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CARTERET COUNTY 10c , Astronomical Data Sun Seti Today 7:25 p.m. Sub Rises Tomorrow 5 a.m. Moon Sets Tonight 7:46 p.m. Moon Rises Tomorrow 5:30 a.m. A Merger of THE BEAUFC3T KEWS (Established 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Established 1936) PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND TRIDAYk) 38th YEAR NO. 15. BEAUFORT AND MOREHEAD CITY, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1948 .. Parade Will Precede All - Star Game 2-Month Dental Program ys State Dentist, Dr. A. D. Un derwood, Inspects 550 Children The dental program of the Car teret county health department, be gun Monday, May 3, was completed Friday, Dr. N. Thomas Ennctt, county health officer, announced today. The program was conducted in the county for children between the ages of 6 and 12 inclusive who could not efford service of a pri vate dentist. There was no colored dentist this year, just as there had been no white dentist for the past three years, due to the acute shortage of dental practitioners. The dentist in the recent county program was Dr. A. D. Underwood. A report of his activities, conv pilod by the health department, follows: The total number of schools worked in were seven; total num ber of children inspected, 550; to tal number of children treated, 448; total number of return pa tients, 58; total number of 'child ren recrred to a local dentist for treatment, 173. The amount and class of treat ment was itemized as follows: Number of amalgam fillings, 206; number of cement fillings, 159; number of silver nitrate treatments, 827; number of teeth extracted, 172; number of child ren who had their teeth cleaned, 451; number of miscellaneous treatments, 128. The total number of operations, broken down in the above para graph, was 1,943. Other figures released .. by the county health department were: number of lectures on oral hy giene, 19; total attendance at lec tures, 666; number of teeth ex tracted that were six year molars, 9; number of teeth filled that were six years molars, 97; total number who were repeaters (children in one grade more than a year), 125; total number who were pre-echool, 30. Carteret Post 99 Installs Officers At the regular meeting of Ame rican Legion Post 99, Friday July 2. new officers were installed by Floyd Chadwick, Division Comman der. AH past Commanders of Post 99 were requested to contact Roy Eu banks regarding a series of pictures he is arranging for the Legion Hut and plans were started toward ini tiation of a series of meetings in the Harkers Island (tad Marshall-berg-Straits sections. New officers are David Hill, com mander, Marcus Mason, first vice commander, Robert Jones, second vice commander, and Boyd Talbert, third vice commander. ! Special vice commanders who were installed are Henrv Davis, Harker's Island, and Luke Hill, Marshallberg, Otway, Bettie and Straits' section. , Other officers ate C. L. Beam, finance officer, R. H. Hill, child welfare chairman, and P. A. Lewis, adjutant , Local Coast Guardsman Heads Recruiting Drive Chief Charles N. Fulcher, , of Beaufort, has been assigned to re-, cruiting in. the fifth Coast Guard District, headquarters at Norfolk, and is spending his first two weeks in Carteret county. , While in his home county, Chief Fulcher will , headquarter at the postofficcs In Beaufort and More . head City. He will also visit each community in the county. , Army Revives Hostels ' HEIDELBERG - (AP) Ger many's famed youth hostels, abc . lished by the Nazis, are being revi ved under U. S. Army auspices. Chi ins of hostels, a one-day's hike apart, were located throughout Germany in the pre-Hitler era. They were meeting places for the youth of Germany and ether coun tries. The Nazis abolished them because the resulting , exchanges of ideas and experiences was con sidered detrimental to Nazism. Dr. Hugh Thompson will be at the New Bern health center at noon today for the monthly ortho pedic clinic. - Preceding the Tidewater League all-star, game at Beaufort ball park tomorrow afternoon, there will be a parade through Beaufort start ing promptly at 12:30 p.m. from the turntable on Front street. Leading the parade will be Miss Vida Lee Mason, queen of the Tide- Hi.;" ZJ Miss Vida Lee Mason water League, who will ride in a convertible with D. H. Lashley. president of the league, and other official?. The all-stars of each individual