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Th BEAUFORT NEVCS WATCH FOR DATE Annual Meeting Chamber Commerce Plan Now To ATTEND Help FIGHT Polio Attend President's Birthday Ball On Wednesday Night JAN. 29 ADM.$1 Carteret County's Oldest NewspaperEstablished 1912 VOLUME XXIX; NO. 4. BEAUFORT, N. C.t THURSDAY, JAN. 23, 1941 PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Plans Underway To Revive This State's Once Big Oystery Industry r School Attendance Shows An Increase Indicating That The Flue Epidemic Has Passed FOR HARKERS ISLAND SOON Private Interests Or Seashore May Get Franchise Harkers Island, now con nected with the mainland by a fine new bridge (and a rather rough road temporari 'ly, on this side) will soon have passenger bus service, it was learned here this week This will mean that another forward step has been taken for the community which only a few years ago was considered quite isolated and remote for lack of modern improvements. At least one individual has ad vertised that he would seek the franchise and it is understood that Seashore Transportation Compa ny will also make the app.ication to the Utilities Commission for op erating on this route. Everyone or any corporation has the privi lege of applying for the franchise. However, there is much technical data relative to one's ability to op erate, the tvpe of equipment and See BUS SERVICE Page 8 STETTIMUS STOPS DENYING SHORTAGE OF STEEL WASHINGTON. Edward R. Stet tinius Jr., handsome raw materials chief ol the Defense commission, apparently has become gun-shy. Having seen hjs denials of short ages in strategic materials blow up in his face, he is resorting to a new technique in the case of steel. It took only a few days for his solemn statement that there was no aluminum shortage to be refuted by Sen. Joe O'Mahoney, chairman of the monopoly investigating commit tee. Even less time elapsed be tween his dental of a zinc and brass deficiency and the issuance of a presidential ordor barring their ex port. The hotly controversial steel is sue has been a Stettinius worry for months. As far back as last sum mer he was warned by experts that the nation's vast defense program, to say nothing of frantic British or ders, required an immediate expan sion of steel plant capacity. It was pointed out that present U. S. ingot See Merry-Go-Round, Page2 ALMANAC HISTORICAL EVENTS January 24. Gold discovered in California 1848. 25. 1st colored regiment formed 1863. 26. Spanish Rebels take Barcelo na, 1939. 27. Incadenscent light patented, 1880. 28, Panama Railroad completed 1855. Kansas admitted to Union 1861. 29, BIRTHDAY Of Famous People Janu ary 24 Joseph H. Choate, ambassa dor, 1832. 25. Chas Curtis, Vice Pres. 1860. 26. Samuel Hopkins, Adams au thor, 1871. 27. Kaiser Wilhelm 2nd, 1859. 28. Henry M. Stanley, explorer, : 1841. ?. Wm. McKinley, Pres. 1843. 30. F. D. Roosevelt, Pres. 1882. KAJ Igy ptikwfeAksoN Two Schools Re-Open Which Closed Due To Influenza ABSENCES DECLINE AT BEAUFORT SCHOOL Hope that the crest of the wave of influenza in the Car teret County Schools has passed, with no immediate prospects of the close of any other schools, was stimulat ed by school attendance data reaching Supt. Allen through yesterday noon, although the situation in any given com munity could quickly change within 24 to 48 hours, in his opinion. The Harkers Island School clos ed Wednesday, January 15, with 75 absences out of 254 enrolled, and re-opened Monday with only 17 absences reported. The Beaufort Colored School closed Monday, January 13, with 72 absences out of 339 and re opened with 42 absences Monday, January 20, 28 absences Tuesday, and 21 absences yesterday. With only 37 absences yesterday a week ago, the Smyrna School continued open and reported 32 absences Friday, 39 Monday, and 21 Tuesday of this week. The Beaufort White School had 137 definitely known absences in the elementary school Wednesday, January 15, with absences in the high school untabulated due to ex aminations. Absences in that school reached the peak Monday of this week with 223 absences, the number of absences rapidly declin ing to 129 on Tuesday and 11C yesterday. Because of the cold and cloudy .weather prevailing at the beginning of this week, omis sions of the activity period in the Beaufort School from 3:00 to 3:30 P. M. was authorized as a precau tionary measure, practically all of these activities being scheduled out-of-doors. Although reporting a normal at tendance a week ago, the presence and effects of influenza became noticeable immediately thereafter in the Morehead City Schools witn See INFLUENZA, Page 8 I. Officials For PRESIDENT William L. Hatsell ASS'T MGR. Raymond Ball IV. 