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AGE EIGHT
THE BEAUFORT NEWS BEAUFORT. N. C.
Thursday, July 20th, I939
Qabby CjERTIE
A
of an ol! can Put found about his
paint shop. Mr. Eure had a sup
prise, when his wife walked boldly
up to him and asked for a match.
He in accordance with his usual
domestic docility, produced his j FISH The fishing industry
matchbox, and as she and Mrs. Ay- ; the State ranks hijrh among
and air their grievances. It is
with the three boats of the State's
navy at hand, a very pleasant place
ro meet.
A South Sea flapper who knows
her costume is the last straw should
not turn her back 00 the camel."
HARKERS ISLAND
(Continued from Fae 1)
ation met with a large number of
citizens both young people and
adults and went into the merits
of the matter. This meeting took
place in the Methodist Church of
Harkers Island. After a full and
descriptive explanation of what the
community will have to provide
for, and also what the WPA will
furnish in the way of paid work
ers and general super vision of the
Carteret County unit, the group
voted to proceed.
The group was enthusiastic
about the matter, and gave a unon
mous expression as to the desire
for this work. Accordingly, a Lay
Committee was set up composed
of Mrs. Earl Davis, Miss Ellen
Hancock, and Messrs. Walter Pa
vy, C. A. Johnson, Walter Moore,
John T. Willis and Joe Whitley.
The matter of a sponsorship was
left open, and when called upon
for a suggestion, the representative
suggested that in view of the fact
that the community had no civic
organizations, that either a church '
or perhaps the organization of a
community council composed of
some fifteen or twenty persons
would meet the requirements.
This matter is to be ai ranged at
once, and after the committee
meets with Mrs. Vera Stulibs in
Beaufort Saturday morning to dis
cuss the entire program in an of
ficial way.
Harkers Island has a large num
ber of children and young pepole,
as well as adults. These people
live in what is the third largest
community in the county of Car
teret numbering a thousand or
more people. One has only to at
tend a meeting where a group of
these people are to see at once that
Harkers Island is not only a good
community, but that the future is
safe for its growth and welfare
with such personnel as one finds
there. These people are not only
alert, but are fast waking up to the
possibilities of their community,
and are offering the glad hand to
interests capable of bringing dis
tinctive good into their ranks.
The camp for scouts is being lo
cated there, and in time will pre
sent facilities for bringing twenty
five to one hundred people each
week to the most beautiful sur
roundings to be found on the At
lantic seaboard. With the recre
ation center established, the peo
ple young and adults will have care
ful supervised entertainment to
take up the monotony of spare and
idle time. With better ferry fa
cilities already established and de
mands for improvements thereon,
nd the looking forward to a
1 iik'e acis the waters in the near
future, and with the electdic light
ine already in pro. -ess of con
i i.ctii'H, verily Harkers Island is
;oo!; to become a land of the en
.ii'ted haunts of people from far
nd near.
Rev. I.. I. Hayman.
cock Brown disappeared, Eure
yelled out "what the heck you
want with matches as hot as it is
this afternoon?" For the moment
he seemed to have lost sight of the
fact that matches are used for
more things than building fires in
stoves by the ladies in these mod
ern days.
Wkh plenty to eat, abundance
of cold soft drinks, most beautiful
surroundings, the cordial hospitali
ty of Pat O'Neal, and the gleeful
company of Rotarians, their Ann's
and guests, the event will have to
go down as one of the most de-
ugiurui ;t not tne superlative, o
any meeting Beaufort Rotary has
enjoyed. Those who could not at
tend are to be pitied, and those
who just stayed away for luck or
interest or any other like '"cause",
just missed the time of their hvts
an event that happens just once
in a blue moon.
of
the
states, but fishermen generally,
have not piospered greatly. Their
average income was stated at
around $100 a year, and during the
depiession it dropped to less than
half that. They are a hardy lot.
