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Carteret County's Oldest Newspaper, .Established 1912
Volume XXVIII
8 Pages This Week
The Beaufort News, Thursday, January 19, 1939.
5c Per Copy
Number 3.
(Chamber of Commerce
Directors Met Monday
Discuss Projects
Of Importance
To Beaufort
r.FT IMPROVED
BUS STATION HERE
Chamber of Commerce
directors at their regular
monthly meeting on Monday
night heard a report trom
OA.vnf M vr Ave nek Brown re-
lative to various projects
which the organization is spunk
ing or co-sponsoring, including
waterway improvements, the REA
project for Harkers isiann, pi im
posed REA projects, matters to be
presented to Representative Fred
R. Seeley in the State Legislature
relative to discrimination in sales
taxes of this state, the proposed
Cladoilus Festival in June which
-...ill hu snnnsored bv The Beaufort
News and information which may
lool to the earlv establishment of
a bus terminal in Beaufort. Also
reported on was the activities ot
the secretary in securing or tenat
ively securing a charter plane ser
vice for Beaufort during the com
ing summer.
Twelve of the 16 officials of the
C. of C were presented at meeting
which was presided over by Vice
resident Gravdon M. Paul in th
absence of President C. W. Lewis
woh was out of town.
Discussions of the bus terminal
situation brought on several sug
(Continued on Page 8)
Covering The
Waterfront
By AYCOCK BROWN
DR. PAUL WHITE, of Boston,
who broke into the news recently
under an Associated Press date
line, (and who incidentally made
an address in Durham this week)
acknowledged receipt of a letter
from the local Chamber of Com
merce secretary which advised if
he and his associates who are in
terested in obtaining a specimen of
a live whale, might obtain one off
North Carolina at this season. He
also acknowledged receipt of last
week's edition of The Beaufort
News which gae a local angle to
the story which first appeared un
der a Boston dateline. If a whale
should get stranded along the coast
it is quite likely that Dr. V hite
and associates will come down
here to try and record the heart
actions of the giant mammal.
HELEN JONES who sells tick
ets at the Beaufort Theatre told
(Continued on page 8)
What's the Answer?
By EDWARD FINCH
YUM do eotfs have
Buttons On The Sleeve?
I TNBELIEVABLE as it sounds to
us today, it was once the prac
tice of men to wipe their noses o-i
their coatsleeves. One day a king,
on reviewing his troops was offend
ed at the sight and conceived the
idea of sewing buttons on the sleeves
of his soldiers' uniforms at the point
where it was lifted to the nose. It
cured the soldiers of the practice,
they developed the habit of carrying
nose cloths about with them and
the people of the kingdom took it
up. Handkerchiefs were established
as a hygienic necessity but the prac
tice of buttons on the sleeves was
never dropped.
Western Newspaper Union.
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Sales Tax Racket
Interests Him
v. JF i
im.
MAYOR George W. Hunt
ley who is no merchant, and
thus escapes the ordeal of re
mitting sales taxes regularly
to the State Department of
Revenue, as those who sell
anything have to do, is never
theless vitally interested in
what might be termed as a
sort of "racket" which our
great tax collecting State
permits. He brought up the
subject on Monday night
when members of the Cham
ber of Commerce board of
directors met this business
which plainly shows that the
present sales tax law is dis
criminatory and penalizes
North Carolina merchants
who carry display stocks and
pay privilege, income, ad va
lorem taxes in favor of non
resident business firms (na
mely the mail-order houses)
who pay no State taxes to
North Carolina whatever.
(Continued on page 8)
LOCALS LEAD IN
BOWLING TILT
Hood and Leary Are
High Scorers Last
Thursday Night
With three more nights of the
Beaufort-Morehead City inter-city
bowling tournament to go includ
ing the event at the Idle Hour on
Atlantic Beach tonight, interest in
the contest is growing. Morehead
City bowlers are determined to off
set Beaufort's present lead of 11
games, while the local tilters are
determined to stay on the winning
side. Last year Morehead City
won the tournament.
In the games last Thursday
night Tom Hood and Bernard Lea
ry were the high scorers. Not on
ly is the tournament building up
good will between the two towns,
but the games are attracting wide
attention and patronage from local
persons who go to observe the
games each week.
