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Tflf TTTS-N THhli" A T7 TT 1Tt BEAUFORT IS THE GOGGLE - FISHING CAPITAL OF THE WORLD HELP US TELL THE WORLD ABOUT BEAUFORT'S OPPORTUNITIES Carteret County's Oldest NewspaperEstablished 1912 i VOLUME XXVII. NO. 34. BEAUFORT, N. C, THURSDAY, AUG. 17,1939 PUBLISHED WEEKLY State Agrees To Build Bridge From Straits To Hankers Island ?Two Newsrecl Cameramen Here Shooting Pictures Of Terrapin Propagation Sailfish Flags Are Waving (Editor's Note: Cape Lookout nd the Gulf Stream fiihing boats and boatmen of Morehead City came in for excellent publicity last Sunday when four sailfish, bring ing the total to six caught up to that date, were brought into port. The story was wired to the Asso ciated Press and the United Press and fishing editors throughout the country will get mimeographed ac counts of the catch. The mimeo graphed copies sent out by by the State Department of Publicity, was the story taken back to Ral eigh by Mrs. Ruth Robinson, of the New Bureau staff. She was on the coast last week-end and covered the Morehead City water front when the catch was brought in. Roy Eubanks, Beaufort pho tographer, made several pictures of the various fish and these turn will be published widely in this and other States. Following is the story sent out by the State News Bureau, from data gathered by Mrs. Robinson. A. B.) By Ruth Robinson. "The boats are coming in from the Gulf and the sail fish flags are waving!" The cry spread through this lit tle fishing and resort town Sunday and the whole popu lation dashed for the docks. Capt James Styron's Reliance docked first and started throwing (Continued on Page 8) Fishing And All Outdoors By AYCOCK BROWN WHETHER SAILFISH arc showing up on the North Carolina I coast is quantities this summer for I the first time or whether more ex- I pcrieneed guides which have had ) experience with the game fish m I Southern waters have been teach- 'j ing anglers how to catch the fish, I ' ,. do not know. But I do know that sailfish are being taken in suffi- . cient numbers off Cape Lookout to j place this State near the top of the list in the piscatorial world. ! Now if only anglers would start taking tarpon with rod and reel J on our coast North Carolina t would be on a par with Florida, S California or any other State that claims first honors in the game ' fishing world. i TARPON ARE off our coast. I have seen one school of these beau t, tiful fighters that must have con s' tained hundreds. Others saw the I same sight, so it is not my story exclusively. Hammond Brown, fish j ing editor of the Baltimore News i Post, the late Byran Morse of the Washington Herald Times, Walt I Seiffert, then fishing editor for Qwntral Press, now on the public ity staff of Bermuda, Bill Sharpe, State News Bureau director, Capt. , (Continued on page 8) 1 DEBUNKER By John Harvey Furbay, PhJ). Copyright by Pubtie Ldjtr, m. MULES DO SOMETIMES PRODUCE OFFSPRING It Is generally believed that mules never produce any offspring; that they are always sterile. This is usu ally the case, but there have been exceptions. A mule owned by the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical rnlWa ha nnt nrnduffpri an offspring, but this offspring has also produced another mule baby. WNU Service. Capt. Hatsell Will Be Starred In News reel Marvin Cooke, Fox Movie tone cameraman whose news reel of goggle fishing is be ing shown today in theatres throughout the world return ed to Beautort this week to make a story for Fox "Magic Carpet" showing the dia mond back terrapin propa gation on Piver's Island un der the direction of Capt. Charles Hatsell, veteran Fish eries Laboratory employee. Tye Sanders of Universal News reel is here for the same purpose except his pictures will appear in Universal's famous "Stranger than Fiction" or "Going Places" re lease. Co-operating in bringing the movie men to Beaufort was the local chamber of commerce which made all the preliminary contaks. Sanders was sent here after his New York office saw a photo graph and short writeup of Capt. Hatsell releasing young terrapins. Cooke learned about the terrapin propagation when he was here a few days ago shooting pictures of the world's first goggle fishing tournament. He thought the story had possibilities but had to wait until his headquarters in New York approved the proposal which they did a few days later. As a result of the movies, they will when shown, give Beaufort and the marine biological activi ties here world wide publicity. Millions of people throughout the world will see the pictures. Public Library In Morehead Wants To Serve All Carteret Mrs. E. A. Council in a letter to The Beaufort News this week gave a list of the new books recently added to the shelves and invited the people of Carteret County to avail tiiemselves ot the services which the Morehead City Public Library offers. All persons inter ested are cordially invited to bor row books from the library which is located in the Civic Center Building, corner 