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BEAUFORT IS THE GOGGLE - FISHING CAPITAL OF THE WORLD HELP US TELL THE WORLD ABOUT BEAUFORT'S OPPORTUNITIES VOLUME XXVII. NO. 35. Miss Arlington's Number 20 Won Diamond Back Terrapin Derby Held Here This Week Universal And Fox Movietone Complete Terrapin Pictures Tye Sander of Univeral New Reel and M. D. Cooke, of Fox Movietone completed a series of moving pictures on Diamond Back Terrapin propagation on Pivers Is land last week-end. It took three days to complete the sequence which when flashed on the screen will show the entire life's history of diamond back terrapins .from the egg-laying and hatching stage to the adult stage of the reptiles. Universal will feature In its re lease, Capt. Charles Hatsell who for many years has had charge of terrapin propagation on Piver's Is land where the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries under the direction of Dr. Herbert F. Prytherch is loca ted. Both cameramen expressed the opinion that the propagation sequences would be used as full length features. Each cameraman shot about 1,200 feet of film. When released the pictures will not only show how under the direc tion of the U. S. Fisheries Station here the Diamond Back Terrapin (a reptilian delicacy which in the old days brought as high as $96 per dozen) have been saved from ex tinction, but also they will show theworld's only terrapin propaga tion farm and, incidentally Beau fort will reap much publicity from the movies, which will be seen by millions of people. Covering The Waterfront By AYCOCK BROWN I HAVE moved the European situation to my office desk. As this column is written on a Thurs day morning a broadcast is com ing in from London. If sounds quite like those September days last year when the "Munich cris sis" was being broadcast from all those European cities. Last Sep tember when the broadcasts were coming in a group of outJoor edi tors and myself were cruising up the Gulf Stream off Diamond Shoals in the vicinity of Cape Hatteras. ABOARD THE Hatteras were Bill Sharpe, State publicist; Ham mond Brown, outdoor editor, Bal timore News Post; the late Bryan Morse, Washington Herald Times, (Bryan died last winter, so he is missing it all today) ; Walt Seif fert, the with Central Press, now on the publicity staff of Bermuda; Ralph Howland, of the Associated Press, the crew of the Hatteras and myself. I will always believe that the reason we caught no fish was because we were too interested in that tiny radio in the pilot house from which "War News" was com ing in from Europe. Everyone aboard seemed to be more interest (Continued on Page 8) Then My victorT meekins NOW AND THEN we hear our neighbors in adjoining counties, as they contemplate the recent pro gress of Dare and the astounding success of the Lost Colony, deplore the fact that their counties have nothing to compare with Dare and in history and other material around which to build great tour ist attractions. IT SEEMS TO ME, as one who has viewed the slow growth of Dare's progress, that this is not correctly stated. Only 15 years ago, I was laughed at by wiser men than I, for ray perchant for publicity stories that lavishly prais ed Roanoke Island and Dare Coun ty. "WHY NO ONE will ever both er to go down there; it is too far out of touch with the world, and has nothing to ofnTr as mt iadirc ment," I was told. If I quoted the names of people who told me that, they would bitterly resent it to day. And that was only about 15 years ago. (Continued on Page 8) Children Had Their Baby Terrapin Races NEWSREEL OF EVENTS MADE BY MOVIETONE Miss Mary Arrington saw her Diamond Back Terrapin number 20 cross the finish line first on Monday and thus won the superlative honors of being the first contestant to ever enter a winning ter rapin in any race of this kind That was because the Dia mond Back Derby on Piver's Island near Duke property on Monday afternoon was the first event of its kind ev er held. It was hard to determine whose terrapins were runnersups in the race, because by the time the slow crawling reptiles had covered the course (about 50 yards over the beach from highwater mark to wa ter's edge) there wa3 so much ex citement among the racers and the audience that no accurate record was kept. Finally it wa3 decided by M. D. Cooke of Fox Movietone, that Number 13, entered by Lucille Thomas of Beaufort and number 11 entered by Lois Lee reached the (Continued ron page 5) GILLIKIN AND KID ROWE TOP BOXING CARD Allston Presents 5 Bouts In The Casino Fri. Henry Gillikin will meet Kid Rowe of Jacksonville to top the card on Frank Alls ton'a boxing show in The Casino on Atlantic Beach Friday night. While no de tails were given as to the recor dof Rowe, it is under stood that he is 'probably the best match for Gillikin to be presented in The Casino Are na this year. Gillikin howev eh has proven that he can not only take it but also give plenty in return, so naturally he is the favorite for winner. The Gillikin-Rowe bout will bo four rounds. Four other