WOMANLESS
WEDDING
A Womanless Wedding,
featuring the Beau Brummels
of Chamber of Commerce will
be presented in Beaufort at an
early date, it was decided on
Monday night when members
of the Board of Directors of
the organization had their
regular monthly meeting. The
purpose of the Womanless
Wedding will be to raise
monies which the Chamber of
Commerce needs badly for a
variety of reasons, primarily
for the purpose of raising
funds to publish a new pam
phlet advertising the town.
The wedding wiil be under
the direction of Mrs. Martha
Longest Loftin, C of C. treas
urer and will be presented
early in February. Complete
details will probably be pub
lished next week.
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purpose is to create an interest among home owners of
Beaufort, Morehead City, Carteret County and elsewhere
to grow more flowers, and especially Gladiolus, a bulb
species which has made this coastal area nationally fa
mous during recent years as a commercial flower growing
section. You are urged to
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Amazing Offer, featuring Hayne Quality Gladiolus.
S. S. Barron Dunmore
Of Glasgow, Due At
Port Terminal Jan. 23
The British freighter "Baron
Dunmore" of Glasgow, Scotland,
is due to arrive at Morehead City
Port Terminal on Monday, Janu
are 23, to take on a cargo of ap
proximately 2,500 tons of scrap
metal, Port Supervisor W. H.
Smoak stated today. The "Baron
Dunmore" is a vessel of approxi
mately 6,000 tons burthen, it was
stated. She is coming here from
Boston in ballast and when she
clears the port of Morehead City,
she will go to another American
port to complete her cargo.
C. S. Wallace Loans
Building As Rifle
Range To SAL Club
Public spirited Charles S. Wal
lace of Morehead City, has loaned
the second floor of the Wade-Pipkin
Garage building on Arendel
street to the Sons of American
Legion as an indoor range for
their Rifle Club. Since he made
his generous offer the SAL have
been working hard preparing the
building for use.
J. Howard Smith ot the Fish
Meal Company here presented the
club with a large eight foot piece
of steel to be used as a back-stop
for the range, which will be re
inforced with three inch lumber.
The Rifle Club at the present has
24 members, and rifle practice on
the indoor range is scheduled for
every Saturday morning at 9:30
o'clock. Later when lights have
been installed, one night each week
will be set aside for practice.
Joe House, Jr., Club President,
said this week that though mem
bership in the SAL Club is restrict
ed, arrangements may be made la
ter to allow other organizations to
use the range.
New Bern PCA
Meets Tuesday
Members of the New Bern Produc
tion Credit Association, .which
serves Craven, Carteret, and Pam
lico Counties, will gather for their
fifth Annual Stockholder's meet
ing on January 24, 1939, at 10:00
o'clock in New Bern, N. C, at the
Craven County Court House, and
R. F. Allen, Secretary-Treasurer,
said today that indications pointed
to a very large attendance
Tarheel Pioneer
, Writes of Alaska
Although it is not customa
ry for The Beaufort News to
publish stories without a local
angle, we are presenting today
on Page 7, the first in a scries
of two articles under the title
"A North Carolinian Writes
About Pioneering in Alaska."
The article is by Jack Lincke
mining engineer and geologist,
who is prospecting for gold in
Alaska. He is the brother of
Beaufort News linotyper, Paul
Lincke. The story is inter
esting and adventurous. Read
it on Page 7.
By
Page Three
year, or for wo half-year sub
to The lieaufort News for a
read advertisement on rage
Introduces Bill For
C. G. Retirements
AM
REPRESENTATIVE Lind
say Warren has introduced
a bill in the Hou3e author
izing the retirement under
certain conditions of enlist
ed personnel of the Coast
Guard with 20 or more years
of Service. Similar bills in
troduced in past years have
met strong Department op
position and were never con
sidered bv Congress. The
ftresent bill has been careful
y studied and worked out by
the Coast Guard and Treas
ury Department and accord
ing to Mr. Warren it will
have their support. The bill
has also been introduced in
the House by Congressman
O'Leary of New York, and
Representative Barden of
North Carolina. Sometime
this winter a hearing will be
held before the House Sub
committee on Coast Guard
of which Mr. Warren is
Chairman.
LOCAL CHURCH
PEOPLE GOING
TO CONFERENCE
Ann St. Methodists
In Large Groups
Will Attend
Ann Street Methodist Church
is planning to send a laige dele
gation to Kinston on January 27,
when the New Pern District of the
church will assemble at 10:30
o'clock for one of the most im
portant gatherings of the year, it
was stated today by Rev. Louis D.
