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Merry Christmas OlH A 17 7TTrTT Happy flew Year Carteret County's Oldest NewspaperEstablished 1912 l VOLUME XXVIII i NO. 52. BEAUFORT, N. C. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26,1040. PUBLISHED WEEKLY All Rural Sections In Carteret To Share In Barden'sChristmas Gift ' mi Carteret - Craven Project Given Approval $143,000 IS ALLOTTED JESSE J. EWELL'S FARM AWAITS SANTA'S INSPECTION rt h w I f w JjL XL 11.11 ti : - 7 iii ' f A iWPrr - "'.'1 ( 2 From The Owner And Staff Of I THE BEAUFORT NEW I Carteret County's Leading Newspaper Hollyridge Contractors Will Work As One Unit Four Construction Companies Pool Interests In Effort to Expedite Construction of $9,500,000 Coast Artillery Anti Aircraft Firing Center In effort to expedite construction of the authorized thou sand-building, $9,500,000 coast artillery anu-aircrait ur ing center at Holly Ridge so that it will be ready by March 1 ft fnr nrrnnnnrv hv trooDs already being ordered there for that date, the four construction companies which will have the building contracts have pooled tneir lnterestes in to one organization and will open a joint main office at the old wooding station of the A. C. L. The four contractors are E. W. Grannis, Fayetteville ; V. B. Hig- gins, Greensboro; J. V. McDevitt, Charlotte, and F. M. Thompson, Raleigh and Charlotte. It is prob able that they will divide duties on the new camp project as follows: McDevitt, buildings; Thompson, street, sidewalk and other paving; Grannis, grading and load work, including water works and sewer systems. Approximately 500 men were at work last week-end on numerous preliminary phases. Actual con struction of permanent camp struc tures is expected to begin this week. By the middle of January several thousand laborers will be employed. . Covers Large Arefc Three temporary buildings for tools and offices have been erect ed on the camp site, which stretch es a mile wide and four and a half miles long to the north and west of the Atlantic Coast Line railway and Federal highway 17, both of which pass through the community from New Bern to Wilmington. Work is well underway on thu 12-mile extension of the Tide Wa ter Power oC pang ;- forroatim h ter Power Company to carry 11,-000-volt power to the site. The Carolina Telephone and Telegrapn company is also making good head way on its telephone lines. The railroad is rushing work on a 50- car siding. A well dug last week was reported to be furnishing good water. To prevent the noisy congrega tion of job applicants and visitors that has thronged the section dur ing the past week, the area under construction is roped off and no parking signs have been erected along the highway. However, to direct motorists to the section, new highway signs are now evident through the region. Office In Wilmington Temparary office of the con structing quartermaster, Lieut. Colonel Albertis Montgomery, and his assistants have been opened in the basement of the postoffice at Wilmington, First Lieut. Alden F. Spees is assistant C. Q : M. and ex ecutive officer; Capt. Gerald Boas ford is property officer; Lieut. Wilbur H. Turner is fire marshall, safety and sanitary inspector; and John Stanley is civilian administra tive assistant. Five civilians are expected soon for the auditing section. Engi neering officers and others will be assigned as needed. A number Oi Armv officers have already been ordered to make plans for the later reception of the eight anti-aircraft regiments that will be brought from Hawaii, Seattle, Wash., and other parts of the country. See Holly Ridge, Page 4 USED Comstock Is Going To Sea The Comstock, seagoing dredge of the U. S. Engineer Corps, is be ing converted into a freight carrier to be used for transporting engi neering construction supplies to outlying bases in the West Indies recently acquired from Great Britain. The conversion will be made in Chester, Pa., shipyards. The 2-funnel Comstock is no stranger in Beaufort and More head City. She has been on main tenance duty on the Inlet here frequently since the Port Terminal channel was dredged to 30 feet. Roy Hall of Beaufort is chief en gineer aboard the vessel. Police Chief Of Morehead Died Monday Chief of Police Jimmy Willis was buried Tuesday. He was one of the best loved police heads in the history of the ocean port city and his death brought sadness to many during this Christmas seas on in his homo town and surround ing communities. He (lied early Iredell Salter May Become Chief Iredell Salter, popular member of the Morehead City Police De partment who has been acting chief of police during the illness of Chief Willis, may bs named to the