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Carteret County's Oldest Newspaper ..Established 1912
VOLUME XXII. NO. 30.
BEAUFORT, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1939
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Colorful Coastal Festival Begins
uiy
Thursday,
National Interest In
International Goggle
Fishing Tourney Here
MISS BEAUFORT
OF 1939
PICTURED HERE on top of an
Atlantic Beach sand dune is Mm
lieUn O'Brvan. "Miss Beaufort of
1939'' and Queen of the Gladiolui
Festival. She will represent this
tAA lunsrt town in the second an
nual pageant of beauty to be pre
sented by the Morehead City Ju
nior Chamber of Commerce in the
Casino on Atlantic Beach, Satur
day, July 29. Miss O Bryan shares
fnwal honors with Miss Lucille
Thomas, "Queen of the. Coastal
festival" who was Miss Beautort
of 1938." (Beaufort News Pho
to by Aycock Brown.)
Beaufort Rotary
Club Picnics At
Harkers Island
By Rev. L. D. Hayman
In a colorful setting on the
front lawn of Rotarian Pat
(M J.) O'Neal's summer
home on Harkers Island, and
under the spreading live oak
trees, and with a south west
wind blowing in with the
strength of a lion and the
balmy pressure of a lover embrace
the members of the Beaufort Ro
tary Club feasted on a sumptuous
supper spread by the "Ann's".
Among the guests were Mr. and
Mrs. N. F. Eure, Rev. and Mrs. W.
Y. Stewart, Dr. and Mrs. John
Morris of Lehigh University, Pat
'"O'Neal, Rotarian from Henderson,
Rev. Walter Pavy, Harkers Island,
and Louis Hayman, Jr. and George
Bailey, pirates of the high seas of
Core Sound.
As the sun set on the western
horison in a bank which was fring
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FIGHTS
Atlantic Beach Casino becomes
an Arena-by-the-Sea next Thurs
day night with a group of young
ambitious fighters on the card, in
stead of a group of washed out
professionals and persons who
fight just for another three or
four day meal ticket. On the card,
for the fights, is a list of the best
fighters along the coast. They are
fighting more or less for the sport
of it than the small expense mon
ey which will be paid by The Casi
no. Heading the card is Henry Gilli
kin, the fighting fisherman of More
head City, who believes he can
along the Carteret Coast who
meets a young mountaineer, Kip
Dowdy of Mt. Airy. If he licks
Dowdy, (he probably will) he will
meet the winner of the Morris
Willis, Beaufort or Ben Watson,
Straits, on the following week. Be
fore the season is passed, Beaufort
or East Carteret is expecting to
produce a fighter who can at least
draw, if not i;CK the sensational
Cillikin of Morehead City.
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Local Committee Is
Busy Making
It Big Event
Pnnsirlprflhlp interest from
all parts of the United States
anH snmp fnreiem countries
is centered on the first annu
al International Goggle t lsh-
inor Tnnrnnment. to be Dre-
sented in Beaufort on August
4-5-6 at nearoy Dreanwaiers
and at Shackietora ana
Lookout breakwaters. Dr. H. F.
Prytherch, chairman in charge of
the event is confident that the
goggle fishing tournament will not
only bring an added interest to
this new sDort which was intro
duced to America by Major W. A.
Farrell, U. S. M. C. of Quantico.
ad also to Beaufort which during
the nast vear has become the un
disputed center for the sport along
American coast.
Associates of Dr. Prytherch who
are workinor hard to make the
event a success are Jack V. Neal,
and Bob Lang. Aycock Brown is
handling the Dublicitv.
A program of the event and a
partial list of the entries will be
released in a subsequent edition of
this newspaper. Many persons
from this and adjoining states, and
possibly from one or two foreign
countries will enter the contest
which is being presented purely
for the sporting Interest. Trophy
cups will be awarded the winners
of the various contests.
' As a result of the unusual con
test newspapermen from distant
points will be present to cover the
story for their newspapers. Fox
Movietone ia expecting to send a
cameraman down for the tourney,
and there is a likelihood that other
news reel companies will have
representatives on hand to make a
celluloid reproduction of the story.
, More complete details of the
Goggle Fishing Tourney will be
given in next week's edition of this
newspaper.
Recorder Disposes
Of Six Cases Here
In Court Tuesday
John Davis was found not
guilty of assault.
Wilbert Taylor and Iona Salter
charged with cohabitation, were
found guilty. Judgement was
suspended on payment of the
costs.
Alex Becton, charged with vio
lating the phohibition laws was
found guilty. The defendant was
given a four months jail sentence
suspended upon payment of costs
and of good behavior for a period
of two years.
Starky Marbly was found not
guilty of violating the prohibition
laws.
