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Carteret County's Oldest NewspaperEstablished 1912
VOLUME XXIX; NO. 29.
BEAUFORT, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1941
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
Bonner Is Chairman Of Newly Organized County Defense Council
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First In Carteret To Become
EAGLE
,
THESE TWO YOUNGSTERS, John Duncan at left and Bobby
) Stevens at right have gone to the top in Scoutdom. At an impres
sive Court of Honor held in Ann Street Methodist Church last Sun
"day evening, with most of the Boy Scouts of Beaufort and More
'head City present along with Carteret Boy Scouts Council and Scout
. master Bill Parkins, Duncan and Stevens were awarded the rank of
Eagle in Scouting. Previously both had come up from the rank of
Tenderfoot, Second Class, First Class, Star, and Life to reach the
top. They are the first in Carteret to ever reach the rank of Eagle.
Each are IS year old. Both are splendid youngsters if they were
, not, they would never have gotten to the rank of Eagle. John is
' Leader of Sea Gull Patrol and Bobby is Senior Patrol Leader of
'. Troop SI The Boy Scout Movement in Beaufort is sponsored by
' The Rotary Club. (Eubanks-News Photos.)
New Conservation
Board To Meet On
Coast Next Week
The first semi-annual meeting of
the newly appointed State Board
of Conservation and Development,
named by Governor J. M. Brough
ton, will be held July 21-23 on the
coast in this section, it has been
learned from Capt. John A. Nelson,
of Morehead City, State Fisheries
Commissioner, The first day as
usual will be given over to the
hearing of complaints and peti
tions from commercial fishermen
and sportsmen, in the city hall at
Morehead City.
A HUNDRED NEW
HOUSES TO GO
UP IN M. CITY
A hundred now houses will be
built in Morehead City at a very
early date according to informa
tion received on Wednesday by The
Beaufort News. These homes will
greatly relieve the present hous
ing conditions on the Carteret
Coast and they are the first of sev
eral hundred which will probably
be constructed in Beaufort, More
head City and Newport during the
next few months, due to the na
tional defense program -which is
destined to become a local defense
program within the next few
weeks.
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4 Washington, D. C.
-T MEDITERRANEAN MIX-UP
" Inside story on General Wavell's
x transfer to India, as told in diplo
I matic dispatches, is that Wavell had
f been quarreling with Churchill and
;t had opposed political-military moves
such as the campaign in Greece and
Crete and the expedition to Solum.
;r More important from the Amer
ican point of view, Wavell had fa
vored the evacuation of all British
forces from the entire Mediter
ranean area. And U. S. military ex-
perts agreed
rjL urfferi it.
with him in fact,
So although in a sense General
Wavell is being demoted, yet in oth-
jrer respects he will be in a position
-. vj,to command British forces from an
'7area to which he had urged that
"5 British forces retreat.
For some time General Wavell
.-had contended that Britain's posi
tion in the Mediterranean was in
defensible. The British force of only
,400,C00 men in the Near East faced
a combined Axis total twice as
strong 400,000 Germans and Italians
Jin Libya, plus 600,000 Nazis in
T:Greece, Bulgaria and Rumania.
3 The latter figure has been partially
- diminished by transfers to Russia;
Jbut Wavell argued that the Nazi
'Fascist armies could concentrate
'. attack in one place while British
troops had to spread out over a far
; flung line from Libya to Syria and
Iiao,. -Ihereforehe di&aareed with
See Merry-Go-Round, Pg. 3
SCOUTS
R. N.DICKINSON
BURIED TODAY
Funeral Rites Held
For Beaufort Man
4:00 P.M.
Richard N. Dickinson, 76,
native of Russell's. Creek but
for many years merchant in
Beaufort, passed away early
Wednesday morning at his
home on Ann Street follow
ing a long illness.
Funeral services will be conduct
ed from the home at 4 P. M. today
with interment in Ocean View eem
etery. ,
The deceased was the son of the
late John Norris Dickinson and the
late Mrs. Mary Jane Dickinson of
Russell's Creek. On April 20,
1904, he was married to Miss Mol
lie Potter of Alliance and to this
union was born one son, Gerald P.
