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r ft- j my A vt fi IP"! forwif security, too! i U L, Jl ii iliLs pir- The Most Widely Read Newspaper Tre Central Carolina Coast VOLUME XXXIII No. 38 10 PAGES THIS WEEK BEAUFORT, N. C THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. 1944 10 PAGES THIS WEEK PUBLISHED WEEKLY Beaufoii School Opens With Complete Faculty JBirthday Party For a 91-yr. Old celebrated her 91st birthday Sun- uay, orpiemuer suvciiwccui.ii a her home. In spite of bad weath er, seventy-two relatives and friends called to congratulate her and to enjoy the picnic dinner in htr honor. A decorated cake centered the long table which groaned beneath the weight of good things to eat. Mrs. Wallace has five sons all of whom live nearby: Mr. John Wal lace, Mr. Rone Wallace, Mr. Ruben Wallace, Mr. David Wallace, and Mr. Joe Wallace. Her daughter, Mrs. Rena Hall of Morehead City was also present together with -nany grandchildren and great "'.hildren. hoi dreh ered Yallace is in excellent .- he is very active in the loves to visit her chil .iu friends. She was show with tokens of love all of which she enjoyed. Enrollment Smaller Than for 1943-44 NEWPORT HAS GOOD OPENING OF SCHOOL HON. Enrollment of Nearly 400 Rev. L. D. Hayman's Church To Have New Building The Whiteville Methodist Church of which the Rev. L. D. Hayman is pastor this month voted to erect a new church building on a more central lot in the town as with the growth of the town, the mem bership has grown away from the location of the present church home. The new church is to cost not less than $50,000 ' and not more than $75,000. Mr. Charlie Hill Has An Accident ""On Monday evening Mr. Charlie Hill was fishing from a boat back of Davis Brothers Fish House when he tangled in a line and fell overboard. Loran Nelson rescued him. He had taken in some water but artificial respiration was ap plied, and he is reported today as being all right. " Novel by Daughter of Mr. Tuttle The baby daughter of the Rev. Rev. D. H. Tuttle, a much loved Methodist pastor here at the closo of the last century, has just writ ten a new novel which is being favorably reviewed: Wives of High Pasture by Worth Tuttle Hedden of Westcherster County, N. Y. Doubleday, Doran are pub lishers. Theme: "Looking on the bright side of what is known as complex marriage." Setting: an Oneida New York community in the 1850's. RATION BRIEFS GASOLINE . A-ll good through Nov. 8. SHOES No. 1 and 2 "Airplane" Stamps in Book III good indefinitely. SUGAR Stamps No. 30, 31, 32 and 33 Book IV, good for 5 pounds of su gar indefinitely. No. 40 good for 5 lbs. canning sugar through Feb ruary 28, 1945. CANNED GOODS Blue Stamps, Book IV, A-8 through L-5 good indefinitely. MEATS Red Stamps, Book IV, A-8 thru G-5 good indefinitely. FUEL OIL Period 4 and 5 coupons now valid for current season will re main valid throughout the coming heating year. Period 1 coupons for next season are now valid. NOTICE Every car owner must write his license number and State in advance on all gasoline coupons in his possession. Rent Control All persons renting, or offering for rent, any living quarters what sovere must register each dwell ing until with rent control office in their rent area. Persons who feel that they are being overcharged for rents may submit complaints to OP A. Complaint forms am av ailable at the local War Price and Rationing Board if your area iocs not have a rent control office. BLUE TOKENS Blue tokens will expire Oct. 1. School opened Monday morn ing with a teacher for every grade and an enrollment of of 78a com pared with 820 last year. Conspic uously absent were senior boys: 27 girls filed in but only 17 boys. "Keep your eye always on the mark" was the thought which the Rev. W. Stanley Potter left with the pupils in his talk at the form al opening of the 1944-45 year. His point was caned home in an introductory anecdote in which he described