'j if V " ' V 4 J j. WILLIAM L. HA I SELL, owner of The Beaufort News was elected president of the American Legion sponsored Carteret County Fair for 1941 at a meeting of the local Post members here Tuesday night . Other .j. officers elected included: Blakely Pond, Davis, 1st X Vice-President; Charles Nelson, Gloucester, 2nd vice- President; R. Hugh Hill, General Manager; Raymond Ball, Harlowe, Assistant Manager; T. E. Kelly, Treas urer and C. Z. Chappcll, secretary. The 1941 Carteret Fair will be held on the t the week beginning October 6th. Each of the offi- t f,a,s named are very active in Carteret Post 99, Amer- I ,can Legion circles Photos by Eubanks.) X He Draws Plans For Oyster Propagation ' FOLLOWING AN exten: sive survey of North Caroli na's coastal waters and bot toms, Dr. H. F. Prytherch, di rector of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Laboratory here has drawn up plans which if fol lowed may serve to increase the annual oyster yield of this State from its present low of approximately a half million bushels to a ten to twenty million dollar indus try. In developing the pro posed plans for an extensive oyster cultivation program Dr. Prytherch was assisted by Capt. John A. Nelson, North Carolina's veteran commissioner of commercial fisheries and Roy Hampton of Plymouth, chairman of the commercial fisheries committee of the Depart ment of Conservation and Development. The federal and state fisheries agencies will continue to push the pro osed program. Bogue Section May Be Chosen As Marine Base There has been some spasmodic excitement in the Bogue section of Carteret County recently with re ports that the U. S. Government may be considering that sector and not lower Onslow County as a site for a proposed Marine Base. No See BOGUE SECTION, Pg. 8 The 1941 F air I MANAGER R. Hugh Hill TREASURER Tom E. Kelly I I t PI; Bronghton Endorses Plan To Develops N. C. Oystei Industry By Cultivation LOSES FOOT Ion Lewis, Machinist Mate 2nd Class, of Beaufort Sta tion U. S. C. G.. suffered the loss of his right foot about four inches above ankle when it got entangled in bight of rope which was run ning through block and tack le at the boat house and launchway Wednesday. His snipmaies naa mm at More- head City hospital within 20 minutes after rendering tem- Eorary first aid. Dr. Royal S. Public Health surgeon who is treating the injured man said that his condition was favorable today. Lewis is a native of Harkers Island. Ghost Ship A new angle on the unsold ed mystery of the 5-masted schooner Carroll A. Deering which down in the Ocracoke and Hatteras section is refer red to as the "ghost ship" was received y. Editor Ay cock Brown- this" week. The Deering as miny will recall, is the vessel which went aground on the .outer tip of Diamond Shoals with all sails set, without a soul aboard. In the Saturday Evening Post story ",Cape Sttiy" last Au gust 3rd, a brief -'reference was made relative to the mystery ship. This week Editor Brown receiv ed a letter from the Rev. J. Fran cis Fuller of a small Michigan town who made the comments which fol low: "I read with great interest your article in the Saturday Evening Post "Cape Stormy" and especially about the schooner 'Carroll A. Deering.' "Now in January 1921 I was on an oil tanker bound from Mexico to Bayonne. When we got to a point just below Hatteras we pass ed a schooner with some signal flags. We circled a complete cir cle around her and ran up signal flags. "Word passed from the bridge that they were asking for their po sition. During our trip some pic tures were snapped and I got one See GHOST SHIP, Page 8 REA PROGRESS IS BEING MADE Progress toward actual construc tion of tle Carteret-Craven REA project continues rapidly. Con sulting Engineer L. E. Wooten who was selected by the board of directors as engineer has been ap proved by Washington officials. The First Citizens Bank and Trust Company of Smithfield with its lo cal branch here has been approved as depository for the $143,000 which has been allocated for the work. It is believed that all preliminary work will be completed so that bids for construction of the approxi mate 150 miles of line which will serve nearly 500 persons from one end of Carteret County to the oth er at the beginning may be adver tised within 10 days. In other words it appears now that actual construction will be underway, by Sprink. Local School Gets Out Daily At Three For Next Few Days Beaufort School will close each