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AUFORT WATCH FLU At First Sign Of Illness, Call or See Your PHYSICIAN For Important News of the Coast Read The Beaufort News Each Week Carteret County's Oldest Newspaper Established 1912 VOLUME XXIX; NO. 6. BEAUFORT, N. C, THURSDAY, FEB. 6, 1941. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. NFWS H H Smyrna School Assured Of New Building To Serve As Auditorium And Classrooms His Aid Brings New School Building REPRESENTATIVE Graham A. Barden announced in a wire to The Beaufort Newi and County School Board this week that Presi dent Roosevelt had signed appli cation for a WPA.proiect which hat been approved for the conitruc lion of m one storv brick school building at Smyrna to cost $25 117. The new building will supple ment the present structure there. The project will include landscape ing grounds and the building will include class rooms, an auditorium, heating plant and tlectrical fix tures. The housing facilities of Smyrna School has long been inad equate. Washington, D. C. WIIXKIE AROUSES G.O.P. CHIEFS While Wendell Willkie made front page news in London favoring the lend-lease armament bill, a group of potent midwestern Republican leaders met to discuss what to do about him. That most of the G.O.P chiefs are hot under the collar because their erstwhile standard-bearer is behind the Roosevelt measure is putting it rnJdly. They are so sore they could bite nails. He put the Republican party on the spot on this highly charged issue the last thing the boys wanted to happen. THE NEW BRAIN TRUSTER Tom Corcoran is famous for many things, one of them being his lack of punctuality. Always rushed with Innumerable jobs, he got hours be hind with his engagements, and his favorite time for catching up with correspondence was Sunday afternoon and night. Corcoran's first-born daughter ar rivecPteveral days after the doctors had. predicted, and the dynamic See Merry-Go-Round, Page2 ALMANAC HISTORICAL EVENTS FEBRUARY 7. First phone N. Y. to Chicago, 1892. 8. Russia-Jap. war began 1904. 9. Weather Bureau estab., 1891. 10. Canada ceded to Eng. 1763. 11. Savannah, Geo. settled, 1733. 13. Gen. Ethan Allen died, 1789. BIRTHDAY Of Famous People FEBRUARY 7. Charles Dickenselist nov. 1812 8. Gen. W. T. Sherman, 1820. 9. Wm. H. Harrison, Pres., 1773 10. Wm. Allen White, journalist, 1868. 11. Thos. Edison, inventor, 1847. 12. Abraham Lincoln, Pres. 1809. 13. Sidney Smith, "Andy Gump", 1877. 'S Barden Notifies County Board Of Project WORK TO BEGIN WITHIN 30 DAYS; TO COST $25,117 President Roosevelt's ap proval of a Classrooms-Au ditorium Project for the Smyrna School on February 4, was announced in a tele gram by Congressman Gra ham A. Barden to Supt. J. G. Allen on that date. Con struction is expected to begin in about 30 days, to average about 25 workers per day for 9 months, and to cost 525,1 17 of which the Federal govern ment will, as usual, contrib ute the lion's share. The new building, to be located just south of the present building will be one-story, of brick construc tion, and is undertaken to meet the following pressing needs: ( 1 ) . To provide housing of two classrooms (grades 6 and 7) now housed one-half mile from the school in poorly suited quarters not owned by the county and the con tinued use of which is not assured. (2) . The conversion of two badly under-sized classrooms in the present building into a science lab oratory of fairly adequate size to relieve handicaps that have exist ed since the construction of the present building. (3). A new auditorium more nearly approaching the nteds ot the Smyrna School an improve ment recognized as sorely needed by every one visiting the present auditorium. (4). The principal's office wili be restored to him by transferring, the lib'rary'from' the principal's ol See Smyrna School, Page 8 "PARENTS DAY" PROGRAM WILL REPRESENTED Patrons And Public Invited To Visit Harkers Island Harkers Island school is holding a "Parents Day" program on Friday, Februa ry 7th, starting at 11 o'clock and continuing to 4 P. M. The public is urged to attend, and persons on the mainland who can now drive to the is land are especially invited to visit the school and attend the program. Opening talk will be presented by Superintendent J. G. Allen of the County system at 11 o'clock. Free educational movies will follow this part of the program and at noon free lunch will be served by the Home Economics Department. At 1 o'clock the program will include visits to various projects. These nroiects nnl thn nersnn hav. ing charge of same follow: Health unit, Marena Robinson; Historic February. Meredith Swain! Eskimo unit, Thelma Harris; Patriotism unit, Kathryn Lewis; Better Ways of Living Program, Lois Hill; De fense Program, Velma Tyndall; Home Economics unit, la Nichol son; English and Math unit, Emma Fulcher and GeosrraDhv unit. Paul Tyndall. The day's program will come to a close with a basketball game be tween Harkers Island