post of police head in the port city at the January meeting of the BonH of Commissioners, it was bin Led last night by persons close to municipal afTaiis in Morehead City. By Aycock Brown Congressman Graham A. Barden's Christmas gift to rural residents of Carteret County from Cedar Island to Stella and including Merri mon, Harlowe, Core Creek, Mill Creek, .Newport, Br adi Creek and Pelletier' in . be tween was his announce ment last Thursday after noon that the last hurdle had been jumped and the allot ment for the Carteret-Craven Rural Electrification Project had been made. The amount of the allotment $143,000 is sufficient to carry electric energy to 90 per cent or more of the home in Carteret which are not already served. To Congressman Barden goes the credit for getting the project finally approved and the allotment made. Of course there are workers in Carteret County who have devoted time to the project, who organized the co-operative, did much of the preliminary , planning, secured members and made tentative sur veys. In this group were Mayor George W. Huntley of Beaufort; Capt.' Gus Styron, of Cedar Island m Directors to Meet President George V.'. Huntley of the Carteret-Craven Rural Electri fication Project stated today that a meeting of the Board of Direc tors was being called for one night during the early part of next week. It is understood that following this meeting work towards letting contracts for erecting the lines which will take Barden's Christmas gift to the rural citizens of Carter et County who do net get electric service, will begin! and Lennoxville; tlj'ef;s:.ll Brothers, George and RaynVm... Rev. Bill Stewart, of Core fjyreok ; Alvah Hamilton, of Morehead City; C. T. Cannon, of Newport; John A. Jones of near Swansboro; County Farm Agent, John Y. Lassiter (and he deserves plenty of credit) Ay cock Brown, of the Chamber of Commerce, and others. They have He Is Responsible For New Project f j " ' f 4 i A .v t.UMt,: IIW'MIIIMi t t ""Wi:-7 T""- " S ' jgWHW) '"UW-W" , .... aaMajMMUMMMataainTrT mid sinm ,.-..,t, t '"!mmmM'it ;fTfii,ii.iimtiir)T'iw rnnni tT&iiimvii'rDrHnmiu PLANTS FRUIT TREES AT NEW HOME. Jesse J. Ewell (left) sets out a Starks Delicious Apple tree on his new Carteret County farm recently purchased under the tenant-purchase program of Farm Se curity Administration. Ewell's re modelled home is shown above The other man in the two pictures is J. Y. Allen FSA County Super, visor at Beaufort. Former Carteret Ten ant Will Start New Year On Farm Of His Own ! f. I '! i )'( Children For First Time Greet Santa In Own. Home Congressman Graham A. Bar den is directly responsible for thj allotment of $143,000 for the new RE A project which will take else. tricity to just about every Carter et community, which is not served at present, excepting South River and Portsmouth. The Third Dis trict Congressman took a leading role in the efforts to secure the al lotment for U19 project which was realized only after months of hard work on the part of local citizens who were aided in Washington by Barden. Monday following an i'.lncs of two months. A native of Sneads Ferry, Mr. Willis moved to Morehead City several years ago. During the ear ly part of his life he was engaged in the fishing, business. He became a memoer oi tne iworeneaa i,ity Police Department 12 years aga and was later elected to the head of the department. To his many friends he was known ns "Captain See Jimmie Willis, Page 4 all worked, and worked hard to wards bringing' into realization the rural electric project but it was Congressman Barden's contact with the REA in Washington, which kept the machinery moving, after the Washington group failed to look with favor on the tentative plans for the project. Recently Mayor Huntley, Al vah Hamilton, (attorney for th? co-opcrativeh County Agent Las siter of Cartoret and County Awnt Mithis of Craven along with Aycock Brown of the Cham ber of Commerce made a trip to Washington where with Congress man Br.rdcn as their spokesman 1hey appeared before the REA of ficials in behalf of the project. Until that time it looked as if the work that had been done was fu. tile, but a strong plea in behalf of the project was made by the Third District Congressman and it was less than three weeks before the See Christmas Gift, Page 4 By Wm. L. Hatsell Santa Clans will find things different this Christ mas when he visits the Jesse J. Ewell farm, in Carteret County. He'll smell fresh paint. He'll see a new-looking white house, new pas ture fences, new barns and outbuildings. And if he has time to inquire, as did a re porter, Jesse Ewell will tell him with pride in his heart that his little folk Virginia, Walter