Dickinson, who with the widow
survives. There are also two
grandchildren Jerry and Dickie
Dickinson.
Mr. Dickinson conducted a lead'
ing grocery store for 40 years,
only resigning from active work
six years ago because of ill health.
Jimmy Prevost Of
Raleigh Rescues
Prominent Doctor
Without regarding his own safe
ty, Jimmy Prevost, of Raleigh, af
ter saving his recent bride from the
surf at Ocracoke last Thursday,
dashed back into the breakers and
brought Dr. Bill (W. H.) Smith of
Goldsboro to the beach. Dr. Smith
unconscious at the time he was
brought to shore, and witnesses to
the rescue are high in their praise
for the heroism shown by the
young man from Raleigh.
The surf at Ocracoke is not to be
trifled with, especially in the vi
cinity of sloughs where the current
often runs like a mijl race. The
swimming party had gone to the
beach from nearby Wahab Villege
Hotel and Mrs. Prevost was the
first to cry out for assistance.
Her husband brought her to the
beach and immediately went back
after Dr. Smith.
Ocracoke Coastguardsmen were
summoned to the scene by Dr.
Smith's daughter, and young Dr.
Parrott, of Kinston who was vaca
tioning at Pamlico Inn, on the Is
land, rendered medical aid. It
was several hours before Dr. Smith
fully recovered. In speaking of
his rescue, Dr. Smith said that if
anyone ever deserved a Congres
sional medal for saving a life, that
Jimmy Prevost did, and that he
expected to make every effort to
see that was awarded same. Dr.
Smith for many years was a mem
ber of the State Board of Medical
Examiners. He is a brother of
Mrs. B. H. Griffin, active in Brit
ish War Relief and summer resi
dent of Morehead City.
Carteret Citizens
In Old North
Rev. W. Y. Stewart Is
Carteret County
Chairman
Prominent business lead
ers of Beaufort and More
head City have given Rev.
W. Y. Stewart, chairman of
the Old North State Fund
campaign the assurance that
they would give every coop
eration in the drive to help
buy an ambulance plane for
Britain, as a gut trom the cit
izens of this State. The cost
of the plane will be $75,000.
As the campaign to raise this
amount through voluntary sub
scriptions from citizens of the
State, the Carteret Chairman is
appointing additional business
leaders on his advisory committee.
In Beaufort, Jack H. Neal and R.
W. Safrit have each given the
Rev. Mr. Stewart the assurance
that they would give their coope
ration and that of the firms they
head. In Morehead City, two oth
er outstanding business leaders
have been appointed by the county
chairman to serve on the advisory
board. They are: J. W. Jackson,
of Morehead City Garment Compa
ny and George Roberts Wallace,
of Wallace Fisheries, Bell-Wallace
Shipyard and other interests.
On Wednesday afternoon the
county chairman met with Mrs.
B. H. Griffin, Mrs. Cassie Mann
and Mrs. Leonard Burle in More-
head City and each of these mem
bers of the advisory staff have
promised to give their cooperation
in making a canvas of the sumn;er
residents on the Carteret coast at
this time. It is planned to have
a one-day drive, at an early date
possibly next Wednesday at which
time the house to house canvas
will be made by committees. In
the meantime, according to Rev.
Mr. Stewart, members of the ad
visory board who head large man
ufacturing firms on the coast have
indicated that they would sponsor
drives among their employees, on
the coming week-end, adding the
firm's donation to that of the employees.
Marine Training Site
Headache To Find
Rev. C. L. Morrill
To Conduct Service
At St. Paul's Sunday
The Rev. C. L. Morrill, rector of
St. Thomas Episcopal Church in
Dover, New Hampshire, will con
duct the service and preach in St.
Paul's Church, Beaufort, on Sun
day, July 29, at 11:00 A. M.'
The Rev. E. C. McConneil and
family are spending two weeks at
Camp Leach near Washington, N.
C. where Mr. McConneil is acting
as Chaplain.
TIDE TABLE
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 Sj
made for variations in the
wind and also with respect
to the locality, that is whetb
er near the inlet or at the
head of the estuaries. t
Friday, July 18
AM. 11:28 AM.
PM. 10:23 PM.
Saturday, July 19
AM. 10:18 AM.
