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Carteret County's Oldest NewspaperEstablished 1912
VOLUME XXVIII; NO. 51
BEAUFORT, N. C THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1940.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
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NEW PLANE IS
PURCHASED BY
COAST AIRWAY
Six Passenger Waco
Going In Service
On Local Route
Ocracoke - Manteo Trans
portation Company purchas
ed its first plane this week, a
6-passenger Waco which wil!
be placed in service by Coast
Airways along the "Gulf
Stream Route" from Norfolk
to Beaufort-Morehead City
just as soon as the Civil Ae
ronautics Authority issues an
operations permit for the
line. R. S. Wahab of Ocra
coke and Baltimore notified
The Beaufort News of the
Tide Water To Move
Airport Wire Poles
Tide Water Power Company was
scheduled to start work today on
removing the string of poles in
West Beaufort from adjacent to
Fourth Avenue to Third Avenue.
The line at present prove as ob
structions to planes landing and
taking off on the runways. Trans
fer of the poles to new locations
will remove this hazard. C. E.
Kilburn, field manager for Tide
water with headquarters in Wil.
mington was here to make arrange
ments for removing the poles.
purchase through a copy of
telegram he sent on Sunday
to chief pilot and Operations
Director J. Dave Driskill in
Manteo.
Driskill planned a flight here
last Sunday to confer with local
parties interested in the establish
ment of the line but a heavy down
pour of rain prevented him com
ing any farther than Ocracoke Is
land. He will probably fly here
tl is week-end as he has already
sought information relative to con
dition of the landing facilities in
West Beaufort. The new Waco
cabin plane is faster than the Stin
son he uses in air-taxi service along
the Outer Banks.
The new plane will be rcgisterei
as the property of the Ocracoke
Manteo Transportation Company
of which R. Stanley Walir.o is the
principal owner. Already this
corporation operates a motor bus
service between Ocracoke and
Hatteras and other enterprises
The charter of the transportation
company is being amended to in
clude aviation privileges. Nego
tiation for insurance on the plane
. are being handled by Mr. Wahab
in Baltimore.
Seal Sale Going
Over Top Locally
Mrs. J. G. Allen reported this
morning that Beaufort Consoli
dated School had sold 2,500 Christ,
mas Tubercular Seals and that
from all indications other schools
in the county would make an
equally as good record. Mrs. Al
len is the county chairman of sales
and she said that Carteret's quota
of f 195 would be attained and
probably passed this year as ev
eryone is rallying to the Tubercu
lar Seal cause.
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ALMANAC
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HISTORICAL
EVENTS
December
20
21
23
24
25
26
South Carolina secedes 1860.
Winter begins 6:55 P. M.
U. S. Marines in Nicaraugua,
1814.
U. S. and England end war
1814.
Christmas
American victory at Trenton,
1776.
BIRTHDAY
Of Famous People
December
20 Harvey Firestone, tires, 1868.
21 Albert Payson Terhune, au
thor, 1872.
22 E. A. Robinson, poet, 186C.
23 Joseph mSith, Mormon, 1805.
24 Kit Carson, scout and pioneer
1809.
25 Sir Isaac Newton, scientist,
1642.
26 Admiral Geo. Dewey, 1837.
MANY LICENSES.
FOR 1941 SOLD
BY NEW BUREAU
Nearly 500 auto and truck li
censes for 1941 have been sold by
the License Bureau of Carolina
Motor Club at Sound Chevrolet
Company in Morehead City, but
tl.ere are still hundreds of per
sons who have failed to get their
new tags. Mrs. Vernon Guthrie,
in charge of license tag sales at
the Motor Club branch office urg
es car and truck owners to buy
their licenses now before the last
minute rush.
There will be no extension of
time this year, in other words, per
sons who fail to have 1941 licenses
on their auto or trucks after mid
night, December 31, will be subject
to arrest by State Highway Patrol.
This is the first year that it has
been possible to buy auto licenses
in Cartret Count. Previously it
was necessary to go to New Bern or
order direct from Raieigh.
Salvation Army
Christmas Tree
Service Monday
Capt. E. V. Farmer, in charge of
the Beaufort Outpost of the Salva
tion Army is going forward with
plans for a Christmas Tree serv
ice on next Monday night?. The
services will be held under the
Community Tree in front of the
post office building.