and Grade for the first time in their lives are ViQnorinrr fViair cfnnVi-nnra hv their own fireside. , Jesse Ewell was born on a rent ed farm in Pitt County, 46 years ago, and except for a year or two he spent in the service of Uncle Sam, on the battlefields of France in world war one, he has lived on farms belonging to others. Early in the fall the Ewell put a deed on record in the Carteret Courthouse for a 190-acre farm, located four miles north from Morehead City, and not many days ago carpenters and painters tore away their scaf folding and left a practically new 7-room, two-story house, a brand new stock barn, 'new smokehouse, new poultry house and other outbuildings. ' -' ; ' inrTiiiiiiniii r.v.-.,.',.,iJ.,ii revus,. a.-......j State Highway And Public Works Fires Captain Chadwick The Ewells are buying and im proving their farm with money borrowed from the Farm Security Administration, under the terms of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Ten ant Act. "From now on I expect to put what used to go for rent on pay ments for my own farm," Mr. Ew ell said. Mr. Ewell bought the farm from Rufus P. Oglesby, a neighbor who owned two or three farms. The Ewells had been working this farm the past two years on a half-share basis. The 2-story dwelling on the place was in need of repair. This was repaired and painted, in side and out. A pantry and screened-in work porch was added. The open well in the back yard was covered over and two force pumps were installed, one to furnish wa ter for the stock, the other to run water into Mrs. Ewell's kitchen. There is a new sanitary privy and the new smokehouse includes a comfortable laundry room in the rear, where Mrs. Ewell can do her washing and ironing without being out in the cold. The loan also included money for fencing and seeding a perma nent pasture and for digging ne cessary drainage ditches on the farm. The land cost $2,750 and an ad- Capt. O. W. Chadwick who es tablished the Harkers Island Ferry about IS years ago as a private enterprise and was later maintain ed as its skipper when the State Highway and Public Works Com mission took over its operation wa: under the impression that he would be given a job on the drawbridge (which replaces the ierry) when the new span is opened to traffic. Capt. Chadwick was wrong. Last Friday he was discharged. Roy Hart who has much to do with the State Highway operations in this section did the discharging. It is understood that Mr. Hart had nothing against Captain Chadwick but was acting only on the instruc tions of higher-ups. Higher-ups are believed to be State Highway Commissioner Ernest Webb, and even Mr. Webb had no fault to find with Captain Chad wick. The Beaufort News is informed. That is Commissioner Webb had no fault to find except that a few or may we say two or three Carteret politicians found fault and reco. mended that instead of Captain Ob Chadwick, another person should fill the open job.. .Sam Leff ers of Straits got the job. (See Editorial, Page 4) Salvation Army's String Band Here On Thursday Night Sergeant-Major C T. Wells of the Greenville, N. C, Corps, of the Salvation Army together with his son Charles, Johnny Goodley and others comprising the Greenville Corps string band, will have com plete charge of Salvation Army services at the American Legioa Hut this coming Thursday night, December 26th. Everybody invited. Post Office Has Its Biggest Rush Biggest rush in the history of Beaufort's Post Office has been chalked up this Christmas. The general increase during the year is going to place the local office in a higher bracket, it has been learn ed. Not only has more mail been dispatched and received locally, but the routes from Beaufort to East Carteret have also broken all ditional $1,750 was spent for bull- previous mail records, says Post See Ewell s Farm, Page 8 master Taylor. TIDE TABLE Tnformation as t' the tide at Beaufort is given in this column. The figures are ap proximately corrpct and are based ou tables furnished by the U. S. Geodetic Survy Some allowances must bo made for variations in the wind and also with respoct to the locality, thai is wheth er near the inlet or at, the head of the estuaries. Friday, D 6:42 A. M. 6:58 P. M. Saturday, Dec. 7:34 A. M. 7:49 P. M. Sunday, Dec. 8:23 A. M. 8:39 P. M. Monday, Dec' 9:09 A. M. 9:39 P. M. Monday, Dec. 9:44 A. M. 10:14 P. M. Tuesday, Jan. 1, 1941 10:32 A. M. 4:23 A. M. 10:51 P. M. 4:48 P. M. Wednesday, Jan. 2 11:25 A.M. 5:06 A.M. 11:33 P.M. 5:37 P.M. 12:19 A. M. 1:03 P. M. c. 28 1:11 A. Rf. 1:58 P. M. 29 2:02 A. M. 2:43 P. M. 30 2:49 A 3:27 P. 31 4:09 A. M. 4:09 P. M. M. M.
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