BEAUFORT IS THE
GOGGLE - FISHING
CAPITAL OF
THE WORLD
VOLUME XXVII; NO. 37.
OLD ROAD IN THE OPEN GROUNDS
HAS BEEN CLOSED TO MOTORISTS
State Abandoned It
; At Request Of
I County Board
i In a communication to The
Beaufort News this week
I Miss Georgina P. Yeatman,
owner of the Open Grounds
I of Carteret announced that
4 the old road abandoned by
the State Highway and Pub-
lie Works Commission at the
J request of the County Com
missioners has been closed to
motor traffic. The route, 14.5
miles, had little or no repairs -by
4 the State for several years prior
to its abandonment as a part of the
I Highway System and the road 'is
unsafe for traffic today. Miss
Yeatman has erected a gate and
I sign at each end of the road clos
ing it to motor traffic.
In her communication she said:
"The Open Grounds Road , has
been . abandoned . bjr . the . Stale
Highway and Public Work Com
mission at the request of the Couo.
tjr Board of Commissioner and is
no longer public road. For the
past few year little or nothing wa
done by the State to keep this
road in repair and it i now in Tory
poor condition and with continued
use would become altogether im
passable. I am putting up a gate
and ign at each end of the road
cloing it to motor traffic. The
purpose is not to keep out tres
passers, but to keep the road arail
able for our own work with cattle
or crop on the property and for
emergency use of the public should
storms or emergencies ever make a
detour necessary.
Pedestrian Welcome.
"People are welcome to coma in
to the Open Ground on foot and
nearby residents can get permit
to hunt just a in the last few
year," Mis .Yeatman continued,
''t U my intention to keep open
and try to improve the hunting for
the people who live in the immedi
ate vicinity of the Open Grounds
and who have alway hunted there
but not to encourage hunter com
ing in from other .part .of .the
State."
"I would appreciate it if you
would publish a statement to this
effect in The Beaufort News so
that my neighbors will know that
they can still get hunting permits
and so that motorists will not make
the long drive out to the Open
Grounds Road expecting to go
through, and then be disappointed
to find the road closed."
Since Miss Yeatman became
owner of the vast 25,000 or more
acrrs of the Open Grounds she hag
developed the property to a certain
extent and is continually making
experiments for further develop
ment. She has made the property
into a game reserve, and with the
attention that the property has
been getting through her local
manager, game is increasing.
Miss Yeatman's home is in Phil
adelphia, but she makes frequent
trips by plane to her Carteret es
tate. Miss Yeatman owns a beau
tiful Beechcraft plane which she
pilots herself.
Covering The
Waterfront
By AYCOCK BROWN
TWO OR THREE years ago at
a meeting of Beaufort citizens
plans were being made for a num
ber of potential public works pro
jects to t arry over for a period of
several years. Eleven different
projects some of which have al
ready been completed by this time,
were suggested. I had been an
interested listener to the' discus
sions. Seth Gibbs, (I believe it
was) asked me to suggest one more
project as just about everything
that could be possibly be included
on such a program had been appa
rently mentioned, and they want
ed an even dozen.
WITHOUT BLINKING an eye,
I suggested that the project I
would suggest would be an UN
DERGROUND CHAMBER OF
REFUGE where the citizenship
could go for safety during poison
ous gas or enemy air attacks dur-
ing
time oi W Ate. t,very
'ol" vV AE
man
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Where Is The
Expected at Morehead City Port
Terminal on September 4, the S. S.
Vapper, three days overdue had
not been heard from today and
some people were beginning to
think that even if she had not got
ten involved as a result of the New
World War, that she is taking a
roundabout course to reach here
due to the War in Europe. Port
officials have st ited that the S. S.
Vapper, flying nn Estonian flag,
would come to the port direct from
Konigsberg, Po'and, where she ar
rived on August 5 to discharg.)
cargo. On July 25 she was report
ed at Ranouski. In Morehead City,
the first Amei can port the vessel
is scheduled t touch, she is ex
pected to take on 3,700 tons of
scrap metal ar i then proceed to
another port t o complete her car-
ga. War may change ah of thess
plans.
