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rTj fT I ij""luJ II Hfc BEAUFORT NEWS Group From Here To Confer With Col. Brown U.S.E.D. Relative To Local Waterways Friday Read Stcfry About Espee-Southland Limitation Case Beginning Page" 1 Today's Edition Carteret County's Oldest Newspaper ..Established 1912 VOLUME XXIX; NO. 2. BEAUFORT, N. C, THURSDAY, JAN. 9, 1941 9, 1041. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Claims Totaling $282,784.94 Sought In Southla nd-Espee Hision Case fo' I A b New Lumber Firm To Be Established By Owners Of Local General Manager Of New Firm JACK NEAL who is already gen eral manager of Lumber and Building Supplies Corporation, Carteret Hardware Company, Inc., and Hardware and Building Sup plies Corporation in Beaufort and Morehead City, will also have cha-ge of operations at the new lumber manufacturing plant which is now under construction at Mans field, west of Morehead City. The new plant will represent an invest ment of approximately $40,000. Although a comparatively young man Mr. Neal has had a most suc cessful business career. (Eu-banks-News Photo.) MARRIAGE LICENSE Grant Edward Argo, Morehead City, N. C, to Mary Caumon, Morehead City colored. mom mm Washington, D. C. F.D.B. RESISTS PRESSURE TO SEND NAVY VESSELS WITH SUPPLIES The most important question dis cussed in inner administration cir cles before the President made his recent defense speech was that of using American warships to convoy supplies across the Atlantic to Irish or British waters. This question probably was in the President's mind also when he wrote the speech. The problem has been debated among some of Roosevelt's close ad visers ever since British emissaries brought word that while England could withstand airplane bombard ment it could not withstand the con tinued sinking of its merchant ves sels. The British also made it clear that more over-age U. S. destroyers would not do the trick, because the royal navy was running short of trained crews. So far, the President has shied away from any such drastic step as using American naval vessels to guard supdIv shins across 'he At See Merry-go-Round, Page 2 ALMANAC HISTORICAL EVENTS January 10 Howard C. Christy, artist 1783 11 Alexander Hamilton, statesman 1757. 12 Jack London, author, 1876. 13 Salmon P. Chase, jurist, 1808. 14 Benedict Arnold, 1741. 15 Gen. H. W. Halleck, 1815. 16 Capt. C. D. Sigsby. BIRTHDAY Of Famous People January 10 Standard Oil Co., Inc. 1870. 14 Peace Treaty England and U. S., 1784. J First practical locomotive 1851 16 Fuelless Mondays began 1918. ,.1"- i i . CorporationiShiP Building Ground Is Broken For Plant At Mansfield JACK H. NEALWILLBE GENERAL MANAGER Jack II. Neal, general manager of Lumber and Building Supply Corporation here stated today t h a ground was being broken at Mansfield station between the Atlantic and East Caroli na Railroad and U. S. High way Route 70 for a new lum ber manufacturing plant. Cost of establishing the new plant is expected to range between $35,000 and $40, 000 and construction work on the building will begin immediately. Mr. Neal did not state definitely whether the new manufacturing firm would become a unit of Lum ber and Building Supply Corpo ration, or Hardware and Building Supplies Corporation in Morehead City. Instead, the new plant may become a separate organization. The new firm which u expected to be completed and ready for op eration at an early d.tte will in clude a modernly equipped planer shod and a new dry kiln for seas oning lumber. The pew plant will have considerably more kill, system than the local plant which was established in November 1'.I37. Much of the equipment now in use at the local plant will bo transt'edd- cd to the Manfield firm, it was slated, although the wholesale and retail business and also the mod ern woodworking unit of Lumber and Building Supply Corporation will continue to be carried on lo cally. Mr. Neal and associates have purchased 20 aces of land in the vicinity of the old Mansfield sta tion of the State controlled rail road and if these facilities do not prove adequate for the new man ufacturing plant, arrangements have been made to acquire addi tional acreage. The new plant will not operate Lumber Firm Page 8 CARMETNYA LINES UP WITH DEFENSE WORK Girls Learning Art Of Woodworking In Beaufort National Youth Adminis tration workers in Carteret County are stepping in line with the preparedness pro gram. Those