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Beaufort news READ OUR NEW MAGAZINE SECTION In This Edition IT ATTEND YOUR SCHOOL'S SPORTING EVENTS in 4. Carteret County's Oldest Newspaper. .Established 1912 4 VOLUME XXVII; No. 44. PLANNING TO MOVE TAR AND RESIN PRODUCTS THROUGH MOREHEAD CITY TERMINAL WORK STARTS ON FRONT ST. WPA PROJECT Waterfront Also Being Cleaned Rubbish WPA workers have been - engaged this week in clean ing up the waterfront here of shells and rubbish and at the same time a project tor n oniiKr Front Street from Queen to the postoffice be gan. Several persons are em ployed on the project and rapid headway 13 being made. . . .. The Front Street project calls for a total expenditure of $5,863. The only cost to the Town will be ' $222 for cement according to the estimate set up in the project. The street will be eight feet wider. Hallowe'en Supper And Carnival Will Attract Many People I A large attendance is expected 'at the Hallowe'en Supper and Carnival to be held at the Public ? School here on Friday night, judg ing from the advance ticket sale. The Hallowe'en event is one of the best money makers of the year for the PTA, and all previous re cords are expected to be eclipsed this year. Prior to the beginning of the Carnival, supper will be . served from 5 o'clock until 7:00 4 o'clock. The supper will be pre- ' I partment through the cooperation , ? of the PAT members. Mrs. Hal- 1 sow Paul is in itirm nf the event. High Attendance Record During 1st Quarter of. School Highest attendance record in eight years was noted at Beaufort Public School during the first month, according to records ob- f tained from the office of Principal i Leary. The attendance record du ring the first month was 98.16 it ; was stated. The room making the highest attendance record was that of Mrs. John Brook. She teaches seventh grade and her room's re cord was 99.6 per cent perfect. ; Miss Eleanor Jones' room in the High School department made 99.4 ; it was stated, with Miss Varina ; Way's room running up with 99. ' Way's room running up with 99 per cent. i Miss Lessie Arrington's room, , 4th grade, also made an attendance of 99 per cent. Farm wages, averaging $1.57 a day without board, were about the same on Octover 1 as they wree three months earlier, reports the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Covering The Waterfront By AYCOCK BROWN FRANKLY I was disappointed ; on Monday morning when I went : to the Morehead City Port Termi nal to see the grading work for the construction of storage tanks by ' Hio Hat.fpraa nil Comnanv. Mr. Crowell and Dr. Royal had given tne moreneau ity port on oami day. They explained in detail 1 i..' 1! 1- L. 1 J 1 it. . r t i yi i t Ci.. UV vt ucKUwauviia rr iitvti iutu going on for some two years be ! tween the organization and the port commission were finally com , pleted. I knew the lead for the ! storv was the that actual work on i story was the fact that actual work nn nmippt would hAirin nn Mnndav . u.. r j - o - J T'V n.T L.J in,t vv. n f Vl o f twvtAnn would begin on October 23. Na turally I was disappointed when I went with camera to make a pic ture of the work starting and found only one man, one horse, and one small drag pan on the job. I had expected to find a big crew of workmen and found only one person. (Continued on Page 8) Grading Now For Construction Of Tanks Grading started this week at Morehead City Port Term inal for the construction of storage tanks by tho Hatter as Oil Company, which has leased a portion of the termi nal property between Tier 1 and Highway and railroad. It is planned to spend about $100,000 on the first unit of this project. Tar and resin products and asphalt materi al will be moved through the port by the organization. Announcement that the new or ganization was coming to More- head City was first made last Sat urday by H. P. Crowell, managing director of the port. Dr. Ben F. Royal, chairman of the port com mission, also made announcements regarding the construction of the new project. It was stated that the first unit to be constructed by 'the company will include one-half million, and two quarter million gallon tanks, and the initial expenditures will be approximately $100,000. H. P. Crowell, managing direc tor of Morehead City Port Termi nal, stated today that negotiations for leasing certain plans of the ter minal to Hatteras Oil Company be gan in 