Main part of the exercises will
be gifts that will be distributed to
the under-privileged children.
Special music will also be featured.
Co-operating with the Salvation
Army in preparing the list of chil.
dren who will be eligible for gifts
are several local persons who are
familiar with welfare conditions.
Information For
Those Who Want
Holly Ridge Jobs
Carteret Coast citizens who
want jobs at Holly Ridge where
the Government is building a Coast
Artillery Anti-Aircraft Camp, are
urged to contact their local em
ployment agency instead of going
to Holly Ridge. In Carteret the
agency is the N. C. Employment
Service under the direction of W,
C. Carleton. His office in Munic
ipal Building, Morehead City, is
open for applicants each Tuesday.
Other information about work at
Holly Ridge appears under -the
Jacksonville story which follows:
JOB SERVICE
Jacksonville December 17. The
State Employment Service has
been designated as the official hi
ring agency for the four construc
tion firms handling the new cen
ter at Holly Ridge, near Jackson
ville, Onslow County.
R. Mayne Albright, director,
said that all persons interested in
jobs on the project should register
at their home employment .service
office, and lists would be available
at Holly Ridge for requisition of
needed workers from local offices
throughout the State.
Albright said it was expected
that 10,000 persons would be em
ployed on the construction, which
would be completed within three
months.
In addition to the persons to be
put to w rk at Holly Ridge, Al
bright said there were more than
125 immediate job openings to de
fense industries in the State.
Further advice about job seek
ing at Holly Ridge appeared in the
News and Observer editorial print
ed below:
"STAY AT HOME"
..Job seekers who have been pour
ing into Holly Ridge, the small
hamlet in Eastern North Carolina
which is soon to be the site of an
enormous anti-aircraft base have
been advised to "stay at home" un
til assured of jobs by their local
employment agencies.
That is good advice for all those
seeking jobs. Federal employ
ment agencies have been develop
ed to the point that it no longer
necessary or desirable for persons
seeking employment to seek it on
the spot. The only certainty about
such a venture i the expense incurred.
ISLAND BRIDGE
DEDICATION IS
PLANNED SOON
Span Will Be Open
To Traffic By
New Years
BLAKELY POND DRIVES
ACROSS BRIDGE FIRST
Blakely Pond of Davis
dropped by The Beaufon
News office this week to re
port that he was the first
person (excepting the State
Highway workers) to drive
an automobile from main
land to Barkers Island. The
event, if it can be classed as
such, took place on Wednes
day. Actually the bridge
will not be opened for anoth
er week or two and unless
plans have been changed
since a Beaufort Newsman
talked to Highway Officials
Ernest Webb, W. J. Spruill
and Roy Hart on Wednesday
the bridge will not be opened
to traffic until after Christ
mas. Previously it had teen reported
that the bridge would be opened by
Christmas. Certain parts which
had to be made to order for the
draw-span was responsible for
slowing up operations so that open
ing date came a few days later
than originally announced.
Commissioner Webb told The
Beaufort News representative tha
the highway leading from U. S. 70
to the bridge which is now being
graded and nearing completion will
be paved within the next six
months. It is necessary for the
graded road to pass through a
stage of settling before paving op.
erations can begin. When conv
pleted Harkers Island will be about
15 miles or 20 minutes from Beau
fort for the average driver. Un
til the road is. paved, the speed, of
autos will be slowed up a bit after
leaving Route 70.
Will Probably Have
Dedication Soon
As is customary when a new
bridge is completed, there will be a
celebration in the form of dedica
tion exercises at the bridge at som
early date. It is understood that
Earl Davis and other prominent
citizens of Harkers Island have al
ready started making arrange
ments for this celebration which it
properly published and planned
should make a temporary "boom
town out of the village on the is
land. At the dedication prominent of
ficials of the State (probably head
ed by Governor J. Melville Brough
ton) will make addresses. This
will be followed by talks from high
way, and county officials and to
top it all off will be a gigantic oys
ter roast, fish fry or something of
a kindred nature. More will be
published about the dedication of
the Island bridge after the holi
days. The highway officials stated
when here on Wednesday that at
the beginning the draw-span would
be hand operated but that some
time in January (just as soon a3
the Harkers Island Electric Co
operative extended lines and equip
ment arrived) the span would be
operated electrically.
