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Volume XXVIII
EUGENE MOORE
IS RE-ELECTED
TAX COLLECTOR
Routine Matters
Before Board
Monday
Routine matters were dis
posed of by the Board of
County Commissioners at
their regular monthly meet
ing here on Monday. E. O.
Moore, who has done a good
job since he was appointed
tax collector for the County,
v.is re-elected to serve for the
usual two years of the office.
During the meeting tax listers for
r,;i;) listings were appointed. The
list of those appointed vill be
f mind in a stow appearing else
where in this edition.
P. ''solutions were passed asking
the State Highway and Public
works Commission to take over
and maintain certain community
roads in Straits near Clarence
Chadwick's home; the driveway
leading from Money Island Beach
to the Ocean (leading from Fort
Macon road) and also the Weeks
Neck road in White Oak township.
At the request of the U. S. Forest
Service, the Highway Commission
was requested by the Commission
ers to take over a certain road
within Croatan National Forest.
The road will be maintained by the
U. S. Forest service.
Chairman Bonner and McCabe
were appointed a committee to in
vestigate property values of the
Tolson heirs in Morehead township
and the property value of L. C.
Fulcher in Morehead Township.
W. W. Scott and James W. Rob
ertson were allowed $4 per month
from the Poor Fund. D. B. Willis
was named supervisor of tax listing-
in the County and it was or
dered that Dr. W. S. Chadwick be
paid $5 for services as County
Physician.
Covering The
Waterfront
By AYCOCK BROWN
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FEDERAL FUNDS should be
used to improve old Clubfoot Ca
nal and the upper region of the
Newport River. Perhaps the Club
foot Canal project could be improv
ed with WPA laborers using picks
and shovels. You who know your
Carteret history will recall that
this canal, which leads from Har
lowe Creek on the Newport Riv
er side to Clubfoot Creek on the
Neuse River side, that the water
way was cut about one hundred
years ago with slave labor, usin;
picks and shovels. If it was ori
ginally dug with slave labor using
such crude tools, it would be a nat
ural for present day WPA work
ers. Clubfoot Canal is becom
ing filled with stumps and other
debris if removed it would offer
a short course between Newport
and Neuse Rivers and be of tre
mendous benefit to the small fish
ing boat type of navigation inter
ests. C. M. (KID) HILL of Newpoi
tells me that if the river was dred
ged out at a section where it has
shoaled near the Narrows, that
flood waters would then flow
(Continued on Page 8)
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3 DEBMKER
By John ilarrey Furbay, Ph.D.
C"j'y r;'i( t'U 'uttttc Ledyrr, n
HISTORY
DOE3 NOT ftfWAT ITSELF
There have never been two peo
ple alike and no two men evr had
exactly the same environment. His
tory is made by the actions of men
who are trying to adjust to their
environment. Therefore, it is ob
vious that no two men ever reacted
in exactly the same way and like
wise, no nations of men ever have
repeated the histories of any other
nation or generation that preceded
them. If history repeated itself, it
would be much easier than it is to
..reconstruct the story of unknown
(past ages.
1 WNU Service.
8 Pages This Week
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LETTER FROM MEXICO
Ambassador Daniels Writes Of the
Days When He Fished In
Nearby Waters
"BRIGHT DAY IN
Dear Aycock:
It is & bright day in the Embassy when The Beaufort
News arrives each week after its long travel ovsr rivers
Hon. Josephus Daniels
es and fisheries, and the big catches. There is something
intriguing about the water, the ships that sail upon its bos
cm and the fish that sport in its waves. I have often felt
that President Garfield had the same feelings I have about
love of the ocean, for you remember, when he was shot, he
Soft Crabs
First soft crabs of the sea
son were shipped from Car
teret county this week,
about two weeks earlier than
in previous years. Way
Brothers of Beaufort shipped
15 dozen to northern mar
kets on Wednesday. R. R.
Barbour Seafood Company,
of Morehead City shipped
five dozen on the same day.