team will be in a convertible of their own and .will have pennants lesignating their team in front of the car. Miss Mason will throw out the first ball of the all-star grime, which will begin at 2:30 p.m. English Ketch StopsatireW On 7ay tb Canada A blue ketch with broad white sails weighed anchor at Morehead City Friday and with a "Cheerio!" from it's English skipper, H. H. R. Etheridge, continued on its way to Canada. The Grabe, as the ketch is nam ed, is on the last lap of a journey from Fowey, England. Since leaving the chill waters 'of the British Isles, its prow has nosed into harbor's of France, Spain, Portugal, North Africa, the Canary Islands, the Barbados, and just be fore Morehead City, Charleston, S. C. ,: ' "That was the first port we real ly felt sorry about leaving," de clared Mr, Etheridge in his re fined, typical English accent. "I had heard and read all about the Southern hospitality in this coun try, but that was the first time I had ever experienced it . . . and it's being repeated here," he add ed, referring to Morehead City. Traveling with Mr. Etheridge were Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Turner. The three plan to settle for a short while in Canada, in the Lake Superior region. i Mr. Etheridge, who 'is a free lance artist . and writer plans to write of his experiences on the Grabe for England's two leading yachting magazines, Yachting World and Yachting Monthly. .His sea experience1 was gained in England's merchant marine. Both he and Mr. Turner served in Great Britain's armed forces dur ing the recent war. " Mr. Etheridge has had a varied crew since he set sail from home. "Two chaps" who served as crew during the Grabe's 24-day .trio a cross the Atlantic ocean which was very uneventful, said the skipper left the ketch in the West indies, and then the Turners came aboard at Trinidad. The southern route across the Atlantic was ' followed, said Mr. Etheridge, because as mariners know, there's always a stiff "fol See KETCH Page . ' Woman's College Marine School to Hose July 17 ., Two weeks remain in the Wom an's College Marine school course conducted at Beaufort by Dr. Ar chie D. Shaftesbury, professor of zoology, Woman's college, Greens boro Classes end July 17. Six students and an assistant are studying here this summer. They are Virginia Ayers, Rachel Mc Cormlck, both of Fayetteville, Patsy Fowler, Durham, Claire Mc Call, Charlotte, Janice McFalls, Greensboro, Barbara Moore, Tar-: boro, and Terry Nesslinger, Staten Island, N."Y.""-- :: x,. .iu.v-v The; specialized studies are on invertebrates and marine zoology. JCs to Collect Rags.VastePaper Drives Scheduled Every 60 Days, First One Will Be July 25 To obtain funds for the civic betterment of Morehead City the Junior Chamber of Commerce will collect waste paper and rags Sun collect and sell waste paper and rags Sunday afternoon, July 25. The Jaycecs plan to make this collection every 60 days, with pro reeds from the sale earmarked to finance the Junior Chambers pro gram for the year. "Making a market" for waste paper and rags will also aid in cleaning up the city, Kenneth Wagner, chairman of the program said, and will help dispose of fire hazards in homes and places of business. Residents are requested to tir the paper into bundles not over 100 pounds each. Magazines, news papers, cardboard containers, etc., may be bundled all together. 11 is requested only that the rags be separated from paper. These bundles should be placed on the curb in front of homes by 1:30 Sunday afternoon. They will be collected with trucks loaned by the Whiteway laundry and Clyde Jones Gas and Appliance com pany. Jaycees working on Mr. Wag ner's committee are Bernard Leary, S. A. Chalk, Jr., W. B. Chalk, Floyd Chadwick, Jr., Ethan p-jvis, Walter Morris, Marion Mills, Bruce Goodwin, and Henry White. The rags and paper will be sold to Southern Felt, Morehead City. This mill, expected to go into op eration in August, uses rags and paper in turning but asphalt shing., les. . Two Accidents ..i Delay Mail Trains Two train accidents on the At lantic and East Carolina line near Newport Thursday night and Fri day afternoon resulted in only slight damage to the trains, but deliveries here were delayed about four hours. ; , The mail was brought by truck to Morehead City, the truck, used in case of emergency, being opera ted by the railroad. On Thursday night the west bound passenger and