Grandfathers footsteps straits across the New Hamp shire field of snow, grandson's footprints circling this way ana that to reach the same destination. then grandfather's explanation of his straight course, "A straight pine stands high in the air at the point I want to reach; I keep my eye always on that pine." Mr. Leary announced that this is the third year of the transition period from 11 grades to 12 with one more year to go. This means no graduating class in 1946. The present 2nd year high school stu dents will be members of the first graduating class under the 12 year program. New teachers introduced were Mrs. Janie F. Garner, of New port, an ECTC graduate, who taught at White Oak last year and will have one of the second grades; Mrs. Harriet Morrison of Seattle, Washington, a Umversi ty of Washington girl who will have one of the fourth erades: Mrs. Geraldine MacDonatd. Ely ria, Ohio, a Boiling r-en Uni versity girl who has bi ,-iign-ed to the sixth grade; a.d ill's. D. W. Owens of Dallas. Texas, a North Texas Teachesr College product who has one of the tvo eighth grades. Mrs. Morrison and Mrs. MacDonald are liviner with the Pritchard Lewises and Mrs. Owens is with the Horace Lofting. Other teachers for the current year are first grade: Miss Mrytle Piver, Mrs. D. M. Fulcher; second grade: Mrs. Pearl Olund; third grade: Miss Susan Rumley, Miss Marjorie Lewis; fourth grade: Miss Lessie Arrington; fifth grade: Miss Edith Lewis, Misi Catherine Gaskill; sixth grade: Mrs. Elizabeth Woodard, Mrs. Nel lie Lewis Willis; seventh: Mrs. Florence Brooks, Miss Gertrude Styron; eighth: Mrs. Mildred Law rence: ninth: Miss Varina Way, Mrs. Ruby Simmons; tenth: Miss Gladys Chadwick, Mrs. Grace Fod rie; eleventh: Miss Marjorie Hum phrey, Miss Lena Duncan: Public School Music: Mrs. Virginia Has sell; Band Leader: Mr. Fred King. Other announcemetns had to do with fees, regulations. Prin cipal Leary emphasized that a 4 year average of 80 is required of high school students before the faculty recommends a student to a college or university as likely to succeed. School closed at noon on Mon day but beginning Tuesday and throughout the year, hours aie from 9 to 3:40 with a rainv day closing of 1:55 announcement of which is made by two blasts of the fire siren at 11 :45. CARTERET BOYS IN ffHE SERVICE Newport Consolidated School started Monday morning with a complete faculty and an enroll ment of nearly 400 students. High school students comirwr in from Cherry Point served to raise the enrollment in the uDDer grades above that of last year, but the class of senior boys is small est the school has known in many years. The Rev. John R. Poe of the Methodist Church formally open ed the year with devotionab, Mr. Pruitt welcomed the children and parents and made announcements necessary for the smooth wprking ol the school schedules. The following staff members were present to begin work: first grade, Mrs. M. O. Fink; first and second grade, Mrs. Essie Kramer; second grade, Mrs. Valverta Gar ner: third grade, Miss Pearl Tay lor; fourth grade, Miss Vein?. Chitty; fifth grade, Miss Mildred Taylor; sixth grade, Mis3 Julii Hill; seventh grade, Miss Fannie Robinson; eight grade (English, French, Library), Miss La Verns Cox; ninth grade (Home econ omics), Miss Harriet McDowell: tenth grade (agricutlture), Mr. C. S. Long; eleventh grade (his tory, physical education, Miss Grace Jones; new matron for teacherage, Mrs. Willis Davis of Beaufort. Pvt. Virgil H. Day, son of Mrs. Olivia Day of Lola, has just been graduated from radio school of the Army Air Forces Training Com mand, Scott Field, 111. He com pleted a course in radio opera tion and in radio mechanics. Day is an Atlantic High School aoy. 1st Lt. Hazel Morets. of Hick- r y, has been awarded we Air Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters "for meritorious service in aerial fight over enemy occupied Conti nental Europe." Mrs. Louise Bailey