PM. .
Sunday, July 20
AM. 11:14 AM.
TM. 11:08 PM.
Monday, July 21
AM. 12:04 AM.
3:18
3:51
4:15
4:44
5:08
5:30
5:5G
6:14
6:42
6:55
7:23
7:38
8:00
8:19
PM.
11:
PM.
Tuesday, July 22
AM. , : , 12:48 AM.
PM. 12:43 PM.
Wednesday, July 23
AM. 1 :30 AM.
P.M. 1:27 PM.
Thursday, July 24
AM. - 2 :09 AM.
PM. 2:09 PM.
Are Cooperating
State Fund Drive
George Ross Pou Is
State Treasurer
Of Campaign
Pessimists, sour-pusses and
dyspeptics, who insist that
the boys and girl:- of the
present day are spoiled,
thoughtless and shallow
minded had better watch out,
declares Rev. W. Y. Stewart,
Carteret County Chairman
of the Old North State Fund
as there is at least one man
in North Carolina who will
take violent issue with them
concerning criticism of the
youth of toda',. and that man
is George Ross Pou, state au
ditor and treasurer of the
Fund.
In a letter to Mr. Stewart, Pou
stated "Since the Old North State
Fund began its campaign to raise
$75,000 to purchase a fully equipp
ed airplane ambulance as a gift to
the people of England from citi
zens of North "Carolina, hundreds
of letters have been received daily
from those interested in the move
ment, - A large number have been
from boys and girls over the state
arid many have contained contribu
tions to the Fund. These letters,
pencilled on every conceivable kind
of paper, have shown me that our
boys and girls have a splendid spir
it of sympathy and a genuine wil
lingness to ma'Ke personal sacri
fices for the benefit of others."
Pou's letter continued "for in
stance, hee is anr extract from a
letter from Jimmy Ovevby, now
visiting in Morehead City, which
says 'I am giving my cents and dol
lar to help buy a mercy plane. I
hop it does a hole lot of good.
This money was given me to go to
picture shows and to bowl but I
rather give it to the British for a
mercy plane.' His brother, Dan
Overby, III, wrote: 'I want to give
part of my money to buy a mercy
plane for the British. This is my
pleasure money but I am sending
it to you to help.' These boys are
sons of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Over
by of Danville, Va., who are fre
See George Ross Pou, Page 8
From The
Washington Daily News
Mother Nature fills a very
large order when she pro
vides an ideal site jora u.
S. Marine; Corps ..training
base. "
Maj. Gen. Thomas Holcombe,
Marine Corps Commandant,' testi
f ied at Navy Department appropri
ations hearings that Marine offi
cers looked over every foot of U.
S. coast line from Corpus Christie,
Texas, to Norfolk, Va., by air, be
fore deciding that the best spot to
locate a new training base was in
the New River area, North Caroli
na. "This place is almost ideal," said
Gen. Holcombe.. ''There are- two
or three things we would like', to
have a little different, but this is
much closer to the ideal than I
thought we would ever find." ' '
Why Its Ideal .-
And what does the New River
area have to make it almost per
fect for training Leathernecks?
First, the land isn't high priced
and road building is inexpensive.
Second, the area is large enough
so trainees can fire all types of
guns. -' '; ."
Third, there are 4 1-2 miles of
surf beach, which is very important
for training. "We have to bring
these troops in on transports with
tilu fleet, nrotected by destroyers,
and then land through the surf,"
said General Williams. So thf
hoys nave to n-.nu nuw v m.n.
way.
Fourth, the Atlantic Coast Line
Railroad runs right along the edge
of this New River area, and there
is power available, from Wilming
ton, 40 miles distant.
All-Year Climate
Fifth, the climate is suitable for
year-round training and the soil is
like a sieve ; dries right after a rain
storm. , 'T
Sixth, the area is within a reas
onable distance of four possible
embarkation ports Wilmington,
See Training Site, Page 8
He Will Bring Drum
And Bugle Corps To
Festival In August
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BOB MOORE pictured above
will bring one of his Drum and
Bugle Corps to the annual Coastal
Festival starting in Morehead City
on August 7. His drum and jugle
corps in Goldsboro and in Kinston
have won national attention and it
will not be the first time that the
well trained organizations have
been on the coast of Carteret. For
the past three years a drum and
bugle corps under the leadership
of Bob Moore has been a colorful
feature of the Coastal Festival.