mail train enroute to Morehead City, jumped the track just above Newport but no cars were overturned. There were no injuries involved in either wreck. Friday afternoon's wreck oc curred not far from the scene of the wreck on the night before and nine cars wert thrown across the right of way. This tie-up blocked all rail traffic to Morehead City. The more serious damage was done by the second wreck. " First boat building shop of the late John F. Bell which devel oped into one of the chief industries of the city. When the busi ness outgrew this building It was converted into a machine shop. - By F,VC Salisbury '-' I about the center of Evans street , Older residents of the city will; at this point. Entrance to the recognize mis picture as tnat oi the building built by the late John F. Bell and C. M. Wade as a work shop for boat building. Later, as the sign on the building indicates, the concern was operated under the name of ; Bell-Wallace Com pany, continuing, under that name until taken over by the Morehead City Yacht Basin; - When this building was first erected It stood . about where the City Hall now stands. At that time before the seawall waa built, the waters of the sound came up to New Director III JiPsIi' v: Jills Jill Paul E. Mitchell, above, was recently appointed director of Morehead City Technical insti tute. He succeeds Howard W. Jones who has accepted a pois tion with a Raleigh engineering firm. Mr. Mitchell is a native of Carrollton, Ky. New President To Begin Term In1 Rotary Club With tonight's meeting B. J. May will begin his term of office as president of Beaufort Rotary club. He succeeds R. M. Williams. Officers who will be installed to night at the regular weekly meet ing at the Inlet Inn are Mr. May, Dr. N. Thomas Ennett, vice president, Dr. W. L. Woodard, secretary-treasurer, and the board of Imton. ' V ""'Besides the of fitters, members of the board of directors are D. F. Merrill, David Jones, Orville Gas kill, and Mr. Williams, retiring president. ' ' Members of the cfub's commit tees as announced by Mr. May, are as follows: aims and objects com mittee, Mr. May,- Dr. Woodard, James Davis, N. F. Cure, the Rev. T. R. Jenkins, and the Rev. W. Y. Stewart. Heading the club service com mittee is Mr. Davis, and serving with him are the following: Alonza Willis, classification chairman, Or ville Gaskill, membership chair man, Rev. Mr. Jenkins, program chairman, John Steed, fellowship chairman, Dr. Woodard, Rotary in formation, Calvin Jones, public in formation, N. F. Eure, magazine See PRESIDENT Page 6 Two Carteret Connlians Enlist in Army Air Force Two Careret county men enlist ed recently in the United States Army Air force for three years at the recruiting station, New Bern. They are Kenneth D. McCain, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Garner, route 4, New Bern and Ronald E. Mason, son of Mr, and Mrs. Earl Mason, 301 Turner street, Beaufort. -a ill1' S -i building waa reached over a wood en rtmwav ' "vw After the seawall was built and the lots along the waterfront were fUled in, the building was moved southward on the corner lot at 8th and Shepard, streets. Follow ing removal of the Bell Wallace company to the present location of the shipyard, the building was occupied by the Jate Will Wade as a machine shop and later by W. T. "Bud" Davis, .6 was the last oc cupant of the building when it was condemned k.j ton down. I Two Carteret County Youngsters Stricken With Infantile Paralysis Two Carteret county children on Saturday were reported the victims of infantile paralysis, aft er they were sent to James Walker Memorial hospital in Wilmington for diagnosis. The cases first came to the attention of county health authorities Saturday. The two stricken children are Jean Chadwick. 8, dauughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. G. Chadwick, of Highland Park, and Jasper Law rence, 5, son of Mrs. J. B. Gould, of 2009 Fisher street, Morehead City. The Chadwick girl apparently had polio symptoms for 10 days, and when the family physician, JJr. Luther Fulcher, of Highland Tark, made an examination, he sent her to the Wilmington hos pital Friday for further diagnosis. The hospital notified the girl's family Saturday by wire that Dr. Fulcher's suspicions werp con firmed. Both of Jean's legs are affected. Dr. Fulcher was also the physic ian who sent the Lawrence boy to the Wilmington hospital. Polio symptoms were first noticed Thursday and the boy went to Wilmington Friday. He is strick en in his left arm. Confirmation of Dr. Fulcher's diagnosis also came by wire Saturday. Quarantine Imposed Dr. N. Thomas Ennett, county health officer, stated yesterday that both homes have been placed under 14-day quarantines, stipu lated by state regulations. The health officer, in a state ment to the News-Times yester day, reported that the local office had telephoned the state board of health for advice, and in addition called a meeting of local doctors to discuss the situation Saturday. - Attending the meeting were Doctors K. P. B Bonner, chair maa a thf' totel board ci bealUf; J. W. Morris, president of the Car teret County Medical society; S W. Thompson, M. B. Morey, Theo dore Salter, members of the Pub lic Health Relations committee of the local medical society; and S. W. Hatcher,, pediatrician. The doctors decided that the only action that can be taken at present is to have every child that becomes ill seen promptly by a physician and to give hospitaliza tion and complete medical care for all cases. This course of action was decided upon because there is no known effective ' preventive program for infantile paralysis. It was thought early Saturday that the movements of children under 16 would be restricted, but in their conference the doctors de cided no restrictions would be placed upon the people at present except, for the enforcement of the state quarantine regulation in homes where there are polio cases. Warnings Given In, regard to prevention of polio, the statement from the health of fice said: ''Since most authorities believe that flies may carry the disease from human discharge, very much as flies carry typhoid fever, it was the opinion of the doctors In the meeting that insani tary privies should be considered e, source of danger. It was sug gested that those who use privies should use some sort of germicide such as chlorinated lime or weak solution of creosol 'or lysol; and of course screening is desirable, especially where there is a case of polio or any undiagnosed ill ness in the family." Dr. Ennett added that the pub lic should not swim in water that is cold nor swim so long that fatigue sets in. In any case, the doctors urged early treatment and that physic ians be called promptly. Free am bulance service and hospitalization are available through the local po lio association for all patients, , ir respective of financial condition. The doctors said the public will be kept fully informed and cau tioned the populace against un founded rumors. The statement, in conclusion, declared that the situation "is not one for cause of alarm but one that simply calls for 'watchful waiting'." Method of Calling Party On Same Lint Changes Beginning today, parties on the same telephone line can be con tacted only by dialing the number l urn. Previously, the number was T..- v"'1 -.' After dialing 1, the person call ing should dial the last numeral of his number, and then the last one in the number of the person being called. He hangs up and when the phone rings, speaks to the party at the other end of the line. , , , , Just a Lot oi Donkey Business, Bui Horace Werne Claims it Fays Off County Board to Meet At 10 This Morning Because yesterday was observ ed as the Fourth of July holiday at the court house, the county bonrd and the board of education did not meet. The commissioners will meet at 10 o'clock this morning in the auditor's office and the board of education will meet at 1 o'clock this afternoon in the superinten dent of school's office. Neither did Beaufort town commissioners -meet last night. They will meet at 7:30 next Mon day night, July 12, at the town hall. UNAC Chairman Renews Appeal For Contributions Mrs. O. II. Johnson, chairman of Morehead City Women's club committee on international rela tions, today renewed her request for contributions to the United Nations Appeal for Children. This campaign, national and in ternational in scope, is being con ducted ia North Carolina by the State Federation of ' Women's clubs. North Carolina's share of the $60 million emergency fund is $400,000 and Carteret county's share is $2,000. There will be no personal solici tation, Mrs. Johnson explained. Persons wishing to make contribu tions should mail them to her, 2711 Evans street, Morehead City. Checks should be made out to "AOA-United Nations Appeal for Children." Home