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Carteret County's Oldest NewspaperEstablished 1912
VOLUME XXIX; NO. 30.
BEAUFORT, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1941
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
" TIF' T"'
NEWS
Daylight
Out On A Limb For The Sake Of Art
(Members of Seaside Summer School
CI ' YT 7 . :
Orphanage Singing Classes
Coming To Coastal Carteret
ODD FELLOWS HOME
SATURDAY, JULY 27
I The Concert Class from the Odd
fellows Home at Goldsboro, featur
ing chorus, play and musical num
bers will appear at Beaufort at 8
; 'clock on Saturday evening, July
3j6. The concert will be presented
In Ann Street Methodist Church.
fie public is urged to attend.
Drive For
Aluminum
Beaufort
Man About Town:
. Secretary of State Cordell Hull
has recovered sufficiently from a
threatened collapse. He will re
sume the burden of his office and
the world soon . . . Mrs. FDR s
new radio sponsor may be Brazil at
$2,000 a broadcast . . . Hitler's
squawk that an American ship is
arriving daily in Alexandria is a lie.
It's two ships! . . . Insiders argue
that Columnist Joe Alsop was sent
to Bombay, India, presumably be
cause there is no greater distance
from Washington. Alsop embar
rassed the White House and the
navy by stating in print that his
kin, the President, was waiting for
an incident to get us into war just
before he got his naval commission.
Carol and Lupescu are concerned
about their reception here. Why?
They got a most cordial press on
their arrival to this hemisphere . . .
Hess is supposed to have said that
he fled because the stars by which
Hitler lives "deserted him after
May 12th" . . . Our submarine de
tectors have been perfected to the
point where surface craft can now
signal: "Come up for identification
or be sunk!" . . . There are models
of cargo vessels being tried out in
Long Island sound, which are Mr.
'"Hitler's newest headache. For
practical purposes these ships are
as far out of the water as the subs
are under it.
Exclusive! Japjrabs, .manned Jj
See WINCHELL, Page 2
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KENNEDY HOME
SUNDAY, JULY 27
Rev. S. J. Erwin, pastor of the
local Baptist Church announces
that the Kennedy Home High
School Chorus of the Baptist Or
phanage of North Carolina, will
present a concert in the Baptist
Church here on Sunday morning,
July 27,
Cast Off
Begins In
On Tuesday
Housewives Urged
To Cooperate
In Drve
BOY SCOUTS WILL
MAKE COLLECTIONS
Throughout the nation this
week drives are being made
to collect cast off aluminum
pots and pans (or anything
else made of aluminum)
which will be turned over to
the government to relieve the
shortage of this matal need
ed for the construction of
planes and other war materi
al. Beaufort joins in the
drive on next Tuesday after
noon when all housewives are
urged to place what they
might have to offer on the
front porches of their homes
where it will be taken up
promptly by local boy scouts.
Aided by the Boy Scouts, the
Beaufort Rotary Club is sponsor
ing the campaign. At the regu
lar weekly meeting on Tuesday
night Rotary President Bill Stewart
outlined the plan for collecting old
cast off aluminum and appointed
a committee to work with the
Scouts in collecting same. Rota
rians Jack Oakley and Calvin Jone?
are donating the use of their truck?
for the purpose and it is hoped that
another truck or two will also be
contributed.
The depository for the aluminum
will be the jail yard. Following
the one day drive for same the junk
aluminum thus collected will be
sent to the state depository and
from there to defense plants where
the metal will be re-processed for
war material (chiefly planer.) con
struction. See ALUMINUM Pace 8
Time Begins In North Carolina Next Sunday
of Art at Beaufort
FOR THE sake of art (plus pub
licity) these charming students of
the WCUNC Seaside Art Colony
here climbed an ancient oak and
began drawing a marinescape
photographers started shooting.
The photo by Aycock Brown was
made on Harkers Island and was
first published in the Herald Times
of Washington, D. C.
LEON MANN IS
TELLING WORLD
ABOUTNEWPORT
High School Youth
Is Making Good
Press Agent
Leon Mann, Jr., 16-year-old
high school youth of New
port is doing a good job of
telling the world about his
town through news stories
and pictures. In one of his
dispatches this week he
wrote about the plans now
underway to install sewerage
and water systems. This will
be necessary because New
port is going to be the near
est incorporated town to
America's largest U. S. Ma
rine Aviation Base atChar
ry Point.
Newport citizens, according to
the town's press agent, have learn
ed enough about other East Caro
lina defense projects to know that
when construction work begins,
there is a spontaneous boom which
brings hundreds and thousands of
people within a short distance of
the defense area. Bearing this in
mind the Newport citizens have
employed an engineer to provide
See LEON MANN Page 8
Covering The
Waterfront
B7 AYCOCK BROWN
A SOLEMN note was injected
into the summer meeting of the
Outdoor Writers Association of
America along North Carolina's
Outer Eanks when wreathes of
gardenias were cast into the Gulf
Stream off Diamond Shoals in hon
or of the memory of Tommy Ait
ken, dean of salt water fishing
writers last week. The idea for
paying tribute to the famous writer-fisherman
was that of J. Ham
mond Brown, president of OWAA.
