SEPTEMBER 11
j " Carteret County's Oldest NewspaperEstablished 1912
17 XXIX: NO. 33 " BEAUFORT, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1941.
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HELP CREATE
AVIATION
INTEREST
IN CARTERET
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
fhis I Another Story About
COUNTY
He Loves The Outer
Banks Of N. C.
Tentative Estimate
Is Increased
$2,350.00
Chief Pilot Dave Driskill Of Ocracoke Transportation
Company's Air Division Selects Atlantic Landing Field
SKIPPER BROUGHTON, Gov
ernor of North Carolina, love tha
Outer Banki of North Carolina.
Last weekend accompanied by
Mr. Broughton and their two fine
10m and Mr. and Mr: Beckwith
of Raleigh, tha Governor made a
;.- tn Ocracoke Island. In ad-
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dition to seeing all the lite there,
such as the Coast Guard Station,
where Capt. Steve Batnight it in
charge; the ancient lighthouse,
where Capt. Joe Burrus was his
host; and drives around the island
in Ocracoke Transportation Com
pany's bus, accompanied by Char
les MacWilliams and Walter C. O'
Neal, the Governor and his party
visited aboard the Elizabeth Mc
Cow, auxiliary schooner yacht
owned by Dick Reynolds and also
the party met the people stopping
.i Wahab Village Hotel and Pam-
i- i An extended visit was
J. . h. homa of Mrs. Martha
liiauc ...
U.h.h mother of R. S. Wa-
had and several other fine citixens
living on the island. On the return
cruise to Beaufort the Governor s
party were accompanied by Mr.
and Mrs. William Hatsell of The
Beaufort , Nw-''k''vl,nt"tn
weekend on the island . . . Next
weekend (August 2S) Governor
Broughton returns to the Outer
Banks this time to make a tour
of Cape Hatteras National Sea
shore Park and to visit the people
of Hatteras Island. (Aycock Brown
Pohto).
MORE WILL BE SPENT
THAN IS CULLLCltu
Tntpjirl rf saviner Carteret
trip tpntative bud
get underwent a number of
changes at the JUiy meeting
tViP Rnnrd of Commission
ers, the total amount increas-
ed from siyy.yzy.u to zvz,
279.17 or exactly $2,350.00
more than the original esti
mate. Dr. k. P. B. Bonner,
pVinivmnn of the Board told The
Beaufort Nevs this week, the
S9i7 figure published last week
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was a verbal statement mai:e
Commissioner R. K. Davis to the
Editor, shortly after the original
story about the juggling of the
budget appeared following the
July meeting when it all occurred.
Dr. Bonner not only told The
Beaufort News about the increas
ed estimate for the budget, he pro
duced a copy of same and showed
the figures which had been chang
ed from the original presented at
the July meeting. He showed that
instoad of a saving of $247 as one
member had indicated that in re
ality there was an increase of ?2,-
350.
TOWN OFFICIAL
THANKS LADIES
T. Murray Thomas, City Clerk,
who made arrangements on behalf
of the Town of Beaufort to enter
tain the visiting soldiers at the
Community Center Square Dance
on Tuesday night stated today
that he is very grateful to the la
dies of Beaufort and Morehead
City who acted as hostesses, thu
making the event possible. Sev
eral hundred soldiers and young
ladies of the twin-cities enjoyed
dancing to the tunes of the New
port Square Dance band.
Not Adopted Yet
Irvia W. Davis, Register of
Deeds and Clerk to the Board of
Commissioners told The Beaufort
News in July that should the tenta
tive budget as re-arranged remain
unchanged or was not disapproved
by any citizen who had the priv
iWf. tn review same, that it would
be according to law, adopted at
the end of 30 days. The 30 days
have pac-scd, and that being the
ms?. r.nf would assume that since
the clerk made the statement that
the budget would be approved at
the first Monday meeting in Au
gust, following the tirst Monday
meeting in July when the tenta
tive budget estimate was first pre
sented and the several cnanges
were made.