Moretz is making her home in Beaufort with her grandfather, Mr. W. L. Paul while Lt. Moretz is abroad. John L. Salter, water tender, 2nd class, USCG, of Atlantic, is at the Coast Guard Training Sta tion, Manhattan Beach, N. Y. awaiting reassignment after 31 months aboard a Coast Guard manned invasion transport in thj South Pacific. Pfc. Alec Erickson. USA, and Pvt. Julius Erickson. USA, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Alec Erickson. Queen Street, have the good luck to be stationed in New Guinea so near one another that every few- days they are able to get together at the Red Cross, see a show to gether, or eat together. SHIP HATTERAS Oil ERRAND OF MERCY TO STORM STRICKENBAIIKS Water Delivered to Ocracoke Today R. C. and Health Officials Survey Other Needs Haxhers Heard Island Battles In Court Today Funeral For Father Of Mrs. Elva Safrit Wednesday at 3 P. M. Prisoner of War Car tons. This supplements correspond ence concerning prisoner of war cartons furnished by the Red Cross to next of kin for Ameri can prisoners of war. We have learned that postal authorities in some cities will not accent tnese cartons if the outside girth and length exceed 42 inches with the paper wrapping thereon. Thp nnstal authorities in Wash ington surest that the next "ofl5 Mr andMrs. "Bernie Willis, kin be informed thta it is not nec essary to wrap these cartons. The extra length above 42 inches can be eliminated if cartons arc securely tied with strong cord. Long Island Figs We recall that a fig tree in New York was once sufficient occa sion to inspire a story by The New Yorker's Reporter at Large" which makes it seem important that we pass o to our readers the story of Van A. Potter's 10 year old fig orchard (two trees) in Rockville Center, Long Island. Van writes that each fall he piles leaves around the roots and if nights are cool, he ties mosquito netting over the whole bush. For ten years he says he has not fail ed to enjoy figs once! Servicing of Electrical Goods Kernie Smith, Norfolk, has come to Beaufort to set up an in dependent service department for all "refrigerators, washing ma chines, and other electrical ap pliances. He can be reached through any dealer in electrical appliances in the C unty. MARRIAGE LICENSE Leo. W. Adler Jr.. Cleveland, Ohio, to Julia L. Taylor, Cleveland. Wayne Marker, Doster, Mich to Lucy C. State, Kalamazo, Mich Fred H. Lorenz Jr., Lee's Sum mit, Md., to Pauline F. LaCroix, Shereport, La. Edwin G. Meadors. Modesto, Calif, to Betty J. Rhoten, Modesto, Calif. BEAUFORT BABY MEETS DADDY ..was .tfife,' WHEN PEACE COMES The day peace is declared Ann St., Methodist church will be open all daj for Prayer and a special service will be held at 8 P. M. Sgt. George Herbert, Jr recently reunited with his the former Grace Alice Soringle of Beaufort and met his young daughter Lily Grace after serving in the Pacific since the summer of 1942. Of the reunion. The Detroit Community News wrote,: The eternity through which the average father has expectant ly paced the hospital corridor i a mere flicker of an eyelash to Sgt. George Herbert, Jr., who last week had his first glimpse of his 18-months old daughter. "Lifting her into my arms was one of the greatest experiences of my life," said Sgt. Herbert, vet eran jungle fighter recently re turned from the South Pacific. "In 1942 a few months after he married Grace Alice Springle, Herbert left the states for New Zealand. "The hostoric landing on Gaud alcanal was made exactly nine months after Pearl Harbor, or. August 1, 1942. All that is relat ed in Gaudalcanal Diary is true, for the author was there with us, and described our experiences ac curately," said Herbert. "Over a captured Japanese ra dio set, we plead for help, but when no reports came through to indicate that our pleas had been heard, we thought the rest of the world had forgotten us. We were bombed during the day and shell ed it night. Jap snipers