferry To Be Removed and Repaired Marshland Property Near Causeway Will n , i o S. W. Morgan, owner of much mfu'shland property between More head City and Beaufort and near the causeway will start dredging operations soon with the thought in view of sub-dividing same and offering building lots for sale by the summer of 1939, it was stated here this week. While this same story was published in The Beau fort News several weeks ago, the report this week that work would start soon on the improvements, makes it news again. The dredge "Callie" once the property of the City of New Bern has been acquired by Mr. Morgan and he expects to use it in dredg ing waterways and building up the property. It was stated that he plans to have approximately 1,000 lots to offer for sale within a short time after dredging opera tions begin. He Promises More Improvements For Waterway To Cape I f - W f ' J i MAJOR GEORGE Gillette U. S. District Engineer of Wilmington, advised Repre sentative Graham A. Barden in Washington by wire this week that the local engineer ing survey crew would start making soundings immedi ately and that Barden's Inlet (the all-weather waterway to Cape Lookout) would be iredged in any sections which have become partially i'.led with sand since it was :ompleted several months 1 go. He advised the Third district Congressman that maintenance work would not only begin within the text few weeks but that here was a possibility the oute would be dredged dee er and made wider. The above information was obtained for the Cham er of Commerce here after the secretary had been ad vised by fishermen early this week that the southern end of the cut was filling up. It has been stated by many per sons interested in navigation that the waterway will not become permanent until a jetty has been built. For the ime being however, only regular maintenance will be made in the form of dredg ing. However, the Enai- neering Department givs lo- ;ai interests the assurance through Congressman Bar den's office that the water vay will be maintained prop erly (News Photo.) SEELY GETS LEGISLATIVE ASSIGNMENTS F. R. Seeley of Carteret, repre entative in the Legislature drew ome important assignments in the current edition of the General As sembly. He was appointed chair man of the Rules Committee and is on the Appropriations, Election and Election Laws, Agricultural, Banks and Banking, Unemploy ment Compensation, Education Higher Education, Manufacturing and Labor, Public Utilities, Com mercial Fisheries, Conservation rnd Development, Oysters and Public Welfare Committees. In a flash wire today to The Beaufort News he stated: Budget commission makes no additions to (Continued on pag 8) Renews Old Hopes To Get Bridge Constructed cARL DAVIS GIVES FERRY STATISTICS Because of a leak which cannot be repaired unless the vessel is placed on dry-dock, the Harkers Island Ferry will be taken out of service lext Monday until repairs can be made, it was announ ced this week by Roy J. Hart District Engineer of New Bern. And with the an nouncement the need for a bridge between the island and the mainland is urgently seen again. The fight for the construction of the brid ge has been renewed. For the past several years ef forts have been made on the part of private individuals to secure federal funds for the construction (Continued on Page 8) Dr. PaiVliite Of Boston Shopping For Whale Whales! Whales! . .Since the whale tory elsewhere in this edition wai written several reports from Harkers Island sink netters have reached the editor relative to whales. The report re layed to the editor by G iirmann Holland and Earl Davis follows: Capt. Henry Davis had to cut his net when a whale estimated at 75 feet got tangled in it while he was fishing 4 miles off Cape Point at Lookout, one day last week. On the same day, (and it was probab ly the same whale) Capt. Dave Lewis of the Island lost 100 yards of his net when the whale did not get entangled but swam right through the meshes. Earl Davis reported that Capt. James Styron and his sons Ashton and Fletcher in a sink net boat off Cape Look out had to scare the huge mammal away by striking it with heavy oars, when the whale came nosing around their craft and almost up set it several times. Plans To Organize Sea Scouts Here REV. LOUIS D. HAYMAN, pas tor of Ann Street Methodist Church, and local scoutmaster an nounced this week plans he has of converting the old 1 -masted "Mary E. Tyler" now moored at Inlet Inn dock, into a first class vessel for Sea Scout work. Details of plans will be found elsewhere in this edition. (News Photo.) Old Schooner Will Be Used By Scouts For Sea Training If present plans are carried out the "Mary E. Tyler will be com pletely renovated at an early date and converted into a first