Newspapers / Carteret County News-Times (Morehead … / Aug. 13, 1948, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of Carteret County News-Times (Morehead City, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
CARTE RE T GO UNTY Arirsaomlcal Data Sua Seta Tealght 6:59 p.m. Sim KIms Tomorrow 5:27 t.m. Mom BioM Today 1:51 p.m. 10c J I Seta Tonight Midlnght WO. A Merger oi THE BEAUTOBT NEWS (Established 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Established 1936) 38th YEAS NO. 26. EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY, AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA, l FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1948 EIGHT PAGES PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAY! Eight-Room White Oak School, Near Bogue, Burns to Ground Wednesday EMES . - i fc W A 11 Sheriff Holland, Officials of Madix Roofing Plant, Fell Mill Named Defendants in $50,000 Civil Action Plaintiff; Former Madix Employee, Charges Defendants with Auto Burning, Intimidation Ennett House Bums onSound Sparks from Fireplace Cause Fire, Loss Es timated at $12,000 The Bogue summer home of Dr. and Mrs. N. Thomas Ennett, Beaufort, was destroyed by fire at 4 o clock Monday afternoon when c spark from the fireplace ignited parts of the building near the root. The home, known as Borden Lodge and valued at approximate ly $12,000 is a complete loss. Be cause of the poor fire protection in that locality the property could be insured to only one-tenth of its value, Dr. Ennett said. Dr. and Mrs. Ennett were at the lodge, located near Bogue Inlet, at the time of the fire. Early this summer there were swallows in the chimney and to prevent their disturbing the birds, Mrs. Ennett requested her husband to put a large pinetop In the fireplace. Mrs. Ennett returned recently from a month's visit in Massachu setts and on MondaJ she and her husband went to the lodge to wrt it in readiness for Iheir vacaftort ' which they planned to sMnd I The pine had'drled and it was decided to burn it. After, putting a match to it they watched it burn lor 15 to 20 minutes. Dr. Ennett later was on the wharf fishing when he looked to ward the house and saw a large cloud of smoke billowing from the roof. In a short time the whole building was blazing. Dr. Enrfett went to his brother's, about three quarters of a mile distant, for help, but by the time they returned nothing could be saved. The double garage with ser vant's room burned. A boat which was in the garage was saved and two other boats tied at the wharf -escaped the flames. The lodge, named for Dr. En nett's mother's people, was built in 1922 on property which came into the family in 1780. Ever since 1922 the Ennetts have spent their vacations there. Dr. Ennett plans to replace the lodge eventually on the original site. Motorists Slug Meters; Foreign Coins Turn Up Evea though there's a fine for loading parking meters with slugs and objects other than coins from United States mints, oddities turn up once in a while in the weekly collections. The first week Beaufort's meters were in operation approximately a dozen metal washers were remov ed from the machines, but this type of "exchange" has dwindled considerably in popularity with motorists, William Hatsell, town clerk, said the other day while showing his collection of assorted circlets of metal. r. Some collections yield no slugs i at all but every week there are pennies. One time a "furriner" .from Norfolk deposited a Norfolk street car token. Beaufort's rather fortunate as far as. foreign exchange goes, be cause 14 year-old Everett Styron, who lives on Turner street, collects foreign coins and buys from the town all those collected in the meters. . Everett pays according to size. A foreign coin the size of an Amer ican penny nets the town 1 cent, if it's the size of a dime or a nickel, the rate of exchange is higher. . Biggest headache to Mr. Hatsell and the policemen who care for the meters are bent coins. These jam the meters and, frequently da mage them to the extent that they have to be taken off the standard and carried back to the town hall where Mr. Hatsell gives the mech anism an overhaul job. Minor adjustments are made by policemen on the street WhUe Sheriff C. Ghermann Holland, individually and as sheriff of Car teret county; C. C. brewen, presi dent of Madix Asphalt Roofing corporation; W. C. Carlton, pur chasing director of Madix: Glenn Rose and Ed Parker, employees of the corporation; Madix Corpora lion itself as well as its sister cor poration, Southern Felt, arc named defendants in a $50,000 civil action and defendants in a restraining order growing out of alleged labor union organizing activities at the two large Morehead City Manu facturing plants. Plaintiff in both actions is Grady Ward Price, former Madix em ployee, Attorneys for Price are R. S. Cahoon and Robert Cohn of Greensboro. The civil action is filed at the Washington county court house in Flymouth. Damages in the amount of $25,000 are asked as well as punitive damages in the similar amount