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THR SUPPORT BEAUFORT'S LIBRARY PROJECT STOP SPEEDING IN BEAUFORT Carteret County's Oldest NewspapcrEstablished ( VOLUME XXVIII; NO. 34. BEAUFORT, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22,. 1940. PUBLISHED WEEKLY Funeral Services For D. W. Morton Held Here Monday Miss Wrightsville Beach Crowned Queen Of Coast mm v w m -m w w mJk if in?! Mi ii iff mm Col. D. W. Morton Dldd Last Saturday 4 COLONEL D. W. MORTON, prominent citizen of Beau fort, and chairman of the Carteret County Board of Elections died in Morehead Citv HosDital last Saturday, following a short illness. He was one of the best informed persons in the county on old records at courthouse. TENNIS TOPICS By M. Leslie Davis, Jr. Bsaufort tennis team went to town like a flash Sunday with a score of four out o six sets over New Bern. Robinson swampe d Staples two out of three with following scores: 2-6; 6-3; 6-4. J. Davis was defeated by Carl ton, 6-2; 6-8; 6-3; while his broth, er Ramie Davis beat Crow 6-3 and 6-4. J. D. Biggs lost to Dick Springle: 7-5; 3-6; 4-6. In the doubles Davis and Davis won 613; 5-7; 6-1. Robinson and Biggs with score of 6-2 and 6-1 won over their op ponents in the doubles. Fishing And All Outdoors By AYCOCK BROWN GRAHAM DUNCAN. Jr. caugh tum trout on one cast near the bridge on Monday night. The fact that he caught two lisn at ine same ;,no i not ns unusual (from our point of view) as the fact that he caught them shortly after a thun der squall. But it was on the flood tides, and usually when the tide is food and the moon is just rising over the horizon, fish can be taken almost anywhere. FISHING WITH Graham were James Potter, III, Rufus Sewe'.l and K. W. Heslip. I am wonder ing if the members o this party who are employed at Carteret Hardware Compnny had a chance to try out the "convict" plup;s which have been on display there but not selling very fast when last we saw them duo to the fact that no one had bothered to try them out. I sent a couple down to Oc racoke, thinking David Gaskill or Capt. Somers Spencer would try (Continued on Page 3) 1 BIRTHDAY Of Famous People August 23. King Louis XVI, France 1754 24. Theo Parker, reformer, 1810 25. Geo. Fawcett, actor, 1861. 26 Paul Rader, evangelist, 1879. 27! Chas. G. Daws, statesman, 1865. 28. Johann Wolfgang Goethe, poet, 1749. 29. Dr. 0. W. Holmes, author, 1809. H ISTORIC AL EVENTS 23. Commodore Perry died 1919. 24. New U. S. Capitol Bldg. started, 1818. 26. First practical typewriter patented, 1843. 27. Battel of Long Island 1776. 28. Petroleum discovered 1859. iff z' wM Will He Was Chairman Of Carteret Board Of Elections Pnnornl sprvirPS for D. W. Mnrtrm nrnminpnt Beaufort citizen, who died in More head City Hospital last Sat urday night, were conaucieu tvnrn trip lUnrtnn home on Orange Street at 11 o'clock Monday morning with Jev. tanlov Pnttpr nastor of Ann Street Methodist Church of ficiating. He was (i years of age. Ill for only a few days, Mr. Mor ton's death was due to an intesti nal trouble. He was operated on for the trouble last week, but his condition did not improve. Mr. Morton, known as "Colonel Morton" to his many close friends was one of Beaufort s best in formed citizens. As local repre sentative for various insurance or ganizations, he was well informed on practically all local matters. He had held nublic offices during his life and at the time of his death was chairman of the Carter et County Board of Elections, a position he had held with much trust for several years. He was particularly well informed on old Carteret County records. A native of North Harlowo, he moved to Beaufort while a very vniino- man. In .Tune he eelebrat- j rt ... ed with Mrs. Morton, their 53rd wedding anniversary. He is survived by ms wire airs. Tinm' Qfanfnn Tnrtnn nnH one daughter, Miss Annie L. Morton, . . , t. n aean ot women at eastern Caroli na Teachers College in Ureenvuie. Oni sister Mrs. Ed Bangert oi Raleigh also survives. Farrington Rates Hatteras As Tops For Blue Marlin Hatteras, August 21.