Farmers Urged To
Attend AAA Meet
Here Oh Saturday
Count Farm Agent J. Y. La,
iter who i also secretary to the
County AAA C mmittee ha urged
through mimet graphed letters to
each,- that farmers of Carteret at
tend a meeting of the Agricultu
ral Conservation Association in
the Courthouse here on Saturday,
September 9. It i hoped by of
ficial that thi will be one of the
outstanding meeting of the year.
Taking part ii the program will
be J. L. Nicholson, district field of
ficer who will discuss briefly com
pliance work as , whole in the
country; County Agent Lassiter
who will tell of compliance work
progress to dates AAA .program
a it fit into good farm manage
ment by a State committeeman;
C. M. Brickhouse will give pro
progress to date; AAA program
and District and how it can be
made more effective, all of which
will be followed by group discus
sions on the best plan for com
pleting the 1933 AAA program.
Farmers are urged to attend
this important meeting which will
begin at 2 o'clock Saturday after
noon in the Courthouse. .
PREMIUM LIST
FOR OCT. FAIR
MAILED TODAY
Legion Sponsoring
Fourth Annual
Event Here
Catalogue and Premium
List of the 1939 edition of
the Carteret Fair, a 54-page
booklet printed by the crafts
men of Beaufort News Print
shop has been mailed to hun
dreds of persons in this and
adjoining counties The book
let heralds the fourth annual
event of its kind sponsored
by Carteret Post 99, Ameri
can Legion, which begins
here on October 9 and con
tinues for one week.
The Catalogue and Booklet this
year is beautifully bound in tur
quoise cover with front bearing
emblems of the American Legion
and United States Flags. In ad
dition to hundreds of items on the
premium list which represents
hundreds of dollars in prizes, ad
vertisements of leading Carteret
and Eastern North Carolina busi
ness firms and boosters of the Fair
are contained in the booklet.
The Fair this year will again be
held on the Athletic Field and in ,
the Gymnasium of Beaufort Gra
ded School. Carteret Post Legion-
aires take great pride in their an
nual fairs which have always turn
ed out successful each year. They
work hard to make it a success and
taking an important role in making
the fair a success are the Ladies of
the Legion with t'leir lunch stand
and general interest.
Carteret County's
I : wui-untu WttlVLil
Mil If ,F STRF AM f f ITR This phto of Mi8S Mi,dred McDonald of Forest CityH
PcLVf U ? R t . Smithfield with Ray Ha.,ell on Gulf Stream!
fcUolf Link, is one of Beaufort pictures which has been published from Coast to Coast?
1 .c..Uii luuay arc in oeiier snape than ever before, with the fair-
jway awns well kept. Nearby the new Community Center Tennis CouTt. are readvS
gror Players. rhoto by Aycock Brown, Cut courtesy, Washington Herald Times.) $
h i tut IIWmF;? I f mftd
Carteret Feels
Effects of the New World
uic tast eauion or ine
Carteret County.
While no shortages hare been
reported on sugar, pork and flour,
the prices on each of these com
movities have increased during the
past week. Sugar today locally i
ix cent per pound a compared
to five cent a month ago; .Better
grade of flour today are 64 cent
higher than last week in barrel
quantities; Pork has increased two
and half cent.
Grocery firms, both independent
and chain stores, are experiencing
a large increase in volume of Tu3rt
mess. Many shoppers, (especially
those living in the rural districts)
are stocking up on sugar and oth
er commodities.
The S. S. Vapper, expected at
Morehead City Port Terminal on
Monday for cargo of crap metal,
failed to arrive and ha not shown
up as we go to press today.. .The
OCTOBER TERM
DRAWN
Judge Hunt Parker
To Preside Over
Mixed Term
Judge J. Hunt Parker, of
Roanoke Rapids, will preside
over the mixed term of Supe
rior Court starting in Beau
fort on October 16.
Jurors for the term drawn by
tne coara ot Lomnnssioners on
Monday at their regular monthly
meeting follows:
J. W. Guthrie, Newport RFD;
H. D. Paul, Beaufort; Ira P. Chad,
wick, Straits; C. T. Whitehead,
Morehead City; Irwin Russell,
Beaufort; C. T. Turner, Newport;
R. S. Jones, Newport; J. E. How
ard, Newport; C. T. Peletier, More
head City; John A. Hill, Davis; Fil
bert Golden, Beaufort; B. A.