of $25,000. The temporary restraining order signed by Superior Court Judge Williams, of Pittsboro, orders Sheriff Holland and the other de fendants to cease "using violence on the plaintiff . . . interfering with plaintiff and his family . . . damaging the plaintiff! trailer house and auto , . . attacking and striking members of his family." A hearing to. determine whether the temporary restraining order should be made permanent will be fheU at 10 am. Saturday, Aug. 21. Superior Court Judge W. ; Bon.iv Mash, eouoi court otise . at Nashville. ' " The clv!t action complaint al leges that' the defendants "con spired together to perpetrate un lawful acts . . . burn his automo bile . . . intimidate him through use of violence and coercive force of numbers . . . abusive language and other unlawful means to drive him and his family consisting of his wife and 4-year-old invelid child out of Carteret county." According to Attorney Cahoon, pressure was brought to bear on his client, Grady Ward Price and others, toward the end of July when they circulated union card? of the International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers, an AFL affiliate, among employees of both Madix and Southern Felt. Labor union organizing activi ties. Mr. Cahoon said, were start ed in June. By the end of Julv more than 20 signatures had been obtained among those wanting See MADIX Pg. 3 some meters are being repaired there are always several more ready .to go out in case others get jammed up. To get the defaced coins out of circulation the bank takes them and returns them to the mint Collections are made every Wed nesday afternoon. Mr. Hatsell with the aid of one of the police men and a linen bag that would easily hold a peck of pennies, go from meter to meter and remove the take. The money is counted Thursday and deposited each Friday. Col lections for July totaled $773.20. The salt water launched a des tractive attack on the meters on Front street to the east of Way's fish house. But the attack has been repelled with paint. Forty seven meters on that section of Front street have been coated with grey enamel, a more durahl nnin than the aluminum which is on the meters in other parts of town Slues or salt water. the mti business is the most profitable en terprise Beaufort has undertaker in many a year. Hospital Morehead Get $734 Each from AEC Store - . i ).:. Morehead City hospital and the town of Morehead City each re ceived S734.18 from ABC tnr during June, according to the re port received oy the county audi tor. James Potter. Beaufort's share of the June revenue was $75BJ4 ana Newport s was $497.09. Carteret County Exceeds Goal In Recent Security Loan Drive Carteret county exceeded its $130,000 goal in the April to July security loan drive by $7,939, Vic tor Wickizer, chairman of Carter et's campaign, announced today. Carteret is one (if only 39 coun ties in the state which met or ex ceeded their quotas. North Carolina as a whole came within 91 per cent of its goal, selling $28,632,725 in E. V. and O bonds. National sales in the re cent security loan drive totaled $2,798,183,000. Allison James, stale director, commended the various chairmen through.ut the stale "who labor ed unceasingly for the success of the Security Loan." lie continued, "The accomplishments of this drive are splendid testimony to the vigorous, patriotic service of thou sands of volunteers throughout the State to whom credit must go." Counties which met and exceed ed their guotas are the following: Alamance, Ashe, Avery, Bertie, Ca barrus. Carteret, Caswell. Chero- I kce, Chowan, Clay, Columbus, I Craven. Dare, Davidson, Durham, Edgc rnrnhe. Forsyth. Gaston, Gates, Guilford, Hertford, Hyde, Lee, Ma con, Martin, Mecklenburg, North ampton, Onslow. Pender, Perquimans, Polk, Tran sylvania, Wake, Warrun, Washing- av Wayne, .Wilkes,' yjujkin, and Yancey. John Wilkinson Speaks on China At JC Meeting John A. Wilkinson, senatorial candidate from Washington, de livered the after-dinner address at the regular meeting of Beaufort Junior Chamber of Commerce Monday night. Mr. Wilkinson spoV.e on "Our Situation in China," stressing the necessity for stemming the flow of communism in that section of the world, as well as in Europe. "He who controls China holds the key to control of two-thirds of the world," declared the speaker. Knowing this, Japan undertook conquest of China with the war cry," . . . take the white man's grip off your throat." Japan's plan of conquest, not senerally recognized by the world In the 1930's was thrown slightly awry by the rise of Chiang Kai Shek and seeing their foothold shaken by the rise of a power with in China, the Japanese attacked in 1936. Mr. Wilkinson termed Chiang Kai Shek as the fighter of "our battles" a fighter at the head of disintegrated forces among whom were Chinese communists. Although the communists claimed to be anti-Japanese, the speaker called their help against the in vader mostly of the propaganda ype. Mr. Wilkinson does not hold Chiang Kai Shek as a bulwark of iemocratic government