EAUFORT NEW
SPEND YOUR
VACATION
ON THE
CARTERET COAST
Beaufort Welcomes
Art, Dance And
Biology Students
For Their 1941
Summer Session
Carteret County's Oldest Navspapextablished 1912
VOLUME XXIX; NO. 24.
BEAUFORT, N. C, THURSDAY, JU1 :941
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
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WHITEHURST
MUST SERVE
PRISON TERM
Was Charged With
Death Of Mrs.
Garner
Reuben Whitehurst must
serve from four to six years
in State Prison in connection
with the death of Mrs.
Charles Garner who wa3
struck by an auto driven by
him on the night of March
28. In passing sentence
Judge Lee Carr of Burling
ton nrpirlinff fiver the June
session of Carteret Superior
Court, recomenaea in tne
nriomi avHpv that Whitehurst
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be given hospitalization for
serious sinus trouDie irom
which he is a sufferer.
Whitehurst, who is 37 years of
ae-e. was found guilty on tour
charges, manslaughter, hit and
run driving, operating a car with
out a drivers license and also for
driving drunk. George Fulford
who was in the car with him when
the tragedy occurred in late March
on Route 101, a few miles from
Beaufort was found guilty of pos
session, of untaxed liquor and for
transporting u'ntaxed whiskey.1
He was fined $25 and costs.
There has been considerable in
terest in this case locally. White
hurst is well known in Beaufort.
He has suffered considerably in
recent years from sinus trouble,
which was probably responsible
See WHITEHURST, Page. 8
Washington, D. C.
NEW TYPE CONVOYS
Behind all the guessing and specu
lation over convoys aroused by the
1 President's fireside chat is this one'
basic fact. The old-fashioned form
of convoy already is outmoded, and,
as Roosevelt indicated at a recent
press conference, it will not be used.
But the new-fashioned form of con
voy already is in use and will be
intensified.
This is convoy by airplane patrol,
using airplane carriers and nearby
islands for bases. The destruction
of the Bismarck showed how effec
tive this airplane convoy could be.
Airplanes flying above the water
can sight the submarine below the
water miles away, whereas a sur
face vessel cannot sight a submarine
more than a mile or so away.
Therefore you can expect to see a
network of United States airplanes
criss-crossing back and forth across
the north Atlantic, assisted in part
by surface warships, but extending
all the way to Ireland.
The Pacific Fleet.
With this settled, the most impor
tant strategic problem being dis
cussed in backstage navy circles
is that of bringing the mighty Pacific
fleet from that ocean into the At
lantic to prevent Nazi seizure of the
mid-Atlantic islands and to be ready
for other major eventualities.
Every jjjilin cornec'"). wh
See Merry-go-Round, Pge 3
SUPER STATIONS
ARE COMPLETED
Ocracoke Coast Guard Station
and the Swansboro Life Boat Sta
tion have been completed. These
two stations are the finest along
the Atlantic coast and are defined
as "Super-Stations" of the U. S.
C. G.
Batson To Attend
Chapel Hill Meet
K. G. Phillips, president of the
North Carolina Education Associ
ation, announced this week that
J. W. Batson, of Atlantic, has ac
cepted an invitation to attend the
association's third annual Leader
ship Conference at Chapel Hill
June 16, 17, 18.
Invitations to the conference,
which is expected to be the larg
est and most constructive yet held
in the state, have been extended to
all city and county superintend
ents, officials of the State Depart
ment of Public Instruction, and
NCEA directors, Planning Com
mittee members and district and
group chairmen. Approximatley
200 educational leaders, including
those from Carteret County, ara
expected to attend.
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Carteret Selectee At
Camp Blanding
BERNARD McDonald Gillikin, ion
of Mr. and Mr. Harry Gillikin of
Beaufort R. F. D., writes hit moth
er that he likei Army life. A
member of America! fast growing
Selective Service Army, young Mr.
Gillikin is stationed at Camp Blan
ding, in Florida, where he was
sent shortly after induction. Prior
to his induction he was employed
in the Neoprene Area of the Du
pont Company and in the May
23rd issue of Dyeworks News, his
picture along with a fellow worker
was published. Private Gillikin
is attached to the Service Battery
of the Field Artillery. .. At the
present-time he is nearing the com
pletion of his basic training period.