who will not be drafted for military train ing, are receiving training in local units that will prepare them for service in case of emergency. Girls are working in the wood working shop learning t' use hand tools and power machines. It is not an unusual sight to see girls sawing lumber, painting and nail ing. If the boys should be called See Defense Work Page 8 Second Contingent Of Draftees Bound For Ft Bragg Today The second contingent of draf tees a total of 12 younr Carteret men left Morehead City and the Carteret Coast today for their one year of U. S. Army duty. They were bound for Fort Bragg and were scheduled to arrive there a bout 1 o'clock this afternoon. Some of the group may remain there lor their year of training and some may be transferred to other U. S. Army posts. In the group were F.arl (Cur ly) Wallace, Morehead City, lead er of group and Bertie Clyde Wil lis, Harkers Island, assistant lead er. Others were: Jesse M. Willis, Roper Van Horn and Norman Wade, Morehead City; Matthew Marshall, Beaufort, (he 's the first Beaufort man chosen for selec tive draft) Ira Willis, Salter Path; Gordon H. Salter, Steven O. Hunt- See Draftees Page 8 SHIP YARD Plant Planned For This Area Announcement May Be Made Early Next Week Beaufort News Gets Inside Dope On Plan The Beaufort News lern ed authoratively, before go ing to press today, that the announcement in the News and Observer this morning which indicated that Wil minsrton had been selected as a site for a ship-building i yard under the President s j new 200-ship program was not of a definite nature and that the final decision just where tome of the ships would be constructed in North Carolina would not be made until next week. Although little publicity has been given from a local angle, in formed circles know that a com plete set-up for building up to 20-cargo vessels in the Morehead Beaufort area are practically completed and due to a minor slip up in the correct address of a ship building corporation the spotlight has suddenly shifted from the Car teret coast to Wilmington. Within the next 48 hours the lo cal corporation is expected to have its charter and certain matters which have caused confusion will be, (it is believed) ironed out, and definite announcement for the ship-building plant in the More-head-Beaufort area along with da ta relative to contracts will be made. The ship-yard would be (if pres ent plans carry) located south of U. S. Highway 70 between More head City and Beaufort on the made-land created there when the Morehead Port channel was con structed. The proposed shipyard for the Morehead-Beaufort area would provide employment for a minimum of 2500 persons. C. S. Long Brings State Soil Expert To Carteret County C. S. Long, outstanding North Carolina vocational agricultral teacher of the Newport school ha made arrangements for Dr. I. E. Miles, director of Soil Testing, N. C. Department of Agriculture to appear at the Newport School aud itorium, on Friday and discuss to the interested farmers Ferti lizers, Crops and Soils, showing their relationship to each other and how soil testing works for the greater efficiency of all. The meet ing" will begin at 7 o'clock on Fri day and all persons interested are invited to attend. County Library Hours Announced Officials of the new County Li brary which was formally opened in the former railroad station building here last Saturday were announced today. The hours will be from 10 A. M. to 12 noon and from 2 P. M. until 5 o'clock ex cept Sunday, it was stated. Li brary patronage by the public is invited. i 1 LOCAL PICTURES AND INCOMING ONE OF THE first pictures ever made of a North Caro lina Governor in Beaufort was on the occasion when Gov ernor Clyde R. Hoey delivered the Commencement ad dress at Beaufort Consolidated School shortly after he became Chief Executive. Here he is shown in a Eubanks News Photo accepting the ''key to the city" from Miss Lucille Thomas as Mayor George W. Huntley, who was also new in office at the time, looks on. Governor Hoey retires from the office of chief executive today. w IIP 1 1 i i X ft' -1! If THE ABOVE PHOTO showsNorth Carolina's new Gov ernor, the Hon J. Mellville Broughton (standing in cen ter) with Capt. Wilbur Nela-n. master of Ocracoke mail boat and Walter Spencer of Raleigh, on an occasion two or three years ago as the new chief executive was shov ing off for Ocracoke Island to make a Commencement ad dress at