for, he oointed out, Chiang's actions in many instances have been far from th type which would . have been tolerated by democratic forces in this country. Chiang is however he speaker emphasized, a bulwark against communism. "If we save Europe," Mr. Wilk See WILKINSON Pg. 3 Tide Table niGH 2:43 a.i LOW Friday, August 13 i. 8:59 a.m. 3:27 p 1:50 a. 1:26 p m. Saturday, m. m. Sunday, m. 10:13 p.m. August 14 10:02 a.m. 11:14 p.m.. August 15 11:01 a.m. t:51 5:20 5:45 .m. Monday, August 16 - 12:05 a.m. 11:56 a.m. August 17 12:53 ami. 12:47 p.m. m. m 6:10 8:37 P:56 Tuesday, m. m. Triplets in Tobacco 1ft? I I! fir.; i l 1 j June, Jean, and Joan, 11-year-old daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Garner, Newport, and pretty enough to appear in any nation-wide ad for cigarette tobacco, are busy here harvesting the 1948 golden leaf crop. Aycock Brown,' who took the picture, has made no attempt to identify who Is who, but he has a special interest in the triplets. He wag the first photographer ever to take their picture . . . they were just several hours old at the time. Stale Pairolman Acquitted oi Charge Brought Against Him be Defendant Trial Consumes Three and A Half Hours in Recor der's Court State Highway Patrolman M. V Hooper was acquitted Tuesday morning in reoorder s court, Beau fort, of charges that he refused a minor, whom he had arrested, to communicate with friend or c""1 sel in order to obtain baiL The case, which lasted three and a hui hours, headlined a court docket of 54 cases which took seven hours to dispose of. Judge Lambert R. Morris presided. Hooper was indicted after he arrested William Stewart Goodson, 18, on charges of reckless and careless driving on the streets of Morehead City at 2 a m. Sunday morning, Aug. 1. Both cases were consolidated for trial for the sake of expediency. Representing Patrolman Hooper as Claud R. Wheatly, Beaufort. Attorney for Goodson was Alvah Hamilton, of Hamilton and Mc Neill, Morehead City. ' In the warrant for Hooper's in dictment, Goodson charged as fol lows: "Failing and refusing to permit William Stewart Goodson, a mi nor, after having arrested him, to communicate with cpunsel or friends immediately for the pur pose of obtaining bail, and did stubbornly refuse said minor the privilege of phoning his father that he was under arrest, late at night, although said minor begged for the right so to do." Hooper testified that he had been patrolling Crab Point road when he noticed a jeep speeding south. He followed it to Evans street where it turned right and went past the Atlantic Beach road. Hooper declared that .the driver of the jeep was attempting to dodge him, and circled a block and flicked the vehicle's lights on and off several times before he was overtaken. In the jeep with Goodson who was driving were his brother, Joe, end two girl companions. Hooper then arrested, Goodson, put him in the patrol car, and told Joe that William could be found at the J' 1 V ' slasISi county jail in Beaufort. Hooper then turned Goodson over to Jailer R. E. Chaplain and then, allegedly, set bail at $50. Under cross-examination, Hooper "nurentlv became confused and denied that he set bail, but this was remedied when Goodson, res ponding to questions from Wheat ly, twice stated that Hooper had fixed a $50 bond. Goodson denied that he was speeding or that he was trying to dodge Hooper because, he declar ed, he did not know Hooper was following. He said the lights were turned off only twice, once when his ''date" accidentally fell against the dashboard and the other time when he came to a near halt to allow his passengers to get out of the vehicle, only to change plans and start up again. In cross-examining Goodson, Wheatly several times confused him as to his route in the city. At one point he testified that he made a left turn from Evans street west of 28th street, to which Wheatly retorted, "That would put you in the Atlantic Ocean!" Several times, testimony such as this brought chuckles from the fill ed courtroom. At one point, Sheriff C. G. Holland sternly warn ed the onlookers, "This is no cir cus!" After lawyer Hamilton summar ized in the reckless and careless driving case, he offered Wheatly the opportunity to give his argu ments Wheatly said he would wait until Hamilton concluded his sum mary in the Hooper case where up on Wheatly would summarize. After finishing, however, Hamil ton challenged Wheatly's right to summarize after he had refused his previous opportunity, but Jud ge Morris did not allow Hamilton's objection. In summarizing, Wheatly point ed out that through Goodson's own testimony it had been proven that Hooper had fixed a bail and that Goodson's brother had been given sufficient notice of where the 18-year-old could be found. To prove that it was sufficient, the boy's father was able to bail out Good son within a half hour without any trouble whatever. Since the contention that Good See COURT Pg. 3 Theatres Asked To Observe Ban Sunday, Bible Schools Point to Non-Cooperation on Health Rule Responding to complaints