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griculture Possibilities Carteret County (Story By County Agent J. Y. Lassiter Beginning on Page 1) MORE THAN TEN THOUSAND People Will Read The Beaufort News THIS WEEK For Important News of the Coast Read The Beaufort News Each Week Carteret County's Oldest Newspaper 'Established VOLUME XXIX; NO. 18. BEAUFORT, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1941. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. he Of 1912 Comity Agent Outlines What Carteret Offers Farmers Who May 31ake New Homes Here Noted Philosopher And Humorist To Speak Friday Night 1 Fdmiind H. Hard in 7. not ed humorist, philosopher and musician ot Washington, IN. C, will again address the School Masters, School Marms, and School Board members and their wives and or husbands or "friends" at Ihe annual dinner meeting to lie held jointly by the County Unit of the N. C. E. A. and the the School Masters Club in the Sunday School build ing .if .the .first Methodist Church, Morehead City, Fri r See HARDING, PageS Notes of an Innocent Bystander: Broadway Small-Talk: H. V. Kal tenborn described him as "Von Rib bentripe." When we used it the air officials gave us a spanking . . . There's a Society for the Preven tion of Disparaging Remarks About Brooklyn with headquarters in Manhattan . . . The East 35th Street station house is going after the clip-joints that "took" several visiting R.A.F. lads ... If Sec'y of the Navy Frank . Knox wanted to scoop the world, imagine all the daily beats (about naval matters), he could tip oft to the editors of his Chicago newspaper. Sallies in Our Alley: Hettie Cat tell, the reporter, records the one about Charles MacArthur and an other scribbler who worked with him on the same gazette. They were at the funeral of a pal (and almost as stiff as he was) when the minister intoned: "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away" ... To which MacArthur yelled out: "Well, wot .cfluldJisJirerls that?" Jhe See WINCHELL, Page 14 ALMANAC HISTORICAL EVENTS APRIL i 18. San Francisco earthquake, f, 1906. i 19. Battle f Lexington. : 20. Low Sunday. 21. Battle of San Jacinto. 22. War with Spain, 1898. BIRTHDAY t Of Famous People APRIL 18. Booker Washington, educator, 1845. 19. Constance Talmage, actress, 1 1900. , 20. Adolph Hitler, 1889. "t 21. Josh Billings, humorist 1818. 23. James Buchanan, Pres. 1791. : 24. Rear Admiral Selfdidge, 1804. Jfo&Jkb A Golden Opportunity Awaits Those Who Are Willing To Work and Use Modern Agricultural Methods. Good Schools and Churches; Good Roads and Transportation Facilities YOU ARE INVITED TO INVESTIGATE By J. Y. LASSIT ER, County Agent Farmers who are interested in settling in a different locality due to the expansion of the National Defense Program are cordially in vited to visit Carteret County and observe the many farms that are available here and the leaders and farmers of Carteret County who will be only too glad to discuss the possibili ties of location, climate, soil, crops, livestock or any other phase of agriculture. Carteret County is blessed with so many agricultural possibilities that it is very hard to begin to try and outline them for one to consider. She contains 532 square miles or 340,480 acreas of land lying in the southeastern part of North Carolina with the eastern and southern boundaries bordering the Atlantic Ocean. The elevation ranging from sealevel to 30 feet above. The highest point in the county is possibly in the vicinity of Stella. The elevation in Beaufort is 10 feet above sealevel Drainage is effective through the White Oak, Newport, Neuse and South Rivers and short tidal streams. Early History Carteret County was one of the original precincts of the Lords Pro prietor and derived its name from one of them, Sir George Carteret. The early settlers in the county were mostly English, French, Hu guenots and Quakers, who set tled around 1700 to 1717 with the present population of more than 18,000 who are decendants and persons who have migrated from other parts of the State, Virginia, Maryland and New Jersey. Transportation facilities are excellent in every section and is in range of a railroad station, hard surface road or water transporta tion. The Atlantic and East Car olina, and the Beaufort and More head railroads extend to Beaufort. Transportation for the northeast ern part is by bus, truck or boat. The county is also well supplied with highways. United States Highway 70 enters the