Following the basic training pe
riod the Service Battery will be
detailed to handling supplies for
the Field Artillery. Members of
the Battery are also taught to han
dle and shoot guns, but like many
Selectees arriving in training cen
ters throughout the United States,
actual training with guns comes
slow.
Plan To Entertain
Dance-Art-Biology
Group Next Friday
The Beaufort Rotary Club and
Woman's Club will collaborate in
presenting entertainment for the
dance, art and biology students of
the various summer school units
in Beaufort on next Friday night.
Pritchard A. Lewis, chairman of
the Rotary Committee in charge,
stated today that tentative plans
called for a square dance in Com
munity Center Auditorium, which
would not be of a public nature,
admittance to same being only by
invitation.
Mrs. C. R. Wheatly is chairman
of the Woman's Club committee
in charge of the entertainment
plans. The square dance would be
to the music of string instruments,
not canned music and such old
time square dance champions as
Capt. Oscar Noe and Capt Charlie
Thomas would be present to help
make the event a success.
MORE MATERIAL
FORNEWR.E.A.
CO-OP RECEIVED
Poles For Stringing
Lines And Other
Material Here
A total of seven of approx
imately 30 car loads estimat
ed for the construction of the
Carteret-Craven REA Coope
rative power lines had been
received up until the time we
go to press today, according
to Consulting Engineer Kerr,
representative of Consulting
Engineer L. E. Wooten. Of
the seven car loads, four
were yellow pine creosoted
poles for stringing the lines.
These poles range in length
from 35 to 50 feet.
The remaining three car loads of
materials consisted of wire and
line building hardware such as an
chors, insulators and nuts and
bolts. The contractors, Miller and
Baxter Company of Indianapolis,
Ind., have been promised prompt
delivery on all materials despite
the priorities for many materials
used in construction today, due to
defense projects.
One crew of approximately 15
rnen have been engaged in cutting
right-of-ways for the lines. The
first right-of-way has been cut ad
jacent to N. C. Route 24 west of
Morehead City and into the Stella
section. Two more crews of men
of approximately 15 men to the
crew, are to start immediately cut
See MATERIAL, Page 8
Death Curve
On 70 Kills
One; Hurts 3
Gillikin Youth Is
Latest Victim
Of Curve
FUNERAL RITES
HELD ON SUNDAY
One person is dead and
three are in Morehed City
Hospital, the result of a
wreck which occurred at the
intersection of U. S. Highway
U and rs. C. Route 101, in
front of Huntley's last Friday
night. The Ford car in which
the four were returning to
their homes in East Carteret
County from Beaufort or
Morehead City failed to ne
gotiate the dangerous curve
at that point.
Hervie Gillikin, 18, son of
Mrs. Myrtle Gillikin and the late
Curtis Gillikin of the Otway com
munity, was killed instantly, ac
cording to investigating officers
and in the opinion of George Hunt
ley, Jr., first to reach the scene
of the wreck.
Seriously hurt but with a chance
to recover, were Theodore Law
rence, 27, James Rose, 18, and Ed
gar Willis, 21. Each are residents
of East Carteret county and they
were taken to Morehead City hos
pital for treatment. Hospital at
taches stated today that Lawrence
was apparently the most seriously
injured, and that Rose and Willis
were recovering satisfactorily.
Funeral services for young Gil
likin were conducted at the Otwav
See DEATH CURVE, Page 8
CAMP DAVIS
IS PREPARED
FOR FLAMES
Camp Davis. FIRE ! The
United States Army knows
only too well the smashing
import of that four-letter
alarm; and at Camp Davis,
like other posts throughout
the nation, large sums of
money are being expended
on fire prevention and con
trol. Although the Camp Davis fire
department is a comparatively
new one, it already reoresents an
expenditure in excess of S; 100,000.
Three stations, each equipped with
two streamlined trucks, are in op
eration on the reservation. Fire
men are on duty 24 hours a day.
Two of the trucks pump 750 gal
lons of water a minute, four have
a capacity of 500 gallons a minute.
More than two miles of fire hose
is available, and 223 hydrants have
been placed at strategic points
throughout the camp.
Heading the organization of
fire-fighters are Fire Chief K. B.
Mann and his assistants, Roy
Schnibbon and Samuel Cook. They
are the only civilians on the force.