Hayman, pastor. Dr. E. L. Hill
man, presiding elder, has urged
ministers and laymen of the Dis
troct to attend the assembly which
will be presided over by Bishop
Clare Pudcell, and feature talks
by many other Methorist officials.
"A feature of the meeting or
rally will be the hour set apart for
the "Youth Crusade," Rev. Mr.
(Continued on Page 8)
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HAL THURSTON
AND HIS BAND
TO PLAY HERE
rhey Will Make The
Music For Ball
On Jan. 30th.
INTER-CITY CHAIRMEN
ARE NAMED BY CASE
Hal Thurston and his 10
piece orchestra featuring
Mac McDonaugh vocalist
will make the music for the
President's Ball to be pre
sented here on Monday night
January 30 at Community Center
Auditorium, it was definitely an
nounced today by Charles Case,
chairman of the coming social
event. Previously it had been
entatively announced by the
Chairman that Paul Jones and
his orchestra would make the
music and that the event would be
presented on Saturday night, Jan
uary 28. The date was run up to
Monday night because of local re
ligious opposition to presenting a
dance that may continue until
;arly Sunday morning.
With the definite announce
ment that Hal Thurston would play
(the contract has already been
signed) Chairman Case also an
nounced that Community Chair
men for Beaufort and Morehead
City had been named. In Beau
fort Mrs. W. S. Chadwick will hi
chairman while in Morehead City
Mrs. Floyd Chadwick will serve in
the same capacity.
In the meantime to add to the
funds which wil be raised through
the President Ball which is given
for the purpose of helping fight
the scourge of infantile paralysis,
(Continued from Page 8)
Tom McGee Is III
Friends in Carteret County will
regret to learn that Tom McGee,
efficient secretary and right hand
man of Congressman Graham A.
Barden is ill in New Bern. Mr.
McG ee suffered a heart attack last
week-end and while his condition is
not considered serious, according
to reports, it will be necessary for
him to take a rest cure for several
weeks.
BEAUFORT: 1 00 YEARS AGO
Being Interesting Sketch By Late Dr. Edwards, Who
Was Local Methodist Pastor 100 Years Ago; A
Vivid Description Of August Storm
(Editor's Note.)
Although Beaufort has taken on modern ways with
its paved streets, and other improvements it past history
will always be a matter of interest. Having this fact in
mind The Beaufort News is reprinting herewith an article
that gives an account of what sort of a place Beaufort was
back in 1839 or 100 years ago this month- The accompa
lying article originally appeared in the Raleigh Christian
dvocate of July 19, 1882 and was kindlv loaned the Edi
tor by Miss Annie Rumley
pastor of the Methodist Church here, and whose family
were among the first settlers of Beaufort. Everyone
rhould make it a point to read every word of this article
because it not only gives historical data about one of the
oldest towns in the state but it also gives a vivid description
many things of interest that were happening on the
coast a century ago. A. B.
Reminiscences Of Beaufort, N. C, in 1839,
By Rev. John E. Edwards, D. I).
In running my eye over the colum is of the Raleigh
Christian Advocate, of July 5th, I v.a-; arrested by the
lotico of the New Bern District Conferenr,?. held in Beau
'ort, June 22nd, 1882. My mind travel back over the
lapse of 43 years to 1839 when I was tho stationed preach
er in that town. In looking over the names of proacho v
and lay delegates in attendance, I did '.i:t recognize a s ;;
?le one whim I knew when I was pastor in that town.' I
suppose if I were to visit Beaufort, just now, I would
scarcely recognize the place and possibly not meet a half
dozen people that were in the Church during my pastarate
in 1938. I wonder if Brother Benj. Perry, with whom I
boarded, is still living. Where are the Whitehursts, tho
Masons, the Leecrafts, the Rumlcys, the Manneys, the
Bells, the Dills, the Merits, and many others that come to
my backward glance? The older members of these f arm
ies have doubtless all passed away, and their children,
nost probably, with a few exceptions, are scattered to the
our winds of heaven.
