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llpLAN TO ATTEND J J AMERICAN f LEGION'S IT ILJflC' TRY GULF STREAM FISHING OFF CAPE LOOKOUT IS FINE SPORT CAR I LKt 1 OCTOBER 20-25 The Most Widely Read Newspaper Along The Central -olina Coast VOLUME XXIX NO. 38 BEAUFORT, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPT. 18,1941 PUBLISHED WEEKLY. MULLET LINE i STOCK BOOMS Morehead City Man S To Serve Again As President i ; Stock of the state-controll- ed Atlantic and North Caro lina railroad has increased in value from $5 to $40 per &hare during the past two years, under annual savings "of $71,683 effected in liqui dation, with the old "Mullet Line'' from Goldsboro to the ifoii now facing the brightest fu ture in its long history, it was an nounced in New Bern Monday at the annual meeting of stockhold ers by Harry M. Jacobs, of New, retiring secretary-treasurer. ' Committees were appointed to V. dispose of certain real estate prop- erty owned by the raillroad in the I -vicinity of where the old Atlantic , Hotel once stood in Morehead City. '' No reports were given at the New I Bern meeting relative to the dis- position of Camp Glenn property I although it has been reported un ' officially from other sources that i this would be the site where the !U, S. Navy would construct a base for small boats at an initial cost I 1 I 1 1 iU-,n J I Ol scveiiu I1UUULCU bnuusauu uu." lars. On varArmrifndiit,irtn of Gover nor Brouerhton. W. M. Webb, of I See MULLET LINE Page 8 Health Department i Making Surveys Of 1 Local Food Places 1 The Carteret County Health De partment is conducting a survey of cafes, restaurants, meat mar kets and other food handling es tablishment!. sanitarian of the North Carolina State Board of Health working in cooperation with the local department will visit 11 such places of business within the next several weeks. At this time no grades will be given, but the basis on which the grading is isjone will be explained. Consider ed in the grading are: Cleanliness lot building and equipment, method f garbage disposal, proper care of food milk supply, wash room fa ?' cilities, personal cleanliness of the employees, and numerous lesser f items. During October, and each month thereafter, it is expected that each location will be visited and graded. These grades will be published in ' this newspaper. Grades are given ' with the idea of indicating to those in charge of the food hand- is ling establishments ways in which their services may be improved I from the sanitary point of view for the benefit of the public. It i should be mentioned that the i Health Department has the power ' to close any place which is too un ; sanitary as to be considered a , menace to the public. It is hoped that this power will never be used. Washington, D. C. U. S. BASES IN AFRICA The public doesn't generally know it, though Nazi agents do, but the United State U very quietly and ef ficiently building up a series of stra tegic bases along the coast of Af rica to guard against a Nazi air putsch from Dakar to South Amer ica. First of these bases will be air dromes at Freetown, in the British colony of Sierra Leone, now being developed by Pan American Air ways on the airplane ferrying route to Egypt Second will be an important air drome in Liberia, the Afro-American colony just south of Freetown. Equally important will be a subma rine base in Liberia. The Liberian airdrome is now being built in co-operation with the Firestone Rubber company. Purpose of these bases is to take the place of the U. S. fleet in the Sou 111 Atlantic. Long ago, U. S. naval strategists figured they could reduce materially the number of U. S. warships around Hawaii and California, if there were enough big bombing planes on the Pacific island bases to patrol the Pacific. So now U. S. bombing planes op erating from the African coast will do the same thing for the South At lantic in order to guard against Nazi moves from Vichy - dominated Dakar. See MERRY-GO-ROUND Page 2 CARTERET NOT REPRESENTED AT ROAD MEET Despite the fact that civic lead ers of Beaufort and Morehead City had been notified of a meeting of the Colonial Roads Association in New Bern last Friday night, no representatives from Carteret County were present. The meeting of Colonial Roads Association was for the purpose of completing an organization which has as its ob jective the construction of a new short cut highway and bridges across the Neuse and Pamlico con necting East Craven and Carteret Counties with U. S. 17 at Ply mouth. Should the objective be realized, it would, for one thing shorten the distance between Beaufort-Morehead City and Nor folk, Va., some 40 to 60 miles. Announcement of the proposed meeting was given