Chairman Bonner told The
Rnnnfnrt. News that the budge:
could not become official until
Charley Johnson of the Local Gov
ernment Commission approved
same. When Clerk Davis was ap
proached again this week and ask
ed why he had given this, newspa
per the statement that the budget
would be adopted within 30 days if
See COUNTY BUDGET P 8
STRAIGHT DOPE
ON M. L. DAVIS
BUILDING HERE
Complete History
Of Matter Is
Presented
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200 Persons Now Employed At
U. S. MARINE MEWING
REPUBLICANS
ON OCRACOKE
HAD BIG TIME
Biggest Event Of
Its Kind Ever
Held There
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CHIEF PILOT Dave Driskill of
Ocracoke Transportation Co.'s
Aviation division was on Car
teret Coast this week to look
over new landing field sites.
With Corp. Gene Brown of the
U. S. Army and Capt. James R.
Morris of Atlantic the noted
Outer Banks pilot selected a po
tential landing field in Atlantic.
In pictures: Driskill with pas
sengers and his plane on Ocra
coke Landing Beach. (Photo by
Aycock Brown).
JOHN WILKINSON HAD
CHARGE CUINV.IN nun
To John Wilkinson of
Washington, president, of
the N. C. Young Republican
Forlpratinn ones the credit
for arranging the biggest
and most enjoyed Invitation
TVTooino-o nf the orcramzation
ever held in North Carolina.
Last weekend with promi
nent oril psts from all parts oi
the United States many mem-
Uur-a tho state oreamzauon con
vened for the weekend on Ocra
coke Island. About 75 persons
made the cruise over from ueinav-
en to the island and there tney
were joined by other Republicans
and a number ot uemocrais num
other sections and from Ocracoke
itself.
The cruise got off to a bad
See REPUBLICANS Page 8
Movie Stars Drop
Down On Ocracoke
For Flying Visit
Governor Broughton Going To
Visit Cape Hatteras, ! Island
" And National Seashore Park
Washington, D. C.
Covering The
Waterfront
B, AYCOCK BROWN
He Will Be First
Governor Going
To Island
FOOD FOB BRITAIN
In the headlines, lend-lease aid to
Britain is chiefly a story of planes,
tanks hin mms and munitions.
But these dramatic war supplies are
only one part of the picture.
An equally vital, though little
known, phase of this gigantic pro
gram is food.
Today, practically every ship
leaving U. S. shores for embattled
England carries stocks of food as
part of its cargo. Also significant
is the fact that this steady flow of
food shipments differs markedly
from thnao nf World war days.
Then the foodstuffs were in bulk
form boatloads of gram ana iresn
meats Rut now. with British and
Allied shipping suffering terrible de
struction, there aren't enougn uui
toms to transport both bulky arma
ments and bulky food across the
hazardous Atlantic,
cinn. v.o onrtm snace for bulky
armaments cannot be reduced, and
with the British food situation oe-
. is taeintf shipped
hunting atutc, j a. j
in concentrated and dehydrated
t in.... it la carried in the
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,orv, ,; orith arms and muni
nauis ,...1
! .!.:,. .,n relatively little
uuim, ian.uig "f -
Th" nf these shipments and
what they meant to the American
farmer is shown grapnicauy uj
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FIREMEN MAY RESIGN
A Beaufort fireman stated
today that he was informed
that the majority, perhaps
the entire Beaufort Fire De
partment may disband due to
the way the M. Leslie Davis
building matter was handled
by the Commissioners when
they over-rode the recom
mendations of Chief Juhus
F. Duncan.
Last week The Beaufort
News in a two paragraph
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orro nrnrflised to Sfive IUll
particulars conceiuiug
hi. Leslie Davis Building
i 171 4. nnrl fVoVPn StfeetS.
at rruiH aim
xt. a more utile w kh
-o.Vnlars than Julius
?. ZnclnrCWef of The Beaufort
Fire Department, statements num
full particular
about this matter. His statements
follow: . .. .
"At the regular meeting or
Fire Department in Augu.t, 1940,
thi. building wa. -discus. ed
fire hazard and wa. then called to
the attention of the bu.ld.ng .n
.pector.Mr. J. D. Brook.. Mr.