and un friendly natives were nuciferous, yet morale couldnt have beeii better. A 16 -year old with us was one of the bravest." Mrs. Herbert and her daughter made her home with the M. F. Springles during Sgt. Herbert's, absence. Cecil Truitt, Jr.. USN. is tioned at Camp Peary, Va., his boot training. sta-for Aviation Cadet Jarvis Herring, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Herring, of Morehead City, formerly of Beaufort, has reported at Carls bad, New Mexico,' ' Ai my Aia" field for 18-weeks of advanced iieht training in high-level bombardier ing and dead-reckoning naviga tion. On graduation he will be a warded silver bombadiers wines and will be ready for active duty as an officer in the Arinv Air Forces. The recently recommissioned N. C. HATTERAS left Morehead City Wednesday morning for Hatteras on an errand of mercy carrying 2,000 gallons of drinking water and other supplies; Red Cross Disaster Relief workers from the Atlanta office; Dr. C. P. Stevick, State Board of Health, Raleigh; Mr. Hubbard, State Board of Health, Raleigh; N. M Caldwell, Director of Shell Fish Sanitation, State Board of Health. Morehead City. More than two thirds of the property of the outer banks is said to have been destroyed by the storm of last week. Reports com ing in are increasingly serious. Hundreds have been sleeping in makeshift rooms of houses some which are said to have been blown as much as half a mile from their original foundations. At Hatteras 150 were reported homeless. Wa ter in all those communities col lects in cisterns which were flood ed and became brackish. The 700 foot well of the Ice Company at at Hatteras furnishes suitable water for ice but not for drink ing purposes. Henry J. Faison, 87, of Faison, died at 1:30 Tuesday afternoon at his home. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at three o'clock from the Presbyterian Church in Faison of which he was member, and interment was in the Faison cemetery. Surviving are his wile; one son: Dr. Elias S. Faison, Charles ton, S. C; two daughters :.Mrs. K. O. Bugwin, Wilmington, and Mrs. R. W. Safrit, Jr., Beaufort; one -brother, two sisters, and sev en grandchildren. Mr. Faison visited Beaufort! many times and made a special! place for himself in the hearts of people here by his participation in the Sa frit's Christmas celebrations. Kinsman vs Kinsman Friend vs Friend Old Thomas Farm Changes Hands Turner Street, have received word that their son Robert Willis, S lc, USN, has landed safely in England.' Joseph House Jr., USN Bainbridge, Md. for his training. is at boot William Earl Guthrie, USN, son of Robert Guthrie, Live Oak Street, is having his boot train ing at Bainbridge, Md. Howard Hunnings, seaman, third class, USN, and tSacy Hun nings S 2-c PSN. sons of Mr. and Mrs. Mac Hunnings, Gordon St., are at home on leave. Howard ha been serving on a destroyer in the Pacific and Stacy on an LCI in the Atlantic. It is the first time that the brothers have been to gether in two years. James, an other brother, has been in the pacific since 1942 with the Quai termaster corps. Sidney Thomas Richmoni, USA Nursing Corps was seriously in jured in a fall in India on Sep tember 7 according to a message from the Adjutant General, War Department, received by her par ents, the Sam Thomases of 114 Ann Street. Math Chaplain, CM 3c, Sea Bee? son of Mr. John Chaplain, Sr., Mulberry Street, arrived Sunday morning to spend a 30-day fur lough with his family. Math has been on duty in the British Isles for the past 22 months. Lt. Edward Potter, USN, lei! yesterday for San Diego from which point he expects to enter service, abroad. Mrs. Teel Attacked In Home Tues. Aft. Woodrow Wilson, white, a resi dent of the New Born Road, en tered the home of the Moses Teels while she was away Tuesday af ternoon by cutting the screan of the front door and unlatching it. He hid behind the bedroom door andw hen she came in is al'.eeed to