from Sunday schools and Bible schools that bans on the gatherings of children under 16 would not have the desired effect in this polio onidemic if the local movie houses did not cooperate, Dr. N. Thomas Ennett, county health officer, dis closed today thai letters have been sent to managers of the seven mo tion picture theatres in the county asking them not to admit children, or else to rcqiuv-t a note from their parents living permission to go to the movie. Sunday schools and Bible schools have been cooperating since Dr. Ennett first made Ihe re quest that gatherings he dispensed with, but the doctor pointed oul that the movie in uses face a dif ferent problem. Tiic schools have merely n close u;. while the thea tres, which also have a business interest to think of, must weed youngsters from their other pat rons. The letter was also sent because Dr. Ennett said some managers feel they are not obliged to comply with the ban unless they receive a formal notice from the health officer. Carteret countv has two thea tres in Morehead City, two in Beaufort, and one each in New port, Harkcrs Island, and Atlan tic. Car, Tide to Truck Collide Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Jones.'Beau fort, were treated for minor in juries Wednesday afternoon at Morehead City hospital following a collision of their car, a '49 Ford, with a Tide Water Power company pick up truck at Cedar and Turner streets, Beaufort. The truck turned over but Eu gene Garner, Beaufort, who was driving, was uninjured. Both ve hides had to be towed from the scene of the accident. Garner was alone in the truck. With the Jones' was Mr. Jones' sister, who was uninjured. The truck was proceeding west on Cedar street, according to Chief of Police L. B. Willis who investi gated, and the car was going south on Turner when the collision oc curred. No charges had been preferred against either driver as of yesterday morning. The truck was damaged consi derably and Chief Willis estimated Ihe damage to the Jones car at several hundred dollars. 150 Acres Burn (Markers Isle Edmund Foreman, county fire warden, with the assistance of residents of Barkers Island, brought under control at 2 a.m. vesterday morning a fire west of the Island's old ferry road. Ap proximately 150 acres of brush and undergrowth burned. The fire started about noon Wednesday from a trash, fire at the rear of one of the homes. Flames were brought under control by back firing and use of the power pump. If this dry weather continues, Mr. Fcreman said there will un doubtedly be more fires within a week and requested that every one exercise caution when burning trash, waste paper or when toss ing avny matchos and burning cigarettes. The dry spell during June and July was marked by outbreak of four forest fires in the county. Earl Webb Recuperates Earl Webb, New York financier is recuperating at his Bogue Sound estate from a recent foot opera tion. Mr. Webb is one of Car teret county's most prominent na- A. B. Cooper has announced an other auction sale of his Atlantic Beach properties to be held Sat urday, August 21. The sale will include building lots on improved strets as well as the Ocean King hotel and the Idle Hour Amuse ment center. While Oak school was a smol dering shambles yesterday morn ing as the result of a fire which was discovered there at about 7:30 Wednesday night by Dan Russell, nearby farmer, who upon seeing flames through the school win dows, spread the alarm. Swansboro fire department an swered the call hut could do no thing whatever to save the build ing or anything inside. By the time they arrived, the roof was al ready caving in. The door at the east side of the school was found propped open with a chiir and papers were scat tered about the principal's office, indicating that the fire probably did not start of its own accord. Residents of the section are un animous in their opinion that the fire was deliberately set. II. I., .loslyn, superintendent of schools, in a statement yesterday afternoon said that the building was insured for $24,700. No plans have been formulated as yet for accommodating for the fall term the 180 pupils who attended school there. They will be sent wherever there is room, said Mr. Joslyn, but the problem is to find the room White Oak school consisted of eight classrooms and an auditori urn. lie was of the opinion that no new school building will go up in its place. Among the ruins were canned goods stored there for use in the school lunchroom, as well as five Ions of coal which were in an ad joining furnace room. At first there was hope of saving the fur nace room. Sand was thrown on the coal, but the heat was so in tense that the building finallv caught fire. The coal was still burning yesterday morning and vill probably be smoldering for several days. A bit of silverware was saved from the lunchroom and some playground equipment was taken, beyond reach or the UahieJ AJI the pine trees about the school are scorched to a yellow color. Just completed this summer was a $1,800 roof on the building. The