north part and passes through Newport, More head City, Beaufort and along Core Sound to Atlantic with a State Highway entering near the mouth of the White Oak River which runs along the southern side and intersects with the Federal Highway just west of Morehead City. Another state highway ex tends from Beaufort to North Har lowe and continues to New Bern in Craven County. The water ways afford transportation in the coun ty as well as passage for yachts and boats plying between Florida and the North. Schools and Churches Schools and churches are with in access of everyone. Most of the schools are consolidated and have modern buildings with a well planned curricula offering many vocational subjects such -as, home economics, agricultural and indus Sec FARM AGT., Pagel3 Musical Festival Is Planned At School Here On April 24th A music festival recital will be presented in the auditorium of Beaufort Consolidated School on Friday night, April 24, at 7:30 o'clock, it was announced today by Miss Helen Barney, music teacher. Taking part in the festival of mu sic will be the Glee Club under the direction of Miss Barney, the School Band, under the direction of Fred King, and the voice and piano students of Mrs. Charles Rassell's department. Numbers will be presented by each of the foregoing departments and also on the program will be included several of the popular dances and selections offered dur ing the year. As a conclusion to the program there will be a spec ial feature 140 persons in a See MUSIC, Page 8 Rural Women Enjoy Living - ln Carteret By Margaret Clerk, H. D. Agt. The rural women of Carteret County have organized themselves into seventeen community Home Demonstration Club groups with over four hundred home makers as members. This County organiza tion, affiliated with the North Car olina Federation of Women's Clubs has available Extension Service supervision from the County, State and Federal offices. Subjects; in Foods, Canning, Clothing, House Furnishing, Home Management, Home Beautifica tion, Home Gardens, Home Poul try, Home Dairy, Parent Educa tion, Health, Education, Recrea tion, Markets, and Citizenship are studied at Club meetings. Such meeetings assist in raising the standards of living of Club mem bers. During 1941 Club members have as their year's work motto "To Make America Stronger By Mak ing Americans Stronger." Coope rating with the National Defense program, the Foods and Feed Pro gram is being encouraged and a major study of bettering housing conditions, the bedroom unit, is being studied in monthly club meetings. "The happy family is the healthy family," someone has said. Women can add additional in come to the family purse and thus assist in making rural life more en joyable in raising the standards of living by selling home grown pro duce on the Home. Demonstration Curb Market, located in Morehead City, and operated twice weekly throughout the year. $6,376.77 See Farm Women, Page 13 Release Two Young Men On Charges Of Shooting Companion J. C. Crumpler, Selmaa nd Ar chie Blackman, Henderson wers released from Carteret County Jail under bonds of $500 each in the fatal shooting on Monday of Norman H. Barbour, 19-year old Four Oaks youth. Barbour, Crump ler and Blackman and a younger brother of Crumpler's were aboard the fishing cruiser Empress (Capt. Leslie Day) at the time the shoot ing occurred. It was described as accidental, but Sheriff Holland who investigated the tragedy with Chief Iredell Salter of Morehead City held the boys in jail upon ad vice from Solicitor Clark. It was stated that the four young men came to the coast and chartered the boat for a three day cruise. Crumpler was shooting at See SHOOTING, Page 4 Two Ways Of Enjoying Life On Carteret Coast Shown In Picture I ' V;i::: : '''.&' :: ;:; ' ' K. : v '' .'.!'.'' ''i ''''V.-:'.''' ,';';' '''''''.''