the school there. The Beaufort News captioned this picture, two or three years ago: "North Carolina's Next Governor." Governor Broughton was inducted in to o ce in Raleigh today amid the most splendor that has ever been arranged for an inauguration Photo by Aycock Brown.) It's Going To Be Hard On Those Whs Neglect Tax Listing This Month Covering The Waterfront By AYCOCK BROWN I WONDER IF Colonel Ira 1. j Wyche, now attached to the office i f the Chief of staff, I. s. Field Artillery, whose address is War, Department, Washington, D., C, recalls that he is an alumius of a mule stable? I am not referring to West Point, which has made the Aimy Muie iamous, me nniiuu , academy which he later attended and graduated from with a com mission I mean a bona-fide mule stable. IF COLONEL WYCHE remem bers, this story will take him back to his childhood down on Ocracoke Island, to Hatteras Inlet Coast Guard Station where he and his sisters Elsie and Martha Wyche were living.with Capt. Jim Howard their uncle just before the turn of the Century. Capt. Jim was keeper of the Station which in those days were called U. S. Life Saving Stations. The Wyche chil dren's parents, the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Wyche were dead so they lived with Uncle Jim. a station keeper whose heroic deeds are stili remembered by old timers along the Outer Banks. IT WAS IN THE days of sai'i. the last days, or the beginning of the end of these wooden ships which carried crews of iron men and depended on the wind and can vas instead of coal and steam in their passage through the waters See Waterfront Page 8 OF RETIRING N. C. GOVERNORS , f, pw- January is the month for ' --ting taxes, and throughout North Carolina, many people will learn that there is to be great expense in ignoring mis event. Throughout the state the public has become conscious of the manv oeorjle wno are beating their taxes, ,1(i tnev are demanding il showdown. The governing bodies of the various COU11-j tjos have met that challenge, an(j( aml are going to do, something about it'this year, j an(j tne judges of the various j courts are backing them up.' Under the old and careless sys tem of listing taxes, large numbers of people paid no attention to the tax listing date. The law requires every person, to give in his prop erty and poll, as of January 1, or to send his qualified agent, and un der oath at that. Nobody ever heard of a tax lister administering an oath to the lister, and so muci neglect resulted that hair the peo ple didn't bother to list. Ten Per Cent Penalty The confusion, and loss of tax ables from the books became ter rible. It caused many delays and troubles, and waste of time and paper. With some, it was a sly way of keeping the officials from knowing how much property they had accumulated since the last tax listing time. The list taker would copy the old list and let it go at that. Some might have doubled the value of their homes during the year, bought boats, cars, or other valuable property, and beat the counties out of the taxes. This year, the Commissioners of See Tax Listing Page 8 SEVERAL FROM CARTERET ATTEND HEARING BEFORE JUDGE WAY IN NORFOLK Postmaster Taylor Has Higher Rating Than tate Average Inspector M. H. Ackerman in charge of the Atlantic Division of postal inspection has notified Postmaster Wiley H. Taylor that the report covering the Postoffice here on December 3, disclosed he had a rating of 94.6 per cent rela tive to responsibility to supervise, control and direct the business and personnel of the office. . ."You will be interested in know ing," Inspector Ackerman wrote Postmaster Taylor, "that the av erage rating of second-class post masters for your state during the past fiscal year was 90 8 per cent and that the average for second lass postoffices in the entire At lantic Division for the fiscal year 1940 was 91.46. The Atlantic Division includes North and South Carolina, Florida, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Island and Georgia. .."You are to be complimented upon the excellent showing made in the last inspection and have my best wishes for your administra tion as postmaster," Inspector Ac erman wrote Postmaster Taylor. LOCAL FIRM LOW BIDDER ON FORT JOB E. L. Davis Company Of Beaufort May Get New Work Out of six classification of construction jobs for mobili zation buildings at Fort Sto ry, Camp Pendleton. Nanse mond Ordnance Depot and Langley 1-ield, the