Plan To Attend
COASTAL
FESTIVAL
Morehead City
August 15 - 16 - 17
BEAUFORT NEVSS
See Navy Ships
Next Week At
COASTAL
FESTIVAL
In Morehead City
Carteret County's Oldest Newspaper, .Established 1912
VOLUME XXVIII; NO. 32.
BEAUFORT, N. C. THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1940.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Six Runway Airport At Beaufort
Cost Less Than $75 To Construct
Young Voyagers Sail From
Morehead City To New York
Second Cargo Of
Asphalt Arrives
At Morehead City
Ian Cunningham Leaves Beaufort
To Inlist In The British Forces
H r
Congressman Warren
Stops Here Briefly
Congressman Lindsay C. War
ren of the First District, who wai
named by President Roosevelt as
Comptroller General of the United
States last week, stopped in Beau
fort for a brief period today. He
will assume his new duties on Oc
tober 1. As representative of his
District which comprises northeast
counties, he will be succeeded by
his efficient secretary Herbert
Bonner. The Comptroller General
was on an inspection cruise of
North Carolina waterways when he
topped here He was aboard the
U. S. Engineering Survey Boat
"Kitty Hawk."
Dean Hudson Will
Appear In Casino
On Saturday Nite
Dean Hudson and his Florida
Clubmen, featuring Miss France
Colwell vocalist, will make his ini
tial appearance at the Atlantic
August 10. Featured recently
over the NBC Red Network on the
Lance ToasTchee Time, this is by
far the most outstanding: band to
appear at Atlantic Beach in the
na.t five years.
Mr. Hudson has been featured
in coast to coast broadcast over the
Mutual and National Broadcast
ing networks. He has played at
ithc Aragon and Tria non ball
rooms in Chicigo, the Totem Pole,
Boston; the Terrace Beach Club
on Virginia Beach and numerous
other nationally known dancing
snots. He is also a Victor record-
ist artist.
Among other features of the
dance band is the Glee Club which
is styled on the lines of Fred War
ing and his famous orchestra. Th
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.FishinsrAlid'''
All Outdoors
By AYCOCK BROWN
John G. Mock, of The Pittsbi
Post, Guest Columnist
rgli
THE PROOF is in the puddin',
or in this instance, the fishin'.
FOR A NUMBER of years a few
of the more courageous, as well as
observant fishermen along the At
lantic Coast predicted that some
,day the waters off the Outer
uailKS WUUIU UC amunB
est big game fishing areas to be
found on the Eastern seashore.
TWO YEARS ago Hugo Ruth
erford proved this contention by
hooking and taking the first blue
marlin ever landed north of Flor
ida, a 439-pounder, hooked off
Cape Hatteras. During his visit
he claimed to have raised dozens
of these sabered denizens of the
briny deep.
DOWN AMONG the ship
strewn bottom, the graveyard of
the Atlantic, where more than 200
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ALMANAC
BIRTHDAY
Of Famous People
August
Isaak Walton,
"The Angler,"
1593.
Herbert Hoover, Pres., 1874.
Carrie Jacobs Bond, son
writer, 1862.
George IV, Eng., 1762.
Felix Adler, educator, 1851.
Ernest T. Seton, naturalit,
1860.
Ethel Barrymore, actress.
1879. ,
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15
HISTORICAL
EVENTS
9 First commencement Harvard
College 1642.
10 Turkey signs Peace Treaty
1920.
11 Fulton's Steamboat made trial
trip 1807.
12 Hawaii annexed to United
States 1898.
13 Gen. Meritt took Manila 1898
14 U. S. troops enter Pekin 1900
15 Panama Canal pened 1914
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Is Almost A One-Man
Project Of Vast
Possibilities
If weather conditions are
right, during the latter part
of the week, a new run-way
at Beaufort landing field will
be ready for use Sunday.
The new run-way, longest of
three on the field runs north
and south and will measure
approximately 2,800 feat.
This six-runway landing
field made possible by hard
work on part of Earl Taylor
and two or three other inter
ested citizens represents a to
tal investment in money
spent of less than $75, and it
has the distinction of being
perhaps the best low cost
landing field in the nation.
Years ago it was possible to
land planes at Camp Glenn west
of Morehead Citv. but this proper
ty is no longer suited for that pur-j
pose. It was at Camp Glenn that
a Navy Aviation base was estab
lished during the latter part of the
World War It was at this aban
doned Navy seaplane base the first
training school for Coast Guard
aviation was established. Few
North Carolinians know that
Camp Glenn, a few miles west of
Beaufort-Morehead City in Carter
et County was the birthplace of
Coast Guard Aviation. The train
ing school established there about
20 years ago was soon abandoned,
although the concrete runways
used for landing sei planes were
still in existence when Camp Glenn
was demolished as a National
Guard eneon,T,ru1' site last year.