The crabs, small in size,
were taken in the Marshall
berg area. Current prices
for the crustacean delicacies
about $1 per dozen, William
Way stated. Carteret coun
ty is the principal soft crab
producing center south of
Crssfield, Md.
Dr. Frank Graham Wil
Deliver Commencement
Address Here May I5th
1939 Tax Listers
Appointed Monday
Thirteen citizens of
County were appointed
Board of Commissioners
regular monthly meeting
Carteret
by the
at their
Monday
to the office of Tax Listers for
1939. Those receiving appoint
ments and the communities in
which they will serve follow:
Theodore Salter, Portsmouth.
Duffy Day, Cedar Island.
Walter Smith, Atlantic and Sea
Level.
H. H. Davis, Stacy and Davis,
George W. Davis, Williston and
Smyrna.
Irvin W. Moore Marshallberg.
Henry D. Chadwick, Straits
Township.
Henry T. Banks, Merrimon
Township.
J. Raymond Ball, Harlowe
Town&hip.
D. W. Morton, Town of Beau
fort. Chas. V. Webb, and Hugh Mur
doch, Morehead Township.
W. H. Bell, Newport Township.
D. W. Smith, White Oak Town
ship.
The lister for rural section of
Beaufort Township will be named
later.
D. B. Willis was appointed Su
pervisor of Tax Listers in Carteret.
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Gray Has-
soll Wednesday. March 8th, at
Potters Emergency hospital, a
daughter Frances Rae.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. James
Davis Potter, March 7, at More-
head City hospital, a daughter.
Carteret County's
The Beaufort
THE EMBASSY'
and mountains. It enables
me to keep up with the very
happy days when I rarely
missed a summer being in
Beaufort and Morehead and
L . r
me waters as rar away as
Ocracoke. I am looking for
ward to resuming these as
sociations while I am still
young.
Your interesting paper
keeps me in touch with what
is going on, the men who go
down to the sea in ships, re
newal of incidents occurring
in the vicinity of historic Fort
Macon, (named for the most
illustrious of North Carolin
ians Nathaniel Macon
called by Jefferson, "the last
of the Romans") and the
coming and going of vessels.
Particularly am I interest
ed in your stories about fish
wisneu to be taken to the ocean
where the music of the waves
soothed his waking hours. With
him it was quietly and peacefully
going out with the tide. I can im
agine no requiem so consoling as
the breaking of the waves upon
the shore.
I am not much of a fisherman,
though I have spent many days in
the waters around Beaufort with
that master fisherman, the late
William L. Kennedy, who seemed
to have some sort of hypnotism
with fish so that they seemed
to love to be caught by him: In
fact when I think of how many fish
he and Teen Piner and other fish
ermen of your coast could take
out of the water when I was catch
ing a measly few, I am reminded
of what John Allen, the Mississippi
humorist said when he was seek
ing an appropriation for a fish
hatchery at his home town of Tu
pelo. "There are millions of fish
(Continued from Page 8)
Noted Educator And
ILN.C. President
Widely Known
Dr. Frank Graham, na
tionally known educator and
president of the Greater
University of North Carolina
will make the Commence
ment Address at Beaufort
Graded School on Monday
night, May 15, it was an
nounced this week after
Principal Ralph Miller was noti
fied that he would accept the invi
tation. Last year Governor Clyde R.
Iloey, delivered the Commence
ment Address, and it was one of
the most outstanding events in the
history of Beaufort Graded School.
Hoey is a splendid speaker.
(Continued on Page four)
Beaufort, Newport
And Morehead Seek
Cut In ABC Funds
Representative Fred Seeley W
scheduled to introudce a Bill in
the Legisalture this week which if
enacted in to law will giant a six
per cent cut of the gross receipts
from ACC Stores of Carteret go
ing to the municipalities of New
port, Morehead City and Beaufort.
Each town would get the six per
cent of gross sales from their re
spective liquor stores. Everyone
seems in favor of the proposal
that the municipalities share in
the gross sales, or if anyone is a
gainst the proposal they have not
rnaJe any public statements rela
tire to same.