former roof partially burned last winter. At the time, this fire was believed to be caused by an over heated stove, but talk yesterday in the Bogue-Swansboro section was that the roof fire, too, had been set. Pupis in the first to eighth grades attended school at White Cak. HERE 1 ana t hj r With F. C. SALISBURY, Morehead City ( Recent enlistees in the U. S. Army and Air Forces as given out by the Army Recruiting office for this section of the state include Ihe following young men from Car teret county. Enlisting in the Air Force from Morehead City are John D. Helms, Fred C Phillips, Seldon L. Sherwood, Beaufort: Milton R. Taylor, Newport; George L. Allen, Davis; Ralph L. Styron, George C. Warren of Beaufort and Donald L. West of Morehead City have enlisted in the coast artillery. All of the above enlistments are for three years. Maurice W. Peter son and James H. Golden, route 1, both of Beaufort have enlisted in the regular army for two years. What the fishermen call a "mullet blow" arrived some time during the early hours of Friday morning giving this section a lower-than-normal temperature for this time of the season. Fish ermen, both party boats and commercial, are expecting an early ran of fall fish. Several good catches of mackerel have been reported. Construction of a storage ot warehouse is well underway dowr at the Madix plant. This buildinr is being erected at the south enr1 of the felt plant and will join the coating department of the roofinr plant. As the huge rolls of fel1 base are finished in the felt plan! they will be trucked to this new storage ' from where they can be conveyed directly to coating de psrtment At present the felt basr which is being purchased from out side plants is being stored ir the main building of the roofing plant. Plana are being made te de- Episcopal Rector Heads Association Of County Clergy The Rev. W. L. Martin Succeeds The Rev. J. M. Jolliff, Newport The Itev. W. I,. Martin, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal church, was elected president of the Coastal Ministerial association at the monthly meeting of the organiza tion Monday in the community (enter, Morehead City. The Rev. Mr. Martin succeeds Ihe Rev J. M. Jolliff, of Newport. Other officers are the Rev. II. L. Han-ell, pastor of the Straits Me thodist charge, vice-president, who succeeds the Rev. J. V. Axtell. pas tor of the Webb Memorial Pres byterian church, and the Rev. W. 1). Caviness, secretary-treasurer. The Rev. Mr. Caviness pastor of Franklin Memorial Methodist chur ch, was reelected. The group extended its thanks and appreciation for splendid ser vice to the Rev. Mr. Axtell who is leaving his charge in August. Sneaker at the meeting was George Ball, Morehead City attor ney. As the result of a decision reached at the July meeting of the ministerial association, the circu lation of a petition requesting a referendum on ABC stores has been deferred until after the Nov ember election. Cpt R.1C Simpson To Leave lor If. S. CI.ARK AIR FORCE BASE, La 301, Beaufort, will soon leave tbe uarK Air rorce base in the Philip pine Islands for reassignment Jn the United States. While here, he has served with the 622nd Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron of the 13th Afr Force. Cpl. Simpson will leave at the completion of his normal 24 month tour of duty here. iOvjr i k A ' J dicate the new chapel of the? First Christian Church abou( September 1. This Is the first, unit plant of this church organs'; zation to be affiliated with theV religious activities of this city.-, The present membership of this church Is given as 24. When the membership of the churchy outgrows the chapel building at, larger structure will be built on the adjoining property of this society on Bridges street. It Is. expected that the October Union . of this church will be held here , In this new church plant. ;f i .lit ' Some 20 or more good substan tial benches have been placed along the waterfront from the City hospital to the end of Evans , trcet. They are painted a dark reen and across the back in white ' ettering is the Chamber of Com nerce sign. To keep the benches rom being moved to other locas 'ions they are fastened to post! 'riven in the ground. One operat or on the waterfront 'predict nost of them will be whittled up y spring. ,4 This week brings to a close the last session of Camp Morehead; vhich according to Mr. Crawford 'as been one of the largest and most successful since the camp was first started. A precamp for small boys and girls of two weekjf luration, preceded the regular tw4 essinns for older boys. This w$ 1 he first time a precamp for little, folks bad been tried out, meeting with ready response from parents: Reservations for all of the sessions ' crowded the camo to its capacity.; The camp established a fine health record of no sickness or polio scare. . it. aBnaBBMBBBBBBBBjeaV-r , if A i
Carteret County News-Times (Morehead City, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Aug. 13, 1948, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75