Charges of violating the prohi
bition laws were suspended in the
cases of Pearlie Oden and Julia
Oden. This meant a 90 days sus
pended sentence in the county jail.
In the case of Joe Elliott, charg
ed with assault and battery, the
judgement was nol pros with leave.
Local Royalty At
Tobacco Festival
Two members of royalty from
this old seaport town are guests of
honor at Wilson's Tobacco Festi
val this week along with queens
fram other festival towns of North
Carolina and nearby states. They
are: Miss Helen O'Bryan, "Miss
Beaufort of 1939" and Queen of
the Gladiolus Festival and Miss
Lucille Thomas, "Miss Beaufort of
1938" and queen of the second an
nual Coastal Festival of Morehead
City, a Jaycee sponsored event
which will be presented for three
days starting July 27. Both queens
of the University of North Caroli
na in Greensboro.
Drops.
North Carolina's cash farm in
come, including government pay
ments, totaled $33,137,000 during
the first five months of 1939 as
compared with $38,872,000 for the
same months last year!
First of The New Super
FT. MACON COAST
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THIS IS THE first picture to be published of any of the new "su
per" coast guard stations which are being built along the North
Carolina coast. It is located at Fort Macon on Beaufort Inlet, and
will be the first in a series of new station buildings to be completed
in the Coast Guard expansion projram. In the foreground, a mem
ber of the crew of Fort Macon is shown with two summer visitors on
the coast who are interested in this particular point of interest on
the Carteret coast. (Beaufort Naws-Aycock Brown Photo.)
F. S. A. EXTENDS
PROGRAM TO 50
NEW COUNTIES
Carteret Eligible
For Purchase
' Loans
Every county in North Car
olina will receive loans to
help farm tenants become
owners under the Bankhead
Jones Farm Tenant Act, ac
cording to information re
ceived here by FSA County
Supervisor, T. Newton Cook,
from the State Director of
the Farm Security Adminis
tration, Vance E. Swift.
"These loans are maue Tor a 40
year period at three per cent in
terest. However, the act provides
that after five years payment in
full can be made at any time. Un
der a variable payment plan farm
ers make larger payments in good
years with smaller payments due
in years of partial crop failure or
low prices.
Mr. Cook said repayment of
these loans all over the United
States is remarkable with borrow
ers repaying 135 per cent of ma
turities. Further information about
how t oapply for these loans will
be given by the County Supervisor
whose office is located in Court
house Annex Building, Beaufort,
N. C.
A three-farmer advisory com
mittee will assist the Supervisor,
examine the appplications, ap
praise farms applicants wish to
buy and recommend tenats for
successful farm ownership. Bor
rowers will have the help and
guidance of the Farm Security Ad
ministration in building or repair
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Fishing And
All Outdoors
By AYCOCK BROWN
IF THE guides and inn keepers
along the coast think they have had
an increase in business this year,
they have a still bigger surprise in
1940, because instead of slacking
up in 1940, the State Division of
advertising, with its news bureau
under the direction of Bill Sharpe
plan to keep plugging in a big and
bigger way the fishing available in
this state especially the big game
species off the coast.
IF YOU ARE a guide and have
not gotten your share of the new
business which involves the big
game and Gulf Stream fishing
its because you are not properly
equipped to take care of the par
ties 'who want to'g'6 (hi 16 ihTTtrftW
waters of the Gulf Those in the
Beaufort-Morehead City, Cape
Lookout, Southport, Hatteras and
Manteo areas who are prepared
to take anglers off to the Gulf
Stream have been experiencing one
of the best and most lucrative sea
sons since this type of fishing off
North Carolina first began only a
few years ago.
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Stations
GUARD STATION.
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HARKERS ISLE
TO HAVE SHARE
OF RECREATION
Hayman Heading
Movement For
Program
Some week ago an inter
ested citizen or two let it be
known to the Carteret Coun
tv Supervisor of Recreation
that Harkers Island wished
to share in the program now
being promoted by the Gov
ernment in the interest of oc
cupying the spare and idle
time of people. These people were
told to ascertain the extent of the
desire for such a program and to
make their findings known to the
proper officers of the County
Recreation Project under the
WPA work.
The results of the investigation
brought to the desk of Mrs. Vera
H. Stubbs, the supervisor of Car
teret County, a petition with forty-two
names of representative
citizens of the community asking
that the matter be considered. On
Tuesday evening of this week, a
representatove of the WPA Recre
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Morton Praised By
Insurance Company
D. W. MORTON, local agent for
the Rhode Island Insurance Com
pany of Providence, came in for
some very complimentary praise
from Byron S. Watson, president
of the organization in a recent let
ter. Excerpt of the letter receiv
ed by Mr. Morton from vhe head
of this great insurance company
TiTirotrsr-
the Rhode Island Insurance Com
pany for nearly 18 years, and al
though we have agents from whom
we receive a larger premium in
come than is enjoyed from your
office, in the matter of loss rec
ord experience you stand at the
very top of the list of all of our
several thousand agents located in
practically every state in the Un
ion." (NEWS PHOTO)
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RAILROAD, SHIFTS
PORT OBLIGATION
Goldsboro Station and
Institutional Bonds
Taken By RFC
The Reconstruction Finan
ce Corporation has released
the State-controlled Atlantic
and North Carolina Railroad
from its guarantee of $188,
0Q.0 o? bonds of the More
head City Port Commission
Attorney-General Harry Mc
Mullan said yesterday.
