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This Week SPECIA L OCRACO! 16 Pages CE ISLAND EDITION You Haven't Been Anywhere Until YOU VISIT Ocracoke Island VOLUME XXIX; NO. 31. Fourth Annual Morehead City Coastal Stanley Wahab Is An Ocracoker Who Shares SUCCESS WITH FOLKS ON ISLAND fy . I I . i 4 ' - rl . " 'L: ill ' & UjW Ji . If V O" - ' w hi R. S. WAHAB IS A native of Ocracoke Island who went away, made a success in life. It was he who brought elec tricity, an ice plant, Wahab Village and Hotel, the Ocra coke Theatre, a number of cottages, and enumerable im provements to the island. R. S. Wahab the natives call him Stanley left the island in his youth, served for a time on a duPont yacht, (he own. a yacht formerly of the duPont fleet to day), took a business course at Wilmington, and made a success of a co-operative buying plan for independent furniture stores. He lives at Baltimore, but his heart is still at Ocracoke. He is vacationing on Ocracoke Island this week and will be there next week to greet the Young Republicans and their distinguished guests he will also be on hand to greet Governor J. M. Broughton and party who will arrive on the iiland aboard the flagship of the N. C. Fisheries fleet on Au gust 9th or 10th. Stanley Wahab is making lavish preparations for the entertainment of the Governor and party at square dances, na tive clam bakes, oyster roasts, fish frys and other entertainment, which this native Ocracoker knows how to promote and present. ... In the above picture made earlier this week Ocracoke's most successful son, Stanley Wahab, is preparing to shove off in a native sail skiff for a mulleting cruise. Of the two, Wahab orobably gets a bigger kick out of cruising aboard sprit-sail center board skiffs, than he does aboard his palatial yacht "Wanderer." (Photo By Aycock Brown). TROOP 51 OF BEAUFORT INVITING 500 TAR HEEL BOY SCOUTS TO BE HEREON WEEKEND OF AUG. 23RD BOARD TO MEET MONDAY Carteret Commissioners will meet on Monday. They are ex pected to adopt budget for 1941 42 at this sitting. Memos of a Girl Friday: Dear Mr. W.: When William L. Shirer, CBS correspondent whose best-seller is "Berlin Diary," got back here after many years in Ger many, he visited all the Mr. Bigs In the War Dep't. They found his observations on the German army so interesting and informative they urged him to call on the command ing officers of all the U. S. Corps areas and relay the same info. He was provided with letters of intro duction and rec'd a warm welcome and keen audience everywhere with one exception . . . Lieut. General Yoo-hoo Lear brushed Shirer off, virtually throwing him out of his office. His explanation was that "nothing a newspaper man has to say about military matters could possibly interest me." The college boy who wrote "Daddy" up and enlisted in the marines right after getting that plump royalty check tor his first hit! . . . Jimmy Stewart is dating Georgia Carroll when he gets "leave." He's no dope. lil! M U 1 i -jtrgTi,,j Mrs. John Steinbeck is working in a New York ad agency. She ad mits to chums they've parted, which you reported months ago and then "retracted" just 'cause you were asked to do so . . . Chaplin, I hear, lias, already made a million from See WINCHELL, Page 2 Scoutmaster Parkin In Charge Of All Meeting Plans COMMUNITY CENTER WILL HOUSE SCOUTS Troop 51 of the Boy Scouts of America here have exten ded invitations through their Scoutmaster, Bill Blades Par kin, to all scouts and scouters of the East Carolina Council to Spend a week-end o fun and merriment at Beaufort "The Land of the Sea" begin ning August 22 and continu ing through August 24. Several hundred scouts are ex See TROOP 51, Page 8 Miss Mary Johnson Is Chosen As Miss Beaufort Of 1941 Beaufort Rotarians at their meeting on Tuesday night were unanimously in favor of Miss Mary Johnson, beautiful and talented daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Johnson, being Miss Beaufort of 1941. She will represent the Car teret seat of government in the Fourth Annual Pageant of Beauty which will be presented next week end as a high spot of the Junior Chamber of Commerce sponsored Coastal Festival in Morehead City. Miss Johnson is not only very beautiful but she is also very talen ted. She graduated from