CAPT. AUSTIN
OF OCRACOKE
DIED SUNDAY
Veteran Lighthouse
Keeper Succumbs
To Stroke
Captain Wesley Austin,
one of Ocracoke Island's
most respected citizens died
last Sunday afternoon fol
lowing a stroke he suffered a
few days previously. Funer
al services were : conducted
on Monday Afternoon at the
home with the Rev. Mr. Mc
Clellan, Methodist pastor of
Hatteras officiating. Burial
rite were conducted at the
family cemetery almost with
in the shadows of Ocracoke
Light where Capt. Austin
was keeper for many years
until his retirement in the
early 1930s.
Captain Austin served in the U.
S. Lighthouse Service for 44 years
Most of his tour of duty was as
keeper of the Ocracoke Lipht,
(oldest in America still in active
use) but he' had also been assist
ant keeper at Whalebone Light on
Currituck Beach and at Cape Hat
teras Ligh, the old brick structure
which was famous because it not
only served as a warning beacon at
dangerous Diamond Shoals, but al
so because it was the tallest light
house structure in the world of its
particular type of construction.
Captain Austin was keeper of
Ocracoke Light during the World
See Captain Austin, Page 8
Several Carteret
Soldiers Are Now
Trainee-Graduates
Several Carteret County soldiers
were included in the first 13,500
trainee graduates of the Field Ar
tillery Replacement Center at Fort
Bras'g. They are being transferr
ed to the 72 Field Artilley Battal
ion and the 79th.
Those from Carteret who have
been graduated from the Trainee
group and the course of training
vis, Marshallberg, auto mechanic;
they received follow: Alton Da
Lloyd M. Dennis, Beaufort, Grady
B. Carraway, Merrimon, Gerald
Chadwick, Gloucester, cannoneers
and Clarence Fulcher, of Stacy,
driver ( 1-2 ton weapon carrier) .
Carterets Population Is Expected
To Increase 60 Percent as Result of
Local and Nearby Defense Projects
Letters In Bottle
Found At Lookout
James Rose of Harkers Island
was down at Cape Lookout on Sun
day and while walking along the
beach he found a quart bottle
which contained seven letters.
The letters were accompanied by a
note which indicated that the bot
tle had been thrown overboard by
a seaman on the oil-tanker "Smith
Bluff" about 30 days previously.
Also in the note was enough money
to mail the letters, five by regular
first class mail, two by air mail.
The story reached the Beaufort
News via Earl Davis.
MANEUVERS
ARE BEGUN
IN ONSLOW
Many Photographers
On Scene To Make
Action Pics
Several thousand soldiers
and marines are engaged in
the first joint training course
ever held on the North Caroli
na coast, ine maneuvers
started this morning and is
composed ot the first Divis
ion, U. S. Marines and units
ot the U. S. Army from rort
Devers, Massachusetts. Scene
of the maneuvers is in the vi
cinity of Hurst and Onslow
Beach in lower Onslow Coun
ty. ' Eleven vessels are engaged in
the maneuvers. They are U. S. Na
val and U. S. Army Transports and
several destroyers. It will be only
a few days until civilians will have
an opportunity to witness the man
euvers in the news reels and
through pictures appearing in the
newspapers. Today and again on
Friday not just a few but a large
battery of news reel and still pho
tographers are on the scenes shoot
ing thre activities.
Roy Eubanks and Aycock Brown
were included in the list of accred
ited photographers invited to at
tend a meeting in Jacksonville on
Wednesday night to receive in
structions about photographing the
maneuvers. Also in Jacksonville
were news photographers from all
of the important picture services,
the news reel companies and The
March of Time.
Rotary Committees
Appointed Tuesday
For Current Year
Rotary President Bill Stewart
appointed Rotarian Committees for
the current year, at the weekly
meeting on Tuesday night. Splen
did attendance was registered at
this meeting.
The committees follow: Aims
and Objects Committee, President
Stewart, Rotarians Stanley Potter.
Jim Baxter, Numa F. Eure and
(..alvm Jones.