9th and Evans St. Recent books added include: Grapes of Wrath, Steinback; Dis puted Passage, Douglas; Listen! The Wind, Ann Lindbergh; Reach ing for Stars, Wain; Martin Val ient, Seeping; Wickford Point, Marquard; The Patriot, Buck; The Web and The Rock, Wolfe; Of Time and The River, Wolfe; Look Homeward Anger, Wolfe; The Yearling, Rawlings; Wurthering ton Heights, Brooke; and many other popular novels by such writ ers as Norris, Hill Larrimore, Bald win and Bailey. County Demonstration Club members will find quite a number of books at the Morehead City li brary that are the required list for reading. U. S. Fisheries Lab. Now Has Big 'Gator Displayed In Pool A full grown alligator about seven feet long was presented the U. S. Fisheries .Laboratory ..this week by Capt. Howerin, skipper of the freighter Edward G. Farring ton of the Norfolk, Baltimore Car olina Line. The alligator had been wounded by gunshot wounds and Capt. Howerin and his crew captur ed ii near New River. Having no especial use for an alligator, Capt Howerin was glad to present the reptile to the laboratory for dis play. At first it was thought the 'gator would die from its wounds, but today it had apparently recov ered. Tennis Tourney All residents of Beaufort desir ing to enter the forthcoming ten- ail tjuramct ti 1m uut uu hr the Tennis Club are requested to reg ister at Biggs Shoe Shop within the est week. Piver's Island In Marine 'j . . . , ... t t k" ' ; P1VERS ISLAND in Beaufort har bor is the marine biological center of the United States and activities in this field are eTer on the in crease there. For years only the U. S. Fisheries Laboratory was locat ed on the island, but today Duke University has a marine biologi James Hunnings Of Beaufort To Fight In Casino Friday James Hunnings. Beaufort box er, who made an excellent show ing in his first ring appearance two weeks ago will meet Jimmie Steel of New Bern in The Casino on At lantic Beach Friday night. Be cause Promoter Frank Allston was unable to get a match for "un beatable" Henry Gillikin, the Hunnings-Steels bout will top the card. Other fight3 on the lineup in elude: Donnie Powers, Harlowe vs Walter Brown, New Bern; Ben nie Harding, New Bern vs 0. D. George, Morehead City; Joe Tay lor, Morehead City vs George Best, New Bern and George Piner, More head City vs Weldon Helms, More head City. Louis Foy who was to have a return match with Donnie Powers, broke his hand in the 4th round on Friday. Bennie Harding who meets George has had several fights in the last two years. Piner and Helms are fighting to see who can win the neighborhood championship. Steels who meets Hunnings ha3 had several years experience fighting in New Bern clubs. He is 18 years old. an honor student at N.B.H.S. and an Eagle Scout. MR. AND MRS. DAVIS MOVE INTO NEW HOME Mr. and Mrs. Elmore Davis mov ed into their new home on Ann Street this week. Their new home is the house in which the Winfield Scott Chadwicks formerly made their home. The house has been purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Davi3. A Markers Islander Speaks Harkers Point or Shell Point? "Don't causeway the Straits and DROWN us when a HURRICANE sets the tide in. We are not Pharoah's host crossing the Straits" Jimmie Guthrie. (Editor's Note: "We're fighti ing Future. Say anything you want to in connection with this letter," wrote Jimmie Guthrie, fisherman-philosopher of Harkers Island. While The Editor has heard innumerable criticisms relative to the proposed construction of a bridge from Straits to Harkers Island The Editor has heard only a few favorable expressions relative to the proposal. A. B.) By Jimmie Guthrie Not since Columbus used to bask in the Indian sunshine amongst the sailors on the docks listening to their Sea Stories about monsters of the deep. Not since the arrival of the white man on these shores, not since the casta way Sloop sailed past Shackleford woods and rounding the Cape Lookout point all were drowned save three stalwart husky Span iards, who called themselves "Gut Three" (from which sprang the name "Guthrie") has intelligent people ever attempted to run a bridge over a river and on the side of a community, city or town, if that particular place could possibly be reached at either end. If any of you folks up State or anywhere happen to have a bridge for sale any time, and we Island ers want to buy one, then we will place it at either one or the other ends of tV T. lunfj , Reallv it has two ends, Harker's Point to which place a bridge ought to enter, and it has a Shell Point, if it cannot Beaufort Harbor- Biological Center of cal unit which is growing larger each year. In the picture can be seen the worlds only diamond back terrapin propagation pens, a round which two newsreel compan ies are shooting stories this week. This is the first in a series of Roy Dee Peterson And His Band To Play On Atlantic Beach Dee Peterson and His orchestra featuring Frank Mathews vocalist will make the music for the dance in The Casino