Oldest NewspaperEstablished 19L
News, March 9, 1939.
Flying Rotarians
Expected Tuesday
D. Victor Meekins
Dave Driskill
SHERIFF D. Victor Meek
inn jinrl Pilnt Dave Driskill
of Manteo will fly here next
Tuesday to attend the regu
lar meeting of Beaufort Ro
tary Club. Both are Rotar
ians. They are both inter
ested in the proposed Beau-fort-Manteo
Charter plane
service via the Outer Banks
which will be established
during the summer in Beau
fort, if present plans carry.
(Dare County Times Photos)
NOW I WONDER what Aycock
Brown had in mind when he sug
gested I write about the effect of
the rubber industry on the human
race. I had discarded the idea un
til I flew with Dave Driskill, ace
pilot of the Park Service this week
and smelled the pungent odor of
hot rubber, as the plane slowed
to safety on a perfect three-point
landing at the Manteo airport, but
now, come to think of it, the sug
gestion intrigues me, and seeming
ly few commodities are more es
sential in our every-day life. For
where you realize the value of
good brakes on a short runway and
good, tough tires on the wheels,
you can feel appreciative of the
value of lubber.
ALTHOUGH RUBBER was dis
covered by white man three hun
dred and fifty years ago, the in
dustry ras developed in less than
a century. It is a gigantic enter
prise which employs nearly one
hundred and fifty thousand work
ers in the I'nited.Statcs an:l manu
factures products that run to eight
hundred and thirty million dollars
a year. From eight million acres
in rubber plantations scattered
throughout the world comes this
great boon to mankind, most of
which is manufactured in theUni
ted Staes. A single rubber tree
yields only about four pounds of
rubber a year, not enough to form
a single tire, although there are
trees that have produced as high
as thirty pounds annuo?!.
(Continued on Page 2)
To Plant Shrubbery
At Federal Building
Bids are now being received by
Postmaster W. H. Taylor from
persons who are in position to
plant and landscape the Federal
Building properties here. A va
riety of plants and bushes will be
arranged adjacent to the building,
which will make the beautiful
properties even more beautiful.
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VICTOR, MEEKINS
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v-namoer Vjr Commerce 10
Sponsor "Boost Beaufort"
Barbecue Early In April
FLYING ROTES
ARE DUE HERE
NEXT TUESDAY
Community Center
To Be Scene Of
'Ladies Nite'
Beaufort Rotary Club will
observe Ladies Night next
Tuesday and the meeting in
the form of an oyster and
weiner roast will be held at
Community Center. Guests
of honor will be Victor Mee
kins, Dave Driskill and Ben
Dixon MacNeill, flying Ro
tarians of Manteo on Roa
noke Island coming here
aboard a cabin plane via the
Uuter Banks route.
If unfavorable weather condi
tions make it impossible for the
guests to make the trip by plane,
they will come at a later date.
And subsequently if weather con
ditions are not favorable for hav
ing the oyster and weiner roast
outdoors in front of Community
Center, it will be held inside the
spacious auditorium building whe
re ample facilities will be provid
ed.
Meekins is Sheriff of Dare
County. Driskill is chief opera
tor of the Roanoke Island Flying
Service. They are coming here
primarily on a sort of good-will
flight, because in early May, they
will cooperate in the establishment
of the Beaufort-Roanoke Island
chaiter plane service, between the
two coastal towns. Ben Dixon
Mac.Neul, noted newspaper co-respondent
is no stranger on the
Carteret coast.
Clam Juice
A bottle of clam-juics,
not the traditional cham
pagne, was used by Miss
Catharine O'Bryan of Beau
fort, this morning, when she
christened the new N. C.