- An 18 1-2 pound Wahoo, tropical fish seldom taken in waters of this section, was landed here this week (Monday) by Bouche, one of the better known Bimini and Ipswitch guides. Boche came to Hatteras with Kip Farrington and Captain Wit Willis to fish for blue marlin in the gulf stream neighborhood of the Diamon Shoals Lightship. At so in the party was Lloyd Styron, Hugo Rutherford's guide who was aboard Rutherford's boat when the 593-pound American-record blue marlin was taken here last year by Marshall Dana. With four Tar Heels Tom Fearing, Bill Baker, Dermid Maclean and Bob Thompson going along to lead in both cheering and prayer, the party fished the Diamonds for two days. Apparently there was something wrong with the prayer as well as the weather, for no mar lin were raised. Fis'.i there were aplenty. Around the lightship, Dolphin were so thick that one boat, fishing two lines, took 31 in 45 minutes the first day and got 35 in 35 minutes the next. There also were barracuda quite willing to ruin the marlin bait. But no marlin. One factor undoubtedly was the thick condi tion of the water. Torn by 10 days of bad weather, including a hurricane. In fact, conditions were so unfavorable that the vis iting anglers were unable to get to the stream the first day after their arrival. "I'm coming back and fish Hat teras for at least two weeks," sail (Continued o Page 8) Sch. Fiddlers Green Bound North From South Sea Islands The auxiliary schooner yacht "Fiddler's Green" stopped in Morehead City at the Gulf Oil Dock Wednesday morning to re fuel before continuing northward through the Inland Waterway. The vessel was nearing the end of along voyage which was undertak en by the "Sailing" Kellys, owners of the craft. In addition to visiting Tahiti and several other out of way pla ces in the South Pacific, the vessel called at Pitcairn (Mutiny on the Bounty) and the Galapagos Is lands. Asked if they would at tempt such a voyage again, the sailing Kellys told a visitor at the dock that they surely Would. At tracting considerable attention was the vessel's mascot, a small mar moset, (species of the monkey family) which was permitted to roam over the decks of the vessel. Bayard Taylor New Chairman Of Elections Board Eyard Taylor former mayor of Beaufort, and recently regis trar for Beaufort voting precinct, has been recommended by the Democratic Executive Commiltia of Carteret to succeed the late D. j W. Morton as Chairman of the Board of Elections.. . lrvin W. Da- vis, stated today that Taylor had the wholehearted support of the county committee, and indicated that he would be appointed imme diately by Chairman W. A. Lucat of the State Board to the post as recomended. Serving with Taylor if the recomendation is confirmed by Lucas will be T. C Wade (Democrat) of Morehead City and J. W. Mason (Republican) of Beaufort. NEW GAME LAWS ARE ANNOUNCED Dove Season Opens 15 Days Later This Year From the office of Game Commissioner J. D. Chalk waa iaanoH n hllllpfin rplfttivp to the new game laws for l'J4U-4l. it win rje noteu that the season on doves opens 15 days later than in previous years. Excerpts of the bulletin follow: "W. have iust received notifi cation from the United States Fish d Wildlife Set-rice outlining seas ons, bag limit and restrictions, on the shooting ot migratory oirus ioi 1940.41. This information is giv n Iwtlow. You will note that th dove season has been changed and will open this year on Septemb 15 and close November 30." In addition to the change in the Anva so-isnn. it is noted the baer lim it and possession limit on doves has (Continued on rage oj FREE PRIZES To Be Given At Library Benefit One nf the biesrest events of its kind ever presented in Beaufort will be the bridge ana cnecKer vowio nf rnmmunitv Center on Fridav nicrht sponsored by the Wo man's Club for the benefit of the lihrarv nroiect now under con struction at the old railroad sta tion building. Tickets are being sold by the l.v dins of the town and a large num her have been disposed of, up until the time we go to press today am; additional tickets are ex- pected to be sold before the ever, is held Friday night at 7 :30 o'clock A number of beautiful prizes will be awarded during the even ing. Two grand prizes will b raffled off at 10 cents per chance This includes a Westinghouse Cof fee Maker contributed by L. A. Oakley of Tide Water Power Com nanv and a set of chinaware by B. A. Bell, Jeweler. Other prizes and their donors