Brook, pre.ented copy of
offered Mr. Davi. for repair, but
he .tated at the time that Mr. Da
,i. did not avail him.elf of the op-
See STRAIGHT Page 8
Soldiers To Dance
I MUST HAVE the appearance
of being a damned crook. Wed
nesday afternoon a person came
Mw office to take out a three
months subscription to The Beau
fort News. I told her the advant
age of taking out a six months
subscription, thus saving 25 cents.
She accepted the proposition. Then
she said someone, (I was so mad
t ,n,l nnt hother to remember the
name) who had been to the Beau
fort Theatre during the afternoon
had sent word that she would give
E9in tn null her name out ot tne
Jack Pot. In the first place I only
officiate over the drawing, some
one in the audience actually pulls
the ticket; in the second place,
those tickets are turned a thousand
different ways in the wire drum
before it is opened and it is abso.
infold impossible for a person
picked at random to reach in and
grab a certain name; ana, m me
third nlace I ain't interested in no
such dishonest proposition; in the
fourth place regardless ot wnat l
look like I ain't no damned
crook and in the fifth place, I
make no apologies for my bad Eng
lish. A.B. ,
nN TUESDAY morning at Oc
racoke it was necessary to get up
at R o'clock to start making ar
rangements for departure on the
mailboat which leaves the island
at 7 o'clock. We left the island in
m faro nf a southwester and
were delayed at Portsmouth wait
ing for Mrs. Abner Dixon (who
had sprained or broken her arm in
See WATERFRONT, Page 8
Capt. Oscar Noe
Arranges Shower
Baths At Center
ri-i a rnerns plan
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TO ATitNU mttuum
Many people from Ocra
coke are planning to go to
Buxton August 25, to hear
Governor J. M. Broughton
t,; fii-cr visit, tn Hatteras
Island. Governor brougmon
will be driven the entire
length of the island oy omc
ials of The Hatteras Island
Association who will meet
him at Oregon Inlet.-
While many other prominent
officials are expected to attend
fViia mpetiner. the Governor will be
the honor guest of the Hatteras
people, and he is carrying out an
invitation accepted by him last
spring, when many Hatteras peo
ple called on him in Kaieign.
The entire population of Hat
See BROUGHTON Page 8
72nd F- A. Battalion
h mm Fort Bragg In
Beaufort This Week
From Fort Bragg on Monday
came the 72nd Field Artillery Bat
talion under the command of Ma
jor Otto E1H. for a three day train-
ig encampment at tseauion
munity Center. The Battalion left
on Wedne.day and anomer
talion from Fort Bragg i. expected
to arrive in Beaufort today. There
were about 500 men, mostly Se
lectees in the group here early
this week.
In the meantime Aycock Brown,
Editor of The Beaufort New. ha.
been informed by Capt. K. H. mat
tern, (CAC) Aide de Campe at
Camp Davi. Headquarter, that
soon troop, from that voasi
tillery Anti-Aircraft Training Cen
ter would avail themselves of the
opportunity to bring groups of
trainees in and around Beaufort
and to Fort Macon State Park on
similar detail, of .hort duration.
Contrary to the belief of some
persons locally, the troops are not
coming here for recreation, .
stead for the hard training of con
voy marching and field camping.
The Camp Davis outfit, will bring
their mobile gun unit, when they
.tart arriving.
TIDE TABLE
A we go to press today City
Clerk T. M. Thomas stated that on
Friday night there would be an
other dance at Community Center
honoring the 72nd F. A. B. which
arrived this afternoon.
Capt. Oscar ' Noe, champion
square dancer of Eastern North
Carolina, superintendent of Beau
fort Fisheries and an active work
er in every civic enterprise under
taken in Beaufort, has arranged
to place two shower baths at Com
munity Center for the use of visit
ing soldiers from Fort Bragg,
Camp Davis and other Army posts
who will be camping there on
training marches. This wtfs an
nounced this morning by Mrs.