I was not with the writers off Cape
Hatteras when they paid this trib
ute to Aitken. Time would nut
permit me to take the trip off shore
although I had a very pleasant time
with the group up at Mante .
MY GOOD FRIENDS Stanley
Wahab of Ocracoke and Baltimore
and Pilot Dave Diiskill of Manteo
made it possible for me to make the
trip to Manteo and in a hurry. I
flew up from Beaufort, stopping at
Ocracoke. We left Beaufort about
four o'clock and by 5:30 I was on
the dock in Manteo talking with
several members of OWAA I al
ready knew and meeting new mem
bers. On my return trip in Wa
See WATERFRONT, Page 8
Clocks To Be Advanced One
Hour To Save Electricilv
Ocracoke Island
Section Of News
To Be Published
Since the Editor has so many re
quests from Carteret County peo
ple about Ocracoke, how to get
there, where to stay once you ar
rive, the customs of the people and
other data, he is preparing a spec
ial Ocracoke Supplement of The
Beaufort News which will be pub
lished next week if present plans
work out.
In addition to the advertising
patronage which the merchants
and hotel operators, the mailboat
and air taxi operators have given
this edition there will be a number
of advertisements from local mer
chants who in recent years have
discovered that Ocracoke is a rich
trading area of Beaufort and Car
teret County firms.
In the Ocracoke supplement next
week there will be a number of
new and before unpublished photo
ffraohs. made bv Beaufort News
staffers recently. We don't think,
we know you will enjoy the Ocra
coke Island Supplement which The
Beaufort News will present next
week. (A.B.)
THOUSANDS OF
TROOPS INVADE
COASTAL AREA
From aboard the large transport
laying off Beaufort Inlet today,
(said to be the former luxury liner
Manhattan) several thousand
troops have come ashore for a day
of recreation. Their landing w-as
a peaceful one, but the person with
imagination can well picture how
an enemy transport could, (had
our "open doorway for invasion"
not been closed with the construc
tion of defense projects) have
come on a warlike mission and an
nihilated our communities of
Beaufort and Morehead City.
The troops landing today have
recently been on joint Army-Marine-Navy
maneuvers off the coast
of Onslow where America's largest
Marine Base is being created. Ar
riving in Morehead City the troops
were quickly transported to Atlan
tic Beach where Manager Newman
Willis and the operators of conces
sions there gave the boys a warm
welcome. It is understood that
only one transport landed troop:-:
today, although there are said to
be four transports and several de
stroyers now anchored in the Bight
of Cape Lookout.
North River Site
Would Be Offered
For Navy Station
Following a current report that
the Government would net pay the
price the Old Mullet Line officials
are asking for their 59-acre Camp
Glenn tract to be used for the pro
posed base for U. S. Nivy mine
sweepers and other small boats, it
was indicated that if the Navy was
interested property owners on
North River would provide land at
a low figure for tHe establishment
of the station.
The North River shore would re
quire only about one mile of addi
tional railroad tracks. Another
factor in favor of North River
would be its nearness to Beaufort
Inlet, deep water and no obstruc
tions such as draw bridges along
the route. Whether the Navy is
actually considering moving the
Navy base from Morehead City
where it was first planned to place
it or to a point near Lenoxvitle east
of Beaufort could not be confirm
ed as we go to press today.
REA PROGRESS
Builders of the REA power lines
in Carteret were centering their
work in Mill Creek, Harlowe and
Core Creek section this week look
ing forward to cutting in at soon
as Cherry Point Marine Air Base
begins oeveloping.
Governor Proclaims
New Time To Last
Until Sept. 28
Starting Sunday July 27,
everv community in North
Carolina will join the nation
in the observance of Day
Light Saving Time, when
clocks and watches will be
moved up one hour in an ef
fort to save electric energy
needed for the construction
of defense projects and ma
terials. The up state newspapers reach
ing the coast today indicated that
Governor J. M. Broughton had is-
COMMISSIONERS MEET
TO DISCUSS NEW TIME
..In Carteret on Tuesday the
Board of County Commissioners
have a special session to discuss
Day Light Saving Time and an ap
propriate Resolution endorsing any
proclamation Governor Broughton
should make in connection with
same was passed.
Irvin W. Davis, clerk to the
Board said that officially the adop
tion of the Resolution was all that
took place on Tuesday. Unoffi
cially though it is understood that
the Budget matter was discussed
rather Iengthly, but no action was
taken on same.
sued the proclamation for Day
Light Saving Time to become ef
fective on Sunday. The time sav
ing factor will end on September 28
according to present plans.
Local transportation officials,
that is the Seashore Bus Transpor
tation Company and the Beaufort
Morehead City Railroad gave no
definite statement but were assum
ing today that busses and trains
would operate on Daylight Saving
Time. Mayor George W. Hunt
ley stated that the proclamation
would be observed officially in
Beaufort.