Mann and Schnibben are on leave
of absence from the Wilmington
fire department, Cook is a resident
of New Bern.
Fire prevention is as important
as fire control. That is the' doc
trine taught every recruit when he
enters camp. And every soldier
learns the proper method of turn
ing in an alarm. There are 4,000
fire extinguishers in the camp
area.
If fire ever strikes at any of the
1000-odd buildings here, Camp Da
vis aims to be prepared.
Robinson Believes
Cedar, Not Roanoke
Scene Of Landing
Melvin Robinson of Atlantic who
is convinced that the first English
Colonists landed on Cedar Island
in Core Sound, instead of Roanoke
Island, was in Beaufort this week.
He has done considerable research
and writing to prove his conten
tions, and he stated this week that
soon the work he has prepared will
be printed in book form by a Vir
ginia publisher.
Cattle
A definite trend toward beef
cattle production is becoming in
creasingly apparent in Wak
County, reports J. D. Thompson,
assistant farm agent of the N. C.
State College Extension Service.
Records made at cotton-insect
laboratories of the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture indicate that
large numbers of boll weevils sur
vived the winter and emerged from
hibernation this spring.
163 rd Anniversary Sei
Begin Sunday
METHODISTS iTi THE Port of Beaufort wiW celebrate a long
and successful history of the local Church beginning next Sunday
when the 163rd Anniversary Serv ices to continue for a period of one
week get underway. Rev. Stanley Potter, pastor of Ann Street
Methodist Church, (pictured above) announced today that a former
minister will preach next Sunday and each night during the week,
with Bishop Clare Purcell delivering the final sermon of the Anni
versary series on Sunday morning, June 22.
In observance of the 163rd Anniversary of the Church, a booklet
of 75 pages titled "The Story of The Methodists In the Port of Beau
fort," has been written by Miss Amy Muse and published by Owen
G. Dunn publishers, of New Bern. On sale at Bell's Drug Store,
Guthrie-Jones Drug Store and Margaret's Beauty Shop, the well-written
book is finding a ready sale. Highly praised for her work, the
I booklet by Miss Muse, is one that every local person should read. It
is more than just a history of local Methodism, it touches on all the
historical highlights of the old Portof Beaufort over a period of near
'.y two Centuries.
Durham Boys Catch
Suckling Porpoise
In Surf At Beach
Bill Byerly II and James D.
Grisfold Jr., Durham youths made
a sort of record on Wednesday
when they captured with their
bare hands, a 45 pound, suckling
porpoise about four feet long, in
the surf on Atlantic Beach in
front of Mrs. John C. Michie's cot
tage. They immediately notified
Dr. H. F. Prytherch, director of
the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Labor
atory here who sent a crew to the
beh with the hopes that the baby
could be taken to the aquarium
on Pivers Tiland. Unfortunately
however, the baby did not survive.
Dr. Prytherch stated today that
it was tne first time he had ever
heard of anyone catching a baby
porpoise ith their bare hands. A
replica of the catch will be made
in plaster cast by taxidermists at
the Laboratory. The replica will be
placed on permanent display in the
Marine Lab's Museum.
Beaufort And Local
Summer Schools To
Get Much Publicity
Gregory Ivy's Seaside Summer
School and Jean Brownlee's School
of Modern Dane, both units of
Woman's College, U. N. C, in
Greensboro, are scheduled to get
much additional publicity, in which
the Town of Beaufort will share.
Duruig the past week-end Charles
Parker, director of the State News
Bureau, Mrs. Virginia Lathrop,
publicity director of WCUNC and
Aycock Brown of The Beaufort
News made hundreds of pictures in
color and black and white of the
two groups.
Parker's pictures will be syndi
cated widely. The color shots will
be offered as magazine covers and
also used in the North Carolina Va
riety Vacationland Booklet. Mrs.
Lathrop's pictures and stories will
be submitted to all papers in this
and nearby states, one group go
ing on special assignment to Made
moselle Magazine. Brown's shots
were made for New York Times
and Times Wide World Photos.