and Newport, at 2:30 o'clock. Capt. Willis Has A Duck-Catching Cat At Portsmouth Isl. Capt. John Willi, one-time own er of Seafood Cafe here, later steward at Pamlico Inn on Ocra coke, but now living in retirement at Portsmouth, wa in town this week with a new tale about hit cat. The cat, a Maltese, violate the migratory game law often by catching wild ducks, according to Capt. John. The animal creeps stealthily upon the ducks along the shore and pounces upon them be fore they have a chance to fly away. It is the first time The Beaufort News has ever heard of cat that catches duck, although the felines are experts at catching smaller birds. LUMBER FOR DEFENSE PROJECTS IS SAWN FROM CARTERET COUNTY LOGS 1 "C j THE ABOVE PHOTO is the second in a series showing how the lumber business is booming on the Carteret Coast due to defense orders. The picture was made during the Christmas holidays and shows how thousands of logs accumulated on the yard at Scarboro-Saf rit Lumber Company. Since the photo was made a new lumber finishing plant headed by Jack Neal of Lumber and Building Supply Corporation is under con struction and near ing completion at Edgewater Station (Mansfield) between the At lantic and East Carolina Railroad tracks and U. S. 70 westof Morehead City. (Photo by Aycock Brown Cut used through courtesy Greensboro Daily News.) Chicken Heart Is Found With Brass Wire Grown In It Howard Rhodes, colored deliv. eryman at Owens Brothers Store on Turner Street, who has a record of picking three chickens in 65 sec onds, discovered a chicken's heart with a strand of brass wire run ning through it a few days ago. The wire had been in the heart for some time as it was embedded deeply in the flesh. He showed the heart to Roy Eabanks who., made a photograph of it, since it was so unusual. The chicken seemed to be suffering no ill ef fects from the wire it carried in its heart. Short Session Of Court On Tuesday A short session of Recorder's Court was held here on Tuesday. James Johnson waived examination and was bound over to Superior Court under bond of $300 on char ges of assault with a deadly weap on. Judgment was suspended up on payment of costs in the trespass and affray charges against Eva lena Small, James Johnson and Willianf H. Taylor. They were or dered to pay the court costs. Quinn Reel, charged with hit and run and reckless driving and per sonal injury waived examination through attorney and was bound over to superior court under bond of $500. Harkers Island Is Given State-Wide Publicity Sunday Harkers Island was given con siderable publicity in a featuie story which appeared in the Sun day edition of Greensboro Daily News. The story, by Aycock Brown, editor of The Beaufon News, told how the once isolated island which now has dire ct con nections with the mainland by bridge, is going modern. Refer ence was made to Cleveland Davis, Earl Davis, Jimmie Guthrie, well known citizens of the island, and others. Pacific Greyhound Lines To Sponsor Turtle Farm Story Commander A. W. Scott, who conducts a radio program "The Romance of the Highway" over the Don Lee Mutual Network in San Francisco each Sunday morning has contacted the Beaufort Cham ber of Commerce for a story about the Diamond-Back Terrapin prop gation farm here. The story will be broadcast from the San Franci co and affiliated stations. In ad dition to the terrapin story, the ra dio commentator also asked for other data about this saction which will be broadcast at the same time. Chamber of Commerce Secretary, Aycock Brown sent the data as re quested. SUBSCRIBE TO FORT NEWS. THE BEAU- I" REA MEETING ON SATURDAY To complete some routine mat ters necessary before bids for ac tual construction are advertised, there will be a call meeting of the Carteret-Craven Electric Member, ship Cooperative . at the Court house here on Saturday morning at 10 o'clock. It is essential that a majority of the. . membership be present or represented by proxy L. E. Wooten, the cooperative's en gineer was in the county last week with the Federal-State su. pervisor and an associate engineer to go. over the route of the propos el lines. Engineer Kerr who is employed by Engineer Wcoten is scheduled to come to the County again next week to assist in get ting eastements signed for the con struction of lines. Engineer Woot en told The Beaufort News that he thought everything would be in readiness to let the contract with in a month. County Board Will Give Any Aid Here For Defense Work Only a few routine matters claimed the attention of the Car teret Board of Commissioners at their regular monthly meeting here on Monday. A Resolution w?.i passed, by the Board, with refer ence to giving all possible aid to the Federal Government in the matter of bringing defense pro jects to Carteret County. ""rj. VJ lSI m MOE TODAY BY AYCOCK BROWN In The Charlotte Observer The Right Reverend Israel Hard ing Noe of Memphis made a hur, ried trip to Beaufort this week to pay tribute to his