1937. "A short while later, E. V. Caul 1'ield of Norfolk, vice president of the oil corporation, again contact ed me and the matter was discussed fuither, but lost interest due to the uncertainty of the railroad," said Mr. Crowell. "Interest was rekindled in the autumn of 1938, however, and as a result of further negotiations be tween the Morehead City Port Commission and the Hatteras Oil Company, a contract was entered into on December 12, to lease cer tain lands between Piar No. 1 and the highway and railroad adjacent to Newport River." This is the first additional de velopment for the Morehead City port terminal, which was complet ed in 1935. Since completion thousands of tons of scrap mettal have moved through the port, and three or four incoming cargoes of salt have been received and a partial cargo of Philippine mahogany. Rotarian Edgar Swann Talks To N. Y. A. Workers Edgar Swann made a talk to the NYA workers here Tuesday af ternoon using as his topic, a story from The Rotarian with a theme built up around Finding Your Place In Life. His talk was one in a series of talks being made each week by members of The Rotary Club. Previously Rotarian Bill Stewart, pastor of The Community Church of Core Creek had talked to the N. Y, A. group. The speakers each week are designated by Aycock Brown, president of the local Rotary Club. Next week the speaker before the group will be Rotarian Tom Leary, principal of Beaufart Public School. His subject will be an nounced later. The talks are pre sented in the office of Mrs. Rosa Merrill, county supervisor of NYA work in Carteret County. Her of fice is located in The Courthouse Annex. Corporal Clay Stationed Here Corporal C. J. Clay of the N. C. Highway Patrol arrived in Beau fort this week and will be station ed here in the future. His office will be at City Hall. Corporal Clay will be assisted in Carteret County by Patrolman John Laws, who is stationed in Morehead City. Corporal Clay and Mrs. Clay will make their home in an apart ment at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Loftin on Ann Street. MARRIAGE LICENSE George C. Willis, Beaufort, N. C, to Bennie G. O'Neal, Beaufort, N. C. Kerney Guthrie, Morehead City, N. C, to Lula Mae Wilson, Mar shallberg, N. C. Melvin E. Fleming, Haasell, N. C, Ruby Smith, Newport, N. C. All white. Congressman Barden Talks To Rotarians r 7 I jfcV I REPRESENTATIVE Gra ham A. Barden of the Third Congressional District was guest speaker at the regular weekly meeting of the Rota ry Club here Tuesday night. He was introduced by Rota rian Graham Duncan, who had been introduced by the program committee as ine speaker of the evening with the subject of "What Rotary Means To Me." Kotarian Duncan very quickly slid out (Continued on Page 8) Rotarians Will Entertain Anns And BPS Faculty Beaufort Rotarians will enter tain members of the Public School faculty and Rotary Anns at a sup per meeting on Tuesday Novem ber 7. The total number expect ed to attend this meeting will be approximately 60 and apparently The Inlet Inn dining room will be filled almost to capacity. Rota rians Bill Stewart, Graham Dun can and Edgar Swann were ap pointed a committee to make prep arations for the grogram on that night. Capt. Nelson Guides Party To Very Good Catch At Drum Inlet One hundred and twenty one drum weighing a total of 1,800 poundt was caught by a party nth- ins with Capt. Ralph Nelson at Drum Inlet during the past week The members of the party catch' in gthe nth made the catch in three days, it was reported. In the party making the catch were Grady Sheets, J. T. Justice, Jr., Mack Hoffman, Fred Dasher, Louis Barnes, C. S. Cunningham and H. E. Oldham. Orthopedic Clinic In Greenville We wish to remind our readers of the State Orthopedic Clinic to be held next Friday in Greenville, November 3rd, from 12:30 to 4 P. M. This Clinic takes all types of cripples, both white and colored, free of charge who are unable to afford private treatment. It is de sired, though not required, that pa tients be referred by a physician or the Welfare Officer, and that the patient bring such note to the Clinic. The Clinic is set up to serve es pecially the Counties of Beaufort, Carteret, Pamlico, Pitt and Tyrell though patients from other Coun ties who desire to come may do so TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE White Oak Township D. W. Truckner et ux to J. B. Frizell, Sr., consideration $200, Lot 77 and 78 John S. Jones Sub division. Morehead Township W. T. Willi to Irene Willis Midgett et al consideration $1,000 Lot 13, blk. 16. Ella Malachie to Susie Fennerll, consideration $100 Lot 11, blk 98. Mortimer L. Yearger et ux to Kenneth McCabe, consideration, $10, Lot 40 x 200 feet. Harlowe Township Lena Ball to J. Raymond Ball et al, consideration $10, "Myrtle Grove Farm." J. S. Ball et ux to J. Raymond Ball et al. consideration $ 1 0, "Myrtle Grove Farm." Miss Lucy Holland Undergoes Operation Miss Lucy Holland underwent an operation at Duke Hospital Tuesday. She is getting along very nicely. Many friends here are wishing her a speedy recovery BEAUFORT, N. C. THURSDAY OCT. 26, 1939. COINCIDENCE ! Eight hundred and eighteen students are enrolled at Beau fort Public School during the current .year according to re ports issued from Principal Tom Leary' office this week. That in itself is not unusual newt. As a matter of fact the total enrollment is slight ly less than the total enroll ment last year. But there it something unusual about the enrollment this year. Of the total of 818 students from the first through 11th grade, exactly 409 are boys and 409 are girls. Chances are that this is the only coincidence of its kind in the entire school system of the state during the current year. W.M.WEBB0F MOREHEAD B A.&N.C.PRES. Report On State Owned Road Is Rendered W. M. Webb, prominent Morehead City resident be came president of the Atlan tic and North Carolina Rail road Company Wednesday succeeding H. P. Crowell whose services as president and general manager were no longer needed as result of leasing of road to the Atlan tic and East Carolina Rail way company headed by Harry P. Edwards of San ford. Webb was elected at the annual meeting of the stockholders of A. and N. C. in Kinston. Webb, Alban K. Barrus and Lee B. Jenkins, of Kinston; Thomas O'Berry, of Goldsboro; Selby An derson, of Wilson; William Dunn and Raymond Maxwell, of New Bern; S. H. Hicks, of Snow Hill; Leo P. Harvey, of Kinston; Owen G. Dunn, of New jBern;. H. S. Gibbs, of Morehead City, and George P. Filks, of Raleigh, were elected directors. The first eight were nominated by the state, the uthers by private stockholders. The state owns most of the stock in the company. Harry Mc Mullan, attorney-general was proxy for the governor at the stockholders annual meeting in a local hotel in Kinston. The directors met after the stockholders. Barrus, Maxwell and Gibbs were made members of the executive committee. Harry M. Jacobs, of New Bern, was re elected secretary-treasurer. The A. and E. C. took over the road last month. It is asking a re duction of $25,000 in the first year's base rental of $65,000 be cause of the road's "run down" condition. A committee is consid ering the request. It was predict ed today that it would be garnted. It is probably an inspector will be named by the A. and N. C. to keep watch over the property. PIER PROJECT PLANS PUSHED Barden Wires That Purdum To Rush Matter Congressman Barden was contacted Monday night rel ative to the proposed pier park bulkhead to be con structed in front or' the Post office here. He stated that he would follow up immedi ately on the matter. Wed nesday he wired Aycock Brown, secretary Chamber of Commerce her as follows: nOW etaoin etaoin etaoin hm "Received following wire from Mr. Purdum, quote your telegram today concerning construction of wharf at Beaufort is being brought to attention of Hon. W. E. Rey nolds, Commissioner of Public Buildings Federal Works Ag ... ency and we are urging that this matter be handled wit utmost i xpedition." Major Gillette stated a few days ago that unless the pier-bulkhead was completed or well underway by December 15, the dredge which will be here on harbor mainte nance will be unable to fill same with sand. That is the reason the Chamber of Commerce got busy. He Gives Another Version On Bridge PRINCIPAL LEADER in the fight to have the proposed Har- kers Island Bridge constructed from Lenoxville instead of Straits is Earl Davis whose picture ap pears above. Davis gives his ver sions about the bridge in a letter which appears on the Editorial Page today. Incidentally anoth er version of the bridge matter is outlined in a letter from Winston Hill of Atlantic. Carnival Worker Caught With Goods In Clothing Theft A carnival employee who gave his name as Charley Doe was ar rested in