on Atlantic Beach Saturday night. On Sunday the orchestra will play for a free con cert on the Casino veranda. It is the first time this musical group has played for a dance on Atlantic Beach. Two Hundred Children Attend A.B.A. Rally Here Nearly two hundred children and youths attended the annual Baptist Rally of young people of the Atlantic Baptist Association at the First Baptist church here to day. There were both morning and afternoon session with a very in teresting program and lnnch was served at the American Legion Hut. The meeting was conducted by Mrs. W. B. Sprinkle of Marshall berg who has been Young People's Director for the Association the pust two years.. Rev. and Mrs. Sprinkle are leaving soon for their new field of labor at Canton, N. C. They will be greatly missed in Carteret coun ty. The possible use of fireproofed cotton as an insulating material in the construction of homes.office buildings, and other structures has been suggested in Texas, where such a process has been developed. possibly enter our western end from Beaufort, then by all haz ards, and for the sake of the chil dren that are not yet born, please do not strike the side of this island from Straits, go on still further east until you reach Guthrie's Hammock. Then if it must come to the Island, round 'er up and en ter the Shell Point on eastern end. This Island is due east from Beaufort runs a parallel with Cape Lookout, three miles from the ocean, one mile from Straits, has approximately 1200 people, it is noted for its beauty, it is a splendid location as a summer resort. In this day and time, in fact we can boast on as fine a set or group of navigators, captains, surfmen, pi lots and everything as anywhere on earth. Therefore, we as a free people, have the right to reject or to receive anything anywhere about this community we so de sire, The wire came here from Beau- (Continued from Page 8) U. S. Eubank's airviewi of Beaufortand vicinity which will be published from week to week in this newspa per. The pictures will be available on post cards locally at an early date. (Air-photo by Eubanks) HUNTING SEASON CHANGES AND DATES FOR 1939 Quail Season To Open On Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 30th Raleigh, Ausr. 16. Dates for the 1939 hunting season, together with changes made in thes3 seasons by the Board of Conservation and Devel opment, have just been an nounced by the Game and Inland Fishing division of the Department of Conserva tion and Development. The deer and bear seasons open October 1 and extend to January -1. Deer cau be hunted in all the counties with the exception of Al leghany, Ashe, Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin, where the season is closed this year, while in Sampson coun ty the season will be only from November 1 through November 30. There will be only a 15 day hunt ing season, from November 1 through November 15 in Avery, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, McDow ell, Swain, Wautauga and Yancey countiees, and in Macon county north and west of Highway No. 64. It is unlawful to hunt deer with logs at any time west of Person, Orange, Chatham, Mocro and r.k-kmond counties. Bear can be hunted in most of the counties during the general season above except in Alleghany, Wilkes, Caldwell, Burke, Ruther ford and all counties west of these, where the season will be from Oc tober 20 to January 1. The squirrel season for other :han Fox squirrel and Southern Red squirrel (boomers) will be from October 1 through January 15, with many exceptions, which will be announced later. The quail season will open Thanksgiving Day, November 30, and extend through February 15 in most of the counties. One excep tion is Union county, where the season will be only 30 days, from December 10 to January 10. In six counties Craven, Duplin Greene, Jones, Lenoir and Onslow hunting for quail will be per mitted only three days a week, on on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sat urdays, the other days being'May days" as requested by the sports men in these counties. The rabbit season will also he from November 30 through Feb ruary 15, with no bag limit. The wild turkey and grouse season al so extend from November 30 through February 15, with the exceptions that the season for wild turkey will be closed this year in Alleghany, Wilkes, Cald well, Burke and Rutherford coun ties. The oposum and raccoon sea sons, for hunting with gun or dog only, is from October 1 through February 1, while the trapping season is from November 1 throu gh February, with numerous ex ceptions. Trapping of opossum and raccoon will be permitted in Dare county from December 1 to March 1, only and is prohibited entirely in the following counties: Bladen, Columbus, Craven, Dup lin, GraharnCireen. Haywood, Hoke, Pender, Robeson, Sampson, Wayne and Wilson, except on the (Continued on Page 8) But Islanders Others Want Causeway Smiley Burnette Coming To Local Theatre Tuesday SEA BREEZE Theatre will present Smiley Burnette. fa