have knocked her down. She screamed, neighbors came to the rescue, and he made an attempt to escape but was apprehended. He is in Raleigh at the presentt imo but will be given a hearing upon his return. Mrs. Teel suffered . from bruises and sliock but her condi tion is not serious. On Tuesday the U. S. Navy sent 50 new 55 gallon steel barrels and 52 live gallon cans from Norfolk which reached Morehead City a round eis;ht o'clock in the evening. The HATTERAS was loaded with aa many containers of water as it was safe to carry and other sup plies that were reported to be needed and left at four Wednes day morning. Ocracoke was also hard hit with the highest tide in the mem ory of the oldest citizens. The village was reported to have been supplied with water by the Navy and to have been helped by rains during the wek, but word had been received of another acute short age and according to Captain John Nelson, State Fisheries Com missioner, the HATTERAS was to return from Hatteras, reload and go immediately to Ocracoke. Captain Nelson, however, re ports that a message has been re ceived from the HATTERAS this morning that the situation has been cleared at Hatteras but is acute at Ocracoke so the water was delivered to Ocracoke this morn ing. While at Ocracoke the Red Cross workers wil make a survey of needs and Captain Nelson says that, if necessary, the HATTER AS will make another .trip to sup ply such needs. 3 P. M. Today Captain Nelson just reported that the condition at Rodanthe was reported as S3 ser ious that the HATTERAS has tak her load of water to the people there. She will return tomorrow to make as many cruises as nec cssary to relieve the stricken people. The old 200 odd acre Muray Thomas farm and home on the North River Road was sold this week to Hugh B. Mills, real estate man of New Bern for $10,000. Mills is reported to have resold i; to Hugh Swann, Pamlico County, who intends to farm it. The farm, originally purhcased by t. U. Pitt, produce dealer ot Norfolk, has been farmed by Will Savage who with his wife ha made his home there. Mr. Pitt has been in ill health for some time and hospitalized for the past four or five years. Technical Analyst of S. S. Board Here Miss Marcelle Clarke of Wash ington, D. C, technical analyst for the Social Security Board has been in Carteret for the past ten days making an administrative review of activities of our Wel fare Department under the super- intendency of Mrs. George Hen derson. I'iss Clarke has been reviewing administrative activities of tht counties of the state for the past two years but (Jarteret was in cluded for the first time in her September review of Coastal counties. LT. UP HAM WOUNDED Lt. William H. Upham, Jr., of Mansfield, Wisconsin, had a part in the invasion of France. He was struck by shrapnel and is now be ing hospitalized in France. Lt. Upham has many friends here made on visits with his aunt, Mrs. C. L. Duncan of Front Street. BROTHER-IN-LAW OF MRS. C. L. DUNCAN DIES IN WISCONSIN Tuesday was Harkers Island Day in Recorder's Court. One Beaufort girl (white) fail ed to take systematic treatment for gonorrhea, was ordered to the Rapid Treatment Center at Char lotte. The case was disposed of in short order and the rest of the morning belonged to Harkers Is land, Two big fights were heard Islanders against Islanders in which no part of the mainland of these United States was involved. Septuagenarian Lafayette Jones Better known as Fate, charged his neighbors, Mrs. M. A. Guthrie (his wife's sister), Irene Dixon (his wife's niece), and Richard Guthrie (his wife's nephew), with assault last Friday, and they in turn charged Fate, Ernest Da vis (Fate's son-in-law), Ernest's wife, and Marvin Guthrie, Ernest's stepson, with assault The real cause seemed to be an old feud over land, but the match that set the tinder ablaze last week was Fate's plan to move his hog pen to higher ground which ac cording to niece Irene