New Recreation
Center To Open
On Friday Night
Beaufort's new Recreation Cen
ter opens Friday night, December
20, at 7 o'clock. Square dance,
strong music, everybody invited.
Christmas tree for pre-schoo!
group Friday morning at 10:30.
Parents and friends invited. In
the afternoon at four o'clock the
larger children are having a
Christmas party.
The dance Friday night will
close activities at the Center until
Thursday, December 26th, 9 A. M.
WPA Recreation has been car
ried on in Beaufort for almost five
years at the American Legion Hut
The new building 'and playground
at the corner of Pollock and Broad
Streets has been made possible by
the Town of Beaufort, local organ
izations and citizens and the Work
Projects Administration. Activi
ties there will be under the super
vision of WPA leaders at all times.
It is planned to have the Center
open several nights each week es
well as during the day. Schedules
and activities will be announced
later.
All activities are open to the
public at all times.
Holly Ridge Railroad Station Is In Center Of Newest 1 Zr Heel
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PICTURED ABOVE is the Atlantic Coast Line's station building at Holly Ridge adjacent to U. S. 17,
some 20 miles south of Jacksonville and 30 miles north of Wilmington, which is almost in the very center
of North Carolina's newest "boom town." Already engineering parties are laying off the land for con
struction of the U. S. Army's Anti-Aircraft Base at Holly Ridge. Telephone and power companies are
busily engaged in stringing lines to the site and State Highway and Public Works crews are engaged in re
surfacing the highway between the Onslow and New Hanover County Seats. Take a good look at the
above building because it wont be there long primarily because it cannot accommodate the bustling Army
city of 20,000 which' will spring into being at Holly Ridge within three months (Cut courtesy STAR
NEWS Photo by Humphrey Other Holly Ridge p hotos on front page Second Section today. )
Christmas Edition of The Beaufort News will go
to press at noon on Tuesday, December 24, reach
ing local subscribers during the afternoon. This
is being done for the beneef it of our advertisers
who will be inserting Christmas greeting messages
to their customers. While most of the local firms
have already placed their orders for Christmas
Greeting messages, a few have not and those who
are planning to tell customers by way of the press
that they appreciate the business that has been
given them and that they extend best wishes to
everyone at Christmas, are urged to have ad copy
in not later than noon on Monday, December 23.
In other words, next week's edition of The Beau
fort News will be out on Tuesday, instead of
Thursday. The Publishers.
Eastern Farmers
Repaid $135,000
To PCA Last Year
Farmers in Carteret, Craven and
Pamlico Counties served by the
New Bern Production Credit Asso
ciation repaid more than $135,000
of farming operations loans air
ing the 12 months ending Septem
ber 30, H. L. Joslyn said today fol
lowing a meeting of the board of
directors of the association.
Mr. Joslyn is a member of the
board of directors from this area.
The Association which has its of
fice at New Bern makes loans for
crop and livestock production and
general farming operations in Car
teret, Craven and Pamlico Coun
ties. Director Joslyn said the amount
of loans on the books of the associ
ation at the end of the last quarter
was approximately $74,000, re
flecting an increase in business
compared to one year earlier.
Nearly 300 farmers in the three
counties are financing their farm
ing operations on a cooperative
basis through the association, Ir.
Joslyn said.
The directors of the New Bern
Production Credit Association are
H. L. Joslyn, President, L. H. Can
non, G. Tull Richardson, M. F. Ald
ridge and Jack D. Brinson. R. F.
Allen is Secretary-Treasurer.
' Sequoia
J. Lyman Stewart of Norton, a
Jackson County farmer, says .the
new Irish potato variety Sequois is
smoother, the vines stay green
much longer, and yields are 40 to
50 per cent better than other va
rieties. . I
FLASH
Jutt at we go to pre today Ay
cock Brown, Editor of The Beau
fort New received from Cong
reiiman Barden the following tel
egram: "Rural Electrification Ad
miniitration ha jut approved al
lotment of one hundred and forty
three thouand dollar to Craven
Carteret Project. Official An
nouncement will go out immediate
ly." Community's Yule
Tree Is Beautiful
A traveling man has visited just
about every Eastern North Caro
lina town since Christmas decora
tions have been erected saw Beau
fort's community tree on the court
of Government Pier in front of
Post Office building here last night
and remarked: "It is the most
beautiful
Christmas tree I have
seen in any Eastern Carolina
town.'" That was from an out
sider. Local people too have paid
high compliments to the decorators
of the Community tree which is
sponsored by the Town. Credit
for the decorations goes to mem
bers of The Beaufort Fire Depart
ment. Intake Day For
WPA Postponed
Mrs. George Henderson, super
intendent of Public Welfare stat
ed today that WPA Intake Day
which is ordinarily held on each
Tuesday will be postponed from
next Tuesday, December 24th to
the following Tuesday, December
31.