E. L. Da vis Company of Beaufort, was low bidder on two of the projects it was revealed in Norfolk last week. The lo cal firm which has been do ing considerable construc tion work at Virginia Beach, thus providing employment to a large number of Carteret citizens, was given publicity in The Virginian Pilot recent ly as tollows: For the construction of an ad ministration building and a serv ice club at Fort Story, Cape Henry the E. L. Davis Company, of Vir ginia Beach, was low with $56,455. For the construction of six am munition magazines, of the steel igloo type, at Fort Story, the Means Construction Company, o See Local Firm Page 8 Earl Taylor Flies To Miami Air Races Earl Taylor, well known farmer, sawmill and woodyard operator of Beaufort RFD., has gone to the Air Racesa t Miami in the proper style. He left Wednesday about noon with Tom Green of Washing ton, aboard the latter's plane which he flies here frequently. Mrs. Taylor told The Beaufort News last night that the fliers reached Daytona before sun-down and that she had a wire from Earl upon his arrival there. Earl Taylor is one of Beaufort's outstanding aviation enthusiasts. He has proven his interest in fly ing and flyers by helpinp develop the runways at the West Beaufort Irndiner field at his own expense. He plans to buy a plane of his own at an early date. Guthrie And Jones Open Drug Store In New Bern This Week Clarence Guthrie nnd David Jones, formerly in the d:ug depart ment of Bell's Drug Store here have bought and opened a drug store in New Bern. The firm they purchased was formerly operated as Smith Drug Company. The Smith interests sold out and mov Both Guthrie and Jones are natives of Beaufort. Both are very popular here. They are ex cellent druggists, ' Expect Hearing To Be Concluded Today Case Will Determine Liability Limitation By Aycock Brown Norfolk, Va., Jan. 7. "You were after news not a lawsuit," said friendly Judge Luther B. Way presiding at the limitation proceedings of Federal District Court, as the various attorneys examined and cross examined me here today relative to a photo graph I made of the Espee Southland collision on the morning of November 18, 1939. The attorneys were apparently trying to get rne balled up by asking me the distance from bank to bank on Adams Creek canal at the scene of the wreck and other technical data which perhaps the Army Engineers know, but certainly not a newspaper editor and press photographer, the role I was in when I made my picture. The suit now being aired in Fed eral Court here involves the peti tion of the Solvay Process Com pany and Mallory Transport Lines, Inc., who are seeking exemption from and limitation of liability in a number of actions brought ai the result of the collision near See Espee Page 4 NOTES OF A BYSTANDER: The Wireless: Info Please has been topped in the ratings by Truth or Consequences, a comparative newcomer. Topped by a full point, a milestone in radio history . . . Bill Shirer, back in N. Y. from Ger many, made a very cagey report on how the Heinies are taking the war. Maybe he's protecting his sub, or p'raps he has to go back. He did admit, however, that panic hits Ber lin when the air raid siren blows, which is very comforting to know. The Story Tellers: Aid required reading: Raymond Gram Swing's re ply to Anne Lindbergh in the Dec. 21st Nation . . . Balanchine's gag: "Yes, but suppose it's the pilot's time?" in Collier's is the next to the oldest gag of them all . . . An at tractive Florida mag is called Ren dezvous, edited by big timers . . . Talk about ingratitude! Emil Hurja, the poll-marker, who gave the only ray of hope to the G.O.P. during the campaign, gets what thar,:s'' r'irz in n,,- T?pr'ih- See Winchell Page 2 TIDE TABLE information as t:- ihe tide at Keaufort is given in this column. The figures are ap proximately correct and are based on tables furnished by the U. S. Geodetic Survfy 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. I illi Si! j. Friday, Jan. 10 5:51 A. M. 11:26 A. M. 6:09 P.M. 12:18 P.M. Saturday, Jan. 11 6:35 A.M. 12:13 A.M. 6:53 P.M. 1:02 P.M. Sunday, Jan. 12 7:17 A.M. 12:58 A.M. 7:37 P.M. 1:45 P.M. Monday, Jan. 13 7:59 A.M. 1:40 A.M. 8:21 P. M. 2:25 P. M. Tuesday, Jan. 14 8:42 A.M. 2:24 A.M. 9:06 P. M. 3:06 P. M. Wednesday, Jan. 15 9:26 A.M. 3:08 A.M. 9:53 P. M. 3:46 P. M. Thursday, Jan. 16 10:11A.M. 3:53 A.M. 10:40 P. M. 4:29 P. M.
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