Wilmington last Friday night and returned here to face charge of breaking and entering Johnson-Saunders Dry Cleaning Company and stealing several suits, shorts and other articles of ijiothing. unable to raise any bond, Doe is being held in jail here. He will be tried in Superior Court next March. Cash Prizes Go To Many Persons At Carteret Fair Over 60 individuals received a total of $115 in prizes at the American Legion sponsored Car teret County Fair this year, it was revealed here today. This does not include a total of $59.50 in cash prizes to booths in Exhibit Hall. The Legion Fair this year was a financial success. A com plete list of the premium winners will appear in next week's edition of The Beaufort News. Wiley P. Howard Dies In Car Crash Wiley P. Howard, 24, died in a Kinston hospital early Sunday morning of injuiies suffered in an automobile-motorcycle collision Saturday afternoon. Howards motorcycle was in col lision with a car driven by Rev. Van A. White, Negro minister of Greenville. Furneral services for the young man were conducted Monday af- rnoon at 2 o'clock at the home f his brother, J. W. Howard near Wilson, with the Revs. Robert Bos ,.l'U and Ernest Cobb officiating. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Eva Grey Springle Howard, formerly of Beaufort, father G. W. Howard, four brothers, J. W. Howard of near Wilson ; L. W. and M. C. How ard, both of Newport, and D. W. Howard of Kinston, and two sis tors, Mrs. J. B. Garner, of Zebu Ion, and Mrs. L. H. Barnes, of Hal ifax. Mr. Howard born and reared i; Wilson county, had worked in Ne Bern before going to Kinston. Ht has been working there the pas two months. An investigation was underway to determine responsibility for the fatal crash. STELLA YOUTH ON HONOR ROLL AT OAK RIDGE M. Oak Ridge, N. C, Oct. 24. It was announced today by Col. T. O. Wright, Superintendent of Oak Ridge Military Institute that Lio- Honor Roll for the first six weeks and has been awarded the gold stars symbolic of that distinction. The Honor Roll represents an average of "B" on all subjects, both military and academic. Lionel is the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Pelletier of Stella and is a second year cadet at Oak Ridge. . r Irs A I OW J 1 C Of C. Discuss H. GOGGLE FISH PICTURES IN MANY PAPERS Clippings Received Every State And Territory Mrs. Blanch Barbour Sta nley, of Graceville, Florida, sent Editor Aycock Brown a clipping this week from a Honolulu newspaper show ing Scotty Chadwick, son of Mr. and Mrs. bcott (Jhad wick formerly of Beaufort, now of Porto Rico in the role of a goggle fisherman. It is one of. thousands of clippings adver tising Beaufort and the world s first gogglefishmg tournament, which was held here during the summer, that have appeared in newspapers. Previously a clipping from a Spanish newspaper published in Porto Rico had been received. Mrs. Stamey, (daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Barbour of Beaufort) stated in her letter that Nelle Ans ley who visited in Beaufort last year but now lives in the Hawaian Islands, sent the clipping. It ap peared under the following cap tion: "LITTLEST FAN SHOWS HOW Beaufort N. C.:Little Scot ty Chadwick attired for goggle fishing, shows how to catch a sheepshead with a spear. Scotty however, did not catch this one, it was merely handed to him for the picture, during the annual goggle fishing tournament at Beaufort." (INP) Immediately after the tourna ment the pictures appeared in many Sunday rotogravure sections of newspapers. Later a single col. umn picture was serviced to news papers throughout the country and Editor Brown has over 2UU clip pings, from newspapers from Maine to Mexico and from Florida to Canada of this particular shot. The picture showing Scotty which hus gotten such wide newspaper publicity was made by Brown, as the little fellow nosed for Fox Movietone news-reel. Subsequent ly millions of people saw the pic ture on the screen. The goggle fishing picture has gotten the widest circulation of (Continued on Page 8) Home Eco. Class Very Active In Beaufort School The 9th grade Home Econom ics students have been working on Child Care as a study unit. They have studied four phases namely: Child Behavior, Entertainment for Children, Food for the Child and Children Clothing. Several of the eirls have had the opportunity to study a child in their own home o a neighbors home