Beau fort High School in May with high est honors. ..She is 16 years old. Former "Miss Beauforts" at the Junior Chamber of Commerce Sponsored Coastal Festivals have been: Miss Lucille Thomas, who won top honors and reigned as queen over the second annual fes tival; Miss Helen O'Bryan, Miss Beaufort of 1939 and Miss Flor ence Smith, Miss Beaufort of 1940. Carteret County's Oldest Newspaper ..Established 1912 Message From Our Governor It is pleasing to know that the Beaufort News is to carry an Ocracoke sup plement for this season, and I am glad to be privi leged in this supplement to send a brief message con cerning Ocracoke Island. Ocracoke has a charm all its own. It is unique among all resorts in Eastern America. I know of no place that excells Ocracoke in beauty and attract iveness. It has been my privi lege several times to visit this delightful spot, and I look for ward to future visits. The hos pitality of the people is unsur passed anywhere. It is an ideal spot for rest and recreation and for the enjoyment of unsur passed beauties of nature. In the fishing season it attracts sportsmen from all over the United States, and in the hunt ing season it is the mecca of all who seek unusual hunting op portunities. Ocracoke is a great North Carolina asset, and I rejoice in its recent growth and develop ment. J. M. BROUGHTON, Governor of North Carolina Raleigh, N. C, July 30, 1941. Loving Gets Contract For USM Mr wing Actual Construction Work Expected To Begin Soon Contract for the U. S. Navy's Marine Airwing at Cherry Point was awarded this week to T. A. Loving Company, of Goldsboro; and seven associates. These are Central Engineering and Con struction Company, the Mecklenburg Construct! o n Company, A. H. Guyen, Nel lo L. Teer, Albemarle Plumb ing and Heating Company and the Thomas Electrical Company of and the West Construction Com pany. Initial cost of the project will be almost fifteen million dol lars. Work on the project i expect ed to start Immediately. The num ber of men who will be employed there has not been announced, and lthi omething which probably w,u not be known untl1 BCtual con" struction is underway. It is likely that many of the employees, num bering thousands, who were em ployed by the T. A. Loving Com pany on the gigantic Fort Bragg See LOVING, Page 8 I TIDE TABLE I 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 Ns made for variations in the wind and also with respect to the locality, that is whetfo er near the inlet or at the head of the estuaries. Daylight Saving Time HIGH LOW Friday, Aug. 1 3:05 AM 9:27 AM 3:54 PM 10:25 PM Saturday, Aug. 2 4:16 AM 10:30 AM 5:00 FM 11:30 PM Sunday, Aug. 3 5:23 AM 11:33 AM 0:03 PM Monday, Aug. 4 6:27 AM 12:30 AM 7:01 PM 12:34 PM Tuesday, Aug. 5 7:24 AM 1:26 AM 5:52 PM . 1:32 PM Wednesday, Aug. 6 8:15 AM 2:16 AM 8:41 PM 2:26 PM Thursday, Aug. 7 9:03 AM 3:02 AM 9:28 PM 3:14 PM AUFO BEAUFORT, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1941 Three Day Event Will Be Bigger and Better Program Will Include Dedication Of New Morehead City Post Office, Bathing Beauty Contests, Dances By Name Bands, Parades And Boat Races JUNIOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF MOREHEAD CITY HAVE MADE NATIONAL EVENT OF FESTIVAL For the fourth successive year the annual Morehead City Coastal Festival will ba presented beginning next Thurs day, August 7th and running through and including Satur day, August 9th. This year's event, according to its spon sors, will be "bigger and better'' than ever, and includes three days and nights of gala festivity which is expected to attract several thousands to the Port City. Covering The Wate rf ront By AYCOCK BROWN GO V EKNUK JBKUUliHTUN IS a democratic person. Take last Sunday afternoon for instance. We had an engagement to meet at the beach and then drive down to Fort Macon State Park to see the new bathing beach project there which the State will turn over to tin Army at Camp Davi3 as a spot to camp on convoy training marches and for recreation. We were to meet at his No. 1 Cadillac on the parkway. IN THE GOVERNOR'S party were four other persons, Mrs, Broughton, Capt. Nelson and Mr and Mrs. Geoean of Raleigh. There was room for another in the roomy official car but when the Governor saw me waiting he told the