matches, each of six rounds will be presented dur ing the evening. They will be as follows: Birdie Hill, Harlowe vs Happy Jarman, New Bern; Rocky Raynor, Atlantic Beach vs Bennie Harding, New Bern ; Donnie Powers, Harlowe vs Arthur Styron, New Bern and George Best, New Bern, vs. Sherman McLaurin. Charlie Wood's Orchestra Plays In Casino Sat. Charlie Wood and His Orchestra voted the most popular musical outfit at the University of North Carolina during the past year will play for the Saturday night dance in Atlantic Beach Casino. On Sunday afternoon the orchestra will play for a free concert on the beach. Jean Chandler, vocalist, is featured by the orchestra. BRIDGE Harken Island residents, almost 100 percent are signing a petition this week requesting the State Highway and Public Works Com mission to build the proposed bridge to the mainland from the west end of the island to Lenoz ville Point in preference to the proposed route from Straits to the island, it was learned here to day. The petitioners are sign ing a paper which asks that the building of the bridge be postponed if monies are not available at pres ent, rather than build the struc ture via Straits which would make the route up to IS miles farther, to ing center, than if it was built via Lenoxville. Beaufort News will welcome pro and con letters from readers relative to the route if let ters are not too long, (300 words approximately) for publication. Carteret County's Coast Guard Men Given Promotion f i .r , v JI4.A, A K CHIEF BOATSWAIN Wal ter G. Etheridge, formerly in charge of Nags Head Coast Guard Station succeeded Commander C. G. Sullivan as officer in charge of the Eliz abeth City office of the Coast Guard, an important post due to its direct association with many stations along the coast. (Dare County Times Photo). COMMANDER C. J. Sullivan formerly in charge of Coast Guard Headquarters Office in Elizabeth City has been transferred to the Norfolk Division office and in the fu ture will have direct com mand over all the shore sta tions in several Atlantic coast States, including North Carolina. (Dare County Times Photo). CARTERET MEN ATTEND E. CITY SPUD MEETING County Agent Plans Similar Meeting In Beaufort County Agent J. Y. Lassi ter accompanied by W. Z. McCabe, George Ball and C. T. Eubanks, prominent farm ers of Carteret attended the joint meeting of potato grow ers of North Carolina and Virginia which was held in Elizabeth city last Friday. "The meeting was formulated by the North Carolina Extension Ser vice, the State Department of Ag riculture and the N. C. Producers and growers Cooperative Associa tion for the purpose of bringing about better conditions for grow ers and those who depend on pota toes for a livlihood," said County Agent Lassiter. "It is hoped," he added "that by these various departments getting together, the potato situation could be discussed with the thought in view of formulating programs which would mean a better income to the potato grower." As a result of the meeting in Elizabeth City, Carteret represen tatives came to conclusion that a county wide meeting in the inter est of potato growers should be held and it is planned to have same in the Courthouse in Beau continued on Page S) TED RICHARDS in STUDY. ART Ted Richards of Beaufort has enrolled in the commercial art classes of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's oldest and largest art school, and his studies will begin on September 11. 4- '0"r10 I 4 0'? Oldest NewspaperEstablished 1912 BEAUFORT, N. C, THURSDAY, AUG. 24, 1939 Additional Action And Excitement During Sail boat Races Here September 3, Will Be Present ed By Goldsboro Drum and Bugle Corps Beaufort Rotary Club will sponsor a Labor Day eve sail boat regatta here on bunday afternoon, September 3, and adding excitement and an unusual feature to the event will be th-3 appearance of Bob Moore's famous Golds boro Junior Drum and Bugle corps. Graham Duncan, urayden Faul, and Edgar Swan are on the Rota ry Committee in charge of the races, and all persons who wish to enter boats are urged to register as early as possible with either of Carteret County Open On Tennis Trophy. A trophy cup will be presented in the coming tournament spon sored by the Beaufort Tennis As sociation. The trophy, will re main the property of the associa tion until one person bat won it for three consecutive years, it was stated today by Tennis Club offi cials. Interest Shown In Net Tourney James Biggs of the Beaufort Tennis Association stated today that about 30 persons would take part in the preliminaries leading up to the Autumn Tourney, sched uled to begin on or about Septem ber 1. Most of the players who will participate in the tourney are residents of Beaufort. Anyone wishing to enter -the tourney or se cure privileges for playin g on the courts should contact Mr. Biggs at his Shoe Rebuilding firm on Front Street. The tournament will be played on the courts at the Beaufort School. Equipment for the new asphalt courts, just completed at Community Center will be install ed