Martha L. Lof tin, treasurer of the
Chamber of Commerce.
Information as to tha tide
at Beaufort is given in this
' column. The figures are ap-
proximately correct and are
t based on tables furnished by
t the U. S. Geodetic Survey,
f So meallowances must S
? made for variations in the
X wind and also with respect
f to the locality, thai is whett
X er near the inlet or at the
2 head of the estuaries.
HIGH L0W
(Daylight Saving Time)
Friday, Aug. 15
2:26 AM 8:47 AM
3:02 PM 9:43 PM
Saturday, Aug. 16
3:28 AM
3:58 PM
Sunday, Aug.
4:30 AM
4:58 PM
Monday, Aug.
AM
PM
Tuesday, Aug
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PM
Wedne.day, Aug
AM
R-;an Aherne and Joan Fon
taine (his charming wife) dropped
on Ocracoke Island aboard
their fine Fairchild Cabin plane
on Tuesday after being urged to
make the trip down the Outer
Banks via Cape Hatteras from
"Lost Colony" in Manteo where
they spent the weekend. Both
Aherne and Fontaine are very pop
ular movie .tars.
Of Ocracoke Island they said:
"It i. one of the mo.t attractive
.pot. we have ever vi.ited togeth
er." They did not merely land on
the beach and then take off again.
They .tayed for quite awhile and
visited the spots of interest from
the ancient lighthouse to tne How
ard graveyard and from "Black
beard's Castle" at Springers Point
to the Pamlico Inn and Wahab Vil
lage. The famous movie star, were
not only Impressed with the island
j u. r.nJt but also with the
vast hard packed beach, which at
the time their plane wa. there aiao
wa. providing a temporary stop
ping place for Dave Dri.kill's
"Taxi Plahe," and Dick Reynold",
large 3-motored Stinson.
Of the "Lost Colony" which the
movie stars told people in Manteo:
"Your production is truly mag.
nificent and we enjoyed it more
than any play we've seen in recent
years. Hollywood ha. noting on
your Lost Colony in scope and
brilliance," the noted actor .aid.
The Aherne. flew here from Bal
timore in their plane and sow the
variou. hstoric site, of Roanoke
I.land before leaving the following
day.
Cherry Point Base
To Give Work To
800 Very Soon
WORK ON R. R. SPUR
STARTED TUESDAY
Approximately 200 per
sons were engaged in prelim
inary work at the U. S. Ma
rine Airwing site at Cherry
Point on Wednesday morn
ing and a force of 600 to 800
are expected to be employed
there at a very early date, it
was indicated in New Bern
on Wednesday by officials
connected with the gigantic proj
ect. Commander E. W. C. Nice.
Resident Naval Officer in charge
of construction was reported to
have told the press that progress
so far has unquestionamy jusuiieu
the selection of the Cherry Point
site for the base. Excerpts from
a story in The New Bern Sun
Journal, close to the officials in
charge of construction follows:
Work on the link of railroad
connecting the camp site with tho
Atlantic anH Fast Carolina rail
road just beyond Havelock was be
gun Tuesday, says it. r. re
wards, president of the railroad.
The location of the road has been
selected with the aid of marine au
thorities. Construction, said Mr.
Edwards, will require about two
weeks. When it is completed ma-
tnvioio fnr fVie marine base will be
hauled to the camp site by the At
lantic and, East Carolina railroad.
That work which is under way
at the present time is more or less
preliminary. A construction head
quarters is being established, saya
the commander. It includes offices
for all the staff of naval officers
and contractors, a restaurant, first
aid station and all similar estab
lishments. It will be "quite an es
tablishment," said Commander
Nice, and will remain throughout
the period of the base construction
See AIRWING Page 8
U. S. Engineers Not
In Favor Of Bogue
Inlet Improvements
Despite the,fact that navigation
interests in the vicinity of Swans
boro, Morehead City and Beaufort
believe it would prove of great
benefit, U. S. Army Engineers
have advised Congress against un
dertaking the' improvement o
Bogue Inlet at this time, it was
announced this week. In the orig
inal U. S. E. D. Hearings for im
provements (which would hava
provided a depth of 12 feet) held
at Swansboro several months ago
the Beaufort and Morehead City
Chambers of Commerce represen
tatives and navigation interests In
Carteret were present to otter tes
timony relative to the proposed
improvements.