I attended the N. C. Conference held in Salisbury, January 1939,
rom which I was assigned to Beaufort Station. After leaving the
ialeigh Circuit, at the close of 1838, I took my wife to Prince Ed
vards county, Va., a distance of 125 miles. From Prince Edward I
went on horseback in mid-winter, to
(Continued on
aiming Air Route To
anteo r
Pilot Dave Driskill
Flew Here Sunday
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DAVE DRISKILL chief pi
lot for the Roanoke Island
Flying Service, knows how
to fly a plane and loves to do
it. He has a record of ser
vice in many sections of the
country that is an enviable
one. He now lives at Man
teo and flies for the Nation
al Park Service carrying sup
plies and doing other errands
for the transient and CCC
camps that stretch along the
hundred miles between Duck
and Ocracoke, in addition to
serving as chief pilot for the
Roanoke Island Flying Serv
ice which operates a success
ful charter plane service in
Dare County. Last Sunday
Dave Driskill came to Beau
fort for the purpose of mak
ing a preliminary survey of a
j similar charter service here,
; which will probably begin
I during the late Spring. The
local service would be ob
! tained through efforts on the
: part of The Chamber of Com
merce here. (Dare County
'Times Photo.)
whose father was at one time
Salisbury, a distance of 175 miles
Pagre 2)
rom Beaufort
Dave Driskill And
Party Were Here
Last Sunday
MADE SURVEY OF
LOCAL FACILITIES
It seems aparent that a
charter plane service will be
established in Beaufort dur
ing the coming summer.
Dave Driskill, chief pilot of
the Roanoke Island Flying
Service Victor Meekins (the fly
ing Sheriff of Dare County) and
other officials of the Roanoke Is
and Flying Service were here on
Sunday making a preliminary sur
vey of the route by air down, the
Outer Banks to Beaufort via Hat
teras and Ocracoke, and also tha
ocal landing facilities. Although
he had a cross wind for the single
run-way which runs Southeast to
Northwest on the West Beaufort
site where he landed, Pilot Dris
kill made a perfect landing and a
few hours later a perfect take-off.
The Chamber of Commerce sec
retary has been making contacts
with the Roanoke Islanders for the
past several weeks with the thought
in view of getting a service by air
from this point to points on the
barren Outer Banks and to Man
teo, The secretary has lived on
(Continued on Page 8)
Fishing And
I All Outdoors
By AYCOCK BROWN
THE COLUMN this week will be
devoted to the code of S. A L.
Rifle team. S. A. L. is the initials
r abbreviation for Sons of the
American Legion. Recently un
der the direction of Legionaire
Joe DuBois an SAL Rifle Club was
organized, and the rules or code is
one of the first objects which the
youngsters must learn and prac
tice. In describing the activities
of the organization DuBois says:
'Marksmanship is a sport which
goes back beyond the earliest his
tory and is one of the safest and
cleanest sport."
THE CODE WHICH should not
only be practiced by members of
the SAL team members but every
person who handles a gun, follows:
The Code:
1. I will never allow the muz
zle of my gun to point at anything
.vhich I don ot intend to shoot.
2. I will ever load my gnun
.vhen the muzzle is pointed at any
part of my body or at any person,
nor stand in front of anybody who
is loading a gun.
(Continued on page 8)
TIDE TABLE !?
t: Information as to the tide
Jt at Beaufort is eiven in this
Si column. The frrures are ap-
f proximately correct and are
based on t;;bL.-; furnished by
5: the I'. S. (J-.( Ltic Survey.
vVtiH 9l!ov- ; must be
ji made for vLi-ions in the
il wind an I r'.so with respect
U to the looiKtv, that is wheth-
;J er near the ir.let or at the
; l.i'-.l of the estuaries.
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HIGH LCW
Friday, : Jr.. 2?
8:05 A. M. 1:53 A. M.
8:17 P. M. 2:28 P. M.
Sa'u.diy, Jan. 21
8:42 A. ill. 2:29 A. M.
8:54 P. M. 3:01 P. M.
Sunday, Jan. 22.
8:17 A. M. 3:04 A. M.
9:31 P. M. 3:34 P. M.
Monday, Jan. 23
8:51 A. M. 3:39 A. M.
10:07 P. M. 4:06 P. M.
Tuesday, Jan. 24
10:27 A. M. 4:14 A. M.
10:45 P. M. 4:40 P. M.
Wednesday, Jan. 25
11:03 A.M. 4:54 A.M.
5:17 P.M.
Thursday, Jan. 26
11:25 A.M. 5:38 A.M.
11:40 P.M. 5:58 P.M.