mous Hollywood comedian in person on Tuesday and by so doing will be the first threatre in Carteret County to ever present a moving pic ture actor. He is one of Hol lywood's outstanding stars, and is the tunny man in the Gene Autry Musical Westerns. Read other stories about Smiley Burnette and his associates on the stage and screen elsewhere in this edition. Dr. Swindell Taken To Va, Hospital In . Coast Guard Plane Ocracoke Coast Guard report ed to The Beaufort News today that Dr.. C. L. Swindell, former Beaufort physician, but recently government and resident physician of Ocracoke Island was taken to a Norfolk, Va., hospital last Sunday by Coast Guard plane. He was suffering from a foot infection. Several days ago he received treat ment for the same ailment in More head City. Infection set in several days after he had stuck a piece of shell in his foot. Reports here to Jay that his foot had to be ampu tated could not be verified. POSTERS NOTIFY WAGE EARNERS OF AVAILIBI LITY OF OLD-AGE IN SURANCE WAGE STATE MENTS WILMINGTON, Aug. 15 Within a few days there will appear in ev ery post office in the country a So cial Security Board poster notify ing wage earners that stements showing the amount of wages cred ited to their old-age insurance ac counts are available, George W. Jeffrey, Manager of the Board's field office at Wilmington, N. C, announced today. These posters will also be displayed, he added, in the offices of the United States Employment Service, those of the Railroad Retirement Eoard, and in union labor ha!l3. The Board's poster announce ment reals: "How r.v::h have you eavneJ to wards your old-age security? "The amount of you:' old-age insurance check will depend upon the wages credited to your old- age insurance account. "You can find out how much if credited to your account if you will fill in and mail a post card ,ike this (a fassmile of the card is shown) that you can get at any Social Security Board Field Office. "Call in person, write or phone for one." EXPANSION The food stamp plan for distri buting surplus agricultural com- modities will be expanded iyradn- ally during the next' few months, possibly i& include lenr-iricome workers. And IJany Bridge And To Lenoxville Highway Officials And Small Group Met Saturday Announcement was made here Saturday afternoon that the State Highway and Pub lic Works Commission had agreed to build a bridge be tween Straits and Harkers Island which will replace the out of date ferry new operat ing between Gloucester and the Island. No sooner was the announcement made than citizens of Harkers Is land and elsewhere in the county started voicing their objections to the proposed lo cation of the bridge. Harkers Island wants a bridge and public neceslty demands that one be constructed, but Harkers Island wants to be brought nearer their County seat of government. They want a bridge form the is land to Lenoxville Point, it was stated by Earl Davis prominent citizen of the community who will petition the State Highway and Public Works Commission to build it by Lenoxville. The announcement of the plans for construction of the bridga from Straits to the island were made following a meeting in thij office of the register of deeds here at which Highway Commissioner E. V. Webb of Kinston, Engineer Spruill, Irvin W. Davis, Fred It. Seeley, Capt. John Nelson, Cleve land Davis, D. B. Willis and Judge Luther Hamilton were present. Representative Seeley stated that the estimated cost of the pro (Continued on Page 3) Covering Xhe Waterfront By AYCOCK BROWN THAT SEVEN foot alligator which was placed in a pool on Pi ver's Island early this week caused plenty of excitement Wednesday afternoon and night. When ef forts were made to move it from one pool to another more suitabla it wa3 placed first in a wheel bar row, but that did not suit the 'gaitor so it tried to take a hunk out of the barrow. Finally the huge reptile had to be dragged from one pool to another. I was waiting to get a picture as it was placed into the new pool, but was not fast enough. Thinking I had missed my best picture I was on the verge of giving the job up and saving a flashlight bulb. Then suddenly the alligator made a lunge towards me and the camera (Continued on Page 8) TIDE TABLE Information as to the tide at Beaufort u given in this column. The figures are ap proximately correct and are based on tables furnished by the U, S. GeoJotic Survey. Some allowances must be male for variations in the wi id and also with respect to the locality, that is wheth er near the inlet or at the head of the estuaries. HIGH LOW 18 4:16 AM. 4:49 PM. 19 Friday, Aug. AM. PM. Saturday, Aug 10:35 10:52 5:05 AM. 11:27 PM. Sunday, Aug. 11:45 AM. 12:19 PM. Monday, Aug 12:34 AM. 1:15 PM. 5:45 PM. 20 5:59 AM. 6:46 PM. 21 6:56 AM. 7:49 PM. Tuesday, Aug 22 1:30 AM. 2:16 PM. Wednesday, Aug 2:34 AM. 3:23 PM. 7:57 AM. 8:54 PM. 23 9:00 AM. 9:55 PM, Thursday, Aug. 24 3:44 AM. 9:59 AM. 4:25 PM. 10:49 PM.
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