Landing Field For Planes
To Be Built In Atlantic
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10:56 AM
11:33 PM
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11:25 AM
12:23 PM
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7:27 PM 1:W
Thursday, Aug. 21
7:55 AM 1:57 AM
8:10 AM . 2:03 PM
7:10
Pilot Driskill And
Capt. Morris Talk
About Site
ATLANTIC IN LINE
FOR AIR MAIL ROUTE
The community of Atlan
tic, located at the end of the
pavement of U. S. Route 70,
about 30 miles east of Beau
fort, will soon have a landing
field for airplanes if present
plans of the Carteret Countv
Aviation Commission and
the Ocracoke Transportation
v's Aviation Division
carry through. When completed
for reception of planes, Atlantic
will be in line to be placed on the
proposed air mail route which wiil
Dro,it-ii!illv onerate between Nor
folk, Manteo, Hatteras, Ocracoke
and into the Beaufort-Morehead
City area.
On Wednesday, Chief Pilot Dave
Driskill of the Ocracoke Transpor
oHAn r.omoanv. with Corporal
Gene Brown of the U. S. Army's
First Observation Battalion drove
down to Atlantic from Beaufort's
Landing Field and looked
several sites in that section
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Capt. James R. Morris, prominent
citizen of the community. A va
cant field was spotted which Dris
kill believes will be ideal for the
natinn nf two runways up to 2,-
000 in length. The soil, according
to the noted Outer Banks pilot, is
hard and suitable for the creation
of a landing field.
Capt. James R. Morris assured
Pilot Driskill that the land would
be available for creating into a
landing field. The landing facili
ties proposed for Atlantic will
take up only a small portion of the
field on which it will be construct
ed Tha runwavs will be con
structed southwest and northeast!
and northwest and southeast, proD-
ably forming a cross or an u .
They will be about 200 feet wide.
This will not mean tnat tne resi
of the area, now unused, cannot
be used for other purposes. It
suitable for farming fields oi Con
or whatever would be grown there
may be planted in the field ex
cept on the runways.
Earl Taylor of the Carteret Avi
otinn f!rmmissinn who has been
largely responsible for the fine
little 3-runway airport at ceauion
intained and constructed
over is planning to visit Atlantic today
with I See LANUINU f Ituu rage, o
Notes of a New Yorker:
After all of George Jean Nathan's
work and strusgle for recognition,
his home burg. Fort Wayne, Ind..
erected a plaque to a movie gal
named Jane Peter (Carole Lom
bard) . . . Gary Cooper stands a
fine chance of copping the Academy
Award this time for his tip-top per
formance in "Sgt. York" . . . When
Gary was a studant at Grinnell CoL
lee, Iowa, he aprjed for member
ship in the dramatic socriy uwie
and was spurned because, they said,
he couldn't act . . . Back from
vacationing in the Catskills, a Broad
wayite enthused about the rural sec
tor .. . "So peaceful!" he raved.
"Every night you're lulled to sleep
by the chirping of crickets, the
croaking of frogs, and the ripple of
the borscht!" . . . New York is like
thic Tn the office building at 515
Madison Avenue the tenants include
the America First Committee ana
the R.A.F. Benevolent Society. v
Louis Fischer In his book recalls
r,no of Goebhels' auotes which is
probably choking Berlin's lyingest
midget by now: "wnoeyer ireai
with Bolshevism will end by being
devoured by it" . . . The gag in
Rumania, they tell you, goes this
way: "Ever since we joined tha
Axis we are getting food like Ger
many'searthquakes like Japan's,
and an army like Italy's!"
Comforting Thought for the Draft
ed: The Commander-in-Chief wants
thenxto stay In an arrny..camai9r
See WINCHELL Page 2
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