The Attorney-General said the
release followed when RFC was al
lowed to sell $76,000 of North Car
olina institutional bonds, which
brought $108,322.80, and by turn
ing over to RFC at face value an
issue of $28,000 Goldsboro Union
Station bonds. The RFC had held
both issues as collateral on $326,
000 Morehead bonds. With cou
pons and accrued interest, the
RFC got $161,064.80, and in turn
gave the State that amount of
Morehead City port bonds, includ
ing coupons and accrued interest.
The transaction was a part of
the preliminaries toward leasing
the road to H. P. Edwards of San
ford. E. Carolina C. of C.
Have Mid Summer
Meet Here July 11th
Midsummer meeting of the Eas
tern Carolina Chamber of Com
merce will be held in The American
Legion Hut in Beaufort, August
11, 7:30 P. M., according to an an
nouncement by Secretary, N. G.
Bartlett this week. All civic clubs
in Morehead City and Beaufort are
cooperating to make this, the first
mid summer meeting of the Regi
onal organization, a real success.
U. E. Swann, local director for the
organization will be ably assisted
in the local arrangements by C. L.
Beam, President of the Beaufort
Chamber of Commerce; Aycock
Brown, President of the Beaufort
Rotary Club; R. G. Lang, Presi
dent of the Beaufort Lions Club;
Rudolph Dowdy, President of the
Morehead City Junior Chamber of
Commerce; P. H. Geer, President
of the Morehead City Rotary Club,
and President H. O. Phillips of the
Morehead City Lions Club. Presi
dent R. A. Applewhite of Halifax,
will preside over tho meeting.
The principal speaker and the full
program will be announced later,
Secretary Bartlett stated.
LOOKOUT CREW
WINS ROWING
CONTEST HERE
CoastguardWmen from Cape
Lookout won in the rowing clas
sic at Beaufort this week and as
a result will go to Manteo for the
7th District Finals on August 4.
Competing in the local evet were
Fort Macon, Oak Island and Core
Banks Station.
Covering The
Waterfront
By AYCOCK BROWN
Editor's Note: Guest col
umnist today is Charles J. Par
ker, whose un-by-lined Under
The Dome is read by thous
ands of News and Observer
readers each day. Parker was
spending a short vacation
not covering the story, when
Commercial Fisheries Board
met in Morehead City last
week. Upon his return to
Raleigh, he devoted an entire
column to Capt. John Nelson's
splendid career as commis
sioner of fisheries. (A. B.)
JOB A weather-beaten oldster
who obviously had been imbibing
f reely stalked out of the auditorl
um of the MoreiUuli Citj uWn-
pal building where the State Board
of Conservation and Development
was sitting.
In the doorway he paused.
"It's all a farce, that's what it is,
seven men trying to say what's
good for 97 counties," he flung
back over his shouldar.
Silence fell for a moment upon a
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Army, Navy, Coast Guard,
Kiddies, Beautiful Girls
To Feature In Festival
Queen of Coastal
Festival
PICTURED HERE is Miss Lu
cille Thomas, of Beaufort who will
reign as queen over the 1939 edi
tion of the Morehead City Coastal
Festival, an event which this year
will be the biggest of its kind ever
presented at any town or city on
the North Carolina Coast Aycock
Brown Photo.)
MOREHEAD CITY
PREPARING FOR
GREAT FESTIVAL
Water Parade And
Gala Street Dance
To Be Feature
Under a full moon upon
the waters of Bogue Sound,
under the twinkling stars,
augmented by colored flares
and bursting aerial displays,
the gigantic water parade of
the Second Annual Coastal
Festival will be held at
Morehead City, Friday night,
July 28th beginning prompt
at 8:00 o'clock.
Speed boats will lead the parade,
each with a beautiful girl on its
bow. This will be followed by the
procession of pleasure boats in
harbor, all gaily decorated with
flags, pennants, and electric lights.
This procession will be interspers
ed with shiningly decorated floats
reflecting from their irredescent
sides, the beams of powerful
searchlights focused upon them. In
the floats will be more beautiful
girls, attractively gowned and cos
tumed to represent scenes illustra
tive of the Festival theme. The
procession will begi at the Port
Terminal Dock and will proceed
the length of the Morehead City
waterfront to Twelfth Street,
thece around Morehead Island and
returning to the Port.