They know how to fight for what
they want. There are spokesmen
among them more eloquent than
many lawyers who gains livelihood
swaying juries. And among men
who wrest a living from the sea,
there are many factions. Shrimp
ers, long-haulers, purse-seiners and
others. Between factions there is
not always any love lost.
F. S. A. PROGRAM
(Continued from page 1)
ing their homes and in making
plans to lio better farming.
Although land purchase loans
are limited, Mr. Cook said tlu
j regular rehabilitation loans for
! items sue has teed, seed, fertilizer
j livestock and farm equipment ar
available to eligible larmers un
able to sA'ure adequate credit
elsewhere.
COASTAL FESTIVAL
(Continued from page one)
date and remain in the ocean port
city over the 2l)th.
The Navy: The U. S. S. Trux
ler, one of the finest destroyers of
the U. S. Navy will arrive early in
the week, to take part in the fies
ta for the full three days. The
Destroyer will have open house
aboard ship for visitors and mem
bers of the crew will take part in
the parade.
The Coast Guard: The U. S. C
G. Mcl.ane, the Patrol Boat 22S
and other craft from nearby land
stations, will play an important
lole in the Coastal Festival events,
the parades, the speed boat and
sailboat races and the water pa
rade. Responsible for all of these
governmental added attractions i
Congressman Graham A. Harden
who has never let any town or
community on the Carteret Coast
down yet on anything of civic in
terest. Beaufort, Morehead City and
every community in the county are
invited to take a part in the Kid
die Parade on Thursday morning,
a feature of which wil he the
Goldsboro Municipal Band under
the direction of J. Robert Moore
and his excellently trained drum
and bugle corps. Mrs. W. H.
Smoak is the chairman in charg;
of the Kiddie Parade. Prizes will
l.v ti- i"i Us winning contestants.
MEETING Always, the first
session of the summer meeting of
the conservation board is devoted
to the commercial fishing industry.
Because fishermen converge from
the shrimping grounds of Bruns
wick County all the way up the
coast to shad and herring areas of
:he Chowan, the meeting is held in
the specious municipal auditorium.
In years past the building has
overflowed with angry fisheimen,
some openly declaring that a med
diesome public agency was bring
ing starvation to their families.
Anything can happen at the tish
cries meeting, but lately less of it
has. Year by year, the fishermen
have appeared less quarrelsome.
Gradually piaise crept into their
remarks before the board.
When the board got down to
business this year, the hall was less
than half full, and not a petitioner
but prefaced his remarks with the
statement that he realized that the
State agency was doing its best for
welfare of the industry, and the in
dividual of the industry were co
work out for the benefit of the
operating to make the regulations
whole.
Had there been a spectator pres
ent who had attended a meeting a
decade and a half ago and missed
all succeeding sessions until the
one last week, he could hardly have
believed his eyes when th
held the lovefeast.
the Shellfish Commission, one ot
Silence fell for a momen upon a
the many agencies which now
make up the Department of Con
servation and Development, he has
become identified with the State's
fishing industry as no other man
has.
He did the job of enforcing the
law at the same time welding bit
ter factions into a cooperative in
dustry so well that like a superb
athlete winning a championship,
the achievement appeared almost
effortless.
Fishermen and law and rule
makers in Raleigh depended upon
Cap'n John" alike. Knotty prob
lems were automatically referred
:o him in full assurance that they
would be solved.
But unlike the athlete who
makes the big headlines. Captain
Nelson did his job so efficiently
and with such great self-effacement
that he came to be taken as
a matter of course.
"Just leave it up to Cap 11
John'," became the byword in fish
eries regulation.
hood.
icy be-
WATERFRONT
(l. !.:tc:nued from page one
Thou a b.aid member laughvd.
and smiles broke out all around.
"At least," observed a specta-
heated argument about quail
shooting.
tor, "he appreciates the magnitude
of the job, but what'd he do with
the other three counties?"