mother, Mrs, Susan Noe, who celebrated her 90th anniversary. Also paying tribute to a grand old lady who has the distinction of being the mother of four Episcopalian rectors, were the Rev. A. C. D. Noe, Vicar of St. Thomas, oldest Episcopal church in North Carolina, located at Bath, the oldest community; Rev. Wal ter Raleigh Noe, executive secre tary of East Carolina Diocese of the Episcopal shureh who lives in Wilmington, and the Rev. Thomas Noe, former superintendent of the Church Home Orphanage at York, S. C, now living in retirement at Wilmington. Also paying tribute to his mother was the fifth son, Capt. John Todd Noe, master ol the menhaden fishing boat "Deutchland." By far the most widely known of the brothers is Israel. In his at tempt to show that man can at tain the "God-head bodily" a few years ago by experiencing a pro longed fast, the spotlight of the world was turned on him. At the time he was dean of fashionable St. Mary's cathedral in Memphis. TO WW Plenty Of Work For Anyone Who Is Needing A Job W. C. Carleton has notified lo cal welfare officials that there is plenty of work for any man, skilled or unskilled, on the defense pro' ject at Camp Davis, Holly Ridge. Already several hundred Carteret citizens are working on the pro ject but there are still jobs avail able for skilled or unskilled work ers;" The salaries beingjjajdare ex ceptionally high as compared to the average jobs during recent years. Mr. Carleton is head of the Em ployment Bureau which accepts ap plications at Morehead City Muni cipal Building on Tuesdays and Fridays. It is not necessary for an applicant to be certified by the local welfare office to get employ ment. The application can be made direct to Mr. Carleton at the office in Morehead City. In spite of the fact that there is plenty of work available, many able bodied men in the county are still trying to get commodities free at the Welfare office. It is a case where some are apparently trying to gyp or live off the government instead of offering their services in the construction of a government project at good wages. SHIPYARD SOON Readers must not be surprised if definite announcement that a ship yard will be constructed on Port Terminal Property in Morehead City, within 24 to 48 hours after Lend-Lease Bill passes. Editor. He had a definite thought in view. It was not to create sensational ism, but before the newspapers got through with the "fast story", i; definitely was a front page sensa tion throughout America if not the world. After a month his fast came to an end. Publicity had ap parently defeated a person who was fasting for a purpose. Pictures of the dean, made dur ing the latter part of his fast, showing a man who, perhaps, due partly to angle shots, was hardly more than a skeleton is the way most people remember him today, except those who come in fre quent contact with him and his work. Life Magazine, if they would print the picture they pub lished again, along with a picture of the former dean today, would present one of the most outstand ing picture contrasts ever shown. Life should do that it would be t many a picture story of a Resur rection. That the prolonged fas and the sensation it caused ended one phase in the life of a theolo gian and began another story was proven when the bishop of the dio cese removed the Right Reverend as dean of the fashionable St. See DEAN NOE, Page 8 WARMDIG! (An Editorial) Carteret County, Beaufort and Morehead City have ac cumulated considerable pro perty during the course of our recent hard times. This property was taken in be cause of non-payment of tax es. . .It naturally follows that the County or the municipal ities have seen a reduction in taxes as a result. And, it should be the first thought to get it back on the Tax Books. However, in the case of the County where so much prop erty is involved serious con sideration should be given the problem so as to not de moralize real estate values on one hand and on the other hand, not to aljow land spec ulators to step in and discred it the entire community by the use of questionable prac tices or to increase prices to such an extent where people will be kept out with good sound developments. Now that the County has taken in this land and done without taxes on same for a number of years it would ap pear to be nothing less than srood sound conservative bus iness sense to hold on to it a little while longer. While still being held, it could be resurveyed, all conflicting titles could be checked and rechecked ; in other words, into such order as to title and location that in selling, its full value could be realized by the County. There are several ways for the County to realize full val ue. The greatest value of all would be to trade the public owned land tor pay rolls. About the only thing the County lias to offer at the present time is land, but none that can be offered to out side industry as an inceptive to cofne td the coast and es tablish industries. We