Last year's parade was one of
the outstanding features of the
Festival, and this year it is ex
pected to be even more brilliant.
A free street dani'e and carnival
to the rolling rhythm of Jack
Wardlaw and his orchestra will be
held immediately following the pa
rade. BEAUFORT R. R.
SERVICE OKAY
Beaufort's rzJlroa A service which
seemed to hanz in a sort of bal
ance early this week is okay, ac
cording to Attorney C. R. Wheat
ley, one of the directors and own
ers of the 3.17 miles which erves
an important purpose for Beaufwrt
and communities east of Beaufort.
He stated today, just as we go to
press that Capt. George Brooks,
ice-president of the Beaufort and
Morehead City Railroad had been
in Washington and also Sanford
miW w.lt and that all arrange-
ments for continu.
vice, if and when, H. P.
Edwards
becomes lessee, satisfactory ar
rangements will be made for con
tinuance of the service which
Beaufort is getting at present
from the railroad which connects
this ancient seaport town with the
mainline of the A. and N. C. in
Morehead City.
Biggest Event Ever
Presented On
Our Coast
Morehead City's Coastal
Festival, the second annual
event of its kind sponsored
by the Morehead City Jay
cees will begin next Thurs-
day and continue for three
days in Morehead City and
Atlantic Beach. The event
this year, 10 times larger than ia
1938, will bring not only the Ar
my, Navy and Coast Guard to thg
ocean port city, but also the big
gest collection of attractions ever
attempted by a municipality on
PULCHRITUDE
Fairest examples of pulchri
tude in North Carolina will be
presented at the Beauty Pageant
in Atlantic Beach Casino on Sat
urday night, July 29. Already
19 entries for beauty honors ia
the event which will be (ruled
over by Miss Lucille Thomas, of
Beaufort, have been received by
Bernard Leary, Jaycee Beauty
show supervisor. Those who
have officially entered follow:
Miss Dorothy Connor, Belhaven;
Miss Louise Harrington, Ayden;
Miss Elsie Gurganus, Wilson J
Miss Charlotte Perkins, Green
ville; Miss Winifred Rosenbaum,
Tarboro; Miss Evelyn Hackney,
Wilson; Miss Daisy Dawson,
Rocky Mount; Miss Julia Bond
Dickinson, Edenton; Miss Eliza
beth Warren, Mt. Olive; Miss
Dorothy Parker, Goldsboro; Mist
Novella Pope, Dunn; Miss Betsy
Ann Reid, Raleigh; Miss Fran
ces Herring, Kinston; Miss
Doris Butler, Clinton; Miss Hel
en O'Bryan, Beaufort; Miss Sal
ly Pitt Cobb, Pinetops; Miss
Elizabeth Wade, Moredead City;
Miss Margarite Moye, Snow
Hill and Miss Jean Ely, Wash
ington. Farmville and New Bern
are also expected to send a beau
ty contestant, but as we go to
named. Miss Lucille Thomas of
press today they have not been
Beaufort, (Miss Coastal Festival
of 1938)will reign as queen over
the Coastal Festival this year.
The Beauty pageant will be pre
sented in Atlantic Beach Casino
on Saturday night, July 29.
the North Carolina Coast. The
Feast of the Pirates which was
presented with some degree of suc
cess in Wilmington for several
years was a tame sort of entertain
ment in comparison to Morehead
City's Coastal Festival.
The Army: Troops from Fort
Bragg, a detachment of 155 mm
Howitzers and the famous Fort
Bragg Band will arrive on the 27th
to take part in the parade on that
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TIDE TABLE
Information as to the tide
at Beaufort is given in this
column. The figures are ap
proximately correct and are
based on tables furnished by
the U. S. Ccnletic Survey.
Some allowances must be
made for variations in the
wind and also with respect
to the locality, that is wheth
er near the inlet or at the
head of the estuaries.
HIGH
Friday,
11:14 A. M.
11:51 P. M.
LOW
July 21
5:34 A. M.
6:07 P. M.
Saturday, July 22
12:06 A. M. 6:29 A. M.
12:46 P. M. 7:12 P. M.
Sunday, July 23
1:01 A. M. 7:27 A. M.
1:44 P. M. 8:16 P. M.
Monday, July 24
1:59 A. M. 8:27 A. M.
2:46 P. M. 9:20 P. M.
Tuesday, July '
3:05 A. M. 9:2$ A. M.
3:51P.M. 10:19 P. M,
Wednesday, July 26 .
4:13 A.M. 10:22 A.M.
4:51 P. M.
Thursday, July 27
5:11A.M. 11:16 A.M.
45:43 P.M. 11:37 P.M.
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