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Doves Are Scarce
On Shackleford
Banks This Year
Doves are scarce on Shackleford
Banks at the opening of the season
this year it was reported by Post
master W. H. Taylor who with his
sons Jack and Guy, Hugh Jones
and U. E. Swann went hunting
there on Monday. Only seven
birds were killed. This was far be
low the legal bag limit.
Despite the fact that few birds
were killed the hunters enjoyed tha
outing. Wild grapes are ripening
on bhackleford, and the party
found several vines laden with
fruit. The trip to the Banks wa3
made in Roscoe Mason's sailboat.
On Shackleford the party saw sev
eralwild hosrs, goats and other ani-
mals which roam the
dunes and
woodlands.
Oldest NewspaperEstablished 1912
BEAUFORT, N. C., THURSDAY. SEPT. 7. 1939
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Effects Of W
ar
War which began in Europe
Beautort News is being felt
in
New War i believed to be cause of
delay.
Several of the Coast Guard Cut
ters, and patrol boats whose crews
are practicing on Camp Glenn ri
fle range are expected to soon join
the Navy and Coast Guard patrol
fleet along the coast from Maine
to Mexica. ' "
It is reported here that
North Carolina will be allotted 500
enlistments for the U.' S. Navv.
There it also a revive. "t.S ", Cika.f
Gu
arf enlistments which" was al
most at standstill prior to the new
World War.
The demand for radios have in
creased considerably and local
firms handling same are finding
that the demand is far greater
man supply, it is by radio that
the first news flashes of WAR are
received.
Garland Fulcher
Captures A 'Gator
With Bare Hands
Garland Fulcher, colored youth
employed at The Photo Shop cap
tured a 2 and 1-2 foot alligator
with his bare hands over in West
Peaufort last Sunday. He stated
.kzt when he grasped the 'gator's
neck it wrapped its entire body and
tail around his arms in an attempt
to escape.' Instead of releasing
the 'gator, Garland took it to Pi
vers Island and turned same over
to Dr. Herbert F. PrythercK who
had it placed in the outdoor
tile pool.
rep-
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. Geodetic 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 LOW
Friday, Sept. 8
2:33 AM. 8:55 PM.
3:10 PM. 9:53 PM.
Saturday, Sept. 9
3:48 AM. 10:01 AM.
3:48 AM. 10:01 AM.
Sunday, Sept. 10
4:55 AM.
5:19 PM. 11:06
Monday, Sept. 11
5:54 AM. 11:50
6:17 PM. 12:07
Tuesday, Sept. 12
PM.
AM.
PM.
6:47 AM. 12:43
7:08 PM. 1:05
Wednesday, Sept. 13
AM.
PM.
Thursday, Sept. 14
AHT
PM
"ss:Ioam!
2:46 PM.
8:49
To 8tudcnls d
hometown and county
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COUNTY SCHOOLS
PREPARING FOR
FALL SESSIONS
White Oak Opened
Today; Teachers
To Meet
White Oak School of Car
teret County opened today
and all other schools of the
county of whatever size and
race will open Thursday.
September 14th, according
to information received to-.
day from Supt. J.;Q.Alleju
- -' 'Hirst . . ". -'. "'
f -.A" conference of principals of all
schools will be held in the office of
the Superintendent in the court
house annex Monday, September
11, at 10:00 o clock for the discus
sion of plans and objectives for
the year. Teachers of each school
of five or more teachers will meet
with their respective principals in
their respective schools Wednes
day morning, September 13, at !
9:30 o'clock. Supt. Allen is re
questing that th teachers of 1, 2,
and 3-tsacher schools meet with
their principals or committees at
their schools at the same hour, to
do the 101 things that ought to be
done, even in the smallest school,
in order to get everything in "ship
shape" and to open the schools
properly.
At his request attention is callei
to section 22 1-2 of the School Ma
chinery Act of the 1939 Legisla
ture which reads as follows: "Sec.