include: Table cloth by Lipman's; pickles by City Grocery; pineap nle nreserves bv A. and P. Compa ny, tnhflpeo nouch bv Calvin Jones of Western Auto Supply Store; Break-o-Morn coffee by C. U. Jones: coffee by Pender; lemon inice extractor by Carteret Hard ware Company; mca unng cup by Beaufort Hardware Company; bed lamn bv Eastman Furniture Com pany; smoking stand by Miller Furniture Company; tie by Dill; tie by Felton; bath powder by F. R. Bell; compact by Joe House and handkerchief by Martin, lhi Vogue and the Rose Store. Each of the treatres here. Beau fort Theatre and Sea Breeze The atre contributed $1 worth of tick ets for prizes on Friday night. At tention is called to the display oi all prizes in B. A. Bell's display window. Coastguardsmen In Heroic Rescue Of Victims ROANOKE RAPIDS AND WILLIAMSTON IN PATH Death and destruction, mostly destruction was bit. in the wake of the worst floods in the history ofXorth East North Carolina during the past week when the Ro anoke Kiver went on a ramp age, overflowed its banks and inundated thousands or acres of lowlands. Proper ty losses ranging well into millions, not to mention the loss of human life was left as the stream abandoned its conquered farmlands and mill villages and pusnect sea ward towards the Albemarle Sound. Late3t town and territory to suffer effects of the murkey wa ters was Williamston. On the cene aiding the rescue work are the crews of several Coast Guard tations including 'Oregon Inlet, Oeracoke, Nags Head, Chicama comico, Hatteras Inlet, Oak Island and Fort Macon. The Fort Ma con detachment, motor life boat. carrying truck and rescue equip ment left Saturday night for Jack son, but it is understood they were located at Williamston today. Mo tor Machinist Mate Ion Lewis, 2nd class,, Carl M. Willis and The odore R. Willis comprised the res- ue crew from Fort Macon. A brief synopsis of the most ter rible flood in the history of the State, is reprinted herewith from Williamston Enterprise: Roanoke Rapids and Weldon to day are taking their first check of the damage as the raging waters moved out fairly rapidly after reaching all-time high marks. No accurate estimate of the loss there is available, but it will run well into the millions of dollars. (Continued on Page 8) Butterbeans Grow Large In Carteret A bean, which was described by J. T. Graham of Mill Creek, who pulled it from a bush on his farm as a giant butterbean was brought to The Beaufort News office this week. It is understood that the bean actually came from a butter bean bush, and that being the case, it may be the biggest on record. It measured 13 1-2 inches from tip to tip. Editor Brown has mailed the bean to Editor Godbey of the Greensboro Daily News, to see what he thinks about our pro ductive sbil of Carteret and the giant vegetable s we grow on the coast. Final Rites For Rudolph Dowdy Were Held Last Sunday Evening Festival Chairman Fatally Hurt By Explosion Funeral rites for Rudolph F. Dowdy, 32, were conduct or! nr Sr. I'.iul's Eniscopal Church here last Sunday af ternoon, and many hundreds of persons from this and oth er States paid a last tribute to this young man who da voted so much tims toward promotional work in the in terest of Morehead City. TVio funeral services were conducted by the rector, Rev. E. C. Mcuonneu. Chairman of the Third Annua! Coastal Festival, Mr. Dowdy was fataFy injured in a fireworks ex losion on Wednesday night. Rush ed to Morehead City hospital he succumbed Thursday night. The accident occurred at the young man's home in Bogue Park, while he was testing fireworks for the festival. He had lighted an "aerial bomb", making a test of its nnwer. and when it failed to ex plode, bent over it to determine the trouble. As his face neared the fuse, the explosive went off. The three blasts were so terriffic he was knocked senseless. On re gaining consciousness, he request ed that the festival go on and grave No ROTC Unit Can Be Obtained Here Chances for Beaufort High School to land an ROTC unit ap pears to be rather slim judging from letters received by the Board of Trustees of the Beaufort School District. . .At a recent meeting of the school board it was agreed that an effort would be made to land such a unit here. Investigating the Board learned