Subscribe to The Beaufort
New $1.50 per year
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Covering The
Waterfront
By AYCOCK BROWN
THE AIRWING of the U. S. Ma
rine Base will come to Cherry Point
on the South side of Neuse River,
according to all indications at the
present time. Overlooking some
bad-bets the Real Estate boys may
have placed over in the Wilkerson
Point area, we, who have had some
ver intimate glances at defense
projects recently, know that if the
'.ir base comes to the South side,
that the prosperous and prespenng
farmers of the rich agricultural
sections of Arapahoe and Grants
boio as well as the resort owners
at Minnesott Beach, will be much
better off with the base on the
south side of the river.
WE ARE ALSO convinced that
the Air Wing of the Marines will
be better situated on the south
side. ' Marines are itinerant sort
of soldiers, both in War and peace
time. By itinerant we mean they
are here today and in some dis
tant island possession tomorrow.
The nearer a port of embarkation
is located to a Marine base, the
more convenient it is for the Ma
rines and the type of service they
do. In this case Morehead City
will be the port of embarkation.
MOREHEAD CITY and New
Bern will be the names of towns
principally mentioned in connec
tion with the Air Wing of the U. S.
M. should it come to Cherry Point.
But by existing roads, Beaufort
will be the nearest community, ex
cepting Harlowe, Havelock and
Newport Beaufort will be about
12 or 15 miles from the limits of
the base if it is constructed at the
Cherry Point community located
between Hancock and Slocum
creeks. Morehead City will be
about 18 to 20 miles away and
New Bern will be about 22 miles
away. Should the base be located
in the Cherry Point sector, desig
nated as a point of land extending
into the river directly south of
Wilkerson Point, the limits of the
base will probably come directly to
Harlowe and that is only about 10
or 12 miles away.
BUILDING OF defense projects
brings sudden prosperity to com
munities in the section. near same.
The prosperity ends as quickly as
it begins, except that in the mean
See WATERFRONT, Page 8
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First Dance Of Season To Be Held
In The Beach Casino Sat. June 14th
CARTERET WPA
WORKERS SENT
TO U. S. M. BASE
Workers on every WPA project
in Carteret County (excepting the
Smyrna School Building job and
the N. C, Beach project at Fort
Macon State Park) have been
transferred to the U. S. Marine
Base in Onslow County, where
they are employed at present in
road construction work in the gen
eral vicinity of Huberts. About
200 or more workers have been
transferred from Carteret, includ
ing the supervising personnel, P.
K. Ball and Miss Eloise Fulcher
and Bert Clark. The supervising
personnel have set up temporary
offices in Jacksonville.
Duke Marine Lab
Opens For Season
Duke University Marine Labora
torv opened its hrst session on
Monday with approximately 20 stu
dents enrolled. Dr. A. S. Pearse,
who has just returned from the
University of Nebraska where he
was awarded an Honorary Degree,
is director of the laboratory, assist
ed by Dr. H. L. Blomquist and Dr.
C. G. Bookhout.
Coast Guardsmen
From N. C. Coast
Go On Navy Duty
Quite a number of transfers
have been made in the personnel
of the U. S. Coast Guard Stations
along the North Carolina coast re
cently. Most of the transfers
have been from land stations to
U. S. Navy ships of the Coast
Guard. Carl Willis, made a Boat
swain May 1, was transferred to
the Patrol Boat McLane on June 1.
Clinton A. Lewis of Beaufort
and Roland Willis of Harkeis Is
land, both formerly with the crew
of Cape Lookout station have re
ported to Norfolk District for du
ty, presumably to operate small
boats of the Navy fleet. Others
transferred for similar duty in
clude William E. Willie, Davis, of
Beaufort Station's unit at Fort
Macon has also been transferred.
From Ocracoke Station, Noe E.
Price, Alonzo Burrus, Grhaam A.
Whidbee and Elmer E. Midgett,
and from Bogue (Swansboro Life
boat) Inlet station William Hill,
Andrew Mason and Walter Good
win have been transferred to Nor
folk District Headquarters for sim
ilar duty.
PROMISE FOR PORT
According to story released in
Washington this week by Congress
man Barden Morehead City's port
has bright future as USM port of
embarkation, etc.
SIX COUNTY MEET
H.D.&4-H CLUBS
ATLANTIC BEACH
Dean I. O- Schaub To!
