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t I NEW CHRISTMAS $ t SUBSCRIBERS ? As the result of a "Give the Newi as a Christmas Gift" cam paign we proudly announce the addition of 157 new subscrib ers to The Beaufort News since December 1. This should be of particular interest to adver tisers and we feel it is a real ac complishment for a small town weekly. NEW EEST WISHES I 94 o H-t-H-'r-H-X-H-l- Carteret County's Oldest Newspaper. .Established 1912 , 9 VOLUME XXVII; NO. 53. BEAUFORT, N. C, THURSDAY, DEC. 28, 1939. PUBLISHED WEEKLY .5. jt. It Happened In Beautv Rovaltv I 1 fci . - f - ..m d CHARLOTTE OBSERVER said it was one of the most human interest beauty queen pictures ever published. The photo by Aycock Brown was made on AtlanticBeach during the Coastal Festival last summer and shows from left to right: Miss Frances Herring, Kin ston, Queen of Coastal Festival ; Miss Mary LeGwyn Wooten, Kinston, Queen of Wilson Tobacco Festival and Miss Helen O'Bryan of Beaufort, Queen of the Gladiolus Festival. ?wo Days Left To Buy New Licenses Only two more days are left to buy new 1940 State License tags for your truck or automobile. The only chance to get licenses at this late date, unlets you hare already ordered same is from the New Bern branch of the State Motor Vehicle Bureau. Willie Loftin, driver of the mail truck, for a modest service charge will buy your license for you to save trou ble of ordering same or going af ter them yourself. The State Highway Patrol hat been ordered to park all autos which fail to car ry 1940 License Tagt after mid night December 31, 1939. New Year's Dance Monday Night At Community Center Randy's Orchestra will make the music for a New Year's Dance at Community Center , on Monday night. It will be the second publij appearance of this popular local band headed by "Randy" Kirby. Incidentally this dance will be the biggest New Year's party on the coast and excellent attendance is expected. Dancing will be from 9 until 1. Covering The Waterfront By AYCOCK BROWN I HAD RATHER be editor of The Beaufort News, this littb; weekly with a year-in and year-o-jt circulation that averages only 1, 250 to 1,350, than to be the editor of The New York Times with its million readers and world wide coverage. If I had the opportuni ty to trade my job today, and edi tor's salary with Jonathan Daniels of The News and Observer, 1 would not do it, despite the fact that what he writes reaches many thousands where my editorials and news reaches only a few hundred. I come to this conclusion as I end my fifth year of service on this little rural and coastal weekly. NATURALLY I envy the editor nf The NgwJYork Times, because 1 imagine hp has a nlace in the coun try and also a place in the city that he calls home. I envy him because he actually sees things as they hap pen while I have to hear about it (Continued .tn Page 8) of 1939-Each Will LOUIS ORR, CELEB ATED ARTIST OF PARIS, IN BEAUFORT MAKING SKETCHES TO Train Decapitates Body Of Farmer On Christmas Morning After having apparently gone asleep on the railroad track about two and half miles this side of Newport, the body of Clarence A. (Dick) Johnson was completely de capitated and mangled badly on Christmas morning by the east bound train. Engineer Smith of the locomotive stated that as the object was approached it appeared to be crumpled paper and that he did not discover it was a man un til it was too late to apply the brakes and come to a stop. About two cars ran over the body and mangled it badly. The deceased was the son of the late Arthur and Mary Ann John son of Lenoir County. He lived on a farm and is survived by his widow Mrs. Nina Johnson and two small children. One brother, W. H. Johnson, of Newport section al so survives. Final rites for the deceased were (Continued on Page 8) Coast Guard Station Of The Year t -4 m tip in I i h. .... - - .. - X 4 J - COMPLETED during 1939 wat the extentive development at Fort Macon Coatt Guard Station. A total of orer $100,000 was expended in building this, the first super-station on the Narth Carolina coatt. In the photo it shown the main ttatioa building. Reign In 19-10 PRODUCE