afternoon at 3 o'clock instead of 3:30 for the next few days, it was announced this morning by Prin cipal Tom Leary. The last period each day is devoted to physical education. The physical educa tion program at the local school is carried on on (e grounds and due to the wet condi ion of the ground caused by recent rains, and due to the influenza and bad cold situa tion, school officials thought it best to postpone this activity until condition are improved. Two Test Stations Planned Along The Coast PRYTHERCH DEVELOPS A BIVALVE PROGRAM Gov. J. Melville Broughton Number 1 skipper of North Carolina who has always shown a keen interest in the development of the State's coast has endorsed a plan for creating a big oyster indus try in" the sounds and rivers of the East. The bivalve de velopment program has been worked out by Dr. H. F. Pry therch, director of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Laborato ry here in cooperation with Capt. John A. Nelson, com missioner ot the IN. (J. Divi3 ion of Commercial Fisheries and a Department of Conser vation and Development tisheries committee headed by Roy Hampton of Plym outh. The plans which have been out lined by Dr. Prytherch and an printed in detail would possibly create a 10 to 20 million dollar bi valve industry for North Carolina in the future as compared to an average half million dollar or les annual industry at present. Pry- therch's comments follow: Extensive surveys of th.; coast al waters of North Carolina, con ducted in 1886 by the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, in 1005 by the North Carolina Geological Sur vey, and from 1931 to date by the staff of the Beaufort Laboratory have established that there is over 800,000 acres of bottom on which conditions appear favorable for the growth and propagation of oys ters. Recent field investigations of the writer show that at least one fourth of this territory is excellent for the cultivation of oysters by modern scientific methods and is capable of yielding an annual crop of over 20 million bushels of high grade oysters. This estimate is based on an average production of 100 bushels per acre, per year whereas an acre of good oyster bottom is known to produce from 500 to 1,000 bushels per year ac cording to the quantity of seed planted, hydrographical conditions etc. At the present time thero is ap proximately 200,600 acres under private cultivation an the Atlantic coast which yield about 8 mil lion bushels of oysters annually or 60 per cent of the total harvest. See BROUGHTON, Page 3 Plan Library Days' On February 4-5 To Liquidate Building Debt Covering The Waterfront B, AYCOCK BROWN THE SAME Government that was creating Wage-Hour restric- tions a year ago which seemed on the verge of closing down many, arid transforming the old Southern lumber plants has pro- Norfolk - Southern Railroad vided a market during the past Station into a fine new Coun four months which is not only giv- ty Library will be made on ing manufacturers a chance tOipebruary 4th and 5th. The stay in business, but also taking drive is headed by a commit about 95 per cent or more of their , tee headed by Mrs. U. E. output. Scarboro-Safrit Lumber Swann, chairman, Mrs. J. P. Company is operating two eight Betts and Mrs. R. K. Davis, hour shifts daily and shipping lum- They are representing the i a j , r , i' T7 .. .... ii. . . i i i? i . . r ,. uei 10 ueiense oases iruiu i wivvomans ljlUU 01 f.iiUlUl L Dix, N. J., to Ft. Jackson, S. C. Bulk of the output from the local plant, however, is going to Fort Bragg, Camp Davis (liollyridge), Camp Pendleton, and Camp Lee, Virginia. TREES IX THE forest today are seasoned planks and part of a barracks building in some distant army or defense base within less than a week. I refer to trees which you most likely see as logs aboard trucks along the highways each day, right here in Carteret county. Those logs you see today were also trees today in the for est and before sunset, those logs on trucks, which you might have a horror of passing sometimes for See WATERFRONT, Page 8 Governor Broughton Endorses Proposal AFTER SURVEY and plans were completed ror the pro posed oyster growing and propagation program it was outlined in detail to North Carolina's Governor J. Mell yille Broughton and accord ing to Dr. Prytherch and press dispatches from Ral eigh it received his whole hearted endorsement. Pre liminary plans, if the small appropriation necessary to carry on initial operations is granted, would be to estab lish two experimental sta tions, one near the Beaufort Fish and Wildlife Laborato