at an early date by the local tennis association, Mr. Biggs sta- ited. The Community Center courts built under the direction of P. K. Ball are expected to prove quite popular with players during coming months. Traveling Turtle. Carlton Salter formerly with ths U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, but now connected with the Tennessee Val ley Authority who has been spend ing his vacation here in Carteret, landed a 50-pound loggerhead turtle one day this week bearing a tag which indicated that the rep tile had been captured once before by Herb Smith of Bridgeton, N. J., in 1933. He presented the turtle to Dr. H. F. Prytherch, director of the Fisheries Laboratory in Beau fort, who plans to re-tag the tur tle and send it on its travels again. Bardens Plan To Leave Cape Today Congressman Barden and his family who have been vacationing at Cape Lookout for the past sev eral days were planning to leave there today, The Beaufort News was advised by Mrs. Barden this morning. Senator Reynold's Secretary, Wesley McDonald On Coast Wesley McDonald, legal resident of Morehead City, who spends most of his time in Washington, D. C, taking care of the affairs of Senator Bob Reynolds in the role of secretary, has been spending his vacation on the Carteret Coast. He has been stopping at the home of Mrs. Charles Tolson in More head City. While Wesley enjoyed the fishing on the Carteret Coast, Senator Reynolds has been vaca tioning in Naples, Italy. Interested This year more than 53 per cent of North Carolina's farmers attended meetings or demonstra tions held by their county agents, a recent survey revealed. REGATTA these persons. Out of town en tries who wish to register are ad vised to see Mr. Duncan at his of fice on Front Street located over City Grocery Company. Final arrangements for bringing the Drum and Bugle Corps back to Beaufort again were completed on Wednesday. Their drills will be presented on Front Street in the block along the waterfront at Inlet Inn dock. To avoid conges tion and give the youngsters plen ty of room to drill one block of the street will be roped off for several hours on the day of the regatta. Schools Will September 14th k Parents Are Urged To Check Health Of Children Schools of Carteret County except White Oak, will open Thursday, September 14, at the usual hours, according to an announcement made to day by Supt. J. G. Allen. The opening date tor White Oak, will conform as hereto fore with the opening date of the Swansboro School, will be announced later. Supt. Allen requested that this paper emphasize the importance of parents making a final check on the physical condition of all children who are going to school this fa!', especially those who are entering school for the first time. In many schools of the county pre-school clinics were held last spring and recommendations made to the pa rents. All such recommendations merit prompt and effective atten tion by the parents. In the ab sence of any such recommenda tions parents of beginners should have a physical examination made by the family physician and exert every effort to follow the recom mendations of the physician for the improvement of the child's well being, especially as to diseased tonsils, bad teets, defective vision, impaired hearing, and other items which an understanding physician will check carefully, including vaccinations for smallpox, typhoid diptheria, etc. In giving this announcement to the press Supt. Allen emphasized, however, that a good "check-up" by the family physician of each pup:!, of whatever grade or age, would be worth much both to the patents and to the schools, inas much as certain recommendations previously made may have been entirely overlooked or inadequate ly followed by parents of children of the upper grade level. Experience having shown con clusively that the progress which school children make in their work is often in direct proportion to their physical fitness for the ex acting demands of school work and rapid physical and mental develop ment, Supt. Allen is confident that a general "check-up" properly "followed up" would greatly en hance the chances for successful or superior work by scores of pu pils of the upper grades as well as those lower down. Rebekah Lodge Of Odd Fellows Will Meet Here Friday The Rebakah Lodge of Odd Fel lows, a fraternal organization which has been in a more or les3 dormant state in Beaufort for sometime, will meet on Friday night at 8 o'clock at tht Odd Fel lows Hall. Mrs. Viola Jones, president of the Rebakah State Assembly was here on Tuesday reviving interest in the fraternal organization, and she stated that many former mem bers, both men and women with whom she had interviews, indicated they would be present for the meet-ng on Friday night. The local Rebekah Lodge num- Beaufort and Carteret County's finest citizens. It is the hope of the Statewide organization that these members will revive the lo cal unit of the fraternal organiza tion. All members are urged to attend. Dean $ Is Vacation Prea. 5 At Core