22 1-2. Children to be entitled to
enrollment in the public schools
for the school year 1939-1940, and
each year thereafter, must be six
years of age on or before October
first of the year in which they en
roll, and must enroll during the
first month of the school year."
Supt. Allen said today that even
when previous laws required chil
dren to be 6 years of age on or be
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Terrapin Race Pic
In Phila. Inquirer
With cable, radio and tele
graphic photos showine war
scenes in Europe, (you have
seen them in the newspap
ers) it is almost impossible
impossible to get what might
be formed a publicity picture
published, cut Beautort was
lucky again this week and an
Aycock Brown photo, show
ing racing terrapins at the
World's First Diamond Back
Terrapin Derby here recent
ly appears in the current edi
tion of Philadelphia Inquir
er. Other Beaufort photos recent
ly published in newspapers of this
State included the sailfish shots
with Helen Jones, R. W. Baker,
Capt. Guy Lewis and Brantley
Brown, appearing in the Raleigh
Greensboro and Charlotte papers
Sunday and also a picture of 40th
Anniversary celebrating Rev. Tom
froe of rlfrS7(TTn"tne"pTiipir
of St. Paul's church here.
who want The Beaufort News to follow them each week with
news of Carteret. Subscription Price until June 10. 1940. onlvSI OO
Subscript!
Regatta Here
Made More
Robert
Drum And Bugle
Corps Better
Than Ever
J. Robert Moore's Drum
and Bugle Corps of Goldsbo-
ro, along with the young.
sters in the corps who
doubled to play band music
spent the week-end in Beau-
iort and on bunday helped
make the Rotary Regatta
more coioriui than it would
have been otherwise. Prior
to the beginning of the races,
DRUM AND BUGLE
CORPS PERSONNEL
Personnel of the well trained and
excellently behaving youngsters in
Kobert Moore's Goldsboro Drum
and Bugle Corps who spent the
week-end in Beaufort at The An-
cnorage and gave exhibition of
drilling and musical concerts on
Sunday and Monday are as fol
low:
Majorettes: Annie Deans, the
beauty who followed immediately
behind the colors; Dorene Brown,
who received the admiration of ev
eryone for her baton twirlinsr: Lois
Smith, Elizabeth Pinkney, Jacque
line Martin and Peral Privette, the
tour dressed in blue with baton
Tumblers: These athletic young
whirligigs dressed in blue whose
ages averaged 12 year were:
Maurel Deans, Maisia Nickens.
Joyce Waters, Betty Reeves, Peg-
gy Reeves and Virginia Mercer.
Color Guards: Dudley Powell,
Bill Spiron and Ike Daniels.
Drummers: William Futrell,
Herman Boyd, Clifton Daniel, Rob.
rt Denmark, Jr., Thomas Gillikin,
Joe Glascox, Billy Pelt, Frank
Roberts, Norris Sutton Carl Wil
orf and David Hinson.' " -
Buglers: Leonard Edwards, Nel
son Edwards, Marshall Fields,
Charles Lilea, Thomas Parker,
James Snipe, Charles Wiggins,
Morgan Baldwin, Marcus Scott,
Dwight Pate, Cecil Columbus and
Ed Best.
Officers: Leonard Edwards,
Staff Sergeant; Robert Denmark,
Sergeant; Clifton Daniel, Cor
pora!; Tom Parker, Corporal;
Thomas Gillikin, Lance Corporal.
Chargeur: Edwin "Rusty" Mil
ler. an 18-piece band recruited
from the drum and bugle
corps played a concert from
the verander of The Anchor
age. Public spirited citizens of Beau
foit came to the assistance of the
Rotarians here in making it possi
coast. They were quartered at
ble for the youngsters, early 50 of
them to spend the week-end on the
The Anchorage, where Mrs. Howell
the hostess, showed a splendid
spirit of cooperation by giving
special rates and taking good care
of the group. These youngsters
averaged spending $1 each, each
day here.
Miller Furniture
Company Moves To
Its New Location
Miller Furniture Company is
moving this week to its new loca
tion in the rebuilt Potter Building
on Front Street. Formerly the
firm was located on Turner Street.