Private planes have been usin
West Beaufort landing field off
and on for many years. . Until last
year there was one run-way but as
more visiting aviators came to the
coast they asked local interests to
make another run-way.
Local citizens in general are not
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Atlantic Beach
Volley-Men To
Meet All Teams
Volley ball at night, beneath
floodlights will be a new attrac
tion on Atlantic Beach beginning
tonight, Thursday. Mayor Willis
of the Carteret resort town stated
today that the Atlantic Beach team
not only challenged all comers,
but that more than likely their
team would win. Curly Wallace
beach life-guard is captain of At
lantic Beach team. If any group
in Beaufort or Morehead City or
anywhere else for that matter
think they can defeat Curly's team
this news-notice is a challenge for
them to come and try it Tho
public is invited to witness thj
games from the boardwalk.
IU
Lb
A. R. RICE
With two out in the first Lassi
ter and Ambrane combined hits
with a base on balls and an error
to score three runs for Edentoti
here last Sunday only to have Ben
Wade in the local half of the sam?
inning smack one over tho myr
tles in left field and into the creek,
a prodigous drive that scored
Charles Hassell and Ray Hassell
ahead of him. These two men haJ
just been walked. From there the
Firemen went on to win 10 to 8.
Their other runs came in the third.
When the smoke had cleared sev
en tallies had been recorded on
three bases on balls, a hit batter,
and hits by Norman Chadwick,
Wade, Richard Chadwick ana
George Brooks. The visitors
scored singletons in the second and
fourth and three in the fifth off
West Taylor. Wade came to his
rescue at the start of the sixth and
hurled one hit ball the rest of the
route.
Altogether the losers got eight
hits as eight struck out while the
winners gathered nine off Crab
tree, two each by N. Chadwick,
Wade and Brooks. R. Chadwick'?
tripple with the bases loaded fea
tured the big third. Each team
made three errors. R. Hassell
caught for Beaufort and Phipps
for Edenton.
The locals have won eighteen of
twenty games this summer and
play the strong Kinston team here
next Sunday.
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BIS
By
iicvF fen- : ,
Charles Norton (right) 15-year-old
skipper of the Pop
eye, a 16-foot sailboat of the
Comet class, is shown above
with his companion, Thomas
O'Shea, 14, after they arriv
ed in New York last Thurs
day from Morehead City to
visit the World's Fair. The
boys completed their 800
mile voyage to New York in
27 days. They both live in f(3i 1 I
Durham, N. C, but spend the
summers on the Carteret
Coast. The Popeye was sent
back to Morehead City by
. rail, so that it would be here
. in time for the Coastal Fes
tival sailboat races next
week. (Cut and pictures
used through courtesy of Roy
Bailey, Picture Editor, New
York Sun.)
1941N.Y.A.
PROGRAM IS
ANNOUNCED
Activities, Aims
And Objects Of
Local Units
LANG MEETS WITH
NYA SUPERVISORS
National defense will be
emphasized in all NYA pro
jects, State Administrator
John A. Lang told a group
of National Youth Adminis
tration supervisors meeting
in kinston last week. He
save a tentative outline of
the state trends for the de
fense program during the
current fiscal year ending in
1941. From Carteret (Joun-
tv. Mrs. Rosa Merrill, super
visor, attended.
NYA defense projects will in
clude training such as woodwork
ing, radio repair, construction,
plumbing, radio transmitting,
practical nursing, home making,
dress designing, cooking and can
ning. These occupatioal projects
are included in the NYA offerirg
at the local units, Mrs.. Merrill
stated.
"The National Youth stands
ready for any emergency, and will
conform to the fullest extent to
all National requirements," Ad
ministrator Lang has stated.
Local Activities
The girls on the homemakers
project at the NYA Building hav
been very busy recently canning
food for the school lunch room, a
well as filling their own pantry at
the NYA center with hundreds of
quarts of vegetables. Comforteis
are also being made for the Farm
Security Administration.
The first cheek for novelties
sold at Manteo Craft Shop has
been received by the girls. Having
learned to make souvenirs and
saleable articles on NYA, they have
gone further by actually making
the mfor sale "The results are
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Cruise In Sailboat Makes
Charles Norton Jr. Famous
Swimming Meeting
Coastal Festival
Feature On Aug 17
A special appeal is being made
to all swimmers in Carteret who
expect to participate in the Coaital
Festival Swimming Meet sched
uled for August 17, to put .in .a
rutl week of drilling at Inlet Inn
pier from August 12 through 16,
it was announced today. The meet
is scheduled for Saturday after
noon between two and three
o'clock at the Port Terminal pier.
First hour of the meeting 'will be
turned over to the Carteret Coun
ty WP A Aquatic Recreation pro
gram and will include water for
mation, amateur diving and free
for all diving. .. This wi'l be fol
lowed by professional diving, and
the U. S. Coast Guard routine.