from Senator Reynolds and Bailey and Congressman Barden and the War Department that no further ROTC units can be established at this time.. . This is due to lack of men for instruction, plus lack of necessary supplies for training. Beaufort School would probably be too small anyway, but the local Board had thought of trying to consolidate a unit with the More- head City High School, if they had found it was possible to have such ROTC unit. NYA PROJECT GETS PRAISED Taxidermy Work In Beaufort Given Publicity The N i A-taxidermy pro ject in Beaufort came in for quite a bit of state-wile pub licity in the current news let ter from National Youth headquarters in Raleigh. Especial reference was made to the replicas of various species of fish which have been on display in Morehead City this summer. This work is carried on under the supervision of Mrs. Rosa Merrill, with Waldron Bailey as taxidermist and Miss Elizabeth Merwin, artist. Both deserve a great deal of praise for their splen did work. On the same project a number of plaques have been made. Souve nir plaques of the Lost Colony, have found a ready sale in Manteo. These plaques were made in Beau fort. The project in Beaufort is located at the U. S. Fisheries Sta tion and much credit for its estab lishment and progress goes to Dr. H. F. Prythereh, director. Mrs. Merrill stated that NYA ha3 adopted as its motto "Development of good work habits" and with this ttheme in mind, it is being made the objective of all project opera tions. Intergration of NYA pro gram into life of community is the watchword of every supervisor it was stated. SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEWS instructions for carrying on the v-a-ious events. The family later ixpressed the same desire. The son of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Dowdy of Morehead City, he at tended State College ana tne uni versity of the South, Sewanee. Tenn. Later he went to New York, whore he took a course in interior decor ting. He then returned to Morehead Citv to assume active management of the Dowdy Furni ture Company, previously operated by his father. was interested in virtually every civic enterprise in Morehead Cttv having served as the second president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, organized anou; three vears ago. Since that time he has been one of the leading members of the organization. It was through his efforts that the festival was held this year. He was a member of St. Paul's Fnwfnna! Church, and was secre tary to the board of vestrymen and probably the youngest person to ever serve in that capacity at Sc. Pauls. Several years ago, he married Miss Rosalie Rives, of Jonesboro, who survives. He is survived also by his father, and mother Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Dowdy, and a brother and a sister, Doughlas and Dorothy Dowdv. and Grandmother. Mrs. S. S. Willis, all of Morehead City. Sousa The Second In The Casino JOHN PHILLIP Sousa, II, and his orchestra will make the music for the dance in Atlantic Beach Casino on Saturday night, it was announced today by John Single ton. He has a good band, accord inc to advance notices and is car rying on the traditions started by his father the late and famous mu sician for entertainment. Local Aqua-Stars Awarded Trophies During Festival Much color to the Coastal Fes tival Aquacade was added by local swim-stars and two cups were awarded participants along with Certificates of Award and cash to two others. For participating and diving demonstrations ' Harold Lennox ( swan-half eavnor and one and one-half) and Florence Skarren (swan, jock-knifa and forward half twist) received trophy cups. Roba Lee King of Beaufort and Ralph Howland of New Bern were awarded certificates and cash. Others in the diving team includ ed Charles Stewart, Frank Morn ing. Carl Chadwick of Beaufort and Dick Williams, Morehead City. The senior swim team includes Harold Lennox, Florence Skarren. Hiram Keer, Bill Wells, Jackie Sewell, Neal Windley and Dave Hill of Beaufort; Buddy McDon ald, Southern Pines, Betsy Stal lings and Libby Arendel, Morehead City. The Junior Team consisted of Roba Lee King, Charles Stew art, Frank Morning, Ralph How. land and Carl Chadwick, Beaufort; Dick