need all kinds of factories; we need aviation landing facili ties and many other things. Instead of selling the lands that might be used for these things to speculators, would it not be better to check up on what we have and appoint an industry commission which could start trading for per manent improvements. The County should make every effort to prevent the creation of land booms such as the fa mous failures at Morehead Bluffs and West Beauort back in the Twenties. DR. BRANCH TO TALK ON TEETH In cooperation with the 1940 Health Program of the County Home Demonstration Clubs Dr. Ernest Branch of the State Health Department has accepted an invi tation to visit Carteret County to bring a message on "Teeth". This meeting is to be held in the Homo Demonstration Office, in the court house annex, Wednesday after noon, February 12, 2:30 o'clock. The public is invited. if Adequate Salaries By J. A. Batson The Central Educational Legis lative Committee of the N. C. E. A., under ihe leadership cf J. C. Lockhart, Charlotte, N. C, has. agreed upon the following 5-point legislative program for education in North Carolina for 1041-42: (1) Retirement; (2) Continuing Contract; (3) Increased Salaries: (4) Enrichment of School Pro gram; and (5) Centralization of constitutional and administrative powers into a single board of edu cation. Mr. H. L. Joslyn and Mr. E. L. Gaskill have already had a report published on the first and second tonics, and Mr. Fred Lewis and Mr. J. G. Allen will have articles on the fourth and fifth topics fol lowing this one on salaries. Realizing that the salaries of teacher and other school employ ees are out of line with other groups, a more liberal increase is being requested in the teaching salary schedule, beginning with (1) a ninth increment for teach ers, (2) a fifth inci-ement for prin cipals, (3) sick leave for school employees, (4) financial recogni tion for superior teaching. A school budget of $30,000,000 a year will be necessary for the See SALARIES, Page 5 JUDGE KERR TO PRESIDE OVER COMING COURT March Term Jurors Drawn Monday By Commissioners Judge Lee Kerr of the 10th Judicial District whoso home is in Burlington is scheduled to preside over the March Term of Superior Court which begins here on March 10. It will be Judge Kerr's first visit to Beaufort as a presiding jurist. The Carteret County Board o' Commissioners on Monday drew the following list of persons to serve on the Superior Court jury; during the March Term: Staten Moore, Walter Yeomans, Harkers Island; C. H. O'Berry, William Way, J. T. Small, RFD, Aycock Brown.Suthy Made, Beau fort; L. A. Murdoch, Wildwood; Luther Gaskill, G. B. Goodwin, Roe; C. N. Hobbs, W. H. Laughton, D. G. Bell, Jr., John G. Piner, John W. McWilliams, Morehead City; Sam Salter, Joseph Davis, A. P. Davis, Davis; Bob H. Russell, Beaufort, RFD; Raymond L. Gar ner, W. D. Allen, Jas. E. Mann, W. H. Bell, Borden Adams, E. C. Mun dine, Newport; H. C. Taylor, Sea Level; J. C. Parker, Stella; W. L. Smith, Smyrna; Whitford Gillikin. Beaufort RFD; Paul Chadwick, H. C. Whitehurst, Straits; Ster ling Robinson, Atlantic ; H. B. Sal ter, Merrimon; W. H. Buck, Pelle tire; Walter Willis, J. K. Gillikin, Marshallberg. Painting Interior Courthouse The interior of Carteret Coun ty's courthouse is receiving a fresh coat of paint this week. NYA work ers are doing the job. THE NEW YORK SCENE: Memos of a Midnigliter: Click for April will "exclusively" report; that Russia will shelve Hitler for Churchill ... Oh, Mr. Secretary; of the Navy Frank Knox! Have a new word: Navyation or Navya tor . . . James McKinley Bryantj (who keeps company with seven gals! all at once) finally explains things, . . . "How do you manage to keep so many women interested? Don'tj you get tired now and then?" he was asked . . . "Yes, I do," he said blandly, "but what else is there but Love? It keeps you alive young and foolish." Broadway Ticket-Tape: Quent Reynolds' affectionate description of Their Majesties to the boys over at the Foreign Press Ass'n: "T the people they are simply Georga and Betty Windsor" . . . The networks are discouraging the repe tition of "Jeanie with t.l.b.h." It's about time . . . The feud between Lucius Beebe and Ben Hecht (over well-dressed dudes) has the mid-towneriv.a-gri-gri!. The rortrnvrsy See WincHell Page 2 I TIDE TABLE t Information as to 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 Survey. So meallowances must be made for variations in the Wind and also with respect io the locality, that is wheth er near the inlet or at the head of the estuaries. HIGS LOW Friday, Feb. 7 4:18 A. M. 10:49 A. M. 4:39 P. M. 10:49 P. M. Saturday, Feb. 8 5:14 A. M. Sunday, Feb. 9 6:01 A. M. 11:43 A. M. 6:22 P. M. 12:32 P. M. Monday, Feb. 10 6:48 A. M. 12:34 A. M. 7:09 P.M. 1:18 P.M. Tuesday, Feb. 1 1 7:34 A. M. 1:22 A. M. 7:56 P. M. 2:01 P. M. Wednesday, Feb. 12 8:18 A. M. 2:09 A. M. 8:43 P. M. 2:43 P. M. Thursday, Feb. 13 9:05 A. M. 2:55 A. M. 9:31 P. M. 3:25 P. M.