ETCHINGS Local Subjects To Be Included In N. C. Series FRANCE AWARDED HIM THE LEGION OF HONOR Louis Orr, universally re cognized as one of the out standing Dainter-etchers of today, arrived in Beaufort this week to make drawings of several places of interest in this old town and surroun ding country to be included in a series of 60 or 60 which when completed will portray the beauty of old homes, public buildings, mountain, land and marinescapes of North Carolina. Starting on the assignment during the late summer the artist, Mr. Orr, has completed nearly 50 of the prelim inary sketches which includes sub jects from the coast at Nags Head to the mountains in the vicinity of Asheville. In his preliminary sketches Mr. Orr has captured the beauty of (Continued on page 8) Bits Carteret During CHRONOLOGY JANUARY 5: It was Volume XXVIII for The Beaufort. News . . . . Over 15,000 persons had visit ed Old Fort Macon during 1938 . . . The late schooner G. A. Kohler on Mattel as Banks was to be destroy ed for the iron bolts.". . . Four Car teret schools opened and closed im mediately due to measles epidem ic. ... A Bald eagle was captured ilive on Davis Island ' by. Lemuel ind G rover Davis and Representa tive F. R. Seeley was aiding the fight in Raleigh to have D. L. Ward elected Speaker of the House. JANUARY 12: Major George Gillette (now a Colonel) promised to make additional improvements for Barden Inlet at ape Lookout. . . . Rev. Louis D. Hayman, pastor of Ann Street Methodist Church, was planning to organize Sea Scouts. . . . Earl Davis' picture on front page labeled him as leader to 9,-et electrif lights for island. . . , Haikers Island Ferry leaking bad ly was to be taken out and repair ed and Dr. Paul White of Boston, was in the market for a I've whale. JANUARY 26: Game Official, Doc Kugler had written to county urging release of the bald eagle which hud been taken on to Raleigh for displayinazoo. . . .Hattie Sty ron's picture made on a cold Jan uary day while she wore shorts and held two terrapins in her hand was the forerunner of much. 1939 publicity for the terrapin hatchery on Fiver's Island. . . ", A womanless Wedding was planned. . . .Bob Reynolds was tied in with a Coast Guard story and Dean Noe's "dream Church" was" to be built in Memphis. FEBRUARY 2: Dr. Pcarse in Beaufort on visit told of plans to increase facilities at Duke Labora tory here. . . . Gregory Ivy of WCUNC had written that he would help promote local art show. . . . Raleigh WPA office announced approval of plans to widen Front Street and the Show boat was in town and the bowling tourney at the Idle Hour on Atlantic Beach was scheduled to come to a close on Saturday night. FEBRUARY 9: -County was planning to sponsor NYA building .... A cargo of salt was due soon at Port Terminal in Morehead City aboard Danish freighter S. S. Stal. . . . Another huge turtle was added to Fisheries Laboratory. . , . A dizzy oyster had been taken from the salt water pump at the laboratory. . . .Catharine O'Bryan appeared in picture on front pyge with Diver L. H. Barnes at Ft. Ma con Coast Guard station's new launchways and the crew of Foit Macon had gone to sea with tho Scottish S. S. Baron Dunmri. . clearing from Port Teiminal will: cargo of scrap metal to rcinov.' Pilot Ira Willis who would hay otherwise taken a trip to Philadel phia due to rough weather on bar. FEBRUARY 10: Citizens wan ted plans changed by government for tho proposed postoffico wharf . . . . A cycloneic wind had blown down Western Union wires on causeway. . . . Atlantic was select ed as scene of county basket ball tourney. . . . Miss Hayne had gone to Norfolk to see her famous fly ing brother Major Hayne return from mercy trip to Chili. . . . Lib by Ward and Seeley were given places in Legislative "superlatives" and the Core Creek-Harlowe citi zens were determined to get REA project. FEBRUARY 23 : First Citizens Bank celebrated its 5th anniversa ry locally and Seashore Transpor tation Company planning improv ed terminal facilities. . . . Barden Inlet maintenance due in March.. MARCH 2: Atlantic Boys and Smyrna Girls champions in Basket Ball Tourney. . . . Salt from