members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce in Beaufort, the Town Board of Com missioners of Beaufort and the Chamber of Commerce in More- head City. At a meeting of the Town Board here last Wednesday night, G. M. Paul, mayor pro.tem, and C. Z. Chappell were appointed delegates to attend the meeting. Late Friday both notified Mayor Huntley, after it was too late to, appoint other delegates, that they would be unable to attend, the meeting which was held in the of fice of B. C. McCotter in New Bern. The secretary of the asso ciation has notified The Beaufort News editor that every section to be served by the proposed highway and bridges had delegates present, including Wilmington, which is away from the immediate territory of the proposed road that is ev ery section was represented except Beaufort-Morehead City and Car teret which has much to gain from such a route. U. S. E. D. Hearing Held Here Today Representatives of navigation and fishing interests from Atlan tic, Sea Level, Harkers Island, Da vis, Beaufort and Morehead City presented evidence why Barden's Inlet should be widened and made deeper at a U. S. Engineer's Hearing conducted by Colonel Earl I. Brown, district engineer at Courthouse here today. Army Has Opening For Aviation Cadets The United States Army has ap proximately one thousand openings for Aviation Cadets for NON-PILOT training as aerial navigators for each of the October, November and December classes. This is a wonderful opportunity for men otherwise qualified but who can not meet visual acuity for pilot training, and for -men who can meet the qualifications for pilot training but are not interested in pilot training. Minimum visual ac uity required for navigator is only twenty over forty in both eyes, correctible to twenty over twenty with glasses. Full information and necessary blanks for making application for navigator may be had by visiting, writing Sgt. J. M. Pate, the Army Recruiting Station, Post Office Building, Raleigh, N. C. Junior Chamber Of Commerce Approves 20 New Members Twenty new members for Beau fort's Junior Chamber of Com merce organized here recently were approved on Monday night by the Board of Directors of the organization. During: the meeting there was a discussion about rooms in the lower price bracket for defense program workers seeking a place to live in Beaufort. The '.Taycees are anxious for all persons with rooms to rent in the See JUNIOR C OF C Page 8 Home Demonstration Club Council Meets Here Next Thursday The Carteret County Council of the Federation of Home Demon stration Clubs will have a very im portant meeting in the offices of Miss Margaret Clark, Home Agent next Thursday (Sept. 25) at 9:45 o'clock, it was announced today. All local club officers are urged to be present. Purpose of the meeting to make plans for Home Demonstration ac tivities during 1942. During the meeting Federation officers for 1942-43 will also be elected, it was announced. U. S. Navy Officer On Visit Here r vl ENSIGN ROBERT H. HILL, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Hugh Hill, vis ited his parents here last weekend He is attached to the U. S. S. Tex as, whichc was in Norfolk on the weekend. TARGET TOWING PLANES FLYING OVER BEAUFORT It has gotten to be a common sight to see planes, presumably from the U. S. Marine Airwing es tablished at Mitchell Field near New Bern, in maneuvers over Beaufort and Morehead City. Hardly a day passes that numbers of planes are in maneuvers over the coast, looping, diving and go ing through all sorts of training rerobatics. Occasionally there are planes towing targets while other ships in close pursuit practice div in gor other training made pos sible by the targets. It is no longer unusual, abo, to see planes of the Coast Guard base in Elizabeth City on patrol up and down the coast. Since the Presi dent's speech last week planes and ships on patrol have been given or ders to "shoot" when necessary so it is likely that many of the planes flying- over the coast daily now are loaded with "live" ammunition. COVERING THE WATERFRONT By AYCOCK BROWN THE HIGHWAY patrolman on duty at Cherry Point tells me about a guy from Virginia who u selling jobs on the Cunningham Field project to workers. His sys tem is something like this: $15 for a laborer or $25 for a skilled work er. Things like that going on up there is going to result in' some un favorable publicity for the project. The FBI in the vicinity would like to do something about it, one Pa trolmman told me but there is no law against it. The Patrolman would like to do something too but they are in the same boat there is no law against job selling. THE PATROLMEN did make the fellow buy a North Carolina license