BEAUFORT ROTARY
(Continued from cage 1) !
ed with gold and all the colors of
h" rainbow, and in the midst of
the happy surroundings of Pat's
vont lawn which is nothing short
of a tropical flower garden with
palm-like shrubbery, matted gras
yaids, and Cue music of the'
waves against thy white sands of I
i.is shoreline, the picnic crowd !
sra'.iiertd. It there was any one
n the company who had taken his
;r ublcs along with him or her,
they were soon forgotten. Pat
was at his best as host, all dressed
up with shoes on said he had a
time to find his shoes andaharder
time getting them on. Seeme'd
to have been weeks or months
since he had tried them. At any
VAST If the caustic inebriate
did appreciate the magnitude of
the task of the Board of Conserva
tion and Development, he was one
of a few. From the commercial
fishing industry of the Atlantic
cast to recreation areas in the
highest peaks east of the Rockies
extends the duties of the board.
Between, it must regulate sports
fishing and hunting in 100 coun
ties, supervise a chain of State
parks, administer a $100,000 a
year advertising program, attract
new it: dust try to the State, guard
against forest fires and promote
! efoi estation, and develop and
conserve all natural resources.
So widespread is the activity of
this board that last year it expend
ed $78'.,3 44, of which it collected
in various fees exclusive of com
mercial fisheries taxes, $340,59'J.
The annual meeting of the board
is always held in Morehead City,
headquarteis of the commercial
fisheries division. Reason for this
meeting is two-fold. It is conven
ient for the fishermen to come in
way, all smiles and full of cordial
ity. After supper, and the Rotari
ans, the Ann's and guests had re
covered from the big eating feast,
croquet was played by those able
to exercise that much energy.
Mrs. N. F. Eure wor. th? loving cup
which was hastily iinarovis-d out
Hikers'on the Appalachin trail
straddle North Carolina and Ten
nessee for many miles. The trail
follows the crest of the Smokies,
which is also the state line.
N
Thousands hav obtained uicb,
pkataitt rUf from kadacka,
biltoutnasf and tfcr ditcom
torts caused by constipation .
by taking, on ov two Duffy's
o)ii.f8y.,-s.,
a proscription of Dr. Ckarlo
Duffy written in I8IO.
Today, noarly 130 yoart later,
moro ond moro pooplo oil ovor
tho country obtain roltof from
this same proscription. Try
Duffy's Pills ... ot oil druo,
25 cents. Trral
IO cento.
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REASON On the board are
some of the best business men in
the State, millionaire indusli ialist,
bankers, editors, publishers, edu
cators, lawyers. A private corpor
ation with a board composed of
tne members ot this public com
mission could reason itself in
deed furtunate.
For years men of this calibre
have been devoting their talents
for nominal compensation to the
regulation and preservation of the
natural resources of the State.
The lovefeast between baird and
commercial fishermen at last
week's meeting in Morehead was
indication of success, but no mem
oer of the board would claim cred
it for achieving what even five
years ago would have appeared a
miracle.
That distinction belongs without
argument to a man about whom
'he public generally knows not a
great deal.
SALMON With the State board
when ;n.' r.shermen make their an
nual appearance sits a tall, slim
man with a soft voice and a friend
ly smile concealed beneath a
weather-beaten countenance.
For well over half his 62 years
Captain John A. Nelson has been
identified with the regulation of
the fishing and shellfish industry
in North Carolina, the majority of
which he has borne the title of
State Fisheries Commissioner.
lie is also "admiral" of the
State's "navy" which patrols the
coastal fishing waters, and for
years skippered the old flagship
"Atlantic" himself.
Since the beginning of the cen
tury, when "Cap'n John" entered
public service as an employee of
RECOGNITION "Leave it to
Cap'n John1," still is the byword,
but last winter something happen
ed to emphasize it.