Be Chief Speaker On
June 19 Program
Dean I. O. Schaub of the
State College Agricutural
Extension division, Raleigh,
will be chief speaker June
19 at Atlantic Beach for the
annual all-day program and
outing of this six-county dis
trict of home demonstration
and 4-H clubs, it has been an
nounced by Mrs. H. M. John
son, of Lenoir county, dis
trict chairman, who will pre
side. Representative Graham A. Bar
den, of New Bern, will extend
greetings, as will also Mrs. Maude
Baynor Foy, of Kinston, district
president of the State Federation
of Women's clubs. Welcomes
will be given by Mrs. Herbert Bea
man, of Jasper, president of the
hostess Craven county federation,
and George W. Ipock, of Ernul,
chairman of the Craven county
board of commissioners. Re
sponse will be by Mrs. J. S. Hud
son, of Jones county. Mrs. Es
telle T. Smith, of Raleigh, district
farm agent, will present other
guests.
Reports of the county group
will be made by the respective
presidents: Mrs. Ted Garner, Car
teret; Mrs. Dewey Jenkins, Jones;
Mrs. Roland Davis, Lenoir; Mrs.
See 4-H CLUBS, Page 8
Chan Chandler And
Orchestra Will
Make Music
Entertainment programs
for the summer season at the
Atlantic Beach casino will
be started this week with a
gala dance Saturday night,
music to be furnished by
Chan Chandler's popular or
chestra. Manager Newman
Willis has announced.
The same orchestra will play al
so for the regular free concert on
the boardwalk Sunday afternoon
from 4 to 5 o'clock. With a wide
reputation as one of the nation's
leading dance orchestras, the band
is expected to draw many people
to the resort, where the surf seas
on is already well under way.
Many visitors have enjoyed the
beach and surf sports, as well as
the bingo games and other midway
attractions during the past two
weeks. Numerous cottagers are
already opening their beach cot
tages for the summer, and many
others will be here during the next
week or two.
Fishermen report unusually
good luck with catches of varied
species of fish in the coastal areas
if this section during June. Soma
of the largest catches in years havei
See FIRST DANCE, Page 8
Pietv Yorkers
Are Talking About: 1
The 1,000 (4-engine) long-range
bombers that the United States will
turn out monthly in 1942 . . . Pub
lisher Pope of an Italian-American
daily being the first ever to edit a
Presidential speech. Omitted the
raps at the Axis.
The closing: of Camp Nordland, a
Bund racket, in New Jersey by the
man who sent Hauptmann to the
chair (Attorney-General WUentz.),
It's about time! . . . The Book-of-the-Month
club's August choice, A.'
J. Cronin's "The Keys of the King-1
dom" . . . The fact that the Zam
zam was partly "insured" by a syn
dicate of which the Toklo Fire St
Marine and the Generate of Trieste,
as well as Swiss insurance firms
owned by Germany, are member
. . . This confirms our recent re
port on how Nazi Intelligence can
know when U. S. ships sail their
destinations, cargoes, etel ,
Notes of an I
Innocent Bystander:
In Case Ton Didden Know: A pet
newspaper man legend is this one.
"A newspaper man is a guy wh
sits at his window looking down afr
the passing parade. Sooner or lat
er everybody he knows passes by.
And he can drop a flower or a flow
er pot!"
It Really HapwA! A small time
See WINCHELL, Page 2
f- Ttrr t a ri r
f 1 1UL 1 DL.L.
v Information as to the tide
T. at Beaufort is given in this I
t column. The figures are ap- t
proximately correct and are
T based on tables furnished by T
? the U. S. Geodetic Survey. ?
. , j. 1. . 2'
.j. so meanowances must uu
i made for variations in the
X wind and also with respect J.
to the locality, that is whett,-
er near the inlet or at the
J head of the estuaries.
HIGH LOW
Friday, June 13
5:05 AM.
11:15 PM. 5:22 PM.
Saturday, June 14
11:38
12:06
AM. 5:57 AM.
PM. 6:22 PM.
Sunday, June IS
12:28
12:58
1:19
1:53
2:14
2:51
3:13
3:48
4:09
4:39
AM.
6:51 AM.
PM.
7:23 PM.
Monday, June 16
AM. 7:45 AM.
PM. 8:23 PM.
Tueiday, June 17
AM. 8:36 AM.
PM. 9:20 AM.
Wednesday, June IS
AM. 9:24 AM.
PM. 10:13 PM.
Thursday, June 19
AM. 10:12 AM.
PM. 11:04 PM.
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