INCREASE FOR
COAST GUARDS
AUGUST FIRST
All surfmen are to be increased
one pay grade effective August 1,
according to advice from Congress
man Graham A. Barden to this
newspaper this week. Mr. Barden
promptly went to bat for the surf
men when he learned that many
surffmen in the North Carolina dis
trict were not getting as much pay
as surfmen in the New York dis
See INCREASE Page 8
TIDE TABLE
Information as to the tide
at Beaufort is given in this
column. The figures are ap
proximately correct and arp
based on tables furnished by
the U. S. Geodetic Survey.
So meallowances must Sc
made for variations in the
wind and also with respee
to the locality, that is whett
er near the inlet or at the
head of the estuaries.
HIGH
LOW
Friday, July 25
8:48 A. M. 2:47 A. M.
9:01 P. M. 2:51 P. M.
Saturday, July 26
9:32 A. M. 3:24 A. M.
9:45 P. M. 3:34 P. M.
Sunday, July 27
10:18 A. M. 4:04 A. M.
10:29 P. M. 4:20 P. M.
Monday, July 28
11:04 A. M. 4:46 A. M.
5:12 P.M.
Thursday, July 29
:17 A.M. 5:34 A.M.
11:54 P.M. 6:10 P.M.
Wednesday, July 30
12:07 A. M. 6:28 A. M.
12:46 P.M. 7:14 P.M.
Thursday, July 31
1:01A.M. 7:26 A.M.
1:46 P. M.
8:20 P. M.
Greensboro Daily News Caption Said:
"THIS TURTLE ISN'T SO SLOW"
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THIS PHOTO BY Beaufort News Editor Aycock Brown
first appeared in Greensboro Daily News but since that
time has been published in a number of newspapers thru
out the county. The caption under the Greensboro Dai
ly News picture read as follows: "WE'LL TAKE SOUP
Turtles by legend and facts are slow critters, but this man
size loggerhead specimen at the marine museum and a-
quarium in Beaufort seems to be doing all right. Property of the
United States Fish and Wildlife Laboratory at Beaufort, it has been
seen by thousands of tourists this year, but Miss Julia Thomas is be
lieved to be the first to be photographed with it at least in this
poje." (Editor's Note: No wonder both subjects are modeling so
well. The turtle is only a very life-like replica mounted by the NY A
group of taxidermists who work under the direction of Taxidermist
Waldron Bailey and Dr. H. F. Prytherch at the laboratory.
FREE BEACHES
ADVOCATED BY
DEPT. C AND D
Make Few Changes
In N. C. Fishing
Regulations
Development of free pub
lic bathing beaches along
the North Carolina coast was
strongly advocated by the
neuiv organized Department
of Conservation meeting for
thp:r first time tjirether in
Morehead City this week.1
Thomas V. Morse, State
nark director told members
ol the uoara mat me iact iu
i.: 11 . .
.vean resorts tr wnr.e a wvn .n
Cii'.r.ivd resident i one of t'ie
r: ius recreational slvirt comings of i
Novth Carolina. ;
In addition to the reports of the ,
departmental heads, the ari u
committees met together and t'.:.-..
with the entire board to discus j
conservation and development j
matters of the State. Many uf the .
meetings of the Board this year
were held aboard the palati-.il yacl.t ;
See FREE BEACHES Page 8
75 Objectors To
Occupy Camp At
Cape Hatteras
Seventy-five or more draft ex
empt "Conscientious objectors,"
will shortly be quartered at the
abandoned CCC camp at Cape Hat
teras, it was learned here this
week.
These men, who because of reli
gious scruples, will not bear arms,
are required to follow peaceful
pursuits under Government super
vision. They must serve a year, or for
as long as other draftees, but they
are not required to fight. Being
all young men, and personable,
they will probably find the girls
interesting. Fighting seems the
only thing to which they are oppos
ed. They will carry on the program
of sand fixation now going on un
der the National Park Service.
CHANGES IN PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON. Recent month!
of war in Europe have made some
significant changes in the habits and
the outlook of the President. He is
more serious, s re worried. Also
he is more circumscribed. The lat
ter is important, because it means
that he sees fewer pc -pie, loses
some of his old cmtacu.
During his first ei-tht years in
ofHce, probably no Frcs.Jont in his
tory was in cl;s3r tcucli with the
country as a whole than Franklin
Roosevelt. Not only did he see a
great nunibsr of congressmen, la
bor leaders, business men and poli
ticians during his daily routine, but
he traveled more than any i-'.her
President. Several times j year he
touk turns round the country, kept
his ear to the ground, met all sorts
of people.
Ever since the international emer
gency, he has stuck close to Wash
ington. Not once has he got out
into the Middle West, even during
the 1340 campaign. Seldom has he
gone farther away than New York
or down the Potomac. Thus he has
missed the relaxation, the rest, and
the obvious joy he used to get from
his roving junkets. Also he has
missed his old personal contacts.
Note The President boasts that
he rests on a railroad trip, and
this is really true. He seems to
sleep better on a Pullman, and on
occasion orders have been given to
the train engineer to stretch outj
See MERRY-GO-ROUND Page 2