Rey- "m- Nce' Tecir of St. Memphis, Jl 9 and former dean of fashionable St. Mary's Cal of that city, arrived in Beaufort, Wednesday aCfl week's vacation. Thousands of persons who C S him preach on the coast last sum mer are wel rjJ '. him back home. At the invita tion of Rev. Bill Stewart, Dean Noe, will preach at the evening worship in Core Creek Community Church Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. Everyone is invited to attend the services and hear the illustri ous theologian preach. Dean Noe is shown at right and Core Creek Community Church is shown in photo below. (Eubanks News Photo). DEAN NOE .r:::a warn v-r . vmtn : -7 ' ROTARIANSHAD TUESDAY MEET AT CORE CREEK Rotary Anns And Many Guests Present Upon tha invitation of Ro tarian Bill Stewart, pastor of non-sectarian Core Creek Church, which was recently comrjletei and presented. . to the good people of that com munity by a person who did not forget his friends back home, the Beaufort Rotary Club held its regular weekly meeting in the Community House, part of the church properties. Official hosts of the community present at the meeting to greet the Beaufort Rotarians and Ro tary Anns were Curtis Dick inson, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Merrill and Rev. Mr. Stewart and Mrs. Stewart. The meeting was purely social and no Rotary business was dis cussed or taken up during the evening. Following invocation by Rotarian Ben Gehring, Graydon Paul led a number of familiar Ro tary songs. Delicious barbecue, prepared for the occasion by Stan ley's Place, pickles, lemanode, cornbread, slaw were served. Jake Miller, Warden Lewi3 Woodard and Bill Stewart were in charge of all arrangements and they did a (Continued on page 8) Record Bluefish Catch From Surf Near Drum Inlet A record catch cf bluefish to be taken by urf casters .va made al Drum Inlet Wednesday by Sam : Fulp and Gracy Sk?:t of Winston- , Salem. Guided by Cpt. Nelson at Capt. Ralph Nelson' camp on 1 the north sids of the inlet the par- ty landed 174 blues averaging one and one-hi'i pounds each. In ad dition to the blues, 10 channel bass were landed. SURVEY Beaufort and Morehead City will cooperate in getting a Real i Property Survey of the two towns in the very nar future. The pro ject is sponsored cooperatively by the two towns, (will cost very lit tle to each) and the WPA will fur nish the staff of experts to com plete the work. W. H. Levitt, WPA State Survey Supervisor; Stanley Stevens, N. C. Planning Board Staff and A. R. Wood, area Mjoerriior were in Carteret today completing plans for the work to start. The work will atart Sep tember 11, and give employment to about 30 white collared white and colored WPA worker. The surrey will be most complete in detail. ii PUBLISHED WEEKLY ing In Beaufort Creek Sun. Night James Church in Fishing And All Outdoors By AYCOCK BROWN GULF STREAM fish have been taken closer inshore this year than ever before. Dolphin by the dozens have been caught by trollers in Hatteras Bight, Ocracoke Inlet and eten in the vicnity of Beaufort In let and Lookout Bight. And North Carolina's share of that blue stream of water ever moving north eastward, and the fish taken as a r jsult of it flowing so closely to our coftt-ha been- responsible-for the" biggest fishing news of the nation being centered right here at our front doors this year. Down in Florida it is not considered new3 of any importance when a blue marlin, a barracuda, saillish or tarpon is taken. Dolphin, amber jack and cero are commonplace. HERE ON OUR coast it was hi? news early this season when any of these species were taker. but r.o longer. That 503-pound blue marlin taken off Hatteras by Marshall Dana of Cincinnati, larg est ever taken so far north along the coast, the many sailfish taken off Cape Lookout, the barracuda off Southport and later off Look out, along with the other gamier species have definitely placed North Carolina into the spotlight of the nation as a salt water game fishing state. It has all resulted in more anglers coming to the coast than ever before. If you hear a guide grumbling about business be ing poor take a look at his equip ment. The chances are that he is not properly equipped, or is afraid (Continued on Page 8) TIDE TABLE Information as to the tide at Beaufort is given in this column. Th? figures are ap proximately correct end are hased on tables furnished by the U. S. Geodetic Survey. Some allowances must be maie for variations in the wind an also with respect to the locality, that is wheth er near tha inlet or at the head of the estuaries. HIGH LOW Friday, Aug. 25. 4:48 A. M. 10:56 A. M. 5:19 P.M. Saturday. Auar. 26. 5:40 A. M. 11:41 A. M. 6:04 P.M. 11:50 P.M. Sunday, Aug. 27. 6:23 A. M. 12:26 A. M. 6:45 P. M. 12:36 P. M. Monday, Aug. 28. 7:02 A.M. 1:05 A.M. 7:23 P.M. 1:19 P.M. Tuesday, Aug. 29. 7:40 A. M. 1:40 A. M. 7:59 P. M. 2:00P7THT Wednesday, Aug. 30. 8:16 A. M. 2:16 A. M. 6:32 P. M. 2:32 P. M. Thursday, Aug. 31. 8:51 A. M. 2,47 A. M. 9:08 P. M. 3:06 P. M.
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