.''': '$.':!;'' s ill i -iiSS' B- AMSJ THIS PICTURE BY Charlie Farrell, noted Greensboro photographer not only shows two ways of enjoying life on the Carteret Coast but also three government of ficials, namely from left to right: Congressman Barden with his back to camera, 2nd Assistant , Postmaster General Smith W. Purdum, sitting and fishing and Dr. Herb Prytherch, director of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Laboratory taking off in a swan dive. The picture was made in Lookout Bight, the day following dedication of Beau fort's post office, an event at which Congressman Barden and P. M. General Purdum spoke. (Farrell Foto.) WELCOME To CAKTERET 1 An Editorial The purpose of this Special Edition of The Beaufort News is to acquaint the residents of Lower Onslow County with the Carteret Coast as a place to live, or as a place to establish a new home. The good citizens of Onslow have responded in a most patriotic manner in this matter of giv ing up their homes on the farms and ?a the fishing com munities, to provide a place for the location of a new and great U. S. Marine Base. The Beaufort News wishes to commend these people whose existence is being affected by this National Defense expansion. Many of the fine families of Lower Onflow must estab lish their homes elsewhere. The Beaufort News wishes to extend an invitation to those who must establish new homes, to visit the Carteret Coast in the vicinity of Beau fort with the thought in view of investigating the possibil ties this section offers the home owner. The people of Onslow will find the people of Carteret friendly and neigh borly. The people of Onslow should they make their homes in Carteret will learn that it is easy for one to make a good living from the soil or the waters of this county. The Beaufort News invites correspondence from any po tential home owner who wants facts on Beaufort, and Car teret County. Letters should be addressed to Public Rela tions Division, The Beaufort News, Beaufort, N. C. A. B. In Beach Casino May 2 SENIOR CLASS PROM Covering The Waterfront By AYCOCK BROWN THE YANKEES took over Fort Fisher again on Monday. It was a much easier job than back in 1864-05 when it was necessary for 58 Federal Warships and trans ports which landed about 10,000 men to do the job. While Fort Fisher was one of the last Confed erate strongholds to fall the area in and around Manteo, Hatteras, Ocracoke and Beaufort was cap tured early in the war. It was about 75 years after Fort Fisher was captured and about 78 years after Beaufort, Manteo and Hat teras were taken before any gov ernment thought of actually plac ing defense projects along our North Carolina coast But now with Camp Davis, Fort Fisher, Sears Landing, and the Marine Base, our coast will have more pro tection and it is unlikely that an enemy could take over and occu py our coast still you can never tell, judging from what Hitler is doing. I WTAS ON HAND Monday when the "Yankees took Fort Fisher" for the second time. This time there was no gun shooting, and no one was mad with anyone else. A group of us, Capt. Pattee, Cel. McCrosky, Capt. Donati, Capt Lazar, Architect-Engineer J. A. Stewman, Jr., and others who have had to do with Camp Davis, left See Waterfront, Page 4 .;..5...j..j..;..;..;..;..;-5"J Newman Willis And Allen Complete Arrangements The Sixth All County Sen ior Class Dance of the Car teret County Schools will be given at the Atlantic Beach Casino on Friday evening, May 2, 1941, according to negotiations recently com pleted between the Board of Education, sponsors, and Newman Willis, new manag er of Atlantic Beach. Oral invitations were extended by the principals to their respec tive junior and senior classes last Friday forning in accordance with authorization of Supt. J. G. Allen i at a meeting of the principals in his office the previous day, at which time he urged several safe guards for the local emphasis of the principals in connection with plans for the Prom. The Junior-Senior Prom has be come an annual classic to which the high school students look for ward with keenest anticipation and no efforts will be spared by the new manager, Mr. Willis, in mak ing the approaching Prom in every respect equal if not superior to previous Proms. Committees have been appointed and are f u ction ing smoothly, and an announce ment is expected soon as to the name of the orchestra which will play for the occasion. The Beaufort News Has 14 Pages And 98 Columns Today The Beaufort News has 14 pages and 98 columns today. It is al most twice the size of the average edition which usually runs eight pages and 56 columns. We, who get out The Beaufort News are rather proud of our current achievement. In the first place we have gotten the paper out in two days and in the second place this edition is two columns larger than any previous edition of The Beaufort News. (Only exception was the Beaufort-Morehead City Bridge edition of 13 years ago, which had 36 pages and finally went to press after two or three months work on part of newsmen, and advertising solicitors). Dur ing the 20s there were frequent 