class vessel under license for passen gers or freight, and used as a Sea Scout vessel. Such was the an nouncement made this week by Scoutmaster Louis D. Hayman, pastor of Ann Street Methodist Church, who has been active in youth work of Beaufort and sur rounding territory since he came to Beaufort. It was Scoutmaster Hayman who secured the one-masted sail boat "Mary E. Tyler" last year, which since her arrival in Beaufort has been moored at Inlet In. i dock. Announcement that the vessel would be converted into first da-; condition and used primarily lor j scout work c me tiequent ques tions asked the Scoutmaster about what disposition would be made of th ve".:"!. Th's week th-. ques tion was answer .'d by Scoutmaster Hayman as follows: "Well, for the present, nothing. This is wintt-r time, and boating is not suit'.'il to scouting at thi tinie of tilt v;' One of tho.-.e mornings, the Mary E. Tyler will begone from her dock. When returns, you won't know her. ;.;u she will make her appearance in the harbor in due time and then something is likely to happen. "She will be a first class S'ja scout vessel, under license for pas sengers and freight service. She will largely be devoted to scoul service. A sea scout crew will be made up and trained both on land and sea from among the most com petent members of local scout troops, and all through the com ing season, the vessel will be in commission. "Much of this kind of activity however, will depend on how well the regular scout work goes for ward, and the backing of the lo cal scout authorities." Scoutmas Rr 1 ter Hayman stated. And Associates C. of C. Secretary Tells Them To Come Here Buried on the back page of the Greensboro Daily News last Saturday was an Associated Press story under a Boston dateline which in dicated that Dr. Paul D. White and associates who are making a study of heart actions in larger mammals had completed experiments on the pulse and heart movements of the elephant, wanted a larger mammal to work on, and the only larger mammal is the whale. So, the story stated, Dr. White and asso ciates are now shopping for a whale. Immediately upon reading tha story the Beaufort Chamber of Commerce Secretary wrote Dr. White that although there were no whale markets in this area, that if he and his associates knew of any method or capturing a whale, they would stand a better chance of catching one off the North Car olina coast than anywhere else in America. Basis for this opinion was given by the:C. of C. Secre tary because he has heard dozens of reports from fishermen who have sighted a whale or whales off the coast this year. And it is the same way every year. The whales follow the fatback or men haden schools close inshore. Dr. White was advised that if he and his associates would come to North Carolina that his expedi tion could base in Beaufort or any conveniently located community between Cape Lookout and Cape Hatteras, and follow the fleet for a few days and surely discover the specimen. It was suggested that he and his associates obtain the (Continued on page 8) Fishing And All Outdoors By AYCOCK BROWN HAMMOND BROWN, outdoor editor of The Baltimore News-Post wrote this week that he and John ny Mock of the Pittsburgh Press were anxious to determine if there was such a thing as winter-time angling in North Carolina. They are planning on making the trip down here soon and determine if channel bass will take a lure or if black basa in fresh water are in clined to bite during cold weath er. No one has ever given winter time ana-ling alons the Carolina ' coast serious considsration, akh- ough I have seen Phillip Mayer of New York land large channel bas.s from the surf in December when the temperature was near freezing. I WROTE HAMMOND that beach crews of commercial fisher men had been catching quantities of small channel bass this winter, bass which weigh from two to eight pounds usually, sometimes larger. I told him that I could not (Continued on Page four) ................... .y. TIDE TABLE Information as to the tide at Beaufort is given in this column. The fgures are ap proximately correct and are based on tab!-.' furnished by the I'. S. G.c J. tie Survey. Some nl'ov'i! s must be made for vr..iations in the I H a a wind and r!so with respect to the l-v'ility, that is wheth er near the inlet or at the i.ead of the estuaries. 8 HIGH LOW Friday, Jon. 13. 2:16 A. M. 8:43 A. :VI 2:27 P. M. 8:59 P. M. Saturday, Jan. 14 3:22 A. M. 9:47 A. M. 3:33 P. M. 10:04 P. M. Sunday, Jan. 15 4:23 A. M. 10:46 A. M. 4:36 P. M. 10:50 P. M. Monday, Jan. 16 5:20 A. M. 5:30 P. M. 11:40 P. M. Tuesday, Jan. 17 6:07 A.M. 11:41 A. M. 6:16 P.M. 12:29 P.M. Wednesday, Jan. 18 6:50 A. M. 12:29 A. M. 6:58 P.M. 1:12 P.M. Thursday, Jan. 19 7:28 A.M. 1:13 A M. 7:38 P. M. 1:51 P. M.