Jacob Miller is highly pleased with
the new quarters of his firm and
he has a right to be because the in-
tenor of the .aajtore has been
"7,,M!0 h"u " a " Dauty-!
opemn- or
the Miller Furniture
its now home will be
: :r.;Iy date. In the
fine line of furni
r.eval Electric refrig
i 5 rural EUc'.ric acces-
Company in !
made tit r
mean tins tH
tuve a:i,J G.t
era tors r.n d O
scries are be:
t uarters.
j moved to the new
JjJce Bre'r Rabbit
Gene Brown, employe of local
cutomohi'.e firm, stated today that
while he w driving along the ,
highway at night in the vicinity of
Lenoxville, he saw several cats,
kittens and large and small rabbits
pfay rngdgelheFoir tWfoad " in
front of his headlights.
untilJune
HELP US TELL THE
WORLD ABOUT
BEAUFORT'S
OPPORTUNITIES
Sunday
Colorful
Was
With
Moore's
M
usicians
Damp
Lack
Sails And
Of Wind
Handicaps 1
Virginia Pou, attractive
Raleigh girl, won her third
race of the summer season
here during the comet (Class
B) sailing races at the Rota
ry Regatta on Sunday after
noon. Despite such handi
caps as lack of wind and a
shower of rain at the start of
the races which dampened
sails, the event was a success
and attracted quite a large
throng to the waterfront,
many from out of town.
Chairman Graham Duncan, of .
the racing committee was assisted
by Claude Wheatley Jr., in making:
the event a success. A total of
10 boats in four classes started.
Fifteen or 20 boats had been ex
pected to participate, but due to
lack of wind, almost up to time of
starting, several boats did not at
tempt to come to Beaufort This
was especially true in the case of
several Morehead City and Bark
ers Island boats which Chairman
Duncan had expected to enter.
In the Comet or Class B races
which Miss Pou won, after she had
gotten off to a late start, were Nor
wood Guthrie and Norton Willis of
Morehead City.
Mondell Salter of Morehead City
outsailed Josiah Bailey, Jr., of
Raleigh, to win first place in the
Class A Type boat races.
William Willis, assisted by S. E.
Haynes, won in the flat bottom
skiff or Class C, race over J. K.
Vanderveer. This . might have
been due to the . spinaker which
Haynes made of his jib at the be
ginning of the event, because bis
mainsail carried less less canvass
(or appeared to carry less) thaa
the mainsail of the Vanderveer
craft.
In the Sharpie Class, Roscoe Ma
son's vessel came out first and Gra
ham Duncan, Jr., the other entry,
failed to finish.
Winners of the different events .
will be presented an engraved
trophy at an early meeting of The
Rotary Club. Miss Pou who has
been spending the summer on the
coast, returned to Raleigh on Tues
day, so her trophy when it is re
turned from the engravers will be
forwarded to her.
Youngest Woman
Pilot Attended
Regatta Sunday
Miss Jessie Woolen, 16-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
Wooten of Danville, Va., attended
the Rotary Regatta here last Sun.
day. With her parents, she has
been spending a vacation on the
Carteret Coast. Miss Wooten has
commercial solo licenses for flying
a plane
She is the youngest woman pilot
in the State of Virginia. c
Fishing And
All Outdoors
By AYCOCK BROWN
GUNS ARE banging away on
the marshes and along the banks of
the coastland, thus heralding the
begining of North Carolina's 1939
re-;hunting season Last Frid g
tember 1, the open season for both
doves and railbirds, (marsh hens)
opened in this State and a small
army of hunters took to the marsh
es, fields and banks.
FROM EARLY season reports
there is every inc'icatron that the
season for marsh hens and doves
will be quite ncn.-.al. Already on
the Carteret coast, and I ajsumo
along the entire banks gunners
have been killing these two migra
tory species. Dove hunters should
remember that it is a violation of
the Federal Law to hunt doves be-
fore 7 o'clock in the morninz and
the law3 of the State Department
of Conservation game commission
backs up the Federal law. It would
be quite easyn' rscJlatetf-lJaUiKs io
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