Williams. J. D. Helms and Bill Caffrey, Morehead City. T..e swimming program, (Car teret ounty Acquacade) was pre sented under the supervision of Matthew Marshall of Beaufort. The exhibition was made possible through the WPA Recreation Di vision of Carteret which is head ed by Mrs. Vera Stubbs. Sponsors of the recreation projects are the Lions Club, Morehead City; Com munity Club, Harkers Island, and American Legion in Beaufort. NYA Workers Are Free Of Disease Every NYA-worker in the Coun. y hat been examined and found free of any contagious diseases. according to Mrs. Rosa Merrill, su pervisor. A new ruling of NYA is that each worker be of perfect health. In Carteret approximate ly 90 persons on NYA rolls were found free of all diseases. Beaufort School To Open Sept. 12 Beaufort Consilidated School will open for the Autumn session on Thursday, September 12, it was stated by Principal Leary who is making preparations now for the new school year. Announcement of faculty members will be made within a few days. There will be few changes in the local school faculty. C. of C. Directors To Meet On Monday C. L. Beam, president of the Beaufort Chamber of Commerce has stated that there will be a meeting of the Board of Directors of the organization on Monday night at 7:30 o'clock at Miller Fur niture Store, it was stated today by Mrs. Marha Loftin, treasurer. . f if i , VkifJ Miss Hilda W. Taylor Is Crowned "Miss Coastal Festival" The Casino at Atlantic Beach Saturday night, Au gust 17th, was a scene of beauty and loveliness; betu tifully decorated for the oc casion when eighteen charm ing young ladies from all over North Crolinaa gath ered, from which one was picked the queen who will reign for the ensuing twelve months over the destinies of the Coastal Plains. The Ca sino was packed with hu manity, friends of the queens. The candidates for royal honors, be decked in lovely evening dresses, marched from the side of the ca sino, to a raised dais in front of the reigning Queen, Miss Frances Herring, of Kinston, who was seat ed on the band platform in the ca sino. The queens then ranged themselves in a circle in front of the band platform. When all had been assembled the judges after considerable quiet discussion among themselves a warded the honors to Miss Hilda Ward Taylor, of Wrightsville Beach. Hon. Graham Barden, congress man from the third district, in a very happy speech congratulated Miss Wrightsville Beach on having won the honors and then took the crown from the head of Miss Kin ston, and placed it on the head of Miss Wrightsville Beach and de clared that she would reign for one full year over the Coastal Plains of North Carolina. Mr. McNeill, a prominent lawyer of Morehead City, ably presided over the ceremonies of the evening making the announcements of the queens as they appeared. He al so introduced Congressman Barden who congratulated the queens and (Continued on page 8) Covering The Waterfront By AYCOCK BROWN BEAUFORT'S unkept water front got state-wide publicity in The Greensboro Daily News on Monday. Did you read it?I t was a reprint (in full with comments) of our editorial last week which had to do with watermelon rinds and such along the street and shore. THERE SEEMS to be much speculation about how much a writer gets for doing a special fea ture for Saturday Evening Post. Estimates from $300 to $3,000 have been talked around in this sec tor, as what a fellow gets. From personal experience I can say that $3,000 is not the price. If such was the case I would be somewhere now enjoying a much needed rest and vacation. I DO NOT know how fan mail usually pours in for a SEP article, (Continued from page eight) TIDE TABLE Information as 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 Survy 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 23 5:08 A. M. 11:23 P. M. 5:43 P. M. Saturday, August 24 11:37 A.M. 5:50 A.M. 12:02 P. M. 6:34 P. M. Sunday August 25 12:19 A.M. 6:37 A.M. 12:48 P. M. 7:30 P. M. Monday, August 26 1:08 A.M. 7:32 A.M. 1:41 P. M. 8:31 P. M. Tuesday, August 27 2:08 A. M. 8:31 A. M. 2:43 P. M. 9:31 P. M. Wednesday, August 28 3:17 A. M. 9:32 A. M. 3:48 P. M. 10:29 P. M. Thursday, August 29 4:24 A. M. 10:23 A. M. 4:50 P. M.
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