other members of the party ' I will ride with Aycock. Ana so we rode down to the State Park sot out and was shown over the layout by Capt. Fulcher, the care taker and then we returned to town in my Super DeLuxe with the official car trailing us. I WAS UNABLE TO accept the Governor's invitation to go to the See WATERFRONT, Page 7 BEAUFORT AIR Earl Taylor, local aviation crew of workmen mowing the rough spots on the three runways of the landing field in west ceauiort this week, rnese runways are 1,200 leet, 1,450 feet and 2,900 feet in length. The U. S. Marine air men now on maneuvers in New Bern this week will be ad vised of the improved facilities made possible by Taylor's interest in the local landing field. They Inspect Fort Macon Beach READY TO LOAN IT TO THE ARMY I. , . jr; ,;,;.& ..-.. c i.iti.mi-..,.. PICTURED ABOVE are two men who stand ready to of fer Fort Macon State Park Beach to Brigadier General James B. Crawford, commandant of Camp Davis, on behalf of North Carolina, owners of the resort project. At left above, commander in chief of the State Navy, is Governor J. Mellviile Broughton, who inspected Fort Macon Beach site early this week. Previously, in company with aides of General James B. Crawford, Camp Davis Commandant, Charles J. Jenkins widely known automobile dealer of northeastern North Carolina and new member of the Parks and Forestry Committee of the Department of Conservation and Development, shown at left, inspected the site with the Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of Beaufort. The Department of Conservation and Development which has charge of all State Park Properties, are very willing to turn Fort Macon State Park Beach over to Camp Davis troops if they need same as a convoy training or marching camp site. Governor Broughton also approves this proposal. .. Camp Davis troops have also been offered Beaufort Community Center 'properties and West Beaufort as camp sites, if same are desired for that purpose by the Army at Camp Davis, Fort Bragg or elsewhere. -(Beaufort News Photos.) MiiWS K Festival Begins Thurs., Aug. 7 The first regularly scheduled event on the festival program will be a military and naval parade. which will take place on Arendell Street Thursday morning at 11:00 o'clock. Units from Fort Bragg and Camp Davis have been invited to participate in this event, along with the bands representing their respective units. At 2:00 o'clock on the specially constructed band stand in front of the post office a musical concert will be presented. The first round of the sailboat races will be held on Bogue Sound beginning at 2:00 o'clock, and this event, as in the past, will attract sailboats from all over the county. The Junior Yacht Club of More head City, with its compliment of fifteen or twenty "Comets", which will participate in the races, always lends a thrilling sight to the spec tators who are expected to line the waterfront to view1 the events. See MOORE ABOUT, Pge. 3 WRONG INITIAL IN SCARBOROUGH'S AD Discovered too late to correct in the Special Ocracoke Island sup plement today, is an error in the initials of the progressive firm of C. J. Scarborough, located on the south side of Silver Lake. In the ad the initial "T" is shown instead of the correct initial "J". FIELD IMPROVED enthusiast, has had his entire grass and smoothing out the British American Ambulance Plane Drive Underway In Carteret County mix ay CHAIRMAN W. Y. (Bill) Cli-. A, i J L, i. .Aajy-j. Ir. a T-THTumnii niuinrirfnsiHiiMniiin iiimn American Mercy (Ambulance) Plane Drive in Carteret re ported as we go to press today campaign to raise a voluntary quota of $800 on the central coast was not ended. As a matter of fact the drive is just getting underway and he cheerfully reported that through the coopera tion of co-workers one half of the total quota had been raised. Similar drives are underway in every county of North Carolina and the gener al idea is to raise sufficient monies to purchase a huge six-stretcher, 2 motored Grumann Amphibian plane which will be presented for civil ian use to the British Government from the people of the Old North State.. .State Treasurer George Ross Pou of the ONSF Campaign, at his summer cottage on Atlantic Beach for the week-end, reported that several counties had