and record hi. behavior while finding out the r.'a son for it. They have also plar.n ed menus for the pre-scnool am school child and prepared thesi menus in class. They are now very much interested in making a garment for the infant or child of pre-school age. The 8th grade students have successfully covered a unit on im provement of personal appearance and proper dress for occasion. T'.ie motive was to become as consciu of the importance of suitable drc for an occasion as Cinderella's fairy godmother was when she transformed Cinderellas drab gc ments into those suitable for th- Princes Ball." The fairy als .showed he r?gard for the fitness o' lhings by changing Cinderella back into her working clothes be fore her days chores began. So :here is a certain type of dress for .liool. sport, church, street, trav el and parties each with its sepa- ate and distinct characteristics. The girls demonstrated what they had learned in the form of a fashion show which they arranged :nd put on during class period. Congressman Barden Visitor On Coast Congrssman Graham A. Barden was a visitor in Beaufort on Wed nesday. While here he attended the regular weekly meeting of Ro tary Club at the Inlet Inn. vkLISHED WEEKLY, Doctors I. Bridge Agree On Three-Wajr Bridge And Will Ask For It OTHER MATTERS ARE DISCUSSED BY BOARD A concentrated effort to have the State Highway and Public Works Commission make a survey with the thought in view of building a three way bridge between Lenoxville - Harkers Island and Straits will be carried out as the result of a meeting of the board of directors- of the Beaufort Chamber of Commerce, held in the rear of Miller Furni ture Company on Monday night. Previously there had been much pro and con discussion relative to the proposed construction of ( a bridge between Straits and Har kers Island which would eliminate Lenoxville and the most direct route for a bridge from the Island to Beaufort, Morehead City and the State at large. Present at the meeting on Mon day night which was presided over by C. L. Beam, president, were: W. H. Taylor, George W. Huntley, Dr. C. S. Maxwell, Dr. Woodard, R. Hugh Hill, Jacob Miller, Charles W. Britton, Aycock Brown and Mrs. W. I. Loftin. The bridge matter brought on more discussion than any other subject brought out during the meeting. Previously a resolution favoring1 the Lenoxville-Island route had been drawn up and signed by Brown and Beam of the Chamber of Commerce. But since that res olution, and similar ones from the Rotary Club and Board of County Commissioners a fight over the proposed location jf the bridge has taken place. It was brought out by W. H. Taylor that he suggested two res olutions, one favoring the Lenox ville route for a bridge, another favoring improved roads for the Straits section be drawn up and endorsed by the Chamber of Com merce. Dr. Maxwell, another di rector stated that the Straits Route would be a WPA project and that he understood that the project was now on WPA Pratt's desk ready for action. George Huntley show ed directors present petitions, which he said contained many names, favoring the construction of a bridge from Straits to Har kers Island. Previously Earl Da ( Continued on Page 3) More Carteret Boys Join The U. S. Navy Additional boys of Carteret County joined the U. S. Navy this week. Of 30 enlisted at New Bern station on Monday of this week six were residents of this county. They were: Aljie Vtl ma Bell, Smyrna; Robert Neal Wil lis, Beaufort; Ralph Waldo Wiie, Morehead City; R?ginj!d F. Le ,, Nawport; Norman Doughs Gl".-.-kin. Smyrna, and Williai : Li'.i McCabe, Newport. TIDE TABLE Information as to the tide at Beaufort is given in Uis column. The figures are ap proximately correct and are based on tables furnished by the U. S. Geodetic Surviy. Some allowances must be made for variation in t tit wind and also with resp.-cl. to the locality, tiiat is !; 'th er near the inlet or at the head of tha estuaries. Friday, Oct. 27 7:14 A. M. 1:06 A. M. 7:32 P.M. 1:43 P.M. Saturday, Oct. 23 7:52 A.M. 1:42 A.M. 8:09 P. M. 2:21 P. M. Sunday, Oct. 29 8:30 A. M. 2:18 A. M 8:51 P. M. 2:58 P. M. Monday, Oct. 30 9:09 A. M. 2:54 A. M. 1 q,t.? P M 3;37 P. M. Tuesday, Oct. 31 9:53 A.M. 3:32 A.M. 10:17 P.M. 4:20 P.M.. Wednesday, tivr. 1 10:37 A.M. 4:14 A.M. 11:04 P.M. 5:09 P.M.. Thursday, Nov. Z 5:06 A. M. 11:26 P.M. :03 P.L
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