Construction Of U. S. Army
Anti-Aircraft Base At Holly
Ridge Now Getting Underway
Tiny Hamlet Will
Become Large
Army City
THOUSANDS WILL BE
GIVEN EMPLOYMENT
Holly Ridge is Eastern
North Carolina's current edi
tion of a boom town. The
tiny hamlet which was foun
ded by the Atlantic Coast
Line Railroad (or its prede
cessors) as a wooding sta
tion some 60 years ago when
the tracks were laid between
New Bern and Wilmington,
has come out of its Rip Van
winkle existance and almost
overnight has become such a
crowded Dlace that neoole
I who are working there have
to commute between such
places as Wilmington or
Jacksonville each day. It
will be only a matter of a few
weeks until there will also be
commuters going there each
day from Beaufort, More
head City and other places
just as far away.
Holly Ridge today with its 28
refidents will be a bustling base of
the U. S. Army's Coast Artillery
Anti Aircraft forces tomorrow or
by iate Spring at any rate. In the
meantime some 10,000 persons will
be employed in building this army
base which will have hundreds ot'
barracks buildings, officers quar
ters, and other buildings necessa
ry to accomodate some eight or
more regiments with a total com
plement of over 20,000 soldiers
; and almost a dozen reeiments.
Holly Ridgers apparently cannot
conceive the magnitude of the
whole thing. They will u.k abou
the huge defense project but iv.
stead of telling you somethinj-,,
they are more than likely going tu
ask you what you know. Aboui
the only resident of the community
who realizes what it is all about is
C. C. Hines, operator of a general
store and filling station who als'i
serves as the village postmaster.
The postoffice is just a small stall
inside the general store.
Holly Ridge has no " electric
lights. Mr. Hines store on Satur
day and Sunday nights when I was
there was illuminated by gasoline
lanterns, the same kind you folks
here on the coast use yhen you go
floundering. The store, hardly
See HOLLY RIDGE Page 8
Boom Town
New Industries Are
Opened Along Road
Four new industries have been
located during the past year or so
along the' Atlantic and East Caro
lina Railway company tracks, it is
reported by Harry P. Edwards,
railroad president,. who was instru
mental in getting them locations
near his road.
The four concerns are the Hat
teras Oil company at Morehead
City; the Malard Lumber company
at Kinston; the Cash Coal company
at Goldsboro, and the Colonial Ice
company at Kinston..
Mr. Edwards expects these com
panies to add considerable traffic
for the railroad, and thus materi
ally increase its earnings. Tho
Hatteras Oil company has already
given the road more than 225 car
loads of freight for which over
$10,000 was paid in freight charg
es, he reports.
TIDE TABLE
Information as t'' 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 Survty
Some allowances must be
made for variations in the
wind and also with'respdet
to the locality, that is wheth
er near the inlet or at. the
head of the esf.uaries.
Froday, Dec. 20
11:44 A. M. 5:52 A.M.
11:38 P. M. 6:30 P. M.
Saturday, Dec. 21
12:37 A. M. 6:56 A. M.
12:52 P. M. 7:28 P. M.
Sunday, Dec. 22
1:37 A.M. 8:03 A.M.
1:52 P. M. 8:27 P. M.
Monday, Dec. 23
2:42 A. M. 9:09 A. M.
2:59 P. M. 9:26 P. M.
Tuesday, Dec. 24
3:51 A. M. 10:14 A. M.
4:06 P. M. 10:24 P. M.
Wednesday, Dec. 25 .
4:54 A. M.
5:09 P.M. 11:16 P.M.
Thursday, Dec. 26
5:51A.M. 11:22 A.M.
6:06 P.M. 12:15 P. ML