demonstration clubs of the state arc making a special ef fort to aid in obtaining funds for care of 230 million children in Europe, and eighty local cam paigns are already underway in 52 counties. At Raleigh members of all civic organizations are pledged to con tribute one dollar and raise three. The State Department of Public Welfare has given permission for the Crusade to solicit by mail so that anyone receiving a letter ask ing him to support the AOA-United Nations Appeal for Children may be sure that it is a bona fide appeal. In Henderson an industrial plant has agreed to cooperate in a plan whereby each employee will be asked to contribute one day's wages to this world-wide chil dren's relief program and the com pany will collect the contributions by withholding, a day s pay from the check of each employee wish ing to share his earnings with a hungry child. . It is expected that this "management-worker coop erative plan will be taken up in other industrial cities in the State. .Meanwhile contributions con tinue to come in direct to State headquarters at the Carolina ho tel, Raleigh, and Mrs, Charles G. Doak, State director of the cam paign, has announced that these contributions in each case will be attributed to the quota of the county from which it was receiv ed. Temperatures Slay Below 89 Nark Over Weekend Temperatures over the holiday weekend stayed below the 90 mark, according to E. Stamey Da vis, official weather observer. Rain fell only on Thursday between 1:30 and 5:30 p.m. It measured .20 of in inch. Maximum and minimums are as follows: , i'. : Max. Mln. Thursday 85 70 Friday 87 , 86 Saturday ' 86 73 Sunday (July 4) 87 73 Six-Pago Paper Today Because of the holiday yester day. The News-Times today is limited tojdx pages. The next Installment of 'Memories ef Beaufort" by Thomas H. Car. . row, will appear Friday, By John Havas they say that man is brotln'r to a mule. Although Horace Werne would probably vehemently dis claim any relation to his 12-eared charges, he has had an intimate business association with his team for donkeys for over seven years. Horace Werne is the man who owns the donkeys that were used in last Thursday evening's donkey baseball circus, sponsored by the Morehead City Lions club and held at Wade Brothers Park in More head City. Mr. Werne comes from Mem phis, Tenn., and travels between Washington, D. C, and Miami, Fla., with his mules who do nothing but play the jackass in donkey baseball circuses up and down the Atlantic coast. The donkeys travel in a truck especially prepared for their use and live at the various ball parks at which they stop. The truck is used for travelling purposes only. Mr. Werne also owns the port able lighting system that was used at the local ball game and this, too, is stored on the truck. In his travels Mr. Werne said he has met some very interesting and sometimes very famous people. In Washington Arthur Godfrey, the nationally-famous radio and stage star, played five games for the benefit of the crippled children of that city. The game played in Morehead City Thursday night was also a charity affair, for all profits will go toward sight conservation and aid to the blind, a Lions club pro tect Mr. Werne's mulef tiave bee working as a team for seven years The animals range in temperament from just plain indifference to downright cussed ness. A black one named "Dick Tracy" was the terror of the baseball circus Thursday night. After seven years of donkey baseball games, one would think it would become monotonous. Does Mr. Werne think so? Apparently not, for his only comment at the close of the interview was, "Send me a few copies of the story, keep a scrapbook." Power at Beach Fails Saturday A line' fuse went out Saturday night causing'a two hour stoppage of power to Atlantic Beach from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., according to a report from Tide Water Power company yesterday. Upon re-checking Sunday morn ing, a broken insulator was found on the lines near Fort Macon and that may have been cause of the trouble, according to George Sto vall, manager of the local plant. ' Lack of power at the beach caus ed all concessions to close, as well as Roda theatre. The Idle Hour Amusement center was kept In operation by means of an auxiliary plant, A. B. Cooper, owner and manager, reported. Current was off in both Beaufort and Morehead City from about 4 o'clock Sunday morning until 8 while the new section of line from 4th and Arendell to the, asphalt plant was cut in. This work waa originally sche duled for Sunday a week ago, but failure of the undergrounded cable in Gallant's channel made it im possible to make the changeover. The shorter poles from 4th street to Madix, now pushed aside, will probably be removed this week, Mr. Stovall aald. The Tide Water plant, Morehead City, ia now operating on a 24 hour schedule. Up until a week ago the plant had been operating, only 14 hours a day,. Tide Table HIGH LOW Tuesday, July -v. . 