Persons attending the meeting will
have an opportunity to visit aboard
the submarine and V. S. Navy de
stroyer and Coast Guard vessels
which will be in port.
T. G. Oglesby Has
Sulphur Dusting
Project In Peanuts
Sulphur dusting for the control
of peanut leaf spot is being demon
strated on the farm of T. C. Ogles
by, in the Crab Point community.
Demonstrations in control of leaf
spot, a yield reducing disease, have
been conducted throughout the
peanut producing counties for
three years and substantial gains
in profits per acre have been real
ized where three applications of
sulphur dust were used, according
to County Agent Lassiter.
Records from experimental plots
conducted las year indicate that
four early applications of sulphur
dust gave a considerable increase
of profit per acre over the three
application program, previously
conducted. "The increase in yield
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The first Mexican vessel to call
at the ocean t;-.-ninai in Morehead
City, arrived on Wednesday at
noon and was expectirg to clear
this afternoon for Norfolk, Vs.,
after discharging a cargo of ap
proximately 1,000,003 gallons of
asphalt for the Hatteras Oil Com
pany. The vessel "18 de Marzo"
is under the command of Capt. Te
odoro Palmer de Larosia. She
hails from Tampico from which
Mexican city the asphalt was
shipped. "18 de Marzo" is Span
hh for "18th of March" and the
vessel was so named because it was
on that date she vas confiscated
from the British Government, it is
-ndsrstood.
pan
Only 15 Years Of
Age But Sailed
To N. Y. Fair
Biffgest human interest
news tor metropolitan news'
lariors last week was the ar
rival of flapt. Charles Nor
ton, skipper oi the I'opeye
which arrived in New York.
28 davs out of Morehead
City, N. C. Not only did ev
ivy New York newspaper
i-e the story but photos oi
Norton and his companion
vere widely circulated in the
licture services. The Chris
tian Science Monitor, best
newspaper in the world, and
we with world-wid-3 circula
tion used the story from a
special correspondent on its
front page.
The reason the youngsters are
not sailing back is because Capt.
N'orton expects to enter his boat : Upon motion it was ordered
in the Coastal Festival sailing re.!th.at W. P. A. Workers pay $2 per
gatta on August 16-17. One of , month and N. Y. A Workers pay
the more interesting stories of t'.e $i per month for transportation
cruise, clipped from the N. Y. Sun on Sewing Room truck,
follows: Upon motion duly made and car-
A captain sailed into New York
harbor yesterday with a tale of a
twenty-seven-day voyage that in
cluded mutiny, a storm and the
near loss of his vessel, not to men
tion the loss of his anchor and the
fact that his rifle (for shooting al
ligators) got all rusty. The cap
tain was fifteen-year-old Charles
Norton of Durham, N. C, the ves
sel the sixteen-foot Popeye and the
voyage from Morehead City, N. C.
Capt. Norton nauti.cal in a com
modore's cap, arrived with a dif
ferent crew than he had at th
start. The crew was fourteen-year-old
Tommy O'Shea.
Capt. Norton left Morehead City
on July 6 with William Midgett, 14
also of Durham, but within a week
there was friction aboard. Midg
ett, the son of a sea captain, kept
getting seasick and insubordinate,
and finally Capt. Norton offered
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CAPE STORMY
Despite the fact that news stands
were supplied with many addition
al copies of August 3, edition of
Saturday Evening Post, they were
all sold out in lass than three
hours. This was the case in
Beaufort. Morehead City and al
so New Bern. People wanted that
particular copy because it carried
a story about the Outer Banks,
(Ocracoke and Hatteras Islands),
titled "Cape Stormy". The story
was by Aycock Brown, editor of
The Beaufort News, the color pic
tures (23 in all) were by the fa
mous Pir.to Brothers of New York
and Philadelphia House Drug
Store has ordered additional cop
ies, which will be available Satur
day at noon or Sunday. Persons
wanting copies by mail should
send a dime to cover cost of pos
tage and the regular price of 5
cents. The August 3, edition is a
worthy souvenir of the interesting
and nearby Outer Banks of North
Carolina.
BOARD PASSES
CEDAR ISLAND
ROADREQUEST
Several Firms Are
Given Privilege
To Sell Beer
Carteret commissioners at
their August meeting on
Monday disposed of consid
erable routine matters. Dur
ing the session a resolution
was passed on behalf of Ce
dar Island citizens who ap
peared before the Board
with petitions, requesting
the State Hurhwav and f ub-
lid Works Commission to do
something toward paving
the road from Atlantic to the is
land, a distance of about 15 mile3.
The State Highway will be urged
to pave the route, even if they can
see away to take care of the somo
10 or 11 miles from the terminus
of U. S. 70 to the road which con
nects the communities of Lola and
Roe.