ry, the other in a protected cove near the northwestern shore of Pamlico Sound. These stations would be to oystermen and fisheries in terests what the agricultural experiment stations are to farmers. Governor Brough ton, pictured above as a salt water man, has a tremendous interest in the development of his State's coastland. (Wahab Photo.) This German Was Not Thinking Of War-But Turtles When one over on this side of the Atlantic hears of a German thinking of something besides War it is news. Apparently one Ger man was not thinking of War re cently and a letter written in Deutchland's language, received by Dr. Prytherch of the Fish and Wildlige laboratory here and translated by him, proves it. Kurt Diermurt, whose address is or was at the time the letter was written, Friedriehreda, Thuringen, Bahnhofstr 44, was interested in information of five varieties of fresh water turtles and specimens of same. Dr. Prytherch will prob ably defer the request until after War hostilities in Germany. Balance Of $200 Due On Renovation Of Local Library TWO DAY DRIVE FOR CASH CONTRIBUTIONS A drive to raise 200, the j l)alance dye for renovating which after 20 years of work ing and planning for such a library, recently saw their dream realized. The Carteret County Library loans books to the public without charge, and since everyone is priv ileged to borrow books, the drive will not include just a few gener ous donors but will be a house-to-house canvas. Nothing but CASH Contributions will be sought in this particular drive, a.'though the Library sponsors have i lready an nounced that the new institution would appreciate the gift of any books or periodicals. The new County Library is just not a library but a recreation cen See LIBRARY DAYS, Page 8 AAA PROGRAM IS GIVEN FOR MEETING HERE All Day Session Is Planned For Tuesday The 1941 Agricultural Conservation Program will be discussed by a member of the State Committee, of the Tripple A, a Field Officer and local committeemen in the Court House in Beaufort on Tuesday, January 28th, beginning at 9:00 A. M. The following program has been, announced by County Agent J. Y. Lassiter: 9:00 Roll Call of Committee men. 9:10 A thorough discussio of the 1941 bulletin and compliance with the Program by Committee men, state committeemen ana Field Officers assisting. This will end the morning session. Starting at 1 :00 o'clock, the Pro gram will be resumed with a Re view of expenses of operating the Association in 1940 and make plans for a more efficient and eco nomical operation in 1941. At 2:00 o'clock there will be Discussions by representatives of each community of ways and means of getting the program be fore EVERY producer in his com munity and what the three commit teemen propose to do in regard to this all important matter. At three o'clock the final sub ject will be to Summarize the plans See AAA PROGARM, Page8 REPORTER'S PRIVATE PAPERS: Chuck Barnett would have you be lieve he sent this taunting cable to Adolf Schickelgruber of Berlin: "Hey, long time no seize." And Victor C. Rodgers, of San Diego, offers this after hearing FDR's last speech: "Better to Pay Taxes Than Belong to the Axis." Quentin Reynolds, who just re-j turned home from London, is auto graphing copies of his new book.! "The Wounded Don't Cry," to girl; friends (married or single) in this manner: "In memory of a glorious weekend at Lake Como." Quentin's book is crowded with eye-arresting wordage like: "That night I heard the German radio expert report that London had beeij panicked by the German bombers I got a cable from New York say ing: 'Reports here that London in flames.' There was damage in Lon--don all right; there will be further, damage, but I don't think London' will he mined or that London wiU1 be Banip!'fd. They nevr panicked See Winchell Page 2 I TIDE TABLE I Information as t' the tide at Beaufort is given in this i column. The figures are ap : proximately correct and are based on tables furnished by : the U. S. Geodetic Survey, Some allowances must br made for variations in the wind and also with respect to the locality, thai is wheth er near the inlet or at the j head of the estuaries. Friday, Jan. 21 . 5:42 5:57 6:35 6:50 7:24 7:39 8:09 8:24 8:52 9:08 9:35 9:50 10:13 10:32 A. M. 1 1 :09 A. M. P.M. 12:05 P.M. Saturday, Jan. 25 A. M. 12:07 A. M. P.M. 12:56 P.M. Sunday, Jan. 26 A. M. 1:01 A. M. P.M. 1:43 P.M. Monday, Jan. 27 A.M. 1:49 A.M. P. M. 2:27 P. M. Tuesday, Jan. 28 A. M. 2:35 A. M. P. M. 3:07 P. M. Wednesday, Jan. 29 A. M. P. M. Thursday, Jan. A.M. P. M. 3:16 A. M. 3:45 P. M. 30 3:56 A. M. 4:22 P. K.