Fisheries Division's cabin
cruiser "Croatan'' at the
State Wharf in Morehead
Citv, Director R. Bruce Eth-
eridge, Conservation Depart'
ment; Capt. John Nelson,
Fisheries Commissioner; Col
James L. McNair, Josh
Home, Roy Hampton and
other Beard members looked
cn as Bill Baker of the State
News Bureau made
pictures of the event.
news
TOWN BOARD
MET MONDAY
Beaufort's fire fighters will be
piovided with suitable apparel
when they answer alarms in the
future. Headed by Chief Gher
niaim Holland and Secretary Jul
ius Duncan, several members of
the department appeared before
Ihe Board and asked that 12 rub
ber coats and pairs of boots be pur
chased to be placed on the truck
for the use of firemen answering
alarms who would otherwise be
without them. The Town agreed
wholeheartedly to buy the equip
ment immediately.
Building Inspector John Brooks
appeared before the Board to pre
sent a request ot 1. A. h ... l to
make certain improvements in
the wooden building at the cor::.,
tier of Front and Turner Streets.
In the written request it was stat
ed that four toilets and othrr im
provements were contemplated. It
was stated that Mr. Uzzell is plan
ning to convert the building into
a bus terminal. No definite action
was taken on the request at the
meeting although it is under con
sideration. MARRIAGE LICENSE.
Vernon P. Garner, Morehead
City, N. C, to Ruby Louise Gas
kins, Morehead City, N. C.
Ralph Risgs, Pelletier, N. C, to
Annie Mae Ipock, Newport, N. C.
Paul Freeiand Hersey, Morehead
City, N. C, to Rachel Piner, More
head City, N. C.
Charles Elton Case, Jr., Beau
fort, N. C, to Natalie C. Johnson,
Morehead City, N. C.
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Board Of Directors
Special Meeting
Tuesday Night
Early in April the Cham
ber of Commerce will have
a general membership meet
ing at Beaufort Community
Center in the torm ot a
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1 UUJL UGC&Ullll UOI uctuc.
Profits from the event will
be added to the organiza
tion's treasury and be used
in advertising. Because it
is a strictly "Boost Beaufort"
event, tickets for the barbe
cue supper will sell for seventy-five
cents. At this price
there will be a margin of
profit for the advertising
fund.
No definite date has been set
for the Boost Beaufort barbecue
supper and general meeting, be
cause it is expected that Dr. W. C.
Jackson, dean of W. C. U. N. C,
and C. E. Teague, comptroller of
the institution will be guests. It
will however, be presented during
the Spring holidays of W. U. N. C,
for the convenience of the offi
cials of the institution who will be
invited to atend. Dr.t A. E. Shaf
tesbury and Professor and Mrs.
Gregory Ivy, both directors of W.
U. N. C. summer school units in
Beaufort will also be guests of
honor at the banquet. Every
member of The Chamber of Com
meice will be urged to attend anl
During the special call meeting
which was held at Miller Furniture
Store, other important matters
were discussed. Most important
was the subject of building a dor
mitory to take care of the W.C.U.
N.C. summer school students. Va
rious angles of this proposed struc
ture were outlined and committees
were appointed to work with W.
W. C. U. N. C. officials in the mat
ter. (Continued on Page 8)
At Christening Of
The "Croatan"
DIRKCTOR R. Bruce Eth-
eridge and other members
of the Board of Conservation
and Development were pres-
ent this morning in More-;
head Citv when the new ;
state fisheries cruiser "Croa-j
tan" was christened by Miss
Catharine O'dryan of Beau
fort. I
Board Mei:
On
;ers
Shakedown Cruise
Aboard "Croatan"
Director It. Bruce EtheriJge of
the Ilepai tment of Conservation
and sevi s:A or his board members
including Jo.-di Home, Chairman
of the Adveitisin.' Ci.pir.iir.ee a:-,
on the coa.-t today for a i-h-wv.
i-, n cruise i'.boii.'d trie .. ". Di-
, ision of Fisherie's new
cabin i
cuiser Croatan. To tell the sto
ry about the new boat and the
cruise in pictures, Bill P.aker, ace
-otoraphir of the Division of
Advertising came along with the
officials. Yesterday afternoon and
last nisrht they were guests of
Ccpt John A. Nelson, state fisher
ies commissioner.