tag, which he paid for with a rubber check, but apparently he made the check' good. Seems to me that Congressman Barden and the Navy Department or Bureau of Aeronautics could think of a good way to get rid of guys going around selling jobs when the N. C. Employment .Service has been set up for that purpose, and have been doing a mighty good job here in the east where the work is carried on under the direction of W. C. Carleton. A TOWN OFFICIAL informed me that the owner of the building at the northeast corner of Front and Craven has a 90-day period from the meeting of the Board of Commissioners in August to make repairs. The proposed repairs meet with the approval of the Town Board but not with the law governing constru c t i o n work within the fire district. (My au thority for the latter part of the foregoing sentence is Fire Chief Duncan). While on the subject I would like to say, that if I was a betting man, I would bet any member of the Boai-d of Commis sioners in Beaufort two to one that the repairs or what ever it is tliej have Approved will not be com pleted within a 90-day period. We will see. ALSO WHILE ON the subject and for the benefit of those who read the letter, the one which bora the signatures of Charles and Oli ver Davis and appeared on our editorial page was not written by either of these young men. One man said that Oliver did not even See WATERFRONT Page 8 EARLY SWEETS WILL BE DUG IN FEW DAYS Bulk Of Carteret's Crop Harvest To Be Next Month 1,700 ACRES PLANTED IN COUNTY, THIS YEAR Carteret's sweet potato acreage this year is approxi mately 1,700 acres, accord ing to J. Y. Lassiter, Farm Agent, who stated today that a few of the earlier varieties will probably be harvested next week or in a short time. The main harvest, however, will not come until mid-October, when the sweet pota toes dug will be placed in curing houses that are located on many of the farms north and east of Beaufort. Shortening days and cooler nights which herald the arrival of fall harvest time for sweet pota toes, also heralds activity on the part of extension experts of N. C. State College. This was indicated in the announcement by Farm Agent Lassiter that arrangements have been made for two demon strations, under the supervision of experts from State College, to take place in Carteret County next month, probably during the week beginning October 20 ... A sweet potato story issued by State Col lege this week follows: Potatoes keep best when they are allowed to mature before har vesting and before 'frost kills the vines, according to Lewis P. Wat son, extension horticulturist of N. C. State College. If, the vines are killed by frost, they' should be re moved immediately and the pota- See EARLY SWEETS Page 8 WIDER RUNWAY AT AIRPORT IS - AID TO PLANES Widening of the 2,900 foot run way at the Beaufort-Morehead Cilv airoort in West Beaufort completed last week by Earl Tay lor, local aviation enthusiast has aided materially in improving the landing facilities there for visit ing planes. The runway which nreviouslv was about 115 feet wide now has a width of 165 feet. In the meantime Taylor is extend. ing the length of the n-w and s-e runway from about 1,500 feet to 2.000 feet. CAA-officials notified the B-MC Airport Authority's tentative sec retary-chairman Aycock Brown this week that soon they would have one of their engineers drop in at the local field to inspect the facilities after which, if it met with auxiliary field approvals, the 'port would be included in bulletins issued weekly to airmen. The CAA officials had been contacted with the thought in view,that an engi neer would be sent here, not only to inspect the field, but to make recommendations for its improve ments. TIDE TABLE Information as to the tide at Beaufort is given in this column. The figures are ap proximately correct and an based on tables furnished by the U. S. Geodetic Survey. So meallowances must Si made for variations in the X wind and also with respect Y to the locality, that is whetf; er near the inlet or at the Y head of the estuaries. .J5..-J55!