Sfax, Tunisia, aboard S. S. Stal due at Terminal on Saturday according to Hugh Hill, local agent of owners. . . . . Simka Simkovitch, Russian artist scheduled to paint murals for Post Office. . . (Continued on page ?x Tragedy of The . , .. , -tysyy- g- ji'rw '' .4"' ' T-f JT? PERHAPS THE most widely circulated news picture of the year from Carteret County is shown above. This picture was taken on tho morning following the head on collision between the Menhaden Boat "Southland" of Morehead City, and the barge "Espee No. 4," which was being shoved north through the Inland Waterway on an Au tumn evening in 1939. ' Ten lives were lost in the crash, eight Negroes and two white men. Stories of this crash appeared on front pages of newspapers throughout the country under Beaufort datelines. Record Terrapin Hatch At Beaufort Laboratory BOY SCOUTS GO FORWARD Two Patrols Formed And Need For Hut Is Necessary ' Beaufort's newly organiz ed Boy Scouts troop is going forward and at the last mee ting two patrols were formed , and given names which are suitable locally. John Dun Ican will be patrol leader of the Sea Gull Patrol. Jimmie Alexander was appointed leader of the Gulf Stream ; Patrol. Bobby Stephens, lo--cA youth who has advanced ; far in scouting was named Senior Patrol Leader over the two patrols. i At the last meeting two officials Seoul master Potter and Assistant (Continued on Page 8) Church Of The Year In Carteret 4 :. 1 " " . f - - -- . 4 I!-. - 5 V f 2. - i-.w J' -A . s I 'i -t ! si - ' - t. 'V- "W, - V sn-t - v V4 -- -. KfrtZ Z "4" t ' IT WAS durinj the Sprinf of 1939 that Cora Creek (non.tectarian) Community Church was completed and given to the esldents of that section hy Colonel F. S. Dickinson of Rutherford, N. J. Popular Rev. BUI Stewart became patter of the church. - v i - Year-Ten Lose Bill Sharpe Story Gives Details On Record By Bill Sharpe There are broad smiles over Piver's Island this win ter, and the jubilation is al most at the cigar-passing stage. Over 14,000 blessed events have successfully tak en place the largest hatch of diamond back terrapins ever made at the U. S. Fish eriesLaboratory there. And that is to say, the largest domestic hatch in the world, because on Pi ver's Island is the largest of the few diamond back farms extant. The little terrapin, not much larger tnan a twenty-live cent piece, are now resting in special hi bernation boxes. In the spring they will be placed in salt marshes all along the southeastern coast some day it is honed, to find them- (Continued on Page 8) 1939 Lives In Crash Heaviest Mail Ohw Record Is Handled During Christmas Beaufort's postoffice like others throughout the country handled the heaviest mails on record dur ing the week prior to Christmas. During the week a total of 30,872 letters were cancelled and 531 bags of parcel post was included in the outgoing mail, Postmaster Tay lor reported. The local office haol no check on the incoming mail but it too broke all records. On ona day over 15,000 incoming letters were handled, it was stated. Big gest days of the week were Wed nesday, 6,101 letters, Thursday, 8,891 letters and Friday, 5,191 let ters, out going. Christmas Tree Beauty Praised A visitor in town this week stat ed that Beaufort't municipal Christ mas tree on Inlet Inn lawn was one of the prettiest he had seen in any Eastern Carolina town. TIDE TABLE Information as to the tide at Beai:'n ig -jv t.n in this column. The fieures ar n prox'mateiv crrr"ot nn'' are based itii Ublca luuuoiied by th- U. . Oe-M, S;i Some Mlo'vances r'iist tuAUa fT varminri m tht wind and als wiih rp - tj ti;o iwcal.ti, that is wiietK. er r.ar the inLt ..; a, tht lad of '.he cstuaiif-s. Fridny, Oec. 29 10:11 A. M. i:5t A. M. 10:43 P. M. 4:35 P. M. Saturday, Dee. 30 11:01 A. M. 4:47 A. M. 5:26 P. M. Sunday, Dec. 31 11:36 A.M. 5:45 A.M. 11:52 P.M. 6:22 P.M. Monday, Jan. 1 12:32 A. M. 6:48 A. M. 12:48 P.M. . 7:20 P.M. Tuesday, Jan. 2 1:31 A.M. 7:56 A. ML 1:47 P.M. 8:19 P.M. Wednesday, Jan. 3 a-... r. ... v.wtf r. 2:52 P. M. 9:19 P. M Thurtday, Jan. 4 3:44 A. M. 10:08 A. tS. 4:00 P. M. 10)16 P. M
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