16 page editions of The Beaufort News but in those days it was a six column newspaper. Therefore our present 7-column page news paper and our 14 pages gives us a new record W. L. H. Humber To Address Book Club Monday The last meeting of the Tues day afternoon Book Club will be a banquet meeting at the Inlet Inn Monday April 21st, at 7:00 o'clock The husbands of the club members will be guests. Mr. Rob't. Humber of Greenville and Paris, France, will be guest speaker. Mr. Humber will talk on France. Any one outside the club wish ing to attend may secure tickets at 50c each by calling Mrs. R. K. Davis or Mrs. J. G. Allen before Friday night. Facts Concerning First Grade Students And School Hours By Thomas G. Leary Some parents have made the in quiry, "why not keep first grade children at school during the noon hour, thereby allowing them to get out of school at 1 :00 o'clock in stead of 2:00 as they do at the present?" We wish to explain as fully as we can the reasons for the present schedule of work. For any one to have a strong mind they must have a strong body, therefore it is necessary for us to consider the physical as well as the mental make up of a child. We find that it is not in keeping with good practice to over work a child's mind for too long a period if we expect to get good results. Our experience has taught us that any one can be physically tired yet their mind would be rested and alert However, on the other hand, an individual who is mentally tired is also physically tired. Therefore you can see why play pe riods are necessary and especially See School House, Page 14 CAMP DAVIS DATA GIVEN BY ENGINEER Interesting Facts Are Revealed In This Report Some very interesting facts relative to the construction of Camp Davis, the new (CAL) Anti Aircraft luring Center, down in the vicinity of Holly Ridge and Folkstone on U. S. Route 17, is revealed in a report of the Architect Engineer compiled this week tor the rubhc Relations of ficer of the CQM. The report does not reveal this fact, but four months and five days ago when J. A. Stewman, Jr., and P. D. Davis, officials of the Architect - Engineering organiza tion arrived at Holly Ridge, tha community boasted only one store, six or seven residences and on tha west side of the railroad track where the vast firing center ' haa been created was only stubby pines isolated wastelands and a f ;w wa- terholes. On these waterholes. wild geese and ducks were feed ing on December 11, when the Architect-Engineers arrived. Camp' Davis data prepared by the engi neers follows: Location of Project: Camp Davis is located on U. S. Highway No. 17, thirty miles north of Wilmington, North Carolina, See CAMP DAVIS, Page 8 Washington, D. C. EGGS AND STEEL The senate could learn a lot from the house about brevity in public ad dress. Members of the house have learned to express themselves with out taking two hours in fact, some of the best speeches last for only one minute. The other day Congressman Wil liam L. Nelson of Missouri rose in the house and said, "Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to speak for one minute." Then he delivered himself of the following, within ex acUy 60 seconds. The gavel fell in the midst of applause from the other congressmen: "Mr. Speaker, headlines and foot notes are always interesting and thought-provoking. In the metropol itan press I note such headlines ft these: Indiana Standard Clears $33, 597,342. ; Record Breaking Backlog by -Republic Steel. , $20,076,739 Earned by East man Kodak. General Motors has Sales Record with $1,794,936,640 in 1940. Anaconda Copper Earns $35. See Merry-go-Round, Pge 14 I TIDE TABLE Information as to the tide t at Beaufort is given in this 1" column. The figures are a,'- proximately' correct cni are $ J based on tables furnished by the U. S. Geodetic survey. So Reallowances n.usi bo made for variations in the I wind and also with respect to the locality, thai is whetti- er near the inlet or at the t head of the estuaries. T Friday, April IS 1:25 1:54 2:33 3:05 3:43 4:11 A.M. 7:58 A.M. P. M. 8:21 P. M. Saturday, April 19 A. M. 8:59 A. M. P. M. 9:27 P. M. Sunday, April 20 A. M. 9:57 A. U. P. M. 10:27 P. M. Monday, April 21 A. M. 10:50 A. M. P. M. - 4:44 6:06 5:35 5:52 6:18 6:33 6:56 7:09 Tuesday, April 22 A. M. 11:23 A.M. P.M. 11:38 P.M. Wednexilay, April 23 A. M. 12:11A.M. P. M. 12:21 P. U. Thursday, April 24 A. M. 12:56 A. M. P. M. 1:02 P. M.
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