"Cap'n John" suffered an acci
dent and for days his life hung in
balance in the hospital at More
head. His steps was not as brisk and
there was a wanness lurking be
hind his cordial greeting as he met
with the board this summer, but
he had come a long way toward re
covery.
He was ready to carry on again,
but he can never do so again in the
old self-effacement no matter
how much he would prefer it.
Because he pulled through those
dark days when doctors shook their
heads and fishermen feared they
would no longer have "Cap'n
John" to turn to, he lived to hear
the thines that have been said
about many a good man only in
epitaph.
Modest though he is those words
were bound to have touched him
deeply, but none so much as those
as a spokesman for the fishermen
who so often have bathed their
words in vitrol when speaking of
the testrictions government has
thrown about their means of liveli-
SOLUTION It came near the
end of the day's hearing, a hear
ing marked by friendliness as none
other had been. The problem was
the size of the mesh in fishermen's
nets. A new rule was proposed
that would outlaw some expensive
equipment. The board discussed
means to make the new law effec
tive, but still avert disaster to fish
ermen with their meager capital
invested in an illegal net.
From out of the audience arose
a fisherman.
"I'll tell you," he announced in
the brogue of the banks, "we have
the greatest confidence in you gen
tlemen. We know you are trying
to do what is best for all of us.
But let me make this suggestion,
and I'm certain that every fisher
man will agree with it. Just you
fonret this and turn the whole
business over to Cap'n John and
let him do what he thinks right.
The fishermen broke into ap
plause.
Broad smiles spread over the fa
ces of the State board as the
weather-beaten countenance of
the State Fisheries Commissioner
went as crimson as the accumulat
ed tan would betray.
"Hell." came a gruff voice from
the row of chairs occupied by the
board, "isn't that about what
we've been doing all along?"
"Cap'n John's" reelection to an
other four-year term was a mere
formality.
DICTATOR Probably John A.
Nelson is the only man ever unan
imously nominated dictator.
The nomination was as high a
compliment as could be paid any
man, but in reality it was only rec
ognition of a state of affairs long
existent, for to fishermen Captain
Nelson's word has been all the law
they needed.
A nroduct of the area he has so
ablv served, Commissioner Nelson
had the benefit of very little for
mal education. Born in Glouces
ter, up the sound from Beaufort,
he attended Graham's Academy,
but before reaching what is now-
high school he went to work in the
school of commercial fishing. As
clerk, as assistant commissioner, as
State Fisheries Commissioner, he
has never stopped learning, and
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last week he learned as few men do
:n this life what his fellow men
think of him.
REPORT Another reason for
the love-feast could be found in
Captain Nelson's report.
"This past year, I am glad to say
we have experienced the best fish
ing season that we have ever had,
both for food fish and menhaden."
Only shad made a dark spot in
the fisheries summary, and that
was tempered by good catches
around Edenton.
Shellfish fell behind the .1938
season, but, stated Captain Nelson,
this was "due entirely to lack of
market."
For diamond back terrapins,
that one time greatly coveted deli
cacy, there was "proctitally no
market."
Since the addition to the fish
eries fleet of the "Hatteras," a
conveted submarine chaser, virtu
aly no trouble with invading trawl
ers from other states was report
ed in territorial waters.
Better regulation can be ex
pected, the commissioner stated,
sir.e the new "Croatan," built t
Xew Bern, was commissioned in
March to replace the ancient u
bemarle" for inside patrol work"
In addition to the "Hatteras"
and "Croatan", the fleet is com
posed of the flagship, the "John A
Nelson", a converted yacht, anj
the "Pamlico", which has about
outlived its usefulness as an oys
ter patrol boat.
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Col. J. W. Harrellson head of State
College; Roy Hampton, Plymouth
businessman; Coleman Roberts,
Charlotte, president Carolina Mo.
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sville attorney; Thurman Chatham,
Winston-Salem industrialist; E. I.
Gugg, Durham hotel man; Charles
E. Ray, Waynesville businessman,
and the director, Bruce Etheridge,
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