Club Service Committee: Rota
rians Calvin Jones, Jack Oakley
anil Dave Merrill.
Bays Work Committee: Rotari
ans Jim Baxter, Roy Eubanks, Dli
vid Jones and Perry Reavis.
Community Service Committee:
Rotarians WaV.-n Woodard, Joe
Hines and Tom Leary.
International Service Commit
tee: Rotarians Numa F. Eure,
Leslie Davis and Graham Duncan.
Music Committee: Rotarians
Grayden and M. C. Paul.
Publicity Committee: Rotarians
Bill Hatsell and Aycock Brown.
Fellowship Committee: Rotari
ans Pritchard A. Lewis, Jake Mil
ler and Jim Canady.
Classification Committee: Ro
tarian Grayden Paud.
Carl Goerch To
Publicize Coast
Carl Goerch, noted magazine
publisher, radio commentator and
after dinner speake" was on the
Carteret" Coast this week gather
ing material for a story which will
be published in next week's edition
of The State Magazine,
Government To Aid
As Population
Increases
A Carteret County De
fense Council was formulat
ed here on Wednesday and
groundwork was laid tor tak
ing care of the population in
crease which is expected to
invade this coastal area as
a result of the construction
of the U. S. Marine Airwing
Base at Cherry Point, the U.
S. Naval base, in Morehead
City and the proposed ship
yard. Dr. K. P. B. Bonner, chairman of
the County Board of Commission
ers presided over a meeting of cit
izens in Carteret who met at the
Sheriff's office. Other present
included the mayors of Morehead
City, Newport and Beaufort, name
ly: D. B. Willis, Sam Edward3 and
George W. Huntley. Also present
were W. M. Webb, prominent
Morehead City resident, Sheriff C.
G. Holland, Mrs. George W. Hen
derson, Superintendent of Public
Welfare, Superintendent J. G. Al
len of the Public Schools of Car
teret and Aycock Brown, editor of
The Beaufort News.
After Aycock Brown had been
appointed secretary of the Defense
Council, Mayor Willis, Mayor
Huntley, Commissioner chairman
Bonner and others had a general
discussion of what was expected to
take place on the Carteret Coast as
a result of new defense projects
which will soon be constructed.
While all of Carteret County is
now definitely included in an im
portant defense area, it is expect
ed that the influx of new residents
will live in Newport, Morehead
City and Beaufort.
It is in these communities that
many needed improvements to care
for the increased population must
See Population, Page 8
Mountain Farmers
Visit In Beaufort
Eighty seven farmers from the
mountain county of Haywood
spent Wednesday on the Carteret
Coast, many of them seeing the
ocean for their first time and last
night they stopped over in Beau
fort. Making arrangements for
the local part of their tour was
County Agent J. Y. Lassiter. Pre
viously County Commissioner Ray
mond K. Davis had also assisted in
plans for entertaining the farmers
upon their arrival on the coast.
Private Papers
Of a Cub Reporter:
J. Edgar Hoover and the G-Men
received great acclaim from all
sources for rounding up those spies
. . . Some congressmen, however,
showed their appreciation by killing
the wire-tapping bill designed to
make things easier for the G-Men
in espionage cases . . . What's the
matter with them? . . . Afraid
they'll hurt the civil liberties of a
few spies and kidnapers?
Many of the papers now praising
the G-Men for their efficiency in
rounding up the spies are the same
ones that f ;und fjult with the G-Men
a short time ago . . . And you were
a G-Man's stooge if you defended
the FBI.
From page 187 of William Shirer's
best seller, "Berlin Diary": "Rep
resentative Ham Fish seems to have
been completely taken in by Ribben
trop, ho gave him an airplane to
rush in to the Inter-Parliamentary
meeting in Scandinavia."
Boy, that sure explains a lot of
tilings.
By all means read the article on
Wheeler and Roosevelt in the July
15 Look . . . While Wheeler goes
around the country wrapping him
self in the Flag and rapping the
President by using all kinds of ideal
istic arguments this article proves
trjat the whole thing is strictly per
sonal ... And get this: The reason
p"1fr qretrs at p'ejvthin frhe
See WINCHELL, Page 2