7:32 AM 1:42 AM 8:03 PM 1:45 PM Wednesday, July 1 8:24 AM 2:32 AM 8:47 PM ' 2:28 PM Thursday, July . 0:14 AM . '' , t:29 AM 0:30 PM -' 3:22 PM Friday, July I 10:10 AM 4:08 AM )0:30 PM . .1. 1 :X7 PM Power Company Official Answers Town Complaints Vice-President Tells of Pro posed Line from Cherry Point In response to Beaufort's vigor ' rous protest 'against spasmodic . power service, A. E. Jones, vice president of Tide Water Power company, has written to-the mayor and town board explaining the power company's organized to con- ' fer with Tide Water, appears be- V low. The committee will meet sone time this week, according to pre sent plans, to consider the program -as outlined by Mr. Jones. June 3U, 1U4B Mayor and City Commissioners -Beaufort, North Carolina Gentlemen: Yesterday afternoon I discuss ed with Mr. Wheatly the power - v supply situation for the City of Beaufort. To confirm our conver sation in writing, we wish to sub mit the following information: ' As far back as July of 1946, we were studying future loads in the Morehead-Beaufort system and it became apparent to us that we would within a period of four or five years .require additional ca pacity in that area. After the nec essary engineering studies, it was , determined to run a second 33,000 volt line from Cherry Point fey way-'-' of iie Sleel Bridge Road or the r Beaufort-New Berm Road, an en tirely different road than that now . being used. , ; ' V . A study of the situation reveals. that the least expensive way foe ' ns to do this work would be to run another circuit on the existing pole line, but it was our feeling that in order to obtain the maxi , mum In reliability without regard to cost, an entirely separate route would be chosen. This tine wilt terminate at the present Beaufort power plant and separate 33 KV lines from Cherry Point will be ' joined together through the in-, stallation of a 33,000 volt tie line running across the causeway be tween the Morehead and Beaufort 4 plant. This would mean that in the event either of the lines were out, complete service would be a vailable in both Morehead and Beaufort areas including the Down East and Newport lines. By November of 1946, we ''oir-' dered all the slow moving equip ment, most especially the trans formers for Cherry Point step ; down station from 110,000 to 33c 000 volts and for the Beaufort Substation where the voltage Will be reduced to distribution Volt system, together with the coritin- ' system, together wit hthe contin ued maintenance of the Diesel plants for emergency, would pro vide the maximum in reliability. The equipment ordered in No vember of 1946 is scheduled for delivery in December of this year 1 and January of next year. IC U our hope and we see no reastin . except for strikes or for unfore seen shortages of material why , this .system cannot be complete by March of 1949. It may be inteiy ' esting for you to know that the cost of this work to Tide Water -will be about $297,000. :;. We, as you know, have been somewhat embarrassed by the ser vice we have been supplying, but we trust that you will understand that we havejdone everything in our power to secure the equipment necessary to improve service, ' Nothing toward this end could -have been done from 1941 until sometime following the end of the war. ; Release of equipment fo sale without priority was not made until several months follow- ' See POWER Psge 6 . Girl ITarrowly Escapes , f Drowthj si usch Zz?ij An unidentified' 17-yearold g' I from Greenville narrowly escar 1 drowning at 3 o'clock Sunday i -ternoon when she was overturn by a wave- at Atlantic Beach. ! was pulled in by Buddy (.j head lifeguard and two' Co. . Guardsmen. " ''- There are conflicting reports .t whether-a pullmotor or artiil- 1 respiration was used to revive t girl but she is reported t r recovered from the ac.:. . . i - abort tiet ,