The "Croatan" built by Bar
bour's Boat Works in New Bern
is a vessel measuring 40 feet in
length and 11 feet in width.
Equipped with Deisel power, which
will permit its operation at the
rate of about $2.50 per day, the
vessel will make from 12 'to 16
miles per hour. It has accommo
dations for eight passengers.
BEAUFORT NEWS
Gives Advertisers
Complete Carteret
County Coverage
Number 10.
GAINING UNDER
FSA PROGRAM
Products For Home
Uses Showing
Increase
Carteret County farmers
under the Rural Rehabilita
tion program of the Farm Se
curity Administration in
crased their net worth $34.32
per family during 1938, II.
D. McLawhorn, FSA Super
visor, said this week.
Mr. McLawhorn reported 42
families comprising 224 individu
als had increased their home use
crops, livestock, poultry, dairy pro
ducts and canned goods about 12
per cent over 1937.
The average Carteret County
family cooperating with the FSA
has 661 pounds of meat on hand
while in the pantry will be found
at least 183 quarts of canned
goods together with 40 bushels of
stored food.
Each family has an average of
1 1-5 cows. The average poultry
flock is 35 per family.
FSA Supervisors help the farm
ers plan their farming operations
as well as extend needed credit.
Living at home is stressed.
New Shore Drive
Open To Traffic
Beaufort now boasts of a new
and picturesque shore drive for a
distance of two or more miles a
long Taylor's Creek to Community
Center. Although the project,
wl ich has been created by the
WPA is not completed, the shell
surface has been placed, and driv
ing over the route is allowed.
I Fishing And
I All Outdoors
By AYCOCK BROWN t
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NORTH CAROLINA'S share of
the Atlantic's salt water has ev
erything and as a result 1939 will
see more piscatorial experts com
ing to the coast than ever before.
There is a reason. That much pub
licized blue niarlin which Hugo
Rutherfurd landed down at Hat,
teras last summer. That is rea
son No. 1, perhaps. When the big
timers of sportfishing hear (and
most of them have already heard
about it) that blue niarlin can be:
taken with rod and reel as far
north as Hatteras, and that one
has been taken, the first ever
landed north of Bimini, and tin
largest noi th of Cuba, they will
be coming to Cspe Hatteras, Cape
Lookout and Frying Pan, hoping
to match the Rutherfurd rc-ord
WHEN YOU rei'd in the pi.
pers that they are catching marti.i
off the Jersey coast in large num
bers, and they have been doinsj
that during recent summers, d.
not get the fish confused with tiie
giant blue-fin marlin which i'l
weigh from four hundred pounds
to infinity. Those off-shore Jer
sey niarlin are white marlin. If
one weighing a hundred pounds is
landed it is news. More oftea
they weigh from 50 to So pounds.
(Continued on Page 3)
TIDE TABLE
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jj Information as to the tide
J; at Beaufort is given in this
column. Tlu- figures are ap
proximately enr-vet and are
" based on ta!i!-.'s ;'urnished by
t. the I'. S. (; !,; tic Survey,
sj Some alluv.ane.-s must be
f; ma !e fir variations in the
J; wind a. id aNo with respect
iS to tiie locality, that is wheth
or near the inlet or at the
; head of the estuaries.
HIGH
i 1 :22
11:30
12:10
12:23
1:01
1:14
1:59
2:13
3:04
3:22
4:10
4:2G
5:05
5:20
LOW
Friday, March 10
AM. 5:40 AM.
P.M. 5:52 PM.
Saturday, March 11
AM. 0:34 AM.
PM. 6:48 PM.
Sunday, March 12
AM. 7:23 AM.
PM. 7:48 PM.
Monday, March 13
AM. 8:35 AM.
PM. 9:01 FM.
Tuesday, March 14
AM. 9:33 AM.
PM. 9:50 PM.
Wednesday, March 15
AM. 10:29 AM.
PM. 10:47 PM.
Thursday, March 16
AM.
PM. 11:20 PM.