-4!"5;"! Daylight Saving Time HIGH LOW Friday, Sept. 19 :25 :43 AM PM Saturday, Sept. 1:21 AM 1:38 PM 20 2:06 AM 2:27 PM 8:12 AM 8:28 PM Sunday, Sept. 21 8:57 AM 2:48 AM 9:16 PM Monday, Sept. 22 9:44 AM 3:32 AM 10:02 PM " 4:01 PM Tuesday, Sept. 23 10:33 AM 4:14 AM 10:51 PM 4:49 PM Wednesday, Sept. 24 11:24 AM 5:00 AM 11:43 PM 5:42 PM Thursday, Sept. 25 5:49 AM 12:16 PM 6:38 PM Urges Citizens To Attend Meeting I ' " 1 ' it Sir ' ' ! T ) ; V-H I i w ilifil MAYOR GEORGE W. Huntley has announced that there would be a mass meeting of citizens at City Hall on Friday night Septem ber 19, at 8 o'clock for the purpose of discussing the formation of a zoning commission tor Beaufort. All property owners and others interested are urged to attend. (Eubanks News Photo). NEW CITY TO BE BUILT ON RT. 24 A new city, or a housing project of 700 units, will be constructed by the Navy Department in the vicinitv of Piney Green on N. C. Route 24. Nine tracts of land have been taken in there in one area on which the city will be built. The housing project will house the married enlisted men and civilian employees of Marine Barracks when the permanent structures aro completed and occupied. Bids for furnishing the material for housing unit were opened Wednesday. the last Need For Harbor At Sea Level Is Increasing Daily Need for harbor improvements is increasing daily in the commun ity of Sea Level, and the resident there cannot understand why the improvements once promised were never made. It seems that there was some sort of agreement a few years ago that if the State of North Carolina would build a pav ed road into the community to the present harbor facilities, that the harbor would be improved as a WPA-project. The road was com pleted at a cost of several thou sand dollars but the waterway improvements were never made. Harold Taylor, prominent citi zen of the community has one of the most complete briefs ever pre sented at a hearing of the U. S. Engineers, explaining why the im provements should be made. This brief has been presented at hear ings a number of times, but so far the U.S.E.D. has not recom mended the improvements. In At lantic a harbor was created as a WPA-project when Capt. James R. Morris and associates' put up cash as sponsor's share. The Atlantic harbor has proved of much benefit to naviagtion interests and the fishing fleet that bases there dur ing certain intervals of the year. I Taylor has stated that while the residents of Sea Level cannot puf up the sponsor's share, that it wa See HARBOR Page 8 INVITE YDCs TO OCRACOKE ISLAND Wires from Wahab Howard, sec retary Ocracoke Chambjlf Com merce and from R. S. 4 ib, the island's most prominen' citizen, were 3ent this mornint, to the Young Democrats convening in Winston-Salem, inviting them to the island for a summer conven tion in 1942. i Treasury Official Visits C. G Units Along Oulr Banks Herbert E. Gaston, assistant sec retary of the U. S. Treasury and Mrs. Gaston ."uised aboard the C. G. Cutter ' . amlico" to the Outer Banks early this week. They visit ed several of the new Coast Guard units along the Banks, stopping for about 24 hours at Ocracoke Is land where Capt. Steve Basnight in charge of the Super-Station unit there was their host. They were accompanied to the island by Capt. R. I. Hudson, commander of the Pamlico. The party were shown over the island by Charles McWilliams and other islanders. Building In Vicinitv Ol Beaulort MASS MEETING City Hall, On Friday Night Sept. 19-8 P M. Citizens of Beaufort and its suburbs are urged to at tend a Mass Meeting at City Hall on Friday night, Sep tember 19, at 8 o'clock. Pur pose of the meeting is to dis cuss plans for zoning Beau fort and the creation of a zoning commission. Without proper zoning, Beaufort stands little chance to get any of the improvements which will be possible as re sult of national defense pro gram. If, on the other hand, Beaufort is properly zoned, there will be opportunities to get housing projects, utility improvements, such as sew ers and disposal plants and other things needed for the progress of Beaufort and its future. It is essential that persons owning availabe buil ding sites as well as property own ers be present at the meet ing. Stanley Woodland of Morehead City, who is one of the best informed men in Carteret County on town and city zoning, due to fact that he has talked with govern ment officials often relative to zoning plans, will be pres ent at the meeting to answer any questions relative to the proposal to formation of a Zoning Commission. Expect Marines At New River Marine Barracks Next Week Three hundred IJ. S. Marines have arrived at the New River Bar racks and are getting the tempor ary tented area of U. S. 17, south of Jacksonville ready for the re ception of approximately 6,000 more expected sometime during the coming week. The first detail arrived from Quantico. It has been reported that the additional men will be transferred from Paris Island and Quantico. The Onslow News and Reviews, semi-weekly newspaper published by Billy Arthur reported progress at the Marine Barracks, New River as follows: "Considering the number of persons employed and the accessi bility of materials, definitely good progress has been made on Marine Barracks . . . The temporary area is ready for occupancy ... In the Hadnott Points section roads are being constructed, and