already gone over the top with their quota. Chair man Stewart of the Carteret campaign paid especial tribute for the fine work which is being accomplished by his co-worker, Mrs. Julian Hamilton in Beaufort where $150 was raised on the first day of the drive. With the generous support of several prominent business men and manufacturers of Carteret, including Jack H. Neal and R. W. Sa frit of Beaufort, George R. Wallace and J. W. Jackson of Morehead City and others, along with the splendid cooperation which members of the summer colony on Atlantic Beach and in Marehead City are giv ing, (they plan to stage a British Ambulance Benefit at Dunes Club next Saturday night, assisted by Lon Bolich and others) that not only will the Carteret Quota be raised, but this county will go over the top in its campaign of mercy. The above photo shows James Imbrie, offi cial of the British American Ambulance Corporation of New York talk ing with Miss Jean Brownlee of the WCUNC School of Modern Dance in Beaufort and one of her students when the huge plane, similar to one which North Carolina citizens will buy, was on an exhibition tour of the summer colony on Atlantic Beach and in Morehead City are giv cock Brown). IN SPITE OF DIFFICULTY TO SECURE MATERIALS DUE TO WAR NEEDS COUNTY'S REA WORK GOES AHEAD j GAME FISH PLENTIFUL Game fish are abundant off Beaufort Inlet at this time. Gov ernor Broughton and party made one of the best catches of week. Washington, D. C. DEFENSE 'INCIDENTS' Out of 26 major "incidents of dam age" in defense plants last month, military intelligence authorities have evidence that 14 wpre caused by sabotage. The other 12 were ac cidents. Of the 14 sabotage cases, four were fires and 10 were mechanical dama;?e. Two arc attributed to Communists; the others to Nazi agents. There is no indication thut Communists and Nazis worked to gether. Since the outbreak of the Russo German war, the Communist party line has somersaulted. The current dictum is, no interefcrence with de fense output. It is significant that since the Nazi attack on the Soviets there has been a sharp decline in strikes. However, intelligence agents re port that the party has made no change in its policy of propagandiz ing soldiers and sailors. This is be ing pushed as vigorously as before, although with little success. In fact, party general are so dissatisfied with results that they recently or dered labor unions dominated by Communists to help their campaign by offering their halls as soldier rec reation centers. Japanese Consulates. Another significant development in subversive influences relates to the Japanese. Since the expulsion of the Nazi aid. .Jtaliaa. consulates. irjleUigejice See MERRY-GO-ROUND Page 2 ja isi The Island Of OCRACOKE Extends you A Hearty Welcome PUBLISHED WEEKLY. STEWART of the British- that contrary to reports the Approval Is Given For Substation Construction HOUSE WIRING BEGINS IN SOME COMMUNITIES In spite of increased diffi culty in securing material, due to war priorities, con struction on the local REA lines is proceeding at a rate better than scheduled. Ap proximately 100 miles of poles have been set. one third of all transformers hung and right-of-way cut ting is moving along. Poles are now being set across the North River marsh into the Straits and Otway communi ties. Design of a modern streamlined substation, to he l-.catfd cn U. S. 70 near Newport, has been approv ed by Washlnst "n and construction will lieain on it in the rear f'U'iro. The Cooperative will p'Thaso wholesale power from the Tidewa See REA, Page 8 Ocracoke Island Edition Reaches Chicago Friday Several copies of The Ocracoke Island Edition of The Beaufort News this week will be read in Chi cago, 111., on Friday afternoon, which incidentally is the same time the newspaper reaches Ocracoke Island, only 60 miles from its place of publication. At the request of N. C. Young Republican Federa tion President John Wilkinson, Jr., of Washington, N. C, four pounds, of this edition, about 12 copies are being air-expressed today to Rich ard Nowinson, editor of The Re publican, publication of the Nation al Federation, who will be on Oc racoke Island at the Invitation meeting there next week-end. .,1 . c'A i
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