was too near her kithcen window. Fate testified to a battle ensuing in which tin cans, bricks, and bot tles were used for ammunition. "I , forbid them on my land, but they cum anyways" and according to his story, they tore the pen to pieces and "stomped" on the wire. Ernest Davis said he got in on it when his stepson came to him saying that they were about to knock his mother with a stick, and when he appeared Richard be gan cussing his (Davis') mother twenty years dead. Mrs. Guthrie, Mrs. Dixon's aged j mother was reported to have be gun to moan, "I'm goin' crazy" I and joined the fray. According to her daughter she was knocked out and taken from the field as one of the opponents caled out "G. D her if the old witch ain't dead stomp her." Mrs. Dixon re ported that her mother was un conscious for three hours. Judg ing from testimony, invective was exchanged during the fray that would burn the front page off this paper if quoted. Finally with out seeming to have accomplish ed much, each side retired, no one was hurt except Mrs. Guth rie, the pen never got up. Judge Webb rolled his eyes up ward solemnly for a moment as if trying to contact Solomon, found all parties guilty with the excep tion of the aged Mrs. Guthrie who with blood pressure of 190 (daugh ter's report), extreme deafness and general feebleness was scarce ly an opponent who could have in flicted much damage to. the oth er side. Continued prayer for judgment on condition of e-ood behavior of all parties for two years and payment of consolidat ed costs of $37.50. Hearing of the second figh; was necessarily incomplete for lack of witnesses for the defendants. Rather than have the eight or ten ' See FEUDING Page 10 BIRTHS AND DEATHS FOR AUGUST, 1944 WHITE Townhip: Birth Deaths Beauofrt 1 7 Cedar Island No Report Harkers Is. 2 4 Harlowo 0 0 Hunting Quarter Atlantic No Rewrr Davis 0 1 Stacy 0 0 Marshallbeny 0 0 Merrimon 0 0 Morehead City 24 10 Newport 5 1 Straits 1 0 ' Total 33 3 Yr. Total 324 ' 1 ' 01 COLORED Beaufort 4 Harlowe 0 . Merrimon 1 J Morehead City i 0 Newport . 0 0 .Total - Yr. Total 41 25 Mr. H. G. Hambright of Mans field, Wisconsin, died suddenly at his home' last month. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Grace M. Ham bright, sister of Mrs. C L.. Dun can of Beaufort, one son by a former wife, and one daughter, Grace, who is with her mother in Mansfield. LINEMAN INJURED Harry Morgan of Wilmington, lineman for the Tide- Water Pow er Power Company, had a narrow escape Monday evening around seven o'clock when "nis hooks cut out," and he fell from a pole . front of our bus station. He was working on a transformer "it the time. Very fortunately he fell on tho grass rather than the cement. A Tidewater truck took him to Morehead City Hospital. No bones were broken, and he was returned to his room at the Davis House. Turner Street. He wf.-j painfully sore for several days but was able to report for duty this morning. PROMINENT M. C. MAN DIES IN WILSON Foy Edwards, prominent tobac co man, a native of Morehead City, died suddenly Wednesday evening in a Wilson; Hotel from a Heart attack. . TIDE TABLE Information as to the tide at Beaufort is given in this column. The figures are ap proximately correct and ura based on tables furnished by the U. S. Geod3tic Survey. Some allowances nviu be made for variuti. - !; '' wind and also with rttmcx to the locality, that is v, heth er near the inlet or at tlw head of the estuaries. HIGH LO. 11:55 Friday, AM. Sept. 22 5:36 6:18 Saturday, Sept. 23 12:11 12:40 12:58 1:27 1:53 2:27 2:58 3:33 4:10 4:43 5:17 5:46 AM. PM. Sunday, Sept. AM. PM. 6:14 7:04 24 6:58 8:00 AM. PM. AM. PM. AM. PM. Monday, Sept. 25 AM. 7:55 AM. PM. 9:04 PM. Tuesday, Seut. 26 AM. 9:03 AM. PM. 10:12 PM. Wednesday, Sept. 27 AM. 10:16 AM. PM. 11:16 PM. Thursday, Sept. 28 AM. 11:26 AM. PM. .- 1 an rum step ttera turns led. over ' and -ie
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