barracks erected with efficient and satis factory speed. "Everyone is apparently satis fied with the progress of con struction except folks who have gone to that section looking for a lot of work and unable to find same and those who have put up small places of business looking for "gravy" and they haven't got it either, according to the Onslow newspaper. , WALTER MOORE SENT TO MARINE HOSPITAL RESULT OF EXPLOSION Walter (Boo) Moore, formerly of Beaufort, is recovering at the U. S. Marine Hospital on Staten Island in New York Harbor from injuries suffered during an explo. sion on an oil tanker last Thurs day morning at 6 o'clock. He was engineer of the tanker. His injur ies were described as serious by Eldad Moore who sent the report home. Cecil Brooks Going To Greenland Bases Cecil C. Brooks, engineer aboard a ship is now enroute to Greenland where he will be stationed for three months. The vessel is pre sumably transporting supplies to the new U. S. Bases that have been established on the Danish protec torate. Mr. Brooks is a native of Beaufort and brother of George and John Brooks, well known local men. News of his departure for Greenland was sent The Beaufort News by Eldad Moore of 521 W. 122nd St., New York City, the port from which the vessel sailed on Tuesday. Underway New Homes Showing Growth Of Town And Suburbs TOWN'S POPULATION INCREASING STEADILY Since the 1940 Census was taken last year Beaufort's population has increased considerably, (10 percent would be a conservative esti mate) and this is reflected in the rentals of places to live plus the building activity in the vicinity of Beaufort and its suburbs. The population of Morehead City, likewise is in creasing daily. John Bridgers, well known real estate man of Morehead City told The Beaufort News on the week end that despite census figures that were given out last year he felt sure the population of More head City today was a minimum of 5,000 persons and that Beaufort and its suburbs woulld (should an other census be taken at this time) reveal a similar figure. John Crump, secretary of the Morehead City Chamber of Commerce re ported that a number of new homes were now under construction in the ocean port city, with plans for even larger housing projects to begin at early dates. In Beaufort vicinity one of the newest and most modern homes is that of the R. W. Safrits on At lantic road in the Highland Park section. The Safrits have just moved into their new home which See MUCH BUILDING P 8 GROUNDED SAILFISH ALMOST TAKEN BARE HANDED AT LOOKOUT Capt. Guy Lewis, master of the Gulf Stream fishing boat "Piggie" in town today from Cape Lookout reported that he, with the R. W. Bakers of Greensboro and other summer visitors ran a 9-foot sail fish ashore into shallow waters and almost caught it barehanded. The Beaufort News To Cooperate With Naval Recruiters An extensive recruiting cam paign with newspaper publisher cooperating throughout the United States will be launched immediate ly in Carteret County. The Beau fort News is one of many newspa pers In this State that will lend every effort through publicity, to the campaign. Although the cam paign does not get underway until next week, the Navy Editor of the Beaufort News has alrleady gotten some interesting data for distrib ution to young men seeking an in teresting life in the U. S. Navy. The Private Papers Of a Cub Reporter Eddie Dowling, the star of "Time of Your Life" and other plays, is an intimate of the President. Not long ago Eddie brought some Broad way entertainers to amuse White House guests. Among the stars was Giovanni, the delightful pickpocket . . . Giovanni, as almost any Broad wayfarer can assure you, is so good at his business he can remove your vest without your suspecting it ... At any rale, t'.ie President was vastly amused. He suggested that Giovanni get the gun from a White House guard's holster . But every time Giovanni approached the Secret Service man the latter backed away, savin?: "Nli-nh. Not me. please" Whan FDR later asked Dowling: "Did he get that guard's g-jn yet?" Eddie explained how the g-jnrd was hep to matters and wouldn't be sotrtable . . . "If you engaged him in conversation, Mr. President," suggested Eddie. "Giovanni would have his gun in four seconds!" . . . "Do you know," whispered Mr. Roosevelt, "that even the President of the United States hasn't the authority to get that man away from that door?" Secret service men have only one boss congress. u Way Historians Go Wrong Dep't: After the Roosevelt-Churchill meet ing at sea, one of the weekly news digests reported that FDR and Win s.nn met fn.r flw-T jot tftye See WINCHELL Page 2 11 1 jTji 'Hp
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