Bids for supplies to County
Home during current month was
awarded City Grocery.
Upon recommendation of for
mer Tax Supervisor Fred R. See-
Icy, the valuations of certain prop
erty listed in name of M. S. Webb,
heirs, was adjusted.
It was ordered that the County
Attorney call State Highway Com
mission's attention to the condi
tion of Merrimon road at certain
seasons.
Beer licenses were granted to
the following: Hotel Otway Burns
Atlantic Beach; C. M. Morris,
Newport R. F. D.; Mason Seafood
Inc , Morehead City; The Dunes
Club, Atlantic Beach; C. T. Woo-
ten, Camp Glenn and Vernon C.
Guthrie, Atlantic Beach Cause
way.
On a consideration of 50 per
cent, the taxes of U. S. G. Bell,
Morehead City, was adjusted.
Upon motion duly made and
carried, it was ordered that Tax
Collector proceed at once to levy
on all personal property and gar
nishee all poll taxes. The Sheriff
was ordered to render necessary
assistance as may be required.
ried it was resolved that the Coun-
ty Budget for the year 1940-41 be
adopted and approved after final
approval by the Local Government
Commission.
Laurence Leonard
And Rep. Lambeth
Visit Here Today
Laurence Leonard, the widely
known sports editor and column
ist of Greensboro Daily News and
former Congressman Walter Lam
beth of Thomatville stopped over
in Beaufort today enroute from
Ocracoke Island to Wrightsville
Beach. While here they paid a
visit to The Beaufort News office.
Leonard and his sport page has
been responsible for much favor
able State-wide Carteret County
publicity.
He Spent Summer On
Cruiser "Tarheel"
Of Beaufort
Ian Cunningham, native of
East London, British South
Africa, was enroute to Pitts
burg to consult the British
consul and to determine
where he should go to enlist
in the armed forces f Great
Britain, when he sailed from
here early today aboard the
cruiser "Tarheel" of Beau
fort. During the current
summer he has been guest of
Dick Dickinson aboard the cruiser
on a voyage to southern waters
and Cuba. He left his home last
year for a cruise prior to the b
ginning of the new World War, and
was in the Far East when the war
began.
Enroute to America from Aus
tralia, ho met members of the Bec-
ton family (who in Rutherford,
N. J., are associates of Colonel P.
S. Dickinson.) He was visiting in
New York when Dick Dickinson
started his cruise for Cuba and
Bimini and was invited to go along
. i 1 1 .1
as a guest, un tne souuiwaru
trip he told a Beaufort Newsman
that in September he would join
the British forces, and those were
still his plans when the Tarheel ar
rived here last week from Mimini
and when she sailed this morning
under the command of her owner
for New York.
Cunningham is a likable sort of
a fellow and very talented. While
here he made many friends. On
Tuesday night he and Dick wera
guests of the Beaufort Rotary
Club. Dickinson told of the diffi
culties Cunningham had in enter
ing the United States following the
cruise to Cuba and how he gave up
plans to go to Bimini for that reas
on. He remained in Miami while
Dickinson, Becton and. Borden
Mace went to Bimini and mada
outstanding blue, marlin records,
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Covering The
Waterfront
By AYCOCK BROWN
By Laurence Leonard
Sports Editor, Greensboro Daily
News
AYCOCK BROWN said, "Please
do a guest column for me on cov
ering the waterfront from Nags
Head to Atlantic Beach."
AND I'VE been in this type
writer punching business long
enough to know that when an edi
tor speaks one must act even
though he's on vacation from his
daily chores and the speaking edi
tor may be one of his own corres
pondents and a thrice-weekly fish
ing columnist.
THIS PIECE was wished on yon
by the aforementioned Mr. Brown,
whom I'm quite sure you know
from the days of old, prior to tho
time of his mustache and the ad
vent of his journalistic possibilities
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TIDE TABLE
Information as t'1 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, thai is wheth
er near the inlet or at. the
head' of the estuaries.
HIGH LOW
Friday, August 8
11:58 A.M. . 6:18 A.M.
12:37 P. M. 7:06 P M.
Saturday, August 10
1:04 A.M. 7:19 A.M.
1:37 P. M. 8:12 P. M.
Sunday, August 11
1:54 A.M. 8:20 A.M.
2:42 P M. 9:16 P. M.
Monday, August 12
3:05 A. M. 9:23 A. M.
3:15 P.M. 10:19 P.M.
Tuesday, August 13
4:16 A. M. 10:25 A. M.
4:54 P. M.
Wednesday, August 14
5:18 A M. 11:17 A. M.
5:48 P.M. 11:23 P.M.
Thursday, August 15
6:09 A. M. 12:11 A. M.
6:35 P. M. 12:19 P. M.